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THE SEMI-WEEKLY • SUMTER REPUBLICAN. ESTABLISHED IN 1554, By CHAS. W. HANCOCK. J VOL. 18. The Sumter Republican. Semi-Weekly, One Year - - - ft 00 Weely, One Year - - - - - 2.00 ISFPayable in Advance.®} All advertisements eminating from public Rices will be charged for in accordance with an act passed- hy the late General Assembly of Georgia—7s cents per hundred words for each of the first four insertions, and 35 cents for each subsequent insertion. Fractional parts of one hundred are considered one hundred words; each figure and initial, with date and signature, is counted as a word. The cash must accompany the copy of each advertisement, unless different arrange ments have been made. Advertising' Kates. One Square first insertion, - - - - fl.oo Each subsequent insertion, - - - - 50 HFTen Lines of Minion, type solid con stitute a square. All advertisements not contracted for will be charged above rates. Advertisements not specify'ng the length of time for which they are to be inserted will be continued until ordered out and charged for accordingly. Advertisements to occupy fixed places will be charged 25 per cent, above regular rates Notices in local column inserted for ten cent per line each insertion. Charles F. Crisp, •lit or new at Law, AMERICUS, GA. declGtf B. P. HOLLIS % Attorney at Late, AMERICUS, GA. Office, Forsyth Street, in National Bank building. dec2otf E. G SIMMONS, Attorney at Law, AMERICUS GA., Ollicc in Hawkins’ building, south side of Lamar Street, in the old office of Fort& Simmons. janGtf .1. A. AIN StiJKY, ATTORNEY AT LAW AND SOLICITOR IN EQUITY, Office on Public Square, Over Gyles’ Clothing Store, Americus, Ga. After a brief respite I return again to the practice of law. As in the past it will be my earnest purpose to represent my clients faithfully and look to their interests. The commercial practice will receive close atten tion and remittances promptly made. The Equity practice, and cases involving titles of land and real estate are my favorites. Will practice in the Courts of Southwest Georgia, the Supreme Court and the United States Courts. Thankful to my friends for their patronage. Fees moderate. novlltf cardT I offer my professional services again to the good people of Americus. After thirty years’ of medical service, I have found It difficult to withdraw entirely. Office next door to I)r. Eldridge’s drugstore, on the Square janl7tf It. C. BLACK, M. D. Dr. J.A. FORT, Physician and Surgeon, Offers his professional services to the people of Americus and vicinity. Has an experience of fifteen years. Office at Dr. E. J. Eldridge’s Drug Store. At night can be found at residence on Furlow’s lawn. Calls will receive prompt attention. may2G-tf Dr, D. ?. HOLLOWAY^ DentisT, Americus, - - - Georgia Treatssuccessfully all diseases of the Den tal organs. Fills teeth by the improved method, and inserts artificial teeth on the best material known to the profession. I3FOFFICE over Davenport and Son’s Drug Store. marllt J. B. C. Smith & Sons, mum Hi mitt, Americus, Ga. We are prepared to do any kind of work in-the carpenter line at short notice and on reasonable terms. Having had years of ex perience in the business, we feel competent to give satisfaction. All orders- for con tracts for building will receive prompt at tention. Jobbing promptly attended to. mav26 i 3m - - ; Commercial Bar. This well-established house will he kept in the same first-class style that has always characterized it. The Choicest Liquor and Cigars, Milwaukee, Budweiser and Aurora Beer, constantly on hand, and all the best brands of fine Brandies, Wines, &c. Good Billiard Tables for the accommodation of customers. may9tf JOHN W. COTNKY, Clerk. Commercial Hotel, G. M. HAY, Proprietor. This popular House is quite new and handsomely furnished with new furniture, bedding and all other articles. It is in the Centro of the business portion of the city, convenient to depot, the banks, warehouses, &c., and enjoys a fine reputation, second to none, among its permanent and transient guests, on account of the excellence of its cuisine. Table Boarders Accommodated on Reasonable Terms. may9-tf G. M. HAY, Proprietor. LGEORGEAKDIIEWB, BOOT ID SHOE 111, At lii9 shop in the rear of J. Waxelbaum & Co.’s store, adjoining the livery stables, on Lamar St., invites the public to give him their work. Ho can mako and repair all work at short notice. Is sober and