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If subscribers pay in arc bound to give notice to the publisher wish at the end of their time,if they do not to continue taking the paper, otherwise the publisher is authorized to send it on and the subscriber will be responsible until ex¬ press notice with payment of all arrears is sent, to the publisher. RAIL KOAD SCHEDULE—ARLINGTON EXTENSION. Leaves Arlington on Tuesdays. U'ednes. <jays, Fridays and Saturdays at 8.-00 a. iu. Arrives at Albany on same days at 11:03 a. m. Tuesdays, Leaves Albany on Mondays, Ar¬ Thursdays and Fridays at 4:23 p. m. rives at’Arlington on same days at 7:10 p. m. 1.DPGK DIRECTORY• ARLINGTON LODGE, NO. 240, Afeets 1st Tuesdays and 3rd Saturdays in each month. Officers: W. T. Murchison, W. M. V. M. Calhoun, A. IV. T uo. IV. Button, J. W. H. K. Taylor, S. D. AY. H. Davis, J. D. H.-M. Goode. Tyler. E. C. Ellington, Treasurer. Geo. V. Pace, Sec ’y._____ County Directory. SITE RIO 11 COURT. Hon. AV. O. Fleming, Judge; J. IV. Wal¬ ters,Solictor General; J. II. 6'oram, Clerk. 8priug term convenes on second Monday i.i March ;Kall term on second Monday in Sep¬ tember. COUNTY OFFICERS. A. I. Monroe, Ordinarv;!V. IV. Gladden, Sheriff; John A. Gladden, Tax Collector; Thomas K. Cordray, Tax Receiver; Zack Lang, col., Coroner. COUNTY COURT. L. G. Cartiege, Judge. Quarterly May, ses- sioners, 4th Mondays in February, August and November. Monthly sessions, every 4th Monday. COUNTY SCHOOL COMMISSIONER. J. J. Bcck COUNTY SUR VEYOR. Jesse E. Mercer. COMMISSIONERS R. R. John Colley, J. J. Monroe and J. T. B. Fain. Courts held 1st Tuesday in each month. ROAD C0MMISS1NERS. 574th District—S ol. G. JJeckom, A. J. Banders and Irwin Douglass. —T. II. Rogers, IV. J. 1316th District Godwin and IVesley R isb. 1123d District —L. G. Cartledge, M. W. Bell and J. IV. Brown. 1283d District —B. Jf. Hodge, C. J. McDaniel and J.G. Collier. 626tii District--?. E. Boyd, B. F. Bray and J. T. P. Daniel. 1305th District— J. A. Cordray, W. H. Bodnett and Morgan Bunch. JUSTICES OF TIIE PEACE AND NOTARIES PUCLIC. 674th District.— Sol. G. Beckcom, J. P.; Cha6. F. Blocker, N. P. and Ex-offielo j.’p. Courts held second Saturday in each month. District —J. L. Wilkerson. J. P., 1123d held 2nd Thurs- John Hartv, N. P. Courts day in each month. J. P N. _ 626TH District —J. C. Price, ; W. Pace, N.P. Courts held 3rd Satur¬ day ip each month. J. P. £83d District —C. J. McDaniel, Courts held 1st Saturday in each month. 1304th District —Morgan Bunch. J. P.; J. A. Cordray, N. P. Courts held 1st Saturday in each month. J. 1316th District—D. H, Holloway, P.; Kennon Strickland, N. P, Grammar, Et Cetera- ENGLISH, AND AMERICAN ENGLISH. By Prof. Richad A. Proctor. Au American friend of mine, in ro- soonse lo the question by nil English- man (an exceedingly positive and dog matie person, as it chanced) ‘Why do Englishmen » never •?,, say ‘I guess ?' ’ re- pl:e-l , (more wittily than justly) • ,i \ ‘Be- . r, cause ihev are so positive about every- thing.’ But it is noteworthy that wheieas the American says frequently •I guess ’ meaning ‘I know,’ the Eng- lishman as frequently lards his dis- course with the expression you know,’ which is perhaps more modest. Yet on the other side, it may be noted that the‘down E .St’ American often uses the expression‘I waut to know’ in the same sense as our English ex- pression of attentive interest indeed.’ Among the other familiar American- isms may be mentioned the following: An American who is interested in a narrative or statement will sav ‘Is that so V or simply ‘Bo V’ The expression ‘Possible !’ is sometimes but not often heard. Dickens misunderstood this !ibleA)Ut does 8 not concern me;’ where- as in reality it is equivalent to the exprrsiion ‘Is it possible?’ I have occasionally heard the expresdon ‘Do tell !’ but it is less frequently heard now than of yore. The word ‘right’ is more frequently used than in England, and is used also in senses different from those under- stood in our English usage of the word. Thus, the American will say ‘right here’ and .‘right there,’ where an Englishman would say‘just here’or ‘just there,’ or simply ‘here’ or ‘there.’ Americans say ‘right away’ where we say ‘directly.’ On the other hand, I am inclined to think that the English expression ‘right well’ for ‘very well’ is not commonly used iu America. Americans say, ‘yes, sir,’ and ‘no, a sense different from that with which the words are u-ed in Eng- land; but they mark the difference of use by a difference of intonation. Tims, if a question is asked to whicu the reply iu England would be simply ‘yes’ or ‘no’ (or, according to the nmk or station of the querist, ‘yes, sir’ or ‘no, sir’) The American reply would be‘yes, sir’or ‘no, sir,’ intended as with us in England. But, if the reply is intended to be emphatic, then the intonation is such as to throw the em- pliasis on the word ‘sir’—the reply is •yes, sir,' or ‘no, sirC In passing, heard I may nolte that l have never an Amencau waiter reply ‘yessir,’ ns our English waiters do. The American vise of the word ‘quit’ is peculiar. They do not limit the word, as we do, to the signification •take leave’--in fact I have never lieaid an American u e the word in that sense. They generally use it as an equivalent to ‘leave off’ or ‘stop.’ (In dassing one may notice as rather strange the cirenms ance that the word ‘quit,’ which properly means to se away from,’and the word ‘stop,’ wltich means to ‘stay,’ should both have come to be used as signifying to •leave r ff.’) Thus Americans say quit fooling,’or‘leave off playing the fool,’‘quit singing,’ ‘quit laughing,’ and so forth. To English ears an American use of the word ‘some’ sounds strange—viz, as an sdverb. An American will say, ‘I think some of buying a new house,’ or the like, ‘for I have some idea of buyiug,’ etc. I have, indeed, heard the usage defended as perfectly correct though assuredly there is not an in¬ stance in all the wide range of English literature which will jusiify it. So, also, many Americans defend as good English the use of the word ‘good ’ in such phrases as the follow-* iDg: ‘I have written that note good,’ for ‘well;’ ‘that will mane you feel good,’ for ‘that will do you good,’ and iu other ways all equally incorrect. which Of course, there aie instaucesiu adjective are allowed by custom to be used as verbs, as, for instauce; ‘right’ for ‘rightly,’ etc,, but there can be no reason for substituting the adjective ‘good’iu place of the adverb ‘well,’ which is as short a word, and at least equally as euphonious, The use of ‘real’ for ‘really,’ as ‘real angry,’ ‘real nice,’ is, of course, grammatically in¬ defensible. Tlie-nse of the word ‘elegant’ for ‘fine’ strikes English ears as strange. For instance,if you say to an American, ‘This is a fh.e morning,’ l.e islikely io reply, ‘It is an elegant morning,’ or, perhaps oftener, by using simply the word‘elegant.’ It is not a pleasing use of the word. There are some Americans who seem more than defensible—in fact, grammatically more correct thau our English usage. Thus, we seldom hear in America the redundant ‘got’ in such expression as ‘I have got,’ etc,, etc. Where the word would not be redund- ant, it yet general y replaced by the more euphonious word ‘gotten,’ now scarcely ever heard in England, Yet again, we often bear in America such expression as‘I shall get me a new book,’ ‘I have gotten me a new dress,’ ‘I must buy me that,’ and the like. This use of‘me’for ‘myself’is good old English at any rate. I have been struck by the circum- stance that neither the conventional Englishman of American novelists, is made to employ the more delicate but ARLINGTON, GA., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1881. nt least eqnally-absurd, We generally American¬ find ism or Anglicism. ‘caleula- tbe Ameaioan guessing oi tnig like hem es Joshua luillalove, while the Englishmen of Ameroan nov- ? s ftre i,lraosl alwnys veiy coarsely Bn 2' , ew "iil t f t *' American?* PeTsiS in leg '? 11 ? aS the t,ne Henglisl. line- cent. \\ here an Amercan . is lesscoirse- , j d ’ lb Trollope's ah nope s ‘American -ini iicau Senator, , , he uses expressions which no Ameiicun ever uses, and none of those A " wnC:ltusms uc ’’ w,ule more deli- ’ '^ ‘ ? „® i y J ■.Ti ai^Mmmon i!’ lit! Tn Americans . using them. t And in like .“t'lntt Bodtices an an ftrtb Ln 0 ltshm,vn Win^f of Hettmtli the natu- ? r ' n 1 "j 1 ™ ou ' d *,/,'!/ tuecl ^ he^i^ss^um a l ! 0 R ( Ule explosion w'dch 18puieIy , Aroeimn, . i bus no English- man ever uses and an Amencan may ‘^ gmzed at once by using such ex- !°[ ls ' vl’yin- ^T„ n P ‘Why cer , , , number nn , ,u great of these of sl !rD-i^’nd"Elfish Ame ncau and En jish Eugl'ish English. 