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PURE -DRUGS, PATENT MEDICINES. toilet articles. Fine Perfumes a Specialty "Kerosene and Lubricating Oils. BESCBIPTIONS CABPFTJlIiT COK- TODED by one of the best druggists in the state. A. choice line of - Cigars and Tobacco Always on hand. Sunday from 8 to 10 a. m., and Open on.... from 330 p. m. to 6 p. m. A shareof public patronageis respect fully solicited. L. A. FELDER, M. D., Proprietor. NEW PUBLIC ROAD. GEORGIA—Houston County: To all whom itipay concern: All persons interested are hereby .note- fled thnt, if no good cause is shown to the contrary, an order wdl be granted by the commissioners court establishing a new road and bridge as marimd out by the road sommissionem appointed for that purpose, commencmg at Head’s mill, in the 6th district, lead ing in a southerly direction through the : lands of J. M. Culpepper, andciowng Mossey creek at a point where ^ 0 bort bridge will span the creek. creek) and leading thence trough the lands of J.H. Hampton, Walter Short, J. O. Lilly and through the Hfrbng&M lands, where it will intereect the pubhc road leading from A. J. Houser s miU to Port Valley, the whole being about two miles in length, and all m the 9ui di trict except that portion from Heads mill to Mossey creek. By order of court. _ _ ~ Fob. 2,1891. J. M. DAVIp, C. C. O. HOUSTON SHERIFF'S SALE. Will be sold before the -court house door in the town of Perry. Houston county, Ga., between the legal hours of sale, on the first Tuesday in March, 1891, the following property, to-wit: Forty-five acres or land of lot No. 58, in the 9th district Of Houston county, bounded west by lands of Mrs. L. J. Houser, east by lot No. 39, north by lot No. 59, south by lands of Mrs. L. J. Houser. Levied on as the proqerty of J. R. Mathews, agent, and in his posses sion, to satisfy a tax fi fa for state and county taxes for the year 1890. Also, at same time and place, lot of land No. 125, and the east two-thirds of lot No. 124, being 135 acresof said lot, in all 337K acres, in the Lower 11th district of Houston county. Levied on as the property of M. H. Faulk, to satisfy two tax fi fas for state and county taxes for the years 1889 and 1890. Also, at the same time and place, that part of lots Nos, 16 and 17, lying on the west side of Bay Greek, in the 10th dis trict of Houston county, containing by estimate 202% acres moreor less. Levied on and sold as the property of It. VV. Patterson and Florence J. Yancy, to sat-. iBfy a tax fi. fa for state and county taxes for the 3 ear 1890. M. L. COOPER,- Jan. 28,1891. Sheriff. M $ Attorney at Law, Office: 510 Muubebbt Stbebt, MACON, GEORGIA; Special attention given to business in Houston county. J. L. TTnrdftman, W.D. Nottingham. TtAttUTlWAN b NOTTINGHAM, Attorneys at Law, Macon, - - - Georgia. Will practice in the State and Federal Courts. Office 306 Second Street The memory of the soldier’s first battle will never be forgotten -by him. The impressions were burn ed so deeply into the brain aud spirit that a century of peace would not efface or even dim them. Twenty-nine years have passed bines I went through the first “baptism of fire,” and yet the scenes and events are as fresh and as vivid in the soul vision as is the storm of yesferday eve. I want to tell yon somethin: about it. I shall not name the time nor the place—the living who were with me will remember the facts—for the record-I give is his toric, is real, not ideal or fanciful, and I wish to have the recital so worded that any man in the world can read it without a feeling of bitterness in any known, direction. Thepictuie I give is not for the man who wore this or that uniform. I want a cameo that will, outlast the passion that produced the bloody struggle. I do not pretend to give a histo ry of an entire battle; no one man can do this unless he draws upon the experience and observation of cthtsre, for euch actor in any great battle sees the struggle differently from what it appears to others. I shall relate my own individual ex perience and observation—what I personally saw and .heard of oue fiercely fought battle—one memo rable in the history of the war— my first passing into and through its flame of fire. A soldier’s first battle in war does not always come at the ap pointed looked for hour. Many-of the volunteers went to the front, expecting to whip out the fight the next morning after arrival—either before or after breakfast—then to return-home crowned with immor tal honors. But- with thousands many weary months elapsed before the opportunity of meeting the foe came in real earnest, and when it did come countless thousands were not-expecting it. After my enlist ment as a soldier I had not to wait the coming of the fight. Attorney atLaw, “""PiSSY,~ - Ga. Will practice in all the Courts of hiB cirrcuit. M.ONEY LOANS ' On Houston farms procured at the lew- est possible rates of interest. As low, if not lower than the lowest. Apply to D. Nottingham, tf Macon. Ga. MONEY TO LOAN. Hi sums of $300.00 and upwards, to be secured by first liens on improved farms. Longtime, low rates and easy payments. Apply to C.O.DTJNCAN, Nov. 20th, 1889.