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Ihc ‘SMiinsmlle gjuluitm a finij r*m, Watkinsvilfo, Oconee Co. Georgia. W. Gr. SULLIVAN, KDITOB AXD PSOTEIBTOB TERMS: Obo year, in advance.......... .•1 M . ...............it SU months...................... W .. The Pocket Handkerchief. We mayforget ourpnrse, onrpenluiife, and many other things, says the inconvenience, Hatter, without experiencing without any its and even know T n at times, but be to lose followed or mislay the handkerchief may by very grave consequences, as w’e all know. Moreover, we make use of this article in many other different w r ays. All who make use of spectacles do not remove them from their nose in order to put them the very handkerchief, carefully into the case without using and they use it again before putting them on, wiping the glasses with great care. The majority of people pay by far too little attention to an object so indispensable. Many put it into the same pocket with their keys, their purse, their snuff-box, without troubling themselves concerning the many tissue will strange substances with which its not fail to come in contact in so miscellaneous a company, and which kerchief might sully the purity which the hand¬ to ought visit? to possess. Does oue go pay a Before presenting them selves to the person they wish to thank or solicit, some have been known to dust their boots with the handkerchief. Does the careful wife see some grains of dust left on her ornaments? She makes them disappear with her handkerchief, Boys in the school-room clean their slates with them, in the play-ground the hand kerchief is the necessary attendant of a multitude of games. With this ;hey wipe It off the dirt; they strike off the dust, is used to stop the blood that flows from wounds—always very numerous in the age of leap-frog and prisoners’ base; the age also of communism in liandker chiefs. With wounds come tears, and the handkerchief, full of dust, spotted with dirt, with the blood of bodies known or unknown, serves again cheeks for wiping the eyes, the nose, or the furrowed with tears. We do not wish, and we can not tell here all the strange uses that people make of the pocket handkerchief. And then what signals have been con veyed how by it! How many sad farewells, many cheerful congratulations! The very method of waving it has a language, as the motions of the fan also have. But no one lias^iitherto discoursed on the language of the it pocket handkerchief, And how useful often is as a help to the pocket or the hand-bag! How many mushrooms, raspberries myrtle-berries, have gathered strawberries, and been into the handkerchief in young days, and more valuable things in later life! Then there may be evil results traced to ite—a number of ailments of which one cannot guess the origin; diseases of the nose and eyes. Fortunate it is for him that incurs which nothing worse; diphtheria, for example, the handkerchief may heedlessly transmit. Let us not use the handker chief except for its proper purpose; let ns devote it to a special place; let us change it as often as possible, and in spire our children with a great disgust for another’s handkerchief on account of the disagreeable, nay, dangerous conse qnences that may ensue. Much more might he said about the pocket hander chief, but enough has been hinted at to set the reader to Blinking upon its im uortance, its uses, and its abuses. Why Some Americans Like England. It has often occurred to me that many of the New Yorkers wdio do not come to London have kindred feelings, and are in similar positions to tho Londoners who do not go to New York. Similarly, it seems to me that the nice people you meet in America are like the nice people you meet in England. “But,” said an American affinities. artist “I have to me just discussing these Cookham the Upper come Thames, up-from on and you tached ask me England why we when Americans really get so at¬ to wo got to know the country. I will tell you. It is settled. It is quiet; you can rest here. I walked from Cookham to Med rnenham companion Abbey. A lovely the only spot. I and there. my callers were persons A few came, ladies and gentlemen boating all. Quiet, down the Thames, and that was fresh, lovely meadows, a shining river, an abbey 1,000 years old and a quiet country hotel like a private gentleman’s house. Why, sir, in my country that hotel would have been a great white, and staring, modem palace, with smoking and flirting and cocktail-making howling going on that would drive you mad 1 Peace, quiet, worlds, finish, the end of tilings, a dream of old a present of repose where you may cultivate art and live on a mod¬ erate income; that is why we Americans love England .”