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ATHENS, GA. SEPTEMBER 15, J871.
VOL. XLI.—NO. 3—MEW SERIES,
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Business Directory.
ujiait conn. a. s. kiwis, nownx cobb
Cobh, erwix & cobb,
\ XT OltNEYS AT LAW,
."V. Athena, uoorgla. Offie* in the Deeptec
It ICO Alt *T.. ATIIKNK, «A.
IRON, PLOW STEEL,
t STEEL. HOES,
NAIL'S, PLOWS,
MILL SAWS, COTTON GINS,
And General Hardware and Cutlery, at
Wholesale and Retail.
SUMMEY <fc NEWTON
then*, Ga., April 14th. tf No. 0 Broad St.
ARTHUR EVAN??,
Watchmaker & Jeweller,
(LATE WITH CHILDS & MOSS,)
RESPECTFULLY announces to
the citizens of Athens and vicinity that he
has located at «h«* New Drug Store of Dr. Win.
King, and is pre|»artd to do all kinds of repair* on
Watches, Ci.»cks, Jewelry, etc. A11 work promptly
done aud warranted. [Apr. 11—3m.
, , n. a. CASBLER,
\ TtORNEY AT LAW,
a. V Jloairr, Bunk* County., tia. Will practice
t» the oouk’.ir* Hunk*, Jaclcson, Hall, llat»tr-
ihsta and Franklin.
H4STIX W. HIDKN,
\ T T O li N E Y A T L A W ,
/and Notary FuMic, Athens, Ca. Will pra* -
t jet in the Western circuit; will give particular
•;tmtlon to the collection of claims, and will act as
o«nt f«*r the purchase and sale of real estate and
j»ay U**» on wild lands. JanlMf
TO THE PUBLIC.
T HAVE PURCHASED the inter-
estof Mr. Wm. J. Morton in the late firm of
Hitch «t Morton, and will continue the business.
I hope, by fair dealing to retain the customers of
the lute firm, and to receive a fair share of the
trade in my line of business. A fresh stock of
Clothing and Furnishing
Goods
will he received tor the Commencement trade.
July 21. J. E. RITCIL
»SF.LTO>', C. W. SEIDELL,
SKELTON & SKI DEI L.
TORN EY S AT L A W,
411. Hart County. Georgia.
PITTMAN A IlINTON,
A TTORNEYS AT LAW,
ll Jcff.raon, Jmchaon county, tin.
SAMUEL V. THURMOND,
A T T O R N E Y A T LAW,
xL Athens, (la. Office on Broad itreet, oyer
Usrry A San's Store. Will give special attention
tseasrtsin Bankruptcy. Also, to the collection of
all claims entrusted to his care.
J. J. k J. i\ AI.KXAMIKII,
1 DEALERS IX HARDWARE,
L-r Iron Steel, Nr"* irriuge Material, Mining
■pi....Ola, Ac., While,, illAtlanta.
M.VAX ESTES,
A TTORNEY AT LAW,
•JTjL lluuttr, ll»nk« County, Ga.
j. it. trri.KSKKT.
\ T T O R N E Y A T L A W ,
JT\- Caroesvtllc, Franklin countr, Ga. Office
sitrly occupied by J. F. Langston, Esq. U21
A. B. FAItqiTIAR,
htpitlor of Penneylvsnia Agricultural Works,
Maasfacturer of Iroprovtd [YOUK, Pknm’a.
NCUOHbVnM, M HR£52S5J £SW ’
CULTIVATORS
Uom*-Po\v*ns, Tiiel.su-
. i»<> M 1c1n.VE-s.4te., A..
Seed fur lllaitntti CsldcjM.
WM. WOOD,
DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF
P U RNITURE.
XPURNITURE REPAIRED, UP-
JL’ bolstered and varnished, also a large variety
of wood coffins and Flak'a Patent Metalic Burial
Cases always ,,u hand.
Ware rooms on Clayton St., next to Episcopal
Church. Sej.9 6m. WILLIAM WOOD.
Fireside Miscellany.
The Beautiful Gate.
Lord, open (he door, l'or I falter;
I faint in this stifled air.
In dust and stmitness I lose my breath:
This life of sell is a living death:
Let me into thy pastures bread t.nd fair.
To the sun aud the wind from thy
mountains free:
Lord, open the door to me!
There is a holier life, and truer
'I han ever my heurt bus found ;
There is a nobler work than is wrought
within
These walls so charred by the fires of
sin.
Where I toil like a captive blind and
bound :—
An open door—to a freer task
In Thy nearer .smile I ask.
Yet the world is Thy field, Thy garden;
On earth art Tbon still ut home ; *
When thou beudest hither Thy hallowing
eye.
