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$2 50 PER ANNUM
Augusta Hotel.
AUGUSTA, : : : : GEORGIA,
S. Al. JO.M’S, Proprietor.
rpms Lending, Fashionable TTotof, has been
_l. newly and elegantly furnished. and is uotv
prepaicd to extend a ‘’Georgia Welcome ”
Col. GEO, H. JONES, CWefClerk.
may 18—ts.
Wheat &c,
I HAVE a first rate, Wood Rim Horse Power,
will) Cast Iron Teeth,
Thrasher and Fan Mill,
Iwill sell for (§1450, payable in To Wheat, at
the market price ; or I wi let it out for 1-4 of
the to it wi make this season. Last season
(as bad as the wheatcrop wasj it made 250 bush
els; this season tt can't make ess than 300 bush
els, if well managed, and four to six mules to
drive it.
I have sti some of my sub-divided,
Small and large Lots of Land
For Salei
With the nearest ERE WOOD to town, and
some good tilube amis.
NO. CUNNNGHAM.
At. Js._bn my absence. <> [Uire of HOWELL
& NEARY, who has, also, of mine, a good
IRON CYLAA DER SYRUP MILL,
Price $75. J. C.
Greensboro, May 24th—At
NET. JVE OIF-G-A. IST
SspttpPlLL attend to the
■ - ptactice of Dentistry
in Greenesboro’ on Mori
gcW day of each week. He can
sHK«W%' * ,e *°und at liis oilice over
Elsas Si Adler’sstore, from
Sam liil 5 o.clock p m
I’eiiticld. Ga.,aug 2—ly
Memphis &, Charleston R. .R
Trains leave Menwphis as folio s
Through Express 7:00 am
Through Mail 0:40 pm
•Somerville Aeoomodation 3:10 p m
Through Express Connotes at Grand Junction
with afternoon train on Mississippi Central
Railroad for Hoi y springs Water Valley.
Grenada, Jackson, Vicksburg, New Or
leans. etc.
At Corinth for Okolona, Columbus, Miss Mobile,
A'a., etc.
At Decatur for Columbia, Nashville, Louisville
CinciumiUi, etc.
AtChaltunooga lor aii placcsin Eastern Alabama
Georgia, North and Mouth Ouvolit a, Virginia,
Washington, Baltimore. New York, etc.
Th rough Mail—Connects at Grand Junction with
trains for Bolivar aud Jackson Tenn.
At Decatur, for Athens, I’uluski, Alabama,
Columbus, Nashville, etc.
At Chatnuooga, trains connect for same points
at Express Tr. ins.
BAGGAGE CHECKED THROUGU
For further information, apply at otllee. 13 Court
Street W. J. BOSS, Geu'l Sup't
A. A Ba«xi:s General Ticket Agent.
mayll—lf 6. 11. Shock Passenger Agent
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Fcbrry 2 1807 Augusta Ga.
STEVENS HOUSE,
21, 23, 25 A* 27 Hroatlvtay, N. Y.
Opposite Howling Green,
ON THE EUROPEAN PLAN.
THE Stevens House is well ami widely k own
to the traveling public. Tne location is
especailly suits de to merchants and business
men ; it is in close proximity to the business
part o. the city—is on the highway of Soul hern
and Western travel—and adjacent to all the
principal Railroad and Steamboat depots.
THE STEVENS HOUSE has liberal accommo
dation for oxer 31)0 guests—it is well furnished,
and possesses every modern improvment lor the
comfort and entertainment of its -inmates. The
rooms are spacious and well vonti 11 ate(l ■ pro
vided with gas and water—the attendance is
prompt and respectful —and the table is gener
ously provided with every delicacy of the season
—at moderate rates.
The rooms having been refurnished and re
modeled, we are enabled to oiler extra facilities
for the comfort and pleasure of Guests.
