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TH E GEO RG 1 A EN T E II P 111 SE. Vol. TUI, GEORGIA RAILROAD SCHEDULE. Leave Augusta at -' r Leave Atlanta at s 10 A * Arrive at Augusta at , 5 IHP. M Arrive at Atlanta at. 0 2 ZIL M NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN Lcavo Augusta at s ' ''» Leave Atlanta at * v M A rrlve at Augusta at r ■ * Arrive at Atlanta at 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.