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W. N. BENNS, JAMES 0. RUSS. Editor*
“LET I’ll).HE BE EIGHT.”
Subscription, $1.50 in AdwaMfi.
VOLUME V.
BUTLER. GEORGIA, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 8. 1881.
NUMBER 19.
* BNGM8H KISSES.
TMthaoalali t« 1 Im BstnIkmi mt Aaillesa
OaenlatiM.
The women ol England (soya Polydora
Virgil), in the Parisian, not only aalutfe i
their relations with a kisa, bul all per
sona promiscuously; and, this ceremony
they repeat, gontly touching them with
the lips, not only with grace, but without
the least immodesty, Such, however, as
are of tlio blood-rovnl do not, kiss their
inferiors, but offer tho lwck of the hand,
ns men do by way of aaluting each other.
Erasmus wntos in ruptures to ono of hia
frionds on this subjoot. 4 ‘Did you but
know, my Faustus,” aaya ho, “the
pleasures which England affords, you
would fly here on wuiged feet, and, if
your gout would not.allow you, yon
would wish yourself a Disdains. To men
tion to you one among mauy things, hero
nro nymphs of the loveliest looks, good-
humored, easy of acoeus, and whom you
would prefer even to your favorite muses.
Hero also prevails n custom never enough
to l>o commended, that wherever you
come everyone receives you with a kiss,
and when yon tako your leave everyone
gives you a kiss; when you return, kisses
again meet you. If anyone leaves you
they leavo you with a kiss; if you meet
anyone the first salutation is a kiss; in
short, wherever you go kisses everywhere
about; which, my Faustus, did you onco
tosto how very aweet and how very
fragrant they are, you would not, like
Solon..wish for ton years’ exile in Eng
land. but would desire there to spend tho
whole of your life." Antonio Perez,
Secretary to tho Embassay from Philip
IT. of Spain, writes thus to the Earl of
Essex: “I have this day, according to
tho custom of your couutrv, kissed, at au
entertainment, soveu females; all of them
accomplished in mind and beautiful in
person.” Dr. Pierius 'Winscinius,. his
toriographer to their Mightinesses tho
States of Frie/.lund, in hiaChronijck van
l-'rinnlandt, printed in 1G02, informs us
tlmt the pleasaut custom was utterly uu-
prnuticed and unknown in Eugland (just
ns it is this day in Now Zcalund, where
sweethearts only know how to touch
Host's when they wish to bo kind! until
tho fair Princess lioiijx, the daughter of
King Heugist of Fridfclauil, “pressed the
beulaar with her lipkiua". (little lips) and
salubod the amorous Vortigem with a
liusjen (little kiss.)
■ICiMft OF FOUL ]prEATHGH.
Th* hollow wind*
begin t* ..
The cloud* look black, the gUa# U low;
Th* aoot (alia down, tho apaafela atop,
And KpUfera from their cobwvba p#ej\
Laat night tho atm want pala to tad;
Tho moan In haloa hid her bead.
The tailing ahopherd haaaa* a algh,
For, aoa. a rainbow apaae th* iky.
The walla era damp, thn ditch*• amoll;
Oloacd ta tho pink-eyed pimpernel.
Hark I how the chdra and table* crack.*
Old Betty# Joint* are on tho rack-
liar eorna with shooting P#ln# torment bar,
And to her bed untimoly aeut hor.
lioud quack tho ducka; tho erw-fowl cry;
Tba dtatant hlUa are looking nigh.
How roatleaa are tho raoritug ewine t
Tba buay tic# dlaturb the kina.
• w o'er the graaa the * wallow wlnga
• oriekoL too, how shanl lie ataga 1
_ _a* on tho boarth, with relret paw#,
Site wiping o’er bar whlakared Jawrn.
blow;
H
dmnay* right ascend#, -
wok to aartb it band#.
Low o’ar the g
Tba orichat, tc
Puaa oo the hearts, with i
Hit* wiping o’er bar wblak
Tba amok* from chlnmayi.
Than, arranging, baoh to aartb it bat
The wind, unatauy, Vtwva aroond,
Or settling In tba south la found.
Through the clear stream tho flaSira rlea,
And nimbly uatcb the Incautloua fliea
Tho glowworm# uumerour, oloar and bright,
Illumed tho dewy MU laat night.
At dnak tins aqualld toad waa aaen,
Like quadruped, stalk o’er the green.
The whirling wind the duat otaya,
And In the rapid eddy play*.
The frog baa changed Ida yellow
And in a roaaet coat la dmaed.
The aky U green, tba air ia Mill,
The mellow blackbird'* role* ia ai
The dog, ao altered In bln taeta,
Quite tuuttou-bouo* on gram to ti
ltehold Uiu rooks—how odd tbolr
The) imitate the gliding kite.
And eeeui praclnitata to fall,
Aa if they felt the plaroluc kail.
The tender colts on bjick do lira,
In fl#ry red thi
’Twill
|«esbig by.
through elands to mount lb# tkloa.
%U .
No working in the Holds to-worm
Hie lino, (> Harkl how tba chum aud tables
ih," I* Incorrect, aa the cracking—Uiat la, coutrao-
tlon—ludlcatoa fair woathor, from tba diminution of
moisture.—SlilmntU.
