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Carpanters and Builders, ATHENS, - - - - GEORGIA, Are prepared to do all manner of work in their line in the best manner. Parties in Oglethorpe wishing bujjpiing done will save money by addressing them. nov27-ly JOHNNIE MINES, Fashionable Tailor, BAIRDSTOWN, GA. Will be in Lexington the first TUESDAY in every month, prepared to do all work in his line. Cutting and Making, in the latest style, done at short notice. Satisfaction in sured, and prices very low. my7-tf MANSION HOUSE Third Door Above Globe Hotel, BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA. AIRS. B. M. ROBERDS, (Late of painesville, Fla.,) Proprietress. BOARD TWO DOLLARS PER DAY. "FRANKLIN HOUSE, Opposite Deupree Hall, ATHENS, GEORG I A. 3KB** This popular House is again open to the public. Board, $2 per day. W. A. JESTER & CO., feb4-ly Proprietors. LITTLE STOR E^CORNER HERE THE CITIZENS OF OGLETHORPE will alwav find the Cheapest and Best Stock of FANCY GOODS, LIQUORS, GROCERIES, LAMPS, OIL, Etc. J. M. BARRY. Broad Str., Athens, Ga. ap9-tf ’ L Schevenell & Cos. ATHENS, GEORGIA, DEALERS IN Silver 4 Plated Warejanc| Articles, Etc, Having BEST workmen, are prepared to REPAIR in superior style. 4SS“* We make a specialty of SILVER and HOLD PI .ATING watches, forks, spoons,.ete. 250.000 CIGARS NOW IN STORE, OF THE Choicest Brands ! which we offer at GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. Also, a large stock of SMOKING AND CHEWING TOBACCO, SNUFF, GENUINE MEERCEAUM PIPES AND ALL SMOKERS’ ARTICLES. A liberal discount allowed to Jobbers buy ing largely. Come one ! Gome all! 1 ; KALVARINSKY & LIEBLER, Under Newton House, Athens, Ga. W. A. TALMADGE. F. P. TALMADGE. W. I. TALMADGE & CO.. dealers in HUTCHES, CLOCKS AND JEWELRY, SILVER AND PLATED WARE, Musical Instruments. Cutlery, CANES, GUNS AND PISTOLS. Clocks, Jewelry, Guns and Pistols REPAIRED in the best manner and j warranted. General ENGRAVING done i for J ' MOSES ' I SPECTACLES. College Avenue, Opposite Post Office, *Pr3O-tf ATHENS, GA. j TIE BEST AND SAFEST INVESTMENT j is year’s a subscription to the Echo. Hhe €Mdl)ot|K €cil}o. Jnasby on inflation. f X SOADB, ) YVHBPB is thjb Btatk uv Kentucky, f August 23*1875. j The Corners hev red the speeches uv Honest Ole Bill Allen and that other gile lees patriot, General Saihyoofcl Cary, uv Ohio, on the momenchus subjiek *av More Wfehey, till they hev been worked up to a state uv absloot madnis. The Corners are j Ist the same ez all other impeeeoon iouir-they jprnt More Money, and the idee of Honest Ole Bill Allen that to get it, al 1 you hed to .do wuz to ishoo filled *|ir idee3 qy fiuansc eggsaekly. it is Sim-* pie, effeetooal, and ezily understood. I determined to put the id&t irTto prac tice, and to that end sejested to my friends the organizashen uv a bank uv ishoo, under the name and title.uv “The Onlimited Trust and Confidence Compa ny uv Confkirir X Roads ” I hed some trouble to git the citizens into it, but I finally succeeded. I ex plained to the people that more money wood be an advantage to the debtor class wich, az nine-tenths uv ’em wuz in debt to Bascom, settled them. They hailed with joy any movement that wood wipe out their scores and givcjtheia new credit at his bar. To Bascom and them ez I intended to hev ih tlje management I showed that more money meant increased trade, and ez the money wood all be ishood on our credit it woodent cost anything but the printing ;we coodetit lose anything. So the bank wuz started. I wuz made Pres ident ; Issaker Gavitt, Cashier ; Bascom, Vice-President; with a board uv Direc tors consisting of Kernal McPeltcr and the venerable Deekin Pogrom. We put the Deekin on becoz he is bald-headed, and therefore respectable. His bisnis is to sit in the front window reedin an in flashen paper. It inspires confidence. Yoo have to watch him to keep him from hevin the paper upside down, but in this community that don’t matter, ez very few know the difference more’n he docs. It wuz forclinit that our bankin room wuz lokatejj immejitly under the printiu offi i, ez we kin let the printed notes wich we ishoo