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TOWN DIRECTORY.
Mayor— Thomas G. Barnett.
Commission!?km—W.W. rnrnipseed, J 8.
Wvatt. E. G. Harris, E. It. James."
—K. G Harris.
Trrascrrr —W. 8. Shell.
MaiiMALa—S. A. Beldine, Marshal.
J. \\ . Johnson,Deputy.
JUDICIARY.
A. M. Sprir. - Judge.
F. D. Dismckr, - - Solicitor General.
Butts—Second Mondays in March and
September.
Henry—Hup; Mondays in April and Oc
tober.
Monroe—Fourth Mondays in February,
and August.
Newton—Third Mondays in March and
September.
Fike—Second Mondays in April and Octo
ber.
Rockdale —Monday after fourth Mondays in
March and September
Spalding—First Mondays in February
and August.
Cpsoa—First Mondays in May and No
vember. %
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
llrthodist Episcopal Church, (South.)
Rev. Wesley F. Smith. Castor. Fourth
Sabbath in each month Sunday-school 3
p. m. Prayer meeting Wednesday evening
Mktkodiht Protbstant Church. First
Sabbath month. Sun lay-school 9
a. M.
Christian Church, W. S. Fears, Pastor.
Second Sabbath in each month.
Baptist Church, Rev. J. P. Lyon, Pas
tar. Third Sabbath in each month.
CIVIC SOCIETIES
Pirr Grovr Lodob, No. 177. F. A. M
Stated communications, fourth Saturday in
•ach month.
DOCTORS.
DR. J. C.TURMPSEKD will attend to
all calls day or night. Office . resi
dence, Hampton, Ga
•J\R. W. H PEEBLES treats all dis
* ' eases, and will attend to all rails day
and night. Office at the Drug Store,
Broad Street, Hampton, Ga.
DR. N. T. BARNETT tenders his profes
sional services to the citizens of Henry
and adjoining counties, and will answer call*
day or night. Treats a'l diseases, of what
ever nature. Office at Nipper’s Drne Store.
Hampton, Ga. Night colls can be made at
my residence, opposite Berea church. apr26
JF PONDER, Dentist, has located in
• Hampton. Ga., and invites the public to
call at his room, upstairs in the Bivins
House, where he will be found at all hours
Warrants all work for twelve months.
LAWYERS.
JNO. G. COLDWKLL, Attorney nt Tsiw,
Brooks Station, Ga. Will practice in
the counties composing the Coweta and P'lint
River Circuits. Prompt attention given to
commercial and other collections.
C. NOLAN Attorney at Law. Mc
-*-• Donough, Georgia. Will practice in
the counties composing the Flint Circuit;
the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the
United States District Court.
WM. T. DICKK.N, Attorney at Law. Lo
cust Grove, Georgia, (Henry countv )
Will practice >n the counties composing the
Flint Judicial Circuit the Supreme Court of
Georgia, and the United States District
Court. apr27-ly
GFO. M NOI/AN, Attorney at Law.
McDonough,Ga /Officein I’nurt hnitet )
Will practice in Henry a-d adjoining conn
ties, and in tne Supreme and District Courts
of Georgia. Prompt attention giv“n to col
lections. mch23-6m
JF. WALL. Attorney at Law. flump*
. ton.Ga Will practice in the coun’ies
comjrosing the Flint Jud cial Circuit, and
the Supreme aud District Court? of Georgia
Prompt attention giver to collections. ocs
EDW ARD J. UK AG \N. Attorney at
law. Office on Broad Street, opposite
the Railroad depot, Hampton. Georgia.
Special attention given to commercial and
other collections and cases in Bankruptcy.
BF. McOOLLUM. Attorney arid Ci un
• selior at LW, Hampton. Ga Will
practice in Henry, Clayton, Fawtte, Coweta.
P'ke, Meriwether, Spalding and Buns Supe
rior (Courts, and tn the Supreme aod United
States Courts Collecting claims a specialty.
6ffee uw stain Id dctaefer’r warrfjOQK.
AT THE CONVENT GATE.
Wiataria blossoms trail and fall
Above the length of barrier wall;
And soltly. now and then,
The shy, staid-breasted doves will flit
From roof to gateway-lop, and sit
And wateh the ways of men.
The gate’s ajar. It one m : ght peep !
