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VOL. 111. THETHOMASTON HERALD, PUBLISH KD BY McMICHAEL & CABANISS, KVERY »\TUKDA*Y MORNING TERMS. i'ne Y»*ar .f 2 00 Pix Months ... ... .. ... —• I W * All payments INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. T.ie pnper will he stopped at the expiration of the •Ime paid for, unless s'lhscrljAion is previous renewed. II tile add re-8 of a subscriber is to he ohanM’ed. we most have the old address as well as the new one, to prevent tnistake No subscription received for a less period than three months. I Served by Carrier in town without extra ehnree. No ntuMition paid to anonymous communications, as We are responsible for every tiling entering our columns. This rule is imperitive Any one HpiHliua ns th« names of three new subserib vr<, with S(J.OW, we will send the llkkald one year T'UKK \ n K mark after subscribers name indicates that the time of subscription Is out. ADVERTISING RATES. Tho so lowing are the rates to which we adhere in All contracts for idvertisins, or where advertisements are handed in without instructions. One square ten lines or le-is (Nonpariel type). $1 for the first, and 50 cents for each subsequent insertion. rtQUARES _ | l T. 1 M.'"j «' 1 Square A I 00 $ 2 fit) $ 7 (Ml slll O' slft 00 2 S(tlitres • .. 2 *5 (H)| 10 110! Ift 00; 25 00 H Squares .. S*N>i 7 001 15 00 20 00 80 00 4 Squares 400 '0 On 20 *H> 80 00| .40 00 U Column 5 00i 2 <M) 3 l »M* 40 00 50 00 u toiiimn. . ... 10 00 20 001 85 00 65 00' 80 00 1 Column. . . 15 00 2ft oO 40 00 70 00 180 00 Displayed Advertisements will beenurged according to the ftcoß they occupv. \ll advertisements should be marked for a specified -time, otherwise they will be continued and charged for snt'.l nrdere 1 out. Advertisements Inserted at Intervals to be charged of new each insertion. . Advertisements to ren for a longer period th n three months are due and will he collected at the beginning of each quarter. Transient advertisements must be paid for in advance. Advertisements discontinued from any cause before expiration of time specified, will be charged only for the time published. I’ro'essional cards one square $lO 00 a year. * Marriage Notices f l .60 Obituaries $1 per square. Notices of a personal or private character, intended t<> promote anv .-rivate enterprise or interest, will be charged as other a Ivertiseinenls Advertisers are requ * te.l to hand in their favors as earl. In the wee as possible 1 ,fi e a >o- e t* m.'i will he *tri<-t!y to. LEGAL ADVERTISING. as hoietoture. since the war. the following are the pric<e for notices of p-diaaries, Ac.--To Hfc p\ip IN Afi v A'CK ; I'uirty Days' Notices $ 5 on Forty i lavs' Notices 6 25 8 vies of Lm is .Ac pr. sqr of tea Lines 6 00 Sixty Dmis’Notices .. ... 1 **o Six tooths' Notices . -. • U 00 T n Day-’ Notices of Sales pr sqr. .. .2 00 ■mifikikct’ Salks —for these Sales, for every ft fa $8:00. Mortgage Sales, p r square $5 00 Let asitl** a libera' per centaae for »dv«rtb«lnß Kee - yail self unceasingly before the public: and It m \Mers not what bud ss vmi are -ng-tg- and in. for. f Ihtc lig.-utlv and industriously pursued, a fortune will b#* t.qe r .uu —Hunt- 'lerch inrs’ .Magazine. •• \fter | tietgvi to a vertise my ironware freely, busimss tn'*ri*a-ed with -mazour rapidity. For t.-n yea-s oast I K <ve spent 830.00 p yearlv to keep my supe'-i >r w .res he! r- the public II vl 1 been timid ;n , advertising I never should have po-sessed my fortune ?<*f £:i.YMiod’\ -McLeod iJelton. Birmingham ** \ilvenislnsr like tidas' touch, turns everything to , gold. !