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As heretofore, since the war, the following are the prices lor notices of Ordinaries, &e.—to bk baid in luvanck: Thirty Days Notices $5 00 Forty Days Notices 6 25 Sale* of Lands &c. per sqr. of ten lines COO gUty Days notices 7 00 Sit Months’ Notices 10 00 Ten dajs’ notices of Sales per sqr 2 00 Sheriffs’ Sales.—For these Sales,for every fi fa |:i UU. Mortgage Sales per spuare $5 00 j Hunt & Taylor, ATTORNEYS AT LAW BARNESVILLE, Ga. \ VT _11 ‘L practice in the countie W comprising the Flint Judic-ia Circuit, and in the Supreme Court of the State. Office over Drug Store of J. W. Hightower. dec2-ly WE 8. WBWAEII, ATTORNEY AT LAW, )> AKNESVII.I.K, 4iA. Will practice In the 1 counties of the Flint Circuit and In the Su yremeCourt of the State. sep2S-3m .). S. POPE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ZEBULON, GA. tiTf" Prompt attention given to business. B. L. BERNER. C. A. TURNER. BERNER & TURNER, A TTORNEYS AT LA IF, Forsyth, <>n. WILL practice in all the Courts, and give spe cial attention to the collection of claims. Re fer to Wm. H. Head, Bunker, Forsyth, Ga., Dumas t Allen, Cotton Factors, Forsyth, Ga. mchS-tf Cafoaniss & Peeples, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Forsyth, <u WILL practice in all the conuties of the Flint Circuit. James IVX. Smith* AT T OR N E Y A T L A \V, /EIU LOV, CIA. etr Prompt attention given to business. VEGETINE IS MY FAMILY Medicine; 1 Uisli 110 Ollier. Providence, April 7, 1876. MR. H. R. Stevens : Dear Sir—When I 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 eoutinued to grow worse until she consulted a physician, and he said I had salt rheum, and doctored me for that complaint.— lit- relieved me some, but said the disease could not tic permanently cured as it originated in the blood. I remained a great sulVerer for several years, until 1 heard of and consulted a physician, who said 1 had scrofulous humor, and if 1 would allow him to doc tor me lib would cure me. 1 did so, and he com menced healiug up my sores, and succeeded in ef fecting an external Clive, but in a short time the ♦he disease appeared again in a worse lorm than —. us cancerous humor upon Hi}' lungs, throat ■vc. -ml. I suffered the most tern Lie pain, and ud h_ "tied to bg no remedy, 4ml my friends all here sec '<d anon dm, when my attention was houghll m. 'tiug .4 newspaper, to a VEG ETINE ailed, while rea. Wstfahouse, No, 301 Athens st., estimouial of Mrs. *Ormrly residing jn South South Boston, and I. . ~'<d|y aequinfed with her 3oston, and being perso- 'lmfllth, concluded I ind knowing her former feeo. r Bad taken a few rould try the Vegetine. After, -ut of my sys ,ottles it seemed to force the sores c which for a ;ei. I had running sores in my ears, ',ki* the ;ime were very painful, but 1 continued to . - say Vegetine until I had taken about -•> bottles, 1,-alth improving till the time from the coinmence_ db nt of tie first bottle, and the sore, to heal. 1 , ommeneed taking the Vegetine in 1872, and con- | tinued its constant use for six months At the pres tone my health is better than it ever has been nuee l was a child. The Vegetine is wliat helped Ui. •ud 1 most cordially recommend it to all, sut ffciers, especially my friends. I had been a sulferer for ovei 39 years, and until X used the \ egetlne, I found no remedy; now I use it as my family medi , me, and I wish no other. c COOPEK> No. 1 Joy street, Providence, R. I. VEqEJIfIE. The range of disorders which yield to the Intlu -uoe of this medicine, and the number of denned diseases which it never fails to cure, are greuter than any other single medicine lias hitherto been even recommended for by any other tnan the pro pi iotors of some quack nostrum. These diseases ure Scrofula and all eruptive diseases anil Tumors, Rheumatism. Gout, Neuralgia, and spinal com plaints and all inflammatory syptoms; C leers, all hypliilie diseases, kidney and bladder diseases, dropsv, the whole train of painful disorders which *0 generally afflict American womeu, and which carry annually thousands of them to pi'emature graves; Dyspepsia, that universal curse of Ameri can manhood, heartburn, piles, constipation, ner \uusueßa, inability' to sleep, and impure blood. Tins is a formidable list of human ailments lor any siDgle medicine to successfully attack, and it is not probable that any other article bswrc tlie public Din the power to cure the quarter of th<*W, except Vegetine It lays the axe at the root of the pi jiise**, hy first eliminating every impurity from the oiooil, promoting tlie secretions, opening the pores -tl.'