The Shopping Bills of Wires.
American shopkeepers and American
shopped alike should lie'interested in
tho caso of tlio large silk-goods firm of
Dclronkom .(• Feeirody in England
against Mr. Mol Ion for tho recovery of
tho cost of lirasbbs furnished to his wife
w ho pi he had forbidden toJijciur bills.
Tho case wont from court to court up to
tho Homo of Lords, wliero it was finally
decided' by that august tribunal hi favor
of Mr. Mellon. Tho Lords expressly
rulod that “ Where a husband makes
his wife an allowance, and expressly for- .
l>i<ls'fcet]foiuilJfp of equipts iujije uauo t | for hor photograph a month ago, not
ho cannot bo held liable for any goods having seen her since she was a child,
sho may obtain by drawing njwu his | Two days ago had come on invitation to
The Ribht Man After All.
Viola had found a lover ; or at least,
John Ellsworth aspired to that dis-
tinotion. •. >.
Two years ago, the paternal Ellsworth
had given John on his twonty-third
birthday » deed of a small, good farm
near his own. John set about muking a
home for himself, wit); one of his half-
dozen sisters to manage it, and went at
his farming in earnest. Aba tho younger
female portion thought him rathor a de
sirable object to monenvor for.
Perhaps that was ono reason why
Viola had l>een so gracious to him. It
was something to securo, without an ef
fort, attentions that all the other girls
schemed for. But John Ellsworth did
not realize her ideal. Under her calm
exterior, sho dreaded romanoes of tho
most vivid rose-pink.
One Juno night, driving over to see
his lady, John found hor with au unu
sual 'flush on her fair^yorfng face. She
rodp with him— acoeptiug his invitation
iu4map*g^M-c.ourse way thut was dread
fully discouraging.
It cuino out, after a little while, that
Mi*. Momington, a groat-uunt, hod sent
creditand, indeed, that, unless the
seller can show that special authority
has boon conferred by tho husband on
tho wife, tho sollor cannot recover judg
ment” In this caso it was admitted
that the goods charged for were of a
kind suitable to Mrs. Mollou’s rank and
condition of life, but the presumption
usually created by such on admission in
favor of the seller was held to bo over
ruled by an absolute conjugal prohibi
tion even where the seller was not ap
prised of tho prohibition. It was inti*
muted during tho argument that shop
keepers, before giving a wife credit,
might readily protect themselves by
making inquiries of tho hnsband, and
the Court hold tlmt duo care aud caution
could not bo considered to have been
exercised where this was not clone.
Altered Times.
In the year 1671, on tho socoud read
ing of n bill in the House of Commons
for building a bridge over tho Thames,
nt Putney, uftor a number of members
had delivered speeches iu ridicule of the
idea, Sir Henry Herbert, just before tho
House divided, rose and said : “I hon
estly confess myself an enemy to mo
nopolies. I am equally opposed to mad,
visionary projects; and I may be per
mitted to say that in tho late King’s
reign several of these thoughtless inven
tions were thrust Upon the House, but
wore most properly rejected. If a man,
sir, were to come to the bar of the House
and toll us that he proposed to convoy
us regularly to Edinburgh, in coaches,
in seven days, and bring us haok in
seven more, should wo fiat vote him to
Btcllam ? Surely we should, if we did
him justice; or, if another, that he
would sail to tho East Indies in six
months, should vro not punish him for
practicing upon onr credulity? Assur
edly, if we served him rightly.” The
journey from London to Edinburgh is
now accomplished in something like
eleven hours. What would Sir Henry
think now, could he arise from his
crave?
No New Jokes,
There is absolutely nothing new in
jokes. They nover die. The jokes that
aro familar to us are those which our
ancestors enjoyed. They ore found in
tho most ancient literature that remains,
and in hieroglyphics of the mined monu
ments of dead empires, Their unchanged
existence through these ages does not al
low that those, liko tho earth and man,
may h>ivo been created by a process of
development; they must have been
created Absolutely. At some stage of
the work of creation the jokes were
launched into being, and they hare con-
tiuued to revolve by their own gravity,
the same ns tho planets. None of them
be annihilated any-more than matter,
ipeiul a couple of montlis with her (the
great-aunt) in Now York, and she was
going to-morrow.
use denying,” the young
fellow said, his voice growing lmoky,
41 thut I’m sorry for this. I don’t know
wlint will come to you from this. You
are not contented hero ; you never will
be until you havo had an experience
beyond it—perhaps not then. I am not
wise enough to tell you now, X sup-
r e; but I love you, Viola. Mind, I
not ask you now for any return. I
shall wait for wlint the fnture may put
your heart tc say."
“Indeed, I do care for yon,
John; and you can’t blame mo far
wanting to go. Aunt noods me, you
see; and no one does here, particularly.
And I’ve never seen anything of so
ciety.”
“ I know, dear—”
“Aud I shall not forget you,” inter
rupting him. “I shall always think of
you "—giving him her hand.
“For two whole montlis,” a little
sadly. “ Good-by, then," kissing the
hand ho held. And then Viola found
herself alone, and then went to finish
her packing.
