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Newspaper Page Text* PUBLISHED DV T,w. ^ .1 editors ASP rm-RiETOKS. n o dollars nr Annum, CASH IN ADVANCE. SOT THE 0>t >H BLAME. I wonJf r if Is* >“«»“» '*• The a»*)’ darling tf»ie, “ To place hii ilrnl aroun ' 1 ra T " \nu (live me * uch * eqee** I j. ia , or e ht- thinks I Iot* him, jV-cau»o I Auii't jvftjkp , To plfi-t a«'l entertain hint Whenever he may choose. I really think lie lore* ate! ~ For just before tie went II ' kisseil me twice, and once again, And said 'twits only lent. To-morrow night lie’s cowing ■ ' * To tense me just the same >o, if there’s any damngo done, I’m not the one to blame I LAUGHERISMS, k» ' i- «M £ ’ATHENS »-Ki j(i/ *. i.~ ii-iU • U ; r. aft: >i . £;? .. . . " GEORGIA., FRIDAY iMORNING, SEPTEMBER S&1873. ?LD SERIES—VOLUME LI NEW SERIES-VOLUME I AN EXTRAORDINARY TRAGEDY OX SHIPBOARD. One waf to; get out of scrapes—Jet your heard grow. . „ Matrons of' Husbandry—mothers with marriageable daughters. Curiosity—Looking over other peo ple’s a flairs, and overlooking your own. . “Hurry, mamma,” said a little in nocent, with bis cut finger; “hurry’, it’s leaking.” The genial darkey fa never impecu nious. No matter how hard the times, he alwavs has a scent. & T?Tf=== yg DisorderjbfYNf «ri* —The Father’s Account Cor- ; - ) /j, roborated by Physicians --v^bow the Spell Can be Broken. [From the Atchison (Kan ) Champion, August 31.] A number of years ago, during Father Augustine’s jurisdiction at St. Benedict’s College, he accorded Mr. Snider the life-long right to act as sex ton of the Catholic Cemetery. After Father Augustine removed, about three years ago, two of the children, respec tively five and seven years of age, were attacked with some mysterious disorder A communication from Smyrna of Aug. 4, published in the London Echo, has the following: .“A fearful tragedy at sea-has just been brought to light here. On Sun day last one of the small native coast ing craft came dashing up against Cerigo Quay at Smyrna, in a manner which led to the belief that she- had I icon abandoned. On boarding her, the dead body of an elderly man who appeared to !>o the Captain, was found lying ou the-deck. The body was much hacked about, tiie head being nearly severed from the trunk, and the clothes torn and in disorder, leaving the im pression that a severe struggle had ta ken place. Near the remains was found a large hammer, smeared with blood. A little boy, under ten years, lay wrapped in a sail close by. He was uninjured, but appeared to be stu pefied, and nothing intelligible could lie elicited from him. The ciaft was partly loaded with a cargo of melons, Imt no papers whatever could be dis. covered.” “ fhesame evening the small steamer, units way to Curdelio, fell in with an other body at sea, fea’rluIly mutilated. Tiie public was still lost in conjecture respecting this strange event, .when, on Wednesday mornintr, a Russian monk presented kim elf at the Consulate here, and asked lot au interview with the Co 1 null He said that he had em- baiked at fx-io for Smyrna, in compa ny with Persian, on uoard a coasting k li mited by two mcij, witn a little boy. , cSo>ne hours. before doub ling Point domes C. lie, tofc monk i overheard a co„versa; mi between the Persian and the ca.taia. The Per sian aid to it the in uk li.rdabout him a sum of El 0 n gold, besides sun-.- bans note nd proposed tnat i:»e» should .ii.i »* ■ r ini for the purpu^t* «»i obtai nng p i ion of the nnpi -y, the other sailor bei g at the same ti-ne to be go rj i o. The Captain agreed, 4ttd i was arranged-thnt the Per-iim sliuiii go below to bed -o as m divert suspicion. I he convetsa.ion look place in Turkish, but the is per fect m ister of six languages, -and un der d (x-rl- ctly all tliat was said. lie did not h- e bis presence of mind, bnl took up bis position in u careless and inditlercnt way near the bows, di vested himself of ids clothes, .and said to the Captain, who was at. t|ie helm, that it was so hot he would sleep on deck in prelereuce to uoiog down be low. ‘Sleep in peace,’ said the skip per, T will take care and wake you when we get to Smyrna.’ They were at the time not verv distant trmn the coast; and the Russian, nvailing.him- M'l! of the chance, slipped over the side and swam in safety to the shore. He landed at Avou-tieorgia, Tiflik, and then made his way to Smyrna. Toe Consul at once communicated this statement to the Turkish authori ties, and on the police making inqui ries at the Persian rendezvous of Agcm-Khan, they found that a Per sian had arrived there fromScio on the previous Sunday. On the monk being confronted with this Persian, he.at once identified his fellow-traveler on board the wasting-craft. The Per/ sian, of course, was arrested, and the stolen money belonging to the monk was found among his edicts. He has since made a lull confession ot his crime, and his story is that, after waiting some time ih-Iuvv, a- arranged, lie had gone up on deck, and finding the priest gone, believed that the Cap tain had facilitated his evasion. High words ensued, and the Persian mur dered the Captain with the hammer. He killed the sailor also, and threw the body into the sea. He wrapped the boy round and round in a sail, thinking to suffocate him. He then ransacked the vessel, and taking all the money he could find, including the large sum found in the pockets of the monk, made his way to the shore in a small boat which the coasting-craft dragged in its wake. This story may r, ad like an einanatioa