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MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1869.
No. 21.
K- ORME <Sb SON,
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
Terais—^ 3,09 per annum, in Advance.
Advertising—Per Square of ten lines, each
injertiou, $ J 00. Merchants and others forail
S Bouutsi>ver $25, twenty-five per cent. off.
legal, advertising.
Ordinary's.—Citationsfor letters of ad-
nistration,guardianship, &c $ 3 00
2 00
5 00
3 50
5 00
3 00
5 00
1 50
2 50
5 00
5 00
j{ ()i u.»jjtead notice...... ............ ....
A'jplicationtorietters of dism’n fromadm’n
Application for lettersof dism’n of gaard’n
Application tor leave to sell Land
Notice to Debtors and Creditors
c jles of Land, per square of ten lines
Sale oi'personal, per sq., ten days
\kr.rif*—Each levy of ten linos, or less..
\loftgage sales of ten tines or less
La Collector’s sales, per sq, (2 mouths)
( /.. flu—Foreclosure of mortgage and oth
er monthly's, per square 1 00
Kstrny notices, thirty days 3 00
Tributes of Respect, Resolutions by Societies,
Obituaries, &.c.,exceedmg.siz lines, to be charged
#9 transient advertising.
- jp* Sates of Land, by Administrators, Execu-
’,irj"r Quardians, are required by law, to be held
.,a the first Tuesday in the month, between the
Lmrs often in the forenoon and three in the af-
•rnnon, atthe Court-house in the county in which
V; property is situated.
Notice of these sales must be given in a public
gazette 4U Jays previous to the day of sale.
Notice for the sale of personal property must be
i veil in like manner lu days previous to sale day,
.Notices to debtors and creditors of, an estate
must also be published 40 days.
.Notice that application will be made to the
Court of Ordinary for leave to sell land, must be
published for two months.
Citations for letters of Administration, Guar*
di mship, &c., must be published 30 days—for dis
mission from Administration, monthly six months ;
fur dismission trom guardianship, 40 days.
gules for foreclosure of Mortgages must be
published monthly for font months—for establish
ing lost papers, for the full spaceof three months—
fur compelling titles from Executors or Adminis
trators, where boud has been given by the de
fusel, the full space of three months. Charge,
jl UO per square of ten lines for each insertion
Publications will always be continued accord
iuj to these, the legal requirements, unless oth
erwise ordered.
Schedule of Macou & Augusta R. R.
Leaves Camak, daily, at 12.30 P. M.
“ Milledgeville — .6.50 A-M.
Arrives at Miiledgcville 4 2U P.M.
“ Camak.. 9.0oA.M.
Passengersleaving Augusta or Atlanta on l)ay
Passenger Train of Georgia Railroad will make
close'connection at Camakfor inteimediatepoints
on the above road, and also for Macon, Ac. Pas
sengersleaving Milledgeville at 5.30, A. M.,reach
Atlanta and Augusta same day,and will make
close connections at either place for piiucip.-l
noiutsin adjoining States.
E. W .COLE, Gen’l Sapt.
Augusta, January 7,1868 4 tf
SOUTH WESTERN R. R. CO,
OFFICE, MACON, GA., March24th, 1838.
Columbus Train—Daily.~
Leave Macon 5.15 A. M.
Arrive at Columbus U-k] V.'
Leave Columbus - -- 12.4a P. M.
Arrive at Macon - , 6.20 P. M.
Eufaula Train—Daily.
Leave Macou
Arrive at Eufaula £•**0 F- JJ-
Leave Eufaula
Arrive at Macon — 4.50 P. M.
Connecting with, Albany Train at Smithvillc
Leave SmitUville - «*
Arrive at Albany 3.11 P- M.
Leave Albany 9.35 A. M.
Arrive at Smithville.-.-- 11.00 A. M.
Connecting with Fort Gaines Train at Cuthbert.
Leave Cutbbert - 3.57 P.M.
Arrive at Fort Gaines 5.40 P.M.
Leave Fort Gaine3 . — - 7.05 A.M.
Arrive at Cuthbert - 9.05 A . M.
Connecting with Central Railroad and Macon
4. Western Railroad Trainsat Macon, and Mont
gomery &. West Point Trains at Columbus.
VIRGIL POWERS,
Engineer <fc Superintendent.
Schedule of the Georgia Railroad.
O N AND AFTER SUNDAY, MARCH 29th
1868, the Passenger Trains on the Georgia
Railroad will run as follows:
DAY PASSENGER TRAIN.
