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The' newspaper law says if nm person orders Ins paper iliscotitinu. H ho must pay all arrenges, ortho pul) lisher muv continue to semi It nnti payment is niaiie, ami collect the wlmle amount. Also nit net<on lot fraud can bo instituted against any person, whether ho is responsible in it financial view or nut, who refuses pay for It's subscription. Any person who takes n paper regularly lorn th'postofUee—wheth er directed 10 his name or nnoih-'r'q or whether ho has subscibed or not ls responsible for the amount. Tho courts have il oiih il that re fusing' to lake newspapers or period icals from the postoffice, or remov ing an leaving them uncalled fov is pritiia facio evidence of alternation 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