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business Directory.
i.amak conn. a. fi. krwin. howell conn 1
COBB. ERWIN & COBB,
A ttorneys at law,
Athena, Georgia. Offlce la the Dcapree
betiding.
D. 0. CANDLER,
A TTORNEY AT LAW
■aTX. Honur, Bank* County. <ia. Will practice
la «ounlU« of Rank*, Jackson, Hall, llaber-
akaui and Franklin.
JUSTIN W. KIDKN,
A TTORNEY AT
L\.»n
L A W,
.and Notary PuMic, Athens, Ga. Will pra«-
lica in t ha Western circuit; will give particular
attention to the collection of claims, and will act as
agent for the purchase and sale of real estate and
pay taxes on wild lands. janl.Mf
J. N. MKKLTGN, C. IV. SfilDEI.L,
PITTMAN & HINTON,
A T T O RN E Y S A T L A W ,
Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga.
SAMUEL P. THURMOND,
A T T O R N E Y A T L A W ,
-s- A. Athens, Ga. Office on Broad street, over
Herr, A Hon*. Store. Will give special attention
to eases in Bankruptcy. Also, to the collection of
atil claims entrusted to his care.
J. J. A 1. C. ALKX.tMIKR.
D ealers in hardware,
Irou Steel, Nails, Carriage Material, Mining
tnp)«m<*nu,;,ic., Whitehall st., Atltiiti.
M.VAN ESTES,
A TTORNEY AT LAW,
-lX Homer, Dank)* County, (ia.
J. K. MTLFSKKY,
T O R N E Y A T L A W .
CarnesTille, Franklin countv, (ia. Office
aa.rl, oecujiicd by J. F. Langston, Esq. ia-'l
GROVERABAKER
SEWING MACHINES! !
FRONOFM KD T1IE HINT IN INK,
13Y ALL WIIO HAVE TRIED
.1.3 them. These machines, with r.ll the
IMPROVEMENTS
AND
ATTACHMENTS,
4c*7 he had, at manuftctuit r s prices, freight
te-Ked, at the
11 ANN EU OFFICE.
NOTICE OF CHANGE OF SCHEDULE
Georgia" r aTlroa i >.
A
Superintendent** Office, t
Georgia and Kanin .V a RaNmnd, -
August.!, G JaniMrv 20, JS71. )
|.v AM) AFTKU SUNDAY,
January 2.M, 1871, the l*ua*onger Trains will
run as follow*.:
o
run a
1 >ny Piissengcr
Traill, Daily, Sunday
Excepted.
6 30 p. m.
5 40 p. u.
Train.
8 30 p. m.
... 10 15 p. m.
Irsre Augusta a
Leave Atlantan!
Artive at Atlanta at.
Arrive al Augusta at
Night l\menrj(
Leave Augusta at. .’...
Leave Atlanta at
Arrive at Atlania at
Arrive at Augu-daal 7 30 a. in.
Herzrlia Passenger Train.
Leave Augusta at ...4 15 p. in.
Leave Be riel ia at 7 3ft a. ni.
Arrive at Augusta 1) 25a. m.
Arrive at Bcrzclia ~.6 00n. m.
Doth Day and Night Passenger Trains will make
■rloae connections at Augusta and Atlanta witli
Vassenger Trains of connecting r aids.
Passengers from Atlanta, Athens, Washington,
and stations on Georgia Hail road, hv taking the
Down Day Passenger Train will make close connec
tion at Camik with the M icon Passenger Train,
and roach Mac n the same Gay at 7 4ft p. m
Palace Sleeping (’arsonall Night Trains.
Schedule on Macon & Augusta Railroad.
To title Effect Jan. i'.i. 1871.
lift ween Augusta anti Mar on—Day Pas
senger Train Daily, Sunday Excepted.
1-rave Augusta at ...12 ftOnoon.
Lear# Macon at •’» 0»a. m.
Arrive at Macon at. 7 4‘> p. m.
Arrive at A:*gu«ta at 1 45 p. m.
The day Passenger Train arriving at Macon at
7 40 p. m., makes close connections witn Trait.s of
connecting Hoads at Macon.
