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W. E. HA BP, Publisher. V()Ii. i. T H E CONYERS EXAMINER, Polished every Saturday, By J W. Et HAEP, 2. rOLLARS PER ANNUM. at two rates FOR ADVERTISING: AK^er 6 will ba. inserter! for ONE noH square, for the first insertion, SUnce, n i VfB’TY ('ENTS month, per square less for For each long- con for one or a T ‘fori, liberal discount will be made, a less, g,;-' One inch in length, or constitutes i square. in the local column will be in rrry'."Notices Cents line, each insertion. serwh at Ten per Marriages and deaths will be published a * U1 ', 0 f news, hut obituaries will be charged Z at advertising rates. merchrnts 'fy.--'-Liberal rates will be given to others, who desire to advertise by the : Ji'* W. A: HARP. year. Business Manager. a % WPS c DR. BUTTS | laj ■4 I Ko. 12 St. N. Louis, Eighth Mo. Gt. Wlio lma ha<l greeter both experience male in the treatment of the K ,aal troubles of the results and female than any physician In the West, gives of his long and successful practice in his two new work., just published, entitled The PMY30OLQGY OF MARRIAGE Tho PRSVAYE MEDICAL ADVSQEK Books that «ro really Ciiideg and Pc!f-Tn*druc!ora Womanhood, and in all mat (er, nertainifi; felt. They to ii.mbood beautifully and Illustrated, and supply in plain a vast long easily understood. arc The two books embrace -515 Ittu'juage, and contain valuable information for both inarriedand •inkle, mwes, with til tho recent improvements in medical treatment Bead Hint.’new whet our homenapers works is in say: “The of knowledge questionable imparted chur in hr. is somethin*?that no way should know, getcr. but victim of early indiscretion*, everyone 'the Tfonth.the the Man, otherwise perfectly healthy maybe, Woman, but in with mil waning vigor in the prime ef life, and the ESI from the many ills her sex is ■ Louis Journal. —60 ■ rOPUI-AH PUKES cts. each;' Doth in one volume, Sent $1; under in cloth seal, ana rllt, 5.5 cts. extra. on receipt of price in money or stamps* GEQ. W. GLEATQ&S, attorney at Law, ONYERS : : s : : GEORGIA, A'ill practice in the Superior and Supreme jonrtg of the State. Special attention given to the collection of claims. m:\y3-1y A. C. McCALLA, Attorney at Law CONYEIIS, : GEORGIA Will practice in Rockdale and adjoining* coun * ). v3-nl5-ly DR. RICE 37 Court Place, LOUISVILLE, KY., A fpfiilarty educated and legally qualified physician Cures and the most successful, chronic aa and hla practice sexual diseasec, will prove. Spcirniatoar- alilcnou of private, abuse rhea in youth, and sexual Iinpotency. • excesses in maturer as the years, result or or of other otc seir causes, and producing some 0 f the following effects: Nei voi 1 h Has, Seminal Emissions, Dimness of Sight, Defective Me I cry, Females, Physical Confusion Decay, Pimples of Ideas, on I.oss Facc t of Aversion Sexual to Power, Society &c.» Of rendering marriage improner or unhappy, are thoroughly and permanently cured/ RTPHILIS^'^ cured and entirely eradicated thorn the system; Tate QRRHEA, discuses quickly Gleet, cured. Stricture, Patients treated piles and by mail other or pri- es* pre'is. Consultation free and invited, charges reasonably and correspondence strictly confidential. A PRIVATE COUNSELOR Of200 pages, sent to any address, securely Address scaled, for thirty (Hff) cents. Should be lead bv all. as abovo* OOioo hour* from D A. M. to 7 P. M. Sundays, 2 to 4 P. M* Tit® Remedy of th© ItHh Century, TRADE Barham’s Infallible s \ MIDI fJBlPILE WfflrJL 7 Manufactured BliiSE. by the Bartom Pile Curs Co., Durham, 11. C. It never fail* to cure Hemorrhoids or Pil*'** Yflien a euro Is possible. Price List and bona fide testimonials furnished ou application T. I?. 89, Whitehall St. Atlanta, Ga. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN Crccteiy, Chita, Glass aid Sions fares. Lamps, Lanterns, SILVER-PLATED GOODS. (f/ic'Goods Carefully Repacked. Quick sales and Short Profits, for CASH. Established 1850. march 2, 1878. 6m. PRESCRIPTION FREE! For tin* speedy Cure of Seminal Weakness, Lost Manhood and all disorders Drought on by indis¬ cretion or excess. Any Druygist has the ingre¬ dients. l)r. W. J.-MIITES * t'O., No. 130 West Sixth Street, I'iiieimmtl, O. LOOK BEFORE YOU BTTi. WEAVER & SHilDDOX, DEALEES IN nil eteiDB, Notions, hats, caps. BOOTS. SHOES, &c. CrliOCERIEB # OF ALL KINDS. Fine Tobacco and Cigars, Confectioneries a nd in fact, Everything Kept in a FIRST CLASS STORE. HONEST DEALING, IS OUR MOTTO. USTTERMS RASH and Short Profits. Oonyei-8 Ga. Feb. 16, 1878. tf horse FOUTZ’S and cattle powders, JT. *> % V^U Y* care or prevent Disease. OPIUM and Morphine hnhitrured. Th'-Orleinal » n 't u n!v ai.soliita CUHE <1 Siam.