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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, JUNE 17, 1877
NO. 144
■ OTHEK'a HEART.
to hmr yearning breast;
musing over future years;
(•rays, “l>r»r Lord, Thou know’ll
my flower life's bitterest rain of
And that is all.
through the night;
lonely, dark and still;
blindly for tho light;
grave behind the hill—
And that is all.
of life's broken thread;
keeping back the tears;
“Thy darling is not dead,
safe through His eternal
And that is all.
KLI E AN■) WHAT.
at do they mean by blue?
I'lay.
up with tears;
darling fair,
from tne sunny bron
golden hair.
child
mean?" persisted the child;
cripples to-day,
said h» fought tor the blue,
ughi for the gray.
and sad,
warm,
gone by,
thrill;
lost in the Wilderness tight,
on Malvern bill.
lie stone by the farm yard gate,
Tor an hour or more,
eyes grew bright and their hearts
friendly grasp,
time
prayed
blue;
passed away from sight,
to the laud where gray and blue
in colors of light.
her darling with gohleu hair,
heart was sadly wrung
awakeued In that sad hour
prattling tongue:
are the colors of God,
passports to heaven."
s Adventure.
Reminiscence
in the Far West.
of
tell ue of aome of your nd-
I asked of my friend Elan.,
from hie many yaara'
bush and other outlandish
a« Bitting with me and my
though absent so long, he
aay, a young man yet.
Well, I have had plenty
some of them.” *
tell u« cue," ohimed in Mery,
laughed. “I oan tell yon of a
be that 1 met with iu the monn-
do. Which mountains?”
up in one of its wild
be the very thing.”
xaul Elam, running bis taper-
through hi* hair and amiling
"I'll soften down things in
as well as my blunt speech and
modes of thought will allow
must excuse the rest.”
excuse anything. Please be-
started froiu home to settle
districts,” began Elam,
a theory that no young man
to marry him until
a home for her. It ia
much you begin to think
arising, I suppose,
loneliness of one’s ex
was no exception. The laud
in the ltogue liiver Valley,
had got it a bit ship-shape, I
a nli that objeot in view—to
a wife.”
bad you seleoted a wife?”
intended to do that as soon as
you may say I was full
thinking of it. I worked on
^etty successful. I built a house,
Dnsiderable quantity of stacks,
l*'er garden for my wife—even
i pegs and nails she would want
hr dresses on. I intended that
piun to get on my horse, ride
tbe Wallamet Valley, and find
ife, marry her, and bring her
of conrtiog in that off.
we laughed a little. Elam
as if the recollection pleased
it strange, I see. It was
over there in those days,
were as scarce as angels,
not a girl within forty miles
1 assure you that very thought
drove in those nails for her
hang on, went throngh me
You don't believe? Go out
try it."
believe.”
two hundred and fifty
« good house, with a gar-
growing,
flowers—all in readiness
I hoped to bring home to
to take care of this, my poe-
what do you think happon-
not tell.
such a plague of grass*
the valley that everything
Crops, orchard, flow-era, grass,
and delightful and promising
grasshoppers destroyed all.
the second chapter of
" ‘The land is as the garden of Eden
before them, and behind them a deso
late wilderness. I was ruined. My stock
died; at least, the greater portion; they
had nothing to feed upon. Yea, it was
complete and absolate ruin.”
Elam paused a moment, mentally look
ing at the past.
"I considered myself disappointed in
love, too,” he resumed in the quaintest
of tones. "Though* I had not yet been
ont to find my girl, I knew she was som-
wbero in that other valley waiting to
me; and when the greedy grasshoppers
ate np everything, I felt that I had been
jilted. It actnally gives me a pang now
to think of those useless pegs on which
my imagination had so often seen a girl's
pink cotton dress and a white sun bon
net."
Elam gave a great sigh. He was an
eccentric fellow.
I became misanthropic; said to my
self that between fate and the grasshop
pers I had been used hardly. Packing
up my books and a few other traps, 1
bade adieu to the Kogne ltiver Valley,
forever, and started for the mountains.
It was a longish journey, as I had to drive
before me the stock I had left. There,
in the mountains, I settled down again,
built myself a fort, and played hermit.
No jilting girle should oome to me now.”
“A fort ?"
"A regular fort. A stockade eighteen
feet high, with an embankment four feet
high around it, and a strong gate in the
middle. My tent was in the midst of
the enclosure, with my books aDd house-
bold gods, fire-arme, and all the rest of
my property stowed away in it.”
“Were you afraid of the Indians?"
"Indians and white men. Y«s, I saw a
good many Indians at first within the
range of my rifle. They learned to keep
away from my fort, finding it did not pay
to attempt to invade it. Down in the
valley below there were mining camp*;
and you perhaps know what some of the
hangers-on of such camps are. I sold
beef—that is, heads of oattle—to the mi
ners; and as I sometimes had a tidy sum
of money by me, it was necessary to be
careful."
