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VOL. XIX.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, JUNE B, 1877.
NO. 132
l/SDEB THE VIOLETS.
BT OLIVER WISIjEI.1 HOLMES.
Her bands are cold ; ber face is white;
No more ber pulses come and go ;
Her eyes are f>bat to life and light;
Fold the white vesture, snow on snow;
And lay her where the violets blow.
Bat not beneath a graven stone.
To plead for tears with alien eyes ;
A sle .d-r cross of wood alone
Shall say that here a muid n lies
In peace beneath the peaceful skies.
And gray old trees of hugest limb,
8li.ll wheel their circling shadows round
To make the scborehlag sunlight dim,
That drink the greenness from the ground,
And drop their dead leaves on her mound.
When o’er their houghs the squirrels run,
And through their leaves the robins call,
And, ripening in the Autumn sun,
The arornsand the chestnuts tall,
Doubt not that she will heed them all,
For her the morning choir shall sing
Its matins from the branches high,
Ami every minstrel Voice of Spring
That thrills beneath the April sky
hliall greet her with its earlieet cry.
When turning around their dial-track,
Kastw .rJ the lengthening shadows pass,
Her litt'o mourners, clad in black,
'J h" crickets Sliding through the grass,
Shall pipe tor her an evening mass.
At last the rootlets of the trees
Shall Dud the prison where she lies,
And hear the buried dus* they-seize.
In leaves ar.d blossoms to the skies,
So may the soul that warmed it rise.
If any, bora of kindlier blood,
Should ask, “What maiden liee below ?"
fay only this, “A tender bud.
That tried to blossom in the snow,
hies withered where the violets blow."
(Written for the Suitoat Esqcirer.]
KITTY CLOVER.
BY NELL TELL.
CHAPTER V.
The morrow came and Augusta arrang
id to somewhat break the force of the
unpleasant communication to her sister
t>y first accusing her of duplicity to her
self and Herbert Windham and Boon after
the conclusion of the morning meal when
they were alone together said abrnbtly :
"How conld you tell Herbert so great a
falsehood yesterday?”
Clara looked interrogatively at her,
though she readily enough understood to
irhat she referred.
“Oh you needn’t attempt to shield your-
lelf by that innocent questioning look;
(That 1 want to know is, why you told
Beihert as if directed by me that I would
^ot refuse to marry him now that he will
^lways.be a cripple?”
When did you see him ?” gasped Clara.
I saw him last night and quickly un-
eceivod him.”
You did’nt ..dare to tell him you
rould’nt keep faith with him, dull and
eartless as yon are, I oan’t believe you
!o fallen as to give up voluntarily suoh a
Dan for suoh a cause.”
‘‘You may believe it and I think from
lis manner he was as glad aa I was to end
(he affair.”
Clara pale and trembling rose up like
lome avenging deity to utterly annihilate
ier erring sister.
“I am ashamed of you Augusta Capper-
Ion,” she cried, her voice quivering with
passion. “Ashamed that a sister of mine
lould be sach a fool. You know I had
bet my heart on seeing you Herbert’s wife.
Jut you never deserved such * honor, you
tupid doltish creature. That shameless
lussy, Kitty and Ed have caused all this
ronble and I’ll make them pay for it.”
“I shall attempt no defense for her re.
llied Augusta but as for Ed I had resolv->
d on this step before I saw him, as you
ell know.”
The infuriated woman did not wait the
onclusion of this speech bnt strode ang-
lj her room where she went off into
rsterics for the edification of her‘maid.
ttgueta did not follow her bnt began a
olent attack upon her work basket to
dm her own disordered feelings.
General Capperton paying bis nsual
fly morning visit to Windham heard
rom him of the raptured engagement,
'he old gentleman freely owned his dis-
ppointment and bitterly regretted this
emanation of what he proudly hoped
rould culminate in a happy marriage for
s loved daughter. And fearing lest
[erbert should feel himself terribly ill-
aed and aggrieved by Augusta’s refusal,
e commenced an apology for what even
la doting fondness must consider as a
lerfideous violation of her vowa.
“There is no acconnting for the whims
nd fancies of a girl, Herbert, and I hope
ou’ll excuse her,” he said. Though I’m
lot well enough convinced in my own
tind that she would have married you
>ut for this distressing accident of
ours.”
Windham heard silently the kindly
eant words of the weakly indulgent
ither and could have hugged Vesta for
ie mischief she had done him.
“Perhaps it is all for the best General,”
said pleasantly, “and I attach no blame
Miss Augusta, neither must you blame
er.”
The General perceiving how equitably
bore it, strongly surmised there was
to bidden sorrow ana that he was really
[uite indifferent about the matter. So
radually changing the subject he inquir-
d if he had seen Kitty’s artiole in the
—Magazine. “I know it is hers
ugh she wont acknowledge it. Clara
►oh pooha the idea but I’m sure it is
►rs.”
“What is the nature of the piece?”
indham asked eagerly.
“Female Culture” and she treats it ad-
irably.
“Why do you think it hers?”
“The internal evidence is very strong
in her favor and I have frequently heard
tor advance in conversation the same
limilar ideas contained iu the article.”
“I should like to see it, General.”
