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HMnacille ^duanc?. -* wmxlt pahs, PqblisheU Wednesday, Watkinsville, Oconee Co. Geo p gia. W- Gr. eT7T.HVA.3T, SUITOR ASD PSOrRISTOB On* „ TERMS: year, in advance................. Of Si* montha......„. « ...... --------- JOTTINGS AND CLIPPINGS. You can’t draw blood from a stone, but yoh can stone a “blood.” It’s a long lane that has no turn, but it sometimes runs up againht a fence. The London Times _ „ , grumbling ^ „ is at the lock of public parks in the great English metropolis. “Do yon go to the Adirondacks this summer, my buck?” “No deer, I’ve another roe to hoe,” A hat poison is advertised that wiD make rats go away to a neighbor’s house mid die. It fiDs a long felt want. The Derrick teDs of an OU City man who has to turn his toes in. If he didn’t they would hit the sides of the streets. » f »«>*■ - onTiffi An Irish gentleman, speaking of the scarcity of feed in Utah, says thatthous ands of cattle have had to be killed to save their lives. “Wateb always seeks its level;” and if there is too much whisky in it, it makes a man seek his level, too.— Nor ristown Herald, A new shade for silk is called “lemon ade odor,” whatever that may mean._ New Orleans Picayune, It" means a heavy watered silk. Among the assets of agrooer who failed in business in a Wisconsin town is put down: “One liver-pad, worn six weeks _worth fifty cents' ” Birds begin their morning l concerts shortly aster 3 o’clock, and it only the early riser that can have the fufl benefit of their sweet songs. ° vr. We ,, t why fights _ . can see pnze arc so very bad. The two principals get what they deserve, and ryore or less loafers are crippled or killed. The men who pack the Dttle _ boxes of figs have wonderful memories. They never the forget to put the wormy fruit at bottom of the box. David Davis is not the sort of a man to stay on tho fence long .—New Orleans Picayune. That’s so. No fence can stand it over half an hour. By drinking kerosene you can cure yourself of diphtheria, but before you try it. consider which is preferable, d rinkin g kerosene or having the diphtheria. When a Kentucky paragrapher writes a word that the printer can’t make out, the latter sets it up as “mules,” and nine times out of ten he gets it right. b -Boa ton Post ' t, Business men frequently . ,, advertise , ,. for . „ a boy to nm errands. The way boys crawl to and from the postoffice indi cates that ttie boy expected to run has never been found. The law against carrying concealed weapons does not apply to bicycles, They ridges, are and revolvers, but off they avoid cart never go of themselves, —Philadelphia Bulletin. Reginald Bond is the name of an aristocratic Boston banker. He writes his name Reg. Bond “for short,” and irreverent persons caU him Registered Bond—but not to his face. New York is accused of paying more for tobacco than bread, but a man cannot be always chewing bread, and he cer tainly cannot smoke it, unless he is a baker.— Commercial Advertiser. The venerable Peter Cooper has been in the habit of sitting on the air for so long a time that it wffl be perfectly natural when it comes time for him to be anangeL —New York Commercial Ad vertiser A wealthy manufacturer of Connect!- 4 “ ele T t T an " i T; T- d tek b£a.“ ' d broW “ bnme “* ” , It , has been discovered ,. , that , phamnus , frangnla is a good substitute for rakmns catharfacus, and only will costs half as much. Then of course it probably supply the place of the other to a considerable extent. Peeles Sun. An eminent Boston preacher once said that it was a mockery to pray at night for sweet and refreshing sleep, without seeing to it that the bed-room is weH ventilated. God takes care of those who take care of themselves. Mrs. .George Eliot Cross wifl reside in Cheyne the Walk, Chelsea. The marriage of eminent authoress has caused a great deal of hard feeling among hei friends, who seem to know more about her business than she does herself. Flashing. Every T , . familiar , ... with ... the , word , one is flush, as applied to the crimsoned cheeks, when the minute capfilanes, before m visible, become suddenly gorged with blood. The sudden fufl inflow is the leading idea. The word has for a long time been ap plied to the cleansing of sewers by a copious amount of water suddenly Ie into them, and which stirs up the foul contents and bears them before it in its HtfE. 1 hia method of cleansing the sink and sou-pipeg systematieaDy of our dwellings should be An ordinary and thoroughly will flow employed. the stream over seonnent, and aDow it to accumulate so f 8 -?to °d° fifl, r to and the always house. to be The send- dif H„i^ • CTea8e d 111 11111 sink-pipes by ^ *L aru 8neBS h' s of “d servants hits generally, in allowing to > c^stantty ““7 down. & <iaR y Ttisw.