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the vjsm eyeby Thursday morning, .o. ? , HOUSTON HOKE JOURNAL > A2TD FtJBUflHXD BT J. T. WATERMAN, VEBMS, 4'i' One Tear, i>......-,$2,pff Bix Months, 1 50 Three Months, 1 00 The paper ■will be stopped at the expirn- i 0 n of the time paid for, unless the sub notion is previously renewed. If the address of a -subscriber is to be changed, we mns^jhfTOvthe; old address as well as the new one, to prevent mistake. No subscription received for a less period piftii three months. No attention paid to anonymous commu nications, as we are responsible for every thing in onr reading columns. This rule is one sending us five new subscribers id $12 50, will receive the Home Journal one year twee. Displayed advertisements will be charged ..yarding to the space they occupy. Vlll advertisements should be marked for specified time, oi hey will be continued ,nd charged for until ordered out Advertisements inserted at intervals will : charged as new each insertion. Advertisements to run for a longer time three months, are due and will bo col lected at the beginning yrf each quarter. Transient- advertisements -must be paid ir in advance. Job work must be paid fojradehvery. Advertisements ttiscoiinTitieu from ,i,ae i before the timi specified, will be barged only for tbe time published. Marriage Notifies and .Obituaries not t-x- eeding ten lines will bo published free.— *ibituaries of more than ten lines will be iuirged for at regular advertising rates. Notion of pj^rannil or griyatq eliuructer; itended to promote any private enienirise r interest, will be charged as other auver- MinentH. * ■ 1 Advertisers are requested to band in their vors as cuxtrijttliasWeek 08 possiMc.. Tbe above tenns will be strictly adhered Will be paid for every grain of mercury or other Bubfct&ncc found in onr liter Pills. For liver ease, for nfcrvons or eiclf head-aefie, conHtip*iicra or costiveuesn, dyspepea or Indigestion, jaundice, rheumatism, gout aid dropsy, aud fl re recom mended an a general family cathartic medicine. These pills vrdi give relief ih nine cases out of ten for every ordinary ailment in our Southern climate, where most of the diseases are dependent on a diseased liver and imperfect digestion, we TiAve : prepared town to supply a safer and every way better purgative remedy than has hitherto been available to mankind. Their penetrating properties cleanse and invigorate every portion ol the human organism, correcting its diseased action and restoring iU healthy vitalities. Prepared only by * L. W. HUNT k CO. Pruggistr, Macon. Ga. Sot rantie a liberal percentage for ativer- liing. Keep yonrsdf unceiv.aigiv before , public; and it matters not -wliut busuies^-« >u are engaged m,'for; if intelligently fttnl engaged . Justriously pursued, a fortune will be the ,ult”—Hunts Merchants’ Mugaruc. •• After I began to advertise my Ironware :idy, business increased with amazing ra- idity. For tun years past I have spent SO,000 yeariyftnrfeeep my superior wares ^^•fore the public. -TfwJVbeeH timid in ad- sing, I should never have possessed my ... . j-irn /i/hi ” l^Uoti. irliiue of £1150.000. "—McLeod Helton, lirmingbaui. Advertising, like Midas touch, turns crytbing to gold., it JQUr •Lri.ug mpp. milUoau to or. eir -coffers."-^ Stiiari ••The ntumwipers made Fisk." fish, Jr. -James ‘Without Ibe aid of advertisements, I pnld have done nothing in, my speeuls- I have the most complete faith iu ^inter’s ink. Advertising is the royal road | tinsiness."