“Well I’ll send her np with it and per-
tiaps you can draw the confession from
!»er.”
It was not long before Kitty oame but
Without the book.
‘Where is tbe-
-Magazine, Kitty ?
I want yon to read me an article on “Fe
male Culture.”’
“It is in Mrs. Weedon’s room and she
has g me to bed with a violent headache, I
did not like to disturb her.”
“The General thinks the artiole is yours
Kitty. Will yon tell me whether it is or
not.”
“Why does be think so?”
“For very good and sufficient reasons.”
“Bnt yon have not answered me, did you
write it Kitty ?”
Then looking at her consoious blush
ing face he said;
“No need of words your face betrays
yon and O! that I oonld get as satisfao
tory an answer to another question. Do
you love me, Kitty, and will you some day
be my wife ?”
Shocked out of ber enforced calmness
by these startling questions she exclaimed
“Hush, bush, Oh, Mr. Windham, you
must not talk so.”
“Iam free my darling, free to love you—
free to win you if I can.Augusta has refus
ed to marry me and without dishonor I can
ask you to beoome my cherished wife.”
With trembling hands extended she
sank upon her knees and bnried her
pallid face in the bed olothes.
O Kitty have you nothing to say he
pleaded”.
For some moments she mutely prayed
for strength to resist her own heart which
was wildly throbbing with excess of joy,
then gaeatly agitated raised ber head and
as her large sad eyes met his burning
impassioned gaze a painful crimson dyed
her sweet face.
“Kitty, I am waiting; I love you,
love you. Don’t torture me with sus
pense. ”
The crimson stains faded from her pure
sensitive face, leaving it deathly white
as she stammered:
“Ob, Mr. Windham, I do indeed love
you, but I can never be your wife. ”
“What do you mean, Kitty? You tell
me you love me, and yet can never marry
me. What is to prevent you, my darling?
Explain this enigma if you please.”
“Have patience and I will explain.
Your passion dominates you now, Mr.
Windham, and you nobly disregard the
haunting secret of my birth, bnt it will
not always be so.”
“Is that all ?’’ he said with a sigh of re
lief. “You frightened me, Clover, I had
began to imagine some insuperable obsta
cle to my happiness. But you love ine,
that is enough, and I shall claim yon
when I can once more rise from this bed.”
“You would despise me in a month if
I married you,” she replied. “You are
a very proud man, keenly sensitive to the
opinions of your world. How then could
you calmly bear the enquiries of your
friends as to my family and antecedents?
How could you answer those pressing in
quiries? Ob, your life would be one long
purgatory. You may delude yourself now
with the hope of happiness in snch s
union, but I know your honorable pride
and delicate feelings, and I know the re
sult would be nothing but misery. ,v
“What do I care for your family? It is
you I want,” be cried.
“Without a name I can call my own?
No, no, you are wilfully deceiving your
self, Mr. Windham.”
“I will give you mine—a very good one
—my darling. But suoh marriages are
not so uncommon. Kings have wedded
beggar maids,” he said, smilling at his
own pleasantry. What cared Peter the
Great for the concealed sneers of his
haughty courtiers when he made the
humble Catharine Empress?” he went on,
laughing lightly.
There is a similarity of circum
stances,” she replied, hnmoringhis vain
notion. “Yon are Emperor and I the
pqor little hospital nurse, Catharine.”
“You are truly my beloved nurse and
I ask only the power of reigning over
your heart—that is the only empire I cov
et. Tell me that you’ll vanish all these
gloomy visions of prospective misery,
and agree to what I ask. And with such
stimulating help I’ll soon be able to carry
you home with me as my adored wife.”
“Mr. Windham,” she said solemnly, “it
is hard to deny you, and my own heart is
pleading against me,‘but I cannot marry
you until this oruel mystery is solved.”
His brow grew stern and dark.
“Oh! Kitty, how can you so remorse
lessly snatch from me the bliss of antici
pation which, acting like the fabulous
elixir vitas, would soon have raised me
from what I now fear will prove my death
bed. ”
“Yon will soon be well,” she said, “and-
return home, in a little time, and cease
to think of me.”
‘Perhaps yon are like Augusta and de
cline marriage with a poor cripple,” he
said, with concentrated bitterness.
She looked np qnickly, the color fluc
tuating ou her white cheeks, and her
trembling voioe told how keenly she felt
the sting of his words.
“Yon do not think that of me, I am
sure, and I tell you again if I could come
with a fair and untarnished name, the
position of your wife would make me un
speakably happy—would make of this
dreary world a blissful paradise. I re
cognize and appreciate the high honor
you would confer on me, and because I
know you to be aa far above me as the
stars of heaven are above the earth I
must not oonsent to drag you dow to my
level, by becoming your wife.”
“A husband never sinks below his rank
by marriage Kitty. But if yon will prom
ise to marry me I will devote time, for
tune and taleot to discovering the secret
of your parentage.”
Oh, yon are too good, too generous,
but I cannot impose such a herculean task
upon you.”
“I do that myself, darling. Say is it a
bargain—nothing else will satisfy me.”
“Yon cannot realize half the difficulty
of snch an undertaking,” she-said.
