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THE GAZETTE
New Series.
From the N. 0. Picayune ]
THE BLIND BOY.
BY ZOE Z.
The sun was low in the western horizon one
warm afternoon in June, and the long shadows
cast by the trees seemed to invite the weary
traveler to rest. The birds were seeking their
rests for the night, and the little squirrels, so
busy all day running and jumping about in quest
of nut3 and berries, had already hidden them
selves in nooks and corners, that the eyes oi the
greedy weasels and opossums might not be cast
upon them. The cows slowly strolling home
from the pasture, nibbling at tufts of grass
growing by the wav-side; the empty plow
standing in the half-finished lurrow, and the
plow boy sitting sideways on the patient horse,
softly humming snatches of love songs, gave to
the landscape an air of repose.
A little stream dashed in miniature waterfalls
over small rocks, or free and independent, glided
along to the music of its own harmonious gur
gle ; now sparkling and bright as it clasped to
its bosom a roseate beam shot from the eye of the
departing sun: now coyly wooing deep shadows;
anon dancing away, forgetting in its lightheart
edness that it might have left sorrow lingering
behind. But it cares not. Fit emblem of life.
On the road lying upon the bank of this little
stream was a traveler who appeared to be a boy
of not more than eighteen summers. In his
right hand be carried a heavy stick or walking
cane. Upon his back was slung a guitar, and
as he threw up his broad brimmed hat, the bet
ter to inhale the magnolia scented air of the
lovely South, you saw that he was blind. To
his left nyrist was tied a cord, the other end of
which was firmly knotted to a ring in the collar
of a white Spitz dog, who was walking along
with the solemnity of a judge, seemingly con
scious of his great responsibility. At times "he
would turn his head and rapidly scan the mo
bile features of his master, then with head and
ears up march on as before, and with a knowl
edge gained from long practice avoid the rough,
uneven portions of the road, that his young
master, seeing, not might not stumble thereon.
“Whist, old boy,’’ said the lad, “do your sharp
ears not catch the rumbling noise of wheels?’
And boy and dog stood still and listened. Ere
many minutes had e.apscd, farmer Wolcot, in
his two horse wagon, drove up
“Hi! aye !” cried the farmer as he drew rein
aud stopped his team. ‘ What’s all this I see?
A minstrel, if 1 judge not wrongly by your ap
pearance ”
“Yes, sir,” replied too boy; “in that way I
make m.y living. May I sing to you, sir?” said
he as he unslung his guitar, and dexterously ran
his fingers across its strings, strumming the air
of a simple melody.
“Yes, go on, go on,” said the farmer, “ I love
music.”
So bid, the blind boy sang in a dear, flute
like tenor tone, a song of his own composition.
SOHO.
My sister and I, as we frolicked at play,
Ne’er thought I would soon be n rover,
But laughingly romped in the sunshines all day. i
Or played hide and seek in the clover.
We wandered through meadows and by the
b'o ik-side,
Or chatted with Fay3 in the gloaming,
We ran to wild deer who sought not to hide.
But followed us close in our roaming.
But all is now changed, for my sister has flown
To her home mid the stars ot the nigh! ;
I wander and sing but my heart does still moan
For tny sweet little angel of light.
“Biavo,” cried the cheery voice of the farmer,
‘‘that’s the kind of music I like. But tell me,
my lad, have you no father ?”
‘■My father,” replied the boy, died when I was
but two years old.”
“And your mother, child, how about her?” J
As shadows cast by the fleecy clouds of sum
mer steal gradually over the surface of water,
so settled the gloom of sorrowful thoughts over
the face of the minstrel. He took off his hat
and rested it upon the head of his cane ere he
replied in low trembling accents. “I loved my
mother, oh ! so dearly, I would have died for
her, but she- died for me. She tended me so
carefully t rough my early years, that I was
spared the suffering of childhood, and when at 1
the age of seventeen I fell a victim to scarlet
fever. I was more dangerously ill than I would
have been, probably, had the disease attacked
me earlier in life. My mother, my dear, dear !
mother”—and the hoy pressed his Land against
his heart, then his lips, apparently to suppress
a cough, but in reality to still their tremulous
ness—“watched by my bedside night and day,
ministering to me as only a mother can. Atter
weeks and weeks of suffering T began to amend,
but my etes kept growing weaker, and at last
when my health was fully restored, daylight
faded from my sight and I was left in darkness.
