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terser time under ooe month. For a longer period
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Business Directory.
VM ttt COBB. A. 9. ERWnt. IIOWELI. COBB'
COBB, ERWIN Jt COBB.
A TTORNEYSAT LAW,
Jr\- Atboit*. Georgia. Office in the Dcuprcc
imiltling.
u. r. lumpkin.
HB5HY JACK SOX.
Lumpkin & Jackson,
SHARP & FLOYD,
Successors to George Slurp, Jr.,
Miscellaneous.
A tlanta, Ga.
W E OFFER a large variety of
Superior Court of Clark county, the Supreme
Court of the State, and the United State. Court
for the Northern District of Georgia. feb. !>tf
I). G. CANDLER,
^TTORNEY AT
LAW,
Homer, Banka County. Ga. Will practice
in the counties of Banks, Jackson, Hall, Haber
sham and Krauklin.
JUSTIN W. BIDEX,
A ttorney at law,
and Kotar? Public, Athens, Ga. Will prai-
tii'« in the Western circuit; will give particular
uiicntiou to the collection ofclaim*. and will act as
scant for the purchase anil sale of real estate and
par taxes on wild lands. janl5tt
. II. SKI.LTO.V, C. tV. SEIDELL,
A
PITTMAN k HINTON,
TTORNEYS A T L A W ,
Jcffcr»rn, Jackson county, Ga.
SAMUEL P. THURMOND,
A TTORNEY AT LAW,
d. A Athens, Ga. Offlc.- on Broad street, orer
Hsrrr A Son’s Store. Will gira special attention
to eases In Bankruptcy. Also, to the collection of
all claims entrusted to his care.
J. J. k J. V. ALKXAM.KR.
D ealers in hardware,
Irun Steel, Nails, Carriage Material, Mining
ui|>lemcnu,;,tc., Whitehallst., Atlanta
M.VAN ESTES,
ATTORNEY AT
-•-A- I1omcr, Banks CountT, tin.
L A W,
4. It. B’CLKSKKY.
A TTOR N E Y A T L A W ,
-S-.1. Carnesvllle, Franklin i-ouutr, Ga. Office
raerly occupied by J. F. Langston, VUq. ia:
GROYER.VBAKER
SEWING MACHINES! !
I’UONOINCKD TliK 1IKST IX FSK,
DY ALL WHO HAVE TRIED
IJ them. These machines, with nil the
IMPROVEMENTS
AND —
ATTACHMENTS,
"nr be bad, at manufactiirar’a prices, freight
MANNER OFFICE.
added,at the
NOTICE (irt'HAME OP SCHEDULE
OX TIIK
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Sn)M*rintrndi'iitN Office,
Georgia and Baron A \u? i»!n lUilrnad, -
Augusta, G January 20,1871. j
r\S AND AFTER SUNDAY,
V J January 22d. 1371, the Paa^ncer Trains will
7><iy Passenger Train, Daily, Sunday
Excepted.
Uave Augusta at 8 00a.m.
l.e:i vc Atlanta at 7 10a.m.
Anivcai Atlanta at 8 .'10 p. m.
Arrive ul Augusta at 40 p. tu.
Eight Passenger Train.
Leave Augusta at 8 30 p. m.
Ijeave Atlanta at 10 15 p. in.
Arrive at Atlanta at 6 40a. in.
Arrive at Augusta at i 30 a. in.
Berzelia Passenger Train.
Jerave Augusta at 4 15p. m.
Iseavtf Kerxeliaat .7 .*10 4. m.
Arrive at Augusta 0 25a. m.
Arrive at llcrxclia 6 OOr. m.
Roth Day and Night Passenger Trains will make
close connections at Augusta and Atlanta with
Pa«s«uger Trains of connecting r*»ads.
Passengers from Atlanta, Athena, Washington,
an J stations on Georgia Kail road, by taking the
Down Day Passenger Train will make dose connec
tion at Oamak with the Macon Passenger Train,
and reach Mac u the same day at 7 40 p. m.
Palace .Sleeping Cora on all Night Trains.
Schedule on Macon k Augusta Railroad.
To take Effect Jan. 28, 1871.
Drtieeen Augusta and Macon—Day Pas
senger Train Daily, Sunday Excepted.
l*av* .*» agusta at 12 00 noon.
Leave Macon at 6 00 a. in.
Arrive at Macon at 7 40 p. in.
Arrive at Augusta at 1 45 p. iu.
