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VOLUME UWII,]
M ILLEDGE VILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1866.
NUMBER 12.
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Legal Advertising.
Sheriff’s sales, per levy often lines, or less,
“ Mortgage ti fa sales per square,
Tax Collector’s Sales, persquare,
Citati kis for Ldters of Administration,
“ •• 44 Guardianship,
Letters of application for dismn from Adm’n
“ 44 44 “ Guard’s
$2 50
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3 00
4 50
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5 00
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Appi'n for leave to sell land,
Notices to Debtors and Creditors,
Sales of land, Jfc..,per square,
perishable property, 10 days, per square, 1 50
E it ray Notices, 30 days, 3 00
Foreclosure of Mortgage, per sq.. each time, 1 00
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
Sales of La id, &e., by Administrators, Execntorsor
Guar liana, are required by law to be held on the first
Tuesday in toe month; between the hours of 10 in the
forenoon aadlnree in the alleruoou, atthe Court house
in tlie county in which the property is situated
X >tiee of tuese sales must be given in a public ga
sette 10 days previous to tire day of sale.
Notices for the sale of paraonal property must be
given m like manner 10 days previous to sale day
X itioes to the debtors aud creditors of an estate
must also be punished 40 days.
N dice that application wilt be made to the Court of
Ordinary tor leave to sell Laud, Arc., must be publish
ed for two months.
Citation* for letters of Administration Guardianship
&c., must be published 30 days—for dismission from
Administration, monthly fix months—for dismission
from Guardianship, 40 days.
Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must be published
monthly for f mr m mill*—for establishing lost papers
/ ,r t\r full *p.iceoj three mtn/hs—for compelling titles
from Executors or a Iministrators, where bond has
been giveu oy the deceased, the full space of three
months.
Pubtilations willalways be continued accordingto
these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise
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JOHN W. CARRINGTON,
President.
JAS. GARDNER,
(Of Augn.ta, C«n»titutien»li»t,)
Vice i’re.’t II Sec’y.
THE
Carrington & Co’s
General Purchasing Agency,
30, Broadway, S. Y.
P URCHASE to order, any article wanted, sing
ly or in quantity, from this City or Iron
Europe, for consumers or dealers, for use or wear,
comfort or luxury, and at prices guaranteed as
low as could be obtained by the customer in per
son.
TERMS —For over Ten Dollars in amount,
and for all perishable goods, live stock, &c., a
remittance with the order, or provision for city pay
ment when filled ; under Ten Dollars—C. O. D.
Commission on minor orders and fine goo Is
Five per cent. On staple goods in quantities,
machinery, implements and vehicles, the usual
trade Commissions. ConMgnments of produce,
received in remittance, aud promptly and caretul-
ly attended to. The usual advances made on
Bills of Lading. .
All orders lor Carrington & Co left with agents
of the Southern Express Co , in a government
4tamp envelope, will be forwarded free of charge.
Address letters 44 Carrington & Co.”
October 15* ISfiti. 11 6t*
Young Mowbry journeying to the Wars
All belted he and spurred,
From lady’8 hand received a rose,
And from her lips this word :
“ I loan thee to my country’s cause,
For glory, not for doom,
To be not slain, but slay her foes,
I deck my knightly plume.
Remember, cauiion is not fear—nor rashness val
or's test
If he who fights and dies does well—who fights
and lives, does best.”
Now fierce the tide of battle laves,
Aud last the conflict flows ;
And high above the fight still w.-ves
The white plume and the rose.
And gaily through the gathering fray
Our flower-crowned warrior, see.
Strikes many a gallant blow this day
For Love and liberty !
While above the din still rings, with stroke on
focmau’g crest,
Ho! He who fights and dies does well ?—who
fights and lives, does beat.'
Ah ! woe is me ! that love’s kind hand.
Love’s self, should hapless, mar !
A marksman view’d the helmet grand,
And mark’d the blood-red atr.r !
A downward lance clove helm and crest.
And bathed in crimson tide.
Love’s fatal gift kissed tainting breast,
And murmuring thus be died :
Oh, love, For Fame men strike and live!—for
Freedom heroes fall !
If he who fights and lives, gives much, who
fights and dies, gives ail!"
The Torrk-nnrf-Tnrprutine Brigade.