“I don’t underrate the trouble, sweet
Kitty, and if mortal man can accomplish
it I will succeed. Ratify your promise
J ®ow with s kiss, my starry-eyed charmer,
and then’,writeVcouple'of letters for me.”
The first-and most important was ad
dressed to M. Gaultier, a FrencUman,
whom Windham had known in Paris, but
who was now living in the United States.
He was once a member of the secret po
lice of Paris, and with the tact and train-
ing of that school, was considered num
ber one in his own.'peculiar line.
“He is the very man for my purpose,
Kitty, and not only speaks our language
like a native, but as a detective I know
him to have been remarkably successful
in this country.”
“After all you may be disappointed,
Mr. Windham, for it has been so many
years since that May night I was deserted
my parents may be dead, and all others
who may have known anything of the
circumstances.”
“Give me the exact date, Kitty.”
“Eighteen years ago this very month,
I have no knowledge of the date
of the month. Goody I don’t think
kept any account of that.”
“I have strong hopes that Gaultier can
trace up the affair. He has the faculty
of winding like a serpent into mysteries
and like a ferret can bring the bidden
things of darkness to light. But we are
more anxious to discover who your pa
rents were than to find themselves. Have
you nothing that could aid him in the
search—no cine—no relic or your infan
cy? Perhaps Mrs. Grover may have con
fided to you something that was found
with you.”
I only know that she told me, judging
from the footprints in the yard that a wo
man brought me to her door. I have also
the paper evidently written by an educa
ted lady, for the penmanship is very fair
and beautiful that was found with me.”
“Is that all ?”
“Nothing more, except a small, silk
hood that I then wore, now very much
faded, though well preserved.”
“Let Gaultier have them when he
comes; they may greatly assist him.
shall expect him in less than a week.”
For a day or two Mrs. Weedon kept her
room, and also her resolve to injure Kitty
if possible in her father’s estimation. But
there she unexpectedly found him firm
and obstinate. He wonld not credit her
stories of Kitty’s misconduct with Edward
Weedon and in Herbert’s sick chamber.
“I tell yon, papa,” she said, with a
lieious twinkle of her black eyes,
have seen ber myself flirting and carrying
on disgracefully with Ed, and had it not
been for her Herbert would not have so
willingly resigned Angusta.”
The old General heard her with ill con-
concealed impatience.
Yon misjudge her, Clara,” he said,
“she is parity and truth itself, and has
the most delicate sense of propriety of
auy person I ever saw. ”
“I must be terribly blind not to see it,”
she replied tartly. “If not playing de
votion aronnd Herbert she is courting the
attentions of Ed, who is thoronghly dis
gusted with her bold manners. And I
really think a reproof from you for her
thoughtless conduct—to call it by no
worse name—actually needed.”
The General shook his head. He oonld'
not believe any evil of little Kitty, not
even when his own daughter was the in
formant.
Clara watched indignantly his placid
incredulous expression.
You bad rather have us all scandalized
by that forward minx than say a warning
word to ber,” she cried, wrathfully.
“Don’t get excited, my child,” he said,
affectionately, “you are mistaken in little
Kitty; she is very good and inoffensive,
and you must not misconstrue her ac
tions.”
“Well, if you won’t talk to her I shall
take it upon myself to give her a piece of
my mind.”
I will not permit that, my daughter,”
he answered stoutly. She has done noth
ing deserving censure, I’ll warrant, and
yon must not wantonly wound her feel
ings.”
Clara, finding her efforts foiled in this
direction, became reconciled to her sister
and together they plotted sgainst the ob
ject of their inveterate hatred.
“I think oar plan will work admirably
though there is some risk,” said Clara.
Angusta, not so lost to all shame, tried
to persuade her sister to forego the dis
reputable sobeme and try some other not
involving snch dreadful consequences,
but Clara was hardened and relentless.
“Your assistance is not necessary, Gus-
sie,”she said, “all I ask of yon is to hold
your tongue until the proper moment to
My nerves are strong enough,
and I’ll give the little Kit a woeful scare,
if nothing else.”
“She is poor and has her own way to
make in the world, Clara, and the result
will be terrible to her,” argued Augusta.
“Sbe is not so poor while papa has her
here treating her as our equal, and intend
ing, no donbt, to leave her independent
when he dies. We mast get her away
from here, if it can be done.”
“Where will 6he go? MiBS Morris, I
am sure, would not receive her again af
ter—”
“Hush, Gnssic! I don’t oare where she
goes if papa can be led to believe her un
worthy.”
I don’t think Ed. will help you.”
Yes, he will, his grudge against her is
as great as mine.”
“Why what has she ever done to him, I
wonder,” said Augusta in surprise.
Snubbed him so unmercifully that
he’ll never forgive her.”
“I didn’t know before that he had ever
given her a chance to snub him, but if
she has he is just the one to get even
with her by some means. But I really
think yon had better wait a few days,
Clara.”
“I’ll have to, for Ed. is going to-mor
row with a party from Taunton on a fish
ing excursion np the river, and will pro
bably be absent two or three days.”
Towards the close of the week Gaul
tier arrived, and Windham fairly startled
him by the magnificent reward ha offered
if he succeeded in his queet.
“Give me a plain statement, sir, of all
the facts you have; keep nothing from
me;” said the Frenchman.
