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ATHENS, GA.—WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23,1870.
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T A H. COBB,...Attorneys stlliw, c0 **'"‘
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A LBERT L. MITCHELL,
XL ATTORNEY-.
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January 12, 1870.
A LEX. a EBm
X\ Attornit At Law.
OFFICE lately occupied by
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
a-.^'o.XoS.'S.2i
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ATHENS, a A,
Lamar Cobb, oa Broad
March 4,
“DANKRUPTCY.i-Samuel F. Thurmond,
J J Attorncy-at-Law. Athens, Oa.
Office on Broad e tree turner lie store of Barry t Son,
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so, to the collection of all claims entrusted to his care.
D O. CANDLES,
. Attornkt at Law, Homer, Banks Co., Go.
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Habersham and Franklin.
^yPrrtnptattention will be giren to theeolleetlon
of elalma Jan24—tf
E P. LUMPKIN,
Attorney at Law*
ATHENS, OA.
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ATLANTA
NURSERIES.
ATLANTA, OA.
n LENN k DUNLAP,
XT ATTORNEYS AT LA W,
MONROE, W altos Co., Ga.
Will giro prompt attention ta all business entrusted
.. 5.IM I to their care. Sam'l C. Dorlap, Monroe, Ga.
1.1® | Dec22—ly J. N.Glexh, Lawrencerille, Qa.
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TAMES R. LYLE,
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T0HN M. MATTHEWS,
t) Attobbbt at Law,
HanielsTiile, Ga.
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S M. HERRINGTON,
. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Annum, Ga.
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TiRDF.N’, C0T.E I CO., Proprietors.—We bare for I ry A 8on. tf Jan 5,1870.
l file this .eaflon a superior stock of | .^1 T tf MARLEK,
Attorrbt at Law,
Jefferson, Jackson Co., Ga.
Will give attention to all businass entrusted to his
Ma,28.
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rer'.f TREES. CRAPE VINES,
SMALL FRUITS, ROSES.
ORNAMENTAL TREES,
S11 RUBBERY, etc., etc.
1 t!| of which have been tested In the Sooth, and are * e * rB *
Uf.ti to tit climate.
fcitiloroM sent free on appliealion.
Address HARDEN, COLE A CO.
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LARGE STOCK OF
NICKERSON k CO.,
Dealers in HARDWARE, IRON, STEEL. Nails,
Stoves, House-Furnishing Goods, Agricultural Imple
ments, Mill-Findingr, Ae.
Soliolt a eontinuanee of publiepatronage. May21
©w C]VC>0<3LS j O. PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY,
W. MOTES’
IN ATHENS.
LUCAS &1)EARING
lillns receiving a large and splendid STOCK OF
n. ik
(Over Longs A Billups' Drag Store, Broad Street.)
PICTURES of all kinds, from tba smallest Ambro-
type and Porcelain Miniature, to tba llfa-siso Photo
graph.
Ambrotypes and Daguerreotypes copied to any six*
isired. Athens, Feb. 20,1807
HOODS, which they offer at greatly reduced prices. | desired
.from, distance ore invited to examine goods 1OT . . omnlnIn)
drri-es. ehich will compare favorably with any in I L^fiuLAllD k SEYMOUR,
jt-uih. | I Li Wholesale and Retail Dea
| Wies’ Dress Goods,
> Dress Goods,
I Clrth., Csssiaiero* and Vestings,
id Children's Goods,
| Duplex Elliptic Hoop Skirts,
: :.,«k L.ees, Gloros, Hosiery, Blankets, Rngs, and
lish.rOMd* that the trado requires.
] IV 'Itllsnd examine.
LUO AS A PSARIKU.
tars,
and COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Dupree Hall, Broad St, Athens,' Ga.
Wa are now prepared to store Cotton at 25 cents per
bale, and will advance each when desired. Oct28.
J ACOBS k MICHAEL,
Dealers in minTK
DRV GOODS. CLOTHING. 6HOR8. BOUTS,
Hats and Notions, No. 14, nutter Franklin Houie^Bread
Repairing and Painting
DMtilES, Wagons, Childrens’ Carriages, Whe
Ae., cheap for CASH OR PRODUCE,
essdersigned, near Town Spring, above Lively
t,Athens, Ga. Sept# W. EDGE.
| CARPENTERS’, BLACKSMITHS'
ISDT.aners* Tools, Builders’ Materials, Cabinet
A Miters' G oods, uyd an endless variety of articles
a tedious to mention, for sale by
|Jm9 SUMMET A NEWTON.
NO CURE. TJO PAY!
1 Street. A the
. Gen rat-
-IT H. HUGGINS, , .
!, *1 . Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, HARDWARE, Ae.
Fob# • Broad Street, Athens, Ga.
JOHN H. CHRISTY, _
t) Plain and Fancy BOOK AND JOB FR1NTEB,
Broad St., Athens, Ga.
Office corner Broad and Wall streets, over the store
James D. Pittard.
T3AVHJ0N HOTEL,
JL . CHARLESTON,
ILOBE FLOWER COUGH SYRUP, I ™. FI^^L^Hotel^at^in toyery
1 stop there win find every eonvenienee and luxury that
‘•procured. Board, par day, $3.00.