—tf Perry* Ga. Snnr-Uttl* fortune* have Unnudiit rork for oa, br Anna rage, Austin, tas, aud Jno. Bonn, Toledo, Ohio, s cut. Others are doing aa well. Why : vou? Soman “ r a lily earning from II to 10 a day. AH ares. Wcaltowyouhow 1 atert yon. Can work in apart time H thn time. Big money for work- Falinre unknown among them. NEW ai»d wonderful. Particulars free. Failure unknoi - . .. — IV ami wonderful. Il.IIi&Ilett«*: ('o.,!iux 'SO IN.rtlnnd.Malno PERRY BRANCH SCHEDULE. Except Sunday. Leave Perry at 4 A._M. • Arrive at Fort Talley 4:45 a. at. Leave Fort Valley at 11:35 p. at.. Arrive at Perry at 12:20 A. ar. Leave Perry at 3:25 p. it. Arrive at Fort Valley 4:35 p. at. Leave Fort Valley at 8:25 p. il Arrive at Perry at 9:10 p. ar Sunday Train- Leave I’errr 10:10 a.m. Ar.Fort Valley 10:55 a. m. Leave Ft. Valley 4:15 p. iu Aan.re Perry 5 u. m. Subscribe for the Home Journal Night had enveloped the camp, and I was dreaming of sunny fields, of smiling meadows, of a happy home—of mother, and all that was near and deaf to a human heart But the destroying angel came, anj all vanished into the realm of sweet ened shadow. For a comrade stood beside me with his hand ou my bosom. As he leaned over toward my ear I heard him say tremulously—the man’s heart in a flatter of emotion: “Wake up! They are advanc ing!” Was there the hue on his lips that made me think instantaneous ly of the line: Whispering with white lips! “The foe —they come! they come!” The first beams of the full morn-, ing were penciling the orient sky, aud the rays fell upon a group of half a dozen anxious faces gather ed arond the adjutant’s tent. The horses were there—one with droop ing head and limbs at rest; another was panting heavily and reeking with smoke as the courier still sat on him. The commanding officer was reading a note, hastily scratch ed in pencil, under starlight alone. The officer was en dishabille. Yet 1 heard him speak hurriedly and anxiously to the bugler just called np: “Sound reveille at once, and boots and saddles immediately af terward.” Turning around he add ed, addressing his servant, “Saddle my horse at once, William.” Strange it is what a magnetic in fluence, as it were, that will per vade a mass of men.in the hour of danger and duty. Three minutes had not elaped after the sounds of the last bngle blow had thrilled the camp till the squadrons were forming. “Move the colamn down the road, captain,” said the command ing officer. “I will gallop on and ascertain the real situation.” We passed another and another courier, and then we came to a body of men holding horses be hind a clamp of treesr Jaot then there seemed to be an awful stillness in the moi-niDg air, suddenly broken by a noise -that sounded strange to me. “What is that?” I asked. “It is the rumbling of their ar tillery,” said Gen. S. Then be turned around, looking us all squarely in the face, and added in a confident tone, “Yes, they are ad vancing, and in force.” There was no mistaking the sound that next greeted tbe ears, there was a clear, ringing report that punctuated the stillness, then there was another and another and the rifle cracks died , a way. They were the prelude of the battle soon to begin in earnest. The clattering of horses’ hoofs signaled another courier who dash ed np, exclaiming in tones of feel ing: “General, our dismounted men are skirmishing with them.” We .had heard the rifle shots half a mile away. “Captain, gallop back, and hur ry up the infantry. Tell Captain Hart we need the artillery at once. He, too, is coming.” Then there was another and an-, other ring of the clear voiced rifle, then a terrific volley and a doable shot or two, and then the gnns were hashed for a moment. Men were seen harrying from the direc tion of the sound. They were the dismounted skirmishes who were being forced back by the stron advance in front. The men rallied with oar column. “Fall in men,” cried a sargeant near me. “Fall in, men! fall in promptly. Fall in here!” Oh, this terrible tongue of war! Fall in here! Fall in! This'is the most awful appeal