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VOL. III.—NO. 44. €|t Hamilton iisitor D. W. U- BOULLY, Proprietor. CASH SUBSCRIPTION RATES. One copy eno Tear $2 00 One copv nix months 1 00 One copy three months .... 75 Any one furnishing five subscribers, with the money, will receive a copy free. Subscribers wishing their papers chanced from one po -fc-office to another, must state the name of the post office from which they wish it changed, as well as that to which they wish it sent. All subscriptions must he paid in advance. The paper will he stopped at the end of the time paid for. unless subscriptions are pre viously renewed. Fifty numbers complete the year, CASH ADVERTISING RATES. Space l mo 3 mos G mos 12 im>s 1 inch ..." $ 2 50 '$ 4 50 TTOO $ 10 OO 2 inches.. 450 725 11 00 18 00 3 inches 500 900 15 00 22 00 4 inches.. 550 11 00 18 00 27 00 } column.. 650 14 00 25 00 35 00 I column.. 12 50 25 00 40 00 60 00 1 column".. 22 00 41 00 62 00 100 00 Marriages and deaths not exceediug six lines will he published free. 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Luo AT, ADVERTISEMENTS. dberilFs sales, per inch, four weeks. . .$3 50 “ mortgage fi fa sales, per inch, eight weeks 5 50 Citation for tetters of administration, guardianship, etc... thirty days 3 00 Notice to debtors and creditors of an estate, forty days 5 00 Aprfication for leave to sell land, four weeks 4 00 Balesof land, etc., per in h, forty days 5 00 “ “ perishable property, per inch, ten days 2 00 Application for letters of dismission from guardianship, forty days. . 5 00 Application for letters of dismi o sion from administration, three months 7 50 Establishing lost papers, the full space of three months, per inch 7 00 Compelling titles from executors or ad ministrators. where bond has been given by the deceased, the full space of three months, per inch 7 00 Es'ray notices, thirty days 3 00 Ru'e for foreclosure of mortgage, four months, monthly, per inch 6 00 Rale of insolvent papers, thirty days... 300 Homestead, two weeks 2 00 JDr- T-1_- Jexil^ixis, B-™ ill 'ft:™- HAMILTON, GA. .TilOS. S. MITCHELL , 3/. />-, Resident Physician anil Surgeon, HAMILTON GEORGIA Special attention given to operative surgery nst?- Terms Cash 'tfe *j. PRESTON GIBBS, * SURGEON and PHYSICIAN, Hamilton, Ga. Will he found at the hotel or the store of W H John.'ton unless professionally eneaged CHATTAHOOCHEE HOUSE , By J. T.HIGGINBOTHEM, %EST POINT, A ALONZO A. Dozy:R, Attorney and Counselor at Law, COLUMBUS, GA. Practices in State and Federal Courts in Georgia and Alabama. Makes Commercial Law a specialty Office over C. A. Re<M & Co’s store, Columbus. Ga. dcc4-ly Hines Dozier, ATTORNEY-AT LAW, HAMILTON, GEORGIA Will practice in the Chattahoochee Circuit, or snvwhere else. Office in the Northwest corner of the Court-house, up-stairs. janß Columbus Dental Rooms, W. T. TOOL, Proprietor, Gtorgia Honu Puilding rolumbus Cn. EAKKINHOUSE COLUMBUS, GA. Me. F. M. GRAY', Proprietress- J. A. Sellers, Cleric. G. A. E<EHNF, MERCHANT TAILOR, 134 Broad St., Columbus, Ga., Has on hsnd a handsome assortment of Gen tlemen’s Dress Gravis, English and French Ou^imeres. Vestings, etc. Cutting done at reasonable rate . Have yonr clothes made by me, and I eruar snte perfect satisfaction in style aDd price. HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING. I am now prepared to do any kind of Paint ing—House, Sign or Ornamental, X can mend your Umbrella* and Parasols, and majie them as good as new. Prices low. Give me a trial. My shop i Opposite the market-house, Columbus, Ga. iueil-tm V. ,D. SiITTH, Natural Artist. Hamilton flllpi Visitor, THE PIANO TUNER’sVtOUY. “ A ou are a pair of precious young fools, and that’s the best I can find to say about you!” said Aunt George. Iler name was Miss Georgianna Anderson; but the sweet abbrevia tion, “Georgie,” was never used to her; as soon might one think of ven turing on familiarities with a bishop! Everybody called her “Aunt George;” and, as she walked with a measured heavy tread like a grenadier, the name didn’t seein at all inappro- priate. She was L'zzie’s Aunt George— not mine. And she had brought Liz zie up in her queer, downright fash ion, never giving her a kiss or a ea ress, or an endearing word, yet withal being kind to her after her own way. I wish I could describe Lizzie An derson to yon as she really was. A little, dimpled, blue-eyed creature, with long shady lashes, and ashy way of looking at you, like a child; a girl whose voice was low and flute-sweet, and who moved about quetly and