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W KEITC I- Y . Vol. IX. SubHcription Hutos. One Year .-*I.OO Six Month... 50 : Three Months 25 | Invariab y in Advance. Positively no paper went nutil tlie money is paid *ST Notice given each subsc.iber two weeks before the expiration of his time, and if subscription is not renewed, the paper is at once discontinued. Our no- i tice will be the letter **X.” marked on the margin of the paper in blue pencil Any person who will send us the i names of five new subscribers, with $5 cash, will be entitled to oue year’s sub scription free. -— Advcrtisiug: Rntex. Ona square, first insertion $ 1 00 Each snbaeqwimt insertion 75 One square three months 10 00 Oue square six months 15 00 One square twelve months 20 00 Quarter column twelve months.. 40 00 Half column six months 00 00 Half column twelve months 75 00 Ona column twelve months 125 00 lines or less considered a square All fractious of squares are counted as full squares. PROFESSIONAL CARDS, ETC. A. C. QUILLAIN, Dentist, WILL Wim Thomson from the Ist till the 15th of each month. All operations ArieUy First Clans. Office oa Main street, first dour acutb of A. B. Thrasher’* residence. Private engage ments in the coaatry tilled. jan2!My PRICESg SUIT HAR® TIM S c UKDEUMGKJi© a toetter pre * n>si:d tfihon over ti make BOOTS AS I) SHOES iff alfi ntyleß for Ladies ond GeiTtflemen, cheap for cash. I keip -%u hand an assortment the very best anateriul, aud make Wedding and Party Boots and Shoes a specialty. I have re cently learned anew process of prepar eng soles from the beat. Baltimore Oak. And Slaughter Heml)ck that make them Bast much longer than t a old |.uooess Very thankful for past liberal patron age. 1 solicit a continuance of the same. All work warranted. Call and examine •stock and prices. Shop in lck room of T. N. Tawin' store. gan2i-ly W B. B. CASON. PA7ILION HOTEL, Charleston, k. C. O. T. ALFORD <fi CO., Proprietors -v> $2.50 anl $3.01) per day iir < 'sitting - tW ‘ IIE ..AftiT A*S MOST WUJSTifIC MANNER, -BY E. D. AriMt uu 11 ll lit it li Unit*. fOnricE Undee Ontbau Hotel. ) AUGUSTA. GEORGIA. lUAtti.ll Seed Wheat For Sale rpilE undersigned offers for sale 200 t bushel< of SEED WHEAT, of the 111 LI. DAI LIS variety. This wheat yielded lust season 20 bushels to one, tuui is warranted Hast Proof. ALSO, few bushels of MAMMOTH BYE or DIAMOND WHEAT, yielding fifty Imsliels and over to every bushel sown. 'The grains of this wheat average nearly half an ineh long, and the heads from seven to nine inches long. Address WM. S. BOYD. aug-20-tf _ _ Hayeville, Oa. Planters, Attention! —— We could not supply the demand for tbe Outlet Gin last season owing to the veltow fever quarantine. To prevent a similar occurrence during the coining season, we have been instructed to offer the Improved Gullett (hn, also Feeder and, Condensers, 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 the trade at prices that any planter can afford To get the largest discount you should purchase between now and May 15th. We are also offering the celebra ted Bigelow Enginew of every style; also, SWEEPSTAKE SEPAHATOKS, SAW MILLS, THRESHERS, GRIST MILLS, 3x„ Ac., At greatly reduced pri ios. Give us a call or write for circulars. Extra low figures made to those who purchase their entire ginning and threshing out fits through uS Mi A s ddr lU General Agents for Plantation Machin ery, Augusta Ga. apl-d-6m. NERVOUS DEBILITY SEMINAL WEAKNESS, Lost Manhood, linpotency, Universal hasitude, Enerva tion of Mind and Body, and alll diseases that follow as a sequence of indiscretion or excess, quickly and permanently cured by Bate s Specific, prepared by a physician, ands the result of years of study and practice in treating these special diseases, and sold at i- per; package, three packages for ior kSA circnlar and full particulars, ad dress Dr. BATE * CO., 201 Clark St„ ! SdcUo. 