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MEMORIAL DAY. BY FATHER RYAN. Gather the sacred dust ?f the warriors tried and true; Who bore the flag of our nation's trust, And fell in the cause, though Lost, still just, And died for me and you. Gather them, each and s&l, From the private to the chief. Come they from hovel or princely hall, They fell for us. and for them should fall The tears of a Nation's grief. (Sather the corpses strewn O'er many a battle-plain; From many a grave that lies so lone, Without a name and without a stone, Gather the Southern slain. We care not whence they came, Bear is their lifeless clay i Whether unknown or known to fame, Their cause and country still the same? They died?and wore the Gray. Wherever the brave have died, They should not rest apart; lAviiig, they struggled side by side; Why should the hand of Death divide A single heart from heart ? Gather their scattered clay, Wherever it may rest; Just as they marched to the bloody fray, Just as they fell on the battle day, Bury them breast to breast. The foeman need not dread This gathering of the brave; Without sword or flag, and with soundless tread, We muster once more our deathless dead, Out of each lonely grave. The foeman need not frown, They are powerless now; We gather them here and we lay them down, And tears and prayers are the only crown, We bring to wreathe each brow. And the dead tonst meet the dead, While the living o'er them weep, And. the men whom Lee and Stonewall led, And the hearts that once together bled, Together still shall sleep! BOTH SIDES. A man in his carriage was riding along, A gayly-dressed wife by his side ; In satin and laces she looked like the queen, And he like a king in his prime. A wood-sawver stood on the street as they passed; The carriage and couple he eyed, And said, as ne worked with his saw on a log, "I wish I was rich and could ride." The man in the carriage remarked to his wife, "One thing 1 would give if I could; I'd give my wealth for the strength and the health Of the man who is sawing the wood." A pretty young maid, with a bundle of work, Whose face as the morning was fair. Went tripping along with a smile of delight, '? While humming a love-breathing air. She looked on the carriage; the lady she saw, Arrayed in apparel so fine; And said in a whisper, "I wish from my heart Those satins ana laces were mine." The lady looked out on the maid with her work, So fair in her calico dress, And said, "I'd relinquish position and wealth Her beauty and youth to possess." Thus it is in this world^Vhatever our joy, Our minds and our time we employ In longing and sighing for what we have not, Ungrateful for what we enjoy. NOTHING BUT LEAVES. Nothing but leaves; the spirit grieves Over a wasted life; Sin committed while conscience slept, Promises made but never kept, ,Hatred, battle and strife; Nothing but leaves! Nothing but leaves; no garnered sheaves Of life's fair ripening grain; Words, idle words, fer earnest deeds; We sow our seeds?lo! tares and weeds; We reap with toil and pain Nothing but leaves. Nothing but leaves; memory weaves No veil to screen the past; As we retrace our weary way, Counting each lost and misspent day, We sadly find at last Nothing but leaves. And shall we meet the Master so, Bearing our withered leaves ? The Saviour looks for perfect fruit? We stand before him humble, mute, Waiting the word he breathes? "Nothing but leaves." A Hundred Tears Ago. When it is considered how many and great have been the changes in this country during the past hundred years, the propriety of a grand centennial celebration of the existence of our Republic can not be disputed. The Baltimore American, in a few paragraphs, reviews some of the leading features which* mark our national advancement, and also the general progress of civilization in the century past: "One hundred and ten years ago there was not a single white man in what is now Ken? tucky, Ohio, Indiana, or Illinois. Then, what is now the most flourishing part of the United States, was as little known as the country in the heart of Africa itself. It was not till 1776 that Boone left his home iu North Carolina to be? come the first settler in Kentucky. And the , first pioneers of Ohio did not settle till twenty years later still. A hundred years ago Canada belonged to France, and Washington was a modest Virgiuia colonel, and the United States was a loyal part of the British Empire, and scarcelv a speck on the political horizon indi? cated the struggle that in a few years was to lay the foundation of the greatest Republic of the world. "A hundred years ago there were but four small papers in America; steam engines had not been imagined, and locomotives, and steam? boats, and railroads, and telegraphs, and postal eards, and friction matches, percussion caps, and breach-loading