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Send copy of advertisemeet you will uso «nd state in -what paper you saw this. /hry A Day to agents canvassing for the Fireside ?D/ Visitor. Terms and outfit free, Address P. cTVICKERY, Augusta, Maine. a Month and expenses guaranteed to Jp / / Agents. Outfit free. Shaw a Co.. Au- tousiA, Maims. c. V. ANDETtSON, Axtobnex ax Law, Hawkinsville, Ga. g3f Will practice in the courts of Pulasln, Hous ton and adjoining counties. -p A. JOBSON, X. Abtiban, Perry, Georgia. Sewing Machines, Jewelry, Guns, Locks, and ev erything in his line repaired and fitted up in the asost substantial manner. All work not called for in ten days after being finished will be sold to pay charges. jOS-AII work done promptly and at the lowes rices for cash, % The undersigned will be found at his old stand in Sherry; Wth a complete stock of GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, DRY£ GOODS, - SHOES, & HATS, Which he proposes, to sell as cheap as any other house in Perry for Cash. All persons wanting goods on Time must make good papers—Such as I FRESH K3EAT. I will nlso at all times in season keep FRESH BEEF, MUTTON, and .KIDS, as I expect \o keep up a reg ular meat, mnrket, and ask the peo - pie to patronize and encourage me to •do so. J. W. MANN, FURNITUR|_FREIGHT FREE ENTIRELY NEW AND ELEGANT STOCK OI 3E , u3E=a.2srx , inj3E : a.aES fimt received and for sale at Fo prices. BUY AT HORSE. CX5PPIKTB. A Hearse can bo furnished to order at any time *>n short notice. I can be found in the day timo at sny store, next to the hotel; at night at my residence ■adjoining Dr. Havis. Furniture Aflade to Order. *nd repaired at sTTort notice. Burial Clothes, ready onade,-for ladies, gentlemen and children. BARTLETS UNRIVALLED SPRING BEDS. GEOSOE PAUL, PERRY, GEORGIA. M Y NURSERY'STOCK is very largo and fine this season, and if you wish to plant acclimated rees and such varieties as are best adapted fo home nd market uses, you can procure them at the 1 >1 wing extraordinary low pikes: ^•25.2: OS JCaSSfO^ APPLES. Single Trees S .1 Per Hundred 10. PEACHES. Single Trees * Per Hundred ........ PEARS. Standard Twe years old —........50 cents caeh. “ One •• 30 cents each. ■Dwarf Two Years Old ... .10 cents each. “ One “ 2Scents each- Lecount or Chinese Sand Pear.... $106esch- Pomegranatesand Grapes — 25 cents Plums,Qoinoee, Mulbarriesand Figs.... 25cents Strawberries.—Per Hundred $ 1,00 “ •“ Lhcusaud... 8.00 Special Bates Given for Large Orderio Descriptive Catalogue .sent Tree on application. Address , SAMUEL H, RUMPS, Willow Lake Suiserj, * Marshallville, Ga. Eorb "Valley, -Ga. TEN DAYSINLOYE. It was a cold night in January. Peo- Dle were hurrying along through the blinding snow-storm, battling with the wind that howled and moaned oat by turns its story of woe. Hngh Remington and his friend" Wil liams, glad to be out of the storm, had settled themselves -in gown and slippers for a quiet evening at home. The shut ters were closed and the curtains drawn, and on either side of the hearth was placed the favorale chair of each. These friends had lived together in their batchelor quarters for more Rian two years. Everything in the apartment showed refined taste and wealth. Some said that it all belonged to Hugh, and that he made it a home for his friend. No one, however", knew this to be true. Hugh was quiet and reserved, seldom spoke of his affairs to aDy one, nevei laid any special claim to anything, bnt allowed it to appear that all things were equally shared. After the evening pa pers had been read and discussed, the two sat talking of days gone by, of little episodes m their lives. Hugh was in a talking mood, and had told several good stories of his past life; stopping sudden ly, he exclaimed: •Did I ever tell yon of my love for the widow? 1 ‘No,’ replied Williams. ‘Let’s have it.’ ‘Well,! said Hugh, taking another cigar and looking very serious as he leaned back in his great easy-ohair, ‘I met her in Paris.’ ‘Met who?’ ‘Oh, never mind who. Be content that I am telling yon the story, and dent ask for names. I thought of her as ‘the widow,’ It is a sufficient title.’ ‘Well, I Won’t interrupt. Go on.’ So Hugh continued; ‘I was calling upon my old friend Mrs. Lee, and while waiting for the servant to take her my card, an odd piece of bric-a-brac standing in the corner of the room attracted my atten tion- I got tip and went over to exam ine it. While thus engaged, the door opened. I tinned, thinking that it was Mrs. Lee, when, oh! what a beauty met my sight!