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The Gainesville Eagle. t 7 UBUSHED EVERY FRIDAY IQMim J" - E . RED W I NB, Kditor and Proprietor. .1 011 A BLA TS. Publisher. 1 ERMS : $2 A*Year, in. Advance. OFFICE L’)) stair* in Candler Hall building, north-west corner Public Square. Agents for The Eagle, J. M. Rich. lilairsTille, Oa.; J. D. Howard, Hiwas v * Ob. , \v. M. BAVMlioy, Haysville, N. C.; Da. N. C. Osborn, Butord, Oa. The above named gentlemen are authorized to make collections, receive and receipt for subscription to Tub Kaolk office. -fcft Kates of Advertising. One dollar per square for first insertion, and fifty cents for each subsequent Insertion. Marriage notices and obituaries exceeding six lines will be charged for as advertisements. Personal or abusive communications will not be inserted at any price. Communications of general or local interest, under a genuine signature respectfully solicited from any source. Rates of Lrgal Advertising. Sheriff’s sales for each levy often lines or less $2 50 Each subsequent ten lines or less • * 2 50 Mortgage sales (6o days) per square - • 500 Each subsequent ten lines or less • 5 00 Adra’r’s, Ex’r’sor Guard’n’s sales, (todays) pr*q 5 00 Notice to debtors and creditors - - 5 00 Oitat's for let’rs of ad a’a or guard'ns'p (4 wks) 400 Leave to sell real estate - - - 5 00 Let'rs of dism’n of adm’n or gnard’u (3 mo.) 6 00 Kstray notices 3 00 Citations (unrepresented estates) - - 4 00 Rule nisi in divorce cases - - - 6 00 4F Fractions of a square (or inch, are charged in all j c as's as full squares or inches. Notices of Ordinaries calling attention of adminis- j trators, executors and guardians to making thlr an- i nual returns; and of Sheriffs in regard to sections 3649, of the Code, published Frie for the Sheriffs and Ordinaries who patronize the Eagle. Advertisers who desire a specified space for 3, 6 or 12 months will receive a liberal deduction from our regular rates. ij e" All bills due after first insertion, unless special contract to the contrary be made. GENERA L DIRECTORY. Hon. George D. Rice, Judge 8. C. Western Circuit. Emory Speer, Solicitor, Athens, Ga. COUNTY OFFICERS. J. B. M. Winburn, Ordinary. J. L. Waters, Sherfff. J. J. Mayne, Clerk Superior Court. N. 15. Clark, Tax Collector. J. S. Simmons, Tax Receiver. V. Whelchol, Surveyor. Edward Lowry, Coroner. Samuel Lesser, Treasurer. CHURCH DIRECTORY. Presbyterian Church—Rev. T. P. Cleveland. Pas tor. Preaching every Sabbath—morning and night, except the second Sabbath. 8u day School at 9a. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday eveuing at 4 o'clock. Methodist Church Rev. D. D. Cox, Pastor. Preaching every Sunday morning and night. Sunday School at 9a. in. Prayer meeting Wednesday night. Baptist Church Rev. W. C. Wilkes, Pastor. Preaching Sunday morning. Sunday School at 9 a. in. Prayer meeting Thursday evening at 4 o'clock. FRATERNAL RECORD. Alleghany Royal Arch Chapter meets on the Sec ond and Fourth Tuesday evenings in each month. J. T. Wilson, Sec’y. A. W. Caldwell, H. P. Gainesville Lodge, No. 219, A.*. F.\ M.\, meets on the Firsthand Third Tuesday eveuing in the month It. Palmour, Sec'y. J. E Redwine, W. M. Air-Lin* Lodge, No. 64, I. O. O. F., meets every Friday evening. C. A. Lilly, Sec. W. H. Harrison. N. G. Gaines villi Grange No. 340, meets on the Third Saturday and First Tuesday iu each month, at one clock, p. m. J. E. Redwine, Master. K. I). Cheshire, Sec. Morning Star Lodge, No. 313, I. O. G.T., meets ev ery Thursday evening. Claud Estes, W. 8. J. P. Caldwell, W. C. T. North-Eastern Htar Lodge, No. 385 I. O. G. TANARUS., moots every Ist and 3d Saturday evenings, at Antioch Church. J. A. Smith, W. C, T. It. F. Gittkns, W. 8. GAINESVILLE POST OFFICE. Owing to recent change of schedule on the Atlanta and Richmond Air Line Hailrood, the following will be the schedule from date: Mall fro u Atlanta [fas'] 5.11 p. m. Mall for Atlanta (fasti 11.20 a. m. Office hours: From 7 a. m. to 12 m., and from 1 p. in. to 7p. w. No office hours on Sunday lor general delivery window. All cross mails leavo us heretofore. mails close: Dahlouoga (Stage, Daily) - - 8:30 a.m. Jefferson, (Stage, Wednesday and Saturday) 9:00 p. m. Cleveland, (Stage. Monday and Friday) 8:00 a. in. Homer, (Horse, Friday) 12:30 p. m. Wahoo 5:00 a. in. Dawsonville t (Horae, Saturday) - 7 30 " MAILS arrive: Dahlonoga, - •. , ■ - - - 3:00 p. m. Jefferson (Wednesday Sat rday) 6:00 p. m. Cleveland, (Monday and Thursday) - 6:00 “ Homer, (Friday) - - 12:00 m. Wahoo 4 * 6:00 a.m. Dawsouville, (Friday) • - 6:00 p.m. M. R. ARCHER, P.M. Professional uml Business Cards. -V. .T. SIIAFFEB, jcxiYJSici-A.i>ar AND SUKti E N , QaiuuHville, (>n, OfiWe and Uooms at Guinea’ Hotel, Gainesville, Ga. jairil-ly (; amP is tajLlS HO ijh (Corner of Docatur and Ivle Streets, near Car Shed,) Atlanta, Gra. MY FRIKKDS from Gainesville and Toccoa City are respectfully invited to call on me at this place, i guarantee satisfaction. janJS-ly THOMAS