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TO TH K VO L'EES OF JAGKSOIT CO. popular heart. Again, the change was not
_ „ . | made until after the retirement from the court
FeBow-Cttisena : _Having announced myself; hoaae of at least of the anauspeet-
on the day of the mass meeting in Jefferson, j ing> honeac> liberty-loving yeomanry, the bene
an* independent candidate for a seat in. the next and siaew of Jack30Q coanty . They reti red
—let it be added in justice to them—not as
disorganizes, but because they had been made
the unwilling dupes of unredeemed pledges.
And viewed from the stand point of CoL Sfl-
man's resolution, to say nothing of the speech-
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Legislature, it ia a duty I owe myself, and an-
der the circumstances, equally a duty I owe to
von, to state the facts which have controlled
me in again soliciting yonr suffrages, untram
meled, as in my election two years ago, by a
—..„for ca,ucu ^ nomination. This duty discharged, Ij BS that were made, I cannot, I most unhesita-
tu. For 1 shall, in the next place, submit a statement of j tingly affirm, conceive of anything of a politi-
tvertfsemenu. ^ le v ' ta '* 'ssacs. which the people of Jackson j cal character more nn-democratic and iniqui-
county are called to consider in the forthcom- j tous from beginning to end than the mode of
ing election. ^ procedure which resulted in bringing before
The facta above alluded to, are substantial- j the people tbe two nominees of tbe caucus
I meeting.
riOFSSSIQHAL AND BUSINESS CARDS.
V. S. URWIX. I nOWSLL COBB,JR.
ntCli, ERWIN Jc l’UBB,
attorneys at law.
A T H E.VS, GEORGIA.
n :he Deupr«e Building. Dec21
ly the following:
At the primary Jmeeting held in, Jefferson,
on the first Tuesday in September, the com
mittee, appointed to prepare business for the
meeting, reported a resolution favoring the
“selection" of delegates by the several dis
tricts, whose duty it should be to assemble in
Jefferson on a given day to nominate suitable
candidates for the next Legislature. Imme-
.diately following the reading of the commit
tee's recommendation. Col. J. B. Silman of-
offered a resolution, which was unanimousiv
\ 1. tlMih.
A..BOOT. SHOE AND HARNESS MAKER,
'V.ITXI.'ISVII.LE, (5a.
>\>”£RCPTCY.—Samuel P. Thurmond,
) Actoracy-at-Law. Athens, Ga.
\ cr „ .?r-..*d <fr**ef,«rer f/i«r »torc of Barry X .Son,
ittenrion to cases in Bankruptcy. Al-
' ae wllefiion •»!* all claims entrusteti to his care.
A F. AMP.
]) % Attorney at Law.
CARNESVILLE, GA.
V $vt> prompt Attention to all business entrusted
• -n He will Attend the Courts of Habersham.
in.in i’td Hall. sepl7—ly.
•SiLAND Jc 0RR.
t Yaylesale and Retail Dealers,
and COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Dunree Hall.Broad St, Athens, Ga.
prepared to store Cotton at 25 cents per
.i * ..Advance **’<U when desired. Qct2S.
P’.'i'illhH Jc CLASSICAL SCHOOL,
?or B.>ys, <ror. Wr»y and Lumpkin st*.. Ath-
apfl—.1m LEE M. LYLE. Prin.
7'Ii'RV sPEEtt,
LAWYER. ATHENS, (}A.
jtur'ieneral of Western Circuit, will attend
•fUrke, Walton. Gwinnett, Hall. Bunkri,
tiao^rsham, Franklin. Rabun and White,
ttention t& collecting and other claims in
iim. March 19, IS73.
First, we have the resolution unanimously
adopted, inviting the people to assemble for a
specific purpose, nameiv, to nominate eandt
dates. In the second place, speeches were
made by those who had control of the meeting
and shaped its proceedings, condemnatory of
the system of nominating candidates through
delegates selected by the several districts.
Thus much with regard to the meeting on
Tuesday. Finally, we reach the day of the
mass meeting. The first resolution of the
adopted, inviting the people, the voters of! mass meeting was one empowering the Chair-
rioYD a- 'ILR.LV.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
>rac:i«« in th« counties of Walton and Jackson,
,wn ' <i J. B. SILMAN.
•vin^'.on. c»a. mar-4 Jofforson, Ga.
WARD R. HARDEN,
uJu igoC. S. Courts Nebraska and Utah,
ioa now Judge of Brooks County Court)
Attorney at Law,
(Jmtmau, Brrxtlca County, (r<t.
»• OTSS. MADISON BELL.
■Tl> Jc BELL. Attorneys at Law.
hainesville, ga.
“ practice in tbe counties composing the
ra Oif uit. and Dawson and Forsyth counties
Ulue ’.Udgo Circuit. They will also practice in
; retfcd C iurtuf (ieorgia, and in the United States
*t Atlanta. may 14
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iloJcsaiesmi Retail Deal*- i n
. lOODS, GROCERIES. HAR DWARE, Ac.