-gi, it escape valves of the system —inyjgorat- ftig the liverib its full aud natural action, cleansing the stomach ;.ud strengthening digestion. low much aocca.piislied, thp speedy and the permanent cure of not „nl..- tlye 4is£*<i ) ‘?3 we have enumerated, but likewise ti.' wtiok train pf phronic and consti tutional disorders in certain to tothJ'.y. 'J his is pre cisely what Vegetine itoM, tmd it does 4 so quickly, and so easily, that it is an a*Ciompiishcd fi}t4 almost before the patient is aware of it hW^e.U'. Bfcbi Remedy in the Land. Falls, N. Y., Sept. 23d, 1876. MK. 11. It. Sl'E-VENS* Dear Sir—l desire tp st*te <v ’H 111 at I was af- Hided with :i breaking out o£ Ui4ubu pti)*P* e * on iuj face find neck fojr several yetis. I fit&fr wJr.4 many but nuue cured the huinor on juy face and neck After using two or three bottles ca your Vegetine the hnZ.' w was e,ltil : el > T cu r eJ - „ I a ° "trtaiuly believe it is the I'est luedicine for all mi- Tdies of the blood that there i> Jn % e * E 'ild highly leeoinmend it to the anJ cte 4 P ul>lK • tile. - Tu i y youn>> p. PERRINE, Am,.v eot -1 "“errine is a well-known architect and buildei ,—T; 1 Vails, N. Y., having lived there and in the , Little . - the last thirty-three years, vic.mty fo. v E C i: T 1 N 10 Prepared by H.R. Stevei.‘'v^Boston, Mass. VEGETINE IS . ' Lh ™OmsTS. MMMM ® $ r r the ‘‘t now prepared to furnish all eia.ses with caus employment at home, the whole of their tune, *■ their spare moments. Business new, light an poi itable. Persons of either sex easily earn * IG * cents to s.i per evening, and a proportional sun > devoting their whole time to the business. B > and girls earn nearly as much as men. rnat all see this notice may send their address, and t 1 unparalleled offer: To such as are not well satis fied we will send one dollar to pay for the troil writing. Full particulars, samples worth sove dollars to commence work on, and a Mpy oi H . and Eireside, one of the aargest and besi lllnstiated Publications, all sent free by maU. Reader if ycu want permanent, profitable work, address. tinson 6: Cos., Portland, Maine. VOL. VIII. Medical Dispensary. I>r. Geo. W. Marvin again ten ! tiers his professional service to his old friends and the public. Dispen j sar y an d consultation rooms, No. 1 i White hall street, in Centennial buiH fling, Atlanta, Ga., where patients can get reliable treatment for all diseases of the Throat, Lungs and Catarrh. The above diseases treated by inhalation. Hie 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, Vitus Dance, etc. Electricity‘applied in cases where it is required. The Doctor is per manently located, and persons who lia> e been under the treatment of oth er physicians and have not been cur ed, are invited to call, as lie treats all curable diseases, and cures guarnteed or no pay. Call and see the Doctor without delay. His charges are mo derate, and consultation free. Office hours from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. feb22-ly BRIGHAM YOUNG. This remarkable man was born at Whitingham, Vermont, June Ist, 1801. Joining the Mormons in 1832, at Kirtlaml, Ohio, he soon gained by His energetic shrewdness and influ ential status among them, aud in three years became one of the twelve apostles sent out to make converts. On the death of Joseph Smith in 1844 lie was chosen President and Prophet. Being compelled by tlie disasters at Nawvos to abandon that location, he announced that Salt Lake Valley had been revealed as tlie Promised Land, and founded Salt Lake City in 1847. Immigra tion rapidly increasing the Mormon ranks, they organized a State which they named Desert, but Congress re fused to admit it into the Union, constituting instead the Territory* of Utah, of which Brigham Young was appointed United States Governor. Four years this state of affairs con tinued, at the end of which time the Mormons defied the federal au thority, and President Buchanan ap pointed Alfred Cumming Governor of Utah and sent in 2500 men to enforce his authority. A compro mise was effected—the Federal au thority was to be respected, and Brigham Young left in power as President and Ruler of the Mormon church. lie is a man of uncommDii size, of very compact build and six feet high, measures forty-four inches around the chest, and >s of great di meffsions in mid-person. He has nineteen hives, fifteen of whom are his own, the other four being‘‘proxy wives, ’ and relicts of Joe Smith.