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■ 1 a—rung (The (True (Citizen. Sullivan Brothers, Publishers. Subscription Rates : Ono Copy «uo year - - S2 00 “ “ six months - 1 00 “ “ three months - 501 Fosl T 1 V E h V C A S Some how wo could not put any l' ; ,ith in 1‘rinms Jones’ “first hale” this year, which ho claimed to have si-nt to market several weeks ago. It was too early in the season for this climate, and now comes the I thick shear AV/r* «£• Siyncit, “with malice aforethought,” and ruthlessly dispells the halo of glory that en-1 circled the lofty head of Col. l’ri-! mils. That paper says: “The glo-! wof the first hale of new cotton I has hecn taken from t'ol. Primus jones hy some of his neighbors, who have visited his place and find im evidence of new cotton. Col. Primus has the proceeds, but the (.■lory has departed. Who would have thought his neighbors would | have thus undone him. Col. Pri mus will have to build a stockade, | and mount a few Held pieces the' next season, and keep these med dlesome neighbors off his premises. 1 agj».fl«n.m-wr-w»crr»Trj&*i Volume 2. hp Waynesboro, Georgia, Friday, Julv27tli, 188'). Number 1 I. For Tn i: Citizkx. TKAIJS Tears y. r, hitler tears, I have not she.l before for voars, How they Mow and Mow and Mow; 1 cannot stop thorn - could 1 do so, I would no! -for t liny case me so. Tears, -yes, bitter tears; They conic forth on account of care ('arcs from which I cannot pari, Deeply Imaged on my heart — My brokciThcai I. Tears- yes, hitler tears, Their Mow sometimes to me appear As it they would never cease. They ease my heart and give me pc Y os, blessed peace. 'I’ears—yes, bitter tears, As ! recount theman\ years That I have suflerod—yet don’t c< 1 'll I ry to hear all earthly pain For heavenly gain. Tears—yes, bitter tears, i.et them Mow, I have no fears. I hope and trust with my <2nd I may soon lie ’ncath the sod - My native sod. , freshingly juicy, with a flavor of cinnamon about it. So it may bo seen that wo have a rich variety of I fruit for our morning repast, and imr can willingly forego a hearty j breakfast in consideration therefor. Ollier fruits, equally novel and l tempting, arc promised in the ; course of the seasons, among them • the ehorimoya, or alligator pear, i which is eaten with a spoon from ,, irs i tin' skin, and is said to resemble a ! delicious icecream in flavor, though pi'iuv, j not in temperature. j 'The Mexican aimuerai, or break- i fast, is served at noon, and corros- mpiuin, ponds to flic 'French dejeuner. It j is very hearty, and does not differ from our regular dinner. As an example of the best class of restau rants, I will cite the Cafe Anglais, which is kept hy a most amiable Toni's—yes, bit lor tours, I'iko mist liofore my pyos—It clours I see, 1 led now nival roHef, I will no longer lmrljor grief, My bitter grief. Waynoslioro, (la., July 2-ttli, lSKl. .'Iml nail Drink la Mevirii. ]>. II. Ills bust Court. Arkansas Traveler. Old .Judge (irepson, a justice of the peace, was never known to smile, liecame to Arkansas years ago, before the carpet-baggers be gan their reckless sway, and year after year, by the will of the voters, he held his place as magistrate. The lawyers who practiced in his court never joked with him, because every one soon learned that the old man never engaged in levity. Every morning, no matter how had the weather might he, the old man took his place behind the bar which, with Ids own hands, he had made, and every evening just at a certain time, he closed his hooks and went home. No one ever engaged him in private conversation because lie would talk to no one. No one ever Iloslon 11 crulil’s City of Mexico Letter. It is a common custom to prcce _ coffee with an indulgence in fruit, t lan * ot t u l , ’ c for I which is delicious and cheap in this » or ( ‘ ourt > ,,r a ,mU ' 1 ’ 11,1,1 has 1)0( '" roofed over with glass. The place it, hut lost it through his son; re turning to Peril, he made another fortune, hut was ruined by the Chilian war at the time of the tak ing of Limn; he has been in Mexico two yeses and lie is in a fair way to make a third fortune. The restau- wlmt was the 'I’lie editors of the Butler Iferttlti, ia tlieir issue of the 54th inst., uses considerably more than a column of their space in replying to Tiik Citi/kn in regard to Senator Col quitt. We do not know how broth ers Ben ns iY Buss liecame such tierce champions of the Senator.