About Columbus daily enquirer. (Columbus, Ga.) 1874-1877 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1877)
VOL. XIX. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1877. NO. 221 * SKYE. My heart is yearning to thee, O Skye! ' ' Dearest of islands! There first the sunshine gladdened my eye, Ou tlie sea sparkling; i here doth the dust o" my dear ones lie, In the old graveyard. Hr; -ht are the golden green fields to me, Here in the Lowlands; Ciree t sings the mavis in the thorn tree, fcuowy with lragrance; But oh for a breath of the great North Sea, Girding the mountains! I ,1 is the smell of the brine that laves lllaek rack and skerry, M b re the gr. at jialm-loaved tangle waves D,.«a in the green depths Au l round the craggy bluff, pierced with caves h agulls are screaming. Where tie ini sinks beyond Ilunish Head, Swim ring in glory,' AL'l he goes down to his oeean bed Studded with islands, Flushing the Coolin with royal red, Would I were sailing! jinny a hearth round that friendly shore (iivetli Warm w lcjme; Charms -till are tier-, as in days of yore, More than of mountains; But hearths and faces are i ecu no more, Once of the brightest. j] a uv a poor black cottage is there, Grimy with pe t smoke, Sending up in the soft evening air Purest blue incense, While tb low music of psalm and prayer Jiises to lleaien. Kind wire the voids I used to hear Hound such a fireside, Si' aking the mother tongue old and dear, Making the heart boat With cudless tales of wonder and fear Or plaintive singing. Great were the marvelous stories told Of Oseiau’s h roes, Giants add witcius, end young men bold, Sin king adventures, Winni: g Kings daughters and guarded gold Only with \alor. Re and In those dwellings have brave ones been; ltrave ones are still there, lurili from their darkness on Sunday I've seen Cotniug pure linen, And, like the lim n, the souls were clean Of them that wore it. gee that thou kindly use them, 0 man! To whom God givcth| Stewardship over them, in thy short span, dint for thy pleasure! Woe lie to them wtio choose /or a clan Four-footed people! llh -sings be with ye, both now and aye, Dear human creatures! Yours is the love that no gold ban buy Nor time can wither, peace be to tbee and tliy children, O Skye! Dearest of islands! —Good Words. Bill and the Widow. “Wife,” snid Ed. Wilbur, one morn ing as bo sat stirring his coffee with one band and holding a plum-cake on bis knee with the other; and looked across the table into the bright eyes of his little wife, “wouldn't it be a good joke to get bachelor Bill Suiiley to take widow Wat son to Barnum's Show next week?” “You can’t do it Ed.; he won’t ask her, he’s so awful shy. Why, he came by here the other morning when I was hang ing out the clothes, and looked over the fence and spoke, but when I shook out a night-gown he blushed like a girl and went away.” “I think I can manage it,” said E j; “but I’ll have to lie just a little. But then it wouldn’t be much harm under the cir cumstances, for I know she likes him, and he don’t dislike her, but just as you say, he’s so shy. I'll just go over to his place to borrow some bags of him, and if I don’t bag him before I come back don’t kiNS mo for a week, Nelly." So saying, Ed. started, and while he is mowing the fields we will take a look at Bill Smiley. He was rather a good look ing fellow, though his hair and whiskers showed some gray hairs, and he had got in a set of false teeth. But every one said he was a good soul, and so he was. He had as good a hundred acre farm as any in Norwich, with a new house and everything comfortable, and if he wanted a wife many a girl would have jumped at the chance like a rooster on a grasshop per. But Bill was so bashful—always was—and when Susan Sherrybottle, whom he was so sweet on, though he nev er said “boo” to her, got married to old Matson, he just drew his head in like a wudturtle into his shell, and there was ho getting him out again, though it had been noticed that since Susan had become a widow, he paid more attention to his clothes, and had been very regular in his attendance at the church where the fair widow attended. But here comes Ed Wilbur. “Good morning, Mr. Smiley.” “Good morning, Mr. Wilbur; what's the news your way?” "Oh, nothing particular that I know of” R aia £d, “only Barnum’s show that eve rybody is talking about, and everybody and his girl are going to. I was over to °‘d Sockrider's last night, and I see his son Gas has got a new buggy and was scrubbing up his harness, and he’s got that white-faced colt of his as slick as a seal. I understand he thinks of taking Midow Watson to the show. He’s been hanging around there a good deal of late, hat I’d just like to cut him out I would. Susan is a nice little woman,and deserves a better man than that young pup of a 'show, though I would not blame her much either if she takes him, for she ^ust be dreadfully lonesome, and then she has to let her farm out on shares, and 11 isn t half worked, and no one else seems to have the spunk to speak up to her. By jingo! if I were a single man * d show you a trick or two. bo saying, Ed borrowed some bags and started arounl the corner of the barn, w here he had left Bill sweeping, and put his ear to a knot hole and listened, know- lu g the bachelor had a habit of talking to himself when anything worried him. Lonfonnd that young