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HO. t j c a r. >t no i-lvertiaement of 'his clneg wi! bennh'ishpft in tho Journal without the fpp if paid i" ndwnnee orl* in esses where •> p arraneemepts to the 'O' t'fir' i. n. GTJFKHY, JAS. G PARKS GUEPRY & PARKS, jlttoriieys and Colipjelor? at Late, DAWSON, - GEORGIA *—:o: PBAftTICK th>' St tp am? Federal Courts, fol' ctinns made a specials Promptness and dispatch guarantied an imnred. Nov lf S. V. SIMM )NS, jitl'l at Lain & deal ijtate fe’t, Dawson, Terrell County, Ga- SPE lATj *• tiori o *olle c; COnVPV;'Pf*'f <1 iDVPPlidtJtl' , * " g Real Estate Oc - *B, tf T. IT. PICKETT, Atfy k (* unselor at Law, | OFFICE w?tb Ordinary in Court All busings* en* listed tc biscare fi 1 receive prompt and efficient attention. Jal> J. T. BFOK, Attorney at Law, IWemi. dniiionn nnuly. <s. IFillpractice in the Alba; Circui' hi and else *uerein the State, by Contract. Prompt at tention siven to all business entrusted to his rare. Collections a specialtv. Will also in- T'etbatetiMes md buv or sell real Estate in a’.hauu, R.iker and Sarlv Counties, march 21—tf L.G CARTLfDGE, Attorney at I -aw *IORGAY, - - GEORGIA \\TILL ®t<- close attention to all biisi neas i*’noted to his cate in Aibauv Circuit. 4-1 v I-. P- ITOYLi Atttivnoy nt l_a-Wt IFawon, Georgia. ,T . JANES. C. A. MCDONALD Janes & McDonald, Attorneys at Law, DAWSOV, - GEORGIA. Cffice at the C. urt House. Van.” a.BASY IIOITSE, tor. Pine & Jackson Sts- ALBANY, GA eoar.-l per ,j, T Table well supplied 1 ; ?ood, clean sleepinp apartments. Ll to and from the house. \T. BARN T ES. Proprietor. ♦- >. B. IIARNES, HTCH JJ|g MAKER AND * J KW ELER DAWSON, GA. \\ ORK don in pood style and at most l e,Bona ble prices. Office in Melton & ’ Stor *. Vain Street. s5-tf NOTICE! I I* l ' 9 day associated with me in ■-der r " 8 business my son, \Ym A Janes, (AXES \ g r^- name an d style of DR- J- R. jankfui for past patronage, I respectfully | '• a continuance. s,u 2 Pttne J. R JANES. THE DAWSON JOURNAL BY J. D. HOYL & CO VECiETINE REV. J. P. LUDLOW, WRITES; 1.8 Baltic Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., H. R. Stkyenr, Esq. Nuv ’ 14 > 1874 - Z)f fir —From personal benefit rflcivpri hv th e 4M i,on “ t-ate Pastor Calvary Baptist Church, Bucrmnento, CaL VEGETINE. SHE RESTS WELL. Mb. H. R. STEvrsa® * >OL4KD - Ms • ■ >•- bear Sir.— -I h.tvn been sick two years with the nnd d ' ,ri ?l t <ht lime have taken a great muuy different medicines, but muw ot th*ni hIXSl Ur <lß! od - t IWMl WM and had no iKS riliL'h ? 1 i ak lS e th * Vkoktine I rest well, SSrJhll , 2 od - , C * n Wovnttiwnd the Vf.cjftisb tor whrt it haß done for me. V respecttully, v Witneas of the above, MRS *““***& mb. ukokoe m. vauLhan, Med lord, Mass. VEOETiNE. GOOD FOR THE CHILDREN. Boston Home, 14 Tileu Stkeet, H.R. Stevens. Boston, April, 1876. Drar >Sir,—Vi e feel that the children in our home nave been greatly bene ti ted by the Vkgetine you have so kindly given us from time to time, especially those troubled with t he Scrofula. With respect, Mrs, N WORMELL, Matron. VEOETINE. REV. O.T. WALKER, SAYS: „ „ Providence, R. 1., 164 Transit Street. H. R. Stevens, Esq. I feel bound to express with my signature the high value I place upon your Vkgetine. My family have used it for the last two years. In nervous debility it is invaluable, and I recommend it to all who may need an invigorating, renovating tonic. _ , _ „ o.t. walker, formerly Pastor of Bowdoin-square Church, Boston VEGETINE. NOTHING EQUAL TO IT. „ __ South Salem, Mass,, Nov. 14,1876. Mb. H. R. Stevens. Dear Sir.