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liie Book Agent's Bride. The town of Horsoheads, in this Stuto, ban suddenly become fuinout ns the scctio of the elopement of a young lady with a traveling book agent. Such an event is believed to bo entirely without a precedent, and it necessarily confers as wide a noto riety upon tllo town in which it oc curred as the most okdtoiate oarth ejuake could have conferred bad it swallowed the greater part of the peoplo of Hogsheads, having, of course, previously well shaken them’ It would be l’luilless to inquire in the columns of a daily newspaper v'l y the human mind is so constitu ted as to uniformly dcsiro to kill a book agent. Such an inquiry be -1 mgs to the province of psychology — though in no existing text-book has it been fully and properly discussed. The fact that men, without excep tion, thirst for the blood of book agents is perfectly well established, and we may therefore reason from it, without troubling ourselves to discov er whether this impulse is congeni tal, or is developed by the condition j of civilized life. The meekest man, when summoned to his parlor to meet a determined looking stranger, who instantly urges him to subscribe for Smith’s Pictorial History of Art Among the Esquimaux, involuntarily asks himself whether the satisfaction of braining the man with his own specimen volume would not be cheaply purchased at the cost of the gallows; and the most gentle of house wives, as she vel e nently slams the door in the face of the agent of Brown’s Humorous Travels in the Holy Land, mentally resolves to ask her brother, the lawyer, whether boiling water is a deadly weapon in the eye of tne law. How was it pos sible that, in spite of this unanimous sentiment in regard to book agents, one of that fraternity Bhould have succeeded in inducing a yonng lady to elope with him? Of course the pair fled secretly, in order to escape the indignant and horifiod gaze of the public of Horseheads. But by what magic arts did the book agent so completely conquer the natural in stinct —in regard to boiling water— of the partner ©f his flight ? It is idle to suppose ihat be concealed his true character. No book agent can do that. Even if he had shuimed any allusion to subscription books un til the very moment when the fair one told him 6he was his, he would inevitably have replied, “Then let me put you down for five copies of Brown’s Travels, with gilt edges and illuminated covers.” Nc I he must have carried on his wooing avowedly under the banner of the Great Gosh kosh Publishing Company,” and with his carpet-bag of specimen volumes always at his side. When he urged the sincerity of bis passion, he must bare read to her the convincing statement that “smart agents can make fifty dollars a day with our new subscription books,” and told her that if she would get her parents, brother and sisters and acquaintances to sub scribe for a volume each, the money would be strictly appropriated to house-furnishing, with the exception of a liberal commission, to be paid to her as pin-money. Undoubtedly, he presented her with elegant copies of all the the works published by his firm, and when he clasped her to his bosom did not fail to assure her that his heart beat for her alone, although the fact was not perceptible to her, in consequence of his carrying his subscription lists in his breast pock et. The girl may have been young and nnaccustamed to admiration. When her lover asserted that he would prefer ten per cent, commis si in with her as his bride, to twenty per cent, and the exclusive right to the best territory in tlio country with out her, she may have welcomed it ns the language of passion and ro mance. At any rate, she listened to his jdeading, and is now that hither | unknown phenomenon, a book agent’s bride. We needt not dcvbt the reality of the affection existing between this unique pair. The book agent hath eyes and enrs like other men, not to speak of a superfluity of cheek and tongue. May he not ako have affec tion? and sentiments of a tender and romantic character ? Doubtless he will bind bis wife, so to speak, in red silk and pl< Jewelry. It is quite possible, that under tho influ ence of domestic ha; pinoss lib fierc er nature may bo tamed, lie may cease to waylay funeral coaches in order to urge the occupant# to sub scribe for Robinson’s Comfort of the Afflicted in gilt cloth, and may spare the solitary widow whom lie would once have compelled to subscribe for ten copies of Mormon Iniquities. Perhaps the marriage of this book agent may bo tho beginning of the end of tho system which he has hith erto represented, and the time may be near at hand when book agents, tam cd and softouod by marriage, will abandon their enrol vocation, and the memory of it will remain, as