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Vol. LI.
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1870.
No. 11.
M.OBME <Sc SO 1ST,
EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
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iaaortion.*! *>0- Msreliauts and others fox all
a nounUo ver $ 25, twenty-nvc per cent. off.
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Application for letters of dtatn n of guard n
Application for leave to se*!., U<1
Notice to Debtors and Creditors .
Sale* of Land, per square of ten lutes
Sale of personal, persq., ten days...
Sharifs —Each levy of ten lines, or less..
Mortjfajfe sales of ten lines or less......
Tat Collector’s sales, per sip (» months)
C lsrks--Foreclosure of mortgage and oth
er monthly’s, per square
gtrav notices, thirty days.-- - —- - - - -
Tributes of Respect. Resolutions by Societies,
Obituaries,«fcc., exceeding si/, lines,to becharged
fti tr ansiantadvertising.
ty dales of Laud, by Administrators, Execu
tor* or Guardians, are required by law, to be held
en the first Tuesday in the month, between jhe
h#nr« often in the forenoon and three in the af-
,-n >oa, sttheCou#t-house in the county in which
pr > i s rty is situated.
Notic* of these sales mustbegiven inapublic
j aaatte 40 days previous to the day of sale.
Notice for the sale of personal property must be
gi ran*! n! ike manner 10 days previous to sale day.
Notieesto debtors and creditors of an estate
mtitaUo be published 40 days.
Notice that application will be made to the
Ceurtof Ordinary for leave to sell land, must be
* tbUshed for two months.
Citations for letters of Administration, Gnar-
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CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
KG CHACTGS OF CARS SS
SAVANNAH, ATJ
GUST A AND nZONTGOM
23B.1T, AIiA3AI¥IA
TRANSPORTATION OFFICE, GET. R. R. >
Savannah, August 14, 1868. J
O N AND AFTER SUNDAY, 16th inst., Pas
senger Trains on the Georgia Central R. R
will run as follows :
UP DAY TRAIN.
I.t'AVE ARRIVE.
Savannah 8:00 A M
Macon 5:38 P N
Augusta 5:38 P M
Uilledgevikle 8:58 P M
Eatonton 11.00 P M
Connecting with trains that leaves
Augusta
DOWN DAY TRAIN
Macon 7:00
Savannah -
Augusta
Connecting with train that leaves
Augusta
UP NIGHT TRAIN-
Savannah 7:20 P M
Macon
Augusta —
Connecting with trains that leaves
Augusta P M
DOWN NIGHT TRAIN.
Macon ~G:25 P ;M
Savannah - - - - - -
Augusta - * - -» •• ••• ■
Milledgeville — - - 4:.<0 r M
Eatonton -2:40 P M
8:45 A M
5:30 P M
5:38 P M
8:45 A M
6:55 A M
8:13 A M
5:10
0:13
rain that leaves
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C lUi ICUCI3 vt .**.»*.--.a V* I 7 . "
4 : m«hip, &.c.,mustbe published 30days—forms-i Connecting witlitra
•„i on from. Administration, monthly si/ months ; Augusta -
#r dismission from guardianship, 40 days. ; A M Trains Irom Savaunah and Augusta, a
f ,r foreclosure of Mortgages must be p M Train from Macon connect with Milledge
.Mi,hed monthly for four months-for establish- viUc Train at Gordon daily, feundays excepted.
p« bits He a fJ t) J full space, of three months- ; p M. Train from Savannah connects With thro
f*r - vnoelling title* from Executors or Adminis-
9:53 P M
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south Caroline Railroad, aud P.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
0BSEIUL SUreiUSTESDBST'S OFFICE, (
ATLAXTIC & UULF.R. R- ¥ ’ (
Savannah, January ( , lo.O. ]
O N AND AFTER SUNDAY, the 9tl; instant,
Passenger Trains on this Road will run as
fol.owa. night E PXPRESS TRAIN.
Leave Savannah every day at... 4.30 1 M
Arrive at Jesup junction. M Cc a
UR at ; .,o,» a M
Arrive at Live Oak every day “ u-2 \ M
Arrivo at Jacksonville every day |.tW A -1
Arrive at Tallahassee every day “ ,.
Arrive at Q lincy every day
Arrive at Baiubridge Mondays ex-
7.15 A M
Leave Live Oak every day if.l f
Leave Jesup every day... j
Arrive at Savannah every daj > •
MACON A BRUNSWICK ACCOMMODATION
TRAIN.
Leave Savannah, Sundays except- ^ p ^
ed, at '
Arrive at Jesups Sundays except- - py p M
Arrive at Brunswick daily at 8.;20 P M
Laave Macon daily at f "
Leave Jesup daily at ’ „ ..
