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ThijUt'W *7>ui>c- r i* w. Tho newspaper l.iw says if nnv poison orders hm paperdiseohtinutd, lie must pay ull nmngcs, ortho pub lisher umy continue to send it until payment is made, nnd collect tho whole amount. Also un uet on 10. fraud can be insti uted against any person, wlirtlier ho is responsible in a financial view or not, who refuses pay for his subsenption. Any person who takes a paper regularly fiotn the postoflioe —wheth- er directo and lo his nnmo or allot h r s, or whether lie Ims.subscibed or not s responsible for the aaiount. 'lhe courts h >vo decided that re fusing to take newspapers or period icals from tho posh flico, or remov ing an leaving th in uncalled for is prinm facie evidence of internatiou ai fraud. Forty-three railroads bavo been started in Arkansas in the last two years. The orunge packing business has fnlly commenced at Tampa. F ori- P“- ‘ SLousianna has set aside $20,000 to supply h r crippled soldiers, with wooden limbs. The Oates cotton factory in Char lotte wid begin operations with 2 000 spindles on tho Ist of January. Th- re are quite a number of whito lopers in California, roaming at large. Sixteen oases have appeared ut St. Majys’ Hospital asking treatment. The ForlGuiuesTiibnnesays: “Our fanners as u. general thing have about succeeded in getting th ir coton picked out, and have now time to devote to sowing oats. Tho oat crop is a sure one in this sect ion (not withstanding it almost failed last sea son) and a very profitable one. Be sure and get the genuine rust proof varieties for seed, and sow good land and a lair yield nmy reasonably be expected, The Conyers Weekly is mad sure enough. It says: “Never before since our time in this world b>-gan, have our people been so prosperous. Everybody, white and black, seems to have a little money, nnd they walk around the sheriffs and bailiffs with impunity. If our people will just go Vo wok and It politics and politicians g > to the devil, they will soon be independent, hap py and free. Wehave the best coun try beneath tho blue heavens and all we have to do to be thb foremost pAople of tiu* globe 10 apsert our manhood in the proper manner.” Wiimitigton (N. C.) Star: “Geor gia has many men of superior abii ties, but men of wisdom in tht State are scarce. It would bo diffi cult to find in one State three abler men than Toombs, Stephens and Ilill, and it would be difficult to find threo unsaler. Hero is ono of Mr. Stephens’ recent utterances: “ ‘The Democrats wore fighting for no principle, but were making merely a grand rush for the —hog trough.’ ’’ How about tho wrio men of the old North State ? nnd the rush for tho hog trough there ? Cutler Herat!: On Thursday morning last a very siul and faial ac cident occurred at the home of Mr J W P Whatley, in this County, in •which his little danghtor about thir teen years of ago while siting by the lire her clothing became ignited and the little creature was soon envelop ed in flames. Her father being ab sent and no one in the room able to lend her any assistance her cries for help proved unavailing, and tpon tbo return of the father found the lifeless body of the poor girl burned to a crisp upon the floor. The scene is described to us as being lieart ronding, and our sympathy is touch ed from the fact that she had no mother to protect her in the hour ol distress, having inoro recently passed from earth. The Savannah News, in speaking of a meeting of liquor dealers in that city a few days ago, says: ‘‘TJesolu tions were passed disapproving the bill now pending before the Legisla ture, which proposes to allow eaeli malitia district to vote as to whether liquor shall be sold in their respect ivc districts, ami a committe was ap pointed to draft suitable resolutions to be presented to council on Wed nesday night, asking them to express official disapproval of the bill. The committee were also instructed to confer with our representatives on the subject.” IF. A. SINGLETON, Ed and Prop r. VOL G. WAITING FOR THE GRIST. ‘ It is strange,” said who sat next to mo in the car, and with whom I had struck quite an acquaintance, “what an influence a look, a word, or tho littloact ol a perfo l stran ger.” o * “Yes,” said I ; “moro than any of urMoalize.” ‘ It was tiiesimple actor aatruu. ger that changed the wohiocourse of my lite. ••Jodeed! llow so?’’ “When 1 wan boy, my father moved to the then Far West — Ohio. It was before the days of steam, and ho great mill thundered on her river hanks, but occasional )y there was a littlo grist-mill by the sale of some small stream, and hither, whenever the water was up, tne whole neighbhrhood Hocked with their sacks of corn. ‘Frist come, first served.' Bonn times we had to wad. two or three days f,r our turn. 1 generally was the ono sent from oui house, for while I was too small to be sf much account on the Hrm, I was as good as a man to carry a grist to mill. So I was not at all sur prised on morning when my father said, ‘Henry, you can get up old roan and go to mill to-day.’ “Saunders’s mill was ten miles away; but 1 bad made the trip so oft en that it did not scorn far. I be leive ono becomes more attached to an old mill than any other building. I can see just how it looked as it stood inore under the sycamores,with its huge wholl and rough clapboard sides. “When I arrived,! found thcNorth Branch and Rocky Fork folks tiier e ahead of me,and knew there was no hope of my gutting homo that day; but I was not at all sorry, for my bas ket was wail filled with provision*, and M'. Sanders aiwavs opened his big barn for us to sloe p in; so ’t was no unplesant time we had while wait ing for our grist. This time there was an addition that had been in th* habit of gathering,from time to time, in the old Saunders barn-—a voung fellow about my own age, probably a little older. His name was Char ley Alien, and his father had bought a farm over on thoßrnsh Creek road. He was sociable and friendly, but I instinctly felt that ho had ‘more man ners’ than the rest of us, ‘The eve ning was spent as usual, in relating coarse jokes and playing cards. Al though I was not aecnsomed to such things at home, I had become so to it that had long since coased to shock mo, and indeed, I was fast be -a vary interested spectator. “ ‘Well, boys, it time for us fellers to go to roost,’ said Jim Finley, one ol the greatest roughs of the Rocky Fork, as he threw dowi his pack of cards and began to undress. We all followed his example, although it was not much undressing wo did to sleep on the hay-mow but we were so busy, with our own affairs that we did not notice Charley Allen until Jim ex claimed, ‘lledey! wo’vc got a par son here; wo hev !’ Charley kneel ing by the oats-bin, praying. The silence was broken by the drowsy Cattle below, and the twittering swal lows overhead. More Ilian one rough man wiped a tear from his eyes as he went silent to his bed on the hay. I had always been in the hab it of praying at home, hut I never thought of such a thing at Saunder’a Mill. As I laid awake that night in the old barn, thinking of Charley Al len’s coungo, and what an effect it had upon tiie men, I firmly resolved that in the futro I would do right. I little thought how soon my courage would be tested. Just after dinner I got my grist, and i-tarted for home. When 1 arrived at Albright’s gate, ■ • -mSC.I*O where I turned off to go homo,l found BUENA VISTA, MARION )UNTY, GA., DECEMBER 1, 1* tin old Mjniro waiting for mo, I saw in a moment that something hud gone Wrong. I budjnlwnys stood’ in th greatest awe with the old gout'ciium because ho was the rich man ol tho ttoighbordood, andj now I k felt my heurl beginning to beat very fust. As soon ns 1 canto hear no said, ‘Did you go througu this gate yesteruuy ? 1 could easily h ive denied it, as it was beforo daylight when I went through, tiud quite as olten went OK? ’other way. Charlie Allen kneeling in tho barn came to my mind like a Hash, and before 1 had time to listen to tho temper 1 said, ‘Yes, sir, l did.’ “ ‘Are ymi sure you shut and pin nod the gate ?’ ho asked. This questionslaguered me. I ro tnembered distinctly that 1 did not. I could puli the j>in out without get ting off my horse, but I could not put it back again; sol careless'y rode a wav, and left ii open. “ I —I —l’— “ ‘Out with it; toll jnst what you did !’ “ “I left it open,’ I said abrupt ly. “ ‘Weil you let the cattle in and destroyed all my early potatoes—u terrible piece of business!’ “ ‘l’m very sory, I’d’*- Talking won’t help matters now; but remember, boy sorrow don’t make potatoes —sorrow ilou’t make potatoes’ “I 1 it very sorry about the mat ter, for I was real v sorry that the old gentleman had lost his potatoes, and then I expected to be severely reprimanded at home; but I soon found that they knew nothing tf tho matter, arul alter several days had passed, I Oegan to rest quite easy. Alas for human hojros! ono rainy afternoon I saw the squire riding down tho lane. I ran off to tho barn, ashamed to face him, and afraid to meet my father. They sat on the porch and talked for r. long time. At last my curiosty overcame ray fear, and I stole back to the house, and went into mother’s room to see if I could hear what they were talking of ‘Why, the boy could be spared wed enough, but tie don’t know nothing about the business,’said my father. There is one tiling he docs know,’ said the squire, 'he knows how to ted tho truth.’ He then related the circumstances whiehlso much dread ed to have my father to hear. After he had gone, my father called me to him, aud told me that the squire was going to start a store in the village, and wanted a boy to help, and that I could go if I wanted to. I went,and remained in the vilage store until it blosomod out into a city store; and people say that I got my start in life when I entered Albright’s store, but I will always maintain ih .t I got it while waiting for tho grist.—Sunday School Times. St. Louis, November 22. — The large works of the St. Louis smelting company at Cheltenham, nine miles from hero, wore destroyed by fire early thi3 morning. The fire origina ted through a broken cupola which scattered about the molten metal. — The buildings were all frame and communicated with each other.—- They burned very rapidly. The ma chinery was not badlv damaged.— John Williams, the engineer, at tempted to return to the buildings for his coat, but stumbled into a stream of molten metal, and before ho could bo rescued was literal'y roasted alive. In endeavoring to pull him from the burning mass both his arms were jerked/rom their sockets. His body presented a hor rible appearance when taken from the ruins. The buildings were in sured for sio,ooo, and were probably worth with their contents SIOO,OOO. The work of rebuilding will be be gun at dice. y\. DEMOOnATIC IF.A. JNu. .Xal-T 3STE W3P APVdB, Joseph end Cleopatra’s Needle in History and Scripture.. On Sunday tho 14th uit., Rev. J. Stafford Holmes, of the Baptist church, preach at to his congregation In Nov York, from the following t -xt : ! “Am: I’luraoh called Jos- ph’a name /iphnath Pa.meah; and he gave him to fcife Aseimth, t.ie daughter of pr.eat of On.” U.m. xi t th-qfii"' — : ve?ac.’ The occasion v. as the more inUr eating for the reason that tho huge moaolltii known as C copatru’s Nee dle, recently landed in Now York from Egypt, was lying in the street m front ol tliu cuutch,and in review ing the history of Joseph nnd of his connection with “the priest of On,” Ins father-in-law, and of it’s culling, the preacher said, that “Heliopolis was removed from the temple and from its its priosthool and that the priesthood was the most learned of the land. The Temple of the Sun, even in ruins centuries old, is seen to have been a grand bull ling. “Tho obelisk,” lie said, “sshich lies yonder at the foot of our hi Is was one of two erected by Tliothines 111, at the entrance of the Temple of On, And is it not a wonderful historic coin cidence that on the Very Sunday that our school is engaged in the study of Joseph’s life theiojshoukl be lying at our door, 5,000 miles away from the qunrry where tho stone was cut and 3,000 years after it was first erected, one of the obeiiks which stood at the door of the temple where Potiphar was high priest—the stone on which the eyes of Joseph have looked. It is not enough to say that for 'some reason the Khedive of one of the oldest nations gave this st-oie to tne young Republic and that a great cap italist was pleased to garnish the mon ey with wh-Le's fa bring ft here, or that Commander,Gorringo, with sin gular ability, brought this great, bulky stone over water and land.