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The lionsjci-j,,,**
been -eSTfilitishe 1 a little more than
unp year. When announcement was
made that there would be a paper
started in Perry, «ome doubted, all
hoped it would succeed, and not a few
vrer' totally incredulous,! The pas*
year was a very discouraging one, in
a financial view. This section of conn -
trr was in a poor condition; the fann
ers had gone deeply in debt for ferti-
1k-rs and supplies; crops had been
p var; the jirice of cotton was low, and
■ 11 were oppressed with gloom. There
fore, many said it would not do io
attempt a newspaper enterprise in
Houston.
But wo started; the people came
handsomely to our support, • and we
were soon able to boast as good a sub-
reripti >n list as the mujonty’of country
papers in Georgia. Most of our sub
scribers lmve paid up; some of
them, t how jjfer, have received the
paper week -after wed:, and have not
yet paid for it. Of course we do not
intend to continue sending it to them.
W : believe therefore some who do not
intend to for last year’s paper. Poor
we pity them—from the
our heart we do. They
ils except the soles of their
i their gizzards might be
od over in the desert of Sahara a
thousand years without getting any
grit in them. But let them pass; if
any man is offended at this, he is the
very onejwo mean.
We enter upon a new .year which is
far from bright. Our section is, we
believe, worse eff financially than il
was a year ago. But we begin this
year with the same conviction that
impelled iw a year since, namely—
that muscle and energy, exerted in the
right direction, are bound to bring
sncees3.
To all our friends who have given us
support, moral or financial, we return
our 'sincere and lasting thanks, and
we respectfully ask a continuation of
it. Wc have a large supply of muscle
hud energy, friends; all we want now
is a little backing from each one of
you.
are going
,, _ . ear for profit and m t for
"^Tglory? How many qre'going to make
ournaE ha- jheir supplies in abundance and a
moderate attempt at cotton for
profit? And How many are ‘going • to
make few, if any provisions, and a
tremendons crop of cotton for glo
ry? How far into next year can a
family live on glory; bow many calico
We congratulate the people of Geor- i As our readers are aware, the press
gia and the entire country upon the j of this State, like that of other States,
prospect before us. The cud of the has been free—not only free to pub-
tyranny of carpet-bag mle and robber lish what it pleased, but free from j
supremacy in this State is rapidly np- j taxation. This policy was adopted in j
preaching. The same causes which j accordance with the ide* that, being a |
are bringing about this result are op-! public educator.it should be exempt;
crating effectually in the entire South, j from taxation, like schools and col- j
and, ere long, by peaceful means, we ! leges; and further, that printing, be-!
shall be relieved from the grasp of the j ing classed with meehaical pursuits, |
You should spare no pains in beauti
fying your hones and improving the
roads that lead to them. What a
beautiful picture is a dwelling embow
ered in trees, its door-yard filled with
fragrant flowers the woodbine or the
honeysuckle encircling the door and
A Russian, more even than an Amer
ican, no sooner beginss.ilum he is iin- j
patient to see the result. Palaces are j
put together without regard to ex-;
penses provided time can be saved.— j
■Twenty millions of roubles were ex-1
pended on the winter palace in' a sin- !
windows! How grateful to the trav- ’gle year—the workmen holding blaz-
eler is a road free of stones and gul- j ing fires to the walls to dry them foot
dresses will it buy. and how long will j cormorant crew who have plundered the printer’s types, presses, etc.,
it pay the children’s tuition? Does
glory consist in goBg deeply into debt,
mortgaging the crop of the present
year to pay that debt, coming out at
the end of the year with cotton gone,
provisions eaten up, an empty poi
and a stomach full of despair!
so. what is glory good for? T
worth a cent? Is it wor h a “o
and oppressed us. i should be exempt from taxation, like j
Bullock fled from justice, and, as we i mechanic’s tools.
predicted at the time, he will come j This thing was never questioned nil-
back when he can go nowhere else— ■ til since the advent of Radicalism—
such, at least, are the indications. He i when, three years ago, the press was
tried bard to get Grant and the Radi- j included with other species of proper-
j cal faction to sand him back with j ty on which an ad valorem tax was
jwer'in his hands and bayonets at; levied. The Comptroller General and
s command. He wanted to continue j Governor, not believing that the Leg-
make a thousand bales of cotton, if it \ failed!
is all mortgaged in advance and taken Acting Governor Conley; has put
ip as soon as packed? How long will | forth Ids might to usurp the Executive
Congressional Reporting. ■—Re-
-porfing in Congress is not an exhila
rating occupation. Mr. HAY. Red-
field writes in the Cincinnati Commer
cial;
“Over the Speaker’s chair, or what
he supposes to he the Speaker’s chair,
although no one appears to pay much
attention to the man in it, is . a place
fenced off for the reporters. Tliese
miserable. men arc lying .with their
breast-bones on the edge of the crater,
looking over with firmly compressed
lips and dilated eyes, trying to catch
succeed in catching one they string it
on a piece of paper, and lean' over
the crater for another. When caught,
they string it with the others, the
whole process reminding one of fish
ing for trout, lacking only the absence
of Imnk cud line to make the picture
complete.”