__ Tne day Passenger Train arriving at Macon at
7 4*1 p. in., makes close connectijna with Train* of
connecting ltoads at Macon.
Passenger* leaving Moc< n at G a. m., will mak*
dose connections at Camak with Up Day Passenger
Train for Atlanta, Athena, Wi.»h?an«n, and all
point* on Gcords Hal 1 road. v»;d ”• • .-.la At
lanta with n
S. K. JOHNSON, Supl.
Send your Old Furniture to
WOOD’S
REPAIR SHOP,
Next to the Episcopal Church, and have it
m»y HUm MADE GOOD AS XEIF.
Carriage, Buggy & Wagon
M4TEIUAL.
A LARGE LOT direct from the
nuuiulhctory, «nd will be Mid as low u can
h» bought anywhere in the State. freight added.
SUMMEY& NEWTON.
E. S. ENGLAND & CO.,
^RE NOW RECEIVING THEIR
NEW FALL STOCK!
^elected with care by one of the arm, in
lo " hich l,, ey inrlte the attention of
VI.m™*™ ** d ,h ® P ,lbllc - They hare a good aaaori-
AHC r oar eo ods
New
their
aoaort-
tiHoricKien
•‘huvimonk,
UAKDU ARR.
CltOCKURY,
■at*, caps,
ROUTS,
10 ‘ h 7'"* rj,Mn « i »
7 m,o un loihew .™
f Family and PlanlaWon Supplies,
FOR
rr* luuttE
or other Produce, and
will -lore , oll.» .J J ,. n
l»rr initi tl.
l*cr mouth
Wear •
a Bair
many
! f ;.ly
'MIC*.
• n-v.v, amlhy
* ld ru-uL
HiptlAif
FINE WATCHES,
CLOCKS,
JEWELRY,
SILVER WARE,
SPECTACLES,
FANCY GOODS,
FINE BRONZES,
AND STATUARY.
WE HAVE A FULL CORPS OF
avers
Manufacture many Fine Goods
n»?. u Ji? w ? ,hop \ * nd ,r * prepared to FILL AM
ORDERS for good* or work promptly.
All good* engraved free of charge.
" e make a specialty or
PREMIUMS FOR FAIRSI
,0 * ivc an F Information on ap-
plication. We guarantee the
LARGEST ASSORTEMNT,
THE FINEST GOODS,
THE LOWEST PRICKS,
AND THE BEST WORK
Call and ice us.
SHARP & FLOYD,
Whitehall Street, Atlanta.
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Vy color,, on auperb Tinted Paper. Foar linn-
W colon, on anperb Tinted Paper. Foar lion-
died Kncnivtnea «f Flower-. Plant, aad Vrerlabira
—with deacriptiona, and Two Colombo Plates.
Direction, and plana for making Walks, Lawtu,
Gardena, Ac. The handaomeet and Beat Floral
Gnlda in the world—all for TEN CENTS, to toooo
I who think of baying teodt—Not a quarter the coat.
230,000 (Old for 1871. Addreaa
■ dec l-5t JAXKSYlt K, Rochester, N Y.
N0RT11 EAST GEORGIA
May 25-1 y
JAY 0. GAILEY,
fNVITES ATTENTION TO HIS
NEW FALL STOCK
GtBSSWKJt*:
CIIIMXEYS AXD
PURE KEROSENE OIL!
Call andfaxtuaine hi, stock before purchasing.
wm. wood;
DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF
FURNITURE.
I^URNITURE REPAUtED, UP-
J- bolstered and varnished, also a large eariet r
of wood coffins nnd Fisk’, Patent Mctnlir Uuria'l
Cases always on hand.
Ware-rooms on Clayton St., next to Episcopal
Church. SepDCm. WILLIAM WOOD.
CASXIZjLI ADAMS,
designer,
fwd JagraYK and frinter,
ELECTROTVPING,
S. \V. Cok.xer Fourth a.nd Walxit Strkets
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Lock Box 22C,
Klxty-Flre First Prize Bedals Awarded!
TUB GRRAT
Sontliorn Piano
MANUFACTORY.
WM." KNABE & C?„
MAXUFACTI’RERS OP
GRAND,NQIARF t^DUPRIGHT
Piano Fortes.
Bnllimorr, .tlnrylnnd.
r PHESE INSTRUMENTS have
J- been before the public for nearly thirty year,
and upon theirexcellence alone attained an onpnr-
ckaitd prt-tmlnencr, which pronouDcca them un
equalled. in
xonn,
TOUCH,
WORKMANSHIP
AND OURA81UTT.
aa All our S«uaok Pianos hare our new im
proved Ovbbstouno Scalb and the tcrafle Trehle.