My narrow work-room seems vast and
high,
Its dingy ceiling—a rainbow dome ;
Stand ever tlius by my narrow door,
And toil will be toil—no more.
Through the rosy portals of morning,
Now the times cf sunshine flow
Over the earth ami the glistening sea.
The praise Thou inspirest rolls back to
Thee.
Its tones through the infinite arches go ;
Yet crippled and dumb behold me
wait,
Dear Lord ! at the beautiful gate.
pay over the $5,000 to the winning, a minute’s hesitation, Mr. Adams did
as requested, when several of the gen
tlemen went to him. He was found
The Integrity of the Bible.
O’HARA’S
Giant Pocket Corn Shelter,
P RICE ONLY SI 50. Call and see
it at CHILDS. NICKERSON A CO’S.
HARNESS LEATHER,
TT’OR SALE BY
JD CHILDS, NICKERSON A CO.
Carriage, Buggy & Wagon
A LARGE and well selected assort-
men!, for sale by
CHILDS, NICKERSON & CO.
Horse, Cow, Hog & Chicken
NK W DRUG iSTORE.
FLOUR A FEED STORE!
0.Y COLLEGE AVENUE,
(OPPOSITE NEWTON HOUSE.)
Wit. henry HL'LL.
M .5 :i
Wilkie Collins’ Novels.
\ KMADALE; iwjmt, SI l>0 ;—
- V cloth, $.\ Man aihI Wife ; paper, Si ; t-lolh,
}» 50. The Muoo-Siono ; |*4Ikt, Cl 50 : cloth,
S . S' one . pa,*er, 51 50; cloth: 2. The Woman in
a'n.t ; t>»|vr§i 5v>: cloth, 52 F«*t smIc y
HS-tj T A. BURKE.
New Rooks.
r piIF. COMIC BLACKSTONE; by
1 ... A • i • 11 A'lkt-kcll, villi illU'Inttion*
l; it "itic c 11 ii; v . :inr.. One *arge volume. 52 50.
Way u 1 !»»• ii i Die? or, the Child from the
F.urtpiK-nu: 1’i'o.u the German; by Mt>. A. L.
llent D- iu^ volume first of Science f<»r the
Young; by Jacob AMxjtt, with uuinerous illustra
tion*. $1 50.
Callirnou. By Maurice Sami (son of George
Stuii). I torn tne Frvm h, by S. A. Driwiite, of
Nrw Orleans. 5l 75.
better than Phvsic; or, Every body** Life
or; by W. W. (lull, M. D. SI 50.
I cat heu Chimv; by lire! llarte, with eight
For Sale or Exchange.
I HAVE 3u0 acres of land in Cle-
Imrue Co., Ala., « hich 1 will sell cheap, or ex
ebamje for real . .tale in this city. There are M
acres clcarcil, ;ISof it the best iK.ttom luml on lane
creek, pr«Mlm:tiig 50 to 75 bosbels of corn htr ucre,
and cotton in proportion. The reiumiuaer is in
the wonds. The farm is JO miles from the Selma,
Rome and Dalton Railroad, one and a«|uarter miles
from ihe county site. F>lwards\ilie, 6 miles from
tiie located del*ot of the Columbus and Ciiat-
Urioutta Kailrmul, and one mile tr«m ttie route
of ttie (irilhn ant > i
There is an exeelle it
longiim to the {da
rented cbea.p and is a
S]>l. mli<l Staud for a Country Store.
Titles indisputable. For further information »i>*
plv It*, or address
On. J. W. MURRELL,
March 31-3m Athens, Ga.
Alalau
d e h
hich cau
Iltilroad
e u it be-
bvAight or
THE GEM! THE GEM!!
' IMU: BEST FRUIT JAR ever in
vented. For sale at the
NEW DRUG STORE.
HI AT BROWN’S GIN I pur
cllascd of buuiniey a Newton (Ageuls for it
Athens, niniil two years ago, is as good as new
r. and there D in He better.
TIIOS. HOLDER.
ill ust ratiou
• 25 will*.
SUMMEY & NEWTOi’l
mjiurlrn an,1 Dealer* in
\»,W, Kails. Hollow Ware
) iiuiio) liuiiun nuiuj
lTlr “V nrita. 4NVII.N. TI»Ea,
IIIKDWAIIB. A*",
ihiKid Street, At/ten*. Ga.
Ao
bWfi' Niirthrnstorn Railroad, j
Athens, June 17; 1S7I. $
r ^ hereby given that the
Gsurr . I/ I {,f >u, ’^ r iptlon to the Northeastern
thfo v 1 * art * now open for subscription, at
.a H i»t*r cent on the suhscriheJ
. H pur cent on the subscribed
1 n °* oue and payable to R. L. Moss, Troas-
0| " < * e Po*i©», at Jefferson, llomer, Ilar-
-w/omre and Lexington.