Windham detailed the little he knew
and gave him the Blip of paper and little
hood.
“Can I see the young ledy?” Gaultier
asked. “I am a great believer in family
resemblances. Not three years ago I was
after a fellow who had absconded with a
large amount of money, and he was snch
a smart one I had nearly despaired of
his capture. I could obtain uo photo
graph of him, but managed to get ac
quainted with his brother, and then went
to California, where 1 strongly suspected
my man was. After knocking about there
two or three weeks I accidentally found
him in a drinking saloon, and notwith
standing his clever disguise, knew him by
his likeness to his brother.”
Kitty was sent for, and the detective
had some conversation with her, his
bright, keen eyes noting accurately every
varying expression of her strikingly
beautiful face and elegant manners. Then
with his instructions and all the in
formation he conld glean from Kitty her
self, he started on his mission.
“I am no hand to write np my business
sir,” he said to his employer, as he was
leaving, “consequently you’ll not be apt
to hear from me nntil you see me, and
when that will be will depend on my lock.
I am not easily discouraged, and never
yet gave up but two oases, and they,
think, only eternity can reveal.”
Windham did not immediately take the
General into his confidence, and none of
the family suspected the character or
profession of the dapper-looking little
stranger that had called for an hour or
two on Windham. Augusta saw him as
he was departing, but as so many gentle
men from Taunton were frequently com
ing to see Herbert, she thought nothing
aboot it.
The day after Ganltier’s visit, Jackson,
the valet, confided to Sarah, Mrs. Weed
on’s maid, his suspicions that his master
pas going to marry Kitty as soon as he
had recovered from his injuries.
“Why he was juBt engaged to Miss Au
gusta ’(other day,” responded Sarah, in
astonishment.
But he’s off with the old love and on
with the new now.”
Are yon Bare, Mr. Jackson?” she in
quired.
“Yes, for with my own ears I heard
him ask her to marry him, and that’s all
that is neoessary, ’cause she aint the one
to refuse such a man.”
“He’s very rich, ain’t he?”
“Yes, rich as a Jew,* why he’s got a
perfect mint of money, and spends it free
as water.”
Sarah seemed to hold a consultation
with herself for a little while, then said:
Now I likes Miss Kitty, and I’ve a good
notion to tell you something, if yon will
never breathe it.”
“Mum’s the word, my dear—I ain’t the
person to betray secrets. Let’s hear it.”
You’ll swear you’ll never tell, Mr.
Jackson?”
“Yes, by yonr bright eyes or any other
pretty thing,” he gallantly replied.
“Well, it ain’t none of my business, I
know, but if Mr. Windham’s going to
marry Miss Kitty, I bate to see her come
to grief.”
“What are you talking ’boat? that’s the
way to keep the grief off, by wedding my
master.”
“Yes, bnt bend down yonr ear and lis
ten,” and she whispered to him the de
tails of the oruel plot sbe had by chanc6
overheard the sisters arranging against
Kitty.
Jackson was thunderstruck, and his
eyes looked like great moons as he stared
at her.
It’s true, Mr. Jackson, and Mrs. Wee
don ain’t the lady to give it np. She
hates Miss Kitty worse than poison, and
if she knew that Mr. Windham thought
of making her his wife, I believe she
would be mad enough to kill her.”
Jackson turned bis moustache np and
turned it down, and thought harder than
ever before in his life for a few minutes.
Sarah watched curiously the effect of
her story.
“Come along,” at length he said, catch
ing her by the waist, “come along to my
master, he mast know of this.”
“Stop, 6top, Mr. Jackson,” she cried,
‘would you ruin me? Miss Clara would
send me packing in an hoar, and her re
venge would always pursue me. You
promised me to say nothing abont it, yon
know.”
He bad considerable difficulty in over
coming her reluctance to allowing his
master to be told.
“He will see that no harm befalls you,
Sarah; you needn’t be uneasy. ”
“Well, you must be the one to tell him
for I can’t do it, and mind You don’t call
my # name, ” she said, as she got away from
him.
Jackson didn’t heed her request not to
mention her name in the business, but
harried to bis master, and in low, myste
rious tones informed him of Sarah’s dis
covery.
‘She is terribly afraid of her mistress,
sir, but I told ber that you would protect
her in case it should be necessary.
Windham was quite stupefied at the re
lation of so extraordinary a story, and
knowing nothing of the girl, seriously
doubted her veracity. It did not seem
to him possible, that a daughter of the
noble, honorable Capperton could be
guilty of so atrocious an act, and it was
only after seeing and hearing Sarah her
self that he became convinced of the
troth of hex. assertion that she bad really
overheard such a conversation between
the sisters. Bnt even then he doubted
if Mrs. Weedon wonld dare to carry out
her threatened vengeance, still less oonld
be believe that Edward Weedon would
sink himself lower than a brute to assist
her in her diabolical plot.
He dismissed the girl with promises of
protection if she got into trouble by her
revelations, mid cautioning her and
Jackson to observe the profonndest si
lence on the subject, he set his fertile
brain to counterplotting.
It was on th§ night of the 5th of Jane,
about ten o’clock, that the sisters and
Kitty were alone in the sitting-room.Mrs.