from the mor bid i ancy of an Edgar Allan Poe, but "is in all particulars exact in its grim a:) d literal tr nth.” How natural it is for a man, when he . _ makes a mistake, to correct it by. j whieh did not seem fatal ioits.tewfan- eursing sotneRbdy else for it. jcy. The parents were poor and did What is fhe difference between fixed stars and shooting stars? The one are suns, the other darters. “I say, Pete, has your sister got a beau?” “No, she’s got the yallar jandiss, the doctor says so, and I guess he knows.” - A Nebraska lawyer had a woman on the witness stand three days to make her tell her age,, and then he gave it up as a bad job. A citizen of Rock county’, Wiscon sin, is reported to have said, “I jan always tell water when I see it—it looks so much like gin. Scene in Court: Judge—“Haveyou anything to offer to the Court before sentence is passed on you ?” Prisoner, “No, Judge, I had ten dollars, but my lawyers took that.” Joseph Henderson, seeing for divorc° in Indiana, alleges that his wife trapped him by means of false hair, false eve- brows, false complexion, a big bustle and a deceitful tongue. A lady 'tells u« that when she was a poor girl in the country, she used to “plant corn in her bare feet,” This I imparts a new idea of the origin of these troublesome things. A musical dictionary defines a shout to be “an unpleasant noise produced by overstraining tbe throat, for which groi’t singers are well paid, and small children are well spanked.” During a fire in Memphis the other day a woman carried a barrel of flour down stairs without bursting a hoop. In ordinary time it exhausts her to strike her h i~hand twice with the poker. J8> A mother was •mn-ed. the other day. to hear this “bit of argument.” trom her little hoy: “Mamma, I dm’t -ee how Satan turned out to be sneh a bad fellow ; there wasn’t any devil to mr him up to it!” “1 wonder what’s the reason.” said a wife to her husband, “that the tur key I ate for dinner does not set well on my stomach?” “Probably,” replied the aggravating, man, “because it wasn’t a hen turkey.” A boy found a pocket-book and re stored it to the owner, who gave him a five-cent piece. The boy looked at the conin an instant, and then banding it reluctantly back, audibly sighed as he said, “1 can't change it.” “01” exclaimed a poor sufferer to a dentist, “that is the second wrong tooth ytni have pulled out!” “Verv sorry, sir,” said tbe blundering operator; “hut as there were only three when I began, I’m sure to be right this time.” We see by a New York paper that there is a man in Troy who has done business about a vear without expend ing a dollar in advertising. He has at last consented to advertise. His first advertisement is headed “Shcrifl Sale.” not go to the expense of employing the services of a phygician until some time after these symptoms appeared, and the matter run ou tor several months. The father said that immediately after some little excitement, without sign or warning the two girls would commence acting in a Very strange and peculiar manner, although their actions were entirely different, one of them evincing a tendency to bite the legs of chairs and tables and cavort around the room on her hands and knees, and nev er speaking. The other one, on the contrary, would be full of unnatual life, her face flushed, her eyes large and bright, while site would dance and caper around the room, talking glibly and laughing continually. He said they would han dle coals of fire as they would pebbles, putting them in tneir mouths and on their persons without burning them, while they would, unharmed, thrust their hands into a Mazing fire. Dr. Ayer corroborates the father in what he says. It was by Dr. Ayer’s repeated visits and close observation that the occasion of the breaking of the spell was ro'ieed. Strange and improbable as it may seem, it was oc casioned by tbe pronunciation of a word. Many of our readers will laugh and hoot at this improbable story, but we can assure them that it was tested care fully and closely by Dr. Ayer first, and afterward by Dr. Brvning, and they pronounce it a real and actual fact, and one that hail come within their own personal observation. The prim u win t : on of the simple words, “I nan',’ without reference to prefix or affix, was sufficient, and from that moment they became perfectly rational. A sl’o-t time a_-o Dr. Tinning was called to the h«m i.. but upon bis arrival there found ' o’h children had ju*t pa-sed out of th ' spell. The father stafpd 'o Dr. Brvning that lie might bid tli “DEEDS OF DARKNESS.” So-Called. in Expose of Spiritual Manifestations, 5 . The .first year, of married life is a m/Mf-important era in the history of man and wife. Generally, as it is spent, so is almost subsequent exis tence; The wife and the husband then assimilate their views and their desires, or else conjuring up their dislikes, they add fuel to their prejudices and ani mosity foreve'r afterward. I have som&vhere read, says Rev... Mr. WTw, in his Bridal Greeting, of a bride groom who gloried in his eccentricities. Hcirtquested his bride to accompany him to the garden a day or two after thfo.wgdding. He then threw a line’ of their cottage. Giving hS.' vfeft»irtr4S>a of it, he retreated' to the other side and exclaimed: Pull the line! She puller! it, at his request, as far as she could. He cried, pull it over. I can’t, she replied. But pull with all your might, shout ed the whimsical husband. But vain were all the efforts of the bride to pull the liue so long as her husband held on to the opposite end. Prof. S. S. Baldwin gave an expose at the Opera House last night, of a number of tricks by means of which so-called spiritual mediums have been in the habit of gulling the public. The performance was strictly private, no one being present but those who were there by invitation. Among these were noticed Dr. T. O. Summers, Dr. Inman, J. O. Griffith, Dr. Newell, T. O. Summers, Jr., of the Southern University at Greensboro, Ala.; Dr. Morgan, Col. D. C. W. Charltoivo?