But sir, 1 would not then have mourned so, for
I was young and my spirit was strong, but my
worshiped mother faded away, She did not
want to go, sir, she wanted to stay and help me.
I wished it could have been so ; for, oh ! what
shall I do, what shall I do?”
The dog seeing the change in his master’s
face, and hearing the sadness in his voice, sat
up, crossed his front paws and howled dismally.
“Oh, you howling beast of the wilderness,”
exclaimed the farmer, as he rapidly descended
from the*wagon—“there, take that,” and he
stuffed into the dog’s mouth a big sandwich
left from his own lunch. Then turning and lay
ing his large uand gently upon the blind boy’s
shoulder, said, “It is hard, my boy, it is hard,
my boy, very hard, but cheer up. Your cloud
is black, but do you know I see a big hole right
in tim middle of it and the sun shining down
eve. so brig')’ ? I do,forright over yonder
hill lies my ’arm, ..act it is the most famous piece
of land hereabot: I never saw such land for
children in ali my liie; why they grow and
thrive like young cubs. No one is ever sick
there, and such pigs and potatoes, too. I know
my wife can find a place to stow you away, so
jump into my wagon and we will be home i:. 10
time. xVnd yon, whiner,” said he turning to tue
dog and untying tile cord from his col!: :-, “just,
you trot on behind, and if you make any more
noise I.will throw a biscuit at yen ' Then tho
farmer helped his new charge into the wagon,
but the faithful dog, true to the best instincts of
his nature, bounded like lightning in afn
master, and ensconced himself betv.f n .
knees. The farmer patted him on tin bead
clucked to his horses, and the party were soon
lost to view in a turning of the road.
Turkey Las five hundred thousand
men under arms.
ESTAXHLTSLTUITD 1859.
ELBERTON* GA., FEB’Y 28,1877.
THE OLD MAN WHO SMILED.
One tine there was an old man living
in Detroit. His l ack was bent, his step
was slow, and men gazed upon his snowy
locks and wrinkled face and whispered
to each other:
“He is a good old man who has cot
long to live.”
The old man had been well off in his
day, but when he found himself on the
shady side of life, wife dead and home
broken up, he said to his only son:
“Here, William, take all I have and let
your home be my home until 1 die.”
The son took the paper—you bet he
did! and the father was given a cozy
corner, a big chair and a corn-cob pipe.
All wont well /or a year or so, and then
the son and the son’s wife began to make
it uncomfortable for the nice old man in
the corner. They threw out hints, de
prived him of his comforts, and one cold
day in winter he was told that he had
better go to Halifax—Nova Scotia.
The old man’s heart was sore as he
went out it:t) the world to battle against
hunger and cold, and when night came
he cowered in a door-way and wept like
a child.
“Who is making that chin music up
there!” called a reporter, whose steps
had been arrested Ivy the sebs, and he
went up the steps, patted the old man
on the head, and by and by the story
was told.
“Come down to the station with me,”
said the reporter, taking the old man’s
arm. “Your son is first cousin to the
man who preferred buzzard to lamb,
awful- I’ll help you fix him !”
Next morning one of the daily papers
contained an item to the effect that an
old gentleman named Goodhart had been
found wandering the street at. and
that when taken to the station 810,000
worth of United States bonds were
found on him. The old man read it over
three times, slapped his leg as be saw
the point, and a beautiful smile covered
his face and climbed up through h;3 hah'.
In about an hour his son William rushed
into the station and called out:
“Father, dear father, come home ! All
of us were crying all night long, and
my wife is now lying in a comatose state
on your account!”
The old man went home with him,
winking at the lamp posts and smiling as
he turned the coiners. He bad all his
comforts back, and the son bought him
a costly pipe and a pair of box toed
boots that very day.