~X have been troubled with Scrofula, Canker, and Liver Complaint for three y ears. Nothing ever did me any good until I commenced using the Vkgetine. lam now getting along first-rate, and still using the Vegetine. I consider there is nothing equal to it for such complaints. Can heartily recoin' mend it to everybody. Yours truly, Mrs. LIZZIE M. PACKARD, No. 16 Lagrange Street, South Salem, Mass. VEGETINE. RECOMMEND IT HEARTILY. South Boston. Mr. Stevens. Dear Sir,— l have taken several bottles of your Vegetine,and am convinced it is a valuable remedy for Dyspepsia, Kidney Complaint, and General De bility oi the system. I can heartily recommend it to '*ll sufferers from the above complaints. Yours respectfully, Mae. M UNROB PARKER, VEGETINE Prepared by H. R. STEVENS, Boston, Mass. Vegetine is Sold by all Druggists. trU-Nf.t fnF7. r. - •- <t ~ $2.80. Over 100 latest Novelties ” msS, SL aft Aw'** wauu-A. ;,!yCo NashviUe.Temi Sf K* 45 Years Before the Public, THE GENUINE DE. C. McLANE'S CELEBRATED LIVES TILLS, FOR THE CURE OF Hepatitis, or Liver Complaint, DYSPEPSIA AND SICK HEADACHE. Symptoms of a Diseased Liver. pAIX in the right side, under the 1 edge of the ribs, increases on pres sure; sometimes the pain is in the left side; the patient is rarely able to lie on the left side; sometimes the pain is felt under the shoulder blade, and it frequently extends to the top of the shoulder, and is sometimes mistaken for rheumatism in the arm. The stomach is affected with loss of appe tite and sickness; the bowels in gen eral are costive, sometimes alternative with lax; die head is troubled with pain, accompanied with a dull, heavy sensation in the back part. 1 here is generally a considerable loss of mem ory, accompanied with a painful sen sation of having left undone some thing which ought to have been done. A slight, dry cough, is sometimes an attendant. The patient complains of weariness and debility;’ he is easily startled, his feet are cold or burning, and he complains of a prickly sensa tion of the skin; his spirits are low; and although he is satisfied that exer cise would be beneficial to him, yet he can scarcely summon up fortitude enough to try it. in fact, he distrusts every remedy. Several of the above symptoms attend the disease, but cases have occurred where few of them ex isted, yet examination of the body, after death, has shown the liver to have been extensively deranged. AGUE AND FEVER. Dr. C. McLane’s Liver Pills, in cases OF Ague and Fever, when taken with Quinine, are productive of the most happy results. No better cathartic can be used, preparatory to, or after taking Quinine. We would advise all who are afflicted with this disease to give tl>em a fair irial. For all bilious derangements, and as a simple purgative, the) are unequaled. beware of imitations. The genuine are never sugar coated. Every l>ox has a red wax seal on the lid, with the impression Dk. McLane s Liver Pills. The genuine McLane’s Liver Pulls bear the signatures of C. McLane and Fleming Bros, on the wrappers. Insist upon having the genuine L)R. C. McLane’s Liver Pills, prepared by Flem ing Bros., of Pittsburgh, Pa., the market being full of imitations of the name McLane, spelled differently but same pronunciation. DAWSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1878 Aunt Hannah Discards the New Hymn Book. Unde Tony never once thought that the new hymn books he was distribut ing to his congregationpvould ever im pair his usefulness as their pastor. — About the closing of the morning serv ice, he says: Bredren and sistern, dese ar de new hime books, and I wants yer all ter larn ter sing wid de spirit and wid de understands and when yer gits ter raslin wid some of dese new fashun tunes, and is ’bout ter be obereum, jes follow sister Banner, she'll tote him through level. Her smoove vois is al ways fieerd away down de home strech wnen de other nags ar jes roundin de bend wid tlier rackit. When I calls fer de mourners, dese beer himes ’ill fotch uni it yu ingineers dem correct on de skedule. I takes de noon freshments at sister Hanner’s and is to convarse wid Miss Lizbeth on de lookout of her reelins and I dissmiss dis meetin to de evenin sarvice when de candle am lit.” Aunt Hannah pushed ahead towards home, to take up the chicken pie, and to set her house in order for the “noon I freshments.” | On her way, with hymn book in hand, , she came across some bad white boys playing marbles in the road. One of them said: “Why, Aunt Hannah! What are you carrying that book for ? You can’t read?” Aunt Hannah replies: “Dis is de new hime book;—jes read dis ritin on the fust leaf, Mars Jo, pleas sail.”