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WEEKLY Volume VII. White & Corribs, IfrcUnffie Sftccklii Jonraal. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. TERMS, - - 9 1 .OO A YEAR. AdverliNiny: Rates*. One square, first insertion $ 1 00 Each subsequent insertion 75 One square three months 10 00 One square six months 15 00 One square twelve mouths 20 00 Quarter column twelve months 40 00 Half columu six months 00 00 Half column twelve months 75 00 One column twelve months 12. 00 Ten lines or less considered a square All fractions of squares are counted as full squares. BUBIXEB 8 C A K D 8. TlOia E. WATSON, AttorMoy at I nw, THOM SOX, GA. "02fice at the Court house. R, W. H.KEAL, A TTOIiXEY A T I. A W, AND SOTABT PUBLIC, THOMSON, GA. vtt TLL practice in the Courts of \V McDuffie ami adjoining Comities. OrC osVKY aNc IN o a specialty. H, C. RONEY, VTTUHNKY AT LAW. THOMSO * GA. f.r Will practice in the Augusta, North -ru and Middle Circuits. PAUL C. HUi(3ON, A TOIIXEY AT LAW, Thomson, On. Will practice in the Superior Courts of lie Augusta, Northern and Middle Circuits, amd ia the Supreme Court, and will give attention to all casas in Bankruptcy. Aug. 2a, Is it. tf PAYILM HOTEL, Charleston, S. C. G. T. ADFOItD & CO., Bates, $2.00 per day Proprietors. ALBERT 3APE.' Pion-UcHidenl AN still he found ready to attend to the wants of old and new patrons, if desired, at their residences. Wilt also, as heretof ;re, practice in adjoin ing counties. Panic prices insured and sit work warranted. Office at the residence of W. E. Speir. Please address by letter, at Thomson, (la. C 8 tf Central 33V MRS. W. M. THOMAS, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA Mplltf AlQa day at home. Agent* wanted. [4 Outfit and term* free. TRUE & CO., Augusta, Maine. ii'i MXA -.Mb l STBAMEXGIN'ES STK^Hi EOil.EitS. I WWE j I TiNG, plilLt-YS AW a KAWGEBb; mmjmww.mxr'Mmi v? wmti I The 11NEQUALLYDJAS.LEf PEL DOUBLE I r^Aron^! POOLE & HUNT/] SEND 25c. to O. r. BOWET.L A CO., New York, for Pamphlet of ) K pages, contaiuiug lists of 8000 newspapers, and estimates showing cost of advertising. A T. ROGERS, GUN & IOCS SMITH, (Railroad St., opposite J. E. Benton's) j THOMSON, - - GEORGIA. ALL work done in the beßt manner at a reasonable price, and warranted to give satisfaction. Special attention given to FITTING KEYS A KEPAIRING LOCKS, j Give me a call and Ire convinced. Pow der .shot, caps, wads, cartridges, Ac , for sale. aug. 23-tf. PLOWS! PLOWS!! —FOR SALB BY — • HENRY MOORE, AT MOORE A CO'S. OLD STAND, 2d, Broad Street, Augnsta, Ga. ADJUSTABLE IRON FOOT PLOWS, SCOOTER STOCKS, Every s Plows, Sweeps, Ames’ Plows, Scooters, Shovels, Brinly Plows. Turn Shovels, Dixie Plows. Lap Kings, Farmers’ Friend, Grass Rods, Grangers’ Friend Heel Pins and m ond T . , Watt Plows. Trace Links. Plow Gear, Trace Chaius, Cotton Planters, Plow Bridles, Cotton Hsrrows. Back Bands, Wagon Bor Rods, Bark Collars, Wagon Box Standards and Hoes g-V.-h* L. P. Q. S. Atipstalsic House, G. O* ROBINSON. LtTDDEN at BATES. G.;O. ROBINSON & CO —o — Something New ! THE PIANn-HAKP ORGAN! A BEAUTIFUL and Charming Combi nation of musical Tones. Can be used separately or in connection with either or all the stops of the organ. A small cash payment, monthly,will secure the new and beautiful PIANO-HARP ORGAN! P I V TV O S New York Wholesale Prices! To Cash Buyers. SSO to SIOO Saved. EIGHT OF THE MOST CELEBRATED MAKERS ARE REPRESENTED. THE LARGEST STOCK, IHE GREATEST VARIETY, THE BEST MAKERS, THE LOWEST PRICE& A GOOD STOOL AND COVER WITH EVERY PIANO, with Frieght paid to any point, Every Instrument warren ted to give entire satisfaction. ! ONE HUNDRED PIANOS. I for small monthly payments, arranged to suit all responsible parties. ORa A N s Church, Hall or Parlor. FOUR of the BEST MAKERS, including ! the eelebr ted Mason & Hamlin, which have been recently assigned, by the Judges of ; tke United States Centennial Exposition, | -The FIRST RAND IN THE SEVERAL ' REQUISITE#OF SUCH INSTRUMENTS.’ ! SUPERIORITY EVERYWHERE ACKNOWLEDGED. First prize at the “World's Fair,” in Palis. IBC7 ; at the ‘‘Vienna Exposition,” in 1873, and the imposition of Linn, Aus tria, 1875, always receiving the highest medals in competition'with celebrated Uu ropean makers. New styles, new improve ments and elegant new designs, as exhib ited at tho Centennial. Two hundred Or | gans at Factory prices, for cash, or small | monthly payments. Musical Instruments" Of Every Variety. Sheet Music and. Music Hooks, THE LATEST PUBLICATIONS. Music received e% f ery day by Mail or Express Orders promptly filled at Pub | fishers’ prices, BEST ITALIAN 8 T RIN GS, and everything pertaining to a first-class Music House. PIANOS AND ORGANS FOR RENT. Wo have secured the services of Mr. C. H. TAYLOB, a first-class Tuner of 25 years practical experience. All work warrented. Orders will receive prompt attention. G. O. ROBINSON & CO., Augusta Music House, A 1-f* 2C5 BROAD STREET. IN E W Boat l Slioe Slop. 11. O'Tyson \T ±\ OTIFIES his friends and the public that he has opened a Boot and Shoe Shop in the rear of W. B. Holzendorfs Tin Store on Main Street in 'ihomson, where ho will MAKE ANI) REPAIR Boots and Phoea in the very best style, of he Irtjst. materials, cheap for CASH- CiTAiiderson Crawford, colored, notifies his friends and customers that he will be found as Mr. OTyson’s shop ready for their orders. Citation for Letters of Dismission j GEORGIA —McDuffie County. j WHEREAS, Jno. B. Perry, Administra tor of Byrd Perry, represents to the Court in his petition duly filed and entered on i record, that he has fully adminintered Byrd i Perry’4 estate. This is, therefore, to cite j all persons concerned, kindred and credi ! tors, to ahow cause, if any they can, why j aaid administrator ahould not he diech rged 1 from kin administration and receive letters 1 of dismission on the first Monday in April, j 18,7. A. B. THRASHER, Jan. 3, 1877-3ui. Ordinary. GUANO! ; Guano, Guano, tao. CO TTOX OPTION ! EUREKA, EUREKA! We will sell to the citizens of McDuffie and adjoining counties the EUREKA GUANO for $.50.00 per ton, cash, freight added. -SGO 00 per ton on time, with Cotton option , at l i cents per pound, with freight added. XYY THE EUREKA, and you will always nse it. It is a standard Fertilizer, one of the very best sold. HUDSON A HARRISON, Ao’xs., a3l-e* Thomson, Ga. “A MAP OP 1 SUSY LIFE: ITS FLUCTUATIONS AND ITS VAST CONCERNS:' THE OLD GRAVE. ’Tis an old, old grave; the snows and rains Of a hundred years have left their stains On the broken slab, which some kind hand Had pierced with an iron bolt aud band, Long since—for the headstone leans awry, Lise a wheat-sheaf when the wind sweeps by. ’Tis an old, old grave; the once trim mound Is level now with tho sloping ground; From the tangled grass the buttercup With a startled, wild-fawn air looks up And the coarse-leaved burdocks make their home Where the mower’s scythe has ceasad to come ’Tis an old, old grave—how came I here ? I—l do not know. ’Tis many a year Since I went from home, and yet to-day It seems I’ve been but an hour aw*/y! How odd that Ini standing here alone, With the Past so blotted out aud gone! I know the place—as a boy I’ve played With my mates beneath that walnut’s shade; It was smaller then—no! 1 declare ’Twas a chestnut tree that once stood there ! How all is changed in the spot I knew— How thick are the graves that once were few! How the moss has spread, how tho wall sagged down— I saw it built! * * * Why I think the town Is nearer than it used to be When I was a boy * * * What’s this I see, As I scrape the lichen from the stone ? What name do I read ? Great God, my own ! Choosing llis Profession. BY HANNAH HOPPER. ‘Not a cent, you young scoundrel!’ ‘Do you meun it, sir?’ ‘Did you over know me to say anything I didn’t quean ?’ ‘There must always boa first time, sir, and I didn’t know ’ ‘There never’ll be a first time with me, you ungrateful dog.’ 1 am not ungrateful, sir ’ ‘Then what do you call yourself to treat my wishes iti this way after all I’ve done, for you ?’ ‘Sir, you have doue much foi me, and I am grateful, how I hope to make manifest in after years, but I do not think it my duty to sacrifice my tastes, my hopes, and my tal ents, because of it. lam ready to servo you in anything but this.’ ‘Your tastes, your talents! Your fiddlesticks 1 You can’t get any of your sentimental, nonsensical bosh I down mo. Taleuts 1 Don’t you know, you blundorhoad, that every lovesick, silly boy can wiito versos and twaddle ?’ r ' ‘YTlictliYrTTtn'oW TDmHTffirGs rot at all to tho point. I have written more than you know, Uncle Boss, and not sentimental twaddle either.’ ‘Written more than I know? No doubt you have, but. I’ve seen enough, and you’ll always bo poor a- an Indian, and you can for all me. You must just keep the fact fresh in yotir mind, meantimo, that my purse is closed against you.’ ‘I had rather your purse would be dosed than your heart, uncle. . You made your own money. I can make mine. I am not tho lazy, 1 mercenary fell'>w that would give ! it]) anything for money. I haven’t business tact, and don’t like busi ness. I like literature.’ ‘You like to boa fool, but you’ll : rue the day. You’ll regret it. Go along your own way if you like, ! aud see what’ll become of you. ‘Well sir, good morning.’ ‘Wait—there’s something else I would give you to th uk of. You needn’t think I haven’t guessed J your feelings toward Amy. I ain’t blind yet,, if I am a trifle deaf, and I tell you now, George, if you won’t go into busines as 1 advise, and not be trotting around after a jack o’lantern, you’ll never get that girl for a wife unless you take her penniless. I meant that you slioald share it all together, but the whole thing ends hero, if you persist in your crazy course.’ George Grey ’s face was flushed, and an angry retort sprang to his lips, but he did not utter it—he did not say anything but ‘Good morn ing.’ and went out. The young scoundrel,’ muttered the old gentleman, getting up and pacing the floor terrifically. ‘The crazy idiot, the wild puppy, tho ‘Why, uucle who arc you abus ing in this manner ?’ said a cheery voice at his elbow, and Amy actually shook the old gentleman’s arm with considerable force. ‘The young scapegrace!’ continu ed he, shaking his arm furiously to throw off tho whito hand, and pufling across tho room like a steam engine. ‘The impudent sance-box ’ ‘Uncle, are you crazy?’ said Amy, hanging to his arm and following him across the room with a skip and ajump. ‘Crazy ?’ repeated he, kicking a stool across the room with great force, and shaking his arm with redoubled energy. ‘You can’t shake me off, so you might as well give up,’ said Aipy. ‘Where’s that young reprobate? Go and tell him never to step his foot into this house again.’ ‘lf you mean George, why, of courso, yqu know J’il not do it,’ said Amy, THOMSON, Q A.., MARCH 14, 1877. ‘Of course I don’t know any such a thing. I’ll have somebody mind me. You look pretty disobeying my orders. You that was a ragged little beggar when I look you, and nothing but ft white-faced girl now. Start yourself and tell that scamp to leave this house and never enter it again.’ ‘Pooli! you just spend your breath and strength for nothing raving around so. I guess I’d look pretty telling George any such nonsense as that.’ ‘Then you may just leave The house too, if you can’t obey my orders.’ And he pulled the bell-rope with a tremendous jerk. A servant soon appeared. ‘Go aud tell George Grey to leave this house, and never enter it again,’ he said. The servant hesitated. ‘Go 1’ he roared, grasping a stool, and flinging it toward ‘When 1 say go it’s your business to start.’ And dodging the stool the ser vant fled. ‘Now, Miss,’ ho said, turning to Amy, ‘if you can’t obey mo you can leave also. I won’t have dis obedience in my house.’ ‘Dear me, uncle, you are in an awful fret. Do sit down and tnke a little rest.’ Tf you think I’m going to rest with everybody disobeying mo you are slightly mistaken. Put that cat down. If there’s anything I hate it’s to see a girl holding a cat in her lap, and getting covered with nasty cat-hairs.’ ‘You don’t want to got down, do you, pussy ?’ said Amy, smoothing the kittens white fur. ‘You sec, uncle, the kitten likes to sit in my lap.’ ‘l’ll have tho cat killed!’ and there was another violent pull at tho bell-rope. A servant looked in. ‘Take that cat aud smash out its brains,’ screamed the enraged man. ‘But, sir,’ ventured the servant. ‘None of your “but sirs.’” Tako the cat away,J tell you.’ ’Tho servant 1 started Toward Amy, who had wrapped tho kitten safely in her white apron. ‘You know bettor than to kill my white kitten, Billy.’ said Amy, looking up with innocent eyes. Billy stopped. 'Take that cat immediately,' yelled tho colonel. ‘But, sir,’ ventured tho servant. Tho colonel started toward Amy with vongenc* stamped plainly on ms face, whereupon Amy sprang up, and with the kitten in her apron ran out like a dart through the garden, but the old gentleman, who was much trubled with the rheuma tism, gave up tho chase, and stood at tho foot of tho steps, making furious motions toward her as slio stood at the foot of tho garden laughing back at him. * ‘What is the houso coming to?' inquired the colonel of himself, as he mounted the steps with some difficulty without his staff, and wont back i to his own sitting-room. He sank into a chair exhausted, and began to grow cooler, though his terrible rage had revived the rheumatic pains which ho ofton suffered. Ho sat there nearly an hour alone, thinking and trying to get rested from his excitement and furious exorcise. Suddenly a pair of arms were thrown around his neck, and ho receivod a most unrornantic hug from Amy, who for a wonder had red eyes and a quivering lip. ‘Uncle, did you really meun that Gcorgo should go away and never" come back again ? Did you, now, uncle?’ This reference to his nophow excited the colonel’s rage again. ‘The scoundrel! Did I ever say what I didn’t moan?’ ho exclaimed, getting excited again. ‘Well, uncle, you’re oruol—there !’ and Amy’s arms dropped from her uncle’s neck, and, sinking on an ottoman, she burst Into tears. The colonel looked at her side ways from his oyes, but ho didn’t speak. ‘He’s gone,’ sobbed Amy, ‘and taken all of his things; and you are cross—though I wouldn’t mind that, I’m too used to you, but it’s so heartless in you uncle. I didn’t think you would be quite so cruel.’ ‘lf he had dono as I wanted him to,’ said the colonel, in a little cooler tone, ‘everything would have been all right and he would have had a heap of money besides.’ <No, '.verything wouldn’t have been ail rjght; he wqs made fora writer, and you have no right to command his tastes.’ ‘1 have a right to, look his interests, and, when I running to destruction, it’s my bus iness to stop him.’ ‘But in order to atop him you hurry him on to what you pretend to-wish ! im to avoid.’ Tic siruld be sensible. I meant the fellow good. He’s gone, then, has ho?’ ‘Yes, l.u’s gone, all because you let your temper run away with you as you so often do. Please write to him, rod tell him to come back.’ And Amy’s arms wore again uncle’s neck. "my terms. I won’t havo mv judgement thrown asido for a stripling, Let him try his pauper business. JIo’U soon be tired ofljt. Don’t fret.’ ‘Well, if you won’t relent, you won’t, 1 suppose, so I won’t spend my brei'th teasing.’ And Amy, who had a large share of hope and common sense, left the old gcfitlemnn again to his own meditations. A few months had flown and Amy sat, as was her custom for an hour in tho evening, reading to her uncle. ’ll**- 4 no common person who writes /hose articles,’ he said, when Amy hod finished reading journals from a very gifted pen. ‘I tell you he can write well. I like his style,' he continued; but Amy was sud denly ( dzed with a fit of coughing, having a slight cold, and was olyj,w v 'hto leave the room. llow -s.,r, "£bo never failed to read all tho articles from that pen which appealed, a id tho colonel listened with undivided attention. He hoard nothing from his exiled nephew* in the meantimo, and, though ho ofton felt conscience stricken for his harshnoss, and would havo been glad to retract hi* verdict, ho kept silent, and a year went by. Tho articles from the interesting hut unknown correspondent contin ued t ) appear in tho popular jour nal, and at last a hook appeared written by tho same author, found a most enthusiastic welcomo by the see the man who writes so well, ami has given mo so much pleasure,’ said the colonel one day. ‘lie must ho a worthy man, Amy, and if George had his talents, I wouldn't have ’ Amy cut him short. ‘Lot me writo to (his correspon dent uncle, and send your compli ment*, and invite him to call on us. Shall I ?’ ' t i"suppose it will do no harm.' ‘Of course not. Shall 1?’ ‘Perhaps so.’ The letter was written, and tho reply came in good season ‘He’s coming uncle,’ eric! Amy entering her uncle’s sitting-room with the open letter in her hand. ‘Coming, is he? When?’ asked tho colonel, his face beaming ail over with pleasure. ‘ln a week from to day ho will be here. Won’t it be a treat ?’ The week passed away, and tho brilliant young author rang the hell at the colonel’s residence arid was ushered in,'o the sitting-room. Amy stood behind tier uncle, who stood ready to do homage to his literary guest, ‘I am happy, sir,' he commenced, then the tail young man, who stood bowing with hat in hand, receivod a severe slap on his shoulder, while tho colonel shouted: ‘Goorgo, you scoundrel, if you haven't played a most contemptible trick on mo.’ But thoro was a hearty hand-shaking and moistened eyes on both sides, but actual tears from Amy, who had trembled for the result. you woro in tho plot, were you?' said the colonel to Amy, after explanations were made. ‘You are too sharp for me altogether, two of you together so and—l sup pose, I must give up.’ ‘But you needn’t give me a cent of property, uncle,'said George ;‘1 am independent.’ ‘Who would have thought it, except those who read your articles and book ?’ ‘1 ask one favor, however,’ said George. ‘Then you aro not so indepen dent, after all.’ ‘I want Amy for my wife.’ ‘And does she want you for a husband ?’ ‘Yes, sir.’ ‘Then she is yours, with all the money you want, provided you'll keep on writing. 1 couldn’t got along without your articles to read.’ ‘Neither shall you,' and the story ends though tho characters live. There are said to be only twenty ox-Confodorates—its lading Jeffer son Davis and Robert Toombs— j whoso disabilities have not been J remove^ ■‘GIVE HIM A LIFT.’’ Give him a lift! Don't kneel in prayor, And moralize with his despair. The man i down, and his greatest need Ie ready help—not prayer and creed. Tis time, when the wounds are washed and healed, That tha Christ!j' motives he revealed; But now, whatever the spirit be, Mere words are but mockery. One grain of aid just now ia more To him than tomes of saintly lore! Pray, if you must, in your full heart— But give him a lift!