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(DgUtharp* odw. SUBSCRIPTION. ONE YEAR *2.00 SIX MONTHS 1.00 THREE MONTHS 50 CLUB RATES. TIVE COPIES or less than 10, each... 1.75 TEN COPIES or more, each 1.50 Tkrms—Cash in advance. No paper sent a til money received. All papers atopped at expiration of time, unless renewed. TEX I.ITTK.K OR VXSHOPPERS. Ten little grasshoppers, Sitting on a vine, One ate too much green corn— Then there were nine. Nine little grasshoppers .1 list the size of bait, A little boy went fishing— Then there were eight. Eight little grasshoppers Stayed out after ’leven, A white frost nipped one— Then there were seven. Seven little grasshoppers Lives! between two bricks, There came a hurricane— Then there were six. Six little grasshoppers Found an old bee-hive ; One found a bumble-bee— Then there were five. Five little grasshoppers Hopping on the door; Pussy took one for a mouse— Then there were four. Four little grasshoppers Found a green pea, Had a fight about it — Then there were three. Three little grasshoppers Sighed for pastures new, Tried to cross the river— Then there were two. Two little grasshoppers Sitting on a stone, A turkey gobbler passed that way— Then there was one. One little grasshopper Chirped good-bye at the door, Said she’d come next summer, With nine millions more. —.— TWO THIEVES. One stole of gold a rich man’s mite ; The good name, one, a poor girl hore. One stole in fear, at dead of night; One spoke a word—the deed was o’er. One took part; and one took all, One left enough for life and joy ; One left hut weeping and the pall Of more than death o’er all employ. One expiates in chains his sin, And stolen gold for him has bought Thick prison walls to close him in, And scorn of many and hitter thought; And one who stole so much, a name Beyond the worth of life or gold, Is free and courted, and the fame Of his dark deed is never told. .> “ROUGHING IT.” TU'Mif. I'Mi ./ 1 >’ .IJirMY; THMi .#/,V- T.n.\ > /.’ UMioittJMjM. Nearing Nncooehe Valley, we found the usually clear mountain streams exceedingly muddy. This, however, was explained by the mining operations we soon after passed. This industry hereabouts has of late received renewed impetus,but is not attracting the same attention it does farther north, where the veins are more abundant and richer. All the work of this class being carried on here is what is known as SURFACE .MININii. The gold is found in mud and sand near the top of the ground, and by turning a stream of water by which to separate the particles from rocks and earth, business can be carried on at but little expense. Several companies are mining around here, who are making some money. They pay hands from fifty to eighty cents a day, in trade from the stores often. Some men prospect on land not their own, who very often do better than were they to hire for wages, but their plan of operation is uncertain —sometimes weeks having passed without a pennyweight of the precious metal to show for time and labor expended. Again, a few miners will band together and pay the owner of a tract of land one-eighth of all gold found thereon fur rent. We inspected such an undertaking near the valley, and found the men half-leg deep in mud and water. In reply to our inquiries they stilted that their lrnrtv (six in number) averaged about live dol lars per day, which paid about wages. Occa sionally they did much better, hut then again after a hard day’s work not a particle of gold would be found in the trough. A gentleman ofterwurds told us that not much reliance could he put in the estimates given by renters, as all the large nuggets were secretly appro priated by the finders, and no returns made of them to the land-owner. All of our life the BEAUTY OK X.UOOCIIK has l*een sounded in our ears, but we were not prepared for the lovely picture that burst upon the view when our little party made its entree. Earth does not contain a fairer spot, nor artist painted a scene more beautiful than that now presented to our admiring gaze. .Here Paine Nature lias showered her every gift, which the cultured and artistic hand of man has beautified by every charm known to art. \\ ith its large fields of waving grain, its handsome residences, sparkling fountains, clear, rippling streams, and uiountaiu-girdled sides, the Vale ot Naeoochee to-day is as near a Paradise as our mundane sphere con tains. The yield of grain in this valley is surpri sing. Corn will average 35 bushels’to tile acre; riee 40 ; wheat 20 ; oats 40, etc., etc. An im mense amount of hay is annually raised here, the superiority of which finds it ready sale in market. We called on (.'apt. N ioholls, who received our party with that open-handed hospitality for which he is noted. This gentleman owns the handsomest of the several tine residences in the valley. 