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W* F. SMITH, Publisher,
VOLUME IX.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
Thre arc 1,100 blacks and 115 whites
in the Georgia penitentiary.
The Mississippi State Grange favor*
the repeal of the agricultural lien law.
The Atlanta City Council has voted
$15,000 for the purchase of a site for a
city park.
Centenary Methodist church, at Rich
mond, Va., will havo a chime of bells
to cost $7,000.
A company, with a capital of SIOO,-
000, has been organised to introduce the
electric light at Columbus, Ga.
Commissioner Hawkins of Tennessee
is making arrangements for experimen
tal tests in the effect of commercial fer
tilizers on the crops in every county in
the State.
Some Chicago capitalists are negoti
ating for the purchase 13,000 acre* of
land in Sequachee county, Tenn., as an
investment. It is well timbered and
rich in coal.
The marble quarry near Calhoun,
Tenn., has been leased, and 100 steam
drills will be oporated there. A railroad
will be built and other preparations
made for extensive quarrying.
The Atlanta Constitution discovers in
the fact that the Eagle and Phoenix
mills of Columbus, Ga., last year earned
25 per cent, on tlieir capital stock, one
of the most overwhelming political tri
umphs for the South.
The Georgia railroad has compromised
with Henry Hill, whom the passenger
conductor put off near Madison last
summer for not wearing his coat in the
ladies' car. Tthe road paid $5,000 for
this treatise on etiquette.
Sturgeon fishing in the waters around
Georgetown, S. C., has become a large
and profitable industry. About 100 men
are employed in the business, and large
quantities of sturgeon meat are shipped
to Charleston in kegs every week.
A short time since a bar-room was
found hid in a pen of cotton seed near
Athens, Ga. It seems the proprietor
kept a barrel secreted in this pen, with
rubber tube leading therefrom, and when
a customer wanted his jug filled it was
easily drawn. It was reported to a rev
enue officer and broken up.
Atlanta Constitution: Columbus is
about to turn her attention to building
a canal. According to all accounts it
won’t be a difficult job. With canals
in Augusta, Columbus, Macon and At
lanta, Georgia will have sufficient hn
proved y uter power to run all the cotton
mill in the United States. But, really,
we don’t want all. We will be satisfied
with just half.
Columbus (Ga.) Times: There were
four bales of cotton brought to market
yesterday from the plantation of Col. F.
Terry, who lives near Waverly Hall,
Harris county, that was grown and
gathered in the year 1860, Oaled with
ropes, and have been reposing in his gin
house ever since. He was offered
•outs for it in 1865, but would not sell
because he thought the revenue tax of 8
cents per pound was unjust, and lie said
he had rather burn the cotton than sub
mit to such injustice by the government.
He had at the close of the war upward
°f 100 bales of cotton, and still has a
few more left.
How the Snake Gets a New Suit.
“Some people think that snakes only
R hod their skins at certain seasons of the
year,” said the keeper. “That’s a mis
take. If they are well fed and kept
n ght warm they change their coats
*d>out every eight weeks through the
' ear. ’’ “ Does it pain them ? ” “ Not a
hit of it. You see the skin of a snake
does not increase in size reptile
frog's, as with us. While the old skin
I s getting smaller by degrees, anew one
18 forming underneath, and the other
gradually gets dry. W T hen it is ready to
sued, it loosens around the lips, and the
reptile rubs itself against the earth or
le ro °k in the cage, and turns the up
per part over the eye and the lower part
o\ or the throat. Then it commences to
ghde around the glass case, all the time
rubbing itself against something until
ue entire skin is worked off. Sometimes
18 !*kes three days ; occasionally they
g et rid of the incumbrance in a few
Urs - I don't believe they have a bit
lnti ‘lligenee. For all I feed them and
**** f'l'them, they would as lief bite me
a uy stranger. I can handle a good
J* 11 ?' °f them safely, but it’s only the
uaek of the tiling— not that they won’t
ciianc can’t get the
jTeddler.—“’Mornin’, Mr. Waggles.
jer mornin’ pipe kafter last
ut s storm ? I heard you and vour
o\.i , ' m ’ words as 1 passed at 12
r * Waggles (a reprobate)--
, gn words, wos it? More like low
I calls it.”
Demed to Industrial laUrtst, tin Diffttuon tf Tntt the EstaMishaent of Jastice, and the Presemtioa of aPeoftli’g Gevennaent.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Thurman is said to be building hia
fences for 1884.