—give him a start! The world is full of good advice, Of prayer, and praise and preaching nice; But the generuuSUouls who md mankind Are scarce a gold, and lifted to find. Give like a Christian —spank in deeds; A noble life’s the best of creeds; And he deserves a royal crown Who gives 'em a lift when they are down. [Written for the MeDuflie Jouknai,.] Florida, NO. 2 This State being a Peninsula, has access to transportation nil around it. And its rivers and lakes chained together, also offer large advantages in the way of transportation. Then come iri the railroads already built, and those in process of construction All this taken into consideration, and in a few years no State will havo tnoro or bettor facilities of transportation and travel than Florida. Tho section of country I was mostly in, in Orange. County, there is a railroad now already graded, extending from tho South ern point of Lake George, on the St. John’s River, in a South direc tion to Fort Mason, on Lake Kustice, a distance of twenty-four miles. It is claimed that tho Road will be completed before the end of this yoar. And when it is completed no county in tho State will bo able to boast of better transportation. Besides this, t hero is now in op orption, on Lako Knstico and Lake Griffin, and the Ocklawaha river, which river is the outlet of these lakes into tho Si. John’s River, a small Steam Boat, making two trips per week, thus opening up Orange county finely V>, < watw-, I .sneak this particularly (if Orange counAv, because 1 saw all this myself, my visit being directed to lands lying on that Railroad from Lake George to Fort Mason, and about 12 miles from each of those terminal points. Hero about 12 miles north of Fort Mason, on this Railroad lives Major John Si Hanks, of whom I have spoken beforo. ITe is fully entitled to bo called the pioneer into this beautiful part of Orango county. Tho railroad runs right through his lands and right along beside a small luke of bis called Lako Mary, and between it and Lako Annie. Mis lands aro situaiod on tho western shore of Lake Annie And hero lot mo say that for mag nificence of view', and lovliness of situation I have seen nothing in Florida to compare with this home of Major Banks. Lake Annie, (so called in honor of his daughter, Miss Annio Banks) is a most beau tiful sheoL of water 3 1-2 miles long, from north to south, and 2 1-2 wide from east to west. It is nestled in the very lap of beauty and lovliness, os viewed from tho residence of Major Banks, which is situated on its shores und also on a very eleva ted hill for Florida. Its bright waters (when the wind allows them to rest) are smooth and still, but a brisk wind swoops over them, its bosom its agitated and tho storm king’s septro waives and lashes into fury what were beforo mere dimpled waves. Then if you were in tho middle of this Lake, as I was once, in n small boat, when tho rolling waves would break over tho top of frail bark, you probably would (if more used to water than your hum ble writer) liko to see them and then see oil poured on tho troubled waters. Then if all this should take place in the darkness of night, with no beacon light to guide you to tho boat’s landing (as it happened to tho writer) then indeed you could bo able to drink in the beauty of this luko, und also to sec and feel something of its sublimity as your tempobt tossed bark rolls those surge-erestod wavos. Then woro you to run against a large alligator under these before mentioned circumstances (as did the writor and Major Banks) one aud a half milcH from land, indeod. if you have never been to sea you would begin to think you knew something of the perils of the deep. I did not go out rowing on Lake Annie again at night, for I did not liko the companionship of the alli gator in his native home, nearly ono and a half miles from land. This county of Orange, seems to mo to bo the very homo of the Orange and Lemon ; ~ and I now predict that in a little while a growing town will be soon on tho place where Major Banks resides, on the Railroad and on the wostern shore ofLako Annio. What a magnificent situauation ho has on this lake front with a Railroad run ning between it and Lake Mary. I should hero say that Lake Mary is small but extremely beautiful— one rnilef from Lako Annie, has about ten acres of water, lias grass to the very water’s edge and surrounded with a pplendid pine has no outlot and is lull of fish. But I ako Annie is a small sea. What a pretty place for a city on