—English Idler to New York Times. French Treatment of Hysterics. A new treatment of hysterical Medicate affections of is noticed in the Gazette Paris. In cases of paralysis of sensation it has often been observed that when a metal is applied for a certain time to the insensible surface of a limb at the end of about a quarter of an hour an incomplete sensibility returned, on a restricted zone of skin, and from that point spreads gradually during the twenty-four hours over the whole limb. Sensibility skin reddens, returns, and at the same time the the temperature rises, and even the mus¬ cular force seems increased. Strange to say, however, in respect to this principle in the of treatment, all metals do not act same w’av with the same patients—on some gold, while on others copper or zinc is efficient—though the same metal always on the same patient. Some of the most eminent French physicians and chemists have directed their attention to this subject. A Phenomenal Whistler. William Gumby, a colored man living in Philadelphia, is a very remarkable whistler. His notes are indescribably sweet, and yet withal powerful enough to fill a largo-sized hall. Gumby can whistle m two distinct octaves at the same time, and when asked to give an exhibition of his skill he whistled the “ Mocking Bird ’ and several other tunes in a manner in which not two but three tones to were lie distinctly something audible. Utwecn The tones seem a flute and a fife, jswsessing the sweetness of the one combined with the shrillness of the other, and yet ixmmmina something that Is-longed to neither, lie intends to perfect himself, and then appear on the stage. The Watkinsville Advance. VOLUME I. SUNSET. BY HALLIE O. YOIINO. In the far west, as tho day grows old, I watch a city of dazzling gold; From the minarets that pierce tho sky I listen to hear the muezzin’s cry; Altars arc many—and all aglow— Their incense smoke is white as snow; Banners of crimson are floating out From arches of opal scattered about. Steeples and spires in splendor vie, And temples of jasper touch tho sky. Hast thou, O! city above the trees, . An Abelard and Heloise? My fancy is busy in peopling thee, Bo high above our earth and sea; Thy glory illumines the bending skies, And I dream thee a glimpse of paradise, And wonder, and worship from afar, -as angels swing the gates ajar. the Golden age. Story of the Discovery of Gold in California. ^ was the month of January, 1848, . small shanty in tho rather squalid ' n a tittle hamlet of Yerba Buena, on the Bay °* San Francisco, that two young men trom the States, having just printed on a weekly hand-press the 150 copies of their paper, sat down upon stools, weary, faint and discouraged, to talk over the prospects of the country and be moan the fate that had cast them whero society and money were so scarce. They were hii’tli Americans, but tho land of their was as remote to them then as St. Petersburg hey. to a peasant of the Amoor va They longed to return, but never Mexican expected to be rich enough. The months war was just ended a few before. The treaty of Guada lu P? Hidalgo gave California to the United States. The California so ceded included the present State of that name, Nevada, and most of Utah. It was an empire larger than France and England, Divided by a range of mountains almost as Carpathians, lofty as the Alps and longer than the south, the running from north to easternhalf was a terra incog n ji a °f barren containing desert buttes throughout and mount spin’s, its whole extent but one feeble settlement °f whites, known as Mormons. Un¬ known savages of the lowest aboriginal t. v P° dominated all the rest. The west em half, as it then appeared, was one rank great valley covered with bright flowers, wooded verdure, clumps of majestic oaks, hills, sloping from the coast range on the west and the Sierras on tho eas b hills, plains and valleys alive with berds of deer, elk, antelope and cattle ®nd horses as wild as the game ; the charming panorama enlivened amt per fected by sparkling rivers, whose waters were as clear as tho cloudless sky above them, their banks flanked with a dense growth of ash, maple, alder, willow, hazel, cottonwood, sycamore, wild grape vines, and, toward their confluence with the bays, waving tule of the darkest cornfields green, resembling the at first sight the great on lowlands of the Ohio, Hi a d this vast valley region there w.ts but one white settlement. It was known os Sutter’s Fort. It was located near the confluence of the Rio de los Americanos with the Sac¬ ramento. To the far south, beyond the sources of the San Joaquin river, not far from tlio Pacific ocean, stood the “Ciudad de los Angeles,” Mexican in its construction and population. A Catholic mission at Santa Barbara and another at San Luis Obispo (Saint Louis, the Bishop); another at Monterey on the bay of that name ; another at Santa Clara iu the lovely valley of that name ; another called Mission de San Jose not far from the latter, and another at the village of Yerba Buena, which has since grown into the city of San Francisco. It was then a collection of adobes, built around the public square we now call “the Plaza.” The waters of the bay extended as far as Montgomery street, where the Bank Exchange now stands, and a few whalers and small coasting schooners lay at anchor 300, yards from shore, about where the postoffice now stands on Battery street. There were also American settlements at Sonoma and .Napa, composed of farmers who emigrated from tho Western States a few years before, and here and there arose along the borders of the tale the smoke from the hut of tho lonely trap¬ per of beaver. These, with the ranches of the old Dons, their corrals and the inevitable adobe dwellings, surrounded by innumerable what cattle and horses, made up the sum of there was of civilized and semi-civilized life in California at the time the two young printers of Yerba Buena were discussing their situation. Now and then a vessel put into the bay of Diego, Monterey, or San hides, Francisco, or San to load with or a whaler for repairs, dropping