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•o***** - ~ A. C. McCall*.
lß,A *an»®« son & ' McCALLA *
»TO R N EYS AT LA W,
A COVINGTON, GA.
regularly, and practice in the
UnPJSorConrfc of tlio Counties of Newton,
\v p>f' ‘Ckllng, Pike, Monroe, Upson,
B“ tts ’ W'itton DeKalb, Morgan and Gwinnett.—3
Jasper, »> „ . _
thf GFORSIA paper mills.
CARROLL CO., GA.,
—rrTT nay Ciisli for Rags, Rope, Ragging,
W old Papers. Orders solicited for
lipping Manilla, and Printing Paper. _
V Mill, Pure Wllter > Live Men - I ’rices
** Terms Cash.
L °o, ,-nodries promptly answered. Address
A' l ID< J U ft. P. KELLOGG, Pres. Go .
“College Temple,” Newnan, Gn.
Bm2 __ -
and Winter Fashions.
« M V BINDERhas just arrived from Paris
Mat nndon with the latest designs, personal
, , a from the greatest novelties; also, the
'want Trimmings to be secured in Paris,
most eirae* 1 w ßL vrts, Bridal V eils, Flowers
UC £v/tkWELRY, and Trimmed Paper Pat
-1 terks Dress and Cloak Making.
„ ~,-ivc'iEent for Mrs. M. Work’s celebrated sys-
A- TC , a"-ladies dresses, saeques, basques, AC.
tei°J' rt ' l "f Eleventh and Cliestuut Streets,
ToTd YOUR COTTON!
IiIAVF made arrangements to Ship for
Planters their COTTON to New York, and
H the «ame for them until the Ist of July
„, |( 1 will advance one half of the value of
nelt ’ ‘ ii,a div of shipment. Call and make
srrJXi m j 7 , L i cAMr f “ r
TO TAX PAYERS.
Tax PAYERS will take notice that I will
he in COVINGTON, on Wednesday and
and v pj OT. 0 T. 17th and lßth, and on Tuesday
iß j Wednesday cf each week thereafter, until
.'u first Tuesday in December.
till be at CONYERS, on Friday and Satur
. * of each week, until the above named date,
.n'J hone Tax Tayers will meet me promptly at
ht Ices, prepared to pay their State and
County Tax for T c .
Soy. 12,1869. for Newton County,
JEWEI.RY! JEWELRY!
VIIAVE JUST OPENED a Fine lot of Jewelry,
I including all the late styles of Ud.cS E rne
Mid Breast Pins and Far Rings, also Shell, Jet,
forttlian.and Pearl Rrenst Pins, and Bracelets,
Gent’s Shell, Jet, flair, Steel, and Leather,
Watch Thai ns. Finger Rings, &c. Also, anew
ft of Watches and Clocks, an and a full supply of
Hoectaales, Cases &c. I respectfully invite a
fill from the ladies, and all in want of anything
in my line. J. Wl. LSVY,
f\R TV UTS SARSAPARILLA AND QUKI N>
1/ DELIGHT. The great Blood I urifier.
|VR TUTT’S EX PECTORANT. A certain cure
t 'IMPROVED HAIR DYE. The
INkI'tUTT’S VEGETABLE LIVER PILLS,
I ) For Liver Complaint, Dispepsia, «fcc.
Thle valuable Preparations an, for eale^in
tWßgton, by j A BTF.W \RT
,u Thomson by A - u ‘
3 sip
4p'
Op? manufacture *j
Superior Cotton Yarn
No. 6l » 12. A Doz, No. 400 to 700.
M A T T It ESS E S
All size3 an l qualities to suit orderz.
a a t t 1 n«? ,
Os Waste or Good Cotton
WOOL CARDIN C.
Ths quality of the lto",s unsurpassed.
FLOUR and MEAL.
tJYTEGRP-T MILL cannot b surpassed in
l the quality, nnr the quantit of MEAL or
FLOUR turned. A supply of Teal or Flour
constantly on hand. Flour of all grades to suit
in taste and price.
Fancy, Double Extra, Extra Family, Fanrly
ffiiperfine, and Fine. Graham Flour and Grit
V) order. SH'>RTS and BRAN, for Stock Feed
also kept. The patronage of Lite public is re
spectfully asked. Satisfaction guaranteed.
