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CUTHBERT lljK APPEAL. VOL. XI. THE APPEAL. Published Every Friday Morniiig Terms $2.00; All Papers stopped at expiration of time paid for. j&T No-Attention paid to order* for the pa •er tin' eesaccompanied l>y the Cash. Rates of Advertising. Xl| | I ;■ *- ? ? \ r 1.... * n.oo*t 6.00$ 9.00 $ 12.00 2 5.00 12.00 16.00; 20.00 3 7.00 15.00 22.00 27.50 4 ... 8.00j 17.00 25.00 i 33.00 £ c 9.00 22 00 30.00 45.00 £ c 17.00: 35.00 50.00 75.00 1 c 30.00! 50.00 75.00 125.00 2 % ; 50.00[ 75.00 | l)rs. SMITH & TACKETT, Office on College St., CUTUP BUT, GEORGIA , Respectfully offvr their service*. (united when necessary) tv the people oG Ruudeipli and adjoining counties. jan26tf STli. K E N N O IV, ATTORNEY AT LAW, FORT GAINES, GA. BUSINESS of all kiiidg attended to in the State Court, and in the United States District Court tor this State. niayll-ly Dr. S. 6. Robertson, Surgeon Dentist, CUTHBERT, GA. oc26tf JAMES G. PARKS, Attorney at Law, DAWSON, GEORGIA, And Counsel for the Corporation of JJawson. *jjj- Practices in the Courts of S. W. Geor gia. State Supreme C>'Urts, and U. S. Conrt6 tor Georgia. Collections a specialty. Prompt ness Insured. jjv<l7-3m JAS. H. GUEHUY, Attorney at I ..aw. Office—Dawson,? Ga. octlU-tt a.\v. uTllespie II ABi " st received a large lot of * FLOUH, W-hteh-be warrants to give entire eatisfac lion. teW3 ly Call in and Subscribe for o Renew Your Subscription to the i'AAILY. Semi-Weekly or Weekly i J TELEGRAPH & MEaSENGE tUTII ERN CULTIVATOR, jgUNNY SOUTH, QUTHBERT APPEAL. T. S. POWELL, Agent, Druggist, Bookseller and Stationer. Fresh Turnip Seed. Crop 1877. Just received from D. Landreth & Son’s, Early Elat Dutch, Early Flat Re 1 Top, Pomeranean Globe, Amber Globe, Improved Yellow Rutabega, Hauover, Seven Top, lu 1 packages, and single papers, For sale by T. S. POWELL, Druggist, Bookseller and Stationer. Important TO OWNERS OF WILD LAM THK undcrsijfned, being largely interested in the Mining Interests and Mineral re searches of tiie different Ceunties of CHEROKEE, GA., And having received many letters of enqui ry from parties owning Lauds in the above named section, relative to their location, val ue, etc., takes this method of informing all those interested, that he will attend to the Locating of Lands, Famish owners with a descriptive statement as to quality, value and mineral indications, if there be any. Will attend to the establish ing of Lost Papers, paying Taxes, Ousting Intruders, and selling said Lands when de sired. Mis charges for locating and furnishing parties with a descripiive statement, Five Dol lars per Lot. For selling and payiugof taxes, Ten per cent. For establishing lost papers, oustiug intruders, etc., parties will be adviced and a fee agreed upon. gggr Liberal reductions made with parties owning a usraber of Lots, and desiring them looked after, Many of these Lands, heretofore considered worthless, are very valuable —some are rich in Mineral, others are valuable for Farming pn rposes, and ALL ars worflh looking after. All letters of enquiry will receive prompt attention. Address, I. Y. SA VV TELL, apr7-tf Atlanta. Ga. Lazarus & Morris’ PERFECTED SPECTACLES, Eye Glasses &CoM Glasses. Have received a Full Assortment of STEEL FRAMED SPECTACLES, BIFOCAL SPECTACLES, NEAR SIGHTED SPECTACLES, RUBBER EYE GLASSES. GOGGLES, GREEN & BLUE SPECTACLES, For sale by T. S. POWELL. Druggist, Bookseller and Stationer Notice ! THE undersigned lias opened an Auction & Commission House in the citv of Until bert, and will hold forth in the Standley Rock Corner. He solicits Consignments. augUl-tf JOHN W. BRAG AN ♦ ANDREW Fe3iali: College, Cuthbert, Ga. REV. A. L HAMILTON would respect fully announce to bis friends generally, that this old and popular Institution will be re opened finder bis immediate supervision on MONDAY, October 1, 1877. His former patrons and friends will please take due notice, and govern themselves ac cordingly. Tha spacious anil comfortable Boarding House and College Buildings are now being repaired and re furnished in ele gant style, and two weeks in advance of the opening will be ready for bueiness. The Corps of Officers and Teachers shall not be surpassed either North or South, and will represent the principal branches of the Clniftiao Churches. The College will be thoionglily non-sectarian. The Course of Study Has been prepared with great care, ami with an especial eye to the requirements of the age. It embraces equally the Physical,Men tal and Moral cultivation of the pupils. The Discipline i Shall be very mild, but thoroughly systemat ic and exacting. Tlie Terms Have been reduced so iar as possible to meet I the necessities of the times, at will appear |,f rom the following exhibit: Per Session of Bine Months. REGULAR COURSE. Preparatory Department, s3d 00 Academic “ 45 00, Collegiate “ 60 00. BOARD—Furnished room, washing, lights and fuel, 162 00 “ Washing not included. 