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icals from the postoffice, or remov
ing an leaving them uncalled fov is
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a I fraud.
“Old John" ttnd tlid Widow.
Near the town of Millville, Cal', is
ft Cosy little cottage hidden by fra
grunt onrtFtms of clematis and sha
ded all day long by ft grove of spread
ing "ftlcs. Tfntfl rriocntTy this cott age
bad as its only occupant a young
widow, who, though rosy and full of
life, kept all admiring bachelors at a
distance. Down the road a mile or
so lived John Simpson, a wealthy
and childless widower, whose life had
been embittered because of iormer
domestic unhappiness. “Old John,’’
as lie was called, rolled in wealth and
wallowed in wine, and people said
that h was going to the dogs by
lightning express. And so lie was.—
Larly last June Old John’s prolong
ed dissipation made him wild. He
buckled on a broadsword one day
and mounting his best horse galloped*
across the country, slashing at every
thing that fell under his eye. Reitcli
ing bhe widow s house he leaped from
bis horse and chased the widow round
the woodpile in the yard. When he
stopped fur breath the widow snatch
ed t!it sword. In another .instant
shehui tangled Old J,dirt's boots in
the clothes’ lino and ho was a prison
er. When Old John recovered his
Borises he found himself in bed in his
own house, with the widow watching
by his side. The widow told him that
she meant to master him the rest oi
his lifi v . He looked at her and laugh
od. In tuo weeks they were married
and Old John has been perfectly do
cile, as will as Okvo ted, ever since.
Bravtstooi-j at A n ctioa.
Ino proprietor ol a mnrblo yard
opposite Woodlawn cemetery Brook
iyu, business being slack, mndo up his
mmd to sell by auction bin stock of
headstones, tootstonos, monuments,
ctrn, and retire from active business.
'lt is a somewhat unusual thing,’ said
the nun. 'as folks don't throw on
their tilings and drop around t > buy
ft monument as limy would a d..shoan
or potato masher. St: 11, as thotv mv
six thousand dollars’worth of mon
nnmnts, why, iho thing may imi go
after all.’ Hut, after advertising in
tho city papers and industriously can
vassing the adjoining towns, there
was uo otto at tlm sale but tho auc
tioneer, th“ owner and a reporter.
‘Well, gentlemen.’ the auctioneer he.
gan, “what am I offered for this tine
—or—suppose we Wait awhile V
fso they waited, and about two
hours later a country carryall drove
up, and a lady ahglited and began to
examine the monuments. Soon after
a prominent city publisher arrived,
and the group of five persons stood
around for a few moments, ml then
went their several ways. The owner
Badly remarked: “The thing won't
go.”
DOUBLED AND TWISTED,
A laughable circumstance onco
took place upon a trial in Lancan
shire, where the Rev. Mr. Wood was
examined as a witness Upon giv
ing h i s uanm, Oltiwelt Wood, the
judge, addressing the revor. ttd per
son, sat I: “Pray, Mr. Wood, how
tlo yon spell your name?” The old
gentleman replied:
• 0 double TANARUS,
I double U,
K double L,
Double U,
Double O, D ”
Upon which tho astonished lawyer
1 aid down his pen, saying it was tho
most extraordinary nnmo ho had ever
nn t in his lift*, and alter two or three
attempts declared lie was unable to
record it. While the court was con
vulsed with laughter.
A colored boy in Paducah, Ky.,
only ten years old, lost both his
hands in a cotton gin, and it is now
making a living by blacking boots
with a brush strapped to his wrist.
w. A. SINGLETON. Ell ,f: Prop'r.
VOL 6.
Gin INS OF GOLD,
!
Envy waits at virtue’s elbow,
Si- f-respect is the first step in all
reformation.
Self examination is the otdy true
looking-glass.
110 who agrees with himself agrees
wlth'-dKioX" '
Think not tif doing as you like;
do as you ought to do.
Speaking without thinking is like
snooting without taking aim.
There is in every human coun
tenance either a history or a proph
ecy.
Anger causes us to condom in one
what wo approve of in others.
