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Female College,
FORSYTH, OA.
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mi 4 p tSi iuftlv. Tim wfll
b*- rendered <-pf*inlj\ ist-*-*ting Ly a
coat** of torturer * ith eftx'rlmPnU fn
CheniMtrT anJ Pfrynir*. Ir. J If. Logan.
I*rof>-**or in Atlanta Medical Co!ljje, tlw
*uth<r of a work on ♦Jlx-mieo-l’hyriea, alto
author f the lliakory of Upper Sou.h Caro
lina, a merniwrof the Academy of Science
of Georgia. a gentleman of high attainment
in hi* profc#*w>n lias latett engagtsl for ttie
oci aeion. He will to it that the young
ladies under his charge are made acquaint
ed with the laws of I'liemwtrv that affect
so materially the interest* of life.
I“areata, ii|>pr-<mting a ayntematic divis
ion of laliar and seeking a vboo) where
efficienry and diversity of teaching talent,
are secured, will please step forward and
•uroll as patrons of Monroe Female College.
For further particulars address.
It. T. ASltl'llY, President.
HILLIARD
INSTITUTE!
SPRIITQ
Begins pyth January. Ends 2Gtb June. 1
FALL TL3S.IWI
Begins 31st August. Endu ISth December.
TU itiox :
Primary tirade, per month $2 00
Grammar Schcsd Grade, per month,.. 2 00
11 igh School Grade, per month, 4 Oil
Incidental Fee o 0 cents each Term.
All account* due and to he paid prompt
ly *t end each scholastic month unless oth
erwise arranged.
A htgh standard will be maintained in
etc h grade in evert study su.ted to their
ad' aneemrnt.
Miss Hattik I)rxv will have iiumediate
charge of the Primary Grade, and be assist
ed bv the Principal in ora!, object and kin
dergarten exercises.
Prof. B S. WiLi.ivonxM will assist in I
Languages, Mathematics, Sciences, Ac.
('apt. Pondkk will have charge of the I
Mil itarv Department and he assisted by |
other gentlemen of proficiency. Grammar j
and High School hoys compose Hilliard
Institute t’u lets. No extra expense incur
red by this splendid new feature in the
school.
Vocal Music, Calisthenics and Drawing
will )>o taught the little boys.
B ard in Private Families SB.OO !<>512.50
per month.
No change in Text Books. All Text
Rooks ao • .uaterials free after Spring Term.
School building substantially repaired and
-efurnished w ith modern furniture, ninteri-
Ac., midis cin’trtxb.e i.i every’ par
t Tar.
fcluter your boys on the first day of each
session.
For full announcement* of the school,
convenient calendar for 1885, and further
uforniation. address
V. E. OKU, Principal,
Forsyth, Ga.
D. H. GREEN & CO.,
REPAIR
CLOCKS, GUNS,
Fistols, ewin Machines. Etc.
All kind s of light Repairing executed
promptly and faithfully. We. give strict
attention to husiness, and expect to merit
Catronage bv good work. Also we keep on
and a good stock of
CONFECTIONERIES, STATIONERY
Tobacco and Cigars.
Give us a call in the yost-oflice building,
Forsyth, Ga.
BRAMBLETT & BRO.,
UNDERTAKERS
FORSYTH, GA.
I
H AN INtl purchased the stock of under
takers goods recently controlled- by
the late F N Wilder as agent, we are pre- j
pared to carry on the the undertakers btisi- j
nes* in all its details. We have, added a
rew line of goods to those already in stock, |
with new and complete stock of goods, ele
gant new Hearse and good reliable team,
prompt and careful attention we hope to
merit the patronage of the public. Burial
Robes for gents and ladies, much nicer and
*t half the cost of suit of clothes. The j
Hearse will be sent free of cost with coffins ;
cosf .g S2O and upwards, where the dis- j
lance is not too great.
BRAMBLETT A BRO.
OPIUM
habit
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Bend far my hook on the Habit and its
jure. Free. feblo
B USJ N E S S U N !V E R SITY.
STDtuv -^UNTA'O^fMSfe
Lw * daily o*
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mm SURE CURE!
MOUTH WSH and DENTIFRICE
CarM Cirj. I icerx. S>r M'c'S. S.'Tf
Thrsrt, CInM tli Tetli nj Tarifla* the Brx-tlb ;
net enil reco-r.-oarH and hr <<♦-( ■s. Pre
aared Sr JP A XV. R. Hm.itr*. TV-itistv V.-Mv'n.
a. For Sale by all aud dentist*.
FOR SALE
ENGINES, Rollers. Saw Mills, Corn
Mill*. Power Cotton P-o*ses. PuHeya,
Shafting, Hanger Water Wheels. Mill
Spindles, Castings of all kinds, Tlancoek
Inspirator, Steam Gauges, Whistles.
Piping, etc. Machinery ol all kinds re
paired.
Fox information and prices, write
11. f>. COLE A CO..
Newnaii, 0?a
Manufacturer* everv variety machinery.