111 00. EXTRA COURSE [To be charged extra.] | This department will otter unusual advan ; tages, and will embrace the Ancient and Mod | ern Languages, Vr cal and Instrumental Music ! Drawing and Sketching, Painting, in Oil, Pastel Giec-ian and Antique Painting. Oma | tuehtal Needle-Work, Mantua Making in all its varieties, Physical Gymnastics, &.C. * PAYMENTS In all the Departments will be expected quarterly in advance There can be no devi aiiun from this rule. Cuthbert is the handsomest little city in Georgia, is approachable from all directions by Railroad ; and for good health, good mor els, and cultivated society, is unsurpassed in ne United States. For additional information address— REV. A L. HAMILTON, D. D. Pres't. auglO-tf Cuthbert, Ga. CHAMPIONS Imperial Soap Is the u l}est." Crumpton’s imperial Soap is the Best. Crumpton's Imperial Soap is the Best. Ciampton’s Imperial Soap is the Best. Crampton’s Imperial Soap is the Best Crampton's Imperial Soa.p is the Best, Crampton's Imperial Soap is the Best. Crumpton's Iperial Soap is the Best. Crumpton’s Imperial Soa.p is the Best Crampton's I imperial Soap is the Best. Crumpton’s Imperial Soap is the Best This Soap is manufactured from pure materi als. and as it contains large percentage of Vcgetine Oil, is warranted fully equal to the host imported Castile Scrip ami at the same time contains all the cleansing proper ties of the eelebraled German and F retieh Laundry Soaps. It is therefore ricom mended for use in the Laundry, Kitchen and Bath Room, and for general household purposes ; also printers Painters. Engineers, and Machinist, as it will remove spots of Ink, Tar, Grease, Oi', Paint, etc., from the bands. The Tlniitinftilon, l'a., Monitor of April sth, 1877, pronounces this soap the best in the market, as follows : Reader, we don’t want yon to suppose this is an advertisement, and pass it over unltced ed. Read it We want to direct your atten tion to the advertisement of “Crampton’s Imperial Soap.” Having used it in our of fice for the past year, we can recommend it. as the best quality of soap in use. It is a rare thing to get Soap that will thoroughly cleanse printing ink from the hands, as also from linen, bat Crampton's laundry soap will eo it, and we know whereof we speak. It is specially adapted for printers, painters, eu Ktueers and machinists, as it will remove grease of all descriptions from the hand as well as clothes, with little labor. For gener al household purposes it cannot be excelled. Manufactured only by Crampton Brothers, 2,4, 8 and 10, Rutgers Place, and 33 and 33 Jelierson St., New York. For sale by ALLISON & SIMPSON, auglO-tf Cuthbert, Ga. Fire Insurance Safe, Prompt and Reliable! Georiia Home Instance Conipy, Columbus, Ga., Yirpia Home Insurance Cos, Richmond, Va. T. S. POWELL, Agent. MANHATTAN Fire Insurance Cos., Of New York City. Cash Capital*Surplus over SBOO,OOO THOMAS MUSE, Agent, Cnthbert, Ga. Office in Judge Clarke’s office. jas ly A Nice Black-Walnut Extension Dining Table. At T S. POWELLS, Druggist, Bookseller and Stationer. THE GEORGIA STATE FAIR Will he held in ATLANTA, beginning Monday, October 15th, 1877, AND CONTINUING ONE WEEK. LARGE and Liberal Premiums lor Stock. Manufactures, Machinery, Agricultural Implements, Fancy Work of Ladias, Fine Aits and Farm Products are offered Premium Lists and other information can be o tallied by application to MALCOLM JOHNSTON, Secretary. augJl td Atlanta, Ga. CUTHBERT, GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1877. Falling Leaves. They are falling, slowly falling, Thick upon the forrest side— Severed from the noble branches Where they waved in beauteous pride, They are tailing in the valleys Where the early violets spring. And the birds in sunny springtime First their dulcet music riug. They are falling, sadly falling, Close beside our cottage door— Pale and faded, like the loved ones That have gone forever more. They are falling, and the sunbeams Shine in beauty soft around ; Yes, the faded leaves are falling— Falling on the grassy mound. Tlk-y are falling on the streamlet Where the silver waters flow, And upon its placid boßom Onward with the waters go. They are falling in the churchyard Where our kindred sweetly sleep— Where the idle winds of summer Softly o’er the loved ones sweep. They are falling, ever falling, When the autumu breezes sigh— When the stars in beauty glisten Bright upon the midnight sky. They are falling when the tempest Moans like ocean’s hollow roar— When the tuneless winds and billows Sadly sigh forevermore. They are falling, they