always on hand to await on customers. Work guaranteed to be honest and good. apr!4-tf f SIMMONS j For Dyspepsia, Cos stive ness, Headache, Chronic Diar rhoea, Jaundice, Impurity of the Rlood, Fever and Ague, Malaria, and all Diseases caused by Do- fangement of Liver, Bowels and Kidneys. SYMPTOMS OF A DISEASED LIVER. Bad Breath; Pain in the Side, sometimes the pain is felt under the Shoulder-blade, mistaken for Rheumatism; general loss of appetite; Bowels generally costive, sometimes alternating with lax; the head is troubled with pain, is dull and heavy, with considerable loss of memory, accompanied with a painful sensation of leaving undone something which ought to have been done; a slight, dry cough and flushed face is sometimes an attendant, often mistaken for consumption; the patient complains of weariness and debility; nervous, easily starded; feet cold or burning, sometimes a prickly sensation of the skin exists; spirits are low and despondent, and, although satisfied that exercise would be bene ficial, yet one can hardly summon up fortitude to try it—in fact, distrusts every remedy. Several oi the above symptoms attend the disease, but cases have occurred when but few of them existed, yet examination after death has shown the Liver to have been extensively deranged. It should be used by all persons, old and young, whenever any of the above symptoms appear. Persons Traveling or Living In Un healthy Localities, ny taking a dose occasion ally to keep the Liver in healthy action, will avoid all Malaria, Bilious attacks. Dizziness, Nau sea, Drowsiness, Depression of Spirits, etc. It will invigorate like a glass of wine, but is no in toxicating beverage. If You have eaten anything hard of digestion, or feel heavy after meals, or sleep less at night, take a dose and you will be relieved. Time and Doctors* Bills will bo saved by always keeping the Regulator > in the House! F!or, whatever the ailment may be, a thoroughly safe purgative, alterative and tonic can never be out of place. The remedy is harmless and does not interfere with business or pleasure. IT IS PURELY VEGETABLE, And has all the power and efficacy of Calomel or Quinine, without any of the injurious after effects. A Governor’s Testimony. Simmons Liver Regulator has been in use in my family for some time, and I am satisfied it is a valuable addition to the medical science. J. Gill Shorter, Governor of Ala. Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, of Ga., says; Have derived some benefit from the use of Simmons Liver Regulator, and wish to give it a further trial. “The only Thing that never fails to Relieve.” — l have used many remedies for Dys pepsia, Liver Affection and Debility, but never have found anything to benefit me to the extent Simmons Liver Regulator has. I sent from Min nesota to Georgia for it, and would send further for such a medicine, and would advise all who arc sim ilarly affected to give it a trial as it seems the only thing that never fails to relieve. P. M. Janney, Minneapolis, Minn. Dr. T. W. Mason says: From actual ex perience in the use of Simmons Liver Regulator in my practice I have been and am satisfied to use and prescribe it as a purgative medicine. only the Genuine, which always hae on the Wrapper the red Z Trade-Mark and Signature of ,T. H. ZEILIN & CO. FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGCISTS. 6|fTE* s Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters meets the re quirements of the rational medical philoso phy which at present prevails. It is a per fectly pure vegetable remedy, embracing the three important properties of a preventive, a tonic and an alterative. It fortifies tho body against disease, invigorates and revi talizes the torpid stomach and liver, and effects a salutary change in tire entire sys tem. For sale hy all Druggists and Dealers generally. AYER’S Ague Cure IS WARRANTED to cure all cases of ma larial disease, suck as Fever and Ague, Inter mittent or Chill Fever, Remittent Fever, Dumb Ague, Bilious Fever, and Liver Com plaint. In case of failure, after due trial, dealers are authorized, by our circular of July Ist, 1882, to refund the money. Dr. J. C. Ayer&Co., Lowell, Mass. Sold hy all Druggists, MEAT MARKET AND Provision Store W. H. & T. M. COBB Having purchased from HARE * COBB, the Meat Market and Provision fetore, on . COTTON AVENUE, Keep on hand the VERY BEST CUTS of BEEF, PORK, KID AND SAUSAGE, AND ALSO A FULL LINE OF GREEN