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2£f» 'SHatfunscill* a witnr TAm, «*4P» WatkinsvBle, Ooonw Co.. Georgia. "W. Or. BXTXJCjZ'srjLir, aiirro* amp raorazaroa X K R M 8: «a» 7»w, la adracM.. _____ m Sod Houses. On the prairies, far from the woods, where log cabins are impracticable, the sod house is made as a substitute. To build one, a man goes on to the prairie with his team and breaking plow, and turns a straight smooth sod some three or four inches thick. This sod is very tough. When sufficient has been turned over the sod is cut into squares and laid up in a wall as though it were flat stones. Do* frames and window frames are set in as the wall rises. When the height of one story is reached a small timber is set np at each end, and a ridge-pole placed upon them, and the sod wall built up or mto the gable. On this ridge there rest smaller poles for rafters, and on these sod is laid in courses, the oourses overlapping each other like shingles, “ so many inch, es to the weather.” The only money outlay is caused by windows and doors. If weft built, the house will staud for years. Inside one may “sweeten to taste.” In the ruder huts the walls are left uncov ered. In others some are covered with cheap and cloth, some with building paper wall paper pasted over it, while some are plastered and made as comfortable as any room need to be. Once inside, you would not know but you were in a stone or brick house. Then you will some¬ times find elegant furniture, the remains of better days, sometimes a piano and the skill to play it; choice books, which indicate literary tastes; the latest pa¬ pers and magazines, which show that the inmates keep up with the times. Indeed, it is surprising to know how many families of refinement and cultured taste, being unfortunate, the make a fresh start in life on vast prairies. What Vanderbilt Might Do with HU Money. Some one has made a very curious calculation of what Mr. Vanderbilt could do with his money. William H. Van¬ derbilt’s income from his investments in $51,000,000 bonds 4-per-cent. Government is represented at $5,000 daily, which is $208.25 per hour, $3.47 per suming minute, or over 5 cents per second. As¬ that he is paid by the second, be cannot possibly spend his money, as he could not select his purchases and lay down the prices fast enough. He could not throw it away; to pick up, cast, re¬ cover, him pick up and cast again would tako through two seconds, and, if he worked all the twenty-four hours without rest, he could not dispose of one-half his income. By living economically, saving up for four years, he could, placing his 6-cent pieces side by side, make a nickel belt around the earth, or by converting his savings into 1-cent pieces and mount¬ ing them in a pile, he would, in twenty years, erect a road to the moon and have $500 to invest when he got there. Should his amusement take a charitable twist, he could, out of a year’s receipts, donate to every man, woman and child in the United States 20 cents and have money left over. Other vast possibili¬ ties occur to the glowing fancy of the calculator. In one day he could go to 8,000 different circuases, eat 10,000 pints of peanuts, drink 5,000. glasses of lemonade, his boots blacked. and have money left to get He can afford t( have 500,000 shirts washed in one day, and on the day of his death his income will buy ten first-class funerals ,—Ithaca Journal. A Story of a Screw. A singular accident happened to a family Pearl named Hollseher, residing days' on The street, near died Market, a week few ago. father about a ago, and was buried at Lone Mountain. On Saturday morning the mother visited the cemetery to decorate the grave with flowers. .During her absence" the chil¬ dren were at homo under the care of s servant in girl. A little boy 3 years hold of age, of small playing brass about the room, got pushed a screw which he into his nostril. The girl in alarm tried to get it out, and in doing so pushed it further in. Then she ran and called some of the neighbors in, and they, in trying to get hold of it, pushed it out of sight. til the They screw-head continued their beyond efforts reach. un¬ was The mother was sent for, and after a night of alarm the child was taken to Dr. Laine, who, after trying to withdraw the screw with surgical instruments, put the little sufferer under the influence of anesthetics, and cut open the succeeded nose to prospect for tho screw. He in life, disfiguring but failed the in child, the object probably of his for search, and the child was taken home to die, under the belief that the screw was working up into the brain. It lingered along ently only for three from the days, suffering its appar¬ cutting of face and nose, and on Tuesday morning passed the screw without distress, anu then it occurred to those interested that the screw, instead of followed going the up into air the brain, had merely pass¬ age from the nose to the roof of the mouth, and had there been swallowed. Castor oil effected what the scalpel child of is the surgeon failed in, and the now recovering .