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V: - s-'.-ts --V' -.f. t4?^:'4s^£^,-i(4= -■ : 5 ■■■ =5= fnnnm ODD PARAGRAPHS. The London'Direcknyfor tlie eur- TheN. 1 der intowri.” > ",1"- •' An editor out 'West says he is so short-sighted that he frequently rubs oat ■with his nose what he writes with his pencil..- . ' • /"• - ■ A newspaper interviewer has been to. see Andrew Johnson, and found' hini-in a country .store, where his son was busy weighing out sugar and starch. The six leading news companies in this country do a business, in selling newspapers and monthly magazines, of over eight million dollars per annum. A certain newspaper iii New York has had an obituary notice of Santa Anna in type for sixty-five years, and yet the old. man is just talking of go ing to war with Juarez to. conquer Mexico. A Wisconsin. journaLis trying to pro mote ^pedestrian; exercise - among the ‘ students of that State-hy urging a law to prohibit the sale of liquor within three miles of any institutidn of learn ing. A certain dentist ^advertises that he “spares no pains. ” The mnn -who “couldn’t find bis match,” went to bed in the dark. The “divorce suit” is. the name of the most stylish traveling dress in Chi cago. The man who tried to arrange his ■ hair with An ice pick, got it'into a nice pickle. . If a hole made in a wall by a cannon ball is called a breach, would two holes he a; hair of breeches?' •r Bits-- ; Cue of the .crudest tilings done to dumb -beasts’ says the Rural World, is putting hard frozen iron bits into a house’s mouth. It is not only a pain ful, bat a dangerous act. For every time living flesh touches a metal much ■below the freezing-point; the latter ex tracts the heat from the former, and freezes it. Thus a horse’s , mouth be comes frozen by the cold iron several times a day put into it; each time caus ing these freezings to go deeper, to end at last in extensive ulceration. With such a sore mouth-ihe poor horse re fuses to eat and pines away, which calls the doctor in. They call it hots, glanders, ' horse-all, &c., and go to cramming down poisonous drugs in doses; and the next you know of the poor, abused creature, he is trotted off to be food for fish or the crows. Many a valuable horse has been “mysterious ly” lost in just that way. Thinking and humane people avoid this by first- warming the bits; but this is much trouble, and sometimes impossible, as in night work like staging and phy sician’s work. Now all this trouble is entirely avoided, as we have found on long trial by getting the harness-ma kers to get leather bits for winter use, so made that no metal substance can touch the flesh. They are dturable and only half a dollar. We wouldn’t ex change ours for a golden one, if it cost could not he replaced. Don’t ail to try it. A-girl of twenty, at Alton, Illinois, is digging.a well for her father at sev enty-five cents a foot. She has had three offers of marriage since she be gan. To which- we say, “All’s well that, ends well.” A man stopping, his paper, wrote to the editor: “I think folks ottent to spend- tiler.muirny fer payper, my dad- da (liddcnt and everboddy said he was the intelligentea man in the country and had the smartest family of boiz that everAugged taters.” Oxlt a Shadow.—A story is told of a well known gentleman, Who some times imbibes too freely in ardent, going home at night recently, and making his shadow, outlined on tlie front door, for a man. He paused a little in surprise,,, and then, lifting his hat very gracefully, bade him' good eveuing. “A very pleasant evening,” said the gentleman. No reply. “Tips is my house, I' believe,” he said, waving liis hand. The hand of the shadow went through the same graceful curve. “i should like to get in, sir, if you’ll: stand aside.” Hut the shadow made, no movement to let him pass. The. gentleman was evidently sur prised. He repeated his desire to pass iu, but *the shadow remained still. t ... “So I would, my dear, but tliis gen- tleman (pointing to the shadow) in sists on blocking up the door.” His wife quietly opened the door, remarking, ‘‘That was your shad ow.” “Indeed,” said the puzzled citizen; “well, now, I thought he was a mighiy fine-loo King fellow to be so impolite,” and went m, - Whenever lie shows a disposition -to remain out late at night, liis Wife has only to . remind him of the shadow; on the door-step to insure a speedy re turn. ■ Hard Times.