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“‘JOHN W. WOFFORD,
1 Attorney at Law,
( IfITERItTIIXT. CiF.OHftl %.
OFFICE OVER CURRY’S STORE,
Oct. 17. 1868.
Comm rcialv Hole', CartersvHk, Ga.
BY* JOHN C. MARTIN.
TTO ATORY Rhine I t'll rnrn»r - t Prpo
fJqinrrnnt MirketS reet, K*st Si te of, lisilroad.
tooms p«f f’ and enr fnrtr.t.'c.
Furnilrce and Bed-bn* new.
(; ,, o .] Tpi e in.i ifinrl«'i« Dining R o-n y
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and chare.•* moderate.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW
Tc*c. BUCKBJRfJ "ill (irncctice In., in
the several courts of the Che’ o»re Cir
cuit. Proinjit at'efti'tn uivrn to the CoUec
tion of Claim*. T'fncc at EUIi ARI.EE. GA.
Nov. 20, 1868. wly
H. W. MURPUEY,
ATTGRNFY AT LAW,
Cartersrillc.
trITX t»rarttc»tn the the flnurt. of Cherukee rCir
\\ n‘t. I’lrtira’ ir Attention given to the <• ■ taction
• t claim*. Office Wth Lol. AUda Johnson. Oct. 1
OR. F. M. JOHNSON,
Dentist)
T KsrKCTKULI.Y olfere hi* Professi ml
h »*r»ice< t.. the citir.cn* of Canersvil'e > J »
HD<i fScicHy. It**is prepared to do werk v <iffLLl3-u
• a the latest nnd must improved style.
Teeth extrtc’**' without pain, I y means o' narcotic
•prav.l WW!: Ml warranted. OlSce over .T. Klsad’
Sure, t’ARTKItSVII.I.H, <la. Feb. !», 1601—wSm
JERE A. HOWARD,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW.
Cartersvim,e, ga.
JO It ,and J. j Q HE S,
Attorney at Law,
(iar(ciivllsc, CHa.,
truTiLL attend promptly to ail business on
\ V trustful to his core. Will praefee in the
C*urts of Law, atnl Equity in the Cherokee
Circuit. Hpecial attention given to the co!!oo
ti taos claims. Jan. 1, ! 36G. ly
JOHN J. JONES,
RE Aim ESTATE iCEST,
CARTERSVILLE. GA.
T to authorized to sell, and have on hand several
Houses and LoK and also numerous bo - Idinv lols in the
town of Cartersvil e, Also several plantations of vari
•us *iz“slu Bartow cour.tv. Parties desiring to buy or
sell will do ivetl t>eve mu a call. All cmamunicanons
promptly answered. J uI Y I*> Tot'd-
s. 11. p a till o,
FASHIONABLE TAILOR,
Vf7TU »ttervl p -ompMv to the Cntll' p. Kepiiir-
W tnj -11)1 VUimi; Hoy*' »1I» Me 1 * Clo'hlnp.
#Tiee in bacw room us Jil&ir Ac Bradth&w B&toxii. >
Cartersville, Ga.
THOAIAS W DODD,
* T T O B N E Y A T L A IV,
CKDARTOWN, POLK COUNTY', GA.
will practice law in the several
Court® com prising the Ta iapoosa Circuit:
•Iso, Bartow and Floyd Counties. Partic
ular attention given to the collection of
claims. j lll Dffy
w TMOITiSTC-ASTM:,
JcwcUea' ant! It atch and
xaU Clock Repairer,
In the Front of A. A. Skinner <k Co's store
Oartersvillc, Jan. 25
JJtfflES ffIJULEB,
Attorney a,t Law,
AND NOTARY PUBLIC.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
fflU practice in the Charts of the Cherokee *nrl »<l
»’ joining Circuits also the Supreme and District
Courts. Pioinpt atteution given to business entrusted
to my care. August 21 SslC.—wly
SAMVEL P. JONES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CaRTERSVILLK, t«A.
PRACTICE in the Courts of the Cherokee
Circuit. Particular attention given to
the Cos lection of Claims. Office with Caj»t.
J.J Jones. Nov. 2 lj
S. O'SKIELDS,
Fashionable Tailor,
CARTERSVILLE. OARTOW COUNTY. GEORGIA.
IS prepared to execute all kinds
WK of work in the Fashionable Tail
-IS- oring line, with neatness and in _iL&>
durable style. Over J. Elsas & Co’s store,
Cartersville, Jan. 23.
T W Milner, O II Milner.
MILNER & MILNER,
Attorneys at Law,
CARTERSVILLE. ’ GEORGIA.
