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VOL. XVH.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, APRIL 18, 1875.
Lawyers.
LIONEL C. LETT, JL,
Attorney ant cnnallsr at Law.
Commissioner of Dead. N. Y. snd other State..
0«oc over G-nada Homs Insurance Go.
Spsolsl attention (Inn to collections. . *
too. „ • u
BAMUJCL D. HATCHES,
AttorawatLuw, ,
M*0 OAm ever Wlttich A ElaMl'i.
A. A. acuiL 1
Attorney aaA Caannltor at Law,
PmctloM it IUt« end rad.nl Court. In (J«or|l. ]
and Alabama.
Ofllee IBS Brood St., Columbus, Os. JaS
Maas H. Buudvosd. Loois F. Oaiaaan.
■UIBrOBD * UAtRAlD,
Alleruejs and Csaaisllers mi Law.
Offloe No. ST Broad street, over Wittieh A Kin-
eel'e Jewelry Store.
WIU^nwtlM la tk. SUU nod rto.nl Court..
L. T. MWE1EO,
Attorney aaA BaUaHav.
0.1. Oom'r Md iUgister iu Bankruptcy. Offloe
nov90| over Brooks' Drug Store, Columbus, -I*.
L J. MIMSES,
Attorney and Oaaanallar a* Lam,
Sortie Ron. Inaur.no. Conpuy lelliliox, • w
octT lyj ond story.
Croosrs.
DAM’L B. Bill,
Dsalsr lu Family drocsrles, on Bryan street, 1*
tween Oglethorpe A Jackson streets.
4W No ohargt for drayags. dec7
J. H. HAMILTON,
Whelesals and Btlall Urtesv,
Jusetlou of Franklin, Warren A Oglothorpe Bts.
Pf e chargo for drayags. stipl4
Watchmakers.
C. H. LUUU1N,
Watchmaker,
1M Broad street, Columbus, Ha.
Watches and Clocks repaired in the best man-
ner and warranted. Jell
Tin and Coppersmiths.
WM. FEE,
Warkar la Tta, ihMI Iran, Capper.
Ortors from ebroto promptly ettondto to.
|nT No. 1T4. Rrovl Street.
Dentists.
W. r. TlUMJSm, a
DMtUt,
m OPP 0 " 1 ** Strapper's building, Randolph 8t.
Special attention given to ths insertion of Arti
ficial Teeth, ae well ee to Operative Dentistry.
f*b22 dew
1 COLUMBIA DENTAL BOOMS,
W. T. Pool, Prop'r,
1 (Mor.l. Ham. Building, Unlcmbiu Gnorzln.
• Tailors.
O. A. KCKHNIC,
Merchant Tailor and Cotter.
A. full stock of Vronob and Bngllsh Broadcloth*
Cassi meres and V as tings.
sprlS No. 134 ilrond Street
HKNRY BELLMAN.
. Catting, Cleaning and Repairing
Hone lu the best style.
D epr24| Corner Crawford end Front flts.
Dress-Makina.
Mill M. A. HOLLINGSWORTH,
Drem-Maklng, Cutting end Itttag. Terms cbmp
Residence end *bop iu Brownsville.
■ .novis
Q ■■■—■ .. .1
f Plano Tuning, So.
k E. W. BLAU,
• Repairer end Tuner of Piunoee, Organs am!
t Accordeoos. Sign Painting also done.
Older* may be be left at J. W. Pease A Norman’*
Book Store. nepA
i _ ..dun and Locksmiths.
PHILIP EiPLEMt
Qua sad Lockswith, Crawford street, usxt u
Johnson's comer, Columbus. Os. JaS
WILLIAM SOMOBBE,
Ouu and Locksmith and dealer iu Cunning Mh>
Uriel*. But of Strapper's Confectionery
Freeh Meats.
■ 4. W. PATB10K,
- Malls Mo. 14 aad IB, Market Huase.
* fresh Ruts of every kind snd but <jueUij.
jail always oa hand.
J. T. COOK,
t Freak Menu nf All Klndn,
sepS Stalls Nos. 15 aud 17.
Barber Shops.
ALEX A BAM,
jet Bessm, flv. Clais Brasov.
ED. TEMY, Berber,
Crawford ft., trader Renkio House, Columbus, Os.
deoil
Builders and Architects.
h J. «• QHALMERf*
■sue CsrpssUr sod Bslldsr.
r Jobblsg doss st short notioe.
Pleas sad speclflostloss tarnished for ell style*
of buildings
Breed Street, sag! to 0. W. Brown's,
IsS Columbus. Os.