- Edgefield ,^f)r. Merrill j Mx, Josq* Carrel8, R. D. Dorman, representata- tives of the press and many others, there being quite a number of ladies present. A cabinet, of the style usually used by “mediums,” occupied the center of the stage, and in this cabinet, the doors of which were open, were hung a tambourrine, guitar, three small bells, and a child’s trumpet, the cabi net being large enough for three per sons to sit in it comfortably, and so arranged that it could be made perfect ly Hark, the two small apertures in the door being covered inside by heavy dark curtains. About eight o’clock, Prof. Baldwin came upon the stage anu stated that it was his intention to produce by phys ical. means certain manifestations which “mediums” claimed were pro duced Tty spiritual agencies. He then request^!-that a committee of three be appninted'bythe audience, whose duty it would be to tie himself and his as sistant, see to it that they received no help front any one outside of the cabi net, aud to insure that the experi ments were fairly conducted Dr. Morgan, Mr. Griffith and T. O. Sum mers, Sr., were selected by the audl- nence, and the pei orinancc was im mediately coiftniended. The Prof-star and his assistants took seats in the cabinet, facing each other, and ere securely tied in their c'mirs by t mraittee. Then the doors were t csed and instantly a n u in lie r of musical instruments were played upon. The doors weie then opened, and the occupants of the cabi- nent securely tied and seated as they hud been left by the committee upon closing the doors. The doors were again closed, and upon ht-ing opened, the parties were found untied. Upon being shut up again, they tied themselves, and when th ■ dors were opened, were found in t nit iundition. At the request of the . I*)!: <'.\itE of Grindstones.—We '“T in *• fhe .Journal of the Franklin .[“t'tuti-” these five hints regarding wiv> US * a f-’rindstone: 1. Do not but*' K stl ' np by running it in water; .. * *"’> do not allow it to stand in run <T " "'"in use, as this will k place. 2. Wet the stone • ‘ r "PPnig water on it from a pot niriii ^ Above the stone, and stop , , If ""tor when not in use. 3. Do i f. ^ ""’.the stone to get out of order, keep it jw-riectly round by the use tf'fpipe, ora hacker. 4. Clean "f a i : a greasy tools before sharpen- •i °< n* " rease <>r oils destroys the grit. ' •. )aerve —when you get a stone that tin. 1 ' our POfpose, semi a sample of to l ''e dealer to select by ; a ounce sample is enough. DickiS 1 ^ 0 Darlington. S. C„ noiSj Pad< T*‘! crow which hafl -She u „ ■ ’ ,0 °k home and ate it. into th« « ttac ' <c 1 b y convulsions, fell ' ued o, n 6 ’ m , ld !***? khe.-w.sres- *” p "“ ed ’ * ,,d * he “ are often painted, and knows tbe expense till he gets one.” An Irishman was once indulging ing in the very intellectual occupation of sucking eggs and reading a news paper. By a mischance he contrived to holt a chicken. The bird chiruped m it went down his throat, and he very politely observed: “By the powers me friend, ye’s spake a little too late.” Oh! the skeeter, the beautiful skeeter, filling the air with melodious metre. Under our hat and ticking our nose, taking a bite through a hole in our clothes. In through the win (low, opening the door, filling our chamber and singing the sweeter, ever is found the untiring mosquito. A Detroit boy stood an umbrella, with a cord tied to it, in a public door way. Eleven persons thought that umbrella was theirs, and carried it with them tbe length of tbe string. Thev suddenly dropped it and went off without once looking back or stop ping to pick it up. A young married man in Water- ville dreamed that he *as on a high bank, or. the railroad track, with a train approaching from each side. He grasped his wife and jumped. When he and his wife woke, up on the floor, he realized that it would have been safer to risk the railroad collision. Politics in Mississippi: “My Frens and Mr. Chairman: Deni bonswhat de doctor spoke 'bout ought to be era- puidated. lse all mv life been in favor empudiating dem liomls. Deni bonds and the Democrats what gin dem bonds, ha» been de cause of all our ’sturbance and troubles. And now I say I favor dem bonds, and all you goodf ’puhli- caus must do de same,” familv good dav and step down il r>ad out of s'cht and await his coining, and if the children evinced those pecu liar svinptoms after his departure he would eall him. He had liardlv got out of sight when the father hastened after him and brought him liaek. Ro’li fhe girl’- were n ttie spell, one crawling around h- 5 floor, biting the legs of the chairs and tables, while the other was talking, laughing and dancing around the flour most unnatural manner. The legs of the chairs and tables bore evi dence of the frequent spells of (he one that was in the habit of biting, by be ing gnawed and bitten out as a hor manger. He tried to catch the girl that was dancing around, but. she eva ded him in the most skillful manner, continually talking to