Arrive at Savannah daily at 1 M
On Sunday this Train will leave Savannah at
7 15 A. M., connecting with Trains for Macon &
Brunswick, and connecting with trains lrom Ma
con and Brunswick will arrive at ^avanrtan a
• 30 PM.
DAY TRAIN.
Lcava Savannah, Sundays except
ed at
Arrive at Jesups, Sundays except- r
ed at A M
Arrive at Live Oak, Sundays ex- ^ ^
c»pteu at f ., ir
Arrive at Macon duly at ‘
Leave Live Oak. Sundays except-
edat b - 0uA M
Leave Jesups, Sundays except- o 16 P M
Arrivo at Savannah .Sundays ex- .
ceptedat ;, 3., I M
{y Passengers for Macon take 7.15 A M train
from Savannah, leaving daily. ,> x r * •
Passengers tor Brunswick take 2.10 P M. train
from Savannah. ■
Passengers leaving Macon at 8 3D A M connect
at Jesup with express train for Florida and \Y est
er* Division, aud with train for Savannah, arriv
ing at 9 30 PM.
Passengers from Brunswick connect at Jesup with
train for Savannah, arriving at :>.3-> P M except
on Sundays, when it arrives at 9 30 P. M at Jesup
with Express Train for Savannah, arriving at
10 50 A M.
Connect at Macon with Train for Atlanta, leav
ing at 9.0U P M.
SOUTH GEORGIA A.FLORIDA R. R. TRAIM.
Leave Thomasville Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays at - -Ai-90 A M
Arrive at Pelham, Tuesdays Thursdays and Sat
urdays at 9.55 A, ii
Leave Pelham, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Satur
days at ---•** A> ” - 1 , I
Ai rire at Thomasville, Tuesdays, Lhuradaysan :
Saturdays at ' P , M
H. S. HAINES,
General Superintendent.
Jannuary 18, 1870 ^ *
CHANGE OFSCHEDULE.
SOUTM-WSSTERS RilLROAD COSfASf, \
Office, Macon, Ga., Jan-15th, 1870. i
Ktfaula day Passenger and Mail 1 rave
Leave Macon 8,00 A.M.
Arrive atEufauia 5.30 P.M.
Leave Eufaula 7.20 A. V..
Arrive at Macoti 4.50 P.M.
Night Freight c\ Accommodation '1 rein.
Leave Macon 8:25 P *<I
Arrive at Eufaula 11:00 A M
Leav«Eufaula 7:18 P M
Arrive at Macon - 9:10 A M
Col ind/us Mail Train.
Laave Macon 7:25 A M
Arrive at Columbus 1.22 A M
Laave Columbus 12:25 P M
Arrivo at Macon 6:05 P:M
NOTICE-
Atlantic & Gin' Railroad Co.. t
Savannah, December 15.1869. \
O N AND AFTER THIS DATE.-BX AGREE-
MENf, the rate of Freight between Savan-
nan and Macon,,by the Atlantic and Ghlt and Ma
con and Brunswick Railroads, will be as follows .
First class pet- pound. i- |>2 3n
Second class per 10\l pounds j T 1
Third class per 100 pounds - 1 00
Fourth class per luO pounds — 80
Fifth class per 100 pounds.. H*
Sixth class per 100 pounds -- ^
Seventh class per 100 pounds ’O
Eighth class per 100 pounds bo
Ninth class per 100 pounds "6
Cotton per 100 pounds h(i
Salt per sack
Guano per 100 pounds - -* J
Freight received for all Stations on Macon aud
Western Railroad, Atlanta and points beyond.
II. S. HAINES,
General Superintendent
February 1, 1879
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Schedule of the Georgia Railroad.
SUPERINTENDENT’S OFFICE, )
Gkokcia Railroad Compant, >
Augusta, Ga., December 23, ’69. }
O N AND AFTER SUNDAY, 20tli inst., the
■ Passenger Trains on the Georgia Railroad
will run as follows:
DAY PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at. • A JJ -
Atlanta at - A "J-
Arrive at August at J-d” 5 P M-
“ at Atlanta > *^ ^ ^ •
NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at
“ Atlanta at ?An P M.
Arrive at Augusta im A
“ Atlanta 8.00A.A1.
S. K. JOHNSON,
Superintendent.
-January, 18 1870 ^
Schedule Macon & Brunswick R. R-
O^EGULAR THRO’
January, 7th, 1870
PASSENGER TRAINS
will commence running on this Road on
Sunday, the 9th inst., as follows ;
Leave Macon at A
Arrive at Brunswick at ** L vr
Arrive at Savannah at I M.
