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82 00 TEH ANNO!
ESITUEIVESS 33C0TJ5215,
COVINGTON, GA.,
riIHE above Hotel has just been opened m
1 this City. Newly furnished throughout,
and the undersigned wiil spare no pains to make
it a favorite retreat for the traveling public
5-stf G. F. MERIWETHEK, Prop’r.
B. Anbbi: -on. A. C. McCall.a.
ANDERSON & 'McCALLA,
attorneys at law,
COVINGTON, GA.
ITTH i, attend regularly, ami practice in the
W Superior Courts of the Counties of Newton,
Butts, Henry, Spalding, Tike, Monroe, Ipson
Jasper, Walton, DeKalb, Morgan and (.winiieU,—3
\ew Photographic Gallery .
T HAVE completed mjji E\V GABLERA “V«tr
1 dhe POST OFFICE, and am satisfied that i
can. with my new Sky Light take as Fine a
Picture as any Artist in th* State. As . use
nono but the very best, mate!ml, J will guarntee
satisfaction to all in need of Pictures. (o\o
me a call and examine specimens.
,t. W. CRAWFORD. Artist.
; ' ■ :
C COOK informs his friends and tlie pub
• lie that he is now prepared to fill his orders
Tor Vines and Planting. A full assortmcut of
choice Grape Vines and Cuttings for sa.o low
Also Lent for R. dTleurcnseV Air Treatment of
WlneTsnd in Distilling, Malting, Ymmfaetnrc of
Syrups Sugar, Oils, in Tanning, and all Fluids,
and many solids, tvs Bread making, curing Tobacco,
and other organic substance*.—ly« _____
THE BEORBIA PAPES MILLS.
CAR iOLL CO., GA.,
IK TILL pay Cash for Rags, Hops, Bagging,
ff and old Papers. Orders solicited for
Wrapping, Manilla, and Printing Paper.
New Mill, Pure Water, Lire Men. Prices
Low. Terms Cash.
All inquiries promptly answered. Address
M. I’. KELLOGG, Pres. Go.
Bm2 “College Temple,” Now nan, tin.
Fall and Winter Fashions.
MRS W A. BINDER has just arrived from 1 arts
and London with the latest designs, personal
ly selected from the greatest novelties; also the
most elegant Trimmings to be seemed m l ail..
Evens, Ribbons, Vr.i.veTs Buidai.Veu.s, Flowbus
Fine .lewelby, and ’1 rimmed P*p=« lAT
terns. Dress and Cloak Marino.
Exclusive agent for Mrs. M. Work s’‘L‘
tom for catting ‘lronses, sacqu.,'- 1 ’ ‘ '
N. \V. corner of Eh-vcntli and Chestnut r ticas,
Philadelphia.—'dm 4-4 o
HOLD YOUR COTTON!
H HAVE made air-ui,'*mcnts '. . Ship for
6 flamers tl.eir COTTON to New 1 ork ami
hold the «anie f*>r them until the 1-t of -lu!)
next, and will advance one half of On value of
Cotton on the d,y of shipment.. Call and make
vnur arramrements, and hold your or
Higher Prices. ‘ AMI •
Covington. «.a„ Nov. 8. 1859.-2". 2
JEWELRY! JEWELRY!
fll AVE JUST OPEN ED a Fine lot of Jew,dry.
including all the la'o styles oi 1 ndies l ine
t-o'd Breast l’ins and Far lUiii's. also Sli*-1, I *,
Cwinelian.au 1 Pearl Breast Pins, and Bracelets,
Gent’s shell, Je.t. Hair, -Heel, and Leather,
Watch Chains, Finger Rings. &«-. A!»<>, n new
lot of Watches im’ Clocks, and a full supply of
S?v«mtavl e, Cases I .resjmctfuUy invite »
•
d| \R Tl XT'S SARSAPARILLA AND QUELNA
1) DELIMIT. Th ■ great Blood Purilier.
I \lt. TCTT’S F.XI’KS roRANI. Aecrtat.i. nrt
I NIL Tl TT'S I MPlh tV F.i) HAIR DYK. '1 in
I TCTT’S VFdIEI’ABLE LTVLH PILLS,
I ) For Liver Complain!. Dispepsia, &e.