Parson Ilrownlow advises the Radicals of the
North to march Fotrh, with the to»ch in one
hand and the turpentiue in the other.”
I see them on their winding way,
Across the hills and down the glade.
They're going South to burn nnd slay :—
The Torch-and-Turpeutine Brigade!
’Tis Ben directs the flaming march—
The ’• Parson” sports the bread and wine
The 44 Natic Cobbler” waves the Torch,
While •* Thaddeus’’ totes the Turpentine.
Astride an ass of monstrous size,
Whose ears are as the steeples fall.
With whetted swords on both his thighs,
Rides forth the fiery Hennihawl !
Fierce as the frenzied unicorn,
With rolling eyes and well poised head,
Bold 44 Horace” blows his pewter horn,
To give the cohorts time to tread !
On either flunk the bummers lnrk.
And 4 ‘ Anna D.” shall hold the sack,
Jack Hamilton shall play the Turk,
W hile sooty “ Fred" shall play the jack.
Tke 8fe,r.e.-.4 Ikeir rr,a.,er„. u fthe 1 ands—decreased agricultural
A. Confederate General s Charge to a products—decreased revenue to the
Grand Jury. State and country, arising from these
t i »r t-\ , sources, with their thousand attendant
Judge H. D. Clayton, an ex-rebel results.
Geueral, in his charge to the Grand Besides all this, which appeals to
. ury o l e county, Ala., on the 9tb our interests, gentlemen, do we owe
of September, used the following lan- the negro any grudge? What has he.
guage in regard to the late sla\es: himself, done to provoke our hostility?
There is class of population clothed Shall we be angry with him because
with certain civil rights and privileges freedom has been forced upon him?—
which they did not possess uutil re- Shall it excite our animosity, that he
cently; and in dealing with which you has been suddenly, and without any
may experience some embarrassment, effort on his part, torn loose from the
I, of course, allude to the negroes.— protection of his master? You may
Among the terms upon which the Con- have been that master. He is proud
federate States terminated their to call you master yet. In the name
heroic sti uggle for a separate and in- of humanity, let him do so. He may'
dependent nationality’, was one which he older than you, and perhaps carried
guaranteed*Treedom to this raee. Ai- you in his arms when you were an in-
though we deplore the results as alike flint. He /nay have been the compan-
injurious to the country and fatal to ion of your boyhood. You may be
the negroes, the law has been placed hound to him by a thousand ties
upon our statute books in solemn form which only a Southern man knows,
by us, through our delegates. The and which lie alone cau feel, in all its
laws for their government have been force.- It may he that when only a
repealed and others substituted, adap- fey? years ago, you girded on your car
ted to their new condition. NVe are tridge-box and seized your trusty 7 rifle
in honor bound to observe these laws, to go forth to meet the invaders of
For myself, I do not hesitate to say, in your country, you committed to his
public and in private, officially and care your home, and your loved ones ;
unofficially, that after having doue all and when you were far away upon the
I could to avert it, when I took otf my weary march, upon the dreadful bat-
sword in surrender, I determined to tie-field, in the trenches and on the
observe the terms of that surrender picket line, many and many a time vou
with the same earnestness and fidelity thought of that faithful old negro, aud
with which 1 first shouldered my ruus- you heart warmed toward him. Did
ket. True manhood requires no de- he did not raise the corn and meat
ception, but that as we say with our that fed your wife and children? And
lips we shall feel in our heart, aud do : when you returned home, did he not
with our hands. j welcome you with tears of joy ? Was
There is nothing in the history of; he not faithful to the last? I believe
the past of winch we need be ashamed.! there was scarcely ever such a picture
of fidelity in the world as was exhib
ited by the negroes toward us during
the war. Then let us not cherish any
animosity toward them for that which
we and they were unable to prevent,
WAKTTBD-
RlftS AND BEESWAX.
C LEAN Linen and Cotton rags Uk«n iin ex
change for TIN WARE, and BEESWAX
taken in exchange for any kind of
THOMAS T. WINDSOR.
Milledgeville, Oct. 8th, 1866. 10
45.Y 4k4k<k A YEAR made by any one with
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nenessarv The President*, Cashiers, and Treasurers
of 3 Banks indorse the circular. Sent free wtthsam-
Dle»- Address the American Stencil ..ool Works,
SprnjRfisld, Vermont. •*
S WEET OPOPONAX! New Perfume from
Mexico. The only fashionable Perfume and
ladies' deJigbt.