—San Francisco Chron¬ icle. Free and Easy Manners. When girls assume a swaggering man¬ ner upon the street, use coarse expres¬ sions, and greet each other with a rough “hello!” they cannot expect much de¬ ference from their male friends, A lady’s manner always controls that of a gentle¬ man; and if she does not respect herself be will not respect her. When boys and girls, young I men and maidens, are al¬ lowed to fall lot'. the absurdities of low, foolish, meaningless talk, it seems to dwarf them intellectually; they can find nothing therefore of interest or importance to say, and make up for sense by fill¬ ing every sentence with needless exclama¬ tions, exaggerations, or misused adjec¬ tives. It requires listen much patience dozen to folks lie compelled to to half a and near the strange, inappropriate use of language. They will assure each other that it is “awful” warm, or the concert “•wM * nice; the sermon “horrid” duU; a young lady is “awful pretty,” but her dress “horrid such ugly;” the gentleman teacher “horrid strict;’’ a young who called had an “awful swell" team of faat horses, II young people could hoar themselves as others hear them, it might result in their reformation. Don't pick up a child for a fool. He will ask you some questions that the eon ,ten«-d wisdom of th world can not answer. The Watkinsville Advance. VOLUME I. HEB 1 AST LETTER. ■Y LADY LINDSAY. ••v Ts but a line, a hurrM acrawf, And little eeem the Words to say. Yet hold ji;c lu npr-mctiful thrill: “ You (juarreled with yesterdays To-motrew you’ll bo sad.” Aye, And " you'U they be pierce 9ad,” the words are few, Aye, yet “ you'll be wul,” my soul with pain; the words are truoj They haunt “ To-morrow me with you’ll prophetic be strain: sad.” We fuarreled, and for what T a word, A And fofctts'fr tnil» speech that jarred the ear, Then ip wrath letter our pulses “ Dear, stirr’d: cam« her : my dear, To-morrow you’ll be sad.” Few words! half mirth, and half rejriet, The last her hahd should ever write— Freeh $ad words ! learned bn£»go, and yet wjth new piiin to ear and sight: “ To-morrow you'll he sad 1*1 In tlic Palace of Truth. Richard Turner, Esq., a lawyer, let us lope of futurd fame, returning homo one aight in an flnenviably bad humor, found i certain dainty little note awaiting him m his mantlepieoe. It had just come, iis landlady said, and slowly tewing anen the envelope, Dick read as follows: My Dear Mb. Tcbbeki—M any thanks for four lovely flowers, which have been greatly vdmirod. It was like your thoughtfulness to effiembor my birth-day when I had almost for ;otton it mjrsolf. I was so sorry to have missed our call this afternoon. Sinoerelv yours. Florence IIepifeb. A very gracious little note, but tor Kane reason it appeared to afford its reader but small satisfaction. Dusk tdteing read it twice with a curling lip, then it into the scrap basket, he lit a cigar, stretched himself in an eapy chair and thoughtfully wreaths that observed through float the smoke “What began to around his head: a precious little liar she is! As if I didn’t see her ten minutes after she was ‘not at home’ to me this afternoon, Baker in that start oonfoundedly out driving with Tom of his. Shouldn’t wonder jerky dog ’.art if ho had ; erked her off before they got home; md served her right too! Why, Snip, what is the matter with you sir?’’’ Snip was the skye terrier, had who, failing to understand why he been slighted, was by sitting seeking to secure and his master’s notice upright in waving his frqnt paws to and fro a gentle and dopre cating fashion. “Did I hurt your feelings, poor little boy?” wouldn’t, said Dick, tenderly. “Well, I I assure you, for a dozen little flirts like Florence Redifer, but I do think, Snip, and I expect you to agj roe with me, that we would all be much b et ter off if worsen and men, too, would say out instead truthfully of this eternal what was beating in their minds around the bush. candid with Why their can’t fellow-creatures people be a little more instead of fooling them to the behind top of their bent and then laughing their backs? Do you know, Snip?” dog Snip didn’t tho world know, to but confess he was his the ignor¬ last in ance, so Solomon assuming a look have of wisdom which might egvied, he gave a mysterious little bark that himself could mean anything and composed to listen. his “Just 8 o’cloek,” said hours Dick, consulting watch. “In two I’ve got to dress and go to Mrs. Grey’s ball, the doubt; biggest but bore there’s of the escaping season I haven’t a no it. Aren’t you glad, Snip, you don’t have to go to balls?” Snip barked again, this time in an affirmative manner. He always accom¬ modated himself to his master’s moods, and was well accustomed to being ques¬ tioned. Alert and vigilant, he watched the cigar dwindle down by slow’ degrees, while he waited in well-bred silence for a renewal of the conversation. But Diok was cigar drowsy smoked and out cross, he turned and when the was his head aside and fell fast asleep, while his little dog curled contentedly around liis feet, looking up into his master’s face with a world of patient love in his honest brown eyes. Seven, eight, nine, ten! Was it possi¬ ble that lie had slept nearly two hours sad the clock was really striking ton? Dick jumped up, glanced at his watch to make