Passengers leaving Macon at f» n. m., will make
clove con motions at (’.tmak with Ui> Dav Passenger
Train for Atlanta, Athens, Washington, nnd all
points on <ie.>r*i't R ii’rutd. and . • ntn At
lanta with
S. K. JOHNSON, SnpL
Send your Old Furniture to
WOOD’S
REPAIR SHOP,
Next to theEpiscojral Church,and have it
way 132 m MADE titlOD AS NEW.
Carriage, Buggy & Wagon
tl ITFIUAL.
A LARGE LOT direct from the
manufactory, and will \mj sold ns low ns can
be bought anywhere in the State, freight added.
__ SUMMEY & NEWTON.
Good Blacking Brushes,
AT $1 50 PER DOZEN.
AT TUB
NEW DRUG STORE.
E. S. ENGLAND & CO.,
^JUE NOW RECEIVING THEIR
NEW* FALL STOCK!
.^elected with care by one of the firm, in New
5 «>rk, to which they invite the attention of their
customers aud thep’ublic. They have a good assort
ment of
STAPLE&FANCI D0Y8GCDS
,iu »iiiHlli»,
HIKIMI IRR.
IKIHKIillV,
IIATM. CAPM,
It WOT <4,
Auil in ... . , Mil OK.,
_ • r ' rr ) dung in the way of
family andPlanlata Supplies,
SHARP & FLOYD,
Successors to George Sharp, Jr.,
-AND
A t.lanta, Ga.
W E OFFER a large variety of
FINE WATCHES,
CLOCKS,
JEWELRY,
SILVER WARE,
SPECTACLES,
FANCY GOODS,
FINE BRONZES,
AND STATUARY.
WE HAVE A FULL CORPS OF
WbUw&S jtgWYKB
ManuCacturemany Fine Goods
ImSJtHZ? ’ ,h ' ,p ’. ond * ro p™pa««l tu F1M, (\v
0IilX.lt' for k<km.« or work promptly.
»«-All Roods enxraved free uf rh'argr.
n c make a specialty or
PREMIUMS FOR EAIRSI
to Kive ■"'? information on a,,
plication. \\ «» guarantee the 1
LA RGEST ASSORTEM N T
the FINEST GOODS
THE LOWEST PRICKS,"
AN DTHE BEST WORK.
Call and see us.
SH ARP & FLOYD,
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May 25-1 y
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NORTH sir
GRAND-
jt ^
ORGIA
othei' ompartments of the carriage I
notice were lighted, but this one was
dark ; frat didn’t affect me. I didn’t
good many years ago, the regi- " ant ' * read, .s i took
EXHIBITION!!
FOR THE
Fanners, Mechanics and Houseicivet of l cer> * " ,e cos f of much subsequent
\ Al./Ji Y* .rt . I I 1 tV * 1 llll (I* (fO tk ik ., J
ment to which I then belonged was wax
quartered at Aldershot. After a long
absence from England, spent on a
parching rock In the middle of the Red
sea, bleak and dreary Aldershot seem
ed a very paradise. It was delightful
ly near London, too; leave was easily
to be obtained, and a great part of my
spare time, and more than all my spare
money, was spent by me in the me
tropolis—spent, I am sorry to say, in
riotous living and much disorder
Still, had it only been that, I shoql
possibly, like many of rny brother
a box of
es and proceeded to light a
pa«n, and weariness, and pinching,
j have passed through my cycle of dissi
pation, and settled down at last; but,
; i» addition to my youthful aberrations,
plaresufluuimportance,! tatve determined to bare ] I had a fatal predilection for games of
North-East Georgia.
Open a. eery Otty /
f|JHK SE ASON for Fairs is at hand anti being u:
JL willing that Athens should he Behind other
A C iiimcrcial Exposition,
.It My Old Stand, No. 7, Broad St.
To make the display attractive, I have visited
the Northern markets, and brought out many
ST O VKX.TZS! 8 T
Embracing a very handsome display in seasonable
Jay 0. GAILEY,
J-XVITES ATTENTION TO II1S i* t«i«
FALL STD OK
WS V*
be L.
