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J JE-jOteS**- ■*W*rOPSWka*i. ) Proen*t«> <nD tb« Httr a * T Alm ita <rean friasd of ml**, fair r •• to mon. HMMI I** 1 ** ,v <‘ u A*4 flg *MB «'lh Ito »*n Vr g r* |HB «|rfw ■ ®Ai •' t b«Mfß* lan ’ A.U I al tb« •«■. .<.. Wok W«Mb» ftw* v . v ■*Rl'l|Tyft*ln ml; 1*1". * , * i, « XVwr Ck>4 ’pl g* grow from 4ay In 4>y, ■WaPf, Mfr» Aeyi »4 V- '* UMMhpMWmaWMrt*.n>y wn>So» ta Mr, Ox! my tearm aur terotetei SQI. .rm & ■WttWfe •criptian of thmr is: "As soon sJWyeifij WtaGlh Hr grows.’ / and bMaert theyleft fomr a'tnwrr- Bim all gon*, jy of ' part r sev reerv t the as to diffl ipeak round imba, rhioh i, and ning. i eaii- Msing isure, white from- twenty feel apwami to the **p es Mutes i* th i »■■ ii taronghtes tease presented*jrtfoetuM tumult Os ernwd ing mMitnitesof pigfoiM, their wings roaring like thunder, mingled with the crash of falling trees.” It is nttertv ttnpoarfbte to estimate rhe num bers that congregate together. Ou some trees more than 300 neats were found, and ths branches were continually fall ing, owing to the weight of the old bimtou tfhe autount consumed by a flock of ffihroe brois to wonderful Wil son calculates that, taking the breadth of a column of pigeons he saw to be only one mile, its length to be 240 miles, and to contain only three pigeons in each square yard (taking no account of the several strata of birds one above the other), and that each bird consumes half a pint of food daily, all of which •Mumptions are below the actual amount, tha quantity of food consumed in a day would be 17,000,000 bushels Suppos ing thia column to be one mile in breadth, and flying at tha rata of one "■'l»’«ninuje for lour hours, andsop ;-*W fliat Asch aquai-c yMfl umbui three pigeons, the square yards in the whole apace, multiplied by three, would give 2,230,272,000 b intel In the Ken tucky country, Where they are mowtlv found, they appear suddenly, darkening the ajj work and bbot Kuhren, mp uniflUhey hero passed Tha air is literally filled with pigeons, and in some places mortars are used to taring | down hundreds at one discharge, Their rapidity of flight is wonderful 'LKta —■— *M*to*r*w xwswrvarror. Many an illneaa is caused simply by imagination, and those of us who gc »>->ai*ur repah with osimnees and con fidence ate much more likely to escape diaeaae than others who are filled with should infection come within 100 miles of them. In onnnec tion with thia the Arabs tell tha follow ing story • One day • traveler mat the plague go ing into Cairo, and accosted it thus : " For what purpose are you entering Cairo T* •'To kill 8,000 people r rejoined tha Plegue Some time after the same traveler met the plague on its return and said ; “ But you killedKUKnr _£. z *‘Nam"pDawered teopietroe, "I kilted bat d,WO; tbs Vest died at fright, * A TMVWigno Jbttt'-n. who had gone tht whole rwmad al the OonUnacit, wai returning nOuna, astsaiad with having " seen nothjjp/' when, ip a field by the road, he sawrjjSgtit/lto tt'lMli me uniats, hgjMjp the same ofWton, UxA taamde, wttheaaOteft-rencefothe question at issue, dMtoad Ms dee anufote and groped bash tn tags ■rrit*l, rani sere reg. “ By Jawgl the fiaat hte at pleasure I have had mnoe I have been from •> talk ,•> J* MF '"** BuhiiidHi MdctcfetL yt7*c. a • v • ‘ ** v There ire feu i# UMft t 4 in the UeihJ Mates, a * cal i ties of Ai.a toartafi nowhere moggstsrr. V* *. ip their eeledfi <>r- 4 Southern and .