—The New York Tri bune notes the cry of “hard times,” and truthfully attributes the cause, primarily, to the fact that too large a share of oar-people are trying to live by something else than productive in dustry. Other influences Contribute, it says, but this is far more potent than the whole of them. We are fast be coming a nation of schemers to live without work. Our hoys are not learning trades, our farmers’ sons are crowding into cities, looking for clerk- ‘ships and petty offices; hardly one American girl in each hundred will do house workfor wages, however urgent her need; so we are sending to Europe for workmen and buying of her arti sans millions worth of products that we ought to make for ourselves. There can be no doubt that our Bovs and girls must be taught to labor, by qualify ing themselves to do it efficiently, if we would better matters in the future atalL.' >•'•'" Confederate Cotton Loan.—Under the heading of “A Permanent Invest ment.” the New York Post says: “The Confederate-cotton loan, redeemable in gold by Air. Jefferson Davis’ gov ernment in 1863, is still bought and sold on the London stock exchange.— There are=62,435,700 of it in the Lon don market, which. cost the subscribers about ninety percent, of. its nominal value. Sir Henry de Hought on is sai d to have £386,000 which cost him near ly par. - Sales were actualy made du ring December at from three and three'quarters to five per cent., clos ing at the: highes'rate. The only val ine the stock, it appears, lies in the hope of the sanguine purchasers that the United States will one day redeem it.” OSCAR D. SCOTT, Principal. Exercises of tins Institution will be re- -QntbesecondWednes3ayinJannary,1871. Permanently located in-Perry, it offers good ad- ^ --- who lave daughters to educate. irou^li, extensive and w all Ciebrauches of-a complete ation. 1 . - ... 1 ‘ • Graceful for the patronage of tii&pait, the Prin- cipal wfll spare ncF effort to make the jehool second' to none—in all - respects worthy of public confi- He ought to select a Good Home Company. dence and support. - The MnsicDepartment is under tlie control of an accomplished and successful teacher. ' / T'F.TVMfl . Soring Session, ^..‘..325, $30, $35 Fatf Session, ... ; $15, $20, $25 Music,.... ... .$6permonth Board can be obtained in good families at reas onable rates. Expenses must be paid at the end of each month. For further particulars apply to the PrincipaL r/ de^28^tf"' FURNITURE. CARPETS, MATTINGS, WINDOW SHADES, . WALL PAPER, MATTRESSES, FEATHERS, SOFAS, SETTEES, WARDROBES, BUREAUS, &c. A large stock of PARLOR AND BEDROOM SUITES, l For Sale Low for Cash. One Thousand Maple Bedsteads, ,* * From SG.QO to $15.00. Fisk’s Patent Metallic Burial Cases and Caskets, The best articles in the market, at Low Prices Also Coffins in Rosewood, Mahogany, Cedar, Wal nut, and imitations. THOS. WOOD- Next to Lanier House, MACON, GA. “Siuuetiiiiig Always Gives Way.” Mr. Newton, in one of his children’s sermons, relates anTuterestingincadeiit- connected with starting .a Sunday- school in a very irreligious. community in New York State. A good Christian woman' desired to obtain the. school-house for the pur pose, but it was positively refused by the skeptical trustee. Still she peise-- vered, .and entreated him: again'and again. “Ltell you, .Aunt Polly, it is of no use. Once for all, I say you . cannot have the school-house for any. such purpose.” “I tiiink I am going to get it,’’said Aunt Polly. - “I Should like-to know how if I don’t give, you .the key; ” “I think-the Lord is going to unlock it.” “M!ay ; be he will,” said the" infidel, ‘ ‘but I can Ml yon this, that he is not going-get the key from me. ” “Well, I am going to .pray over it, and I. have found out from experience that when I keep on praying some thing always gives way.” And the next time she came.the. hard heart of the infidel did give way, and: she received the key. More than this, when others opposed the school he sustained her, aid great good was done there for the perishing souls. r -' -v : , -' A gentleman was endeavoring to enjoy an evening in the company of -a young lady upon Whom he called, but found a serious Obstacle in the person af her stern father, who, at length, veiitured to very plainly intimrte that the hour for retiring had arrived, “I think you are correct, my dear sir,” returned the young-man. “We have been waiting to have you go to bed ■for. over an hour. ” A - curious lawsuit has just been commenced in HlMois against the Belleville and Southern Illinois