11l- fcblo.-y_ , A BURNHAMS ygaaeS. j r-suii best and thtumT B Prlffg rwluctd. PamphletJrrr. j MILLING SUPPLIES nor In ■ rhrimlouo, jArnrartrr Co.,Pa Office: 23 H. Hearer St., York, Ia febs-ly ..! Opium and Morp' ine Habit And DRUNKENNESS absolutely ami speedily cured. Painless; no publicity; the worst cases of Drunkenness cureu in 10 or 15 days. Send stamp for particu lars to J. S. CARLTON, 203 S. Clark Bt., Chicago. 111. feblO-ly Ocan make money faster at work for us than at anything else, capital not required; we will start you. $2 per dav at home made by the illustri ous. Man,women, boys and girls u ant ed everywhere to work *% t us. a*ow is the time Costl, outfit ana terms free. A ddresß. TRUE A CO., Augusta,Me b'27-b§ AUGUSTA ADA BRTISBMENTS. LOW PRICES —FOR - Boots, Shoes and Bats. We have now in store a very large aud complete stock of BOOTS, SHOES AND HATS, which has been purchased direct, from the manufacturers at the LOWEST PRICKS THR GASH WILL COMMAND, and ns our motto is Large Sales and Small Profits otir customers and the public can rely on GOOD BARGAINS. A large stock of Philadelphia and Baltimore fine shoes on hand. A liberal discount to the wholesale trade. WM. MULHURZN, 284 Rito.'ijj St a , .'IeGCST&t ('EnjgGm* i aep4.7B-ly Masonic Hall Building, 2448r0ad Street* Augusta. Ga. GEORGE Ad BAILIE, [LATE OF JVS G. BAILIE & BUG.] ! Be]ectfullv calls the attention of die public to i beautiful line of tho above j Goods, which he is fa-1 opening in tlie Masonfc Hall building, No. 241 Broad i Street consisting of beuutiful • Brussels 3 Ply and Ingrain Carpets. Rustic and Paper Shadi s. all sizes j Hearth Rugs, Door Mats Cruu b Cloths, Terryn. lteps and Damasks, all coirs Floor and Table Oil Cloth, all widths, Cane and Upholsterer’s Trimmings, | Lace aud Nottingham Lace Curtains, Wall Papers in givat variety, { Curtain Bands, Loops, limps and Tassels, Borders, Firo Screens and side lights, i Window Cornices in variety of patterns, rbromos. Picture Cord, ! Window Shades, all colors and sizes, Pieture Tassels and Nails, [ Window Hollands, all colors. I respectfully solicit hii examination of my Goods by tho public, whom I have I beer, among aud waiting upon for the past twenty-live years, guaranteeing to all ! that they will be*waited on pleasantly and promptly. Besides tho front door main entrance to my store, I havo secured a privato entrance through the main hnll of the Masonic Hall. GEORGE A. BAILIE, 244 BROAD STREET, MASONIC HALL BUILDING. •SSTCarpets made and laid promptly. J will open in two weeks a full stock of ! choice FAMILY GROCERIES, under chi rge of one of Augusta's most competent and reliable young men. GEORGE A. BAILIE. sept-3-3 i. 1843. ESTABLISHED 1843 <V. VOLGER, Importer of and Wholesale and Retail —DEALER IN Segars, Tobacco, Pipes, SnufT, WHISKIES, BE NDIES, RUMS, GINS. RHINE, CLARET, and CATAWBA WINES, CHAMPAGNES, MINERAL WATER, etc., a specialty. UOtll.l It,Sliull JIM ST. LOUIS, CINCINNATI and MILWAUKEE. Domestic. TAAISER, BREMER mill PILUMEK. Iniiiorted. Prices, “Lower Than the Lowest.” 484 <£■ 244 BftQ.'M Sr*, duQUsra, Ga* sept-3 (im James G. lUmn, —DEALER IN | Carpets, Oil Cloths, Window Curtains and Shades. —ALSO— Choice Family Groceries AND Plantation Supplies, mi BROAD STREET, old stand i ATTPTTQTA PA JAS. 0. BAILIE BRO. f AUuUuIA, UA. sept-3-3 m $1.50 STOP AT $l5O j THE AUGUSTAHOTEL, Corner of Jiroad and Wash inn ton Sts., Augusta, Ga. CONVENIENTLY LOCATED TO BUSINESS. With Telegraph Office in tho Building, and Southern Express Cos. Office next door to Hotel Building. Summer Bate of Board per Day. $1.50, SINGLE MEAtB 50 CENTS. | SINGLE LODGINGS .50 CENTS 1 August 6-3 m W. >f. MOOHE, Propi*i<tor. Subscribe tor the Journal, THOMSON, GA., WED3SIESDAY, SIIPTEMBEE 24.1879. The creak of tho oider press i9 heard in the laud, Aud long, clean straws are in demnnd The Prince of Wales is said to owe