Viola’s next two mouths were delight
ful. Sho was ulways prettily dressed,
and Frank Thorpe passed his valuable
time besido her.
John Ellsworth called ou her tho
night after hor return.
“You look well and knppy,” ho said,
scanning her face.
41 1 am,” she said ; and she told him all
about her delightful visit.
“ And avo you going to settle with
us now ?”
“ Oh, no! I slay here only a few
days. My aunt i* coming for me os she
rotnrns from a visit she is paying,”
“Poor fellow!* Viola said, as Ha.
went clown the moonlit road. And then
Frank Thorpe’s dreamily sad gray eyes
had been out for a walk. On the way
she met Frank Thorpe, as she was very
apt to do. He accompanied her homo
and entered the house with her. Then
Viola, feeling bright herself, began lect
uring him on his purposeless life.
“ If I were a man—'’’emphatically.-*
“Thank heaven you are not 1 How
ever, go on.”
“ Yon put me out, Mr. Thorpe ; why
don’t you do something? ”
my waking life.”
“Yes, and get yourself and me talked
about by everybody. Not that 1 core,
certainly,” hurriedly to recover her
blunder. “I shall ohooso my friends
where I please,” making matters worse,
of course.
“ You see,** he said, loaning forward
and laying his hand confidentially on
her arm, “ I cannot bear to see a clear-
hearted, honest girl lowering herself to
the ways of these artificial, brainless
girls, who have been bred up all their
lives in the business of catching a hus
band. You don’t need any paltry ambi
tion. Wait until you find a man worth
falling in love with, and then many lum.
Wait forever, if you don’t find him.”
Viola sat motionless with astonish
ment. if any dnmb thing had found
voice sho would not havo been more
amazed. And she felt so fully oalled to
administer advice. While she sat, his
hand still on her arm, aud Iris eyes still
on her faco, tho door opened, and John
Ellsworth wus ushered in. Viola swept
toward him with eager, outstretched
hands.
Frank Thorpe, bcingdisturbed by this
new-comer, who was called John, aud re
ceived with such an outbreak of enthusi
asm, gathered himself up and loungod
away.
John Ellsworth was in town for a fort
night. Viola always accepted his invi
tations, and when the time caxuo for
their fulfillment there was some unavoid
able obstnolo in the way.
Thou Lent carte and there was a sud
den cessation of gayety. John was
called Away by his father’s illness, snd
Viola felt the inevitable loaction.
It was alike everywhere. In the nar
row circle out of which sho had ccdho
thore wero jealousies and heart-burninga,
and petty scheming—no t»otter and no
worse than sho hod oome to know in tho
past weeks, though possibly less dis
guised by smooth, conventional polish of
manuor. Wait till she met a man ahe
loved! She might wait until she was
gray and blind. Thera had nover ap
peared one to whom she could give a
second thought, unless it was—well, per-
luips, John Ellsworth, if tho lifo that
would follow with him wore not too nar
row to breathe in ; or Frank Thorpe, if
hoArere not too lazy to spook. And
then, by contrast, there came a vision of
Mr. Nicolson and all his wealth.
If sho had shown the first symptoms
of her moods to Mr. Nicolson ho would
havo desisted from his attentions nt onco.
Hero was youth and beanty in a statu
esque state of perfection. That wus
what ho wanted—tho statuesqueuess,
and everybody considered it a settled
affair. * 1 „
I think Viola began to oousider it her
self. Sho had just one letter front Jqhu
Ellsworth after his return, aivd he said :
“ I lovo you, Viola, and am waiting for
you.” •
She did not even answer the letter.
But she was cross, even with Mrs- Morn-
ingtoh, for two days after it
Then sho wus seized with a fit of
homesickness, -end, had her lriend not
boon taken Tory suddenly ill, nothing
would have kept her there. Mr. Nic
olson came more frequently than over;
in lus way, very kiun and considerate. .
One night in early spring Frank
Thorpe cuino und took Viola out for a
drive.
“ Yon avo lookiug tired. Wo may not
have another such night for u month,"
Frank said.
In the half hour they did not speak
hull' a dozen sentences, und yet when lie
set her down nt her own door, and hold
her lmnd for a iniuuto us ho said “ Fare
well," Viola felt thut' they were nearer
each other than ever before.
Viola was ono morning summoned to
the drawing-room to meet Mr. Nicolson.
In the occupation of tho past woeks sho
hnd had very little opportunity to think
about him or his purposes. No
girl ever went to meet the final question
with loss determination ns to her answer.
Sho know liis errand tho moment sho
entered tho room. Not that ho was con
fused or hesitating, or in any way dis
concerted.
about something else. You needn’t be
entertaining any more.”
Miss Rawdon,” tbe servant an
nounced, and that put an end to it all.
Viola reasoned herself into the con
viction that sho was in lovo with Frank
Thorpe, and, if not actually in that con
dition, she might easily find herself
there.
The crisis was not far off Coming in
irom an errand, that night, she fonnd
all the dimly-lighted house empty, and
wont on from room to room till, in the
library, who opened the door ou Frank
Thorpe.
“Since you wero not at home, I came
to find for mysolf a volume Mrs. Morn-
iugton had promised me,” he oxplained.