A splendid stock of
Dry Goods and Groceries
an hand and for sale Cheap for Cash or barter
In all kinds of Country Produce.
E. STEADMAN, Prop’r.
Sti.ujmax, Newton Cos., Gi., Feblß 19,
WARRES, LAME * C
COTTOS FACTORS,
w AREHOUSE!
AND —
Commission Merchants.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
iriLL continue to give their best attention
’ ' to the STORAGE and SALE OF COTTON
1 other Produce.
Strict compliance with instructions, and
prompt returns cm be relied upon.
R 1 A St 9 SI
Kattlowells “A. A.” Manipulated,
•< « A> .
Alkaline Phosphate,
Super Phosphate,
Colton Compound.
she above are prepared by Messrs. G. OBER
* bONS, Baltimore, whose capacity and mteg-
V'V ha»c been fully established, and the expe
t'fnoe of the past throe years of hundreds of
beßt Planters of Georgia and So. Ca., bave
Froved beyond a doubt that they are th©
andard Fertilizers of the day.
We also offer the beat grade of
NJRE PERUVIAN GUANO,
“ DISSOLVED'’BONES,
“ LAND PLASTER.
Messrs. BOWKER, HARRIS A CO..
■p ,f OUr duly authorized Agents at COVING
f ,» A., and will irive prompt attention to
nißhing Supplies, Shipment of Cotton, aud
1 “ °f onr Guanas at that point.
’ ;j,tf W ARREN, LANE & CO.
THE GEORGIA ENTERPRISE.
J. C. MORRIS,
Attornoyat Law,
CONYERS, GA.
J. W. MURRELL.
and m wr; t is t,
Ofkick—Up Stairs in Murrkll’s Brick Storp,
I Covington, Ceohqia,
.-.'■jaftsav Being prepared with the latest im-
in Dental Material,
Guarantees Satisfaction in each
branch of Operative and Mechanical Dentistry.
W* If 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. 11. Murrell, Oxford,
Ga., will receive immediate attention.—ly37.
H. T. HENRY,
D E 3\T T I S TANARUS,
COVINGTON, GEORGIA.
tiZ’ZEEh HAS REDUCED HIS PRICES, so
{[JTrSSiSk that all who have been so unfortu-
UiiTr 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
S/niß? the best Style, and on Reasonable Terms
Office Rear of R. King’s Store. —1 ltf
W. B. RIVERS,
D 111 N T I S T ,
(Office near tbc Depot.)
CONTINUES the practice of his profession upon
Terms that cannot fail to gives atisfaction to all
who employ him.
Coviugton, June 25th 1869. 4.32.tf.
J O SEP II Y. TINSLEY,
Watchmaker & Jeweler
Is fully prepared to Repnir Watches, Clock
and Jewelry, in the best Style, at short notice,
All Work Done at Old Prices, and Warranted.
2d door below the Court House.—stf
I would respectfully inform the
citizens of Newton, nnd adjoining
.j' counties, that I have opened a
JiyOepsEC* SADDLE and HARNESS SHOP
On north side public square, in COVINGTON
where Tam prepared to make o order, Harness
Saddle*, itc , or Repair the same at short notic-,
and in the best style.
J 7 t s JAMES B. BROWN
HSK’3 METALLIC BURIAL CASES
AND CASKETS,
"or sale by THOMPSON <t HUTCHINS,
j y 29 Covington Ga.
in >■». ju. .
Hotels.
PLANTERS HOTEL,
Augusta, Georgia.
Tills well known first, class II,(el is now re
opened for the. accommodation of.the traveling
public, with the nsKin ance that those who may
have occasion to visit Augusta, -vill be made
comfortab’e. As this Hotel is now complete in
every Department., the Pro; rietor horwe, that by
st rict and personal attention, to merit a share of
public patronage.
JOHN A. GOLDSTEIN, Prop,
United States Hotel.
ATLANTA GEORGIA
WHITAKER & SASSEEN, Proprietors.
Within One Hundred Yards of the General Passcn
sjpr Depot, corner Alabama and Prior streets,
AMERICAN HOTEL,
Alabama street,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Nearest house to the Passenger Depot.