I1.uhi.toh, SnpU Mrs. L. H. BuTraansLD, 1
9ec22 tf Propriotreoo. J
Or Button Bush Syrup.
[TUB |rMte«t ind moat delicioii* Cough Remedy of
\ age. Thousands of persons bavo bean saved
i the grave by the timely tie of this wonderful Med-
a For the cure of Colds. Coughs, Asthma, Croup,
lining Cough, Sore Throat, Bleeding of the Lungs,
lidroaic Throat and Lung Diseases, it possesses al-
£niraouloufl powers, and is the moat pleesont and
We rewady in the world for the cure of Consump-
It ii pleasant to take and does not disagree with
t BMt delicate. None genuine unless the words
l&lde Flowet and Cough Syrup” is blown in each bot-
tu4 the “Globe Flower” printed in fita oolors on
pkksl, which we have patented as onr Trade Mark
take any other, or you will get a worthless eoun
p^ued in the Laboratory of
JMBERTOK, TOOK, TAYLOR J Co,
L>,r «A Manufacturer, end Wholeexle Denier, in
»Drefi, Medicine, Iu.trnmeot., Ch.mieal., Paints,
kClin, Dye Stuff., Patent Medicines, Garden Seed*.
Me.
|K.Lir"e stock, on hand, at lew prioes. Call and
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QUMMEY
O Dealer.
Jane*
k NEWTON,
in
Foreign and Domestic HARDWARE,
No. 8,Bread (treat, Athena, Ga.
S C. DOBBS,
. Wholeiale and Retail Dceler-in
and Fancy DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, Ae.
No. 12 Broad Street, Athens, Ga.
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T BISHOP k SON,
. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROCERS,
And dealer, in Aa.ortad Merchandise, No. 1, Broad
Street, Athens, Ga. Terms cash. OetlO
WAGON YARD IN ATHENS.
T HE subscriber has fitted up and opaned a safe, com-
fortabl, Md oommodion. Wagon Yard, on River
h tie cow three-story brick building, corner Do- I street, in th, njbAhnrh0*d of the Upper Bndgv wher
»J P..chtree street, | CORN, FODDER, and all1 other neeessary rappliwean
i pur
The
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ATLANTA, GA.
[ R.& L. O. MATTHEWS,|“-tf
I *** old stand, No. 8, comer of Broad
1 and Spring Streets.
°H.D Inform their enttomersand thapnblle gen-
™ty, that they are offering a large and general
w notr.t of Staple and Fancy
DRY GOODS, GBOCERISS,
highest market price paid for Conatry Prodneo,
ank bills received in exchange for Good,
WILEY P. HOOD.
NEW COTTON and WOOLLEN
MILLS.
I HEREBY eall the attention of the publio to my
COTTON and WOOLLEN MILLS, reran miles
_ COTTON and WOOLLEN M
, , , west of Athens, and one mile below Mr. Purr*,Mills.
ir I Ware, Croolcorv. Boots <6 Shoes, I The Wool Cards are doing splendid work—the lose in
READY-MADE CLOTHINC. carding clean wool being about one pound in forty. I
f\T\ It i Til in c a lam ro npiniN -i. d. am also prepared to Gin Cotton, which I propose to buy,
■' ‘‘111IILli, J.tUULw, BhlDLu, tiL, HC, I and pay from one-half to ono cent for lb. more than
“ l»weit ;.-.rh prices. the Athens price in eaeb, orin trade at the lowcat eeah
L : b. ku J Cotton, Corn, Small Grain and other Conn- ISl
"Mrnit.'u, fainter, tewieis* *>»«». —* c * ULoCPl 8 * p8
hsTew Goods.
SllBllSrS 3Di Agricnltnral ImPBlHGQtS, I ITT* hare in atom and daily arriving, a well selected
l tKAs.nl. r,. .1, , - „ , _ . W etoek of Dry Goods, Shoes. Hals, Hardware, Gro-
e £ '*p«".“o^ rg w. M .ta , h^''tf* sh“‘^1!: r ^;“‘;^: d f ft^ h A«d^2i? rod,,ce -
' -’-here we do all kind, of Tin. Sheet I S-O'ton U nlwny* * „ ^hfo
I: to /h ,v * " ucro w© do Ail lunas or Tin, onset i 7r" t A ■■ esch for
*^ od8, ^K°f
-“ f f*7 PteJifsteeL* S—Mand Englid, Iran, H
s ui ,il * y re,urn °“r Sincere thank* to our I to ***?* -»,b. eaih article* oa time 30
2SP 4 * tna the country .trieOy attandad t 0j | cannot.ali eaA ^CTMOmt
' Janio—8m Pnder Denpree’* Hall, Broad «V
*" ° Ur * Und ’ N< ’' # Brt * d 1
SUMMEYA NEWTON.
s&K 1
oeeas, with directions for
; com?J e P aid b Y maiL The
Ren?Fi e * t v and judioious as-
the country. Agents
r Potatoes, Ao„
I !^'-“»e»er , « r'X‘ “V7 rol * , °' Prapaid, f*r
L^' prepala v **! 1 Asparagus, $8 per 100; $25
P Alba tr - ^® W bardr frkwranl ATitrLlAAminF
ATHENS GROVE INST1T0TE.