are falling, While our saddest thoughts still go To thes.inny days of childhood, In the dreary long ago. And their faded hues remind us Cf the blighted hopes and dreams Faded like the tailing leaflets Cast upon the icy stream. Rafliiiitf at llot Springs The bath-houses are of ali degrees of comfort, front the “Big Iron Bath house,” with its fine bath and wait ing rooms supplied with all the m >d ern conveniences, including speak ing tubes and electrical annuncia tors, down to the rude board euclo sure around the “ Pool of Siioarn” or. the mountain side. Ouc of the principal occupations of the visitors, the great majority of whom arc of coursv invalids, is the taking ol baths. Bathing at the Springs is a curious operation. Shouldering his blanket, coffee pot and cup in hand, the patient saunters down Valley Street to one of the bath houses, which, with their long array of numbered doors, lie under the shad ow of the mountain. With the help of the negro bath-man he is soon in a hot bath, whose temperature, carefully graded, is fiom 90 to 95 degrees. A diminutive sand glass, which the bath man has placed on the edge of the bath tub before leav ing the room, soon warns the half boiled bather that his three minutes or less are up. On leaving the bath, he, according to the course pre scribed, either gets ii.to a box filled with the dense vapor which rises from the waters, or sits on the top of the v?por box wrapped in a blanket, allowing the vapor to play all over the body. If in the box, he stays there three minutes, his head being outside, the lids closing down around his neck. If the vapor-bath is to be taken iu a milder form, the bather mounts to the top ot the va por box, placing himself on the closed lids, over the head opening, and allowing the steam which is sues from this to circulate inside the folds of the blanket. Whether in the bath, the box, or the blanket, the bather, from the nozzle of his coffee pot, is also drinking the hot water, thus having at the same time internal as well as external applica tion. The whole operation having last ed some eight to ten minutes, the state of perspiration induced can be easily imagined. The sluggish se crctions are aroused, circulation is accelerated, and disease is thrown off. With the assistance of bath man, the bather, on finishing his day’s bath, is well rubbed down and thoroughly dried. After dress ing, and being well covered up with his dry blanket to avoid taking cold, the invalid, looking in his stri ped blanket like a half-civilized In dian chief, walks as briskly as his ailments allow to his quarters. — The pores being open and the bath quite exhausting, a slight rest is needed, and care must be taken to avoid catching cold. The bather therefore, on reaching his room, lies down for half an hour or longer, still keeping well covered up, until the body has somewhat recovered its normal temperature. Naturally a feeling of sleepiness manifests it self, but this must not be given way to, as it is considered dangerous.— A. Van Cleef, in Harper's Maga zine for January The newest thing in the matn monial way is the publication of “marriage intentions” by engaged couples in Boston. The names and ages only are giveu. A Pretty Girl in a Chest nut Tree. To the youthful mind there is a fascination in gathering chestnuts. It is the opinion of Miss Susan B. Anthony that the tyrant man has committed one of his worst outra ges in monopolizing the sport of chestnut gathering. It cannot be denied that the female sex is virtu ally shut out from this delightful pursuit. To gather chestnuts sue cesstully involves climbing trees, and the mature woman or full grown girl rarely cares to incur the risks which are inseparable from climbing in the present fashion of female dress. Of course Dr. Mat y Walker could gather chestnuts with impunity, but with women who have not put on—that is to say who still wear skirts—there is a general feeding that stockings should not publicly wave either from clothes lines or branches, unless they have been previously emptied. Never theless there are infrequent and ex ceptionally daring girls who engage in the hazardous enjoyment of se cret chestnuting, and the experience of a Massachusetts young lady who recently climbed a chestnut tree in Berkshire county is worth mention- The young lady in question—and it is perfectly useless tor anybody to offer twelve gratuitous teams of wild horses to assist iu dragging her name to light—was remarkably beautiful, and was ihe object of the devoted attachment of two local young men, one <>f whom was a model of all possible virtues, while the other was a bold, bad youth, who was known to be in the habit of smoking, and was currently ,be lieved to have more than once visit ed a