< i\ von- daring men draw millions to their ■coffer- ’’ —Stuart (’ley * Vh it and ict*y is to love, and boldness to war. the ski'lfu! use of printer’s i is to success in business. Be,, cher. .V’Ulio and the aid of :idver , isetnenT..s I on and have done ■ noth ng in .my i> culations l h ive the most Complete t'ai n m "printers' ink.” Adve. Using is the “royal road j|to business *' —Baronin. Professional pARDS* x\ ; X RVA LL \-Ure va* L w Th. v f aston. Ga Will practice in the Flint I’lrcitit ot «lsew .ete, and attend promptly to business, janlH-tf. | %\ r V WE WKH V'l-irr ev ~t L,w r V Thomaston, Ga., will practice in all the Courts «.f the Flint ('ircuit, and * Iscwlr re by «p< cial contract j iifS if I\\i dIH'M PERDUE. V Itnu- 1) rr-vi / nen ly located at The Rock, ten iers his professional s>.rv'c.-s to th> Mirroundirg commnlty. and promises to spai e no labor or attention to those who may patronize biiu. jiiiy22-6mo I— —— MU nANDWHUL \- MOV u and Go,*.. seller r.t Law, Thomaston. Ga. Will practice in ice several i'ourts of the state of Georgia, and attend promptly to all business entrusted to his care, nov 11 ts 1> )V $ >\ it l UK* V' . .eg i lit ) Law, Griffin. Ga. I'flicein Ainiah Hall, next door t«> tne -t\h <lf kick Will practice in the t'ounlies oo'U|«ising the Flint. < ircuit, and in the United States Lionet ourt. Attention given to cases in Bankruptcy, mav 13 ly J \ 1 V VL Ot NUNS VLLY A‘t rneys a: 1 / Law, Griffin, Ga. Will practice in nil the coun fies comprising the Flint Judicial t’ircuit, and in the CounMes of Meriwether, Glayton, Favette and Coweta. Will practice in the Supreme Court of Georgia and the District i 'ourt ol the United Mates tor the Northern and South ern Districts of Georgia A. !>. N CNN ALLY. [iplls lv] L. T. DOYAU JY \LLKN V l l i »r pv a- L\v T*e>nfi • aston, Ga. Will practice in the counties com prising tne Flint Judieial Circuit, and elsewhere by AP cial contract. All business promptly attended to. Office In Cheney’s brick building. * inchll-ly UR T K KENttALL >tf vH hw i«r f<>.- sional services tc the citizen- of thomaston and surrounding country. May be found duriu • t>.e day at th. i bug r-tore. at night at the former reside ce of J l Hall, opposite Rogers & Cheney’s Warehouse. Jan.l4 ly JF REDD N T '», * r ti \ L w • Barnesvil e. Pike co, Ga. Will practice in the C'lunties comprising the Flint Judicial Cir. uit, and elsewhere by special ontract Al oisiness promptly at* ended to Olhee in Elder - budding, over« haraber's Itn Store. ugft- y. r p IGM\S BE \L L Art',t,v nr Low, JL rhotn i-ton, Ga. Will practice in the Flint Cir- Otflt and elsewhere bv sp. cial contract. aug27-ty J*)!l >1 t. t| \LL Attorney ao<l 0-iunse'l at Law Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Circuit. In the Supreme Court of *.eor ia. and in the District Court of the United States for the Northern and Sou-hern Districts of Georgia. Thomaston, Ga.. June ISth. ISTu-ly. 4 NUKKSUN' & MoCALLv Ar --r eve Law, Covington, Georgia Will attend r.«u- Inßy, and Practice in the Superior i ourts of the «jotnr,|.*s of Newton, Butts. H. nrv, Spaiding Pine M m oe, Upson, Morgan, IJeKalb Gwinnette and Jas —y * ——— - • ■ M VI U'tlK-vs .\ *em t „t i Laws, I albotton, Ga., will practiceall the counties coup ising the ‘ hatiahoochee t'ircuit and elsewhere bv •pecial contract deetO-ly ‘ TY IIIW I. A-t -rtiey it*: Law Bar >ps* • ville, Ga Will practice in all the counties of Flint 'ircuit and Supreme Court of the State. MiKIUN BETIIIJN E u . Law. T.ilbaton, Ga Will practice in all the caninties of the Chattahoo' Uee 1 ircuit, and Upson and Kerriwether counties deciS-ly f\tt ROGERS tv»11 c .oniMie the pr iftice of Medicine. O/Hce at B. I). Hardaway's Drag SHor* decH-lv — T YMK* 3 S. WALKER Ht l. ivr LaGang«, Ga. Will practice in Circuit Courts of IMlPtate, and m tbs United States District Courts, •etlhljr LADIES’ FANCY STORE! OVER MESSftS. FLEMISTES & BROOKS, GOKRRR or HILL AND SOLOMON BTRKCTS, GRIFFIN. GEORGIA, . \yOULD respectfully inform the good J citizens of Thomaston and vicinity that we have now in store, and keep constantly on hand a superior stock ' and very latest styles of i■% - i - ; LADIES’ FINE DRESS GOODS, LADIES’ & CHILDRENS’ SHOES, LADIES’ JEWELRY, LADIES’ HOSIERY, LADIES’ NOTIONS, MILLINERY, &c. A thousand little tricks and trinkets that Meh-Mer chants know nothing about, to be found at our Store. | - «i.