does tho memory of the buccaneers, only in blood-curdling stories, bearing such titles as Rcd-Bcard, tho Book Agent of the West, or The Lives, Ex ploits, and Dying Confessions of the Book Agents of the New England States. How Alcd'aol Intoxicates. In a late nutiber of the Edinburgh Review is an exhaustive and careful ly written paper upon ‘‘The Physiol ogical Influence in Alcohol.” It is based upon three works published in London: Alcohol, its Action and its Uses, by Benjamin W. Richardson, M. D., 1875. The Origin, Nature and Varieties of Wine, by Drs. J. L. W. Thudicum and August Dupre, 1872; and Stimulants and Nareotics ) and their Medical Relations, by Francis E. Anstie, M. D., 1864. As is not unfrequent in the Articles in leading reviews, the writer brings to tho subject knowledge drawn from other sources. It would be a very good idea in the publishers of what are known as Temperance works to reproduce this review in a handy form; and the more so, that it is calm and scientific, and not emotion al, but crowded witli facts and infor mation. It would be interesting to everybody who desires authentic in formation upon a curious, and to most minds a very complex subject. In the present article some of tiie most striking points are preserved, in language divested, as far as possi sible, of scientific terms. When a spiritous drink is taken into the body it does not simply run through the digestive cavity of that body, but it runs through the blood before it can find any escape, and it clings to that blood for a considerable period, flowing with it, round and round, through the circling stream of its unceasiug progress. It goetfeve where, in each fibre, membrane and tissue, and fills and saturates each vital organ—flesh, brain, heart, liv er, lung, kidney, skin and secreting apparatus. Wherever there Bhould be blood, under the natural arrange ments of life, there is now blood min gled wiih the alcoholic spirits. Articles of lood are “complex bodies, built up from simpler ele ments by the effort of vegetable life.” Alcohol is not such a complex sub stance, but it is a “product of the downward degradation and decay of such a complex principle 1 ” The foods which furnish substance to the living structure are, for for the most part, composed with the aid of nitro gen, and have therefore an affinity with the vital parts of the human structure. “The fibrin of the blood, the muscular flesh, the cartilages and tendons, the membranes and the skin, the soft nerve pulp, and the brain are all so many examples ofnitrogen ized matter.” But alcohol is entire ly devoid of nitrogen in any form. In the exceptional cases where alcohol has been found useful as a medicine an unnatural condition of tho body exists, and physicians should deter mine when stimulants, as a medicine, are necessary. The parts of the body which possess the most energetic vi. tality, the brain, the nerves, and the nervous material of the spinal cord, are principally composed of matter of the mo6t pulpy consistence, so soft that it might be termed mdting. This nerve-pulp is packed into min ute pliny sacks and tubes describable only by microscopic aid. Through these tiny and almost invisible films the blood is “filtered.” The nerve pulp appropriates such qualities cf the blood as nourish file and build up the structure, and at the same time reject and throw back into the stream their own waste particle. Largo quantities of water enter into the composition of this pulpy matter, and the first evil effects of alcohol is to withdraw this water. For alcohol lias an “uncoutrolablo impulse” to draw water into itself. Excessive use of alcohol hardens and dries up the nerve pulp in such a wuy as lo ini pair if not spoil it for its proper office When excessive drinking docs not produce intoxication it is because the nerve ptllp lias becomo insensible us an “oiled sponge.” The flushed face upon the approach of inebriation is among the earliest signs of tho disturbance of these del. icatc “filters” in their work, the face being among the parts of tho body exceptionally supplied with blood. Tho “restraining” or filtering work of the pulpy substance is impaired, and lienccc tho unnatural reception o! blood into the pulp celis. If this un uatural process is repeated or be comes habitual, the blotchod, red, swollenand pimpled face is the result of keeping the nerve pulp saturated with alcohol and the delicate mem branes, thickened, dried and dyed red, show through the skin. The first stages of intoxication are shown in the want of command over the lower lip and lower limbs. The nerve pulp of the spinal cord is touch cd. The muscles foci the torpor, trembling and shuddering follow. Next the nerve pulp of the brain comes under the evil influence, and the control of the judgment and the *i 1 disappear When a man is what is termed “dead drunk,” the paraly sis of the higher nerve-centres and of the brain is carried to its full end. All inlets ol the senses are closed; al cmsciousucss and sensation are de stroyed, and all power of voluntary movement is effaced. The heart, the seat of life, toils on. If an enormous quantity of alcohol is swallowed at once, a-s in the cosc of foolish wa, gei s, the toil of the heart soon ceases, and the n a.i is dead indeed. But in ordinary instances the torpor save life, as it stops the drinker just at the point when further drinking would kill him outright. With this general view of the ef fects of alcohol, and the manner in which they are produced, it is easy to understand why headache, sleep lessness, nauseau, palpitation of the hiart and tho “trembling delirium” accompany and follow the excessive uso of alcohol. A poison in the stomach can be pumped out or void ed. A poison in the blood must wait removal till the efforts of nature ef fect it. But when nature itself is abused and impaired, its recupera tive powers soon becomo destroyed. The effects of continued alcoholiza tion upon the liver, kidneys and stomach it is unnecessary to describei as they are well understood. But where the mischievous process be gins, and how it is continued, are points new to most non-medical read ers. Our Oiiu. . Ready money—-Quicksi 1 v er. Sleight of hand—Refuting an offer. What is that which unites by < i viding, and divides by uniting ? Scis sors. Which are the two hottest letters of the alphabet? K—N. (Cayenne.; What never flies without both its wings are cut off? The American Army. A countryman reported that he couldn’t find a word in the dictiona ry, because, “the blessed book didn’t got an index.” The Missouri pigs arc so fat that in order to find out where their heads are, it is necessary to make tnern squeal, and then judge by the sound 1 Dr. Livingstone has gone to Lijiji jiji, as was reported. The latest news from him Staten that he was at Txyxyxyxy. Ho was in a destitute condition, having no change to note, and no notes to change. “John, I saw your cousin Isaac a few weeks ago, and he had just re ceived a terrible fall, which cut , gash in his arm.” 1 ‘Ah, poor fellow 1 What did he fall on ?” “Well, really, I forget now, but it strikes he 101 lon Tuesday morning.” “Josh, does the sun rise in the west ?” “Never!” “Never I you don’t say so 1 Well, you won’t catch me emigrating west, if it is always night there. I’ve a cousin who is always boasting how pleasant it is to be in that region, but it must be all moonshine.” “ You cn do anything if you have patience,” said an old uncle who had made a fortune, to his nephew, who had nearly spent one; “waier may be | carried in a seive if you will ony wait.” “How long?” asked the joctulcnt ] spendthrift, who was impatient fi r the old man’s death. “Till it freezes,” was the cold re ply- Your Dwellings Your Stores Your Stocks of Goods Maui' Gins and Gin Jjfuuses. From Loss by Fire. JtL, AC. C3, General Insurance Agent, !Jw feist §§ epeisentei, settlement:! Piute anil fCossrt § aid at mtj ©flirt Singer Again Triumphant. Tho YVorhl’i Award Again Received “Tlie W ; s’i<a sFRvo i Rf _ Sewing Machine Sole* for 1574-; The table of Sewing Machine sales for last year show that our pales amounted to 241,679 Machine*, being u arge increase over the previous .year. The table shows itfrulx At* that OUR RALES EXCEEDED THOSE OF j4NT OTII- I Y\ RR COMPANY for the period named, by the number of llfl 148,852 Machines, or nearly THREE TIMES those of any oth-r company. It easy be further stated that the sales FvV J - of 1878,as compared with those of 1872, show a relatively IJL■ larger increase, beyond the sales of other makers. For I A on sauce, in 1872 we Bold 45,000 machines than auy other Jk JT jlyri & company; whereas, in 1872, the sales were 113,25-1 ma- § hinee in excess of our highest competitor! and in 1874, 14$,Si2 Siding ten Ika Aj Dtber Ctuqany. Test The ginger before Purchasing Any Other. XEBMS EASY, PAYMENTS LJOI T. i TYIK SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY No. 173 Broughton Street, Savannah Ga. C. A. VOSBCROII, Manager. Branch Offices —ln Atlanta, Athens, Augusta, Macon, Columbus, Thoiuasville.Gn liarleston and Columbia, sc, Jacksonville and allaliassoe, Fla aT 23. SITIPP Agent, Columbus, Go, Octet an- Bth, 1875 At 99 Broad street, Columbus, Gu jr. is.m. :e .as e® * No 94, Broad Street roi JJMBUS, aEOBOlA: (SUCCESSOR TO 11. MI DDLEBKOOK,) Manufacturer & Dealer in SADDLE S A! HARIS. Tmrites,¥alissß r Carriage Trimminp, Leather ami Leather BeH in, Rivets, Enamelc rt CLOTHS OFALLKINDS- II, MrODIjEBIIOOK, tho old proprietor, has his office with rae, and will bo pleased to sco all of his old friomis. All of my goods are manufactured by skillful workmen andcunuo Tail to give good satisfaction. All kinds of repairing done at short notice. Columbus, Ga., Octobor 6tb, 1875.