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THE WF.II OF LIFE.
Llk** a blind spinner, in the huh
1 tinml my days;
I know that all tU threads will run
Appointed ways;
I kuow each day will bring it* task,
And, being blind, no more 1 auk
1 do not kuow the use or name
Of that I apin'
I only know that tome ona coine
Anl laid with in
My hand the thread. and said ••■inceyon
Are blind, but oue thing you can do.”
Sometime* the thread*, no rough aud fat
And tangled ti>,
I know wild storm* kre • weeping paat
And fear that I
Shall fall; but dare not try t find •
A safe place aince that I am blind.
I know not why. but I am aura
That tint and place,
In aome great frabrlc to endure
Pant time and race,
My thread# will nave; ao from the first,
Though blind, 1 never felt accursed.
I think, perhapt, thi# trust haa sprung
From oue abort word,
Said over me when 1 wae young—
So young I heard
It, knowing not that God’# name signed
My brow aud aeaied me Hie, though blind.
But wether this be acal or sign,
Within, without,
It matters not the Lord divine
I never doubt.
I know he sent me here, aud still
Am glad, and blind, I wait Uis will.
But listen, listen, day by day,
To hear their tread
Who bear the finished web away
And cut the thread.
And bring God’s message in the sun.
• Thou poor, blind spinner, work is done.”
vrjT a\ m won.
A Vicksburg paper enthusiastically
tells or a youDg lady in that city who
“picked a ton of cotton.” Hm.
What did she want with so much?
A man in Wisconsin saved a young
lady from walking off a bridge, and,
so far from being grateful for it, she
married him.
A neighboring Ivceum recently dis
cussed the following question:
“Whatcan one poor, weak woman
with a club do against a tyrannical
husband who crawls under the bed
and refuses to come out?”
An Eastern man. in writing to his
friends of his marriage iu California,
thus terselv describes his bride:
“She has a head as red as as a wood
pecker’s and owns sheep until you
can’t rest.”
A philosophical paragraphic lias
ascertained that way down in the
corner of many a woman’s heart
lurks the sentiment: “No spring
bonnet, no church.”
“What makes ns poor?” inquires an ex
change. Can’t answer for you, but big
appetite, poor game of billiards and
sm ill salary are the trouble down this
wav. Ask us something hard.
Alexis and his terrier went to a plioto
grapher’s and were “took,” in every city
they visited. The duke is easily distip;
guishedirom the terrier by his princely
air and a standing collar. — Hawke ye.
Dr. Johnson knew what he was talk
ing about wheu, in liis dictionary, lie put
this definition —“Network ; Anything
reticulated or decussated at equal ells
lances, with interstices between tiro in
tersections.”
“Have you over read Watts on the
the Mind?” asked a lady of an old
bachelor. “Oh?” exclaimed he, “if
you only knew what was on my mind,
and yet I dare not,tell you!” “Why.
do tell!” she cried. He did. The
wedding came off in a month.
A Nashville man answered a Chica
go advertisement, “How to win nt
poker,” and received for his two dol
lars the following: “Hold four aces,
or don’t poke.”
Sidney Smith said to a friend of his
—who never agreed with anybody
as lie was alio nt, embarking for Now
Zealand '• “Good by, my dear fellow.
I hop,- you won’t disagree with the
New Zealander who eats you.”
The question arising in a Sunday school
as to why God created all the animals of
the fields and sea and air before man, no
one gave a solution to it until a little boy
said: “I know; it’s because he didn’t
xvant the man hanging around while he
was making ’em.” —N. Y. Tribune.
A confirmed old bachelor picked
up a copy of Woman’s Words at a
news-stand last evening.„and was
struck with astonishment to find it
so small. Judging from its title, he
expected there would be ten times as
much of it, and he asked the news
agent if thirty-five or forty pages
were not missing.
Two voung ladies from Cincinnati
are visiting two defferent families not
far trom Beacon Hill. A Boston girl
sneaking of the one to the other,
said: “She’s the most disagreeable
girl I ever saw.” “Yes,” returned
the damsel from Cincinnati, “and the
proudest, though her father packed
only a hundred hogs last year.”
