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Cuthbert Enterprise and Appeal. BY JAS. W. STANFORD. “Independent in All Tbings-Neutral in Nothing/ TERMS $1.00 IN ADVANCE. VOL. VIII. Cithsfrt A mew.. KstaUfohcd ISOS. I C'lTHBKHT ExtECPKI.E, 1S31. | ; CONSOLIDATED 1SSI. CUTHBERT, GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1888. NO. 3 Enterprise & Appeal. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE : One copy one year .... $1.00 “ Six Mioiiil-iM . . . . 50 “ Three months ... 23 Hall Road Nrhrdale. HAY r VXBKNGKR. GOING WFJ«T. Arrive 3:10 r. m. GOtN« KART. Arrive " 1- *• FLOUT*.* A WESTERN FAMESOKR. DOING WEST. Arrive 3:15 a. m. - (iOIXU EAST. Arrive P * M * S’iips at Pninn Springs. Kufauia, T*iitM»<*rt. Dawson, between Montgom- err and Sniithville. Port Raines train makes close eon- flection with tho Montgomery .k Macon Passsengerat Cuthhert. D. I’ll Kf.PS. AeenU. ^AKlH 6 POWDER Absolutely Pure. ■ rpins Powder never varies. A four* DR WESTMORELAND DKvrwr, Offers his services to the puMic in nil ihc hrnnclics of •Dentistry.— j Work warranted. Office over the Post office. Rooms formerly oceu pled liy Dr. Worsham. He Will j sameness More economical spend the first week of each j ordinary kinds>. and cann^i be sold, in .1 .1 , p • | competition with tlie multitncle of low month in rort Gaines, comment* I* _~r-i . . insr the first Monday. Rooms at yhe Liuhtfont House. mar3l ct W. R. THORNTON, DENTIST * CUTIIBKRT, QFFICE West test, short weight, alum or phosphate towders. Sold oply in Cans. Royal Ha GA. Side Public Square. >vrr E. lv Key'** -tore. fel.’T-D- king Powder Co., York. 100 Wall Street. New ma \22-l y B»w the State* latIM. “I can reconcile it to no rales Wasrugtui, Dec. 18.—It I* jHiHsihle that the example jnstset hr New Jersey in celebrating the hundredth anniversary of her rat ificalion of the Federal constitu lion will now be followed by nth <:r States. There is good ground for observing ibe whole series o( -similar centennial events, at least by ceremonies of simple comment oralton like those held at New Brunswick, without elaborate preparation or pretense. While the conalitutiqf was completed aud signed by the Philadelphia Convention on Sept.. 17, 1787, (list act gave it no operative force. It was atill only a document for consideration by the States indi vidually, and somewhat in the position of a hill in Congress drawn Hp and reported favurabU by a very influential committee. NO HORS EYE-GLASSES, 1. vel of ollritv. -trcnKth atnl whole " - • 1 - • • than thefA great difference, of course, was that the Slates were to accept or reject it as a whole, and could not amend it, although they were al liberty to suggest amendments. The seven'll and final article of the instrument as framed required the ratifications of nine out of the thirteen States in order to make it binding between the Stales so While a sufficient M «>sL of ilie farmers around Gray's have killed lioga, and as a !>cntr:i1 tiling they have enough meat to last until next fall. Maj Jonea Hava he has* more than enough meat; also has u!v>ul 150 ratifying. Weak i pounds of fresh iard fur sale. Ik j sides he lias old lard left from last year.—.Tones (’aunty Headlight. More Eyes!i „itchei.vs esalve ; A Certain. Safe and EfV**cti\e.Betue«U fur SORE. WEAK, AND 1NFIAMED EYES,' Producing l.in»K-Sightecli:esj«. and l«c-, .storing ibe .Sight of the Old. Cures Tear Drop*. Hrunulation. fctveTu- ’ mors, Ited K\cs. .Matted Eye Lashes. AND PltOPC'UlStS QUICK RELIEF | A \ D PKItM A N ENT C V R E. Also equally cifiencious. when used in ! other maladies, surh as Fleers, Fever- S«#r**s. Tumors, s-ilt Rheum. Burns. Riles j or wherever inllamation exists. MITCH JCLLkS SAEVE may hr tage. Bold hr all Druggists at 25 cents. aug25-ly TRIED # xar Toe CRUCIBLE. \ DIAMONDS. SILVER ,3. WKltB J&FAULK.^ JL 163 BROAD ST. apr-10-ly. About twenty yonr* ftgo I »liic<” ered • llttl# mw r»u my r!»r*'k, r.rd the<loetor* pronouncwsl il.pj to ndvaii- i Itcanerr. t !;nro tried a nnmbrrof phyilciaM, but *li’;ivit wrlrlay t.r.j pt-rmonent Imneflt. Vr won* one or two ■.••j Cp;i!l**J vrat like T.re to tho jtore, earning !r.N ::.*.9 j z.'.n. I ?:.w a statement in the p.-pem telling vrjiet it. S. N. haJ tlono for other.* almllar!; r.Tiftnl. I jfrwired s^mect once. Before I ha*! u»r-l tlio second bottle tbo nel.;M)wr» could noti.-c ti.at my cancer wai hfullnu np. My jj-ner..l li'ulth had 1>een bed for two or three yt-.