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Do a Little Many ft Cliiiotian destroys liis peaco And usefulnea bocause tie is not willing to do lilile tilings. 110 wauls lo speak and pray wall,eloquently, edifyinglj, or not at all. —Ueoauso can’t do some tliiuggr at, lie won,t do anything. He must pit in the highest seat, or nowhere. •r-Now, no biethor is tit to do large, un less he is willing to do little things. He mu it be faithful in the least, or he will never be useful ln’tlio greatest. Can you make a good minister out of a poor lay man? Or a good eidor out of a man who is unwilling to do t.tio least honora ble duties of a church? It all were will ing to add a little to a prayer meetiug, a Sunday Soho I, or lo the strength and influence ot tho church, there would not be so many praying to bj excused. Il we were willing to be weak, make sim ple prayers and speeches wlieu wo can do no butter, we should pray eftener,bet ter, and in every way do more good. Happy is the man who is willing to do a little, to be (lie servant of ill a door keeper, fire-builder, lamp-!. , J .m, any thing that w ill serve Christ in the bouse of God. lie tint It. A Chinaman went into a dry goods store yesterday, and looked all around With those sloping eves, out the wiong '-Way of the leather. ‘•What do you want, John?" said an affablegentleman with 1/is hair patted in the middle. "Me no see him," replied John. “Well, what 16 u like, John?” For a moment the celestial transport ed himself in a broen study. He thought very hard, aDd then the eaddie colored countenance lit up like the bus iness end of a lightning pug, and he re plied: “Puttee up in windly. Fly come in lie no come in, catchee outslide idle 6a me. Aud shortly John went away as happy as a basket of uhq.s, with two yards of green gause. —Rocky Mountain News. An interesting case of domestic complication has been brought out in Reading. A married woman left her husband and wrote to a yonng man, who was their board er, reminding him of his promise to give her money if she ever came to want. lie sent her eighteen dol lars and promised twenty dollars to go to the Centennial on. Then she went back home and told her husband that the young man had made all the trouble, and the hus band had the young man arrested to keep him away from the house. The mayor asked her if she thought it was right to take the young man’s money that way, and she said; “Yes,l am sorry I did not get more.” “Solid woman,” said the husband, and they went 1 oine to look for anew young man, — Pittsburg Leader. •'‘Suppos?, Belle,” said a poor bat honest Chicago youth to a Prairie av enue girl one day last week, ‘‘Suppose that a young man loved you dourly— very dearly—but was afraid to ask you to marry him, because lie was very tim ’d or felt too poor, or something—what would you think of such a ease?” “Think,” answered the girl immediately. “Why, if he was poor, 1 should think that he was doing just right iu keeping still about it.” The question was dropp ed right there. The colored men in De Soto parish. La., who have united with the Democrats in favor of reform, and who have pledged themselves to act with the Democrats in the present political campaign, are joining the Democratic clubs and participating in their primary meet ings. In hfew Orleans and several of the parishes of the State the col ored men are going over to the Democrats in large numbers. Thus the Better class of the colored men of Louisiana give proof of their wor thiness to exercise the privileges and discharge the duties of citizen ship. Hai) Uim Safe. A rural female beauty alighted from the stage-coach 't/he other dav, when a piece of ribbon detached itself from her bonnet and fell into the bottom of-the carriage. “You have left your bow behind,” said a lady passenger. “No, I ain’t; he’s gone a fishing,” innocently replied rustic. The trial-of the Hamburg riot pris -oners was set for this week at Aiken, •South Carolina, and they appeared with counsel ready and anxious for the issue. The Attorney General was iabsent, and the State continued on that account to