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tin: im>kiknent. ■rxxxxte- —r-x-s-r-—dg ■ ATI'KUAY, JAM AH V *•. I*l*. J. C. OALLAHER, Editor and Proprietoc. WE NEVER SAID that wo wero opposed to a Convention, j tmt wo did stste tlint \vn favored some; ehniiires ill the Coustitiitiolr, but stili mittcd the question to tlie peojdo whether or not they were prepared to pny for tlie ! chimin. Wo did state, dud now repeat it, ] that we hwl seen no argument fanning a Convention that was logical and convinc- 1 ing. That tlie capital ought to tie moved back to Milleilgeviile because it was re moved to Atlanta by Bullock and his party, is no argument until they show the thing j done to lie wrong, or the tiling to lie done to be right. It is no argument to us art that tlie homestead ami exemption laws ought to bo changed until they show by acme mode of reasoning that tlie present law is wrong and that tho change would be better. We think wo can give an ar gument in favor of at least u reduction of ; the value of the homestead, and tho ex emption of personal property. Under the present law it is utmost impossible to give • legal bond such ns county offioers, ad ministrator uud guardians arc required to give. There are bat few men in n county that pause** the amount of property exempt and a sufficiency to pay their debts and be able to meet tlie bond in case of default; sod these few men must take the risk or tlie required bonds cannot be given; and these few men will, in self defense, lie bound to refuse even their best friends. Again, in oriminal cases it, under tlie present exemption laws, is next to impos sible for parties accused to give tho bond required by law; and how many are an- 1 nniilly committed in default of bail upon mere probubio groundsof guilt that could, U there was no exemption laws or if tlie amount of exemption were reduced, give bond and avoid the odium of imprison inont and save the expenses to tlie county. This we think is one argument in favor of an amendment or change of the organic law. We do not expect ever to ho called I Upon to give an official bond, for the people have too muah respect for ns ever to elect us to office, and we have no fears of ever being onllod upon to give bond for our ap pearance to answer an accusation, for we are too rich to steal, and too amiable and dove-like to fight. But wo liavo friend that is agonized with fear that in some unguarded moment he may be provoked over and above what he can bear, and in his axcitemcnl permit his Herculean strength to do violence to some more in significant personage, and in such case lie thinks lie would bo unable to give such a bond as tho law requires. Tin* is our friend and fellow townsman, Dr. Henry Briggs, from whom we get these very sen sible suggestions. The Doctor is usually very amiable, ami in his calm moments lie is anxious to make u constitutional pro vision for his escape in tho event his tem per should at any time become ungovern able. Now we have given onr readers tlie benefit of tlie DV-tor’s argument, and re gar’ '* is tlie most plausible wo have heard ■ luvor of a Convention; but we think it argues another proposition equally’ os forcibly, viz.: that the present laws re strain tho Doctor’s risibilities and holds his strong arm in cheek, and saves many a poor fellow from much physical suffering. Being with and for the people, we am willing to give the arguments on both aides of the question. In favor of a change in the judicial sys tem, the people of this county who are •pponeil to the County Court, (and they Sre numerous), argue that the control of tho finances of the county could bo better managed by five men constituting an In ferior Court than by one man Judge of tlie County Court. They argue that five men living in different portions of tlie ertnnty know better tho wants and neces sities of the county, and how to provide for them, than' by any ono man living at; tho county site. It is argued tlint the taxes were reduced Inst year below what WM rccouHnended by the grand jury, and that the amount realized is inadequate to tho necessities. It is now January. Eight or nine months must elapse before any taxes can bo collected, anil, tho now de pleted treasury must remain empty, and just demands unpaid; and as a necessity, tlie taxes for county purposes must be in creased to meet the pressing as well ns coming demands. So, the lightness of tho- taxes last year doesn't only create embarrassment' and inconvenience, but must uoceasaniy increase the burthen of tfexatiou at the next assessment. This, tho people think, will wor-k a great hard ship; therefore; they arc in favor of a change, vesting the authority to determine tho amouut necessary for county purposes in some tribunal other tibia a County (Jbnrt. While we liko the County Court system, wo arc fully assured that Un people of Brooks comity are dissatisfied with it and earnestly desire a. change, aad we are with tlie people;. Courtship and