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’PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY —AT— BELLTON, G-A. By JOHN T. WILSON Jr, P* r ••cwUforib month); 35 canto forthree month). fro “ Bellto “ "• requeued to eend their name) with >aoh amount) oi money a> they can pare, from ico. to *1 NEWS GLEANINGS. North Carolina has 96 counties. The school fund of Kentucky issl,- 600,000. Key West, Fla., shipped 900,OOOcigars last week. Apricots sell in Lake City, Fla., at $8 per bushel. Pensacola, Florida, Jis tojhave a new hotel, cost SIOO,OOO. Wilmington, North Carolina, has a population of 17,506. North Carolina has a commissioner o immigration in England. New Orleans is to have a school for fAe training of women nurses. North Carolina has 221 Masonic ledges at work with a membership of 8,199. Six hundred thousand oranges will be shipped from Enterprise, Florida, this fail Monticello, Fla., has shipped this sea son 503 barrels and 29 crates of Irish potatoes, A green turtle, weighing over 400 pounds, has been captured off the Flor ida coast One hundred children work in the Maysville, Ky., cotton mills for 75 cents to f 1.25 a week each. The Association of Atlanta Preachers have signed a respectful protest against the issuing of Sunday papers. Mr. Matthew Berry, near Rainer, Montgomery county, Ala., is sending to the high school his eight ehildren. Nine spongers came into Key West Fla., last week, after a nine weeks cruise, and sold their s,pQjvg e f or |2,511. The Adventists of tlranbury, Texas, have erected a '.arge tabernacle for the purpose of e.\p oUn( ]i n g their doctrines. Six tho' aSall j] cans o f oysters were re cently sent North in one shipment by ’he canning establishment at Newbern, .Vorth Carolina. One hundred and two thousand, eight hundred and thirty-five pounds of straw berries have been shipped from Chatta nooga this season. A correspondent of the Atlanta Con stitution says Savannah is the modern Hodotn and has four hundred bar-rooms, or one to every twelve adults. Such a severe storm prevailed in Lee and Sumter counties, Georgia, that in one place, for nearly a mile, you could walk on the trees that had been blown down. In Harris county, Ga., dinner-horns are said to have gone out of fashion. Provisions are so scarce that when a horn sounds all the neighborhood re spond to the call. Charles Johnson, of New Orleans, the convicted ship-burner, says that a num ber of business men, cotton brokers chiefly, were “interested” with him in his business—the ship-burning business. A number of young men from Greene county, Ga., started down the river in a canoe about six months ago to try the novel business of trapping beavers. The voyage was very dangerous, but success ful, and 'each man’s skins netted him S7OO. > Two little boys, Clarence Gross and Willie Dominy, were wrestling in Dub lin, Ga., and fell on their sides. Willie got up, leaving Clarence on the ground. The by-standers noticed that he did not stir, and approaching they found he was dead. Mr. J. W.JSlaugh ter, near Pineville Georgia, was having a well dug on his place, and when about twenty feet deep a well-preserved oak leaf was found firm ly imbedded in the chalk. When about fifty feet deep a live snake of the black species was found. “The Atlantic and Gulf Coajs Canal and Okeechobee Land Company” is the dignified title of the organization which proposes to reclaim the Florida Ever glades. The company will have a cap ital of $10,000,000, and will build a canal to drain Lake Okeechobee, east and west, and also a canal 300 miles long along the east coast of Florida. Colon ists from Europe are to be settled on the lands. Sugar and indigo are to be grown on the reclaimed lands. The company held a meeting at Philadelphia last week. A coms of young men went out fish ing, and, on returning, were going past a farm house and felt hungry. They veiled to the farmer’s daughters: Girls, have you any butter-milk?” The reply was gently wafted back to their ears: “Yes, but we keep it for our own calves." The boys calculated that they had business away—and they YMk The North Georgian. VOL. IV. SONOSYLLABI.E poem. Think not that strength lies in the big, round word, Or that the brief and jJahi must needs be weak. To whom can this be true, who once h.u» heard The cry for help, the tongue that al! men speak, Iv hen want, or woo, or fear is at the throat, bo that each word gasped out is like a shriek Pressed from the sore heart, or strange, wild note Sung by some fay or fiend? There is a strength too far or spun too