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|2 00 PE.i ANNUM
H T. HEN It Y,
-r> JD 3ST T I » TANARUS,
COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
HAS REDUCED HIS PRICES, so
that all wlio have been so uafortu-
UXrrfrir nate as to lose thei. natural Teeth
, ve their places supplied by Art. at very
4 gn have i h ppipd Ht reasonable prices,
lo?k fai ,hfu,, y executed, Office north side
»f Square.—l — ls _____
"dRS. DEARINC & PRINGLE
, tikP themselves in the I rac-
H aVlN 9 MEDICINE and SURGERY, offer
■ t,C Vessional services to the citizens of
their P ,ote ' They have opened nn offi eon
y- . g are> ( nex t door to S
the East si nn(J #| . e p repa , e d to attend to
pgWAti)« - ’{ They have also a carefully
w Best Medicines,
® er ?f •„» their personal attention to Com-
V'l g l> escriptions, for Physicians and
pounding 11
osiers. „ iv en to Chronic Diseases
Special a e wil | be f olm( ] athis
At nit'hi' • p„ 1NOLB at his rooms immn-
Tdatelv°ovrr'the Store of C. H. Sanders & Bao.
tttaj IS. 25tf *
I would respectfully inform the
citizens of Newton, and adjoining
counties, that I have opened a
and HARNESS SHOP
0 side public square in COVINGTON
, I,m prepared to make to order. Harness
Saddles! Ac for Repair the same at short notice
*„d in the best style. JAM£S B BRO WN
17 ts
MORRIS,
Attorney at ’Law,
CONYERS, GA.
J A MES M.'LEVY,
Watchmaker «t Jeweler,
East side of the Square,
GEORGIA,
Re P air Wfttch f'■ C '‘; cks
1a Jewelry in the best style Particular atten
*L recall ing Watches injured by in
:«&• **« .«*
"JO SE P II Y. TINSLEY,
W a t J c h maker & Jeweler
I, fullv prepared to Repair Watches, Clock,
J Jewelrv, in the best Style, at short nonce.
All Work Hone at Old Prices and W arranted.
2d door below the Court House, otf
loiTN S. CARROLL,
dentist
COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
-twb Filled, or New ee i 3 rtel.ln
the t.est Style, and on Reasonable Terms
Dffiee Rear of R. King’s Store.—l ltf
PHOTOGRAPHS!
T HAVE JUST RECEIVED a Fresh Supp y
1 of Chemicals, an t am now pre uired to exe
uce work in my line in a supeuor manner.
Call soon if you wou’d have 8 superior P.e
ture at my old'stand, t ear of Post Office build
i g _2o(f J. W. CRA WFORD, Artist.
axderson & hunter
Are constantly receiving
fresh and Seasonable Goods!
[All of which they propose to sell at the
L OJW EST CASH PRICE ,
ire als° closing out several lines of Goods
I~A t a rYd Below Cost! —
I AOENTS FOR
Agricultural Implements,
Clover and Grass Seeds,
And several of the best
Itandard fertilizers
■an. H,-46tf
CEO. J. HOWARD,
■ ROCER AND COMMISSION MERChANT
* Marietta street,
■tlanta, Georgia.
Baders for all descriptions of Groceries filled
■ lowest Market Prices.
■Consignments of Country Produce solicited
H?“ Will make returns promptly.—Bmso
L**»^**,
Wr MANU FA C T|U R E
*uperior Cottjon Yarns,
| No. 6.t0 12. & Doz, No. 400 to 700.
*AT TRESSES
[ All sizes and qualities to suit orders.
P a t t in Sv
Os Waste or Good Cotton.
Wool c ar and in c.
9 The quality of the Rolls unsurpassed.
■ D OUR and MEAL.
GRIST MILL cannot be surpassed in
'he quality, nor th■■ quantity of MEAL or
turned. A supply of Meal or Floor
9tant.lv on hand. Flour of all grades to suit
9* a,, e and price
Double Extra, Extra Family, FamMy,
Bperfine, an .l Fj ne Graham Flour and Grits
1 rder. SH< HITS and BH AN, for Stock Feed,
V kept. The patronage of the publio is re
asked. Satisfaction gviaranteed.