*..
Georgia moxkoe county.—
Whereas J no. A. James. Execu
tor of James Huckaby, deceased,
represents that he has fully adminis
tered said estate, this is to cite all
persons interested to show cause, it
any. by the first Monday in April
next, why lie should not be discharg
ed from said Executorship. This
January 1. 1885.
S3. 65 ' J T McGIM'Y. Ord y.
Wi*w
VOL XXX.
ALL FOR THE BEST.
BT T. 8. BRTII t R.
* ~AHfr*r tH* hfwt. ■" antd one to a
merchant who had met with heavy
l(Jt*X#!*.
i‘lt is not fori holiest tliat I should
l<se 111 \- property," indignantly re
plied the merchant.
‘‘The Lord ti providence deals in
timately with the affair* of men,"
said the other, “and all these deal
ing* are for good.”
Hut the merchant spurned ihe
, sentiment. His heart was placed
on riches. lie looked upon money
as the greatest god. Loss of wealth
was, therefore, iu Ids mind, the
greatest evil that could befall him
“It is not for the best.” he said
in his heart: and with somethin*;
of the *pirit in which the fool said
—“No God!"
1 The disaster proved fatal. The
; merchant, yet quite a young man,
I became bankrupt. Nor was this
| all. A marriage contract in a
wealthy family was broken off, thus
visiting him with a double calamity.
• All for tbe best!" be said to hitn
: self, bitterly, recurring to the senti
1 mont which had been uttered in bis
i ears. “No! It is not for tbe best.
! Why have I been dealt with so
harshly? Of what crime have I
| been guilty? Whose ox, or whose
nss, have 1 taken unjustly? J have
been frowned upon without a cause."
In this state he remained for
months, and then ma le another ef
fort.
On a few hundred dollars he com
menced business once more, and
with hard labor and slow progress
made bis way along the road to suc
cess. She to whom he had been cn
gaged in marriage, was united to a
more wealthy lover; and he sought
a union with one whose external cir
cumstances corresponded with his
j own. In wedding, lie wedded hap
! jnly. The partner of his bosom was
| a true woman, and their hearts were
I joined in the tenderest affection,
j Years came and went, and many
1 precious children blessed their un-
I ion. Prosperity crowned the mer-
I c hant’s efforts. He gathered in
wealth but prized it less for its pos
session than its use.
“What now?" said the one who
had previously referred to the dark
dispensation of Providence. “Is all
j for the best? or does your heart still
j doubt ?”
“I see it clearer, yet, sometimes
I doubt,” said the merchant.
“Hut for your loss of property,”
said the other, “you would have
married the daughter of Mr. Ilum
f pit rev?"
“Yes.”
“And she yrould have been the
mother rfjoar children ?”
“Yes. -
“Have you heard of her con
duct?”
“No. What has she done?”
“Yesterday she deserted her hus
band. leaving a babe three months
old, and has gone off’ with an opera
I singer.”
“It cannot be!”
j “Alas! It is too true!”
“Wretched creature! Oh? who
could have believed her heart so
1 corrupt!”
“Was not the loss of your wealth
a blessing, seeing that it has saved
you and your children from disgrace
and wretchedness?”
“A blessing! .Thrice a blessing!
Y es, yes. It was for tbe best. 1 see,
1 feel, I acknowledge it.”
“Heaven knows what is the best
for us, and orders all for good, if we
oni}' perform our duty. Not, how
ever. our mere natural good, but
our spiritual well-being. God is
spiritual and eternal, and all His
providences in regard to His crea
tures look to spiritual and eternal
ends. Thus, while the saving of
you and your children from this cal
amity, may conduce to your higher I
good, its permission to fall upon an- '
other man and his children may be i
the means of their spiritual eleva- !
tion. All that occurs in each one’s
life is designed to react upon bis pe- 1
culiar character; and tlds is tbe
reason why one man is visited by
calamity, and another spared ; and
is the reason why one man is per
| nutted to get rich, while another,
j struggle as be will, remains pitor.
God directs and over rules all for
good, in individuals as well as na
tions. All is under His eye. and
not a sparrow falls without His ob
servation.”
A Story of General Gordon.
While everybody was discussing
his fate the other day, I heard a sto
ry of Getter; 1 Gordon which shows
the peculiar religious nature of the
man who held Khartoum for nearly
a year against the Mahdi. Gordon
was dining iu London one day with
several club men, one of whom,
when the wine had circulated freely
and the party had reached the stage
of extreme good fellowship and ta
miliarity, accused the general of
loot tug a bottle of wine, aud in proof
of his assertion he pointed to the bul
ging side of the warrior’s coat.
! Others were quick to seize the idea,
and. without even questioning the
general, began to bet on the brand of
wine be was supposed to have secre
ted. The wagers were freely made,
and soon the referee in a half tipsy,
wholly jocular way clapped the gen
eral ou the shoulder and ordered
hint to produce the battle. Uninese"
Gosdon rose to bis feet and. putting
bis band into Ins bosom, drew out
a Church of England prayer-book.
