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DOMESTIC AFFAIRS. FUN. The Men. Communications,receipts and honsehold hints of all kinds are solicited from our lady friends. We trust they will not be backward in helping us to keep up this Department. Send bits of your domestic experience. Let us hear your mistakes *nd how you rectified them. Ask questions for other correspondents to answer, if they can. Send communications to us—person ally. Cultivation of the Stbawbebby.—I have the finest strawberry bed in this part of Georgia. It is four years old and has for two years been yielding me quite a handsome sum every spring from the sale of the berries which I send to At- lanta in crates. Let me tell you how I planted and worked my bed. I had the ground prepar ed the fall before by thorough ploughing and leveling and manuring with leaf loam mixed with fowl and barn yard manure. In April I set out my plants, getting the Wilson variety and mixing them with the wild strawberry that is indigenous in our meadows and waste fields. This mixture makes a hardier growth. I set out the plants fifteen inches apart in the row and the rows two feet apart, which distance admits of cultivating with the hoe between the rows. Last year on enlarging my strawberry patch, I set out half an acre of plants far enough apart to cultivate with the horse and plow. I planted these in September and the vines are looking splendidly. September and August, when not too dry, are very good times for planting a straw berry bed. Let the rows be straight to facilitate cultivation, rejeot all weak plants, make a hole as deep as the rootand compress the dirt around the roots. In cultivation keep down all weads and grass by frequent hoeing. Stirring the soil and sprinkling with water occasionally coun teract drought. Remove the runners as they ab sorb the strength of the plant that would else be thrown out in fruit. In the winter, cover the beds with a light covering of leaves or straw, which must be carefully removed in the spring (not burned off though. When your berries be gin to diminish in size and the crop is Bmall, best plow up and plant over afresh. Sydney. Bow to Feel Peaches fob Canning.—Make a strong lye of wood-ashes and salt water. Fill a kettle with the lye and when boiling rapidly drop in your peaches twelve or eighteen at a time. Take them out almost immediately and merse them in a pail of cold water. Take one in your band and the rind will slip off leaving a beautiful yellow ball; throw this into another vessel of pure water, and so proceed till all are done. This process will not in the least injure the flavor of the peach. If the lye is not strong enough, put into the kettle a dipperful of clean wcod ashes. Common baking poda will answer the same purpose as the ashes. How to Clean Place; Silk.—The durability of black silks leads to the necessity of their fre quent oleaning, and an excellent way to do this is as follows; Peel about two potatoes,slioe them thin,and pour one pint of boiling water on them. Leave it standing four hours. When ready for immediate use, put in about a quarter of a tea- cupful of alcohol. Sponge the silk well on the wrong side, rubbing any shiny spots with care. Then role it tightly around a thick pole. This renews.its freshness and cleans it well. Do not use an iron. Cleaning a Brussels Cablet.—As the season is now approaching when earpets must bo hand led, the following will prove of Interest to the numerous lady readers of l'HE Sunny Sogeh: First, have tbe carpet well shaken, then tack it down in the room where it is to remain; sweep it as thoroughly as possible; take a pail of hot water, put in two tablespoonsfnl of pulverized borax; wash the carpet all oler the surface, us ing a flannel cloth. For grease spots or very dirty places, use a scrubbing brush freely, and a very little scap, taking care to rinse the soap off well after scrubbing; change tbe water quite often; rub the carpet well with a dry cloth after washing, and open doors and windows so as to diy the carpet as quick as possible. Obange Salad.—Peel one dozen of oranges and cat in slices, put in layers in a glass dish, sprinkling each layer plentifully with sugar. Squeeze over this the juice of six oranges and ponr over all a glass of win# or brandy. Miss Corson writes a good work "on -Twenty- five cent Dinners,’ which every lady who has a husband should have. It is a gem of domestic economy and sbould be followed by a volume , to back husbands’frugality in drinks and cigars. A lady is tbe proper one to write it ‘Pocket Books.’—Very nice.