A splendid stock of
■ r y Coods and Croceries
and for sale Cheap for Cash or, barter
9 kinds of Country Produce.
E. STEADMAN, Prop’r.
» Ar> NAN, Newton Cos., Ga., Feb. 19, 1869.—13
I-OLLMAN, Dealer in Watches, Clocks,
. line Jewelry, Gold Pens, Spectaoles, Ac,,
street, second door above M. Lynch’s
s hook store, Atlanta, Ga. Repairing done
style am] warrranted.—fi. 4.
THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE.
DR.O.S. PROPHITT,
Covington Georgia.
Will still continue his business, where he intends
keeping on hand a good supply of
Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, Dye Stuffs,
Together with a Lot of
Botanic Medicines,
<\i cent rated Preparations, Fluid Extracts. Ac.
He is also putting up his
Liver Modicinos,
FEMALE TONIC, ANODYNE PAIN KILL IT
Vermifuge, Anti-Bilious Pills,
and many other preparations,
jsf”Will g ive prompt attention to all orders
particular notice.
Ilen-afte* NO MEDICINE WILL BE DELTV
ERRD.for SERVICE RENDERED, except for
tro ASS !-®*
You nee not call unless you are prepared to
PAY CASH, for I will not Keep Books.
Oct. 11. 1867. O. 8. PROPHITT.
IH <* 1? &AB i I
T have Just Received direct, from Nkw York,
a Variety of the Latest, and nu St Fashionable
Styles of Ladies’ and Gentlemen s
DRESS GOODS,
Hats, Boots, Shoe3, &c.,
ALSO
MillinoT’y Coods.
BONNETS Trimmed to order by Mrs Livino
srox, and Mrs. Wox.uX SHEPHERD.
North side of Square, Covington.—l9of.
M. C. & J% F. KISER,
Who V-ale and Retail Dialers in
Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Yankee No
tions, Boots and Shoes, Hats,
Caps, and Straw Goods,
ready made clothing
(Old r and of Tal'ey, Brown, A C 0.,)
g, n s Whitehall street, Atlanta. Ga.
S£ 8S I SEES?
IN VERY V \ RIF.TY of Seasonable Garden
!i Grass, and Field Seed always in More-by
papers, or by th - quantity Kentuekv Blur
Grass Herd Jr Red Top, Orchard Grass Clovct
Timothy, ' uzerne, tl>e, Barley, Buckwheat
Oats. Mock Beet, <fcc. &c.
2 O’O lbs. Turnip Peed.
Rita Baga, list Dutch, Mint- and iellos
Glole, L.rge Norf.dk, Red Top, Aberdeen
and Prnsri m or Hanov. r var.ct.es
200 bushels of fir- celebrate 1 G AI.F W IIH I.
WHEAT f>r sale, for Seed. U '» earliei than
any other variety, and Rust Proof.
A ISO,
Agricultural Implements and Machine
rv of ever" Kind.
" p w J ECHOLS, Prop r,
Georgia Agricultural Warehouse and Seed More
Sm 37 Whitehall st. eet, Atlanta Ga.
Hotels.
United States Hotel.
geokgia
ATLANTA
WHITAKER & SASSEFN, Proprietors.
Within One Hundred Yards
ger Depot, corner Alabama and 1 nor
A M E R I C AN HOTEL,
Alabama street,
GEORGIA,
ATLANTA,
Nearest, bouse to the Passenger Depot,
WHITE * WHITLOCK, Prc ictors.
W r . D. Wilet, Clerk.
Having re-leased and renovated te above
Hotel, we are prepared to entertain ues sin
most satisfactory manner. Chair itm
moderate. Our efforts will be to ease
Baggage carried to and from Depot ree of charge
iTa re REDUCED!
AUGUSTA HOTEL.