CORPS OF INSTRUCTORS.
GEORGE BANCROFT, A. B.
HOWARD VAN EPPS, A B.
3HB first session of the srtaylAitberto known ss
‘ *-r the aborn name
will commence
r attention is eall-
..$24.00
1 «Carlton HiUysr'sSshooV'wnd*
RATES OF TUITION.
B.' Primary, for session of # months,
hardy fragrant everhlowaing I
Ye? 1 ' 1 : n f,‘ We^Catalognstoany
J , V A T8nu 0 'o t , r f 4 r»*‘- Soeda on eommiaalon.
JanlJ $V
From tha Augusta Chrouicie.
The Cotton Gin and its InTentors.
The following interesting article upon the
Cotton Gin and its inventors, from the Scien
tific American, was contributed by a writer who
uses the moss deplume of Elzy Hay.
If we mistake not, the writer is a daughter
of Judge Andrews, of Washington, Georgia and
doubtless gets her information from the Judge
himself. There is, perhaps, no man who has
such a rich, varied and valuable store of im
portant facts concerning oar early history, and
the lives and straggles of the pioneers of onr
8tate, as Judge Andrews. If he could be in
duced to commit to paper for the use of the
public, something of tho recollections of bis
early life, we are snre that they would prove of
great interest to the people, and more particu
larly to the rising generation. If the Judge
is too ranch engaged with his public duties to
write himself, we aro quite sure his gifted
daughter would make it a labor of lore to com
mit to paper any ‘ stories of the past’ he would
confide to her.
An agricultural article recently published in
one of oar leading newspapers contained a cas
ual allusion to Eli Whitney, os tho inventor of
the modern saw gin for seeding cotton. This
was by ho means an unnatural flagrant mis
take, as probably not one person in a thousand
is aware of the feet that our modern saw gin
is not Mr. Whitney’s invention, bat an im
provement upon it. The former, of which 1
have seen more than relic, was merely a wood
en cylinder with wire teeth or claws running
round in a circle. The idea of the saw gin was
borrowed from Ohio, as will be related further
on. Mr. Whitney sued the earlier inventors
and manufacturers for violating his patent, and
their defences were based on the ground that
the saw was no infringement of the wire tooth
patent. One of Mr. Whitney’s original cotton
gins, was in the possession of my fether until
some fifteen or twenty years ago, when it was
lost at an agricultural fair at Augusta, whither
it had been sent for exhibition. I remember it
well as among the contents of an attic room
where I use sometimes to play in childhood,
and a feeling recollection of getting ears box
ed more than once for stealing wire from it to
striug paper‘limber Jacks' on,
I have heard my father relate many interest
ing facts as to the origin and early history of
tho cotton gin, which be received from persons
who were cotemporaries and associates of its
inventor. There are probably not a dozen
other men living to whom these facts are known
and it may be well to record them hero before
they are lost in the dim regions of traditionary
lore.
•*5u 'Whitney, It was well kno— -— 7 *,
in tbeJamUx- nr ueaerai Greene, of revolution
ary memory, at the time he invented the cot
ton gin; and here aro somo facts concerning
him my father received from a grandson of the
General. Whitney’s Yankee ingenuity, as ex
hibited in various amateur tinkerings at re
fractory door-fastenings, broken clocks, etc.,
insp|red the family -with such confidence in his
skill, that on some occasion, when the watch
of Mrs. Miller, a member of Gen. Greene's house
hold got out of order, she gave it to Mr. Whit
ney to repair, no professional watchmaker be
ing with'iu reach. He performed the work suc
cessfully, to the great delight of Mrs. Miller
and tho admiration of the whole family.
A short time thereafter, a gentleman called
at the Gcnaial’s house to show a fine sample
of cottou wool, and remarked while exhibiting
it, that there was a fortune in store for some
body who should invent a machine for separa
ting the lint from the seed. Mrs. Miller, who
was present, turned to Whitney and said, ‘ Yon
are the very man, Mr. Whitney, for since yon
succeeded so well with my watch, I am sure
you have ingenuity enough to make such a
machine.’
After this conversation Mr. Whitney con
fined himself closely to his room for several
weeks, at the end of which he invited the fam
ily to inspect his model of a cotton gin. It
was constructed, aal have already described,
with wire teeth on a revolving cylinder, but as
there was no contrivance for throwing off the
lint after it was separated from the seed, it
wrapped round the cylinder, thereby greatly
obstructing the operation of the Machine. Mrs.
Miller, seeing the difficulty, seized a common
clothes brash, applied to the teeth, and caught
the lint. Whitney with delight exclaimed,
‘Madam, yon have solved the problem, with
this suggestion my machine is complete.
The important part thus played by a woman
in the history of a cotton gin is unknown, I
believe, except as a family tradition, even in
her own State. My father was also informed
by a gentleman once connected witn Whltnoy
in business, that the latter obtained bis first
idea of the invention from a gin used to pro
pare rags for making paper, which be saw in
a wrecked vessel. General Greene, in whoso
family he livodat the timo, resided on one of
the ‘sea islands’ along tho Georgia coast.