— There is an old adage which says, “Kissing goes by favors,” and •ill we know it nitty he so in tills in-j country, and is regarded as pnrticu- stancc. We are prepared to suspi-1 lnriy healthful at that time of day, ,H <>'-»amented with a profusion of cion anything with which Colquitt I nn<l the great basketful set before I ,)Joi)l! " n tf plants, for which Mexi- eoiucs in contact. So far as Col- one is tempting enough in its rich I t ‘ a,1>fi liaVl ’ lia(l a. passion Irom the ouitt’s great patriotism, exposed bv i variety of colors and .shapes. 'There '“'W Un Azt.is. I.aili sidi ol lhsperiling ids life on so many hat-1 are oranges, freshly plucked and j tlu ‘ entrance is lined with rows tic fields, he was not half the ommi ! iuiev. and hummus of v»rimi« sizes i 1,1 plants, ioruiing a pleasant all ot thousands of privates, who hurt the fatigues and hardships of the Frenchman, who, after making a wont to his home, u little cottage fortune in the same business in j among the trees in the cit’ys out- Peru, went hack to France to enjoy skirts, because he had never shown a disposition to make welcome the visits of those who even live in the immediate vicinity. 11 is office was not given him through the influ ence of “electioneering,” because lit 1 never asked any man for his vote, lie was first elected because, hav- patio,! ing once been summoned in a case of aliitration he exhibited the exec utive side of such a legal mind that the people nominated and elected him. lie soon gained the name of the “hard justice,” and every law yer in Arkansas referred to his de- ^° 1S0 t><>l dd he kept In the road, the I turned away from that letter j hardened. 1 spurned my teaching, i Now I am here:” Several lawyers rushed forward. A crimson tide Unwed from her lips. They leaned her lifeless head back against the chair. 'The old magistrate had not raised Lis “(treat (tod!” said a lawyer, dead!” The woman was his daugldei A ChilJ’x Perilous ltide. t’nrsnii Appeal, July 11. About !);!50 o’clock yesterday morning, a young lady in Empire, attempted to take some children to ride. Among them was Chester Hope, nlioy :l years of age. She put young Chester into the wagon, and was about to lift in another, when the horse becoming frighten ed, started off on the dead run.— There was a cry of terror from tho child’s mother as the wagon dis appeared in a cloud of dust over the hill, uml a number of men | dashed after it on foot, hut too late I to do any good. Commissioner Martin, who was near the scene of the runaway, sprang on the first horse lit 1 could find, and started m pursuit. JIo overtook the llying wagon half a mile front Umpire,! and found the hoy kneeling down, and holding fast to the dashboard. Mi. Martin had the presence of mind to see that so long as the No Dentist Need Apply. Albany News uml Ailvi rUsci - . Mr. W. \V. Johnson, of east I Dougherty, was in the city yester day, and exhibited a front tooth which lie pluged with lead, with his own hands over thirty years 1 • Vt T'| ago. .1 to used an awl to clean out l |l ‘ 1“ j the cavity, and packed the lead in | with the same instrument, after i heating it out as thin as possible j on an anvil. The tooth is in a per fect state of preservation, and bids fair to last as long as the man. Found Dinul After n Year. war, half starved, hare-foot and in rugs, of which the (fenerttl knew nothing, ami finally laid down their lives in their country’s defence!— Where is the parallel, and who was the greater patriot, the private or the general? 'Phis kind of syco phantic twaddle is contemptible and nausentingly disgusting. But we have said all we wished upon the subject, and we have nothing- to take back—nothing to extenuate. The Augusta Chronicle of last Sunday morning brings us the sad intelligence of the sudden death of .Mr. James U. Miller, son of Mr. James Miller, who has for many years been a lending dry goods mer chant in Augusta, which occurred on Saturday morning in that city. Speaking of Mr. Miller, the Chroni cle utters the following words of deserved praise to his memory: “lie was t!u‘ oldest son of our es teemed citizen, Mr. James Miller, and was well and favorably regard ed hy all who knew him. His hearing was courteous and high- toned, honorable in his dealings, gentle and wonderfully generous in disposition, he possessed Hue sense, and rare business opportunities were afforded ldm. Hopeful in temperament, abounding in good Uuunor, he was brave in action and magnanimous to a fault.” We have long known Kir. Miller, and regarded him as a warm person al freind. There are few young men more deserving, or whose career for the future held forth brighter prom ise of usefulness. But Heath has laid him low in the vigor of his young manhood, and promise of the the future is broken. Tenderly