TUese valuable Preparations
t ovmgton, h> ’.on. .1. \ MTAV MM
* < <’">irß, (; id HU, F, MANSFIELD
j tt .loi.eslmro by x ,). liILL
in Thomson by
—— K . « r" B » «i 8 ,
Healer in
JET* XT 3C*. Z*T X T 'O' -•*-!. -S3
of every I 'escri; lion,
143 and Ur. Broad street,
fjeaurus, WashsMn f.”, TeL'-a, j vtes,
Rocking Chairs, What-N .ts. Cn H’\GL SKIS,
with and without Marble Tops.—oil 1
A . KRGSs\Z IXO E * »
Uplaoateror,
AND DEALER IN FURNITURE, AND
MANUFACTURER OF BEDDING,
Hunter street, three doors from Whitehall,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Feather Beds Renovated for $2,00 each.—6m4B
ALSERT HATCH’S
New Carriage and Ha’rness
Repository,
177 Broad St., Augusta, Ga.
One door below Southern Express office, in the
Augusta Hotel Building.
agent for
THE TOMLINSON DEMAREST CO.’S
CELEBRATED
Carriages, Buggies & Plantation Wagons.
Harness always on hand and made to Order.—
Repairing neatly done, and at short notice. Bm4
MANUFACTUR F, AP
Superior Cotton Yarn
No. 6to 12. A Doz, No. 400 to 700.
M A T T R ESSES
All sizes and qualities to suit orders.
q a t t in S »
Os Waste or Good Cotton
WOOL CARDING.
The quality of the Rolls unsurpassed.
FLOUR and MEAL.
rfIHE GRI'X MILL cannot b surpassed in
1 the quality, nor the quantit of MEAL or
FLOUR turned. A supply of leal or Flour
constantly on hand. Flour of all grades to suit
iu taste and price.
Fancy Double Extra, Extra Family, Family
Superfine, and Fine. Graham Flour and Grit
to order. 3H‘>RTS and ISH AN, for Stock Feed
also kept. The patronage of the public is re
speetfully asked. Satisfaction guaranteed.
A splendid stock of
Dry Goods and Groceries
on hand and for sale Cheap for Cash or barter
(m all kinds of Country Produce.
E. STEADMAN, Prop’r.
Steadman Ncwtoa Cos., Ga., FcblS— l'J,
THE THOMSON ADVERTISER.
H. T. HENRY,
30 33 KT *2? I S* T ,
COVI>*GTON. GEORGIA.
HA£ REDUCED ms PRICKS, 80
t - that ail wlil have been so unfort u-
3ate as to lo&e their uataral Teeth
can have their places supplied by Art, at very
small cost. Teeth Filled at reasonable prices,
nnd work faithfully executed, Office north side
of Square. —1 2*2tf
JOHN S. CARROLL,
DENTIST
COVINGTON, GKORGIA.
--j ,ni_ T~ |V i’illc)}, or New ones Inserted,ln
best Style.nml or. ReasonablcTerms
Office Bear of R. King’s Store.—l ltf _____
W. B. RIVERS,
D K N T l s T ,
(Office near the Depot.)
CtONTINUES tlie practise of bis profession upon
> Terms that canhot (Win gives fttlsfaction to all
who employ him.
Covington, June 23th INI9. t.rf-.tt.
J. w. MURRELL,
T> Tl 3ST. T I S TANARUS,
OmCE Up’Stairs in Murrell’s Brick Store,
Covington, Georgia,
Being prepared with the latest im-
in Dental Material,
Dvaramei -. Satisfaction in each
branch of Operative and Mechanical Dentistry.
JFstrff desired will visit Patients at, tticir
homes in this and adjoining Counties,
4.11 orders left at the Covington Hotel, or at
the residence of Mr. G. W. 11. Murrell, Oxford,
Ga., will receive immediate attention.—lyß7.
J. c. ~M ORR Is ,
Attomoyat XL* ctNTvr,
CONVEItS, GA.