One o r the curious features of the
. surroundings of the bedside of the
Prince of Wales during his recent
critical illness was the presence of the
English Home Secretary. This offi
cial waR present at Sandringham in a
strictly business and professional ca
pacity. Sympathy, so far as the offi
cial was concerned, was cut o' the
question in the case of Mr. Home
Secretary on that melancholy occasion.
It is a condition of royalty that one
can neither die nor he bom without,
a \ officer of the state to look on. The
Home Secretary was, therefore, the
skeleton of the household at Sandring
ham—the physical incarnation of that
thirteenth guest which none desire.
The habit of pleading insanity to
prevent conviction for very great
crime lias become so common and so
successful as to bring discredit upon
the administration of justice.
Governor Brown, of Missouri, sug
gests in his message that hereafter
when criminals are acquitted on the
ground of insanity juries should so
find, and the court should order their
incarceration in properly regulated
asylums.
This is the way to stop this abuse.
Let life-time incarceration in a lunatic
asylum prevent the sacrifice of more
human victims to the sudden demon
strations of the very convenient mad
ness that is but another name for great
depravity.
fk>3. Smith Russel], who traveled
with and made faces for the Berger
family of Swiss Bell Ringers, was
baptised recently in. the Episcopal
Church at Canton, Mississippi, and
lie contemplates studying for the rain-
•— Courier Journal.
cental cuss?” Is it worth the twinkle i his plunderings under bayonet pro- j islature intended to tax the press, di-
of a blind goat’s tail? | tection, and to crush oat all investiga- j rected tax collectors to suspend the col-
What good does it do a man to | tion of his conduct. lie has utterly lection until the will of that body could
■ 1 / be ascertained. Having failed to act
on the matter until recently, no tax
has yet been collected from the press.
But the matter came up a few day?
before the adjournment of the Legis
lature, when the section of the'tux
act exempting the press was stricken
out, which has the effect of requiring
three year’s tax to be paid at once—
when, it is a notorious fact that such
a proceeding will close out many of
the papers now in existence.
Believing that many good men had
acted hastily, without informing them
selves properly, the writer and a por
tion of the newspaper publishers of
Atlanta addressed a note to Major
Bell, asking a suspension of the tax.—
Not being empowered to act in the
premises, the Comptroller referred the
the matter to Acting Governor Conley,
who very properly, as we think, or
dered a suspension_until January, at
winch time we hope the Legislature
will reconsider die matter, and save
the press, which does so much gratui
tous work for the State, from bein'
taxed to death.—Alliens Watchman.
ches, and shaded by the deanly. ma
ple or the graceful elm! Make your
homes radiant with every social vir
tue, and beautiful without by those
simple adornments with which nature
is everywhere so prolific. The chil
dren bom in such homes will leave
them with-regret, and come back to
them in after life as pilgrims to a ho
ly shrine; the town on whose hills and
in whose vales such homes are found
will live .forever in the hearts of its
grateful children.
it take a man to get rich if he has an
income of three million dollars a year,
and does not save a cent? But then
it is so grand to make a great big cot
ton crop and outstrip the neighbors—
isn’t it? And it looks so lofty and
imposing to hire a big lot of lazy
freedmen to worry your life nearly
out of you this year and eat np the
provisions bought on credit—don’t it?
And then it will be so extremely fan
ny, next December, to see the spruce-
looking warehouse-men, with nobby
coats and gold watch-chains, dodging
all over the conntry, looking up Col.
This, and Major .That, and Judge
Tother, “to see if we can’t settle up
that little matter, you know” -now
won’t it? How many farmers did you
e ver see get rich on large cotton crops
and no provisions? And h >w many
rich farmers did you ever see that
d idn’t make their own supplies? Who
can answer all these questions?
The writer of this knows nothing at
all of agriculture. He probably could;
not tell a Murfee’s patent subsoil.plow
from a Dow-Law cotton planter; but
the above questions have recurred to
him so many times, that he could not
help putting them oh! record, imperti
nent as they may seem.
Ha: d Times.
On nil sides we hear complaints of
hard times, and the complaints are to
some extent just. The times are hard.
Money is scarce and of course hard to
get. The merchants and professional
men com plain that they cannot collect
what is due them ; the farmers com
plain that their crops do cot bring
enough money to pay their indebted
ness. All classes are more or less
embarrassed, and all are to be pitied.
