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Professional Cards.
\ ALLEN, Attorney at Liw. Thom-
H * Hston > D>a. Will practice in the counties cont
-1 I'tt'ii the Flint Judicial Circuit, and elsewhere by
*contract All business promptly attended to.
i m Cheney's brick building. irtehll-ly
IV‘ I R KEN I>ALL offers his proses-
I smn.nl services te the citizen* of I homastoii and
tl' ,? lU| , 2 1 country. May be found durin * the day at
" ‘‘ttfuawny's ytore, at night at the fonnor resi
de of Charles Wilson. jan 14 ly.
J L REDDING, Attorney at Law,
, F ' Barnesvil 0, Pike co, Ga. Will practice in the
''MM comprising the Flint Judicial Circuit, and
a'i.,,' 1 special ontract All business promptly
Vi'* 1 ' 0, hlhce in Elder s building, over Chamber’s
Jm augfi- y.
1 lIUMAS BEALL, Attorney at Law,
c ,oi “tijAston, Ga. Will practice in the Flint Cir
■ut. Mdelsewhere by special contract aug27-ly
\\ '• LEAVER. Attorney at Law,
Courw tt Ga. Will practice in all the
contr ior 6 ’ Circuit, and elsewhere by special
june2s-ly
1 Attorney and Counsellor
the Fu r*!': "• '** I’ r actice in the counties composing
and if than o " l !'' Supreme Court of <ioorgia,
North pm'' , !‘ ict t’ourt of the United States for the
Ti- ..." Sl| uihern Districts of (Georgia.
Ga., ,l„ ne isth. 1670-ly.
JOSEPH H. SMITH, Attorney and
Petpr»° i ! nst llor :lt haw. Office Corner Whitehall and
i> let,s 'tb.nia, Ga. Will practice in 'he Su
hp,lr*s °f Coweta and Flint Circuits, the Hu
“ "urt of the State, and the United States’ Dis
y n " U| D All communications addre.-sed to him at
• a will receive prompt attention. april9-ly
ANDEItSOiV & MoUALLA. Attorneys
UV at Layv. Covington, Ceorgia. Will attend regu
>,l‘. and Practice in the Superior Courts of the
W '" s Newton, Butts, Ifenry, Spalding. Tike,
C n ' 0 *’Upson, Morgan, DeKalb, Gwiunette and Jas-
V V deciO-ly
m. MATIIEWS, Attorney at
ComuW ,\ a " ) " , ton, Ga., will practice all the counties
tavoini Chattahoochee Circuit and elsewhere by
declO-ly
|| LILLIS, Attorneys at Law
Wines* V on ' ( 'a. Prompt attention given to
hands. declO-ly
R GRIPPE, Attorney at Law
1 1 in thiW’, I’, . practice in the State Courts
Wanrub r States’ District Court at Atlanta and
dec
*1 * r, Attorney at Law, Barnes^
practice in'all the counties of
‘ Lit and Supreme Court of thu State.
HfiTHUNE. Attorney at
i? u,) sies of th practice in all the
err iWftlw>i. e Chattahoochee Circuit, and Urxton and
declS-ly
if/.-tRS will continue the practice
Wre, " 11 Die. Office at B. D. Hardaway’s Drug
—— dectß-ly
13 n Y E HaNNAH. is pleased to
Jjj# practic- 1 ?*^ z ® n . B of Upson that he will continue
r° edl< i>ae in itu -various branches at
declS-ly
3 laGin Attorney at Law
State an.i’ P>’*ctlce in Circuit Courts o
*colO-iy n tue U' n^te d states District Courts.
/\ F J °B WORK
1 ' ’ n P ror nptlyand neatly
3 ‘f Solicited ! he ERAi - 1) office. Orders respect-
Ue(l ‘ Prices very reasonable.