—P. T. HarnBi. -ref Mrs. Burnside, of Michigan, rubbed her boy’s head with kerosene, The treacherous fluid took fire, the boy- lost his hair, sad Mrs. B. lost her heir. * BY J. T. WATERMAN. PERRY, GA., MARCH 9, 1S71. VOL. I, NO. 12. KAY APPLE LIVER PILLS, For all the purposes of a Family Cathartic Med icine. Nommmry or other substance in them. 81,000 La Gold CESTTHAIi OITV WORM CANDY! ' A pleasant, safe and effectual remedy for worms iu tbe human body. Symptoms of Worms. Alternate paleness and flushing of countenance, a dull expression of tbe eyes, drowsiness,-itch.eg of tec nose, a swelled upper lip, tongue wiiitrij- furrod and tliiekly, speckled w.tb red spots, fetid breath and enlarged belly, a-portial or geueial Swelling or puiliuess of the skin, a starting in ti a sleep, aud grinding of the teeth, a sensation as f something were lodged iu the throat, a gradual wanting of the flesh, sickness of the stomach, v« m- t ng*. a slioi t drv rough, ftppet.te somet.iucs voia- cious. at other times feeble, an unuatnral craving for diif, chalk or clay, bowels sometimes costive, at other times loose, great fretfuiuess and in*.la bility of temper, pains in the stoHjadi aud bowels, a lie, tits convnJxun-* rnd pa ry. "Fa? direction* see top of the box. It would he well to give a small dime of castor oil, with a few drops of spirits of turpeutind, after the candy, to vnrtuB. Thlt. raudT riven iiume- bring away tho womiR. This raudy gives imme diate relief. Prepared only by - L. W. HUNT &-CO., liruggists, Macon, Ga. TONIC LITER BITTERS. It is not a whisky drink, but is a compound of vegetable tonics with pure etiranlant, and is rec ommended in all cases where a tonic and gentle iajativo js needed. In dyspepsia, indigestion, bilifjr] languor, head-aclie amt c« .stiVeness. those; .j ; . bitters are especially commended. As a preventive of dulls aud fevcFv it will be found to be a va; ble medicine, by gently «t inulntiug the liver and assisting nature to throw • *IV miasma. Take one. two or three doses a day—just enough to x»roduce a full, healthy action on the bowels. If you have cause* to use bitters of any kind, this is what you want. Prepared only by l. w. nrxr is.co„ Imigglsts, Macon, Ga. STANDARD COUGH REMEDY. VLERS X’RGFESSGIt ?. LOUD’S medicines! cough: jS-srjR-TTlE* iNTS.OlLS! &c For tiivse di I X I* n A. IV A,-T O BT. 'Mixture ii* a xc: # 0*.. *. . -„..V *' v >• x • - \s51.t to let xi gel Is a pleasant, safe and effective medicine in cough*, colda, tioienes of U»* tnroat, chc*t‘ aau nr^A+CzxzUo, etc. r.veiy cai*e of consumplion commences with a cough excited l'roiu tnc individual mtvmg taii.i. cola. The diacasc.H oi tnc a:r x»a>Va^es are ol great interest U> every intelligent oc*ng. ine deiicalo orgauizatiou of tue lungs, t,cii ev^mdant activity, ana tneir being .exitosed to contact ui ax oi t»ucu amercut tciupeAnttAie, and winca .-bniatus >acinus UT.tatmg inatteva nuspeuacd in it, render timm t!NX*ecially l.aeio W diM*n>e j, and tnoa*; «.■! nio.Kt so- rit.iis chaiacter. ir_tnyse disca^ca wt* off:r Prof. Lo'id's Couglj iciiuxly. It you catczi a told, do noi wji*t to let xi get a ueOp hold, but take the xeinruj at Once. To show tuc estimation in which, tin! medicine is held, wc ax>punu a lev.* certificates ; G. W. KELLEK. RICE cS3 K.ILiLE3Xr, DEALERS IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE, OF- THE BETTER GRADES, AT THE OLD FAVORITE CORNER, Ferry, Georgia. TERMS C A. .S XI janl9-6m HOME-MADE FERTILIZER Lettee li- v o«i Tfr. C. A.. Clicatliam. T Dawson, Geosoia, Dooembcr Ctli, 1870. Messes. L. W. nUNT & 00., Maoox: Gents: Your lavor of flu: 1st is at hard. Iu answvj, I will snv that mj- IIon’6- il ido Fertilizer iirodnced as will as eithtr ot the others us«l, ;tlie Ltiwau aud Chi sa- pOiike.) Aliej wvre ail used alike — plumed the saiae day, ill the same field, and cui iva- led alike -ail dislrdiuted Iroia the i-tiiie machine, with the same yuage. Iu ihe spl'lllf. and early summer I decided ,u liivor of the Oitt^ajic-ake, hut falcr m tho seiisdn -file Home-Made caught up with it, ainl I am not sure hut cxtvUcd it iu iVuit-prothiciiij'. Tht eoming season i shiili use no otiicr except such as 1 compound myself 1 also” com- pouiuied a toil lor Mr. John Moreland, oi this couuiy, and enclose iiis certificate ol the result