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PROFESSION AI. CARDS.
LAWYERS.
Lewis Anifieim,
Attorney at Law,
ALBANY. 0A.
00™ over Isaac** Sho« Sun, Brunt MK<t-
By WESTON & EVANS.!
Devoted to the Interests of Albany and Southwest Georgia.
{$2.00 Per Amraty
l
Attorneys
SRqct:
at Law.
OFFICE:
VOLUME 13.
A It 11 A X Y, <i K (> It G I A , T H U K S I) A Y, JANUARY 16. 1879.
NUMBER ?
D.A.VASON,
jllbany,Georgia.
C. B. Wbomor.
atto:
ALBANY. GEORGIA
"law notice-
.r Mr Mat profc«Io:
*l.nj.«nd (h. public <«n*rmllr
PETERJ. aTROZEK,
WM. E. SMITH.
tOCTOR^
v.\
J.T. HOLMES. *.*.«»*<»
Drs. Holmes & DeMoss,
DRRtfTI,
'■ •.. £
ALBAWf. >
OOn H»«WT am »■"»
DR. w. W. BACON’.
0»n MamnUmu »»****«“££%!*£££
12 Clements, T. II.
in hospital.
13 Cain, llir.un: suiremlert
mattox.
14 Clifton, lied: wounded
15 Denso, O. W.: wounded
10 l>aner. ,1. It.: hand >!»«»*
AU^r.kRMtWDTMSwaaiRraSjlJffilg*;, il taur. W. II.: aria -hot
W. A, STROTHER. 11. D.
AEBANV. OteORGlA.
Oice over Gilbert's Droi Store.
Dr. E. W. ALFRIEDD,
K ESTSrmJLLY uodankt. ..r»iMa.'ln di* Ta
ttoo. biKta «l hta ptoteaion, u>_l*.c.lto.n»
•UlknutHm.^ninM'f- OAcpportl*
Owl Boom m PlntiUTT*.
HOTELS
The Oia Bftabfe - 4
BARNES HOUSE,
n., si. ubuji e*.
BOGE1S RWm
(FtWXSBLT TOWSS HOUSE,) -
BROAD STREET. ALBANY GEORGIA
fpUE Korea Besw i. now reedy for the reeeptlor
A of |Ml. The mar le o sufficiem guarantee
hot Ih-hoore wtU he kept in Cnt-dlMMyto.
act 4 it (i. BCGE2f. Proprietor
JOHNSO' HOUSE,”
emihr Hr. t-a.,
Trseelen will aleira Sad the bwt of areuaaod.i-
ttou. lablra supplied with tile beat of every tlihp-'.
Tnrtk is tore plenty time to eat.
McAF£H|OUSE,
Smitliville- : : Geoi-triti
Opposite A U Depot.
M 9. .He A FEE, Proprietor
49- Meals 90 cents
The I>avis “Invincible** 9 *
The follow ing is tin* roll of this
Company, which wont into tin* Con-
Army. furnished by Mr.
larchmaii, who was Orderly
t When the Army surrender*
ItSvill ho read with interest by
many:
Capt. 8. D, Irvin, resigned.
1st Lieut K. H. Laws, resigned.
2d ** 1\ W. Twitty, r< signod.
3d “ <«. 11. Maoon.mystoriously shot.
1st Sorgt. IV. (». Gilbert surrendered at
Appomattox.
2d “ S. II. Woodall, retired, from
wounds.
3d * W* A. Murrv, kill, d in battle.
4th ** G. C. Hurley, disabled in the
hand.
Win. llobbs. surrendered at
Appomattox.
l’RIVATES.
L Adams. Banks.
5th
i. It AIUUIRS 1HMIRN
^ btOlAlL ^ Adants. M. H.: transferred to the Navy.
3 Adams. M.
4 Baily, Silas: discharged.
5 Bailey, Angus: discharged.
6 Blizzard, .Ins.; on sick list all tiuu
,7 Brinson, Ike; furnished .substitute
8 Bennett T. II.: discharged.
9 Brack. A. L.
10 Cook, A. G: killed in battle.
11 Craw font l>. .1.: discharged,
iitided and
d discharged
and captured
i»tf.
rdf.
P.
Cla,
Msrgas.fls.:
P. Clayton, Proprietor.
18 Faircloth, t’alvin: discharged.
10 Faircloth. W. 1!.: hand shot.
20 Frazier, Ben: killed in battle.
21 Green, J. C.
22 Green, W. 11.
23 Gray, Bed; wounded and retired.
24 Gilbert R. T.: wounded and retired.
25 Hays, das.; killed in battle.
26 Hennegan, J. M.
27 llurst d. \\\; died from wounds.
28 llfkmnond. X. M.; surremlered at Aj»-
■3* pomattox.
29 dohnson. derrv; killed in battle.
30 dohnson, Ben; wounded and cairn*
home.
31 Marchman. J. A.: surremlered at Ap
pomattox.
32 Merchant. Win.; discharged and died.
33 Muagroye. Miles: killed in battle.
-34 MusgTOve, S. G.
&> Matthis, W. M.; died from wounds.
36 McDowel. P. H.; exchanged for Jno.
Johnson.
7 Murray". Joe: discharged.
38 Merrit M. E.
39 Merrit, John: discharged.
0 McCrea, Johnf killed in battle.
41 Newsome. Joel; discharged.
2 Night. Joe; killed in battle.
32 fierce, W. J.; killed in buttle.