1 lis place is one of the best improved private residences we have ever seen, all his surroundings proclaiming the good taste and enterprise of the owner. A beautiful stream flows through his premises, spanned by a tasty bridge which leads to his billiard-hall on the bank, opposite his house. A cool spring, cut from the solid rock, is but a step from his door, while just below a well arranged dairy has been built, through which the branch flows. A water-wheel in his lot shells and grinds corn, threshes grain, packs hay, cuts up stock food, and does every man ner of farm work for which such power can be used. A stone basin in his lot is kept ever full of water, brought from the mountain side in pipes, at which fount the stock can slake their thirst at will, llis stables are excavated from a hill side, which renders them warm in winter amt cool in summer, ilis dogs, even, of which he keeps a number of the finest breeds, are nightly housed in a tastilv-built kennel, which one of our party took fora sum mer house, (.’apt. Nieholls keeps nothing but imported stock, from his stables, where a s>l,ooo Canadian jniny stands, to his pig-sty. Ilis residence, which rests on a foundation blasted from solid rock, is a marvel of taste and architectural skill. From an observatory one can obtain a lovely view of the valley. In a field immediately opposite the house an Indian mound stands, the summit of which has been leveled and a handsome summer house erected thereon. The mound is covered with flowers, which at the time of our visit were in full bloom. So courteously were we received and kindly entertained by ('apt. Nieholls, that had our party been appointed a Returning Board, they would have unanimously “counted him in” to any ofliee within their gift. Next week we will complete our sketch of Naeooohec, which our limited space prevents this week, aud also tell of the mining opera t ous around Dahlonega. BY T. L. GANTT. Mi Mi I'M I. Tit I US. —Why is a negro like a bar of toilet soap? Because be is colored and highly scented. —Why are your eyes like friends sep arated by distant climes?—They corres pond but never meet. —The foreman of a jury in Texas, which lately granted a divorce to a wo man, married her the same day. —The.man who treads on a peach skin is apt to be thrown on his own resources. — Ex. Resources, did you say ? —Sitting Bull is said to be writing an American drama, full of her Lair-lifting scenes, and don’t wish to be disturbed. —A small boquet is worn in the hair for full dress.— Ex. Well, it would seem to us to be anything else but “ full dress.” —A little boy went to his father cry ing the other day and told him that he had kicked a bee that had a splinter in his tail. —An old negro cook says : “ Sass is powerful good in everything but chil dren. Dey needs some oder kind of dressin’.” —Three good-looking young ladies the other day stood beside a grocer’s sign which read: “Don’t squeeze these peaches.” When a dog feels like expressing irony he puts his tail between bis legs like an exclamation mark between pa rentheses. —A publisher announces, “ A treatise on the nose with fifty cuts.” We should think a nose with fifty cuts had had about all the treating it could stand. —Speaking of dancing, a clergyman hit the nail on ihe (read with the re mark that “ people usually do more evil with their tongues than with their toes.” —A Cincinnati widow advertised for “ every Christian in the city” to send her ten cents. She realized twenty cents, indicating an unexpectedly large num ber of Christians in that city. —A four-year-old miss adds another to the list of remarkable juvenile speeches. She was asked where she ex pected to go when her mamma died, and replied : “ To the funeral, I s’pose.” —The man who comes to the depot -two minutes behind time, and sees the railroad train scudding out the other end, derives no satisfaction or comfort from the proverb, “ Better too late than never.” —General Howard got near enough to Joseph the other day to shake a tract at him, but that agile warrior immediately shook about five hundred tracts in the face of his pursuer, and once he is as sel dom seen as ever. —Au applicant for naturalization pa pers was interrogated in a district court the other day, and among the questions propounded was the following: “ Do you believe in a republican form of govern ment?” “No, Sir,” replied the appli cant. “ I believe in a Democratic form of government.” —“ Why don’t you wheel the barrow of coal along more lively, Ned?” asked a coal dealer of his hired man. “it’s not a very hard job; there is an inclined plane to relieve you.” “Ay, master.” quoth the man, who had more relish for wit than work, “ the plane may be in clined, but I am not. —A Chicago paper tells us that. “ Dar win says that a woman’s feet may blush instead of her face.” Certainly they may. Why,one night last winter the feet of a Chicago woman, standing bare footed on a six-story verandah, suddenly took it into their heads to blush at their own size, and hanged if people forty miles south of there didn’t mistake it for an aurora borealis. —“ If you ever think of mrrrying a widow,” said an anxious parent to his heir, “select one whose first husband was hung ; for that is the only way to prevent her from throwing his memory into your face,and making annoying comparisons.” “ Even that won’t prevent it,” exclaimed a crusty old bachelor, “ she’ll praise him by saying that hanging would be too good for you.” —Rcently, a San Francisco hotel pro prietor announced that no bills would be presented to army officers stopping at ids house, until congress should make an appropriation lor their pay. Before night, some twenty “generals,” ninety odd “ colonels,” three hundred “ majors,” and no end of “captains” and “ lieuten ants” had registered and applied for rooms for the season. —A young French wife lost her aged husband, two months ago, after he had lain helpless with paralysis for eight months. Soon after