—so small that she looked like a child, large deep blue eyes that came out from under a mass of light golden curls, a small nose, »Dd a rosebud of a mouth. She wa3 dressed in deep mourning, and I thought ,as I looked at her, t-liat I had never seen a more beau tiful picture. She didn’t see me until I made a slight movement, which startled her. Coming rorward, I said: ‘I frightened -you, did I not?’ ‘Yes; I was not aware that there was any one in the.room. You are waiting for Mrs. Lee?’ And she gave me the sweetest of smiles, showing a most por ted row of teeth. ‘Before I could answer, Mrs. Lee ap peared, and introduced us. Mrs. —- was making Mrs. Lee a short visit prior o her departure for America, I was glad of that, as I should then have the pleasure pf seeing her again. ‘The evening passed only too quickly, and I arose with an apology for staying so late. Mrs, Lee invited me to dine with them informally the next day. She said her friend prefered being qui et, so they should be quite alone. Yon may be sure that I accepted the . in vita tion, and was there promptly at the honi. The widow was more -charming than on the previous eveuing. I long ed to stop the hours from rolling on. Having been in the habit of dropping in at Mrs. Lee’s at all hours, my fre quent—almost daily—visits were not noticed as anything strange or unusual. Mrs. Lee thanked me for coming to them in their loceleness, and the widow would give me one of her sweet smiles, 1 and I was thankful in my inmost heart that they were lonely, and that it fell to my lot to cheer them. So the weeks passed, until the time came for the de parture of Mrs. Lee’s friend. ‘Now I had intended passing a month or two in England before coming home, but when I found that' the widow was to return in ten days, I began to think tliat ; my duty called me back to my business. The more I thought of it, the more im portant it seemed to me to go. \ ‘Do you know of anyone going on the 15th?’ the widow asked me one evening, in a dove-like way. ‘No one but myself,’ I answered. ‘Business lias called me sooner than I expected.’ ‘How delighted? from the widow; while Mrs. Lee exclaimed, ‘Oh, Mr. Remington, I am. so glad! I couldn’t bear the idea of my friend going entire ly alone, and yon of aH others wiU know! best how to take care of her.’ *We then began to make our plans. Mrs- —— intended making a visit of a few days to some friends in London. I was going direct, to Liverpool. Mrs. Lee and I drove down to see our friend off, and I looked forward to she pleasure -o' meeting her on board the steamer. My last days in Paris were spent in say- ing ‘good-bye’ to old friends, and bay ing presents for sister Nell and the chil dren. I got every nouzcauie that I could find, and felt well pleased with my selection. At last I was on the steamer, and stood looking at the ship move away. By my side was the widow, and I thought that I had never seen her look so lovely. I exulted in the knowl-1 ter it. Of course 1 mid to go too, and edge that she knew no ope board. I j make believe to capture it. I ©ever washer only friend, consequently I ; hated anything so. much as I did that should have her all to myself; this was j yard of blue gause. I couldn't go back (so I said to myself) what I had for! and continue my story from where it weeks been longing for. Was I in j was broken off an t. indeed the widow love? That question had not occured to i seemed quite shy of me. me. I felt supremely happy, and thought the situation delightful, I was ready to do anything for this fair -crea- tuae. She had only to command; I was all eagerness to obey. I soon had oppor tunities of showing my devotion. •The following morning I came out on deck very early, and was snpprised to find my little lady already there. She looked very miserable and very pretty. The morning salutations over, I asked her how sLehad slept.’ ‘I haven’t slept at all,’ she said, in a fretful, -childish way, which I thought charming. ‘Such a noise all night, she continued, ‘I could not get to sleep; and the smells are simply dreadful. I must have another room. I’d rather sit up here all night than sleep in that horrid place again. Don’t you think, Mr. Remington, if you asked the Cap tain or somebody, lie would give rue another stateroom?’ and her big eyes looked inquiringly in mine, ‘Certainly,’ I said. T will go at once and see about it, and if there is no oth er, you shall change with me. Take my room, which is a good one, and as I don’t mind either noise or smells, your room will suit me well enongh.’ Here Hugh leaned over his chair to knock the ashed off his cigaT, and said to his Mend: ‘I must have had it pretty bad—eb,Williams?— to have said that, for yon know that I can’t endure either a bad -odor or a loud noise. But I for got everything when under the influ ence of those eyes, and when she ex claimed, ‘Oh, no; I couldn’t let you do that,’ I felt that my fate was sealed, and that I should take the noise and the smells. ‘The next thing that I discovered was that my lady had no sea chair. There was only one left, and that had been spoken for; but I paid double amount and the chair was mine. ‘You are so kind, Mr. Remington,’ she said. ‘I don’t know what 1 should have done without you. I am not fit to travel alone’, she added, in childish tones. ‘I longed to press her to my heart and tell her of my love; and it she would but let me, it would be the j'oy of my life to care for her. I looked all this; I am sure I did. But there were too many people around for me to speak. She sat with her hands folded in her lap, and looked divinely uncon scious. ‘The third day out the weather be came bit: erly cold’. ‘I am almost frozen,’ said Mrs. ——. •Wuat shall I do? I have nothing to wiap around me, and shall have to slay below, and. oh dear! it is so uncomfort able there 1 .’ The face turned up to mine of a -spoiled child. ‘Now I had a fine English rug, wlireu I had used at night, for you know ever- y thing at sea is horribly damp. It had been a great comfort to me, and I I knew that T should miss it. But wbs-t of that? I couldn’t see the woman I loved suffer. So I got it, and tucked her all up in it. Her delicious smile repaid me for the sacrifice. ‘Ob, how nice!’ she said, as she put her hands under the warm rng. ‘It seems to me, Mr. Reinnington, that yon have every thing to make one com fortable. I never heard of such a man. I am so glad that I came under your care.’ ‘j was so love-stricken that I did not reflect upon her apparent ncconcions-' ness of the fact that I had deprived my self of these comforts in order that she should be made comfortable. She seemed to take it for granted that 1 was a sort of traveling missionary, with ex tra wraps, staterooms, and anything-else that one might need; and I was such a slave to her fascinations that, had she asked me to do the impossible, I should have attempted it. ‘Every day I had it upon my lips to tell her of my love. Each day courage lorsook me. We walked the deck day after day. She would put her little; soft hand on my arm in the most con fiding way, look up from- under her curls, laugh her low, sweet laugh, and ask the most childish, innocent ques tions. ‘We were walking this way on the sixth day. I had carefully rehears id my part, and was abont to tell my sto ry, Her. conversation too led to it, for she said: ■Yon will come to see me when yon: are in New York, won’t you Mr. Rem ington?’ ‘Nothing,’ I said, ‘would give me greater pleasure.’ Yon will come often? Promise to: week. Yon dine at our house once a won’t forget me?’ mid the blue eyes sought mine. *1 looked into them,^ and my look, told what my tongue had refused to say. I pressed the little hand close to heart, and after a pause said, below my breath, ‘Forgot you!’ and I was about The incident had given the pas sengers an opportunity to speak to tier, and when I joined her (without the yail, for it had, I hoped, struck the bottom) she was surrounded by a group of peo ple. I bad no chance that day, nor the next, to get her to myself. I tried to think of something that I could do or show her that •- would amuse or detain her. It seemed 3 Lad exhaust ed all my resources, when at last a brilliant idea occurred to me; I would show her the presents that I had brought for sister Neil. They were all in my little sea trunk, and I knew that she couldn’t resist their attractions. She came up on -deck bright and beau tiful as ever. ‘Isn’t it delightful, ’she said, ‘to think that to-morrow we shall be at borne? I can hardly wait for the time to come; and yet,—and her voice dropped into the dearly-loved soft tone—-‘the voyage has been a most charming one, owing to your kindness’, she added, bright ly- ‘I longed -to launch forth my talc of love, but thinking it more prudent to wait until I had secured her wholly to myself, I asked her, in the most ordi nary manner, if she wonldn’t enjoy looking .at -some little trinkets that I had picked up in Paris. Her eyes sparkled, ‘Yes, indeed,’she said. ‘Nothing conM be more delightful than to get a glimpse of Paris while at sea.’ ’I went below and got all my pretty nouveaule , and brought them up to her. Placing a chair in a quiet corner, and well hid from the other people, then dra wing mine up beside her, I be gun showing, one by one, my collec tion of odd things. ‘Where did you get them, Mr. Rem ington? I hunted all over Paris, and fouud nothing half so preHy; What exquisite poi-fe bnnheursl’ -and she slip ped one aftier another of my caretulty- chosen bracelets on to her lithe plump wrists, and turned them first on one side and then the other. Tkne.w Nell’s taste, and had searched for something uncommon, and was well pleased with what I had bought. But Noli and every thing were forgotton with this bewitching creature by my side, and when she made a move to iaks them off, I said, laughingly, of -course, ‘Oh, don’t disturb them; they iook so well where they are, and it is so pleasant, you know, to get a glimpse of Paris while at sea.’ ‘She kept them on, and I opened the other boxes. Then were rings, cioss- es, medallions, chatelaines and many other ornaments of curious design. The widow decked herself, and was in high glee. A child could not have en joyed it more. I watched her with lov ing eyes, told her where each one came from, and help fasten them on. ‘I feel-like an Indian princess,’ she said, ‘and ought to have a throne and- a crowd of kneeling conrlieis, and the picture would be complete.’ ‘Can’t you imagine a throne?’ I said, ‘and, take me for kneeling coui\ie:s. Y/ouldn’t my love compensate for the admiring crowd?’ ‘She looked up quickly’ and was about to auswer, when one of those eternal old bores that, no matter when you cross, are always to be found on ship board, 'same up, and began telling of bis early reminiscences; what the sea was twenty-years ago—as though the s&a had eier changed—any how, when he had first crossed, his friends never expected to see him again. He had made his will and tbay parted as though he were to be forever lost to them. I assure you that I silently wished in my heart that he had never turned up again. "Without saying a word, I got up, took mj boxes, and left my Indian prineess. I was thoronghly angry with • ^tLe old fellow for interrupting our tele- a lets, and seriously annoyed with Mrs. for Heteiiing to -and. answering him. I made up. my mind, that that game had been played long enough. I would ask her that simple question the first chance I.got, and know my fate at onee. But the chance did not come as soon, as I expected it would. ‘She went- to her room with a sick- bezdashe, so she said, and I paced the deck alone. We weia a long way up the harbor when she mido her appear ance the following day. ' She said that she had harried with packing, thinking that we were nearer than we really were to the city, ‘Oh, Mr. Remington, I had no op- purtunity of returning your jewelry; and so I packed them with mv things. But you are coming, yon know, to dine with me on Satnrday, and J will then give them to you,’ ‘Certainly I said. ‘There is no tane for ns to change them now. Wear them until I see yon again.’ ‘I had fnliy made up my mind that as I had been bailed so often, I wonld to pour fortn my love when she gave a j now wait until I had seen her in her . . i littlascream, and cried, ‘Oh. my vail;,) own home before I ODened my heart to s^cks fl&J will mave space enough There, sarejenengh, was the confounded tier, or i at her before I asked her my ga fire of 5® bine thing saibng before the wind, and \ fate- She already knew my heart (fast in the pit and the work is acc cm- all the passengers, it seemed to me, .af- 'There w-.s no time to talk; all was .ex-" pllshed. 