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THE DEMOCRAT.
A Live Weakly Paper on Live Issues
Pabiishcd Every Friday Morning,
at Crawfordville, G«:
WB- SULLIVA3T. Proprietor
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Single Copy, (three months,) ... 5P
Advertising rates liberal BOOK
ind JOB PRINTING a specialty. Prices
to suit the times.
Business Cards.
S. a. BRINKLEY,
Attorney at Law %
WARKEJiTOK, GA.
Refers to W. H. Hull, Frank H. Miller
Joseph Ga. Ganaht Will and H. C. business Foster, intrusted of Au¬
gusta, him diiligent attention. give all j-5-77-j-y
to
T 1. II. If UlilSUj, (iTINO\
Aliurut Attorney ) ai at Law UttW,
AVGUSTA, GA,
Refers by W- Permission, M EeeSC 8nd to " Judge E. H.
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C.S. v „ — v- DUBOSE,
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WARREN'TON, GA.
iar will practice in the Augusta, Xorth
«rn and Mid< <lle Circuits. oct-7-j-y <
H. C. KOSEY,
Att’y at Law,
THOMSON, GA.
td' Will practice in the Augusta. North¬
ern and Middle Circuits. oet-7-j-y
Millinery.
1 CRAWFORDVILLE! WOULD respectfully inform the citizens
«f and the surround¬
ing country, of that I am receiving a fine
assortment
SPRING AND SUMMER HATS,
—ALSO—
a choice lot of
which MILLINERY, I offering
fully ask am all those very that cheap in I respect¬
SPRING are want of a
and SUMMER HAT to give me a
•all before purchasing.
Very Respectfully,
mliSO-t-o-o , Mrs. L. S. GOLUCKE.
New Tin Shop.
A. B. HIGGS, P roprietor,
CRAWFORDVILLE, GA.
Takes this method to inform the citizens of
Crawfordville and the people of tlie
surrounding ESTABLISHED country that he has
a ,N E W
U | lfc -5 |E3 "V - k
mnnuireture N K\v 1 IN, or ;
REPAIR ALL KINDS OF OLD i
Work, in best style on the very lowest terms, i
lam prepared to Execute I
■nnrvfi™ Hoonng anrl antt r Wittering T n++Priricr :
in very best style and at prices ts suit the
lie. Bring your work to my shop. HIGGS.
mh30-t-o-o A. B.
II. S. SMITH, M.B.,
AGENT,
CRAWFORDVILLE, GA.
Keeps constantly on hand a full assort¬
ment Of
DRUGS,
Paints, Oils ’
Glass, Tobacco,
Segars, Liquors, Etc., Etc.,
Etc.
Has also on hand the celebrated rheumatic
medicine the
“Wine of Seven Barks.”
Toilet & Fancy Articles, Garden Seeds, &c.
mar23 b-m
MATERIAL REDUCTION IN THE
Price of Liquors.
Sweet Mash Corn Whisky, (formerly sell¬
ing at §2.50.) reduced to * 2.00 per gallon.
$3.00 Velvet gallon. Rye (formerly at ?4.00) reduced to
per
Both articles the best in this market.
II. S. SMITH, M. D.,
apr20 At the Drug Store.
Mansion House,
258 Broad Street,
Augusta, :_J_; Georgia.
Transient Board, . . 81.50 per day.
Single Meals 50 cents.
Single Lodgings 50 cents.
Mrs. W. If. MOORE,
mar23 j-e-m Proprietress.
AY. J.
CRAWFORDVILLE, GA.
0OXTRACTOR AND
ASD DEALER IS
Rough and Dressed ^MouMm^n’giea Lumber,
Bnek, NAILS Limefiaths, LOCKS,
Hinges and all
Building A HoP S ft tl^^ ^ s Tlin cr
« JXLaXenaiS. i - *
t-#* - Prices to suit the times, .jr-l
Satisfaction guaranteed. AH orders for
material accompanied with the CASH, will
ZZZlS T 2W t S tt€n ti n ’ aad
executed with dispatch. t u mh30-h-m
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MRS. E. L. THOMAS,
Boarding Mouse 5
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.t^^ra« H msonante rates, M0dati0Tlis nov-18-j.o-m tOT ®J 5 * rdeM
The Democrat
Vol. I.