!l< _ Bread it re. t> Athens. Ga.
'US H. CHRISTY,
lam and Fancy BOOK AND JOB PRINTER,
„ 'JroadSt., Athen«, G».
-««ra er Broad and V. »u street., over the,tore
J. P'tiurd.
Jackson county, to assemble en masse in Jeffer
son, on Friday, the 12th inst., for the purpose
of selecting candidates for the next House of
Representatives. After the unanimous adop
tion of Coi. Slimau’s resolution, ia lieu of the
report of the committee—she gentlemen of the
committee voting for the substitute. Mr. Dan.
Matthews suggested that the resolution as
adopted by the meeting, inviting the people of
the county,to assemble in mass meeting in Jef
ferson, would give the Jefferson and adjacent
districts the advantages in the aomination of
candidates, at, they could be largely represent
ed without Inconvenience, while remote dis
tricts would bebut meagerly represented. Not
withstanding this timely and well-taken objec
tion, Col. oilman's resolution was neither with
drawn uor amended. And if it was the in
tention o t' the meeting on the first Tuesday to
be unde rstood as indicating oradvising that the
mass meeting to assemble on Friday was to
nominate candidates through delegates select
ed hy a few men, claiming to represent the
districts, which was the plan they finally
adopted when they met on Friday—then, there
was ao point ia the objection urged hy Mr.
Matffievvs, as under such an arrangement the
JeliLrson and adjacent districts with three
bun dred voters present would have no advan-
tag a over “ Cut Off" district with only two
voi.ers present. But Col. ail man's resolution
sai.d nothing about delegates to be selected By
the districts, bat on the contrary, had embod-
i< .d in it an invitation to the people to meet in
Jefferson to select candidates to represent
them in the Legislature. Speeches were made
on Tuesday condemnatory of the system ofse-
. lecting delegates by the districts. Col. Sil-
mar.'s resolution, Mr. W. C. Howard's speech,
as well as the general spirit manifested in the
m eeting, allgndicated most unmistakably the
'utmost unanimity in the invitation to thepeo-
Ipie to meet in mass meeting and nominate can-
V-'lEb R. LYLF.,
ArTDRSKY AT L.iW,
WATKLVSYILLE, GA.
IdATTHEWS.
Attoh-.z^ at Law,
Daaiolaviile. Ga.
uteation will be von to anv business en-
>ai » Marchl*.
iS&i L. LONVr, Jf. D.
i'HGEOS, accoucheur a physician,
JjSff .11 Hr. T\ODUM Ehcau’ Store,)
Sood Hope District, Walton, co., Qa.
prulta*iun*l service, to the citizens of tile
Hading 'ounirv.
ELLAS, Attorney at Law,
; " FRANKLIN, S. C.
wnces in nil tie Courts of Western North Caro-
1=1 a the Federal Court*. Claim* collected .n
ants—ly
l ' Feed and Sale Stable,
ATHENS, GA.
St HEAVES, PBOPB7JBTOBS,
on 3, .»und at their old stand. Tear Franklin
u>m,.na | ldiu Sl Thoma* street. Keep always
‘ s°»a -era-outs and eareful drivers.
*eil ;,red for when entrustad to oar can.
=aad for sale at all tima,.. dac2S—ti
\f W. RIDEN.
. ^ATTORNEY at law,
• 5- Claim Agjnt ar,d Notary Public,
. GaissaviLhs, Ga.
Hmj7i»? “ ilow Kin * 4 Bro ’ J *
'tHPLEa a HOWBIit,
.V, . „attorneys at law.
-■ Ximball Bouse, Atlanta. Ga.
utad ^ 3»t«and Federal Courts, and
-• y the Court* in Atlanta^ includ-
,h « St ^- ««»
^ J* r.ef*i U4 abiant panics, on reasonable
t, ^1® Court* of the conn ties con-
^»c°...tbl.to Atlanta by Railroad. M pll
'AVILION hotel,
Hi. Pittsi OT . „ CHARLESTON S. C.
ttr«e( thl ,, Hotel i. situated in th. Twry
willfu!'’ 8 ** PMt of th.city, and all who
u •r.rac jr^, na n' “ r7 0o “ T,n >Unce and luxury thnt
« v 80 ^- P«-i*x.«3.oo.
Mr*. L. H. BntrxBFnuLD, 1
tf Pronri.tr, ee. 1
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and Fancy Job Printing,
At the Southern Watchman Office.
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5 '« «re'leu."* Acconcatun aan Pavsiciaa,
^ * a ™ 1 **-Diariot, W altonc
wa, hl * profuMionnl nr vice, to the
^ L •vrroonding onuntry. angSff—ly
Pf ' r * i »* Dv-u,«tie HARDWARE,
6,Broad street, Athens, Ga.
W* 1 * a- » a D^«r te
'*» j DHY GOODS, GROCERIES, *«.
~>«• U Broad Street, Athens, Ga.