noiselessly, like a sweet spring wind rustling the flowers. And only eigh teen too; that was what aggravated Aunt George the most of all, “I wasn’t married till I was five and thirty!” said aunt George; “but yon young people can’t be contented without rushing headlong into the vortex. It would be different if you were rich; but, dear me!” and she rubbed tier nose perplexedly. “Joe is nothing on earth but a poor pian oforte tuner, and you haven’t one solitary penny of your own, Lizzie ” “We shall he very economical, Aunt George,” Lizzie answered cheer fully. “ And you’ll have to he,” answered the old lady grimly. It is my intention to be perfec'ly frank with the reader. I shall not disguise from him the fact that I had in onr confidentail talks, asked Lizzie if she thought Aunt George would do anything for us in pecuniary way. “Oli, dear, no!” Lizzie had an swered, shaking her brown curls in a most decided fashion. “She al ways told me never to expect any thing from her; and besides, Joe, she has really nothing to give!” There was no getting over these two facts, taken either together or separately. “There’s one comfort, Lizzie,’’ said I stoutly; “ we are young and strong and bravehearted, and we’ll not ask aid of anybody,” “Of course we won’t Joe,” said Lizzie, her bine eyes sparkling like dew-wet violets at sunrise. I did wish, once or tw’iee, that my business bad bpen something more lucrative than piano tuning; but it was what I had been brought up to, and I had a pretty good run of cus tom on the whole; and, as Lizzie said : “ A little will go a great way when you are careful of it.” “You’ll see, Joe,” she added blithe ly, “ that I will make a splendid house keeper.” We had just seventy-five dollars to furnish our little second floor with : but I can assure you our two rooms looked delightfully cozy, with the red and greeti carpet, and neat stain ed furniture. Lizzie said it looked like exactly like a doll’s house, and perhaps she wasn’t very far wrong. “ Such a pair of fools !” reiterated Aunt George, in prophetic mood p “but there’s one comfort—it won’t last long.” “Why shouldn’t it, Aunt George ?” asked Lizzie, coloring and smiling in that pretty, flower-like way of hers. “Humph!” said Aunt George. “If you come to that, why don’t the sunshine last forever ? ” “So it might if there were no cloud,” Lizzie answered softly. “ Ah, child,” sighed Aunt George, “you’re young now, so enjoy it as much as you can. We can’t be young twice over, more’s the pity.” So we were married quietly, as be came our humble estate and moder ate expectations, and went to spend a few days in the country, where I i had a sister living on a breezy, old | fashioned farm. Do you think Liz -1 zie and I will ever lorget-those days, ! even if we live to he as old as Methu selah ? It was a November evening when we came to the “doll’s house,” w here the red merino draperies glowed , wrrmly in thernddy shine of the fire, and the tin kettle was singing out its i homely way of welcome. HAMILTON, HARRIS CO., GA„ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1875. “Liisie,” said I softly, “are you glad to come home ? ” And she answered, more with her eyes than lips, “Oh so very, verv glad! for we are going to be hnppv here. I know it as well as if I saw the years stretched out before me on a map.” Our first year w as very blissful, es pecia'ly alter the baby came to make our lives musical with his little coo ing voice; but after that the hard times came. Not that we repined. Lizzie and I were brave to endure whatever we could bear together, yet it went to my heart to see her growing pale and thin, through sit ting up at night to sew and earn a little extra money, because my busi ness was dull. And, almost before we knew it, the hills began to accu mulate, and rent got behind. “ This won’t do, Joe,” said Lizzie gravely. “ VVe must do without meat.” “That is nothing,” add I, laugh ing, although I felt little enough in clined to bo mirthful; “but we can not very well do without a roof over onr heads.” “ Don’t fret, Joe,” said my little heartsome wife. “We shall not want. Something will he sure to happen.” “But what can happen, Lizzie?