The eystoms of liver
VIIIII AV Cl complaint are uneasiness
\ I 111 j| A \ la P 111 tLe bide
) I Jl ill U 11 13 I Sometimes the pain is in
I the shoulder and is mis
ill ■ll taken for rheumatism'
The stomach is afi.-cted vxith loss of appetite an“ sick'
ness, bowels 1n general costive, >ometimes site™ V
with lax. The bead is troubled with puin.‘ an™
heavy sensation considerable loss of memory, accom
panied with painful sensation of having left undone
something which ought to have been done. Often com!
aD( ] i ow spirits Some-
I^" HBH,aK:3i!SCCS ® Ezaa *| Bmes, some of the above
ff IT TT FI 1 s .>' n b>toms attend the dis-
I , I 1/ I II I |, « e . and at other times
IJ I I 12 II I very few- of them; hut
Q the Liver is generally the
< : "7’ l a:r i Liv' l v ii ;^ ,i,,, " i - org;in most invoWe(i
--• DR. SIMMONS’
Liver Regulator,
A preparation of roots and herbs, warranted to be strict
ly y egetable, and can do no injury to anyone.
It has been used by hundreds, and known forthelast
3u years as one of the most reliable, efficaemus and
harmless preparations ever offered to the suffering If
taken regularly and persistently. I j 8 sure to cureT
Dyspepsia, headache,
Rif riTT I TOR |^ d^.c^n?ce^ k -
IlliWUlij* 1 II hoea. affections of the
Jj bladder, camp dysentery,
fever, nervousness, chills, diseases of the skin, impurity
of the blood, melancholy, or depression of spirits, heart
burn, colic, or pains in the bowels, pain in the head,
fever and ague, dropsy, boils, pain in back and limbs,
asthma, erysipelas, female affections, and bilious dis
eases generally. Prepared only bv
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The following highly respectable persons can fully at
test to the virtues of this valuable medicine, and to
whom we most respectfully refer:
<lon. W. S. Holt, President S. W. 11. R. Company;
R?v J. Felder, Perry, Ga.; Col E. K Sparks, Albany,
Ga.; George J Lunsford, Esq., Conductor H. W It. It.;
C Masterson, Esq. Sheriff Bibh county; .T A. Butts,
Bainhvidge, Ga ; Dykes & Sparhaxvk, Editors Floridian,
Tallahassee; ltev. J W. Burke, Macon, Ga.: Virgil
Powers Esq., Superintendent 8. W. It. R.; Daniel Bui
lard, Bullard’s Station, Macon and Brunswick K. R.,
Twiggs county, Ga.; Grenville Wood, Wood’s Factory,
Macon, Ga.; Kev. E F. Easterlinn, P. E. Florida Con
ference; Major A. F. Wooley, Kingston, Ga.; Editor
Mac m Telegraph.
For sale bv John F Henry, New- York, Jno D. Park,
Cincinnati, Jno. Flemming, New Orleans, and all Drug
gists apl2-ly
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“OUR FATHER’S HOUSE;”
or, THE UNWRITTEN WORD.
By Danif.l March.* D. P., Author of the popular
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r I''!TTS master in thought and language
I. shows us untold riches and beauties in the
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mountains, Delightful rivers, Mighty oceans. Thunder
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Address ZIEGLER A. MoCURDY,
lfiS. Sixth street. Philadelphia. Pa.
139 Race street, Cincinnati, Ohio,
09 Monroe street, Chicago, 111.,
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“THE MONROE ADVERTISER?
VOLUME FIFTEEN.
A First-Class Democratic Newspaper!
"'l'' ti E Gituipalgu vrHicll Trill aoon Bo innti
A gurated, and which will culminate in the election
of Congressional and Legislative Representatives in
November, promises to be one of the most important
and interesting epochs in the history of the State. In
viexv of this fact, it is the duty of every person to sub
scribe for some available newspaper. To the people of
this section. The Monroe Advertiser presents superior
claims.
No pains will be spared to render the The Apvep.tiskr
a reliable and efficient newspaper, and each issue will
embrace a fair epitome ol the week’s news, both foreign
and domestic.
As heretofore, the local news of this and the adjoining
counties will be made a specialty.
The Advertiser is published in a very populous and
wealthy section, and is one of the most available
ADVERTISING MEDIUMS
Id Middle Georgia. To the merchants of Macon and
Atlanta, it offers superior inducements for reaching a
large, intelligent and prosperous class of people. Terms
of advertising liberal. Address,
JAMES P. HARRISON.
septl7-tf Box 79, Forsyth, Ga.
TWO GOOD BOOKS.
Should be Had in every Family.
DEVOTIONAL and Practical Polyglott
FAMILY BIBLE, containing a copious index,
Concordance Dictionary of Biblical Terms, Geograph- |
ical and Historical Index, &c Fourteen hundred pages ,
furnished in three styles of bifding.
