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THE DAWSON WEEKLY JOURNAL. by j. and. hoyl & CO. {ljiuiOii mUcIUi) Jauruul rDBLISHKI) KVKRY THURSDAY. fEttMS— Strictly in Advance. Three months $ 75 Six months 1 26 0„e year 2 00 „idrtrli*cr* Ttie money for ad vertising considered due after first inser- U< Adverii«e3ients inserted at intervals to be charged as new each insertion. An additional charge of 10 per cent will bs made on advertisements ordered to be in serted on a particular page. Advertisements under the head of 'spe cial Notices" will be inserted for 16 cents per line, for the first insertion, and 10 cents per line'for each subsoqueut insertion. V Advertisements in the “ Local Column," will he inserted at U 6 cents per line for ihe arst, and 20 cent-per line for each subse quent insertion. All communications or letters on business Intended for this office should be addressed „ “Tux Dawson Journal ” LEGAL ADVERTISING RATES. BherifT sales, per levy of 1 square $4 00 Mortgage sales, per levy 8 00 Tax sales, per lew 4 00 Citations for Letters of Administration 400 Application for Leiters of gU'.rdia •hip •• • ® Application for Dismission from Ad mioistra'ion 10 00 Application for Dismissiona lrom Guardianship 600 Application for leave to sell Land— one sq $5, each additional square.... 4 00 j Application for Homestead 8 DO Notice to debtors and creoilors ... 600 Land sales, per sqaaie (inch) 4 00 Sale of Perishable property, per sq 3 00 Estray Notices, sixty days 8 00 Notice te perfect service 8 00 Rule Nisi, per square 4 00 Rules to establish lost papets, per sq 400 Rules compelling titles, per iqnare.. 400 Rulea to perfect service in Divorce cases 10 00 The above arc the minimum rates cf legal advertising now charged bv the Press of Georgia, and which we shall stiictlv adhere to in ilie future. We hereby give final no tice that no advertisement of this class wil be published in the Journal without the fee \ipaid in adnance, only in cases where we have special arrangements to the contrary (Sards. H. F. SIMMONS, T. H. PICKETT. » I M PI O ,K St «fc PICAU TT ATTORNEYS AT LAW DAWSO.I - GIOKG.A J. F. WA LKE R f ~ Attorney at Law, DAWSON, - GEORGIA V\ T ILL paaclice in the Pataula Circuit. — I Tv Office at. the Gourt-haHse. Mch 22 lv j JAMES KEEL ATTORN -Y AT LAW, Leary, Cmllioiiii Cos , Ga. c. lIT \Y (M) t i \ , Attorney at Law, .f/B.f.rr, - OEonaia. \ * ILL practice in the State Courts and in T* the Oironit and District Couits of the United States in bavannah. sept‘27. J. J. JBICCK, Attorney at Law, ftorsau, Calhoun Comity* Ga. Will practice in the Albay Circuit and else *here in the State, by Contract. Prompt at** tention given to all business entrusted to his care. Collections a specialty. Will also in vestigate titles and buv or sell real Estate in Baker aud Parly Counties, march 21-ts L. G CARTLE DGE, ttoi‘nt‘_y at Law MORGAN, - - GEORGIA. I\ T II,L .jive close attention to all bust * * eutrnstcd to his care in Albany Circuit. 4 - I v l. c- hoyl7 Attorney at Law- Dawson, Georgia. H. FIELDER. IDUS L. FIELDER. • < H.&.1. L. FIELDER, attorneys at Ia w rnllibcrt, - - Georgia. W Rive prompt and vigilant attention ' ’ to nil buniuess confided to them in “■e counties of Randolph, Stewart, Quitman, Terrell, Clay, Calhoun and Earlv, the Su preme Court ol Georgia, and the U. S. bis- Jrict and Circuit Courts for the Southern Dutriet of Georgia. Office ovei’city Post Office Oct. 2-ts. D. H. MILLER, at law, ID organ, Ga.'j tST office in Ordinary’s Office. OSO,Rm JAMES H. GUERRY, Attorneys at Law, »*nrso.v, - avonai*t. Office in the Court House. Feb. 4 Cl. j a jm k attorney at law, DAJVSOV, - GEORGIA. GEce over J. \V. Johnston's store. Jan? OHI b TATIi CUNsTITUTIUN, Wliai CliauKfN are Needed ' O' Ws of Col. Warren A kin. CartebsvilLE, March 1877. i lletsn Thomat Tumlin, Eli Barrett, 11. S Philip*, and others : Gentlemen; Your letter request ing my opinion as to the propriety of calling a state convention under the act Os the lust legislature; and, il the people should vote iu favor if a con vention, what changes should, in my judgment, he made iu our existing state constitution, was received some days since, but professional and other engagements liavo delayed an answer. As I aui not and will no*, boa can didate for a 6eat at the