— The days of miracles are over. There are no Elijah’s and ravens in these times.” “Yes, there are, Joe,” said Lizzie cheerfully, “although wo don’t al ways know it at the time. There is an order for yon to tune a piano up in South street; isn’t that a raven ?” And she held the little strip of pa per triumphantly up before me When I came back from South street Lizzie met me at the door with humid eyes and a troubled face. “What is the matter?” I cried out, anxiously. “Lizzie —not the baby? Nothing has happened to him ? ” i “No,” Lizzie answered; “he is quite well, and fast asleep like a lit tle while lamb. But—Aunt George is dead.” “ Aunt George 1” l replied va cant 1 v. “Yes; she died this morning, and T could not be sent fcfl- in time to re- j ceive her last breath. Oh, Joe, she i was very kiqd to me.” Are we men naturally so selfish, or was I, hunted and driven by want an exception to the ordinary rule? For I confess that as Lizzie stood there looking tearfully up into my face the first 1 bought that follow the entrance of this unexpected news into my brain was, Would Aunt George leave us anything? I supposed Lizzie was her sole living relation, and in all ihese years, though her income was small, she must have saved some thing. But lam thankful to remem ber that. I never told Lizzie what was in my mind. “ She wms very old, dear,” I said striving to comfort my grieved wife; “over three score and ten. It is tlie allotted age. of humanity, and she had grown to be very feeble.” “And I know she is better off,” said Lizzie; “but, Joe, she is the only mother I ever bad.” We went to Aunt George’s funeral and her will was read —a very brief document —in which she bequeathed her simple household furniture and belongings to a nephew in Wisconsin, and “to Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Allen, as a token of the affectionate remembrance of:] ; vised her piano.’ A tuneless, jangling instrument, half a century old, w ith carved spin dle legs, ornaments of inlaid brass, arid keys as yellow as Aunt George's own complexion. I laughed con temptuously when I heard the words. But Lizzie laid her hand gentiy on my arm. “It was Aunt George’s, dear,”she said softly, “and we must cherish it for her sake. Besides,” in a whisper, “ think how it will amuse the baby.” And that was the end of all my expectations of an inheritance from Lizzie’s Aunt George. The old pinto was duly carted home the next day. If it had been a fashionable instrument, of modern make, they could have never gotten it up the narrow staircase; but it looked quite friendly and home-like opposite the fire] Dee, its" lank pro portions covered by a faded green cloth. A shrank back with a little gtimuce alodzzie touched the keys to make the baby laugh “Of course it is out of tune, Joe,” she said, merrily; “but you’ll soon set that right,. And 1 shall rub up my practice again hi tio time.” It happened to he a very dull time just then ; so I had nothing else to do hut to take Lizzie’s advice; and in just half an hour I had the old in strument nearly dissected, much to Mr. Baby’s edification, as ho sat gravely ou the floor in the midst of the interior developments of the an cient piano. And now eontes the most marvel ous part of my story. All piano tuners know' that when yon take away the front piece above the keyboard there is a hollow place of considerable extent, in any instru ment of ordinary size. And as I stopped to blow the dust away from this placo I saw a bundle or roll of bank notes* fastened round with a yellow slip of paper, on which was written, “For my nicer, Lizzie.” “Lizzie!” I cried, breathlessly. “Lizzie!” and site was at my side in ! an instant. And, if you will believe me, there were five thousand dollars, the accu mulated savings of Aunt George’s ftugal life; and this what she had meant by giving her piano to us. 1 hat five thousand dollars was the starting point of the snug little fortune we have since scraped to gether, and if Aunt GoOrge could know how* much her bequest has done fur us, I think it would do her kindly heart good. Baptized by Kistak •, The following is taken from ill 1 ' Rome (Gad < .otnerei.il: Some oi hid worthy colored breth ren of the Baptist persuasion had a baptism in the Oosianattla a few Sun days ago, which a! ..'acted a consider able crowd. Mrs. ’s colored servant girl was very anxious to be present,.and, as it was not her Suns day out, she slipped away from the house while the dinner was cooking, and went around in her working clothes. Her interest was so intense that she stood close to the minister, who was in the water while the ceremony was being performed. After six or seven had been dipped, the clergy man, filled with enthusiasm, seized her and pulled her into the water. She resisted, but the preacher imag ined that she was merely afraid of the coldness of the water, so before she could explain the situation he soused her. She came up splutter ing, and