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I>e-vo-te<i to Home Interests and Culture.
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VOLUME X.
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All BbctfEHoh and'hilvertisins bills avc payable
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Administrator’s r'Sale of
Land.
GEOBGIA—Houston County.
Vniler all order frrm lbe Court of prdmbry of
SilvdmtV 1 will sell in fore the Court bouse door
In
Live.
ueituw,! tong 11 as raw-hifle,
following
ul‘ jN uiy White, cle-
■Which Some People
Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution.
“Where ignorance is bliss it’s folly to
be wise,” the poet says; but ingnorance
is not bliss. Contentment is a good
thing; bnt then a man oughtent to he
contented because he is a fool. A man
ought to be discontented enough to
want to know something. One of my
nabors asked me the other day who
Colquitt was. running agisnst, and
when I told him, he said lie thought
he was running against Hayes, and
when I told him that Hayes- was presi
dent he said he thought Gen. Grant
was president. Nothing “troubles him,
'and he just lives along from day to day
and works his little patches, an’d raises
a . few pigs and chickens, and keeps a
poor cow, and lias half a dozen little
'children that never wore shoes or hats
and not much of anythiUer else, and
they live on potatoes, and simmous
and berries, find go dirty, and are as
•‘What are you go-
.. _ v , _.. _ , ,
In will county "" the Must Xurnday in
inNi, wiiiiiu the icyui binie a rale Urn foiiowiiiR | Ing to do with nil of them little 'cLil-
tard*. belonging to tbc entiL: of J-n.y White; clo- J ° § _ _ _ \
How are you going to
di-en?’’sab! I.
raise cm! “Oh, they’ll get along, I
reckon,” said he. “My old daddy
raised nine, and we Was all about like
’em. Four of Nan war killed m the
war, and they was good soldiers.
Those chaps will be about ready for the
next war. I’ll learn cm-<o shoot if I
don’t lean: eni anything else. Pome
folks is good for some things ar.d samg
for another. ’i'aiut everybody that
call light, you know. They can't stand
i‘.” And there was this poor fellow
actually apologizing for the people who
'couldn’t light and iu his poverty rais
ing up a gang of children to defend
the country when the tiiU‘o came. Pov
erty is a curse to some folks, but it ain’t
to him. He don’t want anything,hard
ly. If lie had a hundred dollars to
come suddenly he wouldn’t know what
to do with it. It would make him moie
miserable. He’s got a rifle and kills
squirrels and turkeys and his children
catch rabbits and partridges, and they
are all happy and contented in their
way. but after all it’s a poor way. If
everybody was as poor■ anil ignorant,
we would get run over and gobbled up
j migh.-y quick. Yve wouldn’t li,<ve any
I governuieut or any schools or any
j churches. A uian cm Lie. two rich or
! tvm poor. On! A pair proved to the
AllverKmuMiicbirti to the firm of W.*\ oasxos Lord to give him neither riches nor
if Co. p i„rt-> NevcinbcK 12th 1879 are |flu}c|tetl to poveity, anil that’s the best,; But poor
tunic ifirftartj ami seitlo at once, otherwise their j , , .
h ,hf ,111,1 nivoimtH ivi’11,,’phiccrt in the bawls of ti>li£| do have a Rawer ct chilclren, and
SuinlllccrlOf colh’i-lion. 1 h:» is li,’,” rsirv t.. re 'o.t | ., , ,, , i n JS _. i,,.,, n
a s-etttynent with tbc estate of.T. TJiwcy. ilc. M. ' m •> k , , " OJ liana blltU a ngnt
j, j, 4 Nf?OK Sc OO* c.mii’.s. lorn Howard told me he hail a
' poor tenant who had seven or eight
iisUbuinc,MiiMici)»ro.'> ,!c«.! ii ilfi’uiton heads, about one ’a years
and
i.'«cic«nf lot No. lio, 011,1 50 '.•Hire's ’oT lot, No,
ViO in tlic Ur for Fifth district of raid count;,-,
kiiiiwn an tbc “11. D. W bite Place.” ’J he place baa
'acomruiiabl.-hctt-n Ior dwelling and cribr. Sold
fur liintrihntiim and the l aVni'cut 61 tile debts of
Will nutate. Terms cash.