bagrider!” said hiill, “what business has he there, I’d hke to know? Got a new buggy has he? ^ ell, so have I and a new harness, too; an d his horse can’t get sight of mine; and h declare I have half a mind to—yes, I I d go this very night and ask her t° go to the show with me. I’ll show Ed M llbur that I ain't such a calf as he thinks * am > if 1 did let old Watson get the start of me in the first place!” Ul. could scarce help laughiDg outright but he hastily hitched the bags on his Moulder, and with a low ohuokle at his success, started home to tell the news to Nelly; and at about 5 o’clock that even- ing they saw Bill go by with his horse and Btiggy, on his way to the widow’s. He jogged along quietly, thinking of the old singing school days—and what a pretty girl Susan was then, and wondering in wardly if he would have more courage now to talk up to her—until, at a distance of about a mile from her house, he came to a bridge, he gave a tremendous sneeze and blew his teeth out of his mouth, and clear over the dashboard, and striking on the planks, they rolled over the Bide of the bridge, and dropped into four feet of water. Words cannot do full justice to poor Bill, or paint the expression of his face as he sat there—completely dumbfound ed at his startling piece of ill luck. After a while he stepped out of his buggy, and getting down on bis hands and knees, looked over into the water. Yes, there they were at the bottom, with a crowd of little fishes rubbing their noses against them, and Bill wished to goodness that his nose was as close for one second. His beautiful teeth that had cost him so much and the show coming on and no time to get another set—and the widow and young Sockrider. Well, he must try and get them somehow—and no time to be lost, for some one might come along and ask him what he was fooling aronnd there for. He had no notion of spoiling his clothes by wading in with them on; and besides, if he did he could not go to the widow’s that night, so he took a look up and down the road to see that no one was in sight, and then qaickly undressed him self, laying his clotheB in the buggy to keep them clean. Then he ran around the bank and waded into the almost ice- cold water, but his teeth did not chatter in his head—he only wished they could. Quietly he waded along so as not to stir the mud up, and when be got to the right spot he dropped under the water, and came ont with his teeth in his band, and replaced them in his month. But hark! What noise is that? A wagon and a dog barking with all his might, and his horse is starting. “Whoa, whoa! Stop, you brute, you, stop!” But stop he would not, but went off at a spanking pace, with the unfortunate bachelor after him. Bill was certainly in capita! running costnme, bnt though he strained every nerve, he could not touch the buggy or reach the lines that were dragging on the ground. After a while his plug hat shook off the seat, and the hind wheel went over it, making it flat as a pancake. Bill snatch ed it as he ran. and after jamming his fist into it, stuck it, all dusty and dimpled, on his head. And now he saw the wid ow’s house on the top of the hill, and what, oh what will he do? Then his coat fell out and he slipped it on, and then making a desperate splnrt he clutched the back of the seat and scrambled in, and pulling the buffalo robe over his legs, staffed the other thing beneath. Now the horse happened to be one he got of ’Squire Moore, and he got it from the widow, and he took it into his head to stop at her gate which Bill had no power to prevent, as he was too busy buttoning his coat np to his chin to think of doing much else. The wid ow heard the rattling of wheels and look ed ont, and seeing that it was Smiley,and that he didn’t offer to get out, she went to see. what he wanted, and there she stood chatting with her white arms on the top of her gate, and her face toward him, while the chills ran down his shirt less back, clear to his bare feet beneath the buffalo robe, and the water from his hair and the dust from his bat had com bined to make some nice little streams of mud that came trickling down his face. She asked him to come in. No, he was in a hurry, he said. Still he did not offer to go. He did like to ask her to pick up his reins for him, but he did not know what excuse to make just now. At length, however, he sighed at the sight of his Sunday boots, and turning to the wid ow, said: “Just pick up the lines, wiil you please; his brnte of a horse is always switching them out of my hands.’ The widow complied, then he pulled the corner of the robe cautiously down as she got in. “What a lovely evening,” said she, “and so warm I don’t think we want the robe over up, do we?” (You see she had on a nice new dress ( and a pair of new gaiters, and she wanted to show them.) “Oh, my!” said Bill, earnestly, you’ll find it chilly riding, and I wouldn’t have you catch cold for the world. She seemed ploased at this tender care for her . health, and contented herself with sticking one of her little feet out with a long silk neck tie over the end of it. “What is that, Mr. Smiley, a neck-tie?” “Yes,” said he, “I bought it the other day and 1 must have left it in the buggy. Never mind it.” “Bat,” said she, “it was careless;” and stooping over she picked it np, and made a motion to stuff it between them. Bill felt her hand going down, and ma king a dive after it, clutched _it in his and held it bard and fast. Then they went on quite a distance, he still holding her hand in his and wonder ing what he should do when they got to Green's and she wondered why he did not say something nice to her as well as squeeze her hand, why his coat was but toned np so tightly on such a warm even ing, and what made his face and hat so dirty, until they were going down a little hill and one of the traces came unhitched and they had to stop. “Ob, murder!” exclaimed Bill, “what next?” “What is the matter, Mr. Smiley?’ said the widow, with a start which came near jerking the robe off his knees. “One of the traces is off,” answered he. “Well, why don’t you get out and put it on!” “I can’t," said Bill; “I’ve got—that is I haven’t got—oh, dear, I’m so dick! What shall I do!” “Why, Willie,” said she tenderly, “what is the matter! do tell me.” She gave his hand a little squeeze, and looked into his pale face; she thought he was going to faint, so she got out her smelling bottle with her left hand, and pulling the stopper out with her teeth, she stuck it to his nose. Bill was jnst taking in breath for a migh ty sigh, and the pnngent odor made him throw back his head so far that he lost his balance and went over the low back Baggy. The little woman gave a low scream as his bare feet flew past he head; and covering her face with her hands gave way to tears or smiles—it is hard to tell which. ^Jill was “right side up” in a moment, and leaning over the back of the seat humbly apologizing and explaining when Ed. Wilbur and his wife and baby drove up behind and stopped. Poor Bill felt that he would rather have been shot than had Ed. Wilbnr catch him in snob a scrape, bat there was no help for it now, so he called Ed. to him and whispered in his ear. Ed. was like to burst with sup pressed laughter, but he beckoned to his wife to draw np, and, after saying some thing to her, he helped the widow out of Bill’s buggy and into his, and the two women went on, leaving the men behind. Bill lost no time in arranging his toilet ns well as he conld, and then with great persnasion Ed. got him to go home with him, and hunting up slipperB and socks, and getting him washed and combed, had him quite presentable when the ladies arrived. I need not tell you how the sto ry was all wormed out of bashful Bill, and how they all laughed as they sat around the tea-table that night, bnt will conclude by saying that they went to the show together, and Bill has no fear of Gus Sockrider now. This is the story abont Bill and the widow, just as I had it from Ed. Wilbur, and if there is anything unsatisfactory abont it, ask him. Cokn Fbittkbs.—Cut the corn from 12 ears into a deep dish; mix in three eggs and one teacupful flour; fry in a skillet or spider, as they require considerable fat. If the corn is grated it will be as good. A Beeaktast Luxury.—Take eight ears corn, grate them, carefully scraping off cobs with a knife, so as to get all the milk. Peel one quart of good ripe to matoes, and cut them into the corn. Sea son them with salt and pepper. Pnt in butter, and $oll in three soda crackers. Let them stew steadily for one hoar. To Bleach Linsex and Stocking Yaen.—Saturate them well with water made soft with borax. A tablespoonful of pulverized borax to a basin of tepid water. Bleach in the sun. To Remove Gbease Spots fbom Black Velveteen.—Have a bowl of hot water, a tooth-brush, and some pulverized borax. Dip the brush into the water, then into the borax, and sccnr the spots, when the grease has disappeared rinse the places with fresh hot water, nsing the brush to do so; rub dry with a black cloth; shake well; when quite dry brush the places with a dry brush. Indelible Ink Spots.—Cyanide of potassinm will remove indelible ink, but being a deadly poison it mast be careful ly bandied. A druggist will give the nec essary information. Try a mixture of lemon juice and salt; keep the spots wet with it, and bleach in the sun. Relief fob Catabbh.—Inhale the smoke from pine-tar; get a pint or more of pure pine tar (not the oil) from the ship chandler; heat a poker red hot and stir the tar with it; a thick smoke will rise, bold your head over it, keep your month shut and inhale through nostrils —heat the poker three or four times, un til the room is filled with smoke, shut the doors and windows, remain in the room as long as possible. In two weeks get fresh tar. It is a good plafl to smoke it in one’s bedroom, just before retiring; after smoking, open a window from the top; the smoke slowly escapes, but enough remains to be of some benefit. Cobn Bbead.—Put into a quart meas ure two tablespoonfuls wheat flour, fill it up with Indian meal, pnt this into a sieve with two teaspoonfnis sugar, half tea- spoonfnl salt, two teaspoonfuls cream tar tar, one teaspoonful soda; sift all into a bowl, mix it with one quart milk,one egg, and two teaspoonsfnls melted butter; beat well, pour into a medium-sized dripping paD, well greased; when baked cut in squares and serve hot for breakfast. Fbogs—For one doz3n frogs allow a piece of butter the size of an egg, set it on fire, and when it melts put in the' frogs, stir and fry them till they begin to take color; then take them out, sprinkle in a teaspoonful of flour, a little chopped parsley, and a little very finely minced onion; when well mixed pour in one and a half gills of soup stock, milk or white wine, return the frogs to the pan and stew gently till done; pnt the frog legs on a dish, boil the sauce a few minntes more add pepper, salt, and the yolk of an egg to it, pour it on the frogs and serve at once. Tomato Catsup.