Gentlemen, said be. in a tone of
undisguised indignation, "this little
book has been my companion for
years, and I sincerely trust that you
all may find a comforter and supjjor
ter in the trials of life that will prove
as true to you as this has been to
. me,” and with these words left the
ro n. A (election of apologies
w u* te him ex r day.- N Y Times
CURRENT COMMENT.
Facts and Opinions From Various Pa
pers.
A Time Lock.
Grover Cleveland opens his mouth
with a time lock—Milwaukee Jour
nal.
Touching the Subject of Trousers.
Socially President Arthur’s ad
ministration has been a giddy suc
cess.—M i 1 wau kee Tribu;ie.
Old Survivors.
The few people who may survive
this winter will pass up to the head
of the “oldest inhabitants' in weath
er reminisce nccs.--Indiunapolis Jour
nal
Take with a Grain of Salt.
Thirty-two states have now ad
opted biennial sessions, and in every
instance tbe change is found to be
an advantage in every way. —Phil-
adelphia Times.
Georgia and Massachusetts.
On the very day that a couple of col
colored gentlemen were refused the
opjYortunity to skate in a Boston
rink a colored gentleman was ad
mitted to practice in the supreme
court of Georgia. Ku-klux! Ku-
Klux!—Boston Post.
‘ D” Must Stand for Democrat-
In 1791 and thereanout, when
Jefferson wrote his financial diary,
our dollar mark ($) was not in use
and Mr. Jefferson always designated
dollars by a capital D. Nowadays a
big, big I) is used to designate some
thing quite different.—New York
Tribune.
A Cause for Congratulation.
Whilst the newspapers and politi
eians are busying themselves with
conjectures as to Mr. Cleveland’s
Cabinet, patriots are congratulating
the country that there is no need to
wonder or worry about the kind of
Cabinet Blaine would make.—St.
Louis Republican.
The Battle with Pens.
'The second battle of Shiloh now
being fought is not so bloody as tbe
first one, but there seems to be an
unnecessary amount of bad blood
in it for a paper fight, and then the
most alarming feature about it is
thai Lew Wallace remains to be
heard from.—lndianapolis Sentinel.
Blaine’s Poor Prospects.
Running for the presidency is all
very well for the first, dozen years,
but after that it becomes somewhat
monotonous to the *eoplel Our
history shows that those who have
sought the chief magistracy most
persistently have never reached it.
It comes, it at all, unsought.—New
York Graphic.
High Kicking Doesn’t Pay.
The only President who has hith
erto made a positive and determin
ed effort to break over the party
traces was John Tyler; and we do
not believe that the most enthusias
tic admirer of bis courage can find
in the success be met with anything
to encourage a repetition of the ex
periment.—New York Sun.
Tribute to a Patriot.
Bovs peddle photographs of the
venerable Jefferson Davis from the
very platform on which the old Lib
erty Hell rests.in the New Orleans
Exposition, thus paying an appro
priate tribute to Mr. Davis for his
eminently patriotic speech at the
Crescent City reception of the Rev
olutionary relic.—New York World.
Baltimore's Hospitality.
President-elect Cleveland has been
invited to be the guest of Baltimore
on his way to Washington. He will
probably permit no display; but
on tbe other hand he will probably
not leave Baltimore with the exces
sive privacy that President-elect
Lincoln did when he was on
his way to Washington 24 years ago.
—New York Graphic.
Old Fogyism Still Lives.
A congressman who insists that
we do not need steel guns “because
he found iron guns answered all the
requirements when he was in the
army,” or his colleague who objects
to a fair appropriation for a public
building because he lives in a small
and inexpensive house, is not the j
ideal statesman; and we state the j
probabilities with more of certainty j
than the weather bureau when we
predict that if these penny-wise econ
omists are to have their way, as they
did in 1878 and 1879, they will
bring stormy weather on their par
ty. — Washington Post.
Georgia at New Orleans.
The New Orleans corresjxmdent
of the Augusta Chronicle and Con- j
stitntionalist say; “Georgia l>eing
unable, because of constitutional in- j
hi bition at the Exposition is practi- ;
cally absent. And yet she is on the
ground, thanks to the indomitable 1
pluck of Major D. C. Bacon, State
Commissioner. Without money and
almost without material, he has
made a display which is highly cred
itable. He has demonstrated tbe
fact that, bad the Legislature been
empowered to appropriate a few
thousand dollars to sustain him in
his efforts, Georgia would have stood
second to no state that occupies
space in the spacious halls of the Ex
position buildings. ”
Having used Dr. Bull's Cough
Syrup in my family for tbe last three
years. I rind it is the best prepara
tion 1 have ever used for coughs and
colds, giving almost immediate relief.
B. Walker
FORSYTH. MONROE COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH.!BBS.
AS REGARDS CHILDREN.
j If a baby cries warm iu feet be
I fore you dose it.
Remember that other people have
! children as well as yourself.
