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00 TIW ANNUM
ARRIVED
at the
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A full supply of
T r ugs, MEDICINES, &C.,
«Uchm*» »'y Stock thnt Une C ° mP,etC ’
Ornery, Toilet Articles, &c. f
PerTuni ' attention of the Ladles, to my
I» l9ht °Hment of Fine PERFUMERY 1 , of all
u o lment of TOILET
H hi r m arket Also a large lot of Hair,
SOAPS- Tno h «mi Finger Nall BRUSHES Puff
Cloth 1 ' 6 ' iVvervthlnU else necessary to complete a
B^^oUnanJ UuitarßlrinKS '
Toflet. f U H gupply of all the Standard
of the day, besides FINE
PATENT f£ Medicinal purposes.
"C* Oils, Varnishes, Sc.
LEAD and tHttejn IQO Peundg .
nuftuuuesj; 1 f O TTS % embraces Raw and Double
Boiled Eugene, and other Oils. All styles of
T»n n l‘r„orJHES. I have also ou hand a lot of
paint b^ FECTI on eries,
, v I Invite an examination by all who may
»* h f, urel.te. me a calk and l will
satisfaction. E. 11. WARE,
ffsids Square, Covlngton.-Utf
Dnufi AHD VARIETY STORE.
(BetwenD. W. Sr* 6 "” s and Caek 4 CoDT )
WK would respectfully inform the public,
ili»t we have recently purchased in the
Markets, a Laree and Well Selected
EKfJSSS^rim*
DRUGS, MEDICINES and CHEMICALS,
patent medicines,
PERFUMERY and toilet articles,
vrivnow GL ASS, Urge and small LOOKING
with and without Frames, MOULD •
ISO Walnut and Gilt, snd full Gilts cut, for
Minors and Pictures. The beet Brands of
White Lead, and Zinc Paints,
All colors for Graining and Painting. OILS,
Ksw and Boiled l inseed. Machinery and Tiam
Oils. The fine ANILINE and ord.nary DYE
BTUFFS, and the various ot her articles generally
k.nt in Drug Stores. All of which have been
Wit directly from Manufacturers when it
m \,} i,« done at Bottom CASH Prices, and we
propose to sell them for Cash, as low as they
i,„ ho had in this Market, and as low as if you
go to Atlanta for them, in same quantities, and
of ssme quality.
These having been carefully selected hy one
of the firm of ten years experience in the busi
ness, will enable us, we think, to meet our
jwomise to the public,
OUR VARIETY STOCK
Consists in p irt of Groceries, Confectioneries,
lltrdw.ire, Crockery, and Tab'e Glass Ware, a
Urge sa l carefully selected lot of Spectacles,
Sme tilssses, Coquelles and Gogg'es, Plain and
Fsir-jr Soaps, a very large lot of Kerosene
1 AMI’S and fixtures, Hollow. WO'-d aad Wil
low A'are. The host KEItOSENE OIL, of Gov
ernment Standard, tested upon arrival, and
rejected if not pur-. All of which we offer
L"W for Cash ®aF*l’lease call and examine »ur
Ntock. Da. W. BROWN A SON.
MANUFACTURE
Superior Cotton Yarn
No. 6to 12. .1 Doi, No. 400 to 700.
MATTRR S 8 K S<
All size* an! qualities t<> suit orders.
B a t t 1 n s,
Os Waste or Good Cotton
WOOL CARDING.
Th, quality of tlie Rolls^unaurpassed.
FLOUR and MEAL.
THE GRIST MILL cannot h surpassed in
the quality, n>>r th- quail tit of MEAL or
FLOUR turned. A supply of deal or Floor
constantly on hand. Flour of all grades to suit
in taste and price
Fancy, Double Extra, Extra Family, FamMy
Boper6ne, and Fine. Graham Flour and Grit
toorder. SHORTS and BItAN, for Stock Feed
also kept. The patronage of the public ia re
spectfully asked. Satisfaction guaranteed.
A splendid stock of—
Dry Goods and Groceries
on hand and for snle Cheap for Cash or barter
for all kinds of Country Produce.
E! STEADMAN, Prop’r.
