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S 2 CO PER ANNUM
n'To. S- PROPHITT.
* Covington Georgia.
~u mftn ufacturiDg all -'of his celebrated
rtiunttr ksbicihbs.
* Consisting of bis—
rtvPß MEDICINE,
anodyne pain kill ir,
ANTI-BILIOUS PILLS,
ague pills,
dysentery cordial,
FEMALE TONIC, and
purifying pills,
, „ , n J will attend to all business in
comea to his office.
bi» line, tun* for patients when consulted,
ViU P( e 8 (hat corae to his office at any
.sigy^)
frompt tllention given to all Orders.
.(lent Remedies of DK, PROPHITT,
T»* Commendation —tlieir well known power
teed no « ji Be ases peculiar to our South
i, removing alroady established for them
• rnC ! “ble reputation in (ieorgia and the ad
‘"enVl«/ites As the majority ot persons liv
•®n*, , qare predisposed to disease of
,og in th« an ted by all intelligent pliysi
tieUve , . tlie p a i Dg a nd aches of our
,i ‘ n i. t «e due to organic or functional derange-
Zt of that important organ.
** PROPIUTT’S
t Ivor Modicino
rectiv at the root of the evil. It cures
*l rlk r er winch in nine eases out of ten, is at
th« Liver, Coughs, Dyspepsia, Colic,
Headache, Rheumatism, Constipation, Meu-
Obstructions, etc., ao common among our
tiler Medicine.
„ ft ,lvantage of almost any other Prepara
,C‘‘ 0 f Medicine that acts upon the Liver. It is
in*the form of a Fluid Extract-ready for use at
in times day or night, and can be carried to
»nv locality in America, winter or summer as it
wffi neither sour nor freeze at any temperature
th t a human being can occupy with safety.
is not too strong for children, or too weak
v ,1p most robust. There is no (rouble about
takii ir it only to unstop the Bottle and drink it
whenever°vou may want h. It has gamed a
v.rv high reputation in every locality it haßh »'j
I fair and honorable chance to prove itself at
I, IV point in America, and it has been used in
e ery State south of Maine, and is alike appli
cable to disorder, of the Liver and Digestive
powers at all places yet tried.
F Travelinir Parties, north and south, carry it,
and Sad the happy effects of it in all climates.
IMUTICUI>AIt. NOTICE.
llenafter NO MEDICINE WILL BE DELI > •
EKBII. or SERVICE RENDERED, except for
*TO .A. S XI ! "53*
Fan need not call unless you are prepared to
’AT CASH, for I will not Keep Books.
Jun. 11, 1809. O. S. PROPHITT.
T. MARK WALTER,
EfARBLi WORKS
Broad Street, Augusta, Ga.
MARBLE B MONUMENTS,
Tomb Stones,
larbleSMantles, and Furniture Marble
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION,
the Plainest t'» the moat Elaborate, (lewilxn
nd furnished to ordor a* cohort notice,
fligj?** All work for the couutr; carefully boxed
d«cl4-3-5-ly.
TAN YARD FIXTURES FOR SALE!
"NOLUDING a Bark Mill, 119 Vftts, and all the
. Tools, Benches, <tc., belonging to a Tan
fard. All comparatively new and in good order,
nd will be sold at a bargain as the present
iroprietors have no use for it. Apply to
W. W. CLARK, Covington, Ga ,
ir JESSE M. WELLBORN, at Dixie Nursery,
1 miles N. E. of Covington.—33tf
Newton County Script Wanted.
A NY person having any of the abovo named
Ml Soript to dispose of, will consult their own
nterest by calling on
Btf BOWKER & HARRIS.
Hotels.
planters hotel,
Augusta, Georgia,
This well known first class Hetel is now re
ipened for the accommodation of the traveling
>ublie, with the assurance that those who may
lave occasion to visit Augusta, will be made
lomfortable. As this Hotel is now complete in
(very Department, the Proprietor hopes, that by
itrict and personal attention, to merit a share of
lublic patronage.
JOHN A. GOLDSTEIN, rro’p,
United States Hotel.