MISCELLANEOUS.
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PERFECTLY HEARTLESS.
h^artSs’” rTT w ^rfctiv
“ '
, with h h con y er9 ine at
a large brilliant party
‘-Heartless; wRh that sensitive mouth,
and those eyes, so full of expression," said
the gentleman musingly.
“I don’t admire her style of beauty at all.
She looks like a wax doll, and her heart
icasnesais nroverbial ^ Since 10™^ her uncle left &
^ h*
score, and she flirts with every one. Why,
look r.‘Stanley’s at her now"’
• D eyes followed the direction
in which the lady waved her fan, and rest
ed on the central figure of a group around
the * piano. It was a lady, young and fair
.. evceedimrlv eraceful ficure
Dure Greek features and large blue eyes
Her hair was short hut the soft full curls
made a lovely frame for the fair face. Her
dress was of a dark lace, and twisted
amongst the flowers, with dark green
leaves, She was conversing quietly with a
knot of gentlemen, and Mr. Stanley
sauntered over to the group.
“Miss Marston,” said one gentleman,
“what has become of Harold Graham?”
Her hands swept over the ivory keys of
the grand piano, in the measure of a bril¬
liant waltz, and another of the group, sup¬
posing that Miss Marston did not hear the
question, said:
“Perhaps he has committed suicide.”
“It is three weeks since he disappeared,”
said another.
I hope not,” said Miss Marston,
“we want his tenor for our next musical
aoiree. It would be too provoking for him
to commit suicide.”
“Mrs. Holmes was right,” thought Dr.
Stanley, “she is perfectly heartless. Poor
narold !”
He turned from the piano, but stopped as
the full, rich voice broke out into song.
Miss Marston was singing Schubert’s
“Last Greeting,” and into the mournful
words she poured such wailing energy and
deep pathos, that group after group in the
large rooms, ceased theis gay converse to
listent to the musie.
“Can she sing so without heart or feel¬
ing?” muttered the doctor, again drawing
nearer the place.
“Eva,” said a young lady, as the last
note of the song died away, "Eva, do play a
polka now.”
A contemptuous smile quivered for a
moment on Eva Marston’s lips ; then nod
• d *. l,1 . *«*<> , _ da , and *L
™«» ‘- P‘* n <> ™nrs ;
Dr. Stanley witli tlie rest. I
The next morning Miss Marston sat in
room writing a letter, Peep over her I
sllouldcrat( , nose „te«ce: “All hollow and
heartless! Miriam, you blame me for flirt
«• -*«">»«.to"<toyfollow
me merely for my money, not one true heart
amongst all of them. There was, one,
Harold-—”
A knock at the door interrupted her.
“Come in !” and a woman enters with a
large basket of washing.
“Good ihorning she said to Eva, pleasant¬
ly, "How is Terrance this morning j"
“Ob, Miss, it’s beautiful he is to-day.
Sure, Marin, I’m sorry ye had to wait so
long for the washing.”
“Never mind that. How could you wash
with that poor fellow so sick ?”
“Sure, Miss, it’s many a one expects their
clothes, sick or well; and isn’t Terry sitting
up the day playing with the toys ye sint
him, and Pat, that I kept home from school,
a minding him.”
“How many pieces, Mary?” said Eva
taking out her purse.
“Ob, Miss, you don’t owe Mary Ginnis a
cint. There’s the doctor ye left the money
to pay, and the wood ye aint, and praties
and milk, and the money ye gave me last
week ; sure, Miss, It’s in your debt I am
for washing the rest of your life,”
“YVliat I gave Terrance has nothing to do
with my washing-bill,” said Eva, rapidly
counting out tlie pieces.
“Miss Eva,” said Mary, and then stop
pcd.
“Well, Mary!.’
“Sure, Miss, you do so much good with
your money, I’m ashamed to tell you—”
“Tell me what?”
“Well Miss it’s about the v m
that’s rinted my room. Ye mind where the
widder died last fall. He came ? week
back, Miss, and he never came down stairs
for three days back, so this morning I wint
up, and he’s sick with a fever, out of his
head entirely, Miss. If you would come
“Wait Mary, I’ll go with you.”
