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Fashion Notes.

Fans are larger this season than last.
Grenadines are ~variously united with
silk or satin.
Russian lace is a favorite trimming for
summer dresses.
The profuse use of gold and silver
braids is s~ubsiding.
New umbrellas have a scent-bottle
hidden in the handle.
Mastic gray-pretty color-with green
is a favorite combination.
Hosiery of the color of the dress, with
fine white stripes, is worn.
The long lace mitts in delicate shades
are worn for opera and theater.
The newest regular bonnets r very
small and distinguished looking.
Linen lawns with small, colored
figures are cheap and very pretty.
A new ornament for the English walk
ing hat is a whip of cut steel and gilt.
Lisle-thread gloves with colored mono
grams on the back r now fashionable.
Navy blue and white ginghams are
trimmed with Smyrna lace and embroid-
cry.
Lace jabots begin at the neck of the
dress and extend all the way down to
the bottom of the skirt.
For the semi-negligence of a country
toilet hats which are q cross between q
round hat and a bonnet are worn
Knife pleatings are largely used on
evening dresses; also plaitings which ex-
tend from the waist downward.
Long sleeves are made tighter than
before, and without trimming, the wide
lines and lace cuffs taking its place.
A very pretty ornament is composed
of pale pink and white daisies and a
golden arrow fixed to a long hair-pin.
A novelty in satin-barred ribbon,
barred across with velvet of a contrast
ing color; it is narrow and used for
bows.
The news from the Partisan beau
monde dwells at considerable length
upon the fashion of bonnets and hats
designed for the summer season. For
example, we learn that the gray shade of
wax bead is preferred. Gilt and silver
ornaments are marked by their superior
finish and snowy effects. Entire mon
lures of half blossomed flowers are &C.
copied as head ornaments for young
ladies. The refined ideas in millinery
are observed in chapeaux presenting
only white effects. Beads of small,
medium, and large sizes are all placed
on one bonnet or hat. It appears that
wide brims are in vogue for r1ral wear,
and hats are deemed apropos for Jar
riage wear,
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The SchOOlh0u; &c.

Yes, John, our district we'll may brag
On this new schoolhouse. Ibrag too.
Tn for improvement. don't lag
Behind when things want putting through.
But that old, battered, wooden shell
That stood on this spot fifty year.
I'd learned to know its face so well
That somehow it's mighty queer.
But when you pulled the old house down.
The time this new one was begun
I had to 60 to lower town.
Tcouldn't stand to see it done.
For there I studied A, B, c,
Got licked, and learned, by hook and crook,
To read about the apple-tree
In Webester's old blue spelling book.
And, where that church stands, many a morn
('Twas q field then)-a love sick fool
I stood behind a shock Of corn
To see the schoolma'am come to school.
Her cheeks, IS she the cornfeld crost,
Were redder than the scruboak leaves;
Her eyes were brighter than the frost
That sparkled on the tasselled sheayes.
And in among the noisy throng
OF barefoot youngsters she would co.
And, as I watched her, I allowed
1t wasn't strange they loved her so.
But when, just at the schoolhouse door,
Each urchin claimed his kiss, ali then
longed to go barefoot once more,
And read the spelling book again.
Sweet Lucy! How came it to pass
I can't explain,-but any way,
Knight as well have joined q class,
For I hung round there half the day.
At noon I'd take her nuts, a pear,
Or apples,-my best grated fruit
To trade for smiles; she traded fair,
And gave me many thanks to boot.
And sometimes, after study hours,
When Lucy led her merry throng
Into the woods for late wildfowers
And autumn leaves, I'd 90 along.
She had some dozen boys, half grown,
That loved her well. They shamed me
though,
For I loved too, and I alone
Had not the pluck TO tell her 30.
'You happy boys" I thought, 'tyou swap
WildHowers for kisses from her lips;
I'd harvest the whole flower crop
To kiss her very 6nger-tips."
But winter came, and when the ground
And the big hills with snow were white,
I'd hitch my colt up and 60 round
To take her home from school at night.
One frosty evening, riding slow
Through Johnson's woods, her rosy cheek
Lay close to mine and thrilled me SO
That I determined I would speak.
'Tucym I said, "dear Lucy!"-Here
Her eyes met mine and hustered me.
As awkward as a yearling steer
I backed and tried again. You see
II want to ask you"-a'big lump
Came in my throat-''Whoa, Bill, you fool
That's nothing but a hemlock stump!
It--if you love-the boys in school"
Twant what I meant; but, any way,
She dropped her eyes, and I could see
She guessed what I had tried to say.
She said, .of course. They all love me-"
Boldened by this, her hand I prest,
And cried, Dear Lucy, couldn't you
Love me q little with the restS
For IL love the schoolms'am too"
Bee, yonder comes my schoolma'am wife;
Her cheeks are fresh and rosy yet;
md, for our happy married life,
We bless this spot where We nrst met.
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meaning came into the stern face, and
he asked:
"Had any breakfast"
NNo eirn