thnt greets the soldier’s ears. Fall in. It is tocsin that dies away only with the tuneral knell of many—for them it says: Fall in —fall in—to the arms-of death!” A second staff officer had been sent back to “hurry up the infau- try.” The noble fellows were com ing. You could hear the deep, muffled hum of their footsteps as the doable quickiug harried there onward. As they came up I heard the short, quick command: “Move out by the right flank! Into line! Steady, men; steady! I expect every man do his duty now!” Move oat, and move on, my dear comrades! Alas! many moved on into that colamn which passed on, never to return. Them first battle was their last. There was a lull iu the firing in front, but oat to the leftward vol ley after volley poured, out upon the morning air—the sun just ris ing over the hills to our right. I had followed at the gallop the gen eral. who was hurrying to the front. Hejw;as more silent than 1 had ever known him. Suddenly he halted and turned tosee who ail were about. s g What troops are those?’ 1 asked him doubtfully, as I saw a long line of infantry men double quioking behind a high rail fence not a 150 yards away. - I-could not distinguish the uniform,' .and was not aware of the direction from which all our riflemen were to en ter the battle. “My God!” said the gSnejfj “that is enemy !” We were upon them before we were aware of their close proximi ty. They discovered us, too, at once, and were preparing for the greeting. “Get out of the road!” shout ed the general. There wasa clump of trees on either side oftke high way upon which he had thus far advanced. “Get of the road! Don’t you see they are bringing the battery to bear upon us from the hill yon der?” Hooked, and a white puff of smoke greeted my vision, and the same instant—wliiz-z—whmyr-r— chee-ee-ee—went a shell right be- between tbe general and his staff, and bounded down the road, ex ploding iu our rear. The general eddressed me again: “Get out of the road; and gallop back and have the cavalry moved on the flank of that line yonder in the field.” Another shell came in tbe mean time, and made the air resonant with the flying fragments. Then there was a volley of rifles and a faint cheer near onr flanks— for onr infantry "were now moving out of the skirt of the woodsand opening the battle in earnest. Capt. Hart, too, bad'eome, and he unlimbered his gnns on the bat tery on the.hiU in our front, though he soon turned his aim to tbe in fantry line that was nearer, and I heard the shots rattling upon the rails behind which the enemy had fallen. “Thane God,, the infantry are here,” sai<l one. They are the men who.se shoulders move the wheels on to victory. I-heard the - com manding general shout os the long line came hurrying on just as the men emerged from the skirt- of woods, “Move on that line behind! The Fathers of the Republic Were Uncommonly Young. I The Most Beautiful Picture. an officer shout. Alas! many had-already fallen- fallen to rise no more; Half a hundred men of a regi ment stood up, and their irrngnlar fire rattled mockingly, along' the fence. It was the work of but a moment, for a whole brigade in onr front answered the fire of the little band. The battery rained grape and can ister and shrapnel against: the bri gade, and_ now the battle had join ed in awful earnestness all along the line. Battery replied to battery, hos tile brigade replied to hostile bri gade, with sheets of iron and lead en fire. There were in the terrific din the hurtling shot, the scream ing, schreeching shell, and -whis tling whirr of the deadly minie. Amid the roar were the shouts of command, the wailing shriek of the wounded and the moans of the dying. The hours were passing, the musketry was roaring with an unbroken note, the batterries were bellowing at each Tither, when sud denly there was a deep,- dull thud —a mighty force which at once shook the whole battlefield. Two heavily laden caissons were blown up simultaneously. Then there was another sound which conld not be mistaken. There was a lull in the firing on onr right, and the whole earth seemed to be la boring aud groaning. Thousands stood listening amid the horrid yell! Oh, it was the charge of the cav alry! Charge! charge!” shouted the throats of a dozen officers, and the bugle blasts, ringing out faintly in the din, mingled and died away in the fierce shouting of the sqund- rons. Boom! boom! boom! went the ar tillery bosses! Clang! clang! clang! rang the glittering sabers as they leaped from the scabbard It was; however, but an instant of awful chorus when the wailing cry of Waterloo, sauve qni pent!