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TTAS now IN storeant for sale q full and com
S III plcfe assortment Of every article in the
Drug. ine--lis stock is entirely fresh and one OF
tie best Selections iii the country. comprising
Drugs Ghemirais, Iateia Jfcdirincs. Perftntcrg,
Fancy Toilette Soaps. C0adies, Ssygeons
Instrfn1enfs, Gluss Hare fof Phgsicia7ts: Iiadog
Glass assorted si-es-I i1fy. Pdfnf BrNshes, Tar
pushes Jor Couch makers and Catfncf md
Brotrfa,,a I3kar Japuns, Parrish s Eniperidt TEA.
Sperm, Lard, Tanner 5 ami Lt3tseed on; Okd o.
Iporfo Poyf, Mountain Mdiiga and superior Ma
difi VINO, Otord Dupny . Go. James Henaessy
and 9fd1fell, Cogaliac aud Cham.Pdgnc Brandies
Also, CIinOidine or AmOrphOns Quillinr.
one or the most dcsirable articles Of the day in
Treating Intermittent diseases. full directions nc
company wing each package. Citrate OF Quininc for
delicate cases possessing all the properties Of
ISulphate only in miiderlorn, Phosphate of Am
monia the new remedy for Gout, Chronic and
Indamatory Rhucmatisrl
Patent Medicines of every variety
Fresh and Genuine.
His assortment of Patent Medicines combines
every article of any importance in that line
which lie offers at northern prices:
JAS. JONES JR.,
Columbus, Miss, Oct. l7th. 1880. IT.
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BAYBERRY SYRUP.
For Dyseatcry DiarrhGa. Ch0iera- Nofbus and
Cholera Infantt63n. Price 81 90 per bottle.
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cArHARrIc- PILLS.

Suta5te for general Purgahre
Price p cts. per box.
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CrOckery, China, Glass & Stone Ware
FRED. w. GELBKE,

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No. 10, CoNrI. ST., MobiiS
d ESPECTFULLY informs thc ciuuzcus Of
IL ;ls place. that he is carrying on the
GunSmith Business,
In all its various branches Of mixing and repair.
ing Guns and Pistols.
D5T-Guns re-siockcd and altered from Flint 10
Percussion. Also. Locks aud Fitting Keys, Cut.
lery Grinding md Making. &c.
J-Guns & Pistols for sale, fcbl3I Ably.
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WI a. SMITH, fSarcessor 10 Da6ney 9 Snuth)
Wv. Grocer, No, IS Commerce street, Mobile,
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IFholesd1e and Retail Gr0cers.
% 81 Commerce ST.. corner Of st. Michael,
NOZZLE.
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For the care f Sore, Diseased md Bleeding
GEMS, and reAoefag al Tartcr from
the TEETH, .1or.hecpiqa them Clean and
WAtte, tdpferenting Decay.
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NEW AND TRUE.

1t is indeed fact worthy Of remark,
and one that seems never to have been
noticed, that throughout the whole animal
creation, in every country and cline OF
the earth, the most useful animals cost ma
t,ire the least waste to sustain them with
food. For instance, all animals that work,
live on vegetable food; and no animal that
eats flesh, works. The all.powerful ele-
phant and the patient untiring camel, in
the torrid zone; the horse, the OK, the DON
key, in the temperate; and the reindeer, in
the frigid zone, obtain all their muscular
power for enduring labor from natures
simplest productions, the vegetable king
dom. But all the flesh-eating animals keep
the rest of the animated creation in con-
slant dread Of them. They seldom eat
vegetable food until some other animal has
eaten it first, and made itinto flesh. Their
only use seems to be to destroy life-their
own flesh is unfit for other animals to eat,
having been itself made out of flesh, and
is mos. sc:l &c II :.: end oansive Great strength,
feetness of foot, usefulness, cleanliness,
and docility, are then always characters.
tic of vegetable eating animals; while all
the world breads flesh CATERS Health
and Wealth, by Joseph Bentley.
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Number Al.

long time puzzled in the same way. Ths
Buenos Ayres Navy under Admiral Brown.
every few months used to up anchor, 90
down to Montevideo, capture halfdozen
fishing smacks, and come back again. n
few days after, Admiral Cos, Of the Mon
tevidean Navy. would come out and max.
a prize of sloop, or some other small
craft, belonging 10 Buenos Ayres. Then
two or three mon,hs would be passed il
negotiation, and finally an exchange of
prizes be made satisfactorily to all parties.
In the course Of three or four months the
same play would be acted over again. So,
after watching this operation for year OF
two, came to the conclusion that tho war
was carried on under the firm Of Brown q
Co."
And this, Martin used to say, was oil
the information on South American politics
that he ever got out Of Mr.. Minister Fox
Gin. Gar.
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CALIFORNIA HENS.