“Mother,” said a little urchin when lie
Mine home, “I have seen such a power
ful preacher. He stamped and made such
a noise ; aud then lie got mad; he shook
his fist at the folks, and there wasn’t any
body dared go up and fight him” a whole
some rebuke for preachers who become
too demonstrative in the pulpit, albeit
the fault is usually the other way.
The lately deceased Henri Monier
stood once upon the beach of a wa
tering place near an old Nian and his
wife, were viewing the ocean for the
first time. “What ptizzels me,” said
the Old lady, "is the perpetual move
mentof the sea—the waves -the tide.”
“Madame,” said Monnier, “that mo
tion is produced by the fish. They
wriggle about a good deal, and wag
their tails violently. That causes
the waves. When they get tired or
swimming near the shore they all
retire simultaneously, and the sea
follows them. That causes the tide.”
“Tell your wife,” says the Countri/
Gentleman, in the caption of a long
editorial. Bless your soul, simple
man. she knows a great deal more
about it how than you do. When a
woman has suspended herself from
the top of the division fence by the
arm pits for twenty-five minutes,
what she doesn’t know her husband
can’t tell her. Now you gamble on
that.
A merchant in a provincial town in
Scotland had a habit of saying, “It
might hae been waur,” to everything
that was told him, howevet sad the
story might be. A neighbor, think
ing that, he would knock the wind
out of him, one morningsaid : “Man.
Ibadan awful dream last night.”
“Ay, what did ye dream?” “I
dreamed that I was in hell.” “It,
might hae been waur.” “How could
it hae been waur?” “If it had been
a realitv.”
A stupid editor who never notices
the fashions tries to be smart, and
says: “The sweetest thing in bon
nets is the lady’s two-lips.” Oh,
ignorance: not to know that, in tne
present style of wearing the bonnet,
it is father awav from the lady’s lips
than it is from her feet. Why, a quiet,
reserved, timid woman wears her hat
awav aft. like a make-shift rudder; a
fashionable woman builds a kind of
a platform out of her back hair aad
hanes the bonnet on the rear end of
it. and a real stylish, model hired
girl carries a pole over her shoulder
with the hat slung to the end of it.
Locomotives and railroad rolling stock
for Russia can no more be purchased from
American manufacturers. It has been de
creed by the Czar that the Russians must
manufacture their own material ior the
railways.
qrEI'.R T.tl.K IX THE Pt’I.PIL.
4 " ■ i
ONE OF TAI.MAGE’S SERMONS THAT KEPT
UIS UEAUKKH IN A HOAH.
NVw York Sun. April 1(1.]
Dr. Talmage said, as ho began yes
terday’s sermon, that the reason ho
hud preached ten sermons to men
and none to women was that tho wo
men are better than men. He did
not say this out of compliment or
in galluntrv ; although when women
are laid, thoy’je dreadful. [Laugh
ter,] tSiatistlcs prove this. They
have fewer teniptatrons, arc natural
ly more reverential and loving, and
it is easier for them to become Chris
tians. “They are in the majority iu
the church, on eurth, and I suppose
they will be three-fourths of the pop
ulation in heaven.” Iu a beautiful
homestead in Bethany, a wid
ow was left to take charge
of the premises. The pet of
the house was Mary,a younger sister,
who, with a book under her arm, has
no appearance or anxiety or purtur
bation. Christ and several friends
arrived at tho house. They did not
keep him waiting till they adjusted
i heir dress, aud, after two or three
knookings, hasten to the door and
ay, "Why. is that you?” No. They
were ladies, and always presentable,
though they might not have on their
best. If we always had on our best,
our best would not be worth having
on. [Laughter.] They threw open
the door aud greeted Christ with,
“Good morning. Be seated.” Mar
ilia went off to the kitchen; while
Mary, believing in division of labor,
said : “Martha, yon go and conk, and
I w ill sit down and be good.” [Laugh
ter.] Something went wrong in the
kitchen. Perhaps the fire would not
burn, or the bread would not bake,
or Martha scalded her hands. At any
rute, she lost her patience ; and with
besweated brow, and possibly with
pitcher in oue hand and the tongs in
the other, rushed into the presence
of Christ saviug, “Lord, dost thou
uot care that my sister hath left me
to serve ulone.”
