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A. C. QUILLAIN,
Dentist ,
WILL be in Thomson from the Ist
till the 15th of each month. All
operations strictly First Class. Office
on Main street, first door scuth of A. B.
Thrasher’s residence. Private engage
ments m the country promptly filled.
jan29-ty
PRICES 2 SUIT HA BTIM S
riMIE UNDERSIGNED is better pv.-
I pared than ever to make BOOTS
AND SHOES of all styles for Ladies
and Gentlemen, cheap f*>r cash. I keip
on hand an assortment of the very best
material, and make Wedding and Party
Boots and Shoos a specialty, i have re
cently learned anew process of prepar
ing soles from the best Baltimore Oak
and Slaughter Hemlock that make them
last much longer than t e old process
Very thankful for pant liberal patrou
age. I solicit a continuance of the same.
All work warranted. Call and examine
stock and prices. Shop in back room of
T. N. Lewis' store.
jan2£-ly W B. B. CASON.
W. J, FARR,
“The Lamp fsan •”
Dealer in
LAMPS, OIL, TIN & GLASSWARE,
Uroolcery,
Onstorw, A:O.
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And sella as CHEAP <fs <ha CHEAPEST.
AV. .J. I’AIDF,
143 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA. Ga.
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yellow fever quarantine To prevent a
eimiUr otcurr nee during the c ming
season. we have been instructed to offer
the
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ALSO
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chase this spring for cash or good paper.
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finest Cotton Gin ever offered to t e
trade, at prices that any planter can
afford. To get the largest discount yon
should purchase between now and May
15th. We are also offering the celebra
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dress Dr. BATE A CO., 201 wlark St.,
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MILLING SUPPLIES
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Office: I*3 8. Hearer tit., York, J'u
feos-i
Opium and Moip ! ine Habit
Aud DKUNKEANKSS absolutely smt
apeodily cured. Pa: ie<s no publicity,
the worst cases of i>niaeui e-e oureu in
1W or 15 days. Send stamp for particu
lars to I S. O -.lih 1 UN, 2d s Clar*
St.. Chicago 111. feblh-ly
* can luuk'j money faster at work foi
Una than at anytuing else, capital not
required, we will start you. $• 2
per day at home made by Lne ndustri
ous. Men,women, m.*h u.d t,irls want
ed every wm;re to work v “ u*. now jS
sbe time Cuntl outfit am terms five.
Address. OtUE A Augusta,Me
V/7-M
And the night shall be turned iuto gas
light.
From our brows the sweat we shall
wipe.
Then gnu - the pillow by the back of the
neck.
To give the musquito a swipe.
—TVo convicts in the Gwinnett
county chain-gang ran away with a
widow aud her daughter.
A church at Cyuthino, Ky., gave
“a grand picnic aud horse race” lust
week for the benefit of its funds.
—Toe Czar has permitted the St.
Petersburg Ghdos to state that the
late war with Turkey cost Russia
$750,000,000 and 200,000 men.
—Gen Walker who is to superin
tend the Unite i S ates census of
1880, estimate s the populate n will he
between 40,000,000 and 47.000,000
—A colossal statue of Bndha has
been dug up ou the spot where tin
founder ol the most widespread re
ligion in the world is known fr-un ex
ternal evidence to have died.
thrifty Massachusetts father
took his hoy to a doctor. “If you
can cure him for less than the fu-eral
expenses,” said lie, “go ahead; hut if
you can’t sonny’ll have to take the
chances.”
—According lo Sir Anhur Gordon,
of the Fiji Islands, 102,000 out of a
total population of some 120,000 of
the island attend the Wesleyan chap
els, and most of the rest attend some
other place of worship.
I —A Washington dispatch states
! that tbe pnmuuunt B publican lean
er* have resolved t-Uat one hundred
j thousand dollars shall bo raised for
the campaign iu Ohio by assessing
! the employes of the government.
i --McMasters, an Ohio temperance
| lecturer, was taken suddenly ill in a
: tailroad c.ir, und a physician told
I him that a glass ot brandy was the
! only thing that would save his life;
; but lie reiused to take the liquor and
died.
