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If not paid for before the expiration of the time advertised, 25 per sent, additional will be charged. Announcing names of candidates for office, $5.00. Cash, in all cases notices over live lines, charged at regular advertising rides. ■ All communications intended to promote the private ends or interests of Corporations, So cieties, or individuals, Will be charged as ad vertisements, Joft Work, such as Pamphlets, Circulars, Cards, Blanks, Handbills, etc., will be execu ted ill good style and at reasonable rates. letters addressed to the Proprietor will lie promptly attended to. Going up and Coming "BT Down. This is a simple song, ! tis true — . My songs are never over nice— And yet I’ll try to scatter through A„little pinch of good advice. Then listen, pompous friend, and learn To never boast of much renown, For fortune’s whees is on the turn, And some go lip and some come down. I Know a vast amount of stoclis A vast amount of pride insures ; Dut fate has picked so many Mocks. I wouldn’t like to warrant,yours. Remember, then, and never spurn The one ivh' V(lss nml is hard and brown, For ho is l’Anouldejjo up. And yo 1 Co G u°nt> t 0 c . bmo dDWII -*. / ' Anothei'pK*. will agree,' (The lr * j^^ r,e 118 well confessed,) That ‘ Coif 1. tocvacy”'* Is but a s<£ r at best; And sladuine r rdbe of face, And Bridget b..er faded gown, Both represent a g/odly face, From father Ada\n handed down. • • Life Is uncertain—full of change ; Little we have that will'endure, And 'twere a doctrine new and strange That places high are most secure ; And if the fickle goddess smile, Yielding the sceptre and the crown, ’Tis only for a little while, Then A goes up and B comes down. This world, for all of us, my friend.. Hath something more than pounds and pence; , ThCn let me'humbly iWornmeml .AJittle use of common souse ; Thus lay all pride and place aside, And have a care on whom you frown, For fear you’ll see him geritig* up, When you are only coaling tlovm. Dressing for Church. — There was a time when good taste de manded the aiso of the plainest clothes in the sanctuary, When the wealthiest were distinguished for tjieir conspicuous absence of person al adornment, and sartorial display was a' mark of vulgarity, at such times and places. But now it would almost appear as if, whatev er might be thought of a modest garb in other places, the'proper cos tume for the house of God, where, theoretically, we all go to be re minded of our common origin and destiny, were an agglomeration of all the jewelry, and all the chignons, and all the paniers, and all the feathers and furbelows in one’s wardrobe. The wearer is to carry all this piled agony to the sanctua* ry as to a fair—as if her errand were not so much to- praise as to be appraised—and there employ the sacred time in envious compari son of her own mountain ot milli nery with the Himalayan triumphs of her neighbor.— Star . During our late war there was a young man in the army who did not join of his own free will. He had been drafted. He was not a brave young man; quite the oth erwise. One day, during a bloody battle, our young |piend showed such a remarkable large white feath er, that his captain was obliged to threaten hini with his pistol in or der to keep him from running away altogether. Then the youth began to cry. “You ought to be ashamed of yourself,” said the captain ; you’re no better than a bafby. “I wish —l wuz—a baby, blubbered our hero, “an' a gal baby at that.” There is a girl in Newport who has two perfectly formed tongues. Won’t the man who gets her,(be prepared to take to himself wings and a harp! “Purified through suffering.” CUTHBERT 110 APPEAL. Sitting up for Her Boy. Here and there throughout the village a few lights flicker like pale stars through the darkness. One shines from an attic window, where a yQtithful aspirant for literary hon ors labors, wasting the midnight oil and the elixir of his life in toil, useless it may be, save as patience and industry ate gained, and give him a hold upon eternal happiness. Another gleams with a ghastly light from a chamber into which death is antering and life departing; One light shines through a low cottage window, from which the curtains are pushed partially aside, showing a mother’s face, patient and sweet, but careworn and anx ious. The eyes, gazing through the night, are faded and sunken, but lighted with such love as steals only into the eyes of true and saint ly mothers, who watch over and pray for their children ; who hedge them iu from the world’s tempta tion, and make of them noble men, and.true and loving women. It is nearly midnight, and the faded