But do all act in accordance with
Tlieir professions - of -roe' searerry—o -
money? A casual observer would
suppose that most of our people are
rolling in affluence. Here is a man
who tells you in a despairing voice
that he made nothing last year, that
he is involved and that he cannot see
any possible way to extrierate himself.
But look at- that man a little closer.—
When he gets a coat, or a hat, or a
pair of boots, he must have them of
Just as fine qualify as he wore in his
palmiest days. He must appear as
well, his respectability (so-called) must
be maintained just the same as when
he Was in affluence. And he drinks
as much liquor, and as good, as form
erly. He smokes no fewer cigars and
no poorer ones, than when he was
better off. His new horse and buggy
(if he has been able to get one on
credit till next fall, with warehouse
acceptance) must be just, as stylish as
it he owned, all the negroes that once
were his. His wife and daughters
dres3 as fine and look as gay as if
all their plumage had been paid*for.
All the appetites and pampered de
sires must- be gratified as fully as they
were in days of prosperity.
We do not mean to condemn any
one: but these things ajje all wron,
all will admit—even these who prac
tise them. Not only are such things
wrong, but, we assert it without fear
of contradiction—they are very com
mon. Why, in the name of sense,
cannot a man regulate his expenditures
by his means. If ks is really a poor
man, why should he not be willing to
confess it in act as well as in word;
why does he not quit spending money
that is not absolutely necessary, and
try to get ahead again, by the prac
tise of economy?
The truth is, we are nearly all quite
poor: and another truth is, we can
never be in better circumstances until
we cease spending mcney unnecessari
ly and learn to practise the strictest
and most systematic economy.
Let us all start on the new year with
the determination to make it more
successful—make it “pay better”
....... ( than the last. Let ns resolve to pax
istrv. Not long ago he was :n Hen- j cash for what we get, as far as lies in
tucky singing “If ever icease to love.”, onr power, and to buy nothing except
what we absolutely need. If we will
The Chicago Tribune asserts that
the Hoosic tunnel for a family vault.”
Not at nil; he never thinks of dying
do this, our finances will be in a health-
,. , . . icr condition a year hence, and we
Commodore A underbid wants to buy ’ • •-
! °n a firm basis of prosperity;
One more trial, friends; let us make
, , . . one more effort to regain prosperitv;
himself, but perhaps he may wish to ® v F
a Tord Christian burial to Some of
people killed-every weeknt his new rail
way depot.— World.
j, j und lot it be on the, economical, pay-
,ie ns-ycu-go-principle. This is the only
Alluding to the fact that General
Grant has set for another picture to
go with Badean’s second edition of
his life, the Louisville Ledger ob
serves: “He always takes well.”
A young woman in Indiana blew
her brains out, because her husband
attended a spelling match at a country
school house.
lie New York Herald asserts that
ed has stolen ten thousand million
oTbns.
V :
The Alaska Fcb Trade.—In a no
tice of the fur trade, the San Francisco
Alta of the 10th ult., says:
The Alaska monopoly company are
coining money. One cargo, 55,000
fur seals, sold for about Sil—an ad
vance of 30 percent., an extra profit
of 3132,000. That company has a
house in Honolulu and one on Brit
ish territory, fourteen miles from the
line, draw their supplies for the dis
trict and the natives from London in-
steadnf San Francisco, and hold the
entire, monopoly of the fnr seal trade.
functions for the remainder of Bul
lock's term. Every effort was tried,
-and every influence brought to bear to
prevent the people. from holding an
election, and to invoke the interfer
ence of Grant and his bayonets to up
hold the usurpation. The Bond Ring
exerted itself and did what it could,—
The fraudulent bonds constitute the'
last-hope—the only means—by which
we can be further plundered by the
cormorant; hence the great import
ance to them of keeping the Executive
Department and the Supreme Court
in Radical hands. No doubt the as
sistance of bayonets in this work
would have been given, but a point-
had been reached where the Federal
Government dared not any further re
port to such measures. It was prudence,
and a fenrof the consequences at the
North, and not from any sense of
justice, desire , to do right, or disposi
tion to let us govern ourselves peacea
bly and lawfully, that these wicked de
signs were not earned out by the help
of -military, power..
.We learn that Mr. Conley will retire
gracefully, most probably without an
other word of protest. His captions-
yiess so far has only made him ridicu
lous. The object in view is unattain
able, and the hope of it has vanished !
Blodgett failed to obtain a seat . in
the Senate. -: This would have been
given him, utterly regardless of law,
principle or. justice, but the Radical
faction, though having the-power und
inclination to do. so, dared not! The
usurpers arc afraid to further pursue
their usurpations.