THIS FIRST CLASS HOTEL is situated on
Broad Street, Central to thebustnesspor
tion of the City, and convenient to the tele
graph and Express Offices The House ls lar 8«
and P commodious. and has been r e“ ov^ ed
newly painted from garret to cellar,
bedding nearlv all new since Uie war the
rooms are large and airy ; de.nbeds, and.the
fare as good as the country affords, and atten
tive and polite servants.
Chabqes.—Two Dollars per day.
Single Meals 76 Cents.
I lope to merit a liberal share of patronage
from the traveling public.
Give me a trial and judge for y ourselves
S. M. JONES, Propr.
PAVILION hotel.
Char’eston, S. C.
BOARD PER DAY, |3.
A BrTTKRriKi.n. Mrs H. L. Buttebpix,
Superintendent Propriety
WM. H. COODRICH ,
SASH, BUNDS. AND DOORS,
On hand, and made to Order.
Augusta 38Cm Georgia
IF YOU want some fine old Nectar Whisky,
the b-st ever sold in Covington, go to the
New Bar Room, in the Basement under Corley
<fc Dersett’s.
IF YOU need any Pure Liquors for Medioal
purposes, go to the New liar Room and get it-
Now. don’t forget the place, in the Basement un
der Corley & Dm sett's store, opposite the Post
Office.
CO7INGTOX GA., APRIL 16, 1869.
| For Thy Sake.
0 Lord! our lives are blank with constant
losses,
Our feet are sore with pain ;
Our hearts arc weary with fast coming crosses
We struggle, nor attain.
We watch for coming sails that never whiten
The still unyielding blue ;
We look for light whose dawn shall never
brighten
The mist-enshrouded view.
The grasp is loosened that we held so tightly,
The steps ours timed w ith, fleet;
On marble stones our household names gleam
whitely—
Graves thicken 'round our feet.
The white-walled city grows more dim and
distant,
Tho eternal shore recedes;
The upward path we thought to climb persis
tent,
Is blind with unchecked weeds.
As heart and strength grow less, the way
grows rougher,
Frail staves we leaned on, break ;
, The glow of living fades—we hear—wc suffer,
But it is “for Thy sake!”
Is this the cross that by its fearful bearing
Makes worthy, Lord, of Tliec?
That lifts our weak endurance up to sharing
Thy mystic agony ?
There is a resignation worse than murmur,
An acquiescence vain ;
A giving up that roots seif«.will the firmer,
And silence may complain.
0, give us,‘Lord, kthat living love "unshaken,
That makes the heaviestjeross
Titou layeston us, be by us seif-taken,
Makes sacrifice of loss.
Senator Sprague.
The Republican journals are very much per
plexed and somewhat alarmed by the late
pungent, independent, out spoken views of
Senator Sprague on the political and social
corruptions and demoralizations of the day,
and on the dangers thus threatening the|eouu
try. Nor is this party perplexity surprising.
According to the dogmas of party— this nartv
or that party —the opinions of Mr. Sprague
are rank heresies. But they are working in
many minds. In truth, the great Istdy of our
thinking people are revolving tiie question
“Is there any hope of a reformation“ef the ex
isting abuses, political and moral, frightful as
they are, short of a complete overthrow of the
political parties and party principles of the
day?” Then these other questions are sugN
gested : Where is this general reform to begin ?
M list evils shall it undertake to remedy?—
Where are the materials and the means for a
new and independent party organization?
Who will lead oft', and who will follow, when
the party in power have ali the spoils and the
party out of power are as stupid as the Bour
bons in learning nothing? We cannot an
swer these inquiries just yet: but the public
mind is not satisfied with things as they arc,
nor with things as they promise to be under
the new administration. Senator Sprague is
aware iff this, and has been giving voice to his
convictions. One thing is certain, too, that
things as they arc cannot last much longer.—
From all the signs of the times—social, moral,
religious and political —we shall have a tre
mendous political upheaval and revolution in
or before the year of grace 1872.—N. Y. Herald.
Falsehood. —This is a vice totally unworthy
the individual who would maintain a respect
able standing in society.