ITLANTA GEORGIA
WHITAKER & SASSEEN, Proprietors.
Vithin One Hundred Yards of the General Passen
er Depot, corner Alabama and Prior streets,
American hotel,
Alabama street,
TLAHTA, GEORGIA,
Nearest house to the Passenger Depot,
WHITE & WHITLOCK, Pro 'ictors.
Having re-leased and renovated le above
lotel, we are prepared to entertain uests in a
Best satisfactory manner. Charg s fair and
moderate. Our efforts will bu to .ease.
“ggage carried to and from Depot .rec of charge
A CARD.
|vHE undersigned, having purchased the en
A tire interest of S>. M. Jones in the AUGUS
TA HOTEL, respectfully solicit a share of pat-
Bnage from the traveling public generally.—
" e Propose to keep a First Class House, and
every effort to satisfy and please all that
Jvc us a call. Both of us have been connected
'll1 1 Hotel for thirteen years.
Hie Rooms of the Hotel are large aud airy
furnished equal to am in the city.
We call the particular attention of tbo old
’atrons of the House to the change. We desire
<! Bee a nd welcome them.
the BAR furnished with the best Liquors and
'‘KBrs. DAN’L C. MURPHY,
PATRICK MAY-
THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE.
J. W. MUERELL,
dentist,
Office—Up Stairs in Muhcell’s Brick Store,
CoViSdTOtt, CrobOia,
Being prepared with the latest im
pro v emeu ts in Dental Material,
Guarantees Satisfaction in each
branch of Operative and Mechanical Dentistry
:«rif desired will visit Patients at their
homes in this and adjoining Counties,
All orders left at the Covington llotf.l, or at
the residence of Mr. G. W, H. Murrell, Oxford,
Ga., will receive immediate attention.—lyß7.
COVINGTON MALE ACADEMY.
MR. J. N. HOOKER would respectfully
notify the public, that the Second Term of
the above named Academy will open the 2d of
August. Those seeking thorough and practical
instruction, will find it to their interest to pat
ronize this Academy—especially those prepar
ing for College,—July 80-4t87
F H 0 T 0 G H A PUS !
IHAVE JUST RECEIVED a Fresh Supply
of Chemicals, and am now prepared to exe
cute work in my line in a supeiior manner.
Call soon if you would have a superior Pic
ture, at my old stand, rear of Post Office build
ing 2Qtf J. W. CRAWFORD, Artist.
I would respectfully inform the
citizens of Newton, and adjoining
counties. that I have opened a
SADDLE and HARNESS SHOP
On north side public square in COVINGTON
where lam prepared to make to order, Harness
Saddles, <Se , or Re pah-the sumo at short notice,
and in the beat style.
47 ts JAMES B. BROWN
H. T. HENRY,
D El N T I S TANARUS,
COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
jt _mri- n** reduced ms prices, so
thatall who have been so unfortu
nate as to lose their natural Teeth
can have their places supplied by Art, at very
small cost. Teeth Filled at reasonable prices,
and work faithfully executed, Office north side
of Square.—l 22tf
JOHN S. CARROLL,
dentist
COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
Teeth Filled, or New ones Inserted,ln
the best Style, and on Reasonable Terms
Office Rear of R. King’s Store.—l ltf ___
J. C. MORRIS,
Attorney at Law,
CONYERS, GA.
JAMES M. LEVY,
Watchmaker & Jeweler,
East side of the Square,
COVINGTON, GEORGIA,
Where he is prepared to Repair Watches, Clocks
ami Jewelry in the best style. Particular atten
tion given to repairing Watches injured by in
competent workmen. All work warranted.
JO mu Y. Tills LEY,
Watchmaker fit Jeweler.
Is fully prepared to Repair Watches, Clock
and Jewelry, iu the best Style, at short notice
AH Work Done at Old Prices, and Warranted.
2d door below the Court House.—Gtf
PACE, WOOD & ROWERS,
HAVE JUST OPENED
A Very Large and Handsome Stock of
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
We iuvite ours on sto give us a ca.l as our
Sloekevery Department is now complete.