■—— ■ —•
Livery and Sale Stables.
BOMEBT THOMPSON,
* LlT.ry, Enin nnd Eiehnn,. (Inkle.
d teimocra, Nonin or lonooun Bro..
* eot|0 Columbus, Os
a Painters.
“ WM. SNOW, JL, A CO,
Hons# and Riga Painters,
Old Oglethorpe oorner, (Just north ef poetofflee)
Columbus, Georgia.
l Will contract for House end Sign Painting hi
reasonable prloea, nnd guarantee estlsfectio*-..
Kefar to Wm. 8now. Hr »»|ir5
c Tobacco, Clears, Sc.
BAIBA ItOBN.
If yen west to enjoy s good smoko, go to bir
r Cigar Manutactory,
Between Georgia lloma and Muscogee Home.
Jaf
j Cotton Factories.
g COLUMBUS MANUFACTURING CO.,
, Monnftotnror. of
. UtooClayc, Shirtings, ns* gewlns nd
Knitting Throne.
; CoHo Wool onC Orlndo Whwt nt Cora*
. Offloo In roor of Wlttich ( Klnool'o. Anndotph oi.
jolt A. R. CHILTON. pMltont.
MUSCOGEE MAEOrACTVMIECt CO.
Mnsshotcron of
SHBNTINai, AHIATINOS,
TASN, K0P1, to.
COLUMBUS, OA
0. f. SWIFT, Proolt.nl. ...
W. A. SWIFT, (.oratory S Traoonrar. oetol ly
LJ!! - c
Doctors.
fffll VAUD’f DIET.
it hast a. nvu.
Where larches mep,
And tbe wild tIbn enep
Ovsr i bank mow-frown and steep.
Half hid behind Imtn of faathar y fora.
A little Naiad from her bright urn, *
Poare a tin j atream,
That with a flaeh and gleam.
Beam# a crystal gam la the morning beam.
fflflth eweet surprise,
It a moment Ilea,
Like a child Jaet opening itc sleepy eyes;
Then dimpling and trembling with Joy and
doabt,
It peepe from the brink of tta baeln oat,
And wooed by the play
Of the ennbeam* gay.
It parte the fern learee and glides away.
And blithe and fleet,
With ita eiWery feet,
And tte liquid laughter low and eweet,
*lt haetene away through enn and ehade
Adown the meadow and throagh the glade:
And ae It flows,
A bleeolng goes
With the stream, os perfhme with the rose.
Flowers spring to greet
Its gladdening feet.
And laurel* end myrtles grow thick aadsweet,
And reeds and grasses crowd high and tall,
To see If the stream can mirror them all;
And wild nines spread
Their berries red,
A hast for the bine-birds overhead.
Watering the P*t-, .
Oleddening the traveler along the lane,
Soothing the heart with Its silvery wor<
Slaking the thirst of the singing birds,
The little stream,
Amid shale sad gle«m,
Goes on and on llko « pleasant dream:
[%anslate l from the French.)
THE DESERT OF ICE;
A JOURNEY TO THE NORTH POLE.
BI JTTXJES VUn
CHAPTEH |XII.
the raison or lam.
The next d.y it wu deteimined to go
on e bnnt, in which Hettem, Altsmont
end tbe onrpontor would join. Th« dio-
qaieting tracks bed not boon renewed,
end the been decidedly bed abandoned
their purpose of ettaok, either ont of fear
of thee, unknown enemies or beoenae no
new movement bad revealed the praaenee
of living creatures under that miss of
snow.
Dozing tbs sbseoce of the three hnnlers
tbe Doctor, it was sgretd, was to go as
far ms Johnson Island to axamioa into tbe
oondition of tbe ice and to take a few
hydragopbio notes. Tha cold wae ex
treme, bet tha foot men bore it with for
Utnde, for their skin bid become aoons-
tomed to these nnnsual temperatures.
The boatswain was to rsmain at Doc
tor’s House to take charge of the bouse.
The three hunters made their prepara
tions for departure. Eeoh one wee arm
ed with n double-b.rr.led gnn with rifled
barrels carrying a conical ball, They
look with them a small supply of pemmi-
oan, in csss the night sbonld surprise
them before their excursion should be
coded. Iu addition to this eaoh ona car
ried e snow knife, tha most indispensable
tool in tb.se regions, and n hatchet thrust
in the belt of his bnokekin jeoket.
Thne equipped, olothed end armed they'
oonld go e long distance; end, for ekiUful
daring, they might count on good results
io their hunting expedition.
