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v<^> (Z'C/ ^ r* 1 0' & '■X ■<« THE PAULDING ycr~ hero fr« •IAS. IIKECKEMtllHlE A CO., Publishers. ONWARD AND UPWARD' NUIWCTMH ION t 81.50 I’cr Annum. VOLUME J. DALLAS. PAULDING COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1883. NUMBER 44. PROFESSIONAL CARDS jQU 8. ROBERTSON, PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, Tenders his profession*! services 'n tl e practice of medicine in nil its 1 ranches to the citizjns of DaIIsb end Mirrou dine country. AdTOflice No. 5 Ac worth street, near cjurt house. W K. FIELD SR* URO. 1 JjILELDER & ROBERTS. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, fk Dallss, Paulding County, Georgia. Prnc'ice in .11 tho courts. Prompt slim lion given to looking after wild land clsin », Collection, a specialty. 1 ly M. SPINKS, ’attorney at law, Dribs, Paulding County, G ;rg'a Prompt attention given to collrefon. Ii anrrnri of IIih Sln'c. Wild land* looked after and intruder, rj. ct-il. I *»3r.r*£5 fou s**i. Music for the Mill'on.—V cm a Rolian Labial Orpin, Sweetest «n'1 most, delightful nmsin Know Popu’ar in Euroon. Anv Line enn b • t Invert on it, from Old Hundred to Yankee Doodle Even those “\vi i no ear” while nwny de lightful hours with tli’s instrument. Any one cin play D. Children liny it in cne evenine. Costs b t or.e-U nth hr much na the O^R^nette, Or*nnina, etc., anti is fsi sweeter nnd needs onlv toamion music. To introduce our new mns’e wo will rend n anm pie Organ, wiih hound hook containing full words end music of 00 new and popidn soojs. which in t-hei t f«oin roll for $30.35, prepaM to nny nd lrc.s f r ONLY $1. C. O. F>.—As a ennrniRee thnt. everv one will receive nil tl cy psy for, wo will nnil cnejample book nnd orpf.n by express C. THE ELECTRIC Mi Bn Cement. is guaranteed to mend a greater variety it art c’os and hold stronger than any ither cement ever inveuted. It will ui.-nd leather, china, glas», wood mar ble, .tone, nud I. stronger where mended than elsewhere. It L a household necce- dty, nud if you try it once you will never bo without it In the bouse. Agents wanted. State ar.d county 'ighta for sale. Address for circular., '.he E.ectrlc, or Tens Gypsum Grmeut O v 85 Decatur Street. Atlanta, Gt. WaT I'hl. cement took tlie premium at the Cotton Exposition. It Stands at the Head! GENERAL NEWS. Wltnt Ii*r Become of Them. O. D„ $100; 1 wo (or $! 60; Ihree, #2.30, or more At the rate of 19 per drr.pn, We ran- not prepay goods «ant <O. D. Circulars free. Address MONADNOf’K MUSIC CO., Lock Box 780, IUnsdnle, N. IF. Insure Your Property AguliiNt I.onn by Fire. I pm ngent for the Continental Insurance Con.- puny, whltih if con fund to the Inanritiff of turn i.ropjrt*. dwelling, churches end retinol Imutei, ihr one, three mid five jeers. Every riudrnt men ftelsrefe when hp knows that if hi* rhe u»d bo * r ut tortuneto en to set hie pioputy destroyid by tire ho will hev** tho neet.**r prrllon of Lis lories rc placed. This is a n liable c-nmt auv, and Insures for a low rat*. Call on inr. and • will pWo vni fu * ap'anaPons. T. A. FOOTE. T7D T? 17 Send to MOORE'S D IlCiij llnalnrss University, Aflnutn, Georgia, For lliii.trntrd Circular A live a c'nnl bus ille.H rc.ioid. K'Jtsbtished twenty years. YOU CAN HAVE ANY KTNDJ FO Sewing Machine Repaired, BUY All Kinds of Needles, A ttachnunts, roils, Etc,, Etc. — OF— 1*. McCORMACK, 51 S. Broad St., Atlanta, Ga. HfiySiind Machines by Express. THE U6HT RUNNING DOMESTIC! Thnt it is the LEADER IN THE TRADE is tv fact That cannot bo dis puted. Man) Imitate il! The Largest Armed ! The Lightest Running! The most Beautiful Wood work ! And is warranted to be made of the best material, tu do any and all kinds if work, to bo complete in every respect. For sale by J. B. ft T. A. FOOTE & CO., Dali.ah, Gkowiia. Agents wanted in unoccupied territory. Address DOMESTIC S. M. CO., Richmond, Va R. E. CA430N, DENTIST, :f«*y mi m lightening Has permanently located in OAK- ""88VILLE, • • TERSVJ LLE, where he is prepared to do all kinds of Dental work at prices to SUIT- THE TIME8. He will he pleased to see all his old friend* nnd mnny new customers If you need any dmtnl work done cal! on him. WM. E. CUNNINGHAM, PRACTICAL SIMPLE Wiidunbr aai Jeweler. •AND PROPRIETOR— GATE