the small amount of $3,000,000. Sharks are reported in the Missis sippi river near Vidalia, Lomsiuna. Man believes that to be a lie which eoutradiots the testimony of his own iguorance. The angola of die Sunday schools ure sometimes the demons of the melou patch. .. w Wliiskey was used in a communion service at Jamaica Plains, Mass., by the sexton’s blunder. The average womau is composed of 242 bones, 160 muscles, 22 old news papers, and 210 hairpins. Tho last slave sold in the South brought SOOO. The ccnisi deration was in cabbages at $1 per bead. In Nebraska there is a laconic epi taph over the grave of a citizen re ( c.ently deceased : “He Twisted a ! Mulc’h Tail." —■ - T The Upson Enterprise states lbat | in the last three years twelve ! have oeen burned to death in hud 1 near Thomaston. \ - . .■ :■ ■ An angry mother at Sittingbonrue, | England, who threw a ku’fe at her , two boys because they quarrelled, i killed oue of them. - | A recent storm in Denmark d|- : stroyed over one lmudred farm-hous j os, killed fifty p rsons and did ideal I cnlable damage to crops. Tho New Orleans picaypue ol>- | serves that a colored mUu can walk j with a watermelon under each arm ; while he is eating a third. George Lcclereq, of Copper City, Pa , stuck a giant powder cartridge into his mouth, lit the fuse, and thej explosion literally blew uis head off. I ! Professor Paige has discovered in i Wjomii g Territory the antediluvian j remains of a monster which was ata least eighty feet long and 'eigjgfl high. V o i V-’l. w m' .Strublu.iuflHß bled pel sons to read a Ballston, 7J miles distant, on a (tnru® irght. A powerful reilector was used. Ex-Senutor .lames A. Bnysrrl, ou?e a lender in the Units; 1 States Senate, and father of tho present Senator, is now badly broken down in body and mind. In tho midst of her wedding festiv ities, tlie bride of John Burr, of Wal lingford, Conn., saw one o{ her old uilmirers, aud that night she eloped witii him. The question arises whether Bui Butler can be a Demoeralio, a Re publican and an Independent candi date all at the same time, with oue eye tied behind hhr.. Win. 11. Vanderbilt has just given 3100,000 for a gymnasium and the erection of a civil engineering and scientific hall at the Vanderbilt Uni versity, Nashville, Tenn. The manufacture of artificial clover seed is now a flourishing business in Germany. They are fragments of gravel, agitated in a revolving drum with a certain coloring matter. The supply of qnicksivcr exceeds tlie demand, and the prices have full en to thirty-three cents a pound in San Francisco, which is twenty per cent, less than it was ever known be fore. An Illinois farmer astonished De catur by going iuto that place with a triau of six wagons, ladeu with 375 bushels of barley, and drawn by a steam road locomotive of his,QWU.,itt-. ventiou. A Florida man who owns 150,000 cattle is a recluse. He lives iu a shanty which lias neither fire-place uor chimney. Sells h s surplus cat tle in Cuba, seldom sees msu, and hides his money iu cans. A striking window ornament is made as follows; Tako ono woman weighing about 200 pounds, with a neck like a stove pipe and hair un combed, and let her throw up tho sash, look up aud down and cull out. “Reuben, you come in here or I’ll take your hide off.” The house of James Buckiuham, in Milford, Conn., was struck by lightning and was somewhat dam aged. The most remarkable circum stance iu connection with it is that Mrs. Buckingham, who had been de ranged for several years, hod her reason completely restored by the shock. The forest near Dillon, Kan., has an uncommon hermit In the person of a young and not ngly Woman, who lodges in a rude hut, oats vegetables and game of her own getting, and will not say a word to persons who iutrnd- ut>on her. It is conjecture.l that she is iiisa io; b it, aside Irutn her lonely mode of hie, there is noth ing iu her