But ho closed the door as ho gave her a
oliair, us if tho tete-a-tete were a part of
hia plan.
“We might ns well begin with a dean
record,” he said, with u greut deal of
hard earnestness in his voice. “ You are
not my first lovo, Viola. Not quito two
years ago sho jilted mo. I was in on aw
ful spoonv condition—there’s no denying
it—and for a few weeks thought it
would bo tho death of me. One morn
ing my letters and trinkets camo bock
to me. There was not a word of ex
planation, aud I did not ohooso to ask
any.”
“ And the young lady’s name?”
“Emily Prescott”
“Emily Prescott? Why. that is the
young Indy I met this afternoon. Just
homo from abroad—in Paris mourning.
Her fathor and mother both died some
where in Frauce in tho spring, and she
eumo home with tho Mortons.
“Viola,” staring at her with eiq*er
eyes, “ I can’t believe it” dropping into
a chair. 44 My poor durling— ,r
“It seems to me, Frank, that tho lit
tle arrangement wo entorod into ten
minutes ago might us well bo quietly
annulled. Your ’poor darling’ is nt
present with tho Mertons, Hadn’t you
‘bettor go up there at onco and rear
range tho programme ? ”
“ I don’t know. Violu. yon will think
me ii Bcouudrol, but I believe I lovo nor
yet.”
“ Of course you do. Who doubts it ?
There, don’t say a woman can’t bo gen
erous.”
After that nothing could keep hor in
Now York, andthreo difvs after reaching
home, driving her old-fashioned pony-
chaise over tho green country road, she
came upon John Ellsworth walking, and
ho accepted her invitation to ride.
“ It is good to l»o here again. I waa
thoroughly homesick.”
“ When nro you to bo married ? "
“Never! " with a burst of vehemence:
unless you—oh, John I” with a hys
terical sou.
At homo a tologram
Moruington was dead.
Mrs. Moruington died poor. Bfko hud
spout all her money. So Viola tfas uok
an heiress after alL < ’
come up before her, and she forgot John
Ellsworth’s shady brown one*.
Mis. Momington came and took tho
young larly away, ond Frauk Tkorpo
was once again hanging around her—a
most desirable matrimonial prize.
Tho Christmas holidays come and
went. Frank Thorpe loungod in on
Christmas day, and was paler and more
listless than ever.
Mrs. Momington gavo her first bit of
advice to hor young oharge that night.
“ Frank Thorpe is not u man to trifle
with, my dear. I think he is in lovo
with you. You could hardly do better."
, “ hotter ?” raising her broad lids
for a full, steady look. “I hadn’t
thought there was to be nny calculation.
No, Frank does not care for me, aunt/’
“ If he ib in love wilh
the bettor. But come;
ball must l>e attendod.”
Violu went to that bull, and fr—- : -how vi
Frank Thorpe, who. unconscious of of- I ( ] U y < your
waited her. Mrs.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Brief and Comprehensive.
Years ago, when the subject was
broached of digging the canal that con
nects Portland, Mo., with Lake Sohago,
there was, of-course,Much opposition on
the part of that considerable class found
ready ou all occasions to bitterly oppose
internal improvements of every kind that
can appeal to tho pockets of tax-payers.
In ouo of the. towns interested in that,
cimal a meutiug of tho legal voters was
called to see if tlio town would plcdgo its
oredit if necessary; or would recognize
bv vote the necessity of tho work.
The meeting was opened, and tho op
ponents were out in full force; aud they
nod engaged a penurious old deacon,
who nover paid a tax that ho could avoid
paying, tourgue their ease. They thought
ho could do it. Ho could worry tho
other side down, and wool- them out, any
At Brownville, Texas, the itcent snow
storm was the first in fourteen years.
Farm hunds are said to be mere scarce
in Thomas county, Gs., than tliey have
been since tho war.
Three hundred German carp have been
placed at various points up the St. John
river in Florida.
A Louisfhna planter says that he con
siders twenty geese in a cotton Xeld equal
to one hoe-hand.
Negroes are said to be leaving Gadsden
county, Fla., in such numbers that it
amounts to an exqdus.
Toccoa, Ga., having an existence of
eight years, has acquired n thrifty popu
lation approximating a thousand soul*.
Thousands of robins most in a cano-
hrakc about fifteeu miles from Homer,
I^a. They are taken to Horner by the
MCkfull.
A clipper ship, brought into Fort
Royal, S. C., loaded with guano, came
up to the dock at hulf-tido, drawing
twenty-ono feet.
In I/mhdana the census exhibits 47.1
Chinese, 819 In irons and halfbrecds,
eight half-Chinese, one We»t Indian and
or.e East Indian.
N. Gurbini has been elected President
of tho Jfow Orleans Fruit and Produce
Association, a new and ponnanont organi
zation of whajesalo fruit dealers.
In the lost four month* of 1880 col
poi tuers of tho American Biblo Society
supplied 1,918 destitute families and 955
destitute individuals with the Biblo.
Harry Stephens, the veil-known col
ored body-servant of Hon. Alex. H.