convention, and as I never expect to boa candi date for any office, If el that I can, on that account, the moro freely,frank ly and fully answer your letter with out the liability of having imputed to me any other motive than a sincere desire to promote the best interest of my fellow-citizens. I have no hesitation iu saying that I think a couv. ntion ought to he held, aud for two reasons; Fiist, the present constitution was made fur, and not by the people of Georgia. Thousands of the most intelligent gentlemen in the staled were not allowed to partici pate in making it. Becond, 'he nec essity for the many important aliera tions that ought to he made in that in strument, demands the calling of a convention. Some of those altera tions I now proceed to state. The first and leading amendment to the constitution that shot.ld be made is 8 provisions prohibiting the mem bers of tiie legis eture from v ting themsolv o the amouut tney think should be paid them for their services. They are interested aud uot proper judges as to the value of their labor. The people in convention should de termine what compensation their law makers should receive. And the sum should lie too small tu tempt men to seek a seat iu the legislatuio lor ti e purpose of making inonev. Asa gen eiai rule those men who 6eek political office to p„t money in thoir pockets,, are trying to seive themselves and not the people. The people should bo cau tious low they trust such men. Lot the constitution piovide Hint the mem bers of the legislature shall not re ceive more than three dollars a day J and you will not seo to many ir every county pressing every two years their “claims” for seats in the legisla ture, upon the people. And what ie better, it will save a great deal of money to the tax burdened people. First make this provision and other important changes will be much more easily effected. The compensation suggested seems small when compared with that which the members ot the legislature have been voting to themselves for mauy years past. But how many members make three dollars a day at home? Thirty dollars per month w ill pay a member’s hoard at a good private boarding bon* , aud all his other le gitimate expeuses. Tins leaves sixty dollars per month clear of all expen ses. Duiing the last session of the legislature, members (so one informed me) obtained board at five dollars per j week. The most important change in the constitution which 1 would suggest is the abolition of the senate. Did it . evei occur to you, gentlemen, to in quire upon what principle the senate of Georgia is based ? What is inten ded to bo accomplished by it ? \Y hat do the senattus represent ? If theie ts any principle upon which it is founded, any important purpose to be scouted, any great good to be achieved by it, I Hill not able to peiceiv it. The senatorial districts are not ar ranged accolding to tire taxable prop erty i,or population, nor according to the number ol voters in each, nor ed ucation, intelligence or mortality. Our | government is one of tbe people and ! tho people should bo equally repro | sented in the law-making body. It is j both unequal and unjust to givotosix ! thousand people the same power in j the legislature that filly thousand of j their peers aud equals posses*, -he ! delegates to the ‘tate convention are to be chosen, as required by the act calling it according to population. Ai.d ought not all the repreeen'atives ! of the people to be chosen in ihe same 1 way? No oue will deny it. | 'Jo bring the injustice more forcibly to your view, take eight of the senatcnal districts —four having the smallest aud four having the largest popula tion. the 3d, 4th sth and loth districts Lave n population of 40,019, ami DAWSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 24 1877. 