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DEVOTED m NEWS, tOMTICS, El TER A TORE, AGRICULTURE ANimxERAL PROGRESS- INDEPENDENT IN ALE TRINGS ,
VOL. XIII.
BUSINESS CARDS.
MW. LEWIS. \ H.T. kH, G. LEWIS
LEW IS & SONS,
J lttornegs at gmv,
GREENESBORO’, GA.
W ILL practice in all the Courts—
Mate and Federal. n0v.29,’77
R. H. LEWIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SPARTA, HANCOCK CO., GA.,
give faithful and prompt attention
to ailbusiness intrusted Jo his care.
Jan. 24, 1878—4 ms
McWhorter Urns.,
Attorneys & Counselors at Law,
GREENESBORO’, - - GA.
of Claims a NjM-einUv,
J John A. McWhorter. 1
1 Hamilton McWhorter, j
Sept, tl, 1877.—tf
Philip B. Robinson,
Attorney at Lavs,
' GREENESBORO’. . . . GA.
give prompt attention to business
entrusted to his professional care.
Feb. 20, 1873—6 ms
h W. LUMPKIN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
fJA’ION POINT, • - Ga.
OFFERS uis professional services to the
r people of Greene anil adjoining conn-)
t.’es, and hopes, by close attention to busi
sjj? ,ess to merit and receive a liberal share of
'y/ronnge. jan23’74—ly.
f js!l*liik J i’V,
~t . t, rxiey ** * • |
s PART A, GA
- T .r t , -VM prompt personal at ton ton ;
W ’ '."<*}) business connected with In.-
in Ibe Northern and Ociuulger ,
• oi SsrSneeial attention given to the col- I
*0 of claims. j an - I ■> ! ,l ’
r. Win, Morgan,
■£s RESIDENT
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ORE ENE SB OR O’, GA
'x fob. 1, 1874.
T. Markwalter,
>1 IIIBI.K WoBKS,
Near Lower Market, Broad Street.
Augusta* * * b *
\ LARGE SELECTION always on hand
ready for lettering and shipping.
Augusta, Ga., Sept. 6. 187-7—3 ms
THE GLOBE HOTEL.
THE undersigned have recently opened
the
OLOBi: HOTEL,
And respectfully invite the patronage of
the former friends to the house and the
public generally.
the building
1s centrally located, convenient to Depot
and Telegraph, Express and Post Offices
and otfers as much comfort as any Hotel in
’the South.
the table
Will always be supplied with the BEST
that this and neighboring markets afford,
amino pains will he spared to make the
GLOIIE HOTEL first class m all respects.
MURPHY & SIMMS,
Augusta, Sept. 6, 1877-Oms Fropr’s.
J, F.&J. C. HART,
Real Instate
agents,
ukion roivr, ha.,
k T!F Correspondents of Real Estate
A Agents. Kortli and South, for tins
section. b Business solicited. oc: - ,
Ths national Bank of Augusta.
S;iFE mkposit KOXES.
millS BANK is prepared to lease small
T SAFES inside its fire proof vault,
at moderate rates, for the recede.
Bonds, Securities, vflu(lbles
ments, Plate, Coin, Jewe j. THEW
of every description. G. M.
Fol>. 17, IScb—tt
THE CITY
Dsns Bto aE
PURE DRUGS,
Wf Chemicals,
Patent Medicines,
NEW STYLES LAMP GOODS.
WINDOW GL4£S ALL SIZES.
WHITE LEAD, OIL, COLORS,
AND VARNISHES.
BGIST’S WARRENTED GAR
DEN SEEDS CROP 1877.
ONION SETTS.
EARLY ROSE POTATOES.
For salejiy
John 1. Griffin.
prescriptions carefully
dispensed. april 13, 187C-ly
1LLII1Y!!
Miss Lannie Sitton,
QOiJCITS the patronage of her friends
b J and toe public generally, for all kinds
MILLINERY WORK.
Work done neatly and cheap.
over C. C. Norton’s
Oct. 4, 1877—ff
A HS< 'S3 B.IRWCI’.