eyes are strained to their utmost to catch the far-off sight of someone coming down the street. The mother’s listening ear loses no sound, how ever slight, that breaks upon the stillness that reigns around. No form seen, no quick step heard, she drops the curtain slowly and goes back to the table, where an open book is lying, and a half knit sock. The cat jumps up in her chair, and yawns and shakes herself, and gradually sinks down again into repose. No onedispntes her pbsscssion of the easy-ch&ir,— IJp and down the littlq room the mother walks, trying to knit, but vainly; she can only think of her son, and woDder and imagine what is keeping him. Her mind pictures the worst, and her heart §iiiks low ej* and lower. Could the thought less boy know but one half the an guish he i$ causing, lie would hast en at once to dispel it with his presence.' . ( - She trembles now as she listens, for ail uncertain step is heard—-a sound of coarse laughter and drunk en- ribaldry j her heart stands still, ahd she grows cold with ap prehension. The sound passes and dies away in the distance. Thank heaven it is not lie, and a glow comes over her, arid once more her heart beats quickly. Only a moment, for the clock on the mantel shows on its pallid face that it is almost midnight. Again the curtain 'is drawn aside, and again thO anxious, loving eyes peer into the darkness. Hark ! a sound of footsteps coming nearer and near er ; a shadowy form, advancing, Shows more and more distinct; a cheery whistle ; a brisk, light step up the pathway; a throwing wide open of the door, and the truant boy finds himself in his mother’s arms, welcomed and wept over. — He chafes at the gentle discipline; he doesn’t like to be led by apron strings; but he meets bis mother’s gentle, questioning gaze with one honest and manly look, and makes a half-unwilling promise not to bo so late again. And he keeps his promise, and in after years thanks Heaven again and again that he had a mother who watched over him, and prayed for him. He knows better than she, now, the good that was done by her sit ting up for her boy. The Philosopher’s Stone.— There is a man in San Francisco who claims to have found out how to transmute the baser metals into pure and shinning gold, which (it is declared) has been searchingly tested by the assayers and declared to be the genuine article, one thousand fine, The lucky and learned man says that with proper facilities he can manufacture gold by the ton, and can produce enough in a few weeks to freight a ship! He res olutely refuses to disclose his secret ana declares that it shall die with him, and we rather think he will. Lost wealth may be restored by industry; the wreck of health may be regained by temperance; forgotten knowledge restored by study ; alienated friendship smooth ed into forgetfulness ; even forfeit ed reputation won by penitence and virtue; but who ever again looked upon his vanished hours ? Who ever recalled his slighted years, stamped them with wisdom, or erased from heaven’s record the fearful blot of wasted time. *—A Cincinnati wife left her hus band’s board, but took the bed with her, He is puzzled to know how to word a legal note of warning to lnoSpec live 5 creditors, CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1872. I*ife’@ IB lightest Hour. Not long since I met a gentleman who is assessed for more than a million. Silvered was his hair, care was upon his brow, and he stooped beneath his burden of wealth. We were speaking of that period of life when We had realized the most per fect enjoyment, or rather when we had found the happiness nearest to being unalloyed. “I’ll tell you,” said the millionaire, “when was the happiest hour of my life. At the age of one-and-twenty I had saved SBOO. I was earning SSOO a year, and my father did not take it from me, only requiring that I should pay for my board. At the age of twenty-one I had secured a pretty cottage, just outside of the city. I was able to pay two thirds of the value down, and also td fur nish it respectably. I was married on Sunday—-a Sunday in June—at my father’s house. My wife had come to me poor in purse, bat rich in the wealth of her womanhood. The Sabbath and tbe Sabbath night we passed beneath my father’s roof, and on Monday morning I went to work, leaving my mother and sister to help in preparing my home. On Monday evening, when the labors of the day were done, I went not to ■my parental shelter as in the past, but to my own house—my Own home. The holy atmosphere of that hour seems to surround ihe even now in the memory. I openfed the door of my cottage and entered. I laid my hat upon the little stand in the hall, and