— The children of these four of their union with Brigham are credited to Smith, and go to swell his kingdom. To distinguish these plural wives from the others they are known by their maiden names, In the order of their marriages, the following is a list of Brigham’s numerous spous al Mary Ann Angel, Lucy Decker, Airs Augusta Cobb, Harriet Cook, Clara IVfiEer, Emeline Eree, Lucy Tti<ylow L\foa Huntington. Susan Swivel/, -Margiuci Fienso, MrsTwiss Emily' Partridge, Jwtlia llokcr, Eliza Burgess, Eliza inow, Harriet Barney, Amelia Falsom, Mary Aan Cott, and Aim Eliza Webb, the nine teenth. Brigham Young fras forty five Jiving children; the majority are °rown and maiiied, twenty-nine girls and wstccn boys constitute his family. Seven oi these daughtcis are partners in plural marriages.— Brigham, for the preset)t, lifts aban doned all his other wives for bis fa vorite, Amelia Ealsom, and upon her is lavished all his care and attention. Once a month occurs in the bouse hold what is known as “ration day/' Each family receives live pounds ot sugar, one pound ,o£ pgudles, 11 bai of ° soap and a box of matphoi.— Whatever they enjoy beyond the ! plainest f0.0.d uq4 scantiest clothing, the wife is expected fo provide for herself and children—always except ing the favorite. Brigham promises his wives 8100 a year pin-money and 0 good home, but they get neither. 7’hc xepret writes of Mormonism coiisfo tof. # ijiony of words taken from the Scriptures ♦),4 ’’ Lost.” The‘scenery used represents the creation and fall of man, the coming of Christ and the 1 ricslhood ipf ifol-pJI Smith. The candidate ( takes a solemn o r fo t;} '‘hear eternal hostility to the (lovernmeui of foP ■United States, and avenge the mur der of the prophet Joseph Smith.' ■ Tim hope of Brigham s life is the rtUffe*’ Utah ns a State into ! the Union, ?>4 If i* 1 conviction of John + vt fit 1 ’ $ tr i tain Meadows Massacre was Mb an assurance given Brigham that the admission would he hastened by Dus action. Humors have been rife, since the execution of Lee, of the hostile intention of the Mormons, even to the calling out of the “Nauwoo Le o-ion,” and the alleged intention of die United States authorities to send m ore troops into the Territory, seems to o;ve color to the minors. A-fortune teller in Ohio prophe sied the death of Hon. Alexander If. Stephens oil the 24th of June. He is yet alive, and his health is bettei than it has been lor years. THOM ASTON. GA.. SATURDAY MORNING. JULY 7. 1877. SUGAR BEET CULTURE. BURNET LANDNETH STATES SOME INTFRESTING FACTS In a letter to the Philadelphia Times Bui nett Landreth, Chief of the Department of Agriculture at the Centennial makes the following statements : The production of beet sugar iu 1875 was 1,317,023 tons —a quantity equal to G 1 per cent, of the cane su g<ir manufactured in the world.— 1 lie internal revenue tax upon Eu ropean beet sugar amounted in 1874 •> to $40,000,000. The average pro daction of beet roots is 12 tons per acre, yielding a fraction over 1 ton of sugar. In Germany the average production extracted is 9.1 per cent, f he residuum from the express is 21 tons from every 12 tons of roots us ed, and is valued at about $5 a ton. Experiments made in this country established the fact that as many bushels per acre can he rais and here as in Europe, and there can be no doubt the saccharine percentage can Lc made as great, whilst the free dom from internal revenue (which is collected in all the States of Eu rope wlieve beet sugar is made) would be in itself a profit, $53 an acre re venue being in some Ciises paid.— The fattening of cattle upon the cake or cellular residuum from the processes is exceedingly profitable, and stimulates the production of hay and grain, these being necessa ry adjuncts. The manure, carefully saved under a system of stall-feed ing, is returned to the lands from whence the roots were taken, and with judicious application of com mercial manures, the fertility of the soil is annually enhanced. Fattening stock, it will bo thus seen bocomcs a prominent feature in all districts where the beet-sugar in dustry is pursued, and with the new markets opened abroad to the almost limitless import of American beef and mutton, this feature is tons of immense importance. The processes of culture require improved agricultural