RETURNING :
8.00 A M.
7.15 AM.
7.50 P M.
Leave Brunswick at
Leave Savannah at
Arrive at Macon at
Trains make direct connections at Jesap,
both ways, with trains for Baiubridge, Thotnns-
the crossing of the Atlantic and Gulf Koad,
vilie, and all points on that Koad, as well.as with
those for Jacksonville, Tallahassee, and all sta-
tions on the Florida Roads.
Fare to Savannah and Brunswick $ 8 00
Fare to Jacksonville ~ "
Fare to Tallahassee J™
Fare to Bainbridge.... lo uu
Fare to New York, Philadelphia cr
Baltimore, by steamers 27 00
Under recent arrangements made with the At
lantic A Gulf Road, freights to and from Savan
nab aud New Y’ork have increased dispatch.
The Southern Express Company will operate on
this line to Brunswick, points in Southern Geor
tria and in Florida, commencing on Monday, the
10th instant.
ROBERT SCHMIDT.
Master transportation.
January 18,1S70_ ^ ^ -
IN THE CLOSET.
A STOKY FOB WIVES.
“Bedlam let loose! Pandemonium
in rebellion! Chaos turned inside
out! What is the reason a man can
j not be allowed to sleep in the morning
without this everlasting racket raised
about his eats? Children
door slamming—1 will know the rea
son of tills uproar !”
Mr. Luke Darcy shut the door ot’his
bed room with considerable emphasis,
and went straight to the breakfast par
lor.
All was bright and quiet and pleas
ant there ; the coal snapping and spark
ling in. the grate, the china and silver
neatly arranged on the spotless damask
cloth, and the green parrot drowsely
winking his yellow eyes in the sunny
glow of the eastern window. Bedlam
plainly wasn’t located just there, and
Mr. Darcy went stunningly up stairs
to the nursery.
Ah! the field of battle was reached
at last. Mrs. Darcy was silting in her
little low chair before the fire, trying
to quiet the screams of an eight months
old bady, scion of the house of Darcy,
while another—a rosy boy of five years
—lay on his back, prone to the floor,
kicking and crying in a fit of childish
passion.
“ Mrs. Darcy !” enunciated Luke
with a slow’ and ominous precision,
“ may I inquire what all this means?
Are you aware that il is fifteen minutes
past nine o’clock ? Do you know that
breakfast is waiting ?”
“ 1 know, Luke—I know,” said the
perplexed Mrs. Darcy, striving vainly
to lift the rebellious urchin up by one
arm. “Come, Freddy, you are going
to be a good boy now, mama is sure,
anti get up and be washed.”
“No-o-o!” roared Master Freddy,
performing a brisk tattoo on the carpet
with his heels, and clawing the air fu
riously.
Like an avenging vulture, Mr. Darcy
pounced abruptly down upon hi son and
heir: carried him promptly to the clos
et and turned the key upon his
screams.
“.Now, sir, you can cry it out at
your leisure. Evelyn, nurse is wait
ing for the baby. We’ll go down to
breakfast.”
“ But, Luke,” hesitated Mrs. Darcy,
“you won’t leave Freddy theref”
“ Won’t; I’d like to know why not ?
It’s temoer, and nothing -else that is at
the bottom of all these demonstrations,
and I’ll conquer that temper, or I’ll
know the reason why. It ought to have
Been chpckeil long ago, but you are so
ridiculously indulgent. There is noth
ing I have so little tolerance for a bad
temper—nothing that ought to be so
promptly and severely dealt with.”
“ But if he’ll say he’s sorry. Luke?”
Mr. Darcy rapped sharply at the
panels of the door.
“ Are you sorry for your naughtiness,
young man "
A fresh outburst of the screams, and
a renewal ol the tattoo was the answer.
“1 am sure he is sorry, Luke,” plead- ^
ed the all-extenuating mother; but Mr. j^j‘
Darcy shook his head.
“ Entire submission is the only thing
I will listen to,” he said shortly. “ I
tell you, Evelyn,*I am determined to
uproot this temper.”
Evelyn, with a dewy moisture shad
owing her eyelashes, and a dull ache
at her heart, followed her leige lord
down to the breakfast table, with as
little appetite for the coffee, toast and
eaijs as might be.
Luke pushed his chair back with a
vengeance, and took his stand witli his
back to the fire, both hands under his
coat tails.
“ Please, sir,” said the servant de-
precatingly advancing, “ the gass bill
—the man savg will you settle it,
while”—
“ No,” roared Luke tempestuously.
