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June 1—1 m
A CHEAP HOME.
We offer for sale very cheap, the buildings
on the old Woolly lot, in rear of Dr, Stewart’s
office. Parties who have vacant lots to im¬
prove, had better use this opportunity of get¬
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must be removed. We desire to place other
improvements on the lot. Terms easy.
STEWAttT & McCALL A.
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DRY GOODS AND GROCERIES j
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as we have a limited supply at these figures,
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T\TJNCAN KING respectfully informs the
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8 o’clock, a. and 10 p. m. ready to serve
them in the art of SHAVING and HAIR
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W. F. F.
WE have recently received a lot of the
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GUNS AND PISTOLS,
Door and pad locks, also any kind of locks,
keys, all kinds of small ctttlery,. repaired finger rings,
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wooden articles the same; also umbrellas, par
aeols, &c i at half price, till the gathering in of
the cotton, or the 1st of October. As you have
tried me for the last 30 years, I know you will
giv6 tne yotfr eastern. I will take*counry pro¬
duce at the market price, in exchange for
work. My crop is now laid by, and my shop
will be open until next spring. With great
thanks for your past favor -, I solicit a share
again. Your humble servant,
GEO. T. MARSTON.
Shep corner of LSwrenceville and Screech
Owl streets, Conyers, Ga, july 20 2t
A BARGAIN.
tAME have for Bale a Folding Top Phaton,
V w Goed as New, which we will sell At half
prioe and give tjme on good xiotes. Call a:
one, or mas STEVYART a great bargain. McC
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SATURDAY^ AUGUST 3, 187S.
PQSYRY. . j
following Jj r T The i.. Clrc stanzas, f am8tances which * hich find * ave in ri3 « to the i
we a recent
ibsue of the Detroit FreePiess, from the gifted
pen of one of our citizens, occurred while the
Sn fn^mtlT UhTr, that . 8 00 8toK “ Mto4 0nCentrest th “ ««<=« -‘-~ with
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DINAH AND THE TELEPHONE.
BT AMMI BADD.
I se bin talkin’ wid de sperrits,
An heerd ole Q-abrel’s horn—
An’ nebber seed sich doin’s—
Nebber since ole Dinah’s born;
Now you niggahs don’t say nuffin,
Jes’ yer wait an’ heah me froo,
Fur de tale I hab ter tell yer
Beats de debbil—yaas it do.
When I seed de crowd a-stan lin’
Roun dat box in Mahs’ Jim’s sto’,
I jes’ know’d that sumpin wuz cornin’,
An’ it did come, sartin an’ sho’;
Be y .vuz axin’ all sorts ob questions,
Wid deir moufs close ter dat box,
An de aiiswers—de Lor’ hab mussy—•
Nebber did I heah sich talks.
By itself de box was nuffin,
But it had a string dat run—
Wall I seed it go way ober
. De house-tops toward de sun
An’ de tings I heerd a tricklin’
Thru dat box wuz mighty queer,
An’ I know’d befo’ dey toleine
Dat de sperrits wuz pow’ful near.
Mahsa Jim, he ax’d fome questions,
Jes’ fur me, about de crap,
An’ how long befo’- ole Dinah
In de grave wud hab to drap;
An’ de answer wuz de wustest—
All de summer’s gwine be dry,
An’ befo’ annuder season
Po’ ole Dinah’s got ter die.
Arter dat de sweetes’ moosic
Quiver’d thru dat cotton string.
An’ Mahs’ Jim, he said de tootin’
Wuz ole Gabrel on de wing ;
An’ wid dat I lef’ an’ lit out,
An’ I’se hyar—hut not fur long—
I’se jes’ waitin’ fur de angels—
Waitin’ till dey soun’ de gong.
Wha’ dat Pomp—no use wukin,
Arter what de sperrits sed ?
Yer lazy niggah—git de hoe, sah,
An’ reprove dat collard bed;
Wha’ de sperrit* sez is one ting,
An’ de collards am annuder—
Bat’s ez troo ez Pomp’s a n ggah.
An’ dat I is Pompey’s mudder !
Conyers, Ga. June 28, 1878.
CURRENCY,
(From the Detroit Free Press,)
All a mosquito wants is one bite—just
Donn I’iatt says that Washington
an Anthony Comstock.
Michigan lovers save a dollar by cross
into Indiana to be married.
The miseries of a man who buys a
bushel of cherries have only just begun.
The woman who doesn’t forget to date
her letters should be cherished above ru*
bies.
Thu Royal family of England make a
practice of not paying for their daily pa¬
pers.
If St. Louis misses this chance to call
herself “the oven of America,’ she will
never be happy again.’
