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MASOjSTC INSTITUTE,
CARROLLTON, GA.
JIM BLAINE,
Audliis Grandfather’s Old Rum.
Maj. JX0.M. RICHARD SOX, President
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Thorough Co-education oft® Sexes,
on the plan of the' best modern Practical
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Board and. tuition at reasonable rates.
Location, high and healthy ; Glimate and
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F. A. JOBSON,
Grunsmitli,
PERRY, GEORGIA.
FIRE ARMS:
Of every description'repaired or remodeled.
Repairing of Sewing Machines,.
AND ALL KINDS OF
BRASS, -
STEEL,
COPPER,
LIGHT IRON,
BRITTANIA, or
SILVERWARE,
Done with neatness and dispatch.
TERMS STRICTLY CASH.
NOTICE.
All Persons liaving’articles in my shop that have
been repaired, are requested,to pay charges and
take them away; and hereafter any article not
paid for and taken in ten days_aftei* being finished
1vill be sold to pay charges. F: Ai. JOBSON.
DRUGS,
Dr.J/G. GILBERTS
Is the place to buy PtfKE' and UNADUL
TERATED MEDICINES.
The boys used to tell me I ought to
get one Jim Blaine to tell me the stir
ring story, of his grandfather's old ram
hut they Slways added'that I must
not mention the matter, unless Jim was
drunk-at the time—just" comfortably
and sociably drunk. They kept- this
up until my curiosity was-pn'the 'tack
to-hear'the story. I got . to haunting
Blaine ; bat it was of no use, the boys
always foifhd fault with liis condition ;
he was often moderately but neveE
satisfactorily drunk. - I never watched
a man’s condition with such-absorbing
interest, such anxious - solicitude ; I
never so pined to sec a man uncom
promisingly drunk before.
At last, one evening-1 hurriedrto Ms
cabin, for I learned that this .time his
situation was such that even the most
fastidious could.fihd.no fcCult with'it—
he was tranquilly, serenely,- symmetri
cally-drunk—not a hiccup to mar bis
voice, not-a clpud upon-his brain thick
enough to.obscure his memory. As I
entefedj .he was sitting.upou an empty
powder keg, With a clay pipe in one
hand and the other raised to command
silence. His face was round, red and
very serious ; his throat was bare and;
his hair tumbled -; in general apppear-'
ance and costume,-he was a- stalwart
minor of the period. ■ O11 the piue lia
ble stood a candle, and its .'dim light'
revealed '‘the boys sitting here and
there on bunks, candle-boxes, powder-
kegs, etc.” They, saidi
“Sh !—Don’t speak—he’s going to
commence.” " -
THE STOUT OF THE OLD K VJI.
I found a. scat at once,-and Blaine
began: ;
“I don’t reckon 'them times will over
come again. There never was a more
bullier old ram than what he was.—
Grandfather fetched.him from Illi
nois—got him from a man by the
name of Yates-—Bill Yates— ni.-y be
you might have heard of him; his
father was a deacon—Baptist—and he
was a rustier, too ; a man had to get
lip ruther early to get the start of old
Thankful Yates ; it was:, him put- the
Greens up to jiaing teams With my
grandfather’s when he moved West.—
Seth Green was probably the. pick of
the flock; he married a Wilkerson—
Sarah; Wilkerson—good cret-nr she was.
—one of the likeliest heifers that' was
ever raised in old Stoddard, everybody
said, that that knowed her. She-could
heft a .bar I of flour as easy-as I c.'.u a
flapjack. And spin ! DvMi’t-moution it!
Independent ? Humph! When Site
Hawkins Came a browzing ar-.nnd her,
she let him know that for alibis tin he
couldn’t .trot in harness alongside of
her.