ne asked:
"Had any breakfast"
emo, sir"
Thof was taken into the kitchen, given
q bowl of bread and milk, and then sent
away. "Come back after the funeral"
the squire said. After the funeral Thoff
went back, and was told:
"Now, my boy, I'm going to give you
q chance here on my farm. I expect
you'll do your best, and if you do, you'll
never be sorry you came"
And Thof never has been sorry. That
was twenty years ago, and he is manager
of the squire's place now. Iheard some
one remark the other day as he passed:
"There goes a fellow with a good con-
science" You and I know how the boy
chad it out" with his conscience once,
and gave up beaten.
The squire has never mentioned the
matter of the lost money.-From Youths
GbnoD1niOn,
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A Boy in the Case.

Oatharine Medici Conyers lives next
house to Antony Caesar Dayball. She
is a widow and he is a widower. She
has a cat and he has a dog. Catharine,
Antony, dog and cat got along all right
till one of the bad boys saw a chance to
make other hearts ache. He got the
animals to clawing each other, and 10
a week Catharine Medici wanted to pull
all the hair from Antony Caesars aged
head. Bad became worse, and the eli
MAJ came the other day when the boy
visited the old man and said:
II don't want to widen this ERE breach
but that old woman says you are a muir
derer, hiding from Justice"
Then he skulked into her house and
said:
"Seeing it's you, and seeing I shovel
off your snow in winter, I'll just remark
that the old rascal over there says you
killed your husband and buried him
under the floor"
They met on the walk-Catharine
Medici and Antony Caesar. They
clinched. They fought. Hepulled her
nose, and she almost broke his leg with
a kick. He got away, but she was ar
rested.
ooh! I wish I'd a killed him |" she
Kissed, as she stood before the bar.
"Madam, be calm-be composed and
SERENE" remarked the court.
"Serenel Why, I'm dying to pull
his hair |" she exclaimed.
"Madam, this excitement may result
in insanity. Please compose your mental
system"
"Ill compose nothing, sir! I'm a
lone woman, and I've been slandered by
a man who can't even chop wood.
Heavens! but why didn't I kick him
with both feet at once !"
"Madam-!".
II wontr
II won't, I tell you'll"
He leaned back and contemplated a
bust of Andrew Jackson which Biiah
had made out OLA banana and peach
stone, and when she had stopped to
catch her breath, he said:
"The fine is three dollars all the
same"
"Il pay it, but Antony Caesar must
beware-beware |"
She paid, and as she left the room
she added:
"When I find him-when I get my
clutches Oh him-when I make single
nails of his lathy frame -oh-h-h-h i
Detroit Free Press.
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Fhe Old Bridge Of Diarmid'

