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A MOTHER'S DIAIiY. Morning I Baby on the floor, Making for tho fonder, Sunlight seems to make it sneeze; Buby “on a bender," • All the spools upset and gone, Clmirs drawn into tile, Harness strings all strung across, Ought to make one smilo. Apron dean, curls snn olh, eyes blue (How those charms will dwindle) For I rather think don’t you - is a swindle? Noon 1 A tatig'cd, silken floss Getting in bine eve*; Apron that will not keep clean, If a baby tries. Onublue shoo untied, and ono Underneath tho table; Chairs gono mad, and blocks and toys, Well ivs they are able; Baby in a high clmlr, too, Veiling for his dinner; Spoons iu mouth; 1 think—don't, you Baby “is a sinner?" Night ! Chairs all sot hack again, Blocks and spools in order; One blue shoe beneath the mat Tells of a marauder; Apron folvkjqpm a chair, i’laid dress torn and wrinkled, Two pink feet kicked pretty bare, Little fat knees crinkled; In his crib ar.d conquered, too, By sleep, blessed evangel, Now I think—don’t yon— Baby is an angel ? • Wit and Humor, rut the arm-chair in the attic - Jt has earned its needed rest; For the pair it oft supported Now has married and gone West. Drawing materials—Corkscrews. Hop merchants —Dancing masters. Why is kissing like a sewing ma chine? Because it seems gootl. Nature saw the bicycle in the dim iuturc when she created a bow-leg ged man. Spots on tha son arc sometimes fivckl sand sometimes photographs of a moth r loving but weighty hand. It is pitiful to sec a bald Leaded nan hunting for the parting on his bead lie sings, -there's no place like Lome." The individual who first exclaim <ed “My soul be on thy guard,” was probably sfc‘ pping along a dark .-alloy lined with baunana skins. Tib* Jbuir of a ktdy In Montpelier, Vt., turaefl white in a single night. She fell. 'ifii.to a tlour barrel. Henry Goilnose Bailey is the name of a bov in Springfield. O. If xvc were your parent, Henry Godnose we’d knock your middle natae out of you. A Sc Louis lady who had gradua ted at three seminaries tried to send a baiidbox by telegraph the o;her day. A new pair of shoos came home jbr a little five-year old. He tried (hem on, and Sliding his feet in close quarters, exclaimed,‘Oh, my! they are so tight I wink my toes.” Young indies who wish to have small mouths are advised to repeat this at frequent intervals during the day: “Fanny Finch hied five floun dering frogs for Frances Fowler’s fulher, ’ A young lady remarked that sho and her beau could both ride.— Being a*ked where her fellow should sit site emphatically remained, ‘‘On the tittle wheel behind, of course.' Atul still men keep on marrying. lie told her that he loved her, Iu tones so soft and mellow; But she said she couldn’t marry him, For sire had asked another fellow. A young lady sent a poem entitled, 1 I cannot Make Him Smile,” to a British-newspaper. The editor ven lures to express the opinion that she would have succeeded had she shown ban the poem. “Dad if it’s so it juroious to smoke ■why don’tchimneys get sick and die ?” The old gentleman merely replied that he wished he had a trunk-strap handy. JJisa vp ya vgilaut little thing, And crow as y,c ne’er crew I This country wants to hear you siug • ‘Hancock-a-doodle-do !’ Now slant your hackles, clear your throat, And split your head in two; Ring out your shrillest, sharpest note; * ‘Ha n cock riv-rJ,0,0 dle.d of" One can't have everything in tliis world he wants. Rife is like a blan ket that is 100 short. If you pull it over your shoulders you uncover voijr feet, and if you cover your feet your shoulders must be bare. However, pomp people manage to draw their feet up a little, and so pass a pleas gup night. Do you ? Site Ittena f ista IF. A. SING DETOX. El A Prop'r. VOL 5. THE MAGNOLIA. Stainless white petals 1 Corolla of snow ! Gold iu tho center, All richness and glow, Bath for Titania, Of crystal inn dew, Couch to lull Oberon Under tho blue ! Cradle for humming bird! Butterfly’s nest! Fountain of nectar For honey-bees’ quest! Goblet for Ganymedo Full of the wine Brewed by Aurora With lingers diviuc ! Chalice of spicery, Fit for a queen !