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Newspaper Page Text1,V JOHN H. CHRISTY. DEVOTED TO NEWS, POLITICS, AGRICULTURE, EDUCATION AND GENERAL PROGRESS. 82.00 per* Annum, in advance, VOLUME XXL ATHEXS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTR 14, 1874. NUMBER 28. SOUTHERN WATCHMAN . :c.;>I1ED EVERY WEDNESDAY. ,r>*’ r '*/ «»#»«< Wall Strrcts* < up-*taim.) I BUMS. r a -q DOLLARS PER, ANNUM, INVARIABLY IS ADVANCE. advertising. jiiiadai} iUaiiag. * Almost Persuaded.” j in Bedford jail for twelve years, because be did j not belong to the established church of Eng- ! land. , _ , S During hia long imprisonment he wrote sev- rh “ P ’ WhGQ 1 ®“ W6U 1 WiU be i eral works ; but he is chiefly celebrated aa the a ..; r,S ' LUn - . ‘ ! author of the Pilgrim's Progress, a book more ese were the words of Alisa M , who. ; read tban other work on practical piety wm ewe write, is lying in the chamber of death and experimental religion, ever published in : awaiting the hour of burial. Doting the last I the EDg , tah Ianguag0 . Who has not read it. ENT.' nor - ::NTY FtVr CENTS Brtaii at ONE DOLLAR winter, while nearly all the Bible-clasa of jand teen delighted bv the strange adventures u..r, tho flrsunaor-j which she was a member were hopefully cod- that tbe pl)grim meC ' with , n uis wonderful ron«m.mtL, For | vert ed, she w;is interested : and when urged *>li bo made. I to a decisive atteution to personal salvation, >• advertisements. | abe aa j d< .. ojj, I can't be a Christian now, I am so occupied with my studies.” A few days since, when taken very ill, she sent word to her faithful Sabbath-school teach er, “ Tell Miss P , when I get well I will be a Christian.” Suddenly, unexpectedly death came, and she left no other message. Of this lovelv and . advertising . JV? of ill liiius $50d lie*. lift <iuy* 5.00 L.ai-.'.i*tr»tui*3, Executors, or ft.50 trillion or Guardianship 1.00 i l Uro-iitors.. 5.00 re. nach insertion 1.50 state 4.00 mi of A lininiat \it«»r 5.00 'tiiuHian 5.25 irnoer »f squares in an advertise- m: ihe irorls—one hundred being \ ' •'fictions are counted as full SSSIGNAL AND BUSINESS MM_ t! ;.l v. *. KrtWlX. J floWELL CUBB,J H. , rlit’V;V a (’ORB, vrrOHNEYS AT LAW. iriiL'.vs, aeoRur.t , io.-.jiir—BniMinc. Dee21 A HI" ^vXXRL'iTcV.- ■ it'ie and harness maker, W 1-KlWVlU.E. (J*. -'iiinucl F. Thurmond. k.'toraey-at-Lat». Allien*. <4 •r thr it„n of Harry A Sun on to cases in Bankruptcy. A journey f Everything that happened to him we distinctly remember, and sympathize with him deeply in ail his joys and iu all his sor rows. We love to accompany him from the time he sets out from the City of Destruction, until he passes through the dark waves of the ! I s 30 Awtul shy. Why, he came by here the Jordan of death and enters upon the heavenly other morning when I was hanging out some would suspect. Whatever parents do, there fore, for the physical, intellectual and moral culture of the whole people, tends to increase the chances that their own sons and daughters will marry well. BILL AND THE WIDOW. ‘ Wife,’ said Ed. Wilber one morning as he set stirring his coffee with one band and holding a plum cake on his knee with the other, ahd looked across the table into the bright eye of his neat little wife, ‘ wouldn’t it be a good joke to get bachelor Bill Smiley to take widow Watson to Barnum’s show next week i’ ‘ You can’t do it Ed , he won’t ask her; he Canaan. That startling question, * Will you leave your sms and go to heaven, or will you have gifted one, the only daughter of a widow, noth-1 your sias and g0 t0 hell r awokc John Banyan ing on earth now remains but the awakening ,- rom hi8 (ireaa3 of fancie d security; and happy warning in the words of anxious Felix ages: j8 t j ie maa wbo caa be j nduced> by the same ago : almost persuaded to be a Christian,; q aegt j 0 n, to flee from the wrath to come : who when, although the sinner knew it not, the can be por3uaded t0 take that straight and vo.ca of mercy was lifting the last tender up- narrow pach * bicb leadeth unto life peal. Oh, who can tell, when hesitating over the cal!, ** Choose this day whom ye will serve," of what moment it may be written in heaven, “ Now is the accepted time ”f P. C. H. Ml t(, 111 AMP. A rronxKV at L t>v, carmesville. >; • • r • intit attiirti..n to alt business entr i- * -11 aiten'i tbe Courts of Ilabers •=■ • Hail. *epO- .AN 1> Jfc (»i!l>. V . . o.-ale an 1 Retail Dealers. anjcommission merchants Dupree Hail ilr.»a*l St. Athene . v or >pare*i «toro •' , '>rt<.n at 25 < % em »• ; ..l\*anc«» *ji*U wiion io.-ireil. Oct i.I.MI Sc »XA> . 'r .i.., -. cr. \V ». ip. s —lin '!<’AL SCHOOL. ay aii't Lumpkin st LEE M. LYLE, i.. Ath- Prin. ATHENS. «f.\. ircuit. will atten.l n«it. Hall. Banks, aliun and White. Mu III. la; iruw Yiil) It. H.V liuEX. ill .ate.laager. . C .u.w Nebra.ka »nd Cub, au'l now Ju,l ;u it Brook. County Court) Attorney at Law, *• J ; l f C„„nty, Cn. Select ^HtsceUaniu BELL, Attornevs at Law, GAINESVILLE. t iimpn svth the itios :l also practice in the United States majl4 SIL.M.VM ATTORNEYS AT LAW, in thooountios of Walton ana Jackst Eternity. An eminent Frenchman, said to have been a friend of Xapoieon, became deranged, and was sent to a mad-house. Being asked by tbe surgeon, in a lucid interval, what was the cause of his malady, whether it was the loss of riches,.or honor, or reputation, ‘ No,’ he repli ed. ' none of these; but my father was an ic- fldoi, and I have been influenced by his views, and for two long years, walking or sleeping, the word • eternity ’ has been sounding in my ears, till dwelling upoa it has driven me mad.’ And it is no wonder that, to a thoughtful man wbo really believes in eternity, and yet feels that he has made no preparation for it. the thought of that endless state, if kept be fore the mind, should All it with alarm and fear, or even in tbe end drive to madness it- aelf. It is said there was in the Inquisition a chamber, the iron walls of which were move- able by machinery, and that every day they slowly came nearer and nearer to the prisoner within them, till at last they crushed him in their horrible embrace. Every day be saw them coming closer. Ho knew there was no escape. He knew what the end would be.— Can we conceive a situation more terrible, with ieath thus creeping on inch by inch, with no possibility of escape, with no refuge from the awful doom ? But more terrific to the thought ful mind must be tbe idea of eternity if we are unprepared for its scenes. Every year, month, week, day. hour, moment, brings it nearer and still nearer, and yet there is no preparation for entrance upon it. God has made plain how to prepare for it. and has given his Word and iiis Son and his Spirit, and all the means of grace, that we may make the preparation.— IN HAULING COf- and combed, had him quite presentable when the ladies arrived. I need not toll how the story was all wormed out of bashful Bill, and how they all langhed as they sat around the tea table that night, but we will conclude by saying they went to the show together, and Bill has no fear of Gus Sackrider now. This is tho story about Bill and the widow atrate the rich mining region, just as I had it from Ed Wilber, and if there Tho professor bids fair to be one of the most is anything unsatisfactory about it ask him. popular men iu Georgia, for the moneyed ad vantages of Uis examinations, “ hooks of steel,” "'KELLEY’S i'lIOTOURAPII ALLERY. I street, Athen sep3. •J.‘ l ii. in:- UN’S. le-ialo ,in>l Retail Dealer in v ’M)DS. .niOCERIES. HARDWARE. Ac. Hrnati .Street, Athens. <ta. UN u. OiLUSTY. amt Fanny BOOK AND JOB PRINTER, Br >*<i St., Athens, Ha. ■ •f »rruT Broad and Wall itreets, over the store Ji'l'.S it. LYLE. T iky at Law. W. 1 TKINS VIL L E. GA. 'UN H. MATTHEWS. Attounky at Law, Danielsviile, Ga. will be ^iven to any business e March 14 f-VMKs L. LoNG. M. D. S A'.LmN, accoucheur a physician. •rtur if Mr. TSomn• Shrata’ More,) » oot 11..jin bimict, Walton county, Ha. ’!• us proieaaiocul csrvices to lh*» citizens of the •luuii;; country. aug27 \\ ELIAS. Attorney at law, 1 , V ‘ ‘ FRANKLIN, N. C. in ; ii the Courts of Western North Caro- »• aa.j in •;.«» Federal Courts. Claims collected in »! he State. aplft—ly •UR\. i-Vnl ;tn«l Sale Stable, u ATHENS. GA. •• I.VY A REAVES* Propridon. ^ °* 'ur.d.at their old stand, rear Frank- •* u.'f ouild.n^, Thomas street. Keep always " 41:1 ’ 1 l irrj-.»uts and careful drivers. , t ' 14 v ‘ • ‘Td 1 for when entrusted to our care. ' ' a :s * r »'i for sale at ail time*. dec25—tt ilm an. ^ ad vet- amazing folly as well as suicidal guilt, the sianer will not take heed to the Divine counsel, but goes on in a course that will leave bitn in eternity both guilty and miserable for ever ! Tho story is told of an Eastern monarch who gave a staff to the jester ol his court, telling him to keep it till he found some one more foolish than himself. After a time the king was taken sick, and told the jester that he could not live—that he was going a long, long journey to the unseen world. * And what preparation.’ asked the jester, ‘ have you made for tifat journey f’ The king, in sadness, re plied that ho had made none; that he had been so engrossed with the cares and pleasures of life, that be bad found no time for prepara tion. * Take back, then, the staff that you have given me,’ said the jester ; ‘ for with all my folly, I have never been guilty of a folly like this!’ -M W. HIDES. ^ ATTORNEY AT LAW, l -• 5 Claim Agent and Notary Public, Gainicsyille. Ga. • ' ’>i Wilaon stroot, below King A Bro’a. -•»r> ID. iS7d. . E. I*. UoWKLL. ALiT.Es Jc HOWELL. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. } '*. 1 n "‘ House* Atlanta. Ga. ' •t'.h in the State and Federal Court*, and .. 