4 LIN ILL ID q aua3o" FA2oSS "NASe 49,
By two lines of wooded hills. East
treet and West street run for a mile par
5llel. Between them is the river and
he suspension bridge. There was On
Id tumble.down wooden bridge there
nee, which was held in high veneration
" the oldest inhabitant. He could Just
semember its dedication.
At the west end of the bridge, up
verhead among the beams and ~rafters,
as Thof Skeletons retreat; his den,
be boys called it. Here he had laid
bwn q few boards, making a rough sort
floor, tossed up a pile Of straw for a
I'D, and here he came when things were
ore than commonly uncomfortable at
pine.
Diarmid was a tidy village of white
buses, and green blinds, and trim
krds; but down at the foot Of West
rect, under a sand bank, there was a
FETCHED building going to ruin in the
Edst of a litter OF rubbish. 1t looked
though all the dust of the clean street
ID been swept out there and left for
3 winds to blow away. But the winds
d failed thus far to do it, and so the
Feltons lived there.
Jim Shelton, fathe, of Thoff, had q Pc
liarity which interfered with his rela-
ms as a parent; to wit, the habit of
mixing a great deal too much of every
ing but cold water. The consequence
3 that Thoff's life had begun to be q
lrden to him as soon as he could re-
mber, and, in fact, some time before.
There |" he said to himself one night.
was quite out of breath, for ne had
] half a mile, clambered like a monkey
the beams, and was now safe on the
Rw of his den in the bridge. 1.-THE
chap won't get hold of me in hurry
h, I guess"
The old chap" I grieve to say, was
ifs father. It was a bad manner of
ignating him, but another result of
REGULARITY aforesaid. A boy who
no ohense whatever has been pur-
d by his parent, armed with a pitch
and who has just found his kittens
two rods away from her other be-
(hngs, the kitten also having been
[tless, such a boy will not mention
author of his being as respectfully
i, who tell this tale, could wish.
Well, I say I think this is rather
lines on q feller," Thof went on.
] haint had any supper, an break
II be nowhere, AMI wish I was
o. This, I do. Oh, if I only had
e money!
had grown quite dark an April
1. the air mild, and a soft patter of
on the bridge-roof. Thoff sat
ing down at a lamp which burned
n inst below him,-s depressed
ing lamp, which sputtered GROSSLY,
hough> saying, "I'm supported by
syn, and I knowHg Thof under
what it was 70 have 9aid from
-
Ting tfain from Boston came
3the valley, passed the end
and rnsbgd on into the
TlnsssY Thof sat quiet
was getting drowsy
r.t Sotsteps approaching
There was a quick
just below him,
words
Spruce Hill.
''undred dol.
ought he
punds &c
Why
mi
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Household Hints.