-l? pass the re ‘ move .h^Tjag filled a bucket with to 2° lu totter tote G.a time ouenintr the' whbtof^ tothe boiler, oflowmc minutaf ^"2. OT thr6e This will 4110 S' eaS nortichw and 0f < * N a ’ The word of tote airing^of^ roonPhv a applied to the proper mold "likl hum theskin—is uut “• The Watkinsville Advance. VOLUME I. THE UN HAPPIEST OF WOMEN. Ao .tallam Grallnuan'i Kxperleaee la Mimlencfro. The life of Montenegrin women may be epitomized in two words—work and suffering. work In some men—in countries womeD as muoh as others more; but on the Black Mountain they alone do the work of both men and beasts of bur den. The variety and intensity of their sufferings baffle description. that I do not hesitate to affirm nowhere else does the female sex live in such a wretched condition. Outbursts of wild joy, noise of gun 8 , hots hashing of glasses, and songs and - , tbe of boy m a “ the birth “sS' of daughter, he is to on a sure cut short your intended compliment by Baying, and sometimes “I beg “’tis pardon, sir, snake.” ’tis a girl,” The a poor Dttle thing grows up ignored and despised until her bodUy strength be comes in some way a source of revenue to the fondly. The boys monopolize aU the affections of both mother and father. The former frequently suffers the tor tules of Niobe, but for fear of her hus¬ band dares not show her daughter any tenderness. The Dttle waifs of the Mon tene K nn .... ... hardly walk „ about , “ household e bouse before they are initiated into work, and sent up Wn the mour htins to gather dry wood. they ® 6Veni ^’ ben ^ Dg Under ^ § ^f et 0 a few «°™ Tfl d flogging • “T and no ^ supper. ClUTy ’ ” ™ The y flower of their youth prematurely fades because nature has no time to shape and develop their forms, Excessive labor stamps their faces with precocious age and a repulsive manliness. The body of the woman of the Black Mountains is Ul-shapen and most ungraceful. She is wanting in that elasticity which is the soul of aU form. Her carriage is heavy, her step long, and her shoulders are buckle-backed, like the shoulders of aU who pass ther Dves in journeying up and down mountainous roads with loads not h* keeping with them physical strength, g he walks with her head inclined on her breast, as though she was crushed by * e lading of her own abjection. Nc f tv 160 ' on ^> 4 i f therefore, an ot her that father, she brothersand looks on the ^ ius , ^ )and °f on superior berngs, in whose P* eB « nce ou flht to tremble and keep silent No wonder that those superior 1 icings, in turn, never miss an oprpor tunity i the to assert then 1 superiority and to r ve t chains by which they keep her „ submissive as a slave, Outside of household duties the woman of Montenegro has no opportunity to develop her mental faculties. It is only of late years that Dttle girls have been permitted affords. to attend The such schools as the country improvement, however, cannot be very great for a long time, as the necessities of every-day life -absorb all them time, and the customs of the country confine the female sex within the narrow and brutalizing sphere of the lowest manual labor. Long wiU horn they be ravine doomed to climb rocks and leap to ravine to carry home tho needed fuel and provisions. These women themselves strange as it may seem, pride on the hardships they endure. 9 £r ne day, tom while path, going I met to Nicsic number by the of e 1110,111 a up the baggage of a party English tourists. One was seated on tt rook > weeping bitterly. On being questioned concerning the cause of her & hSthatohe J^ woffid nerabe able The novelist ia search of plots and m trigues would lose his time by visiting the Black Mountain. Aside from patriot and self-denial, there is no romance ^ the life of Montenegrin women. The rude mountaineers have no gaUautr. They shrink from the simplest civilities to women, A compDment, even to the girl he loved, would subject a Montene grin to ridicule. Young girls traveling alone in the heart of the region are safer than those under escort. Woe to tlife man, however, who dare address her an improper word. She would have a pro tector in every passer-by, and on reach iug the village, with a score of young men would vie each other for the honor °f washing out the offense with the blood of the offender, - 99 nn or 999 nnn Years. xr The reason for the use of the odd term to leases, 999 years, is given in the New York Journal of Commerce. Lessees ^d mortgagees m possession demised of real es te te for 100 or 1,000 years the game a t ^ annual rental, retaining a ygygjgjon for the last year of tho original term. object of this was an unwilling negg on y,,. part of the under tenant to tjggome bound to the performance of the govgnants contained in the original grant; an d also, the importance to the lessor of reversionary interest, without which. nndr-r the old English practice, he could n ot recover his rent by distress. Sometimes this reversion war only for three days or even for one day, but us uajly to long term* the last year was re ^ed. Out of this came the popular no y on that the law provided this re gtratot, and hence leases were made for 99 or 999 years, where there was no rea mn whatever for any such