1 b 1 Tt-gu.arly all the Court* iu Atlanta, includ- ^ 0 ' U ,r ' : ‘«o Court of the State, and will argue *rs n . J * > " a uri ° 1- lor ^baeni partie*, on reaaonable 'Cu .i' in tho Courts of the countie* con* — 1 r t ’ -ngyibie tn Atlanta by Railroad, aepll P^'lLlOS HOTEL. »> fins CUARLEST'J.V, S. C. I LASS Hotel ia aitaat.d in th« vory 11 Hair " I'" Slau!ia piirt of the city, and off who at t j‘>d ovary oonvonionce and luxury that k , '°" rc d. Board, per day, *3.00. •'* rs - h- H. BoTntn»nti.D, — tf Prnpri.treM. P L LIN and Fancy Job Printing, Attne Southern Watchman Office. aug26—ly D S. ADaMS, m. JJ5*-- ACCOnCBKDB A5D P«TSICIA5. tT , 1 ' U . a ‘^ ucce * Mountain District, Walton coun •‘Hi ,r U a r ,ffur9 professional services to tbe — * J bo surrounding country. K B - ad.urTdUdTs^ I 1,2* IiAI.NKSVILLS, Ga. - "”^ s "»thaa« corner Public Square. |S t a5i‘SSm Jaa.a Md Domeetlo HARDWARE No. 0,Broad street, Athena, Ga. j §«’. dobbs, I fcapu »„ a *“•» Dealer m f«b» F ‘ ae J DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, An. I rW No. 12 Broad “ Snet, Athens, Ga. T. A * Dentist Wa nrlJra 11 * P“f In »“oatly leeated in this place, ltd • Prafossienalserrioe.toth.oiri»«.orArh.. •vicinity. Conversion and Life of Bunyan. John Bunyan was born in the village of Elstow, England, in the year 1628, and died at London on the 12th of August, 1688, about two hundred years ago. He was sixty years of age at the time of his death. His name will ever be loved and honored by all tho people of God in every age and clime. He was a tinker by trade, and married early in life. His wife brought him no dowry, except two religious books. From reading them he obtained some knowledge of divine things, which quickened his conscience, and made him aware of tho de pravity of his heart, and of his guilt in the sight of a pure and holy God. According to his own confession he was a very wicked man. He swore profanely, and delighted in playing at cat with his ungodly companions on the Sabbath day. On one occasion, while striking the bail, he imagined that he heard a voice from the sky, * Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to heaven, or have thy sins and go to heil t*— Throwing his cat upon the ground, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he imagined that he could see Jesus Christ looking down upon him hotly displeased, and threatening him with some severe punishment for his wicked and ungodly practices. ThlB vision made a deep impression ou his mind, but did uot result in bis immediate conversion. He continued to swear profanely, until he overheard a woman, notoriously wicked and profligate, say with pious indignation, that * to listen to his horrid oaths made her tremble, and his example was enough to corrupt all the youth in the parish.’ That cured him of swear ing, as well it might. It mads him ashamed of himself. He became gradually more and more im pressed with a conviction of the greatness of his.danger, as a sianer, exposed to the wrath of God. His experience was a long and pain ful one. He was often driven to the very borders of despair. At one time be thought it impossible for such a sinner as he was to be forgiven; bat finally, through the mercy of God, he found joy and peace in believing: John Banyan read tbs Bible a greaUtdeal, and as soon as be joined tbe chorcb, was fre quently called upon to speak at religions meet ings. His exhortations produced such a good effect, that it was not long before he was licensed to preach the gospel by the Baptist church, of which he hqd become a member.— After preaching with great success for five years, ho was thrown into prison, and confined 1' HAT l SAW. BY REV. J. MILTON AKERS. I saw a pretty cottage stand In grounds that were both trim and neat Where graveled walks and charming flowers. Solicited the wandering feet. A very Paradise it seemed. With virgin joys and glories crowned. A spot upon this sin-cursed earth Which yet the serpent had not found. I saw a woman, pure and good. Cpou whose cheek the roses bloomed, Who deep inhaled the atmosphere Her dearest husband's love perfumed, A calm and happy life was hers. No grief upon her spirits passed. And hope, tbe darling angel bright. Sat monarch in her loving breast. I saw a bappy family. With ruddy cheeks and faces bright. Whose joyous heart expression found. In eyes that danced with pure delight, The maids were modest, chaste and fair, Tbe boys were brave and noble, too; Tbe families, as blest as this, The suu shines on, I trow, are few. I saw a man with form erect. And with a calm, expressive face, Upon the lineaments of which It was not hard for oue to trace The workings of a noble soul; A sympathetic friend, and kind. More ardent, constant, urn, than whom ’Twas ne’er my privilege to find. I saw that cottage once again ; But ah ! ’twas sinking to decay ; Tbe window lights were broken in. The shutters had been wrenched away; The grounds were overgrown with weeds. No hand had trained the vines of late; And want dwelt now where wealth bad been; ’Twas blighted, cursed and desolate. I saw tho woman once again ; Her face was thin, her cheek was pale; And from old care’s deep chiseled lines, I read, with pain, her sorrow’s tale. Within her heart, where hope had feigned, When all was joyous, bright and fair, A monarch, crowned with ebon, sat. Whose name I’ve learned to call despair. I saw that family again; But oh ! the change, how very sad. They wandered forth to virtue lost. In filthy, tattered garments clad. Their eyes no longer danced with joy, Nor could they longer happy bo, For sin and poverty and shame Had overwhelmed tbat family. I saw tbat man but once again. With blood-shot eyes, and bloated face. Upon the lineaments of which It was not hard for one to trace The workings of a fallen soul; A vicious, prostituted mind. More wretched and depraved