Will attend promptly to business entrusted
to their care. jan. 15. ly
CALEB TOMPKINS, well
known for 20 years past, as a first
vk-v cla?s U*JtTCU FLOCK,
jSgggL and JE'VEI.I.ER I EPAIREK,
P**'®%and MANUFACTURER, has com
menced work one door North of his former old
stand, on the East side of the Railroad, Car
unsviLLE, Ga. VVili tell Clocks and Watches
Warranted. Nov. 10. vvly
Two Dwelling Houses for sale, rent, lease,
or to exchange for Atlanta property, together
with everal residence and business lotss.
TV. L. Kirkpatrick, has removed his
Stock of Drugs to fho Store of J. D.
Head. He is just now in receipt of
fresh and Seasonable goods, Pat. medi
cines Ac. And will sell them low for
Cash.
Cartersville, Jan. 14th, 1869. —wlm.
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Hca.vrs ex' Conversation in a Market-
Place. —A correspondent of the Lou
isville Journal gets off the following
amusing melange of conversation in a
market place:
Never made a better bargain, sir.
The stock sold last year at— ’
Four bits a ticket cheap enough,
and you ought to hear Johnny Reddin
sing 'the yaller gal that winked at me/
and Nelly Whitney after that —’
Knocked down both nigger police
men. I was tliar and Joe _ said—,
The'Conference will reappoint Bro.
Matthews beyond a doubt. His suc
cessful labors the past year have resul
ted in— ’
The sweetest baby you‘ever saw. It
knows it’s papa as soon as it sees him,
and mother says that—’
He wasn’t worth a d —n; bolted on
the first race, and was spavined at that.
Why. only two months_ago he— ’
Found faith in believing, and has
since stated that— ’
Petticoats done up in that way al
ways look so neat, and thou with six
yards of— ’
Benzine, or pine top, you bet. Such
liquor is enough to bust up a bible So
ciety, and, besides —’
The bill makes suitable provision in
the first and fourth sections for— ’
A nigger baby, about three months
old. Its mother, you see— ’
Boiled it for about two hours with a
mess of turnip greens, and I was so
hungry that I eat most all of it; and
then 1— ’
Prayed so earnestly to know my du
ty; it" was a solemn scene. _ I soon
found —’
Joe hilt three aces an’ a queen. He
had tho dead wood on ’em sure. Well
then— ’
She loved him very dearly; but bless
you, he didn’t know it. She used to
kiss his photograph, until, one night—
The infernal bile busted. Jewhiik
ins! didn’t it hurt ? I used a plaster
of soap and sugar, and the moment it
began to draw I had —’
Twins the first year. Yes your’e
right. She was a happy woman, and
last evening I found her —’
Drunk in the callaboose. All the
policemen in the city couldn’t stop her;
she is the v/orst card in the deck, and
as soon as she gets out she’ll go to— ’
The Baptist Church. Ellen will be
one of the bridesmaides, and she will
wear a— ’
Stove pipe hat fall of watch house
dents, lie wanted mo to go on his
bond and I —’
Put in five breadths, and aunt Mary
afterward was kind enough to —- f
Choke the son of a tinker till he rair
ly hollered. I ran down stairs and— ’
If you come round about seven, I
shall be quite alone, and we can then—
CARTERSVILLE, BARTOW COUNTY, GA.. FEBRUARY 11, 1869.
Take a little hot whiskey punch over
to Johnny Lawler’s; but I prefer
straight di inks, because I find—’
The ways of the Lord are truly won
derful and past finding out. Last year
Won thirty-five dollars at keno, and
the nest morning— ’
Got my bankrupt certificate, and
before the week was out-—’
Was baptized just below Selma,
where— *
Sarah Jane acted scandalously. A
nicer young man never.. .. ’
Went to Wetumpka heavily ironed;
he was caught out at midnight about
a month ago just as he—’
Took a pew on the left hand side,
about half way up the aisle, I thought
that the sermon was— ’
The biggest swindle out. You can’t
collect are 1 cent, and every member
of the Legislature knows that —*
His mother spanked him soundly,
and sent him to bed without a morsel
of—’
Good brandy, such as I generally
drink, will make a man feel like— ’
Marrying early; so I say the woman
ought to— ’
Quit that you durned muttouhead
111 knock the stufliu out of ver es you
don’t— ’
Wear artificial roses by all means;
there is somethirg so very attractive
in— ’
A nigger wench that weighed morn
two hundred. You see she—’
Bought a ticket in the Tuscaloosa
Art Association and drew— ’
More than half of the Alabamma,
Legislature. At the third reading of
the bill—’
Here, Mr. Editor, we left the ran
che.
