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LEGAL NOTIG EH.
OGLETHORPE SHERIFF’S SALE.
\\rif.E he sold on the first TUESDAY in
t ' I (eeemher next, before the Court House
door, in the town of Lexington, Oglethorpe
county, within the legal hours of sale, a tract
or parcel of Land, containing two hundred
acres, more or less, in Oglethorpe county,
joining lands of \V. P. Moore, Thomas Amis
and others. Levied on as the property of
Robert Ycrby, to satisfy a fi. fa. issued from
the Superior < ourt of said county, in favor of
Sell A Foster vs. Robert Yerby and M. M.
Landram. [ss]
Also, at the same time and plaee, a tract of
Land containing one hundred and fifteen
acres, more or less, joining lands formerly be
longing to Elizabeth Smith, Laban Watkins
and Thomas Amis, in Oglethorpe county.
Levied on as tire property of Thomas Wilkes,
to satisfy a fi. fa. issued from the Superior
Court ot said county, on the foreclosure of a
mortgage issued in favor of Win. Amis and
Thomas Amis, executors of Thomas Amis,
Sr., deceased, vs. Samuel Wilkes. [.ss]
Also, at the same time and place, a traet of
Land containing one hundred and thirty
acres, more or less, in said county, joining
lands of Ilenry Hull, Arnold and others, on
which J. A. Boothe resides. Levied on as
the property of .J. A. Boothe, to satisfy three
fi. fas. issued from the Superior Court of Ogle
thorpe county—-two in favor of J. T. M.llaire,
•assignee, and one in faver of R. S. Martin &
Cos. vs. J. A. Boothe. [so]
November Ist, 1876.
M. 11. Y< l X(i, Dep’y Sheriff.
OGLETHORPE SHERIFF’S SALE.
A \J I LI. be sold before the Court House door,
t' in the town of Lexington, between the
legal hours of sale, on the first TUESDAY in
December next, a tract of Land in Oglethorpe
county, containing 1,000 acres, more or less,
adjoining lands of George \V. Mattox and
others, it being the place whereon Mrs. E. C.
.Stribbling now resides. Sold as the property
of C. Stribbling, deceased, under an inter
locutory decree of Oglethorpe Superior
Court, rendered at October term, 1876, in the
ease of E. C. Stribbling, executrix, vs.
Lumpkin & Olive and other creditors.
Bill to marshal, assets, etc., for the unpaid
balance of the purchase money of said
land, and for other purposes mentioned in
said decree. JAMES T. JOHNSON,
November 2d, 1876. [ss] Sheriff.
OGLETHORPE SHERIFFS SALE.
■\\7TLL he sold on the first TUESDAY in
\ December, 1876, between the legal
hours of sale, betore the Court House door, in
the town of Lexington, in said county, two
tracts of Land, lying in said county. One of
said tracts contains one hundred and ten
acres, more or less, and adjoins lands of Z. 11.
Clark’s estate and others; the other tract of
land lying in said county, and contains two
hundred and twenty acres, more or less, and
•eighty-four (84) acres of which is a dower on
•which the widow of Abel M. Barnett, deceas
ed, now resides, and at ln r death said dower
goes into the possession and ownership of the
purchaser of said land. Said the
lands of James t oil, 1). 11. Winn and others.
.AH of said lands levied on as the property of
Charles W. Broach, to satisfy a fi. fa. in favor
of Newton Xo.-eii vs. diaries W. Broach, issu
ed from Oglethorpe Superior Court. [Sift]
November Ist, 1876.
Also will be sold, at the same time and
place, a tract of Land containing two hundred
and twenty acres, more or less, in Oglethorpe
county, adjoining lands of James Cunning
ham, Jane Thornton others, by virtue of a fi.
fa. issued from the Superior Court of said
■county, in favor of It. W. Ilufi'vs. David Hol
loman. Levied on as the property of David
Holloman. [s.s]
Also, at the same time and place, will be
sold one tract of Land in Oglethorpe county',
containing six hundred and fifty acres, more
or less, adjoining lands of J. Royner, A. Wil
kins and otliers. Levied on to satisfy a fi. fa.
from Oglethorpe Superior Court, in favor of
George F. Piatt vs. George W. Bolton, and
other ti. fas. in my hands. Sold as the prop
erty of George W. Bolton, deceased. [$5J
Also, at the same time and place will be
sold one tract of Land .in Oglethorpe county,
containing six hundred and twenty acres,
more or less, adjoining J. If. Echols, M. L.
Rains and others. Sold to satisfy a fi. fa.
from Oglethorpe Superior Court, in favor of
John Michael and his wife, Alice Michael, vs.
Slu*rod McCarty, executor, and Cinthia Wise,
deceased. Sold as the property of Sherod
Wise, deceased. [$5J
Also, at the same time and place, will be
sold one House in the town of Lexington, ad
joining George 11. Lester’s lot, now occupied
by Cl arles Grigsby as a shoe shop. Levied
on as the property of Sherod McCarty, to sat
isfy a li. fa. issued from Oglethorpe Superior
Court, in fa. or of William B. J. Hardman vs.
William J. Davenport, principal, end Sherod
McCarty, security. [So]
Also, at the same time and place, will be
sold one tract of Land in Oglethorpe county,
containing two hundred and forty-five acres,
more or less, adjoining lands of E. W. John
son. A. J. Howard and others. Levied on as
the property of Win. G. England, to satisfy a
fi. fa. issued from Oglethorpe Superior Court,
in favor of Win. T. Murray vs. William G.