him, laughing heartily, but in a manner that would make the flesh creep. The other girl paid no attention to him, hut kept con- tintlallv crawling from one object to a other anil luting them all as she passed. He finally caught the little girl, when she said : “Don’ttouch me; let me alone. I want”—and breaking the spell she turned a color as white as riven snow, and both hurst out, cry ing, and retired to a distant part of the room, their arms around each oth er, and could not be prevailed upon to sav another word. Dr. Brvning says j,ji itorfessoiy- 14r. Morgan took a sent TO MARRIED folks. DESPERATE FIGHT WITH k SNAKE.j THE BABY SHOWN TO VISITORS. If we can credit a perfectly reliable gentleman, we have to relate the fiercest conflict with a snake on record. Our informant lives on Beaver Creek,* Mitchell county, and is a gentleman entirely trustworthy in every particu lar. H is statement is substantially this ; John Masters had gone at an early hour on Monday morning last to fell some young trees, when he felt a pe culiar motion under his feet. On re moving he was thunderstruck on see ing a snake raising its head and body rapidly, and in a perpendicular direo- Without a moment's hesitation and almost without thifught of the conse quence, Masters grasped the body of the snake at a distance of about six teen inches' from the head and held it firmly. Meantime the snake was coiling around the lower part of his hotly in circles and pressing him so severely as to lead him to believe that his bones would give way to the pres sure. The snake was now moving his head to the right and left, darting at Bot when he came around, and they. Master’s head, while he was compelled both pulled at one end, it came over to dodge so as to avoid the snake’s at- with great ease. 1 tack. There, said he, as the line fell from I Masters at this time, finding himself the roof, you see how hard and iuefiec- < losing ground while the snake was fual was our labor when we Iwth pull ed in opposition to each other; but how easy and pleasant it was when we b ith pulled together. It will be so with us through life, my dear. If we oppose each other it will be hard work. If we act together it will be always pleasant to live. Let us always pull together. In this illustration, homelyns it may be, there is sound philosophy. Hus band aud wife must mutually bear and concede if they wish to make home a retreat ofbliss. One alone cannot make home happy. There must be union of action, sweet ness of spirit, and great forbearance and love in both husband and wife, to secure the great eud of happiness in the domestic circle. Tie Difficulty With That Horse. gaining strength and vigor, recollected that lie had a jack knife in his pocket, aud after much trouble and nerve suc ceeded in getting hold of it, he cut the body of the snake across, about an inch from the spot where he held it. It was, perhaps, the greatest relief he ever experienced to find the snake’s body relaxing and ultimately falling from him. The head and upper part of the snake, although still active, were evidently getting weaker, and Masters ultimate!}’ succeeded, by means of his knife in slaying the reptile. It meas ured nine feet eight inches iri length.— Hickory Prets. The following are the reasons why a ship is called she: “They are useless without employment, they bring news from abroad, they wear caps and bonnets, they are put in stays, they a man never was tfi e most pitiful sight be ever saw in the course of his professional ca reer. The parents are of the most supersti tious nature, and firmly believe that it is witchcraft, and while it is of a mys terious nature, no sensible persons be lieve that such is the occasion of the disorder Gen. Longatreet Avoided Like a Leper, A correspondent of the Norfolk Jour nal writes from the Alleghany Springs as follows: There are here, and have been during the season, a number ofcelebrites, who have quietly shared the intercourse of their fellow-citizens from different parts of the country. Within a few days a not very welcome associate, General Longstreet, of Netv Orleans, has put in his appearance. It is sad to recognize how low he has fallen in thee.-timation of those who otherwise would delight to honor him. He moves about with out friendly recognition from any, though there are here many of his old associates in arms. He has bartered away a noble heritage, and while none would harm, all are ready to say, “So let it ever be with those who sell them selves for place and profit.” between the two men in the cabi net, the doors were closed, and instant aly the instruments were played upon, hands being seen, at the apertures above men ioned, at the same time. This experiment was then related with Mr. Summers in the cabinet, imth these gentlemen reporting that the performers seemed to sit perfectly still. Next the coat of Prof. Baldwin’s assistant was sewed up in front, anil the sleeve- were sewed together behind his chair, his hands anil feet being tied. The doors were closed, and in less han a minute they were opened and the coat was found lying on a chair in front of the wearer, whose hands and feet were still tied. Short sentences were then w ritten oil cards which were placed in plain envelopes and secured, the writing on the cards not being seen by the test mediums, to whom the envelopes were then given and the doors of the cabinet closed, lu a very' s *hort time the wri ting on the cards was read aloud from the cabinet, the writers certifying that tiie cards were correctly