There is a weakening—giving away
—of the Radical party at every point.
The proceedings in Congress clearly
demonstrate this. In Georgia its bot
tom has dropped out, or, to change
the figure, its back is broken. It is
m
ever be organized again. Even in the
next Presidential campaign it will
make but a feeble, sickly show.-A//««-
ta Sun
From the Savannah News of tlie 30th nit.]
Affairs in Georgia.
The Christmas movement in Biirke
county brought a citizen of the colored
disposition within arm’s-length of a
gray mule. The Coroner’s ten-party,
held in celebration of the event,
brought iu ti verdict' of involuntary
suicide.
Too much egg-flip caused a party of
colored carousers near Columbns to
flop another colored brother over with
a pistol. His maiden name was Ben
jamin Low.
The festive, season has developed
the fact that the most popular toys
among the colored people are' shot
guns, pistols, razors -and bludgeons.
AH accounts agree that the suffrage-
slingers have enjoyed themselves fine-
n
An Atlanta barber celebrated Christ
mas by cutting the hair of his custom
ers too short, and now the man wants
to sue him for damages. “When the
ease cornea np, it will probably be
known as the “Hair-at-Law.
The local reporter of the Conyers
Examiner chara’ctnizes a : recent fall of
snow in that village as “one of the
most beautiful sights our- eyes have
yet lit upon.”
Alluding to a recent visit of General
Colquitt to Fairborn, the Palmetto
Gazette casually remarks that he
“demeaned himself in his usual sober,-
quiet and modest way. ”
The local reporter of the Columbus
Sun gathered himself around a gallon
of persimmon beer recently-in a fruit-'
less endeavor to get up a feeling of
fierce festivity.
Woods, of the Hawkinsville Dis-
gia editors are a parcel of bo vines. He
admits that he is badly gourd.
The negroes made Rome howl on
Christmas day with a free fight. A
combination funeral was the result.
When a Rome man indulges in too
many Christmas flips, the ferocious
policemen save trouble and expense
by chloroforming him for life with a
brace.ef pistol balls. They say . it is
very convenient.
Dodge county toddles triumphantly
to the front with a gourd vine meas
uring “forty yards across,” which ma
tured one. hundred and eleven gourds.
As this story appears in the Huwkins-
vill Dispatch, we would advise our
trans-Atlantic readers to receive it
with due caution.
Augusta is gloating over the fat pig
and educated woman.
A colored, person in Macon lighted a
paper bomb-shell, and blew upon it to
facilitate matters. It got to the point
pretty soon where it could blow itself,
and the citizen is endeavoring to
contract for new a head of hair and a
pair of glass eyes.
An Unreported Conversation.
During the Grand Duke Alexis’
walks through the Bridgeport cart
ridge factory the other day,, he point
ed to sevpral workingmen, and in
quired of Governor Jewel, “Are these
men what you call the common peo
ple?” The Governor replied. that
they were a fair specimen of the work
ing classes in this conntry. “But do
you mean to say that, these get into
official position?” further asked the
imperial scion. “Perhaps not any of
these men,” rejoined Governor Jewel;
“but men of their class do; they are
educated men, most of them—-that is,
they all probably read and write, and
most of them take and read the news
papers. “Do you know of any cases
where such men have actually been
->h«»tgd_tQ__Qffice?” again, queried the
curious Alexis.
“Oh, certainly.” the Governor said;
“I myself worked in the shop as a
tanner till I was twenty years of age;”
and the announcement seemed to
puzzle the Duke a good deal. Here
was the Governor of a State, as well
dressed and as well appearing as him
self, who had actually worked in
shop, and this man was welcoming
him in behalf of a hundred thousand
voters; it was more of an enigma than
the boy had ciphered on .previously;
but as he goes through the country he
will ascertain upon inquiring that very
many of the public men here have
come direct from the workshop. In
Massachusetts, where he is now visit
ing, Governor Claflin was a shoe-mak
er. Senator Wilson was a .eobbler
also, and General Banks was a machin
ist. :—Hartford Current.
The Great Mission onVowcn.
Great indeed is the.task assigned to
women. Who can elevate its dignity?
Not to make laws, not to lead armies,
not to govern empires; but form-those
by whom laws are made, armies led,
and empires governed; to guard against
the slightest taint of bodily infirmity,
the frsul, yet spotless creature, whose
moral, no les3 than physical being
must be derived from her: to inspire
those principles, to inculcate those
doctrines to animate those sentiments
which generations yet unborn, and.
nations .yet uncivilized, will learn to
bless; to soften firmness into mercy
and chasten honor into refinement; to
exalt generosity into a- virtue with a
sootliing care; to i.Uay. the .anguish of
the mind; by her tenderness to disarm
passion; by her parity to triumph over
sense,, to cheer the scholar sinking his
toil; to be a compensation for friends
that are perfidious—for happiness
that has passed away. Such is her
vocation. The couch of the tortured
y , sufferer, the prison of the deserted
^gey^nty-aun^l^t the Geor- Mend< cross of the rejected Savior
U 1 " t1 " ” —these are theatres-on which her
greatest triumphs have been achieved.