circus. Early in October this estimable young lady suborned her young brother, aged ter., to accent pany her on a clandestine chestnut ing expedition. A chestnut tree, separated from the road by a nar row but dense belt of trees and bushes, was soon found, and the pair zealously searched the ground for fallen nuts. The young lady— and perhaps we had better call her Miss Y., for the purpose of identili cation, as the lawyers say—soon grew weary of this occupation and determined to climb the tree. With the aid of a fence rail and the zeal ous “ boosting ” ol her brother, she succeeded in reaching the lowest branch, from which her progress was easy. Pleased with her suc cess she soon grew careless and ventured out upon a limb uutil it bent under her weight. Becoming frightened she lost her presence ot mind and hold, and suddenly fell. — Fortunately she did not fall far, for her skirts caught in the fork of a limb, and suspended her between heaven and earth, in an attitude of an umbrella, which lias struggled with a violent gust ot wind and ex pei'ienced a reverse. Her voice, though somewhat smothered by the peculiarities of her situation, could be easily heard by her astonished brother, and iu accordance with her calm directions that devoted small boy instantly Bed lor help. Now, it so happened, that eacli of the young lady’s lovers had noticed her as she started from home with her brother, and each had independently determined to .meet her as if by accident. Thus it fell out that the first person the small boy met as he rushed along the road was the uiild young man, who listened to his incoherent tale and hastened to the rescue. No sooner, however, did he come with in sight of the tree titan he prompt ly paused, turned his back upon the object of his adoration, and in a fal tering voice explained to the small boy lliat lie thought his sister would not care to have hitu help her, but wouU' prefer the assistance ot a vague servant girl, iu search of whom he professed himself ready to start. The small boy, having no seuse of delicacy, whatever, called the good young man names, and said he was afraid to climb a t"ree, but failed to shake his resolution.— So the latter started on a run to find his hypothetic servant girl, and unlike Lot’s wife, refused to look back, though the indignant smaii boy seDt a shower of stones after him. Meanwhile, the bold, bad young man was approaching the scene of action, “cross lots at the top of his speed. His iron nerves did not fal ter even when be reached the tree that temporarily bore such marvel ous fruit. Kequesting the young lady to calm herself and trust him to res cue her, be armed her brother with a knife and instructed him to climb the tree and cut his sister loose.— The small boy hailing with delight the opportunity to cut* something, did as he was bid, and in a few mo ments, amid the noise ot rending garments, the young lady dropped safely into the bold, bad lover’s ex tended arms. Half an hour after ward eleven women, bearing five step ladders, approached the tree, while the good young mau waited behind the bushes to receive his rescued mistress. It is needless to say he was disappointed, and his disappointment was still greater when lie was subsequently told that she was to be married at an early day to this bold and bad rival. Thus we see that) as Solomon might have said, there is a time for step lad ders and a time for decided action, and that the bold young man gath ers his bride from a chestnut tree, while the simple young man flees afar off and howls for scivant girls who are useless, and for the step ladder which satisfieth not. —Beit York Herald. Reasonable Economy. We don’t like stinginess. We don’t like Economy when it comes down to rags and starvation. We have no sympathy with the notion that the poor man should hitch him self to a post and stand still, while all the world moves forward. It is no man’s duty to deny himself eve ry amusement, every luxury, every comfort that he may get rich. It is no man’s duty to make an ice berg of himself, to shut his eyes and cars to the sufferings of his fellows, and to deny himself the en joyment that results from gener ous actions, merely that he may hoard wealth for heirs to quarrel about. But there is an economy which is especially commendable in the man who struggles with pov erty —an economy which must be practiced if the poor man would secure independence. It is almost every man’s privilege aud it be comes his duty to live within his means; not up to, but within them. Wealth does not make the mm, we admit, and should never be taken into account in our judgment of men ; but competence should al ways be secured when it can be, by the practice of economy and self de nial to only a tolerable extent. It should be secured, not so much for others to look upon, or to raise us in tlie estimation of others, as to secure us the consciousness of inde pendence, and the constaut satis faction which is derived from its acquirement and possession. “PunklN Pi.”