LITTLE. INFIHMAIIY, FOR THE THE ATM ENT OF DISEASES OF WOMEN, j v AND OPERATIVE SURGERY, At the Gaines’ Hotel, Gainesville, Ga, by jan23 tf A. J. SHAFFER, M. D. V. I). LOCKHART, M. I)., Polkville, Ga., WILL PRACTICE MEDICINE in all its branches. Special attention given to Chronio Diseases of women and children. feblß-6m I) R. R. 11. ADAIR, DENTIST, Gainesville, Ga, jaul4 ly MARSHAI. L. SMITH, ATTORNRY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Dawsoni'iUc, Dawson county, Ga. jail 14 tf j John bTestjes, A TTORNEY-AT-LAVV, Gainosvillo, Hall county, i Georgia. C.J. YYELL HORN, A TTORNEY-AT-LAW, Blairsville, Dnion county, J\. Georgia. SAMUEL <’. DUNLAP, Attorney at law, Qaintvuie, Ga. Office in the Candler building, in the room occupied by the Eagle in 1873. aprstf. yv. K. WILLIAMS, A Ti'GRNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, £\_ Cleveland, White. Cos., Ga., will practice in the Courts of the Western Circuit, ami give prompt atten tion to all business entrusted to his care. June 12, 1874-tf WIER BOYD, 4 TTORNKY AT LAW, Dahlonega , Ga. /jl 1 will Practice in the counties of Lumpkin, Dawson, Gilmer, Fannin, Union and Townncounties tithe Blue Ridge Circuit; and Hall, White and Rabun in the Western Circuit. May 1,1874-tf. B. F. WOFFORD, A TTORNEY AT LAW, Homer, Ga. Will execute promptly, all business entrusted to his care. Mareh 21, 1874-ly. BEY. A. MARTIN, V TTORNEY AT LAW, Dahlvneya, Ga. ju1y21,1871-tf s. k7clluisrouiier, V TTORNEY AT LAW, lliuHUMt, Ga. Will execute promptly all business entrusted to his care. novlCtf THOMAS F. GREEK, A TTORNEY AT LAW, AND SOLICITOR IN V Equity and Bankruptcy, KUijay, Ga. Will nrae ti in the State Courts, and in tlie District ana Cir cuit Courts at the l'. S., in Atlanta, a. Juno 20, 1873-tf M. YY. KIDEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Gamesville, Georgia. Jan. 1,1876-1 y JAMES M. TOWKRY, VTTORNFY AT LAW. GaiuesYille, G*. J. J. TURNBULL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Homer, Ga —Will practice in ail the counties composing the Western Cir cuit. Prompt atteution siren to all claims entrusted to Ills care. lan. 1, 1878-ly. JVM ES A. BUTT, \ TTORNKY AT LAW Jt LAND AGENT, Blair svill, l\. Ga. Prompt attention giYCu to all business entrusted t o his care. fuue I*7l-11 The Gainesville Eagle. Devoted to Politics, News of the Day, The Farm Interests, Home Matters, and Choice Miscellany. VOL. X. THE SOUTHRON’S FATHERLAND. (IMITATION 01 ARNDT.) BY WiXTXB C. BCOTT. [From tbe Sunny South.’ ! Wliat is the Southron’s Fatherland ? j Virginia soil or Texan land, j Where blue Potomac seaward streams, Where Patapsco’s wave by moonlight gleams, Where Missouri pours its turbid floods, I Where Cumberland winds through darkling woods ? j Not this the laud— ! His is a wider Fatherland. | Tell us the Southron’s Fatherland— I Floridan or Arkadsian land, Where through the pines the gulf-wind blows, Where Mississippi onward flows ? Is’t Shenandoah’s lovely vale ? Or Pensacola’s snow-white soil? Is’t Georgia or fair Tennessee 1 Is that a Fatherland to thee ? Not this the land— This is a nobler Fatherland. What is the .Southron’s Fatherland ? Oh ! name at length this tnighty land Wherever throbs a Southron’s heart, Where’er a Southron’s glances dart, Where faith is pledged by clasp of hand, Where truth is seen iu flashing eye, Aud love in hearts warm, nestling lies, Whether by mountain, lake, or ocean strand, That Southron name, thy Fatherland. June 22, 1873. THE 111 RLE. How comes it that this little volume, composed by humble meu in a rude age, when art and science were but iu their childhood, has exerted more influence on the human mind and on the social system than all other books put to gether? Whence comes it that this Book has achieved such marvellous changes in the opinions of mankind— has banished idol worship—exalted the condition of woman—raised the standared of public morality—created for families that blessed thing a Chris tian home—and caused its other tri umph by causing benevolent institu tions, open and expansive, to spring up as with the wand of enchantment ? hat sort of a book is this, that even the wind and the waves of human pas sion obey it ? What other engine of social improvement has operated so long, and lost none of its virtue?— Since it appeared, many boosted plans of amelioration have been tried, aud failed—many codes of jurisprudence have arisen aud run their course and expired. Empire after empire has been launched on the tide of time, and gone down and expired. But this book is still going about doing good, leavening society with its holy princi ples, cheering the sorrowful with con solation, strengthening the tempte 1, encourageing the penitent, calming the tioubled spirit, and smoothing the pillow of death. Can such a book be the offspring of human genius ? Does not the vastness of its effects demon strate the excellency of the power to be of God ?