— save himself who can!”—went up before the onrushing squadron of furious horsemen, who broke ont iu the wild shout of victory that deadened the guns along the whole line'—and troops ou the right— troops ou the left—troop3 in the center—all caught the notes, and there was one long and -terrific thunder note of victory! The cheers of iofautry men greeted the shouts of cavalry men—while the little squad about the artillery— brave, fellows, with bands of red upon their uniforms, cried ont, as the defeated were seen flying in stricken masses in front: “Hurrah for onr battery!” And well might the liyjng vic tors shout! And well may the dead rest— friend and foe in “one red bnrial blent.”—M. Y. Moore in Atlanta Constitution. Between the North and South. St. Louis Bepublio, The Mason and Dixon line rnns along the parallel of lattitnde. thir ty-nine degrees and forty-three minntes, twenty-six degrees and three minntes, separating Pennsyl vania from Maryland. It was drawn by two distinguished Eng lish surveyors, Charles Mason and ■Jeremiah Dixon, who began their work in 1763 and finished it in 1767. The line is marked by stones set at intervals of five miles, each having the arms of Lord Balti more engraved upon one side and those of the Penn family upon the other. Besides these stones set to mark each fifth mile, smaller stones were set at the end of each mile, these haying a letter P engraved upon 5 one siderand a letter M on the other; these intended as initial letters of Pennsylvania and Mary land. All these stones were en graved in England. The Mason and Dixon line was not the line separating the free and the slave States. The line settled on iu the compromise of 1820 was thirty-six degrees, thirty minntes. The Ma son and Dixon line as shown above, ran along the parallel of thirty-nine, degrees, forty-three minntes. Nature producers the light given by the firefly at about one four- hundredth part of tkfe cost of the energy expended in the candle flame, at an insignificant fraction of the cost of electric light or the most economical light yet devised. FOR TBE BLOOD, Weakness, Malaria, Indigestion sad Biliousness, take yon fence!” I " bkow.vk iron bitters. A red and white and blue line of 11 For ?’ le b * ^ d ** len Southern Alliance Farmer. We want to see all past differen ces existing between onr alliance brethren forgotten and forgiven, and from this day onward we should look to and live only for thefutnre. “A house divided against itself cannot stand,” and neither can an organization pros per when its members are racked With dissensions and strife. Eve ry allianceman in Georgia should feel toward each other that broth erly love and confidence so essen tial to unity and success The late senatorial contest is over, and nothing that can be now written or done will change the result. AUiancemen are good, law abiding citizens, and always ac cept the results of legally contested tribunals of their conntry. It is childish to continue a con test after a battle is lost or won So soon as a contest iB decided, it should be the pleasure and sacred duty of every allianceman to go to work and assist in healing all wonnds inflicted. We therefore respectfully sag- gest to oar alliance brethren, all over the state, to discontinue their agitation of the senatorial issne. Nothing can possibly be gained by keeping alive these old issues, but ou the other hand such a policy will breed bitterness and animosi ty in onr order. We must work together and stand together, and weed ont any issue calculated to produce discord or dissension, John B. Gordon, if he lives, will represent Georgia in the United States Senate for the next six years. While we may differ about the wisdom of bis selection, it is beyond the power of the alliance to change the result; If Seuator Gordon carries out in good faith the pledges he made on the eve of the election, this paper will give him its earnest support and hearty endorsement; if he prove recreant to his promises, it will then be time enough to enter protest. The sooner our alliance breth ren, let the old senatorial issue rest, the better for the peace and harmony of the order. Both editors of The Alliance Farmer opposed the election of Gen. Gordon to the senate with all their might and main. We now unite in asking our brethren to as sist us in healing all wonnds that this unfortunate straggle has cre ated. Uncle-Jerry Rusk’s declaration, a few day’s ago, that he was very sorry to see his named mentioned in connection with the presiden tial nomination, has.bronght ont a New York Star. No fallacy is more firmly fixed in the