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A Happy Dalimou. Tt is an old ■saying that “vvhor® ignorance is bliss, ’tR folly to be v.'.'so," aiul in nothing is this so tl'fikmgiy illuitiwfcd as ill the ur ■ ‘loiit brought forth by a recent but unknown author, •who says tint hi> does not know and does not car ? whether religion be true or not. ‘•For,” says ho, “if it is a lie it is the most beautiful one ever told, and ouo from which truth might lyi'.rii. Could wo exist as a sal ion without : C France fried it. Does i‘ u:> au/bam:’; X- l Then why de-trov it? Don’t, It is us old a? civilization. It was part of our fathers’ lives. if was almost ail oar mothers’—oil exv . pt too part we filled. We have been sung to elc a the use ad time; by its hymns. Wo aro better man and women now whenever wo hoar thorn sang, They nro beautiful, touching.poems. They ore joined to tender emotions. It has made many a man happier and better— * more lioneat and tender and forgiv- i ing. Many a lived man and woman ; lias laid clown within its shade peacefully, to awaken, nobod}' know ? when. Don’t destroy it. Why, idno-tenths of Ike mothers in America believe in if, That’s suf ficient for it. It has been growing on our hearthstone for ages. Let it stay there. It can’t hurt you. It is such a loving religion. What will you give in its stead for it? Philosophy? What are \v to do when tired and heartsick? Levo? Earthly loves are so selfish, ’t is a beautiful delusion. Don’t dostrey it Weave the silvov thread v f* rcur.i uvVrt ,i from tne totar oi Bethlehem info the golden roof of your sunlight Train its climbing tendrils about the bare wall of your lives, and cover up the jagged cor ners and rough, unsightly places with this beautiful myth of Calva ry.” New York, April I.—M*j. J. II Stewart, mem bar of tho bnaid of di rectors of tiie National Confederate Soldiers’ home, at Austin, Texas, now in this city iu tho interest of the hyrne ia in receipt of a telegram from the president *f tho board of directors, at Aastht, stating that tba Texas legisla ture had just passed a bill leasing the oldcapbol building at Austin tor tea years, at five dollars per annual to tha board of directors, and that an annual revenue in leotala will Uiub be deriv ed of : 500 for the home. Dade: the state constitution the leg nlatara not appropriate tor the purpose, and the most it could do was to lease cut the t Id capitol building to the directors of the home. Msj. Stew art says that this income will main tain 15 ia&istea aannally, as it costa about eight dollars per month per cap ita. At this dais about 1 500 has bean seat to tba treasurer, Chauacey M. Depevr, for tha home. A c;ood rule is, never swap off an old friend, who hss been tried and proven to b© Irue, for one who has never proven himself to be a friend in time of need . A Chicago collector of ourioeitfsa has two feilvt-r haTt-dcllars that, are de clared to be tho iLameal ccins that held down the lie’s of Abrabam Lin er In’s Ojits ike night if hie fea h. Fig Gambling Profits. There never was a gambling re sort in the world like Monte Car lo. Uis v. mine of v/eallb to tho * mauryers of its magnificent tiger lairs, and a wry simple calculation will show how princely arc tho prof! : of the tables. Tho munage nvufc admits that its annual pro i’- ll u-o s|id,soo,oo0 —in lacl it is ov e.c $5.TK),000. Nv/, inasmuch as the chances of the table arc 1 to 30 iu favor of the bank, to gain annu ally $3,500,000, which it professes o do, $120,000,000 must have been ’staked on its tables—must have b :i won and lost. Tho bank’s 1 ; f —on this enormous amoum of r i io;i which must therefore have | been playetl, lost and won. It i:> ii r fact of the gambler dealing 1 with large masses of money that partly accounts for the fascination , exercised by gambling. A careful who begins with, say .SI,OOO capif al, may have fingered, according to the doctrine chances, $30,000 be fore he loses his capital. If he plays long enough the bank royalty of one in thirty-six is sure to swallow up his capital, and then he has had all the emotion of having been al ternately successful or the reverse, rich or poor. At Ma>uf© Carlo tho bank royalty must inevitably ruin all who play long enough to have risked their capital thirty-six times The annual profits of tho tables ex ceed the annual aggregate income of all tho Vanderbilts. During the lifetime of Mr. Blanc it was easy enaugh to get a statement of tbs amount. Blanc delighted in letting it b# known what a wonderful pros Ipercus follow he was. Ilis daugh lAs', who married princes, are not i proud of the source of their wealth 1 and since their father’s death have sought to divert attention from themselves and their affairs as j much as possible, M. Wagathais now the general manager of tho Casino, and he has lately given it out that tho net profits of the tables last year ware only $1,250,000, or ©na-fourth of what (hev used to be. Sentenced to the Bamboo. This punishment is as peculi.tr as most Chines® punishments are. The man is seized J>y four or five stalwarf attendants, thrown on his face, his loose pyjamas thrown up. He is firmly held outstretched in this position by men at his head and feet. Two operators then squat down opposite one another on each side of the victim. One takes a 3trip of seasoned bamboo about three feet long and one inch wide, and begins lightly spanking the backs of the thighs. He gives twen ty of these apparently harmless spanks, and then hands the bam boo to his vis-a-vis, who gives his twenty, and them hands it back; and so oh, turn about, until the twohuadrsd blows are administer ed. At first the punishment looks ri diculously light; but by the time the first fifty blows are reached the skin of the parts beaten begins io assume the appearance of thick wash-leather; and before the hun dreth blow tho skin begins to fly off iu loos® white llakes; before the time two hundred bb v. s have been struck, t ’vo whole of.