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S K, JOHNSON, Superintendent.
Attention Farriers !
freight. Call and examine tliein. 'hi- ■' s l> ' ll
xlicl opportunity to get your 11 «wr>wV*A ONT.
. 21.1 m or ti, BK w _
S* II 111 p eS
I SELL AVlill man’s Metal-lined Cucumber Wood
Pump, sii'tal le (or wells of anv depth. l' lc y
will not freeze. They een be put down «: few
minutes'‘and will last lor years witbout lepair.
ft istlie Cheapest Pump m the United State
jsg»Ci>ll and examine. 1 ■ • rl
Mackerel, Mackerel.
Large Lot Os Mackerel ju-t in from B.>st'»iu-
We sell full weight packages aH ' ow n * ut ?
unless they ‘-steal” them, for we bs> on a credit.
Huff sed. LLLASU-x.
Sugar and Syrup,
15 Barrels JJ. b. & A. C & E & C Sugar
Also, 5 Barrels N. O. Syrup, which we will
low THQjttlriGN'S.
GOOBERS,
Rea-Nuts and Pin and er s,
-pOR Planting. *1,75 per Bushel^
Hats! Hats!
IAP.fiE Stock and Low Price Hats for Men and
J Bovs at the Store of JOL IIA1»L w,
FINE MOLASSES.
That Molasses, T declare it to be the best T have
seen since the war. Fill up iny big jug, tins time.
Mr. Corley.
Syrup, Molasses, He.
F ORSON'S indulging in the “swots of life” can
be furnished < < ■by JOE HABRL.
Lags? Beer, Als & Porter.
1- A(JIIR BEER in bofctle> anti on drauulit, its.
j all times. Porter aiul Ale by the bottle.
Call in. T. N. PITTS.
Ncn: BOARDING House.
I' Will open bv the 15th Inst., a First ('las- Bay
. Hoarding House, in the residence recently oc
cupied bv Judge Lansdcll, near the square in Cov
ington. "Mv table shall be supplied
l, CoOn.^nVd.;;r 3 .-n\V‘‘ A^-LAWSON.
■ T t ag Covington Hotel.
j>R. CARY COX, VR ° V Z:
rs HIS large and corntfi'-wHous n< ' t< thp i tr-iv''un<'
1 readv for the accommodation of th '"• -
tvihlic. Large comfort able room., ,; (ll ’ mtrv
—Tables supplied with the vet) • , ( jj t 0
affords, and nothing I "ft undone that « and aim
the comfort of its guoste. 1 er.n-lowts
BEESWAX WANTED.
i IMIF. highest market price " ill he paid for all
i lieeswax brought to my S^’^ Kl>ll Harris.
Y RE3II ME XL on ban 1
KEROS IN IS AM» PETRO
O 1 L , S
r tt\VF lust received a Fine (Jivdity 1 J;
I Keiosiiv and * M ' r ?/VA v Uen OiVcai'i be bought
darkness rather tlrau light when U.u.m
bo cheapJ
COV ETC A sTKR*. CA A B E
apple and canned corn
"N.(V. Syrup.
tr 5 ™ w,nt . «-VSS^VMi”SS“"
L Syrup call on >
BULK SIDES AND SHOULDERS
A large lot just received ami f° r
, sale cheap by JOE II Alv R— _
New Prints Just In ?
JUST Received a "ase of Desirabh' Prints and
J;^at AIIC Store.
Nails,
lALD Dominion Nails at 7 1 -4 cents
l) per pound. Lee & Son.
Flour.
SUPPLY of' fresh F^^thologest
210.000 11>s. of Flour,
T7RESII from the Mill, for ' sj 1 ' 0 'j I< '} I ’‘<;oki!hy.
V tlie time to get good biscuit.
Planting Potatoes.
innk Eyes, just received
Covington, Feb. 7, IS.O.
" fine whiskies. t
THE finest and t:est and purest Liquors in the
, , 1,.. iQiuid at the store of
market, can oc iouu WHITTFN,
Covington, Ga.