she appeared at the Mairie to announce her intention of marrying her cousin. “ Beg your par don, madame,” says the clerk, “ but the law is peremptory in forbidding a wid ow to remarry till ten months after, her husband’s death.” “ But those ■eight months of paralysis—don't you take them into consideration?” —He was praising her beatiful hair, and begging for one tiny curl, when her little brother said: “Oh my! ’taint nothing now. You just ought to have seen how long it hangs down when she hangs it on the side of the table to comb it.” Then they laughed, and she called her brother acute little angel, and when the young man was going and heard that boy yelling, he thought the lad was ta ken suddenly ill. —A contemporary says in a recent ar ticle: “Ifyouwishto know whether a man is’superior to the prejudices of the world, ask him to carry a parcel for you.” .V fellow tried this plan a few days since, upon a well-dressed man he met at a railway station. The well-dressed man took the parcel, and the other was satis fied that be was superior to the prejudices of society, but he has not seen the parcel si nee. —Mr. Lester, of Providence, R. 1., says that when he was a boy ten or twelve years of age, he was one day standing in Market square with his grandfather when four Irishmen came up, one of whom asked the distance to Pawtucket. He was told by the old gentleman that it was about four miles, “ Well, faith,” said Pat, in a mock tone of encouragement to his three tired companions, “ that’s not bad at all—only a mile apiece for us.” “ Whom do you want to see iu Pawtucket?” inquired Mr. Lester, sen ior. “ Bejabers,” was the quick-reply, “ I want to see meself there the most ©f anybody 1” LEXINGTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1877. AWFOiEOA’. The Emperor Napoleon spent his youth in the military school at Brienne; and how? To become acquainted with that, we must read of the wars which he car ried on so successfully ; and of his bril liant military deeds. While at Brienne, he ate fruit like the rest of the young men ; and the fruit woman received many dollars from him. If he, some times had no money, begot credit from her ; when he received a remittance he paid her. But as he was leaving the military school, in order to practice as a soldier what he had learned, he was ow ing several dollars, and she was bringing him for the last time, a plate full of juicy peaches ora few bnnehes of sweet grapes, he said: “ Madame, I must leave school now, and cannot pay you ; but you shall not be forgotten.” The fruit woman replied : “ You can rest at ease on that matter noble young man. God keep you safe, and may you become a successful man.” But upon such a career as the young corporal now entered upon, the best of memories go for nothing, and the inci dent was recalled to mind a few times, only to be forgotten. Napoleon became in a short time, General; and conquered Italy. He went to Egypt, where the children of Isreal once lived ; and fought a buttle at Pales tine, near Nazareth, where, eighteen hundred years ago, the Saviour lived. Napaleon returned to France through a fleet of hostile ships, and was made first consul. He restored to his unhap py country, peace and order, and was crowned Emperor. And the good fruit woman at Brienne had nothing but the credit’s words; “ You shall not be forgotten !” But his promise was as good as ready money, if not better. The emperor was expected at Brienne, he was secretly already there—and was much moved when he though on the former times, and then on the present; and how God had brought him in so short a time and through so many dangers un hurt to the new imperial throne. Sud denly he remained standing still on the street, laid his finger upon his forehead like one who strives to recollect some thing, and soon recalled the name of the fruit woman. He enquired after her residence, which was now decaying, and entered it with a single faithful attend ant. A narrow door led into a small but clean room, where the mistress, with two children seated near the fire, pre pared a scanty meal. “ Can I have some refreshments here?” asked the emperor. “ Certainly,” returned the woman, “ the melons are ripe.” She then went and got some. While the two strange gentlemen were eating their melons, and the woman putting two faggots on the fire, one of them asked, “Did you ever see the emperor, who is here to-day ?” “ He is not here,” teplied the lady, “he is expected soon. Why should I not know him? Many plates and many baskets of fruit he has bought of me when he was at school.” “ Has lie paid everything carefully ?” asked the incognito emperor. “Certain ly, he has paid everything,” said the lady. Then the strange gentleman said to her : “ Woman, you do not speak the truth, or you must have a bad memory. In the first place you do not know the emperor. lam he. In the second place, I owe you ten francs.” In a moment the attendant counted twelve hundred francs upon the table as principal and interest. Then the fruit woman recognized the emperor, and hoard the clinking of the gold pieces, she fell at his feet and was quite beside herself with joy, fright and gratitude. The children looked at one another and knew not what to say. The emperor had the old house pulled down and another built in its place. “In this house,” said he, “ I will stop as often as I come to Brienne, and it shall bear my name.” He