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didatea. And I buzzard nothing in affirming
that that the impression was universal that
the people would be permitted to cast their
votes for the candidates of their choice. And
it was ia consequence of this widely circulated
report, circulated, too, by those who wer
present at the first meeting—and denied, so
far as known to me—by no one, that about 500
voters left their fodder fields and assembled in
Jefferson on the day named in Col. Silman’s
resolution. The meeting on Tuesday had de
creed that the nomination should not be made
by delegates selected by the district. There was
but one other jast and equitable way to make
it, namely, by ballot. And the right to do it by
ballot was wha5 the people demanded, and
what the meeting en Tuesday seemed to say
they should be pen tutted to do. If the noml
nation was not to be made by delegates select
ed by the districts, there is, reasoned the hon
est unsuspecting masses, but one other tcay to
make it. But there is another way, though
hitherto uncouccivedand unheard of, and the
Jefferson clique is entitled to tha honor of
originating it. and should receive the thanks
of all cliques throughout the world forthe con
ception of the grand idea. What is it f Well
the simplest thing in the world, and all other
cliques will be utterly amazed at their stu
pidity in not having conceived that idea long
ago. It isaimply this : Have everything, in
the first place, “ cut and dried”—but, this is
an old idea with all cligues, well u nderstood
and need not be dwelt upon. In the second
platfe, have an eye to your chairman, get the
right man. However, the “ catting and dry
ing” process makes ample provision under
this head, and again, I need not dwell. What
next f Well, the best of all for all cliques who
are really afraid to trust the nomination to
district delegates or to a primary election. It
is to clotl ie the chairman himself with power to
appoint t, be district delegates for the whole eournt;/.
Now, wh era's the clique that can best that ?
And th is, fellow-citizens of Jackson, is pre
cisely what was done. The very first act,
immediai.ely following the election of Chair
man, wan the offering of a resolution (which
was easily declared adopted, bat in fact was
not) dotliing the Chairman with fall power to
aopoint the delegates for the several districts
—said delegates thus appointed to meet in
secret and decree whom tha independent voters
of Jackson coanty should support for the next
Legislature. Is this what they intended to
say to the people in tbe Silman resolution,
unanimously adopted on Tuesday and which
assembled the people on Friday t Voters of
Jackson, hesitate not to stamp this insult of
fend to yonr manhood, your intelligence, and
yonr patriotism with the seal of yonr unquali
fied condemnation. You an called to do this
mH can only do it through the ballot-box.
It was on the definite announcement of the
Chairman, that he was thus clothed with a
power which, coaid be abused ia so selecting
tha delegates as to secure the aomination of
his own fovorites—to say nothing of so dan
gorona a precedent.—that I arose nndannonne-
ad myself an independent candidate.
one man power programme, I learn
through the papers, was changed. Yes, tbs
pictan was too ngiy.it had to be repainted,
man to appoint delegates for the districts—
said delegatee to make the nomination.—
The second resolution of the last or nomina
ting meeting, adopted after the retirement of
my friends, conferred upon small squads of
men, the power of appointing the delegates
Thus the report of the Committee at the first
meeting, recommending the selection of dele
gates by the districts, though voted down by
the meeting, was adopted by the caucus—af
ter the retirement of my friends—adopted too
by the very men who opposed it in the meet
ing on Tuesday.
If a nomination of candidates through dis
trict delegates was contemplated by the meet
ing on Tuesday, why did they not in a common
sense way plainly invite the people of each
militia district to hold meetings, by assembling
at their several coart grounds on Thursday
precedi ng the meeting in Jefferson, so that the
wishes of a majority of the voters could he
fairly represented t
I may not understand the true spirit and in
teution of the meeting on tha first Tuesday,
but viewed in the light of subsequent develop
ments. I very much incline to the opinion that
those who desired to control it in the interest
of favorites were in a predicament similar to
that of Bill Scruggs, who spied within shoot
ing distance what he hoped was a deer, but
feared might prove to be a calf. Bill was In
a dilemma. What to do was the all absorbing
question with Bill. “ Well,” said he finally,
“ I’ll shoot any how, bat. I’ll be very cautious
about it, and will so point my unerring rifle at
the object, and so pall my triirger as to “ hit
it if a deer, bat miss it if a calf1”
Having said thus much in vindication of tbe
action of my friends in withdrawing from the
meeting, and of my independent candidacy, it
only remains for me, in conclusion, to place
myself definitely on the record, upon the im
portant issues in the pending election. The
following is presented, as embodying the vital
ly important questions in issue, which you are
to consider beiore casting your votes the first
Wednesday in October;
1. Believing that the Martin Institute fund
was intended by the deceased donor, the late
Mr. Martin, to be used exclusively for the ben
eiit of children residing within the limits of
Jackson coanty. I shall vigorously oppose, as
heretofore, any distribution of said fund in the
payment of tuition of non-resident pupils.—
And should my candidacy be ratified by the
People, I shall introduce a bill, the provisions
of which I need not now explain, which, if en
acted into a law, will remedy the evil withonc
immediate expense to tbe people of Jackson
coanty. And I take occasion to say that the
proper distribution of the fund left by the late
Mr. Martin for educational purposes, is one ot
the leading, fundamental and distinctive is
sues before the people in the election for Re
presentatives in the next Legislature. The
nominees of the late caucus maintain, if I un
derstand them, that the Martin Institute fund
shall be equally distributed, regardless of
county lines; that the children of rich parents,
residing outside the limits of Jackson coanty,
shad share equally with the poor children of
the coanty, in the benefits of said fund. My
position 13, and I wish it to be understood, that
the fund or legacy left by the late Mr. Martin
von. I therefore repeat that this » one of the
leading, vital, fundamental, packet-fasting issues
in the approaching election for Representa
tives.