At 8 o’elook in the morning they were
ready and they set S>nt. Doha, Ieepieg
playfully, went in advanoe. They ns.
oended the hill on the eaet, went aroond
the light-house cone and walked in tha
direetion of the plains to tbe south
bounded by Hount Bell.
The Doctor on hie pert after having
agreed with Johnson on an alarm signal,
descended toward the oo.it so as to reaob
the many shaped blocks of ioe which
wars soattered throughout Viotoric Bay.
Tha boatawain remained alona at Fort
Providence, bat ha waa not idle. First
he released the Oreenland doge which
were manifesting a restleaa spirit in Dog-
Palace and which, overjoyed with their
newly-gained freedom, rolled about in
the anow. He also laid Jo n fresh anpply
of fuel and provisions, put the storehouse
in order, repaired several broken ntentils,
darned tbe bed olothes that naedad darn
ing and mended the shoes that would be
required for the long snnuher journeys.
There wu plenty of work to do and tha
boatawain worked with tbe skill which
aekee of a sailor a Jaok-of-ali-tradu.
While that employed hejhodght of tbe
conversation of the day oefors. He
thought of the Captain, and especially of
his obstinsoy—very heroio and bonarabla
aa g wu, after ell—in not wishing tbel
an American, or evm aa American boat,
should reach tbe Pole before cr with him.
'•Yet," uid he to himself, “it seems to
me that it would be difflcnlt to orou tbe
oeun without e boat, end if we should
And an open mi before us, we mnat yield
to the necessity of uiling on it. No
body could swim thru hundred miles,
ware he the but Englishman on the
globe. Patriotism hu its limits. Well,
we ebell ue. We have still plenty of
time before us. Hr. Olawbonny bunot
spoken his lut word yet on the subject.
He is utute, sad be is the mgn to make
tbe Geptein change hie mind, I am wil
ling to bet, even, that while going ilosg
the eout he will give a glance at
tbs wreck of the Porpoiu, and that ha
.will know exactly what oaa be dons with
it.
Johnson bad reaehad this point, in his
reflections, and tbe hnnters had not bun
abuot from tbs fort for throe heart, when
- n strong and elear report of a discharged
gnn Bounded two or throe xnilu to tha
leeward.
“Good!" oried tha old sailor. “They
have found something, and without hav
ing to go so far cither aiaos their gone
can be heard so distiaotly. Now than,
loo, tha atmosphere is so pars!"
A eeeond| report, then a third, which
aonnded like an Mho of tha first, follow-
“Faith!” said the old sailor, “they
have leached the place they were looking
for.”
Thru other discharges, nearer than tha
others, came to Johnsoa’a ear.
“Six Shot. I” he exolaimed. “Their
guns are now til empty. They mast have
bun at blou quarters. Caa it be that—’’
Johnson grew pale u he thus gave par
tial ntterenoe to the idu that bed entered
his mind.
He left the house rapidly and in n few
momentshe had climbed the ueentto the
top of the oone.
The eight that met hie eyu caused him
tc shudder.;
“The bean!" he oried.
The three hnnten, followed by Dnke,
ware hurrying beck at tbe height of their
■peed, punned by five gigantto animals.
Their eix discharges had failed to bring
them down. Hatteru, who wu left in
the rear, could keep np ths distance be
tween himulf and the animals only by
throwing away his hat, bis hatchet and
even his gnn. According to their nature,
the been stopped to smell the objeets
thrown ont to excite their onrioaity, and
so lost their groond on n field in whioh
they oonld have pissed ths ewiftut hone.
Thus it wu that Hetteru, Altamont,
aud Bell, breathless from their nee, oame
to tbe pleoe near wbieh Vohnaon wu
standing, and from the top of tbe rampart
they, u well u Johnson, allowed them-
■elvu to elide down ufnu tbe house of
ioe.
The five been were immediately at
their heele, end with his knife tbe Cap
tain wu obliged to perry n blow of the
paw whioh wu violently direoted at him
by one of ths animals.
In the twinkling of an eye Hatterse
and hie companions bed shot themselves
np in the honu of ioe. The animals had
stoppsd on ths upper platsan formed by
tbe broken pert of the oone.
At lut 1" cried Hetteru. “Now wa
can defend ourselves to mon advantage,
five against five!”
“Four against five! exolaimed Johnson
In ■ terrified voioe.
"How?" exclaimed Hatteru.
“The Doctor!” replied Johnson, point-
lag to the empty sitting room,
“Veil, what nbont him?”
“He hu gone to the ielendt”
“Oh, the nnfortneetel” oried Bell.