As they grow older win their con
fidence ;if you do not, somebody
else will.
Show the children that yon love
them ; do not expect them to take it
on trust,
Cultivate them separately, and
not as it you were turning them out
by machinery.
Sing to the little ones; the memo
ry of a nursery song will cling to
them through life. f
Let tbe children make a noise
sometimes; their happiness is as im
portant as your nerves. *
As the boys grow up. make com
panions of them ; then they will not
seek companions elsewhere.
Believe in your child's statements
until you are sure they arc incorrect ;
mistrust breeds estrangement.
Dress the children sensibly ; cover
up their limbs in winter, and study
health first, and appearance second.
Allow cliil Iren, as they grow ol
der, to have opinions of their own;
make them individuals and not
mere echoes.
Talk hopefully to your children of
life and its possibilities; you have no
right to depress them because you
have suffered.
Bear in mind that von are largely
responsible for your child's inherited
character, and have patience with
their faults and failings.
Attend to them yourself-—a so
between betwixt mother and child
is like a middle man in business,
who gets the largest share of the
profits.
Reflect that a pert child is an
abomination; train your children to
be respectful and to hold their
tongues in the presence of their su
periors.
Remember that, although they
are all your children, each one has
an individual character, and that
tastes and quality very indefinitely.
Respect their Ktle scene s; it
they have concealments, worrying
them will never make them toll.
Remember that without physical
health attainment is worthless; let
them lead free, happy lives, which
will strengthen both mind and body.
Make your boys and girls study
physiology; when they are ill try
and make them understand why,
how the complaint arose, and the
remedy as far as you know it.
Teach hoys and girls the actual
facts of life as soon as they are old
enough to understand them, and
give them a sense of responsibility
without saddening them.
Impress upon them fYoin early
infancy that actions have result,
and that they cannot escape con
sequences even by being sorry when
they have acted wrongly.
Find out what their special tastes
are and develop them instead of
B|>ending time, money and patience
in forcing them into studies that,
are repugnant to them.
As your daughters grow up,
teach them at least the true merits
of housekeeping and cookery; they
will thank von for it in latter life a
great deal more than for accomplish
ments.
THEN AND NOW.
Cooped up this snow day I picked
up the census reports and turned to
Georgia.
We had in 80 about the same val
ue in live stock as in ’SO, and five
millions more in ’7O than ’BO and
fell off more than 8,000.000 from
t>o to 70, We had in '6O more than
7,049,000 horses, and 17,000 more i:i
80 than in ’7O. But in ’SO we had
52,000 more than in ’BO.
We gained in mules and asses
from 'SO to ’SO about 67,000. We
lost from ’6O to ’7O about 14,000,
but from 70 to ’BO we gained 45,-
000. We had about 19,000 more
milch-cows in ’SO than in ’BO, and
about 156,000 more of other cattle
than in 'BO. We lost from ’SO to
’6O about 35.000 milch-cows, and
from '6O to ’7O about 68,000; but
from '7O to ’BO. gained 84,000. We
trained of other cuttle 126,000 from i
’7O to ’BO.
We fell from nearly 7,000,000 j
bushels sweet potatoes in 'SO to j
about 2,500,000 in ’7O, and a little j
over 4.000,000 in ’BO.
We hud about 1.400.000 more i
acres improved farm land in ’BO than !
in 50 and 1,000,000 more than in ■
’7O.
In '6O nearly a million more than
in 'BO.
In '6O we had over 600,000 more
acres in farms than in 'BO.
We fell off from '6O to ’7O about j
3,000,000, and from '7O to ’Bu we .
gained about two and a half mil- ;
lions. We have about one million i
acres of improved farm land less in j
80 than in '6O. Hut we have in- ■
creased a little over 1,000,000 from
’7O to ’BO.
From 70 to 'BO sheep increased
about 108,000.
From 70 to 'BO bogs increased
about 450,000.
But in 'SO and 60 we had nearly
a million more hogs than in 'BO. In
SO, 101 farms under 3 acre* —2.-
200 farms 3 to 10 acres more than in
60. and from 10 to 10(1 nearly 6,000
more than in '6O. From 100 to 500
acres nearly 3.500 more, and from
500 to 1,000 acres nearly 5.000 more
than in '6O. and from 1.000 upward
2,500 more.
So says the census.- Hamilton
Journal. Plowman.
■*.
Rossa's Cheek.
Mrs. Blank—“ Don’t you think it
was very cowardly for Mrs. Dudley
to shoot Rosea in the back ?”
Mr Blank—“ She had no choice.” ,
“No choice? Why didn’t she face
him when she fired?”
“She was afraid the bullet might
strike his cheek and glance off.—
Philadelphia Call.
MILLO MAIZE—a HOME STA
PLE CROP.
This grain is the ordinary bread
stuff of the population of a large
area of South America, and is the
favorite and universal grai" food of
the United States of Columbia.