promised to care for her two chil dren. He provided for the daughter a position full of honor, and the son was educated in the same school from which the great hero himself came forth. JlttOUT .1 i OFFIJW Dallas, Texas, is alarmed and excited over a curious circumstance, one which will probably determine the rights, priv ileges duties of an undertaker. A Mr. Curtis, of that town, died a few weeks ago. Ilis brother desired to have a hand some funeral and ordered everything in the finest style, hearse, carriages, etc., and a gorgeous metallic, silver mounted coffin. The funeral canre and went all in good style. The day after the under taker, a Mr. Linskie, who evidently is a party man and one who did not care to wait long for his money, presented his bill for funeral expenses. Ofiended Mr. Curtis put him off. For several success ive days Linskie dunned Curtis for that silver mounted coffin with poor show 7 of success, and finding that he could not get the money, he resolved to visit the corpse and get some sort of satisfaction out of it. Taking a pauper’s pine coffin therefrom he proceeded to the cemetery, disinterred Curtis’ body, took it out of the silver mounted coffin, returned triumphant to the shop, where he advertised it as a sec ond hand aud cheap for cash. The people of Dallas are thoroughly aroused at this outrage and threatened vengeance on this so called ghoul. The undertaker, however, seems a spunky man ; swears he will not be swindled out of his coffins; claims, the right to take back bis property if he is not paid for it, and will test the entire matter in the courts, where it will be at least a novel case. Growth of Unman Hair After Heath. Dr. Caldwell, of lowa, states that in 1862 he was present at the exhumation of a bodj r which had been buried two years before. The coffin had sprung open at the joints, and the hair protruded through the openings. On opening* the coffin the hair of the bead was found to measure eighteen inches, the whiskers eight or ten inches, and the hair on the breast five or six inches. The man had been shaved before being buried. In 1874 a similar circumstance occurred in Mercer county. Pa. In digging a grave the workmen came upon the skeleton of a man that had been buried ten years. The hair was as firm as during life, and had grown to the length of eleven or twelve inches. .1 OOOMi /.VW/./.V STOJM*. A party of five amateur huntsmen left the city yesterday for the mountains, to be gone about a month, and another party of four returned home day before yesterday. The hitter had intended to stay out longer, but the Indians in their vicinity began to grow exceedingly sau cy, and to make demands for small things in a tone which, it was thought, indica ted that they might, if provoked, help themselves, and the hunters therefore broke camp, intending to stop awhile at a point near home, but after they got on the back track they came through with out much delay. Speaking of the In dians,the party tell a funny story of their main camp. One hot day one of them went to a creek not far distant to have a bath, taking with him his red flannel underclothing on the bank of the stream, when he heard the brush cracking, and thinking perhaps the noise was made by a deer or other large animal, he deployed himself as a skirmisher and cautiously began investigating. He had not long to wait, for a moment later lie observed a figure dodging from tree to tree, rifle in hand, and evidently watching him. It flashed through his mind that he was being followed by an Indian bent on mischief, and his heart rose to his throat so that he could almost taste it as thoughts of home forcedMietnselves upon him. He determined that he would fight to the last, however, and, braced by this determination, advanced upon the enemy. The latter was evidently not prepared for such tactics, for he retreated, faster and faster, and finally threw down his gun and ran. The Sacramentan, fearing that this was only a piece ot strategy to lead him into an ambush, returned to the creek, donned his gar ments and hurried to camp. There he found a member of the party who had just come in from hunting relating to the other two members how he also had experienced some trouble with Indians, one of whom he said followed him two or three miles, and he had only escaped from him by striking him over the head with his gun. This, he went on to say, broke the stock in two, the barrel flew into the chapparal, and he did not deem it worth while to wait and search for it, when the Indians might attack the camp at any moment. The man who had been to the creek began to feel a suspicion that two members of that hunting party had been making fools of themselves, and he quietly inquired : “ What did he look like?” Look like! You’ve heard of them being called red devils; well, this fellow was one of them! He was stripped right to the skin, and was bare headed, and had painted himself just as red as blood. You needn’t laugh; ’twasu’t anything about the red flannel underclothes and the throwing of the gun away ; but it had to be told, and the boys have had a good thing on drinks ever since.