To gEL’ 11 Y. T INSLEY,
Watchmaker €t Jeweler
Is fully prepared to Repair Watches, Clock
stid .lewelry, in the best Style, at short notice,
All Work Done at Oid Prices, and Warranted.
2d door below the Court House.—f>tf
pK I would respectfully inform the
f 7'.V mmnties, fiiat 1 have opened a
SADDLE and HARNESS SHOP
On north side p ,biie square in (’OVING’FON
where I am prepa-ed to m ike to order, Harness
Sa.i.Ues, <tc ,or Kepair the same a' short liotie.-',
and in the best stylo.
17 If " .TAMES R. BROWN
FISK’S BBRIAL GASf S
AN 1) CASK KT S ,
’or sale by THOMPSON A HUTCHINS,
lyO(l Covington Oa.
t k
PLA ii T R 8 MO VE L ,
Auousta. Geobgia.
This well known first class ll,tel is now rc
opie ell f.,r th- nccmmo^Kition of .lie traveling
j ill.lie, with O I assneailco that I hone who may
have ii casimi 'i* visit. AiigusU, wiil he mode
•omfnrtaVe A« this H-tel is now complete in
ever' Depai tment, the Proprietor hoi'cs, thill by
.1 ■i I and pevsr ■ attention, to merit a share of
public patronage.
JOHN A. GOLDSTEIN, Pro'p,
United States Hotel.
ATLANTA GEORGIA
WHITAKER A SASSEEN, Proprietors.
Within One Hundred Yards of the General I’osscn
in r Depot,, corner Alnbanm and Prior st reets,
americ>an hotel,
Alabama street,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Nearest house to the Passenger Depot.
WHITE & WHITLOCK, Pit ictors.
Having re-leased and renovated ie above
Hotel we are prepar-d to entertain nests m a
most Wisfac'ory manner. Chare . fair and
moderate. Our efforts will bv.to .ense.
r ncc carried to and from Depot rec of charge
Largest Stock since the War.
ANDERGOKi & HUNTER
A P.E NOW RECEIVING AND OPENING
the Largest and Lest Selected Stock of
Fall and Winter Goods,
Consisting of every description of Ladies’Drees
Goods, Fancy Goods, Notions, Ac.
Gents’ Furnishing Goods, Clothing,
Cassimers, Kentucky Jeans, &c. A large lot of
HATS, AND CAP', BOOTS AND SHOES,
and everything else that that Ibis community
may wish, but which we will not attempt to
enumerate. Our stock of
Groceries, anti Plantation Supplies
Generally, embrace everything that, is usually
ound in completely stocked establishments.
BAGGING & ROPE. ARROW TIES, Ac., Ac.,
Hardware, Wood and Billow Ware, Glass Ware,
Crockery, and FARMING IMPLEMENTS.
Also Agents for all the
STANDARD FERTILIZERS.
We invite everybody in want of any kind of
Gaods, to call and inspect our Stack, for we
have got what y<>u want, and will sell them at
LOW CASH PRICES. We mean uhat we say.
sept 24—45tf ANDERSON & HUNTER
Newton County Script Wanted.
A NY persun having any of the above named
Script to dispose of, will consult their own
interest by calling on
24tf BOWKER A HARRIS.
VOLCER & CO.. f ,
SF , Importers and Manufacturers of
SEGARS, TOBACCO, PII'ES,
And dealers in all grades of LEAF TOBACCO,
195 a id 2-54 Broad street, Augusta, Ga,
Branch House and our Manufactory,
VOI.GER a IIUNCKEN,
lt;6 Front street, 3tnso New York
THOMSON GA., DEC, 18, 1869.
The Footsteps of Decay.
Oh ! let the soul its slumbers break —
Arouse its senses and awake,
To seo how soon
Life in its glories glides away,
And the stern footsteps of decay
Come stealing on.
And whiie wo view tho rolling tide,
Down which our flowing minutes glide
Awny so fast,
Let us the present hour employ,
And deetn each future dream a joy
Already past.
I.et no vain hope deceive the mind—
No happier lot us hope to find
To-morrow than to day.