GROCERIES Proviutonsi. Eto„ embracing all kinds of Vegetables anil Fruits in their season, Canned Goods, etc. It is their aim to keep a first-class establish ment, and give their customers good goods at the lowest prices. Highest price paid for CATTLE, HOGS, and all kinds of COUNTRY PRODUCE. Americus, Ga., Deo. 16,1882. tf THF IS always me ouii interesting. From morning to morning and from week to week THE SUN prints a continued story of the lives of real men and women, and of their deeds, plans, loves, hates and troubles. This story is more interesting than any romance that was ever devised. Subscription: Daily (4 pages), by mail, 55c. a month, or #.50 ayear; Sunday (s pages), 51.20 per year; Weekly (Bpages), si per year. I. W. ENGLAND, Publisher, may 2-1 m New York City. INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1883. From Slave to Sovereign—The Story of Martha Rnbe. ItV FRED FOSTER. At Ringen, a village of Livonia, Russia, on the 27th of January, 1689, a girl was born, named Martha Rabe, whose history is so wonderful it seems ideal rather than real. When she was between four and five years of age her parents died, leav ing her in so destitute a condition that the parish clerk out of pity provided her with a home in his family. Soon afterward Dr. Gluck, a Lutheran min ister of Marienburg, near Ringen, on his way through the latter place, chanc ed to see the child, and was so pleased with her appearance that he volunteer ed to take her under his own protection. As the expense necessary to her sup port was quite an item to one receiving his small income, and, besides, know ing that her advantages would be great er at Marienburg than at Ringen, the clerk willingly committed Martha to the minister’s care. Bright, active, amiable, she shortly endeared herself to every member of Dr. Gluck’s household, and manifest ing a great desire to he useful, she was inducted into the mysteries of house keeping, and rendered his wife notable assistance. In 1702 she was sought in marriage by a brave and honorable officer of the Swedish garrison of the Marienburg— then under the government of Sweden —and, with the approval of her foster father, consented to become his wite. Just prior to her marriage the strug gle between Russia and Sweden began, and some authors affirm that on her wedding day, others that on the next day after, Marienburg was taken by the Russian army. What became of the husband is not known, though it is certain that his bride never saw him again. At this time less than fourteen years old, she had a womanly appearance; and of slight figure, regular features, fair complexion, dark eyes, was really handsome. Aware that the Russians were wont to sell their female prisoners, if young and good looking, as slaves in Turkey, she, dreading such a fate, concealed hersef in an oven, where she was dis covered by the soldiers. General Bauer, lieutenant of Shere metit, who commanded tho victorious army, seeing her among the captives, was smitten with her beauty, and sent her to his tent, where she was given the superintendence of his domestic affairs. Mie had been in his service but a short time, when Piince Menchikoff saw, and expressed a desire to purchase her. Bauer made a present of his fair servant to the Prince, into whose ser vice she at once passed. About this time 1703, she joined the Greek Church, taking the name of Cathrine Alexiewna. Peter the Great enjoyed nothing bet ter than to dine with his favorites quite informally. One day, while seated at the table of Prince Menchikoff, a vision of loveliness in the guise of a young woman who had poured wine into his cup caused the laugh on his lips to die away, and, when she went from the room. “Who is she?” he asked, tremu lously. “My slave was the response. “I desire to purchase her, and will pay any price you may ask.” “I shall he pleased if your Majesty will accept her.” said the Piince, def erentially, however averse to parting with his “slave” he may have been. The very day Catherine wont to Moscow with the Czar. By her cheer fulness, gentleness and mental vigor, she acquired great influence over him, and finally ho transacted all business with his ministers in her presence, fre quently asking her advice with refer ence to important matters. In 1707 he privately married her. For several years the marriage was not made public, but her position and power were well understood. Peter was subject to attacks of de