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T. A. BURKE, Editor.
MACON , SEPT. 3, 1870.
Exchanges.
tPPLETON’S JOURNAL for
August, is one of the best yet
issued of that excellent work.
John R. Thompson’s “ South
ern Sketches” (illustrated by
Shepherd), Mrs. Oliphant’s
“ Three Brothers,” Anthony Trollope’s
“ Ralph the Heir,” and Dickens’ “Mys
tery of Edwin Drood,” are continued,
in addition to a large variety of shorter
articles. The monthly part for August
sells for 50 cents ; it is cheap at double
the price.
The Eclectic Magazine for September
is also received. It contains a finely
executed portrait of Moliere, an inter
esting paper on the recent Council at
Rome, an appreciative tribute to Dic
kens from the pen of Anthony Irollope,
and other interesting articles. Terms,
$5. E. R. Pelton, publisher, New York.
The September number ol the Phrcr
logical Journal cfind 'Packard's Monthly
contains the usual variety of “ fish, flesh
and fowl.” “The Women of the South”
will not thank Miss (or Mrs. ?) Laura C.
Holloway, one of the strong-minded,
for her “great movement for the eleva
tion and amelioration of the whole body
of Southern women.” It will be a bit
ter day for the South, when our mo
thers and sisters take the great body of
Northern women for their model. Ihe
late war has brought many evils upon
us, but we hope to be delivered from
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New Books.
Sister Rose; or Saint Bartholomew's Eve.
By the Author of “Mistress Margery,”
etc. Philadelphia: American Sunday
School Union.
Some of you children may have read
or heard of the terrible massacre of
St. Bartholomew’s Eve, when so many
h-tuidreds of French Protestants were
butchered in cold blood. The volume
before us is a true story, showing how
a girl of sixteen did, with God’s bles
sing, bring her little brother safely out
of this terrible massacre, by hiding him
in a panier, and covering him over with
vegetables. The author claims that the
events narrated are strictly historical.
It is certainly a story of rare interest.
Hungering and Thirsting. By the Author of
“ Willie and Lucy at the Sea-side,” etc.
Same publishers.
Kitty Swinton, a poor, ignorant, little
girl, finds a bit of paper on which she
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reads the words: “Blessed are they
which hunger and thirst.” Strange
words to one to whom hunger has
brought so much misery. But through
the blessed teachings of a kind lady
she learns to understand how hunger
and thirst are blessed to those who
apply for relief to the Heavenly source
of all joy.
The Swallows of Leigh Farm. Same pub
lishers.
A beautifully written and prettily il
lustrated story for children, telling of
the sayings and doings of the swallows
of Leigh Farm. In its dainty binding of
blue and gold, it is one of the prettiest
and most desirable juveniles we have
seen in a long time.
Fergus Morton: A Story of a Scottish Boy.
By J. R. McDuff, D.D. Same publishers.
A well written story from the pen of
Dr. McDuff, a celebrated Scottish di
vine, in which the history of a little
orphan boy is traced, and the value of
truth and honesty are exemplified. It
is well written, and will do good.
Aunt Winifred’s Legacy. Same publishers,
One of the best books we have read
in years, and one that we take special
pleasure in recommending.
Little Mollie Digby Pound.
Lj| !(» ■ E are sure ie little readers
ie Weekly will be de
lighted to learn that the little
Y-Aaa 5 girl who was stolen from her
parents in New Orleans, 011
T the 9th of June, has been
found, and restored to her almost dis
tracted mother. We gave an account
of her abduction in the Weekly of July
30th. The story of her recovery is a
long and very interesting one, and we
should be glad to give it in full if we
had room, but must condense it in to a
few paragraphs.
Early on Tuesday morning, the 9th
of August (just two months from the
date of its loss), Mr. Digby received a
call from an elderly gentleman, who
stated that he had a little girl at his
house that he was quite sure was Mr.
Digby’s lost child. He went with this
gentleman to his house, and found his
little Mollie. Hastening home with
her, she was soon clasped in her mo
ther’s arms.
