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Newspaper Page TextCEDARTOWN RECORD. W. S. D. WIKLE & 00., Proprietors. CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1870. VOLUME II. NUMBER 33. TIMELY TOPICS. Undkr the Massachusetts liquor law, which went into operation Inst May, the number of rum shops in Boston has do- I'fPMwl seven hundred. There are now only 2,500 phuva where a Boston man nui p>t drunk. Every shot from England's 81 -ton gun will cost £25. A few parks of that sort of artillery would lie worth more to a young country striving to huihl up a national debt than a regiment of quarter* masters. Tiie Gorman government owns Mime of the railways and has found that sys tem so satisfactory and successful in operation that it is now ncgodalyyf for the purchase of all the otMn’ railway*in the German empire. The far ming Catholic Church’ is ed ucating American colored young men at I ho College of the Fnqmgundn, for work among the colored people of the south. This has lieen denied, hut is now re affirmed on good authority. It really begins to look as if the Utah legislature, almost unanimously Mor mons, might adopt mane measure to put an end to polygamy in the territory. Ktich a spasm of wisdom would be alarming. When twenty-six thousand six hun dred and sixteen Utah women pray for the continuance of the polygamous prin- ciple and practice, it certainly looks as if they like it. It is handy possible, how ever, that some of the male saints and the college of a|tostles have lieen intimi dating these females who have sent the jH-tition to congress. Mr. Kargcnnt, who presented it, took pains to state that he did not indorse the petition. The New York Bulletin prints » table of statistics of pork packing from the commencement of the season up to Jan uary O.wdiowing a considerable decrease at all the prtnci|taI points, as compared with the same period of last year. The aggregate is 1,978,000, against 2,430.005 last year. There are reports, however, to the effect that the returns thus far given dn Hot Fully show the total (tacking, as certain parties have made under state ments, merely for M}>eculMtivc purposes. •R‘lUfc Biuoht, in a letter to George H. Phillips, advise* those who advocate a re- l'>rm of funeral exhibitions and expenses to ropy the practice of the friends, than which nothing can l*o simpler nor better. But ho regrets that the fashion of wear ing mourning has increased among friends, who do not eomprehend or value the principles‘on which the parties of their forefathers was 1 wised. Mr. Bright would thus ruthlessly destroy all that makes deaths and funerals interesting and profitable. 'Ilicse reformers would even mb undertakers of their business ami widows of their weeds. It is announced on authority that the measure of closing all pubUo houses and other places where strong drink is wild on Sunday in Ireland will l>c again brought before the British parliament early in the ensuing session, hacked with the full sup|K>rt of the Home Kulc mem Ix’rs, In Ireland, lust year, the princi ple of dial measure was adopted by ii very Inrgo majority of the adult inhab itants, but was op|M>Mcd, rtf course, by the distillers, brewers, ami publicans. Nevertheless, the British government, unwilling to incur tin* enmity of (lie public school interest, refrained from supporting the Irish Sunday closing bill in the last session^ <>t.i* Mr. Fruits and old Mrs. Fruits, of Indiana, may well l«e called “the first Fruits of the earth,” the one being 113 and the other III years old. The old gentleman neither smoke* nor chews, which goes to allow, as wise men have long contended, that the true secret of health ami long life lies in a total absti nence from the use of tobacco, ami we l*rg the young reader who is fond of the "•cod to make a note of the fact. This venerable rouple have lived and loved and cut up and quarreled together os man and wife for 85 years. The old lady has Is cn an incessant Miiokertftrvfxty year*, which shows the absurdity of supposing, as some blockheads contend, that the use of tobacco is injurious to health and short ens life, and the young reader who is fund of smoking or chewing we congratu late upon the Tact. Several of the San Francisco papers have expressed the fear that there is great danger that the Chinese population will .-<>on become a formidable element in politics, through the requisition of the right of suffrage. Thus far, however, only three or four Chinamen have lieen naturalized, ami this followed from the fact that they were born'in this country. As the Chineae have shown no deposi tion to settle permanently in the United States, but simply come hero for money making purposes and return home as -oon as they can, there will have to he a radical change in their programme be fore the Chinese vote will become such a formidable affair. When they began generally to bring their families with them and settle here permanently, the politician* may look out for the celestial votes. This they have not done to any great extent. LATEST NEWS SUMMARY. WMT AND Mil Til. Governor Porter, of Tennessee, lias of fered five humlrrd dollars each, anil the les sees of the penitentiary one hundred ilollnrs each, for the recapture of Edward II. John son, the express robber, and Hill Smith. The governor