* for book oa Opium Rating Greene to \V Co., B Squire* 2nd. Wortaiagiva, JOB PRINTING * AT THIS OFFICE. 1 i\ WOf}' (ffi — i m II i o M in m * Error Ceases to be Dangerous, While Truth is LeftF ree to Combat it.” CONYERS, GA., SATURDAY, JUNE 1. 1878 , VEGETINE Purifies the Blood, Renovates and Invigorates the Whole System. ITS MEDICAL PROPERTIES ARE ' Alterative, Tonic, Solvent, and Diuretic. Vegeitne is made exclusively from the uices of carefully-selected barks, roots and herbs, and so strongly concentrated that it will effectually eradicate from the system every taint of Scrofula, Scrofu¬ lous Humor, Tumors, Cancer* Cancerous IIMinor, Erysipelas, Salt Rheum, Syphi¬ litic Diseases, Canker, Faintness at the Stomach, and all diseases that arise from impure blood. Sciatica, Inflammatory and Chronic Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Gout, and Spinal Complaints, can only be effectually cured through the blood. For Ulcers and Eruptive Diseases of the Skin, Pustules, Pimples, Blotches, Boils, Tetter, Scaldticad, and Ringworm, Vegetine has never failed to effect a permanent cure. For Pains in the Back, Kidney Com¬ plaints, Dropsy, Female Weakness, Leu*, corrhceu, arising from internal ulceration, and uterino diseases and General Debility, Vege¬ tine acts directly upon the causes of these com* p-uints. It invigorates and strengthens the whole system, acts upon the secretive organs, allays inflam¬ mation, cures ulceration and regulates the bowels. For Catarrh, Dyspepsia, Habitual Cos tiveness, Palpitation of the Heart, Head¬ ache, Piles, Nervousness, and General Prostration of the Nervous System, no medicino has ever given such perfect satisfaction as the Vegetine. It purifies the b’.ood, cleanses all of the organs, and posesses a controlling power over the nervous system. The remarkable cures effected by Vegetine have induced many physicians and apothecaries whom we know, to prescribe and use it in their own families. In fact, Vegetine is the best remedy yet discov¬ ered for the above diseases, and is the only reliable BROOD PURIF XEIlyet placed before the public. THE BEST EVIDENCE. Tne following letter from Rev. E. S. Best, Paster of M. E. Church, Natick Mass., will ba read with interest by many physicians; also those suffering from the samo disease as afflicted the son of tho Rev. E. S. Best. No person can doubt this testimony, as there is no doubt about tho curative powers of Vegetine. Mr. II. R. Stevens Natick, Mass., Jan. 1,1874. : Dear S r, ~We have good reason for regarding your Vegetine a medicine of the greatest value. We leoi assured it has been the means of saving our son’s life. He is now seventeen years of age. For the last two years he has suffered from necrosis of Ins lug, caused by scrofulous affection, and was so inv reduced mat. nearly all who saw him thought hia recovery i in possible. A council ot able physicians couiq give us but the faintest hope oi his ever rally ; two el the number declaring t h..; t he w as beyond the reach ot human remedies, that even amputation could not save him, as he had not vigor enough to endure the operation. Just then wo commenced giving him yEGETINE, and from that time to the present he ha s been continuously improving. Ho has lateiy resumed his studies, thrown away his crutches and cane, and walks about cheerfully and strong. Though there is still some discharge from the Gpenihg where the limb was I .need, we have the fullest eonhdenco that in a little time he. will be per¬ fectly He has cured. taken about three dozen bottles of Vege ho tine, is but well lately be uses but little, as ho declares that too to taking medicine. Respectfully E. S. yours, BEST. Mrs. L. C. iff BEST. VEGETINE Prepared by II. R. STEVENS, Boston,Muss. Vegetine is Sold by ail Druggists. GO TO JS€>B MMWmm FOR WINES, LIQUORS, 01 HER, CHAMPAGNE, &c. Oysters, Sardines, Crackers, Soaps, Blacking. FINE CIGARS and TOBACCO. Pickles, Peanuts, Candies, &c., BOTTLED ■winimT-n.. BEER *r. T -r,« OF THE BEST A Specialty. C5TAU Kinds of FANCY DRINIvS at Short Notice. A FINE BILLIARD TABLE attached and Privately arranged. House, Under the Whitehead Conyers, Ga. Feb. 16, 1878, SMITH IF ARM IE NO. 19 WHITE FRONT, CONYERS, GA, - Dealers in— DRY