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Vitjtucul or Debit.
A large number of pcoplo aaem
to fouoy, wlico paying a bill, tbat
they are conferring a great favor
upon the man who liae entrusted
bis goods to tbeir borne lor weeks
even month. They act as if they
bad received actually nothing in
return, and were simply doing a
work of charity. The man who buys
commodities ot any kind usually
does so of bis own acoord; ordina
rilv there is nothing compulsory
about the transaction. lie makes
bis purchase and gets tbe worth or
bis mqney, presumably, in goods ol
whatever Mind. This places buyer
and seller on an equality. If the
, buyer oould make a better bargain
ilu do
t V
cry I
it—for in trade, when dollars and
cents are involved, friendship
doesn't count lor much. People
go where they can get the most
for their money. Having done bo,
the seller confers a favor upon the
buyer, at least equal to that which
the former receives in payment of
bis bill. Thcnwbysbouldacollculor
be subject to so much discourtesy?
A well-bred man, one who has a
proper appreciations of what is duo
to, others, is never guilty of such
impoliteness. The collector who
calls ,fcr bis money is treated with
as much respect and consideration
as is sbowu the buyer when be
makes purchase*. This deportment
should be universal, and the man
who departs (rom it, and who pays
the money he honestly owes grudg
ingly and with all marked expres
sions of ill-will toward the receiving
party, Hi lacking in one of the most
important essentials of fair and
more than tbat in business tact
Exchange.
A Bright Ulrsat of Winter bmi*bf»e.
In New Orleans, on Tuesday,
December 18th, 1883, (Jen'Is G.
Beauregard, of La., and Jubal A.
Early, of Va., In the presence of a
large throng, pioceeded to execute
their'
duty as tbe Commissioners
for the superintendence and man
agement of the K3d Monthly, tbe
Extraordinary Semi-Annual Draw
ing ot tbe Louisiana Slate Lottery,
with the following result: Ticket
No. 7,507 was sold in fractions,and
THE DOG .OF THE CATSKILLS.
THE STORIES THAT WEES TOLD TO SOX
jsmasox axd onus w. held at
thw gaanasaiLL falls.
Cor. Inter Ocean.
Among the hundreds of New Yorkers
a portion of the $150,000 went to
a iuc
ucky man in San Francisco;
No. 31,405, of $50,000 was
tleket
also sold in fractious, one half of
whlob costing $5, drawing $25,000,
to John Keys Faigc, care L. D.
Alexander K Co., 7 Nassau St.,
New York oily; No. 10,155 drew
the third capital prise ol $20,000,
was sold by mail in New York;
Nos. 14,071 and 08,400 drew each
$10,000, the fourth capital prises,
was sold in Savannah, Ga., and
X«w Orleans. Other large capital
prises were scattered broadcast by
tile unquestionably lair distribution
among the holders oftickets No*.
13,310. 80,048, 67.055 and 02,401,
each drawing $5,000. living widely
apart in the cities ol New York,
Boston, Chicago, Washington, D.
C., Mansfield, O , St. Louis, Louis
ville, San Francisco, Col., Colum
bus, Ga , Milan, Texas, and New
Orleans, La. Names ol lucky ones'
are omitted by request. The ncxi
drawing takes place Febunry 12th,
1884, altou', which M. A. Dauphin,
New Orleans, La., will be happy to
give every information.
in the CatskUl mountains the other day,
“ . ^
were Cyrus W. Field, of Atlantic
fame and equally tremendous fortune,
Dr. Marion Sims, the surgeon, F. B.
Thurber. the Anti-Monopoly politician,
Joseph Jefferson, the sc tor, and I was
there, st tbe Keeterskill (alls, dar
ing the hour in which they
ell chsnced to visit the cataract.
If the reputation for truthfulness of the
iato William Cullen Bryant depended
on a comparison of his poetic descrip
tion of the '
Kaaterekill with the thing
itself, os it appeared to ns, then tbe
deputation would suffer excessive de
terioration. The gorge was there, 200
feet deep, ragged, verdure clad, and all
right in even- respect; but there wasn't
water enough to
The preparations for the coming
world's fair in New Urlcans are
progressing satisfactorily. The ex
position will consist of cotton in
all its conditions of culture aud
manufacture as a ch'cf exhibit. The
claasiOcatioDS of objects exhibited
will comprise such groups as agri
culture, horticulture, raw and man
ufactured products, ores, minerals
and woods, furniture and accesso
ries, textile fabrics, clothing and
accessories, industrial arts, aliwcn-
v tary products, education and in
struction, works ol art, pisciculture.