“We cannot abandon him thns," uid
Altamont.
“Let ns hasten t” oried Hsttersa.
Ha opened the door horriediy, bjit he
barely bal time to olose it again; s bear
jut missed crashing in hie skull with a
blow from bis psw.
“They are there!” be oried.
“All f” asked Boll.
“All,!” replied Hetteru.
AUemont rushed to tbe windows, ths
openings of whioh he filled with pieces
of ioe taken from tbe wslle of the boose.
Hie companions silently followed his ex
ample, and the silence wu unbroken save
by tha low yelping of Dnkc.
But it must be said that thus men had
but one tbonght at that moment; they
forgot their own danger and they thought
only of tha Doctor. They thought of him
only and not of themselves. Poor Giaw-
bonny! so good, so davoted, tbe eonl of
the little ooiony 1 For the first time be
wu not there; extreme dangers—perhaps
s frightful death—awaited him, for re
turning from his excursion, he would un
expectedly approach Fort Providence only
to find himulf fsoe to fees with thsu fe
rocious animals.
And there wu no way to warn him!
“And yst,” uid Johnson, “either I am
greatly mistaken, or be must be on hie
guard. The repeated report of your
gnu moat have warned him, end he oan-
not bat be oonvinoed that something ex-
traordinary bu happened.”
“Bat suppose he wu far ewey at the
time," remarked Altamont, “end suppose
hs did not understand the reel manning
of our shots ? There are six chances in
ten that he will return without suspecting
danger! Tha bears era hidden by tbe
parapet of tbe fert and he cannot see
them!”
“We most get these dangerous animals
out of ths way, then, before bia^retnrn,”
■aid Hatteru.
“Bat hew?'l asked Bell.
It wuhardto reply to this question.
To attempt a sortie seemed impracticable.
They had token csro to barricade the path
leading to the entranoe, bat it the idu
should preunt itself to the bears they
oonld overoome these obstooles; end the
burs knew whet to expeot from the
strength end the number of their edver-
uriu, and it would be easier for them tc
reach the spot where they were.
The prisoners were posted in each one
of the none of Doctor’e-Honu so u to
watch nil attempts et invuion. By lie
tening attentively they oonld hear the
burs going and coming, uttering low
growlt end scratching tbe icy qplls with
tkeir enormous clews.
Something had to be dene, ■■ time wee
pressing. Altamont resolved to make a
loophole so u to flrrf on the auatlants.
In a few minutes he hed dug ont a sort of
bole in tbe wail of ioe. Into this hols he
throat his gab, but turoely bed its muz
zle emerged os the oatside before it wee
■netehed from bis hands with an irresisti
ble strength whieh precluded the idu of
his firing.
“The devil I” he exclaimed, “they ue
too strong for ns!"
And then ha hutoned to (top np the
hols.
This situation had luted for an boar
end il wu impossible to uy bew much
longer it would continue. Again were
tbe ohsncu of a sortie diienieed. They
were fuble chances,-et but, u tbe beers
oonld not be fought singly. Neverthe-
leu, Hetteru and hie oompaniona, in a
harry to bring tbe situation to an end,
and it must ba said muoh chsgrinedat the
idu of being htid prisoners by dumb
win on tba point of attempting
a dirut attaok, whan ths Captain thought
of a new msuure of defence.
He took tke poker which Johnson used
to stir np tba ooals end throat it into
ths Am of one of the stoves. Then he
made a hole in the wall, without extend
ing it to the outaido, however, luving a
thin crust of ios near ths exterior sur
face.
His companions watched hie move
ments. When the poker hed attained n
white heat, Hatterss said:
“This heated poker will enable me to
drive off the bears, for they unnot seize
it, and then it will be euy to fire et them
throagh the hole without; their being'
able to snatch our guns from ns.”
“A good idu I" cried Bell, taking np
his position near Altamont.
Withdrawing (hs poker from tbe fire
Hetteru drove it rapidly in the well. The
ioe molted at its touch with a hissing
sound. Two bears rushed forward seized
ths hot iron, and uttered terrlblo howls,
while nt the seme moment four reports
from the guns followed each other.
“Touched!” cried the Amorioan.
“Touched!" echoed Bell.
“Let ua begin again,” uid Hatteru, u
he Btopped np the opening for the mo
ment.
Tbe poker was again plunged into the
ooals, end in e few minntee it had beoame
red hot.
Altamont end Bell resumed their places
having reloaded their guns. Hatterss
prepared tbe loop-holes onoa more sod
again introduced the poker. But this
time so impenetrable barrier stopped its
progress.