— iSacrame/ito lie-cord- Union 7VJAV..VG THU CEJS'SUS. A census taker, going his rounds, stop ped at an elegant brick dwelling house, the exact locality of which is no business of ours, lie was received by a stiff, well dressed lady, who could be well recog nized as a widow of some years standing. On learning the mission of her visitor the lady invited him to take a scat in the hall. Having arranged himself into working position he inquired for the number of persons in the family of the lady. “Eight,” replied the lady, “including myself.” “ Very well—your age, madame?” “ My age, sir,” replied the lady, with a piercing dignified look. “I conceive it to be none of your business what my age might be. You are inquisitive, sir.” “The law compels me, madam, to take the age of every person in the ward; it is my duty to make the inquiry.” “ Well, if the law compels you to ask, I presume it compels me to answer. I am between thirty and near forty.” “I presume that means 35?” “No, sir; it means no such thing—l am only thirty-three years of age.” “Very well, madam, (putting down the figures), just as you say. Now the ages of the children commencing with the youngest if you please?” “ Josephene, my youngest, is in her tenth year.” “Josephene—pretty name—lo.” “ Minerva is in her twelfth year.” “ Minerva—captivity—l 2.” “Cleopatra Elvira has just turned fif teen.” “ Cleopatra Elvira—charming—ls.” “ Angelineis just 18, sir; just 18.” “ Angeline—favorite name—lß.” “ My oldest and only married daughter, Anna Sophia, is a little over twenty five.” “Twenty-five did you say?” “ Yes, sir. Is there anything remark able in being of that age?” “ Well, no, I can’t say that there is ; but is it not remarkable that you should be her mother when you were only eight years of age ?” About this time the census-taker was seen running out of the house—why, we do not know—it was the last time he ever pressed a lady to give her exact age. HO 14’ HUEJS'CH H 'OHKJIEJ\' I.II'eT The French laborer probably gets more for his wages than any other. His food is cheaper and more nourishing. His bouillon is the liquid escence of beef at a penny per bowl. His bread at the restaurant is thrown in without any charge,and is the best bread in the world. His hot coffee and milk Mdled about the streets in the morning a sou per cup. It is coffee, not slops. His half bottle of claret is thrown in at a meal costing twelve cents. For a few cents he may enjoy an evening’s amusement at one of the many minor theatres, with his coffee free. Sixpence pays for a nicely cush ioned seat at the theatre. No gallery gods, no peauuts, pipe smoke, drunken ness, yelling or howiing. The Jardin des Plantes, the vast galleries and museums of the Louvre, Hotel Cluuy, Palace of the Luxembourg and Vensailes are free for him to enter. Art and science hold out to him their choicest treasures, at small cost, or no cost at all. French economy and frugility do not mean that constant retrenchment and self-denial which would deprive life of everything which makes it worth living for. Economy iu France, more than in any other country, means a utilizing of what America throws away, but it does not mean a pinching process of reducing life to a barren existence of work and bread and water. I< VTA'W TO tiMiT O.V Til Mi JIRW Presently the stillness of the court room was interrupted by the entrance of a man, who came in with a shuffling, uneasy step, and with his hat in his hand. He halted, leaned against the railing. No body took the slightess notice of him, however. At last he took courage and spoke: “ Is the Judge in ?” The clerk immediately awoke his Honor. “ Well, what do you want ?” “ I’m looking for a job, your Honor. I’ve been 100 l .ng for work for over a month.” “ There’s nothing for you here.” “ I thought you occasionally gave jury men ajob. I don’t read newspapers any, and being a stranger in town I haven’t got any prejudice agin anybody. A paid of mine wrote down to me at Reno, last week, and said that the jury business up here was brisk and it would pay to come up. As I’m a stranger to you, and a lit tle hard up, I’ll start in and serve for a case or two for half price, and you kin sec what I kin do.” “ What are your main qualifications?” “My strong suit is making a jilry agree. No jury ever’ll get hung if I’m on ’em. I just lay low till they take the first ballot, then jine the majority and argue the rest into it. I can discount any lawyer talking. I can show them points they never tumbled to be fore. Sometimes I have to use force, but seldom. Once down at Truekee, in a murder case, there was a couple of fellows standin’ out agin bangin’ and after arguing with ’em as smooth and gentlemanly as I could for over a quarter of an hour, I went in for ’em with chairs, and by the time I had busted a half dozen pieces of furniture over ’em they were glad enough to come in with a verdict of ‘ Murder in the first degree,’and the fellow was hung not long afterward. In these Justice Courts I can get on a jury, and if you’ll just give me a wink as to how you want the case to go, I’ll guarantee to fetch in the verdict you want, or not take a cent.” The man was told to drop around again in a day or so and they would try and make a vacancy for him. In order to do it, however, some regular juryman will probably have to be discharged.