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HARVEY, V. b H CUI'RCH US -hiv J I. It Bairelt, pustor - every Sunday HiOrMin the Ist and 2nd Sundays. ■sOay S.-ii.i .1.. A f Patti! in,' Supt ■tv Sunday at 3 p in ■ssiIVTKRIAN- -KvV d F McCd lllltld ■ Service- .I;, 2nd and 4th Sundays ■di month, ■tsiiAV Sellout, --T K Powell. Snpt. ■'? Sunday at 9.30 a nr ■ fuatkrnai,. ■aWaEM-KVII.i.I! Maso.'.K 1.01M1K.--A B"!' 10 M., S A llngood, S W ■'hnn.JW. Meets on Tuesday ■’ :. or belo e full moon in each ■ ■>\kk.son Chaitrr, No 39, It A ■ J h Spetae. il I‘, a I I’uttiilo, ■ -'deels Fiiday eight before the ■fflmlay in each month. ■viSHMT SIi'KKIOR CdUKT.— N. I ■ ■ctinii.Judge, t.onveuts t n the Ist ■hr in March and St rdcmbrr. ■•"(V 1 :- 1 "•••in i. located in <»win <' 1 1 ' li rs 1 lis profession:! H ' ! : “ a I ‘ l ■ >inn to tin- citizens ■ f'l'lMi t" nil . nils will In ''ini il'si.li iicc lit the res i ton.) ■_ Wl 'li ittli 18s4—«mo ■ N " ii< >! l K i VKGLASSK' Pitcheli’s I Eye Salve, ■ tai "’ Safo ’ effective remedy for f M iHurifyn I . Sl Plito(hiess, and Re HSlveT Granulation, I teapV 1S V He 1 d E J«- Mat I Lashes, and ■ Producing qaiek ■ l elief and per ■ maneuf Btlao Hn < nre tnahiHj < fllotl, iol,=i w hen used W, t' I”*’ 1 ”*’ *»<•!> as Uleers, Ke ■"“'Piiesor Duri *s, Klieum- Mit.-heli “J “, v ‘‘ r inH “tmmitioiv Kir a " ,lI P ■ Sll Ve " u 3be used E~* y all at :’ft cents. 80., i r , <'-**. Anv I J,. ■tal k, l '' ' •«. jYJ,- Ist lias the inaie ■ <* <«., jo. ir ■ *• stu'ttnkU •»- iithtffff HrrstM \j!r If'lr If l|l| §l| 'V Jf if Vv TYLER M. PEEPLES, Proprietor VOL XIV. p htorial brevities. “Chef Arthur’s fishing t ae klo will soon tackle the tish, The number of El Mahdi’s fol lowers is still an unsolved problem. \t is yet doubtful what effect W lifde s red coat will have on the Irish bull. One more disaster in t*lie Sou l an, audit need not be a very lar<> - e one, will consign Gladstone to pri vnte life. Judge EnJicotts grandfather Hon. Jacob (Jrowninshield, was secretary of the navy under Jef ferson from 1805 to 180!). Six sprouts of asparagus bring SI in New 'York and it takes a sim ilar amount of monay to buy a dozen strawberries there. One item of Washington gossip Is that Garland and Endicott have eyes upon the Supreme bench, and will use the cabinett merely as a stepping stout*. The question now. says 0 Michi gan exchange, is. What does the West get? Friend and brother, it is our mature opinion that the West, in this instauce, gets •est. The Southern Senators who are formulating plans to distribute patrovage under the new /■'resi dent appear to be a little prema ture. Better stick to garden seed a while longer. Mr. Blain is described by a Washington correspondent as be ing vo pale as to be “absolutely c-oloriess.” Mr. Blaine has been associating too closely with li : s chances for die Presidency. The row out W est is now be tween “rinks, rum and religion.” A bill has been introduced in the Minnessota Legislature forbid ding males and females to skate at /lie same /ime in any public place. It is said that New England capitalists have invented SIOO,COO. 000 in Wescern property. New England capital is emigra ing rap idly both Westward and South ward, and in beats that muscle will soon follow it. Says Talmage, “every ti ne a sin is committed, conscience tolls a funeral bell. 1 ’ This may be true for a season in all men’s lives, but there are some who have worked ■ heir consciences night and day until strength to protest, much less toll a bell, was wanting. Only to think, but twenty-five years since Appomattox and “retiel brigad >erj,” upon the floors cf Con gress singing “Dixie.” We do not desire to throw any of the sick bretheren in o convulsions, bat the South is evidently again in the saddle, and no longer parading bareback. A Washington cot respondent has diseovei ed a conspiracy to de feat all of Cleveland’s apppoint inent th tt will cost a Republican a place. Mr, Cleveland can defeat this by simply Adjourning the Sen ate after 1113 cabinet has been c on firmed, and if necessary will nut hesi ate to do it Ex re ms meet. The terror of the London police brings about hughablo result. The story is told that a (J.itli die lady of London bringing homo a bo*tle of the miiaeolous Lourdes water tor medicinal purposes, left it tempo rarily in a shop. It was ene'osed iu a small iron casket, and the bus pinions police*got hold of it. It was carefully analyzed, repotted to contain “a e'eir colorless liquid and the whole thing sent to Wool wic t to be destroyed- State Senator