Yours for ninety days, lliram.
The arrangements cf nature are
admireable! exclaimed a young lady
during the late high winds. The same
wind that disarranges our crinolines,
blows dust into the eyes of the wicked
young men who would take advantage
of our confusion.’ Truly a phlosopki
cal young lady, that.
Josh Billings says he lias seen some
awful bad throat diseases completely
cured in three days by simply jining a
temperance society.
“ I say, Bill, Jim’s got ten years’ pen
al servitude for stealing a horse.”
Sarve him right, why didnt he buy
one and no* pay for it, like any other
gentleman ?
An impecunious country editor duns
his patrons as follows: “A man might
sis well attempt to queneh the phospho
rescent emanations from the tail-end
of the lightning bug with a squirt gun
as to try to run. a newspaper without
money.”
A photographer in a certain city was
recently visited by a young woman who
with sweet simplicity asked: “ How
long does it take to get a photograph
after you have left your measure V”
A gentleman in company with Foote,
took up a newspaper, sayitfg,—“he.
wanted to see what the Ministry wore
about.” Foote, with a smile, i .ic
ed: “ Look among Hit robberies.
A Providence merchant a fe >\ days
since purchased what he supposed to
be a live pound ball of butter, thi cut
ting it, it was found to be mashed ; o
tatoes, with a covering of butt* r.
(From the Atlanta Constitution.)
THE SPIES IT L.tSa
IV it at In Urn state of <iee soul
bdiveta l>eatb ami Judg
ment ?
El’ A MEjIB-II OF THE ATLANTA BAH.
The body dies—returns to those
particles whereof it is organized; but
the soul, (he mind, the spirit, the im
mortal part, what becomes of that?
Does it remain unconscious, sharing
the slumbers of the body, until the day
of final accounts ? Does it go direct
to Heaven or Hell? or is there an in
termediate state—a spirit land—a
higher* sphere of existence —whither
ali men go after the separation from
the body, and where they remain un
til the general Judgment Day ?
The popular superstition that when
a man dies, he goes “up” or “down,”
and that that is the last of him, will
not do. Scripture does not sustain
such an assumption. Reason cannot j
reconcile such a theory with the plain !
teachings of Revelation. Still more
absurd is the theory that the soul is
unconscious after death. Such an opin
ion may be consistently held by Panthe
ists —not by Christians. Only think
of it! The soul so allied to its tene
ment of clay, as that it can have no
conscious existence when separated
from it! The soul is so material that
it derives vitality, consciousness, life
itself, from organized, animal matter.
The notion is absurd! It is unscrip
tural. It is revolting to reason.
I believe there is an intermediate
1 state —a spirit land—a conscious in
terval thro’ which all must pass, except
those who may be on earth at the last
day. This state, in the Greek original
of the New Testament, is called hade*.
In our English translation it is ren
: dered grace, more frequently hell. —
j Biblical critics, eminent for their learn
' ing and piety, generally agree that in
most cases, grace may be properly sub
stituted for hell. Dr. Clark and other
learned commentators on the old Tes
tament, agree that shed in Hebrew, is
properly rendered grave or hell—not
} tell in the sense in which wo use the
term.
It is not, however, by mere techni
•alities that I would support the opin
ion that there is an intermediate state,
•here etymological quibbles can never
settle such o question as this. It is
wholly b> yond the range of jiendantry.
A e should rather appear to circum
stantial evidence—the best of evidence
when corroborated by known facts—
and subject the whole to the closet
scrutiny of Reason as directed by Rev
-Lition. I believe that the circum
stances attending the many incidents
recorded in th Bible, as well as in the j
words, text and tenor of the Scripture j
themselves, will prove to the satisfac- j
tion of any rational mind that there is j
an intermediate state—a reccptieal for j
the soul as well as for the body— !
where the spirits of ail the dead re- |
main in activity and consciousness un- !
oil the day of judgment.
When Jacob heard of the death of
Joseph lie said, ‘ Twill go down into
the grave, (i. e. hades) unto my son
mourning.” Did Jacob mean that he
would he buried with his sou Joseph
in the family burial place ? Clearly
! not; for, according to Jacob’s appre
hension, Joseph was not in the grave
(as we are in the habit of using the
term,) at all. He was not in the fam
ily or any other grave-yard. Jacob
thought “an evil beast” had “devour
ed” him. ‘Joseph is, without doubt,
rent in peices,” said Jacob. Where
then was he ? His body by “an
evil beast”—his soul in hades, or the
spirit land. No other interpretation
is rational.