Stephens, who died last week, nt Craw-
fordvillc, was the ownctof perhaps $20,-
000 worth of property. 1
Tho St. Augustine (Fla.) Press says
that the majority of the farmers there
abouts, instead of rahing their own com,
buy it nt tho city store*. A cotton planter
could scarcely do worse’thun that.
An amendment of tho constitution of
Arkansas has been proposed in the Leg
islature, providing that the general elec
tions shall occpr every fourth year, State
Representatives Iro elected for four years
and tho Legislature n*vt every fourth
years.
The Perry, On., rianie Journal rays
that the old plautatsu*. system, almost
universal in Houston county before the
war, has gone to its death, and small
farm* now constitute the order of agri
cultural work. Them are very few ten-
mule farms in Houston.
There is u proposition to form a new
North Carol in* county ou
of parts of Stuuiisou, John
atoll, Wayne, Cumberland and Har
nett counties. Trtwo are several propo
sitions to cut off portions of Wake county
lor the formation of new counties, hut
Raleigh ia averse. I
At Scarboro, da., John F. 'look* is
President, Warriii 11. Wood, Treasurer,
id James A. Fiji
Tho moderator read tlio warrant, a
stated the objeck-of tho mooting; and, .u i V ii » l V
a few very choiqp, clear, aud pleasantly j ‘First iMiuomq ^
spoken words, ho staled the facts in tho | Sen
caso, and made known what it was
hoped, by tlio liberal and progressive
element, tho town would do.
And (hen the peppery old deacon
sprang to his feet, and opened hia
magazine of genera] abuse nml scurrility.
He talked an hour and a half—ft tempest
;ly, fabio and insinuating stuff, which j
otary, of th
The obj. ’ ’
continue the
ju No. 1.
of the orgunizntpu is to d
practice of profane swcarii
By a clerical trror, iu making up the
list of cities 'or census bllllctiu No. 4<
the population j>f one enumeration dii
triul of Atlan11 was omitted. The true
My dear younp lady,” ho said, “ I
want your permission to ask you a per
sonal question.”
“You have it, sir," sho said.
Aud thon, in a speech which was moro
like a sot oration than anything elso
Viola hnd over heard, ho offered her his
hand and fortune.
Sho went up-stairs to Mrs. Morning-
ton.^sayin^:
surprised 1 ”
“At what?”
“ I refused Mr. Nicolson.’ 1
done it 1 And I am so
“ Perhaps you will be sorry that you
have said no. , „
4 4 Perhaps. I shall never lro nur-
prised at anything again."
A servant announced Frank Thorne.
“ Aunt, shall I—” and pansed. Even
iu her reckless, over-excited mood she
could not complete her sentence.
“S^all you bo kinder to him than
you La\'e been to Mr. Nicolson? ”
“Don’t ask me.”
So Viola wont down to see her visitor,
who wo* at tho full tido of his languid,
tired indifference.
How very ontertaiuiug you nro to-
ersationnl powers are
i something to bo wondered at,” Viola
norcan .nothor bo added. NojJeisouwho ; « iSSmffily0£hmed bis uaual sta-
attompta uritfiuahty cau got recognized j J
nB a wit, but uuy mau can, who has „ m,n.t« that nltrht »uid at laat, impatiently,
talent for memorizing tho old stock ■ *^od?ioSSnif man who "Entertaining?" opening
ml funny atones, and for working , ™ , arith mild wonSer. -II pun.*
' Fikes and
theni over 6n oil occasions.
vsoikiug j certa |^]y Tyaa uoTougor young. Having
‘ lost one wife, ho was now looking for an-
.[other. When he was presented to Viola
thrill vibrating along tL endless chain of [|i£ m ™to Uke'jt. ^ KK ° 1?!jU
/ had ceased being
Viola rr
shade n
uid nis
supposed tlmt
vour sliare of the interview. Howover,
if vou like, I’ll begin. You ure not
looking as well as usual this morning.”
“Thank you. What a very promis
ing*
population, Ofn. Walker, Superintend
ent of tho Census, says, is 37,421. not
34,898, as previously announced,
Ileal estate in the business part of Or
angeburg, ?. C., isos high ns in Chnrlei
A cotton factory with four Clem-
Goorgin, says that in 1876 the improved
lands in Georgia amounted to 28,737,689
acres. In 1880 the aggregate had grown
to 29,815,581 neres, the increase of four
years being sufficient to provide farms of
100 acres each for nearly 11,000 families.
He says the colored people arc buying
farms of from twenty to fifty acres, and
getting excellent returns from them.
Evidently ho does uot believe in th
decadanco of Georgiu.
Charleston (S. 0.) News und Courier
To-day the leading men of Mi.-aissippi-
Arkunba* and Texa/* aro Georgians, and
in every county aud neighborhood, al-
mo«t, in those Slates the controlling
spirit is a Georgian, Governor of
Texas is a Georgian, so are both the Sen
atom from Mississippi. She has given
three Governors to Texas, two to Mis
sissippi, a Governor and Senator to Ala
bunm, and her ablest und best men to
Arkansas.
The manufacture of brick is one of the
most imjMirtnnt indu?triesof Macon, G:l
The material furnished by tho laud be
low Macon, in the Ocmulgce swamp, and
a tract extending across the Brunswick
railroad is said to be unexcelled in tho
USEFUL HINTS.
