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THREE dollars per annum in advance.
ATHENS, GA. APRIL 26, 1872.
JJoutlicm.fjaimer.
rl'Ul.lMIKD WKKKLT,
BY S. A. ATKINSON,
AT THREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM,
STRICTLY IS ADVASCK.
Office, lircvl ■it., overJ. II. Huggins.
IUTKS OF ADVEBTISUifl.
»d ,«rtlwmrnts will he inwrU-d *t One Dollar and
Fiftv Cehie per S,uare of 12 lines, for the first, and
Sarentr-ft *e Cents for earh subsequent insertion,
tor any time under one month. For a longer period
libera! contracts will he made.
Miscellaneous.
wf WOOD,
DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF
P V RN1TURE.
LpURNITURE REPAIRED, UP-
! -L holstered and varnished, nlso a large variety
of wood coffins and Fisk’s Potent Metalie Ilurial
Cases always on hand.
Wardrooms on Clayton St., next to Episcopal
Church. Sep9 6m. WILLIAM WOOD.
Miscellaneous.
VOL. XU.—NO. 44—NEW SERIES VOL, 5. NO. 27
Business Directory.
i ,m vit conn. a. s. EnwiN. howelL conn
conn, ERWIN & COBB.
A TTORNEYSAT LAW,
Aihcus, Georgia. Office in the Deuprec
building.
Slxty-Fire First 1‘rire Medals Awarded 1
THE CHEAT
Southern Piano
MANUFACTORY.
K. P. LUMPKIN
HENRY JACKSON.
Lumpkin & Jackson,
A TTORNEYS AT LAW, will practice in the
Superior t'ourt of Clark county, the Supreme
Court of the State, and the United State* Court
for the Northern District of Georgia. feb. !*lf
SAMUEL P. THURMOND,
A ttorne y a t e a w,
Athens, Ga. Office on Broad street, over
Barry %% Son’* Store. Will give special attention
to easss in Bankruptcy. Also, to the collection of
ail claims entrusted to his care.
J. 4. A J. ALEXANDER,
TNEALERS IX HARDWARE,
VJ Iron Steel, Nail 1 *, Carriage Material, Mining
mplements, Ac., Whitehallst., Atlanta.
M.VAN ESTES,
,\ TTOllNEY AT LAW,
_-A- lloiner, liauka Coudiv, Ua.
JAY 0. GAILEY,
JNVJTES ATTENTION TO IIIS
NEW FALL STOCK
WM. KNABE & CO.,
MANUFACTURERS OF
tiRAWP)W(|iARE AND IPRIRIIT
Piano Fortes.
Rnltimore, Mnrylnud.
rpHESE INSTRUMENTS have
been l»efore the public for nearly thirty years
and upon th**ir excellence alone attained an’unpur-
ehaitdpre-eminence, which pronounces them un
equalled. in
TOKO,
TOUCH,
WORKMANS
akd duhabiwtt.
»*, All our Sruare Pianos have our new im
proved DVKKSTRi no scale and the terratfe Treble.
«i«L. We would cal! npecial attention to our late
Patented improvements in BRA Ml FUNDS. and
SQIAKE LRtMl. f„u nd in no other Piano, which
bring the Piano nearer perfection than lias yet
Ih-oii attained.
EVERY 1*1 AMI FYLLY WARRANTED FOR 5 YEARS
HA. We art by special arrangement enabled to
furnish PARLOR ORGANS and MKLODEONS of
the most celebrated makers, wholesale and retail,
at l.oirest Factory Prices.
Illustrated i’atalogues and Price Lists furnished
on application t* H M. K NARK A TO., Balt. Md.
Or „..y regular established agencies. novlOf.m
The Best Hat Trap Out!
ACENTS WANTED.
TTMVE TO TEN DOLLARS a day
_U can lie made by selling Veronee’s Patent Rat
Traps. Read the following certificates from well-
known and reliable persons who have tried them :
This is to certify that I hare tried one of C. B,
Verennee’s patant rat traps, and caught fourteen
rats in one night; and I feel safe in recommending
it to my friends and the public generally as a per
fect success.
C. B. VAIL.
Newton House* Athens Ga.
March l4tb, 1872.
This is to certify that I have tried one of Mr.
Veronee’s patent rat traps, and find it superior to
any I have ever seen, having caught eleven rats
the first night, and many others at other tinus
since*
A. fc. CLlNARD, Clerk.
Athens, Ga., March 14tli, 1872.
This is to certify that I have tried one of Mr.
Veronee’s patent rat traps, and find it superior to
any 1 have ever seen, having caught fourteen in
two nights, and many more at other times since.
JOHN SEYMOUR.
Athens, Ga., March 14th. 1872.
This is to certify that I have used one of Mr. C.
B. Veronee’s patent rat traps|at the Athens Facto
ry, nnd find it one of the best ever used, having
caught over one hundred* rats in the said trap, in
a very short time.
C. A. SHURLEY.
Price $2 50. Liberal discount to agents. For
further information address
mar 22 C. B. VERONEE, Athens, Ga.