Throwing off her rich silk wrapper, Eva
put on a dark gray dress and cloak, and
added a close silk bonnet, with a thick
veil.
“ ““
M^y'SIH?
coarse ticking pillow, was such as one
fancies** that of his favorite poet. The
hair was dark, waving over a broad white
forehead, and the deep set eyes were liazel,
large and full, and the features delicate,
Usually the face was pale, now It was
crimson with fever. The eyes; fierce and
wild - ® ut even with a11 this - f» ce was
beautiful with an almost unearthly beauty,
In that poor, low room, Eva came like a
»ving angei. She gave one glance at the
invalids face, and then crossed the room to
his side.
“Eva !” said the sick man, “Eva
“He knows me,” she murmured, drawing
back. But the y oun 8 moaned her
agam ’ .“* d then teoke fonh in wifd
dehnoMfavmgs.’
“Mary,” said Eva, send Patrick to me.”
Crawfordville, May 25, 1877.
Mary left the room, Eva turned to the
table to find paper and pencil. She wrote
hasty notes, to her housekeeper for pillows
and sheets, to Dr. Stanley who did not
guess the friend who sent him so much
practice among the poor patients, and saw
th »* h * was wel1 P« id
Having dispatched Patrick with the notes,
Eva tried to make the room more
1Hre - Lifting from the table a waistcoat,
something dropped from the pocket to the
floor - It was a small mm.ature case, open,
and painted on the ivory was Eva’s face.
A smile, gentle and pitying, came to her
^
“He did love me, then, really. Really ,
love me and would not seek with the for
tune hunters who follow me, and that is
tUe reason 1 h * ve missed him 9 " lon g "
“Arrah, Miss here’s the dc« i.or !"
Stop him, Mary. I will go in here. Re
member, Mary, you don’t know my name,”
and Eva went into another room,, vacant
and adjoining that of the invalid’s. The
door and Dr. Stanley’s first ex
clamation reached her.
“Harold! Have I found you at last, and
in such a place ?”
Eva’s eyes ranged over the capabilities of
the room in which she stood, as she noded,
saying, “It will do! larger and better than
the other, but a poor place at best.”
The nxet day, when Dr. Stanley called to
see his patient, Mary, with a pardonable
pride, ushered him into tlip room that had
been vacant before. A soft carpet was on
the floor and a small fire in the grate, the
latter screened from the bed by a neat
shade. Soft white muslin curtains draped
the window. The bed could scarcely be
recognized, with its white pillows coun¬
terpane and sheets. A little table stood
beside the bed, with the medicines he had
ordered, and exquisite goblet of cooling
drink.
“The lady ye mind I told you of, that sint
ye to Terry,” said Mary; "wefixedthe room
yesterday, and iny good man and I moved
him In to-day, so she’ll find him here
when she com. s. It’s asleep he's been for
better’n two hours, sir.”
Two hours, Ilarold was still asleep, then
he opened his eyes. The cold cheerless
room was changed as if by enchantment,
and—Harold thought he was dreaming—an
angel face bent over him with pitying eyes,
and a smile as tender as tv mothers love over
her child.
“Eva !’’ he whispered, “oh, that I could
die in such a dream!”
Was it a dream, that sweet voice answer
‘ n # b ' nl ’
“Harold, you will not die, you will live
j
o more
struEeling for * life, * but oniy for fame.
A, ' d t “ e * ta ” fe te „ “ “ she s he S1 ° k ' ;,
1)r c * and,n , * " tl.c doorway .
recognized the ball-room belle, and the ob
^ct of his friends long, silent, hopeless
' ovp -
Softly he glided down the stairs, for lie
knew that a better medicine than he could
have prescribed was within the patient's
grasp.
A short time after, the world said ;
“Just think of Eva Marston, rich, and
such a belle, marrying Ilarold Graham, the
poor artist.”
A Dutch-Irish Duel.
Id vas a loafly nighd. On accound id
vas dark, gasses vas lighded in der sbacious
abardmends of Madame S(mid)s' barlors.