England. [ss]
Also, at the same time and place, the inter
est in remainder after the expiration of the
life estate of Airs. Susan A. Chandler, in a
tract of Land containing six hundred acres,
more or less, in Oglethorpe county, adjoining
lands of .lames At. Smith, John V. Collier and
others. Levied on as the property of the es
tate of James O. Chandler, deceased, it being
the dower tract of land now occupied by Airs.
Susan A. Chandler, to satisfy a ti. fa. issued
from the Superior Court of said county, in
favor of George F. Platt vs. James M. Chan
dler and Susan A. Chandler, as administrators
.of Janies O. t handler, deceased, and other ti.
fas. in my hands against said defendants as
administrators as aforesaid. [ss]
Also, at the same time and place will be
sold, two bales of Cotton, about one hundred !
pounds of Cotton in the field, about tliirtv
bushels of Corn, and about five hundred
pounds of Fodder. Levied on by the foreclo
sure of landlord's loin, in favor of George A\\
Bolton vs. Henry C. Furcron and Sal lie At.
Fureron. The corn and fodder to be sold is
at the residence of Henry Furcron. fss]
November '2d, 187fi.
J A AIKS' T. JOHNSON, Sheriff.
■ OGLETHORPE SHERIFF S SALE.
A \ 'ILL be sold on the first TUESDAY in
) t December next, before the Court House
door, in the town of Lexington, Oglethorpe
county, within the legal hours of safe, a tract
of Land containing one hundred and twenty
seven acres, more or less, in Oglethorpe coun
ty. adjoining lands of Al. H. Young, Alatthew
F. Jackson, and others. Levied on as the
property of the estate of Bur
nette Aloorc deceased, by virtue of
a ti. fa. issued from the Superior Court of said
county, in favor of AYm. A Colelough vs. Ben
nette Moore, and one other fi. fa. in favor of
Langston, Crane & Hammock vs. Martha
Moore, administratrix of Bennette Aloore, de
ceased.
Also, at the same time and place, a tract of
Land containing six hundred acres, more or
less, in Oglethorpe county, adjoining lands of
John Cobb, James Y oung and others, known
as the Hermon tract, and dower of Lucy
Lumpkin, deceased. Levied on as the prop
erty of the estate of George Lumpkin, deceas
ed, to satisfy two fi. fas. issued from the Supe
rior Court of said county, one in favor of
Douglas C. Watson, executor ofYVm. H. Bon
ner, deceased, for the use of Callender Lump
kin, executrix of Joseph H. Lumpkin, deceas
ed, vs. George Lumpkin, executor of George
Lumpkin, deceased. The other fi. fa. in fa
vor of F. J. Robinson, Ordinary, etc., for the
use of Robert R. Alitehell, administrator of
Jesse Bell, deceased, vs. Middleton P. Davis,
administrator of Wm. J. Davis, deceased,
principal, and George Lumpkin, executor of
George Lumpkin, deceased, security.
At. 11. Y'OUNG, Dep’y Sheriff.
October 25th, IS7G.
©§kt!)ioirf>c 'Cell®.
BY T. L. GANTT.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Fop County Treasurer.
J< Notice.—l will be a candidate for
re-election to the office of County Treasurer of
Oglethorpe county, at the ensuing election in
January next. P. PACE.
For Tax-Collector.
fiesU’ The name of Mr. JOHN W.
BRIDGES, a maimed Confederate soldier, is
proposed as a candidate for the office of Tax-
Collector of Oglethorpe county, subject to the
action of the Democratic party, and the sup
port of the voters respectfully solicited.
SffiT' The friends of Mr. R. S. MARTIN
propose his name as a candidate for Tax-Col
lector of Oglethorpe county, subject to the
action of the Democratic party, and ask for
him the hearty support of our voters.
many friends of Mr. EDGAR
MAXWELL announce him a candidate for
the office of Tax-Collector of Oglethorpe coun
ty, subject to the Democratic nomination, and
most respectfully solicit for him the support
of his fellow-citizens in the county primary
election.
The friends of Mr. GEORGE W.
YOUNG anuounce his name as a candidate
for Tax-Collect of Oglethorpe county, subject
to ratification by the Democratic party, and
ask for him the support of our citizens.
essy“The name of Mr. W. A. HAN
COCK, a gentleman disabled for other duties,
is hereby announced as a candidate for the
office of Tax-Collector, and will be supported
by MANY FRIENDS.
For Ordinary.
D. GILHAM will be a candi
date for re-election to the office of Ordinary of
Oglethorpe countv, and will be supported bv
MANY FRIENDS.
For Slierilf.
The name of Mr. M. 11. YOUNG
is announced as a candidate for the office of
Sheriff of Oglethorpe county, and the hearty
support of his many friends solicited. If elec
ted, will appoint Mr. James T. Johnson his
Deputy.
The many friends of Mr. MARK
YOUNG, of Bairdstown, announce him a
candidate for Sheriff of Oglethorpe county,
subject to the Democratic nomination. If
elected, will select as his Deputy Mr. Tiiomas
Dostek.
For Tax-Receiver.
mr- Mr- JOHN T. ENGLAND is
announced as a candidate for the office of Tax-
Receiver, subject to the action of the Demo
cratic party, and will be supported bv
MANY FRIENDS.
fteSU The friends of Mr. JAMES T.