L\WS of BUSINESS for all the States in the Union.
By Theophilus Parsons, L L D This volume contains !
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deeds, bills of sale, leasts, band, articles of copartner- j
ship, will, awards, <feo Pabiished by the National Pub- 1
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Mr. JOHN A. COCHRAN has taken the Agency for
Upson and Pike counties, and wi 1 call upon the people ‘
with these invaluable books immediately. nov*Z6-tf
THOMASTON, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 25, 1871.
Poetry.
THE EAST NEW BALLAD.
I will not ask to press that cheek
A\ ithout a guarantee
T hat nature spreads the pearl and red,
V hich there I always see ;
Those lustrous lips I will not touch,
Unless you promptly say
That their bright hue is fast and true,
And will not wash away.
Those brilliant eyes may owe their charm
To belladonna's use.
Complexion’s tints, Ive heard dark hints,
Are changed by walnut juice;
And if I ask the dearest girl,
For xvhom alone I live,
For one lor.g tress to kiss and bless,
It mayn’t be hers to give.
The penciled brow, the raven lash,
Are open to a doubt;
And some mistrust, but they’re unjust,
The shaj>e I rave ahmil;
And in this dubious state of things,
And as the weather’s warm,
I will not seek to press that cheek,
Or ask to clasp that form.
yVIISCELLANEOUS.
Th.e Blasphemous Crow.
At a certnin cross-road in the State of
Alabama stood a small grocery or whisky
shop, where “bust-head” and “chuin-light
ning” were dealt out to the thirsty unwash
ed at five cents a drink, or twenty-five
cents a quart. The presiding genius of
this delectable institution was one Bill
Skies, who, among other various pets, had
ad imesticated crow, black as the ace of
spades. This crow had learned, among
other things, to repeat quite plainly the
words “damn you !” which he, of course,
heard frequently used in the grocery. Du
ring the prevalence of a knock-down and
drag out fight, one day, however, the crow
was frightened from home, and ilew off io
the woods never to return.
About three miles from the grocery was
a settlement meeting house—an old tum
ble-down affair, only used on certain oc
casions when a circuit rider came that way.
Into this building went the crow, taking
peaceable possession ; and two days there
after the church was thrown open to preach
ing, and a large crowd assembled, among
whom was a very old lady, who was com
pelled to use crutches in walking, who took
her seat in the front pew, and was. soon
absorbed in the eloquence of the preacher.
The reverend gentleman had scarce got
under headway, and commenced thunder
ing his anathemas at all grades of sinners,
when a hoarse, croaking voice from above
uttered the ominous words :
‘‘Damn you !”
The preacher and congregation looked
aghast at such profanity, and each peered
into his neighbor’s face in vain to detect
some sign of guilt. Quiet being at length
restored, however, the sermon, proceeded;
but ere ten minutes elapsed, the ominous
“damn you 1“ again electrified the audience,
and just as the preacher cast his eyes up
ward to search for the delinquent, the crow
flew down from his perch, and lighting
upon the Bible, calmly surveyed the terri
fied crowd an 1 gave another doleful croak :
“Damp you
The effect was electrical. Giving one
startling and electrified glance at the intru
der, the preacher sprang from the window,
carrying sash, glass and all with him, and
set off at a break-neck pace through the
woods, closely followed by his horror-strick
en congregation, who had- piled out of the
building pell mcll after him. In th# gen
al scramble, the old lady with the crutches,
had been knocked down in the church,
where she lay, to rise ; and, observ
ing her, the crow, who was after something
to eat, flew down beside her, and looking
up at her very knowingly, croaked out.
“Damn you !’’
“Yes, arid damn you. too ! I had nothing
to do with getting up this old Methodist
meeting—and you know it.”
The poor old worn irt had mistaken the
crow for the devil ard concluded if possible
to propitiate his Satanic majesty by deny
ing all complicity in that affair. The world
is full of just such people.
Tliv Climate of Sew England.