tine, Which has mere height than breadth, more depth and length. Let but this force of thought and speech l>e mine, And he that will may take the sleek, fat phrase, n hich glows and burns not, though it gleam and shine; Light, but not heat—a flash without a blase. Nor is It mere strength that the short word boasts It serves of more than fight or storm to tell— The roar of waves that dash on rock-bound coasts, Ihe crash of tall trees when the wild winds jwell, The roar of guns, the groans of men that die On blood-stained fluids. It has a voice as well For them that far-off on tbdr sick beds He, For them that weep, for them that mourn the dead, For them that laugh, and dance, and clasp the hand; To Joy’s quick step, as well as griefs low tread. The sweet, plain words we learnt at first keep time, And though the theme be sad, or gay, or grand, With each, with all, these may be made to chime, In thought, or spuicb, or song, or prose, or rhyme. A Ludicrous Elopement. It’s hard for a “country jake” to con vey to his Susan Jane the exact situation when first the arrow is lodged in his heart. The attitudes and awkward com binations of personal presentation are painful to an outsider, to say nothing of what he suffers. See him cross his legs, first one on top and then the other, and then see him shoot them out in front, and run his hands in his pockets; then he draws in his feet, doubles them under the chair, pulls his hands out of his pockets and drops them down by his side, stretches, yawns, blushes, and almost dies trying to say it Poor fellow, it is martyrdom while it lasts, and when he does “get his mouth off,” it's like put ting a beggar on horse back; he just canters oft’ to paradise with a happy-go lucky indifference that is enviable, bar ring an obstruction on the track, and then over on his head he tumbles, when cruel parents intervene and refuse to ratify. A ludicrous case of this sort of agony occurred near the place of my nativity about twenty-five years ago, in which I had my sympathies so roused that I was moved to lend the hero some assistance. His name was Joe, and his girl’s, Mar tha Jane, to whom he had surrendered his entire heart, stock, lock and barrel— without reservation of any kind, which she gushingly reciprocated by adding her entire stock in trade in the partner ship proposed. But the old folks de murred—refused to ratify—threatened a war of extermination—banished Joe, and belied Martha Jane, besides several other tlireatenod acts of dire hostility. In fact, Joe and Martha Jane had the biggest spider put in their dumpling ever known since Adam’s and Eve’s apple scrape. Their hearts all but “busted”—but they didn’t. The parties were neighbors—lived in sight of each other—Joe on the hill and Martha Jane in the bottom. When Martha Jane camo forth to nourish her young fowls with a preparation of ground corn and water, she would cast her loving eyes upward and rest them on Joe, who would from above look down affectionately on his Martha Jane, and they would sigh and swallow great hunlm of grief as big as apple dumplings. Joe was so badly off that I was sorry for him, and when he called upon me to assist him, I proceeded at once to the prospective mother-in-law (more or less) with my eloquence, “from whom I proceeded from whence"—not running, but my time was good. I reported pro gress, and begged to be excused. Joe got worse aud worse; threatened to commit—well, to steal something, and did make divers efforts to steal his girl, but the old folks slept on their arms. Joe was getting terribly bad off; he said he must have her; that I must steal her for him. I tried to prevail on him to bide his time; but, no, have her he must, and I must do the job for him; he knew I could do it if I would, and he wanted it done right off. When I found Joe couldn’t wait, I con sented to try my hand. I was about Martha’* age, and the thought occurred to me that I would dress in woman’s clothes and let Joe steal me, and see if it would "sorter” cool his ardor. I con fided my plan to some of the boys, and they approved it and promised their as sistance. We concluded that we would let the old man, Martha Jane’s father, into the secret, and arrange for him to pursue us with his hounds, of which he had about a dozen, when we made the attempt. The old man entered into the affair eagerly, for he despised Joe. After we had fixed all the preliminaries of time, place and manner of proceeding, we adjourned to meet the next Sunday night and have the chase. We met ac cording to adjournment at the