spondency, which amounted almost to insanity, and caused him the most acute physical suffering. While they lasted he was absolutely dangerous, but even then Catherine hesitated not to approach him, and found that her voice and touch calmed his mind and soothed his pain. So she accompanied him on all his journeys and expeditions deeming her presence essential to his comfort, if not to his very existence. In March 1711, he publicly avowed his marriage with Catherine, and call ed upon Russia to acknowledge her as Czarina. A few months later hostilities were begun against him by the Sultan of Turkey, and he set forth to meet the Turks. Near the Pruth, a river that forms the boundary between the Rus sian and Turkish dominions, the two armies encountered each other. The position was an unfortunate one for Peter, and he found himself completely surrounded by troops numbering five times as many as his own. For three days the Turks endeavored to force a passage through the Russian lines, unsuccessfully. Then the G rand Vizier, commanding tho Sultan’s army, resolved to starve out the enemy or compel it to surrender. Several thousand Russian lines had fallen on tho battle field; their ammuni tion and provisions were almost exhaus ted; they suffered terribly from thirst. Further resistance seemed both foolish and useless, and Peter, in despair, re tired to hit tent. Despite his orders that no one be ad mitted to his presence Catherine went to him, and, by her tact and energy, effected the salvation of his honor. At her dictation Sheremetief wrote a.letter to the Grand Vizier, which led to a declaration of peace. The story that she gave her jewels and money collect ed from the soldiers, to the Vizier, as a bribe, is without foundation. On the 10th of February, 1712, alio was regu larly proclaimed Czarina, with consid erable pomp and splendor, though the ceremony was less magnificent than it would have been save for tho diasters of the recent war. f. For many years Peter and Catherine lived together happily, but in 1724 there was an unpleasantness which led to their separation, caused by certain rumors affecting her integrity. How ever, when he died, Jab. 28, 172.7, it was in her artn3. Immediately after Peter’s death, Catherine was proclaimed Empress of all the Rnssias. Tho beginning of her reign was marked by numerous acts of clemency. She freed many prisoners, recalled some who had been exiled, prevented the execution of not a few who had been condemned to death. Nor were her friends of former days forgot ten. She pensioned the widow of Dr. Gluck, who had died a prisoner at Moscow; made his son a page, settled a large annuity upon his two eldest daughters and advanced the youngest to be one of her maids of honor. Her reign was of short duration. She died May 27, 1727, of a cancer ag gravated hy her irregular habits and an excessive use of wine. It lias been asserted that her death was caused by poison administered in a cup of wine. But there is no reason for believing such a report. Some writers have claimed that a desire that one of Her own children should succeed to the throne influenced her to embitter the Czar’s feelings against Alexis, Ids son by a wife whom he had divorced; that his son was com mitted to prison, where he died at her instigation. Shelias also been charged with causing her husband’s death by poisioninghim. Both imputations are false. It is not to be presumed that her character was wholly free from defects. But, ail in all, she was one of the no blest, most extraordinary women that ever lived. So uneducated that she could not write her own name, she possessed traits which would have ena bled her to achieve distinction, what ever her sphere of life. Whims of the Belles. A NOVEL DEVICE —JACI.'UEMIHTS AND • DAISIES. New York Letter in the Boston Herald. Fashion shows a novel device for the ornamentation of a dress skirt. It is to work the wearer’s initials in a mono gram on the plain front breadth. Asa rule the design is so embellished and obscure that the letters are not readily traced and the figure passes for some thing merely ornamental. Vet some times tho initials are so plain as to be readable at a glance, and a woman looks as though conspicuously marked for purposes of ownership or indcntifica tion. Of course this is bad taste, and may be duo either to a mistaken view of what is becoming or to a brazen de sire to force attention. There is no judging, here in New York, of