Worthy ok Imitation.—Charles Dick
ens relates this incident of Douglas Jer-
rold. Life is indeed too short for strife,
and it would not be a bad idea for us to
ponder well upon, and imitate in every
day life as far as possible, the noble im
pulse of that generous man Jerrold, whose
name will live as long as a remnant of Brit
ish literature lasts. Thus runs the story:
‘Of his generosity I had a proof with
in these two or three years, which it sad
dens me to think of now. There had been
estrangement between us—not on any per
sonal subject, and not involving angry
words—and a good many months had pass
ed without my ever seeing him in the
streets, when it fell out that we dined,
each with his own separate party in the
Stranger’6 Room of the Club. Our chairs
were almost back to hack, and I took mine
alter he was seated and at dinner (I am
sorry to remember,) and did not look that
way. Before we had sat long, he openly
wheeled his chair around, stretched out
both hands, and 6aid aloud, with a bright
and loving face thnt I can see as I write
to you: ‘Let us be friends again. A life is
not long enough for this.’ ”
Jerrold was not a Christian, but his con
duct in this case was worthy of a Christian
character. On a dying bed how insignifi
cant will appear many things for which we
contend in bitterness and wrath ! Life is
too short, its inevitable sorrows so many,
its responsibilities so vast and solemn, that
there is indeed, no time to spare in abusing
and maligning one another. Let not the
sun go down on your wrath.
A Heart-Rending Episode.—The
London Morning Heiald’s military corres
pondent gives the following story: “A far
mer, living in a hamlet near Possnitz, had
wife and two children, and such was the
woman’s terror of the Prussians, when she
heard they were coming, that her husband
to satisfy her, placed her in an under
ground cellar, with her two little ones, and
built up the doorway,leaving some food in
side. The Prussians entered the place, and,
among others obliged this poor man to ac
company them,with his horse and cart, for
day’s journey’, as ihey said. But the man
was brought on from place to place, and at
last, when he was suffered to return and
reached his own house several days had
lapsed. On the way back he began to cal
culate how little food had been left with
his wife and children, and horror-stricken
at the dreadful thought that their cries
fit not be heard, his hair is said to have
turned white on his homeward journey.
Ilis fears were but too real, lie tore down
the masonry, searched for those so dear to
him, but ouly found three lifeless bodies,
half devoured by rats. Reason left him at
the dreadful sight, and lie is now in hos
pital, a lunatic.”
A number of Louisiana planters who
went out to Brazil, with the view of com
mencing the raising of cotton in that coun
try,have written home that they have been
disappointed in their expectations, and
will return in a short time.
There are one hundred and fifteen post-
offices now opened in South Carolina, thir
ty-one of which are in the hands of post
mistresses—something over one fourth.
The Vicksburg Times is tired of things
about town, and thus expresses a desire
to go somewhere: “ Oh that we could
hire a horse on a credit, aud go far away
to some lonesome spot where policemen
are not standing around, and get on our
all-fours and paw up dirt and holler.
While we cherish its glorious memo
ries, and that of our martyred dead,
we pause here and there to drop a
tear over their conseciated ashes, but
remember there is still work for the
living, and set ourselves about the j and which is a deplorable catastrophe
work of re-establishing society and re- j to them, more than to us.
building our ruined boines. Others, And now, gentlemen, let us lift up
unwilling to submit to this condition our heads, and press forward in the
of things, may seek their bonus discharge of our duties. If there is
abroad ; you and I are bound to this ! that buried in the past, for which it
soil for life, for better or for worse, ] would have been glorious to have
and it must at last cover our remains.
What, then, is our duty ? To pine at
; our lot? To sit down, night and day,
cursing and gnawing our chains?—
I That is not the part of manliness, but
I to rise up and go forward performing
| our high mission as men. “He that
does the best his circumstances allow
does well—acts nobly—angels could
do no more.” Is it not enough that
the blood of the best and bravest has
been shed in every valley throughout
the land ? Is it not enough that the
bones of our fathers and brothers and
sons lie whitening on every hill-top ?