Hr. James L. Gilder was a noted physi
cian in .South Carolina, years and years
ago. Probably some of our old citizens re
collect his fame, if not the man. Ha died
a long time ago, but he left a ricii legacy
mW e ,’ r in ‘ he form of his celebrated
GILDLR S LIVER PILLS. If you suffer
iiom Headache, Biliousness, Chills and Fe
ver. Giddiness, or anything else, two or
three of these Fills taken at bed lime will
relieve you at once. Said by IV. p. Mc-
Tappatb M.opViX ’fes;.'4Wrfe'rkri.; --5
Flemin?. Money’s: W. T. Johnson, Siloam;
B. F. Torbcrt & Cos., Greenesboro’; J. F.
Hart & Cos., awl E. C. Bowden and M. L.
Watson, Union Point. aug 11, 7b—ly
\\ hy ivs!3 loti Pine Away l
Without a Paraclki.. —The demand
for Dr. J. Brad field’s Female Regulator is
beyond precedent in the annals of popular
remedies. Orders come in so thick and
fast that the Proprietor has, heretofore
been'unable to fill them all. lie is happy
to state the arrangements ore now com
plete by which he is prepared to manufac
ture Female Regulator on a scale equal to
the emergency, and the public may led as
sured that their wants may now be sup
plied. Physicians of high repute are use
inn- this great remedy, in daily practice,
all over Georgia. Here after no woman
need suffer from suppressed, suspended
ariaregatar menstruation. Thin valuable
medicine is prepaied by L. 11. Bradfidd,
Druggist, Atlanta, Ga., and sold at tfl.oU
per bottle by respectable druggist through
out America.
Hearty Blooming Widow.
Marietta, Ga., March 9, 1870,
Mesrs. Bradfield & Co—Gentlemen You
will please ship us another supply of
your invaluable Female Regulator, ana
forward bill by mail we are happy to state
that this remedy gives better satisfaction
than article we sell. We have been selling
it sinco 1868,and witnessed many remark
abl'o cures by it . Among others, there was
a lady friend of ours who was saow and 4
sickly until she was twenty-six years old
when she was married. Her husband lived
two years and died, she continued in bad
health ; in fact , she has never been what
a woman ought to be. A few mont lis after
the death of her husband, she saw your ad
vertisement, and came to our store and
bought a bottle of your regulator for use,
and took aocorcing to directions. It has
cured her sound and well, brought herreg
ularlymonthly periods on, and to-day she
she is a hearty blooming widow— with the
use of but too bottles of your Regulator,
oosting her only three dollars, when she
had tried several physicians and spent a
great deal of money without ary benefit.
Wishing you great success with your val
uable remedies. .
We are, respectfully yours, ets.,
W. ROOT & SONS.
Trespass Notice.
A LL persons are warned from tres-
XV passing in any way on my plantation
one mile west of Greenesboro’. The place
is in charge of James Huberson, and who
ever trespasses on it may expeat to suffer
the penalty of the law.
Jxo. E. JACKSON, Sr.
Feb. 28th 1878—1 m
Dr. .O. CHENEY.
ITIORMERLY of Bairdstown, offers bi
Professional services to the cituent
of UNION POINT and vicinity, itb
practice of medicine in all its department*,
and hopes by prompt and faithful atteiitisa
and moderate charges to merit a shar of
public prtronage. n0v.22 t~-bna*
FOUTZ’S
HORSE AND CATTLE POWDERo,
•'bfcssa
■> - 1
—'; \ euro or prevent Disease.
LUjob work 'lone here.
GREENESBORO’, GA., THURSKY, MARCH 14, 1878.
Executor’s Sale.
T>Y virtue of an order from the Court of
, Ordinary of Greene county Georgia,
. 1 * ,c sn ld before the Court-House door
in Greenesboro’, on the first Tuesday in
April next, the following Lots of Land:'
302j' acres—No. 60, 7th District former
} ( arroll now Haralson county.