You see, Sile Hawkins was—no it
wasn-’t Sile HaSvlrins, after till—it was
a galoot by the name of Filkins—I
disremeniber Msfirs'tname; but he. was
a slump,come into.pra'r m-.Wtiu’ drunk,
one night, hooraying for-Nixon .-bequis
he-thought it was a primary,; and old
deacon Ferguson -up and, scooted -him
through the Wiiidow.'and he lit on'old
Miss Jefferson's head, .poor old Alley:
Sliewils a good soul—had a-glass eye
arid used to lend it to did Miss . Wag
ner, that hadn’t any, to receive com
pony in ; it- warn’t big enough, and
when Miss Waguer wasn’t noticing it
would get twisted around in the. sock
et, andlook up, maybe, or- out to- one
side, and every which.way, while t’oth
er one was looking as straight -ahead
as. a' spyglass. Grown folks didn’t
mind it, but it most always made the
children cry, it-was so sort- of scary.
She tried packiug-it in raw cotton, but
it'wouldn’t work, somehow—the cot
ton would get loose and-stick out -and
look so kind of awful that'the child
fen couldn’t stand it no way.
She was always dropping it out-, and
turning, up her old dead-iiglit on .the
company empty, and iniiking tbom un
comfortable, beeuz she never could tell
-when it popped out; being blind on
that side, you see. So somebody would
have to hunch her and. say, ‘Your
game eye has fetched loose', Miss Wag
ner, dear’—and tliefl allof them would
have to sit and.wait till she jammed it
in again—wrong side before.,, as a gen
eral thing, and green as H bird’s egg,
being a bashful eretur...and easy sot
back, before, company. ' But being
wrong-side befcfre'warn’t much differ
ence any way, beeuz her own eye was
sky-blue, and the glass one Was, jailer
on the front, so wMchever way she
turned it, it-didnlt match nohow. Old
Miss "Wfigner was cohsidgrable on. the
borrow, slip was. When she had
quilting,;or Dorcas Sirety ather house,
iEE SELLS AT MACON PRICES.
GALL- AND BUY YOUR SUPPLIES
'TERMS STRICTLY CASH.
<3ec28-f
wife—a ratty old buzzard, he was,'that
used Argo foostiqg afbuhd wKerepeo-
pje was sick, waiting Tor them ; and
that old rip would sit all day, in' tlie
sliade, on a coffin that he j udged would
fit the cam’iddte afieTlf -it whs a slo w
customer and kind tiff uncertain, he’d
fetch’his rations arid "a blanket ; and
sleep in the coffin of nights. He whs an
chored out that way, in frOsty weather,
for about three weeks biice, before old'
Robin’s place,' waiting for •' Kim ; and
after that, for as much as two years,
Jacob’s was’riot on speaking terms with
■the old man, on account of his disap-
pinting.him. He got one of his feet
froze, and lost money, too, beeuz old
Robins took a favorable turn and got
well.
The next time -Robins''got sick,. Ja
cobs tried to make up with- him, and
varnished up the same old coffin and
fetched it along, with him ; but old
Robins was-too.mahy : for him;; liehad~
him in, and ’peared to - be powerful
weak ; lie bought, the coffin for ten
dollars, and. Jacobswas'ter pay it back
arid twenty more besides if Robins
didn’t -like the coffin after he’d tried it.
Ahd then Robins died, and at the fu
neral he bursted off the lid and riz up
in his shroud, and told the parson to
let up on the performances, beeuz he
'could not- stand such a coffin as that.
You see he had been in a trance once
before when, lie was young; and'he
took the chances on another, calcula
ting that if he made the' trip, it was
money in his-pocket-, and-if he missed'-
tire he couldn’t lose a cent. And, by
George, he sued Jacobs for the rhino
and got judgement, and he set up the
coffin in liis parlor,, and said lie ’lowed
to take his time, uow. It was always
an aggravation to Jacob.;, the way that
miserable old thing acted.
He moved back to Iudiuny pretty
soon—went to Wellsville—Wellsvillc
w:is -the place-the Hogadoias was from.