than whom, May God forbid I e’er should find. A man, a family, a wife, Once good and happy, young and fair. Have fallen from tbe heights of hope Far down the starless gulf, despair. The cottage, too, tbe borne of peace, Has been surrendered up to fate, And now its many tongues repeat, ** Behold, I too, am desolate.” What agency, or arm. so strong, What evil genius, or spell. Can so bring down tbe human race. From heaven’s gate so near to bell ? Iu one short word of letters three, Of human ills we find the sum. The with’ring, blighting, damning scourge Which bears the simple name of [RUM!] Marrying Well. You have seen a beautiful girl—beautiful in person and in spirit, graceful in form and fea ture, and of a lovely disposition, married to a man of common mould. Who cannot recall many such instances ? Then, again, you see strong, intellectual men—men every way su perior—so grievously mismated! It has often been remarked that, if matches are made in heaven, they must have got dreadfully shaken up and misplaced on their way down. Now, it is very natural, not only that people should, in the first place, ail want to marv well themselves, but also, in the second place, that their own friends should be particularly well married. At the same time, when we come to take a broad, philosophical, true view of the matter, what do we find oar conclusions to he on the subject ? It is very simple, and it is this: Marriages, on tbe whole, cannot average above a certain medium quality. In other words, marriages, in tbe general, must be precisely on a level with the general character of the persons of whom the community ia made up. And, aa a comprehensive proposition, tbe whole problem of marriage is reduced to this question: Ia it better for such people to marry each other, or to live single f It ia inevitable that as marriage is general, there most be thousands of instances in which parents will be disappointed at the matches which their children make. Love is myste rious, and it leads the feet of boys and girls in directions where their fathers and mothers would fain not have them go. They will not select companions for life which others would select for them.. The most that can be done to reader marriage happier, is to contribute what one can to the improvement nf the whole community. Yon cannot foresee who may be come yonr son-in-law or your danghter-in-law, perbape the very last person on earth yon clothes, and ho looked over the fence and spoke: but when I shook out a night-gown he blushed just like a girl and went away.’ • I think I can manage it,’ said Ed., * but I’d have to lie just a little, But then it wouldn’t be much under the circumstances, for I know she likes him, and he don’t dislike her; but as you say, he is so shy. I’ll just go over to uis place to borrow some bags from him. and if I don’t bag him before I come back don’t kiss me for a week. Nelly.’ So saying, Ed. started, and while he is mowing the fields we will take a look at Bill Smiley. He was rather a good looking fellow though his hair and whiskers showed some gray hairs, and he had got in a set of artifi cial teeth. But every one said he was a good soul, and so he was. He had as good a hun dredth acre farm as anybody, with a new house and everything comfortable, and if he had wanted a wife many a good gir! would have jumped at the chance like a rooster at a graas- • hopper. But Bill was so bashful—always j was—and when Susan Berrybottle, that he sweet on (though he never said ‘ boo’ to her) got married to old Watson, be j just drew iu j bis bead like a mud-turtle into a sbeil and [ there was no getting him out again, though it j had been noticed tbat since Susan had become j a wido w he had paid more attention to his | clothes and had been very reguiar in bis at | tendance at tbe church that fair widow at- j tended. ! ’But here eomes Ed. Wilber.’ I * Good morning, Mr. Smiley !’ • Good morning, Mr. Wilber, what’s the news your way f* ‘ Oh. nothing particular that I know of,’ said Ed., * only Barnum’s show that every body’s talking about, and that everybody and his gal is going to. I was over to old Sack- rider’s last night, and I see his son Gus has got a new buggy and was scrubbing up his harness, and he’s got that white-faced colt of his as slick as a seal. I understand he thinks of taking the window Watson to the show. Ho bas been a hanging around a good deal of late, but I’d just like to cut him out, I would. Susan is a nice little woman and deserves a better man than tbat young pup of a fellow, though I won’t blame her much either, if she does take him, for she must be dreadful lone some, and then she has to let her farm out on shares and it isn’t half worked, and no one else seems to have spunk enough to speak up to her. By jingo! if I wore a single man I’d show him a trick or two.’ So sayidg, Ed. borrowed some bags and started around the corner of the barn where he had left Bill sweeping and put his ear to a knot hole and listened, knowing that the bach elor had a habit of talking to himself when anything worried him. ‘ Confound that young brigadier!’ said Bill, what business has he there. I’d like to know ? Got a new buggy has ho ? Well, so have I aad now harness too ! and his horse can’t come in sight of mine; and I declare I’ve half a mind to Yes, I will! I’ll show Ed. Wil bur tbat I ain’t such a calf as be thinks I am, if I did let old Watson get the start of mo in the first place.’ Ed. could scarcely help laughing outright, but he bas hastily bitched bis bags on his shoulder, and with a low chuckle at bis suc cess, started home to tell the news to Nelly; and about 5 o’clock that evening they saw Bill going by with his horse and buggy on his way to the widow’s. He jogged along quietly thinking of tho singing school days, and what a pretty girl Susan was then—and wondering inwardly if he would have more courage now to talk up to her, until at the distance of about a mile from her house he came to a bridge— over a large creek—and it so happened, that just as he reached the middle of the bridge, he gave a tremendous sneeze, and blew his teeth out of his month, and clear over the dash board, and striking on tbe planks they rolled over the side of tbe bridge and dropped into four feet of water. Words cannct do justice to poor Bill, or paint the expression of his face aa ho sat there completely dnmb-founded at this startling piece of ill- luck. Alter awhile he stepped out of the buggy, and getting on his hands and knees looked over into the water. Yes, there they were at the bottom, with a crowd of little fishes rubbing their noses against them and Bill wished to goodness that his nose was as close for one second. His beaut-;al teeth that bad coat him so mneb, and tbe show com ing on and no time to get another set, and the widow and young Sackrider. Well, he most try to get them somehow and no time to lose, for some one might come along and ask him what he was fooling aroaad there for. He had no notion of spoiling his good clothes by wading in with them on, and besides, if be did that he could not go to the widows that night, so he took a look np and down the road to see that no one was in sight, and then quickly un dressed himself, laying his clothes in the baggy to keep them clean. Than ha ran around the bank and waded in the almost icy cold water, bat his teeth did not chatter in his head, be only wished they could. Quietly he waded along so as not to stir np tbs mud, and when he got to the right spot he dropped under water and came up with, the teeth in his hand and replaced them in his mouth. But hark! What noise is that t A wagon! and a little dog barking with all his might, and his hone is starting. ‘Whoa! Whoa!* said BUI, as he splashed and flounder ed out throngh mod and water, * confound the borae. Whoa! Whoa! atop you brute you, stop!’ But stop he would not, hut want off at a span king pace with the nnfnrtn note bache- lor after him and the little dog yelping after the bachelor. Bill was certainly in splendid running costume, but though he strained every nerve he could noli touch the buggy or reach the lines that were dragging on the ground. After awhile his plug hat shook off the seat and the bind wheel went over it as flat as a pancake. Bill snatched it as he ran, and af ter jamming his fist through it stuck it, all dusty and dimpled, on his head. And now he saw the widow’s house on the hill, and what, oh, what would he do ? Then his coat fell out and he slipped iron, then making a desperate spurt he clutched the back of the seat and scrambled in, and pulling the heavy robe over his legs, stufled the other things beneath. Now the horse happened to be one that he got from squire Moors, and he got it from the widow, and he took it into his head to stop at her gate, which Bill had no power to prevent, as he had no possession of the reins, besides he was too busy buttoning up his coat to his chin to think of doing much else. The widow heard the rattle of the wheels and looked out and seeing that it was Mr. Smiley, and that he did not offer to get out, she went to the gate to see what he wanted, and there she stood chatting, wish white arms on the top of the gate, with her smiling face turned right to him, while the cold chills ran down his shirtless back clear to his bare feet beneath the buffalo robe aid the water from his hair and the dust from his hat combined to make some little streams of mud that came trick ling down his face. She asked him to come in. ‘ No, he was in a hurry,’ he said. Stil' he did not offer to go. He did not like to ask her to pick up the reins for him before he did not know wbat excuse to make for not doing so himself. When he looked down the road behind him and saw a white faced horse com ing, and at once surmising that it was that of Gus Sackrider coming, he resolved to do or die, and hurriedly told his errand. The widow would be delighted to go, of course she would. But wouldn’t he come in. No, he was in a hurry he said; had to go on to the Green place. ‘ Oh,’ said the widow, 4 you’re going to Mr. Green's are you ! Why, I was just going there myself to get one of the girls to help me quilt seme. Just wait a second while I get my bonnet and shawl and I'll ride with you.’— And away she skipped. 1 Thunder and lightning !’ said Bill, • what a scrape !’ and he hastily clutched his pants from between his feet, and prepared to wrig gle into them, when a light wagon drawn by the white faced ho:.