*rs I had a Backing cough and spit blood continually. I had a severa pain la my l,r< ast. After !ah!ng six l-ottlpu of 3. 3. S. ».ty rough left mo and I prew ttnnter than I hr*«t Iwn for several years. My cancer has heal' d ewer »!1 l*vt a Uttio rpot i.bont th# aUe of a La'.f^luic, and it U rapidly ula&i^oar- ing. I would rdrifo et try ***>• • lth cancer to giro S. S. S. a f. 'r trl.-1. Mcv. NANCY J. Il.-COMArGHET. A»l:e Cruvc, T:pg*ecanoc Co., lad. Fell. 1C. 1S3G. A number of ratifications was gen erally hoped for. the matter was not fiee from doubt. There had been fierce dissensions during the process of framing, and, although the final words of tlie document showed that it was “done in con vention by the unanimous con sent of lire States present." "0# thirty nine out of fii'ty five mem I tiers actually signed it, even after 1 : Franklin’s fiual appeal for aigna ■ lures to the engrossed copy, j It is remarkable, therefore, that the eenienarirs of auy of these ! State ratifications should have! of Alvkw to Thu lea. prudence, to let go the bold we. It ia very generally admitted now have upon seven out of the. that tbia is Leap Tear. The au- thirteen Slatea, and, after having passer! over so considerable a part of the ground, to recommence the course.” This wns in view of the 'alk <>t n new convention to modi fy the work of the old one, and thorilies are not at variance on this point, ami if they were, the fact could be proved to the satis faction of any reasonable nrind hv referring to any res|>cclahle calen dar or bv the simple method'of also of possible unfavorable action > dividing the figures 18SS by four and showing that there is no re mainder. -• When the planets are right in their coursea and the division mentioned leaves no remainder, the year is almost invariably Leap Tear. This being the fact tire young man must seriously face the question: what is be going to do about it? The young man it undoubtedly in a position of ex treme delicacy.. Custom has ruled that during Leap Tear a young lady may reverse the natural or der of things, and asK the blush ing young man for his hand and heart. Of course he may refuse, as young ladies themselves have been known to do during the nth by the important Slates of New York and Viiginia. South Carolina came with bei share to the work of May 23 by a vote of 149 to 73, accompanied by ibe pro|H>sal of a few amendments. Not quite a month later, June 21, New Hampshire, wb'-ae action was no doubt largely influenced by that of Massachusetts, followed with a vole of 37 to 4G—.Vee Tori Sun. Astonishing Adventures. On one occasion I was ascend ing the Lillie Rangoon river with three natives and the mail bags, when we were hailed from shore by an Knglish hunter, who had bccu camping out among thc lierce wild animals and poisonous j ^ most of their female relative*. Still, such frauds will lie guarded against ns much as possible by the investigating committees. At the beginning of the next year the cluli has a big dinner out of what is left of the funds, and they then dissolve for three years. There is no dnniit but that the government ought to provide some proteetiou for young men during Leap Tears, still governments are notoriously alow in moving to wards any reform, and at present the only chance for the young man is, as we have suggested, combination and mntual support. —Detroit Tree Vreu. Eating 100 Eggs at aae Kitting. At the Hoffman House last night a party sat a table iu the ait gal lery making wagers each on his own particular trick. A* young broker, who spent last summer with his grandmother in Jersey, wou a pocketiul of greenbacks on a trick taught him by the good serpents for seventy days. Hi was entirely ah>nc, and he had ! killed five leopards, three tigers. ! six or eight large serpents and ' much ot her game. He had sev eral fresh scar* to prove a hand- to hand conflict with the wounded old lady. He had lost considera er three years, but the trouble is j >>le money on catch bets when he is refusal, unlike hers, car-! offeied to wager any one in the ! rirs with it a penalty. He must present to the rejected fair one a silk dress. This desperate alter ' native is, in fact, the foundation \ of the mathematical method by | which Leap Year is determined. party that he could cal more eggs than any other three men prescut, provided he wns permuted to •avc the last turn. A doctor, a coroner nnd a bank teller took the bet. After a brief discussion the The young