“Malediction! ” oried the American.
“What is the matter?" asked Johnson.
“Whst is tho matter? The matter is
that these ucorsed animals are piling np
blocks of ice on tbe other side and aro
burying ns alive in oar house!"
“Impossible !”
“See, the poker cannot pass through.
This ends by becoming ridicnloue.”
It was worse then ridiculous; the situ
ation was now dangerous. The bears, in-'
teiligent animals as they wore, need this
means to smother their prey. They were
piling np the ice in each e way as to make
all flight impossible.
“This is hsrd, indeed!” cried old John
son, with n mortified look. “It would be
bed enough to be treated this way by
men—bat to think of beers oooping ns
np 1 !
After this reflection two hoars elapsed
without bringing any change in tbe pris
oners' situation. The ides of a sortie
had become an impracticable one, and
no sound from the outside oonld pene
trate to them throagh the thickened
wells. Altamont walked to and fro with
the agitated manner of a daring man
—A roper in—Ths hangmen.
—Vested interacts—Money in the vut
pocket
—Ioe—Water that staid ont in tha oold
and went to sleep.
—When does the us remind yon of
widowhood? When yon see woods npon
it.
—“She's pnttia hon heirs,” uid en
English snob as ha watohed his sister fas
ten her ohignon.
—“Wife,"uid a hen-peoked husband,
“go to bed.” “I won’t.” “Hit np then.
I will be minded.”
—“Whet’s in a dress?” asks a popular
writer. Sometimes a good deal and
sometimes precious little.
—Thera's a sohoolmarm in Oneida
county who lets her beat behaved scholar
obow her gum a little while.
—Alluding to ohignons, Mrs. Gleaver
said: “A girl is all head.” “Yea, until
yon talk to her,” said Mr. Oleaver.
—It is uid that whan a tamale child is
born in Indiana, ths unhappy father be
gins to save money to buy a piano.
—A physician advised ■ patient to tako
n walk on an empty stomsoh. “Whose
stomachs?” feebly asked the patient.
—A book has lately been published en
titled “Half Honrs withlsseots ” Half ■
minute with some of them is all ws banker
for.
—Glass of brandy end water! that is
tbe onrrent bnt not the appropriate name,
ask for liquid firs and distilled damna
tion.
—A Newark 'policeman had a pair of
boots half-aoled lut fall with s boarding
house beef steak, and be hasn’t bod wet
feet all winter.
How is it that a good-looking girl can
meet her lover in a dark ball and almost
instantly diaoover whether he has had his
mouBtaeba shaved off or not?
—General Frank Blair’s health is not
improving. His friends say that, nolens
a chauge for tha better occurs vary soon,
they are prepared for the worst.
—First boy—“I say, Jimmy, there’s no
water. It’s frozen everywhere.” Becond
boy—“Bully! Meybe we won’t have to
who is enraged • at confronting a danger wash oursolvcs till the middle of spring!”
that is grestor than his oonrage. Halt eras ! —Miss D. sends a poem entitled “I
thought with dread of the Doctor, end (Junnot Make Him Smile.” We cannot
of tbe serious peril that menaced him
when he ahonld return.
“Ah!” oried Johnson, “if Mr. Glawbon-
nj were bat here! ”
“Well, what would he do ?” asked Alta-
moot.
“Oh, he would know how to get us
ont of this scrape.”
“And how?” asked the American with
some ill-humor.
“If I but knew how,” replied Johnson,
“I would not have need of him. I imag
ine, however, what would be his advice
to us at this moment.”
“What is it?”
“He would advise us to eat something!
That oanot harm us. On tho contrary.
Whot do you think of it, Mr. Altamont?”
“Let ns eat, if that pleases jou,” re
plied the latter, “elthough thejsituation is
■o ridioulous, not to say humiliating a
one.”
“I bet,” said .Johnson, “that we shall
find some way out of our "difficulties
after dinner.”,
No reply was made to this remark of
the boatswain's and they took their seats
at tbe table. Johnson, brought up in the
Doctor’s school, endeavored to be philo
sophical in the faoe of the danger, bnt be
did not succeed: his jokes stuck in his
throat. Besides, the prisoners be
gan to feel ill at ease. The air in this her
metically sealed dwelling was becoming
thicker. As the stovepipes drew badly
no ventilation was possible, and it was
easy to see that in a brief time the fire
would go out. The oxygen, absorbed by
the longs and tbe fire*plaoe, would soon
give way to carbonic acid, tbe deadly ef
fect of whioh is known.