The Rev. Walter Cotton, the late al.
calde Of Monterey, finding it difficult to
procure eggs when required, either for
!l"-a or money, bought some hens. We
give his description Of them:
II purchased six hens Of an Indian
woman for six dollars, and rooster for
fifty cents. On asking the woman why
she charged only half price for the rooster.
she replied that the fellow laid no eggs.
and as for his growing, that did nobody
any good. Sounder reasons than these
could not be furnished in much higher
place than hen coop. The habits Of
these hens are little singular. They are
perfectly tame, and are as much at homo
in the Kitchen as in the coop. They never
trouble themselves much about nest, but
deposit their eggs where they find il most
convenient; one takes the tea tray. another
the ironing table, third the oven, and
there is one that always takes the cradle.
She is not at all disturbed by the tossing Of
the little fellow on whose premises she is
intruding. Neither she nor any of her
feathered sisters cackle when they leave
their nest. They do not seem to think
anything worth making an ado has come
to pass The rooster. it is true, picks up a
little, and, perhaps, feels feather taller.
But this is the vanity of his sex. There
are a great many who crow over what
others have DONE"
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FIRE WOOD.

Now, in the winter season, is the time
for the farmer to prepare his fire wood for
the year. Wood cut in winter makes much
better fuel than that cut when the tree is
growing and the pores filled with sap.
Many persons have noticed that some
wood rather stews away than burns clear.
ly. Such fuel, generally, was cut in .
summer, or during the warmer part OF the
year. The winter, also, is time Of moro
leisure TO farmers than most other seasons
of the year. There is moro cheerfulpess
in the appearance of clear burning FIRE,
than the smouldering combustion Of wood,
though dry, that was cut in sumner
Some kinds of hard wood, however, will
burn well at whatever season it may have
been cut, as the hickory, sugar tree, and
the close-grained oaks on high. dry ridges,
where the soil is not rich, and the growth
is slow, and these will burn well when
green; but fires are not so easily made
with green wood, nor as easily maintained,
unless large fire is,kept. The writer has
for many years hahitually, knowing the
above facts, had his annual supplies Of
wood cut and piled in the woods in the
winter. The dry winds in March soon
season it. The piles should be ranged
north and south. so that the sun can shine
OH the ends Of the wood, and tho wind
pass more freely through its insterstices.
= Western Agriculturist.
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ECONOMICAL MODE OF BREAKING
ROCKS.

In some portions of Ohio, Indiana. lii.
nois and Michigan, the surface Of the
earth is incumbered by loose masses Of
rocks called boulders, which obstruct ths
plow. They are of various magnitudes,
from 100 pounds to several tons in weight,
and are usually different in character from
the solid rocks of the country. It costs
more to break them by blasting with gun.
powder than by the method here suggested,
which has been extensively practised in
some parts o: our country. This method
is 10 build fire on the rock TO be broken.
Unless spalls of the rock separate, il will
generally be found cracked in two or moro
directions after the fire shall have burned
down. The cracks are not always visible
to the eye, but sharp pointed crowbar
will enable the workman TO separate the
fragments. This method has the advan.
tage OF being much more economical than
blasting. and there is no danger to life OF
limb. One man can tend fires enough in
one day to break more rocks than twenty
men by blasting. Some kinds Of sand.
stone would not be broken by this method.
but most of the hard rocks yield to expan.
sion by heat. The cause is the same 40
the cracking Of thick glass bottles or tum.
blers, when their surfaces are suddenly
heated. The heated surface expands with
irresistible power, and the portion below,
which is less heated and less expanded,
yields. and assures are formed in one.
two or or more directions. This method
was long used in mining, and is still used
where the rock contains minerals harder
than hardened steel.-WeSt. Agriculturist.
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all riddled to pieces and haiht no more
than fifteen minutes in me; but I've got
three more balls in my cartridge box; and
so just prop me up against that tree and
III give them the whole three shots, and
then," exclaimed the blacksmith, "I'll die"
The WAGNER started his horses ahead
and then with sudden effort of strength
dragged the blacksmith along the sod TO
the foot of the tree. His face was to the
advancing trc o 2ers, and while his shatter-
ed leg hung over the bank, the wagner
rushed on his way, while the blacksmith
proceeded coolly to load his rifle.
1t was not long before body of Amer.
loan soldiers rushed by with the British in
pursuit. The blacksmith greeted them
with a shout, and then raising his rifle to
his shoulder, he picked the foremost from
his steed with the exclamation-"That's
for General Washington" In moment
the rifle was loaded-again it was fred.
and the pursuing British rode over another
of their fallen officers. "That's for my
self" cried the blacksmith, and then with
hand strong, with the feeling Of coming
death, the sturdy freeman again loaded
again raised his rifle He fred his last
shot, and another soldier kissed the sod
a tear quivered in the eye Of the dying
blacksmith. "And that" he cried with a
husky voice, which strengthened into a
shout sis for mad Anthony Wayne!"
Long after the battle was past, the body
was discovered against tree with the
features frozen in death, smiling grimly
while the right hand still grasped the never
failing rife.
And thus died one of the thousand brave
mechanic heroes of the Revolution; brave
in the hour of battle, undaunted in the
hour of retreat, and undismayed in the
hour of death.
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BUENOs AYREs-PARAGUAY, &c.

