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TOWN DIRECTORY.
Mayor —Thomas G. Barnett
CaMMisstoNRRB—W.W. Turnipeeed, D. B.
Bivins, E. G. Hnrris, E. It. James.
Clerk—E. G. Harris.
Trrasurbr— W. S. Shell.
Marshals —S. A. Belding, Marshal.
J. W. Johnson,Deputy.
* JUDICIARY.
A. M. Sprkr, - Judge.
F. D. Dismukr, - - Solicitor Genera!.
Butts—Second Mondays in March and
Sep tern tier.
Henry—Tbir£ Mondays in' April sod Oc
tober.
Monroe—Fourth Mondays in February,
and August.
Newton—Third Mondays in March and
September.
Pike —Second Mondays in April and Octo
ber.
Rockdale—Monday after fourth Mondays in
MarAwnd (jwptetitoer.
"Spalding—First MffiMay* i» February
and August. “ •
iG.pson—First Mondays in May snd No
vember.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Methodist Episcopal Church, (South,)
Rev. Wesley F. Smith, Pastor Fourth
.Sabbath in each month. Sunday-school 3
p. h . Prayer meeting Wednesday evening.
Mkthodist Protestant Church. First
Sabbath month. Sunday-school 9
A. M.
Christian Church, W. S. Fears, Pastor.
Second Sabbath in each month.
Baptist Church, Rev. J. P. Lyon, Pas*
tor. Third Sabbath in each month.
CIVIC SOCIETIES.
Pins Grove Lodge, No. 177, F. A. M.
Stated communications, lourtb Saturday in
.each month.
DOCTORS.
DR. J. C.TURXIPSEED will attend to
all calls day or night. Office i resi
dence, Hampton, Ga.
TAR. W. H. PEEBLES treats all dia
-1 ’ eases, and will attend to all calls day
and night. Office at the Drug Store,
Broad Btreet, Hampton, Ga.
DR. N. T. BARNETT tenders his profes
sional services to the citizens of Henry
and adjoining counties, and will answer ealls
day or night. Treats aH diseases, of what
ever nature. Office at Nipper’s Drag Store,
Hampton, Ga. Night calls cao be made at
my residence, opposite Berea church. api26
JF. PONDER, Dentist, tiab located in
• Hampton, Ga.,and invites the public to
call at his room, upstairs in the Bivins
House, where he wHI be found at all hours.
Warrants all work for twelve months.
LAWYERS.
JNO. G. COLDWELL, Attorney at Taw,
Brooks Station, Ga. Will practice in
the counties composing the Coweta and Flint
River Circuits. Prompt attention given to
commercial and other collection*
TC- NOLAN, Attorney at low. Mc
# Donoogh, Georgia: Will practice m
Ahe counties composing tbe Flint Circuit;
ithe Supreme Court of Georgia, and the
fUuited States District Court.
WM T. DICKEN, Attorney at Law, Me
Donougb, Ga. Will practice in the
-counties composing tbe Flint Judicial Cir
,cuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the
United States District Court. (Office up
stairs over W. C. Sloan’s.) apr27-ly
/3.E0. M. NOLAN, Attorjtky at Law,
McDonough, Ga. (Office in Court house )
Will practice in Henry and adjoining coun
ties, and in the Supreme and District Courts
of Georgia. Prompt attention given to col
lections. aacb23-£m
JF. W ALL, Attorney at Law, Hump
. ton.Ga Will practice in tbe cnnnties
composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, and
the Supreme and District Courts of Georgia.
Prompt attention given to collect ions. ocs
EDWARD J, REAGAN, Attorney at
law. Office od Broad Street, opposite
the Railroad depot, Hampton, Georgia.
Special attention given to eoromenetal and
other collections, and cases in Bankruptcy.
BY. McCOLLUM, Attorney and Goan
• seller at L*w, Hampton, Ga. Will
practice In Henry, Clayton. Fayette, Coweta,
Pike, Meriwether, Spalding and Butts Supe
rior Courts, and m the Supreme aod United
States Courts. Collecting claims a specialty.
Office an stairs m the Mclntosh Building.
AN AUGUST DAY.
OvG tbe fields by winding ways
We wandered on together.
Under the flashing azure skies,
In a hush of August weather.