has also oflt-rrod one bundled dol lars reward,and the lessee*one hundred dol- Inis, for the re-npprelieuaion of Jao* Pryor, the murderer. It Is not improhntde that the express company will add five hundred dol lars to the rewa for Johnson, swelling the amount for him o one thousand dollars. A dispatch from Bayou Sara report* the sinking of the peniutmnt Bello Yazoo in twelve feet of wwfor. twelve miles above that place. No lives lost. It is believed Hint the boat cau t»e raised. The cargo consisted of 405 bales of cottou and 2600 sacks of cotton seed. City Administrator Brown, of New Orleans, reports the city debt lo be over $21 otto,non. An effort a ill soon be made to com promise with bondholders, at sixty cents on the dollar. The city i« issuing new consoli dated bonds at this rate in lieu of outstand ing obligations. Tim Police Hoard have agreed to a reduction of their ap|H>rtinnmcnt from $460,000 to $400,000, for public pur poses.. The Cllv Administrators are endeav oring to effort n reduction of the assessment for school pur|to*e*. Colton rcceipta in Memphis tints far, this season, 203,011 bales ;"to*aame date, last season, 210, 508 bales. Mrs. Johnson, widow of the late cx- Presidenl, is reported to be seriously ill. Very extensive preparation* for the celebration of Mardi Gras nru being made in Memphis. Alexander T. Mitchell, Milwaukee’s railroad magnate, is snid to be worth $10,- 000,000. Ohio Ims u liquor law which makes liquor-sellers and the owners of real esiate occupied bv saloons, responsible for all dam ages that may result to drunkards or their families, from the sale of liquor on such premises. A bill lias now been offered in the legislature of that State to apply the same principle to gambling bouses. roHP.IUN INTKI.I.IWKM K. The Be I grave cotton-mill*, in England, were burned last week. These mills con tained fifty thousand spindles, ami the loss is estimated at n quarter of a million dollars. Victor Emanuel, in his New Year’s speech at the court reception, mentioned the pnssit ilily of. eveijls transpiring in Europe which would require the co-operation of the Italian army. The Star and Herald, of Panama, con tains the following letter from Kcmn, nu des , bv earthquake, on tin* fourth of December, ol Abnncay: " Between four o'clock on the morning of the font Hi and live o'clock on the morning of the fifth, no less Ilian thirty- seven shocks occurred. A severe flood in- undated fhe business part of Valparaiso. Two lives were lost,and one million five hun dred thousand dollars worth of property de- •'1(0*1 WAMHN4JTON. Speaker Kerr has Iwucd an ord bidding the admission of newspaper « s to the lobby of the House. nival els at The concentration of Port Royal is in pursuance of the general plan of the Hceretury of the Navy to ntnke that place the headquarters of the North At laolie station, as it present* many advantages over any other port on the Atlantic const. Tb* climate is very healthful and the harbor oilers every facility for the exercise of naval tactics. Tin- Is rendezvoused there can reach the Cuban waters and golf, where our Interest* most need to he looked after, within forty-eight hours. It is the policy of the Secretary of the Navy to have the home squadron larger than any abroad. He be lieves in being prepared for any emergency The President has sent to the Senate the nomination of Edward <'. Hilling*, for United States District Judge for Louisiana, rift Durell. Statisticians of the department of ag- * culture have completed the compilation ol official returns for fhe past month, and find correct the general assumption of t» lower yield of lint in proportion to seed-cotton. Only Arkansas and Texas report a larger proportion than in 1*74. The Atlantic States, which have previously made low estimates of the aggregate production, nil return smaller yield of lint seed in comparison with pre vious crops, and none of them over thirty pounds to each hundred pounds of seed. The average decrease in all the States is four per cent. This reduction is attributed in most cases to excessive moisture and the re sult of imperfeet development of the boll, and in some to the. effects of early drought in preventing full maturity. Cotton grown in the fields heavily dressed with commercial fertilisers i* found to have a greater propor tion of development of seed than of lint. The average quality of the fiber is somewhat lower than last year. Arkansas and Texas furnish the only exceptions to this state ment, though the average depreciation is slight in Louisiana and Alabama. It in greatest in Mississippi and the Atlantic .States. The proportion of the crop gathered on the first of December was 90 per cent reported as follows: North Carolina, 89 South Carolina, 95; Florida, 91; Georgia, 82; Alabama, 87 ; Mississippi, 75; Louisiana, 85 ; Texas, 91; Arkansas, 76: Tennessee, 87. announcing the monthly cotton reports of the season, the average condition from June to October is made 63'A per cent., against 8,'i in the k.