implements, with these comes closer observation of rural affairs, and thus the farmer is educated to habits of investiga tion as well m agricultural chemis try as in the study of vegetable life. Thus it may reaclilv be perceived that tlie sugar beet industry is prof itable to all concerned—all classes participate in the prosperity it crea tes and diffuses. No agricultural pursuit is so beneficial to the com munity where it is carried on—the producer and manufacturer dealing directly with each other. Dr llanimoml on Sleep. In a recent lecture on ‘‘Sleep,” Dr. William A. Hammond, of New Yoik, said that the brain was at work not only during every waking moment and in dreams, but even in the deepest sleep it was employed in storing up new energies to be dissip ated in tlie future. If it were not for the fact that some parts of the organ had comparative rest while others were at work, it would soon wear out altogether. Every pulsa tion of Hie heart, every thought of the mind destroyed some particle of brain matter, and, were it not for the gradual building up of fresh material which was going on at the same time, it would speedily become a wreck. It was during sleep that this recuperative process was most ef fective ; during wakefulness the ex penditure of brain force exceeded the accumulation of new matter by a large proportion. The lecturer, after defining sleep as due to the di minution of blood in the brain, ci* ted some curious instances of its ex traordinary power. He described a series of interesting experiments by himself and others upon a dog plac ed under the influence of ether, in which pieces of the skull were remov ed, amt sleep proved fo be accconi panied by an absence of blood in the vessels of the brain, and wakefulness bv the return of the same fluid in large quantities. Anxiety or other emotions or affections carried to a morbid extent were more often the cause of wakofuto* than greifo men tal labor, although me' latter, if over-prolonged or repeated with un due frequency, was equally harmful. As the capacity for sleep depended upon the amount of blood in the brain, and the amount was largely under the control of the individual, there was no difficulty in so dispos ing the body or the system as to in vite sleep and overcome the evils of wakefulness. Many persona who would feej sleepy in a chair, would become wide awake on lying down, simply because of the flow of blood fo tlip tietp]. Lor sncli persons a high pillow, reaching well under the shoulders, would prove beneficial. Others, by eating a fight and easily digested meal just before retiring, se cured the nest of repose. The couusul for cxrLo.erncr Idden fiiedin the Mmted States. District court an answer to the suit qt the government against Air. Tilden to recover 8150,000 income tax alleged to be due the government. The an swer states that foe returns made by Tilden were all correct, and in the years in w hich he neglected to make returns the government eqllectoi made an assessment, which wim t;.~ penalty attached he paid, the an swer concludes with a general deni al of the allegations in the complaint and claims that Tilden is indebted nothing to the government for in come tax or any other account. EGGS. THEIR VALUE AS AN ARTICLE OK 1)1 FIT. [From the Mi-Jic.il Journal) There is no article of food more Wholesome and nutritious than that supplied by eggs. There is a differ ence in their flavor and quality ow ing to the difference in the diet of birds ; vet there arc no eggs of wing ed creatures which are unlit for nour ishing the human body. Their chemical com position is nearly tlie same, for, the white and yolk are almost invariably present ; and these consist, in the first place, of al bunion and water. Eggs require for digestion as much time tts mut ton —that is, from three to four hour. They are |uost readily diges ted when boiled utotil the white be comes partially consolidated. An ordinary hen’s egg weighs from one and a half to two ounces ; a duck’s egg from two to three oun ces ; the egg from*the sea-gull and the turkey from three to four ounces and the egg of the goose from four to six ounces- The solid matter and the oil ip the duck's egg exceed those in a hen’s by about one-fourth. According to Dr. Edward Smith, in his treatise on “Foods, r and egg weighing an ounce and three-quar ters consists of 120 grains of carbon and 18f grains of nitrogen, or 15.25 per cent, of carbon and 2 per cent, of nitrogen. A writer in the Scientific Fanner estimates that the value of one pound of eggs as food for sustaining the ac tive forces of the body is to the val ue of one pound of lean beef as 1, 585 to 860. Asa flesh producer one pound of eggs is about equal to a pound of beef. A lien may be calculated to con sume one bushel of corn yearly, and to lay twelve dozen or eighteen pounds of eggs. This is equivalent to saying that three and one teiPh pounds of corn will produce, when fed to a hen, one pound of eggs. A pound of pork, on the contrary, re quires about live and one-third pound of corn for its production.