44 Penick.C.R.;discharged from wounds
45 Penick, Spencer; discharged from
wounds.
46 Smith A. W.; died since the war.
47 Stuckey, Jas.; killed in bat le.
48 Sapp.Henry; discharged from wounds
49 Savage, Henry; killed in battle.
50 Sunthimer, Isaac.
51 Salter, Isaac; discharged.
2 Sanders, E. S.: killed in battle.
53 Shaw, Henry; died Irom exposure.
54 Taylor. A. J.: died at Appomattox.
55 Rhodes. O. It.; died of small pox.
56 Rhodes, J. R.: killed in battle.
57 Rhodes, G. W .; detached service.
58 Woodall, J. A.; captured in battle.
59 Wicket, John; died from exposure.
60 Wade, Jessce; died from exposure.
la-tler Front l'liiiiilii.
Madison, Ki.a.. .lull. (lilt, ISTil.
l’erhaps von would not lie averse
lo hearing'u wonl of news from this
poll ion of "l lie laml of Flowers.”—
.Inst note. I should say llnil soubri
quet u misnomer, “TwonM take more
limn die poet's imagination, in il*
tinest frenzy, to make of this scene of
ice, snow, and lealless houghs, “it
thing of beauty," or u tropical joy.—
We have bail very disagreeble weath
er, ever sinee our arrival. For the
last week ii lias been as eold as any
tveallier I ever experienced. Madi
son is nil old town, of about six or
seven hundred iidniliitnnls; no im
provements sinee the war. gives it
rather a dilapidated look, (to a S. W.
1 ieoryian.) We have plenty of line
oranges to eat at and 3 ., cents a
piece, grown in and near the place.—
I am lold die lands of this comity are
■food—lint farming backward. The
inlliienee of the radical yoke so long
worn, is visible everywhere. The
only hotel in the place was burned on
die 22d of December. Houses are in
crest demand, and rcnl high. tlftlic
^ till- hurt-lies in the place only one
Apis>-1 , die Methodist) has a pastor, a young
, I man of far more tlniii average ability,
file /lejwrler, a weekly paper, is pub
lished here. The junior is a member
of tint Hand, and by the way a bright,
genial, clever young fellow. .Speak
ing of the paper, reminds me that
! began ibis for the purpose of ask
ing you to forward the .Veirs to me
here. 1 Jam getting anxious for a
glimpse of ils familiar face once more.
Hoping the New Year may he a
prosperous one to you. and ail friends
ami institutions in old Albany.
I remain yours, &i\,
“Timor.”
A Few Leisure Hours
ilcrsoiivillc.
at An-
BARLOW HOUSE.
AMEKICU3. OA.
Localr-t la the Center of baoioeoe—Oppo
site the Coort House.
Board Per Day $2 00
B.r. COLLINS, Proprietor.
The Rome Courier says : “Let Hen
Hill and Murphy bury the hatchet
and establish a collecting agency al
Atlanta. Hill A Murphy would make
strong lirm.
B* & A. R, R. Company.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
BCPERIirref DKXTTi OFFICE >
DtcnmcK, Ua, Dee. 7th.1377. /
/"\JI asd after Taeaday Dee, 7»h 1*77, paasen^ej
V trains on ibis Bead will ran u follows:
Pbtt—r— Train leave* Brunswick Mondays, Wed
nesdays and Fridays at 7:00 a *
Arrives at TebeaavUle, AAliKR, at 1039 a m
JnavmTafeesavUle, A AG B B,at 11:1CaM
Arrives a* Albany at— 7:00r»
Leaves Albany Tuesdays, Thsndaya and Fridays
at —ftf)o a m
arrives at TebeaavUle, Ai'iHK, at AM r M
Any make ckm
beaariUe with It Q passenger train lor Havaa
nab, and with bot few Lour* delay at 1
with A £<i |iassrnprr train for Florida.
Trains from Brunswick connect as TebeaiivU!#-.
W*bday passearvrtrain of the A AO BE, whiet
laavas TebeauviDe for Florida at 155 r «.
CHAS. USCHIoATTEB,
General Soper! ntendent.
Schedule Southwestern R. R.
O H and after this date traius
run as follows:
Leave Albany daily
Uoctwwkktck* K. H. Orrirr,
Albany,Ga., lor. I, !87n,
this road wi
. 1M
Tsais'* os tu«r.r rxrrymon.
LMve Albany Mondays. Tuesdays, iburs-
daysaod Fridays «... 5 10 p
Arrive at Arlington Mon>Jav«, Tuesdays,
Tburadars and Fridays... fkfAp
.. — —-|„ Wedaesdais,
. 6 .40 s
ay Tuesdays, Wednesdays,
Fridays and naturdsy* —- tXL a
There will ha two trains each day between Albany
hmitbville.
Alt i—fi.RataK ( c Eafacla or Wot of Eufau*.
—HiDo,.oo (be IOM».n. train; aliening In Maori
nr nolota North orKaat .4 Macon am leave no ibo
IAS p. in. train.
apr 11.1(74-1, W.O. BA00L,8opl
: (VrreaionUeuca Albany Nttrs.]
Ameiuccs, G a., January, 1ST9.