odd period of time. special In England there was, in cases, a restraint, on corporations or ecclesiasti ^ p erson#i prohibiting the demise ot lands belonging to them to the intpov erishment of their aueflessore, fur a term ypyrmd M5 years, awl such lessee were made for 99 years. There ie no such re sanction ip tins State. »♦-’ A* indignant tenant and a rather neg huent landlord were overboard in the l2ndterd~,‘ ‘#hs(&~ it .moke?” Tenant (more indignantly>-“lt smokes "-Danbury News. WATKINSVILLE, GEORGIA, JULY 14, 1880. “ OH ffMr 1 OF - Ob, why fhoukl the spirit ot mortal he prowl? L'ke a swift-fleeting meteor. & fast-flying cloud* A flash of the lightning, ft fcresk of the ware. He passeth from life to hit rest la the grave. The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade, Be scattered around and together be laid; And the young and the old, and the lo' w and the Shall moid'e r to dust and together shall lie. l'he Infant a mother attended and loved, The mother that infant’s affection who proTed, The husband that mother ami infant who blessed. Each, all, are away to their dwellings of rest. The hand of the King that the scepter hath borne, The brow of the priest that the miter hath worn, The eve ol the sage and the heart of the brave, { A I v hidden and lost in the depths of the grave. The peasant, whose lot was to sow and to reap, The herdsman, who climbed with his goata to the The beggar, steep, who wandered in search of his bread, Have faded away like the grass that we tread. 8o the multitude goes, like the flower or the weed That withers’away to lit others succeed; 8o the multitude comes, even those we behold, To repeat every tale that has often been told. For we are the same our fathers have been; We see the same sights our fathers have seen-^ We drink the same stream and view the same sun— And rnn the same course our fathers have run. The thouf»hta we are thinking our fathors would From the death we are shrinking our fathers would To the shrink; life dinging But it speed* we from are all, like they bird also would cling, us a on the wing. They They loved, but the story we cannot unfold; cold; scorned, but the heart of the haughty is They grieved, but no wail from their slumber will come; They dumb. ioyed, but the tongue of their gladness is They died!—aye, they died; we things that are That now, walk on the turf that lies over their brow, And make in their dwellings a transient abode. Meet the things that they met on their pilgrimage road. Tea! hop* and despondency, pleasure and pain, We mingle together in sunshine and rain; And the smile and the tear, the song and the dirge, Still follow each other, like surge upon surge. ’Tis the wink of an eye, ’tis the draught of a From breath, the blossom of health to the paleness ol From death. the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud: Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud 7 $100,000, And the Throe Marriages Caused toerdfe,. “My mind is made up, mother,” said young Dr. Delaucey, “so let ns enjoy our breakfast and not spoil our digestion by could thinking of the old his curmudgeon who not even let eccentricity die with him, but must dispose of his fortune in this idiotic manner. ” “But, my dear Arthur,” remonstrated Mrs. Delancey, “one hundred thousand dollars Is too large a sum to refuse with¬ out much consideration.” “I know that, mother mine, but still I refuse it, or rather refuse to accept it with the conditions attached to it. I prefer “Is to ohoose my own wife.” there no alternative?” “None.” “What are the exact words of the let ter?’ “These,” answered Arthur, taking up a ponderous letter winch had been lying on the table, and reading from it: “My Beab Sib i—N ow that tho estate of the iate Tobias Queerby is eettiod, it becomes my duty dition to inform his you bequest that he had imposed a con¬ upon to you. Be bequeaths to you property to the value of one hundred thousand dollars, on condition that von marry Miss Fidelia Fairfax within two years after his death. Tho same amount is bequeathed to Miss Fairfax, the and I have this day notified her that same condition is attached to her store of the estate. This condition was not mentioned in the will, as it wonld not have been roeogr.ized as valid by the courts. You need not obey his remain request unless you wish, and your legacy will unaffected, upright but he honorable,'not charges von and her, as you are and to enjoy his hard-earned wealth unless you do as he de¬ sires. I enclose a copy of the letter to me ask¬ ing me to acquaint you with hiH desires, by which you will see to what charitable societies he wished you to give the money he left you in case you do not yield to the conditions imposed, and in cane you decide to act a« a n:au of nonor. I am, sir, yours, etc., G RKF-NFI F.LII KeHT, Att’y for the estate of Tobias Queerby." terrible “ There,” cried Arthur, “in not that a condition to impose? Of course I am a man of honor and I must—yes, must give up this fortune. ” “But