Studman, Newton Cos., Ga., Feblß 19,
WAR It EN, LATE & CO.,
COTTON! FACTORS,
Wahshous e
—and
Commission Merchants,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
WILL continue to give their best attention
to the STORAGE an.l SALE OF COTTON
and other Produce.
Strict compliance with instructions, and
prompt returns cm bo relied upon.
€ S A it 9 S!
Kettlewells “A. A." Manipulated,
•< “A”
Ammoniated Alkaline Phosphate,
Ammnniated Super Phosphate,
Colton Compound.
The above are prepared by Messrs. G. ODER
* SONS, Baltimore, whose capacity and mteg
rJty have been fully established, and the expe
rience of the past three years of hundreds of
he best Planters of Georgia and So. Ca., have
proved beyond a doubt that they are the
standard Fertilizers cf the day.
We also offer the best grade of
PURE PERUVIAN GUANO,
“ DISSOLVED .‘BONES,
“ land plaster.
Messrs. rBOWKER 5 , HARRIS & CO..
our duly authorized Agents at COVING
’N, Gaand W ni jrive prompt attention to
"rnislung Supplies, Shipment of Cotton, nud
* “ "f our Guanos at that point.
4;nf WARREN, LANE &CO.
THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE.
J. C. MORRIS,
Attorney at Law,
CONYERS, GA.
J W. MURRELL,
DENTIST,
Office—Up Stairs in Mtntr.m.L’s Brick Stoke,
1 Covington, C bosom.
Being prepared with the latest im-
in Dental Material,
'twjyfcfcrG cauantees Satisfaction in each
branch of Operative and Mechanical Dentistry.
desired will visit Patients at their
homes in this and adjoining Counties,
All orders left at the Covington Hotel, or at
the residence of Mr. G. W. H. Muhhell, Oxford,
Ga., will receive immediate attention.—ly37.
n. T. H£N RY,
D B nr T I S T ,
COVINGTON. GEORGIA.
HAS REDUCED lIIS PRICES, so
(H : 0 all who have been so unfortu-
aa t e to lose their natural Toeth
can have their places supplied by Art, at wry
small cost. Teeth Filled at reasonable prices,
and work faithfully executed, Office north side
of Square.—l 22tf
JOHN S. CARROLL,
DENTIST
COVINGTON, QKOnOIA.
Teeth FilleJ, or Sew ones Inserted,ln
th e best Style, and on Reasonable Terms
Office Rear of R. King’s St ore.—l ltf
W. B. RIVERS,
DENTIST,
(Office near the Depot.)
CONTINUES the practice of his profession upon
Terms that cannot fail to gives atisfnetion to all
who employ him.
Covington, June 25th 1869. d.B2.tf.
JOSH 1* 11 Y. TINSLEY,
Watchmaker & Jeweler
1* fully prepared to Repair Watches, Clock
snd Jewelry, in the best Style, at short notice.
All Work Done at Old Prices, and Warranted.
2d dooi below the Court House.—stf
? H 0 T 0 G RAPES!
a HAVE JUST RECEIVED a Fresh Supply
I of Chemicals, and am now prepared to exe
cute work in tny line in a supmior manner.
Call soon if you would have a superior Pic
tur ■ at my old stand, t ear of Post Offiee build
inr—2off J. W. ( R A W FORD, Artist.
I would respectfully inform the
citizens of Newton, and adjoining
that I have opened a
SADDLE and HARNESS SHOP
On north side public square in COVINGTON
whore I am prepared to m ike <0 order, Harness
Saddles, ,tc , or Repair the same a', short notice,
and in the best style.
17 ts JAMES P. BROWN
fisk’s Metallic burial casss
AND CASKETS,
'or sal by THOMPSON A HUTCHINS,
ly2y Covington Ga.
Hotels.
PLANTERS HOTEL,
Augusta. Gkoroia.
This well known fir-d class H*tel is now re
opened for the accomnio lation of the traveling
public, with the assurance that those who may
have occasion to visit Align ta, will be made
comfortab’e. As this Hotel is now complete in
every Department, the Proprietor hor.es, that by
Rt• i.-t and personal attention, to merit a share of
public patronage.