would we offer the aged parents, the trusting young wife and affection ate brother our heart-felt sympathy. The attempts to boom the defunct Confederate bonds heretofore made have utterly failed to the cost of the would-be speculators. And now a certain Colonel Huberts, of Louisi ana, has formulated a brand new scheme by which he hopes to catch unguarded “suckers.” The Colonel says: “'The general government will lie asked to guarantee the debts of tin' Southern States, whose bonds arc below par, at a rate to he fixed, and the balance of the debt will ho canceled. To illustrate: The State of Louisiana lias a debt of $12,000, <»(><> gmI (in' bonds now. representing it fire worth about seventy cents.— The State will call in all its bonded debt, and replace it with a new bond guaranteed by the govern ment hearing .'ID per cent, inter est, tlu> whole amount of those new hnuds being $S ) imio,ooo, or retiring the debt at 70 per cent. Thus the debt of Bouislann will be reduced Irani $1 ”0110,000 Inis,400,(too, and $H,- 000,000 uf the original amount will he wiped out. The State will then levy a special tax for the payment of her annual interest to the Cnlted States, which would he loss than •Wot),non per annum, and the new hands would lie at par. 'This is the plan. Its advocates say it will reduce tin* debts of some of the Slates j>ne luiif, and can de the bondholders no possible harm, the public or tin* people of the State.— They declare that Wall street will he for 11, and that two-tldrds of the lloprosentatlves of the States inter- ' -toil will favor it wlieij the plan is fully understood.” Now, when the colonel is through booming these wartIdess State bonds, lie can join • lie hand and go to work to revivify the old, dead Confederate bonds, equal ! juicy, and bananas of various sizes, from dainty little yellow one to} l ,1 '° iU ''b 111,(1 in huge red specimens. But ony -..•(room is a lal the most delicious products of the tropics is the mango, the eating of! which, however, is apt at llrst to embarrass and perplex a stranger to no small degree, in shape the mango resembles a pear with the stem tit the wrong end, ilattened, however, like a bean, and with the small end turned over to one side something like the figures common on cashmere shawls. One large variety is entirely yellow, and a smaller kind is yellow with rich red cheeks, offering tempting hues for a still-life painter. Inside is a very large seed, xvhich forms a con- sideralilile impediment, to the en joyment of the inexperienced, for the pulp is joined to this in a stringy way, and it is difficult to handle the slippery thing. A thoroughly ripe mango lias a kind of combination of muskmelon and linked custard aspect and texture to its deep yel low pulp, and its rich flavor is in describable except that when eaten for Bit' llrst time it seems to have a slight trace of turpentine, which resemblance, however, disappears on acquaintance. The large yellow: variety seemed to me to have a very slight and delicate flavor of peanut candy. The person who eats a mango for the first tilin'gene rally covers himself xvitli eonfusiou and his face with mango pulp and juice, which is very sticky and yel low, so that he looks as if somebody had been feeding him with soft boiled eggs in the dark. It will not do to eat a mango as one would an ordinary fruit, the correct way be ing to use a mango fork, which lias hut one tine, and is therefore really not a fork at all, hut a spit. With this the fruit is impaled at one end and the point thrust firmly in the seed, which may thus he stripped of its last pulp without soiling the lingers. An odd-seeming fruit is the same, about tlie size of a small eocoanut, egg-sluiped, and covered with a coeoanut-hued, hut rather thin, rough shell. One can hardly per suade himself that it is not cooked, for the substance, which is of a deep brick-red hue, has the consistency of a boiled pumpkin and tastes some thing like squash-pie. It has one large, glossy black seed, about three inches long. 'The best way to ('tit the fruit is with a spoon direct from tin' shell. Strawberries are in sea son nearly all the year. They are of good flavor, hut like the apricot, pear, and other northern fruits which abound here, could lie much improved by the cultivation of good varieties—a chance for our nursery men to introduce their products in Mexico, where there is no reason why the fruits of the temperate zone should not he as good ustlio.se in California. 'There is also an abundance of watermelons and muskmclons, uml pomegranates and tigs mv just coming into season. The figs lire the best fresh ones I have ever seen and the first I ever really liked. 