The exposition will be under the
control of a board ol thirteen com
missioners appointed by tbe presi-
dent of the United Stales, and a
director-general appointed by lire
board of management. The build
ing will he in ilia city park, and
will cover the largest amount of
space ever devoted to such n
v tposc, with the single exception,per-
hups of tlm World's lair, of London.
The building will Imvo three fronts,
a main front of 1,500 feet facing
the city proper, one side of 900
feet lacing the Mississippi river
.and the other ol the sumo length
looking toward St. Charles street
The rear of the building will face
Carrollton and will be given up to
boilers, rnilroad tracks, He. Arcbi-
tectunlly the building will greatly
resemble the Louvre of I'aris. The
floor space will bo 1.398,300 square
feet, ol which 1,048,762 will be used
for exhibition purposes. The dome
entrances, balls, o IB css, corridors
etc., will be on a magnificent scale,
arranged with an eye to both busi
ness and beauty. Exhibitor# will
pay no rent for space, a reasonable
ip trance fee being all that will be
aulred. Assurances received from
all the States, and from foreign gov
that the
ernmsntt justify tbe belief tl
oxpoeition will be Ibe largest and
best attended of any ever held in
this country.
While Boston was holding
grand banquet on tbe 8tb of Jan
uary in honor of tbe elaty-elght
anniversary of tbe battle of New
Orleans, tbe latter city took no no
tice of tbe day other than closing
of the banks, because it was a legal
holiday. The people of that city
are probably too busy talking
about the Cotton Exposition to
think shout a little skirmish that
took place on tbe outskirts of the
town so long ago as 1815.
Baltimore men are talking about
reviving the the sugar refining but-
iness in the elty, whlob declined In
1875. The plan la to organixe a
oompany with $1,000,000 capital,
and erect building* with a capaci
ty of 1,300 barrel* a day. It (a
said that snob an enterprise would
give employment, directly or indi
rectly, to 20,000 persons.
The colored man and brother baa
at last been reoognued in Ohio.
Samuel Lewie, ot Cincinnati, I* tbe
dark hone that baa Just received
Cierk <
Be presents live* in that State.
A track former near Arrendonde,
Fla., t* said to ha vs contracted for
the sal* of his strawberry crop at
rop wllf *
$8 per quart. The crop will doubt-
A 1'hiladciphia exchange that
has belabored the Southern people
mast unjustly and severely caanoi
resist tbe logic of Atlanta's care of
her poor and needy, irrespective
of raec or color. Listen;
“The merchants or Atlanta read
us all a little sermon which goes
deeper than most sermon*. Wc do
not say that tbe benevolent people
of any community would not do
just what the good men of Atlanta
did, under a like emergency, hut
here is 'he heart-warming luct, and
it is not necessary to go under or
beyond it. 'No distinction,’ the
new* dispatch reads, ‘was made in
the distribution ol fuel, food and
clothing in regnrd to color.’ There
has been a good deal said at one
time or another of the Southern
hatred of the negro, but we cannot
just now call to mind an instance
where the pcoplo of any Northern
town have organized n relief com
mitloo loaded down with coal,
blanket*, bread and meat, and
which did Its work so thoroughly
tlmt, In the words ol tho Atlanta
telegram, 'there was not a Imt in
Ilia city which wus not supplied
with crackling lire and food for a
week,’ Suppose, in view of such
testimony ns this, wa call olf the
dogs of ‘Southern outrages' lor a
while? Let every fair man hold
counsel with himself whether we of
I lie North treat the colored man
any more kindly than he is treated
in the South.
ngh to run the falls respect
aldy, and the engineer wouldn’t turn it
on for more than a minute and a half
fur a party of twelve persons at a
quarter apicee.
Tuiut uo use telling,'' ha said, “there
aint water enough on top uf all the
mountains to keep that creek full for on
hour.”
So the visitors risked their necks, and
had a certainty on leg-ache, going down
and up the rickety stairways, only to
look at hare rock, over which a mighty
volume of water was not pouring. Ou
their way they read an inscription, cut
into the stouc, about a noble dog that
had, in 1870. leaped down tile precipice
1 asked the showman, on reaching the
top, how and why the brute had done
sucli an umloglike tiling.