In trifles, infinitely clearer than in
great deeds, actual character is dis
played.
That man liaa attained to wisdom
who can do everything at the proper
Lime.
If you would not have affliction
visit yon twice listen at onco to what
it teaches.
Every moment of timo may l
made to bear the burden of some
thing which is eternal.
Wound no one’s fir-lings nnneos
sarilv; there are thorns enough in the
path o! human lite.
What you keep by you may change !
and mend, but words once spoken you
could never recall.
Pride is not a bad tiling when it on
ly urges ns to hide our own hints
not to hurt others.
It is the ea-iest thing in the world
to discover all the defects of a man
when we do not like him.
It is always in our power to make
n friend by audios; what, a foily, then,
to make an enemy by Irowns.
Affliction is a seh ml wherein th
best scholars are prepared for the
commencement day of the Deity.
Any <uio may do a casual act of
good nature, but a enuiiniMtUn ol
them shows it is a part of >ho tem
perament.
The more hnmbia w are the more
kindly wo shall talk, tho more hum
ble we shall grow.
Had habits are the thistles of tie
henrt, and every indulgence in ttiuin
is a seen from which will spring a
new crop of weeds.
What is often termed shyness is
nothing more than refilled sun.-e and
an indifference to common observa
tion.
If a man were to set out calling
everything by its right name lie
would be liable to bn knocked down
belore he went a gra.it distance.
A lie will die of neglect sooner than
in any other way. The only reason
<\hy stunn lies grow so largo is that
everybody pets and feeds them.
The greatness of a victory may be
estimated from the severity of the
c-mliiet. A man never has to strug
gle more desperately than to over
come self.
Tne only trim way to deliver another
is to be thoroughly delivered yourself;
so long as you are in the fire it is im
possible for you to pluck another out
of it.
Falsehood, like poison, will gen
erally be rejected when administered
alone, but when blended with whole
some ingredients may bo swallowed
ttnpercelvcd.
Sincerity is like traveling in a plain
beaten road, which common'y brings
a man sooner to his journey's etui
than byways, in which men oli.cn losu
themselves.
Notiiing but frank intercourse with
independent minds, nothing but dis
cussion on equal terms will keep a
thinker effectually humble and con
scious of falibility.
The aspersions of ijhelers may be
compared to fuller's earth, which,
though it may sietn dirt to you at
first, onlv leaves you more pure and
spotless when it is rubbed off.
You have only one life of proba
i tion to live, and the magnitude of its
I value no mortal can compute. If you
are truly wice, you will redeem the
time with every possible effort,
BUENA VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GA„ DECEMBER 15,’1880."
You find y ourself refreshed by the
presence ol cheerful people. Why
not make earnout effort to confer that
pluasure.on others ? You ni l find
half the battle is gained if you never
allow yourself to say anything tha
sounds gloomy.
Eccentricity is harmless,' *lWt -it
never can bo commendable; it is one
of the children of tint prolific failing
—vanity. And whether it shows it
self in singular manners or peculiari
ties of it is clearly acted upon
Irom tho presumptions supposition
that tho many uro in tho wrong, the
indvidual in the right.
GOLDEN WORDS,
Tite following extracts arc culled
from an address by Hon. Horatio
Seymour to the Young lady students
of Wells Finale College, Aurora, N.
Y.
Youth is beautiful in the eyes of
age,and it looks with admiration up
on the uncertainties of tho fu ure,
and tho faith that loads them to look
forward to happiness anti success.
Seif cheating is the most common
fraud . It is a good rule, when you
tii.d that subjects ot importance or
olij. ets of value are matters of in
diff rence, to conclude that there
are some thing's which you do not,
Imt which you ought to know.
There is nothing you can learn
alimi any subject which will not give
it new interest in your eyes. The
deeper your learning tho letter, but
tho quality of knowledge is like that
of gold,which, although it isreduc.nl
to the thinnest leaf, yi-t makes all
the things glitter that it touches.
