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PROFKSSIONAL CARDS-
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ALBANY. QA.
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AT LAW,
ALBANY. GEORGIA
LAW NOTICE
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KTER J.STROZER.
WM. E. SMITH,
DOCTORS*
AT.
ALBANY,
W. M.PlMOSa.
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Paints, Oil, Glass, Fatty,
VARNISHES.
BRUSHES,
SASHES,
BLINDS.
DOORS, &c.
Burning & Engine Oils,
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put up in Quart, Pint and Half-Pint
Bottles, ready for use.
Mixed Pa ints
Carefully Prepared.
ladders of Every Description
and Size.
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line will do well to communicate with
pic before purchasing elsewhere.
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THE ALBANY NEWS
By WESTON, EVANS & WASHEN.}
Devoted to the Interests of Albany and Southwest Georgia.
1$2.00 Per Annum
VOLUME 13.
ALBANY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, .JULY 3, 1879.
NUMBER 27
<%orrtspondttttt.
Notes from Ty Ty
Tr Ty, Ga., June 20. 1879.
Editor* yew*: Some lew nttneks
of lever. Bii|<erinduecd by early wa
termelon* and .lime apple*: fever of
bilious type—nnlliing serious. Al
though Dr. White may rejoice at the
prospect, his joy will he of short du
ration.
Congress being in session, the ne
gro exodus movement and Haves’
vetoes all combined did not prevent
J. W.. ot ours, from indulging iu
watermelons on the 12th inat., raised
in hie garden farm.
Mr. Spencer Graves ia improving,
although severely Injured. We hope
soon to see him able to superintend
his business again.
Competition lias been beneficial to
the producers in this vicinity as well
as elsewhere. We note small frying,
size chickens selling rapidly from the
wagons at 18 cents; eggs 12«-: cents:
all other country produce in propor
tion, except, indeed, butter, which
■ells at 10 cents, and apples which are
given away.
If improved breeds of sheep arc not
introduced throughout this section,
wiil not l>e the fanlt of Mr. II. II.
Gordon, for be talks up sheep and
improred breeds as if he had sheep
on the brain. Such energy carried
intoany laudable undertaking insures
success.
Fine showers for the Inst few days
are adding an extra flavor to the
juiev roasting-ear, and putting the
finishing touch to the much relished
green pea.
Fat mntton and good venison. 1
wldch cannot easily be told front ex
tra sheep, are finding their way from
the Colquitt border into our market.
These, together with beef, are tempt
ing the palate of the epicurean vil
lagers.
The barbecue for tbo Fourth Is now
fixed fact. Money, beeves, shoats,
mutton, kid, turkeys, chickens, etc.,
etc., are subscribed enough to feed a|!
those who are in reach, and to hare *
goodly quantity left for that indigent
class belonging to the fourth estate,
all of whom are hereby especially in
vited to come and hare the satisfac
tion of a good dinner once more.
If the time should come when Maj.
Owens, of the firm of Mnyerft Glaub
er, should fail to he ou the train go
ing up and down the road, wouldn’t
the conductor be lonely ? Helms be
come a “fixture,” and bis well known
features show themselves at every
passing, and hi* cheerful good morn-
g and smiling adieu greet us every
day. A veritable drummer U he,
talking up Id* wares in an iiunhtru-
ivc manner, bringing them to your
notice at all hours.
The griping, greedy, wool-men have
filched the last fleece from the poor
old ewes and turned them out with
out a coat to their hacks. Many of
them “unwept, unhonored and un
sung," will quietly pass into “the land
hadows,” before next fleecing
time, for age makes Ids undoubted
mark on them as well as upon human
sheep ot grander mold. .1.
Mrl-olland’s Mill Letter.
MrI.ri.LAs’* Mills, June 20. ’79.
Editor* Sew*, Albany, Ga.:
For the past three weeks we have
been favored with timely rains
throughout this section, therefore it
is reasonable to suppose that cropB
are looking well. Corn is rather
low, caused from being bitten down
last spring, hut experienced farmers
say that it will ear equally as heavy
as it would higher, where the stalks
are stout and healthy-. In that respect
about all I’ve seen is unusually good.
Cotton, though considerably behind
that of last year, is growing rapidly
and looking well also. The area of
acres compared with last year, corn
vs. cotton, is decidedly in favor of
corn, which you know arc indications
of better times. Oats and wheat hare
licen gathered, and everybody say
the “turnout” was good, wheat espe
cially. Among those that planted it
was our enterprising, go-a-head
neighbor, Mr. Bill Hall, who made
a house full, enough perhaps for fam
ily consumption two years, should ho
not sell any.