PACE, WOOD & ROGERS,
South side of Square, Covington, Ga-
COVINGTON GA., AUGUST 0 18G9
Going Home.
We said that the days wore evil.
We felt that they might bo few,
For low was our fortune's level.
And heavy the winter grow;
But one who lu;d no possession
Looked up to the azure dome,
And said in his simple fashion
“Dear friends, wo are going home.
“This world is tho same dull market
That woariod its earliest age ;
Tho times, to tho wise arc dark yot
And so hath been many an age,
Aud rich grow tho toiling nations,
And rod grow tho battle spears,
And dreary with dosolations
Roll onward the laden years.
“What need of tho changeless story
Which time hath so often told,
That spectre that follows glory,
The canker that comes with gold—
That wisdom and strength and honor,
Must fade liko the far sea foam,
And death is the only winner?—
But, friends wo are going homo!
“The homes wo lntd hoped to rest in,
Were open to sin and strife,
Tbo dreams our youth was blest in,
Were not for the wear of life ;
For caro will darken the cottage,
As well as tho palaeo hearth,
And birthrights are sold forpottago,
But ncyer redeemed on earth,
The springs have gone by in sorrow,
The summers were grieved away,
And ever we feared to morrow,
And ever we blamed to day.
In depths which tho searcher sounded,
On hills which tho high heart clomb,
Have toil and trouble nboundod;
But, friends, we are going home.
Our faith was the bravest builder,
But found not a stone of trust;
Our love was the fairest gilder,
Bin lavished its wealth on dust.
And Time hath the fabric shaken,
And Fortune the clay hath shown,
For much they have changed and taken,
But nothing that was our own.
Tho delights that mado us baser,
Tho paths which so many choose,
The gifts there was found uo place fur
The riches wo could nut use ;
The heart that when life was wintry,
Found summer in strain and tone ;
With these to our king and country.
Dear friends wo are going home.”
The Political Parties in Cuba,
The steamer Nipsie is being dismantled at
the Washington Navy Yard. During her late
cruise she sailed a good deal in llayden and
Cuban waters. Ilor commander represents tho
insurgents in Cuba to bo in full blast, although
it was very difficult to obtain trustworthy ac
counts about reported engagements between
the Spanish tro ion and the insurgents. The
Cubans (natives) all sympathize with tho Re
bellion. Commandor Selfridge represents that
there are practically three parties in Cuba—
the Imperialists (Spanish troops sent there from
Spain) who desire tho home government sus
tained in all its measures against tho Cubans;
the Cuban Volunteers, who want Cuba to bo
erected into the dignity of a Provinco, with
liberty to manage its own domestic economy ;
and the Insurgents, who desire to out off en
tirely from Spain and become an independent
sovereignty. If the home troops and the vol
unteers wore to strike hands on the question
of putting down the rebellion, they could do
so with ease ; but they aro them-elves as wide
apart as both factions arc against tho insur
gents, and so nothing is done. The revolu
tionists understand this feeling, and take every
possible advantage of it.
A circular has just Ixien issued by tho Sec
retary of the Navy providing for the immediate
organization of a torpedo corps in the navy.
The corps will consist of one head of torpedo
corps and such officers as may bo dotailod from
time to timo for instruction and services, and
the whole will be under the direction of the
Bureau of Ordinance of the Navy Department-
Torpedo stations will be established at Ports
mouth, N. II.; Boston, New York, Philadel
phia, Norfolk, Pensacola, and Mare Island.
Torpedo boats aro to be fitted out as soon as
possible and kept in readiness for use when
ever they may be required.
Cure for Chicken Cholera. —As tho prev
alence of this disease among the poultry in
this vicinity has resulted in great loss, we give
our readers the benefit of a remedy, said to be
infalliblo, discovered by a subscriber to tho
Americus Courier, after he had lost three hun
dred chickens. Ho says : “ Take the leaves
of the common Jamestown weed, generally
called ‘ Jimpson weed,’ cut up finely and mix
with the chickens’ food.”