one hundred thousand dollars, Arthur, is—” “Is one hundred thousand dollars, I know. But marriage to one I do not care for would be misery for a life time. Therefore, made as I said before, my mind is up. What! Did he think simply because he was the friend in youth of fattier and this Mr. Fairfax, he can force their children, who have never seen each other, to marry whether they love or hate ? No. Father has left you well provided for, mother, and I wifl soon (tot the a practice, and so I snap my fingers at old fellow’s matrimonial schemes and will make happy a half dozen orphan asylums, who, to say nothing of Miss Fairfax, detest though she has never seen me, must me as she reads her letter this morning.” “ She may be a very nioe young lady, Arthur,” “When mildly suggested Mrs. Delan <*y- often your father was alive he fax spoke of the pretty girl Mr. Fair semhie married, and daughters generally rc their mothers, you know.” lady, “Undoubtedly mother, she is a nice young dare she as rattle society ladies are. I say can off the first oon jugation in French, recite Tennyson by the yard, lead a German, tefl just which comer of her card to turn down for a call of condolence, or a party caU, rave about majolica and tho art decorative, give the points of a pun, yawn interest mgly mawkish behind a fan, extol the opera, write poems, each one with an Envoi and, in short, be a credit to her family and the seminary where she was graduated. I can see her now,” contin ued Arthur, shaking his yellow curls and laughing. “She considers me as her property, but hates me because she feels °f me_ ‘Yes.’ she says to her con sajssjviaiRfflr “Nob-, Arthrlr, you are not just: 10 neither are vou kind to spea^ *o of a giri Uneou^y, “Ikwr. on id*./ “What is it, my son?” asked the lady. "I by tliis letter,” explained the see lives vonnfj physician, “that Miss Fairfax in Metroville. Now, a train leave* here at eleven and reaches there at two. Jack Metroville, Merton, my I'll college chum, lives in and go there, see him, and try to see Miss Fidelia Fairfax with¬ out being seen by her. If I like her looks I’ll introduce myself, if not I’D come settle home, down bid farewell to the fortune and to b&chelordom and physio.” You forgot that “ your cousin Uriah comes to-day here.” and may be offended'if yon are not urged the widow. “Mother,” returned Arthur, mock earnestly, from “if anything could dri yo me away this comfortable home with more speed than my curiosity to see Miss Fairfax it would bo the knowledge that that dry old book-worn, Cousin Uriah, was coining here to bore mo with his learning and his praises of that blue¬ stocking, hand his idol Araminta, for whose he is too bashful to propose. He’s a nioe young feUow, but, oh, such a bore. That decides me; I go at eleven o’clock.” And in the smoking train that left Opoliston at eleven o'clock bound for Metrovdie sat Dr. Arthur Delanoey puff¬ ing “Father, a cigar gravely. said Miss Fairfax, while presiding over a conning little breakfast table in a cosy little dining-room in the most comfortable little house in the little city of Metroville, “my mind is made up. I cannot take the money—I cannot marry a man at the order of another even if that other does offer me one hundred thousand doUors to do so.” “ WeU, my dear Fidelia,” returned Mr. Fairfax, “Ido not feel oompotent to ad¬ vise you further than bid you foDow the dictates of your own heart. StiU, my love, I would oounsel you not to be busty, if your dear mother were alive she would toll you in a moment what to do—I must say, though, Fidelia, that one hundred thousand doUars is—” “ Yes, pa, I know, one hundred thous¬ and dollars is a great deal of money, but even that sum cannot tempt me to marry a man I do not love—have never seen in fact. Was a girl ever placed in such a humiliating position? I wish the eccen¬ tric old Mr. Tobias Queerby had been content to keep his eccentricity to him¬ self. The ideal If the friendship that existed between you and Mr. Delanoey and him gave him the right to dispose of the hands and hearts of his friends’ chil¬ dren.” “But you needn’t marry him, you know, I my deal,” said Mr. Fairfax. “If had not been so unfortunate the past few years I would say at once give up this fortune; but I cannot leave you much, my love, and I know what a comforting “ But I can’t marry him, pa.” “WeU, Mr. Greenland Kent, the attorney, says the condition is not legal. “But oh, pa, Mr. Queerby relied on my honor not to take the money without accepting the condition, and my honor makes the condition binding if the law does not,” said Miss Fairfax, decidedly. “ True, my dear,” replied the gentle¬ man, “yet this I must say. Fidelia, i have often heard your poor mother speak of Mr. Delaucey, and always in terms ol the highest praise, and, you know that as a general rule sons are like their fathers. I have no doubt he ia a most estimable young man.” “I have no doubt he is, pa. I daresay that he can interlard lus conversation with yards of Latin that