guns, and stoves, and fur? naces, and gas for dwellings, and Ijidia-rubber Bhoes, and Spaulding's glue, and eewing ma? chines, and anthracite coal, and photographs, and chromo-printing, and kerosene oil, and: the safety Lamp, and the compound blow-pipe, and free schools, and spring mattresses, and wood engravings, and Brussels carpets, and lever watches, and greenbacks, and cotton and woolen factories, in anything like the present meaning of these terms, were utterly unknown. "A hundred years ago the spinning-wheel was in almost every family, and clothing was spun and woven and made up iu the household ; and the printing press was a cumbrous machine worked by hand; and a nail, or a brick, or a knife, or a pair of scissors, or shears, or a razor, or a woven pair of stockings, or an axe, or a hoe,, or a shovel, cr a lock, or a key, or glass of any size, was not made in what. is now the United States. Even in 1790 there were only seventy-five post-offices in the country, and the whole extent of our post-office routes was less than nineteen hundred miles. Cheap postage was unheard of, and had any one suggested the transmission of messages with lightning speed, he would have been regarded utterly insane. "The microscope on one hand, and the tele? scope on the other, were in their infancy as instruments of science, aud geology and chem? istry were almost unknown. In a word, it is I true that to the century past have been allotted more improvements, in their bearing upon the ' comfort and happiness of mankind, than to j any other which has elapsed since the creation of the world." ' The Cost of Living. When it is considered that a man who got married on a salary of $500 per annum, before the war, was not looked upon as a lunatic, but, on the contrary, as a sensible fellow; and when we know that a young fellow who dares to com? mit such an atrocity now is regarded as cither very insane or very daring?we state a propo? sition which points a moral and adorns a tale. In the times before 1860, when everything was cheap, $500 went a long way, and the man who had reached that enviable position might safely hope to do something for posterity with? out incurring an immediate resort to the Poor House. But the evils of war, and the war since the war, have changed all that. Not only has the cost of living become a serious barrier to matrimony, but the ideas of both men and women have suffered transformation. We never knew, either at the North or South, how happy, how blest we were, until the pros? pect shifted from flush times to hard and grind? ing seasons. For a while, large salaries pre? vailed to make amends for increased expenses, domestic and otherwise; but the inevitable collapse has come at last, and left many of us high and dry on a beach of mild despair. How are we to adapt ourselves to altered cir? cumstances? That is the question. The only only way we perceive is to practice the severest economy; to make everything we purchase go twice as far as it did before; to cut off all sur? plus servants; to do much of the work that hired help has hitherto done; to have the courage of wearing old clothes ; to bring back the women folk to that almost lost art of mend? ing, darning and patching their own raiment as well as that of their husbands and children ; to indulge in nothing for mere show; to rent smaller houses, and, if possible, remove from towrf altogether; to restrain habits of appetite, or abandon them altogether; to take care of small change, and not squander it because it looks like such a trifle; to imitate, in a word, those of foreign descent, who grow prosperous by knowing how to exist comfortably on what we waste without any necessity for so doing. These are not easy or pleasant things to do, but they are what "the stringency of the times demands. On the other hand, the landlord must be in line, if he can, with the new dis? pensation. Is house rent too high ? Then it must be lowered. Are any of the necessities of life too far beyond the reach of the majori? ty of purchasers? Then they must be marked down. Upon this theme the New York Times has an article so full of sense, and so happily put into expression, that we give it conspicu? ous insertion. The drift of the article in unison with the demands ol* the American Babylon, but it applies, pari passu, to all por? tions of the country. We quote: "Some prices have fallen considerably. Some have hardly sunk at all. Rentals have resist? ed obstinately. They are yet out of all pro ?ortion to the income of the average tenant, 'he firmness with which rents maintain them? selves is very easily explained. Houses are not like stocks of goods, constantly renewed. Money once in them remains in them usually for some time. If Mr. Stewart's dry goods fail to go off, he drops the prices, and buys in a new stock at the lower figures. But if Mr. Aster's houses and stores fall in rent, the re? duction looks like a permanent diminution of income. The actual loss may be the same ; but your dry goods merchant looks forward to a turn in the market, while your landlord com? plains that his money does not bring him 'simple interest/ "But most real estate throughout the country which changed hand* between 18G3 and 1873 is bound sooner or later to rent at rates that will not pay a net interest of seven per cent, upon its purchase money. The difficulty is to make landlords see this fact, and meantime the tenants suffer. That is one important item . 