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l'urlfie the Stood, Renovates and In
vigorates the whole System .
Ita Medical Properties are
ALTBBATIVE, TONIC. SOLVENT AND
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Vxostink is made exclusively from the jui
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PREPARED BT
H. R. STEVENS, Boston, Mass.
What is Vegetine ?—lt a compound extrac
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VALUABLE INFORMA7ION
Boston, Dec, 12,1869.
Gentlemen- My only ooject in giving you
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ing covered with pimples and eruptions, many
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and knowing it to be a blood disease, I took
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I have never enjoyed so good health before,
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benefit those afflicted with Rheumatism, I will
make mention also of the Vegetine’s wonderful
power of curing me of this acute complaint,
of which I have suffered so intensely
C. H. TUCKER, Pas. Ag't. 0. B. R.
48-lrn 60 Washington Street, Boston.
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Vol. 3.
TOVNO MOWBRAY JOURNEYING TO WE
WARS.
BY HART WALBINSHAH.
Yonng Mobtay journeying to the ware,
All belted he and eourred,
From lady’s hands received a rose.
And from her lips this word:
“I load thee to my country’s cause.
For glory not for doom.
To be not slain but stay her foes,
I deck thy knightly plume;
Remember caution is not fear, nor rashness
valor’s test.
If he who fights and dies does wellwho—
fifhtsand lives does best.”
Now fierce the tide of battle laves,
And fast the conflict flows j
And high above the fight still waves
The white plume and the rose;
And gaily through the gathering fray,
Our flower crowned warrior, see,
Strikes many a gallant blow this day
For Love and Liberty !
While high above the din still rings, with
strike on foeman’s crest;
“Ho! he who fights and dies does well—
who fights and lives does best 1”
Ah ! woe is me! that love’s kind hand,
Love’s self should, hapless, mar !
A marksman viewed the helmet grand,
And marked the blood red star !
A downward lance clove helm and crest,
And bathed in crimson tide,
Love’s fatal gift kisoed fainting breast,
And murmuring thus he died:
“Oh ! love, for Fame men strive and live
For Freedom heroes fall 1
If he who fights and lives gives much—
Who fights and dies gives all 1”
THE TWO-THIRDS RULE.
ITS ORIGIN-—PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION FROM
THE TIME OF JEFFERSON DOWN.
To the Editor of the xView York Sun :
Sir— The action of the Maine Democ
racy foreshadows an attempt, in the St.
Louis Convention, to abrogate the two
thirds rale. In view of the discussion
which the effort will occasion, and par
ticularly since some misapprehension
seems to prevail as to the origin and
policy uf this famous regulation, a brief
review of its history may not be without
interest and introduction.
The Congressional caucus, itself bor
rowed from the politics ot England, was
the original of the National Convention.
In 1800, at Philadelphia, a caucus com
posed of Representatives and Senators
nominated Jefferson and Burr for Presi
ilrnt saiitl Viuc I‘icoldciiti vl *Uu UlllltJU
States.
At Washington on tjie 19|h ot Janua
ry, 1808, a similar caucas nominated
Madison for the Presidency; and in 1812
a caucus presented him lor re.-election.
Meanwhile, much discontent with this
method of selecting candidates had
spread among the Republicans; so that
on the 11th of March, 1816, when a
Congressional caucus met in Washing
ton to choose a successor ot Mr. Madi
son, nineteen membeis of the party
refused to attend. After a severe strug
gle between Monrce and Ctawford, tlie
former was nominated by a vote of sixty
five to thirty-four. Monroe was re
elected without opposition. In 1821,
notwithstanding the popular clamor
against the system, a caucus of Repub
lican Congressmen presented Crawford
for the Presidency, but his nomination
was largely repudiated by the party, and
ir default of a majority vote in the col
lege of electors Adams was elected by
the House of Representatives over Jack
son.
The result was to the last degree odi
ous and disappointing to the country,
and being imputed to the operation ot
the method ot nomination, as well as to
a shametul intrigue between Clay and
Adams, ‘King Caucus, ’ as it was called
in the slang of the day, was abjured
forever, and its memory exists only for
‘admonition and reproof.’