Round about us, afar and near,
We heard the locust humming,
And tbe asters starring tbe lonely path
Laughed out to see ns coming.
Bird songs out of tbe sunlit oak
Fell rippfiDg through the shadow,
Like a spear of fl »me tbe cardiml flewer
Burned out along the meadow.
Into oor hearts the blithe wind blew,
Its own free gladness giving,
And all things langhed in tbe happy earth
For tbe pure, sweet joy of living.
Two roamed on with their eyes alight.
And their hearts too still for laughter—
Two in a revel of golden life,
Looked neither before nor after.
One went dreaming with downcast face
Through tbe bush of tbe woodland cover;
But one pruised God from a trembling heart
That the shadow of paio was over.
—Alice M Eddy.
Torquato Tasso.
Strange, sad, destroy of genius! This
man in bis lifetime was a beggar, an exile, a
wanderer, and a prisoner, iD a country where,
three centuries after his death, four cities
are proud even to share iu the honor of hav
ing produced him. Sorrento boasts of being
his birthplace. Naples points to a place
within her limits aud says: “There was
born the mother of 'l asso 1” The citizens of
Bergamo claim it as a distinction that the
father of tbe poet was born in their city.
Ferrara plumes herself upon having been the
poet’s home for many years. And where is
the celebrated Italian who does not value
himself the more lor the glory which this
man has 6htd upon his country 1
Tasso’s father was an ardent politician.
During the childhood of the poet, the ques
tion which agitated the public mmd in
Southern Italy was : Shall the inquisition
be celebrated here? Bernardo Tasso, the
poet’s father, a resident then of Naples, was
one of those who opposed to the uttermost
that institution, aDd one of those, too, who
were ruined by their opposition to it, and
obliged to go into exile. He went to R ime
in the suite of a nobkman; and he was
accompanied to the Eternal City by bis son,
aged ten years. His father, despite his mis
fortunes, was still able, at Rome, to afford
hia son the best masters in Latin, Greek, and
iD Italian; and for two years the boy peace
fully pursuid his studies under the shadow
of the Vatican. Suddenly came tbe news
of bis mother’s death, which plunged his
father aod himself into irremediable grief.
Soon after this melancholy event a turn
in the changeful politics of Italy made Rome
ao unsafe refuge for Bernardo Tasso, and he
once more became a wanderer. Unfortu
nately for his son’s happiness, he found a
retreat in the court of an Italian prince, who
was noted for bis patronage of literature
and tbe arts. The poet was thirteen years
of age—an exquisitely handsome and bril
liant lad—when he took up his abode io the
palace of tbe Duke of Urbino, and won tbe
favor of that prince. So charmed was the
Duke with his beauty, grace and talent that
be made him the companion of his own son,
both in bis studies and in his pleasures The
two years be passed at this court, caressed
by princes and fair ladies, probably bad
much to do with bis soberqueot unhappiness,
sioce he acquired tastes which mere genius
could not gratify, aDd forgot tbe impassable
barrier which then existed betweeo princes
and subjects.
His father was a wise and kind guide.
Proud of his son’s talents he was unwilling
to see him beoome a prince's toy and pastime.
A fond father, be woold not trust his son’s
fate in a prince’s capricious hands. He
drew him away from the seductive pleasures
of the palace, and sent him to tbe University
of Padua to stady law. Tasso was about
sixteen years of age when he found himself
a resident of a university, with a pile of lav
books upon bis table.
He did not study them. Hia past life
bad developed hie taste for poetry, and had
not given him much power to control his
desires. Notwithstanding his father's warn
ing and argent entreaties, he passed his time
io composing verses, and by the time he was
eighteen, he had published a poem
“Rinaldo”—tbe fruit of teo months labor.
This work made him a poet for life. His
father was no longer opposed ; the public
received his poem with favor, and persons of
discernment predicted bis future greatness.
Delighted at bis success, he began, in bis
nineteenth year, the poem to which be chiefly
owes bis fame—the “Jerusalem Delivered !”
It was not long before be bad a taste of
wbat a poet bad to expect from semi-bar-
HAMPTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1879.
barous princes. A satirical poem, reflecting
upon the government, being circulated in
the city where be was residing, he the most
famous poet in tbe place, was suspected o'
being tie author of it. Au order was issued
for hia arrest. Nut being at home when the
officer came, his papers were seized, bis
poems, his sketches of tbe great work he was
meditating, and all the delicate and airy
litter of a poet’s desk—all were roughly
bundled together, and conveyed to the court
of tbe criminal judge. Then it wa3 discov
ered that be had oat vtiUts tha aathe, and
bia papers were returned to him. This out
rage, however, he could not forgive. He
left the city to return no more.