down to the President’s desk by a rope. It saves labor, wich is a great pint in a ins tit notion like ours. The theory on with our paper is ishood is very simple. The company ishoo it and the people take it. We have no time fixed for reuempshun, fur the beauty uv the bizness is that we don’t never intend to redeem. Our notes reeds : “ The Onlimited Trust and Confidence Company of Conledrit X Roads (wich is in the State uv Kentucky) promises to pay the bearer One Dollar.” We don’t say when, where, or how, and therein is the strength uv the enter prise. Our first ishoo was reseeved with some hesitashen. “ Where is our secoority ?” demanded one farmer to whom we offered it in pay ment for a load uv wheat. “ Faith in-the company!” lansw r ered, lookin at him pityinly. “Gaze onto that face,” I resoomed, pintin to Deekin Po gram, who rather spiled the effect by brushin off a fiy that hedalited on his nose ; “ look at that face and then ask for secoority.” . “ When is it to be redeemed ?” asktan other. “ It never wants to be redeemed;” wuz my answer. “We shel be libral, and when a note wears out we will give you another. Wat do you want it redeemed fur? Money ishood on faith needs no redempshun. We buy your produce with it, you yoose it to by your goods,and so it goes round and round in a cirkle, dispensin blessins wherever it lites. Ez long.ez yoo take it wat do yoo want uv anything else?” Another remarkt that it wuz his idee that paper money wuz all to be redeemed in gold. “ Gold,” Lpromptly replied, “isplayed out. Gold is merchandise. Our Demo cratic brethren iu Ohio hev desided that money is simply promises to pay, and that it don’t matter on what material that promise is stampt —whether gold, silver, iron, shells or copper. We shel put ourn on paper, cos it’s the,cheapest. We shel hev no extravagance about this bank.” Pollock, the lllinoy disturber, in the most brootal manner, refoozed to tech it, and consekently his biznis suffered. One shoemaker from Ohio followed soot, and undertook to argoo agin*o much money, lie asserted the heresy that addin to the volume of currency didn’t add nothin to its. power. Sed lie : “I will illustrate so the Corners will comprehend. Yoo take a gallon uv whis ky and add to it three gallons uv water. Well, yoo have four gallons in the barl, but there ain’t but one gallon uv square drink in it, alter all.” I ansered him by readin copious ex trax from Cary's speeches, Bho win that troo prosperity goes hand in hand with plenty uv money. They finally wuz convinst and took our money for their grain; we hed to pay them at the begiuiu twenty cents a bush el more lor their wheat than other money wood hev got it for. But we didn’t care, for we knew we could make all uv it we wanted. It wuz astonishiu wat a era uv pros perity set in on the Corners to wunst. Money became ez plenty ez blackberries, and everybody hed their pocket full nv it. Land went up in valyoatwo hundred per cent iu a week, and the price uv the laessaries nv life raised eltally. Bascom put up his new w hisky from 5 to 25 cents per drink, au| sich wuz the run uv trade heTied that hiswife and his oldest son, 1 Jefferson Davis Bascom, both hed to stand in the bar to wait on customers. TJie bank bought all the wheat aud other produckshtins,and paid for’em m ifs own money, and we paid sich prices ez hap pened, for money wuz with us no object., The high prices brot all the trade for j twenty miles around to the Corners, and 1 QRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1875. all the dealers who wood takethe money stood up to their middles in it. Then my turn came. Pintin to the crowds uv people in Bascom’s, I sed to the dbnbter: “ Wuz trade ez brisk ez that afore in fl&shion?” which settled him. Improvements are bein projected every day. We hav organized a company to build a branch road from here to Seces sionville, another over to Bloody Fork, and still another to Little Andersonville. Five turnpike companies hev bin organ ized, and three factories hev been actooal lv commenced. The water power on the Run jist above the village is to be improved at wunst, and Bascom is