A great moralist has observed : “It is so easy
and apparently so natural, to deny what you
cannot be so easily convicted of, that a savage,
as well as a child, lies to excuse himself, al
most as instinctively as hs raises his hand to
protect his head,”
Patents should he most particular in cor
recting their children for breaches of truth.—
No vice fructifies more than falsehood. It is a
rank weed that earliest takes root in the human
mind, and as it increases its growth it spreads
like the upas tree, every branch becomes a
fresh vice, until the entire soul is poisoned
with the obscure shade.
Brigham Young lately lectured the ladies of
Mormondom on education, and among other
remarks, made these pertinent ones: “See, in
the fashionable world, the education given to a
young lady 1 It consists mainly of how to bow
and curtsey, how to meet a gentleman, how to
be graceful in a ball room, how to get into and
out of carriages, how to walk on the streets,
how high her clothes should be lifted, or how
many feet they should drag behind her; and,
in addition to this, to thrum on the piano and
have a smattering of French or Italian. These
are what should be called female loafer*; they
are no good to themselves or any body else.—
They cannot knit their stockings, make their
dresses or under clothing, or do anything
useful.”
Information Wanted. —lnformation is want"
ed of Peter 11. Ilale, who was a Clerk in the
Treasury Department in 1860, and mysterious
ly disappeared just before tho opening of
the war. 110 is supposed to have gone into
the Confederate service. His wife, Mrs. Sarah
J. Hale, Northfield, Washington county, Ver
mont, will be thankful for any tidings of him.
Southern Exchange* please notice.
A California paper announcing that the
snow-shoe races were about to begin in a
neighboring town, adds : “Considerable sport
may be expected. One man has already bro
ken his leg practicing on the track.”
Rules lor Self-Government,
Always sit next tho carver, if you can, at
dinner.
Ask no woman her age.
Be civil to all rich uncles and aunts.
Never joke with a policeman.
Take no note* or gold with yon at a fancy
bazar ; nothing but silver.
Your oldest bat of course, for an evening
party.
Don’t play chess with a widow.
Never contradict a man who stutters.
Put down the blind belore you put on your
wig.
Never offend a butler—the wretch has too
many chances of retaliation.
Keep your own secrets. Tell no human
you dye your whiskers.
Never answer a crossing sweeper. Pay him
or pass swiftly and si'ently on.
One word, and you are lost.
Make friends with the steward on board a
steamer—there’s no knowing how soon you
may be placed in his power.
In eTerv strange house it is as well to in
quire where the brandy is keDt—only think if
you were taken ill in the middle pf the night!
YVrite not one letter more than you can help.
The man who keeps up a large correspondence
is a martyr tied—not to the *take—but to the
post.
Wind up your conduct, like your watch,
once every day, examining minutely whether
you aro “fast" or “slow.”
Ever since Grant has supposed himself Pres
ident he has labored with commendable indus
try to do something distinguishing, but up to
yesterday this labor was vain. Yesterday,
however, he did tho great deed by appointing
one Pinckbeek, a nigger, to the position of
Register of the Land Office for Louisiana.—
The fact that Pinchbeck is a nigger would not
be such a bad matter, were it not that he is«
such a nigger. Had Ulysses gone the length
and width of Africo-America, of Americo-
Africa, or San Domingo, or anywhere, he could
not have found another such a specimen. For
a number of years Pinchbeck has been one of
the leading roughs of New Orleans, and he
was made a member of the Louisiana Senate
by a vote of that bodv, and not by the will of
the people, Severalnmes he has been brought
up for assaulting gentlemen in the streets,
and not long ago he threatened to have the
city of New Orleans laid in ashes. lie is a
good specimen of a Grant nigger, and highly
toil.—N. Y. Dem. Bth inst.
Josh Billings on Laughing.
Laffin is strictly an amusement, although
sum folks make a bizziness of it.
It has been considered nn index es karakter,
and there is some so close at reasoning that
they can tell what a man had for dinner by
scein him lass.
I never saw two lass alike.
YVltile there arc sum who don’t make annv
noise, there are sum who don't make anny
thing but noise—and sunt agin who lmv music
in their lass, and others who lass just as a rat
does who lias caught a steel trap with his tail.