•WHITE & WHITLOCK, Pro tetors.
Having re-leased and renovated te above
Hotel we are prepared to entertain nests in a
most satisfactory manner. Charg j fair and
moderate. Our efforts will be to .ease.
Baggage carried to and from Depot ree of charge
Largest Stock since the War.
ANDERSON fit HUNTER
i RE NOW RECEIVING AND OPENING
j*\_ the Largest nnd Best Selected Stock of
Fall and Winter Goods,
Consisting of every description of Ladies’ Dress
Goods, Fancy Goods, Notions, Ac.
Gents’ Furnishing Goods, Clothing,
Cassimers, Kentucky Jeans, &c. A large lot of
HATS, 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
ound in completely stocked establishments,
BAGGING & ROPE, ARROW TIES, Ac., Ac.,
Hardware, Wood and Willow Ware Glass Ware,
Creckery, and FARMING IMPLEMENTS.
Also Agents for all the
STANDARD FERTILIZERS.
We invite everybody in want of any kind of
Goods, to call and’inspect our Stack, for we
have got what you want, and will sell them at
LOW CASH PRICES. We mean vbat we say.
sept 24—45tf ANDERSON & HUNTER
Newton County Script Wanted.
\NV person having any of the above named
Script to dispose of, will consult their own
interest by calling on
BOWKER A HARRIS.
\C COOK, PROPAGATOR, and Dealer In
• Grape Vines, Grope Cutlmgs, and I ure Na
: ‘Y oiler*to the citizens of this and adjoining
Counties, a select assortment of Choice Grape
Vines at low prices. Also Pure Native Wines.—
Orders for Wine may t>o left with McCormick
ijli Ksu or Anderson & Hunter. lor further
particulars address, A. C. COOK, Covington, Ua
p s —Vineyards located and p anted, and a stand
nsored on reasonable terms —l' I
COTINGTOiV GA., DEC, 3, 1869.
Are the Cutes Ajar ?
UY SARAIt L. MILES.
Something tolls rre to-day, while lying
Alone in my pleasant room,
That my work is nearly finished,
That Home I shall see very soon.
I seem to see faces above me.
Looking down with their eyes of love,
As if they were waiting to bear mo
Away to the mansion above.
My hold upon earth seems broken,
A longing, a wish to be free,
A peace like the soft dew of Heaven
Has fallen this morning on me.
Is lie smoothing my path thro’ the valley
Am I passing away to my rest —
Does the music that thrills me so sweetly
Float down from the Home of the blest?
Are the gates of the Beautiful open,
That Heaven seems drawing so near?
Am I nearing that dark lonely valley,
And yet I have nothing to fear?
I feel a strong arm underneath me,
And a voice falls soft on my ear—
“ Fear not, for the waves shall not harm
thee,
For I, thy Beloved, am near.”
My eyelids are closing down softly,
The world is passing from view—
I am launching my bark on the billows—•
Oh, loved ones, I am coming to you,
[New York Weekly.
Slowly, Surely.
BY JOHN EOWRINO.
I've watched and watched, and seen how
slowly,
Great truths emancipate the mind ;
Even sunbeams, though so bright and holy,
A tardy course thro’ darkness find
And yet I feel and know securely,
That light will force its onward way ;
And out of night bring morning surely—
Morn, brighten into perfect day.
As from the acorn lingering ages
Arc needful for the oak to grow—
Wisdom's unread, unopened pages
Will be revealed, though lale and slow.
Be not impatient ! God protected,
Unliasting, hut unresting still,
All is impelled—and all directed
By God's eternal, changeless wi I.
Efficacy of Onions. —A writer says : “We
are troubled often with severe coughs, the res
suit of colds of long standing, which may turn
to consumption or premature death. Hard
coughs causes sleepless nights by constant ir
ritation of the throat, and a strong effort to
throw off offensive matter from the lungs.—
The remedy proposed has often been tried, and
is simply to take into the stomach before re
tiring for the night a piece of raw onion after
chewing. This e. uient, in an uncooked state,
is very heating and collects the water from the
lungs and throat, causing immediate relief.—
(Wash. Chron.