Ah, what a haunt of rest and steep
The shadowy garden seems !
And note how dimly to and fro
The grave, gray-hooded Sisters go,
Like figures Seem in dreams.
Look, there is one that tells her beads ;
And yonder one apart that leads
A tiny missal's page ;
And see, beside the well, the two
That, kneeling, strive to lure anew
The magpie to its cage !
Not beautiful—not all 1 But each
With that mild craee. outlying speech,
Which comes of even blood ;
The veil UDseen that women wear
With heart-whole thought, and quiet care,
And hope of higher good.
“A plaoid life—a peaceful life !
What need to these the name of Wife 1
What gentler task,” I said—
“ What worthier— e’eD your arts among—
Than tend the sick, and leach the young,
Arid give the hungry bread P
“No worthier task!’’ re-echoes she,
Who clow-lier clinging, turns with me
To face the road again :
And yet, in that warm heart others,
She means the doves, for she prefers
To “watch the ways of men.”
—Comhill Magazine.
Mark Twain’s Boyhood.
Some very amusing anecdotes are related
about Mrrk Twain, or Hamttel Clemens,
when he was a sm.dl boy ; among others the
following :
Mark bad a constant playmate and chum,
a boy about his age, named Napoleon
Pavry, or for short. Pole Pavey. One warm
spring day. the two boys having got a holi
day, Mark shoulder'd an old flint-iock
musket and Pole an old squirrel rifle without
any lock at all, w hich he carried along, as
he said, just for the looks of the thing, and
went duck hunting over in fcihy Bottom.
The boys hunted faithfully for reveal hours
and succeeded in killing a chicken hawk
and a ctow, after which they commenced
their homeward march, not very p-oud of
Iheir success, as in this region, at that dav,
guaie abounded. Finally, Mark slopped
suddenly, as an idea struck him, aud ex
claimed :
“See here, Pole, lei’s get a rare what
d’ye call it ? A rare geological specimen
for tiie boss; juu see, he’s got a great hank
ering alter these things.”
“What’s a rare geological specimen,
Mark ?” said Pole, as he opened w ide his
eyes.
“Why it’s a rare bird what ain’t never
been ill •Tli'Se parts before—sometimes very
uncommonly,” aoswered Mark.
“Where are yno going lo get it at, Mark?
Ve ain’t got nothing but this old chicken
r» bber and egg-sucker, and they ain’t a bit
uneemimw," queried ihe skeptical Pale.
AVII git her up to order, Pale,” an
sweied Mark, us he flung himself on the
preen grass beneath a giant old elm tree.
The boy* went to work on lb< ir ‘ geologi
cal” fpecinicn As Maik would pluck a
leather from the tail of the crow, Pole would
hand him a corresponding feather that bad
been taken from the tad ot the hawk, which
Mark would carefully insert in the socket
from which he had just polled the crow’s
feather. And thus, afier two hours of steady
work, every one of the long leathers of the
hawk s tad hud been transferred to the crow,
and it would have leqnirrd a close examina
tion to h>.ve detected the traud.
“How is that for a spec men, Pole?” said
Mark as be admiringly exhibited the retailed
crow to the gHze of his companies, resplen
den* in the ticb plumage of the chicken
eater.
••She’s a stunner, Mark ; a regular stun
ner. I gue*s they ain’t never seen a bird
l.ke that in Hannibal be'ore.”
The hawk was thrown away and the boys
trudged homeward. By the time they had
arrived in toun the blood of the crow had
congealed and the false feathers in the tail
bad become firmly fixed.
As Mark bad said. Judge Clemens, bis
father, was some* bat of a naturalist, and
bad a passion tor whatever was rare aod
strange in the animal kingdom
‘Why, Mark,” be said, “where in tb*
world did you get that strange-looking
bird r
••It’s my opinion,” said Mark, witk an air
of greater importance than be waa tceui-
HAMPTON, GEORGIA, APRIL 4, 1879.
lomed to assome in the presenee of his
father, ‘ that is the bird of Paradise ; least
wise that it belong* to that species.”