Gen. Jackson was nominated, both
for his first and second term, by the
Legislatures ot the States. The first
National Convention for the nomination
ot candidates was held in Baltimore in
September, 1831, by tbe anti-Masonic
party, and they presented Wra. Wirt for
President and Amos Ellmaker lor Vice
President. (If more, information of this
party and convention be desired, refer
ence may be had to the venerable Tbnr
low Weed.)
In December of the same year a party
styling itself National Republican met
at Baltimore and nominated Henry Clay
and John Sergeant for President atid
Vice President.
The Democrats, as they now began to
distinguish themselves, had already, by
the Slate Legislatures, presented Jackson
for a second term ; but controversy ex
isting in the choice of a candidate for
Vice President, for solution of the diffi
culty New Hampshire proposed the ex
pedient of a National Convention.
The first Dem ,cratic: National Conven
tion was called to nominate a Vice Pres-
ident only; and it met in Baltimore on
the 21st of May, 1832. Robert Lucas,
ot Ohio, was chosen President ot the
body. In determining the selection of
a candidate the convention, dp motion
ot Komulus M. Saunders, ot North Car
olina, adopted the following resolution:
‘ Jietolved , That each Si ate be entitled,
in the nomination to be made ofe, a can
didate for the Vice President*, to a
□umber of votes equal to the number
that they will be entitled to in thd Elec
toral College under the new and appor
tionment in votmg for Presidents and
Vice President, aod that two-thirdl of
the whole number of votes in the con
vention shall be necessary to constitiifje
a choiae.’
This is the origin of the dow famous
two-thirds rule, Martin Van Boren
received the requisite vote for the nom
ination, and was elected on the ticket
with Andrew Jackson.
The next Democratic National Couveu
CONYERS. Q-AJUTSTTE. 29, 1876.
tion met in Baltimore, May 20, 1835,
and by unanimous vote nominated Van
Bnren to succeed Jackson in the Presi
dency. In 184(1 Van Bnren was presen
ted by another convention at Baltimore
(or a second term ; but waa defeated by
General Harrison, whom the Whigs lmd
nominated in convention at Harrisburg.
The ambition of the ‘Sage of Kinder
iiook’ was not to be appeased without
another incumbency of the Presidency!
and accordingly his friends urged him
for nomination by the Democratic Con
vention whioli met at Baltimore on the
27tIrof May, 1844. But Mr. Romulus
M. Saunder was again present with his
two-thirds rule;* and on his motion the
convention adopted it by a vote of 148
to 118. On the first ballot. Van Bnren
received 146 votes, a majority, but not
iwo— thirds of the convention. After
the seventh ballot nn attempt was made
to repeal the two-thirds rule, but was
defeated by the same vote by which it
was adopted, namely, 118 for and 148
against its repeal. On the ninth ballot
James K. Pdk was nominated by a
unanimous v)te.
In the Democratic Convention whiefy
met at Baltimore on the 22nd of May,
1848, the two-thirds rule was again
adopted, and under its operation Lewis
Cass was nominated for the Presidency.
The same rule was re-enacted at Bal
timore in 1852, and has been retained
by every succeeding Democratic Con
vention.
It is not tine, then, as popularly re
ported, that the two-thirds rule origina
ted in the convention ot 1844, and was
devised to prevent the nomination of Mr.
Van Buren. It was adopted in 1832 by
the first Democratic Natioual Convention
ever held, and is, in truth, an original,
traditional and fundamental principle ot
the Democratic constitution
The policy of the rule consists in its
efficacy as a safeguard against the nomi
nation of a candidate by States which
cannot contribute to his election.
But this original argument for its
adoption is indeftinitoly strengtheiWd by
tho modern practice ot a unit vote in
convention. A large number of States
now cast their vote as a whole, without
re fere roe to the will ot the minority. It
is obvious that it all the States were to
adopt this expedient, a candidate might
he chosen hv the minority of the con
vention. lor illustration: las® mree
States with three votes each; in each
of two States a particular candidate has
two votes, and one against hnn, while
the third (State gives its three votes for
the candidate of the minority the other
two Siates. This latter candidate has
actually floe votes, and jthe other four,
vet, by operation of the unit rule, the
man witfi four votes is nominated over
the man with five votes 1 As affording
some guarantee against this absurd and
iniquitous result, the two-thirds rule
should be held inviolate.
Rook* A. Pryor.
Errors iu Printing.