— When eggs tire 24 cents a dozen and pork 10 cents a pound, we have a bushel of corn fed producing $2.88 worth of eggs and SI.OO of pork. Judging from these facts, eggs must be economical in their produc tion and in their eating, and i special ly fitted for the laboring man in re placing meat. Thi: Providence Tool Company are making 000 guns a day for the Turks, and have yet-180,OO*’) to make before the contract is completed. The Dismal Swamp canal is to be sold by auction to the highest bid der in Norfolk. Va., next August. The work cost over $1,500,000, but is not expected to bring more than a fifty part of that sum. The little tour of Salem, N. C., ships annually 1,000,000 pounds of dried blackberries to Chicago. It costs one cent a pound to deliver them there, where they are sold at fifteen cents a pound. Tiie census returns of Sweden and Norway for the close of 1875 have just been published. The former has a population of 4,383,291, and the latter of 1,817,237, making the total population,o,2oo,s2B, A lady who is very successful in raising poultry says when the wings of her littlo turkeys begin to lop down, and they look sick and weak, she pulls out the longest feathers on each wing, and they are all right in a few hours. She very seldom loses any, and she has tried jt for years.— If it is so, it is worth knowing and practicing. The report of the Siver Commis sion, which is being prepared under the supervision of Senator Jones, of Nevada, is very nearly finsihed, It is expected that the report will be npidc pubfic in a fey flays. Jt js 411 exhaustive argument in favor of foe double standard and remonetizing silver, and will no doubt form a ba sis of future discussions on the sub ject in Congress. The position is taken that the contraction of the QipTflncy, caused by tile demoneti zing of silver, lias arrested business enterprises, and largely contributed to the present depression. The opinion is expressed that with sil ver demonetised, specie resumption would be impossible ; that if the Secretary of Hie Treasurer could pos sibly resume, it would he only tem porary, and the result would he n great'foiering grid 4 refout fondly to tlie issuing of paper money. Sen ator Jones favors the passage of a bill to declare the old silver dollar a legal tender for all debts public and private • and directing that upon any person bringing silver plates, bars or bullion to the mints, it shall be the duty of tlie government to coin it, charging only such seignor age as may be necessary to cover the expense. " Another provision of the bill would Uo to provide foat' aiiy person depositing in the mints a sil ver bar of a given weight and fine ness, it shall be the duty of the gov* ernment to give the party so depos iting 4 uefoiucufo hi jffip}? deposit. This corresponds to the gold notes, the principal being the same. The Senator’s views in respect to phe 4 por cent, bonds are, that they will no pa value in gold Qf silver coin at the option of tlie government, and that the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury is of no more binding forpe than that of any other individ ual.— WashingtQA Slur. SoiuetliiiiK about Ancient Book**. BY MARYP. IIALE. ! Did you ever consider rho difficul ties of acquiring knokledgc before the art of printing were invented ? What kind of schools, think you. were there in those days ? And what did children do without storv hooks or pictures ? for none but the rich could afford to have paint ino-s. There were books, to be sure, many centuries before printing was invented, but they were very scarce and rarely to be found, only among the clergy and in families of the no bility. Even Alfred the Great could not read till after he was twelve years old ; but from the written books of his mother, he learned many of the paslms and the prayers of the an cient church. About this time more than ten