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ATTORNEYS AT LAW
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v' r TLL practice in the countie
YV comprising the Flint Judicia
Ciiciiit, ami in the Supreme Court of the
b*aT' Utliee over Drug Store of J.
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a Allen, Cotton Factors, Forsyth, Oa. rnchH-tf
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WILL practice in all the conntles of the Flint
Circuit.
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ATT O R N E Y A T L A W,
/ERI LON, OA.
. r~ Prompt attention given to business.
vegetiYe
IS MY FAMILY
Medicine;
I Wish no Ollier.
Providence, April 7,1376.
MR. H. R. Stevens:
Bear Sir —When 1 was about 8 years of age a hu
mor broke out upon me, which my mother tried to
cure by giving me herb teas and all other such rem
edies as she knew .of, but it coutinued to grow worse
until she consulted a physician, arid he said I had
Balt rheum, and doctored me for that complaint.—
He relieved me some, but said the disease could not
be permanently cured as it originated in the blood.
1 remained a great sufferer for several years, until
I heard of and consulted a physician, who said I had
scrofulous humor, and if 1 would allow him to doc
tor me lie would cure me. I did so, and lie eom
menced healing up my sores, and succeeded in ef
fecting an external cure, but in a short time the
the disease appeared again in a Worse form than
ever, as cancerous humor upon my lungs, throat
and li id. 1 suffered the most terrible pain, and
there seemed to be no remedy, and my friends all
thought l must soou die, when my attention was
called, while reading a newspaper, to a VKGETINE
testimonial of Mrs. Waterhouse, No. 364 Athens st.,
South Boston, and I, formerly residing in South
Boston, and being personally acquinted with her
and knowing her former feeble health, concluded I
would try the Vegetine. After I had taken a few
tiottles it secnied to force the sores out of my sys
tem. I had running sores in my cars, which for a
time were very painful, but I continued to take the
Vegetiue until I had taken about 25 bottles, my
l.alth improving all the time from the commence
ment of the first bottle, and the sores to heal. I
commenced taking the Vegetine in 1872, and con
tinued its constant use for six months At the pres
ent time my health is better than it ever has been
since I was a child. The Vegetine is what helped
me, huJ I most cordially recommend it to all, suf
ferers, especially my friends I had been a sufferer
tor over 30 \e.us, and until I used the Vegetine, I
found uo remedy ; now I use it as my family medi
ums, and I wish uo other.
Mrs. B, C. COOPER,
No, 1 Joy street, Providence, R. I.
VE<jEflf/E.
The range of disorders which yield to the intlu
eiu-e ot tliis medicine, and the number of defined
diseases which it never fails to cure, are greater
than any other single medicine has hitherto been
even recommended for by any other tnan the pro
prietors of some quack uoatrum. These diseases
arc Scrofula -and all eruptive diseases and Tumors,
Kheuinatisnr Gout, Neuralgia, and spinal com
plaints and all inflammatory syptoms; Ulcers, all
Sypliilie diseases, kidney and bladder diseases,
dropsy, the whole train of painful disorders which,
so generally afflict American women, and which
• airy annually thousands of them to premature
graves; Dyspepsia, that universal curse of Amen-,
tan manhood, heartburn, piles, constipation, ner
vousness, inability to sleep, and impure blood.
This is a formidable list of human ailmeuts for
•ay single medicine to successfully attack, and it is
not probable that any other article before the public
has the viewer to cure tlie quarter of tham, except
; e S t t'uc it lays the axe at the root of the tree of
disease by first eliminating every impurity from the
i mod, promoting- the secretions, opening the pores
. ‘he great escape valves of the system—invigorat
ing the liver to its full and natural action, cleansing
fi.e stonueh and strengthening digestion. This
much accomplished, the speedy and the permanent
1 u * e ?* hot only the diseases we have enumerated,
nut likewise the whole train of chronic and consti
tutional disorders is certain to follow. This is pre
iiscly what Vegetine does, and it does it so quickly,
Hiid so easily, that it is an accomplished fact almost
ljL,ore the patient is aware of it himself.
