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Invariably in AdVAMc*
Among the Georgia Press.
y r . John Thrashet has been marie Mar
ey of Quitman. We suppose he will
tirAsh out things if they don’t do to suit
him.
y r , J. J. Jells, of IlawkitlsvlUe, is tfe
porKvl to have raised a cucumber measur
ing four feet eight inches in length, and
fonrtw.ni inches in circumference.
E ('. Wade goes for Capt. J; H. Ilun
t,.r of Brooks county, in a letter in the
Quitman Banner.
Atlanta is fixing up for the next State
fair.
11. V. M. Miller spoks In Atlanta lust
fSek.
IP nrj ft. Duftignon, of BrflttSwick, died
|*nt week.
t'ol Barkaloo has been nominated for
the l/egislature from Glynn county.
\\> k-re ihftt t*ur young friend W. E. Col
li,r, formerly of Itainbridge, but now of
Fort Valley, has been spoken of for Rcp
ivaentative from Houston county. We
don't think a better selection could be
Perry has been having affine revival.
What is the matter with the Guthbert
Appeal ? We have not received a copy
in sometime. Have you forgotten us,
friend’.Saw tell ?
Blakely is to have a singing Convention.
U. 0. Dunlap lias been nominated for
the legislature, from Early county.
Maj. Hurst, of Miller county, is dead,
t'ol. J. B. Weems, of Macon, spoke at
Butler last Saturday.
The hoys of Savannah are advised to
rrv tin l evening Mirror, and the proprie
tors are responsible if anybody don’t like
it.
We have received the first nnmber of
the Newton Enterprise, published at New
ton. Baker county in this State, by Brown
A Kirch. It is a neat little sheet, well got
ten up. creditably edited.
The colored mokes around Newton were
very much disappointed because Major
Whitclcy did not address them as prom
ised
Fitch, of the Griffin Star, gave Burnett,
ts the Atlanta Whig, a severe beating
»ith a stick the other day.
One day last week, Mr. Robert \\ allace,
laing injtke Sixth District of Dooly coun
ty. had his dwell inland entire household
effects destroyed by fire. He was absent
fmra home at the time, his children only
being upon the place.
ikipt. Ben J. Russell, of Baker county,
made a speech last week, in which he ad
vocated farmers only as legislators,
l'r. K. F. Way’s gin house, on his river
Jantation, just below Ibiwkiusville, cou
pling seven bales of cotton, was burned
on Friday last. It was an accident.
t'ol. Morgan Rawls has been nominated
kr Congress in the First District.
lion. Ju'.iau llartridge is to address the
of Lowndes county.
•’barley Pendleton tells one more of
aw ful snake stories.
Ike Enterprise says town property in
Ihomasville is too high. W© can’t under
hand that, as there are only about oue or
,w ° two-storv houses in that burg.
Thomasville had a eoueext last week, by
*be eoruet baud.
Rtere is a crazy woman m Americus
"bo claims to be the sister of our Saviour
Fnmk Evans, of the Albany News is
because nobody in his town won't get
married.
Albany is going to play tragedy soon.
Albany has two dogs to every citizen.
Ibat is a dogoned sight.
1 he Albany News says :
• ur Wend, T. R. Lyon, is out this week
e Central Pity, in a well written let-
T t ‘ the colored people of Dougherty.—
cm is doing good service in the Greeley
1 enthusiastic as he is voluiniu
(’ j «! ' l ‘'-ill3 Herald is inclined to eu
°r* Ma l- Bruton for the Senate.
A, b*any News discourses thus:
ll *N ro women iu the northern
ffvejvW c Vlt^'tK au d whipped most
r>r 'iT tlk ' a ne gro loan, who calls
of v aT *’ aiu * swindled thorn out
and " °alling himself a conjuror,
cum all women of dis
xc old i sai!le M. B. sometime ago told
hi t! her\" 01liait that ii she would pay
>V.rrig v van dollars he woukl coujur
* r Iris , "' 'r iU ' lV ' r °l ca *tng her son
b» i , l 1 ’*: °ld woman willingly
«vmur to ' oUni ' But Sheriff K. would’nt
Contrast.