—What is called the Wheeiove
Grove mystery iu East St. Louis,
I remains unexplained. Three u. rh
an a young won at; disuppaured, and
jit is frimtisl certain that she wits dn
<-(>y,'d or dnutged into a grove hv
iyoung scoundrels, who finally killed
i her aud hid her body, winch has not
Is eu found.
Mr. Edison neid-su ur .e uitei-t '
of platinum ior Ins ei-ctrie ium,--.
The supply i limited. Tli \\ isar
of Menlo 1'- rk l-egms at tile omtaia
tion and offer-- $20,000 for the disom
'ry of u platinum mint; of reasonable t
extent in this country. There is |
good prospect that some if the pros
pectors - iii gain the reward.
—lt is now thought that the new j
Southern Pacific Badroud may be ;
completed hy the Segiuning of 1881. |
The line from tho other sme w~l
probably be extended to Tucson this ;
year, and the line from this side to !
the Rio Grands. This will leave a '
gap of about four hundred and fifty
m -• . which can be easily covered in
s year
—The Pope is .iria.igiug to publish i
u n Bpaper at Rome, iu a i the;
known iauguages of the world, to be j
app opt lately called The World, the
leading editorial writers of which
wi! lie Cur hud N wmuu and his
brethre oi the College of Cardinals.
The paper is to have a palace; for its
ulSce au 1 will be conducted ou tilt im
uieus sea e.
—During the lost s.xteeu yearn
Massachusetts has couvicten but
twenty.two murderers out m two or
three hundred. The murders in that
State during the last three or four ;
years rave been exceptlu ally bloody ’
ami cruel in their character, and it
does not look ail Massachusetts.
was a very aw abidiug or crime pun
isniug Slate.
—Wneu the repott of tiie Swiss
Centennial Commissioner on Amen- 1
can watchmaking was read to crfiwd
ed meetings of watchmakers ut ->en
chatel and the general ex- |
pressiou was one of abject and spuir. :
Work was suspended on the Genevese
SC'Ool of Watchmaking, then being
erected, arid the Canton Council ap
point) and a committee t > consider what |
other industry could lye introduced iu \
place of watchmaking.
Careful cottou crop repo: tH
pfiace the yield of that staple for the 1
current year at 5,150,000 bales, or 7 ■
per cent, larger t. au ias year. The
average yearly increase in tins crop
for u-ue yeurs past has been 1(H),000
• ales ; und, a- the acreage devoted to
de- crop year.y w.deus and -)!■) .net i
ds of cultivation improve, the limit
-if cotton production in tins c- untrv
is still lar instant, even .villi tne crop
400,000 bales larger lean ben it was
raised by slave labor.
—The tiiilur of he Duhlonega Sig
nal informed by Mr. A. .1. Ld ; .*e,
i.nat ins seen uof the c>.u > -us- a
veritable sensation m the shape ol a
crowing re*l oird. Fr th-- past three
or four years this ■ trauge bird has
been -laying ou and around the farm
Wm. ri. Curisty, Esq., and is tie
.( -ecu aim heard u, crow almost
..ally t>- die people oi that neighbor
.i.oll, It ms the sane no ou ot tile
-,,a . as a rooster I.h when crowing
aud imitates that fowl to peritction
in soutid, except tbe fiueuess of the
THOMSON, GA., WEDNESDAY, JTJLY 23,1879
THE ENI).
The course of the weariest river
Ends iii the great gray %e& ;
The acorn, forever and ever,
Strives upward to the tree;
The rainbow, the sky adorning,
SI. ines promises through the storm;
The glimmer of coming morning
Through midnight gloom will form.
By time all knots are riven,
Complexal though they be
And peace will at last be given,
Dear, both to you aud me.