CH1MXEYS A XI)
PURE KEROSENE
f all and examine his sin
*ept 15-tf.
01 E.
k betore purchasing.
SHARP & FLOYD,
Successors to George Sharp, Jr.,
Jewellers
\\
Silver sstxiihs?
A tlantn, Ga,
'"K OFFER a largo variety
J. C. BARBIE.
Dealer in Groceries *V Provisions,
College Avenue, Athens, Ga.
r riIE BEST SUGAR, COFFEE,
JL Lard, Soda, Flour, Meal, Pickles, Oysters,
Nuts, Orange*, Apples, 1 rarkers, Cheese, A*e., al
ways on hand. Abo fresh country Butter, Eggs.
Potatoes, Ac. * jan 1 Ini
PIANOS AND ORGANS!
ON MONTHLY
1XSTALMKXTS
OF TEN TO
TWENTY-FIVE
DOLLARS.
Ilnllet. Davis & bo. and
Stein war & Sons,
r PWO LEADING PIANOS of the
L world’. the oldest Factories. and taken mere
NSUW SOOS$.
W ILD MEN AND WILD BEASTS. By Lt.
Col. Gordon Cummlng. Illustrated. 81 50.
Japan in Our Dav. Bayard Taylor. Illustrated. 1 50.
Wonder*of Vegetation, liy Prof. Scheie de Vere.
Illustrated* Si 50.
The Land of Desolation. By Dr. Isaac T. Hayes,
illustrated. 81 50.
Helen Kthinger, or Not Exactly Right. Si 50.
Heir of Kedcliff—uew edition. 2 vols. 82 50.
The Daisy chain— 4 ‘ “ “ 2 50.
Beecheroft " “ §1 25.
The Two Guardians—new edition. SI 25.
Chamber’s Miscellany—complete. 8 vols. green
cloth. 510.
Ouida’s Novels—cloth. $2 each.
Mayne Reid s Novels—cloth. Si 50 each.
Marian liarland’s novels. Si 50 each.
For »ale at Bl KKL’S BOOKSTORE.
FINE WATCHES,
CLOCKS
JEWELRY,
SILVER WARE,
SPECTACLES,
FANCY GOODS,
FINE BRONZES.
AND STATUARY.
WE HAVE A FULL COUPS OF
Yf atclimakers, jewelled Jngraver?
.llanufact lire many Fine Goods
in our own shop. aud are prepared l., Fll.l. AN V
OltlIKU' tor K 1-, nr »,.rk promptly.
ft*. All g*MMl*engraved free of charge.
We make a sj*erialty or
PREMIUMS FOR FAIRS I
and are prepared to give any inf ruiation on aj*-
plication. We guarantee the
L A RG EST A SS() RT E M N T.
THE FINEST GOODS,
THE LOWEST PRICES,
ANDTIIE BEST WORK.
('all and see us.
SH ARP & FLOYD,
]\ltift half Street, Atlanta.
Mar 25-1 y
Send your Old Furniture to
WOOD’S
REPAIR SHOP,
Next to the Episcopal Church, nod have it
mav Prim MADE GOOD AS SEW.
Emmerson and Southern Cem
Pianos, superior in finish, style and tone, to any
in the >..uth**rn market' for the prices- from three
hundred to trie hundred dollars. The
if I Winning*r, Bnrdett anti Boston Organ Co'*
]>* autiful and Elegant Organ-*.
• Parlor*, Churehes, and Sabbath S«-ln*ol-»—rang-
in price?, from Fiftv to One Thousand Dollars.
II. C. BARROW, Ag’t,
It 13-sm AUGUSTA. HA.
be:
SARSAPARILLA..
A Substitute for Mercurial Preparations,
Cantor Oil, lihubarb, Senna, <£r.
r PIIE PUREST AND BEST
J- remedy known for disease* of the Liver, Fe
male Complaints, or for any disease in which a
medicine •» necessary, to keep the l»owels free and
healthy, or to purify theLW>d. It acts more nat
urally on the liver than Calomel or Blue Pills, and
answers a better pur|M>se. It is the Great Spring
Medicine. Prepared by J. Dennis, M. D., Augus
ta, Ga. Sold by Dr. King, Athens.
GLOBE HOTEL
S. IF. Corner of Broad and Jackson-st.*.,
AUGUSTA, GA.
■I.tCKHOIV A JULIAN, Proprietors.
i call the attention of the trnv-
othis well known hotel, which
in -i.i'cd, and placed on a foot-
n the South. No expense will
it a first class house in every
attention paid to the coinf-
\\TV. beg leave
\ > cling publii
•ml to
ed to i
, and i
guests
ian 25-6uibt
K. S. ENGLAND & CO.,
BE NOW RECEIVING TIIEIU
A
NEW
FALL
by one
STOCK!
Selected with care l»y one of the fir
York, Ut which they invite the attention of their
customers and the public. They have a good assort
ment of
STAPLE&FANGf DRYGOGOS
4a IIOCKKIIIH,
FKOVHIOY^
II A KIIU AKK.