Coolie Labor. —The Governor of Jamaica
has published a statement containing somo very
startling disclosures as to the working of the
Coolie system in that Island. On some estates
the mortality among the emigrants arriving
during the last eighteen months has been 15
per cent., and on one estate the mortality has
been as mueh as 50 per cent. Tho weekly
earnings of a considerable portion of the Coolies
indentured on many estates have been so small
as to be insufficient to afford food enough to
maintain a working man ill health, far less to
afford means of supplying any other wants.
The weekly earnings of a Coolie have been
found to be as low as 25 cents ! and in many
cases have they been found to be less than 75
cents.
[From the Intelligencer.)
Another Letter From Major Madison Bell.
Atlanta, Ga., July 28, 1869.
ThO cdntrovdroy between tho Stato Treasu
rer and myself Ims not boon soiight- Or de
sired by mo, but, on the contrary, I havo en
deavored, by every moans that honor and self
respect would justify, to avoid it. Tho con
troversy first grew out of a correspondence
between the Governor and this Office, elicited
by a note of inquiry from tho former. In my
reply, I stated that I had not approved war
rants drawn upon a fund that was exhausted,
or warrants drawn upon the wrong fund, or
drawn when there was no appropriation to
meet them. My reply was couched in as
respectful language at I could command, and
even exhibited a scrupulous abstinence from
any discourteous allusions to the action or
motives of the Treasurer, whatever. His first
effort was to prove that my answers to the
Governor's interrogatories wero not true, but
having failed to do this, his subsequent effu
sions are a mixture of reckless assertion and
personal invective, which I do not propose to
notice, hut as the Treasurer sets himself up to
bo the only officer who confines himself within
logal bounds, I do proposo to exhibit some of
his inconsistencies, and to show that his ac
tions havo not been in accordance with his
professions. And, as he has taken the liberty
to deal so unsparingly with what ho affects to
consider the motives that havo prompted my
official action in the promises, ho will pardon
me if I take a slight retrospect of his own.—
Ho referred to my approval of warrants drawn
on the Printing Fund to pay for advertising
Executive proclamations, orders, Ac., as proof
of his charge ttat I had approved warrants
drawn on “a fund specially appropriated and
restricted to somo other purpose.” The vindi
cation of my courso in this matter is before
the public, and it is not necessary to repeat it.
But what will the publio think when I utter
the assurance that this immaculato Treasurer
paid tlieso warrants without a murmur down
to as recent a period as the Bth of December
1868, and that I can prove what I say by
his own report which I now havobeforo me.—
On page 17 of this report under the head of
“Printing Fund of 18GS,” I observe tho first
warrant No. 304, in favor of Dr. Samuel Bard,
“for advertising Governor’s proclamations to
July 24th, 186S, $149,00.” Then follow forty
seven more warrants for tho same species of
service, and drawn on the same fund, running
through a period of nearly four months, and
for a sum of money amounting in tho aggre
gate, to over six thousand five hundred dollars.
Where were his scruples then, and with all his
boasted knowledge and logal aoumen, why
had he not discovered during that period of
nearly four months, that it was a violation of
law to pay such warrants? Why has he not
explained to thepnblio, while endeavoring to
fix the approval of such warrants on ma as a
crime, as a conspiracy to rob the Treasury,
how it is that he was a participant in the same
orirno by paying forty-seven of these illegal
warrants amounting to the sura of six thou
sand five hundred dollars? Let him also ex
plain how it happened that he became so sud
denly enlightened as to the law, and so scru
pulously eonsoieneioua as to stop tho payment
of such warrants just about the time ho had a
rupture with the Governor. Plain, unsophis
ticated peoplo would rogard this as a singular
coincidence at least, and all fair-minded, un
prejudiced men would liko to have it explain
ed. Can it possibly be, that as long as the
Treasurer was on friendly terms with the
Governor, he was willing to units in tho “con
spiracy” and participate in a violation of the
law, hut as soon as a breach occurred between
them he changed his course, not for the sake
of tho law, hut for the purpose of annoying
the Governor by dishonoring his warrants ?
no was either ignorant of tho law aud his duty
os a public officer, aa he now professes to un
derstand them, or he knowingly and criminally
violated the law, (for it stood then precisely as
it does now,) and in either case he should come
to the confessional and make an atonement
for his error, beforo he arraigns another officer
bofore the publio for approving the 47 war
rants that he paid.