sure, and with a stifled groan prepared to induct himself into his dress suit. This was never a very rapid pro¬ cess with him, and by the time ho en¬ tered Mrs. Grey’s brilliantly lit-up house the great eloek in the hall was pointing to a 11. The rooms were crowded and stiflingly hot. The very flowers app eared to droop under the glare and the L eat, all except tome deep red roses which had been ar ranged in a sentence over the doorway, and whose glowing hearts presented color- the most sumptuous and intense bit of ing, even in tftat many-hued apartment, himself It was strangs. but Dick found unable to read that sentence, although composed of<mly three Short words. The language, even the letters, were unknown to him, and for half a minute he stood puzzling incoming over the mystery. Then the erdfcd gently shoved him aside, and abandoning the effort, he made the best of his way toward his hostess. A pretty little seemingly woman, already magnificently much dressed, but she half fatigued with t!i* work in band, smiled as Dick edged up to her. “Have you just come, Mr, Turner?” she said. “I thought you were to tie of my early birds. ” one explained, “Sol would have been,” be and “only, unfortunately, time.” I fell asleep did not wake up in “Oh! that was the case, was it? Well, such a lengthy nap ought toe to brighten you up Sometimes, beautifully for know, rest of the evening. stupid. ” you you are rather Dick looked at her to see if she meant a joke, but her pretty face was gravely raised to his. “ You are flattering me,” he said, “I don’t mean to,rimmed" she an iwered, plenty quito 'earneitiy. tih* " But stupid, there ar* of r$en are always while you can lie rather entertaining, when tnrootf you gently are from at yonr him best,” and she to greet a new batch of guests. “ Was I ever damned with such faint praise Iiefore ?’’ thought Dick. '' I won d«r if I am 'st ay best' to-night?” For a minute ha stood, 'sking a survey of tii* scene iiefore him. The musicians were playing s waltz, and playing it WATKINS\ ILLE, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 7, 1880. well; only strange to say there was a flute among them, which came piping i* with its shrill persistent little treble in a manner tive distracting He thought to Dick's over-sensi¬ ear. of Mozart 's saying that the only thing in the world worse than a flute in an orchestra was two flutes, and wondered at Mrs. Grey’s choice in music. Nevertheless, as long as he was there he might as well dance, and looking around for familiar faces, his first glance fell upon a brown-eyed maiden whom he had met at a party only the week before, and whom he had ad¬ mired with the guarded and half-super¬ cilious admiration of a veteran society man. In another minute they were on the floor contending with their fellow oreatures for a little room to whirl around in, and seemingly slight successful lurch in their struggle, until a sent them rather suddenly against another pair o dancers. “That was stupid, wasn't it?” said Dick, ns they stopped to take breath after the concussion. “Yes,” replied she of the brown eyes, raisin" them frankly to his face. “You are rather a poor dancer. Perhaps you are out of practice?” “Indeed I ought not to be,” protested Dick, charge. in unutterable *1 indignation at the ‘ never danced more in my life than I have this winter.” “Is that so? It must be awkwardness then,” said his companion, gently. “Sofne people never cah thoroughly learn, I think it is a natural gift.” Dick wondered if ha could have heard aright piping or away if that wretched complacently, little flute, still had so absolutely thing bewildered he him. If there was one than prided himself on more another—one gift, natural or other¬ wise, which he felt sure of possessing—it was his dancing. Was the brown-eyed damsel out of her mind or was she simply an ill-bred little tiling, who did not know a good dancer from a bad one? Whichever was the case lie lost no time in getting rid of her, and still mute with amazement and disgust, took refugo among a group of men at the door. “You here, Turner!” said one of them. “I hardly recognized you at first, you look so yellow and thin.” “Do I, indeed?” said Dick, shortly, and wondering what lie was doomed to hear next. “I should rather think you did,” was the Smith, friendly answer. “I just said to here, as you came up, that be¬ tween your shllow skin and that bald spot look on like your head, you were beginning to an old man before your time. Why don’t you take to country life and early “Why hours and freshen up a bit?” don’t you mind your own af¬ fairs and kjndly leave me to attend tp mine?” retorted Dick, now thoroughly aroused, word and without waiting for another he veered arpmid and left the group, foundly who, astonishe one d and his all, ill spemld pro¬ at temper. By this time he began to feel a little uncertain who to approach next. Hav¬ ing been told already that he was stupid, ugly and a bad dancer, what was there left for him to hear. Ho certainly had never in liis life met so many disagreeable people and he had serious thoughts of beating caught a permanant retreat, when he beneath sight of a blonde head half hidden the azaleas in