Jobssrespoctluliy, C. A. CHEATHAM. CuicsASAWHATcmr, Deeemhcr 6th, 1670. Die C. A. Cheatham—Dear Sir: In answer to your inquiry "Hoy did m’y Home- Made Fertilizer do?” I will say, • ‘It ilid first-rate." 1 consider it as go ... ... O ‘ood as a majority ol the commercial fertilizers, and not hah so expensive. The next season I shall use n -ne but ihe Home-made, il you can furnish me with the chemicals to midic it Your, truiy, JuHN MOKELAND. It Gave iicndy and Entire Kelief. i Onr Patrons, To Dealers, and to the General Public. Nearly lour voir* ago, when Buffering from .i ao- verfe cougu. i wari iuuuccd t*y Air. J.uud to f y lit* CougU byrup,' xt gave eucu ready auu .entire it- lict tiA»t a ttuiC great pleasure in recv»uimcnding it ,> aucii aa may be xu a samiar eoiuut.ua t»x sutler- og. ’ £. W. Warren*.t Macon, Jail. 2*2, 3ST0. Afforded Immediate Relier. Macon, Ga., January 5* 1870 JZ feel tlxat we cannot do a bettor service than to ra.»e a voice of warning against the ludus- niiiate use of Patent Medicxnea, whose name la r Legion, a large laajor.ty oi wliicu are put ujj- w niarket by jguormut quacks, who do not f know ^ ' ^ Mcbbtb. L. W. HUNT A: CO.: Gents:—Underutanding tnat you have engaged in tne manuiacture of P. ijoud's Cough S>yi*up r *t affords me pleasure to bear testimony to its m«r- > .t. i was suffering from a very ti'ouuiwsonxe cough .one.' Many qf tneae whcn Mr. Loud presented me with a hottxe of xns >viiatev«r, aud Syrup, the use of winch afforded me immediate recommended for reiiei. My mother used a small portion left ly "^Yliy ennnot every intelligent fivrmrr organize a guano company on Lis own farm, h; and uis laborers fairing ail the stoek ? There is no plantation in the coun rj- that , d ies not ufiord ample and the rtehest ma'.eriai to be used as a basis. The eLemicais necessary to utilize its material arc well known mid can be obtained in abundance. The e ccrpn.se aud energy of a few practical men have, the past season, proven that us goon or better corn or cotton can be made from Ihe Home-Made Fertilizer, as may be yielded by any oi me nosirumj sold at such extiuvagaut prices. Experience shows urai wncra Ibi manure or other rich deposit;- can be obtained, it answers a better purpose than dry swamp earth. In that cuse, eight barrels of the lot manure should no used wiin the quantity of chemicals, bones, etc., instead of five ;5;barrels of dry muck. This improves the quality, and lessens the x>rieo of the ictili- Zer, by increasing ihe weight borne have added pure Peruvian Guano to the compound in ure proportion of 150 to 200 pounds, but five or six bushels oi cotton seed have been found to be ol equal service as the Peruvian, anil much cheaper. In all cases the xones aud Plaster of Paris should first be well mixed with the Lot Manure or rich earth, and then the barrel of mixed chemicals dissolved in a little water, and thorougldy incorpo rated. The chemicals, Bones, Plaster of Paris, etc., sold by us we guarantee to be of the very best quality. IVe call particular attention to our preparation of Bones, as it is Bone dissolved m Sulphuric Acid, and dried with Bone CliareoaL As there will be an active demand for these clu-iaicals, parties who wish u.supply should scud in their or- ders early. • a L. W. HUNT & CO., Druggists. I wlilcii tiicy mvat-inlily aginarali*, t.nyi ill- lilU, Witil 8UUU2C bCIieficAi rCSUifcf. smg tiie tsuffcraig aad oiteu i»roduciug last Lug " Hty or aiiortquiug tiic life of ti>o iudiVxauai. Kespectf uily, yours. J. C. Ccrd. i druggists aad dealers, we arc compelled to | aud seu tuese nostrums, wliicu wc do fgr .past t tney are: Jis a protection to tiie people from n uupositiou, aud from tiie Buffer lag taat ib i entaued ou taem by tue use of tac class oi • tiiem a ‘ | formulas for tuese medicines are all publisiiea [it will bejfeen - iiiey are all articles of ment. ~ i wuo take medicine wxtuout tue advice oi oukL do well to give these the