'in the extravagant cost of living, and it is quite an inevitable one. The others are, per? haps, less so. We believe that most of our readers will agree with us in thinking that dress, for men and boys as well as for women and girls, is more expensive than formerly. The several articles cost more ; fashions change more frequently ; the changes are more radical, and the subserviency to fashion?it is a hard word but a just one?is greater in a mark? ed degree. Leaving out of the question, for the time being, the ladies, who, perhaps, have had their full desert in the way of criticism, does it not accord with the general observation of men of forty that young men and boys from twenty-two down to fourteen dress far more extravagantly than the same class dressed twenty years since ? The school boy, whose coat is not cut in the latest style, or whose hat and shoes are not as fresh as if their wearer's income were of his own earning and unlimited in amount, is an exception. Linen made up at home is a curiosity almost unique, though the cost of material forms but a small part of the price of 'furnishing' goods, and the cost of labor could readily be saved. 'Style,' we be? lieve, is the 'missing ingredient' which home? made linen lacks, and which youngsters of modern times demand. -To secure this, as much is spent on many a half grown stripling's shirts and collars and cuffL as would have bought his father a whole suit when at the boy's age. The girls, meantime, are by no means behind their brothers. They have their fashions, as inexorable, as variable, and very nearly as costly, as those of the mothers' or grown sisters. If by chance simplicity reigns for a few months, the charming 'misses' soon tire of it, and something new, and expensive as well, is introduced. This is a matter cer? tainly capable of correction. There is abso? lutely no sense in it, and no excuse for it, except that Mrs. A does not like to have her boys and girls looked down upon by those of Mrs. B, while perhaps at the same time Mrs. B is straining every nerve to keep up with Mrs. A in the extravagance of the young ones' clothing. Perhaps if a dozen sensible women, whose children associate with each other, were to come together and agree upon a combined movement toward simplicity and economy, they mir iii make a beginning of the end to the heavy burdens the fathers' purses are now com? pelled to bear." The extracts above given are rather longer than we have space for, but they are entitled to a careful perusal. There is one element not touched upon by the Times, but which deserves consideration. It is this: Wnen misfortune enters a family it should be the signal for eve? ry member of it to rally to eacli other riot only with a beautiful zeal for the common good, dut also with a love trannscending the love of prosperity. How easily can the lather and husband bear a reduction of his salary, if the wife and children show him they appreci? ate his struggles and are determined not to add a feather weight to them. How much more devotedly will the wife and children strive to make the husband and father contented if he takes care to let them know that they arc dear? er than ever tu him, and that his sacrifices for their well-being abroad have not made him a brute or a sore-head at home. "Sweet indeed are the lessons of adversity," if they be accep? ted properly. If they are, on the contrary, met with hatred, discontent, defiance and abuse of Providence, they grow into torments, and become like perfidy, -"the bitterest drops of woe That bubble hi the cup of life." [ylugusta Constitutionalist. ? When a man hands an editor an article for publication, and asks him to "fix it up," because he "wrote iL in a hurry," and "hadn't time to revise it," you may know that he com? menced the arLicle directly after supper, and wrestled with it until after midnight, re-writ? ing it fourteen times, destroying a quire of foolscap, and "blessed" his pen every two min ! utes. That's the way they generally write an article when they are "in a hurry," and have "no time to revise it." ? A wealthy and eccentric woman in Springfield, 111., contributes $500 a year to the ' support of one of the churches there, but