read. An swers to the communications were then read aloud by the test mediums, anil their envelopes returned. The com mittee examined the envelopes and declared they had not been bio'ten open, but upon their being opened by the writers the answers given were found written on the opposite side of the cards, the writing in every instance closely resembling that first written. Other cards similarly prepared were theu handed to the occupants of the cabinet, who read the writing correct ly, and called out that if the commit tee would open the door they would see how the trick was performed, whereupon the door was opened, and the trick was fully explained. Proi. Baldwin then exposed most of Foster’s seemingly wonderful perforin ances, but of course we do not prepose to give the explanations, as the Pro fessor intends to give a couple of ex hibitions at the Opera House this week—to-morrow night and the night following—when the public will be afforded an opportunity of seeing how things are done. Tiie following csrtifia.ite fully ex IV e had a good deal qf trouble with our horse last summer. He was a bob- tailed horse, and it seemed to annoy him so much that he couldn’t reach the flies which fattened on his ribs, that it occurred to us to fix him up a kind of an artificial tail to relieve the situation, as it were. So we procured three feet of halt-inch rope, unravelled about eighteen inches of it and spliced the other end ’ to the horse’s tail. ' This a’!Oiil>have enabled ltim to switch ally off h's nose as s >on a< he" had ac juired a little practice. But otir Irishman, seeing the rope, and not understanding our motive precisely, concluded that we were trying experiments with some new kind of hitching strap to he used in the rear, and so he tied the horse to the str.ll that night by his; rdficial con tinuation. Bv morning the feed-box was kicked to kindling wi od, and the horse was standing on ti ree legs, with the other leg caught in the hay rack, while he chewed up four of the best boards in the side of the stable in front of him. Then we got him up another rope tail, and explained the theory to our man. But the tail bothered the hostler so much while currying the horse that he tied half a brick to it to hold it still. The consequence was that the horse, in a moment of excitement, jerked tiie brick around and mashed in the Jr'.sh- man’s nose, and he sued us, and we spent two hundred dollars trying to set tle the case. Then we bought a bunch of horse hair, and spliced that ou very neatly. When our new man came he begun to curry that tail, and it came off in his hand. He thought it indicat ed a diseased condition of the horse and gave him a huge dose of some kind ot patent powder to improve the animal’s tealth, and in half an hour the horse had convulsions, during which he kick ed down the stable door, battered the stall into splinters, hammered four more hoards out of the partition, dislo cated his off hind leg, anil died in fright ful agony. Now we have a horse with a long tail, and when we see a peddler coming with horse medicine we send a dog out to interview him, and bombard him from the front window with a shot gun. Monster Snakes.—On Monday last J. G. Wagner, Esq., of Masonboro Township, was out gunning, accompa nied by a colored boy, when a shout from the latter altrait d his atteution, and upon going to ascertain what wqs the matter he found tnat the boy was frightened by a large rattlesnake. He shot the reptile, cutting the body to pieces pretty badly, when out jumped seven young snakes, measuring on the average about twenty-two inches in length, which he killed. He then dis patched the male snake and tied the two to his cart and dragged them home. Arriving there he proceeded to cut open the female snake, when five more young snakes jumped out and showed every indication of being prepared for battle, hut they were soon put out of the way of doing injury. An exact measurement was theu taken of the two snakes, when it was found that the male was seven feet and eight inches in length'ar.d measured twelve and a half inches in diameter, having eleven rattles and one button The female was eleven inches shorier«nd measured eleven and a half inches around the largest part.—Wil mington Star. It is an odilffict that no baby ever did, and no baby ever -will behave well in cpnipany:' The-mother always brings It into the parlor where the vis itors are, dressed in its clean dress, and itsdhther and its aunt come in smiling at the same time. After the visitor has kissed the baby and taken it on her lap, and declared it is the dearest little thing she ever saw, the baby’s mother and she begin to talk. Each talks about her own baby as fast as she can rattle, and both talk at once apparently without caring what the other is saying.^ In the midst-of the conversation the baby “throws up” or fhe visitor’s dre^s, and is siidf handed to its mother. The visitor smiles a sickly smile, and says it makes no difference, but she is mad. The conversation isresumed, and presently the father winks furiously ta the mother and frowns and clears his throat and makes mysterious • signals at tHfe side of the chair with his hand., Tiie mother looks down, perceives that some of the baby’s undergarments are slipping off, and she snatchqs up that infant and flies from the room. When she returns the child cries to go to its father; and no sboner is it settled on his knees than it betrays an irresisti ble yearning to go to its aunt, after which it cries furiously because its mother won’t take it. Then the aunt gets a piece of candy, to quiet it, and when its hands have acquired sufficient stickiness, it reach es over and mauls the visitor’s bonnet. Then its mother tries to show off its accomplishments; but it utterly refuses to make a display.; it is as stupid as an owl. It won’t say “mamma,” or ‘.