The mosquitoes have their preference,
the same as dogs. They like to nibble
at cultured people,
Pegg of Michigan, fired nine shots at
a neighbor and missed the target every
time. Poor pegging that.
Geotge Washington didn’t take any
summer vacations, and he was not only
healthy, but every one loved him.
Egyptian auctioneers get two and a
half per cent, commission on sales, and
the prayers of both seller and buyer.
The Chinese have lately created three
new gods, namely : God of Tobacco,
God of Soap, God of American Calico.
Remedies of sea-sickness were known
and used 3,000 years ago. Men may
have changed, but the stomache is the
same.
When people get to warring over re¬
ligions, it is Satin and.not the Almighty
that gets the service.—Chicago Journ
al.
Whenever an American feels like pa*
rading he also feels like popping over any
one who would like to halt the process
siori;
A great big ripe tomato,* if well airaed;
will do more to make an orator forget his
subject than all the cheers a mad crowd
can utter.
Does your head swim 1 Do yonr ears
buzz f Do your eyes water ? Y-_ u need
rest. Go and hang on your country reK
atives for two weeks.
Just as soon as a farmer begins to ar¬
gue that he can clear a crossing belore a
locomotive can, be is prepared loi the
trip'.o the next world.
Can yoa lay your band on a man who
did not let a day of last winter go by
without predicting a cool summer ? If
* voa can, mash h im * »
Michigan rattlesnakes are doing a live
ly business whisky' this year, but they can’t get
ahead of and might well go
• It is said that dead-beats can secure
more favors at the sea-shore than good
solid men. For instance, they are given
a ducking free gratis.
“Fifty thousand dollars to the lawyer,
and $2,500 to the widow” is the way
they divide estates in New York City,
according to the Graphic,
Gen. Howard can do more telegraph*,
ing over one wire than any other soldier
in the service, lie never slops till a
thunder storm breaks him.
Mr. James II. Huff attended the Epis¬
copal services one Sunday evening, and
when called upon for his nickle offering,
give himself a burnt offering instead* It
occurred in this wise : James, in res¬
ponding to the call of the hat, was fum¬
bling in his vest pocket, and accidently
ignited a sulphur much which speedily
caught some eloride ot potash in the same
receptacle, m an instant his vest, coat and
pants were in a blaze. Mr. Huff is not
naturally a quick moving man, but the
manner in which he got out of his
coat and vest, and tugged at his shirt,
gave his friends great hope for his future
rapid movements. A pair of cuff-but¬
tons in bis vest pocket we**e completely
melted With that exception, and badly
burnt clothes and hands, Mr, Huffsus
taint'd little injury. The equanimity of
the church members was disturbed for a
short time. —Carlisle A”y.,— Mercury.
“Dad, I want to ask you a question,’
“Well, my son.’ “Why is neighbor
Smiths liquor shop like a counterfeit,
shilling ?’ “Can’t tell, my son.’ Because
ymi can’t pass it,” said tne boy.
How a Suicide was Indefinitely
Postponed.— It is not by any* means rare
to hear cf a suicide changing his mind
at the last moment, but it is seldom that
owe does so under such ciroustances as
Henry Roberts, an old gentleman resid¬
ing in St. Lotus. lie has been suffering
from as»hma for a long while, and to
such a degree that on Friday night last
he grew desperate and at.five o’clock m
the morning jumped down a well thirty
feet deep. A neighbor who witnessed
the feat, called for help, and to hiif sur¬
prise Mr. Roberts, who found drowning
a more serious affair than be had expec¬
ted, seconded his appeal with great alac¬
rity. \V hen the Neighbors arrived and
drew him up it was found that he had
only skinned his knees. llis asthma re¬
mained as bad as ever.
A merchant of main street, t<dls us
that he set a hen on an old tomatoe can,
recently, and she hatched five bottles of
catsup, with lithographed lables, and a
dozen fine tomato plants. The gentle¬
man is an Alderman, and cannot tell a
lie, and would not if he could.
“I was not aware that you knew him/
said Tom Smith to an Irish friend the
other day. “Know him !’ said he,' in a
voice that comprehended the knowledge
of more than one life—“I knew him
when his father was a boj.’
There is enough w hiskey drank in this
country every year to fill a canal eighty
miles long, four feet deep, and fourteen
feet wide. It would buy the poor of
this country 230,000,000 barrels of flour.
It would build 600,000 homes worth
$2,500 each, and give a Bible to every
man on earth.
One day you will be pleased with a
friend and the next disappointed in him. -
will be so to the end, and you must make
up your raind to it and not quarrel, un¬
less tor very grave cause. Your friend,
you have found odt, - is not perfect. Nor
are you, and you cannbt eXpect to get
much mo»*e than yott give. You must
look for weakness, foolishness and vanity
in httman nature j it is Unhappy, - it you
are too Sharp in seeing them.