4 K<M Ki:it V,
II A I M. f '.IPN,
HOOTM,
MIIOKr,
kuA m slmri, everything in the way of
fmil'l and Plantation Supplies,
«h- HIGHEST PRICK
AV ill *ior«>
per month.
»* 25 Cents a Hale
Improved Stock tor Sale,
Acclimatnl anil Adapted to the Southern Climate.
Cattle—Brahmin* and their Grade*.
rpiIEY A RE MURRA IN-PROOF,
rapid growers. Many of the rows excel a*
milkers, and the oxen are superior to those of
any other breed fora hot climate.
litg<— Black Essex.
This breed of Hogs has within a few years been
greatly improved. They are free from mange, can
be fattened at any age, and are admirably adapted
for crossing on, and improving the white breeds,
and the common st«ick of the country.
Prince Albert and. Black Berkshires.
They arc very active and thrifty, growing to a
larger si/.e than the Kssex.
Sheep—Spanish Merinos.
They are free from rot and snutib s, are very easy
keepers, and when crossed make a very rapid and
marked improvement on the native flocks, increas
ing the quantify and quality of the wool.
Cashmere Angora (touts.
In many localities they have proved to be very
ditahle. Wlien crossed w ith the native goat*,
they giv
ing an ini
bii'hes, j
id sta
il, hut requi
No
W
I'hej
tin* pure breed is in demand at from
pound
descriptive catalogue furnished on
KM HARD PETERS,
Atlanta Ga.
W. SUMMERS,
Scott Farm, Bedford County, Tenn.,
1IKEF.DKR OF
Thoroughbred Short-horned
Durham Cattle,
BERKSHIRE HUGS AND COLTSTOD SHEEP.
AM BREEDING ENTIRELY
n premium animals My herds have pro-
greater number of premium animals than
< r herds in Tennessee; nave n»*ver (ailed
nimns at every fair, l*oth in Tennessee
•ky, at which they have been exhibited
PAMS AM ORGANS.
E SPLENDID IIALLETT,
V J DAVIS Si GO’S Square Grand Piano—an ele
gant instrument—warranted in every particular—
may be bought on easy terms—payable monthly.
It was used at Mrs. Gates' entertainments.
Pianos and Organs at various prices, sold, pay-
abb* monthly, and terms made easy. Every in
strument u a/ranted. Call at
BURKE’S BOOKSTORE.
Just Received,
\ LARGE SUPPLY of Lech-
Xl ford’s, Farina, Lubin’s and other
ossa
•'' he XE\V DRUG STORE.
tot, 1:3-21
Fireside Miscellany,
IaiTerYTorts.
'fhejr ate iaughihg in the meadow.
They are smiling in the dell;
Upon the woody hill-tops
The blue-eyed beauties dwell:
And unto those that love them
A pleasant tale they tall.
They speak of sunny weather,
Of birds and babbling brooks,
Of walks within the forest glens
And rest within its nooks,
And many a dreamy fancy
Recorded not in books.
From fallen leaves and withered
They mischievously peep,
And laugh at later flokers,
Unwakened from their sleep,
While tenderly they guard them,
And loving vigil keep.
In modest maiden beauty
Some blush along the way,
While others fleck the meadows,
Or by the fountains stray.
In white or blue habiliments
To greet the April day.
They seem at frolic ever,
Now hiding from my sight,
And then together clustering
As if iu half affright,
Yet conscious of their holiday.
And happy in the light.
No other coming flowers
To me as dear a* they,
Of those that bloom in April,
Or in the geutle May ;
I would that thus to comfort me
They evermore would stay!
For talcs of vanished childhood
To ine they sweetly sing, ^
And to the fading memory
They recollections bring
Of home and loving faces—
A precious offering.
Unpluckcd I leave them growing
Full thick about my feet;
I cannot call them townward
From out their fair retreat ;
No retuge has the city
For anything so sweet.
The story that they tell me
Of pleasure and content.
Of hope and trusting confidence
However faith is bent—
This lessou I can bear away—
To teach it they were sent.
—From The Aldine for April.
Speak Kindly.
A SKETCH WITH A MORAL.
Summey & Newton,
HUOAD ST., ATHENS, CA. "
IRON. PLOW STEEL,
STEEL, HOES.
NAILS, PLOWS,
MILL SAWS, COTTON GINS,
And General Hardware and Cutlery, at
Wholesale and Retail.
SCMMEY Jk SEWTOS
<tlicnr, Ga., April 14th. tf So. 6 Broad St.
GUANO.
"DURE PERUVIAN, of direct im-
portation, at Government prices.
2,24l> pounds to the ton It. G. LAY,
Agent for Consignees in IT. S.