, R L Bl,OOM FI ELD. Acting President.
i un ' ^"roRD, Secretary.
Notice to Planters.
\\rE HAVE perfected arrange-
YV ments wit tbe lir»*wn Cotton Giu Co., so
that we can allow time on these celebrated Gins.
All letters chctrftilly answered.
SUMMEY & NEWTON.
fall and Winter Importation,
1871.
RIBBONS,
Millinery and Straw Goods
ARMSTRONG, GATOS & CO.,
IMPORTERS AND JOnDKRS OF
BONNET, TRIMMING, AND VELVET
IBUStBtaHSs
]ion net Silks, Satins and Velvets,
Blinds. Netts, Crapes. Bnchts. Flowers, Feathers,
, ORXAMEXTS,
longs & billups, L,
‘ - TO., |f
TRIMMED AND UNTRIMMED,
SIIAKKlt IIOODS, AC.
237 and 239 Baltimore Street,
It is a matter of congratulation that
the Bible has passed triumphantly
through the oideal of verbal criticism
English infidels of the last century
raised a premature paean over the dis
covery and publication of so many va
rious readings. They imagine that the
popular mind would be rudely and
thoroughly shaken, that Christianity
would be placed in imminent peril of
extinction, and that the Church would
be dispersed aud ashamed at the sight
of the tattered shreds of magna Charta.
But the result has blasted all their
hopes, and the Oracles of God are
found to have been preserved in im
maculate integrity. The storm which
shakes the oak only loosens the earth
around its roots, and its violence ena
bles the tree to strike its roots deeper
in the soil. So it is that Scripture has
gloriously surmounted every trial.—
There gathers around it a dense “cloud
of witnesses,”—from the ruins of Nin
eveh and the valley of the Nile; from
the slabs ami (/asrc/iV/s of Sennacherib
and the tombs ami monuments of Pha
raoh ; from the rolls of Chaldee para
phrasis and Syrian versionists; from
the cells and libraries of monastic
scribes and the dry and dusty labors of
scholars and antiquarians.
Our present Bibles are undiluted by
the lapse of ages. These Oracles, writ
ten amid such strange diversity of time,
place, and condition—among the sands
and ditfs of Arabia, the fields and hills
of Palestine, in the palace of Babylon
and in the dungeons of Rome—have
come down to us in such unimpaired
fullness and accuracy, that we are
placed as advantageously toward them
as the generation which gazed upon the
book of law, or those crowds which
hung on the lips of Jesus as he recited
a parable on the shores of the Galilean
lake, or those Churches which received
from Paul or Peter one of their epis
tles of warning or expostul tion. Yes!
the river of life, which issues out from
beneath the throne of God and of the
Lamb, may, as it flows through so
many centuries, sometimes bear with it
the earthly evidences ot its checkered
progress; but the great volume of its
water has neither been dimmed in its
transparency, nor bereft of its healing
virtue.—North British Review.
man.
The mode adopted for settling the
question was planned hv Hampden,
the advocate of the flat theory, aud the
experiment appears to have been con
ducted in all respects as he desired.—
The ground selected was a six mile
level, on the Bedford Canal. Three
long poles of equal length were pro
vided, and' planted at equal depths,
and at a distance of three miles apart.
A telescope was then employed, through
which it was clearly and unmistake-
ably perceived that the central pole
was five feet above the level line of the
telescope, which at once proved that
the earth was not fiat but rotund: Mr.
Hampden expressed himself satisfied
that he had lost the bet, and the money
was accordingly paid over by the referee
to the winner, Mr. Wallace.
The experiment and the telescope
were level, but not so the head of Mr.
Hampden. He that’s convinced against
his will, is of the same opinion still.
It was not long before Hampden woke
up to the mortifying conclusion that he
had made a blunder, or that in some
way he had been befogged. His reason
told him that the earth was still flat,
not round, as that lying telescope and
those fibbing poles had affirmed. He
concluded, also, that Wallace was a
thimble rigger, pickpocket, a liar,
and a swindler, and went about pro
claiming these libels in the most un
blushing manuer. This so annoyed
Wallace that he brought suit for libel
against Hampden, and the jury lately
mulcted him in $3,000 damages, mak
ing a sum total of $5,500 cash paid out
on accouut of his theory that the earth
is flat. Poor Hampden is indeed a
martyr to science.—Scientific American.
to be wounded as mentioned, and as
the wound was bleeding very freely a
wagon was procured in which he was
conveyed to the Worsham House,
where he had been boarding. Drs.
Rogers and Lynch were summoned
and madcan examination of the wound.
