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” RECEIVED a Fresh Suppy
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of ° u n mv line in a supcnor manner.
at** 0 ' „jf you would have a superior Pto-
C*" • oon .i,i 'li an d rear of Post, Office build
ture, at my old *tan a c;RAWFuiU>) Artist.
lag—- o,f :
DEARINC & PRINCLE
Dn»- . t,,d themselves in the Prae-
A VINO a « B "S£, NE and SURGERY, offer
ITtice . sLal services to the citizens of
Lr professional open , d nn iffieon
t,*ton conn y. £ qu are, (next door to S
he East ««« , an ,; are prepared to attend to
tlfe
~le nos* Medicines,
M 6 r y . „ thnir nersonal attention to Com
ind for Physicians and
>lhers eiven to Chronic Diseases
''““'■’h *» O-J » hi
At mgnt ' r p KINO Ik at his Tooms'imme*
•esidence, » ntt s ‘ of c .. 11. Sanders & Bao.
iately over the
i»y 15, 25tf ——
, j -would respectfully inform the
A citizens of Newton*, atid adjoining
counties, that I have opened a
and HARNESS stlOP
public square iu COVINGTON
■ Dor t m orepared to make to order, Harness
'uieJ Vll-pair the same at short notice
ind in the best style. jamEs b BROWN
47 ts
Y. TINSLEY,
watchmaker & Jeweler
i fnllv prepared to Repair Watches, Clock,
‘Srv in the best Style, at short notice.
mWork Done at Old Pries and W arrant,ed.
‘ 2d door below the Court House.—stf,
' JOHN S. CARROLL,
U E N T I ST
COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
_ Teet h Filled, or New ones Inserted,in
best Style, and on Reasonable Terms
ifflee Rear of R. King’s Store.-! ltf
H T. HENRY,
D in isr i? i &
COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
HAS REDUCED HIS PRICES, so
that all who have been so unfortu
nate as to lose their natural Teeth
s*n have their places supplied by Art, at v-ry
inn have u r h Fi)led ftt , reasonable prices,
sod work fai'bful'y executed, Office north Bide
i Square. —1 22“
J. C. M O KRIS,
iUtoi’iioy at Law,
CONYERS, GA.
JAMES M. LEVY,
Watchmaker & Jeweler,
East side of the Square,
GEORGIA,
id ispreparedto Repair Watches. Clocks
md Jewelry in the best style Particular atten
i.n given to repairing Watches injured by in
ora/ietent workmen. All work
ANDERSON & HUNTER
Are constantly receiving
r resh and Seasonable floods!
All of which they propose to sell at the
LOWE9T CASH PR.IC EjS,
re als o closing out several lines of Goods
—At and Below Cost!
AGENTS FOR
gricultnrar Implements,
Clover and Grass Seeds,
And several of the best
TANDARD FERTILIZER
in. 14, —46tf
MANUFACTURE
uperior Cotton Yarns,
No. 6to 12. <fc Doz, No. 400 to 700.
UTTREBSF-S
All sizes and qualities to suit orders.
3 a t t in s»
Os Waste or Good Cotton.
vool cardln c.
The quality of the Rolls unsurpassed.
' L o u R and MEAL.
GRIST MILL cannot be surpassed in
• ”** quality, nor the quantity of MEAL or
l OIR turned. A supply of Meal or Flour
nstantly „ n hand. Flour of all grades to suit
taue and price.
Double F.xtra, Extra Family, Family,
'perfine, an<l Fine. Graham Flour and Grits
order. SHORTS and Bit AN, for Stock Feed,
10 kept. The patronage of the public is re
eetfully asked. Satisfaction guaranteed.
A splendid stock of——
r y Goods and Groceries
1 hl *"d and for sale Cheap for Cash or barter
r kinds of Country Produce.
E. STEADMAN, Prop’r.
Newton Cos., Ga., Feb. 19, 1869,-13
“Richard’s Himself Again.”
