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T. J, LUMPKIN, Editor and Proprietor.
VOLUME 11.
Horace Greeley's daughters have
an offer of SIO,OOO for the tract of land
in Virginia, once supposed to be aluu*
worthless, for which the great journalist
paid SIO,OOO.
The largest block of granite ever
quarried in New England, has beggi
taken out at Woodbury,* Vermont, ft
was 230 feet long, 13 to 18 feet deep, 15
feet wide, weighed 4,080 tons, and re
fpiired 673 wedges with 50 pounds of
powder to start iL i • irv .
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The South will raise this Veflr about
s,ooo,ooobales of cotton, 200,0i)0 hogs
/leads of sugar, and very nearly 600,J
000,000 pounds of tobacco. This will be
a half million more bajes qf cotton, twice
as much sugar, and 12,00*0,000 more
pounds of tobacco than she ever raised
before.
The owners of the Great Eastern have
at last determined to convert the great
ship into a meat-carying trader between
London and Texas. The requisite alter
ations, which include new boilers, wil
involve an outlay of £100,000; but as
the vessel can carry 2,000 head of cattle
or 36,000 sheep the speculation should
prove remunerative. , ,
According to Signor Florelli, the
superintendent of the excavations at
Pompeii, the complete excavation of that
ancient city will take some seventy years
or more, and will cost about $1,000,000.
A yearly subvention of sixty thousand
francs is voted by the state while about
half that sum is’annually realized from
the money paid by visitors on entering.
The erection of the colossal head of
Liberty’ designed by Bertholdi for the
New York roadstead is making rapid pro
gress at the back of the Palais de l’ln
dustrie, and the public will shortly be
aide to visit its interior. Thanks to the
success of the Franco-American lottery,
the whole of the monument will be com
pleted in loss than two years, and, before
its departure for its transatlantic destin
ation will lie put together temporarily for
inspection by the Parisians. The height
of the monument, it may be remarked,
will be about that of the Vendome Col
” limn.
The Mexican volcano Orizaba, 17,300
feet above the sea level, has been ascended
by M. Athalza, a resident in Pueblo.
Thirteen persons accompanied him, one
of whom died at the top from rarefac
tion of the air, and another a few days
afterward from erysipelas, caused by the
reflection of the sun on the snow. Sev
eral thousands steps had to be cut in the
snow to gain the summit, and the expe
dition occupied four days, one of which
was a blank owing to rain and snow.
Baron Muller,' in 1859 first made the
ascent, andjie has'had very few succes.
sors.
The infiltration system of salting beef
by filling the blood vessels with brine is
attracting considerable attention in Aus
tralia, In some recent experiments at
Brisbane bullocks were treated as follows:
At the instant ofj killing the animal’s
heart was laid bare and incisions were
made in both ventricles. Into the orifice
of the left ventricle a pipe was inserted,
and a stream of weak brine was forced
through the blood vessels, washing out all
the blood. Pressure was obtained by
having the brine in an elevated tank. Af
ter the expulsion of the blood the right
ventricle was closed by a clamp, and
stronger brine was forced in until all the
blood vessels were full. In this way the
distribution of the briue through every
part of the meat is said to be complete
and the curing perfect. It is proposed to
send to the Sydney Exhibition a whole
bullock thtis preserved
France is a happy country. While
every other nation in Europe is bemoan
ing over deficits and financial difficulties,
her revenue is pouring in and exceeding
the estimates by large sums. The returns
for the month of Septendier have just
been made up, an>l they show that the
receipts exceed the estimates by 14,000,.
000 francs. The total sum received dur
ing the first nine months of the present
year exceeds the estimates by 108,000,-
000 francs. So that, if France continues
to progress financially during the next
quarter of 1879 in the same ratio as site
has done during the past three quarters,
at the end site will find herself the pos
sessor oi a surplus of between $20,000,-
000 and $30,000,000 —a sum nearly as
large as the deficit which Lord Beacons
field’s government have created for their
successors to wipe ofl".
