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BY J. I\ SAWTELL. TRUMAN & GREEN! Macon, ... - Georgia. Wholesale Dealer* and Manufacturers of TIN W A B. 33 ! And Dealers In STOVES, CUTLERY, CROCKERY, ETC. : fY'U Cutlery l.einfc IMPORTED DIRECT from Sheffield, we are aide to sell as low or lower than New York pi ices. We are sole Agents for the noted Charter Oak Stoves, Which we guarantee the best Stove made, or will refuud the money and pay freight back to The trade of Wholesale Buyers especially solicited, and prices guaranteed octiG-om TRUMAN & GREEN. £ TAYLOR. THOS. WILLINGHAM, Jr. GRANGE AGENCY, 4th STREET, MACON, GA. • to: We have established an Agency in this city for the benefit of I*al -I*oll*s under the firm name of TAYLOR & WILL INGIIAM, And will Store and Sell Their Cotton at Special Rates. We will receive'and sell for them any Prodnet raised on their Farms, and make Liberal advances on same. Send forward your Cotton, Hay, Peas, Syrup, Etc., And try us octS-ct THAT CAIVHOT Hi: rpiTE undersigned is still in the Warehonse and Commission Business, at his new and I colnmodions location on Depot Street, with supeiior inducements to those of former years. To the Planters of Randolph and adjacent counties, lie hopes, by personal attentiou to business, to give general satisfaction and merit a liberal patronage. Lit eral advances made ou Cotton in store, for shiptu ut to his triends in Macon, Savannah and New York. Personal attention given to the sale of Cotton, Bagging, Ties, Bacon, Lard, Floor. Sugar. Coffee, Svrup, Coin, Meal, Oats, Rye. Tobacco, Snuff Aoap. Pota.-h, Soda, St.arch. Candles. Oysters Cheese, (trackers Sa-dincs, Yeast Powders, Cotton Screws, Gins, Buggies and liar Dess, Wagons good a* the best, cheap as the cheapest, warranted twelve months. Agent for Wilcox. Gib' s & Co.’s Manipulated Guano, and Phojnix Guano, the best Fertilizers now in use at the pt ice. Wagon and Siock yard, with ample arrangements for feeding and tiemg, Well, Rooms wi'ti firsplares .umished teamsters tree. ttepiß-41vi McDonald. AYER'S, UAKTEK'S; STPRONQ’S, JAYNE’S, WRIGHT'S, PETER’S, RaDWAY’S, DEEM’S, COOK’S, McLEAN’S, McLANE’S, TUTT’S. PROPHETT’S LIVER PILLS, SIMMONS’ Liver Regulator, In Powder and Prepared. For sale by J. T. KIDDOO & CO.. Successors to J. J. McDonald. Ci O TO Thos. Wood’s, (Next to Lanier House,) Macon, - - - - Georgia, To buy your FURNITURE AND CARPETS Cheaper than ever. ALL kinds of Bedsteads from $4 to $l5O. Walnut Bedsteads at slo—Good. Chairs, Tables, Washstands, Mat tresses, Window Shades, Wall Paper. METALIC CASES and CASKETS, Cast, Wrought Iron, and Sheet Metal, Wood Coffins and Caskets, Of every description. sepll-fim Pure BRANDIES, WHISKIES, GINS, RUMS, WINES, CIGARS, of all Grades, TOBACCOS, common and fine, For sale at Drug Store of J. T. KIDDOO & CO. SlioixldLor* Braces;, FOR Ladies and Gentlemen, For sale by T. S. POWELL, Druggist, Bookseller & Stationer. Violins, Accordeons. Flutes, Fifes, Banjoes, Tamborines, Jlarmonicans and Jaws ITarps , For s de by T. S. POWELL, Druggist., Bookseller and Stationer. Attention, PLASTERS anfl MERCHANTS, rjXHF, midersifjnecl Hep leave to call the at -1 tention ot the I’lauters of Ran lolph and somouiniinj' counties to 11 e filet that, they will continue the business Of Warehouse and Commission, At the FARMERS WAREHOUSE, In the city of Cuthbert, Ga., wlieie they wilt Cany on ilia \V rchonse AND COMMISSION BUSINESS, In all its Branches; and where they will he pleased to see all their old customers and friends, anti as many new ones as may wish to patronize them. And they hope, by close atienti m to business, and an earnest endeavor to work for the interest of iheir Patrons, to merit a lartre share ot public patronage T e business will be conducted solely by J. M Redding, as heretofore. A lull supply of Bagging, Ties and Plantation Sup plies, Will be kept on hand. Jegf" Good L"t< and good water for stock, and house for drivers. Uas : Advances made on Cotton iu store and for shipment. JNO. M. REDDING, ang2Btf AaRON PRICE. The Celebrted QCHAFFHAUSEN SPECTACLES, SCHAFFHAUSEN EYEGLASSES, RUBBER EYE GLASSES, CHEAP SPECTACLES, WATCH GUARD AND RIBBONS, FINE ENGLISH WATCH KEYS. By the aid of the Optometer can suit yonr eyes with proper Glasses, For sale by T S. PO’ ELL, Druggist. Bookseller and Stationer. 