Kurlaca knowledge is lightly spo
ken of by the Earned, but it is in
form..tion worked out in tho past by
toil and study until it is brought
within tho reach of all.
In tho tiourse of my Ido I have
studied all cla-srs of m it with care,
and. as a rule, I have found those to
l><! tho most cheerful and wise whose
habits and observations have giveuthe
wi lostrangetotiteir mental action,and
have brought within .tbo scope of
their thought tin; most varied top?
ios, although they may have been
learned with regard to any of them.
Men do not live in the same world.
When we look around us we see that
t uy live in very different houses ;some
are humble bouses, but poorly finish
ed; others are costly residences,
adorned with paintings and statuary,
and everything that art can do to
gratify the taste.
Wo make the world in which we
live. It is more disreputable in one
that is dull and barren than it is to
make our home in poor and deifapi
dated louse.
Intelligence will enable ns to copo
with the problem of li c, to endure
its misfortune, with fortitude and to
bear its successes with mod
eration and wisdom.
The office of the eyo is to give
facts to tho mind. Things aro not
seen m a true sense men ly because
they ai’O brought within the range of
the vision, but when they have stir
red the mind and thoughts have been
(involved.
So strong are the enjoyments of
looking upon famous objects, or of
treading upon ground made sacred
by event-, that men cross broad
oceans to visit them. And through
after life they are wiser and happier
for the knowledge thus gained.
It may be that some aro gifted
with aptitudes in certain directions
beyond others; for arts,or for science
that give them peculiar advantages
in their pursuit--.
When lam visited by those who
foil no sympathy with nature and
say they have no taste for country
life, 1 ranko up my mind they do not
like it because they do not know
enough obont the world around
to enjoy its beauties.
Now one who Ims reached the age
.a. ieiiMocaATia newspaper,
-A eaKL r- ■■
Ul threcSfgn'o years and Fn would,
upon reduction, bo willing to rub
out iifmt rxpcjio'nco, in tbo tile tlm
sorrows which have softens- this ,-hur
auUjr;,tl!9 mistakes which h- Vo t, night
his wisdom, or wrong d< qg which
ftTTiwAver Fc'gri'ftd,- rtflti wlfieli by
th ur influence, have raada the gold
en threads which may bo formed in
tho.texturc of It is moral character.
IIOW HE WAS HURT.
Those of our readers who have
boon “under liro" will endorse this
graphic narrative of the way shells
explode. One day, down in tho I’o
uinsuhi, after McClellan s battles, a
wounded negro was brought into
camp.Ho had been shot in the legwilh
a piece of shell, and was really very
badly hurt, lie was a plantation
negro, and entirely a non-combatant.
After he got better he was describ
ing to tho doctor, otto altoruoon,
how ho had boon hurt, and it in this
manner:
"‘Ye so?, boss, I was on do ole
plantation when dem Yankee gun
boats dey coino up do fibber. Ole
uiassa and missis had gone days
afore, and tvs niggers were lef on do
plantation.’’
“When wo seed doYankees a-eom
in’ up da fibber we ail .run away an’
hid in do woods. By-um-by dc boats
begun to shell do woods, an’ Lor’-a
uiassa, wlmt a noise dey did make !
“Shells as big as flour barrels was
frowd into do woods and knocked do
trees down. It was auful hot, I toll,
you'aiuHt bought de world was a-com
in' to do end.
“De niggers prayed; but it didn’t
do no good, as do Yankees only
fro wed do more shells, and de Lord
seem deaf to da partitions of do col
iud persons.
“Some of dem shells would go
high ttji ill do air and say, ‘Whar is
he? Whar is ho?’ like as of doy was
a lookin’ fo’ somobo ly.
“D m, by-utn-by, dey would say, ‘1
sco him, 1 see him,’ami wid dat, dey
would 'oust, and all de little pieces
go skirmishing around do woods aft
ter do nigger.
‘•lt was otto of deso little pieces
cotch me in de lag. and dul’s how I
got hurt. It was a powerful warm
day, massa, a power!ul warm day, I
tell yer.”
A NOVEL EGG FARM.