he don’t half un¬ derstand, can write sonnets and triolets in a lady’s album, can teU the best time of all the oarsmen and race horses, can play polo, con teU what kind of a coat ought to be -worn on each day of the week, can say ‘Very olevah, bai Jove,’ as if he were a thorough man of the world, can teU what new play is going to be a success, can flirt with everybody and vow aU the girls are breaking their poor hearts for him, can tefl college yarns aU night short, and laugh loudest at his own wit, in prove himself an honor to society and Harvard College. I can see him now talking pals to his pal (there are no more class¬ mates; and college slang murdered them long ago) and saying: ‘Oh, bai Jnpitah, know, but old feUow, it’s a dooccd bore, yo the poor little girl will break her heart if I don’t many her, and I su mp pose I wDl have to, bai Jove, yaas,’ w lule all the time he hate* me like poison. ” “Now, now, now, Leslie, my love!” cried Mr. Fairfax, “this is not right,” yet he could not refrain from laughing. “You are unjust, unkind—you d not seen/’ speak “Oh, so papa!” of one exclaimed you have Fidelia, never suddenly black clasping curls, her hands and shak¬ ing her merrily. “What, my dear!” asked the father. “I have an idea. The lawyer’s letter says Mr. Fairfax lives in Opoliston. Now, Rena Lester lives there, and she’* my schoolmate and she’s been begging me to call on her. There’s a train leave* at eleven and Ill go to-day. I'D con¬ trive to see Mr. Arthur Delaucey with¬ out being seen, and Ill judge by his looks whether I’D ask him. to be intro¬ duced. If I don’t like him Ill throw the fortune to the hospitals and become an old maid, and make tea forever for my dear, stupid, loving, darling pa. So make haste, pa, I most prepare tor my jour ney. “But not going to-day, you are my dear,” complained Mr. Fairfax, “yon forget that your cousin Araminta is com¬ ing offended to-day to stop with us, and she might be if you were not here to re¬ ceive her.” “Fa, if anything would be could drive me from the house it the thought that I would have to listen to the dissertations of the learned Araminta and hear her praises | of that modest, unassuming Uriah. , whoever he is. Araminta is a good enough That body, decides pa, but she does weary me so. me. I go to-day.” In the drawing-room car of the train that left Metroville at eleven o’clock bound for Opoliston, sat Mire Fidelia Fairfax reading the latest noval. his “Jack,” said Arthur Delancey, towing hat on the table in Jack Merten room, and throwing himself on the lounge, “are Miss you quite *ure you were right shout Fairfax’s house being the seventh from here?" “Of coarse I am. I’ve often been there to eee kte sad h» daughter,” sn •wered Jerk. “All, his daughter! I think I saw her at the window as I passed. ” all “Undoubtedly day.” you did; she sits there black “Lively hair girl she must bo. Has she and eyes?” “Yes.” “ And she is—well, not pretty.” " There you are wrong, Bho is pretty.” “.Tack, old fellow, you always had queer looks like ideas of school female beautv. is she Why she the cultured, a clever maitn. one of sort?” “She is, eh. Then I’ve seen her, no doubt. ” ‘ ‘That must have been her in the win¬ dow, house. tliero is no other lady in tho ” “Oh,” muttered Arthur, “1’U run to the telegraph office, Jack, if you’ll ex cuse we’ll me, and then I'll be at your service and have a jolly night of it.” That afternoon Mrs. Delanoey received a telegraph dispatch on the following words: Have seen tho “ condition.” Good-bye for¬ tune. I wouldn’t have hor for a million. I leave at eleven to-morrow morning. Ahthur. “ Rena, she my love,” said Fidelia Fair¬ fax, as came into Miss Rena Lester’s boudoir after a Ions: walk; “I am not sorry you oould not como out with me for I kept walking up and down one street which, though it pleased me by its pretty houses, would have wearied you who know it so well. ” ‘‘What street was it?” asked Mibs L ester. “The street on which yon said Mi's. Delanoey lived. By the way, who was the gentleman I saw sitting on the porch?” “Oh, that must have txien Arthur. AD the girls arc in love with him. ” “I don’t admire their taste.” “ Oh, Fidelia; why he’s so handsome.” “ Then I did not see him.” “ Oh, it must have been he; he is the only man he in the house.” “ Has Uglit hair?” “Yes, very light.” “ And a book-wormy look?” “ For shame, Fidelia. He’s very, very clever; lint he’s handsome, too.” “ I don’t doubt ho is the one I saw. WeU, the Opoliston girls are welcome to him. Suppose we stroD to the telegraph office, Rena; I want to send a messago to pa. That afternoon Mr. Fairfax received • telegraph message as foUows: I have soon tho hundred thousand dollar prize. the A million would bo too littlo. 