“He was a trick dog,” was the reply,
“belonging to the circus that went
through hero. His master left him «n
the platform and started down the
gorge. The man got half way down—
across yonder where the stairs turn—
and then whistled. Tho dog heard the
call, sprang up on tho railing, lost Ills
ba!uncc,and went whirling down through
Having purchased the interest of ,J. B.
Felder in the firm of R. T. BYRD & CO., I
will continue the business at the old stand on
Cotton Avenue, as
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A si ton which llur«c»Nti<| I nttlcgre enkfert.
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CALI. AND SEE JUKI
Mr. Felder will continue in the LOAN business.
R. T.
Tho subscription to the Rurtholdi
pedestal fund now amount to 8125,-
000, about hall of the entire amount
required. People do not seen to
realize the grand prnfioi lions of
till* Bin tile and vedesiai. It is over
300 feet high, fifty feet higher than
Trinity alecplc. It m seventy feet
square at the point where the
masonry begins. As thi* mammoth
•Utue is a gift from France, and as
the United States government has
appropriated Bedloe'e Island for its
location, it is a matter of surprise
that tlm $350,000 required from the
pcoplo for tho pedestal should be
so long delayed. The money raised
up to the present time has come
mainly Iroin New York. A gentle-
man in Chicago sent $500, but this
is the only outside donation of any
consequence. The Bartholdi statue
Is one of the most superb gifts over
made by one nation to anotber. It
is designed to stand ss a perpetual
monument of tho amity which has
existed between the two nations
since tho foundation of our republic.
It bss been suggested that as the
baso of the statue it to consist of
forty huge stones, each bearing tbe
eoat of arms of state or territory,
tbo state* and territories ought to
pay for their part of tbe pedestal.
course instantly killed by the fall."
I knew- that aceonnt to be from a
guide book, because, os yon may ob
serve, it wasn’t the phraseology of an
untutored rustic. He spoke the piece
with alt the spontaneity and heartful-
nessof a boy reciting, “On Linden when
the sun wus low." Five minutes after.
Field and .Sim* caught their breath,
with the usual difficulty, after a climb'
np tho stair.., and used it instantly to
tisk about the dog. “Ho was a trick
dog," said the exhibitor of the dry rst-
nract, “and belonged to a circus. Had
licen learned to run after stuas, and
fetch ’em hack. The man what owned
him thro.v'd a stun over tho railin’of
this ere platform, and tho dog jumped
over after it. That’s liow it hap
pened.”
“Did you see it?” Mr. Field inquired.
“X was a stnndiu' right here when it
happened.” And the man pointed out
tlie exact spot as conclusive evidence.
It was Ids word against the guide
hook now. Five minutes later Mr. j
Thurber put tile inevitable question
Field anil Sims had departed, aud I
turned away—nil hut my oars—so as
not to influence tho man in his choice j
betwoon the 'two stories. Two? It
turned out to he a third.
“Tho dog was a p’intcr,” said iic,“and
ho heart! a pardridgo som’rs over yen-
dor. He didn't know nothin’ about the
gorge, ’cause the hoardinwas tight from
the floor up to tho ceilin’, jest as ’tis
now. Bo he junipod clean over; aud that
I hung around, to see the earth yawn j Pens.Ink,Paper,Pencils,Slates, Memorandums
sud swallow him; hut, liefore it had
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
Those purtics who are indebted to the firm of R. T. Byrd
& Co. are notified to call and set:le up, ns the Imoks ol' the old
firm must be closed immediately.
Amcricus, Ga., Jan. 12, 1884.
Book Store.
"AGNES AYCOCK,
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One J> trill, Urt. dam Hotg Bata, El
brtagt a Areata it. R If. H. li/re.Jno.
Shtntnod). Bits Amanda Jl. llarrit, An
phie Jlag. Mm Kata Vpton Clarke, Mar-
K rrt Entiwjr, Boat KingtUr, Rdttin D.
•ad. Un Satan flitter. Mr*. Jiuie Ben-
la* Fremont. Urt. Sarah K. Bolton, Horn
Ibrrg, Philip Ronrkr Martian. Boot Ilatn-
thonu Imtfirop, Ctlia 1 hotter. Urt. A.
U Diat.
Barlow Ztouiso Blooli,
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An 1 «*tli»*r Stationery 8u|*|ilira» f«ir mtUovl children.
