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i^he IBafkinsrilfe ^duancu. A tIUlT tATtt, Published Wednesday, —AT— Watkinsville, Oconee Co. Georgia. 'VV. Gr. SULLIVAN, EDITOR AND PB0FE1ET0B Ooe TERMS: year, In advance. ........ ... . . . . < ,.|l M 81* months............... 60 ..................V’"' A RIDE FOR LIFE. It was just at sundown, and Lily War¬ Ser ▼osse was sitting on the porch glow, at when rington, horseman watching the sight, sunset and rode a came in up to of the gate. After seemed a moment’s satisfied, scrutiny and the premises he uttered the usual halloo which it is cus¬ tomary for one to give who desires to communicate with the household in that country. Lily rose and advanced to the stops. letter,” “ Here’s a said the horseman, as he held an envelope up to view, and then, as she started down the steps, threw it over the gate into the avenue, and, wheeling his horse, cantered easily away. directed Lily picked up the letter. It was in a coarse sprawling hand: Con. Comfort Servosse, In the lower, left-hand Warrington. in corner, a more compact and business-like hand, were written the words, “ Read at once,” Lily read the superscription carelessly as she went up the broad avenue. She went into the house, and, calling for a light, glanced once more at the read: envelope, and then broke the seal. It Col. Servosse : A raid of K. K. has been ordered to intercept Judge Denton on his way home to-night (the 23d inst). It is understood that he has telegraphed you to accompany him home. Do not do it. If you can by anv meaus ive him warning. It is a big raid, and means - usiness. —._____ The decree is that ho shall be tied, river, placed planks in the middle of the bridge across the taken up on each Bide, so as to prevent send this a rescue, and the bridge set on file. I warning for your sake. Do not trust the telegraph. I, shall S IhrnUd , . late. safe hand, but tremble it be too I dare not sign my name, but subscribe myself your Unknown Friend. lTie young girl stood for a moment paralyzed threatened bv horror at the danger which her father. It did not once occur to doubt the warning she had received. She glanced at the timepiece on the mantel. The hands pointed to 8 o’clock. _ “ Too late, too late !” she cried, as she clasped her hands and raised her eyes to heaven in prayerful agony. She saw that she could not reach Verdenton in time to prevent their taking the train, and she knew it would be useless to tel egraph the afterward. It was evident that wires were under the control of the Klan, and there was no probability that a message would he delivered if sent in tune to prevent the catastrophe. “ Oh, my dear, dear papa !” she cried, as she realized more fully the danger, “Oh, God! can nothing be done to save him ?” Then a new thought flashed upon her mind. She ran to the back porch, and called sharply but quietly : “ William! Oh, William !” "William,” said Lily, as the stable boy Lollard, appeared, “put my saddle on Young and bring him round quick as possible.' “But, Miss Lily, you know dat hoss —” the servant began to expostulate. “I know all about bun, William, Don’t wait to talk. Bring him out.” “All right, Miss Lily,” he replied, with a bow and a scrape. But as he went toward the stable he soliloquized angrily : “Now, what for Miss Lily want to ride that partickerler hoss, Nobufldy you s’pose? Neblier did afore. but de Knnnel ebber on liis back, an’ he hab his hands Ml wid him sometimes, Dese furrerbred lueses jes de debble anyhow! Dar’s dat Young Lollard, now, it’s jest ’bout all a man’s life wutli to rub him down and sad,lie him. Why don’t she take the ole un ? Here you, Lollard, come outen dat.” He threw open the door of the log sta ble where the horse had his quarters, as he spoke, and, almost instantly, with a shorL vicious whinner, a powerful, dark brown horse leaped into the moonlight, and, with ears laid back upon his sinuous neck, white teeth bare, and thin, blood red nostrils distended, rushed toward the servant, who, with a loud “Dar now ! Look at him! Wlioa ! See de ras cal ! ” retreated quickly behind the door, The horse rushed once or twice around the little stable-yard, and then stopped suddenly beside his keeper, and stretched out his head icr the bit, quivering m every limb with that excess of vitality which only the thoroughbred horse ever exhibits. Before the horse was saddled, Lily had donned her riding habit, pnt a revolver in her belt, as she very frequently did when riding alone, swallowed a hasty supper, scratched a short note toher mother on the envelope of the letter she had received—which she charged Will iam at once to carry to her—and was sr-*- * ^ “ ai “ the The restless brawny horse groom with difficulty held slight girl who stood by the bit; but the upon the block, with pale face and set teeth, gathered the reins in her hand, leaped fearlessly into the saddle found thestirrup and said, “ Let him go! ” without a quiver in her voice. The horse stood upright, and pawed the air for a moment with his feet, gave a few mighty thenf leaps stretching to make sure his liberty and out his neck bounded forward in a race which would require all the mettle of his endless waTbome line of noble sires As she like an arrow down the avenue, and turned into the Glen 'Me road, Lily heard the whistle of the tram as it left the depot at Verdenton, and knew that upon her coolness and resolution alone depended 1 the life of her father It wm i. nirmr .. ’'tbaf'fo^some plishmentoif her jonmev to^nteiTl^™ 0 ! 