A wry warm bed-quilt may be im
provised by pinning newBpapere between
two shoots.
Tbosb who onght to know say that
mitry thrives upon oooked food, and
ke their oorn boiled.
Do not keep rubber shoes or sandals
l the feet longer than necessary,* They *
should never be worn in the house.
For soft corns dip a piece of linen
cloth in turpentine and wrap it around
the toe on which the corn is situated
night and morning. The relief will be
immediate, and, after % few days, tho
corn will disappear.
Lip Salves.—One gill sweet oil, ono
ounoe white wax, three-quarters of an
ounce spermaceti. Dissolve Ihem over
the firo and stir till cool. Another—
Oil of sweet almonds, eight ounces;
white wax, three ounces; spermaceti,
throe ounocs; rhodium, fifty drops, and
white sngar candy form on excellent lip
salvo.
Ants.—Red ants may be banished
from a pantry or store-room by strewing
the shelves with a small quantity of
cloves, cither whole or ground. We
use the former, as not being so likely to
get into the food placed upon tbe shelves.
Tho cloves should bo renewed occasion
ally, as alter a time they lose their
strength and efficacy.
Mosquitoes, says somebody, love lroef
blood trotter than they do any that flows
in tho veins of human kind. Just put a
couple of generous pieces on plates near
your bed at night, and you will sleep
untroubled by these pests. In tho
morning you will find them full und
stupid with tho beef blood, and tho
meat sacked aa d-y ob a cork.
Stains.—Remove ink-stains from car
pets with milk, und afterward wuah
with fine soap, a clean brush, nud warm
water. For grease spots use powdered
lunguesia, fuller’* earth, or buckwheat.
Sprinkle on tno spot, and let lie until
all the grease is absorbed; renew tho
earth, mngueuia^tf buckwheat until all
the greuso is removed. Time and pa
tience will in this way removo tho worst,
of grease spots.
To Detect Genuine Coffee.—Thoso
foolish person* who buy ground
coffee may find out * whether
what they buy is genuine cof-
' not by tho following method:
world for purity aud firmness. The Ma-
Tclegraph and MoJapuger thinks
there is no ret^on why (^number of j Tako a wine - glM8 or 8 ton&ler full oi
manufactories should not be -increased, wa ter, and gently drop a pinch of tho
and the production of pottery, pipes, I ground coffeo on tho snrfaco of tho
drains, etc., for the whole titnto cutercd j wa * e ^» without stirring or agitating;
genuine cofleo will float for somo time,
“P 0 ‘ whilst chicory, or and other sweet root.
An old negro near Stockton, Clinch will soon sink; and chicory or oammol
county, Ga., has invented for himself n will causo a yellowish or brown color
..imiinn nro.,,-.. triina nn .i to diffuse rapidly through tho water,
l ® - ‘ *,■ __ ’ j while pure coffeo will give no visible
has planted several hundred. lie plants UU( j or Mich circumstances, for a
them among the green pines, und leaves considerable length of time,
the piues standing to protect the orange Starch Polish.—Tho old receipt of
. Ho clears upa6pacc twelve feet j stirring, the^ starch with
square and plants an orange tree. Two
gentlemen l i\ Clinch county propose to
plant n gtive on an island iu the Su
wanoocho, near Dupont. A gentleman
an udjolniug county c ntompla^ps set
ting out several thousand trees.
A Charlottesville, Vn., correspondent
of tho Richmond Dispatch says that
Georgo Rogers Clarko “lived within
light of Charlottesville, though two
miles and n half away. I havo been to
tho old house-place. There is uot u ves
tige of tho buildiugs left, but tho situa-
atlon commands a most bountiful view
of •* large extent of country, looking
westward and northward, and southward
down thoTUvanna valley, and is on the
Southwest mountains, on the farm now
owned by Mr. ^.todfield. The Clarke
family owned thousands id acne of land
in that section, embracing oven Edge
Hill, the residence of the Into Thomas J.
Randolph, five miles away."
disgusted oven soiueof lus own support
Ho closed -With a grand peroration cm
tlio power and majesty of God, and tlio
wickedness of interfering with the plans
of the Almighty Architect of tlio
Universe. 1
“Mr. Moderator,” ho said, with a grand
spread of his arms, “if there had been ,•”••• --- ----- '., , ,
intended a water communication between t ont attnchmejiti is established, fhe crop
Harrison amTPortland—cutting through of upland rice raised in tho county will
Cumberland County liko a river- the probably reach about 40,000 bushel*.
to cottonemp b bevcon 30,000 ami
flow He’ll muko it flow; and He won’t 40,000 bales.
see puny, insignificant;man interfere> with | Tho HU , wer of t i, 0 citizens of Memphis
1,12011 “'"•'i to tha politic of bondholders or oredi-
Old-Time Epizootics.
