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VOLUME XLYt]
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, APRIL 13, 1875#
if UMBER 18.
THE
Inion & Jrimbtr,
18 PUBLISHED WEEKLY
IN MILLEDGEVILLE. GA..
BY
Boughton, Barnes & Moore,
At $2 in Advance, or $3 at end of the year
S. N. BOUGHTON, Editor.
THE “FEDERAL UNION” and the “SOUTH
ERN RECORDER” were consolidated August 1st
18'J, the Union being in its Forty-Third Volume and
the Recorder in it's Fifty-Third Volume.
ADVERTISING.
TuixsiEST.—One Dollar per square of ten lines for first inser-
tlon, and seventy-five cents for each subsequent continuance.
Liberal discount on these rates will be allowed on advertise
ments running three mouths, or longer.
Tribute* ol Respect, IL-iolutions by Societies, Obituaries ex
ceeding six lines, Nominations for office and Communications
for individual benefit, charged as transient advertising.
LEGAL ADVERTISING.
SheritTs Sales, per levy of ten lines, or less, $2 30
“ Mortgage fi la sales, per square, 5 00
Citations for Letters of Administration, 3 00
“ ** 44 Guardianship, 3 00
Application for Dismission from Administration, 3 00
“ 44 “ 44 Guardianship, 3 00
44 4 ; Leave to sell Laud, 5 00
“ for Homesteads 2 00
Notiee to Debtors and Creditors, 3 00
gales of Land. &c., per square 5 00
44 perishable property, 10 days, per square, 1 75
Estrsv Notices, 30 days 3 00
Pareclosuro of Mortgage, per square, each time 1 00
Be*j. W. Barrow.
Henry YV Barrow,
BARROW & BARROW,
LAWYERS:
Office ■■ Brows & Barrow Bnilding, tp
Stair*.
Will practice in the State and Federal Courts.
I hope my friends will give the new firm the same
cordial support and favor they have shown to me
Ja5-1 $70-24-1 y BENJ. W. BARROW.
aCEDZCAl CARD.
DRS. HALL & HARRIS,
Office on Wayne street,
2 doors South of Post Office.
Milledgeville, June 2, 1874.
The Bird and the Maiden*
Away in the heart of the dim old woods
Sweet, joyous notes are ringing;
No_ crest I see, nor plumage Bright,
Nor feet to the high branch clinging,
Yet I gnessof the spring and the coming nest
By the rapture that thrills the little breast,
And by tha glow of the song I see
A happy bird and a greenwood treo
That Spring will soon be bringing.
Down deep u the heart of a gentle maid
A bird-like aote is ringing,
It sings so slow, so soft and low,
That no one heeds the siugieg,
Yet we know by the flowei that summer is fair,
Ot the son by the glow on the peach and pear,
And so by the light in her eyes I prove
The hidden guest, and his name is Love,
And joy will the guest be bringing.
PITTSBURG ACADEMY,
Baldwin County, Ga.
I OCATED just 8 miles west of Milledgeville, in a
J community proverbial for health and refinement
This School begins ifa SPRING TERM, February 3rd.
Tuition low. Board by week or month at $8 <f $10,
in the neighborhood. Church and Sunday School con
venient. For further information apply to
JNO. YV. FRAYSER, Teacher,
or J. M. D. Webb, Secretary, &c.,
Milledgeville, Ga.
Jan. 30,1875. ”8 3m.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
Hale* of Laud, Alc., by Administrator*, Executors oi
diaus, are required by law to be lit id outdo first Tuesday lu the
month, between the Hours of 10 in the forenoon and 3 in the af-
ernoon, at the Court House in the county in which the property
la aituated. Notice of these sale* must be given in a public
gazette 30duy» previous to the day oi sale.
Notices for the *alc of personal property must bo given in
like manner 1<> dny* previous to sale day.
Notice to the debtors and creditors of an estate must be pub
lished 40 days.
Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary
for leave to sell Laud, A.c., must be published for one month.
Citations for letters of Administration, Guardianship, &.c.,
must be published 30 days- for dismission from Administration
monthly three mouths—for dismission from Guardianship 40
day*.
Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must be published monthly
for four mouths—for establishing lost papers for the full space or
three months—for compelling titles from Executors or Admin
istrators, where bond has been given by the deceased, the full
space of three mouths.
Publications will always be continued according to these
tbs legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered.
SANFORD & FURMAN,
ATTORNEYS AT I.ACT,
MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.
Office at the State House.
April 6, 1874. 37 ly
B«ok and Job Work, of all kinds
PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED
AT TIIHM OFFICE.
BALDWIN COUNTY
Baidu.-in Mortgage Sheriff's Sale.
W ILL be sold at the legal place for holding public
sales, before the Masonic Hall, in the city of
Milledgoville, county of Baldwin, within the legal
hoars uf sale, on the first Tuesday ju JUNE next
the f. .’lowing property, to-wit:
O..o lilandy’s Patent Portable Steam Saw Mill and
appurtenances, one mare mule named Beck dark color,
one dark mare inule named Kit, one dark horse mule
named Rowley, one light bay horr.e named Charley
Brook, one log wagon, two two horse wagoos, one
hundred and twenty-five thousand feet of first class
limber, one hundred and twenty-five thousand feet of
second class lumber; sold ns the property of Natale
and Abroso Corinanny, to satisfy a Superior Court
■ fain favor of II. &. F. Blandy vs. Natale & Abrose
Cormany. Levy made this 5th of April, 1875. Proper
ty pointed out by Plaintiff’s Attorneys.
O. ARNOLD, Sheriff.
April 5, 1875. [Printers fee $5 Oil] 37 tds.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
A LL PERSONS dne the estate of R. C. Callaway
deceased, are requested to come up and settle
with me at once, and those having claims against said
estate will present them in terms of Law.