86 h*” 1 enotafh todo ^fher Sheh^T h^" and 8mde “ d °° n - wa ,i^- ,. Rm mad ^ ^ •/ * . to . T1 . f lt .. hl« ftinli eT n Ithough . she had never ridffin’ the home was familiar with hwnmw 1 * nd 14 was well for her tin* th ■ 6 for, as he dashed awav lfnw '♦wiT BP of the wind she frit i*° 1 k Nor was to did restrain him hrm i e** re.® she attempt "it Af Uere 1 y a Ieel r “*K his mouth and keenin ,* road before him r’taht iiVTw) .i®*?* °“ j den start to the r.Vl re r her bv surprise *h« i. “*® Pt . u * e * t and tried to soothe bin, i her vol • P With head outetretchrri c - utmost’Tfl , neck stramed to ite BUleWy the ground in wii.1 * n ®T,°7. er evening s seemed/* 0 * WUb tbo night'waa wind aa it Tha growine th?. chlllv y v™ °? *5" tunc. Aa the wind truc * ri h«w *t the The Watkinsville Advance. VOLUME I. hill-top thrown she remembered that she had a hooded waterproof about her before starting. She stopped her horse and taking off her hat gathered her long hair into a mass, and thrust it into the hood, which she drew over her head, and pressed her hat down over it. Then she gathered the reins, and they went on that long, steady stride which marks the high-bred horse when he gets Jhor ou ighly Once down to his work. or twice she drew rein to deter¬ mine which road to take. Sometimes her road lay through the forest and she was startled by the cry of the owl; anon it and was the through half-wild the reedy bottom land, their lairs, her hogs, starting from gave an instant fright. The moon cast strange shadows around her, but still she pushed on, with this one only thought in her mind, that her father’s life was at stake, and she alone could save him. She had written to her mother to go back to Verdenton and telegraph to her father ; but she put no hope in that. How she trembled, as she passed marked each fork road, in the lest rough and ill country she should take the right hand when she ought to turn to the left, and so lose precious, priceless joy moments. How her heart beat with when she came upon any re¬ membered landmark ! And all the time her mind was full of tumultuous prayer. Sometimes it bubbled over her lips in tender, disjointed accents. “Father! papa, dear, dear papa!” she cried out to the bright still night that lay around; quivering and then lids the and tears burst over the rah down the fair cheeks in torrents. She pressed her hand to her heart as she fancied that a gleam of redder light shot athwart the northern sky, and she thought of a terrible bonfire that would rage a,ld glow above the northern hori zon if she failed to bring a timely warn iug of the danger. How her heart throbbed with thankfulness as she gal loped through an avenue of giant oaks at a crossroads where she remembered stopping with her father one day! He had told her it was half way from Glen ville to Warrington. He had watered their horses there ; and she remembered every word of pleasant badinage he had addressed to her as they rode home, Had one ever before so dear, so tender a parent drove ? The tears came again, but she them back with a half-invol untary she said. laugh. “Not now, not now,” “No, nor at all. They shall not come God, help at all; for I will save him. Oh, me! I am but a weak girl. Why did the letter come so late? But I will save him I Help me, Heaven ! Guide and help ! ” She glanced at her wateh as she passed from under the shade of the oaks, and, as she held the dial up to the moonlight, gave a scream of joy. It still was just past the stroke of 9, She had an hour, and half the distance had been accomplished in half that time. Still on and on the bravejhorse bore her with untiring limb. Half the re maining distance is now consumed, and “he comes to a place where the roads fork, not once, but into four branches. It is in the midst of a level old field, covered with a thick growth of scrubby pines. Through the masses of thick green are wtote lanes which stretch away in every direction, with no visible difference save in the density or fro quency of the shadows which fall across them. She tries to think which of the many destination. intersecting paths leads to her She tries this and then that for a few steps, consults the stars to determine in what direction Glen ville lies, and has almost decided on the first to the right, when she hears a sound which turns the blood to ice in her veins. A shrill whistle sounds to the left— once, swered twice, thrice—and then it is an from the road right, in front. There are two others. 