—Beat well the yolks of fonr eggs with two tablespoons of sugar. Dissolve one yeast cake, or fonr tablespoons of fresh yeast, in a little lake warm water. Into this stir the sugar and eggs— adding one pint of flour, one pint of sweet milk and also salt and the whites of tne eggs beaten to a stiff froth. Set this sponge aside to rise. After rising suffi ciently, add one tablespoon each of butter and lard, and flour enough to make a soft dough. Let it rise again. Then add a little flour and make out into your rolls or ‘pocket books.’ If you wish the latter, take a small piece of dough and roll out in the shape of a pocket book. Spread a very little batter and sprinkle a small quantity of flour on each one. If yon do not care to trouble about making into that shape, cut them out with your biscuit cutter and put one on the other. After rolling out, put them in yonr biscuit pan. Let them rise some time before baking. Bake them as you would light biscuit. Send to table hob H. C. Happy Babiesln a Tub vs. Crying Babies. B.H. If our editor is willing I will give her some directions which I think will mitigate young mother's trials at their babies’ bath hour. Prepare wrapper for your babe with large sleeves and arm holes to put on when yon undress him. Have ready a tub partly filled with warm water at such a temperature as will be exactly comfortable for your elbow. Wet his head with cool water and set him in the tub carefully at first. I think he will let yon wash him sufficiently while he en joys the splashing. After a few minutes, accor ding to your judgement, throw off his wet wrap and take him up into a large drying cloth— which was warming a little—and which will en tirely cover him except his face, rub him gent ly but briskly till thoroughly dry, then dress. I think he cries because sensitive to the cool ness produced by evaporation. Your Giels—Let Them Leaen to Do Fob Them selves.—Girls sbould early learn to purchase materials for their own clothing. Parents can advise them at the start, but it would be a good plan for girls to learn to rely on their own judg ment. The purchases can be talked over after they are made. Let your daughter, with a lit tle advice, cut up a few yards of calico and make aprons and dresses and bed-quilts, even if there is a little waste and some poor fits. She will be likely to see her mistakes and profit by them. Let her make some cakes and bread, and boil some meat and pop some corn, no mat ter if she does have to throw some into the swill pail. It is better to make a few small mistakes while young, in acqniring an education, than to grow up without experience. They must learn some time, or make great blunders daring a good portion of their lives, when left to rely on themselves. In many respects, children are not trusted enough. They are -bossed’ too much. Mrs. M. S. Lee, liviDg near Jasper, Ala., out her own throat with a piece of broken glaaB tumbler, severing the jugular vein on the left side, at three strokes, and bled to death in about ten minutes. All flesh is grass, bat grass widows are not all flesh. A delicate parcel—A yonng lady wrapped up in herself. Almost every young lady is public spirited enough to let her father’s house be used as a court house. All the nice hoys have their hair closely lawn mowed. It stabs the flies to death and bothers the mosquitoes. Whenever a young lady learns to stick a pin in her apron strings that it won’t scratch a fel low’s wrist, there will be more marriages. The Empress of Austria wears a train thirty feet long, and when she walks upstairs the dis heartened Emperor goes up in the elevator. One of the most remarkable of American ex hibits at the Paris Exposition on tbe opening day was a Cincinnati woman in a last year’s bat. The Cincinnati ‘Commercial’ predicts knee breeches will be worn next year. We never saw the time yet when breeches were not wearing at the knees. The wolf, says an old Russian proverb, changes its hair every year. The young lady of the present day can beat this badly; she changes hers every afternoon. A woman and a phonograph never get along well together—they both want to do all the talk ing, and the woman's bound to get tbe last word in, even if she busts the old machine. I would not live alway, I ask not to stay; So he ate a green peach, And was carried away.. At a church entertainment in Atlanta lately, dnringa pause in the conversation,a young hope ful broke the silence by exclaiming, ‘Oh ! Mrs. Smith, let down your teeth again. It’s funny.’ The mosquitoes are nightly transferring the best bine blood of our country from the veins of her fair daughters, and gallant sons to their own. Bnt we are too fast Medical men de clare that mosquitoes are veinless. An English boy was beating a donkey unmer cifully, when the minister of that parish, com ing np, censured him for his cruelty. The boy resentfully retorted: ‘I’m sure you needna care; it's nane of your congregation.’ An orator who was much in demand in polit ical campaigns, being asked by an admirer the secret ot his success, replied: ‘When I Lave facts, I give 'em facts; but when I haven’t, I yell and saw the air.’—The Nation. There is more unadulterated joy over the cap ture of one solitary mosquito on the inside of the netting than in circumventing the million and ninety-nine on the ontside. This is from the new Bible we are getting up. It suits the times.—Oshkosh Christian Advocate. The United States Army is pretty busy just now. One of them goes out to fight twelve thousand Indians every morning while the other stays at home and gets breakfast. It'a wearing though—on the army. The Indians don’t ap pear to mind it, Great pains are taken by the New Port cor respondents this year to let the world know that Mariner Richard W. Thompson or Mrs. President Hayes ‘touched off such and such a number of torpedoes at the station here to-day.’ Just whether fashionable Newport pays for all those tons of burnt powder is not stated. He wanted to have some fun, so he wrote let ters to every minister in town in these words: ‘The folks have discovered everything. It will all blow over in a couple of weeks, l’a threat ens to shoot you on sight.’ He wrote them all in a female hand, and the following Sunday every pulpit was occupied by out-of-town min isters, as ‘our pastor was suddenly called away.’ New Signals. [Apropos of fan 'and handkerdefflirtations.] 1. Pulling np the shirt sleeves and slightly moistening the palms of tbe bands—Step over here a minute; I wish to speak to yon. 2. Stepping np behind a man and grasping him by the scruff of the neck, and advancing rapidly—Please follow me. 3. Putting fore finger to right eye aDd draw ing down lower lid—Don't you (or do you) wish you had it? I. Nonchalently chucking a brick or other • light object on top of a man’s tile—Who’s your hatter? a. Taking a man’s nose between your fore and second fingers, and slightly changing the posi tion of the same—I address myself to you. G. Abruptly altering the angie of a man’s coat tails by insinuating your boot-toe under them —Do not linger. 7. Putting tbe point of your elbow between any two of a man’s ribs, and jarring his internal economy—We are observed. 8. Doubling yonr fist and placing it firmly on the bridge of a man’s nose—I love you but not devotedly or passionately. 9. Grasping a man’s ear between your upper and lower jaws, and gently working the jaws— My heart is another's. 10. Rapidly removing the chair on which a man is about to sit down—We are not entirely sympathetic in our objects. II. Taking a brief observation across a kind of impromptu sextant, constructed of all the fin gers of one hand outstretched, the thumb cen tering on the nose—Farewell; this parting isfor- ver. GEMS OF THOUGHT. Happiness grows at onr own firesides and is not to be picked up in the stranger's garden. ‘Not in the end, but in tbe deeu, Doth tri est honor dwell.’ A man too careful of danger lives in continual torment, bnt a cheerful expector of the best bath a fountain of joy within. Love is not love when mingled with other considerations. Friendship is a medicine—a panacea for all misfortunes. What sculpture is to a block of marble, edu- cation is to the human sonl. Labor to keep alive within yonr breast that spark of celestial fire called conscience. A man of gieat reading, and without conversa tional powers, is like a miser, hoarding all for- himself alone. XU d<sperandum. Faith and persistency are Life s architects, while doubt and dispair bury all under the ruins of any endeavor. Joubert says: 'Choose for a wife only the wo man, were she a man you would choose for a friend.’ Promises shatter like crystals under the ham mer of the first temptation, It is a joy to think the best we can of human kind. WoBDSwoiiTH. . The advance of prices in Paris is driving 'thousands away from the Exhibition who would otherwise remain daring tbe summer. The ho tel-keepers are learning too late the injury they have done themselves, and are now trying to tempt strangers and tourists back to the capital by lower figures who were driven away by ex tortion. Excelsior Platters. This nhique little invention which wo noticed last week does all kinds of plaiting In oue fifth of the time required by others instead ot four fifths as stated in the advertisement. Prioe one dollar and a quarter. The skull of Captain Jack, the Modoc chief, hanged for Gen. Canby’s murder, has been pre sented to the Jewett Scientific Sooiety, of Lock- port, N. Y. The Marquis of Lorne parts his hair in the middle and shaves clean. The Princess Lou ise resembles the Queen and looks older