Mighty tine - family. Old > Maryland
stock. .fOld ’squire Hogadom could
citriy around nioke mixed liquor, and
cu8*-5 bett.tr than most any man I ever
see. - His second-wife was the wicldei-
Billings—she was that Becky M irtiu ;
her dam was Deacon Diuilup’s first
wife. Her oldest child, Maria, mar
ried a missionary, and died in grace—
et by the savages. They et him, too,
poor feller—biledhim. It wasn’t the
custom, so they say, -bat they explained
to friends of hfs’n that went down
there to bring away his things, &ai
they'd tried missiomiries every other:
way and never could get any good out
of ’em—'and so it annoyed all his rela
tions to find out tliat - that man’s life
was fooled away just- out of a darnbd
experiment, so to-speak. Bat. mind
you, there ain’t anything ever reely
lost; everything that people: can’t un
derstand and don’t see. the reason of
does good if -you only hold, on and'
give it-a fair shake ; Providence don’t
fire no blank catriges, boys. That
their. njissionarie’s. substance,’ unbe-
kuowns to himself, actu’ly; converted
every lust one of them heathens that
to'ok a chance at the barbecue. .Notic
ing ever fetched-them but that. Don’t
tell me that it was accident that, he
was tiled. There ain’t no such thing
as ap' accident-.
When my Uncle Lem was leaning,
up agin a scaffolding Knee,; sick or
driiuk, or somethin! an Lishman with
a. hod full of bricks fellpn him. out of
the third story and lupke-tlie old man’s,
hack in .two places, People.saad.it was’
an accident.. Much excitement was
raised about that. He: didn’t know
wliat he was therejfor, but he wasf.here
for-a good object. If he hadn’t been
there the Irishman would have been
killed. Nobody cim .ever make me ber
lieve anything different .from .that.—
Uncle Lem’s dog was there. Why didn’t,
the Irishman fall on the dog ? Becnz
the dogwould a seen- Min a.-coining
and stood-from' under. That’s -the
reason the dog warn’t.. appinted. . A
dog can’t- he depended on to carry out
a special providence., Mark my-words
it was a put up job. Accidents don’t
happen, boys.
Uncle Lem’s dog—I wish yon could
a seen him. .He was a regular shep-
herd—or rather he- was part bull and
part shepherdw-splendid animal; be
longed to ParsqnHager before Uncle
Lem got him. Parson Hager belongecL
to the Western Reserve Hagers; prune
family, Ms family.; ; his .mother’ was *.
Watson ; one .of his sisters.-married a
Wheeler; they settled inMorgan conn-
tgr, and lio got nipped by the machin
ery in .a cotton factory and; he -went
through-in less dban a qnarter of a'
minute ; - Ms iridder bought the piece
of carpet that had -Ids Remains wove:
it-Asacrei tob-itlie m-e-m-o-r-j—pf
fourteen y-a-rYs-^—of . three-ply—car
—pet—containing all that was—m : o-r-
t-a-j—of-of-of—W-i-l-l-ia-m W-h-e -—”
Jim Blaine had been growing .grad?
nally drowsy and drowsier—Ms head
nodded; on'ce,' fwice, three %tames-r-
droppedt peacefully upon liis breast,
andlb^ fell tKmqailly adeep. The tears
^vere rUphing down the boy’s cheeks—
they were suffocating with, suppressed'
laughter—and had been from the start,,
though I iiad never noticed it. I-per
ceived that I was “sold.” I. learned
then that Jim Blaine's pecnhaiiiy was
that whenever he reached a. certain,
stage of intoxication no human power
could keep Mm from setting out,-with
impressive unction to tell.aboufca won
derful adventure whieh he once had
.J-. - '* - • • - vr
with his grandfather’s old . ram—and
the mention of the. ram-.iu the first
sentence was' far as any man had ever
heard him .‘get concerning it. He al
ways wandered off interminably from
one thing to another till Ms whisky
got the best of Mm, and lie fell asleep.
What the thing was'that happened to
him and his grandfather’s old ram is a
dark mystery to this day,, for' nobody
has ever yet found oat.
at
Personal Items.
Vanderbilt’s income is stated
812,1)00 a day. -
John T. Alexander, the cattle , king
of Illinois,- haspitid his debts, annually
to 81,027,000.