Samuel was recalled from the dead;
Iris soul returned to re-animate the bo
dy, and he consistenly said to the wick
ed Saul, “To-morrow thou and thy
sons shall be with me.” The God-for
saken Saul and his wicked sons, with
the ri o hteo s pioyhet where ? Not in
Heaven, surely, still less probable in
hell. They were to be together in tho
spirit land, where all souls are receiv
ed after death; and, although there
will be a “great gulf’ between the
saints and sinners there, as there is,
or should bo here, they may, never
theless, see and coverse, one with an
other, as in the case of Divese and
Abraham.
Take another case. Jesus Christ
was a veritable man; He passed
through all the stages of human exist
ence; He was born of woman; He
passed through infancy to manhood;
He ate and drank and slept as other
men eat and drink and sleep; His bo
dy was capable of fatigue as the body’s
of other men; He was susceptible of
sorrow, of mental anguish,, of \\ eari
ncss of spkhhke other men; He was
even tempters of the devil, as other
men are; 'His seal and body v as sepa
rated—the body was laid in Joseph’s
new tomb, the soul went to hades or
the spirit-land; the spirit-laud knew
and acknowledged him as well as lnur
t.d men; but his spirit returned to
earth and re-animated the body before
the latter had “seen corruption.”—
Three days after Christ’s premise to
the thief to be with Him in paradise,
He appeared to and was recognized
by Mary at the sepulchre-; she would
worship Him. but He said, “Touch me
not, for 1 haee not yd ascended (o my
Father; after this, and in sight of his
apostles, lie was carried “up into heav
en.” Such is the record.
Now, if Christ was with the soul of
the thief in Paradise on the evening of
the Crucifixion, and three days there
af.er he had not “yet ascended into
Heaven, it follows that Paradise and
Heaven are not the same place. Let
it not be asked whether Christ kept his
promise. The thief was with him in
Hades —Paradise -the realm of dis
embodied spirits: a place which is nei
ther hell nor grave, but the place, a
state of departed souls. The thief re
mained. Christ returned to re-assure
his followers, to remove all doubts as
to a veritable resurrection,to go before
and “prepare a place” for them, to “as
cend to the Father.”
Again: The Bible espeeial'y the
New Testament—speaks of a general
judgment. All Scripture attests that
it is a “day”—a time set—a day whose
import and certainly are well under
stood. Now, what could the object of
a general judgement day be, if, fts soon
as men and women die, they go direct
to Heaven or Hell? It is to be a mere
form without any specific object ?
Then it will possess no solemnity, none
whatever. It will be a mere holiday
—nothing more. Is it to be a verita
ble judgment, possessing all the sol
emnities of a tribunal whose ukase is to
effect the everlasting weal or woofe < of
every son and daughter of Adam? In
that case, w ill there be a reversal of a
former judgment ? There must be, if
the form be serious, and it be true that
the soul of the departed dead are al
ready in Heaven or Hell. Will those
in Heaven be put in jeopardy of their
crowns? Wiil some of the damned in
Hell be admitted to Heaven ? Such
an hypothesis not only degrades God;
it makes him capricious and unjust.
No, men do not straggle into Heav
en like the fragments of a broken army
to be there tried, acquitted or con
demned of desertion! The judgment
spoken of in the bible is based upon
acts performed whilst tho spirit was
“in the body.” With death probation
cea it's. There is no change of charac
ter in the spirit-land. Men carry their
characteristics with them when they
enter the sphere of spirit existence. —
In hades there is no dispensation for
making men better who were tad here.
He that is filthy, will be filthy still; ho
that is righteous, righteous still. The
righteous may continue to progress on
the Heavenly plane; the wicked will
continue without hope, on the damned
slopes of Perdition. Here, in Hades,
all the acts of Earth-life passes in re-
view before the disc n.bodied spirit.—
“It is a low conception to suppose tire
apart from the body, there is no sue
cept’bility of pain or pleasure.” Ther»
are t rments of mind—angul-hof sqm
it—of which he material body in “un
extinguishable flames” convey but ai
1 inadequate idea. Dives felt these
j and his request of Abraham proceeds
! from purely selfish motives. All tin
villi any and selfishness of his Earth
i life was passing in review before him.
j He dreaded the consequences to hv.n-
I -"'T/ of his evil influences with those
j “bveiliKaa” whom he wished to have
| warned. On the ether hand Paul sain
| when he was about to depart for tlu
; spirit land, “I have fought the good
| fight.” “I have finished my course
ii probation.”) What then? “Hence
| lor th there is laid up forme e crown oi
j righteousness, which the Lord, tlu
I righteous Judge, shall give at that day.’