That night the bird was carefully laid
awav in a place where it wnald be eafe from
the devouring presence of the old tom-cats,
which Mark afterward* wrote a boot as
creating such fearful detraction at bis sis
ter's randy pollings. The report soon eir
cnlated through the town that a strange
bitd, the like of which had never hefore been
seen, was killad, and Mark and Pole became
the heroes of the hour. The next day being
Sunday Judge Clemens invited all the wise
men of the village of Hannibal to his house
to examine and pass an opinion on the new
“geolngiral specimen.” They came. The
bird was exhibited on a table, around which
the savan* gathered. One faction, heeded
by Dr. , maintained that the bird was
nothing but a black crow, the tail of which
had been turned gray by some accidental
canse not understood, having possibly had
salt thrown on it in the young and lender
days of the biid. The other faction, headed
by Judge Clemens, scouted such an Idea.
It was absurd, ridiculous. They wert will
ing to admit that the bird very much re
sembled a ctow ; but, il so, it belonged to a
separate and diaiiuct species from any that
had ever before been discovered.
The discussion was continued, and became
exciting. Neither faction would admit
themselves wiorg and the other right. Murk
and Pole occupied a position near the door,
and were attentive and interested though
silent, auditors.
“What ?” exclaimed Judge Clemens,
warming op, “do you tell me that it would
be possible by any external process to turn
the leathers in the tsil of that bird Irom
black to the colors they aref These uniform
rings and spots would defy the skill of the
greatest painter that ever lived No, gen
tlemen,” continued the Judge, as he rather
violently took Bold of the bird by the tail to
examine the spots more closely, “no gentle
men ” Bat the discussion was cat
short by the bird dropping oh the tabls,
while the Judge held the tail in his band.
“Let’s scon, Pole.”said Mark,“the show's
ended " And the boys vamosed.
'I he Judge contemplated the “rare geolog
ical specimen” with consternation, and then
his eyes wandertd to the open door and
caught a glimpse ot bis young hopeful and
his companion in mi.-chief catting across the
back yard lor high timber.
‘ I/’t us adjourn for dinner, gentlemen ;
we will renew the discussion after dinner,”
su.d the Judge; but be never willingly re
newed it with any person except Mark.
That night when Matk had got into bed,
after creeping through the back window, a
vision ot his fa'ber, standing by his bed-side,
appeared tft him.
“So it is yi nr opinion is it, yoi young
rascal, that the ra'e gee logical specimen is a
B’nd of Puradi-tc.” said the vision, as it
tickled M tk on his naked legs with a keen
cherry switch
Mark sa;d he felt sick and did not have
any opinion, which was probably true, as he
had dined and supped that day on green
radi.-hes found in the garden of Pole’s
rno her.— Wood's Household Magazine.
Hici.r YiiuasKLv —Fight your own bat
tles. Hoe your own row. Ask no favor*
of any one and you will succeed five thou
sand times better than he who is always be
seeching some one’s patronage. No one
will help you as yon will help yourself, tie
cause no one will be so heartily interested in
your affairs. Tbe first step will mil be such
a long one, perhaps ; but rarving your own
way up the mountains, you make each ooe
lead to another, nnd -land firm in that while
you chop still another oot. Men who have
made fortunes are not those who had $5 000
given them to start with, hot starter! fair
with a well earned dollar or two. Men who
have by rheir exertioor acquired fame, have
not been thrust into popularity by puffs,
begged or paid for. or given in a friendly
spirit. They have outstretched tbeir hands
and touched the politic heart. en who
win love do their own wooing, and I never
knew a man to fail so signally aa tbe one
who bad induced bio affectionate grand
mother to speak a good word for him.
Whether you work for lame, for love, for
cioDey, or for anything else, work with your
hands and brain. Say “1 will I” and some
day you will conquer. Never 1 t any man
have it to say. “1 have dragged you up.”
Too many Iriends hurt a mao more than
none at all.
A school oirl of teoder years thus writes
to a bosom friend. “Dear Susa—l shan't
attend school again until I get some new
cuffs, cellars and jewel* y—dear mamnu
agrees with me that it is my Dooty to take
the shine off that upstart Mary Jones, aod
111 de it if I never learn nothing.”
Orange Groves stud Alligators.