Several (lays ago afforded ns an
| opportunity to stroll about those his
toric spots which have made that bar-
j rc:i, bleak and beautiless place fa-
: moiis in the annals of American his-
lory. and made Anderson villc a nlas-
c name in the records of our uation-
1 ity. The lir-t point visited was th
NATI >NAI. CEMETERY,
j As glanced at from the swiftly
: rusliing train, one gets no idea of Ibis
I really intere-ting “City of the Dead.'
j Approaching it from the railroad, we
| walked up a broad road leading to
i the gate of the inclosure. At the en-
' trance is a neat lodge where dwell the
Superintendent, Mr. Sullivan, and
his family, who keep the place in or
der. Over the arehwav that spans
the entrance, is a bronzed shield,
bearing the legend:
"EXITED STATES NATION AI. CEMETERY,
ANIIEHSONVII.I.E.
ESTABLISHED JOLT 2I»TII, I8(!a.
INTERMENTS 111,25'.).
The inclosurc is a very pretty place
indeed. At present it covers forty-
seven acres; neatly inclosed, and laid
offiu squares divided by four broad,
graveled walks, leading up to a
mound in the centre, from which
arises a Hag stall'Hunting the national
standard. The wooden head-hoards
which for many years marked the
raves, have been replaced at a cost
loot ill
ilia meter, a ml
planted
(lost
to^etlie
i% rising in a Iu
igi.t
nf
iglt
Icon tV<
I above tin* ground.
Tin
ill
iter wall, made of the s
line
111.11 (
rial
wa» on
y twelve feet in
bei
gilt.
Tin
distanc
between the two n
alls.
wit
A Washington special says: “Gold
dollars have come into general eircu-
ation here, hut are not popular.—
Many dealers refuse to take them if
llieir customers have other money, as
it is alleged that their small >izc makes
them a nuisance. Il i- thought this*
will help along the standard silver I
dollar, which has the merit of size.— ol'$50,000, by hcmitilnl marble slabs.
For this or some other reason the de-1 about two feet in height, hearing on
mand for standards is larger at tin- J ilie obverse a shield, on which is cut
Treasury Department than ever lie- j n,,, name and residence and company,
r * - ' m m i or regiment of the soldier who sleeps
Two years ago a negro linekinuii j beneath it. The glistening white
named Mack Lewis was murdered \ marbles varying not an inch in height
two hundred feet, and within the
space walked Hie 'sentinels. There
were also sentinel posts on the outer
wall, from which the inner wall and
the “dead line," seven! feet in
side the latter, could lx
These once impregnable harriers,
whose solid strength held inclosed n<
one time,
112,000 HUMAN IIKIXUS,
are now falling to decay, llieir while
gleaming bodies standing like ghost
ly sentinels guarding the memories
that sleep upon the historic ground.
A dense growth of scrubby oak now
covers the once desolate and hare
hillside, upon which the fierce ray-
>f a tropic sun poured ils intense heal
blistering the poor wretches who lay
panting and huddled together be
neath its pitiless fury. To save them
selves from the iinhenr-ihle torture
they scraped out with Ihcirowii hands
caves and holes in the earth, and
crept in under the cooling clay to
ek shelter from the broiling sun.
There still remain many of these pits
and caverns, silent witnesses of the
suffering and woe of war. There, too.
are still to he seen Hie wells which
were dug to furnish the prisoners
with water, and at the foot of the hill
the shallow streamlet still runs ils
laughing course, unconscious of the
parched lips and f. vered brows it-
cooling waters have soothed. It is
impossible in the presence of these si
lent ruins, not to feel the influences of
Hie memories which cnshriiipd them,
iml the heart is prone to grow ten
der, and the eves to well at thought
-iflliat past whose monuments,stand
ing upon those bleak and desolate
hills about Andcrsonville. are mute
memorials of its heroism, its hopeless
ness, and its woe. L.
Mr. Hill and the Interviewers
According to the -Savannah AVnv, Hon
B H. Hill is in great paius to convince
everybody iu Washington .especially those
"suappeis up of uuenusidered trifles.” the
Bobeiujau interviewers of die press, line
te is not njuking any war on Goveruol
ielquitt. but that, ou the conlraiy, he is
•» warm friend of the Governor, and de
sires above all things to protect him from
'tie bad men by whom he is suirouuded
It is very evident that Mr. Hill lias learn
ed by thin time that Governor Colquitt
..as a stronger bold on the respect and
confidence of the people of Ihe Stale lliuo
be bus himself, and (hat his late efforts !o
Jcstroy the Governor and the Democrat
ic party of Geoigia are more likely to re
coil upon his own head than to cflccl the
ibjecl for which they were inteudid It
Mr. Ilill lias read carefully Ihe Georgia
papers since the publication of his re"
markable interview with Ihe corresponds
cut of Ihe Baltimore Gazelle, he cannot
have failed to learn that it is a dangerous
thing for men in his position to deal iu
diabolical Insinuations and damnable in--
uendocs.” even when covered with the
pielense of good will, and filtered through
the lines of an irresponsible chronicler of
polilieal and personal scandal.”
by an unknown party, and not until
last Saturday night did the people of
that section suspicion who the mur
derer was. The Sheriff of McMinn
county, Teun., brought back a man
named Win. Hail, who boasted in
Tennessee that he bad killed Lewis.
The Governor had offered (f2.V» re-
ard for the murderer. This oc
curred in Columbus.
New Yotk Oflbx. :
1H Trout So—t , ,
E. E. Cl i EAT HA.'
H. FRASER GRANT,
General Commission Merchant,
124 Bay Street. SAVANNAH. OA.
CottoDj Rire & N vai Sc m.
Liberal advance* mid® on cooficnmenta.