SADDLES 7 SADDLES 77
A Large Lot of Saddles anti Saddle
• * Blankets Cheap at Lee & box.
Shopard, Baldwin, h Cos.,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
FOREIGN ANO DOMESTIC
Wines an<l Liquors,
No. 11 Decatur Street,
[Opposite the H. I. Kimball House,J
A XL \ NT A GEORGIA.
Orders Solicited. (tin.so
A Word to the Ladies
"N OW I* THE TIME to have your EUR* nieelv
cleaned before putting them away, to keep the
moth from destroying them. “end them hy Ex
press to L iCHERY’S STEAM DVE WORKS,
Atlanta. On. Ml kinds ol Ladies and Gentlemen's
Cb'thin/ nieelv Cleaned or Dyed. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Packages sent to me by Express will
receive prompt attention.
JAMES LOCTTERY,
Atlanta Steam Dye Works.
Sim D. CAPERS,
Attorney and Counselor At Law.
(> iVINGTON, GEORGIA.
I STILL Plate -e in tpe Courts of the Flint and
V V Oemtllgee Civ Ult , the Supreme Court of
Goorein, nnd elsewln-i©< under spoolfi 1 contract.
Havimr perfected nrra isremnnts for the prosecu
tion of Claims airainsT the Unite I State**, I " ill rc
ceive such arul forward them to my correspondents
in Washington City.
&OUTIIFJW
, Masonic Female Collsge 1
COVINGTON, GA,
rjaflE SPRING TERM begins on the loth day o
1 JANUARY, 1878, under the following
Board of Instruction:
Rev. T. N. BRADSHAW, Pltr.s'l'.--Professor of
Ancient Languages, Ethics and Belles Retires.
Rev. J. 11. KINNEIIREW, PrblcsS’or of Mathe
matics.
Miss S, M. BRADSHAW, Assistant in Literary
Department, and teacher of French and Music.
Miss S. M. ALLEN and Miss EMMA ALLEN
Assistants in Literary Department.
Miss M. E. BR ADSHAW,lnstructress in Music,
Mrs. ('. E. GOODMAN. ) Teachers In
ML-s O. J. LIVINGSTON,! Art Department.
Miss JULIA SMARR, Principal Preparatory
Department.
Board can be bad at the Steward’s Hull, estab
lished in tlie special interest of the College, at sl6
per month—washing embraced, 018.
For Circulars, giving full information, address
tlie President. —4otf
Labi net Shop.
T AM NOW READY to furnish tlie public with
all ki id« of
-VT™-,.Z^TIT’TT
. kinds of work in the Cabinet line.' I
have purchased the Shop and Material of Judge
A. M Lansdcll, and would respectfully beg the
public to give me a aall. My work is warranted,
and satis.action is guaranteed.
Coffins Made to Order, >wi
C'ovitigton, Ga., Jan. 31, 1878. J 1
E. H. Yancey, M. D.
Offers his Profi ssionnl Services to the citi
y.ois of Covington and surrounding emmlry.
Office two doors above Anderson & DeLaney s
store, on street loading toward tlie < “ ‘
nnd Chronic Cases made a s>pep«lt> U
attention given to the treatment of .
~.,ses Call always be found at my Office m me
dav and at mv residence at night, when not l>ro
office I wlii '-v-word at
Anderson & DeLaneyN -tore where I »■'.■ be
found, or when I will return.
F.. IT. Y ANCEY, M. D.
Covington, Feb. G, IST3. —lGtt.
Vrals and Fruit TrssSj
Very Low!
r j -11 ]■ an- \SON Will lie over ill a few weeks fe;
I nlantiii'i- out Fruit Trees an 1 V inc*.. - Our
stock is largv, and must be sold, to make roou
tor the nvesent year. Send in youv Oidit-, aim
we will till them very loti—lower than ever be
fore. Send for Catalogue.
W. W. CLARK & CO.,
Yet,.l4, 1878. Covington. Gt.