Jan. Kim, Savannah, Ga.
u
»take pi
I have* on 1
BULLS and <
rhrated bulls Sb>m
Ardrie, and Rod K«
1st. The*e bulls w
BERKSHIR
1 at
THOROUGHBRED
of all aces, bred from my rel-
rall Jackson, by imp. Duke of
rerthe2d, by Red Rover the
igh from 2,500 to 3,000 lb*.
and imported stock,
bred from my noted premium hoars, Dick John
son and Boh Lee. Mv premium boar* and sows
will weigh from 500 to 800 lbs. My COTSWOLB
S1IEEP are pure, mv premium buck weighing
350 lbs., and sheared last year lbs.
My stock is second to none for size,color, licamv
and style in the United Mates, having made all
mv "elections in buying and breeding for this rare
combination. Order* solicited and satisfaction
guaranteed. Address me at Wart race, Bedford
Co.. Tenn. W. W. SUMMERS.
P. Bl'RESIDE,
DKAI.KK IN
.L, AN 1 >UKT11’^
J UST RECEIVED, R f„n Slini(lv
tJ t.f fresh Seed at the 'll)
i,hi NEW DRUG STORE,
Finest Kerosene Lanins
TO BE FOUND IN ATHENS 1
O
: .V DRU l
Five Gross
’(>!>
Hats, Caps, Straw Goods,
Silk, Guanaco, ZeneUa, Aquepella, and
Srotrli Gingham
Umbrellas,
DRIVING CLOVES, ETC.,
So. ‘222 Broad Street, August a, Ga.
o-t G-3in
S. C DOBBS,
I AEALEIt IN DRY GOODS,
1 J UIlOCEn/ES, PRODUCE, HARDWARE,
BEAD Y-MADE CLOTHISG,
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS,
\ And in *hort. an assorted stock of family nnd
• plantation merchandise. The hignesf market price
I •* * i-jt.1 i .i (-••uuirv produce.
| T« Housekeepers.
j ,U 1‘FCI’IVED, a largeassort-
V KOI
IV, HORSE AND CAT-1 .®52rEP<sra
n.i: ItnVUEItS f..r sul,- »i S-ropri.i .i-
pri ffBA! the. 1
NEW DRUGSTORE.
feh 23-21
's Bellows, Anvils,
j,iSc. I WSS ts - 8tock an(1
w»fch 31 CHILbs, NICK EllSON A CO.
L] A VE YOUR PRINTING Hone
»t rne Anthem Banner .Teh Office.
low prices. All
j which wt- are otlerin
stoves sold by u*
WARRANTED IN
EVERY PARTICULAR.
SHMMUUt NEWTON.
Carriage, Buggy jT Wagon
S-O: j&X, O 1 LLi 12 Y£a s
A LARGE and well selected assort-
-L- -k- ment, for »ale bv
chilbs, Nickerson & co.
PENDLETON’S
Guano Compound.
TpOR SALE BY
BEALL, SPEARS & CO.,
Augusta, Ga.
SAULSBURY, RESPESS & CO.,
Macon, Ga.
ANDERSON & WELLS,
Atlanta, Ga.
P. II. BEIIN & CO.,
Savannah, Ga.
Ok. E. M. PENDLETON,
Sparta, Ga.
Pamphlets containing many testimonials, with
practical hints on cotton culture, and the applica
tion of fertilizers*, may be obtained from any of
the above agents. jan.l
VILUERFORUK DANIEL.
A. WELLBORN HILL.
DANIEL & HILL,
/ TOTTON FACTORS, Agents Cot-
V J ion Komi <*uano. No. 3 Warren ltlm-k, oppo-
te Globe Hotel, Augusta, C»
All business riilru-tr'l to them will have strict
sonal attention. Ofilers for Bagging, Ties and
,* tilled. Cs
amily Supplies promptly
Commission 1 1
i'iit.
Rkfbresces.—Judge John r. Kino, President
Georgia Kail Itoad, President National Bank of Au
gusta nnd Augusta Factory. J. T. Gabdiner,
Ksij., President IMekson Kertilircr Company, Pres
ident Merchants A Planters National Bank, Augus
ta. Col. L. M. Him., Director Ga. K. R., Wilkes
(Ounty. Savings Bank of Augusta. National Bank
ot Newnan, Ga. W. W. SmrsnN, Esq., Sparta Ga.
FREE! FKKEJJ FKEE!!!
SINGLE COPIES OF
ROLMAN’S RURAL WORLD,
A WEEKLY Agricultural Journal
/ \ that has been published twenty-three years
in St. ia>uis, having the Largest Circulation and
the heat Corps of contributors of any agricultural
paper published in the valley of the Mississippi,
wiil he sent free to all applicants. Send foracopv.
erm.—S3 per annum. Address Norman J. Coi
gn, Publisher, f Li u!St., Mo dee 291t
TEACHER OF MUSIC.
/ \FFICE corner of Lumpkin and
V / Clayton streets, near the Epispocal Church.
Pnnils living out of town can take their lessons
and practice at the office.
Pianos, Organs & Sheet Music
for sale, on the most reasonable terms. All liistru-
inents of the liest makers and rally warranted.—
Persona desiring to purchase can have an instru
ment placed in their house, which, if not satisfac
tory niter fair trial, can be returned or exchanged.