the char acter of women by appearances. Home of them offend tho rules of propriety in dress unawares and some of tho worst are cleverest at obeying them. A ireak of our fashionable women is to wear little or no jewelry. A bangle or two at the wrist is about all tho gold ordinarily visible on a belle just now, and if she knows anything in the way of precious stones, it is a diamond or pearl in each ear. But this discarding of gewgaws does not imply general ab sence of adornment or a prevailing qui etude of style, for nothing has ever been brighter or gayer in street attire than the Jersey bodices now worn. Their hues are supplemented by the bunches of natural flowers, oftenest yellow, that are displayed upon them. Usually as soon as a fashion has ex tended to poorer women, the rich promptly discard it; but here is an ex ception, for wealth can make itself flo rally manifest in Jacqueminot roses at one dollai a piece, while comparative poverty does the best it can with dais ies at ten cents a handful, and an equal ity of prettiness does not involve the dreaded commonplace. Spring Time Rapidly Flies, And as rapidly it seems the Wheel of Fortune is turned by Gen’ls G. T. Beauregard of La., and Jubal A. Early of Va., at New Orleans, La., in the monthly distribution of The Louisiana State Lottery Company. Tho next (the 157th) is the Grand Semi-Annual, when §522,600 is scat tered every which way in sums of §150,000 down, on Tuesday, June 12th. Whole Tickets are §lO, fractional parts proportionately, and any infor mation can be obtained from M. A. Dauphin, New Orleans, La. Who will it be—to bo enriched forever? It is rumored that Henry Irving, the English actor, is soon to be knighted by the queen. America is ahead of England in this respect. We have in this country quite a number of benight ed actors. But we are not proud of ’em. That poor bedridden, invalid wife, sister, mother or daughter, can be made the picture of health by a few bottles of Hop Bitters. Will you let them suffer t when so easily cured! Salting a Minister. THE HAD HOY OVERHEADS AN EXIT.niENCE MEETING, AND THE OLD MAN GETS INTO MORE TROUBLE. Peck’s Sun. “What is that I hear,” inquired the grocery man of the bad boy, “about your pa lighting a due! with the minis ter in your back yard, and wounded him in the leg, and then trying to drown himself in the cistern? One of your new neighbors was in here this morn ing and told me there was murder in the air at your house last night, and they were going have the police pull your place as a disorderly house. 1 think-yon were at the bottom of the whole business.” “O, it’s all a darned lie, and those neighbors will find they better keep still about us, or we will lie about them a little. You see, since pa got that blacking on his face he don’t go out any and to make it pleasant for him ma invited a few friends to spend the evening. Ma lias got up around, and the baby is a daisy, only it smells like a goat on account of drinking the goat’s milk. Ma invited the minister among the rest, and after supper the men went up into the library to talk. O, you think I am bad, don’t you? but of the nine men at our house last night, 1 am an angel compared with what they were when they were boys. I got into the bath-room to untangle my fish line, and it is next to pa’s room, and I could hear everything they said, but I went away ’cans I thought the conver sation would hurt my morals. They would all steal when /hey were boys, but darned if I ever stole. Pa has stole over a hundred wagon loads of watermelons, ono deacon used to rob orchards, another one shot tame docks belonging to a farmer, and another tip ped over grindstones in front of the vil liage store at night, and broke them and run, another used to steal eggs and go out in the woods and boil them, and the minister was the worst of the lot, cause he took a seine, with some other boys, and went to a stream where a neighbor was raising brook trout, and cleaned the ■stream out, and to ward off suspicion, he went to the man the next day and paid him a dollar to let him fish in the stream, and then kicked be cause there was no trout, and the own er iound the trout were stolen and laid it to some Dutch boys. I wondend, when these men were telling their ex perience, if they ever thought of it now when they were preaching and praying and taking up collections. I should think they wouldn’t say a boy was go ing to hell right off’, ’cause he was a