If there bo any persons who advo
cate the re-election of President
Grant from any other than Bullish
and sordid considerations, wo would
repectfully submit to their careful
consideration the Proclamation of
Lerdo de Tejada, the present Presi
dent of Mexico, to those in rebellion
or insurrection against the Govern
ment of Mexico. They will notice
that the amnesty is universal and
complete, the franchise is restored
to all, not even excepting Porfirio
Diaz, the “ foils et origo ” of the in
surrection. How different from the
conduct of Grant who yet denies the
rights of citizenship to very many
Southern men seven years after the
close of the war, and is now engaged
with U. S. troops in hunting down
Southern men and boys to imprison
them thousands of miles from home.
It proves Tejada a statesman and
Grant a tyrant :
Conformably to the provisions of
our fundamental code for the case of
an absolute default of President of
the Republic, I have decided that
the first of my official acts should be
the decree to-day promulgated for
the new elections. In these elections
all the rights of the people shall be
fully respected, without restrictions
or hindrances, and liberty of suffrage
guaranteed to all to its fullest extent.
All the citizens, and all parties will
be allowed free action in the electo
ral acts, and thus tlio result will
prove the real expression of the gen
eral will.
Animated by a spii’it of concilia
tion I liavo considered it my duty
to-day to issue a decree of amnesty
for all political offences committed
up to this date, and without person
al exceptions. Tho principal efforts
of the insurgents having been thwart
ed, amnesty can now bo accorded
them without prejudice to our law r s
and authority. This amnesty res
ponds to the general desire for the
pacification of the country and to a
well-grounded opinion of the many
who regret all the frightful disasters
of anarchy and deplore the ruinous
results of civil wav'. At the moment
when the electoral campaign is being
opened amnesty is the only means
of providing that no one be excluded
from the privilege of casting his vote,
and that no one be deprived of the
right of receiving the suffrages of his
fellow-citizens. I have thought that
I could not make a better use of the
faculties granted the Executive, and
that if unfortunately there should
still be found men bent upon longer
inflicting upon their native land the
horrors of war so as to require new
efforts from those in authority for
their subjection, it would be well
that the public opinion should rec
ognize that the Executive has had
tho sincere desire to omit nothing
calculated to secure peace and give
the widest scope to electoral liberty.
How a President is Elected.
The question is often asked as to
how the President of the United
States is elected. We will answer :
Each State is entitled to as many
electors for President and Vice Pres
ident as it has Senators and Repre
sentatives in Congress. Hence Penn'
sylvania has twenty-nine electors.
In each State the electors are cho
sen by a plurality vote. That is if
there are sets of electors voted for
those having the highest number of
votes are chosen.
But a candidate for President, in
order to be successful, must have a
majority of the electors.
If there be three candidates for
President and none of them receive a
majority of the Electoral College,
there is no choice, and the election
goes to the House of Represeutativ es.
The House must confine their
choice to the three highest candi
dates voted for by the electors. The
Representatives vote by States, and
each State has but one vote ; so that
the power of Delaware is as great as
Pensylvania. A candidate to be
successful must receive a majority of
all the States, or nineteen States.—
If (he delegation is divided equally
the vote of the State cannot be cast,
and therefore is lost.
Pittsburg claims to have made
steel whkh stands a test of 210,000
to the square inch.
Dots Here and There.
Eol Smith Russell is not a preacher,
after all. lie was only baptized.
A mother and her four babes were in
jail in *it. Louis the other clay.
General Thayer, the oldest graduate of
West point, Is dead.
The Metis disaster is being Investigated
by the Government.
Liquor is the won t thing in the world
to carry arrouud with you in hot weather.
By a vote of 13 to, 4, the Louisville
school board sustains the use of tho rattan
in school.
Joe Jefferson, the great "Rip Tan ’Win
kle’’ has again been obliged to leave tho
stage on account of his eyed.
Long John Wentworth is accused using
a telegraph pole for a caue when ho is at
home.
San Francisco lawyers charge a fee of
8800 in perjury coses, 8600 for manslaugh
ter and 8400 for a plain burglary.
Pope Blits IX generally speaks very
hesitatingly when addressing strangers,
but when his feelings become aroused he
is a most eloquent speaker.
Cataca/.y publishes a card in the New
York papers denying that he has endeav
ored to sell a pamphlet containing revela
tion against President Grant and fam
ily-
A telegram from Rome announces the
appointment of Bishop Bayley, of Newark
N. J., to be Archbishop of Baltimore, to
succeed the late Archbishop Spaulding.