—One peck ripe toma toes, one teacupful salt, half teaonpfnl black pepper, two tablespoonfuls ground cloves, two tablespoonfuls ground allspice six small red peppers, and four onions chopped together fine; half teaonpfnl cel ery seed; wash and wipe the tomatoes, cut them up, and put in preserving ket tle; add all the above ingredients except ing the celery seed; boil two hours, Btir- ring frequently; then remove it from the fire, and strain through a sieve; add cele ry seed and boil half an hoar longer; be fore taking it from the fire add one quart good vinegar; bottle and seal. A STORY OF THE BLUCKABE. From the Hartford Times. In the early part of the war there were frequent accounts of dashing affairs in which the Harriet Lane took the Lion’s share. The papers were all the time giv ing spirited descriptions of some of her brilliant adventnres. Some of these ac counts were mere grapevine stories, but then she had a fall share in all the opera tions that were going on np to the bom bardment of the forts on the Hatteras cape—she was in the revenue service up to that time, but in going in to receive the surrender of the forts she got aground in the channels, and received such dam age that she was turnrd over to the navy department, and was eventually captur ed by the rebels in Galveston Bay. At the time, and before the bombard- ment of Snmter, I was a seamen in this vessel. She was commanded by a well- known New Yorker, Captain Fannoe, a who had a fancy of having none but old man- of-wars-men make np his crew. The crew were well treated, had abundant food, regular leave of abseooe on shore, and good wages. Their duties were light and the decipline of the navy was carried out iu every detail. A few days before the attack on Fort Sumter the steamer Baltic received a full load of troops from the different for tresses in the bay, and the Harriet Lane was detailed to convey them South. It soon beoame known that the destination of the troops was Charleston harbor, and by the time the Harriet Lane was ready to trip her anchor the battery was crowd ed with people, who gave her cheer af ter cheer as Bhe swung around and got nnderweigb. The passage down to Charleston was rather rongh, bnt the two ships arrived off that place in the early hoars of a Fri day morning, and the rebels opened fire on Fort Snmter at daybreak. For awhile the cannonading was, fast and fnrions, but in the coarse of a few hoars it had settled down to a regular hammering. The fort replied rather deliberately, and it never entered into the imagination of the sailors in the harbor that the banner that floated so gallantly over it wonld be hauled down so soon. Daring the day the Pawnee and the Pocahontas, both new gunboats, arrived, so that there was qaite a respectable little force to lock on, and, if required, to lend a hand in any occasion that might tnrn np. Daring the day the flag on Fort Snmter was rnn np and down for a considerable time, carrying the impression to those on the bar that Anderson, the major com manding, wanted to communicate. There was no code of signals at that time for both arms of the service, and so those on the bar conld not make out the mean ing of the signals beyond that he wanted to attract attention. Towards night ar rangements were made to oommnnicate with the fort, and agree on the best way to throw the reinforcements that were in the Baltic into it. Volunteers offered themselves for the boat service, and the boats were prepared to slip in after dark. The night, however, proved very stormy, and the attempt was pnt off until the next night, bnt before the next night came the fort had been surrendered, and the following Snnday morning witnessed the evacuation of the fort, and the trans fer of its garrison to the Baltic. The ceremony of receiving the garrison, and then the hoisting of the tattered flag to the foremast-head of the Baltic being ended, the little squadron steamed north to tell the sad, sad story. Thus yon see, the Harriet Lane was present when the first gnn of the “new order of affairs” thundered defiance to government, and from that time until her desperate struggle with a “catting ont party” in Galveston, she was a con stant theme for the papers. There was one affait, however, that has never been told, and it will certainly be worth while to give it to yonr readers, as it is a true story of .one of the most ex citing races that occurred on the block ade. After the surrender of Snmter, and the call for troops, the Harriet Lane was ten dered to the government, and her service was at once accepted and she was detail ed to proceed south and watoh the shores of Sonth Carolina, and capture all vessels entering into any of those ports on that coast. She proceeded down to Charles ton and made it a point to watch that place especially. At that time the block ade was a mere paper one, and the Har riet Lane was the only vessel of war at that point. One morning, after a rongh and disa greeable night spent in beating about the entrance to Charleston bay, a large, fall-rigged ship was seen to the sonth’ard, beating