Our golden days of yore were bright,
Like them the present shall delight—
Like them decay.
Our lives like hnst’ning streams must be,
That into one engulphing sea
Aro doomed to fall—
The sea of death whose waves roll on
O'er king and kingdom, crown and throne,
And swallow all.
Alike the river’s lordly tide,
Alike the humble rivulets glide
To that sad wave ;
Death levels poverty and pride,
And rich and poor sleep side by side
Within the grave.
Our birth is but a starting plaoo ;
Life is the running of the race,
And death the goal ;
There all the glittering toys are brought—
The path alone, of all unsought,
Is found of all.
See then how poor and little worth
Are all llieso glittering toys of earth
That lure us hore I
Dreams of a sleep that death must break ;
Alas ! before it bids us wake,
We disappear.
Long ere the damp of earth can Might
The cheeks' pure glow of red and wliito
lias passed away,
Youth smiled and all was heavenly fair—
Ago oatno and laid his linger there,
And where aro they ?
Where is the strength that spurned decay,
The step that roved so light and gay,
The heart’s blitho tone ?
The strength is gone, tho stop is Blow,
And joy grows wearisome and woe,
When age comes on.
—[From the Spanish.
The Lost Summer.
The swallows all have taken flight
Across the d-amv son ;
The flowers that made the summer bright
Are dying on the lea.
And in December's darker glonniH
The robins eit and sing,
Where-late among the apple blooms
The blackbird plumed his wing.
And sadly sighing through the wood,
The breezes come to say :
“Oh, golden Summer, bright and good,
You make too short a stay.
For had you lingered with us yet.
Our breath would still ho mild ;
But stern old Winter makes us fret
To tempests fierce and wild.”
So it had been with thee, poor heart—
If Summer lmd but stay’d,
If thine lmd been that pleasant part
For which thy youth-time pray'd—
If Winter had not fallen on thee
Ere June’s sweet hours were run—
God knows, it inay have kept thee free
From much that thou hast done.
But in the frosts that Winter brought
The violets qould not bloom,
And never more will earth be fraugbt
For thee with such perfumo.
Yet far beyond the silver track
Os countless stars, they say,
Our earth-lost Summers will esmo back
To make a longer stay.
The Reform Administration.
In 1860 the expenses of tho army of tho
United States were 816,409,000. In 1869 the
expenditures are 880,470,000. In 1860 the
navy cost us 812,421,000. In 1869 it was
823,569,000. Both of the years mentioned,
by way of comparison, were years of profound
peace; yet the army expenses in 1869 wore
five times as much as they were in 1860, and
the naval expenditures nearly twice as much.
Now, does any one believe that there is any
economy in an Administration which permits
this ? Is there any reason why it should cost
us more to support our army and navy now
than it did in 1860 and 1861 ? Yet the figure#
for both are now 5i03,000,' 100, against $28,-
000,000 then ? It is in these two great de
partments of the service that an opportunity
exists for a reform, and it is here precisely
where there is none. Under any aspeet of the
case, in which it may be viewed, we are pay
ing at least three times more for the army and
navy than is necessary. The cause of_ all this
is to reward the corrupt favorites of the Ad
ministration, and to carry out its tyrannical
policy in regard to the Soutq. the tax
payers remember this.—Cm. Lnq.
The last exploit of the champion to> l of
Indiana was putting the butt end of a un
barrel in the fire arid looking in at the muzzle
to see if it was loaded. The Indianapolis
Mirror reports the championship vacant.
AVhat is the difference between soldiers slain
and garments repaired ? The first are dead
men, and the second mended,
Gomes IKmuo on the .State Fair.
[The following letter which was written for
a Macon paper lleforo the Fair, hut accident
ally failed to be published, is too good to bo
lost to the public, therefore wo have obtained
the writor’s consent to insert it in our columns.
—Eu.]
