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VOL. 11l The Quitman Reporter IH PUIILIBHKD KYKRY THURSDAY 1)Y .TOM. TIIXMAIN, Prop'r. TEJJMN;- One Year $2 00 Hix Months ; 1 00 Three Months 50 All auhseriptiouH must be pctiU invariably / <ulvane§ —no diacMminatiori in favor o ( anybody. The paper will be stopped in all instance* at the expiration Q* flintii|H‘ paid-for,, unless sntiscriptions are renewed. BATHS OF iUTVKRfIHI^O. Advortisementfl inserted at .tlie rate of Sl.Ot) per Rqnare onerineli for. iirst inser tion. and 7> eouts for odbli Kubseipient in sertion. All advertisements should be marked for a specified time, otherwise they will lie charged under the rule of so much for the first insertion, and so much for each subse quent. insertion. Marriages, Obituaries and Tributes of Ite *pcet "'ill be charged same rates as ordinary advertisements. WIfKX HILLS AUK DUE. All bills for advertising in this paper are due on the first appearance of flic advertise ment. except when otherwise arranged by contract, and will be presented when the money is needed. Dr. E. A. J E L k S, Practicing Physician. Q LITMA N GA. Office : Brick buiMing .'tiljniuing store of Messrs. Briggs, Jclks & C 0.,. St r-ven street. [l-tf S. T. KISGSBERY, Attorney at Law, qcitmax, - - Georgia. in new Brick Warehouse."Ys-\ Business b foro the TT. S. Patent Office * 'v I. A. Allbritton, Attorney i\t Law, p j QI ITMATV, - - - - GA. jsb'OFFlce in* corin’ hoit.se. W. A. S. HUMPHREYS, Attorney at Law, QUIT M AX. GEORGIA. Jl-frOFFKT. in the Court House "tST HADI)OCK~& ItATFORI), Attorneys at Law, QITT.MAX, GKO. Will give prompt attention to all business entrusted to their rare. JfiriP" Office over Karton’s store. Dr. J. S. NL Snow, I) E IST T I S T • OFFICE -Front room up stairs over Hoy ton's Store. OsuMulminintered for painless ly extracting teeth. to suit the times. jan It), lv R. 11. Robinson, Physician and Surgeon Having opened tin office opposite the Mclntoxh House, in the building formerly occupied by Mrs. Blnek. offers his Kerviees to any who may call. Office hours from !) to I*l o’clock a. m. , and from 2to 4 r. m. Quitman, Ga., Feb. 2, 1870. 3m I>k. E. A. Jelks. Dr. Harry Nlabrktt. I)rs: Jelks & Mabbett, Having purchased the drug department of Messrs. Briggs, Jelks A Go.. would respect fully notify their friends and the public gen erally that they have just opened a NEW DRUG STORE, in the house formerly occu pied by Dr. Jelks as an office, which they have considerably enlarged, and are now supplied with a full and complete stock of Drugs, Patnt Medici ucs, Perfumeries, Toilet Articles, Oils, Paints, Window Glass, Putty, &c., &c. Also a fine stock nfSY'KOOtt BOOKS. STATIONERY, TOBACCO, SEOARB, SNCiT, A.*, K. A, JERKS & IIARRY MABBETT. 7-Cui It him boon estimated that, it costs two dollars a minute to run the South (.'uroHniu legislature, not counting stationery and gas and what members steal. A \\ ashington fashionablo corres pondent describes Grant as taking long and lonely walks, deeply medita ting the while. Well may he detach himself, from people and think on the wreck he has made of a great repu tation, and a great,party.,—-A'. Sun. A Philadelphian writes: “The plain truth is, that if you really wish to see tin' show you must stay half the summer; if you want to run through it you must stay not, less ! than a week.” This Philadelphian ; writes to a Chicago paper, not a rela tive. Another prominent candidate for | Governor of North Carolina an nounces himself: “I will here an nounce myself as candidate for the guvenunt election Nox foil A I will ■give Equclright lo all yours respect ; fully Rev. James Anderson colored.” “How cos 7.0 third term ?" askecTDorn Pedro of Grant, during i his call at the White House. The I Emperor was evidently not awaie that he was touching upon a delicate subject, and looking at the long faces | produced by the question, with sur | prise iio said: “O, pardon mo, Ize by 1 your solemn faces sot ze third term is I dead. Too bad; too bad.” ! The remarkable and incomprehen sible simultaneousuess with which ! several “leading Southern journals' ’ have broken out for Tildcn has given | rise to the suspicion that practically his financial policy is more liberal and lesson the contraction order than has generally been supposed.