There are some wonderful orange groves
in the town, or “the city," as the inhabitants
persist in calling the place. Those most re
markable belong to Dr. Anderson, and to
the estate of the late Mr Ball,of New York
This latter place, on which about 880 000
were expended in improvements some few
years ago, la now lor sale If the plains
• round St. Augustine were covered with
and. groves as these the town would be the
mosi beautiful in the world. The groves of
f>r. Anderson and the Ball estate are close
together To wander through them oa a
fine morning, when a gentle breeze is coming
in from the sen. or to sit on a bench in the
midst of the fragrant leaves with the robins,
the blackbirds and the cardinals saucily in
viting you to declare your purpose, and with
the golden fruit hanging within reach of your
arm (and with permission to pick it') —
these are pleasures which no one fails to ap
preciate. The hrtian treea here produce
fimt of aa'onishing size and excellent quality ;
and the oranges ate exquisite.
On the Ball estate there is an avenue of
great length, bordered by orange trees, the
boughs of which bend nnder hundreds of
oranges. To rigid and left puths lend away
to conservatories, gardens and lawns swept
by fresh brecies and dotted with pretty
group* ot flowers. This is a little earthly
paradise during <he winter mon'h*. Dr
Anderson’s grove is one of the most famous
in the South, and is exceedingly profitable.
His residence (rents on a street charmingly
embowered in orange, lemon and magnolia
trees, and lined with handsome cottages.
Outside the town, a road leads across she
marshes on a eanseway, and on the marshes
snipe abound just now. A northern visitor
who was passing these fens with me, laughed
at the sign. “No Trespassing Here,” which
arose on a pole oat of some suspiciously re
sistible soil, but if be had known that it
was a snipe country, be would not have
laughed.
It was in these bottoms-that an alligator
hunter was once oicely caught, us he told
roe some years since. Coming home from
a chase after the skins of the wily saurian,
he was wading the marshes wearily, with his
gun on his shoulder, when be felt his right
leg seized, and looking down saw that a
moderate alligator had grasped him.
Nothing but bis heav. boot leg saved him
from being very badly wounded. lie
brought his gun dowa with terrific force on
to tbc creature’s head, uttered a fearful yell
ai d managed to jump clear of bis adversaiy.
II is hair stood straight on end ere he stopped
running at the edge of the swamp.
The alligator is not seen so often in this
vicinity as in other days, nor does be con
descend to show himself much oa the waters
of iho St. John's, a* the young men worry
him with their pistol shots. On the borders
of the smell streams tributary to the great
river the monsters swarm; they are not
pretty, nnd iheir “smile” is so gigantic that
one does not feel inclined to dispute the
probability of Mr. Boffin’s biding behind it,
as that veridical historian, Charles Dickens,
informs us that be did in Mr. Venus’s work
shop.
An nlligator u so much in color like a
floating log that people ia email boats need
to be exceedingly wary,
The n.occasin *nake is another enemy
whirh peisnns the tranquility of the wanderer
in Fioiida forests “Deadly T" said a sports
man to me ; “1 think they are. You’re a
dead man iu five minutes if they strike you,
without Rome remedy, and there are millions
of them. Rat tlf snakes, too.’’ But these
interesting crea'ures are’ only seen in the
town, and the habit of the farmers and herds
men of burning over the ground twic? s
year destroys great numbers of them. The
ground is burned over because a fresh growth
of herbage springs up at once a f ter the fire
and furnishes food to the half starved cows
which strangle ia the forest. An animated
protest against this system has been made
by Not them settlers who friqueotly found
that their fine s bare gone up n the general
ctw.fi giation Edward King in Boston
Journal.
Fciencb eays new that kissing on the lip*
most be abolished in the interest of health.
Most potent, grave and reverend seigniori
scholars ard philosophers, there are mo uen's
you know nothing of, when a man don't c*re
two cents lor science, ami when be is going
to plant kt»es where th-y belong, if the laws
of health are torn from D-m to Bcrsheba.
W ill science ph-ase stand up aud tell us
why a girl wto frnies to death every time
she sweeps «fl the front steps, can ride fifteen
miles in a sleigh with aothing around her
bat some ether girl’s brother’s arm, without
• ven getting a blue nese ?
A dollar in your band is worth two ia
i another mao’s pocket,
A Young Bachelor’s Dilemma.
The following nflecting romance is told by
the Detroit Free Press'.