time agreed, 1 and a woman hitched me up in some of her gear, w-ith a parcel of ’things tied round my waist—l don’t know what they all were, but I know the outside was calico, and it was in two pieces; one was the tail, which was tied on first, and the other was a sort of jacket with sleeves to it, of some dark sort of stuff. These, with a white sun-bonnet, and a blue veil, and some cotton stuffed in judiciously to give me a gushing make-up, having been provided as indespensable to my toilette, I was ready and willing to be Joe s—for a time. When we arrived near Martha Jane’s house, the old man was waiting for us. We arranged that after we had got about a quarter of a mile off, one of our party, (who remained behind for the purpose) should notify Joe that we had Martha Jane, and when Joe came tearing by the house, the old man was to give him a salute from his old double-barrelled shot gun. Very soon here came Joe full tilt down the hill towards the creek. Bang went the venerable shot-gun, and away went Joe, and boob came the old man on BELLTON, BANKS COUNTY. GA.. JUNE 16. 1881. his sway-back horse, with his hounds and shot-gun, and accompanied by his son. Mitchellville was the objective point of the expedition, and it was about five miles off The boys got Joo’s arms from him to protect his girl, and prevailed on him to rush ahead, pay the toll-gate foes, proceed on to Mitchellville and have the license ready, so as to have no delay. Accordingly, Joe went off at a lope, paid the toll for us, and gave strict orders not to let Martha Jones’ father through; but when the old man came to the gate ho just jumped his old sway-back over it, and on he came, his hounds in full cry. The way he “got up and got” along that pike was a scene not to be forgotten. The fuss he made aroused everybody on route. Our crowd consisted of five, besides Joe, and we arrived at Mitchellville about 10 p. m. Joe was there, and as soon as I had dismounted, he was at my side and led me up to the door and rattled it so that the startled Justice opened it at once, but, upon seeing, as he supposed, a female, closed it to arrange his toilet. Meantime, «the old man and his hounds could be heard nearing rapidly. I whis pered to Joe I wanted to retire around the comer of the house to arrange my dress, and he said, excitedly, “Bein a hurry, the old man will soon be here.” I did make haste, for no sooner had I got around the corner than I darted through a gate, ran down the side of a fence, crept t hrough an opening into a back yard, and hid behind an ash-hopper. When the Justice had got clothes on, he opened the door to tell us to come in, but, of course, I wasn’t there, and Joe was running frantically round the house looking for his girl, while the old man and his dogs were coming nearer every minute. The Justice came out and Joo yelled for his Martha Jane, but she came not. Then the Justice called out: “Pon’* be alarmed, madam, come in; you shan’t be hurt,” and essayed to assist Joo tc find her. By this time the old man, his son ami the hounds had charged into town and were almost at the door. According tc previous arrangement a sham row at once began between our boys and the pursu ers, and so well'was tho thing done that the citizens (for every man, woman and child in the village was up) pitched in to prevent what they thought would be a sanguinary affray. The burly Justice, seeing the turn af fairs seemed to bo taking, and excited beyond measure, mounted the horse block and commanded the peace so vo ciferously as almost to bo heard in the adjoining counties of this State and Kentucky. This restored quiet, our boys professing to be law-abiding citi zens. The old man also simmered down, though be insisted that he had the right to be a little out of humor at the boys for robbing him of his gal, ami kept lin gering round and “cussin’ ” a little on tho outside. After the row had been squelched, tho women of the village organized a search for the lost maiden, with a view of shielding her'from the wrath of tho irate old man. It was not long before I was discov ered by one of them, and she, with another, made a dash at mo. I scuttled off os fast os I could, but I hung my boot in my lawn calico and made a per fect “shuckin” of it in my haste. It tore nearly off at tho waist and split in two, and by tho time I got to the next fence I had a trail two yards long. I had great trouble in climbing that fence (I can’t see how a woman can climb a fence, no way); in fact, I half climbed aud half rolled over, burst the strings round