Rail road. A lady who was shortly expect ing an addition to her family was E traveling on it, and was so jostled and troubled by the roughness of the road the'event pccured much sooner than had been expected. In the suit that die. had brought against the commpany she lays the damage, at 810,000. FAMILY BITTE-RS; (Copyright secured.) FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS. nANCFACTUaED BY D. C. BRADY & CO. LOUISVILLE, KY. Insure Ms Life. -:o:- He at Home. Do not insure with a Company yon know Nothing about. A Democratic and Family Newspaper. THE SAVAHNAH HORNING NEWS Now is the Time to SnbScribc for it j Yon have your choice, and can take either the Daily, Tri-Weekly, or Weekly Edition. THE MORNING NEWS THE COTTON STATES LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY -OF— MACON, GEORGIA. A-Htliorized Capital, $2,000,000 GriiaranteedCapital,. $ 500,000 Assets,- ■ $300,000 AND RAPIDLY INCREASING. Deposited with the State of Georgia, ,..$100,000 Deposited with the State of South Carolina, ...$50,000 Man, woman and cltild in-Houston county should know th$t Day & Gordon sell the cheapest and best goods to be found this side of the moon. If any body can go to the moon to trade, we advise them to do so; but if they have to stop*anywhere 1 short of that, let them go to Day k Gordon’s. Any Lady It is stated-that lsBam J. Fannin, who was defeated in the recent election in the Fif tli‘District, will contest the'seat of the latter in Congress — *•' • < During the saiga of Paris several- 3 sons' of the'.' weaMhiesi citizens were Swackhammer. 1 shot for desertion in the face of the enemy.. Not a single one ofihem could obtain a pardon, although it was per mitted, as a favor to tlie son of a gen eral who was MlLd in the present war, that his execution should be private Cmneron.—Now that "Honorable Sim_ on Cameron has made his jaek in Geor gia, , he says “the: south needs no more reconstruction, and ought to be let alone.”What.a pity Grant, and Mor- ten-did not-get a good slice of State Road-pudding.—Augusta Constitution- A man in'Covington made a bet the other day tliat he could drink a pint- mid a half of Cincinnati whiskey in twelve hours. He won the bet, and his widow rCmm-ked at the funeral next day that it was the first- money he had earned by work in ten years. A little-girl wants to kno w if fleas ar e white, because her unde told her that ‘ ‘Mary had a little': lamb with fleas as white as snow. ” Alarming symptrahs of _the suffrage. Leveri- Little girl: “Thews, deby, you must lie still and sleep ali, day, ’cause I’ve dot to do and vote,” A German being required to give a receipt; in full, after much mental ef fort produced the following: “I isb full. I wants no more money. John That, wants to inspect' the most elegant assort ment of Dry Goods that she ever beheld, Should not delay, but proceed immediately to Day k Gor don’s, where slio most certainly Anything she wants to buy, : and that too at the very lowest prices.' They have the best Prints at 123i cents; Bleached Homespuns at 12^ cents; Dress Goods at less than Macon prices; a few more of those Boulevard skirts at $4, end anything else iff Hie Dry Goods line, besides Perfumery, Toilet Articles, Table and Pocket Cutlery, Hardware, Wooden-ware, etc., etc. (If you want to know what isincludedin “etc.,” come and sec for yourselves;) They haye now and always intend to keep A Good Assortment, of .Beady-made Clothing, .Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, and Gents' Furnishing- Goods, which, in quality and price, are warranted to suit any reasonable man. Now,,young man, if -you want to play havoc with the .hearts of the ladies, be sure-to buyyoiir clothes at Day k Gordon’s. Every married lady should see to il that her A Chicago music store recently sold a piano, and the buyer soon afterward wrote to. the dealers that he and his wife couldn’t find the place to wind soMatvey low prices. There.is no mistake about it; they mean what they esv—if yon want proof of ' it, can and see them. once how to make the thing go. A young lady who prided herself on her geography, seeing a candle aslant, remarked that it reminded her of the “Leaning Tower of Pisa.” “Yes” re sponded a wag, “with this difference, that is a tower in Italy, while this is a tower in grease.” Does his trading with Day k Gordon, for theirs is certainly the store at which the beet goods are if up, ana- they wanted to be told at Now lei the whole popnlace