Patti— Cincinnati Musio Hall—twe
nights—sl6,ooo.
For military reasons England will op
pose the Channel tunnel.
Thb Pope recommends that the pro
posed Spanish pilgrimage be abandoned.
Gen. Sheridan favors the compulsory
retirement of all officers sixty-two years
of age.
Cotton returns indicate for 1881 the
loss of 300,000 bales by ravages of the
caterpillar.
The English exports to America for
1881 were 20 per cent, less than those of
previous years.
Since Sullivan pounded Ryan he is
said to have had three offers of marriage.
He’s a great masher.
The appointment of policewomen on
the New York force is now asked for by
the woman suffragists.
Mrs. Garfield will not reply to Mrs.
Scoville’s letter, appealing in behalf of
the assassin of the President.
TnE address to the throne in the
House of Common has been adopted,
thus sustaining the government’s Irish
polioy.
Thomas Nast, the well-known carica
turist, has a plethora of money, so we
are informed, and purposes retiring to
private life.
The Fire Commissioners of Boston
have ordered fire-escapes to be supplied
by all manufacturers employing five or
more hands.
The Prussian Budget is made to a sur
plus of $9,000,000. This is chiefly due
to the working of the railroads bought
by the State.
Potatoes are being imported from
Europe, and New York dealers are some
what disgusted. Such invasions inter
fere with “oorners.”
Cuba, just now, is undergoing a severe
drouth, to the great injury of the sugar
cano. We might spare her any quantity
of water and not suffer either.
Belle Boyd, the Confederate corres
respondent, spy, and blockade runner,
lives now in Corsicana, Texas, and fre
quently delivers a lecture or two.
The insurance on Barnum’s baby ele
phant is $300,000. The insurance on the
average Congressman is $5,000. Differ
ence in favor of the babe, $295,000.
Great distress exists among the peo
ple of Sweden, the mildness of the
weather preventing the transportation of
produce by means of sleighs, as usual.
General Carr, against whom Gen
eral Wilcox preferred charges of a se
rious character, has been released from
custody, the President refusing to en
tertain the charges.
France seems not inclined to recon
vene the Monetary Conference April 1,
owing to a desire to avoid another fail
ure in her efforts to secure a uniformity
of views on the part of the Powers.
The Government Printing Office, in
spite of the scarcity of money and the
agitation about the change of manage
ment, is at work at a tremendous rate
turning out books, pamphlets, and other
printed stuff by the ton.
Senator Hill, of Georgia, who has
submitted to a third operation for can
cer in the mouth, reports that his con
dition is now most favorable, and ex
presses great confidence that a perma
nent cure has been effected.
It appears that, after all, the portrait
the temperance ladies had painted of
Mrs. Hayes to hang up in the White
House, will not be used for that purpose,
President Arthur feeling inclined to dc
as he pleases about the matter.
The State of Pennsylvania has begun
suit aginst seventeen railroads because
of their failure to return to the Auditor
their annual report within thirty days
after the expiration of the financial year.
The penalty for each road is $5,000.
Mb. Scoyille proposes to lecture in
various localities on the subject “ Mod
ern Politics.” In these lectures he will
refer incidentally to the Guiteau trial.
However, it is generally believed the
public have had enough of the Guiteau
trial.
It seems that Egypt is advancing
• somewhat in civilization. The present
INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA.
Khedive spends but $500,000 a year,
whereas his predecessor spent $10,000,-
000. He has but one wife, and grants
oonsessions to all religious denomina
tions.
Patti and Minnie Hauk both got
laryngitis during the Opera Festival at
Cincinnati, and that’s why things got so
terribly mixed up. All prima-donnas
get laryngitis once in a while, and those
who do not hereafter complain of laryn
gitis occasionally are not what you might
call great warblers.
Cereal estimates of the Department
of Agriculture of crops of 1881, as com
pared with those of 1880, shows a reduc
tion of 31 per cent, in corn, 22 per cent,
in wheat, 21 per cent, in rye, and 9 per
cent, in barley. The total value of crops
in 1881 is $1,465,000,000, against $1,361,-
000 in 1880.