A certain man, who is very rich now, was
very poor when a boy, and when asked how
he got his riches said :
“My father taught me never to play till my
work was finished, and never to spend my
money until I had earned it. If I had but an
hour’s work in the day I must do that the
first thing, and in an hour after this I was
allowed to play ; and then 1 could play with
much more pleasure than if I had the thought
of an unfinished task before my mind. I early
formed the habit of doing everything in time,
and it soon became easy so to do. It is to
this I owe my prosperity.” Let every one who
reads this do likewise.
~The New York Journal of Commerce com
plains that Radioal Congressmen are perfectly
willing to cross the continent, travel through
New England, voyage to San Domingo, or go
to the uttermost parts of the earth at public
expense, but they will not visit tho South,
where they would see with their own eyes how
little they know of the people and the public
sentiment there. That paper predicates its
complaint upon the recent refusal of the sub'
committee on elections to go to South ( arolina
nnd investigate certain elections. 1 hey are
afraid that, like Parker Pilsbury, they would
become disgusted with the results of their own
labors, which are to be seen on every bnnd.
A private letter received in Washington
from a prominent Government official in New
York contains a prediction that before the hol
idays a crash will occur in Wall street which
will equal in its disastrous oonsequences the
effects of the recent Fisk-Gould conspiracy.
The writer further says values generally have
a downward tendency, and thinks that specie
payments may be reached without difficulty
before the Ist of July next.
Pedestrians on the streets appear to have
some rights. An injured one in Boston has
just recovered fifteen hundred dollars damages
for three ribs broken by a wagon as he was
attempting to cross a thoroughfare. When
drive!s understand that every rib is worth
five hundred dollars they will be apt to have
more care.
A lawyer on his death-bed willed all his
property to a lunatic asylum, stating as his
reason for so doing, that he wished his prop
erty to return to the liberal class of people
that had patronized him.
In the Territory of Wyoming the Democrats
carried every county and elected every member
of the Legislature in both branches.
Gen. Horace Cnpron.
The distinguished Commissioner of Agris
culture, at Washington, was among our visi
tors yesterday. General C. is a man who
would be classed among tho ‘elegant’ in per
son nnd manner—slight in build, a little under
average height, with a largo head, finely
poisod, asd surmounted hy wavy hair well
frosted by our busy old Father Time, He is
an enthusiast in tho groat concerns of his of
fice and the vast interests of agriculture.
In the talk which followed, Gen. Capron in
sisted upon the necessity of diversifying
Southern agriculture—of-a timely abandon
ment by the Southern people of the plan of
putting all eggs in the cotton basket. True,
he said, it is impossible while cotton bears its
present high price, to attack the cotton mania
with much success ; but your people ought to
feel that the present condition is exceptional.
You cannot reasonably expect it to continue
long. You are getting now for a little more
than half a crop, sixty-four millions more
money than you realized far the great crop of
This high prico is contingent only on
shorfSupplins, which are constantly increasing
both in the East and tho West. The British
are raising cotton in the East Indies with
an intelligence and an application of labor
and outlay which must in time lead to still
more deeisivo results.
You, down here, arc concentrating all your
energies on cotton culture. Both of you will
soon produce a surplus. An addition of half
a million hales will reduce prices five or six
cents. Practically, the more you swell the
crop the less you get for it; and every sug
gestion of sound ccomnmy warns you to the
cereals—the grasses—fruits, and particularly
grapes. Turn your attention, in part, to
these, before over-production has reduced
your cotton to too low a price.
With plenty of grass and plenty of stock
come the means of recuperating your lands
and all the needed facilities of high culture,
which will produce three bales of cotton to tl c
a-re, and therefore enable you to sell the crop
at a lower price and still reap a handsome
profit.
Gen. Capron, wo nreglad to say, was pleased
with Georgia—with the Fair and the people,
lie said a very large share of the attention of
his department would he devoted to the South,
and he was anxious to make it useful to the
people of our section.—Tel. & Mess.
Manufacturing in the South.
The editor of the Ncwburyport (Mass.)