"What a strange life for a young man
For you, Elam!”
"I herded my oattle, drove them to
market, cooked, studied, wrote, and in
dulged in misanthropy, combined with
some rifle practice. By the time that I
entered upon the second Summer in tbo
lueuntaius I felt quite at home and was
gelling rich. After all, the life had its
charms. A mau cannot quite tire of it
when be is but a few years out of his
teens.''
"And the g-.rl wife ?”
"I am coming to that. Having had
time to forget my ill-usage, a reaotion
set in, you see, and I thought, after all,
I most ride to the Wallamet to see after
my girl. Hut I was not in the hurry
over it that I had been before. This is
all very dull you will say, but there'll be
some stir presently.’!
"It is not at all dull.”
"One Sunday afternoon—how did I
know it was Sundsy, you ask? Because
I had kept a count of the days all along;
kept my diary regularly. One Sunday
afternoon, I was sitting outside writing,
when a shadow fell across the paper, and
looking up, there stood a skeleton. Ac
oustomed as I was to lonely encounters
with strange men of all kinds, my bsir
stood on end as I stared at the spectre
before me. He was the merest boy in
years, pretty and delcate by nature, and
evidently reduced to this shadow state by
starvation, llis story was soon told. He
had left Boston on board a vessel bound
for the north-west coast, bad been wreok
ed at the mouth of the Umpaqua, aud had
been wandering about in the mountains
ever since, subsisting on roots and ber
ries. ”
“He was—”
“No, 1 assure you,” interrupted Eiain
witb an amused look at my wife, "the
boy was Dot a young woman in disguise
if that's what you are thinking. He was
just a poor, weak, hatf-starved lad named
Edwards. I fed and nursed him until
he was able to work for himself, and
then I got Bam Chong Sung to let him
take up a claim alongside a Chinese
camp, promising to favor the Chinaman
in a beef contract if he would be good to
the boy. I still eoutinued to see a great
deal of him.”
"And did Edwards succeed ?’’
“Ves, he got on. One day two China
men stole some of Sam Chong Sung's
horses; and be offered four hundred dol
lars to Edwards if he would go after the
thieves aud track them. Edwards asked
my advice, and I encouraged him to go,
telliog him where I fancied he would find
the men. Bo he started iu pursuit aud I
confess I missed him.”
Again Elgin paused. We did not in
terrupt him.
A man came to my fort one day who
was naked and starving. He was a bad
looking fellow, very; but yon will say a
man naturally does look bad when his
clothes are nowhere and bis bones pro
trude through their skin. I clothed him,
fed him, cared for him kindly until he
was able to travel, and then he went
away. The next Sunday I was sitting
outside my fort, as customary on that
leisure day, reading some translations
from the Greek poets—for I daresay you
remember I could make much of Greek
'itself—w-heu, chancing to look off my
book, I beheld a vision. ”
“A what ?”
"A vision of • lovely woman. And
I can tell you I should as soon have ex
pected to see a vision there as a woman.
I had seen neither for a year or two. She
was riding up the approach
to my fort on a fine horse; riding grace
fully and very slowly, as if to give me
time to get over my surprise; and I be
lieve 1 needed it. The picture she made
is in my mind now; I see the very flicker
of the shadow sad the sunlight acroae
the road, and the glitter of some steel
that fastened her hone’s trappings as be
arched his neck in impatienoe of her res
straining hand. Are you tired, old
friend ?”
“Never le9s so in my life.”
“Yon see I bad been alone so long;
aud I think I must be susceptible. That
vision breaking in suddenly, as it did,
upon my solitude, gave me the queerest
sensations. I was just spell-bound. Not
so she. Reining in her horse at my gate,
she squared round on her saddle and
lookiDg at me, silently asking my assis
tance to dismount. I helped her down—
what else could I do? and then, at her re
quest, gently preferred, went to put up
and feed her horse. Had she dropped
from the clouds? I did not know!”
‘‘Well ?”
"If yon'll believe me, when I returned
indoors, my guest had got her habit off.
Evidently she meant to make herself at
home. A tall, young, beautiful, well-
dressed woman. Just a godless she
looked to me. Her eyes were large,
black, and melting, her air was grand,
her manner easy. She was hungry, she
said; would I give her something to eat?
And while I was making preparations to
give her of my best, she read aloud one
of the Greek translations, an ode to Diana,
commenting npon it herself. That ahe
was a woman of oulture and ednoation,
whatever might. have brought her
into her present strange poaition, was ob
vious. Well, now," continued Elam,
‘you can guess whether a young man,
isolated on the mountains, ruined by the
grasshoppers, and jilted by the girl of the
Wallamet Valley, was bewildered or not.
Entertaining goddesses was not in my
line.”
"How long did she stay?”
"Wait a bit. What with reading and
eating, our acquaintance improved fast.