centuries ago, a countess in England gave two hundred head of sheep and a large quantity of rich furs fora volume of homilies. The oldest school in England was supposed to have been founded by Bt. Augus tine, at Canterbury. .When he came into that country the Pope sent with him a number of books. At this school, Ad rain a learned man for those days, delivered in struction orally to crowds of pupils, in divinity, astronomy, medicine, arithmetic and in the Greek and Latin languages After this, schools began to multiply in monasteries and at Bishop’s —for youth on ly ; not children. Yet few as these schools were even Charlemagne was advised by one of the learned arch bishops of England to send tin no ble youth of France and Germany to bo educated in the “excellent schools in Britain, Owing to the scarcity of books many men in the prime of life were quite ignorant and were glad to attend these schools. When Alfred the Great was king lie exerted himself most strenuously to extend the means of education. What would you think, in these days, of sending governors and may ors and aldermen to school 7 Vet this is what Alfred did, and he would not promote to otlicc any un educat. and person. No board of edu cation was ever more zealous in en deavors to diffuse knowledge than this good king. And ho studied dil igently himself and translated many books into the Saxon language. This was ten centuries ago. Even kings, before Alfred’s time, used “their marks” in signatures. “When 1 took the kingdom,” he -’ays, “very few could understand their prayers in English, or could translate a letter from Latin into English. Yet, even a few hundred yeas lat er, hooks were so scarce—printing not being yet invented—that in a college at Oxford, there was this di rection : “Let no scholar occupy a hook in the library over an hour, or two hours at most ; so that others he hindered from the use of the same. In many places hooks were kept in chests or chained to the desks, to prevent their being taken away.— The hooks that were to be found in noblemen’s palaces in the 13th and 14th centuries, were beautiful** ly written upon parchment, for pa lter was then unknown. They were highly illuminated, and the bind ings very costly, being of silk and velvet with gilt clasps. Some of these books are still to he seen in the British Museum, with initial letters finely ornamented and painted with red arid other colors, The tirst hook printed in England was called “The Game and the Play of the Chesse,” in 1474. It also contained “Sayings and Stories,” and the author expresses the hope that any “of whatever estate or de gree lie or they stand in, may see in this little boook that they may gov ern themselves as they ought to do. The first printed books for school were a prayer-book and a pri jper. The “hornbook” was a single prin ted sheet, containing the alphabet, syllables of two letters and the Lord's prayer. This was pasted upon trails parent horn, to preserve the page from mutilation. So much value was at;ached to school-books that great care was taken even of the last. Yl P h°w Mach im portance was a dictionary from iho following item of the records of Bos ton, Lincolnshire, 1578. In the quaint language and spelling of the age, it reads, “that a Dietionarye, shall he bought for the seollers of the Free Scoole ; and the some boke to be tyed in acheync, and set upon a degk iq me %C2Qto, wlicreunto any auollet may have access as occasion may serve.” Vet, with all these disadvantages, knowledge began to spread rapidly, and many of those who when chil dren studied lioiii •,‘horne-hookes hanging at their girdle,” became great and learned men. a The Secretary of War has left for lo wa, Charles Frederick Crisp, the Jatc ly appointed Judge of the South western circuit, will he 33 years old next January, 29. Last Thursday morning fire was discovered about light in the office room, second floor, on lilakes Block in Macon. It had been pent up all night by the room windows and doorsbeiug closely shut. It is sup posed to Kavp originated by the doc tors using a cigar box filled with saw dust, as a spittoon, and throw ing a cigar stump in the box after smoking it. But little damage. The “4'la-.