Herald, who is well posted up in the manufac
turing business, living as he does at the mouth
of the Merrimack River, which turns more
spindles probably river in the world
Concord, Amoskeag, Manchester, Lowell,
Nashua, Lawrence, Haverhill, and other man-
ufucturingcities ol Massachusetts —thus speaks
of manufacturing prospects in the South :
“There i? a mania at the South for cotton
mills. They are going up by scores in Geor
gia an! Alabama, which States will soon be
able to supply tho South with all the coarse
cotton.they need,Jaml it is not impossible that
Southern cottons will be in the Boston market
within seven years. Wc have seen greater
changes in trade in other directions than this
would be. The only trouble with manufactu
ring in the South heretofore has been the
want of proper operatives. Slaves could not
be worked in factories ; free blacks were good
for nothing, and free whites wore no better
for sucli purposes. There was prejudice against
factory labor, and there was no foreign immi
gration to remove it. Hereafter it will not be
so. There will be a large emigration from the
North and from Europe. It will be larger in
seven years from this date than people dream
of now. Some blacks will be fitted for the,
work, or, if not, Chinese will come in who will
be admirably adapted to such employment.—
This will push Southern manufacturers to be
competitors with those of the North, and when
they have trained their hands sufficiently
upon coarse work they will easily pass
to fine goods. Water power is abundant there
and cheap ; so is coal; and the cotton grows
in the shade of tho factory, and can be had
cheaper than here. Tho only trouble seems
to be that manufacturing is already overdone.
England and the United States each produce
more goods than can well be sold ; but the
South will be able to undersell them in their
Southern and Western markets, and our man
ufacturers will have no defence against such
competition. 1 '
What Constitutes Hell.
Dr. Norman Maclooid is accredited, in one
of our exchanges, with the following :
Let the fairest star he selected, like a beau
teous island in the vast and shoreless sea of
the azure heavens, as the future home of the
criminals from the earth, and let them possess
whatever they most love, and all that is pos
sible for God to bestow ; let them be endowed
with undying bodies, and with minds which
shall ever retain their intellectual powers; let
no Savior press his claims upon them, no God
reveal himself to them, no Sabbath ever dawn
upon them, no saint ever live among them, no
prayer ev°r be heard within their borders ;
but let society exist there forever, smitten only
by the leprosy of hatred to God, and with ut
ter Belfiohness as its all pervading and eter
nal purpose—then, ns the law of righteousness
exists, on which rests the throno of God and
the government of the universe, a society so
constituted must work out for itself a hell of
solitary nrd bitter suffering, to which there is
no limit except the capacity of a finite nature!
Alas ! the spirit that is without love to its God
or its neighbor, is already possessed by a
power which must at last create for its own
self-torment a worm that will never die, and a
lire that can never be quenched.
Jcfl'crxon Dnvis.
“Treason doth never prosper; what’s the
reason ?”
“Why, if it prosper, none dare call it trea
son.”
Hon. Jefferson Davis is still in tho city.—
Foy two days the Peabody Hotel has been
thronged with ladies and gentlemen, the old
nnd the young, all anxious to pay their re
spects to one whom the august tribunal of
history will adjudge tho hero of a horoio ago.
Every possible and conceivable manifestation
of respect has been extended toward Mr. Davis.
He has been serenaded, and often urged to
consent to a public banquet; but he prefers
to sec his friends as a private citizen, while he
is cautiously silent on the subject of politics.
Asa matter of duty, and not of choice, he
receives those who suffered and sympathized
with hint; hut for their good he has sealed his
lips, and refuses to give utterance to the
thoughts and feelings that burn in his great
soul. But this reticence is not tho confession
of regrets or self-reproaches, for Mr. Davis
scorns the thought of shrinking from the
keenest gaze and scrutiny of the world on ac
count of what he did during the war, for he
knows, nnd his friends and confederates know,
that he acted conscientiously, and that he has
done right according to tho judgment of mil
lions of honest, just and good men. lie can
stand sclf-reliantly and proudly in the pres
ence of the noblest patriots of the land, feels
ing himself to be fully their equnl.