i an not do induced to attend a single service, nor] will she allow its pastor to enter her Jiouae. ' Knowing How to do Things. Henry Bell was brought up on a farm. His father was a physician, but he had a large farm on which he worked more or less, when pro? fessional duties would allow, and he taught all ! of his seven boys to work; and not one of them, oven those in professional life, has ever regretted this early training. Henry, from his boyhood, had a great desire to do everything he saw auy one else do. He liked to spend his play-hours with the tools in his father's shop, making bows and arrows, sleds, boxes, etc., which he learned to make very neatly. In those days each family had their boots and shoes made at home. A shoemaker, or cobbler, as he was then called, came with his bench and tools on his shoulder, and spent days, and even weeks, making all the boots and shoes of the whole family for a year. Those occasions were full of interest to Hen? ry. He begged the privileges of going into the chamber with the shoe-maker, and learning his trade. He very soon learned to peg and sew and make himself quite useful in the work. To be sure, there were times in after years, during his college vacations, when his knowl? edge and skill in mending old boots and shoes were of more use to the family than of recrea? tion to him. Still he has never regretted that he came so near being a shoemaker. Henry had a great taste for the garden. Raising all kinds of vegetables, flowers, shrub? bery, etc., was his delight. While his broth? ers and the hired men were resting at noon? time in the summer, he would seek his rest among his thriving beds of beets and carrots, watching the growth of his melons and cucum? bers, and enjoying the varied beauties and sweet fragrance of his roses and pinks, etc. And this interest in horticulture has grown ever since, as every one can see who visits his vine-clad home, in the midst of choice shrub? bery and ever-blooming flowers. This knowing how to do things, which Hen? ry so early learned, has been an unfailing source of pleasure, as well as a practical bene? fit, to him all his life. For the forty years he has had a home of his own, there has been scarcely a week, or even a day, when his knowledge how to do'things has not been of service to him. There is hardly any little re? pair or improvement needed about the house but he can make it. And while it is usually a pleasant recreation to lay aside his studies for a short time, it is also an important matter of economy. He is told that a pane of glass, or the cord of a window, has been broken; there is a hole in the bottom of a tin dish, or the handle has uusoddered; the pump, the clock, or the lock on a door or -trunk, is out of order; or a few things need painting; all these things he can usually repair and put in order, and do it in less time than it would take to get the glazier, tinker, pump-maker or painter to come and do it; and at the same time he saves his dollars, or his fifty cents, for every little job. A new shelf, or bookcase, is wanted, or a trellis for his clematis, honeysuckle, of grape-vines ; he has a work bench and tools in the barn-cham? ber, and some hour, when he needs relaxation and exercise, the work is done. His house needs shingling, or a new room is needed; and, if be can spare a little time from his study, he can turn his skill to account in aiding the car? penter; and thus hundreds and hundreds of dollars have been saved to him by having learned to be his own mechanic. Now, boys, is it not worth your while to be learning to do things? All may not have an equal tact, or naturally genius, for turning their hand to almost everything. But every one ought to know enough?no matter what his employment in life is to be?not to har? ness a horse?if called to harness one in an emergency?with his head towards the carriage, or to put on a saddle wrong end foremost, or to think he has done a smart thing by making a round button for a door, or putting in a screw at each end of oue that is properly made, as some men with an honorary title at one or both ends of their names have done. We commend this subject of learning to do things to the attention of all boys, and we pre? sume the girls, too, may find it greatl; Lo their advantage to be learning to do things in their sjphere in life.? Congrcgationalist. Com and Cotton Planting in the South. The St. Louis Democrat, which is especially painstaking in collecting information for its commercial columns, has been searching its Southern exchanges, and feels prepared to state that not only are planting operations in the South quite as forward as could be expected, but a greatly increased area devoted to cotton. Accounts from Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas and Texas, all agree in the statement that