“Cold to-day, hot to-morrow; mercury
at eighty degrees in the morning, with a
wind at southwest, and in three hours more
a seatuin, wind at east, a thick fog from
the very bottom of the ocean, and a fall of
forty degrees of Fahrenheit; now srt dry as
to kill all the beans in New Hampshire, then
floods carrying off bridges and dams off the
Penobscot and Connecticut ; snow in Ports
mouth in July, and the next day a man and
a yoke of oxen killed by lightning in Rhode
Island—you would think the world was
twenty times coming to an end ! But I don’t
Know now it is; wc go atoDg ; me early
and the latter rain falls each in its season,
seed time and harvest do not fail; the sixty
days of hot corn Aveather are pretty sure to
be measured out to us ; the Indian summer
with its bland southwest and mitigated
sunshine brings all up ; and on the twenty
fifth of November, or thereabouts being
Thursday, three millions of grateful people,
m meeting-houses, or around the family
board, give thanks for a year of health,
plenty and happiness.”— Rufus Choat.
Responsibilit y of Drunkards.
It is a maxim in legal practice, that
those who presume to commit crimes when
drunk must submit to punishment when
sober. This state of the law is not peculiar
to modern times. In ancient Greece, it was.
decreed by Pittacus, that he who committed
a crime when intoxicated should receive a
double punishment, viz ,one fur the inebri
ety which prompted him to commit it. The
Anthenians not only punished offencesdone
in drunkenness with increased severity,
but by an enactment of S don, inebriation
in a magistrate was made capital. In our
own country, at the present time. act 9 of
violence committed under its influence, are
held to be aggravated, rather than other
wise, nor can the person bring it forward
as an extenuation of any folly or misde
meanor which he n>ay chance to commit.
A bond signed in intoxication holds in law
and is perfectly binding unless ir can bo
shown that the person who oigned it was
inebriated by the collusion ot contrivance
of those to whom the bond was given.
News Summary.
__ A. Shakespeare is editor of a paper in
Kalamazoo.
Now a race of men with cloven feet is
reported as existing in Central Mexico.
A FiiGenth Justice in Mississippi grants
divorces for five dollars.
A sixty pound wild cat was recently
killed rear Ripley, Mississippi.
The Duluth Morning Call, 7 bv G inches,
is the smallest daily paper published,
Columbus. Ohio, has a gang of female
candy pedlers.
An orphan girl in Virginia has just
smoked herself to death at the age of one
hundred.
The Kew York press thinks the selling
of impure liquors ought to be made a fel
ony.
T •• county, T.
of tree's. There are two few to °ha°ng r< !uv
horse-thieves on comfortably.
A bit of raw turnip in his windpipe is
what necessitated the burial of Mr. Clayton
of Alabama.
In Sheffield, England, it is proposed to
severely punish all pawnbrokers who take
pledges from children.
San Francisco is eating green peas, cu
cumbers, strawberries, string beans, fresh
figs, asparagus and green corn.
There was recently on exhibition at
Binghamton, New York, a turkey that
turned the scales at fifty pounds.
An Indiana town is going to give its
bachelors a benefit soon, in the shape of a
persimmon and sour krout festival.
Mrs. Leggett, of Indiana, got a divorce
Friday. On Saturday she legged it to the
parson’s and tvas married-
Terra Haute claims more banks than
any other city of its size. One is a Nation
al, and the other thirteen or so are of the
faro and keno varieties.
Xenia, Ohio, girls have a pleasing habit
of kissing strangers in the street, and then
wildly screaming, ‘ Oh, my ! I thought it
was cousin Charlie 1”
A La Crosse merchant is pestered by
some enemy who keeps hanging baskets
containing babies on his door knob. llis
wife don’t understand it.
The latest Masonic returns and records,
show the strength of the order in the United
States to be 408,456. The lodges number
over 7,000.
Two Chinamen who hung themselves in
the San Francisco jail left a last will and
testiment, but no countryman of theirs can
be found with the courage to translate it.
A rural New York belle in struggling to
prevent a young man from kissing her,
backed through a window, and was badly
cut with the glass. The moral is obvious.
Indiana rivals Massachusetts in its beer
regulations. A man has been indicted for
buying ale's ir his sick wife, and giving the
surplus to his minor children.
The wind blows with such force in Colo
rado that when a inan loses his hat he has
to telegraph to the next station to have
someone stop it.
Ristori, the famous Italian actress, male
her first appeatance on the stage in her
native village of Cividale, at the advanced
age of two months—the earliest debut on
•ecord.
A gentleman of Memphis sits in bis gar
den under the shade of ti castor-oil plant
twenty-three feet high. With fragrant
foliage spreading over a circumference of
forty-five feet.