11 ’ 168 * "** „ How Easy - it is • to . ^ Die. ‘If I had strength to hold a pen, I would write hpw easy and delightful it is to die,’ were the last words of the celebrated surgeon, Wm. Hunter; and Louis XIV. is recorded assaying, with his last breath, ‘I thought dying hud been more difficult,, That the painlessness of death L owsng to some benumbing influence acting on the sensory net vts may be iu- ferred from the fact that untoward ex- ternul surroundings rarely trouble the dying, that Lord Collingwood On the day Mediieranean breathed his last the was lumiiltnous; those elements which had been the scene of the past glorie rose and fell in swelling undulations and seemed as if rocking him to sleep, Oupt.Thomas ventured to askif he was disturbed by the tossiug of the ship, ‘No, Thomas,’ lie answered. ‘I am now in a state that nothing can dis- tuvb me move—I am dying, ami I am sure it must be consolatory to you and all that love me to see how coml'orta- bly I am coming to my end.’ -In the Quarterly lieview there is related an instance of a criminal who escaped death from hangiug by the breaKing of the rope. Henry IV. of France sent physician to examine him, who repor* red that after u moment's suffering the man saw an appearance like fire, across which appeared a most beauti fnl avenue of trees. When pardon was mentioned the prisoner coolly replied that it was not asked for. Those who have been near death from drowning, and afterward restored to conscious- ness, assert that the dying suffer but little pain. Marryatt states that his Capt. time when nearly drow¬ sen- satlons at one ned were rather pleasant for than cther- wise. ‘The first struggle life once over,the water dossing around me as- surned the appearance of wavinggreen fields.. #■* * * It is not feeling of pain, hut seems like sinking down, overpowered by sleep, meadow.’ in the long, soft grass in the cool Now, this is precisely the condition presented iu death from disease. In— sensibly comes on, the mind loses Con¬ sciousuess of external objects, and death rapidly and placidly ensues Horn asphyxia, Henry Grady gave the visiting jour- nalist an entertainment at his red- deuce the ether evening. You know Henry has recently made a fortune and opened a magnificent establishment in Atlanta. Bill was present on the above occasion, and thus discourses upon it: Henry Grady invited me to a recep- tiou last night, I had a headache but I thought maybe it would help me to be received and so 1 took the street car and went out there, and shore enough he received me and mixed me up with goodly company of elegant gentlemen aDd ho made every body feel at home in his new splendid mansion. There’s morerooms and snuggeries and dodging places than I ever saw in a honsa of its size, aud all the deckorations are beau- tiful and every b*dy so lino add new that I was afaaid to stand up or set down, but I watched Howell and done as lie done, uDd Howell hegwanted to open the window but was afraid of the trigger for he said something might fall on him, and I asked Dr. Lawton what was them verses high up on the wall in the dining room and he said he wreckened it was tho bill of fare but Howell said it was some lines from Burns about— Catches his bens and puts'em in pens Some lay eggs and some lay none; Wire,brier, limber lock. Three geese in the flock O-U-T spells out and be goue Well, there were newspaper aud all along men from Boston to Galveston the country between and they looked smart and thoughtful, and I couldn’t help but ponder over the power ther pens and the responsibility that was on‘era to influence peace in the land and good will among our people, Long life and health aud happiness to Henry and his family. I did’t Iook in all the closers but 1 hope there is no rkeleton there. Bill Arp. The Effect of Music. ‘I lias received n letter from Bos- t or]j ’ slowly romaiked brother Gard- aor as lie squinted from Samuel Shin to Wliydow „ Bebee. ‘I has received a letter Irom Boston axin’ me for my observ “ 8hn !’