-irne period of 1874. This would in dicate a crop of shout 4,400,000 bale*. With an equally favorable autumn and an equal proportion of lint, the loss of 4 per the yield of lint makes a reduction of 176,- 000 bales, and fhe difference in muturing and gathering since October points to a further reduction of 2 to 4 per cent., with a margin of 100,000 bales for contingencies after the first week in December. The waaon porfs, taken together, indicate u crop of not | Morrison less Ilian 4,(Y»0,000 hales, nor more than I, 160,000. Preparatory lo redemplion of CONGRESSIONAL. NRNATK. In the Senate on the 10th, n iH'lilioii ilgncd by twenty-six thousand six hundred and sixteen women of Utah Territory was presented praying the repeal of (be aiifi- polygamy law id lHiVJ, and Hie Poland bill that Ptali be admitted ii.suStale of the Union. \ petition from the citizens of Ohio asking the repeal of the resumption read and referred, a bill t Texas Paeitie railroad from n point at or Marshal, Texas, to the south-eastern bound-1 leal admlnlstrati ary of Calilornia, and to authorise the. South- eial bureaus. The bonne 'then resumed* Hie rrn Pacific railroad to aid in building the I consideration of the amnesty bill, Mr. Blnlne outlie, and also to build a branch of it* mad linking the floor. After n very ex- itfug de- • Can Diago, UnJifornia. Referred. Mr. bate, the tempest in a leal' ' ' United Stales notes, amt resumption of speele payments, it proposes to retain gold in the Treasury lo (lie amount of 30 per cent, of out standing legal tender*: requires national banks to retain the gold paid for their in* lerest on bonds deposited to seeure the cur rency. till they have JO per cent, of their out standing notes, and repeals Hint portion of the resumption net compelling specie re sumption in 1870. The House then pro- the consideration of the aiuiicHty In the House, on the 12th, n miiiiM of hill* and resolutions were introduced and referred, when at two o'clock the discussion of Hbiine's nmeudmeut to the amnesty hill was resumed, Mr. Garfield taking Utu floor. In the House' on the 13th, some nicas- rc adopted looking to a more ccoiiom- ‘ of (he printing and judl- Referred. Dorsey presented a memorial of the Arknm legislature, asking the appointment of n com petent corps of engineers lo make a topo graphical survey of upper Arkansas river. Referred. Several other lulls and resolutions were read, ordered printed, and laid over for further notion. Adjourned. In the Senate on the 11th, Mr. An thony, from the t'omuiittec on Naval Affairs, ported favorably on a bill to provide for the completion and location of a naval mon ument in Washington. Passed. The fol lowing bills were introduced and referred ; To enable the people of New Mexico to form a t'oiistltutlon and Slate government, and for the admission of said Stale into the Uii- I up I tooting with tip- original Mr. Rniidnil, who moved to refei the t with the nmeudmeut ottered bv Mr. Han of Massachusetts, reuniting mi oath to taken, but not excluding Jefferson Davis, the Judiciary Committee, and R uns so ferred. Adjourned. Suites. To establish a branch mint Louis. To authorize the construction of a bridge across tin- Mississippi river at Mem- the expiration of the morning qier announced the dentil of his late colleague, Andrew Johnson, and de livered a eulogy. Eulogies were also deliv- d bv Sonntora Met’reerv, Merrimon, Pad- k, Bogy. Ilayard and Key. At the eon- ■don of tlio eulogies, the usual resolutions respect requiring Senators to wear the badge of mourning thirty days were adopted, d the Senate adjourned. Iii the Senate, on the l'itli, after the truing hour, the Semite resumed the dis cussion of the resolutions reported by the Committee on Privileges and Elections, on Monday, the pending question being the mo tion to indefinitely postpone the resolution regarding the election of president pro Inn. of the Senate, resulting in the passage of the resolution ns reported by the Committee, (lie following being the resolutions reported: Resolved, That the tenure of a president tiro Inn/Htrt of the Senate elected at one session does not expire after the first recess, the Vice- President not having survived to take the chair. Resolved, That the dentil of the Vice- President does not Imx-e the effect to vacate the office of president pro Ino/nirtof the Sen ate. Resolved, That the office of president pro Imiport of the Senate is held at the idea sure of the Senate. Resolved, That lion. Tims. W. Ferry, senator from Michigan, who was elected president pro Inn port ol the Sen ate at the Inst session, is now president pro Inn/torr by virtue of said election. Adjourned, in tho Somite, on tho HUli, after uonio liar business, Senator Davia I Weal Va.J •ved that a committee be appointed to In- Htigate the affairs of the treasury depart* •ill, charging that he had discovered din- qianeics involving large amount*, causing ilely from each oilier Ihe transactions of the treasury dep the same year, lie quoted cxtensii from the iinnunl reports of tic pension and Indian nffiiirs department*, making comparisons n* to the receipts and expenditures for several years, and claimed that the ftgurca in some years show an in* o ill the expenditures and public debt i aggregate of many millions of dollars large decrease in ihe (ions. The amounts were increased or de- used ns occasion might require, hy an ad dition or subtraction from the loans of Hie treasury books, and if there were errors or frauds an opportunity was given to cover In-in up. Under that head he also quoted rom Hie public debt statement fur several •ears, and claimed that there were gross dis crepancies between the figures of the Necro- ary of the Treasury and Hie Register of the I'rcnsnry, and also iliut the figures had been banged. The matter win discussed at length ictwcell Senators Davis nod Honlwell, up to the hour of adjournment. In (lie Senate, on the 1 It Ii, after several nil important public mid privnte bills had been d of and referred, including one allow ing’ military pre-emption of lands In the Fort rviitiou. Mr. Knott reported hack the amnesty bill, which reads us fob That all disabilitiea imposed and re maining on any person by virtue ol the third dinnnf the fourteenth article of the amend- ills to the < 'oiistitution of the United States, and arc hereby removed, and each and :ry person is and shall be forever relieved therefrom on his appearing before a judge of i- court of Ihe United States, or of any irt of record in the Stale of which he is a ideal, and taking and subscribing to thc foilowing oath, to be duly attested and re- 1, A. H.,do solemnly swear or af firm that I will support and defend the obligath ‘creation or purpose whatever.” Mr. Knott moved tho previous question on the passage of the hill. Hluiiie and other*asked Knott to yield the but lie refused, and the vote, after some skirmishing, was taken. On call of the yeas mid nays, It appeared that there wore one hundred and eighty-two yeas and ninety- seven nays. The requisite two-thirds not voting, the. hill was rejected. On the result being announced, Blaine look the floor, and by motion to reconsider, obtained the right to speak. He said that the only object on his side of the house was not to be obstmet- Ive ; but he did obstruct, and besides rehash ing Id* venom, announced ns an additional reason for his opposition to amnesty, that Holden, of North Carolina, had been im peached and disqualified bv Democrat*, and Ames, of Mississippi, haran; length d the house in this way 1 refusing to yield the th amendment excluding Jcfferso vis. The matter was brought to a conclusion for the day, when the house, on motion of Mr. Randall, went Into Committee of the Whole, and entered on the consideration of the pension appropriation bill. After some time the committee rose and reported the bill, when,.'! proposition for unanimous — Wood, of New York; to repeal in part the act »,f January 19, 1875, providing for re- sumption of specie payment, ami to facilitate resumption of specie payment, without con traction of the currency. Hy Mr. Cox; for payment of same bounty to drafted soldiers as volunteers. By Mr. Cutler; declaring the Department of Agriculture one of the Ex ecutive departments. The rules were sus pended and the amnesty hill taken up for I con side ration, v.yd the entire session when the Hon '•I In the House on the 11th hills :• • introduced and referred i Something Else There. A pair of little feet clambering up Ihe step* of it shady piazza ; a pair of little hands l>enring a small, well-filled linskct; a sweet child's face, rosy mid earnest. The basket was rested for a moment upon the up|iet stop, and a pair of soft, grave eyes poo rod through tho half-closed Minds of the nearest window. The hull- door was open and a lady emno from the welcome the diminutive mes senger. “ Good morning, Dewy ; pretty II loaded, aren't yon ? Shall I take f" And she extended her hand for the basket. The little fellow gave it to her, also the kiss for which site hail bent smilingly. “ Aunt Ilia, It’s for Undo Fred ; hut my mother says you can have some of it," he said, as he pnttcrod after her into the pleasant sitting-room. "l)ld situ?” laughingly responded the lady. “ Yes, ma'am ; f asked her. And she said I must toll her if Undo Fred is any hotter. Is lie?" lie queried, speaking low anti trying to edge Himself up on the lounge. " Como ill here and see, Dewy," mine in Uncle Fred's own voice from the !>ed-room adjoining. Dewy quickly slipp'd from his |>erdi and almost ran across the room, ‘‘(lit, Unde Fred, you arc is'ttor! 'Cause yesterday you didn't speak to me ; you find your eves shut." “ Yes, Dewy, 1 am totter, hut I must not kiss you yet, pet. Just let me hold your hands. Now, Aunt Bin, let ith see what’s in the big basket tho little man tugged all tho way up the hill." Aunt Bin look out a (tressed chicken, some fruit, and a jar of cream. " Home- tiling else there," said Dewy. Aunt Bin .-ihiHik the napkin and glanced again into the basket. “ I don’t see unytlilngel.se. What was It, dear?" " Something you can’t take out," returned Dewy, very gravely. Uncle Fred laughed quite heartily for a sick man at what he eon- idcredhia small nephew's joke. " I sup- awe you mean the Isiltom of the huskot. >ewy." he said. "No, Undo Fred, I don’t, replied tho child with decision. something my mother put in It was a prayer." " It was what?" asked Isitli relatives at once. “ A prayer. I saw my mother put It in. You can’t lake it out, hut God call." Wlmt a hIrange notion," said Aunt ia. " Well, 1 guess it’s so," murmured Uncle Fred. “Course It's so," repeated Dewy. “ I saxv my mother from the ilow. ’Fore she put on the napkin she looked up so"—turning liis sweet upward “and said something low, I know it was a prayer. That's the way she does IoIh of times, and she puts a prayer in my crib every night.” I tewy’s mother