marriage in Sweden are /icculiar institutions. I saw one match made. Ho met her at the gate and poked Ki fingers in her ribs, and said: “I want to get married, don't yon?” “Oh, I don't known. So sway." “Yes, you do; let’s get married.” “Well papa.” “Oh. never mind him, we'll get married anyhow.” And lie went around tolling every body lie saw, "I’m going to marry that girl.” The preparations continued during the three weeks required by law to hove the bans published in the churches. Fishes were caught, stores for the feast laid in, beer brewed, and whisky purchased. Wedding jollifications are indulged in for a week. This couple were married. They wont from the elm roll to tlie house, and tlie bridesmaids looked tho bride in her room. Tlie groom knocked at the door. “How much will yon give to come in ?” “Two town and $5.” “That's not enough.' “Three cows and clO." “Oil, you arc rich; you must give more than that.” Five coirs and $25 wm, tin tiual offer, which whs accepted. Du-(%iiUiu LETTER FROM THOMAS VILLE. Tiiom/.sviu.e, Ga., Jan. 21, 1873. Etlitor Iniin/Htioieitt; Tho county of Thomas, in many re spect*, is unlike any other county in the State, In fact, we tiro worse off (I mean more cursed with ring*) than any county in tho State. Our grand jnrora are of late nlmost all ringers; or rather, a few of 1 them control the Imfanco woos to make j them fall in line. The presentments of i onr last two panels would iudiente that the ; good people of Thomas wanted important ! changes made by onr Legislature. It iw ; trim we, of all people in the State, wnnt! many and important changes, lint not the 1 wort these grave jurors indicated. It is a lamentable fact that we can’t, as tho law now provides, get a panel of 1 grand jurors by drawing. There is always an opening for talesmen, anil there is ulways a set of bad men ready and waiting at the door to be caught. It is said (hut of course it is not true j tlmt the Wieriff j knows every one of these cortnoranfs, so \ that it is an easy matter to "stock tlie cards,” or "pack the jury,” aw the lawyers suy. These ringers, 0* with their influence, I am worry to say, pervades to some extent half of tho white body politic in Thomas county, and nil of the negro body Jsditic, which is about 500 voting majority. The above statement aceouute for tlie wny thing* go hero. The ringers proper don’t like, our Commissioners’ Court, which is about the only salvation left tlie true men of the court. They want that Court abolished or made elective by the people, which means Kadienlism or plun der if you please. They are synonymous terms as I understand them. It is these same l ingers, or part of them, tlmt want and encourage anew county scheme west of us, by which this county i to be sunk into the slough of an irre deemable political misrule. Unfortunately we have no representation in our Legislature to head off these in iquities as they rise. Now and Then. —■ Grant’s Chief Justice. New I’oiik, Jamiury 20.—■ All tlie papers this morning have more or less to say ! about the President's latest nomination for \ Chief Justice. The Sun says: “Mr. Waite j is well spoken of by those who are ucquoin-! ted with him, but the fact that lie is not I generally known to tho country will render his nomination for Chief Justico less satisfactory than it might bo otherwise.” The World: “If President Grant’s third I selection for Chief Justice had happened! to be his first, tho appointment of Mr. ; Waite would have been received with won der by tlie country, and witl: disappoint ment and regret by tlmt portion of the bar who ever lmd any practice in the Supreme Court. Wo have no doubt Waite posses ses some very good negative qualities, but tlie Eight Associate Justices can decide every ease as ably without Mr. Waite as with liim, and the Senate would serve the country by keeping the chair of tho Chief Justico vacant until wo get a President who lias some appreciation of the qualifi cations requisite for Unit grout station.” Tlie lientltl: “No other reason is appa rent for tho nomination of Waite, save that Grant is determined to nominate, tlie man lie considers the best and the man the oountry considers the best.” The Tribune: "Of course Mr. Waite is j not the best snail who could be named for i the place, but there is no good reason why ho should not bo promptly confirmed, so that to the grout mass of serious people who believe iivtlio principles for which we went to war, and who regard it to be the duty of the National I legislature to fortify and defend those principles by statute, anil tlie duty of tlie Judiciary to take care that they receive no detriment through hostile construction of the law or the Constitution. Tho correct political unto cedonts of Mr. Waite will seem far more important than all tho learning and bril liant abilities of General Cmiliiug. ” i Tlie 7'imttt: “Tho nomination of Judge Waite to tho past of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a thoroughly respectable one, and will probably meet with little opposition from any quarter. Ho is a man of very high personal character, of recog nized ability anil of quite sufficient stand ing in bis profession to Justify the belief that he will make a Chief Justice. In the nomination of Wnito tlie President has shown an earnest desire to discharge a very I difficult duty in a conscientious manner, and without reference to party or the pri vate wishes of any clique in Washington or elsewhere.. DkXth ov the Siamfsk Twins.