prel'ei- K\uey are good aud pure, aud ait by f&rsons who have had ioug years oi > in .compounding medicines. From Huyor G. S. Obear. Macon', Ga., February 1,1870. -Messrs. L. W. rftJNT & CO.: Gents:—Mr. P- Loud having referred you to me relative to the merits of lxis Cough Kyrup, I take pleasure iu stating that wlxeu Buffering from a very severe cold aud distressing cough, which destroyed my rest, Mr. Loud .noticed my cough aud present ed me With some of his Syrup, Which afforded me m mediate relief , and enabled me to rest quietly, a thing 1 had not been able to do for several nights before. I therefore esteem the Syrup a v>. y valu able medicine. Yours, very respectfully, Usoboe s. Ureas. ■POUND EXTRACT TO DE ALERS. SARSAPARILLA AND We . offer yon fee above Standard articles at a reasonable, margin for profit, and confident!? ask fai”hStt*p^f Bsti,es? “ e “ oriouarem - , ,-7 Ourlar^Budj^n xsconej etock of ‘ rE IilibW DOCK, Scrofulx And Scrofulous Diseases, Dis- “ ~ ~ ’ Pustulas. Blotches, * ’ Biug,wcum, Tumors, Bores, Syphilis, Mercurial Pots, uidfor. PDRlFnXG THE BLOOD. irlww particular disorder is felt, people health and live longer for cleansing 1 laetiug health. Sooner or later some- go .wrong, and the machinery of life is ■ or overthrown. Thie medicine is as it is effectual—a fact of irr».,. im- s to those who take it, for many of the al- '”4rket have mercury or arsenic as L often entail a countless t^ain of r victims, even worse than the orig- This medicine is a concentrated .a i- J ■ Sarsaparilla, Yellow Dock and ^ndcheapestalterative ever ofiered to the “*P*opla. Prepared only b; Teparea only by LrW.HCKTfcCJO., . Druggists, Maoon, Ga. DRUGS, MEDICINES, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, ftARTVETJ AND GRASS SEEDS, Mill still be kept up to tbe u.n.1 standard, and ' ’ rtted for anything in this lino. :L- tV. HUNT 4: CO.. MholeEale Drug aud Chemical Marehonse, Mocon.Ga- : \ AH of the above preparations for sale Dy DB. J. C. GILBERT, Berry, Ga. MACON, GEORGIA. Dr. J. C. GILBERT, Agent at Perry. Gen. C. I). ANDERSON, Ajrent at Port galley. N. T. JOHNSON, Agent at Mazsliallville. THOMAS J. CATER, PERRY, CEORGIA. DEALER in PHOTOGRAPHIC ROOMS Your particular attention is called to the facts and figures below. Examine them closely. Fikst.—Having taken the old stand known as Crown’s Art GaQery, and refitted it up in the best manner, we Are prepared to execute the finest and best work. Second.—Our prices, as will be seen, are greatly below those.of any other Gallery in Macon. Third.—We guarantee perfect satisfaction in every case^-pr no charge. - Fourth.—The only Fremitm given at the recent Macon Fair -foe the beat Plain Photographs was awarded *n& we are determined to keep up the merit of our increasing reputation. Fifth.—Our facilities are such that we can pro duce the best pictures in Middle Georgia, and at reasonable prices. Sixth.—Unequalled facilities for making Baby Pictures, aud no trouble or pains spared to give satisfaction. Call and be convinced. Old Pictures copied to any of the above sizes, en larger, aud fiuely finished. A reduction is made i onr regular prices to families and large parties. Thanking uur patron* for their liberal patronage in tiie past, we respectfully ask a continuance of the KUfcie. SCHAUB k HAYGOOD, dec28-3ra Macon, Ga. FURNITURE DEY-GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOTS AND SHOES, CROCKEEIY, tfcc. PLEASE CALL AND EXAMINE MY STOCK dec!7-tf SCHAUB & HAYCOOD T S No. 13 Cotton Avenue. MACON, --- - GEORGIA Prices of Plain Photographs: Per doz, card size for the Album, any style, $4 00 Half “ “ •• «* “ “ “ “ 2 50 “ Victoria Card, 44 44 4 00 44 Imperial* “ 44 44 5 00 A Photograph G‘x x8 l : inches, nicely framed, 4 00 44 8x10 “ “ *• 5 00 44 10 x 12 44 44 44 7 00 44 11 x 14 44 “ 44 10 00 Prices of Paintings; A painting 11 x 14 inches, handsomely framed $20 GEORGE PAUL, PERRY, GA., Keeps