W. J. BRAKE, Adm’r.
March Oth, 1875. 33 fit.
Laud For Sale.
T HE LOT adj»ining Oliver White, Cobb and
Jeakius, lying in Baldwin county, near the line of
Jones, containing about 227 acres, the greater portion
In woods. No improvements—a fine rich body ot origi
nal growth, oak, hickory and dogwood—well water
ed; Two or three hundred acres adjoining, that has
been in cultivation, can.be purchased if desired.
SAMUEL G. WHITE.
Milledgeville, Ga., Dec. 29,1874 . 23 tf.
To all Whom it may Concern.
OBORGIA, Baldwin County.
Court of Ordinary, February Term, 1875.
W HEREAS, W. T. Conn, Administrator de
bouis non, on t|^e Estate of Charlotte S. Dagget,
deceased, has filed his petition to be discharged from
•aid administration.
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all par
ties interested, to show cause on or by the first Mon
day in May 1875,why the said W.T.Conn, administra
ter as aforeeaid, should not be discharged as prayed
tor in his petition.
Witness my official signature this February 1st, 1875,
28 3m J DANIEL B. SANFORD, Ordinary.
To all Whom it may Concern.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
Court of Ordinary February Term, 1875.
W HEREAS, E. S. Brundage, Executor on the
Estate of Jesse Brundage deceased, lias tiled his
petition to be discharged from said Executorship.
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all par
ties interested, to show cause on or by the first Mon
day in May 1875, why-the said E. S . Brundage, Execu-
ter as aforesaid, should not.be discharged as prayed
far In his petition. Witness my official signature this
February the 1st, 1875.
28 3m.] DANIEL B. SANFORD, Ordinary.
Rale Nisi to Foreclose Mortgage
of Land—February Term, 1875.
Perry & Denton vs. J. S. & Fannie Tindal.
I T APPEARING to the Court by petition of Plain
tiffs, that Defendants are indebted to them in the
sans ef one hundred and fifty dollars besides interest
aad that Defendants executed to them a mortgage
deed of a certain tract of one hundred and five acres
ot land therein described, situated in Baldwin county,
aad that Defendants now reside in the State of Ala-
abama: Be it ordered that Defendants do pay into
Ceert said sum of one hundred and fifty dollars be
sides Interest thereon, from October 1st, 1873, and
costs of this proceeding, or show cause to the contrary,
else their equity of redemption of said laud to be for
ever barred and foreclosed. It is further ordered that
service of this rule be made on Defendants by publi
cation in the “Union &. Recorder” and “Every Satur
day” once a month for tour months, before the next
term of this Court.
CRAWFORD & WILLIAMSON, Pi'll*. At’ys.
A true extract from the minutes of Baldwin Supe
rior Court. WALTER PAINE, Clerk.
Maroh 1, 1875. 32 m lm.
I> R . LANIER,
DENTIST,
Center GreeD and Wayne Streets,
Kiilieilgcrille, Ga,
IKeepe constantly on hand a fiuo lot of Aromatic tooth
S. S, PECK,
Machinist and Millwright,
Furnishes to Order
STEAM ENGINES, BOILERS,
Circular Saw, Grist and
Flour Mills,
Also, the Celebrated Leffell Double
Turbine Water Wheel, Hydraulic Rams,
Pipes, Pumps, and General Machinery.
All made of host Material, at Manufaetur-
er’s Prices.
TOOMSBORO, GA.
No. 15, Central It. K.
Oct. 20, 1874.13 ly.
GEORGE PACE & CO.,
Manufacturers of
PATENT PORTABLE CIRCULAR
SAW MILLS,
A133 3TATI0NA2? t PC2IAEI.3
STEAM ENGINES,
No. 5 K. Schroede r at
SALTIMOKE, 1
Grist Mills, Lcffel’s Turbine Water Wheels,
Wood Working Machinery of all kinds, and Ma
chinists' Pandries.
SEND FOB CATALOGUES.
Jan. 19, 1875. 26 ly
A new, new nest for the merry bird,
And s happy home for the maiden,
And a long, long Summer of sunny hours
For the hearts with joys o'eriaden.
But the winter must come, and winds will blow,
And chill the nest with the drifting enow,
And what of the home? Oh, who can tell
Whether age shall ring its funeral knell,
Or Love keep singing, “All is well,
For the wife as well asjthe maiden?”
From the Arcadian.
Italian Noblemen Marrying Ameri
can Heiresses.
There has been a pretty piece of scans
dal in Nice this year. About six months
ago two young Italian gentlemen of rank
came to Nice and made themselves very
conspicuous in society. They were hand
some, elegant in their manners, well
dressed, and very amusing. One was
named Marquis Lanreati, the other Count
Uggolina. The other day Uggolina re
ceived an anonymous letter, telling him
that unless he sent 500 francs to the
Post Office to the writer, certain secrets
of his life would be published which
would render his immediate withdrawal
from Nioe imperative. The noble Count
took the letter to the Chef de Police,
who told him to send a bank note to the
address given, which he did. A detec
tive was on hand, and immediately seiz
ed upon the person who asked for the
letter, who, to the surprise of everybody,
turned out to be the Marquis Laureati.
The Marqtiis was sent to prison at once.
A trial ensued, and in the course of its
proceedings it turned out that the Mar
quit was a hair dresser from Palerma.
and the Count a laquais. Both gentle-
men were engaged to young American
ladies!