'They are very nice eaten with cream, hut cream is rather scarce here. I must retract all that I said against the prlckly- penr in a letter written to the lice- (ild from F.l Paso in 'Texas, about two years ago, and hast'd upon ex perience with tin' miserable little, wild variety growing thereabouts. l,s tlu ‘ l ‘“ n ‘ ll,K1 The tuna, as the fruit of the prickly- pleasant . : ifiti.ii n, ,,iivL in the center of tin* one to i 1 () |.j room is a large group, while air plants hang in baskets all around the sides. With our soup we take ugueeate, a kind of fruit with a black skin and about the shape of a large tig. It contains a large, nut meg shaped seed, and is of a soft and somewhat pastry greenish sub stance. It is called a natural but ter, and the poor people spread it on their bread, hut it has no resem blance to butter in flavor and is not in the least greasy; to me it seems more egg-like and creamy in taste, it is cut up and put into soup, form ing - a very pleasant addition, or is eaten its a vegetable with salt and popper. Next to soup comes eggs, served as one may prefer. A favor ite way is a la plata, or shirred, as Americans would call them, being broken into a heated little dish of silver and brought to the table cooking. A Spanish omelet, or tor tilla, is also very nice, being served in large, round shape, like a Her man pancake, and flavored with leeks cut up in it. The meats and vegetables are mostly common to the French cuisine, and need no description, except to say that tiie salads are excellent, with the best of lettuce, fresh tomatoes, and other concomitants. It is not uncommon for tin 1 guests to make tlieir own salad, calling for the separate ma terials, including cold chicken, and mixing up their own mayonnaise from boiled eggs, oil, and viilegar in due proportions. There are three regular meat courses and a large number of dishes to select from. The dessert or postres consists of fruit and duloes, the latter consist ing either of pudding or custard or of preserved fruits. This meal costs sixty-two cents of Mexican money, which is equivalent to about tlfty- flve cents in American money. It includes either ten, coffee or choco late. The latter is usually taken the last thing at the evening meal, or eomida, the dinner, which is pre cisely tlic same as the breakfast in general character, the menu, how ever, being hanged. Turn Thumb's Willow Faints nt Ills tir..r.'. A dispatch from Bridgeport, Conn., describing the funeral of 'Tom Thumb, says: “Mrs. Stratton was lifted from the carriage when it reached the grave at I o’clock. She was too weak to stand, and a cushion was brought from the car riage and laid on the ground at the edge of the grave. 'The little widow sat upon It, supported hy her moth er and mother-in-law. 'The other relatives gathered near hy. The ceremonies lusted more than half an hour. Mrs. Stratton became more and mure agitated as they proceeded, and Just as Prelate Dut ton dropped the floral Masonic em blem into the grave and the Knights crossed their swords and begun to clmut tlie closing hymn, her little llgure shook for a moment with strong emotion, and she fell hack senseless into the arms of her moth er, There were cries of pity from the crowd that looked on, and hum dmls of women watched with an xiety till' ('Hurts to revive (he little woman. Mr. South worth fluidly lifted her in 11is arms and carried , her to the carriage, She revived was rolling home ward.” pear is called here, is a luscious, , ... , , fruit, full of weeds, sweet and re-1 .Subscriptions are positively cash visions. His rulings were never reversed hy the higher courts. He showed no sentiment in decision. He stood upon the platform of a law - which lie made a study, and no man disputed him. Several days ago a woman charg ed with misdemeanor was arraigned before him. “The old man seems more than ever unsteady,” remark ed a lawyer as the magistrate took his seat. “1 don’t set* how a man so old can stand the vexations of a court much longer.” “I am not well to-day,” said the judge, turning to tlie lawyers, “and any cases that you may have you will please dispatch them to the best and, let me add, quickest of your ability.” Every one saw that the old man was universally feeble, and no one thought of a scheme to prolong a discussion, for all lawyers had learned to reverence him. “Is tins the woman?” asked the judge. “Who is defending her?” “J have no defence, your honor,” the woman replied. “In fact, I do not think i need any, for I am here to confess my