already at work on a wjng to the back part of the grocery. Town lots are doublin in valy'oo every day, and new addishuns are being petvooally laid out. Everybody isspeke latin, and everybody is gettin rich. There is flush times here. The people are all inflash ionists. I am President uv all these companies, and I see no reason why I can’t put em through. It is troo the price uv every thing hez gone up. The commonest nig ger labor is now up to $8 a day, and a pare up pegged shoes is wuth S2O, but wat difference does that make? So long ez Simpkins, the printer, kin work his press we kill manufaekter all the money we want; and ez long ez we kin manufock ter money, why there must be prosperity. Bollock and Joe Bigler we ,hed to git rid uv, for they wuz**prejoodissen the pea-, pie. agin us. Pollock’s stocks uv goods and his stbre wuz wuth, in the old times before the' era uy iniashun, about a thousand dollars, and Bascom and me and Deekin Pogram went to him and of fered him that sum for his property. “ Things hez raised,” said he, and I won’t sell for less than $2,000.” We promptly accepted that price, and I sent a boy back to the bank with a bushel-basket to bring the money. When it came Pollock refoosed'to take it. “ I want greenbax.,”‘sed he. “Our money iz jest ez good,” sez T. “1 know it,” sez lie, “ but I have a prejoodis in favor uv other money.” There wuz a crowd about, and it wood never do to acknowledge that any money wuz better than ours. I took Bascom to one side. “ G. W.,” sez I, “ here is a golden op portunity to do two things. First we git rid ot a disturber, and second we give confidence in our ishoos. Rake up what greenbax yoo hev and pay him in em. G. W. consented, and it wuz done in the presence uv the people. “ Yoo see,” sed I, “my friends, that we’d jest ez soon pay greenbax cz our own money.” The crowd wuz reashoored and took our hills ez readily ez ever. Pollock and Bigler gave up the property, but they didn’t leave the village. On the contra ry, they went to the tavern to board and jeered at us wuss than ever. They sed they hed made more money by this transackshun than they hed ever made in the Corners since they hed land ed there. Deekin Pogram, Captain McPelterand Issaker Gavitt hev all paid off mortgages on their farms, and I hev borta farm an am gettin up plans for a manshun befit tiif my new* position. I am now happy and contented. I hev finally struck my gait. Bank Presidentin soots me—l wuz born for it. Ef I wuz relijijustly inclined Ishood pray for Willyutn Alien until I hed corns on both knees. Petroleum V. Nasby, President nv the Onlimited Trust and Confidence Company. P. S.—There’s a triflin but still em barrassin trouble okkurecl. The onprece dented run on Bascom in cousekence uv the plentifulness uv money exhausted his stock ov likkers yesterday, and he sent to Looisville for more. The likker merchants *uv that mersenary city, ez a mere matter uv form, generally require Bascom to pay for goods afore they ship em, to avoid mistakes. He sent oil sl,- 000 uv our money, and they refoozed to take it! Ez he paid all the greenbax he had to Pollock he can’t get supplies, and the Corneis is parched. Wat to do we don’t know. We don’t see why our money shoodent go in Looisville. It will take two weeks to ship enough grain to Looisville to exchange for the likker, aud then comes another terrible quondary. Bascom demauds the grain uv the bank’s ishoos ! And he insists on hevin it at wat its wuth in Looisville in greenbax ! Finanseerin ain’t the easiest bizniss in the world. Our money startid well enuff on the cirkle, but there seems to be a break in it. Ef we let Bascom hev that grain and take our own money for it, were is our profits ? Ef we don’t let him hev the grain, the Corners will die uv drouth ! And ef he gits it our money must be taken for it, for it’s all he’s got. I cood cut the Gorjen knot by failin, but then the wheat wood be at tached. I shall hold on and see wat a week will bring forth. Providence never deserted me yit. p. V. N. How Greenback Paper is Made.