*3w Wm. It. Bedell. ~ H. A. Ware, Jr. & wmi, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN 110 ovii m is o e is Also Leather and BUo Finding*. All Good. Wnrrnntctl. NO- 148 BROAD STREET. : = COLUMBUS. GEORGIA "ITJ'o havo romnvod Into our NEW STORE at our OLD STAND, with a fuli lino of NH | I BOOTS and SHOES of ALL VARIETIES, anil invito our friomis and the public to CALL AN’D EXAMINE 01 K STOCK. BEDELL & WARE. Columbus, Ga., October Bth, 1875.~3in I, Xj. HARRIS. do hereby issue this my Proclamation: That the cot ton crop being exceedingly short and money extremely scarce, and having p well selected stock of ,S4;O .000 worth of goods, consisting in part of Foieigii anj bomeatic Dry Good*, Clothing of the LutfHt and Bent StyU‘B, l> s Uoods, Hats, Roots -and Shoes, with everything usually kept in a first-class store, which must be sold at grG&tly roducod prices, in order that all may have an opportunity of supplyingflthemselves with tha abso lute comforts’of life. SPECIALTY made in clothing, Cassimere suits from $6 upward. Call and satisiy yourselves that 1 mean business.' “T ■ Pio, Cjlumbus, Ga., October Bth, 1875—3 m No. Hi, Iroa l street W. J. WATT. ’ J. A. WALKER, CU AS. 11. WATT. Watt & Walker, W3H©3AiLE MB MTM. GUIS & COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Corner Under Hanls.in House IT five the Lurj£t3ttt ftiul llewl .Hliock oi'(irocri in the City of Ooltimlmms Cmifeintlnir of lUCON SIDES, BULK SIDES. lU\CON SHOULDERS, BULK SHOUL DERS, BULK HAMS, BACON HAMS. LARD in tierces, Lard in buckets and kegs. FLOUR of hII grades, including the celebrated SILVER LAKE brand, he best in tlio world Slagging and ties, Salt, Sugar, Mackerel, Soap, Cboese, Coffee, Oysters, Sardines. Crackers, SoJn . Starch, shoes, boots, and STAPLE DRY GOODS Such as, Osnabnrgs, Sheeting, Shirtisga, Checks, Stripes, Yams and Pants Goods. Hlso, a well selected stock of WHISKEY from sl.lO to $5 per Gallon and of any per cent. Proof that may he desired. Our Slock of SUGAR includes every Grade and Trice, and our lot of SYRUP cannot he equaled in this city. It includes nil grades of New Orleans in barrels and half barrels; also several hundred barrels of choice FLORIDA SYRUP, which is superior to anything in the market, and much cheaper in price. It lias a delightful flavor and rich, clear color; aud selected expressly for our trade. Cash customers can always save money bv giving us a before purchas ing elsewhere. WATT & WALKER Columbus, Ga.,Oot. Bth, 1875.-ct SADDLES AND_ giRNESS, ock of Saddles, harness, Bridles, dollars and everything in that line isgtho target/ in tlie State. ySV Xam now offering I#“SPEeiAL INDUCEMENTS,^! Ta. Wholesale and Retail Buyers. ALL KINDS OF LEATHER ON HAND. BEST LEATHER BELTING. OIL CLOTHS OF ALL KINDS. CSaTLA f >IES’ A GENTS’ TRUNKS and SACHELS a SPECIALTY, BEST HARNESS and MACHINE, OILS, SADDLERY and HARNESS HARDWARE, WAGON BREECHING, TRACE CHAINS, BACK BANDS. WAGON and PLOW FAMES. <te. AIIKImU of Repairing Neatly anti Promptly Executed, aud new Work made le ORDER. My practic il knowledge and undivided personal attention to my business enables me to sell better goo Is and at lower prices than any other bouse. I respectfully ask you to examine my stojk and prices, ns I am determined to pletwo to both price and quality of goods. "W. XT ZBLUJX-a T Oct ber29 et 102 Broad Street, Coluuibns, Go. mm ii mf McisT, NO. 135 Broad Street, Columbus, Ga. O Has on hand a full sfc*ck of every thing usually kept iu a Drug Store. Farmers supplied with Drugs at GKKaTLY REDUCED PRICES. Twelve Pounds Soda for SI.OO, etc. Large lot of Lamps, and every thing sold Cheap for Cash. Columbus, Ga., Octobor MERES IT IS THE GREAT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRY GOODS CLOTHING & SHOE HOUSE OF SOUTHWEST GEORGIA!! T. WHEATLEY, Successor to KENDRIcK & WhEATEY. The Largest Stock in the City. Lower than the Lowest. Ifnaso&l IMacemeats Baling tie next SO Bays! SMMi €ABM-. Millinery and Fancy Goods! Splendid Stock of Tall ond Winter Good* ——-Just received at Mrs. M T- ELAM’S, W s Side ot Publie Square, Americus, Georgia. Ladies visiting America* are respectfully invited to call and examine my goods before purchasing leewhere. My Stock lias been carefully selected in New York in person, and embraces all the LATEST and MOST FASHIONABLE NOVELTIES, Hats, Bonnets Ribbons, Flowers, Feathers, Laces, Hair Goods, Hosiery, Cloves, Corsets. in great variety. A fine lot of fashionable jewelry. Brackets and picture frams. Ready made clothing for ladies underwear, and infants costumes. Goods lor holiday presents. Remember the place and do not fail to give me a call. HRS. M. T< ELAM]