—Punkin pi is the sass ov Hu England. They are vittles and drink, they are joy on the halt shell, they are glory enough for one day, and are g and kuld or warmed up. I would like to be a boy agin, just for sixty minutes, and eat myself phull of the blessed old mixture. Enny man who don’t luv punkiu pi wants watching close, for he means to do something mean the fus chance he kan git. Give me all the punkin pi I could eat when I was a boy, aud I didn’t kare whether Sunday school kept that day or not. And now that I have groon up to manhood and run fur the Legislature once and only got beat eight hundred and fifty five votes, and thoroly married, there ain’t nothing I hanker for wuss and can bury quicker than two-thirds of a good old fashion punkin pi, an inch and a half thick, and well smelt up with ginger and nutmeg. Punkin pi is the oldest American beverage I know of, and ongiit to go down to posteiity with the trade mark of our graudmothers on it; but I’m afraid it won’t, for it is tuff even m>w to find one that tastes in the mouth at all as they did fifty years ago. The Meridian, Miss., Mercury learns that Holden, the surveyor of Perry county, while out surveying a few days since, found thirty-five thousand and six hundred dollars, the money deposited some years ago by Wages, McGrath & Cooper land, as related in Dr. Pitt’s life of James Copeland. Copeland con fessed before he was hanged that he had hidden a largo sum of nions ey. This fact is stated emphatically by the Thornasville Times : “Every sheep raiser should remember that increase of lambs is increase of wool. A sod of Bermuda grass, on land unprofitable for cultivation, will support five sheep to the acre for nine mouths in the year.” Bottom of (lie Ocean. Gn July 7th, Prof. Sir Wyville Thompson and other members of the Challenger explonngparty were entertained at a public difceer in Edinburgh. Among the speakers wits Prof. Huxley, Who sad t “Some of the discoveries which have been made by the Challenger aro undoubt edly such as to make us all form new ideas of the operation of natural causes in the sea. Take, for exam ple, the very remarkable tact that at great depths the temperature of the sea always siuks down pretty much to that of freezing fresh wa’er. That is a very strange fact in itself, a fact which certainly could not have been anticipated. Take again the marvel ous discovery that over large areas ©f the sea the bottom is covered with a kind of chalk* a substance made up entirely of the shells of minute creatures —a sort of geological shod" dy made of the cast-otf clothes of those animals. The fact had been known for a long time* and we were greatly puszled to know how those things got to be there. But the researches of the Challenger have proved beyond question that the re mains in question are the shells of organism which live at the surface and uot at the bottom, and that this deposit, which is of the same nature as the ancient chalk, differing iu some minor respects, but essentially the same, is absolutely formed by a rain of skeletons. These creatures all live within 100 fathoms of the sur face ; and when they die their skel etons are rained down in onecontin ual shower, falling through a mile or couple of miles of sea water. How long they take about it imagination fails one in supposing, but at last get to the bottom, and there, piled up, they form a great stratum of a substance which, if uplieuved, would be exactly like chalk. But this is by no means the most wonderful thing. When they got to the depth of 3,000 and 4,000 fathoms, and to 1,400 fathoms, or about five miles, which was the greatest depth at which the Challenger fished any thing from the bottom, they found that while the surface of the water might be full of those calcaroous or ganisms, the bottom was not. There they found red clay. This red clay is a great puzzle— a great mystery how it comes there, what it arises from, whether it is the ashes ol I‘ora miniferjie; whether it is decomposed pumice stone vomited out by volca noes, and scattered over the surface, or whether) lastly, it has something to do with that meteoric dust which is being continually rained upon us from the spaces of the universe.” Prof .Sir Wyville Thompson said : “At a depth ol about four miles we were always able to dredge and trawl with considerable certaiuty. Instead of.using a small Balls dredge about 18 inches loag, a trawl with a beam 20 feet across Was dragged across the bottom of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans; and