GOODS, FAMILY GROCERIES HARD-WAKE. CUTLERY, CROCKERY-WARE, GLASS-WARE, &c. HARNESS, Clotting, Hats. Caps, Bools, anflSHoes, Ckeap. A full line of Notions and Ladies Dress Goods. A FINE LOT OF good tobacco, cigars, etc. WOODKN-WAIIf, TIN-WARE, Jug-Ware, and Braiania Dippers, &c.i Sardines, Cracker*, Fancy Candies, Nuts, etc. In fact wo keep a good stock of all that is usualty kept in n first class Dry Goods or Gro¬ cery store. All of which we WILL SELL BN TIME TO GOOD PARTIES. aplr. Id, ly. a week in your own town, fa outfit free. No ri&k. Reader, if you want a Srit^forYirticu’.ars can ^ make^-reat a pity^ H. Ballet & they Co.Port- woS* to 1 aid, Maine. JOS/f BILLINGS' SAYINGS. When a man measures out. glory for himself he always keeps the halt bushel. Old ago has its privileges—one is to find fait with everything. A fool s money is like his branes, very uneasy. Marrying for her money is very much like setting a rat-trap and bailing it with your finger. Gravity is no more evidence of wis¬ dom than a paper collar is of a shirt. The hardest thing that any man can do is to tall down on the ice when it is wet and get up and praise the Lord. A man with a few braines is like a dog with one flea on him, dreadful uneasy. Fame, is elt tiling a greased pole to win a purse o! ten dollars and spi’ing a suit of clothes worth fifteen. A kicking cow never lets drive until just as the pale is full, and seldom miss¬ es the mark. It is just so with some men’s blunders. About one ha'f the pi tty in this woild is not the result of sorrow, but satisfac¬ tion that it ain’t our horse that has his leg broke. > Give a smart child a pack of cards and spelling book, and he will learn to play a good game of high low jack, long bet lore he can spell a word of two sylla¬ bles. Young man, when you have to search Webster’s dictionary to find words big enuff to <*>nvev your meaning you make your mind up that you don’t mean much. Foo’s and drunken men always make this mistake, the one thinks ihev a"e sen bi >le, and the other thinks they are so her. Speak in 5 of the mineral soring* ot Georgia, the Gainsvillt' Eagle says : *IIa ] conn'y in Georgia, is celebrated tor its mineral waters, and its matchless climate, both ot which owe their or gin to (lie geology, and altitude of this section ot the Aopa’achiar. chain of mountains, be** ing the oldest in the world. The mine va.ogy of this county is peculiar. No country now known, of equal area, can show so great a diversity < 1 metals, min¬ erals useful in the arts, and precious stones from the flashing diamond and ru by, equal to the gratification of the most fastidious ; and the beryl, the topaz, sap* phire and amethyst, for the wants of the masses, and also pr-cious cornundum, cornelian, garnet and jasper for the poor. But, our mineral springs give 11s health of body and piece of mr>d, which neither gold or diamonds can give. These foun¬ tains ot health are produced by the de compos tion cf th 1 sulphurets and car bonates of iron, of lime, lithium, etc., which constitutes the body of our rich and inexhaustible, metal-ifferous veins of gold, silver, copper, iron, manganese, tianium, etc. A Sign on a house on Croghan street infonusthe public that washing is done th».v. „„d it w, s q „i. e „„«»! u*,. . mechanic working near by should take a bundle under his arm and cal! there and ask of the boy on the step : ‘-Bub, is the washwoman inf’ “No, sir !’ was the prompt reply—‘‘there’s no washwomen here at afi !” “But that sign says wash¬ ing done here,’ remarked the man. “Spose it does V temarked the boy, in a higher key—“spose it does? A lady may become the victim of unfortunate cir¬ cumstances to such an extent that she is willing to wash and iron shirts and s heets, but that doesn’t make a washwoman ot her, does it ?’ “I thought it did,’ said the man, “Humph ! If you draw a buggy down to the shop to he repaired, does that, make a horse of you ?’ The man was silently turning away when the boy added : “If you want to find the lady of unfortunate circumstances, go round to the side d»v>r, but the washwc man —Free Press. At Sunny Point, Panola county, Tex¬ as, on Monday last, two negro children, one an infant and the other about two years of age, were killed and eaten by a sow. •The parents left the children in the care of a girl seven years of age, and while the girl was playing in the yard the sow entered the house and seized the infant Ring in a cradle and dragged it out and ki led it. But before assistance could reach the house lhe sagacious an iron! had killed the intant and ate its ’ brains out and had attacked and eaten off a leg and arm of ihe eldest child. The latter lived some five or six hours after the horrible ocounenoe. ■ One hum ter am . lxty-nme newspa , pars and periodicals are now published in Texas, and yet there is not a paper - Q ^ g tate . TRUE INDEPENDENCE. We have often received the advice tiom fi lends ‘to take things easy,’ when we have been anxious to accnmulish seme important end. YVe distrust the wisdom of the counsel. V hen a man tells us that he always lhln£?s eas Y>' and ‘never puts him ^ °', ,t wa y * or anything or any body, "6 set him down in our mental memorandum-bock as a ease of chronic laziness and selfishness. .It will not do, when life is so short, and there is so much work to accomplish before death, to lake things easy. Your easy going man will never win fortune or fame ; he will always be den under loot and trampled upon by the rushing, respectaole men of the who are building fortunes and reputation for themselves and their posterity. And he who ‘never puts himself out of the way tor anybody must not expect that anybody will ever take the to do him the slightest service. He per haps thinks that ind fference is indepen ¬ dence. Nevt r was there a greater rmV take—a more miserable misconception of ra in and the ways of the world. Ileal independence is the off pring of well diree'ed energy ; the philosophy of indolence is nothing better than a mean •and conternptih e sophistry. We are all under obligations, fir-jf to the great High Source pf All, and then to our fellow men, whose sympathy in our labors push¬ es us forward. We cannot separate one link in that thrilling chain without falling to the earth in utter helplessness. No. Real independenqe is to labor with our whole heart for the prize we have in view, and to acknowledge the fellowship of ihos« who sun ound us through life, putting ourselves out of the way, if necessary, to help them bear their burdens, and thus, by this means, rece v ing in return that holy sympathy which buoys up the spirit and makes our labois lighter. j \rolish the ‘Harlor.’—W hat horrible associations crowd into our mind when the word ‘parlor’ is mentioned. We immediately picture in our minds the ter rible oppressiveness of that best room, here the sun is never allowed to shine tor fear of fading carpet and furniture, where the chairs have all a stately, pol¬ ished and stiff look about them, where the children are never allowed to enter, where what little air there is may never be allowed to change, and where the smell is something akin to that of a fam> ily tomb. This is the best room, and is too sacrol for the use of the fatnfiy, and is only kept tor purposes of ceremony and for the convenience of those people for whom we do not care a snap. Peo¬ ple whom we like and with whom we are on familiar terms, come right into the living room and have a chat in a a pleasant way ; but the ceremonious visi¬ tor, whose departure gives us relief, is ushered into the ‘parlor.’ The principle upon which this room is founded is all wrong. Let, us have no such room in our house. Open the shut ters and wtndows. admit the sunlight and air. If the carpets and furniture fade, let us enjoy their use in that condi lion. Let ns not have any tomb in out¬ house, where all should be cheerfulness and brightness Abolish the ‘parlor’ and enjoy the home .—liwal New York er. San Marcos fTex.j Free Press: Mr. Robinson and bis good wife, of Moun¬ tain City, Ha\ s county, are probably the oldest couple in Texas. One ; s 103 and the other a hundred and two years old. They are Kentuckians, and Were mar¬ ried 82 years ago, Mr. Robinson says he never swore but one oath, nor bor¬ rowed but fitly cents, and never gave a note. He. is the same man to whom Major Burleson presented a homestead not long before he d'td. He and his wife play together like children, and af ter ai y short separation shed tears on meeting. The Lmcet advises its readers to suspend, if not abandon, the practice of using face powders, paints, and washes of all but the simplest home made des¬ criptions, as almost all applications ot t,lis class, down to the vioiet-powder of lhe nursery, as prepared and sold tor use on th e skin, may contain or consist of poisonous materials. Some specimens yielded ou anaE sis 20 per cent, of arson ic. Norway . has . exhibits , . . at some curious the , Faru.Exposition. „ . . . She „ , has _ , skins ,. mm tanned for” gloves; eel-sking prepared £,^,. harness ; shark-skins, 10 feet long an fi 3 feet wide, for various purposes, ,* and w hale -skins, 60 feet long, for driv ing bands of machinery. TWOIDOLLABS Per Annum THE BEST FRIEND. Honor the dear old mother. Time has scattered the snowflakes on her brow, and plowed deep furro ws in her cheek, but isn’t she sweetly beautiful still ? The lips are thin and shrunken, but those are the lips which have kissed many a hot tear from the childish cheek, and r *hey are the sweeteBt lips in the world, The eye is dim, but it glows with the soft radiance of holy love which can nev.. er lade. Ah, yes, she is a dear old mother. It is true she sits waiting by the side of (he grave ; the sands of life irave nearly run out, but feeble as she is, she will go further and reach down low er for you. boy, than any one upon earth You can never mount a scaffold too high for her to reach, that she may kiss and bless yon in evidence of her deathless love. When the world shall despise and forsake you. when it shall paint your faults so black that scarcely a redeeming virtue can be seen, when it leaves you by the wayside to die unnoticed, the dear old mother will gather you in her feeble arms and carry you home where she will tell you of your virtues until yon will forget that your soul is disfigured by sin. The best, most faithful of friends, love her tenderly, and cheer her declin¬ ing years with holy devotion. Intekkstino Cult h Espox uiiNCE. —Re¬ cently Richmond Jormon, an abie bodied colored man, of Selma, Ala., ad. dressed a letter to United States Sena¬ tor Morgan, of .the Slate, complaining that the Republican Postmaster at Mo¬ bile had promised and then failed to provide a place for him, and requesting the Senator to use his influence to get him a place under the Mobile Collector. To this Senator Morgan responded that he had met with such discouragements in trying to find offices, places and work for poor women with families of orphan ch.ldren that need bread, that he could scarcely hope to find an office for Mor¬ mon. Senator Morgan, however, added: “As I remember, you are a stout, hearty black man, raised to labor in the fields, and well skilled and trained to industri 011s habits. It you are wanting work at fair wages, J[ can provide foi you, and will be glad to do so. My son George plows every day for a living on a coiton farm, which he is cultivating, and needs help. He will give you fair wages and good food He is well educited and can give you instruction in many ways. He is a pleasant young gentleman, and will take an interest in seeing that your time is pleasantly occupied ; n 1 that your rights are not endangered,’’ ‘New process’ flour is an article that everybody has heard of, though not ev¬ ery one understands what it is. Strip¬ ped of technicalities, this is about the story of its manufacture : The best flour used to be nude of winter wheat. Spring wheat yielded either much less in quantity or else so much of the bran got into the flour in its manufacture that its color was intolerably dark. The .wheat would be ground and then bolted. Iu ,be Ief «se~the bran and middliugs ' Je included a large proportion of weight of the spring wheat, and this would sell more particularly for feed for horses. Now the best of floor, and the most expensive, is made out ot this very refuse ot the old fashioned process. It all came out of the discovery of a way to draw out the bran. Under the new process the wheat is ground, about as betore. The first result is an ordinary fi -ur sold for exportation. Then the re¬ mainder is taken and put upon great hori¬ zontal sieves, and, while agitation is go¬ ing on there, an ingenious system of drafts, rushing up through, carries off the bran. What is left is the glutinous portion of the wheat, the most nutritious and most productive, and out of this, pu¬ rified now by the drawing off of the bran, we get our new process flour. The result of the discovery ol the process has been to make the poor spring wheat of vlinnesota and upper Wisconsin the most valuable kind of grain, and to make the fortunes of the inventors of the meth od, who have built up at Minneapolis immense mills Columbus (Ga ) Euquircr-Sun : A pullet was killed in lhe lower part of the city a day or iwo atro, and when her cou tents was taken from her ten eggs with shells formed, besides many eggs minia¬ ture or in emb'-io