1,. S. JACOT, Watchmaker and JEWE L E K . HAVING Removed to the building imme diately East of the Appeal Office, on College Street, I am now better prepared to serve my enstomers than heretofore. All work promptly and neatly done and Satisfaction Guaranteed. ►-S'. ' Clocks and Watches left in my hands tor repairs, if not taken out within one year, will be sold for repairs on the same. anrlJt HERE; rjIOWEL RACKS, TOWEL HOLDERS, lIAT RACKS, CLOTHES RACKS, AND Picture Frames in Great Variety. Also a full line of Gilt and Black Walnut Picture jVloirlcling, For sale by T. S. POWELL, Druggist, Bookseller and Stationer. Eureka Diapers For Sale by T. S. POWELL. THE APPEAL. Published Every Friday Morning All Papers stopped at expiration of time paid for. No attention paid to orders for the pa per un'cs6accompaiiieU by the Cash. Rates of Advertising. F.... a ti.oo s o.db $ o.ooyKToo 2 5.00 12.00 16.00: 20.00 3 i 7.00 15.00 22.00, 27.50 1 8.00 17.00 25.00: 33.00 i c , 9.00' 22 00 flO.OO; 45.00 i c ’ 17.00 35.00 50 001 75.00 1 c | 30.00 50.00 75.00 125.00 2 c j 50.00, 75.00 One square, (ten lines or less.) $ I GO for the -irst and 75 cents for each subsequent inser tion. A liberal deduction made to parties who advertise by the year- Persons sending advertisements should mark the number of times they desire them inser ted, or they will, he continued until forbid and "barged accordingly. Transient advertisements must he paid for at the time of insertion. If not paid tor before the expiration of the time advertised, 25 per cent, additional will he charged. Announcing names of candidates for office, $5.00. Cash, in all cases. Obituary notices over five lines, charged at regular advertising rates. All communications intended to promote t lie private ends or interests of Corporations, So cieties, or individuals, will be charged as ad vertisements. Jon Work, such as Pamphlets. Circulars, Cards, Blanks. Handbills.etc., will he execu ted in good -tyle and at reasonable rats. All letters addressed to the Proprietor will he promptly attended to. BETHEL FEMALE COLLEGE, CUTIIBERT, GA. rnilE FALL TERM begins September 7th, 1 and continuing Five (scholastic) Months, ends January 20th, 1875. There will be a re cess of ore week at Christmas. Expenses, per Term of 20 Weeks : Tuition in Literary Dep’t from sls to $25 00, “ “ Music ou Piano, 2.5 00, Use of Piano, 5 00, Board, exclusive of Washing, 75 00, Incidental Fee, 1 00, Vocal Music, Calisthenics and Elementary Drawing, free of charge. THE FALL TERM V\ ill clog-- with a Public Examination ; the Spring Term with an Examination and Com mencement exercises For full information, as to Terms, etc., ap ply to S. G. HILLYER, Jr., aug2B-4m President. ANDREW FEMALE COLLEGE CUTIIBERT, GA. Hoard of Instruction, A. II FLEWELLEN, A. M., President, Mrs. A. II Flkwkllen, M.A., Miss Jamk Ward, M. A., Miss M ax it: C. Bkthune, M. A., Miss Fi.ora C. Keith. Ala sic Department, Mrs. E. B. Russeli., M. A., Board and Tuition, per annum, $175 GO Music, •• “ . •• .50 00 Everything furnished except Towels and Bed Clothing. Dress Uniform Black Alpaca. Fall Term begins September 14th. A. H. FLEWELLEN, nug7t,f President. Empire Nursery, Near Georgetown, Ga. A, J. SURLES&CO,, Proprietors, ATLE offer for sale the present season a V V large lot of Well Selected Fruit Trees, Either in large or small quantities, and at prices to correspond with the times. Our Select List We warrant to he of the very best, sorts for Southern culture, and will produce on suita ble soil, with g"od cultivation, as tiue fruit as can he raised in the United States. Price List Furnished Gratis. The Inst of reference will be given on ap plication oct3o tf Looking- Glasses or Mirrors, Various sizes and prices. For sale by T. S. POWELL. Druggist, Bookseller aud Statiouer. Gall in and Subscribe or Renew Your Subscription for the Telegraph & messenger. Daily and Weekly. (NUTHBERT APPEAL, J Weekly SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR, IO Monthly. T. S. POWELL, Agent. Druggist, Bookseller &. Stationer. A FINE ASSORTMENT OF PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS, For sale l>y T. S. POWELL. Druggisis Bookeller and Stationer. Important to Planters ! ryUIE undersigned Warehousemen