Probably one of the worst businesses un
der tbe sun is that ot a printer. His ev.
ery deed seek the light ot day 1 hose
of live lawyers lie in dark boxes and -be
tween dusty shelves ; the doctor places
his indifferent handiwork in the grave ;
the tradesman has but his customer to
please and satisfy when his work is en
ded, but the printer—every ignoramus
spells over the work ot the printer.
Fellows who would fiud it impossible
to put twenty letters together grain mat/
ically will point out with glee a fatt Hi
his work—indeed, it is usually this cjdss
of individuals who make it a point ot
finding out every little discrepancy.
Did the public know tbe thousand of
different i haraoters, different letters and
atoms composed in a printer’s eveny day
life—did they know the variety eft alto
gether foreign subjects he has to ! set up
read, correct revise day after dajr, they
would wonder bow he kept out of the
lunatic asylum. But piactice mafes per
fect and cousiani friction has rubbed off
all the rough edges from the character
of the man of letters —nothing takes
effect upon him—he can view error® of
the most frightful description with calm
ness. After all, what is an error,\ gram
matically or otherwise! Simwy so
many atoms out of jdac?, that’s aud
quite enough—to upset the equabimity
ol ttie printer.—[Exchange.
A Lesson in drummer*
‘Jake, did you ever study gramnaer ?’
‘I did sir.'
‘What case is Mr ?’
‘He's an objective case.' _
‘How so?'
‘Because be objects to paying his sub
scription that's been owing lor a year
and a halt.’
‘Right. What's a nouu V
‘Don't know ; but I know what a re
nown is.'
‘Well, what is it?’
‘Running off without paying the prin
ter, and getting on the black list as a
delinquent.’
‘What's a conjunction r
‘A method of collecting outstanding
subscription in conju"ction with the con
stable, never employed by printers uutil
the last extremity.
•That's right. Go on to yonr seat and
quit shooting paper wads at the girls.’
The following rhymes are furnished
by a contemporary for the use of Radical
poets: ‘Hayes, blaze, craze, daze, amaze,
prays, gaze, neighs, raise, ways, brays.’—
[Ex.
‘Py Schiminy, how dot poy studies de,
languages !’ is what a delighted el den#
German said when his four year old shn
~ailed him a blear-eyed son ol a tfaw
borae.
A Hustle Courtship.
Sam Freeman, of the Ellijay Courier,
tell it this way :
I hitched my ofier olose to hern at}’
shet my eyes an’ sed : 'Hal, yotibe the
very gal I‘ve bin hankerin' arter fur a
longtime. I Inv you all over, from the
ioul ot your foot to the bed of your
crown, an’ I don‘t ke*>r who knows ft;
an' ef you say so we‘ll be lined in the
holy b inds ot padlock. Epluribus on
ions, gloria Monday morning, sick tem
per iartantula, non compimentns, world
without end,’ sez I, and I felt as tho’ I
had throived like an alligator, I felt so
relieved.
With that she fotehed a scream, an
arler a while she sed :
‘Peter !’
* r hat is it, Sally f ’
es,’ sed she, hiding her face in her
aprn.
pcm may depend upon it, I felt orful
Jerusalem !’ sez I, ‘I must holler,
Ssljbr I‘ll bust wide open, Hooray !
hodpy I I can jump over a ten rail
fence; I can do anything a feller could i
or ort to do.
With this, I sorter sloshed myself
down beside her ami clinched the bar
gain with a kiss. Talk about your sugar,
talk about your lasses, talk about your
mte*blooming serious, they warn‘t no
where: you couldn't have got me ui’
’em ; they would have tasted sour arter
that.
Broomstraws with lasses on’em! Et
Sal‘B old daddy hadn‘‘ bawled out so
loud: ‘lt‘s time all honest people waz
in bed,’ I do really believe I‘d stayed all
nite.
He was an old man, and he had a bit
of conductor's pasteboard stuck in his
hat. He walked into the drug store and
inquired: ‘Have you got any goed
whiskey V
‘Yes, sir,’ replied the gentlemanly
druggist,
‘Gimme half a pint V
‘Have you got a doctor's prescription?'
‘No.’
‘Can't sell it. then, sir. Jury in ses
sion ; must be strict ’
‘Whore can I get a doctor?’ sadly in
quired the aged iuebrmte.