Atlanta Constitution, Gwinnett Herald, and
LaGrnuge Reporter, will copy to the amount
So.oo, and.send bill to t\ .W. (, lakk A 1
Machinsryand Agricultural
TTJTSffTS.
A. D. HAMMETT,
/and F\l li \b AGENT for the sale of l*oviatde
iT Steam Famines, Saw Mills. Reapers Gins.
Horse Powers. Threshers and separator an . 1
kinds of Mill or other Maebinery, Gum or Lcathei
Acnciiburat Implements, Am. we.
[have made . at i rraneement- with the best
Manufacturers, U the above article* at hist
cost, with oniv r -itrlit and '••xpei 'e. added.
Person* hnytng Engines, saw Mill, ‘•I
Separators thrmigli me, can hate than suited to
running, free of charge. ,
at Anderson & Hunter ijJaMMETT.
Covinutan. Ga., March 29 22t_f
GOODS AT A BARGAIN!
T Keep eonstantlv on hand a full supply of the
1 most salable merchandise, consisting m part, ot
ROOTS k SHOES, DRY GOODS.
YANKEE NOTIONS CONFECTION-
Eli IKS, nrvl n («‘npral Supplv nt 1 A.uiLX
' GROCERIES. I keep a g; "and 01
th.* Finest nn<l Best WW* KIK- .
Large Lot of LA THS, Cheap
T WILL sell all of mv Goods at the wry
T Lowe-4 Figures for CA-H. Give me a call an
examine my Goods and the splendid bargains of
fered. «• "• ST VLLINGS.
Covington, G:i., Jan. 10.—3 m: 12.
CIO THING.
J/®» ralmwos.
Ranted !
Pounds of Good Fodder
2UOU an( f Shucks Wanted Im
mediately JQsITh HARRJS.
\\ (rffing and Ties.
r*in •>
, ~,v v stork of Bagging and Ties at. most
-I \ • JOSEl’ll HAKIMS.
COVINGTON, GEOIIGIA, MAllCI) 28, 1873.
A Tail of Emoshun.
The night wis klare without fog.—-
Mat and I sat on a log. Her izo was
upon the ski, and her breast did hovo
with many a sigh. Her hair was black
as the blackest cat, and her lips, Jerusa
lem ! hold u.y hat I My arm was around
her little waist and 1 got ready her lips
to taste : but whenever I do a thing so
chaste, I never am in much haste. ‘Tis
said when you kiss the Nu York girls,
with pretty blue ice and hair tlmt cm Is,
they ask you what you are about and
give you a slap right on the snout. The
Western girls, they make no bother if
yu kiss them on wun cheek they turn the
other. But give me a Georgia girl for
kissing, they beat all the others clean
to nothin—When ever you give wun on’
em a smack, they purse up their lips and
kiss yu back, -
But to my story : my dearest reader
don’t git weary ; for if I did git off mi
track, I’ve now without trouble, found
my way back; and mi theme agin, I’ll
never lose, as sure as this poetry is
proze.
I pressed Mattie’s form to mine and
looked down in her ize, and so I took
her hand in mine, I cuddent breathe fur
sighs.
Nearer, near, mi lips tu hers did
sneak, I felt her warm breth on mi cheek;
I give her little hand a squeeze, then
raising up her hed she sed: “Take
kare Jeems, till I sneeze !”
The Origin of Masonry,
A Western orator, descanting on the
life and character of old King Solomon,
is reported thus:
“But the biggest tiling Sol did was
establishing the order of Free Masons.—
When he was in the building business, he
got all the roosters who worked for him
to go into the Masonic institution heavy.