Iu von of der mosd sbaciousdesd blaces in
dot barior, vas a lady daiking mid herself
like dis:—
“Boody soon Chake Sullivan vill come
und ask of me my hands in marriage. I
don'd like dot beare vord a cend. Bud
(und here blushed up herself) I like bedder
do seen Mygel Schneider. I loaf him awful.
Vile she vas saying dot, you can hafe
blaindy dime do been exprised at her
oggahorbitat beauty.
She had a nice comblexion like de doose
und her couble of eyes had a brighd color,
not unlike der belluc—belluci (I can’d
schbell ,. „ me dot . . word) exhression . ... of der
heavenly gazelle.
(I vonder is dot righd.)
She vas dressed widoud som regard to
exbense (so rag-bickers, bud I don’d mean
like dot.)
Boody soon come a knock ad de door,
Jhe shivers herself and says mid faind
“Stheb oud in.”
A man righd away shdebs oud in. Dot’s
Chakey Sullivan.
Me vas dressed in eggstreenly goot
clothes. He says like dis—
“Ob, Loweesar! I loaf you like saob
Vill you loaf me like soab, too? Oh, vat
you dink about it my mosd darling ?”
'
insulding, cheegy beoble, und please got
yourself oud righd avay.”
He got himself bale mid mdlness.
srEaassriTrsii „
“All righd, sir. den I call my fader do the
vill boosd you oud,” said she.
Und he dates him his oad dot, py hefens,
she vond do dot’ she sebvear, py jinks, she
vill dot, und she runs herself to der vinder,
bud he shicks him oud bis feeds, and she
is clumsy, und dumpies ofer dem, und hids
her schnood on der eround, und he says.
“Ah! Oh ! didn’t I said so you voodent
Uhdmiddte insulding brobasishion, U( .
holes ub her head und gifs her a couble of
bunches in der moud. und he is choosed
aboud do kig her ear, ven a feller churabs in
der sky light!, and says;
“Al>! ho!” senfendeen dimes, und
chumbs on Chakey’s back, und nosed
oad d< * th o**- vas
Laweesat s drne ksif, Mygel Schneider.
Loweesar hollers.
“Oh, Myg I 5< v> please gif Chakey
murder ot A-i tf hi i e ye off a leedle on
eound he Myg.it,- vds^u f coaie."
Und
“Dot’s so; U*> bedder ven I do id righd
avay.”
S° h * 4ak h " CO!u1 ' und I H *» in do
grop his h? fv J he tighd bedder, but
Chakey »*• • ‘
** Wation. Ij»xcua®
you dot ym-t _; me^ I don like such
a dings. V *Tp.A leman. Blcase hold
ut) >ou iv- J nccommodade you
mid a due; ny card.
eye. Und he ^ f u,s >«
MtgeDf c hi- <le same vay, saying.—
“All donmrrow morning ad
! L * ols u,,d blders Ior a
i A; slid Chakey, ....
“Adieu „ y. t* und dey ,
barded to - e ir reshpeedive gouches,
und hershance' " dream of do-morrow's
enormous grin und der fanaticalness of
man’s uncohdr, able bassions against der
holy laws, ord '- d—(I bedder sthop me
here, on accovu venefer 1 ride dot, Ialvays
get sthdu^k). mornii'iVfote ~y%-- de brighd
Next Oalroarer
(dot's de siui)b! yet shedded his reful
genee rays on^> eruli—durn id—I mean
to say before ^sun \as up—two bardies
mighd hafe ' '<'» seliooding along
saw
dowards der doing eround.
De Oder bard got dere first.
Brebarations^ 's immediately gom
menrifcd for derwo handed nmssager-yes,
sir; I gall it m>'«ger, for vad else is id,
ven dwo of shda^Yell, nafe s own noplemcn vill, in
cold blod, dot’s enough of dot.
We go on. ,
Der brincibftl vas siidood up, und der
seconds gif d< - der bistois, vile der thirds
under der four "as fixing der medicines.
Choosd a- <1 ready, Chakey said
he been dako sne bills, und he musd been
cx< used for a ninmi s.
Vhtle he v.vsgo'c de oder dogter, a
ehovial felier, .‘id 'me heebies, vender
dey got in danj 1 ', vas act choosed as if dey
been ead a bi eh bills.