*h furnish manWUte'’ 1 jWAuj surd mental fl following nadtes, lua w, - 4 Kfittaa Qfliou IW 5 ‘ ’ r , I- , In Alabsm. • uch- snort, Gi, < ffnnc, Rawb <tari- ". sons, Bumbi Pi""*? and Tom bet* t J.gh Hnbßnata- („ .to, Ibyfse, Xlac , utd iZem Ze®. -Or. ,j». horn,"©. 3.,« jtw. Baby Mine anil UkMh. Ftor’t;.. lAilJxik, .Scrub and 1,.*;; jurgi* has in her borders, c Jtap J" 1 ’ «, Crackling, .as- T _jr, Dirt Town. 1 » Pereimmon . Ty Ty. Wino « a Hook, Half Day, school asd Zif Indian net with Bean Blossom, B >f skin, Dice, Hogn, Polk Pate «r Brush 7* .lover and Zulu. , Cheer, Yankee an Kansas furnishes .sard, Og, Raltlesnak Ken tucky pro ’ 4 ht, Seventy sir. *" • -w Deviiahsad, He. übosea, No bolt 'town. Slick awA_, uouiaiana contributes Happy Jpek and Jump. Pattagnmpus is in Maine. T. B. and Gunpowder in Maryland. In Teiwainye A. B. C., Dabbs. Forty eight, V B*, Zed. Bern, flknll Bone and Calf-killer. In Texas, Blowout, Gunsight, J. Bob, Jsboy, Jim- Town, rw BxnvMerai, twi ■luxw Bun vtyx Populi. Pennsylvania donates Nine Points, Seven Points, Six Points, Sev enty-six, Sabbath Rest, Scalp Level and Shickshinny. Nine Times and Ninety au are in South Carolina; Seventy-six in Missouri; and Fourteen is in West Virginia. Dubbs, Bara Avis and 0. K. are in Mississippi; and Dakota and Michigan each have a Stump. Wash ington Territory prides herself on Muek, Kumptaw and Skookemchuck ; Virginia on Chuckatuek, Non Intervention, Pen Hook, Skinquarter, Tan Yard and Wolf Trap. Antiquity is in Ohio ; Shoo Fly is in lowa, also in North Carolina; Sleepy Eye is in Minnesota, and Wide Awaks in Kentucky. None Such is in Michi gan, Nix in Alabama. Last in North Carolina, and Last Chance in lowa Tennessee bluahingty produces Sweet .Lipa to be promptly sainted by a Bum from Manitou county, Mich. Fillmore county, Minn., lioasts of its Clear Grit,- while Bay county, Mich., shows a White Feather. Btae Bye, Clapper, Grease,’ Protem, Tribulation and Zig are in Mis souri. Fair Chance is in Pennsylvania Fair DsnUag ISM Keatufiky, but she finally pleads guilty to a Trickum, and so does Georgia. New York and Indi ana each have a Big Indian, while Ne vada has nothing better than a Sheep head. North Carolma has a Dey Book, i Banging Dog, a Ired, Bandy, Mush, Shoe Heel, Short MOBTA.LITT raoK colrauitmof. The reported deaths from all causes in tiua esty emce IB|d aumbex ),<Mp,BO4, and of three 197,718, or over IBJ per cent, were from consumption. This disease is vary deeteuotive elsewhere, as •hewn by |ha last Ugfied States census, and especially in the Eastern States. Is Maine it wee the oause of ever one-quar ter at the mortality. The exact per centage gives is 26.77. In New Hamp shire the percentage on the total mor tality was a littis over 22 ; in the Dis trict of Columbia it was nearly 22 ; in ▼snont * was over M; an Rhode Isl and it was a fraction lees ; in Maeeachti tafite it Wes ■early 20 ; in Oregon it was 18, and in Conaeoticut it was nearly 18. The perron deaths from conrasip bon on the sa*a« mortality was lowest in Araoaa, psg cent; in Nevada rt WsaAAB, aa* te Georgia &<B. New Tort standsXootteeota so the bat tn re gnal i» MiafciMßtji of Itos diSMsm— Asm ForAAnn . “Yan,”Mtd the school-girl, who had naan from the lowest to the highest po sition in her elam; “ T shnß hM a horsseboe tor my symbol, m it Aaaotae Uanag nomn from tha foot I" Devoted the Intereels of Columbia County and the State of Georgia. HARLEM, GEORGIA TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1881. 