In those days—three hundred years ago—
there were no magazines open to tbe produc
tions of youthful poets, and do publishers
able to give their works such currency as to
bring into the pockets of the authors a
respectable sum per annum. In 1565, when
Tasso, just of age, had to look around hitn
for a refuge, a poet’s only resource was to
haunt the court of a king or prince, and to
subsist upon bis bounty. His father was
not rich enough to maintain him. We find
the poet, therefore, repairing to tbe court of
the Duke of Furrara, one of tbe number of
princes among whom Italy was then par
celled out, and the one to whom Tasso had
dedicated his •‘R'naldo."
The Duke received him as a Prince should
receive a poet ; and Ta3so, no stranger at
courts, was soon at home in the circle of
b : gh-born persons who frequented or resided
in the ducal palace. Fatal welcome 1 One
of the lovliest women of the court was the
Princess Leonora, the Duke’s own sister, a
lady formed to ei joy the poetry and conver
sation of a Tasso. Young, a poet, and an
Italian, be allowed himself to love this ladv,
whom no man of his rank could ever hope *0
marry, for her family was noted even in
Italy lor its pride of birth. He breathed his
hopeless passions in melancholy verses; and
she, not suspecting the truth, gave him her
friendship.
He resided at this court for ten years,
daring which he labored upon his immortal
poem, encouraged thereto by tbe applause of
the Duke, and still more by the smiles ot
Midway in his work, be accom
panied a brother of the Duke to the court of
Charles IX., King of France, where he lived
a year in the liigiiest favor. Charles IX. is
that King of France whose memory will go
down through all the ages black with tbe
infamy of having permitted the massacre of
St. Bartholomew. Tasso just missed 1 those
atrocious scenes. He waß in France in 1571,
and the year after the massacres occurred.
His great poem, which cost him twelve
years of labor, was given to the world in
1575. It had the most immediate and bril
liant success. How transporting must tbe
perusal h ive been when the Holy Wars were
recent even's, and almost every person in
Europe revered the heroes of those wars as
saints or martyrs. But the poet reaped no
reward from his labor but bitterness. The
rest of his life is involved in obscurity ; and
we can only follow uncertain, and in some
cases, incredible, tradition. It is said that
while Europe resounded with the poet’s
praises, be, sensitive almost to insanity, heard
only tbe voices of a few envious and malig
nant critics, and that, stung by their cen
sures, he left bis home and wandered aimless
over Italy. It may be that it was despair
ing love that sent him forth.
Returning after the absence of a year, be
was received by the Duke, who appointed
him to an honorable office. Soon he seemed
to become at times really insane, and imag
ined that he was surrounded by foes plotting
his ruin. Tradition says that bis passion
for tbe Princess Leonora was discovered, and
this was tbe cause of his subsequent misfor
tunes. The probability is, however, that
his mind was diseased, and that bis conduct
was such as to compel the Duke to take ex
treme measures to prevent serious mischief.
Be that as it may tbe Duke sent bim, under
an armed escort, to a convent, where he was
for a few days confined, aod treated as a
madman.
He made bis escape. Disguised as a shep
herd, he pursued his caurse toward Sorrento,
where be bad a sister living, the wife of a
nobleman. Years had passed by since they
had met, and be knew not whether she still
loved bim. Clad io his shepherd’s garb, aod
dusty with travel, he obtained an interview
with her on tbe preleose that be wag her
brother's messenger He told her each a
barrowing tale of that brother’s sufferings
and perils, that ebe, at length convinced hid)
of her affection by fainting at bis feet. IJe
remained for some months at bis sister’s
house, where he recovered, in some degree,
tbe tone of his mind. He could not, how
ever, long endare the peaceful and safe
monotony of a domestic life.