my waist, ran out of all tho balance of my lower female harness, threw my bonnet back on my head, raised the yell, and almost ran over some more women who were looking for me, and I heard one of them sav.J os I passed—“Lordy, Kate, what was that ?” I didn’t stop to ex plain, but made good my escape. Joe was not to be thus outdone. He persevered, and in n short time succeeded in getting away with the right Martha Jane, and the two were made one. Bnt Mrs. Joe would never speak to me after wards, for the reason, I suppose, that I came so nigh beating her out of a hus band. It was the nearest I ever came to being married, and though Joe—doubtless in stigated by his wife—gave me a terrible thrashing some eighteen months after the escapade, I never recall it without a hearty laugh. The Postal Card Fiend. “There is a new kind of fiend in exis ence,” said a post-office detective recent ly to your correspondent; “the postal card fiend, who came into existence with that species of epistolary effusion. The nuisance is a much greater one than you can imagine. No one who is not con nected with the service can imagine the number of scurrilous cards sent out. Ladies come to us—some of them be longing to the first families in our city— who are almost heartbroken over the open missives they have received. They do not want to expose the matter—often it is the result of sorqe family feud—and so all we can do is to stop the cards here, while the villain is allowed to go free.” I have heard of a case lately where a young wife was assailed in reputation by a former lover—rejected, of course—who kept just within the boundary of the law. The insinuating language was sufficiently veiled to keep the young husband un easy, while it ate deep into the young bride’s heart. It will kill her, as she is dying slowly of the inward wound. Os course ten years in prison would be light punishment for such a fiend, but these people always calculate upon an unwill ingness to prosecute on account of fears of publicity,— N, ¥. Car. Philadelphia Hecord. SOUTHERN TOWNS. The Mnabl-oom rinces I»evelo|»«Mt Sluce I lie W.r-lron Manufactures. (Ottt'j*. Southern Letter.; The average Southern town which has grown up since the war, surrounding a railroad station, consists of two to five drinking saloon, a few stores and a series of cabins or shanties of planks or logs, set hither and thither, without much reference to a town in the future. Through a long range of country there are no fences on the side of tho railroad track. Tho trains are kept constantly whistling to avoid running over cattle or mules. Thia is the case within sight of Montgomery, Ala., where there are some 16,000 inhabitants. Occasionally one finds a steam saw-mill put up since the war in the midst of tho wood, sawing out lumber. The rivers are, full, almost to the level of the landscape, in high water, and they are principally efficient as to Hooding the surrounding bottoms and creating now soil for agriculture. Alto gether the most hopeful country in the South, for various occupations, is along the mountain lines of Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia, where I saw a number of iron furnaces, and in two or three cases cotton mills, built by Northern capital in a perfect manner. Oneof the furnaces which gives tho name to the railroad station was called “Stonewall,” after Stonewall J ackson. The next was called “Tecumseh,” after Gen. William Te cumseh Sherman, and is operated by ex- Senntor Warner, of Alabama, who was on Gen. Sherman’s staff. Warner got into the train at his station and talked to mo ns far as Rome, Ga., and said to me: “There are just four towns in the Smith which are picking up rapidly—Chat tanooga, Rome, Atlanta and Birming ham, Ala. My bi other-in-law, Justice Woods, of the Supreme Court, is inter ested with me in the Tecumseh furnace. We worked along for some years during hard times without much returns, but we are now making money, and so are the furnaces generally in this section, of which there ore a dozen or more. All of them are charcoal furnaces, and two of these are said to be the largest charcoal furnaces in the world. We have orders for iron a long way ahead. The ad vantages of making iron here are cheap ness of materials and of labor.” He said that they paid about one dol lar a day for labor, and paid about forty or fifty cents for cut wood per cord. I also understood him to say that the ma terial entering into a ton of iron procured on his laud cost only about sixty-five cents. I presume he meant without la bor. This