a few Mexican dollars or doubloons, which were the currency of the country. It was, to an active or ambitious mind, a dull and listless life; but to the majority, who loved ease, a healthy climate and beauti¬ fully-diversified scenery. A plearfng land of drowey head it wap, Of druarnB that flit before the half-shut eye, And of gay ea«tlen in the, clouds that pass, Forever flashing through a summer sky. About the same hour that the two Yerba Buena printers were deploring their fate of isolation from the busy world, a scene was enacting that was to have a greater effect upon the material interests of modern society than any event since the discovery of America, It was on the 19th day of January, river, 1848, on the south fork of the American flftv-four miles east of Sutter's Fort. Early in the morning of that day, James W. Marshall, who was building a mill for himself and Sutter, from which they expected to supply the ranches and set tlements with pine lumber, mck' of the tl null up from the bedrocks of the race a small seventeen piece of yellow metal. It It weighed malic about grains. was able, heavier than silver, and in all re speets resembled gold. About 4 o'clock in the evening Marshall exhibited his lied to the circle composing the mill company laborers. Marshall, P, Tlioir nanu s were James W. L. Wiinmer, Mrs, Wimmer, James Barger, Ira Willis, 8yd ney Willis, Alexander Stephens, .Tunes Brown, Eskiah Persons, Johnson, 1 fetiry Bigler, Israel Smith, William Geurge Evuns, Charles Bennett and William Scott. The conference resulted in the rejection of the idea tlmt it v m gold, Mrs. Wimmer tested it by boiling it iu strong lyi Marshall afterward touted it with nitric acid. It was gold, sure WATKINSVILLE, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 16, 1880. enough, like all and the discoverer found its in tho surrounding gulches wherever he dug for it. The secret could not bo long kept. It was known at Yerba Buena three months after the dis¬ covery, and the two printers above men¬ tioned put this slight notice of it in their weekly paper, The Californian, on the 19th of April: New Gold Mine. — It is stated that a new gold mine has been discovered on the American not) Fork of the the Sacramento, land of William supposed A. to Leidesdorff, ho (it was on Esq., has been of this exhibited, place. and A specimen represented of the to gold bo is very pure. May opened with accounts of new dis¬ coveries. The Californian of May 3 said: “ Seven men, with picks and days." spades, gathered SI,600 worth in fifteen That was a little more than $15 per the day per man. said: On the 17th of May have same paper loft the “Many for the persons dig¬ gings. already Considerable coast excitement exists here. Merchants and mechanics are closing doors. Lawyers and alcaldes are leaving their desks, farmers are neglecting their crops and whole families are gings. forsaking their homes ” for the dig¬ By May 24 gold dust had be¬ come an article of merchandise, tho price being from $14 to $16 per ounce. The Californian of that date had these advertisements: BOLD ! a OLD ! HOLD ! Cash will be paid for California gold by 11.11. Buckalew, Watchmaker and Jeweler, San Francisco. OOLD t GOLD ! HOLD ! Messrs. Dickson <fc Hay are purchasers of Sacramento gold. A liberal price given. Bee Hive. On the 29th of May tho Californian issued a slip stating that its further imb licatiou, for the present, would ijeaso. because tho mines. nearly all A its month patrons later had gone to there were but five persona-women and clril dren—left in Yerba Buena. Tho first rush was for Sutter’s Mill, since cliris tened Coloma, or Oulluma after a tribe of Indians who lived in that region. From there they scattered in all dircc tions. A large stream of them went over to Weber creek, which empties into the American some ten or twelve miles below Coloma. Others went up or * down the river. Some, more adventur ous, crossed tbe ridge over to tho north and middle forks of tho American. By the close of Juno tho discoveries had extended to all the forks of the Ameri ean, Cosumnes Weber (known creek, Hangtowu then the creek, Mako- the as sume), Yuba the Mokelumna, Tuolumne, the (from uvas, or yuvas—grape), called in 1848 the “Yuba,” or “Ajuba,” and Feather river. On July 15 the edi tor of the Californian returned and is sued the first number of his paper after its suspension. It contained a descrip tion of the mines from personal observa tion. He said : “ The country from the Ajuba (Yuba) to the San Joaquin, a distance of about 120 miles, and from the base toward the summit of the mountains, as far as Snow hill (meaning Nevada), about seventy miles, has been explored and gold found on every part. There are now probably 3,000 people, including Iuditins, cngJtgcd in collecting gold. TllO amount collect ed , , by each , man ranges from „ $10 to $350 per collected day. with The publisher of this paper the aid of sfvshovel, pick and a tin pan from $44 to $L8 per day—aver agmgSlOO The gross amount collected may exceed $600,000, of which amount our merchants have received $2o0,()00, all for goods, and in eight weeks, iho larg est piece known to be lound weighs eight pounds. On the 14th of August the number of white miners was estimated at 4,000. Many of them wore of Stephenson s regi ment and the disbanded Mormon battal day that ^hfomian when a man remarked with his on pan that