250 acres- No. 258, 26th District Early
counly. ‘ J
40 acres No. 1137, 20th District, 3rd
hecfion Paulding county.
40 acres—No. 117, Tilth District, Ist Sec
tion Lumpkin county.
40 acres—No. 1249, 10th District Cobb
county.
All the above property sold as belonging
to the Estate of W. W. 1). Weaver, dec’d,
for the purpose of paying the debts of said
deceased,
Wm. M. WEAVER, Ex’r.
March 7, 1878—tds
Executor’s Sale.
B 1 virtue of an order from the Court of
Ordinary of Greene County, Georgia,
Will be sold before the Court-House door
in Greenesboro’, on the first Tuesday in
April next, Two Hundred and Seventy
acres of Land (more or less,) on the west
side of Oconee Kiver, and adjoining lands
of\\m. If. McWhorter, belonging to the
Estate of Mathew Winfield, deceased. Sold
for the purpose of distribution. Terms of
sole, Cash.
JAMES W. WINFIELD, 1 _
J. H. M. PENNINGTON, f Ex rs
March 7, 1878—tds
V’OTSC’JE j SJ !SA\UIU IT< Y
Iv In the District Courl of the ITnitei
States—For the Northern District of Geor
gia—ln the matter of John W. Watson
Bankrupt.
This is to give notice, once a week for
three weeks, that I have been appointed
Assignee of the Estate of John W. Watson
of Union Point, county of Greene, in said
District, who was on the 30th day of Jan
uary, A. D., 1878, adjudged a Bankrupt on
lus own petition, by the District Court of
said District, and also my acceptance of
same February 26th, 1878.
Hamilton McWhorter,
March 7,1878—3 ts
p EORGIA— Greene County.
' T James W. Winfield and J. 11. M. Pen
nington, Executors of the Estate of Mathew
Winfield, apply for Letters of Dismission
and such Letters will be granted on the first
Monday in June next, unless good*obiec
tions are filed.
JOEL F. THORNTON, Ord’y.
March sth, 1878.
(A EORGlA—Greeny County.
vX* Robert D, McWYorier, Administra-
Inr of Mies J alia ? XT, \v*, or
ted on the first wMS&ty > -<> -
less eood objections are filed.
JOEL F. THORNTON, Ord y.
March 4th, 1878.
Gt EORGIA —Greens County.
f John O’Neal a'ppli@S for Permanent
Letters of Administration on the Estate of
William A. Corry, deceased, and such Let
ters will be granted on the first Monday in
\pril next, unless good objections are filed.
JOEL F. THORNTON, Ord y.
March 4, 1878.
Si EORGIA —Grefene County.
VT William K. Mullen, Executor of the
last Will and Testament of Nancy Williams,
deceased, tiles his petition to be discharg
ed from said Executorship, and all persons
concerned arc hereby riuiified, that on the
first Monday in April next, said Executor
will be discharged as prayed for and that
at that time Letters of Administration De
bonis non, with the Will annexed, on said
Estate willjbe vested tn the Clerk of the Su
perior Court of said county, on his own
Bond. JOEL F. THORNTON, Ord’y.
March 4, 1878.
/GEORGIA— Greene County.
YY James M. Williams, Administrator
X)e bonis non, with the \V ill annexed, of
Jesse W. Champion, deceased, applies for
Leave to sell the Fee in Remainder in and
to the Homestead of Realty set apart for
the benefit of the widow and minor child
of said deceased, and an order to that
effect will be granted on the first Monday
in April next, unless good objections are
JOEL F. THORNTON, Ord'y.
March 4. 1878.
/GEORGIA— Greene County.
I X Lorenzo D. Carlton, Administrator of
the Estate of Luther R. Jackson deceased,
applies for leave to sell all the real estate
of said deceased for the purpose of uistn
bution and an order to that effect will be
granted on the first Monday in April next,
unless good objections are filed.
JOEL F. THORNTON, Ord’y.
Feb. 28th, 1878.
EORGlA—Greene County.