(Daily, Sundays excepted.)
Leave Augusta at — --- ---- ---* - 4 -10 A. M.
” Atlanta at p A. M.
Arrive at Augusta - 3.30 p. M.
“ at Atlanta 0.10 P. M.
NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at 3 45 P. M.
“ Atlanta at 0.4S P. M.
Arrive at Augusta...-- 5.30 A. M.
“ Atlanta --- .4.00 A. M,
3ERZELIA PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at - 4.30 P. M.
“ Berzeliaat - — 7.00 A.M.
Arrive at Augusta 8.45 A M.
“ at iierzelia 005 P.M.
Passengers for Milledgeville,Washington and
Athens,Ga.,musttake Day Passenger Train from
Augusta and Atlanta.
Passengers for West Point, Montgomery, Sel
ma, Mobile and New Orleans must leave Augusta
on Night Passenger Train at 3-45 P. M., to make
close connections. _
Passengers for Nashville,Corinth,Grand Junc-
lion, Memphis, Louisville and St. Louis can take
cither train and make close connections.
Through Tickets and Baggage checkedthrough
to the above places.
Pullman’s Palace S-leepingCars on all Night
Passenger Trains. .
E. W. COLE, Gen’ISuperint dt
Augusta, March 26,1868 4 tf
jLtlajita SL [West fPaint
RAID ROAD.
Day Passenger Train—Outward.
Leave Atlanta 4.45 A. M.
Arrive at West Point — - 9.50 P. M.
D.ny Passenger Train — Inward.
Leave West Point. 1.30 P- M.
Arrive at Atlanta 6.20 P. M.
•Vi»A( Freight and Passenger—Outward.
Leave Atlanta 4.15 P. M.
Arrive at West Point H-40 P M.
Night Freight and Passenger Train—Inward,
Leave West Point• 4.2' A. M.
Arrive at Atlanta 11.30 A- M.
Skcuiq.e. ap ^PpIulcLllLp.
O
3VIa.oon <Sz> "W©stern
raid road .
—DAY TRAIN.—
Leave Macon7.45A.M.,arriveatAtlanta,2 P.M
Atlanta7A A.M.,arriveatMacon, 1.30P. M
—NIGHT TRAIN —
Leave Macou 8.40 P.M., arrive at Atlanta, 4£ P.M
“ Atlanta7£P. M.,arrive at Macon 3.10 A.M
Macou & Brunswick Railroad.
OFFICERS.
G. H . HAZLEHURST ... President
ROBT. SCHMIDT, MasterTrausportation
H. C.DAY.... — Secretary &. Treasurer
Leave Macon 3 P.M., arrive at Macon, 10.30 A.M
LeaveHawkinsville7 A. M.,arrive at Hawkins
ville, 6.30 P. M.
March 1 1 1868
11
WANDO FERTILIZER.
T HE WANDO MINING AND MANUFAC
TURING COMPANY offers to the Planters
and Farmers of the South, their FERTILIZER,
know as the
“WANDO FERTILIZER,"
Which the experience of the past season has prov
ed to be one of the most valuable in our market.
It has for its base the materials from the Phosphate
Beds of the Company on Ashley River, and is
prepared at their works at the
EAST END OF HASEL-STREET,
in this city. In order to guarantee its uniformity
and maintain its high standard, the Company has
made arrangements with the distinguished Chem
ist, Dr. C. U. SHEPHERD, Jr., who carefully
analyzes all the amoniacal and other material pur
chased by the Company, and the prepared
FERTIDIZER,
before being offered for sale. The Company is re
solved to make an article which will prove to be
a COMPLETE MANURE, and give entire satis
faction.
For terms, circulars and other information,
APPLY TO.
WM. C. DUKES & CO Agents,
NO. T. SOUTH ATLANTIC WHARF,
Charleston, S. C.,Feb. 16,1869 7 3m
Corner of Mulberry and Second Street,
MACON, GA.
B B EUSTON, - - - Principal,
Late of Dolbearand J. W. Blackman’s Com
mercial Colleges, New Orleans.
—o:o—
This College is open daily from 9 a.m., to 9 p.
m., and is now in successful operation.
Students enter at any time. No vacations.—
Time unlimited. Cheap board, healthy city, and
its low tuition fee, make it desirable for all to en
ter here.