—Savan nah New*. A proposed amendment to the Con stitution of Connecticut requiring alt members of the Legislature when tak ing the oath of ollico to swear that they have neither directly nor indi rectlv influenced voters, and have neither paid for party organization nor election expenses, has been intro duced in the Legislature, and as the mover is chairman of tho committee to which it was referred it will be re ported favorably. The “Damphools.”— The Louisville Courier-Journal has the following par agraph: “The Syracuse Journal de clares that “the purpose of the Dem ocratic leaders at the South to regain their old supremacy, to justify their rebellion record, and to repudiate, so far as may be possible, all the results of the war.” It is very sickening to see such silly stuff in print, but it is fearedthat we shall never cease to see it until the last of the Damphool family shall have ceased to meddle with newspapers.” The Belknap Case.— The Baltimore Gazelle says the Senate is unexpected ly involved in a judicial wrangle over the question of jurisdiction in the Belknap case. It was the opinion of senators, freely expressed to-day, that tho cutire week would be occupied in debating the question. Nearly every Senator has prepared a written opin ion upon the subject, which will bo printed after the vote has been taken. There is, however, no doubt as to the vote being in favor of jurisdiction. Tho reporter of tho Atlanta Consti tution had an interview with Bul lock takes the trouble to announce that when he got through he bowed. Whereupon Harris, of the Savannah .Yea's, remarks: Since this fact has become, as it were, public property, we would like to ask if the reporter bowed of his own accord or whether ho was asked to do so by Bullock; be cause there are some reporters so still in tho hind-legs that they have to be struck across the stomach with a folded umbrella before they can be made to unbend. The Boston i’uJ, in forcible, un mistakable English, says: “The fact is, tho Republican party is staggering under a load of infamy sufficient to sink any party, and it is only by ap peals to the worst passions of the peo ple that it continues to present a de cent show of strength to tho country. All its old leaders are dead or expelled from its ranks; tho men who have taken their places wear the brand of corruption and rottenness upon their foreheads. Among these who are as pirants lor its highest honor there is not a man who is not in some way tainted with the viciousness of the time.” QUITMAN, GA., THURSDAY, JINI] 1, IS7IU STATE NEWS. lVneilings and Scissoring* from our Exchanges. —The gubernatorial candidates did not attend the Thomasvillo Floral Fair Inst Friday. —CapL John A. Crawford, of liar tow county, whilst at work around his bee stands last week, was stung i upon the forehead by a bee, from < which bodied in about two hours, i -Mrs. Maria J. Westmoreland is writiug another book, to be called “Waif.” The scene is laid in Florida, ; near St. Augustine. It will be pub lishedin Jnlv. > rr • T': annas’Osmoro, an old res ident of Randolph county, who enter ed suit against bis wife for divorce, and, after a long and tedious trial, ob tained judgement last week, took out new license and was re-married to his j first lovo. * -—A man’s respectability is meas ured by bis money in Atlanta. No | questions are asked about how he got ! it; but when a combination is formed to cheat the State out of a hundred j thousand dollars-or-so, and one of the nmul|'r is detected, by mishap, his confederates become his bondsmen. I —The State Democratic Executive Committee will meet in Atlanta on Wednesday, the 7th of June, for the j purpose of completing the delegation j for the State at largo to the National ; Democratic Convention, and for the I transaction of other important busi ness. —Atlanta Cunditutiorialiist: It's get ting about time the Atlanta (hnditn -1 tini i was out in an article saying that it had Colquitt in its mind’s eye all the time, and insisting that it was first to mention his name in connec tion with the Governorship. —Bullock expresses himself as tru ly delighted with tho cordial recep tion the “leading citizens of Atlanta” have given him. Suppose he had been treated like other criminals; or, in other words, suppose he did not have that little tin box, the' opening of. whichov.nd.l roug-il secrets v> by the atuvcaid “lead? ig citizens" got on the high road to prosperity which now makes them acceptable bondsmeh for the fugitive ex-Govern or. —Tho Columbus Enquirer of the 24th says that witnesses are being summoned in the Kendrick