Bbe off. red to sing a song, and gave me
‘Kate Kearney.’ I might have lost my
heart to her, perhaps, to say nothing of
my lioart, but for a certain inward latent
doubt. I did not eare that my girl should
ride about, elegantly attired, on prancing
horses, anu drop down unexpectedly up
on hermits. Still it was a pleasant feel
ing to find oneself near her, and oertain-
ly a novel one. I asked her her history,
and she told it me. She was of a good
New England family, reared in affluence,
well educated and accomplished, but by
a freak of fortune she became reduced
to poverty and to be an exile from home
was the freak of fortune,
What
Elam ?”
“Ah, what indeed! The old atory, I
suppose; but I did not ask her. She had
male her way to California, resolved to
get or- and get money—and she had got
it. She went about from camp to camp
of the miners and others witb stationery
and various other artioles needed by
them; sold them these things, wrote let
ters for them; sang to them, nursed
them when sick, and carried their letters
express to San Francisco to be posted.
For all these services she received large
payments—money is notmuoh valued,yon
know, over there—and she had also had
a good deal of rough gold given to her
as specimens. Did she like that kind of
life, I asked her, so oontrary to her early
habits, aud she answered me quickly: ‘It
is not what we choose that we do in this
world, but what Fate chooses tor ns.
have made a competency, and gained a
rich and varied experience. Life may
not be what I once pictured it would be,
but I am content.’ She sighed as she
said it, and I didn’t believe in the ‘con
tent.’
"But what had brought her to you that
day?”
"She had not told me herself then
Presently I ashed her; asked her why she
came to see me. I never shall forget the
smile with which she turned to answer.
It pretty nigh disarmed me. We were
sitting somewhat olose, too; her flowing
silk gown touohed my knees. Altogether
I began to think of those useless pegs in
my house down in Rogue ltiver Valley.
Bat what she said pulled up my wander
ing thoughts, and turned them to pres
ent things. "Shall you be surprised to
hear that I have come to do you a real
service?' she asked. And she went on to
relate that, having to pass the previons
night at a place not many miles away, in
a house where partitions were tbin, she
had chanoed to overhear a plan for my
murder and robbery, tho villain in chief
of the plot being the starved and naked
wretch whom I bad sheltered and sent
away rejoicing not many days previous.
All iD a moment, while 1 was pondering
on the doubtful problem of gratitude, a
fancy came over me that she might Dot
be telling the truth; that it might be just
an excuse got op to justify her own en
trance, and I playfully hinted so.
woman does not trifle with subjects like
these, nor deceive when she goes ont of
her way to do a service," she answered.
"I rode off from that home the other
way this morning, made a detour, and
came here to warn you. And now that
have done it, if you will please to get
my horse, I will ride away.” All fair,
that. I, fall of thanks end repentance,
asked her to stay longer if she was not
perfectly rested, but she declined, and
brought the steed round and helped her
to mount him. Once in the saddle her
humor changed; ahe smiled, and remind
ed me that I had not been polite enough
to invite her to return. A weak of read
ing, talking, riding, trout-ti-binp. and ro
mancing up in those splendid mountains
would be very charming; perhaps ahe
might come if I asked her.”
"And did you ask her?”
"I did not. A young man with a rep
nlation to sustain up there in the moun
tains, couldn’t invite a young lady to stay
a week with him, could he now?” cried
Elam quaintly, which set ns both laugh-
ing.
"So I parried the question as easily
I could, and she rode awey. In going
slowly down the trail, she turned and
kissed her hand to me with • graoious
sweetness. I assure yon the struggle in
my own mind was great at that mo-nect,
and I don’t know whether I have forgiven
myself yet for wbat happened afterward.”
"Wha t did happen?"
“She came back again. She came back
again and I drove her aicay. That is, I
made the best excuses I could for not re
admitting her, saying we should perhaps
have fighting and murder—and what not
—in my fort that night, and it would be
no place or scene for a delicately bred
woman. The pretty and modest girl,
bo was to come from Wallamet Valley
and hang np her pink garments on my
pegs, had rushed into my mind, you see
—but I never like to confess to this part
of my story, because I get laughed at.
But don't yon think I did right? —having
my reputation to keep up?”
While we had our laugh out, Elam, was
pushing his soft, fine light hair off his
brow with those slender fingers, that
looked as if no rough work had ever
oome near them—and wbat muBt have
they been before it did come? He went
on thoughtfully.
"She finally rode away, not haviDg
been invited to get off her horse, leaving
me in anything but a pleasant - frame of
miDd. From telling myself I was a bear,
turned to the other subject—my prom
ised robbery and murder. Had she sim
ply invented that little fable, or was it a
true bill? I felt inclided to believe it
the latter. Any way, I deemed it well to
be prepared for all contingencies,barring
and bolting my fort against intruders
and sitting np late over the fire. This
was Sunday night. On the Tuesday
morning three or four mounted men
rode np. One of whom was the traitor,
my former naked and hungry protege.