Well, as time went on the son ventur
ed to suggest that the bonds had better
be turned over to bin?, and every time
be said ‘-bonds'’ the olu man would smile
and turn tire subject to patent milk-cans
or the necessity pi counter feiters taking
more pains with their lead nickles. The
other day the father went to bed to die,
and he smiled oftener than before as he
lay waiting for the summons. The son
said his heart was breaking, and then
went through the old man’s clothes to
find the bonds. He didn’t find any. He
searched the bain and the garret and the
cellar, and finally when he saw that death
was very near he leaned over the bed and
whispered :
“Father, do you know me ?”
“Oh, yes—l know you like a book/’
replied the dying Juan.
“And, father, don’t you see that this
thing is almost killing me ?”
“Yes, William, I see it.”
“And, father—those—those —bonds,
you know. I suppose you want them
used to purchase you a monument"?'’
“Correct, William,” whispered the
father, winking a ghastly wink, and as
that same old smile,covered his face death
came to take him to a better home.
When evening fell and the son and the
son’s wife weie wildly searching tLe straw
bed to get their hands on those bonds, a
reporter stood under the gas lamp across
the street, and with his thumb on his
nose he sweetly called oat:
“Sold agin and got the tin—next filial
son step forward!’’
♦
“Young ladies have the privilege of
saying anything they please during leap
year,” she said, eyeing him out of tho
corner of her eye with a sweet look. His
heart gave a great bound, and, while he
wondered if she was going to ask the
question he hhd so long desired and
feared to do, he answered:
“Yes.”
“And the young men must not re
fuse,” said she
“No, no ! How could they ?” sighed
he.
“Well, then,” said she, “will you—”
He fell on his knees and said :
“Anything you ask, my darling.”
“Wait till I get through. Will you
take a walk, and not hang around our
house so much?” and he walked.
A boy in a Sunday school proposed a
question to be answered the following
Sunday:
“How many letters does the Bible
contain ?”
“The answer was 3,530,334.”
The then said to
James, “Is that right?”
“No, sir,” was the prompt reply, “there
are twenty-six, sir.”
A Connecticut beau sent 3. telegram
to 1. . gul, . liwas in New York wish
! ing hc.r .. ’.ferry Christmas,” but omit
-I +ed to pay 11.I 1 . ? charge. It cost her 25
’ ,uts to finu that she was remembered,
I p,a.' u ,3- gratit’ de she expressed him a
package . itui'iug several coal chunks,
/dreh cost hiir fifty five cents to get.
He is carrying confectionery to a
new place now
IHE CONVENTION BILL.
The following is the full text of the
Convention bill as finally passed by both
branches of the legislature :
A DILL,
To be entitled “An act to provide for the
holding of a Cc nvention of the people
of Georgia for the purpose of revising
the Constitution of said State.”
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives and it is
hereby enacted by authority of the same,
that immediately after the passage of
this bill, his excellency, the Governor be,
and he is herebj r authorized and required
to issue his proclamation, ordering nn
election to be held in each and every
county of this State, on the second Tues
day-in June, 1877, for delegates to a
convention of the people of Georgia to
convene at the capitol in the city of At
lanta on the second Wednesday in July,
1877, for the purpose of revising the
Constitution of said State.
Provided, nevertheless, that at the
election of delegates provided for by the
aet, 'the voters may have written or
printed on their ballots the word “Con
vention” or the words “No Convention.”
And if a majority of those voting on the
question of holding or not holding
a convention shall vote for holding a
convention, the Governor shall by
proclamation so declare and order
delegates so elected to assemble ac
cording to the provisions of ifiisact, and
if a majority of those voting on the
question of holding said convention
shall be opposed to said convention, it
shall be the duty of the Governor by
proclamation so to declaie and order !
that the delegates so elected do not as- ;
semble and the convention shall not be
held.
Section 2. Be it further enacted by ■
the authority aforesaid, That said olec- )
iion shall be held and conducted by the
laws of the State, in the same manner
and at the same places a3 elections for
members of the general assembly are
now held in the State ; and the returns
of said election shall be in the same j
manner forwarded to Abe Governor, who
shall issuu '"A electin', to such
persons, IRSoseu as delegates to said con
vention receiving the hignest number of
votes.