Nilsson will continue do sing,' mat
rimony has never yet shut a - woman’s
mouth.
A portion of the Daniel Webster
homestead at-Mansfield was recently
sold at 805 an acre. ; ’
The Mayor of Roston receives $5,000
a vear., . -
shegeherally-borrowed Mrs, Higgin’s. in, and people came,a hundred mites
Wooden leg to
around on ; it
wah- eohkidefable shbito Than teen.yaids.Hi-the.ptece.', She wouldn’t
other pin, but muelrshe minded it.
She sMffishecoMdn’tabideteartehes
when -she - had company .]>e<a^ they'.
were so slow ; said when she had cOm-
pan\ _ and tilings had to b e . done;.:.she
wanted to get up and hump herself.—
She was as bald as a jug, and so she
used to - borrow Miss Jacob’s’ wig—
Miss Jacobs was the coffin peddler’s
to ’tend the funeraL There was four-
let them roll him up, but planted him
jost so^-fulf length. The.chnrch was
middling small where they preached
Uje 'funeral/, and they; had--to ; let tente-
end of the coffin stick pui-of: the win
dow. . They didn’t- bury him, they
planted one end,, and let him stand up,
same as. a monument. And they nailed
a sign on it, and. put—put- on— put on
The Wine fyiesliun in: Society.
JeaiiOOSX is at ouce the meanesji and
the most unaccountable of vices'. Wliat
belongs to us we shall have, inevitably;
and vliat we want and have not, we
shall never win-.by unreason.' If ve
are lovely, we shall be loved.; and if
we are unlovely, wo. shall not be loved,
no matter whether any other, takes our
place of not. Jealousy of the wealth;
the. social importance, or the happiness
of others is alike'unacc6uh.t;>bte-and
absur d. Your house is not lowlier’be
cause your neiglibor’giis two. stories
higher. If he should -fail pnil have- to
give up .his. caiTiage,.it would crowd
the - omuibus a little more',- and by no
means provide yon with a vehicle'.
What is it in human nature that makes
our poor fare seem poorer because our
neighbor is eating. roast duek and
.drinking champaigns ? T.o envy, the
love'bestowed upon another -s equally
idle. Hearts keep their accounts, nsu-
iffiy with very-tolerable, fairness; We
shall receive- that. of which, we. ar.e
worthy, nampre—and wliat is atir own',
by -virtuo. of our desert, no -.fate Can
takeaway. " .
KiluBAx. ri .He AUP From. —T he Griffin
News publishes affidavits' firdm Hi. L
Kimball and George Cook. They, are
dated in’ New Haven, Conn., July 26,
1872, - Kimball was just from Europe.
He swears thatEf -L, - Jones testified
..falsely -; ;that there never was any co
partnership between Bullock and Kim
ball p tliat rnmng KjmballV and Bul
lock’sdep'osits-was wrong.';' that -Bul
lock: had no-interest in the lease, or
Tl'ad anytiiing'to do with 01 -derived
any benefit from the Atlah ta city-bonds
pledged to coyer.tfie mortgage on. the
Opera House. •
The News says. Kimball wiR; come
back te Atlanta soon, and moke, start
ling developments, and testify in the
Georgia National Bank case.—C'onstc-
ticlion.. . ' ; -
Faishing is, without doubt, the surest-
occupation there is. 'Farinere may not
grow rich, bat they always manage to
get a hying for themselv'es andiamilyj
wMch is'more-than Can be said" of any
other pursuit. They maygrowricli'ih
tMs as in any other pursuit according
to the degree of intelligence and indns-
- -try brought to bear. If- you desire to
see the success of your children -ren
dered sure ih'life, educate -them for
the farih. '
_ It is.universally admitted among sen
sible -and candid peQpte that drunken
ness is -the great curSe OfonrsocialaiMl
nafabnalb.te. Itis notthkractenstieal
ly.American,^for the samennay.be, said*
with greater emphasis of 'th'e social and
national life of Great Britain; but it is
one of those things about wMcli there
is no doubt.- Cholera,; and-, smallqjox
-brmgs.smaRei^fatolify, and: almost in^
finitely snallCT sorrow r There are
fathers and- mothers,-and sisters and
wives, - and innocent, and wondering
children,- within every circle That. em
braces a hundrend lives who. grieve to
day oyer some hopeless victim. of the
seductive destroyer. In the. city and
in the country-North, East,- South
and Wfest—thte-e arc men and- women
who .cannot bo trusted--witH wine in
their limids—men arid women who are
conscious, too,, that, they are going to
destruction, andhave ceased tofight an
appetite that has the power to trans
form every soul and every home it oc
cupies, into a heli. Oh, the wild.pray-
ers foy help .that go'tip ffoiu a htmdred
thousand despairing slaves of u strong,
driak to-day! Oh, the shame, the dis^
appointment, the. fear, the disgust, the
awful pity, the mad- protest ■ that -risa
from a hondred-thousand hjn.ea! And
still the smoke of the. everlasting tor
ment rises apd still we discuss the “wine
oiuestion.”!and fh©' “grape culture,”.