exclaimed: “What you doin’? lermne go I tell you.” But lie exerted his strength and sent her “ ker chunk ’’ below the surface again. She emerged clawing the air wildly and shouting, “G’way from here, don’t you chuck me unJer agin, you nigger 1” But the clergyman was in exorable, and he plunged her under a third time, and held her there for a minute, so as to let it soak in and do her good. Then she came up and made for the shore, and, standing there, looking like a draggled mer maid cut in ebony, she shook her fist at the astonished pastor and shrieked: “Oh, I’ll fix you! I’ll bust the head offen you, you or’nary trash ! Sous ing mo in dnt dare Oostanaula and nearly drowned me, when you knowed well enough all de tirno dat I’se a Methodist, and been christened by dent dal’s Iyer oe.ters, arid knows more about eligiori dan all the Bap tises dat e ;er shouted, you misera ble black scum! And me got de rheumaiiz enough to set me crazy! Oh! I’ll see what de law can do for you. I’ll have you ’rested dis berry day, or my name is not Julianna John son, you wooly headed herrin. You hear me?” Then Julianna went home to re-dress, and the ceremony proceeded. Julianna is now persua ded that die Baptists are not any better than Pagans. 0” A Cleveland woman recently married a Coin ,ic . ;undiyman, and in three days thereafter the unhappy Celestial appeared at a barber’s *hop and ordered hi- pigtail cut off saying, iri explanation: “Too muchee d-m yank.” *er “No, dolly,” said a little girl to her china baby as she was going out yesterday afternoon, “ I tant take ’ou down town ’id me—-’ou ain’t dot no ’pin back.” “ I am bound to have my rights,” as the man said to the shoe maker who had soid him a pair of boots, both lefts. *5?" Enterprise. The Chicago Times sold twenty thousand extra copies on the strength of the editor’s going to jail. * i . Special Correspondence of the Visitor, FLORIDA. A Tisit to Miiriiinnn.—Somethi*itf about Politics.— E'lovniTms Tax ation.— Crops.--Society.--Visit ing, etc., etc. Ma riamia is a small (own of five or six hundred inhabitants, and is si:ti nted on the banks of the hoatiti.'V lit tle river Ohipola. This is the capital of Jackson coun ty, and has once been an active and lively place, but is now on the de cline —in Tact, the courthouse is the only building on the square that re flects any credit on the town or peo ple. The merchandise sold in Mari anna is yearly becoming less, and will continue to do so until the merchants attain to that respectability that is too high to buy seed cotton at night. There is ono newspaper t-üblished here, which deserves a better local patronage from the merchants id an it receives. Trade from this placo is being diverted to Greenwood, and the latter place is becoming quite a" live town The Courier advertised Marianna gratis, a few weeks since, and thereby the people found out that merchants, hotels, schools, boot and shoe makers,tinners,blacksmith shops, carpenters, were all to he found in the place; otherwise it would prob ably have been utiknow ;. There are several • ice dwelling .own, and from the neatly in- '.wed flower gardens, one would judge that the I,'tT ‘s de , i've the cr- " rtlte ap pearance of life. Many of uo houses show signs of negligetie.j and decay, and, so far as Marianna is •erned, the world might as w :!1 v.-in.i up at once, tor Tie interest t.h”v lake in it. POLITICS IN JACKSON. The political complexion of the country is the worst feature to be discovered here. Nature bine her share to make beautiful ■ -i --ralile this fair land, but tin , ry and degenerate t ms of nio. by sires have Uiuh -A its go .r . and brought disi.onor who--- public virtue onco reigned supreme. The elections are conti oiled by ignorant negroes,-over- whom the conservative class of white men have no ini! • ,t: '. Consequently, these men are im.i vt.ul in office who consider it no di-grace to sacrifice tin it country’s g ;.i and their own respect, for the advancing of their own corrupt political for tunes. The consequence of corrupt legislation is the enormous TAXATION, imposed upon the people. The tax is about three per cent, and !,h • fewest number of negroes pay no tax at all, until forced to do so, and then it is a fat thing for the officials. A case carno under my own observation last w'eek, where the original tax was two dollars, and the cost ran it up to seven dollars and fifty cents, and the negro “antiod up” in corn at seventy five cents per bushel. So much for the glorious privelege of voting. The taxes in the main are paid in “county