But Christ scolded not a word. He
seemed to say, “My dear woman,
don’t worry; let the diuner go; sit
down on this ottoman beside Mary,
your humble sister.” When a man
comes home from business and sees
his wife worn out, he thinks she
ought to have been iu Wall street,
aud then she would have had some
thing to worry her. Ho does not
kuow that she conducts a university,
a clothing establisliraeiu, a restau
rant, a laundry and a library ; while
she is also health officer, police and
President of her residence. [Great
laughter.]
They have to contend with severe
economy. Ninety-nine out of a hun
dred are subject to it. If a man
smoke very expensivecigarsand eats
costly dinners iu New York, he is
very desirous of making live dollars
do the work of seven at home. Ihe
wife is banker in the household; she
is President, cashier, teller and dis
count, clerk, und there’s a panicevery
few weeks. [Laughter.] This severe
discipline will make heaven very at
tractive to you. There will be no
rents to pay; every man will live in
his own liouse. which will be a man
sion at that,. If Stewart’s Fifth Ave
nue mansion were lifted into the ce
lestial city, glorious glorified Laza
rus, who sat in rags on earth, would
be ashamed to enter it.
A Mail’s T'lgtit WHH a LIOII.
Sometime again Tunis a Sicilian athlete
of ltinaldo’s circus excited general ad
miration by his manly beauty and feats
of strength, lie was in' the habit of over
coming a lion during the performance,
which, however, was trained to succumb.
The Bey ot Tunis, hearing of this, sent
him an" offer of a thousand ducats if lie
would kill a lion which he possessed. The
proposal was accepted, and, on the day
appointed, the Bey and a large company
gathered round the pit where the lion was
kept. The beast had been throe da* s with
out food, and was furious. The iron door
of die pi opened, tint instead of the ath
lete a trembling dog was thrown forward,
which timidly took refuge in a corner.
The lion, who was at a distance, turned
in surprise at die humble intruder. His
[ail ceased to lush his sides, his roais ceas
ed, and he sat, with paws extended, con
templating his victim. Propelling himself
forward upon his belly, he finally made a
spring. The dog, however, who had
watched him with a vigilant eye, sprang
in the opposite direction. The lion seemed
astonished at missing his prey, but after
rolling over a few times, made another
jump, which was also avoided. Pity for
ibe dog induced the Bey to order a cord
to bo lowered for him, and while the lion
was gyrating preparatory to a renewed
spring, the dog intelligently seized the
cord with his teeth, and was drawn up.
As lie ascended, the lion sprang again,
but was too late. At this moment the
Sicilian appeared, calm and fearless. lie
was in a rich circus costume, and carried
a heavy mace. He took his position in
the same corner previously occupied by
the dog. At first the lion did atbt preceive
him, but, on turning, his eye expressed a
vague inquietude. He slowly withdrew
a few steps, watching his enemy with a
furtive and sidelong glance. The Sicili
an, on the contrary, iooked straight in his
eye, and watched every movement. The
lion evidently had misgivings, but impell
ed by hunger, sprang upon the man with
a terrible roar. The Sicilian slipped aside
with agility, and before the paws of the
lion touched the ground, a violent blow
from the mace upon the head laid him in
sensible. The mace was raised for ajdeath
blow, when the Hey interposed. He otter
ed the man another thousand for the life
of the beast. It was accepted, aud the lion
was allow’ed to recover.”
(Veor&la and tliestoek Exchange.
Some disinterested party at the North
has been kind enough to send us a print
ed slip containing a long editorial arti
cle from the Boston Herald. The Her
ald has learned that "a good deal of ex
citement is likely to lie caused before long
in the New York Stock Exchange by a
formal application to the Governing Com
mittee of that body to have the securities
of the Stale of Georgia struck off its list.”