the conservatory. It was Florence Redifer, whom he hail never whom expected to meet to-night and two hours ago he would have in¬ liis dignantly avoided. But for some reason contempt for her flattery and false¬ ness had been strangely modified in so short a time and he felt a positive yearn¬ ing to listen again to her pretty nothings and to see her blue eyes uplifted with that tender glance of admiring trustful¬ ness to his. It must have cost her a great deal of time and patience to culti¬ vate the glance up to its present perfec¬ tion and it was unkind, after all, to sneer at the result of such honest and endear¬ ing toil. The next minute he was by her side. She looked very pretty: her fair hair tumbled in some mysterious fashion on the top of her shapely little head; her bright face lit up with smiles, and her white silk gleaming under the colored lamps with a soft and shifting radiance that pleased Dick’s cultivated eye. He was not one of those to whom a woman's gown is a matter of indifference. “I came in here for a little air,” she said; “the rooms are so terribly stupid. hot, and toe whole affair is very Don’t you think so?” “It has been worse than stupid for P 10, * ie answered, laughing. “I have Pjselted to. wherever ^ I went. °to;n I irst, -™ rs \. 1 ® e wft ? very stupid; then Miss Vincent, do you know ji 0r ' ,®^ e 18 dancing now with lorn 1 d?? ,, * , know , her; , hut , never mind, . ., What dul she sav to you. bad ^J' da e “ ccr told a me n ,d intimated I was awkward that I and could a ’ t learn - L1 j renee Redifer burst , into . , a laugh as 0 0ar a,ld ™errv as silver bells . But . know, M_r. Inrner, she y° u ^ ds do claim for said, your ^ ou < najj n no * wed- ^not you that Dick gasped and then recovered; ho was getting baldened now. “I always flattered myself I did, ” bo said boldly. She looked at bini in some surprise. "Of course, I don’t mean to say,” she explained, with “that one cannot get around yon graceful at all, but only that you are not very and sure-footed. There are plenty of men here who dance worse —Mr. Simpson, for iusAnee. ‘*T should hope so,”* said Diok, aK ipson, a httlo weak-eyed man, who hell 1 his fair partner re if Ho feared slgs was pocked with dynamite and was in re? .yb «* «•:« -.1*^ m! Florence, I abaft never have tho audacity to ask you to dance again,” and with a heavv heart he left tht wwiservatory, now .fully “BtWted he hud had enough of Mrs. (/rev's ball. « He took ft glam of its champagne quality in the supper-room, where was being freeJy discus, cd by the young men who „ lingered ., there, and went »ii, back to pay , hja . parting rmneet* to W* hosts** There chill were seemed still plenty of people fallen about, them, but a todrevo on the dancers were few, and everybody looked bored saying or the discontented. last lifts. Grey was who about words to th apfirtv d * guest* Were taking 'Ujfflr. ' “Suoh a pity it failure,” he heart d one of them whisper in a tone of sympathy, “ And after all the expense you have' BOhfi < to “lam x uur sure, sure, then, men, it must have been the fault of my guests," returned Mr*. Grey, Id. “for I did my part m well as I cou ? Why, 1 winder Mr. Tumer, if are you going so soon you, too, found my She party looked a stupid one ?’ so harassed that Diok for¬ got the grudge he owed her, and would gladly liant have declared her ball both bril¬ and delightful, but tho words ho wished to Say stuck in his throat—he absolutely An awful impulse could not givo them utterance. his secret horror was upon him, aud to hoard own and dismay he himself assuring her the painful truth that it was the most dismal affair he had over witnessed hi bis life. Then overwhelmed with shame at his involun¬ tary rudeness he turned away, and hie eyes fell upon tho crimson roses still blooming freshly over the doorway. What mi idiot he must havo been! There in plain English letters were the three words, “Palace of Truth.” Ashe looked and road, the magic flute pealed forth so loudly and with so shrill a triumph in its" tone that Diok fairly jumped, kicked tho and in tho violence of his leaped start out of his sleeping Snip, and gazed who him master’s way at with reproachful, wonderful eyos. “Eleven o’clock, as I am a living man!” said Dick, yawning, “Three hours asleep aud no ball for mo to-night. Snip, you little villain, why didn't you awnken mo?” Snip was silent. He felt, tho arrant injustice of this remark, and bore it with the equanimity of a stoic. “Well,” said his master, slowly, as he lit liis candle, “since you did not, and as I have had all the dissipation and all the candor I need for one night., I think, lit¬ tle dog, that you and I will go peaceably and gratefully to bed. ” Wlio was Bluebeard? A gentleman who saw the gray, forbid¬ ding ution castle of Champtoee, of Bluebeard Franco, rising above tells who tho 8 the frightful hero of tho nursery was: Some reader may ask, “Who was this real, historical Bluebeard?” I answer that in Brittany he was tho Sieur Gilles do Eotz, a great feudal lord, who possessed vast estates and great power in this neighborhood in the latter part of the fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth centuries, and was, besiai