Fortune, never tired of favoring the
fliide (County (Cnzettc.
Irish, hat bestowed upon them another
distinction. In the hands of one of their
ra£e is at last the largest diamond. One
Mn‘O’Flaherty has found, we are told,
at the Cape Fields, no tiny gem, but a
huge mass of brightness weighing one
hundred and fifty carats, and promising
jjo boa very mineof wealth. The largest
every |anwn before when cut proved
only to weigh one hundred ay(l eighteen
and a half carats; the KonM-rtoor does
not boast of more than two-thirds that
irishman, whose claim is,
it seems, m the very middle of the
diamond mud, hhs3 vj-ilietTy’ -lifted this
largs and brillartt rionc front tire eartli
and. tqYeu it down to the Cape. jHe is
said to have three courses open to.him—
he can dispose of it at once to speculators
on tie spot; or, bringing it to England,
lie onto sell it to be cut; or he may have
it cut at his own expense, and take -his
chntree-of a colossal fortune or compara
tively-little.
hOUTHEBN NEWS ITEMS.
P~ - >
They tre praying for rain in northern
and northwestern Texas.
Potatoes weighing four ;uyl a quarter
pounds are common in Georgia.
An extehsivd VeVlyal -ft iri progress in
the.Jjfethydist Church at Brinvnsvilly,/j'enn.
Ex-Gov. James D. Porter is iooming
up again in Tennessee as a probable Demo
cratic candidate for governor.
The rice crop of South Carolina for
the year is estimated at 44,000' tierces, and
that of Georgia at 26,000 tierces.
Wild tea grows in abundance lin
Arkansas county, Arkansas, und the
people will discard the Chinese article.
The Arkansas Gazette proclaims that
there is no yellow fever in Little Hock and
that there has been none there this season.
The re-union of Gen. Cook’s Georgia
brigade, during the Geogia State fair, is all
the talk with all the veterans of that com
mand.
For the week ending the 9th there were
4,267 bales of cotton received at Selma, Ala.,
against 5,203 bales received the same week
last year.
The Kaufman (Tex.) Times says that
fiftv-six public free schools have been organ
ized in that county for the present year, edu
cating 1,943 children.
Tin- Wilmington (N. G.) Star calls up
on the h:gi.-]i*uire of the SLUe to puss
an aer Tor tile enconfagerncut in Sheep rais
ing. which can he mademostprotitable there.
Texas owes $5,200,000, of.which $1,600,-
000 belongs to the school fund, and is in
bonds held in the State Treasury. The inter
est on the public debt amounts "to $4000,000 a
year.
Selma (Ala.) Argus: Mr. IV. D
C’hipley has taken charge of the Pensacola
and Selma railroad (.formerly Selina and Gulf)
as general manager and will have his head
quarters in this city.
The San Diego Messenger says the
small pox is on the decline. Very few cases
have developed the past w r eek. ’J he disease
is on the decline in other places in Western
Texas bordering on tiie Rio Grande.
Esquire Martin, of Miuden, La., has
held the office of justice of the peace there
for thirty-four years, and has never had an
appeal taken from a decision made by him.
lie is, in fact, a notable pub. func.
Knoxville (Tenn.) Tribune: All ad
journed meeting of the Tennessee Medical
society will be held on the 17th of November,
for the purpose of perfecting arrangements
for the meeting of the Public Health Associ
ation, which occurs in Nashville on the 18th.
Memphis Avalanche: Numerous cases
of absolute poverty and starvation are brought
to notice every day. As an instance of the
fact we are informed that about fifty applica
tions were made to Dr. Porter yesterday for
rations.
Memphis Avalanche: It is said that a
negro fisherman, after saving a portion of
the freight floating by the city from the
wrecked steamer Katie Kountz, was forced to
“divie” with one of the river pickets to avoid
arrest. A case for military investigation.