guilt. No man can defend me,” and she looked at the magistrate with a curious gaze. “I have been arrested on a charge of disturbing the peace, and 1 am wil ling to submit my case. I am dying of consumption, judge, and I know that any ruling made hy the law- can have but little effect on me;” and she coughed a hollow, hacking cough; and drew around her an old black shawl that she wore. The expression on the face of the magistrate remained unchanged, but the eyelids dropped and lie did not raise them when tlie woman continued: “As I say, no man can defend, J am too near that awful approach, to pass which we know is everlasting death to soul and body. Years ago 1 was a child of brightest promises. I lived with my parents in Kentucky. Way ward and light hearted, I was ad mired hy till the gay society known in tin 1 neighborhood. A man came and professed liis love for me. 1 don’t say this judge, to excite your sympathy. I have ninny and many time been drawn before courts, hut ! never before spoke of my past life.” She coughed again nod caught a flow of blood on a handkerchief, which slit' pressed to her lips. “1 speak of it now - because 1 know that this is tlie last court on earth, before which I will he arraigned. 1 was fifteen years old when 1 fell in love with the man. My father said lit' was had, but I loved him. He came again and again, and when my father said that he should come no more, I ran away and married him. My father said I should never come home again, I had always been his pride and had loved him so dourly, but lie said that 1 must never again come to his home—my home, the homo of my youth and happiness. How 1 longed to sec him. How l yearned to put my head on his breast. My husband became addicted to drink, lit' abused me. I wrote to my father, asking ldm to let me come home, hut the answer that came was “l do not know you!” My hus band died,yes, cursed Hod and died. Homeless and wretched, and with my lillle hoy, I went out Into the world. My child died, and l bowed down and wept over a pauper’s grave. I wrote to my father again, hut lie answered: “I know not those who disobey my commandments!” child was tolerably safe, ami when ever it took to the sago brush lie galloped alongside and drove it hack. lie crossed the railroad track in safety, and Martin, as lie rode near the child, kept calling out: “Hold on to the dash board!” It needed no admonition of any kind, as the child, with good garni', was holding fast, as his, white Lair streamed in the wind, and ids nose just came to tlie edge of tin' board. As tlie horse dashed I into town, Martin managed hy a 1 combination of luck and good judgment to keep him clear of other teams, and hi) came down main street on the gallop. When men on the sidewalk saw the little hoy’s head above the dashboard the ex citement was intense, but whenev er they rushed out, Mr. Martin waved them hack, and so the horse flow about town for about a quar ter of an hour, until he came up utterly fagged out in front of the Elsworth House, The youngster Har.VKSTtix, July 24.—A special dispatch from Lampasas says that a carriage containing the skeletons of throe adults and two children sit ting - bolt upright as if in life, under n large tree, lias been found near tho road in Llano county. The tree was shattered hy lightning - . It is supposed that the carriage sought shelter under the tree and was struck, tlie holt killing - tlie in mates and horses. The weather beaten appearance of the carriage and its trimmings indicate that tlie event happened a year ago. In a trank was a letter addressed to ( ‘Jas, H. Chamberlain, London, England,” The remains wore found by a ranchman driving cattle, and | the discovery was reported at once to the authorities. The parties are supposed to have boon tourists, j The spot whore they wore found is ; very secluded and far from any habitation. Kurojjo DcihmhIIuj/on tin* l ulled Stilton. St. Louis Post-Democrat* It is ascertained that Europe’s population lias increased 1 An,000 in the last half century, and is increas ing now at the rate of 4,000,000, be sides sending abroad 1,000,000 emi grants yearly, This growth lias so far outrun food production that Russia and Hungary are now the | only European countries that count on raising all of tlieir own food sup ply, Forty years ago Great Britain alone looked beyond her own soil for breadstuff* anil provisions. Now the utmost resources of the soil are taxed in vain to feed the population of Europe after Russia and Hun gary are left out of the calculation- in is.',!) the total value of our ex ported food products was less