The following branches constitute the Commer
cial Course—each branch can be taken up sepa
rately—time is unlimited, viz: Penmanship,
Arithmetic, including Commercial Calculations,
Book-keeping, Distinct Branches, Ornamental
Penmanship and flourishing Pen Drawing.
Literary Department.—English Grammati
cal Course,$50. For further particulars, call or
send for Circulars, mp Patronize and encour
age home Institutions.
February 16, 1869 7 3m.
T. W. WHITE,
^jlttaCmil^-CL t - PPcllll,
MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.,
Will practice in this and the adjoining counties.
Ep* Applications for Homestead Exemptions
under the new law, and oiher business before the
Court of Ordinary, will receive proper attention.
October 13.1868 • 41 tf
NEWELL & WILLIAMSON,
Attorneys at Law,
MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.
W ILL practice in the counties of the Ocmul-
gee Circuit, and in the counties of Wash
ington and Hancock.
Special attention given to applications for
Homestead, and other business before the Court
of Ordinary.
T. F. Newell. W. W. Williamson.
December 15, 1868 50 ly
CITY T AXES.
C ITY TAX PAYERS will please bear in mind
that the Books are ready for the reception of
TAXES, for the year 1868. The Clerk will be in
bis office from 9 to 12 A. M., and from 2 to 5 P. M.,
to wait on the Tax payers. Call in these hours
and settle. Don’t all call at once.
P. FAIR, Clerk & Treasurer.
December 22, 1868 , 51 tf
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New York: Geo. P. Rowell & Co., Publishers
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A Handsome Octavo Volume of300 pages
Bound in Cloth. Price $5 00.
A work of great value to Advertisers, Publish
ers and others, who desire information in relation
to the Newspapers and Periodicals of North A
merica.
The edition will be limited, and persons desir
ing copies will do well to send their.orders im
mediately to GEO. P. ROWELL & CO.,
Publishers & Advertising Agents,40 Park Row,
New York.
January 19, 1869 3 tf
OFFICE SOUTH CAROLINA R. R.CO., \
Augusta, Ga., March 25,1868- >
N AND AFTER SUNDAY, 29th March,
1868, the Mai and Passenger Trains of this
Read will leave and arrive at through Central
Depot,Georgia Railroad, as follows:
Morn ing Mail and Passenger Train
^ 0r Charleston, connecting Train for Columbia,
South Carolina, Charlotte Road, and Wilming
ton and Manchester Railroad.
Leave Central Depot at 5.50 A.*M.
Arrive atOentral Depot ....... 3-30 P. M.
Night Passenger if Accommodation Train
I or Charleston, connecting with Train for Co
lumbia,and withGreenville andColumbiaRail-
road:
Leave Central Depot at 3.50 P. M.
Arrive atCentral Depotat 7.00 A. M.
H. T. PEAKE.
General Superintendent
To the heirs of Sylvanus Prince, deceased,
laic of Baldwin county.
N OTICE.—Three months after date, I will ap
ply to the Ordiuary of Baldwin county for an
order requiring the administrator of said Syiva-
uus Prince to execute titles to me for three hun
dred and twenty-eight acres of land in Baldwin
county, according to the terms of the boud for ti
tles, of said deceased, dated December 12, 1859—
said laud being the same sold to me by said de
ceased, and now in my possession.
(JOHN J. BUCK.
March 2,1869 9 3m
D ISSOLUTION.—The Copartnership hereto
fore existing between BISCHOF MON-
HEIMER, was dissolved by mutual couseut on
the 15th February, 1869.
A. BISCHOF,
H. MONHEIMER.
13?* Those indebted to above firm, will come
forward and make some settlement. Books must
be closed in some way* - either by money or notes.
A. BISCHOF.
H MONHEIMER.
March 30, 1869 13 tf
If or Sale,
A FIRST RATE GIN BAND, six inches wide,
thirty-four feet long.
Alse, Wooden running Gear for aGin-
.. Apply at the RECORDER OFFICE.
Milledgeville, Feb’y 2,1869 o tf
Bines on a Skull.
[Some forty years ago the following‘poem was
found in the London Morning Chronicle. Every
effort was vainly made to discover the author,
even to the offering a reward of fifty guineas. All
that ever transpired was that the poem, in a fair
and clerkly hand, was found near a skeleton of
remarkable symmetry of form in the Museum of
the Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln’s Inn,
London, and that the Curator of the Museum had
sent them to the editor of the morning Chronicle.]