ThoFuraHonelsland arc about thir
ty miles from the south of Sau Fran
cisco Bay, which is tho homo of inti i
inoiablc see-fowls. When San Fran
cisco first began t> be a city
its constant cry was for eggs. To
supply the lack of eggs the project
of stealing those of the gulls and
the muiirs of the Farailone Is
lands was undertaken, and it proved
successful, and has ever since been
maintained. The birds are too
plenty to count or to cstmatn, ns
may be inferred from the (act that
the egg-gatherers bring in often,
or used to gather five hundred
dozen in a day; and a great many of
the nosts are inaccessible, a
great many others devasted bv the
rivalry of the birds thorns. Ives, and,
of course, a large part of the birds
at any one time are not laying, The
egg season is from May to ;j August,
ami if even lour hundred dozen is the
rule, the harvest would bo pretty
near 500,000 eggs. The quarreling
beiweii tim gulls and the unihrs
lends t > the loss of a good many
muhr eggs,which thi gulls at." every
chance destroy. The egg business
is conducted by a company which
has the right. It pays egg-gatticri-r
--five cents a dozen a dozen, and sells
t hem in San Frheisco at a considera
ble advance.
More lighthouses can bo seen from
B:ack Point, Con., than from tiny
other summer resort on tho New
England coast. On a clear evening
you can count fifteen lights.
A PRINTER'S CASE,
Among tile many good things of its
kind, the following,from the Chicago
Times, ns expressing the fid. fity and
fertility of the reporter and the t eh
idealities, tho lightness, tho strength
ami weakness in humor and Iratlty ol
tho “craft”—tho craft of emits—is
one ol the bos.r. It is H ifo to say that
none but a printer could have made
the report:
“You are a printer?’’ said Scully,
as a rather good-looking young man
was run from tho bull pen into the
chute at the west side court.
“Yes, sir.”
“This isyonr first case ?”
“It’s the first time I over worked at,
a ‘case’ in this 'alloy,"
“ Did you grt drunk
“The boys ‘set' it up and gave me
tluij'sti ing. ”
“I don't fathom yonr remark.” said
iiisllonor. putting one hand up to his
ear and bending forward.
“They ‘proved’ the ‘matter’ and
then left tne on the ‘stone’ lor ‘dead, ’’
“Impossible! Dead! Deserted you
in the snow drift ? Or do I get, the
right glimpse of what you are trying
to shew ?”
“I will ‘correct’ it myself, with
your permission.”
“Do so; goon.”
“I was soon ‘alive,’ and when I
was ‘shoved over’ I was ‘standing,”
“Young man, you speak i:i para
bles, Can’t you elucidate ?’’
“I will try, Judge. They put a
‘good heading’ on me and gave mo a
prominent place at, the top of tho ‘col
umn’—”
“Young man, yon aro getting the
court muddied. Come to itio point.’ ’
“That’s where I came to at Ju.-t
a ‘full stop.’ They ‘locked’ mo
up
“Yes, now I understand you - ’
"Ain! planed me down with the
‘mallet’ —”
“Now I don’t. You won’t stick to
Mho rule— ’’
“If I had stuck to the ‘rule’ the
‘stick’woul i have saved mo.’’
“I don't get on that.’’
“Neither did I, It was I who‘got
off'’
‘•Well, go on; go on;” said lli3
Honor, tipping b ick the chair with
the resignation of a man who gives
up his seat in a crowded car to a
woman,
“Th.-u they put me in a ‘chase’—”
“What! chased you ? Impossible!
Hut go on,"
“And thou they got out their
‘shooting stick’ —’’
“Now, look hare, do you mean to
say they hud to pull their revolvers
on you ?’’
“Not exactly, but they tioka ‘mal
iet.’ They then sent mu to ‘press,’
and here is the 'impression,’ as you
see."
“Is there anything the matter with
you, young man V’
“No, sir; only I nsk to bo ‘trans
posed.”