Seventy-four pupils are educated at the
Sam Houston Normal School at Huntsville,
Texas, free of charge, to become teachers in
the public schools. The Legislature has ap
propriated $14,000 for this purpose, and the
Peabody fund gives $6,000 more,making $20,-
000 a year for this great and beneficent work.
Petersburg Index-Appeal: Mr. Hugh
Stuart, whose efforts in England and Ire
land in behalf of the immigration to the val
ley last spring are well remembered, has sold
seventy-five acres of his farm, near Staunton,
to Mr. 11. D. de Bruyn, of Russia, at $47.50
per acre.
Clarksville (Tenn.) Tobacco Leaf: The
scholastic population of the entire State, as
reported, is 448,917, and the total amount of
school money is apportioned is $71,924.14.
the warrants for this fund will not he issued
until January 1, at which time the interest
matures. The warrants will also be cashed
at that time. Tennessee expends annually
699,513.
Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun: We
mentioned yesterday that the Georgia Legis
lature had reduced taxation about 339,000
dollars in two years in the aggregate. We
misunderstood. That amount is the saving
of only one fiscal year. For the two which
are provided for the amount will he double
that sum. It pays to have such GenerahAs
semblies.
The Georgia Legislature was in session
150 days, and the expenditure amounted to
ovir one hundred and fifty thousand dollar*
In the House, 1,029 bills were introduced, sno
in the Senate 219. Over 300 resolutions were
likewise introduced. Of the 1,248 hills, not
over 148 were, passed, leaving 900 consigned
to the waste-basket. Of the 900, fully 609
were killed on the second reading.
Baltimore Sun : The total armed and
equipped infantry force of Maryland is not
over 830 men. <>i' these the Fifth Regiment
infantry, 525 men, is in Baltimore city, two
infantry companies in Baltimore county, 145
men; one in Anne Arundel, sixty-five "men;
one in Cecil, sixty men, and one in Queen
Anne’s county, sixty-four men. There
is besides a cavalry force of about 200 men,
one company being each in Baltimore City,
Worcester, Hartford and Anne Arundel
counties.
New"< fi'lcans Democrat: Probably at
no time since the war lias there been a great
RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6. 1879.
“ Faithful to the Right, fearless Against the Wrong.”
er Remand in this city for skilled labor than
at present. House carpenters, painters, brick
masons, cistern makers, slaters, and, indeed,
competent workmen in all the trades are in
demand. In every portion of the city old
buildings are being renovated and improved
and new building* are being erected. In
every district the work of repairing is going
oti with ah eukrgyaHu activity which recall
the preparation of ante-bellum days for our
fall trade.
Gainesville (Fla.) Sun: We notice
litre a eommon practice of selling And ship
ping cotton seed. This is sending out of the
country one of the best" enriehers of the soil,
Every bushel not used for seed should be
spread upon Ut farming lands its a fertilizer.
With a liberal use of cotton seed on ordinary
land, the enhancement of its productive ca
pacity will be The best lands can
be improved and the poorest lands can be
made tdd#astouishingly. AV T c advise our farm
ers to save their cotton seed and enrich their
lands witft fhcni, and try for a harvest next
year that will largely make up for the deficit
of this.
I be i Baldwin and Han
cock counties', Ga., is receiving the proper at
tention of the authorities. A Sparta tele
gram to tlie AugnffiA Ghronicle says: The
people ol Hancock are determined to protect
white and black from outrage, and our able
and fearless Judge, *l3. 11. Pottle, is deter
mined to assert tiie majqsty qf the law
throughout his circuit. Rest assured, the
people of Hancock are fully aroused in the
cause of law* and right. To go into- further
particulars might defeat the end which every
good eitizefe wishe* to see attained. There
are not more than a dozen men jn tha band
and the troYihle is personal, not political.
