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■MMM Vol. LI. MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1870. No. 11. M.OBME <Sc SO 1ST, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. j $,03 per annum, in idvanci, A i) ter riSJSG—Per square often lines, each iaaortion.*! *>0- Msreliauts and others fox all a nounUo ver $ 25, twenty-nvc per cent. off. i kuai. advertising. . .. ritati 0 ns torlettersoi ati ' "r/imry i-—ottHiio , m ‘ni»tration .Sfuardiaus 111 ! Doungtoad notice ***** V.V.lVii’m’n Aj»pli*ati«)iitorletter8 of dts m n U1 ‘ 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- 1! 00 ‘2 00 5 00 0 50 5 00 3 00 5 00 1 50 2 50 f. 0O r> oo 1 00 T 00 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 * 1 , * t 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 UUtll C’ll V 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 5 tt 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- iilajtks for Sale at this Oil A’e- W ANTED.—A Northern mau—friendly to the South, and a believer in the old Jefferso nian idea of government—a College graduate, de- i sires a situation as Teacher in some Southern j State. Satisfactory references furnished if desired ! Address, stating terms, “CLASSICS,” Publishers’ Box No 7, Dayton, Ohio ! Wecnrder Otfify- 1 OcwUr 1», 4KW « U 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