Make a paste of soft soap and emery
for polishing steel.
Flour and meal of all kinds should be
kept in a cool, dry place.
A small quantity of turpentine added
to stove blacking will make the stove
easier to polish.
Soft-soap should be kept in q dry
place in the cellar and not be used until
three months old.
The best rice is large and has a clear,
fresh look. Old rice sometimes has
little black insects inside the kernels. .
Kettles are cleansed of onion..and other
odors by dissolving a teaspoonful OF
pearlash or saleratus in water and wash
ing them.
Wash your shelves down clean, and,
while damp, rub fine salt on them quite
thick and let it remain on them for o
time and red ants will disappear.
Alabaster is best cleaned by putting
it in o pan of water and letting it soak
some hours until quite clean. Another
mode is to cover it with a strong solu-
ton of soda.
Rich cheese feels softer under the
pressure of the finger. That which is
very strong is neither very good nor
healthy. To keep one that is cut, tie it
up in q bag that will not admit flies and
hang it in q dry, cool place. Ii mould
appears on it, wipe it off with a dry
cloth.
A good cement for broken china con-
sists of gum acacia dissolved in boiling
water, as much plaster Of Paris being
added as will form q thick paste. The
proportions of the gum and water are
half an ounce of the former to a wine
glass of the latter. Apply the paste
with a brush to the fractured parts.
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carried the three eastward spans of the
bridge forty rods down the stream. The
span on which Thof was had merely
sunk in its place.
Early next morning the boy climbed
among the stones and walked away. In
that one awful instant when death had
stared him in the face, Thof had seer
what he must do. He was now going to
do it.
81 want to speak with you a minute,
SIR"
"Speak on" The squire was at work
in this garden. "Oh, is it you, Thoff?
Your father-yes, I've heard"
"No, sir; WANTED to tell you some
thing. That money of yours "-Thoff
choked q little. He had set his face to
do it, but it was hard. He would be in
jail by noon, probably, though perhaps
the squire might let him off till after
the funeral. "I found it. There it is"
The squire silently took the wallet and
opened it.
"I found it up on the hill, and I've
kept it six weeks, n that's the truth if
T die for IT, blurted out Thof. "'N'
now I've done it, n fathers dead, n
our house is unroofed, m the ole denis
blown down. n I dunno's I care what
you do with me-"
The squire turned and looked ct the
little ragged figure before him, looked
for quite a minute, remembered; per.
haps, something that had happened to
ihiInseH once. At ell events, . new
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-oJCtHJaos
A moderate amount of fat is generally
considered evidence Of good health:
About one-twentieth part of the weight
of a man and the sixteenth OF a woman
is considered a normal proportion: lts
Office. aside from its value in giving
symmetry to the figure, is to prevent
the rapid escape of animal heat and also
to supply the waste of tissue from SICK
ness. unusual eZcrtion and temporary
deprivation Of food.
USES OF ADVERSELY
II none were sick and none we're sao'
What service could we render
thipk il We we're always glad
We scarcely could be tender.
Did our beloved never need
Our patient ministration,, ;,do.d
Earth would grow cold. and miss, lnoeeo'
It's sweetest consolation.
r. sorrow never claimed our heart,
And every wish were granted,
Patience would die and hope depart
rISo ,roo1d IA aenchauta $3.50
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village he'd lost the wallet, and now he
wants you n me to start off with him to-
morrow morning n sect we can find it.
"Find i'll" cried the man.
"Sn-h! not so loud" whispered the
first speaker, looking cautiously round.
"Don't you see we've got to keep still
about it? If some folks should get hold
of the story they mt come in ahead, find
the wallet, and then it never'd be heard
of again."
"Whatu he pay for finding it?"
"Four dollars a day." was the slow
answer.
ssTbat amt enough. If he wants the
slectmen O Diarmid, he's got to pay &C.
cordin'. I'll 60 for six"
Gall right; he won't stand for two dol
lars, I guess. Eight o'clock tomorrow
morning. I'll stop for you. Keep dark"
The men parted, and Thof sat in the
dimness of his den thinking. he was
not sleepy now. Five hundred dollars
lost among the rocks of Spruce Hill! he
knew every foot of glound up there. It
was not in vain that he had lived away
from home and eaten strawberries for a
week at a time. If any person in Diar-
mid could find the wallet, Thof knew
himself to be that person.
The old town clock was striking five
the next morning as the boy climbed the
wall and started up Spruce Hill.
CHOW I'm three hours ahead of the
squire n his men," said Thoff. "But
they'll know where to look, and I've got
to guess at it."
At eight o'clock two wagons went up
"the gulf-road," and a boy stole down
oyer the hill to the school house.
MRattar lnck NEXT time said ThoE.
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TUWHVILLE.