The most recent frrtits of Southern in
ventive genius have received letters patent
ae follow*: Louisiana, G. Jacquet & Cos:, NetV
Orleans, trade mark for smoking and chew
ing tobacco, '‘Currency;” Alfred W. J. Mason,
New Orleaus, .construction of privy and other
vaults; J. Auguste Leßlanc, New Orleans,
rain water cut-off. Florida—S. S. Meyer,
Hawlrinsville, fruit gatherer; Toledo &. Bai
raneo, Key West, trade mark for cigars,
i “Progress ” Tex^s— H. K. Neeflhan, Dengson
City, post hole diggers; A. Tv. Lee, Galveston,
reissue, profess of redudug aspbaltum to a
liquid. Spanish patent—Alejandro P. DePo
lailura, New Orleans, curing tobacco.
IVilnyugtqn, (N. G.lijtor: As .North.
Carolina is, for the present, committed to the
policy of pardoning criminals through the
Chief Executive, there is one change that
might be made, and probably with satisfacto
ry results. A law might be passed that, in
trials of murder, whenever a recommenda
tion of mercy is made by the jury, this shall
commute the sentence of the court to impris
onment for life in the penitentiary. Years
ago J udge Hall, of Georgia, drew a bill of
this kind. It was passed by the legislature.
During the last session a great ciamor was
mßile to repeal it, but in vain. It is claimed
by Ihose that have watched its workings that
it is an excellent law and is beneficial.
Charlotte, (N. C.) Democrat: The col
ot m' flu-L. protracted meet
ings in the eastern counties, imiv n
mode of worship on of raising money. They
call it “storming Jericho,” They form a ring
and walk around a table at which the Bishop
sits. As they march, singing and slioutine,
they have to put money in his hat. When
they go round for the seventh time a horn is
blown, and at this signal they all fall down
and lie as if dead, when at another given sig
nal they all rise and go through the same cer
emony. The latter part is called the “Wow
ing oi' Gabriel’s horn,” or the Sudgment day.
In this part of the state they have “holy
walks” and “cake walks,” and enjoy them
seives generally in a “highfalutin” manner,
sometimes to tiie annoyance of persons who
want to sleep.
Concerning the proposed Florida ship
canal. Mr. Aspinwall, who represents the
French capitalists interested in the work,
says: “All that is wanted now is a charter
from the legislature, the difficulty in this
respeet lying in the fact that the Florida leg
islature does not meet until January, 1881.
They ask, therefore, that the Governor shall
call an extra session of the legislature, Gov
ernor Drew is now in New York, and on be
ing questioned on the subject said that his
people were in favor of the canal, and if the
report which the engineers have now gone
over to Paris to make to their principals is
satisfactory—which he will know in a few
davs—and if it be shown to •him that the
money will be forthcoming, he will call an
extra session of the legislature to consider
the grant of the charter. j
MISCELLANEOUS.
r
The dowry of the future queen of
Bpain has been paid into the National Bank
at Vienna. The sum is 20,000,000f, 0rj54,000,-
000.
The oldest minister in New England,
Rev. Dr. Moses, of Portsmouth, N. H., has
pleached sixty-five years. He is ninety-six
years old.
Hon. Peleg Sprague, of Maine, the old
est living congressman, is now eighty-five
years old, and entirely blind. He served his
first term in 1825-27.
Senator Thurman, of Ohio, is by birth
a Virginian. He was elected to the senate
ten years ago as successor of Ben Wade, and
is now sixty-six years of age. His term ex
pires in March 1881.
In anew melodrama at theSurry Thea
ter, London, a Thames boatmai rows into
sight and uncovers a man pained to repre
sent a corpse just taken from tie river. The
audience goes wild delight.
The English think of ighting the
mouth of the Thames with theelectrio light.
Two buoys lighted with gas at present make
the night entrance to that rive:sate.
