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■ VI. PKKPLKi.I Mp; .MU I'rt.J.' \ THE MKT IEUID liVKRT sr PEEPLES & BOWLES. SUBSCKiPTION KATES! , col)V 12 it os., $1.50 in advance. Jy6moß., .75 in advance. | co pj i mos., .50 in advance. Lo w Enough for Everybody —S— dvertininff Medium ffu dKhALU is unequaled by teaton of its extensive circulation ana ftiMrleably low rates, businessmen ikoidd remember this. ; rKi IL/tl'.'. kL A ( AtL KIHUS NKATLT FKINTKD) FOR SA 1 e ATTHE di/h OH H i rI) WN * COUNTY DIBKUTOKY JOHN CLAY SMITH, Mavor. COUNCIL A L Moore, K D Herrin 8 A Townley \Y J Brown ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE or TRAIN Arrives from Suwannee, 5 50 p. m Leaves lor Suwannee, 7 a- m. ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE of mails. Jfkfrrson—Arrives 12 m, departs p.m., Monday and Thursday. Traolks Stork. Departs 6am ar rive! (j pin, Monday and Ihursduy. Louanvillk. Arrives 10 a m, de parts 1 p nt. —Daily. Ykli.ow Rives.-- Arrives 12 m., de parts 6 a m„Weinesday and Saturday W. 11. UAIiVKY, P. A. CHURCHES Methodist —llev J R King, Pastor Bervices on the Ist and 3th Sundays. Sunday School, — A T Pattillo, Supt Kverry Sunday at 3 pm Presbyterian--Rev J F McClelland, Pastor, Services on 2nd and 4th Sundays in each Month, Sunday School.—T R Powell. Supt livery Sunday at 9.30 a nr Lawrenckvillk Masonic Lodge.— 3 D * in, W M., S A Hagood, S W, S I,Winn JW. Meets on Tuesday night on or befoi e full moon in each moDti. Mr Vernon Charter, No 39, R A M.—J 1) Spence, II P, A T Pattillo Sec Meets Ftiduy night before the 3rd sundav iu each month. aiv in nett Superior Court.—N. L. Hatchiqs, Judge. Convenes on the Ist Monday in March and September. COUNTY OFFICERS. CoNHisatoNKßt—4 1) Spence, Chair and Ulerlt, N Beuneti. JenersonUritt, J K Hopkins, J K Cloud. Snrriek—J M Patterson. Ordinary— J T Lamkin. Clerk S C—D I’ Cain. Tax Kbckivkr~U YV Pharr. I'ai Collector—‘j (■ Lowery. Treascber.' U N Robinson Minis, ILL Having rreently located in Gwiii »ett; County lenders his profession!! itmcpaanti Physician to the citizens Prompt attentiou to all calls will be livrn. Office mid residence at the resi -roue of A Cal non the Hurricane •lioals road. March 24th 1884—6m0 Fa m Luans Fiie-yeai- loans on improved in Middle and Northern Georgia, negotiated on cheaper <wnis vtan any one in Atlanta. AiUJres, FRANCIS FON AI NE, Fitter Building, Atlanta Ga. April 19th.—lino. C&tto’i ProssesUaae Mills, Etc, jci cm:)* piiess s <JO : , )it HS\ M Elt 2 & 3 ROLLER ffE Ml MLS. M \ CART HA’S P),VER EN INES, "UILEdS, PULLEYS, SH/»FI'- t'id El' Modlttu, rvlfLIR, &,». Atlanta Machine Works IrsfnjfiigtoFaiilJ ,L J 1 *'• 't will pay you to use f" ADS WORTH, MARINE/ & / } * M AN’ S PURE PRE PARED paints. Col. fl I VIM , . Ueiica . >Vll,nrt la luUome resi for(..i 1 * JP ttl uted with them. Sent 1 W l ’Sv 'tf'J? ulu * hst of houses IN N& VAI tiUAN, Agsnts, P. J Lawreneeville, Gh. J ‘ loolbdgk & imo„ 21 Aia -8(. Atlanta. Uian u* IJ ealers ie I'uiuts, Oils Var THE WEEKLY GWINNETT HERALD. -d LUCKY LEG ACT. Young lom Col line, a law stu dent, has just come into a stiange inheri.ance. He sat solitary in His little boarding-house room trying to realize. “If the poor child hadn’t me,” he said to himself, “It could go and apply for admission to some institution. If I hadn’t it, I coul 1 —pshaw! that is not the idea. I must decide what I am to do.” Tom had solemnly promised to care for the new-born baba cf his only sister, who had just died. Tom wai interrupted by a knock °** the door. It was followed by u cry of mingled entreaty and oom mand, s ich as only hungry babes know how to emit. “I’ve fetched <he pot r little dear around, sir,” said the nurse, bran dishing her charge. There! there! th re! It’s got the wind tnis min ute, inixin’ milk. H ivr you so rnd a nurse, sir ? And baby wants clothes.” She dropped her shrieking charge upon Tom’s bed and start ed towards the door. “Oh! oh!” gasped Tom. “Do not go! In the name of mercy,do not! Why do yen say I want a nurse? Are you noi one “I am, sir,” she said, turning confident lal’y to Torn. “ *a month ty.’ lam wilting to stay with you while I can. Bu/, sir, my summons may come auy day or hour. It is impossible to ca'cu late. /’il wotk for you while I can, sir, but when my call comes no earthly thing can keep me,” “Can you,” said Tom, looking gloomily at his now silent prize on the bed, “can you give me any ad vice ?” Mrs. Primmius placed