—A dis patch from Richmond says a dispatch from Greensboro,. North Carolina, gives the announcement of the sudden death of the Siamese Twins on. Saturday mominpp last, at their residence at Mount Airy, Surrey co., N. C. There are uu details, further than the fact that Cluing was piiralized hist fall, since which time ho has been fretful and very much debilitated mid strongly addicted to drinking liquor as a means ®f alleviating liis suffering. He had been quite feeble for several days— , indeed so much so as to confine both I brothers to bed—lmt his illness was not so ’ great as to cause any- anticipation of the catastrophe that was to follow. Ou Fri day niglit they retired to bed as usual, but during the night Oliang become worse j and expired suddenly about 4 o’clock ■ Saturday morning. As soon ns it was discovered that he was dead, Eng beeame so terribly shocked that he raved wildly for n while -at times exhibiting signs of great mental abberation. This attack was | followed by what seemed to be a deadly stupor, and in two hours, it is supposed, from tlie death of Chang, Eng breathed j liis Isgt. In the Now Y’ork Legislature on the 20th hist, bills were introduced to restrain speculation in gold by requiring actual delivery in eases of all time contracts, and to prohibit certification of luk checks ; wliere’thc drawer has not the full amount 'on deposit, making the offense ti misde meanor. LETTER FROM COLORADO. Cheyenne, Wyomjno, Jan. 1, 1874. Etlitor Independent: After a short sojourn at Colorado Springs —from which place I wrote you last—and after visiting most of tho points and ob jects of interest in nml around this most delightful locality, I shouldered my car pel-bag, which I managed in tlie week I have spent lu re, to fill with a per fect geological museum, petrified fish, shells, wood, fossil-bones id animals and reptiles tlmt lived and moved upon the earth ten thousand years before the Hood, specimens of ore, pieces of lava, crystals which shine liko diamonds, and various other little arrangements more cun on* than valuable, and taking the Northern bound train, rolled from unitor the slindow of Pikes Peak, and after a pleasant ran of j lIIIM a day was again at Denver. Denver ] is a great town, and I have almost mat to up fuy mind to bny the entire “outfit” I Chinese, greasers and all. Next upon my programme comes Oruly and Cheyenne, and only aUowiug myself one day for rest and recuperation, I slide i off on tho Denver Pacific R. R,, which connects Denver with tho W. P. R. K. at this point. Chyenne is only a few miles from tho Colorado line in Wyoming Ter ritory. Very few objects of interest are to be seen ns We pass over tlie D. B. A herd of antelopes occasionally enliven the scene, anil ns tho “iron horse” dashes through tlie villages of prairie dogs, their little ; socials gathering are dispersed, and with 11 bark and a whisk of tho tail, they in stantly disappear. Now anil then a Jack rabbit prances off, and ns we see the long ears Hopping about are left no longer in doubt as to tlie noble source from whence he derives his name. Ou our toft and westward are the mountains, always in full view nml affording a pleasant relief to the monotonous, intermiuahto, level prario, which stretches on the other hand farther than tlie eye can reach But here we are at Gruly and fifty-two miles from Denver. Gruly is located on the Cache-lu-Powdre river,a tributary of tho Platte. The first set tlement was made here in 1870. Tlie town lias certainly grown rapidly and substan tially. They claim three thousand inhabi tants. This is decidedly a temperance town. Nut hero can tlie thirsty, dusty, weary traveler refresh himself, except with cold water. Not here is ever heard that pleasant sentanoe,emanating in kindly tones from the accommodating bar tender, “what will you take sir ?” Hero no cock tails perfumes tho morning air.no “eye openers,” mixed with skillful hands, revive tlie drooping spirit of the way-worn trav eler. Brandy smashes, mint jnlips nml their attendants have been strickc n from the catalogue, and cold water alone is the Grulyites beverage. Not even that sim | pie anil delightful beverage known as lager | beer cannot be had for lovo or greenbacks, j My companion uud myself were not long j in making the discovery which I have just referred to. I was sick, and ho said lie was snake bit.; but it was no go, we couldn’t make the raise. Tho inhabi tants of this puritanical town