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VEGETINE
RuriJU* the Blood, Renovates and In
vig<vUe4 the wltole System.
1.: -
Its Medical Proper ties are
ALTERATIVE, TONIC, SOLVENT AND
DIURETIC.
VrositN* i* made exclusively from the jui—
ees of carefully-selected barks, roots and herbs
and so strongly concentrated, that it will offect
\ially eradicate from the system every
taint of Scrofula, Scrofulous Humor,
Tumors, Cancer, Cancerous Humor,
Krysipel*", Halt Bheum, Syphilitic Diseases,
Canker, Faintness at the Ston aoh, and all
iiin**T~ that arise from impure blood. Scia
tica, Inflammatory and Chronic Hhumatiam,
Neuca’gi*, Oont and Spinal Complaints can
oly be efectually cured through tho blood.
For Ulcers and Eruptive diseases of the
Bki Pustules, Blonhes, Boils, Tetter, (Scald-*
head ahd King worm, Vegetine has never failed
to effect a permanent cure.
For Pains in the Back, Kidney Complaints.
Dropsy, Female Weakness, Leucorrhoea. aris
ing from internal uleertion, and uterine diseas
es and General Debility, Vegetine acts directly
upon the causes of these complaints. It in
vigorates and strengthens the whole system,
acts upon the secretive organs, allays inflam
mation, cure* ulceration and regulates (he bow
els.
For Caturh, Dyspepsia, Habitual Costive
ness, Palpitation of the Heart, Headache, Piles
Nervousness and Generous Prostration of the
Nervous System, no medicine has ever given
such perfect satisfaction as the Vevetine. It
purifies the blood, cleanses all of the organs,
and posseftes a controlling power over tho nor
vous system.
The remarkable cures effected by Vegetine
have induced many physicians and apotheca
ries whom we know to prescribe and use it iu
their own families.
In fact, Vegetine is the beet remedy yet dis
cerned for the above diseases, and is the only
blood Purifier yet placed before the public.
FREPARED BY
l H. H. STEVENS, Boston, Mass.
What is Vegetine ?—lt a compound extrac
ted from barks, roots and herbs. It is Nature’s
Remedy. It is perfectly harmless from any
bsd effect upon the system. It is nourishing
and strengthening. It acts directly upop the
blood. It quiets the nervous system. It gives
yon good sweet sleep at night. It is a great
panacea for our n ged fathers and mothers; for
it gives them strength, quiets their nerves,
and gives them Nature’s sweet sleep,—as has
befu proved by many an aged person. It is
the great Blood Purifier, It is a soothing
remedy for our children. It ha relieved and
cured thousands. It is very pleasant to take:
every child likes it. It relievo i and cures all
diseases originating from impure blood. Try
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neighbor and acquaintance, “Try it: it has
cured m?.
Vegetine for the complaints for which it is
recommended, is having a larger sale through
out the United States than any other one med
icine. Why? Vegetine will cure these com.
plaints.
VALUABLE MFOUMA'I ION
Boston, Dec, 12, 1869.
Gentlemen— My only object in giving you
this testimonial is to spread valuable informa
tion. Having been badly afflicted with Salt
Rheum, and the whole surface of my skin be
ing covered with pimples and eruptions, many
of which caused mo great pain and annoyance
and knowing it to be a blood disease, I took
many of the advertised blood preparations,
among which was any quantity of Sarsaparilla,
without obtaining any benefit until I commen
ced taking the Vegetine, and before I had
completed tho first bottle I saw that
I had got the right medicine.
Oonsequertly, I followed on with it
until I had taken seven bottles, when I was
pronounced a well man. and my skin is smooth
and entirely free from pimples and eruptions.
I have never enjoyed so good health before,
and i attribute it to the use of Vegetine. To
benefit those afflicted with Rheumatism, I will
wake 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. R. R.
4S-lm CO Washington Street, Boston.
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THE SPIRIT GUIDE.
BT AI’OfSTA LARKED.
Far in tho realms of Arctic night
Whero flumes the wierd auroral light,
And icebergs loom on every hand.
Enchanters of that lonely land,
The patient, dark—skilled Esquimaux
A little grave shapes in the snow.