LLOYD, of Bairdstown, announce him a can
didate for the office of Tax-Receiver of Ogle
thorpe county, subject to the Democratic
nomination. Being a disabled soldier, we
earnestly ask the support of the voters of the
county.
OGLETHORPE SHERIFFS SALE.
AI7TLL he sold before the Court House door,
VV in the town of Lexington, Oglethorpe
county, on the first TUESDAY" in December
next, between the legal hours of sale, one
tract of Land in said county, containing six
hundred and sixty acres, more or loss, adjoin
ing lands of E. W. Johnson, T. H. Olive, Jas.
S. Sims and others. Levied on as the prop
erty Louise F. Davenport, to satisfy a fi. fa.
in favor of Charles S. Hargrove vs. Louise F.
Davenport. J. T. JOHNSON, Sheriff.
November 8, 1876.
ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE of LAND.
H KORGIA, OGLETHORPE COUNTY.—
Y I By virtue of an order from the Court of
Ordinary of said county, the undersigned,
administrator, <le bonis non , with the will an
nexed, of Thomas Edwards, deceased, of said
county, will sell on the first TUESDAY in
in December, 1876, before the court house
door, in the town of Lexington, in said coun
ty, between the legal hours of sale, (227) two
hundred and twenty-seven acres of Land,
more or less, situated in said county, and ad
joining lands of B. F. Collins, Lacy Banks
and otliers. Said lands belong to the estate of
Thomas Edwards, late of said county, deceas
ed, and sold for the benefit of the heirs and
creditors of said deceased. Terms cash. This
Nov. 6, 1876. TIIOMAS J. EDWARDS,
Administrator, de bonis non, with the will
annexed, of Thos. Edwards, deceased.
S~TATE OF GEORGIA, OGLETIIORRE
COUNTY.—Petition for Letters of Dis
mission. Whereas, C. W. Sims, one of the
administrators of John Sims, deceased, late of
said county —G. R. Sims having died —said C.
W. Sims now applies to me for Letters of Dis
mission from said estate —
The- e are, therefore, to cite and admonish
all persons concerned to show cause, if any
they can, on or before the first Monday in
January, 1577, why said letters should not
be granted.
Given under my hand and official signature,
at office in Lexington, this 25th day of Sept.,
1876. T. D. GILHAM,
[ss] Ordinary.
Ono Hundred Thousand people
will cheerfully testify to the wonderful effica
cy of Dr. Gilder’s Liver Pills. They have
been used for more than half a century, but it
is only in the last few years that they have
been brought prominently before the general
public. And every day people are rejoicing
that at last they have found a pill that exact
ly meets their wants. Headache, dyspepsia,
constipation, indigestion, pains in the side or
back, and many other ailments disappear
after taking the first dase of these pills. One
dose ot pills and a few grains of quinine will
effectually cure chills and fever. Gilder’s
Liver Pills are sold by all respectable mer
chants and druggists.
The People Want Proof. —There
is no medicine prescribed by physicians, or
sold by druggists, that carries such evidence
of its success and superior virtue as Bosehee’s
German Syrup for severe coughs, colds settled
on the breast, consumption, or any disease of
the throat and lungs. A proof of that fact is
that any person afflicted, can get a sample bot
tle for Ift cents and try its superior effects be
fore buying the regular size at 75 cents. It
has lately been introduced in this country
from Germany, and its wonderful cures are
astonishing every one that use it, Three doses
will relieve any ease. Try it. Sold bv Dr.
M. H. Thomas, Crawford. Ga.
Dr. Durham’s practice is not confin
ed to this county, but he has patients
from all parts of the country.
Dr. Durham, Maxey’s, Ga., gives his
whole attention to the treatment of
chronic diseases, and may al ways be
be found in his office.
You HAVE HEARD of the late distin
guished Dr. L. Durham—of his wonder
ful success in the treatment of chronic
diseases. Dr. Durham, Maxey’s, Ga.,
einploystbe same remedies used by Dr.
L. Durham.
— .
If suffering with any chronic dis
ease, consult Dr. Durham, Maxey’s, Ga.
The immense number of people who
apply to Dr. Durham for treatment,
suffering with some chronic disease, is
proof of his success in the treatmen: of
chronic diseases.
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 17, 1876.
THE Bt RIAL Ot R. B. HAYES.
Not a cheer was heard, not a jubilant note,
As home from the polls we hurried ;
Not a journalist stopped to count the vote
’Neath which they our candidate buried.
They buried him totally long ere night,
Our friends with their arguments turning;
The campaign supplement* all despite,
And IngersoU’s speeches burning.
Old Useless Grant meant well, no doubt,
W hen in Chandler’s toils we wound him;
But he lay there, a nominee flattened out,
M ith his bloody shirt around him.
Nor few nor low were our damns and derns;
But we could not speak our sorrow,
And we silently gazed on the last returns
And bitterly thought of the morrow.
AV e thought, “ When they Tilden inaugurate
In March, and from office we go,
The foe and the stranger’ll investigate
And we’ll have to skip oft’ to Vigo.”
Lightly they’ll talk of our candidate now,
And say Conklin and Blaine had been better,
And it would have been wiser by far to avow
He had written that Know-Nothing letter.
But half of our heavy task was done
When we found it was no use counting,
And we saw the bonfire—heard the guu
Told of Tilden’s majority mounting.
Slowly and sadly we laid him down
On the field of the lost election,
And each wished, as gloomier gre.w his frown,
We had made a better selection,
CURRENT TOPICS.
—Brother Moody says that a woman
in Indiana was miraculously informed
by God of the conversion of her son, in
Chicago, to Christianity.