Sol was the first chap who made fellows
ride goats, and travel over rugged paths,
and be roasted on hot gridirons. It was
the festive Sol who stood by iri the days
of Old Lang Syne and bossed the torture
of initiation•, ia lJ&.was, j,VoJ.I Tfcg‘&s J an
the way up tc the nine hundred and
ninety-ninth. Sol did business on the
square. lie ran the kingdom, and had
bully luck until he got to be an old cod
ger, and couldn’t get about as lively as
he did in his younger days. Ilia wives,
who used to walk a bee-line for him, got
the upper hand and were sassy, lhey
made it hot for the old man, and he dar
sent say boo for fear they’d pull bis hair
out. They made up faces at him, and ho
got discouraged. And then to make
matters more mixed, a lot of politicians
got to kicking up a muss in the king
dom. Sol died soon after and was buried
with Mustfnic honors.
An honest old Pennsylvania farmer
had a tree on his premises he wanted
cut down, but being weak in the hack,
and having a dull ax, he hit upon the
following ‘ plan ; Knowing the passion
amono his neighbors for coon-hunting he
made a coons’s foot out of a potato, and
proceeded to imprint numerous tracks to
and up the tree. When all ready, he
informed his neighbors that the tree must
be filled with coons, pointing to the ex
ternal evidence made with his potato
foot. The bait took, and in a short time
half a dozen fellows, with sharp axes,
were chopping at the base of the tree,
each taking their regular turn. The
party also brought dogs and shot guns,
and were in ccstacies over the anticipa
ted haul of fat coons. The tree finally
fell, but nary coon was seen to “dfap.”
It is in a vein of grim humor that the
Florida editor tells of the death of “an
other distinguished citizen by means of ,
the mechanical power in the jaws of the j
sportive alligator,’ 3 He Says
(.■pi j deceased was a victim of mis
placed confidence. It does not do to j
place too much dependence upon the
resccct and a flection 1 of alligators. —
The open-hearted man lately caught one
of these playful and pleasing creatures
and cultivated his acquaintance with lov
ing assiduity. He gave him chunks of
beef on his best pitchfork and threw him
hams from his own larder. Growing in
intimacy, he entered his premises to pat
the back ol the animal. A twinkle of
the eye, a rumple of the hide, a smile,
a snap, a gulp, and our friend departed
to return no more. No Ino ! indeed 1
It docs not do to rely upon the loving
nature of a Florida alligator.”
(From the Columbus Sun)
Nationnl Morn Is- ’lypticrisy.
Each aue, individual and nation have
their standard, true or false, of what in
manners, custom*, morals, literature and
religion is right or wrong, just or unjust,
pure or impure. The stern ancient Ro
man deemed it the greatest act of pa
triotism, when deserted bv fortune,to fall
on the point of his naked sword. Tho
modern Turk thinks hi.s soul flies at once
from the battle-field to Paradise, there
forever to be happy amid black-eved
hotit is and peri’s, and hence he rushes to
death as gladly as a bridegroom goes to
(lie nuptial chamber. The “Heathen
Chinee” and Hindoo regard suicide a vir
tue when,influenced hy caste and super
stition—the one hari-kari’s by ripping
open iiis bowels, and the other flings
himself under the ponderous wheels of
Juggernaut. Tho Spartans were taught
that to steal was no crime, but to be de
tected in tlie theft was a most hoinou3
offence, and worthy of the severest pun
ishment. The story of the Spartan boy
who, rather than be exposed, suffered a
fox to gnaw through his shirt, bloody
with its sharp teeth,, has come to us
through centuries as an example of the
sublimest fortitude, piety and devotion to
conviction.
Each age, individual anil nation is
partial to its own standard of truth and
falsehood—of right and wrong—its mor
als, manners and religion. In this is ex
hibited a commendable spirit of patriot
ism—for tlie man must be dead to every
nobio emotion who finds not some good
in his native land and in obedience to an
allwise, all-powerful and benevolent
Being, whether named “Jehovah, Jove
or Lord,’’ We, too, have no doubt that
the honest But ignorant man who is true
to his errors will bo sooner justified by
the Eternal, than he who sneaks with
lying lips' and wears a masked face and
heart.
If we were asked to name the ruling
vice of our age and country, we would
cry out hypocrisy—an ambition to seem
what wo arc not —to imitate the Spartan
youth in concealment without his genuine
and hardy virtues. This is exhibited in
dress nnd manners, in Church and State.