— Vir~ (/inia City Chronicle. jo sir uiljljljx's’ items. I have often known rf cow hide boot located in the be ov more value to a young malljSßjan the legacy of a rich unkle. The man who expekts, in his' old age, to be taken care of bi the world bekase his life haz been spent in their amuse ment, or instruktion reasons like a phool, and will starve like one too. .1 notiss that when a man runs hiz lied against a post, he cusses the post first, all kreashun next, and something else last, and never thinks of cussing himself. One quart of cheap whisky (the cheap er the better) judishiously applied, will do more business for the devil than the smartest deakon he has got. Be mersiphull to all dum animals—no man can ride into heaven on sore back horse. Young man, learn to wait; if you un dertake to set a hen before she is redy, vu will loze yure time and confuse the hen besides. There is two men prowling around who wont eluss watching, the one that iz allwuz praizing, and the one who iz all waz condemning himself. Those people who are trieing to git to heaven on their creed will find out at last they didn’t have a thru ticket. It takes a live man to do bizzinessnow days. I don’t care if you hav got a copy ov the Bible tu sell yu have got to talk it up strong. I am willing to admit that man iz mi brother, but I contend at the same time that I hav got a lot of kussed skaly rela sh uns. I hav never known a second wife but what waz boss of the situation. Whisky iz a hard thing to convince, therefore I never argy with a drunken man. Experience iz a good teacher, but she iz a dreadful slow one ; before we git haff thru her lessons the bell rings and we are summoned to judgement. The Mail that Fraud Made. This is the man that Fraud made. This is the Sehurz that clings to the man that Fraud made. This is the Gould that bought the Sehurz that clings to the man that Fraud made. This is the Noyes that started the Gould that bought the Sehurz that clings to the man that Fraud made. This is the Count that followed the Noyes that started the Gould that bought the Sehurz that clings to the man that Fraud made. This is the Key that closed the Count that followed the Noyes that started the Gould that bought the Sehurz that clings to the man that Fraud made. This is the Matthews, shaven and shorn, that fathered the Policy, all forlorn, that forged the Key that closed the Count that followed the Noyes that started the Gould that bought the Sehurz that clings to the man that Fraud made. This is the Country, cheated an torn, that spuns Stanley Matthews, shaven and shorn, that fathered the Policy, all forlorn, that forged the Key that closed the Count that followed the Noyes that started the Gould that bought the Sehurz that clings' to the man that Fraud made. Klnrtilnfc Effect of 111 tie Gliiks. Is there yet one disbeliever in the po tency of “blue glass?” If so, let him read and tremble at the discoveries of an acute j observer, recorded i" the Burlington | Hawk-Eye : The other day we watched a sickly looking housefly crawling across a pane | ofJblue glass in a south window. It crawl ed very slowly, and by the time it had [ gone two inches it was as big as a blue | bottle. It developed into a bumblebee ' in less time than it takes to li—to write ! about it ; when it got to the middle of of the pane it was as big as a robin, and when it reached the sash it flew on the ; center table and laid a big doublt-yolk ! egg, cackled wildly for a second, and then with a wild scream dashed through 1 the window seized a Brahma rooster in terribe talons, and soaring aloft, a disap pearing mote in the grand di!c of the 1 sun, it was soon iost to view’.’' VOL, III—NO. 50. -.v I‘I.ITT y.V ./ BJ/,/, HOOM. Wo never atteuded the graduating ex ercises at \\ est Point, but we did years ago run down to a ball at Annapolis.. We happened, on the cars, to sit by a stout old party, possessed of a rudy, motherly countenance. She was quite communicative, and soon told us that she was on her way to Annapolis to see her son “ grad-a-ate,” to use her own ex pression. We took charge of that old lady—she was so good, kind, sensible and motherly. We were present at the meet ing between the mother and boy—a hand some, manly youth, one any mother could be proud of. After supper we asked the old lady if she intended to visiting the ball and she said the would like to look in, but her son said it was “ udpossible,” as all the “ tickuts” were gone. We volunteered, procuring the magic pastboard, and in due time we made a grand entree, created some sensation, for the old lady got heV selt up regardless of expense or appear ances. Ihe son was revolving with a beautiful girl—one of our Washington belles—and in one of the pauses of the dance we saw his fair partner looking at us and laughing. The eyes of the voung man sought the object of her evident meriment, and when he saw us the ex pression of his face was that of first dis may and then wrath. The dear old lady asked us to get her a glass of water. As we returned, we passed the son and saw two red spots on liis cheeks, and his brow corrugated in wrath. Our aged friend, stout as she was, appeared ready to sink, and asked to be taken back to the hotel. Wc at once hastened to comply, although as sured that she was not ill. But while waiting for themne available hack of An napolis, we saw two huge tears well out from hes dear old eyes and course their way down her then rather pale face, and noting our anxious look she said : Don’t mind me ; I’m a foolish old woman and ought to have stayed at home, for my son is ashamed of his old mother.” We are j ustly proud of our navy. Her gallant sons have swung the eagles of the republic too often in triumph through the