—The Democratic hammer has fallen
with weighty strokes, converting the
sword into the plough-share and the
bayonet into a pruning hook.
—The new State of Colorado is thirteen
times as large as Massachusetts, having
an area of 104,500 square miles, and a
population of less than 150,000.
—An old resident of Medway, Mass.,
was sent to the poorhouse the other week,
on the same day that his son laid the
foundation of a fine house for his own
use in the most aristocratic part of the
village.
—A rich man is to be hanged. Joseph
Ryan, of Peterboro, Ontario, was tried
for wife-murder, and condemned to be
hanged on the 21st of November. He is
a merchant, 45 years old, and worth
$500,000.
—Bessie Turner is a waitress in a New
York down-town restaurant, having lost
a fine position as teacher by testifying
for Plymouth Church, which, having no
further use for her, leaves her to shirk
for herself.
—A traveller in the East once saw a
man who had lost his legs by leprosy
mounted on theshoulders of one who had
lost his arms by the same disease—the
first sowing grain, while the latter did the
locomotion.
—An unknown and mysterious rider,
mounted on a white horse, is said to ap
pear among the Servians during battle
and to direct their movements, disap
pearing when the battle is over. He is
supposed to be an exiled Ku-Klux.
—A Vermont man borrowed $3,000
of a widow, erected therewith a handsome
monument in a churchyard, sacred to his
own memory, failed within six months,
and paid the widow, who could ill afford
to lose it, 10 per cent, of her claim.
—A man in Paris, wishing lately to
pass a joke upon his wife, hired a coffin
and placed himself in it at the moment
of her return after a few days’ abcence.
On seeing the supposed corpse, she fell
senseless to the ground and has since
been a lunatic.
—The Czar Alexander receives, in
round numbers,s2s,ooo a day income, the
Turkish Sultan, $18,000; the emperor of
Austria, $10,000; the emperor of Germa
ny, $8,200; the king of Italy, $G,440; the
queen of England, $6,700; the king of
the Belgium, $1,643 ; and the president
of the French republic, SSOO.
—Longer corsets and shorter bustles
are used by the leading modistes. The
corsets are made to extend lower down
over the hips, now that dresses outline
the hips as distinctly as they do the
waist; and to this is often added a broad
band of white rubber webbing, which
acts as a comfortable support, especially
for large ladies.
—Most of the U. S. Deputies acted
very well Tuesday. Nine-tenths of them
voted the Democratic ticket, but the
most of them looked as if they were
ashamed of the place they held. Per
haps they ought to be looked on with
charity as most of them needed money
awfully, and anything that would bring
it was acceptable.
—Not long ago the bones of a Masto
don were found in Washington Territo
ry, the skull bone of which alone weigh
ed 800 pounds, and contained when
found a quantity of gold and silver
quartz. The tusks were twenty feet in
length and the leg stood twenty feet
high. They are said to be the largest
fossil remains ever discovered.
—A lady (the Countess Hadick) has
been received in a Hungarian of lodge
Free Masons. The grand orient of Hunga
ry declares the election null and void. But
then comes in the maxim, “once a Mason,
always ajMason.” Masonic casuists are
asking. “ what is to be done—how long
will the Masonic secret be kept now ?”
—And now shall gains of the good
people of Connecticut be strengthened
accordingly. A school of mackerel a
mile long and a fourth of a mile wide
was struck not long ago by the fishing
smacks of New London, and at a single
draw of the nets 300,000 fish were taken,
w'hich in their turn netted SIO,OOO cash.
—Sheep-dogs in Texas are thus train
ed : A pup is taken from its mother be
fore its eyes are open, and put to a ewe
to suckel. After a few times the ewe be
comes reconciled to the pup, which fol
lows her like a lamb, grows up among
and remains with the flock, and no wolf,
man, or strange dog can come near the
sheep; and the dog will bring the flock
regularly to the fold at any hour in the
evening at which he is habitually fed.
—Last \Y ednesday the Republican ne
groes of Charleston, South Carolina, tried
themselves. They committed brutal
outrages upon both races and sexes.
White men and boys tvere assaulted and
beaten ; two white ladies were assaulted,
aad their clothes almost torn from them
by negro women ; two respectable col
ored men rescued a white youth from ne
gro assailants ; another negro mob assaul
ted a colored woman and beat her unmer
cifully, tearing her slothes from her with
bayonets.
HONOR THY MOTHER.
Not long ago, a good looking man in
middle life came to the door asking for
“ the minister.” When informed that he
was out of town he seemed disappointed
and anxious. On being questioned as to
his business, he replied :
“I have lost my mother, and as this
place used to be her home, as my father
lies here, we have come here to lay her
beside him.”
Our heart arose in sympathy, and we
said :
“ You have met with a great loss.”
“ Well—yes,” replied the strong man,
with hesitancy, “ a mother is a great loss
in general, but our mother had outlived
her usefulness. She was in her second
childhood, and her mind had grown as
weak as her body, so that she was no
comfort to herself and was a burden to
everybody. There were seven of us, sons
and daughters, and as we could not find
any one who would board her, we agreed
to keep her among us a year about. But
I have had more than my share of her,
for she was too feeble to be moved when
my time was out, and that was more than
three months before her death. But
then she was a good mother iu her day,
and toiled very hard to bring us up.”