The late Lord Beaconfield paid £4,-
000,000 for England’s 177,000 shares in
the Suez Canal. Owing to the recent
wild speculative mania in France, the
price of the shares was forced up to £l4O,
and if Her Majesty’s Government had
cleared out at that figure, it would have
realized £24,780,000, or a profit of £20,-
780,000.
The Memphis Appeil says anew day
has dawned for the South, and that in
its light prejudices are vanishing, and
with them the hatreds and the narrow
ideas of the past, and that intelligence,
reason and common sense arc ready to
make available the resources which
science and experience have brought
within reach.
About two-thirds of the counties in
Indiana have been authorized to take
observations of the weather, and as soon
as the instruments and supplies are for
warded by the General Government the
service w T ill be inaugurated. Indiana
will be the first State to make these
observations by counties, although other
States are moving in the matter.
All persons, including officers of the
law, are opposed to the brutality of prize
fighting, and the newspapers of the land
have a great deal fc> say against it, but
all newspapers take the pains to publish
detailed accounts of such affairs, and
with hardly a single exception, readers
are not satisfied until they know just
how each round came out, and who was
finally whipped.
Prof. Henry S. VENNORhas published
a card in the Cincinnati Commercial
declaring that he is a success as a weather
prophet. However, instead of predict
ing weather a year in advance, he will
hereafter print a monthly paper at Mon
treal which shall contain predictions,
weather maps, etc., for the ensuing
month. Thus you see when a man
gets so he can’t tell the truth, he turns
to editing a newspaper.
A brute, by name John Wilson, of
Taunton, Mass., has been in the habit ol
tying a heavy rope around the neck of
his grown-up daughter and dragging her
around after him. For this he was fined
ten dollars, and the girl paid it with her
own money. She is one of the Chris
tians who returns good for evil, although
when it comes right down to carrying
out the doctrine, it don’t seem to be just
the thing accordisg to the common way
of thinking.
Illustrative of the destitute condition
of people in Southern Illinois, a cor
respondent writing from Saline County
says: “In this county nothing was
raised, not even grass. There are farm
ers who are as near stavation as they
well can come without actually starving.
They are living on anything they can con
vert into food to keep soul and body to
gether. Their situation might be im
agined, but one would • have to see it to
fully understand it.”
At Lafayette, Indiana, an old soldier
named John Baker was married to Mrs.
Anna Smith, who had been nursing him
for some time past, and to whom he
owed considerable of a board bill. Baker
knew his death was but a few days dis
tant, and he wished to reward his kind
benefactress by leaving her the pension
which he had for several years been re
ceiving from the government. He died
the day following the ceremony, and the
widow, it is said, has, besides the
monthly pension, a claim for $2,000
back pension.
Charley Wright, the colored boot
black, who saved two men at the recent
New York fire by climbing a telegraph
pole and cutting a wire rope, has re
ceived a medal from the American Hu
mane Society which makes him a col
onel in the life-saving brigade. Another
gold medal will be shortly given to him.
He has received in money SB9 and the
Humane Society will present him with a
purse. He has saved eight persons in
the surf at Cape May, for three sum
mers past. His father is an African, his
mother a Sioux Indian.
Rev. Talmage’s charge that the father
of Robt. J. Ingersoll, in life, fed and
clothed his family sparingly and “never
spoke a kind word to his wife,” has re
ceived the attention of Mr. John F. In
gersoll, of Waukesha County, Wiscon
sin, who has printed a most scathing re
ply. He says that liis father was a min
ister on SSOO a year, and had to live
sparingly, that he was kind to his fam
ily, and as to Robert, while he did not
believe the doctrines the father taught,
was “as good and obedient boy as he
ever knew.” Mr. Ingersoll endeavors
to shame the Rev. Talmage for going to
the grave as a ghoul, to tear up the
ashes of the white-haired dead.
Speculators in Cincinnati Opera
Festival tickets were gloriously stuck—
some to the extent of $1,500, and others
for less amounts, but all lost more or
less in their speculation. This is as it
should be. When a lot of men buy up
with a view to securing a “ corner ” at
the expense of the masses—extorting
money from those who can least afford
it—it is but justice that they should lose,
and that Heavily. One Hebrew citizen,
who had bought reserved seats heavily
at a big advance, stood about the door,
late at night, offering his tickets at 35
cents apiece, and not one of them had
cost him under $7, and some of them as
high as $24. People, rather than pat
ronize him, shoved him aside and paid
$1 for general admission, went in and
stood up, so outraged were their feelings
over the affair. We never like to see
persons losing money, but sometimes it
is a good thing for the general ppblic
for would-be oppressors to suffer se
verely the fruits of indiscretion.
