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GEORGIA HERALD.
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fit Georgia
PUBLISHED BY
william t. weaver.
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T IV. THURMAN, Attorney at Lnxr f
f | t Bartlesville, Ga. Will Practice in the Courts of
tlm flint Circuit, nnd F.lse.wheae by Special Contract.
Prompt attention given to all collection of claims.
june4-ly
TOSEPH If. SMITH. Attorney and
tl (’onnsellor at Law. Office Corner Whitehall nnd
Pfiurs stiects Atlanta, Ga. Will practice in ’he Su
perior Courts of Coweta nnd Flint Circuits, the Su
preme Court of the State, and the United States’ Dis
trict Court. All com Minications addressed to him at
Atlanta will receive prompt attention. apriUMy
[NO. K. HART & J. Y ALLEN, have
rj united for the purpose of practicing Law. One
or both mav always be found in their office By strict
attention to business and fair dealing with all they
hope to merita liberal share of patronage.
The senior member of the firm refers with confidence
to nil for whom he has done business during the past
year
Will practice hy contract in any of the courts, or in
anv portion of the State.
Thomaston. Oh., Jan. 22,1570. jnn22-3in
4 NDERSON & MoOALLA, Attorneys
2 V at Law, Covington, Georgia. Will attend regu
larly, and I’ra't ce in the Superior Courts of
counties of Newton, Butt*, lb-nrr, Spalding. Pike,
Monroe, Upson, .Morgan, DeKalb, Owinnette and Jas
per. dec 0-ly
1 \MES M. MATHEWS. Attorney at
♦ | Laws, Talhotton. fta. will practice all the counties
cnwp'idlny the < hati ahoochee Circuit and elsewhere by
pedal contract declft-ly
iril.MS & WILLtS. Attorneys a> Law
' ' Titlb'*Uon, ( >a Prompt attention given to
business placed in our hands. declft-ly
HUBERT P. TRIP PE. A trnrnev at Law
x\ Forsyth, (fn Will practice in the State Courts
amt in the United States’ District Court at Atlanta and
ta\annah,Ga, dt-*c O ly
J HUNT, Attorney at Law, Barnes*
• vi '*7 Will practice in all the counties of
tb ll Hint t intuit and Supreme Court of th<* State.
MARIOV BET HUNK, Aitnrnev at
Law, Tilhotori, Ga Will practice in all the
< oiinhes of the Chattahoochee Circuit, and Upson and
•NcrriwHher counties. declS-ly
| I' ALEXANDER.. Attorney at Law,
* Thomaston. Oh. 'Will practice in all the ennn
c.* composing ihe Flint, Circuit, and elsewhere by
d'ciial contract Special attention given to eolloction,
"l settle promptly with chants. declS-ly
fWIAS BEALL. Attorney at Law,
mil ,°? aston v ' iH practice in the Flint, Cir
isnuelsewhere by special contract. declS-ly
)R ROGERS will continue the practice
1 of Medicine. Office at B. D. Hardaway’s Drug
_ declß-ly
TAR ft.w. T. IIaNNMI. is pleased to
th,/ the citizens of Upson that he will continue
Tv, i iract| ce ot Medicine in lts various branches at
_ uiaatoo, Ga. declS-ly
S. WALKER. Attorney at Law
thr i’ ln 2e, Gii. Will practice in Circuit Courts o
the United States District Courts.
I. C. McCOy7
\\ in Thomaston tenders
S ° rVICCS community in all the
branches of hU pp f^j nn>
l locateHnt! . lacing permanently
services in the niq?*?*° n ’tendersthier professional
' i 18 "n and adinin;'r, <:tlCe °* I*«ntistry to the citiaens of
•'her, sdamnnti , c ' ( '"’J n hrs Teeth inserted on g -Id,
* 801-(] flteiiam n .° r , ru^ tiber. All work warranted and
(jru . up stairs over Suggs &
dccO tr 0 slore *
-■ BRYAN A BAWYKR.
I 7fli/ein * ,mvo n P t 0
a rd am r ,.., n i. f irs Cheney and Allen’snewbuild
,llK'andpr, r , r ‘y engaged in the practice of medi
i? r.;e me. jA 77'' !lt iln y time Persons wishing
, er t>rn*n s at r . * n my office, cun call on Messrs.
," ,n , th*»y ca ‘ n ! san< l Sawyer’s and obtain ir.forma
>e Protnptf v j. ii'.„ ea ? e “by message there, which will
a Prilij. t s utll 'ered.
iUisrellancous.