Then, though tbe path may be dreary,
Look onward to the goal;
Though the heart and the head be weary,
Let faith inspire the soul.
Seek the right, though the wrong be
tempting
Speak truth at any cost;
Vain is all weak exempting
When c nee the geui is lost.
Let strong hand aud keen eye be ready,
For plain and ambushed foes;
Though earnest and fancy steady
Bear best unto the close.
The heavy clouds may be raining.
But with evening comes the light;
Through the dark are low winds com
plaining.
Yet the sunrise gilds the height:
And love has his hidden treasure
For the patient and the pure;
And time gives his full measure
To the workers who endure;
And the Word that no law has shaken
Has the future pledge supplied;
For we know that when we awaken
We shall be satisfied.
Th * Liquor question.
Editor Journal:
A petition has been sent to the
Legislature, praying for a law
prohibiting the sale ,*' liquor in
McDuffie county, the law to take
effect and he enforced with' ul
allowing the voters of the conn
ty a elo>nee t > approve or disap
pr ve of it, by the nly fair ad
legal mode known to our msti
tutions, that of ballot. Against
the prill iples and policy sought
to be established and enforced
by ill* se who sigi ed sui l peti
tion, I claim tie right to enter
my humble protest- Such a luw
as that prayed for is wrong in
principle, and will prove perni
cious iii its operation
It is an axiom in government ,
proven by the wisdom and ex
periences of ages, I hat no rany
is so exacting, so unlacing, or
-o debasing, is the rub' .-I an
utilrid!c.d majority In it.
unalysis it is the rule of the mob.
Hence, const tutions are adop
ted as hul" art s aim breast
woiks, to protect the right- and
liberties of minorities. Tli |wi
le of McDuffie enmity tbatiks
be to the wisdom and patriotism
of onr ui eestots, are living under
t lie pr deeti mol two eonatitu
tions; the paramount on#being
that of the United States, and
the other that of Georgia. Both
of these palladiums ol liberty
guarantees to every citizen the
right to worship God according
to the die at* 1 his own eon
science, free and in.chain oged;
anil the unlimited liberty to en
joy tlic fruits of Ins labor <r hin
means, us each and ev- ryone
inuy deem best ; restrained only
by tbe r-at Christian law of
doing unto others as ye would
that others should do unto you.
Under these glorious principles
of constitute ha! freedom, evety
one bus tile r ghl to the belief
und practice ot any dogma or
co’ omony of religious creed tbul
lie may entertain; to clothe him
seif in such raiment as his fmey
may desitv. and to < at at and drink
freely of hatever his labor may
produce or money purchase. —
This liisi greal principle of per
sonal liberty was fiist given to
man by his maker the Lor I God
Jehovah, speaking by the inoutii
of Moses, Deufurom. XtV. chap.
26 verse.
‘ And thou shall best w that
(1 by ) money- tor whatever thy
soul lust-th alter; lor oxen, or
for sheep, or for ine, or for
strong drink, or for whatsoever
thy soul desireth.”
Thus we have the direct sanc
tion of tho Almighty and the
guarantees of two constitutions
to the right to drink whatsoever
our souls desireth.
This right to drink must carry
with it the rigWt to purchase,
which must presuppose the right
of someone lo sell Then it fol
lows, that if by law you can ro
vent absolutely ih* saleof liquor,
you absolutely prevent the buy
ing ••! liquor, tor tbe liberty to
buy i- a mockery, unless there be
liberty to sell, and this indiscret
tt.'de of preventing 'lie purchase
of liquor is tl e use of force,
which islyrat r.y to t rolii it free
men from drinking. But a peti
tion asking boldly for a luw to
prohi il drinking woul 1 be met
with derision. Such, however,
i- the logicul sequence of any law
that seeks to prohibit the sale of
liquor.
