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IIALDKMAN President Courier -Journal Co., Louisville, Ky. NEW ATTRACTION! J. H. Almand, Son & Co * f H/tfnt pultchased one of 4LLEN ’ S PA ‘ ©EL SAFES / “amile ^ Gallons oils from capacity, “HEADQUARTERS,” are now prepared and to sell sueli oils as Unseed, LAUD, TRAIN and .. . MACHINE. i D-fos that defy competition. The Oil Safe 18 1 curiosity, within itself. jan5 ’78 tf FARMERS Ti>n\\T'kA L N Clevises, BEST Singletrees, Steel Turn Hames, and Scooter Col u , 3 ana Plow Lines, at J H. ALMAND SON & COS , Jan I2tf O ATS ^ST-PROOF J, H, OATS an 75 cents per ALMAND SON & CO’S, knocked Down. J •theRiicea 5’ al mand It! (this SON & CO. have Rednied Fish. week) on Stlgars, Syrups '78tf jan 5, is* **'—-- ^ill 5** i-_i im* Ft&TZ Jtii Oors or prevent Disease. 1 • : ’ ior laat. iu com m M in II mm 1 L m iii y*\ m m r m i E w& V a [ilij ft n ■j LmJi 1 11a JIOIIa® “ Error Ceases to be Dangerous, While Truth is Left Tree Combat to it,” CONYERS, GA. % SATURDAY," MARCH 2. 1878. P08T1IY. THE LESSON OF LIFE, Yv e meet, we love, we part, Ne’er to meet again; There’er tears, a broken heart, But grief is vain. We plan, attempt and fail j We cry out in our pain, but we stifle back the wail, For regrets a-e vain. We trust and are deceived ; Ask bread and get a stone ; We love and are bereaved, And go through life alone ! Tor brighter, fairer flowers, We long and wish and sigh, f?ee not the beauty of oure Till they from us fly. We dream that the world is bright; There’s ho more sighs and fears! ; We dream there is no more night Atd wake in the vale of tears. We dream of strong arms round us, Hushing the cry and moan; We wake from the dreams that bound us And we are alone - alone ! We laugh with an aching brow, We smile with a heart of pain ; We live, though we know not how, And life itself seems vain. Thus meeting, loving, parting, Trusting and being deceived, Hiding from others the smarting We feel when we are bereaved. None taking thought of bis brother, Each striving for the highest place, And pushing and jostling the other, That he may be first in the race, Breaming and longing and tfighirig, Wearying Of Anguish and strife, Weeping o’er loved ones dying, Such is the lesson of life ! mm Yotmg lady—‘Oh, l am so glad you like birds. What kind do you admire V Old gentleman—‘Well, I think goose, with plenty of stuffing, is about as nice as atiV*’ In choosing a wife, says the Plifeilo logical Journal, be governed by her chin. The worst of that is, that after having chosen a wife one is apt to keep on being governed in the same wfry, “Keep your dog away from me ?” said a dandy to a butcher’s boy. “ Darn the dog ; he’s fiUvnys alter puppies*’ said the boy. “My wife,’ said a wag the other clay, “ came near calling me honey last night.’ “Indeed* how was that?” “Why, she called me old Bees Wax,’ What substitutes can there be for the endearments of one’s sister ?’ exclaimed Mary. “The endearment of some other fellow’s sister/ replied John. The most expensive railroad car in the world, cosl’mg, $36,000 was completed last autumn by the Pullman company, and has since been in use in various parts of the country by tourists able to pay for iis luxuries. It is s French flat in rairna ture. An out of town couple applied to a Pits!burg drug store for soda water. •‘What syrup ?’ propounded tfie clerk. “Sytup— syrup," repented the bucolic fop, with an incredulous s aie* and then leaning forward he impressivuly added : “Stranger, money is object to me to-day; kin put in them ’ you sugar Bismarck, it is said, is not at all alarm* ed at the English cry of war against Russia, and has the general continentil for a mere mairtirne power. In regard to the menace of the English fleet, he observed : “When have fish ever been seen to make war on t-orseS ?” A bright and a lovely little boy, son of Mr. Hardy 0- Blalock, of Thomas county, killed last week by the discharge of a pistol in the hands of a colored girl. The sad affair was probably an accident, but it is another fearful warning against the use of firearms. The recent visit to Miliedgeville of Gov. Colquitt and Mr. Baud, Supei intern* dent of the Public Works, has resulted in a determination to have some repairs made at the executive mansion. The fincing enclosing the mansion is decayed and unsightly. This will be replaced nn« der