The iucreasc of cattle since this
time last year, is admirably good, and
while the press and people are all ex
citement over the profitable wool-
growing business, it wilt be remem
bered that we have also a fine coun
try for “growing” fine beeves, which,
when driven to market in drove
from fifty to a hundred head annual
ly, would be profits not to bo despis
ed by every ons
Vacation for the farmer* is near
at hand, and the very moment they
commence giving their crops the fin
ithing touch, they commence devli
log tome plan by which to have
big time generally, lienee the Fourth
day of July celebration will come oft'
near Warwick this year in the shape
of a grand picnic. All necessary ar
rangements bare already been made
to make it a success, and by “solid
natives,” too, who never go back on
'em. The noted Dooly county string
band hat been engaged for that orm-
aion, and the platform will be nicely
nrrunged in due time for those wlio
lore to dance ’em round. It will ho
no short-rut arrangement, but a “big
thing.” The Invitation is to all, and
we would be glad to have you and
other friends join u* on tliat^dav.
By the way I noticed in yonr Inst
week's issue a communication from
yonr correspondent Joshua, the skep
tic, whose rhetoric (7) and latiu (?)
•alone would send an enlightening
sensation through the dogwood blos
soms of the tali untutored sycamore,
much less the whys and wherefores
that committee made such a report.—
tNon-comatable swamps, up gum
stump ralo. Oh, Joshua, if yon only
had a palatable foundation to begin
with, I guess you would go it on that
committee at such a rate that “chival
ry would tremble and beauty turn
pale,” but as you have not, and “cuss
ing” the committee seoms to lie yonr
only amhitiou, I will recommend
friend T. to yon as a “ousser" who
will. I ran conscientiously say, fill the
bill to a letter, for when onco started,
like few others, he never finds the
“ccnd.” Besides, it will not cost you
a red cent, for lie takes such jobs free
and entirely on his own hook. Josh
says that K, Tom, Dick and Harry
may put their shoulder to the wheel
and push, but it won’t move worth a
cent. “On that rock we split," Josh,
for E.. Dick, Tom or somebody, shov
ed like thunder the Grst time, and If
there i* a new election you had better
look sharp or that “lay” you would
get might forever disappear from
your firmest hope*.
He also asked did that committee
do their duty? Why, y-e-a. If he
will go back to the Albany News of
May —, and see what the people
said in regard to “making prelimina
ry arrangements, etc.” Then go to
the i<sue of May 22d, and be will find
that they did not over-jump their
bounds by stating publicly what the
county could do In case either place
was elected. He will alto find, (or
others can) that it was not personal
preferences or bias that governed
them, but a free, uncramped disposi
tion to give all a chance. In regard
to your dictation on what the coin-
nittee should have reported, we view
,t in the same light the people did
when they polled you one vote a*
heir deligat from yonr district A
L” of a botch. E.
F. 8.—Crawford and a polecat
hrew “the apple of ■discord” among
some of the citizens over here. Pleast
illow Josh some space, and I will hint
to him to write it up In spicy style.
Front Worth County.
Warwick, Worth Co., Ga., I
“ h, 1879. f
I). C. Glcaton’s and W. 8. Tlson’s.
Olliers may lie as good hut wo have
not seem them. W. S. Tison lias fifty
acres of cottou hard to boat. Ho
could have sent a blossom to Albany
the 6th, just a wook earlier Ilian the
one from Smithviltc. Peter Jones,
ool’d., says that “he wants it under
stood that he is Mr. Tison's boss," a ml
bogs us to sny lliroiigli llio Nkwn tlint
“plenty liiininiade men mid elbo’
grease an’ good high fed eritlcrs is
sho' to make good craps; dal is if
Old Marstcr is willin’.”
Never in the history of the county
liavesueh wheat and oat crops been
made anil harvested. IV. It. Weston
has just cut one of the finest fields of
spring oats, uuinhrr of acres consid
ered, that we have seen in years. J.
E. Billups has harvested twenty-live
or thirty acres of llic best spring oats
that we ever saw in this or any other
country. To cut matters short, Worth
will make plenty to eat and to spare.
» Josh Odi-m.