Ardent spirits, as an article of
commerce have been allowed and
pro eeted by tbe laws of the
United Stales and of Georgia
sinco the foundation of our gov
ernment, aud beeD, as it were,
sanctified by the custom of ages,
and hence a majority of any
one locality, no matter how over
whelming such majority might
De, have no more constitutional
right to interdict their sale
than they have to prohibit the
sale o tobacco, tea, coffee or anx
other article of necessity or lux
ury.
But granting tho legal right,
the attempt to have such a law
enforced in the county, by pains
and penalties, without allowing
every citizen a legal opportunity
to vote for or against it, is an in
sidious and dangerous stub at
popular government which
should ho openly met anti boldly
opposed. And the 1U presenta
tivo who shout ■ advocate and
vote for its passage, should bo
forever c tisignod to private life.
Ido not know who of the
signers to that petition plumes
himself witn the glory of saying
that the people will not do to
trust ou this question, as the
liquor sellers will buy them up.
But be he whom he may •
will remind him that evil is us
only evil thinks. Ho probab y
measures others by h s own
standard. Ido not concede tho
right of a majority in any local
ity, even where fairly ■ xpressed
through the ballot box, to pro
hibit the sale -if that which is
sane lotted by tho laws of the
United Mates, and of our own
.Slule. But if such a law is to be
enforced, right or wrong, it.
should bo oppt seti und obstructed
bt an;, anti every legal means,
unless tirsi submitted to u vote
fiflln people. All sueli laws are
pernicious, because they tire so
easily and so often evudeil, and
tho set.se of wrong, of unjust in
terference with personal liberty
which they arouse in the hearts
ol those opposed to them, en
genders a contempt anti disre
gard • fall luw and authority.
A law prohibiting tho sale til
liquor would prove unjust and
ly ran if'ul to a lar_o n timber of
the people of the county. To
the rich and well-to-do folks who
•an send 'o Augusta or A lanta
for u plot• ■ it><l supply of -‘Oh be
jfi.tu " fluid, It would prove
harmless. Tliey would hav a
priori ms time vit h their fronds
a~ tdfen as their souls desired,
getting as drunk as they wisned
without the lent fit offending the
law or the consciences of their
sanctimonious neighbors. But
to the poor niHii white or black,
whiohet born to the ortvil ges fit
freemen or i the bondage of
slavery, such u law is tv rutin ul.
Many times the poor man, after
a hard flays toil, weak and weary,
often drenched to the skin by the
ra'its of heaven, feels keenly 'he
need of a s imulant, but under
tbe prohibitory law he cannot
obtain it. For his scanty means
does not nermit him to order it
beforehand like his rich neigh
bor; and, under such circum
stances he ca‘ not obtain that
which hi* soul ce.-irc'h, unic-s
In 1 proem os r doctor's (■■■rtiflculo.
similar lo 'he former pass' s giv
en to slaves, or goes hut in hand
as a mcdicunl to his more hutu
nate follow-man. There are such
poor men in this county, while
ami black, verging on or j.ust
I heir throe core ami ion years,
who from their carlio-t youth
until now. have fondly believed
they had nnd lively exorcised \
the right lo buy ami drink a j
Oram whenovei and a* often
they wished; and who have
i ever—poor benighted souls—
been conscious of irij l ring their
neighbors in so doing—men
whose sturdy, strong arms and
willing hearts helped lo clear the
forest, *o cultivate the soil and
build up tho churches, and
whose hard earned money has
aided to foster and make rich
some o those who an: now seek
ing to deprive them of their life
long rights and privileges.
There bo those from perversi
ty of mental perception, or from
having iin bided with their moth
er's milk the dogma of the Di
vii e Right nl Kings, who can
never, no never, conn rclicnd fir
principles of eor.slUminnul gov.
eminent, who cannot be inspired
with the great, grand and glo
rious idea, of personal freedom
and unchallenged religious lib
erty; but in exact ratio with
their ignorance of the groat pr n
ciples of freedom, is their conceit.