* Crowuinga column Of exquisite green ; Cup to bo held in The hand of a bride, I'nre as thy perfume, An emperors pride! Flower to bo laid on Tho cross of a tomb 1 Tve of the spirit In Paradise —bloom ! Therefore I gather thee, Lovely and pure; Speak from this graveyard Of jot s that endure. Wise Words from the Savannah News. In tins country, the first and fun damental rule is that in all political matters the wisl of the majority shall govern. This is a good rule and has been found to work well, though there may have been occasionally ox ceptiens, which, however, like all ex ception?, strengthen the general rule. That is the rule of the national Idem ocratic party. In questions of minor importance it grants the largest lib erty, but on questions of political life and existence it requires union and unity. Because we may differ from the majority of tLe party, we cannot honorably or honestly desert the par ty, and give aid and comfort to its enemies—the Radicals! One man thinks Governor Colquitt incompetent and not, otherwise, fit to be Govern or, But two other men equally as capable ot forming a judgment say that lie is. We arc not infallible, and must therefore, by the logic ot common sense, yield our opinion to that of the mojorily, or, wo act with eoucvitof our superior knowledge, and faetiously. Voltaire says that “men have a secret propensity for factions; if we cannot cabal, pursue and do one another a prejudice for crowns, tiaras and mitres, we fall to gether by the ears for a dancer or a musician.” In this quotation we recognize the natural tendency to faction that ani mated the minority in the recent At lanta convention. Governor Colquitt had within a few votes the requisite two thirds to nominate him, and the opposing votes, a little over one tihrd, were scattered between four candidates, not one of whom had a popular showing in the convention that was worth a penny whistle. Yet this inconsequent compound of small political capitalists arrogantly de manded that the man of two-thirds, neatly, of the people, shall be with drawn, and they, the one-third, shall dictate his nomination. Not one of the minority leaders, nor all combined, nor their respective adherents, could form a paity of over one hundred and twenty-niue ; and yet the people’s choice by lioo hun dred and twenty must give way to the dissenlinents.’ Could anything more preposterous he conooived? The only recollection of anything like it that occurs to us is that of the con fined lunatic, who on being asked by a visitor to the asylum ivhy he was there, replied: “I maintained that all the world was mad except my self, and all the woikl said I was the lunatic, and having the majority they oariied the day, and that is why I am here.” Hut'eveu the lunatic did not act so wildly as the minority. They made yv DEMOCHATIO FA MITTS' NEWSPAPER, BUENA VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GA., AUGUST 25, 1880. no explanation of their course. They gavo uo reason at al. but took the ground that, in their opinion, Genera; Colqnilt was not lit to be governor, and, therefore, lie should not be nom mated. They regarded not the vital struggle in which wo are engaged for tho preservation of the republic, and our Democratic libeitics. They did not hesitate ono moment to sacrifice the unity and harmony of the Dem ocracy to their arrogant assumption. Nor did it cost them a pang to open wide the gates, by their desertion, for an influx of Radical capital and speakers. And they did not hesitate to proc'aini, by their action, that they were willing to incur the risk of the election of a Radical governor rather than acquiesce in tho will of the ma jority iu lavor of Governor Colquitt. Chemical Manufactures in Philadel phia. Scientific American.] One of the great industries of Phil adelphia is the manufacture of chem icals, or of articles for the produc tion of which chemical processes are necessary. Many of these take the form of urugs and medicines for the wholesale trade, not including spe cifies. Others are acids, alkalies, and chemical agents used in other manufactures. White lead and chemical paints are also included. The line of distinction is not easy to define to the gene ral reader, though well recognized in the trade, and it docs not include the body of products known as dyes, paints, and midi ciues, although closeiy related to them. As so defined, the chemical mnnufature in Philadelphia includes, says the Public Ledger, about thirty establishments, whose annual pro duct has risen from $6,152,380 in 1870, to $10,000,000 in 1875, and sl2- 000,000 in 1877, and as nearly as now may lie estimated, about $12,000,000 in value f r the year just closed. They give employment to about 2,000 persons —a relatively small number for the values produced—and have attained a position of supremacy in their respective departments which renders them reasonably secure. The drug and medicinal products are the largest, eight‘or ten establish ments producing $8,000,000 in value quinine, morphia, preparations of io dine, bromine, etc., with other stand ard pharmaceutical preparations. These are now the basis and body of applied pharmacy in this country, and are likely to increase even more rapidly in tha future. On the side of standard medicines used as specifics almost as much more would be en tirely appropriate as munfacture. The drug and chemical work insist on the distinction, however, and in a calculation of $12,000,000 production they are not included. They would reach G,000,000 at least, and under the general