V, SySy tAJ
8J5 ta E 10 „
CHIMNEYS AND
PURE KEROSENE OIL I
Call and examine hfo stock betore purchtsin"
sejit 15-tf. 1 * *“
\v v . wood;
DEALER IX ALL KINDS OF
furniture.
LT<URXITURi: IlEUAIRliD, IT-
-I- bulMornl nil.) - .riiinlu.il, „l,o :i Urjje variotv
iu wood cutting and t isk’s Meialie Burial
lanes always on hand.
\Xar. r.Kiins on Clayton .'t.. next to Eidumiial
Chnrch - Sep96m. WILLIAM WOOD.
CA SSfLZ, 2 A JJAJl.S,
designe Pt,
f ooi Ingravcr and Printer,
S. W. Corner Fovrtii and Walni t Strelts
Cincinnati, Ohio.
I.ork Box 226,
Sixty.Fire Kind frizi' Jtidain Awarded l
TIIK GREAT
Snutlierii I’iano
MANUFACTORY.
skill and chance,
I was the best whist player in the
regiment, a id could hold my owu with
the crack players of the clubs ; and bad
I stuck to whist, which, in my belief,
never ruined any man who had a head
upon bis shoulders, I could have made
a decent income out of my skill; but
An unusual assortment of j my moderate winnings at whist were
is ® G IB Esl9 | swallowed up, and much more lost be-
vrrio/y a r "oioAfoD'" 1 and an une ' luclK ' 1 1 sit,c . a t unlimited loo, blind hookey,
Pm* TTn mP -mt l T- irrn ’ hazard, and other kindred games. To
A. D1 XL03JIG mm 1 ill D1; j crown a ll, I took to backing horses,
In fact,ii,e i-tabii,iu-rcof ,re known «•>.., an d lost at that, I need hardly say.—
A long run of evil luck beset me; I
o j had lost all my available funds, bad
j mortgaged my commission to the ut-
j most penny I could raise upon it, and
: found myself, at the end of the Epsom
! week, fevered and parched in body ; in
I soul wretched and despairing. I had
come to the'end of my tether; I was
i * Pliinti'r’fiStore,”
ome the f;
complete
J be its U
rite be ubjunrters for farm suji- 1
ck .•'.n l fair dealing can make
•of this Grand Exhibits
GLASSW'A RE,
ihca-i of anything
siitut
well worth the a»tent
^ v~y
ill alw
he a
n ofllouv
oiuplete
?am:ly groceries
Keepers. |
s.-ortinent of \
t 1
♦;
I reguia
! PR
6r.i'lt-, mi ! »!-••!•
Miiiply of 15000 FI.
’ al'.oiition |.
H it, MliAK,
!Yr the a:
*lat
WM. KNABE & GO.,
m a n r r a n r it k rs n r
IJHAAD.NQl AltF t lMtlGIIT
Piano Fortes.
Itzalf imorc, tlnr) land.
r JHIESE INSTRUMENTS hav
»nof bttil L»r.- a large supply o
12.-. an lass; c:
may always be fount].
As all these attractive and useful goods are to be
sold at
my old customers and the public:
utnl examine them. If they have
the iligliest Market Price will alw
unytliing to s
vs"lie paid foi
J. II. HUGGINS,
sept 15 .SLii of *• Planter’s Store,” Athens.
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Lamps ami LampFixtures, ’ regularly done up; life had nothing
hut evil in store for me. On the fol
lowing week I should l>c posted as a de
faulter on the turf; I should leave the
army in disgrace, and such tidings
would kill my old widowed, mother.
It was Sunday night; I had been to
London, trying to raise money, but
uselessly ; the Jews closed their fists to
me. I only wanted a hundred pounds
to pay my Derby losses; this achieved,
1 could sell out and retire without
open disgrace ; but I couldn’t raise it.
One man offered me fifty {rounds for
mv hill of two hundred and fifty
{rounds at three months, but I wasn’t
quite so mad as to take that; I might
as well smash for a hundred as fifty.
My last sovereign was changed in
paying nrv hotel bill on that Sunday
night. I had a return ticket to Alder-
shott in my pocket, and a few shillings
besides ; nothing else in the world in
the way of available assets. I think
if I had been possessed of a five-pound
note I should have gone down to Liv
erpool, nnd taken a steerage passage to
America. It was the limited extent
of my means which made me resolve
to go back to quarters at Aldershott,
and appear on parade the next day.