Without the blunt honesty of tho En
glishman and German, and none of the
art, which covers art, of the polished
Frenchman and Irishman, our wit is too
flfru- i|ii HfiiyM ‘P 01UIC8 » friendships
and relmtnrfnincre sound without lungs —
a shadow without substance. That our
individual and national character has
changed fey: the worse in the List fifty
years, and especially in the proceeding
ten, cannot be the conclusion of rage, disi
appointment, prejudice and false judg
ment, but the conviction of soberness
and truth. With all the aids and appli
ances of steam, lightning and multiplied
churches and schools, according to our
professions and standard of morals and
religion, we are far below the average of
the more civilized nations of Europe. ’
Our public men arc our representatives
and examples of our morals, manners
and religion, and where on earth can we
look and find Vice Presidents. Senators,
Judges and members of Legislatures and
Congress, who pretended to an excess
of pietv, temperance, and other moral
and religious virtues, occupying the po
sition of admitted and proved criminals
-before the world, for offences which even
baibarians would scorn an l punish ?
Men, since the days of Adam, savage and
civilized, have committed crimes at which
humanity shudders, but their standard of
truth was low : but where else will we
find the morality and religion of Chris
reduced to that of the meanest bribers,
perjurers and robbers, when they hold
in sacred trust the interest and destinies
of millions ? Where else can such crimes
go unwhipped of scorn and justice and be
treated by public opinion as merely venial
and excite no special wonder ?
Thomas Jefferson was the author of
the following letter. How indignant
and sorrowful must be his spirit, it it is
permitted to feel and know the now de
generacy of his once glorious and hon
ored countrymen and country :
Philadelphia, March 18, 1793.
Dear Sir— l received your kind favor
of the ‘26th ult, and thank you for its
contents as sincerely as if I could engage
in what they propose. When I first en
tered upon the stage of public life (now
twenty years ago), I came to the resolu
tion never to engage, while in public of
fice, in any kind of enterprise for the im
provement of my fortune, nor to wear any
other character than that of a fanner. I
have never departed from it in a singlo
instance ; and I have in multiplied in
stances found myself happy in being able
to decide and to act. as a public servant,
clear of all interest, in the multiform
questions that have arisen, wherein I
have seen others emb .rrassed and biased
by having got themselves in a more inter
ested situation. Thus I have thought
myself richer in contentment than I should
have been with any increase of fortune.
Certainly, I should have been wealthier
had 'I remained in that private condition
which renders it lawful and even lauda
ble, to use proper efforts to better it.
Tlio Old, Old Home,
When I tang for sainted memories,
Like iing and troops they come,
If T fold my arms to ponder
On the old, ol 1 home.
The Leart has many passages
J trough which tlie footings roam,
But its mid He ni-Io is sacrod
to tho thoughts of old, old homo.
M Item infancy was sheltered
Like rose-hods from the blast,
If here girlhood’s brief dvsiutn
In joyousness was passed
To that'swoet spot forever,
As to some hallowed dome,
Life s pilgrim bends her vision-—-
'Tis her oU, old home.
A father snt, haw proudly!
By that old henrthstone’s rays,
And told his children stories
Os his early manhood days.;
And one soft eye was beaming,
From cliil 1 to child ’(would roam ;
lniis a mother counts her treasures
In the old, old home.
Tlie birthday gifts and festivals,
The blended vesper hymn,
(.Some dear one who was swelling it
Ts with the seraphim.)
The fond “good nights” nt hod time,
ilow quiet sleep would come,
And fold us all together
In the old, ol 1 home.
Like a wreath of scented flowers
Close intertwined each heart:
But.tiine and chance in concert
n.ive blown tho wreath apart.
Bat dear and sainted memories
Like angels ever come,
If I fold my ann 1 * and ponder
On the old, old home.
The Tax on Printing Materials.