had told him to return immediately; so, after taking "hist one peep" at his baby cousin, who lay sleep another room, bo departed, flis ae- c,'earnest footsteps were still sounding npun (lie stone walk when Undo Fred remarked: “That putting in a prayer, us Dewy calls it, is just like Mange, al though I never gnvo it a thought Is?lore. I really lielievo she never does Ihe least thing without praying over it. She is a gtssf creature, if thereover was one: yel, when wo youngsters were all at homo together, xve lsiys used to tense her un mercifully sometimes alxiiil her religion, Grandmother used to say," he added, after a brief silence, "that Madge was the extreme good or had luck lo others, and once she startled iih all hy declaring that whoever was ill among the ncigli- Ixirs either died immediately or liegan to ixinvalcsco as soon as Madge had assisted attending them, though it were only for a night. I noticed Unit thing par ticularly, and it did seem so; but I to- licvo now that nothing more BUpcrnn- tural than her prayors was the Isiltom of it. The invalid remained in deep thought and with closed eyeH so long that his wile thought him sleeping; hut suddenly lie looked up, his brow troubled, his lips working nervously. “ Maria." said no. " I have never yet dropped a prayer into our lmhy’s cradle. I am a miserable, ungrateful wretch; and if I ever got to heaven it will Ik* to- cauae a sister's prayers have kept me within the reach of mercy. I think iter prayers must have saved my life once before; your care and her prayers will raise me from this illness; hut now I to- lievo it time that I began to call njxin tho Ix»rd for myself. Dewy has given me a key.” he resumed, after a brief in terval, “ that unlocks Madge's whole life, and I view her character now i true life. I used to regard her as surdly conscientious, but now I know that she is a child of God. The key which Dewy in childish simplicity and trust gave so earnestly to his uncle that bright summer morning has brought to the eyes of the latter more than one beautiful revelation. God did take the mute petition from that little basket, and lie changed it into anthems of praise. The praying sister soon clasped the brother’s hand in hers and pointed out the path that .led to the precious cross. The heart of the sister and wifi* was also won hy Calvary’s simple story, so old and yet so new—so wonderful. “Something else thero,” they frequently say to each other, "or, if there .is not, there ought to beand Dewy’s remark. •Ii* j once so perplexing, lias aided them more and than any other Uninspired word to ixr form cheerfully the duties expected ol ^ere : those who humbly follow Christ.—Chris- follow*': By Mr. j Han al Work. be. He great ’clock, adjourned till “ Mother’s Boy ” nf Sea. Barry was a duckling in tho water. I don’t know what Barry thought alsmt it, hut Ids mother often felt that " Mother’s Boy” wna growing out of her roach. Ho had boon brought up at her side. It gave her a little pang to see him restive when she tried to keep him there. And it must ho said when Barrv climbed up to tho lodge called the "White Boar/’ and sat looking off* on the ocean, he had a vague longing to lie out on that lovely sheet of water, shining in the sun, tum bling into bright green waves, and Ht retell ing so far down to the sunset, whore tho rays blurred out the horizon. Some where toynud that- crystal gate south was his father's’ big ship—sailing among the spice islands, may lie; or gliding hy shores where strange birds ami beast-s ami painted savages were dotted along, as in the pictures of a geo graphy. The Hagnduuk flshermon used to go out of the harlan- early in the morn ing and return Into at night. Barry sometimes saw them front Ids chandler window as he dressed himself at sunrise. They spread their sails like wings; the toft morning breeze sprang up; and so they sailed away and disap|>eared down the far-off horizon. They see mod to sail into the sky. One day, Barry privately inquired of "Old Kutch,” who was a famous fisherman of Hngadunk, if he over saw Ids father’s ship, tho Flying Fish, out at- sea. The old fisherman said: "Never, so far as I k iio wed of,” which was not satisfactory to Master Barry. He thought that "Old Kutch" must see the whole world when he got Mow that dim ..horizon. " 1 know my papa’s j,hip, and if I were to go with you 1 might show her to you, and find mv papa,” said Barry. Old Kutch laughed “ But your mar wouldn't lot you go so way, my IHllo man.” Barry’s coun tenance fell, Imt he explained: "Him would to mi glad if I brought- hack my papa, that she wouldn’t care if I did go without hor knowing it." Barry was on langorotiH ground tor " Mother’* Boy." After many mysterious talks and move ments, which took several days. Old Kutch agreed that Master Barry should get up early some line morning, and steal away to the boat at tho wharf. At night, Barry scarcely slept at all; ami when lie dreamed, It was of curious ami often frightful sights in foreign lauds. When day broke, lie was in hucIi haste that he scarcely dressed himself, lie might have gone out al the dtsir; hut creeping past Ids mother's chamber, lie got out hy the hall window, stolo down through tho orchard, scrambled over tho stone wall, slid down the hank, and was on Istard tho Folly