in this way we covered a considerable amount of ground, and obtained a far better idea of the larger organ isms of those regions. No doubt we missed a great many of the smaller things. Little hard and heavy bodies fell through the fauna of the bottom of the sea. A number of the forms from these extreme depths were comparatively large and spiny, and these stuck in the large dredge net. The depth of the Atlantic apparently averages some thing about two thousand fathoms. There did not seem to be any great difference between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans—a general charac teristic being that the bottom of each was a tolerably level expanse, with slight undulations. In the temperature of these great depths we expected that by determining the temperature at the bottom we would be able to trace the direction in which the water was moving in any particular way because water is an extremely bad conductor and it maintains for a great length of time, unless there is some special reason for its mixing with other water, the temperature of its source. We us ually, at most of the stations meas ured correctly the bottom tempera ture, and then that of the various strata from the bottom up to the surface, and we were inclined to come to the conclusion that the great mass of the water we found in the troughs of the Atlantic and Pacific is derived from the southern sea. — Of course the idea was prevalent that there were no animals at these great depths, but the conclusion we have arrived at now is, that there are animals at all depths, though un doubtedly they decrease in number as the depth increases. In regard to what these animals are, a large proportion of them is yet indescrib able. The collection we have brought home, nevertheless, may be reckoned by thousands. The whole region which we have been ex amiuiug has been hitherto totally unknown, and consequently all the animals we have got over this im mouse number of squaro miles are totally Unknown also. Tne deep sea fauna we found to be very gen erally diffused so that the animals We found iu ono region are practi cally very much the same, and though differing certainly in some respects in the various localities, still there is a general resemblance in the form of the whole.”— Southern Home. , tilery. What is glory? What is fame? The echo of a long-lost name ; A breath, an idle hour’s brief talk ; The shadow of an arrant naught 5 A flower that blossoms for a day, Dying next morrow ; A stream that Inures on its way, Singing of sorrow. mm Tlic Boy just out of* School. Did you ever pause and contem plate that particular and peculiar phase of human nature developed by the anxious school boy when re leased from the study and discip line —when “school is out/’ and he is on his way home ? Ordinary hu manity, when released from the toils of the day, is prone to seek rest and relaxation. The boy scorns all such effeminate ideas lie is composed of but three parts—legs, arms and the yell, and the yell is the biggest part of him. His legs have been kept in compulsory quietude all day, and must now be exercised, llis voice has been seething and swelling iu him for hours, and now must have vent. As soon as he is clear of the school house steps he stops and de liberately yells a yell that is ear splitting, but which has do more ob ject, meaning or direction than the midnight vociferation cf a mule j and yet it appears at a full ruuj witljhis arms flying about like the scintilla tions of a pin wheel. He is no respet er of persons, and is utterly indiffer ent as to whether lie runs down a smaller boy, spin" an aged jatiiien three times around, or mashes a girl’s hat over her eyes in his head long career. “Mercy on us! If that boy were only mine, I’d”—but just then her own boy flies past, lulls over a drygoods box, bounces up, kicks at another boy, and is chased across the street and around the cornet before she dan get the ‘You Hubert’ with which she intends to annihilate him, out of her aston ished throat. There is but one thing that has the slightest soothing ef fect on the boy when he is on the way home from school. He can see the old man farther than Prof. Hall can see a haystack with a tele scope, aud the moment that parent dawns upon his vision he becomes as proper as a model letter-writer, and the neatly modulated voice with which be wheedles the author of his being out of five cents on the spot is a lesson for future ambi tious saviogs bank and passenger railway presidents. The amount of racing, jumping, pulling and haul ing and howling that a schoolboy can concentrate into a transit of two squares is positively astonish ing, and the preternatural coolness aud the quietude with which he takes his