* 4 u|" Tthe 4*ru<luu- Uni; 4 la** of Tlm* U c*l I’oim ’'Military Aeadeui}. The graduating Class of 187 7 at the United States Military Academ\ B est Point, N. Y., had manufac tured, at a cost of three hundred dol lars, a beautiful “Class Cup,” to he presented to the first hoy-baby horn to any of its members who shall marry. It is in the shape of a gob let, of sterling silver, ten inches high ; the bowl lined with gold, and frosted outside. Around the bowl is sus pended a miniature army belt of gold, inscribed with the motto, “To our Godson.” Attached to the belt in front is a sword, of exquisite work manship, a perfect fac-similein min iature of a regulation weapon Up on the obverse of the howl are en graved the arms of the Class, repre senting Minerya and Mars standing on either side of a shield, on which is the inscription, “U. S. M. A.,” with date “ ’77” above : the whole surmounted by an eagle. I’lie fig ures of Minerva and Mars stand up on a scroll engraved with the motto of the Class, “7v7 Minerva el Marie. The howl rests upon the outspread wings of a golden eagle which in turn rests upon the dome of a mini ature silver temple, within which stands a golden cradle containing a sleeping infant, while in alternate openings between the six colums which support the dome appear three silver cherubs coming forth with out stretched arms, rejoicing. Upon the rounded base on which the temple rests, four wreaths of laurel and oak are worked in oxidized siL ver each wreath encirling an engraved picture representing one of the four branches of *he military service.— The infantry is represented by a scene in camp life ; the artillery, by a siege battery ; the cavalry, by a company in full charge; and the engineers, by a picture showing the erection, under fire, of a pontoons bridge. The only polished portion of tne work is a narrow ribbon around the extreme base. By an in genious device of Homer Leo& Cos., makers of the cup, it can he taken apart and the cradle removed, to per mit of the name of the baby-owner being engraved upon it. Frank Leslie's Magazine. Tliat lSurrcl of Salt. One of the firm who run a com mission house on Woodbaidge street street is a man of muscle. lie can lift a barrel of flour as easily as a common man lifts a'hag of oats, and it scarcely makes his cars grow red as he heaves a barrel of salt into a farmer’s wagon. For weeks past he lias been boasting ofdiis • strength of muscle, and wanting to see some thing lie couldn't lift, and the hoys around the store got their heads to gether the other day. They took a salt barrel and filled it with broken pig-iron,old weights and other things put two inches of salt at either head and rolled it to the curbstone ; and at a favorable hour a dray hacked up m the most innocent manner and an order from a grocer for a barrel of salt was handed out. The drayman and two of the hoys folded around the barrel so long that the strong man got out of his chair m disgust, threw off his coat and said ; “You fellows had better get por ous plasters for your backs. Get out of the way and give me a chance !” He seized the barrel by the chimes and lifted away. It didn’t move.— He spit on his hands and laid out to pull hoops right out. The hoops stayed right there. Bo did the har rcl. “It takes four good men to lift one of them barrels,” said the dray man. “Nonsense ! I've lifted a score of them, and I’ll pick tnis up or break my hack. 1 guess the salt must be wet,” He got in position, drew a long breath, and then lifted till his eyes looked like two towels left on the clothes-line in a dark night. The barrel didn’t lift. Pig-iron was too much for muscle, and the lifter sat down on the walk. His hack used to he plumb lip and down, but it hasn’t been since that lift. His ey es are getting hack to their original positions, and the rod is leaving the hack of his neck, and lie secs two men handle a hag of dried apples or a bushel of beans without a word of comment.—[Detroit Free Press, Grant has absolutely put up at Gen. residence and proposes to make him ded-head him the balance of his stay in England. A special guard should be sent at once fur I'lys ses to bring him l\Gm,o. fie has dis graced \hp American nation, over there, long enough. Governor Robinson of New’ York continues the reduction of expenses in New York and the yefonu com menced by Governor Tilden. He Signed a bill, a few days since that re duces Muuicipal salaries in Brooklyn, to the extent of forty live thousand a year. The quantity of beer produced in England annually is prodigious. 