Girls whose Opinion about such ih’iiJgS
is always valuable, say that there’s too
much shirt collar and loo little young
man in the present day to suit hef taste.
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A married man in Newburg baS inven¬
ted an India rubber rolling pin that will
roll out the dough Very evenly and yet
bend lo the head when it strikes*
A discharge of buckshot from a gffu
killed a man in the Capital Theatre, A us*
tin, Teias, and made a hole in the wall.
The fresh plaster has cracked in such a
way as to present the outline of s man’s
face— a likeness of the murdered man j as
some say.
TWO DGLLARSPer Annum
ADDRESS OF SISTER SKINNER.
The following are the opening senten¬
ces of an address by Mrs. Skinner :
Miss President, fellow-women and
male trash generally ; I am here to-day for
the purpose of discussing woman’s rights,
recussing her wrongs and cussing the
men, I believe the sexes were created
perfectly equal, with the women a little
more equal than ihe men, I also be¬
lieve that the world to-day u ould have
been happier it men had never existed.
As a success man is a rai’ure, and I bless
my stars that my mother was a woman.
[Applause]. I not only maintain these
principles, but maintaiu a shiftless bus
band besides. They say man was creat
ed first. Well, ’spose he was. Ain t
fi expeiiments always fa lures ? Il I
was a betting man, I would bet $3 thev
are. The only decent thing about him
was a rib, and that went to make some
thing better, [Applause], And then
they throw into our faces about taking
an apple. I’ll bet $5 Adam boosted her
up the tree and only gave her the core.
And what, did he do when he was found
out? Tiue to his masculine instincts,
he sneaked behind Eve s Grecian bend,
an<l said, ‘ 1 wasn t me, twas her ; and
woman has had to fiithei everything and
mother it too. What we want is the
balioL we ^re bound to have it, if we
have to let down our back hair and swim
in a S' a of gore.
Rats Attack Two Children.—T he
Baltimore American of the 17th instant
says: “In one ot the few houses in Col
lison’s Court, a narrow lane east of Ster
ling street, between Chew ond Eager,
resides a colored man named John Sims j
and his family, iri which are two chil¬
dren. On last Sunday Mrs. Sims upon
rousing (he children out of bed, observed
the youngest, about four years old, bleed j
mg at the fingers. She was surprised,
but could not, account for the strange
appearance of the child. On Monday,
while she was washing in the yrrd be*
low, she beard loud screams fiom the
child and asked her husband to ascertain
ihe cause. W hen he came up he was
horrified, to find a big rat jumping from
the bed to the floor and the child bleed¬
ing ai its toes and fingers. Small pieces
ot flesh were found to have been bitten
off from the child’s fingers, and its suf¬
ferings appeared to be intense. It was i
taken down stairs and medical assistance
summoned; Sims then again w*ent up
stairs to wake an elder child about tom
years old. When he entered the room
he found another rat in bed with the
child and just about to jump on its neck
The rat was driven away and a general
search was instituted throughout the
house, resulting in the destruction of ten
large rats. The children have not been
troubled again. The child’s injuries are
not beiieved to be serious.
A man w*as going over a field when lie
suddenly saw a bull with his head dovvit
and pawing the grass. The man w*ent
for the nearest fence, but just as he
reached it he felt himself lifted by the
tvvo - masts of the bull, and he fell on the
other side. He got up, and pointing at
the beast said, “I’ll have revenge. I’ll
get even with you. I’ve been eating
mutton all my life. Henceforth I eat
polhirig but beef,’’
A tooth the size of a small ham. and
similar in shape, weighing twelve pounds,
was extracted from the jaw of a white
elephant in Ceylon while the animal was
under the influence of chlofoim/ The
dental operation was performed tj re¬
lieve the beast of the great pain caused
by exposure of the nerve owing to the
decay of a portion of Ihe bone.
A Woman in Mount Sterling, Ky., has
been married six years, has three chil¬
dren and is now only eighteen years of
a ge- .
Oswego has the champion somnambu
list iu the person of George Peckham,
who not long ago walked twelve miles
to Fulton without awaking, and who the
other morning awoke to find himself ful
ly dressed and aboard the Midland
abent to start for New York. He dream
that he was going to California, and*
lYas awakend by ibejarofthe locomo¬
tive as it coupled on the train.
- &£. -
A Paralytic Boiled to Death. —An
inquest was held iu New York on Mon¬
day, iff the case af Charles Reicholdt, an
inmate of the Ward’s Island Lunatic
Asylum, who was fatally scalded iu that
institution off the Iffth inslant. The ev¬
idence showed that Reicholdt, who wag
paralytic, was placed in a bath by an at¬
tendant, who left him for ten minutes.