7. -7 Washington tMqsitoi, Questtoas of etiquette are notnetimM very tenahlsmmu in Washington, and all the more beeease very many of nmdani >mm of that city, who nnssi from (torts nt uei rural homes, know and cam nothing ■about ettouetta. How little the honor able geatteman from Bymaam’ Hute snspecta, m tee to sntaed to take Mrs. Senator Bed Velvet to dinner that the chair m which be shall sit, sod the lady whom tee shall hand out have been •nhjsete of long and Burnous delibera tion, It ia easy to call on Wormley, or Weicker, or Pinard, or some other cAr/, and order a dinner fur twenty. But who who »d AIKMM. whom r—(nene are the queetlons wMMi cause vexation and anguish. A distin guished official gentleman in Waahmg toi. gave a noble repast in honor of a ted gwet H «m onfrwvi of the I'rapm jMtevoywr. **¥<■(/ paid the host, when he had bade no expense be spared, “ I din t know anything about tn« busmens of seating people eorrwiUy. You must attend to that, too.” The purveyor went straight to another dis tolgtiiijird man, who had not MM in vited* to the dinner beanuse it Wonid not be agreeable to some other dlst'.nguuibed man who was invited, and distiuguialied man number one was iwmauael v unused that bo was called upon to seat the guiwta st a dinner to which he was not nimaelf invited. official persona who are really IntoßfroOt to etiquette, and who greet it with a hearty democratin laugh, yet liecatus of its official population there baa lieen from the first eepeotal attention paid by exj>erts to the subject. Washington took grave counsel Upon it, and Hamil ton gave him some canons of behavior in writing, and there is alleged to be a move rigid system of socml etiquette among official persons ia Washington than ia tn ba found in any circle eisa wh<-re in the country. There ere asserted to lie due rules for ths "first calling" of Benatom’ wiv«l aad the wives of the membsre of the.<MMnei and of Justices of theßuprsme Court I’riwedenoe •< table ra also a knotty point involving great trouble of soul. Home peers ago a Senator gave a dinner to which the Secretary of mate was in vited. When dinner was annonnoed, the host turned to the eenior Senator, the dean at tha Benatarial Chamber, and asked him to take ths lady of ths tecuse to th« table. The eenior Senator hesitated, saving •> hl* colleague that the HecretaTy of State was in the room, " Pshaw ! we Henaton make Becretantw ot State." was to« answer ; and the host insisted that in Ida house nobody should precede ths dean ot his own body. —Marpsr a x-rorwaa ova xcsriD.’ Three years ago Detroit, ears ths AYm Prru, had about fifty amateur weeklies in full blast. One by one they have succumbed to the chieken-pox, meealea, whooping-cough and hard times, and the number yet alive oan now be count ed on the fingers of the left hand. The latest failure occurred yesterday just after the bells had struck 13 o'clock. An ambitious, persevering boy of 12 had established the Twilight in a little sec ond-floor back room beyond the perks mi avenue. Lu fei« wue of t*ree »>*iea ia tbs *Benoon oo- M tie loMig t * . i. A Beagled WChusn ft ThiS W-lte her ' Qfiklern witH the siOve hamlel. LEt her beWairorWe 81U11 pußlisH Her The editor ofithe Twilight was seated in his sanctum at the hour named, when a female entered. She hadn't come to subscribe, Rtes wasn't there to have a funeral notice published. Bhe didn't took bhe the President of a iemala sew- ‘ tng society. . No one could read her rrraad until she had locked the door Then she kicked the prvos over, upset the Standing galley, . knock*! the legs from under the editorial table, and laid hands on the editor. Being taken by surprise, he did not realise what wsa grtlfif ou until he had been