—Such is her destiny; to visit the for
saken, aud neglected; when monarchs
abandon, when counselors betray,
when justice persecutes, when breth
ren and disciples flee, to remain un
shaken and unchanged, and to.exhib-
it to this lower world a type of that
love, constant, pure and ineffable
which in another we are taught to be
lieve the test of virtue.
“Noticing the fact that Nilsson’s lov
er has been incarcerated in a lunatic
asylum by the authorities of New York
the Cincinnati Enquirer exclaims;
“This is all the charity the world can
bestow upon a poor mm who falls in
love with divinity. Bush loved be
yond liis sphere.”
A Mother’s Influence.
How touching is this tribute of
Hon. T. H. Benton, to his mother’s
influence: “My mother asked me
never to use tobacco: I have never
tonehed it from that time to the pre
sent day. She asked me never to
gamble, and I never gambled; I can
not tell who is losing in games that
are being played. She admonished
me, too, against hard drinking; and
whatever capacity for endurance I
have at present, and whatever useful
ness I have attained through life, I
have attributed to having . complied
with her pious and correct wishes.
When I was seven'years of age she
asked me not to drink, and then I
made a resolution of total abstinence
and that I have adhered to it through all
time I owe to my mother.”
Open Windows at Night.
Very much has been written on this
subject, and written unwisely; the
facts are whoever sleeps uncomforta
bly, cool-will get ill. Tcfjut a window
quite high when the mercury is at ze
ro is an absurdity. The cooler a
sleeping apartment is, the more un
healthy does it become, because cold
condenses the carbolic acid formed by
the breathing of the sleeper. It set-
t'a near tl • door and is re-breathed, and
if in a very erndensed form, he will
die before the morning. Hence vve
must be governed by circumstances,
the first thing is yon must be comfor
tably warm during sleep, other wise
you are not refreshed,and inflamation
of the lungs may be engendered and
life destroyed within a few days. An
open fireplace is sufficient tor ordi
nary purposes in cold weather Wngfi
the windows are open, it is well to
have them down at the top two or three
inches, and up at the bottom for tin-
same space.
TlicPy am Ids;
Colonel James, in a recent lecture
on the pyramids of Egypt, stated that
in the King’s Chamber, inside the py
ramid. some of the stones were thirty
feet long. These stones weighing
some ninety tons, were not found in
Egypt at all, but were brought down
the'Nile, a distance of five hundred
miles, and then placed in their pr -
sent position, one hundred feet hbov
the level of the gre nd. In regard
to. their finish, these Syenite stones
are among the hardest known; and yef
exquisitely polished,%nd built in ti
form a casing for the King’s chamber
with such superior skill, that the finest
piece of tissue paper could not be put
between the joints, and this after a
lapse of over four thousand years,
Such workmanship .would excite the
wonder and .admiration of the world.
by-foot as they proceeded. .This im
patience, combined with the instabili-!
ty of the soil- and a severity of frost j
that nips and shivers the finest gran-
ite, will effectually prevent St. Peters- |
burg from being an old city. Within
the -houses, however, no expense is
spayed to produce comfort. Brick !
walls, five and six feet in thickness,
are pierced by large windows of doub
le plate glass ; stoves constructed of
bricks and made by aid of stucco to
resemble furniture, and found in every
room ; flues run beneath the floors and
behind the. wainscoting;, and every
appliance of science to art is called in
to requisition to cause a genia
warmth to prevade every part of the
mansion. This mild atmosphere is
perfnmed with flowers. Luxurious
furniture, splendid mirrors, costly
chandeliers, statuary, articles of virtu,
with draperies of velvet, satin and
lace vie with all the plants of the trop
ics to make the dwellers within the
great mansions of St. Petersburg for
get the rigors of the climate. No ex
pense is spared to impart the comforts
of other latitudes to Russian homes.—
Apartments are large, wrappings of
fnr and wool are left iu the hall, and
g ;ests at-dinners and balls accost o.ie
another in the lightest of Summer
costumes.