‘papa,” and it won’t show how big, it is. Its father tries to coax it to say “papa,” but it pays no attention to him. He tries again and again, get ting madder all the time, and dread fully afraid the visitor will think the cliild dull. At last he grabs the child by the arm and shakes it and yells, “why don’t you say papa, as I tell you to ?’’ Then the child screams like a back yard full of cats. The more the moth er soothes it, the louder it gets, until at last the father exclaims, “Gimme that brat,” and picks it up and dashes out of the room, and is heard spanking it in the entry. Then the visitor goes home looking at her dress and decid ing that the end of that infant will be the gallows, if its characteristics are allowed to develop fully as it grows up v Orir Cash Rates of Advertising* Advertisements, tiisin this date,.inserted itJ One Dollar pet Square (of on« inMO tw t^e tnt nsertion, and Seventy-fire Cents pf r SffrtrWo for each additional Insertion, , - *9- Funeral Notices and Obituaries charged tbr at regular Advertising rates. , W No extracharge for Locator Special column nr Transient Advert isemcntscash. Other bills collected every ninety days. * .. ‘ Mr Liberal contract* made for any period Over one month. A gray hair was espied among the raven jocks of a fair friend by a lady. “OlHrarpifll it out," she exclaimed “If I pull it out ten will come to the fuueral,” replied the lady who made the unwelcome discovery. “Pluck it out, nevertheless,” said the dark-haired damsel; “it’s no sort of consequence vided they come in black J” Sam Bard.—The Cmirier-Jaumal gives this first class notice to a notori ous person: “The greatest trouble Dr. Bard encounters in life is that of determining, when he goes to bed at night whether he shall wake up in the morning a Democrat or a Radical. With the certainty of making two dol lars and a half by the operation, he would know exactly what to do. presses the sentiment of all present: We, the undersigned, have witnessed Prof. Ba’dwin’s exposure of the claims of Spiritualism, and take pleasure in stating that his performances were in every particular satisfactory, and his explanations, so far as given, were clearly and accurately stated. Let every one turn out and satisfy them selves. We guarantee an interesting exhibition. D. W. H. Morgan, J. O. Griffith T. O. Summers. D. D., Thompson Anderson, S. M. Merrill, D. D., T Summers, Jr.,C. M. Baldwin, L. G. Noel. A Fish Story.—One of the most curious feautures of the Yellowstone region is to be found in the hot spring. On the border of the Yellowstone Lake .The extra fifty cents is entirely su- are often to be seen derated mounds, perfluous. Discovery of Bender in New York. 1 —A dispatch says a straggler has been indentified by a lady residing near Acra, Green county, N. Y., as Bender, the Kansas murderer* He stopped at her house for something to eat, and when asked if he was Bender how many come to the funeral, pftH , hastily left for the Mountains. The mountains are now being searched* which jut out from the shore into the water. These contain pools filled with heated water, so that il is possible for a person standing on the mound to catch trout in the lake with the help of a fishing rod, and to cook them in the boiling spring without taking them off the hook. The Yalne nf Courteous Manners. Other things being equal, the cour teous-and affable alwavs have the pre ference over the blunt and rude. Whether it is the selection of the store at which we deal, the employer whom we will serve, the workman we will en gage, or the road we will travel, this el ement will largely influence our choice. In the instructions which a general manager of a leading railway has issued to his subordinates, he says: “Treat people as if you appreciated and were willing to acknowledge their custom. Trv to accommodate and please. In short., act as any good bus'ness man would towards his customers. Don’t treat people as if you were confering a favor on them by letting them ride. Rather seek to make tbe line popular, because its business is dependent on the good will of the people. You need not be ashamed to let people under stand that you acknowledge this.” Such orders fully recognize the policy of pleasing manners and their necessity to ensure success. To be really worthy and enduring, politeness must be based .in kindly feeling. An old proverb says, “If the staff be crooked, the shad ow cannot be straight.” So if our hearts are cold and hard, they will not cast the shadow of kindly deeds and gentle manners. Yet the act and re-act upon each other, and the effort to correct the shadow may induce us to reform the substance. !> ,‘i , Snake Proof.—A note from Alba ny, Ga., says: Our townsman, T. C. saw a man who,in a state of intoxication, tumble down and went to sleep. During his nap a rattlesnake, with fourteen rattles, coiled up the side of his face, and when the old soaker would change his position, struck him several times in the face. In the morning both were in close proximity and the snake was killed. Soaker was badly marked where the fangs had penetrated, hut otherwise apparently unhurt. Thi shows the power of whisky as an an tidote to snake bites, A Bad Place to Die In.