np, and clear in shore. The Harriet Lane being hid in a thick bank of a fog, the ship did not see her until the Lane had steamed ont of the fog and was distant about three miles, and then she at once wore ship and began to pack on the maslin... It was beantifnl to see how promptly the fellow in command of the ship got her before the wind aud began to “crack on.” The wind was blowing fresh from the nor’west—jnst enonghto carry a main- to-gallant sail; bnt, while we were look ing, we saw his three royals drop, and before they had time to flatter, they were sheeted home and hoisted. “Hook her on,” shouted the comman der of the Harriet Lane; that fellow is fall of war material, and he must be a fast one that gets away from Harriet. Come, Harriet, ole gal, do yonr level best this morning, for I do want to range alongside of that ship ahead.” “Ob, we can heave him to pretty soon with the long thirty-two, forward. Shall I dear it away and send him oar compli- Inents?” pat in the executive, who had jnst made his appearance. “Yes, sir; but yon need not hit him. Jnst let him know that we want him to shorten sail. ” The executive went forward to super intend the operation of sighting and firing the big gun on the forecastle. At that time our navy did not carry the effective and accnrate Parrot guns that afterward became noted for their long range and fighting qualities. Eight and eleven-inch Dahlgren guns were then the most formidable weapons on onr ships of war. They were clumsy things, and on a light vessel like the Harriet Lane were unserviceable. She carried at that time a battery of four thirty-twos for ward and abaft her wheel-house, a long thirty-two on her forecastle, and two brass twelve pounders on her quarter deck, working on carronade slides. It was called a heavy battery in those days, and it was, as far as weight went; but a vessel with a thirty-potlnd Parrot gun could keep ont of her range and sink her with ease. Meanwhile the chase hoisted the Span ish flag and ran out fore and main top mast stndding-sails. With the glass we coaid see hei;crew swaying at the baliards and checking at the yards. The enor- mons pressure on her masts canted them over her bows, and in the smooth water close in shore she was going through the water faster than an average steamer. Presently the long thirty-two blazed away and the ronnd shot went humming away towards the ship. Rising higher and higher it at last reached its highest speed and then began to descend in a graceful curve. It was a good line shot but it fell short, taking the water half a mile from the chase. The chase lowered his Spanish ensign and in its place the “meteor flag” was run np and “dipped” three times as an acknowledgement for the honor, but he did not mean to stop by the way, for presently we saw something white go flattering aloft and in a twink ling a top-gallant studding sail was set. A ronnd shot or two was not going to scare this British seaman with the nimble legs, and a bine cartrigde was slipped into the forecastle gnn and a ronnd shot, careful ly grummeted, was rammed on top of it. Then the gun was elevated a trifle, care fully trained, and the lockstring palled. The gun recoiled the whole length of the slide, and the shot went roaring up iu the air, and presently took the water a little to the right of the ship and a considera ble distance beyond her. Again the me teor flag acknowledged “honors easy”, bnt declined to heave to. Both ships were now passing North Edisto inlet, and the Harriet.Lane, a lit tle to seaward, was slowly gaining. Ev ery sail that conld pull was set, and down below the firemen were working liko bea vers to keep a steady pressure of steam up. Every little while the long thirtyh two roared out to stop, aud though the shots fell all about him he seemed to be one of the lucky chaps that never are hit. As the morning wore along Stono inlet was passed, the Ghase still bowling along at the rate of fourteen miles an hour and the two vessels abont two miles apart. She conld not very well get outside the Harriet Lane, because that vessel was outside of her, but she hugged the shore pretty close and seemed to know the bot tom better than those on the erniser. Towards noon the chase was a mile and a half ahead, and we conld hear the voice of the seamen in her chains calling the depth of water. The wind had freshen ed, and it gave an advantage to the chase who was keen enough to know it. Every little while we could see her crew make rounds of the sheets aud haliards, when they had nothing else to do they wonld cluster aft and watch ns. There was no regular dinner on the Harriet Lane, bnt the men drew on the scnttle-bntt to keep calm. Already some of them were buil ding castles on the prize-money they were going to have, and those not direct- ly engaged either at the wheel or the long Tom, were discussing the gameness of the chase and the cool daring he dis played. After two bells the low sandy shores of Hilton Head became visible on the star board bow, and the long reach of coast that trends a little easterly to the bay in to which the Savannah river empties be gan to appear. Here was a chance to head him off and shorten the pursuit. He would scarcely run into Port Hoyal be cause that would end in his capture, and his only hope of escape would be to keep on until night, that is if he could keep out of our reach until the shades of night should hide him. Accordingly the same course was kept well to seaward until just off Port Royal, when to our astonishment the chase hand ed her light sails, and braced up to run up the bay. .