? °. n influences of nm- sic on 1 r ‘T'y dat mankind wMont mU sio would bo chawin’ each ,„i,i,„. up in half a day Music \r „.3 . am de , S ( 0 ne wall dat surrouuds marcy, peace, e |j or |ry and humanity. Only las’week i war wrltiu’ down my observashuns f ur de j, is - f l)r ty. S even y’ars, and I will dem to de public as follows; ,;De 80lin ob il borso fiddle b,ill K H »P old reekolecslmns an starts de tear ob reRret - If played long Muff, and de wind am listener in do right direeshun, it will cause de to shell out a suh- seripshnn of *3,000 to’rds a new cull’d Bapt,8t church. Try it once and be convinced, *De soun ob a harp hits a man be- i ow the belt. He begins to fink ob all de mPan things ho ever did,an to wish he.hadn’t, and at the end of fifteen mmits he am all ready to step ober an &‘toXt'in htaJLrfK* Sring! ‘De soun ob de fiddle grabs on to stben different beg it strings to once, an’ a mail am knock, d so flat dat he will esteem it a privilege to Ion you $10. •The jewslarp goes light to de soul. If your wife am all ready to lope off wid de hired man de notes of do jevvs- harp will take her bounet off in six¬ teen seconds. If you keep a hired man you should also keep a jewslmrp. ‘Pianer music sometimes hits und sometimes misses. Ize known it to make au old buldhead go home an pass two hull hours widoutcuffin de chill'en an Ize known it to cause a young gal to slide dow n ober de roof of de kitcrc- en au lope off wid der owner of a side¬ show. ‘De guitar alius brings a sadness an a resolushun to begin on de 1st of Jin- naiy to quit runnin out nights and pla.vin policy. might soothe ‘I)e brass band a sor- rowin soul if de said sorrowin soul didn’t have all he could do to hold bis boss. ‘De mtlodeon used to produce a de¬ sire on de part of de listener to be buried under a yew-yew tree, but I h’ar dey have improved lief buried it so under dat a pusson had as be a basswood. ‘De organ fills de soul wid aw e an strikes de heroic chord. If you am luvin fur a man don’t tackle him jist alter he has bin takiu in de notes of an organ. ! If want 'De banjo—yum you play my dog—my hoss—my bouse an lot, me de banjo and keep time wid yer fut. I spect dc music of angelic harps am sweet an soft and dreamy, but if dey want to keep ns cull’d folks satis¬ fied up dar, a leetle mo banjo and a leetle less harp am de fust prescrip¬ tion. Let ns now attack de bizness of de mrttiu.”— Detroit Free Press. Another Cause We talk of the weather and the tri¬ fling labor as the causes of crop fail¬ ures. There is another cause that we leave to much on the back ground. It is the idleness and worthlessness of our people. They are to lazy too work, or to ignorant of the methods ot farm¬ ing, to make a success of that branch of business. We don’t speuk of the blacks, it is the whites we allude to. A billiard table, a knife hnd a soft pine board, a cheap cigar, or a squirrel hunt will allure half the white men in many of our bears out of their fields, and away from their labors. Work is what the country needs ‘There’s more in the men than there is in the lund.’ There’s a young man in our present thought, who was not believed to have much in him a year or two ago. His habits were not the best, and yet it was observed that he was retained on a farm by one of the most experienced and particular farmers of the county, This year lie lias had charge of an eight mule place, where the lands were notli- jug unusnally good, though pretty well kept up. He lias been vigilant aDd faithful. He has not passed time on the streets of our villages, and has been as punctual to his post as the sun in his coins'*. What is the result? The present prospect is that ho will —even in this bad year— make corn enough to supply the place a year and eighty bales of cotton, It is the man, good people; it is the man, not so much the land or the weather. There’s money in farming if one has the energy to do it. The following dialogue is reported to have taken place between a game- keeper and a patient looking through the iron gate of a lunatic asylum: Pa¬ tient—‘That’s a fine horse; what’s it worth ?’ Keeper—‘A hundred pounds.’ Patient—‘And what did that gun cost?’ Keeper—‘Fivo pounds.’ Keeper—‘Ten Patient— ‘And those dogs ?’ pounds, I believe.’ Patient—What have you in that game bag ?’ Keeper —‘A woodcock.’ Patient—‘Well,now, you had better hurry on, for if our governor catches a man who has spent a hundred and fifteen pounds to get a woodcock worth a half crown, he’ll have him under lock and key in no time, I tell you,’ HERE AND THERE. CLIPIMNGS FROM OCR EXCAANGES. Frost in ltaliegh N. C. lust week, and the tobaco is cut off. Thomnsville will have a stock show on the 28th inst., so says the Times. ‘IIow did you find your uncle, John¬ ny?’ ‘In apple pie order,’ ‘How’s thatl’ ‘Crusty.’ Why is the earth like a black board? Because the children of men multiply ou the face of it. The feeblo tremble before oppiniou the foolish defy it, the wiso judge it, the skillful direct it. In Dallas Texas, a woman is gradu ally becomiug petrified. Her feet and bauds are already as hard as stone. ‘Go to the ant thou sluggard.’ is all very well, but if (lie sluggard will go to a picuic tbo ant will go to him.— Puck. The higher you are lifted by the re¬ marks of a flatterer, the flatterer you feel when you come down to the truth again. The average woman is composed of 213 bones, 109 muscles, 1 pair of gar ¬ ters, 22 old newspapers and 210 hair¬ pins. Setae men in rogard to ridicule like in roofted buildings in regard to hail; all that hits them bcunds rattllngj oil, not a stone goes through. ‘Why, Freddy, you ought not to make such a fuss. ‘I don’t when my hair is combed.’ ‘Yes but mu, your hair ain’t hitched to your head.’ The crown prince nod crown prin¬ cess o? Denmark liavo come into an enormous fortune—about *15,000,000 —by the dt ath of Prince Fredrick of the Netherlands. There are about *1,000,000 in the bank of Englaud, with twenty years interest, to the credit of the Into Con federate government, but no one dares draw it, as confederate liabilities go with it. The Half Breeds carried the day in tlie Now York State convention and nominated a full ticket of their own. A resolution to re organize the party in New York and Kings county was ta¬ bled by a large majority. An exclrange prints ‘rules to discov¬ er spnrious bank notes.’ But we don't want to discover bank notes of that description. It is the genuine kind We me after several thousand oF these would be very acceptable. One hundred and ten thousand pic¬ tures, of various kinds, of General Garfield were sold in Philadelphia within six wceKs. Ten thousand each of the portraits of the elder and young- Mrs. Garfield were also sold. The subscription for Mrs. Garfield has been closed, and the boxes all cull¬ ed in. Mr. Field reports the amount in hand to be *332,112,16 and a balance in boxes yet to be counted. The grand total will probably reach *360,000. France four years ago engraved up¬ on her statute book this law: A man three times intoxicated shall forfeit his right to vote. lie shall not hold an office under Government; he shall be disqualified from serving in the army.’ The courts of New York have decid¬ ed that when a man and woman live together and allow the public to really be¬ lieve them man and wife, they are married, and tho marriage is val¬ id. The liberty of this free country is every day becoming more und more contracted. The noted Brick Pomeroy, editor, lecturer and much else, went to Colo¬ rado two years ago, worth about three hundred dollars. He is now worth two hundred thousaud dollars, and is president of the Atlantic and Pacific Tunnel Company, with a capital of seven millions of dollars. A correspondent of the Dawson Journal reports that the cock-spurs the are so numerous and dangerous in cotton fields in some sections of that county as to render it almost impossi¬ ble to get the cotton gathered. One or two persons who have bteu picking cotton are now on crutches. The New York Sun declare that the lager beer brewed in the United States is now one of the worst adulterated drinks made. Barley, malt and Lops are conspicuous by their absence, glu¬ cose being present in great qaantities. said to Its excessive consumption is cause kidney complaints. It is reported that the contract to exteud the Brunswick & Albany rail¬ road from Albany, Ga., to Selma,Ala., is usder contract, and the work will soon commence It is confidently be¬ lieved that this road will pass through Troy. The report had its emanation in a statement said to have been made by Fred Wolffe. Hon. B, H. Hill has written the fol¬ lowing to a friend in Atlanta:. ‘I have had a terrible ordeal of suffering, but I ain now free from pain, and there seems to be a fair prospect of perrna- nent recovery. My general health is perfect, and the doctors say my trou¬ ble is entirely local, and that there is no injurity in my blood.’ Vol. II. No. 46 A house painter who is at woVk on a scaffolding three stories from the ground falls from it upon thosidowalk, where ho lies limp aud apparently life¬ less. A crowd of benevolent folks sur¬ round him and labor witli him till his pulse returns and his eyelids begin to flutter, glass when a Samaritan places a of water to his lips. The suffer¬ er (feebly)—‘How many stories has a fellow got to fall in this ward before lie gets bnynly, duru yo ? Alaska is nbsoluteiy without law of any Kind. Our government war ves¬ sels furnish aid, enforce all the law there is, aud there is not enough of it to do any good. Murder is allowable in any way, except by poisoning and drowning. Theft is unpunished and debts cannot be collected. In fact the condition of af irs iu Alaska is about ns bad as it is l.i some sections of the United States. It is doubtful whether a uewspuper man could collect his sub¬ scriptions up iu that region. Idleness is the bane of body aud mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the stepmother of discipline, tho chief au¬ thor of all niisceief, and one of thesev- en deadly sins, the cushion upon which the devil chiefly reposes, and a great cause, not only of melancholy, butotli- er diseases; for the mind is naturally active, and, if it bo not occupied about honest business, it rushes into mis¬ chief or sinKs into melancholy. Tho Misonri Republican thiulcscoru culture is everywhere neglected. It is rudely planted and seldom fertiliz¬ ed. It says from forty to sixjy bush¬ els per acre, on bottom lands, nro con¬ sidered good crops without fertilizing; but the same lands may be made to bring 150 bushels. If corn iu the south received as much attention as cotton what harvested! a prodigious quantity would be There is a man in California who has a snake iu his stomach and is ob¬ liged to drink large quantities of whis¬ ky to keep the I’eptilo stupefied, as it causes him great pain when ho is lively. When such a basis for general excuses as this comes smilingly to tho front, tho temperance people may sit down and fold their hands and think it iu just no use to carry tho fight any fur¬ ther. Perry Home Journal'. In one por¬ tion of this county everything is in al¬ a deplorable condition. Crops are most total failures, and wlmt has been made can’t be gathered, on account of scarcity and laziness of farm hands. Severe! tillers of the soil have abscoun- ded on account of their iu»bii’ty to pay their debts. A Tough Witness. Notjeven a lawyer, however skillful in cross-examination, can make a wit¬ ness tell the truth,provided the impossible witness wishes to evade it. It ; is to put the question in such exact lan- guage tliat it will demand the do- sired answer. It was necessary to compel a witness to testify as to the way in which a Mr. Smith treated his horse. ‘Well, sir said the lawyer, with a sweet and winning smile—a smile intended to drown all suspicion ns to the ultt rer purpose—‘how dot-s Tho J/r./Smith generally ride ahorse?’ witness looked up innocently and re¬ plied: ‘Generally u-straddlo sir, I believe. The lawyer asked again: But, sir, what gait does betide?’ The imperturable witrie.-s answered, 'He never rides any gate at all, sir, but I’ve seen his bo’s ride every gait on the farm.’ The lawyer saw lie was on tho track of a tartar, and his next vuestion was very insinuating, ‘IIow docs Mr. Smith ride when in company with others? I demand a clear an- swer. ‘Well, Rir,’ said the witness, ‘he keeps up with the rest if his borso is able to, or if not he falls behind.’ The lawyer by this time was almost beside himself, and asked, ‘And how does he ride when he is alone?, ‘I don’t know,’ was the reply, ‘I never was with him when he was alone,’ and there the case dropped. Franklin Asking for Work. When a youth, Franklin went to London, entered a printing office, and usked if he could get employment. ‘Where are you from?’ asked the foreman. ‘America,’ was tbo reply. ‘from Amer¬ ,Ab,’ said the foremen, ica! A lad from America seeking em¬ ployment as a printer! Well, do you really understand the art of printing? Can you set type? of the Franklin stepped up to one cases, and in a brief space of time set up the following passage from the first chapter of John, Can ‘Nathaniel said nnto him: any good thing come out of Nazareth?— Philip said uuto him: Come and see ?’ It was doue so quickly, so accurate¬ ly, and contained a dilicate reproof so appropriate and powerful, that it at oDee gave him character and standing with all the office. La Corona, La Belle Creole, Carni¬ val, Little Ewell’s and other popular Dr. brands of cigars always on handat Ewell’s drug store. augl2 —.....— * ♦-— — It is end but truejtbat a man who once becomes deaf Seldom enjoys a happy hear after.