M e confess to a great .surprise nt tho recent
vote of the House of Representatives on the
question of taxing the Press. We are not so
much surprised at the result as at the vote it
self. Ihe Legislature while throwing away
a good d»al of its time on bills of the most tri
vial character, and needlessly spending hun
dreds of dollars every day, still had an ever
present idea of doing something—not always
well defined nor always well understood—that
would redound to the financial welfare of the
State. Knowing thin wo are net greatly sur
prised that the motion to exempt tho Press
from taxation should havo been lost, hut
~.n „ t-mui w tu was so small.
The Press asks exemption from taxation on
three grounds: The first, and perhaps tlie
least, is that no country on earth, so fur as o«r
information goes, imposes a taxon the types,
presses and other material of the printer.—
Every State in tho L r nion and we believe nil
European countries exempt newspapers; and
so did Georgia until tho mongrel Legislature
of 18CS-70 canto into power. This body,
among other notablethings, such as increasing
the State debt several millions, imposed a tax
on printing materials. The present Legisla
ture have followed their footsteps.
The next reason assigned in favor of exemp
tion is that the printing materia! may bo prop
erly classed among the tools of mechanics,
which are universally exempt. And the third
and highest ground is that wc [dace tho Press
among the educating powers of the land, nnd
claim the same immunity from taxation that
is granted to school and college property. 57c
claim —and we think we can do it without
arrogance—that we arc, to a certain extent
and n certain way, the edit cat ore of the people.
It matters not if we nuke money by our busi
ness; the same reason for taxation would ap
ply to schools and colleges. We would like to
see the teacher who does not make all tho
money lie can. Wo do not claim exemption
by reason of our poverty but as a matter of jus
tice.
An.l ns wo nay there is one other reason
gratitude fir put.lic services—that might be
advanced. When the State was in the hands
of Radicals ; when her people were being slow
ly dragged down to the humiliation and the
misery that inevitably follow Radical rule in
the South, the Press of Georgia made unceas
ing and uncompromising warfare on the
usurping government, and no one agency did
as much as this to redeem Georgia and lift her
out of the dust.
The Legislature exempted manufactories
from taxation for ten years, but had not; a sol
itary encouragement to offer to the Press.—
LnG range Reporter.
There is a good deal of virtuous indig
nation expressed in certain quarters at
the action of Soutncrn Congressmen vo
ting themselves back rations, and the
opposition to it is only skin deep. There
arc none of those who arc pitching into
the members for voting this pay, but who
would gladly have accepted it had they
been in Congress. While they might
not have voted for it, they would have
been exceedingly anxious for it to have
passed and pocketed the money as readi
ly as any one else. There has always
been too much of the demagogue cry
about the pay of officers, and no country
in the world gives such poor salaries as
the United States, and it is one great
source of public servants stealing. I lie
Treasury of the United. States is public
plunder now, and we don’t care how much
of it gets down this way. We would
have'been glad if the Southern members
bad been paid seventy-five thousand in
stead of seventy-five hundred dollars
each. —Griffin News.
No. 23
(From tho Atlanta Gerald.)
In a Hundred Years, ,
There is a sunrise, and a lark's song and an
opening daisy to evory nigiit. 5Ve saw a man
to-day whose lifo was n failure. He had work,
oil and worked until the palms of his hands
were worn to the bone ; he had devised, and
planned, nnd contrived till his head had almost
hurst with aching; ho had agonized , and
wrestled with fate till his body was a’ruin and
his intellect wrecked ;>ho had fought gamely,
hut the odds were piled against him, and cruel
circumstances had dragged him to tho dust.
So there he lav, deaerted by friends, bereft of
furtuno; a panting, gasping, fainting man. —
The officers of the law stood over him with
tho terrible instrument of their office ; his wife,
weak anil sorrowful, and his hungry-eyed
children wore huddled around him, their eager
pnngs half dulled with wonder. The officer
in tho name of justice, and by the majesty of
the iaw, lays his hand upon the door lock and
declares that the scanty furniture is seized in
behalf of the Stafe, and the houso must be va
cated at once.