Ann, com manded hy ('apt. Kutch. Ilwasagroal adventure. He was going to sea in ill of his father. His heart was a little heavy when ho looked hack at tho old fiirm-nouKo' where lie had loft Ids mother. Hut the folly Ann was under way. and, with a curious sort of feeling in his throat, ho watched tho village fade away. He was at sea. It would not bo pleasant for me to loll you of all the trouble* that tofoll Master Barry lliat In the first (dace ho was very hungry; and he ate a great deal of a idee liinchoon which one of tho fisher men produced from a Dig basket, strangely like oiio of Ids mamma’s. Then, wlicti lie had satisfied Ids hunger, Ids luncheon did not agree with him at all. Ho foil, very queer. Everything seemed going around. His stomach was all in a whirl. He was sea sick, and lie lost all interest in what was going on alxitt11dm. The l*ollv Ann was very lively, and. al* thoiigh.slie was anchored on tlio fisliing- groiiiids, she Minced alidut at a great rate.^ The sun was hot, and, as Barry looked over the bulwark where ho lay, utw untiling Imt horrid, tumbliiig *s everywhere. No laud in sight, is a low cloud on tho dull, gray hori- ivcre land. He was liomo-sick; nnd if he cried silently Mdiid tho ill-smell* lug tarpaulin tImt. screened Idin, I do not think any of my boy readers should laugh at. him. I have lieen in just Hitch ii plight , and probably did just as Barry did. What was worse, there was no sign of the Flying Fish, or anything that looked like her. Once in nwfdlo,n brown crept up from the horizon, drilled along against the sky, and melted away Into the dim distance. It was “a Down- Fust coaster loaded xvitli lime," old Kutch would say, unless ho was too busy with Ids fish to say anything. Barry only wanted to get home oneo more. " Oh, wlutl will my poor, dear inaminit say?” he moaned. “ Y on oughtcr thought of that uforo,” Capt. Kutch made answer. And hi he should have. Meantime, was Mrs. Dingle goiug'ti]) and down Ihe beach, crying out for her “Mother's Boy?" Strange to say, site was doing nothing of tho wirt. She sal, at the gable window that overlooked (lie sea, and,as site sewed ad, she glanced out over the sap phire waters of the hay. ami over the shining wave* that rippled toward the sunset as brightly and silvery as though there was no such tiling ns sea-sick ness and discomfort in all the world. She (MtHsilily thinking of (lie lien and her id duckling. That night, when the stars came out and the folly Ann drifted up Sagadtmk liarlsir, the most tried, wcarv and home sick little chap you ever heard of, scrambled out into the Hinall Ixait which was to take him ashore. Mrs. Dingle, somehow, happened to be on the Inndlng; and when Harry jumped into her arms and cried, “ I coukfn’t find papa !’’ she only hugged him tight and whispered, “Mother* Boy I” It seemed an age to Harry since he had lieen goi The familiar little lied, with its nlue- and-white check cover, looked like an old friend from foreign parts; and the holly hocks in the parlor fireplace were freshei and brighter by candle-light than nnv hollyhocks he ever saw. I need not tell you how Harry Bottled affairs with his mamma. When he found Old Kutch after that, one leisure day ashore, that venerable skipper asked him when he proposed K‘»ing again on a voyage of dis covery. Barry replied : “ I shall not bo so naughty and run away again, for I * Mother’s Boy,’ you see. knowed it all the time." did; and when she let Barry go off* in charge of Old Kutch, she wan trying two ex|K*rimcnts—one on herself and one on “ Mother’s Boy.”—St Nicholas. —It is said of Robert Hall, that when some amateur skeptic asked him about tin- future of man, he roughly answered. “ 1 don't know whether you have a soul, but I know I have." ‘Why she WouikIk Received In Bailie. Those who have had in pelt experience with the effects wrought hy the missiles of modern warfare have lieen impressed hy two very curious facts—facts, that a very slight wound is often sufficient to pro duce death; and, second, that a human may receive a most desperato and appa rently fatal injury from these dreadful causes, and yet survive a long time, pos sibly just as long as though no wound luid lieen received, and finally die from other cause. Spent halls have sometimes produced death. At the battle of Winefioste September, 18(14. the present writer was knocked down hy a musket-ball, which did not even indent, the skin. In cates of this kind the shock to tho vouh system has lieen sufficient- to kill, without a drop of blood. At the assault, of fort Hudson, June 14, 18(18, one of our soldiers in reserve saw a cannon-ball, apparently spent, roll ing over the ground near liitii. He care lessly reached out his finit and tried to ship it. The result was a mangled foot, which had to he amputated. in marked contrast with tho alxivo were tho following eases, all occurring within my (lersoiial knowledge: A Major of Connecticut volunteers, More fort Royal, on the 27th of May, 18(18, was struck In the breast by a grape- shot, which traversed tho hotly and xvas taken out from tho hack. Contrary to expectation, he did not die immediately, and was laid abide without attention until lie should die. But- a couple of days passed, and lie still survived. Ho was sent down the river to New Orleans, with some