oflHbnston. county FOR THE SECURITY OF POLICY HOLDERS. These deposits are not taken from the premium assets, as many Companies have done, but were obtained by an assessment of 30 per cent upon the guaranteed capital of ihe stockholders: These amounts are deposited entirely beyond tho control of the Com pany; they do not enter into its business, and cannot he taken up until every policy issued by the Company is paid up or cancelled. This affords security superior to all other Companies. W. B. JOHNSTON, ; President WM. S. HOLT, Vice President GEO. S. OBEAB, Secretary C. P. McCAY, Actuary JOHN W. BURKE General Agent J. lyTERGER GREEN, , J. Medical Examiner W. J. MAGILL, Superintendent of Agencies Is, in all. respects, a Democratic journal, faithful to Democratic principles, and earnest in the advo cacy of Democratic measures. It believes that the sucecss of its party is necessary to the salvation of the country. Its reputation as a news journal will be maintained as heretofore. In Domestic, For eign and dommercial Intelligence, literature, etc., it is not surpassed by any paper in thee ouutry. Its whole character is comprehensively stated in saying that it is a great Democratic and Family Newspaper, devoted to the interests of the people of the South. To every business man, its Market Intelligence alone is worth many times its sub scription. Col. W. T. THOMPSON, with able assistants, has control of the Epitorial and News columns; while its corps of Reporters are reliable in every respect. TEEMS: Ore Year,.... Six Months.. Txiree Months $10.00 THE TRI-WEEKLY NEWS Is published every Monday, Wednesday and Sat urday, and is made from the daily editions. TEEMS: One Year, Six Months, 3.00 Three Months, 1-50 THE WEEKLY NEWS Is issued every Friday, is designed for country readers, and contains a careful summary of the news of the week, with the principal editorials, the current news, the latest dispatches, and full market reports, TEEMS: One Year §2.00 Six Months, 1.00 No attention paid to orders unless accompau 'ed by the money. Postmasters everywhere are authorized to act as Agents. Money can be sent by Post Office order or Ex press at our risk. Address J. H. EST3XL, 111 Bay Street, Savannah Every Parmer Ought to Have It! THE SOUTHERN FARM & HOME A MAGAZINE OF Agriculture, Maimfacture DOMESTIC ECONOMY. *PTM KRIJ.TSTIPD WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. J. W. BURKE & CO..-........Publishers. GEN. WM. M. BROWNE,.. Editor. THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL A WEEKLY FAMILY NEWSPAPER, published at PErUR-S-, &EORGLA., BY JOHN T W A T E B M A N EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Let Everybody Subscribe for it at once A Paper for tlie Farmer! APaper for tlie Mechanic! A Paper for tlie Merchant! A Paper for the Professional Man! A Paper for the Family Circle! A Paper for EVERYBODY! IT WILL CONTAIN NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS, Literature of the Highest Order, A-nr^ Etm -*rin You Can‘t Rest! It Trill be the organ of the HOUSTON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL CLUB, And every number will contain articles of interest to the PLANTERS. In Politics it will be UNCOMPROMISINGLY DEMOCRATIC, Believing that the success of the Democratic Party is the only hope of saving the country from financial and social ruin, and of restoring it to its former condition of honor, pros perity and freedom from tyranny and oppression. Nevertheless, IT WILL NOT BE A POLITICAL PAPER, IN THE STRICT MEANING OF THE TERM, but will l>c PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT MACON, GEORGIA. THE FOLLOWING COMPRISE SOME OF THE UNANSWERABLE ARGUMENTS WHY EVERY PLANTER SHOULD IM MEDIATELY APPLY FOR A POLICY OF LIFE INSURANCE 1. The changes and fluctuations taking place and liable to occur in commercial af fairs. 2. The unreliability of labor. 3. The uncertainty of crops and of prices. ii The absence of requisite capital to meet the losses and disappointments which may occur 5. The certainty of distress wMch, in most cases, must follow the loss of the head of the family by death. 