“By gracious! The damn fool! Now we have him!” and such like expressions were freely vented by those on the Har- Lane, but her head swung around promptly after the stranger and away the two vessels went booming up the bay. The two vessels at this time were hard ly 1,200 yards apart, and the captain of the cutter had given orders to cease firing as he was afraid it would injure his prize. Besides to most people it was hardly ship shape to train a shotted gnn on a man who could not retaliate. It looked cow ardly, and so ever since noon the chase had quite a peaceable time. Now, how ever, when it seemed plain that he was sailing into a trap, aod, at best, conld not go any farther than the head of the bay, every one began to feel that in a few moments the stranger would let go sheets and haliards and “come to.” Presently a light whiff of smoke shot ont of a ridge of sand on Hilton Head and a shot sioging in a high key fell be tween us and the chase. The chase clew ed np his top-gallant sails and boldly stood in towards Head, then an other whiff of smoke and a ten inch round shot came screaming over us and struck the water three hundred yards be yond ns. “The devil! Stop her,” roared the captain, and each face on board the Har riet Lane became visibly sad. The “Se« cesh” had already fortified Port Royal and while astonishment had complete possession of vs the rattliDg of the chain cable on board the chase tool us he had come to anchor. Then the Harriet Lane was turned aronnd and made her way back to Charleston, which place was reached the next day. A few days after we overhauled a small schooner trying to get out, and learned that while the Harriet Lane was chasing the ship half a dozen steamers had run in with valuable cargoes; that the ship was a mere decoy and flying light to draw ns away so that the steamers could run in. The schooner people also said that the ship belonged to Savannah, and was worked through Scull creek to Port Roy al, and that a man named Tatnall sailed her. At all events, Tatnall got the credit for it, whether it was be or some other body. J. T, Goldbick, —Affection which is never reciprocated —neuralgic affection. —A colored postmaster is now called a blackmailer. —Of what color is grass covered with snow. Invisible green. —Adam missed one of the luxuries of life. He couldn’t laugh in his sleeve. —How does a cow become landed es tate? By turning her into a field. —The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy. —A man declares that it is impossible for him to keep out of trouble, for in the best times his bnsiness drives him to the wall. He is a bill poster. —In New Jersey, when they want to praise a man they say “He has snch a mean-looking face that a fly wouldn’t light on it.” —Why is a young lady who has jnst left boarding school like a building com mittee? Because she is ready to receive proposals. —Sign at a tavern near the cemetery of St. Ouen: “The Mourner’s Return! Choice wines and liquors. Private rooms for guests who wish to weep in private.” —“Why don’t you mount a clean col lar, Brown? I do three times a day.” “Yes," replied Brown to the boaster, but every one’s mother isn’t a washerwoman.” —It is suggested that one reason why Californians hate Chinese is because the latter introduced the fashion of having shirts washed at least once a week. —An Irish pilot being asked if he knew the rocks in the harbor, replied with con fidence, “I do, your honor, ivery wan of thim. That’s wan,” he added calmly as the ship struck it, filled and sank. —It cast a gloom over an entire chnreh fair, the other night, when the minister’s son walked up to the grab bag and prize cake table, and demanded that the game be explained to him before he bought his chips. —“Jimmy,” said an Englewood father yesterday morning, “the doctor has just brought you a beautiful, new little sis ter.” “No he didn’t neither,” said Jim my; “fur I seen him when he kum in, an’ he had a cane in one hand and nuthin in the other.” —“There is one thing about babies,” said a late traveler—“they never change. We have girls of the period, men of the world bnt the baby is the same self-pos sessed, fearless, {laughing, voracious lit tle heathen in all ages and in all conn- tries. —A baker once into his basket did peep, and perceived a young child in it asleep. A wit passing by his astonish ment heeded, and archly observed, “He found more than he kneaded.” The ba ker replied, “Nought on earth can be truer, for he who needs bread, needs no children, I’m sure,” —A young Hibernian being asked if he intended taking a lady with him to the theater on Whit-Monday, replied if he went by himself he should, but if he went with any one else he should not.” —Harry Turn recently married his consiu of the same name. When inter rogated as to why he did so, he replied that it had always been a maxim of his that “one good Turn deserves another.” Useful Quality.—A wag purchased a very fine horse. Returning from a ride a few days afterward, he said he had dis covered a quality in his animal which ad ded a few pounds to value—“he shied at a lawyer.” —Top and Bottom.