public miud than that which ! represents the establishment of good story, writes a Chicago Her ald correspondent. It is pretty well known among Uncle Jerry’s friends and admirers that tbe little bee is buzzing most industriously under that big crop of white hair of his, but he has to be a little can tions, as he is a member of the cabinet of a president who is sim ply crazy to be re-nominated. Sec retary Rusk’s chief clerk is a Mr. Rockwood, whom he brought from Wisconsin, and Rockwood, know ing what was nearest his chief’s heart, took advantage of the sec retary’s absence a few weeks ago and sent ont a large number of letters to editors of agricultural papers in Wisconsin and else where, suggesting the advisability of starting up a boom for Uncle Jerry for president. When, the secretary returned to the city he was furious, and for a day or two it was an open question whether the luckless, but well-meaning, Rockwell’s head should fall in the basket. Fearing that Harrisou would in some way hear of letters being sent on agricultural depart ment stationery by the chief clerk thereof, booming the Secretary of Agriculture for the . nomination which Mr. Harrison expects to get for himself, Uncle Jerry concluded that the best thing lie conld do would be to go up to the white bouse, make a clean breast of it and throw all the blame on Rock wood. He did this, anu felt bet ter when the president said that it was all right—if ii did not occur again. When the result of tbe farmers’ vote for choice of presi dential candidates came ont in a Hassachuseets agricultural paper, aud Rusk saw that be had almost many votes as the president himself, he became alarmed again —actually trembled, lest Harrisou should suspect that lie and Rock- wook had worked the whole thing up with their letters, and conclu ded to come out in a formal inter view expressing his great sorrow at the nse of bis name, and declar ing his undying affection for, and loyalty to the president. Six Hundred Feet of Frost. St. Louis Bepublic. For many years scientists have been perplexed over the phenome non of a certain well at Yakutsk, Siberia. As long ago as 1828 a Russian merchant began to sink this noted well, and after working on it for three years, gave it up as a bad job, having at that time sank it to a depth of thirty feet without getting through the frozen ground. He communicated these facts to the Russian Academy of Science, who 'sent men to take charge of the digging operations at the wonder ful welL These scientific gentle men toiled away at their work for several years, but at last abandoned it when a depth of 382 feet was reached, with the earth still frozen as harjl as a rock. In 1844 the academy had the temperature of soil at the sides of the well taken at various depths. From' the data thus obtained they came to the startling conclusion that the ground was frozen to 8 depth: exceeding 600 feet. 5 Although it-is known to meteor ologists that the pole of_the lowest known temperature is in: that re gion of Siberin, it is conceded that not even that rigorous climate conld force Irust to-such* a great depth below the surface. After figuring on the subject for over a quarter of a centnry" -geologists have come to the conclusion that the great frozen valley of the Lena river-was deposited, frozen just as it is fonnd to-day, daring ' the gpreat grinding np era of the gla cial epoch. France now has nearly 4,000,000 soldiers and reserves, bat wants a few more regiments, and proposes to get them. “This scarcely looks as thongh an era of universal peace was about to prevail in Europe,” says the Washington Star. Mrs. Matilda Evans) of Laurel county, Kentucky,’Waged ninety- one years, and has 180 children,, grand-cliildrea and great-grand children. our government as the work of old men. The delusion is imbibed in childhood, and is unconsciously cultivated by the text books used in school; The“fathers of the re public” are depicted in nil the his tories with wigs, queues, and all accessories of dress that apparent ly betoken age, aud the pupil nat urally concludes that they must have been old when the nation was born. In point oE fact they were an uncommonly young set of men. George Washington, senior in age as well as in authority and influ ence, was but forty-three when the Revolution broke out, and fifty- seven when he became the first president; Thomas Jefferson, only thirty-three when he wrote the Declaration of Independence; Al exander Hamilton, but thirty-two when he became Secretary of the Treusnry; James Madison, only twenty-three when he was made a member of a Virginia committee