Prof Werner if building . neat residence
near town. .... The Sunday Schoole Of thip
place havo gone into winter quartefs......
Mrs. Maria Milford, the young ysife Of M.
Samuel Milford, died on the 14th inst. at
the residence Of her father, Mr.. Thomas B.
Palmer, of this township. Her romans
were inferred on Monday at Cedar Grove
graveyard. i. :. let it be borno in mind that
there will be preaching in the Presbyterian
Church in this place during Saturday and
Gr,aav ri Chr;stmaa ueek. Married. in
this town on Sunday, the sth inst, BY Rev.
J. r. Riley, Mfr. John J. McCsrley and MisH
Hortie Simmons, both Of this place. .....six
marriages in this immediate vicinity this
season, and still the epidemic abateth not.
IA white resident Of this township, %
or so years of age, who has lived in Ander'
son County since his birth, has never beon
at the Court House, and unlihs tho miller'G
black dog, Chaotain 10 hi0 name...... hfisa
Josie Burns, most estimable young LADY
of Adainyille. Georgia, who has been on q
protractcd visit to relatives and friends in
this section, departed this week to her dis
tant Georgia home amid tho expressed re'
erets of o number OF Townvillos gayes
youths. ID. w. a.
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EIYNaENEAL.

MARRIED, on the 5th instant ak tbu
residences Of the brides father. by Raw,
Thomas Dawson, Mr.. JAMES McC0RKIE
and Mics MARY SMITH. n :
On Bird November, by Rev. g, ! M. Roeers,,
Mr.. FRANKLIN MARTIN and Miss PA II
MELIA BRYANT. jF
On December 10, by Rev. G. "a, Hogers.
MIR. Fl. NJ. STONE, or Abbevillc, end Mis-
SYVILLA WIGINTON, daughter OF Mr..
Elisha Wiginton, of Anderson County. ~
On the 11th instant, by Rev. N. MeGee
at the residence OF the brides smother. Mr'
PRESTON B. ACKER and Miss MATTE
GLENN, daughter of Mrs. Martha Glenn.
On the 18th instant, by Rev. sM. McGee
Mt the residence of the brides mother, MIR
G. L. TUCKER, OF Abbeville County, and
Miss SALLIE 3. GENTRY, dangiftef O.
Mrs: Nancy Gentry, Of Anderson County.
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sandy spRIHes.

Our school is four,aiing We hope all.
the subscribers will send their children as
soon rs possible, as the Principal 10 relying
upon the subscription. A vacation will he
given from the Goth to the 30th instant
after which the exercises will be resumed.
......Mr. w. 4. McElroy has accepted an
invitation to addr-ss the Young Mems Ly.
ceum at Sandy Springs on Saturday night,
2lst instant. We feel sad in recording the
death of en- estimab!o young man, Mr.
Thomas Watkins, who died OF typhoid
fever at his home near Lebanon Church.
Sunday. 7th inst. His remaine were in.
TERED in Sandy Springs cemetery, after
solemn and appropriate funeral services by
Rev. J. B. Adger. D. d.. Cotton stealing
has been INDUCED In pretty extensively I'm
this community. Near 5000 pounds i'm the
seed have been stolen from different parties.
Some OF the notorious thieving rascsls have
been arrested, viz Ben Howard, Ike Sloan.
Lawrence and Lewis Hillhouse-eli colored
ihe two latter ere brothers and VIGOROUSLY
oad characters. We are informed they re-
sisted the officers and escaped, and now DEFY
arrest. We need return of that good old
law, tha whipping post. Cotton gins are
plentiful around here. There ero ten or
twelve in circuit of i've or six miles. nnd
each one receives liberal patronage. Mr..
1. Il. Dickson is ahead. having ginned this
season about 300 bales, AID has 80 bales
more to CHINA temperance society will
DC organized in Sandy Springs Academy
after the Christmas holidays have passed
away....Our young friend, Mr.. d. NJ, is
the owner of the finest horse and buggy in
these parts; consequently he 10 very popu-
lar among the ladies. Miss C. says Donnie's
morse ought to have received the premium
at the County Fair. NrEcrrs
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Poor Fun.
We have never been able to appreciate the
inn OF tearing up bridges, lifting gates from
th'ir hinges, pulling off palings and throw
Ing them away, and such other damage as
ngsneially committed on both public and
PERSONAL property during the Christmas
holidays. These depredations have already
commenced, and we think it is due our citi-
Rhs that extra police be put on duty ct
night during the next two weeks. that they
may DO protected from such unnecessary
'ioabio and expense. Parties who engage
II aucii mischief, whether white or black.
eese:=e 20 be punished: and we sincerely
nope those who commenced this work on
last Saturday night will be caught up with
ana made to pay the penalty Of their crime
Dr It's no less than q crime The damage
oohs to property last year by just such
characters was considerable, and we think
"s nigh time it was stopped.
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:gon,a..c.r,. Ga. April l2th. 1sio