-se, driven by a boy, came along and stopped beside him. The boy held up a pair of boots in one hand and the sock3 in the other, and just as the widow reached the gate again, he said: 4 Here’s your socks, Mr. Smiley, that you left on the bridge when you were in swimming.’ 4 You’re mistaken, they are not mine.’ 4 Wnv, arn’t you 'file man that had the race after the horse just now ?’ 4 No sir, I am not! You had better go on about your business,’ Bill sighed at the loss of his Sunday boot3, and turning to tho widow said : “ Just pick up tho lines, will you pleaee, this brute of a horse is forever switching them out of my hand.” The widow complied, and then he pulled one corner of the robe cautiously down and she got in. “ What a lovely evening,” said she, ‘‘and so warm. I don’t think we need the robe do wo f” (You see she had on a nice dress and a pair of new gaiters, and wanted to show them.) “Oh, my!” said Billy, earnestly, ‘ysu’ll find it chilly riding, and I wouldn't have you catch cold for all the world.’ She seemed pleased at his tender care for her health, aud contented herself with sticking ono of her little leer, out, with a long silk neck tie over ono end of t. * What is that, Mr. Smiley, a necktie f ’ • Yes, I bought it the other day and must have left it in the buggy. Never mind it,’ 4 But it was so craeiess.’ aud stoop ing over she made a motion to stuff it between them. Bill felt her hand going down, and making a dive after it, clutched it in his hand and held it hard and fast. Then they went on quite a distance, he still holding her soft little hand and wondering what he should do when he got to Green’s and she wondering why he didn’t say some thing nice to her as well as squeeze her hand, and why hia coat was buttoned up so tightly on such a warm evening, and what made his face and hat so dirty, until as they were going down a little hill ono of the traces came un hitched, and they had to stop. 4 O, murder !’ said Bill; what next V 1 What is the matter, Mr. Smiley V said the widow, with a start that came near jerking the robe off his knees, 4 One of the traces is off,’ said he. 4 Well, why don’t you get out aud put it on V 4 1 can’t,' said Bill; 4 I’ve got—that is, I haven’t got—oh, dear, I am so sick 1 What shall I do r 4 Why, Willie,’ said she, tenderly, 4 what ia the matter t do tell me,’ and she gave his hand a little squeeze, and looking into his pale and troubled face, she thought he was going to faint, so she got our. her smelling bottle with her left band, and. pulling the stopper oat with her teeth, she stuck it to his nose. Bill was just taking in breath for a mighty sigh; and the pungent odor made him throw back hia head so far that he lost his balance and went over the low backed boggy. Tbe little woman gave a scream as his big bare feet flew past her bead; and covering her face with her hands gave way to tears or smiles—it was hard to tell which. Bill was right aide np in a moment, and was leaning aver the back of the seat apologizing and explaining, when Ed Wil ber, with his wife and baby, drove np behind and stopped. Poor Bill felt that he would rather have been shot than to have Ei Wilber catch him in such a scrape, bat there was no help for it now. so he called Ed to him. and whispered in hia ear. Ed was like to burst with snppresMd laugh ter ; bat he beckoned to his wife to drive ap, and after saying something to her, he helped the widow oat of Bill’s buggy into his, and the two women went on leaving tbe men behind. Bill lost no time in arranging his toilet, as well as he could, and then, with great p Ed got him. to go home with him, and banting ap slippers and socles, and getting him washed RUNS SIXTY-FIVE WAGONS BEK ore to the railroad, thirty miles- distant, and tho cost of this mode, about equals the amount of transportation charges from there to Balti more. He contemplates a tramroad, in case a projected branch railroad does not soon pen- Hississippi River Scenes. When the rains have swollen its tributary are proverbial symbols of affection, but they bend before those of gold, copper and iron. rivers to more than t&eir ordinary volume, the Porinstance>he was penmaded to h(1(Tyoff Mississippi is grand, terrible, treacherous— 3arera , mUe8 to dco wbaC had been repreS ent- Alwavs subtle and serpent like in its mode of ed tQ tbo Qwner M a mjna 0 , ma ane3et but stealing upon its prey, it swallows up acres at wWch waa notbing buc chloritic a)ate> ou wbich one fell swoop on one side; sweeping them hard 8 r. u ff much disagreeable labor had been away from their frail hold on the main land, while, on the other, it covers plantations with slime, and broken tree trunks and boughs, farcing the frightened inhabitants into the second story of their cabins, and driving tho cattle and swine upon high knolls to starve, or perhaps finally to drown. It pierces the puny levees, which have cost the States bor dering upon it such immense sums, and goes bubbling and roaring through the crevuses, dis tracting the planters, and sending dismay to millions of people in a single night. It promises a fall on one day, on another it rises so sud denly that the adventurous woodsmen along the border have scarcely time to flee. It makes a lake of the fertile country between the two great rivers; it carries off hundreds of wood piles which lonely and patient labor has heaped, in the hope that a passing steamer will buy them up. and thus reward a season’s work. Out of each small town on its western bank, set too carelessly by the water’s edge, it makes a pigmy Venice, or floats it off altogeth er. As the huge steamer glided along on the mighty current, we could see families perched in the second stories of their houses, gazing grimly out upon the approaching ruin. At one point a man was sculling from house to barn yard with food for his stock. The log barn was a dreary pile in tbo midst of tho flood.