ancL-livc.pn as : if we had no share in.the
responsibility for so much sin and
shame and suffering.
. Society bids us furnish wine at- Our
feasts, and we furnish it just as gene-
roiis as if we did not know that a cer- ■
-tain percentage of all the men who
drink it Will die miserable drimkai-ds,
and drrftict * lives of pitiful ’ suffering
upon those who arc closeiy associated
with them. There are literally hun
dreds of thousands, of people .in polite
life in-America who woahl not-dare- to
give a dinner or a party, without wine
notwithstanding the fact that in-many
instances they can select the-veiy. guest-
Avho wjilRiink- too much on every Oc-
casion-that gives t-heni. au-opportunity-.
There arc old men and women :who in
vite-young meu to then* feasts, - whom
they:know cann ofc drinkths wine they
propose to frimish with out danger to.
themselves.and' disgrace to their .com
panions and friends. They do tiiis sadly
'often; but under the compulsions- of so
cial usage. Now wo under,.stand the
power of this influence and every sensi
tive man must feel it keenly. AYine has-
stopd so long as an emblem and repre-
sentativS-of, .good cheer and generous
hospitality,.that luseemsstingy to shnt
itaway fyoin oni - festivities, and deny-
.it'-to bur-guests. -Thenagainitso gen
erally offered at the. tables of our friends
aiid it is so difficult,, apparently, for
those who aroaccustomedTpitto quake
a.dinncr without it;-fhat we'hesitate to
offer water to them. It has a niggardly
—almost, an unfriendly—seeming; yet
what shall a-mah do '-who wishes • to
thfow what influence he lias on the-
side of temppranpe?;' .'
- -T-he. qn'estiQn. is -hot new. - It - has
been, up for itnlyiswei; ejerv'year and
every monienn t since men -thought or
’.talked about temperance at all. We
know of but one answer to make tbit..'
A nhin caniiot, without stultifying and
morally debasing himself, fight in pub
lic that wMch-be’-tolerates in private'.
We baveheard of such things as writ 1 ng
temperance addresses, with a demijohn
under the. table; and society,lias teamed
by heart the old talk against drinking
too much—“Ihe excess of the thing,
you know”—by those who have the
power of drinking? a little, but who
would sooner part with their right eyp
than wi th that little. A man who talks
temperance uith a wine?glass in liis
hand is simply trying to Brace himself
so tbatRie can hold it-, without shame!
