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VOL. 1-NO. 1. Jjtuiftt ffimbet fecttc, l) PUBLISHED EVER' SATURDAY MORNING, BY RICHARD W GRUBB OFFICE IN PHIILII’ S BUILDING. Subscription Rates, in Advance. For one year *2 50- Foi six months. .$1 60 Club Rates: o 00 Five copiox. encli one year Tun “ or over, each oae year * ~ 'Rates ~~ •E t HOU Utl!, 10 line* space, first insertion..sl Each anbseiiuent insertion.... l <>T Special Rata to Yearly and Raiqe Advert inert. Advertisements from responsible parties will he published until ordered out. when the lime is not specified on the copy, and payuieut exacted ae.cor r Com mvnicat ions for 'indlvid#U benefit, or ol a personal character, charged as allveriisenients. Marriages, and Obituary liotliee* not exceeding lour lines, solicited for free publl'tation. "ben csedins that space, churned ;ie| a .ver-.sementr. dills d?* upon presentation a spirit ot commercia ~-in . o ! *< VK >-s .levin iol . .. .■ T? .h.iri W G: abb, OITI PIKKCTHIt. ]* County Officers. * c :zz 1 f superior Court— lsaac M. Aiken. Ordinary L<i >► Jackson. {Sheriff— 1! - Bennett. . Dt-nvtv Sheriff —Alolzo Guyton. ftJceirlr Tar Iletur-*— MHdii-ou Thomas. Tax Collector— S. W. Wilson. ,S^^:re.d- y .ne,c h mouth. Municipal Officers. %*■% \'X r *. W.lkrr l’. M,,r„. L Mcluwsh, Tu*. 'clerk and 7'reMtirr— Waliur A 'Any. r7i/ Marshal— H"l>< " E. < rr. Harbor Muster—) 1 ” u '\ al. Inspector Genet at— S._lairtlay. |oilc C|ji*ev>tv uiomtUK at U o clock. " l U. S. Officers. Collector of Customs Hrhnmcick /M’ict—JoUa T • r*ol*ii> - <1 * •‘quarter!* *r Hruu*\vi<U. t gepiity r,doctor ■>/ CveUm* tor P of I>- A r,tn iii:tr O • ’** * 'oarciimj a jj _ with moTTS foinjf North and SoiWj t . .. 0 . „ The mail im-iVs from Mclntoah. So. .3, A. 4 0 K [i , every Tueamv and 1* mlaj ev. imufKitt 8o elk Mai'ia elute every lVeduetdiiy anti Mturuay at Bjv o'clock. Rsligious. i The e aiv relision* tervicer at the! feUhor'id E Church • very Sakhath i-wninst at 3 atrt 8 o'clock— Rev. R. M. Lockwood. Pavtor. I Reliojous arrvicea at Ur EpircnpuHChitch every Sunday nioiliicy at 11 u cluck. Ruv.jl. F. Cllute 1 RclY-imi- services eVfery Sahhath at Aik M.. 3-P M and 7 P M.. at the cu ored llapliat(Jiiu;it.h- Rev it. Millie Pa-tor. „,, . , „ , Heli noil- aervicer every Sabbath at 1. \ M., and 3 P. >f. at the HulbudUt Cintrch tculor-ydl—KcV. rs Brown, Paetor. Masonic. Live Oak No 137 meets flr-t W Unerdav in eacit month at their ujall near tile Manilla Roust. E P. Champuey, W. M. A. E Carr, 84ltarj. V lIAT THEN. Att.er the Christian's tears, v After his ILIitB and fears, Aftor his tv. ary cross, "All things b: low but loss”— \V,.at then ? 1 O t. then, a holy calm, Resting on lesus arm; Ob, then, a deepi love For the pure huuii above. After this hoi. cahi, Tnis rest ou Jei-ui' arm. After thUdeepentS love For the pure hointtibove— Whij then ? Oh, then, hard wi% >- iiiimortal souls to 'win; j Then Jesus’ preseuce near, Death’s darkest hour to cheer. And vvhcu the work Is done, When the last soul is won. When Jesus’ love er Have cheered rf)ej* fig hour— W Baisic n ? Oh. then, the crow a is giver/-! Ob. then, the rest in lfcaven ! The endless life in eud'ess day. While sin and death have passed away. After the joys of *irtb, After*its songs olmirth, Aueri'btoars of light, After Tts dreams ti bright— Wit* then ? Only an empty * . Ctoyst- weSf v'Vrant, " Only a conscious Anari, m Only au aching heart. ” . After this empty name, After this weary frame. After