At no former period lnu the lottery
been so nourishing in Borne, wiere there are
no fewer than eghty-nine >ffives ready
to take in the hard earned pitanees of the
people. No where else is tin institution so
demoralizing as among the Renans, who are
wedded to old games, and wio, in order to
play at the “lotto,” will sell.th last mattress
oft' their beds, the shirt off heir backs, or
starve, beg, steal or stab.
If a person swallows an poißon what
ever, or has fallen into eo.vulsions from
having overloaded the somach, an in
stantaneous remedy, most efficient and
applicable in a large nmnbr of cases, is
a heaping tcaspoonful ofcommon salt
and as much ground mstard, stirred
rapidly in a teaenpful o water, warm
or cola, and swallowed intantly. It is
scarcely down before it bgins to come
up, bringing with it the imaining con
tents of the stomach; an lest there be
any remnant of the pson, however
small, let the white of a egg or a tea
spoonful of strong coffee b swallowed as
soon as the stomach is uiet, because
these very common artiles nullify a
large number of virulent >oisons.
SMOKING AND THE TEETH.
An Fngllah Sciential Think* that tha
Latter are Benefited by the Habit.
At a recent meeting of the Odontologi
cai Society of Great Britain, Mr. Hep
burn read a paper on the result of his
investigations on the subject of the ef
fect of smoking on the teeth. He con
siders that the direct action of nicotine
Xn the teeth is decidedly beneficial.
alkalinity of the smoke must neces
sarily neutralize any acid secretion
which may be present in the oral cavity,
and the antiseptic property of the nico
tine tends to arrest putrefactive changes
in carious cavities. In addition, he is
inclined to believe that the dark deposit
on the teeth of some habitual smokers is
lately composed of the carbon with
which tobacco smoke is impregnated.
It Is this carbon which is deposited on
the back part of the throat and lining
membrane of the bronchial tubes, and
w*th whatever disastrous effect it may
act in these situations, he thinks we are
justified, from what we know of its anti
septic properties, in concluding that its
action upon the teeth must be beneficial.
Moreover, this deposit takes place ex
actly in those positions where caries are
most likely to arise and on those sur
faces of the teeth which escape the or
dinary cleansing action of tne brush.
It is found mterstitially in all minute
depressions, and filling the fissures on
tiie coronal surfaces. It may be re
moved with scaling instruments frbm
the surface of the enamel, but where it
is deposited on dentine this structure
be comes impregnated and stained. In
deed, it is only when the enamel is
faulty, and there is access to the dentine,
uiut any true discoloration of the tooth
takes place; but it is remarkable, he
says, how the stain will penetrate even
through minute cracks, provided the
necessary attention to cleanliness be not
exercised. Thevstaining power of to
bacco oil may be seen when a deposit
has taken place on the porous surface of
tartar collected on the posterior surface
of the inferior incisors. In this situa
tion a shiny ebony appearance is occa
sionally produced. That tobacco is
oapable of allaying, to some extent, the
Jain of toothache, is, he thinks, true, its
fleet being due not only to its nar
cotizing power, but also to its direct ac
tion upon the exposed nerve; and he is
inclined to attribute the fact of the
comparatively rare occurrence of the
toothache amongst sailors, in great meas
ure, to their habit of chewing. He has
been struck, in the case two
smokers whoJKve come un
der his notice, by tliApparent ten _
dency which exists toward the gradual
production- of complete necrosis of
carious teeth, and the various stages of
death of thn pulp, and death of the per
iosteum tilling place without pain or
discomfort to the patient. This condi
tion may, of course, be brought about
by a variety confluences; but in these
special cases he *Liclined to think that
the presence of nllotine in the mouth
has actecl jmwerfully. The experience
of other speakers, in the subsequent
discussion, alpeared to corroborate that
of Mr. Hepburn.
Tlic Romance of Penny Postage.