— All the paper lor the money issued by the United estates- Government is manu factured on a sixty-two-ineb Foudrinier machine, at Glen Mills, near West Ches ter, Pa. Short pieces of red silk are mixed with the pulp in the eugine, and the finlVhedTstuff is conducted to the wire without passing through any screens, which might retain the silk threads. By an arrangement above the wire cloth, a short piece of fine blue silk thread is dropped in upo?i the paper while it is being formed. The upper side, on which the* blhe silk is is the one used for the face of tbe notes, and, from the manner in which the threads are applied, must show more distinctly than the re verse side, although they* are imbedded deeply enough to remain fixed. The mill k.guaided night and day, by officials, to 1 prevent the abstraction of any paper.— j Taper Trade Journal, i THINGS H GENERAL. “I bay, Pat, whai are you about— sweeping out thft 9 room ?” “ No,” an swered Pat; - am sweeping out the dirt, and leavrng tbe room.” 1 A lazy fellow* falling a distance of fifty feet, and escaping with only a few scratches, a bystander remarked that “he was too slow to fall fast enough to hurt himself.” . Josh Billikgs remarks : “The only way to git thru this world and escape censure and abuse,ls to take sum back rode. You kant travel the main turn pike and do it.” ? / Ay editor at. a diotter party being ed if he would have some pudding, re plied in a fit ot abstraction : “ Owing to the press of more important matter we are unable to find room for it.” “If Jones undertakes to pull my ears,” said a loud-mouthed fellow on a street corner, “ he will just have his hands full now.” The crowd looked at the man’s ears and thought so too. “ Do you keep matches ?” asked a wag of a country grocer. “ Oh, yes, all kinds,” was the reply. “ Well, t’ll take a trotting match,” said the wag. The grocer handed him a box of pills. A man whose experience indicated that he was staggering from the exces sive weight of a brick in his hat, being asked if he was a Son of Temperance, re plied ; “ Hie—no—no relation—not even an acquaintance.” The Astor Library contains 150,306 volumes, which are insured for $200,000. One hundred and twenty-seven thousand five hundred and seventy-nine books were consulted during the past year, and the original endowment of $400,000 has been increased to $734,336 55. A clergyman says: “lonce married a handsome young couple, and as I took the bride by the hand, at the close of the ceremony, and gave her my warmest congratulations, she tossed her pretty face, and pointing to the bridegroom, re plied, “ I think he is the one to be con gratulated.” Ann Garley, of New Haven, the un fortunate woman whose scalp was torn off nearly two years ago in a shirt fac tory, and upon whose head the operation of skin-grafting has been successfully performed, has left the Connecticut hos pital, and is now working as a domestic in a hotel near that city. An old lady observing a follow going by her door, and supposing it to her son Billy, cried out to him, “ Billy, where’s my cow gone ?” The follow replied in a contemptuous manner, “ Gone to the devil, I suppose.” “ Well, as you are going that way, said the old lady* I wish you’d let dov/n the bars.” A young man saw his washerwoman’s sons rigged out in his best white vest the other day, and as he read his own name on the back of the collar there was a rush of mingled feelings through his soul. This is a record of Columbus, but we have no doubt that something similar has transpired in this bailiwick. A country elergyman, who was just recovering from the effects of a boil on the end of his nose, coming to the city, asked a couple of newsboys where Eighth street was. They eyed him curiously, and one of them said, “right around there; but there’s no gin mill on that street, old fellow.’ 