— The swine and cows stood shivering on a pine knoll, disconsolately burrowing and browsing. Hailed by some flustered paterfamilias or plan tation master, bound to tbe nearest town for supplies, we took to bis destination. As we bestowed. Another case wa3 worse than this tles for figs—it was talcose slate instead of prospective cords of lead pencils. If a man has to 44 strike slate,” it is even mercy to know it beforehand. Kyamite is frequently mista ken for lead-bearing ore. It is only by skill ful inspection that it can be known, whether it is tho indication of rich copper ore, or mere ly worthless disintegrated iron pyrites. It is, therefore, the desire of the State Geolo gist tbat SPECIMEN BOCK FROM PROJECTED DIGGINGS be sent to him, first and largely in the inter est of the projector, and then to add to the State Geological collection. He desires to make a large exhibit at the forthcoming State Fair, and is especially anxious for marl3 and fossils from the southern portion of tho State, which he will visit tbe lastof this season. Correspond ents will please give the number of land lots, which will be noted tor future examination. A circular will be issued for this purpose. Some valuable material lias been received— notably, a box of snow-white sand, natively pulverized, by Mr W. B. W. Dent, of Whit field county, This contains one-third per cent, of iron—tho great detriment to clear glass. Probably soon a factory will be start ed, and we need not then send to France or 44 look through a glass darkly, when that which is perfect has come.” Prof. Little not only collects minerals and rocks, but plants and soils, and estimates wa ter poyers. Wo are morally certain, tbat this geoiogi- uassed below the Arkansas and White rivers, , . . , , , . , ... 1 “ 4 4 cal, mmeralogical and physical survey of tho the gigantic volume of water had so far over run its uatural boundaries tbat we seemed at sea, instead of upon an inland river. Tbe cot ton-woods and cypresses stood up amid tbe water wilderness like ghosts. Gazing into the long avenues of tho sombro forests wo could see only tha same level, all-enveloping flood. In the open country the cabins seemed ready to sail away, though their masters were usually smoking with much equanimity, and awaiting fall.’—Scribner for October. At Work in Earnest. A few days since, while in Atlanta, we had the plea^jre of meeting our young friend, D C. Barrow, Jr., formerly of this place, but now one of the assistants of Prof. Little, State Geologist, who exhibited many specimens of minerals found iu Georgia. We copy the fol lowing from the Constitution : As we stated at the time, a few weeks ago. Prof. Little, State Geologist, and his field as sistants, Messrs. McCutchen and Schley, enter ed upon their work on the plan of first rapidly ascertaining the general formations of the State, and afterwards of making detailed ex amination of them. As the favorable weath er for traveling, tentiHg and operating was far spent, tho preliminary work bad to be embrac ed in a short compass ; hence, many particu lar sections must be passed by, and merely no ted for future inspection. Nevertheless great personal advantages have already been deriv ed along the route traversed. We learn from the professor, who is on a hurried visit to his office in tho capitol, which is iu tho polite and intelligent charge of Mr. C. C. Barrow, general assistant, that he and his corps have been over tho western portion of this county, into Douglas and Carroll coun ties and to the celebrated Wood copper mines on the Alabama border. He will return to his assistants in a few days, and will immedi ately pass through the counties of Haralson, Polk, Paulding and Cobb, and continue the examination in the country west of Marietta. He has brought in MANY FINE SPECIMENS, mostly of copper, black and red oxide, pyr ites, malachite, azurite, 44 Peacock ore,” and native copper. Also, from Douglasville, su perior building stone, beautifully veriegated. The granite resembles the Scotch ; and, with abundant gneiss, etc., is within half a mile of the Georgia Western Railroad. Near Villa Rica Cal. Haskins is sinking a pit for copper, but tbe indications are very fa vorable for a mine of magnetic oxide of iron. Similar surface indications are found on Mr. Zed Polk's plantatation and neighborhood. In fact there is a reddish cast to tbe whole coun try along the 44 Red road.” All about are evi