And o’er tho ice-plain, bleak nnd wild,
The mourning mother bears her child,
In furry garments softly rolled,
Who ne’er again shall feel tho cold,
And lays him on the icy breast
To take his lost und final rest.
And thoro beside the little mound
The father slays uis fleetest hound,
A creature of unerring skill,
Of keenest scent and docile will,
To trace far haunts of seal and bear
That stock tho little iee-liut there.
110 lays the faithful beast and bravo
Low down beside his baby’s grave,
And says: “The little one will stray.
Through night and darkness lar uwaj;
His tender loot have never trod,
And cannot find the path to God.
“Now guide him safe from night and cold
Far out to realms of purest gold,
Whero flow’iy meads and crystal streams
Are smiling in the sun’s glad beams.
Where rise abodes of joy and mirth
And feasting fills the happy earth.
Consoled the parents homowardinend.
And leave their baby to the friend
Who for protection and defence /,
Has proved a gentle Providence,
IS-re that tho dog so true and wise
Will find the gates of Paradise.
O, love that would outrun the tomb
And light your darlings through the gloom
O, simple faith that deems loves cares
Can be a joy and solace there,
Ye oling to each untutored sou 1 ,
And bind the tropics to the pole.'
National Democratic Platform.
ADOPTED AT ST. LOUIS.
Wo, the delegates of tho Democratic
party of the United States in National
Convention assembled, do here declare
the administration of the Federal gov
ernment tobe in urgent need ol reform)
do hereby enjoin upon the nominees of
this Convention, and the Democratic
party in each State, a zealous effort and
co operation to this eud, and do hereby
appeal to our fellow citizens of eve-j
--evt-rv former pK'teal connection (o un
dertake with ns this first and most press
ing patriotic duty.
For the Democracy of the whole conn.-
try we do here re-affinn our faith in the
permanence of the Federal Union, onr
devotion to the constitution of the Uni
ted States, with its amendments univer
sally accepted aj a final settlement of all
controversies that engendered the civil
war, and do here record our steadfast
confidence in the perpetntity of Repub
lican self goverment ; in the supremacy
of the civil over military authority ; in
the total separation of the church and
State for the sake alike of civil and
religious freedom ; in the qua'ity of all
oitiaens before the just laws of their
own enactment ) in the liberty of Indi
vidual conduct unvexed by sumptuary
laws ; in the faithful education ot the
rising generation, that they may pre-
6erve, enjoy and transmit these best con
ditions of human happiness, nnd hope we
behold the noblest pvodacts of a hundred
years of changeful history j but while up
holding the bond of our union, and the
great character of these, our rights, it
behooves a free people to practice also
thrt eternal vigilance which is the price
of liberty.
■Reform is necessary to rebuild and es
tablish in the hearts of the people of the
Union, eleven years ago happily rescued
from the dangers of corruot centralism,
which after inflicting upon ten States
the rapacity of carpet-bag tyranies, has
honey-combed the officers of the Feders
al goverment itself with incapacity, waste
and fraud; iufected States and munici
palities with the conlamination of mis
rule, and locked last the prosperity of an
udustrious people in the paralysis of
hard times.
Reform is necessary to establish a
sound currency, restore the public credit
and maintain the National honor. We
nenounce the fail it e for all these eleven
years to make good the promise ot the
legul tender notes, which are a changing
standard of value in the hands of the
people, and the nonpayment of which is
a disregard of the plighed faith ot the
nation. We denounce the improvidence
which in eleven veare of peace has taken
the people, in Federal taxes, thirteen
times the whole amout of the legal ten
der notes, and squandered four times
this sum in useless expeuses, with out
accumulated any reserve for their re
demption. We denounce the financial
imbecility and immorality of that party
which during eleven years of peace, has
made no advance towards resumption,
that, instead, has obstructed resumption
by wasting our resonrees and exhausting
all our surplus income, aud while annual
ly professing to intend a speedy return
to specie payments, has annually enacted
fresh hindrances thereto. As such a
hindrance we denounce the resumption
clause of the act ot 1875, and we here
demaud its repeal. We demand a judi
cious system of preparation by public
economies, by official retrenchments, and
by wise finance which shall enable the
nation, to, assure the whole wedd of its
perfect readiness to-meet any of its prom
ises at the call ot the creditor entitled to,
CONYERS. G A., JULY SO, 1876.