The Herald is evidently sorry for Geor
gia and would be glad to see the blow
averted by a prompt recognition of the
bogus bonds. We appreciate the Ilerald's
sympathy, but we do not sec how tin
danger is to be avoided. On the first day
of May the people of Georgia will kick
the last spark of life out of the carcass of
these bonds and defy the lightning ot the
Governing Committee and the Stock Ex
change. The truth of the matter is, all
the “excitement” will be confined to the
S.ock Exchange and the Boston Herald.
There will be no excitement in Georgia
even if the dread threat should be carried
into execution and the Sta e’s securities
be stricken from the lists. The fact of the
business is, the State of Georgia doesn’t
care a continental for the Stock Exchange
or the Governing Committee. This threat
has been made several times before, and
has never had, and never will have, the
slightest effect. The Bullock bonds were
disowned because a thorough investiga
tion showed conclusively that they were
illegal, null and void, and were purchas
ed or stolen after the world had been in
formed ot their character and put upon
notice that they would never be paid.
The State will never pay a dollar of them,
principal or interest, and Henry Clews.
Rqaeell Sage and J. Boorman Johnston <fc
Cos. are simply losing money by not send
ing them to the rag merchant. Every
dollar of the valid obligations of Georgia
is promptly paid, principal and interest,
at maturity. Georgia bonds are worth
to-day from four to seven percent, pre
mium ntid will never be any lower. The
Stock Exchange nmy do as it pleases in
the matter. It is welcome to all the ex
citement it can generate in this connec
tion.—Auijusta Chronicle.
,Arntlrh nt Hnxsla ami Turkey.
THE RUSSIAN ARMY.
The armed force of Russia is com
posed of an active and a territorial
army. The first is divided into the
land and marine troops annually re
cruited throughout the empire. The
territorial army is formed by all the
male inhabitants of the empire; be
tween the ages of twenty aud forty,
who are fit for military service aud
not already enrolled iu tho active or
regular army;
The strength of the army, on a war
footing, is as follows;
Officers for aetivo service in the
regular army, 21,887 ; for reserves, 3,-
522; for depots, (1,005; for local
troops, 12,773. Total officers, 44,477.
Soldiers for active service in the reg
ular army, 845,483; for reserves, 171,-
738; for depots. 273,182; local troops,
350.806. Total soldiers, 1,041,320. Non
combatants, 195,148; horses, 240,838;
guns, 2,606. Total number of men iu
regular army, 1,880,954.
THE TURKISH ARMY.
The organization of the army of
the Turkish empire is based on tho
provisions of the law of 1809, by
which military service is made obli
gatory on all the Mohammedan pop
ulation. Recruiting is carried on by
a system of drawing lots and by vol
unteering. The duration of the ser
vice in t wenty years, of which four
years aro spent in the regular active
army, two years in the first reserve,
six years in the second reserve, and
eight years in the third reserve.
The Turkish forces are divided as
follows: The regular army, the
irregular army aud tho auxiliary
troops.
After the law of June 22 1869, and
tlie imperial firmans of later dates
concerning the reorganization of
the army, the military forces of the
Empire should be caraiod at 720,000
men until the end of 1878. Of this
number the active army would fur
nish 220,000 men, the first reserve
80,000 men, the second and third re
serves tho balance—42o,ooo men.
This plan of organization requires an
annual contingent of about 37,500
men.
The peace effective strength of the
Turkish army is 157,067 men and 26,-
045 horses, and includes the police
(14,500 men). In time of war, such
as the present, the forces of the Sul
tan are:
Men.
Active army 2(W,700
First reserve lofi,6ou
Second reserve 24,000
Police (military) 32,600
Hiyade, third reserve 110,000
Total regular army 4H0.100
Irregular troops f>o,ooo
Auxiliary troops 80,000
Total war strength •
Springer Opera House.
A COLOSSAL PAGEANT.
REA T
Slinkespearean Spectaele!
Our Viglil Only, TUiirxihi.v,
April 201 it.
Will appear the distinguished English actor,
G-corgo Rignold,
In his masterly Impersonations of
IIETV R V V J
Supported by Forty-five Dramatic Artists to
gether with all the Costumes, Armors, Proper
ties and Battle Drops from Booth s Theatre, New
York. One hundred people on the stago.