They are such as Job spoke to
when he said, “No doubt yc
think ye are the people, and all
wisdom will die with you.”
A prohibitory law ag inst
merely tbe selling of liquor will
1 boa foolish law, because even by
the admission of those jvho are
laboring to have it passed, it will
not and is not intended to pro
hibit tbe drinking of liquor.—
But the drinking of liquor is the
only known mode of handling it
that can work evil, and if tho
people will hqve it, will buy it
aud drink it, is it not more in
accordance with sound sense and
the experience of other localities
to permit its sale under proper
regulations and licenses than to
force the money* away from the
smut Mr.. Kuch man who deals in
liquor contributes his portion to
the ngg gale of the whole com
munity*. He pays rent and li
cense, nnd he and his family
consume their quota of the pro
ducts of tho farmers.
The dealing in liquor may bo
dotrime tal to tho morals of tho
community, and the drinking of
liquor may bo an unmitigated
evil, and tho good nfsiieiely may
be prom ted by doing without
either, but do not invoke the
I oivt'r df tit State to accomplish
the pttsposo. Do not cull on the
strong iuin of power to compel
others to do as you think beat.
Use the pulpit It is free and
protected by* law in all its fultnt
nulions nguinst evils and crimes
ofo'<;iy Into and grade. Call
to yotir'itid the powerful press—
untrammelled and unshackled.
Arouse the teachers of the laud
to morn earnest and to a more
direct effort to purify public
morals and habits—the minds of
tho young. But lot the sword
of power tilutio. Do not by in
voking its ititl declare to the
world that you have found that
teachers, press and preachers
tire failures, utterly worthless
in influencing man to do right
according to your* standard.
Finally, it is generally conco
tl'-d thaj onr perfect roligiuus
liberty .font been the source of
many stv/ingc and fanatical dog
mas atdsa**,hereby it is as
;u. toi)VjT( some, many immortal
rtiie44.fte%|l*>sp liower. But
is t hero ‘among us that would ad
vocate >1 limit to that liberty?
Il i known that
tl v freedom of the press is often
abused ami under its umplu fold
license is taken to advocate false
doctrines and to calumnale pri
vate character. But who are
thy that would advocate a pro
hibitory law against publishing a
paper V
It will bo freely admitted by
all Hat the perfect freedom to
out wvit h"U! restraint of law Ims
often ts n carried to excess, pro
liuoin , unl"ld miseries and car
ryii g thousands to a prema
ture grave. But who will advo
eaten prohibit ry law?
It is also fieidy admitted, by
ttio w*rit> r among the others,
that the .-ale of liquor affords op
portunity to many to abuse their
liberty and get drunk, and being
drunk they quarrel, and quarrel
ing they also too often shed
Idood But must the great mu
jority h shorn of their freedom
f -r t he errors of the f vv?
.1 it n jus.
i’itoi'e were 16 09b emigrants
Iron! Livi 11 ol in May, a.ainst.
1 1,000 in May, IH7B
Ay eng physician in Vienna
found that hi> salary tfBlso t r
a ' tiding the poor ieduced trim
t" their level financially, and
committed suicide
Iksviri m <>f the (.’tsar's special
uKjiJ., the Crown's possessions
urn proclaimed untiixable, and
the tuxes due for previous years
are to be tuken off.
The un hot of recruits sworn
in at Edinburgh last month is
unprecedented in the recollection
of the auth r ties. The men
said that lack ot work compelled
them to enlist.
‘My only anxitty on hi ac
count is that ho is too plucky
aud go-ahead,” is tho last sen
twice in the letter of introiluc
linn given by the Duke of Cam
bridge to tbe Prince Imperial
for Lord Chelmsford.
Tho Empress of Austria likes
a solitary hunting expedition.