passed on to the kitchen and dinning room—they were both one then. I pushed open the kitchen door and was —in heaven ! Tbe table waS set against the wall. The evening meal was prepared by the hand of her who had come to be my help meet in deed as well as in game—and by the table, with a throbing, expectant look upon her face, stood my * wife. I tried to speak, and eould not. I could only clasp the waiting angel to my bos om, thus showing to her the elas tic burden of my heart. The years have passed—long, long years—and worldly wealth has flowed in upon me, and lam honored and envied, but—as true as heaven—l would give it all—every dollar—for the joy of that hour, of that June eve ning, long ago 1” A Petrified Baby.— A petrified baby has been exhumed from a Chicago cemetery. The Times re port says : “ All, save the mother of the little infant, stood mutely looking upon it, but she became nearly frantic with excitement from the first moment that the body was exposed’to view. She had endeav ored to take it from the coffin, cry ing bitterly, and wildly insisting upon taking it with her to her home. Her husband held her back ,and would not allow her to remove it. The mother seemed nearly dis tracted with grief at the thought of its being reinterred. It looked so natural and beautiful, so like the baby that she had placed in the grave ten years ago., that it brought up all her sorrow as if she was but now laying the loved dar ling in the earth« The body was removed, with * others which the family had come there to exhume, to Graceland, and reburied. The family are Swedes, audit was learn ed reside a short distance out of the city. The child, so remarka bly preserved, had been buried for more than ten years.” An Optical Curiosity. —Hctre ia a simple little experiment, by which we can prove the existence of a blind spot in our eyes.' Shut your left eye apd with the right one look steadily at the cross just below, holding the paper ten or twelve in ches from the eye. X o Now move the paper slowly to ward the eye, which must be kept fixed on the cross. At a certain distance the other figure—the let ter O—will suddenly disappear} but you bring the paper nearer, it will come again into view. You may not succeed in the -experiment on the first trial, but with a little pa tience you can hardly fail, and the suddenness with which the black spot vanishes and reappears is very strikiffte. Now, examination has showt-Anat, when it disappears* its image falls exactly on the spot where the optic nerve enters the eye, thus proving that spot to be blind. From the Science of Health. V i - “W hen a fellow is too lazy to work,” says Sam Slick,, “be paints his name over the door, and calls it a tavern, and makes the whole neighborhood as lazy as himself.” Billings’ Wit and Wis dom. ■ I v ; A KOAKSE SHOT. When yu see a doktor who al wus travels on the jump, yu ken bet be is looking for a job. the bulk ov mankind are mere imitators of very poor originals. It iz a grate deal easier tew be a philosopher after a toan haz had a Warm meal than it iz when he don’t know whare be iz going to git one. Most meu lament their condishun in life, there are but phew, after all, who are superior to it. To never despair may be God like* but it aint human. Affektasfaun looks well in a mon key. Trieing to define lovb is like trifeing tew tell how yu kum tew brake thru the ice; all yu kno about it iz, yu fell in, and got duck ed. The prinsipal mportans ova mis tery is the mistery itself. What makes a ghost so respektable a kar akter iz that nobody ever saw one. The pedigree that we receive from our ancesters ia like the mon ey we receive from them ; we are not expected to live on the princi ple, but on th 6 accumulation and transmit the principle unimpaired. : A weak man wants az much watching as a bad one. It iz hard work tew define hu man happiness; the leal possessor ov it iz the very one who katil de fine it. Wealth is no guard against vil lainy; thare iz as much inikuity amung the rich az among the poor aekordmg tew their numbers. A wize man never enjoys him self so mutch nor a fool so little, as when atone. Avarice iz as hungry az the grave. There iz a grate deal of virtew in this world that iz like jewelry, mofe for ornameui than use. lam satisfied that courage in men iz more often the effekt ov konstAtution than ov principle. About the best thing that expe rience kan teach us iz tew bear misfortins and sorrow with kom posure. Man’s necessities are phew, but biz wants are endless. Thare are many people who not only beleave that this world re volves on its axis, but they believe that they are the axis. Self-made men are most alwus apt to be