JOHN A. GOLDSTEIN, Pro’p,
United States Hotel.
ATLANTA GEORGIA
WHITAKER & BASSEEN, Proprietors.
Within One Hundred Yards of the General Passen
ger Depot, corner Alabama and Prior streets,
A 1M E R I C AN HOTEL,
Alabama street,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Nearest bouse to the Passenger Depot.
WHITE & WHITLOCK, Prc '/etors.
Having re-leased and renovated le above
Hotel, we are prepared to entertain nests in a
most satisfactory manner. Chart* j fair and
moderate. Our efforts will be to .ease.
Baggage carried to and from Depot ree of charge
Largest Stock since the War.
A RE NOW RECEIVING AND OPENING
j\, the Largest and Best Selected Stock of
Fall and Winter Goods,
Consisting of e'«ry description of Ladies’ Dress
Goods, Fancy Goods, Notions, Ac.
Gents’ Furnishing Goods, Clothing,
Cassitners, Kentucky Jeans, Ac. A large lot of
IIATS, AND CAPS, BOOTS AND SHOES,
and everything else that. that, this community
may wish, but, which we will not attempt to
enumerate. Our stock of
Groceries, and Plantation Supplies
Generally, embrace everything that is usually
found in completely stocked establishments,
BAGGING & ROPE. ARROW TIES, Ac., Ac.,
Hardware Wood and Willow Ware, Glass Mare,
Crockery, and FARMING IMPLEMENTS.
Also Agents for all the
STANDARD FERTILIZERS.
We invite everybody in want of any kind of
Goods, to cal! and inspect our St ick, for wo
hove got what you want, and will sell them at
LOW CASH PRICES. We mean what we soy.
sept 24—45tf ANDERSON & HUNTER
Newton County Script Wanted.
person having any of the above named
r-'cript to dispose of, will consult tlieir own
interest by calling on
V. J BOWKER A HARRIS.
COVINGTON GA., OCT, 15, 1869.
Our Days.
Our days are most uncertain days,
Some cloudy and some sunny.
Some given up to making friends,
And some to making money.
A few are happy, joyous days,
But those arc much too rare,
When we in nil true faith huild up
Our castles in the air.
And there aro days of retrospect,
When shadows come before,
When we retire within ourselves,
And softly shut the door.
A lock of hair, some faded lines,
To heart nnd memory dear,
Will often change to thoughtful days
Our pleasant days of chocr.
And there are days—oh, listen not,
Sweet angels up above I
When passion rankles in our breasts,
And not a drop of love—
When all our steps seem downward steps,
And sinful all our ways;
And these we call, and well we may,
Our dark und evil days.
But then we have our blessed days,
The sweetest of the seven—
The days of love und peace and joy,
Ruled o’er by holy Heaven.
So may our future days like those
By fostering love be blest,
Until on yonder golden shore
We find our day of Rest I
Take Your County Paper.
No man, not wholly lost to all sense of shame,
cant afford to be without the regular weekly
visits of his county paper. It is a vehicle of
information and intelligence that is absolutely
indispensable in any well regulated family.
There are a thousand and one things in a well
conducted newspaper that are invaluable to
any man, and especially every man of family.
It keeps you well posted in what the county is
doing, what your neighbors are doing, and
besides all this, it gives you information from
all quarters of the Globe, that enables you to
converse intelligently upon the current events
of the day. Your children many of them are
taught to read by the newspaper, and owing
to the great variety of its matter, they soon
acquire a taste for reading and a thirst for
knowledge that perhaps never would have
been attained by any other means. Where
is there a father who (if he only would consider
a moment) for the paltry consideration cf a
dollar or two, would withhold from his son
that which might he the means of making him
a man—a high-toned gentleman and a ripe
scholar T and sny what you may, there aro
many—very many of the leading men of our
country who can trace directly to the influence
of newspapers, the origin of their greatness
and renown. Daniel Webster, one of the very
brightest lights of his day, has often said,
“Show me the family that have always had
constant access to newpapers, and 1 will show
you one of thrift, intelligence and morality.”
Let every roan consider well, that hy refus
ing to take his county paper he is not only
injuring himself, but withholding that from
his family which may have proved far more
valuable than gold and silver.