Section3. Be it farther enacted by
thedT.ithor.'' y aforesaid. That represent
&£d hr naia'cortvention shall be based
npoiT population, in the ratio one dele
gate to every six thousand inhabitants, j
and to this end each senatorial district
in the state, as the districts are now ar ;
ranged, shall constitute an election dis- ;
tiict from which delegates to said con
vention shall be chosen as follows, to
wit:
From the Ist district, 8 delegates.
From the 2d district, 3 delegates.
From the 3d district, 2 delegates.
From the 4th district, 2 delegates. |
From the sth district, 2 delegates.
From the Gtli district, 2 delegates.
From the 7tli district, 4 delegates. |
From the Bth district, 4 delegates.
From the 9th district, 3 delegates.
From the 10th district, 4 delegates.
From the Ush district, 4 delegates. j
From the 12th district, 4 delegates, j
From the 13th district, G delegates.
From the 14th district, 4 delegates.
From the loth district, 1 delegate.
From the 16th district. 3 delegates.
From the 17th district, 5 delegates.
From the 18th district, 7 delegates.
From tire 19th district, 5 delegates.
From the 20th district, 6 delegates.
From the 21st: district, 5 delegates.
From the 22d district, 8 delegates.
From the 23d district, 6 delegates.
From the 24th district, 5 delegates.
From tde 25th district, 6 delegates.
From the 26th district, 4 delegates.
From the 27th district,. 6 delegates.
From the 28th district, 5 delegates.
From the 29tb district, 5 delegates.
From the 30th district, 4 delegates.
From the 31st district, 3 delegates.
From the 32d district 2 delegates.
From the 33d district, 4 delegates.
From the 34th district, 5 delegates.
From the 35th district, 9 delegates.
From the 36th district, 6 delegates.
From the 37tL district, 6 delegates.
From the 38tb district, 3 delegates.
From the 39th district, 4 delegates.
From the 40th district, 2 delegates.
Ffom the 41st district, 3 delegates.
From the 42d district, 7 delegates.
From the 43d district, 4 delegates.
From the 44th district, 3 delegates.
Section 4. Be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid that in said elec
tion any person shall be entitled to vote
who is entitled to vote for members of
the general assembly under the present
constitution and laws of this State ; and
that any person who is entitled to this
election shall be eligible as a delegate of
said constitutional convention.
Section 5 Be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, that the consti
tution adopted by the aforesaid conven
tion shall be submitted to the people of
Georgia for ratification or rejection, and
that every person entitled to vote for
members of the general assembly under
the present constitution and laws of
this State shall be entitled to ratify or
i reject said submitted constitution.
Section 6. Be it further enacted by
| the authority aforesaid, that the sum of
| twenty-five thousand dollars or so much
j thereof as may be necessary, I#, and the
I same is, hereby appropriated to pay the
expense of said convention if held, and
his excellency, the Governor,' is hereby
j authorized to draw his warrant on the
treasury for tho samo.
Section 7. Be it further enacted by
Vol. V.—No. 43.
the authority aforesaid that all laws and
I parts of laws in collict with this act be,
and the same are hereby, repealed.
A SOFT ANSWER.
The husband was of quick temper,
and often inconsiderate. They had not
been married a year, when one day, in a
fit ot hasty wrath, ho said to his wife.
“I want no correction from you. If
i you are not satisfied with my conduct
j you may return to the home whence I
j took yon and find happiness with your
j kind.”
| “If I leave you.” returned the unhap
py wife, “wFI you give me back that
which I brought to yon ?”
-“Every dollar. I covet r.ot your
wealth, you shall have it all back.”
“Ah!” she answered, “I meau not the
wealth of gold. I thought not of dross;
I I mean my maiden heart— my first and
I only love—my buoyant hopes ; and the
promised blessing of my womanhood.
Can yon give these to me?”
A moment of thought—of convulsion
i —and then taking her into his arms :
“No, no, my wife I cannot do that,
| but I will do more; I will keep them
henceforth unsullied and unpained. I
cherish your blessings as my own ; and
never again will I forget the pledge I
gave at the altar when you gave your
peace and happiness in my keeping ”
How true it is that a soft answer
turnetb away wrath! and how many of
the bitter strifes of domestic life might
be avoided by remembering and acting
in accordance therewith !
♦ #B> ♦-
ORIGIN OF EMINENT MEN.
John Smith was the son of bis father.