The surgical aid arrived too late,
however, for he gradually sunk under
the excessive hemorrhage until a few
minutes after one o’clock, when he
died.
MR. BROWSES STATEMENT OF THE AF-
An Avalanche reporter called at the
station house last evening and convers
ed with Mr. Browne, from whom he
received the following statement:
I don’t care to go into particulars
getting a gun, but finally hired one for
three days, telling the man that I was
going hunting. I just walked into the
store and had the gun pulled down ou
him before he saw me, when he drop
ped, as if shot, behind the counter. I
ran around some ladies who were in
the store and shot him. My gun snap
ped the last time. After shooting him
I walked out and came to the station
house, where I gave myself up. My
daughter told him some time ago that
if I ever found it out that I would kill
him on right He laughed at her and
“ allowed” that he could shoot, too. 1
gave him uvery show, but he would
not repair the damage he had done me;
and this is ill that was left me to do.
While making his statement, Mr.
Browne evinced much emotion; at
times, half-suppressed sobs swelling up
in his throat so as to almost stop his
about this thing, as it is a very unpleas- s P eech ’ whUe hia micd with tears ’
A Just Retribution.
An Old Nempaper Man Kills a Clerk
for Ruining His Daughter.
BROAD ST., ATHENS,
DEALERS IN
DRUGS AND
I
«/:o.,\$trar ail Radies’ gats,
chemicals,
DYE-STUFFS,
PAINTS,
OILS,
GLASS,
PUTTY,
ST YTIOJNERY ;
rtWrURRY. MQIJ0R8. BITTERS.
A SD KVERYUHING usually
V.r" ,u ‘»5- ttpl in a Firat Claaa Drug Store.
1 •>*» been nerd in the aeleclion
I 10 *b* Purity and reliability of out
I JV-'u'lir. and phyaielanaare assured that
I Our fc’M with proiuptneaa and fidelity.
iSL K *FANCY GOODS
pekfumehy' tmbnelat **"** T * rle,y
toilet articles,
brushes,
COMBS, &C.
Aye
i» . .‘" D anri
Hitter,
"'“"3'ind
» l'rf|.urations. Hurley’a
4 xapar’lla. Urate’s
’ Crimean
BtliTlllOKR, no.
Offer the largest stock to be found in this conn-
try, and unequalled In choice variety nod cheap
ness, comprising the latest European novelties.
Orders solicited, and prompt attention given.
Aug II St
Wm. A- Talmafige,
POST OFFICE. COL. AVENUE, ATI1EX
Is the World Round or Flat I
A few minutes after ten o’clock yes
terday morning an elderly man, dress
ed plainly as if a farmer, carrying a
double-barrelled shot-gun, entered
Sessel’s dry goods store, on Main
street, and asked for some lawns. One
of the clerks, Mr. Thomas J. Beasley,
showed him several pieces, after which
the man asked to see some domestics.
This class of goods was kept in the
rear portion ot the store, and asking
his customer to step back, Mr. Beasley
started in that direction. Near the
center of the store is the “ wrapping”
counter, aud when they came to it Mr.
Beasley asked the man if he would not
leave his gun there until they returned.
“ Oh, no; I don’t care, I will just
carry it along with me," was the reply
and they passed on hack.
To the right of aud near the end of
the store was the “ cassimere” counter,
under the charge of CapL J. Theodore
Adams. That gentleman was at the
time engaged in waiting upon some
ladies. In walking back Mr. Beasley
was a few feet in advance of his cus
tomer. and after passing the ladies
mentioned he turned to look for tliat
person. To his great astonishment he
beheld him with his gun at shoulder
taking deliberate aim at Adams.
Tliat gentleman, looking up and see
ing the man, dropped behind his coun
ter and commenced crawling towards
some boxes, behind which he could
screen himself. When he dropped to
the floor the man ran rapidly around
the end of the counter and again tak
ing aim fired, and immediately after
snapped the remaining barrel. The
contents of the gun—a quantity of large
buckshot—struck Mr. Adams in the me?
many „• ’ ,0o ** ! »iHr*GermanHlttfin,
' lavr !*>l»«»Ur preparation* alwaycon
iX?, 11 (j AIIDEN SEEDS
»n*i\ *!l l ,*'??'**. T! Mietl«* on hand and for
• uuuiny tlwlrwl Al*o Gnwa Seed.
,„ST. LOUIS LEAD,
W " rlf "r purv—th. bnt in th. market
XTEW cn 111 ’ 8 C ° 0k Book *
N EW SUPPLY just received, by
T. A. BURKE.
Dealer in Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silver-pie
Ware, Musical Instruments, Speotecles, Gun
Pistols, Sporting Equipments, Ac. Ac.