4. Believing that the hardens of taxation
should be lightened, I shall, if elected to the
Legislature, support all measures, whether of
a local or general character, which look to re
trenchment, reform and an economical admin
istration of the affaire of the State.
Thus have I, without concealment, laid be
fore yon the convictions of my heart on all the
living issues that enter into the present con
test. And should it be found that a majority
of the voters of Jackson coanty agree with me,
of which at this writing I have no doubt, I can
only promise that fidelity to yonr interest which
you know to have characterized my previous
career in the Legislature. .«
Soliciting yonr suffrages, in behalf of the
principles I advocate, I am, respectfully;
Your obedient servant.
Green B. Duke.
P. S.—Lest my silence on the subject might
be erroneously construed, l take occasion to
state that I never was an advocate of what is
known as the “ no fence” law. Had I advo
cated it, as the two nominees of the cancns did,
I should think it too late now to try to get oat
of it Green R. Duke.
i elect fpsctltang.
* ’tk.«iii«n. Of Ad££l bat, after all, tbe brush coached » Hghtly that
ftj****a. *.*.*.Cttfc r Wk .iff 0 * 8 cfa’BPr though in tha right diiansmja
marll—till
[ very for from meeting the
should be given exclusively to the children of
Jackson county. This ia a fundamental issne
in tbe present contest.
2. The right of trial by jury, in certain cases,
before tbe Jefferson municipal court, consti
tutes another distinctive issue before the peo
ple in the next election. The right of trial by
our peers is one that we should not yield, un
der any circumstances- It should be sacredly
and jealously guarded, and I propose, if elect-
id, to remedy the confessedly great evil, of
which the country people justly complain, by
using my beat efforts to have enacted a bill
amending the charter incorporating the village
of Jefferson.
3. The question of erecting a new jail and
coart house ia Jefferson, is another distinctive
issue before the people in the forthcoming
election. Iirtbe present impoverished state
of the finances of the coanty, to harden the
people with the expense of aeeting a new
court house and jail, while there are bridges
which most be built, and others to repair—
works of pablic necessity for tbe convenience
of the traveling publie—would be, to say the
least of it, exceedingly unwise and impolitic.
It will be time enough to consider the project
of erecting new and expensive pablic buildings
in Jefferson, when ether am\ more essentially
important public works are arranged for, and
long standing accounts in favor of jurors and
witnesses are paid. When the coanty pays its
just debts, the people can, if they wish, give
the Jefferson jobbers a job. There are some
who most earnestly desire the job, no
doubt it would be remunerative to the jobbers.
If I am defeated, some one, I have ns doubt,
will get the job very soon, and my word for it,
the man or men who get the long coveted job
An Editor’s Opinion of Base Ball.
An editor, relating bis experience, says that
the doctor informed him, that he needed ex
ercise, and he recommended the national
game. The advice was taken. His (theedi
tor’s) conclusions are as follows:
That was an eventful chap who first invent
ed base ball. It’s such fun. I’ve played five
games and this is the result:
Twenty seven dollars paid out for things.
One banged eye—badly bnaged.
One broken little finger.
One bump on the head.
Nineteen lame backs,
One sore jaw.
One thumb dislocated.
Three sprained ankles.
One dislocated shoulder, from trying to
throw the bail a thousand yards.
Two hands raw from trying to stop hot
balls.
A lamp size of hornet’s nest on left hip,
well back.
A nose sweetly jammed and five uniforms
spoiied from rolling in the dost at bases.
I have played two weeks and don’t think I
like the game. I’ve looked over the scorer’s
book and find that I have broken several
bats, made one tally, broken one umpire’s
jaw, brsken ten windows in adjoining bouses,
killed a baby, smashed a kerosene lamp, bro
ken the leg of a dog, mortally injured the
bread-basket of a spectator, and knocked five
other players out of time by slinging my bat.
I have used up fifteen bottles of arnica
ointment, five bottles of lotions, and half a
raw beef and am so full of paiu that it seems
as if my limbs were broken bats and my legs
the limbs of a dead horse-chestnut.
Failures in Business.
