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Volume VII. "White & Combs, ißcsnffie jtnraal. PUBUSHBB EVERY WEDNESDAY. .#***! g* TEH MS, - - 81.00 A YEAR. A<lvt*rtiwiij{ Rates. One square, first in.-wrtioli 100 Each (Wlixequost insertion.,,is 70 One sqnsae th*ee months 10 00 One sqnnre si* mouths,, 10 00 One square twelve Quarter column tivelye months, 40 00 Half column six months 00 00 Half coln: in twelve months 7r> 00 eoSisiSereil a square AU fructions of squares are counted as full square*, fc >QQ yT - IHJSI N ESS CARDS. Thomas e. watson, AUoruo.v rat Law, /|>f;; THOMSON, GA. •WOfficewt-tbi* Court-honse. R. W. H . NEAL, A TTORNF.Y A T I.A IE, A K D N O T A I. V PUB I. 10, THOMSON, OA. A\ r ILL practice in the Comte of T i MoDiiffio ami adjoining Counties. WBo*VBTAKerSo a specialty. H. C. RONEY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, THOMSON, GA. Will practice in the Augusta, North em rvnti Middle Circuits. nolyl PAUL C. HUDSON, ATTORNEY AT LA W, Thom Non, tin. Will practice in the Superior Court* of the Augusta, Northern ami Middle Circuits, and in the flnnrorae Court, and will give attention to all eases in liaukruptey. Aug. 2."., 1‘74. tf fill hotel; Charleston, S. C. (1. T. ALFOItD <t CO., Kate*, fit.t.OO per day Proprietors. ALBERT IIAPE, NoB-llONtlviit OeutiNl, n V AN still la* found ready to attend to the want* of old and new patrons, if deaiiwd, t their residences. Will alao, as heretofore, practice in adjoin ing comities Panic prices insured and all "work warranted. Office at the residence of \V. K. Spcir. Phmse address by letter, at Thomson, Ga. 'Central §jdel, MRS. W. M. THOMAS. AUGUSTA, GEORGIA sepl 111 at bomo - Agents wanted. VI & Outfit and terms free. TIiUE fc CO., Augusta, Maine. ■BMBgEBCTaISBMAtoAM.H.-n Teffel DOUBLE i l Address. POOLE & HUNT* SEND *:*. to G. P. ROWELL & CO., New York, for Pamphlet of KM* pages, containing liate of MOO newspapers, and estimates showing cost of adveitiding. A. T. ROGERS, £UK 6 LOCK SMITH, (Railroad Bt., opposite J. E. Benton’s) THOMSON, GEORGIA. ALL work done m the best manner at a reasonable price, and warranted to give satisfaction. Special attention given to FITTING KEYS & REPAIRING LOCKS. Give me a call and be convinced. Pow der .shot, caps, wads, cartridges, Ac., for sale. atig. 2ft-tf. For Kale. A LOT, ftliont t acres, mors or less, io ■tr> corporation. fine cottage hoiiao, kitch en and dining room, fine well water, house built on latent style. For terms apply to JNO. B. WILSON. Jan. 177.tf. Jrmclj J&torf, J. RIVAL, Proprietor, t*;iO et, (nnder Cer ly al Hot* i,) AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. [fruits, toys, CANNED GO**S, NUTS, CBACXERH, FINE GKOCEBIES, ICE CREAM, CANDY CS*Choice Oaken baked daily. ORDERS FOR WEDDINGS SOLICITED. fLc * J. Rl> AL. THE DJEtEAMEB. All day tlie white-haired woman sits Beside the open door, and knits; No living thing her dim eye sees. As. busy with old memories, She dreams her dream of what has been. And knits her old-time fancies in. She thinks of those who long ago Went out acioss the threshold low. How many times her listening ear Has brought familiar footsteps near, And she has started up to fiudg^ A dead leaf rustling in the wind* But never as of those who lie Beneath the wide and tender BKy. [ With folded hands on quiet breast, I AU wrapped about with peace and rest, She thinks of them. For her they tread ; green with Jjei*. degd- Though years have fallen like the leaves Above the graves where summer weaves Her grass-fringed coverlet, to keep Safe hid from us the ones asleep, She sees them all. Nor grass nor mould Con hide the ones she loved of old. She talks with them when brown-winged bees Make merry in the locust trees. She thinks he comes apd sits with her Whose voice was love’s interpreter. O. dreamer ! young again to-day, What matter if your hair is gray ? Sometimes she thinks that round her knee Her children play in happy glee; And when they tired and sleepy grow •She sings some song of long ago ; And on her loving mother-breast She rocks her little ones to rest. O, dreamer! knitting all the day Your dreams in with your stitches gray, Yonrs is a happy, happy heart— A haunted world from ours apart— The years that turned your tresses gray Have given you blek you! youth to-day. UNDER THE SEAT. 