BIGF.MpND WATSON.
Administralor Mr v Wbitis deceased.
Oct 7tli iv.
GEOUOIA—Houston Coi-nty.
Mr?. N. AiKillni, iuliuh:iptriitrls c»f S. 1). KiJIcu
MtdaK'fl.liJiH i’or k^e tir sell the ciitirc
n-.il < ktatf <»1 wirt cle<Mfa«Vii:
is therefore (o cite all porpolis coheernctl to
fit tin* Novembi rlcrm, 1880. of the Court of
Onlinarr of Faid eoniitv, and rlimv cause il* any
they lmve why nai« application ahonltl not be
granted.
Witness my official signature this Septemboi* 53,
\m. ' A. S. GILES,
4w. Ordinary,
Executrix’s Sale.
Will bo sold before lbe court btiusc door in the
\own of Perry, Hour-ton county, GborjHa. within
\hn ]p«al hourfi of sale on the first Tiicftd&y in
j pcrmUrr ISHU.the following x>roperty, to-witi
Onc'lh -usuml ti*rc.s of land, more or less, in itie
IdOVcrlUh distrhtof Houston »2 ili;:ly. and liiuAVu
bf»»thc John It. Wimberly place. Sold as the prop-
trly of Skcltou Napier, deceased. Terms ou r -lialf
Wall, tlui ’oliicr half in 12 month. Uond f or titles,
fepfe lfe, 1880. Jane E. KAPIEK, Executrix.
GEORGIA—Houston County.
George H. White, administrator of P. B. D. 51.
Puller deceased, lias applied for dismission from
IiIn trust.
This*Is therefore to cite all persons emeerned to
Appear at the December Jerm !8rt») of the coort «»1
unlinarv of said county and show'vattfr, tf :ny
they have, why said applt ation nfioiiM'not 1«*
granted.
Witness my oilicial signature this Sept. 2, 1880,
A. HUES, Oidiuaiy
FAIR WARISirNCl -
„’|Ci:!4l
JtO f,, d> 1 i-erdny. Outfit free, bend 2ike stps j
HI tpi f/i'jawas!
1XE1N TISTRY.
6, B, BARFIELD, D. D. e.
NO. MtfLlir.ltItY STEEF.T, NfACON, GA.
Ofllva }»oiir«. 8 a. m. c v». in. uni I s -
3 ? A. JOBSON,
• • Artisan,
Perry, r.eoigin.
Sewing Machines, Jewelry, Guns, Lochs, and ev
erything in his lino repaired and fitted tip in the
most substantial manner.
All work not called for in to.n days after being
uni shed will be sold to pay charges. ^
A. C. KH,El r , ~
Attorney at Law,
rom yaij.eX geobgia.
l,v neriutasiin: f,,
. 1IO.N. .-,\U I J.lIArX.MacoiV. I'll'.,
w. i. Itr-wn. V*uk«r, 4AOUi->. ,v .luXINKON,
Fcrt Valle}, i.it, J :nou, Giu
F1USTNATIONAL SANK.
MACOW, CIA.
bank of Peposit, Discount} Excl'-ango-
k WWItIGLEY,
Cashier.
I CPLAXT,
President.
P. C. CLEGG & CO.,
Hawkirtsville, Ga.,
We just received a large find ft bll-stile t ted ffitieL of
^ e Keep’alftayg on hand a full s
BASCINC AND TIES-
We i- ... d S'.
last his wife bud twins, and
Tom, says he: “Jack, this sort of doing
w.ou’t do tiny longer. You are the poor-
eskman i ever saw, and with all iiiy
help and my wife’s help and you can
baldly keep your little chaps from
Breezing to death, nnd now your wife
has just gone and had twins. How in
the worid do you txpi et to get along?
I till jou my friend, it’s just outrageous
and someiliiug uiustbedone to stop it.”