*l‘m a physician, sir,’ winningly re
sponded die druggist.
a b*"- •" —you
call it, 'scriptioii ?’
‘Well, I might.’ And the doctor
wrote out a prescription blank, calling
tor so many ounces of spirituous for
menti. He filled a snug looking bottle
with the article, pasted a label on it,
numbered to correspond with the paper,
and presenting the bottle to the venera
b'o royaterer, remarked in the most busi
ness like way imaginable : ‘A dollar and
a half, sir.’
‘A dollar and a half,’ gasped hisaston
ished customer.
‘Ain't that pretty high, mister?’
‘lt‘s our medicine —a dollar tor the
prescription aud fifty cents tor the medi
cine.'
‘Ves. well,’ slowly replied the wicked
old duffer, as he slowly buttonel up the
half pint in his overcoat pocket,‘l guess,
boss, that I don‘t want the ’suription.
Here's your half a dollar,’and he stuck
his tongue in one side of his mouth,
winked impicgHy~at' TVinrof the mortar
and ppstlejand walked ouV \
Tit tor Tut. \
Among the annoyed and dripping fe
desirians who sought the aid oi a Grand,
River street car the other day to help
shorten the way home was a mar,
with gray locks and an old maid with
bcau.catchers and false teeth. They
seemed to hate each other at first sight,
tor he was hardly seated beside her when
lie growled :
‘lf you women didn't wear bustles
there'd be twice as much room in street
cars.’
‘lf men didn't sit cross-legged there'd
be three times as much room ?’ she snap
ped in reply.
‘lf I was a woman I wouldn't be gad
ding around with the vain pouring down
in this way,’ he remarked.
‘Yes you would. If you were a wo
man you'd want to .go out aud show
those feetl’
He drew his No. ll‘s under the seat,
flushed up a little and growled:
‘They are not false, like some folks’
teeth!’
No, and they don't turn up quite as
much as some people's nose!’ she an
swered.
lie was asienced for a time, but pres
ently recovered himself and went on.
‘Thirty years ago women got along
without paint, powder bustles, straps,
buckles and such nonsensical fixings.’
‘Thirty years ago,’ she piotnptly re
plied, ‘it was a rare thing to see a man
come out ot a saloon wiping his mouth
on his thumb 1 ’
He didn't say anything more, but he,
wondered if she wasn't looking out
the wiudow when he signalled the c^rf.
\ Directory tor 1 mmigraifts.
To what county shouldx'weak man
go? Wjjiy to ‘Union there
is strengths-——■
Where should those go who are too
warm t To Fannin.
Where should they go who want mon
ey ?, To Banks.
Where should those go whojhave
beef to sell T To Coweta.
Where should those go who want
b/ead ? To Baker.
Where should those go who want to
make brick T To Clay.
Where should those go who desire a
new country 1 To Karly.
Where should those go who don’t
take the paper ? To Greeue. —[Cher-
okee Georgian.
Giggling: 'Girls.
The te lies. Perhaps you don't know
them by that name ; well, then, suggest
a better. They rre the salt of our soon
ety, in one sense—girls of good minds
—minds that will bo good if they sur
vivp the giggling age—crirls of good
families, well dresser], polite and line
looking, but possessed of the insane idea
that they must laugh noon all occasions,
whether there is anything to warrant it
or not, else they are not jolly gay girls
utid lively company. A bevy of them
came into the public library the other
day. One had just liad an adventure
whioh was to be recited. She dropped
into a chair, bent over and held her
sides, and they all chorused in. They
hadn't heard it vet, but. of course it
would be awful funny when it was told.
She was coming up K street when she
stepped on a rotton p'ank—te, he, he,
ohontß, te, he, he—and down she went.
Q dear— te, he, he—and her foot got
tangled—full chorus te, lie, he, he—and
a man came along with a horrid check
shirt on—he, he, he—big checks—per
fectly horrid—he, he, ha—and helped
her up—lie, he, lie ; then a waiving ot
bodies back and forth and a grand te, lie,
ad libitun, all together.
Now, I did not make this up; not a
hit ot it. They were splendid girls—l
speak sincerely; but what an exhibition!