6,691 voters. The Ist, 18th, 22d and 35th a population of 193,495 and 32,605 voters. In the first t,,ur dis tricts there is op.o senatci tor each 10,- 000 people. In the four latter dis tricts, a senator for each 48,373 Here one senator represents more peo ple than four senators. The same injustice and inequality exists as to taxation. In the 3d, 4th, sth and 16th districts the value of taxable property is $6,534,733 and the amount of tax paid is $43,219. In the Ist, 18'h,22d and3sthdistricts the value ot 'axablo property is $79,050,183, and the tax paid is $441,- G9O. I give these lav'ti ures to show that no ptinciple ot any kind exists iu the anangement or constitution ot the senate of Georgia. There is no use for it. No good is accomplished by it. Senators are no wiser than represen tatives. They aro elected hv the same people. This useless wa te of time and money flowin'} fioui the senate should be stopped The 42J senatorial district has 8,267 voters and hut one senator. Toe 3d, 4th, sth 15th districts have 5,961 vo te' s aud four senators. In the 15th distric theie is a population of 8,668, and in the 35th a population ot 52,- 733, more thau six times as irany as in the former. The contrast in the number of vo ters is still more striking. Iu the 15tii theie are hut 1,298 voters and in the 35th 11,004. Is it just that one man in one eec- 1 tiou of the state should have the same power in making laws tor the people that six have in another section, A few years ago we had a senator and one oi more representatives from each county. The same voters elected each, When they arrived at the capital, one went into onb room aud one into m - other. And it is said that the object of this was that one b"dy might act as a check upon the other. Now why could they not check each other in tlie same room as well as in separate iWiDll? But if we must havo a senate let the -en&tors he chosen according to population and uot by counties. Let ‘■ne of the merabets in each district hereinafier mentioned be called s9 a tor, and there will he a senate with great saving to the people. But the senate should he entirely abolished, and the saving will he greater. I know that this will meet with ob jection You will be told that it is something new, S' mething unusual.— Is there any force in this objection? Are we never to profit by experience oi oboervation? I heard a, msn some years since object to the turning over of the soil, and the very wise argu ment used was that the Almighty had made the right side up, and knew what Was best. This sage did not preceive. that tiiis reason would pre vent any fencing or plowing, for God ina''e the ground unfenced aud un plowed. But the objection will arise from ttie destruction of so many pla ces that so many patriots uesiie to fid. It will keep 119 anxious souls from those seats is in the legisla'.ute which they so earnestly des're to fi.l for the good of their country and—seven dol lars a day. Abolish the senate, and thou divide the state into fifiy legislative districts, according to population, and give to each district two legislators. Ij*t the district*, he composed of contiguous counties, each district having the same number of people as near as practicable. It one county bus tho leqnisite population make ona county .i (list ict. If it requires two, three cr live, tiave it arranged ac ordingly.— Let thecontroling idea he to have the people equally represented in the leg islaiute. By this p!uu there will ho hut ono hundred legislators. Th°y will generally he elected from a larger tetritory and will be moro efficient, and bitter men than we now have.— Ttie pay will not make the position very desirable, and men will he soioc- ted for their worth and not for their electioneering capacity and their pow er and willingness to distribute mean whisky. Look at the saving of the people from this plan. We now have ‘219 members in the legislature. The p an proposed will cut off 119 of thorn. These, at seven dollars a day, cost tire people for evory day the legislature is in session 5833, and for foTty days the «urn ol $33,320. And then the ex pense of the officers of the senate will be saved, which was last yer sll,- 525 70. It will also dispense with at least two thirds oi tbe clerks of the house. With other changes which I will presently suggost, u much lar ger saving to the people may be effec ted. 1 havo been informed that there were about one thousand bills intro duced into the last legislature, and that trine-tenths (%them were of no geueral interest. Now I propose to cut off all this expensive, time-consum ing and useless local legislation. It has long been a curse to the people. Every one who cat: manage to secute a seat in tbe legislature aud draw his seven dollars a duy seems to think it essential that lie should iutroduce some bill, no matter who writes it, and whether it is wise or foolish. Cut all this off and give the superior court*, by appropriate legislation, the power to pass all local acts that o ich county may need. The courts now have the power to grant charters to certain cor porations. Why not pass all local laws? This will lender hut very few clerks neceß*ary for the legislature.