REASONS
for the adoption of Millo Maize as a
home staple crop;
Its fodder and cane (after the seed
has been harvested) with it grits for
i horses and mules, and the meal and
brand for cows, constitute it
I ’
A PERFECT STOCK FEED.
The hog and fbw! eat it greedily,
and they alone “do their own grind
ing.” I mean no invidious distinc
tion in their favor, for it is equally !
as good for man or beast, but its
marked benefits as a feed for them,
means an “indefinite extension of
hog and poultry raising.” Its un
bolted meal makes excellent, whole
some, “stay-by-you.” bread, also bat
ter-cakes sii)K*rior to buckwheat. In
fact, it is available for every pur
pose to which corn meal is adapted.
The ability of the plant to posi
tively withstand our drouths, estab
lishes it as the surest of all crops for ’
this section.
Its yield of grain is phenomenal,
rarely if ever less than twice that of
Indian corn, hence, it can be produc
ed, pound for pound, at half the cost
of corn, and it weighs uniformly 60
pounds to the bushel.
Its value as food, is by analysis,
equal to wheat. It is as easily raised
as Indain corn, cultivated the samq,
but requires more of phosphoric acid
and jiotash than corn in fertilizing,
to yield its full crop. Its cut forage
may be relied on during a summer
drouth for green stuff, when all
other vegetation “gives it up.”
Its foliage is longer, heavier and
more abundant than that of Indian
corn, and is as easily cured. Ac
climatization ot the j>lant has shor
tened the season of its seed-making
from nearly eight months to five
and a half, and has rendered the
(after stripping its fodder and cut
ting seed-heads) full of saccharine
and nutritious matter—a dense and
almost invaluable rough feed for
stock.
Summing up ot the possibilities of
Millo, if generally cultivated in
Georgia.
A PERFECT STOCK FEED.
No more pulling of corn-fodder—
decreasing weight of corn, and los
ing time at id money. Corn at 80
cents, Millo can be raised at 50 cents
a bushel No more curing of grass.
No more paying for baled hay from
anywhere. An acre, planted with
one dollar aud fifty cents worth of
Millo seed, properly cultivated,
ought to produce 50 to 70 bushels ot
Aefd, 1,000 pounds of fodder, and
canes enough to food 12 to 15 head
of stock for five months. I have fed
10 head of stock from Nov. Ist, to
date, on Millo canes, and have
enough to go to April. I mean these
stalks for roughness exclusively.
Yours, Ac.,
G. W. Benson.
__——
CLAY’S RIFLE SHOT.
The story now current of Vice-
President Hendricks having brok
en seven successive clay pipes in
long distance rifle-shooting recalls
that which Henry Clay told of
himself with great enjoyment. When
stumping the district 6>r his first
term in Congress he spoke at a back
woods gathering where a beef was
being “shot for.” Those present
were mostly his political opponents,
backwoodsmen all of them, holding
him in something of contempt for
his “store clothes.” His eloquence
had little effect on them, and he was
standing watching the shooting in a
discouraged mood, when a grizzled
frontiersman slapped him on the
shoulder and said: “Young man,
you spoke pretty well considerin’;
less see if you can shoot as straight
as you talk.” “1 nover shoot but
with my own rifle,” replied Clay,
but lie was not allowed to escape.
A gun was handed to him, warran
ted tbe best in the country. He
nraced it to his shoulder, squinted
along the barrel in a careless way,
and bored a hole through the centre
of a half dollar stuck on a tree a
hundred yards away. The feat was
received with thunders of applause;
the young man in store clothes be
came a lion immediately, and, after
being congratulated and having his
hand nearly shaken off, was urged
to repeat the shot. “Never shoot at
a mark twice in the same day ex
cept with my own gun,” he replied
nonchalantly. He used to say that
this incident elected him to Congress,
and was the turning point in his ea
reer. After it he always believed in
his destiny, for be had never shot
a rifle before in his life.
Gen Gordon and Death.
“Death," says the New York Trib
une, “was Gen. Gordon’s kindest
friend. For many years he had an
ticipated it as a merciful deliverance
from a life of unremitting toil and
agony of mind and body. When he
was in Abvssinia, King Johannes !
said to him: "Do you know that 1
could kili you on the spot if 1
liked?” “Well," replied Gen Gor
don, “I am ready!” "What! ready
to be killed ?" “Certainly, I am al
ways ready to die; and, so far from
fearing your putting me to death, |
you would confer a favor on me bv !
so doing, for you would be doing for
me that which I am precluded by
my religious scruples from doing for
myself-—}ou would deliver me from
all the troubles and misfortune
which the future may have in store
for me.”
The treacherous black who stab- \
bed him in the back as he was leav- I
ing the palace to rally his troops at
Khartoum, did what King Johannes. 1
abashed at the patience and forti
tude of his prisoner, was ashamed ;
to countenance.
, THE TARIFF ON MACHINERY.
That the cotton manufacturers of
the south have done well during the
| past five years has been often asser
i ted and never contradicted. The
1 highest proof of this fact is tbe stat
istics ot new mills which have been
established in every southern state.