in the JL city of Cuthbert, are pleased to announce to their planting friends that they have per fected arrangements with buyers of cotton, which will release them from half the usual rates of expenses ou first month. Half of which expenses will in future be paid ivy the purchaser. REDDING <fc PRICE, seplS-tf E. McDONaLD. Ambrosial Oil FOR Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sprains, Bruises, etc. At T. S. POWELL’S, Druggist, Bookseller & Stationer. CUTLERY, CUTLERY FINE, Medium and Cheap. Nice assorted For sale by T. S. POWELL, Diuggist, Bookseller and Stationer. TI e Celebrated Lazarus & Morris’ Perfected Spectacles, For sale by T. S. POWELL, Druggist, Bookseller and Statiouer. CUTIIBERT, GA., FRIDAY, DEC. 18, 1874. A L.etter to Santa Clans. BT EMILY HUNTINGTON' MILLER. Blessed old Santa Claus! king of delights, What are you doing these long winter night-’ Filling your budgets with trinkets and toys Wonderful gifts for the girls and the boys ? While you are planning for everything nice, Pray, let me give you a hit of advice. Don't take it hard, if I say in your ear, Santa, I think you were partial last year ; Loading the rich folks with everything gay. Snubbing the poor ones who came in your way Now. of all times in the year, I am sure, This is the time to remember the poor. Plenty of children there are in our city Who have no fathers or mothers to pity ; Plenty of people whose working and heeding Scarcely can keep all their dear ones from needing ; Now, if I came every year in December, They are the ones 1 would surely renumber Little red hands that are aching and cold, You should have mittens your lingers to hold; Poor little feet with your frost-bitten toes, You could be clothed in the warmest of hose; On the dark hearth I would kindle a light. Till the sad faces were happy and bright. Don’t you think. Santa, if, all your life thro’ Someone bad always been caring for you. Watching to guard you by night and by day, Giving you gilts you could never repay, Sometimes, at least, you would sigh to recall How many children have nothing at all ? Safe in your own quiet chamber at night, Cos}' and warm in your blankets so white, Wouldn’t you think of the shivering forms. Out in the cold, and the wind, and the storm? Wouldn't you tlii ik of the babies who cry, Pining in hunger and cold, till they die? Once on a beautiful Christmas, you know Jesus, our Savior, was born here below ; P. t ently stooping to hunger and pain, So he might save us, bis lost ones from shame. Now. if we love Ilim, He bids us to feed All Ilis poor brothers and sisters who need. Blessed old Nick ! 1 was sure if you knew it, You would remember and certainly do it! This year, at least, when you empty your pack, Pray give a portion to all who may lack, Then, if you chance to have anything over, Bring a small gilt to your friend, Kitty Clover. Timely fi&hymes. The following will be recognized as au old acquaintance by most of our readers, but will interest and amuse them to read again : Ye friends of moderation, who think a reformation or moral reno vation would benefit our nation ; who deem intoxication, and all its dissipation, in every rank and sta ion the cause of degradation, of which your observation gives daily demonstration ; who see the ruina tion, distress and desolation ; the open violation of moral obligation, the wretched habitation without ae commodalion, or any regulation for common tustenation; a scene of devastation unequaled in crea tion; the frequent desecration ol Sabbath ordination, the crime and depredation, defying legislation ; the awful profanation of common conversation, the mental aberration, and dire infatuation, maniac despe ration ; ye who, with consternation, behold this devastation, and utter condemnation of all inebriation, why sanction its duration or show disapprobation of any combination for its extermination ? We deem a declaration that offers no temptation or any palliation of this abomina tion, the only sure foundation, and uuder this persuasion, hold no com munication with noxious emanation of brewer’s fermentation, nor any vain libation producing stimulation. To this determination we call con sideration, and without hesitation invite co-operation, Not doubting imitation will raise your estimation, and