the first week in Jan uary. General Gary demanded trial Jor bis clients and made an argument, but it didn’t suit the policy of the Radicals to try the case before the ■elections. Col. W. H. Harrison of Quitman ooun 1y has been nominated for Senator in the 12tb district; and Col. N. M. Bell, of Paulding, for the dh'.h, M iseellancas Advcrliscmciit SQUARE GRAND Pianos Retailed at Wholesale Prices #OO for #250. #650 for#27s. #7OO for #3OO. #BOO for #350 THE “Mendelssohn'' Rhino Company HAVE STRUCK HA ItD PAN PRICKS. Onlv One Price for Cash, and a LOW ONE NO DEVIATION! We 2'Ve 110 discounts. We pay no hoeiUS Commissions, which double the price# of all Pianos. We look u> the PEOPLE, who want a tirst-cUss Piano at a fair prefit over cost of tllauusacture. We appoint the peo ple our agents, and give them cur Pianos as low as any agent can buy equally good Pianos of any other manufacturer, giv ing the People, in a reduced pi ire, what is usually expended in commissions, rein, freight, traveling and incidental ex penses. The “MENDELSSOHN” PIANO CO. can sell you a 7£ octave, rosewood case Piano, 6 feet 10 inches long, with front round corners, carved hg\ serpen tine and plinth mouldings, with all im provements, including Full Iron Frame, Over Strung Bass, Agraffe Treble, nncl French Grand Action which only accompany the Lest Pianos of the most celebrated makers, at the very low price of $250, #275 or #3OO, ac cording to style of case, or with four round corners and full agraffe for $350, and guarantee them in every respect >qual to atiy Piano made of similar style, or no sale. The “MENDELSOHN” Piano is manufactured from the very best ma terials, and by the most skilled and fin ished workmen. The manufacture is conducted by one of the most experi enced Piano manufacturers in the couu try. This is no new enterprise, turning out a poor and cheap piano, made from green wood, and by greener mechan ics. Our Piano is unsurpassed by any iti tlie market for its rich and powerful tones, and its adaptation to the human voice in sympathetic, mellow and singing qualities. It speaks for itself. We are willing - to place it beside any other make of Piano on its merits, cither in beauty of case, or excellence of tone, and “at half the money” of equally' good instruments. “The best is the cheapest”— When it costs the least money. All Pianos fully warranted tor five years. Send ior our Illustrated and Descrip tive Circular. The “Mendelssohn'” Piano Cos., Office of Manufactory. 56 JIROA WAV A V. jnt-2-ly New York. Unabridged Detionary 10,000 Words and Meanings notin other Dictionaries. 3000 Engravings; 1840 Pages Quarto. Price sl2. Webster now is glorious—it leaves noth ing to be desired.— Pres Jxagnto'id, Vassar Colic ye. JP very scholar knows the value of Ihe J work —W. 11. Prescott. , the Hi dorian. Believe it to be the most perfect dictions ry of the language— Dr. J. G. Holland Superior in most respects to any other known to me— George P Marsh. r standard authority for printing in Ish- JL office —A II Clcpp, Government Printed Excels all others in giving and defining sci entific terms — Paesident Hitchcock. !_> emarkable compendium of human knowl edge—W S Clark , Prcs't Agricultural College . “The best practical English Dictions ry extant,’’ —[London Quarterly Review October, 1873.] A NEW FEATURE.—To the 300 - illustrations heretofore in Webster's Uu abridged we have recently added four pages of Colored Illustrations, engraved ex-pressly for the work at large expense. ALSO IYEBSIEES NATIONAL Pictorial DICTiONaRI 1040 Pages Octavo. 600 Engravings. Price $5. National Standard. Proof: 20 to 1 The sale of Webster‘B Dictionaries throughout the country in 1873 were 20 times as large as tho sales of any other Dictionaries Iu proof we will seud to any person, on application, the state ments of more than 100 booksellers from every section of the country Published by G & C MERRIAM, Springfield, Muss Nold by all Booksellers CAMPAIGN RATES. Everybody should read the There are lively times aueaa: To enable ev ery voter in this sotcion to take a pii'or and keep fully posted on State and National Politics, we will send the Mirror postage paid from now uutil tho 15th of November for only $1,25, Send along your names aDd money. 