“Welli now, Colonel 1- ’said Jack, “you
uiusent be skeere d, for as shore as you
are born the Almighty never sent a pos
sum in the world but what he sent the
\
simmons aioug to feed it. I’m mighty
proud of them-lwins, I dm aliure, and
we’ll-get along somehow. “Twins is
good luek they say.” I kuow a poor
fellow who just can squeeze along, and
me and my wife have deen concerned
about em for feat the children would
suffer if the winter was a hard one,
for there’s no money to bnv shoes and
warni clothes. aDd the mother is sick,
but they all told my wife the other day
they all wasgoin^ to the circus,old man.
old woman annuli. “What for?” said
she. “Why dou’t you save your little
cotton money to buy some clothes fqr
the children?” But the last one of em
was high up for the circus. They had
seen the pictures over to the black smith
shop and heard a man soy it was the
biggest show upon the face of the
earth. These sorb of people look
upon a circus as oue of their privileges
—something as free to them as to the
rich, a place they can go to and see as
hrach a3 anybody,. a ^splendid frolic
On a cheap scale.and it gives them seme-
thmg to talk about and discuss for
months to come. So I don f t blame em;
do you? Let ’em go to the circus'and
take' all the children,for the poor don’t
have many frolics. I reckon I’ll have
to go myself- on account of my chil
dren. They’ve got ther hearts set on
^OOTSand SHOES, HATS, CAPS,
CLOTHING, TINWAKE,
CHOCEJERt, HABDWAKE,
BACON, ELOUE, SUGAB,
COFFEE, CHEESE, FISH,
sardines, oysters,
Tobacco. CIGARS. ETC., ETC. A ieI1 er come along and throwed
out some of the pictures at the gate
and the children believed everything
they see on em. I told them that the
heppopotamussts didu r t open their
as wide as was in them
I heard they had left some
behind, but I reckon
'be enough to do era mini the
eus comes along. Poor little
■y live out heTe in the woods
see anything bigger than a
ill or a drove of mules go by>
BCi d:dent„ibelieve id.
, and fiiuh
s a fare-bank, and so
a ifjM
trie light, 'but I noticed he stayed as
long - as anybody find wasent pe-
rusin the light more than half the time.
He said it hurt his eyes, and he was
obliged to look down. • Brother John
son said he was going to please his lit
tle boy, bat the, lit tie bby got sick, and
Brother Johnson went any how so that
he could come tack and tell his little
boy all about it and ekeer_kim up, and
maybe it would hope him. Parents are
mighty good to the children about such
things--lint they?
Bill Ae£\
Tlic Family Purse.
Woman’s Journal.
The money question between hus
band and wife is oBe of the most seri
ous drawbacks to married happiness,
find it ls-time it was adjusted on a more
just and equal basis. The life of utter
dependence which some women lead is
crushing and degrading. Men do not
realize the utter helplessness and vacui
ty to which the system condemns wo
man, Now, does, anybody believe that
it is necessary for the welfare of the
family that she sliould go to liiin for 25
cents every time she needs it for car-fare
or a spool of thread? Is it right or just
to fake her imbecility in money matters
for granted before she has been tested?
Is it not just such women, who
are left by the failure of some specula
tive craze to their own resources, with
the burden of a family upon their iuex
perieueed shoulders, who often display
wonderful powers oi energy and calcu
lation, in addition to thrift and preserv
ing industry, which uWgh't to put all such
men to shame?
-Women, as a general rule, can make
one dollar go as far as two iu the hands
of meu;and many conceited individuals,
who now ei nsidcr that the social sys
tem bo.uudid by four walls of their dwel
ling tvomil cease to revolve if they wfcre
taken out of it, would find great happi
ness and great pecuniary advantage iu
putting the control of all the interior
details of their homes in the hands of
their wives, with a division of the in
come' equal to their requirements
Talk Over Wliat YonKeatl.
ClirUtian Union.