The QltcCn of Prussia has sent the
Fiincess-Salm-Salm, upon her entering
the St. Ursula Couvent at Appenzell, a
Catholic prayer-book worth one thousand
dollars.
M rs. Horace Greeley's health continues
to grow worse rapidly. She is so feeble
t hat she cannot stand, her lower limbs
having been partially paralyzed. —Her
physicians think she cannot survive the
year.
The editor of tho Hartford Post wrote
the Other night that "white pique costumes
are now popular.” The intelligent corn
compositor perhaps questioned the fact
and to give it the merit of truth set up,’
"white pine cofi’ns are not poplar.”
Greeleys Opinion of Carpet-bag
gers.
Mr. Greeley, in the New York Tribune,
of May 17, 1871 “Our correspondents
liave been so long in the disturbed districts
of the South, that we can form from their
letters a distinct idea of the state of society
in that unfortunate part of the , Union.—
It is ;> melancholy picture that they draw
for us. The most intelligent, the influen
tial, the educated the really useful men of
the South, deprived of all political power
have come to look upon themselves as the
outraged subjects of a despotic conqueror.
Taxed and swindled by a horde of rascally
foreign adventurers, and by tho ignorant
class, which only yesterday hoed the fields
and served in the kitcli en, they care noth
ing for politics except to throsv off the op
pressive yoke; they have no interest in
national affairs; they would call themselves
of either party, provided their rulers w ere
only of the other. The refuse of North
ern cities, who went southward after the
war, out-at-elbows and destitute of charac
er mid education, now roll in splendid
carriages, drink rare wines, glitter with
diamonds and steal taxes. It is no wonder
that the impoverished planter, growing
poorer every day, the ex-confederate officer
who fought so bravely for a cause in which
he honestly believed, the professional men,
accustomed all their lives to hold office
and lead tho public sentiment of their
communities, look ou these things with
raucoroas hearts. They might sumit to
be ruled by soldiers who had beaten them
iu battle: but here they plundered by sut
lers and camp-followers.” * * * "We
have often warned our party iu Congress
of the inevitable result of the vindictive
method of Reconstnitftiort. We have
told them, and we tell them again, that
thete Is only one way to restore the Union
—Universal Amnesty and Impartial buf
frage.’,
Herschel V. Joiin'sox. —lliis distingu
ished Georgian written to by a “Straight’
in Columbus about the Louisville Conven
tion. This is part of his reply:
“I respect your opinions and can fully
appreciate the patriotic feelings which
prompt the Louisville movement. I do
not approve it, but lam not at liberty to
question its sincerity, much less to censure
I deplore all schism among Southern peo
ple, especially the people of Georgia. If
it were in my power, I would exercise for
ever the words of damnation and reciim
nation. that we might all be linked in the
bonds of brotherhood, tolerate honest
differences of opinion, and cover each
others faults with the veil of charity.—
This is the lesson taught by common ruin
and common sorrow.’
Napoleon once asked a lady wliat
France needed for the education ol
her youth ; and, the short profound
reply was, “Mothers!'’
FOB THE RIGHT—JVBTICE TO ALL.
BAINBRIDGE GA-, SEPTEMBER 21st, 1872.
The Soldier and the Pack of
Cards.
A private soldier by th 9 name of
Richard Lee, was taken before the
magistrate of Glasgow for playing
cards during divine service. The
accounts is given in the English
Journal. A serge&tji commanded
the soldiers at the church, and when
the Parson read the prayers he teok
the text Those who had a Bible
took it out, but the soldier had neith
er Bible nor Common Prayer book,
but pulling out a pack of cards, he
spread them out before him. He
first looked at one and then at the
other.—The serge' at ‘of the com
mand saw him’and *«*•
“Richard, put up the cards ; this
is no place for them,*
“Never mind that,” said Richai’d.
When the service wa3 over tho
Constable took Richard prisoner and
carried him before the Mayor.
“What have you brought this sol
dier here for ?”
“For playing cards in ehurrli/’
“Well, soldier, what have you got
to say for yourself?”
“Much sir, I hope.”
“Very good, if not, I will punish
you more than ever a man was p an
ished.”
“I have been,” Said the soldier,
“about six weeks on the march. I
have neither Bible nor Common
Prayer book. I have nothing but a
pack of cards, and I hope to satisfy
your lordship with tho purity of my
intensions.”
Then, spreading the cards before
the Mayor, he began with tho ace :
“When I see the ace it reminds
me that there is but one God.