A Truthful Sketch.
Let a man fail in his business, what an ef
fect it has on his former creditors 1 Men who
have taken him by the arm, laughod and chat
ted with him hy the hour, shrug up their
shoulders and pass on with a cold “How do
you do?”—Every trifle cf a bill is hunted up
and presented that would not have seen light
for mouths to come, but for the misfortunes of
the debtor. If it is paid, well and good ;if
not the scowl of the sheriff perhaps meets
him at the corner. A man that has never
failed knows but little of human nature. In
prosperity he sails along gently, wafted by
favoring smiles and kind words from every
body. He prides himself on his spotless
character, and makes his boast that he has not
an enemy in the world. Alas! the change.—
He looks at the world in a different light when
reverses come upon him. He reads suspicion
on every brow. lie hardly knows how to
move ; or do this thing or the other ; there nre
the spies about him, and a writ is ready for
his back.
To know what kind of stuff the world is
made of, a person must be unfortunate, and
stop paying once in his life-time. If he has
kind friends, then they are made manifest. —
A failure is a moral sieve ; it brings out the
wheat and shows the chaff. A man thus learns
that words and pretended good will do not
constitute real friendship.
During the recent gold panic a frugal office
clerk in a New York bank drew all his savings,
amounting to some $660, and speculated in the
street. Fortune smiled on him, and hy Friday
morning had made 15,000 profit. His
employers, surprised at his luck, advised him
to invest that amount with them, and they
would “make a hundred thousand for him.”—
He very naively replied : “Charley hns made
fifteen cool; Charley will stop I" Charley that
night was worth fifteen thousand dollars—
Charley’s employers not fifteen cents.
A Singular Gold Calculation.— Five hun
dred millions in gold, says the New York
Herald, was the sum of the Wall street sales
that terrible Friday. This amount of gold,
upon a rough estimate, allowing sixteen dollars
to an ounce, nnd sixteen ounces to the pound,
and two thousand pounds to the ton, nnd ono
ton to each cart, would require a thousand
carts to move it: and allowing twenty feet to
each horse and cart, the string of carts would
be about eight miles long. No wonder Wall
street collapsed.
Swindling the People.
Secretary Boutwell has bought, per month,
bonds to the amount of twelve millions of dol
lars, paying for them one hundred and twenty
four cents on the dollar, when he could, under
the law, have paid them off dollar for dollar.
Here is a clear loss of $2,880,000 per month
to the American people, that is, about three
times the whol* expense of carrying on the
Government during the administration of John
Quincy Adams. Yes, although the adminis
tration of Mr. Adams was put down for alleged
“ extravagance,” Mr. Boutwell is allowed to
give away, to bestow as a gratuity, to donate
outside of any requirement or authority of law,
nearly triple the amount of all that the Adams
administration cost the country. If any pri
vate man of business had an agent who thus
paid out his funds without warrant of law, he
would instantly kick the oreature from hia
service. The fact that Boutwell is allowed to
continue his operations is a crying shame and
a howling infamy. It involves a repudiation
of the Government's promises to the people as
recorded in block and whits upon the statute
bpoks and upon the greenbacks, and, if the
present policy be persisted in, another and a
less excusable kind of a repudiation will fol
low, that will not suit the bondholders half ao
well. Cannot oven human moles and bats and
owls see this ?—Courier-Journal.
The Ohio Patriot has the following true
story:
When the good old Democratic party was in
power, did you hear of spies nosing among
your private goods to see if you had complied
with the provisions of an unknown and unpub
lished law ?
Did you ever hear of stamps?
Did you ever have to swear as to how much
money you made ?
If a manufacturer, did you have to make a
monthly report to some lazy official at five or
ten dollars per day ?
Did you henr men (as you now do) advocate
the policy of paying laborers with paper rags
and the rich money shavers with gold ?
Did you hear of tax on everything you eat
nnd wear in addition to a State, county, and
municipal tax?
Did you hear of a President riding about in
n steamboat wholly to his own use at the ex
pense of the people ; when he was receiving a
salary of $25,001) a year?
Did you ever hear that a negro was better
than a white man ?