a leetle too proud of the job. I think thare is as many old pbools in this world as thare is young ones, and thare iz this differ ence between them ; the yung ones may outgrow their pholly, but the old ones never do. The ambishun ov 9 men out ov 10, if it should receive no check, would end in their destruefion. A genuine aporism is truth done up in a small package. A vishious old man iz a terrible sight, dispised on earth and batned in haaven. The avarishus man. is like the grave; he takes all that he can lay his hands on, and gives nothing baek. Bashfulness is either the effekt ov ignorance or modesty—if it iz ignorance edukashun changes it into impertinence—if it is modesty, it will kling tew,a man as long |ts he has one single virtew left. Marrying for beauty is a poor spekulasbun, for enny mau who sees yure wife has got just about as much stock in her as you have. The Hew Election Law. —As a matter of interest to our people we publish the following law regula ting the holding of elections in this State. Anr Act to regulate the time of holding elections in the State of Georgia. Section 1. Be it enacted, etc., That all elections hereafter to be held in the State under the constitution and laws thereof, except for members of Congress, Presidential electors and county officers, shall be held on the first Wednesday in Octo* ber of the particular years in which udder the constitution elections are required to he held, at the pla ces established by law, and under the election law of the State. Sec. 2. That all elections for members of Congress shall be held on Tuesday after the first in Hovember of the year 1872, and on the same day in every second year thereafter. Sec. 3. That all elections for county officers shall be held on the first Wednesday in January on the years in which under the tion and laws of said State elections should be held to fill such offices, beginning on the first Wednesday in January, 1873. Those who don’t believe that a fly has 209,362 pores in his body, should Gatch one and count them, Harmony in the married state is the very first object to be aimed at. Nothing can preserve affection un interrupted but a firm resolution never to differ in will, and a deter urination in each to consider the love of the other as of more value than any object whatever oh which a wish has been fixed. How light, in fact, is the sacrifice of any other wish when weighed against the af fections of one With whom we ash to pass our life. And though oppo sition in a single instance will hard ly of itself prodiice alienation, yet every one has his pouch into which all these little oppositions are put and while that is filling, tbe alien ation is insensibly going ob, and when filled is Complete. It would puzzle either to say why ; because no one difference has been marked enough to produce a serious effect by itself. But he finds his affections wearied out by a constant stream of checks and obstacles. Other sources of discontent, very common indeed, are the cross purpose of husband and wife, in common con versation ; a disposition to criticize and question whatever the other say —a desire always to demonstrate and make him feel himself in tbe wrong, especially in sympathy,— Nothing is so goading. Much bet ter, therefore, if our companion views a thing in a different light from what we do, to leave him in quiet possession of his view. What is the use of rectifying him if the thing be unimportant? And if im portant, let it pass tor the present and wait a softer moment and more conciliatory occason of revis ing the subject together. It is wonderful how many persons are rondered unhappy by inattention to the rules of prudence.— Thomas Jefferson. ‘ The Province of Women.-- Next to God, all true men reverence woman, as mother, wife, sister. We reveVence her so entirely, and love her so perfectly for making life itself worth living, that we would not have the celestial ideas with which all the chivllary of our sex clothes her, dessecrated by con taminating associations, arfd such intercourse as shall tend to unsex and rob her of her sacred dower. The genuine dignity, tenderness, virtue and real beauty of a woman’s life are the product of the shade and refined privacy, unfitted for Con tact with the grosser world, the glare of the burning sunshine or the cutting winds and storms. Rev ereuce is the atmosphere inr which she thrives; severity and coldness kill her; and yet her dominion is greater than that of maD. An Arkansas local soliloquizes thus: “Some of our exchanges are publishing as a curious item a state ment to the effect that a horse in lowa pulled the plug out of the bunghole of a barrel for the purpose