We Aay, therefore, say correctly that
when a man dies in his sins, he goer
to Hell; or of one who died in the faith,
he went to Heaven. He was on the,,
road to one or the other of those places
r t death, and after passing tho river
Styx, and finishing lbs probation, be is
wi bout power to reverse his course.
His doom is sealed.
Y/itk the question as to whether
spirits of tiro departed can or do ever
return and make themselves manifest
to the denizens of earth, I have noth
ing to do. I merely hold that none
have gone to Ilell, none to Heaven,
since the dale of the death of the first
man up to the present time; that they
will remain in this intermediate state
until the final judgment; that these
disembodied intelligences are cognizant
of the affairs of earth, and that they
are constantly ascending or descending
the scale of intelligent existence, ac
cording as they live righteously or
wickedly whilst in the body.
Sister Martha C. Lig on, whose mai
den name was Towel, was born Sept,
5 th, 1830.
She possessed a deep, clear, penetra
ting mind 1 was trained by pious pai
ents, with all the affection which could
be bestoivtd upon an only child, and
lived and died a member of the M. E.
Church, South. Some hours before
her death, she declared to her eldest
daughter whilst embracing her with
great affection, “my darling, I never
was more calm —1 do not fear”—then
shortly after became unconscious, and
so remained until she died. After
twenty-one year’s absence she ret lull
ed to Griffin to uio. How sad this
record—How rapidly has death done
its work! Li three short months hus
band, wife and eldest son have died,
joining one child that had gone before,
leaving three young girls and one little
bov. ainioddone in the wwld. May the
Goff of tho "fatherless bo their protec
tor, guide and friend —and may those
..bound to the deceased lather by Mys
i tic lies bring sympathy aud counsel
and tender ministrations now.
Beach,vm P. Ligon, son of Col. Ligon,
died after an illness of seven days, in
Bartow county Ga., Dec. 29th, 1868.
lie was born in Mississippi, April 9th,
18-18.
This young man, who possessed an
intv iieefc of no common order/ went to
visit some friends to spend Christmas
with them—bat was most unexpected
ly hurried from time to eternity in the
very bloom of youth. His mother,
hastily summoned to his dying bed,
heard his last conscious words,received
Lis last embrace, aud saw him with a
sweet smile upon his face pass away
into the regions of death. This trial
supcraUdod to her former bereavement
and the cares and anxieties of her wid
owed and mother’s heart, was greater
than she could bear. She returned to
Griffin from his burial, ill of congest
ion of the brain, upon the Ist instant,
and died in tho hope of a better life,
upon the 5t h Jan, —just one week after
her sou’s death, and three months af
ter her husband’s death.
Cjl. Wo ms on L. Lioon died at Or
ange Springs, Fla., Oct oth, 1808, of
neuralgia of the head, from which he
had suffered for live years. He was
born in South Carolina, Oct. 20th,
1820, and graduated at Randolph Ma
con College, Virginia.
lie lias resided in Griffin, Ga., Now
nan, Ga., and Auburn, Miss Col. L.
was a lawyer of brilliant intellect and
fine oratorical powers. He was a mem
ber of the M. E. Church, South, and
for several years was Superintendent
of the Sunday-shool in Newman. He
died calmly, submit ting himself quietly
to the will of the Lord—having but
one regret, which was, that lie could
not have with him in liis last moments,
liis two beloved children who were in
Georgia. He was a Royal Arch Ma
son, and was buried with Masonic Hon
ors.
CLIPPINGS.
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Turn-coats.
Spirits over Proof—Printers’ Devils.
Gold Beaters —The Wall-street bears
The Field for Flirtations—Fair
grounds.
A Fee common to Everybody—Cof
fee.
A Man in the Write Place—An Edi
tor.
Board Wages—Directors fees.
The King of Fun —Jo-king.
Hugly Customers—Bears.
Good Hay Weather—When it rains
pitch-forks.
Beastly Weather—When it rains
cats and dogs.
Transported for Life—The man who
marries happily.
Can the secrets of nature be learned
rom babbling brooks?
Seaside Sentiment— the Atlantic
Jcean long may it wave!
Can an elegant rogue ever be called
i graceless scamp?
Battles painted by artists are inva
iably drawn batik s.
Take care of your plow and your
alow will take care of you.
Extraordinary Feat of Nature —
Tumping from winter to summer with
out a spring.
Just tor Fun.
BY MASTER WALTER L. WELCH
In Western New York lives a man
named King who has had thirty-one
children by one wife. He is both a
Ring and a patriarch.
The postmaster at Derby is likely to
get into hot water. He has a letter in
this office addressed “to the handsomest
widow in Derby, Ct.”