Nearly forty y ears’ experience us a
ti acher lias shown how litfc o' I know Of
a sui.jcct until I beeiu to ixplaiu it or
loach it. Let tiny young person try the
experiment of giving in conve>satiouf
and connectedly and iu the simplest
language, the chief points of any book
or article ho has read, and ho will at
once see what I mean. The gaps? that
are likely to.appear in the knowledge
that he lelt was his own will no doubt
be very surprising. I know of no train 1
ing superior to this iu utilizing bile's
reading, in strengthening the.lliemory
and in forming habits of clear, connect'
ed statement-. It will doubtless teach
other things than those I liaYe mention
ed, whit-h the persons who honestly
make the experiment will find oiil for
themselves. Children! who read eaii be
encouraged to give, in a familiar way,
the interesting parts of the books they
havo read with great advantage to all
concel’Ued. More than one youth I
kuow has laid the foundation of intel
lectual tastes iu a New England family,
where hearty encouragement was given
to Children and adults in their attempts
tb sketch . the lectures they had heard
tlie etening previous. The same thing
was done with books.
A SNAKE STORY.
The Oartersyille Express indulges in a
shake story as follows: “Mr. J. J.
Mnrplicy, living near Manning’s store,
in this county, while oat on his farm a
few days ago, found a large rattlesnake
lying near a cliff of rocks. He endeav
ored to kill the snake, bnt it got in
among the rocks and made good its es
cape. Mr. Murphey then went home
,and got a gun and then returned to
the cliff, and finding the snake lying
near a large opening in the rocks, shot
and killed it. Thinking that the snake
he first saw was larger than the one he
had killed, and that perhaps there were
others there, he placed six steel traps
near the entrace and went home. In a
few days he went back to the cliff and
to his surprise found three large rattle
snakes in the traps. This is a snake
story, and a true one.”
The Age oS miracles
is past, and Dr; Pierce’s Golden Medi
cal Discovery will not raise the dead,
will not cure you if your lunge are half
wasted by consumption, dr your system
sinking under cancerous disc ase. It is,
however, unsurpassed both as a pecto
ral and alterative, and will cure obsti
nate and severe disease of the throat
and lungs, coughs, and bronchial affec
tions. By virtue of its wonderful alter
ative properties it cleanses and enriches
the blood,thus, curing pimples,blotches,-
add eruptions, and causes even great
eating ulcers to heal. . Sold by drag-
YOUNG ms.
Tbc Rind of Cb&.pS who arc Disap
pointed at Xieadrille.
Leadville Chronicle.
Almost daily there arrive by all the
various roads which lead into : Leadville
young men who have left home and
friends, and with no experience or “mon
ey to back them, come here to . “make
a living,” as they call it; Poor, vain,
deluded youths! Not that there is net
ample work here for the willing, not
that those who come here fail to obtain
employment— but, alas! it is not always
that which causes the young man who
a week before came here with hopes
brightly burning, to return home de
jected and discouraged. It is a fact
which has been proven again and again,
that the majority of the vast army of
young meu who come to Leadvillo in
the delusion that a lax state of society
prevfiils here, wbioli will enable them
to live in a romantic sort of way with
out working.
Mining! What a sense of novelty the
word conveys to an adventurous East
erner. To lead the free and easy life
of a miner, to sleep in a log cabin, to
work with a revolver strapped around
your waist, to spend a couple of hours
each day bursting among the mountains
for elk and bear and deer; perchance go
through an Indian fight—and all that
sort of thing which is supposed to make
up the lite of a miner; what joyous
scenes of excitement the word miner
calls up! Alar, when the stern reality
presents itself to the deluded mortal,
what tumbling down of air-castles is
there, my conutrymeu, when the young
man finds what iu ail the brief years
of his existence he has never found out
that it is work—and the hardest kind of
work atfcthat—which makes the money
that inokes the mare go.
The quick, active workers are those
who make a success of it here. The
first case of a failure by one of those so
gifted yet remains to be recorded. Hunt
these mountains high and low and yon
can’t find a worker who has failed m
Leadville.
This is the class of people who, t hough
they may not have more than what Uiey
have earned by hard labor when the
week is past, see milMius within their
grasp, unit who give you their solemn
pledge that they will strike it lliree
weeks hence. They are never discour
aged, and take things just os tlu-y Come,
‘whether ill or^gooil.