Behold this ruin ! ’Twas a skull,
Once of ethereal spirit full,
This narrow cell was life’s retreat,
This space wa3 Thought's mysterious seat.
What beauteous visions filled this spot,
Nor Hope, nor Joy, nor Love, nor Fear,
Have left one trace of record here.
Beneath this mouldering canopy,
Once shone the bright and busy eye ;
But start not at the dismal void— >i
If social love that eye employed,
If with no lawless fire it gleamed.
But throug it dews of kindness beamed,
That eye shall be forever bright,
When stars and sun are sunk in night.
Within this hollow cavern hung
The ready, swift, and tunefui tongue ;
If falsehood’s honey it disdained,
And when it could not praise was chained;
If bold in Virtue’s cause it. spoke,
Yet gentle Concord never broke!
This silent tongue shall plead for thee,
When time unveils Eternity.
Say, did these fingers delve the mine ;
Or with the envied rubies shine 7
To hew the rock, or wear the gem,
Can little now avail to them.
But if the page of truth they sought,
Or comforts to the mourner brought,
These hands a richer meed shall claim
Than all that wait on Wealth or Fame.
Avails it, whether bare or shod,
These feet the path of duty trod .'
If from the bowers of ease they fled,
-To seek Affliction’s humble shed ;
If Grandeur’s guilty bribe they spurned,
And home to virtue’s cot returned,
These feet with angels’ wings shall vie,
And tread the palace of the sky.
A REMARKABLE DREAM.
It was during the year 1861, in the
thriving little town of Argenliere, near
the loot of the Cevennes Mountains, in
France. The day was charming. Ma
ny ol the inhabitants were traversing
the highways, enjoying the agreeable
ness of the weather. Among the num
ber there was a tall young man, appa
rently cot more than twenty-five years
of age. In his right hand he carried a
cane, and in his left a small <iprpet-bag.
His gait was quick, and from his ex
pression he appeared to be bent upon
some important errand. In this man
ner lie went along, occasionally glanc
ing around to view the surrounding ob
jects. He had hardly gone more than
a quarter of a mile when he came to a
small street, which was in the suburbs
of the town. He turned and proceed
ed up this. Presently-, after walking
but a short distance, he arrived at an
inn. Here he hesitated, and, after
viewing the exterior, he muttered to
himself the following words: “It is
singular that this is the first inn I have
seen throughout my route. However,
I will put up here.”
So saying, he entered the building,
and having registered his name, he was
shown to a room. Alter ordering his
dinner, he went into his apartment to
rest himself. His order was immedi
ately responded to, and after eating he
prepared to retire, intending to partake
of a long and hearty sleep, so that ear
ly next morning he might visit the va
rious merchants of the town. He ac
cordingly went to bed, and was soon
wrapt in slumber. While thus sleep
ing, he had a dream that made the
strongest impression on him. We will
give it as from the lips of the dreamer;
“I thought 1 had arrived at the same
town, but in the middle of the evening,
which was really the case; that I had
put up at the same inn, and gone out
immediately, as an unacquainted stran
ger would do, in order to see whatever
was worthy of observation in the place.
I walked down the main street into an
other street, apparently leading into
the country. I had gone no great dis
tance when I came to a church, which
I stopped to examine. After satisfying
my curiosity, I advanced to a by-path
which branched off’ from the main
street. Obeying an impulse which I
could neither account for nor control, I
struck into this path, though il was
winding, rough, and unfrequented, and
presently reached a miserable cottage,
in the front of which was a garden
covered with weeds. I had no great
difficulty in getting into the garden, for
the hedge had several wide gaps in it
I approached an old well that stood
solitary and gloomy in a distant cor
ner, and looking down into it, beheld,
without any possibility of mistake, a
corpse which had been stabbed in .sev
eral places. I counted the deep wounds
and wide gashes. There were six.”
At this moment he awoke with his
hair on end, trembling in every limb,
and cold drops of perspiration bedew
ing his forehead, awoke to find himself
comfortably in bed, his carpet-bag ly
ing near him, and the morning sun
beaming through his curtains. What
a difference ! He sprang from his bed,
dressed himself, and, as it was yet ear
ly, sought an appetite for his breakfast
by a morning walk. He went accord
ingly into the street and strolled along.
The further he went, the stronger be
came the confused recollection of the
objects that presented themselves to his
view.
“It is very strange,” said he to him
self; “I have never been in this place
before, and I could swear that I’ve seen
this house, and the next, and that oth
er on the left.”