BSu We would call upecial attention to our late
Patented Improvement, in liltlXIt HIAX’OS. and
SUL'AKK G1UMI. found In no other Piano, which
bring the Piano nearer perfection than baa yet
been attained.
EVERY PIANO FULLY WARRANTED FOR 5 YK t RS
in. Wc are by apcclal arrangement enabled to
furntSh PARLOR ORGANS and MELODEONS of
the most celebrated maker,, wholesale and retail,
of Lovett Factory Prieto.
lllustr ted Catalogues and Price Llsta forn'shed
on application te WM. KVAItK ACO., Balt. Md
Or any regular calabliabed agencies. noviOGm
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FOR 1872-
Twenty-Spveiilh Year.
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proved, is one of iho must useful and inte eat
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•r '1 rade., trill find she
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GRAND EXHIBITION!!
FOR THE
Farmers, Mechanics and Housewives of
North-East Georgia.
Open Every Day!
T HE SEASON for Fairs is at hantl and being un
willing that Athens should be behind other
piaces of less importance,! have determined to have
A C mmercial Exposition,
At My Old Stand, No. 7, Broad St.
attractive, I have visited
splay :
rkets. and brought out many
WOVSt-TtEST
Embracing a very handsome display in seasonable
DRY GOODS!
An unusual assortment of
For Men, Women and Children ; and an unequalled
variety of useful article* for
-For Homo and Harm l
In fact, the Establishment, heretofore known as the
“ I'liuitci ,, !» Store,”
Is to become the favorite headquarters for farm sup
plies, if complete stock and fair dealing can make
it so.
An attractive feature of this Grand Exhibition,
will be it* display of
GLASSWARE,
Lamps and Lamp Fixtures,
Far ahead of anything heretofore offered, and con
stituting a leading
UjPilSH <-3 TJr. 3Tta "7^
well worth the attentlou of Housekeeper,.
There will always he a complete assortment of
.’AMtlY GROCERIES!
of the best grades, and special attention paid to the
regular supply of GOOD FLOUR, MEAL, and
PROVISIONS GENERALLY.
For tho accommodation of builders a large supply o
may always bo found.'
my old customers and the public are invited to call
and examine them. If they have anything to sell,
the itUrheM Market Price will always*be paid for It.
J. H. HUGGINS,
Slain of *• Planter’s Store,”
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To make it especially valuable to every business
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SINGLE COPIES OF
HOLMAN'S RUSAL WORLD,
A WEEKLY Agricultural Journal
that has been publUbed twenty-three yean
in St Louis, haring the Largest Circulation and
the best Corn, of contributor, of any agricultural
paper published in the valley of the Miwiaaippi,
will be oent free to aU applicants. Send for acopr.
eran—$2 perannain. Addresi Norman J. Col
as, Publisher, St. Louis. Mo dee 291t
J. C. IIARDIE,
Dealer in Groceries & Provisions,
College Avenue, Athens, Ga.
r PHE BEST SUGAR. COFFEE,
1. Lard, Soda, Flour, Meal, Pickles, Oysters,
Nuts, Oranges, Apples, Crackers, Cheese, Ac., al
ways on band. Also fresh country Butter, Kggi,
Potatoes. Ac. jan 1 lm
BLACKSMITHING.
Attention, the Whole!
r PHE UNDERSIGNED still con-
-L tinu-a the above business st his old stand,
the BRICK SHOP, on l’rinee Avenue, where aU
classes of work In his line wUl be foithfuUy execu
ted.
Particular attention given to hone-ehoelng.
Those in want of the genuine
HiMPtltLL PLOW,
which U now eojpopalar,
buy from tho old man hi
will do well to call and
himself. HU superior
will also bo kept on hand.
Thankful for past patronage, he respeetfoUy eo-
„' 1 “ ’ V.'s.HiiMPHILL.
doc 29 if
v Public Laws, 1871.
TDUBLIC LAWS passed by the
c. Published by
PriC *’ 81 BURKFS BOOKSTORE.
ATHENS, GA. MAR
■ *" m - - - i a—M-e. .. n_.._
an& % gitksmai Interests
XLI.-~.N0. 36—NEVV SEHiK^ VOL. 5. NO. 10.
fireside Miscellany.