— Joseph reads—“ Dis book am presented to my lovin sister Banner by parson Tony Skot de minister.” “Dat souns purty, but you orter jes bear some ob de himes in dat book.— Dar’s /When lean read my titles clear,’ , and ‘Cross ober Jordan’ and away down to ‘Hark from ye toom.’ Deres lots ob ■ new fashun himes in tliar, cause our i culler is gettin edicated, but they sticks Ito de good ole doe’r’n, jes anew way wearin of de garment: like as Igo and buy a bolt of callicer and make iny dress de ole fashun way, deii my darter Lizzabeth cuts off her share and makes her’n wid de shoe fly and de dolly var din and de snatch back, ain’t it all de I same callicer? Mars. Jo, jes read, for I iny edifyin, a few of those himes, pleas sah.” Jo winks at the other boys and reads— “l saw Esau kissing Kate, And she saw I saw Esau, And Esau saw she saw it And I saw she saw Esau.” “That’s a very queer hymn, Aunt I Hannah,” said do. “Dere’s a mighty heap of saws mixed 'up in dat tune and I is afeered de he- I saws and de shesaws will sesaw dat tune !to pieces. But it’s got de rite doctrin l in thar: it ludes to Esau on de mount a I viewin de promis lan wid de eyes of | faith. Our preacher is a mighty pius high larnt brudder; he looks through jde specticles ob faith clean ober de trubbles and trials ob dis life to de utlier shore.” “Try a nuther one, Mars Jo.” Joseph reads— “o is an aught, 5 is a figure, Multiply the white man Subtract the nigger.” “How do you like that one, aunty? “I uster think dat wasn’t a ’ligious Lime, when I heerd it sung at de zam mination ob de free school. I’d ruther brudder Tony had a left dat one out.— Got no use for multiplyin and sub stractin in de pulpit. Let’s try a few more ob ’em, dere’s boun to be some real good ones in thar.” Joseph turns over a few leaves and reads— “The Beggers did the niggers fool Forty acres and a mule Enough to make -” “Stop Mars Jo, right tliar; I don’t want to hub politics mixed up in my Tigion dat way. Why folks will think we aint no better’n yankees. I don’t see what Tony let dat git in de hime hook for, lie hadn’t orter done it. Move oher toards de middle oh de hook, I spec it gits better.” Jo obeys and reads.— “Nigger in the woods Sitting on a log, Finger on the trigger And eye on a hog.” “It ’pears to me dat’s gitting wus and wus. What bizincss old Tony got saying dat ? He’s nothin hut a nigger hiuiself. What he means ’busing his own culler dat way?” You recon lie ’ludes to my son Sjpn shootin at de peckerwood and killin de hog?” Jo thought it possible that the par son alluded to Sam’s case. “Sam’s case! Sam’s case ? like ther wasn’t any Tony case; yes a half dozen ob ’em. Dat ole Tony nigger is de biggest rogue in dese parts. Didn’t he bring back de yaller pullit I sold to dc store yisterdy, afore day dis mornin, and got me to cook her for his breck fus, and now makin small ob my folks afore dinner? Dere’s many a bog whose light is gone out, cause old louzy Tony was ’lowed to run in de same woods.— Sam’s case! I’se a gettin tired of such himes, and Mars Joe, if you will jes read “Hark from ye toom” to repose my feelins I’ll go and ’spostulate wad did old sinner man Tony.” Joe read— “ Hark from ye toom ye doleful sound, ()ld Beeves is trailing round and round, Lookout niggers! Shore as yer born Ole Banner is in de new groun corn.” “The lore preserve us! Sakes alive! Hanner in the new ground corn, is she? Mars Joseph I’ll tell you for a fac, Hanner aint bin in dat new groun corn but once dis year, and dat’s when old Tony come to my house and called his self eourtin me, and old missus gib me permission to go dar and git some roas in years for him. He tells lies right dar in dat hime.” Joseph now called Hannah’s atten tion to the reported engagement be tween Unele Tony and Miss Elizabeth —-Hannah’s youngest daughter. “Dat news onfits me to sarve de lord wid all my heart jes at dis time present.” About this time Miss Elizabeth and the parson with the major portion of his flock arrives. Aunt Hannah proceeds “My darter