To look from this artificial life out
on the streets, is like a peep through
a camera at some magic phantasmago-
ry. There is the gray drear atmos
phere ; there are the embankments of
snow and ice, forming ramparts high
er than- the heads of the passhrs-by be
tween the trottoirs and streets; the
huge icicles,- making a cave of sta
lagmites and stalactites out of the play
ing fountains; the firm-trodden way
of snow, along which the runners of
sledges and sleighs slide and creak ;
the shrubs and trees encased with sil
ver shearing; and the wraps of furs
and wools in which all wayfarers are
enveloped. The variety of costumes
that pass under vonr eyes suggest the
vustuess of the Empire. The Cossack
trotting along, his lance at rest in its
socket; the Circassian cavalier, clad
iu his coat of mail, on the keen gallop
through the streets ; the Kamschat-
dale soldier, in white bear-skin uni
form, shooting his gun into the air ;
the grave, bearded Moslem street-
merchant, firm Kazan ; the squads of
Fins guarding the public offices ; the
Tartar guards, Polish infantry, Mongol
scouts, with a hundred other varieties
of nations and their attire, make St.
Pet'ersTiurg seem more like a rendez
vous for the hostages of an enemy than
quarters for soldiers of a single coun
try. Uniform of one kind or another
invests half the population. Then
the pacific denizens, comprising Ger
mans and Spaniards, Italians and
Greeks, French and Arabs, Chinese and
Persians, East Indians and Jews, each
race and class clad in its own peculiar
costume, aud all, whether owing alle
giance to the Czar, or churning the
benefit of his commercial policy to
ward strangers, aliens in the city.—
Everything—speech, dress, manner of
salutation, method of doing business,
habits of life, as well as complexion,
hair, eyes and stature—show that all
is foreign. The bearded Russians are
outnumbered in the capital of their
own Empire, not by foreigners only,
iu the usual.acceptation-of that word,
but by their enforced compatriots,
Fins, Lettees, Poles, Jews, Mongols
and Kamschatdales.
A witness in court, who had been
cautioned td'give a precise answer to
every question, and not talk about
wbat he might think the question,
meant, was interrogated as follows;
“You drive a wagon?” “No, sir, I
do not.” IVLy, sir, did you not tell
my learned friend so tins moment.
“No sir, I did not. “Now sir I put it |
you on your own oath-Do you drive a
wagon?” -No, s’r.” What is yonr
occupation then?” “I drive a horse.” I
The Point.—‘ ‘I sympathize sincere- ]
ly with your grief,” said a. French la
dy to a recently -widowed friend, “to
lose such a husband ns yours.”—“Ah
yes, he was very good: and then, you
see, such a misfortune is always great
for one knows what kind of a husband
one has lost, but cannot tell wliat
kind of a man one will find to succeed
him
NEW AI) VERiMl.Uj-.ETS.
Ghoroia, Houston Counts:
WHEP.EaS, H. M. H fflzelaw has made
11 application lor letters of administra
tion on the esiate of Robert Holmes, late
of this comity, deceoted; these are there
fore to cite all interested, to be and app-.-ar
at my office on or before the Hist Monday
in February next, to show cause, if any,
why the application should not be granted.
Given under my handandofficial signature,
this the third day of January, 1B72.
W. T. SWIFT, 0. H. C.
Georgia, Houston C-ountx:
WHEREAS, France C. Napier has 'np-
t i plied for letters of administration on
the estate of her husband, John T. Napier,
late of this county, deceased; these axe
therefore to cite all persons interested, to
be and appear before me, on or before the
first Monday in February, 1872, to show
cause, if any, why the application should
not- be granted. Given under my hand
and official signature, this December 29th,
1871. W. T. SWIFT, P. H. C.
Ireland In Bygone Bay \
If, on any occasion, a guest left the
room, bits of paper were dropped into
his glass: intimating'the number of
rounds the bottle had gone; and on his
return he was obliged to swallow a
glass for each, nnder the penalty of so
many glases of salt and water. It was
the practice of some to have decanter
with round bottoms, like a modern so
da-water bottle, the only contrivance
in-which they could stand being at the
head of the table, before the host.
Stopping the bottle was thus rendered
impossible, ar.d every one w as obliged
to fill the glasses at once.and pass the
bottle to "his'Neighbor, on the peril of
upsetting the contents on the table.
A still more common practice was t.
knock the stems off the glasses with
a knife, so that they must be emptied
as they were filled, as they. could not
stand. : Sometimes the guests,- as they
sat down, put off their shoes, which
were taken out of the room; and emp
ty bottles were broken outside of tht
door, so that no one could pass out
till the carouse was over.
It is not.enough that we wish well
to others. Our feelings shonld clothe
themselves with corresponding action^.'