5 See how deceptive appearances are. A young man of Wilmingion, N. C., having a short leave of absence from his employer, remained away so long at a fashionable summer resort that the em ployer telegraphed for him to return, or lie would lose liis place. “ Don’t want the place ; have a $200,000 girl in love with me,” was the answer. But he came back in a week and took a place at S3O a month. A youngster being required to write a composition upon some portion of the human body selected that which unites the head to the body, and expounded as follows: “ A throat is convenient to have, especially to roosters and minis ters. The former eats corn and crows with it; the latter preaches through his’n, and then ties it up. This is pretty much all I can think of necks.” Velocipedes have been adopted by the Italian army, and are used for the conveyance of dispatches from the vari ous corps to general headquarters. Twen ty miles an hour is the speed generally attained, and so successful have the ex periments been that velocipedes have been ordered for all the corps of the ar my for the use of their several couriers. John Paul fixed those Saratoga wai ters. He put anew fifty cent scrip under a goblet. It was magnified till it looked like ass bill. The waiter was the most active man in America. John Paul never before enjoyed such a gorgeous dinner. When he arose he coolly put that slip in his vest pocket, and in a fatherly way told the expectant waiter not to sink any more money which others might give him into French pools. A Traveler.— “ Can you tell me the road to Greenville?” asked a traveler of a bov whom he met on the road. “ t r es sir,” said the boy; “do you see our barn down there?” ’ “ Yes,” said he, 4i Goto that. About three hundred yards beyond that you will find a lane. Take that lane and follow along about a mile and a half. Then you will come to a slippery elm log—you be mighty keerful, stranger, about going on that log—and then you go on till you get to the brow of the hill, and then the road prevaricates ; and you take the left-hand road, and keep that until you get there, whv, then—then—” “What then?” “ Then I’ll be durnedifyou ain’tlosf.” AN AGENT DONE BBOWN. How A Pennsylvania Widow Served A Sew ing Machine Agent. [Reading Eagle of Saturday.] The usually quiet little village of Lees port, on the line of the Philadelphia and Beading Railroad, eight miles aoovethis city, has had a seusation which has caused a good deal of amusement. A Reading sewing machine agent induced the head of a family there to take a ma chine and pay for it in monthly instal ments. Before the machiue was entirely' paid for the husband and father dieu. The widow was 'in destitute circumstan ces, with half a dozen children, and una ble to pay the balance owing on the ma chine, when the agent came round to take the machine away. She was determined that he should not remove the machine until he had handed back some of the money that had been paid on it by her husband. He was apparently just as de termined to secure the machine without returning any of the filthy lucre, insulted the woman, and endeavored to take by force what he said belonged to the com pany by reason of the payment of month ly instalments having been stopped. While the agent was inside the house she locked both the front ancCback clooi’s, put the keys in her dress pocket, and be ing a robust woman “ rent for” the agent. She took hold of him and a se vere and prolonged tussle ensued, whilst the children were frightened and cried and screamed. The widow threw' the agent- over the hot kitchen stove and finally succeeded in sitting him down on top of it and and held him there, when he begged piteously for mercy. “ For God’s sake, let me go,- and I’ll pay you. back every cent your husband paid me.” Being satisfied that he was severely scorched, if not partly roasted around the thighs, she pulled him off the stove, but held on to him until he had paid back every cent of the instalments, and then she gave him two minutes’ time to take the machine and clear out with it. The name of the plucky woman, and also that of the agent, are withheld by special request. mm i . Eow Truffles Did It. [New York Observer.] I returned to Ashville after an absence of three years and found mv friend Truf fles grown fat and jovial, with a face the very mirror of peace and self-satisfac tion. Truffles was the village baker, and he was not like this when I went away. “Truffles,” said I, “ how is it? You have improved.” “ Improved! How ?” “ Why, in every way. What have you been doing ?” Just then a little girl came in with a tattered shawl and barefooted, to whom Truffles gave a loaf of bread. “ Oh, dear, Mr. Truffles,” the child said with brim ming eyes, as she took the loaf of bread; “ mamma is getting better, and she says she owes so much to you. She blesses you, indeed she does.” “ That’s one of the things I’ve been doing,” he said, after the child had gone, “ You are giving the suffering family bread ?” I queried. “ Yes.” “ Have you any more cases like that?” “ Yes, three or four of them. I give them a loaf a day, enough to feed them.” “ And you take no pay ?” “ Not from them.” “ Ah ! from the town ?” “ No; here,” said Truffles, laying his his hand on his breast. “ I’ll tell you,” he added, smiling. “ One day, over a year ago, a poor woman came to me and asked for a loaf of bread, for which she could not pay—she wanted it for her poor suffering children. At first I hesi tated, but finally I gave it to her, and as her blessings rang in my ears after she had gone, I felt my heart grow warm. Times were hard, and there was a good deal of suffering, and I found myself wishing, by and by, that I could afford to give away more bread. At length an idea" struck me. I’d stop drinking, and give that amount away in bread, adding one or tw’o leaves on my account. I did it, and it’s been a blessing to me. My heart ha3 grown bigger, and I’ve grown better every way. My sleep is sound and sweet, and mv dreams are pleasant. And that’s what you seh, I suppose.” Unjust Suspicions.— The other day a Detroit husband went off on a fishing excursion with a small party of friends. Returning at midnight he pounded on the door and awoke his wife. As she let him into the hall she saw that some thing ailed him, and she cried out: “ Why, Henry, your face is as red as paint.” “ Guesser n’t,” he replied, feeding along down the hall. “ And I believe you’ve been drinking,” she added. “ Whazzer mean by zhat?” he inquir ed, trying to stand still. “Oh! Henry, you face would never look like that if you hadn’t been drink ing.” “ Mi to blame?” he asked, tears in his eyes. “ Sposen big bass jump up’n hit me in th’ face an’ make it red —mi to blame?” And he sat dow r n on the floor and cried over her unjust suspicions. Duncan’s Stable.—At a reeent sale of William Butler Duocan’s horses and carriages,- animals, which cost SI,BOO, were sold for $500; and a carriage, good as new, werth originally $2,000, "was knocked down at $475. Considering the shrinkage of value these prices ate pro nounced “good.’* • " 9 <■ It seems heartless to say of a deceased > person that he committed suicide by means of a mouse-colored mule, but that is the epitaph on a colored man. 1 VOL. I—NO. 49. An Ex-Georgia Judge Assaulted, but Whips his Assailant* A dispatch to the New York Sun from I Saratoga, states that an exerting fracas occurred there on Tuesday morning. 1 The parties involved were Judge Schley, of Savannah. Ga., and John A. Kernoch ! an, of Massachusetts. It seems that a I short time ago, a ease involving a large amount of property in which Mr. Ker ■ nochan was interested, was decided by Judge Schley adversely to the interests of Mr. Kernochan. The decision made him very angry. His first vengeance fell upon his lawyers, who he charged had not dealt fairly by him. Meantime, the Judge had came North to Saratoga, and had been for sever;!, days a guest at the Grand Uniou Hotel. Mr. Kernochan also came to Saratoga, as is now supposed, to punish the Judge. On Thursday morning, just as the band w’as getting ready to play, and when a large-number of ladies were upon the pi azza and in the corridors, Judge Schley i and Mr. Kernochan met each other near | the doorway leading from the main office ! and upon the north piazza. Mr. Ker ! nochan, who is a man about thirty-eight | years old, accosted the Judge in a very I menacing manner, and after a few words, struck him a heavy blow with his fist in i the face, staggering him and scattering i his eye-glasses over the pavement- The | Judge soon recovered and struck him a powerful mow back, cutting Kernochan’s