Ms. Editur:— l’v bin in these here U. S.—
(that is tor say, if Georgy is tliar) —ni onto 12
months & aint got the ropes yit: hut if
hesd is settin levil from this here stand pint, T
sec a heep erqnocr sorter ’bout
nov.. Truth is, I’ve bin living out in Massiss
ipt y Territory so long, taint easy Ur git my
sell harnessed up ter travel the road hein bea
ten by the Georgia multitude, ’thout ever an a
non wantin to know ’wliats up.’ When me
and Rhody got to Atlanta Ist thing I seed was
blm boats, brass faces ar.d buttons, shoulder
Straus and side whiskers, and says I to a feller
str.nlin by, Bays I, "What's up, Mister, Injuns
riz— furcign war oh hand, or what not?” noth
in, says be, ‘but a garrison to cnforco civil
lav . —right tliar my mind went a wanderin,
‘knf bono’ uppermost, and a heap er other
things fullering in tho wake. I didn’t keer ter
git in a row, hein a stranger ip. a strange land,
so when I got down to my new home I sent up
fur the Georgy Statute, hut found that one
Ruphus Bullick had one koppy, the Legislatur
one, white folks ono and niggers one, & nary
two eiike, Kuke Lux’s trying ter cnforco cm all
at oqce A soldiers tryin tu ketch them latter.
Thus, eittin Btraddle of Siller & Kuribdy, hold
in both horns of a delemmer, I sot down right
thar and wroto on fur tho Konstitnshion of
these U. S. IVoil, tho Supreme Kourt had
broke up its nest, having nothing tu set ou
and knuldn't tell nothin, Kongriss had ajourn
ed ter see Banner trot Dexter agin Grant on a
Volußipcde round er rink & that latter had
locked up all the papers in Forney's bar room.
Thinks I, sposo I kan live if other folks kan,
and hnint bothered bout law since. Mr, Edi
tur, if old Pliin Barn urn aint dead yit he
oughter by out thoso here U. S., just as they
ar now, show cm round the world as tho
biggest "What is it” adjacent ter terry firnius.
Jaruealam, wouldn't it be a buck of a manag
ery and tickle the llottontotH and Arabs? I
seed two old Directors of the defunct Brandon
Bank of Mississippy not long er go and says
ono of tin ‘Judge, I hzvent seen yer sinco our
old hank bust up,’ No, said the tother, ‘drat
the old knnsarn she busted ono month too soon,
I had toy triggers set ter bag a cool one hun
dred thousand, but didn’t git more than fifty
thousand. Mr. Editur don't it look like or
heap cr traps <fe triggers er springin round
Washington City—won’t somebody get er fifty
or inorp nfour long? Wonier how many
Bills/:, Bears the U. 8. had iu the Wall
Slro*Tt«jjfet, didn’t 5-20’s fly permiakets? bluff
porke’ a bloody game’for a Government ler
play vith its subjects. llow deep kan a feller
shave his own paper and keep up kredit etc.?
Seems to mo that big gethorin you aro goin
ter have in Macon soon is gottin to be a sorted
young‘Wliat is it,’ too—kant we trade the
knntmptiyn ter Rarnum—sorter sido show,
you kno, for the big one, ar.d then have a gen
uine, old fashioned, Southern Agricultural
Fair ter stand on its own merits? ITowcvor
sposo in its koinbinatid form its the place ter
git your money hack, yes sir, jest ter think
you kan stand flat footed and take inter view
tho persuits of mankind, from a mammoth
Chester White hog to crjphnncy Tournamint—
taint pereisely a Agricultural show, wliats a
Velocipede got to do with farming? however,
spose under the nciv order of kombined things
its a‘kindred association.' Murick, whoope !