Tho little prints that stnf the threshold o’or
of nth as come to drink
wES* 1 l°!*£ r "«ulk—r wfcaaeInfantllpa,
Erohewed the taste, and perished on the brink.
There U a cup ofhUas:
i bright, and tends its f
for flow
Aad calb for lowen to twine to sparkUu brim.
There is a ettp o< wealth—
With worthless tinsel decked. The Ignoble crowd
Who cringe about the glittering fallacy,
Ne or rice eo high as testa the current prood,
Yat pino to ah«i« Its splendid misery.
Of poverty a cup:
And the pale nak pass weaves its hated sward *
For earth’s best tools thick o’er the sickly brow:
•Tu -afas’ birth rift, humble worth’Vrewart? \
For them that mitm ita tiubkl waters Sow.
Glory hath too her cup:
She nfti R to the skies, and onward Task -
Contending throng, o’er mountain, vale and flood
bhe ri-w* her flashing hoeu each other cnxsh,
Bids them to dust, then fills it frith their blood.
. . There is a cn« of tears.
With osiers bound, and planted on the grave;
Thither the ’reft, the desolate repair,
With duteous drops its pearly font to lave'.
And swell the crystal store that glistens th
there:
For still round sorrow’s cup
’Tis meet the faint aud weary should convene
To cast the cypress on the waters clear;
Descant on hopes that tripp’d life’s lfciry green
And the stern hour that tint enforced a tear.
«boiy, h<*ne, and feeble
it, and several times
himse] i to ridicnle. The
1 » ni gbt be likeued to a short
authera by an old man, with a cold in
his head and asthma in h» dse*t.
If we regard the most of crowing as
a piece of snide and inarticulate boast-
ing, then we find that pretty much the
whole world is involved in it.
are \ 0T 7 ia making known their
manifcdd^zeellenciss, and not a few in
ways aa rffloferous as that of the chan
ticleer. r ...
But nalioBs are famous fer crowing.
Every nation vaunts itself, and is puff-
i U P- Eaeh nation thinks all other
nations vain, they all boast together,
and each one in particular w disgusted
with the conceit of all but itself.—
There is more crowing done out of the
barn yard than there is in it 1—N. Y.
Ledger.
O, memory thy cap.
Thy bruised yet precious cup, lonsome I sing!
Would 1 knew not to dwell on the bright beams,
On eyes in dust, smiles fled on misery^ wing,
Aud lips in clay, that talk with all my dreams!
Well—there’s a cup of death
And who so artful as to put it by ?
Its mystic edge once kissed, we dream no more !
But wake to day that knows no sunset sky,
Aud beach our prow upon a peaceful shore.
Crowing.
BY HENRY WARD BEECHER.
Can any man tell why a rooster
crows, or upon what principles the in
stinct acts as to times and seasons ?
That crowing is sometimes the na
ture of a challenge every observant
man knows. If a strange cock comes
into the neighborhood, and wanders
near the precincts cf a barn-yard not
his own, he will, at the first sounding
of his horn, be answered back by cock
aud cockerel, all over the farm, and
unless he precipitately retreats, there
will be a challenge and a fight
We know, also, that, after two
knights of the barn-yard have measur
ed strength, it is never allowed to the
vanquished to crow, while his conquer
or fills the whole neighborhood with
the news of his victory. Sometimes
the weaker bird draws out of the fight,
and sneaks off to a convenient distance,
and then utters a protest against his
antagonist’s arrogant pean. Nothing
can excite such fuiy in the winner as
this breach of faith. It is the duty of
every knight of the tail feathers to fight
till he falls dead—that being altogeth
er the most approved course—or else,
being vanquished, he must run for
some corner, or get his head safely out
of reach, and there, in silence, listen
to his rival’s chant, and, at dusk, sneak
off to his roost, and keep always there
after at a safe distance from his mas
ter. When, therefore, a mean-spirited
rooster fights till his courage foils, then
takes to his heels, it is his duty to hold
his peace. He has ap right to express
an opinion. Are not all rights trans
ferred to victors ? A defeated rooster
has no right to turn historian, and
mislead the neighborhood as to the
facts. Accordingly nothing seems to
stir such a rage iu a triumphant cock
as to hear its runaway antagonist bear
ing false witness over the fence. Woe
to him, if wings and feet do not speed
ily put him out of reach!