We have often wondered where all the
blind people come from; but it is plain
now. There is a “blind factory” at Eliza
beth, N. J., where large numbers are turn
ed out every year.
That Cleveland lady who invented and
made public the trick of asking her hus
band for npney in the presence of stran
gers receives numerous letters of thanks
every day from delighted wives.
A Washington reporter, in commenting
on the democratic character of General
Sherman’s receptions, says : “Any gentle
man with a paper collar and mittens on can
go in.”
Ah Eastern paper, in a fit of rovolution
nrv enthusiasm, says, “Hurrah for the girls
of 7Q”. “Thunder!” cried a New Jersey
paper. “That’s too darned old ! No, no !
Hurrah for the girls of 19 !”.
A wealthy Oshkosher educated a young
lady for the purpose of marrying her. A
young fellow has just eloped eastward with
her, ui.d tlie elderly lover thinks it is no
use bringing up a wife by hand.
A mosquito taper is a Pittsburgh inven
tion. It creates such a smell when burning
that the mosquitoes ask to be excused. It
drives human beings out doors also, which
is its only detect.
A couple of farmers in Hardin county,
lowa, went to law five years ago over
twenty-five dollars. The suit isjust ended,
and both farmers had to sell their farms to
pay the costs.
A sealed can of oysters carelessly left on
the embers of a stove, in Oswego, exploded
with tremennous force, bursting, the grate
to atoms, shaking the house, and severely
injuring a bystander. tVon’t some kero
sene man now give us a patent non-explos
tve oyster ?
M iss S. A. Benslev, Pawtucket, R. 1., is
row studying vocal music at Leipsic. Her
voice is said to be very remarkable for
pover. but almost incredibly so for range,
the compass extending to high B, and
octave above the leger space and about
thr© notes beyond the highest reached by
Carotta Patti.
Tie famous Mount St. Bernard dog
“Tel,” who has won every first prize at
Enfiish exhibitions since his importation
in K 64. is dead. lie was known through
out England. France, Germany, and Araer- j
ica.as the finest type of the sough-haired
St. 1 rnard breed in the world. His age
at tie time of his death was only seven <
yea*. 1
Englisli Fox Hound.
The modern English fox hound is really
one of the most wonderful animals in crea
tion, owing, probably, to the great care
! which has been given to his breeding tor
the last three centuries. Some tox houud
establishments have cost their owners
£B,OOO to £IO,OOO per year; and the
money and talent which has been expended
for this purpose has resulted in wonderful
success. The fox hound, like all other
dogs, must be selected for the country he
is to range in. The middle size is the
most approved, for the reason that, like all
other animals, they are found to be stronger
and better able to endure fatigue. Hight
and color is a mat ?r of taste. A good dog
cannot be of bad color—that is to say, we
do not think color has much to do with the
specific character of the animal; but in
shape all must igr/e. We should not pre
fer a large hound to one of medium size,
since in a thick woven country, or in a
thorny brake, he, as the poet says, “Pain
bleeds.”
One of the most important features is
that the pack be sill of a size and look of
the same family. There are certain points
in a bound, as in a horse, which should be
always looked alter. If not of perfect
symmetry, he will not show speed nor get
through much work. Ilis legs should be
perfectly straight; his feet round and not
too large ; his shoulders well back ; breast
rather wide; .chest deep; back broad;
head small; neck thin ; tail thick and
bushy and carried well.
A small head indicates high breeding
and looks more beautiful. We do not say
large beaded JogvS are in any wise iuferior.
His ears are roundel by the irons of the
huntsman, to save them from the tears and
scratches which they would inevitably en
counter in dranny. The prevailing colors
of the present day uve black and white,
with tan. The mixed or blended colors are
known as “pies”—red pie, blue pie, yellow
pie, gray pic, lemon pie, hare pie, and
badger pie. The last two are very hand
some. Tan black, white, red blue, are
more or less mixed with white*,
The fox hound is always to be looked at
as a part of a park, just as a soldier is a
part of a regiment; so that it is of no use
to breed him exceptionally high, or small,
or otherwise, if you make him run different
from his companions. Ilis nervous and
physical organism makes him peculiar for
dash.