June 20th,
Owing to a concatination of fortni
cous circumstances, superinduced by
a multiplicity of unparalleled coinci
dences, wc have not been able to com
municate earlier, the startling but
pleasing intelligence that sometime
in the immediate neighborhood of
the grand and memorable 4th there
will be a rousing big barbecue at this
place, to which the entire staff of the
News will be cordially invited.
Our fat, jolly Ordinary has been
spending a few days in this vicinity,
his old tramping ground. He says it
makes him feel good to get a few
days respite from the cares of offico,
and knock around loose. If he gets
much more corpulent it will be roll
around with him. It is amusing to
sec the great change in him since he
became a’benedict and the father of
a bouncing hoy. Ho usod to profess
a great aversion to children, in conse
quence of which he once got a “Val
entine,” a comic picture of a man
holding, at arms length, two squalling
babies. Written beneath was this
sentiment: “From babies Good Lord
deliver me.” To see our friend Tom
now yon would think that he had
never entertained such sentiments.—
Circumstances alter cases you know.
Joe Marshall Ib canvassing this
part of onr county in behalf of the
Albany fruit uursery. Willingham
& Co. have taken a step iu the Fight
direction, and it is to be hoped that
the people of this section will patro-
uize home industry.
That whole soulcd, genial fellow-
townsman of yours, W. S. Fleming,
alias Sid, alias Gid, is traveling in a
terrible hurry through this section, in
the interest of Welch ft Bacon.
W. 8. T. and J. I). H. say that
Starlight” is guilty of slander, and
they don’t llko it That they have
never been accused of being “hand
some” before, and that having criti
cally examined themselves through
the medium of a broken glass, are
fully satisfied that the accusation is
unjust, in fact, a malicious slander.—
As to the wolf hunt they arc mute.
A little bird, no one knows from
whence it cometh or whither it go-
eth, is busy whispering in the ears of
every mate and female in the vicinity
ibnta handsome. young disciplo o.‘
Esculaplns will soon lead to the by-
menial altar one of Worth’s fairest,
most amiable and charming daugh
ters. The little bird has been telling
it as a profouud secret; and how it
has leaked out is a mystery. An in
sinuation that it got out from ono of
the little bird's female confidents, has
given risa to the query, “Can one of
the feminene gendor refrain from im
parting or revealing any prepondor-
ous Intelligence entrusted to her con
fidential custody." Just put Josh on
tho negative and keep dark.
Crops still promising. Some gras*
yet, but almost conquored, a little
rain would not be amiss. Notably
among fine cotton crops tve will men
tion, (few that wo baVe-secn. G. M.
Vincent’s, W. W. Hall’s, J.E. Billup’s,
In General.
Coffee growing has proved success
ful with a few planters in Southern
Florida, and its cultivation promises
to be extended.
An ludianian married when lie was
17, was a father at 18. Lately he
married a second time, and at the age
of 80 is happy with a second child,
between whom and the first there is
a difference in age of 62 years.
The Ohio tramp law, recently en
acted by tho Legislature of that State,
is in most respects similar to tho Penn
sylvania statute. A tramp is defined
as any person who goes about begg
ing or asking charity in a county
where he has a<f residence.
The latest manifestation of New
England culture is afforded by the
Massachusetts man who worships
idols, eats snakes, and has a hankering
for human flesh. Ho is a companion
:hromo to the Adventist who recent
ly murdered his child as “a sacrifice
to the Lord.”
John Wstts, a noted gambler, died
i few days ago in Philadelphia. He
was a man of great importance
iboard the Mississippi steamers in the
>)d times, and his gambling exploits
ire still recounted. Although a hea
vy player and clever swindler, he
taved no money. His last words
were: “I’ll bet (10-thnt I get well.”
Goneral Ewing. John Sherman,
Biainc and Don Cameron, are all
oound together in ono beautiful fam-
ly tie. John Sherman’s brother,
William Tccuinson, married Thomas
Ewing’s sister, and Donald Cntneron
married a daughter of Judge Sher
man, brother of Johu and Tecuinp.—
Mr. Blaine’s mother was a Gillespie
and the Gillespies arc related to the
Ewings. If these important families
form a combination to walk off with
all the offices in the country, ordinary
people will be compelled to take back
seats.