The spring which has no outlet be
comes a stagnant pool; while that
which pours itself off in the running
stream is pure and living, and is the
cause of life and beauty wherever it
flows.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
CORN! GORKI
f A CAB LO \DS choice White Coro Just received
JL v on consignment, and for sale at the lowest
market price by JONES & BANTER,
Macon , Georgia.
Georgia Sugar Cane Syrup
' sale very low by
JONES & BAXTER.
Chestnut Grove and Acme Whisky.
T^EOETTEP direct fron the original proprietor,
si The Purest Stimulant known, with othe- r
brands of fine aud ch*-ap Whiskies. Sherry. Port
aud Cooking Wines, at remarkably low prices.
JONES & BAXTER.
Alabama Lime Plaster and Cement
4 LWAYS on hand and for sale at the lowest
rates by
JONES & BAXTER.
Balk Meats, Bacon &Lard.
>) CAR loads Tennessee Bulk Meat.
-i* 50 hhds. chnu*v Smoked C. R. Sides.
100 cans Tennessee' • eaf Lard.
All on cousigumc.it and for sa'e cheap by.
JONES k BAXTER,
100 Cherry street.
Hay, Bran, shorts, etc.
»3AA BALKS best Tlrmothr Hay.
” r too bnles best Clover Hay.
100 sacks Shorts.
GO jO lbs. Wheat Bran.
50 sacks Cow Peas. For sale by
JONES k BAXTER.
Sugar, Cofee, Tobacco, Candles, etc.
found i
jan-ltf.
JONES k BAXTER,
100 CheLry street.
The latest colors are “peacock
green” and “elephant gray.”
The ice crop will be a very large
one next year. Everywligpe the ice
men are already gathering- good sup
plies cf ice.
It is folly for an eminent man to
think of escaping censnre, and a weak
ness to be- affected with it. All the
illustrious persons of antiquity, and
indeed, of every age in the world,
have passed through the fiery perse
cution. There is no defence against
reproach but obscurity; it is a kind
of concomitant to greatness, as satires
and iiivei.t.ves were an essential part
of R.,maii triumph.
An Arkansas editor appealed to the
dissipsis of sier.ee” in his town to eeie
brate . the “foartk-coming Ham bo. t
cemetery.”
Huuioro-ls.
The Skive of the “Ring.”—A bride.
Permanent Headquarters. —-The
shoulders.
What game is most suitable for
soldiers?—Piquet.
Wheu is a card player a shabby in
dividual?—When he shuffles.
Why is the road of. transgressors so
hard?—Bectinse it is so much trav
eled.
Wliat kind-of riee-is easily cultiva
ted in any ^country on earth? Ava-riee.
What is ‘tlie great&st verse in -ex
istence?—The uni-verse.
Railways are aristocratic. They
teach every man to know his own sta
tion, and to stop there.
- Tkereisgood reason why a little m in’
should never marry a bouncing young
widow. He might be called the “the
widow’s mite.”
To converse with the spirits,—Lay a
-.sixpence on - he table a; a gro^-suop
and they’ll snow themselves quicker
than yon can say beans. : .- o;r-
An-experenced boy says he regards
hanger and thechaseningrod as about
the same thing. They- both make him
aoiler.
A sick man was told that bis wife
would probably marry--again. “All
right,” said he, “for there will be one
man to lament^my death.”
A Yankee having told an English
man that he shot, on one particular
occasion, 999 snipe, his interlocutor
asked him why lie didn’t make it a
tuousand at once. “No, ’’said he; “It’s
not likely I’m going to tell a lie for
one snipe.” Whereqjon the Englishman
determined not to be outdone, began
to tell a story of a man having swum
from Liverpool to Boston, • ‘Did you
see him yourself?” asked the Yankee
suddenly. “Why, yes, of course I
did; I was coming across and our ves
sel passed him a mile out of Boston
Harbor.” “Well, I’nr glad ye saw
him stranger, cos yer a. witness that I
did it. That was me!”
HUNT, RANKIN & LAMAR’S
MY APPLE LIVER PILLS!
AND FOE ALL THE PURPOSES OF A
Family Cathartic Medicine!
No Mercury or other mineral snbstanc-
in them. £1,0' 0 Go <1 will be paid Jo?
every gr.i-n of Mercnry or other mineral
-.Kib iiane.fi in our
LIVER PILLS!
Nothing is more generally required all
over the wor d than a wife and perfects
reliable purgative m-■dicing. Such, we art
sure, we furnish in thes PfBs. Free from
-d'.-rcnry and every deleterious subs anct
they re harmless to infants or the mosi
delicate patients. Yet, composed as they
are. from powerful vegeta le remedies, the;,
are searching, and sufficiently active to
cleanse out the obstructions in the mos
rigorous and robust oustiutkms. These
Pills have been prepared to supply a •aft-r
and every way betterpnrgafive remedy thai
has hitherto been available to mankind.—
Their penetrating properties cleanse and
invigorate every portion of the hum.in or
ganism, com- ting its deceased action and
restoring its healthy vitalities. '
These Pills are recommended as a Gen
eral Family L ver and Cathartic Medicim,
and will answer in nine cases out of ten lcr
every- ordinary ailment in our Southern
climate, when most of the diseases are tig
pendent on a diseased liver and imperfect
digestion.