With her favorite rifle in hand,
she goes deep into tho wooden
mountains and solitary valleys
which tretch round the Impe
nd domain in ove y direc'ion
Dressed in the rough costume of
the Tyrol, she will o fieri make
; excursions of two or three days’
duration, staying at night at
I some distant cot, where the only
tare, besides the game she brings
with her, is goat, choose and
milk, with black broad.
TO THE GIKI.S,
It's no tine talking—no use talking—
'Tis useless to contest;
You know it is a standing fact—
You love the boys the best.
You needn’t turn vour noses up—
Deception I dotest—
And toss your heads aud curl your lips;
You love tile boys the best,
O, you may aay the boys are bores,
Nuisances and pests;
But give you an honest trial
And we’ll see which you love best.
Y'ou know it, aud they know it, too,
And so do all the rest;
And it’s nonseuse now to say you don’t—
Y’ou do love them the best.
I dou’t deuy the fact myself.
I’ve long ago confessed.
And know that iu my heart of hearts
I love the boys the best.
—Florida Girl in N. Y. World.
Biography oi Methuselah
What a tremendous boyhood
old Methuselah had! Ho died at
the rather advanced ago of 9fi9
years, about 900 years more than
man’s span of life. At that rule,
when he was 200 years old ho
about eq tallod tbe ordinary lad
of sixteen. He was thirty or
forty boforo his parents bought
him a rattle to play with, and ho
didn’t have the measles or other
infantile diseases until ho was
over ltlO. He was in no hurry
about these things, as he had so
far to go. We imagine that ho
was rather a delicate child to be
gin with, as most oeoplo were
who lived to a great age. Wo
can imagine his mother’s anx
iety with regard to his delicate
constitution, telling Mrs. Brown
across tho way, on his nineteenth
birthday, that.sho was afraid she
“never would be able to raise
that child.” Generations of men
lived and passed away while ho
was going around iu petticoats,
and ho wasjalmost a. eeu cnariun
before ho got into his first boots.
His father used to lick him when
lie was 150, for robbing a neigh
bor's watermelon patch.
Young Methuselah was proba
bly in .the vicinity of 100 years
old wig'll ho was first wont to
school. We can imagine him j
sittingfon a low bench learning’’
his a-h-abs, among the great
great-grandehildren of people
wl o began life whoa ho did. He
was misehievous, of course—all
boys are, no matter what their
age—(wo experienced u slight
(’riskiness ourself, occasionally.)
and had to bo punished for it.
‘‘William Henry Methuselah,
stand up!” says tho teacher,
catching him in the very act of
placing a bent pin in a seat where
a schoolmate wus about to sit
down. “\Vhi.t do you mean by
such conduct as this ?"
Young Methuselah begins to
sniffle und wipe his eyos with the
corner of his jacket.
‘‘One would think,” continues
the teacher sternly, “that you
wasn’t over seventy iiveoreighty
years old by the way you bo
have Instead of that you have
already celebrated your first cen
tennial—almot t a young man, in
fact. You ought to he ashamed
of y urself.”
Thou Methuselah is condemn
ed, as an expiation to “sit among
the girls "until recess, aud if you
■ itink this isn’t an agreeable form
of punishment, you will have to
u-k Mime one older thuo Methu
selah.
Whenever a circus came to
town, with “children liulf prico”
ou us bills, Methuselah must
tiuvo experienced considerable
difficulty in e aking the ticket
seller understand that he was en<
titled to go iu on a half price tick
et, particularly alter ho had got
along toward his two hundreth
year. But ho piobably did it.
Boys aro enterprising and per
sistent when a circus is concern
ed. Ami we will but that Me
thuselah iu his youthful days
could accumulate as much old
it on us the next boy, and lay il
by for the coming show.