Without looking at the face of the
heartless man, we directed him to the
house of a neighboring pastor, and re
turned to our nursery. We gazed on
the merry little faces which smiled or
grew sad in imitation of ours, those little
ones to whose ear no word in our lan
guage is half so sweet as “mother,” and
we wondered if that day would ever
come when they would say of us, “ She
has outlived her usefulness—she is no
comfort to herself and a burden to every
body else!”—and we hoped that before
such a day would dawn we might be ta
ken to our rest. God forbid that we
should outlive the love of our children !
Rather let us die while our hearts are a
part of their own, that our grave may be
watered with their tears, and our love
linked with their hopes of heaven.
When the bell tolled for the mother’s
burial, we weut to the sanctuary to pay
our only token of respect to the aged
stranger; for we felt that we could give
her memory a tear, even though her own
children had none to shed.
“She was a good mother in her day,
and toiled hard to bring us all up—she
was no comfort to herself and a burden
to everybody else!” These cruel, heart
less words rung in our ears as we saw the
coffin borne up the aisle.
The bell tolled long and loud, until its
iron tongue had chronicled the years of
the toil-worn mother.
One—two —three—four—five. How
clearly and almost merrily each stroke
told of her once peaceful slumber in her
mother’s bosom, and of her seat at night
fall on her father’s knee.
Six—seven—eight—nine ten, rang
out the tale of her sports on the green
sward, in the meadow and beside the
brook.
Eleven—twelve— thirteen fourteen,
spoke more gravely of school days and
little household cares and joys.
Fifteen—sixteen—seventeen- eighteen
sounded out the enraptured visions of
maidenhood and the dream of early
love.
Nineteen brought before us the happy
bride.
Twenty spoke of the young mother,
whose heart was full to bursting with
the new, strong love which God had
awaked in her bosom.
And then stroke after stroke told of
her womanhood—of the loves, and cares,
and hopes, and fears, and toils through
which she passed during these long
years, till fifty rang out harsh and loud.
From that to sixty, each stroke told of
the warm-hearted mother and grand
mother, living over again her own joys
and sorrows in those of her children and
children’s children. Every family of all
the group wanted grandmother then, and
the only strife was who should secure the
prize.
But hark, the bell tolls on ! Seventy
—seventy-one —two—three—four. She
begins to grow feeble, requires some care
is not always patient or satisfied ; she
goes from one child’s house to another,
so that no one place seems like home.
She murmurs in plaintive tones, and af
ter all her toils and weariness, it is hard
she cannot be allowed a place to die in ;
that she must be sent rather than invited
from house to house.
Eighty—eighty-one—two—three—four.
Ah, she is now a second child- -now “she
has outlived her usefulness, she has now
ceased to be a comfort to herself or any
body that is, she has ceased to be prof
itable to her earth-craving, money-grasp
ing children.
Now sounds out reverberating through
our lovely forest, and echoing back from
our “ hill of the dead,” eighty-nine!
There she lies now in the coffin, cold and
still—she makes no trouble now, de
mands no love no soft words, no tender
little offices. A look of patient endurance,
we fancied also a look of grief for unre
quited love, sat on her marble features.
Her children were there clad in weeds of
woe, and in an irony we remembered the
strong man’s words, “ She was a good
mother in her day.”
When the bell ceased tolling the
strange minister rose in the pulpit. His
form was very erect, and his voice strong
but his hair was silvery white. He read
several passages of scripture expressive
of God’s compassion to feeble man, and
especially of his tenderness when gray
hairs are on him, and his strength faileth
him. He then made some touching re
marks on human frailty, and of depen
dence on God, urging all present to make
their peace with their Maker while In
health, that they might claim his promi
ses when heart and flesh failed them.
“Then,” he said, “the eternal God
shall be thy refuge, and beneath thee
shall be the everlasting arms.”
Leaning over the desk and gazing in
tently on the coffined form before him,
he said revently :
“ From a child I have honored the
aged; but never till gray hairs covered
my owu head, did I truly know how
much love and sympathy of this class
have a right to demand of their fellow
creatures. Now I feel it. Our mother,”
he added most tenderly, “ who now lies in
death before us was a stranger to me, as
well as all of these, her descendants. All
I know of her is what her son told me to
day—that she was brought to this town
from afar, sixty-nine years ago. a happy
bride—that here she passed most of her
life, toiling, as only mothers ever have
strength to toil, until she reared a large
family of sons and daughters—that she
left her home hre clad in the weeds of j
widowhood, to dwell among her < hil-
dren; and that till health and strength
I left her, she had never ceased in her de
voted kindness to those she loved. God
forbid that conscience should accuse any
of you of ingratitude or murmuring on
account of the care she has been to you
of late. When vou go back to your
homes, be careful of your example before
your own children ; tor the fruit of your
own doing you will surely reap from
them when you yourself totter on the
brink of the grave. I entreat you as a
friend, as one who has himself eutered
on the evening of life, that you may
never say in the presence of your fami
lies or of heaven, ‘ Our mother had out
lived her usefulness—she was a burden
to us.’ Never, never; a mother cannot
live so long as that. No; when she can
no longer labor for her children, nor yet
care for herself, she can fall like a pre
cious weight on their bosoms, and call
forth by her helplessness all the noble,
generous feelings of their natures.”
Adieu, then, poor toil-worn mother;
there are no more days of pain for thee.
Undying vigor and everlasting useful
ness are part of the inheritance of the re
deemer.
Increase of Humanity.