LeadviLn is composed exclusively of
a working class of people, in the prac
tical sense of the WOtiK These mines
about us ureliHed with clerks, profes
sors, lawyers rud doctors. Don’t for a
moment imagine that they are there as
Ornaments, leceiving large salaries and
doing nothing. No, indeed, In their
rough miner’s garb you would fake them
never for wliat they are. They are
workers, even though their early years
were spent in colleges,.banks or offices.
They dig and delve tide by side with
your common laborer, who understands
neither Fatiiruor French, and kuow on
ly one thing, and that is that they mast
work just as hard as their illiterate com
panions “ to the manor born” if they ex
pect to make the same wages.
These are the men who compose the
active element which has given Leadr
ville its reputation for push anil enteiv
prise,and those who'have not the means
to build up a business here nor wish ,tot
do some hard work had better not
come.
A SOYELIS^ SHADOW.
New York Sun.
In yesterday’s newspapers a ‘dispatch
from St Paul, Minn., was printed an-
nouhcihg.tiie viffieai; death of a lady of
means who claimed to be Mrs. Si S.
A flock of girls is called a bevy; a
bevy of wolves a pack; a pack of thieves
a gang; a gang of angels a host; a host
of porpoises a shoal ;a shoal of buffaloes
a herd; a herd of children a troop; a
troop of,parfridges a .covey; a covey of
beauties a galaxy; a galaxy of rnffiians a
horde; a horde of rubbish aheap;a heap
of oxen a drove; a drove a blackguards
a mob; a mob of whales a school; a
school of worshippers a congregation; a
congregation of engineers a corps; a
corps of robbers a band; a band of lo
custs a swarm, and a swarm of people is
called a crowd.
There are funeral ministers, gentle
men who carry around with them an air
of professional solemnity, they carry it
even in their hat bands and pocket'
handkerchiefs, and look continually as
if genteely laid out in their coffins.—
There was a minister of thi3 sort called
on to marry a young couple. He stretch
ed out his hands and unconscionsly be-'
gan the burial service. “Sir,” spoke
up the young man, “we Came here to be
wededd,not buried!” To Which the gen
tleman of the cloth responded, “It won’t
be many years before yGU wish you had
been buried.” -
IS would seem as if the potato-bug is
susceptible of improvement. A lot of
them went to church in Sandoval, HI.,
and instead of trying to teach them the
entire congregation dusted. A bug who
will go to church when the weafher is
so hot that some of onr most religious
families are obliged to stay away may
be so far persuaded as to give
other 1 welt k’newh novels., She’had Reefi
in St. Paul for a few weeks only, and
said that Be» home had been in New
York. She was intelligent and spright
ly, and her social standing was excel
lent. She liked spirited horseB. 'On
Siinday with three female friends she
went on a pleasure ride behind spirited
horses. The afiiinals ran away. Mrs.
Harris was thrown out of the carriage
and picked up insensible. A few hours
afterward she died from Concussion of
the brain. Her three companions^re-
fused to divulge their names. A rela
tive of the nut lib r of “Rutledge” vis
ited fche hotel bnt did not recognize the
lady. Strangely, however, among rhe
lady’s effects was a mauuscript of an
unfinished novel, and it was apparently
in the handwriting of the authdf of
“Rutledge.” An undisputed photo
graph of the son of the author of that
work was also aiiiofig the papers of Mrs.
Harris.