or lasket, does not average $30 to $40 per ■ lay, he moves to another place. l'our thousand ounces a day was the estimated production of the mines five months after the secret leaked out. In April the price of flour here was $4 per hundred; in August it had risen to $16. All other subsistence supplies rose in the same proportion. Here is part of a letter from oonoma, to the Cahfomiaa, Aug. 14 : "1 have heard from one of our citizens who has been at the placers only a few weeks and collected $1,500, still averag ing Ids $100 a day. Another, who shut up hotel here somo five or six weeks since, has returned with $2,200, collected with a spade, pick and Indian basket. A man and his wife and boy collected $500 in one day.” Sam Brannan laid _ exclusive claim to Mormon island, in the American, about levied twenty-eight miles above its mouth, and all the a gold royalty of 30 per cent, on who taken there by tho Mor* mons, fused after they paid it for a while, better but re came to a standing September of the rules of the mines. By the news had spread to Ore gon and the southern coast, and on the 2d of that month the Californian notes that 125 persons had arrivedintown “by ship” gings”—near since Aug. 26. In the “ Dry Dig of August, Auburn—during tbe month five cartloads one man got $16,000 out of of dirt. In tho same dig gings $8,00 to a good $1,600 many day. were collecting from a In the fall of 1848, John Murphy, now of Han Jose discovered Murphy's Camp Diggings , in Calaveras, and some soldiers of Sto pheuson’s Mokelnmne regiment discovered Rich gulch, at hill. That winter one miner at Murphy’s realized $80,000. It was common report that John Mur phy, who had mined collected a number of Indians on wages, over $1,500,000 in Kr , [(UiMt before the close of the wet ^agon of 1848. A Frenchman fishing j a a prospect hole for frogs for bis break fa ., t) at Mokelumno hill, iu November, ] 848, discovered a speck of gold on the side of the excavation, which he dug out with Three Lis sailors pocket-knife who had and deserted sold for took $2,150. out $10,000 in live days on Weber creek, Such strokes of good fortune turned all classes into miners, including the law. yers, doctors and preachers. The ex js/rtsof and gold merchandise dust in, exchange amounted for pro. duee to $500,000by tho25th of Scptemls-r. The ruling price of gold iis dust was $15 js-r ounce, though intrinsic value was from $19 to $20, A meeting l/*a.eiiwortlt, of citizens, pre*iilwl over b T. M. and addressed I 3 >y Hawu -l Biaunau, passed resolutions in September not to patronize merchants who refused to take gold dust at $16 per ounce. A memori¬ al was also sent from San Francisco to Congress in that month for a branch mint here. It stated, among other things, the opinion that by July 1,1849, $5,500,000 worth of dust, at $16 per ounce, would be taken out of the mines. The figures were millions too low. Ileal estate in San Francisco took a sudden rise. A lot on Montgomery street, near Washington, and it resold sold in July for $10,000, was in November with a shanty on it for $27,000. Lots in Sac¬ ramento, or New Helvetia, also came up to fabulous prices that winter. By the month of October the rush from Oregon caused tho Oregon papers to stop publi¬ cation. In December the Kanakas and Sonorians came in swarms. A Honolulu letter, Nov. 11, said : “Such another excitement as tho news from California created hero tho world never saw. I think not less than 500 persons will loave before Jan. 1, and if the news continues good the whole foreign will go.” population, except missionaries, The news did contiune good, and they came, some missionaries included. Soon there came up from the mines com¬ plaints of outrage Kanakas and lawlessness, most¬ ly against and other foreigners. How well they were founded, to what they led, and how they were suddenly mid summarily silenced, is a story that covers history a very interesting part of the of California, and the progress of civilization in America. Samuel Seabough. TT L. e or r P]ftwftrs r Oners, It’s a trite and homely saying, “ You cftn,t ° a obliged t ypnr cake to ami keep it too,” and wo are square our actions with J* P ra % closely; lmt there is one pecu lmr 8atlsfac tion mtho cultivation of flow ers > f ™‘- “ l a certain sense, they are an exception to the practical operations of «‘c rules of addition and subtraction, as embodied m the expression of thorn in the old and popular axiom above quoted, Dlmu ? the graving and blooming sca¬ S0 H 8 of many of the best bedding plants and annuals the flowers can be cut freely ami used and tho ottener they are ro moved tho greater tho amount of bloom, When plants are allowed to perfect seeds, they soon cease to produce more flowers, as the whole strength of the plant is necessary to mature the seeds. Tlierc fore, if you want flowers, cut them and use them; place them on your tables, give them to your friends, and remember those that are sick, help and perhaps, too. you may use them to some oue who is disheartened, or even to lift up a de graded one who needs, above all else, your sympathy. ‘if It would bo sad, flowers iu deed, objects so beautiful as fishness. should be Give the occasion them with of growing liberal sel a hand and ho who sends tiio sunshine and tho rain will bless you with increasing blos soms. A gift of flowers can seldom bo inappropriate, either to young painted or