- the back ol both thighs looks 'like a mass of swollen raw liver, though net a drop of blood Hows from tho parts, ft. sni-t that a man would eafire under the excruciating torture of two hundred and fifty of these blows. I have never seen anything like th® exquisite agony depicted in that man’s livid, quivering fea- Unas, when ha was carried inlo the prison to recover.* Gleanings. King Otto of Bavaria, has been proved hopelessly insane, John Bright, the ..rent statesman of E iglaud, has suffered anotlior re lapse. Four thousand men w ill he affected by the recce ion of paddlere* wages in the Pittsburg, Pa. iron fields. Four more persons have been ar rested at Gwocdore, Ireland, in con-’ nsetion with tha murder of inspector Martin. John Shannon, A Frenchman, who resides at Brsdenville, Pa., committed saicido on account of threats mads by alleged White Caps. The strika among the seamen at va rious British porta is subsiding. The men are freely signing articles at com promise rates,■ suggested by ship own ers. W illiam O’Brien was arraigned at Tralee, Ireland, a few days sgo, on the last summons issued against him for offences undo: the crimes act. At extra force of police and military was on duty to preserve order. The gov ernment has issued a prc-cAinatior. for bidding the asseml ling of crowds, Mr. O’Brien looked very pale Dining the progress of the tar-e, Mr, tiealy, 0 Brim’s counsel, called Mr. Turner a sueak. The magulmtes demanded that he retract the epithet. Mr. flea ly refused to do so and was forcibly txpellel from the court loom. The eoart abruptly adj turned A special cable dispatch from Lor den to the Montreal Gazette, the Can adian government organ, saye: ‘’Ab surd statements have reached the jour nals Lore through New York, that a syndicate of leading republicans in tho united States cunuol $500,000,000, which they intend to use iu an effort to secure Canadian annexation to the autes by a system of wholesale bribery in Canada in the event of a dissolu tion of the Pominion parliament this year, and a consequent general eieo tion.’' Burning the Dead. Cremation rocteties ere being aug mented in this country by women oi tire strong minded class, who are join ing them rapidly. la New York, ; Brooklyn, and Boston particularly, there are a great many well-known wo men enrolled among the crematioaists, and tha movement is endorsed by & still greater an tuber who Lave nottak eo pains to become members. Mary A Livermore, Lacy Stone, Mis Peabody, Cl-ra Erskine, Clement Wa ters, Edna Dean Proctor, Lillian Whit jug, Lacy Larcom, and M.s.i Whun y are among those in Boston who adv„ cate burning the dead, in New York there is a yet greater cempany oi lu er&ty and artis ie womei, and through out country tha prominence and num bers tremalienists are surprisingly laige. Many members of Serous, of the Authors’ Club, and tbo Artist j Lefgue are cremationists, and the rank ; and file of heterodox people are its ad '■ rotates. Among Unitarians, cremation is generally accepted as tha best mode oi disposing ®f dead bodies, and not a i few orthodox Cfaiistian* favor it earn ! eetly. Maw h/ )l u j T\ VJ'VY" James T. Comer, Maysville, :::::: GEOrGI a lias Employed A First Class 'wIVA/A \Ji vV vv'JV • 'wvVtf j# KmJ rfvVvvw Q* VwV V> Vv v \ , i • i . O’, v y'A Vv\s WV*VWVw\A V WvW' 1W v •<*> T (J \ * r With a New Stock of Hats from New York and Baltimore of the In-o* styles, from the finest to the cheapest. Also fine Diess Goods, Rib 1 ons ?ed Laces, Kid Gloves, Embroideiies, Corsets ni all kind*. In fact a Comp!'' o sfoek ot fancy notions. Shoes, Mats and ClothTfg. tUbacoo, Staple G;entr ies, and Harness and Leather. All Kinds ot . Drugs and Patent Medicines, COMER'S GUARANTEE CHICKEN CHOLERA CURE, • • Standard and P?cific Keroccne. Machine and Castor OtU, by th * ov gallon. Agent for Athens Factory goods, and many more. A U V* Georgia Test and Acid Work’s Pore Bone, Fenflan’n SoluY B .*ns ami b- m inal Gnano. The host line of guanos iu the united states, pr>c sas oh< * the cheapest. Breeder of fifteen varieties ot fancy Buck'., Ghi .fcd. *r- 1 n Qso Eggs for sale. 4 r * Wd y f &a W W Wcia W < i u , —*—..TIARMON Y - GROVE,— * — . DEALERS IN P L | m bsa Ai m efsa? r i vQd wJLWJsia h# \sfsa M M sfcjW E 23 t£A \ni \j) .VA l Gv'Xii^ 0 We Keep in stock a lull supply of good and fresh good-', w a can not be surpassed in Quality and Dumnility. We buy at lowest rn rh-t figures; wo V competition in prices. We want only a living profit, on •ur sales. We do not claim to be Vanderbilts, nor do we with <o accntnu' rto tm t' fortunes. We are receiving dailv, a full supplv of our Customers t-v ry day wants, g'jgjp- Country Produce Taken in Exchange at llighes. Market Prices. gwfgJSjgg {RS 14 a wa "h Fs f, f\Tf\ T\ Ti TF iJs hAJik ULsL&A W Wi&dLja U sezaa V a f-ia * HarMONr GrOVE . v DEALERS IN Tht h; Hr* fint! v V v v da WW W cars feks h Our L'se of Stores, Tinware, Agricultural lirvdetne&tr, -n not tonnd in better Quality end Durability, E!setl;e r e Weal • gw t for tha tall trade. Cali and cxitutue onr an..