hundreds of others, and lay there in hospital for montliH. .Still liediii not. die—would not die, and becoming well enough to travel, was sent home. At. that time it was not within the ex- peetation of any person who know any thing uMil t.lio ease that ho would over lie able to jiorforni the slightest military duty again. And yet, on Oct. ID, lHtii, jiiHt sixteen months after tho wound was received, the major \viu» in command of IiIm regiment at tho bloody hattloof Cedar Crook, Va. Ho escaped the (H'rils of Mint day unharmed, and for auplil I know to the contrary is alive t well Not to s|M>ak too much in the first per son, at the assault of fort Hudson, June 14, 18(13, l wasproHtntted hy a buck-shot just alxivo the nip. After Mug taken t<> tlie rear (lie wound was probed hy a surgeon ‘and the shot could not lx? found. “ Tills is serious," lie said ; anil his faco expressed his sincerity. I was laid aside to dio, and others for whom something could |x>s8ihlv l*o done were placed on tho table. Three days passed, and I lived; ate vigorously, and felt well, ex cept for the condemnation of the sur geon, which seemed to settle it that. I ought to have tiled within twcnly-flmr hours. My portdHloncy, not alone in living, hut in # feeling well, excited re newed attention, and the ease was ro- exgamlned. It wan then discovered t hat tho buckshot had struck a rib, followed its general course around to the front, ami buried itself in the alxlominal integ uments ho deeply that it could not l>c ex truded. Ami there it. lies to-day. A heavy fooling in that vicinity sometimes reminds mo of it, and occasionally a pain from the M|x>t whore the shot entered; lull my life lilts probably not been short ened a day tho wound. Before fort Hudson, Juno 10, 1803, Corporal Medbury, of my company, on duty with a fatigue party constructingu military mad, was seriously wounded by a minie hull striking him just buck of tho right. Hhouldcr joint. Tho wound was probod, tho hall lay t«x> deep to he extracted, tho patient was considered as fatally hurt. Ho was sent down to New Orleans and taken to hospital. A week Inter 1 found him there, witli liis arm in a sling, walking nlxmt, feeling cheerful and expecting to recover entirely in a few days, in five days after that Med bury was confined lo liis lx*d; in two days more ho wa* dead! A post mortem examination showed that, the* hit Hot had passed through oiio lungand half through (lie op|K>sitc one. Tho death was caused hy gangrene- mortification—-and was necessarily fatal from tho first, 'flic curious part of tho matter was Hint a man should carry a fatal bullet in liis Ixidy for two weeks before liis death, should apparently recover from tho wound, and should short ly afterward dio of it. At the Ht. James’ Hospital, Now Or leans, on the pallet next me, in Juno, 1803, lay a captain of the Fourth Wis consin volunteers, helpless and suffering with oiio of the strangest wounds thut I ever saw. Ho had received it on . tho 27tli of May, in command of liis company of skirmishers, creeping over the ground in advance of the line of assault, among the tangled forests and ravines before the enemy’s work*. While working forward ii|x»n Ills hands and knees he was struck hy a minie hall just Mow the hip. The imll took a circular course round tho leg, never touching the lxmo, hut running round through tho muscles at least twice. Ix'twecn the hip and knee, there, skip ping the kneepan, it circled around twice in tho same way between knee and ankle, and was finally extracted near the nxit. Tho wound was one of the most debilita ting and confining, as well as painful, but not necessarily dangerous; hut its course and nature was most unusual. A surgeon of the Hecond New York mailntctfiilies told me that while before fetershurg, in 18454, a cavalryman in on his Horse one day from a skirmish with one leg entirely torn off* Ixdow the knee hy a shell, ana bunging from the scared and ragged stump was tho dang ling end of the great artery, effectually closed up bv the bent of tho shell. It was iin|X)ssll)lc that the patient could live with such a wound; the great wonder was that he could have traveled a mile or two on horseback without bleeding to death ; and it was quite ns strange that he lived three days after lx-ing placed in hospital. —Joaquin Miller lias a poem in tho Chi eago Magazine, and these arc the intro ductory lines: Twos night in Venlco. Then down to tho tide Whore a tall ami a shadowy gondolier Leaned on his our like a lilted spear— 'Twos night in Venice: then side by side, We sat in Ills bout. Then ouru-trip, Oil the black limit's keel, then dip and dip— The boatman should build llmirbon we were together, and side by side. FACTS AND FANCIES. “I’m a yard wide and all wool," htlhn Kentucky way of describing a high stale of hilarity. —What with xtockiiig-danierH, kuitiug and sewing machines, applo-pnrors, wash ers ami wringers, woman as a necessity is fading from the face of the earth. Mary had a lit th* lamp, Twit* filled with kerosene; Mary down the chimney blew, And vanished from tho scene. —Did the lawyers of UiIh country ever stop to think that when Brigham Young dies there will he the biggest con tested will caso on record? —In their Intercourse with the world people should not take words as so much gonluo coin