6. The certainty sf provision for these contingencies, -which a Life Insurance Policy affords to every'family, in a good Company. THE COTTON STATES LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY IS A GOOD COMPANY, Therefore a policy in the Cotton States Life Insurance Company is a provision which wall guard your loved ones from want or pecuniary distress, in the event of yonr misfor tune or your death. . The unprecedented success of this Company is the best recommendation it can offer, having issued 1,800 Policies in its First Year, make a grand rash . To Day & Gordon’s, for they may rest that they will save money by so doing. Upon the lives of some of the most proifeent men in Georgia, Alabama, South Car olina and Florida. most popular plans of Insurance; gives its policy-hold ers every advantage they can get in any Company North or South- It is now success fully at work in Georgia, Alabama, North and South Carolina, Mori da and Kentucky. ™ — —mt of the Company, or address Single Copy One Year,.. $2.00 Three Copies “ . 5.00 Five Copies, “ 7.50 Sincle Copy Six months, 1.00 IjZzt' Invariably in advance. Late Opinions of the Press. Tha Southern Farm and Home, pnbi'sbed by J. W. Burke k Co., Macon Ga., edited by Gen. Wm. M. Browne, is on our tabic. We have carefully watched this monthly from the first io the b-r- ent number, and regard it a? among the fi’v-t pub lications of its chaaracter in the United State,. Every fanner should have a copy. Terms $2 pec annum.—Christian Observer, Catlettsburg, Ky. We present the table of contents of the la.t number of the Southern Farm and Home., pub lished at Macon, Ga., to show our readers what valuable information they are losing by neglecting to subscribe to this magazine. This one number is of more value to any former who can read, than the money necessary to secure the magazine the entire year.—Georgia Clipper. The Farm and Home, published by J. W. Burke k Co., Macon, Ga., is gotten up in the handsomest style, and is full of the most useful and practical information. Bet the formers of this section sub scribe at once for this most valuable Agricultural Journal. Price $2.00 a year. It is worth tlirco times the money.—Sparta Times and Planter. JOURNAL FOR THE HOME AND FIRESIDE. It will be our endeavor to admit to our columns nothing that will offend the taste of the most fastidious—nothing that could not be read with perfect propriety in the FAMILY CIRCLE. jggH- It will aim at a high standand in literature, and will endeavor to exclude all the L-ash which finds publicity in too many of our lapers. jrst- It wilil take a stand for what it believes to be the RIGHT SIDE in all qncstiors which come before the public, and will ADHERE TO THE RIGHT, without fear cr favor, regardless alike of the flattery of friends and the hatred of foes. It will manfully defend and earnestly labor to promote the interests of .the peo ple among whom it circulates, and Its columns will ever be open to all communications of interest to its readers. It will contain THCIRT Y«T WO COLUMMS, The Southern Farm and Home.—We take pleas-, mein TflrflrnmmilTng thin journal to the reader:* of the Times and Messenger, as one of the belt publications in the South. Its Editor, Gen. Wm. M. Browne, is one of the dearest thinkers and ablest writers in the Southern country, and the ty pographical appearance of the Farm and Heme will compare favorably with-any of the publica tions of the day.;—Selmff limes smd Messenger. Southern Farm and Home^—This is another new candidateJor the y suffrages ’* of the Southern planter and. farmer. It is published at Macon, Ga., bjr J. W. Burke & Co., and edited with rare ability by Gen. Wm- M. Browne, a-well known journalist of excellent literaiy reputation. Ils pages are filled with, practical matter, and handsome illus trations embellish each' number.; It was com menced in November 1869,' and has attained a prominent place among the agricultural periodio- ds.—Auburn IteJligeneer. - With a view of puffing this excellent magazine in the hands of every family in Houston and the ad joining counties, we propose to club it with the ' And will give FROM ONE-THIRD TO ONE-HALF MORE BEADING MATTER than most, of the Country Papers in the State. Then Let Everybody Rally to its Support ! We have not the time to call on every man in the county and ask him to subscribe; so don’t wait, but come up of yonr own accord 1 Reader, if you take it yourself go to work and Induce Your Neighbor to Subscribe! And don’t be. satisfied to stop with ONE, but ,Y TO GrET JS- nOSSKST! Terxus, .. $2.50 Year. Houston Home Journal, follows: - . - Anyone NAL ONE YEAR FREE. Come along, then; if vou do not get the full value of yon • " - j'* - - -f- - ->•«'----fff'- ^ . money,, it wifi-be refiinded. Secretary, Macon, Ga., JOBSOiS, Agent, Perry, Ga.