“Tell the rnan to go about his business;
ctying— j j vv j]| j iave n0 sma |l hills this morning,
i ip im- anc j j won’t hje so persecuted I”
Mary retreated precipitately Clara
raised*her long dark eyelashes.
“ Do you know, Luke,” she said
demurely, “I think you won hi feel a
great deal better if you would do just
as Freddy does—lie flat down on the
Hoor and kick your heels against the
carpel for a while. Ps an excellent es
cape-valve when your choler gels the
better of you.”
Luke gave bis mischievous sister-in-
law a glance that ought certainly to
have annihilated her, and walked out
of the room, closing the door behind
him with a bang dial would bear no in
terpretation. Then Clara came round
to her sister and buried her pink face
on Evelyn’s neck.
“ Don’t scold me, Evy, please; I
know l have been very naughty to
lease Luke so.”
“ You have spoken nothing but ihe
truth,” said Evelyn quietly, with her
coral iips compressed, and a scarlet
spot burning on either cheek. “Clara,
I sometimes wonder how 1 can endure
the daily cross of my husband’s tem
per.”
“ Temper!” said Clara, with a loss
of her chestnut brown hair. “ And
the poor, tlear fellow hasn’t the least
idea how disagreeable he makes him
self.”
“ Only this morning,” said Evelyn,
“ he punished Freddy with unrelent
ing severity for a fit of ill humor which
lie himself has duplicated within the
last half hour. I am not a moralis ,
but it strikes me that the fault is rather
to be censured in a full grown, reason
ing man, than in a child.”
“Evelyn,” said Clara, gravely “do
you suppose he is beyond the power
of cure ?”
“ I hope not; but what can I do?—
Shut him upas he shut up little Fred
dy ?”
Evelyn’s merry, irresislable laugh
was checked by the arch, peculiar ex-
j pression in Clara’s blue eyes,
j “ The remedy needs to be sotne-
j thing short and sharp,” said Ci ira,
i “ and the dark closet system seems to
[ combine both requisites. Tears and
! hysterics were played out long ago in
I matrimonial skirmishes, you know,
Evy.”
“Nonsense!” laughed Mrs. Darcv,
rising from the breakfast table in obedi
ence to her husband’s peremptory sum
mons from above stairs, while Clara
shrugged her shoulders and went to
look tor her work basket.
Luke was standing in front of his !
bureau drawer, flinging shirt, cotars,
cravats nrul stockings recklessly upon
the bed-room floor.
“ I’d like to know where my silk !
handkerchiefs are, Mrs. Darcy he fum
' Another sixty seconds of dead si
lence, then a sudden rain of heels and
hands against the relentless wooden
panels.
“ Let me out, I say, Mrs. Darcy !—
Madam, how dare you perpetrate this
monstrous piece of of audacity ?”
“ My dear Luke, how strongly you
do remind me of Freddy ! You see, j
there is nothing 1 have 30 little toler- j
ance for as a had temper. It ought to
have been checked long ago, only you
know, 1 am so ridiculously indulgent.”
Mr. Darcy winced a little at the fa
miliar sound of his own words.
Tap, tap, tap, came softly to the
Hoor. Mrs. Darcy promptly opened it,
anti saw her husband’s little office boy.
“ Please, mem, there’s some gentle
men at tire office, in a great hurry to
see Mr. Darcy, i’s' about the Apple-
gate will case.”
Mrs. Darcy hesitated an instant;
there was a triumphant rustle in the
closet, and her dennination was taken.
“ Tell the gentlemen that your mas
ter has a had head ache, and won’t be
down town this morning.”
Luke nasbed his teeth audibly as
soon as the dosing of the door admonish
ed him that he might do so with safety.
“M rs. Darcy, do vou presume to in
terfere with the transaction of business
that is vitally important, ma’am—vi
tally important?”
Mr . Darcy mechanically lo*k up the
little op :ra air where she had left it-,
letting the soft Italian words ripple mu
sically off her tongue.
“ Evelyn, dear I”
“What is it, Luke?” she asked
mildiv.
“ Please, let me out. My dear this
may be a joke to you, but”—
“ I assure you, Luke, it’s nothing of
the kind ; it is the soberest of serious
matters to me. It is a question as to
whether my future life shall be misera
ble or happ3'.”.
There was a third interval of silence.
“ Evelyn,” said Luke, presently, in
a subdued voice, “will you open the
door ?”*
“ On one condition only.”
“And what is that?”
“ Ah ! ah !” thought the little lieuten
ant general, “ he’s beginning to enter
tain terms ofeapitulation, is he? “On
condition,” she added aloud,that
you will break yourself of the habit of
speaking sharply and crossly to me,
and on all occasions to keep vour tem-
indeed 1” sputtered
A tall, blue-eyed young lady, with a
profusion of bright chestnut hair, and
cheeks like rose velvet, was already at
the table when they descended, by
name Clara Pruyn, bv lineage Mrs.