man, likg the year, is , three gentlemen decided to tackle ing alone in that country, expos ed almost to every danger cue could dream of, was proof that he | was a brave man. j He had a raft at the bank, sand ; was about to cross the stream. After a visit of a quarter of un ; hour we took him in low and Idropped him down about a mile. IVe hml just headed for the other I bank when I saw a large crocodile ; divided between the clmice of two evils, and in either ease there ia no remainder in his poekelbook. VYliat, then, is the best tiring to be done under the circumstances? j its portals, and ordered a Some men take to the tall limber ! Every man ate and the fried eggs. He repaired to an all night restaurant in Sixth avenue, famous far the encounters which men about town have had within batch, waiter —If you wish to exchange your old .piano or organ for a new one. j or wish to buy a new one cheap, j you cansdo so at I THE Swift’s Cpccffc !.t cnttnTy ▼eatable, and reen* to nirt > sneers forciiu out the Impi- r!tir« fr.*iu tbo M»nL T r« au.«uu Blood and Skin D'vgt.'a I'Al fna -it J. W. STANFORD’S. SWIFT nitAnxa SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, C;A. been alloKeJ to pa: public notice, in view of the iiu portance of these acts ami of tin* j anxiety with v*huh they werei successively awaited. It is espe j cially singular that little Del a ware, which Ha9 the honor ing the first of the thirteen ithout f l,unUr '• raft T1,u ,uan 1,14,1 n " 11 of cowardice about it that on the first day of January and handed a check for severaldoxcn live a hermit’s life until the dawu j Than the young looker that ing of abetter year. This plan ph ad learned a thing or two from undoubtedly has it* merits. Yei! his Jersey grandmother directed there are disadvantages that tbs' llie cook to crack and spill into a prudent youn» man would do well! large pan 100 fresh eggs. Before to weigh. There is a certain air > putting the eggs into the pan. : entered the boat with us, hut was is re- raft. 1 ^ be Wiles sitting on liisVraps on llie I called^o him to shoot the tile, nnd lie rose and made as pret ty a shot as one ever saw, alrik- and were ! pugnant to the feelings of the av- however, he ordered that it be half filled with vinegar. Ills in • crage* young man. And then again ! structions were carried out. Af r< I* it has its dangers. Supposing the ter allowing the mixture to cook determined young woman follows a reasonable time the cover was , ’ i ing the saurian in the ey him! lie then finds hiutsrlf un- 1 lifted and the eggs placed in a killing him at once, We to accept the constitution, which applauding the shot when a dozen . . protected in the wilderness. The esourees of civilization are not she aid on Dec. 7, 1787. should not have made something of the; centenary of her action. The case of Pennsylvania, whicli rati lied five days after Delaware, is a little different, since she has so recently held a great celebration in honor of the framing of the I cnqplilutinn. as to be able to pa*a in silence her individual ratifies lion of it. | of the monsters broke water all about the raft. We bad a tow-: j rope about forty feel long, and ! were its full length ahead of the ; raft. None of the reptiles paid > the least attention to the boat, i but seemed determined to make i a closer acqusintance with the raft. The hunter had a repeating ri- his feet and and left, ns - « co a laJ 3 O 6 v. Is co ea £S a S §2 ft o (9 „ S3 <5 Sg s s P DA marlT-lv P 2 a +> * * a « 5 K 8 K* & 2 fc 2 R 2 O a LbJ LlJ lx. La. O O *1 Kjn ® oW lit gcQ tsc li*g I ^ «is. r? a £< S corstilu lion hy a HDanimous vote, where : as Pennsylvania’s convention sc | ceplcd it after hot debates, only 50 lb Gramma Flour | by n vole of 46 to 23. New Jersey was tlie third State _ , , fle, and he sIikh! on But Delaware not only , , , , , • hanged awav right led llie wav for her great sister! ” , . , , - , , ° . ! coolly as you please. I ordered Mates, hut adopted tws • In the city if he is run down he can at least call s police man. He may have the assistance of his feilowiueKmnd if be can't have that, he al least has their sympati^. So, taking it all in al^ it ia belter to bear the evil* that we have than to fly to o'hers that wc k now not of. The belter plan seems to be that llie young man should stand his ground. If disaster is to come, it big dish. By permission of the proprietor the gentlemen inter ested had watched the cooking. When the