conduct to #Ut am that be- I lief, PARTED. [L-n is on the death of Mrs. Anti • I Willingham, aaiectdd by Mn. Allie Graham, Little Hook, Ark. For the bereaved Husband ] Aud we have parted dear one —thou art gone t Gone in thy bloom, meek, suffering one, Thy merry spirit breathed itsoll to sleep So peacefully it reemed a sin to weep. Doath stole iu softness o’er that lovely face, And touched each feature with a new born grace, In my last hour bo heaven ro kind to me; I ask no more than this—to die like thee. Vos we are parted Autsie—thou art dead! "Un its last Testing place I laid thy head; Then by the coffin side I knelt down aud took, A husband's farewell kiss and farewell look. Ah! then I felt that thou hadst passed away, That the sweet face I gazod on was but clay, Then came memory with her busy throng Of tender images forgotten long, Years hurried back and they swiftly rolled, I saw thee, hoard thee, as in days of old Sad aud uioro sad each sacred feeling grew, Manhood was moved and sorrow claim ed her duo. PERFECTLY HEARTLESS. { {HETTY! y h, rather, but 41 heartless!” said old Mrs. (Tp? Holmes to I)r. Stanley, with whom she was conversing at a large, brilliant party, "Heurtlcss! with that sensitive mouth, and those oyes, so full of expression?" said the gentleman, musingly. “I don’t admire her stylo of beauty at all. She looks like a wax doll, and her heart leagues is so proverbial. Since her uncle left her so wealthy she has had lovers by the score, and she flirts with every ono. YVhy, look at her now !" Dr. Stanley's followed the direction iu which tho lady waved her fan, and rested on the central figure of a group around tho piano. It was a lady, young and fair, with a tall exceedingly ibeuutiful figure, pure Greek large blue eyes.— HVnmr wusslion, bin the re.fl mad.; a Inimo lace Her dress was of a PIT lace, ornamented with flowers aud dark green leaves. She was conversing quietly with a knot of gentlemen, and Dr. Stanley sauntered over to the group. “Miss Marston," said one gen tleinan, “whut bus become of Mr. Harold Graham ?" Her hands swept over tho ivory keys * f the grand piano, iu the moa urea of a brilliant walls, when another of the group, supposing that Miss Marston dij not hear the ques tion said: “Perhaps ho has com rn'ttcd sucide.” “It is three wooks since lie dis appeared,’’ said another. “Ah! I hope not,” said Miss Marston, “wo wunt his tenor for our next musical soiree. ll would ho too provoking for him to commit suicide.” “Mrs. Holmes was right," thought Dr. Stanley, “she is per fectly heartless. Poor Harold!” Ho turned from tho piano; but stopped as tho full, rich voice broke out into song. Miss Mars ton was singing Schubert’s “Last greeting,” and into tho mourn ful words sho poured such wail ing, energy and deep pathos, that gr ups after groups in tho large rooms ceased their gay con verse to listen to the music. “Can sho sing so, without heart or / ‘fig?” muttered tho doctor, again drawing nearer to TBe jifuee. “Ellen," said a young lady, as tho lust note of song died away —“Ellen, do play a polka now.” A contemptuous smile played for a moment on Ellen Marston's lins , then nodding good-natured ly, she dashed off into a lively polka, which soon molted the group round tho piano iuto mur ry dancers, and Dr. Stanloy with the rest. Tho next morning Miss Mars ton sat in her boudoir, writing a letter. Peop over her shoulder and read the sentence: “All hol low and heartless! Miriam, you blame mo for flirting; you are not hero 10-soo bow they follow me merely lor my money. Not ono true heart amongst all of them! There was ono Harold—” A knock at the door intornq ted her. 1 Come in!’’and a woman en ters with several articles of needlework. “Good morning," said Ellen pleasantly, “how is Torrence this morning?” “O. Miss, it's beautiful ho is to-day. Suro, Miss, it’s many a one expects their drosses sick or ' we!!; anl