face and making the blood flow. Several exchanges were made by each party, the Judge having the best of it, punishing his assailant pretty badly. By this time there was great excitement ; women screamed and men swore. Finally, the belligerents were separated, each as an" gry as a fighting school boy. Soon af terward, 51r. Kernochan approached the Judge, and with a good deal of stern and cold politeness handed him his card ; whereupon, the Judge said, in a most withering manner, “ Keep your card, young man, I don’t want your card. I can whip you any time.” Anti there the matter rests at present. Well done, Judge ! Sorry you didu’t have a chance to administer full justice to this “ law-abiding” son of Massachu setts. Just suppose, how'ever, Kernoch an had been the party assailed, wouldn’t there have been a healthy howl about Southern “ ruffians ?” The Story of an Arab. The story of a Cincinnati newsboy wild | found a pocket-book containing one hundred dollars, and returned it to the owner, with contents intact, reached this city in good, and was productive of con siderable of a sensation among the street Arabs. One small boy was so affected by it, that he straightway determined to see the Cincinnati boy, and go him seven teen or eighteen better. He took anoth er small boy in his confidence, and yes terday afternoon the test of probity of character was carried into effect in front of the State House Row. Boy No. 2 dropped a well padded pocket-book, which boy No. 1, following close behind, picked up. Then with * look on bis face that would have done honor to Benjamin Franklin, the hon est little fellow walked up to an old gen tleman who was passing by, extended the pocket-book and, with trembling voice, exclaimed, “ Take it, sir. It is your’s. You dropped it just now’. My mother and seven little brothers are starv ing but I cannot keep it, sir, for it don’t belong to me. The old gentleman looked at the boy, then pulled out his specta cles and adjusted them for a better sight. He could not sufficiently admire the wan visage of that little street wanderer,- illumined as it was with a glow of good ness and beauty, lie patted the boy on the head and pulling a five dollar from his vest pocket, handed it to him, saying, “ Boy, you will grow to be a great man. Take this money for your starving fami ly and always remember that ‘ honesty is the best policy.’ ” Then the old gentleman skurried into the nearest lager beer saloon, and open ed his pocket-book. Then he began to ; dance around and call heaven and earth to witness that if he ever encountered the i boy again he would burn him alive. And j he continued to orate until at policeman ! was called in to arrest him as ; the only excuse he could offer for his conduct was that a small boy had robbed | him of fivedollars by giving him a pocket-book stuffed with old paper. A Felonious Goat. —She testified I before the magistrate that “ dot pilly ! goats shoost vas a—a —veil, I vas vash 4ng py some clodings of a pig tub, und them gotes coom up pehind und—Veil, sho go, I don’t ken told you dat vas.- I feel me someding pehind ray pack, und snump over der tub and sthand me on my head upmit dot tub’s potfom up, und der clodings sphilt shoost like me, und dem gotes vink at me mit von eye und vag his tails of mine face, und valk out py his pehind legs like a man, und I can’t sit me down cood any more al ready.” The goat was; fined one (s)cent, which he left behind. o m —- A Terrible Lesson.— Ralston is dead. Last week he was supposed to be’ worth $20,000,000. Yesterday he was known to be a pauper. To-morrow be' will fill a suicide’s grave. The Magnifi cent mansion where he entertained & hundred guests is without a master, and all the millions he had amassed Iwc slipped through his fingers. It is the le gitimate close of the life of a great apww lator. He threw all, from day to day, on the turn of a die, and when the end came he had nothing roofe to live for. There is no use to moralize. But it may be asked just here: Does it pay?— N. Y Com. Advertiser. Geoege Washington couldn't tell a lie. It is worthy of note be left no de scendants.