0h, God ! if she but knew which road to take! She knew well enough the meaning of those The signals. She hail heard them before, marked cavaliers are closing in upon l‘ er ; and, as if frozen to stone, she sits on her horse in the clear moonlight, and cannot choose. She is not thinking of herself. It is not for herself that she fears ; but there has come over her a horrible numbing sensation know which that she road is’lost, for she does not leads to those she seeks to save ; and st the same time there comes the certain conviction that to err would be fatal. There are but two r °ads now to choose between, since she has heard the fateful signals from the left and front; hut how much depends the sickening conviction comes : “No, no: it’s the other!” She hears hoof strikes np the road in front, on that to ker left, and now, too, on that which turns sheer to the right. From one to th® o^ier the whistle sounds—sharp, »h°rt signals. Her heart sinks within l‘«r. She lias halted at the veiy rendez vous of the enemy. They are all her. To attempt to ride down either road is to mvite destruction. She awoke from her stupor when the first horseman came in sight, and thanked God for her dark horse and colorless habit. She urged Young Lol lard among the dense senib pines which grew between the two roads from which she knew she must choose, turned his head backward toward thejdaoe of in tersection, drew her revolver, leanerl over /mirUiiTimncr nnon his neck and neered oi,,,,7 tbrono-l, .i hSd hreneViee , her ^ftly horse’s tTkeen and stilT whispered to him haS tom HMdly had she she placed olaced herself herself in m hirl hid The cLta dta 8??***^ b ^ se “ e P- 8be 00,11,1 catcb glimpses of their figures „ as she gazed through the clustering pines. Three men came mU* the road that ran along to the ot where ehe Btood - They were hardly five but step* determined, from where she the la 7’ P antm 8 on IMthfol horse which moved not a muscle. Once he had neighed before they came *° nfar l but tbere were so many bonev neighiug and snufiing that no one noticed it. She remembered a little fl»sk that Maggie whisky. had She put into her pock et. It was put up her re volver, drew out the flask, opened it, poured some in her hand, and, leaning 'orward, nibbed it on the horse's nose , He did not offer to neigh again. Gonsiderabla confusion arose f among the gathering riders, who had aoma dif- W ATK INS V11,1 iE, GEORGIA, JULY 28, 1880. ference revolver of ready opinion) cocked and Lily, "her with her in hand, turned, and cautiously made her way to the road which had been indicated by their talk as the one that led to Glen¬ ville. Just as her horso stepped into the path, an overhanging limb caught her hat, and pulled it off, together with the hood of her waterproof, so that her hair fell down again on her shoulders. She hardly and noticed if the fact in her excite¬ ment she had could not have stopped to horse repair the accident. She kept her the on the shady side, walk¬ ing upon grass as much as possible to ing prevent all sides attracting attention, watch¬ on for any scattered mem¬ bers of the Klan. She had proceeded thus about 150 yards, when she came to a turn in the road, and saw sitting be¬ fore her in the moonlight one of the disguised who horsemen, evidently a sentry, had been stationed there to see that no one came upon the camp unex¬ pectedly. just He was facing the turned, other way, and, but at that moment seeing her indistinctly in the shadow', cried out at once: “ Who’s there ? Halt 1” They were not twenty yards apart. Lollard trembled with excitement under the father, tightly-drawn half rein. Lily iialf-fiercely, thought of her prayerfully, bowed closely over her horse’s neck, anil braced herself in the saddle, with every muscle as tense as those of a tiger before his leap. Almost before the words were out of the sentry’s mouth she gave Young Lollard £he spur, and shot like an arrow into the bright moonlight, straight toward the black muffled horse¬ man. .. M God he cried amnzed at the sudden ammritinri ® be was close , upon i him • m • an instant, , , ^ere sprung was aside, a shot; and Lily, his startled urging Young horse Lollard to his utmost speed, was flying down the road to Glenville. She heard an uproar behind—shouts and one or * w0 shots - 0n > on s» e sped, She kne Y e ™7 f ' ,ot of the road be y° nd - *- ile looked back, and saw her pursuers swarming outof the wood into the moonlight. Just then she was m shadow. A mile, two miles, were passed. She _ drew her horse listen in to ; there was the noise of a horse s hoofs coming down a hill she had just de¬ scended, as her gallant steed bore her, Wlth almOBt .^diminished stride, up the opposite slope, She laughed, even m llor ® excitement, at the very bought that any one should attempt to overtake her. "* ca8 * hat follow ’” qaotb youfcg he hummed’ LocMnvar 8 as she patted Young Lol lard’s outstretched neck. She turned when she reached the summit t’te her long hair streaming backward in moon j igbt like a „ (ddell banner ana saw the solitary horseman on the opposite slope; then turned and passed over the hill. ____________ ----------------------- The Slave Trade in Egypt. , Ending a- tbe ^aws, 1 treaties , and , p , of the slave > e -suppression , , ■ ^gyP 1 and the activity “ - even “ , ^ y ,■ y th e Egyptian dispatches Government t otlon recently re > (, *1 ,5, Genlend^ Department of State from at inhuman C^airo would traffic seem al rled on “ T nl ^ 18 P hed “ aS * , or ™ er y • The k slave ^“,25?“ 1 f wl l a nommally ° n trading Arab car in legiti- , av T ’ . l,alld Egypt and lse ‘Nilf P. ,**’ . 