A Select Stock of American and Im
ported Watches, Double Uuna with
40 Inch barrel, rxcrllrml/ur long
ranor. Pistols of all kinds.
Penetration of bull 6%
iuchoa into wood.
With a desire to please all, will anil the above good
at very reasonable prices.
REPAIRING.
Watches, Clocka, Jewelry, Guns and Pistols,
promptly attended to in a satisfactory manner.—
laee for yourselves.
apr4
which we are offering at very low price*,
stoves sold by u*
WARRANTED IN
EVERY PARTICULAR.
SUMMEY & NEWTON.
About a year ago, an eccentric phi
losopher of London, England, named
John Hampden, having convinced him
self beyond all peradventure that the
world was flat, not round, os common
ly supposed, undertook the arduous
missionary work of converting man
kind to his way of belief. Not making
much progress by following the ordina
ry method of private preaching, he re
sorted to the expedient of offering a
bet upon the subject He made a pub
lic announcement, offering to stake
$2,500 against $2,500, to be put up by
any scientific man, that he cauld prove
that the earth was flat, and not round,
as every body else believed.
No one appears to have taken imme
diate notice of this absurd offer, where
upon Hampden came out with another
announcement, in which he boldly de
clared that scientific men knew they
were guilty of an imposition in pro
pounding the round theory, and that
in consequence, they were afraid to
take up his challenge, and stake $2,500
as he proposed.
But the challenge having come to
the notice of Mr. Alfred Russel Wal
lace, a gentleman ot high reputation,
and a member ot several scientific so
cieties, he accepted the conditions, and
put up his $2,500. This amount, to-
To Housekeepers.
TUST RECEIVED, a large assort-
?J ment af
WTOU
AU gether with a similar sum put up by
Hampden, was deposited, subject to the
order of the referee, Mr. Walsh, editor
of tbe Field newspaper, who was to
ant subject; but I will tell you the
events of the past few days.
Friday last I discovered my daugh
ter’s condition, but never learned its
author until yesterday morning. As
soon as I learned of it I went immedi
ately to Mr. Adams, who was staying
in Vessel’s and told him that he must
marry my daughter.
This was about 8 o’clock, and he told
me to go away, and he would meet me
at my store, 315 Second street. I went!
away and waited at my store until
hr lf-past ten, wliee, he not coming, I
again went to Sessel’s. Going up to
him I asked him why he lmd not come
to my store according to promise. He
made some frivolous excuse about aome
one being sick, and that he could not
neglect his business. I walked up to
him aud said (shaking his index finger
slowly, as if iu great earnestness),
“ You must meet me.” I then left
and returned to my store, where in a
short time his brother, John D. Ad
ams, made his appearance. He said
tliat he had heard there was some
trouble between his brother and my
self, and that he had come around to
see if he could not effect a compromise.
I told him that a compromise could be
effected in but oue way, and that was
by Adams marrying my daughter.
Telling me to come around to a cer
tain store on Union street he went
away. In company with my son I did
go around, and there met Adams. He
said he could not marry my girl, be
cause he had no money. I told him
that, while I did not have much, I
could and would help him along all in
my power. My daughter was willing
to marry him and 1 had nothing to
say.
He then proposed to send her off to
some quiet, secluded place, where she
could give birth to her child, after
which she could return home and the
world would he none the wiser.
Says I—“ What will you do with
the child ?”
“ Put it in an orphan asylum,” he
replied.
Oh, no!” says I, “ that will never
do; you must marry her.”
Upon his again flatly refusing to do
this I said, “ I will go unarmed to-day;
but if you do not marry my daughter
this day you take your own life in your
hand.” He laughed at me and said
that was a game two could play at,
aud that he could pull and shoot as
quick as I could. Coming out on the
sidewalk he said:
“ Well, 1 suppose you will not take
any advantage of me. You will give
me a show.”
Says I. “ What show did you give
What show did you give ray
A warrant was sworn out by Captain
Athey before Recorder Scales during
the day, upon which a preliminary ex
amination will be held this morning.
Mr. Adams was an ex-Confederate
soldier, going all through the war up
to the battle of Petersburg, where he
lost his right leg, it being cut off by a
cannon hall. Since the war he has
been engaged in mercantile business,
and was esteemed by a large circle of
friends.
General J. W. S. Browne is an old
and much respected citizen. He has
resided in Memphis fourteen or fifteen
years, during the greater portion of
winch he has been a newspaper press
man. He connected himself with gas
fitting and plumbing a year or two
ago. Mr. Browne is a native of Ohio,
and many years ago was a brigadier
general of the Ohio militia, from which
tact was derived the title of general,
by which he is best known. He (in
connection with the late M. D. Potter.)
was one of the founders of the Cincin
nati Commercial. He is probably fifty-
five years old.