When I see the deuce, it reminds
mo of the Father and Son.
When I see the tray, reminds
mo of tile Father, Son, and Holy
Ghost.
When I see the four, it reminds
mo of the four Evangelists that
preached—Mathew, Mark, Luko and
John.
When I see tlio five, it reminds me
of tho wise virgins that trimmed their
lamps—there-were ten, five were sliut
out.
When I see tho six, it reminds
me that in six days the Lord made
Heaven and earth.
When I see the seven, it reminds
me that on the seventh day God
rested from the great work he had
made and hallowed it.
When I see the eight, it reminds
me of the eight righteous persons
that were saved when God destroy
ed the world—Noah and his wife,
his three sons and their wives,
When I see the nine, it reminds
me of the nine lepers that were
cleansed by our Savior ; there wrnre
nine out of the ten who never re
turned thanks.
When I see’the ten, it reminds me
of the ten commandments which
God handed down to Moses on tho
tables of stone.
When I see the king, it reminds
me of the Great King of Heaven,
which is God Almighty.
When I see the queen it reminds
me of the Queen of Sheba, who vis
ited Solomon, for she was as wise a
woman as he was a man. She
brought with her fifty girls and fifty
boys, all pressed in boys apparel, for
King Soloman sent for them to wash;
the girls washed to the elbows and
the boys to the wrists, so King Sol
omon told by this.”
“Well,” said the Mayor, “you have
given a description of all tho caads
in the pack except one.
“What is that ?”
“The Knave.”
“I will give your honor ft descrip
of that, too, if you will not bo an
gry.”
“I will not,” said tho Mayor. ‘lf
you do term me to be the Knave.
“Well,” said thd soldier, “the
greatest’knave that I know of, is the
Constable that brought me hero.
“I do not.know,” said the Mayor.
—“lf he is the greatest knave, but
I believe ho is the greatest fool.”
“When I count how many spots
in a pack of cards, I find three hun
dred andsixty-five-as many as there
are days in a year.
When I count the nurnoer of cards
in a pack I find there axe fifty-two—
the number of weeks iu a year, and
I find four sirits—the number of
weeks in a fiionth.
I find there are twelve picture
cards in a pack, representing] the
number of months in a year.
And on counting the tricks I find
thirteen—the number of weeks in a
quarter. So you a pack of
cards serve for a Bible, Almanac
and Prayer Book,—this will tell
you all about a pack of cards."
Hint§ for tho Country.
In preparing grounds, it shoiild
bd remembered, says the Gardener’s
Monthly, that grass and trees are
not only required to grow therein,
but that they must grasuwelL The
top soil of the lot is] often Covered
by the soil from the excavations,
trusting to heavy manuring to pro
mote fertility. But this is a too
slow and expensive process. The
top surface soil should, in all cases,
bo saved, and replaced over the ba
ser soil. Also, where it is necessary
to lower a piece of ground, the top
soil should be saved to place over
again. The depth of the soil is an
important matter, both for the trees
and the lawn. It should be at least
eighteen inches deep. In shallow
soils, grass will burii out under a
few]days of hot sun. In a soil
eighteen inches deep, a lawn will bo
green in the driest weathea. For
the sake of the trees, also, tho ground
should be not only deep, but rich.
If from thirty to forty loads of sta
ble manure to the acre could bo ap
propriated, it would bo money well
spent. Life is too short for it to be
an object to wait too long for trees
to grow, and planting largo ones is
an expensive as well as unsatisfacto
ry business. A tree in a rich and
deep soil will grow as much in one
year as in five in a poor one. So in
preparing a lawn, it is fortunate that,
while aiming at the best effects, we
are helping our trees also. It is gen
erally better to sow for a lawn than
to sod, where much of it has to be
done. Tho edges of the road must,
of course, bd sodded, and Rhd bal
ance neatly raked over and sown.
The best land of grass to be employ
ed in seeding as a disputed point,
and it will, no doubt, depend in a
great measuro on the locality. lii
Philadelphia and northward, the pe
rennial rye grass is excellent. It
commences to grow very early, and
has a peculiar lively, shining green.