Best Remedy in the Land.
Little Falls, N. Y., Sept. 23d, 1376.
~IR - U. R. Stevens:
Lear Sir—l desire to state to you that I was af
r.iUc U with a breaking out of blotches and pimples
' n m >' face and neck for several years. I have tried
many remedies, but nouo cured the humor ou my
,u -’and neck. After using two or three bottles of
our Vegetine the humor was entirely cured. Ido
1 ' ru udy believe it is the best medicine for all im
1-uiities ( ,f the blood that there is in the land, and
-Uouiii highly recommend it to the afflicted public.
Duly yours, p. PERRINE, Architect,
*'lr. Perrine i- a well-known architect and builder
“! '-‘Mli- Falls, N. Y., having lived there and in the
iii-iinty for the last thirty-three years.
VGETI iv j :
Prepared by
H.R. Stevens, Boston, Mass.
VEGETINE IS SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
IMHMM %
A the Working Class. —We are
i‘u\v piepared to t'uruib all cla.sea with constant
ciaployment at home, the whole of their time, or for
their spare moments. Business new, light and prof
itable. Persons of either sex easily earn from 50
cents to f, per evening, and a proportional sum by
devoting their whole time to the business. Boys
and girls earn nearly as much as men. That all who
see this notice may .cud their address, and test the
unparalleled otTer ; To such as are not well satis
bwl we will send one dollar to pay for the trouble of
writing. Full particulars, sum plea worth several
dollars to commence work on, and a copy of Home
* n d Eire-side, one of the aargestand best Illnstrated
I'uPlications, all sent free by mail. Header if you
want permanent, profitable work, address, osorof.
iixson & t’o., Portland, Maine.
VOL. VIII.
Medical Dispensary.
Dr. Geo. YV. Marvin again ten
ders his professional service to his
old friends and the public. Dispen
sary and consultation rooms, No. 1
White hall street, in Centennial buil>
ding, Atlanta, Ga., where patients
can get reliable treatment for all
diseases of the Throat, Lungs and
Catarrh. The above diseases treated
by inhalation.
The Doctor treats all diseases of
long standing, such as Eruptions,
Gravel, Paralysis, Rheumatism, Go
itry, Dropsy, Biliousness Diseases of
the Kidneys, Erysipelas, Nervous
Depression, Dyspepsia, Liver Com
plaint, all Diseases peculiar to Wo
men, all Private Diseases, Heart Dis>
ease Swollen Joints, Coughs, Gout,
White swelling, St, Y r itus Dance, etc.
Electricity|npplied in eases 'where
it is required. The Doctor is per
manently located, and persons who
e been under the treatment of oth
er physicians and have not lieen cur
ed, are invited to call, as he treats all
curable diseases, and cures guarnteed
or no pay. Call and see t.lie Doctor
without delay. His charges are mo
derate, and consultation free. Office
hours from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
feb22-ly
A POBT-NUPTIA L ODE.
We used to walk together in the twilight,
He whispering tender words so sweet
and low,
As down the green lanes when the clew
was falliug,
And through the woodlands where the
birds were calling.
We wandered in those hours so lone
ago.
But now no more we walk in purple
gloaming
Adown the lanes—my love and I—ah,
me;
The time has passed for such romantic
roaming—
He holds the baby while I'm getting
tea.
We used to sit—with lamp turned low—
together,
And talk of love and its divine effects,
When nights were long and wintry was
the weather :
Far nobler he than knight with kindly
feather,
And L to him the lovliest of my sex.
Now. oft when wintry winds howl round
the gable,
Immersed iu smoke he pom o’er gold
and stocks,
Tlie fact ignored that just across the ta
ble
The loveliest of her sex sits darning
socks.
Oft when arrayed to suit my hero’s fancy,
I tripped to meet him at his welcome
call,
He looked unuterable things—his dark eye
glowing
In fond approval of my outward show
ing
His taste in laces, dresssis, jewels—
all!