wont tho welkin rattle ? yes sir, from a Shang
hi’s klarion solo, up to a Duch grand gesang
verien all kombined. Wont savago beasts git
snothin charms ? blievo I’ll bring my banjo
down and jine tho lcorus. Spose Bill Lake’s
& Roberson’s Circus kombinated, aint been
oyer looked in the invitations. Whats the
premium for ridin ‘January?’ So mony fur
reign folks been invited, furreign things had
ter he hatched up ter entertain ’em —that ac
counts fur so many shops & shanty’s sellin
Lager—fixin up for tho Dutch. After tho
Turnvericn gits tor kuttin up any uv them
kombined antieks, I’ll bet 1 lb of pretzel ter>
scoppier or larger, Bob kan skin & onskin
the kat uforo any of'em. Ain't these fast
times? Mr. Editur—think er the Georgy State
Fair, invitin Kongriss ter kome way out here
& see the kat skun. Mr. Editur, my dear sir,
Tompson’s kolt want tho ‘biggest fool’ after
all—aint ‘Epluribus’ swallowed union in this
Fair fixins? When Bullick komes by here
with his train cr Yank Georgy guosts goin ter
the young ‘What is it,’ afore said, I want ter
put Rhody’s fice dorg abord,spose thats the an
imal train. I might want ter git up a fice site you
kno. Goin ter hav any klimbin er greased pols ?
must Bob let his finger nails grow ? If old
Beast (the Butler) is on that animal train,
aforesaid, and you was me, would your fico
wear a collar? fact is will the fioe hissclf be
safe ? Parson Tubbs says, please git tip a two
days meetin, he wants ter kome down ’thout
pearin ter be goin ter a horse race. Please
find iut what part of a Southern Fair, Yanks
konstitute —however spose you Georgy folks
never seed many, and they kome in as a pub
lic curiosity. Wont them Sherman Tents feel
at homo, stretched on Georgy soil agin ?
Whoope! kant farmers lay under n and
.dream ? Who says Georgy aintrekonstruc ted ?
Brother farmers all over the State, will you
dream thus? Bah 1 AVho’s goin tei welkome
Bullick's kargo in the name of the Agricultu
ralists of Georgy? Well we’ll see, andseein,
dare spit the sickly slime of toadyism in his
face. Why kant a Fair stand on its own mer
its thout all them aforesaid kombinations?—
Look at the Romo fixin—goin ter hare Andy
Johnson and a Balloon tor help eui out. If
ynq all dont mind, Bullick will go kiting on
a nuther State Mineral Expedition—make him
self ‘Arbiter Elegantiarnin,’ and a Balloon of
the “Young AVhat is It,’’ to Mow his horn.—
[Rub rosum—Air. Editor—better double yer
Police on “Baby Show” day. You kno evory
Crow thinks she’s got the whitest young ones
—just so with women.) AVon't ther be a war
er words and bar palled, when tho blue
ribbon goes on the fattest Baby—who’s goin
tor part them wimmin? Ihv o hein on that
Baby Kommittee—great Priest, deliver the
whcle Munro family—that is ter sav, myself
especially—and Rhody says, Selah. Spose
every mother will hold her own baby, ter give
pedigree—what raised on, bottle, or what not.
Have er plenty er AVinslow's Soothin Syrup,
Katnip mid Sheep Saffron on the ground. Os
course as the Yanks are invited, a nigger baby
er so, must enter tho ring ter kap with krown
ing evidence the fact that Georgy is rekan
structod ail over— that is ter say,
Xcopt yourn,
Gemes Munro.
Demoralization of Mind and Matter.
Satan is glorified to a sad extent, whilst
God and Nature are slighted, and the cause
of the Creator is played with to a lamentable
degree!
Years roll rapidly away; r.nd as speodily,
in modern days, do the people run into sin,
folly, fashion, and into a general demoraliza
tion of mind and matter, without questioning
themselves if tho glorious fixed laws of human
life, and their concomitant phor.omenß, are
regarded.
Modern professed Saints and ATorldiings
are equally dizzy upon the fashionable habits
of the times ; but they differ a little in cus
toms—namely : One class claims piety and
builds and remodels its brick and mortar
churches in style ; that is, after tho fashion of
the day ; moreover, it has saintly harnesses,
and paraphernalia of pious fashionableness
to chime with the times, and thereby the
churches keep pace with movements (?) of an
age of customs, sin and folly.
Another class does not profess any respect
for God, Nature, Piety nor Man-. hut lives, as
its giddy members feel rcost salubrious in their
physical or feeling natures, without exercising
ono iota of sound thought! In fact these
worldings behold the weakness of their pious
neighbors, and not seeing purity cf thought,
and clearness of hoad, amongst the saints,
they naturally conclude that piety is a faros,
and God is not so eruel an to punish them for
following fashion, sin and folly! So we go
through life. Pity ! C'u ! Pity !