I saw nn old greybeard take a book lie
didn't want ami hurry away. Then an
other girl took it up and said her book
was so comical she just howled over it ;
they must all read it; they would laugh
so, as if that was the chief end of a girl's
existence.
When a man is amus?d he laughs with
gusto, and then straightens his face till
the next time, and it lias some meaning;
but the perpetual grin or giggle is do
testable.
At a lecture recently I saiv six young
ladies seemingly convulsed with laughter
for five miirji.es or more at llie accidental
dropping ot a paper of candies over the
floor. I think 1 can go into a social
parlor and select the groups of married
ladies from those of the girls—not by
their faces or their dresses, but by the
amount of giggling done. Matrimony
subdues the snicker.—[ Sunny South.
A Merciful Mcxmtuiii Lion.
It Captures a Uni' and Oawuks it Five
Nil ns, but Hanoi.ks it With Caiik.
Last Wednesday several families of
emigrants, traveling to Oregon by wag
on, camped tor the night i:ear Point of
Rooks, a station on the Union Pacific,
Mountain Division. In the dusk of the
evening, tbe children were at play a
short distance from the wagons, when
piercing scream, proceeding from the
bevif of juveniles, alarmed ‘.lie camp, and
called the men to the rescue. They
were met by the a frighted youngsters,
who said that ono ot their number,a two
year old girl, had been carried off by an
animal. From the description given by
the children and the size and shape ot
the tracks ihe beast was supposed to he
a mountain lion. A diligent and exci
ting search for the child was kept ,up
until midnight, but unsuccessful,
meantime, the mother of the child was
raving in a most frenzied manner, re
jecting all hope of the recovery ot her
offspring, and refusings to he comforted.
At dawn, Thursday morning, the search
was resumed. The tracks ot the beast
were traced a distance ot five miles from
camp, when,owing to rocks,they became
too indistinct to be followed further.
The search was continued, however, and
at o'clock in the afternoon, one of
the searching party found the child on
lop of a huge upheaval of rocks, rising
two hundred feel above the level of the
surrounding sand plain. The child,
nearly denuded of clothing, and with
several Ugly-looking sera dies about the
face and breast, was lying on its back,
perfectly quiet, and its eyes dozing un
der the sunlight. With the exception of
of scratches, or the claw—marks, the lit
tle thir.g was uninjured. When the in
fant was bkrne back to camp, at sight of
it the districted mother swooned, and
ors being restored to consciousness clas
ped her child in frenzied fondness, and
insisted, fof some time, that it was dead
notwithstaiing that the rescued cherub
was kicking, squalling and squirming in
the customary way, The blending of
grief and gladness in the camp was
highly pathetic, if not a litrle pictures
que. Tbit the lion could have lugged
that baby 'five miles without severely
injuring It, and left it high and dry on
the loneiome ledge, seems almost incred
ible, but the above facts are reliably
vouched lor. The mountain lion is
know/to be very powerful, and this one
appeArs lo have tempered its strength
widf mercy, and simply kidnapped the
infant without making a meal off it.—
News.
Plain Jug.—Yesterday forenoon a
boy about eleven years old stood tor a
long half hour in front ot a Detroit sa
loon inspecting the display of bottls in
the show window. lie saw round, flat
and other kinds of pint and quart bot
tles, some with silver plated caps and
others with gold labels, and he had be
come deeply interested when another
boy lounged up and inquired:
‘See anything there that reminds you
of home?’
‘Nawthing,’ was the solemn answer.
‘Don't drink whiskey at your house,
eh ?’ , ,
‘Dad does,’ answered the boy, aftei
waiting to spell out another Jabel, u
he keeps her in a plain jug, and all the
printing he has on it says ‘Good foi
rats!'—[Press,
To every bird its nest is fair.
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Tributes of Respect, Ohitnariee, etc., pul
linhad free. Annonucyinonta, )£.■>, in adrsuo .
No. 49
Artvioe toJJ Youngr Men.