“Hatterns was tbe first to appreciate this
new danger, and he did not attempt to
oonceal it from his companions.
“Then we must leave the house at eve
ry cost!” cried Altamont.
“Ye*!” replied Hatterar; “but let us
wait for the night. We will make a bole
in tbe ceding which will renew onr sup
ply of air. Then one of ua will take po-
aition there and fire at the bears.”
“That is tbe only course left to us,” re
plied the American.
With this understanding, they awaited
the moment to attempt tbe advootnre,
and during the ensuing hoars Altamout
did not spare hia imprecrations against a
condition of affairs in which, he said,
“bears and men being given, these last
did not play the most creditable part.”
[to be continued.]
—The following rules were made by a
girl in fashionable society when ehe wont
into company: “To give away more than
I spend on myself. To do all I can for
every one at home first, before I go to
walk or to parties. ^At every party to
make one forlorn girl happy, and intro
duce her to some pleasant gentleman.
To draw other people out without trying
to shine myself. As soon as I feel that I
am talking or acting in such a way that I
should hesitate frpm shame to pray at
that moment, to leave the room.”
—Phenia Epps of Hamilton, Ohio,
asked her mother to take a note for ner
to a friend of tbe family living in n near
street. The note when opened was found
to read: “This is a little rose of mine to
get mother out of the boose. Before she
oan get back I will be on the oars with
dear Loren so and before night will be
married.”
publish it unless she gives the name of
tho young man. AU the young men
smile.”
—“Idiot!” exolaimed a lady coming
ont of the theatre one evening, as a gen
tleman accidentally stepped on her trailing
skirt. “Which one of ns?” blandly re
plied the man.
—It is claimed by some *that woman
was created before man, in order that she
might look around the house and find his
boots and hat. The mischief of it ia that
she sometimes finds tbe breeches!
—Old Mr?. Smith left her patent churn
open last Saturday to dismiss a book
agent from the door. The oat that was
taken out after an hoar’s churning was
not as lively as when it jumped in.
—“We sbonld love dearly,” says a
Methodist paper, “to see that chap who
predicted this was going to be a mild
winter, sitting on a fence in a linen
duster, and listening to the mocking
bird.”
—A party of Sioux Indians stole a
patent ioe-oream freezer, supposing it to
be a band-organ, and their “big medicine
man” turned the crank a week before be
would confess his inability to get musie
ont of it.
—A country pastor said to one of his
feminine congregation, “Are yon happy?”
“Xes, Sir,” she replied, “I feel as though
I were in Beelzebub’s bosom.” “Not in
Beelzebub’s!” “Well, some of the pat*
riarebs; I don’t know which.”
—A paper in Southern Illinois regrets
that it went to prow “one day too early
to record the death of John Bates.” This is
not quite as cool as the paper whioh said:
Just as we are going to press John Smith
is being ran over by the cars.”
—“Yes, boys,” said Nanoy Bell, a fe
male blacksmith of Iowa, as she straddled
a horse’s leg, and yanked off a shoe, “I
was brought up to this basinets, and so
was my mother, and there ain’t no Beech
er scandals in our family, for a fact.”
The witty Sydney Smith, being visited
by Jeffrey, who came riding a young
donkey, thus hailed the latter:
"Witty as Horatlus Flaccus,
Ah great a Jacobin as Gracchus ;
Short. though not as fat as lleoohus,
Hiding on a littlo jackass."
—A shoemaker was arrested for bigamy
and brought before tbe magistrate.
“Which wife,” asked a bystander, “will
he I o obliged to take ?” Smith, always
ready with a joke, replied, “He is a cob
bier, and, of course, mast stiok to his
last.”
—A Chicago boy of ten says that when
his parents get into a fight, and his moth
er oalls /or a flat-iron, and his father
yells for the stove handle, be it placed in
a most embarrassing position, •• he ia
sure to get licked, no matter whom he
minds.
—A Minneapolis butcher dreamed one
night that he had only seven fingers, and
the next day he ent off a finger with an
nnlnckyntroke of a cleaver. That night
he dreamed he hadn’t any bead, and be
has ever since been living in terrible
dread.
—A boy stood with hie bands in his
pockets one cold morning watching the
burning of the sobool-hougf, end when
tho novelty of tbe thing ceased, bo ran
home, eaying, “I’m glad tbe old thing is
burned down, for I didn’t get my jografy
lesson no how.”
—A fashionable visitor thus addressed
a little girl; “How do yog do my Uttlo
dear ?” “Very well, I thank yon,” the
child replied. The visitor then addod:
“Now, my dear, you must ask me how I
do.” The ohild honestly replied, “I don’t
want to know.”