A materialist surgeon of Paris lately showed
to one of his friends one of bis instruments,'’
the Imndlo of which was carved 1n bone.
“Do you ktion, os . r:.. , “of --'v-s -
Imndlo is made ?”
“Os ivory, I supposo,”
“No," said the doctor, while tear: almost
choked his voice, “it is the thigh-bone of n:y
poor aunt.”
Unlucky. —A young lady in Auburn, New
York, refused to marry her sweetheart unless
ho stopped chewing tobacco. He e ;reod, and
the wedding took place in due season. Res
turning from tho bridal tour in the cars the
other day, ha pulled a roll of something from
his pocket. She thought it was toliae o, and
clutched it and threw it out of the window.—
Alas, it was a roll of money, $2,500 in all, and
it has not been recovered.
A large hall of lire was seen rolling along
a bill, near Cuba, New York, on the night of
the 18th ultimo, and next morning a farm on
the hillside was found to be scorched r.-i if a
fire had passed over it. The ground appeared
convulsed, it is said, at the time of the phenom
enon, the windows rattled, and thoso who
did not see the meteor imagined it was an
earthquake.
Nobody- likos to bo nobody, but everybody
is pleased to think himself somebody. And
everybody is somebody; but when anybody
thinks himself to bo somebody, ho generally
thinks everybody else to ho nobody.
John G. Saxo, at a hotel in the West,lunder
took to carve a piece of beef which was so tough
that the carving knife made little impression
upon it. The poet laid down knife and fork,
glanced around and spoke. “Gentlemen,”
said ho, "that’s an infringement on Goodyear’s
patent!’’
————
A AYhite l’ine landlord thus advertises his
hotel in tho local papers: “And Joseph wopt
aloud, and ho said unto his brethren : ‘I am
Joseph; doth my father yet live?’ And his
brethren answered him ; ‘You bet ; the old
man is doing bully, for he boards at the Cos
mopolitan.’ ”
“Lenny, you’ro a pig,” said a father to his
little five-year old boy. “Now, do you know
what a pig is, Lenny ?" “Yes, sir, a pig’s a
hog’s little hoy."
Some AA r estern pnper thinks that Congress
can have a dead thing on the election of a rad
ical President hereafter, by passing a law that
the States of Vermont and lowa snail do all
the voting.
The editor of the New York Tribune asks
“what is truth?” He certainly must know it
perfectly by sight, if wc may judge from the
skill with which ho always managed to dodge
it, —[Exchange.
Mark Twain says : “To be hanged in New
Hampshire is happiness—it leaves an honored
name behind a man, and introduces him at
onoe into the best New Hampshire society in
tho other world.”
VOL 4 NO. 7
Ou Death.
Heavens! what a moment mustbe thatwhen
the Inst flutter expires on our lips ! What a
ehange! i ell me, ye who are deepest read in
nature and in God. to what new worlds are we
home? Whither has that unseen, that un
comprehended intelligence fled ? Look upon
the cold, livid, ghastly corpse that lies before
\°u ! that was but a shell, crass, an earthly
covering which hoi,l for a while the immortal
essence that has now left' it—left it to range,
perhaps, through illimitable space; to receive'
new capacities of delight, new powers ofper
ccption, new glories ofheatitude ! Ten thon<
sand fancies rush upon the mind as it contents,
plates the awful moment between life and
death ! It is a moment big with imagination’s'
grentest hopes and fears , it is the ennsumma*
t-on that clears up all mystery-resolves all
doubts which removes contradiction and des'
stroys error. Great God I what a flood of rap
ture may at once burst upon the departed soul f’
Ihe unclouded brightness of the celestial res'
gions the pure existence of otb(>rinl
the solemn secret of nature may then he di
vulged, tho immediate unity of the past, tho
present and the future; strains of unimagina
ble harmony, forms of imperishable beauty
nmy then suddenly delight the senses and
bathe them in measureless bliss ! The mind
m lost in the excess of wondrous light, and"
dare net turn from the heavenly vision, to one
so < corny so tremendous as the department
of the wic-nd 1 Human fano ahrinlß b
appalled 1
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There’s Life in the Old Land Yet.