by continuation afford consola tion. For in participation with this association you may by meditation insure the preservation of a future generation from all contamination. And may each indication of such rc generation be the theme of exulta tion till its final consummation. The Schoolday Magazine has the following collection of definitions given by small persons, and faithful ly reported by doting parents: “ Back-biter—a flea. Fan—a thing to brush the warm off with. Fins —a fish’s wings. Ice—water that stayed out in the cold and went to sleep. Nest egg—the egg the old hens measures by to make new ones. Big a hog’s little boy. Snoring —letting off sleep. Snow—rain all poped out white. Stars—the moon’s eggs. Trunk (of an elephant) - his front tail. Wakefulness—eyes all the time coming unbuttoned. There is a german in Carborn county Pennsylvania, who is father of thirty-three children. Ilis wife has just rejected an application of the commissioners of charities to put him upou the retired list. Jack Rabbit*. How One of Them Saved a Miner’s Life. While my friend Clyde and my self were out on the hills back of the golden Gate Park last week, a jack rabbit came along and stopped to look at us. ‘‘lf I had thought to bring my revolver along we would have jack on toast for breakfast to-morrow morning,” I remarked. “Not with my consent,” he re plied. “What reason can you give for not consenting ?” “A rabbit saved my life and I have not killed one since, and never will kill one again.” ‘‘llow did he manage to safe your life ?” I asked. Three years pgo I was living in Montana. A smelter had just been built, and it created a demand for silver rock. I owned an interest in a lead that had been sunk on thirty feet. Thinking the time hud come to make it available, I concluded to go there, get some ore and have it tested. I did so, and reached the place just in timo to take shelter in the mine from a terrible hail storm. I lighted a candle, went to the bottom aud went to work. I had not been there ten minutes when I heard a noise like a cannon. The rock over my head shook, and in a minute the shaft behind me caved. Y r oti can imangine feelings better than I can describe them when I found myself buried alive. I tremble, even at this distant day, when I think of that moment. The roof of the shaft was rock, and when they came down they did not pack so tight but the air could come in. There was nothing that I could do to release myself. I I knew that if help did not come from the outside I must perish.— No one knew I had gone there. — A road ran past the mouth of the shaft, but it was not traveled much, and therefore I was not likely to attract attention by calling, never theless I shouted at intervals all day. The following morning 1 commenced calling again, and all day, whenever I thought I heard a sound, I shouted. When night came again all hopes of being released abandoned me. — One thing added great bitterness to my sufferings. I owed quite a large amount of money, and, should my fate remain unknown, my cred itors would think I had tried to de fraud them, and my name would be stigmatized. I will not dwell on the agonies I endured ; I am sorry I can riot for get them. The morning of the fourth day of my imprisonment I heard some thing crawl into my grave. I lighted a candle and saw a rabbit. There was only one aperture large enough to admit him ; I closed it to prevent his escape. I saw in him food to appease my hunger, and my hand was raised to kill him when a thought occurred to me that prevented the blow from de' scending. I had two fish lines in my pocket, their united length would reach to the road. I took off my shirt, tore it into strings, tied them together and to the fish lines. I wore a long gold watch chain ; I tied it on to the part that would cross the road. I then cut several leaves from my diary, wrote on them my condition, and tied them on to the part that would bo out' side. I then tied the end made out of my shirt around Jack’s neck and let him out. He soon reached the end of the lino, and I knew by the way he was pulling that he was making desperate efforts to escape Soon the tugging stopped, and knowing knawing to be Jack’s chief accomplishment, I thought he had cut himself loose. About three hours afterward I felt the line pull ed and then someone called: I tried to answer, but the hoarse noise I made died in the cavern. 