There is a mistake in the asserslnttis that it
is no comfort to hear sum laff* that come romp
ing out of a man’s mouth like a district skool
of yi ung girls just let out tow pla.
Men who never lafl may have good heartß,
but they are deep seated—like some springs,
they have their inlets and outlets from below,
and show no sparkling bubble oh the brim.
1 don't like a giggle*'; his kind of lass is like
a dandvlion, a broad vellcr with not a bit if
good smell about it
It is true that enny kind of a lass, if it is
honest, is better than none, but give me the laid
that looks out of a man’s eye, fust to see if the
coast is clear, then steals down into the dimple
of his cheek and in eddy that- awhile, then
waltzes a *pell at the corner of his mouth like
a thing of life, then bursts its bonds ov beauty,
and fills the air for a moment with a shower
ov silver tongued sparks, then steals back with
a smile to lay in the heart tew watch again for
its prey—this is the kind of a lass I luv and
ain’t nfeerd ov.
Savs a writer in Blackwood: “I remember a
cruel old schoolmaster who always accompani
ed his flagellations with the assurance we'd
bless him yet for this scourging, and that the
time would come when we’d thank him on our,
knees for these wholesome floggings; but after
a long lapse of years, I have felt bo gratitude
nor ever met a schoolfellow who did.”
“Married ceuples resemble a pair of shears,
says Sydney Smith, “so joined that they can-,
not be separated, often moving in opposite
directions, yet always punishing any one who
comes between them.”
The earthworks at Cold Harbor are fast dis
appearing under the hands of the diligent
lead-searchers, w ho are found everywhere along
the line. Tons of old iron and lead are carried
into Richmond from this field, for which a
round price is paid. “We met several negroes,
wiites a correspondent, “with largo sacks, col
lecting the bones of dead horses, which thsy
sold to the bone-grinsers in Richmond. Upon
questioning them, to ascertain if they also
carried off human bones, they emphatically
replied, “No, sah : we don’t want no ghosts
axing us fur der bones.”
Warrenton, N. C., has a newspaper called
the “Living Present,” which belies its title, bv
heading its editorial column with a skull and
cross-bonus.
-• —i
The “oldest inhabitant” admits that it is
sweet to have friends you can trust, but more
convenient to have friends who “trust” you.
What would this world be without a woman ?
A perfect blank—like a sheet of paper—not
even ruled.
Annexation Schemes.
The Washington correspondent of tho N. Y.
Times, writes:
“The atmosphere bore ever since the 4th of
MArch has been full of annexation. The feel
ing among politicians and others in favor of
the acquisition of new territory appears to
grow stronger day by day, and if public opin
ion on this aubjoct. should gather strength in
the proportion that it has for the last few
weeks, it is probable that there will he a pretty
strong annexation party in tho United States
beforo the close of the year. ■ Even now it is
gravely and confidently asserted that the prus
ent Administration will put this question in
the foreground of its policy, but nothing has
boon said so far by the Executive or any of
his Ministers to justify those statement?, The
Ranks resolutions, which were introduced a
few day* ago, and the Cuban sympathizers who
arc at work here, and a dozen other minor in
fluences, fan the sentiment. The newspaper
articles in reference to the subject are also not
without effect, and the rustless spirits, who are
always numerous in YYashington, are .indus
triously turning evory little occurrence and
incident to their advantage. Some are look
ing toward the British provinces, jind others
ct Mexico ; but at the present time the great
majority have their eyes on Cuba, which latter
they expect to fall into our lap within a short
time. The Foreign Affairs Committeo of the
House, at their meeting this morning, (sth,)
discussed the St. Domingo annexation project,
but arrived at no conclusions.”
They. Don’t Like It.