73fc W. T. CUKISTOPMEH, a-lp Fort Valley, (in. THIS PAPER IS ON PILE WITH Whtie Adrartuujtg CvsKavW iicmmie. Newspaper Advertisements. Timiui’t, iliiii FOR ISTK. WlTSlt KSedlirtiMK? C/N and after let January, 1870, our .'l/rt in til' >t 11 Week y, The Great Family Paper of Guoi'tziu, containing 04 col minis, ami the largest in tho South, will be sent to mi Inter a bora at $2 a Year, and postage. Ttiis is bill a small ad vance on 00-t of blank paper. Weekly for eix ui 'iiths, #1 and postage is 20 cents ft \ car. Tho Semi-Weokly- Wiil lie seduced to THREE DOLLARS a vear and postage —20 cuius. For six months #1.50 and postage. Daily Edition Ten Dollars a year and postage. Five Dollars for six mouths' Two Dollars and Fifty Cents for three months. The stiring events of the Great Cen tennial Year id' Ametican History, which include the Presidential sting gle, v ill render 1870 one of the most meinoi&hle in our annals. Everybody in this region will need the Telegraph, and we have put down the price to ac eonuno ate their necessities and pecu niary status. CLISBY, JONES k REESE. Jan2B-tf. IT PAYS if MISI ' wiif t IT pays every manufacturer, mechanic, in ventor, farmer or professional man, to keep informed on all the improvements and discoveries of the age. It pays the head of every family to introduce into his household a newspaper that is in structive, one that fosters a taste for investi gation, and promotes thought and encourages discussion among the members THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN which has been publisneu weekly for the last thirty years, does this to an extent beyond that of any other publication, in fact it is ! the only weekly paper published in the Uni ted States, devoted to manufactures, mechan ics, inventions and new discoveries in the Arts and Sciences. Every number is profusely illustrated and its contents embrace the latest and m ost. in teresting information pertaining to the Indus trial, Mechanical and Scientific progress of the world; descriptions, with beautiful en gravings, of new inventions, new implements, new processes, and improved industries of all kinds; useful notes, recipes, suggestions and advice, by practical writers, for workmen and employers, in all the various aits, form ing a complete repertory of new inventions and discoveries' containing a weekly record not only of the progress 01 the industrial arts in our own country, but also of all new dis coveries and inventions in every branch of engineering, mechanics and science abroad. The Scientific american has been the foremost of all industrial publications for the past thirty years. It is the oldest, largest cheapest and the "best w eekly illustrated paper devoted to engineering, mechanics, chemistry new inventions, science and industrial pro j grass, published to the world. The practical receipts are worth ten times the subscription price And for the house aud shop will save many times the cost of subscription. Merchants, farmers, mechanics, engineers, S inventors, rnahufacturers, chemists, lovers of j science, aud people of all professions, will flud the Scientific Amcri"an useful to them I It should have a place iu every family library I study, cilice and counting room, in every reading room, college and school. Anew vulume commences January Ist, 187*5. A yuar’s numbers contain 832 pages aud several hundred engravings. Thousands oi volumes are preserved for binding and refer- j euce. Terms, S3 20 a year by mail, including | postage, Discount to clubs, Special circn- j lais giving club rates sent free. Single cop. | ies mailed on the receipt of 10 cents May be had ot all news dealers, pi T r 11 T Q In couucction wjth the .Vrieutiiio in I C is I O i American, Messrs. Mann \ Cos. ire Solicitors of -American and foreign Patents, and have the largest establishment ih the world. More than fifty thousand applications have been made for patents through thor agency. Patents are obtu’ned