L*Sj a marshal of France. This castle was his stronghold, and he ruled it and the Loire oountry around with a hand of iron and a sword of fire. Gifted in youth with physical strength and_ ho impaired beauty, and both an by enormous all sorts fortune, of in¬ dulgences. When too lato, with a defiled and bloated by the body, he found himself lashed scorpion whip that is always sure to follow sin. Instead of growing penitent, he only became more bloody and relentless. Seduced by a wicked and cunning alchemist to believe that by bathing in human blood ho could claim hack liis vanished health, beauty, and spirits, ho entrapped both children and young persons of sexes, murdered them m tho dun¬ geons of the castle with his own hand, and bathed in their warm blood. It was believed that more than a hun¬ dred were thus murdered. After years of impunity the matter be¬ came so notorious and spread so much fear through the country that tlw people rose prisoner, in a mass and against iiim, made him a carried him to Nantes. There he was tried by his suzerain lord, the Duke of Brittany, and con¬ demned to he burnt alive at the stake, a judgment carried into execution in 1440 on what is now the Ghaussee do la Made¬ leine, on the Gloriette Island, in front of where the great hospital now stands. Not On Good Terms. and “Didyou know good that the ?” Simpkinses said Col¬ I weren’t on terms onel Solon, as ho dropped into tho edi¬ torial chair of the Oil City Derrick, like a bag of bran out of a wagon. “No; what’s the trouble ?” “Dump if I know zactly, Yer invited see, the other night me’n my wife war out to a party at Deekin Todd’s an ’ we wont, caz I knew that the Deekin didn’t scrimp on eatables a bit, an’ allow had suthing in a jug down cellar. Well, when nigh filled, we got an’ there the house was mighty talking hind o’ loose like, every an’ one complimenting was a each other in various ways. Everything slid along as smoothly as long a chunk of butter on a hot knife ’till, arter sup¬ per time, Mr. Simpkin, sez he to my wife, sez nigh he, ‘ Mrs. Solon, yer did looks 'bout as as young as yer ten years ago;’ an’ my wife, sez she, * Yer a flatterin' me, Mr. Simpkin,’ eoz my wife she knows what to say, she does. An’ I wam’t an’* I seed goin’ Mrs. to be Simpkin outdone t’other in rwrliteness, side of Sirnpkin, the room, and land so T Goshen, sings out, ‘ Hi, Mrs. o’ but that air wig I saw yer liuyin’ t’other sixteen-year-old day makes yer look as pert as a gal; when yer git yer false teeth wo won’t know yer from yer darter.’ An’ then I smiled pleasantly like, but, sakes alive! Unit air room was just as still as a hav-mew Simpkin for about two minutes, an' Mrs. looked like she wanted to kick somebody, an’ my wife, sez she, ‘ Solo mon, SoloBlon,’ jest as if I’d sot down on the people baby didu’t or broke a lookin’-glass. breathe Tho seem to easy for a long time, alt’ bumhJire Hern away, an' my wife sez slue, ‘Bolonym Scion, some men are made fools, an’ some men are t S.ShSSSdSv “““ Uttt ral Itx)1 ot *' _ There V has , I lately .... turned icon out at 3®ten a now kind of bread made with blood from raw flesh. It is said to bo a preventive ot scurvv, and to do away, p'mauU, with all desire for aloo bolus drinks. Tw> iliffieulty of blood oo uguiation lielng overcome, the “blood b r ,„„|" w j|| f( , r y ,. ar „. Tw(slH y per „{ iu ingredients consist in blood, ordi Hrt( j ) N more nntritkms than the lmv i </KVM ul uuo ^ut each. SOUTHERN NEWS. Austin, Texas is to have a capital, cost¬ ing 11,500,000. The German carp put in Georgia wa¬ ters are doing finely. Scarlet fever is making it red-hot for # the people of Natchez. There are five candidates for the post¬ mastership of Nashville under Garfield’s administration. The sugar crop of Southern Texas has been damaged fully one-half by the re¬ cent storms. Late cotton has been damaged fearfully at Cleburne, Longview, McKinney and other points in Texas. The Nashville American now figures up a Democratic majority of six on joint ballot in the Tenneasee Legislature. It is said that seventy-eight of the 100 members of Tennessee Legislature are in favor of paying the State debt. There is a movement on foot by promi¬ nent members of tho Tennesseo Legisla¬ ture to cut down the number of elections. James Christopher, of Forest City, Ark., recently went to tho house of a colored woman, and, in attempting to force his way in, was killed by her. She was discharged on the ground of self defenses There are deficits in the budgets several departments of tho City Hall of New Orleans. The appropriation for pay of the police is $40,000 short, and the Improvements Department is short $32, 000. John M. Hill, a Little Rock printer, was re-married Wednesday last to the wife from whom he was divorced. After several months’ separation they lwgan corresponding, which ended in second bliss. Under the new code of Mississippi, any citizen lias the right to arrest or carry Iiefore a Magistrate or *ny proper officer the tramp he may find begging about his premises. It is made the duty of Magistrates to commit such tramps to jail, and from the jail he is to be hired out as other convicts are. Tvilliam Mattox, an inoffensive