shaken out of hie boots sad jammed into the wond ixm hroifitot, and ere he hail regained his editorial wnmposure the aaaailant had fied. Bain aad deeolation brooded there. Hsune ami dimeter Muled around the room. The red-headed woman who licks her children with the stove-handla bed played smash sad left nothing to begin anew on. No insumnee and nr mere TwiligAA 4 atAiwa UAKB.tromT. In a oertata town in Maine, some farmers weal out haying and earned with thorn a jug of eider, which they put in the shade at a tree. While they were at work a snake sweliowed • toad, which swelled him greatly He tliea i-rawied asm to the jug, which was tipped over oa the ground, and espied ••rrtbas Sand ea toe sibsr •*• fteeing the qaickeet way, the saala stuck his head through the handle of the jug and qumtiy ewaD«wod toe poor toa* Now, to the snake's amaaMMnt, he conlda t move either wny, as ho had swallowed . toad on either aids of the handle In that peculiar pouMton be woo eaptarod kylhotaraMO* ■ma roiawrs or nm n>» The toilette of the fly ia so carefully at tended to ao that of the moot trivotoos of human inoeota. With a contempt for the looking-glass ho brushes himaelf upend wabbles his little round head, chuck full of vanity, wherever he happens to be. fiomettmm after a long day of dissipa tion aad flirting, with his six small legs and little round body all soiled with simp and butter aad cream, he peases out of the dining-room and wings his way to thw clean, white cord along thsfl^rjgiMg-jJcriodWimb, andm this retired spot, heedless of the crafty spider that ia practicing gymnastics a few feet above him, he proceeds to puri fy and ■*ootea himself for the refreah talr repoea aad soft dreams at lbs balmy summer night, so nenemery to one who is expected to be early at breakfast It is a wonderful toiloV Besting himseU an his front and middle legs, ho throws his hind legs rapidly over his body,' Inndiug down his frail wings tor sa in stant with the pressure, then raking them over with a backward motion, which he repeats until they are bright and slaaa. Thau ha pushes the two legs along under the wings, giving that miser ktrtrtnr* a thorough ourrymg, •very row aad then throwing tha logs otit and rubbing them together to re move what be has collected from hie corporal surface. Next bo goes to work upon bis van. Besting on his bind and middle legs, he raises his two forelqgs and begins a vigorous scraping of his hesd and shoulden, urtag his proboscis •very littl* while to push ths aooumuls tion from his limbs. At times ho is so energetic that it seems as if ha won trying to pull his hesd off, but no fly ever committed suicide. Home of hie motions very much resemble those of pussy at her toilet. It is plain, oven to the naked eye, that he does his work Jhoronghly, for when he is finished he looks like a new fly, so etean aad Boat las ho made himself within a few tain ■tee. The white cord ia defiled, but “floppy te hltwseU again, wad he tads tha jronung-gJartes a gpod Water. won* og •» dat. In the fall of 1790, Burns struck off at ons ht*at ths matchless ** Tais of Tam o' Bhanter.