A correspondent of the Courier-Journal,' , on
the 24th inst, writing from Salem, .Indi
ana, says:
Last Monday, at the Quaker Seminary,
about two miles northeast of Salem, there was
a scene enacted that Quaker eyes were unused
to. Young men from various places attend the
school, but most of them are Radicals. One
Pincketn is. the principal of the Seminary.—
Last Monday, two negroes applied for and ob
tained admission to the school. No souner
was it found out such was the case than the
whitcjboys called a meeting, and resolved that
if the negroes remained they would not. A
committee was appointed to inform Pinckem
that although they recognized his right to
teach whom he pleased, yet if Sambo and Jim
remained they would not. Pinckem yielded,
and the “men and brothers” made trades.
Our old Quaker friends look upon it, I am
told, with feelings of amazement. They fear
that the rising generation will not be controll
ed by the peculiar creed of the Quakers. I
give this as one of the signs of the times, as
going to show that, whatever a Radical Con
gress may do, although backed up by a Legis
lature who hold their seats in violation of their
solemn pledges to the people upon the ques
tion of suffrage, they cannot compel the white
race to intermingle with the black.
Ahont the Door.
A bit of shrubbery in the yard, a vine
climbing by a trellis, a strip of greater mar
ketable value ; which, with many, is a consid
eration to be thought of before any other.—
Such need no further appeal to their sense of
neatness. But all those who really love the
suggestions of beauty for their own sake will
not omit the turf patch, the shrubbery, and
the hedge and vine because they make almost
any home more attractive and lovely, and
cause the sentiments to sprout like the very
leaves and buds themselves. How few stop to
consider what a powerful association lies lurk
ing in every simple but familiar object, like a
hush, a tree, a bit of grass, or a bordsr of
flowers ! They are objects that hold almost as
steadily and strongly to home as wife and
children ; they are closely associated with
these, in fact, and can with difficulty be sepa
rated. Therefore, we say to all, brush up
about the door, and plant near by an object of
simple beauty. It will bear fruit in the heart
a hundred fold.
A poor woman and her infant died, some
days ago in an eastern city, of starvation. In
her hand the poor woman clutched a tract on
the ‘Goodness of God,’ which had been left
her a few days previous by a member of the
“Young Men’s Christian Association.” We
have no words of comment to offer ; but it was
very kind of those Christians to leave the poor
woman a tract; it must -have been a great
comfort to the dying infant.—Exchange.
Exactly So.—The Baltimore (Md.,) Gazette
says :
“The audacious wrong which is proposed to
inflict on Georgia is a blow struck at all the
States. By the subordination of Georgia to*
the will of Congress their independence ismon
aced. If Congress can dictate to Georgia what
she must do in matters of strictly State con
cern, so also can it dictate in like manner t°
any other State of the Union, and tho people
of those States who recognize this right in the
one ease, eannot with any decency complain
if, at somo future, and perhaps not very distan
day they find themselves deprived of their own
liberties in an equally arbitrary way.”
Ay, they may strike Georgia, but let them
some day, beware of the recoil.—Ex.
Hydrophobia is prevailing to an alarming
extent throughout the country, and ha* ap
peared sooner this year than usual.
He who fishes in the sea of matrimony need
not bother to put any bait upon his huok—if
the hook is gold.
Wanted. —By a young man, a situation :
YYork not so much an object as good wages.
Address Loafer, at this office.
Forney thinks “the appointment of Long
street is a d—d pretty way to make treason
odious.”
VOL 4. NO. 22
An the Flying Con free*.
The National Intelligencer, of the Bth met.
says :
“We cannot lint regard the message of the
Pi-reident (published elsewhere in oar ool
umn«) as an invocation to Congrees, which ie*
pluming its wings for flight, to reconsider its
determination in this respect.
“ The message is late, hut better late than
never. It sets forth a necessity for restoration
of the States of the South that are now out of
the Union. As Georgia is not referred to, the
inference is that Genera! Grant is satisfied with
the situation in that State. lie dares not pro
pose to break down State barriers, and legislate
os if Georgia were but a territory or a school
district of Washington. lie says nothing
about Texas, which, according to the leading
Radicals of that State, General Hamilton at
the head, is in the almost millennial condition
that General Grant, in the first part of hie
message, regards as a condition precedent to
the admission of any State of the South.