‘Wlftmi WANTED
or many years pro*
Upson rou’n'u 1 ?" Fact °ry.‘located near
is desim,‘ by 7'' e Dnlemi I *’ • wl,ich property was
lo f ( , rm „ a of loiprovim. tr . o .°P s l n the Spring of 1565,
raise a tHr 7 B , ne, ' li (in wuh* 11 ' water power, and wishes
inves(»fi " f °behun , s<>l P e °be or more |*arties to
S& 1«. blit w,n a u l ,lace Tl!l td thouß »nd dollars, to be
tii„J in ff l 1 be out in t P ro Perty is not offered for
fiveth.Muo reta >ne.(? « ow valuation, and an ad
l*orß( ‘ Power' d ? ilars - TherI loUnting in alt t 0 twent >’*
in ? live ,^ e . at 'lb cither nf ,?7 re ,wo privileges of 120
Loins Tv, r s,x Mtousand .^ ,c l 1 >» capable of operut-
J her , eis then,Jr in,lleß and hundred
°iher re ß |7 Whlch cost i,757 ea<J - v for use, an elegant
‘ da 'na n l eiices f °r fifteen r ’ and
D ccdi ne nd Bt °ncciirial at"/! 1 * 1111 le3 a « operatives; also
fUeat*^^? lrß l also an J. lpper P ower . tb « latter
The loeati m Xhai e ,ible sup P‘y of ex ‘
the niouut'tin< 1 * n . *, s e;tB Y access and as
'lce da# Address
i>K. C. ROGERS,
«'7 acr ' n Tele £rr „ n v „. . Thomaston, Ga
'\^ Q( 1 send bHI7 b and Messenger copy one
j 1 take notice.
aR persons who nr®
is ukdlr to empl °y EJ bert Wea
ilßJear. Under a with me for
vAMEU ShaTTLKS.
THOMASTON, GA, SATURDAY MORNING, JUISTE 4,18 TO.
B 11 The systoms of liver
in I If IT A «T o « complaint are uneasiness
1V I I»i Hi fl \\ ’ and paia 5n the 6ide
|'s a lii ill. Vil lj B'imetimes the pain is in
g the shoulder, anil is tnis
taken for rheumatism.
The stomach is affected with loss of appetite and sick
ness, t owels in general costive, sometimes alternating
null lax. The head is troubled with pain, and dull,
heavy sensation considerable loss of memory, accom
panied with painful sensation of having left undone
something which ought to have been done. Often com
pl.iir.ing of weakness, debility, and low srririt*. Somo
r*ss?i mtm 1 1 11 l« times, some of tlie !i!>bve
M I 1 II n n I symptom* attend the dia
§ 1 11/ |j’ II I case, and at other times
H li 1 I If 1! I very few of them; hut
* I the Liver is generally the
lkrr <»'gaD most involved.
DR. SIMMONS’
Liver Regulator,
A preparation of roots and herbs, warranted to be strict
ly vegetable, and cm do no injury to anyone.
It has been used by hundreds, and known for the last
3 ) year* as *-ne of the most reliable, efficacious and
harmless preparations ever offered to the sufferin'--. If
L is sure to cure?
Dyspepsia, h eadache,
@ nnrilTT ■ rn n n l.) : '« n dice costiveness.sick
K III* 3-1 S ITftR 1 headache, chronic diarr
| iaijilflliil 1 Ull 9 | hoea, affections of the
| bladder, camp dysentery,
affections of the kidneys,
lever, nervousness, chills, diseases of the >kin. impurity
of the blood, melancholy, or depression of spirits, heart
burn, colic, or pains in the bowels, pain in the head,
lever and ague, dropsy, boils, pain in back and limbs,
asthma erysipelas, female affections, and bilious dis
eases generally. Prepared only by
.f. 81. ZEIBsIN & CO.,
Price 81: by mail $1.35. Druggists, Macon, Ga.
The following highly respectable persons can fully at
test to the virtues of this valuable medicine, and to
whom we most respectfully refer:
Gen. SV. 8. llolt, President 8. W. R. R. Company 5
U -v J. Felder, Perry, Ga.: Col E. K Sparks, Albany,
Go : George .J Lunsford, Esq., Conductor S. W It. lip
C Masterson, Esq, Sheriff Bibb county; J A. Butts,
Cambridge, Ga ; Dykes & Sparhawk, Ed'itors Floridian,
Tallahassee; liev. J. VV. Burke. Macon, Ga.; YiVgil
Powers Esq., Superintendent S. \V. R. K.; Daniel Bui
lard, Bullard s Station, Macon and Brunswick li. R
Twiggs county, Ga; Grenville Wood, Wood’s Factory,
Macon, Ga.; i’ev. E F. Easterlinn, P. E. Florida Con
ference; Major A. F, Wooley, Kingston, Ga.; Editor
Mac n Telegraph.