on the best terms. Models of New Inventions and Sketches examinod and advice free. A special notice is made in the SCIEiVTIFIC A.VEIUCAN oi all Inventions Patented through this Agency, with name and residence of t,-o Patentee. Patents arc often sold in part or whole, to persons attracted to the invention by such notice. Send for Pamphlet, containing full directious for obtaining Patents. A bound volume containing the Patent Laws, Census of the U. 8., and 142 Engravings of mechanical movements. Price 20 cents. Address for the Paper, or concerning Patents MINN & CO. 87 Park Bow. New York. Branch Of fice. Cor. F & 7th Sts., Washington, D. C. FAIR NOTICE. All communication* recommending persons f'ot nomination to office, whether it be for Congress, tho Leg islature or county offices, must be paid lor at the regular advertising rates. It is customary with all news papers to charge for this kind of matter. The course of tlie paper will not be changed at all by the adoption of this rule. This rule en ables the Democratic candidates or their friends to make their claims known to the people through the Ar gus whether the editor is in his favor or not. A. M. G. Russell. April 22—3 ms. abbess rarcssa. DEALER in DIAMONDS, CLOCKS, JEWELIIV, sterling Silver ..ml plated ware, Spec tacles, Cutlery, Violin Strings, Sew ing Machine Needles, for all kinds of Machines, Oil, ic. Agent for Mar vin’s Safes. All goods guaranteed as represented, nnu at aa low prices as the frame goods cau bo bought ft*riu anj' market. A MERIC US, GEORGIA. tWaches, €!**ckfi k Jewclrv Bepaiftd k Wirrfßtal N3v tp Dili* AivartUemeat Savannah, Ga. THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN OP 1876 which include- National, State and county ©Lo tions, and which will undoubtedly bo the most active and hotly contested of any since tho me morablc canvass of 1860 is now fairly opened The National Democratic Party will this year make a bold, vigorous, and doubtless successful struggle for tho maintenance and supremacy of those principles which are vital to the prosperity of the Republic and essential to the well-being ! of the people. In addition to the Presidential election, the people in Georgia and Florida will elect new State governments. In Florida the campaign promises to ho unusually vigorous, and there is a probability that for the first time since the war the people of that Radical-ridden State will elect a Democratic S ate government. In these campaigns the people of the South are deeply interested; and every intelligent, citizen, who has the welfare of his country and bis section at heart, should acquaint himself with every detail of the great work of redemption aud reform ilia* is now going on. To this end he should subscribe to and assist in circulating the Savannah Morning News, an independent Democratic newspaper,of pronounc ed opinions and fearless in their expression; a paper that is recognized everywhere as the best daily in the South. Its editorial department is vigorous, thoughtful, and consistent, while its news and local departments are marvels of in dustry aod completeness. Its department of Georgia and Florida affairs is not confined to a mere batren summary of events transpiring in those States, hut is enlivened by comment at once apt, tiwo'y, and lacy. The ample resources of the establishment will be devoted to furnishing the readers of the MORNING NEWS with the latest intelligence from all parts of the world, through the press dispatches, special tel egrams, and by means of special correspondence: and through thes • agencies the paper will be the earliest chronicler of every noteworthy inci dent of the political campaign of 1876. • subscription : Daily, 1 year SIO,OO “ G months 5.00 “ 3 months 2,50 Tri-Weekly, 1 year 6,00 “ G months . . 3.00 “ 3 months .. 