Unfortunately for Mr. Whitney, the proptae
cy of the gentleman with regard to the fortune
in store for tho future inventor of a cotton gin
was never realized in his case, for he was on
gaged itt constant law suits against infringe
ments of his patent right, and lived and died
poor. As * Georgian, I regret to say that bis
adopted State never bestowed any substantial
testimony of appreciation upon tho inventor of
a machine by which she had profited so large
ly. Tennessee, Alabama, and South Carolina,
it is said, manifested their appreciation of his
merits by material and substantial donations 1
while Georgia, with sorrow I write it, has boon
worse than silent, for her juries refused him
verdicts, to which the jndgos declared he v
entitled, against the violators of his patent.
, | 00 uncertain was the enforcement of tho
stool patent laws in those days, the* Whitney re-
24.00
JUST JIECEIVED^^
'.ftlousb
Mole Traps. tron u
R^«*2i«3rs Oteur Hxsk- I Trsys,
r*» “*«* sad Grindstones, for sals by 2 J»o*0
£y"~ 8PMMKY A HBWTOy
l^ t ' k *H^ awford & Hampton’s
Prolific.Corn,
‘'.“MsoSr! 10 ® 1 f 1 “ from csoh
“tofonrtsntexslxlk.
Tubs, Buckets,
and brass bound Cbarns, Bn
lists and Ropo, for silo by _
SUMMEY A NEWTON
TTOLLOW-WARB,
II I! ‘1 • ‘ c-r Bolting, fur sale
Iron, Steel,
'IK, Nail", Hoe», Axes. Chains and
~ ” - • ■
SUMMEY A NEWTON.
- Fine Pa-iv and Tooth Brushes,
At LONGS A BILLUPS’.
for dinner and “goodioo” generally, that would
be appropriate offerings to the memory of him
who invented cooking stoves. The gin house
had narrow grated windows, so that visitors
might stand outside and watch cotton flying
from the gin without observing the operation
of tho machine, which was concealed behind
lower screen. Among other visitors, we are
informed that on the occasion of a certain mi
litia master in the neighborhood, the rustic
battalion was permitted to file through the
house whilo Whitney's gin was in operation,
and see the flakes of leotton thrown off by the
brash, bat none were permitted to examine
farther. What a different errand the grand
sons of those rustic militia men, filing past the
first cotton gin, wore one day to march forth
upon!
Women were permitted by Whitney to enter
his gin hoare and examine the machinery if
they liked, as thoy were not supposed to be
capable of betraying the secret to bnildors—an
opi nion for which modern females of the strong
minded school will, no doubt, bear him a grudge
—and not altogether without reason, perhaps,
when we consider the material assistance ho
received from a woman in perfecting bis inven
tion. This fact of the free admittance of wo
men was taken advantage of by Edward Lyon,
“ a smooth-faced yourg man” residing in a dis
tant part of tho country, to gain admission to
Whitney’s establishment, disguised in female
attire. He communicated the secret to bis bro
ther John, who iramidiately set to work and
produced his improvement upon Whitney’s in
vention, in the shapt of the modern saw gin.
Tho saws were made for him by “ little Billy
McFarran,” an Irieh blacksmith in Wilkes
county, who died ssme twenty-five or thirty
years ago. This was the first saw gin ever
made. The saws wore first made in semicir
cles, and fastened round the cylinder in pairs,
so as to form complete circles when finished.
As early as 1797, a gin factory’ was establish
ed by a man named McCloud, and all Whit
ney’s suits against him were unsuccessful. An
old gentleman, who purchased a gin from Mc
Cloud, told my father that it worked nearly as
well then as now, (his now was thirty years
ago) except that it napped badly. It was pro
pelled by water, and ginned 2,500 pounds of
seed cotton per day. Previous to this, the gin
in ordinary use, was the contrivance of two
wooden rollers revolving in opposite directions,
which preceded Mr. Whitney’s invention. It
was worked by hand, and ginned only 75 to
100 pounds a day*,, and it was necessary, be
sides, to keep a man all the time employed in
taming rollers, tho friction burnt them oat so
fest. This machine is still used in ginning the
best qualities of “sea island” cotton, tho ad-
vantsim Isiiyr thnt.it dona m>i —*
as the saw gins do.
The honor of having invented the first cot
ton gin is sometimes disputed with Eli Whitney
in favor of Mr. Bull, a gentleman from Balti
more, who settled in Columbia county, Geor
gia, and introduced the saw gin there, in the
year 1795. Ho first usod perpendicular saws,
but afterwards changed them for circular, in
imitation, no doubt, of Whitney and Lyon.-
Mr. Bull was an enterprising and ingenious
man, and first introduced iron packing screws
Into this Stato. These were so expensive, cost
ing no loss than $1,500 to $1,800, that they
were soon abandoned for the common wooden
screw now in general use on plantations. His
invention of the peepondicuiar saw gin was,
there seems no reason to doubt, independent
of Whitney's, though posterior to it, the latter
having come into operation in 1793. The cir
cular saw as afterwards used by him, was no
doubt borrowed from Whitney or Lyon. Thus,
then, though Ell Whitney never reaped the
profits of his great invention, it seoms clear
that he mast be left in undisputed possession
at least of the barren honors.
cf whatever was tree and noble, and of good
report among men.’ - - . —-
The Ineomo Tax Law Repealed. V
There is a serious misapprehension (says the
Now York Herald) in the public mind in rela
tion to the income tax. ^Petitions are being
sent to Washington for the repeal of the law.