name of proprietary med icines, footed a total of $5,400,105 in 1870. Milk-Yeast Bread,—Take one cupful of milk, add hot water to warm the milk; mix sifted flour to make a thin sponge; let stand over night in a warm place; in tho morn ing add one half cupful of butter, and flour to Sufficiently stiffen for bread, kneading thoroughly; till pans halt full, and, in a warm place, allow tho loaves to rise to the top of the pans; bake in a steady oven, not too hot, one hour. Population ol St. Louis. —Tho offi cial returns of the census enumera tors show the total population of St. Louis to be 833,577, which is an in crease of only 22,713 over the ocn sus of iB7O. Teaching men morals is as though I had a clock that would not go, and I turned round one of the cog-wheels. But faith takes the key and winds up. the mainspring and the whole thing runs on steadily.—Spurgeon. The College Graduate Sho was a school girl graduate, With school girl* used to play; She got lief sheep skin and a great Big sixty-cent hcqnet. V\ hen she went homo her dear mamma Met her with a pleasant look, Anil said, “Now’Mary Ann Li e in And take my place as cook. But Mary Ann popped up her nose And said “Mamma, I Wont ! What! Como out of school and cook ! Von Let your Loots 1 if .ft.” That anxious, overbearing ma, Like any mother should, Hit Mary Ann beneath tho car With a groat Lig stick of wood. So now that sweet girl graduate, With pleasure iu her eye, Can wash a shirt or cook a steak Or make a dish-rag fly. Her mother taught her what it was To lead a useful life, And forty chaps are running th< re— Each wants her for his —cook. A BUSY FAMILY. A case of assault and battery in which a farmer’s sons were plaint ft and defendant respectively, was on trial in Justice aliey, Detroit, and the plaintiff’s lawyer was very anx ious to make out that the defendant's family must have seen the fight which took place just outside the kitchen door. The defendant’s moth er being on tho stand, the lawyer began: “ tVell, where were you when the first blow was struck ?” “Down cellar skimming milk and tying cloths over my preserve jars,” site replied. “Where was your husband ?” “He was in the barn mending the harness and greasing the wagon.’’ “Where was jour daughter, Sa rah ?” “Sarah was in the norlli room changing the ‘pillow cases on the spare bed.” “And where was Jane ?’’ “June? She hud run over to a neighbor’s to borrow some coffee and nutmeg “Let’s see! Haven’t you a sister living with you ?” “Yes, sir. She was sewing carpet rags up stairs." “Ah! sho was? You have a younger son name Charles, haven't you ?’’ “Yes, sir, and he was salting sheep across the road." “Just so. You are a very busy family, I see. I suppose even the dog was very hu3y just at this par ticular moment?” *Yes, sir, lie was. Old Rose was down at tho gate looking towards Detroit for one-horse lawyers !” That closed her testimony and set tled him more than a toot. Miss Abigail Jenkins was the post mistress at Waterford, Fulton coun ty, Ills., in 1857. ami the following is an exact copy of the first letter she sent to Washington as a quarterly report from tho Waterford postofllce: Waterford, fnlton co ills July the 0 1857. — muster james Buekanin, president of the United States, Dear Sur Rean required by the instruc tions of the post office to report quarterly, I now foolfil! that pleasin duty by reporting as follows. The Harvesting lias been going on perty well and most of the nabors have got their cuttin about dun, wheat is hard ly at average croponrollin lans, coin is yellowish and corn wont out more than ten or fittecn booshils to the alter the helth of the communitie i3 only Tolerably moesils and colery have broke out in about 2 and a half miles from heah, thair air a powerful awaken of the subjeo of religiun in the pot ts naborhood and many seals r- oeir. made to know their sins forgiven miss nancy Smith a neer na ber had trios day before yesterdy this is about all I know and have to report tho present quarter gtv my re spects to Mrs Buekanin and subscrib myselt yours Trooley, abigail Jen kins, p. m. —Boston Post. • ♦♦♦ ■■ ■ The action of the minority in the late Gubernatorial convention caused much excitement in Milledgeville. A Loadvillo Joke- Life in Leadville, Cob, is full of t x. citcment even for a barber. The other day a citizen named Plug strolled into a bather’s establishment where there were two chairs, both full, and fourteen men waiting. If die-re is one tiling that Plug despises it is waiting around while a lot of oilier fellows get shaved. He figured on how to avoid it, and espying a friend iii one of the chairs he sloped up to him anil spoke a few words in a low tone. Suddenly he became ex cited. Addressing his friend he cried: “You third-rate mule-whack er I'll have your gore!’’ And the friend yelled back: '‘You greaser, I’ll shot you full of holes t’ “I can shoot first,” yelled Plug, drawing Ids revolver. “I’ll let you see yon can’t,” roared his friend, leaping from his chair. By this time a scene of wild excitement was taking place ia the shop. The whole fourteen waiting customers were wildly struggling to get out before the shooting commenc ed. The man in the other chiir, without stopping !o wipe the lather fiom his face or remove the apron about him, leaped from the window upon die Lead of a policeman, who at once arrested him tor a madman. One of the barbers had bump ed his head terribly and got his mouth full of dust crawling under a sofa, and the other barber was promptly concealed beh nd a barrel in the closet. As soon as the shop was cleared the two friends ceased threatening each other, put up their pistols and after a hearty laugh they coaxed the barbers to come out and shave them. Plug tried to explain to the head barber that it was ail a joke. “But,” said the barber, “you’re a fighting man.” “No,’’ said Plug, “I am a regular coward an(l couldn’t lick a mouse.’’ “Then, by George,’’ yelled the barber, “you’ve driven over $5 worth of trade away from me and I’ll take the value out of your hide!,” And he got in several lusty blows on Plug before the latter could offer to settle. And, somehow, Plug doesen’t think it was such a good joke alter all. Coffee as a Disinfectant. The rootah Observer, a paper pub lished in India, states that recent ex periments made in that country have proved that roasted coffee is one of the most powerful disinfectants, not only rendering animal and vegetable effluvia innocuous, but actually de stroying them, A room in which meat in an advanced state of decom position had been kept for some time was instantly deprived ol all smell on being carried through it an open coffee-roaster containing a pound of newly-roasted coffee. In another room the effluvia occasioned by the clear ing out of a cesspool was completely removed within half a minute by the use ot three ounces of fresh coffee.— Tho way in which coffee is used as a disinfectant is drying the raw beam then pouuding it in a mortar, and af terward roasting the powder on a moderately-heated iron plate untd it assumes a dark hue. The coffee must, however, be pure, as chickory pos - sesses no deodorizing power. WHEAT SOWING. Preparing a soil for wheat is of lar more importance than many farmers suppose. Thorough preparations of the soil is the sooret of success in wheat culture. Summer fallowing usually gives the best results,but it is not always practicable, in which case tno nearest approach to it should be made that is possible. Two plowings are better than one in the majority of cases, and where it is possible we believe it will pay abundantly in the increase in yield and quality of tho crop. A mellow but compact soil has been found to produce the best prep aration for wheat. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION, $2 00 WHAT TO SAY. Sny “I would rather walk,” and not I lmd rather walk.’’ Sny “I doubt not ti nt I Khali,' nnd not “but I shall,” Say “for you and mo,” and not “for you and I.” Say “whether I be present or not,’’ and not “present or no.’’ Say “not that I know,” and not ,‘that I know of,’’ Say “rctiHn it to roe,” and not “return it back to me.” Say “I seldom see him,” and not “seldom or never see.” Say “fewer friends,” and not “less friends. ” Say if I mistake not,” and not “if I am not mistaken.” Say “game is plentiful,” and not “is plenty.’’ Say “I am weak in comparison with you,” and not “to you.” Say “it rains very fast,” and not “very hard.” Say “it is primitive sense,” and not “primary sense.'’ Say “he was noted for his vio lence,” and not “he was a man noto -1 ions for violence.” Say “thus much is true," and not “this much is trye.” Say “I lifted it,” and not “I lifted it up.” And last, but not least, say “I take my paper and pay for it in ad vance,” BE HONEST. I’ll tell you, brethren, be henest In your dealings; take no advantage, even of a child. Be conscientious in your bargains. Have a single eye and o, single heart. w Seek not to be shrewd. Be not ashamed to be called simple. And let me tell you a secret, which ought not to boa secret, seeing it is written in the scriptures, that your whole body may be full of light, ami this in every kind. You will actually see further and see clercb than shrewd ami cunning men; and you will be less liable to be .duped than they, provided you add to this another part of character which is proper to an honest man—namely, a resolution to protect honesty, and to dicotinten ance every kind of fraud. A cunning man is never a firm man, but an honest man is; a double minded man is always unstable; a man of faith is firm as a rock. I tell you there is a sacred connection be tween honesty and faith; honesty is faith applied to worldly