than $27,01)0,000. In hSSO it was sixteen times as much, or nearly $440,000,- (Tlie (True (Citizen* Advertising Hates i Transient mlvs. payable In ihlvunco* (’out met n<lvs. payable (|ti»irh -rly, ('om bin nletil loiis lor person til benefit will be churned for as ml vs., payable in advance. Advs. oecuoylntr special position charged 25 per cent, additional. Notices among reading matter LOecnts per line, each insert ion. Notices in Local A Ihislncss column, next to reading, 5 cents per line each Insertion. Ail notices will be placed among reading matter if not specially ordered otherwise. For terms apply at Ihisofllee. HUMOROUS PARAGRAPHS. A youth went *>ul to sirenmli! Tin' lmly whom liu loved lirst, And pm;sod licncuth the mansion’ Where erst her elmmher used tu i shade rest. ooo. Cattle on the remotest ranges was taken out without a scratch, J f) f qi oxas an( ; Idaho now command and on reaching the ground said better prices than he wanted to go home. Before noon ] the t . u ltivatod farms of the old lie was delivered to it is mother safe and sound, and there was great rejoicing in Empire over his return. It may he safely said that to All - . Martin’s presence of mind the child owes his life. A 1'irllous IClilr. Ilnsliin Dispatch to N. A*. Tribune. E. H. Carson, of East Rochester, N. II., has accomplished the re markable feat of riding down Mount Washington on a bicycle. He went they brought on Yt- lantic States in lX-il). Wonderful as our increase in population and pro duction has been, it lias not more than kept pace with the growth of Europe’s demand for all the surplus we can produce. Indeed, tlie in crease of our disposable surplus is becoming more and more a subject of constant anxiety to tlie people of Europe, their only assurance against impending famine. European states men know that tlieir dependence ion us in this respect will become The King of Dulmmcy’s Cannon. up the mountain on Monday morn-1 lnore nnd lnore absolute in spite of ing from Horlmm, and dismounting j tho glvntly increased emigration to about three miles from the (Ron, Lj, t , p’ n ;t 0 d State- completed the journey of eleven j miles to the summit of Mount Washington on foot, pushing ids wheel in advance. His machine was the American Star Bicycle, whoso peculiarity consists in the small wheel being placed in front of the large one. The eight miles from the (Ren were passed in two hours and forty-live minutes, resting some time upon the sum mit he started upon his dangerous journey, while the guests at the Summit House almost held their bronth for his safety us he wheeled rapidly round the steep bond just below the house. Upon reaching more favorable ground he forged rapidly ahead, though it could he Sail ITniiclsco l'nst. The King of Dahomey received an invoice of Krupp cannon not long ago, and conceived the idea of having them mounted on elephants’ hack for use in tlie Held. With much difficulty this project was After carried out, and at the next military review the King ordered that one of the guns he tired immediately in front of the royal position, first tak ing the precaution to place a couple of prisoners about where it was calculated the hall would strike, so tis to judge of the effectiveness of tin' shot. When all was ready one of the seen that the brakes were constant-] biggest elephants was hacked ly in application. around and sighted. Jpst as the Another sharp turn near the gulf lanyard was Jerked, however, the was salel.v passed, and the machine animal turned half round to reach was behaving beautifully, the pro- for u peanut or something and the cedence of the small wheel prevent ing any liability of “headers,” and also serving as a powerful brace in cast' of obstructions met in tin* road. The half-way house was soon shell took off the Prime Minister’s head and knocked a hole as big as a sewer through the palace. His Majesty wouldn’t have cared so much if the matter had ended there ]—as Ihi' Minister wasn’t very prime gained, and the rider breathed and the palace needed ventilation— more freely, the steep dills which but It didn’t. On the contrary, the border the first half of the way elephant, which had been stood on being trying to the strongest nerves. J his head hy the recoil, picked itself Tho remainder uf tho journey was U p in a fury and started in on the made in perfect safety, the brakes down grade ahead of Its ticket. It being effective in spite of the steep- j upset the grand stand the llrst rush, ness of the road. The Hlon was shing the grand chamberlain and reached about I o’clock, the descent ] past grand carver of missionaries having been accomplished in about | into the next street, it then Jumped one hour and IIfty minutes, and llm rider met with a warm reception from tlie guests. After a brief res pite, tin' wheelman, continued on Ills way toward Jackson. Mr. (’ar son recently performed a similar feat among the mountains of Maine. The Sherman Into tlu> brass hand with ail four feet, and if it hadn't gut the big drum over its head so Rod it couldn't see, would probably have cleaned out the entire congregation. 