Ia Ins last communication, which appearod
in the Era of tho 27th instant, he again refors
to my approval of warrants in favor of
additional clorks in the Executive office,
and triumphantly asks, “Where is his author
ity for departing from law, and letting the
Governor’9 sense of pressure be his rule of
action ?” Ido not notice this point now with
the view of agaiu vindicating my actions in
the premises—this ITiave already done in for
mer communications. But I do so for the
purpose of again showing up tho Treasurer’s
inconsistency by introducing his own official
acts. I find, by reference to tbo record that
warrant No. 149, in favor of N. L. Angior, for
$882,55, drawn on tho 7th section of the Ap
propriation act of 1868, “for stationery, prin
ting, &0.,” was approved and entered on the
20th of January, 1869. Then again, I find
that warrant No. 107, in favor of tho same,
for stationery, exchange, telegrams, express
charges, &c., und drawn on the 23d section of
the Appropriation act of 1869, was approved
and entered on the 19th of July, 1869. Where
was your authority, Mr. Treasurer, “for de
parting from the law’’ in these two cases?—
Why was it not as lawful to pay the warrant
of Mr. Conley, the State Libarian, drawn up
on the same 23d section, for postage stamps,
drayage, Ac., for the use of his office, and for
which he had advanced tho cash out of his
own funds ? His warrant was in every re
spect similar to your own, yet you refused U>
pay it because it was drawn on tho 23U sec
tion. Let it he understood that tho 7th sec
tion of the act of 1868 aud 23d section of the
act of 1869 aro tho same in substance. If it
was contrary to law to pay Mr. Conley’s war
rant, whero is the authority, Mr. Treasurer,
tor paying your own? Whntcxcuso havo you
for breaking the law in your own favor, and
recognizing it when tho interests of others are
involved ? I ought to inontion, in passing,
that Conley's warrant was only fur (41,30,
while yours (the last named) was for $785,40.
But again : Tho Treasurer has arraigned
.me for approving warrants for extra service,
and goos out of his way to allude specially to
a warrant in favor of my brother, which he
styles as being of “doubtful propiioty.” I
wonder what lie thought of certain warrants
in favor of his son, which lie paid, and whore
lie finds his much vaunted “authority of law”
for so doing. Now, I assert, that tho warrant
in favor of my brother, to which I prosume
ho alludes, was authorized by express provis
ion of law. On page 186, published laws of
1868, resolution No. 14 expressly authorizes
mo to have certain ontrios transferred in my
offico and to employ a suitable clerk to do the
work. By this authority I employod my
brother, nnd he executed the work to the en
tire satisfaction of a Legislative Committee,
who examined it. Why then this insinuation
that the warrant was of doubtful propriety ?
But, as tho Treasurer speaks of tho amount of
said warrant being at the rato of $l5O 00,
it occurs to me that he may possibly refer to
another warrant in favor of my brother for
services under tho “Wild Land” laws. If so,
he is equally unfortunate, for section 868 of
the Code expressly authorizes the Governor to
appoint a clerk to perform the duties upon
which my brother has for some time been en
gaged, having been appointed by the Govern
or. For this servioe the warrant was drawn
nt the rate of $150,00 per month, and as no
salary was fixed by law for this olerk, the
Govornor, in his discretion, fixed it as above.