Testimony for the South. Mrs. 11.
Wadinger, a lady of high social position and
much intelligence, from Hanover, Germany,
has recently made a tour of observation thro’
the Sooth. Her purpose was to determine, in
behalf of herself and others, the quostion of
removal to America, and her impressions nre
communicated in a letter to the Memphis Ap
peal, from which the following extract is
taken :
“ The opinion entertained previous to my
visit, that the Southern States were, in many
respects, far better adapted to the wants of my
countrymen than the Northwest, has been
fully confirmed, and I shall not fail to so ad
vise them of their interest in the matter, and
to use whatever influence I may be able to
exert, both among my friends in Germany, as
well as those in the States North and West of
yours, in giving such directions to immigra
tion.”
The National Intelligencer breaks ground
against the movement foi the introduction of
Chines* laborers into this country, and quotes
Hon. George 11. Pendleton as follows :
“ But the Chinese will give us cheap labor 1
I despise the word. It signifies a crime and
a shame. It signifies squalor, repudiation,
ignorance, vice. Are not laborers men 5 our
fellow men ? They have bodies to clothe and
stomachs to feed, and minds to educate and
spirits to elevate, and old age to provide for.
They have homes which they love, and wives
whom they cherish, and children whom they
hope to make worthy citizens—the honest
fathers and the virtuous mothers of a succeed
ing generation. * * * Labor is too cheap
now. Labor does not receieve its just re
ward.”
A Relic or Antiquity. —John Phinny, Esq.,
of Buffalo township, has in his possession a
copper plate lined with silver, which was im
bedded thirty feet beneath tho surface among
the iron ore in W. H. Shuman's mine. After
cleaning it, it was found to have engraved on
its surface two hands — one supine, and the
other pronated, and a heart with the date 800.
There aro other characters on the plate which
have not yet been deciphered, and a piece of
tho plate is still imbedded in the rock. What
is inscribed on this plate may, when decipher
ed, reveal some ancient history of thia conti
nent. — [Newport, Pa., News.
Church Burnt. —The Herald furnishes the
following, concerning the burning of the Pres
byterian church in Greensboro:
“We are sorry to say that circumstances
strongly proclaim it the work of an incendiary.
The fire broke out about ten o’clock at night,
when every building was damp from a recent
rain, and first made its appearance near the top
of the cupola of the church. There had been
no night servico in the building for the past
few nights, and a prayer meeting had been
held in it at five o’clock, p. m„ on the day of
the fire. The colored man who attends to the
sweeping and lighting the church is a man of
good character, and positively asserts that ba
had left no matches in tho building nnd had
used no fire or lights in the cupola.”
People should remember that it is only
great souls that know how much glory there is
in doing good.
]Frora the New York World.]
The President and the Gold Market.
The World yesterday took tho occasion of
the charges hinted by two city journals
against the Prosident to express its uttor dis
belief of the complicity of that officer in the
attempt to 'corner' gold. We said this because
it seemed to us impossible that any incumbent
of the Presidential office could for an instant
listen to a proposition to furnish one of two
rival cliques of gamblers with any information
which might enable it to get an advantage over
the other.
We have now an authoritative statement,
emanating from the President himself, of his
connection with Wall street. He causes it to
be published that h* was called upon, in this
city, by Mr. James Fisk, Jr., who asked him
to give, for the benefit of Mr. Fisk and Mr.
Gould, a ‘private intimation’ of the financial
measure* the government meant to take. The
President answered, not by pointing to the
door, tnrt by trying to convince hi* interlocu
tor, and by finally making him admit, that
■ueh a procedure “would not be fair.”
Tobeeore, this relieves the President of
the infamous charge brought against him.—
Bat in what a light doee his own relation of
bis own conduct put him before the public 1
What Mr. Fisk asked of bim was that he would
enable Mr. Fiek to bet on a certainty. What
man would have dared to approach any pre
vious President with a proposition like that ?