He no longer attempted to conceal his
true character from me, but said he and
his comrades were intending to clean
out the Chinese camp, and he aeked me
to join them in the raid. I was on my
guard in answering him, simply saying
that I would have nothing to do with rob
bing the Chinese, that they were my
friends and customers, and I thought
they had best be let alone. With that be
went i ff. That same afternoon Edwards
came in, having recaptured some of the
horses. He was very tired, and asked
leave to stay with the horses at my place
till next day. I said nothing to Edwards
of the gang just gone away, or that (wbat
I suspected) they had talked of making
a raid on the Chinese only to throw me
o ff my guard, that it was my fort on
which the attack was to be, and I hoped
the fellows did not know of the arrival of
the horses,as they woald be an additional
temptation for them.”
‘I'd not live in those wild, lawless re
gions for the whole world,” cried out Ma-
ry-
"Dusk came ou. I sent Edwards, dead
tired to bed; made a great fire in the
tent, and sat by it facing the window.
My expected visitor came, the villain. He
made believe to have been drinking, and
put that forward as a plea for asking
shelter until the morning. The instant
he w«9 inside, I made the gate fast, dri
ving the big wooden pins home with an
axe. I caught a gleam from his eyes as I
was doing this, which—”
"But why not have made the gate faBt
before be entered?”
Because he was safer inside than out.
A conviction had come over me that this
man was some desperate character. His
comrades were no donbt waiting near,
and bis plan had been quietly to open
the gate to them.”
“Had you no arms but your rifle ?"
"I wanted none, for we understood
each other—my rifle and I. This villain
understood us, too. I don't think, either
he liked to see Edwards sleeping in the
tent. The lad was not good for much;
but still be was somebody. It would now
be a contest of skill between the fellow
and me. He was waiting his opportuni
ty, and so was I. Of all villainous-look
ing men, he was the worst. Tall, swar
thy, black-bearded; with a hard face that
must have been handsome once, and
fierce black eyes gleaming with evil. He
set on one side the hearth, I on the other,
our eyes fixed on one another.”
Elam paused, I wandered what was
coming.
“You guess, I daresay, that I have a
quick ear, for you know what my temper
ament is—all sensitive consciousness. My
good hearing had been onltivated, too,
by listening for the Indians. By-snd-by
I detected a very stealthy movement out
side the fort, and then a faint chirrup,
such as a young squirrel might make. Up
sprang the man, but I covered him with
my rifle, cocked. He saw the movement
showed bis teeth, and drew ont*a pistol
but Dot before I ordered him to throw
down his arms, or die. He hesitated
he saw that in my eye and aspect that
made him quail. With the rifle leveled
and my finger on the trigger, he threw
down his arms—pistol and knife—with a
dreadful oath. I had the beBt of him
and he knew it; for before he could have
put his pistol into form, or rushed on me
with his knife, the ball from my rifle
would have been in him. His language
was awful—and we are not nice in that
respect, you know, in California—the
foam lay on his lips. He demanded to
be let out of the house, denouncing me
as a robber and murderer. To all his ra
vings I had but one answer; to be quiet
to obey me, and be should live; dare to
disobey me and he should die. He sat
there oowed, on the opposite side of the
fire, nor daring to make even a doubtful
motion. Then I told him what I knew—
that I had beard whet be was, and what
he meant to do. With that he broke
down utterly—or pretended at it, howled
like a child, declaring that now he knew
my pluck, and I bad been the first man
ever to get the better of him, he loved
me like a brother. All the same, love or
no love, he had to ait where he was, and
I in front of him, with my rifle on my
knees. There was • long night before
us; he oould have no liberty in it, and
the restraint was horrible to him. One
moment he laughed uneasily; the next
cursed; the next cried. It was a strange
experience, was it not? To pass away the
time, I asked him to relate the history of
his life. He said he would; but would
first of all just shake hands, for the re
spect he bore me. Touching my rifle
significantly, I pointed to the atick lying
across the hearth place between us. ‘That
is your boundary line, my man,’ said I;
‘don’t go stretching your hand over that.’.
And it aent him into a fit of sullenness.
“What oame of it?”
"We must have remained in this posi
tion till midnight. Several times I heard
slight sounds outside the fort, to whioh
ho listened; but he dared not respond to
them, he could do nothing. After
while they ceased; his associates,
rightly judging that something or other
had gone wrong and spoiled the scheme,
no doubt made off, tired of waiting. The
fellow’s head was bent, bis chin rested
on his breast, his shaggy beard spreading
over it like a mantle. He suffered mar
tyrdom. He was like a hyena caged,
though he showed it only by involutary
nervous startings and fnrtive glances.
Finally he could bear it no longer, and
entreated me piteously, abjectly, to give
him his freedom or blow out his brains.
He oould not have his freedom just yet, I
quietly told him; but he knew how to
get hiB brains blew out if he desired it.