old man, was brutally murdered at his house near Abbeville, 8. C., Thursday night last. Two men asked for lodging, and being denied, entered the house and de¬ manded liis money, killed him and took $700. No clue to tho murderers lias been discovered up to this time. The wife of the deceased was in an adjoiuing room. Nashville American: Five school houses—four in Wilson and one in Da¬ vidson county, all near the Lebanon turnpike—were destroyed by fire, on Wednesday night last, by incendiaries. Under what is known as the four mile law, saloons or drinking-houses can not be run within an incorporated institution of learning, and. in order to prevent the sale of liquor in their neighborhoods, persons residing at different points along the turnpike secured charters and built all the school-houses destroyed last Wednesday night. A special from Harper’s Ferry says a romantic marriage lias taken place on the railroad bridge there. A gentleman from Newmarket, Vt., was taking his daughter westward to prevent her mar¬ riage with a young farmer. While the father was in depot writing to his wife, informing her of his safe journey to that point, the youug lady’s lover, who had secured a marriage license and a minis¬ ter, put in an appearance, and the twain, hurrying over the bridge, past the State line, were married. They then returned to the station and informed her father, whe left at once for home, disgusted, the young couple following him the next day. Sunday evening, after his'services in the Orange Hill Free-will Baptist church, Richmond, Va,, the pastor, Itcv. S. B. Ginn, came out with his wife. As they reached the street Marion Sutton, a young man standing on the outside, be¬ gan to use abusive language to the preacher. Mr. (linn asked him what ho had done to him that he should abuse him in this way. Hutton continued, however, and the preacher shook his fin¬ ger in a warning way in the young man’s face, telling him to stop, whereupon Hut. ton knocked him down. The preacher who is a smaller man, got up anil return¬ ed the blow. Hutton knocked him down again. The preacher came to time again and put in another lick. At this point the minister’s wife came to his res¬ cue, and, taking up a brick, threw it at Sutton, he alleges. The parties were finally separated, and nextjuorning were arrested on cross-warrants In Paris, children’s The decorations jWFties are preten¬ toilets tions affairs. and are made as prominent features and as elaliorate as among older society followers. At one of tho children’s balls was a child of eleven decked in thousand* of dollar* worth of diamonds, sad a toilet ot lace worth si* hundred dollars, with a g"sun¬ nier fan mounted in turquoise and liearls. Where all should be joy, life and light | in thin youthful erowd, there are the saute rivalries, heart burnings and en¬ vious feelings that embitter aud spoil Urn pleasure of older hearts. NUMBER 40. Powerful Ocean Steamships. known Twenty years ago the largest steamer* neglecting (in this, the as Groat in all Eastern, such comparisons, which was reach a prodigy of engineering skill) did not 350 feet in length, 45 feet in horse-power breadth, 3,500 tons in tonnage, or 4,000 indicated. Wo nave before us at this moment a list of 50 merchant steamers sailing, in the year 1800, from which Southampton and other southern ports, the largest vessels then frequented, and the list includes but 10 ships of more than 800 feet in length, none of which reached the limits of sizo and power just given, and the whole of which belonged to two companies, viz., the Royal Mail and tho Peninsular and Oriental. At the present moment wo have afloat and at work tho White Star liners, some of them of 445 feet in length, 45 feet in breadth, horse-power; and nearly 6,000 indicated the Inman liners, compris¬ ing suoh ships as the City of Berlin, 4H8 feet by 44| feet broad, and of about the same foot steam-power; tho Orient, of 445 5,600 by liorso-power; 46 j feet, with the engines Arizona, developing of about the same size, with still greater steam power and speed; and many other of splondid vessels but little inferior to any tiie foregoing. And these grand steamers—many of New York of which reach the quays with greater punctuality than railway trains reach tlio London suburbs from Victoria and Oharing-cross, and would roach our quays with equal abominable punctuality if they could avoid tho sands that bar tho Mersey— are tho forerunners of still larger and more powerful vessels now taking shape upon the banks of tho Clydo and else¬ where. The Canard steel ship, the Borvia. now building by Messrs. Thomp¬ with son, or Glasgow, is 500 feet by 50 feet, and over 10,000 indicated horse-power, will, therefore, doubtless possess a »l>oed considerably in advance of that of the very fastest ship at present afloat in tho mercantile mariue. Tho Inman steamship Barrow, City of Romo, building of iron at will lie still larger, having a longth of 546 foot, a breadth of 52 feet, a gross registered tonnogo of 8,000, and a steam power nearly equal to that of tlio Servia. The Guian line is to ho increased by and ships of almost equal size and power, the Allan line is building others equal to the