When this youngster got into
hts to ns—say from 200 to 300
ycais old—he probably did as
other young gentlemen of tender
age do; wont around with the
girls. It must have been a little
embarrassing lo him, after beau
mg a young lady about a spell—
taking her lo concerts, bulls, eto.,
to discover that she was a great
greul-great-groi't grandchild of
his father's friend, bu* these
things wero inevitable under tho
peoulia" and exceptional charac
ter of the circumstances. There
is no record lo show that any
woman lived in his time to an
age that wo.tld begin to compare
with his. Aud if there hud been
tho world would not have known
! it. At least, not from her. She
\ wouldn't havo acknowledged to
■ anything over forty had she lived
| to twice tho ago of Methuselah.
This is tho kiud of a hair pin n
woman is.
Employing tho proportion of
twenty-one to seventy to Methu
selah’s years, ws find that he
was a minor until he was 270
years old. If the laws regard
ing minors were enforced in his
day, young Methuselah must
have been run out of billard
rooms nnd shut out from bars
for over two centuries. And
what a sensation must have been
created when he stepped up to
deposit his vote. Of course ho
voted for all the Presidents from
Washington (with whom he re
members having shaken hands)
down. AH old mou do that.—
And when ho got along in years,
say 900 or such n matter, lie
could sit and tell tho boys about
the hard winter of '32, and the
panic of'37, and tho flood of ’39,
and the hard-cider campaign of
'4O, and all that sort of things.
This is all we have to write of
Methuselah, the original oldest
inhabitant.
“Sa-luting tli3 Bride,”
Thero was a marriage at the
upper end of the Detroit, Lansing
<fc Northern Road tho other day.
A great big chap, almost able to
throw a cur-loud of lumber off
the track, fell in love with a wid
ow who was cooking for the
hands in a saw mill, and after a
week's acquaintance they wero
married. Tho boys around tho
the mill lent William threo culi
co 6hiru, a dress-coat, amt a pair
of white punts, and chipped in n
purse of about S2O, and the
couple started for Detroit on a
bridal t ur within au hour after
being married.
“This 'ere lady,” explained
William as the conductor came
along for tickets, “are my bride.
Just splicod fifty-six minits ago.
Cost $2, but duru the cost! She’s
a lily of the valley, Mary is, und
I’m tho right-bower in anew
pack of k-eerds. Conductor, gft
luto the Wide!” - (
The conductor hesitated. The
widow had freckles and wrinkles
and a turn-up nose, aud kissing
tho bride was no gratification.
“Conductor, sa-lute tho bride
or look out for tornadoes!” con
tinued William as he rose up aud
shod his ooat.
Tho conductor sa-lutod. It
was the best thing he could do
just then.
“I nover did try to put on
style before," muttorod William,
“but I’rn bound to see this thing
through if I have to fight all
Michigan, Theso 'ere passen
gers has got to come up to tho
chalk, they has.”
The car was full. William
walked down tho aisle, waved
his hand to command attention,
aud said:
“I've just been irarried, over
thnr' sol 6 the bride. Anybody
who wants to sa-luto the bride
kin now do so. Anybody who
don't want to, will bev cause to
believe that a tree fell on him I"
One by one tho men walked
np and kissed tho widow, until
only one wus left. Ho was asleep.
William reached over and lifted
him into a sittiug position ut one
movement and commanded :
“Are you going to dust tbar'
an’ kiss tbo bride?"
“Blast your bride, and you,
too!” growled tho passengor.
William drew him over tho
back of tho seat, laid him down
in the aisle, tied his legs in a
knot and was making a bundle
of him just of a size to go thro'
the window, when the man
caved and wont over and ea-lu
ted.
“Now, then,” said William, as
he put on his coat, “this bridle
tower will be resumed as usual,
and if Mary aDd me squeeze
hands or git to laying heads on
each other’s shoulders I shall do
maDd to know who luffed about
it, and I’ll make him o-magine
that I'm a bull boom full oi the
biggest kiDd of siwlogs, and
more cornin’ down on tbe rise.
Now, Mary, hitch along an’ let
mo git my arm around ye I”
Over 60,000 barrels of potatoes
wore shipped from Virginia to
Naw York last week, and a good
number to Boston and other
points.