Whioh brought forth some more of his
choice language. And the lad Edwards
slept through it all ! ”
What a situation ! What a night!”
Ay, it was. By and by we got to
talking; I not relaxing in my vigilance
for an instant. Once started on bis own
history, the subjeot seemed to have a
fascination for him, He had been hon
estly ‘raised,’ he said, by good and lov
ing parents, in the State of Missouri,
had passionately loved a youog girl in
the town where he lived—and his descrip
tion of her was so pretty and vivid that I
declare it brought into my mind the oth
er girl waiting for me down in the Wal
lamet Valley. To enable him to marry
her he resolved to go to California and
make in some honest way the requisite
money. He went, and did make it, and
full of joyful anticipations, returned to
find that Bhe had married another. The
man—the husband had played them false
—told the girl that her lover was dead,
and married her himself. When he came
out of the brain fever which this news
gave him, he was invited to an evening
party in the town, one given in honor of
him. To this party came bis love and
her husbaud: when he put out his hand
to welcome her, their eyes met, and each
knew then and for the first time, how
they had been betrayed. From that hour
the man took to evil courses, and his first
victim was the false husband. His hand
was against every man's, and every man’s
against him; and he became a desperate
outlaw. Once again he saw his love,
meeting her in the streets of Sacramento;
she was married again, and she turned
from him with a cry of aversion. Yes,
be might be desperate now, he added, bat
he had had his trials. I asked him what
his true name was. Hiram Creddin, he
answered; but the one he was known by
was Boone Helm. That made me start.”
Why did it ?"
Because I had heard of Boone Helm
before—and knew he was the greatest
terror of the time. I suppose I should
have done sooiety a benefit had I shot
him as he sat there, but I did not. Per
haps you won’t believe that I felt a sort of
pity for the fellow—but I did. Well,
morning came at last. I sent Edwards to
get the gate open, and escorted my visi
tor out, telling him that there wbb not
room for him and for me in that part of
the country, and that he had better quit
it for another. ”
“And did he ?”
"I suppose so. He never attempted
to molest me again. Not long after, I
heard or his death. He met his fate up
east of the mountains.”
“And what of the pretty Amazon
Elam? I’m sure she was almost as good
to you as a guardian angel ! Coming on
borsebaok to give you warning !”
"Was she not? And I had returned it
by behaving so unhandsomely to her. But
now, I just ask you—would it have been
proper to have let her come in on that
week's visit? and I a young man with a
reputation !*’
Again we burst out laughing. Elam's
appeal to us was put with the most un
sophisticated air possible.
"At any rate, you did not.”
"No,” said he, "I did not. And taking
all things into consideration, I think I
did right.”
“Have you ever seen her since?”
“Once. It was at San Francisco. She
was married aud staying at the same hotel
that I was. Her husband was a fine, tall,
dashing man, what you would call
a gentleman, and very wealthy. She had
been luoky, yon see. I knew her as soon
as she came into the drawing room, and
in a few minutes I saw that she recog
nized me; but she did not take any no
tice, neither dia I. She told me with her
eyes that she remembered; but there
was an appealing glance in them, which
I interpreted rightly. After dinner she
went to the piano, and sang ‘Kate Kear
ney.’ We had got into conversation be
fore that, the three of us, just as stran
gers will do in a hotel, and I found the
husband a very intelligent, educated,
well-informed man. In parting I got just
a word aside with her. ‘I am glad to
meet you again and thus.’ ‘Hush !’ she
answered. ‘thank you for your reti
cence. In the past of a life that has
been composed of ups and downs, there
is generally something or other lying on
the memory that we don’t care to recall
or proclaim to the world. ’ ”
"And about that young girl in the
Wallamet Valley?”
“I never found her,” replied Elam,
shaking bis head thoughtfully. “Truth
to say, I never started fairly to look for
her. Life is composed of ups and downs
you know, as that other lady observed,
of blighted hopes, and all that. Perhaps
it’» u well."—Argosy.
—A splendid ear, but a poor voice, as
the organ grinder said of the donkey.
—Many a man who drives his bays or
his grays is hixtself 0 riven by duos.
—The late it thing out is usually a
young man w .th a latch key.
Fools and their money soon part. It’s
worth while being a fool to have money
to part from.
' —Why are troubles like babies? Be
cause they get bigger by nursing.
—Even if a boy is always whistling, “I
want to be an angel, ’ it is just as well to
keep the preserve pears on the top shelf
of the pantry.
—What is the difference between a
Christian and a cannibal ? One enjoys
himself, and the other enjoys other peo
ple.
—A person always meets with a warm
reception at a hotel. The minute he ar
rives he Is plaoed on the register.
The present style of young ladies’
dresses doss not require any satin in the
material. In fact they are not made to
be sat in.
—“Six feet in his boots?” said Mrs.
Partington; ‘and what will the impe-
ranee of this world come to, I wonder?
Why, they might just as well tell me that
the man had c-ix hands in his hat.”