HETTY NARVIK.-
"When the British and Tories attacked
New London, Conn., in 17—, and set a
price on the head of Gov. Griswold, the
latter fled to the town of L , where
his cousin, Mrs. Marvin, hid him for
some days in a secluded farm honse. But
at length the subtle foe discovered his
retreat, and one sunny afternoon in May
them. And when they saw the pursuing
party dash madly down the road to the
he was routed from his hiding place by river, and recopized tfre British uniform
the tidings that a band of horsemen were of they pulled swiftly out to
approaching to capture him.
His only chance of escape was to reach
the mouth of a little creek which emp-
a white cloth by day or a light by night I Rhode Island.
(’is played from the attic window of his j The election which will take place
hiding-place, which was just visible at Rhode Island on Wednesday next is like*,
the mouth of tho river, should inform ly to be the most exciting contest that
them if he were in trouble, and put them State has seen for many years. There
on the alert to help him. As soon, there- are three tickets in the field, a large and
fore, as he started from his cousin's the influential faction of the Republican party
signal floated from the window to warn having bolted the regular nominations
MACON CARDS
C. BURKE,
House and Sign Painter,
AND DEALER IN
AINTS, OIL, GLASS, Ac,
Colors, Dry and in Oil. Mixed Paints
of all shades.
32 Third Street,
MACON, GA.
Feb. 15, 1874. 30 3m.
DAVIS SMITH,
DEALER IN
SADDLES; HARNESS
CARRIAGE MATERIAL,
Shoe Findings, Leather of all kinds, Children’s
Carriages,
103 Cherry Street, MACON, GA.
January 26th, 1S75. 27 3m
Established Over 30 Years Ago.
MIX&KIRTLAND,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Hoots, Shoes and Hats,
Morocco, French and American Calf
Skins, Leather Findings, &c., &c.
All orders promptly and carefully filled ut
Cotton Avenue & 66 3rd Street,
MACON, GA.
MIX & KIRTLAiYD.
January 26th, 1875. 27 3m.
JOHN STOSS’, _
Has received for Fall and YVinter Trade. 1874-5,
Watches, Jewelry, Silver Ware,
FANCY GOODS, FINE CUTLERY,
Musical Instruments, Strings, &c., &c.
Sole Agent for the Celebrated
EYE-GLASSES, 4c.
Particular Attention given to Repairs on Fine and
Difficult Watches.
JEWELRY, Ar.o., REPAIRED, and ENGRAVING.
Heavy and Medium 14,18 and 22 Karat Plain Gold
Rings and Badges made to order and Engraved at
Short Notioe.
powders.
March Oth. 1875.
33 tf.
NEW BLACKSMITH SHOP.
TIIE under
signed has put
up a Black
smith Shop on
the corner of
Hancock and Wilkinson
streets, opposite the old
V Court House Square,
l v where he is prepared to
do ALL KIND OF
WORK IN IRON in
the best manner,
•ptwiai attention given to farm and plantation work.
Fatronage solicited. ^ ^ CB4HWEIll
Milledgeviiie, June 2, 1874. 45 ti
JAMES SMITH, g
iparta, ga., |
and Contractor !j|
, Manufacturer anti dealer in5
Sash, Blinds, Turnings and*
work of all kinds, Newell
Mantles, Blinds, Trimmings,!
Hinges, &e. |
orders will receive prompt at-f
Corner Mulberry A Second Streets,
MACON, GEORGIA.
(OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE.)
Nov, 10,1871. 16 ly.
LANIER HOUSE.
B, DUB, Proprietor.
Mulberry Street, - MacoD, Georgia.
The above named Hotel lias been recently refur
nished and fitted up for tbe accommodation of tran
sient as well as permanent Boarders. Persons will
find it to their interest to stop at this House, as its
central location raakeB it a very desirable place for
merchants and families coming to the city for business,
or for a sojourn of pleasure. An ELEGANT SAM
PLE ROOM has been fitted up for tbe special use ot
commercial travelers.
The table always supplied with all the luxuries of
the season, from first markets, aad can be surpassed
by none in the South;
Omnibus to convey passengers to and from the
Hotel and all trains, free of charge;
B. DUB, Proprietor.
April 18. 1872. fim
The Isaacs House
Cherry Street, - Macon, Ga,
H AVING some of the finest rooms in the city. With
meals at the tables D’Hote— J2 00 per day, or
50 cts. to 75 ets. for room, and meals to order. Lower
rates by tbe week, and every effort made to give
comfort and satisfaction to guests.
K. ISAAC'S, Proprietor.
Feb. 8, 1875. 39 ly
NATIONAL HOTEL.
(Nearly opposite Union Depot,)
MAOOX. GA.
Board — — — $2 Per Day.
HERRING’S
Patent Champion Safes,
Established more than a third of a centu-
17 ’ DEDUCED IN FSLICE,
Also, two hundred second-hand Safes for
Hale at very Low Piices.
HERRING & CO.,
BH mm* 9W BROADWAY, New Verb,
S« a>4 M 8HOBVSY ST,
*b, 1875.*
29 3m.
Nov. 10,1874;
T. H. HARRIS, Manager.
- 21 1-v.
F vxr m w»
9 d juui y
Merchant Tailor,
Mulberry Street, next to Lanier House,
MACON, GA.
•^Patronage solicited.
March 15.1875. 34 3r
ELLIS & CUTTER,
Manufactnrers of
Doors, Sash and Blinds
AND DIALERS IN
Rough and Dressed Lumber, Builders
Material, &c., &c.
J. H. ELLIS. ? t M. H. CUTTER.
) Wharf Street, (
MACON, GA.
March 15, 1875. ’ 31 ly.
A Beautiful Thought.