things, and faith is honesty quickened by the spirit to the use of heavenly tLings —Edward Iriyixo. CENTRAL RILROAD. We arc glad to chronicle the fact that the business of our great corpor ation, the Central Railroad Company, in increasing and flourishing. Con trary to the usual custom of the com pany during the dull summer season, the entire force in the mechanical and other departments of the company have been constantly employed. There liavo been no temporary dis charges or working on half time. Ev erybody is busy and additional me chanical labor has been employed. The workshops are veritable bee hives and the hum of industry resounds throughout the extensive establish ments lrorn enrly morn till dewy eve. All along the line there comes the word of plenty of work, steady em ployment and good pay, At the commodious wharves, also, we find evidences ol unremitting labor, and improvements are being pushed forward to completion before the openening of the new commercial year. Ex-Gov. Ilershcl V. Johnson died at his residence in Jefferson county, on the 16th inst.. in the sixty-eigth year of his age* THE WATER WAGTAIL. Where mint and Hedges tangle Murmurs the mill wheel jumdn— In placid lake; On the pebbly shingle Tho wMahers’ pnddlo jingle An echo make. Lady mistress wruggletni! t mires her Hjinttod furthingalo In watery gWv, Above, below, each leathered tress. Shaking with maiden euppleness- Cequetish luns!; She seems, the beauty grand,. Leader of homo fairy l and, Neves stilh Who marks the rhjHithir: drum, Oi the puddle and the hum Of the will. Her careless gmee profound Attracts- holds us spell bound 1 - One follows fust.. By riverside and plain Her caprice leads us—vain. bhe dies at last.! Sho scurries 'long tho bench And fliitetb out of of reach, Like our desires, Which all dead, all day outstrip And from our grasp are fain to slip, Till hope e'en tires* Georgia Affairs. NO 49 Valdosta Times: J' W. Willis has laid on our table a stalk ol coni vvi.ttos ten well developed ears. Mr. George R. Mcßcc, of Valdos ta, Georgia, lias been tuy ing the ex periment of shipping ripe figs to New York. The figs arrived in good con-, dilion and sold for 30 C9U per quart. A negro boy about 12 years old was swinging on the rear of a mov ing ear in Home a lew days ago, ami fell. Tbe ears ran over his foot ami ankle eempletely crushing the foot off. Thomasville Post: We adviso home candidates not io invest in tho CalquittLester division in Atlanta, but to go to work to heal the breach It is not a division upon principle, but upon personalism, which will play out with the exhaustion of per sonal animosity. Let us go forward as if nothing had happened. ■ The Sandersville Herald says: Tur nips arc looking well and cotton, is in an excellent condition, al though in many sections of tho county it has been materially injured iby the drought and is now suffering from what planters call the Black rust, We see some fields lull of open cotton ami ready for picking. Marietta Journal: Sunday last, In Milton county, Mr. Loyd found on a raft near Grogan’s ferry, in the Chub tahooehee river, a dead white man, naked and unknown, tbe flesh having fallen from Lis laCe rendering him unrecognizable. He is supposed to be tho grandson of one Henry Smith, who has been missing for about ono Week. “ A woman of bad repute, from Jack sonville, Fla., succeeded a leW days ago, ill inducing two young ladies, in Savannah to desert their homes of comfort, respectability and virtue for one of degradation. Telegrams from Savannah to chief of police in Jacksonville secured their arrest just as they were stepping hi a pheatod. The parents dcpaited immediately td bring tbe'r girls back. Au Excbango says: Holmes Mur ray, a little Irwin county boy, is said to be a rival of Biind Torn). He came to spend some time with his uncle, Dr. D Bagiev, of Harris coun ty a short time since. Never having seen a piano before, ho desired to' know what manner of beadstead it was. The top was raised and expla nation mado to to the little fellow, whereupon he sat down and immedi plnyed “There is a Happy Band.” Tho Hamilton Journal says: “The musical tallent ol the boy had 1 been' remarked before by-friends, but none were prepared for this seeming institution. Butler Herald: On last Saturday evening a*very painful and almost fa tal accident happened to Mrs. Rob ert Wilson, in the western portion of the county. While Mr. Wilson and his family were riding in a wagon*, along tue road, the front wheel struck a stump and immediately sprung front the axle. In the sudden fall of the wagon Mrs. Wilson was plunged headforemost to the ground, with a young babe in her arms, breaking two of her lower ribs, one on each sided her body,and otherwise severc- Jy bruising her. The b,.be was not in the least hurt Mr. Smith, her at tending physician, Jlhraks that hw will