—Women have often successfully hid
valuables in their hair, and a young
French lady recently found a l,000f. note
in her deceased mother’s chignon.
—The subject of one of Rev. Dr. Hen
son's best lectures is on “Fools." On a
recent occasion the tickets were printed,
Lectnre on Fools—Admit one,” and the
house was full. •
—Whattoeatand how to cook it,” is
the title of a book recently published.
What to eat and where to get it," would
meet with a livelier sale among the la
boring classes here j ast now.
—A line in one of Moore’s songs reads;
Our couch shall oe roses bespangled
with dew.” To which a sensible girl re
plied: “ ’Twould give me the rheumatiz
and so it would you.’
--A strong-minded woman was heard
to remark the other day that she would
marry a man who hud plenty of money,
though ho wat so ugly she had to scream
every time she looked at him.
—The mau who is curious to Bee how
the world could get along without him
oan find ont by sticking a cambric needle
into a mill pond, aud then withdrawing it
and looking at the hole.
—“How can a woman make home more
attractive to her husband?'’ There is no
general answer, but in some cases the
thing can be done by inviting the widow
Smith round io spend the evening.
—To the cultivated and naturally deli
cate musical ear, there is nothing more
disagreeable than to have a hand-organ
woman pause in the middle of a bar to
let go the ernt.k and replace a hairpin.
—Said an Irishman who had been oall-
ed a liar: “Sir, the duello is uot now in
fashion; bnt if you had made that asser
tion fifty years ago, I would call you out
to-morrow morning.”
—A Troy policeman swore as follows
against a prisoner: "The prisoner set
upon me calling me an ass, a precious
*dolt, a scarecrow, a ragamuffin and an
idiot—all of which I certify to be true.”
,—A young lady had coquetted until the
victim was completely exhausted. He rose
to go away. She whispered, as she ac
companied him to the doot: "I shall be
at home next Sunday evening.” "So
shall I,” he replied.
—A pupil gitve his teacher this illustra
tive definition of “responsibility”: “Boys
has two buttons for their s’penders bo’s
to keep their tnickei bockerg np. When
one button comes off. why there’s a good
deal of responsibility on t’other batten.”
—“He is a man after my own heart,
pa, said Julia, reverting to her Charles
Augustus. ‘'Nonsense,” replied old
Praotical; "he is a man after the money
your uncle left you.” And then all was
quiet.
—It is estimated that there are two
thousand four hundred disorders to which
the human frame is liable. When a man
is hauled up with the rheumatism, he is
apt to think the entire number has struck
him in concert.
—At a duel the parties discharged their
pistols withoui effect, whereupon one of
the seconds interfered, and proposed that
the combattaDts should shake bands. To
this the other second objected as unnec
essary; for, said be, their hands have
been shaking this half hour.
—For a printer's wife, Em; for a sport's
wife, Betty; for a lawyer's wife, Sue; for
a teamster’s wife, Carrie; for a fisher
man’s wife, Nutty; for a shoemaker's wife
Peggy; for a carpet man's wife, Mattie;
for an auctioneer's wife, Biddy; for a
chemist’s wife. Anna Aliza; for an engi
neer's wife, Bridget.
—An old colored preacher in Georgia
was lecturing it youth of bis fold about
the sin of dancing, when the latter pro
tested that the Bible plainly said: “There
is a time to dance.’ “Ves, dar am a lime
to dance,” said the dirk divine, “audit’s
when a boy gets a whipping tor gwine
to a ball.”
Indignant boarder to his landlady;
‘‘Madam, if you expect four buckwheat
cakes to go into five persons and leave
any remainder, allow me to say that yon
are decidedly oat in your arithmetical
calculations, for they won’t do it. I'll
trouble you for that plate of hot ones
you’ve got concealed behind the sugar
A bowl." He got ’em.
TUTUS PILLS
A distinguished physician of New York says:
44 It is astonishing how universally Dr Tull’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 tne medical profession, I
have great confidence in their merits, and of late
have often prescribed them with the hanpiest
results in cases where I desired to make a decid
ed impression on the liver.**
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OUSE KIDNEY COMPLAINT
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CURE TORPID LIVER.
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IMPART APPETITE.
Dr- Tatt hu
been engaged in
the practice of
medicine thirty
▼ears, and for a
long time was
demonstrator of
anatomy in the
Medical College
of Georgia.
g his pills
i the guar-
ug in them
heretofore
Strength-
ENINfl.PUR
GATIVE, aii<l
a PURIFY
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While the
PRICE, 25c.
OFFICE : ^
35 Murray St.
XKW YORK.
Doctors.
JDK. €. E. ESTES.
Ovfiok Over Kmbt's Drug Stour,
jus ly
Lawyers.
RAILROADS.
ALONZO A. DOZIER,
Attorney aud Counsellor at Las.
Office Overbid Bioail Street.