X Lorenzo D. Carltor., applies for Let
ters of Guardianship of the person and
property of Luther K. Jackson, minor
child under fourteen years of age of Lutlier
1!, Jackson, deceased, and such Letters will
be granted on the first Monday in April
next unless good objections arc filed.
JOEL F. THORNTON, Ord'y.
Feb. 28th, 1878.
SfeS“ Dr - William M. Durham, Maxey’s
Oglethorpe county, Ga., treats with great
success all chrouie diseases, In connection
witli the regular practice he combines that
of the late distinguished Dr. L. Durham
deceased of Clarke Cos., Ga. Dr. L. Dur
liams’s practice is not confined to bis
neighborhood but patients come to him
from all parts of this and adjoining States.
lr. Durham does not profess to cure every
case, but his great success in the majority
of cases that apply to him for treatment
proves his method of treating cliornic dis
eases superior to that of the regular prac
tice. Among the diseases which he treats
with the most gratifying success, may be
mentioned the following : Rheumatism,
Neuralgia, Dropsy, Bronchitis, Ineipient
Consumption, Dyspepsia Scrofula or jKings !
Evil, Sick and Nervous Headache, Fits,
Diseases of*the Lye and Ear Diseases of the
Liver and Kidneys, Heart Disease, Secret
Disease. Disease peculiar to females a
specialty. When you have given your fam,
ilv physician a fair trial, and you are not
cure!, write to Dr. Durham your symptom
in full’, your age, &c„ with stamp, All com
munications strictly confidential.
January 10th 1878, 0 mt •
Mr. Editor, —
I see someone inquires, in Aft
“Home Journal,” the author ft 3
last verse in the following lines.lda
are front “Sintram.”
“When death is coining near,
When thy heart shrinks in fear
And thy limbs fail ;
Then raise thy hands and pray,
To Him who smooths'thy wav.
To the dark vale.
Seest thou the eastern dawn,
Ilear st thou in the red morn,
The angel’s song;
, 0! lift thy drooping head,
Thou who in gloom and dread
Hast lain so long.
Death comes to set thee free,
O! meet him cheerily,
As thy true friend;
And all thy fears shall cease,
And in eternal pence,
Thy penance end.
Our Washington Letter.
[Fgom our Regular Correspondent ]
Washington, D.C., March 11, 1871
flie past week has been an exception
ally dull one iu Congress It openes
cn field day, Monday, without a "singJ
motion to s .spend the rules in tb
House, and without the introduction c
a single spicy resolution, much to tl;
disappointment of a large audience i.
the galleries. And now that “th
spring time has come gentle Annie,',
and the birds are chirping in tin
treeses :
Behold/yon plumed biped fine, j"
To effect his captivation,
Deposit.particles saline, -
<• Upon iiis termination. Lj
But this has nothing to do with QiW)
gress, except to remind us tm* mir'
Vesst: L-i employ their tin* ami
From the present S’: :Vot puufir'
ness it is evident that no adjournment j
cun be - reached before August. U 1
the thirteen general appropriation bills,
but two have passed the House, and
arc now before the Senate, while the
other; are still iu committee. These,
with all the mass of other legislation,
and the thousands of private bills which
clog the calendar, render inevitable a
long tedious puli through the hot
weather, which the mild winter aDd
early, open spring presages.
It appears that both houses propose
to. act favorably upon the bill appro-,
printing $50,000 to enable vmptain
Howgate to demonstrate that the North
pole isjust where everybody thinks it
is. The tomfoolery of fending out
Arctic expeditions will probably never
cause. Somebody is always beiDg fro*
zen to death up there, and somebody
is sent out next year to look up his
cadaver. The discovery of Polar seas
can hardly be of service to commerce,
since it requires months of toil, bushels
of treasure, and scores of lives to rtaih
the entrancing region. Iho supi of
$50,000 is not muei. to a Government
which is anticipating a big wheat jerop
next year, but if an appropriation )f a
like amount is to be made for Jvery
piece of tomfoolery that is proposed to
Congress, it will be necessary to ( start
the greenback presses and run thqui on
full time. Rut it may be the purp*se of
Congressmen to have Captain Uovgale
bring back a cargo of icc for the Con*
gressional lemonade bowl this sunnier*
none having been frozen in this loality.