The clock in the coffee-room where
I was sitting showed half pastil as
the hour of the night; the waiter only
was in the room arranging his spoons
and napkins in the buffet, yawning
surreptitiously every now and then,
quite indiflerent to the problems which
were agitating me—Waterloo bridge or
Aldershott? I must make up my
mind quickly; another five minutes
and it would be too late for the one ;
the other was open.
“ Waiter, a handsom!’’ I shouted
till of a sudden, in a tone which made
the man jump.
At that time there was a train which
left—not Waterloo, but some station a
little distance down the line; it might
have been Vauxhall, or possibly Nine
Elms, I scarcely remember which—
the station at midnight. It. was pop
ularly known among us as the cold-
meat train. Its passengers were dead
bodies for the Working cemetery.—
The railway company, ever solicitous
to accomodate the public and turn an
honest penny, had, for the convenience
of the camp, affixed to this train one
first-class carriage. After leaving the
dead bodies at Working, the carriage
was run on to Famborpugh, whence
you could walk to the camp, if you had
not been prudent enough to order a fly
to meet you.
The hotel servant who ushered me
to the cab got a handsome gratuity for
his pains. It was my leave-taking of
the world of pleasure, and I was too
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Potatoes, Ac. jan 1 Dn
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rpHE UNDERSIGNED still con-
_1_ tinu r * the above business at his old stand,
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Particular ait tition given to horsr-shoaiag.
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dec 29 tf
Public Laws, 1871.
T3UBLIC LAWS passed by the
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SSNj
^.’VURKFS BOOKSTORE.
!! insolvent to ho careful about little mat
ter.!. The tab sped tno quickly to the
station ; but the clock at the hotel had
been slow; as we passed under the rail
way arch a premonitory shriek from
the engine overhead warned me that
the train was ou the point of starting.
I stopped the cab at the bridge, and
ran quickly up a narrow flight of steps
which led directly’ on to the end of the
platform—known only to the initiated;
the train was moving on, bat I had
just time, despite warning shouts of
guard and porters, to open the door of
the last carriage and jump in. The
glow of the match lit up the
if the carriage. 1 saw in the corv
mg, dark object, quite black,
jiwith some little metalic gleam
It was a coffiD, reared up at
ier side of the carriage; a
ing placed behind it, against
which it leaned. As I looked stead
fastly at the coffin it appeared sudden
ly* to glow with a faint radiance. Ev-
nat^nd very plate upon it
gleam rrrtffsu<-^ < ', mysterious
Bah! it was the moon. Wehadj
the clouds of London behind us, and
the great, round moon, rising out of
river mists, cast her glorious beams
right athwart us, but I turned away
from her in disgust. What was the
beauty of the night to me—a ruined
spendthrift—the scorn and laughing
stock of the world ! The biack’coffin
on the other side was a more congenial
companion to me. I lit another
match, and read the inscription on the
plate: “William Hiathcote, died
25th Slay, 18—, aged 25 veais.”
The hair on my head rose in a mass;
my heart ceased to beat. My own
name, my own age, and the very date
of the day tluit was now just born !
It chimed in, too, did this inscrip
tion, so mysteriously with that impulse
I had felt the whole day—a turning to
self-destruction, as a means of escape
from all the degradations of life. I
would accept the omen. I carried with
me—a practice I had acquired in the
east—a small American revolver,
which fittied into my waistcoat pocket.
It would kill at twenty paces, aud
would give me my mittimus easily
enough. I drew it out, ..n.l placed it
against my forehead; then it struck
me that the hall, after passing through
my head, might pass also through the
partition dividing the compartment,
and strike some one in the next car
riage. I turned, therefore, my hack
to the window, and again placed the
muzzle of the pistol to my forehead.
Again I withdrew it. There was no
burry. The train did not stop till it
reached Working. I could not possi
bly be disturbed. I wanted a signal;
the whistle of the engine, as the driver
sighted the red lamps of Woking,
should he the signal of my departure
from the world.