We . do riot denj that many men
have self-control,"or that they can 'drcnk
wine thfougjh life without suffering, to
themselves or others. It may seem
hard, that'they should be deprived Of a
comfort or a pleasure becanse others are
the work will be done. Let them de-
’elore'Uiat'it shall be vulgar—asR' un-
•deiiiably. is—for a, man to quarrel with
his dinner becanse Ms host fails to 'fur-
nisKwiiie, ’ This can be dbne now, arid
it needs to be done maw for.' if is ' be
coming every day more drfficul t to. do
it. The habit of wine-drinking at diri-
ner.is qriite preyalent already, 'Euro
pean tfavd is^domg mrieh to : make it
nriiveraalparid’if-we-gobri extended it
at the present Tate,-we' shall_ soon ar-
rive at the 5 Earbpeah iridi'ffererice to
The whMe'subject. Thererarc, many
clefg^iriari in New York who htfye^wirie,
upon their-tables and f urn fell it 10 their
gueste. We keep- no man conscience,
but we are compelled to" say that they
sell influence' at a shamefully -cheap
rate. What evil? They-can-do noth
ing arid af.eu.burited -upon to’-dp nbth-
. -
If the-men and women of good so
ciety wish Tp iiayc less drinking to' ex^
cess, let them stop drinking model itcly
It tliev iu‘e not wdlingto break off the'
indulgence of .a feeble appetite -for-the-
sake’of doing'-a great good to'a great-
many people, how can they expect a
poor, brokenrddjyri" wretch to deny an
appetite that is stronger than the love
of wife and ohildreri, and even life ife
to do duty in tMs business is sickening
to contemplate'. The . Sacrifice of life
and peace-and wealtli Will go on. Every
year young men will rush wildly to the
Acril, middle-aged' men will booze
away into apoplexy, and bld ineri .will
swell rip'with the sweet poison arid be
come dfegnsting.idiots. What’will'be
come. of' the -women ? We should
think that they had' suffering enough
from this evil to hold it tinder everlast
ing barr, yet tliere arc dranketi'women,
as well as drinliing clergyman. Socfer
ty,' however’ a great advantage, ih the
fac.t that it is vulgar for a woman to
drink. There arc some things tliat a
woman 'may not do, and. maintain her
social standing. Let her riot 'quarrel
with 7 the fact tliat society demands
more of her than it docs" of men It
is her safegtiard in many ways,—Dr. J.
G. Holland, in Scribner's for August.
, 5 TEC Sew Postal.Law:
Beliiw we now give in full the law
-regnlating the sending of parcels.' if
will be seen that parcels are limited to
samples, .and that the law is not near
so liberal as it Was first thought to be:
Bee. 132. That mailable matter of
’the secoii'd class shall .embrace Ml mate
terbxclrisively in print; and regularly
issued at stated periods from a known
office of - publication^ without addi
tion by writing, mark or sigri.
Sec. 133. That mailable matter.'.of
the third class shall embrace all pam-
■pMeis, oc<3te[orial ; ,publi(»tioris, tfari-
sient aewspapers or magazines, hand
bills, posters, nnseated circulars,'pros
pectuses, books, book- mannscriptJ;
proof-sheets,. corrected proof-sheets,
maps, prints, engravings, blanks, flex
ible patterns, samples of merchandise,"
not excee'dirig twelve ounces in weight,"
sariiple cards, phonographic paper 1 ,''
letter envetepes, postal envelopes and:
wrappers, cards, plain and ornament
al paper, photograpMc representations
of different types, seeds," cuttings,
bulbs, roots, scions arid all other mate
ter.wMch may be declared mailable
by -law; • and. all other articles riot above
the weight prescriBed By law, which'
self? The pririislimeiit fob the failnre- are not, from their, form or 'nature,
Evil As.o.iafcs.
Young Frank Phipps wasa member
of the church, but yielded to the en
treaties -of evil associates, arid, con
sented to accompany them - to an im
proper place, and while there was sbot
without' warning; by Milton Malone
The Constitution,' of Atlanta, com
ments upori the tragedy and reads boys
this wholesome- lesson,_which we'hope
every pjie 'in-the land will- peruse and
ponder. Hereufc is.