- ; : ■ . ' i IN'EIIL.LIISrEIR.'Sr ! The Choicest. Fre-hest, and SWEETEST, stock in the maket. Goods manufactured P> suit the taste of customers. Orders respectfully solicited, ('all on or addre-s MRS. M. A. HIGHTOWER & 0., j mnylß-tf Griffin, Georgia. ! ANDREWS &7i7lL, j AND DEALKKB IN FURNITURE, COFFINS, &c., &c., AT J. T. G. ANDREWS’ Mill, Five Miles Southwest of Tlumastoil, Ga. \\ r R vc.uUd inform onr t v friends and the public generally, that we have eßt ahod a FURNITURE MANUFACTORY at the above, named p!*> c, where we mantifnctore and keep con-uintly on hahd superior Furniture of all kite's, varieties, and grades. We are prepared to fill all or ders :or COFFIN**, and do qll kinds of Cabinet work with neatness and dispatch We flatter otirselv*f, that we can please all that know good work when they see it <>ur facilities and advantages in preparing our own Lumber and Manufacturing our ow.i Work enables us to oflvr any quantity, better varieties, an decidedly better bn gains than other Furniture dealers iu this section of country. We earnestly tequest all that are in need of anything In our line to call and examine cur stock, as we feel satisfied that we can give satisfaction iu style, quality and price. All work warrauteed to be as repr, sented. Orders solicited irtay'ilMy JAS ANDREWS A L S. HILL. CHEAP READING THE ATLANTA NEW ERA. CLUB RATES. In order to place the WEEKLY NEW ERA within the r >ach of all. the proprietors have determin ed to to offer the following SPLENDID INDUCEMENTS : One copy, one year ... $ 3 00 Ten copies one year, $1.50 each 15 00 Twenty copies, <-ne year, f 1.25 each 25 00 Thirty copies, one year SI.OO each. ... ..... 80 00 The Weekly Era contains nearly twenty-eight col umns of choice leading matter each issue, consisting of Politics, Llierature, Market Reports, and GENERAL NEWS. Make up your Clubs at once. Postmasters are authorized and requested to act as Agents. Address NEW ERA OFFICE. july29-tf Atlanta, Ga. LAWTON & WILLINGHAM. (Successors to Lawton A Lawton,) FOURTH STREET, WARE-HOUSE, COTTON AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS. Bagging and Ties Furnished. Advances made on Cot ton in More when desired septSO-ifm The Southern Farm and Home. A riEST CLASS AGRICULTURAL MOHTHLY. GEN. W. M. BROWNE, K DITOK At $2 00 per Year in Advance. IUTR Scoai.d Volume onromenoeu tvirh November number. Now is the time to sub scribe. Address, J. W. BUKKE, <fe CO., octS ts Macon, Ga. C A WON HOUSE, (Recently St. James Hotel. 1 Marietta Street, Gate City Block, ATLANTA, GEORGIA. Bonrl. 1“ r f>.v. *2.('o. <.,-t2l-6 n DR. THOS. A. WARREN, GRIFFIN, GEORGIA. OFFERS hi-. services to r>ic c : t'2- 1 Griffin and vicinity Special attention given to the treatment of CHRONIC DISEASES. Those a’ a dist-nee can <-an consult him hv letter. Office oter George Beecher <fc < o , All Street. apriLU-tf watch^repairTnoT r citizeng o» Pf.^ u - ftr ‘d ft counties are respectfully informed that I have moved my stock to the store o Mr Wrh. Wallace, and am no»r prepared to execute w<vk In my line of busi ness, on the most favorabb terms. Repairing of all kinds done st the shortest notice and i the neatest mah ner. I have lacUities for turning out good w >rfc, ami hy strict attention to business hope to receive a liberal rhl4r *V.« i' alr onage. Very respectfullv, aprHS-tf WM. L BRYAN. SHINGLEa VV r E bntff procured a SLii<t!!