—An Indian came to a certain agent in
the northern part of Iowa to procure
some whisky for a younger warrior who
had been bitten by a rattlesnake. “Aar
quarts!’’replied theageut, with surprise;
“as muoh as that?” “Yes,” replied the
Indian, “four quarts—Buake very big.”
—A Nevada woman reoeotly knocked
down seven burglars, one after another.
Her husband watohed her from the top of
the stairs, and he felt so brimful of bat
tle that he couldn’t oool off uutil he had
jerked his eight-year-old boy out of bed
and “whaled” him souudly for not getting
np and helping his mother.
—The other dsy a lady in New Bedford,
teeing a red flag displayed from adwelling-
house, unceremoniously entered, and sit
ting down in the parlor, asked of a servant
who was in the room, “when the auction
would begin.” On being informed that
the red flag did not mean anolion, but
■mall-pox, she rushed from the house like
a crazy woman, aud was soon lost to
view.
—One of the moet fervent of the pray
ing temperance women in Dnbnqne,
Iowa, has a drunken husband. It is re
lated that she found him a few nights ago
jntoxioated in a saloon. She cuffed him
soundly, and then said to the proprietor:
“Seo here, sir, you darne>\ miserable
skunk, this has gone far enough. Daring
the orussde I prayed for you, aud since
then have come to yon with tears in my
oyeB, but it seems to have done no good,
and now if you ever sell him another drop
of whiskey I’ll comedown aud snatch yon
bsldhoad quicker than hell can singe a
You bear my geutle voice?" Tbon
ebe took the old man.
-There is a parly, fat and stout as any
Turk on Boephorus, who at onr dinner
table aits, and ne'er his babble intermits,
bnt prates of mush and wheateu grits and
“mean amount of phosphorus.” He al
ways airs his favorite theme, nor cares a
penny’s toss for us, but rails st beef with
“Pooh !” and “Pish I” and calls for ood
snd other fish, hoping to gain—his dear
est wish—“the mesh amount of phospho
rus.” O! that he'd change his board
ing place—’twonld surely be no loss for us
—but there's one consolation yet, bis star,
ascendant, soon will set, some time he’ll
die, and then he’ll get “his mean amount
of phosphorus.”
—Snagsby takes a hopeful view of the
Brooklyn unpleasantness. Hear him talk:
“Before these horrible slauders leaked
out, I was neglectful of our minister, and
would, when I knew be was making a
pious pastoral oall, show my contempt
for him by golfcg down in o the field and
hoeing corn all/he afternoon, knowing that
godly man was longing to see me; now,
my heart is changed, and whenever the
shepherd woods his way to my hearth and
home, dropping my hoe, axe, or other
implement of wordly labor, I thither
wend my way rapidly, and as near as pos
sible on a bee line. I meet him with a
Christian welcome; I never leave him; I
drink in his pious ejaculations with an
appetite I never felt before. Mrs. Hnagsby
is astonished at my growing love for
pious conversation. I don't leave him
long enough to draw a pail of water.”
a tuak, weighing eeventy-five pounds.
There are also, in a perfect state of Re
servation, a abort rib, five feet long, sev
eral vertebra), parts of a ahull, and twe
piooes of the under jaw. The animal
had two teeth on eaoh side of the JaW|
whiclvweighed five and one-half pounds.
Practical anatomists who have
say that it must have weighed over o:
hundred tone, and stood eighteen
twenty feet high.
The Antlbbs or the Dekb.—Aooordi
to a paper by Mr. John Dean Oaton in t
American Naturalist, there is a aubeta
tial identity between the antlers snd t
ordinary bones of a deer; in feet, tho i
growing.
Tbe Wartb of Life.
Life is no commonplace matter: We
may feel so when we are disappointed,
when wo are wearied with labor, or are
disgusted with meanness, and then we
may say with the Jewish preacher: “Van
ity of vanities, ail is vanity!” But myself,
how often in my more oheortul moments,
and at those more thoughtful seasons,
when my awakened faculties have made
me most truly manly, have I been awe*
struck and breathless whilst the great
mystery of life has occurred to my mind
in sadden vividness. In sudfc moments
whst a miracle have I felt myself! Ex*
oepting God himself what is there more
wondrous than the existence of tbe infi
nite; than this birth of feeling, thinking,
and aotive life in onr bosoms, which a
short time since w ere inanimate, insen
sate dnst! What thought is there more
wondrous than this, that we are living
sonls, abroad and active on tbe face of a
world which was once without form and
void! Well might tbe sons of God shout
for joy when the first man of onr race
stood up erect amid the trees of Eden. It
was the birth of mortal spirit, Bud the
Paradisal wonder is repeated in the
\growth of every infant and throughout
tbe life of every nun!—Mouulford.
han't lit It.