It should bo distinctly understood that the
income tax law was repealed by limitation on
tbe 31st day of December, 1869. The laxnow
being assessed is forthe year 1869. Afterit is
paid no other income tax can be collected or
assessed without the enactment of an entirely
new law, which is not likely to be brought
about. Tbe repeal of tbe old law is final and
unconditional.. It takes effect as soon as tbe
tax for 1869 is paid. A bill passed tbe House
nnder the previous question gag-rale a few
days ago, providing for the assessment and
collection of an income tax for one year only,
(1870) but it met with disastrous dofeat in the
Senate. It is not at all likely that Congress
will pat such a needless harden upon the peo
ple again, in face of tho unanimous protest of
the entire press of the country. The occasion
that called for it has passed away forever.
Let us have no more income tax laws.
sorted.fetAf ‘ for tbe prow**
of hli'rights that used to bring upon medieval
charges of sorcery and witchcraft. I mean the
expedient of secrecy. ’ 4 \
* About tho year 1794 or 1795, he settled in
place some six miles from the quiet littlo villago
of Washington, in Wilkos county, and estab
lished Ono of the first, if not the first, cotton
gin ever worked in the State. Ho and his
partner, Durhee, erected at this place a large
cotton storehouse, which now does service as
; abarn,Rnd agin house at present used as
kitchen by Mrs. Tom Burdett, wife of tho pro-
Shall we Meet Again 1
The following waif, afloat on the “aoa of
reading,” we clip from an exchange. We do
not know its paternity, bnt it contains some
wholesome truths beautifully sot forth:
Mon seldom think of the great event of
death nntil the shadow falls across their own
path, hiding forever from their eyes the traces
of the loved ones whore living smiles were tho
sunlight of their existence. Death is the great
antagonist of life, and the cold thought of the
tomb is tbe skeleton at all feasts. We do not
want to go through the dark valley, although
Its passage may lead to Paradise; and with
Charles Lamb, wo do not wish to lie down in
tbe mnddy grave, even with kings and princes
for onr bed fellows.
But tho fiat of nature is inexorable. There
is no appeal or reliof from the great law which
dooms us to daet. We flourish and fade as the
leaves of tho forest; and tho flower that blooms
and withers in a day has not s frailer hold upon
life than the mightiest monarch that ever trod
the earth with his footsteps. Generations of
men appear and vanish as the grass, and the
countless multitude that throngs the world to
day, will to-morrow disappear as the footsteps
on the shore.’.
In the beantifnl drama of (on, the instinct
of immortality so eloquently, uttered by the
doatb-devoted Greek, finds a deep responso in
every thoughtful soul. When about to yield
hisyonng existence as a sacrifice to fate, his
belovod Clcmantho asks if thoy shall not meet
again, to which he replied; ‘I asked that ques
tion of the hills that look eternal; of the clear
streams that float forever; of the stars among
whore flelds of azure my raised spirit hath
walked; upon thy living face I feel that there
is something in the iovo that mantles through
its beauty that cannot wholly perish. We shall
meet again, Clemanthe.’”
to Stonewall Jackson.
Ex-Governor Letcher, of Virginia, has pub-
lisbed a statement respecting tho proposed
it to Stonewall Jackson, saying. $50,-
000 is needed, and that no local or sectional
viows restrict tho scheme—that it is national
in Us design, and tho North has cordially re
sponded to the appeal, and tho East and West
are moving. It is proposed to erect a memo
rial chapel at the Virginia Military Institute,
in Lexington, and, should the funds collected
permit, a statue in bronze or marblo, ‘ to trans
mit to coming generations tho features, form
and expression of one whose name and virtues
arc alike known and honored throughout the
oivilizod world, and who was a bright exemplar
Heavy Robbery on the Central Railroad.
Mr. E. Zacbarias, who reached this city yes
terday morning, reports having his pocket
picked on the train, Thursday night, of $9,711
in United States currency, and a draft for $680
on I. L. Falk & Co. Mr. Zacharias left Sa
vannah on Thursday night, for this city, and
when about forty or fifty miles from tho former
city, being overcome by a drowsy feeling, foil
into a profound sleep, from which ho did not
awake until within a few miles of Augusta,
yesterday morning. On awaking, he felt for
his money, bnt only to find that some wary
pickpocket had made way with it. Mr. Zach-
arias is unable to trace his loss with ^any de
gree of certainty, but some suspicion attaches
to a couple of genteelly dressed young men,
apparently about twenty and twenty-three
years of ago, who occupied seats immediately
in rear of him when he left Savannah, and aro
supposed to have left the train at Milieu, or to
have gone to Macon, as nothing was discover
ed of them on the arrival of the Central Rail
road train horo at three o'clock this morning.