isn’t T’-’rry sitting up the day playing with tho toys ye sint hi u ; and Pat, that I kept from sehool, a minding him.” “Where’s tho bill, Mary?”said Ellen, taking out her purse. “Oh, Miss, you don’t owe Mary O’Brien a penny. There’s the money you left to pay the doctor with, and the money ye gave mo in advance last week; suro, Miss, it's in your debt I am for needlework for the rest of yonr life." “What I gave Torrence has nothing to do with my bill,” snid Ellen, rapidly counting out some money. “Mis.' Ellen—said Mary O’- Brien, and thou she stopped. “Well, Mary?" “Suro, Miss, you do so much good with your money, I am ashamed to tell you—.” “Tell mo what?” “Well, Miss, it's about the young man that rintod my room. Yo mind wlioro the widder died lust autumn. lie came a week I g°, Miss, and ho never came down stairs for lliroo days, Miss; so this morning I wint up, and ho is sick with the favor —out of his heud entirely, Miss. If you would only send—” “Wait Mary; I'll go with you.” Throwing off her rich silk wrapper, Ellon put on a dark gray dress and thou added a close silk bounot, with a thick veil. “Como, Mary;" and tho two left the house together. In a low, close loom, on a pul let bed luy Mary O’Brien’s lodg er. The face whieh lay against the coarse ti*king of the ) illow was such as one fancies for that of liia favorite poo'.. Tho hair was dark, waving over a broad. white forehead ; the eyes hazel, large and full; aud the features delicate. Usually the face was palo, hut now crimson with le ver. Tho eyes were fierco and wild. But even with all this, the luce was beautiful with til most an uncarting beauty, In that poor low room Ellen came like a saving angel. Sho gave ono glunco at tho sick man’s face, then crossed the room to his side. “Ellen !” said the sick tutu;; “Ellcu.” “lie knows me,” she murmur etl, drawing back. But the young man moaned her name again, ami then broke forth iuto wild, delirious ravings. “Mary,” said Ellon, “send Put lick to nte.” Mary loft the room, and Ellon turned to tho table to find paper and pencil. She wrote hasty notes, one to her housekeeper for pillows und sheets ; an<l tin other to Dr. Stanley, who did not guess who was tho friend thut sent him so much practice among tho poor patients and saw that he wa< well paid. Having dispatched Patrick with tho notos, Ellen tried to muko tho dosolato room scorn moro hotneliko. D “ting from the tablo a waistcoat, something dropted from the pockou to the floor. It was a small miniature case, open, and painted on tho ivory was Ellen’s face. A smile gentle and pitying canto to her lips. “He did love me, then, really —really love me; and would not seek nte, with tlie fortune hunt ers who follow me I This is t lie loason I havo missed him so long.” “Arrah, Miss ! here's tho doc tor.” “Stop him, Mary; 1 will go in here. Remember, Mary, you don’t know my namo;” and El lon went into anotbor room —a vacant ono adjoining that of tho invalid's. Tho door was ajar, and Dr. Stanley's first exclama tion reached her. “Harold! Ilavol found you at last, and iu such a place?" Ellen’s oyos ranged over the capabilities of the room in which she stood, saj'ing, “It will do; it is larger and bettor than the other, but a poor place at the Dest." The next day, when Dr. Stan ley called to boo his patient, Mary O’Brien, with a pardon ablo pride, ushered him into tho room that had been vacant be foro. A soft carpet was on the floor, und a firo in the grate, tho latter shaded from tho bed by n neat ecreou. Soft white muslin curtains draped tho windows- Tho bod could hardly bo recog nized with its white pillows, counterpain and sheets. A littlo table stood beside tho bed, with the medicines he had ordered, and an exquisslo goblet of cool- ing drink. “The lady, yc mind, I told you of that suit yc to Terrence," s in Mary, “she sint all these nice things and helped me lo arrange them