GEO. K. CHASE & CO.
junels-<ims
Dr. 0. SrTiKJPIIITT
lias again opened his business in Covington
where he intends keeping on hand,
DRUGS, MEDICINES,
PAINTS, OILS, ,f DYESTUFFS
• Also a Lot of
BOTANIC MEDICINES,
Concentrated Preparations, Fluid Extracts,
and is putting up his
Liver Medicines, Female Tonic,
ANODYNE 1> AIN -KI L L IT,
Vermifuge , Anti Bilious Pills ,
and many other preparations.
Will give prompt attention to ail orders.
Hereafter no Medicine will be delivered, or
Services rendered, except for CASH. Y’iiu need
not call, uness you are prepared to pay CASH,
for I will not keep Books.
Jan. 21, 1807. OS I'ROPHIIT.
S. KENDRICK kC O.
* Dealers in
CARP E TS, OIL CLOTHS,
Matting, Rugs and Mats, Curtains, Shades,
Comico, Piano and Table Covers, &c.
Ra x son’s Building, Up stairs, Whitehall strceti
Cornel of Hunter, —0n;16 ATLANTA, OA
THE GREENSBORO HERALD.
6EEENESGORO’ HOTEL
A rym —>** THH E undersigned has re -opened
A X the above named Hotel, at
tMttjFviCJfr toe old stand opposite the Court
Bouse where he will at all times
he pleased <o s>)< his friends and the public gen
lerslljr. Thi house has been renovated, and the
table will be literally supplied.
Mr W T Doster w ill be iu readiness with good
horses and vehicle* to convey passengers to any
desired point.
J- J. DOIIKATY.
Greeucsboro Ga. sept 20—ts
1867 SPRING IMPORTATION 1867
s&asaznsj m&s&sasur,
STRA W-'g- O O ID JS
Armstrong, Cater & Cos ”
IMPOJITOIis AND JOBBERS OF
RIBBONS,
BONNET SILKS,
SATIN BLONDS
NETS,
CRAPES’
VELVETS,
RUCHES,
FLOWERS,
FEATHERS,
STRAW BONNETS’
and LADIES HATS
Trimmed and Untrimmed.
Shaker Hoods, &c, &c. &c.
237 and 233 Baltimore street,
BALTIMORE, Md.
OFFERS the largest Slock to be found in
tliis Country, and unequalled in choice,
variety ami cheapness. Orders solicited aud
prompt attention given.
mar2 —lims *
GOODS 2
TITHE subscribers are constantly receiving flesh
_l accessions to their present desirable stock of
general merchandise,
and the publis, as well as their friends, are rcs
pccllnlly nvited to favor them with a call.
Their assortment of
DRESS GOODS,
Hats, Shoes, School Bocks, &c.;
arc ample, and are ottered at prices that will not
fail to give satisfaction,
may3-‘,f HOWELL Si NEARY.
PLANTERS HOTEL.
AUGUSTA, :::::::: GEORGIA
Newly Furnished, and Refitted
UNSURPASSED BY ANY
ISIOfPESXs
IS NOW OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
T. S. NICKERSON, Prop’r.
Late of Mills House, Chariots*.on, and Proprie
tor of .Nickelson’s Hotel. Coluirbin, *S. C.- ea4s
AMERICAN HOTEL.
ALABAMA STREET
ATLANIA.ftltt® GEORGIA.
brvson i gn.Er, 1 WHITE & AVIIITI.OCK
Cl' J Pit)l*Rl fi’l’Ous
Sept. 7, 18bt>.‘—Hl'if.
Georgia Railioad.
Until further notice 'Trains will run as fol
lows on the Georgia Railroad :
DAY PASSENGER TRAIN.
(Sunday excepted.)
Leave Augusta at 0 30 A. M.
Leave Atlanta at 5.15 A. M.
Arrive at Augusta at G.OO P. M.
Arrive at Atlanta at 0.10 P. 31.
NIGHT PASSENGRR TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at 8.00 P- M.
Leave Atlanta at 0.20 P. >l.
Arrive at Augusta at 3.15 A. M.
Arrive at Atlanta at 5 00 A. 31.
Passengers for Mayfield, Washington and
Athens, Ga., must take Day Passenger Train
Passengers for 3lubileand* New Orleans must
l*.we Augusta on Night Passenger train at 8.00
p, in. to make close connections.
