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W U 1C E L , Vol. IX. f*iil>**o*• ijj>t ij ll Hatos. o One Year SI.OO Six Month 50 Three Months 25 Invariab y in Advauco. ST Positively no paper sent until the m >ney is paid. ■KT Notice given each suheciiber two weeks before the expiration of his time, ttn \ if subscription is not renewed, the paoer is at ouce discontinued. Our no tic? will be the letter **X. M marked on the margin *f the paper in blue pencil triT \ny person who wall fund ns the US'iies of five new subscribers, with #5 will be entitled to owe year’s sub scription free. v -* Hates. One first insertion $ 1 00 Each subsepient insertion 75 One square three months 10 00 Oue square six months 15 00 One square twelve months JO 00 Quart.-r oolumu twelve months.. 40 00 Half column six months 00 00 Half column twelve mouths 75 00 One column twelve months 125 00 K 'tT Ten lines or less considered a square i tractions of squares are counted as full squares. PROFESSIONAL CARDS, ETC. 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. / And sella as CHEAP <fs <ha CHEAPEST. AV. .J. I’AIDF, 143 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA. Ga. myl4-3m PAVILION HOTEL, Charleston , S. C. G. T. ALFORD and 00., i Proprietors j Kates. #2.00. $2.50 and s3.wo per day j I laii* < -litfim*: —in TUB LATEST AND MOST SCIENTIFIC MANNER, -BY E. D. AMONITTI, Arilwl on Iliiiiimi Hail*, (OrricE Under Central Hotel.) AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. ■uarU-lf Hantsrs, Attention! We could not supply the demand for the Gullet Gin l ist reason owing to the yellow fever quarantine To prevent a eimiUr otcurr nee during the c ming season. we have been instructed to offer the Improved (it lied (Jin, ALSO Feeder and ('ondensers, At a very low price to all who will pur chase this spring for cash or good paper. Now is your chance to purchase the 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 ted Bigelow ISngineH of eve'y style; also. SWEEPSTAKE SEPARATORS. SAW MILLS, 1 HKESHERS. GRIST MII.L& ho., Ac , At greatly reduced pri ;es. Give us a call or write for circulars. Extr low figures made to those who purchase their entire ginning and threshing out fits through us. Address. 0. Me SfOKE & CO., General Agents h r Plantation Machin ery. Aflgu-vta Ga. fipl_ ; 3-dm. NER"V OUIS DEBILITY SEMINAL WEAKNESS, Lost Manhood, Impotency. Universal I .Attitude, Enerva tion of Mind and Body, aud all diseases that follow as a sequence of indiscretion or excess, quick y and permanently cured by Bate s Specific, prepared by it physician, ands tire result of years of study a. and practice in treating these special disease*, and sold package, three packagt - for #5. For specific circnlar and full particulars, ad dress Dr. BATE A CO., 201 wlark St., Chicago, 111. ' feblt) y “g BURNHAM'S ■ A '" kLST Ar.Olt.Lsr Lbf Prices rr flneed. Pamphlet free. MILLING SUPPLIES Works: Christiana, Ixtnraster Cos., Pa. 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.