her arms akimbo. Tom ftivently prayed for light on the meditations. “I have i',” cried Mrs Piirn mins. “Ma'vioy’s got to take it.” “Bless your dear soul!” respond ed Tom. “Mai viny’s the very one What a talent you have for manag ing, auntie dear.” There was l oru, his dear self , He had hit on exactly tie righ, compliment to pay ihe old nurse /7e was actually floating through ife n this instinct he had for say ing the most pleasaut thing io 67 ery body. Mrs Primmins of ah things desired the reputation of a m inceuveier, as it was, of course, the one of all others she did not desetve. “Yes,” she cried, chuckling, “I can manage. Let me alone! And he first thing in the morning I’L go there with you. Now,” said she, seizing Ler charge, who was beginning to squirm, “now I’ll see what’s to be got out of your land ludy Winking violently witli first one eye and then the other, she start ed to go; then, with a sudden so lemnity, she re-inserted her head iu the door-way. “If t’m summoned," shs said, “it’s above all else. If I’m called I must go. day or night. ’ “Certainly,” said Tom, much puzzled,“but you won’t be auntie!’ As the young man walked abroa 1 io get his dinner he felt impress ed with an almost uaysterius awe of the oH nurse. “To thiuk of living always with death grinn.ng one in the face like that," he muttered. Iu the night Tom’s dream o* peace was again dispelled. Another knock at the door. “Am I under a ban ?” growled Tom, “whai’s the maber tow ?” Tin cubed, ’’said the voice of Mrs. Primming. “My summons has come!’ | “Oh, the deuce!" cried Tom.losl o all seme of the importance of conciliating the nurse. “Go to hod, bold on till morning!” In the morning Tom. who, hap py fellow, always slept soundest under a sense of depression, did n il make his appearance until nine o clod . //e found that Mrs Piirn uiings had actually disapp. arid for parts unknown. In the aims of his hitherto stern landlady he lound his charge nestling. Anew light—that of 1 >ve —wai beaming ing in the solemn woman’s eye— that worn in, thought Tom, v 110 could see any of her boarders , tut ve and iOt fer <eu cents, saved. Lawrenceville Georgia, Tuesday December 9 1881 “1 l ave undertaken,” said the landlady, giving Tom a smile such as he hid never di earned cculd rest in her feat urea—“l have un dertaken to go wiih yon in search of Mrs. Primrr.ins’ niece, Malviny.' Several hoots later 7\,m Col lins sprang from a light wagon in which he bad driven to the door of a pre ty cottage. “We will make one last effort by inquiring here,” he said to his land lady, who held the baby. With his usual impetuosity he pushed directly through into the rear kichtn. /'here he forgot his errand—forgo) everything except what Ire saw. A young girl, neat plump and rosy, s‘ood with round arms bared before a table. She was assiduously occupied in cares sing wiih white hands little lumps of dough into shape. Suddenly she turned. Such a dimpling smile! Such rosy em barrassment Tom, great blach uaired, jetty eyed giant that he was, thought this litt'e plump blonde an aogeL T 1 ought ! why, he was sure of if! After a while he came to his senses and said : “I’m looking for one Malvina Barker.” '‘And that is me," said the rosy lips “Then I’ve broagbt you a baby,” he said abruptly. A good deal of astonishment can be put into a pair of bright bine eyes without spoiling them—and so there was. Fort unutely, at that point the landlady appeared and so, a moment later, did Mal vina’s mother, called up from the cellar by the voices. Negotiations were soon complet ed. Tom, again ir his little room, found it the loneliest, dreariest place ne had ever in his life looked upon. A coupel of days later he con cluded that it would be inhuman Lot to go and enquire after his little charge. In an incredibly short time he was seized with the same impression again. Then h e went to take io baby, who bad not yet learned that tus moon is more distant than the doorknob, a box of geoprafhicul blocks. Ttien he went to enquire if it needed pock et money; and he told Malvina that he knew she was not kept awake nights with it, because her eyes were so bright. After tea the moo* came out. Oh. that wicked, shameless mcoJ Tom by its light, to d Malvina right out tha her eyes w re blusr than heaven—her lips sweeter than roses—and all t hat. When they parted Malvina wen to her room and cried. JFhat could a perfect king of a man mean by talking like that to her? Of course