Darcy’s sister, riiie opened tier blue
eyes rather wide as the two entered.
“Good gracious, Evy, what’s the
matter?”
“ Nothing,” answered Luke, tartly.
“ Mrs. Darcy, you appear to forget that
I have eaten no breakfast."
I on. -* Such a state as my bureau is in,
1 is enough to drive a man crazy.”
i “ It’s enough to drive a woman cra
zy, 1 think,” said Evelyn hopelessly,
i stooping to pick up a few of the scat
tered articles.
“ You were at the bureau last, Luke.
It is your own fault.”
*' My fault—ofcour*e it’s my fault!”
snarled Luke, giving Mrs. Darcy’s
poodle a kick that sent il howling to
iis mistress. “ Anything but a wo
man’s retorting, recriminating tongue.
Mrs. Darcy, l won’t endure it any
longer.”
“ Neither wiil I,” said Evelyn reso
lutely, advancing as her husband plun
ged into the closet for his businest-
coat. and promptly shutting and lock
ing the door. “I think I’ve endured
it quite long enough—and here is an
end of il!”
‘M rs. Darcy, open the door!” said
Something is the matter, though,” j Luke, scarcely able to credit the evi-
said Clara, shewdly. “ What is it Ev- Tlence of his own senses.
elvu ? Has Luke had one of his tant-
J
T. W. WHITE,
r httai L ILEl4 r -CLt^^CcLUL,
MILLEDGEVILLE, GA.,
Will practice in this and the adjoining eonnties.
S^“ Applications for Homestead Exemptions
under the new law, and other business before the
Court of Ordinary, will receive proper attention.
October 13.1868 ^1 tf
Columbus Night Freight SfAc'omfn Train \ !F , UH*Tli"tTir© jR»6p3>ir©c3,.
Leave Macon 7:40 P M
Arrive at Columbus 5:05 A M
Laave Columbus 7:00 P M
Arrive at Macon 4:43 A M
“Albany Train” connects at Smithville with
Eufaula Trains and Arrive at Albany at 3:11 PM
and Leaves Albany at 9:35 A M—Regular Mail
Train.
Aeeammodation Train connects three ti nes a
week.
“Fort Gaines Train,” connects at Cuthb* rt.
Leave Fort Gaines at 7:05 A M and Ar.we at
Fort Gaines 3:40 P M.
Accommodation Train connects twice a week,
•a Tuesdays and Thursdays.
W. 6. BRANTLY, Aud.
February 1, 1870 5 tf.
rpnE SUBSCRIBER would respectfully an-
I. nonnee to the citizens of Milledgeville aud
Baldwin couuty, that he is prepared to do all kind
of work in his line, warranted to give satisfaction.
Those who have favored him in days past, have
his kindest acknowledgments. Orders solicited.
He can 6.x up all kind of Chairs, Caue bot
tom or otherwise. R. N. ADAMS.
October 12, 1869 41 3m
“ l shall do no such thing,” said
rums?” ^ rs - Harcy, composedly, beginning to
‘ Luke set down his coffee with a. re-arrange shirt*, stockings and flannel
sharp click. • j wrappers in their appropriate recepta-
“ You use very peculiar expressions, cles
Miss Pruyn.”
“ Very true ones,” said Clara sau
cily.
Evelyn smiled in spite of herself.
“ It’s only our Freddy, who feels a
little cross, and”—
“Mrs. Darcy!” roated Luk^, at a
fever heat of impotent rage, “ what on
earth do you mean ?”
“ I mean to keep you in that clothes- j
press, Mr. Darcy, until you have made j
i up your mind to come out in a more
“A little cross,” interrupted the in-j amiable humor. If the system suc-
dignant husband. “ Iteli you, Evelyn, | ceeds with Freddy, il certainly ought
it’s quite lime that temper was check- to with you : and l am sure your tem-
a l, Oh, that parrot! what an intoler-! per is much more intolerable than his*”
able screeching he kepps tip ! Murv, ! There was a dead silence of full six-
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take that bird into the kitchen, or I shall
be tempted to wring its neck. Strange
that a man can’t have p little peace
once in a while! What does ail these
csgs, Evelyn? I thought 1 had asked
you to see that they were boiled fit for
a Christian to eat.”
Mr. D.trcy gave his egg, shell and
all, a vindictive throw upon the grate.
Evelyn’s brown eyes sparkled danger
ously as she observed the manoeuver,
but she made no remark.