I paymeuts. We believe s ich a system
! will be devised and, above all, entrusted
to competent hands ior execution, crea
ting at no time an artificial scarcity of
currency, and at no time alarming the
public mind into a withdrawal ot that
vaster machinery of credit by which
ninety-five per cent of all buciuess trails,
actions are performed ; a system open
to the public and inspiring general con
fidence wonjd, from the day of its adop
tion, bring healing ou its wings to ail our
harassed industries, and set in motion
ti e wheels of commerce, manufactures
and the meohanical arts, restore employ
ment to labor and renew in all its Na
tional sources the prosperity of the peo
ple.
Reform is necessary in the sum and
mode of Federal taxation to end nnd
that the capital may be set free from dis
tress and labor lightly burdened. We
denouuce the present tariff levied on
nearly 4,000 as a master piece ot injus
tice, inequality and false pretenses. It
yields a dwindling not yearly rising rev
enue ; it has impoverished many indus
tries to subsidize a few; it prohibits im
ports that wo might purchase the products
ot Ainerioan labor; has degraded the
American commerce iroiu among the
first to an inferior rank upon the high
seas ; it lias cut down the wiles of Amer
can manufactures at home and abroad,
and depleted the returns of American ag
riculture or industry followed by half
of our people ; it costs tho people five
times more than it produces to the Treas
ury, obstructs the processes of
and waters the fruits of labor ; it pro
motes fraud and fosters- smuggling, en
riches dishonest officials and bankrupts
honest merchants. We demand thitall
custom house taxation shall be only for
revenue.
liefonn is necessary in the scale of
public expense, federal, state nnd tmiuio
ipal. Our Federal taxation has swollen
from sixteen million dollars in gold in
1860 to seven hundred thirty million
dollars in currency in 1870, or in one
decade from less than five dollars per
head to more than eighteen dollars per
head. Since the restoration of peace the
people have paid to their lax gatherers
more than thrice the sum of the national
debt and more than thrice that sum for
the federal government alone. We de
mand a vigorous liugality|in ever depart
menr, ahd from every officer of the gov
ernment.
Reform is necessary to put a 6top to
the profligate waste ot public, lands and
their diversion from, actual settlers by the
party tn power, which has squandered
two hundred million acres upon railroads
.alone, and out of more than thrice that
aggregate has disposed of less than one
sixth directly to tillers of the soil.
Reform is necessary to correct the omis
ions of the Republican Congress and the
errors of our treaties and onr diplomacy
whioh have stripped our fellcw citizens
of foreign birth nnd kindred vaee ot
protection, and have exposed our breth
ren of the Pacific coast to the incusions
of a race not sprung from the same great
patent stock, and in fact now by law de
nied citizenship or naturalization as being
neither accustomed to the traditions of a
progressive civilization, or exercise in
liberty under equal laws. We denounce
the policy which thus discards the lib
crtyloving German, aud tolerates the
revival of the Coolie trade in Mongolian
w omen imported for immoral purposes
and Mougoliau mon hired to perform
servile labor contracts, and 4 demand
such modification of the treaty with the
Chinese empire of such legislation by
Congress within a constitutional lim
itation as shall prevent the further im
portation or immigration of the Mon
golieu race,
Reform is neoessary, and can never be
effected but by making it the controlling
issue of the elections, and lifting it above
the two false issues with which the oflice
holding olass and the party in power
seek to smother it—the false issue with
which they would enkindle sectarian
strife in respect to the public schools, of
which the establishment and support be
long exclusively to the several States,
and which the Democratic party lias
cherished from the foundation, and re
solved to maintain w ithout particularity
or preference for any class, sect, or creed,
and without contributing from the Treas
ury to any ; the false issu6 by which
t iey seek to light anew the dying embers
of sectional hate between kindred peo
pies, once unnaturally estranged, but re
united on one indivisible Republic, and
common destiny.
Reform is necessary in civil service
Experience proves that efficient econom
ical conduct of tne governmental busi
ness is not posible if its civil setvice be
subjected to change at every election ;
be a prize fought for at the ballot box ;
boa brief reward of party zeal instead
of posts of honoi; assigned for proved
competency, and held for fidelity in the
public employ ; that the dispensing of
patronage should neither be a tax upon
the time of all our pnblio meu, nor the
instrument of their publio ambition.