He formerly resided in New York and
other places He has removed to San
T i an cisco now.
Wrn. Smith was the son of his mother.
This party's grandmother is deceased.
She was a brick.
John Biown was the son of old Brown.
The body of the latter lies mouldering
iu the grave.
Henry Jones w r as the son of a cook.
William Jones was the son of a gun.
Jonh Jones was a son of temperance.
In early life Gabriel Jones was usual
ly a shoemaker. He is a shoemaker
yet.
Previous to the ago of eighty-five, Ca
ieb Jones bad never given any evidence
of extraordinary ability. 110 has never
given any since.
Patrick Murphy is said to have been
of Irish extraction.
James Patterson was the son of a
common weaver, who was so miracu
lously poor, that bis friends were engag
ed to believe that in case the Scriptures
were strictly carried out, he would “in
herit the earth.” He never got his prop
erty.
William Patterson, better known as
“Billy,” parentage uncertain. William
was trained for a prizefighter until he
was knocked out of time into eternity.
His assailant has never been identified,
but suspicion has always rested on his
mot her in law.
LOOKING AFTEE THEIE FAMILIES.
Avery searching investigation was
carried on a few years ago in tho north
of England by two families who were
searching up their respective ancestry.
The strife'was great between them, each
one determining to look back into anti
quities fu? ther than the other. One of
the families, whose name was Spencer,
employed an artist to paint an historic
scene, representing the building of the
ark and the loading up of the ship by
Noah and his sons with its multifarious
and various cargo. On the gangplank
leading to the deck of the arlt two men
were seen rolling up a large box. on one
side of which was painted in large let
tors : “Relics, insignia and papers be
longing to the Spencer family.” Tins
was considered a coup d'etat hard to
beat, but the other family, determined
not to be outdone in the antediluvian
pretenses of their name, prepared at a
great cost and research a record of their
antiquity. In describing the exploits of
one of their ancestors, at a very early
day, who was represented as a man of
some authority, this remarkable passage
occurs: “During this year Adana and
Eve were driven out of Paradise.”
4 ♦
Blanket was onced engaged in a case,
when toward the end of the afternoon,
when it became a question whether the
Court should proceed or adjourn till tire
next day. Plunket expressed his will
ingness to go on if the jury would “set.”
“Sit, sir, sit,” said the presiding Judge;
“not ‘set;’ hens set.” “I thank you, my
lord,” said Plunket. The case proceed
ed, and presently the Judge had occa
sion to observe that if that were the case
he feared the action would not “lay.”
“Lie, my lord, lie,” exclaimed the barris
ter ; “not ‘lay ;’ hens lay.”
♦ -t
Thanks and a thousand of them to that
unknown genius who intrusted a trunk,
with a hive of bees in it, to the tender
mercies of a Syracuse baggage master,
the other day. The company will pay
for the bees, and the doctor thinks his
patient will be around again in a fort
night or so.
An old farmer, riding in a lumber
wagon with his son, when passing over
a rough place, fell off, and coming into
close contact with the wheel, he cried,
out, “My neck is broke !” His son ex
pressing some doubt as to the case being
quite so bad, the old man responded
with some spirit, “Don’t you s'pose 1
know !”
DIED or A LAWSUIT.
A tattered memorandum book was re
cently found on the steps of ti very hum
ble dwelling “out Wost.” Some of the
entries are as follows :
“My father had a slight misunder
standing with a neighbor about a divis
ion of a fence, which he had inherited
from my grandfather. After Several dis
putes be consulted a lawyer, who had a
good many children, but little practice.
This was fatal. A suit was commenced.
“Several years ago my lawyer said I
must get ready for the trial. I did so,
and went to Court at every term. But
was postponed on eyery pretense which
human ingenuity could invent.
“1870. March term.—Counsel for de
fendant moved for continuance, because
he was engaged in the Court of Com
mon Pleas. Court granted the motion,
but intimated with great dignity that
such an excuse would never avail with
him again,
“September term.—Counsel trying a
case in an adjoining county. Judge
hesitated, but yielded
“December term.—Defendant very ill.
Proved by tho certificate of a respecta
ble physician.