—Dr. McCulloch. take Council with yourself. Young men cannot estimate too highly the advice of parents and friends. It affords them the benefit of experience, and is given from solici tude for their welfare. It should be remembered and weighed and acted upon. But, after all, every man has his own individual existence; he has his own life to live, for which he is alone accountable. He should derive all the benefit he can from the counsel of those older and wiser than himself.— Then he should sit down and meditate by himself, and make up his own mind as to the course he wishes to pursue in the world. Having done this he should enter upon the execution of his plans with a determination to accom plish what he undertakes without ref erence to others. No man is of any real account in the world unless he is something in and of himself. No man possesses real strength if he cannot, after having heard all that others have to sav, resolve, and resolve firmly, what to do, and carry his reso lution into effect. Take counsel of others; profit by their experience and wisdom; but | above all, take counsel with yourself; make up your own mind what to do in this world, and do it! Passengers on the Valley Railroad, says the New Haven Register, are at i tracted daily by the conduct of a large ! and intelligent dog waiting by the roadside for the daily newspaper, ! which was formerly thrown to him from the baggage-car for his master, 1 who lived half a mile from the road. i The master has been dead for many mouths, but tho faithful dog has not missed the mail-train a day since.— There is no paper for that master now, but sometimes tho baggage-man, in | pity for the dog, tosses a paper to him as the train rushes by, which he eager- I ly seizes and starts joyfully over the | hills for his home. When the train has gone by and no paper is thrown, he rushes wildly up and down the ! track, gazing after the cars with an al i most human look of disappointment, j and jogs dejectedly homeward. This is this the kind of weather i when an impudent breeze pokes it fin gers under your waistcoat to find how thick your undercloths are. GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 10, 1876. |“OV YOU DON’T GOT AY AY OLD I BOUNCJ^YOU-QUD.” The Hawkeye has just got into its new editorial room and it is proud to say it has the finest, most comfortable, captivating and convenient editorial rooms in America. They are finished off with a little invention which will be of untold value to the profession of journalism when it is generally adopt ed, and we know that it will rapidly come into universal use as soon as its merits are understood and apprecia ted. We believe it is fully equal, in all that the term implies, to the fa mous Bogardess Licker, less liable to get out of order, and less detected by casual visitors. It's known as ‘Middle rib’s Automatic W’elcome.’ The sanc tum is on the same floor as the nejes room, being separated from it by a partition, in which is cut a large win dow, easily opened by an automatic arrangement. The editor’s table is placed in front of that window and near the head of the stairs, and on the side of the table next the window, directly opposite the editor, the visi tor’s chair is placed. It has an invit ing look about it, and its entire ap pearance is guileless and common place. But the strip of floor on which that chair rests is a deception and a fraud It is au endless chain, like the floor of a horse power, and is operated at will by the editor, who has merely to touch a spring in the floor to set it in motion. Its operation can best be understood by personal inspec tion. Yesterday morning about ten o’clock Mr. Bostwick came in with a funny story to tell. He naturally flopped down into the chair that had the strongest appearance of belonging to someone else and began in his usually happy vein: I’ve got the richest thing —oh ! ha, ha, ha ! —the best thiDg— oh, by George! I can’t—oh! ha, ha, ha! it’s too good ! Oh ! by George, the richest thin ! Oh ! it’s too loud ! You must never tell where you got— oh, by George! I can’t do it! it’s too good ! You know—oh, ha, ha, ha, oh, he, he, he! You know the—oh, by George, I ca—” Here the editor touched the spring, a nail grab under the bottom of the chair reached swift ly up and caught Mr. Bostwick by the cushion of his pants, the window flew up and the noiseless belt of 1 floor gli ding on its course bore the astonished Mr. Bobtwick through the window out into the news room, half way down to the cases, where he was received with great applause by the delighted com positors. The window had slapped down as soon as he passed through, and when the editorial foot was with drawn from the spring and the chair stopped and the nail grab resumed its accustomed place, young Mr. Bost wick found himself kind of out of the sanctum, like it might be, that he went slowly and dejectedly down the stairs, as it were, while amazement sat upon his brow like. The next casual visitor was Mr. J. Alexis Fl&xeter the critic. He had a copy of the Hawkeye iiAis