smoke of the battle not to have en deared them to the patriotic heart ofthe nation. But would it not fie well to cor-' rect the one defect? It is not well to begin life in that way. itf • o.ui:TH/.y'ti ion b o i s to uemijm. huh. A gentleman advertised for a boy to assist him in his office and nearly fifty ap plicants presented themselves, to him. Out of the whole number he, in a short time, selected one and dismissed the rest. I would like to know, said a friend, on what ground you selected that boy, who had not a single recommendation ? You are mistaken, said the gentleman, he had a great many. He wiped his feet when he came in and closed the door after him showing that he is careful. He gave up his seat instantly to a lame, old man, showing that he is kind and and thoughtful, took olf his cap when he came in, and answered my questions promptly and respectfully, showing that lie is polite and gentlemanly. He picked lip the book which I had purposely laid upon the lloor, and replaced it on the ta ble, while all the rest stepped over it or shoved it aside; and he waited for his turn, instead of pushing and crowding, showing lie is honest and orderly. When 1 talked with him I noticed his clothes were carefully brushed, his hair in nice order, his teeth as white as milk; and when he wrote his name, 1 noticed that his finger-nails.were clean, instead of be ing tipped with jet, like that handsome little fellow in the blue jacket. Don’t you call these letters of recommendation ? 1 do, and I would give more for what I can tell about a boy by using my eyes ten minutes tbau all the fine letters you can bring me. An liuliaii JliiHltauri'A Veaig'cuiif*. About three weeks ago an Indian known as Sam lost his squaw Mary, through the blandishments of another Indian named Jim, for whom she left Sam, taking some of liis household goods. The loss ot these goods added much to the wrath of the victimized Sam, who raised such a commotion among the Piute braves about it that they deter mined to teach the frail Mary, and by her example the rest of the female part of the tribe-a lasting lesson. Jim tried to screen her from the gathering storm by hiding her, but they soon found her, and about fifty of the tribe, including Jim and several squaws, escorted her to the hills just back of Washoe Lake last Saturday evening, where, safe from Cir casian intrusion, they made ahmrg pile of sagebrush, and, after tying' her firmly in the middle of it, set it on fire. Then they commenced a war dance around the scene of cremation in which all joined except Jiin —Sam being very fierce in his leaps and yells. The screams of Mary added to the zest of the dance. Jim meantime sat quietly by and seemed an indifferent spectator to what was going on. When the body of the unfortunate Mary had been reduced to ashes Sam ex pressed himself as satisfied, and they dispersed. The warriors threatened their squaws with a similar fate if they are not more discreet in their conduct.— Reno (Xev.) Journal , Any. 30. A iluoil Temperance Story, anil a Short Otic. In a large city, a laboring man leaving a large saloon saw a cosily carriage and pair of horses standing in front, occupied by two ladies elegantly attired, jpnver sing with the proprietor. As it rolled away he said to the dealer, “ Whose es tablishment is that ?” “It’s mine” re plied the dealer, complacently. “It cost $5,000, hut my wire and daughter cannot do without it.” The mechanic bowed his head a moment in deep thought, and looked sad ; then with the energy of a man suddenly aroused by a startling flash, said, “ I see it! I see it!” “See what?” queried the dealer. “ See where for years my wages have gone. I helped pay for that carriage, for those horses and that gold-mounted harness, for the silk and lace and jewelry for your fam ily. The money I earned that should have given my wife and family a home of their own and good clothing, I have spent at your bar. My wages and the wages of others like me have supported' you and your family in luxury. Here after my wife and children shall have the benefit of my wages, and by the help of God [ will never spent another dime for drink. I see the mistake aed a cure for it.” GEORGIA ECHOES. —Caterpillars are getting ripe ixi Southern. Georgia. —The sign of a firm in TaJbotton : Cm- in: we are glad. t9*ee Efow . of lowest contract rates eit aw ppli cation to :he Proprietor, v--- * n Local Notices I.h*. jkt Inic first, insertion and Uk*. per lino thereafter. ' • ’ ■ ‘ Tributes of Respect, Obituaries, eft., 50<;, per inch—half price. *■ *" \ , Announcements, £5 in ulvanct. ' ** .1 TOIHIST. “ Yon have a fine city here,” renyrfc ed Oscar Doak, as lie stood .Before' the desk and rubbed his hands. * flie court looked down on him in si lence. Such broad streets, such big dogs.' such beautiful alleys, such ni.qe- hand-; organs I never saw in a town before, continued the man. That same cold, mode tons look front the Court. “ I’m almost tempted to sfpend the re mainder of my days here,” said the pris oner. “ The water agrees with me, the air seems very pure, and I find that the Detroit quart of peanuts is bigger than' any other in the land.” Still no word from liis Honor. His eyes glistened like the tines of a pitch fork in the hayfield, but he was biding his time. “ l’tn much obliged to the boys for helping me in here last night,” coolly continued the man. “I am subject to those