old, and purity and goodness are on every petal. With the gift 0ur hcnrta arn lighter for lts „ ;lkr , Our diiu-rememlK-rfd fancy’s ago renews fiction* its youth, Au>l tuk« Tlio euise o£ urosent truth.'' ------- Petrifaction of a Human Body, Your correspondent learning that there was an jt <;m 0 f general interest at Quincy, (’ tjl(lk th( , train for tllllt place to . (lay invcstigat0i tho line of y Logan uim . y iB and a Shelby little village on couu (; cs Seeking out Dr. W. V. Spooco and Mr William Kellison, to whom my in formant had directed me, 1 learned that the rt! po r t„ were true, and that there was a curiosity right there, at least for this . )!ir £ a f y 10 -world Mr. Kellison’s mother visited him sev cra i y oarB ago, coming from Illinois, jq,, r B on, as j n duty bound, gave a boun tiful dinner in honor of tlio event. Ho gays that his mother ate very heartily, BO much so in fact that tho next day she was hours’ taken illness, suddenly died, ill, and after a few Mr. Kellison, who j H an intelligent farmer, had his mother 1 >nricd in a “lim< stone gravelly’* knoll on tho farm. Five years afterward, on sell mg tho farm, lie was compelled to re move her remains, when it was dis covered that the body had turned to solid stone, and it took a dozen men with ropes and pulleys to drag the ic¬ mains from the grave. The old lady was seventy years of age, in good flesh, and weighed about 130 pounds when she died. When exhumed the petrifaction was perfect, and tho only part of the body lacking is a small por tion of tho left ala of the nose. Some idea of her weight may be conceived when it is stated, and is a fact, that it took two horses arid a wagon to remove her. The weight of her body is now es timated by good judges to be at least 1,000 pounds. The remains have been laid away in Prospect Graveyard, Quincy, O., where they now are, but Mr. Kelli son yesterday promised them to your correspondent and a scientific gentle man present, who intend to present them to one of the medical museums of tho State .—Sidney Correspondence Oincin nati Enquirer, - A Fellow-Feeling. The manager of a dramatic combina¬ tion playing an engagement in Detroit was approached on the last day by a stranger, who asked for a pass for that evening: should I give pass?” “Why demand. you a was the blunt “On account of the fellow-feeling,” was “Sir, the serene I do not reply. know you.” “ Neither do I know you, but that isn’t the fellow-feeling I had reference to." “Do r, you lielorig ° te the profession?” « No “ Then I fail to see how there is any thingin common.” “You struck this town last Monday, didn't you ?” asked the stranger. “ Yes.” “Bo did I, and fro going out of it to night dead broke, same as you. That’s nay ixiint, may it please tlio court," ‘Tho "court" whistled a melancholy tune, figured up tlio cosh receipts once more, and then wrote tho pass without further argument. -- Pr all cam* from educating his daughter at for a wiping seminary. Ins inoiitli She reproved the table her father and he went on efeth him’ to the Urn and hung will.— JJr/roil /Vi* Press. ' When tlio Foe Comes In. A newly elected Justice of the Peaco who had been used to drawing deeds and wills, and little else, was called upon as his first official act to marry a couple who came into his office very hurriedly and told him their purpose. Ho lost no time in removing his hat, and remarked, “ Hats off in the presence of the Court.” All being uncovered, ho said: “Hold up your right hands. You, John Marvin, do solemnly swear that to the best of your knowledge an’ belief you take this yer woman ter have an’ ter hold for yer self, yer heirs, exekyerters, administra¬ tors and assigns, for yer an’ their use an’ behoof forever ?” “I do,” answered the groom. “You, Alice Ewer, take this yer man for yer husband, tor have an’ ter hold for ever; and you do further swear that you are lawfuly seized in foe simple, are right free from all sell, incumbrance, bargain and and hev good to convey to the said grantee and assigns yerself, ?” yer heirs, ad¬ ministrators “I do,” said tho bride, rather doubt¬ fully. “Well, John, that’ll dollar bo about a ’n’ fifty cents.” “Are we married ?” asked tho bride. “ Yes, when the foe oomes in.” After some fumbling it w r as produced and handed to the “Court,” who pock¬ eted it and continued: “Know all men by health these presents, that I, being in good and of sound and disposin’ mind, in consideration of a dollar ’n’ fifty cents to me in hand paid, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, have declared do and by theso presents you man w ife during good behavior and until oth¬ erwise ordered by the Court,” Not Up on Goats. The goat is an every-day sight, and the man who does not study him and learn his ways and habits lias only him¬ self to blame. Saturday forenoon a “ William ” was quietly feeding on Co¬ lumbia street when a load of household goods the went past. The owner kept pace with wagon, carrying under bin arm a lino mirror about five feet long. As ho came opposite tho goat ho mot a friend, and of course ho had to stop and tell why he was changing locations and how much he expected to be benefited. Tho glass was heavy, and ho naturally dropped one end to tho walk to rest Ins arm. Had this man been a close olmorvor lie would have seen the goat and wished he hud a brickbat. Hud ho mndo gout na¬ ter ture than a study lower ho would have