“I am told by a friend of yours,
who lias just climbed down from the
back of my ehaii, that yo i have spo
ken in the technicalities ol your pro
fession, and that you swore off on
the first of January, but you were
persuaded by a lot of boys that the
old year had not ended, and so you
fell. It I lot yuji go, and give you an
almanac that contains a list of tho
eclipses, and tolls when it will thun
der, will you promise never to look
into a groggery again; never, no nev
er to sit up ad night, and that you
will use your efforts, to the best of
your ability, to bleach your nose?
Do you swear it ?”
“I do, with ‘italics ”
“Then go away, and be good."
ifft l> <1 lB
The census of Utah reveals the fact
that the Gentile population has in
creased 220 per cent., while the
Mormon increase has only been forty,
live per cent.
ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION, $2 00
STAY ON THE FARM.
'I ho practical Farm r relates an in
stance ol a nice boy in tic country,
who, having come into posession of a
few thousand dollars, vi-ited an un
cle in tho city, an old merchant, to
get his advice about investing )i.u
capital in business?. “I lave been in
business nearly forty years, and have
accumulated a fortune, but it Ims
been done at a fearful risk, heavy
responsibility, constant toil and wor
rying anxieties. A dozen times I
have been on the verge of bankrupt
cy and twice I have loen sorely
tempted to take my own life. Of ten
inon who commenced business here
when I did, only one bftoido myself has
succeeded—some dragging families
to poverty and disgrace. Go back to
tbo farm, young niau,” said the mer
chant, “and invest your money in
land and settle down on it and do a
safe business. Take my advice and
keep away from the city and its de?
lusivo avenues Quiet and content on
a moderate competency in the eottu
try is the best fortune I Could wish
you.”
THE FAM Eli'S LIFE.
There is a quiet about J,he life of a
farmer, and a nope of serene old age.
tlitit no other business or profession
promise. A professional minis doom
ed sometimes to feel that ais powers
are waning. He is do< to see
young and stiong men p ss in the
race of life. He will be last where
once he was first. But tho farmer
goes, as it were,into partnership with
nature —he lives with treos and flow
era —hebreathes tne sweet air of tho
fields. There is no constant strain
upon his mind. His nights are fill
ed with sleep and rest. He watches
his flocks and herds as they feed upon
tho green and hilly slopes. He hears
tite pleasant ruin lull upon the wav
ing coni, and trees he planted in his
youth rustle above him as lie plants
others for tho children vet to be.
F.u.Sjsuoods, —lf only persons
could stop tolling falsehoods! It
seems a v -ry littie things to tell a
“nitof a lib;” lut weie people truth
ful in speech and uoi tun, the millen
nium would be here. We should
then know our friends as we can nev
er know them now. iVomea would
not kiss others with lips t..rough
which words ol slaudor have but
just dropped. “Men would not vow
to love torevor, when they only
mean, “I will amuse myself lor a lit
tle while." People would not litter
sentiments they do not feel, nor re
peat sectarian or party cant, because
it sounds well and is applauded. Dis
honesty would be at an end, All the
wheels of -ho world would be greas
ed. Everpthiug would go smoothly.
Not that it will over bo done. Each
one will wait lor tuo other to stop
lying first, bueause ft truthful persons
seems so defenceless in in a world of
falsehoods.
Mario Muscat took a walk in New
Orleans with a rival of the man whom
she was soon to marry, in order to toll
him that ho must cease iiis attentions.
Her affianced husband saw them to
gether, and, refusing to hear her ex
planation, peremptorily broke his
engagement. She therefore desired
to die, and tried to throw herself be
taro a locomotive, but sho slipped on
somo wet grass, and only lost a kg.
llor lover is now convinced of her
loyalty, ami will marry her.
True virtue is like precious odors
—sweeter the more incensed and
crushed,
The girl who chalks her cheeks
thinks it is bi tter to mark the miss
than to miss the mark.—Eiic Her
ald.