But the inward mood out of which
much crowing proceeds is still to be
considered. All night the rooster
drowses and sleeps. Suddenly, at cer
tain hours, without excitement, he
shoots forth into the darkness a long
shrill crow, which, from the stillness of
the night, seems for louder than the
day crow. Again and again, as dis
tant answers come in, he renews the
effort. Is it a dream that he is repeat
ing? Or is he wound up, like an
alarm clock, to go off at a given hour 7
Or are these duties imposed upon him
by some gallinaceous superstition ?
Equally strange is it, in the day
time, to witness a discreet and faithful
old fellow, who has been leading about
his flock, crooning, scratching, calling,
or warning, in a temperate and do
mestic way, all of a sudden stretch
himself up, flap his wings, and crow
till the hills ring again. The act sets
off a fusilade of crowing birds, north,
south, east and west; far off and near,
loud or faint in the distance.
The original precentor listens a mo
ment, and solemnly renews the declar
ation, whatever it was or meant; the
echo of answering birds fills the air.—
Are they denials, or answer? In a
few minutes tho responses end, and
each bird returns to his scratching and
pompous parading.
That there is some supposed moral
duty in this, act, seems to be corrobor
ated by the conduct of an old Buff
Cochin on my premises He has never
shown a combative spirit. Indeed bis
reputation for courage is very bad.—
He shuns conflicts and smells danger
from afar and hides himself. And yet
he is very proud of his crow, and with
as little reason, on account of any good
qualities of voice, as can be conceived.
But at due times, with great preparer
tion, and much shaking of bis ponder
ous and unshapely body, he emits a
A Confidence Has la Wall Street.
They are telling a good story on An
drew V. Stout, the well-known presi
dent of the Yew York Shoe and Leath
er Bank. A few mornings since Mr.
Stout was riding down in the cars,
when he sot in suoh confidential prox
imity to a sympathizing pickpocket
that the latter was tempted into the
acceptance of Mr. Stout’s pocket-book,
containing valuable papers and 8150
in greenbacks. Then the pickpocket
said good morning to Mr. Stout, and
left
On arriving at the hank Mr. Stout
discovered his loss. He was astonish
ed that he, a shrewd old New Yorker,
should have had his pocket picked.
“ Pshaw 1 he said to his secretary,
“ no man could ever pick my pocket.
I’m too smart for that.”
But the pocket-book, with the mon
ey and valuable papers, was gone and
the next day Mr. Stout advertised in
the Herald. He said if the person
who took the pocket-book would re
turn the papers ho would give him the
money and 825 besides. The next
day he got a confidential note from a
party, who said a friend of hia had the
pocket-book all safe, and that he would
call at tho bank the next day to ar
range the matter. The next day the
man was at hia post. He told Mr.
Stout that he would have to go with
him a few blocks where the party who
had the pocket-book awaited them.—
So off they started—Mr. Stout and his
honest friend—for the Centre restau
rant. As they entered the restaurant,
Mr. Stout’s friend told him to wait in
the front room a moment, and he
would go inside and see the man who
had the pocket-book. In a moment
he returned with the message that the
man wouldn’t give up the pocket-book
for 825; he wanted 835.
“ But I only advertised to give 825,”
said Mr. Stout, with an eye to busi
ness. “ This is an extortion.”
“ Well,” said Mr. Stout’s friend,
“ Fll go hack and reason with him,
and try to get the pocket-book for 825.”
And he disappeared in the back room.
In a moment he returned, smiling.
“ Well, Mr. Stout,” he said, “ he
will take $25, but he wants the money
before he gives up the pocket-book.”
“ All right,” said Mr. Stout, bland
ly, “ here is $25. Take it to him and
bring bac^t the papers.”
“ One word, Mr. Stout,” said the
man confidentially; “ this thing is to
be strictly between ourselves. You
will never ask any questions, tell any
body, or seek further knowledge, will
you?”
“ No, never. I give you my word
as president of the Shoe and Leather
Bank not to say anything about it.”
“ All right, then—mum is the
word,” said Mr. Stout’s friend, as he
passed into the back room with the
money.
Mr. Stoat waited patiently for his
return—waited five, ten, fifteen min
utes—but, alas! his friend never came
bock, and the shrewd president return
ed to the bank a sad and ruined man 1
He says his friend is welcome to the
825, but he wouldn’t have the story
get into the newspapers or around
among his friends for 810,000. He
mys it wouldn’t be foif, for he promis
ed—solomnly promised—his friend
when he gave him the 825, not to men
tion the matter.