eggs were brought forth every one except the man with the Jersey grandmother gave vent to ejaculations of astonishment. Th* 100 eggs could be convenient ly put into an ordinary teacup. Then the owner ate them in half a dozen swallows. "There’s a hole in the pan,’’ yelled one nf the parly. No there ain’t. Til explain, is better to meet it bravely than to The vinfgar eatfn lbraL , t run away from it. A young man ia . fact You can (lrop . t, lou $t.40—Ilest on Market, t SIMPSON’S. STEEL PLOWS, 3MALI, laitsat Ac per pound., Largs I s> its fur loss, at SIMPSON SEE 5. S. PARl£8,ON EASTERN Seed I Potatoes, At Bottom Figure'. NIMPSOX’S. He a dc i n a i* t e r^ loi* PIANOS AND GROANS! 1 Can Sell You ail ORGAN OR PIANO Olio apex* THA^ Any House within 50(4 Miles of this point. :o: When you want any Instrument, confer with me in regard to price before buying, and I will save you uiou- ev. I also sell Piano and Organ Stools separate. J. W. STANFORD. — - J to ratify, and she. like Delaware, did so unanimously. The date was 100 years ago to day. Dec. 18; hut as this was to fall on Sunday, the New Brunswick celebration was held on Friday, Dec. 16, and Dec. 16, by the way, was on Sun day in 1787. The year 17SS opened with two ratifications—Georgia’s, by a unanimous vote on Jan. 2, and Connecticut'* hy 128 to 40 a week later. Ou Feb. 6, came the rati fication of Massachusetts, which was regarded everywhere as of great importance, there being two well defined opinions in the Stale, turning largely on the [lowers delegated by the Slates to the cen tral government under the new constitution. The convention was remarkable for the high character and ability of its members, and a m |M>pular pressure was exerted on It by a great popular meeting of Boston mechanics in favor of the new constitution. After very care i’ul consideration of the inslru meat, paragraph by paragraph, ; the convention ratified it by 187 ; should be very careful of the com pany Ue keeps (Turing the present year. Although he may mis* much harmless enjoyment hy do ing so, it is best to refuse all in vitations to go out riding, or to the opera, or to parlies uuless he has a cha|»crone with him. It is well the men to cease rowing, and got out my rifle, but before I bad fired a single shot, a monster crocodile climlied upon the side of the light bamh(H) raft, and upset it. We backed water very rapidly, and it was not over thirty seconds be fore the boat and raft bad bump ed. Al tlie same instant, the . to sec tlie company of young men life, be it consumed like a beauti ful nl*r rose beside the boat, and : and avoid being found alone. Sla- one of the natives palled him in. j tislic* show us that the young While he lay on the bottom of woman rarely proposes to the young man unless she happens to find him alone. The census nf 1880 gives such cases as only onr and a hall per cent of the total marriageable portion of the young men of this country. This |>ecenl- age is so small that it reduces the risk to a point that is hardly worth ed so that I could scarcely believe j considering as a real danger. The he was the sane man. No one j plan we would suggest is Ibis: standing on the gallows trap Let two or three young men band could be more broken up. He j together aDd resolve never to let had scarcely swallowed the whis ; one of their number be found alone j proud of him, but she always sits ky when he began to cry, and he i and unprotected. Let this union I in the front row with those who insisted that we cover him up in j be adhered to throughout the year j applaud, and catches the splendor the bottom of the boat. It was a : care being taken not to relax the I of bis achievements before it is the boat, we rowed about, and picked up such of bis trips as were afloaL It was ve^jillle we saved, as his firearms and pelts had been quickly devoured by the crocodiles. Wbcn I came to offer the man some spirit* his looks had chang- sand into a boiler with a little vinegar in it, and you will find that when cooked in it the eggs will disappear as if by magic/'— -Veic Turk Mail and Expren. k lather’s Itovstisa. All the war through a man’s ful fabric in unholy passion or held aloft like St. George's ban ner undefiled in the battle of life, his mother stands by him. and yearns over him, and prays for him to the last. If he is success fal, she i’s proud; if be is often cast down, she is pitiful; if he is wicked, she excuses him; if.be dies young, her hopes