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The polite Frenchman, not having invi ted the well-known representative from Georgia, asked him if ho de sired to converse with him on any subject. “No thank you !" replied Mr. Stephens, who went on chatting with the other guests. M.dc Sarti ges went to his dining room, told his buttler not to announce dinner until that little gentleman in the parlor had gone, and returned there After waiting a quarter of an hour, with the full knowledge that his good cheer was being spoiled, he again approached Mr. Stephens, say ing : “Meestear Steven, would you like to see me about something 7” “No Sir !No Sir !’’ wasthe prompt reply, and, as the disconsolate host walked away with a gesture of des pair, Mr. Stephens said to the gen tleman with whom he was convers ing “What does that imperlient little Frenchman mean by thinking that I want to talk with him 7” “That,” was the reply, “is our host you know, and perhaps he invited you to have a little chat before din ner.” “Our host 1” exclaimed Mr. Stephens, “why, l came to dine with Senator Everett, of Massachu setts !” 'flic juke was too good to be kept quiet, and after Mr. Ste phens had left the guests at the French legation in a roar, Ife crea ted another hearty laugh in Mr.— Everett's drawing room next door, where the guests for another dinner had been waiting his arrival, lie had gotten into the wrong house. Worthier Public* I,and* ofiiie Mato. At a recent meeting of the Nat ional Academy of Sciences in Wash ington, Maj. Powell gave an account, of the humid oragricultural lands ami the arid or worthless portions. The unsold public lands in the humid re gion arc almost wholly uiidersirahle property In Florida there are 1,- 800,000 acres of this sort, h eluding the vast swaps of the everglades.— In Alabama there are 4,000,000 ; in Louisana, 5,000,000 ; in Mississippi 3,375,000. The and regions of the United States extend over 1,487,3- 87, square miles ; of this nearly 700, 000 square miles may be called a pasturage region ; 320,000 a moun tain region ; 126,000 desert lands ; the “bad lands” nearly 100,000 ; timber lands and plateau region each about 75,000 ; canon and lava re gions together about 100,000. Maj. Powell says that there is not enough public land in the United States which a poor man could turn into a farm to make an average county. All of the best lands have been ap propriated and, unless the rocks con tain valuable ores, or the soil timber, they arc worthless to settlers. Cost ol- corn. —The Galena, 111., Industrial Press reports a meeting of the Farmers’ Club itt Warren, 111. at which the cost of producing a bushel of corn was the subject of do bate. Tne speaker who opened the debate said lie had figured the cost of plowing, dragging cultivating, harvesting and rent of ground (or interest on valuation of land), and would not put the cost at less than ten dollars an acre ; he figured the average yield per acre at forty bush els, which would make the not cost twentyfive cents a bushel put in the crib, so that the grower would have to sell above that figure to secure any profit at all. Another member did not think corn couid bo put in the crib for twenty-five cents ; thought it would cost nearer forty cents thail twenty-five, aud also said the average yield would not go over twenty-five bushels to the acre. Does not consider this locality a good country for corn, though corn is our principal staple. One of the speak ers thought that tho first statement mado had put the rent or interest on the land to a high figure; he thought corn could be produced for twentyfive cents per bushel, but not for any less, lie thought one-fiftli of the corn raised was in jured by over cultivation. He believed four times cultivating ample, and the first time die shovels should be run close to the rows ; if ground is mel low, run shallow ; half the labor should be done before the corn is in sight, Another member stated that he never had exceeded forty bushels to the acre as an average for a crop, and that on the best of land and un der the most favorable conditions.— Land in this vicinity should be worth five dollars an acre for rent, in other localities more distant from market, less. It takes a spry luisker to get through forty bushels a day, and a very good farmer to make forty bush els to the acre. Governors Robinson and Hampton had an interview in New York, and Governor Robinson expressed him self much gratified with Hampton’.■ policy, which he thinks will result in much good to, not only South Carolina, but all the States. South Carolina will not repudiate any of i her indebtedness.