Africa has 70,000 Protestant con
verts, Uto result of the 'tons of thir
ty three missionary societies.
riUMiTfVR Ao.nmTil-The Mex
ican anil Indian n.. ,i., of harvest
ing their grain arc very primitive,
similar, iuded, to thosoi f Eastern
con dries in Bible timer. Thowh i t
is cut ly imml w.tli a sickle, ami ta
ken unbound, in carts to the thresh
lioor. This consists ol a round plat
ol level ground in an clvntm.l | l*ce,
fifty, dim hundred, or two bun'lrctl
feet in iliuinctcr,as tho i irm is n largo
or n small one, tho surface of v h li
is pounded or tioilen as hard ns hC
incut floor. Amend lh edges of
this, poles arc set in I lie centre, and,
when everything is ready, a thin In. -
or is raked d>>wn between the central
p ie of grain end the ciido of poles,
on! then a llock of goats or thorp,
or sometimes of pomes, is demon
around over the g-aiu until it has ad
been lienten out of the heads by their
lent. The straw is then thrown out
of the circle of poles, and the wheat,
.pfethed1 up towards the centre. An
other lot of the uiithrlrdiud gi aip is'
taken down and lie ’ ope ra fi on r> pe at ~
cd until the whole is threshed. I was
f ucibly reminded of the Seripturn
injunction which lurlmdc* the He
brews to muzzle the ox that trod out.
ihe grain. Thu w innowing is also
done i t ibo Biblical way. After tho
wheat lias been separated from tho
straw, it is gathered up into a heap,
and w hen a brisk breeze arises it, is
thrown into the teeth of tiie wind,
which blows away the chalF.tw bile tho
wheat fa Is by it self on the clean floor.
Memphis, in providing for the
b. inage of its houses adopted an en-
NO. li
; rely new system. The scwcis are
ot more than six inches in diameter,
until they have extended such a dis
tance that the drainage they are like
ly to receive will more than (ill one
half tne pipe. I hey are then increas
ed ui size slov.lv, but always with
the view of keeping them as small as
possible, while large enough to do
tin ir wotk. They are used only for
house drainage. Storm water and
soil drainage are otherwise disposed
of. The house drains are uniformly
four inches in diameter, not trapped,
and, starting clear above tho roofs of
the houses, are curried .own. to tho
culverts. Fr-sh-air inlets are provi
ded in the st :■ -o that the house
drains and sewers have a constant
current of air passing through them.
John T. liaymond, the actor, says
of bis experience ia London: ‘‘The
people I met won most and. iightful.—
They received us . i,;. ated u
splendidly—as indivi:mils—but they
couldn't understand it. Of course
tb.i character of L 1. Sellars was
plain enough, and they laughed at it.
The Colonel's speculations took enor
mously. but oil tho localisms of tho
play fell flat. When the stove fell
down in the third act, it ail went for
nothing. The audience didn't see
anything funny in that. On the Oth
er hand the trial scene, which we
consider rather ordinary, was one of
the few redeeming features of the
play in the eyes of the Londoners.—
They were almost willing to regard
that much of it as a success.'*
A French engineer asserts that the
fatigue of the eye when reading by
aid of artificial light is due more to
the want of fight than the excess,
for the pupils are more dilated in a
room brilliant y illuminated than
they are by daylight, dilation pro
produces fatigue of the muscle con
troling the mechanical part of the or
gan of vision. Ho suggests that as
the electric lig! t contains a large por.
gortion of chemical rays, the remedy
may be found in the use of yellow
tinted globes for the lamps. It does
not seem to have occurred to the
physicist that what is wanted is an
electric lamp capable of tlisfusing the
light.
Meager county, Montana, has a
wonderful cave. An arched pass 30
loet wide, many (eel. high, and 70
long conducts the visitor to a spa
cious apartment six feet in width and
100 feet in length. From this room
passages open on all sides intoother
chambers, one of which is estimated
to be 100 feet square, with a dome
shaped ceiling rising to a height of
eighty feet.
A young man of society out mak
ing a call may wear two watches and
yet not know when it is time to
go home.
Porter, pounding on the door -
“Get up right oft', I say, or jou’ll bo
too late. The train's been gone this
last half hoi