OHO Agents Wanted!— Having
L resumed my business of publishing
°°ks, I want Agents to sell by subscription
y valuable Publications n every pan of the
>. ern States. A good chance for intelligent
a >med Soldiers. For agency and Territory,
PPjy l ® E. NEB HUT,
Social Circle, Ga,
H. &. A. W. FORCE,
Wholesale Dealers in
“°°ts tb Slto oa ,
Whitehall street., Atlanta, Ga
Goods arc purchased direct from
lii he Eastern Manufacturers. Wo will
J* i Xi.-T > t Fr lcrchumtai nv - ~ricc8 ~
THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE.
DR.O.S. PROPHITT,
(.MMtOTON (rCOKGIA.
Will still oontinuc 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,
Cos centrated Preparations, Fluid Extract*. Ac.
TTe is also putting up his
Liver MocUclnos,
FEM ALE TONIC, ANODYNE PAIN KILL IT
Vermifuge, Anti-Bilious Pills,
and many other preparations,
give prompt attention to all orders.
PARTICULAR NOTICE, f
Hereafter NO MEDTOJNE WILL BE DELIV
EREO. or SERVICE RENDERED, except for
BTO -A. ® H
You nee not call unless you are prepared to
PAY CASH, for I jaill not Keep Book*.
Oct 1X1867. O. S. PROPHITT.
EMPIRE DRY G 9 O:DS STORE.
PESSELS & STERN.
Wholesale Dealers in
Dry Goods, Clothing, Hats, Shoes,
Gent's Furnishing Goons, Norroits, &o.
No. 1, Whitehall Street, (in Mark ham; Empire
Block, 3m22 ATI. ANT A, GA.
Hotels.
PLANTERS HOTEL,
Augusta, Georgia.
This well known fir.-t class HUel is now re
opened for the accommodation ot ihe traveling
public, with the assurance that those who may
have occasion to visit Augusta, wail be made
comfortable. As this Hotel is now complete in
every D partmeat, the Proprietor hones, i ha! by
at riot and itersoual attention, to merit a share of
public patronage.
JOHN A GOLDSTEIN, Prs'p.
United States Hotel.
ATLANTA GEORGIA
WHITAKER & BA3SEEN, Proprietors.
Within One Hundred Yards of the General Passcn
wer Depot, corner Alabama and Prior streets,
A M I R I C AN HOTEL,
Alabama street,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Nearest house to the Passenger Depot.
WHITE & WHITLOCK, Pro letors.
Having r i-lensc 1 and renovated le above
Hotel, we are prepared to entertain nests in a
most satisfactory manner. Cliarg i fair and
moderate*. Our efforts will be to .case.
3 erg ace carried to and froiu Depot .ree of charge
iTa RE REDUCED!
AUGUSTA HOTEL.
THIS FIRST CLASS HOTEL is situated on
Broad Street, Central to the business por
tion of the Ciiy, and convenient to the Tele
graph and Express Offices: The House is large
and commo.li 'US, and has been renovated and
newly painted from garret to Cellar, and the
bedding nearly all new since the war. The
rooms are large and niry ; clean beds, -and the
fare as good as tho country affords, und atten
tive and polite servants.
Charges.— Two Dollars per day.
Single Meals 75 Cents.
I hope to merit a liberal share of patronage
from the traveling public.
Give mo a trial and judge for yourselves
S. M. JONES, Prop’r.
DR, TITTT’S SARSAPARILLA ANT) QUEENS
DELIGHT. The great Blood Purifier.
, \j\ 'PUTT’S EXPECTORANT, A certain cure
, v[ 0 HAIR DYE. The
fvMrtrS VEGETABLE LIVER PILL
L ) For Liver Complaint, Pispcpsla, &c.
These valuable Preparations are for *5
Covington, b, fAC^WOOD
In Thomson by A - D - nlL1 "
W\T I OLLMAN, Tjoalfer in IMntclies,' Oloek*,
Fine' Jewelry, (Told’Pens, tc.
Whitehall street, second door above M Lynch s
ICo s book store, Atlanta. Ga. Repa.rmg.done
in good st\ le and warn anted.—S. 4.
m .| . c y g, eisSON W. W. Chap-
T m^^oTWhitThSuSelS: ATLANTA, Ga.,
hav« just, opened an extensive stock of Spring
DRY‘GOODS. They desire to call especial
attention to Vhrir cheat vabtety of Spring and
Summer Dress Goods, and White Goods, which
Ihev have made a specialty for _ this season.