And here comes James Gordon Ben
nett with a proposition to send ves
sel on the same errand at his ovo ex
pense, under government protection.
Congress can find a precedent forgrant
ing this request in the first of
the Pickwick papers, where it is relat
ed that the ‘‘association had head read
with feelings of uomingled satbaclion
and unqualified approval, the paper,
communicated by Samuel Prkwick,
Esq., G. C M P , entitled ‘ beeula.
tions on the Soilrce of the Ilaipstead
Ponds, &e." After this the clo pro
ceeded to vote full permission to Mr.
Pickwick 10-travel in the intrest of
science as far as he pleased, atbis own
cost, and to forward full report of his
observations by mail, he p.vng the
postage. Mr. Bennett follow in the
footsteps of an illustrious precccssor
and Congress need not hesiiati to fol
low so-brilliant an example.
With the advent of Lent, society,
viaich has been unusually gay for some
weeks past., settles down to a dead calm.
Some ol the belles from other cities who
have spent the sea on here are now
taking their leave. Washington is
really the place to see pretty and sty
lish ladies. A walk down Pennsylvania
Avenue at four o’clock on a bright af- j
ternoon is enough to dazzle the eyes 1
turn the head of a susceptible un
'tarried man —and some of the married
■ /.
ones, too. The lovely creatures are all
out then in gorgeous array. With the
large number who live here and the
numerous visitors during the season,wo
are blessed with more beauty to the
square yard than any other city in the
country! And with all the rest no
pother place has such a population of
‘husband-hunters.” Young women
tnd widows fro u all over the country
Bock to Washington during the winter
gaieties, to make a catch, aDd many of
them succeed, though the match may
not always be as brilliant as anticipated
The real husband-diUDter opeiis her
campaign from some obscure residence,
generally a boarding house, and com
mences with the Capitol You can pick
her out in the thronged galleries,
through her utter lack of interest in
i the proceedings, and her anxious
method of regarding anything which
may be considered eligible. Iu one
month she is the best posted woman in
Washington. She lias a congressional
and departmental directory, before
whic-ti Ben. Poore’s dies miserably, and
which would be the eternal fortune of
any newspaper reporter who could se
cure access to it. The ratings are : A
1, senator ; A 2. member ; B 1, foreign
legation ;B 2, clerks. A senatpr or
member may be as poor as a candidate 1
g,,.. , 4 j
least ?2,500 a year \ After a Jiu-bumJ
hunter gets to be pretty / „ ~
reduces her ambition materially, and is
ijot above aSI 200 efcrk ; and as hope
takes fainter and fainter colors, she
looks favorably upon the man whose
references are worth a month’s board.
The present season has not been as pro
lific of matches as some previous ones,
few souls have been made happy
There are still some eligible matches
left for ambitious maidens. Vice-Pres
ident Wheeler is a widower, ex-Vice-
President Ferry is a bachelor, Senator
Anthony is single, but he may once
have been double, and there aro others
for whom matrimony appears to have
\no charms. There are_al ways a lot of
impecunious young army and navy
officers looking aftet heiresses, so that
the girls need not despair.
Phono.
nT ♦ O
The Usirs.
There were a great many Christian
people who acted os though they be
lieved that the; Saviour, when he said,
“Suffer little children to cnme unto
me,” had a raw-hide concealed about
his person, and only wanted to coax
them within reach of it. Even when
they do not beat their offspring, they
lie to and deceive them, and then ex
pect them to tell the truth. The lec
turer told a story about a little boy in
Grand ilapids, Mich. The child s lath
er and mother had promised to take
it riding with them tlie next time they
went out. Weeks passed and stilMhe
promise was unfulfilled. At length,
one bright morning, the father and
mother went quietly out of the rear of
the house, got into their
drove away. . f s they wore goiug out
they passed the front piazza, on which
the child was standing with his nurse.