1 4i nca ’-5 un K av< ^ r abouT mZ Penerai y, on the JNile, about 280 J30 milef above Cairo, where the Lybian range ol rUn X down to the nver. 1,1 tko a ”' ~nt grottoes and tombs in these mount d Stributed .7 ^ouXu^toe threiiKhout ^tbe 6 ' 1 country country. ie the activity of a young Swiss attached to , American Mission at Assiout re reb _ u ^^ 8 slaves m ^ ie and s ^zure the lncarceratior and manu deriers. f " J A a ^ Iffirough c ia !'gf, the d wUh representation beln g slav oi ‘ there *'| le British being a Consul treaty for General the suppression at Cairo e B 'ave trade between Egypt and England—three , hundred soldiers were dispatch to Assiout, the caravan stir rounded amirthe seizure above notedI <■!■ thatthis Although it.was well understood caravan had brought more than. slaves into the country, the mos! ngid search failed to fhscovcr more than 68, the semainder having been disposed maimmitted seized in jsl= their some were “ at J v0 country while sleeping in their P 61 ”®’ °tners were borne off while tend mg their sheep and cattle in the fields; ^ th f K 1 ^ 8 w ere forced away from thelr nusbaads and still others were cnginaHy slaves and sold to the caravan, —Philadelphia Times. Rejected Manuscripts. P _ Rejected . . , contributors , . sometimes are avenged. A scotch newspaper, the Green oak Advertiser, has ceased to exist, after a “! <A ^‘ty-e^ht vea™. ^per ]y: ^ ° r ! '* Hohenbn ft. “ % ^ it was assured by Sir Walter Scott that it wuh one of the finest things ol the kind t,iat ll '- evfir rca ' 1 - Hince that time, the P«>“ >‘ aH ^ worn out by the myriads o£ sclKX,1 ' lKi y B who have R J ,oken it m pub ii c on the stage. Charlotte Bronte’s P«t novel met with a similar reception, “JaacEyrc’-was written in the grey old parsonage mdthr the Yorksliire hills; the roU g b notes, sketched hasty in iienril, were transcribed in a neat hand an legible as print, and the manuscript, sent off from in its brown paper wrapi**, was the sta tion-house at Kh-ighley to publisher after publisher, “returned only with to thanks,” find its way till the back packet, again, scored all over with publishers’ by names, ,-md well-nigh worn out its travels, found its way into the hands of Messrs, Smith A Elder with This a stamped ot envelope inside for a reply. story “ Jaue Eyre” is, with authors who eannot find a publisher, one of the standing sources of consolation, and it is s very striking in stance of the loose way in which publish ers' readers now and then kx>k through oth manuscripts that find their way into « hands Nevada’s First Nugget. Nevada’s first nugget was mined with a butcher's knife. John Orr started across the plains in 1819. The roads were obliged bad, tho weather through was worse, and he was to remain the winter at Salt Lake. In April he resumed his journey. Kelly, after He had whom a partner Kelly’s named ravine Nick is named, and in the company was William Prouse, now living in Nurb City, about forty miles southeast of Salt Lake. Prouse had worked in mines before gold was discovered at Coloma, and was a good prospector. One day the train stopped on the edge of what is now known as Gold Canon, near the Carson River, to let the animals feed on some bunch grass found growing near tho sage brush. Prouse, at noontime, took a milk pan, and going down to the gulch began wash¬ ing dirt, in a few minutes getting color to the value of a few cents. Orr then named the place Gold Canon. The train soon after resumed travel, going to the head of Carson Valley. There they met a party of seven, who had left the train at the sink of tho Humboldt, intending to go in advance to California and select good locations for the remainder of the party. the They had been unable to in cross country, tho and had been lost the snow in mountains for four or five days, unable A to find the divide three in Hager town. stay in Carson for weeks followed, when Orr, Kelly and several others returned to Gold Canon and re¬ sumed prospecting. Kelly and Orr went up the canon until a little fork was reached, when work was begun. The party had few tools, and Orr had nothing but a knife. While Kelly was working he noticed a very narrow place at the fork, where the water barely covered a slab of slate rock. Idly he examined it, and noticed a small crevice near the edge, drove the knife into it, breaking out a piece. The water running over it washed away the underlaying dirt, andin a few minutes he discovered a gold nug¬ get where the rock lind covered it. It t was found quickly removed, and This afterward 1st of June, to weigh just $8.25. thirty was the 1850, aiid years ago. Prospecting was continued, though •lust was found in several places through¬ out the canon, Orr’s was the only nug¬ get. He still has it in his possession, the first ever found in Nevada. Snag’s Corners, The officials of a Michigan railroad now being extended were waited upon ^ the other day b a )iemm from tbo woods and sand lulls who announced himself as Mr. Snag, and who wanted to *™ ow it could be possible that the pro posed line was not to come any nearer tb an three miles to the hamlet named in his honor. “ Ib Snag's Corners a place of much irn portance > 1 asked the president. “Is it? Well, I should say it was. We made over a ton of maple sugar last spring.” “Does business flourish there?” “Flourish! Why business is on the ga jj () p there ftwry minute in the whole twenty-four al ,^ o{ hours. We had three ‘ r false firo there wv( . k f na t for a town which is to be left three mi i cs off your raih , )wlr bugine( Bring f asked to give