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THE ATHENS GE0R1AN : JULY 10, 1877.
Pith and Point.
With Thee.
BY W. W. ELLSWORTH.
I’d rather walk through shower with thee
Than with another when the air
Is soft with summer, and as fair
The heuveus above na a sea
Of dim, unfuthomed sapphire, where,
Slow drifting on a liquid sky,
The white-sailed ships of God float by.
Sweeter iu storm to be with ‘hee,
Dark waters ’round us, aud the roar
Of breakers on an unseen shore
Resounding louder on the lee.
Than with auother, sailing o’er
A rippling lake, where angry gale
May never rend tl>« silken sail.
A youngster says if he can’t have
fireworks on the Fonrth, perhaps
when' he «lies, he can touch off the
northern lights.
The Now York beauties walk out
«ith their pet dogs attached to
strings, and foreigners wonder at the
number of blind ladies going about.
“The man who lifts his hand
.against a woman save in kindness,”
lives in San Francisco. The woman
edited a newspaper, and had the
Misfortune to offend the man by some
journalistic utterance.
A Chicago |»ork packer whose pew
ie.lt was raised to $25, exclaimed:
“Great Csesar, her’s a nice state of
sflairs—the gospel going up and pork
going down. Whatb to become of
its f”
It makes a farmer mad as a wet
' on to see a potato bag with a pick
on its shoulder crawling over his
Harden fence, to ask why in the name
cl' Julius Ca»«nr he didn’t, plant it
earlier; only a mortal fear of the pick
pivvents him from ordering it off the
premi -es.
The lamb like maimer in which
tiie Chicago and Cincinnati papers
refer to their city e temporaries, is
being emulated in the far cast. The
Tokio Times has been called names
1 y the Japan Mail, and retorts by
publishing the following: “Wanled—
At tin- office of tiie Japa : Mail,, a
copy of Boget's Thesaurus, to enable
that journal to diversify its epithets.”
Lydia Sherman .-bowed gv«at I’.m-vj ,
liing in plaguing and executing her
escape, but her presence of mir.d
seemeii to desert her when outside
the jail walls. She registered in a
Providence hotel as “Mrs. Brown, of
Philadelphia.” Afterwards, she told
her landlady that her name was
41 Moore,” and that she was a widow
with six ihi’dren. She showed a
i: tpkhi ring on which was engraved
“ Li dia,” and volunteered the ill-
formation that “That doesn't say
Lydia Sherman,” but the police
thought it. did.
He started out in the morning a
happy boy. When at dusk he re
tailed ivitli bloody clothing, a broken
finger, a sprained ankle, • and a big
c it iu bis lower lip, his fond mother
asked him in alarm “ if he had been
through a threshing machine or had
been the unfortunate victim of a rail
road smash-up.’’ “ Neither, mother,’’
replied the youth, and then trium
phantly, “Never mind nv, ma. I
have only been playing base ball.
Our side, the Lilies, waxed the No
Names beautifully; score, 13 to IV’
and then he sunk into a confused
heap on the parlor carpet j revived a
little, lifted up his head, muttered,
“Jim, put that to first and be
thundering quick about it,” then
gasped and expired.
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* Grant, in his letter to Childs, ex
presses his profound and everlasting
gratitude to Pierrepont, “ for the pains
he has taken to make tny ptay plens-
aiit, and the attentions extented to
hur country.” Jj.Our people ought not
ft. forget Pierrepont’s '‘attentions to
our country.’?- -
The man who can invent a lazier
amusement than croquet will make
hi- fortune.
Most men love little women, and
l,y a reeiprocy, little women love
most men. _
In the country they blow a horn
before dinner; in town they take
one.
What popular cry fully describes
an incipient mustache? “Down in
front.
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A Story for Young Men.
I had grown reckhss after I moved
to M—; that is, I fell in with a crowd
of professed friends, who drank, swore,
and cared nothing for morality in
general.
At first, I held back; I had not
been used to it; but I could not with
stand the sneering laugh of my com
panions which always greeted me when
I refused to join in any of their wicked
acts, and by degrees I became very
reckless.
It makes me shudder even now to
think of it. I have never been blessed
with a sister’s love.
I resided with my mother in this
village of about four hundred inhabi
tants.
Many a night when I would go reel
ing home from the shop at the north
end of the town, I would find my dear
mother watching for her son—listening
if perchance she could catch the sound
of his unsteady step.
Many a time did I waken from my
drunkeir slumbers and hear that fond
mother seuding up- a petition to God in
behalf of her intemperate son.
Oh I what a wretch I was.
I Knew that I was bringing down her
gray hairs in sorrow to the grave.
She began to look aged and care
worn ; but I kept on in my sinful ways
until a circumstance occurred to stop
me in my downward career.
I was starting out one evening to
th». grog-shop, when I suddenly res
membered that I had spent all my'
money at that place theevening before.
I remembered also that I had seen
mother put a few peunies (her hard
earnings) in a cup that day !