“ And the plates are as cold as a
stone, when I haAe implored again and
again that they might be warmed.—
Well, I shall eat no breakfast this
morning.”
“ Whom will von punish most?” de
mantled Miss Clara. “Evelyn, give
me another cup of eofl’ee ; it is perfect
ly deiighlful.”
ly seconds in the closet, then a sudden
burst of vocal wrath.
“ Mrs. Darcy, open the door this in
stant, madam !”
But Evelyn went on humming a
saucy little opera air, ami arranging
her clothes.
“ Do you hear me ?”
“Yes, I hear you.”
“ Will you obey me ?”
“ Not until you have solemnly prom !
csed me To put some sort of control on
that temper of yours ; not until you 1
pledge yourself hereafter to treat your I
wife a* a lady should be treated, not as 1
a menial.”
“I won’t!”
“ No ? Then, in that case, I hope j
you don’t find the atmosphere at all op-1
pressive there, as I think it probable i
you will remain there sometime f” i
per.”
“ My temper,
Luke. • -
“Just your temper,” returned hi*
wife, serenely. “ Will you ptomise ?”
“ Never, madam !”
Mrs. Darcy quietly took up a pair of
hose that required mending, and pre
pared to leave the room. As the (loot
creaked upon its hinges, however, a
voic# came shrilly through the opposite
keyhole.
“ Mrs. Darcy ! Evelyn ! wife.!”
“ Yes.”
“You are not going down *tairs to
leave me in this place?”
“ I am.”
“ Well, look hete—I promise.”
“ All and every tiling that 1 require ?”
‘‘Yes, all and everything that you
require—confound it all !”
Wiselv deaf to the muttered sequel,
Mrs. Darcy opened the door arid Luke
stalked out, looking right over the top
of tier shining brown hair.
Suddenly a little detaining hand was
laid upon his coat sieeve.
“Luke, dear!” -
“ Well r”
“ Won’t you give me a kiss ?”
And Mrs. Darcy burst out crying on
her husband’s shoulder.
“ Well !” ejaculated the puzzled
Luke, “ifyou aren’t the greatest enig
ma going. A kiss ? Yes, half n doz-
zen, if you want, you kind hearted lil-
turn key. Do not cry, pet; I’m not
angry with you, though I suppose 1
ought to be.”
“ And may I let Freddy out ?”
“ Yes, on the same terms lhat his
papa was released. Evelyn, was 1
very intolerable ?”
“Ifyou hadn’t been, Luke, I never
should have ventured on so violent a
remedy.”
“ Did I make you very unhappv ?”
“ Very.”
And the gush of warm sparkling tears
supplied a dictionary-full of words.
Luke Darcy buttoned up his over
coal, put on his hat, shouldered his
umbrella, and went to the Applegate
will case, musing as he went upon the
new state of affairs that had presented
itself to his consideration-
“ By Jove !” he ejaculated, “ lhat
little wife of mine i3 a bold woman,
and a plucky one !”
And thus he burst out laughing on
the steps. It is more than probable he
left his slock of bad temper in the law
buildings that day, for Evelyn and
Clara never saw any more of it; and
Freddy is.daily getting ihe better of
the peppery element in his infantile dis
position.
Men, after all, are but children of a
larger growth; and so Mrs. Evelyn
Darcy had reasoned.
Hot Milk a Remedy.-— Hot milk lias
been *uccessfnl!y tried as a reme'.ty for di
arrhoea, It is ^aid that a pint every few
hours will cflieck the most violent stomach
Rche, incipient cholera or dysentery,
From Muskeg an (Mich.) Enterprise.
A &E3TEIiRANEUi VOYAGE-
The Story of a West Virginia Plowman—
He breaks through the crust of the earth
—Falls inlo a Subterranean River—Six
miles in forty-eight hours.
When we were publishing a paper
in Lewisburg, West Virginia, several
years ago, a very singular accident be
lei a'young man there, which we narra
ted briefly at the time. A few days
ago we chanced to meet him here in
Muskegat). and he narrated his adven
ture at our request. It occurred on
the farm of Gen. A. W. (I. Davis, in
Greenbrier eoun'y, in 1856. We give
his story i:i his own wprds, as near as
we Can recollect them.