Is it not enough that the voice of la
mentation has been beard at every
fireside? Is it not enough that the
wailings of the widow and the orphan
still sound in our ears? Have we not
suffered enough? Have we not done
all that wasin the power of human na
ture? In our own bosoms let us wear
this consciousness with the facts be
fore us, as they are. The uegro has
been made free. It was no act of his.
He did not seek freedom, and nomi
nally free as he is, he is helpless be
yond expression—helpless by his want
of habits of self-reliance—helpless by
his want of experience; and doubly
helpless by his want of comprehen
sion to understand and appreciate his
condition. From the very nature of
the surroundings, so far as promoting
his welfare and adapting him to his
new relation to society are concerned,
all agencies from abroad must prove
inadequate. They may restrain in in
dividual instances, but we are the only
people in the world who understand
his character, and hence the only peo
ple in the world capable of manag
ing him
died, there is still enough left for
which we may dare to live. When the
ghost of our ruined fortunes rises up
before us, let us lay our hands upon
our hearts aud say:
“Thou can.t not say I did it; never shake
Thy goiy locks at me.”
And we need have no self-reproaches
But our duty to ourselves and our
country is none the less. The foolish
man who had his talent in a napkin was
none the less to blame because he had
but one. Let us each in our sphere,
you in yours, and I in mine, do our
duty—now in a patient and faithful
observance and enforcement of the
law. May God help us !
The New York Independent.—We
copy from the New York Herald —
Premising that Mr. Tilton is the editor
of the Independent, the Herald says:
The Rev. Twaddling Tilton is a
young man who lives by his notoriety
and gains his notoriety by his extrav
agance. His aim in life is to make a
sensation, and he has not enough sense
to care so the sensation is made. He
began his public career by letting his
hair grow until it was as long as the
tail of Barnum’8 wooly horse. As
this long hair attracted considerable
attention, especially among the bar
bers, the Rev. Toddling Tilton imag
ined that it exalted him above his fel
low-men, forgetting that any woman
could excel him in his capillary dis
play. Then he set himself up as a
second Henry Ward Beecher, and
tried hard to imitate this divine in his
speeches and writings, but lacked the
brains to succeed. Through Mr.
Beecher’s patronage he was introduced
To remedy the evils growing out of! into colored society, and soon eclipsed
his great original in the violence
the abolition of slavery, it seems two
things are necessary. First, a recog
nition of the freedom of the race as a
fact, and the willing enforcement of
them. Secondly, by treating them
with perfect fairness and justice iu our
contracts, and in every way in which
we may be brought in contact with
them. By the first we convince the
world of our good faith, and get rid of
this system of espionage, by removing
the pretext of its necessity; and by
the second we secure the services of
the negroes, learn them their places
and how to keep them, and convince
them, at last, that we are indeed their
best friends. When we do this, let us
hope that society will revive from its
present shock, and our land be crown
ed with abundant harvests. We need
the labor of the negroes all over the
country, and it is worth the effort to
secure it. If it would not be extend
ing this charge beyond what I con
ceive to be a proper limit of time for
its delivery, I might enlarge upon this
subject by showing the depressing ef
fect upon the countiy which would be
produced by the sudden removal of so
much of its productive labor. Its first
effect would be the decreasing value
of
his views. By and by, presuming up
on his popularity with the more igno
rant blacks, he undertook to instruct
Mr. Beecher as to his duty; but he re
ceived a public quietus in the lecture
room at Plymouth Church, and sub
sided for a considerable period. Mr.
Beecher’s withdrawal from the Inde
pendent opened the way for the Rev
Rattling Tilton to secure the editor
ship, and since then he has been fool
ing more outrageously than ever. He
was as full of fight during the war as an
egg is full of meat until he was draft
ed, aud then he decided to stay at
borne and wear “the white feather.”—
Now that the war is over he thirsts for
slaughter again and is ready to shed
any amount of people’s blood to anni
hilate the South. He is the person
who walked arm-in-arm with Fred.
Douglass at the Philadelphia black
and white Convention, thus getting
his name in all the papers. Fred
Douglass rewarded him by declaring
that he was the finest young fellow
that had lived since Jesus Christ,
which is precisely the sort of compli
ment that the Rev. Twiddling Tilton
is silly enough to accept.