It simply transcends the human imagination
to imagine a speculator of 1790 making such
an overture to Piesident Washington, or even
a speculator of 1857 making such an overture
to President Buchanan. No man would have
had the hardihood, we may safely say,
to ask such a favor of either of Grant’s pre
decessors. And if any man had presumed to
make such a proposal to any of them, we
know how it would have been received. That
President Grant condescended, as he admits
he did, to entertain Mr. Fisk’s question, show
ed that the latter knew his man, and that the
people who choie him for President did not.
Here is Cmsar’s wife so far from being above
suspicion that she treats an indecent proposi
tion as a matter quite of course, and, so far as
appears, only holds bock for a bid.
We do not blame Mr. Fisk for his conduct
in the matter. Ho did whnt any other man in
a Wall street ‘ring’ would doubtless have done
if he had had the chance. The person whose
conduct is astonishing is that of the President,
who did not resent the insult offered him—
which turns out, indeed, not to haye been an
insult at all when offered to him. And his
conduct is only astonishing becuase he is Pres
ident, and not at all because he is Mr. Grant.
It is of a picco with his whole administration
of his offiee. A President who accepts any
present which any interested tradesman, pub
lican or politician may choose to offer him,
wbo is not known to have refused anything
for any reason, and whose most prominont
trait in office has been his acquisitiveness,
feels no need to rosent an invitation to recip
rocate the favors which he had no right to ac
cept with favors which he has no right to ex
tend. In fact, his benefactors have reason to
complain that the sense of decency which slum
bered while he was tlieir beneficiary awakens
into partial vitality when he has a chance to
become their benefactor. It is not more unbe
coming in him to be grateful than it is to be
greedy, when his gratitude will not cost him
any more in self respect than did bis greed.
But what can console the nation, whose offi
cial head he is, for the sorry spectacle, the dit
grace of which they share ?
They have a queer law in the State of Dela
ware about the gordian knot of matrimony.
It requires the 'naughty men,’ before leading
one of the Delaware girls to the sacrifice altar,
to give bonds for good behavior. The young
awain, who may have more love than credit,
may east about in an agony of suspense, wait
ing for some individual to go upon his bond
in the sum of S2OO, in lawful money, and be
compelled in default of this conjugal straw
bail, to forego all the sweets of the honey
moon. A vigorous effort is being made to
abolish the law, and thus place tho young
folks of that State on a footing with those of
Chicago, for instance.
Who a«e Happy? —Lord Byron said : “The
mechanic* and working men who can maintain
their families, are in my opinion, the happiest
body of men. Poverty is wretchedness, but
even poverty is perhaps to be preferred to
the heartless, unmeaning dissipation of high
order.” Another writer says—“l have no
propensity to envy any one, least of all the
rich and great; but if I were disposed to tj?is
weakness, the subject of my envy would be a
healthy young man, in full possession of his
strength and faculties, going forth in the morn
ing to work for his wife and children, or
bring them home his wages at night.”
A well of mineral water of strange proper
sities has been opened in the town of St. Lou
is, Michigan. The water is highly charged
with electricity, and'.has been found an effectual
cure of rheumatism. But the strangest report
is that it leaves upon, or burnishes, metal in
such a manner as to make it resemble gold,
and this substance is pronounced to be 'chloride
of gold.”
Hartford City, Indiana, has a girl who keeps
a lamp burning until midnight Sunday night,
to make her neighbors believe she has a
beau.
If we would have powerful minds wo most
think: if we would have faithful hearts we
must love; if wc would have strong mnseles,
we must labor. These include all that is val
uable iu life.
VOL. 4 NO. 43
A Texas Trtlgedy.
Tho 'Vaco, Texas, Register relates the fol
lowing sad tragedy:
“On last Tuesday night a week James Mc-
Carty, Jr., in a fit of insanity, murdered his
own father, his own little son (six or savon
years of age,) and a neighbor, the Rev. Henry
Hurley. All the parties are residents of
Erath county.
The ciroumstancos, as wo gather the horrid
details, wero these :
For some months, at different times, James
McCarty had shown signs of mental aberra
tion. On the day previous to the dreadful oc
currence McCarty expressed tho wish to his
wife to be baptized right away by tho Ruv.