are princi pally descendants of the old witch burners of New England. We shook the dust from the soles of our boots and took tlie next train for Cheyenne. I don’t driuk at Gruly. Cheyenne is a town which Ims seen its best days. It is one of those mushroom places which sprung up during the con struction of the W. I’. R. R. ,and since the road's completion is scarcely more than u way station. Still they have some fine buildings and they claim thirty-five hun dred inhabitants. Tho principal feature of the town (mid in this respect is quite in contrast with Gruly) is the number and variety of its rum shops. My snake bit companion is much pleased with the place, and I am satisfied from appearances that he has fully made up for lost time at Oruly. The only interesting individual I liavo met here, (and for this reason I shall not apologize for introducing him,) is a fame cinnamon bear. Ho ir a jolly fellow, full of tlie funniest tricks imagina ble, and always hi a good humor. I con sider a good nntnred bear much more companionable than an ill natnred man. Wo at once recognized each other as con genial spirits, nml became hist- friends. Though quite happy and cheerful at pres out. my friend, not unlike a majority of tho (/runs homo, has had his great trouble. It is said there is no accounting for taste, a true snyiug, certainly, mid verified not only by the bear's fancy for me,lmt by tho following: A few months since tho bear picked up somewhere around tlie yard a cow's horn, which he seemed to think a ; great prize,and which seemed to amuse him hiceodingiy. Iu a short time he beeamo so much enamored of his horn tlint he would | not leave it for an instant—-So entirely in ; love did he seem with his prize that, he could scarcely find time to eat. He would j lay on his hack playing with and cares sing ft, throwing it in the ah’ and catching jit ns it came down, bug and fondle it in ; every imaginable manner. He would nl | low no one to touch it, and when asleep always lmd it in liis arms. So curious was liis infatuation that persons would come 1 and amuse themselves for hours watching bis comical manners; the same thing con -1 firmed for weeks, the bear’s fondness for liis horn increasing each day. No heathen ever worslnpeiThfs idol with such devotion; 1 110 mother ever loved her child so well. It was his only thought, his only care, his former friends wero forgotten; his j old amusements given up, this was liis first, his only love. But alas ! “a change came o’er the spirit of liis dream,” and ; thnsly did it happen: Cue day while lying jon his back and playing with tlie horn ns i usual, throwing it up and catching it. ft 1 chanced to come down hollow end first and . lie caught it with his two paws and held it in that position just above his eyes, and now lie sees for the first, time that the ob ! ject of his love mid devotion is hollow. YVho can describe the emotions that fill Ihc poor fellow’s heart as he gazes for an in stant into the dark citvity before him and realizes that his affections huvo been lav shed upon a thing of emptiness ? That tho objoct of his heart’s best, truest, love, is a j miserable cheat, a hollow horn. With a ; grant, a groan, and u growl of disappoints I uieut, rage anil misery, such as only a bear | —and a mail one at that—can give vent to, I he throws the now detested horn to the other side of the yard, and disappears iu his den; here, for several days lie lay growling und mourning, refusing all sus tenance and declining tlie sympathies and j attentions of the numerous friends who j visited him. But time, the good physician tlint heals all our wounds, accompanied by ! hunger nndthirst, finally drove him forth, j His first visit is to the pump, beneath the j spout of which a little pool of water is | standing. After qnenching his thirst be j slowly raise* liis melancholy eyes, wbou lo ! | before him, anil in close proximity, be see* the Lol’.ow prtnp spout. An install* more and the place where the pun p stood was vacant and a few pieces of smalt 1 kindling wood is all that remains of the j hollow spent; again he seeks relirement, and several week* will elapse liefore he can be induced to mix with the gay world as heretofore. After all I suppose I am due yourself and the renders uLThr Inuki'kvdknt, an apol ogy for iutrodticing so trilling and frivo lous a story in, my totter, taking up there by your valuable space and occupying their valuable time. Then tot me add, tlie tale though no fable, bus its mural; and many of us, yes all of us, ere now, and to-day arc hugging some delusive phan tom to onr bosom*. Slay we not in the end find our idol a hollow born like tlie bear. But I must hurry back to Denver for next week the fair commences, and every body will bo sadly disappointed- in a bom -iflam no there. 