“ Yes,” I said aloud, turning upon
myself, as it were, in a sort of frenzy ;
“ yes! the moment the whistle sounds,
William Heathcote, you shall die.”
I have said that the rising moon
was shining brightly into the carriage,
full upon the coffin, and ujmn its mys
terious inscription. I don’t think I re
ally believed that this coffin had any
tangible existence. It might be but
the product of my own fevered brain,
hut none the less on that account
was it a veritable warning of tnv doom.
Looking up, however, to see if it had
indeed disappeared, I saw no longer
the coffin-lid, but a white shrouded fig
ure, a pallid, corpse-like face, the eyes
of which, in the moonbeams, shone
upon me with a sepulchral gleam.
For the moment I thought that I
had indeed passed into the land of
shadows; that I was a disembodied
spirit, looking upon my own mortal
remains; and the thought that I had
ceased to be an individuality, and had
become the mere shadow of a thought,
strueksuchachillof terrorand horror to
my soul, that every other impulse of it
was lost in an eager effort to resume
my individual existence.
I came to myself with a deep gasp,
digging my finger nails into tny palms.
Ah, the joy of that momeut, after the
torture of the struggle back to life!—
Life, rugged, miserable it might be,
but stDl dear life, how precious it scent
ed; how unfathomably deep, below
the utmost wretchedness of being, was
the dread abyss of non-existence!—
Shadows! I defied them.
“ Come forth, old mole!” I shouted
to my double in the coffin. He came
forth. As I live, he stepped out of
the coffin, seated himself opposite to
me, and laid a finger on my arm—laid
a finger on my arm, end leaned for
ward to speak into my ear,
“ Mercy, mercy 1” shrieked the fig
ure iu a voice that pierced the roar of
the train, then thundering over a
bridge. See!” cried the figure, slip
ping a {taper into my hands; “ keep
it, keep it; only don’t betray me.”
Whew-w went the whistle of the en
gine, shrieking, as it seemed, close into
my car. I turned my head for a mo
ment ; the moon had just passed into a
cloud; the figure had vanished ; the
coffin still stood in the corner, dark
and grim. The train slackened, stop
ped.
“Jem,” said a voice—that of the
guard—“ there’s a body in that middle
first-class coach ; there’s some parties
coming to meet it with au ’earse.”
“All right, Jack,” said another
voiee; “ they’ve come to fetch him.-r-
Bear a hand here, will .you ? Oh^
Lord ! ’ shouted the man, as he saiv me
sitting in the corner, “Oh, I beg f or( {.
your pardon, sir. I hope you am’t
been annoyed, sir? Jack, what did
you mean by putting the gent into
this compartment ?”
“I didn’t,” growled Jack; “he
must a got in by hisself.”
“ All right,” I said, getting out and
stretching myself on the platform. I’ll
get into the next carriage. No bodies
there, are there ?”
“ D’ye call me nobody ?” said Pat
Reilly, looking out of the window’.—
“Jump in, Billy, me tfhoy! IVe
cleared out the rest of the
ye’ll introduce a little fresh i
the concern.”
What a contrast to the scene I had
quitted was the cheerful lighted car-
riage, with its occupants, all brother
officers of mine, smoking, chaffing, and
playing loo on a rug stretched over
their knees! Surely the whole of the
previous scene had been a dream, or
could it have been au incipient attack
of D. 'I.? not brought on by drink, in
deed, for I was not given to that, hut
by irregular habits and stress of mind.
It wasn’t till I had reached my own
hut at Aldershott that I thought of the
had been paid over again by the par-
ishonors he had defrauded.
So I found oiit the old man at Bod-
He was living with a daughter,
in abject poverty, and I repaid to him
the hundred pounds with compound
interest. To him I seemed a celestial
visitant.
The cold meat train is now a thing
of the past, I believe. A luggage train
carries belated officers back to camp;
but, to this day, I confess that I always
prefer to pass Woking in broad day
light, and that I carfeully look inside
the carriage before I enter it, for I
desire no more loans from tbo dead.
Short sewedahoesw-
Seventeen summers’ speeding storms,
“ Speak! Sophiu, spenk! stt
spense speculates sorrow.”
"Seek -ire, Pnm, seek sire."