'Smoking car, sir Y asked tlio tip cxpecting porter, as ho boro my rugs and minor packages along the platform. I said ves, nnd he made me comfortable, and received his dime. Then (lie guard eamo to look after my well boing, but got nothing more than innocent grati tude, which was perhaps all he ! desired. I have no doubt that I did him injustice in attributing his effort* to induco a fat old gentleman with a cough ; a lean old gentleman enveloped in wraps, tho lower part of whose faco was covered up like a female Turk's, an evident window shutter, to enter my ca. in order I to spite me. Duty to his employers ulinej made Lim. endeavor to fill- up, but: the anxiety to get as much room as I possible for my money was strong j witlun mo, and stirred uncharitable suspicions. 1 You may lead a horse to the water or an anti-nicotinian old gen tlcman to a smoking-car, but you can’t make him get in ; and when each in turn put his head into my compartment, ho jibbed, for some late occupants of it had been cigar, not pipe smokers, and it was rather strong. So I was apparently left alone—alone with all the comic weeklies, and a modern poem. The doors wore banged to, th--: engine whistled, the train began to move. It would not stop again till wo got to Peterborough, so that I was safo to be undisturbed so far. There were several scats, and I could occupy as many of them as a limited number of members per mitted. I almost wished myself an Octopus, to Lake full advantage of the situation. Calming down, I hung up my bat, put on a gaudy piece of needlework won in a bazaar raffle, lit my pipe, cut my papers, ! and began to enjoy myself. I sat in the left-hand eorner, with my back to the engine, absorbed in a big lawsuit. It is great fun to road a cross-examination, and watch how a clover lawyer will make an honest man perjure himself. “It reads almost like a cri me,” I re marked aloud, “but then it is an honorable, lawful and beneficial crime. Soldiers kill people's bodies, lawyers kill people’s reputations, all for the good of society in the long run.” While I was uttering the word “run," my ankles were graspod suddenly and firmly ; then, before I could recover from the shock, they were jerked backward under the seat with such force that I was thrown forward sprawling. I tried to rise, but my right wrist was seized, and the arm twisted till I was helpless, and presently I found myself on the floor of the ear, face downward, a sharp knee being scientifically pressed into the small of my back, both arms fixed behind me. My elbows wore tied together, I and then the knee was removed, and my ankles were secured. Dur ing the latter operation I kicked and struggled. ‘llum'!.’ said a delibciate voice,! ‘that will be awkward. Lots see; these will do.’ ‘These’ were my stick and urn brilla; which someone preceded to apply as splints to the backs of my legs, using the Btraps which had kept them in a bundle to fix them at the ankle and above the knee. When ho had done, I was as help, loss as a trussed turkey. -I MAP 01 SUSY LIFE: IT$ FL I*TTA TJ ONS AN I) ,7T S VAST CONCERNS:’ Then I was turned over carefully and tenderly, and for the first time saw my assailant. Ho was a gentlemanly looking man. well dressed in black coat and waistcoat, gray trowsers nnd neck cloth. His hair and whiskers were just turning grizzly, his chin and upper-lip were clean shaved. His forehead was high, his eyes promi nent and fixed in their expre-sion, his nose aquiline, his mouth a slit. Ho was of middle height, sparo but wiry; indeed, his muscles must have been ,exceptionally Mastic and feline, fW yon wfetftd fieOer havo’thotfght} to look at him, that ho could stow himself away under the seat of a railway ear so c xmplcly. Ho contemplated mo with his chin in his right hand, and his right eibow on his left hand, and said thoughtfully. ‘Just so. All for the good of society in tho long run—an admiriablc sentiment, my dear sir ; let it be a oonsolotion to yon, if I should cause you any little annoyance.’ He took a shagreen spectacle ease from his pocket, wiped the glasses carefully with a silk hand kerchief, and adjusted them on his nose. Then ho produced an oblong box, which ho unlocked, and placed on one of tho seats. After which ho sat down quickly in tho place I had occupied a few minutes before, a position which brought him close over my head and chest, as I lay supinely and helpless at his feet. ‘Do you know anything of anato my ?’ ho asked. I was as completely in his power, ns a witness in tho cross-examining counsel’s, and pru denco dictated that I should be equally ready to answer the most frivolous and impertinent questions with politonoss. I said that I did I not. i ‘Ah !'said he,‘well, perhaps you J have heard of tho spleen ? Exactly. | Now, science has never yet boon able to find out the use oft: it j organ, and tho man who bequeaths ! that knowledge to posterity, would rank with tlio discoverer of tho I circulation of the blood, nnd confer | an inestimable bono/it on humanity I for the remainder of the world's j lease. I propose to dissect you.' ‘You will ryU get much glory by* 1 lliflt,’ I said, forcing myself to seem Ito take this outrageous practical j-’ke in good part. ‘An ungrateful generation may or may not profit by your discoveries, but it will infallibly bang you.’ ‘Not so,’ ho bluntly replied. ‘I am a surgeon, who once had a very considerable practice, but I had to stand my trial for an experiment which proved fatal, on one of my patients. The jury, unable to understand the sacrifices which an earnest enquirer is ever ready to offer at the shr no of science, de clared me mad, and I was placed in confinement. You see that I can act with impunity.’ And lie opened the box. I broke ; out in a cold sweat. Was it all real? | Could the man be in earnest? ‘But,’ i said I, ‘surely you can get dead bodies to dissect without having recourse to a crime ? And again, if generations of anatomists have failed, in twenty thousand investi gations, to discover the use of the spleen—if you yourself have always i failed hitherto, why should you supposo that this one attempt should bo more successful than the others ?’ ‘Because, my dear sir,’ said the the man, with a smile of one who has caught a bright idea, ‘all former investigations, including my own, have been mado on dead subjects, whilo I propose to examine your vital organs with a powerful mag nifying glass, whilo they are ex ercising their normal functions.’ ‘What!’ I gasped. ‘You will never have the barbarity’—and here my voice choked. ‘Oh yes, I have conquered that prejudice against inflicting suffering which is natural to the mind en feebled by civilization. For many ycars I secretly practiced vivisec tion upon animals; I once had a cat, an animal very tenacious of life, under my scalpel for a week. But we have no time to waato in con versation. You will not ho put to any ncedjoss suffering; these instruments ore not my own, blunt ed lor want of use; I took the precaution of borrowing the case of the gentleman under whose care I have been plated, ; before making my escape.’ While speaking thus, he took liie hideous little glittering instruments, and examined them one by ono. They were of various appalling shapes; and I ga?.ed upon them with the horrible fascination of a biWl under yhc power of a snake. | Of one only? could I tell the use; a ; thin trenqiant blade, which cut j you almost to look at. lie knelt : | THOMSON, GA.JrEB RTTA 7. 1877. across mo, arrangod his implements 1 on tho scat at his right; laid a not& book, pencil, and his watch on that to his left, and took off my neckclotl, and collar, murmuring: 'The clothes are very much in my way; I wish that you were properly prepared : for tho operation.’ It Unshod across me in my despair | that I had heard of madmen boing | foiled by an apparent acquiescence iu their murderous intentions. ‘After all,’ 1 forced myself to say, ‘what is one life to tho bonefit df'j the human race? Sinco mine iU demanded by "keteihee, Tet me aid you. Remove these bonds and allow mo to take off my coat and waistcoat. Ho smiled, and shook his heifA. ‘Lifeis sweet; I will not trust you,’ ho said, unfastening my waist coat, and turning back tho lapels as far as he could. Thon taking a pair of scissors, he proceeded to cut my shirt front away, so that pres ently' my chest was bared to his experiments. Whother l closed my eyes, or was soizod with vertigo, I do not know, but for a moment or two I lost sight of everything, and lmd visions; a sort of grote-qe nightmaro it was, the figures in which I recall but very indistinctly, but I remembor that tho most prominent of them was a pig, or rather a porker, hanging up outside of a butcher’s shop, the appearance of which bore a mysterious resem blance to myself. These delirious fantascs wore dispelled by a sharp pang; tho anatomist hud made a first slight incision. I saw his calm face leaning ovor mo; tho cruel blade with which he was about to : make another and a deeper cut; his j fingers, already crimson with my j my' blood ; and I struggled frauti- i cally. My operator immediately ! withdrew his armed hand, and stood : erect. Then, watching his oppor tunity, he placed his right foot on the lower part of my breast-bono,! so that by pressure bo could suf-, locate me. ‘Listen, my friend, he mid, ‘I will j endeavor not to injure any vital organ, biA iffyou wriggle Knft, tj shall not be able to avoid doing so. Another thing, if you ’ Ho was interrupted by threo sharp whistles from tho engine, so shrill and piercing as to drown his voice. ‘lmpedo me by thcso absurd convulsivo movements, T shall bo compelled to sever those muscles which ’ He novor completed his sentence. There was a mighty shock, a crash as if all tho world had rushed to gether. I was shot under tho seat, where I lay uninjured, and in safety, amidst the most h rriblo din— breaking, tearing, shrieking, cries for help, and the roar of escaping steam. I had strained tho bonds which secured my elbows in my struggles, and tho jerk of the collision snap-j ped them ; so that when I began to j get my wits together, I found my hands free. To libcr.ito my legs, was then an easy matter, but not so to extricate myself, tho next j thing I set about. The whole top of the car, from where the stuffed cushion part ends was carried sheer waay ; ana amidst the debris which encumbered my movements lay the mangled and decapitated body of the madmr.n who, intending to as sail my life, had, by keeping me at the bottom of the car saved it.— E'nglish Magazine. (Sixty Ybabs Aoo.—Tho year 1816 was the most rcmarkablo year on* record. According to the Sa vannah Nows, sixty years ago oc curred ‘the year without a sum mer.’ Frost occurred in every month of the year 1816. Ice form j ed half an inch thick in May; snow fell to the depth of ten inches in Vermont, seven in Maine, three in the intorior of New York, and also in Massaehusets in June, ice was formed of the 1 hickness of common window glass throughout Now king land, New York asd some ports of Pennsylvania on the slh of .July. Indinn eorn was bo frozen that the gr- ater part wan cut down and dried for ioddcr in August, and Jurtnorn supplied from the corn prod ucedi in 1815 for the seed for the spring- o £ 1816. Gen. James Shield*, the new ad jfitafit general of Missouri-; was shot through the body with a grape shot at the battle of Corro Gordo, dur ing the Mexican wur, and a-large silk handkerchief was drawn through his body to c-lbuo, the wound. Ho afterward scrVcd a term ! as United States Senator from Illi- j nois, and then aS a major general during the- civil war- b). tjjft 'iuion 1 nviiiy. Ii BY THE WAY. .Trn.rrc is no End I The sun’s last ray l-j! glides in tint golden west. fßds but to dawn in brighter day Above some mountain crest. | The tight that for us slowly dies, f Gladdens with dsy some ottyr eyes. “tjlierli