Thanks to tho general use of steam in
traveling, it is comforting to refleet that
in spite of the very great annoyance aud
inoouvouieuce cuused by the Iiorso dis
eases iu recent years, particularly by tho
epizootic which prevailed in the year
1872, tlih inconveniences to which peo
ple aro subjected nowadays in the lack
of horses aro really much less grave thuu
thoso which our ancestors had to con
tend with, iu similar cirumstunces. For
our forefathers, the prevalence of #• se
vere epizootic meant the cessation of all
traveling aud transportation, whether
/or long or for short distances; except
ing, of oourse, such service as may bo
don© by oxen and by men on foot. Somo
idea of tho gravity of tlio situation is
BUggcstoil by th* following extracts from
an old Birmingham newspaper: On
February 4, 1760, notice was published
that “thehorees belonging to tbe Bir
mingham stago conch aro so much af
fected by the present 1" is temper that pre
vails among them, that its journies nro
obliged to be discontinued until their
recovery.” And in the week following
another notice appears under that of
February 11, 1760, “tlio horses belong
ing to tho Birmingham stago coach nro
still so hnd that it would ho dangerous to
attempt their going with tho coach this
week; but on Monday next, tho 18th,
Mr. Peyton proposes that the conch shall
set out to go from hence m usual ; after
which ha hopes it will meet with
other interruption.”
And Dondon Skinflint sat down. And, • tips of tho old corporation of Memphis
on the instant, up roso ’Squire Snm Lit- alleges that tho compromise proposed by
tlefield, with his pleasant, jolly faco all j the taxing district, twenty-five cents on
^"Mv^Moibrahir, 1 ire reflrl in the flood t «><> 111 »*««"»■ ' hc
Book that in n certain place there was duo the old city, say $1,248,982, is fair,
lack of water; and Abraham digged a just and honorable. 9
ll there, and called the plaeo Boer-
Shcba. Sir, I move the previous ques
tion. ”
The thing took wonderfully. That
simple sentence—“and Abraham digged
a well there!”—spoken in Littlefield's
quiet, qunint, ond yet significant way,
brought down tho house. Tho motion
for the “previous question” was carried:
then tho main question was put: Should
tho credit of the town bo given to the
great improvement?—and it was carried
by an overwhelming majority. And yet
it was said, by those who ought to know,
tlmt, had some friend of the measure
followed old Skinflint in an exhaustive
speech, tho chances would havo beeu
decidedly tho other way.— New York
Ledger. .
Corn-Mkal Fritters.—Two cups oj
white meal, three cups of sweet milk,
one-half cup of flour, four eggs, bouton
separately, a tablespoonful of melted
butter, a tesspoonful of salt, two tea-
spoonfula of baking powder. Beat the
yelk, to them add tlio milk, butter, salt
and meal, beat hard, add next the whip-
. . .f vw r«TZk v .— ; . . | pea wnites, uuu lusi. iuo nour ami najc-
the advances. There was a shade more j ’ jSSSjMViS-w ! in £? bowder. Drop at once into boiling
°* V* *« 5U - e r er ^5' i o* languor in hi» manner, ononis sad now. He Memea laboring under tho , j. a ( \ £ a t with u lard liqviid sauoe. The
pciunted and^prolonged, forever ^y^infer-* orj ft y eyes bad an added shadow ; but he lmpresaion that there had been an earth- ! batfer should bo just thick enough to
miMble reaults, affecting soma being to 1 Km ,gh( no explanation from her. Tift®* . . (rl . .. drop readily frow tho spoon. Make tho
•very igt to One frosty, sparkling morning Viola 1 Andao thejo lifts iKion, Ihoro; talk | fritfoi* of small siaos.
Macaulay s Memory.
Ben Jodboii won from his adrairiug
contemporaries the epitliet (d “rare”—
chiefly, if I remember aright, from his
powers of memory. But Ben’s powers
wero small compared with thoso of Ma
caulay, who recited tho greater part of
tho Lay of the Lost Minstrel after read
ing it for the first time. Ho used to soy,
snd ho was l»y no means a boastful man,
that if by any chance, all the olisting
copios of Milton were to bo destroyed,
he thought he could replaco tho first six
books oi Paradise Lost Irom momory.
44 He seemed,” said his friend Mil man,
“to have rend everything; aud to remem
ber all that he had read.” I have soon a
letter of tho Into Sir William Stirling
Maxwell to a friend, entreating him to
a*k “Mr. Macaulay, who knows every
thing” for some piece of information.
“Macaulay," said Sydney Smith, 44 can
you recite the list of Popes?”
44 No,” confessed Mncanlov, “I get
confused with tlio Johns and Gregorios."
44 Well,” said Holism, who was pres
ent, “cuu you manage tho Archbishops
of Canterbury?”
‘•The Archbishops of Canterbury!”
wus the disdainful reply, “any fool can
. . . . ., . <■ . . ; recito liis Archbishops of Canterbury
Legislature providing for four examining j backwftvdH »
medical Iroards-at Pensacola,Tallahassee, j And ho1)0gaiJ {rom Howley back to
Jacksonville and Key West—which shall Pole, when his hearers declared them'
examine applicants and grant certificates | selves satisfied.
to those only who arq qualified to dls-i _ . T , , . .
, t ' .. , , The love of truth and real desire of
charge the functions of ft medical expert. | i mpr ovoment, ought to bo only motives of
Kr.exvillc, Tcnn., was laid out in 1791,
and named in honor of General Knox,
of Revolutionary fame. The fir«t Ter
ritorial Legislature assembled there in
1794, the constitution *1 convention in
1795, and the first State legislature iu
1796, The *eat of government was re
moved to NuhliviJlc in 1810.