For sole bv .John F Henry, New York, Jno D. Park,
Cincinnati, Jno. Flemming, New Orleans, and all Drug-
Hi' ll ' 3 npl2-ly
TIN AND STOVE
STO RE.
TTAVING at last procured the services
of a first class Tinner I am prepared to do all kind of
Tin Work.
T I N-YY A R E
Manufactured and sold at the lowest possible prices
and til kinds of repairing at the shortest notice. Act
ing as agent »or
F. M. RICHARDSON’S
justly celebrated Stove and Tin House, In Atlanta, 1
am prepared to offer the greatest inducement* to all
those in want of a fctove of any kid.
GOOSING STOVES
splei didly furnished, and guaranteed to give perfect
satisfaction. lain also agent for the celebrated
“COMMON SENSE FAMILY
SEWING MACHINE.”
The very best, made, high priced or low, only S2O. Call
and examine my stock, and I wit! be thankiul for pa
tronage.
W. W. IIARTSFIELD, Agent.
ja»29-tf
6W.BEN MOMENTS!
wanting a Time
Piece of any de o gjfejgtiv'a M? -I
scription they
OLIVER S. HIGGIN'S
New J K WELRY STORE, Barnesville, Ga., as I keep
on hand and are constantly receiving fresh from New
York the latest and most improved style of
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry,
which I am offering at astonishingly low prices, as I
am dealing diiectly with i porters I feel confident
t'<at I can furnish this class of Goods as cheap as any
House in Georgia. I am determined to keep on
hand a GENUINE WATCH and CLOCK, which wo
can sell to our customers and
WARRANT AS REPRESENTED
I am permanently located in
BA-TUNTESVILUjE,
and am going to build up a business in this line purely
on merit, so if you want a FINE WATCH or CLOCK
call »t the sign of the ‘‘BIG WATCH,’ in the new
BRICK BLOCK, next door to Bloodworth <fc Murphey,
East side public square.
£W~ Watches and Clocks carefully repaired and
warranted.
OLIVER S. HIGGINS.
|an‘22-tf Barnesville, Ga.
A. NEW_PAPEE
1 INOUAItj IITEIM
We propose to publish on the first of
April next, and monthly thereafter, a papi
er of thirty*two pages, to be devoted to the
advancement of the Temperance Cause in
Georgia.
We look to oar Upson friends to sustain
us in oar new enterprise. Send in orders
immediately. Terms s3>oo per amnm.
Address, W. E. 11. SEARCY,
mchs Griffin. Ga.
Albany house,
MERRICK BARNES. Pro.
CORNER PINE AND JACKSON STS.,
ALBAISTY, G- -A- - ,
Polite Servants constantly in attendance and
tbo oomfort. of Guest studiously regarded.
0T Hacks always ready to conv* 1 ' Passengers to
and from Depot. jun29-ly
Cjit (Georgia ijevalb,
THOMASTON, GA. S JUNE 4, 70.
YOUNG AMERICA.
Pompously enterincr upon tho Stage, and
addressing the Audience.
Well, Ladies and Gentlemen, how do ye
do ?
I’m sharp as a razor, but not quite as blue.
You have waited, impatient, no doubt, to
behold me*
And the Ladies, sweet souls, in theif arms
would enfold me.
These pesky old Gray-Beards* have long
held me back,
For fear I’d eclipse all the rest on the track,
But now that I’m out, sirs, I’ll give ’em a
fling,
Till their bullet-eyed ponies have all quit
the ring ;
For I’m in for a premium—a cup or a kiss,
Or both if you please, Ladies, rather than
, miss.
***&*##
We have fallen, my daddies, on glorious
times,
And youngsters may sing of their glories
in rhymes,
Especially lads like myself, who have
merit—
Full, handsome and rich —a young rooster
of spirit.
Now, these little bumpkinsf love fish-hooks
and twine,
But I’ve got a genus for songs aod for winj ;
And on great occasions, when honor’s at
stake,
I’m stirred to the quick, sirs, by egg-nogg
and cake.
But do not mistake me for Goldsmith or
Grcv,
These sap -headed dreamers don’t know
what they say.