was disputed by Mr. Folger, who thought Warner must have had said six dollars and a half, but I am uretty sure ho said sixty-five cents. Warner said that the present Governor of Ala bama was a pretty fair man, and that, while the State was not improping much, industry would soon startup. A bank liad just burst at Rome, Ga., aud Sena tor Warner was just going up to see what had become of SB,OOO of his furnace money deposited there. Throughout the South there is a rising opposition to any more State banks, and a general op position to my further noise about what is called “States’right.” I have shown you in another communication how tho exasperation against “States’ rights,” so called, has broken out among tho most dogmatic soldiers of the rebellion, who want a better living for their familiesand less political theory. She Was a-Washing. They had an assault and battery case r on trial in Justice alley, says M. Quad, I and one of the witnesses for the plaintiff I was a colored woman. After the usual questions had been asked she was told to tell the jury what she knew about the case. She settled back and began : “ Well, I was a-washin’ out my clothes when ” “Never mind the washing,” said tho lawyer. “But it was Monday.” “ Can’t help that.” “ But I always wash on Mondays.” ‘ ‘ Never mind that. Tell the jury what you know about this affair,” “Well, J was a-sudin’ an’ a-sudin’ my clothes when I seed ” “Can’t you let that washing alone? We all know that you were washing.” “ Yes, sah. I had fo’ten shirts, free tablecloths, twenty-four collahs and twelve towels in the wash, an’ I was u rinsin’ an’ a-rinsin’ when ao ole man ho »> “Say, Mary, won’t you tell the jury what you saw?” " “Yes, sah; 1 was a-wringin’ an’ a wringin’, an’ I had my sleeves rolled up “ Mary, I wish you’d hang that wash ing up to dry.” “ Yes, sah. De next sing arter wring in out de clothes is to hanp ’em out, an’ 1 was a hangin’ when ’ “I guess you can be excused,” said the lawyer. “Shoo, now! .list hold on till I git dat washin’ in an’ part of de shirts ironed an’ I’ll tell you jist how dat fight began an’ de name of de party who was knocked ober de ash-heap an’ frew de alley fence! Doan’ git a poo’ woman way off down yere an’ den refuse to let her aim her witness fees.” Opium Smoking- San Francisco is not of the opinion that the article in the new Chinese treaty prohibiting citizens of either country from importing opium here, and vessels flying the flag of either nation from carrying it, will destroy the trade in this article. Opium smoking, on the Pacific coast, is not confined to the Chinese, for American youths have acquired the 1 habit. Saysone of the importers: “The i Chinese will get it, if it is oa the top of I the earth." Begging in New York. A New York correspondent of the Boa ton Transcript writes: Among other kinds of business whioh are flourishing in New York just now is that of begging. The mendicant is seen everywhere. Chancellor Crosby, in an address the other evening said that after a month’s experience in personally investigating cases in which he had been applied to for help, he had found all beggars to be frauds. He believed, too, that all the beggars he had known for thirty years past had been foreigners, or the children of foreigners. This is a sweeping as sertion but it is pretty near the truth. Begging is made a regular occupation to a much greater extent than is generally known. Yet there are cases that appeal so strongly to your sympathy that you can hardly pass them by. I found one the other evening. I had crossed the ferry to Brooklyn about dark, when a little girl asked me for a penny to buy bread for her sick mother. She was bare-footed and shivering in her thin clothes, and seemed to be a deserving object of char ity. Bnt I thought I would investigate a little. So I insisted on her taking me to see her sick mother. Very reluctantly she led me to a comfortably furnished apartment in a neighboring street, where I found the sick mother to be a robust Irish woman who was bustling about preparing supper for the family. ’ There were ornaments on the mantel and pictures on the wall, and an ample supply of cold meat, bread, and tea on the table. I used some vigorous lan guage appropriate to tho occasion, when the woman said she had sent the child to beg in the streets, but her reply was characteristic of the class to which she belonged: “Shine, and what harm is there in the child’s earning a few pennies at the ferry ?” Plans of Polygamy. Some idea of the avowed designs of the Mormon Government