Restless, and still craving tbe life of a
cufrt, be fesgped bis Nftfi&ryigs, aod sank
•o the last degree of destitution—that of a
traveling mendicant. He was indeed driven
from one town as a vagabond too offensive
to be borne. Rescued from this extreme of
misery, be rejected the offers of more than
one princely boose, and chose rather to re
tarn to Ferrara, endeared to him by love and
' habit, and where be bad once been so ten
derly caressed
He arrived at an inopportune moment, on
tbe eve of the marriage of tbe prince, when
all was preparation for tbe coming festival.
Denied admission to tbe mere presence of the
Duke, and neglected by everybody, be went
forth ra a freozy of wounded self-love, and
broke out into the most violent, contemptu
ous, and even menacing expressions. The
Duke, upon hearing of this, ordered him to
be arrested, and consigned him to a mad
house, where he remnined for seven years.
Released at the end of that long period,
through the earnest intercession of the Duke
of Mantua, he lived a few precarious and
unhappy years, now amid the gayelics of a
court, now trudging along the dusty high
way ; sometimes rich with the princely gifts,
and sometimes on the verge of want. He
died at Rome in 1595, aged fifty-one, sur
rounded by cardinals, and atieoded by the
Pope’s physician.
He seemed to have an uneasy and most
irrituble self-love, which is so near akin to
madness as to be often mistaken for it, and
often to run into it.
Infelicities.
Many an immortal work has been written
with tbe blood of the author, at the expense
of his happiness and of his life. Euripides
studied in a dark cave—Demosthenes at
night. Thompson was so excessively lazy
that he once was seen to be eating fruit from
a tree, as it grew, standing with both bands
in his pockets. A certain French writer,
failing to please the critics of his day by his
avowed productions, resorted to the expe
dient of publishing three volumes of poetry
and essays as tbe works of a journeyman
blacksmith. Tbe trick succeeded, and all
France was in amazement at the son of
Vulcan. Morel possessed such devotion to
study that, when the death of bis wife was
announced to him, be could not be prevailed
upon to resign his pen, but simply said, “I
am sorry; she was a good woman.”
Cowper once wrote : “I wonder that a
sportive thought should ever knock at tbe
door of my intellect, aod still more, that it
should gain admittance. It ia as if a harle
quin should iatrude itself iuto a chamber
where a corpse is deposited io state.” Cbat
tertoo starved two days before be cut his
threat. Vaugelas was surnamed the “Owl,”
from being obliged to keep wit bio all day
and venture out only at night, through fear
of Ins creditors. Sheridan watched loag and
anxioißly for a bright idea, and afterwards
rewarded it oo himself with a glam or two
of port. Burns was a hard worker ; when
his fickle muse j ided, he used to rock himself
io a chair, putiently wailing her
Walter Scott entertained the idea that his
poetic vein never flowed happy except be
tween tbe vernal and autumnal equinoxes.
Rossean, when doomed to dull company,
occupied himself with knitting lace strings,
whioh be preferred to long yarn*. Bloom
field wrote bis “Tanner’s Boy” with chalk
upon a pair of bellow*. Tasso, on one occa
sion, having addressed a sonnet to a favorite
cat, be begs the light of ber eye* to write
by, as he was too poor to buy a candle. It
is supposed, and with great reason, that but
for peculiar circumstances, men of genius
would not have achieved so mneb, or so
well.— Salad for the Solitary.
Cwsar’s Pobtrait.—ln person Cse*ar was
tall and slight. His features were more
refined than was usual in Roman faces; the
forehpad was wide and high, the nose large
and thin, tbe lips full, tbe eyes dark gray,
like ao eagle’s, tbe neck extremely thick and
sinewy. His complexion was pale; bis
beard and mustache were kept carefully
shaved. His hair was short and naturally
scanty, falling off toward the end of his life,
and leaving bim partially bald. His voice,
especially when bp spoke io public, was high
and shrill. His health was uniformly strong
until bis last year, when be became subject
to epileptic fils. He was a great bailer, and
scrupulously clean in all bis habits; abstem
ious io his food, and careles3 in what it coq 7
slated, ran ly or never touching wine, and
noting eohriety as tbe highest of qualities
when describing aqy oew people. He wag
Q 0 athlete Ip early life, admirablo ip all
manly exercises, apd especially io ridipg.
From his boyhood it was observed of bim
that be was tbe truest of friends, that be
avoided quarrels, and was most easily ap>
i peased when offended. In manner be was
qaiet aod gentlemanlike, with tbe natural
coortesy of high breeding.— Froude on Julius
w Sa>luting the Bride.”