I was tempted! I tried to resist but
my appetite was too stiong.
I*slipped cautiously to the cupboard,
removed the money from the cup, de
posited it in my pocket, and was start
ing from the house when my mother
entered. •
I did not turn my head for I felt
guilty—guilty of what I never was
before theft.
My mother called ine; there was
something in her voice which I could
not resist .
1 ‘ What is it mother?’ said I.
* Oh, Willie! do stay at home with
me to night,’ she exclaimed, grasping
my hand in both of hers. 4 Don’t
drink to-night; take my advice just
once.’
Oh 1 how many times since have I
wished that I had taken her advice
that night.
But I consoled her by telling her
that I would not stay long.
I wended my way to the giog-shop;
but mother’s words:
‘Oh, Willie, do stay at home with
me to-night,’ kept ringing in my ears
far louder than the drunken oaths, and
for once I did not stay what I called
late; but when I reached home the
bells in the neighboring city were toll
ing the midnight hour.
^ A strange feeling seized ine as I ap
proached my home. The light was
placed in the window as usual to guide
the wanderer’s steps. I went to the
window and looked in. There sat my
mother in her easy-chair; her eyes
were closed and I thought she slept.
Her face was pale, but it was always
that: I tried to chase my fears away
as I went around to the door; my
hand trembled when I laid it on the
latch, and it thrilled my heart when it
rose with a sharp click. I had never
such feeling before. I entered ; I be
held in my mother’s hand the very cup
from which I had removed the money
I laid my band on mother’s shoulder
and spoke to her. She moved not,
I spoke louder, still no answer. I
listened, but could not hear her breathe.
I laid her gently on the -bed, brought
water, and bathed her white forehead.
Reader, imagine my joy when that
dear mother opened her eyes.
* Oh, mother!’ cried I, forgive me,
oh, forgive your erring boy.
‘ I do,’ was the answer.
A heavenly smile lit up her face.
“ Meet me in heaven, Willie.
* By the grace of God, I will.
And my mother’s spirit had fled to
God who gave it.
It is pot necessary for me to prolong
the description of the mournful scene.
Suffice it to say that from that moment
I was a changed man—snatched as a
brand from the burning. Since that
time not one drop of whiskey, wine or
anything of the kind has passed my
lips, and by help and strength given
me from above, never will.
Fight Between a Dog and an
Alligator.
One day last week an alligator was
seen swimming in Sampit river, near
the wharf. The idea struck a few
that this was a good time to have a
little sport to captiue the alligator.
Captain David Steel’s bull-dog was
soon brought forward, and upon
viewing the enemy, bull-like, plunged
off the wharf to meet his foe. The
*gator saw what was op, and made
for the dog. While they gradually
appre ached each other not a sound
could be heard front the spectators,
who were expecting the moment
they met to see the dog submerged,
never to rLe again; but they were
agreeably surprised ; the dog getting
the first hold, plunged his ugly teeth
in the head of the ferocious monster,
which caused it to sink, never to rise
again, as was .thought, bnt it soon
appeared, looking as fierce as ever.
Now it was that bets were being
made, the scene getting more excit
ing, and the spectators full of enthu
siasm. The dog and the alligator
were soon arm-in -arm, mouth-and-
mouth, nip-and-tuck, until it was
tl ought that, the dog had conquered
—the alligator disappearing; the dog
being well exhausted was then picked
up by a boat. The 'gator, however,
appeared, and made for the opposite
shore. Several persons got in boats
and pursued him until he got under
the wharf, wltou one of the party
shot a pistol, and and as soon as the
report was hoard the dog leaped from
the boat, and under the wharf it was
nip-and-tuck again for a while, but
the dog soon gaining the advantage
brought out his foe dead! dead!
dead ! Measuring five feet and sev
eral inches.—Georgetown Comet.
A Tramp Bewitched.
(Reading Eagle.)
Detective William Y. Lyon recent
ly received a strange letter, addressed
to “Mr. Lyrns. Dit’ctive, Beading,”
the postmark of which is illoaihle, but
it appears to be- •* Blandon.” It is
written in English, with pencil, poorly
spelled, andT without regard to punc
tuation or capitals. Put into some
thing like correct language it reads as
follows:
“ May 17.