The little fellow looked up into the
nurse’s face, pointed to his departing
parents, and said, “There go the two
d —dest liars in Grand Rapids!’ — In
rjcr soil's Lecture .
If in the morn of life you remember
God, he will not forget you in old
age.
•
A minister asked a tipsy fellow lean
ing against a fence where he expected
to go when he died. ‘lf I can’t get
along any bettor than I do now,’ said
lie, ‘I shan’tjgo any where.’
_
A young man in San Francisco put
out one of his eyes while taking off a
shirt, a spiral stud doing the mischief.
Moral : never wear a shirt.
A SiM-ini? That Flows Only in
Drought.
'l'lie Portsmouth (N. II.) Chronicle
says : On the farm of Mr. Daniel
Cook, which is in one corner of Kit
tery, Me., close up to the York and
Elliott boundary lines, is an intermit
tent spridg, which is c not only a most
eccentric naturial curiosity but a very
great convenience to its owner. Its
existence was unknown to Mr. Conk
(or any one else in the neighborhood)
until one of the parched summers n!
five or six yeaisago, at which time all
the springs, swamp holes, etc, in the
cattlo pastures dried up, and the ani
mals had to be driven quito a distance
twice a day to got water. One even
ing on turning the cattle out of the
pastuie in which they had been feed
ing during the day into the one in
which the intermittent spring is situat
ed, on their way to water, the thirsty
creatures utterly' disgusted the boy
who had them in charge hy deserting
the path and running to a distant part
of the pasture, in spite of the boy’s
vigorous use of language and stones. —
Following them up, the boy was-aston
ished to fiud them engaged in drinking
heartily of a spring which was dis-
charging a goodly amount of water, but
which lie bad never heard of before. —
This lasted until the advent of wot
weather in the autumn, when it dis
appeared, and did not again show itself
until the following summer, which was
also a dry one. Since then it has been
watched by the farmer, not so much
on account of its odd performances as
because of its usefulness ; and he has
foned that whenever a drought becomes
so severq that all the other springs in
| tho vicinity fail, this one commences
business, and keeps it up until rain
]' u t~Jii_U)_start the other springs
SBitlsnzs f>||^ ate -y knocks
The gosiiu is the ol'-jg .
child They are yellow all over amd as*
soft as a hall of worsted. 1 heir foot iz
wove whole, and they kan swim az easy
as a drop of kastor oil on tne water.
They are born annually about the 15th
of May, and ncer was known to die
untraliy. If a man eh' uld tell me he
saw a goose die a natra! death I wouldn’t
believe him under oath alter that, not
even if he swore he hud lied about see
ing a goose die. •
The goose are different iu one re
spect from the human family, who are
sed tew grew weaker and wizer, where
as a goslin alwus grows tuffer and more
phoolish.
I have seen a goose that they sed
was ninety three years old las June,
and didn't look an hour older than one
that was only seventeen.
The goslin waddles when he walks
and paddles when he swims, but never
dives like a duck out of sight in the
water, but anly changes ends.
The food uv the goslin is rye, corn,
oats and barley, sweet apples, hasty
pudding, succotash, and biled cabbage,
cooked ootatoze, raw meat, wine, jelly,
land turnips, stale bread, kold hash .and
| buckwheat cakes that are left over.
They ain’t so particular az sum
pholks what they eat, won’t get mad
and quit if they kant have wet toast
and lam chops every morning for
breakfast.
Snook’s boy heard him say that
there was money in hens, and he pro
ceeded to invest’gate the old man’s
poultry yard. He had gone through a
dozen fine specimens when the old gent
descended upon him, and the boy now
wonders if there is a balm in Gilead.
A father lately induced a croupy lit
tle boy to make a healthy meal of
buckwheat cakes and molasses, but the
latter proved to be syrup ol squills.
The boy said ho thought something
ailed the molasses the very minute his
father told him to eat all he wanted.
A western editor throws up the
sponge with the remark that ‘it dosn t
pay to run a newspaper in a town where
the business men (?) read almanacs,pick
their teeth with herring’s tails and ad
vertise on the court house door.