OJT pianos and Organs sold on Monthly 1 ay-
ments, and old iostraiponU taken in pari pay ment,
if in good condition. |oct 37-tt
TOB PRINTING neatly and quickly
(J executed st th* Itaner Office.
Ill our daily intercourse with those
we love—in our family relations as
husbanrfa and wives, parents and chil
dren, brothers and sisters—a constant
watchfulness ought to be maintained
over our words and actions, in order
to avoid unnecessary pain. How fre
quently does it occur, that a word un
kindly spoken to those who once loved,
but who have since been removed
from us by the hand of death, will
haunt our memory long afterwards,
like an avenging, demon, causing us
poignant and vain regrets! Years af
ter the circumstance has passed out of
our own minds aud the minds of the
friend we may have grieved or wrong
ed, if some sudden calamity befalls
him or some unexpected summons calls
him away from earth, and removes
him from the scope of ability to make
redress, will the awakened memory of
the unkind act or word cloud the mel
ancholy reflections of our waking
hours, and even haunt our dreams.—
But the most bitter and poignant re
flections arise, when we have parted in
unkindness from some one connected
with us by the tenderness ties; and
then no opportunity occurs to effect a
reconciliation, the person we have in
jured is removed from us suddenly by
death. Then comes the period of vain
regrets and unavailing self-reproach.—
What would we give for a moment of
time to ask and obtain one word of
forgiveness from that loved one we
have wronged ? but, alas! too late!
The experience of an acquaintance,
related by himself net long ago, illus
trates most forcibly the above position.
He had been living, he said, away
from home for several months, and was
on a visit of a week or two, at his fa
ther’s house. The father was a man
of the most uncompromising integrity,
and cherished strong, though honest
prejudice against all light or transient
amusements. He had never allowed
his children, while under his control,
to attend dancing parties or shows, or
to mingle in the sjiorts which most men
regard as unobjectionable, or at least
not altogether to be condemned. The
consequence was, that the children, as
is usual under similar circumstances,
were fond of indulging iu the inter
dicted pleasures, and were apt, when
an opportunity did occur, to carry
them too far. They felt that their
father was prompted by a sincere con
viction of, and a desire to discharge
the duties of a parent who feels the
weight of his responsibility to God ;
but they felt also that lie was unneces
sarily stringent in his interpretation of
what he considered right nr wrong.—
As a consequence, they did not hesi
tate, when circumstances favored it, to
evade hi- mandates upon the subject,
aud even when they dared lo set them
at defiance,
ff I shall never forgot,” said the nar
rator, “ nor cease to regret the inci
dents of my last visit home during my
father’s life. There was to be a ball
at a neighboring tavern, by no means
a reputable place, and it was to come
off the evening before I was to- return
to my employment in a distant town.
Feeling myself emancipated from pa
ternal control (for I had just reached
my majority), and priding mvself upon
the idea that I was now master of my
own actions, I signified my intention
to be present. My father, as usual,
forbade my attendance. I answered
him i|| angar, stating, that his author
ity over me was henerforth ended;
that he had treated me like a boy, aud
I had submitted like a boy until now ;
but since I had reached the age at
which the law permitted me to think
and act for myself, I was determined
to u jtart my rights. I even went so
far, and wa3 so unjust to my father, as
to intimate that a desire existed on his
part to tyrannize over us, from a iove
of paternal authority. He was a man
of strong and natural irritability of
feelings, hut his motives were always
of the purest kind ; and my conscience
smote me as I uttered the sentiment
which my pride would not permit me
to recall.
“ An angry blush passed over his
countenance at such an unusual recep
tion of his commands, but he checked
himself instantaneously and answered
with unusal mildness. “ Charles, I
may have erred in many points touch
ing the government of my children,
but I have endeavored to do my duty
as a parent and a man. The time
may come when you will be sorry for
what you have uttered to-day!”
“ And that time did come more
speedily than he anticipated. They
were prophetic words, ami even at this
late day, they haunt me in my dreams.
I went to the ball, but I did not
enjoy myself; I was jovial, and full of
glee ; my associates thought me iu un
usual good spirits, but it was all feign
ed and hollow-hearted as a sepulchre.
“ Charles, the time may come when
you will he sorry for what you have
uttered to-day !” rung in my ears.
“It was near morning when the
party broke up, and I returned home,
jaded in spirit, exhausted in physical
energy, and worn down with excite
ment. I went to bed and fell into n
troubled sleep which lasted until near
noon. Wheti I arose a dizziness and
pain iu the head incapacitated me
from mental exertion ; still I half re
solved, ere I left home in the afternoon,
to confess my fault to my father. I
met him at the dinner table, but no
allusion was made by either of us to
the incident of the previous day; and
when we arose from the table it was
near the hour at which it was neces
sary for me to take the coach. I fol
lowed my father into our little parlor
whither he had gone, as if desirous of
affording me an opportunity to speak
with him alone ; but I was ashamed to
confess that I was wrong, ami merely
said I must bid him good bye, as the
coach was coming.