While the manufacture of cotton
goods has not been as profitable for
the past two years as before that
time, still nearly all the southern
mills are in a healthy condition, and
they have no reason to complain
when the general stagnation in ev
ery other part of the country is ta
ken into consideration.
The money invested in cotton
j machinery in the south during the
I past five years amount to many mil
lions of dollars. The tariff of this
machinery was 45 j>er cent, ad val
orem. The machinery cost our cot
ton spinners and weavers nearly
half as much again, not taking
freight, insurance, etc., into consid
eration. as the same machinery costs
English spinners and weavers. Prob
ably a very small proportion of this
extra cost went into the public Treas
ury in the shape of customs duties.
By far the larger part went to Mas
sachusetts manufacturers, who are
enabled by the burdensome tariff
laws to collect this enormous direct
tax from their customers.
A company is organized to build
a cotton factory. It buys §200,000
worth of machinery or what would
be 8200,000 worth in England. The
duty on this machinery is 890.000.
which must be paid to the govern
ment if the machinery is purchased
abroad. If it is bought in this coun
try the manufacturers have the bene
fit of this protective tariff. The
cost to the cotton mHlmon is the
same. The interest on the duty
alone, at 8 per cent., is 87,200 per
annum. What a slice is this to cut
out of the profits of a mill when the
margin is as close as it has been for
the last two years!
One of the largest new mills in
the south was run last year at a net
loss of $21,000. Probably the loss
would have been scarcely anything
had it not been for the tariff on its
expensive machinery. There are
yetaome cotton manufacturers who
think they are benefitted by the
war tariff. Perhaps they are to
some extent. They have their ma
chinery, and the tariff prevents the
establishing of new mills which
might compete with them, as they
have only a home market. But
what will they do when it becomes
necessary for them to restock their
own mills with new machinery?
Will they feel like paying this out
rageous lax over again? Or will
they cut the wages of their employes
and shift the burden to the shoul
ders of those who are not responsible
for it nor able to bear it!
Statistics of Drink.
As to what we drink, the Ameri
can Grocer says: “During the past
ten years the inhabitants of the re
public have drunk annually an av
erage of 65,900,700 gallons of spirits.
In 1875 the consumption was in
round numbers, 66,000,000 gallons;
in 1876, 59,500,000 gallons; in 1878
the consumption fell off about 8,000,-
060 gallons, but since then the in
crease lias been steady, though it
has not kept up reaching in 1881
over 81,000,000 gallons. The con
sumption of malt liquors has doub
led in ten years, rising from about
295,000.060 gallons in 1875 to 290,-
000,000 in 1884. At the same time
the consumption of wines has de
creased, falling from 28.000,060 gal
lons in 1880 to 20,000,000 in 1884.
The average consumption of malt
liquors per capita has nearly doub
led during the last ten years, while
that of spirits and wine lias declined.
During the period under review
there has been a very decided in
crease in the consumption of coffee,
which is said to amount to 16 gal
lons per capita as compared with
10| gallons of beer, 1,44 gallons of
spirits and 0.36 gallons of wine.
Past and Present.
Contrasting the past and present,
the New Orleans Times Democrat
says: “Now, new forces are at work
upon the problem of the material i
development ot the country. The
advantages of the south as a field for j
the American enterprise of the near
future are understood and apprecia
ted as they were never before; and 1
with this new faith comes the con- i
viction that the strictly cereal state i
have lost some of their attractions
to the settler and immigrant through
the enhanced cost of land and the
desuetude of our export trade in
breadstuff's. We might add that the
severity of climate in some of the j
states lias occasioned a very general j
looking fora life under milder skies.
One way or other the eyes of the na- !
tion have been fixed upon the south
ern states for several years, and evi- |
donees have multiplied that before i
long there will be a movement of:
population in this direction quite as
remarkable as any of the wonderful
surges of the restless sons of Uncle
Sam to tbe west, in times past.”
No Resurrection.
It strikes some interviewers that
Mr. Cleveland is diplomatically j
shrewd. Mr. Dawson editor of tbe .
Charleston News and Courier, called
on President-elect Cleveland the
other day and was accorded a very
pleasant interview. “While J have j
all possible respect for civil service
reform,” casually remarked Mr. i
Dawson, “strikes me that the people i
want a change, and expect that it i
will be as radical as the rules of the i
civil service reform law will permit.” ■
“Yes,” said the President-elect, with
a genial smile, leaning forward and
touching Mr. Dawson lightly on the
knee, “but no resurrections, remem
ber that!”
EASY THINGS.
There arc some boys who do not
like to learn anything that is hard.
I They like easy lessons and easy
i work, but they forget that things
! which are learned easily are of com
j paratively little value when they are
j learned. A man who confines him
! self to easy things must do hard
work for small pay. For example, a
j boy can learn to saw wood in five
: minutes; any boy can learn to saw
it in the same time; any ignorant
j person can learn it just as easily;
and the result is, the boy who has
only learned to saw wood, if he gets
work to do, must do it in competi
tion with the most ignorant class,
and accept the wages for which they
are willing to work.