1 tak« eleven o’clock train to-morrow morning. PmHi.u. __ troville Midway between OpoUston and Mo was a junotion of three railroads. Tracks crossed anil carved around each other till the ground appeared to bo cov¬ ered with an iron network. How it happened no one ever learned, but two switches luul been left misplaced, and as the train bound from Opoliston to Matrovflle came thundering along, it shot off In the wrong direction, then seemed to stand stiD for a moment, then seemed to shiver all over, and tho next second tho engine lay on its side, under two coaches, its driving wheel revolving BO that no spokes could be seen, flinging earth and stones and ashes like a volcano. Then, ere any warning oould be given, on rushed the train from Opoliston bound for Metrovifle. A shriek from the whistle, and engines, cars, baggage, railroad ties and tracks became one un¬ sightly mass, half-hidden by escaping steam. In five minutes tho discovery was made that no onp had been killed and very few injured, There's and those hut slightly. “ a young lady lying on tho depot leg is platform broken,” who says she thinks her said an old gentleman to a group who were nesisting the ladies. “Is there?” saida young gentleman who was wrapping a bandage around an old lady’s wrist. “Ah, now, that’s done nicely, 1 ’ he continued, oddresshig the lady. old gentleman, “Now,” he added, turning to the “if you will conduct mo to the young lady I will go with you. I am a surgeon. ” The surgeon was Arthur Delanoey, and his conductor presented him to a very ing pretty young lady who was reclin¬ on a rough She couch extemporized of mail bags. had very pretty black eyes and black curls. She did not appear to lie in muoh pain, and smiled archly at Arthur. “If Miss Fairfax was only like hor I" was Arthur’s first thought. ankle, Her and injury laughing proved to lie but a sprained fears she accepted the merrily at her formor arm of tho physi¬ cian and permitted him to almost carry her to ttie hotel. He supported her to the hotel parlor and insisted on giving the black-eyed patient his personal attention, a compD¬ ment she did not seem loth to accept. Some time was lost in sending for medi¬ cine, and over an hour had passed before the surgeon had bandaged the patient’s foot. He was. standing leaning ou the mantel-piece black under the influence of the eves, and she seemed content to say nothing hut quietly admire ttie doc¬ tor,s when golden curls and frank blue eyes, the hall-boy, who had received several large gratuities from tho doctor for having run for medicines, and who into was, therefore, his friend for life, rushed the parlor, saying: “Some one sent telegrams to Opolis¬ ton and MetroviDe, saying there’ll l>een a fearful accident, and saying nothing about Dves being lost, f-vo two trains have come in, one frefta each place, full of people looking after relatives, and there are visitors for both of you.” tho Scarcely broad doorway had he finished when through of tho parlor ran four people. of Ther were Mrs. Delanoey, on the arm a lair-haired Dttle man. and Mr, Fairfax black-haired dragging in a very tall and very and angular young ‘^Fidelia Fairfax, by Jove!” cried Ar¬ thur, m he *aw the young lady. “Oh, my, Mr. Delanoeyr •creamed the bl«ck-eycd patient, m sue saw the fair-haired little man.’' bmomg “My son!” th« doctor cried Mrs. Delancey, em “Fidelia, Fidelia, my daughter!” roared Mr. Fairfax, em I (racing Urn block tie nt tJrish! * softly murmured th* sngular Isdy, croreiug to th# little men. NUMBER 19. little “Oh, Miss Araminta!” squeaked the man and he shook hands feebly with the angular lady. “And you are really Miss Fairfax! s said Arthur to his blue re “I'm so glad.” . , - And you , re Mr. Delanoey,” said Fide ti“ lia;^ "I My m ,^^‘ so glad,” Faid and then ^” die blushed, Arthur, 1 11 ^ may hlUldrea I hope that we dXraF’ ° Ur thoUBand "bn rnn m»im i. „;n i * 0n0r .. >. she asked, blushing again. ’ slmoTof/i destroy * •.i’ »he n calculations VV W0U H of that ? aa ho wished m to?” “Ask pa, doctor,” said black-eyes. “ Araminta,” said Uriah, “this meet ing is auspicious. I—I—will you—will you_” “I understand you, Uriah. Take me,” returned the angular one, and tliey again shook hands feebly. Two months later, at Mr. Fairfax’s cosy littlo house, tire guests were assembled to witness tire wedding ceremonies of two couples. and Uriah They wero Arthirr and Fidelia and Armenia. After they had Ireetr happUy unitod and congratulated, Mr. Fairfax, who was consoling Mrs. Delanoey for the loss of her son, sard: “My dear Mrs. Delanoey, you are a comfortable sort of a woman mid I am a comfortable sort of a man. I have been mode to-night a father to your son Do and you know a of mother to my (laughter. pedimont you the auy just cause and im m way of our becoming, ahem—” It appeared that she did not, the ser¬ vices of the minister was again put in requisition, the least and the old folks were not happy of the party. Ingenious Escape of Nihilists. When it is remernlrercd that tho prisons of Russia are crowded with twice ss many inmates as they are constructed for, and hZZSLIELZ barely suineumt to keep oy Z them tax(v from } war starva- t ra “ v" ' rOUK r,T H u’ on:un,alH mavb y V^ lmv « >, out the flight of somebody or other from Iris