"When the summer of youth is slowly
wasting away on the nightfall of age, and
the shadow of the path becomes deeper
and deeper, and life wears to its close, it
is a pleasure to look through the vista
of time upon the sorrows and felicities
of our earlier years. If we have a home
to shelter and hearts to rejoice with us,
and friends have been gathered around
our fire sides, and the rough places of
way-faring will have been worn and
smoothed away in the twilight of life, the
many dark spots we have passed through
will grow brighter and more beautiful.
Happy, indeed, are those whose inter
course with the world has not changed
tho tone of their holier feeling or broken
the musical cords of the heart, whose
vibrations are so melodious, so tender,
and so touching in tho evening of their
life.—Dean Swift.
Sound Advice.—Young men, yon are
tho architects of your own fortune. Rely
on your own strength of body and soul.
Take for your guiding star self-reliance.
Subscribe on your banner, “Luck is a
fool; Pluck is a hero.” Don’t take too
much advice; keep at your helm and steer
your own ship, and remember that the
great art of commanding is to take a fair
share of the work. Think well of your
self; strike out; assume your own position.
Put potatoes in a cart, over a rough
road, and the small ones go to the bot
tom. Rise above the envious and jeal
ous; fire above the mark you intend to
hit. Energy, invincible determination,
with a right motive, are the levers that
move the world. Don’t drink; don’t
smoke; don’t swear; don’t deceive; don’t
marry until you can support a wife;
be in earnest; be self-reliant; be gen
erous; bo civil; read the papers; ad
vertise your business; make money and
do good with it; love your God and fel
low-men; love truth and virtue; love your
country and obey its laws.
Don’t rely upon friends; don’t rely up
on the name of your ancestors. Thou
sands have spent the prime of life in the
vain hope of help from those whom they
called friends, and thousands have starv
ed because they had a rich father. Rely
upon the good name which is made by
your own exertions, and know that better
than the best friend you can have is un
questionable determination, united with
decision of character.
The Last Word.—The last word is the
most dangerous of infernal machines.
Husband and wife should no more fight
to get it than they would struggle for
the possession of a lighted bomb-shell.
Married people should study each other’s
weak points, as skaters look out for tho
weak parts of the ice in order to keep off
them. Ladies who marry for love should
remember that the union of angels with
women has been forbidden since the
Flood. The wife is the sun of the social
system. Unless she attracts, there is
nothing to keep heavy bodies, like hus
bands, from flying into space. The wife
who would properly dischargo her duties
must never have a soul above trifles.
Don’t trust too much to good temper
when you get into an argument. Sugar
is the substance most universally diffus
ed through all natural products. Let
married people tako a hint from this pro-
idence of nature.
Say nothing respecting yourself, either
good, bad, or indifferent—nothing good,
for that is vanity; nothing bad, for that
is affectation; nothing indifferent, for
that is silly.
The fixed purpose sways and bends all
circumstances to its use, as the wind
bends the reeds and rushes beneath it.
Lost Time.—Time lost can never be re
gained. After allowing yourself proper
time for rest, don’t live a single hour of
your life without doing exactly what is
to be done in it, and going straight
through it from beginning to end. Work,
play, study, whatever it is, take hold at
once and finish it up squarely and clear
ly; then to the next thing, without let
ting any moments drop out between
One of the greatest luxuries of riches
is, that they enable you to escape so much
good advice. The rich are always ad
vising the poor, but the poor seldom
venture to { roturn the compliment.
Helps.
If you desire to enjoy life, avoid un
punctual persons; they impede business
and poison pleasure. Make it your own
rule not only to be punctual, but a little
beforehand. Such a habit secures a compo
sure which is essential to happiness. For
want of it many persons live in a cons
stant fever, and put all about them in a
fever too. ..
We all complain of the shortness of
fi™ and yet we have much more than
we know what to do with. Our lives
are either spent in doing nothing at all or
in not doing what we ought to do. We
are always complaining that our days are
few, and acting as if there would be no
end to them.
tied itself into the Connecticut river, just
above the entrance of the latter into
Long Island Sound. There he had a
boat stationed, with two faithful atten
dants hidden beneath the high banks of
the creek. The distance from the farm
house to the boat was two miles by the
usual traveled road. But a little path
across the farmers’ orchards would bring
him to the road, only a mile from the
boat, and save a quarter’s length of his
fearful run for life.
Just where the narrow path from the
orchard opened into the road Hetty Mar
vin sat, with her dog Towser, tending the
bleaching of her household linen. The
long web of forty yards or more, which
was diligently spun and woven during
the long winter months, was whitened in
May, and thus ready for use. The busi
ness of bleaching was well economized,
being usually done by the young daugh
ters of the family who were not old
enough to spin or strong enough for
the heavier work of the kitchen or the
dairy.
The roll of linen was taken by tho far
mer or his stout ‘help’ to a grassy plat,
beside a spring or a meadow brook.
There it was thoroughly wetted and
spread upon tho green turf, to take the
best heat of the sun by day and tho clew
by night. Tho little maiden who tended
it would sit near.
Thus set Hetty Marvin, the young
daughter of Gov. Griswold’s cousin,
when her hunted friend sprang past her
into the road, to escape his purstflrs.
Hetty was a timid child of about twelve
years, yet thoughtful and wise beyond
many of her elders. She was frightened by
the headlong haste with which the Gov
ernor rushed across tho meadow. But
she quickly comprehended the scene, and
instantly quieted her faithful Towser,
who, though a friend of tho family guest,
thought it becoming to bark loudly at
his hurried steps.
Her wise forethought arrested the Gov
ernor’s notice, and suggested a scheme
to delude his pursuers. ‘Hetty,’ he said,
earnestly, ‘I am flyingr for life; and un
less I can reach my Boat before I am
overtaken I am a lost man. You see the
road forks here. But yon must tell
those who are chasing mo that I have
gone up the road to catch tho mail wags
on, which will soon be along, you know.