I scorn shabby rhymes—l’m a ginooicine
poet —
Just give me the larnin, and 0! how I’ll
“go it.”
But I’m larned already—l’ve studied six
weeks!
And “astonish tho natives” whenever I
speaks.
My friends, you don’t know me—l’m just
“cornin ou f ,”
My sakes!—l shall split if I don’t git to
spout.
But you’re all'dead to know where I got all
my knowledge,
Well then, sirs, I’ll tell you—l live near a
College.
But who would be bound by its rusty old
rales,
Where boys tug for sheep-skins like tarna
tion fools ?
Said I, t’other days, to Jim Jones, a young
Soph—
“Will you loan me your sheep.skin to pass
myself off?”
Said the chap tartly—“ You’ve one of your
own ,
But so near your shirt, that it wont do to
loan.”
Old Ichabod Crane sent me whirling up hill,
Until clear over “Baker,” and through
“Daffodil,”
By his fist on my scull, and his bircb at my
rear—
I’m the “broth of a boy” that you now see
and hear.
Just a leetle more polish, and, Ladies, its
over ;
And the lassie that gets me, will live upon
clover ;
My stars, how I’ll siDg of tornadoes and
toads !
Os rainbows and robins, ?nd darts, by cart
loads.
I’ll harrass the thunder, and choke the vol
cano,
And so charm the gals that they never can
say “No.”
Those pert little misses that float in the
balloons —
Or swim in brass hooping, as round as full
moons ;
They’re the darlings to match, the “fast
boys” of the age—
Just a flirt and a kiss, and they’re ripe “to
engage.”
Our dads were no bucks—they were clown
ish and sby—
As dumb as old mummies, and almost as
dry:
They toiled all the day, and they snor’d all
the night,
And a pair of blue eyes put their courage
to flight.
But we fiery young sparks w!*s> can sport
a moustache,
And with ticklers and tumblers play
“Rickety-smash”—
Gulp toddies at night and play the “odd
trick”—
We’ll ring the gals' hearts' till tbeir mam
mies are sick.
Clear the track, ye old fogies, your sons
hold the reins,
They’ve cabbag’d your fortunes and addled
your brains,
The world’s in a swing and they’ll ride at
their ease j>
•Pointing to liis teaclieia.
tGlancing at bis younger acbool-mate*.
Their aprons are oft*, and they’ll do as they
please.
Thep a fig for my dad, find my old- fash
ioned gramnam,
Not both worth a bumper, to skin ’em and
tan ’em.
Who, P'ho’d be a booby and sit in the ashes,
When the world goes by steam and electri
cal flashes ?
Why, Clay and Calhoun did but cripple
and drag,
And Webster, himself, was a tardy old nng.
Then away with the crowd, for a jaunt to
moon,
With a whoop and a whistle we’ll land in
it soon.
Onrhorses eat pine-knots and drink boiling
water,
And smoke like a tar-kiln, but forty times
hotter.
But, alas! I must stop, for my brain is now
reeling,
And I fear you’ll all bust, you are so full of
feeling.
If you love “Young America,” just spare
him now.
And he’ll square both his toes for a Ches
terfield bow.
Only one boon he asks—neither pleasure
nor riches—
“ Three cheers Jbr the larks that’s iC too big
for his breeches /”
Ilev. A. Means.
Oxford, November, 1859.
JfltSrcUiUKOlUi.
A SAD STORY.
Death of the Eldest Son of Henry
Clay —Thirtv-eight Years of Hope
less Insanity, and Final Death in
an Asylum —A Madman Through
Love.
Outside of Fayette county, where
the prophet was held in high, but not
in blameless repute, being “in his own
country,” the name of Clay has ever
been a sacred one in Kentucky, and
to name him has been to quote lov
iugly. “Wherever freedom found a
votary, that votary met in him a
champion. When Greece, the clasic
land of Greece, the fountain ofrefine"
ment, the birth-place of eloquence
and liberty and of poetry; when
Greece awoke from the long slumber
of ages and beat back the faded cres
cent to its native East; when Mace
don recalled to mind the feats of her
conquering boy, and the Spartan
struck for the land that bred him,
then the voice of Clay rolled oVef the
waters of the blue Atlantic as a greet
ing from the New World to the Old.
But hushed is that voice whose “every
tone is music,” and so on till the de
claimer wearied. Such being the es*
teem in which the Sage of Ashland
was held in the hearts of his country
men, the people of his Commonwealth
have been slow to speak to strangers
of the skeleton in his household,
though in the homes of the State the
sad story has been a household word.