of slaking his thirst. We do not see anything extraordinary in* the occurrence. No v, if the horse had pulled the barrel out of * the bughole and slaked its thirst with the plug, or if the barrel had pulled the bunghole of tbe plug and slak-' ed its thirst with the horse, or if the plug h3d pulled the horse out of the barrell and slaked its thirst with the bunghole, of if the pung hole had pulled tbe thirst out of tbe horse and slaked the plug with the barrel, or if the barrel had pulled the horse out of the bunghole and plugged its thirst with a slake, it might be worth while to make some fuss over it.” Inquisitive Children. —Never laugh at a child when it asks a fool ish question. It is not foolish to the child.- If a child is sensitive, one instance of laughing and ridb cule, in such a case, might forever chil 1 its aspirations after self-educa tion. No matter how trivial a child’s question may seem to be, it is entitled to a prompt and kind answer. s—** A man on being deceived into the small-pox hospital at Bedford, was asked if he bad been vaccina ted. “ Yes,” he replied, “when a child, and I was christened at the same time, but neither of them, took.” A cfoupy youth in a neighbor ing town, having strongly objected to* taking his medicine, was induced to make a hearty meal of buck wheat cakes and “maple syrup,-’ but the latter proved to be nice syr up of squills. The- boy said he “thought something ailed the molas ses the minute his father told him he could eat all he wanted to.” The Dress of Civilized Women. I do declare that I think it would be better to die and get Out of tor ment at once than to have to rise every morning sos Some -forty or fifty years and box one’s body up in a sort of compressive armor, hang weights to one’s hips, and more weights upon one’s head—which last are supported by the roots of the hair; put one’s feet into shoes a number too small, aud not of the right shape, and with heels like stilts; and then Set abdtit doing the Whole duty of women with a cheer ful face and a spry ait, for from fifteen to seventeen mortal hours out of twenty-four! That there are so many women who are not frightened into a decline at such a prospect, and that they bravely un - dertake to do it—nay, more, that they even dream that under such disadvantages they can work side by side with unshackled man, and that they die iu trying to do it, cer tainly says ranch for their courage, but very little for their common sense* and . A man’s dress to a great extent is fashioned for comfort. He has contrivances for suspending the. weight of his clothing from his shuol ders. If the east wind blows lie can turn up his coat collar, button himself up snugly, tlonch his hat over his eyes, thrust bis hands into his pockets and bravo the weather. But imagine a woman removing her hat of bonnet from the angle at which fashion says she must, wear it on account of the weather, or turning any of her “fixtures 7 up to protect her neck and throat, or but toning up anything that was un buttoned before, or sticking her hands into her pockets ! She would be taken for an improper character out bn a mild spree, or for an es caped inmate of a lunatic asylum, should she endeavor by any impromp tu arrangement of her habiliments to save hen heal Id. —From the Sci ence of Health. Guardian of Purity, Labor is the mother of wealth and the guardian of purity. All great and good men have been workers. The moral powers of no man, much less of a boy, are able successfully to resist for any length of time,-the temptations which be set the individual who has npthifig to do. They are more than a match for human nature. The damages of one idle day often are so many and *so great, that it requires a whole year to repair them; and not nnfvequently, life is too short to replace things as they were be fore an idle day. The human fam ily are doomed to toil, and the only safeguard to the Individual mem bers of the race is to submit cheer fully- ... No work that is useful is dis graceful. It matters not how hard it may be. So long as it tends to advance the welfare of the laborer, and the prosperity of society m general, it is honorable. It is al ways better to be engaged in some honorable work than to be doing nothing. Wealth and decency is the inheritance of the laboring man, and poverty and shame is the por tion of the individual who always has nothing to do. He is a very genteel and amia ble youDg man. But he is now in sane. He splits his hair in the mid dle. The other day, in combing his hair, he chanced to get two ft ore hairs oh one side than on the other. This destroyed the balance of his head and overturned his brain.