“I was plow it;, on Gen. Davis’s
farm in 1S56,” said* he, “unsuspicious
of being on insecure ground, when
suddenly the earth seemed to fall be
■neath trie. 1 saw th? horses descend
ing, but waj too frightened to let go
ihe plow handles. The pitch of the
horses wit'll the earth gave mv fall an
impetus, and somehow I caught the
mane of one of them in my fail, and so
field on instinctively. What I though!
when failing I can hardly tell. At any
ra'e, l did some rapid thinking. When
l landed l fell on the horse whose mane
I had hold ol, and although the horse
was irisfanlly killed, l was merely
stunned and confused. On recovering
myself I looked up, and the hole
through which I had fallen looked so
small 1 loacluded I had fallen full. 150
feet. My first thought was to call for
aid, but I instantly recalled the fact
hat I was at least a mile from General
Davis’s house, and that there was not
remotest probability that anyone had
seen rnv descent into the earth. It was
then early morning, and as I had
brought out my dinner with me, no one
would miss me be ore nighifdl. W i ■
going over these facts in my own mind
I heard ihe rush of water near at hand
and it occurred to me that I must have
fallen upon ihe bed of Sinking creek,
'hear the rush of water below, and a
stone thrown down will sometimes be
heard to splash in the stream.”
BILLlXtTs BEST.
Men mourn for what they have lost
—wimen for what they hain’t got.
I judge of a man’s virlew entirely bi
hiz pashions. It is a great deal eazier
tew be a good dove than a decent sar-
pent.
Thar are menny ways to find out
how brave and how honest a man mav
be, but tbarain't no way to find out
the extent uv his vanity.
A lie is like a cat—it never comes to
y*i in a straight line.
Nalur is a kind mother. She could’nt
well afford to make us perfekt, and so
she made us blind to our teeiings.
fetudv >he heart if yo want to learn
human nalur in man’s ked.
Friendship iz simply the gallantry of
self interest.
Beware of th3 man with half shut
eyes—he ain’t dreaming.
Experience makes more timid men
than it duz wise ones.
Advice iz a drug in the market—the
supply always exceeds the demand.
One ov the safest and most success-
lull tallents 1 kno ov iz to be a good
lislerner.
Fools are the whetstones of society.
Belter make a weak man your ene
my than your friend.
Curiosity is the instinct ov wisdom.
1 hose who beeutn disgusted and
withdraw Irom the world, rnusn’t for
get one thing, that ihe world wifi for
get them a long time before they will
forgit the world.
Put down a man (for me ) as a vain
and selfish fritter, all his talk and
ackshuns to the contrary, notwithstand
ing, nevertheless, to wit, verily, amen.
YVise men luff every good chance
they kan git. Lnffin izotdy a weak
ness in phools.
I give the world credit for a good
deal more honesty than it can show.
■ Whenever i find a real handsum
woman engaged in the ‘wimmons’
which as you know tall into the earth n£ , h ,‘ 7..,: j, .
. J , c . , rignts Business men i am goia® to take
above Frankfort, am! does not come m ; i ° • l
.1 , .-it -, , Lsi mi nal under mi arm and line in the
out hut once till it reaches the bank of procession
the Greenbrier river. To slay where ftriiltni# B ,, ,
r . r u j , i vxr.itituae iz a debt, and, like at oth-
I was, or to attempt to follow the sub- pr ,i p K ti; . ,.
. * , i ueois, is paid oekause we are a
terranean passage was the next quesC v \ i
T 1 , , 1 omu.ged to, not oekause we love to.
Hon. I sometimes took the team to, „• *, , . - .
. , ! a raise that am t deserved is no bet
ter than slander.
I here Iz three kinds of pliools in th s
l world the natural ones, the common,
every day phool, and the daghm phool.
A Tour It ins Ilfiiltiaty.
A disconsolate husband thus bt wails
| the loss of Ins wife, and apostrophises
my own t i a it stal 1 s and therefore
might not be missed fur dsys; so I de
termmed to follow the stream. 1 wa
ded in it, and, judging from its depth
of from one to ihree feet, l concluded
it must be the identical Sinking creek
spoken of. Leaving mv dead compan
ion behind me i followed th“ stream.
For the ihe most parti had pretty | her memory .
easy work of it, but sometime 1 came | Thus rny wife died. No more will
to a deep place, where I was forced to j those loving hands pull off my boots
swun for a considerable distance, ] and part my back hair, as only a - true
atmin J was often precipitated wife can. No more will those willing
headlong mto deep water by the [ire- i feet replenish coal hod and water oaib
cip.Hous nature of the rockv bed of the i No more will she arise ’mid the tern-
stream. Talk about the darkness of ; pestuous storms of winter, and gaily
the grave ! The grave itself could not hie herself awav to build the fire, with-
have been more impalpably dark than j out disturbing fhe slumbers of ihe man
the passage I was following. The oc-.j who doted on her so artlessiv. Her
casiqrtal rippling ofthe waters was an ] memory is embalmed in my heart of
inexpressibly dear sound fo my ears, i hearts. I wanted to embalm her bodv
Dav and night were the same to me. hut 1 found that I could embalm her
At last, wear ted with my efforts, 1 laid
down on a comparatively dry rock to
rest, and must have slept for hours.