Mr. George W. Carleton, of the well-
knowu firm that published “Rntledge.”
about ten years ago, said yesterday that
the authorship of that novel was kept
secret for some years. Many guesses
were made as to the authorship and all
were wrong. It Finally came out that a
young lady, a native of this city. Miss
Miriam Coles, Wrote the work. Soou
after this fact became generally known,
be heard that an author was writing
serial stories for “story papers” in Chi
cago and other Western cities.and sign
ing the nam'e Miriam Coles to the arti
cles. They were written with ability
and in the style of the genuine Miriam
Coles. Miss Coles was exceedingly an
noyed, of souse, fihd Her sensitive tem
perament made iifir fret oVer the mat
ter. Mr. Carleton made many efforts to
learn who the author of the stories was,
biit he never succeeded. The ttnkhowii
writer made no attempt to debrive the
genuine Miriam Coles of her literary
honors, and therefore could not be
reacljpd by the law. Eventually, Miss
Coles mfinite! Mr. Sidney S. Harris, a
iawyer of this city. She continued to
write novels for Carleton to pnBlisS
under her name of Miriam Coles Marias.
Almost immediately the nnknoV'ii)Wl'iter
iii the West also changed the signature
to her stories from Miriam Coles to Mi
lium Cedes Harris. It was learned that
she traveled about between Omaha,Chi
cago, Lacrosse, and Httdson, Wis.
In August last Mr.- Carleton received
a letter from the Western writer asking
that “Rntledge” and all tlie series of
Mis. Harris’s writings dovfn to“Missy,”
the latest, should be seut to her C.O.D
They were not sent.
Mrs. Miriam Coles Harris is now in
Southampton, L. I., with her linsband,
at their summer residence. Mi'. Carle-
ton added tb At Mary J. Holmes has a
Similar shadow, who follows or pre
cedes her iulier travels, and wfco rep
resents herself as tlio. author of Mary J,
Holmes’s works*
■JrfHolmes’s.nsuqe-on liqr^^itijigjc^rtls;,
TESAS AND VERMONT.
Haltford Times.
GEOKGrV.
The Athens Bamw is jub:
In 1870 the bopnfttiou of Texas WD3 ! the prespetes of Georgia. It says; “The
° nn ~ Now it is, in round numbers ! state of Georgia and the south g-
’ » , _ _ J e ii. „ t ‘ -
816.205.
1.600,660—,or double /tLe.mimbei ten I Iiave - now before them a better promise
years ago. And the great state is pros-T°^ than they have had sinco
. tl ... . ■■ USfiO TIiff|.ntt n ,i /.mn in cnifnnf thi
peybus in all directions? If is pro:
to state that this large increase was
made-tinder democratic riiie.' ,'MifisburiV
also under democratic rule lias likewise
made an enormous increase. Tndecd
this is the case throughout the “solid
South.” And the republican editors,
remembering their slanders of that sec
tion and loth to admit the truth, have
been trying tn cilarg’e the increase to
fraudulent census taking! This is ao-
surd, for any considerable fraud,in any
state, would present its own easy means
of exposure. Gen. Walker is not dis
posed to believe such stuff aboilt the
work done by his subordinates of the
Census Bureau; but to satisfy the clam
or about one state, he lias taken meas
ures to aecertaiu the truth in the case
that has chiefly been disputed—South
Carolina. Meantime we have the sig
nificant fact that ail the southern states
show a great increase in population.
It is apparent, also, that they are en
joying a greater degree of prosperity
than they have hac.. In fact the $outh,
relieved of both its old slavery system
nnd of carpetbag and bayonet rule,
seems to b'o entering upon sn era of
prosperity greater than anything it has
ever known. It is a milder climate and
productive soil will soou begin to at
tract emigrant j from Europe. The
south is peacabie, industrious end pros
perous.
ifrow let its take the situation of a
state wich is always under the republi
can rule. The Rutland (Vt.) Inquirer
has to say of Vermont:
“Colonel Worthington, who has been
emploj'ed to gather statistics relating lo
labor and wages in various slates of the
Bliion, reports that the average wages
paid fbr labor in tire state of Vermont
is bonsiderabiy less tliiifi any Mite north
of Mason and Dixon’s line.
“Governor Proctor iu a recent speech
iii this town, stated that a large increase
in the number of convicted criminals in
this state was a cause of the greatly in
creased cost of its government. He re
ported the number of criminals to be
nearly thrfee times as great as it was a
few years ago.