80, Cheyenne, I bid you nn affectionate farowell, not caring that my shadow should ever be cast upon your dusty streets again. DENVEII. lis.it Sunday tlie fair grounds were openeJ. For several weeks previous noth ing has been seen on our streets hut prep arations for the great occasion; everyliody takes the liveliest interest iu tlie matter. Squads of ludians are coming; crowds of! Mexicans from tlie South are coming in ! daily; many of tho cow ixiys are here j from Texas, and the fact is I want no bet ter show than I can see iu tho streets of Denver every day free of charge. Tlie fair grounds, including race course, oc cupy a space of about two hundred acres. The buildings, though not so flue as I hail expected to see, are large and commodious and quite sufficient for ordinary purpose*. My first visit is to the room containing tlie mineral and geological curiosities. It would take a small volume to describe what is here to be seen, and I shall cer tainly not attempt it. A pyramid of solid silver brick about as high as n man's bead, topped off with a gold brick weigh ing one hundred pounds, is an object of no little interest before and for many I minutes I stand with stretehe 1 eyes and view the preeions ore. And this it is for the possession of which men sell tlieir souls; this it is for which we lire all struggling; for which oceans depths are braved and the bowels of the earth are searched—“the root of nil evil,” anil the possession of which is the key to all earthly good. Preachers call it dross and trash etc. etc., but who would object to a few of those bricks ? Not I surely. Tho display of vegetables surpasses anything I over saw. Cabbages us large ns a wash t üb, Irish potatoes ns largo as 11 man’s head, onions weighing five pounds, squashes weighing one hundred and thirty pound ', pumpkins llu-ee fee. in diameter, beets weighing fifteen pounds, and ns large as a water bucket. And thus I might go through the whole catalogue of “garden truck” in the same proportion, and tlie beauty of it all is, it is tlie truth. The display of live stock is immense, sheep, horses, cattle, mules, lings etc. etc. ]I saw ono man offered SIO,OOO for a cow; j he naked $13,000. I concluded ho was afoul 1 and left. The band strikes up and we are 1 thereby notified tlmt tho races are about j to commence, so we secure a seat in the [ grand stand where already are congregated I ten thousand people. The Indians and j ibeir squaws occupy seats by themselves and are highly delighted with the races, keeping up a terrible chattering the whole time. Near by is a group of Denver's belles Mid beaus in no way differing from a similar party in any eastern city except perhaps the display of jewelry is here a littlo more profuse. Here is a group of tlie better class of Mexicans and among them some black-eyed senoritus, one particularly the glances of whose dark eyes -were I young again—would send the hot blood tingling to my fingers ends, anil to odd to her charms it is said she owns seventy thousand sheep. If Gns was here and I could speak Mexican ns well ns I can, witli his susceptible nature he would certainly I be a gorur. Then here are the Greasers, the lower class of Mexicans all with broad sombreros mid jingling spurs, betting and swearing in Spanish, all intensely interested iu the horse racing. ‘.Text to the niiiin ,11! 00-‘ copying the most convenient position in the building, is a herd of Texans, most of them tail, powerful men, inured from in fancy to hardship and danger, each wear ; ing habitually two largo “Colts” and a ) howie, and the casual glances of eonteuipt : and hatred which from time to time they east upon the Utes and the Greasers tell a tale w hich can be easily read by the en lightened observer. It is tins: One day those two races must entirely give way and la? obliterated. The Anglo Saxon will I soon! rule every foot of North American soil ami the most perfect representative of the moo which the world con produce is the Texas Ranger. My particular favorites—the Chinamen ! and China women—are here too. and I ob serve among the females who all belong to j i/imii trnmiie, several faces which indicate considerable intelligence. They are all ( dressed in oriental costume, and the rich I material which some of them wear is doubtless a source of envy to their more re- I fined deist morn!* sisters of other nationali ties. Ami now comes the common herd. Thousand of Dutch, Irish, Freueli.and ev ery other nationality, are crowded together iu the grand stand, all partaking of the ex citement which the races produce and oc casionally steping down to tho numerous lager beer stands to “wet tlieir whistles.” j And now, hist but not least, high above all with a sense of superiority pervading liis liosom, looking down upon the motley crowd, having paid his last twenty-five [ cents for a reseaved seat, drawing his own i conclusions from appearances, with a little ; blank book and pencil that Finch gave him- not caring a cent whether school keeps or not—sits your correspondent. AH this and much more could have been seen at the Denver Fair; could you have been there with your ready pen and fertile imagina tion, you certainly would have amused the readers of The Iniiei'ENDEST for weeks. But I am going to tlie Ban Juan country, and hope ere long to write you from the Bail Luis valley. Bo please excuse brevity. Truly Yours, A. P. P. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. TTom-st ilncks ilip their heads under water to liquidate their littlo bills. A photographer requested thathis sign, “Taken from life," should he his epitaph. The latest dodge in Links-—Returning borrowed volumes m Christmas presents. “Muggins’* ifavs that, in theae hard times, n five dollar greenback looks as big as a circus |K>ster. • Tio re are two things incident to this life of j which no one is ever prepared, anil they are— twins. * A Nevada postmaster has written to Waih-ng-1 ton to know if lie can rent part of the office for a faro bank. Bulwor (aid that Journalism is more fitted to destroy had governments than to construct foun-! dations for good ones. Josli Billings y : “Nilcocas don’t krmsist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one the second time. A gentleman recently refused to celebrate his silver wedding, on the gronnd that he was “not yet redneed to beggary.’’ A Philadelphian of the old school objects to paying * gas hilt for the frivolous reason that he j lias no burners In hi a house. Pomologists consider it a remarkable fret that tin- first apple in paradise should have turned 1 out the first pair. A cynical laity, rather inclined to flirt, says most men are UkV a cold, very easily caught, tiut ' very hard to get rid of. “Who was the meekest man asked a ftnnday- ; school teacher. “Moses." .“Very well: who was j tlie meekest woman?" “Never was any." “What comes after T?" asked a teacher of n - pupil who was learning the alphabet. He j received the bewildering reply. “Tm do—to see | Lize.’’ A writer in the full Mill dair/le says that i “tow persons, probably, as a rule, sleep sounder ! or enjoy so much undisturbed repose as niglit w-atebmen." A drunken Frenchman chatters: it drunken ' (Teiman sings: a drunken Britou fight*; a drunken 1 Spaniard swears; a drunken American talks \ polities. A girl hearing her mistress ask tier husband to , bring "Bombeyand Son" with him when he came [ home to dinner, set two extra plates for the ex pected guests. “I meant to have told yon of that hole," said a gentleman to his friend who. walking in his garden, stumbled into a pft of Water. “No mat- ‘ ter," said tho friend, “I nave found it." Could anvthing tie neuter than the old darkey’s ' reply to a beautiful young lady whom he offered , to lift over a gutter, and who insisted that sin was too heavy 1 "Lor, missus," said he, “IV need to lifting barrels of sugar.” Irish “boy" (to benevolent old gentleman)- j “Maybe yt-r honor *ll give a j- >r bov something. ; Sure it’s a dissolute orphan, and deaf and dumb j lam!" Absent-minded old fellow (putting his! hand iu his pocket)—'“Poor fellow 1" Ben Franklin's watch is ow-i-uel by a stnnneii old Pennsylvania farmer. This is opening flu- i year with a first-class stock paragraph. For an | economical man, Franklin owned many watches. 1 We know of four. Perhaps tie used to "swap tickers." Peter Van Dyke, an old chap, who died in New Hampshire tin- other day, worth f 140.0011 in cash, roonested in his will that no one “should --toil!. and shed crocodile tears nt liis funeral, tint cover him over and then hurry home to tight over hit. money." “I don't like theae shoe*." said a tadv cus tomer, “because the soles are too thick." "Is that the oulv objection ?" blandlv asked the solesman," “Vs* " wnw the reply. "Then inn t-re if vod take the ah • I can assure you that t t objection will gradually wear away.” Not long Hioeo. nt Hundav-schooi. the teacher, after trying hard to imoress on tlie minds of a class of small bovs the sin of Hsbhsth-brcaking. asked, "Is Sunday better than any other day ?” when tho smallest boy in tile class answered, “You bet your Lads it is!" A man in Hartford has stopped his newspaper because bis nemo was printed iu a list of adver tised letters, and his wife, happening to see ir first, went and got it for him and found it -,vas frotn a young lady, who complained that, he didn’t neel her at Worcester, as he promised. “Wliat do you sell those fowls for ?" inquired a person of a man attempting to dispose of som*- chickens of questionable appearance. “I sell them for profits." was the answer. “Thank you for the information that they are prophets.” re sTsindrd the querist. “I took them to lie patri archs." The Peoria Tier-lew savs that a lady teacher in oae of the public schools was amazed the other ■tav l.v seeitig a perfect forest of juvenile hands Hv up in tin- air and shake and gesticulate with violent agitation. “Wlmt do yon want ?” queried the puzzled instructor. Chorus.