They keep Thompson’s-“<'love Fitting Corsets,
Genuine Alexandre’s Kid Gloves, best English
Hosiery, tfcc.—*2otf
a. J. robkrt, j. a. bisaner, w. a, riohardso
Marietta, Ga Marietta, Ga. Louisville. Ky
THE GEORGIA. MARBLEjWORkS,
Are now prepared to fill all Orders for Marble,
and to furnish
Monuments, Slabs, Tombs, &c.
Finished in the best style, and at Lower Prices
than the same work done with Northern Marble’
Our Marble is Equal to the Best American
Dealers can be supplied -it . Blocks and
Bai 8 of any dimineions.r
For any information o ftdnress
GEORGIA MARBLE WORKS
Either at Marietta, or Jasper, Pic
Newton County Script Wanted.
VNY person having any of the above named
Script to dis|>o*»of. wilt consult their own
I interest i)V cal ing on
I ... ~f BOWKER A HARRIS.
Co7lKi4l%4fr, MAY 21, 18G!).
Life and Dentil.
“Wiiat is Life, Father?”
“A battle, my child,
, Where the strongest lance may fail,
Where the wariest eyo may bo beguiled,
And tho stoutest heart may quail:
Where the foes are gathered on every hand,
And rest not day.nor night,
And the feeble, little ones must stand
In the thickest of the fight.”
“What is Death, Father?”
“The rest, my child,
When the toil and strife aro o’er:
The Angel of Ood wrho, calm and mild,
Says we need fight no more ;
Who, driving away the demon band,
Bids the din of the battle cease,
Takes banner and spear from our failing hand
And proclaims an eternal peace.
“Let me die, Father l I tremble and fear
To yield in that terrible strife!”
The crown must be won for heaven, my dear,
In the battle-field of life ;
My child, though thy foes are strong and tried'
He loveth the weak and small;
The angels of heaven are on thy side,
And God is over all!”’
“No Tears in Heaven.”
I met a child; his feet were bare,
Ilis weak Frame Bhivered with the cold ;
Ilis youthful brow was knit with care,
Ilia mournful eyo his sorrow told.
Said I, “Poor boy, why weepest thou ?”
“My parents are both dead,” he said ;
“I have not where to lay my head ;
0, I am lone and friendless now 1”
Not friendless, child j a friend on high
For you hie precious blood hath given ;
Cheer up and let each tear be dry—
“ There are no tears in Heaven.”
I eaw a man, in life’s gay noon,
Stand weeping o’er his young bride's bier ;
“And we must part,” he cried, “so soon I”
As down his cheek there rolled a tear.
“Heart-stricken one,” said I, “weep not!'
“Weep not 1” in accents wild he cried,
“But yesterday my young lovo died !
And shall she be so soon forgot?”
Forgotten ! no, still let her love
Sustain thy heart with anguish riven ;
Strive thou to meet thy bride aboTe,
And dry your.tears in Heaven.
I saw a gentlo mother weep,
As to her throbbing heart she prest
An infant, seemingly asleep,
On its kind mother s shelt’ring breast.
“Fair one,” said I, “pray weep no more 1”
Subbed she, “the idol of my hope
I now am called to render up;
My babe has reached deuth's gloomy
shore.”
Young mother, yield no more to grief,
Nor be by passion’s tempest driven,
But find in these sweet words relief—
“ There are no tears in Heaven.”
Poor traveler o'er life's trouble ! wave,
Cast down by grief, o’erwhelmed by fear,
There is an arm a'bovo can save :
Then yield not thou to fell despair.
Look upward mourners, look above !
What tho’ the thunders echo loud?
The sun shines bright behind the cloud ;
Then trust to thy Redeemer’s love.
Where'er thv lot in life be cast,
Whate’er of toil or woo be given,
Be firm—remember to tho last,
“There are no tears in Heaven.”
— . woe .woe -- »'
Solomon’s Temple Exhumed.