A touching incident occurred at th*
Midlothian mines in Virginia, the other
night. Superintendent Dodds mounted
a coal car, and addressing the wailing
throng of women and children around
him, said: “My poor friends, it grieves
me to state to you that for the present
our search for the bodies of those you
know and loved will have to btfaban
doned. You know wliat fire iij a coal
mine means, and it may take months of
watching to subdue it. We will close
the pit now.” The speaker’s voice quiv
ered with emotion. When he finished a
beautiful little girl of fourteen years,
Annie Crowder, the only daughter of one
of the victims, uttered a piercing scream
and rushed to the mouth of the pit, crying:
“Oh, do not leave my dead papa to burn
down there. Let me get into the cage
and go down after him. Let mo save
him.” The strong arms of the miner*
held her back as the fragile thing tried
to make her way to the cage, and more
than one blackened face was made
blacker as the hand went up to wipe
away the tears. Men sobbed aloud and
turned away to conceal their emotion.
The little girl, finding her progress
barred, swooned at the mouth of the pit^
Women’s Masculine Idols.
Every man who fills an effective pub
lic position has an especially good op
portunity of moralizing upon feminine
frivolity and frailness. A handsome
actor, a good-looking popular preacher,
a oharming singer, finds the women go
down before him much as the ladies do
before the hero of Patience. As very
High Church young ladies delight in
standing up out of reverence to very
young curates when they enter the
church, so there are many women who
would be charmed to go down on their
knees when one of the heroes of society
enters a drawing-room. Good looks are
not always necessary, though as a rule
women prefer their idols to be hand
some. Excessive notoriety will do in
stead. The men who, with no personal
charms—with, as in some recent in
stances, a positive unpleasantness about
them—go through society worshiped
and adored by the women, must indeed
be inclined to adopt the true Guy Liv
ingstonian view of the other sex. These
ladies who sneak after the man of mush
room notoriety, imploring him to come
to their afternoons, begging him for his
photograph or a copy of his poems, or
an autograph letter, or a lock of his hair
—must appear to him very “ poor little
beasts ” indeed. But however he may
despise them, he can, to a certain extent,
understand their motives. They want
other women to see him talking to them,
to meet him at their houses, to be aware
that he has written letters to them and
given them his photograph. The idea
these women entertain must be that they
obtain a second-hand distinction by be
ing associated in people’s minds with
the idol of the hour. Women have from
all time regarded it as sufficient honor
for themselves to be the favorites of
great men. This is but a modern ren
dering of the old story. They have
made it the fashion to sit in adorning
circles around their hero, and gaze upon
him with meek eyes of wonder, much as
if he were a Persian prince, and they
his humble slaves. But there is none of
the charm of danger in this, and perhaps
not much excitement; for it is all done
in public, and has become a prominent
feature in the programme of most
drawing-room entertainments. —London
World.
A Chicago Girl's Yore.
“ Does your father keep a dog ?”
These words, uttered with the simple
earnestness shat showed how deeply their
full meaning was felt by him who spoke
them, fell from the lips of Fthelbert
Dooley as he looked tenderly in the fair,
spirituelle face of Rosalind Mahaffy.
They were at the matinee, and a dull
pain stole into the girl’s heart, as she
shifted the last caramel in the box over*
to the starboard side of her pretty mouth. *
“Ethelbert does not love me,” she
said softly to herself, while a look of
pain whitened for an instant with a
deathly pallor, the pure ingen id face,
and the shapely hftnd grasped more
tightly the dainty silk parasol that
served alike to keep off sun and wind
from the tithe form. “All gone, ” she
murmured, sadly—“ every blamed one”
—feeling earnestly with her taper fin
gers in every corner of the empty box,
and tben a look of sweet contentment
overspread her features, as she placed
her hand in the pooket of her sealskin
saeque, only to be succeeded by a dull,
dwjed expression of grief and anguish.
She had lost her chewing gum. '
“You look ill, darling,” whispered
Ethelbert, as the curtain \fent down at
the close of the first aot; “ try some of
these,” handing out a *aper of peanuts.