“Jitdge Dunton stated in his charge
to the grand jury last Septiniber that
the amonnt paid forinloxicnting liquors
consumed iu this state in the year 1870
was §6,700,000, and it had increased iu
amount since that time. Now- this
would furnish to every voter in tho state
forty-live gallons of rum as §2 a gallon,
a quantitity sufficient to keep every one
of them drunk three hundred days in
every year.
“Vermont has always been under re
publican rule.
“Thus it would appear that the state
of Vermont is remarkably for five
things, vm;
“It has the largest per cent of crime.
“The lowest wages.
“It drinks the most rum.
“And has the largest republican ma-
Sonie of the leading republicans say it-
few more sndh speeches as the one madri
by Mr. Conkling in New York recently
; ‘—f wcmildidestroy all hope of the .success of
andffndqr.jlh&nqiffftjgi^antpig,,,, 1 * 1 The$&s-. ^h^Bjrty, and suggests that . ho-lid;
thm? nest,-and fvnnshiiie.’ &c:” ed the Pacific Ocean, arrived 1 ' atpSalii .8jt©p^g(k.^i4;fqp^5q; ^ - *
tkor.of tTSsmpesfc'ranjl^qnshiue,’,; 4c:
- Mrs. Holmes hasiai-riyed at, jhpjelsjn -FrdnSsfeo HalffoTnia,'on Ahgst'A'SOtiij,
Europa sndifoundithafober shadow had
preceded, “her. \ Spmetjmf^jtnVP'iK 1 ? 1 ''^
some persuasion to convince people tltvt
she was not the iuipostev herself. Mr:
Carleton says that lid never-heard of any
other instances similar in tliesS.
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woman at Carson. Nevada, is said
to have undertaken to Telfiiin from
speaking for foity days. The repot t
runs as fallows: “She began at 9 in
the morning; and at IOJ her pnlse wss
so feeble from exhaustion that the phy
sicians, feared she weald die by noon.
At 11 kef heart beat but twenty-six a
minute and her respirations were hard
ly noticeable, ller friends here urged
her to discontinue her terrible task.aad
“told her some goSsip about a neighbor.
On heating it she immediately rushed
from tlie house, am! going across the
street, met a lady friend, and talked to
6J last' night, and is now fully re
stored.” '
thing with stfiSfHI ijj?s and^mall notxifcs,-
about- a&.^ B ^le,tg btuigess of life ,
as a. pair of-, tweezers to tile clearing of a.
forest.
r t4i4%^»yH{f'iffi^ftr«?M tbd'-P&ftfic
Oceari/as'weU as in ’ theriu&o!fy Of Chi
nese cOmmbrce. The-vessel, which,
bears the name of “Hoeknag,” is after
the style of American ships, somewhat,
-is large and bothinodipus, bears power
ful engines and is capable of transport
ing an immense ameant of freight, as
well as a large number of passengers.
Buskin has just written: “Make your
children happy iu their youth; lot dis-
diuctiou come,to them, if it will, after
well spefit and well remembered years;
‘mi ' let them now break and eat the
bread of heaven with gladness and sin
gleness ef heart, and send portions to
them for tfkom nothing is prepared,aud
so heaven send you its grace before
meat and after it.”
The Hon. John A. Cathbert, a resi
dent of Mobile,. A la., is the oldest living
ex-member of Congress. He was bom
at Savannah, Ga., in 1785, graduated at
Princeton Collfege in 1805, served in the
war of 1S12-15, and was a representa
tive frun Alabama from 1819 to 1821,
sixty-one years ago. He M still hale
Among other curious natural pbeno
menu, to be fonnd iu Nevada, was re
cently discovered in Lincoln county, a
spring of ice cold watef that bubbles
tip over a large rock ard disappears on .
the other side, going .no Oue knows | an j hearty and practices law in the
where. In the same county is also h of Mo - oiIe _
large spring, some twenty feet square,
that is apparently only about eighteen
inches deep, with a sandy bottom, but
wlirrfi in reality has no bottom so far as
can be ascertained. The bottom to be
Seen is quicksand and all efforts to
probe to a stopping place has thus far
proved a failure.
A new. process for using up old steel
has lately been patented in England.