It is the satno that has been allowed other
clerks, both in tho Executive office and in the
office of Superintendent of Publio Works.—
Also, the clorks omployed to make county
maps, Ac., all which the Treasurer has hereto
fore paid, without doubling tlieir propriety, so
far as I am informed. But why did the Treas
urer pay a warrant for SSOO in favor of his
son for making a transfer of certain entries in
bis offico, and why did he, at a subsequent
period, pay another warrant in favor of his
son for the same service for $350, making
in all SBSO for these transfers, when there is
no oxpress law authorizing it ? The resolution
' named refors exclusively to the Comptroller
General’s office, yet I find on my book the two
warrants in favor of the Treasurer’s son for
“oxtra service transferring Treasurer Rook
well’s books,” &c. This is not all. The
Treasurer affects great veneration for ‘law,’
and the “will of the Legislature,” yet in the
teeth of hia pretensions, I find on my book
warrant No. 28 for $l5O, in favor of his son
approved November 10, 1868, “ for oxtra ser
vices as Treasurer’s clerk.” On page 10, of
the Laws of 1868, section 13 of the Appropri
ation Act, there is appropriated Fivo Hun
dred Dollars to pay the salary of tho same
clerk for the latter half of 1868. This act
became a law 10th of October, 1868, and
hero was tho expressed will of the Legislature
that the Treasurer’s clerk should have but
SSOO for half the year, or at the rate of SI,OOO
per year. Yet on tho 10th of Novombor
thereafter, the Treasurer, with all his venera
tion for law and the expressed will of the
Legislature, paid his son $l5O ovor aud above
his lawful salary.
Again, on tho 18th January, 1869, I find
that another warrant fur the same amount, No.
132, in favor of his son, was approved and
entered, fur similar services in the Treasurer’s
office. Now, let it bo remembered that about
the same time that each of these warrants was
approved, another warrant for $250, drawn on
the civil appropriation for the salary of this
same clerk waH approved and paid, so that ho
drew tho SSOO appropriated, and S3OO bosides,
fur his services during tho latter half of the
year 1868.
The Treasurer comments severely upon my
assertion that I had no right to suporvise the
Govornor in his application of the Contiiigen
Fund, and attempts to show by quotations from
tho Code that it is my duty to audit all ac
counts and allow or rejeot them beforo they
arc submitted to the Governor, but this doos
not show that I have the right to designate
tho fund out of which they shall be paid.
I have audited and allowed or rejected every
account that has ever teen presented to me,
and if I have not done this in case ot all the
accounts that havo teen paid, it was because
tho holders have not presentod them. And
here the Treasurer is again unfortunate, lie
takes me to task for not approving every ac
count or itoin paid for out of the Contingent
Fund by the Governor, when ho himself has
neglected, in some instances, to present his
accounts for approval, and has tiled his ac
counts in the Executive Office indorsed with
his own approval alone, presented his warrant
at this offioe, had it approved, and pocketed tho
money. I ask, again, why has he thus disre
garded the injunctions of the law which he
has quoted ? Why does he not set a better
example, and practice what ho teaches ? I
find on file in the Executive Office accounts
amounting in the aggregate to over S7OO 00,
approved by the Treasurer embracing in part,
cash payments mado by him for stationery,
exchange, express charges, telegrams, water
cooler, letter heads, Ac., and this is included
iu one of the same warrants referred to before,
drawn on the 23d Seoliouof tho Appropriation
Act of 1869. Now, not one of these accounts
has my approval upon it, yet in the eyes of the
Treasurer it is a great dereliction of duty in
me not to audit every account for which a
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warrant is issued. So it seems when he want
to get money he does not wait fuf the regular
routine which he now insists that the publio
creditors shall follow, at least, ho (lid not wait
in the instance referred to.
In conclusion, I would remark that in oil I,
havo said during my controversy with tho
Treasurer, I have dealt with him in his official
capacity, and it has been my purpose to avoid
personalities. Being attacked, I considered it
a solemn duty to defend my official course, and
the honor and dignity of tho Comptroller
General’s office. This was duo to tho public,
for whose benefit the office I hold should bo
administered. Further than this it has not
been my intention to go, and with this I bid
tho Treasurer adiou—at least for the present.
Respectfully, Madison Bell,
Comptroller GonereL
Gone Home South.