The London Times publishes an interesting
letter in regard to the discoveries at Jerusalem
from which we select the following: “The
colossal foundations of the temple wall, which
are “stones of ten cubits and stones of eight
cubits,’’ laid by Solomon or his successors on
the throne, are now being laid bare at the
enormous depth of 90 feet and more beneath
the present surface. The bridge that once
spanned the ravine between the palace of Zion
and the temple of Moriah is now proved to
have been upwards of 150 feet high. If this
be as it seems, the ascent to the house of the
Lord which Solomon showed to the Queen of
Sheba, we cannot wonder that on seeing it
there was no spirit in her. The pinnacle of
the temple on which the tempter placed the
Savior has just been uncovered to the base, and
is found still to have an elevation of 136 feet.
The statement of Josephus is therefore no ex
aggeration. If any ono looked from the battle
ments into the valley, be would bo giddy, while
his sight could not reach to such an immense
depth. Seotions of the ancient wall of Ophel
Lave been exhumed, showing that, as Josephus
says, it was joined to the southeast angle of
the temple. Aqueducts, rock-hewn channels
and passages have been discovered within and
around the harem, throwing new lijfht on the
buildings, the arrangements and the services of
the temple. The great work of a complete
exploration of ancient Jerusalem is thus fairly
and auspiciously commenced. Tho opportune
visit of the Sultan and Grand Vizier to this
esuntry, and the representations made to the
latter by the Archbishop of York, followed up
as they have been by the energy, ths wisdom
and the tact of Lieut. Warren and his admira
ble staff, have soothed down Moslem prejudice,
removed local opposition, and thus brought
about opportunities for excavation and explo
ration such as never occurred before; and
besides, large numbers of Arab laborers have
been trained to the work, and are eager to be
employed, and the exact points for successful
exploration are now well knowm”
One of the best sorts of minds is that which
minds its own business. Like many other ex
tra good things, including beefsteaks it is
somewhat rare.
Preventive Auninst the Cotton Worm.
Wo cull the following from an article in tile
Now Iberia (La.,) Journal:
A planter on tho coast, having for several
years past, been in the habit of sowing in his
cotton land the ordinary cow peas, and finding
to his amazement, that those of his neighbors’
crops where no peas had beon sown were liter
ally destroyed by tho worms, bis crop remain
ing untouched, was induced to test the efficacy
of the vines as a preservative against their de
struction. With this view, he tried the follow
ing experiment, to wit: That of cultivating
one portion of his field in cotton alone, and
surrounding the other with a belt of peas.—
This done, the poriod of the army worm to
appear having arrived, that portion of his field
wherein no peas bad been sown was entirely
devoured, while that in which peas had beon
sown remained untouched—a result which, of
course, leads him very rationally to suppose
that the vine alone, growing around the cotton,
has proved its protection against the aggression
of the insect.
After all, from the accountgiven by the oldest
inhabitants of our parish, wc arc inclined to
think that it is as reported, an infallible pre
servative against the ravages of the cotton
worm, and for this reason : From the authority
quoted above, we are told that up to twenty or
twenty five years ago, such a thing as the army
or cptton worm was unknown among them, and
before that p*eriod it was the universal practice
of all planters to yearly sow their fields—
whether of cotton or corn, in peas. Why
should they have given up this wholesome
practice, we arc unable to say, but certain it is
that since, few have been the crops raised in
this section without having been more or less
injured by these inseets.
We could not too strongly urge upon pur
cotton planters tlie importance of testing the
efficacy of this simple expedient, it being both
easy and profitable.
Religious Worship in China.
A correspondent in China of the San Fran
cisco Bulletin, lately visited a religious meet
ing held in Canton by a missionary. It was
conducted in the Canton dialect. The prac
tices of coming late, going out duiing the
service, and sleeping under powerful discourses
1 revail thero as in other countries. During
the service a man came running in with a wild
expression on his countenance, and asked the
minister what oouid be done for a man who
had been frightened to death. 1 lie interrupted
preacher gave him the necessary directions and
proceeded with his remarks. But he was not
allowed to complete the service in peace after
this strange interruption. “Before the sermon
closed, the military mandarin of the province
happened to pass along the street in front of
the chapel, and the congregation tumbled pell
"iricirifftß the street, and we, being left a ‘beg
garlv account of empty benches,’ followed
them.”