>' Mac hi re V V and ar g fio<r prepared to furnish Sbfnglea i* »n who desire them at reasonable figure* nagllMf ABkEJt 4 J. t. LJBWJ& THOMASTON. OA.. SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 27, 1872. DTiFFOIti, llUMidi 4 to., BARNESVILLE, CA., J.JAVE now on hand the LARGEST, BEST and CUAPEKT STOCK OF GOODS Ever offered in BARNESVILLE, Consisting in Ladies’ and Gents’ Apparel Os every discriptlon and style. Hardware, Cutlery, Crockery, Sugars, Coffees, Carpetings, Trunks, Umbrellas, Salt, Syrup and Molasses, WOOD AND WILLOW WARE, Cheese, Soap, Candles, ’ Ilice, Bacon, Lard, and Flour, BAMIN3 AND TIES, CHEWING and SMOKING TOBACT’O, SINGER’S SEWING MACHINES. All sizes of FISK’S METALIC BURIAL CASES. Twenty-five head of fine Kentucky MULES and HOUSES, and will keep from Twenty-five to One Hundred head constantly on hin-1 .luring the season. We also have a Large and Commodious Cotton Warehouse, And will buy or sell, store or snip your Cotton. We keep constantly on hand.almost anything you may call for and what we have not got you will not find thisEi.dc of New York. We s oat astonishingly LOW PKI< E s , and defy competition. STAFFORD, BLALOCK & CO., oeti4 3m Barnesville, Ga. SOBERS"& CHENEY, WAREHOUSE AND COTTON COMMISSION MERCHANTS, THOMASTON, GEORGIA. \\ J E take this fnetho'l of informing our Y \ friends and the public generally that our NEW W A REHOUSE is now completed and we are now pre pared to serve them in the Storage and Sale of Cotton. Our Scales are new and corr ct, and having se.oired the services of a competent and reliable ScaU-sman, wo can safely guarantee to do justice to both buyers and sellers. LIBERAL ADVANCES will be made on COTTON in store BUYERS IN THOSTAffrOM will pay Barnesville PRICES for Cot ton. Insurance on Cotton in Warehouse one per cent. oct7-6m FOUTZ’S CELEBRATED lira am Cattle Powers. This preparation, long and favorably afr known, will thoroughly re-invigorate J i broken down and low-spirited horses, h by strengthening and cleansing the ft stomach and intestines. 3L It is a sure preventive of all diseases £4 incident to this animal, such as LUNG FEVER. GLANDERS. YELLOW WATER. HEAVES. COUGHS, DIS TEMPER, FEVERS. FOUNDER, LOSS OF APPFTITE AND VITAL fSNmg**. ENERGY, Ac. Its use improves SVy the wind, increases the appetite— I W gives a smooth and glossy skin—and traif-forms the miserable skeleton £a imo A fine looking and spirited horse. tion is invaluable. It is a sure pre ventive against Rinderpest, Hollow 1 orn ’ €tc - H has been proven by I actual experiunnt to increase the 4. quantity of piHk And Cream twenty per cent, and make the butter firm and sweet. In fattening cattle, it gives them an appetite, loosens their hide, and makes them thrive much fasuer. In all diseases of Swine, such as Coughs, Ulcers is the Lungs, Liver, &c., tins article acts as a specific. By putting from oat half a paper to a paper in a barrel of swill the above diseases willb" eradi 'lCriiU eat>>d ot entirely prevented. If given ». if- TF> in time, a certain preventive and cure for the Hog Cholera. DATID E. EOUTZ, ProprietoPft BALTIMORE. Met. For sale by Druggists and Storekeepers throughout the United States, Canadas and South America For Sale by J. W. A t'WATEH, TNanMsrton, fly »ovll-lj yVIISCELLANEODS. What Was His Other Name?—As Ar tenuis WurrJ was once traveling in the cars driading to l,e bored and feeling miserable, a man approa bed him, sat and wn and said ; “E>id you hear that last thing on Iluruce Greelej “Greeley? said Artemus. “Il'Tftce Greeley ? Who is he?” The man was quiet about five minutes. Pretty Soon he said : “George Francis Train is kicking up a good deal of a row over in England and » you think they will put him in a bastile?” “Train, Train. George Francis Train,” said Artemus solemnly, “I never beard of him.” Thi« .gnorance kept the man quiet for fifteen minutes, then he said : ‘ W hat do you think about General Grant’s chances for the Presidency. Do