state, were found. She was certainly ready for the spring laying. Who knows the number of these pullets , bashful , .. , mod**st , . to . , lay their , . too or eggs, _^ _L_ A boy who is not strong enough to spade ur a small onion bed between now and the Fourth ot July, will dig over a ten acre lot before breakfast looking for bait. NO. 2!i. M, Faure demanded $8,000 for sing insr four times in Madrid ou the oceusoti of Alfonso’s marriage. —-------— Excellent counterfeits of the new dol¬ lar are being made from b’oek tin, bis¬ muth, and pulverized glass, They are cheaper than the genuine article, and where people do not know the difference, * they answer just as well. ‘I am acquainted with your brothers in-law, sir,’ said a gnileiees would-.be reporter to Mr. Greeley. -Then yon know a couple of mighty mean men. Good morning,’ responded the philosos pher. # The North doesn't think it much of a fraud to cheat the South, and the North knows that the South elected Mr. Tilden. Hie North rather enjoys the swindle, and doesn’t want to be annoyed about it any more,—(Vicksburg Herald. Things are coming to a climax. The Mrs. R B, Hayes temperance society at Washington have, ‘Resolved that the society discard the name of Mrs. R. B. Hayes and denounce her as com plete a fraud as her husband,’ There now. ‘My German friend, how long have you been married !’ ‘Ye), dat is a ting rat I seldom don’t like *o tank about but ven I does, it seems to pe so long as it never vas.’ « Jonesboro News • ‘The cool nights, or something else, have caused the cot¬ ton to die out. Some farmers are re¬ planting with the hoe, while others are plowing up and planting in over. Fete was out sawing, woed yesterday and didn’t come home till rather late last night; and while he was passing by an open lot, some one jumped out and said : ‘Your money or I’ll blow your brains out.’ ‘Blow away,’ said Pete, ‘for I might as well be widont brains as widout money.’ ‘Tt was simply an informal affair,', wrote the editor of a little strawberry party, at a neighbor’s house. ‘It was simply an infernal affair,’ read the com¬ positor, and that editor will never get any more invitations from / that quar ter. A growth of human hair, the longest on record, is among the curiosities to be seen at the Paris Exposition. It came from the head of a Norman girl, Merlol by name, who lived with her mother in the extremes! poverty. It is sever! feet long, of an exquisils golden color, luxu-. riant, and silky ‘W e regret to learn,’ says the (3gle'. Col¬ thorpe Echo, ‘that our neighbors,in umbia county are suffering from a terri¬ ble scourge m the shape ot mad dogs. We have not as yet heard of any person having been bitten by them, but*the? fact that quite a number have been killqd and others are known to be at large, renders it unsafe to travel in some localities, We recommend a plentiful distribution ot lead among the canine population ot the infected district.' When Abraham Lincoln was a* poor lawyer, he found himself one coldMay, at a village some distance from Springfield, andsarith no means of conveyance, Bee* nig field a road gent'eman in carriage, riding aljng lie the S^j-ing a ran up to him and politely said: ‘Sir, will you have the goodness to take my overcoat to town for me ?’ ‘With pleasure,’ an swered the gentleman; ‘but hovv will you get it again?’ ‘Oh, very easily,’ said Mr. Lincoln, ‘as I intend to remain in it.’ ‘Jump in,’ said the gentleman laughing. And the future Presidenthad a pleasant ride. THE CARAT. *1 Possibly many people have speculated upon the precise meaning ot the word ‘carat.’ It is an imaginary weight, that expresses the fineness ot gold, etr the proportions of pure gold in a mass ot metal. Thus, an ounce of gold of twen¬ ty-two cai'ats fine is gold of which^ twen¬ ty-two parts out of twenty-four are pure, the other two parts beiag eUver, copper, or other metal. The weight of four grains, used by jewelers In weigh¬ ing precious stones and pearls, is spmes times called diamond weight—t’qe caret consisting of four nominal grain*, ftlittlo lighter than four grain troy, or seY^nty four and one. six-tenth carat graihs “being equal to seventy two grains tjof. |The term of weighing carat derives its ojame from a bean, the Fruit of an A'bys* sinian tree, called kuata, Yaryiifg little in its weight, and seems to hal7e been, from a very remote period, used as a weight for gold in Africa, In India, aL so, the beau is used as a weight for gems pearls. I * *