the acreage of cotton will be fully up to that of last year, while the acreage of corn, wheat and -oat3 will be increased from fifty to seventy-five per cent. Especially will there be an increase in corn planting. The price of corn has been so high during the past season that Southern people have been compelled to part with all the money they could get from their cotton crop in the purchase of corn and meat. Unless the "Venusian equinox" of June inflicts an extended frost upon the country, there will be harvested in 1875 the largest com crop on earth. Already com is well up in Texas and Southern Arkansas. Emigration to both of these localities has been large during the last Winter and Fall, and the emigrants are mainly agriculturalists, and will either work farms of their own or hire to other plant? ers and farmers. Beyond a doubt the South, the Southwest, and in fact, the entire country, will experience better times from this year for? ward until the next great panic occurs; for which untoward event the prudent will always be upon the watch. Manufacturing industries are resuming full operations; furnaces are go iug into Wast; work is resuming in mines, and the country begins to exhibit in every depart? ment of activity a renewal of its wonted life and vivacity. A "Respectable" Thief.?The Savannah Advertiser contains an account of an express robbery committed by a young man of such in? fluential connections that the Advertiser does not dare to give his name. It seems that since about the 1st of last February a firm on the Bay have had sums of money repeatedly taken from express packages that they have forward <"r] Lo iheir correspondents. A young man, who was in their employ, had at various times been seen with more money than a clerk drawing forty dollars per month should have. He had .been playing cards, and had lost sums of over a hundred dollars. The other day he appeared before a justice as bondsman for a friend, and the judge being unwilling to take his bond, de? manded security, and he offered a check on the Savannah Bank and Trust Company for $250, showing at the same time the pass-book with that amount to his cre'dit. On presenting the check the next day the teller at the bank said that the signature was not that of the party who owned the pass-book. The young man on being told what the teller had said, acknowl? edged that the pass-book belonged to his father. The father was then spoke to about the matter, and he said that the money was there in his name, although it was his son's, and that his son had said it was a present from his em? ployer for him to take a trip North in the sum? mer. This was known to be false, and the young man finally acknowledged that he had been accustomed to put the sealing wax on the packages after they were given to him sealed up, and when the occasion oHered lie would open them, take out some of the money, and then reseal them and put on the wax. This he has been doing for three months, until Iiis deficit has reached $1,5100. Iiis employer refuses to proseccf, but the matter is already in the hands < the law and the young man in jail. ? A Philadelphia court has decided that a landlady has a right to get rid of a boarder who does not pay, by covering the shcuts of hit) bed with thistles. I . All Sorts of Paragraphs* ? "This is not gain," a3 the spider said when he caught the fly. ? People by whom you never wish to be cut dead?the doctors. ? When a man can't find anything to do, he has lived long enough. ? A Spanish proverb says "A kiss without a mustache is like an egg without salt." ? Those who rise to eminence suddenly are very apt to come back by the next train. ? "They fired two shots at him," wrote an Irish reporter; "the first shot killed him, but the second shot was not fatal." ? It has been said that every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others and his idleness from himself. ? A man who loved brandy very much found it had two very bad qualities: "Put wa? ter with it, and you spoil it; do not put water with it, and it will spoil you." ? Juries are placed at a disadvantage when locked up. They could come to an understan? ding and agree much quicker if allowed to go at large and converse with influential citizens who take interest in the cases to be considered. ? An East Tennessee contemporary esti? mates that 300,000 dogs wilt be killed in the State, their owners declining to pay the tax under the new law. Yet there are people who persist in declaring that it wasn't a righteous enactment. ? A Milwaukee chap kissed his girl about forty times right along, and when he stopped the tears came into her eyes and she said in a sad tone of voice: "Ah ! John I'fear you have ceased to love me." "No I haven't," replied John, "but I must breathe." ? A model lover thus writes to his idol : "As I could not