Jefferson Davis, with the oath of loyalty
upon his great and true soul, is more to be
trusted than ‘Bottled up’ Butler, ‘Dirty Work'
Logan nnd the thousands of‘trooly loil* thieves
and knaves, who by their infamy have been
degrading the nation. Mr. Davis may grieve
over the nothingness of the cause that once
filled his heart and brain and the dream of
life ; he may mourn to sec our soil billowed
by the graves of our noble brothers, sons and
fathers ; hut lie feels and sees and knows that
the privations and long suffering, the fortitude
of our noble women, and the bravery of our
fearless warriors will live in song and storv
and erect to himself and his compeers an in
destructible monument to a fruitless struggle
for the Right. History has told Mr. Davis
that tho Poles, the Irish, and the Greeks have
no stains upon their honors, nor are they the
scoff of Christendom because they were forcod,
at the point of tho bayonet, to submit to such
insults as the merciless strong can always, by
brute force, inflict upon the weak. Tradition
also informs him that the most heroic patriot
who fought before Warsaw or Missilonghi, and
was conquered, is not honored the less by the
impartial julgment of the world, because
when utterly overwhelmed by numbers, he
yielded, to save the wife of his bosom and his
helpless little ones from death and starvation.
—[Memphis Avalanche.
..—• —-
Taxation is a Curse.
If you doubt this, good reader, see the returns
of the earnings on the Western lines of rail
ways just about this time. The tariff, banking
end currency system is based on high taxation.
The people pay on e7ory dollar floating as
banking capital from twelve to twenty percent.
The banker gets from the government six per
cent, on the bonds he banks upon, and then six
and seven por cent, on the paper dollar he
loans out, and this thirteen per cent, on every
single dollar of loans comes out of the industry
of the wealth producer. Add also the inter
minable list of revenue taxes, and the debased
charaoter of the dollar circulating, now even
in its very best credit, since its introduction,
only worth eighty cents, and we have a batch
of reasons why the Western and Northwestern
Railways are showing a diminished business.
Tae Chicago and Northwesthrn company will
declare only three and a half percent, dividend.
The Chicago and Rock Islnnd, usually dividing
ten per cent., now declare but seven, nnd other
roads in the farming section show a startling
decrease of business. The farmers arc now
raising wheat at a loss, arid can neither sell nor
buy as a result, thus all other interests suffer
with them. Depression in agriculture will de
press the entire balance of national commerce,
trade or manufactures. It is not that the farmer
could not thrive at present prices for his pro
ducts, if wo were free from such a huge accu
mulation of evils as now rest upon us in the
shape of a huge taxation and a depreciated
paper currency ; but such being the case, the
farmer cannot afford to raise wheat at its pres
ent inntket value, for the very reason that what
he is obliged to buy is much dearer than his
breadstuff's. Now, there is one result which
this depression of the agricultural interest of
the West will force upon the country, and that
is, deeper and more ruinous stagnation. If the
farmer cannot afford to sell his wheat at the
present prices, our taxation, which is kept up
so severely, must be lessened that his wheat
may be raised at a less expense to himself.—
Tin's must be done ; for if the interest which
underlies and supports nil other interests is
being killed by over taxation, the remedy,
however severe, must be applied, even if it is
found to exist only in repudiation.—[N. Y. Day
Book.
It appears that San Domingo is likely to be
soon annexed to the United States. Well, she
may take to herself the consolation that she
can hardly be worse off after annexation than
she is now. If any money is to be paid in the
case, let hor pay it. Our people would condemn
any negotiation for payment from them.—
Thoy arc not buying r.egroes now.—[Prentice-
The Cincinnati Enquirer proclaims that
Andrew Johnson is to be a member of the
next Congress. The House, it says, “was
Ex-President Adams’ position, and it will be
Ex- President Johnson’s, He is going there.”
70 L 5 m 5.
The Art of Living Happily.
The following maxims or rules of action,
might, if strictly observed, go far to increase
the happiness, or, at least, to diminish the
inquietudes and misories of life:
Observe inviolably truth in your words and
integrity in your passions.
Accustom yourself to temperance, and be
master of your actions.
Be not too much out of humor with the
world ; hut remember it is a world of God's
creating, and however sadly it is marred with
wickedness and folly, yet you have found in it
more comforts than calamities, more civilitierf
than affronts, more instanoes of kindness to
ward yon than of cruelty.
Try to spend your timo usefully both to
yourself and others.
Never make an enemy nor lose’a friend
unnecessarily. .