Now if perchance we leave the house to
gether,
When friends invite or prima dona
sings,
He scans my robes (bought new for the
occasion)
And foots the bills—and looks limitera-
Lle things !
O bygone thus! when seventeen and sin
gle,
He called me augel as he pressed my
hand !
O present time ! wherein that 9elf-same
fellow
To that same augel—grown a trifle yel
low—
Calls out, “Matilda, do you under
stand ?”
Ah, yes! 1 understand-one thing for
certain.
Love after marriage is a beauteous
myth,
Which they who once have passed behind
the curtain
Turn up their noses at—disenchanted
with !
The President has issued a proc*
Lunation ordering the public sale of
lauds at Harrison, Arkansas, Mon
day, October Ist, 1877. Similar
proclamations will issue for sale of
public lands in Louisiana, Alabama,
Mississippi and Florida under a re
cent law restoring them to market.
State Treasurer Renfroe has re
turned from New York, having ex
changed one and a half millions of
Georgia sixes for Macon and Brun
swick railroad endorsed sevens, in
the hands of Now York holders.
Directions have been sent to Gen.
Ord to hold the Mexican soldiers re*
cently captured on American soil, if
their release would lead to a conflict
but if they can be released and go
to their quarters in Mexico without
further trouble, they may be set
free.
Major J. W. Powell, 11. S. A., in
charge of the Second Division of the
Geological and Geographical Survey
of the Territories, has a 1 ready sent
out five parties, all of which are at
work in Utah Territory, one a train
filiation partv under Professor 1 horn
pson, and three geographical parties
under Mr. Renshaw. It is expected
that the geographical work in Eas
tern Utah will he finished this sea
son.
Secretary Sherman is said to he
preparing-a letter on interest on the
four per. cents. The intention was
to say on the bonds themselves that
they would be paid in gold, hut the
opinion of the Attorney General
having been requested, he replied
that the strict wording of the law
that the principal is payable in coin
of the standard value at the time the
law was passed, must be adhered to.
Jit the same time, the Attorney Gen
oral is understood to hold that the
bonds cannot be paid in silver, ow
ing to the demonetization act.
THOM ASTON, GA.. SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE :!0, 1877.
FREIGHTS.
SAVANNAH MERCHANTS PATRONIZ
ING THE PORT ROYAL ROUTE.
[Savannah News.]
Incidentally hearing that a num
ber of our merchants had been for
some time, and are now ordering
their goods from New York via Port
Royal instead of direct by the stea
mers of tlie Central Railroad, we
recently called upon several of the
leading houses with a view to ascer
tain the cause thereof. It seemed
passing strange to us that with a di
rect semi-weekly communication
with the great metropolis any advan
tage could be obtained by ordering
goods by way of Port Royal. In
vestigation, however, demonstrated
that there was a decided saving in
freights. The freight per foot by
the Port Royal route is eight cents
from New York to Savannah. The
rate by t..e Central Railroad steam
ers is fifteen cents per foot, with a
reduction of twenty-tty e percent, on
certain bills. The merchants with
whom we conversed claimed that
this is practically no reduction, as
the wharfage on their goods nearly
makes up the amount, and say that
they can save nearly fifty per cent,
by ordering over the longest route.
They would infinitely prefer to pat
ronize the Central line, but the ex
pense is too great. At one of our
largest houses we were informed
that the profit on certrin goods is so
small that the difference of a quarter
of a cent on the freight would occa
sion a loss. Goods shipped by the
Port Royal route jdelivcred at the
depot of the Savannah and Charles
ton Railroad, and the wharfage
which would be required for the
same goods shipped oy the Central
Railroad steamers very nearly pavs
the drayage. It will thus be seen
that there is some cause for our mer
chants to order goods through a
neighboring port. If they did not
they would scarcely be able to com
pete with rival cities.
Again we are informed that no
bill of lading is signed on the Cen
tral railroad steamers for less than
one dollar, no matter how small the
package, or whether the party to
whom it is shipped in Savannah Inis
on the same steamer a large amount
of freight. Such is not the case with
the other line, the regular tariff of
eight cents being all-that is exacted.