Farm Miscellany. j
Poultry as Farming Stock.
The press at tbe present time teems
with articles on poultry, written to
supply the wants of tbe public to be
informed respecting the rearing of poul
try as a source of animal food.
The majority of both the works aud
articles recently published are thor
oughly worthless compilations, con
cocted to supply this demand, and it is
therefore all the more gratifying to turn
to a practical article on the subject,
evidently written by a practical man.
Such a one was recently published in
the Agricultural Ornette, and from it
we may adyantageouriy reproduce the
following extracts respecting the man
agement of poultry as farming stock:
How many farmers might obtain lots
of new accommodations for poultry by
simply making use of the buildings
they already possess? and how many
The Etiquette of the Labor Question.
WeUHuTa'gotjd'iffhr aTiofil HSR eti-
qucite of the b'iU-nxmi, and Iwmnj wj»
children the importance of politene*4
and good breeding in their intercourse
with the world. It has been said that
“ manners make the mauand if it
be true that somethiug more substan
tial is needed to (lerfect the human
character, it must he admitted that
true politeness goes very far, not only
in regulating the influence which a man
or woman exerts, but is a mast impor
tant element of business success. True
politeness consists not only in pleasant
manners, but embodies the spirit of tb«r
golden rule, to “ do unto others as wo
would that others should do unto us.”’
The mere mannerism of the drawing
room—the graces of the French dano*
mg master—are but the “ sounding
brass and a tinkling cymbal,” if unac
companied by honesty of purpose, a fid
a plain, matter of fact sense of justice.
farmers consider fowls unworthy of Good breeding leads man, in Li i inter
consideration, because of some supposed | course with his fellow to
difficulty or expense in erecting suita- i •* Be to Ids \ irtucs ever kind,
ble houses ? And worse than this, how
Be to his faults it little blind.”
left leg, directly at the knee, shatter
ing the bone and cutting the femoral
artery. After snapping the other bar
rel of the gun the man turned around,
and, without saying a word, passed
through a row of terror-stricken clerks
to the front door, where he handed his
gun to a young man, who was evident
ly in waiting.
Standing for perhaps a half minute
an the sidewalk, as if deliberating, the
man started up Main street to the Ad
ams street station house. Meeting
Captain Athey at the station house he
said:
I wish to surrender myself. I shot
a man in Sessel’s store a few minutes
ago, and I guess I killed him.
Going in with him he gave his name
as J. W. S. Browne, and after being
searched was taken back and placed in
a cell.
Mr. Adams, after being shot, cried
out, “ Don’t shoot. For God’s sake,
somebody take him away.” The pro
prietor of the store and several em
ployes of the house who were up stairs
at the time, hearing the report and
daughter? I will take any and every
advantage of you that I can, as you
have done the same with me.”
We then separated and I returned
to my store, where Col. DuBose came
with John D. Adams about twelve
o’clock to see me. Colonel DuBose
said that he had come, as a mutual
friend, to see if this thing could not be
arranged amicably. I told him that it
could by Adams marrying my daugh
ter, and by that way ouly. He said
that Adams was willing to send my
daughter away during her accouche
ment, but that he would not marry
her. He also spoke of the disgrace
that would attach to my family by this
being made public. I told him that I
had thought of all that, but that my
honor was above all things. Says L
“ This is no child’s play; I am terri
bly in earnest, and that man must
marry my daughter.” That was the
last talk I had with them. When
returned home last night I met my
daughter and questioned her. She
told me that Adams had asked her if I
was a Mason. She told him yes, and
subsequent confusion, came runuiug he said that he was also a Mason, and
down, and were the first to ga to Mr.
Adams’ assistance. That gentleman
was evidently in great agony, and was
brandishing a revolver in bis band.—
Fearing to approach him while thus
excited, and not knowing how danger
ously he was hurt, one of the clerks
told him to throw away his pistol and
he would come to his aid. After about
that Masons were under obligations to
protect each other's families, and that
whatever they did that way was all
right. By this kind of talk he suc
ceeded in effecting bis purpose and
ruined my daughter.