II seems to be the lot of the South Amer
lean States, ironically styled republics, to
be continually involved in war of one sort
or another. Civil war is the most general
type. The Chief Magistrates are invaria-
bly, military men, sustained in their posi-
ton by the power of arms, or overthrown
by similar means. Political revolutions
are first effected at the point of the bayo-
net, and pretence of election at the bal
lot boxes is afterwards made. 1t appears,
too, to be an established policy with the
rules of each State, in order TO preserve
their own power, and to prevent civil war
at home, to keep up constantly warlike re-
lations with the neighboring States.
We now see it stated that +" letters from
Buenos Ayres of September 5, mention
that the city is filled with rumors that a
declaration of war between Buenos Ayres
and Brazil is about to take place."
For the last fifteen years Buenos Ayres
has not had six months of cessation from
actual warfare, without paragraph of
similar import going the rounds as "impor-
tant newsP' There has been actual war,
or war threatened with either Brazil, Boil
via, Paraguay or Uruguay, until we have
come to regard such announcement as al
most matter Of course upon every fresh
| arrival.
In the year 1927, war broke out be-
tween Brazil and Buenos Ayres respect
ing the possession Of Uruguay, the princi-
pal town of which, Montevideo, had been
taken by the Brazilians in 1891. Uruguay
however, in the following year, 1928, be-
came an independent State, with Monte
video for its capital.
The present dispute with Brazil is in re-
gard to the large and beautiful valley Of
Paraguay, which comprises the area be-
tween the rivers Parana and Paraguay,
the confluence of which with other tribu-
taries, from the Rio de la Plata. 1t is
bounded by Brazil on the North and East,
and a part of the Southern frontier. Ex-
tending through seven or eight degrees Of
latitude, principally from 81 degrees to 81
degrees South, and in breadth from three
to four degrees of longitude, it presents a
territory more fertile than any of similar
dimensions which can be found within the
continent.
Although claimed by Buenos Ayres as
an integral portion Of her Republic, Para
quay has strong claims TO be considered
as an Independent State. Early in the war
Of the revolution by which the Spanish COL
onies succeeded in throwing off their alle-
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led by their sturdy independence at home.
Inheriting from their ancestors sort Of
rude constitutional monarchy, under which
the people elected all the minor officers OF
the State, they maintained these privileges
when absolutism reigned everywhere else
on the continent, and when England alone
shared with Hungary the benefits of real
liberty.
From the fatal edct, by which the diet
invited the House OF Hapsburgh to occupy
the vacant throne, dates the decline of the
once mighty Magyars. Since that period
their territories have been narrowed al
most constantly. The aim Of the Austrian
monarchs has been to destroy the national
feelings, and to strip the people of their
ancestral rights; and this base scheme has
been persisted in, regardless Of the heroic
sacrifices made by the Hungarians, on fire.
quent occasions, to save the empire. In a
measure the treacherous plot has sue
ceeded. The Delilah that the Magyars
took in has shorn them secretly Of their
strength, and has, in our own day, delv-
cred them over to the hatred of the auto
crat, the true Philistine of Europe. Their
national independence has sunk into a
mere shadow since the last fatal war.
Kossuth and few other sanguine patriots
may still hope for the recussitation of this
gallant people; but we fear their doom,
like that Of the noble Poles, is sealed, and
that the time Of their extinction approach
es. Their old age is at hand, if not al
ready come. In century or two, at the
utmost, they will probably be lost sight Of
in surrounding population. Such is and
has been the fate of nations.
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THE INVISIBLE FOE