CITY MG MACHINE EXCHANGE j REPAIR SHOP, j 58 Dkcatuk St., - ATLANTA, GA. Some folks would say that the above is alitt'e tv much mixed up to he very good in either of its departments, and that Mr. Cunningham canno- be a very good watchmaker if he works on guns, sewing machines, and anything else that comes along. Now let me ssy to those who may fa vor me with a perusal of this that my experience in watchmaking runs back over a quarter of a century, and that part of my business is • under my own personal supervision, and that I propose to do the best possible work on every oi) entrusted to me. The sewing machine department of my business is in the bands of thorough ly competent workmen, and I guarantee every machine that is repaired at ihe G. C. S'. M. Ex. and R. S. shall be well and thoroughly done. Now, if you have a machine that needs repairing, send or bring it to us, And if we don't make it work all right we won’t charge you a nickel. We also have an assortment of second hand ma chines that Will do good sewing, which ,y a !!.! ch3ip. 0iSgS!> •^hewHome^ •SEWING MACHINE CO Tuoacoo will ho cultivated in the cot ton bolt of Florida. Tim orange crops of Florida tiro now worth over ouo and one half millions of dollars, Ralleioh, Nortli Carolina, lias thir teen factories and mills. The Richmond Va., Grain elevator, which In ids 300,000 bushels is now full. A shout Biignr crop is predieted in Louisiana, owing to an insufficiency of rain. FlOTUDA lias 030 fnetmies, working ‘2, 18 bands, with a capital invested of $1,- 697,080. TnK shores along Mobile bay, on both Bides are becoming lined with orange groves. St. Augustine, Fla., pays 12J cents a barrel for oyster shells to improve her roods. Tnu. number of homesteads entered in Mississippi since the passage of tiro law in 1862, is 13,885. Tim banana trees about Mmlison Fla. are nearly all bearing large, fine bunch osof fruit this year. The cigar business is greatly extend ing in Key West, Flo. It is carried on mostly by Cubans. iT. C. Wood, who keeps a hotel at Kris tol is said to ho tho fattcHt man in Vir- ia. He weighs 501) pounds. A wohm similar to tho army worm iH making terrible havoc with tho pea crop in portions of West Tennessee, Many portions of West Tenncsso are suffering with a dry-spell. Nearly all tho grass destroyed and water for stock get ting scarce. A variety of cotton known ns tlio Son- egnmhiu is attracting considerable atten tion in somo quarters of Alabama, It is said to turn out a pound to fifty bolls. Southern farmers have been experi menting with tonintocH ns focal for cows with very satisfactory results, nnd they consider it an absolute preventative of cholera. The peanut crop in Virginia, according to tho latest reports, is n grent failure. It is believed flint owing to drouth not much more than one fourth of a crop will bo made. In Texas colored anil white 'people are to ride in separate coaches, but they are to be equal iu quality. '1'bnt is bow tho Lone Star state manages the social prob lom. Two twonty-flvo-yonr-old orange trees near Tampa, Fla., one measures ton inches id love tiro root, fifty-three inches in circumference, and the other fifty-one inches. The New Orleans Timcs-Domocrnt ex presses the opinion that the cotton crop of 1883-8-1 is owned by tho producers, and will leave more surplus money in tly/ country than any cotton crop of rooiut years. An uncommon stalk of cotton was ej- hibited in Natchez recently. It was sev en feet high, with long cIobc branches, all of which were tilled with bolls. These numbered over 250. It was raised by Alien Carpenter. Another item has been adilod to Ala bama's rich anil boundless resources. Prof. Smith, state geologist, while pros pecting in southwest Alabama last week found a fino flow of petroleum on the Tom- bigbeo. The Marksvillo Bulletin, Louisiana, tells of a stalk of cotton frqrrf JJu'cklmul What Frightened a Hirer. What lias tiecomo of thoso grnoefnl and accomplished liars who used to writo tho romantic tramp stories for tho news papers ? Let us boo : Thoro was al ways a rich heiress from tho city iu tho business. She sits on tho porch in tho cool, old farm house reading a Imok of poems. The rest of tho household are all away. Suddenly the gate opens and a man with