case. This has the appearance that a trial will be held at this term of the court. It is generally stated that an endeavor will be made by the defense to prove previous nucha: tty in the girl. A few months over six years ago she was entered as a pupil in our public schools, and her age recorded as sev en years. Gf course she can no lon ger attend them. Mr. K. remains very quietly at home. -Agusta Chronicle: Judge Pee ples, of Atlanta, lias made a special charge to the grand jury .on the subject of vagrants, and the charge is warmly praised in that virtuous city. They are “thriftless, shiftless vaga bonds,” dependent upon trickery, begging, sponging and stealing,” are “morally debased, wholly depraved and vicious,” are “negro loafers and lazzaroni,” “have been outlawed by tho State,” and “should be driven to the fields.” Ti ne, Judge Peoples and good peoplo of Atlanta. Drive the vagrants to the fields, by all means. But what are you going to do with the “thrifty” vagabonds who lived by ‘ trickery and stealing;” who were “morally debased, wholly depraved and vicious;” who were political “laz zaroni;'’ who foisted themselves upon the peoplo by fraud and force; who plundered tho tax-payors without shame or stint; who corrupted citizens and debauched the press; who have “been outlawed by the State”—what shall be done w ith these ? Alas, these are received by the good people of Atlanta with open arms; these find scores of “wealthy and respectable citizens” to go upon their bonds and save them from prison; tlieso are ten dered public receptions and banquets; these it is impolitic to punish. Drive tlie vagrants to tho fields and take the robbers by the hand. —Tho Gwinnett Herald can go head on the following: During last year there lived upon the plantation of Mr. A. A. Trible a family of ue groos, the youngest, a child about three years old, had tamed a king snake, and it became so warmly at tached to the child that it would meet it every day not far from the house, and near a cow pen, to be fed. The child would fondle it as if it had been a kitten. The parents, when they first saw tho child with the snake, were alarmed, but after awhile became sat isfied there was no danger, and paid no attention to it. At the close of last year the family moved over to Mr. Bond’s, some two or three mites, and tho child grieved about tho snake until it became sick. During its s;ck ness, when any person would come over from Table's the child would iu- variably ask for its “snake" and was continually calling for it. When it got better the family went to Trible’s on a visit one Sunday, taking the child along. As soon as it got to its old homo tho child slipped off, but finding it was watched, came back, and getting another opportunity, it 1 started again for the cow pun. This time they were more careful in watch ing, and tlie child supposing it was not seen, went to an old fence row and called, and in a few minutes the snake made its appearance. Both seemed rejoiced at the meeting, and it was not until those who wore watching came near the snake would , leave; it then lnd. When the child ' was about leaving for home it went back and called its snake and carried it home. Those who saw it nay it j was as largo as a man’s arm, but seemed perfectly mani fested strong attachment 'tor the j child. It was afterwards killed. Over in Florida, —Pensacola is jubilant over a four teen pound beet. -—The new town of Padlock, near Live Oak, is said to be rapidly improv ing. —A crowd of Tallahassee darkies, celebrating emancipation day, made the policemen hide out in ’Jackson ville. —There is a colored man in Live Oak who is supposed to be one hun dred and ten years of age, and, strange ■ to say, he does not recollect ever hav ing seen George Washington. —How would George. F. Drew, of Ellaville, do for Governor. It strikes j us that he is just the kind of man for J the Con serva ties to fasten to, if they j want to make a clean sweap of it next November. •—And now Pnrman rises to say that Stearns swindled the negroes; while he was agent of the Freedman’s Bureau. The only reason whv Stearns , can’t charge Pnrman with the same j thing is, that the latter never had the ■ luck to get hold of the aforesaid agen cy. •—Where is that 837,(1 •in blue | *. - S ■ Vt SvnP -f’ ‘ ■ llCIM: ; ills-.;::-. uati nis. but isn't it about time Pur-' man had put in an appearance!