Yesterday morning our special tel
egrams announced the end of a weary
life, in stating that Theodore, eldest
son of Henry Clay, had died in the
Lexington Lunatic Asylum, after a
long continemer t. The record of his
blasted life is briefly thus :
At thirty years of age Theodore
Clay was a promising lawyer. lie
was the image and the hope of the
statesman, whose fame was on every
tongue. It is true that there were
whispers of wild living and indifferent
morals, that somewhat tinged the
fair repute and even darkened the fu
ture prospects of this scion of a noble
house. Still it was hoped,-that these
were but the result of youth, and
would be east aside when circumstan
ces called upon the matured man to
assert himself and make his talent
felt in the community.
It was in this turning-point in his
life that Theodore began to pursue,
with an unwearied perseverance that
caused his friends great uneasiness, a
young lady of Lexington, whom he
had long loved hopelessly. The ob
ject of his attachment, who is at the
present moment one of the brightest
ornaments of Kentucky society, re
pulsed firmly, but kind.y, every
tentiou offered by the infatuated
young man, after his meaning had be
come manifest. It was of no u#e, he
would not be refused, and followed
hia fair fate in the streets by day
and wandered in the neighborhood of
her home by night, rrr an annoying
manner, until at last it became evi-“
dent that he “was not all there,” to
use the soft phrase by which a Riud*
fy peasantry express insanity. Sub
sequent violent demonstrations tend
ed to confirm the impression, it being
even related that he went to the
house of Mr. and demanded
his daughter at the pistol's point, un
til at last tho wretched truth could no
longer he ignored and eonfinement in
the Asylum became a stern necessity.
This was accordingly done, (in 1832,
we believe) his father providing for
his support at that time, and leaving
SIO,OOO in his will, the income from
which was secured to Theedere for
life. That life, after thirty-eight
I’ears of imprisonment in what in the
early days of his confinement he was
wont to call “a good boarding-house,
but having some of the biggest fools
he ever saw as boarders,” has just
closed. For nearly thirty years he
was one of most noted of the inmates,
not only liis proud descent, but his
graceful manners and flow of conver
sation rendering him an object of
terest to all visitors. He labored un
der the hallucination that he was
George Washington, and was fond of
assuming the traditional attitudes of
the Father of his Country.
At the occasional balls given to the
inmates, (averaging some five hundred
in number), he was always exquisite*
ly dressed, in the style of his day, and
was the beau par excellence. During
all these long years, despite his gen
eral gentleness And Cheerfulness of
manner, he was restless and discon
tented, and required close watching
—it nerver, in fact, having been con
sidered prudent to allow him to go
out into the grounds without atten
dants. About the year 1800 his con
dition began to grow worse, and lie
soon after became demented, contin
uing in hopeless idiocy Until a few
days since, when Death, greater heal
er than Time, placed him again upon
an equality with the peers of his
early manhood, who had gone before
him to the God that created him and
did with him according to his inscruta
ble will. And so ends as sad a story,
as the truth of history ever com
manded to be written.
Two sons of Henry Clay yet sur
vive him, T. 11. Clay, Ex-Ministrr to
Honduras, now residing on his place,
“Mansfield,” near Lexington, and
John M Clay, the raiser of “Ken
tucky,” and one of the greatest turf
men living.— Cincinnati Enquirer.
TIIE CENSUS OF 18T0.
The ninth census of the United
States will be taken, under the pro
visions of the act of May 23, 1850,
on the first of June inst. The assis
tants are paid as follows:
Two cents for each name taken ;
ten cents for every farm ; fifteen
cents for every productive establish
ment of industry; two cents for
every dead person, and two per cent,
of the gross amount of names enu
merated for social statistics, and ten
cents per mile fur travel.
It will be seen by the foregoing
that the compensation allowed an
assistant or enumerator, provided the
district allotted to him shall not con
tain less than 20,000 persons, will be
about s6oo or more.
The law provides that each assis
tant, alter qualifying, shall perform
his duties by a personal visit to each
dwelling house and to each family in
his subdivision, and shall ascertain
by inquiries made by some member
of each family, if any one can be
found capable of giving the informa
tion—but if not, then the agent of
such family, the name of each mem
ber thereof, the age and place of
birth of each, sex, color, etc., and
shall also visit personally the farms,
mills, shops, mines, or other places
respecting which information is re
quired ; and when such information
is obtained and entered in his blanks,
then his memoranda shall be read to
the person furnishing the facts for
revision.