Mr. Hawksley, an English statist, has
been figuring up on the question of popu
lation, and has arrived at the cenclusion
that the rate of increase on the globe is
really greater than that laid down by
Malthus. In 1801 the population of Eng
land was 8,892,356, in 1871 it had reached
22,712,266. Mr. Hawksley confidently
claims that at the end of five generations
England will contain 400,000,000 souls,
and that when the fifteenth generation
shall have been reached the world will
not be able to contain the Englishmen
who feel that they have as good and per
haps a little better right to live than any
one else. It is. contesteded that nature
corrects her own excesses, and that sick
ness, war, crime, intemperance, and to
bacco may be relied on to keep down the
surplus population ; but statistics prove
that during the last twenty years all these
causes, combined with emigration, have
only produced a loss of fifteen persons in
every 10,000, while the mean annual in
crease has been nearly 1.35 per cent.
With the great strides now being made
in sanitary science, the efforts constantly
directed against intemperance, and the
growing disposition upou the part of
statesmen to avoid war, the chances are
that the death-rate will greatly diminish,
and the ratio of gain correspondingly in
crease. There is some hope in the way
of crime, at least in Chicago; but should
the peoples of the earth continue to grow
and multiply as predicted by Mr. Mawk
sley, it will become necessary either to
engage another planet or to follow the
doctrines of Malthus, and put a stop to
mairriages altogether. For the present
there seems to be little use for our worry
ing ourselves unnecessarily about the fu
ture. What we principally want in our
wide, unculitvated plains is population.
When the day arrives that there is stand
ing room only, we shall happily have
made considerable progress in a sphere
where two or three millions of inhabitants
more or less make not a praticle of dif
ference.
One Way of Carving a Turkey.
There is nothing a young unmarried
man likes better than to go to dinner at
the house ofa friend and to be asked to
carve a turkey. He never carved a tur
key in his life, and with an old maid on
one side of him, watching him closely,
and on the other side a fair girl for whom
he has a tenderness, he feels embarrassed
when he begins. First he pushes the
knife down toward one of the thigh joints,
lie can’t find the joint, and he plunges the
knife around in search of it until he
makes mincemeat out of the whole quar
ter of the fowl. Then he sharpens his
knife and tackels it again. At last, while
making a terrifie dig, he hits the joint
suddenly, and the leg Hies into the mai
den lady’s lap, while her dress front is
covered with a shower of stuffing. Then
he goes for the other leg, and when the
young lady tells him he looks warm, the
weather seems to him suddenly to become
400 degrees warmer. This leg he finally
pulls loose with his fingers. He lays it
on the edge of the plate, and while he is
hacking at the wing he gradually pushes
the leg over on the clean table cloth, and
when he picks it up it slips from his hand
into the gravy-dish and splashes the gra
vy around for six square yards. Just as
he made up his mind that the turkey has
no joints to its wings, the host asks him
if he thinks the Indians can really be civ
ilized ? The girl next to him laughs,
and he says he will explain his views up
on the subject after dinner. Then he
sops his brow with his handkerchief and
pressed the turkey so hard with the fork
that it slides off the dish and upsets a
goblet of water on the girl next to him.
Nearly frantic, he gouges away again at
the wings, gets them off in a mutilated
condition, and digs into the breast. Be
fore he can cut any off, the host asks him
why he don’t help out the turkey. Be
wildered, he puts both legs on a plate and
hands them to the maiden lady, and
then he helps the young girl to a plateful
of stuffing and while taking her piate in
return knocks over the gravy-dish. Then
he sits down with the calmness of despair
and fans himself with a napkin, while
the servant girl clears up and takes the
turkey to the other end of the table. He
doesn’t discuss the Indian question that
day. He goes home right after dinner,
and spends the night trying to decide
whether to commit suicide or to take les
sons in carving.
Newspaper By-I.aws.
1. Be brief. This is the age of tele
graphs and stenography.
2. Be pointed. Don’t write all
around a subject without hitting it.
3. State facts, but don’t stop to moral
ize. It’s a drowsy subject. Let the rea
der do his own dreaming.
4. Eschew preface. Plunge at once
into your subject, like a swimmer into cold
water.
5. If you have written a sentence that
you think particularly fine, draw your
pen through it. A pet child is always
the worst in the family.
6. Condense. Make sure that you
really have an idea, and then record it in
the shortest possible terms. We want
thoughts in their quintescence.
7. When your article is completed,
strike out nene-tenths of the adjectives.
—C'apt. John Wilson, who in 1850 rescued
60ft persons from the sinking steamship Con
naught, is now living in extreme destitution
in New Orleans. He was made a hero of on
both sides the ocean at the time, but his ser
vices have be'en forgotten, while old age and
poverty have overtaken him.
VOL. Ill—NO. 6.
DEVILTRIES.
—Wanted, a sewing machine that
didn’t get the first prize.
—The mite that requires the most room
when excited is dynamite.
—lf a man would set good examples
they might hatch better habits.
—A man was killed in Georgia for
stealing a kicking mule. The mule was
the executioner.
—A woman is composed of 243 bones.
IG9 muscles, and 309 pins, and covered
all over with buttons.
—Vanderbilt is trying bard to recover,
but his physicians stay by him all the
while and don’t give him half a chance.
—-In Texas they hang horse-thieves,
but in alluding to the subjects they put
it: “ Equine extractors suspended in
the forest.”
—lt took two hours for a Democratic
procession in New York to pass a certain
point; but a Radical paper explains that
the point was a gin-mill.
—Richmond, A’a., has a goat that ri
val Mrs. Maginnis’. It took the whole
police force to arrest it, and now the po
lice court is afraid to sit on the case.