Weedon, suddenly feigning a dreadful
illness, called for her smelling salts.
“Do get the vial, Gnssie, I fear I shall
faint,” she said.
Augusta began a vigorous search in ev
ery likely and nnlikely place, and seemed
greatly alarmed.
“Can’t yon find it, Gnssie? Oh, I
member now I left it in Ed’s room. Do
run up Kitty, if you please, and get it
for me.”
“Hadn’t I better send a servant?
think Mr. Weedon is there,” Kitty asked
“EJ. is with Herbert,” quickly said
Angusta, chafing her sister’s hands. “Do
be quick, Kitty, I fear she’ll die.”
Kitty flew off to do her bidding.
Ed. Weedon was secreted in his room
waiting for her, and had left the door
open that she might, not suspecting bis
presence, oome directly in. There was
no light except the moonbeams that
shone through the half closed blinds,
and seeing the shadowy form of the girl
as she entered and crossed the floor to
the bureau for the salts, he slipped out
from his hiding place and shat and locked
the door.
“Ah, my beauty, I have you now!
nicely entrapped aren’t yon?” he said.
Not a word did she say.
He knew, for her own sake she wonld
give no alarm, and said:
“What would your friend Windham
think of you if he saw you now in my
room—a man who is no gentleman ac
cording to your verdiot, eh? Miss Sattce-
box?”
Only a smothered laugh answered him.
Clara, with a light in her band, knocked
at Herbert’s room, which was on
the Bame floor with Ed’s. Her father,
whom she knew to be there, invited her
in, bat pretending great uneasiness, she
inquired for Kitty.
‘Isn’t sbe with you?” enquired the
General.
No, she left Gussie and I more than
an hour ago, and I thought her in her
own room, but she is not there, nor can
sbe be found any where down stairs.”
“Is Edward with Gnssie?"
“No, I have not seen him since sap
per.” -
The General started down with her,
when, as they passed Ed’s room, she stop
ped and said:
“Who is that talking with Ed? It
sounds like Kitty's voice.”
General Capperton turned the bolt.
“Open the door, Mr. Weedon,” he
cried.
“Conceal yourself, Kitty, be quick,”
they heard him say in a stage whisper
within, and opening the door said non-
chalently.
“Anything wanted General?”
“My God!” cried the General, “what
does this mean?” as looking in the dark
ened chamber be saw a female form.
Clara bounded in with the light, and—
Sarah stood revealed!
One glance her mistress gave her, and
the torrent of abase that fell from the
lips of the raving woman was something
astounding. Her tongue, usually said to
be woman’s most available weapon, could
not express half ber baffled rage, and she
had recourse this time in earnest to an
other potent feminine weapon—hysteria.
She collapsed suddenly on the floor at her
father’s feet, who stood grimly eyeing the
impudent face of his gnest.
Augnsta now appeared upon the scene
followed by Kitty, and with the General’s
assistance bore tbe angry, defeated woman
off to bed.
“Do not weep so, my child,” her father
soothingly said. “It is all a mistake.”
Bat she hnew that only too well, and
wept and moaned the more over her fails
are to accomplish her spiteful intention,
while the dear old unsuspecting General
regarded her tears and excitement as bnt
the result of her womanly nneasinesB for
Kitty’s reputation.
Bnt an explanation was due him from
Weedon, and he immediately demanded it.
The fellow with a light laugh said that he
had left the ladies after tea to solace
himself with a cigar in the qmet of his
own room, and got to dreaming in the
moonlight; the girl Sarah had come in
to hunt her thimble that she had left
when a few hoars before she had been
mending a rent in the window enrtain,
and had only been there a moment when
some one rapped on the door.
This seemed very plausible to the old
gentleman, and he accepted it without de
murrer, for it was hard for his genial*
charitable heart to think evil of any one.
Moreover, he was getting deaf, and
thought it quite likely his ears might
have deceived him when be fancied he
had heard Weedon warning the girl to
conceal herself.
Early next morning Sarah departed but
not before receiving from Mr. YVindham
money sufficient to support her nntil he
conld interest himself in getting her an
other place. To Kitty she then went for
a farewell word, who was very grateful to
the girl for her timely help in saving her
self from so awful a fate.
“I’m sure I’ll never forget yonr kind
ness, Sarah,” she said, “and hope I may
some day have an opportunity of return*'
ing it.”
“Oh, I was watching out for you, Miss
Kitty, and waru’t going to let you run
headforemost into Miss Clara’s and that
man’s trap. Mr. Windham had told me
just exactly what to do, and I ain’t sorry
for it.”
“It was truly a sinful plot, and I shud
der when I think of it. Bnt thanks to
you it failed.”
Kitty pressed tbe girl’s hand warmly
when she said good-bye, for she felt it
was not merely then the sprightly serv
ing maid, bnt a tried and trusty friend,
from whom she was parting.
[to be continued.J
—To keep the feet dry—stand on yonr
head.
—What is the greatest want of the age?
—want of funds.
—A motto for young lovers.—So -fa
and so father.
—A citizen of Albany wants $7,000
for breaking his collar bone on the street.
And yet his collar bone, neck, nose, eyes,
ears, legs, feet and breeebea were bought
for $3 only last eleotion day.