— Instead of a thousand hills to read, there would not be one hundred. In stead of forty or fifty days for a ses sion. it would not require twenty. In this change in the organic law, I dc not propose to alter in any way the counties. Lot them remain just as they are for all judicial and every county purpose. I would provide in the constitu'ion .hut the clerk of leg islature should receive a stated sum per day, and that he should employ all his assist! nte. This would prevent such a superabundance of cleiks ns there has been in mauy legislature* in the past. In this way SIOO a day woul 1 secure a most efficient e'erk, and out of that i-Uin he could employ all necessary assistants to do ull the vork properly and promptly. For the ses ion cf the legislature of 1876, the state paid clerks, secreta ries, doorkeepers, messengers, pages etc., of the senate and house the sum ot $26,043 70. In 1861, tho secreta ries aud cle. ks of the senate aud Iffiuse cost the sta'e for a session of foity (lavs, only $7,500. Under a bill width 1 prepared ami which became a law, the clerk of the house received SIOO per day, and paid all his assi-tants, and that toe, when we had so much local legisla’ion and the senate and house bills to read. The expenses of the legislature of last year amount to $111,193 05. Make the changes sug gested and the legislature would not be in session overtwmty days. One huud ed tnemb rs at three dollars per day would be three hundred dollars. This for twenty day* would make $6,- 000 for the members- The clerks’ hire for twenty days would amount to $2,000 at one hundred dollars per day One doorkeepsr and one messenger each, three dollars per day for twonty days, would make their compensation $l2O. All these sums make the ag gregate of $8,120. Ihis would save to our impoverished people $103,073 each year. In ten years here would ba saved $1,030,730. This saving would soon pay off the state debt,— ; The people, with nearly one half of their pioperty swept away, are now taxed m arly fivo times ns mu. h as they were twnu'.y years ago. Ought not something to he dono to relieve them from their oppressive burdens? Think of ihe amount ot tax each of you paid before 1860, and then com pare it with what you pay now, and wuat you then had to pay on and what you now have. I repeat the question —“Ought uot s'mething to he done to relieve tho people?” I think there should Le a provision in tli* constitution prohibiting the it siieingof bonds by the state for nny puipospj'or taking stock in, or indors ing the bonds of; or loaning the credit ot the state to any corporation of any kind, cr becoming liable for its debts or contracts in any way. Credit is de ueitlul, misleading andolten luunious. When the s ate needs money levy a tar to get it, leel and undeistaud what thrir law-givers are doing. Then the legislate! s wi I at once feel the effects ofthtirowu acts.BDl economy will take the plnca of reckloness extravagance llow many railroads lias Gojigia ta ken st< ek in and indorsed the bonds of without injury to the people? Look at tbe Alabama and Chattanooga, the Memphis branch, tu , Norih and South, the Maco- and Brunswick, the Albany and Brunswick, and Gait raihoads, and then answer. In like manner the constitution should prohibit courtier, cities, or towns from borrowing money and is suing bonds for that purpose. Money is often borrowed and spent in high salaries, wild extravagance, improve ments to benefit individual*, sp'cula tions and peculation, and theu the property holders are ruinously taxed to pay the interest on the money bor rowed. Every onovtho never expects |to pay any tax, always favors the hnnds, and tbe borrowing aud spond- ing of motley. Georgia is now bor rowing money to pay the interest on what sbeowes. flow long would it ie quire tor uin a private individuality such, a course. A policy unwise for one rtran # is unwise for all tho people. The principle is precisely the same. Stop borrowing money aud increasing in deptedre 88. I suggest tha* the legislature meet but once in two years. Tho people W( uld not then be cursed with exces ive law making. Provide in the con stitution that tho code shall not Ire changed or “amen led” except by a vote of two-thirds or three-fourtli3 of the legislature, and then vigilant nnd industrious lawyers may he able to keep themselves informed ns to the contents of the code. I suggest ti nt the toim of office of the judges of the superior court* bo shortened to four years and their sal aries decreased. 