With a glad look of love in her beau
tiful eyes, Rosalind turned to him and
said: “I ean never doubt you again,
darling. I would follow you to the end
of the world.” —Chicago Tribune.
(i Don’t You Believe Him.*-
The Arabs tell a story to show how a
mean man’s philosophy overshoots itself.
Under the reign of the first Calip there
was a merchant in Bagdad equally rich
and avaricious. One day li® had bar
gained with a porter to carry home for
him a basket of porcelain vases for ten
paras:
As they went along he said to the man:
“My friend, you are young and I am
old; you can still earn plenty; strike a
para from your hire.”
“Willingly !” replied the porter.
This request was repeated again and
again, until, when they reach the house,
the porter had only a single para to re
ceive. As they went up stairs the mer
chant said:
“If you will resign the last para, I
will give you three pieces of advice. ”
“Be it so,” said the porter.
“Well, then,” said the merchant, “if
any one tells you it is better to be fast
ing than feasting, do not believe bim. If
any one tells you it is better to be poor
than rich, do not believe him. If any
one tells you it is better to w r alk than
ride, do not believe him.”
“ My dear sir,” replied the astonished
porter, “I knew these things before;
but if you will listen to mo, I will give
you such advice as you never heard.”
The merchant turned round, and the
porter, throwing the basket down the
staircase, said to him:
“ If any one tells you that one of your
vases is unbroken, do not believe him.”
Before the merchant could reply the
porter made his escape, thus punishing
his employer for his miserly greediness.
Ear and Brain.
The substance of the following state
ments with regard to the ear and brain
is from a paper in the New York Medi
cal Journal , by Dr. Andrews, surgeon
to the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital,
New York.
Ear diseases are much worse than
those of the eye. They are a principal
cause of deaf mutism. They are also
among the most frequent diseases of
oliiidhood, being developed in diphtheria,
whooping-cough, scarlet fever, measles,
small-pox, typhoid fever, influenza and
tubercular affections of the lungs.
Indeed, a simple cold in the head or
sore throat rapidly spreads along the
mucous membrane of the nostrils and
pharynx to that of the ear. Bays the
late Prof. Clark, of Harvard University,
“So important is proper attention to the
ear during and after acute exanthemata
(diseases attended with rash) that a
physician who treats such cases, and
neglects to give this attention, cannot
be said to perform his duty to his pa
tient.”
But the most serious fact about these
diseases grows out of the very intimate
connection between the ear and the
brain. Most of the bony wall which
contains the internal ear lies in direct
contact with the membrane of the brain.
Some parts of the wall are so thin as to
be transparent. There are also open
ings through it for the passage of nerves
and blood-vessels, and often parts of it
are wanting through arrest of develop
ment.
Hence, purulent inflammations of the
ear extend to the brain—the
more so, the younger the child. These
may cause similar lmflammation of the
membranes, inflammation of large veins
and abscesses of the brain.
Nearly one-half of the latter are due
to this "cause, chronic inflammation of
the ear—showing itself perhaps only in
a slight headache—being vastly more
dangerous than \eute.— Youth's Com
vanion.
A young member of the bar thought
he would adopt a motto for himself, and,
after much reflection, wrote in large let
ters, and posted up against the wall, the
following, “ Sunni Caique,” which may
be translated, “ Let every one have his
own.” A country client, coming in, ex
pressed himself much gratified with the
maxim, but added, “ You don’t spell it
right.” “ Indeed ! Then how ought it
j to be spelt?” The visitor replied, “Sue
’em quick.”
A blot . may be erased, but with tht
erasure goes part of the original texture.
Character can never suffer a stain with
out some loss.
SUBSCRIPTION--SI.SO.
Number 27
THE BLACK DEATH.
Cause of tlie Annual Outbreak of tbe
FI ague.