Passengers for West Point, Montgomery
Nashville, Corinth; Grand Junction, Memphis,
Louisville and St. Louis, can take either train
and make close connections.
THROUGH TICKETSand Baggage checked
through to the above places.
Sleeping Carson all Night Passenger Trains
E. W. COLE, Gonl Sup't.
SOVTIII CAROLINA RAILROAD
The South Carolina Railroad will run the
following Schedule until further notice:
CIIALESTON TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at 6.55 A M
Arrive at Charleston 4.00 P M
Arrive at Columbia 5.20 P 31
Leave Charleston at 8.00 A M
Arrive at Augusta 6.00 P M
11. T. PEAKE, Gen’l Sup’t.
WESTERN & ATLANTIC R. R.
Day Passenger Train—{Except Sunday .)
Leave Atlanta 8 50 A. M.
Leave Dalton 2 55 P. M.
Arrive at Chattanooga 5* 25 P. M.
Leave Chattanooga 450 A.M.
Arrive at Atlanta 1 15 P. M.
Right Passenger Train — Daily.
Leave Atlanta 7 00 P. M.
Arrive at Chattanooga 4 00 A. M
Leave Challanooga 4 30 P- M
A'rive at Dalton 1 18 A. M
Arrive at Atlanta l 35 A. M
Dalton Accommodation Train —Daily Ex
cept Sunday .
Leave Atlanta 3 15 P, M
Arrive at Dalton 11 40 P. M
Leave Dalton 1 30 P. M
Arrive at Atlanta 10 30 A. M
ATLANTA & WEST POINT RAILROAD-
Day Passenger Train—Going Out.
Leave Atlanta 12 15 P. M
Arrive at West Point , 5 30 P. M
Day Passenger Train — Coming In,
Leave West Point v 340 A.M
Arrive at Atlanta 8 37 A. M
MACON & WESTERN RAILROAD.
Day Passenger Train.
Leave Macou ‘ k. M
Arrive at Atlanta 2 00 I’. M
Leave Atlanta 1 15 A.M
Arrive at Macon 1 30 I . M
L'eave Atlanta 8 10 P. M
Arrive at Macon A 25 A. M
GREENSBORO, GA., JULY 20, 18G7.
I Alll Hying,
The following benu’iful poem, we copy from
the Memphis (Teun.) Bulletin. It is rarely wc
find such contributed to the columns of a news
paper. It is sweetly, beautifully sad.
Raise my pillow, husband dearest—
Faint and fainter comes my breath ;
And these shadows stealing slowly,
Must, J know, bo those of death.
Sit down close beside me, darling,
Let meela«p your warm, strong hand,
Yours thnt ever has sustained me
To the borders of this laud ;
For your God and mine —our Father,
Thenee shall ever lead me on,
Wh ere upon a throne eternal,
Sits his loved and only Son.
I’ve had visions and been dreaming
O’er the past of joy and pain ;
Year by year I’ve wander’d backward,
Till 1 was a child again.
Dreamed of girlhood, nnd the moment
3V'hen I stood your wife and bride,
How my heart thrill’d with Love’s triumph
In that lmur of woman’s pride.
Dreamed of thee and all the earth-chord
Firmly twined about my heart—
Oli ! tho bitter, burning anguish,
When I first knew we must part.
It has passed—and God has promised
All thy footsteps to attend ;
lie that’s more than friend or brother,
He’ll he with thee to the end.
There’s no shadow oier the porta’s
Leading to my heavenly home—
Christ hath promised life immortal,
And ’cis lie that bids me come.
When life’s trials wait ar amd theo
A.id its chilling billows swell,
Thou’lt thank heaven that lam spared them
Thou’lt then Jed “that all is w ell.”
Bring our boys unto my bedside ;
31y last blessing lot them keen
But they’re sleeping— do not wake them—
They’ll learn soon enough to weep.
Tell them often of their mother,
Kiss them for me when they wake
Lead th n gmritl,y in life’s pathway,
Love themwoubly for my sake.