The following is Aunt Betsey’s des
cription of her milk man: “He is the
meanest man in tho world/’ she ex
claimed. “He skims bis milk on the
top, then turns it over and skims it on
the bottom.”
“ ’Ta’nt de white nor yet do black
folks what hub de most influence in dis
world,” but de yellow boys,” said old
Aunt Chloe, as she jing'ed a few gold
coins that had come down from a for
mer generation.
There is a man in Boston, who lias
two daughters who attributes their
wildness to feeding on caper sauce, of
which they are excessively fond. He
is a second cousin to the man who, to
prevent his girls from running off with
young men, fed them on can’t-elopes.
Aunt Sally was making bread, and
we children were teasing her. Inno
cent of any intention of punning, she
thus addressed us: Don’t bo intrud
ing on my domains; Leave —don’t
need you. If you were well bred you
would behave the better. You can
looj' some where else.” Thus did Pd
l y-ratc-us.
A gentleman eighty yearn of age, in
Conway, recently gol married, and the
day following dug his grave, to be
ready he said, for any contingency.
A man in Mongolia County, West
Virginia, the other day, whipped his
wife for eating molasses and butter
together on her bread.
An exchange says the demand for
microscopes is occasioned by tho ladies
desiring to use them in finding die lat
est style of bonnets.
A negro woman in Brownsville, Tex
as, owns a black snake which visits the
neighbors poultry yards, swallows the
eggs, and is made to disgorge on its
return homo. Ail of which will require
a very large swallow to believe.
A couple celebrated their silver wed
ding a few days ago, of whom it is said
they never exchanged a harsh word
during their wedded life of twenty-five
years. We would state, for the benefit
of those to whom this may seem incred
ible, that they are deaf mutes.
Near the summit of the Sierra Ne
vada, the Central Pacific Railroad
Company has built a great lodging
house for four hundred men, whose
sole duty is to keep the track clear on
the mount; ins, clear of snow during
the winters.
Fools learn nothing from wise men,
but wise men learn much from fools.
Agricultural Joins.—-The Ohio
Farmer lets off the following:
Large horses are generally most ad
mired by fanners; but farmer's are most
admired who pony up.
Prosperity is generally base 1 upon
knowledge and industry; the swine
will always get most that nose moot.
Farmers are like fowls; neither will
get full crops without industry.
Because a man who attends a flock
of sheep is a shepherd, makes it no
reason that a man who keeps cows
should be a coiv-ard.
We like to see a farmer increase the
growth of useful plants and shrubs
around bis home, but do not like to
see him use rails, poles and boards to
prop-a-gate with.
The Diuferfnce. —A wife sets articles
to rights, while an editor writes articles
to set.
At a concert recently, at tiro conclu
sion of the song, “There’s a good time
coming,” a country farmer got up and
exclaimed:
“ Mister, you couldn’t fix the date,
could you.”
A gallant was lately sitting beside
his lady love, and being unable to
think of anything to say, asked her
why she was like a tailor? ‘ I dout
know,” said she, with a pouting lip»
“unless it is because I’m sitting beside
a goose.”
News Stems.
A Mr. Door has declined a challenge
in Missouri. He says ho w ill “light
under no circumstances. Ho is no
battle door.
Tell a lady she is a “chicken,” and
ten to one she is angry. Tell her she
is no “cliieken,” and twenty to one she
is angrier.
1 oung surgeons should not grumble
because "they find it difficult to get into
practice. They will be certain to suc
ceed if they only have patients.
A locomotive on a Western railroad
has been adorned with the title, “I
\,ill live. That is more than many
NO. 32.
the pass ethers can sry, ut the end of
their journey.
A Yankee piper, in de cribingaflliip
wreck, says that “the mate of the ves
sel, who wr>s the only survivor of the
crew, found himself cast upon an un
inhabited island, without a shilling in
his pocket!”
A man who was arresseted
iug goods st a file the other uav,
pleaded in excuse for an extenuation of
his conduct, that he had been in the
place but a few days, and hadn’t learnt
the rules.
Mr. Darnell—A lull to open and
construct a railroad from Marietta to
Jasper, to be known aa the North
Georgia Railroad.
Chicago, Feb., I.— A t ill has passed
the lower Louse of the Illinois Legisla
ture ceding Clilcago to Indiana.
—John P. Stockton has been elected
United States Senator from New Jer
soy.
—A tract of land in Crow Creek
Valley, near Chattanooga, w liich cost
$5,000 a few years since, has just been
sold for 110,000.
D iSTKC.ST. —The present indications
are that the Senate will not repeal the
Tenuro-ofDfice Act. All the amend
ments yet offered keep Grant’s hands
tied.