is no End I The hpnrs that steal V Hop. from some loving heart, New Joys to other lives reveal, And love’s bright dreams impart. y ’file last- day for earth'h weary child VGhi dawning life has sweetly smiled. iueip is no End! The restless tide i Sweeps on forevermore, I Aatf “ singing of the ocean wide, I Tf /f* breaks upon tho shore. ' tide across the deep sweep. Shading Portraits by Telegraph, . The Faria-correspondent..of tho Standard writes: “It has said that the science of is as yet only in its infan- hat it will do whon it roaches maturity it will bo diffi cult t'o say certainly, hut some idea mayfbo formed from an extraordi nary telegraphic discovery just made: iu Paris. It appears that some i inventor has found out tho roeanjt of sending porlrails by tele graph, The modus operandi has not yet been disclosed, but expoii roentsiave been rondo, and—if wo are ioAulievo the papers—with com plete Recess. The trial was made by authorities of Paris and JIAHjj. The portrait of a Ly- Ol i0%! : ill was forwarded from Par is py ftuj now telegraphic appura tulfaiifl at*otico recognized. In re turn the Lyons police telegraphed to Paris die portrait, accompanied with thp usual description, of n j clerk who bad absconded with his ■ mastery-money, and that tho Paris i police, thunks to tho tclon£ii|4f(i poitrait, were enabled to arrest the ; thief on his alighting from tho train avtbo Ly,-o railway station. Thcso facts fire pul ’ishod on the best nn | tborily, and, incredible as it may* seem,/ire irp doubt authentic. So ! fur the injjotii xus discovery is only being employed for the detection of ’Criminals, b.y. it is, evident that the police aut.hi V, ies will ixot bo ablo to *vi. aud that, j’ will be 9 11.11. !■ y TnTMioyiKNH jjxvcis, and silnilar iutorosling bo logs.” | A Kjansas Hero. The stickfu l of information in the Associated Press dispatches, con cerning the recent coal initio fire at ; Hlogo, Kansas, conveys hut a stingy idfea of tho honors attending the eyfcnt, as rclaPed by the local papers. The fire brute out about noon, and when first discovered tho main shaft of the) mine was in a blaze, with thirty-two men and hoys nt work 'beyond and beneath tho flames, nearly forty feet below tho level of the earth. In a few minutes the whole population of the pfaco i rushed t?> the scene, and a thousand j or more men, women arid children— tho relatives, friends mid neighbors of tho entombed miners—were gathered at the mouth of the burn | ing shaft, stupefied with fear and 1 anguish. All the wells in town had | nearly run dry weeks before, and 'scarcely enough water could be obtained to subduo the boat above the ground, much less to arrest the conflagration irisido tho mine. Thus matters stood for two awful hours, when a railroad engine arrived with a full tank, which was hurriedly emptied into the shaft, and a great shout of hope wont up from the people. At this juncture a man emerged, like a spectre, from tho blaze and smoke, and fell in a swoon Trt-tfrt! of the shalt. An hour Inter two more men cried up through tho flames for help, and a | ladder was lowered to them, on which they mado their way to the top, and were dragged forth alive, but bumod and blackened beyond recognition. Throe were now saved, hut tv'enty-nine- others wore still below, and tho fire was not yet under control. Tho terrified crowd stood aghast for ivfcw minutes, and then suddenly a panic of despair s 'emeu to neizo them, the strifled moans of tho women'and children breaking out afresh, and the nusn drawing hack from the mine with blanched and averted faces. The supfenve rnumeut of the emergency had como, and the one mar. to meet it was there, thank God, as ho always iA. His name tb is time was Marks l —William Marks —awl ho stepped to the front with tho promplno s arid the mod esty of a true hero. “Fasten a ropo around m.