That was a beautiful idea expressed
by a lady on her death-bed, in reply
to a remark of her brother, who was
taking leave of her to return to hi*
distant residence, that he should prob
ably never meet her again in the land
of the li ving:—“ Brother, I trust we
shall meet in the land of the living.
We are, pow in the land of the dying.”
A Wisconsin paper states that a
little girl, eight years old, is begging
the streets of Oshkosh, with a paper,
which certifies that “ the bearer is a
widow, with five children; in destitute
circumstances.”
Evergreens—Merchants who expect
to make money without advertising.
What tote wbea Tea are la TreoUe.
Don’t try to quench your sorrow in
rum or narcotics. If you begin this,
you must keep right on with it till it
leads you to ruin; or, if you try to
pause, you must add physical pain and
the consciousness oi degradation to the
«**ow you seek to escape. Of all
wretched men, his condition iBthe moct
pitiful who, having sought to drawn
his grief in drink, awakes fiom his de
bauch with shattered nerves, aching
head, and depressed mind, to face the
same trouble again. That which was
*t first painful to contemplate will, af-
tar, drink, seeat unbearable. Ten to
one the fetal drink will be again’and that *“»th which had waxed
nmiin t t:n , thrmurh Din trains
again sought, till its victim Biuks a
hopeless, pitiful wreck.
Work is your true remedy. If mis
fortune hits you hard, hit you some
thing else hard ; pitch into somethiug
with a will. There’s nothing like
good, solid, absorbing, exhausting
work to cure trouble. If you have
met with losses, you don’t want to lie
awake thinking about them.. You
waut sweet, calm, sound sleep, and to
eat your dinner with appetite. But
you cau’t unless you work. If you say
you don’t feel like work, and go a loaf
ing all day to tell Dick and Hariy the
story of your woes, you’ll lie awake and
keep your wife awake by your tossings,
spoil her temper and your own break
fast the next morning, and begin to
morrow feeling ten times worse than
you do to-day.
There are some great troubles that
only time can heal, and perhaps some
that can never be healed at all; hut all
can be helped by the great panacea,
work. Try it, you who are afflicted. It
is not a patent medicine. It has proved
its efficacy since first Adam aud Eve
left behind them with weeping their
beautiful Eden. It is an officinal rem
edy. All good physicians in regular
standing prescribe it in cases of mental
and moral disrase. It operates kind
ly and well, leaving no disagreeable
scqutllcc, and we assure you that we
have taken a large quantity of it with
the most beneficial effects. It will
cure more complaints than any nos
trum in the materia medica, and comes
nearer to being a “ cure-all” than any
drug or compound of drugs in the
market. And it will not sickeu you
if you do not take it sugar coated.—
Scientific Amerieun.
The Death or lien. Ewell and his
Wife.—-Their Romantic Marriage.
Mrs. Ewell, wife of the Confederate
General Ewell, after having spent
many anxious days and nights at her
husband’s bedside, was stricken down
with the same disease from which he
was suffering, and survived only three
or four days. The loss of his wife caus
ed a reaction in General Ewell’s disease,
and his death speedily followed. Mrs.
Ewell was the daughter of the late
Judge Campbell, of Nashville, and was
bom in St. Petersburg, while her fath
er was the representive of this govern
ment at the court of the Czar. The
Louisville Ledger has this romantic
narrative of the marriage of Gen
Ewell:
In early life there was a settled mel
ancholy, almost bordering on morose
ness, about General Ewell, which
impressed his army friends with the
belief that he had been the victim of
some fickle false one’s heartlessness.—
This, however, was not the case. He
had scarcely attained his majority
when he first met Miss Mary Polk
Campbell, the lovely and accomplish
ed daughterof Judge George W. Camp
bell, of Tennessee, and mutual ad
miration sprung up between the gallant
young army officer and the fascinat
ing belle, which soon ripened into love.
But the fetes were not propitious.—
The parents objected to the match so
persistently the General Ewell, becora-
ing piqued, did not press his suit so
vigorously at the time os he would oth
erwise have done. The duties of mili
tary life carried him to the frontiers.
Throughout all the stirring campaigns
in which he bore a conspicuous part,
he carried with him the image of his
early love, dreaming, in the pauses of
the battle, of the time when he might
yet win from the unwilling hands of
fame a distinction which should com
mend him to tho father’s esteem.