There was a marriage at the upper end of
the Detroit, Lansing A Northern R>ad the
other day. A great big chap, almost able
to throw a car-load of lumber off the track,
fell in love with a widow who was cooking
for the bands in a saw mill, and after a
week’s acquaintance they were married. The
boys around the mill lent William three
calico shirts, a dress-coat and a pair of white
pants, aod chipped in a purse of about S2O.
and the couple started for Detroit on a
bridal tour within au hour after being mar
ried.
“This ’erp lady,” explained William as
the conductor came along for tickets, “are
my bride. Just spliced fifty-six minutes
ago. Cost $2, but darn the cost! She's a
lily of the valley, Mary is, and I’m the right
bower in a new pack of krerds. Conductor,
sa-lute the bride !■’
The conductor hesitated. The widow had
freckles and wrinkles and a tarn-up nose,
and kissing the bride wa* oo gratification.
‘‘Conductor, sa-lule the bride or look out
for tornadoes!” continued William as he
rose up aod shed his coat.
The conductor sa-luted. It was the best
thing he could do jast then.
“I never did try lo pat on style nfore,”
mattered William, “but I’m bound to see
this thing through if I have to fight all
Michigan. These 'ere pnssengers has get to
come up to the chalk, they has.”
The car was full. William walked down
the aisle, wared his haDd to command at
tention, and said :
“I’vejast been married; over thar sots
the bride. Anybody who wants to sa-lute
the bride kin now do so. Anybody who
don’t want to, will hev cause to believe that
a tree fell on him !’’
One by one the men walked up and ki*sed
the widow, until only one was left. He was
asleep. William reuched over and lifted
him into a sitting position at one movement
and commanded:
“Are you going to dust tbar an’ kiss the
bride
“Blast your bride, and you, too P* growled
tiie passenger.
William drew bim over the back of the
seat, laid him down in tbe aisle, tied his legs
io a knot and was making s bundle of bim
jest of a size to go through the window,
when the man caved and went over aod sa
luted.
“Now, then,” said William, as be pat on
his coat, “this bridle tower wilt be resumed as
usual, and if Mary and roe squeeze hands or
git to laying heads on each other’s shoulders
I shall demand to know who larffed about it,
and I’ll make him e-magine that I’m a hull
boom full of tbe biggest kind of suwlogs,
and more cornin'down oo tbe rise. Now,
Mary, hitab along an* let me git my arm
around ye!”
Leap Years.
Probably few persons are aware that the
year 1900 will will not be a leap year. The
Scientific Ameriemt teHs an inquiring cor
respondent that tbe year 1900 is not a leap
year because it is not divided by 400, and
then, in further explanation, His all aboot
leap years as follows : Tbe earth makes the
circuit of the son in 365 days, five hours,
forty-eight minutes and 49 062 seconds,
This is called the solar year. The civil year
is ordinarily 365 day*, tbe excess (five hours,
forty-eight minutes, 49.062 seconds) amount
ing in four years to very pearly a day. Ac
cordingly, each fourth year ia given 3GG days.
But this counts a little too much, the excess
amounting in a century to nearly a day
So, instead of nailing the even hundred year*
leap years, they are made ordinary years of
965 days. This approximate correction in
volves an error of a little over or.e-fourth of
a day every nectary, which is nearly set
right by counting each 400th year as a leap
year- By these leap years and intercalated
days (every fourth year except tha hundreds
not divisible by 400) the civil and solar
years are closely reconciled, the object being
to make the seasons permanently accord with
the calendar. By making a further correc
tion of one day every 40001 b year, counting
each 4000th year as not a leap year—the
error is so small that 21,600 years must
elapse before it will amount to a full day,
“What shall 1 preach about ?” said a
minister to. tbe pastor of a colored flpek
which be was about to address. “Well,
tuos’ any aubjec will be feeptable,” was the
reply ; “only I’d like to gib. you one word
ob caution.” “ Ab, what is that I* 1 “Well,
ef 1 was you, I’d tech werry light on de Ten
Commaodmeotg.” “indeed, and why ?'* “Ob,
cos I bab notise dat dey mos’ always hab a
damp'oin’ efiect od do congregwtiou.”
Woman’s sphere—That she will never get
Moodiness in Women.