little wild now a days, when he has such an example. Well, lately some body has been burgling our chicken coop, and pa loaded an old musket with rock salt and said he would fill the fellow full of salt if hecaught him, and while they were talking upstairs ma heard a rooster squeak, and she went to the stairway and told pa there was somebody in the hen house. Pa jumped up and told the visitors to fol low him, and they would see a man running down the alley full of salt and he rushed out wish the gun, and the crowd followed him. Pa is shorter than the rest, and he passed under the first wire clothes line in the yard all right, and was going for the hen house on a jump, when his neck caught the second wire clothes line just as the minister and two of the deacons caught their necks under the other wire. You know how a wire, hitting a man on the throat, will set him back, head over appetite. Well, sir, I was looking out the back window, and I wouldn’t be positive but I think they all turned back summersaults and struck on their ears. Anyway, pa did, and the gun must have been cocked, or it struck I he hammer on a stone, for it went off, and it was pointed towards the house, and three of the visitors got salted. The minister was hit the worst, one piece of salt taking him in the hind leg, and the other in the back, and he yelled as though it was dynamite. I suppose when you shoot a man with salt it smarts, like when you get corn beef brine on your chapped hands. They all yelled, and pa seemed to have been knocked silly, some way, for ho pran ced around and seemed to think he had killed them. Ho swore at the clothes line, and then I missed pa and heard a splash like when you throw a cat in the rivar, and then 1 thought of the cis tern, and 1 went down and we took pa by the collar and pulled him out. O, he was awful damp. No sir, it was no duel at all, but a naxident, and I didn’t have anything to do with it. The gun wasn’t loaded to kill, and the salt only went through the skin, but those men did yell. May be it was my chum that’ stirred up the chickens, hut I don’t know. He has not commenced to lead a different life yet, and he might think it would make our folks sick if nothing occnred to make them pay attention. I think where a family has been having a good deal of exercise, the way our has, it hurt3 them to break off too suddenly. But the visitors went home, real quick, after we got pa out of the cistern, and the minister told ma he always felt, when he was in our house, as though he was on the verge of a yawning crater, ready to be engulfed any minute, andhegnessed he wouldn’t come anymore, l’a changed his clothes and told ma to have them wire clothes lines changed for rope ones. I think it is hard to suit pa, don’t you?” “Oh, your pa is all right. What he needs is rest. But why are you not working at the livery stable? Yon haven’t been discharged, have you?” And the grocery man laid a little of concentrated lye,that looked like maple sugar, on a cqke ot sugar that had been broken, knowing to boy would nibble it. “No, sir, was not discharged, but when a livery man lends a kicking horse to take my girl out riding, that settles it. I asked the boss if I couldn’t have a quiet horse that would drive hisselt if I wound the lines around the whip, and let me have one he said would go all day without driving. You I know how it is, when a fellow takes a girl out riding he don’t want his mind occupied holding lines. Well, I got my girl in, and we went out on the Whitefish Bay road, and it was just before dark, and we rode along under the trees, and I wound the lines around the whip, and put one arm around my girl, and petted her under the chin with my other hand, and her mouth looked so good, and her bltteeyes looked up at me and twinkled as much as to dare me to kiss her, and l was all of a trem- ! ble, and then my hand wandered around by her ear, and I drew her head up to me and gave her a smack. .Say, that was no kind of a horse to give to a young fellow to take a girl out riding. Just as I smacked her I felt as though the buggy had been struck with a pile driver, and when I look at the horse he was running away and kicked the buggy, and the lines were dragging on the ground. 