It is not unusual for the shippers in
large jobbing houses in New York,
after they have packed goods for a
customer and sent them to the stea
mer and obtained a bill of lading
for the same, to receive from some
other establishment a small box or
package for the same consignee,with
request to include it in their ship
ment. It is too late, however, the
goods have gone, and it is essential
that the package should be
shipped by the same steamer. —
A separate bill of lading has to
be obtained, and this is not signed
for less than one dollar, when
frequently the profit to the merchant
on that little pack aye may not reach
that figure. These are no L . except
lion ill cases, hut occur often in the
experience of our merchants, and,
together with the high tariff, have
driven them to seek another route
by which to order their goods. We
do not profess to ho thorongly vers
ed in the mystery of freight tariff,
but it stands to reason that if a tar
iff of eight cents by a long route,
which includes reshipment at Port
Royal and transportation over sev
enty-five miles of railroad, and pay
ment to four corporations, to-wit :
New York and Port Royal Steam-
Line, Augusta and Port Royal Rail
road, Savannah and Charleston Rail
road and the Junction Branch, is re
munerative, that certainly a direct
route from New York to Savannah
would prosper by the adoption of
the same tariff.
It is not oiir intention to offer any
suggestions in the matter, though
we regret that our merchants have
been driven to support a foreign corpo
ration by the high tariff of our trans
portation companies. The Central
Railroad Company know their inter
ests, but it appears to be the height
of folly to peimit the diversion of
this large freight business from their
line. That it is a large business is
evident from the immense amount
of freight that is received at the Sa
vannah and Charleston Railroad de
pot for our merchants from New
York, via Port Royal. Many of our
principal houses have been receiving
their goods by that line for the past
several months, and unless some
change is made in the tariff of the
Central Railroad steamers they will
be compelled to continue this cus
tom.
The trade of Savannah howbeit is
in no wise affected, as our merchants
are enabled to rd civo their goods
promptly and incur only reasonable
freightage. Goods which leave New
York by steamer for Port Royal on
Friday afternoon are delivered to
our merchants on Tuesday afternoon
by 5 o’clock. The adoption of this
line by our business men is an evi
deuce that they are fully alive to
their interests, and are determined
that the market of Savannah shall
in all respects be equal if not better
than that of comjieting cities.
lie was making a call, and they
were talking of literature. “The
Pilgrim s Progress’ she remarked,
“always seems to me painful. Of
course you have read Runyan?" He
said he had one on each foot, and
they troubled him a good deal. —
Xonrirh Bulletin.
A Visit to His Former Master—
An Affectionate Meeting—
fcoiimi Advice to C'ol4>rc4l Peo
ple.
The following is taken Loin a let
ter to the Baltimore Sun from St.
Michael’s, Talbot countv, Mary
land :
There was an excursion of colored
people from Baltimore to St. Mich
ael's on Sunday last on the steamer
Matilda. Among the party was
Frederick Douglass, United States
marshal for the Distr.ctof Columbia
who paid a visit for the first time
since lie left here forty-one years
ago to the scenes of his youth. Mr.
Douglass, some time ago, expressed
a wish to visit his former master,
Captain Thomas Aukl, a resident of
St. Michael’s and an old man now
on the verge of the grave, infirm in
body, but with a clear and vigorous
intellect. Captain Auld had expres
sed his willingness and desire to meet
his old servant, and this visit of Doug
lass to St. Michael’s was mainly for
that purpose.