arc buried ia his grave, and she never ceasr* to dream of what her dailing ■night have been. Others may love him well, but their love never discounts hers. Others may be whole fortnight before the mau > vigilance as the days of 1889 ap- rccovered his composure, wliil his nerve was gone forever. lie who had stood with knife drawn awaiting the rush of a tiger, and who carried marks to prove In* bravery and his victory, had been proa ch. The real danger come* when all danger appears to be over. Recurring once more to the useful and complete census 18S0, ibis shown that more unfor lunate young men are roped in on | votes against 1GS. Tho vole was] totally broken up by an experi- j the 31sl day of December in leap cnce of less than two minutes in ! years than on all other days in the water with a dozen crocodiles.! those years put together. Thi* It was the feeling that he was shows the great evil of jubilant These pills were a wonderftxl discovery. Vo others like them in the world. Will positively core or relieve all manner of disease. The information around each box is worth ten tines ths cost of a box of pills. Find oat about then, and you will always be thankfcL One pin a dose. Parsons' MB MB H blood and core Pills contain EMS MBE* chronic ill health nothing harmful, than $5 worth of arc easy to take, any other reme~ and cause no in- HB ^W^Hj^dy yet diacov- One If people box will do more v9could be made to to purify the HB H ■■■■ realise ths mar- veloas power of these pills, they would walk 100 miles to get a box if they could not be had without. Sent by mail fbr 2oe. iu stamps. Illustrated pamphlet free, postpaid. Send fcr it; the information is very valuable. I- S. J0HKS0S b 00., 23 Custom House St., Boston, Ven Make New Rich Blood! (ictl-ily majority was no doubt helped hy the out<dde dem onstrations, and hy their consent ing to recommend no fewer than nine amendments, which satisfied some objectors. Three more State ratifications were then needed. These came slowly, a period of nearly three luomks intervening Iwfure the first. Ou April 28. 1788, Mary land's coflveulion accepted the constitution hy a vote of 3 against 12, without suggesting amend- hclplrss that look his courage away. In the case of the tiger he felt that lie had some little show. When be was flung into the water he realized that lie. iiad none. I have seen several men hung who ."died game.” and who got the credit of being brave fellows. It is all nonsense to talk about bravery in the face of the hang man. "Dying game" is either the courage which comes from slimu menu. This made seven Stales lants furnished by the jailer, or it is false enthusiasm due to the la bors nf llie clergyman for many days past.—Indian Mail. — Wildcats have been encounter ed frequently in the mountain re jridns of Ulster county! N. Y. this winter. A large one was csngbl in a trap by G. B. Risely at Shan ao ant nous (taken recently, weighing over 30 pounds. secure, and the current anxiety was expressed in the concluding number of the famous series of papers that had liecn published in New York since the beginning of the year, and called, when af terward collected in a volume. The Federalist. "In an enterprise,” said the writer. over-confidence Jthai a danger is past, when it is really present in its most virulent form. The plan adopted io aome’of the larger cities of a Leap Year Insu ranee Club (mutual) is not a bad one. This is formed to meet and grapple the silk dress difficulty alone. There is a president and secretary and the usual number of officers and committees. There are small weekly assessment*, which form a fund, and from this fund is drawn the expense of the silk dress when any of the mem tiers fall a victim. It is true that in Chicago glaring frauds occurred last Leap year (see gqf rnment insurance report for 1884, page 173). by which unscrupulous members rang in silk drcaaca for more to other eyes than a light reflected from alar, or the noise of wings that tarry in their coming. She anticipates his triumphs and of j antedates his victories. There is an "1 told you so” in her proud eves long before men band in the verdict of his greatness, and all his achievements are but the prophecies of her loving dreams. And when she dies, when the fluttering breath has expended itself in the last kUs. when the soft old hands have loosened their clasp, never helore removed since his helplessJiaby days, when tlie patient, yearning eyes hare with drawn their gaze to look their first on God, what Inis can over take a man’s life like this? The dove that brooded above the household nest and kept every nurseling in the shadow of her wings, has winged her flight to heaven. The everlasting love that no nnfaith, nor sin, nor in gratitude could chill or destroy, lias vanished like the ana from out the sky, leaving only a few faint stars and a wan and chilly moon to fill its place.