— .1 Turning N mm. Perhaps the bine scrip found a safe hiding place about tho time the vote i was being counted, that kept Bloxum from being Governor of the State. —The Live Oak Timex is howling j for a public well. If we thought Pur man and some of the other leading; “public” men of Florida would fall in it the next time a grand Radical pow* ! wow is held at Live Oak, wed sub scribe liberally to have it dug. How ever, upon reflection, we arc reminded that Pnrman and all his followers will be politically buried, anyway, in No vember. —Thus the Sanford Journal: A few evenings since, while a number of young men, including the junior edit or, were out in the shoal water of the lake seining for minnows, a lafgpfMli gator made his Discovering them by, he immediately struck out for deep water, making a great splashing. Our dog, Prince, be ing along, the young men hissed him after the’gator, and lie went with a will. He jumped on the back of the monster and quite a skirmish ensued, . the dog being under water part of the time. Finally the running fight car ried them out in deep water out of sight in tho darkness, and the dog was gone fully, ten minutes before lie returned. TBc first instance on rec ord of a dog whipping a big 'gator in his own element. * ' .—The Pensacola ffucTte says that on Saturday it\ A as S. Leon ard was closiugTlie door TTr 1 1 ms grist mill in Miltoi##t stranger, who was lying iu wait for him to come out, struck a blow at him with a stick of | lightwood, evidently taken from the pile of cord wood near at hand. The stick struck' the lintel of tho djjpr above Leonard’s head and b|pkc in two. Leonard turned, saw another man advancing, and got inside the door, but before he could secure it, it was burst open, and he ran to a door lon the other side of the mill; before !he could open that the enemy were ; upon him, and, grappling with him, threw him down and robbed him of a pocketbook coutaing six hundred and eighty dollars, tearing out tho pocket and a portion of the pants. They then darted away and escaped. In the other pocket were fourteen dollars i that they did not look for. The sum in the pocketbook had been received that evening ill a business adjustment, and the robbers evidently knew of the transaction. Mr. Leonard was clos ing to go to Mr. Lawrence Mayo’s store to deposit the money, that mer -1 chant having an interest in the ; amount as the settlement was for joint account. Mr. Leonard saw enough of the man who struck at him ] to know that he was a white man, and the other he knows to be a negro, as i he felt his wool while they were strug gling in tho mill. A Young Lady s I,utter. What She Will Do When She Heroines a Ilride. A father of an interesting and ac complished daughter of this city has left at tho Eagle office a sort of litera ry curiosity in tho shape of a letter of correspondence. The letter is from a lady friend, and was written to tho above gentleman’s daughter while she was absent from Reading. Wbeu she came home she happend to show it to her father, who feels interested enough in social literature, to have it spread before the community for the I benefit of the public in general. Here it is: “Well, Lizzie, yon know I’m to tie manned. I believe I told you of it \ before I left. Then, however, I was not so certain about it as lam now. j You know you can’t always tell what the young men mean until they act.u- j ally commence talking about the wed ding clothes. By and by someone; ! will come 'along and pick you out j from the crowd and propose matrimo- I ny. Don’t let the young men fool yon. They are much more naughty and awful now than over before, and l gracious knows what they will be a j few years hence. But we are nearly nil fixed. I’m to he dressed very com mon. Wo are going to be married at our home and there is not going to be the least fuss about it, either. My dress will be of white cambric, and you know that material is very cheap, and so serviceable that I can wear it during the summer evenings. Isbnu’t buy a costly dress and then fold it away and keep it in a trunk in rc memberance of oar wedding day. Not a 1 >it of it. I had put down my outfit at a hundred dollars, and do you know I’ve saved sixty dollars on it; and with that sixty dollars we can furnish one more room in our new house than we had first intended. So nlucli for that. We shall have a little wine and cake, that is all. Only a few relatives will be present. Wo do not expect any silver presents, neither are we going to borrow any for the j