“ Have you nothing more to say,
Charles ?” he inquired ;
“No,” I answered, aud we parted. I
took the coach for the scene of my la-
liors, displeased and angry with my
self but not penitent; and for a week
succeeding was industriously employed
in my vocation, having allowed the
unpleasant circumstance to pass out
of my mind, when an express came re
quiring my immediate presence at
home, for it was stated that my father,
in a state of perfect and florid health,
had been stricken down by an apoplec
tic fit.
“ Although still alive when the
messenger left, he was insensible, and
was not expected to survive. Then,
indeed, I felt the full force of the omi
nous prediction, “ the time may come
when you will be sorry for what you
have uttered to-day.” I hastened
home full of anxiety ami grief, only to
find my father at the point of death.
He never gave a token of recognition
of my presence, and resigned his spirit
into the hands of God amid the grief
of a sorrowing household, of whom
mine was infinitely the most bitter.
Once, indeed, before my arrival, he
rallied sufficiently to inquire if I had
come, and on being answered in the
negative relapsed into a state of inseu-
siblity, and never spoke again. As I
stood beside his bed, and gazed upon
the lifeless features of one of. the liest
of fathers, whose every command it
was my duty to have obeyed (and
which, as a general thing, I did obey),
the thought of the last act ofdisobcdi-
euce aud unkindness tortured me like
an avenging fiend; and I felt as if a
word of forgiveness from those cold
lips would have been received more
joyfully than a welcome admission to
the bliss of heaven.”
Alaska Customs.
2fce Ladies and Their Decorationa.
A little five year-old was being in
structed in morals by his grandmohter.
Th® old lady told him that all such
terms as “ by golly,” “ by jingo,” “ by
thunder,” etc., were only little oaths,
and but little better than other pro
fanities, Iu fact, she said, he could
tell a profaue oath by the prefix “ by.”
All such were oaths. “ Well, then,
grand-mother,” said the little hopeful,
“ is ‘ by telegraph,” which I see in the
newspapers, swearing ?” “ No," said
the old lady, “ that’s only lying.”
The follow ing is extracted from the
letter of a Sitka (Alaska) correspond
ent:
The village contains forty or fifty
houses. The population consists of
one thousand Indians and two thous
and dogs. Of the dogs, all but one
are of the same sharp-eared, wolfish
type seen among the Indians of the
plains. The exception was a bandy
legged, lop-eared cur of civilized breed,
the only one among the two thousand
that showed a lack of civilty by bark
ing at our heels. The houses much
more resemble the semi-subterranean
abodes of the Laplanders and Esqui
maux than the wigwams of American
Indians. Like the oak described by
the American poet, they extended as
far into the earth as above it. Some
of them are from twenty to thirty feet
square, aud built of very wide clear
planks, many of them more than four
feet across, worked out by these rude
people.
We entered several. Creeping
through apertures, both square and
round, not more than three feet in
diameter, we descended fights of steps
into the large, single room. In the
center of each a fire was built on the
ground, and in the center of each roof
a hole, out of which passed a small
portion of the sruoke, the most of it re
maining for the benefit of the salmon
hanging over our heads, and to make
sore eyes for the inmates. The whole
inside is floored, except the fire-place
in the middle. On both sides are the
sleeping-places, covered with skins
and blankets, separated by low parti
tions. In the rear, and on shelves
below the dormitories, were stored po
tatoes and dried salmon, in small bales,
covered with matting. Their largest
potatoes are the size of a hulled wal
nut.
The ladies beautify their complex
ions with soot and red paint, and still
further enhance their charms by wear
ing a bone through the upper lip, the
size of which is increased from year to
year until, in some of the old ones, it
attains a width of two inches. An In
dian lady thus adorned, with her
coarse, black uncombed locks hanging
in matted profusion around her beauti
ful pig eyes and lop ears, is only re
sistible ty those whose affections are
thoroughly preoccupied. The delights
of courtship must he doubled by the
pleasant aroma of salmon which per
vades the premisies and, as I have
heard, their persons.
Among them the crow and the raven
are held sacred, and fly around their
abodes undisturbed. They live main
ly on fish, and have a monopoly of the
trapping. There is but one white
trapper in the country, and he is at
Cook’s inlet, six hundred miles west
northwest. He came down to Sitka
once to go to Kodisk. Learning that
no vessel.would sail for a month, and
growing tired of the place, he said lie
would take “ a little walk.” He start
ed with his rifle and a pocket full of
salt, and traversed alone that moun
tain wilderness for three weeks. He
had no covering at night but the skins
of freshly-slaughtered animals, lie
returned in good condition, and in an
swer to questions, boasted that he had
lived better than his questioners.
How the Average Young Girl Attacks
the Piano.