1,50 Weekly, 1 year 2,< 0 “ 6 months 1.00 “ 3 months ,s<> Specimen copies sent free on receipt, of a ets. cau he sent by P.st Office Order, ; Registered Letter, or Express, ut our risk. J. H ESTILL, Savannah, Ga. The (ieovjiiii Daily Commonwealth IS PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING (Except Sunday) By the Commonwealth Publishing Company ATLANTA, GEORGIA. And is edited by Col. Cart IT. Btvi.es, late o the Albany News, with efficient assistants. The Commonwealth gives the current news of the city, State and elsewhere, market reports, and vigorous editorials on Municipal,Political and General sub jects. The coming canvass, State and Na tional, will be closely watched and pro perly presented, v bile the Mechanical and Agricultural interests of the State will not be neglected. It Inis a large and rapidly increasing nitenlation. Teems —One month, 75 cents; Two months Sl.2d; Foui months, s2,o*>; One year, SG.U). COMMON WEALTH PUHI.I.SHING • 0., Atlanta, Georgia thk Guthbert Messenger. Offers great inducements to advertisers desiring the trade o! Randolph and ad joining counties. Our Subscriptiou list lias greatly increased within the last twelve mouths. Acknowledging our appreciation of former favors, >ve most respectfully so licit continued patronage, believing that future transactions will piove beneficial to both parties. Addnss J. L. Tucker, Prop’r, Cmhbert, Ga ItlllA m WLf TIMES. Oolnmtous, Gra. T K WYNNE &J.H MARTIN PROPRIETORS AND EDITORS. To secure a still wider circulation in this centennial year—a year of most important events and exciting popular iasues—we otter THE WEEKIY TIMES at the following club rates: For ten nr more copies, $1.50 each. To any one sending us five subscribers at regular rates for single copies, a copy of the Weekly will be thrown in. The Times has he best and fullest tele graphic dispatches -especially in its reports of Georgia and Alabama news—of any paper in the State. This is no empty boast—we i-e --fer to our columas daily for proof. Our commercial dispatches are now ample and re liable. Price of the Daily Times, $8 per annum, s■l for six and $2 for three months. WYNNE & MARTIN. for the Argus- -It §3f"is the cheapest and best._jisrj ipgrTake the for the “blues.’ ’ jm.. 'JWK. C?, General Insurance Agent mm 'iwHk', ahe §kjst INSURE! INSURE!: Your Dwellings Your Stores Your Stocks of Goods mu; Sins and Oin pauses. From Loss by Fire. path aud faitl at my (Office Legal Blanks! Legal Blanks! AT THE We have on hand and for sale at the Argus Office, a large number of Legal Blanks, which we offer at One Dollar per Quite, Cush ‘They consist of the fol lowing mimed blanks: Garnishment Affidavit and Bond, Summons Garnish ment Attachment. Sciere Facias. Bill of Indict ment. Directions for taking Interrogatories And Interrogatory Commissions. State Warrants. Mortgage Fi, Fa. Executions. At tachment for Contempt. Magistrate’s Summons, Fi Fa and Supjpoerta, Sup. Court Subpoena- Summons before Cr. hd Jury, clerk’s Certificate to Juror. Waiver of Homestead” Notes Cost Executions. Land Deeds- De clarations Bond for Ap pearance. Address A. M. €. JRITSSEIA, Iroj r BUENA VISTA GA. Agents for the Argus. The following are our duly author ized Agent*, to recicve and receipt for mbscriptions, advertisements and Job Wctk, at their respective places. L IU. Wall Tazewell, Ga. J. (J. Eoyalls.... liedbone Ga. Miscellaneous Advertisements. f 776 Tho Great Centennial 1876 Parties desiring bit rmation as to the best routes to the CENTENNIAL, or to any of the Summer Resorts ■ -r to any other point in the country, should address B. W. WRENN, Ocuerul Passenger Agent Kenncsaw Route, ne-ztf- a thata Ga o udTnary’s no tice. UllblNAßE’s OFFICE, Feb 8. 1876. Hemiftet* all persons having advertising done ii the Argus. through my office, are required to pav the FriuteiFs fee io advance The fee is due when iftrst insertion is made and I arn not able io advance the money. JAS, M.. LOWE, Feb 4, 18*76 Ordinary YMMIFfJGE. A safe and sure Cure for Wonm. Harmless in its effect on the system, and sure to improve the condition oj the Fatient. Sold toy dealers in Drugs and Med icines aud toy T. F. HENRY, CUR- KaN A CO-., 8 College Place, New York. I- JBl eH;S WELCH. W JLa> jt JL and utf <T i Nov is.. JLLUAXYtUS. Panacea for Your Wants, xov Wnnt boarders, Want field hands. 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