see your sweet old face, look into your sweet old eyes, kiss your sweet old lips, and gaze upon your sweet old form, I went out and enjoyed some stout aud mutton." Is there any poetry in that man ? ? A young man in Illinois complains of the disadvantage under which he is doing his courting. He says he usually meets the object of his affection on the neutral ground of the parlor, with the old lady in one corner, the old gentleman in another, and a big dog under the melodeon. ? "Stay," he said, his right arm around her waist ami her face expectantly turned to him, "shall it be the kiss pathetic, sympathetic, graphic, paragraphic, Oriental, intellectual, paroxysmal, quick and dismal, slow and unc? tuous, long and tedious, devotional, or what?" She said perhaps that would be the better way. ? A woman in an Ohio penitentiary recent? ly received a letter from her husband, which the warden, who had held the office for many years, says it is the first instance on record of a female prisoner receiving a letter from her husband, although the male prisoners continu? ally receive letters from their female friends and relatives. ? Mr. Sullivant, the Ford county (111.) "Corn King," has one hundred plows running already. He intends to plant ten thousand acres in corn, and has rented nine thousand acres more to be planted in corn. He will put twenty-five hundred acres in flax, one thousand acres in oats, and expects to cut eight thousand tous of hay. ? John Harper, seuior member of the great printing and publishing firm of Harper Broth? ers, who has been ill for some time from the effects of a stroke of paralysis, died at his resi? dence in New York on Friday last, aged seven? ty-eight. Of the four brothers composing the firm only one survives, which is Fletcher Har? per, the youngest. ? At Pompeii they recently found a curious record. It was scratched on the stucco of a kitcheu wall, and has been thus translated: "Lighted the fire, cooked his meals, aud sVept his house for him twenty-eight thousand times, to tliis day, and he refuses to take me to the circus." Beneath this, in a different hand, is written : "Women are never satisfied." ? Mrs. E. L. Irwin, of Hannibal, Mo., a high? ly respectable young widow, tied a clothes line around herself and little girl, only six years old, fastened the other end to a stake in the ground, aud taking the child in her arms, she deliberately walked into the creek, and both were drowned. Financial embarrassment and disappointment iu love is the cause of this tragic occurrence. ? A lew evenings since, Thompson was boring a supper party with a most interminable yarn, when one of the company broke in with, "I'll tell you what, Thompson, whoever told you that story did not tell you the whole of it." "Certainly he did," said the astonished Thomp? son ; "I know every word of it." "Must be some mistake, Thompson," persisted his friend ; "he never could have told you the end of it." ? At a recent spelling match in Columbia, Tenn., for the benefit of one of the churches there, the teacher premeditatedly brought on a personal difficulty between a clerk in a grocery store and the word "rhapsody." No sooner was the unoffending word thrown at the young man than, with the wildest confidence in his ability to knock both Worcester and Webster into the middle of next week at a single blow, he hurled it back, mangled, mutilated aud bleeding, thus: "W-r-a-p, wrap, s-o, so, wrap so, d-a, wrapsoda." ? Speaking of the tragic death of the late Mrs. Margaret Biugham, murdered in East Boston, Zion'a Herald says: "A clergyman relates to us a singular incident which came directly to his knowledge. The night before her death she told one of her friends she had suffered from a terrible dream which she could not throw off. She dreamed that she was mur? dered. She remarked that she was not afraid to die, but was terribly shocked at the idea of such a form of death. How singular, at times, these mysterious mental pictures of coming events cast their shadows upon us! Or was a Divine whisper preparing the soul for the hour of extreme discipline?" A Move in the Eight Direction.?We understand that many of the farmers of An? derson County have combined to make their own manures this year by purchasing the chem? icals necessary and manipulating them them? selves. In this way they save more than half the cost of the Fertilizers they use, and have a more reliable article. Why cannot the same thing be done in Union Uounty ? Surely we have the same facilities and equally as intelli? gent and enterprising farmers as Anderson. It seems to us that every time an effort is made in this County to make an innovation upon a custom which hits been in vogue for any time, short or long, some one jumps up and presents what he imagines to be many in? surmountable objects and opposition to its