Imperialism.
Who are the Imperialists? The men who
find the money to support the organ howling
for that political curse, a monarchy, with its
lazy and corrupt aristocracy, nobility and roy
alty. The sensational sheet, now talked about
by the rural district journals, all over the land j
is a feeler put forth by certain parties in the
interest of Grant and hi* cabinet. In the days
or the “lamented,” when Bill Sewatd rang hi,
little bell, and the hastile gates opened for fresh
victims hourly, all the country heard much
about the President’* “Premierour ears hare
not caught the term of late, but it nmy be lis
tened for. “Premier” would" sound well just
now to start with, and get the senses of the
“subjects” used to tho royal terms that will
finally follow. In one of the numbers of the
Imperialist, we find the advertisements of
eleven Mongrel bondholding bankers, who are
paying their money to push the idea on. Os
course these subjects of Imperialism expect, if
the thing takes, to receive from his Royal Ma
jesty, King Ulysses tho First, something fat in
the way of titles. — [N, Y. Dem.
The Boston Journal says: “Mr. Jacob
Whipple, of Squaboro’ does not see the use of
building school houses and paying teachers to
educate a parcel of boys and gals who know
a darned sight more than thoir parents do al
ready.”
A Southern paper says that rats may be
effectually kept from oats in the stack, or in the
barn, by sprinkling wood ashes pretty freely
among the bundles. The ashes get into the
nose and eyes of the rats producing a disagree
able sensation, and they leave the premises.—
The ashes at the same time will be beneficial
to the stock.
A Girl. —A homo without a girl is only half
blessed ; it is an orchard without blossoms, and
a spring without song. A house full of sons
is like Lebanon with its cedars, but daughters
by the fireside are like roses in Sharon.
The mystery of Napoleon’s career was this :
under all difficulties and discouragements to
“press on.” It solves the problems of all he
roes ; it is the rule by which to judge of all
wonderful success and triumphal marchos to
fortunes and genius. It should be the motto
of all. “Press on.” Never despair, never be
discouraged ; however stormy the heavens, or
dark the way, or great tho difficulties, or re
peated the failures, “press on.”
A Georgia paper says that the people of that
section heve made up their minds to raise their
own bread, and that tho planters have put in
about forty per cent of com, ten of oats, and
fifty of cotton.
Every day brings its own duties, and car.
ries them along with it ; and they are as
waves broken on the shore, many like them
coming after, but none ever the same.
Good Sdyings.
Wo arc always looking into the futuro, but
we see only the past.
Tho courage with which we have met dan
gers is often our best security for the presont.
Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discovor
as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides
the rags of tho one and tho wounds of the
other.
lie who has never denied himßelf for the
sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of
charity. Wo owe our superfluity, and to bo
happy in thejporformance of our duty wo must
cxcoed it.
Let us ever exceed our appointed duties, and
keep within our lawful ploasures.
We expect everything, but are prepared for
nothing.
There are not good things enough in life to
indemnify us for the neglect of a single duty.
We aro rich only through what we givo, and
poor only through what wc refuse.
There is a transcendent power in example.
We reform others unconsciously when we walk
uprightly.
The inventory of my faith for this lower
world is soon made out- I believe in Him
who made it.
Situations are like -skeins of thread? to
make the most of them we need only to tako
them by tho right end.
The Society of Woman.
Ono of the greatest benefits a young man
may derive from woman’s society i* that he is
bound to be respectful to them. The habit is
of great good to you, moral men, depend upon
it. Our education makes us the most eminent
ly selfish men in the world. We fight for our
selves ; we push for ourselves ; we cut the best
dices out of the joint at club dinners for our
selves, and light our pipes, and say we won t
go out, we prefer ourselves and our ease; aud
the greatest good that comes to man from
woman's society is that he has to think of
somebody besides himself, somebody to whom
he is bound to be attentive and respectful.—
Certainly I don’t want my dear Bob to asso
ciate with those of the other sex whom he
doesn’t respect; that is worse than billiards ;
worse than tavern brandy and water ; worse
that smoking selfishness at home. But I vow
I would rather see you turning over the leaves
of Miss Fiddlecombe’s rausio book all night
than billiards or smoking, or brandy and
water, or all three. —[Thackeary.