Clasp my hand still closer, darling,
iis, the last night of my life,
.e-morrow, I shall never
Answer when you call me “wife.”
Fare thee well, my noble husband,
Faint not ’neaih this chast’ning rod ;
Throw your strong arm round our children
Keep them close to thee—and God.
The great tabernacle of the Saints of
Salt Lake City, is now finished. It is
two hundred and fifty 7 feet long, and one
hundred and fifty wide, and furnishes
comfortable sitting room tor ten thou*
sand perons.
China and Japan together contain
nearly half the population of the world.
Hanging a mackerel to y r our coat tail
and imagining yourself a whale, consti
tutes codfish aristocracy.
It was charged by the Albany corres
pondent of the New York Tribune that,
of the one hundred and sixty members
of the Legislature of that State, one
hundred and eighteen of them were
known to bold their votes for sale to the
highest bidder.
Gen. Grant’s income over and above
that received from the Government is
$4, 800. Some years ago he was enga*
ged in a tan yard at about §BO per
month.
Two hours reading of a good newspas
per is as profitable as six hours work out
of twelve. The farmer and the produce
dealer equally should understand the
markets. Sometimes to know a thing is
the same as to earn. §IOO.
Albert Bike has perfornfed one great
achievement. In a recent edrtorial-he pro*
duced a single sentence of 210 words
without any other stop than a few com
mas.
Consult duty, not events. We have
nothing to do hut to mind our duty.—
Oh, how quiet, as well as holy would our
lives he had rte learned that single lesson,
to be careful for nothing but do our duty
and leave all consequences to God.
The editors of the Petersburg Post
have been presented by the members of
the Southwestern Relief Society of Lou*
isville with a silver service in acknowl
edgement of their efforts in behalf of the
starving poor of the South.
One man wagered another that he had
seen a horse gailopping at a great speed,
and a dog sitting on his tail. It seems an
improbable feat for a dog to accomplish,
hut the man was right, and won the mon
ey. The dog was sitting on his own
tail.
A New York national hanking house
recently sent out circulars assessing all
the national hanks one-sixteenth percent,
on their capital to form a fund to buy up
Congress and defeat the opposition of the
monopoly. Should all the banks respond,
the fund will amount to over two millions.
I have seen the circulars. — N. Y. Herald.
“It is very difficult to live,” said a
widow with seven girls, all in genteel
poverty. ‘You must husband your time,’
said a sage old friend, “I’d rather hus*
hand some of my daughters,” answered
the poor old lady.
Several anecdotes turn on that inex*
haustible theme of merriment —the sor*
rows of matrimony. In passing through
the street, the bier was struck against
the corner of a house, and the corpse re*
animated at the shock. Some years
after, when the woman died in earnest,
hei husband called to the hearer, “Pray,
gentlemen, be careful in turning the
corner.’’
T he latest New Yoik Directory shows that
there are now in operation there twenty city
railroad lines, besides twenty one in Brooklyn
and nine in Jersey City and Hoboken. The
number cf river, bay anil souud steamers is
over one bundred and fifty, cf which one
hundred and ten leave daily. The number
of ocean steamers is one hundred nnd sixty,
of which thirty nine leave for Liverpool, elev
en for other English ports, fifteen for France
and Belgium, sixty for domestic ports, and
the rest for China, Braeil, Cuba etc. This
list doe* no! include steamers carrying inland
freight, of which the number is not exactly
known. There are also thirty ferries, which
rrquiro nearly one hundred ferry boats for
service, and sixty locomotive railroad lines
have their termini in the city. Os the for
merly great number of stage lines leaving
New York only six are left. Iu New York,
also there are four hundred churches, eighty
three banks, fourteen public libraries, and
fifty six asylums and hospitals, and there
are seventeen cemeteries outside the city, be*
'ldes many old ones iu the city, no longer
used.