occasion. Wo shan’t have a house j full of spongers to eat up our things,' laugh at our foolishness and criticise our manners. We do not desire a house full of young men to crack vul- gar jokes at our expense, either. I\ ould you '? We’re going to have a oniet wc.flnint'-. No trips for ns. The mmseTfhsVot to bo furnished from attic to basement, and the gas and water turned on. Mother says the fire in the heaters and range will be ready burning just as if wo had been at house-keeping for a year. She is going to market the day before, and the pantry will be full of just what wo want. Isn’t shea dear soul? Just to thin?. I’m to bn mistress of a whole house. My husband, (how queer that sound) and ho is not my husband yet, says I can have a girl •and a wash woman. But no, I shall have no such thing. No girls around my house forme. As for washing; guess I can attend to that. Just think ’of such an extravagant proposition. Why, I’m going to keep up five shares in a building association and the money I can save by doing our own work I can pay into, the society, in our joint name, so that half will be mine. Then if we ever have a daugh ter or son we can build them a house ! when they got married. I won’t de- I scribe the future wo are going to have. You must see that for your-1 self. But no drinking in our house, j Lizzie ! No side boards, no liquor. ■ Friends can have fruit, water, cigars, ! flowers or tea, but no st"ong drink of | any kind. lam bitterly opposed to it. My husband, when lie’s out, can do as lie pleases, but he has promised | to allow, me to be the guardian of our 1 home and I shall ever pray for strength to make it a happy, Chris- j iian home for both of ns. I don’t j ' mean a trim, tidy, straight-laced, quiet house, dark, gloomy, and moul | dj’. Oh, no'! I believe in plenty of i sunshine, plenty of light and air, ! laughter, joy, mirth and merriment, flowers, canary birds, society; but no whiskey, beer, I. r indy or horrid gin. I No, no. It is a vile serpent, this ] strong or malt drink. But, my bus- 1 band dare smoke, iu the house. In deed he dare do anything he pleases ! ' that will please his friends, except what I have mentioned. They may have all tho fun they want— tear up ! (•he house and upset everything, as 1 long as they don't break or destroy things, and provided it don’t come too often. Now, that’s the sort of a ! wife I’m going to be. I’m going to have a bill of fare for every day iu the week all mapped out and agreed up on. And I’m going to keep it up, , too, right straight along. I believe j that it will bo cheaper in tho end to know just what you’re going to have before hand. Then there will be nothing done in a burry, and I shall never be at a loss to know what to get for dinner and supper. 1 shall buy bread and rolls and have the butcher call every mornjgig, if Idesire ! him. I detest too much meat-eating, ■ particularly in summer, But there, I have written so much that my little head is swimming : 'round and ’round. Well, we don't get married but once or twice in a lifetime, so wo might as well make the most of it while we are at it. When yon come home call and see us—you | will always bo welcome. Then I shall i tell you all about the more real side iof married life. I! cdiicj E.ijlc. Nciise on Hesiunptiim. The St. Louis Commercial ttaiette, as its name implies, a paper devoted purely to commerce, finance and in dustry, in a tenth number on the money question, says: A decent respect for the opinions of bis fellow-citizens should have caused the President to state the rea- I sons for the complete change in views which made it possible for him 4o veto tho currency ebill and sign the resumption act. He said iuIKTJ: T do not believe there is too much of it (currency) now for the dullest pe riod of tho year.” Now wo find tho resumption net lias caused a contraction of over 1 354,500,000 since January 1, 1875. and yet the President does not roc- ' ommeud its repeal. In December, 1871!, ho said; “To increase our ex-1 pi iris" suTiidont currency is nvfnired to keep all industries of tho country employed. Without tliir, national a s well as indiridued banirnplcj must ensue.” Are we not “without this” to-day ? Are not the industries of the nation stifled ? Is not “individual bank ruptcy’’ ensuing at a most fearful rate? But why reason upon this subject ? Ouo might as well under take to show by reason that tho President could not lift himself by the straps of his