Particular attention «tv«o to all bualn.-sn.
Ml Morphias haMtcarcd.
MRtasig;
j\ lire broke out in ihe ujtjHT .•Inn
of the Kankin house, (*oiiiinbiis r ou
the evening of the lih in*t. ’i iml liu*
tructiire was soon Hentroyetl. About
the same time another lire ocenrml
distant l»io»*k : both said be the
work of iit'-ondij!! :r *. Besides the
Kankin hoiire 11 store-, were burned
The loss on the hotel was tin* hcavie-t
about forty Ihoii.wainl doliat>. Th-
total Ios«* U i»ut dow n bv the Titut:* a
oik- hundred and twenty-live thous
and dollars.
A New Ulerary dlagazin*;.
The hollar Maijazim: of eurrent
foreign literature U announef d by
the Amkkican Hook Exmianok.
Bf'ekvnai) street, New York, the lir-i
number H|>|iearing January 15tb. It
will he similar in ehara< ter to tie
well known Litteir* Idviiig Age and
Keleetic Magazine, eouiaining, in 5
wear’s mini hers, ahouL (»ne*lhird a
fich matter as the former, and fom
;ith* a, much as the Inner. Munllily
jfjs page-, 41.0'i u y- xr. Spccim. i
number sent for six cent- pn.tiigc.
Gold Dollars I'npoi’clai:. -- /
Washington special -ay-: “Gold dol
lars have come into general cirdila
lion here, lint arc md popular. Mm;
dealer* refii»e to take them f tin t
ctifttorrier* have other money, a- it i
alleged their small -iz - makes them ■■
nuisance. It is thought tbi- will belt
along the standard silver dollar,
which tins the merit of size. For the
or some other reason the demand for
tUAiidnrdf is larger at the Treasury
Department than ever before.”
•cgularity, present a beautiful ap
pearance. 'i'iie graves are covered by
a thick carpel of Bermuda grass,
which is kept evenly mowed, and its
deep, rich green contrasts beautifully
with the snowy while of tin; tablets.
There arc also within the inclosin'
the graves of one hundred and twen
ty-two
('• IN FEDERATE SOLDIERS.
These are situated in one corner ot
the eeinelery, and are fast going ti
h t ay; the wooden head-hoard
placed there by the Ciiited Slates .ir
In WaiNliiugloii Dining tlie Hol
idays - tifar'tia Members
Iter t'
the
• the Alie
I ‘it v Inn
HI tin
rolling away anil the mounds crum
bling in. The Government is now
making
EXTENSIVE I.M I'lM IV EM ENTS
it the cemetery. The present indo-
sttre is too large, and is to be reduced
to thirty-four acres. Around Hie in
e is to be erected a brick-wall,
which is now iu process of building.
A new and handsome brick lodge i-
ulso being built,and the vacant places
iu the cemetery are to he planted in
i rich and beautiful lawn grass.—
Within this new inclnsaru is a space
allotted to the graves of tliu Confed
erate dead, whose hones will he re
moved from llieir present resting
place outside of the wall, and neatly
interred in the place assigned to them.
When the improvements going oil
arc completed, the whole will present
. lovely appearance, anil the green I
wn. shining marble, smooth walks,
md imposing structures will forma
.i Tine contrasting strangely with the
. .ugh outline of -crubby oak and
i.v. bills IL»t Its vwi upon it ftoiu al
ide-. smith-east front the cemetery,
and about half a mile distant, lie the
ruins of the once famous
STOCKADE, OR “I'RIXON PEN,”
ah the historian of the North loves to
write it. This covered a spare of
twenty-seven acres. The outer wall
was made of aolid pine logs, about a
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sla Xcwx from
been keeping
'gin members
. e been spending the holidays
apilni. Numerous accidents
luiv vurred. of wlt.di Hie writer
makes mention of tlio following:
Tl occurs to meat this moment to
suggest'Hud there must certainly he
something wrong in Georgia, or else
its representatives and representative
men would not lie so largely the vie-
tims of unfortunate accidents, as lias
lately been the case. Within the past
live weeks Gen. Cook lias covered up
a sprain under the general term, rheu
matism: Mr. Stephens followed suit,
tint iirktinwlrde-ed the corn as to a
-lip of his ertildi: Gen. Toombs, by
virtue of Mr. Stephens’s endorsement,
wn* enabled to attribute his bruises
to the inequality between Hie floors
of hi* apartments; anil last, but not
least, il is said that Dr. Felton receiv
ed his bruises simply because he in
sisted ou making Ids New Year’scalls
alone. It is evident that those mem
bers who have returned to Georgia
fur the lioliduvs have done wisely
and well.
It has liecn intimated in certain
quarters that since “investigation” is
Ihe order of the day in Georgia now,
there should he a thorough inquiry
made into Hie “cause and conduct”of
all those alleged accidents.
By the liv. Georgia politics are
quite astir in this city. The contro-
versv between Mr. Hill and Mr. Col-
quiti is assuming a very' serious char
acter.
Talinage on Itesuinption.
At the regular Friday night week
ly prayer meeting at Rev. Mr. Tal-
tuage's church, he gave out the lol-
iowing :
Blessed lie God for winter—the
hearty, roaring winter! 1 congratu
late you that the gold that was Hash
ed iu offensive pomp throughout the
money markets of tins country lias
been taken down a hit and shown to
lie no better Hi nt other values. The
late civil war ended last Wednesday.