The Poet of the Breakfast Table
gives this vivid description of the man
ner in which a girl of the period makes
ready to play and plays the grand
piano:
It was a young woman with as many
white muslin flounces round her as the
planet Saturn has rings, that did it.—
She gave the music stool a twirl or two,
and fluffed down on to it like a whirl
of soap suds in a hand basin. Then
she pushed up her cuffs, as if she was
going to fight for the champion’s belt.
Then she worked her hands and wrists,
to limber ’em I suppose, and spread
out her fingers till they looked as
though they would pretty much cover
the key-board from the growling end
to the squeaky one. Then those two
hands of her’s made a jump at the keys
as if they were a comple of tigers com
ing down on a flock of black and white
sheep, and the piano a great howl as
its tail had been trod on. Dead stop
—so still you could hear your hair
growing. Then another jump, and
another howl, as if the piano had two
i tails and you had trod on both of ’em
at once, and a grand clatter and
scramble and string of jumps, up and
down, back and forward, one hand
over the other, like a stampede of rats
and mice more than like anything I
call mice.
steel
Why Will Not Georgia Act I
The area of Georgia and Illinois is
nearly the same—the first being the
largest. Georgia is one of the origin
al Thirteen, and included in the first
enumeration, in 1790; Illinois was
first included in 1810, and was not ad
mitted into the Union until 1818.—
The following table shows their rela
tive increase in population since:
1810. I860. 1870.
2.V2, S3 1,057,286 1,184,109
' 2,539,891
several gentlemen well known nil over
the State—many of them all over the
Union—have proposed to contribute
from their private purses towards pay
ing the expenses of such Commission
ers, and invited others, limiting the
number so low as one hundred, to-
unite with them. They designated the
gentleman they had selected ; and we
feel confident that every other citizen
to whom he is known approved the
12,282 1,711,951 2,539,391 '' e,cction - Certain it is, no one is
Thus it will be observed with what more accomplished, patriotic or zeal-
rapidity Illinois has increased, lt „d j 0Utf - or more dev , otmi t0 a11 the
that she has so far outstripped Georgia j interests of the State and this section .-
as to more than double her iu popula- - 01,1 ' >e fi 00111 ! * n a " this Southern laud,
tion. Yet Georgia has the distinguish- Wh >’ tlle, ‘ wi " not Geor £ ia ~
ed honor of being the only one of the j A,lanta (««•)
Southern States cm brawl in theori-l Durability of Woods.
ginal Thirteen which has maintained j
her grace in the scale of population. ! Tho Builder says r
1790.
Georgia, 82,548
Illinois
Now there is a reason for this, and
it is to be found mainly in her enter
prise in building railways, and in her
efforts to promote settlement by immi
grants. As to natural advantages,
climate, soil, and adaptation to all in
dustries aud production, as a whole,
we think it may be safely asserted that a’-J .'‘^rly every variety of pine were
Georgia in the superior. As to diver-
Experinient have been lately made by
driving sticks of different woods, eaeb
two feet long and one and one ball’
inch square, into the ground, only one
halt inch projecting outward, lt was
found that in five years nil those made
of oak, elm, ash, fir, soft mahogany.
sity, we believe there can be no dispute.
Like efforts on the part of Georgia,
would have secured like results; there
can he little question as to that.
It may be said that Illinois had a
public domain, which was offered to
actual settlers at low rates, nnd that
she appropriated liberally towards
building her railways. This is true.
But Georgia had a public domain
down to the time of the land lottery in
1827—more than seventeen years after
the first enumeration in which Illinois
was included. During that period
there was no difference; but, subse
quently, Illinois lias had an important
advantage in this respect. It unques
tionably enables her to vigorously and
successfully push her railway enter
prises, which have been valuable aux
iliaries in behalf of immigration to that 1
and other Northwestern States. \
totally rotten. Larch, hard pine, and
teak wood were decayed on the outside
only ; while acacia, with the exception
of being also slightly attacked on the
exterior, was otherwise sound. Hard
Mahogany and cedar of Lebanon were
in tolerably good condition, but only
Virginia cedar was found as good as
when put in the ground. This is of
some importance to builders, showing
what woods should he avoided and what
others used by preference in under
ground work.
Penalty For Adulterating Milk.
A late number of the Irish Farmer’s
Gairite, states that the authorities of
Dublin, finding that imposing a fine
does not stop the practice of adulterat
ing milk, have resorted to the expe
dient of advertising in the morning pa
pers at the expense of the guilty par
ties, the names of those convicted of
the violation of the statute in relation
It then gives
To Cut Glass.—Any hard
tool (says the Boston Journal of Chem
istry') will cut glass when kept freely
wet • with camphor dissolved in tur
pentine, The ragged edges of glass
vessels may be thus easily smoothed by
a flat file.