“It will be seen by the message in question
that the President doee not recommend to Cooe
gress what be would have them do ahont Vir»
ginia, but asks that a day may be fixed for
testing by the people the merits of the consti
tution that has been created, either as a whole
or as provisos may modify it, should Congress
suggest votes upon particular points, accor
ding to the general desires in Virginia. The
President steers clear of this issue. Ae to
Mississippi, we submit that what be writes is
ambiguous, if the following report of that
portion of the message be a true one:”
“I desire, also to ask the consideration f f
Congress to the question whether there is a«t
just ground for believing that the eonstitutieft
framed by a convention of the people of Miss
issippi for that State, and once rejected, might
not again be submitted to the people of
State in like manner, and with the probability
of the same result.”
Smokers.
Robert Hill is said to have preached hla
most eloquent sermons after smoking a pipe
in his vestry; the same with Dr. Parr, who
smoked sometimes twenty pipes in one eve
ning, and “never wrote well only under the
inspiration of tobacco.” According to Bishop
Kennet, Thomas Hobbs the philosopher of
Malmesbury, retired to his study every day
after dinner, and had his candle and ten or
twelves pipes of tobacco laid by him ; then
shutting the door, he fell to smoking, thinking
and writing for several boars ; and although
such an excessive smoker, lived to the good
old age of ninety and two. All know how
the groat Sir lease Newton smoked ; and how
on one occasion, in a moment of profound *b"
straction, bo placed the little finger of hie
“lady love” into the hot bowl of his pipe, ia
place of a tobacco stopper, Thomas Carlyle
smokes, as do Lord Lytton, Tennyson, Louis
Napoleon, and many other eminent men.—
Campbell, Byron, Moore, and Lord Eldon wer«
moderate smokers, and frequently bore testi
mony to the comfort of tobacco. Sir Walter
Scott was a great smoker ; so was Lord Pal
merston—and the use of the weed did not
shorten his days. We wish we could say so
much for Charles Lamb, “the gentle Elia,”
who toiled after it as some men toiled after
virtue. To say all that can be said in favor of
tobacco would require volumes.—[London
.Magazine,
A countryman who had never paid more
than twenty-five cents to see an exhibition,
being in the city of New York on business
thought he would step ’round and take a look
at Niblo’s “Forty Thieves.” The ticket seller
charged him ono dollar and a quarter for the
use es one of the cheapest seats in the theatre.
Passing the pasteboard back, the countrymen
quietly remarked : “Keep it, Mister, I don’t
want to see the other thirty-nine,” and out he
marched, having taught and received a les
son.—Exchange.
Flirtations. —For every man whose heart
broken—we use a phrase current in its ro
mantic sense among women, and which among
men denotes the state of the revealed by pro
fuse smoking and spasmodic devotion to bil
liards—twenty have their eyes opened, and
are on the whole sometimes considerably
improved by the process. We forget to whom
is due the credit of the remark that a man's
usefulness dates from the timo he loses his in
terest in women ; but without going so far, ww
are content to rest upon the conclusion of our
own experience—that until a man has had on*
or tw'o serious flirtations ho is not to be relied
on for earnest effort,
Georgia is rapidly recovering from the effects
of war, and if left alone will continue to re
turn large Democratic majorities, with or
without negro suffrage. The opinion prevails
here that with the increased representation in
Congress which negro suffrage, if forced upea
ns, will give the South, we may be enabled to
counteract the pernicious influence of over
educated and highly corrupted New England
by the ignorant, but easily controlled bleak
vote of the Southern States.—[Exehange.
Pluck and persistency pay. They are a
power. Men who possess them are commonly
intelligent and know what they are about.
They don’t stop at trifles. Little things and
people don’t disturb them. In pluck tbere is
strength and satisfaction ; in persistency there
is faith and fact. You might as well try to
- stop Niagara with a tooth-pick as to prevent
a person with these qualities from going
ahead.
Sick in Earn-st. —A man complained to
his doctor that he stuffed him so much with
drugs that he was sick a long time after he
got well.