When Lee surrendered to Grant the
war was not half over. It was car
ried from Virginia to the money-
markets all over the country. It hns
not only been a story of tears but of
blood. With resumption of specie
payments comes the turning of a new
leaf. In the future we are going to
have plenty to cat and plenty to wear.
The world lias made another revolu
tion front had to everything that is
good. The world lias so long to ex
ist. and when knocked out of cxis-
temo the better. God lias made the
world beautiful, hut man has been
backing at il until it is scarred up.—
It needs fumigating—burning up.—
John Quincy Adams was in the hab
it of bowing courteously, but never
shaking hands. To some the custom
of shaking hands is meaningless.—
Onr bodies are filled with more or
less magnetism and electricity, and
when the hands clasp the lightning
strikes. Wlmt is more useful than
an honest Christian hand-shake?—
Willi multitudes 1 shook hands on
last Wednesday,” said Mr. Talmage,
“and l shake bauds with the whole
world lo-niglit.”
The Snow in Clinch.
The Dupont Okefenokean, of the
5th, hns the following: It commenced
snowing at dark on the night of the
1th and continued until Sunday morn
ing Hie 5th. The trains were all de
layed liv the snow storm. Last night
at two o’clock it measured 7 inches
deep, anil in the fence corners from !
two to three feet. Tito sight this
morning one never before witnessed
in Clinch county. The oldest inhabi
tants only remember a mere sprink
ling during their residence. The hoys'
are all out snow-hailing; they have
erected a snow pile 8 or 10 feet high
on one of the streets. Well they may
take advantage of this freak of na
ture, for we never expect to seethe
same again. We can no longer lay
claim to living in the Sunny South
where the orange and pineapple rear
their ever verdant foliage. Though
\vc can afford to lose our past prest
ige for the sake of the beautiful snow.
The citizens of Sumter county liaye
addressed the following letter to Gov.
Colquitt :
General A. II. Colquitt, Governor
of Georgia—Dear Sir: We, the un
dersigned citizens of Sumter county,
tin., beg in assure you that in regard
to the investigation of the indorse
ment of the "Northeastern railroad
bonds" our confidence in you lias re
mained unshaken, feeling assured
that the only result which could fol
low would lie the complete and tri
umphant vindication of the honor
and integrity of onr chief magistrate.
The ordeal through which you have
passed is one by no means uncommon
men occupying h'gli official posi
tion, anil often serves, as we believe
it has in this instance, only to enhance,
if possible, the high esteem in which
they are held. It will doubtless be
gratifying for you to know HihI Hie
paiu von have sull'crcd was shared Ity
the people of the State, who, with a
iiuiiuiuiity we believe without a par
allel in our history, called you to lilt*
position yon now occupy. Willi high
consideration, etc.
The letter is signed bv Honorniiles
T. M. FurloWj C. B. Hudson. IS. It.
Hinton, Judge Crisp, Colonel 0. \Y.
Hancock, and fifty others of the lead
ing citizens and firms of the city and
comity. The letter gave great salis-
laetu o to the Governor.
I'uhlic Manners.
Hard Work to Start.—Great cer-
rmonies are necessary to got a train
iffin Germany. When all is ready a
icll t ings. Then another hell rings.
Then the engine whistles, or rail
toot-toot toot gently. Then the cr
doctor tells tin; station-master that
all is ready. Then the stntion-inast
er looks placidly around and sav
"So?” Then the conductor shout
"Fertig?” interrogatively. Then th
station-innster r plies “Fertig!” posi
tively. Then the I'omluctiir blows a
horn; Hie engine whistles; Ihe hell
rings; tile other hell t ings; the .sta
tion-master -ays "So?"—(lie passen
gers swear in various longue- —and
the train starts ; Hint is, unless there
is a belated fat man—in which case
they do ilall over again.
An Atlanta Constitution reporter
Inis aseei'taineil that it is thcintoiilion
id'the maiuigeinent of the Northeast
ern Kail road to go on actively with
tlie work of building the road, and
they expect to reach C,anion, Chero
kee count v, by the 1st of May. After
Ibis they will push right on to Mur
phy. North Ciit'olina.
Voiili~ti>n<t Weekly; Because you
kiic del'entiil in your race I'm
oilier, don’t imagine that a man
is vonr enrmv because he voted
aea’inst you. IVrliaps other can
didate had stronger claims than
yonr's. and if a mail honestly thought
-o. and voted aeeordingly. il would
t r roils, unmanly in you to
eluii ae him with etimilv iu the mat-
Noihing more surely marks a gen
tleman than his public manners. It
is, for instance, impossible to iccl that
a matt who arrives at a hotel late at
night, and goes noisily, talking and
laughing, al mg the corrider to his
room, dinging his bools down heavi
ly, ami shimming the door, though an
upright am! excellent person, yet
lacks the finer qualities of the gentje-
niaii. The essence of courtesy is
moral. It is a sympathetic regard
for the feelings nfothers which spares
them unnecessary annoyance. When
if is instinctive, it is caileil tact. But
it is, nt bottom, humanity. So when
a public mnn vituperates anolIter,
however “smart” Hie abuse may he,
there is an Instant perception of the
want of true gentlemanly feeling.—
However polished the invective, ii is
nothing more than the style of Hie
stews. When Lord Beaeonsfield
spoke of Mr. Gladstone in the strain
that we quoted last month, it was in
stantly felt Hull he liail untile a mis
take; and although lie may lie, as hi<
admirers assert, the last nnmingled
representative of the Sephardim, or
those Hebrews who can trace their
pedigree unbroken through interm
inable generations of ancestors al
ways of gentle hlooil. lie was yet not
quite a gentleman. When a member
of a public assemblage had been lie-
rated by an opponent with every
kind of offensive epithet, and was
asked to reply, he said, “But there is
no reply to a slop pail.” If a gue-t
disturbed from sleep hv Hie noisy
coiner that we mentioned should
open the door, and, by way of repri
sal, “shy his boot-jack” at the door of
his noisy neighbor when lie had fall
en asleep, it might he what was ra'I-
e(l, when one scientific man spat i:i
the face of another who had ques
tioned his assertion, “the u ild justice
of expectoration,’’but it Would not
he gentlemanly.