b'ndor this caption tho Tribune of Saturday
pays this tribute to a section it has persisted
■n misunderstanding and misrepresenting ft*
many long years. We are willing to accept’
Its words as indicative of anew departure to
wards a fairer, manlier policy :
The South Ims two noble characteristics
"vmh, left to their natural working in society
arc enough in themselves to lift communities
rom any depth of disaster and set them on th«
highway of renown. She Ims a brave way of
Making facts full in the face, admitting tho
truth, comprehending the extent of a disaster
as a preliminary to fresh enterprise. This she
honestly came by through the blood or the men
who two hundred years ago felled tho original
oaks and pines on the hanks es the Potomac,
the .Tames, the Iloanoke, and the* Savannah.
Second, the crowning occupation to which ev
ery Southerner aspires, tho noblest, purest,
most honest, and permanent vocation for man
Is in his opinion that of a tiller of tho soil,
(iivon these as premises in any society, and vv
disasters can prove irretrievable. "
.iit wls for market to he fat. It Is'a"'
pom: policy to 3*f3y throw down a little- es
!ra I° r a f°' T weeks before the birds aro
'V Sfeljdstre .them one big fee<£
of core,-and then
and ship them. Such fowls will bring abc&V~"
half tho price they wonrd have brought had
' ’ on s l"'t up and fed tho same weight of
Indian meal, kept supplied with pure water,-
tho door of their coop strewed with well dried
eart.i daily, and cleaned out once a week, and
finally, fasted eight to twelve hours before they'
were killed. Birds thus shut together should
not rjuoMol; they must he fed on a variety
of food ‘iiree or four times a day, tho last
feeding being of hard grain. Feed no musty
or damaged wheat, though screenings, consist
tr. ; ; of shrunken or broken grains, with for-
Oign seeds, need not be avoided. In packing:
f>r market, kill with p. small knife. Pluck
dry while warm. Dip in hot water to plump
them, and pack snugly in tight boxes when
cold.—American Agriculturist.
The Shotting'Up orTUF, Bureau.— A Wash
i; ’ “pedal to the Louisville Courier-Jour
nil! says tho work of the Freodmcn’s Bureau"
is now almost wound up. It has but one hos
oit-il under its control, and that is in the
10-trict of Columbia. Its ofllcors are now
devoting their attention to education and the
collection of bounty money due such colored
soldiers as served in the army during the war,
Over six million dollars have been collected
for these soldiers; and there aro many elaims
still unsettled. The total cost of the bureau
has been a little over thirteen and a half mil
lion dollars.
Some Tali. Lying to be Bone.— Foster Blod
gett, Chairman of the Radical estate Executive
Committee, has appointed J. Clarke Swayze on
a committee to report tho condition of affairs
in Georgia to the next Congress.
Swayze is tho right man in the right place.
What he says Foster will swear to.—[Sa
vannah News.
A drunken Indian, on visiting the city,
having strayed from his hotel, found himself
lost on trying to return to it. After looking
about in strange lodges hero and thore, the
Indian exclaimed in dismay: “lujun lost?”
But, recoyeririg himself, and unwilling to ac
knowledge such short sightedness, continued,
drawing himself up : “No, Ingun not lost—
wigwam lost—lnjun here.” Not a few men
who are not Indians have lost their wigwams
in some fashion—hut poor fellows they arc—
here.
A Yankee, who has gone into the business
of raising chickens in Louisiana, has dug a
well at tho entrance of his hen house, and
placed a tilting cover over it. lie caught throe
niggers one nighs recently. lie might t
out a patent for a machine to “destrov voters.”
Lobelia is prescribed successfully, by the
Matron of an Eastern hoarding school for girls
as a cure for the incipient symptoms of love.
Only strong men should be rich. Taxes arc
too heavy for ordinary pooplcr to bear.