The following are tho reported denominations
of the bills stolen: Four $1,000 bills, four
$500, six or eight of $100, and the remainder
in $10*8 and $5’s. Neither Mr. Zacbarias, tbe
conductor, nor his fellow-passengers have been
able to determine as to the manner in which
the robbery was consummated, but it is con
jectured that tho victim must have been chlo
roformed by some of tho light-fingered gentry
who bad taken passage at Savannah, aware of
♦to »«»itKtuie package In the possession of Mr.
zachnrino. Ti™ yviice oi jnacon and Atlanta
should keep an eye open for suspicions char
acters, as it is very probable that the pick
pockets who mado this groat haul will turn np
in either ono or tho other of these cities.—Au
gusta Constitutionalist, 12th.
An Ancient Amateur Glntton.
A curious gastronomic wager was once de
cided at a French tavern, in tho sixteenth cen
tury. Prince Henry of Bourbon, tho son of
the Great Conde, was supping there with
number of bis friends. Prince de Conti, who
was a tremondous bore, kept hammering away
at one oternal theme—the extraordinary appe
tite of his beagles. * My kennels absolutely
ruin mo,’ said ho; * I can’t tell what possesses
the dogs, but they cat at least a thousand
crowns’ worth every mouth.’
Indeed!’ exclaimed Prince Henry; * I’ll
bet you any thing you please, not one of them
can eat as much at a meal as my servant, La
iGuiche.’
When we are again at Versailles,’ returned
Conti, ‘ I will back a certain beagle of mine
against him.’
‘Very good; bat in the meantime I should
liko you to see what tho fellow can do. Look
here; it will soon be midnight. I will wager
a thousand louis that La Guicho -eats up tho
whole of that piece of meat while the clock is
striking twelve.’ Prince Henry pointed, as ho
spoke, to an enormous shoulder of mutton that
had not been touched.
He can’t get through half of it,’ exclaimed
Conti; ‘it’s a bet.’
Done!' replied Condo, and La Gnlche was
rent for.
He was a little wiry fellow; and, when he
waa-told of the wager, the grin he gave de
veloped a set of teeth that a wolf might have
been proud of. It wanted ten minutes to the
hour, and in the interim La Quiche mode his
preparations. He seated himself before the
shoulder of mutton, cut every partial", of moat
off tbe bene, arranged it in twelve portions,
and remained, fork in hand, in an attitude of
expectation. At tho first stroke ho swallowed
two of the immense morsels; at the sixth he
was ahead, and took advantage of tho fact to
swallow a goblet of vin de Baune, which his
master handed to him. Tho ninth stroke
sounded, and the glutton exhibited symptoms
of being beaten. The Prince de Conti shout
ed with exultation at tho prospect of winning,
for ten strokes had gone and two pieces re
mained.
‘A hundred louis for yonrsclf,’ cried Conde,
‘and tho stewardship of ray hotel in the Ma
rias, if yon gain the wager. Make another
effort.’ ' - / "
La Gniche made a superb rally; be drove
his fork into tho remaining ’piecee, and took
them at one swallow; "but ho fell on the floor,
black in tho face, andall bat suffocated, as the
clock loft off striking. ;
* Carry him away,’ said Conde, ‘and take
every care of him. Ho shall havo tho stew
ardship and the money 1’
. La Guiche obtained both; but never, as long
a3 ho lived, touched another shoulder of mut
ton. This gluttonous adventure is recorded in
a pamphlet printed at Dijon, in tho year 1603,
and entitled, * Tho admirablo way of La Gui
cho to eat methodically a joint of mutton while
12 o’clock is striking.’ ' XT---.'
; ..Getting into a passion is a good deal like
getting into a barberry bush. The bush comes
out all right, but you don’t. . 7 ; TfTj
..VThen an ill-natured fellow was trying to
pick a quarrel with a peaccablo man, tbe latter
said: *1 never bad a fuss with but one man;
he was bailed at four o’clock; it is now half-
past tbred:”
THE BELLE OF NICARAGUA.
-J >Y OSS- SIIUUID B. MXU.
Oil! tend to ms, swmt nightingale,
Your mnsie by tbs fountains;
And lend to mn your cadences,
Oh, rivert of the ■osntoine,
That I may sing my ga} brunette—
A diamond spark in coral sot,
Gem ter a Prince’s coronet,
The Daughter of Htndosa.
How brilliant is the morning star,
Sha evening star— bow tender;
The light of both it in her eyes—
Their softness and their splendoi 1
Bnt for the lash that shades their light,
They war* to* dasallng for the sight,
And when she ohata these all la night—
The Daughter af itendoxa.
Oh I aver bright and beauteous one.
Bewildering and beguiling:
The into is in thy silver tenet,
The rainbow in thy smiling;
And thine it, too, o’er hUl and doll.
The bounding of the young gaxelle—
Tho arrow’s Sight, tho oooan’t swell—
Sweet Daughter of Mendosa.
What, tho’ perobanoe we meet no more;
What though too toon we sever;
.Thy term will float like emerald light
Before my vision ever.