So Sam sought s’re Sprigg.s
Spriggs said “ sartain.”
Our Juvenile “ HAnfc-Ton.”
The suggestions contained in the
subjoined article, which we clip front
tho columns of our worthy contempo
rary the Brooklyn (N. Y.) Daily Times,
should be pondered by parents, guar
dians, t.ml instructors whether in tfur
pulpit or the school-room. We trust
that the press of the country will take
up the thought, and send it into eve
“nook the conic) ’(fai.dlrn I.’'—[“Ed,
‘•““We find.
One of the New York.
, a descrij tion ■
itiormn
chil js party lu.- v
spreading sunshine successively, saw ^ ^ tl,fi tl,at
, . , heard of sueh
reunions before from
eye-witnesses of some very sad exhibi
tions of the kind, we should at (mo-
have pronounced to be a gross exag-
Shoes sewetk soled j f ™ t!o, \ a,,d » "™1 "*P~-
superfiuelv. ” Simou’s.sprv, sedulous ' toUe . ^ The hour *
spouse, Sallyport, sewed shirts, stitch- j ? P °"' t<Hl J-W.Ie oree we.c
trom 8 to 11 i\ m. f i Iip guests nun-
Simon’s small shabby shop still stand
ing staunch, saw Simon’s self-same
sign still swinging, silently specifying :
“ Simon Short, Smithficld’s sole sur
viving shoemaker.
paper which the ghost had given mo,
aud which, in my delirium, I had iru-
agined I had thrust into my -waistcoat
pocket. Here was a test at all events;
if there was a real paper, bearing signs
of its ghostly origin, then I was still
sane, and the apparition I had witnes
sed was not a delusion oftlie brain.
In the comor of my waistcoat pocket
was a crumpled piece of flimsy paper ;
I unfolded it, and found it a Bank of
England note for a hundred pounds.
From that hour I was an altered
man. I paid ntv gambling debts;
confessed all tny embarrassments to
my friends, who lifted me out of the
mire; never touched a card or a die ;
studied fir the staff college; passed
a good examination ; went to Sand
hurst, came out with high honors, and,
having a little influcucc at headquart
ers, got to appointment us commis
sioner, watched the operations of tho
American war of secession, on Gen.
’s staff.
It was at the close of a bloody but
decisive battle, or series of battles,
which resulted in the retreat of the
South, that I visited the field-hospitals
at the rear of the Federal army in
search ofa friend who had been wound
ed during the day. The doctors and
attendants were all too busy to pay
any attention to my wants, and 1 walk
ed down the long rows of hastily-im
provised couches, trying to recognize
my friend.
Scraps of paper* on which the names
of the patients had been hastily scrawl
ed, were pinned to the coverings, and
I started as I read on one “ William
Heathcote”—my own name. The mail
appeared to be sinking front exhaust
ion, but he brighteneo up when he
heard the tones of a friendly voice.
I knelt down beside him, and asked
if I could do anything for him.
He nodded his head. “ You’re En
glish” lie whispered.
“ Yes, I am.”
“So am I. If you should be in the
neighborhood of Bedford, and should
be able to hear of an old man of the
name of Heatchcote, a retired draper,
will you tell him his son died in a cred
itable way ? I was a disagracc to him,
sir, when I was alive; but when I am
dead perhaps he will think kindly of
me again. I’ll tell you my story, sir.
I was a rogue—I was, sir. I was an
undertaker, but I was a collector of
taxes, too; and I entered into a con
spiracy to defrund thegovernment. It
came out; but I had warning in time.
I shammed dead, and got away in one
of my own coffins with all the swag.
They wasn’t very keen after me; I
dont’t know why; but just at the last
moment I thought they’d have me.—
A detective followed nte right to Wok
ing ; but I squared him with a hun
dred pounds note, and got clear away to
America by tho Southampton packet.
It never pros{)ored me. that money;
and I got lower, till I ’listed as a sol
dier ; and here I am ! I’m getting tired,
sir. Don’t forget Bedford—Heathcote,
retired draper.”
I passed on in wonder and astonish
ment ; and, if I must confess, a little
disappointment and disenchanted. I
was no special cure, then, of an overuling
Providence, as I had fondly deemed
myself. My wonderful warning and
deliverance was a mere affair of chance
and accident. As I passed the man’s
couch again he lay ou it stiff, aud stark,
and dead.