—A witty French journalist thus de
scribes the difference between the Serbs
and Turks. The former cut off the left
ear of their prisoners, the latter the
right.
—Sixty-three babies reported for duty
at the Battle Creek baby-party. The
careless reporters assert that Mrs.
“ furnished refreshments for the whole of
them.”
—“ Why didn’t you put on a clean
collar before you left home?” called out a
swell to an omnibus driver. “ Cause your
mother hadn’t sent home my washing,”
was the extinguished reply.
; —“ Ladies and gentlemen,” said an
Irish manager to his audience of three,
“ as there is nobody here, I'll dimiss you
all; the performance of this night will
be repeated to-morrow evening.”
—The Rev. Mr. Talmadge remarks as
an impressive act that Peter, though
suffering so many trials, was a very
cheerful man. It should be remembered,
however, that Peter’s wife’s mother lay
sick of the fever.
—We were not so impolite as to sug
gest it. Positively, the item on our local
page yesterday, headed, “ The llog
Movement,” had no reference to the
cleaning out of the Republican politi
cians. So says an exchange.
-—“Oh, mamma, that’s Captain Jones’
knock. I know he has come to ask me
to be his wife !” “ Well, my dear, you
must accept him.” “ But I thought you
hated him so?” “Hate him? I do—so
much that I mean to be his mother-in
law !”
—A young lady has a cute way of pro
pounding to her friends the following
conundrum; “What kind of animals
grow on vines?” And when everybody
“ gives it up,” and asks for the answer,
she says: “Why, you ninny, it’s gray
apes (grapes)!”
—“ Any children ?” said the proprietor
of the house, a gaunt, harsh woman,
with a voice you could grate a nutmeg
on, to the proposing tenant of her build
ing. “ Yes, ma’am,” meekly replied the
tenant, “ but, if you desire it, of course I
can drown them.”
—After reading Sitting Bull’s modest
application to the agency for more am
munition, we can’t but rellect what a
splendid lightning-rod agent or sewing
machine canvasser had been lost to
America by the failure to catch him
when young, and thus bring him up un
der the genial influence of our modern
civilization.
—A Milwaukee paper reports “123
deaths from small-pox, of which 33 were
fatal.” The disease must have assumed
an extremely violent form if this state
ment is trustworthy. When, in the
course of an epidemic, death becomes
fatal, the community afflicted should
lose no time in electing anew board of
health. r
‘ We are in favor of poisoning off
President Grant on the expiration of his
term,” appeared in the leader of a Radi
cal paper. The next day there was an
apology, and a correction which made
the article read : “We are in favor of
pensioning off Gen. Grant,” etc. Evi
dently a Democratic printer made the
mistake on purpose.
—A rural journal in New York has
this : A remarkable game of cards was
played in the basement of a house on
Washington street yesterday. The boy of
the house had just turned up a diamond
and Avas waiting for the other boy to lead,
when the old man appeared at the head
of the stairs, ordered the other boy up,
turned up his own boy, discharged some
of his apparel and swung a club. The
old man played it alone, and made every
point although the neighbor’s boy cut.
—A correspondent desires to know
what sort of a thing a “ pocket gymnasi
um” is that he sees advertised in the
papers. Well, a pocket gymuasium
holds from a pint to a quart, and is made
of glass covered with leather; but we
can’t recommend it. We once saw a
young man have one in good working
order, and after practicing with it a short
time he found it much easier to stand on
his head than on his feet, and he could
not find his way home.
—They were two peanut venders ;
when they met they set their baskets
down and shook hands silently. Then
one said: “ ’Ow’s trade, Bill, wid ye
now?” “ Hawful,” the dried up old
man replied, “ Yer see the Eastern ques
tion and that pivotal business in New
York is crushing us doAvn. I tells you I
fear the market’s a going up, and so I
laid in a stock for the winter. I’ve in
vested forty cents as a speculation, and if
we don’t haA’e war in turkey I’m a ruin
ed man.”
—A gentleman of immense proportions
entered a crowded car at Emlenton, Pa.,
leading by the hand a very small Avoman.
whom everybody supposed to be bis
daughter, judging from appearances. At;
Scrubgrass, a Titusville oil producer step
ped aboard the train, and finding the
seats all occupied, stepped up to the man
and said : “ Will you be so kind as to al
low me to occupy a part of tnisseat? I’ll
hold your little daughter on my knee.”
He retreated when the other rose Up in
a threatening manner and fairly scream
ed, “ Daughter! She’s my wife, and I
would like to catch you holding her on
your knee!” A peal of laughter follow- 1
ed this announcement, and the Titusville
man went out on the platform for air.
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I’AV FOR YOS It PAPER.