Perhaps, then, it is better some
times not to be gentlemanly? That
is undoubtedly the practical conclu
sion of those who feci uncoiiifnrtnl'lc
when they have been covered with
mud, until they can thr w tend in
return. But the self restraint which
good manners imposes is always bet
ter than “letting yourself go.” Me-
phistophcles is never a good counsel
lor, and largely because he is not a
gentleman, The real Sephardim may
or may not. trace continuous gentle
blood through interminable genera
tions of ancestry. But they do not
slant their hoots or their doors, nor
hustle in late at concerts and talk
during the performance, nor occupy
more seats in a railroad ear than the*
pay for, nor keep their seats in
street ear, compelling a woman to
stand. They may, indeed, reprove
mul rebuke, lint without iieal and
personality, like Thomas when he
feared that the music interrupted the
conversation, or like that true gentle
man whom tlic older Berkshire knew,
and who said to the voting woman to
whom he itad given his place . in the
ear, and who asked him what lie was
waiting for, “Only to hear you say
'thank you,’ my dear."—Editor’s Easy
Chair, in Harpers Magazine.
—a -0 **■
Making the Flint Navigable to
Montezuma.
The Montezuma Weekly says:
“It gives us great pleasure to an
nounce the safe return of Messrs. J.
K. Maxwell and Win. Minor, two ot
onr citizens who accompanied Col.
Robinson and crew down to Albany,
on the preliminary survey of Flint
river. These gentlemen gave a v
tlattering account of the trip, and re
port that the surveyor, Col. Robin
son, expressed great astonishment
that the river had not been made uav
igablc, for steamers, long siuee.-
Therc arc but three had places in th
river between tills point and Albany.
The first isat a place called Hell Gate
where the river has lately changed it:
channel by breaking through a nar
row neck of land, shortening the dis
tance nearly a mile. The ohstruc
tions at Ilcil Gate can he removed at
a very small cost to the government.
Abram’s creek shoals are the next oh
stmetions met with, and at the very
lowest stage of the river two feet of
water can be had over the highest
rock iu them. Wing dams, at a small
cost, will lie Hie remedy here. The
next and last obstruction is Black
Jack Shoals, not more than 25 feet
across, and of course can be removed
very easily. Col. Robinson is pleased
with the river, and will make a fa
vorable report to the government,
recommending that the river he open
ed at once. We call the attention ot
our immediate Representative, Hon.
Phil Cook, to tlic matter, and with
the thousands of his friends in th:-
section, beg that he keep his shoulder
square up to our grand enterprise
until he succeeds in getting a suitable
appropriation for the cleaning out of
the river.
A Start, ill Life.
I would rather that my hoy pos-
ssed good common sense to start
him in life Hiatt plenty of money. IT
he lias not this common sense, no
amount of training will greatly alter
his condition in Ibis respect. When
I hear a father call his child a ninny,
a blockhead, a simpleton, a stupid
donkey or a fool (as some parents
will when they forget themselves), it
occurs to me that Midi remarks rath
er reflect on the head of the family.—
The child, however, usually knows
very well that his father is only ex
cited, and does not really mean what
he says. The next desirable requisite
in my child's outfit would he a natu
rally cheerful disposition ; not that 1
prefer the natural to the cultivated,
for I do nob Cultivated I'hecrl'nlness
is a charming part of any one’s char
acter; yet the natural is the surest,
since I am very doubtful as to my
being aide to teach how to acquire it.
I should try to ho cheerful myself,
and thus induce him never to look
niton the gloomy side of life.
Kurtli’s Lone Cliihlron-
i hoy. nut over 11 voarsold, whose
(•),.■.I face betrayed hunger, and
clothing could scarcely he call-
hv dnit name, dropped into a car
ter “hop the other day, and after
eh hesitation explained to the
ni.in:
We want a "rave hoard for ml.
She died last winter, and the graves
“it thick lliat we can’t hardly find
's no more. Wo went up last
Sunday, and we came awful near not
finding it. We thought, we’d get a
rave hoard, so W8 wouldn't lose it.
Jack he cried, and Bud he cried, and
• liiii trembled so I could hardlv
talk."
“Where is your father?” asked the
arpenter.
“Oh, he’s home, but he never goe-
np there with us, und wc sha’n’t tell
him about the hoard. I guess he
hated mg, for he wasn’t home whet;
-lie died, and lie wouldn't buy no
coffin nor nothing. Sometimes when
we are sittiu’ on tlic door step talking
about her, and Jack and Bud are cry-
in’, and 1’nt remembering how site
kissed us all before she died, he says
we'd bettor quit that, or we’ll get
what’s bail for us. But wc sleep np
stairs, and we talk and cry as much
as we want to. How much will the
board he?”