you think they will run him ?” “Grant, Grant! hang it, man,” said Ar temus, ‘you appear to know more strangers than any man I ever saw.” The man was furious; he walked up the car hut at last came hack and said : “You confounded ignoramus, did you ever hear of Adam ?” Artemus looked up and said: “What was his other name?” Hints to B vs and Girls—l. Never look over another person when he is writing a letter, or reading that which dues not concern you 2 Never enter another’s room abrubtly. Have you special business, knock gently at the door or ask permission to enter 3. Never select the best article of food at table. Wait till you are helped. Be mod est, polite, temperate. 4 Never ask trifling or foolish questions, or inquire about th.ngs with which you are already familiar. “A fool’s voice is known by a multitude of words. ’* 5. Never speak utiless you have some thing tn say—think twice before you speak once. “In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin ; but he that relraineth his lips is wise.” 6. Never dissemble, feign yoUrself sick, or asleep, or unwell, to avoid correction of some unpleasant thing. This is a species (if lying, for which the Lord will not hold you guiltless. “Keep thy tongue from evil,and thy iips from spoaking guile.” “Put away from thee a forwaid mouth and perverse lips put far from thee.” L\iug lips are an abomination to tin* L rd ” flow' He Paid e-r It. —A tall, green looking youth stepped into a village grocery where they keep something to eat and drink, and after peering about a iittle, *pied some ginger cakes. Said he to the grocer : “Them’s mighty flue cakes; what’s the lea*t you will take for one of 'em ?” “Ten cents.” “Well, I believe I’ll take one if you will wrap it up right good ” The grocer wrapped up the cake and banded it to him He looked at it awhile and said : *T don’t believe I want this c*ke after all. Won’t you swap me adri k for it ?” “Yes,” said the grocer, as he took hack (he c-tke and handed him a glass of some thing. The young mati swallowed the liquor and started off “Hold on,” said the grocer, “you havn’r paid me for my drink.” “I swapped you the cake for the drink ” “But you havrrt paid ine for tho cake.” “You’ve got the cake.” This last retort so nonplussed the grocer that he stood and scratched his puzzled head, while the young man made good bis retreat. I Feel it Pull — lr* trm deepening twi light ot a Summer’s evening, a past >r called at a residence of one of his parishioners, and found seated in the doorway a little boy with hands extended upward, holding a line. “What you are doing here, my iittle friend?” inquired the minister. “Flying my kite, sir,” was the prompt refdv ‘‘Flying your kite 1” exclaimed the pas tor. “I can see no kite —you cun see none.” “I cannot see it, hut 1 know it is there, for i feel it pull ” A few years hack the angels came nnd bore far above us, out of sight, one that was very dear to us all. The attachment of our heart, was not broken. We loved her while here, we h-vc her still. She loved us while in the flesh. We arc sure that she loves us none the less in her new condition. Rising higher and still higher in the heaven of heavens, we feel her influence. She is with Christ, and attracted be gentle influences, we are tending toward her peaceful home, with the prospect of the same .glorious companionship. Hand-Shaking —liuw did the people in the habit of shaking hands ? The answer is not far to seek. In early barbarous tunes, hen every savage nnd semi-savage was his own law giver. Judge, soldier, and policeman, and, had to watch over hi- own saliy, !