attacks of vertigo, and Providence seems to raise up friends for me at the perilous moment. I’ll leave a quarter for the man who lifted me up and begged of me not to die.” While he was feeling for the clinker the Court was calling to mind how tire’ tourist broke two chairs in a saloon, had a fight witli a hackman, and had hid himself in a lumber-pile, and he wrote’ out on a piece of paper at full length that familiar old saying: “Twenty dollars or three months,” and held it up to view. The tourist looked at the words; then he looked at the clock. Then lie glanced out upon the green grass in the alley and saw the lambs galloping up and down in playful mood. “ Yes —ahem—I’ll lend you $20,” lie finally sighed. “ And don’t have any more vertigo in’ this town,” said the Court. “ Vertigo* makes the money go. you observe.” “ I believe you think I was drunk,” complained the tourist. “ And you don’t make any difference? between vertigo and drunkenness?” “ Not a bit.” The man walked out doors and head ed for the nearest saloon. He was going in on the real thing, with vertigo count ed out. — Detroit Free Pres*. ■ • Th<; Idito Kai'.way Accident. Miss Jennie Frost, of Council Bluffs,- lowa, who had a marvelous escape front the train that was wrecked on the Rock Island railroad last week, relates that one woman heroically rescued her six chil dren and then went to the aid of otliet sufferers, while another lady was terribly excited over the loss of her satchel, ami 1 could think of nothing else. One lady, who was in agony from a broken wrist and a compound fracture of one of her legs, would not consent to have morphino* injected into her arm because she feared it might hurt her. Another lady who* was severely injured was offereded a glass* of brandy, but refused to swallow it, sta*-* ing that she was a strict temperance wo man and meant to stand by her princi ples, even if she died in the attempt. A little child clung to a window-sill and kept her head above the surging waters until she was saved. A little girl lay', for four hours with only her face out ot water, the corps of a dead man being" streehed aross her little body. It was supposed that she too was dead, but a man who was “ chopping out” the’ wounded thought he saw the little one's* lips tremple. She was taken out, cover ed with blood, her little stockings as red 1 as if they had been dyed, and in a few hours she was as lively as a cricket, ask-' ing if anybody had seen her doll. A Warning to Profane .Swearers. The New York Herald devotes, half al column to a sensational account of a re markable case of lockjaw of which it negro cook o:i a ship recently arrived at that port is the victim. The following is> the statement of the Captain of the ship* as made to the reporter: “Well, youf see,” said the Captain, “ Bleumaii is it very profane man. I never knew a man 1 to swear such terrible oaths as lie wouhH swear tfcien he was angry. By talking he meant that he was swearing at the' time. He was making a fire in liis cook stove, you see, and he could not get the' fire to burn. This angered him, and, the' boy says, he ripped out some fearful' oaths in consequence, cursing Almighty God as the cause of his trouble with thcr fire, and ca ling upon his Maker witlt terrible imprecations to let the lire burn.- It was in the midst of this profanity that his jaws became locked, and this is real ly the whole truth of the matter.” After this visitation, says the Herald,. Blenman was unable to do anything du ring the rest of the voyage, and even now' it would be impossible for him to indulge' in profanity except at the cost of mucl# suffering. A Hairy Child. We must say that the child, Grade’ Gilbert, the little daughter of Mr. am? Mrs*Giles Gilbert, who resides sixteen miles east of Angola, in Northwest town ship, Williams county, Ohio, is the great est living curiosity we have ever seen. The child is about eighteen months of age, finely formed, bright, sprightly and* healthy, and almost entirely covered with hair. The hair on its head is some' twelve or fifteen inches in length, and is very heavy. Its whiskers are three or' four inches in length. On its back, hod/ arms and legs, is a thick, heavy, biitfim- y silky growth of hair, covering almost it* entire body, and some two or three inches; in length. And, strange to say, there is no repul.-iveness in the sight, no deform ity, and, moreover, no hiiinlwfg. Bar mini, with all his grand splurges and big* blowing as to the curiosities and hum bugs he exhibits, never has had a real, genuine actuality, a living curiosity, human or otherwise, that surpasses this pretty little child, Grade Gilbert.—- iSfe u ben Rep übliea n. A Pis Willi a Human Head. Dyershurg, Tenn., is excited over the' birth of a pig with a human head. The pig was born orr the 7th inst. It lias a perfect human face am] bead, the rest of its formation being that of any other pig. It has red hair on its head; its teeth, mouth and eyes are strangely human; while one ear is that oj'a hog, the other is that of a little child. This new and strange.production is the wander of the neighborhood. Dr. Duflie, the druggi*| -at Friendship, has preserved it in alcohol and hundreds are flocking to see*it daily. —Memphis Ledger . c < Every family should keep a box of OB DURHAM’S VEGETABLE LIVER PIUEs. For sale by Smith fc Young. l 4 <>xington.sßH<( all dealers in mcdieitK-s. ipyJlHfol