Princo Bismarck was severely
snubbed by Empress Augusta in Ber
lin on Wednesday during the recent
reoeption ceremonies. The Emperor
greeted his distinguished Chancellor
with much warmth, but his better
half seemed as if she wished to show
her dislike of the Prince by not only
answering his obeisance in a very
slighting fashion, but by not even ex
tending her hand to him, as she did
immediately afterward, with a gra
cious mien, to the veteran Von
Moltkc. The incident caused qnite a
sensation in Berlin.
The newspaper correspondents
have discovered an avowed canibat
near Otis, Mass. He bears the not
unusual name of John Smith, and
finished his education as a man-eater
on the South Sea Islands, whero he
entered into all the savage rites, and
acquired an appetite for tinman flesh.
He stands accused of eating a man in
New Jersey, but denies the charge.
He admits, however, that he offered
to work six months for a Blandford
farmer in exchange for his daughter,
and that he made the proposition
with intent to feast on the girl. As
he can’t get his man flesh he cats raw
toads, snakes and fish.
The Eastern papers arc just becom
ing excited over a sonsational yarn
sent from Australia and published in
the Chicago Inter-Ocean some six
months ago, about an alleged won
derful discovery whereby animals
are first made unconscious, .and then
frozen and kept for months, and af
terward restored In a few moments
to life and activity as if nothing at
all had occurred. The press of New
York and Philadolphin are printing
this old . yarn as froth intelligence,
and in precisely the shape that it ap
peared in the Inter-Ocean months
ago. We observe that Signor Rotu-
ra, tho alleged discoverer of tho pro
cess, it just starting for South Amer
ica for a largo supply of tho ingre
dients used in hit woudorful prepa
ration, and, strange enough, he was
just starling in precisely tho same
manner and with the same object six
month* ago.
In Invin mid Berrien Counties.
MASONIC FITNKKAI. SERVICE*—A TALK
WITH THE PEOPLE, ETC.
The Masonic Lodge* of Worth,
Berrien and Irwin counties met at
Brushy Creek church, Irwin county,
on Sunday, 22ml inst., to pay the last
trihiile of respect to their deceased
brother. Captain Daniel Henderson,
late of Worth county. The atten
dance was large, not only of Masons,
hut of his friends outside the order.
The luneral sermon was preached by
Rev. Jacob Young, of Irwin, and the
Masonic service was conducted by
Col. Win. A. Harris, Wv Mv The cer
emonies were imposing. The tribute
a grand one.
We had tho pleasure of accompa
nying the Worth county delegation
down; and very much enjoyed the
trip with them. There were repre
sentative men from each section of tho
county, and they generally reported
fine crops. Yet we heard considera
ble complaint of dry weather.
AT ALAPAHA.
En route wc stopped for the night
at Alapaha, and there enjoyed the
pleasure of meeting a number of our
old friends. Will Walker was our
host. Bless Bachelor Will. We have
written him so often and advertised
him so extensively, that ftirther dos
ing might prove distasteful to his
modesty. At any rate, we are bound
to thank him for hospitality.
Mr. J. W. Hanlon and Capt. Aus
tin, who run the Berrien County
News, write tip Alapaha each week,
and advertise its resources and ad
vantages to the outer world in such a
lively, racy and deserving style, that
we find no room for another word,
even edgewise. Notwithstanding-
the fact that the paper is located in
so small a village, and Its locsl pat
ronage la necessarily limited, it is
read by as many people as the aver
age weekly in Georgia, circulating as
it doeB in six counties. It is a good
paper, the peer of many far more pre
tentious. Wc are glad that Berrien
county can boast of such a journal.
At Brushy Creek, we met tho
Paulks, the Youngs, the Hendersons,
the Whitleys, the Clements, and many
others of those leading families of tho
county. Thoy arc better off to-day
than any people we wot of North,
South, East or West. Their crops arc
excellent, and Providence blesses their
toiling sinews and honest smiles with
bountiful yields each year. “Cattle
upon an hundred hills” add to their
wealth and contentment.
Onr trip was an enjoyable one, and
we shall go again and mingle with
those good people, as soon as oppor
tunity offers.
If gambling, under the name of
speculating, is to be indulged in, why
buy futures and pay margins at all?
Let Broivn bet Smith that cotton will
be a cent, or a half, ora quarter of a
cent higher, at n particular date
agreed upon, and let tho loser pay
whatever is the difference of price
between the time of the bet and the
given date, and all the “bonefit” of
buying futures is gained, and com
paratively little risk is endured.—
Memphis Appeal.