Hero again the prefessious falsified in
the performance attest that the party in
power can work out no practical or salu
tary reform.
Reform is necessary even more in the
higher grades of publio service. The
President, Vice President, judges, cabi
net officers, these and all others in au
thority, are the people’s servants ; their
offices are not a private perquisite, they
are a public trust. When the annals of
this Republic show the aisgrace and
censure of a Vice President, a late
Speaker of the House of Representatives
marketing his rnlings as a presiding of
ficer, three Senators profiting seoretly
by their votes as law makers, fiivc chair
men of the leading committees of the
House of Representatives export'd in
jobbing, a late Secretary of the Treasury
forcing balances in the' accounts, a late
Attorney-General misappropriating pub
lic funds, a Secretary of the Navy en
riched or euriobod triends by percenta
ges levied off the profits of contractors
with this department an embassador to
England oensnred in a dishonorable
sptoulniin,the President’s private Sec
retary barely escaping conviction upon
trial for guilty complicity in frauds upon
the revenue, a Secretary of War itn
peached tor high crimes, and confesses
misdemeanors, tho demonstrations Is com
plete that the first step in reform must
bo tho peoples choice ot honest men
from another party lest tho disease of
one political organisation iufest the body
politic and thereby making no change
of men or party, we can get no change
of measures and no reform. All these
abuses, wrongs an crimes, the product
ot sixteen .years ascendancy of the re
publicans themselves, hut their reformers
are voted dowu in convention and dis
placed from the cabinet. The party
mas a of honest voters is powerless to re
sist the eighty thousand office holders,
its leaders and guides. Reform can only
be had by a peaceful civic evolution.
We demand a change of system, and a
change of Administration ; a change ot
parlies that wo may hare a chanege of
men.
Why nil Old Mail Sinned.
The Klkon (Ky.) Witness says : We
had quite a touching sceno in our court
Old John Garner, an old gray-headed
man was arraingod tor tho crine of grand
larceny— horse stealing. He pleaded
guilty, and presented himself to the jury
in a brief and touching address. lie
said :
Gentlemen of the jury—l am ail old
man, and my race is nearly run. This
is the first time in my life 1 have ever
even been a witness in a magistrate’s
court. I was born in 1816, and have
been a hard working and honest man all
my life until now. lam a stranger to
every man in the house expect his Honor
who sits on that bench. He has known
me for nine years, and he will tell you I
have been an honest man and a good
citizen. This jury looks like a set of
honest and intelligent men, and I wish
yo" •• lvu “ie Hu, beat VOU Call.
i read in the papers thru rt.- r ..:
Frankfort is an awful place—that it is
so crowded that one can scarcely live
there. From the accounts of that place
I suppose I could not live there long.
You see lam old and feeble, and I ask
you to do the best you can forme. Gen
tlemen, if I oonld have got work I could
have supported my family and not been
here. But I want to tell you—l am a
yery ppor man and have to work to live.
Well, last year tho times were very hard
indeed, and I could not get work much |
of the time. I am a mechanic, and I j
went to Clarksville, Fairview, and many 1
other places, but I could net g et work
The times were very hard as you all
know, and but few men had money to
pay for labor. I have traveled till I
spent all that I had but a bed and ebair.
I was tired, and out of heart, and iny
family suffering for food and clothing.
I heard then that I could get work in
North Logan, and I sold my kit of tools
to get my family moved up there, I
paid $75 for my tools in Louisville, and
had to sell them low. After paying for
moving I had sls -left. I got a place
or my family for a little while, and
started again for work, I tried liard to
find it but could not. I went back to
my. family broken down in spirit, thick'*
ing 1 would have to beg or starve, Geu
tlemou, my little boy, about six years
old, got in my lap and put his little arms,
around my neck and asked .mo il the
good Lord would let us starve. I love
my family as well as any man, aud coaid
not think of their starving.
The prisoner became overwhelmed
with emotion, aud pausing for a low mo
ments, ho pleaded for as light a verdict
as thejury could give him. The occa
sion was exceedingly solemn. The pris
oner told his story without reservation.