cell. Jtn the case of ordinary convicts not much surprise in commonly expressed in hinders Russia, it is but kuown in regard to polifical of that tire preoantions taken are so rigorous that tho evasion of any nine Nihilist days’ wonder. always The furnishes matter for Governor-Gen oral of Kioff, General Tchortkoff, derived much of tho ill-fame with which his name is invested from an order he issued some time ago that all prisoners attempt ing to escape were to Ire shot down by tho sentries, without any effort being made to induoo them to surrender, atitutdon-of However, neither this order, nor tho sub usnal mode solitary caging confinement the Nihilists fo? the in of guards, has had auy appreciable effect in (liiuinislring Fomin, tho number of escapes, the Khorkoff lender, created some sensation in 1878 by escaping tlrrough a chimney, and the seventy criminals confined in the same room with him would doubtless have got clear also had not the tenth—a very stout man stuck at the top or the shaft, and so blocked tho way for tho rest. To prevent a similar occurrence, the Governor of Slootek Prison, m Mmsk, placed Terenti Tcherentseff and Ivon Bovantaeff in separate eeUs depriving both of thou bed hnen and superfluous clothing for toar they should try and lower themselves from their third-story windows to the ground. hard The Nihilists, however, had the Governor, ly bee n m pmon morning, a fortnight found to when his one liadHown. chagrin that the birds Aided by a pocket-knife takeh they bod made a ladder capable of being celi topic** from the wooden fl<K>r of their and the iron work of their bedsteads, and at rc*Sn« night, tliey having 7,ad picked the locks of both basement; descended to the emerged and, through fixing a trap on the court yard, wall, had their ladder against the clambe-rodorer, and successfully * effected their escape .—London Times. Newly Married Couples. It is tho happiest and most virtuous state and wife of society in which tho make husband their set out together, perfect pr<n>orty together, and with sym pathy of soul, graduate all their cx penses, with plans, calculations and desires reference to their present moans and to their future and common in terest. Nothing the delights littlo man more than of the to enter neat tenement young three people who, without within perhaps two or years, any resources but their own knowledge of industry, have joined heart anil hand, and engaged to share together the responsibilities, duties, interests, trials and pleasures of of life. The industrious wife is cheer fully employing putting her hands in domestic duties, her house in order or mending her husband’s clothes, or pi e paring dinner, while perhaps the little darling site prattling on the floor or lies sleeping in the cradle, and everything seems of husbands preparing and to the welcome best of fathers the happiest when he slial] come home from his toil to en joy the sweets of Ids little paradise. This is true domestic pleasure. Health, contentment, love, and bright prospects ore all here. it has liee-ome a prevalent sentiment that a man must acquire his fortune before marries; that the wife must have no sym pathy nor share with him in the pursuit of truly it—in consists—and which most of the pleasure the young married people expensive must set out with aa large and an establishment as is beoom mg those who have been wedded for twenty fills the years. Tliis is very unhappy; it community with bachelors, who are waiting to make their fortunes, en dangering tSh virtue, i promoting vice; dAlgn it de stw y ron economy >nd of the domestic institution, and it protnotaa sssev jaussively sustained with any care or con corn on their part, and thus many a wife becomes, "helpmate,” as a gentleman once "helpbeat. remarked, not a but a — (Mdtu\ Ag«. under Vstiver, dog in slwsys tho flgnt, sympathise bat they with bet their tho money ou the other animal. TO Kgaffunsmlk . wmkly rxr*B, pcblishid at Watk'nsville, Oconeb Co., Georgia. FATES OF ADVERTISING: . Un« squiu-tf first Insertion............................ 8SSSSSSSS88SS3 bach subsequent . On ingerticn............................ - iquarc, one mo .th.................................. One square, tl ree months............................. One square, six months................................. SSE-SS-oS-. One square on© year........................ One-fourth One-four;h oolumn, toluuin, ono month.!"!*.’