Captain Broadwell, the gentleman
who restored the child to her parents,
states that Mrs. Broadwell had brought
the child from the house of a negro
women of the name of Ellen Follen, on
the previous evening, and, guessing its
identity, Captain Broadwell early next
morning gave information to Mr. Digby.
The police had some days previously
searched the house of the woman Fol
len, but she had secreted the child.
The account she gave, when examined
after the child was found, is that the
little girl had been left before her door
on Wednesday a week before, by ano
ther colored woman, and not wishing
to keep it, she had handed it over to
Mrs. Broadwell. On the other hand,
her son, a boy of about sixteen years of
age, testified that it had been there a
month. Both she and her son were
arrested, and are now in custody.
Later accounts state that a mulatto
woman, named Louisa Murray —a sister
of Ellen Follen—has been arrested in
Mobile, and taken to New Orleans, where
she was recognized by Miss Rosa Gor
man, the young lady who had the child
in charge the evening it was stolen, and
its little brother. Without hesitation
they identified her as the abductress.
There could be no mistake. They are
as positive of her identity as that they
live. She denies her guilt, but it is a
bewildered denial; and there is little
doubt she will } r et confess all she knows
about it. She is now in prison.
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The Cherokee Rose.
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SE legend of the Cherokee
tgSi rose is as pretty as the flower
r* it se u'. An Indian chief, of
the Seminole tribe, was taken prisoner
by his enemies, the Cherokees, and
doomed to torture, but fell so seri
ously ill that it became necessary to
wait for his restoration to health be
fore committing him to the fire. And
as he lay prostrated by disease in
the cabin of the Cherokee warrior,
the daughter of the latter, a young
dark-faced maid, was his nurse. She
fell in love with the young chieftain,
and wishing to save his life urged him
to escape; but he would not do so un
less she would flee with him. She con
sented. Yet before they had gone far,
impelled by soft regret at leaving home,
she asked permission of her lover to re
turn for the purpose of bearing away
some memento of it. So retracting
her footsteps she broke a sprig from
the white rose which climbed up the
poles of her father’s tent, and preserving
it during her flight through the wilder
ness planted it by the door of her new
home in the land of the Seminoles.
And from that day this beautiful flower
has always been known between the
capes of Florida and throughout the
Southern States by the name of the
Cherokee rose.
A Clergyman, who had been staying
for some time at the house of a friend,
on going away called to him little Tom
my, the four-year-old son of his host,
and asked what he should give him for
a present. Tommy, who had great res
pect for the “cloth,” though it was his
duty to suggest something of a religious
nature, so he answered hesitatingly,
“I —I think I should like a testament,
and I Icnoiv I should like a pop-gun 1”
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The moment you think you are “ too
good” for your place of labor, then the
place becomes too good for you.
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will be given, if preferred ; the party getting
it to pay the difference in cost. Knabe & Cos.
make no Pianos at $500.J
2. Sewing Machine. First class; worth
S7O.
3. Sewing Machine, of approved make,
to be selected by the party to whom it is
awarded; worth $55.
4. Family Bibles (Bagster’s Comprehen
sive, medium quarto), with Apocrypha, Con
cordance, and Psalms in Metre; with Two
Steel Plates, and Family Record in Colors;
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edges, sls.
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the same, French morocco binding, $18; the
same, with clasp, S2O.
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6. Photograph. Albums, To contain—
-30 Pictures, handsomely bound, $1 50 to $2
50 “ “ “ $2 50 to $5
100 “ “ “ $4 50 to $9
200 •* “ “ $lO to $lB 50
These Albums are as good as are made, and
all the above are New York prices.
7. Games for Home Amusement.
The Zoetrope, or Wheel of Life $4 00
American Squails, 4 styles, 50c., $1 75,
$2, and 2 50
Checkered Game of Life 1 00
*What Is It? or The Way to Mako
Money 60
’’Alphabets Bewitched 25
“The llistoriscope 1 25
*Santa Claus Panorama 1 25
*Smashed-up Locomotive 75
*Disseeted Map of United States 100
Kriss Kringle’s Christmas Tableaux ... 1 50
*Wilson’s Metallic Jackstraws 35
*The Blind Abbot and the Monks 50
*The Social Oracle 50
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