Arkell, of New York, the proprietor of the Albany Journal, is coming South upon a p ousure tour, acconmpttnied by a number of Republican editors. Ho has chartered a car and will travel in the ideal editorial style. Georgia editors who take black jack, pine knots, watermelons and potatoes >n payineu' for subs cr tions will hardly be able to enter— taiu these high flyers, but, faey can sit cu the fences and see <Lem go y. *ht riitgel In Disguise- A happier, prouder little wo man than J/rs, Rose, when a/ the last deed of a house and homo in her own name was given her by Tom., you nevsr saw. To be sure it had been bought to a subject to a moitgaged by a wealthy up conn try stock-raiser, who let out hi s money that vay ; that, together with the fact that it was liable to foreclosure now at any time was the only drop of bitterness in the ciip ; and wiitn that was paid off, bliss would be running ever, But meanwhile, what a model bouse and heme was to Ie ; outside, a blessing so the eye of iLe passer by ; and irslde, a paradise to the dweller ; and all i s work to run on a perfect system, and the ser vants to adore her ! Then as for lhe nieghborhood in what hospitality Blossombank was to glory—always a fork laid at the table for aD otherwise un expected guest, guests always welcomed ihe bouse a refuge for all the human race who should claim it. And if a baby should be hung in a basket on the door i andle, oh, heave ns j what joy ! And if a traveler should break Lis leg in the street and be bronght in for weeks of healing then joy ,'gain—it might be angel in disguise ! And in tru h much of her purpose was fulltilled ; the place abounded iu hospitality ; the neighbors did love to run in; the servants did adore her. The sisters and brothars and husband chaffed Mrs Rose a little, but on tne whole Blossombank for all its mortgage was a nest ot happiness. Yet when the travelor did come he did not look like a“ angel in dis guise They were at tea —one of .heir ordinary’, tens whi h, when the fa ble was full, the rest- sat about where they could, and all was gay and happy as if there was not a mortgage in the world —When Mandy, the table girl, whisp ti in Mrs. Rose’s ear some words that made ilia' laughing lady’s face look grave a moment, and then irradiate with ineffable bappi “Oh, what is it now Rose ?” cri<d Belli. “I know you’ve just heard ot some horrible case of distress by your face.” “Awful!” said Rose, rising— “Awfutl A poor man struck with paralysis in his wagou out by the gate. Paralysis in his wagon V * said Sarah who was always amused by Rose's agonies. “Paralysis !” said Bello “I suppose so. Mandy says bis horse stopped at the brow of : ihe hill ” “Th it lie did, mem, and won’* | bilge. Aud there's a dozen men , and boys out there, and two of I them has cliined the wagou and shook tiiui lie’s as sound as a log. The Seven Sleepers cou dnT wake him.” “The poor fellow !’’ said Airs, j Rose, “Just think bow dreadful I Away from home, nobody know ing who he is or where he belongs struck down in the dark, Oh it makes my blood run cold about’it We mustn’t s'.atiu talking about it and be perhaps dying. ’ And Rise was hurrying to the j door and out into the May night I chili and dusk, without hat or I shawl, and everybody was fiock j ing after her. •‘Oh he has certainly had a stroke !” said Rose, as she clam* ered clown from the wagon where the figure sat bolt-up right iron, immutable, head fallen Ou the oreast, the only sign of life being the heavy stertorous breathing. ./Vot all the shaking and hauling of stout persons, who had jumped on the o her sh.e produced the lightest effect on the sleeper. “Lift him out.” said Mrs. Rose to Stout, you ana the rest of yon as gently as yon can and bring him iD, and ilmu lead the horse into tile yard and call William to take care of him. I know Mr. Evacs will wish it. '-lßdeed,”she added to the fl .ek behind her, “I don't sej that there’s anything eke to do and she tripped iu OIJH OWN SECTION V, . I.ABOH FOR ITS ADVANCEMENT LAWRENCEVILLE. GA. MARCH 10 18S5. light footed and in what under the circumstances, would 1 a*e passed for a state of es a “y, to hare a cot brought down Wo the pretty little reception iwm, be - cause ii was the nearest th dooi the teak table, the pride of her heart, with its groat elephantine curves, pushed aside, pillows an 1 b'ankets brought down, and hot water made ready. And nfer tiiet insensible form was brought in and the men were taking off the outer garmen's. she lnrs< f was tearing bandages, and stiiing up mustard