— No, the hand of God is in it. It has come in the current of history and of commerce —current of God’s direction as fnracb as-tho fcoarse of the sun itself in the heavens. It is true that commercial necessity led the children of Israel into Egypt, but God’s purposes wore subserved by that necessity. ‘Westward the course of empire takes its way’ is true com mercially and historically and the coming of this great memorial stone to our shore shows the current of Hie world’s progress as clearly as a piece of driftwood shows the currents of the sea or the directions of the tide. There is reason to belive that divine Plato looked on this stone, for he was a student at Heliopolis. It is barely possible that even Christ has looked ou it, for near by the temple where it stood runs the caravan road by which Joseph and Mary traveled into Egypt. Let us h>pe that this great stone once eonsocratcd to the glory of the natural sun may stand among us a witnesss to the gioriy of the Son cf Righteousness.” Dr. Talmadge, in a discourse on debt, said: “Debt induced Lord Bacon to take bribes; it broke Walter Scott’s heart; it drove Burns to drinking. Perhaps some of you don't know that Lord Byron’s mother died in a tit of rage produced by reading an npholster’s bill. Oh, the curse of debt —the curse of debt! If Igo into a gro cery store and buy sugar and meats without any visible means of paying for them I’m more dishonest than if I go in quietly and carry away a ham under my coat, in the one cose I rob the grocer not only of bis sugar ami meat, but also of a measure of his time. In the other case I t dee none of his time, I simply help myself. In other words, a sneak- thief is not as bad as one who contracts debts he Cannot pay, [.Applan.-o.J Aud yet in till our cities aro lumilies who move every May day in order to got out of the neighborhood of certain butchers, bakers nnd apothecaries aud iutoghc neighborhood of others. “If onybody in this audience finds liiat my picture fits his case, I don’t mind telling him that he ought not to be in this churoh —he ought to be in the pen toutiary 1 (Awful silence.) Detestable .'-cicaln;, they cheat the grocer out ot the green apt les Hint, make them sick, they rob tho doct < that utt:ads them and the underl ik er who furnishes: them with an outfit when they pay the final debt to na ture—the only (l bt they over do pay. Young man, young man, don't get into debt, for God’s sake don’t get into debt. I’ve had a little experi ence in that Way.” Streaking cf the value of the Bible, Mr. Tahnjdge said: “If yon want to destroy a young man in double-quick order, tako away his IE bits A steamer 1,500 miles at sou with broken rudder and Caking fifty gal tons a minute— (laughter)—is not in a worse condi tion tnaii a young man without his Bible. Infidelity is splitting up the iife boats and tearing down the fire escapes. Do you want to know my opinion of the infidel who seeks to rob young men of their Bibles? Well, then, think of the meanest thing you ever beard of and find yourself at the foot of a flight of stairs 100 miles long. Go down these lairs and find a 1 aider 1.000 miles long. I) seomi the ladder and look from the edge of a precipice down into a chasm iwice as deep as the dis tance from China and then you’d find the level of his detestab'o indescrib able meanness.” After this what mprewouhl Mr. Talmadgc say ? HUMOROUS C A great singer—The tea-kettle. The debtor’s tree —Tire will-owo. Tlia astronomer’s paetimo-Shooting stars. Is a clothing store a coterie,a pan try or a vestry? Wocilci' in what sort of a vahiele the man rode wno was driven frant ic ? A Philadelphia man who detected a piece of b irk in bis sausage visited the butcher’s to know what had be come of the rest of the dog. An editor out west w.3 in prison for libelling a justice,'of t!iepoace,ancl when he departed the jailor asked him to give the prison a puff. “There Are No Birds in Last Year Nest" is the titlo of a song Proba bly not. if it were equally sure that there are no rats in last year’s rat holes, the pulie mind would be more at rest.