The man who never foiled in business can
not possibly know whether he has any “ gift”
in him, or is worth a button. It ia the man
who fails, then rises, who is really great in his
way.
Peter Cooper foiled in making hats, failed as
a cabinet maker, locomotive builder and gro
cer, but as he failed he “ tried and tried
again,” until he could stand upon his feet
alone, then crowned his victory by giving a
million dollars to help the poor boys in times
to come.
Horace Greeley tried three or four lines of
business before be found the Tribune, and
made it worth a million dollars.
Patrick Henry failed at every thing he un
dertook, until he made himself the ornament
of his age and nation.
The founder of the New York Herald kept
on foiling and sinking his money for 10 years,
and then made one of the most profitable
newspapers on earth.
Stephen A. Douglass made dinner tables,
bedsteads and bureaus, many a long year bo-
fore be made himself a “ giant” on the floor
of Congress.
Abraham Lincoln foiled to make both, ends
meet by chopping wood; foiled to earn his
salt in the galley slave life of Mississippi flat
boatman; ha had not even wit enough to ran
a grocery, and yet he made himself x grand
character of the nineteenth century.
General Grant foiled at everything except
smoking cigars ; he learned to tan hides, bat
canid not sell leather enongh to purchase a
pair of breeches.. A dozen years ago, u he
brought up” on top of a wood pile, “ teaming
it” to town for $40 a month, and yet he ia at
the head of a great nation.
The lesson for every young man fo thm ;
As long as yon hare the health, and have
power to do, go ahead; if yon foil at one tiling
try another, and a third—a dozen even. Look
at the spider, nineteen times it tried to throw
oat its web to its place of attachment, and on
the twentieth succeeded. The young man
who has the gift of continuance ia the one
whose foot will be able to breast the angry
waters of human discnnragwmant.
A Governor Found In a Hogshead.
A good natured philanthropist was walking
along the docks one Sunday morning when he
found a boy asleep in a hogshead. He shook
him till ha was wide awake, and then opened
the following conversation.
* What are yon doing here, boy V
1 1 slept here all night, sir, for I had no other
place to sleep in.’
‘ How ia that t Have you no father or mo
ther? Who takes care of yon V
‘ My father drinks, sir, and I don’t know
where he is. I have to care for myself, for my
mother is dead; she died not long ago.’ And
at mention of her name, the boy’s eyes filled
with tears:
‘ Well, come along with. me. Til give yon a
home, and look after yon as well as I can.’
The child thus adopted en the wharf was
taken to a happy home. He was sent to a
common school, to a commercial school, to a
classical school, and afterwards employed as a
clerk in the store of his benefactor.’ When he
became of age, his friend and benefactor said
Go him, ‘ Yon have been a faithful and honest
boy and man, and if you will make three pro
mises, I will famish you with goods and letters
of credit, so that yon can start business at tbe
West on your own account. ’
* What promises do yon wish me to make ?•
inquired the young man.
‘ First, that you will not drink intoxicating
liquors of any kind.’
* Second, that you will, not nso profane lan
guage.’
‘ I agree to that.’
‘ Third, that yon will nofrbecomea politician.’
‘ I agree to that.’
The young man started bnsinessat the West,
and by minding his business, in a few yearn
became a rich man. At the dose of the war, he
came East, and called npon his friend and
adopted father. In the course of a happy in
terview, the philanthropist asked his adopted
son if he had kept his total abstinence pledge.
* Yea,’ was tbe answer.
‘ Have you abstained from the use of pro
fane speech V
‘ Yes,’ said the young man, with emphasis.
‘ Have yon had anything to do with politics?’
The visitor—the adopted son, I should have
said—blushed and said, ‘ Without my consent
I was nominated for Governor of my State and
elected. I am now on my way to Washington
to transact business for the State.’
Did ever a hogshead turn out so good a thing
as a teetotal Governor before ?
It had to be emptied of its wine before it
could be a shelter for the> little Arab who ran
wild in that wilderness of marble and mortar,
the great city of New York. The streets and
wharves of the great metropolis of commerce
invite missionary effort, and the writer hopes
that the little waife afloat on the wave of out
door life will not be neglected.
LOYE SEE HITCH AND LOTS SEE LONG.
BX BARTON GREY.
“ Love me little, love me long,”
Thus it is you make your song;
Is the rhyme a true one ?
Do not love so bitter wrong.
Hearken, dear, another song,
Though it be a new one:
Lave me much and love me long,
Ia the burden of my song.
Love me long and love me truly;
Love me well and love me duly—
Life is short and ill.
And the spirit has a need
Which all human love indeed
Often fails to fill.
Love me much and love me long—
Sorely ’tis a truer song.
Love me i love me with the passion
Which all bounds of art or fashion
Neither need3 or fours;
Love me with tbe seal’s desire,
Tbe long yearning mounting higher
Through the happy years;
Listen—’tis your soul’s true song—
Love me much and love me long.
Love yoo little !—’tis a lie!