■ default of all other protection, to frien sand acquaintances or rwo t 'angers desirit g to he friends or acquaintance, when (hey chanced to meet, offered the other the right—the hand alike of offense and difference, the hand that wiCids the sword, the dagger, the club, the tomahawk, or other weapons of war. Each did this to show that tfie hand was empty, and neither war nor treachery was Intended. A man cannot well stab another when he is in the mt of shaking hand* with him, unless fie be a double dyed trator and viliian. and strives to aim a cowardly blow with the left while giving the eight and pretending to be id good terms with h?s victim. “Georgs, wnat does c-a-t speli ?” “Don’t know, sir.” “Wout dues your mother keep to catch A • | mice T “No. no ; what animal ifi very fond of milk?” “A baby, sir.” “Y >u dunce, what scratched your sister’s face r “My nails, sir.” “I’m out of patience. There do you know that animal on the fence?” “Yes. sir ,y “Th£n, teil what c-a-t spells.” “Kitten, sir.” The Swis- People —The scenery stamps its charac eristics dn the rural population, and even on the animals of the Swiss. There is an innocent simplicity in the hab its and manners of this people that marks them as the un«.*phi>tiCated Children of nature whose Wants are few, and whose contentment is c mp ! ete in the duties and pastimes of their mountain homes? They plant their little gardens or dress their vineyards ; they watch th»ir flocks or gather the grass upon the mountain slope and in th« valleys, they hackle and s» in their fl u; they fish in the lakes and rivers ; they hunt the chamois; they enter ain and guide the stranger { and they intersperse their days and nights with legend and song until there is neither fatigue in their toils nor ennui in their solitude. Their horses and fl >eks follow them with an instinct ak n to friend ly Confidence; and the gre.rt haggv dog that paces theyard. or lies on the threshold, looks at you with a calm intelligence, which seems to say. If l had the gilt of speech like you, being of a higher grade, between the angels and the brutes, I could tell you all that is vouchsafed for any brute to know af the ends of life and service.” There is a striking difference between the Swiss communities and any others to be met with on the continent of Europe Girls. — It is in toe power of young girls to make themselves v»*rv dear and very useful to their married friends, and to r der them such services as are b> yond all price In times of sickness and of sorrow, the sympathy and presence of a beloved female triend are among the best of heaven’s gifts ; while she who min sters to the afflict ed, is as much blessed as blessing. L-‘f ho yonng person stay away from a friend who is ili or in affliction, from the fear that her inexperience will render her c mpany un desirable; all who have strong affections, and a ready power of sympathy, can make themselves acceptable, and. in endeavoring to do so, will increase their own happiness. Never let mere convenience induce you to stay at the houses-of persons whom you you cannot esteem ; by so uoing, vup bring on yifurself an irfe-mne obligation ; you take on yourself the duties of a friend, without having the sentiments that would make their discharge easy. Management of tTiii.pken —There can, I toink, t e rn greater di-aster in the home, no greater mistake in the attempt to man age a family, than the failure of the two parents to make their authority absolutely one. The household in which, f..r any reason or from any cause, a conflict of authority exists, is the saddest of sights to one who wishes weli to children. There should be earnest Conference between pa rents concerning tne best methods and objects; there shun and be perfect unanimity tn the general system of management adopted by them. It is unspeakably better to make some mistakes in unison, than t<* et the minds of children get confused as to whom t ley shall obey L>‘t the father and mother speak with one voice, if they wish the voice of either to fie respected Appeals