It was the Recond time the hero of this
story had accompanied the young lady home
from one of lliose little so-cnll«d social par
ties which are got up to bring fond hearts a
step nearer lo each other. When he reached
the gate, she asked him if he would c -me in
He said he would. Sarah took his hat.
told him to sit down, and left the room to
remove her things. Bbe eras bwnUv gene
be lore her mother came in, smiled sweetly.
Hnd dropping down beside the yonng man
said : “I always did say that if a poor bnt
respectable young man tell in love with
Sarah, he should have my consent. Some
mothers would sacrifice their daughter's hap
piness for riches bat 1 urn not of that sort "
The young man started with alarm ; he
didn’t know whether lie liked Sarah or uot;
be hadn't drt anted of marriage,
“She h s Beknowledg-ul to me that she
lovis you,” continued the mother; “and
what is for h n r happiness is for mine.”
The voting man stommered out: “I—l
haven’t”
“Oh, never mind ! Make no apology. I
know you haven’t much money, but ol course
you’ll live with me. We’ll lake in boarders,
and I’ll be bound ibut we'll get along all
right.”
It was a had situation. He had not even
looked love at Bar»b. “I hud no idea of’—
he iieguu ; when she held up her bands, say
ing :
“1 know you hadn’t, hut it’s all right.
With your wages, and what the boarders
bring we’ll gel along as snug as possible.
All I ask is that you he good to her; Harah
his a tender heart, and if you should be
cross and ugly, it would break her down in
a week.”
The young man’s eyes stood out like cocoa
nuts in a shop window, uud he rose up and
tried to say something.
“Never mind about thanks,” she cried ;
“I don’t believe in long courtship*. The
eleventh of January is my birthday, and il
would ba nica for you to be married on that
day."
“Bat bat but " he
gasped.
“There, there I I don’t expect a speech in
reply,” she laughed. “You and Harah settle
it to-night, and I’ll advertise for twelve
boarders atruight w«v ; I’ll try to be a model
mother-in-law. I M'eve I’m gnod-tera
pered and kind hearted, though I did once
follow a young man two hundred miles aud
shoot off Ibe top ol bis head lor agreeing to
marry my daughter and then quitting the
country."
Bbe pallsd him on the head and saileJ
out. And now the young man wants od
vice. He wants lo know whether he bad
better get. in the way of a locomotive or
slide off the wharf.
if ev, r a young bachelor was “sold,”
Sarah’s yonng man was in that predicament.
Giving and Rkckivixo Tn« Coi.d Snour.-
dkr—lf the art of giving the cold shoulder
ia worthy of acquirement, much more so is
that of the receiving it judiciously. It is
quite possible to endure its application with
such becoming dignity that the aggressor
comes off decidedly second best in tbe en
counter. Perhaps amused indifference forms
tbe most effective armor against its thrusts,
for few things so disconcert an enemy as to
find his attacks affording diversion to his
antagonist. The probability in such a ease
is that be will either lose his temper and
thus put himself immediately in the wrong,
•r else surrender unconditionally on perceiv
ing tbe absurdity of the situation It is said
that people who have an inordinate fear of
infectinos diseases are mote susceptible of
them than others; and in the same manner,
those who are always dreading the cold
shoulder are most vulnerable to that kind of
attack. ln<teed men who live in perpetual
fear of slights fiom ntbars become so con
strained in their manner that it is ex'remely
diffi nit lor their fronds to trrat them with
geniality. The coldest mum rred people are
fieqnently those who look for most warmth
from otbe's ; and wlnn their e\pcctations
are not gratified, they forget thut the cool
ness they meet with is hut a dim reflection
of their own. Hut, m scrubl- as is tbe state
ot persons who suffer from over-sensitiveness,
it ia to i>e preferred to that of the hardened
wietcues who are impervious to the sternest
onslaughts of the cold shoulder. There are
things who are so convinced of their own
attracttviness that nothing will persuade
them that tbey are objects of speciul aver
sion. It tbey observe tbat tbe manner of
1 an acquaintance is unusually cold, they at
i trbute it to dyspepsia or to a depreciation
i in tbe value of bis investments. —English
[ Magazine.
i Arm. fool 1
Given Away »u Ilia own Dodg?,
The old m«n Bendigo keeps# pretty chirp
eye on his daughter Mary, and many a
would be lover has tuk**n a walk alter a few
minutes conversation with the hard hearted
parient. The old chan is stuck this time,
however, and card* ara out for a wedding.