Meantime the daughter, with that
high sense of honor peculiar to her
race, and a filial devotion almost with
out a parallel!, addressed herself as
best she could to the meek obeervanccs
of a dutiful life—ceasing to communi
cate with, yet in secret cherishing, her
heart’s one idol. Another won her
hand, and in her twentieth year she
married an estimable gentlemen and
settled with his on a beautiful form
near8pring Hill, Teunessee. A short
time before the war she was left a
widow, free to bestow her hand again
on whom she would. But she had
never forgotten her girlish vows.—
Though all the stormy life of him who
first wen her affections she followed,
with her prayers and tears her idol—
her hero—who wm winnii^ laurels on
distant fields. And when in the battle
of the Wilderness,'in May, 1864, he
wm stricken down at the head of his
columns, Mrs. Mary Polk Brown laid
mide *U minor considerations and flew
on the wings of Iovo to his bedside,
nursing him through all his sufferings,
until he wm again able to take com
mand. It wm shortly after his recov-
ery the dream of a long and eventful
life wm realized by the consummation
of his early hopes, and these twain,
devoted in youth, parted for the quarter
of * century, met at last in the shad
ows of declining years to pledge anew
through the trying ordeal of a long
separation.
The Rich and Poor.
What is wealth ? Wealth is what
ever men can realize from Nature for
their sustenance and enjoyment. La
bor is what realizes • it. Prudence
saves from it, and the saving becomes
capital, which helps to extend nnd
multiply the operations of labor, and
thus creates more capital. The wealthy
are composed of those who have inher
ited property from others, those who
have acquired it accidentally, and those
who have realized it for themselves.—
The poor, in likemanner, are composed
of those who have inherited poverty
from others, those who have become
poor through accident, and those who
have brought poverty upon themselves.
The most familiar mode of producing
poverty is by idleness. A man will
not work; he realizes no wealth; he
is of course poor. Or he squanders in
some absurd manner the earnings
which he does realize, and thus remains
equally poor os if he did uot work.—
The poverty arising from idleness will
only he curable, as it has ever been,
by industry. That which comes from
wastefulness, will only he cured by
economy.
Pugnacity of Henry Clay.
Some of the most conspicuous Whigs
of Congress, becoming discontented
with Mr. Clay’s imperious bearing and
his determination to push extreme
measures, agreed to meet at Gen. Scott’s
rooms at the Hope Club for consulta
tion. Mr. Clay was not invited to
attend, nor was he apprised that the
meeting was to be held ; but late in the
evening the fact came to his know!
edge. Returning from a whist party
atBodisco’s, he knocked at Scott’s
quarters, and was ushered into the
room where the gentlemen were sit
ting. A hawk in a dove-cot could uot
have created greater consternation.
He remained standing, declining a
proffered chair. Glancing from one
part of the room to another, and glow
ering at everybody; present, he ex
claimed in a loud voice. “ Treason 1
treason! and ia the middle of the
night Play fair, Scott, play fair.”—
And he stalked away paying no atten
tion to the attempts at explanation or
denials that anything seci ct or unfair
was intended. Subseqentiy he was
persuaded that the only object of the
meeting was to consult upon the situa
tion, and see if anything could be de
cided to promote harmony in the party
and avert the peril impending.
Mr. Clay never forgave ihi gentle
men who were instrumental in procur
ing the nomination of Harrison. He
was confident that he could have been
elected by a large majority, and always
distrusted the fidelity of such friends
gum led Mr. Clay from the room, and
there the affair ended for the time.—
Some correspondence en-tusl. and
serious consequences were apprehend
ed, But friends interposed, and Mr.
who was capable of magnani
mous concession when conscious of be-fcj
ing in the wrong, made a satisfactory
apology.—TAe Galaxy for March. ^
A Plea Iter Big Boys.
as had acquiesced in the selection of
his rival. He was sort toward Scott, in g da*, than'the* same big toys’?
If there is olio class of the human
family who deserves our .sympathy
more than another, it is that one
known ns *' Them Big Bny<** If there
, npatch demolished, (V i. hick
en coop robbed, why its “ them big
boys have been oat on a rampage.”—
If there is a'favorite apple tree in the
orchard, it is sure to be visited firet hy
all the big hoys in to.vn. There is a
davrted house ; Imt of course there is
not a whole pane of gta.s 1-ft in the
building, for the big boys have painrd
each nnd every one w’ith stones; |Ki-si-
bly driving away all the ghosts from
the vicinity.
If a colt goes through the streets at
a 2.40 rate of speed, with a tin pail
attached in close proximity to his
heels, everybody knows whose big lxsvs
are having a deal of fun at the |»oor
frightened animal’s expense. There
is not a piece cf.mischief p irfernal in
the whole towmhip hut the big boys
must hear the blame.