boots. Every man who has any brains can understand that resumption is a barren humbug and a phvsicul impossibility while our foreign demand for interest is yearly 81(10,000,000; the average bal ance nf trade against ns (from 1800 to 1.875) is $9-1,152,473, while demand for the previous metals in manufac turing is annually $10,000,000. Mak ing a total demand for those metals of 3264,142,473, while our supply from the mines and from importations reaches but an average of $82,524,102. Thus leaving an annual balance against ns of $181,018,371. Wo say with these facts before ns no business man will assume that, re sumption is possible until this whole business is reversed for a suffi cient length of time to recall our; stocks now abrpad, and to hold the exchanges in our own favor. This result can be consumated in but one way, and that is by promot ing our industries—by adopting and j adhering to a policy that will keep every hand employed. We niqpt re realize tb it ail wealth, of whatever i nature or name, is but the power to la j,: ■.r , i v.,0,! i TU.■ i, ■• i ■ vo crystallize • this power of our people the wealth ier we will be, if at the same time we arc not compelled to surrender : otir surplus as tribute to foreign, powers. Yes, it is just ns impossible to re sume, and stay resumed under these I conditions, as it is to make water run up hill. We fully agree with the St. Louis Commercial Gazelle, when it. says that resumption is a barren humbug. Let us have more currency, or the coun try will go np the spout. Hon. IV. A. Harris, of Worth coun ty, writes to a friend about sheep raising as follows: “Yours, asking about sheep raising in this comity, to baud. I will say that it cannot bo surpassed—the mildest climate, and then tlie most economical. No feed ing required, no herding but once, at dipping off wool. No varmint* to dt - stroy lambs. Dogs kill but few. All land protected fiom lire. The wire j grass never dies. Our sheep have no diseases. Many who moved here since I did, and bought fifteen to: twenty head of sheep, have now large 1 tlocks, and are getting rich. Sheep have been sheared here a month. We arc now getting on our tables the fattest of mutton I ever saw off of the wire grass. Lands cheap and plenty, and water abundant. A railroad, open i I to all markets, running through the [ county. It is the best country on earth. The sheep raising business is j the one now agitating this whole sec tion. It is all clear money, for, after ! the purchase of tho sheep, there is no expense, except to gather the first of April, and clipping. Hands get two ‘ cents per head to shear and feed. The rule here among us all is to gatli \or one’s sheep as we find, and notify him. We have no estraymg of sheep, because we know all marks. Worth, Irwin and Colquitt are the counties for sheep raising. 1 will assist any one by advice. What Country Papers Do.—An ex change combats with considerable vigor the argument that tho city weeklies are cheaper and better than 1 the country papers. It asks, Do they ever give you ’any home news? Never. Do they ever say anything in regard jto our own comity? Do they contain 1 notices of your schools, churches, meetings, improvements and hun dreds of other lscal matters of inter j est, which your country papers pub lish without pay? Not an item. Do 1 they ever say a word calculated to draw attention to your country and its numerous thriving towns, and aid their progress and enterprise? Not a word. And yet there are men who | take contracted views of this matter, | that unless they arc getting as many ! square inches of reading matter iu I their own papers as they do in a city paper, they think they are wot getting • tho worth of their money. It reminds ■us of the person who took the largest pair of boots in the box, because they cost the same as a pair much smaller I than fit him. Profits iu Lillie Tilings Southern farmers have thought that no crop but cotton could bo j turned into money. They have, therefore, paid little or no attention ; to tho minor products of tho farm, such as apples, peaches and other ; products, eggs, butter, honey, chick ens, hides, tallow, etc., and even wheat, barley, oats and other crops of similar importance have been neg lected. The last season somewhat changed this opinion in a majority of the farmers. In Arkansas county, the Patrons made an arrangement last spring with u certain merchant to take in payment for merchandise anything