may be formed from the following public statements by their Bishop, Lunt: "Our Church has been organized onlv fifty years, and yet behold its wealth and power! This is our year of jubilee. We look forward with perfect confidence to the day when we will hold the reins of the United States Government. That is our present temporal aim; after that we expect to control this continent. We do not care for the territorial officials sent out to govern us. They are nobodies here. We do not recognize them. Nor do we fear any practical interference by Congress. To-day we hold the balance of political power in Idaho; we rule iu Utah absolutely; and in a very short time we will hold the balance of power iu Arizona and Wyom ing. A few mouths ago President Snow, of St. George, set out with a band of priests for an extensive tour through Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Mon tana, Idaho and Arizona to proselyte. We also expect to send missionaries to some parte of Nevada, and we design to plant colonics in Washington Terri tory. In tho past six months wo have sent more than 3,000 of our people down through the Sevier Valley to settle in Arizona, and the movement still pro gresses. All this will help to build up for us a political power that the dema gogues will be forced to recognize. Our vote is solid, aud will always remain so. It will be thrown where the most good will be accomplished for tho Church. Then, in some great political crisis, the two great political parties will bid our support. Utah will then be admitted of a polygamous State, and the other Terri tories we have peacefully subjugated will be admitted also. We will then hold the balance of power, and will dic tate. In time our principles, which are of sacred origin, will spread throughout the United States. We will possess tho ability to turn the political scale in any oarticnlar community we desire. Our people are obedient. You can imagine the results which wisdom may bring about with the assistance of a church organization like ours. It is the oom pletest one tho world has ever seen. ” The Italian Postman’s Hard Lot. A Rome correspondent of the Phila delphia Bulletin writes: “I see by a morning newspaper that the pay of the Roman poitman varies from 75 to 80 francs a month, with which he must eat, lodge, dress, etc, and sometimes he has a family to keep in the bargain. I think that in most countries the postman is the worst paid of all public servants, and he has, perhaps, to svork the hardest. Some months ago one of these was sud denly missing, and at the same time an important sum was missing from the treasury. It was, of course, surmised that both had taken the same road. Last week, however, after six months, the de cayed and putrid body of a man was found in one of the lofts of the Post office. The stench was so great that at first no one could get near until the air was made breathable by disinfectants. The missing employe was then recog nized. A revolver was in his hand. In the pockets of his coat were a citation for debt and one cent! The whole tragedy was written on that- cent. It was not he, however, who had taken the missing money. The family name is thus far unstained.” In the harbor of Wisenar, in the Baltic, animalcules increase and multiply at a great rate, for 17,000 cubic feet of mud are formed there every year, and every grain of this mud contains 100,000,000 of the beautiful siliceous remains of the infusoria. _____ In making a crust of any kind, do not melt the lard iu flour. Milting will in jure the crust. PUBLISHED EVEBT ThVMDAT AT BELLTON, GEORGIA/ RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One year (52 number)), $1.00; six months (,?6 numbers) 50 cents; three month) (13 number)), 25 cent). Office in the C-irtsr buildin?, wist of th depot. NO. 24. Large Mouths Are Fashionable. The fashion papers, which are author ity on the styles, claim that ladies with large mouths ore all the fashion now, and that those whose mouths are small and rosebud-like are all out of style. It is singular the freaks that are taken by fashion. Years ago a red-headed girl, with a mouth like a slice cut out of • a muskmelon, would have been laughed at, and now such a girl is worth going miles to soe. It is easier to color the hair red, and be in the fashion, than it is to enlarge the mouth, though a mouth that has any give to it can be helped by the constant application of a glove stretcher during the day, and by hold ing the cover to a tin blacking-box in the mouth while sleeping. What in the world the