“To Detective Lyons, of Reading :—
“ Sir—I write this note to you to
let you know that I have scattered
matches in a barn in Maxatawny
township, hv being driven to it by
desperation bv parties whom I do not
know, bnt believe they are from Lan
caster City, who I believe are mesmer
ists. I draw a pension in Lancaster,
in Black’s office, and the first I knew
of these parties having me under their
control was last June, and since that
time they have used me with most
devilish, blackest inhumanity, until
they have driven me to a desperate
madman. They were the cause of me
leaving matches in the straw in the
barn where I slept last night. The
brutish scoundrels have forced me to
abuse unoffending men, women and
children. Yesterday they forced me
to quarrel with the woman in Ktit-
stown, and influenced a crowd of men
to gather around me with whips, clubs
and stones. The brutish scoundrels
have been using me about the country
as a spy, reading people’s minds, and
keeping me among the country people,
who, they say, are ignorant, and can
impose upon. There is a bullet in my
head, and I believe these mesmerizers
have connected a galvanic battery with
it. The scoundrels cun sink a man
nerveless in his tracks by sinking his
will into his body, if he opposes them,
by charging electricity into him through
ine. The inhuman scoundrels have
had the clothes torn off me, aud kept
the lice almost eating me alive with
dirt, so that nobody would look into
my miserable existence, but think that
I was a lunatic. The scoundrels can
force enough electricity iuto a horse to
throw him off his feet, and can draw
this back among themselves, and rob
men before their eyes at the card table
by telling every card they hold by look
ing into their eyes. They can make
a man as weak as a child.-; or make a
desperate madman of him with the
strength of a dozen men. They have
had me whipped and abused, and kept
at the point of desperation until I
would die before I would stand their
brutish torture an; longer. I will
place myself under the protection of
the law against inhuman scoundrels
A Model Sentence.
Three saloon-keepers in Chicago
were found gnilty of selling liquor to
minora. The address of the justice
when they were sentenced, as re
ported in the Chicago Tribune, is
original and eminently wholesome.
The evils of the liquor traffic, and
what license involves, are rarely set
out in a clearer light than in the
following address by Judge Reading.
“ By the law you may sell to men
and women, if they will buy. You
have given yonr bond, and your li
cense to sell to them, and no one has
a right to molest you in your legal
business. No matter what the conse
quences may he, no matter what
poverty and destitution are produced
by your selling according to law, you
have paid your money for this privi- J
lege, and you are licensed to pursue |
your calling. No matter what fami
lies are distracted and rendered mis
erable; no matter what children
starve or mourn over the degrada-
tion of a parent, yonr business is j
legalized and no one may interfere }
with you in it. No matter what
mother may agonize over the loss of a
son, or sister blush at the sliame of a
brother, yon have a right to disre
gard them all and pursue your legal
calling—you are licensed. You may
fit up yonr lawful place of business in
the most enticing and captivating
form; you may furnish it with the
most costly and elegant equipments
for yo ir lawful trade ; you may fill it
with the allurements of amusements ;
you may use all your arts to induce
visitors; you may skillfully arrange
and expose to view yonr choicest
wines and most captivating bevera
ges ; you may then induce a raging
appetite for strong drink, and then
you may supply that appetite to the
full, because it is lawful; you have
paid for it—you have a license. You
may allow boys almost children to
frequent your saloon; they may wit
ness the apparent satisfaction with
■ which their seniors quaff the spark
ling glass; you may be schooling and
training them for the period of twen-1
ty-one, when they too, ran partici
pate, for all this is lawful. You may
bold the cup to their lips, but ion !
must not let them drink—that is un- I
lawful. But while you have all these j
privileges, that of selling to children j
is denied you Here parents have
the right to say, “Leave my son to I
me until the law gives you a right to |
destroy him. Do not anticipate that I
terrible moment when I can assert j
for him no further rights o r protec j
tret ion. That will be soon enough !
for me, for bis mother, for his sister,
for bis friends and for the communi
ty to take liis ro.ul to death. Give
him to us in his childhood at least.
L* t us have a few years of his youth,
in which we can enjoy his innocence,
to repay us in some small degree for
the care and love, we have lavished
upon him. This is something you
who now stand prisoners at the bar
have not paid for—this is not- em
braced in yonr license. Eor this
oftensc the court sentences you for
ten days imprisonment in the county
jail, and that you pay a fine of seven
ty-five dollars and costs, and that yen
stand committed until the fine aud
costs of this prosecution are paid.”
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With increased facilities for carrying on the publication of outj
for the New Year : the Georgian will be found, as heretoft
ore,
Strictly Democratic,
And Will endeavor to supply its readers with the most careful,o
plete and trustworthy accounts of current events. It will
remain its usual size, eight pages, and has
More ieadiiiQ Matter to tts Gelun
Thar any two weekly papers In the State. We have . the Urj
bona fide Subscription list in Northeast Georgia,. and we
intend to make it, as heretofore, an interesting
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How She Argued with Him. —
foe Baltimore Sun's Washington
agent tells the follows:
A Mormon gentleman, who says he
is a brother of one of the members
of the cabinet arrived iu this city.
He has been in Utah for twenty-five
years. lie says he has come on to
see his brother. He has two wives,
and married the last one about
eighteen months ago, after a tremen
dous rumpus with his first wife on the
subject. When he told her that lie
was to lie sealed to a new wife she
hit him on the nose with a rolling-
pin, broke a washpiteher over his
head, tore his Sunday coat all to
pieces and threatened to break his
back if he ever brought another wife
to his house, but finally she had to
give in.
J What the American eagle needs is
j a new set of tail feathers.
W ith i*. new supply of Rules and Figures, we are prepared to turn
out all and every’kind of
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