Hon. Albert Pike, of Arkansas, has
written a most frank and manly letter
to the President, asking for a pardon
under the $20,000 clause. The fol
lowing extracts are admirable, and
contain wholesome advice and admon
ition to all in power and authority :
As I am unable to prefer any other
special claim to clemency, the Presi
dent’s generosity may permit me re
spectfully to remind him, not in be
half of myself alone, that it was the
general amnesty proposed by the Tri
bune Plotius. in favor of all who had
part in the civil wars, after the death
of Scylla, that did most to cicatrize
the wounds of Rome; and that the
Emperor Napoleon speaks in terms of
commendation of “those practices of
civilized nations, which teach them to
honor their adversaries, to spare the
conquered, and not to permit anger to
survive the strife;” and also to re
peat these prophetic words of Cmsar,
that “we forget the faults of the great
est criminals, to remember only their
punishment, if it has been too se
vere.”
The late war was more owing to the
dead of the past, who are honored,
than to the living of the present, who
are execrated; more to Jefferson and
Madison than to Davis and Hunter;—
more to the Kentucky and Virginia
resolutions than to the arguments of
1860. “Civil commotions have long
roots in the past,” and their true au
thors have often been long beyond the
reach of human vengeance, while
those whom hatred seeks to immolate
have been but the bondmen of necessi
ty, the blind instruments of Fate.—
Why should the scaffold crave the
blood of the living, who only obeyed
the dead ?
I respectfully submit that it is not
just to regard as rebellion and treason
what had been claimed by States and
parties for seventy years as the law
ful exercise of a political right by a
State; and that it would be a grave
mistake'to make even one name and
memory a watchword and beacon for
all coming time. It would he to cre
ate that ‘impassable barrier, which al
ways separates, after blood is so shed,
the children of the same country.’
If convicted and sentenced, none
now accused will feel, nor will the
people of the South believe, that they
have been guilty of treason. Neither
defeat or condemnation changes con
victions. They will not seem to have
been criminals, but only to have aton
ed with their lives for the sin of fail
ure in the assertion of rights claimed,
even if unreal, by many States, and by
a great political party, since the begin
ning of the Government.
• “Useless violences always lead to
fatal reaction.” Blood shed after vic
tory and in the hour of triumph will
not make the victory more illustrious
or complete, nor serve to cement the
Union. It is not wise to punish a
conquered people with martyrs, more
potent dead than when alive. Living
we shall have no influence; so dying,
we should become immortal and om
nipotent, eternal inciters of future in
surrections, apostles of a faith whose
vitality can only thus be preserved.—
The President has it in his power to
immortalize himself, and secure to the
country permanent peace, by mercy ;
and those who urge him to use the
8 word of justice are his worst enemies,
and will, if he does so hereafter, be
the first to condemn the severities they
now advise. It is not by the proscrip
tions of Scylla that the wounds caused
by civil war are to be healed.
I cannot believe that any humilia
tion or entreaty would so assure the
^resident of my future loyalty as a
manly but, respectful frankness. It
seems to me that so only I can show \
myself worthy of his
Chances of Life.—An old document
contains some interesting information
unknown to many, and rarely encoun
tered in Uie papers. Among other
things, it contains a iable exhibiting
an average age attained by persons
employed in the various popular pro
fessions of the day. In this particular,
as in most others, the farmers have the
advantage over the rest of mankind, as
their average age is sixty-five. Next
upon docket comes the judges and
justices of the peace, the dignity of
whose Jives is lengthened out to sixty-
four. Following then, immediately
in the category of longevity, is the
hank officer who sums up his account
atthe age of sixty-three. Public offi
cers cling to their existence with as
much pertinacity as they retain their
offices—they never resign the offices
but life forsakes them at fifty six.—
Coopers, although they seem to stave
through life, hang on until they are
fifty-eight. The good works of the
clergymen follow them at fifty-five.—
Shipwrights, hatters, lawyers and
rope makers (some very appropriate
ly) go together at the age of fifty-four.
The “Village Blacksmith,” like most
of his cotemporaries, dies at fifty-one.
Butchers follow their bloody career
for precisely half a century. Carpen
ters are brought to the* scaffold at
forty-nine. Masons realize their cry
of “Mori!” atthe age of forty-seven.