The boat arrived at ail early hour
in the morning, and, as soon as con
venient, Douglass called at Capt.—
AukVs residence, where he was re
ceived by Judge William H. Brufl,
Capt, Auld’s son-in-law, who addres
sed him as “Marshal Douglass.” “No
no,” expostulated the marshal Doug
lass in YVasliington ; here, let me be
Fred Douglass again,”
The meeting between the former
master and former servant was very
affecting. Tenderly Douglass grasp
ed the palsied hand of Captain Auld,
addressed him as his old master, and
manifested emotion creditable alike
to his manhood and to his heart, as
he saw how heavily time had laid his,
hands upon him. The interview was
very pleasant throughout. Mr. Doug
lass stated that in his book written
soon after his escape, he had made
some statements that lapse of time
and reflection had caused him to feel
he had better have left unsaid, and
for aught that he said that was un
just to his old master, or had woun
ded his feelings, lie begged his for
giveness, Capt. Auld told him that
he had never expected to keep him
in slavery ; that he knew forty-one
years ago he was too smart to be a
slave, and that when he sent him
to Baltimore, after his difficulty at
Freelands, instead of selling him
South, it was with the expectation
that he would achieve his freedom.
Douglass called upon Capt. Auld
again in the afternoon, just before
starting to the boat, to bid him good
bye, and when they parted both men
wept.
Mr. Douglass spoke in the after
noon to a large gathering of both
white and colored people. A num
ber of prominent citizens of the town
and adjacent country, many of whom
w ere j old men that knew well the boy
“Fred,” were in the audience.
lie spoke of his pleasure in meet
ing his old master, and referred brief
ly to his escape and the motives that
actuated him in it.
His second reason for making this
visit, lie said, was that he loved Ma
ryland and the Eastern Shore. Eas
tern Shore corn and Eastern Shore
pork had given him his muscle. lie
claimed to be an Eastern Shoreman,
with all that name implies. Mr.
Douglass then passed into a eulogy'
of the white race and its achieve
ments, and said to the colored people
that they were in contact with the
most favored, the most indomitable,
the most energetic race in the world
and that lie would be false to his own
race if he did not tell them just where
they stood—what an immense dis
tance they were behind the white peo
pie. He did not believe the colored
people were fundamentally and eter
nally inferior to the whites, hut they'
are, nevertheless, practically inferior.
“We must not talk about equality
until we can do what white people
can do. As long as they can build
vessels, and we cannot, we are their
inferiors : as long as they' can build
railroads and we cannot, we are their
inferiors; as long as tlipy can found
governments and we cannot, we are
their interiors.” Coming down on
the boat, last night he noticed that
the 100 colored people aboard made
as much noise as 500 whites would
have done, and as long as they' do
these things they are inferior to the
whites.
“If twenty years from now the
colored race, as a race, lias not ad -
vaueed beyond the point where it
was when emancipated, it is a doom
ed race. The question now is will
the black man do as much now for
his master (himself) as he used to do
for his old master ? Do yon, my
colored friends, get upas early now
to work for yourselves as you used
to do to work for that stern old Ro
man, Sam ual llambleton ?” For
the encouragement of the colored
people, and to show them what one*
rgy and will could do he pictured
the condition of the English-speak
ing race five hundred years ago, and
compared it with the condition of
that race now. He illustrated this
part of his argument by quoting the
instances of wellknown black men
who had risen to eminence, and was
quite severe upon Professor John M.
Langston for maintaining that the
mulatto is superior to the black man
intellectually. He told the colored
people That they must .gut money
and keep it, if they wished to ele
vate themselves. One trouble with
them is that they always want to lie
going somewhere, and do not stay in
one place or at one thing long enough
to accumulate. A poor people are
always a despised people. To be re
spected they must get money and
and property. Without money
there's no leisure ; with ont leisure
no thought, without thought no
progress. Their preachers should
tell them more about what to do and
less about what to feel. They
should cultivate their brains more
and their lungs less. They should
not depend upon being helped, but
should do for themselves, lie was
tired of Ethiopa’s holding out her
hands. The man that can get up
won LI le helped to do it. They
should not depend upon the Lord lie
is good and kind, but is of the most
use to those who do for themselyes.
No man has a right to live unless he
lives honestly. and no man lives bon
estly who lives upon another. .