Age and care had whitened 1' is locks
and furrowed liis brow. He had seen
better days, but lie was now a broken
reed. The jury, the attorneys, tho Judge
aud I lie spectators were touched by the
homely recital of the suppliant prisoner.
The jury gave him two years in tho
penitentiary, and the Judge, jury and
lawyers then signed a petition to the
Governor for his pardou.
Field workers who happen to get
snake bitten are advised to apply Kero
sene oil to the wound. It is said to bo
a certain oure, m
An Ontario man owned an eagle and
a puppy. The eagle took a great fancy
to the dog, and the other day flew away
with it in his claws.
TilJeu and Reform are spelled with
precisely the samo number of letters,.
Eccentricities ot Courtship.
‘Probably,’ said Sir Arthur Helps,
‘there is no instance in which any two
lovers have made love cxaotly in the
same way as any two other lovers, since
the world began.’
Barkis insinuated.
Vivien charmed Merlin.
Alexander made a bonfire for Thais.
Hildcgardc took the bull liy the horns.
The Merchant of Venice soft-soldered
Portia with a lead casket,.
The garrulous female in tho ‘Arabian
Nights’ told her husband stories.
Vieloria sent for Prince Albert and
told hm she wanted him. She was
victorious.
In the Polynesian islands, they win
their hearts by beating their heads with
a shillelah.
Ilarry the Eighth and Bluebeard were
off with tho head ot tho old love before
they were on with the new.
Mr. Johnson poked tho tobacco in his
pipe down with his sweetheart’s linger—
a warm token of his affection.
Tristram did it mostly wuh a harp,
and was also a good liar. Ilis too
Isoldes were too many for him.
Bothwcll was inclined to Marie, and
locked her up his castlo It worked as
well as Peter's pumpkin shell.
Dobhet’s wife caught him by the grace
witli which she used her wash till/. She
was never known to use it after the
wedding.
Miles Standish deputed an agent whom
he considered fitter to plead his suit with
his lady love ; the agent did it but too
well, but for himself.
Sam Itomilley, the frmotis lawyer,
killed himself because his wife died,
while a good many others kill themselves
because they won't, die.
Nicholas, ot Russia, wanted to pop at
a dinner-table, but didn’t like to be
caught at it. so ho imbedded a ring in a
lump of bread and handed it to her,
Charlemagne's secretary was caught
by a snow-storm sparking the Emperor’s
daughter at midnight, and sho carried
him home on her back, so that his foot
steps shouldn’t bo traced. The Emperor
Looivt nt it. and saddled him on to her
tor the rest of her lire.
It is a sad and lonesomo fact that
some would rather he a big lie than tell
a small truth. While Bijah was wiping
the perspiration from his halibut-colored
head along camo an old man, who look
ed into the station and called out :
‘Can you lend me an overcoat this
morning V
•Great burdocks!’ gasped Bijah in
amazement. Ill’s hotter'n four million
furnaces.'
‘Do you call this hot v softly inquired
the old man. ‘Why I’nt shaking with the
cola.'
Bijah looked at him gasped in a feeble
way, and tho old man sat down on the
doorstep and went an i
‘When I lived in Mexioo I used to find
some hot weather. Saw-logs wilted
right away when left in the sun, and the
farm j owned usod fo shrink seventeen
acres from the first of Juno to the first of
September, Sir, you may not believejme
but I have seen the sun, along in August
pull a tree three feet thick right up by
the roots.’
‘Yes, sir, I have,’ oonliuued tho old
man. ‘I had to rig up a steam-power
fan to fan my horse-barn, and I have
seen crowbars melted in oue hour by the
clock. Now if you will lend me an
overcoat and tell mo where I can bor
row a enow-shovol and a pair of Arctic
overshoes I shall be extremely obliged
to you,’
Ills Honor caine in just then and the
four-storied liar slidswiltly off down the
street,
I $$ * ► ——
‘Things might have been worse for
the Democracy than the nomination of
Tilden,’ says a Republican paper. Very
true, but scarcely worse for the Radicals,
And that is where the joke doesn’t come
in. —St. Louis Republican.
There’s a mining town out west called
‘Nowhere. 1 That’s where a man has al
ways been when his wife lets him in at 2
o’clock in the morning.