—“Yer hair’s falling off." An Indianapolis editor is responsible for tliis : "A young lady in Indiana sought to demolish an unfaithful lover by publishing some verses ad dressed to him, in’which, after prophesying her immediate dissolution, she said: -Come gaze upon mv dust false one." But the compositor spelled dust with a ’ll.' " Fitz Jones (referring to his Indian experience) —“O, yes. we have, or nsed to have, some terri ble affairs nut there-aw!" Katv.—“O, yes." Fitz Join's.—“Pore servant of mine got killed there, literally eaten np by a tiger, and the pore fellow died twenty-four hours afterwards." And Fitz Junes s|ill wonders why Katy laughed. A gawkev saw, for the first time, a school girl going through some of her gymnastic exercises for the amusement of the little ones at home. Af tergazing at her witli looks of interest and com miseration for a while, he asked a boy near by “if that gal had fits?" "No," replied the lad, con temptuously; “that’s gymnastics." “Oh, ’tis hey?" said the verdant; “how long has she had ’em ?’* All inebriate, seme littlo while hack, got into a ear, and became very troublesome an,! annoying to the other passengers, so much so that it was proposed to eject bint; but a kind-hearted aud reverend doctor, who was also a passenger, inter noai dTor him, and soothed him into good behav ior for tlie remainder of the journey. Before leaving, however, he scowled upon the other oc cupants sod muttered some words of contempt.. Njnt shook bauds warmly with the doctor, and said, "(rood day, my fticiid; I see you know what it is to tie drank." A Western editor ono momiug was waited upon hv the biggest kind of a fellow- armed with a ter rific cudgel, who sainted him with: “Where’s that scoundrel, the editor?" Our friend said: "He is not atsuit, hut please take a seat and am use yourself with a paper, he will be in in a few minutes," and hurried down stairs, at the foot of widen, he met another man still more pro fane and fierce, who asked the same question in *he same language. "Oh," said the retreating editor, "go up stairs: you will find him reading tlie paper." Accordingly np he went, likeahigh prossnre steam-engine, letting off steam at ev erv step. Our friend waited a minute, and such a crash—as if all Pandemonium was let loose. Wlmt the result was, was never known, as onr friend didn't wait. A dispatch from Minneapolis, Minn., say the Indians at Vermilion Lake are dving of starvation. They have eaten two children aud one man. The scarcity of game and the failure of the wild rice crops are the causes. They claim that the government has failed to send the usual supply of provisions. Eighty Indians are coming into the settlement for relief. Mayor Havemeyer’s message, jnst i.wied shows Hie debt of New York city to be $106,371,953, an increase since 1871 of $9,084,428. The expenditures for main taining the citv government for 1871 were not leas than $30,262,580; for 1872 they did not exceed £31.500.000, and in 1573 they were about $32,000,000. London, January 22. — The Times pub lishes the substance of a note from Bis- j march, who holds the French Government j t accountable for the violence of the Ultra- > montane press iu France. GEORGIA NEWS. The rciiidenoo of Colonel Strong* miles east of ThonmHviHe, wan burned mi the 15th inst. Mrs. John LcarntY, an old lady residing in Ihilioch county, watt burned to death & few days ago. Illackslicar boastnofa turnip which weighs thirteen pounds, and is twenty-eight inches in circumference. Gen. Lee’s birthday was celebrated in Savan nah l*v a grand military’ parade and review, in which all of the volunteer companies participa ted. Tho fiavnnnah Xetrs Rays : Sir St. George Gower, of England, who pß**ed through onr city recently on his way to Florida, has an income of 1250,000 per year, and is unmarried. This may he interesting news to the ladies. Major Joshua Taylor, a well known and prorni nent citizen of Thomas county, died inThomas ville on the 19th inst., after a brief illness. He was buried from the Methodist church lit tho Mstsmic Fraternity, of w hich order he was a Con sistent member. On last Saturday a most shocking accident oc curred at Ruff*s grist mill, near Smyrna, in Cobh county, which resulted iu the death of a three year old child of Mr. John Reid. The little fel low, while wandering alsmt through the mill, had his clothes caught by a cog and he was drawn in among the machinery and almost to a jelly. Tlie body when extricated was perfectly lifeless. Albert G. Jewett, of Belfast, Maine, thinks that Brunswick is one of the best ship puilding J)oints iu America, and says in a letter to Hon. F. L. Heward : “I think a* crew of Maine jrhip carpenters can do more work in Brunswick, in a ship yard, in a year, than they can do in Maine; what they gain in t-ha winter there, is more than tlie lose in the summer, compared with a Maine climate.