scratchThis the names of the 8 ho he heM for a while, and then replied “Well, there’s mo to start on. I run big gtore j bt k { and shall soon have a dam and a saw mfl “ Th th , blackHraith gbop a half office, a doctor, and last week over a dozen patent-right iSief men passed inc3 through here ' In one year we’ve f rom a squatter ^inUng, and two liavfa doi/s to our preBent and we’ll tawyer there before long. ” “I’m afraid we won’t be able to come Rny nearer the Corners than the president. present «i™y,” “Yon won’t! Anally remarked the It can’t be nossible that ^w me an to skip a growing 1 place like g Comers r “J-think we’ll have to." “Wouldn’t come if I’d clear you out s place 1 in the eei” store howwecilul,]” for a ticket office’” -q do „. t “Maybe I’dsubscribe ll t2 ’’ r i ” continnn-1 t bf , ( i ft ]( ;C r ab . couldn’t rh»n<w. ^ ” “Can’t do it nohow?” .<N 0 ” “Very well ” said Mr Hnati rrifro«/l as he nut rm bitt linf “If this’ere ibiolo. ft can stunt or cripple [|| Snatr's Corners bv J j @avir 8 jt out in e W)ld feave , Gg rn take Before I town to day I’m goinc to lmv a wind mill and a aud 1,6 tree t romi. . .|» ( ., narkllb |^ swim Visitors to Pme Grove Cemetery, at Milford, Mass are much surprised to sa swan rocking-horse standing on a grave near child's The swan utters a shriek if any one attempts to approach tee grave. Some years ago the mate to the swan died, and soon after the rock mg-horse was placed on the newly-made grave.whenthe stationed survmrigswanimmedi- himself diately horse. If the as protector over tl.e fatlier of the JittJe ^ tl,at 18 buned tbere a Pproari.e-s, the .war. makes v no outory but no one else i? allowerlto approach the spot. Itoaintlv “M th ® ho ^ Z** takan W 811,1 P a and while it was absent the swan hx>k no notice of the grave, but passed its time oil the pood or in the house but when the horse was replaced the swan took up its position the by rocking-horse its side, thus showing that it was and not the ^rumored grave that was the object t^istees of its vigil It that the ordered the home removed, but the irerner of the hit refused to comply l with the command be cause his son iad requested that it should lie placed aixive bis grave. ---- Hickoby-xdt Car*.—O ne cupful of sugar, one-half cupful of butter, one-half cupful of sweet rnilk, two cupfuls of flour and one and one-half teaspoonfuls of baking-powder, well mixed, one large cupful of walnut meats, one large cup fulof raisins, whites of four eggs, yelks of three eggs arid ; beet, butter and sugar u, a e ream, the yelks of the eggs well hirtiten, then the flour and milk ; flour the meats and raisins fstoned; and stir them in; lastly, the whites of the eggs listen to a stiff froth. Bake la pans to slice or cut in blocks. When baked, make a frosting, miring in ooe-half cur> M walnut msau, sud po<ir over. The Man in the Gallery, It will be remembered that, in bin speech nominating Sherman at the Chi¬ livering cago convention, Gen. Garfield, after de¬ candidate, an appropriate said: Who eulogy upon that “ do you want?” Whereupon “ Garfield.” a voice in the gallery shouted That unknown man called upon the General on Tuesday afternoon, jus! as ho was washing his hands tc to prepare for a general shake. He was a one-armed soldier, and rather seedy in his make-up. Said he, “ General Garfield, I come tc offer my congratulations.” let “Thanks, thanks,” said the General “ me see, weren’t you in the Forty second Ohio—?” “ No, General, that’s not it. Didn’t you hear that voice in the gallery when you said ‘Who do you want?' I’m the fellow that said it. I was for you first, last and all the time,” “ You are a prophetic soul,” said the General, “and if I come to the White House depend upon it I shan’t forget you”. And the one-armed manjleft his name on a card and went away happy. In a few minutes Garfield* was sur rounded by his friends, and his right hand was going like a pump-handle, when a burly Teuton pressed forward and accosted him: “ Guton abend, General, 1 dinks I have some glaims on you anyhow.” “ I am at your service, my good friend, ” said the General; “ let me hear from you.” “ Did you hear dot man slioud oud in in de gallery ‘ Garfield ’ when you say ‘ Was halien sic?” “Ah, yes, I remember it well. Do you mean to tell me—” “ Yah, General, I vas dot man, identi¬ cal zame.” “ long My friend, I shall never forget you os as 1 live. Let mo hear from you any time. ” And the man went aw ay happy, Passing through the rotunda on his way to the carriage, the General felt a thundering slap on the back, midway be¬ tween his shoulders and hips, accom ponied by, “ Hillo, old Gar.” Turning round lie saw a very little man, with a very tall hat, and a very thick stick in his fist. ' ‘ Don’t remember me, eh? I’m called the boss interviewer of Chicago. I in¬ terviewed old Conk, and you too—” day. “ Ah, yes. Well, good-day, good “Hold on, old fellow,” said the chop; “I want to have just a word with you on my own hook. Didn’t you hear that fel¬ low up in thegallery when you made your Sherman speech, shout ‘ Garfield?’ ” ‘ ‘ 1 did, I did. Do you mean to say— v “Guess I fixed you that time, old man. I knew it was hound to go that way. Now, I consider I am the man who saved the Republican party. ” field, “ My dear, good little fellow,” said Gar¬ “you deserve the thanks of tho Na¬ tion. I sliall give you a new club. Como down and see me in Ohio, and I’ll tell you all about the next Cabinet. Perhaps you’ll be in it.” And the little man went away happy. Just as tho General was boarding the train, a bottle-nosed politician from tho Seventh Ward plucked him on tho coat¬ tail and sliriekod, “General, General, one word—only What is it, one word. ” “ my man?” “ Do you remember when you made your ing speech in the convention nominat¬ Sherman that a man in tho gallery shouted “Garfield?” The General is not a profane man. He was once a minister of the gospel, but he was also at one time of his life a canal boatman. Early habits of thought and expression are never completely eradi¬ cated, and ho startled some of his friends in the car as he threw himself into * seat and exclaimed: “ Cuss that man in the gallery." Drinking Ice Water. There is no more doubt that drinking ice water arrests digestion than there i« that a refrigerator igerau would arrest perspi-a tion. It drives frorn tho stomach its natural heat, suspends the flow of gastric juice and shocks and weakens the deli¬ cate organs with which it comes in con¬ tact. An able writer on human diseases says habitual ice-water drinkers are usu ally very flabby They about complain the region of the stomach. that the food lies heavy on that patient organ. They taste their dinner for hours after it is bolted. They cultivate the use of stimu¬ lants to aid digestion, If they are intol ligeut physiologist they read upon food and what the long lias to say about it—how beet rig and it it would woul take cabbage and pork and pota toes and other meats and other esculents to go through the process of assimilation. They roar at new bread, hot cakes and fried meat, imagining these to be the cause of the maladies. But the ice water goes down all the same, take and farewell finally look friends are called in to a at one whom a mys¬ terious Providence has called to a clime where, as for as is known, ice water is not used. The number of immortal lie ings who go of hence, injudicious to return no more, ice on account an use of water can hardly be estimated.— Haiti more Sun. Formation of Snow. Snow is formed from va ,por, and vapor is formed by heat; an( I it has been calculated that the heat expended hi forming a single pound pounds of vapor would melt no less than five of cast iron. Nor is this all. force Equally great if not greater is the necessary te transform the vapor into snow. Prof, l *®y* : the wild I have seen stone avalanches , , frf the Alps which smoke and thunder (town the declivities with a vehemence almost sufficient to stun the observer. I have also seen snowflakes descending Wihoftl v an not to fmrttiif Hpiingli* dUM du.^ , ‘''from from 1 '’^^ aqueous vajior : a a * quantity 0 IiaifthV which a child omld carry of that tender material demands an exertion of energy eorn.ietent to gather up the "battered blocks of the largest pitch stone avalanche J have ever see", anil them to twice tint height from which they fell. P<‘t a m*n on his honor to pay a debt snd s gambler will pay ss promptly ss mm " body eb*. NUMBER Roofed Conntry Roads. To a large extent in the South and Southwest the highways are of two dis¬ tinct sorts—in local parlance, turnpikes and mud roads. The former title covers the main State roads, often constructed with great care and cost, and usually macadamized. The latter includes the great majority of country roads; and for nine month s or more every year the name is exactly de¬ scriptive of their character. They arc deep emphatically tenacious. mud roads, and the mud is and Plank roads arc sometimes tried where lumber is cheap; but they ri-st under the disadvantage they of being expensive, and are neither durable nor easily kept in repair. Accordingly mud roads pre¬ dominate, and communities possessing them are little given to social or com¬ mercial intercourse with their neighbors save during the brief periods when the mud is dry and the wheeling possibly good. An exception to this rule appears in Bosier Parish, Louisiana, where an at¬ tempt has been made to keep on import¬ ant earth road dry and usable by the novel device of roofing it, so as to keep oft' tlio rain. The first, stretch of covered rood on this plan runs from Red Chute Bridge, River Louisiana, four miles across Red idoa bottom, near Hhrievepoit. The kins originated with Judge J. I). Wat¬ of Hkrieveport, and, as is the usual fate of new ideas, it aroused no little ridicule. Judge Watkins was not a man to be laughed d own. Obtaining a State charter for his enterprise ho began to build the road. His opponents & Sil¬ plained that ho was obstructing the parish road, mid attempted to stop the work; but ample and lawful room liaviug been given for the parish rood their op¬ position came to nothing. It is now four years since the work was begun, and Mr. John 8. Williams, of Shrieveport, who lias been connected with the enterprise from the beginning, informs us that the road is a complete success. At the time of his writing, while the uncovered roads were axle deep in some places with stifi mud, the shed road was firm and dry. In building the road, the lied, 18 feet wide, was thrown up just enough to koop out the surfaco water ; and over it was tl»c put