. It is goner ally supposed, says the
Chicago Tribune, that the inundation of
the low lands of the Euphrates river is
the only cause of tlio outbreak of the
plague, or black death. They are a con
tributing, but not the only cause. The
real cause of the pestilence has been
known ibr years to the Persian and
Turkish Governments, but they have
done nothing toward its prevention. The
black death is not an uncommon disease
in that part of Mesopotamia lying south
west from Bagdad, between the right
shore of the Euphrates aud the Syrian
desert. It has made its regular appear
ance there ever since the year 1872, be
tween the months of December and
June. In Nedjeff, or Medsched Ali, is
the grave of Ali, the son-in-law 7 of the
Prophet Mahomet. From there leads a
desert road, marked out by the bleached
bones of camels and human beings, to
the so-called Lake Euphrates, which re
ceives its water through the Hintieh
canal. To the northwest of this lake is
situated tlie city of Kerbela, where is to
be found the golden mosque and the
grave of Hussein, the son of Caliph Ali
and the daughter of the Prophet. These
two cities are the real breeding-places of
the dreadful disease. To Nedjeff aud
Kerbela the Shiites, or religious follow
ers of Ali and Hussein, ohiedy Persians,
send the dead bodies of their friends and
relatives, because they believe that to
be buried near Hussein’s or Ali’s grave
will souls certain admission
to paradise. Caravan after caravan,
each camel loaded with two felt-covered
coffins on each side, arrive there daily
and deposit their ghastly freight for in
terment, which, during month? of travel
from tlie Persian highlands, has been
decomposing and is filling tlie air with
its pestilential odor. Tlie coffins are
placed in shallow trenches and covered
with about an inch or two of earth. But
this is not all. The whole country
around Nedjeff has become one vast
graveyard, and, in consequence of
tlie frequent floods occurring in the Eu
phrates, all the lands on both sides of
the river are inundated, tlie light cover
ing of earth is swept from the coffins,
which, being made of light material, fall
to pieces, and thousands upon thousands
of corpses are left rotting under the rays
of an Oriental sun. The waters finally
recede, or are gradually absorbed by the
soil, poisoning all tlie wells in that coun
try. From 12,000 to 16,000 corpses are
sent there annually for interment by the
Shiites. The Jews send annually sev
eral thousands of their dead to be buried
near the grave of their prophet Ezekiel,
which is also near Kerbela. Beside these
caravans there arrive flotillas of pilgrim
boats loaded with corpses on the Eu
phrates by way of the Semawat branch
and the Bar-i-Nedjeff. Not only aro
they filled with this pestiferous freight,
but the coffins are even hung outside of
the boats, loading them down to the wa
ter’s edge. The constant arrival of
these caravans and flotillas with their
freight of decaying human corpses, and
added to this the careless burial, must
be regarded as the cause of the outbreak
of tlie plague, and the fatalistic negli
gence of the Persian and Turkish Gov
ernments, which do not interfere until
the disease has become epidemic, ex
plains why it has not been suppressed
during the last ten years. For a long
time a special treaty has been in exist
ence between these two Governments
relative to the transportation of these
corpses, but so far it lias been a treaty
on paper only. The people of Amertit
are in as much danger as the rest of the
world. It is about time that the civil
ized nations of the earth should make
this question of the transportation of
corpses under an Oriental sun an inter
national question, and force the two
Governments directly interested to exe
cute the provisions of their treaty in
good faith.
The Use of Wealth.
There are thousands of rich men who
are not skinflints, who have the reputa
tion of being so, bcause they have never
been known to have done any special
good with their money. A man who is
worth $50,000 can do more to make
himself loved and respected by all with
whom he comes in contact, by the
judicious expenditure of a thousand dol
lars in charity, than by giving the whole
fifty thousand dollars after he is dead.
It seems as though it would be mighty
small consolation to a millionaire to leave
money to some charitable purpose, after
death, and be so confounded dead that
he couldn’t see the smiles of happiness
that his generosity had created.
Suppose a millionaire who has never
had a kind word said of him except by
fawning hypocrites, who hope to get
some of his money, should lay out a
beautiful park worth a million dollars,
and throw it open free to all, with walks,
drives, lakes, shade and everything.
Don’t you suppose, if he took a drive
through it himself and saw thousands of
people having a good time and all look
ing their love and respect for him, that
his heart would be warmed up and that
his day would be lengthened. Wouldn’t
every look of thaks be worth a thousand
dollars to the man who had so much
money that it made him round-shoul
dered? Wouldn’t he have more pleas
' ure than he would in cutting off coupons
with a lawn mower?— Peck's Sun.
There is an incorrigible little darky
down in Washington, Ga. He is 9 years
old, and is known as a horse-thief, as
well as being willing to steal anything
else. His mother has tried to reform
i him by whipping him for the first half
of the day, and hanging him up in a bag
and smoking him the other half, but the
inhabitants of Washington despair of*his
being a trustworthy citizen.