General Longstreet is making mon
cy in the hotel business at Atlanta.—
He had been unfortunate for a long
time, but it’s a Longstreet that haB no
turning.—Buffalo Commercial.
Mrs. Potts, the female walkist, ar
rived in Atlanta Inst Sunday. She is
to walk from Philadelphia to New
Orleans and return in five months,
on a wager of live thousand dollars a
side. One thousand people nwniled
her anil cheered as she entered the
depot. She says she is determined to
perform the feat, and Is now two hun
dred miles ahaad.
Representative Witthorne of Ten
nessee, has written a long communi
cation to Mr. Goode, of Virginia,
Chairman of the committee to inves
tigate the freedman’s exodus. Tho
writer reviews the ndvance made in
prosperity by the South since tho
war, and shows that the exodus was
not caused by inadequate pay of the
Southern laborer, hut to the contrary
that the negro is paid better wages
than the Northern nnd Western la
borer receives. He claims that the
emigration movement is due solely
to the politicians and Freedman’s
Bank swindlers, and that this will be
fully exposed if a fair investigation
is had. The letter is an exceedingly
interesting document.
Mr. Blaine Enjoyed It.
Kew York sur, Juno 20.
Mr. Blaine hugely enjoyed the specta
cle of Lamar's torture of Conktlog and Ik*
laiier's towering rago In the Senate last
Wednesday. While the Mala* Senator
was descending the steps of the cspitol
shortly after the affair, he enronntered
one of the members of the house from
Massachusetts, who questioned him In re
lation to It.
••Oh, it was exceedingly rich (“exclaim-
ed Blaine. “1 don't think I ever saw
Conkllng's wattles qnlto so red ’’
The South ia All Right. .
The LouUvIIlft Toil uud Nt-w,.]
All through tho South are signs of re
turning proa; orlty such as havo not been
experienced for twenty years. Tho ad
vanco in cotton baa already beneliUod that
section, and the now crop promises to
be profitable. The negro exodus was a
small affair, the importance ot which was
exaggerated tor political effect. Tbo
South should give more attention to its
own material affairs, and take leu Intersst
In national politics. The day of the car
pel bagger bus departed, and tbo Bomb
will in tho future be allowed to inaosgc
Itsowuntlaira. It should see that these
affairs arc well managed.
A HUSBAND’S D08E.
Whether ’Us better ut tho barber's to
bear tho aunoyance of the abort loose
hairs in your neck than he blown upon
with a breath redolent of unknown, but
not the less potential odors—that U the
question.—Boston Transcript.
I wish you would tell James when
he mines in, to turn tho cows into the
lower lot. And if Turpin calls, tell
him 1 havo concluded to take those
sheep—I want the merinos. And
while 1 am getting ready, please take
my memorandum hook and note
down four harness straps, five pounds
ol nails, and a gimlet, half a Jockey
strap, and—and—yes, 1 believe thnt
is all. I forgot them when 1 made
out the items this morning.”
Mrs. Streeter rose wearily, laid her
sleeping babe carefully In' its crib,
nnd proceeded to record tho articles
named. Sho was young, not over
twenty-five, but the complexion was
Badlv Aided, and faint lines were al
ready marking tbo white forehead,
While the tired eyes told of care, and
hinted strongly of an unsatisfied heart
And this thin-checked, pink-eyed
woman had been called a beauty only
seven year* before 1 And when she
gave nor hand to Newton Streeter
She could say what few girls can, “I
tnarrled my first love.”
1 Judge Streeter, the fether, was sup
posed to be wealthy. Bnt after his
J 'ton’s marriage a financial crisis came,
ad the thousands dwindled into hun*
reds.
It was false pride, perhaps, hut the
young man shrank from a position
under those who had once looked up
to him, and bit thoughts turned wist
fully towards the Western prairies.
! He expected objections from his
young and accomplish'd wife. But
She saw with his eyes, and was not
dnly willing, hot .eager to go and help
him make a home that should be all
their owl. Tho purchase of a prai
rie team. tome farming implements,
qnd the expense of building a small
house,exhausted his capital; and the
young couple commenced their mar
ried life as many others had done who
had been blessed with their.advanta
ges. The small dwelling contained
but three sleeping apartments, and
this fact, added to their uncertain In
come, Induced Mrs.' Streeter to take
ijpon herself the entire care of the
household.
Two children had come in the sev
en years, to nestle in her boBom.—
Bnt one, a fairy child of three sum
mers, had Slid away from them, and
Was now sleeping beneath the flowers
cjf the prairies; and the tired wife
had sighed as she looked on the cold,
folded hands.