Well, this morning I got up and told
some of my folks that I was going af
ter Adams. I had aome trouble
Concerning a Dictionary*
Who, that ever read it, has forgotten
the irresistible funy description of the
career of a dictionary, which Mark
Twain puts into the mouth of one
Coon, “ a nice, baldheaded man at the
hotel in Angel’s Camp,” In the Big
Tree region of the Calaveras county,
California. It was to a rexuest for tbe
loan of a book to enliven a rainy day,
that Coon replied:
“ Well, I’ve got a mighty responsi
ble old Webster Unabridged, what
there is of it, but they started her
sloshing around the camp before ever
I got a chance to read her myself ; and
next she went to Mury’s and from
there she went to Jackass Gulch, and
now she’s gone to San Andreas, and I
don’t expect I’ll ever see that book
| again. But what makes me mad is,
that for all they’re so handy about
keeping her sashshaying around from
shanty to shanty and from camp to
camp, none oi’em’s got a good word
for her. Now, Coddington had her a
week, and she was too many for him—
he couldn’t spell the words; he tackled
some of them regular husters, tow’rd
the middle, you know, and they thrtw-
ed him. Next Dyer, he tried her a
jolt, but he couldn’t pronounce ’em—
Dyer can hunt quail and play seven-
up as well as eny man, understand,
but he can’t pronounce worth a cent;
lie used to worry along well enough
though, till he’d flush one of lhem rat
tlers with a clatter of sylables as long
os a string of sluic-boxcs, and then
he’d finally lose his grip and throw up
his hand. And so finally Dick Stoker
harnessed her, up there at his cabin,
and sweat over her, and wrestled with
her for as much as three weeks, night
and day, till he got as far as R. and
then passed her over to ’ Lige Prcke-
rell, and said fhe was the all-firedest
drying reading that ever he slruck.’
A Medical Humbug Exploded.
—Lest some within the range of our
circulation be deluded to their injury,
we copy the folic wing paragraph from
the Washington .Patriot:
The September of the “ National
Medical Journal' of this city, gives a
quietus to the commercial speculation
in cundurango, which a ring of charla
tans and jobbers have attempted to
impose* on the public, as a cure for
cancer, by a persistent and shameless
exaggeration. There has not been a
single attested case of cancer, treated
with this vegetable, which has resulted
in any benefit whatever, and all state
ments to the coutrary are wholly un
founded. We say this with emphasis,
because the marvellous statements
about the pretended virtues of the
plant, originating in a ridiculous and
apocryphal story from Ecuador, were
fabricated and sent out from here,
which is the headquarters of the decep
tion.
All the experiments mode by reli
able medical men with cundurango,
in tbe navy, in private practice, and
now in the New York Hospital, prove
it to be utterly worthies, and nothing
more than a bold imposition.
many farmers try to make poultry pay,
without any result beyond continual
vexations, merely from lack of inge
nuity in brmgiug ordinary appliances
into play ? “ Why bother," they ask,
“about raising chickens in cowsheds
and outbuildings, when you can set out
as many coops as you like on the grass
of a paddock, the gravel of a stable-
yard, or upon the scattered rickyard
straw ?” Because, generally speaking,
half your chickens die under the com
mon farmyard treatment. They get
wet feet, and die of cramp; they drink
the high-colored soak-water of manure
heaps, rain water out of cart-ruts, or
the straw-yard drainings and other
filthy slops, and consequently sicken
and die by dozens. We have a troop of
adult breeding fowls loose in tbe farm-
ynrd; they pick up a large part of their
living there. But they do not thrive
so well or keep so healthy as other
troops of breeding stock which we have
stationed at houses purposely erected
in grass fields, far from the homestead.
For a very small sum you may knock
up a square boarded house, tarred out
ride, lime-whited inside, and covered
with asphalted felt Each of the four
sides is in a separate piece, the roof (if
of gable form) in two pieces, all hooked
together at the corners by staples and
pins. So a house (say six feet or Beven
feet cube) can be popped up in a cart,
and temporarily set up in a pasture, or
a stubble, or wherever there may be a
good picking fur the fowls. A couple
of perches, a few neats and a drinking
pan form the furniture; while the
ground covered in by the house (for
there is no wooden floor) is spread over
with loose earth, ashes and mortar.—
Such is the home for one cock and eight
or ten hens and pullets during the
breeding season, or the home of double
this number of half-grown chickens.—
The house should be placed against
a hedge, or in a corner where two
hedges meet, so that a few poles and
posts may protect it against cattle.
There can be no good reason against
grazing fowls as well as other “ ani
mals and the farmer who tries it for
the first time will be surprised at the
amount of “ grub" (literally, perhaps,)
which the active scratchers and peckers
find in a grass field, in and under the
droppings of sheep and cattle, among
hedge-roots, upon ditch sides, aud so
on; only a small supply of grain being
necessary twice a day. We wish that
many farmers may take our advice—
procure what hardy sort you most
fancy, Cochins or Brahmas that endure
close quarters, game that arc strong, old
English birds, Dorkings that like dry
chalk and gravel countries; or, if you
are in a low or wet neighborhood, on a
tenacious soil, put a Cochin cock to
Dorking females (no cross-breeds al
lowed for parents, mind; but get good
blood of pure breeds), and you will
have hardihood in your chicks as well
as weight and quality in your couples
for market
These suggestions are eminently prac
tical. Small portable poultry houses
of the kind recommended, however, are
no new feature. In Lord Holmesdale’s
park at Linton, numbers of those may
be seen scattered about the domain, and
in one respect they are superior to those
suggested by the writer quoted. Each
house is raised about two inches from
the ground, resting on the axels of two
wooden rollers, so that every few days
it can be moved, by the aid of a lever,
on to fresh soil, thus avoiding the de
struction of tbe grass underneath, and
preserving the air of the roosting bouse
in a constant condition of purity.