—New York may be a good city to live in, but if the Tribune be correct it is hard ly a place to die in comfortably. That journal, after telling how the body of Mr. Munce, a wealthy gentleman, was fished out of the picking -vat of a dis secting room, says: “ There is no doubt that many a body is carefully decked for its last sleep and laid in the ground with tears and prayers, which the next night is lying on the bare dis secting board, ready for the student’s knife, while the fond mother or wife comes day after day to weep over a rifled grave.” To Make a Fashionable Novel. Take one beautiful woman of some what loose character, and a lover gift ed with all the physical perfections and moral imperfections. Soak all these in a false philosophy until they become immoral or unhappy. Take a rather improper view of the married state throw in a few violent deaths, a spoou ful of sickly sentimentality, and gar nish with ruined lives or broken hearts according to taste. Then place the whole in an early grave and spread over it as much meretricious morality as it will bear. Not Ready to Die.—The follow ing is no fabrication of an. irreverent secular journal but from the orthodox Memphis Presbyterian: Traveling in his buggy alone, not long ago, in go ing to one of his appointments, one of our good brethren in the Presbytery of Memphis overtook a “foot-pad” with his carpet-bag in his hand. The roads were muddy, and he was just at the time about entering a miry bottom. With the politeness for which he is noted, he asked the pedestrian, an en tire stranger, if he would not take seat in his buggy until, at least, they had crossed the mud-anil mire. The invitation was accepted, and the con versation for a time was free and easy, about things ordinary and general. Presently, however, the good brother, with a view to make the conversation profitable, asked the stranger if he teas ready to die. Not knowing the char acter of the person who had invited him to a seat with him, and misappre hending his meaning and suspecting foul play, he waited not to reply, but sprang from the buggy immediately, and ran for life througn slush and wa ter. The clerical brother, wishing to assure the stranger that he meant no halm called to him at the top of his voice, to stop! But this only hasten ed his speed, and like a hare, he ran until beyond hearing and sight. In his hasty flight he left his carpet sack, which our brother now has in his pos session, being the richer for his faith fulness by the addition of a coarse shirt, a pair of thread-bare trousers, and a little “backer.” IL HOUSEHotrf iftKD; A correspondent of dye, Baltimore Sun, considering the great need of the! times, “motive power for houseboiJ | use,” says: . It may be-confidently asserted that a thousand inventive minds are engaged' in earnest efforts to discover or develop ' one, yet unknown or unemployed,' par ticularly directed to such a mnrfection of the sewing machine as, whiie.it will prove a blessing will not, at the same 1 time, be a physical corse. Perhaps there is nothing, during the last twenty-five years that htU nvad^ such inroads upon the physical well be ' , of the female ns . the sewing _..chine as h is prdina#ifr used. Iid * deed, the eyils arising' tnertrftom are so great a» jo have recently attracted the attention of. eminent physicians and humanitarians, ^ctenttfic investi’' gation has revealed the fact that all, or nearly all, the evils%rodu«jed. by the. sewing machine are in consequence of rqnningit with bqth limbs at once, the? operator sitting- with.bqth' fret raised; upon the treadle, - which neoessariljH- compels hgr to seat herself at qdj£e rJ distance from the machine, occasioning . a great loss of power, by its direct aj*; plication, Whilst the position produces' an enfeebling effect upon, or curvature of, $be spine,, as -well as an injurious cofapressioh tmd frequently a displace-’, ment of the delieaigrihternnl organs of thc.fenmle structure. We would there-' fore atjvise'ladies, until something bet ter‘than font power is discovered, to run their sewing machines with one] foot only, ns in this way a more natural position of the body is preseSvecI, il more direct application of' power at tained, less fatigue produced, And th'e delicate abdominal vicefaielievcd from ' unnatural pressure. Medical men, after due observation,', have .come, tlieAMpciusion's above stated, ■ -,;j - >;* The game law is' rigorously enforced in Bryan county.’ before the law waif passed the citizens found it utterly im possible to keep a hog, as the negroes were constancy in fhe woods tyuntirg.’ But now they dftre not say they arer hunting binis or any other species of game.' The consequuce is, that while all the hogs were killed before the passage^ of the law, now the people have a fine prospect for pork and bacon . We sug gest that the game law b<f made a getr- ral instead of a local law. The lady who tapped her Jiu'sbanc^ gently with a fan at a party the other night, and said: “Love, its growing, late, I think we had better go home,” » the same one who after gettmg home’ shook the rolling pin under fits nose, and said, “You infernal old scoundrel 1 you, if you ever look at that mean, nasty, calico-faced, mackerel-eyed thing that you looked at to night, I’ll busr your head wide open.” Railroad Accidents for one Month.