fr on one to the other should never be permitted. Where this is lalowed, wretch* od t less ot many kinds ensues, and manage ment gives place to misinarnigerr ent. —J K Abbott , in Herot<l rtf Health. A Mothers Influence —ilow touching is this tribute of II »n T. 11 Denton, to his mother’s influence; “My mother asked me never to use tobacco ; I have never touched it from that time to the present day. She asked me never to gamble, and I have never gambled ; I cannot tell who is losing in that are being played. Shp admon ished me, too, against hard drinking ; and whatever capacity for endurance I Lave at present, and whatever usefulness I have attained through life, l 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 ; 1 owe to my mother ” Words for tue \ ■ UNO —Y ung friends, education is to y.m what polish and refine ment is to the rude diamond: In its rude state, the diamond resembles a stone, or piece of charcoal ; but when cut and manu factured, it comes out a bright and beautiful diamond, and is sold at a great price So it i* with you. Education calls f..r■ h tin* fiidden treasures and latent brilliances of your minds, which previou-ly lie dormant and inactive, or. in other words, asleep It cultivates and develops your understand ings, ami fits and prepares you for the duties and responsibilities of coming years, which, vre trust, will be years of usefulness useful to yoilrsplves. to your associates, and society at bir »■*» A certain man who is very rich now was very poor when be was a boy When a-ked how he got his riches, he said : “Mv father taught me never to play till inv work was finished, and never to spend my money till I had earned it If I had but an hour’s work in the day I must do that the fi.-i tring, and in an hour after this I was allowed to play, and then I couM p! .y with much mom pleasure than if I had the thought of art unfinished task before my mind I early formed the habit of doing everything in time and it soon became easy to do so. It is to this I owe iny prosperity.” L t every one wh ri>d- th»“ <b. 'lk.-wii-e James 1 j k, Jr. b*qu a m u nis property as follows: To his sister, Mrs. Hooker, $100.1)0I ;to his lather and mother each, $3,000 per annum ; to each of the two Misses M "ire. $2 O'JO ter annum; to th** Ninth IT guoeut $ll.OO < f to his wife the remain der of his property, of all kinds, with the exception of his persona] effects, which he willed to Jay Gould, his most inornate lriend. To Mr Go aid he also entrusted the management of *[l fiispr. jeetsin regorl to public improvements Mrs Fisk inheiits his shares in Dm Erie R>o ! r • and For M thkrs Send your little children to bed happy. Whatever cures press, give it a warm goodnight kiss as it g ;es to us pillow The memory of this, in the stormy years that may be in store for the lit le one, will be Me Bethlehem’s star to the bewil dered shepherds. “My father, my mother, loved me.” Nothing can take avrav rbat blessed heart-balm .Lips parched with th® world’s fever wi!| become dewy ag»in at the thrill of youthful memories. Kiss year little ehild before it'gree eledjh State Item,, ATLANTA. Governor James M. Smith has appointed Colo Del P. \V. Alexander, of Muscogee, Jas. W. of Calhoun county, and Colonel J. Bulowr Campbell, of Fulton county, Secretaries of the Executive Depart ment. m ac >n. M iyor Huff is out in an order to the po lice to bring every man in the city, white or black, who had no visible means of sup port, before him upon a charge of vagrancy. St. Paul’s Ep'ic>pal Church has been rob bed of the “minister’s surplice and a chest of tools which had beeo used in working on the church.” Some fellow has taken a picture of a young lady from Haygood’s art gallory. SAVANNAH. 