-and let me down into the shaft,* said he. Tho proposition was appalling, bu.t tho quiet courage of tho man lied- evouy tongue and .stifled the agony' of the tremulous 1 <;!:■■> ,vdy a tygoiul Providence. Down he went into the horrible cavern, without another word, and, reaching tho bottom, freed himself for his search in tlio entries diverg ing from tho main At almost the first step into the stifling dark ness ho stumbled upon tho inanimate form of one of the minors in a coal ear, which ho pushed to tho en trance, secured the rope around the body, called to those above to hoist away, and in a moment the /nan was safo. Further search soon revoalod the woreabouts of the re maining twenty-eight, . nod slowly •but surely Marks piloted them to the mouth* of tho mine and deliver ed them, one by one—many insen sible, but all alive—out of tho jaws of death into the hands of their wives nnd children. Then, when tho last ono had been rescued, he eamo himself to tho surface, scorched and blinded, and nearly suffocated, and stood there silently among the the cheering townspeople, tho mas ter of the situation. Thus the peril was surmounted without any srerifice of life ; but tho heroism was thore all the same. Tho rescue of tho helpless minors, and tho osenpo of tho man who gave death scorn to save jtbem, spoiled tho perfection of a tragedy ; hut tho destruction of all concerned could not havo added to tho radi onco which belongs to tho superb and unselfish bravery of William I Marks. Ho was only a common workingman facing g duty to his fellows ; hut ho met that duly like a Roman monarch, and made grass hopper Kansas splendid for one day with his conquering courage. lie probably novor hoard of Cato paus ing, sword in band, to welcome death; or Clooptra putting on a crown to make a ro) nl ending; or even of Hay’s Jim llludso, or llano’s Flynn, of Virginia, lie merely saw ,nnd felt tlio iminont need of risking one life to redeem twenty-nine other lives, and coolly aeeoptcd the chal lenge. He was tho right man in tho light place at tho right time May he live long and prosper. ■> Dotlr -Bo wp-feai^rtf Lasts? frsWiioi, often we njebt wrfli a case that exhibits any fear of death. Take for instanco, men'condemned to ho hung. In nino casos out of ten you will find them “gnmo to the last." Death, as a consequence of iliseaso so benumbs intelligence that wliou tho hour comes little fear is exhibited. T venture to say that no sano man or woman in perfect health hut dreads death and fours its summons; but disease and trouble may so work upon our brain that anything, even death, is wel come as a change. Nature prepares us for this. As the disenso weakens our intellect, as pain grows more intense, our desire for life grows less; and my professional brethren, I know of hut one instance where the dying did not relinquish life \ without seeming reluctance or fijar. I There are physical phenomo j na attendant tho dying, many of which vary according to the several causes that produces it; yet there is so nflicfi similarity in the end that death, once witnessed can novel' he mistaken again. Among tho last physical signs is a gradually diminished and weak ened pulse, first booming imper ceptible at the wrist and lastly at tho breast; tho extremities grow cold; the countenance changes as tho venous blood courses the arte ries ; the vessels relax ; the skin grows clammy ; the palate drops; the (luid accumulates in the wind pipe, producing tho death rattle as the air posses through ; the breath becomes short and finally ceases, and physical death is complete. Now, as the red blood leaves the brain, the judgement is impair ed ; the sense deficient; speech wandoring and incoherent' “-Last words" mean but little; though often construed to mean more- than intended—in fact, thore is scarcely anything intended The expression “it grows dark” or “more fight” comos from ibo lack of stinulous in tho optic nervo. Strange sights appear before Iho clouded visions ; strange sounds may bo heard as the circulation and stimulation leaves tho auditory nerve. Hence we have no troublo in explaining most of the ludlufcihuCtons of the dying, and that from natural causes. After those piincipTcs of life or animation leave the