Two gentlemen, of opposite politics,meeting,
one inquired the address of some political
celebrity, when the othor indignantly an
swered —
“I am proud to say, sir, that I aia wholly
ignorant of it.”
“01 you are proud of your ignorance, eh,
•ir?”
‘Yes, I am,’ replied the belligerent gentle
men, ‘and what then, sir?’
*0 1 nothing, sir, nothing ; only you have a
great deal to be proud of, that’s all/
Tlie Famine in Russia.
The foreign mails bring further particulars
of tho famine prevailing in the Russian prov
ince of Esthonia, on the Black Sea. No rain
fell from Mav 23d to August 18th, 1868, and
consequently the crops weie burned up. Now
bread cannot be obtained except for exorbitant
prices, and the supplies are very scanty. Tho
wet weather of the present season has made
the roads impassable, and no assistance can
reach the people. Disease has also com
menced to afflict the population. The peasants
have congregated in large numbers in the vil
lages in hope of obtaining food and shelter,
and the crowds in weakened condition are
suffering from hunger and typhus. Discour
aged and in despair of receiving relief, children
are deserting their parents, and parents their
children, to wander about the country, beg
ging and plundering.—[Sav. News, 6th.
Never Forsake a Friend, —When enemies
gather around, when sickness falls on the
heart, when the world is dark and cheerless,
is the time to try true friendship. Those who
turn from the scene of distress botray their
hypocrisy, and prove that interest only moves
them. If you have a friend who loves you,
who has studied your interest and happiness,
be sure to sustain him in adversity. Let him
feel that his former kindness is appreciated,
and that his love was not thrown away, peal
fidelity inay be rare, but it exists in the heart.
Those only deny its worth and power who
never loved a friend, or labored to make a
friend happy.
The Nations Without Fire.
According to Pliny, fire was a long time un
known to some of the ancient F.gyptiane ; and
when Exodus (the celebrated astronomer)
showed it to them, they were absolutely in
rapture. The Persians, Phoenicians, Greeks,
and several other nations, acknowledged that
their ancestors were unce without the use of
fire, and the Chinese confess the same of their
progenitors. Pompanion, Mola, Plutarch and
other ancients speak of nations who, at the
time they wrote, knew not the uee of fire, or
had just learned it. Facts of the same kind
are also attested by several modern nations.
The inhabitants of the Marion Islands, which
wore discovered in 1151, had no idea of fire.
Never was astonishment greater than theirs
when they saw it on the desert of Magallan )
In one of their islands. At first they believed
it was some kind of an animal that fixed to
and fed upon wood. The inhabitants of the
Philippine and Canary Islands were formerly
equally ignorant. Afrioa presents, even in
our own day, nations in this doplorable state.
Two walking sticks; a broom; one dozon
pair woolen socks —nice for spring; pair boots;
eagle on the legs ; ono pup ; four years' pew
rent; and his picture are Grant’s latest gifts.
I ‘He gathers them in : he gathers them in.’
\ r OL. 4. NO. 27,
A Solid Lump of Wisdom.
The New York Herald says: “Large porv
tions of tho best cotton lands in Mississippi
have been flooded by tho recent heavy rains
in that quarter destroying tho cotton planted
and making a replanting necessary. But if
the planters are quick about it they may still,
by replanting secure a fair crop. But if the
subsidence of the overflow will make it too
late for tho cotton, it will not be too late for
tho corn, and the South cannot raise too much
corn. With a rousing crop of Indian corn,
though everything else may fail, tho Southern
people will be rich. They have heretofore too
much neglected this life-sustaining staple.—
The lessons which they learned in the late
Confederacy, however, of the vital importance
of a good crop of ludian corn, they have since
turned to a good account; sot their corn crop
of last year, if we are not mistaken, made
thoir cotton crop clear cash, or very near it,
on the costs of the two crops. Lot the plan
ters of the.cotton States, then, remember that
where it may bo too late to replant a swamped
cotton field, they may still be in season for a
good field of corn.”