than her husband. Col. E. Z. C. Judson, formerly well known as ‘Ned Buntline,’ a sensational Btory writer, now lives quietly and happily at ‘Eagle Nest,’ in Stamford, Delaware county, N. Y. “Hog” Williams, the rich miser, owner of - several fine blocks of buildings in Memphis, who died of yellow fever in Granada, in his last hours refused to give anything for the sufferers around him, and actually applied to the relief committee for supplies. A New Orleans correspondent reports that ex- Governor Wells will enter the lists as Republican candidate for Congress in the Fourth Louisiana district, but believes he will succeed poorly in or ganizing the colored voters. Gen. Anderson is inclined to make the race in his district. While Joseph Besons, of SpriDgtield, 111., was crossing a drove of blooded cattle over the Trin ity river, near Dallas, Texas, a fine Dnrham heifer was seized by two alligators, dragged be neath the water and drowned. In the stampede which followed a valuable bull was gored to death. A journeyman gilder, a boy of eighteen, has been arrested at Berlin for sticking on a wall opposite the Crown Prince’s palace a placard containing the following words: ‘Last bulle tin—His Majesty, the Emperor,is re-established; the author of a third assassination may now make his appearance.' Culpepper Va. News: There is a colored boy liviDg on the farm of Major Throckmorton, near Cedar Mountain, about seven miles from Cul pepper, whose skin is exactly like that of a snake, the creases and diamond-shaped scales being plainly discernible on all the unexposed portions of the body. Prof. Leone Levi, of the University of Lon don, believes that the troubles of the English workingmen are caused largely by their own vices. They earn in the aggregate $1,500,000,- 000 in cash annually, of which they ought to save $75,000,000.* As a matter of fact they save only $20,000,000. The bulk of the $55,000,000 is wasted mostly in drink. Nothing is too good for the Earl of Beacons- field just now. When he went to Osborn the other day to visit the Queen he traveled in one of the royal saloon carriages, the superintend ent of the linb dfeye the.train, as he does when the Queen travels, and the platforms in Victo ria Station were covered with orimsoa cloth. Nq wonder Mr. Gladstone is disturbed, A French paper says that Lord Beaconsfleld had no sooner returned to London from the congress than he wrote over to Paris for twenty-five new novels, the more extravagant the better. Were this true, Lord Beaconstield would not be the first eminent statesman who has frequently sought sim ilar ficreaiion. Metternich, Alexander I, of Rus sia, and Gregory XVI were all readers of Paul de Kock, Mr. Rufus Hatch is a fresh illustration of the vicissitude of Wall Btreet. Some few months ago he failed for the paltry sum of $2,500. Af ter having sealed with his creditors he Was re admitted to .4 • board, and is estimated to be 1 j worth to-day'qj quarter of a million of dollars almost the wlmIo of which he made in the Granger stocks, bulling them at the lowest and selling tliem-ajj-ttee bighost figures. The story is told of a respectable Philadel phia bachelor, up at the Catskill Mountain House, laying siege to a fair Miss of forty-five, who flutters in pink and lavender ribbons, One of the most striking costumes with which he has sought to charm her eye consists of a black silk coat lined with white satin, cream colored vest, black gros-grain silk pantaloons silken hose, pumps, chapeau a cort. The latest political satire published in London is entitled “Dizzy vs. Bizzy, or the Carving of the Turkey,” aud is a drama in three acts. The first • act opens in 1875. The diplomatic garden is re- I presented with Dizzy pointing to the turkey and j saying tragically, “You shall not amputate his legs and wings if I know it. This I have sworn before one great god Jingo.” The second act presents Constantinople in 187G. This contains ■ much wit and many happy hits. The third act, j after Dizzy has settled matters with Gortschy, Drassy and Bizzy, represents Dizzy as declaiming I theatrically, “But, soft, my apotheosis approaches; 1 the telephone is laid on to Charingcross, anu is even now in action. Listen ! I hear already the acclamation of a millenium. The star of Occident sets forever, and by means of my magic sway the tide of an ancient civilization flows back once more to its source at the orient. Britannia has completed her career; the queen of the west fades into the dim vista of the dead past, while the sun of Palestine again covers the terrestrial and celes tial disks. Yet triumphant I return to the tawdry halls of the Giaour, which I detest. Listen ! 