deuces of surface gold washing on a large scale, but this work is adjourned until after the crops are gathered. Four miles north of Carrollton, Messrs. Saw tell, Barnes and Coleman have just begun work on a copper pic with good indications Both the Carrollton and Bowden college teach ers have shown much interest iu collecting mineral specimens*, and we trust they will Largely enrich the State Geological collection Southwest of Carrollton, eight miles. Judge Bonner has, for many years, carried on very LUCRATIVE COPPER MINING. All ha has had to do to balance his books, or to make a particular purchase, was (o put in a few extra licks of ore—and all his difficulties were o’er. A Tennessee company recently offered him $100,000; but with a feasible water arrangement, his rejected price will be a million of dollars at least. In this neighborhood are vast deposits of fine mica, in a few feet of tbs surface; and from Carrollton to Alabama, and beyond the ground is literally STREWN WITH GARNETS —many perfect twelvu-sidedcrystals. If these little beauties alone were 44 the carbuncles of tbe ancient,” Job's equanimity may have an other solution. They are washed out of mica Mr. Wood, of the neighboring Alabama mine, State, is destined to be indeed a grand suc cess ! The Geologists are hard at work with marked enthusiasm tempered by common sense and enlightened by experience. No one can help observing the directness and the de cision of the chief—he goes straight for the point, hits it, and calls 44 next.” He means business. In undertaking this survey he elicited the warmest admiration by bis clearness of plan and promptness ofactimi. Not like the Knickerbocker theorist whom Irving uses for ridicule—taking a start of three miles to jump over aCatskill mountain ; but rather after Gen. Breckinridge’s quaint reply to an 44 armed neutrality” warning of a giant Kentuckian— 4 Over my dead body,’ etc., by saying, 4 No, if you stand, we’ll tunnel through. 4 FOREIGN CAPITALISTS cannot resist the invitation speakiug so plain ly to their interests, as the voice now being given to the vast mineral resources of this State. And though it is no idle boast of her own sons in Georgia has 44 good blood” in her veins, many of them will ho led to see that af ter all there has been more money in tbe fact tbat she has aiso good veins of minerals inker soil. A Human Skull in Solid Reek. A very strange discovery, interesting to ge ologists, is reported by the Osage Mission (Kan sas) Journal. A human skull was recently found, near that place, imbedded in a solid rock, which was broken open by blasting. Dr. Weirely, of Osage Mission, compared it with a modern skull which he bad in his office, and found that, though it resembled tbe latter in general shape, it was an inch and a quarter larger in its greatest diameter, and better de veloped in some other particulars. He says of the relic ; “*It is that of the cranium of this human species, of large size, imbedded in con glomerate rock of the tertiary’olass, and found several feet beneath the surface. Farts of tbe frontal, parietal and occipital bones, were car ried away by explosion. The piece of rock holding the remains weighs some forty or fifty pounds? with many impressions of marine shells, and through it runs a vein of quartz, or within the cranium crystalized organic matter, and by aid of a microscope, presents a beauti ful appearance.” Neither Lyell or Hugh Mil ler, it is stated, nor any of the rest of the sub terranean explorers, report anythingso remark able aa this discovery of the Osage Mission. The Neander man comes nearest to it, bat ths Neanderthal bones were fonnd in loam only two or three feet below the surface, whereas this Kansas skull was discovered insolidrock. Russian Horses. An English writer says t A specialty of re nown in Russia sxe tbe little horses of the Mushik. They are hardy, in the first instance, aa everything is in Russia, and they are quick and strong. Two of these little horses, hardly large enough to be called ponies, will draw a plow all day, with a pause at noon. They are now largely exported (under the name of Lit- thaore) to Prussia, and in some places have altogether dispossessed the oxen of their eld privileges. I worked with them, on one of the estates of Baron Pluce, where they were fed upon chaff of any description, even.of lupines, very successfully, condimented with some po tato refuse from the distillery. In harvest- time, when tbe little mice had to work like brewers* horses, I administered to them, some bran, and they grew fat even under so unfa vorable circumstances. We soon hod some twenty more sent, and so wa would spare them a little, and send them into the inclosure with the foals now and then- Two of them were able to draw the Champion reaper all day Ion^ and got two peeks of oats each as an encour agement. They, too, laid on flesh, daring the time. I mean to say they are the moat useful animats far easy agriculture existing, aa w# used to work them. Field—It is Kate Field’s satit aciousness that 4 the man doesn’t live wb at at

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Southern watchman. (Athens, Ga.) 1854-1882, October 14, 1874, Image 1