Colonel King, a Texas cattle
man, has a fence 75 miles long,
enclosing 337 square miles, on
which range 110,000 boasts.
It took two hundred aud fifty
gallons of ice cream and the
same number of gallons of beer
to celebrate tho 4th at Winston
and Bulctn, N. C.
X>To. 31.
Too Good.
Avery good and piotis.looMng
young man applied for a position
in a well-known store last week.
After ho had introduced himself
and made known his wants, the
proprietor informed him that he
would liko to have a clerk if he
could get one that would suit
hi in.
“I suppose you go to chureb,
oh?” ho commented.
‘•Yob, sir.”
“Do you drink?” continued
the merchant, eyeing him sharp
“ Never.”
“Do you use tobacco in any
form ?”
Hero tho young man pushed
the quid into the roof of his
mouth, and replied, with a smile
that was childlike und bland: “I
never use the weed and ucver
did. I consider it tho lowest
and most shocking habit a man
can bo addicted to.”
“Do you frequent the policy
shops?”
“No, sir; never.”
“Do you go vo tho National
theatre, dog-fights or boxing ex
hibitions ?”
“Never was at one in my life,”
was the emphatic reply.
"Can yen tell me the ace of
diamonds from the kings of
clubs?”
“I know nothing whatever of
cards."
“Do you ever bet ?'*
“No, sir, I don’t I"
“Suppose,” said tho merchant,
“a man should offer to bet a
thousand dollars to ten dollars
that a three-logged goat uould
outrun a grey hound, would you
tuko him up ?”
“No, sir.”
“Then you won’t do for this
establishment; wo don’t want
you, wo never hire fools!”
That youth will not bo bo good
the next time
years,
Probably low persons are
aware that the year 1900 will
not boa leap year. The Scien
tific American lolls an inquiring
correspondent that the year 1900
is not a leap year because it is
not divided by 400, and then, in
further cxplunation, tells all
about leap years as follows : Tho
eartL makes the circuit of tho
sun in 365 days, five hours, f-r
--t.y-eight minutes and 49.063
seconds. This is called flic solar
year. Tito civil year is ordinari
ly (365 days, tho excess (five
hours, forty-eight minute*, 49.-
02 seconds) amounting in four
years to very nearly a day. Ac
cordingly each fourth yoar is
given 366 days. But this counts
n little 100 much, the excess
amounting in a conlury to near
ly a day. 80, instead of calling
tho even hundred years leap
years, they arc made ordinary
years of 365 days. This approx
imate correction involves an or
ror of a littlo over ono-fourlh of'
a day every century, which is
nearly set right by counting each
fOfith year as a lenp year. By
theso leap years and intercalated
days (every fourth yoar except
the hundreds not divisible by
400) the civil and solar years are
closely reconciled, the objoet be
ing to make tbe seasons perma
nently aoeord with the calendar.
By making a further correction
of one day every 4000th year,
counting each 4000th year as not
a leap year—the error is so smull
that 21,600 yeurs must elapse
before it will amount to a full
<Jay ' * ,
Waco, Texas, has ltl doctors,
56 lawyers aud 12 preachers.
Greenback speeches aro now
delivered daily in uortli Missis
sippi. ‘
Barren cotmty, Ky., has a syc
amore tree 25 feet in oil uninfer
euco.
From all parts of Arkansas
comes the glad tidiugs of good
rains und crops.
Sineo 1869, whon tho railroad
from Ycddo to Yokohama was
begun, sixty-six and a half miles
havo been completed.
The Opelika Observer moo
lions a seven mouths culf in that
place that gives a pint of milk
every da/; also a chicken with
four legs and four wings.
In Gilos county, Tonn., J. &
Green, agod 65, married Miss M.
Priuoo, aged 16. Thro > days of
matrijnony satisfied the brids,
j aftorwbicb sbo dissolved copai 1 1-
i nership.