“1872. March term.—Counsel has
made an engagement to meet a client
from New York, who could not conven
iently leave his business again. Contin
ued, the Judge suggested that New
York clients might find counsel nearer
home.
“1873. September term. —Carried the
title deeds to my lawyer. Surveyor ex
amined the premises, and said the de
fendant had encroached upon me. But
another surveyor, (partner and pupil of
the first one,) said that my deed spoke
of a hackmatack stump in the line of the
fence, a foot in diameter ; whereas, the
only tree anywhere in the fence was a
pepperidgo tree not moro than seven
inches across ; case postponed to employ
other surveyors.
“December term.— Counsel agreed
that Court might visit promises in dis
pute. Judge consented to go, provided
nobody went with them to explaiu and
confess. Next morning a heavy snow
fell, and boundaries were covered. Case
continued.
“1874. September term.—Motion to
postpone, on tho ground that tho de
fendant’s attorney wished to be absent
hunting a few days. Motion prevailed.
I remonstrated, my counsel said the law
yers wore very accommodating gentle
men, and the courtesies of the bar re
quired it.
“1875. March term.—One of the ju
rors taken sick. Motion to go on with
ihe trial with eleven jurors. Defend
ant’s counsel objected with great
strength of voice, and demanded a full
jury trial, pure and simple. I think lie
called it the “palladium of our liberties.”
Case postponed.
“September term.—Received a bill for
retainers, term fees* Clerk’s fees, and
expenses. One item was for tho amount
of a retainer which my lawyer had de
clined from the defendant. Offered him
the farm, provided 1 gain tho case. He
said this would not be deemed honora
ble practice, but ho would take it [and
give me credit as far as it went.
“Took the cars for the West, coming
mostly on freight trains and after night
fall.
“Mem.—Don’t forget the inscription
for my tombstone—‘Here lies one who
did of a lawsuit bequeathed by his
father.' ” —[Hartford Courant.
WHAT A VAG COULDN’T STAND.
Yesterday morning a man about 28
years old, who had been loafing around
the Central depot for several days, was
taken to task by a hotel-runner for not
finding work
“Haven’t I walked from Hamtrame to
Springwells, and from the Holden road
to the river, asking everybody for work?”
whined the vagrant “I’m willing to do
anything to make a shilling. I'll shovel
snow, clean out cars, drive team— hang
it! I’ll jump in the river for pay.”
The runner beckoned him aside, and
told him of a plan by which ho could
make a raise of cash. The vag agreed
and he was taken into an ally off Front
street. The runner drew a pail of cold
water, seated the vagrant on a box, and
said:
“It’ll take about four pails of water to
wet you up, but there’s money in it. As
soon as I souse you good and strong,
you run around on Third street, say
you fell into tho river and lost a good
watch and S2OO and the crowd will got
up a collection for you. Shut your teeth
now.”
He lifted the pail of ice water, and
dashed it on his fellow conspirator.
There was a yell loud enough to be
heard at the depot, and the vag almost
jumped out of his boots.
“W-what-p’leece—hold on—murder!”
he gasped as the icy currents run down
his spinal column.
“Keep still, there, and thiuk of tho
collection !” ordered the runner.
“I can't—ooh—Lordy—ouch—whoop!
Where’s a stove—where’s a fire !”
“You won t make a cent,” protested
the runner.
“I can’t help it —I don’t caro for mon
ey ! Get me in somewhere where I can
warm up, and I’ll cross to Canada on
the ice in two hours! I can stand
kicks, frostbites, and hunger, but—
but—!”
He galloped up the alley just ahead of
the eecoed pailful, and as lie flew up
Third street, and turned up in Wood
bridge, a drayman struck at him with a
stake, and called out:
“Stop thief—pickpocket jumped off
the railroad boat!”
[Detroit Free Press.
Scene in a police court —Judge: “Pris
oner, I find you guilty of intoxication in
the public streets. The punishment is
$lO or ten days. Which will you take?”
Prisoner: “I take the $lO, your honor.”
-• * ♦
“My son,” said X, kindly, to his
youthful heir, “accustom yourself to be
polite to the porter, the servant girl, the
coachman, to all tho servants; thus yon
will come in time to 1 e courteous to all
people, even*to vour parents.”