For who can sea and then forget,
The gloriee of my gay brunette?
Thon art too bright a star to set,
Sweet Daughter of Mendosa 1
WHAT SHE BROUGHT ME.
This faded flower that yon tee,
Was given ms a year ago
By one whose dainty little band
Ie whiter than the snow.
Her eyes are bine ae violets,
And she’s n blonde, nnd very fair.
And sunset tints are not as bright
As is her golden hair.
And there nr* roses in her oheekt
That come and go liko living things;
Her voice is softer than the brook’s
That flows from hidden springs.
She gave it me with downcast eyes,
And rosy flashes of the choek
That told of tondeT thoughts her tongue
Had never learned to speak.
The Suing words had just been raid.
And (he was mine at long as life;
I gently laid tht flower aside,
And kissed my blushing wife.
6h« took U np, with tender look,
And esid, “Oh, prise th* flower)”—
And tender tear" were in her ayes—
“It it my only dower.”
She brought me faith, and hope, and truth.
She brought mn gentle though ts and love;
A tool as pare ne thon that float
Around tho throne above. -
Bnt earthly thing, no nothing had,
Except this faded flower yon see;
And though ’tls worthless in yonr eyas,
*119 very dear to me.
YOUR MISSION.
If yon cannot, on the ocean,
Sail among the swiftest fleet,
Booking on the highest billows, -
Laughing at the storms yon moot,
Yon ean stand among tho 'sailors.
Anchored yet within the bay;
Yon can'lend a hand to help them
A* they launoh their boats away.
If yon are too weak to journey
Up the monn tain steep and high.
Yon ean (tend within the vnlley
As the multitudes go by;
You ean ehant in happy measure
As they slowly pass along) -
Though they may forget the singer,
They will not forget the song.
If yon cannot in the conflict
Prove yourself a warrior trne,
If where Are and smoke are thickest
There’s no work for yon to do—
Whan the battle-field is silent,
Yon ean go with gentle tread,
Yon ean bear away the wounded,
You oan cover up the dead! —
If yon eannot in the harvest
Garner np the richest eheaves,
Many a grain, both ripe and golden,
Whieh the careless reaper leaves—
Yon ean glean among the briers
Growing rank against the wall,
And It may be that the shadow*
Hide thf heaviest wheat of all.
If you haveHot gold and sliver
Ever ready nt command,
If you onnnot toward tbe needy
. * Reaeh an ever open hand—
You can visit the affiicteJ,
O’er the orring you ean weep,
You can be a true disciple
Sitting at the Saviour’s feet.
Do not. then, stand idly waiting
For some nobler work to do,
For yoor ttn.J—’r W-towW gtoryj
Ever earnest, ever trae.
Go and toll in every vineyard—
Work in pationce and in prayer—
If yoa want a fluid of labor
You oa* find it anywhere.
gumwous
A lad in a printing office came upon tho
namo of Hecate, ooeurring in a line like this:
‘ Shall reign tbe-Heeato of the deepest hell.’
The boy, thinking he had discovered an error,
ran to the foreman of the office and inquired,
eagerly, if there was an e in cat. * Why, no,
you blockhead 1’ was the reply. Away went
the juvenile type-setter to the press-room and
extracted the Bnperfluous letter. Bat fancy
the horror of poet and publisher when the po
em appeared with the line: “ Shall reign the
He cat of tho deepest helL” There poor gen
tlemen would have joined most heartily in the
sentiments contained in the following quota
tion from the pen of a young lady who had
been similarly cracifled in her first published
poem, and then gave vent to her iudignation»
I wish r had that editor about half a minute,
I’d bang him to his heart’s content and with an h be
gin it;
I’d jam his body, eye* and bones, and spall it with ad.
And tend him to that Ml of his, he spoils with an e.”
■LippineoWs Magazine. *
Revenues.
Some wag records tbb following “decisions”
under the internal revenue law:
Tho latest decisions of the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue cover the following points:
Parties using paper collars mast use them from
tho original package—that is, from tho box in
which they have been purchased—and a three-
cent revenue stamp most be attached to each
one when pnt on. When tho collar becomes
soilod and is turned with the cloan side out,
must receive another three-cent stamp, and
most also be conspicuously stamped with the
word “turned.” Boxes, when emptied, can
not be used a second time, but must be destroy
ed in the room where emptied, and tbe assessor
famished with a certificate of the fact. If
thrown out of the window, or carried out in
the coal scuttle or wash tub, such boxes will
be subject to export duty.
“ Bootblacks are required to use their black
ing just as they Audit when the box is opened,
adding nothing to it whatever. The act of
spitting in tho box and smearing the contents
with tho brush, constitutes the bootblack a
mixer, or rectifier, or manufacturer of blacking,
and he must pay the ordinary manufacturer's
tax. Each boot polished, for which the sum
of five cents is paid by the wearer, must re
ceive, at tho expense of the bootblack, a four
and three-quarter cents stamp.
BTA writer in a French journal tells rather
hard story of Mahomet Ali, in illustration of
his nice renre of justice. Making a tour of his
provinces, in great state and with a cavalry
guard, he was stopped by an old woman, who
throw herself at his feet—* Year Highness,’
said ehe, ‘ one of your soldiers has bought somo
milk of me for six parasi and won’t pay mo.’