On he went, till he came to a corner
of a street crossing the one down which
he had come. Before long he arrived
at the church, with the same architec
tural features that had attracted his
notice in the dream; and then the high
road along which he had pursued his
'way, coming at length to the same by
path that had presented itself to his
imagination a few hours before—there
was no possibility of doubt or mistake.
Every tree a.id every turn was familiar
to him. He hurried forward, no long
er doubting that the next moment would
bring him to the cottage, and this was
really the case. In all its exterior ap
pearances it corresponded with what
he had seen in his dream. Who, then,
could wonder that he determined to
ascertain whether the coincidence
would hold good in every point ? He
entered the garden, and went directly
to the spot where he had seen the well,
but here the resemblance failed; there
was none. He looked in every direc
tion, examined the cottage, which seem
ed to be inhabited; but nowhere could
he find any signs of a well. He then
hastened back to the inn, in a state of
excitement hard to describe. He could
not make up his mind to allow such
extraordinary coincidences to pass un
noticed. But how was he to obtain a
clue to the awful mystery ? He went
to the landlord and asked him directly
to whom the cottage belonged that was
on the by-road.
“I wonder, sir,” said he, “what caus
ed you to take such particular notice of
that wretched little hovel? It is inhab
ited by an old man and his wife, who
have the character of being very unso
cial. They scarcely leave the house,
see nobody, and nobody goes to see
them. I never heard anything against
them beyond this. Of late, their very
existence appears to have been forgot
ten, and I believe that you are the first
person who, for years, has turned his
steps to the lonely spot.”
These details, instead of satisfying
his curiosity, only roused it the more.
Breakfast was served, but he could eat
none; and he felt that if he presented
himself to the merchants in such a state
of. excitement they might think him
mad. He walked up and down the
room, and looked out of the window,
endeavoring to interest himself in a
quarrel between two men in the street:
but the garden „and cottage pre-occu-
pied his mind ; and, at last, snatching
up his hat, he made his way to the
street. Hastening to the nearest ma
gistrate, he related the whole circum
stances briefly and clearly.
“It is very strange,” said the officer;
“and after what has happened, I don’t
think it would be right to leave the mat
ter without further investigation. I
will place two of the police at your
command ; you can then go once more
to the hovel and search every part of
it. You may, perhaps, make some im
porlant discovery.”
He allowed but a very few minutes
to elapse before he was on his way,
accompanied by the two officers. Af
ter knocking at the door and wailing
for some time, the old man opened the
door. He received^ them somewhat
uncivilly, but showed no mark of sus
picion when they told him they wished
to search the house,
“Very well; as fast and as soon as
you please,” was the reply.
“Have you a well here ?”
“No, sir ; wo are obliged to get our
water from a spring about a quarter of
a mile distant.”
They searched the house, but dis
covered nothing of any consequence.
Meanwhile the old man gazed upon
them with an impenetrable vacancy of
look, as if he could understand why
they were intruding on his property.
Finally, they forsook the cottage, with
out finding anything to corroborate their
suspicions. The} 7 , however, resolved
to inspect the garden. By this time a
number of persons had collected to
gether outside, having been drawn
down to the spot by the sight of a
stranger with two policemen. They
were asked if they knew anything of a
well in those parts. They replied they
did not; the idea seemed to perplex
them. At length an old woman came
forward, leaning on a crutch.
“A well?” said she. “Is it a well
you are looking for ? That has been
with horror—the remains of a human
body!
The police officers now rushed into
the house and secured the old man. As
to bis wife, she at first could not be
found. But, after a fatiguing search,
she was discovered beneath a pile of
wood, being much bruised by the heavy
logs above her. By this lime nearly
the whole population of the town bad
collected around the spot.
The old couple were brought before
the proper authorities, and separately
examined. The man persisted in his
denial most obstinately; but his wife
at once confessed that she hnd her hus
band, a very long time ago, had mur
dered a peddler who possessed a large
sum of money. He had passed the
night at their house; and they, taking
advantage of the heavy sleep that en
compassed him, had strangled him, af
ter which they placed his body in a
chest. The chest was then thrown in
to the well, and the well stopped up.