1 believe that terms of <ffiteshouldbeofshor duration! All power emiuates from the people, ad those who are elected or appointed to serve them, should not be removed too far lrom, or he made to leel too inde pendent of them. Berrien, Law, Lamar, Cobb, Claw ford and our present chief justice and others, president ever the superior courts of Georgia for about SI,BOO a year, and 1 do uot see why others of tbe present day, who are, to say t ie least, not their superiors, should re ceive more. This item nlono would save to the people over SIO,O *0 each year, making iu ter. years übiutslso,- 000. The patronage o' the governor is immense. He appoints tvery four years about fifteen hundred men to office. Ttnegivos him greet influence over th? people. Tho difficulty ia in making the proper change. But there are certain offices that sliouid lie abol ished, and the power now vested in the governor of making appointments to many of tho most important offices should be taken from him. 1 suggest that the appointment of the judges of the superior c urts and tha solicitors general bo vested in the judges of the supreme court. They are hotter ac quainted with the qualifications and capabilities of the judges of tho supie rior courts, and the lawyers, than the governor can possibly be. Let thorn nominate to the legislature the names of tWu men in each circuit for judge, and two for suliuitor, and from those let the legislaturoselect the judge and the solicitor. This will take away a la-ge portion cf the appointing powtr from th governor, the most impotaut officers except the judges of the su preme court aro enabled to dote mine the qualifications of judges and lawyers, bettor than sny one else possibly can. And then i*. will operate to prevent appointees to offieo from feeling undi r obligations to the appointing power.— The favor will be divided emong three and two names will he presented, and ti e power of selection will devolve up on the legislature, Tho whole matter will bo so divided that no ono can claim any merit fori*. 1 would change the term of offi e lor govenilior to two-year*, und r*-nClor him ineligible for re-election, lie cannot llien have the power to use hi* office for fu ure promotion.- The t-ui| • tation to corruption will he limited And there are so many good and worthy men who car he induced to seive tlie people two years m tire ex ecutive office, that we never run out of material to s led front. This will render ttie office so unimpciant that we will cease to see very great effort made to obtian it for months and years in advance. This will j ptovo a blessing to the people. All such snuggles for high posit on arede moralizing. They tend to lower the i office, and, tu a certain extent, deprive the pe pie of a free, trnbaised judge ment iu tnakieg a choice. j All the ptople should bo placed up on hti equal footling in the use of the means provided for collecting what is owing to them. Ido not soe why one mint should have greater facility for eolleeting bis wages fui h=. labor, or the pries of propel ty sold, than anoth er. Why should a man who furnish es lumber to bui'd the house that bhel teis the family bo entitled to any greater ] privilege in collecting its valus tnau the fanner who sells c;m nnd meat to leel t'to wile and children? (Jan a good reason be found for such a dis tinction? 