— Philadelphia Times. During one month this summer' the Philadelphia mint coined SGQO, 000,and how they all gut pastes with out our seeing one of them is what astonishes us.—Burlington Hawk- Eye. Whisky is about the only enemy" man has succeeded in loving. TIIE DANGEROUS HARE. Someone was telling a story of a lion hunt ia Offenbach’s presence— a story in which, evidently, pi took but little interest. “Bali!” ho said, at last, with a yawn; “the lion is a much overrated beast. Even ihu timid hare can, on ocea ion, bo formidable to man.’’ •‘Ob, come, now 1” said every one. “Yes 1 mean what I say, ’ replied Offenbach; “when one lias eaten too much of him.” On a homewerd bound Charleston car a jolly looking Irishman was sa luted with the remark: “Tim ycr house was blown awav.” “Deed,thin it isn’t he answered, “for I have tlm kuy iu my pocket. ANNUAL SUnsCIUPT/ON, $2 00 induced to tan \\\ “1 never tried to chow tobacco but once; ’ remarked tho Rev. Mr Bod wcd. “I ahull never forgot the fir— rum-finree.” 1 "Toll un about it,” remarked n y.aing lady, who, a few moments be fore, Lad buen baptized by the rev erend gentleman. “I Was a. Very small I / at H t ; m -, nml t-:<H a -great favorite ot I’aim I, a colored man, owned by mv father. I used to go out to Dari’s cabin at night rtnd listen to Im-;ghost stories until 1 was afraid to cross the yard to the big house, as the negroes termed our residence-. One night, when the wind scattered tho snow flakes around tiie old cabin, and while several large sweet potatoes roasted in the fire, i sat with old Dan iel. No ono who has been raised among colored people cun forget the comfort of sitting around the cabin fire. The old spinning-wheel, the hamper baskets in the corner, the red bedsteads, and tho dug-out cra dle, a 1 come brick and dely theinl'n ences of glowing fu'ure ami soft rugs. Dan.was strikinglyqcommuui caiivc on tho night m question, We had killed hogs t int day, and the truth is, old Dan had been drinking. “Tom,” remarked the old man, •‘yor don’t chew lerb.eker, does ycr ?” “No, so.” “Dat’s a pity. A boy who doesn’t chew terbacker never will be a man, I’d bet yer can’t spit ober dat back log. Try hit.” “I fried and failed signally.” “Dar now. Doan yer know da! a boy what .can’t spit will jK-ver be a man ? Ilubeu’ yer noticed how a man can spit ?” “Yes, sir.” “Wall, wqCb’q’t yer like ter place youvsejjMgtaj'd, and tern ter spit “Yes', “Wall, heah, tako dis,” and he cut a piece of tobacco from a large twist. “Smack dat in yer motif, an’ chaw while de taiers is roastin’.’’ “I obeyed, and in a few moment: could spit, iiko n man. “Cum down on hit, savage,” hs 1 said. “Hit hard. Watch mo,” and he chewed vigorously. The fire grew excessively warm, i looted around, and the hamper basin to scemad to be tumbling over each other. “Doan spit hit out. Hit savage. Chew hard. Do victory is in sight. Is yer sick ?’’ “No, sir; but —but—. I had eat en a hearty supper, but within t.hreo minutes from the time I threw out the tobacco,l;was as empty as one of the hamper baskets, and as limber as the spinning wheel band, Dan spread a blanket on the floor, and, as I doz and off to sleep, I heard him blowing the ashes from the potatoes. I never have taken another chew.” — Little Itock Gazette. Hew to wsc Oil Stoms, Instead of oil, which thickens and makes the stones dirty, a mixture of glycerine and alcohol is used by ma ny. The proportions of the mixture vary according to the instrument op erated upon. An aiticie with a large surlnce, a razor, for instance, sliap ens best with a limpid liquid, ns three parts of glycerine to one part of alcohols iFor a graving tool, the cutting surface of which is very small, ns is also the pressure exercis ed on the stone in sharpening, it is necessary to employ glycerine almost pure with but two or three drops o alcohol. The real name of Powhatan’s daughter was Matoaka. Their tribe had a supersition that any person whose real name was unknown could not be injured by an enemy. They therefore told the English that Ma • t toako’s name was Pocahontas. Rich: crr/rrlnt^^/M At tlio special request recently made l>y u>ne of ont ftriwmSK, the writer trill again give pffflio bints* bnaod npon fxifaonnl obwrvntiow ami