** Covington Enf**ryrise: There is a society in Covington composed of some of oar oldest and most influential citizen*. By some it is termed th Young Men’s Christian’ Association. They hold their pious mei-Hngs in S lack room, at night, three times a week, nml it is said thevpass hihles and hymn book* around on a bread tray. Home of its members have remained from their families until two o’clock in the morning, and at that kite bom* have been seen wandering homo in tlie best of “spirits.” Whether this organization by its examples, will work beneficial resnlts to onr rising generation, is yet to be seen. Let the good work continue. Sandersville Gforgian : The farmers in many portions of the county are scarce of hands to run their plantations tlie present year In some por tions of tlie countv the negroe* have been seized with a great passion for Florida and are leaving hv families for that happy region of tho “darkey." ; Why there is a scarcity ofiabor in other portions ! of tlu* county, it is hard to Ttnderstand—but *ftch ] is the fact, ft happens in every year that the I freed men meets with a short crop or short price*, j that he leaves and seeks an</f!ier kwality, without j once oven thinking that the afile state of Mr- | cmnstancea exist alike over the country. If a convention of the people could make some or- j ganic law to fender labor reliable, it would he j worth all tire* enactments that the Legislafftfe I has made to destroy it. by liens aud other like leg- j Station. FLORIDA NEWS. The regular Republican municipal ticket was elected at Fern and ina. At a tax sale at Apaia* hieola on the sth several citv lots were sold at prices varying from $5 25 to (2 i 20. Tlu* gun l>oat captured by Captain Dickinson’s '">mmand during the war. a few miles above Pahtka, has been raised and carried down the river. An attempt was made last Tuesday to rob the Lake City post office. As the thieves were not appointed by the government they were un successful. The Commissioner of the General Land Office has decided that the applirnnt for homesteads must swear that he has not “heretofore jK;r fcet.Kl or abandoned an entry made under” the homestead act. There are five hundred free schools, and an attendance of eighteen thousand pupils in the ! State of Florida. Tliik standard has been reached under the s u per in teudan ct* of Jonathan C. Gibbs, a colored man. Tlie peooU* of Wakulla county have petitioned Governor Hart to remove their sheriff, out as the latter has been sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary for robbing tho mails, the Governor evidently considers it a warm recommendation, and treats the petition with contempt. LivcOffk Hcoma to foster some hail fellows. On the night of the loth instant a few cowardly assassins fired at Geo. }{. Dixon, a young tin smith of that placi, while passing ffom his store to his bednwm*, fortunately without harming him. The Times savs the parties ssrv Tpeet*ed. The Wrida Henvfe has given Mrs. Dowdell, the conesi indent of the New York HeraUi, a scat upon the rf-ior. Tlu? Live Oak Tone* says she is tin rfe ff>r the pnrposr of keeping WaH street , posted in regard to the Littlefield bonds doubt less, and is a very useful appendage. On Monday night a young man named William Dt sclburger stoln #T27 27 from William Sanchez, of St. Augustine, abd left for Toeoi on Tuesday morning, where be m t the steamer (Tty Point and went fo Jacksonville. Mr. Ranch#*, upon missing his iruwwy, rode across the country and arrested the thief m Jacksonville. Tlie M. K. Grand Chanter of Royal Arch ' Masons, of the State of Florida, began its annual convocation in Jacksonville last Monday. Much i business of importance to the order was trans acted. nml the following officer* were elected and installed: Grand High Priest, M. Bowes; Deputy Grand High Priest, J. 8. Driggs; Grand King, B. G. Alderman; Grand Scribe, I). C, Wilson. On tlie night of the sth inst. the murderer De Silva effected his escape from the county jail at Pensacola, by means of a knife with a crook at the end, furnished by. someone outside, with which he removed the mortar between the bricks. He whs ironed, but by tome mean* effected the removal thereof. He took with him a boy who was confined upon suspicion of bnrglery. Deputy Sheriff MeDougell was arresfetf and incarcerated upon suspicion of having abetted the delivery* ns lie had assured Pe Silva he would render him what assistance he could. NK W A7) 1 EU TISEMEXTS. CRANE & BURNEY*B SAW MILL, THREE MILES WEST OF QCITMAJt. Crane JSc Durney fTVVKE j Measure fn notifying fhc public that -L they have erected a first-class Haw Mill three miles west of Quitman, on the public road to GrboverviHe, and are prepared to furnish every quality of Prne Lumber at abort notiee, and on better terms than heretofore. THK I-TiTaLmriXO ABB OUB PRICES TOCt U7UBEB: For general quality of lmnber when cash is paid on de livery M 0 00 per 1,000 ft. For the same, when payment!* delayed exceeding 80 day*.sl2 per 1,000 ft. For special hiTTs where all heart is required, the cash price will be sls 00 per 1,000 ft. and as per agreement as to time. 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