He give the colored part of his an
dienee some of the best advice and
soundest instructions they have had
for many a day. The only political
allusion he made in his speech was
in saying that the Southerners could
control the votes of the negroes' in
the Southern States fur more eom*
pletely than Northerners could.—
The colored man turned instinctive
ly for advice and assistance to those
who had been raised with him and
who are of his community.
The speech was well received, es
pecially by the white part of the au
dience ; they probably appreciated
it more highly and liked it better
than his colored hearers. Douglass
made a very favorable impression in
St. Michaels’s. His position was
a very difficult one, but lie man
aged it admirably, avoiding every
thing like cringing or servility, on
the one hand, and ostentation or an
offensive thrusting of himself forward
on the other.
Among others who sought him out
after his address, was Mr. William
W. Bruff, who taught him reading,
arithmetic and geographytifty years
ago. Marshal Douglass learned his
age from Capt. Auld, who has a re
cord of his birth, wherein it appears
“Frederick Bailey was born Februa
ry, 1817.”
Editor Thomasville Times.
From personal inspection and from
the reports 1 hear from many parts
of the country, the little wheat
patches will make good yield. What
a great pity more wheat was not
sown last tall and winter ! I no
tice .\e. 2 wheat is worth $2.10 per
bushel in Cincinnati ; and in New
York Southern flour is worth 810.-
50 per barrel. These are cargo pri
ces. In Thomasville the best flour
is worth 812 per barrel. This is a
wretched commentary on cotton
planting. To-day the best cotton
is worth here 8b cents, and it takes
a bale of cotton grown upon three
acres to pay for three barrels of
flour, that can be grown upon
two acres of the same land without
manure, and if manured, live bar
rels of Hour can be made oil one
acre. Mr. M. M. Flitch has one
acre of wheat that will make five
barrels of flour, and there are a nuin
her of one acre patches that will
make three barrels of flour. From
the present look of the war troubles
it will be hard time with cotton
trade, and prices may reach seven ;
cents for the best grades of cotton
while (if it should be a bad rainy
picking season,) the poor grades
may not bring over live cents, mak
ing the average price of six cents ;
and taking the average of three ac
res, to make one bale of cotton, of
five hundred pounds, worth thirty
dollars, when the same three acres,
planted in wheat, would certainly
produce four barrels and would be
worth at present prices fifty to sev
enty dollars. But planters say cot
ton is the only produce that will
bring money, while at the same time
they are paying money out ot their
pockets for flour. I call this bad
management, to say the least of it.
There is annually sent out of Thom
as county from one hundred to one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars
for flour. But the greatest plea is,
that wheat is an uncertain crop, and
liable to rust. Cotton is also uncer
tain and liable to the same disaster.
Fifteen years ago the same cry was
made against the oat crop, but by
constant perseverance, and saving
seed from extra fine and soundheads
we have to-day, the best oats in the
world, and there are more oats made
in Thomas county than in any oth
er county m the United States. If
we will take the same pains in selec
ting the best heads of wheat, and
take the additional trouble to pre
pare the laud and fertilize it, wheat
will become as certain a crop as oats
corn or cotton. We overlook the
matter that tnere is at times a fail
ure in all crops, and simply because
of a failure one year to raise good
wheat, we should not be discouraged
from planting it again, just as cer
tainly as we plant corn and cotton.
; This persistent selecting a seed and
planting will just as surely get us a
perfectly reliable wheat, as it gave
us our celebrated Rust Proof oats. —
If other counties in th? wheat grow
ing sections were to refuse to plant
it because of a failure, or a succes
sion of failures for several years flour
would become as scarce a farm pro
duct, in the North and West, as it
is in Southern Georgia, and would
sell for fabulous prices, and would
be consumed only by the wealthy
families.
I have been try ing the past three
years to raise wheat and my success
has been as good as it is in Middle
and Northern Georgia, and by con
stant perseverance, I think I now
have succeeded in getting a Rust
Proof wheat. The large amount of
money sent out of this country an-
nuallv for tlour, will make a vast
difference in the means to pay plan
tore out of debt, and will add that
much to their wealth, independence
and comfort. Now that the t-easou
to cut wheat is near at hand, our
planters ought to l>e making arrange
ments to procure the very best seeds
to plant the coming September, Oc
tober, November and December.—
Let us try to make our tlour at borne
Respectfully,
11. 11. uardway.