the direction of the Mayor ot the city. As to what men are considered most marriageable by the feminine sex, Jennie June says: “A poet, if he is presentable, stands perhaps first on the list, women putting a much higher pecuniary estimate on poets than editors are apt to on their productions. Editors are also in demand, and literary men of any stripe fetch a a pretty good price, some women having a sort of reverenced mixed with their curiosity concerning the fourth estate/ XVf ’ :T a GOOD WIFE ItS WORTH. A L tacky farmer furnishes the fol lowing evidence of th e money value of a wife. The companionship ol such wife a was even more precious than her industry and economy : I have been farming twenty-two years. The first four years I was unmarried. I began fanning with two hundred and fifty aeres in the Blue Grass region. I ha l il.ed n cattle, bogs, sheep, and horses—prin eipaliv the two firsf named—and lived, I thought, tolerably economically, spent none ol the money for tobacco* in any way, never betting a cent or dissipating in any way, and yet, at the end of tire lour years, I had made little or no clear money. I then married a J oun S' l tdy . , y r°r: 0i ag ?’ °" 6 ’ rho b ? d «" i at any iot.se-»ot to any kind, ex cept ranking a port,on of her own clothes, bhe llad acver made a shir*, drawers, pants, or waistcoat, or ever sewed a stitch on a coat, and yet before we had been married a year she had made tor me every one of , the , articles . , of „ named, and knit numbers ot pairs of * oc ^ °’ m ■ in< ‘ mended divers articles . for me, not excepting an old bat or two* She bad also made butter, sold eggs, chickens, and other fowls, and veg* etables to the amount of near $000 in cash at the end of the yeat, whereas du¬ ring the four years that I was single, I had never sold five cents’ worth; besides making me purely happ.y ntld contented with, and at my own home. And so far as to making money, we have made money clear of expenses every year since we were married, in everything that we have undertaken on the farm, and she has made from $d50 to $500 every year, except one, during the time, selling the butter, eggs, and marketing of kinds. My yearly expenses for fine clothing, etc.; before I was married, were more than after I was married* combined with the expenses of my wife and children; and our farm has increased from two hundred and fifty to six hun dred and twenty acres; and I believe that if I bad not married it would have increased but little if any. I have never been absent from home six nights, ' my wife was at our home, since we were married, and her cheeks ki3S as sweetly to me as they did the morning after we were married. Life in Dreary Iceland, —Men and women, masters and servants, all inhabit the same loom, while the cleanliness is not much attended to ; but poor as they are and accustomed to great privations, they set an example of cheerful content meat. The beauty o' the young girls is remarkable; their fair hair falls in long plaits, par, ia ly covered by a black cloih coil, daintiW worn on one side of the head, flushed at the top with a tassel of colored silk run through a silver or steel buckle, which floats on the shoulder. It reminds the traveler of the Greeek head dress, but the blue eyes, with their sw T eet, benevolent expression, soon recall to their mind their Danish origin. The dress is made of the cloth woven in the country, and on festive days the bodice is gayly adorned with silver braid and velvet, while the bfit and sleeves are or¬ namented with. Silver devices, beautifully chased and often ot great va ue. On wet and cold days the shawl becomes a useful mantilla, completely enveloping the head, and defending the wearer from the ’effects of the frequent storms.— Chambers' Journal. A novel attempt at sui fide was that of woman who knocked a whole in a window pane and sawed her neck over the rag¬ ged glass. He w ho does not give back to his fields as much as he takes from them sells the fertility of his crop—and the fertility of the soil is the farmers capita!. The sweetest bedfellow is conscience. Ah ! it is a charming thing to feel her at one’s heart—to hear her evening song and her morning hymn. At a Dubuque wedding the other day. among the wedding presents ostentatious ly displayed was a $100 bill, a present from the doting father to his dat ling daughter. After the guests had depar¬ ted the eld man coolly rolled up the bill and put it m his vest pocket, and that was the end of it. “What is life insurance ?’ exclaimed a bold agent in a street car to a victim of a Jiurstead company. “I can answer that/ replied the victim; “it is the art of keep*, ing a man poor all through life that he may die rich.’ Charlotte (N. C ) Observer: Farm¬ ers finding now no further need for their private fences, the stock law being iu ex¬ istence, are bauling them to town and selling them far fire wood. AN IMPORTANT HOG PRODUCT. Russia is the great bristle-producing country of the world. The best of these, -tilt bristles used for sewing with waxed threads, are said to come from Muscovy, where the swine roam half wild in the in terminable forest, or else are fed on the refuse rf the half wild cattle killed for their hides and tallow. In the Wes% where vast numbers of improved swine are yearly killed for their various meat products, the hair and bristles, however, is saved from each hog, and these, of course, are an interior quality, for the finer the hog the poorer and in less qi lan Hty are the bristles furnished. So, in all warm countries the bristles are soft and cf inferior quality* Nevertheless, 'bristles ate amon* the most important of animal fibres ; said to he next to silk and the wool the most important, The avarage quantity ex ported from Russia is ov*-r 4,0 10,000 pounds annually, and of a value of about $5,000,000. The very best Russian bristles are wor.h *125 ptr pound, and this down to 27 cents. France supplies ■ annually nearly 2,000.000 pounds of bristles ; Germany and Bel* gium are also large exporters of this product. French bristles, whether pro¬ duced in France, or only cleansed there, bear the highest reputition in the market of the world. They are white soft, firm to the touch, yet exceedingy elastic, and used principally for the brushes of the artist, and the pencils of the painter and decorator. The average quantity of bristles imported into h ngland is about 2 : 5000,060 pounds, valued at over $2,. o supplying $1,400,* o sishes over 59 per cent, of the latter quantity. While neither England nor the United States furnish first-class brisUes, yet these two countries hold the monopoly of the trade, Porn. avion of the Earth — A recent IieI § ian publication shows that actor 1 P°P'd af ‘ on Bie earth is about a thou san ^ udHiontS about equally divided be tv * eeD ma!es and females. Every year abeul 33 ‘ 000 ’ 0()0 dk * 5 eve5 7 01,334; fcour ’ 3,780; every minute, 60. Therefore, there is a death every second. In civilized countries there are more births than deaths ; but the whole con-' sidered, the number of the former is about equal to that of the latter. More people are born and die in the night time than in the day, and generally speaking, low-sized mon die before those of tall statue. Eight thousand and sixty four languages are spoken in the world—587 in Eu!ope, 896 in Asia* 276 in Africa and 1,264 in America. Too Generous.— The Indianapolis Sun makes the following pit hy argument against the system now anthofized by law, under which National Banks are per¬ mitted to usurp the privilege of the gov¬ ernment: “Deposit $1000,000 in U. S. Bonds* receive interest, $6,009 in gold on the whole amount, you then get permission to issue $9,0000 in currency, your entire investment being $100,000. Deduct $90,000 which you are permitted L> issue n curr ncy, you have actually only in¬ vested $10,000, for which you receive $6,COO interest from ihe government. Every honest citizens can see the outrage committed on the people.” The Boston Traveler is very mad be¬ cause one of its neighbors remaked that. “President Haves has taken the negro out ot politics,” and expresses the fervent desire that the Uni .ed States army shall be used to put the negro again in politics, giving him the control of the Southern States jointly with Pie carpet-bag thieves. The Traveller is necessarily doomed to disappointment. Grant himself, if elec¬ ted in 1880, could never set up the negro and carpet-bag rule in the Southern States, and the Traveller may as well smother its poignant grief and “let the dead past bury its dead,” The people ol the United States will never consent 1° have a putrid corpse thrust under their noses, even if the Boston, Traveller likes the