—— * ♦
The ineauest man hails from New
York. Ho eloped with a young wife,
took her to Canada, poisoned her, and
expressed ber body C. O. D. to her hus->
band.
A young man in Wisconsin, tho other
day, delayed his marriage ceremony in
order to feed his horse. He explained
that a good horse couldn’t be found ev
ery day, while thirteen different girls
wanted to marry him.
- % *
You can’t oat enough in a week to
last a year—aud you can’t advertise on I
that plan, either. '
THE REGISTER.
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No. 3.
A little three year old, iu Boston, a
few mornings since, stood by his moth
er's knee looking at his baby brother.
At length he asked j
'Mother, did God make my llttlo
brother ?’
‘Yes, dear,’ vyqis tho reply.
Touching one of the organs to which
he referred, with his finger he continuod:-
‘Did God make his little cars ?’
‘Yes.’
‘And his little nose ?’
‘Certainly, my son, God can do anv*.
thing,' said the mother,
Waiting a moment, us though in a
brown study, or pondering.some very
weighty and profound problem, fie again
broke forth.
•I tell you one thing God can’t H>,
mother,'
‘What is that, my son ?’
‘ITe can’t make my little brother's
mouth any bigger without setting his
ears back.’
A man who lias traveled through
Madison county says lie saw some land
there so pooi that he can’t raise a dis
turbance on it.
Jokeing, says Josh Billings, is a risky
bizziness ; just for the sako ov a second;
klass joke meuny a man lias lost a fust,
klass friend.
There are many rcceipes for getting
rid of the fion, but there is nothing, so
sure in its results as to blindfold him and'
back him under a pile-driver.
It is said that Mr. Ilayes will not ro
sign his position as Governor till often
the Presidential election. This is well;
“A bird in the hand is worth two in the
bush.”
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A Western newspaper says: ‘Talk
about the wind blowing the grasshoppers
away ! One ot them faced the gale the
other day for an hour, and then yanked)
a shingle off a house for a fan, saying it>
was awfully sultry’,’
A torgeman of Warrington, England,
lately sold his wife to a friend for a halt
a gallon of ale. Number 2 was so de
lighted with his bargain that he stood
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who was equally pleased with it, stoodt
another half gallon.
They must have careful kitchen girls
in China. The country sends to the
Centennial some plates and dishes over
a thousand years old.
Thanks, and a thousand of them, to
tho unknown ger.iusf who entrusted a
trunk, with a liivo of bees in it, to the
tender mercies of a Syracuse baggage
master. The company will pay for the
bees, and the doctor thinks tho patient
will bo able to see a depot in ll?' course
of a week.
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‘I wouldn’t be a cook for the whole
world!’ exclaimed a fashionable young,
lady to her betrothed lover. ‘Of course,
not,’ ho replied. If you were no cook
for tho whole world you would never
get through your work; but you’ll be
able to manage it nicely lor our little
family.
A lady acquaintance propounds the
following conundrum: What is the
worst case of youthful profanity men
tioned in tho Scriptures? Job, who
cursed the day he was born.
This is the kind of weather that makes
a man wish either that Adam hadn’t been
so successful as a backslider, or that
some patriot would invent a pair ot linen
trousers that button around the neck and
have armholes, • , *j
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Mark Twain, speaking of anew mos-*
quito, says: ‘The day is coming when
we shall sit under our nets in church aud
slumber peacefully, while the discomfited
flies club together and take it out of tho
minister. ’
He waltzed out of the front door, fol
lowed by a washboard and two bars ot
soap; and as he straightened himself
and walked down the street, ho remark
ed : ‘A man must draw the line some
where or ho can’t be boss of tho house
and I’ll be hanged if I’ll pump more than
oue barrel of water for no washing, and
there ain’t no woman can make me do
it, unless ske locks me in.’
Norwich Bulletin : There is a good
deal of disappointment hero over tho
Democratic platform. It was generally
expected that tho party would adopt a
plan to lhe effect that Jage been is not
intoxicating.
Dr. Tyng suddenly said to a young
man in the gospel tent, ‘My friend, are
you a Christian,?* ‘No, sir,’ was the
startled answer, ‘l’m—l’m only a repor
ter.’