There is a penalty for refusing to
furnish the required information to
the assistant. The act provides that
every person more than twenty years
of age belonging to any family, in
the case of the absence of the heads
and other members of the family,
shall act as agent of such family, and
is required to render a true statement
of the information required, on pain
of forfeiting thirty dollars, to be
sued for and recovered in an action
of debt by the assistant, to the use
of the United States.
A colored woman whose name
we did not learn, in the service of
Capt. Bradford, was bitten, on Satur
day last, by a spider, in an out house
on the premises where she w'as em
ployed. Medical aid was summoned,
but the unfortunate woman died yes
terday afternoon from the effects of
the bite.— Southern Sun.
1&3BL, The horse railroad which has
been opened in London proves very
successful. It is an exact imitation
of the American institution, and is
fitted up in the same way. One of
the directors of the road drove the ,
first car.
A POiNT OP CIIUKCII ETIQUETTE.
The New York Journal of Com
merce, in noticing the rejection l»y
the M. E. Church, South, of the oiler
of union from the M. E. Church,
North, says:
The Southern M. E. Conference
have decided unanimously against re*
uniting with the Northern branch.
This determination will he less disap
pointing to the Northern Methodists
than if an opposite course had been
expected by them. The proposition
made by the Northern Conference,
was of a character, that evidently an
ticipated rejection—if it was not put
forward expressly to be rejected.
Judged by those rules of etiquette
which apply as fully to religious as to
secular matters, the offer to the North
ern Commissioners could not havo
been accepted without some liumi)ia*
tion and loss of self-respect upon the
part of the Southerners. In decline
ing it they but acted as the dignita
ries ol any Church in the world
would act under like circumstances.
The instructions given to the Com
missioners from the Northern Con
ference directed them first to “confer
with the late Commission from tho
African Methodist Episcopal Zion
Church” with a view to a union, and
afterwads to negotiate with ‘‘similar
Commissions from any Methodist
Church that may desire a like union.”
Tho colored Methodist Church is hero
mentioned by name and put first as
the principal object of Northern solic
itude, while the great Southern
Church cf the Same denomination is
only hinted at in language wich could
not fail to be construed in the South
as an intentional slight, llad the
Noithern branch intended their over
tures to be rejected, they could not
have phrased a set of instructions
more directly calculated for that end.
The Memphis Conference could
not but regard it even as something
more than a breach of etiquette.
They could not but feel aggrieved
that the Northern Church should
seem to desire to effect a union with
the Colored Church South to the ex
clusion of the great Southern branch.
To the latter it appeared, as a mat
t r of course, as if the Northern
Methodists were trying to break up
the fraternal relations which unite
the white and colored Methodist or
ganizations of the South, and they
could not be expected to do otherwise
than resent such an effort by tho
unanimous action they have taken.
If a reunion of the two great sec
tions of the M. E. Church is ever to
effected, it can only be done through
the Southerners in terms sufficiently
definite and courteous, and free from
any semblace of political purposes.
The recent attempt was so awkward,
and the failure so bad, and the feel
ing left behind in the South so very
unpleasant, tnat we do not cherish
the expectation that tho broken
Church will be rejoined for years to
come.
Methodist Lay Delegation. —Tho
movement in behalf of allowing lay
delegates to vote in the Conferences
of the Methodist Episcopal Church
has finally triumphed. Tho Metho
dist says ;
After eight years of unceasing
effort, the Methodist has the satisfac
tion of announcing the triumph of
lay delegation. The East Maine
Conference, the last in the United
States to declare its opinion, has
given a vote of 44 for to 15 against.
This, with the surplus available, se
cures the necessary three-fourths,
even though the vote of the Germany
Conference should be unanimously
against. But such a vote in Ger
many is not supposable ; on the con
trary, all our advices leave us to ex
pect that tho vote of our brethren in
Europe will be unanimously for us.
By a singular coincidence, the Ger
many Conference meets this year in
one of the cities of the Palatinate,
the ancestral home of the founders of
American Methodism.
Milk. —ls you desire to get a largo
yield of milk, give your cow, threo
times a day, vfater slightly salted, in
which' bran- has been stirred at the
as the rate of one quart to two gab
lons of water. * You will find that
your cow will gain twenty-five per
cent, immediately under the effects
of it, and she will become so attached
to the diet as to refuse to drink clear
water unless very thirsty, but this
mess she will drink almost at any
time, and ask for more. The amount
of this drink is an ordinary water
pailful at each time morning, noon
and night. Your animal will then do
her best at discounting the lacteal.”
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