Then they will turn off the other way.’
‘O, cousin,’ said the little girl, in an
agony of distress, ‘I cannot tell a lie; in
deed, I cannot. Why did you tell mo
which way you were going?’
‘Hetty, dear child, surely you would
not betray me to my death! Hark ! they
are coming—I hear the click of their
horses’ feet. Oh, Hetty, tell them I have
gone up the road instead of down, and
Heaven will bless you.’
Heaven never blesses those who speak
falsely, cousin! But I will not tell them
which way you go, even if they kill me;
so run as quickly as possible.’
‘It’s of no use; unless I can deceive
them I am a dead man.’
Cousin, cousin, hide under my web of
cloth; they’d never think of looking here
for you.—Come, get down as swift as
you can, and I’ll cover you and stand
sprinkling my linen.’
‘It’s my only chance, child: I’ll get
down as you say.’ And suiting the action
to the word the Governor was soon hid
den under the fold of the cloth.
Angry that their expected prey had es
caped from the house where they hoped
to secure him, the six mounted Tories,
headed by a British officer, dashed along
the road in swift pursuit. At sight of
the girl in the meadow tho leader of tho
party paused.
Child,’ he said, sternly, ‘have you seen
a man running hereabouts?’
Yes, sir,’ replied Hetty, trembling and
flushing.
‘Which way did he go V
‘I promised not to tell, sir.’
‘But you must, or tako the conse
quences.’
•T said I wouldn’t tell, if yon kill me,’
3obbed the frightened girl.
‘I’ll have it out of her,’ exclaimed the
furious officer, with an oath.
‘Let me speak to her,’ said his Tory
guide; T know the child, I believe. Isn’t
your name Hetty Marvin?’ he asked,
pleasantly.
‘Yes, sir.’
‘And this man that ran by you a few
moments ago was yonr mother’s cousin,
wasn’t he?’
‘Yes, sir, he was.’
‘Well, wo are friends of his; what did
ho say to you when he came along?’
He—told me—that ho was flying for
his life.’
‘Just so, Hetty; that was very true. I
hope he won’t have to fly hard. Where
was lie going to hide ? You see I could
help him if I knew his plans.’
Now, Hetty was not a whit deceived
by this smooth speech. But she was
willing to tell as much the truth as would
be consistent with his safety, and she
wisely judged that her frankness would
serve her kinsman better than her silence.
So she answered her questioner candid
ly: ‘My cousin said he was going down
this way to the river, where he had a
boat; and he wanted me to tell the men
that were chasing him that he had
gone the other way to catch the mail
wagon.’
‘Why didn't you do as he bid you,
then, when I asked you where he had
gone?’ thundered the officer, fierce
ly-
I could not tell a lie, sir,’ was the tear
ful answer.
‘Hetty,’ again began the smooth
tongued Tory, ‘you are a nice child. Ev
erybody knows you are a girl of truth.
What did your cousin say when you told
him you couldn’t tell a falsehood ?’
‘He said he shouldn’t think I’d betray
him to his death.’
And yon then promised him you
wouldn’t tell which way ho went, if you
were killed for it T
‘Yes, sir.’
‘That was a brave 'speech; and so I
suppose he thanked you for it, and
ran down the road as quickly as possi
ble-’
‘I promised not to tell where he went,
sir.’
Klh, yes, I forgot. Well, toll ns his
last words, and we won’t trouble you any
more.’
‘His last words: ‘It’s my only chance,
child, and Fll get down as you say.”
And overcome, by fright, and the sense
of her kinsman’s danger, should they
interpret the language which she had re
potted, she sobbed aloud, and hid her
face from sight
Her tormentors did not stay longer to
soothe or question her. They had got
as they supposed, the information which
they wanted, and pushed rapidly on down
to the river.—Now, the Governor had
arranged a signal with hia boatman that
The horsemen reached the shore
only in season to see the boat with two
men in it nearly out of sight; and sup
posing their destined prey had escaped,
relinquished the pursuit.
Meanwhile the hunted victim lay safe
and quiet where the simple shrewdness
of the little cousin had hidden him, until
the time came for her to return for sup
per. Then he bade her go as usual to
her home, telling her to ask her mother
to place the signal lamp, as soon as it
grew dark, in the window, for the boatmen
and to send him there some supper, with
his valise, which, in the hurry of depart
ure. he had left behind.
Tho signal recalled the boat, which af
ter twilight had ventured in sight of the
shore and the farm-house, and the Gover
nor quietly made his way to the river in
safety. When he rejoined his family in
a secure home he named his infant daugh
ter, which had been bom in his absence,
‘Hetty Harvin,’ that he might bo daily
reminded of the little cousin whose truth
and shrewdness saved his life.—Morn
ing Star.
The Mouth of the Mississippi in
1770.
[Pitman’s “Present State of the European Settle,
mentson the Mississippi.”
The navigation of the Mississippi is
confined to vessels not drawing above
seventeen feet of water, there being little
more in the deepest channel on the bar,
which is subject to shift very often, so
that a pilot is constantly employed in
sounding. On every part of the bar
there is nine feet water, and small vessels
go over it without fear; frigates of thirty-
six guns have often gone through the
channel after taking their guns out.
When once a vessel has crossed the bar
the remainder of tho navigation is very
safe, keeping clear of the great trees
which float down with the current. When
winds are contrary, vessels make fast to
the trees on the banks of the river and
haul close, there being sufficient depth
of water for any ship whatever. It
impossible to anchor without being ex
posed to tho danger of the great trees
which come down with the current al
most continuously, but more especially
at the time of the floods, which, if any
of them come athwart hawse, would most
probably drive in the bows of a vessel,
and there is a certainty of losing the an
chors, as the bottom of the river is very
soft mud, covered with sunken logs, and
is generally at least sixty (?) fathoms
deep, and this sort of bottom and depth
continues almost as far as the Natchez,
and all vessels that enter the river can
go, up within three miles of that post.