finest of tho White Star lx>ate._ magnitude Notwithstanding of the thenumber steamers and running between passenger now America and this comitry only been the traffic is so groat that it has tion possible to secure accommoda¬ and by arranging passage ninny weeks, rapidly even months, in advance, while tho of the United increasing population and wealth Htates and of Canada make it certain that the interchange of agricul¬ tural produces and manufactured goods between them and ourselves will go on increasing. —Lawton, Time s. American Tobacco. While I was at Ferrieres, in Italy, I hoard a comical story from the wife of an American gentleman who resides in the neighborhood. It seems tobacco is a Government monopoly; the raising of more than a dozen plants by any one dener person engaged it strictly by prohibited. The gar¬ my friend had rather a liking tor his the plant, and embellished several of ornamental flower-beds with it. Bo one day tho lady was waited her upon that, by the Commissaire, she had who informed rules respecting as the transgressed the cultivation of to bacco b iy non-uuthorized individuals, she would have to pay a fine of some $30. But, fortunately, the Republican Dep¬ uty from intimacy the district was on terms ol great offered services with the family, and he his to get them out of the scrape. He went, therefore, to call on the local Magistrate, and represented to him that the offending plants wore of American origin, and, consequently, wore of a kind that were totally valueless for any other pinpose than that of orna¬ mentation. The dignitary professed him¬ self as being quite satisfied with the ex¬ planation, and, in view of tho non¬ existence in commerce of any such an article os American tobacco, my friend got off scot free .—Lucy Hooper. The quickest Trains in the World. The pace of the English quickest trains in En¬ gland, by says an hour paper, is greater ton miles an than that of the oniekest trains of any other country. In Great Britain tho average velocity of tho express is fifty miles an hour. In Bel¬ gium it never exceeds forty-one miles an hour; between Paris and Bordeaux it is thirty-nine and a half miles an hour. In Russia and in some of Switzerland tho rate is twenty-seven miles an hour. JPcr contra, in England railway risk than travel¬ ing is attended with more in any other country in the world. Yet even thus the {Minis of the steam loco¬ motive are statistician, much exaggerated, labori¬ for a French after a very ous examination of the deaths occurring from rail way accidents over tho surface of the whole earth, states the result of his examination thus: “ If a person were to live continually all his time in a in railway railway carriage, travel¬ and spend ing, the chances in favor of his dying from railroad accident would not occur until he m SMJ0 yearn old.” A Female brume. Ii De Foe had only known of a female Crusoe living on an ocean island, he might, perhaps, have wrought out a story superior to his Robinson Crusoe. Alex¬ ander Selkirk’s brief life on Juan Fernan¬ dez was trivial, either in tho hardships endured or the difficulties native conquered, compared with that of a woman on on island opposite Southern Cali¬ fornia. South Barbara The Catholic Fathers at were transporting the natives of the Is¬ land Bt. Nicholas to the mainland. Among them was a mother who discov< ered that her babe had been left behind. She begged that the ship refused, might be riho put back, but the captain swim ashore, but leaped into the sea to thought as a storm prevailed, they all she was drowned. landed Eighteen years after a company on the island. They found traces of Ufo, and after long search discovered the wo¬ man, and took her with them. babe, The poor lorn mother never found her but managed to live in comperative comfort, though very lonely. Alter her long life chinny in the op©B wr, nil© ooti.UI not I tear the confinement of a bouse, and soon sickened end died. TOallumiil*/ jj&mttt. A WIIXLT PA PH, PtBLiaaas at Watkinsvil!e, Oconee Co., Georgia. RATES OF ADVERTISING : „ Ono fwjuaiv, fimt Insertion............... SJ ••■8«8tS888B83 KacU pubsequent insertion.............. Ous square, one mor.tb................... nVfitlOiOMOlM One hquare, tt ree months............... One square, si* montbs.. Oee ................... One-foarth squana, Mte Ooe-fourth oolumn, <olumn, one ____ One-fourth three months.....„...... One-fourth column, six months......„............. Hell oolumn, ooiumn, on* ........ ... Ue»f eolunui. one three mouth.......... ..... ........... Half Mjasu, aaoethe........ • •o» ««.... ••••o*«oo 1C «ix m«Uu.......................... Hat! column, one t« i. uniBii mu roa icu m*Avm p. HTJMOBOUS BREVITIES. A man who opens oysters tdoes hinge by halves. Three's lots of cold comfort in a hun¬ dred pounds of ioe. One-hamt of the world doesn't know how the other half lies. A Nevada ball report says: “Honor? X was full of eclat—in fact, the eclatest lady present ” “ Yon can't, play that on mo I” said the piano to the amateur who broke down on a difficult pioce of music. “One touch of you, ma, makes the whole world spiu,” as the boy said when his mother boxed his ears. “Darling husband,” she said, “am I not your treasure ?” “Certainly,” ha re¬ plied, heaven.” “and I should like to lay you up in The editor of the Cincinnati Commer¬ cial, who has farming ideas, thought that to have buttermilk he must buy a goat.