1 citement; we were rapidly approaching; handkerchiefs were waving from the docks. The widow was straining her eyes, and suddenly leaving me and go ing farther^ forward, I saw her throw a kiss. How I longed to catch it! I looked with jealous eyes to sea who would take it np and answes -it Fore moat among tho crowd was a great big man—six feet, and broad in proportion, It was no who was returning her kisses. Could it be her brother, or was it a friend, and this merely a pleasant gree ting from a distance? •I watched him come on board, and what did the big idiot do bnt catch her up in his arms—-my sweet one, whom, though loving, I had never dared to touch—and kiss her over and over again! I could have knocked him down. ‘On drawing near to them, I saw that neither one of them noticed me. She had forgotten my existence. "With a heart-sick feeling I turned away. Was this to he the end? Why had I come home? I could hear them talking though too miserable to listen. They came nearer, and the--same soft voice that I loved so dearly said; ‘Mr. Rem ington, I have been talking about you, teliing how good and kind you have been and how utterly forlorn I should have been had you not always looked out for my comfort. I have come to thank you, and my husband wants to thank you too.’ ‘Herhusband! Great heavens! And I thought she was a widow, and made love to her-! I listened as though in a dream, and a deuced unpleasant one it was, too. I believe he thanked me, and she praised, and lie thanked again, and then they urged me to come to see them, and she said; ‘Don’t forgot (Sat urday.’ ‘Whether I said anything, or whether I remained mute, is more than I can tell. I was like a man asleep, and had to give myself a good shake to come out of 1 lie nightmare that I was in. When I looked around, she —they were gone.’ Hero Hugh stopped astbough he had finished; but his friend Williams, whose curiosity was aroused, asked, ‘Did you dine with Ler on Satur day?’ ‘No I sent a regret.’ ‘Have y ou ever seen her since?’ ‘No; never.’ ‘Whac became of yoilr nouveanles de Paris?’ ‘Nell went without them, as I went without my Euglish robe,’ ‘You don’t mean that she never sent them to yon?’ ‘I -never gave her my address, and she was not supposed to know where I 1 was.’ Williams didn’t like to ask any more questions, and Hugh remained quiet for a time, Then rotising himseli and getting out of his chair, he said: ‘I have never made love since, and’ —with a bitter laugh—‘I always avoid women in deep mourning. And now as the fire has gone out with my story, think we had better go to bed.—Har per’s Weekly. BARLEY AND OATS. It is generally admitted that barley is less hardy than oats. We have known both, and wheat, too, to have been in jured by too early sowing. We allude to Spring sowing, when about to come up, and shortly after coming np, a hard freeze, especially following rain, will cut off either of these cropa, bnt bar ley would suffer more than either oafs or wheat, It is therefore safer to sow spring oats, bailey and wheat, after the danger of hard freezes is over. The order of sowix g as to time, should he wheat first, oats next, and barley last. Either can be sown with safety in mids die Southern Georgia after the 15 th of February. In Northern and North-east Georgia afier the 25th. But many sow earlier in these climates and usually without injury. The chances m favor of heavy crops are decidedly in favor of early sowing. As barley is a larger grain, a greater quantity of seeds is re quired: from 2 to 2* bushels per acre according to the qnahty of the soil are required. On good rich land barley will yield from 25 to 40 bushels of grain. On snch land oats will yield a larger number of bushels than any oth er grain. Experienced farmers say that spring oats are more exhausting to land than Fall oats, the latter being not more so than wheat.—Exchange. A Novel Shoes House,—An ex change gives the following directions from a Florida correspondent for mak ing a cheap and efficient smoke-house. Dig a narrow pit from twelve to' eight een inehes deep, throwing the earth all on one side. At the bottom of this dig a trench of sufficient length to hold one or two joints of stove-pipe at snch an angle as willbring the end away from the pit to the surface of the ground. Over the end of the pipes t- a large cask; remove both heads and bank np the earth so that no smoke can escape from the bottom. Hang the hams to be smoked on round sticks, placed across top of the cask. Throw a cover over It is no exaggeration to say that his history from the first has been written in characters of blood. I do not refer merely to the long chronicle of his butcheries—from the slaughter of his brothers and their followers, early in his career down to tho more recent in discriminate and wholesale destruction of all the unmarried women who at tempted to evade his orders, given in a sudden fit or caprice, that they should accept as husbands the eldery ummar- ried soldiers of his army, the massacre