But.ihe lesson ! It is so plain ! The
brighfe mufderhd yonth cannot .Tie
brought -back. Time alone'' can heal
’ ' * ,v.*. z, : . - . ;
the agony of bis friends. The, day of
the bloody assassin isyrefto corrie. But
the thousands of the young—anpthe
did!:too,-for-that -see.where evil cpm-
pimipnship, .however! .ifinoceritly en
joyed, will lead. EvRin'nsi be shiirined,
however seductively or imforbiddirigly
it may-woo.. .,
. No purity of piirpose can saye ns i
.frorn-tBe^ ccintaminatipu -of'evil cortf--'
panionshij), arid thonghtlessuess often
•carries the soul irito as great danger as
purposed wrong..
The odmpariionriwho lead this!-nh-'
fortunate- Victim !away. from-better-irir.
flueriees, from earnest, anxious efforts-
of. a fond father 'to'keep -. him fitithful
to Ms churcir'reialipris-^-a father often
liable to destroy, deface, or otherwise'
injure the contents-of the mail bag,
or the person Of any one ' engaged in
the postal service. All liquids, poi
sons,. glass, explosive materials and
obscene books shall be exclrided from
the mails'. All matter of the third class,,
excepting books and other printed
matter, book manuscripts, proof-sheets
and corrected proof-sheets, shall no'fc
exceed twelve ounces in weight, arid
all matter of the third class shall be
sttbject to examination and to rates of
postage, as hereinafter provided. Sam
ples of metals, ores and mineialogical
specimens shall not exceed' twelve
ounces in weight, and shall be subject
to examination and to rates of. postage!
as hereinafter provided!
-Sac. 134. That no package weighing
more than todr pounds, shall" be re
ceived for conveyance by mail, except
books published or circulated by order
of Congress.'
Sec. -151. -That all mail matter de- •
posited for mailing, on wMch at least
one full rate Of postage has been paid
as required by lawrshaR be forwarded
to itg destination* Charged with the
unpaid rate, to be collected on dehv-
ery!
;Sec.: 152. .TBaf if" any mail' matter,
on,which-by law the - postage" re
quired.to be prepaid at the mailing of-
fice„shall by- inadvertebco reach its
destination withont such prepayments,
double the prepaid rates shall be’
charged arid collected on delivery.
Sec.'163. That on mailable matter
of the third ‘ class, - except as herein
stated, postage 1 shah Bp'charged at the
rate of one cent for each two ounces
or .fraction thereof.. Double these rates
shah be charged for books, samples of
metals,, ores; <;injne^ate. and merclmn-
dtee. ' ' Ag , ...
Sec. 164. That plages of woolen,-
cpt ton or hnen clothiug, riot exceeding
two pounds in weight, -inay be sente
through the mail to .any non-comims'-
sioned officer or private in the army of
the United States if prepaid, at the
rate of one cent forpaclr one ounce Or
fraction, thereof, ■ subject-fo such rCgu-
lidions! asrtfie Foktjhastef General-may
prescribe: ' ^ ' &
Sec! -165:^ Thatthe rat^ of UMfed
A young white'girlfn MichigaH, de
siring-to marry a' mulatto, and being
unable to take the oath that she had
colored blood in her, tapped herswain’s
arms with a penknife,, sopped a piece
of Bread in .his blood, Swallowed it,
hurried to the . ’squire’s office, swore
she had African Jblood in her, arid wag
duly married. ' .
Is anarticteori a recent feir.in that
city, the editor o'f a Macon pap’er says
a brother .editor took-a valuable pre
mium;-but an unkind poheeman made
him put iteright back where he took ft
from.;
cteyi ' They riqne the less fit ifrnowin
the radiance of modern mjslization.
less fortunate ip their .temperament or
their .power of Will. But the question
UnrPrrtD sayShuman nature isex-
ceSsively, Sail, particularly when" it
o'Paris.
... - A' TtA-rr.TVAv tunnel, rmder.the Missis
sippi river at Memphis, Tenn., is. pro-
jectedj to cost 8-5.-000.000.-
is whetherra man. fe willing to sell Ms
power to do.good to a.great mnltitnde
for n glass of hvirie at.dinner. _ That is
the question in ife.plainest terins.- H
he is then he, has veryKttte'beneyoleiiee
or a very inadequate apprehension of
the evils of intemperance- .