After the lucky young man had beea spark
ing Mary for six months the old gentlrman
stepp d in as usual. requet-fed a private con
fab. and led off with :
“You seem Tike a nice young man, and
perhaps you are in love with Mary t”
“Ye*. I am," was the honest reply.
“Huven'l said anything to her yet, bare
you ?"
'‘Well no; bull think she reciprocates
my affect ion.”
“Doe*, eh T Well, let me tell you some
thing Her mother died a lunatic, aud
there's no doubt that Mary has inherited her
insanity.”
“I’tn willing to take the chances,” replied
the lover.
“Yes, but you see Mary has a terrible
temper. Bhe has twice drawn a knife on me
with intent to commit murder."
“I’m used lo that—got a sister just like
her," wss tht answer.
“And ymi should know that I’ve sworn a
solemn oath not to give Mary a cent of tuy
property,” continued the lather.
“Well, I d rather start in poor and build
up. There's more romance in it."
The old man had one more shot in his
carbine, and he said :
“Perhaps I ought to tell you that Mary's
mother rau sway from my home with a
butcher, und that all her relations died it?
the poorhonse. These things might he
thrown up in after years, and I now warn
you,”
• Mr Bendigo," rep’ied the lover, “I’ve
beard all this before, nnd also that you were
on trial for forgery, had to jump Chicago
for bigamy, and served a year in St.ite prison
for cattle-stealing. I’m going to marry into
your family to give you a decent reputation !
There—no thanks—pood bye !”
Mr. Bendigo looked after the young man
with his mouth wide open, and wdien he
could get his jaws together be said :
‘•Some infernal hyena lias went »nd given
me away oo my dodge I"— Detroit Free Press.
Haw Much be Lowed Kentucky.
“Yes. gentlemen." exclaimed the Colonel,
bringing his empty wine glass down with a
crush, “as little as I liked the South, damned
if I once didn't want to he a Kentuckian.”
“Hear, Iteur!’’ said we all, and the Col
onel. who was rather emphatic in bis re
marks. proceeded :
“Well, you see,’twas in June, ’4B, we'd
licked hell out of the greasers and was corn
in’ home, takin' things easy and stragglin’
along like. We was on the road from Ori
zaba to Vera Cruz, a heavenly country, but
fall of pizirt »» dried apples is of swell. There
wasn’t any line of march reg'lar, aod tbe
boys was sufferin’ from cholera and black
vomito. I was officer of the day over a lew
detachments and w.is silling on my host,
lazy like, when an orderly rode up and **-z :
“ ‘Capt in, Lieutenant is dyin’ ’ —
damme I can’t get bit name, but be was
■nme way related to Old <;overn’r Moore
head, and I’il call him Lieutenant; I'd just
got acquainted with him a couple days be
fore, and we sorter clung together— I 'The
Lieutenant’s dyin’ and he wanfß to see you.’
• B»ik I gallops, and sure enough there he
was lyin'on a stretcher, a goner front the
vnmitn. *
“ ‘My deur boy,’ I says, ‘what can I do
for you ?’
“ Jest raise me up-op high,’ he says.
“I put my arms around him and raised
him up. He looked all around and finally
sot his eyes sway to the northeast. I couldn’t
help s-kin’ what in thunder he wanted to bo
raised up for. He jest says :
“‘I 1 want to fall my full length, please
God. toveard old Kentucky!'
“1 didn’t let the boy fall, but, damme,
when I laid him down, gentle and easy, fc
had a sorter yearnin’ fur the cussed State
myself **
Tgi editor presented a bill for eight
years’ back subscription. The old farmer
was first itn> aed, then indignant. He pat
on hi» sjiectscles, scrutinized the bill, and
after assuring himself that it was gpnnina,
he exclaimed : “I‘ve been supportin’ this
yere paper nigh onto eight years, and I never
bad no mob thing as that flung at me be
fore. I’ll stop supportin'it.” He not only
withdrew bis valuable support, but failed to
pay the bill,
“Bbooabs can’t be choosers," says an old
adage We take notice that a beggar got
into the ball the other day, and chose from
the bat-rack forthwith three bats, ooe um
brella, and oar beet sealskin overcoat. Thi*
kceeke the sawdust Mt of that aitytt.
NO. 39