constantly on hand a good assort ment of BEDSTEADS, TRUNDLE BEDS, WARDROBES, TABLES, CHAIRS, WASHSTANDS, CRADLES, CRIBS, SAFES, ETC., MATTRESSES ON HAND AND MADE TO ORDER. A general assortment of METALLIC, and every description of WOODEN OOF'FmS. A Hearse can be furnished to order at any time, on short notice. I can b§ found in the day time at my store, next to the Hotel; at night, at my residence, adjoining that of Dr. Haris. Furniture Made to Order, and repaired at short notice. I will sell you Fumijure as CHEAP AS IT BAN BE BOUGHT IN MACON. GEORGE PAUL. dec17-ly ONE OF THE Handsomest Stocks IN MIDDLE GEORGIA MIX & KIRTLAND, DEALERS IN Boots, Shoes, Leather AND FINDINGS, No. 3, Cotton Avenue, MACON, GA., POETRY. Written for Hie Home JounuL A Dollar-ons Strain. BT UEN DE LEON. Into the nether depths of debt Pm thrown, And that, alas! is what ails Hannah; A host of eager Shylocks hunt me down, And Pm more chased than chaste Diana. At all the corners of the streets I dodge, Like any poor penniless debtor, And I cry with Cowper, “Oh, for a lodge!" But Oh-ing makes matters no better. There is, I am sure, no possible peace To a man from creditors running; Better, lar better, to be like Lncreco Undone, than to suffer this dunning. Oh, I am weary, and care-worn, and aad, All the milk of my kindness is sour; With spirits quite crush’d and appetite bad, I'm as lean now as Pisa’s lamed tower. The Best Investment. Respectfully invite the attenticn of wholesale and retail buyers to their large and well assorted stock, which comnrises everything in the sbaf ladies', gentlemen's, misses', youths' and h wear, of all the very newest styles, among them the best makes of Philadelphia, New York, Boston, New Haven, etc. We feci confident of suiting customers, both in quality and price, aud there fore inirlte a call. dec28-tcn GOOD THINGS FOE EVERYBODY! CHEAP FOR CASH IV. T. JOHNSON, MARSHALLYILLE, GA, Has on hand a complete stock of Dry Goods, Groceries, Ben Adam had a golden coin one day, Which he put out at interest withn Jew; Year alter \ ear, awaiting him it lay. Until the doubled coin two pieces grew, And these two, lour—so on till people said: “How rich Ben Adam is!" and bowed the servile head. Ben Selim had a golden coin that day, Which to a stranger asking alms he gave, Who went rejoicing on his unknown way— Ben Selim died, too poor to own a grave, But when his soul reached heaven, angels with pride, Showed him the wealth to which his coin hod multiplied. MISCELLANY. TUE STATE TREASURY. Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Hardware, - Nails, Drags, Patent Medicines, Ac., Xc*, All of which wOl be sold very low for Cash, “ CREDIT HAS PLAYED OUT. He is daily receiving at.t. the Good things of the season. He has put down the prices to suit ihe times. Cell on him and you cannot fail to bo suited. dec88-tf [ We make the following extract from the Report of Treasurer juugier. It in rather rough on Rufus, but no more than he deserves.] Besides the bonded indebtedness as shown in Table C, a large amount oi new State bonds have been issued, greatly in excess of tbe honest de mands against the State, and under circumstances that lead to the beiiel that these bonds have been used for private purposes, and' to furthei the ends of certain individuals. Paragraph 10 of section 86 of the Code makes it the duty of the Treasu rer to “annually report to the Gover nor the amount of State debt bearing interest for each year, distinguishing between the sterling bonds, if any, and federal; the rate per cent, paid on each kind of bonds, the amount upon each rate paid; also the exchange, il any, and the aggregate amount of in terest paid in each year, and the amount due and unpaid at each semi annual payment, and the reason for such non-payment.” These bonds, so far as the coupons are concerned, not being executed ac cording to law, and not being regis tered in tbe Treasurer’s office, as tbe law requires, I have no data by which I can arrive at the exact amount of new bonds-issued.