—The health of A. 11. Stephens is
such that he is unable to enter upon
his duties as Professor of History, in
the University of Georgia.
Signs of Summer —Geese are flying
northward, and the Boston Board of
Aldermen has appointed a Fourth of
July Committee. — N. B. Mercury.
—J. Clark Swavze, editor of the
Macon Union, charges J. E. Bryant
with stealing Republican funds, and
Bryant in a card in the Atlanta Era
calls Swayzo a “base liar.”
The three Georgia negroes, who
came to Wsshington to obtain a hear
ing for their color, have g<me, disgusted
that they couldn’t get board at first
class hotels.
—According to the report of the
Comptroller General, we nave paid, up
to January Ist, for legislation, the
sum of $259,101.
■ —M. A. Nevin lias retired froyi the
Rome Commercial, and Dan. Hood
assumes entire control.
—The Kansas Legislature has
indefinitely postponed the bill to allow
negroes to vote.
—The annexation of Canada to the
United States is again discussed.
—We regret to learn that Newton
Factory was entirely destroyed by fire,
on last Friday night.
—Ex-Co vein or Pickens, formerly
Minister to St. Petersburg, died at luy
red.- fence in Edgefield* S. C., on Mon
day last.
—The Atlanta Constitution reports
that 5,140 mules have been brought to
Atlanta since the Ist day of January.
One of the Fox sisters has gone to
rapping again.
They are building a cotton seed c 1
factory in Ncwbern, N. C.
A thirty-two pound trout has been
caught in Maine.
Wade Hampton is bear hunting in
Mississippi.
—Grading., has commenced on the
road from Rome to Dalton.
—California now provinces raisins of
superior quality and fine flavor.
During the last 21 years New York
city has received 114,855,000 hides.
During a recent snow storm in
southeastern Franco 8000 sheep per
ished.
—Philadelphia has more than 10,000
! shoe stores, annually supplying over
800,000 pairs of feet.
; —J. L. Byington, a well known citi
-1 zen of Macon, and proprietor of liy
| ington’s hotel, died there Saturday last.
Bu lock has appointed a negro Jus
| tico of the Peace at Thomasviile.
Augusta, Jan. 28.—Superintendent
| Johnson publishes a card in which he
! says the reported outrage by the Ku
' HluXus in taking possession of a train
at Barnett on the Georgia Railroad,
| on the night of January 17, as publish- i
! t and in the" Washington Chronicle, and
' Philadelphia Press, are base fabrica
| tions, no such occurrences having ta
■ ken place.
I The 3 Film Star announces the death
I in that city, on Sunday last, of Capt.
! H. C. C umiingham, a leading business
man and public spirited citizen.
The Blue Ridge Railroad. —The
I Anderson (S. C.) Intelligencer, ofThurs
| day last, announces the return of Gen.
Harrison, the President of the Blue
Podge Railroad. The Intelligencer says:
“Gen. Harrison speaks hopefully of the
prospect for an early resumption of
the work. It is confidently expected
that the portion of the road from
Wallhaila to Clayton, Ga., will be let to
contract by the Ist of May. A bill is
now before the North Carolina Legis
lature for aid to the extent of one
million of dollars, and the friends of
the enterprise there are sanguine as to
its success.
“Nigger on toe Fence.” —A negro
was recently found dead one side ox a
fence, with a stolen carcass of a hog on
the other side, hung by the gambrel
stick across the negroo’s neck, which
was broken. It is supposed the dar
key got hung in climbing the fence
with the hog slung to him in this fash
ion. As the affair, the account of
which is given by a Cincinnati paper,
appears to have occurred in Ohio, it is
impossible that this was a Ku-lvlux!
trick, as it would have been if it had
happened further South.
“What branch of education do you
ofhave chiefly in your school ?” “A wil-
low branch, sir; the master has used
almost a whole tree.”
A Dutch Judge.—A friend gives ua
an amusing idea of ‘a dutch Judge’m
the following sketch. He was about
to sentence a prisoner, m.u on looking
around for him found him playing
chequers with his custodian while the
foremen of the jury was fust afiu p.
1 Replenishing the ample judical chmr
' with ins broadcast pci son, ho thus au
i dressed the jury:
Wlisder voreman and toder jury
mans: Der bmoncr, Hans Vleckicr, is
vimshod his game nut tier sheriff, and
has peat him, but 1 shall nuke garo ho
don e peat me. Hans lias j ecu dried
for murder peh.ro you, ant you must
pring m dor fudicic, but it must po
‘comm’ to dcr law. Do man he kih’t
wasn't Lili’t at all, as is was broved bo
is in der jail at Marrisqown for sheop
steuli ng.