hand, with all the typographical errors marked in red ink, and his face was so wreathed in smiles that it was impossible to tell where his mouth ended and his eyes began. He took the chair and spread the paper out before him, covering up the editor’s manuscript. ‘My keen vision and delicate sense of accuracy',” he said, “are the greatest crosses of my life. Things that you never see are mountains in my sight. Now here, you see is a—” The spring clicked softly like an echo to the impatient movement of the editor’s foot, the nail grab took hold like a bull-dog helping a Burlington troubadour over the gar den fence, the chair shot back through the window like a meteor, and the window came down with a slam that sounded like a wooden giant getting off the shortest bit of profanity known to man; and all was silent again. Mr. Flaxeter sat very close to the frosted window, staring blankly at the cloud ed glass, seeing nothing that could offer any explanation of what he would have firmly believed was a land slide, had he not heard the editor, safe in his guarded den, softly whist ling, “We shall meet but we shall miss him.” Then there was a brief interval of quiet in the sanctum and a rustling of raiment was heard] on the stairs. A lovely woman entjered and stood un awed in the editorial presence. The E. P., on its part, was rather nervous and uncomfortable. The lovely wo man seated herself in the fatal chair.— She slapped her little gripsack on the tablo and opened her subscription book. She said: “I am soliciting cash contributions—strictly, exclusively, and peremptorily cash contributions— to pay off the church debt and buy an organ for the Mission Church of the Forlorn Strangers, and I expect—” There are times when occasion de mands great effort The editor bowed his head and, after one brief spasm of remorse, felt for the secret spring.— The window went up like a charm; the reckless nail-grab hung back for a sec. ouil, as if held by' a feeling of inmate I delicacy, and then shut its eyes and smothered its pity and reached up and took a deathlike hold on a roll of able and influential newspapers and a net work of string and tape, and the caval cade backed out into the news room with colors flying. The chair stopped just before the familiar spirit who was washing the forms, and ns the lovely woman gazed at the inky face she shrieked, “Merciful heaveus, where am I? ’ and w 7 as borne down the gloomy stairway unconscious, while the prir£ ters whose cases were nearest the wick ed window heard the editor singing, as it might be to himself, “Dearest sister,' thou hast left us.” An hour of serenity and tranquility in the editorial room was broken by a brisk business like step on the stairs, the door flew upon with a bang that shot the key half way across the room and a sociable-looking, familiar kind of stranger jammed into the chair, slapped his hat over the ink-stand, pushed a pile of proof, twenty pages of copy, a box of pens, the paste cup, and a pair of scissoi s off' the table to make room for the old familiar flat sample case, and said in one brief breath: “I am agent for Gamberton’s Popular Centennial World’s History and American Citizens’ Treasure Book of Valuable Information sold only by subsreiption and issued in monthly parts, whole work complete in thirty parts, each number embellished with one handsome steel plate engraving and numerous beautifully executed wood cuts no similar work has ever been published in this country and at the exceedingly low price at which it is offered only $2 per vol ” The spring clicked like a pistol shot, the window went up half way through the ceiling, the nailgrab took hold of a three-barrelled harpoon, and column moved on its backward way through the window, down the news room, past the foreman, standing grim and silent, by the imposing stone, past the cases, vocal with the applause and en courageiDg and consolatory remarks of the compositors, on to the alley windows, over the sills, howling, yel ling, shrieking, praying, the unhappy man was hurled to the cruel pavement three stories below, where he lit on his head and plunged through into a cellar where he tried to get a subscrip tion out of a was shovelling coal. THE MAN YVIIO GAVE ODDS. 'a After a strange man had fiuished eating a hearty meal at one of the stands in the City hall market yes terday he rem arked to the woman: ‘As I was sitting down to this meal I said to myself that I’d bet one dollar against the dinner that the Greenback candidates would not carry a single State. If they do, you have won the dollar, and shall have it. ‘I want thirty-five cents from you, she replied, pulling off her comfort er. ‘Or I’ll bet you five dollars against the meal that the Democrats carry New York State,’ he continued. ‘I want my pay or there’ll be trouble right here!’ she exclaimed, slipping off her bonnet. ! Or, I’ll bet the same sum, on the same terms, that the Republicans will’ carry it,’ he remarked, as he wiped off his sandy goatee. ‘I never bet and I want my pay! she called out being now all ready for action. ‘Great Heavens! but look at the odds I offer you ?’ he gasped. ‘I not only let you bet on either side, but I offer you the most fearful odds that have ever been given since the advent of the Christian era!’ ‘I can’t help the odds,’ she answered as she got hold of his coat tails. ‘You don’t leave here until I get my mon ey-’ ‘Or, I’ll bet you $35 againt this 35 cent debt,’ he went on, ‘that neither Hayes nor Tilden will be elected. One of them must be, but I offer to bet they won’t be, simply to permit you to coin $35 out of my hard earnings.— Great Jigs 1 but such another offer was never known since Oliver Crom well kept a fighting dog ! ’ ‘Thirty-five cents!’ she shrieked pulling him around. ‘Last, but not least, I’ll bet you for ty to one that I haven’t had thirty five cents about me for a month ! Come, now, I offer you every chance to win.’ She gave him two solid kieks, and was designing and drafting a third, when he made a bolt and left a coat tail in her grasp. While an officer was looking for him around the mar ket he was placidly surveying the Soldier’s Monument and picking his teeth with a straw.—Detroit Free Press. ‘Oh, mamma, that’s Captain Jones’ knock! I know he has come to ask me to be his wife!’ ‘Well, my dear, you must accept him.’ ‘But I thought you hated him so!’ ‘Hate him ! I do—so much that I intend to be Iris rnother in-law.’ Revenge is sweet, especially to women. HOW TO BE HAPPY. The writer of the book of Ecclesi astes was a mau of vast aud varied scientific knowledge, aud his original ity was equal to his information. He was a poet and a moralist, a sagacious politician and a wise monarch. He had a splendid taste in architecture and landscape-gardening, aud his enor mous wealth enabled him to conjure into palpable realities the visions of his .gorgeous imagination. Thus en 'dowted and favored, he commenced the search after happiness. He sought for it in intellectual pursuits, in pleasures both coarse and refined, and in the fascinations of power and of fame. But the result of all his inquiries is summed up in the melancholy refrain, ‘All is vanity and vexation of spirit!’ Do you ask for modern instances of a similar kind ? We could call into court nearly as many witnesses as there have been Nimrods, mighty hunters after happiness. We might ask the statesman, and, as we wished him a happy new year, Lord Dundas would answer, ‘it had need be happier than the last, for I never knew one happy day in it.’ We might ask the successful lawyer, and the wariest, luckiest, most self-complacent of them all would answer, as Lord Eldon was privately recording, when the whole bar envied the Chancellor—‘A few weeks will send me to dear Encombe, at a short resting-place between vexa tion and the grave.’ We might ask the golden millionaire, ‘You must be a hap|y man, Mr. Rothschild!’ ‘Happy! Me happy ! What! Happy, when, just as you are going to dine, you have a letter placed in your hand, saying, ‘lf you do not send me 36500, I will blow your brains out!’ Happy, when you have to sleep with pistols at your pillow!’ We might ask r the world famed warrior, and get for answer the ‘Miserere’ of the Emperor-monk, Charles V., or the sigh of a broken heart from St. Helena. We might ask the brilliant courtier, and Lord Ches terfield would tell us, ‘I have enjoyed all tut) pleasures of the world, and I do not regret their loss. I have been behind the scenes. I have seen all the coarse pulleys aud dirty ropes which move the gaudy machines; and I have seen fjpd smelt the tallow candles whtfh Illuminate, the whole decOu tions, i'3#the astonishment of an igjyjr ant audience.’ Wexuight ask the daz zling wit, and, faint with a glut of glory, yet disgusted with the creatures who adored him, Voltaire would con dense the essence of his existence into one word ‘Ennui.’ And we might ask the world’s poet (Lord Byron,j and would be answered with an impreca tion by that splendid genius, who “Drauk every imp of joy, heard every trump Of fame; drank early, deeply drauk; drank draughts That common millions might have quench'd—then died Of thirst, because there was no more to drink.” “Attempt how vain— With things of earthly sort, with aught but God, With aught but moral excellence, truth and love, To patisfy and fill th’ immortal soul! ” ‘Let U3 hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep His Commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.’ ‘This is life eter nal, to know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent.’ Here we have the true way to happiness. Reconciliation to God is like entering the gate of a beautiful avenue, which conducts to a splendid mansion; but in some places this ave nue skirts the edge of dangerous cliffs, and therefore, to save the traveller from falling over where he would be dashed to pieces, it is fenced all the way by a quickset hedge. That hedge is the Commandments. They are planted there that we may do our selves no harm. But, like a fence of the fragrant brier, they regale the Pil grim who keeps the path, and they hurt him only when he tries to break through. Temperance, justice, truth fulness, purity- of speech and behavior, obedience to parents, mutual affec tion, sanctification of the Sabbath, the reverent worship of God,—all these are righteous requirements, and “in keeping them there is a great reward.’ It is self-contained felicity. Anew heart itself is happiness.— Gifts, as they come from God, are al ways good and perfect; but by the time that they have distilled through our murmurirg spirits they may have become bitterness itself. But Chris tianity is anew creation. The ‘right spirit’ makes a man blessed, by mak ing him a right incipient. This is what the worldling wants. This new heart is what the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ offers to you — to me.- The very faculty of joy, there fore, is the gift of the Holy Ghost. It needs more than the good and perfect gifts of God’s providence to awaken melody and praise; only the gift of God’s grace, a thankful heart, has the capacity of receiving and retaining joy. The soul into which God has put glad ness ean never be empty of all joy; for the t ‘joy of salvation’ heals the broken heart, and thus makes it pos sible for otfyer joys to stay there. A devout disposition is-happiness.— It, is happiness, whethor outward things go well or ill. A comfortable home, fond kindred, health, a success ful calling, are sweet mercies when you I you accept them direct from God, thus rendering dearer tg you both the giver and the gifts. But mercies may, one by one, be with drawn. LoVer and friend may be put far from you, and your acquaintance may vanish into secret; your indus trious efforts may be defeated, and prosperous state be exchanged for penury. But, ‘although the fig-tree shall not blossom, ’ yet ‘you will re joice in the Lord, and will joy in the God of your salvation.’ With shat tered constitution, you may find your self confined to your couci} or vour chamber; still you can say,’ ‘My flesh and my heart faileth; but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.’ And when in troublous times men’s hearts are failing them for fear, the believer can sing, ‘God is our refuge and strength, a very pres ent help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear though the earth be re moved, though the mountains be car ried into the midst of the sea.’ How blessed to have a Friend iu omnipo tence, and a citadel within the taber nacle of the Most High ! CHEEKING INFLUENCES. How it cheers aud gladdens the heart to have something pleasing for the eye to rest upon, no matter if it be but a simple engraving, or a bunch of Autumn leaves tacked up here aifc there on the bare wall. mC shells, a little statuette, a pop of green moss growing sill, give an air of taste , and refinement to the most homely cot|fee. And Ik>w true it is that the these little surroundings helps to make up the great whole that purifies and uplifts the soul to something high er and better! I remember once to have called on a poor sick woman, who lived iu mis- and without many of Che necessaries of life; yet I noticed on the old rickety stand near her bed side a flower pot containing a pansy, rich in its tints of purple and gold.— ‘Oh !’ I replied, ‘what a beautiful pan sy.’ ‘Yes,’ she exclaimed, her pale countenance lighting up with tender ness and joy, ‘it is very beautiful to me, and often leads my thoughts away from myself, from my sufferings and sorrows. Somehow, I never feel half so poor when I have something pretty to look at.’ No matter how humble our station in life, there is always something to cheer the heart and make us happy if we would but accept it. The pure air of heaven and the glad sunshine, are they not for us all ? The sweet clover blooms and scent of the pine trees, the brooks, do they not speak to us of love, hope and happiness ? Yes, there are many beautiful things iu the world, if we would but see them. Yet how many men and women live in contin ual discontent and repinings, seeming ly unmindful of the gifts with which God surrounds them! Show me the person who hears mu sic in the soDg of the cricket or the humming of the bee, who sees beauty in the lowly wild flower, the fallen log covered with moss and ivy, the jagged rock, or the pebbles beneath the feet; one who loves to listen to the? winds, be they ever so wild, and I will show you a person who can never be entire ly miserable or alone. The beautiful soul-light within will reveal in amber tints some spots whereon the weary heart may rest, and nature’s voice wilii ever whisper of joy and peace, no mat ter how fiercely the storms of life may sweep around. !g|P, YOUN#MAN ! Not another glass ! “Only beer,” do you Bay ? 