Mr. Hurley. lie soon left his homo, on Duf
frau Creek, and proceeded up the creek sever
al miles, where his father, Jarncs McCarty,
Sr., lived. lie told his father his intentions
of being baptized by Mr. Hurley, but his fath
er persuaded him to remain where he was, and
ho would go after Mr. Hurley, who lived sev
eral miles off. The son agreed to this, hut
when, in the evening, the father returned with
Mr. Hurley, it was found that tho son had
gone back home.
The father and Mr. Hurley followed to the
residence of the insane man. Bedtimo cams,
and all retired for the night, Mr. McCarty, Sr.
and Mr. Hurley occupying the same bed in a
separate room. In the night the wife of Mc-
Carty, Jr., was aroused by her husband, who
demanded a light, and was looking for hia
six-shooter. Mrs. McCarty was alarmed, es
caped the house, and screamed, but too late ,
The insano man had made ready his pistol,
entered tha room whore his father and Mr.
Hurley were sleeping, and shot them both iu
the head, as ia supposed before they awoke.
He then called his little son and bado him sit
down on the doorstep, and remain quiet until
he returned. The father then went to the
creek, a little distance off, and got a rock. Re
turning with this he ordered the child to lean
over and lay his head upon a block near which
the child was sitting. The innocent child
obeyed, when the father, with one blow from
the rock, mashed out his brains.
James McCarty, Jr., is not far from thirty
five years of age, hns always borne an irre
proachable character for industry, sobriety,
and integrity, and was universally esteemed as
a good citizen. The Rev. Henry Hurley and
James McCarty, Sr., were both old and prom
inent citizens of Erath, aged and gray haired
men. They were both universally esteemed
and respected. Erath had no bettor citizens
than they.”
About $200,000 worth of granite, from the
James River quarries, in Virginia, will ho ta
ken to build the bridge across the Mississippi
at St. Louis, Mo.
Bee Mysteries.
The “busy bee” keeps others busy. It is
almost impossible to open a largo newspaper
without finding something curious about this
little cunning honey gatherer.
Their swarming is an extraordinary process.
The fist swarm usually alights on a bush or
branch of a tree. Before swarming, however,
some of them collect on the front board of the
hive, to the edge of whieh twenty or thirty of
them cling ; the others pass over them and
hang on by each other in clusters, till the ball
is often as large as a mans two fists. When
all is ready and the royal command is given,
they all come pouring out in a stream as large
as a man’s wrist, and take n turn through the
air. Suppose them to settle on a thorn three
inches in circumference, their weight 6 —for the
cluster is as big as a boy’s head —will bend
the thorn stick nearly to the ground. Com
paratively few of them have hold of the
branch; the rest all hold on by one another.
How long would a man hold on by the branch
of a tree if the weight of three hundred men
were attached to him ? And yet we suspect
every bee with a hold sustains a much higher
proportion of weight in the cluster below.—
This is one of the many mystorics of creation
that mocks at human science.
In his speech at Corinth, Miss., Judge Dent
declared that his brother-in-law, President
Grant, in company with a number of promU
nent Radicals, declared a few weeks ago in
his presence, that the Radical party had no
idea of extending suffrage to the negro until
they found it a necessity for tho reconstruction
of the South upon their party basis.
One of the New York railroad companies,
whose lines lead out of that city, are trying
the experiment of carrying laborers and me
chanics to and from their work at exceedingly
cheap rates of fare. In France this plan has
been long enough in operation to warrant its
oontinnnnce ns a paying speculation. 1 lio
charge to laborers, on the roads leading from
Paris, is from one to two francs per week.—
However much the workmen of Paris may
need such concessions, those of New York,
whose city tenements nre so much worse than
can be found anywhere else, except in London*
need it more. In fact the requirements of
trade and wealth are so constantly increasing
in that city, that while the former is absor
bing all the space down town, the latter is
taking hold of every available plot ground
for palatial residences above.
A little boy four or five years old was much
vexed with liis grand-mothor for boxing his
ears ; but not daring to sauce the old lady
directly, he took up his favorite cat, and stro
king her back, thus addressed her :
“Well pussy, I wish one of us three was
dead,— and it ain.t you, pussy, and it ain’t me,
pussy t”
Unman nature is not so much depraved as
to binder us from respecting goodness in
others, though we ourselves want it.—Steele.