Laving thus, not you or I
Work our life-love out;
He that loves you little, never
Can qllav yonr spirit-fever,
Stay yonr restless doubt;
Hearken, dear, a truer song—
Love me much and love me long.
Happy he these words who heareth;
Love me, fear not; he who fcareth
Is not whole in love;
Love me with the whole soul's passion ;
Other love ia cold and ashen,
And must empty prove;
Love me much and love me long—
Trust me—’tia the truest song.
Thus I love you!—through all trial.
Love I with supreme denial
Of all colder mood;
Love that knows not this completeness
Is of true love’s charmed sweetness
Base similitude;
Love me much and love me long
la the burden of my song.
Thus I love, and this love’s pureness
Fills me with such steadfast sweetness
Through all adverse fores.
That I journey towards my home.
Faithful, patient—and things come
Cato him who waits—
Journeying, singing still my song—
Love me much and love me long.
Somewhere in the starry distance
Waits the crown of my existence ;
Some day. too, I know.
You will wake from vour soul's slumber,
Aud the bands of doubt that cumber
Melt from you like snow ;
Some day you will sing the song—
Love me" much and love me long.
Yet, if not—if this my spirit,
Mast love’s fatal blight inherit—
I nor faint nor blame;
I have loved, and life is purer;
If I love, why God is surer.
Through all loss and shame;
Go, then, dear, but list my song—
Love me much and love me long.
The Georgia Gold Regions.
The At lanta News ha3 been shown a piece
of gold ore taken from the Vine branch mines,
six miles from Dahlonega, worth about 810,-
000 per ton. He had a small piece weighing
about one-fourth of a pound, which contained
six dollars worth of the precious metal, the
ore being worth §200,000 per ton. Mr. Harri
son says that there are now three mills in op
eration, two very large ones building, and
by next summer six or eight mills will be run
ning, employing nearly two thousand bands.
Tbe mine known as the: big acqneduct mine
purchased by Mr. Hand, of Ohio, will be one
of the largest in this section of the country.
The acqueduct alone coat about 8500,000. The
power of the mills will range from twenty to
forty stamps, and each stamp can ponnd twen
ty tons per day. One gentleman has a mill
that cost abont 815,000 con pound one hun
dred pounds of ore pjr day, at a coat of about
twenty dollars. The ore of this mine avera
ges abont one dollar per ponnd, leaving a net
profit of eighty dollars per day. Great pre
parations are being made, and by the next
Spring Dahlonega WEI present as busy an ap
pearance as oar own city.
.. A fond agent in Colorado remarked to an
enquiring emigrant, that all that was needed
to make the place a paradise was a comfort
able climate, water and good society. “ That's
all that is lacking in h— 1,” was the reply.
.A naughty little boy, blabbering because
his mother wouldn’t let him go down to the
river on Sunday, said: “ I didn't want to go
a swimming' with ’em, ma. I only wanted to
go down to see the bad little boys drown for
going- in aswimmin’ on Sunday,'
And if. in your soul’3 desire.
You should ever fomt and tire.
Knowing then your fate.
Cal!—this love that hides its embers.
Through all change and chance remembers—
Call—or soon or late—
It will come and prove its song—
Love you much and love you long!
.There is a young woman in Marshall
county, Kansas, said tc> be heiress to an estate
of $15,000,000 in Eng fond. The yam runs
that she was brought to this country by a gip
sy, having been stolen from her parents—that
riie is a member of one of tbe noblest families
ia Great Britain—that the old hag who brought
her here, confessed to these facts upon the
bed of death. The young woman has received
a letter from an English lawyer who asks her
to come over and take possession. And she
is going over, to the great grief of all the mar
riageable young men oif Kansas.
A Bad Mas.
The Detroit Free Press tells of a who
sat down to one of the eating stands in the
market and called for seventy-five cents worth
of ” the beet in the house.” It was h»r»W to
him, and it made people’s eyas bang oat to
see him eat. Ha was abont t»»if an hour at
it, and when he gat op remarked tty he tw«v
forgottenfria pocket-book. The woman grab
bed a batcher-knife, and started for him, but
instead of running away hp laid his handon
her shoulder and whispered: “Be calm, and
above all, don’t «"it* me. My fit Mmw on
ket go and get him, and let him tmtin ma to
the station right away, before I kill some one !*
of building a new court house and a new j»»t She ran to get an officer, and the man ran. the
will malts itpag them! Mark this prediction. 0t{l9r wa Y*
By my election, the project will be defeated, ..A New York paper gravely observes that
at least for tbe present, and you will be saved tile snicideef a former, which it notices,
Give Yonr CItild a Paper.