“She will never toil as I have done;
but oh, t wanted her so much,” the
lonely mother sobbed forth.
Mr. Streeter was considered a
wealthy fermer. His acres had
broadened and his stock increased.—
Physically and mentally strong, and
with a gentle loving wife ever study
ing his tastes and wishes, why should
he wear out fast?
But of her. Naturally frail, she
had been like a willow bending be
neath a burden voluntarily taken up.
With the exception of an efficient girl
for a few woeks when little Marv
died, she had performed all the labor
required in the house since she be
came its mistress.
Newton Streeter took tho memo
randum, glanced hastily at the neatly
written items, and then he stepped
into the light buggy and drove away.
; No longer might she linger, for the
sponge was waiting in the kitchen to
be kneaded, and the baby’s naps were
like angel’* visits, And before the
task was well ovor his bugle note
sounded to arms, and the fretful
child was taken up and caressed and
soothed to quietness.
She was conscious of a strange diz
ziness. When she arose from a stoop
ing position her head was aching mis
erably, and her eyes seemed burning.
What was coming over her? She
must be ill. Oh, no; she had no time
for that. And then her thoughts
drifted away to the dear, old home
of childhood, and she asked herself
for the first time, if she had done wise
to leave it for this life of toil and
care?
It was a dangerous question for a
wife and mother, and she clasped her
child moro closely to suppress in her
heart the disloyal answer.
When Mr. Streeter returned exul
tant over the dhllara he had deposi
ted in the bank, he found no supper
prepared, and his wile helpless upon
the bed, with cheeks flushed with fe
ver, and the wailing child distracting
her with demands for care.
A physician and nurse were soon
summoned from tho city, and the
weary wife enjoyed the luxnry of be-
But convalescence soon followed,
and before leaving his patient the old
doctor, a close observer and a deep
thinker, took the husband aside and
asked:
“Did yon kuow what brought this
fever on your wife, Mr. 8treeter ?
You have worked her nearly to
death.”
“You are speaking of my wife, not
my horse.”
“Granted ; and I say again you are
working her to death.”
“Really, doctor, such language is
unpardonable.”
“And yet yon will pardon it. And
furthermore, by your great love for
the (elf-sacrificing woman we have
just left, I shall perform an operation
cm your eyes that you mar see as I
sec.”
And thon he placed tho cold, hard
facts before him, from the time she
came a bride, beautiful and accom
plished, to the village, up to date of
present illness, in which domestic
cares only had hauntod her in fever
ish dreams. Ip concluding he added:
“1 truly beliovc, if she takes up tier
old burdens at once, that before the
year has. passed the grave or an in
sane asylum will receive her.”
The strong man shuddered.
“As Heaven is my witness, sir, I
have only permitted, not exacted, this
sacrifice. Sho voluntarily took her
place by my side, aud has uncom
plainingly kept step with me.”
“No, she has not kept step, to fol
low your own figure. Unable to
keep up with your long, rapid strides,
she lias fallen, faint and footsore, hv
the way. I tell you she must have
rest for both mind and body, or I
will not auswer for the result. Ai|d
it would be bettor found away from
home.”
“Yes; I begin to comprehcud, and
it can be found away.” And offering
Ids hand, “I will take care, doctor,
that you do not get a chanco to ad
minister another such dose to me.”
Mr. Streeter went back to tbo room
wbereTiis wife was sitting propped
tin by pillows, and a gush of unutter
able tenderness swelled lu his heart
ns he glanced at her pnlc face and nl-
inost transparent hands. He sat down
beside her and said, softly:
“You don t know how'glad I am
thnt you arc better.”
Thank you. Yes; I am almost
well now—shall soon ho able to be in
the kitchen. I am sure I must, be
sadly needed there by this time.”
“No, you are not needed there.—
By the way, would you like to have
me put the farm to rent this summer,
and you take the boy and go hack to
the old granite hills?”
“Oh, Could you? May I go?” and
the voice quivered with excitement;
then wistfully,“but the expense, New
ton. It would put us back so much.”
“Yes, there it is; the old doctor
was right,” he thought. And then
aloud, “Do von know what I went to
the city for the day you were ill ?”
To deposit some money for more
land, I think you said,” she replied,
wearily.
“Yes; but I do not need that land.