body, we have but a mass of putraffic*ion. A friend onco so dear becomes an object of loathing; and so ends tho career of our mortal existence. What may be in i’no beyond is a mutter with which Micro is so much mystery that wo cannot undertake to say what kind of existence remains for tho life prinfiiptea yIW death. „ Marriage. r BY JOSH WHANGS. S -Marriage iz a lair transact the face of it. But thore iz. quito too often put up jobs in it. it iz an old institushun older than tho pry/indds, a nd az phull of hyro glyphics that nobody can parse. History holds its tongue who the pair waz who first put on the silken harnoss, and promised to work kind in it, thru thjOk and thin, up hrlt and down, and on the level, rain or shine, aurvivd or perish, sink or swim, drow* or flote. But whoover they waz, they must havo made a good thing ov It, or so menny ov tbeir posterity would not hov harnessed'up since and drove out. There Iz a great moral grip to marriage; it iz the mortar tha* holds the soshul brix together. But thero ain,t but darn phew pholks who put their money in matrimony who could sit down and give a good written opinyun whi on earth they come to did it. This iz grate proof that it iz ono of them neutral kin;} ov akßidonts that inuat Injjbyrn, •* birds fly out ov tir-jießt when tha have feathers enough without being able to tell whi. Sum marry for buty, and never discuver their msstake ; this iz lucky. Sum marry for money, and don’t see it. Sum marry for pedigree, and foci big for six months, nnd then very sensibly com to tho konclusion that podigrec ain’t no hotter than skim milk. Sum marry bokawse they have bin hlstcd somewhere else ; this iz n cross match, i bay and a sorrel ; pride may'make it endurable. Sum marry for love without a cent in their pocket, nor a friond in the world, nor a drop ov pedigree. This looks desperate, but it iz the strength of the game. If marrying for love ain’t a sue ev:ri. iz a^dedffcbot. snin :;y becay,"i . thcy"ferin k" wimmie will be skSvcc noTt year, and livo to wonder how tho crop holds out. Sum marry tew gt rid ov them selvos, and discover that tho gnmo waz one two could 1 play at, and nei ther win. Sum marry the seeowd time tew get even, and find it a gambling gsrne—the more they put down the loss they take up Sum marry tow bo happy, and not finding it, wonder whero all tho happiness goes to when it does. Sura many, they eau’t tell wbi, and live they can't tell how. Almost everybody gits married, and it iz a good joke. Sum marry in hasto, and then sit down and think it,,.carefully over. Sum think it over careful fust, and ! then set down and marry. Both ways are right, if they hit the mark. f * Sum marry rakes tew convort them. This iz a little risky', and takes a smart Missionary tow do it. Sum marry coquettes. This iz like buying a poor fram heavily mortgaged and working the balance ov your days tew clear oph the mortgages. Married life haz its chances and this iz just what gives it its flavor. Everybody luvs tew phool with tho chances bekaw'so every boddy ox prks tow win. But I am author ized to state that everybody don’t w in- But after all, married life fz fuff az certain az the dry goods businoss No man kan swear ezaktly wlicio he will fetch up when ho touches caliko. No man lean teiit yist what caliko haz made tup, its mind tow du next. Caliko tksii’t know even herself. There iz. bat few who never marry bokawso they' won’t—they all hankor, and most ov them starve with bread Is fore them (spread on both sides) jist for tho lack ov grit. Marry yung! is mi motto. If ennyhoiy asks you whi yau got married tell him you don’t reeoliekt. Marriage is a safe way to gnmbie —if yu win, you win a pili, and if yu lozo, yu don’t iozo ennytUng, only tho privilege of living disniully alone and soaking your own fhe't. 1 repeat if, in italics, l&btmj Young ! There iz but ono good eggskuse for amarriage late in life, and that iz—a second mfirriirgo. Tho Edgar Thomson si eel works, of Pittsburg, are having a shear constructed that will weigli thirty five tons. Ii