General Admission $1 00
Reserved aeata 1 60
GalU 60
apr2o fit .
Tax Payers, Take Notice.
rpflK attention of Tax Payers is specially called
JL to the following section of tho Code, viz:
It shall bo the duty of tho Tax Receiver to re
quire all persons making returns of land In his
coantv, to return the same by district, number
and section, if the lands have such designation;
and where lands nave no such designation, then
by such description as will enable the Receivers
to identify them. Receivers are prohibited from
receiving any returns of lands which do not de
signate them. And the Comptroller General is
prohibited from allowing any Receiver compen
sation or percentage for bis services, who re
ceives returns in any other manner.
Having been instructed to enforce the require
ments of this section to the letter, I hereby no
tify all tax payers that, when they make returns
of their lands to me, they must do so by district
number, Ac,; otherwise the return cannot be re
ceived.
M. W. THWEATT,
April 21, 1877. Tax Receiver, M. C.
apr‘2l d3t&w;it __
FOR SALK Oil BfiM T.
rnHE PROPERTY IN COLUM
I BUS, known as the deGrat
fenried property; for particular*)
apply to G. E. Thomas, Esq., C< HJj
lumbus; Marshall deGraffcnried, Atlanta, or J. F.
Waddell, Seale, Ala.
feblfitf
Great Reduction in Fine Photographs
AT
G. r X\ WILLIAMS’ GALLERY
fOYER CARTER’S DRUG STORE J
A LL STYLES AND SIZES FINE PHOTOGRAPHS REDUCED CONSIDERABLE FROM FORMER
I iL PRICES; putting fine finished PHOTOGRAPHS in tha reach of ail.
Call and examine NEW STYLES and PRICES, and you will be sure aud have your picture taken
at this GALLERY.
Taking Children and Copying Pictures a Specialty.
One visit will satisfy any one that no better PICTURES can be hail than at this GALLERY.
Remember the place is over Carter’s Drug Store. You are respectfully solicited to call.
oct26 tf
Dr, C. B. Leitner
OFFERS his professional services to the citi
zens of COLUMBUS; Office opposite Times
Office Randolph street; at night can be found at
bis residence, upper end of Troup street; bouse
formerly occupied by L. Haiman.
feb7 tf
THE
CO LUMBUS
DAILY. TIMES
PRINTING OFFICE.
Columbus, Ga.
Being 1 Supplied with Modern im
provements and the Latest
STYLES OF TYPE,
Presses, &c.
IS PREPARED TO FILL ORDERS FOR
JOB PRINTING
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION,
At Short Notice and at Reasonable
Rates, Including :
\
BILL HEADS, CIRCULARS,
LETTER HEADS, ENVELOPES,
NOTE HEADS, SHIPPING TAGS,
R. R. RECEIPT BOOKS, MONTHLY STATEMENTS,
BUSINESS CARDS. WEDDING INVITATIONS,
VISITING CARDS, PARTY INVITATIONS,
POSTAL CARDS, BIILS LADING BOOKS,
HAND BILLS, POSTERS,
BALL AND PARTY PROGRAMS.
And in Fact AXVTHIXti IX the
JOB PRINTING LINE.
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IBP Orders Loin a distance solicited and filled promptly, at short notice. Samples
and prices sent on application
WYNNE, DeWOLE & CO.
INSURANCE.
JOHN BLACK MAR
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Non-Board Fire Insurance Cos.
NEXT TO TELEGRAPH OFFICE,
In Grooi'gio Homo Building;.
FIRE RISKS WRITTEN ON
Cotton, Merchandize, Dwellings and Furniture
1 .*•.*Hu*./. i,mUm **'-*■> tt .1 ♦ tki* ,U
At LIVING RATES in Good Companies.
Losses Settled Equitably and Promptly.
Fire Association of Philadelphia.
ORGANIZED SEPT. 1,1817. CHARTER PERPETUAL.
FASH CAPITAL, ... S 500,000.00.