known bet¬ to the glass. But lie was a man who despised tlio trifles of life, and ho was telling how many tons of coal the new house would save him this win¬ ter, when the goat, who had been getting mad for two long minutes at sight of a rival in the minor, went through the glass like a thunderbolt, and jumped into tho street with the frame clinging to his shaggy sides. All tlmt ripping, and raving, and cussing—all tlio open¬ ing excited of front doors—all the inquiries by an hod the citizen crowd, could have boon saved but beckoned to the small¬ est boy on the stecet and asked him to give away a few points on goats. — ex¬ change. Wearing a Mask. What a’good thing it would be if women would only that speak honest their minds. desire There is nothing that men mysterious more than that to understand race is so like them, and yet so unlike, who share their homes but not tlioir thoughts, irrational. who are so shrewd, Tho so practical and tho so invisible poor men barrier yearn and break down the see into the real life of those they love so well; but the loved ones smile and chat¬ ter and say pretty things, have and ingenious things and and things improved they in the borrowing, borrowed from mow but never one word of the real thoughts that are working in their busy brains. So the men flatter and lie because they think the women like it, and the women accept it all because they think it is man’s nature; and tho men think women empty-headed angels, and the women think men are flue intelligent brutes; and tho two classes go accordingly, on loving and despis¬ ing ono another and all for the want of a little truthfulness iu con¬ versation. An Editor’s Trials. No words can tell how much Thack¬ eray’s generous soul suffered in his edi¬ torial capacity. There is a class of peo¬ bureau ple who look upon an editor’s office as a of general relief : young widows witli numerous children send in manu¬ scripts with a frank avowal that they are conscious of but possessing that no feel literary ability whatever, they sure this or that one will be accepted, as otherwise they there and their little boys, ones must starve ; are farmer who write diagon¬ ally beg across brown wrapping paper, and for favor as a moans of acquiring an education ; there are thousands who have failed at everything else, but are sure tious they arid impudent, can write ; some are modest preten¬ others and appealing, and with the latter it is par¬ ticularly vituperative, hard to deal. A great the many are and look upon editor as a deposit installed to crush all rising genius. More than once, when Thack¬ eray hich paid out of his own purse the writers for articles w he could not use, re¬ proached him for his suppressing The work matter be¬ which surpassed own. came unendurable to him, and he gave it up. Use of , Woolen Clothing. Prof. Joeger, of Stuttgart, recom mends tho use of woolen clothing both in summer and winter,and has invented a sort of normal dress by which ho claims tho accumulation of fut and water in the system can be prevented. This normal clothing has two essential prop erties : 1. It consists exclusively of wool, avoiding all materials woven from plant fila r (cotton or linen), 2. It makes a strong point in keeping warm the middle line of tho front of the ,i t principal ... peculiarity of the " clothing is tlm exclusive use of sheep’s ” v, ‘ u avoiding pocket and other Uumg'i of cotton. NUMBER 37. THE SOUTH TO THE MOUTH. [A fraternal salutation inspired by the yellow-fever vieitatum.] t. ’Twaa after a glorious battle In tho swamps of the ltapidan, 1 lay on my back at midnight, A wounded ami helpless man; But I could well bear my torture, I heard < taping gashes and broken bones, such delightful music From Yanks with their moans and groaui* I hated tho Yanks like “cold pizon,” Ho They shot my father and mu; Ami always I aimed for killing, carried a loaded gun. The tiring and crashing of battle, The hot charge and the warrior’s cry, I<eft, high-heaped, drenched earth with victims, And the wounded who bogged to die. Far __ off we could hear the roaring Toll of the raging of murderous men; Wo could only have fearing or hoping That our side might the v ictory win. We lmd marched to the light in tho morning; Now, I fought until forced to stop ; 1 was hungry and thirsty, With nover a bite or a drop. I thought of the old-time dinners, With many a Christmas feast; Now, of the wasted fragments I’d have snatched for tho very least, I thought of the sprayful fountain That played l»y my father’s door; I thought of the wild-rice bayou That oft my canoe glided o'er; I thought of tho mighty river, Tho plantations flowing through; I thought of the distant heavou That sendoth tho rain and dow— But these were all empty fancies, Which even increased my tlilrst, Until in powerless longing I was like Tantalus cursed. ii. Suddenly, A in tho thick dark noun, weak voice made mo of angola think; It Bald. “ Halloo! hero. Johnny. Would yo Ixi afthor takiu’ a ahrlnk?” I whh almost a-dylng, And could not oven mine tho tin cup, Ho the friendly hand of the stranger To my lips then raised it up. Sweet, aweot was that drink of water; I nover drank sweeter draught, For life was gained from that bounty 1 gaspingly, deeply quaffed. Then I whispered, ‘‘ Give mo your hand, my dw> Our bauds met in a tight, tight clasp. Suddenly, Limp, nerveless iu my living IlngerH fainting grew hia clasp. I