The carpenter selected something
til for Hie purpose,and asked:
“Who will put it np at the grave?”
“We’ll take it up in our cart,” re
plied the hoy, “anil I guess the grave
yard man will help us put it up.”
“You want the name painted on it,
don’t you ?”
“Yes, sir; we want the hoard white,
and then we want you to paint ou it
that she was our tna, and that she
was 41 years old, and that site died
ni the 2d ofNovemhcr, and that she’
gone to heaven, and that she was one
of the best mothers that ever lived,
:tnd tiiat we are going to be good all
our lives and go up where she it
when we die. How much will it
cost, sir ?”
“How much have you got?”
“Well,” said the boy, as he brought
out a little calico bag and emptied its
contents ou the bench, “Bud drawed
the baby for the lady next door and
■arned 20 cents; Jack weeded the
garden and earned 40 cents, and he
touiid 5 more in the road; I run oil
errands and made kites, and fixed
hoy’s cart, and helped carry some ap
ples into a store, and 1 earned tia
rents. All that makes 130 cents, sir,
and pa don’t know we’ve got it, be
cause wc kept it hid iu the ground
under a stone.”
The carpenter meant to be liberal,
but he said:
“A grave board will cost at least
$3.00.
The lad looked from his little store
of metals to tlic carpenter and then
hack, realized how many weeks had
passed .-iuce the first pettily wasearn-
ed and saved, and suddenly wailed
out:
"Then wc can’t never, never buy
one, and ina’s grave will get lost”—
But he left the shop with tears of
gladness in his eyes, and, when he re
turned yesterday, little Bud and Jack
were with him, and they had a cart.
There was not only a head board, but
one for the foot of the grave as well,
and painter and carpenter had done
their work with full hearts, and done
it well.
“Ain't it awful nice—nicer than
rich folks have!” whispered the chil
dren, as the boards were being placed
on the cart; “won’t the grave look
nice, though, and won’t we be awful
glad!”
Ere this, mother’s grave has been
marked, and when night comes, the
three motherless ones will cuddle
close together and whisper their
gratitude that cannot he lost to them
even in the storms and drifts of win
ter.
Covington Star: “We nnili'r-taiiil a
man named Cooper, who lives in
Gwinnett, county, was in Conyci-
ilritikiiig pretty freely on Clnisiutav
day, .'iml wlien he started home lie
cither missed his way, or was over
come with drink, and got down some
where not far from Ihe paper mills,
ami lay out front Wednesday even
ing until Friday before lie wa> found.
When found life was almo.-l iMiiici,
and his hands and I'cct Were split
open Ity tlic eohl. We have not learueil
whether ho has recovered or not."
Hostility to the Negro.
Christian Index*]
The following letter which explains
itself, is a specimeu of innumerable
things of the same genus, if not of the
same species, which tiro constantly oc
curring :
To the proprietors of the Index:—
Inclosed pleased find two dollars and
sixty cents for one new subscriber, I
make him a present of it, in addition
to his wages, for his faithful perform
ance of duty on the plantation dur
ing the year about, to close. Yours
truly—
Onr “new subscriber” is a negro,
whose address we omitted in copying
the above letter, and whom wc heart
ily welcome to our circle of readers.
H is needless to say, that the amiable
benefactor of our colored friend, is of
tlic family of Japhet; bntfortheben
efit of those who don’t know, it may
be well to add, that Japhet and Cusli,
n this lattitude, are very friendly.—
There was, indeed, a temporary alien
alion of feeling, but this lasted only a
very short time, and those disturbers
of the peace, who brought it about,
have almost ail departed. Our an
cienl friendships arc renewed, and
like some other things that have been
broken and thoroughly mended, are
-tlonger now than they were before;
and all is quiet, between the Savan
nah and Chattahoochee to-Uav.
The Gentle Mule.
He was showing the man tho new
bay mule that he was working in a
team with the old gray. “You war-
nint him sound, and perfectly kind
a ml gentle ?” the man said. “Perfect-
I v." said farmer John. “My wife and
.'iiililren drive hint, and he is a per-
o'i’I pet. Comes into the house like a
dog.” "Easy to shoe?” asked the
mnn. “Well, I guess so; fact is, 1
never had him shod; I don’t believe
iu it,” said farmer John, “llow does
be act when you put the crupper on?’
:i“kcd Ihe man. Farmer John best
luted. “Well, pretty good, I guess,
lie said; “fact is, I never put it on.’
-How does it get on ?” asked the man;
"w ho does put it on ?” “.Well, 1 kind
ot'don’t know,” said farmer John
••Tael is. he had the harness ou when
I got him, an’ it fit him so well, an
be seemed tube so kind o’ contented
ii. il. like, that 1 sort o’ never took it
oll' ii him.” Ami how long have you
had him ?” asked the man. Farinct
John chewed a wheat, straw very
meditatively. "Well,” he said, “not
to exceed morc’n two years, rnebbe.”
Ami (lie man hacked a little further
away, and said lie would “sort ol
look’aroniul a little further before he
bought, like.” And farmer John
never saw hint again, not. even unto
this day.
Wise and Otherwise.
Cain was a man or mark.
A mountain echo is hallo mockery.
The best kind of a school-tax—syu-
t>x.
Diet for lovesick maidens—tender-
incs.
A hoarding establishment—a car-
teiitcr's shop.
Ait elevated railroad station is, of
ourse, station-ai.v.