A Goon One on the Melish,— A
company of Brownlow Bummers, en route
for Johnsonvilfe, were on the cars Fri
day evening when the smash-up occurred,
and a friend, who was also aboard, tells
us that they screamed like a pack of
frightened cliildran or a flock of siared
sheep. One cried out, “O, my God ! the
rebels are upon us!” Another shouted,
Don’t shoot! Don’t shoot! They forced
me into this !’’ They happened to occu
py a forward car which was badly shat*
tered and several of them were hurt.—
Yfhen our informant climbed out of the
ruins ho found one sitting flat on the
ground and crying as if his heart would
break. On being asked why lie wept so,
he replied. ‘‘Becase I thought tho rebs’d
got m? sure!” Poor creatures! Ignos
rant and deluded, they consider that they
live in war time still, and are afraid of
being thrown off the track whenever
they ride in the cars, or of being shot at
from every hush when they ride through
the country. Truly a guitry donsbience
makes cowards of the Browr.low body
guard and needs no accuser. —• Nashville
Banner.
—tssy «•-4 ■
A correspondent writing from Indian
apolis, Indiana, 6ays: “While passing
through the Union depot a few days ago,
I was accosted by a one-armed man in
faded army blue. Fourteen years ago
I first saw him working at a windlass in
the gold diggings of Australia, He and
Iris three partners boUteJLy Hint windlass
more than SBOO,OOO. A few months
later I bade him good-bye, as he sailed
from Melbourne to Now York with §200,-
000 in bills of Exchange in his pocket,
I next saw him a wounded rebel soldier,
lying on the field of Antietnm. A little
more than a year later, I saw him a Union
soldier, lying in a hospital in Tennessee.
To-day he is a helpless wanderer, de
pendent on public charity for a dinner.”
The steamer Robert E, Lee lately
made two hundred and forty miles, be*
tween Memphis and Cairo, in sixteen
hours and thirty minutes, having a four
mile current to contend against all the
time. This is the fastest time ever mado
between those points,
A mulatto girl in Lynchburg, Va., has
three times tried to kill herself. She is
madly, hopelessly in lovo with a Yankee
Major recently stationed there.
An old negro woman accounts for the
lack of discipline among youngsters from
the fact that their mothers wear gaiters.
“Ye see when we wore low shoes an’ the
children wanted a whipping we jus took
off a shoe, mighty quick, and gave’em a
good spankin ; hut now how’s a body to
git a gailer off in time ? So the chil’en
gits no whippen at all now-asdays.’’
A raft passed Memphis, Tenn., last
week which would, if placed on dry land,
cover over one and a half acres of ground.
It was composed of 527 tiers, averaging
50 feet, and containing in all about
1,400,000 square feet of finely seasoned
cypress.
A Lancaster, Ta., paper says that a
young lady residing in the western part
of that city, was so much injured while
biting off her toe nails a few days ago,
a physician had to be called in to attend
her.
Young ladies should be careful how
they bite off their toe nails. Its danger
ous !
A Graphic Description of China.—
A country where the roses have no fra*
grance, and the women no petticoats;
where the laborer has no Sabbath, and
the magistrate no sense of honor ; where
roads hear no vehicles, and the ships no
keels; where old men fly kites ; where
the needle points to the South, and the
sign of being puzzled is to scratch the
antipodes on the heel ; where the post of
honor is on the left hand, and the seat of
intellect is in the stomach; where to
take off your hat is an insolent gesture,
and to wear white garments is to put
yourself in mourning; which has a liter
ature without an alphabet, and a language
without a grammar,
The Brunswick UoiiflcfoK.—The Savan
nah Advertiser cofitnias tho following partic
ulars of a shocking affair which occurred a(
Brunswick on Fiiday last,the parties to which
were Capt. fc. J. Marlin and Mr. E. 0. West
moreland, a partner of Gen. J. B. Gordon in
the lumber business, and acting British Cons
sul at that port:
From what we have learned of the affair,
it appears that, both gentlemen had been
paying attention to the same young lady»
daughter of Cob C. L. Schlatter, hut Mr.
Westmoreland proved the tavored one, and
they were married at her father’s residence at
11 o’clock on Friday morning. Some time
since, while both parties were still visiting
ihe young lady, a oooloess arose between
them, and one day some words passed which
led to the sending of a challaugo by West*
moreland, but through the intercession of
fiiends the matter was adjusted, although
there still remained a coolness between them.