—“Is there much water in the cistern, Biddy?” inquired a gentleman of his Irish servant girl, as she came up from the kitchen. “It is fall on the bottom, sir, bat there’s none at all on the top,” was the reply. —A lady that would please herself in marrying was warned that her intended, although a good sort of man, was very singular. “Well,” replied the lady, “if he is very much unlike other men, he is much more likely to be a good hus band. ” —A maiden of twenty-five was lately throwing out some affected sneers at mat rimony, when a grave friend in company observed that “marriages were made in heaven.” “Can you tell me, sir,” rejoin ed the sly nymph, “why they are so slow in coming down?" —A Cheshire auctioneer, while engag ed in his vocation the other day, thus ex alted the merits of a carpet: “Gentle men and ladies, some folks sell carpets for Brussels which are not Brussels; but I can most positively assure you that t his elegant article was made by Mr. Brussels himself.” —Throwing Away Jewels.—A woman once called her little boy ‘a jewel’ for do ing something that pleased her, but a lit tle while after she chased him out of the house for doing something bad, when the little fellow pnt his head in at the win dow, and cried out, “You’ll never get rich, ma, if you throw away your jewels like that!” —A lawyer, in cross-examining a wit ness, asked him, among other questions, where he was on a particular day, to which he replied. “In company with two friends.” “Friends!” exclaimed the lawyer, “two thieves, I suppose yon mean.” “They may be so,” replied the witness, “for they are both lawyers.” A Witty HEggar.—A gentleman saun tering along the shore at Dooagbade thought to take a ‘rise’ out of a poor beg gar, dressed in the garb of a sailor. Com ing np to him he addressed him in the nsnal sea-faring language, with “What ship, mate?” The broken down sailor, looking slyly at his questioner, sharply replied, “Hardship,” BOOTS AND SHOES. RAILROADS. CHEAP BOOTS and SHOES AT THE NEW STORE! Call and Examine Stock. G ENTS’ FINE OLOTH and GLOVE-TOP BUT TON CONGRESS, Ladies’ FINE KID BUTTON,Ladies’ KID and PEBBLE FOX, Misses’ and Child’s PROTECTION TOE. For Country Merchants and Farmers. Large Stock of BROGANS, PLOW SHOES KIP and PALP FOOTS, WORKS’S POLKAS and PALP St HOES, Cheap FOX & PLOTH G AITKKN. Child's POPPEK-TIP SHOES, All bought with the cash, and shall be sold at BOTTOM BKICES ! T. J. HINES/ (At the Old Stand of Bedell 11 Ware), «sp8 2}*m No. 148 Broad St, NEW SHOES —AT— The Old Shoe Store. FALL and WINTER STOCK Just Received! NEW AND ATTRACTIVE STVLESgg Gents’ Shoes, J§k Brown Clotl-Top Button Congress, “FIFTH AVENUE” CONGRESS, And all other Styles, in Hand and Machine Sewed, and Fine Pegged Work. Ladies & Misses’ Fine Shoes, Kid and Pebble-Button Side Lace AND FOXED WORK! A large lot of Ladles’ KID FOXED BUT TON SHOES—Very Stylish—at #2.25 to #3. The best Misses’ PROTECTION-TOE SCHOOL SHOES ever offered in this market. An extra large stock of BROGANS, PLOW SHOE#, KIP ROOTS, WOMEN’S PLOW SHOES, Ac., for Farmers. Our stock for the WUOLE- 8A.L/E TBABE is being daily received, and in quantity, quality and prices is unsurpassed in the city. Wc Invite the attention of Coun try Merchants. 4®- For anything you want in the Slu e and Leather Line, at bottom prices, call at No. 73 Broad Street, (Sign of the Big Boot.) WELLS & CURTIS. sep30 tf EDUCATIONAL. Mount de Sales Academy FOR YOUNG LADIES, MACON, - - G-A. This Insitution, under the direction of the Sisters of Mercy, is connected with St. Joseph’s Academy, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, Whose reputation for educational advantages is unsurpassed through out the States. It is delightfully situated on an eminence, commanding an exten sive view of the surrounding coun try, and only twenty minutes ride lrom Pio Nono College, so that parents sending their daughters to the Mount and having sons at the College, can visit both without additional trav eling expenses. The street cars pass in imme diate vicinity. The spacious recreation grounds afford ample space for exercise. The new building comprises study halls, refectory, re creation halls and dormitories Terms moderate, to suit the times. Young ladies not connected with the Acade my who wish to enjoy the advantages of Mu sic, Needle Work, etc., will be received as pri vate pupils. Studies will he resumed on Tuesday, Sep tember 25th. AS“ For prospectus and further particulars address DIRECTRESS OF THE ACADEMY. sep2 dlw4sB3t _ State Agricultural and Mechanical COLLEGE. Mobile & Girard R. R. It* ' frar^araap’SlrM’' w Columbus, Ga. t Sept. 1,1877. Double Daily Passenger Train M AKING close connection at Union Springs with Montgomery and Eufaula Trains to and from Eufaula and Montgomery anil points beyond. This is the only line making close connection at Montgomery with S. & N. Alabama Train for the Northwest. J'assengen ger and Mail Train Fr't Train Leave 8:30 P M Arrive at Union Springs. . 6:56 P H 12:25 A u “ Troy . 8:00 P M 44 Eufaula . 6:00 A M 6 (HI A M it Montgomery ... . 7:55 P M 6:40 P M 44 Mobile 4:00 P M 44 New Orleans... .11:26 A M 9:30 P M it Nashville . 7:60 P M 7:60 P M 44 Louisville . 3:45 A M 3 45 A M 44 Cincinnati . 8:10 A M 8:10 A tf 44 St. Louis 4.00 P M 44 Philadelphia.... , 0:50 P M 6:50 p tf 44 New York .10:06 P M 10:06 P M Arrive at Union Springs. . 2:40 A M — Leave Union Springs . 