being subsequently extended to all the relatives who took away for burial the exposed corpses of the slaugliterhood women—but I would take his -character from his own account of himself as was sent a little more than two years ago to the Lieutenant Governor of Natal, who, on hearing of the massacre of thsgprls, wrote to remind him of what had very recently passed between him and the representative of the Natal Governr meat, Sir T. Shepstone, in the way of promises of more merciful rule on the occasion of his installation as King, expressing a hope that the Lieutenant Governor might learn from him that the reports which had reached him were incorrect. Ceiy wayo replied: “Did I ever tell Shepstone? Did he tell the white people I made such an ar rangement? Because, if he did, he has deceived them. I dp not kill, bnt do; not consider yet I have done auythiug in the way of killing. Why do the white people start at nothing? I have not yet begun. I have vet to kill ; it is the custom of our nation, and I shall not depart from it. Why does the Governor of Natal speak to me about my laws? Do I go to Natal, and, dictate to him about his laws? I idbsdl not agree to £ny laws or rules from Na tal, and, by so doing, throw the great kraal which I govern into the water. My people will not listen unless ' they are killed; and while wishing to be friends with the English, I do not agree to give over my people to be govs, erned by laws sent to me by them. Have I not asked the English Govern-: meat to -alh-iw me to wash my spears, i since the death of my father Umpantli, and -they have kept playing with ms all the time, and treating me like a child? Go back and tell, the English that I shall now act on my own account, and if they wish me to agree to their laws I shall leave and become a wanderer - bnt before I go it will be seen, as I shall not go without having acted. Go back and tell the white man this, and let them hear it well. The Governor of Natal and I are equal. He is Gov ernor of Natal, and I am Governor here.” tree. During the ed coal to a few shavings a dense, black smoke. der my plum smoke prevailed all parts of My first efforts were very gratifying, in seeing insects-of all sorts J hurry out-of the tree. Ants came running down the tree, various kinds of worms and qpi- ders let themselves down by their webs, and all winged insects flew out, leavisg the tree deserted of all insect life. I spent abont half an hour In smoking forty-two trees; and this I repeated three or four times each week, unless & rain had washed off the smudge, when I again repeated the smoking. After my first efforts I tried the shaking pro cess, but invariably failed to catch or see a single specimen of the eurculio. I continued this process until near the time of ripening, and got my first crop of plums, over thirty bushels. The whole cost of coal-tar for those forty-two trees during the summer was less than two dollars. I began the smoking a little to late, after I had tried for some time the jaring into the sheet, there fore, some of the fruit had been stung, and my crop of ripe plums would have been still greater. During 1875 the plum crop wa3 an entire failure, and I had no opportunity to continue this ex periment; but the summer of 1876 brought a large plum crop, and I at once resorted to my favorite remedy. I commenced smoking my trees as soon as the plums were the.size of a hazel nut, and continued up to the time of ripening, and not a single corcrtfio was to be seen on my frnil, the trees of which were treated to the coal-tar smoke. I purposely left trees of different varie ties unsmoked, and all the plums except , one sort were stung and dropped off be fore ripening.—Dr. Kauffman in Prai rie Farmer. • ‘ _ -*-k e use of coal-tar being improcurar- bie here, perhaps pine tar would be. equally beneficial, it is well worth a. trial. ANOTHER DELUGE COMING. A Belgian professor ha3 published a work entitled Periodicite dee Grand Deluges Resultant da Mouvement Grn duel de la Ligne des Aspides de L Terre”, in which he warns us that we may be on the lookout for another delnge of the world. At certain regu larly recurring intervals, he maintains, the waters of one hemisphere are sud den precipitated across the equator and flood the other. The last of these delu ges, which always flow from north, to •south, or from south to north was, that of Noah’s times, which was from the north. Hence the explanation of the great preponderance of water in the Sou*hern Hemisphere,, and of the gen eral Southern trend of North and Sonth Americf, Africa, and many minor penensnlas. The next of these deluges will flow from the South to the North The canse he argues, is the alternate increase and decrease of the ice caps at the poles, and the consequent change pf the earth’s equilibrium. Since. 