—“Amber" til Chicago Journal. “1 Pilgrim af Lave.” About five years ago one of Athens’ most charming young ladies began receiving anonymous letters from some evidently love sick swain. The locations from which he wrote were different, lint the letters were apparently Irom the same person. He confessed the tender passion, and declared he would love and follow her as long aa iile should last. He as serled his intention sooner or 1st er of coming to see her, and in person lay siege to the citadel of her affections, which he had so long worshiped al a distance On Thursday last, lo and behold, he came! The scene as described by the young lady, was both ludi crons and pathetic. She discov ered at one* the author of her anonymous letters, and the person of her most ardent and mysterious lover. The young lady, full of a woman's native curiosity, yet nat orally embarrassed by the unus ual course of proceedings, listened with frightened interest to her would lie suitor. He declared that he had loved her from the first time he had beheld her. and had often visited Athens and walked through her streets aud thorough fares, hoping for some fortuitous circumstance lo bring them to gether. The fates, however, seem ed lo oppose him, and at last, ia the desperation ol his love, he had determined lo "bcaid llie lion in Ilia den," and therefore he came, that he might worship at lirr shrine. He recited most eloquent ly the story of Isaac and Rebecca —how they had been chosen for each other. He liked this ancient custom, lie said, and hoped that it also met wifli her approval. Dis- comuged and disap|Miinlcd al every luro he sadly and sorrow fully took his leave, bill as he said, leaving his heart and his lianpi jess behind him. Verily, truth is stranger than fiction, for- this scene really occurred last Thurs day in one of our most pleasant up town homes, acd can be vouch ed for hy several eaves dropping young ladies. The young n:nn in question is not a total stranger to our city, though he was lo the young lady. He confessed he had been smitten he that of the Spanish King when lie receives these things in state, how excitedly he will flop around in bis nnrse's arms! Hewillprob ably realize for the first time in bis life that it is really worth a baby’s while to be a king, and ’that he has advantages over the American boy who spends aa en tire youth hungering for one small pistol.—Mew Tork Sun. ^o-o m —- The Tension Appropriation Bill. The invalid pension bill which has just been reported to the House ought lo attract general at tention. It calls for $80,000,000. This is an increase of $4,000,000 over the last appropriation. The amount required lor pensions is steadily increasing, and the pros pect is that it wili conlinne lo in crease for a good many years. Time and time again the state ment has beeu made that the limit of the pension burden bad been reached, but it is apparent now that the authors of these statements were not only mista ken, but that they were totally unacquainted with the subject concerning which they spoke so positively. Congressmen as a rule are read ier lo pass pension bills than any other, not because they believe such bills lo be meritorious, but because they either hope to gain popularity hy advocating them, or are afraid ol losing popularity by opposing them. The pension bills pending before this Con gress call for more money than those introduced into any previ ous Congress fur al least a dozen years. One bill proposes to give eighty acres of land to all who screed in the Union army or navy lor six months and were honorably dis charged, and 160 acres to those who serve-1 longer than that. An other bill gives every person who enlisted in the Union army or na vy, or served the government in any capacity during the civil war, 160 acres of land It is estimat ed that the latter bill would dis tribute land worth, at the govern meat price, about $300,000,000. A [lending bill provides for pay- k Navel Contest. Quite a novel contest was de cided at