1 then pulled the line to show that 1 was not dead. All grew still again, and I knew the man had gone for assistance.— Then came the sound of voices ; I pulled the line and it brought me food. It took all the men in the shaft nine hours to reach me. Avery large pine tree that stood near the shaft had been the cause of my misfortune. It had been dead a number of years, and the storm bad blown it over. The ter rible blow it struck the ground had caused the cave. Jack had wound the lino arcund a bush, and tied himself so short that he was imprisoned outside as securely as I bad been inside. He was taken to town, put in a largo cage, and supplied with all the rab bit delicacies the market afforded. He, however, did not thrive, and the boys, believing lie “pined in thought,” voted to set him free.— He was taken back to his old gird' ling grounds and liberated. He not only saved my life, but became the benefactor of all the rabbits in the neighborhood—the miners refraining from shooting any, fearing it might bo him.- San Francisco Golden Fra. Slotv the Seas are Sailed. Many people imagine that ocean water is naturally salt, and will be surprised to know that the salt comes from rocks, and is washed in to the sea. The sea depends on the disinteg. ration of rocks on land for its salti ness. It does not originate in ocean and seas. Rains wash it and hold it in solution as particles are liber ate and by violence, decomposition and gradual action of many natural forces. All streamlets and livers, therefore, are constanly tranporting salt to the sea. If there is more than can be held in solution, then it accumulates in masses at very deep points, which, in the revolution to which matter is subject, may again be a stratum of salt somewhere re mote from where the mass was formed. Thus the salt mines of Portland, and the vast horizontal bed of pure salt in Texas, as well as that mountain of rock salt in St. Domingo, where collected at the bottom of ancient seas, which aro now dry land, remote from water. There are places in Africa where the process of disintegration of salt from rocks is regularly going on, but there is not water power enough to force it onward to the sen. Hence the particles are spread abroad and mixed with the soil- The negroes of Kalliul, in Northern Africa, having distribution where there is no water to dissolve in the ground leach it. In that way they separate the salt. By evaporating the water holding it in solution, au excellent aricle for domestic pur poses is produced. Salt pervades the earth. It exists in the- grasses and most vegetable products on which animals feed. In that way they derive enough in most coun tries to meet the demands of their natures. They require as much as civilized humanity. With them salt is necessary, as with ourselves, for keeping the organs of vision in good condition. Stop the supply, and blindness would be universal’ Farmers’ Boots anu Shoes.— A farmer who has been accustomed to wearing thick boots for more than forty years past says that, before wearing the boots, give the bottoms a good coating of tallow or coal tar, and dry it in ; then oil the “ uppers 57 with castor oil, about one table spoonful to each boot, then oil twice a week with the castor oil, when one tablespoonful will be sufficient. If the weather should be rainy, or you aro compelled to work in water during the day, wash your boots eleau at night, hold them by the fire until they are quite warm, and oil them while wet, and you will have no trouble about your boots getting hard and shrinking up so that you cannot get them on. If the leather should become red, give a coat ot ordinary shoe blacking be fore oiling. The effect of castor oil is to soften the leather, while it fills the pores and prevents the water from entering. I have stood in mud and water two or three inches deep for ten hours a day for a week, without feeling any dampness or having any difficulty in getting my boots on or off. We give our washerwoman notice that hereafter we want our own clothes. Last Sunday wo put on an other fellow’s shirt, but couldn’t wear it at all. It was all ruffled around the top and looked leal handsome, but