— He makes a very genteel lunatic, however. ■ A young woman once mar ried a man by tbe name of Dust, against the wish of parents. After a short time they began to quarrel, and she attempted to return to her saying, “Duts thou art, and unto Duts thou shalt return.” And she got up and dusted. A preacher one slippery,frosty morning, going home with one of his elderly members, the old gentle man slipped and fell. When the minister saw that he was not hurt, he said, “My friend, sinners stand on slippery places.” “Yes,” replied the old man, looking at the preach er, “I see they do, but I can’t.” A Fairfield man, who failed to get a thirty cent pineapple for a quarter of a dollar, wanted to know “whether we were breathing the pure air of freedom or being strang led with tbe fetid breath of a hel lish despotism.” The storekeeper said those were the only pineapples he had/ House Work. There is not a girl on earth, wliethet the daughter of prince or pauper, who, if made a perfect mis tress of all household duties, and w«re thrown into a community wholly unknown, would not rise from one station to another, and eventually become the mistress of her own mansion; while multitudes of young women placed in positions of ease, elegance and affluence, but being unfitted to fill them, will as certainly descend from one round <sf the ladder to another Until at the close of life, they are found where the really competent started from. Mothers of America if you wish to lid your own and your children’s households of the des troying locusts which infest your houses and eat up your substance, take a pride in educating your daughters to be perfect mistresses of every home duty; then if you leave them without a dollar, be as sured they will never a warm garment, a bounteous meal, or a cozy roof, nor fail of the respect of any one who knows them. The object of the radical politi cians is to keep alive sectional sus picions and animosities, in order that they may plunder the South ern State governments and steal tbe Southern electoral vote under the friendly shield of Military rule. , The Southern people haVe given all the evidences they can offer of their sincerity. The soldiers who fought under the* rebel flag—men of courage and honor, have united in the support of a Liberal Repub lican candidate for the Presidency, and have done all in their power to conciliate the North. Yen the Rad ical politicians raise the cry of “trait ors” and “rebels” against them and refase to accept their proffered friendship. If this policy is to con tinue the United States can become nothing but a second Mexico, and there can never be peace while the Union holds together. The violent tirades of Wendell Phillips, Gerit Smith, Boutwell and others, who pour into the ears of the ignorant negroes the poison of suspicion and hate, and who urge upon them a resort to civil war rath er than a submission to reconcilia tion, are revolting to the public midd. Sensible men cannot fail to see that the doctrines advocated by Greeley must lead to peace and happiness, while the doctrine preached by the Radical supporters of President Grant must lead to bloodshed and suffering. “If Gree ley is elected arm, concentrate, con ceal your property; but organize for defense,” is the advice ol Wend dell Phillips to. the negro. “Black men, be not deceived by this cry for reconcilation. Your old oppressors win never De.reconciled to you, nor should you be reconciled to them,” cries Gerrit Smith, and Boutwell, Harlan and the rest, echothe words/ To what can such teachings lead but, to continued discord and hatred, and eventually, perhaps, to a bloody and cruel war of races ? Are the finacial interests of the country safe under such heated appeals to the passions'of ignorant «nen? If General Grant is to b* re-elected it will be by the support of the mon ied and business classes of tbe coun try, and it is time for them to make it a condition of their support that this reckless playing with fire shall no longer hazard the safety of their lives and property. It is time for the people to let all parties under stand that whatever candidates may be successful, the administration of the next four years must give con stitutional freedom to the South ern States, take the iron hand of military rule from the throat of that section of the Union and let the whole nation have peace.