'Put dat Eh no madder. Der law
says ven dero Eh a tou t you give e;u
to dor bvisoner; put hero, do re ish no
toa’t—so you soe der brisoner ish
guilty. Resides, he is a great loafer,
1 has know’d lnm vifty year, and ho
hasn’t tone a sditch oi work in all dat
dimes, and dore is no one debenumg
upon him for a livin’* and lie Eh no
use to no poty. I dink it would Lo
goot Linns to hang luia lor do example.
1 bunk Mr. voreiuann, dat he had potter
pe hung next fourt of July, usdtr
jnilitia ish goiu’ to drain in anodic
gounty, and dcro would po no v un goiu
on here.’
It should be added, to the credit of
the jury, that in spite of tins 'Earned
and impartial charge,’ they acquitted
the prisoner, finding him 'not guilty, if
he would leave the btnte.’
Foolish Habits. —Dr. Hall, in Lis
Journal of Health, enumerates sever..l
practices of the careless public, which
arc sometimes aa dangerous as they *
are fool Eli:
Walking along the streets with tho
point of an umbivlia sticking out be
nind under the arm or over tbe shoul
der. By suddenly stopping to speak
io a friend, or other cause, a person in
the rear had his brain penetrated
through the eye, in one of our streets,
and died in a few days.
To carry a long lead pencil in vest
or outside pocket. Not long since a
clerk m New York fell, and the long
cedar pencil pierced an important ar
tery so that it had to bo cut down up
on the shoulder to prevent his bleed
ing to death, followed with a three
months’ illness.
To take exercise, or walk for the
health when every step is a drag, and
instinct urges repose.
To guzzle down a glass of cold wa
ter on getting up in the morning,
without any feeling of thirst, under the
health-giving notion of its washing
out qualities.
Sitting down to a (able to ‘force’
yourself to eat. when there is not only
no appetite, hut a positivo aversion to
food.
To take a glass of soda, or toddy, or
saegaree or mint drops, on a Sumn or
day, under the belief that it is safer
and better-than a glass of-cold water.
To persuade yourself that you are
destroy ng one unpleasant ord.tr by in
troducing a stronger one; that, is at
tempting to sweeten your own unwash
ed garments and person by enveloping
yourself in fumes of musk, cologne, or
rose water; the best perfume being u
clean skin and well washed clothing.
Horticultural Maxims. — When fruit
trees occupy the ground nothing else
should—except very short grass.
i ruiti'ulness anil growth of the tree
cannot be expected tiie same year.
Theic is no plum that the curcuHo
will rot take, though any kind may
soiacl.incs escape tor one year in ouo
place.
Peach borers will not do much dam
age wi on stiff'clay is heaped up ..round
tiie uve a foot high.
Fear blight still puzzles tiie greatest
men. The best remedy known is to
plant two for every one that dies.
if \oa don’t know how to prime,
don’t Lire a man from Ihe other side
of the cca that knows less than vou
do.
Don’t cut off a big lower limb un
less you are a renter, and don’t care
what becomes of the live when your
time is out.
A tree with the limbs coming out
near the ground is worth two trees
trimmed up ten feet, and so until they
are not worth anything.
Trim down, not up; shorten in, not
lengthen up.
lr you had your arm cut off, jou
would feel it to the heart—a tree will
not fed, but rot to the heart.
When anybody tells you of a gar
dener that understands all about hor
ticulture and agriculture, and that La
can be hired, don’t bdieve a word of it,
for there are no such to be hired. —
Eueh a man can make mole than you
can afford to give him, and if he has
sense enough to understand the lusi
ness, he wui also have enough to km w
this. —Dayton Journal.
ErpL-A Galveston gentleman, lately
stopping at the Nicholson House, Bas
trop, was in a room recently occupied
by the Agent of the Freedman's Bu
reau. One evening, Turn, a ireedman,
entered the room t > make a fire, and
after doing so sat dov.n, ciossed Lis
iegs and made himself at home, smok
ing and spitting in tiie sis c place. The
Galvo Mo man asked what he meant by
such familiarity. Tom looked up m
evident surprise, hl<l immediately arose,
hat in liana, and, in his politest man
ner, said: “Bag yorr pardon, Mas a!
didn’t know you w as ugeuunin,tlK ugh*,
you w as do Freedman’s Bureau.
No More Punishment, Human tit
Divine. —The woman’s Rights Conven
tion, new in cession at Washington,
and composed in part ox “buck nig
gers,” have unanimously adopted the
following resolution:
Cure for Dyspepsia—Give a hun
gry dog a piece of meat and ehase him
thl he drops it