is double acting; out 1 end is - cut hot .ateel lhc other lo rut TV umber O. 3?ropi*i et ors. Kgs and the Hornets.' Bogg wished to make slight repairs on the top of Wfs residonco near Cincinnati, and for this purpose had occasion to tear up a few shingles. In doing so iff it quiet anil inoffensive manner, he was astonished to find that he had dis turbed a horneti/ nest. The hor nfits swarmed out upon Mr. Boggs, They made it hot for him at the very first onset. Ho rushed to the ladder, attacked from behind, whon, hwrrdr of horrors fa neighbor had borrowed his ladder! Mr.Boggs ca vorted, he tumbled, he rolled from one end of the roof to the other,’ screaming as ho went. ladder 1” The hornets eontiffunfl'y increased ; they flew at his nose, h*s ears, his cheeks ; they danced on hi* forehead ; they crawled down his back : they flew up his breeches leg; they met half way and fought ouch other; they stung hero and thero and everywhere. Boggs' wild ges ticulations and terrific shouts n‘- ti’aetcd the attention of tlx# whole neighborhood. His friends mistook the shouts of “Hornets!'’ for “Tilden and Hendricks," **4 thought lie was ratityini'g, But fft much seriousness w** dfepPetcd on his face llmt a ludder was finally procured and a reseno effected. Mr. Boggs is laid rp for rojJnirs now, and his fnee looks like the newspa per pietwves cf a defeated prize fighter. Singular >< effrdtST.—On Gn/ Fawkes’ day fiyo boys were st mut ing around a bop tiro iu Manchester,' Kng,, wfreiv suddenly a sharp sound was heard liko the clapping of hands, and one of tho lads, a boy about fifteen yonrs obi, dropped dead. On examination tho surgeon found that a bullet had entered tho boy’s head oxnetly at the fop, ]fch etrated tho skull and brain three inches downward, and then smash ed the bones at tbe nose. Although the bullet had been battorod to an almost shapeless mass, tho govern, moot mark upon it was clearly dt - ;i i , rpi i. ,t- t w. " from ii rifiider rifle, a nit, as tho po lice frequently complained that vol unteers discharged their pioecs into tho air, there was no doubt death' had been caused through such cul pable aaiidcssness and ignorance-. The nvonremtum of a bullet falling' half a mile is about equal to its ve locity when Ared from tbe muzz Is* of a gun. Thirty years ago Texas entered’ tho Union as a State with 132,004)’ population, white, black nnd Moxi-’ can. To.dny she has 1,750,000 poj. illation. At this rate of increase, she would have in thirty years hence half as many people n are now in the United States. The ter ritory is 264,000 square miles, larger than Franco, Belgium, Bor land, Switzerland and Portugal con - bined, and better capable of sup porting seventy millions of people than avo those countries, as her soil is richer and her climate better. Mr. Russell Sage, since tho death of Commodore Vanderbilt, bccoml s more prominent as a Wall street magnate. Ho began, life as a por ter, made his way to a higher posi tion, was elected aidermaui and member of congress, owl then re tired from polities to devote himsolf to business. His wealth estimated at $5,000 000, which the New York Tribune says is more likely to he under than over the taiilh. Tho Countess <I<T Montijo hnA* brought action against fifty-seven French papers for alleging tho ille gitimacy of the ex-empress Euge nie, and as all tho damages are to be given to local charities and the libel is n clear due, the managers of the clinrilios in 'qrtcstlon arc greatly pleased. Tho Now Orleans city*' railroad receives fivo dollars a day in Coun terfeit nieklos ami dimos. The “rovenito" from this source is $!,- 825 per annum. The annual report of the company states that <‘all el. forts to arrest and punfsh 1 ’ the ma kers seems to bo abandoned by both state and federal authorities. Over 24,000 masons weroniado in North America last'year, and the -s whole number, of affiliated masons on the continent at this time ex cecds 600,000, Tho number of prisoners in tbe Virginia Penitentiary has increased in tho past year from 498 to Fifteen