1248 the South Pole has been contihnallj enlarging, while the North Pole has been proportionately diminishing, to day the diameter of the Southern gla cier being about 3,000 mile3 and that of the Northern 1,500. Whpn these two glaciers shall have arrived at their maximum and minimum extension, then will the earth tilt over and be sub merged by another great flood, the fif teenth if the kind ff&t has occurred. In view of this impending and some whatseiions probability, the qnestiOD arises: What are we going to do about it? If no ose can offer a better sug gestion, would it be advisibla that each of ns resolve himself into his own ark by wearing, night and day one of Panl Boyton,s rubber swimming cos-, tames?—Louisville Courier Journal. The verdict “not guilty” in tire trial of Julia Johnston, the alleged -Clayton county murderess, is said by a reporter of the Atlanta Constitution to have been entirely unexpected, and when read the effect was astounding. Sue was dazed at the intelligence, and her counsel was ron.- a'ul ted a - the b< i o of the best won victory in the criminal an nals of Georgia. PARMER’S ACCOUNTS. We do not think we will bo considers ed extravrtgant by reasonable men, when we assert that -a farmer shonld watch his business with the We pre cision and c.-iro and know its iftaitn-s by the same certain logic of figures, as does the merchant or the banker. Wo make this suggestion feeling that its adoption, especially among the, farmers of onr particular section will be .produc tive of much good. To keep farm ac counts is a simple thing; its ntilty is unquestioned and yet this very simplic ity seems to take away from the process the sense of both utility and beauty] This is borne-out in the well know fact that not one farmer in ten great or snail, keep a regular and systematic record of his business transactions. It js true that with what are termed “sanSU farmers” the number of strictiy cash transactions, that is where curren cy itself is used, is comparatively arpqlf but to fail to record these few, because they are few is to deny the truth of economic and good old proverd “take care of the cents and- the dollars will iake care of themselves.” A “set o' books” is not necessary; a cash book, on the credit side -of whiah you set down all money paid outiand on t ie debit side all money coming in a journal or day book in which is record ed all credit transactions—that is where the money is not actually used; a ledger in which are the names of all who owe you or whom yon owe—these are all that are necessary' in maintaining acor- rect satisfactory and useful system of farm -accounts. Every busixctc man, whether he be a farmer or a merchant, lawyer or a .banker, should be able to tell the exact status of his business by ja, reference to his books, and no ante!- ligentman, whatever, -he Ins vocation, will, we vent-are to say, deprive himself of a systematic record of his business transactions if the experiment be once made. A system that will conduce ma terially to economy, watchfulness «sd thrift, let all our farmers begin to keep books.—Planter & Grange. ihere are in Russia many obscure sects whose -rites are on a level -with •.hose of the ^most barbarous ssysges. The disappearance of sundry children has resulted lately in the discoverv of a sect who hold that real blood should/ take tho place of wine at the Lord’s Supper, and whose agents abducted”* and killed infants-to supply this. The St Louis City Council ha3 been asked to stop the ringing of cL-nreh 'cells. They desturb the card players and men who are reading, borrowed ra- ■■ers in beer saloons.—Hew Orleans P c ayvne. The coalition of Michigan Democrats and Greenfenckers ‘means busines? fof the Republicans. There are few Slates* where the Greenback organizalieu has made snch serious inroads upon the Re publican strength as in Michigan. A-f the last election the Republican mana- 1 - gers were seriously alarmed, ami <rerd forced to exert themselves strenuously to carry the State. ’ It is when a woman trL that the great glnrv “f her i sscen.without being heard very mm