We verify believe that the best jokes in
the world have occurred in our colleges
and the one we are about to narrate is as
true as it is amusing. Ittranspired in the
sold North State:"
One of the Professors of-College was
in the habit of exercising a surveillance
over the students at nightfall, which was
by no means agreeable to them. He was
accustomed to steal cautiously along the
corridors of the college, and, whenever
there appeared to be any thing going on
not prescribed in the "Rules," he did mo-
hesitate to peep through the key-hole, and
stake an observation" Some of the stu.
dents resolved to cure him OF this propen.
sity, and they hit upon the following ex.
pedient:
In the course of their walk, they had
frequently seen, at neighboring farm, a
large black ram, which was perfectly tame
and which had been taught to butt any one
who appeared to challenge him by stoop.
ing or bowing his head. They managed,
one night to entice the ram to the college
where they secured him in an empty and
darkened room, and fed him the next day
At night, just before the usual time for the
Professors espionage, they turned the
ram out into the hall, having first shod
him with pieces of blanket. He was per.
fectly black, and, of course, invisible in o
dark corridor. His step, also, was noise.
less, as he perambulated at pleasure, the
wide hall. Presently, the Professor came
stealing upstairs, and, on tip.toe, proceed
ed towards room whence issued rather
unusual sounds. As he stopped to apply
his optic to the key-hole of the door, the
ram, taking it as challenge, gave him q
playful butt, and tumbled him heels over
head. Picking himself up as well as he
could, in his establishment, he was assail
ed in the rear, and once more prostrated
This amusing illustration of the ups and
downs of life continued some minutes, un.
til both parties made an unprecedented
descent Of the stairs. The alarmed Pro.
fessor was not sufficiently hurt by his fall
to disable him from flight, and he made
tracks for his dwelling with Gilpin speed
The liberated animal fled, also, towards
his home.
The next morning the worthy Profes.
sor was seen, at very early hour, exam
ing the floor of the hall very closely for
some tracks which might unfold to him the
character Of his nocturnal foe. He sough,
in vain, however-and for days the mys.
terry rather preyed on his spirits.
After the graduation of the next class,
he inquired Of one of the baccalaureates
if he had not hand in the adventures OF
that night, and begged him, if it were SO,
to explain to him the mystery. When the
explanation was given, the Professor was
convulsed with laughter, and said that,
had he discovered the joke at the time, he
should have pardoned its authors, for the
matchless fun Of the thing.-Southern Lit.
erary Gazette.
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AN INCIDENT AT THE BATTLE OF
BRANDYWINE.

The hero of the following thrilling story
was a stout blacksmith an humble
blacksmith, but his stout frame, hardened
with toll, throbbed as generous impulse Of
freedom as ever beat in the bosom of La.
fayette, or throbbed around the heart of
mad Anthony Wayne.
was in full tide of the retreat, that a fol.
lower of the American camp, who had al
last shouldered a cart whip in his country's
service, was dragging baggage wagon
from the battle field, while some short dis.
tance behind body of Continentals were
rushing forward with troop of British in
pursuit.
The wagon had arrived at narrow
point Of the by-road leading to the south,
where two high banks Of rocks and crags,
arising on either side, affording just space
sufficient for the passage of his wagon,
and not an inch mors.
His eyes were arrested by the sight of a
stout muscular man, some forty years OF
age extended at the foot of tree at the
very opening Of this pass. He was clad
in the coarse attire of mechanic. His
coat had been flung aside, and with his
shirt sleeves rolled up from his muscular
arm, he lay extended on the turf, with his
rifle in his grasp, while the blood streamed
in torrent from his right leg, broken at
the knee by cannon ball.
The wagoner's sympathies were arrest
ed by the sight-he would have paused in
the very instance Of his flight, and placed
the wounded blacksmith in his wagon, but
the stout-hearted mechanic refused.
am not get into your wagon" he OK.
claimed in his rough way, "but I'll tell you
what will do. Do you see yonder cher
ry tree on the top of that rock that hangs
over the roadl DO you think that you
can lift man ofmy build up there? For
you see neighbor," he continued, while the
blood flowed down from his wound, 81
never meddled with the Britishers until
they came trampling over this valley, and
burned my house down. And now am