■ The why of it is this: A man writes,
■ “ I want your paper, but am not willing
I to pay in advance for it. If you are
afraid to trust me fora year, I am afraid 1
j toi trust you. How do I know that vou
will semi me the paper tor a vear?”
tSuch conundrums mark the conservatism
of at Icjist one careful man. There is no
reason why he should trust us with two
: dollars—perhaps it is best that he should
j not. Fhere is no reason why a druggist
should ask pay for the medicine he sells
i before it operates, or that a railroad eom
i puny should ask pay for a ticket before
j the ride is finished ; or that a carpenter
! should ask pay for building a house till it
is worn out and the owner moved away. -
It costs many thousands of dollars to
buy a good printing office, and make rea
dy for printing a newspaper. Paper, ink,
labor, and all these little accessories to u £
paper cost the money in advance. We
ha\e not the means necessary to f-urnish 1
ten thousand persons each with a news
paper for a year, then to employ a score
ot men to collect bills all over the coun
try, unless wc charge at least ten dollars
a year for the paper. It is better for ten'
thousand men to pay each two dollars a
year in advance, than for us to have a
ten thousand dollars scattered all
over the country,, two-thirds of which wc
cannot collect. A man can easily forget
to pay what he owes for the paper, lie
can move away and never be found, no
matter how much that publisher may be
in need of the dollar or two the subscri
ber may owe. It is not easv for a news-"
paper to disappear. The editor who has
the earnings and reputation of a life-time
invested in a business, and who has built
up a newspaper to a large circulation, is
not apt to cheat a man out of two dollars,’
more or less, for an unexpired newspaper
subscription.
Another thing. We should never take
a paper edited by a man we could not
trust with the price of the paper. If you
have no more confidence in us and our
business honesty than to be afraid to’
trust us, keep your money. We cannot
afford to give credit to everybody, and it
would be unfair to discriminate. For
a . number of years we have been 1
printing a newspaper, and never yet have
failed to send the paper each week to thd
persons who have paid for it. It is not
likely that we shall commence being dis-'
honest now. We cannot, without inak-'
ing a great change in our manner of con
ducting business, give a dribleing credit 1
all over the country. We are not afraid
to trust our correspondent for two dollars,
but prefer to have him read his own pa
per than one he has not paid for. lie
buys a pound of tea, and partakes thereof
day alter day till it is used up. lie pur
chases a pair ol boots, and fora vear has
the wearing ol them. He pays the minis
ter live dollars for performing the mar
riage ceremony that unites him to his wife
but, according to his own rule, he should ;
not pay the marriage fee till his wife ex
pires, so ho could have the use of both
wife and money. Will the man sell us a
barrel of pork and wait for his pay till
the last piece is cooked and eaten ? If
so, we can tell him where he can find
just such customers for all the pork he :
can raise.
—m• -
The Reason of the ’Splosien;
“I would invite you to my house brud-'
der Jackson,” said Deacon Johnson, as
he emerged from church last Sunday eve
ning, “ but I dun no as we’ll get any sup
per dis night, the cook stove am so dref
fully out oh repair.”
“ What’s de matter wid de stove?”
“ Why, you see cold wedder am cornin'
on and wood’s.gettin’ skase an’ high, an’
I’ve’ structcd de folks to be berry eco
nomical in de usin’ ob it. Wes’e bin buy
in’ in small lots, an’ last night bein’ out
oh fuel I sent one of my hoys ober to a
neighbor’s to borrow a few sticks. De’
man or his family had gone to bed owin’
to the lateness ob de hour, an’ dat boy,-
who would ’spise to do a unhoncst trans
action, wrote out his note for de value’
ob de wood, an’ droppin’ it in a promi
nent place in de woodshed, shouldered an
armful an’ brought it home.”
“ Jess so.”
“ Well, a fire was kindled, de tea kit-'
tie put on, de ole woman she is gittin’ de
supper. All ob a sudden puff went de
stove, zoom; keswish, kuslush went
something, and as I tumbled over I saw
de ole woman makin’ for de roof wid do’
tea kittle and de stove plates followin'
her, while de boys and de gals was as
black wid smut as de ace ob spades. De
stove’s goose was cooked for a fact.”
“ \Y hat was de cause ob de sploshun ?”
“ I’m strongly ’dined to believe dat dar
was powder in dat wood, an’ dat de pow
der was done put dar by dat white man
to ketch some thievin’ darkeys wat neb
ber buys no wood, an’ bressed ef I don’t
think dat man spects me, kase he couldn’t
find note, and won’t make any ’polo
gies.”
“ Dat am an outrage.”
“1-or a fact, an’ de chillen’s supper
was spiled, too.”
More Dogs Than He Wantei
An editor in Reading, Pa., advertised*
the other day that he “ wouldtake a good
dog in payment of one year’s subscrip
tion” for his paper. The next day forty
three dogs were sent to the office. The
day afterward, when the news had spread
out into the couutry, four hundred farm
ers had sent two dogs apiece by express,-
with ei<*ht baskets full of puppies, all
markea C. O. D. In the meantime the'
offer found its way into neighboring
States, and before the end of the week
there were eight thousand dogs tied up
with ropes in the editor’s front and back
yards. The assortment included all the
kinds, from the blood-hounds down to 1
poodles. A few hundred broke loose anti
swarmed on the stairways and in the en
tries, and stood outside the sanctum and
howled, and had lights, and sniffed under
the cracks of the door as if they were
hungry for some editor. And the editor,
climbed out the window, up the water
spout and out on the comb of the roof
and wept There was no issue of the pa
per for six days, and the only way the
friends oft he eminent journalist could
feed him was by sending lunch up to himi
in balloons. At last somebody bought a
barrel of arsenic and three tons of beef/
and poisoned the dogs, and the editor
came down only Cos find on his desk a bill
from the Mayor for £B,OOO, being the
municipal taxon dogs at $l.OO a head.
He is not offering the same inducements
to subscribers now and doesn’t want a
dog.
—The Woman’s Temperance < '.onvert&ffii
which met at Xewark, -S'. .1., last Thur-day
evenin'*, pledged itself t<> abstain in fntnrc from
the u.-c ol ferment-.si wine at cnuimimum.-