Lizzybety! jus a young gal ’bout twenty; gwine to marry dat old cripple up nigger? I spec I’ll hub somethin to say bout dat. I’se a gwine to take dat ole sinner nigger through wust ’sperience meetin eber he wus in. Well, I declar; he’s got to be a regler old Beeeher. He’s got fo—five wives in dis settlement now, excusln them he left back in Georgy. Tony—ole slack breeches Tony, I’se a talkin to you. You’s been a preachin about John de Raptis and John de Bunyun and Blow Gabril and de Nigger Demus dat was born agin, and a prayin for de lord to take sister Hanner home to de glory, and a shouting yer ole Tennessee jack bass, and its gittin iny time to preach, and I takes my tex “Hark from ye toom, Tony,” and I tell you afore dis tex is ended thar’ll be weepin and smasliin ob teeth and rattlin of de bones and groaning and scratchin when dat ole buggy trace starts to poppin and the skillits a turnin wrong sidoutards across yer head and de earthquakes and fallin stars ar a dausin afore yer vishun and de wash tubs of consecrated ly are a splashin ober yer soul and dearth is a buckin under you like a young mule and yer day of grace is gittin dark— Tony den you’ll wish you saw what Esau saw, den you’ll know dat ort is ort widout de Agger ob speech and dat when you substract de nigger from de forty acres and de mule he's got no time left to see who’s settin on de log nor who's to thin out the new groun corn, den you 11 want to ’scard yer new doctrin hime book and be born again before Blow Gabril gits de dirtdobber nest out ob de horn. Tony, you hear me? you ole scatterin talkin nigger: thar’s a shoarnuff’ hell, and I se gwine to see dat my darrer Lizzybeth don’t trable dat downard direction wid you. Here’s yer hime book, it aint to come inside ob iny house. I 'scards it.’ Columbus Independent. Two Germans met in San Francisco recently. After affectionate greeting the following dialogue ensued: “Fen you said you haf arrived?” “Yesterday.” “You came dat horn round ?” “No.” “Oh! I see! You came dot Isthmus across.” “No.” “Oh! Den you came dot land over ?” “No.” “Den you lief not arrived.” “Oh, yes! I lief arrived. I come dot Mexican through.” Not woman’s spere—base ball. A great moral show—The hypocrite. A bed of down—lowering a matress. ’Tis meat for the butcher to stand and deal liver. A green age—foliage. Woman tempted man to eat hut he took to drink himself. Never abuse a thermometer when it is down. “This parting gives me pain,” sighed the man who was combing his hair for the first time since a two weeks spree. Seven-year-old: “Grandma, Mother Shipton says the world will come to an end in 1881. Is that true?” Grandma: “No, dear, for in the Bible we are told, Of that day and hour knoweth no man.” etc. Seven-year-old: “Ah, hut Moth er Shipton was a woman.” THE LATEST SNAKE STORY, A Veteran Snake Charmer on Lake George—The Burning of His Cabin with its Y'eno mous Pets. Tn the town of Hague, on the banks of Lake George, opposite Hulett's Land ing, has lived for a a long time a man and his wife by the mnne of Mr. and Mrs. Rauben Davis. This couple hav e Occupied a log cabin which has been situated near the water's edge. The place has been known as the “Rattle snake Mans House,” and many visitors have excurstons to the spot to sec this singular looking couple. They have made a living from rattlesnakes, capt uring many of the reptiles and obtain ing the oil, which always commands a high price. At this cabin might always have been seen large numbers of these rep tiles. The old man, who is now about sixty-five years of age, catches them with a long pair of wooden tongs, which he quickly and dexterously grasps them with just below the bead. He then either killed them outright or else removed their fangs, and thus ren dered them harmless. He possesses power to charm them also, it is said.—- In fact, he once informed the writer, who visited his cabin, that “thar warn t a varmint that crawled but wot I ken make ’em lay down as quiet as a lamb.’’ The old man bad about bis premises a large number of snakes, which lie ex hibited to visitors, expecting and re ceiving many a nickel or dime in return. He never visited a village without car rying several of his odious specimens with him, which he will draw from his pockets and place about his neck, or fondle and handle them as if they were kittins. By these exhibitions he picks up a good many coppers. Many wonderful stories are told about “old Rube’’ and his wife, the lat ter being as much of a curiosity as her husband. We have been told that the very shanty swarmed with rattlesnakes, the occupants not having any fears whatever of them. The land on which the shanty stood was lately purchased by Bishop Sey mour, of Illinois. The owner has tried repeatedly to get the Davis family to move off, but the old couple have re fused until lately, when the Bishop threatened to eject them by legal pro cess. He finally offered Davis ten dol lars to leave peacabiy, and the old man, his wife and aboatloadof snakes left one day last week for Harbor Island, about a mile south of where the cottage was situated. On Friday the torch was applied to the premises. When the fire began to spread a terrible sight met the eyes of those present. It was a sight that caused the beholders to flee up trees for safety. Hissing rattlesnakes and squealing rats poured out of the build ing from all directions. As the hot flames sprang toward the roof the crack ling of the dry boards was mingled with the rattle of scores of maddened serpents and unearthly yells of rodents. The very roof seemod to be alive with I venomous reptiles, and the bright green and white of their outside covering shone with a glare as the flames lit Up on them. < )ne of the men, who was a close eye witness of the scene, says that he wa s horror-stricken at the disgusting specta cle. One large snake, he says, about seven feet long, opened its mouth and out came at least two-score of little reptiles, whose little tails shook in the air as if they, too, were frenzied at the destruction the flames made of their home. Several snakes charged madly upon the flames only to fall back burned to deathwhile the rats that could get away shouldered their tails and took to the woods. In one place a projecting log was made the object of attack by three large reptiles. As the trio charged madly upon it a great sheet of fire, whose forked tongues were even more poisonous than those of the snakes, rolled around and seized the reptiles, causing them to cease rattling, as each | one dropped over dead. '• Our informant, who has read Dante’s Inferno, describes the scene as equal ling anything in its terrible mingling of weird and horrid forms that Dante ever wrote. As the snakes fell dead, burned to a crisp, it reminded our informant of of St. Patrick, who drove the reptiles from the Green Isle. But the flames flew high, and soon the whole structure tumbled in. About the ground lay many dead serpents and roasted rats, while some were writhing aud seemed VOL. 14—NO. 32 to be in fearful agony. Terrible mus have been the destruction of the be< bugs also as the cabin was not a pinl of neatness by any manner of means. Soon the flames died away, and wha once was the home of old llube Davis his wife and the snakes was a mass o: smouldering ruins. Visitors will miss this place, as no one visited the neigh borhood without calling on the Davis family. The singular green eyes of the woman looked as if she too was part reptile, while tho old man and his rough weather-beaten hands and face, the latter, which resembled the scales of a fish, was a sight to behold. On his bands were scratches which he said were given him by rattlesnakes. As one looked upon him they could not help feeling that every time a snake ran its fangs into old Rube’s hand the earth must have been relieved of at least one live snake. m • -<■***•— Local Legislation-—lmportant to all. The Constitution provides, as fol lows, for the introduction of all local or special bills in the General Assem bly. It is very important that all concerned be made aware of the Con stitutional provisions, and the law in these cases. Sec. 554, Part XV. — All