—Ninety railroad accident^ have occurred within the past month’ in this country, nearly all of which re-' suited from incompetency and reck lessness. Some central supervision seems to he in demand over this great interest, which shall institute a severe; civil service reform among the em ployees. Costly Masonic Hall.—TheMa: sonic fraternity have under way at least $4,000,000 worth of new halls, most of which will be completed this year. The one in Philadelphia fa the most magnificent structure of the kind in the country, and when furnished and entirely completed will be worth' at least one million of dollars. The next session of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows covene3 at Atlanta, Ga. Somebody says a good egg is made up of ten parts shell, sixty parts white, and thirty parts yelk. Tbe white of an egg contains eighty-siK pef cent, water ; the yelk fifty-two percent. The average weight of an egg is two ounces. A Lusus Natur.e.—The Jack sonville News speaks of a monstrosity on exhibition in that city which rivals Barnum’s mermaid. Imaginea boy thir teen years old, with hands and feet shaped like an alligator’s, his backbone all on one side of his body, his heart on the right side where his liver ought to be, fifteen ribs on one side and four on the other, the countaunnce of a bright, intelligent boy and the movements of an alligator; such an oddity is seldom seen, and is well worth the trouble and ex pense of examining it. AVery Pretty Hat.—A very pret ty hat of inaroon-colored straw hag a brim which droops in the back and is raised like a diaden in front. The dia- den front is faced with a maroon velvet, and the twisted band of maroon tur quoise silk, which surroundi the crown, is lined with rose color. On the sides a full knot of the maroon turquoise, lined and edged with rose color, holds in place a cluster of wild eglantine’ The whole hat is gracefully veiled by a long floating scarf of maroon Donna Maria gauze. Cannibals.—The French govern ment has turned its attention to the suppression of cannibalism intheMar- 3 uesas islands. This can probably be one by killing all the natives, and then it is a question whether the at mosphere of the islands would not gradually change the whites into man- eaters. There was a quarrel between some of the natives, which was com promised and settled by the sacrifice of a poor laborer, who was ordered by one of the chiefs to sharpen a hatchet for his own execution. He was butch ered, and not being enough for a meal for all the parties interested, his wife was prepared and roasted with him. The twain were eaten. The French heard of this forbidden least, and caught and hanged, seven chiefs, to teach the natives a lesson in the govern ment of their appetites. Shortly after this thirty natives were devoured at one grand barbecue. Cannibalism seems to be like religion. It thrives under persecution. The whites in these islands live very uncertain lives. They do not dare to venture far from the ports or settlements. Irish \\ t it.—An illustration of Irish simplicity is afforded by the reply of a candidate for the office of teacher. The examiner was endeavoring to elicit the candidate’s idea of the market value of labor with reference to demand and supply ; but, being baffled, he put a question in this simple form : “If there are in your village two shoemakers with just sufficient employment to enable them to live tolerably, and no more, what would be the Consequence if a third shoemaker set rip iff the same vil lage?” “What would b@ the conse quence, sir?” echoed tbe? candidate; “why, a fight, to be sure.” Masonic Temple at Macon.— The new Masonic Temple at Macon is nearly completed. The cost of the building will be 862,000. Furniture’ and necessary fixtures will make the’ cost near $75,000. It will be the finest and most imposing Masonic Tem ple in the South. Reduction of Freight.—Freights have been reduced very materially be-' tween New York city nnd the West and South. First-class freights have Been lowered to Nashville from $1.10 to 73; to Memphis, from $1.35 to 98, and to Louisville, Ky., from 86 to 49.' "1 — Some egg-rai ers claim that the best use for skimmed milk is to give it to’ hens to drink; that it is worth twice as much for this purpose as for feeding to hogs; and that, by its use in winter, chickens will lay constantly. This? must be their only drink, and to’ have access to it at all time®. Not less than six serious railway ac cidents were recorded during tbe week In all about forty lives were lost, be-' [sides double the number of persons wore maimed for life. Number, of Persons Killed in August by Railroads.—It may make your railroad trip more pleasant to know that one hundred and fifty' persons were killed by the railroads in'., the United States duringthe month of August,;, . ... ; , • ' New Element of Labor in the? South.—The-experiment ol importing laborers front ’Spain is being tried with marked success in Louisiana, the plan ters asserting that the freed negroes, a£ a class, are idle and improvident, and? sore vexation. The widow of a Vermont pedler claims ten thousand dollars damages' from the bar-keeper who sold Rqritnr td the man who murdered her late hus band. “Among all my hoys,” said ah old man, “I never had but one boy who’ took after me, and that was my son' Aaron, who took after nth with at pole.” _ An old western gamestef wants to, know if the vote of “no thore passes" applies to railroad euchre. A young man at a party being told to “hringforth the old lyre,”brough off his old mother-in-law'. - . Madison having s&tirfed fin addition al blacksmith sliojV,' for# tails for a' sttaiff Wundry.