SXaA,EFK BOOKS
done so, Mr. Jctl'crson came up. He j
called for the dog story, and got it like j
this:
"The dog was a ’normou* big St. !
Bernard. He belonged to a lady that j
was stuppin’ hero at the hotel, and she j
hail a child that bo sort of gnsrdrd. i
Well, that day the lady took the child | FIXE I’AI'EILS, FANCY GOODS AND BUTTKKK’K I'ATTERNM FOR TUB
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down tho gorge. The dog was asleep, |
exactly then, where yon'ro stumlin’.
Tho child g»t dizzy and scared, half I
way down, aud giv' a scream That '
'woks the dog, and lie leaped plum'
over tho rail, kcrllop down to the
rocks.”
“Ami broke into half a dozen separ
ate dogs,” said I.
“What make* you say that?” the man
asked.
“Because it needs s separate dog for
each story.”
“Look here now.” and bis tone was
apologetic in the extreme; “if you h *l
to send that dog down the chasm twenty
or thirty times a dsv, the season
through.’you'd fool like giving yourself
a little variety.”
LADIES.
LEADING DAILY PAPERS AND POPULAR MAGAZINES !
Sheet Music and Popular Songs at Reduced Prices I
Agnes Aycock..
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THE BtaX IK iua
Tbo prsssat season, in the vicin
ity of Monticella, Fla., a large
acre ago will be devoted to tbe cul
tivation of vegetables for ship
ment to Northern markets. Peas,
cabbage, potatoes, onion*, beets,
tomatoes, etc., will be raised In
large quantities, and more than
usual attention will be given to tbe
melon.
Camels arc to be used aa loco
motives on tbe new railway of six
hundred mile*, oooetraotad by tbe
Russian government In Turkoman.
But after a while eteam locomotives
will be put on, as they can be pro-
.1 vlded with more capacious water
plants have died because of the ee-, tanka than lha camels have.
rere drought. —- «.
• •- j The loin ranee of orange groves
It is estimated that tha United ; is the latest thing announced la
State* Senate is the wealtleetdelib-; Florida. It Is said that several
aralivs body in the world, the eev- j American and set British oompa-
' TUB MODEM SOX-lN-LAir.
New York Ufa
Tho son-in-law. What it this? Tin's, j
darling, is tho son-in-law. Oh! In; is
the victim of a mother-in-law? Yes,
dear, of a rich mother-in-law, who sup
ports him. That is what makes him
so tired and rickctty? Partly, mv pre
cious. And ths other cause? Well,
he bss been to dfnuer at the club. But
why does ho go home in that rendi
tion? Because all tho other places are
closed. Gracious! what will hi-
mother-in-law do? Slie will help him
upstairs and assist in removing
his hoots. Then tho poor sow
in-law will not be clubbed with J
a soup-laddie, lectured for two
hours, and scalded bolt to death with
boiling tea? Ob, no. But if be is so
dissipated why does the poor mother- i
in-law put up with him? Because he :
gives her daughter position. How "t>o-
eition?” Well, before marriage tli*
mother-in-law was very rich, bnt was
not “known” in society. Well? Now
the is not quite so rich, hut she is
“known.” Through tbe soo-in-law?
Exactly. Rut the poor wife-her daugh
ter? It is tbe sumo with her. Are they
satisfied? Quito no. Bat it getting into
society sodrsirablethatagir) will marry
ry aucli a man to accomplish it? Yes,
my precious. Uyl Bnt bow for the
poor girls who eannot marry such meat
Thaw asm Hnfoaiiinsia TT »l-A Ik
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' \ Uulatk Craik. Ed-
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Mgr. Arthur (iihnan. Lueg Loreon, U.
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Talbot, Mm toug C. IMUt, Margaret Aid-
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teg. Utorgt MacDonald trad* Ihtnbogne.
Urt. Uaymond BlathieagtlAunt Maggie),
Mm Ijmim T. Cragin, Mm Idem R?
Champnrg, Mara R WOkint, Mrt. Edit
(lannrtt Wrllt, Prof. D. A.. '
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Mr*. ItsIrO* iiHIVr'if.
VI, An Illilsrtaal Srrlst (T.i brslu In lie
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VII In N.i-MnoVtAri.l, (A wnmlrr-flory fnr
lllli- folk.*.) Ily Klbrnlfi-S. Iliouli*.
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IhhU. W. |'»rhHp Hodftali will' can'HIttttP upto-
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