marketable that the far mers might bring. Money was scarce and another crop uncertain, while many little articles, of the nature above stated, were cither wasted or unnecessarily consumed, that in lar ger cities, to wiijcli tinny was ready adeem;, would find' an capfijt sale. Tho result of this arrangementSvas, in tho first six or seven months of tho year 1875, thei'e had been shipped and sold from the county about $20,000 worth of products not before deemed wortv of sale. But for this happy forethought of the Patrons, many farmers, could not have sustained ; themselves through the Bpring; they , would have -had nothing to live on while they made a crop, the mer j chants being unable to credit them, ; and then they having no money to pay for what they needed. This should teach a lesson to all who ucg ■ lect the seeming trifles of a farm. Ev | cry thing should be utilized. Mer j chants should buy every product of the farm, whether there is money iu it or not; the goods which they gen erally give in exchange will pay profit enough. Thus will his sales he in creased, and tho country become more prosperous.— Exchange. In reference to the above the Ath oils Georgian says: Wo will beg each farmer iu Georgia to cut out tho above, arid post tho same on his bed pest. The recent de cline of cotton in Liverpool indicates surely that the crop of 1870 will bring only a nominal price, and it behooves our farmers to be forewarned and prepared for any contingency. If the advice in the above article bo strictly followed by our farmers, and their “liog and hominy” be raised at home, our people will once more be come prosperous anil leappy. We will not complain of the expenditure of any reasonable amount of money for commercial fertilizers, for oUr lands are much worn and exlnsisted by cot ton culture, but we will never con sent for our farmers to buy their farm supplies when the same can be raised at homo. The Georgia Grangers should take this matter in hand and expel every member from their Order, who fails to make his farm self-sustaining.- When we hear a farmer sav that ho can’t raise his own “hog and hominy,” wo know well “what's the matter”— he is too lazy. Looking for Kinilh. [From (lit) Austin IU-veiUe.] A respectable looking old gentle man, just arrived from tho Eastern .States, was around town to-day try ing to find a man named Smith. There are several members of tho Smith family in Austin, but the old gentleman experienced some difficul ty iu finding tlie exact Smith be want ed, and we are not positivo that ho lias found him yet. Probably pos sessed of the somewhat prevalent idea that boys know everything, the old gentleman accosted a bov, nnd ad dressing him as “my son,” asked him if he knew anybody in this town by the name of Smith. “Smith?” said the boy. “Which Smith do yon want 9 ’' Let’s see—there’s Big Smith and little Smith, Three-fingered Smith, Bottle nose Smith, Cock-eye Smith, Six-toed Smith, San Joaquin Smith, Lying Smith, Mush-hcad Smith, Jumping Smith, Cherokeo Smith, One-legged Smith, Fighting Smith, Bead-headed Smith. Sugar-foot Smith, Bow-legged Smith, Squaw Smith, Drunken Smith, El Dorado Smith, Hungry Smith, and I dou’t know but maybe one or two more." “My son,” said tlie old gen tleman, “tlie Smith I am in search of possesses to bis name none of tho heathenish prefixes you have men tioned. His name is simply John Smith.” “All them fellows is named John 1” screeched tho boy, as ho drew his six-shooter and ran to tho other side of the street to get a good shot at a passing Chinaman. Tho old gentleman mused for a moment and then walked into a blacksmith shop and asked to see a city directo ry. Advice to 0 Iris- Girls talk and laugh about mam* ngos as though it was a jubilee; a gladsome thing, a rose without a thorn. And no it is, if it is nil right —if they go about it as rational be ings instoad of merry making children. It is a serious thing to marry. Ii is a life business. Therefore, never do it in haste; never run away to get married ; never marry for wealth or standing, or line person, or manner, Lint for character, for worth, for the qualities of the mind and heart which make an honorable man. Take time; think long and well before yon accept any proposal;consult your parents, then ! some judicious friend, then your own judgment. Learn all that is possi ble for you to learn of your proposed husband. When nil doubts have been I removed, and not till then atvcp;. No. 11.