The two criminals had reason to be
lieve themselves free from detection,
as there were no witnesses of the crime,
and its traces had been carefully con
cealed. Nevertheless they had not
been able to hush the voice of con
science. They fled from their fellow-
men. They were intimidated at the
slightest noise,and silence thrilled them
with fear. They had often thought of
flying to some distant land ; but some
inexplicable influence kept them near
the remains of their victim. Terrified
by the deposition of his wife, the old
man at length made a similar confes
sion, and six weeks after the guilty
couple expired on the scaffold.
it.
gone these thirty years. I remember
it as if it were yesterday; how I used
to throw stones into it just to hear the
splash of the water.”
“Do you remember where that well
used to be?” asked the gentleman.
“As neai as I can recollect,” replied
the woman, “it is on the very spot
where you now stand.”
He suddenly started, as if he had
trodden upon a serpent. They at once
commenced digging up the ground.
About twenty inches deep they came
to a layer of bricks, which, being brok
en up, revealed some rotten boards.
These were easily removed, when they
beheld the dark mouth of the well.
“I was quite certain lhat was the
spot,” said the old woman. “What
fools they were to slop it up, and then
have to travel so far for water !”
A sounding-line, furnished with
hooks, was now let down into the well,
the crowd hard pressing around them,
breathlessly bending over the black
and foetid hole, the secrets of which
seemed bidden in impenetrable obscu
rity. This was repealed several times
without result. At length, penetrating
below the mud, the hooks caught in
something of considerable weight, and
after much time and effort succeeded
in raising it from its obscure hole. It
was an old iron chest. The sides and
lid were decayed, aud it needed no
blacksmith to open it. Within it they
found what they were sure they would
find, and which filled the spectators
JOSH BILLINGS’ LEXICON.
Blush—The cream of modesty.
Ginger-pop—Gimnaslik water.
Man—Live dirt.
Friends—Books, paintings, and stuff.
Birds.
Bashfulness—ignorance afraid.
Conservatism—A bag with a hole to
Radicalism—A hole with a bag to
it.
Aristocrat—A de.uokrat with his
pockets filled.
Politicks- -The apology of plunder.
Tin watch—Faith without works.
Mule—A bad pun on a horse.
Patience—Faith waiting for a uib-
bie.
Sparking—Picking buds opb from
the bush.
Malice—A blind mule kicking by
guess.
Eternal—God’s epitafF.
Care—Cat pizin.
Faith—The soul riding at anchor.
Bliss—happiness biling over, and
running down both sides of the pot.
Marriage—An alter on which man
lays his pocket-book and woman her
luv letters.
Quack—A dokter whoze science
lays in hiz bills.
Hash—A boarding-hous confidence
game.
Fuss.—An old hen with one chick
en.
Twins—2 much.
Boarding School—A place whare
wry coffee and flirtashun iz taught.
Experiment—Energy out of a job.
Perfection—God in man.
Virtue—That ingredient \vhilch
needs no foil, and without which noth
ing else iz valuable.
Solitude—A good place tew visit,
but a poor place tew stay.
Sloth—Life in a tomb.
Health—A call loan.
Memory—A shadow that the somU
casts.
Politeness—Sixty-day paper.
Poverty—The only birthright that a
man kant lose.
Accidents : —The dismay of phools,
the wize man’s barometer.
Ease—Discounted time.
Wealth—Baggage atthe risk of the
owner.
Trials—Whetstuns.
Fortune—The aggregate ov possi
bility s ; a goddess whom cowards count
by stealth, but whom brave men take
by storm.
Economy—A fust mortgage on
wealth.
Enough—Just a little more.
Dignity—Wisdom in tights.
Mischief-—The maliss ov fun.
Cook—One who manufackters appe-
tights.
Diseases—The whipping posts and
branding irons ov luxury.
Drunkenness—Shame lost and shame
found.
Cowardice—Pluck on ice.
Glutton—A man with a drunken ap-
petight.
Examples—Foot prints in the wil
derness.
Nunnery—Piety in chains.
Ignotance—Raw happiness.
Sin—A natral distemper, for which
virtue haz been discovered to be an
antidote.
Friendship—Oue ov lov’s pimps.
Envy—A disease original with Cain,
but which hiz brother Abel afterward
caught, and died suddenly ov.
Belle—A female boss ov the situa
tion.
Fancy—The flirtashun ov truth.
Sarcasm—An undertaker in tears.
Salks—DefFand dutn madness.
Courting—A hugg and kiss match,
generally a drawn game.
Fiction—A lie with holiday clothes
on.
Hen—A lay member.
Law—The shackles ov liberty.
1 Science—The literature ov truth.
Deceit—A ded wasp with a live
tail.