I have far more laud than I can cul
tivate now. And you shall have that
money—at least all you want of it—
and go home and stay all the summer,
and try to get some of your blood
back. I shall write to-dav that you
are coming.”
Mrs. Streeter could not believe It
was not one of her feverish dreams.
But it all came about in good time,
and she arrived safely at homo, w here
she was petted and caressed to her
heart’s content.
“You are ail trying to spoil me,”
she would expostulate; “I shall never
be fit for a farmer’s wife any more.”
And thus among loving friends,
riding, walking, and, when at home,
reading, music and writing long let
ters to her husband, the summer wore
swiftly away.
And now he had written that he
was coming, and she was counting the
days that mutt elapse ere sho could
look upon his face and be clasped to
Ills heart. She was eager to go now.
tier holiday was over. Health had
returned, and not an instant did site
shrink from the old life.
And when the husband came and
saw the wonder one summer had
wrought, he again told himself that
the good doctor was right.
A few days wore given to the old
friends, and then they turned their
faces toward their Western home.
It was evening when they arrived,
aud the wife looked with bewilder
ment on the change. A handsome
feont had been added to the old dwell
ing ; and before she had time to ques
tion she was ushered into a parlor
newly fbrnished and already lighted.
An elegant piano stood in a recess ev
idently constructed for its reception.
She turned toward her husband to
assure herself that lie, too, had net
changed into something orsomehody
else. But the merry twinkle in his
eye told hor he was enjoying her sur
prise, and 6lowly she began to realize
tho whole situation. Yes, now she
understood his strange reluctauce to
meution what ho was doing, and his
willingness to have her remain, even
after she had expressed hor anxiety
to return.
“Come, I have more to show yon!”
and he showed her into a large, com
modious room, furnished for her own
sleeping apartment, even to her ba
by’s crib.
“This is for you. And now lay
aside your dusty garments and pre
pare for tea; it must have been ready
an hour ago. I will go and see.”
When ho returned he found hi* lit
tle wife sitting in her little rocker
and weeping silently.
“Have I wounded whero I wished
to heal?” he asked, reproachfully.
“Forgive me,” she said, smiling; “I
am a goose, but a tired-winged one,
you know. And I am so happv to
be at homo in such a home, that I
have no words in which to tell my
happiness.”
He stooped to hiss the offered lips.
And what a different life it was—
bnsy, not burdened. Time for the
wants of the mind as well as the body.
Good help in the kitchon all the time,
and choice reading for anv leisure
hour.
The farm was an unfailing source
of income, fully defraying ail ex
pense, with a balance in fevor.
“Been improving, I see,” said Dr.
Meeker, , a* he reined in his tight
carriage to the neat fence.
“Yes, doctor. Come in; I want to
show you all the improvements.—
Here, Mary, the doetor wants to see
you.”
And aa she came to greet him, rosy
with health and happiness, he nodded
his head at her husband.
“Yea, that will do,” and then glan
cing at the open piano, “I am going
to stay jnst long enough to hear one
tune played, will yon favor me?”
and with the old gallantry, fitted eo
awkwardly to Ms brusque manner,
he led her to the instrument, and
stood, hat in hand, while she plaved
—American Monthly.
A Painful Scene.
Household Recipes.
Inman Loaf.—Take one pint of
snnrmilk. one half pint of sweet milk,
one teacupfUl of molasses, one half
leacnpfhl of butler, two tcaspoonfhlx
of saleratus, one large tcaspoonfUl of
salt, three eggs, one pint of wkent
flour, one quart of vcllow Indian
meal: bake in a deen tin basin in an
oven of sa me heat as for cake for one
and a half hour*.
Ckkam Cabbage.—Wash, cut fine,
boil nntil tender,and drain the water
from it. Brown two tcaspoonfuls of
butter in a saucepan ; put in the cab
bage and pour over it a tcacupfhl of
good cream, season, and let simmer
for half an hour.
Lesion Jelly.—One ounce Coop
er’s isinglass, one and one-half
pounds of loaf sugar, three lemons,
the juice r.nd grated rind. Poor one
quart of boiling water on the Isin
glass ; acd all the rest, mix and
strain. Add one glass of wine and
set in moulds to cool.
Pulvf.rizf.h Alum possesses the
property of purifying water. A
large spoonful stirred into a hogs
head of water will so pnrifr it that in
a few hours the dirt will sink to the
bottom, and it will he fresh and clear
as spring water. Four gallon* may
be purified by a teaspoouful.