Young men, get. married' Yon will
never he worth u last veni’s robin's nest
until yon do, The fruits of disobedience
are misery and inis'ortnnc, and you will
never be truly Imppy while Jiving in dis
obedience lo God’s coininandme'ils to
our first parents in the garden. Jtmhein
ber, that there nre 75.000 more niarnoge
able women in the United States than
men, and 800,000 more females than
males Imagine yonrs-lf nt the bar of
judgement with 75,000 spinsters with
toothless jaws mid tomiues sharpended
on the grind Mons of temper, and honed
on the strop ot unrequited affection, as
accusers: yoiir chance for eternal bliss
would not be very fluttering. And fur
thermore, remember that unperformed
duties always oome home to roost, so
you will he likely to go through the
world will) holes in the heels of vour
stockings, and your elbows out, miJ fi
nally die unregretted and forgotten like
any other brute.
An Insurance Agent’s Trials.
[From the old time stories fl >ating
through tho coluiiiiis of tho country
Press, j
Between Kenoslm and Milwaukee,
says a Wisconsin paper, an insurance
agent entered the car, and having issued
tickets for several of the passengers, up
proaehed an elderly lady, who, it after
wards appeared, was deaf.
‘Madam, would you like to insure
against accidents f inquired the agent.
‘l*m going lo Oshkosh to vimt my dar
tar who is married and got a baby.’
The agent raised his voice a little:—
‘Would you liko to insure your life
against uco'denlbt’
‘She‘s been mnrr.iad two years and a
half. It‘s a gal.’
Agent, still louder: ‘l‘m an insurance
agi nt, madam ; and m‘t you want your life
insured against aooidenls V
‘Oh, Id dn't understand you,’ said the
old lady. ‘No; her name is Johnson :
my name its Evans, and 1 Jive live miles
from Kenoslm.’
The agent vanished.
The Language of Kings.
In caßo of a gentleman wishing to
tnar-y —literally in the market with his
SOT .11 RiiVUL
I eart) hand.
VV lien success attends his suit, and lie
is actually engaged, the ring passe* to
the second finger.
After marriage it passes to the third
finger.
If, however, the gent drsires to tell
the lair ones that he not only is not ‘in
the market,’ but he does not design to
marry at all, he wears the signet upon
his little finger, and ail ladies may un
derstand that lie is out ot their reach.
With the fair sex the ‘laws ot the
rings' are:
A plain or chased gold ring on the
little linger on the right hand, implies
‘not engaged,’ on the plainer words,
‘reaily for proposals, sealed or otherwise.’
When engaged, the ring passes to the
first finger ot the left hand.
When married the third finger receives
it.
If the fair ono proposes to defy all
seige to the heart, she places the rings
on her first and fourth finger—one on
each like two charms to keep away the
tempter. It is somewhat singular that
this disposition of rings is rare.
A gentleman now living in Taylor
county cleared the land, made two crops,
hewed the sills and built the first hou-o
where the city of Macon now stands 1
lie served on the first juries in the coun
ties of Bibb, Houston, Taylor and Ma
rion without moving. This was done by
changing county lines and making new
counties. He is now seventy-four years
old,
Making Sugar front Melons.
The manufacture of sugar from melons
is about to bo established neaf San Fran
cisco. The superiority of melons to
beets for the manufacture of sugar is to
be conclusively proven, and already a
company lias been formed and land pur
chased on Andres Island, where the
manufacture will commence in a short
lime. Water melons are to be raised
principally, the cost, both of raising and
reducing being much less than any other
class of molons or fruit suitable for the
purpose. Besides producing sugar, the
melon is said to g ; ve a delicious syrup,
while the seeds will be used for the man
ufacture ot table oil. Regarding the
superiority of the melon, a writer says:
As compared with beets, the syrup
which is mifillor use, ar.d the impnrw
ties, for which expensive detergenoe is
required, the pulp of the melon being
tree from impurities, needs no complex
treatment; no carbonic acid, little bone
black, and but a fraction of lime, an! a
mall per cent, of watery elements to be
evaporated. Beets are planted in rows
two feet apart and eight inches asunder.
Melons in rows twelve feet apart and six
feet asunder, requiring only one-tbird
tho plowing and not one fourth the
weeding. Thu harvest is clean'y an.
not laborious as in beets. Li the mm
beets require washing, melons not; tho
juice ot beets is iiabie to’turn black and
run into fennenUlio- : melon juice never
blacks, andforseve.nl days has no tend
ency to ferment. Bor catt.e feed tho
infuse from melons is more frictitious
and palatable.
The New York Herald says the social
question in the South is, whether a man
shall live on cotton or starve on corn.
Zeal without knowledge is fire without
light.