Kross Assets .lan. Is!. 1577, (Market \alur) 8.785.01)5.04.
liierensrd in the l eai’ IHKI. - - _ 220,WW.84.
Xet Surplus over nil JLinkllltles inHuillns
Ite-Insurance and 4'upital(\. V. Stamlii ■-*!) $1,004,0X0.00
JAS. H. LOW & CD., Atlanta, Ga„ General Agents Southern Department.
“BRITISH AMERICA ASSURANCE COMPANY.”
ESTABLISHED 1833. OF TORONTO, CANADA.
Tasli Capital, (COI.l>) ... . $500.00.00.
Cash Assets .fauuury 1,184 TANARUS, $1,140,005.04.
Cash Assets hi C.S..U. $. llomlsO's $450,000,00
Hank Stocks. - • 04,700.1*1 .
Casii anil other Items - 104, 510.50-$01,*70.51.
WALKER &, BOYD, Atlanta, Ga., General Agents Southern Department.
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WE are prepared to issue policies in tho above First-Class Firo Insurance Companies, and hope
our fellow citizens will give us a sharo of their patronage. Call aud see u.
MULFORD & ESTES, Agts,
CHATTAHOOCHEE NATIONAL BANK.
ItOAltl* OF RKFEUEXCKS BY PERMISSION!:
H. H. EPPING, President Chattahoochee National Bank, H. S- ESTES &
SON, SWIFT, MURPHY & 00., EPPING & HANSERD, FLOURNOY & EP
PINGi McGEGEE & HATOHER, R. L. MOTT.
-Semper Idem. Semper Idem.
1849. WILLCOX’S 1877.
Insurance Agency.
The same time-tried, Fire-tested Experience!
The same Old, Strong, Rich List!
The same Massive Array of Gold Assets!
The same Prompt, Skillful, Liberal Dealing !
HEAD THE LIST:
yEtna Insurance Company Assets (Gold). $ 7,278,127 44
North British aud Mertimtile Insurance Cos “ “ 15,887,892 26
Hartford Fire Insurance Company “ “ 3,273,869 24
Royal Insurance Company “ “ 19,559,429 05
Continental Insuranoe Company... . “ “ 3,040,085 29
Insurance Company of North America “ “ 6,601,884 51
New York Underwriters’ Agency “ “ 3,360,731 47
Phenix Insurance Company “ “ 2,792,902 92
Union Marino and Fire Insurance Company.. “ “ 755,781 97
Virginia Home Insuranco Company “ “ 283,199 99
Total Assets (Gold) $62,833,904 14
OVER SIXTY-TWO MII.I.IOVS OF UOLLAIIS!
Those B.nio Orand Companies paid their mXTEK3t MU,LION* for losses in Chicago and
Boston in 1871 ami ’ll without hesitation or delay. For Poliutes in Buell Companies apply to
Willcov's Insurance Agencv.
Hisks taken anywhere in the Stato. Losses paid here. feii’2B eodtl
M. D. HOOD & CO.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
DRUGGISTS,
03 Dread Si., Columbus, Ola.,
HAVE IN STORK A LAttOK AND CAREFULLY
Fresh Drugs, Medicines, and Pure Chemicals,
with which they are prepared to supply their former patrons, and the publio
AT WHOLESALE OR RETAIL,
at prices that cannot fail to insure satisfaction.
Let no one wanting any article in our line buy elsewhere before seeing our goods
and knowing our prices. All articles sold are guaranteed PURE.
PAINTS ! PAINTS!!
We have full stocks of
White Lead, Varnishes, Linseed Oils,
Spirits Turpentine,
And all the Colored Paints, both Dry and Ground
in Oil and at Bottom Prices.
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Window (ilass and Putty at lowest prices.
Parties at a distance will be furnished SASH when desired.
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Home Made Fertilizers!
Early in the Season we will have on hand large supplies of CHEMICALS
for Composting of Home Made Fertilizers, in which there >“
buying. Our experience in the purchase and use of ‘bese, Chemicals for
the past six years justifies us in saying we are prepared to give valuable
information with regard to the Composting for the various crops grown in
this country. M ]) H Q 01 ) & CO.