yesterday, and my good man and I moved him iu to-day, so she'll find him here when she comes. It’s asleep lie's been for better’n two hours." Two hours ! Harold was still sleeping, hut he soon awoke and looked with surprise about him. Tho cold, cheerless aspect of tho place was changed ns if by en chantment; and—Harold thought he was dreaming—an nngel face bent over him with pitying oyes, and a smile, tender as a loving mother’s over her darling child. “Ellen!" ho whispered, "Oh, that l could die in' such a dream.” Was it a dream—that sweet voice answering him. “Harold, you will not die ; you will live for me. Your genius shall bo recognised, your pic tures sought. No more strug gling for life, but only for fame.” Aud tho tears fell as sho spoke. Dr. Stanley, standing in the doorway, recognized the ball room belle, the object of his friond's long, silent, hopeless love. Softly lo glided down the stairs, for he knew that a bettor medicine than lie could prescribe was within the patient's grasp. A short timo after, tho world said, “Just to think of Ellen Marlson, rich und such a belle, marrying Harold Graham, tho poor artist!” THE OLD, OLD STORY. The pa tor’p little daughter Sith smiling iu the suu. Beside her on tho old stone bencL The story book just done, And lurking in her wine-brown eyes A story just begun. For yonder, pruning the apple trees, Behold tho farmer’s son. Slowly adown tho pathway The pastor comes and goes. And settles with his long lean hand The glasses on his nose. brown brunch before So beautiful a rose ? \h, ho thinks his blossom only a bud, Though ho watches it as it blows. Is it tho story of Moses In his rush-wrapped cradle found, Or of Joswpb and his brethren, He thinks as ho glances around? “You have finished your volume, Amy; It is something scriptural aud sound ?" \nd his little daughter blushes atul starts, And her hook falls to tho ground, Go on with your walk, good pastor, You do not yourself deceive; It has been a scriptural story Since Adam first kissed Eve. And never blush, little lassie, Tho tale was written above; No other so spoaks of heaven As ibo old, old story of love. A Thoughtful Husband. If bo had confined himself to his legitimate quill-driving du ties, thero would havo been no occasion for him to havo boon strutting around with his it ft hand in a sling, a patch on his noie and an nbsnrdold gum shoo on ono foot. Ho was, however, only another victim of that ego tistical opinion of all men, that they can do anything hotter than a woman. He went homo lho other day and found his wife putting up peaoitos in those old-fashioned tin cans thut closed with scaling wax. Stio had an aprou on, and two or three little blotches of scaling wax orna mented the flo >r, wiilo tho cat under tho table was licking a pioco tho sizo of a postage stamp with assiduity. “Seo here, Maria," lie said, “you’ll cripple yourself with that hot wax directly;" hut she made no. answer, and he continued oracularly: “Women never have any mochunical genius, anyway. If there is a way of doing any thing wrong they are suro to try it.” “Do you think you can do any better?" sho observed with s mo acidity. “Why, of course I can." “Well, here, just dist ngtiish yourself, then.” So ho sat down. >She handed him a fresh can, just out of the hot water. He took it iti his hand and dropped it as though it had been a s'reak of lightning; while he stuck his fingers in his mouth and looked suddon death at lior because he couldn’t swear. Sho gave him a towel to hold tho next ono with, and he took it on his knee, lighting tho seal ing wax slick, and commenced prodding around tho top, but the bottom burnt his knee, ami ho jerked, hi inging tho burning wax across tho back ol l.is loft hand. Then he jumped up and howled, dropped the can. which emptied a spoonful of burning preserves into his slipper. This mado him frantic, and bo wont dancing