spoke and intently listened, But never a word he said, And sadly I knew another Spirit from that red Held had /led. Tho surgeons and helpers were busy; I lay until morning-light, And then to ray toar-diimnod vision Was slowly revealed this sight: A soldier had found a canteen. Dropped there in the thick of tho fight, And he, with two balls through his body, Dragged himself to mo in the night. And there on liis cap gleamed tho letters “ IJ. H.,” on the blood-stained gold band, And I saw that he was a brother Against whom I hud raised my red hand. Ho was Union and Irish— Lightly o'or him rest tne sod f The blue that he loved above him, His spirit gone home to God. Oh! men may light like devils, As if hell on earth doth reign; But doop chords in each human bosom Some sympathize with pain. Thank God for the noble pity, Darting like electric thrill, Inspiring Bidding a evil kinship-emotion, pussions bo still. m. Oh 1 comrades, yo know our diatrcBnea Wherever tho fever breathed; Soon over the death-marked threshold The funeral flax whh wreathed. Tongue never can sneak the horror Growing blacker day by day; l'en never can write our anguish, Nor time’s waves wash the record away. Oh! comrades, yo knowouj distresses Maduall Immunity sad; And, hurried down trom the Northland, The Bich bounty wo freely hud. * North gave us money, with nurses And doctors noblo and true; Drugs, Tlio North provisions, did 1 and sho clothing—• could l a ao All honor to sincorest virtu/*, Tho spirit of Bayard tho Good; To tho chlvalric North all honor, Who showed to us truest knighthood i The Game of Boston. The gamo at cards called “Boston,” says a late writer in the Now York Times, after tho capital of Massachusetts, anil much played by our forefathers, bus lately England been revived, it is said, especially in New and in New York, here, and is greatly enjoyed on account of the skill required for proficiency. Boston is played by four persons with two packs of cards, which are nover shuffled. One of the packs is dealt and tlio other cut alternately, to determine the trump, the trump governing the giimo. The dealer deals five curds to each player twice, and deals six cards the last time around. If tho first player can make, or thinks ho can make five tricks from his hand, ho says: “ I go Boston,” bid him and his fellow-players words: I may over with tlm “ go 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 or 13,” as the hand of each may justify. Bkould any one fail to make the number of tricks lie bids for, ho must pay to each competitor a forfeit, regulated by a scale of prices agreed upon beforehand. The agreement is sible. 1111 poralivo; without it the the game is complex impos¬ It. is accounted most and difficult of all games at cards, and is therefore a favorite with professional played in gamblers. France Boston Inis been and England, where it is often spoken of as tho American game. Ben¬ jamin Franklin has the reputation the of introducing it in Paris. He gave it name of his native city, and is said to have been a very clever player. The philosophers of the eighteenth century, who were Jus companions, in delighted France, were very fond of (lie game ami in its novelty. Baron d’Holbach is re¬ ported to have said that only a man of genius could excel at Boston. The game has always been played more or less in the Southwest, where much money if still lost anil won by it. Diary of a Dollar. Found myself yesterday morning in the pocket of a man who had promised to love, honor, protect and cherish ore with all his might and main. And this morning where am I ? Burst. Broken. In a hundred pieces. Lying disjecta membra, etc., iu grim saloon tills or But dirty I pockets. anticipate. I was on the reserve force and laid by to pay a bill. expected My comrade was that a 50-cent day’s piece who was to pay expenses. Suddenly this comrade disappeared. On dit, ho was borrowed. I came next, I went thus: For u cigar after breakfast, 10 cents ; for a glass of beer at 10 a. in., 5 cents; for four glasses of beer for the crowd at 12 m.,20 cents; for another cigar, 10 cents ; for boot-blacking, 5 cents ; for a shave, 15 cents; for fruit, 10 cents; for ear fares, 20 cents ; for another glass of beer, 5 cents. Verily, wliat a shadow is a $ ! What a shadow it pursues [—New York Graphic. Tan Emory City (British Columbia) StvtIra t suys it is read in every house in that town ; but there are only two houses, and one of those is the office of the Sen (inti nott/pspui'. Ww WMiinsi’illc gulrantt. A wEKKLT PAFKB, P0BLISHK3 AT Watkinsville, Oconee Co., Georgia. r A TES OF ADVERTISING : Ontgquitn, tsnli Hrat Insertion.............................. 22 SSSSSSSS3SSSS3 On Kubiequent Insertion........... One • iqiure, one mouth................. S3CoiSaoi»o*joiio Ono square, tiree months............ square, six months................ Ono rquHO), one year.................... One-fourth column, one month..... Onc-fourih ijjlqimi, three month*. On.-i urth (’ohiinn, six months..., One-fourth column, oue ye*r........ Hull column, one month.............. Hail column, three months.......... H*lf column, six months.............. H» f column, one year................. UBEBil TUHHH roil XOBE SPACE ALL SORTS. “ A Chinaman has entered the Harvard Freshmen class, Gkouge Bancroft inches says high. Washington was six feet two Offenbach mado much money from his operas, but died poor. Mas. Florence’s costumes in tho “ Mighty Dollar” are insured for $25, 000 . A Paris shop had 67,000 customers oue day tliis full, and sold $280,000 worth of goods. Vermont has four venerable ex-Gov emors living, each of whom is more than 80 years old. What w tho difference between a fixed star and a meteor ? Ono is a sun, the other a darter. The woman who has the best time at a party is tlio woman who bus the great¬ est show of real lace. Tiif, Rochester Herald says that the man who has a corner in pork should bo made to squoal. A Nevada ball report says : “ Miss Honora X. was full of eclat—in fact, the eclatist lady present.” The honey crop is a pronounced fail¬ ure by one-half. So that wo have not a sweet thing in bees this year. No less than 5,000 Chinamen are now building anil railroads in Oregon, Washing¬ ton, British Columbia. Atlanta has a new enterprise, a watch manufactory. for turning out It six begins watches with day. facilities pur W. W. Corcoran, of Washington, has given away $3,000,000 in public benefac¬ tions and $1,000,000 in private charities, Henry Wallace and Jnuo Wallace, leyan his wife, University, have entered Ct., college “Freshmen." at Wes¬ as Si’AiN, with only 17,000,000 twice of inhab¬ itants, wheat turns doos out Italy, yearly with 28,000,000 as much of as inhabitants. On tho occasion of the celebration of the tenth anniversary of tho capture of Rome, all political offenders were par¬ doned by the King of Italy. The postal savings banks in Italy taka in twice as much money as they pay out, tho institution being considered safe and convenient by the poople. A hill collector retumod to Memphis on horseback with a bag full of gold and sil ver coin. Tlio horse ran away, the hag burst, and a great crowd followed for a milo, picking up the mouey. An effort is on foot at Washington to procure the assembling thereof a world’s convention to promote international ar¬ bitration, Sept. 3, 1883, tho centennial of tlio acknowledgment of American in¬ dependence. “Everybody is looking at Rhode Isl¬ and,” remarks the editor of the Provi¬ dence Dispatch in the course of an edit¬ orial on “The Duty of tho Hour.” This explains tho recent advance in the prico of microscopes. Profanity has increased to such an extent in Now York since the telephone was introduced that tho company has boon forced to put up the a sign : “ Please don't swear through telephone,’’over each instrument. Is swinging is, under healthy?” circumstances. asks a young lady. the It hinge breaks, somo the pastime in But if not only always unhealthy, glad to but extend dangerous. tho We are to young arid inexperienced experience. tho knowledge attained by years of Keeping poultry of some kind or other is almost universal iu China. The poor¬ est household has, wherever practicable, its pert cock and three or four lean hens, which mud stalk hungrily in search iu of and anything out of the shanty else of tho family eata¬ ble that no ono may happen to able tg digest. It lias been estimated that of the horses iu tho world Austria has 1,867,000; Hungary, 2,179,000; France, about 8, 000,000; Russia, 21,470,000; Germany, 3,352,000; Great Britain and Ireland, 2,255,000; Turkey, about 1,000,000; the United States, 9,504,000; Canada, tlio Argentine Republic, Uruguay, 1,600,000. 4,000,000; 2,624,000; The Number of Uleli People in Paris. M. Paul Leroy Beaulieu attempts to calculate approximately the number of rich persons actually living in Paris. He takes as his principal basis of calculation the value of the houses in tho French capital; and uiion these figures builds up his theory, on tho assumption that the less wealthy inhabitants spend about one sixth of their income in house rent, while the richer house-holders speud on an average from one-eighth those who to one-tenth. with It will be easy for agree him to follow out tho theory when they have the following list of rents, as ex¬ tracted from an official source: It ap pcars that there are 10,000 private which houses or apartments, tho rents of range frojn £160 to £320 a year, 3,000 between £320 and £540, and 1 400 between the latter sum and £1,080. rather Finally, there tho are 421 houses, or palaces, rent of which exceeds £1,080. It in not necessary to follow out the sums by which the incomes of those various classes of rich men is traced out, but it may sufliee te say that M. Beaulieu reckons that there are about 8. (MX) persons in Paris who spend incomes of £2 000 and up¬ ward; and this wih given be seen be by fully tlie aid borne of the figures already The conclusion to is also out by the facts. supported by tho returns of horses and carriages kept in the capital, which show that there are from 7,500 to 8,000 per¬ sons who keep private horses.— Econo¬ mist Erancais. Clear Grit. A plucky Kentucky school ma’am is Miss attempted Hillbretb, te punish of Hopkins a boy named County. Merrill She for some misaeamor, when tho youth drew his knife. Miss Hillbretb unarmed him, and he brought a club to his assist¬ ance, but she finally father whipped him. That night bretli's the boarding-house boy’s went and to cursed Miss Hill- her shamei'iiUy. tlio school-house The to next continue day ho his went abuso, to but tho lady hail armed herself with a pistol nuil dared Merrill to enter the door. Merrill ran home, and was returning with a shot-gun, when he was arrested and by an at officer, but soon escaped, in now large. _ ______