scrifi,” which the official'’ buy at 00c., sell to the taxpayer at ’ -c., and turn over to the govorrnent par. That is tho way the money goes. While individuals are reducing expenses and ! practicing economy, the taxes go up, ! up, and increase the burden of tax ; payers. No wonder that largo num bers of real estate owners want to sell out. Notwithstanding the polit ical corruption and embarrassing tax ation irnposdl upon the people of this section, as individuals they seem to be in a better financial condition than many of the c : ms iu the more favored and neig ion ;ug States. I account for this fro ■ ’hew energy and perseverance in fighting against don tiny itself. In Hi it.:y they raise i hoi)• own supplies t.o a largo extent, and, as a rule, live within 0 sir means, crops. It is more pleasant to talk about crops, even though they are pool, than to talk about the political out look, that is an embodiment of cor ruption; and glad y is *t subject changed. j The corn was cut off ’ • cou | tinned drought during 1 inner, but the amount housed ■ u all probab : q .;< soilieioti r otno consumption, an I the f rrners wili not have to look to We r r : markets for teed for stock. The fro”, .ast fall killed mm- .of the seed < ant which forced the farmers to grind it upland but few made enough to grind this fall, as thny are reserving it for -.eed; hence the usual sugar-boilings are non eat. Asa general thing they are not without sugar and syrup for the next year. Potatoes, peas, turnips, | etc., are about, ail ordinary yield Now a word about „ Ci frov. In proportion to the area planted, and the labor employed, this section of Florida contributes largely in swot ling the aggregate of the fleecy sta ple; and from her geographical posi tion, occupies a permanent place in the cotton belt <4 the United State:.. The cotton crop has had many disad vantages to contend with, the present year—the drought, the caterpillar, and the abominable “cotton tin ” The buying . f seed cotton in ‘he night has assumed such a niagnitn le that it is really discouraging to ;ar mors t< aiv- pt to raise It, or , - gitiruate merchants (of which !•■•.* are a few) to sell goods. TL try abounds with these lit:' > • • horse st i- *, that buy cotter at •- hours of the night, and in nay e ■- tines, in exchange for good-;. 1 negro has so much oneoui agement to steal, that, it is a hard matt - ■ get him to work, ns they consiu r it cheaper to pick the cotton at night., and carry it to one of these “abomi nations. 1 ' than to labor honestly for wages. .SOCIETY. It is freshing to leavo an other unpli subject, and branch out on smm y; and among the dilc hero if is 1 . plus uHm .” S .'nr : s in tel Ii gee ' 'moment and modesty are oonco . .**ckson count- ui not be o No stranger ilio conics he t . he bears the mendatio l i gentleman, ca i p being sin.•-* with the uni fore tesv with which lie’meet.-. m young men take pleasure in iutrt el lin ing those who visit, hero—the young ladies entertain them charmingiy— while the old folks treat them iu reg ular old Virginia style. 1 have just returned from a mot - delightful \ isiT 'j o 10j„ m’b. Mr. B. was enough to scud I j bran net: i . t or me, and after treating me t , a mugmiiceut slipper, we rode ad stano: of two miles to seethe young .adieu. At Col. Mv, we found two tho > ■ o'-t.leauti and aeco;i,j lisl.ed young ladies in Florida,-a. :ir good looks am. , oomplir.hhmt.t.i are only excelled b their sv, :< t.. id 'cheerful dispos'di - . It was like ..ucluuttment to listen ! the Sweet music discoursed by Mi s J.; and Miss A. made us very mac!: her friend by a nice repast of oran ges. Tho visit will long bo remem bered as a bright event in life, and “their bright smiles haunt me still.” If“Senex” will excuse mo, 1 will imitate him once more, and tell you of hunting, fishing, etc., tit. another timo. Yn.i i-,. Women and Devils. — 0\ ston v. t t gro preacher in Vi • ; and his -'Jeas of theology and tut i' nature • - often very origi • A g tlcvnan thus accostc: tin old man, one Sunday: “ Win*’-' > un derstand you believo every ian has seven devils. llow can you i, - jvo it?” “ Well, sah, did you tv . and iri do Bible how seven debines wore cast ou' . : irj Magaliu ? ” “Oh, yes. I’ve read that.” “Did you ebber hear of ’em bein’ cast oi, . ! any odder woman, tab ?” “No i never did.” “ Wiion, all do odder* got ’em yet.” If it - True. —An infidel said, “Thei one thing that mars all the pleasure my life.” “ ii . . ' replied his trim, i, “v. hat is that ’. ” He ~ red i “I am a M the Bible t If I could