Toe Champion Mother-ix-Law.—There
are mothers-in-law and mothers-in law.
Some of them we know are the salt of the
earth and every way worthy of reverence
and affection. Tho other kind, which we
trust is also exceptional, may have been
created for the punishment of man’s sins,
or else to make his condemnation inevita
ble. The champion of the baser sort would
appear to bo Tilton’s special property.
She is thus described by Geo. Alfred
Townsend :
Large, aggressive, a Leyden jar, charg
ed with the world, the flesh and the devil
nearly equally. Posterity sayeth naught
about Richards, pere. It is presumed
that a few shocks from the jar finished
his course, and then his stalwart relic,
unable to chastise Providence for her af
fliction, married Judge Morse. He was
tm old man, who married for a home and
family prayers. She wanted another jar
troll charged. So she bullied the old
man, ridiculed his philoprogenitiveness,
and finally broke his head with a belaying
pin. Then he resigned, made her a settle
ment, and she boarded around. If Beecher
had only sought True Inwardness from
this old woman, Nature would have
neighed aloud through all her concavities.
And still this old mother-in law had the
Brooklyn religion.
A wretched picture, but we believe a
rare one. The mother-in-law is usually
better than her son by brevet, but when
she is a “Leyden jar,” the Lord have mer
cy on his soul!
■Women Gamblers.—In Mr. Thomson’s
“Straits of Malacca, Indo-China, and
China,” a most interesting work recently
published by Harper & Brothers, we find
the following paragraph describing the
habits of the Chinese ladies of the “up
per ten:’’ “Many Chinese ladies spend a
great portion of their time in gossiping
and gambling. Very unladylike occupa
tions,my fear readers will exclaim. Never
theless, these accomplishments, taken eith
er singly or collectively, require years of as
siduous training before they can he prac
ticed with that perfection which prevails
in polite circles in China. Gambling, it
is to be regretted, is by far the most fas
vorite pastime, and it is perhaps but
cold comfort to reflect that this vice is
not monopolized by the ladies of Cathay,
but that it is their lords who set them
the example. They never dream of play
ing except for money, and when they
have no visitors of their own rank to
gamble with, they call up the domestics
and play with them !”
A Cheerful Woman.
What a blessing to a household is a
merry, cheerful woman—one whose spuv
its are not affected by wet days or little
disappointments, or whose milk of hu
man kindness does not sour in the sun
shine of prosperity. Such a woman in
the darkest hours brightens the house
like a little piece of sunshiny weather. The
magnetism of her smiles, the electrical
brightness of her looks and movements,
infect overy one. The children go to
school with a sense of something great
to bo achieved; her husband goes into
the world in a conqueror’s spirit. No
matter how people annoy and worry him
all day, far off her presence shines, and
he whispers to himself, “At home I shall
find rest” So day by day she literally
renews his strength and energy, and if
you know a man with a beaming face, a
kind heart and a prosperous business, in
nine cases out of ten you will find he has
a wife of this kind.—Ex.
Tho fashion editor of a New York pa
per offers the following advice: “Ladies
who wear bustles should fasten the thing
down, and not meader the streets with a
huge bundle bobbing up and down, and
wriggling from side to side, behind.—
It looks ridiculous, and besides, with so
many beads and bugles on it, is apt to
make a person walking in the real* cross
eyed !”
D?*m.
Rep.
Dem.
Rep.
Lib.
Adm.
Counties. Pierce.
Howard.
Cbaee.
Howard.
Greeley.
Grant.
Bristol 16
672
140
434
204
800
Kent 412
729
105
969
337
1.228
Newport 21
1.4*2
251
1.132
409
1,549
Providence 786
7,719
2,624
6,065
3,562
8,422
Wnshingt’n 354
1,783
566
1,056
767
1,666
Total. 1,589
Majority.
12,335
10,746
8,785
9,656
5,870
5,329
13,665
8,336
and put forth a ticket of their own. The
rupture grew out of the troubles caused
by the Prohibitory Liquor law. The op
ponents of the law, after an all-night’
session of the Republican Convention,
succeeded in nominating their candidate,
Col. Henry Lippitt, by a bare majority of
one. The selection was very distasteful
to a very large portion of the Republis
can party, as well as to the Prohibition
ists, and a movement for a third ticket
was at once started. A mass meeting
was held at Providence, at which the at
tendance was very large, and a ticket was
nominated with Roland Hazard for Gov
emor, Daniel E. Day for Lieutenant-
Governor, and the nominees of the regu
lar party for the other offices. Speeches
were made and resolutions were passed
declaring that the regular Convention
had been controlled by fraud and tricked
ry, and calling upon all honest Republi
cans to vote for the bolters’ ticket. The
Providence Journal, Senator Anthony’s
paper, which hates a bolt as it should
hate Satan, is manifestly in sympathy
with the bolters, and says of their nomi
nees: “The Hon. Roland Hazard, named
as the candidate for Governor, is a young
man of culture, character, and legislative
experience, and is well known to the bus
iness world as treasurer of the Peace Dale
Manufacturing Company. Mr. Daniel E.
Day, thejnominee for Lieutenant-Govem
or, is an upright and successful merchant
of this city, who is now serving his
fourth term as Representative in the
General Assembly, where he is Chairman
of the Finance Committee. Probably the
meeting could not have named two more
irreproachable men so far as regards char
acter and standing, for those positions.