On Friday, after tho wedding, preparations
wero made for their departure, on the Sylvan
Shore, for this city, with a view of taking a
bridal tour to the North and Burope. About
4 o’clock, Mr. Westmoreland was sitting iu
his office with his coat off, while the bride
was in an adjoining room superintending tbe
packing of her trunks. Martin walked in
without saying a word, drew a pistol, aud de
liberately shot Westmoreland in the groin.
He sprang up, when Marlin fired again, stri*
king him in the breast. He caught hint by
the hand, saying, “Martin, what have I ever
done to you that you should want to shoot
me f" and sank back to tho floor, and never
spoke again.
A soldier who happened to be passing, ran
in and wrested tho pistol from Martin’s hand.
Marlin surrendered himself to the military
authorities, and was confined in a room at
the hotel. A warrant was issued by Judge
Houston, and Capt. M. was surrendered to
the civil authorities. He was brought to this
city on the Sylvan Shore, and was commit*
ted to jail, there being none in Glynn county.
Westmoreland is said to have been of an
old, distinguished and wealthy family in En s
gland. He was engaged in running th
blockade during the latter portion of tbe
war, and in 1365 settled in Brunswick.
Martin was on the staff of General Ed.
Johnson, of Gen. Ewell’s corps, during the
war. neowns a large plantation on the Al*
tamaha, and is very respectably connected.
Josh Billing’s Goose Talk.
The goose is a grass animal, but don’t
chaw her oud.
They are livers, about one aker to the gooß
iz enuff, altko thar iz sura’ who thinks
one goose tew 175 akers, iz nearer rite.
These too kalculations are so fur apart, it
iz difficult tew tell now, which will-finally
win.
But I don’t think if I had a farm ov 175
akers, awl paid for, that I would sel it for
half what it waz worth, jest bekauzo it didn’t
Lav hut one goose on it. Geese stay well,
some ov our best biographers say, 70 years,
and grow tuff tew the last.
They lay one egg at once, about tbe size
ova goose egg, in which the goslms lies hid.
The goslins are the goose’* babe.
The goose don’t suckle his young, but
turns him out tew pasture on someboddy’s
vacant lot.
They soem few lack wisdom, but nre coni
sidered generally sound on the goose.
They are good eating, but not good chaw
ing, the reazon ov this remains a profound
sekret tew this day.
When the femail goose iz at work halchin
she it a hard bird tew pleaze, riles clear up
from the bottom in a minit, and will fight
a yoke ov oxen, if they show the least bit ov
sass. The treese iz excellent for feathers,
which she sheds every year by the handful.
They are also amphibious, besides soveral
other kinds ov cuss.
But they are morely oureUt about one
thing, they kan haul one leg up into their
boddy, and stand on tuther, awl day, and not
tucb ennything with their hands.
I take notis, tliare ain’t but darn few men
kan dew this.
■ ■■ -
Late papers from Germany ar* filled with
particulars of a most horrible tragery. A
man murdered his father, mother, sister and
four brothers, besides burning tbe family res
idence Stid barn where he killed (hem. For
nine moolbs be succeeded in evading all «Uss
picion against him.
Eastern papers are Complaining of tbe
scarcity of ministers The Philadelphia Bui
Ictin eay* that not only is there a short sup
ply now, but there is prospect of a complete
famine in the future. “Young men do not
come forward to fill the gaps made by death
in clerical ranks—the divinity schools in all
sections of tbe country are not half filled,
; despite the fact that free scholarships are
offered by them.” This is very sad, but it
is not singular. Clergymen have found pol
itics more profitable than tbe gospel, and so
they have become politicians, office holders
and the like. Those who should be divinity
students are league bawlers. It is in tbe
, nature of th* time; — Dubuque Herald .j
YOL., 2, NO 13
Remarkable Discovery.