Bright, in Dearborn county, Indiana, last Friday. William Liddte, a merchant, and Jesae Critn, a blacksmith of the village, offered to wager $23 that they could ontpull any two horses in llie township. Steve Cook, a farmer, who possessed a fine team, and believed they could ontpull anything from a porous plaster to a steam engine, accepted the bet, and Friday afternoon, ia the presence of a concourse of neigh bors and friends ol the respective contestants, the trial of strength was made. Liddle and Crim lay flat on their backs with thsir feet firmly braced against an immova ble structure arranged for the purpose, and with their heads pointing from the horses that were hitched a distance of forty feet away to a piece of timber held firmly in the bands *f the pros trate men. The test to be decid ed by the horses, either pulling the limber from the hands of the uien, o- else pulling them from the ground on to their feet, three trials and three minutes* steady polling, each trial the ex tent ol lh« contest, while the ex cited farmers and villagers crowd ed around the parlies lo witness this singular feat of strength and endurance. The horses two different times were whipped into pulling their best but with distended muscles and swelling veins that told of the terrific strain upon them, the prostrate men held the horses to their position. Al the third trial the excited farmer lashed his horses lo force them lo their ut most, when by a sudden jerk the limber in the hands of the resist ing men and to which the two horses were hitched, snapped in two pieces, the end of one piece striking Crim in the side as it* broke, rendering him unconscious for nearly an hour. He was sap- posed to be dead, but finally re covered, and is out of all danger of serious results from the blow. But now as the third trial was not determined before the accident occurred a dispute has arisen over the awarding of the money, and judges decided that a second con test must be had as soon as the ing all who enlisted in the Union armies the difference between gold j parties are a!) ready and the wealh by her charms and that he could | sn<l greenbacks at the lime they- er permits.—Cincinnati Enqnir- not displace her image from his received their pay, and another * r - * all mind, and therefore he had come lo ask that he might have a pic lureol his fair one lo carry with him to brighten the remainder of his now miserable- life. The young lady told her strange suitor that she had deliberately chosen a lite rary life, and would never marry any one. and, * therefore, would have to decline his magninimons 1 offer. In vain be liegged that he might be allowed to come again; in vain he asked her for her pic ture; in vain he besought that she would give him one little syirk of hope. It consoled him somewhat. Miss tells us, lo know that he had no rival in her affections, and be left the house with a heavy- heart ami a bowed bead, with the stern hope, however, that lie would be “called back" some day and have her, the jewel of his heart, to crown his life with unutterable bliss. Thus ended the most romantic scene in the social annals of the Classic City.—A them Banner Watchman. The Baby King of Spain. Your correspondent at Madrid is enabled to stale, and be does so with loyal pride and delight, that the baby King of Spain .is gelling on splendidly with his teething, an<l is growing plumper and stronger every day. Your readers were duly informed of his majesty's behavior upon the oc cast ion of the opening of the Cortes al the beginning of December, and that on the whole it was more infantile than majestic. At pres ent, however, the baby King has in bands state function much more to his liking. A year ago, although he did not know it, he sent lo the Sultan of Morocco, whom state interests demand that he should propitiate, aAol of fine presents, and now the grizzly Uack old Sultan is about to re turn the favor of bis royal infaot benefactor. A special mission ia to be des patched to Madrid. The mission will be composed of Ben Abbes Adak, governor ol Tangier,*snd Takes Kerdadi, the Sultan's own private secretary. They will take with them many mole loads of presents, which they wili lay at the King of Spain’s tiny feet. The presents will consist chiefly of wonderfully engraved daggers and mnaketa nnd some remarka bly live animals. What joy will gives pensions to all who were confined in Confederate prisons. It is impossible to estimate