1 say. As I caracole through parliament on the long eared Eastern, but hitherto despised quadruped, hear them cry hail! all hail!! to thee, Moses Sec- undus, thrice liberator of the Elusian race, grand vizier of independent Turkey, and juke of Jerus alem 1” The Strange Miner, THE JOKE THAT WAS PLAYED ON HIM—HE T.TiTTn THE JOKE, TOO. Not many miles from Shasta City is the gnlch of which the following mining story is told: It is a pretty deep ravine, with rocks showing all the way up the sides. Gold in paying quanti ties had been found along the stream,but it seem ed to disappear a few feet from the channel. One day, while a gang of busy men were toiling in the stream, a stranger, evidently green at mi ning, came along and leaned on ragged elbows to watch, with protruding eyes, the result of their toil. The miner nearest him took out a $5 nugget,and anxiety overcame the greenhorn. ‘S-a-a-y,’ he asked, ‘where can I go to diggin to find it like that ?’ The hardy miner stopped his work, and giv ing the wink to all the boys, so that the joke should not be lost, pointed np on the barren rocks where no gold had ever been foand. ‘Ye see that rough lookin’ place ?’ ‘Yes—yes,’ said the new hand. ‘Well, thar it is rich. Jes’ ye stake out a claim an’ go ter work, an’ when we finish here we’ll come up, too.* Then the now hand thanked the honest min- j er, and the boys all grinned appreciation of the joke. That afternoon a solitary figure was pick ing away on the slope, and every time the min ers looked np they roared with laughter. But about noon the next day, the greenhorn struck a pooket and took out something like $30,000 in a few minutes. Then, innocent to the last, he treated all aronnd, and thanked the miner who sent him np there, and took his money and went down into the valley and bought him a farm. Then the nnhappy miners arose leav ing their old olaims, dotted that hillside for days. But there were no more pookets anywhere. The : whole thing reads just like a traditional fairy ' story. But then I saw the gnlch. Mnoh more : unbelievable things have happened in the mines. | THE WOMEN. Miss Alcott, the author, is regarded as rath er stiff and unapproachable in society. CypruB is called ‘the home of love and beau ty.’ Wonder if Vick Woodhnll isn’t over there? Dr. Mary Walker has purchased a farm ont West, and will turn her attention to agricul ture. What riles a country postmistress, is to have a postal card come to the office written in French. The old lady who was told by tbe photograph er to ‘look at that spot on the wall,’ after walk ing over to it, said Bhe oonldn’t see it withont her ‘specs.’ It is said that blondes have had their day,and now the attentions of male admirers have switch ed over to the brunette. Of course the blondes will declare this a pure fabrication. The Ladies’ Flower Mission, of Philadelphia, distributed in one day 650 bouquets. One hun dred and forty were devoted to special cases, and the rest were distributed In institutions. Mrs. Lovell, of Deadwood, is a mild one; she whipped and choked several women, shot some men and ran the whole neighborhood ont of town; and when tbe polioe came to arrest her, barrioaded her honse and didn’t surrender un til she bad shot two or three policemen. The jndge who tries her had better look sharp. Little Annie Halton, a miss of five years ar rived safely at Wilmington, N. C., having trav eled by herself from Little Rock, Ark. The va- rious conductors of the trains on the ronte took pare of her. The railroad conductor has many stones thrown at him by drummers, would-be- deadheads and others, but he is on tbe average a real good fellow. A young lady’s daily auditor, in an uptown dwelling, when she is playing the piano, is a mouse. No sooner are the keys thrummed, than the little animal comes rnshing from an adjoining room, mounts the instrument and lis tens delightedly to the playing. ‘My Grand father’s Clock’ excites his mouseship greatly, and during its performance he fairly dances a jig- The Women of Cyprus—Wherein lies their charm. The bewitohing power attributed at this day to the women of Cyprus is ourious in connec tion with the worship of the sweet goddess who called their isle her own. The Cypriote is not, I think, nearly so beautiful in face as the Ionian queens of Izmir, bnt she is tall, and slightly formed ; there is a high-sonled meaning and expression, a seeming consciousness of gentle empire, that speaks in the wavy lines of the shoulder, and winds itself like Cytherea’s own cestns around the slender waist; then the riohly abounding hair (not enviously gatt?