When the spider left the ark, did
ic walk or take a fly ?
The nose is red, the lips are blue;
he weather is cold, and so arc you.
It looks to me as if that Boston for
ger, Winslow, went back on his name,
md lost-fast.
And now a lawyer is arrested for
perjury. When is this persecution of
good men to stop ?
A Bridgeport artist has painted a
very natural fence, but the critics will
picket ail to piecos.
The red man may “scorn your prof
fered treaty,” but leave off the last
syllable and try him.
During leap-year every woman lias
in inalienable right to make love and
the fire iu the moruing.
From age to age cheese has skip
pered on, one of the miteist forces of
he press, winning its whey.
It. is now announced that it requires
i certain culture to dress well—a re
fined perception of the eternal fitness
)f tilings.
“What do you want to shoot qoail
on the ground for?” howls a sport
ing journal. On the ground that we
:an’t hit’em anywhere else.
An exchange says that “on an aver
age a matt eats annually' eight bush
els of wheat,” “How milch corn docs
he ca—that is, consumes?”
At a board of trade meeting last
week, a member arose and gravely
observed that he wished to make a
few cursc-ory remarks ou dauis.
Little drops of water.
Little grains of sand,
Make a weighty sugar
’Neath the grocer’s hand.
The New Orleans Times has a
-Rake Department.” Its details are
narrowing.—Inter-Ocean. Hoc. there
stow; no mower of that, please.
Nine times out of ten, if you ran
against a man in the dark, you will
say “Hello!” The other followbegius
to say the same; often he omits the
last syllabic.
Shoulders are selling in Indianap
olis at three cents per pound.—six.
Bliblis writes, send us 10J pounds of
wcll-routided, graceful, pink-colored
shoulders.
Love may he blind, as they say;, but
it cau be noticed that iu all tlic rec
ords of the ages it has never kissed
the girl’s mother by mistake when it
reached after the girl.
A geologist says that he never hears
of secondary formations without
pleasure—the ladies being the secon
dary formations, for they were formed
after the men.
It has become very fashionable to
have the walls decorated with worked
mottos, hut no ouc ever sees that
motto, “Base is the slave who pays,”
adorning the waits of a beer saloon.
A negro was scalded to death from
a boiler explosion iu New Orleaus
last week, aud ou his tombstone they
chiselled deeply, “Sacred to the mem
ory of our ’steamed friend.”
Mr. John B. Gough, in a lecture in
England, replying to the question
whether alcohol was a food ora med
icine, remarked that in his opinion it
was “very much like setting down on
a hornet’s nest—stimulating but not
nourishing.”
“How was the world made ?” is be
ing discussed iu a scientific magazine.
iVc weren’t there, but we suppose
they got all the subscriptions they
could raise along the survey aud then
bonded the rest of the work and push
ed it through.
’Twas the night before Christmas
When all through tlic house
Tin; young folks were stirring—
Aud a young lady weighing one
hundred and sixty pounds, who
went to the closet to get a gob
let, was scared almost to death
by a dear little mouse.
The Egyptian Pyramids may be
classed under tlic head of “Old
Mades.”—Detroit. Free Press. Amt
tlic bread found in the ruins of Her
culaneum, Old Baches.—A’cie York
Graphic. And the occupants of the
Roman catacombs. Old Dead-heads.
■Boston Post.
A Remark aide Mini.
Yesterday Mr. Wright Merritt, of
Calhoun, well kuown in all this sec
tion as an independent and don’t-
care-sort of man, stepped into our
office and called for our last week’s
issue. He made himself at home, aud
ctilei-laitied the whole office with his
odd sayings keeping all hands iu an
uproar of laughter. During his stay
we took dots and gleaned ihe follow
ing of his personal history:
He is (15 years of age, and never
took a drink of liquor iu his life;
never had a spell of sickness but al
ways “throw physics to the doge.”
When asked Hie question: “Do you
chew tobacco,” said he “never chewed
what a dog wouldn't.” He never
.moked a pipe or cigar, and never ate
an animal that could climb a tree on
the outside or inside, neither any
thing that lives in water or burrows
iu the ground, and nothing that WM
cooked by a ttegro. When asked the
question : “Are you an old line Whig
or Democrat ?’’ said he had but little
to do with politics and had seldom
voted. He was a strong Uuiou man
and cursed the “secessionists” blue,
but fought two years in the Confed
erate service, aud thauks God ho
came out sound to still curse “seces
sion idiots.”
He said he has eaten blue bird eggs
enough, if hatched out, to make a
blue Hue from here to llawkinsvillc.
lie says he lias a “yaller” mule 35
years old, witii which lie has made 21
successive crops, and says that that
marc mule early learned hint that her
heels were private property, and lias
often turned his heels in the direction
of Heaven.
Mr. Merritt never went to school a
day in his life, but can read and
write, aud lias more sound common
sense than the average Congressman
or Legislator.—Cnthhert Southron.
A Boy ox a Boy—A Norwich
teacher was practicing her youthful
class in original composition yester
day, and gave one pupil llie subject
“Boy” to write upon. The subject
was to he treated on in three parts;
First, what is it? second, wliat i* M»
use? attdHliird, what is it made ot.
The lad wrestled hard fora lew min
utes in desperate perplexity, and then
wandered up the teacher's desk, radi
ant with enthusiasm, and submitted
flic following: “A hoy is an animal;
his use is In carry in wood, lie is made
of bones—Loteell Courier.