a handsome face but shew- ing tile marks of dissipation, approaches and asks for bread. Tho young nnd beautiful heiress goes into tho kitchen nnd brings out a big bowl ot bread anil milk arid an apple pie, nud tint tramp sits down on tho cool porch nnd oata with a new light in his eye. When ho lias finished, lie tiegs to look at tire book of poems, nnd selecting one at random lie roads it aloud so nffeotingly that tho young girl is moved to toars and has to go into the house for a dry handkerchief. Then tho tramp fells how ho wss onoo a bright and happy hoy, but 1ms boon led away from tiro straight anil narrow path by evil associations, until ire bus finally oomo to drinking too much after break, f.ist. And now lie is n tramp, but the kindness oi tho heiress 1ms made him resolve to loud a different lifo. The heiress gives him ft bright gold piece and shakes hands with him, and indulges iu another weep, and thun the tramp goes down ttio Inno with a now resolve in his heart A year later a handsome, well-dressed young man calls at the city homo of tho heiress nnd semis up his card. “ G. Washington .Tones,” she rends, nnd running down, finds in the parlor the tramp she met out in the country ut lier Uncle Peter's. Ho is re formed all over, and lias been wonder ■ fully improved in ntipunranoo bynyoar’s course of regular Imtliiu THAT WINTER'S WOOU. "No. I was never frightened \m ""“'"7!'" W,M once in my life, and you will laugh' tell yon how it Homo rich ild relation hud died and left him some money, too, anil (hero is a mutual pledge of undying affection, an embrace, a 1 ‘bless you my children" from tiro old folks, nnd thou a wedding and a bridal tour to Europe, This roads nil right when it is properly fixed up nml em bellished by a graceful liar. There usod to lie five or six of these pretty little ro mantic tramp and heiress stories travel ing around through the ncwspniH'rH every summer, but there is a dearth of this Rort of literature this season. Per haps the graceful prevaricator who wrote Hu so stories has been struck by liglit- ning. when I tclf yon how it happened. I have been in somo mighty ticklish ilneos, ns you know, but I never know >eforo what kind of a fooling it wns to luivo tho cold chills run up my back bone, makiug my tcotli chatter • thou sand times a minute nud my knees knock together like a pair of drums) ioks." Tho speaker was T. 8. Wilson, tho sub marine diver. Tho ocoasion wns when lie descended to find out wliat hail caused tlio wreck of a largo lake steamer. ‘•When I reached fifty feet," lru said, "I began to fool tho pressure considera bly, But this wns nothing, for I linil been below that depth a number of times. Sixty, foot, sovonty, eighty I Groat Otosar I whore was ft It was dnrkorthnn pitch, and I couldn’t #oo nn inch before tlio glass in my liolmet. 1 thrust out my arms nnd touched some thing oolil nnd hard, which seemed to bo nil around mo. At first I imagined thnt I hud gotten into a big linlo in some way, but just wliat- kind of a hole 1 couldn't say. I olimbod up a little, but my ciliudrionl tomb still surrounded me. I eiimlKid ton or fifteen feet further down, and it wns tho same. Btories of extinot species of immense nnd horrible sea Repents that were Htill f mud in tlio oocnn began to float through my mind, nud I felt my hair Login to rise n little ns I thought that possibly I hail gotten into ono of their dens, lly the similes of my fathers, I must get out of boro,' said I, and I yanked thnt signal ropo to eomo up for iill I wns worth. Up I went, nnd wlion I was pulled up ou tlio soow and my helmet taken off I wns met witli a loud burst of laughter from every aide. What's the matter?' asked I, trying to i.,' 'i'., A Persistent Voter. I knew a man once who told mo ho liiul been young and wns old. I believed bins If lie bad told mo that be linil been old and was young I should have called for the papers on tlio spot. Ho siiiil be hud voted at every election in our town during tho past quarter of a century. In all that timo ho had Mover known a man to bo olectod for whom bo voted. It got to bo so that bis vote wns equivalent to a defeat. Sometimes a candidate would pay him 810 to vote for tho other man. But his heart nlivnys failed him when he got to the polls; ho hud nn abiding faith that liis luck wns going to turn that year, ho oouliln’t find it in his heart to vote against his benefactor, nnd so be would vote for him, nml beat him anywhere from ten to flvo thousand votes. look unconcerned. ‘Oh, nothin’, Tom, except wo guess you got down tho smoke-stack by mistake, didn’t you ?’ said the other nivors. I looked down at myself, nml sure enough, I wns onkcil over with emit from head to foot. ‘ Well, yes,’ I replied, ‘that bidder fell in tlio wroug place nnd I didn't find it out till I linil gotten down a step or two. Ilut hand her tip,' said I, bravely, ‘anil wo will try it again,' They suspected that ] wan a little seared, I guess, but I tried mighty lmrd to make them think differ ently. Ho, assuming an off-hand man ner, I began the descent ngnin. This timo I steered clear ol the smoke-stack and accomplished the task that hud beet assigned to me.” Now is tho timo to got up tlie winter’s .rood. Tho crop is laid by nnd thoro is no pressure of Inrm work nnd so I took three of tho colored tenants and went to the woods to clear a little piece of now ground, nml 1 nnd tho little chaps Hindu another band. I wanted them to pile up tho big chips, but tho ‘little rnsonls found n high land terrapin nml it took ’em pretty much nil the morning to in vestigate him nnd see lirnr ho shut up his doors nml they would liavo to wnit on him a half an hour to see him open and head out of tho front door and tils A out behind. In the evening they found an old stump nlmnt ten feet high with a holo near tlio top and they lino to investigate thnt, nml Carl olimlieil wliilo Jesse pushed, nml just ns ho got up to tlio holo n couple of flying squir rels enino out nnd soared ’em so bail they both tumbled down inn bunch, nml Hie squirrels sailed away to tho fisit of another tree and run up it, nnd then sailed away again to nn old beech that wns full of holes, and tlio little ohniis hollered and wlioi tied nml throw'll sticks .mil chunks amazin', nml now they are hogging mo to nut down tlio old IhiocIi and liavo just a lot of fun, and I reckon I will have to ilo it. Uncle Remus says Hint a tnrrnpln is a mighty slow traveler, and T always thought ho wna, but Jack llomlersoii snvs that thnt dopouds on how hungry iio is. Hu Hays when ho wiib n boy lie saw a tnrrnpin tako a run ning start and jump ten feet up a tree and catch a snp-suoker. .Tack Bnya wo< may believe it nr not, jiwt as wo plooao, amt l was grateful to him for that privi lege. I overboard ono of tlio old dark ies singing a little song to the children, nnd licsnid' Pn frog Iio Jump apd tin lump »nit lio Jump, Hill ile tnrrs]iiii tithe heliinh ho stamp He intil.it lie mu sronn nnh nrnnn Mill he tnrrnpln lithe tils lienh In ho groun Do miilrrol ninliu nest in he forked llm, Util he tsrrsplu carry tils liinmo wih him. I must get Undo Humus after that nigger nnd have him investigated. May be knows something about this sap Ho floppod in politics every few years. Iiu*. ho never struck it. He heat liis ,,-nn u, ,. Dwun I,. i.w,,, j»... .miuu ..OOpl. , , .. , . „ , ,*a The man told mo'-that ns soon ns lio plantations, lied river, the property* of . ho wnH _ oill „ u , rlm for C ou- CHICAGO, ILL.- , -ORANGE, MASS. AND ATLANTA, GA.-; r tho clerk of coqrt.^vhich eont in id 330 liolls and forms, tho lftnjority of tlio bolls having five “locks'” , On tlio farm of Mr. It. C. t Mrtddep, ear Williamsvillqpyn Pike County, r Georgia, improbably ffie largest grapes. .iLa person swnllows any poison whnt- B. F. MA.THEWS & CO., DALLAS, GA. lerwp lily UT, inc in tho couJtry. It is eighteen years old, thirty four inches in circuits foroncc at the bn sc and is a qifarter of ^ COX, HAMMOND & MflSSEY Attorneys at Law, Will practice in the Superior Courts of Douglass and Prulding counties. Suits against railroads and criminal defences a specialty. Cox & Hammond, - Atlanta, Ga. Robt. A. Massey, Douglassville, Ga. mile long. General Witheuh, the Kentucky horse raiser, says that tlio best stock follows the limestone rather than tlie •lay and sandstone formations. It forms a perpetual fertilizer for the land and giies out a pasturage upon which is knit tlie bone and firm muscular tissue. own side every timo. His party, which ever it happenod to lie, tried to buy