special or local bills shall originate in the House of Representatives. The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall, within five days from organization of the General Assembly, appoint a committee, consisting of one from each Congressional District, whoso duty it shall he to consider, and con solidate all special and local hills, on the same subject, and report the same to the House; and no speayial or lo cal bill shall be read or considered by the House until the same lias been reported by said commttee, unless by a two-thirds vote. And no bill shill he considered or reported to the House by said committee, unless the same shall have been laid before it within fifteen days after the organization of the General Assembly, except by a two-thirds vote. Sec 5.55, Part XVI.—Xo local or special hill shrill be passed, unless notice of tho intention to apply there for shall have been published in the locality where the matter, or thing to be effected, may be situated, which notice shall be given at least t hirty days prior to the introduction of such bill into the General Assembly, and in the manner to be prescribed by law. The evidence of such notice having been published, shall be ex bibited in the General Assembly be fore such Act shall be passed. A ltaby and a Snake. Mrs. McNeil, wife of our efiioient Marshal, had her attention called one morning this week to the baby, a little boy eighteen months old, who seemed to bo enjoying himself hugely in the yard. His screams and laughter made her curious to see what was the matter. Upon going out she was horror-strick en and astonished to find him playing w;ith a snake about two feet long. He had the snake in his hands, and while it endeavored to get away the baby persistently held on to his tail. The mother’s distress may he imagined dur ing the time. The snake, a white oak runner and poisonous, was finally killed and the child was found to he uninjur ed, but Tobe and his wife have been pretty badly frightened ever since.— Quitman Free Press. A Compi.ioatki) Fa war Discoan —- Anderson Brooks, a small truck far mer living Orange Court II mse, \ a., caught his wife stealing some of his clothing and selling it last Monday, lie immediately arrested and took her to jail, and preferred charges against her She was carried before ’Square Houtware and ordered to receive ten lashes and have six days’confinement in jail. When the the sheriff began to whip the woman, and had laid on only one lash, the husband rttshed upon the officer, and felling him with a stick, took the whip from him, saying as he did so: “No man shall whip my wife but me.” lie is now in jail for agsulting an officer. Bishop Clarke once went to sec one of his parishoners, a lady with a prodi gious family, which had been recently increased. As he rose to leave, the lady stopped him with: “But you havn’t seen my last baby.” “No,” he quickly replied, “and 1 never expect to!” Then he fled. — “No dictionary has been made for man that can describe the anguish of the soul without hope.” Or of the boy with gray trowers aud a black broad cloth patch. A Washington lady who scut one of her husband's coats to the yellow fever sufferers, pinned a note to the collar requesting if it didn’t fit it should be sent back. A Dutchman being called upon for a toast, said : “Here is to the heroes who I fit, bled and died mit the battle of Bunker llill—of whom 1 am one. 4 ’ Drink standing. . — . ■ * A man, named Carriker, shot and ■ killed his uncle, a Mr. Barker, in ' pike county, a few days ago' Heath of a Curio ns C'bnraetct We see by the Jefferson eoutry pa per-j that “Washboard ’ Hall died i: the poor Louse reeentlj-. He was character. For thirty years he ha lived in that vicinity on a waihboaru as may be said. He made a few wash boards, and he would take one unde his arm and go to a farmhouse and nl low the wife to use it. If she hough it, all right, and if not it was all tin ; same. He would have a dozen wash boards scattered around, and he we always the guest of the bouse, got hi. meals, moved his washboard to