Although it is understood that Mr. Ha
zard is not absolutely a prohibition man,
it is thought that the candidates Darned
at this meeting will be adopted by the
Committee of the recent Prohibitory
State Convention.” Gov. Henry Howard
and Lieut.-Gov. Charles C. Van Zandt,
the Prohibition nominees for reelection,
have declined, and the Prohibitory Com-
mitee has filled the vacancies with the
names of Rowland Hazard and Daniel E.
Day, thus making their ticket identical
with that of the bolting Republicans.
The Democrats have an excellent ticket,
and are hoping to creep in through the
dissensions of their opponents. The
following are the tickets of all parties :
Regular Repub
For Gov. Henry Lippi
Lu’t. Gov. Henry T Si
lig Pees.
Yesterday in conversation some one
remarked that Gen. Toombs never cros
ses a court house door for less than five
thousand dollars. When Judge Lochrane
replied that there was nothing stranga
about that I wouldn’t take any case
for a smaller fee than ten thousand dol
lars. This caused the crowd to discuss
legal fees, and it was found that several
large fees had been paid Atlanta lawyers
since the war. Mr. Hill, in the celebrated
Metcalf case, received a hundred Jthou-
sand dollars fee. Judge Lochrane a feu
of forty thousand dollars in the Bruns-
wick and Albany case. Mr. Hill received
a fee of twenty-five thousand dollars for
his management of Kimball’s case. Judge
Lochrane received fifteen thousand doK
lars as a fee from Mrs. Kimball in tho
Kimball House case.
In addition to these cases, there is a
case now pending between Henry Clews
& Co. vs. the Cherokee Railroad, invol
ving two hundred and seventy-five thous
and dollars, in which the fees will be
large. It is said that Judge Lochrane’s
fee, os attorney for Clews, will be twenty-
five thousand dollars. The case will
come in the Chancery Court on the 7th
of this month, before Judge L. N. Whit
tle, auditor. The counsel for Clews are
Judge Lochrane, of Atlanta, Col. Amos
Akerman, of Cartersville, and Hon.
John M. Ward, of New York. Hon. B.
Hill, of Atlanta, Judge Jackson, of
Macon, Col. Abder Johnson, of Carters
ville, and Judge Lyon, of Albany, repre
sent the Cherokee Railroad.—Atlanta
Herald.
Baiting Repnb. Democratic.
Roland Hazard. Chas. B. Cutler,
■son. Daniel E. Day. John B. Pierce.
_ State. "J. M. Addemaa. *J. If. Addeman. T. A. Reynolds.
At’y. Gen. * Willard Saylea. ‘Willard Sayles. C. F. Gonna
Treasurer. "Samuel Clark. * Sam ael Clark. Phillip Rider.
Renominated.
The votes for Governor in 1873 and
1871 and for President in 1872 were as
follows:
1874. 1873. 1872.
In 1874 there were 177 scattering votes.
In 1872 the vote for Governor stood:
Seth Padelford (Rep.) 9,463; Olney Ar
nold (Dem.), 8,398; total, 17,861; Padel-
ford’s majority, 1,065.
Michigan.
Two Judges of the Supreme Court, two
Regentsiof the State University, Judges of
the Circuit Court, and County and Mu
nicipal officers are to be chosen in Mich
igan next Monday. The campaign has
been a very quiet one, and many of the
local tickets have only been nominated
within the past few days. The Republi
cans think a full party vote would elect
their State tickets by about 25,000 ma
jority, but they are afraid that enough
voters will remain at home to greatly
reduce their majority, if not to gi?e the
State to the Democrats. Another point
in the campaign, which greatly troubles
the Republican leaders and upon which
the voters have received the most warn
ing, is the fact that the Democrats have
placed one of the Republican nominees
for the Supreme bench upon their ticket
By this course and thorough organiza
tion in every part of tho State, the Dem
ocrats hope to greatly add to their large
vote of last year, when the Reformers
joined with them in the Gubernatorial
campaign. The Republicans, however,
expect that whatever aid the Democrats
may secure by this action will be offset
by the withdrawal of the Prohibition State
ticket. The Executive Committee re-
commmends the Prohibitionists to vote
for those candidates on the other tickets
whom they think best qualified for the
positions to which they have been nomi
nated, and to consolidate their strength
in the lecal elections. The Prohibition
vote heretofore has varied between 1,000
and 4,000. This vote the Republicans
have always asserted wonld have been re
ceived by their ticket had no Prohibition
nominations been made. The candidates
on the State tickets this year are as fol
lows:
Republican. Democratic.
Justices of Supreme ) Benjamin V. Orarea. Benjamin F. Graver,
Court J Isaac Maraton (vac) Lyman D. Norris (vnrj
Resents of the Uni-1 Samuel 8. Walker, Samuel T. Douglass.
sity > Byron M. Cutcheeu. Peter White.
A full vote has been generally polled
in Michigan during the past few years,
resulting in the success of the Republi
can ticket. With the exception of last
year, the Democratic vote has varied very
little Uniting the Reformers in 1874,
they succeeded in reducing the vote o
the Republican party by over 20,000 and
its majority by over 50,000. A snmma
ry of the vote for Governor in 1870, and
1872, and 1874 is given below :
D™. Rep. Temp. Tote). M.J.
1874 105,550 111,51* S,W7 721.006 2,082 R.
1872 81,830 133,368 *3, *5* 224,807 51,129 R.
1 83,491 1*0,178 .2,940 1*6,90* 13,745 R.
"Straight Democratic, 2,728; Temper
ance, 1231. * Scattering.
The ZTew Treasurer.