While he was absent a lunatic entered the
bath-room, turned on the hot tfater tap
and ReicholdL lay screaming for eight
miffutesi the water being nearly boiling.
When taken from the water Reicholdt
wss pairboiled and died of exhaustion.
NO. 31-
CEREMONIES.
Russian marriages invariable take place’
in church, at the door of which the priest
meets the couple, and kisses their hands,
at the same time giving them' his bene¬
diction, They follow him to the altar,*
and a crown, light, and generally made
ot silver, is placed upon their heads. This
is called the marriage crown, fie puts a
wax taper into each of their hands, and.
reads a portion of Scripture ; a sweet and
bitter drink, emblematical of thCjoys and
sot rows of married life, is given to each.
The whole service lasts about an hour/
and ends by the bride and groom, with
all the spectators, following the priest
around the altar three times. The cere
mony is very impressive. When a Rus-r
sian merchant gives a dinner, he and his
wife stand behind the chairs of the guests
and wait upon them,- receiving the dishes
from the servants and placing them upon?
the table. Every time one of the guests
asks for more sweetening in his wine,
t he merchant must march around the ta
ble. meet bis wife, and salute her. When 5
it is a newly married couple, this cere*
mony, from the frequency ot its being re*,
qqired, often becomes fatiguing to the
parlies, though it affords much amuse*
ment for the puests
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A Legend of White Strumuff Spring?,
—A single heroic incident,* relating as it
does to “Kate’s Mountain,” at White
Sulphur, is worthy of record as a leaf of
old times. It dates back to the period
when the region was like the “dark and
bloody ground” Of Kentnck v. A bravo
mountaineer living near the springs re*
ceived sudden intelligence that the In¬
dians wore advancing. A block-house
near Covington was the only place of
refuge, and he said to his wife, “Kate,
I’ll carry the children to the fort first,
and then come back after you.” Taking
the children he hastened toward the foft,
The Indians made their appearance ; the'
mother fled for refuge to the mountain,
afterward known by her name, and thertce
Lo the fort ; and here, when attacked by
(he savages, she continued to mold bul¬
lets even after her husband was killed.—
Thence the name of “Kate’s Mountain j”
and the legend has the bold ring of old
days, though one Vainly asks why brave
Mrs. Kate did not accompany hef* hpgsi
band and children. To inquire thug,
however, were to inquire too curiously.
There seems no doubt of the truth of the
legend. This brave settler and his wife
Were the grandfather and grandmother
of.James Caldwell, E-q., a gentleman ot
great worth and ability, why may be‘
called the (rue founder of the prosperity
of the White Sulphur,—[John Esteii
Cooke, in Harper’s Magaine for August.’
The Crawfordville Democrat, stated
tint “an estimable lady living m Wilkes
county, 1 Was a lew day ago, found drown¬
ed, her head and Upper portion of her
body being overwhelmed in a large gutii
spring near her house. Thera was also 1
a watenueRnr in the spring. It is sup¬
posed she stooped to get the wafermelofi
and, losing her balance, fell, headfore¬
most, in and was drowned.’
Another explosion ot non-explosiv v 6
kerosene is reported from Macon; The
Telegraph and Messenger says ; ‘^On
Sunday night, at the residence of Mrs.
Elizabeth G, Edwards, a kerosene lamp
exploded, but, fortunately, did no serious
damage. Mr. W. P. Edwards, who was
eating his supper very near the lamp,
had a portion blown out of his hand by
the explosion and his hat blown to pie¬
ces, the base and a portion of the bowl
with oil in it remained standing and in'*
tact. The oil was sold for non-explo¬
sive.'
Were I to pray for a taste,- says Sir.
John ITerschel, which should stand tne
instead under every variety of eircura*.
stances, and be a sourfce of happiness and
cheerfulness to me during life, and a
shield against its ills* however things
might go amiss and the world frbwn
upon me, it would be a taste for reading,
Give a man this taste and the means of
gratifying it and you can hardly fail of
making him a happy man, unless, indeed,
you put into his hahds a most perverse
selection of bocks. Yon place him in
contact wi‘h the best society in every
period of history—with the wisest, the
wittiest,- the tenderest, the bravest and
the purest characters who have adoraedj
humanity—you make him a denizen of,
all nations, a contemporary c£ all ages.
The world lias been created for him.
The cow of Mr. Carter* Coulter, of
Glen*SuUon, Canada, has given birth to
a creature with the body <?f a goat, while
the head slightly resemble* the buraaq
cranium, haviug a forehead three inches
high. The body is of a white color,
while the bead is nearly black.