Why won’t you pay herf demanded Mahom
et Ali of the soldier. ‘ Master,’ said he, ‘ this
woman lies; she has sold me no m and I
owe her nothing.’ * Yon swear by Allah that
yon speak the truth f said the Pacha then to
the woman. ‘Yes, I swear it.’ ‘And yon as
well f ’ said he to the soldier. ‘ Yes, I swear it.’
Very well,’ said the Pacha. Then taming
to his guard, he added, with perfect compos
ure, * take this man and open his stomach.’
The Pacha’s order was obeyed and milk found.
The soldier had just drank it. ‘The woman
is right,’said Mahomet All, remounting his
horse; ‘ let her have the six paras that are duo
her.’ And he continued his journey.
What Tight Boots Caused.
A Parisian millionaire, who came very nea
being made a deputy at thfl last election, wa i
returning home from a business trip to Brus
sels in a night train, and had as sharer of hh»
* compartment* a young lady on her way
Paris. It is one of tho vanities of the rich
man to woar boots which pinch him terribly,
and, upon observing the lady was asleep, ho
ventured to losren the pangs of travel for him
self by softly removing bis pitiless patent
leathers. The ease thus secured lolled him
into a doze, from which he did not arouse un
til the lights of his station were in sight, and
scarcely a moment left for tho toilet. Then,
in hot hasto, he forced on his boots, finding one
of them even unusually hai-d to coerce, and
was just in time to catch a cab for his house.
Reaching home, his eyes and those of his wife
were simultaneously attracted to his right foot,
on which—oh, horror of horrors!—appeared
lady’s shapely gaiter. Madame refused to
hear a word of explanation, fell into violent
hysterics, and, on the following morning, re
turned forever to her father’s house! The la
dy of the car also had hot haste with her gai
ters, which she, like tho gentleman, had se
cretly removed in tho car, and, upon rejoining
her husband in Paris, was found to be the
wearer of one masculine boot. There was a
swift and angry reparation in that care also,
and applications for two divotres are confident
ly expected by the friends of all parties!
WAYSIDE GATHERINGS.
Salt Lake, la Utah, is seven feet higher than
It was ten years ago, and is constantly rising.
It has been urged by those who have paid at
tention the subject that tbe rise of water there
might produce a solution of the Mormon ques
tion before Congress acts upon it.
..‘ Well,’ said Douglass Jerrotd to the col
lector of a fund in behalf of a suffering friend,
how much does —-— want this time t * Why
just fonr and two noughts will, I think, pnt him
straight,' the bearer of the hat replied. ' Well,’
said Jorrold, * put me down for ono of tho
noughts.’
. .Mr. A. B. Flowers, Alexandria, La., writes
to the Scientific American that the statement
made in a recent article on the subject, to thq.
effect that no one had ever witnessed a case of
spontaneous combustion in tho human body,
is a mistake, as he was himself, with several
others, eye witness to a care of the kind. Tho
person who was the victim was a hard drinker,
and was sitting by the fire surrounded by
Christmas guests, when suddenly flames of a
bluish tint gushed from his mouth and nos
trils, and he was soon a corpse. The body, he
states, remained extremely warm for a much
longer parted than usual.
..A few days ago, a man entered an Insu
rance office in Buffalo, and, tossing a paper on
tho counter, said to the clerk: ‘That’s run
oat, and I want to get it renewed.’ As tho
clerk unfolded tho document, a broad grin
spread over bis face, and he' inquired.- * Are
you sore that this has run out V 'Yes,’ stud
the man, ‘ my wife told me ft run out yester
day morning,’ whereupon tho clerk handed
back to him bis—marriage certificate.
. - A blooming widow of 36 called at the Pro
late office, in an Ohio town, and asked for a
marriage license. Her husband that was to
be was ‘ only 18, and so bashful.’
..Illinois has a young lady of 17, bearing
tbe name Of Flora Mills. She is a barglaress;
and as a reward for opening np a new field of
labor for wometq is to enjoy a five years’ visit
to the penitentiary.
..‘Charlie,’ said grandma, reprovingly,
‘your portion will bo in the burufng lake, at
bast if yon go oa telling so many stories.’—
‘ Oh, no, grandma, 1 couldn’t stand it.’ * But
yon will be made to stand it, my boy.’ * Oh,
well, grandma, if I can only stand it, it’s all
right.’ > ■ - r. •
. .It is said that a new description of lava is
being thrown from tho crater of Vesuvius since
the last eruption, consisting of crystalized salt.
This beautiful phenomenon has hitherto been
unknown in volcanic natural history.
'W ‘ They say,’ at ’Washington, that after
Revels, the negro Senator so-called, from Mis
sissippi, was introduced to Sumner, somebody-
asked him what ho thought of tho Massachu
setts statesman. ‘Well,’ responded Revels}
‘ Sumner is a real good fellow, lie is so good,
indeed, that I’m sorry his skin is white. Bat
I think we have this consolation, at least: If
Sumner’s skin is white, his heart b as black
as any o’ours.’