In reference to the last suggestion as
to rearing hardy table fowl, our expe
rience is much in favor of the converse
of bis recommendation, and putting a
short-legged Dorking code to Cochin
or, still better, to dark-pencilled Brah
ma bens. Size always comes from the
female ride, and Brahma hens are
heavy, hardy and very prolific, to say
nothing of their being good sitters and
admirable mothers.—London Field.
But the reader may ask, what ha#
this to do with the c iqueltc of the la
bor question? Much, every way.—
Every farmer—especially in these lat
ter days—is beset by difficulties grow
ing out of a proper regard for the righto
of others Our laborers arc ignorant,
and governed by caprices rather than
by a sense of what is right. In our
dealings with them we may do much
by example to elevate their low stand
ard of conscientiousness. The tempta
tion, an.i the practice too often is, while
stinging front a sense of injustice or
faithlessness ou their part, to rettfSafa
by violating the golden rule, and aveng
ing one wrong by the commission of
another. Our farms and our home*,
in countr}- and in town, arc beset with
annoyances on accouut of the recklefl#
disregard of contracts by laborers.—
These troubles are much aggravated,
and too often caused, by a loose habit
of hiring servants without stopping to-
ascertain whether they ure under obli
gation to others. Tom comes at early
dawn, and graciously taking off his
hat, inquires if you want a hand. The
crop is in the grass, the fodder is dry
ing up, or the cotton is ready to pick*
and Sam having left without cause, you
need a hand badly, and Tom is engaged
without even asking where he has been
living, or why he left his employer;
and as you need help you pay him
more than the usual wages, and ask
him to come to-morrow and, if possi
ble, bring two or three hands with him.
Now Tom had engaged by the year
with Smith, and left for some trifling
misunderstanding. Elated with hi*
success, Tom goes to Smith’s and p r-
sondes two or three more of his hand#
to leave, trader the prospect of better
wages by the day, with a negro’s heed
less indifference to the length of the
job. In a few days the crop is laid by,
the fodder is pulled, or the cotton
picked, and Tom is no longer needed,
and spends some weeks in idleness.—
Meantime Smith’s crop is ruined, and
when Tom goes back t» hfe» to hire for
the next year, and expresses the real re
gret he feels for leaving, Smith, having
lost confidence in him, wiafl aot hive
him, and he takes to stealing, from
sheer hunger, which, to bis nude mor
ality justifies the act.
And Sam, who was the apparent
cause of all these troubles, knocks
about until Fall—here a day and there
a day—and finds himself at the end
of the year ragged, without money, and
without a settled home. Possibly, too,
Sam was badly treated, and had good
cause for offense, which might have
been prevented by a simple act of sheer
justice; possibly he was wrong, and
might have been reconciled to stay, by
a little exercise of patience, and a little
kind advice.
Just such cases as these are constant;
ly occurring all over the country, and
the gossip of the day, among men and
women, teems with lamentations con
cerning the unreliability of labor. We
are not defending the efficiencv or fidel
ity of the negroes; but it is simple
truth to say that employees are sus»
gravely at fault. If the golden role
were more carefully observed, toward
servants and toward each other, by
employers, the evils of the labor sys
tem might be greatly mitigated. Let
employers first requireserronl*to bring
a written recommendation from those
with whom they have lived—and bo
careful not to hire those under engage
ment to others—and a great cause of
the prevalent demoralization would be
removed. Treat them honestly; pay
them fair money wages promptly; or
if they crop on shares, have their du
ties and their righto so plainly marked
out that they cannot misunderstand
them, and their interests and necessi
ties will attach them to settled homes,
their labor will be far more elective,
and many of the trying embarrass
ments of the labor system wi ll be rem
edied.
We have had more than one good
servant beguiled from our employ with
in a twelvemonth, by offers of higher
wages. These offers were thoughtlessly
made by neighbors and periMinalfriends,
who did not realize the wrong they
were doing to us or to the servants.—
They were in a strait for help, and
without thinking of tl «e righto of others,
or of the law they 1 iolated, hired the
first servant they oould get.
There is a first class opening for the
exercise of the “ golden rule” in this
matter of making and keeping eon
tracts, between employees and sen
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