red face and panting breath into the kitchen and asks if supper ain’t most ready is a human conundrum that calls for unqualified admiration. —Easton Free Press. A planter’s meeting was held in Lowndes county, Miss., the other day, that measures to attempt the passage of a law that will make the obtaining of money or goods under false promise of labor a peual of fense ; also a law that will preveut the hiring of any person who has contracted for a specified term of service until said servico is ren dered. An evidence of the extreme hard ness of the times is found in the fact that many a poor family are trying to pull through the winter with only one dog. A woman may not be able to sharpen her pencil or hold an um brella, but she can pack more arti cles in a trunk than a man can iu a one horse wagon. Unless the coming woman is born with a longer arm than those uow used she can’t wear any more but tons on her kid gloves than the present fashion permits. NO. 5‘2 Alphabetical Curiosities* The protean nature of the vowel sounds is familiar to all* A few amusing examples will show that the consonants are nearly as bad : 13 makes a road broad, turns (he ear to a bear, and tom into a tomb. C makes limb climb, hanged changed) a lever clever, and trans* ports a lover to clover* D turns a bear to beard, a crow to crowd) aud makes anger danger. F turns lower regions to ttowet regions. II changes eight to height. C makes now know. L transforms a pear into a pearl* N turns a line into linen, a croW to a crown and makes one none* P metamorphoses lumber into plumber. Q of itself hath bo significance. S turns even to seVen, makes hoV* shove and word a sword, a pear a spear, makes slaughter of laughter) and curiously Changes having ft boo to shaving a shoe. T makes a bough bought, turn* here the phrase “allow his own" tO “tailOW this toWn.'* W does well, e. g , hose afO Whose, arc becomes ware, on wott omen women, so sow, vie view ) it makes arm warm, aud turns a hat into—what ? Y turns fur into fury, a man into many, to to a toy, rub to a ruby) ours to yourS) and a lad to a lady.— Scfap Book. . .t The Southern Christian Advocate has the following in reference to the late serious illness of the llev. Dr. Luvick Pierce, the father of Bishop George F. PiercO) and the oldest Methodist prdacher now liv* ing in America: “iteturning to our office, just before the paper goes to pres?) we find a private note front Dr. Alfricnd, his physician, contain* ing some facts concerning his illness) which are of such general luteroat that we take the liberty of publish * ing them. Our readers will join Us in the prayer that the dear old patriarch may bs spared to us sonle years yet. Dr. Alfricnd, writing on the 27th instant, says : ‘About three weeks ago he had a severe and obstinate attack of congestion of the atom ache and liver; catarrali* :d fever Supervened very early as a complication) and he has been very dangerously ill. Since last Thurs day the disease has been slowly yielding, aud his condition becomes more and more favorable. I permit , ted him to sit up a few miuuoes to night, and was very much gratied to eee him disposed toward pleasant and general converse. At present I am not prepared to say that he will ever recover from his present attack. lie by no means recuper ates with his usual energy, but bo is in all respects, such a remarkablo man that I trust for the better.*' Camel’s hair shawls are not tflade of camel’s hair. They come of the wool of the Thibet goat. Thus it will be seen that women not only have the wool pulled over their eyes, but over their backs. Cannibals prefer to eat women of about sixteen to twenty four year* of age, and invariably roasts that delicacy, but people over fifty are generally boiled. The idea of teaching every girl to thump a piano and every boy to be a book-keeper, will make pota toes four dollars per bushel in fif* teen years. A Baltimore belle, just from Vassar College, when told by the waiter that they had no gooseber ries, exclaimed, “What has happen ed to the goOie ?” It is said that the kind mothers down East are grown so affection ate that they give their children chloroform previous to whipping them. It is suggested that entries for baby shows should be made at least a year in advance. The ar rangement would bo fair all arouud. Young man, beauty fades as the years go by’. Don’t fall in love with a woman simply because she has a pretty face. .Remember that a wealthy father-in law is better than Uie rosiest damsel. When a visiting lady asked a Boston hopeful what he kept a cat for, and was told “to lay kittens/* she concluded to postpone further questions. What is the difference between a hill and a pill ? One is hard to get up aud the other is bard to get down.