its western shoro. What n homo it would be for the weary invalid fleeing from the cold snows and wintory blasts of tho north. What a nice evening’s work it would ho for the pale socker nftor hoalih, to sail around this little sen. on a pleasant day. How invigorating would be tho breeze which blows as if it was really tempered to the shown lamb. Major Banks is engaged in sur veying this country, and when called on will show tho country to those who desire to soo it, and will give any information asked for. And only charges when called on to make legal entries and surveys. Uis postoftico is Valusia, St. Johns river, Valusia Cos., Florida, ho lives twelvo miles to the southwest, of Valusia on Lako George and Fort Mason Railroad. In my next communication I will give an account of my travels among tho lakes, the Scrub, tho Hummock lands and tho Priam, and the view I took of an Orange grovo of 10 acres, &c. Yours Rospcctfully, J. E "Strother. The Henpecked Man. The henpecked man iz moßt gen erally married; but there aro in stances im the record of single men being harassed by the pullets. Yu can alwtts tell one ov these kind of men, espeshly if they are in the company ov thair wives. Thaji looked us resighttod tow thair ftltc az n hen 'turkey in a wet (lay:, Thair ain’t nothing that will tako tho starch out ova man like being pocked by a woman. It is wuss than a seven months’ of the fever and ngy. Thfi wives of henpecked husbands most nlwuz out liv thair victims, and I Lav known them to get mar ried agin, and git hold ova man that time (thank the Lord !) who understood all the hcnpock dodges. Ono of thoso kind ov husbands iz an honor to his sex. The henpecked man, when ho gits out amungst men, puts on an air ov bravery and defiance, and onco in a while ■ will git a lectio drunk and then go homo with a firm resolve that he will be Captain ov his household; but the old svomun soon takes tho glory out of him, and handles him just as she would a luifFgmwn chicken, who lmd fell into a swill barrel, and had to ho jerked out awful quick.— Loth Hill ings. Adam’s First Wife's Revenge. This is the old Hebrew cabalistic legend of Lilith, the first wife of Adam, as told by M. I). Conway, in liis lecture on the devil: “.She was a cold, pas-ionioss, splendid beauty, with wondrous golden hair. Sho was created Adam’s equal in every' respect; and, therefore, properly enough, refused to obey him. For this she was driven from tho garden of Eden, and Evo was created— made to order, so to speak—of one of Adum’s ribs. Then tho golden haired Lilith—jealous, enraged, pin ing for her first homo in Furadise— entered in tho form of a serpent, crept into tho garden of Eden, und temptod Adam and Evo to their de struction. And,from that day lathis, Lilith, a cold, passionless beauty, with golden hair, has roamed up and down tho earth, snaring the sons of Adam, and destroying them You may always know tier dead victims, for, whenever a man has been destroyed by tho bands of Lilith, you always find a single golden hair wrapped tight around j his lifeless heart. To this duy i many a son of Adam is lured to death and ruin from having the ! golden hair of a woman wrapped too tight aiound his heart.” p. • *-4 According to the last census of Ireland the inhabitants are thus classified as to their religious faith: Roman Catholics, 4.150,867 ; Protes tant Episcopalians, 666,998 ; Pres byterians, 487,648 ; Methodists, 43,- 441. Tho rest, 51,423, are of other denominations. Among them aro 1,638 Covenantors, 2,605 Brothren, and some Exclusive Brethren, Christadelphinns, Da r bvitee, etc. Number 11- l?x*oprieAors. Science. An English physician recently removed a section of a patient's liver placed it on a plnte, scraped it carefully, and returned it to its place, fully restored to its normal action. This promises to work a a revolution in the treatment of the disease, and in a few years we will have an addition