Don’t flirt with a fool. It’s bad enough
to fool with a flirt.
Don't underbill your ago. Your detec
tion is only a question of timo.
Don't rusb. At the end of tbe race
yon will suffice to Iconvinoe the world of
your folly.
Don't magnify your neighbor’s vices.
It’s worse than extolling your own vir
tues.
Don't boast of ypur brain work. Homo
inquisitive person urght ask for a speoi.
men brick.
Don’t advocate tbe'doctrine of univer
sal salvation. “Hell on the Wubaah” is a
matter of history.
Don’t turn up your noee at barren land.
A farmer without “rocks” never makes a
stir in tbe world.
Don’t dream that the world can't wag
along without jfon. A grain of sand is
not missed'from the desert.
Don’t attempt to do too much. At
twenty-five men imagine they will reform
the World. At forty they are content to
reform themselves.
—One-third of tbe railroads in tbe Sta's
of Illinois.have passed into the hands of
receivers, and the companies are said to
be “utterly insolvent; their entire oepitsl
•took and unpreferred debt are wholly
sponged out of exiateooe.”
oold air setting in from tbe north.
lawyers^
HINES DOZIER,
.ttorney at l
unimi,
ILL practice In the Chattahood
where else. All kind of oollsetfsas
y me or inn away." nov14 If
millimihvT
1875. NEW MILLINERY. ,1875.
MBS. LEE
TTTOULD rapcotlWly inform Ibe LedlM
W thnt .he hu r.tnre—i from IN.« York
Millinery and Fanny flood.
r brought to thli market. Her .took 0—*
■in. in pert or
tic.’, ihibms eei ctlMne'i
IM-Trtmmr. eM VeMmemC)
Fin. Fre.oh and Americas >jj|
HOKIEKY,
aiAVEa,tcouBn<<uiB
HHA1D0 emd JlVIUir.
ALSO,
light an meteorology,
Out.n DieooTZBiie.-
ter of the Emperor Oleadiae.
GRAND OPENING
Pattern Hat* and
nnni nuu lumatiuu nair, anu hi Other I
usually kept In a FIRST GLASS MU
EKY ESTABLISHMENT, at prk
competition
deo20 tf
DRUGGISTS.
DRUGS
AND
Soaps, Brushes and ether Toilet Articles i
Pure Liquors, Lamp Goods, •
and all otbep articles usually kept la
Retail Drug Stores.
He has also the agenoy for Head Light OIL
he best illuminating olf now la nee.
■W Special attention will be given to tht
Blue Drug Store.
f t MEANS BRANNON, AT e
#;R* h kVM
new prepared to fnraUh OeleakaeWB
-lolnlty with anything In hi. Use st
WHOLESALE AHD RETAIL.
anti to Country Manhunt. He keep onl,
PURE AND RELIABLE DBWM.
all and ... him nt-lM Broed Street,
From thli date oath ia raqnlred At all golds
oo« tf • '
HOTELS.
the faahion of the preaent ege.
ted over the globe.
icul distribution of rpeoifio forma.
Hinting inntance recently came before I
Philadelphia Academy of Sciences.
chance to grow. It is intimetsd i
matter will be farther ezemined.
of New Jersey. Forty years eg
hs wss ststionsd at Orange, there wee one
M. E. church in New York; now there
are sixteen or seventeen churches of that
denomination in that City.
Rankin Hotme,
Columbua, Ga.
J. W. BYAH, Prop’i.
Fxinx Goldbk, Clerk.
Ruby Restaurant,
tar and Billiard Saloon,
Umdib thh Rims Homo.
ayM dawtf J. W. BYAM. Fisp^,
Commercial Hotel,
EIJFAVU, ALABAMA
EDICATED to the Oommerelal Travslsr
J of the United State*,andallperjoastrSv
ing on business or pleasure. Ws wll} 4s all
e oan to make your stay with us plsasjut aa4
ireeable. Give us a trial.
KIDDLE It SMITH A, Piop*ra.
novl5 tf
THEPARTNERSHIP
—OF—
Peacock & Swift
AVINO expired, the hrm If this day 41s.
_solveti by mutual consent.
. J. PEACOCK has sold to L REWirr
April 1st, 1875.
Having sold my Interest, as show
j I NO ISTTMCT PWNf