......I One-fourth throe months.................. One-fourth column, six months..................... Half column, column, ou© year. Ha f one month..................... Half co'umu, three months................. Ha f column, column, six mouths...................... one year................................. LIOERlh TERMS FOB MORE SPACE FANCIES FOR TIIE FAIR. A Chicago girl tried to run away with a base-ball catcher. Her father became a short-stop. A milkman at a ball, wearing a pair of pumps, is too much for the good nature of society. Holmes says that the years atfii^t pelt with the girls with roses, and after a while snow-balls. Not one American woman in one hnn Sf>ph l g‘SeSi? e8_U “ le88 ** ** °“ Home is the dearest place on earth— wh eu the wife strives to keep a head of 'ttpr*** Why lfl ft * a< v 8 nair .1... like tho latest w.i aeW8? WI J S 11,1(1 „ 5 e it ° anao m papers, “ tbo morning wo al ilU! spots on the aim do not begm to create me disturbance produced by the £r,,ckJos ou tlu > daughter, year-old Connkmaugii, Pa., boasts of a twelve bl girl who is a mother, yet the K > B not proud and positively refuses to lecture. Two hundred young ladies iir Boston should are learning to play tiro violin. They appear in the nowoperaof “Bow oatchio.” One of tho leading American exports to Zanzibar are “domestics.” Thank heaven! but do they take their kerosene cans with ’em .—New /raven Register. What is tho difference between a styl «h young lady’s cranium and a burn moc k? One is a banged head and the other is a hanged bed. (All rights re served ’ ) An Foo Woo fs a Boston Ohinaman. His name sounds like the shivering of a woman when sire gels out of bed on a winter morning and steps her bare feet on the oil-cloth. inlhTt^t^wh“ ‘Sntivel ’eif nmining quired: a oust in a window, eagerly in* “And who was this Terra Cotta anyway?” At a recent Philadelphia picnic, when it WM discovered that tire wicked croquet arches luul been supplying forgotten, a girl Ivith sug gested their places the * <* » month wont to amamed ^ , ,/JJ 111 of ^ 11 V"*** <* * Jf 7*» oxn ® n a ■«* I ’° ^°°^ “Xj, s * Nevermind, sard the other, “he . is only “*g nouns. Wait until ho reaches a(1 J (5Ctlves - When a Boston girl’s soul reaches out the infinite after an idea and grasps it, Hb<1 realizes how base and ignoble is b, o conventionality that obliges a being thus endowed to wrestle with a paper bustlo. About this time expect to see her walk into the parlor to say: “Av ye pluze, mum, I thought I’d be going down to the bache to .the hotel, an’ me cousin’s gone already, mum, and I’ll be going to morrow.” Kentucky, girls average one hundred and twenty-Bix pounds .—Boston Post. A very comfortable Lap full.—Were Haven Register. See here, young fel low, tho thermometer is fooling around tiro eighties. Judging from back apnoarances: Hmali )>oy (rushing in front of young lady and wearing staring rather her large poke bonnet, faceV-1 full in tire “You’ve lost yer bet, Charlie; I told yer jt wa rn’t an old woman ” .. WmtN j Slers , a-shorming,” said an tM lady .. r asks for what 1 wants, and if they Inclined have it, and it is suitable tt nd I feel to buy it, and it b ch and -can’t be got for less, I most ( j 1( . r „ take it, without clappcring aU day about it like some people do.” ®%«i . * . W™*’ T ^ . dirm arre84 ™ tm3 .. ^ Philadelohm . . , 18 uu r ( or has three living 1 IXUh o{ shftb “? 4wo When asked why she had « h « ^ good fellows, and they coaxod me to.” A Boston young lady, who has trained . “notch “ er tomer to come uito the par * or at ten o clock on Sunday evenings ? nd bark at ber geutlempn friends, has been reported to tho police for keeping an unlicensed dog, and the dog-catcher u faking for the stomal. The murriago of Mile. Collette Dumas, the daughter of tho novelist, is certainly a romantic one. Her father took her to a fancy ball, her costume being in tho future quaiut fashion of the Directory. Her pressed bridegroom at first sight was so that deeply im ujion occasion that the noxt day he demanded her hand from her family._______ . . „ A irl-.nuii. At the Grand Central Theater in this city is a freak of nature. The name of Gus Mills is pretty well known among variety stage frequenters, but the world has never been told that Gus is a phe nomcnon. From early boyhood girls, he like has exhibited a passion, not for other boys, but to be a girl liimself. This desire became a mania, till at the present time Gus is more girl than girl man. and He dresses as a girl, dances as a flirte with the girls. His female ward robe is probably the most extensive in Leadville, and every article made and every stitch taken was by Mills’ own hand. He makes liis own striped exquisite stock ings and paints his face with xkiiL —Leadville Democrat. The inference that the telephone would probably is work best when the membrane slanted toward the source of sound, law been drawn from the fact that the drum of the human ear is in dined at a considerable angle to the axis of the outer ear passage. Nature men turns an instance in which this notion was justified by actual experiment on the part of a gentleman who found “that his telephone worked best when he spoki to it in a slanting direction.’' _______ w __ geological probability explorations have shown that Russia contains ^ (>f li me 0 f sufficient sa*-'* . »- -- One of tho inexplicable phenomena of nature is tho effect the emptying of a pan of aahos has in suddenly reversing the direction of tho wind. "dll BU 8 ,U ' buildings at Franklin, «<“*■. be very extensive and they wiU eoewr am an acre of ground.