and white of egg, paus ing only to run in with the 0)1- ogne )ottle as the men boro him along, which, however, slu drop fed, spilling every particle of the eontens, and scattering about the ordoi of Araby the Blest. And then the poultices were put on—Stout Batsons arranging one on the pit of the Ptonmch. and she herself binding them upon tlie soles of his feet and the back of the neckandupon Lis wris'B and that done 1 turning to dispatch Wiliam for the doctor five miles off. During the whole opera ion the mao remained lifeless as a log , but for the 'heavy breath ing which had a frightful sound as it'rattled dirough tile house “I don’t know how to do any thing more fid the doctors come,’ fc’dj little Mrs. Rose. “The pool man, atul his family utterly iguov- Rnl of where he is, and wonder mg, and 1 okingout for him all night! Not a letter or any thing about to tell his name, did yon say Stout ? Well all v. o can do is to wai f ,” “1 must say Ros ,” said Ler sis ter, May, “I think you mod un wise not to let William get into the wagon, drive this perton to the first tavern. Here you have him saddled on ills house for an indofini/e illness.” “Nonsense!” said Rose, rock ing herself in all the conttirmem of duty done; 1 should have felt his Wood on my head if I had done differently.” “And a sickuess,” resumed May “that may last for months before be eau be moved and perhaps death and buiial here after all and the house full of gloom and the carpets spoiled and—” “And.” said Sarah, “all for an individual nobody knows any thing about. “He may tie an angel in dis guise.” said Rose looking up earn estly. And every body laughed loud enough to wake the sleeper if anything could ..have waked him. ‘‘l'm sure I don’t see what you've laughing at,” she said in dignantly. “Suppose he can’/ be moved for months, thal woul l be a pretty scrape for him, then, if he were in a tavern, witli such care as he would be likely tc have and ail the expense.” “And nobodv knows if be has a ce.it to bless himself with,” said .May, who seemed decidedly of an agnostic tendency in relatii n to the stranger. “What an absurdity May 1 And that sttberb Abda Hah horse and a really fancy team to speak for him. He may be rol i.ig in mon ey-'’ “He’d been rolling in mud by this time if tho Abibih/lar hadn’t stopped,” said Sarah. “1 should think you Mid Tom were tolling in money.” interject ed gra ndmotner. “But, mother, having to leave anything to, why shouldn't we en joy as we go ? ’ “There’s Louisses children,’ was the severe response. I can see as exactly what is passing in your mind Rose.” said Sar ib, “as if I were a trance tried inm. You have measured this Abdallah and the fancy that he it; a millionaire wlio is going to be oveicome wit h gra nude, and give you a diamond necklace, and a government bond or two, and leave you a fortune in the end.” “as if millionaires were ever ta ken that way !” said Belle. For my part, I had ra her ha ve out dances. ’’ t And thereupon Rosa burst into tears and ran out of the room She ran into Torn’s arms, Torn just opening the door; and of i o tr-to the hysterical ietirs had to 1 e . xiDined. “And don’t you think ! did just right Tom Airs e ended:” •*h xacllv right.” ‘•There !" cried rose the tears and smiles and blushes sparkling !ogt t’ < r. ••Only puhaps, you had best ta., c Le silver up stabs eoutimieU Tout, with gracious condecen siens. "Brecitely what f I say !" cried grandmother. “And I shan't sleep a wink to 1 ight w idi ta per son like that in the house. Who ia; tell but wlmt be is eounter fe.tilig ” Counterfeiting ! ltvplied Rose i idicuantly. “Ves, counterfeiting apoplexy now to rise in the middle of the night and cut our throats in our beds ••Why should he do that ?” said Rose, seriously. 1 will lot all the blivet stay down stairs, and let him uiaite off with it and leave ns safe.’ ‘Allihe silver down stair !” cried the elder lady. The silver that I enherited fiv.ui my great grandmother, heirloons in /lie fam ily for almost two hundred years ! I was good enough for me to use all my life but I suppose you want some new. Not a spoon of it do you leave down. Bose, you take tin silver io your own room, and take the consequences of i: alter ward.” “Mol her, mother,” Said Tom. “As for my part,’ continued his mother, disregarding his voice, “I am going over to Louise’s where they don t give tramps the best loom in the house. And you may wait upon me, Tom. Driven out of my own son’s house by the whims and vagaries of my daugh ter And grandmother bustled about for a shawl