A Hull Agent (lets Hi* Order*.
A special agent of the Post-Oflicq
Department, recently appointed
from a Southern State by Postmas
ter-General Key, having been assign-;
ed to duty which he finds quite ar
duous and sometimes disagreeable,
has written a letter to the depart
ment in which he complains of the
work to which he has been assigned,
and says that when appointed he
supposed his duties would be limited
to bis own State, where he could
“be most useful to the Administra
tion and aid Ins party friends in
building up an Administration par
ty.” He also in a letter to the Chief
Special Agent expressed his earnest
desire that the matter should he
brought to the pesonal attention of
the Postmaster-General, believing
that lie would sustain this view of
the case. Judge Key replied in the
following:
You certainly labor under a serious
misapprehension in the belief that it
was my understanding that you were
to serve in your State only. I should
not desire the position I hold were
I to make that or similar understand
ings. The special agents of the de
predation branch of the service are
charged with the important duty of
detecting thieves and rascals. A
stranger is more likely to succeed in
this duty than one who is well known
hence our agents must often be sent
where they are unknown, and must
go and and be ready to go
anywhere and everywhere as the exi
gencies of the service may demand.
They must often leave the highways
of travel and go into the mountains
and territories and along horseback
and stage lines, travelling night ana
day in vain, sunshine and storm to
deduct and arrest offenders. Not
unfrequently do our agents not sleep
one hour in the twenty-four. You
arc alike mistaken in other matters.
You weie not appointed to organize
and build up an Administration par
ty in your State or elsewhere. You
were appointed to do the work of the
Post-Office Department. You serve
your party best by doing that work,
and I shall take great pleasure in re
moving an agent and reducing the
force when I discover that he has
time to attend to party organization
and party discipline. We must have
no greater force than is necessary to
do the Post-Office work. I cannot
I dare not, I will not give special
privileges to any agent. If I give
you a specific territory I must do so
for every other agent. I might as
well disband the force as do this.—
Every agent must be a worker. He
must not only be ready but willing
to go anywhere in all sorts of weath
er on horseback or on foot if need be
to do whatever work is needed.—
Like a soldier he must obey orders
without complaint or objection or
criticism. Truly, D. M. Key.
Postmaster-General,
Greeii corn is on Florida tables.
The floral fan is the latest fancy.
Sitting Bull is rusticating in Can
ada.
The seventeen-year locusts arc in
Jersey.
Great Britain has 285,000 railroad
employees.
Cincinnati’s sinful Sunday shows
still continue.
Europe takes briskly to United
States dried apples.
Belknap offers all his Washington
real estate for sale.
Japanese hats of satin straw are
the favorites for children.
The sons of Frank Blair and Ben
Butler are chums at West Point.
The century plant in the New
York Aquarium will bloom shortly.
An Illinois church was painted
with a strawberry festival and car
p ted with a fair.
A western man has imported a
number of Japanese and Chinese
idols as a speculation.
England draws from Norway about
600,000 lobsters a year, and from
France 200,000.
The manufacture of cigars in New
York City ha3 become extensive em
ploying an army of work people aud
paying an annual revenue of *4,000-
000.
The wife of the Chinese Ambassa
dor at London, known as the “Tot
tering Lily,” has feet the size of
those of a seven-year old child.
A New Orleans man who stole ice
was acquitted on the ground that
iee is water, and that water is fur
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An Irishman defined nothing to
he “a footless stocking without
legs.''’ A description by another
Emeralder is better. “What is
nothing?” he asked. “.Shut your
t eyes and you will see it,” said Pat.
If the saying were true, how easi
ly could one earn his living now by
j the “sweat of his brow!” He would
I only have to stand in the snn for a
i few minutes, and he would he com
j paratively wealthy.— Ex.