Veil, Chakejeomed isd back, und dime vas
called for der round, after der brinci
bats has made cood'l-n •■ridjabboal do der seconds
dot they al(owed to make it wl»,
but “No, der first sm>ul Go yai.l hedt wid nnt stern der faces :
no, m mus
EJ3L ^c
satisfied unf‘ fe get killed. Now lisden j
vill eound 4 1 dee, dree, and den
I v you
musd shooil or *bistois.”
lie then'.ed him- it , ,,• k, uni i
bu.
i. Second
Dor ursli low began #o.Hiding like
(lis * »
“Von i” * A
.
(You cou&I hear ,<s!nie bins drop).
“Doo!”
(So you could now).
“Dree!”
.(So you could now); no fireing vas heard,
und he efen counded “Four,” bud shtill you
could hear some bins, und 1 belief if he
counded a couble of hundredt you could
have heard some dins drop.
“Vydertyfcl dond you fire oud your
bisdols I” roared tlie first second.
“Ob, you go by the tuyful," said Chakey,
“my honor dot ish blainly satisfied. If you
vond do been sliooded ad, come oud hero
yourself.”
“Yes, dot ish so,” said Mygel; “I am
sadisty dot you be one gendleman we poth
bes gendlcmans.”
And pefore you could speak one Meeater
,Shoes Ropin.son,. dey vas lock in de odder*
arm, und vas grying like a grogadile.
“Oh," said Chakey, “how ve couds
fighd aboud von tam gal ?”
“Dot ish so, said Mygel. “let dot gal go ;
ve go off de-night, and have one buliy olt
trunk.”
“I baed you, say Chakey, und off dey
vends ; which Us not a galland, but a very
sensiple action.
At .. Martinvile, Tim Ind., Tuesday i night, ■ v.*
Ma h E M .1, ~ oody a ’ dry Roods , mer- ’
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chant, and hi^ clerk, Jno. K. Knight,
slept in thn same room over the store,
Woody hearing burglars trying to effect
an entrance got up and took a position
by the windqw without disturbing
Knig i lt . Subsequently Knight awoke,
and gett ing no reply to his inquiry as to
vd 1 '’ w,l -’ fi a pistol, the
ball lodging la Yoody’s side, inflicting a
serious, but not necessarily fatal wound,
-k * » w -
Since Grant has rolled out of his fat
berth tlie Republican papers don’t spare
him . The Cincinnati Com,nercial says
there were but two specks of Southern
RepublicanisiRstickiiig out of the Dem
ocratic zzzA flood, and neither of those could
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r Commissar,at i!32!l A n has been shot L at To, Odessa
for ooulterating flour for the army. It
several weeks before it can lie as
certaiued whether the victim was an
American supjfly contractor in the Bus
sian service. It sounds. ,i,i says the
Chicago Tribune in«r liv» r „wn war
tlniew > the shooting.
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Grant has withdrawn his swords from
tbe vaults of the treasury—a fact that
the Bohemians have construed into an
indication of bis intention to do battle
along with Sergeant Bates for the sul
tan
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Now is the time to subscribe, only 82.
No. 15.
Sewing Machines.
The cxpiration o{ th( . '
needle-plate .. i. patent . . is expected to
morrow to work important changes in
the sewing machine trade, besides
ducln « tl,p inflated prices which have
prevailed so many years. The Bateh
elder is the last of the series of intents
held by the Singer, Wheeler * Wilson
Md Grover (t Raker comb j natio n, which
has controlled tIle 1)usilu ., s a nd exacted
royalties royalties from rrom outside outside eomtimies companies fur for a i
Th f. # “. Hflw
held by this combination, and effectually
controlled tlie manufacture of
machines. In addition to this the
combination up to tlireo years ago owned
the old Wilson patent for & four motion,
vh j RJ1 c h, ’ with wmi the m. Batchddar naicni lilar paiem, patent gave cave
, a practical command of the entire
business. Outside companies paid a
royalty of from .?l to 83 on each nmehine
manufactured by them, all of which
went into the pockets of the
tion. One of tlie outside companies
paid as high as 880,000 a year in royal¬
ties for ten years, and still made im
nienso profits, the maigin in the sewing
machine business lining so enormous.—
The actual first cost of the SCO and 870
machine sold by leading companies is on
the confession of their own officers, from
fu to * 15 apiece. The manufacturers
,1!V , . mlmu , u ' elr . own share of profit is
'
only about 80 per cent., a largo portion
ot which is swallowed up in tlie main
tenance of their immense establish*
ments, taxes, and the constant litigation
which tho protection of patents eutails.