he could not mean to marry a little school mistress only home on a vaca tion? Tom acted queerly, too, when alone in his room. He took a pa per and pencil, and figured and calculated. He made a list of all the little properties he possessed. He added them ap and he added them down. Tuen be set down a list of all the tlrngs he was accus - touted to speud money upon that could be dispensed with. Then he brought out a book on economy, where it tells how a man can five cheaper with a frugal wife than he can alone. He was astonished to find that beok so intensely interest in« ! The next day Tom went again to see the brby, In fact, it had seemed to him as though the after noon would never come. He had more waiting to do at the cottage for A/alvina’s mother received himand she did not appear. At last his imj atience spured him to ask. “I don't want you to see her again, youug man. I will be frank with you nud tell the truth.’’ “Ob, Mrs. Barker," cried Tom. •‘She s a simple child sir and is in danger not to undeistaud that attentions from one like you can urn m notning." “Dear Mrs. Barker, you misun derstand me entirely I must see her this t uce, I must,indeed. If alie sends me away I will never come again. DEVOTE DTP NEWS, MTEHATUKF ANI) LOrAL AFFaIIIS Tom conquered. When ha ex plamed to Malvi.ia about l is small income and consul ed with her abju l its sufficiency, she told him that he ough. to be ashamed to waste such heaps of money on oue He should have want half to ihe heathen, Tom’s income has thus far neld out better than when he was sin gle. Young man iry it! Dlalu't Have Murk Practice A voung physician moved from an eastern town to Kansas, and hung out his shic gle. One day a neighbor called on him, and dur ing the conveisivion inquired of him whether he had ever opened an office in the east ‘Ob, yes : I had a very nice of fice, indeed,’ was the reply with more or less pride in the tone ‘Hid you have much practice V ‘Well, no not exactly.’ ‘That’s strange, for you seem to be a well posted man. What was the matter V ‘Really I don't know, but some how my patien's all seemed *.o die before I could practice on them very much. Mrs. Fogg’—As I came by the statior just now / saw a baby in its carriage. It was amusing to see the little thing watch the locomo tive as it rushed past and until it was out of sigh'. I wonder what the little darling was think ing of. Fogg—Tuat depends. If it was a giri, sLe was thnking ‘splendid!” ‘just too lovely for any thing of that sort. If it was a boy, he might have been mental constructing a smoke consumor or patent couple, but probably was considering whether it was best to invest in theroad's common or prefered slock, its firs 1 , second or third mortage bonds, its equi meut sevens, land grant eights or car trust thirteens. In tixty or eighty years from now Belva Ann Lockwood will gather her grandchildren round her on Sunday morning and tell them how she ran for .President in the f»ll of 'B4. And then when auy younster ventures to ask Ijow many votes she got, he will be spauked and sent to bed without his supper. A Little Rock man sold his cook ing stove to get money enough to take his family to the circu g When one of his friends re.non. strated with him he said : ‘We bad no use for the stove Had nohingto cook. ‘But why didn’t you buy some thing to eat with the money yo u got for the stove ?’ ‘Then we should have had noth ing to cook it on. Don’t ialk to me. lam a pbyilosopher.’ Advantages of UnderdriuDing. It prevents drought. It furnishes an increased sup ply of a’mosp/t eric fertilizers. It w arms the lower poriion es the soil.J II has’ens the decomposition of roots and other organic matter. It accelarates the disintegration of the mineral matters of the soil. It improves the mechanical text ure of the soil. It causes the poisenous excre mentitious matter of plants to be carried out of reach of their roots. It prevents grasses from run ning out. | It enables ns to despsu the sur face soil by removing excess of wa ter. It renders soil earlier in the spring. It prevents the throwing out of grain in the winter. It allows work to be done soon er after rains. It keeps off the effects of cold weather longer it the fall. The U. S. Government has 400 John Smiths in its employ, and 800 each of </onessess and John sons. A bull fog is uever broke finan cially. he always bas a green : back you know. He Was not a Kicker Beu Kidgely, a Louisville Ky. uewspaper man. who fo* the first twenty years of his life had been accustomed so feeding on cham paign and diamsned back teira pin, has for the past twenty years been having a catch-as-catch-can wrestling match with the usual bearding bouse spread, and is still alive bnt weak. One day, early in the apring, be went to his landlady with a complaint. “Madam,” he said, with a demi semi-q«aver in his voice, and a piece of wetness in each eye about as big as a buckshot, “haven’t I been’a pretty good boarder for the two years I have been with you ?’’ “Why, Mr Ridgely, of course you have. Only yesterday a lady asked me how long you uad beeD a member of the Young Men’s Chrisdan Association,” “Yes, and whan you gave us eggs with feathers on did I evei kick ?” “Wha—whats that ?” stammer ed the womsn, thrown off her bal ance by the suddenness of the blow. “And did I ever insist on your clipping their wings ?” “Afir, I don t— “And didn’t I k ep right on, even thiugh you let the butter wear its bair 1 ang< d, when you knew I hated b mgs ?” “Mr Ridgeiy, this is going too n “And did I ,‘omplain. when I found a outton in my pie, because then wasn’t any button-hole in thefcflap ?” “Sir, I won’t stand this any—” “And dis I report you to the Society for the prevention of Cru elty, when l picked that poor, helpless cockroach out of the bis. cuit ?” “Shut np, yon—” “Yes, and when I found a min now in the milk, eid I ask you whether you milked your cow with a fishing pole or a seine?” “Wha—wha—wha ” “Don’t men uon if, madam. When toe steak was a little tough was I one of the boarders who sent a buzz luw and steam engine up to the house ?” “I 1 1 ” “And did / object paving for furniture repairs, because the bread when I swallowed it, ii knocked the bottom of the chair out?” “You mean good for nothing—” Don’t get excited, madam. Did I ever inquire whether you drew your tea with a windlass or chain puuip ?” “Oh, you villian, you whreteh you—’’ “I hear you, madam, and I want to ask isl ever reflected on your oiolases can by asking if you had a patent on that fly trap ?" “Oh —ch—oh—oh —you oh— * “I ask, madam, did I ever do any of these things ? And I an swer by saying, Never cc. never.” Therefore, I want to know why in thunder, excuse my forcible language, please, when they bring a plaie if soup with a dish rag in it, they don’t bring aloDg a pair of scissors to cut the darned thing up so a man won’t choke on ii. That's all, madam.” •W hen the lady was resucitated Btn was competed to go out into the cold, cold world and get anoth er boarding house. Such is wo man’s inhumanity to man. One of thefimst 1 oking ne g-oet- of Lite- bjrg is Andrew Reed, LL e ch one if his hands tlveie is an (Xti'a finger about an inch long and of full size. These fingers have nails, but are entirely bone less. Andrews father also had the extra fingers, and had a number of other children, ga majority of tie m had the extra fingers some of whom had two extra toes. An drew has two children, both of whom h sthe extra fingers and toes. He has six uncles, all of the peculiarly, their families being likewise marked. When they were slaves they belonged te Gen eral Bailey, of Florida. One of them was stolen and carried to Texas, where General Bailey fol lowed and identified him by his fingers and toes. Another negro who was known as|‘*Afncan Jack, ’ died in Webster Countyl a few weeks ago. He claimeu to have been a prince in his native land, ami always very jialous of his associations. Fur the last thirty five years his home has been in Jf'Vbtcer County, where be was always looke t| upon as an oracle of his race. strut her Uardnei-'e Pollitlral Advice > ‘I shou.d like to spoke a few words out loud to Pickles, Smith. Whaiebone Ho ker. Judge Standoff and Rise Up Perkins.’ said Brother G trdner as he open ed the meeting of the Lime Kiln club, ‘an’ de seberal pueons named wdl please step to de front.’ The members men Honed ad vanced in a sleepish, hesitat ing manner, and when grouped be fore the p reai den t s des khe con ti n ued : ‘Each one o’you am aware o de sack dat dis club has firm/y de clined to commit itself A to any po iyiical party. You fo’ members has seen fit i o disregai dmy advice I understan' dat you am on de whoop. ‘(tem'leu, let me spoke to you. De constituahuu am a werry sacred document, but you kin buy more ciereries wiri a $2 bill. ‘De Magna Charta which ebery candidate fur consttable talks about, should inspire each one of wid reference fur de rnagna an’ mo’ shoes fur de chil’eu will in crease your standiu’ asioug yer nayburs. ‘De bulwarks of liberty, aboat which we Ua’r so much mus’ be defended eben wia our lives, but when a mans goods am dumpt out on the sdewalks kase he can’t pay his rent de bulwarks o' liberty am purty th ; n. ‘Fifteen cent oraters git up and wave t deir arms around an’ talk to you of do principal es Mon roe, an’ Jefferson, an’ Adams, an’ Lincoln. Principles, geml’en, am all right under sartan circum stances, but when swulowed wid weak codfish an’ cold ’talers dey doan’ put no fat on yer ribs. ‘De Grand old principles of grand o'd parties am hurled at your heeds from ebevy co’.ier but dey won’t pay rent nor buy soup bones, (jieius of Thought If nobody loves you, b«. sure its your own faalt.— P. Dod ridge. A rich dress is not worth a straw to one who has a poor mind. Good temper is like a summer day ; it sheds its light upon every thing. We rate ability in men for what tlev finish, not by wlmt they ai ternpt. The best and most impoitunt of .t man’s education is li.it which he gives himself. You may taka the greatest trouble and bj fuming if uround find joy on the other side. The greatest events of an age are its beat thoughts, it is the na ture of thought to find its way in to action. Make people happy, aud there will not be half the quareling or a tenth part of that wickedness there is. Thoie who understand the val ue of time treat it as prudent as people do their money ; they make a little go a great way. The power of applying an at tention steady and undisipaled. to a siugle object, is the sure intrk of a uperio' mind. Tiers should be, inelhinka, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prcsDsrity ; both being equal Iv subject to ths chance. The coo'ness of Sergeut 3 Preu ties was strikingly illustrated in l>>* second duel with the late Hen ry S Foote. The meeting occured on the right bank of the Mississip pi river, opposite Vicksburg. At the first fire Prentiss' pistol snap ped, while Foote miseed. This in creased the eagerness of the large crowd assembled to witness the t,f fair to such a degree that they pressed up on each side of the line, until scarcely room enough was left for the passage of the bails. After the parties had re sumed iheir positions, pistol in hand, triggers set, awaiting the word sot a second fire, everything being as sti'l as death, Mr Pren ties observed a small boy, who, anxious to see the fun was climb ing a sapling in bis rear, and said to him: “My son, you had better take cire. General Foote is shoot ing rather wild.” IM TIKSOK AM F.IIITOK Always to be good natured. Always to be outside rustling for items. Always be prompt to In atchurch on Sunday, Always lo be at bis desk writing copy for the paper. Always religiously to cater to the conflicting prnjudices of the community. Alwayt 10 have plenty of irnpor tain local news whether anything happens or not. Always to ‘hist iu the grammar or puuctulation and spelling of illiteiate or care.sss coutiibu tors. Always instantly to pay his bids and seemingly to take a “stand off” from all who are pleas od to pay some one else first. Always cheerful to hold himseH accountable for Ibe mistakes und blunders of other people and meek ly submit to abuse therefor. Always to know exactly what is going on Sunday?, as well as week days, and get out an extra in case uuylhing of interest happens. Always to he round at all hours of the clay and night, in aud out of all kind of places, on ihb alert for news and at the same dmo be regular in uis habits. Always to do bis level best to promote every publio enterprise to do what he can to pu, money into other people’s pockets, and serenely carry home a pound of iver for breakfast. Always to have unlimited adver tising space next to readiug mat ter. “John, when you die would you like to be cremated*’’ “No Jane no crernnation for your fond hus band. Put me on ice “I’ve had a hot enough time of it while alive?” His wile has not sewjd a buttoj on a shirt of his since. “What branches do yon find most nseful to your pupils?” asked a visitor o' u professor at the Uni versity of Texas. “Any branches are good, but 1 find that the slips from a peachtree are die most use fill." “I know, my dear,” saida young doctor to his wile, “that we are not rich; but after awhile our luck will change and we nil have every thing we want. You must leurn to I ave patience.” “Everybody,” Fays aphilosoplier ‘has tw< nty-feur hours in each day.’ Yog exe 4 1 the editor —he has about twmty-five and theu don’t finish half what he’s expect ed to uo. Anlndiana boy was sentenced to four years imprisonment for steal ing a suit of clothes. Out in In diana it is a pretty serious thing io lose a suit of clothes. When a woman wants to repair damages she uses a pin; when « man wants to repair d images he spends two hours aud a half try ing to inread a needle. This is the time of year when >he city sportsmen with a two bun dred dollar gun wonders why hi can’t get as many rabbits »s the country boy with a figure-imp. Just as soou as the girls are cm vinced that coachmen are out of the style (be elepement mania will end, and not before. ■ ..« "fjiiu .-.a j '-jjg--a //ere is the verdict of a Kan ias jury: “Died of a kick iu the atom ach from his wife, and he navu knew what hurt him.” ‘Astonishing, isn’t it, how tliiug.- are taxed V' said Straddle. ‘Why I hear lots of people talking about taxing their brains,’ Don’t thipk tha' your business will run itself. ‘He that by the plow would thrive muit either hold or di ive.’ “A wife s Greatest Trial,” is the ti*ld of a new book. We have not read it, but suspect that it is her husband, A rural obituary relates that ‘the deceased had accumulated a li tie money and ten children. He who betrays the confidence of one iB not wor hy of the confi dence of another. jVol. XIV.-Ne 37 UEMERAL, MEWS Cholera is raging in Paris. Small pox is raging in Canada. Waynesboro baa a street sprink ler. Manitoba has 580 Icelanders en gaged as farmers. Jfellows Falls, Vermont, bad a snow storm last week, Belva Lockwood is a member of the Washington bar. Wild ducks and geese are plenti ful in South Georgia. Every exchange brings an ac count of incendiary fires. Rain has no/ fallen for 100 days in some parts of Georgia. Iu Madison, Fla., young orange trees are dying for wane of ram. A hornet is like truth, because truth sometimes sting. Dr. A G Haygood is to prepare a biography of Dr. Lovic Pierce. Slow fell in New York State on last week to a depth of ten inch es. A 'arge amount of cotton is ship ped direct fiomLaGrange toLiver pool. Strawberries were picked as Ute * as November Ist in Chester, Eng land, An effort ; s being made to se cure an artesian well atTallahassee Florida, Ihe burning of cotton gins are getting to be a commcu thing in Giorgia. Spain Las taken possession of the territory in West Africa about the river Oro. No less i ban one hundred gin houses have been burned in Geor gia this season. There has been 14,037 cases of cholera in the province of Naples and 7,570 death. Rev. J U Wiugo has withdrawn from the race for T»x Receiver in Hart county. Canton, China, has a population of 1,500,000, yet there is not a newspaper in the place. Hog cholera still prevails in Dunbar/on, S. C. Soda is found to be <he best remedy. There has beer twenty-one new cotton mills started in the South during the past four months. A female base ball club will give Milledgeville a visit and an exhibition of their skill short ly. Boston has an apple mission that distribu'es 5,000 bushe's of apples amoDg the pour e*ery year. East Tennessee negroes are mov ing iu multitudes to the West aud California to woike on rail roads. Texas gave Cleveland and Ho a dricks a majority of 100,000. It was the banner Democratic State. Rev. Jaoez S. Swan, the re nowed revivalist, died last week iu Connecticut at the age of eighty four. A black tiger, "scaped from Rob inson’s circus, is now roaming at large in Prince Anne county, Vir ginia. Edward Darlington died inPb :! a delphia last Friday in his 90ih year. He was the oldest ex-0011- gressman living. Twelve petrified clams were found at a depth of 250 feet, a week or two ago, while ooringfor oil at Psrissitna, Cal. .1 miuried lady in Baker eounty has a full goatee several itches long on her chin, and it is said to be very handsome. The Barnwell (S C.) Sentinel says there ar9 not but three white radicals in that county and they are past turning black. David B Hill is Lieutenant Got ernor of New York State, and will fill Gov. Cleveland’s unexpired tern., which is one year. There is a girl in England 14 years old. is six feet and five inch es high, and weighs 252 pounds and has apparently just began to develop. Drinking habits increase so much in Gevnjauy that in many placec there is a liquor shp*^-' — every thirty-one irhal'*"^-—- - ‘