The poor man rises from the bed on which
he is sitting; his childm huddle around him*
and his wife leans on his shoulder ; he gazeff
around upon what ha3 been his home ; then
upon the cold and cheorless snow ; then upon
his childron. Ilia lips quiver, a red fluslf
shoots into his faco; flashes there a moment
and then dies out again. lie strokes his
wife’s head softly with his hand and murmurs
tenderly into her car: “Cheer up, Bessie,
cheer up; it will all bo right in a hundred
years."
“Tt will be all right in a hundred years 1”
Yes, thank God, there is an end of all this
striving, an end of all this yearning. Beyond
the shores where Jordan l&ys the sands in
golden heaps, beneath Jehovah’s smile there’s
an “all right” for those who have missed it
in this world. Where the shadows of the
valley are chased back by the golden glim,,
mors of'EJeit, there’s redemption for those who
were marred on earth ; a cross of honor sot
those who have died in harness.
Then let there bo no faltering, no halting,,
no drooping. Bo not turned aside by
daunted by danger, or persuaded by the songs;
of sirens. Stop up sharply, March on, and
on, through violet bods, and thorn c’.uuids !g-.
Step brisk to tho music of eternity, and no
matter what troubles lower over you, new,,
cheer your heart with the promise of “it’i all
coming right in a hundred years.”
The poor wretch of josterdaj^
from his pale blue lips. And yet Christ died,
nnd the hill of Calvary was rent, just to give
one ray of comfort to that poor man that th*
law, in its majesty, had jumped in thejunglo
and wounded to the death.
And he will go on, and on, through many A
struggle, thinking that it will nil be right in 9
hundred years. Aml hi.s eyes will grow bright
er and brighter, nnd die blood will flush and
die in the pale cheeks oftener, and the pinched
features grow thinner, and the veil of flesh
more and more threadbare, till he dreps it #l-,
together, nnd passing over the river lays him
down on the golden banks and is baptized in
immortal sunshine. And then, thank God, ak
last his “hundred years are out’’ and it’s “all
right” with him,
While,troops were marching into Washing*
ton during the first of last week, Quebec wdi
also indulging in military display. Her sol
diers, however, were marshaled for busines*
anil not to show their spangles. They sur
rounded the ballo'-boxes, horse, foot and dra
goons, and when the mob, some 1,500 strong,
undertook, by the alleged order of Iluot, Gov
ernment candidate, to change the polls, the
troopers boro down upon them gallantly and
administered blistering punishment with tfio
flats of their swords, even laying open thfi
cheeks of a few. Martial law was proclaimed*
and the Government candidates were assured
an election by the aid of Volunteer Ilifles*
Canadian artillery and Royal hussars. It
really looks as if that portion of the Domin
ion in which Quebec stands is ripe for annex-.,
ation. Supplementing the ballot-box with
bayonets was supposed to be one of the exclu
sive patents of recently exemplified Ameri
can republicanism, but it seems that Custom-
House inspectors and tariff prohibitions have
been unable to prevent the contagion from pen-,
ctrating even to this nurseling of monarchy.,
If Quebec has reached that pass where ao
election involves martial law, the Administra
tion should apply for her at once.—Ex.
The provision prohibiting the trans-,
mission of any free matter whatever after
Juno next was put in the post office ap
propriation bill, and is now a law. The
proposed reduction of letter postage failed
to receive the approval of the Senate, t .
and the rate remains at three cents for
single letters. The provision requiring,
the prepayment of postage on newspa- ,
pers at the place of publication was also
lost, and the present regulations in this
respect remain in force.
' A Missouri woman said she gave a
railroad conductor a ten-dollar bill; he
said it was a two ; she insisted ; be per
sisted ; she took out a revolver and snap
ped it. and he gave her the eight dollars
balance, not wishing to have any dis
pute wiih a lady,
Tito schools iu Conyers, are. (being: interfered
with by meascles, iu the last set tWi, \Yc hope
the people will soon be relieved™ this di-aisc,
I ,uui schools and people will be ag'iu in tacr.