—“The dearest object to me on earth
is my wife,” said Jones. “Well, I’m pret
ty close to you,” said Smith, “for the
dearest to me Is my wife’s wardrobe.”
—When a husband and wife live un
happily among tbe Arizona Indians, they
are condemned to be bnrned together.
Here they are eompelied to live together
and make it hot for one another.
—The bill to regulate the weight of eggs
that hens may lay has passed the New
York Legislature, and any pallet that lays
a doublesyolked egg will be considered a
bigamist.
—Young lady: “O, I am so glad you
like birds; whioh kind do you admire
most?” Old Gentleman: “Well, I think
a goose with plenty off stuffing is about
as nice as any.”
—“Did you do nothing to resuscitate
the body?” was recently aaked of a wit
ness at a coroner’s inquest. “Yes, sir;
we searched the pockets,” was the reply.
—A young lady who has suffered from
‘baggage-smashers, ” has had her trunks
covered with flannel this season, having
heard that flannel is a good chest proteo-
tor.
—British bntohers are mad as hornets
over the arrival of American beef, but
still their customers continue to remark:
“Hi’ll take hanother steak hoff that Ha
merican hox.”
—“What makes your bread so dark?”
inquired tbe lady of the house of the
cook. “If you please, marm, it’s beoause
it was baked in olondy weather,” was the
reply.
A spinster lady of fifty remarked
the other day that she ooald go alone at
six months. “Yes,” said her hateful
young half brother, and you have been
going it ‘alone’ ever since and never eu
chred anybody.”
—Terribly sarcastic father—“Now I
mast bid yon good night, Mr. John—for
have an engagement. Bat, say, why
don’t you stop and take breakfast with
us some morning. You always go away
an hour or.two before it is ready!”
—She was romantio, and he was prac
tical. She remarked dreamily that her
goal was troubled—that the forebodings
of Fate were running through her head.
And he coldly advised her to use a fine-
tooth comb.
—Some rash fellow says that the giv
ing of the ballot to woman wonld not
amount to much, for none of them wonld
admit that they were old enough to vote
until they were too old to take any inter
est in politics.
—She was a young lady from the city,
and he asked he if she would partake of
an ice oream. She gently answered: “If
it’s good, Bquare confectioner’s cream,
I’m there, but if it’s picnic or strawberry
festival slush, count me oat.”
—A batcher of some eminence was
lately in company with several ladies at a
game of whist, when, having lost one or
two robbers, one of tbe ladies addressing
him, asked, “Pray, sir, what are tbe
stakes now?” “Madam, the best ramp I
cannot sell lower than twenty cents a
pound.”
A youthful dandy having been term
ed an ‘old bachelor,’ appealed to an el
derly gentleman to decide whether he
should be called old or not, giving his
age—twenty-six. Said the elderly gen
tleman, “It’s owing to how you take it.
Now for a man it is young enough; bnt
for a goose it is rather old.”
—They sat in the parlor and he squeez
ed her hand. “O, would that this hand
were mine! ” he signed. ‘ ‘ Why, ” she sim
pered. “Because, if it were mine, I
con’d knock bullocks down with it bet
tor n with a sledge hammer.” The last
seen of that young man he was trying to
elimb on the top of the house by means
of the water spout.
—A San Francisco man told his wife
that he was tired of her, and she oblig
ingly poisoned herself. A New York wo
man, when she discovered that her hus
band was tired of her, raised a frightful
wart on his head as large as a goose egg,
and then eloped with a handsomer man.
In selecting a wife, yon want to choose
the San Francisco style of woman.
Tom PILLS
A distinguished physician of New York says:
.“It is astonishing now universally Dr Tntt’s
Pills are used. In my daily rounds, I hear of
them not only among the poor, but their virtues
are heralded from the mansions of the wealthy
and refined. Knowing the inventor from his
long connection with the medical profession, I
have great confidence in their merits, and of late
have often prescribed them with the happiest
results in cases where I desired to make a decid
ed impression on the liver.”
TUTFS PILLS
emus sick HunaoBi.
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CUBS DYSFKF8IA.
TUTT’S PILLS
CURB CONSTIPATION.
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TUTT’S PILLS
CUBE FEVER AND AOUE.
TUTT’S PILLS
CURE BILIOUS COLIC.
TUTT’SPILLS
CURE KIDNEY COMPLAINT
TUTFSPILLS
CURE TORPID LIVER.
TUTT’SPILLS
IMPART APPETITE.
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bMn engaged in
the practice of
medicine thirty
year*, and for a
long time was
demonstrator of
anatomy in the
Medical College
of Georgia,
hence persons
using his piUs
have the guar
antee that they
are prepared on
scientific prin
ciples, and are
free from all
quackery.
He has suc
ceeded in com
bining in them
the heretofore
antagonistic
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W hile they re
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produce no
weakness.
They may be
taken at any
time without
restraint of diet
occupation.
As a safe family
medicine they
have no rival.
PRICE, 25c.
OFFJCK : ’V
35 Homy St,
NEW YORK.
BOOTS AND SHOE8.
FINE SHOES!
LADIES’ AND MISSES’
NEWPORTS,
Plain and with Buckles.