Cultivate such a habitual cheerfulness of
mind and evenness of temper, as not to be
ruffled by turmoil, inoonveniences, and crosses.
Be ready to heal breaches in
and to make deferences, and shun litigation
yourself as much es possible, for he is an ill
calculator that does not perceive that one
amicable settlement is better than two law'
suits.
Bo it rather your ambition to acquit your
self well in your proper station than to rise*
above it.
Despise not small honost gains,- and do not .
risk what you have on tho delusive prosp&dt df*
sudden riches. If you are in a comfortable
thriving way, keep in it, and abide your own
calling rather than run the chanco of another
In a word, mind to “use the world as not
abusing it,” and probably you will find it>’ (
much comfort in it as is most fit for a frail
being who is merely journeying through it
toward an immortal abode.
A Curious Character.
There is a man in Littleton who sets himself
up as a censor of public morals, and also pub
lishes and condemns the short comings of hia
fellow men. He is as sanctimonious as if he
had swallowed a whole conference meeting.—
Five hundred of tho old, genuine, original
hardshell Pharisees boiled down to half a pint,-'
would make a weak decoction when compared
with this individual. lie is so impregnated
with the odor of sanctity that one could scrape 1
it off his clothes with a clam shell. Yet this
man is the most inveterate loafer in the whole
town—an inquisitive, prying, meddlesome,
impudent nuisance—an intolerable gossip and
busy body. If he sees two gentlemen talking
together, ho walks up and listens to their oon
versation. He has the cheek of a east-iron
Indian. lie is capable of interrupting the
benedictions of a wedding, to ask the bride
groom what lee he expects to pay the clergy-'
man. Wc arc not going to give this man's
name ; if we should do so, some insurance
company would gobble him for a peripapetio
agent, nnd wo have too much philanthropy to
do anything which might increase his oppor
tunity to make his fellow men miserable* or by
cause them to commit the sin of cursings
Littleton, N. Y., Republican.
AVhen I look upon the tombs of the great
every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I
meet with the grief of parents upon a tomb
stone my heart melts with compassion; when
I see the tomb of the parents themselves i
consider the vanity of grieving for those whoflt*
we must follow. When I see kings lying by
those who deposed them ; when I see rival witff
placed side by side or the holy men that diri-\
tied the world with contests and disputes, I
reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the lit
tle competitions, factions and debates of man
kind. When I read the several dates of the
tombs—of some that died yesterday, and some
six hundred years ago, I consider that great
day when we shall all be contemporarieß,,a«d
make our appearance together.—[Holmes.
“Can you take off my baird here ?” said St
grave, tall, slab-sided Yankee to an Albany
barber, feeling at the same time hia chin with
a noise like a grater. “It’s a light baird ;•
what d’yer tax ? Three cents for a light baird,-
ain’t it?”
“Yes.”'
“Wall, go ahead, then.”
While tho barber was rasping three cents'
worth from his chin bis “sister” saw an as»
sistant putting cologne upon a customers hair
through a quill in the cork of a bottle.
“Look a here, squire,” said tho Yankee,
“cain’t you squirt some o’ that peppersass into’
my head tew ? Say, can't you throw a liJthv
o’ that in for the three cents?"
Here is a funeral speech which a Paris
paper assures us was actually Jpronounced at
Montmartre the other day, by a father at ths
grave of his son, “Gentlemen, ” said the father,
in a voice full of emotion, “the body before me
was that of my son. He wasayeung man in the
prime of life, with a sound constitution, which
ought to have insured him a hundred years.
But misconduct, drunkenness and debauchery
of the most disgraceful kind, brought him in’
the flower of his age to the ditch which you sdfc
before you. Let this bo an example to you
and to your children. Let us go home. ”
Mr. Dalton, of England, has by a careful
examination, shown that where there is nteN*
low soil three feet under any crop, it can defy
the weather and come to maturity without a
drop of rain after the first of June. This shows
that successful tillage husbandry on the arid
plains of the far \Vos6 depends wholly on
deep plowing.
Prentice says, “If the fellow who stole
oirht hundred dollars from General Buiier had !
any conscience at all, he would go to New
Orleans and rostore the money to the rightful
owner.”