aud hood, and actually set on/ for Louise’s. “Oh!” cried Rose, sitting down again, the better to enjoy her tears. “Was ever anybody so un lucky!! Here, just doing a ctnii moniy Caristian act makes a row in the family. I should like to be mistress of my o.vn house for one day and night just to see how it would feel! But my sisters and my sister-in-law, my hus band—” “And your husband-iu-law,” said Tom. stooping and picking her up. “It’s all the husband I have,” sobbed Mrs. Rose. “Aud if he is going to turn against me because / ve taken in a poor wayfaring—” “A poor wayfaring man of God,” sang Sarah, full of mischief “Come now, Rose, if you don't put on the compress you’ll have a hysteric and be earned off to bed, and nevtr have the pleasure of seeing your wayfarer arrive.” And soothed by Tom, aud vexed by lie "ills, Rose put cui the com pre-s and went to see if her charge could swallow a little beef extract while 7Y in sauntered in/o the re ception loom to lift the man's eyelid and observe wbeher its pu pil contracted b sere, light con cerning which if he came to any conclusion he did not aunounce it ns In sauntered out ag rn. ■‘l’m afraid n’s of no use, poor fellow,” said his sister Sarah, as the half tea-spoonful of beef ex tract .occasioned noaet'on. “Now ltosc, you're all tied out with your efforts and excitement, and nerves uud things, and you go to bed and I’ll sit up here and call you if if you know if anything hsp [tens “Well, i guess I shall leave you al,me note ail night with a dying man! said Rose. “\Va wont either of us sit up. We’ve done our share. Til give Stout a dol lac and he shall sit up. Now, T m, let us have some oysters and a glass cf sheriy; we need it. b s crus a little too bad, though, for »s to be merry making and dnt poor soul in there just passing through the awful gates!" All the same they did. “A per fect old mau of the sea it ietobe.” said her sister May, “if y ou go on t,o about him." And they had some hot soup uud cherry and oysters: and Stout took a big arm chair for the night, prepared to go sound asleep as “0011 as the beib room doors closed, and by eleven o’clock, felling the; had done all they could in the absence of the doctor, the family a' andoned them selves to dreams. It was a little past the first, of the wee suin' hours. Stout thought when he was a.vakened from bis own musical slumbers by a strange sound, or rather cessation of sound, and for a moment his tleah crept, The dying man was sit ting up in bed and was tearing frantically at his neck, Bis wrists, his ankles, the solos of bis feet and was talking to himself as Stout expressed it, like a bonne fire. “Jerusalem! where’vo 1 got to?' he muttered. “Have T died? Am' is this " “No, it ain't,” sai 1 Stout. “Well, diet), Ini burning up ■alive, l tell you!’ said the stran ger, tearing away at his mustard plasters. "Here's the back of my neck a condexned cinler; my wrists are blisters; in / feet feel as if Hi y d been walking on red ho grindlrons If this ain’t, there where is it!' ' “It’s a place called Blossom bank,” said Stout, “owned by the Evanses, whom you were taken in—” “And done for,” groaned the j iniin. “How in time ant I going to walk on these feet? IT ey are a solid blister, //oweame 1 here, anyway?” he replied. Stout got up and shut the door and leisurely told him, enjoying his sketch of his little neighbor. Mrs, Rose, and the by-play of tue ’ rest of tue family. “Drunk, by gracious!” said the patient? “Who’ll have thought a quart of cider would do all that? Rut you never can tell what cider on top of clauis will do; remember that, young man. Especially when it is seven years old. guess’there was a li/fle stone fence in ihat cider.” “A little," said Stout, dryly. “At loabt I thought so when we brought you in.” “Anybody but a meddlesome fool would hftvo let me alone. Howeves, Good Samaritan sort of people here, I reckon?”—as he tug ged at his last bandage. “Sort of new at it,” said Stout. “Good plaything, that nor/ of Zbing OutgiowK it when they find just about how grateful folks are.” “They’ll find just about how gra/eful 1 am!” said the stranger. “Setting evety drop of blood in my body into blazes! I’ve half a mind to set lire tc their old rook ery of a house. What did you say it was celled?” “Blossombank. Tom Evans, you know; held in his wife’s name Mrs, Do.se.’’ “/I’m! h’m! Little woman, vel low curls, brown eyes? I’ve seen her sometin es going by—looks like my Nell that died and they thought I had apolexy,” said the stranger, after a pause, “Ann didn’t know me from u side of sole! r ather ? And had me fetched into the- 1 house for better or worse? Thai’s about the breadth of it.” (‘About, said Stou*. “Put up my horse?” “Certain.” “Look here. I suppose for fifty cents you'd go «ut and put my Jiorse in. and help me limp a’ong? Curse the luck! I should think I’d been raked upon a bed of hot co,d»: That’s a Christian ftllow. II m! Pen and Ink round here?” he asked gazing about. “H’m! Leave ’em a line to tell ’em what J think ol their tearing the skin oil the soles of my feet, aud give it to ! ’em iu the morning!’ “I don’t want to lie hu ting Mrs, Rose’s feelings,” said Stout ••\Ve k'nJei like li e Evanses.” "You do as you're are bid, and no questions asked. You ch it’ get fifty cents every day tor tha There!” .luff he thing down the pen he bud been using, and lettu folded paper in Stout’s hand. And then Stout put his shoulders un der the mdidnaut person s arms, and helped him through thedinning room a..d passages and kitchens, | and out (he back door and into his wagon, hitched in the hors took the fifty cent piece, bade the JOHN T. WILSON, JR , Publisher stianger good bjgut, and return ed and laid the folded paper a, what he judged ught to be Mm Ri se's place at the breakfast table which Mandy. with bar customary provision, had laid overnight, as ter clearing off the fiagmentaof the previous banquet. *[t was at the peep of day that Mrs. Rose, throwing on her wrap per, thrust her feet into her liUle slippers, and orapt down stairs //et eyes were but half open, but they sprang wider a t the vision of the reception room. Stout's (Inir was empty, theco, was emp ty, the carpet was strewu with dried mustard plasters and torn bandages and pins and strings—• liersacied reception room! For mi instant she stared about her, and then sprang fortliobaek door It. was open; the yard was erayty. She bolted Hie door, and came back through tue dining room in bewilderment over theabstrrctiou of this dying paralytic, and she pans' d. Do you think Mrs. Ilose was a fool, that sue should not kuow what the paper was wlteu she look <*d it over? Had she not figured to herself a thousadd times how such a paper would look when their ship came in? The appari tion that, flashb'l through Saruh’s room and Mary’s room, and would have liked to run over to Louise’s and startle griutdm Jlitr, and that wound up proceedings in her own room, was flourishing a legal docn incut and crying out, he was an Angle in Disguise! and I said to' And what do you think this is? 7’om! oh, Tom! it is our mortgage, and it is discharged An I that man was the man that held it, and he was coining to take jt up or something, ami he has cancelled the whole thing, and with his thanks, tuo—think of it, And oh, can you call that anything else than an angel ” “la disguise?” said Tom, pres ently, when she had her breath again and tho rapture was momen lardy stilled. “Certainly not, Mrs. Rose; and in spite of my gratitude I must admit very much in dis guise ’’ As To l*i'»tiibillon The article in the Herald of 'he 1 Oth inst , written undtr the aR ve caption, and signed by Jas: R. Jackson, I presume may be taken as a fair specimen of the argument to be used by the anti prohibition party in Gwinnett- It is indeed unfortunate both for the writer and the cause he advo cates thal he did not state his po sition upon this momentous ques tion in more explicit terms. He sought to conceal his real post tion and to draw public attention from Ihe main issue iu an article in which either reason or consis tency would indeed be a j wel. For lack of argument to sustain bis untenable position, he nltackg principally the act extending local option to G.viunettcounty. I dare say that the writer would oppose i . y law having a tendency to re st riel or suppress a traffic that leaves in its wake degraded man hood, desolated homes, impover. shed children and broken-hearted women. It would be quite diffi-j cult to tell just where the gentle j men stands, did not his inconsis- i tencies reveal Ins position. In the first place, he object; to all legis Intion not made absolute, at.d : thinks the practice of submitting I any legislative act to the people for /heir ratification unwise and' altogether a modern innovation. lie bases his objection upon the! ground that a small majority may j fasten upon the minority a very' objectionable law. The inference! ! is that he objects to prohibition , because it is not made absolu .e. j His objection to that "lass of leg-! j islation is certainly a very weak; and flimsy one, for if