A few days since Nathan Salisbury, E-.q.;
living in East Scott, Cortland county, found
a very p«culjjtr axe. Tho circumstances are
as follows: *
At ah early day, when Mr-.- Salisbury, in
company with others, was chopping and
clearing the forest of his newly acquired farm,
they came to a very large hemlock standing
near the stream. After cutting the tree dowD,
Mr. Salisbury discovered that what appeared
to bo tho heart of the tree was really a sepa*
rate treo from the one just fallen. On exam
ination, this tree within a tree, was found to
have been girdled at some previous time,
leaving a small portion uncut, bo the sap had
continued to traverse the trunk until its
growth had completely overgrown the gird*
ling, and another treo formed, growing to
enormous dimensions. A few days sines,
near the trunk of that tree, about twelve inch*
es below tho surface, was found this peculiar
axe. It is about ten inches in length by
three aud one-fourth inches on the cut or
edge. It is made of iron.
Now, what is remarkable about this axe
and tree is this—that the girdling or the
packing of the inner tree corresponds pre
cisely with the axe found. Counting th*
concentric rings of tho growth of the outer
tree, is found the remarkablo fact that the
inner tree was girdled about one hundred
years bofore the landing of the Pilgrims.—
Who was in the locality using an axe thre*
hundred and fifty-seven years ago!
A Good Stort. —Avery eminent lawyer
in New York receivdd a severe reprimand
from a witness on the stand, whom he was
trying to brow beat. It was an important
issue, and ie ordor to save his cause from
defeat, it was necessary that Mr. A. should
impeaoh tho witness. He endeavored to do
it on the ground of age. The following dia*
logue ensued :
Lawyer—How old are you t
Witness—Seventy-two years.
Lawyer—Your memory, of course, is no 4
so brilliant and vivid as it was twenty year*
ago, is it f
Witness—l do not know but it is.
Lawyer—State some circumstance that
occurred, say some twelve years ago, and vr*
shall be able to see how well you can re*
member.
Witness—l appeal to your honor if lam
to be interrogated in Ibis manner; it is insa*
lent.
iudge— Yes sir; stele it.
Witness—Well, sir, if you compel me to
do it, I will. About twelve years ago, you
studied law in Judge B,’s offloe, did you not t
Lawyer—Yes.
Witness—Well, sir, I remember your
father coming into my office and saying to
me: Mr. D., my son is to be examined lo*
morrow, and I wish you would lend me 815
to buy him a *uit of clothes. I remember,
also, sir that from that day to this he hat
never paid mo that sum. That, sir, I rernem*
ber, as though it had been but yesterday.
Lawyer—(Considerably abashed,) Thnt
will do, sir.
Witness—l presume it will.
Tho longer I live, says a writer, the more
I feel the importance of adhering to tbe rules
which I have laid down for myself in relation
lo such matters:
1. To hoar as little as possible to the prej
udice of others.
2. To beliove nothing of the k : ud till lam
absolutely forced to,
5. Never to drink in tbe spirit of one who
circulates an evil report.
4. Always to moderate, as tar as I caD,
the unkiodneßs which is expressed toward
others.
5. Always to believe that if the other side
were heard a very different account would
be given of the matter.
Universal Coinage.—The International
Coinage Congress, in session in Paris, has
adopted the gold five franc piece and its muU
tiples as the basis of uniform currency among
nations. The United States was represented
in the Congress.and if our government endor*
sea the proposed system, there will be a na*
tional change in our coinage, if we shall ever
be fortunato enough to reach hard money
times. The proposed standard of coinage—
the franc—is equal in value to about nine*
teen and one-fifth cents. A five franc piece
is accordingly worth four cents less than an
American dollar, which is our present stand#
ard of coinage. Under the proposed plan,
our present half dollar would bo represented
fcy a piece worth forty*eight cents; t be quar*
ter would be worth twenty-four cents, eto.
The change therefore, would bo slight, but it
would, nevertheless, Create some confusion at
first.—iff. V. Sun.
A man in Pennsylvania, while at work
making a fence, hung up his coat, with
seventeen hundred dollars in greenback#
in the pockot. An old sow, happening
in tho neighborhood, chewed up the
garment, completely destroying the mon>
ey.