YVhat we; need-in - our metropolian
society Is a- declarationof independence
There ares, great many good men and
women in New York who lament the
drinking habits of .society mpstesincer-
ly. Let. these-all declare that they,
will-minister: no: longer ,a.t the social
altersof the greatedestroyer. Let them
declare .that .the, indiscrimiriate offer of
wins at dinners said social assemblies
is not only enmimd bnt vulgar, .as .it
undoabted^is.;. Let than fleetere thit
for the sake of .the yo.nng, the-iyeak. the
vicious—fpr the-.sake of personal char
acter, and family peace, 'and. social
purity, - and. n ational sh-ength—they
should miss Ms- chhrch' djittes—away
from life Own efforts to <^t kdff "evil
tendencies, the compariidris, who thns
fedJitin.away to his untimely murder,
must not'escape tfie reiriorae of ffidr
rinfortariate inflrierice. Xet theifl jake
warning. . “Le3d us riot; into tempta
tion” are the words of-the divine prayer.'
They were' based upon the Divirie
knowledge of poor' humanity. -They
fitted this- hnmaMty in the' ariefent
The' * Dkought -in Yhw^dsia. —The
Rfcfimerid Eri^&eK ol Turisffiiy, says:
Heaven help us; if we flo "riot have
abnnffiuice of nun very ' .soon in "Vir
ginia ! From aR around us we have
the saddest'reports of the. yeiy eazth
burning np' under the fury of .the. sun-,
and nota drop of water-to - quench -its
thirst. In Lotrisa and- Hanover all
vegetation is destroyed arid hope has
fled. The peppfe urg jn'desgair. Here
in Richmond, the James.-is fajli.rig ns,
and.wih.soon Be on halfgFatipns^of Wri
ter. The fountains in the 'Park -lmve
.been shttfc:ofUi^npreiiaiitac!.&§y-inoas-
ure, for fee must save onr Water. The
river is nearly dry, without weting Ms
'shces.- Tbere is no moisture in - the
atmosuhere, and.when the winds blows
it is like & sirocco of the desert.
heard to say that he Would close the- •StatespoelSge ori mail smarter sent lo
dbor of liis store 'lather than' Ins b'oy **
which-different'rates have not' been
established by ..postal convention or
other arrangement, when forwarded
by vessels regnterlj empjoyediritnursr "
porting the .mail, shall Be fed cents
for each half-ounce or fraction thereof
on fetters, unless reduced by order of
the -Fostmaster General ;' two dents
each, on newspapere, ancLriot- ex-ceedirig-
ife6 cerifepdr riacBYwo ounces or frac
tion thereof, x>ii pamplilet.s, periodi
cals, books arid othfer '-printed ' matter,
which postage shall be prepaid on mat-
tea: sent and" collected on matter re-"'
ceived; and to avoid loss to the United .
States in the payment of balances, the
Postmaster General may collect the
unpaid po3tage,6n letters from foreign
countries in-coin, of its equivalent.- -
from tMs rime,, forth' and-forever- and
Peofessoe—‘ ‘WMch is most delicate
of the senses?” Senior—‘The sense
of touch.” Professor—“Give an ex
ample.” Senior—“My chum can feel
Ms mustache, but no one' can
- Canadian Annexation.—A Canadian
Correspondent of the Baltimore SnU ■
says': *T foriria that the desire for
arinexation is-fapidlj.growing in Can
ada, and I believe that a majority' of-
the in habitants of. Goderich andits vi-
eimty would’ to-day- if they-had an op
portunity, vote for annexation. I dis
covered also that a large majoity of
the people of Canada believe that Hor-
ace Greeley wfil be our'next President.”
A Wobd to Boys.—Truth is one of
the rarest virtues. Many a.youth has
Been lost to society by allowing a false-'
hood to tarnish his character, and fool-"
fehly throwing truth away. Honesty,-
Rankness, generosity, virtue—blessed,
traits ! Be these yours, mv boys, we
shall not fear.
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