to domestic liter ature something like this: ‘Husband, I wish you would taka John’s right lung down to the doctor this morn ing and have the middle valve fixed,’or 'Will you stop in to the doctor’s when you come home this noon, and see if ho has Mary's liver mended, as sho wants to go out to tea this evening.' The practice will becomo so common in time, wo are sure, that nono of the neigh bors will bo in any way startled to see a wife with a veil tied around her head leaning out of a bed room window and shouting to a receding husband: ‘Jor-e-miah 1 Tell Dr. Scrnpen to send up Willie's right kidney at once, whether it is dono or not. He's had it there raore'n a week, and the child might as well bo without any kidney' and be done with it. ■ ■ • ♦ • Fixing a Door Bell. That boy of Coville's lias been in troublo again. He was playing in Mrs. Coney’s yard, next door, right aftor dinner, Thursday, He had Mrs. Coney’s dog hnrnesscd to a wash boiler, and was driving up and down a cobble-walk, when that lady came out with a finger in each ear, and told him ho must clear out, as sho oxnocted company at two o’clock, and his noise was al together too much for the occasion.. His obedionco was more prompt than sho had any reason to expect or evon dosire. In fact, ho left at once, first giving the boiler a kick, that nearly decapitated the dog at! both ends. Mrs. Coney was obliged to unhitch tbo dog herself, which sho did after catching him. It np paars that the bell at Mrs. Coney’s door is somewhat stiff in tbo spring,, an 4 rather dilHot to s mud- This' tact was well-known to young Qai ville, und whilo Mrs. Coney wits’ chasing the dog the youthful mis creant stole in the house, and with' the help of a file fixed that door bell so it would pull easy. At two o’clock promptly, the pastor of Mrs, Coney's church came tip on tho stoop of Mrs Coney’s house, ami being ftWftre that the bell-pull re quired considerable muscle, gave it a sharp twich, and immediately left tho stoop head first, with the bell knob clutched in his band, and six feet of wire swinging above Idm. In the descent lie split his coat tka whole length of tbo back, broke, down tho gate, completely ruined! bis bat, seriously bruised both el bows. Mrs. Coney, who was looking* through tho blinds all the time, was very inuched shocked by the. accident, but promptly led thu. gentleman into the house, and as. promptly dressed bis wuuunds. An. examination of the bell revealed* that H had been trifled with, and am Mrs. Coney wan quite confident. Coville’s boy bad don* it, sho re ported to Mrs. Covillo that slue actually heard him say tho other day that ho would “fix that bell ”; Tbo fall term of school commenced: yesterday, hut Coville’s boy was. not there. There wero five minority Presi dents beforo llayos. Andrew Jack son did not receive a majority on tho popular vote, but he had 50,000. more votes than his highest ootav petitor. Polk represents a minority, and so did Taylor, hut both wW many thousand voles aiyjad! of the next highest couMUWos. Buchanan, fell nearly 40,000 behind toe com bined votes of Fremont and Fillmore, yet had half a million more than either ono. Abraham Lincoln, with a million less votes than were thrown against him, was still half a million ahead of Douglas. Biit Roturuing Board Hayes, who now oocupies tho office, held honestly, by all of these minority Presidents, had neithor a majority elects ral vote, nor of tho popular vote. .More ballots wore cast for than for Hayos, Coooper and SntUijL',’ combined, with nearly IsO.ODO to, spare. Hayes is neither the Presl- ' dent of a majority, nor honestly of a minority. Ho is the President of a Returning Board, and of a con- , spiraey. Eli Perkins lectured in Baliimora to an audience of sixty persons. i If - j i . Anderson M. Waddell of Nashville gave $5,000 to the widow of ft man w hom ho had killed. He hod been acquitted on a cUnrge i>f mnrder’ .