a roof of plonk fivo-eights inch thick, plunks being 12 inches wide and 20 feet loug. Cypress from the neighboring swamp is used for posls, and roughly sawed timber for frame work. By moans of an ingenious platform mounted oil a common two-horse wagon and supporting alight framework, r four men easily put up 20 sections, of twenty feet each, a day. The cost of the road was shout $1,500 labor a mile, with lnmbor at $1 a hundred feet, $1 a day, posts 124 cents each, earthwork 20 cents a cubic yard, and nails 5 cents a pound. The advantages of the road arise from its sheapness, as possible compared witli any other style of road there, its durability and its un¬ varying soil, sorvieeableness. Tho native clay when kept dry, makes a better road than either wood or stone, and the road is easily kejit in repair. The wagons do not touch the woodwork, and tne roof will last five times as long as planks laid upon the damp earth. Though the sides are not enclosed the rain does not drive in enough to make tho roads muddy, much less wash it. In short the practical test of the road, on the score oi cheapness satisfactory and efficiency, has been so that the ridioulo and opposition it first awakened have been overcome, and other roads on tho same plan are about to be constructed.— SeientUle A meric.an. New and Stale Bread. The nature of the difference between new and stale bread is far from being known. It is only chemist, lately that the cole lirated French Boussinganlt, instituted an inquiry into it, from which it results that the difference is not the consequence of desiccation, but solely oi tne cooling of the bread. If we take fresh bread into the cellar or in any place where it cannot dry, the inner part of the loaf, it is true, is found to he crumby, but the crust has become soft awl is no longer brittle. It stale bread is taken back into the oven again it as sumes all the qualities of fresh baked bread, although m the hot oven it must undoubtedly M. Boussingault have lost part has made of its afresh mois ture. loaf of bread the subject of minute in vestigation, but uninteresting. and tho results New bread, are anything in its smallest parts, is so soft, clammy, flexible and glutinous, (in consequence of the starch during the process of fermenting mueilagin and baking being changed into oils dextrine) that by mastication it is with greater difficulty separated and and reduced to smaller pieces, in its smallest parts is less under the influence of the saliva and digestive juices. hard It consequently careless and forms hasty itself mastication into halls and deglutition, by becomes coated by over saliva and slime, and in this state enter* the stomach. The gastric juice being unable to penetrate such hard masses, and being scarcely able even to act upoD the surface of them, they frequently re¬ main foreign in the bodiea, stomach irritate unchanged, and and, like mcom mode it, inducing every species of suffer¬ ing—oppression disturbed of the circulation stomach, pain the in the chest, of blood, congestions it the brain, and pains in the head, irritation i and inflammation, apopleptic attaoks, cramp and delirium. — The Millar. A Home Thrust, William Cullen Bryant, when chal lenged onee to fight a duel, contrived to f llHte n the charge of cowardice on “the other fellow " very neatly, and with little trouble. His reply having been inoor d(!at rectly f reported h > ^.n-in-law, in the notices Godwin, of his H Parke publishes the facta as follows : Mr Bryant wag challenged by a Dr. Holland, now deceased, on had account of offtniKivo word* that nprx*aml in th< ’ Evmln U l ‘ ,M < but - remembering that J>r. Holland had l>een previously challenged by William Mggett. ehuliengo, without taking any notice of the lie rcph.ri to tlns effect: “ Mv Deah Hi« : I am not familiar witli t]lQ (xxl „ of tho duuli)lti but j | M( . have that, according send to its provisions, challenge no to one baa a right to a fight a duel so tong ss an unanswered nhsileugc hangs over Ins heed." Then the matter wee dropped. ISaiftinsmllc gulratue. A WEEKLY PAPER, PUBLISHED AT Watkinsville, Oconets Co., Georgia. FATES OF ADVERTISING: Ou«* squttii tirst insertion.............................. $1 S3SSSSSSSSSSS8 r-acb wubequent insertion............................ One square, one mo th.................................. One square, t» ree months............................. One square, six months................................. One squire one year.................................... One-fourth column, one month...................... One-four h column, three months.................. One-fourth coumn, six months..................... One-fourth column, on** year........................ Half column, one month...... Ha f co umn, three months........................... Half column, six rnomhs................ Ha f column, one year..................... LIRKR.Ui TERflTBf FOR WORE SPACE WAIFS AND WHIMS. A own has no feet yet it can kick. Strong cheese is rank, hut hatred is rancor. Buffalo mulattos arc called Buff fel¬ lows. A nightmare is the only animal that has a dreamy eye. A bride may not like fish, but she will not go back on her-ring. A man must, be a hardened sinner when he “lies” at the point of death. They say it is only the. female bee that stings. Oh, pins! thy'name is wo¬ man. He was a ragged orphan boy— lit* dlil not own u cunt— Bui still whond'or In* tore his clothes, He’d gather in hU rent —Salem Sunbeam. Tub Rochester Democrat , under the heading of "Local Matters,” places “ Different Views of Hell.” Now say that a Scotchman can’t make a joke. Tho Magistrates of Aberdeen have solemnly given it as their opinion that it is unlawful to take spirits out of an empty cask. In all guns of grewt calibre you find n great bore. In a man of small calibre you fiml a small bore. Conclusion—A man of small calibre may easily pass for a great gun. Professor —“Wliat is the fundamental condition of existence?” Student— “ Time.” Professor— “ How do you ex¬ plain that?” Student—“Very easily. How cmi a person exist if he hasn’t time for it?” A Missouri girl dressed up as a boy and went oiit as a farm liana, and they never found her out until she carelessly lot them see that she could thread a needle without pricking every linger and swearing like a deputy sheriff. A DRUNKEN join- shoemaker was look¬ ing mond, through when a tobacco he house in Rich¬ Va., fell into a pile of plug tobacco and dislocated his arm. He immediately applied for a pension on tho grounds that he was a sole jour in the navy. “Mr. Ford has an abominable gait; don’t you tliiulc so?” “No, indeed; I think it is quite handsome, especially sinco it was painted.” “Excuse me, but vou don’t understand me—I alluded to liia carriage; carriage.” “Why, la me! he has no he rides in the hoss cars.” At a theater in Dublin a gentleman requested a man in front of him to sit down, adding sarcastically, sir, “I suppose you are aware, that you arc opoquo.” “ I shall sit down when it suits me,” was tho response, “and if you want to handle my name, mind, it’s not Q’Pake at all, hut O’Brien.” Said the mistress of a Marseilles cigar shop to a young Bohemia journalist: “Inis is the sixth time you have been hero without saying a word about the money you owe me, monsieur! What am 1 to understand by it? ” “Ah, madam,” said the clever journalist, “when one sees you, aue forgets every¬ thing!” A Hopeful Case: Patient—“Then, according all, 1 to you, doctor, hi order to live at living?” must give Doctor—“I’m up all that makes life worth afraid bo¬ at least for a few years. ” Patient—“Per¬ haps you'd recommend me to marry?” Doctor (a confirmed bachelor)—“Oh, no! Gome, inv dear fellow, it’s not quite so bad as all that, you know!” Yodno men should never lose presence of mind in a trying situation. When you take tho girl you krve to a picnic, and you wander away together to commune with natnro, and she suddenly exclaims, “Oh, George, there’s an ant down my back!” don’t stand still with your mouth °pon; don’t faint; don t go for tho girl’s mother; go for the imt. “Yes,” said a witness, “I remember the defendant's mother crying on the oe casion referred to. Sho was weeping with her left eye—tho only one bIio line —and the tears were running down her judge, right cheek.” “how "What!” exclaimed tho could that be?” “Please your honor,” said the witness, “she was awfidiy cross-eyed. ” Two French women wero passengers on one of the local trains between Vir gfifia City and Carson. They had with them, iu a big tin eago, a parrot that annoyed squalling every and gabble. one with Observing its constant the unfriendly the glances that were bestowed down upon bird, one of tho women pulled a cloth cover that was on the top of the cage. When the extinguisher was clapped upon tho bird and it found itself in tlio dark, it growled out, “That’s Binart.” The bird kept quiet for a few minutes, then yelled in its shrillest tones: “Look out, Sarah, lie’s going to kiss youl” be in the The conductor, said: “That who parrot happened must to car, be an old traveler on railroads. He seems to think we are passing through a tunnel.’’ Dh. J. Lawrence Smith, of Louis¬ ville, Ky., has made a personal investiga¬ tion of the great meteorite which fell in Emmitt County iu 1879, having visited the spot for the occasion. Tho external appearuiice was that of a mass, rough a n d knotted liko multierry calculi, witli rounded protuberances projecting portions from the surface. The larger were of gray color, with a green mineral irregu¬ larly disseminated through it. The total weight of the portions The found amounted of to 307 jssinds. stony part this meteorite consisted essentially of bronzite and olivine, the three essential constitu¬ ents being silica, ferrous oxides and magnesia. An the analysis showed contained that in composition meteorite notiiing that was peculiar. Its unique pud tion, however, among meteorites accompanying is on account its fall, of especially the phenomena the great depth to which it peuetruted beneath the surface, and also because of its of association physical charac¬ of ters and the manner its mineral constituents. “Good, kind-hearted aoul that ahe was,” said Job Shuttle as lie mused oa the excellencies of his better-lmlf rneel lonu s i„co passed ' away. * “HI don’t that, wonmu her iu other heaven, I hope I shall miss in the place, that's all?” Lime has never lieen found in a native state; it is always united to an acid, as to tho carbonio in chalk. By subjecting c b *lk or limestone to a red beet it is freed from the acid, and the lima is left in a state of purity.