Babys—Dividend.
“I’ll Take What Father Take*.”
“What will you take to drink ?”
asked the waiter of a young lad, who
for the first time accompanied his fath
er to a public dinner. Uncertain what
to say, and feeling sure that he could
not be wrong if he followed his father’s
example, he replied :
“I’ll take what father takes.”
The answer reached the father’s ear,
and instantly the full responsibility ol
his position rushed upon him. If he
said “I’ll take ale,” as he always bad
said before, his son would take it also,
and then ! And the father shuddered as
the history of several young men, who,
once promising like his own bright lad,
had been ruined by drink, started up
in the solemn warning before him.—
Should his hope also be blasted, and
that open-faced noble lad become a
burden and a curse as they had become ?
But lor strong drink they would have
been active, earnest, yrosperous men ;
and if it could work such ruin upon
them, was his own son safe ? Quick
er than lightning these thoughts pass
ed through his mind, and in a moment
the decision was made. “If the boy
falls, he shall not have me to blame
and then, in tones tremulous with emo
tion, to the astonishment of those who
knew him, he said, “waiter, I’ll lake
water and from that day to this,
strongdrink has been banished from
that man’s home.
The young lad, in his brief utterance,
was really the representative of the
generation to which he belongs. God
has so decreed it, that the father is the
highest authority in the world to his
child* Who does not know that “My
father said so,” is the end of all contro
versy with the little ones around us?
Who does not see the parenl’s tone,
gait and manners continually repro
duced in the children whose nature is
now soft as wax to receive ari impres
sion, and rigid as marble to retain it,
and who watch with a quick, imitating
eye those who to them are God’s vice
gerents ?
Would that we could impress upon
the fathers and mothers of this country
the solemn fact that the future charac
ter of their children is being formed by
them; that if they are trained up in
the way they should go, when they are
old they will not depart from it; but
that, if they become vain, sensual, and
degraded, the seeds will have been de
posited and the bias given in the early
morning of their lives.— Voice of Truth.
Uuw ait Army of Monkeys Bridged a Stream.
“They are coming and will most
likely cross the river by the rocks yon
der,” oSserved Raol.
“How, swim it?” I asked. “It is a
torrent there.”
“Oh, no,” answered Raol; “monkeys
would rather go into fire than water.
It they cannot leap the stream they will
bridge it.”
“Bridge it! and how?”
“Stop a moment, captain, and you
shall see.”
The half human voices now sounded
nearer, and we could perceive that the
animals were approaching the spot
where we lay. Presently they appear
ed upon the opposite bank, headed by
an old gray-headed chieftain and offi
cered like so many soldiers. They
were, as Raol staled, of the comedrejurs,
or ring-tailed tiibe.
One, an aid-de-camp, or chief pio
neer, perhaps, ran out upon a project
ing rock, aud after looking across the
stream as if calculating the distance,,
scampered back and appeared to com
municate with the leader. This pro
duced a movement in the troops.—
Commands were issued, fatigue par
ties were detailed and marched to the
front. Meanwhile, several of the com-
edrejars—engineers do doubt—ran along
the bank examining the trees on both
sides.
At length they all collected around a
tall cotton wood lhat grew over the
narrowest paitof the stream, and twen
ty or thirty of them scampered up its
trunk. On reaching a high point, the
foremost, a strong fellow, came out
upon a limb, and taking several turns
of his tail around it, slipped off’ and
hung bead downward. The next on
the limb, also a stout one, climbed
down the body of the first, and whip
ping his tail tightly around the neck
and fore-arm of the latter, dropped off’
on his turn and hung head down. The
third repeated his manoeuvre upon the
second, and the fourth upon the third;
and so on until the last oue upon the
string rested his fore-paws upon the
ground.
The living chain now commenced
swinging backward arid forward like
the pendulum of a clock. The motion
was slighi at first, but gradually in
creased, the lowermost striking his
hands violently upuu the earth as he
passed the tangent of the oscillating
curve. Several others upon the limbs
aided the movement. This continued
until the monkey at the end of the chain
was thrown among the branches of a
tree on the opposite bank. Here, after
two or three vibrations, he clutched a
limb and held fast. This movement
was executed very adroitly just as the
culminating point of the oscillation, in
order to save the intermediate links
from the violence of a too sudden jerk.
The chain was now fast at both ends,
forming a complete suspension bridge
over which the whole troop to the num
ber of four or five hundred passed
with the rapidity of thought.