odor, The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Inter-Ocean telegraphs that pa per that “there are at least three mem* bers of the Cabinet who will not consent to any further trial of the pacification policy.” McCrary and John Sherman are doubtless tw r o of these fellows,* and they had better resign at once, for it is to late to try and inaugurate a new era of carpet-baggery and thieving, A Canadian physician has invented an article of castor oil that be says children for. It is so pleasant to the taste that gentle innocents do not know how it loaded. TWO DOLLARS Per Annum, THE DRAINS OF CRIMINALS. The subject is an important one, both from a phsyiclogical and psychological point of view, and it is to be hoped that more extended and more precise inquiries wnl be made upon it, for the results which Dr. Benedict has obtained, though vei v important are not sufficiently numerous to warrant any large induction. Up to the presseut time Dr. Benedict has ex¬ amined, the brains of 16 criminals, all of which, on comparison with the healthy bram, he finds to be abnormal. Not on¬ ly has he lound that these brains deviate from the normal type, and approach to¬ ward that of lower animals, but he has been able to classify them, and with them the skulls in which they were con tained, in three categories. These con s'sts in: First absence of symetry be* twe- n the two halves of the brain; - se cond, an excessive obliquity of the an te vior part of the brain or skull—in fact a continuation upward of what we term a sloping froehead ; third, a distinct lessen¬ ing of the posterior part of the skull in its long diameter, and with it a diminu¬ tion in size of the posterior cerebral obes, so that, as in the' lower animals, they are not large enough to hide the cerebullum. Iu all these peculiarities the criminal’s brain and skull are distinct ly of a lower type than those of normal men, and the interesting question arises, how 1ar are the evil acts of the ciimirlaj to be attributed to this retrograde devel¬ opment? Dr. Watts can pardon the vi. cious propensities of “bears and lions,” on the ground that “God had made them so.” If he had foreseen these new inquiries he might have felt less hopeful when he bade his little readers not to “let their angry passions rise.” The re¬ sults of Dr, Benedict’s researches, if con* firmed by further examinations, will do much to many beliefs now firmly 'fixed.— Medical Examiner, ask the old woman. A gentleman traveling out West re¬ lates the following t Riding- horseback just at night, through the woods in Signor county, Mich.. I came into the clearing, in the middle of which stood a log house with its own er sitting in the door smoking his pipe. Stopping my horse before him the fol¬ lowing conversation ensued ; “Good evening, sir/ said I. “Good evening,’ “Can I get a glass of milk to drink?’ “Well, I don't know. Ask the old wo man,” By this time his wife was standing by his side. “Oh, yes,’ said she ; of course you can.* While drinking it I asked .* “Do yon think we are going to have a storm V “Well, I really don’t know. Ask the old woman—she can tel].’ “I guess we shall get one right away/ said she* Again 1 asked i “How much laud have you got Cleav¬ ed here V • “Well, I really don’t know. Ask the old woman—she knows.’ “ About nineteen acres/ she replied. Just then a tronp of children came run ning and shouting around the corner or the shanty, “All these your children ?’ said I. “Don't know. Ask the old woman— she knows.’ “I did not wait to hear hey reply but drew up the reins and left immediately.’ JUST SO. Recently while walking through Do gan Square a melancholy individual with an umbrella, and a waft on his nose, ap¬ proached and said : “Stranger, do I look’s though I be¬ longed to the whisky ring ?’’ We thought not. “Do I look’s though I stole little Char ley Ross ?” We said “No.” “Do I look’s though I busted up Hell Gate ?” He didn’t. “Then, stranger, gaze on these pen¬ sive eyes* and tell me—oh, tell me truly —what’s the state of your financial cou dition V* We told him. “Do you think ten Cents*d break you?” We thought it would, “Then, stranger,” said he, as he wiped a tear from his left eye, “go back to your mucilage and shear, for I recognize in you a brother editor /—JDetroitl Free Frees. The rising youth feels the need of an invention that will instantaneously ab¬ sorb a lighted cigar, and save him the trouble and danger of putting it in his coat pocket when he unexpectedly meets either of his parents. NO. 10. MiSGtUaiNEOUS ITEMS. Almost anybody can send a boy oq an errand, but only the wealthy have leisure to spare to wait for him to get back. Taxes were paid in Great Britain Jflst year on one million three hundred and ninetysmne thousand three hundred and thirty dogs. 1 aik about female curiosity— -it’s all one-sided. Let one man stop on the street to spell out a sign on the top of a high building, and every other raothet’s son that goes by will stand still and stare for ten minutes trying to make out what the first idiot is looking at. “Ten dimes makes one dollar,” said the schoolmaster. “Now, go on, sir* Ten dollars make one—what?” ‘They make one mighty glad these times,” re* plied the boy, and the teacher, who hadn t got his last month’s salary yet, core tided that the boy was about right* “Charles, my dear,” said his loving wire, “I thought you said the dodo bird was extinct.” ^ is/’ hje replied. ,v ell, but Charley, some one sent in a bill to you to-day* and it says, ‘To one julep, do do. To three smashes, do do. To twenty bfaces, do do.’ Charley, please do not buy any dodos; they mast be horrid things.”—[N. Y. Herald. The Rev. John Brown, of Hadding¬ ton, was in the habit of proposing on festive occasions a certain young lady a* his toast. Having abandoned the pfdcs tice he was asked for a reason, “Because,* said he “I have toasted her for sixteen ycaiS without making her BroWn, and so I have resolved to toast hsr no riloPe. i It is stated that a good many people of north Georgia are emigrating to Tex¬ as rather than pay the revenue Oil Whig., key. We should imagine that it would be easier to settle the whiskey tax in Georgia than to pay a doctors bill in I exas. But some folks thing one way and some another. To estimate weight of cattle measures from root of tad to top of shoulders and round the body behind the forelegs. Mul-.~ tiply the square of the girth in inches by the length iu inches and divide the sum by 7.238 and multiply the quotent by 14, and you will get the weight in pounds. A young widow whose aged husband had died becomingly appealed two months afterward at the Paris Mairie to to announce her forthcoming marriasre to her cousin. “Pardon me, madam,” ob served the clerk, « but the la.w pererap* tori ally forbids a woman to marry within ten months of her husbands death.” ‘Yes* truly.’’ replied she, ** but are not those eight months of paralysis to be taken in-i to consideration ?’* A bill to tax male dogs $10 and female dogs $20 has been introduced into the Connecticut Legislature. It is to - hoped that frotiiekody w equal rights of the discrimination heiv .HERE! not meddle as of professional advocates olequa. the field whose business it is to deno* the base and hollow-heaited tvranL the Connecticut Legislature* As an incentive to the colored people* and some white also, we take pleasure * noticing the fact that Thos. Bush, 30 that dustrioUs and frugal colored man, li in Duncanville District, made last/^ea* an am pie provision crop besides a good cotton crop. Among his hogs killed for this year’s meat one weighed 247 pounds and another 342 pounds. Let the color¬ ed people* and everybody^else, follow his, example and the country will ife better offiu the future. In a i-ecent sermon the Rev. Dr. Chd^ pin told his hearers that the thought ot‘ endless punishment was ‘repugnant to all/ Very well j but is this in itself a suffi¬ cient reason for rejecting it ? So is the thought of physical suffering repugnant to all ; so is the thought of the grave re j pugnant to all. Yet pain and death are facts of human experience ; and the Rev* Dr. Chapin has to take them into account in constructing his theory* Rachel H. Whipp has gone to the Ohio State prisQn for seven years. She mar t ied an aged and wealthy Widower in Medina in the expectation that he would soon die and leave hel* higjmoperty ; but he continued in robust health, and threat end to make a will giving her no more thart the la fv compelled him to. One ni^ht h e awoke to find a noosb around his neek and bis wife pulling at the rope, which ran through a staple iu the wall of the room. She intended to hang him and make suicide* people believe he had "committed '