Practices In State and Federal Courts In
both Georgia and Alabama.
mlil8’77 ly
CHARLES VOLEEAN,
Attorney-at-Law.
Up stairs over C. E. Uocbstrasser’s store.
[febll,’77 tf]
BENNETT H. CRAWFORD,
Attorney aud Counsellor at La».
Office over Frater’s Hardware Store.
jalt’77 ly _____
UKBSB CKAWroaD. J. M. It’S KILL.
CRAWFORD A HcNIELL,
Attorney, and Counsellor, at Law,
1X8 Broad Street, Columbus, Ua.
janlS,’78 ly
C. E. THOMAS,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Orrioa:
Over Hocbstrasser’s Store, Columbus, Georgia.
[jan9,76 lyj
Mvst H. Blahdvord. Louie F. Gabbard
blaivofokd et gakrahd,
Attorney, and Counsellor, at Law
Office No. 87 Broad street, ovtr Wlttich bt
Kinsel’s Jewelry Store.
Will pr&otiee In the State and Federal Courts
sept ’76
~ LIOXELC. LEVY, JR.,
Attorney and Counsel lor at Law.
Commissioner ol De«at,, New York sad other
States. _
Office over Georgia Home Insurance Co.
ESTATES.—speolal attention to keeping ac
curate accounts, Touchers, Ao., and making
annual returns tor Guardians, Administra
tors and Executors.deco,’76
Watchmakers.
C. II. LEQUIN,
Watchmaker,
134 Broad Street, Columbus, Ga
Watcbes and Clocks repaired lu the best
manner and warranted.jvl,’75
Tin and Coppersmiths.
wat. FEE,
Worker In Tin, Sheet Iron, Copper
Orders trom abroad promptly attended to.
Piano Tuning, Ac.
E. W.-BLAC,
Repairer and Tuner of Pianos, Organs and
Accordeons. Sign Painting also done.
Orders may be left at J W Pease fc Nor
man’s Book Store. sep6,’75
WARM SPRINGS, GEORGIA.
T HIS ESTABLISHMEMT is now open to
the Public for the season.
RATES OF BOARD :
Per day i"0
“ week looo
“ month.. 30 00
Children under 12 years and colored servants
half price.
Close connection Is made at Genera
with the 11:1# A. w. Train by W. H. Martin’s
Hacks, which reach the Springs to early tea.
J. L. MUSTAIN,
myX# tf Proprietor.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
Meriwether County, Georgia.
WESTERN RAILROAD
OF ALABAMA.
Cclumbus, Ga., June 3,1877.
Trains Leave Columbus
AS FOLLOWS
Southern Mail.
12:09 p.m.,arrives at Montgomery. 6:04 r u
Mobile 6:26 A M
New Orleans.11:26 A M
Selma 8:16 p m
Atlanta. 9:40 a v
Atlanta & Northern
Mail.
7515 a. m., arrives at Atlanta '2:20 p m
Washington . 9:46 P M
Baltimore....11:30 pm
New York... 7:00 a m
ALSO BY THIS TRAIN
Arrive at Montgomery •••».••••••••••• 2:06 r m
“Accommodation,” Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday.
Leave Columbus 7:30 p m
Arrive at Atlanta 9:49 ▲ m
Arri v e at Montgomery 6:10 am
Making close connection lor Nashville, Lou
isville, &.0
TRAINS ARRIVE AT COLUMBUS
From Montgomery and Southwest.. 10:66 a m
*» “ .. 6:06 P M
From Atlanta and Northwest 6:06 f m
K* This Train, arriving at Columbua at
5:05 P. SI., leaves Atlanta at 9:30 a. m.
E. P. ALEXANDER,
President.
CHARLES PHILLIPS, Agent.
dec!8 tf
Central and Southwestern
Railroads.
-’TT! H'.Vjr.iaMsi
L ' -djrnj mi serf
Savannah, Ga., March 8, 1877.
O N AND AFTER SUNDAY, March
11, Passenger Trains on the Central anu
Southwestern Railroads and Branches will
run as tollows:
TRAIN NO. 1, GOING NORTH AND WEST
Leaves Savannah 9:20 a m
Leaves Augusta 9:15 a m
Arrives at Augusta 4:45 p m
Arrives at Macon 0:46 r m
Leaves Macon lor Atlanta 9:16 p m
Arrives at Atlanta 6:02 a m
Making close connections at Atlanta with
Western and Atlantic Railroad for all points
North and West.
COMING SOUTH AND EAST.
Leaves Atlanta 10:40 p m
Arrives at Macon 5:45 a m
Leaves Macon 7:00 am
Arrives at Milledgeville 9:44 a m
Arrives at Eatomon 11.30 a m
Arrives at Augusta 4 45 p M
Arrives at Savannah 4:00 P M
Leaves Augusta 9:16 am
Making connections at Augusta lor the
North aud East, and at Savannah with the
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad for all points In
Florida.