Sandals
Slippers,
In New and Tasty Stylet.
BURTS’
Fine Button Boots.
Gh E NT T S '
Brown Cloth-Top Button Oxfords,
THE HANDSOMEST SHOE OUT.
Also a full Line of
SPRING WORK in all the
Popular Styles, ALL AT
REDUCED PRICES.
Heavy Stock of Brogans,
Plow Shoes, and Sta
ple Goods,
FOR WHOLESALE TRADE
MS- For anything yon want in tbe Shoe and
Leather Line, call at
THE OLD SHOE STORE,
No. 73 Broad Street,
(Sign of the Big Boot.)
WELLS & CURTIS.
sepSOtf.
Lawyers.
ALONZO A. DOZIER,
Attorney and Counsellor at
Office Over 120 Broad Street.
Practices In State and Federal Courts
both Georgia and Alabama.
mhl8’77 ly
Law.
in
A Use fob Stale Bread.—Beat two
eggs and add a copful of Bweet milk, mix
well, cat the bread in slices and soak in
the milk and egg, fry to a light brown, in
two parts lard and one part butter; when
done put on a dish and sprinkle with su
gar; or put in a deep dish, pat one cup
ful of raisins and currants, tine half cap
ful sugar and enough * wine to soak
through all; the first makes a good lunch
dish and the other way a good desert.
Belief fob Consumptives.—The com
mon mullein, steeped strong and sweet
ened with coffee sugar, and drank freely.
The herb should be gathered before the
end of July. Young or old plants are
good, dried in tbe shade and kept in clean
paper bags. The medicine mast be con
tinued from three to six months, accor
ding to the natnre of the disease. It is
good for the blood vessels also; it
strengthens the system, and builds up
instead of taking away strength. It
I makes good blood and takes inflammation.
I from the longs.
CHARLES COLEMAN,
Attorney-a t-Law.
Up stairs over C. E. Hochetrasser’s store.
[febll,’77 tf]
BENNETT H. CRAWFORD,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Office over Frazer’s Hardware Store.
jaU>77 ly
BSBSS OBAWPOBD. «f. X. X’HBILL.
CRAWFORD A NcNIELL,
Attorneys and Counsellors at Lay,
128 Broad Street, Columbus, Ga.
janlS,>70 ly
C. E. THOMAS,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Office:
Over Hochstrasser’s Store, Columbus, Georgia.
[JanS, 70 lyj
Mvbk H. BLAHoroBD. Louis F. Gabbard
BLANDFORD Sc. GARRARD.
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law
Office No. 07 Broad street, over Wlttlch A
Klnsel’s Jewelry Store.
Will practice In the State and Federal Courts
sept >76
LIONELC. LEVY, JR.,
Attoraey and Counsel lor at Law.
Commissioner of Deeds, New Yorhaad other
States.
Office over Georgia Home Insurance Co.
ESTATES.—Special attention to keeping ac
curate accounts, vouchers, Ac., and making
annual returns for Guardians, Administra
tors and Executors. decs, ’76
Watchmakers.
C. M. EEQC1N,
Watchmaker,
184 Broad Street, Columbus, Ga
Watches and Clocks repaired in the best
manner and warranted.jyl,’76
Tin and Coppersmiths.
WI. FEE,
Worker In Tin, •Del Iron, Copper
Orders irem abroad promptly attended to.
JyV70 No. 174 Broad Street.
Piano Tuning, &c.
E. W. BEAU,
Repairer and Tuner of Pianos, Organs and
Accord eons. Sign Painting also done.
Orders may be left at J W Pease A Nor
man’s Book Store. s ep5,’76
CARRIAGES,
WAGONS,
Agricultural Implements, Me.,
Made and repaired at tbe lowest CASH
prihas, on Wynn’s Hill, near the olty, by
MgMotitwlj W. M. AMOS
RAILROADS.
WESTERN RAILROAD
OF AT.AUAUA
Columbus, Ga., May 6,1877.
Trains Leave Columbus
AS FOLLOWS
Southern Mail.
5:00 p. ns., arrives at Montgomery. 9:82 r x
Mobile 636 ▲ ■
New Orleans. 11:26 a k
Selma 12*0 a x
Atlanta 8*0 a k
Atlanta & Northern
Mail.
7:30 a. m., arrives at Atlanta...... 3:00 r x
Washington .11:66 r x
Baltimore.... 8:10 ah
New York... 930 ak
ALSO BY THIS TRAIN
Arrive at Montgomery... 2:46 r K
‘Accommodation,” Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday.
Leave Columbus 9:16 r x
Arrive at Atlanta 8:00 a x
Arrive at Montgomery 6:10 ax
Making close connection for Nashville, Lou
isville, Ac
TRAINS ARRIVE AT COLUMBUS
From Montgomery and Southwest.. 11 K)0 a x
“ “ .. 8.-36.P x
From Atlanta and Northwest... 8:86 f x
49* This Train, arriving at Columbus at
S:35 P. H.i leavea Atlanta at 1:30 p. m.
E. F. ALEXANDER,
President.
CHARLES PHILLIPS, Agent.
deel8 tf
Central and Southwestern
Railroads.
Savannah, Ga., March 8,1877.