- I have made seve ral attempts to learn the amount and disposition made of the bonds, but the financial agent, who has been in charge in New York, has been instruct ed by the Governor to withhold all in formation concerning them. Enough, however, has been learned to authorize the statement that nearly five millions have been issued and sent to New York. This attempt at concealment leaves ground for grave suspicion, and. it would behoove an honest executive to expose such fraud against the State. [The Treasurer then gives the names of the railroads to which State aid has been granted.] Making in all thirty-two railroads to which tbe endorsement of tbe State is pledged, covering a distance of over two thousand miles, ana in amount about thirty millions of dollars, which the State prospectively guarantees. This, added to the old bonded indebt edness and new bonds issued, will make something over forty millions of dollars, being one-fifth of the tax re turned value of all the property in the State, exclusive of railsoads, banking, express and insurance companies. In my last- annual report, to January 1st, 1870, the estimate for the usual and necessary disbursements for that year, exclusive of the interest on the public debt, was five hundred thousand dollars. This was ample for all honest and practical purposes, but reddens and pillaging hands-hawe run them to nearly twice that amount, namely, nine hundred and seventy-five thousand dol lars', besides a large debt incurred against the State Road. The same report estimated the an nual net earnings rf the Western and Atlantic Railroad (the property of the State, of which the Governor was Pres ident) at three hundred and sixty thous and dollars. Only forty-five thousand dollars were paid into the State Treas ury, while the Road is reported to hove accumulated a floating debj of over seven hundred thousand iolhirs, part due connecting roads, balance for sup plies and monthly pay rolls; making a difference against the State of one mil lion and fifteen thousand dollars. This is a subject that calls for thorough in vestigation, as it is a matter of great wonder that a main trunk road, be sides a heavy way freight, receiving at one end the stock, manufactures and produce of the North and the great West, poured in by river and rail con nection, and at the other distributed by three different railroads in immedi ate connection, all of which are paying 1 ■" -7T~ fine dividends to the people are amazed that this great re ceiver and distributor, one hundred and thirty-eight miles long, and fully equipped, should be so badly managed as not to pay expenses, but saddle a large debt upon the State. The en quiry is, “What has become of the money?” Said last report further shows, after paying all the ordinary expenses in cluding the matured interest, a surplus of four hundred and seventy<>ne thou sand four hundred and sixty-one dol lars, to be used as a sinking fund, to aid in curtailing the State’s bonded in debtedness. With a wise and honest administration, these estimates would have been easily and folly realized; but with an excessively prodigal, un scrupulous Chief Executive in the use of the public funds, throwing them broadcast, with the hope of buying in fluence, and usurping power for cor rupt purposes, with a venal crowd to respond to his mercenary, sordid ends, over four and a half millions of new State bonds have been issued, which the Governor, in his anxiety to keep the matter concealed from the Treas ury Department, failed to have execu t'd and registered as the law requires. Under these circumstances the Treas urer asks to be excused from venturing on an estimate of the expenses for 1871. - Our final hope is in a great improve ment in the Legislative Department, so as to correct the abuses of the Ex ecutive. Respectfully submitted, N. L. Angles, Treasurer. The New York papers are trying to disgust John Bull still further with this “blawstei country” by publishing letters purporting to hare been written Canada and favoring annexa tion. The attention of the polico is re spectfully called to that part of Olive Logan’s lecture where she says‘-’women cany a concealed weapon which can, ' properly used, swuy the destinies of mankind.