in one case recently ponding in the
Court of H aHimorei one company , )aid
out $oO,(KK). The extent and value Of
the sewing machine trade may be
gathered from the fact that the Singer
Company, which last year sold over two
hundred and sixty thousand machines,
lias from 810,000,000 to 810,000,000 to
invest in its business* (lie Howe Com
p JU iy ha.s S7,000,000 to 87,000,000 and
’
the Wheeler & Wilson and othev large
c0 ,nna lies mnmints in nmnortinn One
li Gn of tlie patents will Im the curtail
ment of the lease business, which tlie
officers of the company say is much less
paying than the cash discount system.—
‘.I f an ^•■nt-time rtid.Ninger Com
muy ,m takw ‘ tlw ,M,! tl,e
of prices, and announces that tlie retail
price of its 800 machines will hereafter
he 830 cash, and their 870 styles 810
cash. The other companies liavo made
considerable reductions in their res[s;c
tive price lists. The Wilcox A Gibbs,
the leading single-thread instrument,
will Ik: retailed at the old price, 8<’>0 and
upward. It is thought that this general
fall in prices, while benefitting the pub
he, will lx: tlie means of weeding out
the weaker companies, and establishing
the stronger concerns on a more proiltu
file basis than ever,
A Race for Life.
A curious and distressing case has re¬
cently been under the consideration of
the police at Moscow. A few months
ago a Russian peasant, with his wife
and four children, were traveling in a
sleigh along the banks of the Truth,
when they were pursued by a pack of
. T , . , . ®' , , h(
‘ .
. u(dl . he could, but
“ onMJS 819 n' as soon
perceived the horrible fact that the
wolves were fast gaining upon them,
At the moment when the sleigh was
surrounded by tlie ravening beasts, the
man seized one of the children, threw it
in the midst of them, and while the
wolves were struggling over their prey
he hastened on his horses and gained
ground. Four times the wolves came
up with the fugitives and four times the
horrible sacrifice was completed. At
last the peasant and his wife arrived
the nearest village, leaving behind them
the bones of their four children. In the
bitterness of her despair the mother in
forme 1 against her husband, but the
| Judges, considering that if the peasant
had not resigned himself to the horrible
sacrifice, he would not only have lost his
children, but also bis wife, acquitted the
Tlie dairymaid’s ditty—“’Tis butter
little faded flower.” The butcher's—
“Meat me by moonlight alone.’ The
were with thee.” The thief’s-“Still
eer’s-“8ail gentivo’eruie on,” stealing.” The distiller’s-“Iler '^auction
bright smile haunts me still.” The
stock broker’s—“Bear my bark, oh
gently bear,” The drummer’s—“Beats
there a heart. ”
“Dear me ?” said a lawyer to a pfo
fessional brother, 4lI 1 , ve got , , to argue a
case this morning, and my head aches
so I can hardly think.” “Nevermind,”
was the encouraging reply ; “If you
argue after your usual fashion, you’ll
have precious little use for your heal.”
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What is the difference bet ween a Chris
tian and a Cannibal V One enjoys him
' and the Other enjovs other people.
self,
THE DEMOCRAT,
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all fractions of squares will be connted sa
squares. Liberal deductions made on Con
tract Advertising.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
An imaginary quantity:—a lady’s ago.
Africa produces the most undressed black
kids.
Chairs should never be covered with silk,
but eat-in.
Modern marriages begin with a court
and end with a court.
The most common kind of cake after
Christmas : Stomachache.
A case that has troubled a great many
heads : A sbam pillow case.
woman was made from a rib bone ; and
she loves rib-bon(e)» to this day .