South of Philadelphia, it is very li
able to got burned out in summer,
and the Kentucky blue grass would
be much better. It is much the best
to have but one kind of grass for a
lawn provided it is situated to the
locality. A mixture of kinds is apt
to give a spotted and variegated
character, not at all pleasing. Some
people like to see white clover grow
ing thickly in a lawn, and others ob
ject to anything but green. How
ever, if a good grass rake is'employ
ed freely in Slimmer time, the heads
of these flowers may be kept from
expanding. Where there is a pros
pect of a month of growing weath
er, lawns may still be sown with
grass seed, the clover, where used,
to be kept for sowing in] April or
March next. A small quantity of
rye should be thinly sown with the
grass, which, by the shade it affords,
will prevent the grass from being
thrown out by the frost. The rye
must, of course, be closely cut in the
spring, to allow the grass to get
ahead of it.
fcalf a Century ago a wornout
field in Conneticut was planted in
timber. The field hag yielded ten
cords per year, and fencing for the
farm for twenty years past.
If you believe the white people of
the Smith are a set of murderous
Ku-klux destitute of patriotism
manhood and principle, go for
Grant.
A wize man never enjoys himself so
much nor a phool so little, as when
alone.
men are most alwus apt to be a leetle too
proudov the job.
Man’s necessity are phew, but his wants
are endless.
Campaign Notes.
Colfax wrote in 1808: “There
are sixteen weighty reasons why
Grant should never bo President.”
And those reasons have been *in
creasing in weight and number every
day since.
John A. Log art said of Grant in
1869 that “he is a man without suffi
cient knowledge to preside over a
caucus.” We should think that his
strongest point would bebroughoUt
presiding over a Circus.
“Are you not more prosperous and
making more money than over before
asked Morton in his Rushville speech
And tho Court HoUso Ring with one
accord, loudly answered, “We are!’
Herts.
Hoi ace Greeley Correctly stated
the case when he said »ri his Port
land speech, “Front those who
port me at the Soitth I have but one
demand—justice; but one desire—
reconciliation.” Surely the people
of the North will not refuse to admit
such a claim.— Cour. Journal.
The question in politics ought not
to be “What were you?” but “Wlirtt
are you?”—>not what you did advo
cate, but what you do advocate; not
whether you are the nominee, bu t
whether you are an honest and
capable person to fill tho designated
place.
If the President’s favorite mouth
piece Morton—the brains of his ad •
ministration—thinks the administra
tion perfect and does not realize the
need of reform, it is clear that no
reform can be effected as long as he
and bis party remain in power. We
all know that abuses do exist, and
we want an administration which
Will bo pledged to reform them, not
one which will not even acknowledge
their existence.
Thfe “time-honored Democracy”
are not only supporting Horace
Greeley, but tlioy are committed to
“the civil and political equality of all
men,” the Reverse of their principles
four years ago. General Grant be
longed to the “time-honored Democ
racy,” and so did Governor Morton;
and Colonel Mosby and Mr. Ste
phens prefer Grant to Greeley, in
spite of State Rights, the resolutions
of ’6B, and “principles” and “consis
tency.”
Measures, plain, practical, Com
prehensible measures—which every
body can understand-are the things
to be looked to and considered and
discussed; these change from time
to time, according to the varying
conditions and needs of the pedple;
and not to change, to sot up a sham
for all sorts of weather and call it
“principle* and “consistency,” is to
perpetrate a wretched, and often a
ruinous, self-delusion, unworthy of
brave and thinking men.— Cour.
Journah
Plit it down.
Young man, why will you do It? You
cannot afford to drink. That single glass
of whiskey that you take costs you only
twenty-five cents, does it? Let us see. It
casts your father a shudder. It costs your
mother a heart-ache, Jt costs you, tfaei
loss of yoUr purity. It digs deep into
your manliness. It tost your yobng friend
perhaps, his soul, for he followed your
example. It countenancd a traffic in hu
man lives! «nd souls. It dishonored dod.
It helped Od the flood-tide of drunkenness
in which our land is downing. It “put
an enemy in yoUr mouth to steal away
your brain.” It Unfitted you for steady,
thoughtful work. It paved the way for
another drink, and that for another, and
that for another still, and these for number
less others, and all together will make you
a sot, and pave your way to a drunkard’s
grave, and a drunkard’s Hell.
Young man, for God’s sake, for the sake
of everything true and good, put down
that glass.
A Washington dispatch says. - It
may be positively stated that Gur
ney’s Commission will award to
British claimants in America about
two millions. There are over seven
hundred claimants before this com
mission. The Geneva Arbitration
will award in gross the amount
claimed, excluding indirect damages
and expenses of chasing and watch
ing Confederate cruisers which es
caped from British waters, over $15,-
000,000.