— H. Y. Herald, Somebody having applied to an editor for a method by which he might cure his daughter of her par tiality for young gentlemen, is kindly informed that there are sev eral methods of reform. One way is to skin the young person; anoth er is to ptlt her into a well and drop a few loads of gravel on her head another is to bind her ankles to an anvil and upset her out of a boat. —“I say, Jones, how is it that your wife dresses so magnificently and you always appear out at the elbow?” “You uee, Thompson, my wife dresses according to the gazette of fashions, and I dress ac cording to ray ledger.” Tbe majority of women care but little about suffrage. If the back of car seats could only be hollowed so as to admit of their bustles lapping over, the ballot might go to thunder for what they care. , v < i— An Irishman having been told that tbe price of bread had lowered, exclaimed,. “This is the first time I ever rejoiced at tbe fall of my best friend.” - « O kittens! in our hours of ease, uncertain toys and full of fleas; when pain and anguish hang o'er men, we turn you into sausage then.- , . r NO 38*; kales, yjip' Written After Visiting tbe Graves of my Wife and Child. ■ — : —~~ p: and [d I»Y HAMILTON. i aitilijS ■ g ' ‘iii st "mm i rjf Heavenly Father, at Thy teet See a stricken husband bow : - Comfort him with mercies meet— O i • it MM k Save him now. V t * Under this green .sodded mound Thou hast laid ray wife away; ’ Heal my bleeding, gaping wound— Near me stay. And, my Father, lay Thy hand Lightly on my weary heart Lift me up, and jet me stand Where Thou art. * My two angels with Thee iive In Thy bright, celestial home ; 1 • ' 1 Help tne, Father, whilst I strive There to come. Railroad Adventure in ©Silo, I was riding in the cars some days ago, and I sat alongside a fel. low who was as weather-beaten as if he had been sitting six weeks astradle of a watermelon trying to put out the sun by Spitting At it. We conversed. I said to hiro,> What’s your name ?’ Says he, ‘Adolphus.’ Says I, ‘Your mothers name V Says he, ‘Mary.’ 1 looked amazed, and says I, - —j ‘Mary, Mary ! can it be possible that you are the lamb?,’ Says he, ‘The what V ; Says lg ‘The lamb that Mary had..’ ** W He revealed the fact that he was not the lamb, and he further observ ed,‘lt is all fired hot.’ W Say I, ‘Did you ever visit a tropj icaj clime?’ * 't#.. Says he, ‘A what ?’ Say I,‘A hot clime.’. Says he. ‘Jimmy erix, stranger# I've plowed up a bill-side Fourth of July, when the sun set my straw hat on fire, and if that ain’t a "hot climb, why I h ain’t beeD to any as yet.’ _ m. Before I had time to reply, the conductor came along and shouted ‘tickets.’ Greeny—l’ve got cone. Conductor—Money, then, lywtif Greeny— I hain’t got any. Conductor—Got a pass ? Greeny—No, I hain’t got a pass.- Conductor—Thuuder and spikes, you don’t expect to travel cm .the car% for nothing, da you ? Greeny-—You advertise to take a* fellow for nothing, anyhow. Conductor—How so. Greqny—Why, down there inly your orifice iu Cincinnati, you’ve got a great big sign stucK up in store .writing; it says, ‘Through to New York without change.’ < The conductor dropped his anchor and put that fellow ashore, right by a White post with black letters on it which road C. 30 miles.— H. Y. Paper, Tobacco Statistics.— During tbe past year there were 1,333,24*6,000 cigars manufactured in the United States. At ten cents each, average' retail price, they would cost smok ers $138,224,000, and yet there are more who smoke pipes than cigars. The present annual production.of tobacco has been estimated at 4,000,- 000,000 pounds. Suppose It all made into cigars, one hundred to' the pound, it would produce 400-, 000,000 ot cigars. Allowing this' tobacco, unmanufactured, to cost op the average ten cents a pound, we' have S4O(hOGO,OQO expended every year on the weed At least one and a half times as much more ia , required to manufacture it into a marketable form, and dispose of it to the consumer. So tb< 3 world expends one thousand millions of dollars on an habit.. each; or halt a million school houses costing $2,0C0 each. It would em ploy one million of poachers and one million of each a salary of S3OO. ° Change oe Tone.— Let Demo crats cease to speak of voting for Greeley as “a bitter pill”°or “a choice of evils.” When we vote' for Greeley we vote against Grant, and that is sweet. When we vote for Greeley we vote against Centralism, good. YVhen we vote for Greeley weVote for an honest man, and that is pleas ant. When we vote for Greeley we* vote for the supremacy of the white race, for the preservation of the rights of tjfates, for the supremacy of the civil over thte military power/ for the maitmiiueo- irf the sacred writ ot'habms mrpus and number less other valued rights and privile ges. -sr-ffiewnan Jlerafth * *■ ‘ i»*f Iflirirlitjf The Atlanta Constitution esti mates the less to the Squib from the recent visitation of the cotton caterpillar at- Ifuuu ;575.000 f OOO tetf $40j,06'0',000. ; '