him oJF or ship him out of tlio country. But lie was a true citizen, and lio did liis duty. Ho voted every time, with "disas trous effect* ' Lnst your at tho election for Council- men tliero wero-flvo candidates in tlio tlio ward, two regulars and - three bush whackers. The mniWMtymmuucd with himself. Ho felt that Jio couldn’t live forever, anil ho was bohn 1 to vote for ono successful mau before lie died, if it killed him. Ho went Hewn, and at dif ferent times during, tlio day ho voted seven times, twice apiece for each of tho two«cgulars, arid-onee for each of tho bushwhackers. Tho fraud was discovered, tho election in that ward was thrown out and a new one ordered. Tho mi^n went to jail, and at tho uovt election a new man camo in and bent the five men for whom lie bod previously ropeatod clean out of their wiis out tie was going to run for Cou gross and vote for tlio other man, anil so lie would either make a spoon or spoil a horn.—Buiidettk. An Instant Remedy for Poisoning. Thompson & Spinks. Ivy F. Thompson and W. E, S ) have formed a partnership for the prac ice of Law, to be confined to cases in Paulding Superior Court, under the firm name Thomp3on& Spin J"is. “I feel bo worried about Charles 1” sighed Mrs. Wildhusband. "It’s get ting late, sure enough,” said sister Kate, looking at the clock; “but I guess noth ing unusual lias happened.” “That is what frets me,” replied Mrs. Wildhus- band: "I am afraid something usual has happened to Charles,”—Boston, Tron- script. ever, or lias fallen into convulsioijB from L having overloaded liis stomachy an in- ts 'stantaneons remedy is a heaping tea. spoonful of common salt and as much ground mustard stirred rapidly in a tea cup of water, warm or cold, and swal lowed instantly. It is scarcely down before it begins to come up, bringing with it tlio remaining contents of tho stomach; and lest tliero lie any remnant of poison, iiowever, let tlie white of an I gg or a teacup of strong coffee bo swal lowed as soon us the stomach is quiet because these very common article nullify a large numoer of virulent poi- sons, Hne was from Toronto, says tho Buf falo Express, and was speaking ardently lwvt. Vinr..<> “Yoii’vft no idea.” she Hail Case of Ethical Culture. V It was in Heptembor, 1879. Thif train that boro Bode Hawkins to collogc caught him away from tlio arms of liis mother nml tho kisses of Ills sisters. Very glum was Boilo Hawkins, and very rcluct-uut ho to go towoliool, "Aw, shnw I” he growled, "I donknro to go nuthor, so what's tho use? Dog- gono tho eollidgo, it don't do no good, nn’ I won’t know no moro w’en I eomo back tlinn w’en I go away. I’d druthor drive team ’r learn n trndo 'r somethin’. Dod fetch tho thing, anyhow.” Juno, 1883. Ambrose Hawkins re turns to bis nnoestral halls oil tlio farm, bis family weep for joy. All rnsli to emhrnce him ns lie steps from the train. Ambrose Hawkins guzes fixedly ftt them through tho oriel window that in cludes ono eye and delicately extending two fingers for them to grnsp, ho mur murs: “Aw, fntlinw I gently, my deali fellah, gently; easy on the rings, ye knaw; IiIchh you, mo motliaw—how, no, thanks; kiss you when we get homo, yo knaw; how do, brotliuw—brothaw—woll bless mo soul, but nw I’vo forgotten the boy’s name. Histnh ileali, will you kindly band these brawses faw mo boxes to tho luggage mawstah ? Aw—is this—is this the vehicle?” And all tho way homo tlio olil man didn’t say a word, but he just drove and thought, and thought and drove, and nearly all tho night ho sat up twisting hickories and laying them to soak in tho watering trough down by tlio eow tiara. And lie told a noighbor tho next morn ing that Charles Francis Adams was right, and that "lie had about four years of college lnrnin to nnlarn for Bode afore the boy could holler at a yoko of steers like ho used to, but tho boy seemed to bo comin round all right, and bo reck oned he'd do, by'n by." snelter business, and while thoso law makers are investigating tho department nf agriculture I would like for them to investigate Henderson on that. Well, we cut wood and out wood, and liavo gut thirty cords piled up—ash, nnd hickory, and white onk, and beech, nil mixed up; utul wo are goinq to hnve the biggest nml hottest fires tins winter yon ever saw. I