DR.. Harter-D.ar Sir: had Everyday
Chills" for four weeks and nothing would
not stop them. DR.. HAr,er's Fever and
Ague Specific was recommended to me. l
sent TO Tuscaloosa-thirty miles distant
for it. was cured Immediately. Did not
have another Chill after taking II.
2s-2 JAMHa +. KENNEDY.
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An Afflicted Family.

An Afflicted Family.
We seldom hear of a sader affliction than
has recently befallen the family Of Mr.. j. T.
Chapman, Of Bolton township. Three
months ago he had four bright and inter
t,ting children, but the terrible disease OF
diphthcria made its appearance in his fam.
ily and grim death has TAX, n tho last child
away, leaving the griefstr'cken parents to
mourn their loss. The eldest was five years
d age. What heart would not go out in
sympathy to the bereavedf
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Grange ON cero.

The following officers have been elected to
serve the ensuing year for Sub Grange No.
Il, and will be installed on the first Friday
in January net, viz: J. w. Norris, w. NJ. ;
Vim. McGukin, O.; ]. W. Daniels, L.; J.
H. Mcconnell, C.; J. A. Drake, Treas.
". W. Humphreys, Sec. J. w. Thompson,
S.; l.. II. Seel, A. S.; Mn. e. Miller, L. A.
S.; Mrs. S. II. Norris, c.; Mrs. w. w.
Humphreys, p; Miss c. McFall, r. G. f.
Tolly L. II. Eeel and ]. II. Breazeale have
been elected delegates to Pomona Grange.
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Hassf'Alnmont New Year,e N,nht.

'ainment :, New YeAr's Night.
aus cltizens OF Anderson are destined to
.'!oJ rare treat in the way OF theatrical
sl'e'tainment on the evening of the first
.ay OF January next. under the auspices Of
~ AnderDon Theatrical Company. The
.spu'aton Of this Company is sufficient to
sSA'antee frat class entertainment, and
'OuSn ihero have been some changes in its
spoSition, a.. the new members We ere salts
- VIII fully sustain its well-deserved rep
u:auon a. fint-class amateur company.
,. ano Serious Family" highly entertain
oomedy, and Tho Dutchman's Ghost"
,,. Os' amusing and laughable farce, are the
r.'s' 10 be presented on this occasion, and
- =, oespeak for them liberal patronage.
.T rae following is the caste of characters for
c me Serious Family"
Ip. , Murphy Mcguire. .Thos. f. Hill.
caAi. inidab Sleek......... DR.. A. p. Johnstone.
res lerrens..... J. NJ. Sullivan.
,r sincent........ K. Sullivan.
~. ofmsby Delmalne,. Miss Mary Todd.
sonrhy Creamly.. Miss ella Bleckley.
-. oharieS To:rens.. hrs. j. NJ. Sullivan.
O., emma Torrens.. Miss Eve Nardln.
TSs Miss Alice White.
for ,yr,i ;I:vvi.g Is tne caste OF characters
Hpns DC Dutchman's Ghost:"
NJ p1tt TIE. tn'......................J.M NJ. Sullivan.
Hen,,' pie. .............Dr. A. p. Johnstone.
CITY schael .Thos. Il. Hill.
Jonns ............,.H Ii. X. Sullivan.
Mn .'.;'''..................... - -------
Ca1fou urple........ Miss Ella Bleckley.
e'.;.'.-.......-.-.Miss Alice White.