anotbei I locality and ate and drank on the board Lie always managed to arrive at a hen about meal time, and as he had all tin news to tell he was welcome. If ; ! house-wife had wood to split, a cow t. j milk, or the man had stec-rs to brea'-, hogs to kill or a wagon to grease, old Hall was ready to help. At times when the good house-wife had not much in the house for dinner the arrival > I Washboard Hall would cause a clou-1 to rest upon her brow, but a cheerful word from him would soon dispel i‘„ and we do not believe he ever went hungry a day in his life. He was a tramp, always on the move—-in summer with his coat over his arm and in whi ter bundled up and always on the march. However, hard up btyaightbe, he could manage to get zinc enough for a washboard, and any friendly carpenter would allow him to do the woodwork in his shop, and bis Stock being com plete, he was on the road. In all his thirty years travel about Jefferson county, no one ever heard him use an unkind word, and he never injured a. soul. Children would chaff him until he got an opportunity to beofassistance to them, after which they were his friends. He would make a kite for them or draw them miles on a sled for the asking. He was a great character, and will be missed. The Old Capital . The new arriv als at the Asylum for the Insane are increasing alarmingly. Nearly every day some unfortunate is brought and th -ir names registered in the great book in the clerk’s office. Full eight hundred insane people, many of them forlorn and wretched, are now quarter ed on tho State, and the list swell.*, and the institution continues to be enlarged to meet the demand for room. An old traveller tells a pretty toug’i story about being lost in the wood* with his dog, where he could find noth ing to cat, and had to out oft’ his dog a tail, which he broiled for himself, and afterward gave the dog the bone ! W would rather borrow one hundred dol lars than believe that story. A young couple of Le Roy, N. Y . had their wedding day selected, and then got into a squabble over “which church the knot should be tied in. He wanted to go to the Presbyterian edi fice, because it was the fashionable one of the village, and she wanted to go to the llaptist one, for she used to sing m the choir there. The quarrel snapped the engagement. A skeptic, who was badgering a simple-minded old man about a mir acle and Balaam’s ass, finally said: “How is it possible for an ass to talk like a man?” “Well,’' replied the honest old believer, with meaning emphasis, “I don’t see why it ain’t a3 easy for an ass to talk like a ma t as it is for a man to talk like an ass. .nm ♦ .. . —— ■ There is a spiring on the farm of Dan iel Cork, of Kittery, Me., discovered five years ago. Whenever a drought becomes so severe that all the other springs in the vicinity fail to yield wa ter, this one begins business, and kcep'-- it up until rain enough falls to start the others, when it immediately knocl s oft. ■— + ♦ - ...... ..I* An old Irish soldier who prided himself upon his bravery, said li fought in the battle of Bull Run.— When asked if he had retreated and made good his escape, as others did on that famous occasion, lie replied “Be jabers those that didn’t run are there yit!” An editor with nine Unmarried daughters was recently made jus-ly indignant, by the misconstruction lus contemporaries put upon his able leader on “The demand for men.”— Burlington Hawkeye. The negro woman. Julia Johnson, who murdeied Mrs. Farmer, in Clay ton county, has been re-captured and lodged in the Fulton county jail. Mrs. General Gordon wa# in Alba bmy Last week, on her way to visit her son’s sheep ranche in Worth coxitv. Toe Congressional election in Gcy gia takes place ontheoth day of N >- vember. The Legislature meets on the sixth. It is thought that Judge liigby w:li be nominated by the republicans 1 . congress iu the fourth district. i ■ i— %■ -■ Being the first bachelor aud the fin-f benedict, how stands Adam s claim to being Srt-t in peace aud first iu war' Gen. Joseph Wheeler \\ ill be at t . c state fair in Macon.