_____—_
‘An’ sure, it’s aisy enough to build a
chimley,’ said O’Rourke; ‘ye howld one
brick up an’ just slip anither one un
der it.’
VhAting in ('alilorniH.
Californians hive an inherent, inor
dinate desire for betting. It amounts
almost to a tnnnia. li they ure dispos
ed not to fiyht ye tiger, or play poker,
or bet their coin on any came of
chance, they are sure to exhibit their
propensity for bet tin" in sortie way,and
they will go their whole pile on any
thing, no matter how preposterous. —
“I’ll bet you §JO that man’s name is
.Sneider,” said one Californian to an-
other, as a man who was an utter
stranger to both passed by. “It’s a
go,” said his companion, inquiry was
made, and the wager lost by the man
who proposed it. Up in one of tho
mountain towns stage coach tipped ov
er, and, it is related, as the passengers
went tumbling down a rocky embank
ment into a gulch, a fellow shoutel :
“I’ll bet the drinks for all of us that
half of us gut killed.” The bet was
taken, but the casualties wore not fatal.
A doctor reported that a well known
citizen Who was at the point of death
wou!d ( unt live twenty minutes longer.
“l'!l bet $5 that lie will,’’ said one of
his friends. The wager was accepted,
and the stakes were eparecly put un
when the report came that the man wife
dead, “ho you give up?” asked tho
inan who won. ‘ No,” was the reply
‘ I'll now bet $lO that heisfl’t dead.”—i
The bet was taken, and abou* that time
the doctor rc-appoarcd “Is the man
dead, doctor?” the question was asked.
“Yes. dead as Julius Caesar.” “Then
L've lost again.” was the reply. “Now
I’ll bet S2O that lie won'i*go into a five
foot-six coffin. I want to got square if
1 1 can.” I could give other illustra-
tions of this betting mania which have
conic under my observation fully as ab
surd; but these must suffice. The bet
ting is*not confined to any class or na-.
tionality It is characteristic of all
Californians, from the oldest to tho
• rfVtrfA**.***- tiuasc.fi'>xc.
! seated at the dinner table, I was told,
that seven of them were regular gam*
biers. —[Bouton Journal.
s 4 *,.*. : • -* i-' ?
The following is said to be one of the
most brilliant articles written by the
lamented George P. Prentice :
“The fiat of nature is inexorable. —
There is no appeal for relief of the
great law which dooms us to dust W o
flourish and fade as the leaves of the
forest, and the flowers that bloom and
wither in a day have no frailer bold on
life than the mightiest monarch that
ever shook the earth with his footsteps
Generations of men will appear and
disappear as the grass, and the multi
tude that throng the world to-day wi”
disappear as the footsteps on the shore.
Men seldom think of the great event
of death until the shadow falls across
their own pathway, hiding from their
eyes the faces of loved ones whose liv
in" smile was the sunlight of their ex;
istence. Death is the antagonist of
life, and the cold thought of to mi, is
the skeleton of all feasts.
“We do not want to go through tbj,
dart: valley although its dark passage
may lead to Paradise ; we do not want
to lay down in the grave, even with
princes for bed fellows. In the beauti
ful drama of Ton, the hope of immor
tality, so eloquently uttered by the
leath-dovoted Greek, finds deep re;
sponse in every thoughtful soul. When
about to yield his young existence as a
sacrifice to fate, his Cjemantha asks if
they should meet again, to which be
replies :
“ ‘I have asked that dreadful ques
tion of the hills that looked eternal —o'
the clear streams that flow forever—of
the stars among whose fields of azure
my raised spirit has walked in glory.—
All were dumb ; but as I gaze upon
thy living face I feel that there i
something in the love that mantel;
through its beauty that can not wholly
perish. We shall meet again, Cle
mantha.’ ”
Tobacco was discovered three hun
dred years ago. but there lives qo boy
of the present day who, while suffering
from the glory of his first chew, doe?
not wish its discovery had been post
poned that many centuries in the fu_
ture.
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