It may be recorded as another of
the many visible signs of reviving in-
dnstriv says the Review, that the
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Phila
delphia, aro now running on fUU
time, with some two thousand men
employed, not a feiv of them working
over ume. The engines they are
turning out are to supply not only
domestic requirements, but a demand
from foreign countries, notably New
Zealand.
We may also notice here some fur
ther signs of improvement In Iron
and steel mannfacture in England.—
The latest received Manchester Guar
dian chronicles largo deliveries both
on home and foreign account, though
these do not appear to be accompa
nied by any improvement In price*
worth noticing. As for iron ore. It
is cheaper than it was ever previous
ly kuown to be, sales having, been et-
fectedf recently at a trifle over 9s per
ton for ordinary samples, up to Ils
per ton at the mines. There seems
to he a tendency towards depreciating
the value of iron ore still further, as
the competition now experienced la
the hematite iron and Bessemer steel
trades necessitate the cheapening of
raw material.—Exchange.
Text of the Trade Dollar Meas
ure as it Passed the House.
Be it enacted, etc., that the Secreta
ry of the Treasury shall cause to be
exchanged at the Treasury and at all
sub-Trcasuries of the United States
legal tender silver dollars for trade
dollars at par, provided the weight of
said, trade dollar has not been reduc-
ed below the standard weight and
limit of. tolerance provided by law
for the single piece, and shall recoin
said trade dollars into legal tender
dollars as now provided by law, and
shall stop the further coinage of trade
dollars, provided that the trade dol
lars recoined under this act shall not
be counted as part ot the silver coin*
age, provided for by the act of Feb
ruary 15th, 187S, and provided that
the trade dollars that have been
chopped or restainpcd for circulation
in foreign countries shall be exclud
ed from the provisions of this act.
Bad News from Florida.
Rev. E. F. Gates, Matinee, Florida,
writes M the Wesleyan Christian Ad
vocate: “We have just passed thro’
the severest anil longest drought
known in the history of Florida. It
has proved a calamity to the orange
groves. The pine land groves have
not an orange on them, and many
trees arc bare of foliage, and some
have died. Tho hammock groves
have fared better and will probably
yield a'third of a crop. But few or
anges will be shipped from this sec
tion this fall.”
M’Intosh Boose
INDIAN SPUING, GA.
niHId welUcnown hooaew nadeifono Ihor
X- oogh repair and refurnished with new nnd e
C*nt furniture, la now opened for the reception
Health and Pleasure Seeters!
Rum onto el t«v day SV. week S10; month ta
hldrenund' . *■ ire nnd colored cemati h*Y
price.
SPECIAL XDUCEMENTS
Offcrrvi '^rallies.
Afinuhw Preheat ra hw been engagod for tbo
B. W. COLLIER,
Yesterday morning, while seven or
eight old and reliable citizens were
holding down chairs and boxes in a
Michigan avenue grocery, and unan
imously agreeing that this was the
greatest country on earth, a stranger
entered and said:
“Gentlemen, I suppose you arc all
familiar with politics ?”
“Wo are,” they replied in chorus.
“And you know all about the fun
damental principles of liberty ?”
“Well, I’m glad on it, for I’ve made
a bet with a feller hack here as to
liqw the reading of the Constitution
begins. One of yon just write me
down the first ten words.”
While he felt for a stub of pencil
every man began scratching his head
and cautiously eyeing his neighbor.
One began mattering: “Now I fey
me . and a second said something
about “Resolved,” and a third wrote
on tho top of a cracker box, “On mo
tion, It was votod thnt—that .”
There was a great deal of coughing
and sneezing and noso blowing, when
a boy catnclu and said the stranger’s
horso had run away. Ho rnshod out.
and soven feces brightened up and
smiled, and seven men took lVcsIi
chews of tobacco and tried not to look
too important, when the grocer said
“Tho 'Constitution? Why, every
ono of you can repeat it by heart wit h
yonr eves shut—of course yon can.”
A new industry in the United States
is tho production of fruit syrups into
competition with French manufac
tures which have hitherto had the
markets of tho world.
Agents Wanted to Sell
GEN. ••DICK" TAYLOR’S NEW BOOK.
DESTRUCTION
RECONSTRUCTION,’
Fmonit Enniram of the lit* War. 7
BY RICHARD TAYLOR,
Ueatxaant-Henna! Id the ConfuJerate Artnr.
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