By it a now metal of of e:
The charity of some people is to give
all the old rubbish the' dogs wont eat to
rhe poor. Such pecfplS, when they kill
a beef send the horn’s and hcofs to the
hoDgry, and then go to church, sit in
the amen corner an 1 grunt like a horse
with the colic. It will take a good deal
of granting, however, to carry some of
th*a to heaven.
1860. The cotton crop, in spite of
inerpiigiiiffiAMtf|ilhv><rngUii»n attend free
lab«Wd4|^bteaM^owing larger from
year to year, and J'erthe price -has not
decreased iu proportion. TLis yeasi&e
fleecy staple lias coine to maturity two
or three wroks .earlier than usual, and if
tile frsoty weather should be delayed as
was last year, an ininiense crop will be
gathered. fcFrom present prospects, i£
is going to bring fair prices, and a large
crop, with fair prices, will give the
Southern people the grandest impulse
towards permanent prosperity that they
have had since the disasters of war came
upon them. With the prosperily of 116
planters comes the prosperity of all oth
ers, Ail’d everywhere signs of this are. tb
be seen. Men are getting out of debt j
and are having surplus money to edu
cate their children,improve their homes,*
and give their families more of the'com
forts and advantages of life. Altogeth
er, the outlook is cheering. Let ns'
thank God and take courage.”
“What are ybu worth?” asked a rich'
old iiiiser of a young man who Was*'
courting his only child. “Not idett
now, but I am coming into a large for
tune in a few years,” was the reply.-—'
The marriage took place, and then the’
old iiiiser learned that tlie large fortu’n'e
which the yonng man was coming intd'
was his father-in-law’s.
If ever household affections and loves'
are graceful things, they are graceful in*
the poor. The ties that bind tile ^«Uthv
and the proud to hoffie may iie forged-
on eaith, blit tlicse % which link the poof'
man to bis humble hearth are of the’
true metal And bear the stAmp* bf lifetrfri'
eu.
i-o-4 ;
On the Dank holiday at the Alexandra-
palace, London, 100,000 persons were!'
tarufid liit'd bile inclosure. Thirty thou- -
sand cups of tea acd coffee, 350’barrels’
of ale,42,000 loaves of bread, and 601000*
buns and cakes were consumed between'
morning and niglit.
“I don’t like Jones,” Baid Suodgt8§&-
‘'Nq.” be added after a pause, “I don’t:'
like him. The fabt is, - Jones speaks so
much of himself j tells so much, yod‘
know, that he doesn’t leave any roonri
for the imagination.” Does any reader*"
know Jones.
General ‘ ‘Tige” Anderson, now Chiel
of Police in A'lanta,Hai ret tuned a swill
to Colonel Francis A. Walker, of the-
Union Army, which was tfikfifl tHieni
Anderson cdpttir’ed Willtter at Reem’s
Station, Virginia, in August, 1864.
The Philadelphia Tithes says; “Tlie
solid South seefiis to be rather more*
pleased, if possible, than the United
North with Hancock’s pnnching o’f tlfo'
rebel skims babble, and wants him tb.
write some more letters.”
The railroad Up Vesuvius tiSf doiiti.
such a flourishing business since its
opening last spring that tile valueof thb,
stock has increased.lifty.per '
The man who is afraid to drfnk vrfifb.
and does not like to drink Witter caif,
compromise on American champagne.
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An umbrella and a dime novfelare
the nsnalbaggige which tlie girl of thifi.
period takes with her to eaiapttteeting.
No one can be happy Without &
friend, and no one cdti Itfibw what;
friendA hie lias until he is kfinpv. '
X-4-Z. r
Two negroes were recently seen iu tk
field,near Macftn,picking cotton with an,
umbrella stretched over therii.
Your son died suddenly
disease,” is what An Idahc
to a fond mother in India]
One man was
other. “Well,”
can whip a philosopher. 'L
A woman cannot
wyer. She is two ion
opinions without pay.
—
It-is better to give
This related especially
medicine:
A cruel husband i
fruit,” because
him.