practical e.tpor'tcrrce, up cm the best method of cultivating What lu known nn whito or nphtnd fico. This cereal ia rapidly superseding tho cotton crop ip tbc sontberft and •< Kiic istern | ortionfl of the Stall', and ha- boon and, moustrnted to be hr more profitable than the fleecy fltttplin On high land it retires no more at j tention than corn, and etterit putt bun, wll yield tnico ns RiuCh pet acre, and sell in tho rough of or nh - pounded statu for ■ jwr cent, fru.fo in market. NO. 13 One of the easiest end most rmii erativc methods of Cultivation is ae follows: Alter broadcasting with cotton -cod, commercial fertilizers or farm yard manure, in October tn' ItoVeiu bcr. it pntciicb’e, thoroughly break up unJ, if convenient, harrow the i eriacn of the soil and sew in ru.-t proof oats, Care should be taken/ howeYer, that the "lands” made in plowing should not be more than three feet apart. The oats will grow off, and by shading the earth, effectually keep down the weeds and grass in early spring. Not waiting to bar Tost the crop, bat cowmen cm;' about the 15th > f April, with an ordinary scooter plow, o.srn the "laud/ 1 or water fur and then with the narrowest shovel to bo obiainod, run once more on each side of the open furrow, fill ing it up, making thereof a slight ridge, not over a foot in width, Now the ground is ready for plant ing; and tho seed, at the rate of one bushel per acre, should be dropped iu hills eighteen inches asunder, about thirty grains to the hiil, and lightly covered with the foot, or an ordinary board, it wih germinate in seren or eight days, and, protected by tho standing grain from birds and grass, continue to thrive until tho oats are taken off m the latter part of May, or the first of June. The after cultivation consists in b eaking out the “middles” with a scooter r narrow turning plow, and cleaning the lulls of rico when need ful, by the passage of a hoe between them. Two additional plowings, and one hoeing, will usually culiioe to make the crop. By pursuing the above course, not infrequently thirty bushels of o&ts and the same qnsntity of rough rrsa may be ueide of one year When not sowed in oats, break Tip and .turn in all weeds nd grass :n tho fall, (and the land is fal low, c.r in February or M*ith if nlanied tbc pr-.vioue year) amt after careful harrowing, lay off in rows 2| •Vet apart and sow as directed above, ■lifer the spring has fairly opened,— Afterwards, cultivate with plow and hoe as usual, \V hen the heads turn down and oiffy a few grains remain gi-oen next to the stalk, is the proper time for harvesting. Hov er attempt to use the cradle and scythe, as they knock the rice down and occasion great loss..— The implement employed in cut ting is the ordinary hand sickle. The riso should bo laid after it is mowed for one or two days (ac cording as the Weather may be) on the stubble t > dry. When the straw is cured it is ready to be bound in sheaves and either hous ed or securely stacked. The ordinary cleaning process ill the absence of threshing, spread out the sheaves upon a plank floor or yard with impacted 'clay, with ordinary flail sticks. When by this means the grain has been sep arated from tiie straw and winnow ed from a rough ecaffeld, ten or fifteen feet in hoight, all the light fragments of straw and false rice, called “tag,” being borne away by the least wind. It in now ready to bo measured, sacked and shipped to market, there to be pounded and barrell ed up for exportation. It has been lemons Ira ted in practice, time and again, that or dinary sandy pine iand that will not produce over seven or eight bushels per acre of corn, planted side by side in the same field with corn and white rice, will yield fif teen bushels of the latter. The rice sells readily at from SI.OO to $1.30 per bushel. On fair uplands'that will make a’bale of cotton t<f two acres, forty bush' el* of rice'in not considered an ex* iraordinary production to the sin gle aero. Wo shall be pleased to eiF rd our turner friends any informa tion they may desire respecting" the cultivation of rice, which is by far the most profitable crop that can be raised in middle and low 's.' Georgia.—Telegraph and llos-> t eager. ’ ‘