We know that this English fox hound
differs materially in form and size from the
favorites of the fox -hunting districts of our
own country. Wo shall be glad to have
some old huntsman tell us wherein, and if
our own breeds are better for our country
sport than the English bree<j.
Beautiful Allegory.
Mr. Crittenden, of Kentucky, was at one
time engaged in defending a man who had
been indicted for a capital offence. After
an elaborate and powerful defence he closed
his effort with the following striking and
beautiful allegory: “When God in his
eternal connoil conceived the thought of
man’s creation, he called ta him the three
ministers who wait constantly upon the
throne—Justice, Truth and Mercy—and
thus addressed them : ‘Shall we make
man?’ Then said Justice, ‘O, God, make
him net, for he will trample upon thy laws.’
Truth made answer also, ‘O, Godi, make
him not, for he will pollute thy sanctuaries.’
But Mercy, dropping upon her knees, and
looking up through her tears, exclaimed,
‘O, God, make him—l will watch over him
with my care through all the dark paths be
may have to tread.’ Then God made man
and said to him, ‘O, man, thou art the child
of Mercy : go and deal with thv brother.”
The jury, when he had finished, was
drowned in tears, and against evidence, and
what must have been their own convictions
brought in a verdict of not guilty.
♦
Cancer.
The cancer has long been a disease be
yond the reach of physicians. Its treat
ment has long been empirical, unreliable.
The remedies employed have been danger
ous, and painful, and almo-t always un
successful. Under these circumstances the
discovery of anew method of treating can
cer will be hailed with satisfaction by both
patient and physician. At the recent
annual meeting of the New York Medical
University, Prof. Scott read a paper in
which he repeated the fact that experiments
had demonstrated the marvellous efficacy
of the application of chloride of chromium
—a new salt of this rare metal incorporated
into stramonium ointment. This prepara
tion, in a tew hours, converts a tumor into
perfect carbon, and it crumbles away. The
re nedvcauses no pain, and it is not poison
ous. It promises to alleviate much human
misery, and we would call the attention of
the entire medical profession to the discov
ery.—Exchange.
Advice tu Young Ladies,
Be cheerful, but no gigglers. Be serious,
but not dull. Be communicative, but not
forward. Be kind, but beware of silly,
thoughtless sgeech ; although you may for
get them, others will not. Beware of levity
and faruiliarv with young men ; a modest
re-erve without affectation, is the only path.
Court and encourage serious conversation
with those who are truly serious and con
versible ; and io not go into valuable c >m
pany without endeavoring to improve by the
intercourse permitted to you. Nothing is
more unbecoming, when one part of a com
pany is engaged in profitable and interest
ing'conversation, than that the other part
should be trifling and talking comparative
nonsense to each other.
Beds 3lu.de Too Early.
The desire of an energetic housekeeper to
have her work completed at an early hour
in the morning causes her to leave one of
the important items of neatness undue.
The most effectual pnrifying of beds and
bed clothes cannot take place if no time is
allowed for the free circulation of pure air
to remove all human impurities which have
collected during the hours of slumber. At
least two or three hours should be allowed
for the complete removal of atoms of insen
sible perspiration which are absorbed by
the bed. Every day this airing should be
done, and occasionally bedding constantly
used should be carried into the open air,
ahd when practicable left exposed to tbo
sun and wind for half a day
The Qreen Corn Boy.-
A good story is told of a hoy who was
sent from Groton, Conn., to New London
one day last summer, with a bag of green
corn td Mil The bo} was gone all day.
ana returned with the bag unopened, whitfh
he dumped on the floor, saying, ‘ There is
your corn, g) and sell it yourself, I can’t "
“Sold any?” “No,” said the boy; “I*y Q
been all over London with it, and nobody
said anything about green corn. Two or
three fellows asked me what I’d got in my
bag ; and I told them 'tw&s none of their
business. Ihe boy reminds us of business
men who ate to be fottnd in every commu
nity who dos not or will not recognize the
benefits of advertising their business. They
put their light under a very large bushel—*
pack their goods away in dark Corners* for
fear that someone will find out that they
have something for sale.