When I awoke again I took to the wa-
rnemory much cheaper.
I procured of Eli Mudget, a neigh
bor of mine, a very pretty gravestone.
His wife was consumptive, and he had
ter, carefully ascertaining which way : kept it on hand several years, in ex
it ran. so as not to lose my labor by re | mi ion of her death. But she rallied
tracing my steps. It seemed to me Lhat spring and his hopes were blasted
lhat the further 1 went the more dilii- J Never shall I forget this poor man’s
cult progress became. When I had .grief, when 1 ^askrd him to part with it.
gone perhaps a mile, 1 crime to a place ! “Take it, Skinner,” said he, take it.
where the archway narrowed so much [and may you never know what it is to
lhat I had to crawl on my hands and I h ive your souLracked with disappoint-
knees in ihe water. Here was a di- • meni^as mine has been f and he
lemma I had not looked for. I tried j burst into a Hood of tears. His spirit
was indeed utlerlv crushed.
either banks ofthe river, but found no
j passage, f could swim under water
for a considerable distance, but the
distarfbe before me was unknown, and
[ bolted long before making the dan
gerous venture. At last 1 concluded
that my fate was equaliv doubtful in
returning as in proceeding, and plung
ed bodiy into tire current, and soon
found lhat il was so swiff in its confin
ed passage that I only needed to hold
my breath to go through. In the course
of twenty or thirty feet I again go* my
above water and took a long breathing
spell. Again the archway a! ove seem
ed to enlarge, and the bed ol the stream
became more even. I sped along com
paratively rapidly, keeping mv hands
out stretched to prevent my running
against the jagged rocks. Wearied
out, 1 again laid down and slept sound
ly in my wet clothes. On awakening,
I pursued my course down the subter
ranean stream, and at last in the long
distance ahead, saw a glimmer lhai
looked very bright in tlie » darknes I
was then shut-in. Nearing this 1 found
that it did not increase in brightnes :
and when I had gone perhaps a mile, 1
came to another place where my path
narrowed to ihe very tunned filled b\
the water. M) case now became more
desperate. I could not possibly re
trace my steps, so I submitted myself
to the current, and was immeasurably
(overjoyed to find myself rapidly swept
{ ihto Javfight. Exhausted n ml faff
1 drowned, 1 crept oui up m the land and
was not long in recognizing the objects
about me. 1 had come out into the
Greenbrier river, as I knew from the
familiar look of Gen. Davis’s mill on
Half a pint every meal generally reduces ihe bank. On reaching home I found
gradually and pleasantly and ordinary di
arrhoea.
Ver nont is to submit the question of
woman suffrage lo ihe j»eonle . next
Mav. ‘
that I had been over forty-eight hours
in making my perilous journey of six
miles underground.” Ti e hole where
this man went through is now f need
round. On listening one can plainly
1 had the following epistle engraved
noon the gravestone : To the memory
i f Tabitha, wife of Moses Skinner, Esq.
the gt n 1 -manly edifor ofthe Trom
bone. A kind mother and exemplary
wife. Terms, two dollars a year, in
variably in advance. Office over
Cole man’s grocery, up two flights.
Knock bard. We shall miss thee,
mother ; we shall miss thee, mother.
J^ob priming solicited. Thus did my
lacerated spirit cry mut ir. agony, even
as Rachel weeping for her children.
But one ray of light penetrated ihe de
spair ol my soul. The undertaker
took his pay iri job printing, and the
sexton owed me a little ac
count I should not have gotten in any
other way. Why should we pine at
the mysterious ways of Providence
and vicinity ! ( Not a conundrum )
* * * • • • |
here pause to drop a silent tear to the
memory of Tabitha Ripley, that was.
She was an eminently pious woman,
and could fry the best piece of tripe I
ever slung under my vest. Her pick-
•d-up dinners were a perfect *uccess,
and she always doted on foreign mis
sions.
Hardly to Have Been Expected.—To
show how ignorance and partisanship
•lave taken possession of men in high
places, we quote from a dispatch sent
by the General ofthe Army, W. T.
"iherman, to Gen. Terry, on the 12th
Januarv:
“I wiil sustain you in the exercise of
any authority that will maintain, sub-
-tantially, good order till ihe State of
Georgia is recognized by tiie Exeeu-
,ive and Congress, and some lawful
neans be found by which we can de
fend our friends against the Ku Klux
hand of assassins.''
\\ hat hope can honest men have ol