* Ax exasperated church member iu Newport, Pa., is denouncing through the press the naughty girls- who won’t keep still in church. He says tlu-v ‘chatter and smirk, and bob. their mpty heads about .like senseless monkeys; and shift and twist their bewitching bodies ns though the benches were ousltioad with chestnut burrs.” philosophical individual, who suddenly sat down ou a slippery side walk in Milwaukee, disarmed the usual ridicule incident to accidents of that character by cooly taking a cigar out his pocket and lighting it before of getting up. The hc?than Chiiiett have some “ways” which could not be called “dark,” Tho way they celebrate their holidays is one of them. The first thing they do is to pay off old debts and square accounts to a fraction Money matters having been thus ad justed, they next make up old quarrels, and shake hands all round. Bowen, the Bigamist. This Radical Congressman from South Carolina, if not winning distinc tion is certainly acquiring a great amount of notoriety, which is all the same from a Republican view. He has recently met two former wives be fore the Courts in Washington City to answer to the charge of bigamy. He recently married a third wife, a-wid owed daughter of the late Mr. Petti grew. It is said that in sewing circles, at tea parties, in the loll of fashiona ble receptions, wherein two or more ol the fair sex come together, this man of many ’.rives, C. C. Bowen, is the topic of conversation. A Republican writer says the Washington Indies are anxious to know the appearance and personnel of Bowen, whether he is dark or fair, youthful or middle-aged, short or tall, whether his eyes are black or blue, or both, and one young lady ol poetic sensibilities wishes to know which of Lord Byron’s characters he' mostly resembles. Bowen would cer tainly make a gushing Representative from Utah, should that land of muny wives be admitted as a State. Bowen has now three living wives and repre sents South Carolina in Congress.—La- Grange Reporter. A paper in Bordeaux reports, among others stories of a similar character, that, a number of Bavarian soldiers had slaughtered some little French children, fried theu with onions, »ud eaten them for dinner. Chief Justice Bellows, of New Hamp shire, in opening-court recently con demned in veiy decided terms tho-va- rioua means used to “swindle'’ people _t church fairs, uud said that aa they were indictable offenses, the officers failed to do their duty Vlten they suf fered them to pass unnoticed. TO OUR FARMERS. A Correspondent asks ns what we think of late plowing. Plowing should not be continued later than ten or elev en o’ clock at night. It gets the hor ses in the habit of staying oat late, and unduly exposes the plow. We have known plows to acquire spring halt and inflamatory rheumatism from late plowing. Don’t do it. To another correspondent, . who wants ns to suggest a good drain on a farm, we would say a heavy mortgage at ten per cent, will drain it about os rapidly as anything we know of. When you make cider select noth ing but the soundest turnips, chop ping them into grindstone size before cradling them. In boiling your cider use plenty of ice, and when boiled hang it np in the sun to dry A pick-ax should never be nsed in jacking apples. It has a tendency to break down tbe vine and damage the hive. " In sowing your winter apple-jack a horse-rake will be found preferable to a step-ladder. Step-ladders ore liable to freeze np, and are hardly palatable unless