don’t liko to bn stingy of wood; when company comes in of n win ter 1 light, ai d the oold wind is singing urn..lid, I want tho wood handy and drv, and T can say, “Hnlph, bring in an- ollier stick or two, mid make tho folks set round." I don’t liko for folks to have to crowd u lire. X want the lire to orowil them. The winter wood ought to bo nit now, for it seasons right and will not burn soggy and blank. The winter’s light wood ought to bo lmuled in timo, and split up and put away under cover. Tliero is a power of comfort in plenty of liglit wood. Tlio iihIi wood makes a pretty fire nnd burns free, but tlio hick ory lusts the longest nnd throws out tho most heat. Tho beech burns to a white imb lilto flour, and when you mix up oak with all these It is a luxury to to seo the glowing embers dancing to a white boat underneath, and the childron can pop their com or ronst their potatoes, or the good wife enn make a pot of coffoe on the trivet and toast somo light brood and broil nstcuk over tlio conls, and wo can sit round nnd get tlio odor nnd en joy tlio prospect of good things that nro soon to come. There are lots of com forts around nn old fashioned fire in a farmer's home, nnd, so fur ns I am con cerned, I am oontent witli 'em.— Atlanta ((Ja.) Constitution, The Third Time. Captain Webb’s death at Niagara re- nils tlie similar fsto of a man in Sicily, Nicholas, just ono hundred years ago. gurnamed “tho Diver,” on account of liis many wonderful exploits, undertook in tho presence of thousands of specta tors, to divo to tho bottom of the Sicil ian Gulf, wbero there is a dangerous whirlpool, and bring up something which bad been thrown in. Ho mode the attempt and succeeded. Again something moro precious wns thrown iu nud again he suceeded. Finding that m tho second attempt ho encountered somo submarine di/liciiltics which iio bad not expected, he declined to make another attempt, but a Sicilian noble throwing in a gold cup studded with brilliants as the prize, he dived into the gulf and was never again seen, of her'home. "You’ve no idea,” she said, "how tlio Dominion towns are growing.” "Oh, I think I have, plied tho Buffalo frien I. ‘‘Able class of people, too. Read every day of lots of bank cashiers an<l th® like gone over there to stay.” Tho Telegraphic Project. It is said that tlio Infest scheme is for the Government to purchase tlio West ern Union and go into tho telogrnphio business as it is now in tlio postal busi ness. A Washington dispatch says that Mr. Joy Gould intends to offer jo givo up to the Government tlio whole of tlie Western Union property upon the bnsis of yoarly payments of tlio surplus earn ings for twenty years to come. The pay ment is to bo mado in bonds or cusli, a the Government prefers. This now plan would givo the Government tho imme diate possession oftlie lines for nothing, since tlio yearly payments would consist only of tlio money earned over nnd above tho expenses of running tho con cern upon the basis of existing rates for messages. It is by a similar arrange ment that tho British Government pur chased tlio telegraphs, and Gould sees tliero a very acceptable preeedont. The effort, if successful, would givo him and his associates in twenty years something hko 8150,000,000, for tho net earnings are estimated at $7,500,000 a year. A strong lobby is said to bo getting ready to carry out this scheme. Foots's wife remarked to him, as they started out the other night to tako sup per with tlio Browns, that she expected Mrs. B. would have a stunning coiffure. “Well, I’m Bure I hope so," grumbled Poots, "I haven’t had anything good to eat since the last time we were at mother’s,”—Lowell Courier, A person who descrities himself as a "descendant of Leofrio nud Godiva” has written to a London newspaper protest ing against the Godiva festivity at Coven try. He is indignant thut the memory of his fair ancestress and excellent an cestor should bo kept alive only by s fable—a fable too, which, as he says, is “a disgrace to English history.” This “descendant” tries to show that Godivs never did ride naked through the market place, and that Leofrio, Eurl of ths Mercians, i^Jio is spoken of by Mr. Ten nyson as the “Grim Earl,” wna a wis« statesman, a loyal subject, and a devoted husband,