On my return to Englnad, I made in
quiry of the officials of the revenue de
partment, and found that there really
had beeu a fraud of tho kind iu ques
tion ; that the collector implicated in it
had died suddenly—by suicide, it was
thought As to the defalcations, the
defaulters sureties had paid a part—
one of them, his father, having been
sold up in consequence—and the rest
ed sheets, stuifed sofas,
sturdy sons—Seth, Samuel,
Saul, Shadrack, Silas—sold sundries.
Sober Seth sold sugar starch, spice ;
simple Sam sold saddles, stirrups,
screws; sagacious Stephen sold silks,
satins, shawls; skeptical Saul sold
silver, salvers,silver spoons; selfish
Shadrack sold shoestrings, soaps, saws,
Simon’s six ., ,
Stephen' j ,>erei about one hundrod - The young
’ : hostess of the occasion was a miss who
counted some ten summers, but who,
the reporter tells ns, displayed as
much ease and self-png. c-sinn in receiv
ing her guests as any matron could as
sume. As for tho dresses, the display
was perfectly stunning. Silks ofev-
sksites ; slack Silas sold' Sally Short’s hue shimmered in the gas-light-
stuffed sofas.
Some seven summers since, Simon’s
second son, Samuel, saw Sophia So-
phrouia Spriggs somewhere. Sweet,
sensible, smart, Sophia Sophronia
Spriggs. Sam soon showed strange
symptoms. Sam seldom stayed stor
ing saddles. Sam sighed sorrowfully,
sought Sophia Sophrenia’s society,
sung serenades silly. Simon stormed,
scolded severely, said Sain seemed so
silly singing such shameful senseless
songs.
“StrangeSam should slight such
spleudid summer sales!” said Simon.
“ Strutting spendthrift, settuer-
edbraiued simpleton ?”
“ Softly, softly, sire,” said Sally.—
Sam’s smittem ; Sams’s spied sweet
heart. ”
“ Sentimental school-boy !” snarled
Simon. “Smitten! Stop such stuff!”
Simon sent Sally’s snuff-box spinn
ing. seizing Sally’s scissors, smashed
Sally’s spectacles, scattering several
spools. “ Sneaking scoundrel! Sum’s
shocking stillness shall surcease!”
Scowling, Simon stopped speaking,
starting swiftly shopward. Sally sigh,
ed sadly. Sum atoning Sain, she
spoke sweet sympathy.
“ Sam,” said she, “ sire seetn’s .singu
larly snappy ; so, sonny, stop strolling
sttcats smoking segars, spending specie
super flously, stop sprucingso, stop sink
ing serenades, stop short! Sell saddles,
sonny; sell saddles sensibly; see So
phia Sophronia Spriggs soon; she’s
sprigntly, she’s staple, so solicit, sure ;
secure Sophia spced’Jy, Sam.”
“ So soon, so soon ?” said Sam, stand
ing stock still.
“ So soon !” said Sally, smiling;
“ specially, since she shows such spirit.”
So Sam, somewhat scared, saunter
ing slowly, shaking stupendously, sol
iloquizes :
“Sophia Sophronia Spriggs, Short
—Sophia .Sophriona Short, Samuel
Short’s spouse—sounds spleudid ! Sup
pose she should say—she shunt.”
Soon Sam spied Sophia starching
shirts, singing softly ; seeing Sam, she
stopped starching; saluted Sam smil
ingly. Sam stammered shockingly.
“ Spl-spl-splendid summer season,
Sophia.”
“ Somewhat sultry,” suggested So
phia.
“ Sirt-sartain Sophia,” said Sam;
(silence seventeen seconds.)
“ Selling saddles still Sam ?”
“ Sur-sar-sartain,” said Sant, start
ing suddenly, “ season’s somewhat so
porific,” said Sam, stealthly stanching
steaming sweat, shaking sensibly
Sartain,” said Sophia, smiling
significantly, “ sip some sweet sherbet
Sam,” (silence sixty seconds.)