or standard metal, hut merely us counters that pcoplo play with— Dotty la* Jen-old. —In Newark, tho other day, a fashion- able mother said to the family physician, in tho presence of her three giggling, frivolous daughters : " Doctor, how can wo Improve our girls?” « By improving the mothers,” was tho gruff reply. O, hearts of lovol O, noiiIn (Imt turn Like Bill)flowers, to tho mire nnd best, To you ttio truth is iiuinifont! For they tlio mind of Christ discern Who lean, like John, upon Ids breast. —John g. Wnirriitu. —An old veteran was relating his ex ploit* to a crowd of Ixiys, and mentioned Imiug in fivo engagement*. "That’s nothing,” broke in a sharp little follow. “ My sister Agnes has been engaged lore'll eleven times. —"Closing places where games of chance nro played” Ih hardly the effective way to put it. Tlio majority might escape under the plea that, there’s no chance at all, for tho outsider. There's a nice technicality for a rising young lawyer. "My dear,” said a Cincinnati pucker lo his daughtor, "a regular Murillo painting lias been discovered in oiu city.” "Is it water color, pa?” "No, my dear, it's a real ling's oil painting.” Ami the young Indy screamed, “Oh, Lard!” . —"As to being conflicted with the pout,” said Mix rartlngtnu. "Iiigh liv ing don’t brintr it on. Itis lincoheront. in some families, mid is handed down from father lo son. Mr. Hammer, poor soul, disinherits it from his wife’s grand mother." TllltliK is no bettor nor safer way, no easier way, no surer way of saving chil dren from the dohasliig iniliiomi's of t he streets, from corrupting association, and front the acquisition of vicious and hurt ful practices, than to make home attrai - •' - IK. IF. Hall. Good manners morals.—WiiATEbY. Truth Iiiib her plcamiro-grounds, her haunt* of ease Amt easy contoniplntion—gay parforrox Ami liihyrinthhia walks, Jior suniiv rIiiiIi n Ami shady groves, for rcercatlon framed. —Worphwoiitii. —The Washington elm at. Cambridge, under which Washington drew liis sword nnd took command of the Continental armios, is visibly decaying, because its anciont roots liavo been deliberately mi- doritiincd and cut through hy tho Cniita hrigian municipal government in order to make way for a public sewer. A Bihohton lady, riding on the cars tlio other day, was amiiHed by the ques tion of n little girl, who, hearing tlio conductor cry tho stations, looked up Into her motlior’s face and innocently asked: "Hay, mamma, do we get out at tho next holler?”—St. Lotdn licatdtlican. The following sonnet (says the Scots man) lias lieen written hy tlio foot Lau reate for a new work published by a " Laurel I 5 a part of good Boston firm, entitled 1 l I/eaves.” There are throe things that fill my heart with sighs, And sleep invsnnl ill hiughlerfwlien I ! There lire three tilings beneath Ih* blessed skies For whluli I live—black eyes, and brown, and bine; I hold Ilium nil most dear-hut oh! blnok eyes! 1 live and die, ami only die for yen. Of late sueh eyes looked at me—while I noised At sunset underneath a slindf ivy plane In old Bayonne, nigh the Southern oca— From a luilf-opcn lattice looked ntinc. 1 saw no more, only those eyes confused And dazzled to the heart with glorious pain. —A young man in Olathe, Kansas, who is particular nlxmt his washing, tho other day wrote a note to his washerwoman and oiio to his girl, and, by a strange fatality, put tlio wrong address on each envelope and sent them oft’. Tlio washer woman "tut well pleased at an invitation to take a ride tho next day, hut when the young lady read : "If you mus* up my shirt Txisoms, and rub the buttons oft' my collar any more, as you did the last, time, I will go somewhere else,” site cried all the evening, and declares that she will never speak to him again. Flower of all tlio world to i Come this way oil your dancing feet— Huy, how much do you love me, sweet! Bed little mouth drawn gravely down, White brow wearing a puzzled frown, Wise little liuby Ho*: is she, Trying to measure her love for me. 11 1 love you all, the day and the night, All the dark and the sunshine bright, All tiie candy in every store, All the dollars, nnd more and more, Over the tops of the inountuins high, All the world, way tip to the sky." —The doctrino of ajavisin—which means, in the scientific slang of tlio day, a reversion of tho traits of ancestors— ha* a moral licaring which lias not been sufficiently considered. There is sweet coinfort in it for the sinner. When a man him an attack of atavism, ho in, of course, not responsible for his misdeeds. His great-great-grandfather is acting through him. When the force of scien tific truth is fully appreciated, the aver age thief will plead that hi* remote an cestor was a balioon and stole cocoanuls, nnd that ho is, therefore, not responsible for what atavism has lead him into. And so in private life, tlio morose, selfish man will say that he cannot lie blamed for this nature, liecause the small leather hag, which Mr. Darwin counts n* the first form of life, clings in sulky sellish- ness to a rock nnd lead* its lonely life in utter disregard of every other existence; atavism endows him with the same I trait*.—N. Y. Erjtreee.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Cedartown record. (Cedartown, Ga.) 1874-1879, January 24, 1876, Image 1