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THE DEMOCRAT. A Live Weakly Paper on Live Issues Pabiishcd Every Friday Morning, at Crawfordville, G«: WB- SULLIVA3T. Proprietor G.4 TSU OF 8UBSVRIPTI0X: Sri’S,, S 2 00 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. ' “■ C ’ ibSOn ' a ~ — - C.S. v „ — v- DUBOSE, -LX. A ff L L V y £1 cl L _Licl I i n W \\ y 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 _ MRS. E. L. THOMAS, Boarding Mouse 5 is- Rrrw.* «... . ^ „ **• .t^^ra« H msonante rates, M0dati0Tlis nov-18-j.o-m tOT ®J 5 * rdeM The Democrat Vol. I. MISCELLANEOUS. _ —* 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- ’ - - : 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 ^ «“* * -* --^----- 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. '-- 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 ---. ,___ 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.” ------aa-*—w------- 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, ahvkrtivim: FAtKH : One Square. first insertion 4 1 00 One Square, each subsequent insertion, 75 One Square, three months , . 10 00 One Square, twelve months . . 15 o«> Quarter Column, twelve months . . 20 00 Half (’oluinn twelve months , . M1 00 One Coiumn twelve months . 100 00 tW One Inch or I,ms considered as a square. We have no fraetions of a square, 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