Moodiness in women may almost always
lie traced to an overtuxed condition of tbe
system, too much carp, and too long-contin
ued monotony in daily pursuits. A wife and
mother surrounded by family cares Is acted
upon and reached by the same sights, sounds
and labors, until the freshness and vivacity
of the spirit becomes worn out. W« are so
constituted that nor natures demand, for
their eujoyment of life and for the rigorous
exercise of the powers, change, variety and
relaxation. For lack of these the interest in
life diminishes; the mental horizon narrows;
■life becomes contracted, and seems not worth
the living. Then come the various unhappy
moods, which take possession ol tbe mind.
To learn to control and banish unhealthy
moods is one of the tasks that must be un
dertikeo by every woman who would lead a
happy and useful life. The first step is to
recognize their existence and influence •
Reason roust be called to the aid, to declare
that feelings of despondency, hopelessness,
complaint and discouragement are but tbe
result of a mood, and therefore can be abso
lutely held ia check. If one can only bring
one’s self fo make the frank acknowledge
ment mentally, “I feel mean, cross and ogfy
to-day," and then to restrain speech and
action accordingly, the battle is half won.
But vigorous action must be resorted to it)
order to dispel the mood ; and for this rea
son nothing is so eflective for woman as to
leave borne, if but for ao hour. Gei away
where other Influences will act upon the mind
and body. If despondency and a complain
ing mood are dominant, go to see some
fellow-creature who is in real distress. The
remedy is almost a specific for such a mood.
Above all things, moods need to be dealt
with objectively—not subjectively. Don’t
go to introiqiection ; don’t think about your
self ; don’t set it down to a sinful heart, or
to any religious or irreligious cause. The
cause of moods is a purely physical one, and
must be reached through the physical naturi*
Change of occupations or surroundings, of
air aud exercise, are the remedies for moods.
Tbacui.no Children to Think— An ad
dress to parents, from tbe committee an edu
cation of tbe yearly meeting of Friends, con
tains this hint: As education oeitber be
gins nor ends with <scbool, home influence
has a most Important part io it. Maoh de
pends od the readiness and patience with
which a child’s first questions io tbe fields of
knowledge or of thought are answered. An
encouraging answer will stimulate thought
and investigation; and an unsympathizing
and indifferent answer wiH leave the child to
choose inferior ways of finding pleasure, and
so begin to form tbe bias »f its life. Troe
Christian tenderness and self-denial cannot
be better esersisad often thao in trying to
understand tbe mental difficulties of children
who are not naturally quick of apprehension.
U is in the very early years of life, generally,
that tbe habit is formed of loving to Iklnk,
or of disliking to think ; and no doubt tbe
scale has often turned in favor of disliking,
on Acconnt of some difficulty which tbe child
might have beau helped to master by a aym%
pathizing parent, but failing io its efforts, it
becomes discouraged, grows tired of repeated
endeavors without the pleasure of success,,
lakes up the depressing belief that it cannot
think anything out, and goes on through life
under this disability ; and thus a loss of far
telleotqal nfemmre, and a turning to. teas,
profitable affirc%follaws, as well as » failure
to fill up tbe iglpnded measure of mmfnln<m _
went nowhere without
his sketch-hooka, md, indeed, these seem to
distinguish him from other composers almost
cs much as bis music does. They are, per
hups, tbe most remarkable relics that any
artist or literary maa has left behind him.
: They a fiord tbe most precious insight into.
Beethoven’s method, of composition. They
not or.ly show—what we know from his own ,
admission—that be was in the habit of
working at three, and even four,, thing? at
once, but without them we should never
realize how extremely slow and tentative be
was composing. Audacious and impassioned
beyond every one iu extemporizing, the, mo
ment be takes hia pen in band he becomes
tbe most cautious aod hesitating, of men. U
would almost seem, aa if this great genius
never saw bis work as a, whole until it actu
ally approached completion. It grew like a
plant or tree, and one thing produced an
other. * * * There is hardly a bar in .
his music of which it may not be said with,
confidence, that it has been rewritten a dogeo
times. — Grove's Duteoaaryof MJtic-
Thews ia great trouble with Mouut JStna
this season. The Italians caanot keep the
crater quiet.
AJAX.defifid the lightning, but it is worthy
1 of remark that the Jersey variety was not
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