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rHB MONROE ADVERTISER, OFFI Cl A L JOimilA LO FMO N ROECOU NT Y TERMS W SUBSCRIPTION: Per Annum. Cash in Advance • $2.00 Six Months. * 1.00 Wed Le.-Lterfd in tin* Fv*-1 Office of For syth, Oa., ax second <•!** matter, W I'HK MuNRuI A I>\ KRTISEK has A Izrge (,'imilatioii in Monme, Buttz. Jones, J:i*jHr, and other Uoiintie*. PUBLISHED EVERY KKI DA Y MORMXO. MONROE Female College, FORSYTH, OA. T* rejoining it* f<>r®i<*r yrwtij*- 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 ‘" d 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* I s' SE-/C rep Pts. ' A BHSfIHBSSSSSKSSESB 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.