A child beginning to read becomes delight
ed witha newspaper, because he reads of names
and things which are frmiliar. and be will pro
grass accordingly. A newspaper in oae year
is worth a quarter's schooling to a child. Every
father most consider tiiat information is con
nected with advanceinBt. Tbe mother of a
family, being one of itn heads, aid having a
more immediate cfcargje of children, should
herself be instructed. A mind occupied be
comes fortified against the ilia of life and is
braced by emergency. Children amused by
reading or study are ot coarse mare consider
ate and easily govemeei. How many thoughts
lass young men have s{ient earnings in a tav
ern or grog step whom igot to haT* been read
ing. How many kind parents who have not
spent twenty dollars fcr books for their fomi-
every day at this boor, and I gat wild, kick,
bite, yell, and tip aver things. I feel it com
ing now. If there is a fo the mar- Ua8 ’ would B * ws thousands to reclaim a
Sleeping With His Equal.
THE WAX A LINCOLN COUNTY DARKEY MADE
ms CIVIL RIGHTS PAY.
A certain hotel, not a thousand miles from
Fayetteville, recently had for its guest a sanc
timonious looking Puritan from tbe bntt end
of Massachusetts, who took great pains to In
gratiate himself with the colored people and
instill into their minds the edions doctrines of
negro equality. The civil rights bill was his
favorite hobby, and he took occasion, when
ever a suitable opportunity occnrred to whis
per into the ears of all negroes that came with
in his reach that he considered them his equal
in every way. The porter of the hotel is a
burly negro named Joe, who is as greasy and
odorous an African as ever imparted ,a flavor
to the Summer breeze, and the saintly scala
wag from Massachusetts had been using Mm
for sometime as a whetstone to sharpen his
abominable theories on. But Joe is a sensible
darkey, albeit he is not the best fellow ia the
world to rub one’s nose against, and he has a
pretty correct idiea of a negro’s place, which
kept him from being gulled by bis wouldrbe
white brother. Besides, Joe ia attached to the
landlord of the hotel, and, as he is talkative
withal, be unbosomed himself to his employer
one evening and related all the insidious Yan
kee had said on the subject of Sumner’s legacy
and negro equality. Tbe landlord was silent
a moment, and then exclaimed:
Joe, I’ll give yon two dollars to-morrow
morning if you'11 sleep with that fellow to
night. ’
Joe’s eyes twinkled like stars, and he quick
ly responded:
* Dat’s a bargain, Marae Jim, ’fore God.’
That night the meek and unsuspecting white
friend of the race of Ham was juct crawling
into bed, when Joe slid into the room ham
ming, ‘ John Brown's body am a smolderin’ in
de dua',’ and commenced shedding his clothes
without farther ceremony. The amazed Puri
tan started np in the bed, bis eyes standing
oat from his foes like a couple of door-knobs,
and tremblingly inquired:
* My colored friend, what are yoo going to
dot’
Joe pulled his shirt over hi* heed* gave a
tremendous yawn, set a few then sand odors
afloat and made a leap for the bed, screaming
as he went:
* I'se swine to spend to night wid my ekall P
The horrified disciple of Sumner gave a yell
that would have made a Plata Indian’s hair
curl, tore himself from Joe’s perspiring, hot
food embrace, leaped from the bed, broke for
the door with the caudal appenaange of hie
shirt tail floating like a Sommer eland behind
him,, and fell into the arms of the landlord,
who, attended by a few frianda, waa enjoying
the whole scene aa only a decent white man
conM, Next morning Joe received hie money,
box the saintly soeak from Massachusetts
oot.ta be seen there.—Fayetteville Enterprise.
Wayside Gatherings.
What is hash? A confidence game.
. .Strip's bread—Bolls, and plenty of ’em.
..How to pat a horse “onbis mectia”—Shoe
him.
..A wicked world—the world of candle-
makers.
. .People who moat draw the line somewhere
—Anglers.
..A alow match—A wedding after long
courtship.
.An intellectual feast—The entertainment
of an idea.
.Breach of good manners—For rain to stare
yon in the fece.
If a Bedouin should lose his teeth, would
he talk gum Arabia t
. Home, sweet home,’ as the bee said whan
ha entered his hive.
. Coquettes are Uka weathercocks—only fix
ed when they become rusty.
..A negro insisted that his race was men
tioned in the Bible. He said he heard the
preacher read about bow ‘Nigger Demos
wanted to be born again.’
. .The atnpid item about a Treasury girl
wearing a bustle made of railroad bonds has
been widely circulated. If the the bonds be
Union and Pacific, their introduction into a
family can not be objected to.
..Ayoung woman at Trenton, who waa
sleeping with her feet hanging out of the cham
ber window, was struck by lightning and al-
most torn to pieeas. The other Trenton wo
men have taken their feet in.
. .A Detroit young woman tried to be aristo
cratic and did not look at the money she gave
the horse car conductor, bat be meekly gave
her back the lozenge on which was written,
‘ I’ll never cease to leve thee,’ and said that
he waa an orphan with five little brothers to
support and must be excused.