“ Sire shot sixty sheldrakes, Satur
day,” said Sophia.
“ Sixty ? sho!” said Sam, (silence
seventy seconds.)
“ See sister Susan’s sunflowers,” said
Sophia sociably scattering 6uch stiff
silence.
Sophia’s sprightly, sauciness stimu
lated Sant strangely, so Sant suddenly
spoke sentimentally “ Sophia, Susan’s
sunflowers seems saying; “Samuel
Short, Sophia Sophronia Sprigg, stroll
serenely, seek some sequestered spotj
some sylvan shade; sparkling spring
shall sing soul-soothing strains; sweet
songsters shall silence secret sighing,
superangelic sylphs shall—”
Sophia snickered, so Sam stopped.
“ Sophia,” said Sam, solemely.
“ Sam,” said Sophia.
“ Sophia, stop smiling. Sam Short’s
sincere. Sam’s seeking some sweet
spouse, Sophia.”
Hair was seen in every style of fasion-
able arrangement—frizzed, puffed,
powdered, and adorned with flowers.—
Enamel was wanting, but powder, pri*-
fusely used, did duty for it. Nor was
there any iacktif jewelry. We quote :
“ One little gitT about ten years of
age, in addition to the powdered hair
and the dazzling costume she sported,,
wore a pai* of diamond ear-rings, a
gold chain, and a locket studded with
diamonds. Upon each arm was a
bracelet of elaborate workmanship,
which she held up for display, exclaim
ing, as she did so, to her admirers .* ■
“ There’s no sham about these: tliev’re
the real thing”—which her auditors
were quite willing to believe. Another
little girl of seven summers was array
ed in a rose-colored silk, $7 jx-r yard
point applique flowers, n galaxv of
diamonds, and otiier expens"jewel
ry ; a gold belt, the buckle of which
was studded with diamonds; a gold
band encircled the head, and front a
pendant on the forehead sparkled a sol-
itair of great value. Her mother was
heard to exclaim exultingly that the
price of lie*- child’s outfit for that even
ing was $5,000.”
“ Music, dancing and charades oc
cupied the evening; tne supper was nlf
that the greatest epicure could desire;
and at midnight the party broke up.
all the little fashionables being, of
course, ‘highly delighted’ with the par
ty. How the little hostess felt, our
chronicler fails to tell.
“ It is not pos-ible to conceive of a
sadder sight than is presented in a dis
play like this. The affair lias its gro
tesque features—intensely grotesque;
but in every well-regulated mind the-
sentiment which it is most powerfully
calculated to awaken is one of n mourn
ful cast. Parties of the kind here de
scribed are a positive cruelty to the
poorchildren. Nature pr.'te-ta against
them as an outrage; society should
brand them as a nuisance. What tua
these little ones, when they do hap]>cii
to pass the terrible ordeal so its to ar
rive at manhood and womanhood, lie
expected to come to after such a train
ing i \\ hat sort of men aud women
can we look for from these bc-powder*
ed and bo-diamonded Ma ionettes in
silks, and lilliputiau Dundrearys?—
Everybody, except the foolish parents
who, to gratify their own aheurd vani
ty a* much ns anything else, bedeck
these urchins as a sacrifice to the mod
ern Moloch, knows what it will end in !
We go in for u reform that shall aim
at breaking up juvenile dissipation,
aud restoring the good old orthodox
doctrine - f ‘ early' to l»ed aud early to
rise in the case of the tender-aged
folks.
“ When we think of these things, is
it longer any* wonder that modern so
ciety produces Josic Mansfields and
Jim Fisks
A lady in Paris recently gave a con
cert at her house. “ Do you'like Ros
sini? said she to one of her male
guests. “ Rossini—indeed I do; he
is my favorite composer." “ Are vou
familiar with his “Barber,” (ofSev-
ille)? “ Oh, dear, no,” was the reply;
“ I always shave myself.”
A lad arrested for theft, when Liken
before tho magistrate and asked what
his occupation was, frankly answered:
Stealing/’ “ \ our candor astonishes
me,” said the judge. “ I thought it
would,” replied the lad, “ seeing how
many big ones there are in the same
business as is ashamed to own it.”
Oil and truth will get uppermost at
the last.