there was no place for a collar, and it hadn’t any bosom though we are bound to say there was plenty of room for one. Yes, it w’as a handsome shirt, but we don’t have ours made that way. — Max Adeler . A popular clergyman says it is interesting to observe how many people go to the circus “just to please the children,” and very cu rious to notice that sometimes it takes several able-bodied men and motherly women to look after one little boy or girl on such an occa' sion, The good of a man’s life cannot be measured by the length of his funeral procession. A Georgia Iloinacr. Sometime in January, 1874, Air. Jefferson Clay, a respectable young farmer of lhomas county, was in Savannah on business ot a private nature. His friends and relatives knew this much, and they were al so infomed that he might be expect ed to return by the first week in January. Week alter week flitted by. The middle of February came, and still young Clay remained, as it was thought, in Savannah. About the first of March the friends of the missing man began to entertain the most serious apprehensions. They were plain people, of limited means, and little acquainted with the ways of the world. The idea of adver tising for the lost man never enter ed their heads. Clay’s uncle, it is tiue, went to Savannah and spent a week in making inquiries in refer ence to bis nephew, but the result did not enlighten him in the least. The people he consulted suggested various explanations, none of them very consoling. One party said that Clay had doubtless ran away. Another thought that he had been murdered for his money,and thrown into the river. ,The police knew nothing about it. And with this feeble and futile attempt the search was abandoned. Everybody gave Clay up for dead. But there was one exception. The young lady who was engaged to the unfortunate man did not hesi tate to declare her belief that her lover was alive and would yet re turn to his home and friends. She had no reasons for this belief. She trusted to intuition, and as a natu ral consequence the men shook their heads and even the vvoinau ceased to hope. The months rolled on, and when last October came poor Jefferson Clay was almost as completely for gotten, save with a few, as if he had been dead a century. But one night, old Adam Clay, the uncle who had searched so unsuccessfully in Savannah, was aroused from his slumbers by a loud and furious knocking. With some misgivings he opened the front door and con fronted a haggard wreck of a man whose tattered garments and gen eral appearance told a tale of suffer ing almost without a parallel. “Great God !’ cried the old man, ‘who and what are you ?” “I am Jefferson Clay, your long lost nephew,” replied the stranger, ‘‘and I am as near death as a man can be—give me food, and question me afterwards.” The worthy uncle was at first in clined to think that this was anoth case of the “Prodigal’s Return,” etc., but be called up the servants, and in a few moments a hearty meal was spread before the half famished wanderer. Young Clay ate with the appetite of a half-famished wild beast, and not until his hunger was fully ap peased would he utter one word in response to the many questions ask' ed by his curious kinsman. At last, however, the wants of the inner man were satisfiied, and then came from the lips of the trav eler one of the .strangest stories of adventure ever poured into mortal ear. We can only give the sub stance—it is impossible to place before our readers that wild, hag gard man as he actually appeared ; nor can we recall the rugged words with wich ho electrified his solitary listener. It appeared that Clay attended the business which had called him away from home, and was on the eve of leaving the city, when, he stepped into a low grogery and call ed for a drink. There were no oth er customers present, but behind the counter stood two men, of rath er sinister aspect. The young man was fur too inexperienced to enter tain any fears, and, after draining the proffered glass lie, readily ac cepted an invitation from one of the barkeepers to play a game of dominoes. After that nothing was clear to him. He fell into a kind of stupor, and than into a deep slum ber. When he awoke, as he ex pressed it, a scorching sun was shilling full upon bis face, and the sandy bed beneath him was almost roasting his body. lie staggered up, and found that he was clad in a ragged uniform of some kind, but he was hatless and barefooted.