[Kw Tork Pott.j
It is strange, but true, that a love af
fair should have developed the present
system of postage stamps. But “iove
rules the camp, the court, the bar,” and
why not the post office? Sir, Rowland
Hill, whose death was announced re
cently, when on one of his philanthropic
and discovery tours through England,
stopped one evening at a north country
inn. While sitting with other travelers
warming himself at the kitchen fire, the
postman brought in the mail. Among
othei persons who received a letter was
a kitchen lassie. She took the letter
from the carrier, turned it over and over
in her hands, looking wistfully at it all
the time, and at last handed it back to
the postman, remarking: “I have no
money to pay the postage on a letter
from India.” Rowland Hill stepped for
ward and said: “ I will pay the postage
rather than have you deprived of the
pleasure of a letter,” and handed her the
required sum, which she received with
evident gratitude and surprise. After
she left the kitchen another traveler
said: “That is her game; she knew all
that was in that letter from certain
marks that was on the outside. It was
from a sweetheart in India, and before
he went off they agreed upon some sign
by which she was to learn if he was well,
prosperous and when coming home, and
when a letter is brought to her she ex
amines the outside and knows all that she
w r ants to, but makes that excuse in re
turning it. Mr. Hill went in search of the
girl and by adroit questioning, found his
fellow traveler’s guess to be correct. The
girl also show ed him how she deciphered
the signs, telling him at the same time
that she was too poor to pay the post
age, and that was the reason she and
hef lover had agreed upon this plan.
From these facts Mr. Hilt inferred that
the Government must annually be de
frauded by such artifices of large sums,
and he began planning a system of
stamps which would secure to the Gov
ernment a certain postal revenue. The
present postal system is the result.
Missouri's Educational Interests.
Missouri has 8,092 school-houses, or an
average of 71 to the county. The at
tendance upon these schools amounts to
448,033. tier school property is valued
at $8,321*,390, and her School Fund at
$7,278.04(5.80. She has forty-nine col
leges and seminaries, five Normal Schools,
and she spends annually $3,424,408.55 t 4
pay and maintain an army of teachers
numbering 11,208.
Those who’ work can take care of
themselves. A kind Providence must
provide for loafers.
Aji Arkansas Romance.
About twenty miles from Waldron
there lives an old man named Wayne.
Aside from a hale,, old-style wife, there
belongs to the family a beautiful girl i
namea Lulu. A few months ago, while
the old man and lady were away from
home, a young Indian named \Vambo
called at the house and asked for a drink
of water. Lhht invited him into the
house, where he remained in conversa
sation for some time after he had re
ceived the aqueous fluid. The Indian
had been well educated, and his hand
some face and manly form bnmediately
awakened witjiin Lulu’s bosom a senti
mental interest, while Wambo, was
pierced, as thoHgb by an arrow of his
ancient fathers, with a thrill of love. He
pressed the maiden’s liana when he left,
and said that he would return. True to
his promise, he returned on the following
Sunday. The old lady and gentleman
had gone to church. Another conversa
tion ensued, and when the young Indian
left he pressed the maiden’s hand with
even more ardor than had characterized
his first visit. This time he did not
leave without remarking that he would
return. A week elapsed before the girl
saw him again. This time the old peo-
Ele were at home, and, though thte girl
ad not spoken to her parents in regard
to the Indian, a suspicion was immedi
ately awakened. However, the Indian
and the girl spoke to each other senti
mentally ; so much so that an engage
ment of marriage was the result, the
young Indian promising to come after
the girl on the following night. The
girl knew that her father would be bit
terly opposed to the union, and warned
her lover. -Next night, while the moon
was shining, while the foliage was wav
ing, the feet of the Indian brushed the
dew from the grass. On his shoulder he
bore a light ladder. Placing the ladder
on the ground, he ascended to a window
and peered into a room. In another in
stant ho was tumbling to the ground.