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j lii a promissory note, if lioamoniii
of iuterest be specified, only sewn
I per cent, can Ik* collected.
A promissory note without a seal
is barred in six year*, with a seal in
twenty years, after the same becomes
due.
A note or other contract by a mi
nor is voidable, only, when a minor
arrives at majority.
Any act by the principal and ere i
itor which increases the liability of
the surety, discharges the latter.
Any promises to answer for the
debt, default, or miscarriage of an
other, cannot be enforced, unless
the same be in writing.
If the maker of a note cannot
write, a mark is sufficient, but it is
always better to have a witness to the
same.
Days of grace are not allowed on
bills or drafts payable at sight.
A security, at any time after the
debt becomes due on which he is li
able, may give witten notice to the
creditor or his representative to sm*
and if suit is not instituted within
three months after the said notice,
surety will be discharged from liabil
ity, provided the principal’s resi
deuce is mentioned in such notice.
Suit on open accounts can be
brought within four years after the
right of action accrues.
An agreement, without a valua
ble consideration cannot be enforc
ed.
Fraud voids all contracts.
A female witness may be examin
ed and not appear in court, by inter
rogatories.
Signatures made with a lead [xu**
cil are good in law.
T he act of an agent will bind prin
cipals, if within the scojie of hi& au
thority, or is subsequently ratified
by principal.
Witnesses should sign the follow
ing instilments. Mortgage on person
al projierty, one witness, on real es
tate, two ; deeds, two ; to wills,
three.
Where a parent gives personal
property, to a child, and the ]x>sses
sion remains with the parent, the
gift is void as to bona tide creditors
and purchasers.
A mortgage not recorded in thii
ty dayslooses precedence over anoth
er recorded after that time unless
the latter mortgagee has knowledge
of the existence of the former.
A deed not recorded within one
year loses precedence over another
recorded after that time, unless the
purchaser knows of the existence of
the former deed.
A merchant can generally collect
of the husband for necessaries fur
nished the wife, though the debtor
may iu.t authorize the credit.
Any person furnishing a minor
spirituous liquors is liable to indict
ment, if the same be furnished with
out the consent of the parent or guar
dian.
Ignorance of the law excuses no
one.
The above legal rules are substan
tially correct.
Uaywiilc CiiatlicriiiK*.
...Why is a hen immortal ? Be
cause her son never sets.
Roasting ears made their appear
ance in Montgomery the first of
June.
North Carolina has paid for fer
tilizers within the last twelve month
*8,000,000 Georgia, *2,000/(00; —
Virginia probably more.
Harvard College refuses to accept
the resignation of James Russell
Lowell, the newly appointed Minis
ter to Spain, but has given him
leave of absence to go to Spain a
Minister.
Naturalists --ay that a single, swul
low will devoure six thousand llk
in a day.
Cotton seed is becoming a valuable
article. A ton of it yields 35 gallons
of oil, worth 35 cents a gallon, crude
and TOO pounds of meal, worth *lB
a ton—making the ton of seed worth
*2O.
The colored people of Georgia own
457,635 acres of land, also city prop
erty to the valuable of nearly *2,-
000,000, and enough other property
to swell their total valuation to *5-
488, 867.
The young widow of Commodore
Vanderbilt travels in her own palace
car. She has just returned from the
South, and the coach was filled with
rare flowers from that section.
“Any work no matter how hum
ble, that a man honors by efficient
labor, will be found important
enough to secure respect for himself
and credit for his name.
It is estimated that a drinking
man spends one year out of every fif
teen in wiping off his month after
taking a drink.
“A life-boat has been invented
which bails itself, lights itself, can’t
upset, rides like a duck, can’t sink,
and can be used as a refrigerator
when required.
..“John, stop your crying;” said
an enraged father to his son who
had kept up an intolerable “veil”
*or the last five minutes. “Stop, 1
say do you hear 'f' again repeated
the father after a few minutes, the
boy still eryintr. “Von don’t sup
pose 1 can stop off in a minute, do
you ?” ehmed in the hojeful ur
chin.