A man who hud a scolding wife, being
asked what he did fur a living replied that
he kept a hot bouse.
A Georgia man is suing another for pull¬
ing his nose. The latter thought it looked
ripe enough to pull,
"Are thosfi women ready for bed now?”
is what a little girl asked when she went to
tbe °I M ’ r!l bouffe.
Bhedel, looking at a skeleton the other
day, asked Dr. Willingham where he got it.
“1 raised hiiu>" he rflplied.
A young man having complained that ft
young lady had sat upon his hat, he was
told that he ought to know hotter than to
hold his hat in his lap.
A new paper in 1*exas starts out with tho
announcement, that “in religion we am
conservative,” and we intend to adhero to
tho cash system.
When the Vanderbilt will contest name to
its sudden end, a lawyer was heard t<>
remark: “It’s highway rohliery. It tubs
the profession Of $1,000,000.'*
An Irish crier, being ordered td clear tho
Court room, did »d by announcing : “Now,
all you blackguards that are not lawyers
leave tlie court room at ouce.”
Josh Billings says he knows people who
are so fond of argument they will stop
and “dispute with a guldeboard about
tlie distance to tlie next town.”
* An Urchin, whose slides lookbd as if
tliey were soon to shed, looking at, a sign
of bluo * laH8 iu one of lhc Htorc windl ’ WH >
was heard to observe: “More runstuff
- -»<•>■»« »-•
Captain Cameron, tho African explor¬
er, gives a very interesting account of
some on human Africajy^ li ' ihes aftd addicted who preferrasl, to feeding for
tho most part, thhlr fellow-beings wlien
r... * me. itoi a TO W Nttrfen
to salt and i>cpj>er.
It is said Georgia is to have 77 r, ap¬
pointments at Washington, which an*
nouncement makes us feel that a new
era has daw ned upon us. If volunteers
cannot is: found for tlie positions then
drafting or conscription must lie restart¬
ed to; by all means the great white
House at Washington must ho filled.
Clumsy legislation has left Tennessee
without any law against horse stealing,
larceny from the pOrsoii, hrinse or bridge
burning, or house-breaking with intent
to commit rohliery. The old laws
against these crimes were so severe that
the last Legislature repealed them, but
forgot to restore llie old law or enact a
new one. Ilcnce the present awkward
condition of things in Tennessee.
Jennie has strict ideas about equity lit
little things. When she first heard tlie
story of the .Saviour's miracle In feeding the
multitude with few loaves and fishes Obtain¬
ed from the young lad’s basket, she was
awed Into thonghtful and solemn amaze¬
ment. Sometimes afterwards, in the midst
of a talk about other matters, she suddenly
paused and asked with special concern,
“Did they give back ttie basket to that
boy ?”
A lady who spestks from experience
says# that probably nine children out of
ten who die of croup might Im saved by
the timely application of roast onions,
mashed, laid upon a folded napkin and
goose oil, or even lard, poured on and
applied a* warm as can be borrtO com
fortably to the throat and upper part of
the chest, and to the feet and hands.—
Give also a teasp<xmftd of syrup of ipecac
every twenty minutes until vomiting is
| produced.
y Ir JcHerson Davm is and has been
* -
, mISi
L
Dorsey, on the Gulf coast, between
Mobile and New Orlouns, where he is
engaged preparing, with the assistance
of Major W. T. Walthall, his “Memoir,"
soon to be published by the Appleton*.
He is in excellent health, and looks
younger than he did a few years ago, the
result probably of tlie salt alt Ot the Gulf
and rest from several litigations, the end
of *, )iltht )eft bhn it , 9
a i nM)H t penniless.
On Friday eveniug Professor Bell gave
at the St; Dentils Hotel in New York, a
private exhibition of bis telephone before
a nuln, »‘ r of invited guests, consisting
of scientists, electricians and editors. A
1 j played in Brooklyn Biooklyn, as as well well
88 sever* ^ 1 songs, were transmitted and
were audl ■’*« to ail iwesent. Afterwards
a conversation between New York ami
Brooklyn was carried on with most per¬
feet success. Those present were gene
surprised and lighted with the result
of tho experiment and with the simplic
it v of Prof, Bell’s system