1 believe that all the lien laws should be abolished, or exten.lo I to every class unJ every individual alike. Let there hr tt provision incot pnrated into the constitution forbiding anj law in iavor of or against uny particular clasaor classes, or individual qr individuals .Let the blessings ot tho govorumont fall like the dews of heaven, equally upon al'. Let the white and the black, the rich and the poor, the learned and the ignorant, be alike the recepio' t* ul the blessings of tha statei It.corporate a provision into the con stitution that no appropriation of mon ey shall be made, except by a twi -third vote, and tho y as and nays be enter ed on the journal. Ir. like manner let tiny two memleis have the puwei to have the yeas aud .nays on tho pas sage of any law or resolution, entered ou the journal. These provisions will save much money to the tax payers, and prevent the passage of many un wise and improper laws. Theroaroother,but minor change*, 1 could suggest, blit this loiter is ali en 'y too long. Such as it is, it is at your set vice. For the kind and complimentary manner in which you have expressed yourselves, nnd for the confidence mainifestid in me, he pleased, gentle men, to accept luy sincere acknowl edgements. With very great regard, 1 nm your obediant servant, Wadbf.n Aken. “Wiry do we celebrate the 22d of February?” asKed a school truston of a pupil bo was catechising “Because it is Wa king on’s birth day,” wa* tbe ro»| ortso, “Why,” asked the trustee, “should we celebrate his birthday mors titan mine ? There was no answer. Tho trustee looked from one to the other with a sort of half-sut piise, half-repioauh, till finally a little, dirty-faced,tangle-hair ed urchin at the very foot held up hia hand to attract attention. “I know sir,” sail the boy. “Ah !” mid the trus'oe, with an air of re iof and satisfaction ; “why is it, my little man ?” “(Anise lie never told alto 1" An exchnnge says a silt-y pound slioat gained access to u cellar, and helped himself to a j ir of peach-bran dy that had boon set aside for more delicu'e use. The proprb tor, hap pening to discover the intruder, found I iiu stretched out, dead diu .k, una ble to move or oven wink. Tlie lug finally reroverod from the effn ts, and has not been neir tho place since. An urchin of six or seven yonr* wont into a barbershop and ordered tho harbor to cut his hair a* close as the shears Could do it. He was asked if hi* mother ordered it that way. “No," said he, “hut school comnioricris next week, and wa’ve go* a schooUmt’in that pulls hair, and I’m bound to fix lior this time you but.” I*, was Ibrniel who said, “Many shall run to and tro, and knowledgo slit!! be increased.” He c early refei red to reporters in this remark, and tiiis suggests the idea that D miel wa* in that line hi nself; it is certain at nli events that be was allowed to prss iu j free to see tho lions. A Peoria man staid out in tbe yard tr uti I two o’clock the other night, t'y ing to freeze In* dog to den;li Five ductou’ buggies weie standing in front of hi* house the next morning, aud tho dog is sucking egg* by duy j and howling by night, as usual. At Chicago re.ontly, a l.idy of | church was seen to how her head ns if in pious thought .Slit) suddenly rnised it nnd h and back against tlie seat, when an explosion occurred that I shook the budding. Nhe had pre-sed too heaviy on an air-cushion bustle. In some epizooir.ed ciiits the tn lk men used oxen instead of horses f r distribution of their supplies. 1 would be as easy to bring the cous themselves to their customer’s doors; but the pump—ay, there’s the tuh! ’‘ " I A \Yestein editor was recently re quested to send his paper to a dts ant patrol*, provided he would t-.k<* his pay iu “trade.” At the end of the year lie found that his subscriber was a ceffin-maker. A politician who was a grout stickler for t quality >n al; things, perceiving two crows iiyingside ' y si te,exclaimed, “Ay, that is just as it should 1c; i hate ro see one crow over another.” An excellent old deacon, who liuv irguon a fine lutkjy at a charity raf fle, and didn’t like to tell his severe or thodox wif* flow he came by it, quintly remarked, us be In.tided Iter the lor key, that the “shakers gave it w trim.” A Dandy on shore is bad enough, but a hv.cll ©i» the tea is ti.Leui’ng VOL. XIL—-NO. 16. CircHlnr Akirt. A “drawn” bet —Queen Elizabeths portrait- Very unsatisfactory set of bioad.