Substitute for tlie Grand Jury*
; A bill has been introduced into the VVis
provuTe a HVttitfttfW! rebvtli, i9..desjsrned to
is mainly a copy of the Michigan law upon
that subject, and provides that all crimes
shall be presented lor trial by information,
instead of indictment, drawn by the district
attorney, and that he shall draw no infor
motion except in eases which have been
examinedtirst by a justice of the peace* and
in any case where he refuses to draw an
information on the cases presented by a
justice he shall report the case to the circuit
judge, with the evidence. It further pro
vides for an arraignment before a coi nty
judge for the defendent to plead, so that,
if he pleads guilty, he may be sentenced
immediately, and not be compelled to lie iu
jail until the session of the circuit.
Character.
Wo may judge a man’s character by what
he loves, what pleases him. If a person
manifests delight in low, sordid objects, the
vulgar song and debasing language, in the
misfortunes of his fellows or animals, we
may at once determine the complexion of
his character. On the contrary, if he loves
purity, modesty—if virtuous pursuits en
gage bis heart, and draw out his affections
—we are satisfied that he is an upright
man. When we see a young man fond of
fine clothes, and making a fop of himself,
it is a sure sign that he thinks the world
consists of outside show and ostentation,
and he is certain to make an unstable man,
without true affection or friendship, fond of
change and excitement, and woarying of
those objects and pursuits which for a time,
give him pleasure.
How to be Nobody*
It is easy to be nobody and we will tell
you how to do it. Go to the drinking saloon
and spend your leisure time. You need not
drink much now ; just a little beer, or somo
other drink. In the meantime, play bil
liards, dominoes, checkers, or something
else to kill time, so that you will be sure
not to read any useful book. If you read,
let it be the dime novels of the day. Thus
go on keeping pour stomach full and your
head empty, and yourself playing time
killing games and in a few years you’ll be
nobody, unless (as is quite likely) you
should turn out a drunkard or a profession
al gambler, either of which is worse than a
nobody. There are many young men hang
ing about saloons, billiaia-rooms and ttmi
shops, just ready to graduate and be no—
bodies.
Extinct Families.
Robert, Stephenson left no family behind
him, so that the direct line from George
Stephenson, the eminent English engineer,
has died out. James Watt, the noted £ng»
lish inventor, left no descendants. It
pears that the men noted for mechanical
geniuvS, like many of those famous in litera
ture, science and government, leave no chil
dren to perpetuate their names. Shak*
spear, Milton, Bacon, Newton, Ilarvey,
Pope, Mansfield, Goldsmith, Congreve,
Hume, Bishop Butler, Locke, IlobbSj Adam
Smith, Bentham, Davy, Sir Joshua Reyn
olds, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Byron, Lord
Clyde, and others well known to fame in
British annals, have no lineal fepfesenta
tives now living.
—
A Railroad Story.
We heard a good story on a certain rail
road the other day. On this road the train
! was frequently delayed by cattle tipon the
track. This had happened several times,
but finally the locomotive entered upon
clear Bailing, and for ten or fifteen miles
the train rattled along at a lively jog. All
of a sudden, however, the engine began a
lively blowing, showing that trouble had
! come again. At this, cine individual, who
I had been watching the trees fly past the
windows, and had just persuaded himself
into the belief that he was riding into glory
! at a rate of a league at a breath, jumped up
with surprise, and ejaculated : '‘Well, I'll
be cussed if we haven’t caught up with
these darn cattle again.”
Drugged Cigar*.
It is stated that anew method of robbing
people has lately been adopted. A drugged
digar is given to the victim, who, after
smoking awhile, feels stupid and falls
asleep. He is then robbed, and the thief
leaves him. The robbed man wakes up
after a time, vomits and perspires freely.
The sickness does not last a great while.
This method of robbery is practiced more
on the cars than elsewhere. Never accept
a cigar From a stranger.
A Sure Remedy for Drunkenness.
The Austin Republican says: Whenever
there is a desire to drink, take an ordinary
dram of very strong whiskey straight into
the mouth, (don’t swallow one crop of it,)
and hold it in the mouth from one *o three
minutes, then spout it out. This will ap
pease all desire to drink for some hours ;
then repeat at intervals as the desire to
drink returns, which will be leas and less
frequent, and in one week, more or less, it
will entirely subside* Be assured this is so.
Leaking Milk.'
“For a cow that leaks her milk badly,
place a little elas ic gum ring aroond each
teat. You can cut a set out of an old cast
away rubber shoe—cost nothing—no harm
to the cow, and will saoe in u season
ul dollars worth ot milk.”
NO. I(s*