wlial amount would be necessary to satisfy these two bill*. There are three bills for equal izing bounties which, if passed, would lake at least $130,000,000 out yf tlie Treasury. The arrears bill is still on hand, snd it would cost the government net less than $300,000,000, and the Blair disa bility bill, which calls for at least $100,000,000, is before Congress again. The bill, however, which the claim agents would rather see passed than any other is that which gives every person who served in the Unmn armies sixty days $8 per month. It would in crease the pension burden about $113,000,000 a year. If it should pass, there would soon be no sur plus in the Treasury. It woukl be even necessary to increase tbe taxes. There are other general [tension bills and thousands of private ones. It is not lime to call a halt in ibis pension business? Unless tbe people say emphatically that tbe pension burden is shout as large now as they are willing to carry, the demagogues in Congress will go on increasing it until the reve nues, great ss they are at present, will not lie sufficient to meet its demands. The South does not object to pensioning ex Union soldiers who are entitled to government ni<1. hot she does object to being tax ed to support those who have no reasonable claim upon tbs gov ernment The $80,000,000 now annually paid in pensions is dis tributed almost wholly in the North. The North, therefore, gets back all it pays for pensions, and, besides gets the greater por tion of what tbe Sooth pays. ftbile tbe pensions help to make richer those who are al ready rich in the North, it is a question whether they do not also help to make paupers. If the truth con id be got at it is probs ble that it would be found |ji>t there are thousands of families, the members of which ere well able to earn a living, which are being supported almost wholly by the government. Assuming thin to be tbe case, is it advisable even for tbe North to insist upon a farther increase in tbe pension burden?—NarannsA Macs. Contrmplible^ISrntality. Mrs. Clara E. Pinkleton, nee Lee, living in the northeast part of this county, near Long Fond, Ga., came before Judge Watson this week and made an affidavit against her husband, Thomas B. Pinkleton (or, all reports being true, the creature she was unfor tunate enough to marry some months since.) She made oath that in three days after their mar riage he commenced abusing her most shamefully, using a regular wooden paddle on her lo snch an extent that she kept her lx-d for two weeks at one lime: She ban l>een choked so near to death that lie was satisfied he had accom plished the deed, and that alone saved her life: Various times has she been felled to tbe Boor by the hand of this monster in human shape which took this fragile girl for better or for worse—to love, honor and protect. Finally, fear ing she would ran swsy, he chain ed her to the bedstead for weeks, with a tracechain around her an kle, when he would leave the house, and also when he slept, snd if he awoke daring tbe night and found her in a different posi tion from that in which she was when he went to sleep, down came the stick, which was always at band, on her slight, womanly form. Pinkleton watched her every movement, and she was not allowed to say a word to anyone that could not be overheard by him. He swore that if she told her father, J. C. Lee, of bia ill treatment of her, he would kill them both before they coaid get sway. And as he bad choked ber to death, made her look into the muzzle of a revolver, and had drawn a knife on and over her as she was prostrate and at his mer cy, she was in mortal terror of Him, Some two weeks ago be asked her if she would leave the country with bim. With her woman’s quick perception, she assented with apparent willingness, only asking lo say good by to her pa rents. Pinkleton agreed to Ibis, when she, like a freed bird, went to her father, told her pitiful sto ry, and begged for protection. Mr. Lee got his shotgun, snd in tended shooting Pinkleton, but tbe craven begged Tor bis life, and is now at large. A petition is being circulated praying tho Governor lo offer a reward for his capture, so be can be tried for hi* shameless brutality.—Jarptr (>'f«.) Tima. It is estimated that the annual product of building bricks in tbo United States is 3,000.000,000, em ploying jn ‘.heir manufacture 100.- 000 men, and the product being worth $30,000,000, requiring a capital of $75,000,000.