Did ever a poor, forlorn school-
marin enter a “ deestrict” with all in
tents and purposes of teaching a model
school, without lieing warned by all
the committee men and their wives,
and the majority of the inhabitants of
said “ deestrict” Insides, that she must
carry a pretty stiff hand if Mr. 's
big 1 ovseame lo school, for they wen*
a pretty hard set, nnd geiie’ly managed
to break all the rules of gov’muut,
and then the school would soon dwin
dle down to nothing!”
There is no doubt but that big boys
can transgress often enough ; hut if
the truth must he told, the fault lies
with the heads of families. How of-
tin is the big boy called a coward or
a numskull, if he implicitly obeys the
rules laid down by some specimen of
gentle womanhood? In nine cases
out of ten it is not the big boys who
arc the instigators of all the trouble;
but if one would take the jmin* it
might be" readily traced to the old boys
who, it is supposed, have long since
sowed their wild oats. Listen to their
stories and exploits performed when
they were no older than the boys who
are listening with eager ears, not only
to the stories, but to the praises lie-
stowed by their elders upon the rela
tors for their wonderful deods—such
ns filling a neighbor’s well with vari
ous forming tools, during some dark
night, reversing pumps, cutting har
ness, tking out liuch-pins, stretching
ropes across frequented reads, taking
horses from stables to keep on the
road, traveling miles from home, re
turning them at dawn without thn
knowledge of the owner, smoking out
the school-master by covering the
wide-mouthed olc?-fush:o.:d cl iinticy,
possibly throwing down a roll of brim
stone into tho fire below, thereby caus
ing strangulation.
Do not the mort youthful listeners
soon determine, by tho tone of tho
conversation, what will be expected of
them? and think you they will uot
resolve to he as smart ns their fat Iters
were before them ? Leave out this
vicious training, and where would you
find a more honorable or sympathiz-
and often expressed himself in terms
of contempt and derision when the
General’s name was mentioned. A
card party given by Gen. Macomb
was largely attended by tho most dis
tinguished gentlemen in Washington.
Mr. Clay came in at a late hour,
leaning on the arm of Seuator Man-
gum. As he entered the room his
attention was attracted to a whist table
that happened to be made up of poli
ticians understood to be especially
friendly to Webster and Scott. Among
them were Edward Curtis, George
Evoeiu, and Ogden Hoffman. Mr.
Clay had been dining with a party of
friends and was not in the most placid
frame ot mind. Approaching these
gentlemen, he broke out upon them as
follows: “You manufacturers of pub
lic opinion—you makers of presidents,
who assume to control all mankind—
what mischief are you now hatching ?”
he spoke in a loud tone, and was heard
all over the room. Gen. Scott came
up at that moment, aud Mr. Clay
turned upon him, accosting him in a
sneering and insulting tone: “ And
here’s the redoubtable General him'
self. He was fool enough to suppose
he could be made President of the
United States,” at the same time put
ting his hand notin the moet gentle
manner on Scott’s shoulder. The Gen
eral quite perturbed, shrank from the
contact, remarking, “ You forget that
is my wounded arm.” “ You are rotten
all over,” was the reply. Mr. Man-
Who is more willing to put himself
out of his way to do another a favor ?
who is more attentive to the wants of
the needy ? Even. in the school-room
big boys are of real service, in sustain
ing, by their example, law and order,
when properly managed by the teacher.
Some one has said, “ give the Devil
his duewe say, give big boys all the
honor that is their due, and, do not
think they are all the mirehief-makers
in the world. Give them examples of
true mauliuess, and they will not bo
slow to follow iu the paths of recti-
tude.
A London paper reports the follow
ing ball-room conversation:—A young
gentleman advances to a lady who
considers herself, the belle of the room
—not among young ladies an isolated
condition of mind. He make3 a low
bow, and stammers fourth blushing]y
as follows; “Might I ask you—ah"—
The young lady understands him at
once, and rather haughtily at the pre
sumption, and to.show her exact value,
replies, “lam very sorry, but I sm
engaged for the next three dance*.”—
Young gentleman:. “ It is not danc
ing—ah—ifs—tis—it’s—beg j <r.tr par
don ; jrou are a sitting eo my list V
“ Haven’t I a right to be saucy, if
I please?” asked a young lady of an
old bachelor, “ Yes, if voo plomo-,
but not if you displease,” was the
answer.
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