Some weeks ago, an old colored woneao,
about sixty years of age, named Henrietta
MoClintock, arrived here, says the Washington
Express, under the impression that she wan
reaching Little Washington, Ga. On her art
rival, she met Officer E. McHenry, and told
him her troubles. During the war she had left
her old master, Mr. Benjamin F, Barksdale,
of Danbury, Ga., and had wandered through
Tennessee until she was weary of such a life,
and was anxious to return to her 'old master.*
She then inquired at an interior village the
direction to Little Washington, and was direct*
ed to the tiokot office, where a ticket to Wash*
ington, D, C., was sold her. This exhausted
all her means, and arriving here without
friends or money, she was in sore distreee, and
on meeting Officer McHenry, begged him to
write to her old master for money to take her
home. That officer interested himself, and
did so, and without delay ho received a letter
from Mr. Barksdale containing twenty dollars
Last night he bought her a tioket, placed her
in the cars, and she left for Dixie's land well
and happy.
Advice. —Young man don’t get too “foxy.”
If you happen to get in possession of a few
dollars, act as you did before you got them.-*
Don’t swell up and burst. If you have a good
share of brains you won’t do this; you will
remember that neither money, clothes or good
hxiks make the man, and that worth is as ofttw
garbed ia a ragged coat os it is in broadcloth.
Don’tstand on hotel steps, dangling your watch
chain, and talk “hoss.” Better buy a book
and learn to read without spelling your words.
Those who load themselves with airs are thu
smallest kind of potatoes and the fewest in the
hill. A “fat” job often spoils young men of
weak minds. They immediately commenoe to
“rag out,” and take great prido in cultivating
an aldermanio corporation, and a sporting air.
Sensible persons are always disgusted with
such actions when they deign to notice them,
which is very seldom. Reflect, and turn ovet
anew leaf.
Poisoned by Fly Paper.
The Detroit Free Press of July 22, relates
the following ocourronce:
On Tuesday afternoon a child aged seventeen
months, the son of Samnel F. Cromer, residing
on Grand River street, nearly opposite Caes
Market, was almost fatally poisoned from eat*
ing “fly paper” used to destroy flies about the
house. The skill of two physicians was ema
ployed for several hours during the evening
and night to counteract the effect of the poison,,
but even their efforts would soarcely have
availed, had not tho large quantity of poison
taken, induced vomiting, by whioh a portion
was thrown off tne stomach.
In taking up the woodoa floor in the office
of the Pulaski House for the purpose of laying
down the beautiful Mosaic pavement which
has just been completed, the joists, which ore
of Georgia pine, were found to be quito as
strong os they were when put in the building,
somo thirty years ago. We are also informed
that there are other buildings in the city whiolr
were erected somo fifty or even sixty years ago,
in which the joists and beams, of Georgia pine,
do not exhibit the slightest symptoms of decay.
—[Sav. News.
Dangerous Pleasures. —I have sat npon the
seashore and waited for its gradual approaches,
and have seen its daneing waves and whits
surf, and admired that He who measured it
with Ilis hand had given it such life and mo*
tion ; and I lingered till its gentle waters grew
into mighty billows, and had well nigh swept
mo from my firm footing. So have I seen a
heedless youth gazing with & curious spirit
upon tho sweet motions and gontle approaches
of inviting pleasures, till they have detained
his eye and imprisonod his feet, and swelled
upon his soul, and swept him to swift destruo*
tion.
Paintings by Mrs. Robert E. Leb.— There
is on exhibition at Lexington, Va., a hand*
some portrait of Gen. Washington, when about
thirty years of age, taken when in full uniform;
also a portrait of Mrs. Martha Washington,
copied from a portrait taken when ehe was
young, both from portraits now in tho Wash*
ington family ; also a photograph of Gen. Lee
and Mrs. Gen. Lee, in colors, taken when
young. These paintings are by Mrs. Gen. Lee,
and are all pronounced excellent likenesses.
They are for sale at SIOO each, and the pro*
ceeds are to be applied for tho benefit of tho
Episcopal church at Lexington, Va.
The vagabond mob on Monday afternoon
carried their hate for United States officials to
such an extent that on passing through Meet*
in*' street, the United States mail wagon was
stopped and assaulted. He only made his os*
cape after knocking down several of the im>t>
and thrashing his horse into a run, And the
Mayor of the city is powerless to keep the
peace.-—!Charleston News.