O N AND AFTER SUNDAY, March
11, Passenger Trains on tho Central ana
Southwestern Railroads and Branches will
run as follows:
TRAIN NO. 1, GOING NORTH AND WEST
Leaves Savannah 930 a x
Leaves Augusta 9:16 a k
Arrives at Augusta 4:46 r x
Arrives atMaoon 6:46 f x
Leaves Macon for Atlanta 9:10 f x
Arrives at Atlanta 6:02 a x
Making olose connections at Atlanta with
Western and Atlantlo Railroad lor all points
North and West.
COMING SOUTH AND EAST.
Leaves Atlanta 10:40 f k
Arrives at Macon 6:46 a x
Leaves Macon a--'. 7.-00 am
Arrives at Mllledgevllle 9:44 a X
Arrives at Eatonton 11.30 a X
Arrives at Augusta 4 46 p X
Arrives at Savannah 4:00 p X
Leaves Augusta 9:16ax
Making connections at Augusta for the
North and East, and at Savannah with the
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad for all points In
Florida,
TRAIN NO. 2, GOING NORTH AND WEST
Leaves Savannah 730 p x
Arrives at Augusta — 6:00 a x
l eaves Augusta....-..., 836 rx
Arrives at in llledgevilla 9:44 a x
Arrives at Eatonton..................1180 a x
Arrives at Maeon .. 8:00 ax
Leaves Maoon for Atlanta 8:40 a x
Arrives at Atlanta ... El* r x
Leaves Maoon for Albany and Eu-
faula M0 * x
Arrives at Eufaula .'. 3:60 p x
Arrives at Albany 2:10 r x
Leaves Maeon for Columbus....- 12:66 p x
Arrives at Columbus 6:16 r x
Trains on this schedule for Macon, Atlanta,
Columbus, Eufaula and Albany dallyj making
close connection at Atlanta with-Western A
Atlantlo and Atlanta A Richmond Air Line.
At Eufaula with Montgomery and Eufaula
Railroad; at Columbus with Western Rail
road of Alabama, and Mobile and Girard
Railroad.
Train on Blakely Extension Leaves Albany
Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
-COMING SOUTH AND EAST.
Leaves Atlanta 1:40 f x
Arrives at Macon from Atlanta...—.. 0.-66 r x
Leaves Albany 9:30 A x
Leaves Eafoula 8:30 px
Arrives at Maoon from Eufaula and
Albany 4:10 F x
Leaves Columbus 1132 a x
Arrives at Macon from Columbus.... 3:26 p x
Leaves Maoon 7:36 fx
Arrives at Augusta.. 6:00 a x
Leaves Augusta 8:06 r x
Arrives at Savannah 7:16 a x
Making connections at Savannah with At*
antic ana Gulf Railroad for all points in Flor
ida.
Passengers for Mllledgevllle and Eatonton
will take train No. 2 from Savannah and train
No. l from Maeon, which trelns conneot dally
except Monday, for these points.
WILLIAM ROGERS,
General Supt. Central Railroad, Savannah.
W. G. RAOUL,
Supt. Southwestern Railroad, Maoon.
feb6 tf:
Mobile & Girard B. R.
O
N and after SUNDAY, MAY Oth, the
_ Mail Train on tne Mobile A Girard Rail
road will run as follows:
GOING WEST.
Leave Columbus General Passenger
Depot dally, at 1:20 p x
Leave Columbus Broad Street Depot
dally,at 1:60 p x
Arrive at Union Springs - 6:62 p x
Troy 8:22 p x
Eufaula 1010 p x
Montgomery 7:66 p x
“ Mobile..... 6:25 A x
“ New Orleans 11:26 a x
“ Nashville 7:66 ax
k ‘ Louisville 3:40 r x
“ Cincinnati 8:16 P X
“ St. Louis 8:10 AX
*• Philadelphia 7:36 a x
** New York ,..10:26ax
- COMING EAST.
Leave Troy 12:30 a x
Arrive at Union Springs 232 ax
“ Columbus 7:05 AX
“ Opelika 9:20 ax
“ Atlanta 8 00 p x
“ Macon 3:26 px
“ Savannah ....7:16 ax
Close connection made at Union Sf
daily for Montgomery and points beyor
For Eufaula daily (Sundays exoepted).
Through coach with sl- eplng accommoda
tions between Columbus and Montgomery.
Passengers for the Northwest will save
ten hoars’ time bv this route.
Through tickets to all priuelpal points on
sale at General Passenger Depot, and at
Broad Street Shed.
W. L CLARK,
D. E. WILLIAMS,
General Tlck.t Agent.
Superintend
myPtf
jyjOBILE A GIRARD R. R. STOCK,
Southern & Atlantlo Tol. Co. Stook,
Confederate Bonds and Stook,
WANTED BY
JOHN BLACKMAR,
novS;’76 tfj Broker.
$50, 1
$100, $200, $500, $1,000.
w _ ALEX. FROTHINGHAM A
CO., Brokers, No. 12 Wall street. New York,
nuke desirable Investments In stocks, which
frequently pay from five to twenty times the
amount invested. Stocks bought and carried
as long as desired on deposit of three per emit.
Ezpl atory circulars and weekly reports sent
free. eemeodly
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