To-day and
Today we gather bright and beautiful flow
ers—tomorrow they are faded and dead,
Today a wreath of leaves shades us—tomor
row, sere and fallen, they crumble beneath
our tread.
Today tho earth is covered with a carpet of
green—tomorrow it is brown with 'the with*
ered grass.
Today the vigorous stock only bends before
the gale—tomorrow leafless and sapless, S
child may break the brittle stem.
Today the ripening fruit and waving gr*mf j
tomorrow ‘th* land is soeking its rest after the
toil/
Today we hear sweet songsters' of meadow
and forest, the buzz and hum of myriad insects
tomorrow—breathe softly—all nature ia
hushed and silent.
Today a stately edifice, complete in finish
and surrounding, attra«ts the passer by—to
morrow a heap of ruins marks the site.
Today there are cattle upon a thousand hills
—tomorrow they fall in slaughter.
The fashion of the world passeth away.— f
But let Christ dwell with us, and though wo
may pass away‘like the faded leaf and sapless
stalk, we shall ‘arise to newness of life.’
“Where everlasting spring abides
And never withering flowers.”
Brutal Treatment of the Insane in Massa
chusetts.
Tlie Massachusetts Legislative Committee
which is charged with the investigation of the
death of Parks, at the Taunton Lunatio Asy*
lum, happened a few days ago, upon the bits
of new testimony of just such a character ac
furnished Charles Reads with the materiel for
‘Hard Cash.’ Patrick Milan, of Readville, a
former patient of the asylum, testified that he
saw the struggle between Parks and the atv
tendants; three men held down the victim;
of these three, Young was kneeling on his
breast, choking him and striking him with hik
fist; Lamson was stamping upon Parks’
breast with his heel, and kicking'him on the
side with all his might, waiting for a chance
to hit fair between the struggle of the victim,
who hollowed as often as there was any breath
in his body. IV'hen Parks was completely
exhausted, he was taken to his bgd room,
where the witness heard more violence in the'
night. Why didn’t tlie witness make public
such doings ? He did not dare. lie had
known patients to be beaten for making com
plaints. One day, Keeper Charles Acorn re
quired witness to bathe, and upon his refusing,
knocked down and kicked him so severely thaftf
he was still lame from the injuries then re
ceived. lie had also been kicked and bruised
when he was in a strait jacket. The counsel
for the asylum cross-examined and bullyragv
ged the witness, but failed to discredit hi*‘
testimony, which was very clear.
Atlanta-Made Tobacco.
Tho first box of Tobacco made in Atlanta
was sold this morning by Col. Adair, to the
“Live Drug Store” for one dollar sixty-two
and a half cents per pound. Atlanta is the
Tobacco market of the South. Parties can
purchase it her# at better prices than else
where, and as we are to have a large number
of Tobacco factories in operation here, the
supply will be ample, A large number of
negroes came by the Georgia Railroad train
this morning, from Danville, Yn., to work in
ono of the tobacco factories.—[Atlanta Con-‘
stitution, 6th inst.
Woman. —An exchange says, wo can always
tell what sort of a woman a man marries, by
tho way he treats the printer. If he gets a
common wife, lie forgets the printer altogether.
If he gets a tolerably good wifo, he will send
in the notice of his marriage. If he gets a
very good one, he will send the printer a niee'
slice of cako accompanying the notice. If he
gets an extra one, he will send a nice slice of
cake and a bottle of wine with the notice. And
if he gets a glorious, angelio creature—all aft'
section and goodness—he is sure to send the
printer a nice lot of cake and wine and two
dollars to pay for a year's subscription to the
papier.
A Danville correspondent of the Richmond
Dispateh says that the negroes of that town
are rapidly moving South. Fifty of them left
a night or two ago for Atlanta. Tho tobacco
manufacturers have gone to the same plaoe.
Our factories are nearly all closed.
“I wish, Sally,” said Joems “that you were
locked in my arms, znd tho key was forever
lost.”