.A distinguished clerical gentleman of Wis
consin, is somewhat noted for parsimony, and
for * dead-heading’ his way on lecture tours,
<Scc. He had been a great traveler, and at a
social party in Madison, in conversation with
the hostess he said: ’ Madam, do yon know
that 1 also, like Laander, and Lord Byron,
swam across the Hellespont V The lady said:
‘ I have no donbt but what you did, rather
than to pay your fare on a steamboat.'
..The St. Louis papers satirize the metro
polis of the Northwest by spelling its name
Schecawgo.
..That was a bright little child who inquir
ed, ’ Ma, when cows die, do they go the Milky
way.’
You can’t eat enough in a week to last
yon a year, and you can’t advertise on chat
plan either.
Had you, sir,’ said Henry Erakine to a
dilatory carpenter, ‘ been there to build the
ark, we should not have had the flood yet.'
-When a Tennessee husband will horse
whip his wife for washing potatoes in his Sun
day ping bat, it is time to inquire whether this
generation of men isn’t getting to be too con
founded high for the age of the country f
..A New York man has chcistenod his
daughter Glyceri ne. He says it will be an easy
prefix to nitro, if her temper resembles her
mothor's.
..For a young woman to begin to pick lint
off of a young man's coat collar, is said to be
the first symptom that tbe young man is in
peril.
..* Pompey.de corn’s up., De corn up!
Why I only planted it yistedy.’ I know that
but the hegs got in last night aud guv it a lift.’
..Wilkinssays his girl waved her handker
chief at him as he passed the house last even
ing. In response, he waved hia coat sleeve—
which he uses as a handkerchief.
..A friend was remoostrationg with.Clarke
the actor, about his profanity, and quoted the
Scriptural injunction, ‘ Swear not at all.’ * I
don’t,’ said Clark, ‘ I only swear at those who
offend me.’
son or daughter, who had ignorantly, thought
lessly fallen into temptation. Give yonr chil
dren papers to read.
A sewing machine agent called npon a
farmer residing in a neighboring State, yester
day, sod wanted to sell him a machine, * Ob,
gift riirention is from that harifenaomo taxation, which the as he tea Rttlnp,’tithfonnar-ropSast (foot raise v«j
demands of the election of the caacas nominees will fosten upon oeen in tbs habit of doing such things.’ \ much wheat, and than I so w by hand/
What is this fbrT sskad the colored por
ter at the Hotel, Long Branch, the other
day, holding out atwirrty-fivo cent note,given
Ma by the gentleman addressed, for carrying: 7
up Ma trank. ‘That,' said the gentleman,
takip" the note and patting it back in his
pastes, * was liar yonr trouble, and this is far
yonr impudence,’and he kicked him
cet. Mm inches and a half, into the '
One-Half Guilty.
A fellow named Docks was tried at Yuba,
Cal., for entering a miner’s tent and stealing
bag of gold dust valued at $400. The testi
mony showed that he had once been employed
there, and knew exactly where the owner kept
the dost, that on the night specified he cut a
slit in the tent, reached in, took the bag and
ran off The principal witness testified that
he saw the hole cat, saw the man reach in, and
heard him ran away.
*1 rushed after him at once,’ continued tbe
witness, ‘ bat when I catched Mm I didn't find
Bill’s bag, bat found it afterwards where he
had thrown it.’
How for did he get in when he took tha
dost?’ inquired the counsel.
Well, he was sunthia’ over half-way in I
should say,’ replied the wicnesB.
May it please yonr honor,’ interposed the
connsel, ‘ the indictment isn’t sustained, and!
shall demand an acquittal on direction of the
court. The prisoner is on trial for entering a
dwelling in the night time, with intent to steal.
The testimony is dear that he made an- open
ing throagh which he protruded' himself abont
half-way, and stretched oat his arms and com
mitted the theft. Bat the indictment chargee
that be actually entered the tent or dwelling.
Now. yonr honor, can a man enter a house
when only one-half of bis body is in and the
other half oat f
‘Ishall leave tha whole matter to the jury.
They most judge of the law and the feet as '
proved,’ replied the judge.
Tbe jury brought in a verdict of ‘ guilty m
to oao-half of his body, and not guilty aa to
the other half.'
The judge sentenced the guilty part to two
yean’ imprisonment, leaving it to the prison
er’s option to have the innocent part cot off or
to take it along with him.
..A doctor always treated bis juvenile pa
tients for ‘ worms,’ whatever might happen to
be their symptoms. One day being called to
attend a boy who was suffering severely, ha
felt the pnlse, and looking at tho mother, with
a solemn shake of the head,, said: * Worms,
madaml worms!’ ‘Now, Doctor,’ said the
mother, * It isn't worms at all, I tell ye ; that
boy fell down on the wood pile and broke his
T WAM tr» efnn r»pvimr * wnritttt ’
lagv and I wane you to atop crying * wo
and sot it immediately.’ - * Ah!'’ sddte doc
tor, determined not to be put down, * W<
in tbe wood, madam! worms In the wood
VOLUME XXI.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTR 30, 1874.
NUMBER 26.
pVJOHN H. CHRISTY.
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