— New York Herald. One of the first requisitions received from a newly-appointed railway station agent was: “Soudme a gallon of red oil for tho danger lanterns. When you see two dogs growling and potting only ready joint to debate, tight, and remember tho liveliest that it is a dog will get away with tho joint. ” “Do you get, any holidays in your of¬ fice?” asked a returned divine of a cher¬ ry-looking worker in secular walks. ‘ ‘Oh, yes, we get a day to get buried on.” “ Ciphering:” School boy (kopt in)—. “Let's see—one t'm’s ought’s ought. Twice ought’s ought. Three t’m’s ought —oh, must he something—stick it down one.” A young lady at an examination in grammar was asked why “the man bach¬ elor was singular ?” She replied imme¬ diately, “Because it is very singular they don’t got married,” “ Yon wouldn’t tako a man’s last cent fora cigar, would yon?” “Certainly I here would,” remarked tho proprietor. “Well, it is, then,” passing over a cent, “give me tho cigar.’’ A Western writer thinks that if the proper “eight,” way to spill tho is “though,” ate is and hoes is “beaux,” the proper teightouux. way to |spell potatoes is pough —Cleveland Sun. “There Are No Birds in Last Year’s Nests ” is the title of a song. Probably not. If it were equally sure that there are no rats in last year’s rat holes the public mind would lie more at rest. T ms Vermont housewife who read that English nobles have lots of bares in their preserves, says she tried it to the oxtont of putting a whole chignon into some blackberry bit better ]am, it. and tho jam didn’t seem a for “ Shale wo sell or abandon our girls?” editorially ]>o neither. asks the Givo editor of the Hawk eye. ’em away. When a girl is given away, if she is not “ sold,” the young man Is—in a majority of cases. —Norristown Herald. Two ladies in the horse oar were bilk¬ ing about an actress whom they had just seon. “She is too stout,” said ono. “Oh, no,” replied tho other, who slightly tended towards embonpoint, “She is more than stout; she’s fat.” The truly affectionate and sensible wife approaches her husband with a bo nignaiit expression of countenance, and gently observes, laying “Charley, her hand upon his shoulder, spend dear, please don’t any more money for cardamom seeds. I'll try and stand it if you won’t kiss mo on the lips.” A TiAUV correspondent of tlio Cincin¬ nati Nnauirer says: “I know a fashion¬ able hello who has her arms lathered and shaved from end to end by a barber once n month.” Aha! This explains why female arms become bald-headed at such an Herald. early ago .—Philadelphia Chronicle _ A Womlerfnl Blind Man. A ve iry remarkable blind man, named John Metcalf, a native of Manchester, was living and, at the beginning of this eout ury ; strange to say, his occupation was no other than that of a guide, his living being through gained intricate by his conducting strangers routes dur¬ ing the night or when the roads were covered with snow. Stranger still, however, was the calling which he sub¬ sequently followed, aud this we are told was of highways that of a “ projector ilifficult. and surveyor in and mountain ous parts. ’ With the aid solely of a sta ff which he carried, he was often to lie seen traversing valleys. roads, mounting hills, and exploring It was under the -direction of Metcalf that many of the roads over the I’eak, in Derbyshire, were altered ; anil he also designed and su¬ perintended the construction of a new road in the s«me neighborhood, formed with a view to open a communication with tlio great London road without the necessity of passing over the mountains. A Bonanza of Bears and Lions. John Howies left his sheep ranah, near Keefer’s Mill, for a day’s sport. He did not get very far before he discovered bear tracks, both large and small. This _ discovery number was followed the “varmints” up by his coming taking upon a, under spreading manzanita things easy stood his a ground manfully, tree. John and blazed away with his deadly Rem¬ bears ington, and two of the full-grown although were killed outright. The third, badly wounded, went for liis scalp, and Jolui hod to retreat to the crotch of a tree close b y. With admirable forsight he froze to his gun, and as soon as the beast came up to his roosting-place through he laid him out by a splendid shot for liis perch tho eye. On coming down with the sight of John feasted his eyes his victims, and while enjoying this pleasure he heard some looking cubs crying for their mother. Iu around the brush ho found two floe cubs, While which he secured and took home. on his way back he fell in with two California lions, which he of bagged, thus making a perfect bonanza came for one day’s sport. Johnny feels bigger now than old Grant, and will not soon forget his splendid luck ,—Chico (Cal.) Enterprise. Two Iowa boys were amusing them yes throwing a heavy ramrod as high his llH they could. One of them met with [ by th© mhsMii© de#c©iuliug t ho velocity of a bullet and {Kiuotruting his head.