of safety, and thirty-six when he was Hamilton’s great collaborator in tne production of that political classic, “The Federalist.” Nor were the leaders iu the great enterprises exceptional in this mat ter of. age. Forty names were signed to the Constitution of the United States on the 17th of Sep tember, 1787. Leaving out of ac count four whose birthdays are not given by the books of refei- ence, only five of the remaining thirty-six had reached the age of sixty; twenty of the number were less than forty-ffve years old; and twelve were under forty, among the latter being one (Hamilton) of thirty; another of twenty-nine, a third of twenty-six, and' a fourth who lacked some months of being twenty-seven when the convention met. The average age of all the members did not quite reach for ty-five years. The most important committee to which the instru ment was i eferred forjiual revise ion consisted of five members, four of whom were between thirty and thirty-six years of age, the fifth and.least prominent being sixty. A Novel Invention. There has lately appeared in Marseilles, France, says the New York Times, a machine or the ve locipede type tnat can be used ei ther on land or in the water, as the rider may desire. The mechanism is very simple, and looks very mnch like that of an' ordinary tri cycle whose wheeis are formed of two iron plates placed opposite each other and held in place by cross bars. The wheels are groov ed on their circumference, and have a thick rubber band for nse on the roads. For use on the wa ter the wheels have on their peri phery-a dozen little copper padrlles similar to those on tbe wheels of a side-wheel steamer. The machine is capable of high speed ashore, and afloat it has made nearly three miles an hour with no greater ex ertion than is needed fir a tricycle on a good road. Its stability is remarkableji-:-and its efficiency in rescuing people in the water has been fully demonstrated. A man has clung to it while in the water, and been carried along without upsetting the machine. Two men have been, kept .afloat by depend ing entirely upon its buoyancy. Experiments, so far, have been Sufficiently successful to warrant a greater -'perfection of the machine. Air-tight compartments are to be added, jtiie paddles enlarged and the wheels made lighter. In this manner it is fully expected to in crease the speed in calm water by 75 per cent In rough water this excellent showing is naturally not to be expected, although it still re mains true that it can take one per son easily cn the dry land or in the water. “What impressed yon most of all that you saw in Enrope?” I re cently asked a friend who had just returned from a year of travel ex tending from Amsterdam to Na ples, and taking in the chief points of iuterest in England, Holland, Belgium, France, Germany, Switz erland and Italy. He hesitated a moment, and then said: “The thing that really affected me most, I think, was a picture I saw in Rome. It wasn’t by Ra phael, or Michael Angelo, or Titi an, or Mnrillo; iu fact, it wasn’t a painted, but a living picture. Nor was it in a palace surrounded by luxuries accessories. : It was just a simple little com position in a homely cottage door way—a humble mother sitting up on the top step, winding into a ball a skein of yarn that her boy, a sturdy li t'e curly headed fellow of seven or eight years, held ont over his twohands-stretched apart. There was a tender look iu the mother’s eye, and a contented,hap py expression in the face of the child that took me back forty-years to a pretty little home in a Massa chusetts village, where, in a door way not unlike that one, I some times sat with the skein of yarn over my outstretched arms, and my dear old mother wound it into a ball. “I conld not quite see my moth er and myself in those Italian faces, so far as physical resem blance was concerned, but the con tent, the freedom from care, told of that beatifnl time in life that nev er is half appreciated until it is past. That pictu-e, my friend, of all that I saw, was what impressed me most. None of the royal pa geantry I witnessed, none of the miles of glowing canvasses I look ed upon, none of the interesting historical scenes I visited, pre sented anything to compare with it His First Ice Cream. Dr. Craig, an allianceman, says E. H. Snow, who has just been elected state printer of Kansas, is an anarchist, and has presided at anarchist meetings. During the. trial of the Chicago anarchists he printed his paper in red, and as serted in his editorial columns that for every drop of blood spilled of those men condemned a life should