It was one of the most comical sights
I ever beheld, to witness the quizzical
expression of the countenances along
lhat living chain!
The troop was now on the other side,
but how were the animals forming the
bridge to get ihemselves over? Xiiif
was the question whicli suggested it
self. Manifestly by number one letting
go his tail. But then the point d’appui
on the other end was much lower.down,
and number one with half a dozen of
his neighbors, would be dashed against
the opposite bank or soused into the
water.
Here then was a problem, aqd.^ye
waited with some curiosity for its, di
lution. It was soon 'solved. A ^on-
key was now seen attaching his tail to
the lowest on the bridge, another gird
ed him in a similar manner and so on,
until a dozen more was added to iht:
string. These last were all powerful
fellows, and running up to a high limb,
they lilted the bridge into a position
almost horizontal.
Then a scream from the last monkey
of the new formation warned the tail
end lhat all was ready ; and the next
moment the whole chain was swung
over, and landed safely on the opposite
bank. The lowermost links now drop
ped off’like a melted candle, while the
higher ones leaped to the branches and
came down by the trunk. The whole
troop then scampered ofFinto thechap-
peral and disappeared.
If we will consider the mortality and
brevity of this lile, we shall see enough
to do and enjoy in this world, to claim
our best powers and lofty aspirations.
The trouble is,-we too much disdain
the sphere God has appointed, and it
is fair to presume that, could we carry
tempers unchanged to higher
spheres, we should there equally ar
raign the providence of God. We are
too proud and rebellious of present
conditions—or as Pope says:
“Men would be angels, angels would be gods.’’
We are but men and women on the
earth, and never shall be more under
heaven, until we accept and improve
God’s blessiug in an humbler and purer
spirit, and practice those virtues which,
more than aught else, constitute the
angelicanddivine. Thiseternalgrumb
ling over our national state is but cov
ertly reproaching our Maker and im
pugning His wisdom and love. Let
us rather make the best of this world—
cultivate the earth and eat of its abund
ance with thanksgiving; but more than
all else, cultivate brotherhood, manli
ness, and a deeper faith and reverence
for Him, who made the world fair and-
“pronounced it good.”
Mr. O’Flaherty undertook to tell
how many there were at the party :
“The two Grogans was one, meself was
two, Mike Finn was three, and—and—
who the devil was four? Let me see,
(counting his fingers) the two Crogans
was one, Mike Finn was two, meself
was three—and—bedad, there was four
of us, but St. Patrick couldn’t tell the
name of the other. Now, ii’s meself
has it. Mike Finn was one, the two
Crogans was two, meself was three—
and—and by my sowl, I think there
was but three of us after all!”
Boys, Don’t Give Up.—“A China
man will contend, at the annual litera
ry examination, titt he is seventy or
eighty years old, although with the
bare possibility of ultimate success.—
Mr. Cabaniss, a missionary at Shang
hai, says that his teacher saw a man,
at the last examination, who is eighty-
four years old, and who has not des
paired of graduating.”
GEMS OF THOUGHT.
One act of charity is worth a centu
ry of eloquence.
Danger should be feared when dis
tant, aud braved when present.
Ill temper puts as many briefs into
the lawyer’s bag as injustice.
True eloquence consists in saying
all that is necessary, and nothing more.
Adversity is the true touchstone of
merit.
Religion is the best armor in the
world, but the worst cloak.
He that never changes any of bis
opinions never corrects any of his er
rors.
The prettiest thing for a bonnet is a
sweet face.
The bride’s Orange blossom often
bears bitter fruit.
He is truly wise who can endure evil
and enjoy good.
“Mothers! mourn not that your gems
fall away, when God calls for his jew
els.
A Valuable Receipt.—A practical me
chanic sends us the following, with a re
quest that we publish it for the benefit of
the public:
To any quantity of glue, use common
wbisky instead of water. Pat both to
gether in a bottle, cork it tight, and put it
away for three or fonr days, when it will
be fit for use without the application of
beat. Glue thus prepared will keep for
years, and it is at all times fit for ose, ex
cept in very cold weather, when it should
be set in warm water before using. To
obviate the difficulty of the stopper get
ting tight by the glue drying in the mouth
of the vessel, use a tin vessel with the cov
er fitting tight on the outside, to prevent
the escape of the spirits by evaporation.
A strong solution of isinglass, made in the
same manner, is a very excellent cement
for leather^