®r<?d togeth er under the head-dress) descends the neck, and passes the waist in sumptuous braids. Of all other women with Greolan blood in their veins, the costume is graciously beautiful, but these, the maidens of Limesol—their robes are more gently, more sweetly imagined, and fall like Julia's cashmere in soft, luxurious folds. The common voice of the Levant allows that in face the women of Cyprus are less beautiful than their majestic sisters of Smyrna, and yet, says the Greek, he may trust himself to one and all the bright cities of the „Egean, and may still Weigh anchor with a heart entire, but that so surely as be ventures upon the enchanted Isle of Cyfprus, so surely will he know the rap ture or the bitterness of love. Tbe charm, they say, owes its power to that which the people call the astonishing ‘politics, ’ politike, of the wemen, meaning, I fancy, their tact, and their witching ways; the word, however, plainly fails to express one half of that which the speakers would say. I have smiled to hear the Greek, with all his plenteousness of fancy, and all the wealth of his generous language, yet vainly struggling to describe tbe ineffable spell which tha Parisians dispose of in tbeir own smart way, by a summary l Je nescai quoi.’ All The World Over. OUR WIVES. Changes in Ten Years of Married Life, A young woman daring ihe first week of her marned life entertains vague suspicions that the statements of older wives, that the way to a man’s heart is through his mouth, are true. Her Charles, who is almost, if not quite, ermpt from human failings, has already manifested a profound admiration for veal pies, and has openly expressed his detestation to overdone mutton. She accordingly builds up within her a fortress ot resolution in which to guard that sacred treasure of a husband’s affection. In her girlhood this young woman had speDt much time in cnltivating her musical taste in read mg Emerson and Carlyle; she had been fond of pretty landscapes, and could use her pencil with effect, and she had been heard to declare with pride that when she married she would give up none of these things. Let us visit her now, at the end of ten years of matrimony, and we will find that she has broken her vow and thrown it to the winds. We find a tiresome sort of person, whose whole intellect is absorbed in attending to the cares of honse-keeping and in getting stylish deesses for her children, Her conversation rises seldom above the level of infant gossip and servants, and the only ideas developed by time and ex perience in her conviotion that men are tbe most unreasonable and selfish of creatures, ana wo men the most abused and self-sacrificing. There is a great evil somewhere, but what is it ? The husband acknowledges to himself that he is disappointed in the wile he has chosen, and jet he finds difficulty in pointing out his mistake’and hardly finds cause to blame her, for is she not a faithful wife, a devoted mother and a most frugal manager ? The mistake is a national characteristic. So passionate and in tense is the American mind in pursuit of its temporary interests, the men will suffer the chains of business to bind them down aDd throt tle them, while their wives bend beneath a sim ilar yoke of dnty at home. What is lacking is the power to rise above the petty annoyances of daily life; we need to learn, to distinguish trifles from affairs of moment, to know that every mole-hill is not a mountain-. We need not forsake the upper strata of senti ment, thought and ideality—the atmosphere of the sonl—because we know that there is a lower one of rontine and small vexation, in which our feet are told to tread. To breath in the one is to receive strength and refreshment for exertion in the other. It is a good plan to pick up nee dles and pins from the floor, bnt picking pins ought not to be made the chief object of exist ence; for, if we move along with our heads con stantly downward, we most assnreadly will see nothing better than pins and needles to the end pf om days, POSITIVE EVIDENCE of the Efficacy of B. M. Wool ley’s OPIUM CURE as shown by Testimonials from Reliable Cured Patients with the name and Postoffice address of Each Given. Bonham, Texas, June 18th, 1878. Maj. B. M. Woolley,35 Whitehall St. (up stalls Atlanta, Ga. Dear Sir:— Excuse me for not writing sooner. I appreciate the cure your antidote made ou me. I am in excellent health and gaining strength every day; and this is to certify that I used opium for four years, using thirty grains a day. I applied to you for your Opium Anti dote or cure, which I used for four months. It has cured me beyond all doubt. I had no diffi culty in leaving off the use of opium when I commenced with the antidote. No interference with my business, and no difficulty in quitting the antidote. Yours Very Truly, W. H. Gilbert. A Southern woman visiting at Nantucket,con sidering herself insulted by a resident, drew her revolver and made him get down on his knees and apologise. Princess Louise, now Vice Queen of Canada, is described as a woman of strong character and decided will. She has an intelligent and deter mined face, which suggests her mother’s. She is very cultivated in literature and art and pleas ant in her manners. Palestine, Tex.