IN ADVANCE,
A Git AND MASS MEETING.
By Authority of tho State DciiH
ocratie Executive Committee.
A great State Mass Meeting of the
Democracy will bo held ih Atlanta,
on the 17th of September, 1872.
It will be a grand occasion. Thu
following speakers of national famtl
are expected to make addressos :
Gov. B. Gratz Brown, candidate
Vice President.
Hon. D. W. Yoorheos, of Indiana.
Hon. Carl Schurz, of Missouri.
Gov. M. Ci Butlor, of South Caf*
olina.
Ex-Governor 55et>. VartCo, tis North
Carolina, and other great public
meh.
The Democratic papers in tho State
are requested to publish this.
Thos. Hardeman, Jr.,
Chairman State* Ex. Committee,
I. W. AFery, Secretary.
Democratic Notice.
Atlantia, Ga., Sopt. 4, 187&
To the Sub-Electors :—l am fre
quently solicited to furnish
to the respective counties, and tlte
Executive Colbirtiitee are anxious to
do so, and will respond to all such
calls as far as they arc ablo ; but
they have not the means to defray
the expenses of the speakers desired.
Having no “ governmental fund ” at
their disposal, and no army of office
holders upon whom they Can levy
contributions for campaign purposes*
it is suggested, as eminently proper
that those counties desiring speak
ers should pay thoif traveling expen
ses. It will bo but a trifle, and great
gOod can be accomplished in this
way, at a Very small expense. Coun
ties, therefore, desiring speakers will
notify the Chairman or Secretary,
We want and urge county
throughout tho State:
Tfios. Hardeman, Jr., Chm’n.
I. W. Avery, Secretary.
Papers please copy,
Tlic Louisville CohFfcntihiii
The Louisviile Convention says the Bal
timorcan, has at length actually met, acted
and adjourned. After a three days’ ses
sion, characterized by much indecision,
wavering and uncertainty, the Convention
determined, in spite of Mr. O’Conor’s pos
itive and repeated refusals to become and
candidate for the Presidency, to retain his
name as the Democratic nominee for the
President in conjunction with that of
John Quincy Adams for Vice President.
In view of the fact that. Mr. O Conor de
cidedly refused to allow his name to bff
used by the Democratic party as represen
ted at Louisville, it cannot hut be evident
to even the most prejudiced or tenacious
that the Convention has done nothing but
mauifest its Own weakness and folly, b/
persisting in a movement which is Utterly
without a head or leader. Even had Mr;
O’Conor consented to become their candi
date, the success of the Straightouts was
impossible, but action whieh iu that casd
might have been regarded merely as fool
ish and preposterous, becomes under actual
circumstances suspicious and inexcusable.
Enough had been done to vindicate the
honor of the Democratic party when the
principles announced iu Ml O’Conor ’s let
ter were accepted as the Cfeed of that
parts. All further action was ptCnOster
oUs and absutd. The NeW York T libund
well says : “ If they bad seen fit to put Up
Andrew Jackson in place of O’Conor, and
the late John Quincy Adams in place of
his respected grandson, they might have)
voted for those departed celebrities with
just the same effect as their votes are now
likely to hate, and with a great deal more
comfort.”
Now that the farce between the two
great acts of the political drama is over wo
may resume out preparations for and turn
our attention td something more important,
real and substantial. The great political
astronomer, Mr. Blmitort Duncan, with his
wonderful straightout comet, which was
to Irtish to atoms the puny fabrio of Libd
erallsm, have botli flitted across our Heav
ens and disappeared—the former a subject
of ridicule, tne latter of contempt —a thing
more unsubstantial than the “ baseless
fabric” of Flantamour’s wildest visions}
more harmless and more headless, jf that
were possible, than even Duncan himself*
The four large joint stock bankfl
of London have this year declared
dividends at the rate of twenty pef
cent, per annum. The Bank of En J
gland only paid eight per cent pets
cent, per annum.
During the thunderstorm tff tiid
29 ult., a tree standing neat tie res
idence of J. D. Blanding, in Sumter*
was struck by a flash and a narrow
escape was made by the occupants;
A New Jersey milkman feeding
two calves, one on either side of him
the other day, saw both animals
struck by lightning the flash not
effecting him at ah
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