Traders cease their speculation at for
ty-six. Jewelers are disgusted with
the tinsel of life at forty-four. Ba
kers, manufacturers, and various me
chanics die at forty three. The paint
ers yield to their colic at forty-two.—
The brittle thread of the tailor’s life is
broken at forty-one. Editors, like all
other beings who come under the spe
cial admiration of the gods, die com
paratively young—they accomplish
their errand of mercy at forty. The
musician redeems his last note and
plays his dying fall at thirty-nine.—
The professional dancer shuffles off his
mortal coil at thirty-nine. Printers
become dead matter at thirty-eight.—
The machinist is usually blown up at
thirty-six. The teachers usually dis
miss their scholars at the age of thiity-
tour; and the clerk is even shorter
lived, for he must needs prepare his
balance sheet at thirty-three. No ac
count is given of the average longevity
of wealthy uncles. The inference is
fair, therefore, that they are immortal.
—Albion,
Keeping Street Potatoes.
Tlflitois Southern Cultivator:—We are
suffering drought, (and no appearance of
rain now,) to such an extent, that few
persons can make enough to do them
longer than Christmas—many not so long
— I mean with cotton to help out; for it
is almost a failure.
I believe I promised to give you my
plan of keeping potatoes, which is the
cheapest, I think, and certainly the safest
I've ever seen tried.
I bnild a pen of logs, any desired
length, and five feet wide, (this lessens
the risk from bulking,) four to six feet
high ; hew it down evenly on the inside,
so that the walls may be ceiled or daubed
smoothly ; cover the w r hole with a good
roof; and have a small door in the end.
When this is done, raise the bottom with
stones five or six inches high ; cover these
with dry sand, to keep them from cutting
the potatoes, w hich may now be put in,
beginning iu the middle. Three or four
inches of dry sand must be placed be
tween them and the wall. I sometimes
have a plank for this purpose, raising it
up as the potatoes are put in, keeping the
space between the plank and wall well
filled in with the sand, which will run
down through the potatoes as the plank
is raised. Let them remain so until freez
ing weather, when you can readily cover
entirely with the dry sand, deep enough
to keep them from being chilled. Some
attention may be necessary for awhile, as
the sand will continue to disperse itself
among them, and leave the top raked.
cause worthy to live.
clemency, be-j TJiero should be no leaks in tlie roof.
There is but little waste in the sand when
tut. , once procured. Like the house, it i«
Miss Wilkins was a beautiful blonde, a i ways ready , and at tLe t . Hence
and she wanted to go to Newport (so the cheapness of the plan. The philoso-
she told her mother) to look for some-! phy of the plan, is the uniform tempera-
thing very particular for her dear pa- [ ture it ensures, while it absorbs, and car
ps. “And what is it, pray,” asked I r ’ es the excessive moisture that may
her mother, “that you wish so much ; be in tLe P ota,u - 1 have tried this plan
to find for your dear papa?” “A ?_° Z!*” : _ 8 ° c c e » ive . 1 7-
son-in-law,” was the gentle reply of
the blubsing maiden.
A young lady having “set her cap”
for a rather large specimen of the op
posite sex, and having failed to win
him, was telling her sorrows to one
of her confidants, when one of them
comforted her with these words :—
“Never mind, Mollie, there is as good
fish iiv the sea as ever was caught.”—
‘ Mollie knows that,” replied her little
brother, “but she wants a whale.”
Female Printers.—The Macon Citi
zen is about to employ female compositors.
The Field aud Fireside is entirely set by
yonng ladies. Tbe editor says they be
long to tbe best families in that State, who
wer£ ruined by the war. A number of
girls are also employed on tbe Montgom
ery Advertiser.
A baby was left on an editor’s door step
in Cleveland, with a note requesting that
it be taught to be an editor.
It was suggested to my mind by seeing
hogs rootiug up potatoes in the spring.
Yours, truly,
W. T. Colquitt.
Rocky Valley, Carroll Co, Ga.
A young man in Newport, Ver
mont, wanted a wile bidly, and took
a young lady out to ride. After pro
ceeding a few miles, he asked her—
“Will you marry me?”
The answer was as short as it was
sweet. .>
“No, sir!”
The young gent says—
“Well, get out, and go home afoot,
then.”
The young lady accepted his ad
vice, and readied home iu safety*
B *8 no* good for human nature to hare tbe
road of life made too easy. Better to be under
tbe necessity of working hard and faring- meanly
than to have everything done ready to our band,
and a pillow of down to repose upon.
Time is a great executioner.