— When he partook of the drugged liquor (for drugged it must have been) his face was smoothly shaved. When he awoke he had a long, tan gled beard. Another strange thing —he was penned up in one corner of a huge stockade. By peeping through the bars into the other part VOL. VIII.—NO 51 of the inclosure, he discovered sev eral hundred men, evidently for ergners, all dressed in a uniform similar to the one he then had on. Clay told his uncle that this scene almost drove him frantic. He cried out for help, and in a short lime a dark faced little mau in a gorgeous costume came to the pen and spoke to him in a strange tongue. Our hero replied in En glish, and the officer, for such he was, responded in the same lan guage. He informed the prisoner that he was in a Spanish camp of instruction on the coast of Cuba; that l_e was all right, and he march ed to the front to fight the Cuban insurgents. Clay asked innumera ble questions; explained who he was and bogged to be released.— Hut the officer was in exorable, and terminated the conversation by walking i ft’ Two meals were sent to the pris oner that day, oranges and bananas being the principal articles. At night the stockade was at tacked by a party of insurgents and captured ofter a lively fight. For tunately one of the officers among the victors was an American, and to him our afflicted Georgian unbo somed himself. J lie officer’s sympathies were touched. He took good care of Clay; and in two weeks time suc ceeded in shipping him on h block ader to Key West. Arriving at that point o’ur unfortunate friend decided to foot it through Florida and make his way home as best he could. But lie was two months on the way, during which period he was sick a great part of the time and unable to travel. Our readers must imagine the surprise with which old Adam Clay listened to this marvellous story. And when a few days later, it was noised abroad among the neighbors, the general astonishment was inde scribable. If Clay had not been a man of unimpeachable veracity his storv might have been doubted, but his old friends knew very well that his strange account of himself was true to the letter. lie was not tho man to deviate a hair’s breadth, from the truth. Ciay improved rapidly after his return and is to be married to his old sweetheart in a few week’s time. Truth is stranger than fiction. Business Law. The following brief compilation of business law is worth a careful pre servation, as it contains tho essence of a large amount of legal verbiage: It is not legally necessary to say on a note “ for value received.” Contracts made on Sunday’ cannot be enforced. A note by a minor is void A contract made with a minor is also void. A contract made with a lunatic is void. A note obtained by fraud, or from a person in a state of ijtoxication, cannot be collected. If a note is lost or stolen, it does not release the maker; he must pay it, if consideration for which it was given, and the amount, can be prov en. An indorser of a note is exempt from liability if not served with no tice of dishonor within twenty-four hours of its non-payment Notes bear inteiesl only when it is so stated. Principals are responsible for the acts of their agents. Each individual in a partnership is responsible for the whole amount of debts of the firm. Ignorance of the law excuses no one. It is fraud to conceal a fraud. The law compels no one to do im possibilities. An agreement without Consider ation is void. Signatures made with a lead pen cil are good in law. A receipt for money is not al ways conclusive. The acts of one partner bind all the rest. To Make Pepper Vinegar.— Take six large red peppers,slit them up, and boil them in three pints of strong vinegar dawn to one quart. Strain it, and bottle for use. It will keep for years. Twelve hundred men arc at work on anew California hotel. Tho man who gets the contract for furn ishing that building with bed-bug poison will have no difficulty in mar rying off his oldest daughter. A Mar key preacher lining out * hymn from memory said: Plunged in a gulf of dark despair, Ye wretched sinuers—come out of dar !