*' The poem was the work of one day, of which Mrs. Burns retained a vivid recollection. Her husband had spent sioei of the dsy by the nvervidi , •nd in the afternoon she sought him with her two children. Ho was busily Kiigsgmt crooning to himself, and Mr» Burns, perceiving that her presence wm an interruption, loitaaed behind with her little ones among the broom. Her attention was presently attracted by the strangs and wild gssUcu Ist ions of th* bard, who was now even al earn* d»- tMwa, agonized with an angovwrnablt exone* of joy. H» was reciting very loud, and with tears rolling down his cheeks, thorn animated verioa which ha had just conceived : ■Vow Tam; o Tub IkM t*M Mos *oo«*». I' pinm* as* otroptt*' *> ***' Woo* "I wish ye had aeen him,” said his wife; "ho was in such ecstasy that th* team were happing dooa hi* cheeks.' The poet, having committed the versei to writing, oame into the house, and read them ia high triumph at the fire side. Ho ever after regarded it as the master pieoe of all his poams, and pos ferity has Mt, I believe, reversed the judgment. Afw* Letter orrTtaa ot a lkoialatud. The following humor on* aketob of th* duties of s legislator pointe ont seven] evils which would not axial if all legisla tors were conscientious: The Limekiln Club Committee oa Ju dnuary, who had been sakad to iaveeti gate and report on the query from To ledo, " Whet is the duty of a ateasber of the Stale Legialalure t" reported as fol lows : L Jo. take a free pass from ebery rail roeddadaßtaU Dta Mm te apo amhau to Vote s«in railroad nsemopohes an’ eabaidtM. & JMtoabaeat often a«' asmmstt as ho Uh, to’ to dtow hte satary wttb ptompt Mas aa' dispatch. 8 To posh frww bills tavortn dg inter artaofhmasaHam fctemda. A To aptn out fia aatoua* so long •• pramibls m order to tosw to eteory 6. Te tot m oeeaohM peas tritoui siekia’aspeoch, an'to hob oberr oMof toss speeches printed SB ’ aato Mttno te aa aanhue The report was soeepted amfl filed and Brother Gardner eowipMaasatod th* Chairman ca Ms nasaoab and latalh genes.—Dtorott JVm /Vsas A emoTMBLMr who recently patented • firs escape has died, aad a wtetead person suggssta that ho assy have abundant op* portuaity to tool hie iavetttioa. a nmw terrar 4 nwroar. ” I have seen eeasowhero a statement that a cow wee eoM at auction in this country, some yean ago, for HO,OOO. Is this so; aad V aa, in what did her value consist T Plesa* tel! a doubter *o*»ething about it if you can." Tbs statement is true. The oew wu a famous ahort-hm owned by Samuel Campbell, a wealthy otaek-broader and manufacturer,reridmgatNww York Mills, near Utica, N. T. About one hundred < animals al this sal* brought over 8800,- 080. This particular cow was bld off by th* ages t of a rich English man for breed ing purposee. Alter Uuyuig bar the mw owner came to the pondusion that be had paid too dear dor tha whisUe, aad instructed hie agent, instead es sanding her to England, to *ell her ia this ooun try al lbs best attautahls prim. AJtera UUle the agent toumi a nutomm by knocking off exsofly fllO.OOu. Th* new owner—a gentleiuaa residing at Ford ham, N. Y„ ws think—kept the oow un. Id ah* dropped a cell, whereupon *h* was taken aiek with milk tever, or some thing like it, aad died. Her value oou usted in her pedigree rather than in any wonderful capacity so a milk producer or butter arak*r, or, to put it ia mercantile phrase, bar value eoMioted in what she brought her wwmt— and to the last two owner* that wasn't much, unl*e* in the way of valuable expenaaoe. PAriadei pAta Praaa._ Da. Hixnnrw ssyi; "The assertion that American woman are feebler than foreign women is known to bo salsa by any who has smployed foreigner* as domestics. The foreign 'help*' are puffed up by watery vegetables and coarse bread, aad look itrong ; but they have headache*, hod teeth, *are eyes, deateee* and weak digestion, and they are tired out by little task* which their mtelresae* oan do easily aad shMrfuliy. ** , » 'Hv » i What is the'differonce between a fann