— tire roll of fame. \Vhy is tbe letter “s’ lik° a iamb? Because it is tbe hcgltiing lif “sheep.” The book-keeper who fell front ft column of figures is still iu a critical state. j “Ain you fond of ttfffgsi#, sty? •vas always fond of tongue, and I like i"8 ill.” When is a candle like a tombstone? When a woman puts it ttpjfor her late husband, A worn-out parent has named IBs first baby Macbeth, bbfiaUdC i.e bus “muidered sleep.” A Chicago man wards to commit suicide by telegraph, but dosn t know how to accomplish it. “Whet: taken to bb well shaken,” as ibo man said when he advertised his runaway apprentice. Who was the slroightMtcrifW in tlie Bible? Joseph; for r.raiauh wanted to make a ruler of him. A Wisconsin gentleman sat dewu on a 1 oehive tbe other day lie re grets the tbiuiioss of his Dowsers. A San Francisco papersnys; —“The small-pox soeru* to be dying j>ut iu the city, and so do the patients.” Some or.o say* if ‘he night air is as un eftlthy as the doctnrssfty it is, bow do they account for the longevity of owls? A Bat belof, according to tbe latefs definition, i* a uinti who hns lost tho opportunity of making a woman mis erable. V\ hy is nn old man’s farm iti T9xaa liko tire focus of a sun-glass? Because it is the place where ths sotls rati&f meat. “dome, gat up: yottv'e be°n in bc-d lo*.g enough,” us the gardener said when he was pulling up radishes to carry to market. Cor'nn was once ngkel by a judjfd on the bench, “Do you see anything ridiculous in this wig? “Nothing but the bead,” was the reply. A Virginia paper describes a fence which is made of such crooked rai'a that ovory time a nig crawls through he comes out ou the same side, A Western young men’s society has n*certaiuod that what they paid Anna Dickinson for one lecture would buy three thousand glasses ot beer. ‘•.Liberal discount to flio trade,” as tho bruiser said when he chewed off only one ear from a hr other profession al wi h whom ho was fighting. A vi-itor at Crpe May recently missed IL pillow in the moinit.g, and after searc’ ing awhile found it Ini' 1 up over hi* ear, liko a bit ot load-pencil. A woman in Oshkosh ground near ly half of u shirt through a cloths wringer before discovering that he*r baby was in tie shirt, it was an aw ful strain on tbe wringer. A green convict w-ote from Sing Sing to his brother“Tuey ta'ked of setting met' pick oakum here; but I got mad, and told ’em if they did, I’d tear their oakutn nil to pieces!” Someb >dy in a Buff ib paper adver tise*, * Wanted A young man to take erne of a span of horses of a re ligious turn of mind.” They are doub -' loss a very steady patrol horses. Houieboly asserts tliatri “blue-glass chimney ou a parlor lamp will bring ii young man up to the point of propos ing to a eross-eyed maiden with store teeth in throe Sunday armings.” “lias that jury agreed? asked tbe judge of a sheriff, whom he met on the st its with a bucket in his hand* “Yes,” replied Patrick, “they have agreod to send out for half a gallon.” An cc entric but bonevo’ent Dan bury man hem ing that several theu s tltd working girls lost all by that Boston fire, generously shipped them sixteen Volumes of Patent Uffico re ! ports. A oompaa i .nato B istOn lady soe-' ing a :egelatdo . vender heating his hois* cruelly, cried ou 1 , “Have you no 1 m rcy?” to «li ich tie astonished man : replied, “No, mem I’ve nothing iof3 j hut greens and cucumbers/’ A curtain little damsel having been aggravated beyond endurance by bets brother,plumped down upon iier knees and tiind, “O Lord! bUss my brother T in. Holies,- ho steals, ho swears nil boys do; ua gif's don’t. Amen.” An erring Indiana* hen was recent* ly Lund in the back part ot a hard* war* store where the misguided fowl l ad snuggled for thiee weeks tryiifg 1 to hatch out half a dozsn white porce ! aiii door-knobs, h’he was very much ■ educed. A house that lias just been built irt New-Ymk, with all the modern im provements, lias a billiard-table in the basement, a bowling-alley in the e liar, and a croquet-ground beautiful-/ . Ij S.tod up iu tho attic. .She said it was a veiy bright idea, lie said bo knew a brighter one, an<f when she asked hint what it Was hot answered, “Your eye, dear!” Trere was silence for a moment} then slier laid tier head upon the rim erf hie ear and (vept. A diunken Irishman Was found by bis friends, tbe other night lying itr tbe snow, with his heels npion tho fence, warming I is toes by moonlight/ Ho was muttering, “What a cow Id fi o you hive g‘>f. Biddy, dsrlin’j have ou some cany sane,ol ftiy f»IV will fra/4 ”