boiled in’sugar. In cutting down hemlock trees for canning, - select the largest. Don’t throw away the chips, as -they make fine parlor ornaments, encased in rns tic frames of salt and vinegar. The coming cold weather should suggest to the humane farmer the necessity for a good cow-shed. The following is a receipt for making a good cow shed: Pour a pail-ful of boiling hot water on her back, and if that don’t make a good cow-shed—her hair—we are no prophets to anya body. Now is the time for planting your winter hay. The pink-eyed Southdown is probably the best variety, as it don’t need poling and begins to lay early. Rev. Dr. Deems, in the course of his remarks at the funeral of Alice Cory, said: “Men loved Alice Cary, and women lovedher. When a man loves a woman, it is nature; when a woman loves a woman,‘it is of grace—of the grace that woman makes by her loveli ness; and it is one of the finest thing; that can be said of Alice Cary, .that she had such troops of friends of her own A schoolmaster’s description pf a money lender, saya: “He serves you in the present tense,’ he lends you in the conditional mood, keeps yon' in the subjunctive, and ruins you in the fur- ture.” SMALL TALK. A Kansas City editor, who employs a Chinese laautU-yiu.ia, is in a panic. Hear him: limy sent home with our washing yesterday a tnhig that branch es off iu two ways a little below the cop, like a railway junction, and has puckered trills edged with ‘totting’ on each end of the divide. We don’t know what it is, and we’re a poor, inendless inau, with only our virtue, and none but villains would seek to injure that. ” A citizen of Dubiin, Timothy Mon ahan, recently ieit £20 in his will to ward tha completion of the Milan Cathedral. A> the Duorno was begun 600 years ago, h-is cost up to this time about £1:10,000,000, won’t be iiuished lor 125 years, and will stiff require £±0,000,000 or £50,000,000, Mr. Monahan’s bequest cannot materially aid the enterprise. Possibly his £20 might do something toward making port of a finger of one of the Cathe dral’s 5,000 statues. Cuts from the Courier-Journal. ‘A Hundred Team Ago” is the title of Jones Pabton’s last lecture. Could not CoL Susan B. Anthony be pre vailed upon to give us a lecture ' em bodying her personal- recollections of that period? ‘Cairo,” says an Illinois paper, “j? a promising town; but the mischief of it is, it redeems none of its promis es. A Chicago paper denies that Wil liam of Prussia has the sword that Napoleon surrendered to Blucuer at Waterloo. Nobody asserts tl^t he has it Napoleon surrendered no sword to Blucheb at Waterloo, and that is tha celebrated weapon which William now has—the sword that Napoleon didn’t surrender. George Francis Train announces his determination not to be a candidate for the Presidency in the next race. There is something very strange about ljs, and if we were to see him now with eighteen or twenty millions of dollars iu.cash, we should be tempted to think that he had been bought off. Iu the Chicago convention of Huf- frage-shriekers, last week, Mrs. Swiss-r helm said: “We are determined to crush, out all opposition to woman suffrage.” The only wonder is that, with such feet as those women have got, they haven’t crushed it out long ago. - A Chicago journal, has discovered “a new indication of the President's wisdom.” It is a little singular that a new indication «f his wisjlom should have been fonnd before his most inti mate friends suspected the existence of the old one. If you happen to lose yonr paper of to-day before you have real some particular item of ^ew.; in it, why, don’t fret about the matter, but wait, patiently a week or ten days, and you’ll find the thing you m the Cincinnati Enquirer. A religious society in Aberdeen^ Scotland, recently discussed the ques tion whether reading the Alma: Sunday is consistent with Cl duty. There are ninety-seven newspaper^ published in Georgia.