Now r . it is very well for a boy to
know how to saw wood. But sup
pose he knew how to build a steam
j engine. This would be much har
der to learn than sawing wood ; but
when he had learned it he would
know something which other people
do not know, and when he got work
to do other people could not come
and get it away from him. lie
would have a prospect of steady
work and good wages; he would
have a good trade and so he inde
| pendent. Boys should think of this, ;
and spend their early days in learn
ing the thing they need to know in
after years. Some boys are very
anxious to learn; but this is not al i
ways best. It is often more i m port -
| ant that boys should learn. When
they are young they can earn but
little, but they can learn much, and
it they learn things thoroughly when
young, they will earn when they are
older much more than enough to
make up tor the time and labor
which they spent in learning what
to do and now to do it.
Rev. Sam Jones In Charleston.
The Charleston papers give full
and glowing accounts of the groat
revival meeting now being conduct
ed by Rev. Sam Jones in that city.
From the extended accounts of the
News and Courier we clip a few par
agraphs ;
’1 he Rev. Sam Jones draws larger
congregations than any mail has ev
er done before in Charleston. His
plain and pointed presentation of
the truth strikes the hearts of his
hturers with such force that they
crowd to the church every day to
bear him. Bethel church can seat,
including tbe galleries one thousand
persons. Every night the building
is packed by people of every circle
in society and of every religious be-
Uefi __ The congregations that attend
the 7 o'clock and the ii o\Lvk ser
vices are larger than the usual Su.>.
day congregation i The work is not
confined to any denomination, bulk
aided by the pastorVofall trio Chris
tian churches. Many of the Char
leston clergy attended the services
regularly.
Among the many pulpit prodigies
tliat have been born to Methodism
in a century, there have been none
with Mr. Jones' peculiar gifts. He
is unique, lie is sui generis ; there is
nothing like him iu history or the
prophecies. He is to the church
what Edgar A. Poe was to literature.
He has a hidden power lie imi
tates no man and no man can imitate
him.
The Genuine Tar-Heel Kiss.
Up the perfume-swept avenue of
love and under the roseate archway
of Hymen they had passed into the
joy-lit realms of that higher and ho
lier existence where soul meets soul
on limpid waves of ecstatic feeling,
and hearts touch hearts through the
blended channel of lips in rapture
linked. They had just been made
man and vVifc and their souls must
meet and “swap a swap” of labial
endearment. And now how can we
decribe tliat osculatory performance?
It was not a spasmodic kiss, like a
stopper flying out of a champagne
bottle; or a suctionary kiss, like a
cow pulling her foot out of the mire :
neither was it one of those long, lin
gering, languishing kisses, which
lovers give when hid by clustering
vines from the glance of the moo: -
beams. No, none of these, but it
was, to be alliterative, a kind of a
slunchwise, slantindieular, soup-sup
ping, sop-siping meeting of the lips,
which went for the whole hog of en
dearment or none; and that is the
way two hearts began to beat u.s one.
—Wilson (N. C.) Mirror.
Not Well Graded.
Crimes are not very nicely graded
by the laws or the Judges of the dif
ferent states. This fact is illustra
ted by two cases tried in Philadel
phia this week. The Record of that
city says: For the larceny of a
bucket of candy, the value ot which
could not possibly be more than 816.
two men Wednesday were sentenc
ed toan imprisonment of 18 months
each. On the day before a man who
pleaded guilty of an embezzlement
of $115.060 while occupying a posi
tion of trust, was sentenced by an- !
other Judge to an imprisonment of
32 months—four months less than
tbe combined imprisonment of the
two men who committed a petit lar
ceny. There appears to be a kind
of bond of sympathy between some
Judges and the brilliant rascals who
rob stockholders and commit grand
larceny.
Bound for an Honest Tariff.
The Democratic parly is just as
honorably bound to give the people
honest tariff dutiss, not discriminat- !
ing in favor of monojtolies and mil
lionaires, but fairly adjusted in the
interest of American industry and
labor, as to give them honest public
officers. Now that the election has
been decided on the issue which
made any reform possible the Dem- t
ocracy will not be found backward j
in pressing every reform demanded
in the public interest. —New Yurk |
World.
JOB PRI_NT[ NG
Business Men if voa Want
Bill lie a Is.
Note Heads,
Carets, Letter Heads.
Enevlopes. Statements
Dodgers. Circular*,
Programmes.
Hand Bills,
Or any other kinel of Job Pkistix, done
semi it to the office of the Mon nee Advci
tiser. I have on hand a large stock eu
printing material of all kiaels anel ef ;fi.
latest styles. Work elm” ncatlv nnd
Prrfrnptly. J T. W'tvumw.
NUMBER 6.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Gathered Here and There From the
Papers.
Mr. Cleveland has sent a replv t >
the letter oPthe silver men, in whi -i
he advocates a suspension of th ■
coinage.