—The layiDg of the corner stone of the Mosaic Temple, in this city, took plaoe August 29. The ceremonies included a grand procession by the Knights Templar, civic authorities, and various corporate bodies, con cluding with a ball for tbe benefit of the order. Sixty t)f the Western editorial excursionists to the Mammoth Cave arrived at Nashville yester day morning, and visited the State capitol and other public buildings, and called on the wid ow of the late President Polk. The visitors re turned to Louisville by the 3 p. m. extra train. The new tramp law, under which tramps are sentenced to thirty days hard labor in the chain gang breaking stone in the streets of Erie,Penn., is working beautifully. The tramps seldom linger long in the city after being released and the community never was freer from them than now. Lient. H. S. Wetmore, formerly of the navy, has given notice to Admiral Porter, commander of the navy, that he intends to bring suit against him for the recovery of $1,600, which Wetmore claims tbe Admiral exaoted from him wrongful ly while he was in the service of the department He claims that the Admiral has been instrumen tal in getting him appointments, first, as chief clerk of the board of inspectors of tbe United States Navy, and second, as the chief clerk of tbe signal office of that department and that when he (Wetmore)came to draw his pay through different disbursing offioes, he foand that cer tain letters had been filed with them, asking them to retain out of bis pay certain sums, which were to be sent to Rosalina Wetmore, who lives in Chester, Pennsylvania, who is the divorced wife of Lieut. Wetmore. The case will be en tered in the courts hero in a few days. Wet more has been divorced from his wife over three years, and claims that Admiral Porter had no right to force him to contribute to her support Death fbom a Needle Point.—A young man named Henry Hubbard, aged 38 years, fell dead while walking the streets of Toronto Canada. Of coarse, the usual inquiry was instituted and examination made. It was at first supposed he was the victim of heart disease, but the most vigerous search failed to detect any signs of dis ease in that Qrg&D. The Doctors were puzsled; the man was healthy, and in full possession of his powers: what could have caused his sudden departure from this world? It was at last traced: in one section of the heart, while Uhdejr the microscope, was discov ered the minute point of a needle. Death had been bronght abont by this broken point of a needle. Bnt how did the needle get tc the heart ? The doctors renewed their researches, and were at last able to follow the oours'e of the needle’s point, whioh had first entered the man’s foot, and from there had Blowiv worked its way through the body to the heart, when death resulted. Pbeston, Websteb co., Ga., July 3d, 1878. Maj. B. M. Woolley, 35 Whitehall St., (up stairs) Atlanta, Ga.,- Dear Sir:—l have used your Opium Antidote with entire success. I am perfectly cured of the habit, and can say that in my opinion your Opium Cure will never fail if taken according to directions. Yours truly, yi. P. Tracy, What is Portalinef , This question is thus briefly and truthful!/ answered. Portaline, or Tabler’s Vegetable Liv er Powder, derives its name from the fact that it regulates those portals of the body through whioh the most dangerous diseases make their entrance into the human system. Simple roots and herbs, for which we are indebted to bounti ful nature, have been scientifically combined, and presented as a cure to all suffering with Constipation, Biliousness, Dyspepsia, and all diseases arising from a torpid liver. Price 50 entsa package Take that Buckeye out of Your Pocket l Now that tbe medical properties of the Buck eye are clearly established, and utilized for the cure of Piles, why not make a direct application of its healing virtues in the form of Tabler’s Buokeye Pile Ointment and be cured ? This preparation is made from the alkaloid of the Buckeye, er Horse Chestnut, and, combined with other ingredients, is offered to the public as a cure for nothing else but Piles. Price 50 oenta a Bottle. Ang3-3m. GET YOUR OLD PICTURES Copied and enlarged by the SOUTHERN COPYING CO., ATLANTA, GA. Agents wanted in ere/y town and county in the South. Do yon desire an agency? Send for terms to agents. 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