Richmond Dispatch : If Mr. Jefferson
Davis docs not nroke numerous changes
in his proof-sheets, be is not the man he
was in 1850. Then ho hud a habit of
changing the reporh Fs notes to such an
extent that Iuh speeches seemed ulniost
to be new one*, or rather not the same
which lie hud delivered in the Senate.
A bill is pending before the Florida
„ ( wax
candle is not nearly so good,in tho opin
ion of an experienced laundress, os a
much cheaper plan. She uses mutton
suet instead of wax ; it makos tho starch
firmer. Before roasting or boiling your
joint of mutton, cut off whatever suot
you want from it. “Bonder ” it in a tin
cup and set it aside in a jar; it will
keep six month's or longer. Tho fat
about the kidney in a hind quarter is
the firmest and best, W'hen you waut
thick starch for collars aud shirt bosoms,
tako four tuble-spooufuls of starch to ono
quart of water, and u piece of tho clear
suet about the size of a walnut. This
makes a good quart of starch. ||
Tlio Rothschild Family* *
.The Pari* bruueh of this famous family
is quite largo. The dowager Baroness
Rothschild, "bo lives in the family man
sion in the Rue Lafltto, hud five children.
Barou Alphonse, who is at this time tho
head,of tin; family; Baron Solomon, who
died a long time ago; Baron Gustavo,
Baron Edmond, and the Baroness Nath
aniel Rothschild. Tlio venerable down-
veritable fountain of charity.
Sho gives uway hundreds of thousands of
francs every year. In summer sho live#
in a splendid county houso at Boulogne,
where apartments for each ono of her
us and daughters are kept constantly
order. Baron and Baroness Alphonse
Rothschild live iu the old mansion in the
Run Saint Florontiu, wliero Talleyrand
once resided. They aro gay and ex
tremely fornl of society, aud are seen
everywhere in the mouae; tho Barones*
is one of the most accomplished equest
riennes who frequent tho Bois do Bonl*
ogne. Her husband is an enthusiastic
patron of the turf, ne has stables at
Meautrif und at Chantilly, and lavishes
millions on them. Solomon Rothschild
was a delicate-minded man, fond of con
versation, books, pictures and society.
His widow has a daughter who will, it is
said, bo tho richest heiress in tho Paris
family. Baron Gustave is tho only ono
who has married outside tho family. Ouo
of tho sons of the lute Nathaniel Roths
child has just purohnsed the splendid
mansion of Count Tolstoi, in tho Aveuuo
do Friedland; and another, namod Ar
thur, spends his lifo in collecting books.
It is said that no ouo else in Franco ex
cept tho Duke d’Aumalo possesses such
estimable treasures of rare editions and
luxurious binding as this young Roths
child. Ouo of tho latest additions to tho
delegates in Paris of tlio phenomenally
rich family is Baron Adolphe Rothsohila,
of Naples, who has closed ont his busi
ness, aud retired with tho sorenitv of
conscience promoted by the knowledge
of the possession of a fortune of one hun
dred and eighty millions of francs. He
may bo seen now aud thon in the Bois,
lolling negligently in the blno carriage
winch is ono of tlio peculiarities of the
hous# IIo is a great collector, and will
spend hnndrods of thousands of frauoa
upon any trifle which ho happens to con
sider that lie must have. Them is but
Catholic in tho family, and that is
the young Dpohcss of Grammout, who,
it will bo remombored, was the daughter
of Baron Rothschild, of Fraukfort-on-the
Main, one of tho richest members of tho
foroup.—Par in Letter.
Tho bill is not retroactive, ond will not! augmentation; and, where these
disqualify physicians now practicing. i cere, no difficulty
! bracing the trutn
cuived
Rreiidom Ifaygood, of Emory Colh
be made of em- | Tate occurring
soon ns it is per-
Poets Laureate.
OonoArning the institution of Poet
Laureate, Disraelji remarks (“Ouriof.l-
tie* of Literature”) that “ the custom of
crowning poets is ns ancient as poetry
itself. Frederick tho Second orownea
the King of Verses at Ancona in 1220.
Petrarch received tho laurel crown at
Koine on Easter duy, in 1841. Maxi
milian I. founded a poetical college nt
Vicnno, in 1504. In England tho
King’s vorsifior existed os early as 1251.
Gulielmus Poregrinus and Robert Buc-
ton acted as royal poets to Rioliard tho
First and Edward tho Second respective
ly. Chuucer assumed the titlo of Poet
Laureate about 1369. Tho title of
King’s Poet Luurcato first occura in tho
reign of Edward tho Fourth, whon John
Key held the office. The first patont
was granted in 1680. The ode per
formed ut tho court on New Year’s day
was discontinued in 1790. Since the
appointment of S. Daniol, in 1599, the
office has. except in the oaao of Dryden,
beeu hola for lifo. It is passing strange
to find the nan;©* of Dryqeu ana Nahum
Tate occurring in the 6amo list. Mr.
TeunvHon was appointed Foot Laureate
1850 mi the death of War-l* worth.