The old gentleman had discovered the
plot, and, arming liinqydf with a club,
stood in the window. The slndian was
not very badly hurt, and he had not
more than gained his feet when the girl
rushed from a down-stairs room and
joined him. Then the two began a flight
through the woods, among the bushes,
over the rocks. Afraid to shoot, the
old man ran as rapidly as his long-used
legs would allow him. In attempting to
climb a ledge of rocks the young lauy’s
dress caught and held her fast. In
trembling haste her lover tried to disen
gage her, but the old gentleman was
upbn tnem.
“If you love me, leave!”said the girl.
The Indian dashed away, and in an
other moment the girl’s father stood be
side her. She was marched back home.
She is still there, but the young Indian,
by no means slow, may make an out
break at any moment.
Imports and Exports.
A special from Washington says:
“The Bureau of Statistics lias received
all the reports from Collectors of Cus
toms concerning the imports and exports
of the last fiscal year, ending June 30,
1879, which show the balance of trade
in favor of the United States to be
nearly $265,000,000, as against $257,000,-
000 the previous year. The total value
of exports were $710,000,000, and im
ports $445,000,000. Nearly $5,000,000
more of coin and bullion was exported
last year than imported. For the first
nine months the imports were greater
than the exports, hut in the last three
months the exports have increased very
largely, turning the balance. There was
more sugar imported than any other sin
gle article of merchandise, although the
amount was over two millions less than
the previous year. The next article in
amount of importation was coffee, which
also fell oft’ about two million dollars’
worth. Imports of tjm fjftofftwoper
cent, during the year, nut tP imports of
fancy articles, silks, diamonds and other
luxuries increased. The imports
of fancy china and earthenware
also increased largely. The largest in-,
crease in exportation was of wheat,
which went up from $96,000,000 in 1878
to $130,000,000 in 1879. The exports of
wheat flour increased ten per cent.,
horned cattle about sixty per ur.i. i: n
about thirty-three percent., and tobacco
about ten per cent. The exports of pro
visions were about the same,'but the ex
ports of cotton and oil fell off.”
A Conceited Lover Jilted.
I Lonoke (Ark.) Democrat.]
Tuesday morning, Mr. W. D. Bowers
obtained a license to marry Miss Leonora
E. Powell; later in the day, Mr. J. T.
Allison applied for and secured a license
to marry the same young lady. He was
informed that the first license had been
issued, and it is said that he left in hot
haste for the house of his expected
bride. We have not yet heard which
one was made happy.
The young lady referred to- -Miss
Leonora E. Powell - is the second daugh
ter of B. C. Powell, who lives some four
miles southeast of Austin, is a rather
fascinating lady, was somewhat of a
belle, but was never thought to be a co
quette. But the young gent who arrived
just one hour too late, no doubt flunks
she would come under that head. It
seems that the one she didn’t marry, liad
more than made his boast that no
woman in Pnerica could “jilt” him. .So
the fair Leonora put her wits together to
undeceive the young gent, they being
engaged at the time. She had but
recently formed the acquaintance of the
gentleman she subsequently married;
and as he had made a proposal of mar
riage, she determined to accept bis propo
sition at their next interview, which -be
did, appointing the same day on which
she was to have been led to the altar by
her first loves —but one hour earlier for
the ceremony to be performed.
TERMS sr.oo |serAnnum, in Advance,
NUMBER I.
A DRAMA IN THRKK ACTS.
This SimiU Jl Wesson pistol suit*;
Here, shopman, lake your pay;
I'll always keep it, ir, at home;
'Tis handy, aa yon say.
ACT 11.
“ O Johnny, here’s pa’s little guni
Let’s play to war we 30: '
You be the Rebel—halt, nr I— banal
’Twas loaded l. Oh dear 1 oht”
ACT 111.
My friends, the way* of Providence
Are past our finite ken;
The Lord doth give, doth take away.
We bless his name. Amen.*
•The reader will notice that the pistol has no plaee
hs this act.
WAIFS AND WHIMS.
Rifle practice—picking pockets.
A colored sentinel is a blackguard.
The barometer isa great storms center.
The peel of the first belle was a fig
leaf.