Washington, April 5.—The commission
of John C. New to be Treasurer of the
United States vice Spinner was signed
to-day. Mr. New takes possession on
the 131h of Jane.
A private dinner party, consisting of
about twenty influential politicians and
William Cullen Bryant, was given at the
residence of Mrs. Pratt, a niece of Gov
ernor Seymour, in Albany, N. Y., on
Wednesday evening. A telegram to the
New York Sun says: “Mr. Bryant de
livered a speech, closing with a toast,
nominating Samuel J. Tilden as the next
Democratic candidate for President. This
was drank standing and with much en
thusiasm. Governor Tilden responded,
neither accepting nor declining the prof
fered honor, bat holding himself subject
to the call of his party.’
Men who never do wrong seldom do
anything.—Boston News.
Corroctly don’t seem like a hard word;
yet they all go down because they can't
spell correctly.
London is ahead. It has more Jewa
than Palestine, more Scotchmen than
Edinburg, more Irish than Dublin, more
A cultivated mind may be said to have
infinite stores of innocent gratification,
Everything may be made interesting to .
it, by becoming a subject of thought or j Catholics than Rome, aad more thieves
inquiry. I than Chicago.
Oar Mexican Troubles-
According to our telegrams the troub
les with Mexico threaten serious compli
cations. For some time past the incurs
sions of the Mexican robbers have been
growing more and more frequent, until,
at last, Governor Coke telegraphs the
President that even Corpus Christi is
threatened. It would require the entire
army of the United States to successful
ly police the Rio Grande frontier alone,
and consequently we may expect that
citizens of Texas, despairing of the action
o'the government, will take the matter
in their own hands and organize retaliat
ing raids into Mexico that will finally in
volve the country in trouble with that
mongrel republic. It would really be in the
interest of civilization were the United
,tries to seize that barbaric nation and
wipe its revolutionary population from
the face of the earth; but the game would
hardly be worth the candle. Howbeit,
the very least our government can do is
to protect the citizens of Texas from
the raids that have heretofore been so
disastrous—even if the troops have to
be withdrawn from the do\,n trodden
State of Louisiana.—Sav. News.
Saving the party is what the most of
the Congressional action or non-acton, as
the case may be, means nowadays. Ilar-
pei s' Weekly shows that it understands
the matter when it says: “Had they (the
Republicans) been silent upon the third
term, had they applauded everything that
has been done in Louisiana, and had they
demanded a force bill, New Hampshire
would have been hopelessly lost.” Yet
“the party” has really not condemned
any of these things, and did halfway pass
the force bill, throwing indeed their large
vote for it in the most numerous branch
of Congress, and now the Republican
majority of the Senate has approved the
action of the President in Louisiana mat
ters in a specious sort of way, which they
hope won’t do the party any harm. Prob-
bly it won’t.
The Senators who are responsible for
the new and oppressive Postal law are
likely to find that measure a millstone
about their political necks. They are
denounced on every side, and no one has
a single word to say in their defense.
The Philadelphia Inquirer makes these
excellent suggestions on tha subject:
“There are two things which the next
Congress should promptly do. First re
peal the law of which the express com
panies secured the passage, and then
order an investigation into the moans by
which such a law became part of an ap
propriation bill. Congress need not go
beyond the express companies and their
lobbyists to get all tbe information nec*
essary to demonstrate how utterly cor
rupt were the influences at work to im
pose this new and disgraceful burden
upon tbe people and tbe newspapers. It
would be jnst as well that Mr. Ramssy
should be questioned as to what particu
lar arguments were employed to induce
him to advocate so strongly, and carry
through so secretly, legislation for the
Post-Office Department, 'which the Post
master General declares the Department
neither recommended nor asked for.”
Sexatob Eaton, of Connecticut, seems
to be a very impolitic gentleman, says
the Chronicle and Sentinel. In “making
a speech on the Louisiana resolution in
the Senate last Saturday he actually had
the temerity to say that “President
Grant had acted the part of a usurper in
Louisiana and Arkansas, and said if that
is to be the way in the future the sooner
we know it the better. In making the
charge he said, dare anybody deny it?
He deserves to be impeached for this.”
This was really very wrong in Mr. Eaton.
Does he not know that its very nanghty
and impolitic to say a word against tho
President ? “Abuse the Republican par
ty as much as you like, but upon no ao
count say a word against tho good
Grant’” Senator Eaton may be impolitic,
bat he doubtless consoles himself with
the reflection that principle is better than
policy.”
There seems to be one Democratic edi
tor in the West who is not proposing to
go to Washington next December in
search of on office at the hands of tho
party. He edits the Burlington (Iowa)
Gazette, and he solemnly discourses
“Because the Democrats have got hold
of the House of Representatives, every
fellow who can lay any claim whatever
to party services is putting himself for
ward.as a candidate for the various offi
ces within its gift Ohio has at least a
dozen, the majority of whom are country
editors. We have no desire to interfere
with their harmless amusements, but
there is a dreadful example of what office!
seeking can bring a man to, now travel
ing around the country, seeking rest
but finding none. Now Bill King was
once a virtuous country editor, but in a
moment of forgetfulness tho maggot of
ambition was introduced into his braiiig
and from the very hour that he became
Postmaster of the Honse, his difficult^*
commenced. Country editor, I charge
thee, fling away ambition.”
A widow was weeping bitterly at tiie
loss of her husband, and the parson tried
to console her. “No, no,"said she; “let
ms have my cry out, and then I shan’t
care anything more about it.”
Edgar Poe said: “To vilhfva great
man jg the readiest way in which a little
man can himself attain greatness. Tha
crab might never have become a constella
tion bat for the courage it evinced ift
nibbling Hercules oa the heeL’’« j wcj.
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