0.1 the occasion of the thiftf-third anni versary of the Georgia Historical Society, of Savannah, which will be on the 12th of February, Hev. Dr. Divine, of Augusta, will lecture on the sul>j>*i*t of “The Anglo- Saxon-s-bis Past and Fu nre.” A sailor vfas dfuwued at Savannah on the 20th inet. c. LUViBUS. The Col umhns Son says : The old Board of Directors <'f the Georgia [I one Insurance Company, of Columbus, were re-elected on the 20th inst. A dividend of five per o°nt. was also declared. Tin* cotton factories of Columbus are crowdel with orders. The thought is a happy one, that the entire capital in the manufactories of C dumbos was furnished by the South, and is still owned by our people. Our mills are now running 30,000 spindles and over 1,000 looms and consume over ten bales of cotton per day. They have already taken over twic3 as much cotton as to same date last year. We learn, reliably, that the Bain bridge, Cuthbert and C* lumbus Rail road has been levied on by the Sheriff of Deca tur county, and is to be sold on the first Tuesday in February to satisfy liens on the roa 1 in favor of Harris Sc Brown. Mr. Bruton, the Ex-Prcsideut arid now one of the Directors, has abandoned all hope of the entei prise under existing affairs, but believes the ruad wili be bu It on account of the work expended upon it and the aid (fffered by the State in the charter. This is one of the roa Is of which 11. I Kimball was President. RURAL DISTRICTS. Washington Belcher, of Jefferson county, died on the the lGth inst. Cicero Keeber, (colored), died on the 13. h. Mrs. Oats, by mistake poisoned herself by taking an Al coholic solution of Corrosive Sublimate, for castor oil. The Albany News says: Our population is increasing—two pairs of twins were born last week. Robert Alexander died in Al bany on the 15th inst., with congestive chill. Rev. W. A. Overton and Prof. V. T. Sanforl, have been placed at the head of Mercer High School at Pennfield. The Journal of Health published in Covington, will be published hereafter monthly. Henry Ashury died at Carrullton on the 13th inst. Two boys aged respectstively eighteen and seventeen years, of Carroll county, made last year bv their labor alone, seven bales of cotton averaging sl>o lbs; five hundred bushels of corn, four thousand bundles fodder, besides Cultivating twelve to fifteen acres iu wheat, and about ten acres in oats, making in all products, amounting to about fifteen hundred dollars, at preseot prices. The Swiss Bell Ringers were to give an entertainment last nigiitat Americus. Dr. G. Wilburn has been elected to the chair of Ancient Languages in Furlow Masonic Female College. Miss Meta Gibson, of Americus, died on the 17th inst. With miningetis. The Sumter Republican says: We learn that an old man named Henry Ellison and bis sor, were both killed by a man named Me.son, at Tazwell, Marion county, on Saturday last At an elelection for Justice of tne Peace Melson attempted to force a negr. to vote against his will, when Elli son, being one of the managers of tbe elec tion, objected. Melson taking offense in flicted u wuuud on elder E lisou’s head with a knife. Young Ellison then assailed Mel son an 1 was instantly killed by being stubbed. Melson made bis eseape and has not been heard of since. A telcgi„ph ofioe has been established at Ca’. e spring. Judge J. M. Mathews, has been elected Mayor of I'albotton. Mr. Caetts Price, of Abbeville, Ala., traveling agent of G. W. Jack, of Atlanta, died at the Newton II u-e in Athens, ena day last week of pneumonia. The young men ol Sparta are speaking of getting up a bra«s band. Mrs. S. E. Mathews, of Washington county, died in Hancock county, of the lGth. Mr. Davenport Jackson has been appoint ed Solicitor General of the Augusta Circuit. Mrs. Ida llog, of LuGrunge, died a short time sines. To Take Ukea-m Out or Silk Scrape chalk on the spot, spread a brown paper ctf-er tod act dfc a fa fort ffda. NO. 8.