Light literature—a bank book w’th
do balance.
is nothing quite so rash as the
measles.
The plum harvest is at hand and the
plumbers are having full crops.
Why is a glass of fresh lager like &
mad dog? Because it froths at the
mouth.
Lb is all very well to talk about “plow
ing the water,” but they often use hose
fpr water. i f q
It is strange, wonderfully strange, that
a cup of tea was never yet spilled ou a
dirty table-cloth.
“ I’ll join you presently,” said a min
ister to a young couple, as ho went for
the thurch key. *,
A .'girl went back on her bow-legged
beau because she didn’t like to walta
in brackets.
The joker who intimated that he had
some “nuts to crack,” must have meant
jest nuts.
THEY don’t call them “ soft” young
men now; the distressfully polite thing
is tosay, “ They are the down of society.
’Tis passing strange that amid all the
mistakes of tiie world, nobody ever
passed a quarter for a twenty-cent
piece.
A Philadelphia barber refused to
color Bob ingersoll’s mustache, on the
pica that it never should be said of him
“ that he dyed an infidel.”
When his wife asks him for a dollar
or two for current demands, he smiles
sweetly and 6ays, “True love, darling,
seeks no change.”
We believe that if an angel should
call into the sanctum of the average
scissors fiend, that he would clip its
wings and pass them off as his own.
You might as well back a mule up
against a beehive and tell him not to
kick, as to tell a woman about a wedding
and not set her under jaw in motion.
A man who had a pig to sell led it
into market, “ Because,” he said, “ a
lead pig was heavier than the flesh and
blood kind.”*'
The proper form for a will nowdays
will read: “To the respective attorneys
of my children I give my entire estate
and worldly goods of all description.
Personally to the children and to my
beloved wife I give all that remains.”
Edison has not patented it yet, but
people are traveling from Boston to New
York by telephone—at least they come
by sound.
“What is heaven’s best gift toman?”
asked a young lady on Sunday night,
smiling sweetly on her male companion.
“ A boss,” replied the young man, with
prudence.
Experience teaches many things,
prominent among which, to a man, is
that it is safer to run your chance with
a balky mule than to dictate to s
woman on wash-day.
While Charles Harris, of Texas, was
being hanged, a very large crowd sang
“ Sweet By-and-By. Mr. Harris’s last
words were, “ For heaven’s sake swing
me off! I ought to have been out of this
two hours ago.”
MissMadeup Oldgal: “ Yes, I love
the old oak; it is associated with so
many hours spent beneath its shade. It
carries me back to my childhood, when
—when” Young Foodie: “ When you
—er —planted it?”
The Rev. Mr. was once called
upon to marry a man to his fourth wife.
As he approached the couple he said:
“ Please to rise.”* The man wiggled
about in his chair a moment and finally
spoke: “ We’ve usually sot!”
The young girl who sings for company
in the front parlor, “ You must wake,
and call me early, mother dear,” is the
creature who expects her mother to
make the fire, get the milk, and bring
her breakfast up to her room.
“ Yes, mamma, I took three lumps of
sugar out of thecupboard,”savs the little*
girl, contritely. “That was very naughty
indeed; but as you have confessed it, I
shall forgive you. Go and sin no more.”
“Then give me the other lump—l only
took two.”
Skirts are to be gathered to the waist
this winter, says tne fashion journals.
Hevinas! are we going to have mud
waist deep! —[Miss Addie Boyd. No, no,
that means the waist of the youug men,
and includes the youug woman in the
skirt.
Hf. had jus! landed from a three years’
whaling voyage, and overcome by his
joyful reception, found himself before
the police court “ Your honor,” he
said, plaintively, “I’m a simple sailor,
lowly born.” “ Thirty days for the
drunk, gix months for ‘ Pinafore,’ ” was
the ringing sentence; and the poor tar,
bewildered, was dragged to his dungeon
cell, and deprived of telephonic com
munication.