1 was scared I tell you, I wanted to jump out, but my girl threw her arms around my neck and screamed, and said we would die to gether, and just as we were going to die the buggy struck a tence and the horse broke loose and went off, leaving us in the buggy, tumbled down by the dash-board, but we were not hurt. The old horse stopped and went to chewing grass, and lie looked up at me as though j be wanted to say ‘philopene.’ I tried \ to catch him, but lie wouldn’t catch, j and then we waited until dark and I walked home, and 1 told the livery man j what I thought of such treatment, and j be said if f had attended to my driving and not kissed the girl I would have ! been all right. He said I ought to j have told him I wanted a horse that j wouldn’t shy at kissing, but how did i I know 1 was going to get up courage j to kiss her? A livery man ought to ; take it for granted that when a young I fellow goes out with his girl he is go- j ing to kiss her, and give him a horse j according. But 1 quit him at once. I ' won’t work for a man that hasn’t got sense. Gosh! What kind of maple j sugar is that? Jerusalem, whew, give I me some water. O. ray, it is takiu the j skin off'my mouth.” The grocery man got him some water I and seemed sorry that the boy bad I taken the lump of concentrated lye by mistake, and when the boy went out , the grocery man pounded his hands on his knees and laughed, and presently lie went out in front of the store and found a sign, “Fresh letis, picked more'n a month, tutfer’n tripe.” What a Farmer Knew About Dresses. An Undertaker in the Chicago News. “One day a farmer, from Lake cotin- i ty, as I afterwards found out, came ! into my shop. That was when I did not have my stock of coffins in the front room, and when my shouds were hang- j ing in neat cases. Well, lie looked at j several of them, and finally he chose : one and took it home with him, saying it was for his wife. 1 condoled with him, and, though he seemed mystified by my talk of grief, he paid for the j shroud and carried it off. Two or three j days after lie came back with a middle aged lady. The woman was in a great rage, while he was much downcast. : He called me aside, and in a whisper, i asked me what the garment was 1 had sold him. Well, sir, I began to see I what was the matter, but i kept a strait face and whispered hack, “A ! shroud. 1 thought, sir, ye see, that you had lost your wife,’ lie grew more downcast than ever, and, pointing to the lady, who was in the front of the store, said: “That’s my wife. Don’t look as though she was dead, do she?’ Well, sir, 1 thought I should die from trying to keep back the laugh. Then lie whispered to me, ‘When I got home to my good woman I unfolded the tiling before her. She screamed light out and said: ‘Samuel (that was his name,) what are you a tliinkin’ about? I don’t want to he buried just yet, not much. Ye needn’t think ye are goin’ to get rid of me that easy.’ Then she commenced cryin’ and cuttin’ up, so that I felt all out of sort. Fin ally I told her that I thought it was a pretty dress. Then she went off again, but finally she came to, and she gave me a good tongue lashing. Finally, to quiet her, I promised to bring her in and get two pretty dresses for her, and here I am. Now, won’t you give me back the money, and take back the shroud?! ‘Of course I will,’ said I. ‘Anything to oblige a person in distress.’ Well, I gave him his money, and the next time I saw him he said his good wife had never got over the idea that ho wanted to get rid of her. Tho opinion of the general public in regard to Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral is confirmed by clergymen, lawyers, public speakers, and actors. All say it is the best remedy that can be pro cured for all affections of the vocal organs, throat, and lungs. Farmers and others desiring a gen teel, lucrative agency business, by which §5 to S2O a day can be earned, send address at once, on postal, to H. C. Williamson & Cos., 195 and 197 Fulton Street. New York. dec2 f M>m. I four dollars per annum. NO. 73. AL ONHII Don’t You Do It! Much pleasanter looking people will be found at JOHN 11 SHAW’S, Who will assist you in making your selee tions from one of the unßunßTaußDniffi To be'found in the city, Spring and Summer Dry Goods NOTIONS, FANCY GOODS, PARASOLS, UJfBIS It ELL AS, Ladies’ Hats, I® KRFOIEBY, Toilet Soaps. TEUNKS, CLOTHE, GENTS’ FMIIIIIIf GOODS, Boots and Shoes, Straw, Wool and Fur Hats, At prices Lewsr than ih Lowest. Our infallible rule for success in business is Honest Goods, COURTEOUS TREATMENT, Reliable Statements, low prices: Call early and often, and oblige, Yours truly, JOHN R.SHAW.