4|gffare! all that gives pleasure to in that glass of beer is It is the same, whether in beerj wine or whiskey. It is the demon that biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder, that tickles your palate in the beer. Do you want proof? Watch the beer drinker. He wants his pint for a drink, while the other only takes his thimbleful of whiskey. In each case the alcohol is about equal, in a pint of beer or the ordinary dram of an occasional whis key drinker. Boil the beer for a half hour, then taste the nourishment left in the cup, and you will find why you drink beer. Stop our young men from drinking beer, and we shall soon have a nation of sober men instead of a nation of drunkards, it was the little opening that increased with frightful rapidity that caused the Mill River disaster. So the begin ning of the drink curse is frequently “only beer,” ending in the fearful wreck of all that makes a man. There was once a Mayor of an ancient borough, who was a staunch teetotal ler, and well known to be so. He at tended the festivities promoted by a neighboring borough, aud someone who knew the Mayor well put a glass of milk-punch close to his plate. The Mayor saw the glass; he coujjl not re sist it; he took it up and quaffed it off, and set it down, saying, ‘Lord, what a cow!’ I WANTED A BILL. A gay Lothasio appeared before the grand jury a few days siuce for the purpose, as he stated, of getting a true Bill, aud that, too, against a woman. The foreman looked svmyathetic and rather surprised that the witness should be so ungallant; complied with bis duty to interrogate, and ask him to tell the jury all about it. “Well,” said the witness, “it was just like this. There is a snatching looking gal living in our neighbor hood, and I went in lively to marry her. After telling her all the sweet things I knowed about love, moonshine and and such, I popped the question. She said yes, providing I would get her a pair of them pretty shoes she showed me when we were in town together. I knowed s_;e would h ive them after the knot was tied, so I got Ahem for her." “That was all right,” said the fore man. “Yes” rejoined the witness; “all right for the gal; but she got the shoes, and she backed out. Now, I want to know if I can’t get shoes, the gal or a bill against her for obtaining goods under false pretense. “You said she was a snatching look ing girl” said the foreman. ‘ Yes, sir; and she is the takingest gal in tne settlement. “Well, then, you ought to have kdpwn that she would take the shoes, as the act does not come within the purview of the statute, you cannot get a bill, ffut you might sue her for breach of promise, and claim damages amounting to the value shoes. will briflg the suit for dollars.” “YVelff Squire, I believe I will try to git the gal, and let the lawyers, courts and grand juries alone. Women is mighty deceitful and uncertain, but they can do more for a man’s injured affections and tore up mind than any of them." He departed ia disgust.— Troy Enquirer. IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE. The other day when a citizen took a coat around to a dealer in second-hand clothing, the man looked it over in a contemptuous manner, elevated his nose, flung the garment aside and said: “Do you know how much I wouldn’t gif fer dot goat? I gif 12 shill ngs on ly” “It s worth $5,” replied the owner. “Fife tollar! Shusfc wait till I gall my wife and cell her dot we have a lu natic in der store. YVhy my goot frent, you must have been sun stroked by her heat last summer.” He finally got the coat for $2. Pas sing the same store in the evening and seeing his eoit hanging at the door, the man asked: “How much for this old coat. “Old goat!” shrieked the dealer, “why dot goat gas made only last week worn to one party, and can’t be had for less dan seven tollars !” I’ll give you two. “Two! Here, wife, hurry up ! Put up dor plinds, lock der door, and let us say oar prayers, for we must go in to bankruptcy to-morrow! Just tink of dot man offering me two tollars for dot goat what you bought of a great Alderman yesterday for five tollars.” He wanted her, but she would not give her consent until he had consulted her parents. So he went into the room where they were and modestly stated the case: ‘And you really think you love her enough to marry her ?’ said the father, after ho had finished. ‘Oh, yes, sir,’ said the youth in fer vent eagerness, ‘I love her with all my life. I love her better than Ido my life. She is my guidiug star, the wor shiped object of my every-thought, every hope, every aspiration.” He stood with clasped hands, his face radiant with the btrength of his devotion. There was a moment of pause, and then the mother softly asked: ‘What do you think of that, old man?’ ‘That sounds like business, old wo man,’ replied the satisfied father. And so it was arranged that the daughter should accept her suitor. A young lady attending a Masonic entertainment in Keokuk, lowa, last week, was much disconcerted on learn ing that a banquet had been prepared. On looking in at the elegant tables in the supper-room she exclaimed:— ‘Good gracious ! Are they going to sit down? I didn’t expect that—l—l ain’t firfed to sit down. Her escort looked at her “pull-back” for a mo ment, and then found a place along side the mantle-piece where she could take her supper standing. But it wa6 a very narrow escape. An elderly darkey was inquiring of a policeman if he knew anything of his son Pete. The policeman replied that there was a young darkey in the lock up for breaking up a prayer-meeting with an axe-handle. ‘Dat’s him,’ ex claimed the over joyed parent. ‘He told me he was gwine to muse hisself.’ F E A TIIEKS. Sixteen piar.o-makers got the first prize. The country bets ten millions a year on horse races. Red is fashionable this winter. Tl e red-nosed man will, therefore, be in style. The greed for gold, spoken of as sinful, includes silver, greenbacks, and all sorts of fractional currency. The Order of the Sisters of Charity in the Roman Catholic church now numbers over 50 memberp. From the Servian dispatches, we learn that Gen. Pulldownyervestraieh has defeated Gen. Wipeoffyercfcinoski. B. Z. Dutton has resigned editorial control of the Press and Cultivator, aud is succeeded by H. M. Edge. Mr Geo. Eddleman, of Atlanta, in attempting to jump off a train, bad bis foot out oft’ by the wheels of a railroad oar, last Wednesday. NO. 45 Mr. Toombs believes that Mr. Ste phens will live long enough to admin ister on his estate, and has appointed him his executor. The practice of teaching the young Chicago idea how to shoot seems to involve the danger of the teacher be ing shot himself. There will be shorne in New South Wales this year upward of 25,000,000 of sheep, yielding about 126,000,000 pouuds of wool, valued at .£0,250,000. Since January Ist 03,000 immi grants Lave arrived at the port of New York. During the coresponding peri od of last year the number was over 70,000. That farmer understood human na ture who said: “If you want your boy to stay at home, don’t bear too hard on the grindstone when he turns the erauk.” Distinguished foreigner (after a “These Centennials—aw—are vewy encouwaing to the wepublio I should think—aw. Do they oocur of ten. A Maine paper advises young men not to marry a female who makes use of bad grammar, as she is apt to pick up an old stocking to wipe the dishes on. When a man’s bask itches him in the particular spot where he can’t scratch it himself, it is then and only then, that he realizes the real hapiness of married life. The Toccoa Herald gives this recipe for fattening hogs: Feed on corn four or five days iu the week, and then use ground corn made into stiff dough the remainder of the time. A Connecticut school-marm, who was recently kissed in the dark by mistake, explained her omission to use any light for nearly two weeks after ward, on the ground of hard times. A Cobb county negro preacher got to fooling with a spring gun, in an other man’s smoke house at the dead hours at night, and the gun went off, but the negro remained till the funera 1 procession was formed. ‘I never sot my mind to writin’ poe try till two years ago,’ Baid a young ruraliat, tilting back in a grocery chair, ‘but the moment I took to goiu’ with that Johnson girl, by gosh! I couldn’t help it.’ The first time Jerrold saw a celebra ted song writer, the latter said to him: ‘Youngster, have you sufficient confi dence in me to lend me a guinea ?’ ‘Oh yes,’ said Jerrold, ‘l’ve all the confi dence, but I haven’t the guinea. Said a woman speaker in a New Haven suffrage meeting, “Woman is in every respect the equal of man. Her reputation for heroic bravery—” at that point a mouse ran into sight, and the orator jumped on the table and screamed. The Columbus manufactories con sume about thirty-five bales of cotton per day, or nearly eleven thousand in a working year. The mills there are running some thirty-five thousand spindles, and one thousand two hun dred looms. It is stated that the New York Tri bune has been sold excepting the real estate, to Geoage W. Childs, for $600,- 000—a shrinkage of about half a mil lion under the management of Jay Gould’s stool-pigeon, Whitelaw Reid. Childs takes possession after the elec tion. A wedding occurred recently at Co rinth, Miss., in which the groom was a German Catholio, the bride an Ameri can Presbyterian, the attendants were Baptist, the clergyman an Episcopa lian, and the ceremony was performed in the Methodist church, before a mixed assembly. The Atlanta Times says that the youDg ladies of that city consider themselves dressed in the height of fashion when they get on a pair of cardinal hose. If that is so, we guess that the weather is warmer up there than in this part of the country.— Griffin Press and Cultivator. The German Government has been trying for nearly a year to ascertain the exact number of people who in habit the empire. The returns show that on the Ist of December, 1875, the total population was 42,726,844, while in 1881 it was 41,023,095. This shows an increase in four years of 1,703,7*0 or about, an average of one per cent, a year.