TRAIN NO. 2, GOING NORTH AND WEST
Leaves Savannah 7:30 p X
Arrives at Augusta.. 6:00 a X
1. eaves Augusta 8:06 p at
Arrives at Milledgeville 9:44 a m
Arrives at Eatonton 11:30 a m
Arrives at Macon 8:00 a m
Leaves Macon for Atlanta.••••».•»••• 8:40 am
Arrives at Atlanta 2:16 p m
Leaves Macon for Albany and Eu-
faula 8:20 a m
Arrives at Euf&ula 3:49 p m
Arrives at Albany 2:10 p m
Leaves Macon for Columbus 9:33 a m
Arrives at Columbus 1:13 p m
Trains on this schedule for Macon, Atlanta,
Columbus, Fufaula and Albany daily, making
close connection at Atlanta with Western A
Atlantio and Atlanta A Richmond Air Line.
At Lutaula with Montgomery and Eulaula
Railroad; at Columbus with Western Rail
road of Alabama, and Mobile and Girard
Railroad.
Train on Blakely Extension Leaves Albany
Mondays,T uesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
COMING SOUTH AND EAST.
Leaves Atlanta 1:40 p m
Arrives at Macon from Atlanta 6:65 p m
Leaves Albany 10:00 a m
Leaves Eafaula * 8:05 p x
Arrives at Macon from Eufaula and
Albany 410 p m
Leaves Columbus 11:19 a m
Arrives at Macon from Columbus.... 3:11 p k
Leaves Macon 7:36 p m
Arrives at Augusta 6:0o a m
Leaves Augusta 8:06 p m
Arrives at Savannah % 7:16 a m
Making connections at Savannah with At-
antic and Gulf Railroad for all points in Flor
ida.
Passengers for Milledgeville and Eatonton
will take train No. 2 from Savannah and train
No. 1 from Macon, which trains connect daily
except Monday, for these points.
WILLIAM ROGERS,
General Supt. Central Railroad, Savannah.
W.G. RAOUL,
Supt. Southwestern Railroad, Macon.
feb6 tf
This Favorite
SUMMER RESORT!
Is Now Open for the Reception of Guests.
Mobile & Girard R. R.
Everything for tt&e Comfort, ot
Guests will be Provided by
the Proprietor.
RATES OF BOARD:
Per day >6 2 < 0
“ week lo Oo
“ month 30 oo
Children and Servants half price.
JAS. W. RYAN,
julOlm Proprietor.
J. H. SANDERS,
IRON AND BRASS FOUNDRY.
The Georgia Iron Works,
{FORMERLY J. C. PORTER),
MA-NUPACTtmEFl
—OF—
Cane Mis, Sjrip Evaporators
CLEGG’S PATENT AUTOMATIC EVAP
ORATOR, IRON RAILING, all kinds of
CASTINGS—Braes and Iron.
19* Alto Mepairt Old Atone*.
my# dkw3m
opium#;
Morphia* habit absolutely mud
lily cur- d. PainleM: no publicity,
•tminp for particular*. Dr. Carl-
O N and after SUNDAY, MAY 6th, the
Mail Train on tne Mobile A Girard Rail
road will run as follows :
GOING WEST.
Leave Columbus General Passenger
Depot daily, at 1:20 p m
Leave Columbus Broad Street Depot
daily, at 1:60pm
Arrive at Union Springs 6:52 p m
“ Troy 8:22 P M
“ Eufaula 10 lo p m
44 Montgomery 7:55 p m
44 Mobile 6:25 a m
“ New Orleans 11:26 a m
“ Nashville 7.55 am
“ Louisville 3:40 r m
44 Cincinnati 8:16 f m
14 St. Louis h:lo am
“ Philadelphia 7:35 a m
44 New York 10:26 a m
COMING EAST.
Leave Troy 12::«' a m
Arrive at Union Springs 2:22 a m
44 Columbus 7:o. f » /. m
44 Opelika 9:20 a m
44 Atlanta 3 00pm
44 Macon 3:26 p m
44 Savannah 7.16 am
Close connection made at Union Springs
daily lor Montgomery and points beyond.
For Eufaula Tuesday, Thursday and Satur
day.
Throngh coach with sleeping accommoda
tions between Columbus and Montgomery.
Passengers for the Northwest will save
ten hours' time by this route.
Through tickets to all principal points on
sale at General Passenger Depot, and at
Broad Street Shed.
W. L. CLASKy
^ _ Superintend
D. E. WILLIAMS,
General Ticket Agent. my9 tf
Warm and White Sulphur
SPRINGS.
?' -ITT I finikSt)
<eJ‘ Xrmf Wtf
P ASSENGERS going to the Warm and
White sulphur Springs will find it more
convenient and pleasant
Via the Mh & Sooth Railroad,
As arrangements have been made to hare
HACKS meet every morning
and evening's train.
ja#3Bi
WM. REDD. Jr.,