A gurdon near Mobile, A.a.,
said to have raised ripe waterme! •
out of doors from seeds pla *<■ I
December.
Senator Garland lias a stron. •v
--sion to seeing any of his child
married, and did not attend his * ,
(Sanders Garland) wedding h
week.
President Arthur is above ah a
finished gentleman. His coin
to Mr. Cleveland is one of the n<> c
worthy incidents of the inaugural
preparations.
The yard locomotives in the i'j'its
j sian service are provided with tire
extinguishing apparatus ly which
j thej- can be converted into' fire cn
| gi nes when needed.
Railroad fares have now reached
j the lowest figures ever known in
America. An immigrants ticket
from New York to Chicago can be
j bought for ?1. Tiiedista-.ee i. s
miles.
The Massachusetts legis-a; ire ! a
before it a hill abolishing tin* run
which makes the testimony of per
sons who do not believe in the e\is
tenceofa God iuadmisssabie in w •
of* justice.
Dr. Tan nor, h * *as 4 er, vs a
dent of I )ona v n..
ic*o, where he is devoting ,
the propagation .t anew tv
founded oil a n< Bible, re
ft new prophet.
Forty thousand j><. sous witnessed
a sham battle on Long Island on
Monday evening, in commemoration
of the bloody buttle fought there in
the war of the revolution over a
hundred years ago.
Mrs. Gen. Tom Thumb and Count
Magri will be married on May 2',
and immediately sail for Italy, their
future home. They Imve been ac
quainted for six years, and have
traveled in the same troupe.
An old lady in the almshouse at
Bloomsburg, N\ J. has not eaten auv
thing for forty-two days, an i very*
little since thanksgiving. When she
began her fast she weighed
pounds, and now weigus but*2oh.
One ot the bills in the <’aliternia
assembly gives to any young man
under twenty six years of age who
learns a trade by serving an appren
ticeship of three years, and i < cor
al young man. $250 out of ,-ea.v
urv.
Tsaisfi \. it;■*. j ()1 . oiie
worth sls .'(tO.iho is repu (•! !,.
w atu** a Philft4elphia. liis j. v.m
al expenses do not exceed §2,mm
year, but lie has given to charity, i
various quiet ways, over a quart*-.•
of a million.
A scientist asserts that the o . -
the average person are not e'|i!:ii
perfect—he can hear better in <.
than in the other. Politician .
anxious to know on which si-h
--should approach Mr. Cleveland
be sure of a hearing.
The Southern Chautauqua i.
centre of attraction for Florida •
ists. Last Wednesday night '
' was a grand camp fire with
-and speeches. Several hundred
1 sons were present. Tsvo leci ■-
are given each day.
A Boston congregation was mv.v
| teriously seized in the midst 01 a
| song recently with a paroxysm < .*
tincontrolable sneezing. An inves
i tigation was at once instituted, when
l it was discovered that the elite■•pris
ing trustees had rented the cellar to
a grocer who had stored there a car
go of pepper.
Osman Digna is nally Alphonse
\ inot, a full hloo !<• ! Frenchman,
born at Kouen in 1-' lU. His widow
ed mother in 18‘J7 married an
andrian merchant, half i-h-yut . a id
half Egyptian. by name <)>;nan
na, wlio died in IS 12 leavinir Lis
name an 1 a fortune of Si * >d t ■ to
his stepson.
A Bill to fore ■ .-ohibit rai'r '
from granting >
i tlie legisiafarc
able stir in tin Counee:. .
tare. The mei. hors ha.
accustomed (• • ■ /
then get a pa- >u 'P ,
11103' are much exereiocd over the
| bill.
The Connee ieut senate has passed
the bill providing a state bounty <>f
ten cents to any person planting,
protecting and cultivating elm, ina
pie, tulip, ash, basswood, oak, black
walnut, hickory, apple, pciirorcher
ry trees, not more than sixty feet
apart for three t'cars, along anv pub
lic high way.
'lhe wife of John L. Sullivan, the
noted "slugger,” has filed a suit fora
divorce on the groiyid of cruel and
inhuman treatment and fix and habi's
of intoxication. The eternal fitness
of tilings is beautifully ilis- ite i
in Mrs. Sullivan’s selection of that,
old political slugger, Ben Butler, as
her attorney*.
The Southern Baptist Convention
will meet in Augusta, Ga .Mat- Oth.
continuing until the 11th. The
Convention is composed <. the fit'
teen Southern States, v. f an ag
gregate ot about six hu pre
sen tat ives. It will meet in the \st
Baptist Church of the city, vh • •
was organized fort}* years ago.
The latest electric light pro'eot \
designed to iilumine the Atlan
Ocean from the banks of Newton ;
land to the shores of Ireland.
vessels stationed 200 miles a a
each riding at a ••'mushroom" an
which permits the vessel to -
round with the tide, are to ii
the lights. These vessels are .
be connected together and
shore by an electric cable, an-;
be enabled to send message*
part of tLc world.