successful results. No one is willing to get out of the old beaten path ; and consequently we hear nothing but grumbling at the year's results of the farm work. No one will risk a dollar of money or expend a day of time to make improvements upon old customs or ways. There are hundreds of men in this County who would rather make half a crop every year du? ring their lives, in the old familiar way, than put themselves to the least trouble or expense to treble their crops or permanently reduce the cost of production hereafter. Men would rather give liens on their crops for Fertilizers at ?G0 per ton than put them? selves to the trouble of making equally as good manures at $30. And the worst feature in all this matter is the fact that many have become so accustomed to giving liens on their crops that they begin to think they cannot carry on their farming operations without it, and that it is actually necessary for them to turn over one-half or the whole of their crop to the mer? chant at ihe end of the year, in order to feel j sure of having bread and meat the next year, j ? Union Times. The Scarcity of Beef. The Macon Telegraph sounds a note of warn? ing on the beef question. We are told for ex? ample thai, having eaten our surplus stock, we have fairly exhausted Tennessee. It the people of Georgia do not pay more^attention to the raising of grass and less to the killing of it; and if they neglect the rearing of live stock while depending upon^her States for a supply, the timeis notdistanfljpen only the rich can af? ford to buy beef or mutton daily. In England, two years ago, oysters were abundant and com? paratively cheap. They are now sold at $60 per bushel, and only eaten by millionaires. It was thought the beds were inexhaustible, but time has proved the reverse. They were dredged to death just as the Chesapeake Bay beds would be, if the State of Maryland did | not, by stringent laws and the employment of a costly "navy," prevent such a catastrophe. It is high time our Georgia farmers devoted a portion of their lands to grasses and a fraction of their capitol to raising beeves and sheep. If Capt. C. W. Howard is to be credited, there is no place on earth better adapted for diversi? fied industry and self support than Georgia. And yet there are few countries so utterly de? pendent upon other commonwealths for food. The opening of the Air-Line Railway demon? strated the capacity of the State for raising chickens. The drain upon that section of country, however, has been so prodigious that we doubt if the prices of this Winter for fowls and eggs will be ever seen again. When many farmers come to Augusta to purchase chickens, ducks, turkeys, etc., instead of briugirig them here for sale, it is a sad commentary upon the thriftlessness of a portion of our agricultural community. The only way for the South to grow rich again is to live, as much as possible, within herself. Beautiful Twin Brides in the West.? We had the pleasure to see the newly made twin brides at the Gibson House last night, and must confess that a more perfect exemplifica? tion of the French story of Girofle-Girofia could hardly exist. They were at supper with their husbands last night when we saw them, and a nice little tea party the four made. The bridegrooms are brothers, but not twins. It is not often in a lifetime that one is permitted to see two brothers married to twin sisters. The husbands are easily distinguished the one from the other. The elder one wears full whiskers, while the younger has simply a mustache. The trouble to be apprehended is in the same? ness of the wives, and a very pretty sameness it is. To use a homely but trite phrase, they are as like as two peas. To describe the one would be to describe both. They are of me? dium size, perfect brunettes, dress exactly alike, and seem to be about tweuty years old. Beau? ty has richly endowed these lair brides and placed its dimpled seal in the cheeks of each. How, in the order of human passion, it came to pass that either of the husbands could fall in love with his wife without falling in love at the same time with her sister passe* our un? derstanding. It has been suggested that each of the Morgan brothers fell in love with both the Stuart sisters, and, to settle the matter, put their sweethearts in a bag, shook 'em up, and drew cuts for the one that came out first. We suppose they know, but we don't see how ei? ther of them knows to which one of the twins he is married. They came in to supper, and by judicious assortment were seated each at the right hand of her husband. When they went out of the dining room one couple was allowed to get some distance in advance before the other started, to prevent confusion.? Cin? cinnati Enquirer. THE STJISr. DAILY AND WEEKLY FOR 1875. 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