Yet the great and marked difference j
is unquestionably to be found in the I t0 adulteration, it then gives a copy-
fact that Illinois,' from the beginning, of a dis P la > ed advertisement which
made strenuous efforts to induce immi- “** forth that-“ At the Northern
gration, while Georgia made none, and P° licc court - 0,1 8aUlrda / tl,e 17,h
(what is lamentably worse) appears j Februar >’’ 1872 ‘ James Kelley, dairy-
disinclined to make anv now, although j man » 72 ^ountjoy ‘“feet, was fined
nearly all the other States, South as| two P° und - for scllin S n,i,k adultor -
well 'as Northwest and West, have j ated with 20 per cent, of water, and it
earnestly begun the work. In a late ! 1>eln K his second ^"victmn for a snm-
Florida paper we read : I ,ar offensc > tho P u!,]irati(m ot ‘ tI,is ad ’
, ! vertisement was ordered by tho magi.—
On the 12th instant, a small colony, ' . , , ,
. , , . trate who heard the case. If notices
with seven covered wagons and a car-i, , . , .
, , , . „ like this were published in this city for
riage, passed through, Monticello, en i .
. , . c. ™ • ' similar offenses, the cnrporatian news-
route for Dade county, in south F lori- ,, , ,
, _ paper would soon run up a huge lull
da. I hev came from Georgia. „ , . . . , .
_ , . , . for advertising in the course of a year.
So that it seems, while making no i
efforts to induce immigrants to eome
to and settle in Georgia, the old citi
zens are removing. It will Vie remcm-
Legal Suasion a Failure.
The attempt to stop the consumption
bored that in our last issue we quoted of liquor by statutory prohibition of
a more significant item than this from sale has not thus far produced the re-
Texas paper. Again, we clip the suits expected. Indeed, it has long
following from an Alabama exchange : been apparent that the total abstinence
“ A large company of Swedish im- people, in leveling all their artillery
migrants have just landed at Tuscum- against the dealers, and leaving con-
bia, Alabama, with a view to locate in snmers unscathed, were working at the
that region.” wrong end of their self-appointed
Alabama, Tennessee and
Florida "’J 10 experiment just begun in
have each had a partial or complete Wisconsin, therefore, will be watched
geological survey of the State, and w ' dl considerable interest fhe Leg-
published by State authority, volumes ''stature of that State has passed a law
setting forth their great advantages.— making drunkenness a crime, to he
Georgia hesitates, delays, or opposes, punished by imprisonment for two
From the San Diego Union, of Fell- months, and until the cost of prosr-cu-
ruary 29, we learn that— | tion are paid, and imposing oilur
... , a.. . grave liabilities niton the offender.—
“Messrs. Bmnov and Stewart, the *
English capitalists—who, with Mr.
Peter Donahue, of San Francisco, and
Gov. John G. Downey, of Los Ange
los, have been passing over the line of
The proceedings under the law are to
he of a summary character, and wit
nesses of the crime of inebriety are
clothed with extraordinary powers.—
the San Diego and Los Angelos Rail- lfdrinkin - doe f not # l leedil - v 1,cc,,nie
road—arrived in Old Town on Thurs- an u " fa8hionab,c amusement in Wis-
, • , „ . , 1 consul, with this stringent statute and
dav evening, and came over vesterdav ,
* . * ..." ' the old laws against venders in full
morning on the up steamer Wo e
are informed that Messrs. Binnev, 1 force ’ il n,a - v ,Mi ' iafe, - v asPl,med t,,at
Stewart and Donahue have made an le S al enactments are not alone suffi-
offer of £500,000 to Don Juan For-) cieut to Induce that result,
ster for the three Santa Margarita j
ranches, with a view of dividing up:
the lands and placing them in market
upon the San Diego and Los Angelos
Railroad. If thi? be so, and the prop
osition is accepted, San Diego county
will take an immense step forward in
material prosperity. The placing of
these magnificent lands on the market,
and their settlement aud cultivation,
will in a few years add millions to the
wealth of the country. Should this be
done, the building of the railroad to
Los Angelos and San Bernardino
would be pushed forward to very speedy
completion.”
These are but three out of innumer
able items of similar import published
in the papers. All around us the
great work is going on, even to the
drawing people from our State, while
we do nothing either to retain them or
to fill their places. We need the
speedy completion of our railroad en
terprises, a geological survey of the
State, and a Commissioner of the right
stam if abroad to set forth the superior
advantages of Georgia and direct at
tention to them..
The State neglecting the matter,
About Peaches.—In the valuable
rieultuaal correspondence of the
Cincinnati Gazette, among other tilings,
it is stated, upon experiment, that the
lives of peach trees can be much pro
longed by thinning out the fruit; also,
that this thinning operation is neces
sary to bring forward first class fruit,
whic which will more than make the
diff’cronce in yield. If a peach tree is
allowed to overbear it never recovers,
no matter how much pains may be
taken with it afterwards.
These things are worthy the atten
tion of farmers and gardeners.
By adding a little carbolic acid to
common paste made of flour, it maybe
kept in good condition until it drys up.
The acid will prevent it from becom
ing sour or rancid. This s.mple receipt
will save considerable inconvenience in
cases where lnjt a small amount of
paste is wanted, and it is only occa
sionally used.
The wheat exop throughout 'the
country, if we may judge from the
newepaper reports, is large and un
usually promising.