leaders of fashion wanted to declare large mouths the style for, the heavens only can tell. Take a pretty face, and mortice out about a third of the front of it for a mouth, and it seems to us as though it is a great waste of the raw material. There is no use that a large mouth can be put to that a small mouth would not do better, unless it is used for a pigeon-hole to file away old sots of false teeth. They can’t, certain ly', be any better for kissing. You all remember the traveling man who at tended the church fair at Kalamazoo, where one of the sisters would give a kiss for 10 cents. He went up and paid his 10 cents, and was about to kiss her when he noticed that her mouth was one of these large, open-face, cylinder escapement, to-be-continued mouths. It commenced at the chin and went about four chains and three links in a northwesterly direction, then around by her ear, across un der the nos§ and back by the other ear to the place of beginning, and con taining about twelve acres, more or less. The traveling man said he was only a poor orphan, and had a family to sup port, and if he never came out alive it would be a great hardship to those de pendent on him for support, and he asked her as a special favor that she take her hand and take a reef in one side of the mouth so it would be smaller, She consented, and puckered in a hand ful of what would have been cheek, had it not been mouth. He looked at her again and found that the mouth had be come a very one-sided affair, and he said he had just one more favor to ask. He was not a man that was counted hard to suit, when he was at home in Chicago, but he would always feel as though he had got his money's worth, and go away with pleasanter recollections of Kalama zoo, if she would kindly take her other hand and draw the other side of her mouth together, and ho would be con tent to take his 10 cents’ worth out of what was left unemployed. This was too much, and she gave him a terrible look, and returned him his 10 cents, saying: “ Do you think, sir, because you are a Chicago drummer, that for 10 cents you can take a kiss right out of the best part of it ? Go 1 Get theo to a nun nery,” and he went and bought lemon ade with the money.— Peck’s Sun. As the hot days of summer draw near people are debating the question, “Where shall I go for a trip It has been fashionable for a year or two to visit the Northern lakes or mountains. These resorts arc very pleasant in hot weather, but they have serious draw backs. First, it is very expensive get ting there and back again. Then it is still more costly to remain, as one should, until Southern frosts; for if one returns home during the malarial season he is much more liable to suffer the effects of the poison than he would have been had he remained South all summer. Then their distance from business and other connexions is an objection. All these can be avoided and more than equal benefit secured by the expendi ture of less than half the time, money and preparation necessary for a North ern trip. We have within easy reach a resort whose claims have been before the public fifty years and never been rivalled or disputed. In all that minis ters to health or pleasure it is the peer of any place in the United States, and its charges are very reasonable. Rail roads give its visitors excursion rates. We refer to Bailey Springs, Ala., Ellis & Co., proprietors. In addition to its merits as a pleasure resbrt, its power to cure all diseases of debility, poverty of the blood, nervous exhaustion, dropsy, scrofula, dyspepsia, and especially di seases of the kidneys or bladder, is truly wonderful. Write to them before mak ing other arrangements. A postal card only costs a cent. Perhaps the young woman of Green, Minn., didn’t scream when, on breaking an egg to mix in her cake, a snake seven inches long and about tho size of a pipe stem fell into the pan. Prejudice Kills. “Eleven years our daughter suffered on a bed of misery under the care of several of the best (and some of the worst) physicians, who gave her disease various names but no relief, and now she is restored to us in good health by as simple a remedy as Hop Bitters, that we had poohed at for two years, before using it. We earnestly hope and pray that no one else will let their sick suffer as we did, on account of prejudice against so good a medicine as Hop Bit ters.”—The Parents.—Telegram. There are still a few negro slaves in the country—owned by the Seminole Indians in Florida. You Can’t A Hord. To b) without Warner’) Safe Kidney and Liver Duo.