about, the kitchen like IN’o. 40. an inebriated dervish, wavii g tho burning wax until a drop took him t n the nose. In hts anger he kicked the offending can through the window, scat tering its contents over the dog, who rushed into the street howl ing and raising an alarm of mad dog, which occupied tho atten tion of ail the people within three sqtia es. Then he submit ted to be laid on the sofa, and plastered with flour and sweet oil, until ho looked like a bad preparod scarecrow. He is will ing to make an affidavit the size of a barn door that lie will let tho women bo just as awkward as they choose. A Vicious Plaster. A gentleman who had an acute pain in hts side, yesterday, put a mustard plaster of powerful draining capacity over tho af fected region, tied i, on with a bandage, and started for his place of business. When upon Mnin Gross he was horrified to find that the plaster had become loose, dropped many degrees be low its original position, and had commenced chawing tho solid moat ol his ham. He thrust bin hand ir.to his pocket to remedy the evil, hut could not choke the plaster off’. It bad established a residence there, and he could feel (ho skin Using into a blub ber under its powerful suction. He rushed info a business homo to retire up stairs or somewhere where he could fix things differ ently, hut just as he entered ho met a nit; her of lady friends who a'l sc. od delighted to see him. They hud some kind of i nlorpi i-e on hand and wanted ; hi.m to contribute. He sjtid he'd see them again, and they said it was an old dodge, and ho writh ed in tig ny. Tho piaster was getting at its work—pumping tho water fiorn ids system at every pore; and when ho finally darted out of the stol e and an alloy w ith his hair Standing on end, those l adies raised their hands and said, “Did you ever!.’ Who would have thought that Mr. would have been bo pe nurious. Tezaa Table Talk. A San Antonio gentleman re cently had occa in to visit w neighboring town. He did not expect much iu the way of ac- Miiiinioil itioii ui tin- local hotel, and in thi- his anticipations wore more than realized. He was very hungry, but had I lie luck to lose most of his appetite be fore he got through with his dinner, owing to his discovering a few blonde hairs in the soup, lie thought thu landlord would feol very had about it, hut tbo gentleman merely remarked, as ho excavated a perishing fly from tlie liiitter: “All I ask is, Judge, that you don't fish ’em out with your linger. You have got to use a fork. 11 is ouo of tho rules of the house that no gem Inman is expected to put his fingers in the vittles. This ain t no railroad town, hut, when it comes to style ami tone wo car ry off i lie n!ue ribbon ovciy time j tho horn loots. ' Western Cooing. They were leaning on the hub itstrade of the bridge, looking into the water. He had a hand like a palm leaf fan, an car like u picklo-dish, and n i collar. Sho hail a foot like a centre table and no teeth. They were cooiog.— He cooed first, and in a tone as gentle and musical us a Kansas zopliy r lie said : “Nancy, jos as soon es I sell my purlato-s, I’m g)in’ lo claim you fur bettor or fur wits." Then she cooed, an 1 with t o customary shreadnes' that women aio wont lo display in emergences, she quoriioJ in a soil, sweet monotone, “Buck, what are talers feteliiu’ in the stores now?" And thus did they coo 'till it got too cool. A Remarkable Pond. On the top of Pros met Moun tain, near Addison, Vermont, is a remarkable pond about three quarters of an acre in ex;cnf.— Except a small space in the ecu ter, it is covered with it thick moss, strong enough to walk upon Poles are pushed through tho moss at any point, but none Imvo over touched bottom, yet there aro large, trees growing and people wufk in safety. Tho moss forms u thick mat or car pet, and is described as being exquisitely bountiful. Adrertiti# iu tho 'Joiibval.