3:10 A M 6:40 P M Arrive at Columbus . 7:10 a M 11:5a A M 44 Opelika 44 Macou . 3:06 P M 44 Savannah . 7:16 A M Passengers for Eufaula leaving Columbus at 8;30 p m daily arrive in Eufaula at 6 o’clock a m daily. Through Coach with Sleeping Car accommodation on Mail Traiu between Colum bus and Montgomery. W. L. CLARK, Superintendent. D. E. WILLIAMS, General Ticket Agent.my9 tf Central and Southwestern Railroads. Savannah, Ga., March 8, 1877. O N AND AFTER SUNDAY, March 11, Passenger Trains on the Central ana Southwestern Railroads and Branches will run as follows: 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 0:45 r m Leaves Macon for Atlanta 9:16 p m Arrives at Atlanta 6:03 a tf Making close connections at Atlanta with Western and Atlantio Railroad for all points North and West. COMING SOUTH AND EAST. Leaves Atlanta 10:40 p u Arrives at Macon 6:45 a m Leaves Macon 7:00 am Arrives at Milledgeville 9:44 a m Arrives at Eatonton II .30 a sc Arrives at Augusta 4 45 p m Arrives at Savannah 4:00 p m Leaves Augusta 9:15 a tf 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 7:30 F K Arrives at Augusta 6:0u a m j eaves Augusta 8:05 p M Arrives at Milledgeville 9:44 a m Arrives at Eatonton 11:30 AM Arrives at Macon 8:00 a m Leaves Macon for Atlanta 8:40 a m Arrives at Atlanta 2:16 p m Leaves Macon for Albany and Eu- iaula 8:20 a m Arrives at Eufaula 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 Eufaula 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,Tuesdays, 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 M Arrives at Maoon from Eufaula and Albany 4:10 p M Leaves Columbus 11:19 a m Arrives at Macon from Columbus.... 3:11 p m Eeaves Macon ....7:36 pm Arrives at Augusta 6:0<i a m Leaves Augusta 8:06 p m Arrives at Savannah 7:15 a m Making connections at Savannah with At- antic ana 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. feb5 tf T IX E Atlantic Coast Line T HE FIRST TERM or h the Academic year, I will begin WEDNESDAY, TEMBER 26th, 1877. Tin cipline is Military. Tuitic residents of Alabama or any State or Territory Is fee*. Each Cadet from Alabama, or elsewhere, at the beginning of ■ ach term or half year, must deposit with the Treasurer— Contingent Fee $5 00 Surgeon’s Fee 2 50 Total College Fees, per term $7 50 EXPENSES PER TERM : Tuition, free. Board and Lodging $40 50 to $58 50 Washing 4 50 4 60 Fuel, Lights and attendance 9 oo 9 00 Surgeon’s Fee 2 50 2 5o Contingent Fee 5 00 5 00 Total $61 50 $79 50 Cadet Uniforms are furnished in Auburn at the lowest possible rate. Board, washing, fuel, lights, and attendance, are paid for at the beginning of each month. For further information seha for Catalogues. Addiess any member of the Faculty, or L T. TICHENOR, President. Auburn, Ala., July 20th, 1877. augll til octl B altimore south ern HOME SCHOOL, lor 'Young Ladies and Little Girls. 1 Established in 1842. Principals—Mrs. Wilson M. Caby, Mrs Gen. John Peoram, Nos .197 and 199 North Charles street, ireneh the Language spoken. jyi8 eod2m NOTICE i One Hundred Cooking Stoves! FOR SALE for 30 DAYS For less money than they were ever sold at in Columbus, at 151 Broad Street, Columbus, Ga. E. N. HAYS. au26 lm GRAND CENTRAL HOTEL, Hot Springs, Ark. FIRST-CLASS IN EYERT RESPECT This House has Bath-Rooms under same root, supplied from the Hot Springs. D. BALLENTINE, mh27d6m Proprietor. Each week to Agents. Goods Staple. lO.Wi testimonials received.Terms liberal.Par> titulars free. J • Worth X Co .St.Louis,Mo Passenger Routes TO ALL POINTS NORTH and EAST Reorganized for the summsr of 1877. Present the following attractive Lines to the attention of all North-bound Tourists and Travelers: Route No. 1—All Rail. Via Macon, Augusta, Wilmington and Rich mond. 43 Hears 25 minutes Columbus to New York. This being 4 Hours Quicker Time than by any other Line. Solid Day Trains from Columbus to Augusta, with Pullman Sleeping Car attached at Macon ior Wilmington. Through train Wilmington to Rich mond and New York, with Pullman Sleeping Cars attached at Rich mond for New York. ALLCHANGES at SEASON ABLE HOURS and into CLEAN and PROPERLY VENTILATED CARS. Route No. 2-—Bay Line. Over the same Lines to Wilmington as bv Route No. 1. Thence by Through Train tb Portsmouth, Va. Thence at 6:40 p at daily (except Sunday) by the magnificent Steamers of the Bay Line to Baltimore. Thence by New York Express—arriving in New York at 2:05 P M. A 51 hours run, only 7 hours in excess of all rail time, with the advantage of undisturbed night’s rest, and superior accommodations ou the Chesapeake Bay. Route No. 3--The Old Do minion Line. The same Lines to Wilmington and Ports mouth 4s Routes 1 and 2. Thence on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays at 5 4o p m by tho magnificent side-wheel Steamships ot the Old Dominion Company, which invariably arrive at their New York wharves by 9 p m. A through run of 59 hours, combining the es sential elements of cheapness, speed and com fort. i-a-sengers should leave Columbus Sundays, Tuesdays and Fridays to connect closely with this Line. For Tickets, Checks, Time-cards, and all in formation, apply to W H WILLIAMS, Ticket Agent, at Passenger Depot, Southwestern Railroad. A POPE, General Passenger Agent. J H WHITE, Southern Passenger Agent. aug6 2m W- F. TICNER. Dentist. Over Mason’s Decs Store, j Randolph Street, Columbus, Ga. jtiU?