PKEPAKEP ONI.T El
XTulit, Ranlzin «V Lamar,
MACON, GA.
roa satx nr
'vI.vihews, Greene it Co., Fort YaHey,
Dr. J. C. Gbmeut, Perry,
N. T. Johnson, Marshall -ills.
NOTICE TO DEBTORS & 0SEDIT0ES
Georgia, Houston County: aji persons indebted to the estate of B.
r ) F. CITUNN has applied for exemption D. White, deceased, are requested to make
>»->f personalty, and I will pass upon die ( immediate payment, anti those having
sune on 13th dav of J muary, 1872, at 10 j claims against the same are requested to
o’clock, a. ji., af my office. ' ' present them in terms of the law.
W. T.- SWIFT, | L. B. ALEXANDER.
Dec. 30. 1871. O. H. C. . Deo 21, 1871. Executor.
H. T. JOHNSON.
B. C. SMITH.
JOHNSON & SMITH,
Commission Merchants,
tL .'e-tit* ~
Georgia, Houston County:
S, by reason of the death o'
.Robert Holmes, administrator on the
esiate of Kobert Jones, late of this county,
deceased—the said estate bang without a
ieg.it representative; these are therefore to
cite all persons interested, to be and appear
at my office on or beibre the first Monday
-n February next, to show cause why .letfers
of administration should not be granted E.
H. Ezeii; he having applied fifir letters of
oi an ministration on said estate. Given
mder my hand and seal of office, this 3d
day oi January, 1872. W. T. SWIFT,
' O. H. C.
Georgia, Houston County: ■
VT AT HAN TOOMEK has applied for ex-
1N empuou of personalty, and I will pass
upon tne sane on the tilth any oi January,
ie.72, at 10 o’clock, a. m., atiny office^
W. SWIFT,
Jan. 4th, 1872. O. H. C.
VICK’S j
FLORAL GUIDE I
FOR 1872.
■The first edition of two hundred thons-
md c ipies just pubiisned. “It is el-gantiy L
prjiien oil line tumd paper, in Two Col- P
..•its, mid idu.-,tmtcd with over Xhuee Hire- : I
•lifi-.r* Engravings ol Flowers and Vcgeia-
uiss, and
TWO COLORED PLATES.
The most beautiful and instructive Cata
logue and Fioral Guide in the world 112
pages, giving t orongh airecuores lor Ihe
culture oi Flowers and VegSbles, orna
menting grounds, mailing waits, Ac.
A 'Cnr.stm.is present ior my customers,
b it iorwadec to any who appy by ma.1,
.or Ten Cents, only one-qiaoier me cost.
Address JAMES VICK £
Rochester, N. Y.
Arriving and To Arrive, at \
FELDER’S!
FIEE-WORKS, to-wit:
Rockets, Torpedoes, Roman Candles,
Mounted Camions,
Cheese and Maccaboni,
Citbon and Mince Meat,
Currants and -aisins,
Almonds, Oranges,
Apples Pickles,
Extract Lemon, etc.,
Nutmegs, Cloves, Spice, da
BACON, LAUD, CUTTER tend FLOUR,
CHOICE MAGNOLIA HAMS.
OLD JAMAICA RUM, for your Egg-nog.
OLD HOLLAND GLV, for your Cocktail.
JLD C. S. M, to make you feel good.
C-.dl and get some, Cheap for Cash.
HOUSTON
FEMALE INSTITUTE.
0^ 3). SCOTT, Principal.
The exerrises of this School will' be re
sumed second Nonday in .January 1872.
A convenient opportunity is thus :tfired to
all who desire to educate fhe’r daughters.
No pains or labor will be spj&jsl io merit a
liberal patronage airl to giye entire satis-
ihctiozL
TERMS:
S4, $5 anl SC per month, payable, half
in advance: the remaining half- to be paid
at he expiration of threeseholnstic months.
These terms mast be rigidly complied
with. No deductions except for sickness
of one month’s dnration. • r
Board am be had at reasonable rates -on
application to the principal.
FOURTH STREET, Opposite Spotswood Hotel, MACON, GEORGIA
Plantation Supplies of all Kinds.
11b. W. C. COX' of Houston, is with this .house, and would be glad to see
all his old friends when they visit Macon. novoO