er and a bottle of whisky T One hue bond* the oorn and the other oorna the IflOH A PERFECT BTRENQTWCNER.A SURE RjVlVpt IKON BITTERN am highly iwrwnwUl fcr all dime* ro guinng a oartain and aAdart tonic; aapeciajly Adiywrige, DyapaMa. Jhl*?. mm Fteera, Fa* # ijpXn. Zoar </ Armptt, Lath vs ** ■Mkitef thablood,*Wrngth*nathoßßiied*a, and gireanewUfctetbenarraa They aa* Ilka a char* oa the digeatire ny, iwnaviag ail dympaia ayraatwa, anab aa Dim*# A* FM Nm *«U Aaauak KMrAerw,**. Ino only Iron Prepnmtion that will not blneken the teeth or jflVe baaMtaMh*. fold by all draggttu. Writ* fcr iha ABC Book, tt at naaAd and aaanaiag reading—am jbaa. BROWN CHEMICAX CO., Baltimore, Md. BITTERS E. G. ROGERS, FURNITURE AND UNDERTAKING, COFFINS, METAUC CAFES AND CASKETS’ OF ALL GRADES. 349 BROAD AFREET, AUGUSTA, GA. Honda? and Night Qal la Or* Hu>r» janll-Bo> SAW MILLS, » W CANE W. PianUUo* aad MUI Machinery Eegiaea and Boiler*, Cotten Sdreea, Bhalting Palter*, Hangar* Joeroal Boxer, MUI Gaeritte. Gudeon*, Torbin’a Water Wheel", Gin Geering, Jndarm'* Govemore, Dlartoa’a Circular 8»m, Gaonnen end Fl!a«, Baltina, Babbitt MaUl. Bra* Fitting*, Globe nod Cneck Valrea, WMalte Goum, etc. Iran and Bra* Caatinga, Gin R<ba, Iron Front*, Baloontea and Fence Rilling OKO. 11. LOMBARD St <70., FOREST CITY FOUNDRY AND MACHINE WOBKM, 1014 to 10W FENWICK MCBEET, AUGUWA, OA, I gVNear the Water Tower ] MTK'pelnag promptly dene al loweet pries*. Bolter repair* of all kind* door promptly. 4et2l-1 y OPERA HOOSE GARDEN > BE,\ NEISZ. PROPRIETOR. CHOICE WINES, UQIWS AND CKARS. PHILADELPHIA AND CINCINN ATI B6ER. BROAD AND ELMHSrRF.KTB AUGUSTA, GA, janll ly TB ""fm ▲mVaatuT'*"" NUMBER 21. tertMUMrU. A wall-paper uiouid never be ob tnsdra. It to nrA intended for toeers Uon, aa *o many would seem to think, but for the 'background of doeoration . the mirrors, pictures, brackets, rape— these srs tha deeorniions ; and the wall paper is ot finest sffeci whan of nosßect at all, and th* objsota of plastic art stand out from it in strong rnlisf, as freaakbsir own oaava* Many people • mobs tbtor wall-paper so rauahoprinci pel rabjoot, make ii on abasrvabto With its spots and figures and ooloan, that all paintings and sonlptuna become morel v sooondary, and thsir rooms took inpon * groan*. That unios«unaia result will •uiefy be avoided if the semo-flgurw! paper, the uadUy-rmtoadoNd, the di- I spared, with it* ByaanttM euggaatton*. I <■ the smooth, ovon-ttatad, perisctly ptata paper ba adopted. Gilding, spam, in someth ieg .that ehonld bo vary sparingly toad. The <trawiag-room is usually the betted tor a little of it carefully administered, and no other room, except, perhqp*. the duung-room. The family si|tiog-room *s coxier and more barmoawus pjQiont ’ it» its glare ia utterly unfit for lapping rooms. The sommon idea heitofthat > when you have aecnrod a gilded ■paper ■ you own go no further ; but ii ia oefctoui that a gilded paper is reuUy • ohoic « om ; and it is mom hequaaHjr Weou» in tocMm and effect; in one light oorne* a blinding tonaio of guU, in another as fork ablteuaif thewaoateMoasM>e*h*i. the efltaot of tee roeen does not remain the same for flee minutes tagethmr, snd to novar foe same to Pwe dittweat par eon*.—Harprr'r Ba*ar. Wire, given io literature and the drome, to harhaaband—"Georgy wh*i lis th* mean;eg of the expression ‘Go to,' you meet with co frequently in Hhakopeare and the old dfomsettu »" Husband <not a reading msn>—•• f Won't know. Fm sure, my dear, unices- -w<-1i i jwrhape he was gang to say—but thought it wouldn't sound proper,”—