kuo . er t.aiu it death is an tier;: ’•: , *p i should . happy. My joy i be complete! But here is ~•■ thorn that stings me ; this is the ■■■ ! that pierces my soul; if the Bible is true, I am lost forever.” “A horse! a horse! my ! g dom for a horse ! ” cried a co! h-., .1 tragedian. “ Wouldn't a j - -' do ar well!" ir.qf <.J an affected :• * roan, rUinc it: h ; s seat. “ Y umphaitdv .nred the actor, “ just step up V f- . ;y, .ir.” Tho young man sat A v . The At' •; > <1 -/ian sat’:-: • r are nov . Univer.Jtjr s ,n;<• • less the . iiro hundred .students. ■ are all c ierly and steady, i,u prose; v.’ i their duties vigoro „ Undoubteiily more w ill come in. Georgia’B next governor— Gen. A. 11. Coltjuitt, $2.00 A YEAR. WIT and HUMOR, rmrae of a Bergen county cen *" n, recently deceased, was Let tus Steel, lie was no politician ei— Janet} Welch, of low a, got mad and stopped his newspaper, and then because the withdrawal of his patron age didn’t kill the paper, he went and killed himself. . A lady whose family was very much in the habit of proposing con • nr,drums, was one evening asked by ior husband, in an excited tone! “Why are nil these do >rs left open ?” “ 1 give it up,” instantly answered the lady. It* what vehicle did the mart rida who was driven frantic ? When a man revolves much in his mind, does if, make him fliz-v? If all things ard for lliu Wi. win US the rations for t.lio second he,' :ne from? What is tho exact of a broad grin? Politeness ia <he mother of peaoc. She keeps fntni I rity and Impodenoo from being knocked to death, and often saves horse!! a broken head. . When a Pennsylvania farmer sold Lis farm to an oil company he went to town the day he got his cash, and bought his wife two hundred dosed clothes-pitis-and twenty-five ehothes lines. lie said he’d had jawing and growling , -wound that house. - A youii- ’ la;* required to write a com oi < - upon some por tion of the h - -<ly, selected that which unites t head to the body, and expounded 'followsi “A throat is convenient. b avo— especially to roosters and t. misters. Tho former eats corn and crows with it; the lat ter preaches through his’u, and then t ics it up. This pretty much sii I etui think of about necks.” The Kennebec Journal don't wtfflt to hear any more about smart babies, lit, it takes delight in telling of an nftintile acquaint,anoo just one week old which Is Had a tooth pulled by a dentist. A South Boston u-.y wag recently Interrogated h a. benedict as to why hi did not get. tea .‘usd. She replied: ■a urefur to bt an old maid.” 110 and he did ntli !:evo it, as he felt ho envied his wife, “Oh, 00l would bn breaking the command ment (Then siiiilt not oovot thy neigh bor's ass.”) “You have boon here a long time; I snppose?” said a traveller to an old hunter in Oregon. “ You may eay I have,” said tho hunter; and then, pointing to Mt. Hood, he continued: “ You see that mountain over there? Well, sir, when I first came to this country, that mountain was a hole in the ground.” * It is said that iron is a good tonic for debilitated young Indies. We do not know about this, but do know that ironing is. The stupidest boy that ever success fully resisted the attempt to propel the etymology of the word baker into his intellectual system will display more ingene tv and knowledge of strategy in robbing an apple orchard than the co > i of a militia regi ment. When a man wants a plug of to bacco the grocery ttiree-fourths of a miio off is only.a step, but if his wife wants a drink of cool water from a neighbor’s well opposite, by soma mysterious agency that well suddenly becomes removed more than half a mile away. A repot r being called to account for the ?. t • ,l that a certain meet ing writ: ad respectable one, when only a ter person besides himself was present, insisted that his report was literally true, for, said.lc, “I was large ..J the other raau wls respectable.” An Irishman, on arriving in this country, took a fancy to a Yankee girl, and wrote to his wife: “Dear Norah, these melancholy lines are to inform you that T died yesterday, and hope you arc enjoyiDg the same Lie ing, I recommend you to marry Jerry O’T? i.trke, and take care of the chihler. a your affectionate hus band lit! J •• ;lh J* The three ndew of tbo world at ire ■ t. arc i fluff accumulates vest j cci '.; ~ ere the pins go to, md why, i man comes out of a fit.! job, he to ! - ’ one v/ay and goes tho :■ ,hor. The di." rc-oe between persever ance ami obstinacy i 8 that one often comes from a ctrong will, and tb.o other from a strong won’t, '■ • "