pay the . penalty. This was. the time Snow runup the American flag inverted and stamped flt the mud when. it was pulled dowu. meaicine. Get the genu/ e. HT browits irom bitters Cures Indigestion, Biliousness, Dyspepsia, Mala ria, Nervousness, and General Debility. Physi cians recommend it. All dealers sell it. Genuine has trade mark and crossed red Unes on wrapper. According to the North China Herald, the climate in east and west Asia is becoming colder. That of China in particular is growing not only colder, but drier. Animals and plants used to hot, moist regions are gradually re treating southward Two thousand years’ ago the bamboo flourished in the forests of north China, but it does not now, and at Pekin it is only cultivated under shelter and favorable localities as a kind of garden plant A miser worth 8400,0C0 ha3 re cently been sent to jail in Chicago for begging. Gen Miles has completed the list of Indian delegates to Wash- ington city .to lay their grievances before the president. Thenomen- clatnre of the Sioux chiefs makes amusing reading matter, viz.: Yonng Man, Afraid-of-His-Horse, Standiug Elk, Little Wound, Fire Thunder, Two Strikes, Big Road, He Dog, High Hawk, High Pipe. Chump and Lewis Shaneran will serve as interpreters. One of the largest clocks in the world is the great Parliament' House clock, .nsnally* called the Westminster-clock, iu London. The dials are 22‘2 feet in diame ter.- The depth of the well for the weight is 174 feet. - Weight of the minnte band, two cwt; length four teen feet; glass used in dials, twenty-four tons. The large bell is heard ten miles off; the small ones four or five. Here is the way in which a south Georgia school commission er goes for a country editor: “I’ve always tuck you edittres' fur fnles. You writ in the . paper las week that sum nv the edieatiim board uv this county wus discompeteut to serve: I ses it air a lire.” He is an “ednreatre” of the first wa ter, and did not nse gloves.—Ex change. .There are 70,000 voting pre cincts and seventy jndicial dis tricts in the United States, and if the force bill goes into effect it is estimated that it will cost the Uni ted States governineut.817,21.6,000. The lowest number of officers that could be provided for 402,305. The Ocmulgee river is oa all the year round from Abbe: to Brunswick. Three steamers ply between these points. New York Ledger. Abner Dungrass, from away np beyond the White mountains, had penetrated to the Hub. It was Abner’s first visit to the city—in fact, his first trip away from home. A relative doing business in the metropolis had spent the previous summer with Abner’s parents, and in return for many kindnesses he had invited his friends of tbe conn- try farm to vist him at his city- home. And thus Abner chanced to be in Boston, aud was now diniug at a hotel with his' host. At first our countryman linrdly knew what to do with himself at the wonclrously laden table. His relative, observing his hesitation, whispered to him: “Don’t be backward, Abner. Help yourself to just what yon like.” By and by a gentleman -sitting opposite directed a waiter to bring him a plate of ice. cream. The cream was brought, and the gentleman set it down before him while he finished a dish of scal lops. Abner looked up and saw the delicate looking mass in the plate not far away. It was tempt ing, and he reached forth and took it. He had pnt a spoonful of the frozen mixture into his mouth, and was hesitating between surprise and delight, when the gentleman opposite rather abrnbtly and not very pleasantly, said: “Well, my friend, that’s what I should call decidedly cool!” ' “Yaas,” responded Abner, inno cently, when he had swallowed a frigid morsel, “it’s about the cold est pudd’n' I ever thsted. 1 swan to man ef I don’t believe it’s really teched with frost!” The fashionable housekeepers of Evanston, 111., a-suburb of Chi cago, have just availed themseves of the co-operative housekeeping scheme, and now their fifty dis placed domestics have engaged a lawyer to assist them in regaining their situations. La Grippe Again. During the epidemic of La Grippe last season Dr. King’sNew Discovery for Consumption, Colds and Coughs, proved to be the best remedy Reports from the many who used it confirm this statement: They were not only quickly reliev ed, but the disease left no bad aF ter results. We ask you to giv this remedy a trial, and we guar antee that you will be results, or the' purchase price 1 be refunded. It has no equal rippe, or any Throat, Chest g trouble. Trial bottle free :law <fc Gilbert’s ;e bottles, j .' ^ ' > . .. . • » o0c. and I