there be a ; popular demand for some legisla i tion to restrict or suppress a bus iness which some may regard us pernicious and violative of /he rights of othbrs, aud such legis lation must be made absolute, ; which lie thinks to be the only proper method, would there not be equrl danger of n minority forcing n objectionable law upon the initio i y? I suppose, however, tl'at he s tea his objection to that G WINNETI HER 4LD, ~ OUR JOB DK PA RIM EXT IS COMPEETE. ALL ORDERS FOR NEATLY AND PROMPTLY EXECU TED NO 51 Entered in the Eoat Office at L»w rencevUle, Oa., m aecond elan* mail matter. ciaas of legislation simply for the ->ake of amplifying bis article, for whether it be wise or a departure (torn the original idea of legisla tion, has no bearing whatever upon the question placed at isaua by this act 1 fail to see, however, anything inconsistent with the idea of legislation er of true ce mocracy in submitting any legia ladve act to an intelligent people for their ratification upon any question upon which popular opin. ion is divided, though / am by no means sure that the principle of democracy or the general welfare of the people demand that legisla tion which has tor its object the restriction or suppreas ■on of a business which fos ters crime should be submitted to popular vote, however widely pub lic opinion may be divided, yet the advocates of ,his particular measure seem willing to make that concession, and to be geverned by tue majority. He next objects to tne act t/self, because it does not contain a c'ause giving the people iu case of adoption and dissatisfaction, the right *o submit its repeal to popu lar vo e—a very common objection urged by the anti-prohibitionist. If /he testimony of those living in counties in w*> ?c!» local option pre vails is to be ci edited, tuere will be no demaud for i/s repeat, except by /hose who oppose good morals and evmy effort made at moraj reform; those who oppt.se the measure, however, may console themselves in the knowledge thal our laws are not after the manner of thoie of tire Medea aud Per sians “that altereth not,” bat are susceptible of amendment ot re peal by the same authority by which they are enacted, a method of getting nd of the law, it it prove objectionable in its opera tion, quite as practicable aud less objectionable than the method suggested by the wri er. Iu his peculiarly ironical style he pro nounces /he act an extraordinary document—a whale. One ot ordi nary intelligence would hardly believe that an act could be framed bearing upon the liquor traffic that would accord with every mans views, lint judging from the wn tor’s manner of cri icisiu he arro gates to himsel the ability to do so; but while he seems to posses* the ability to point out important defects, //is fnilura to suggest anything better, inclines us to be lieve with Addison, that, “it is rediculoua fora man to criticise on the works of another, who has not distinguished him self by bis own performances.” His position is so entirely destitute of argu ment or sound reason in its favor, that he even attacks with bis pol ished and facile pen, the phraseol ogy of the Act. The word whis key seems to be offensive taste. It is the favorite name in the A'* he thinks. It occurs twice, 1 find, and the pbaases, “For Whiskey,” and “Against Whiskey,” in which the word occurs, I think will give rise to less confusion than the ntirases, “For Prohibition,” or “Against Prohibition.” wonl I have given. His most serious objection seems to be against that provision of the Vet giving the Crand Jury, in case of its adoption, the right, if they think it wise and necessary, to leccoiumend th<* ordiuur.r o issue license to not more than three druggist et<-.. to sell spirituous dquors so provided iu the Act. It is too stri.igeut, and yet it is not stringent enough it seems, for he apprehends that, under such regu latiaus, exorbitant prices would be exacted, and thiuki the Act de fective >u tint it does uot regulate both the per cent and the places at which such liquors shall be sold and then object io ihe very pro visions that would have a leaden oy to prevent the liceucees from abusing their privileges, viz: The right of the Grand Jury to probib it the granting of further license, a right which a body of intelligent men would hardly exercise unless the nece-ity for it existed. He thinks the necessity for spir ituous liquors in certain cases is recognized in the Act, but the ehanceß for obtaining it extremely limited. It is not universally rec [cONTINOBD ON I’OUHTH PACE.]