'The King was not found until the next morning, and then, as he slid down i out of a banana tree, ho was under- I , i stood to remark that there was only cat( ip i s mivi! |t|,j Mg needed to render Ids new made their appearance in Muscogee artillery system an entire success— county. | that was to get the enemy to adopt It, Ilo vnrbli'il mi ilu' morning lliflit runic dancing o’er I lie hilltops’ rim, Dot no I'nlr nmhli'ii blent Ids sight, Ami till see ineil (lurk ami ilrcar to him. AVilh heart aglow and eyes ablaze, lie drew much nearer I lian before, Win'll, to Ids horror and amaze, He suv “Tu 1st” upon the door. Cold comfort—Ice water. Corn isn’t shocked by electricity. The country for good appetites— 11 angary. No sea-captain over dreamed of fore-castles III the air. The best thing in print—A pretty girl In a calico dress. It is a good tiling to he deaf, when a slanderer begins to talk. Why is a deacon like a hat-hand? Because lie passes around the hat. Cheek is one of the hardest-work ed business oapitals in the country. What is tho greediest of all living things!) A bird, because it takes several pecks at a meal. 'The Shah of Persia lias become a raving maniac. Wo always said that one wife was enough for any man. Bright considers weddings occa sions of sadness, and we know of several married men who agree with him. A portable hen-coop is recom mended by poultry raisers. The plan has long been favored hy chicken thieves. A Nebraska paper offers a circus ticket as a premium to new sub scribers. 'This reward of merit is less deadly than tlie cliromo. Every man who carries a pistol ought to be obliged hy law to carry it at his side and label it “(.‘mo tional insanity.” IIow a lady in Boston accepted two husbands on one wedding day. She married a man for a husband, a Mr. Husband for a man. The festive cockroach toils not, neither docs he spin, yet Solomon, in all his glory, could not make a raid on a plate of butter like one of them. There are seven thousand species offish known to men of science.— The man of science must be a blam ed sight luckier than tho average fisherman. See the eternal fitness of things. A silver dollar of 1804 was recently sold for $104, while the silver dollar of the present day is worth about seventy-eight cents. This is pro gress. “There’s music in the air,” re marked Brown, as the sound of the piano in tlie next house filled his ears. “Yes,” replied Fogg, “there’s music in the air, no doubt; hut mighty little of it in that woman’s accompaniment.” A young gentleman who was passing an examination in physics. IB' was asked: “What planets were known to the ancients?” “Well, sir,” he responded, “there were Venus and Jupiter, and (after a pause) I think tho earth; but I’m not quite certain.” A happy family: “I suppose,” said tlie man in tlie easy chair, “that my wife and I are the most contented couple you over saw.— We never quarrel about nothing. She is always willing to got up in tlie morning and build the lire, and 1 am perfectly willing to lot her.” A St. Louis butcher has eloped with a neighbor's wife. Hometiling should lx* doin' with these butchers. A butcher who will charge a cus tomer twenty-five cents a pound for beef and then walk off with that man’s rib, should ho ground in one of his own sausage machines. In one of ids recent sermons Tnl- magesiiys: “Encourago tlie news paper, for you know not with what annoyance they go through,” That’s a fact. One of tin* worst annoy ances a newspaper has to contend with is opening forty different coun try newspapers, ouch having one of Talmnge’s sermons printed on the outside. That is one of tlit* annoy ances that drive Journalists to pro fanity and beer.— ’/'e.cttx SiJ'/int/e, Satan—“Who are you ?” “A hank cashier,” “Defaulter?” “Yes.” “Hum much?” “Two million dollars. 1 ’ “Felix, give him a top seat, away from the tlr«», where it is nice and cool. Never mind thanking me, Mr. Cashier; you’re welcome. Bat who is tills?” No. 2—“A bank cashier.” “Defaulter?” “Yes.” “How much?” “Eight thousand dollars.” “Here, Felix, take tills fellow and give hint a seat right on top of the stovy,”