tta.s conscious smart. After this aching heart— What then ? Only a sad farewell To a world loved too well, Onlv a silent bed With the forgotten dead. After this sad farewell To a world loved too well. After this silent bed W ith the forgotten dead— W hat then f On, then, the judgment threne ! Oh, then, the last hope gone 1 Then, all the woes that dwell In an eternal Hell. t . * ggi, A npgro man in Atlanta, who was asleep on the Air-Lineßailroa<3 ii mi v 1 jJlnf m. SCARED OUT OF A WIFE A LAUGHABLE STORY. Tbe narative which I an? about to wu-ite was told to me one bleak, cold night, in a country parlor. It was one of those nights in midwinter, when the wind swept over the land, making everything tingle with its trusty breath, that I was se ted be fore a blazing fiie, hj noun del by a jolly half dozen boys and tin old bach elor. A. Peter Green, about folly and eight years old. It was just the night without t.., make Those wntiin oiijny a good story, so each of us had to tell his favorite story, to save Mr. Green, and as he was*a jolly story teller, we were some what surprised to hear him say, “I have no story that would interest you,’’ so we had to find other enter tainments for a while, when one of the boys told m to ask him how it hap pened that he never got married. So I did. ‘•Well, gentlemen,” he began, “it does not seem right for me-to tel) how that happened, but as it is about my self, I don’t care much. You see wl.en 1 was young ue had to walk as high as five miles to church and singing school which was our chief ei j<>ymeiit. But this don't have anything to do with my not getting a wife, but 1 just wanted to show yon that we had some trouble them clays in getting our sport. John Smith and I were like broth ers, or like Mary and her lam.’ Whore one went the other was sure to go. So w'e went, io see two sisters, and as we were not the best boys im aginable, the old gen'letiieu took filu- brage and would not allow us to come ltoil.se, so wo would take the tilt t 'lane, and there we would liJve to take the tiual kiss. We soon pot tired of this sort of fun, and I told John, on our way to singing school one night, that I was going to take Sadie home, and that 1 ! wa going into the house, too. lie said the old man would min me | if 1 did. 1t dd him I '.vipt dt: ? to risk if that would. elitl of the lane I tol i the gir.s avu'l nn };oeed going ali I tue Way. Tln-y looked at each other in a way I 1 didn’t like too well, said tiny J (tile old tolks) vtoiild be m bed, so \ they didn't care ii’ we did. Tney were a little more surprised when I told them we thought of going in a little while, but till was quiet when we got to itie bouse, us We had no trouble in getting inio the ; kitchen. Then and there we Lad our first I court anti I tin de up my mind to ask | Sadie to bo my wife tlio next time 1 i came! It. was now past the turn of the night and as we hi 1 four miles to j Walk, I told Joint we bad bet tc r be’ going. So we stepped out on the j porch, but just as we did so the sky ! was lit up by lightning, and one tre mendous tnmiller peal rolled along the mountain sides. Its echo had not died out in the far off vales tuU : f> ] the rain began to pmr from gar nered fullness of the clputds. We j waited for it to step 'Until we were] sleepy, when girls said we could j go to bed/ti be little room at tiie j slurs which led out ol j get up early ie could be borne before the old foikij were astir. So after bidding the gjrls a sweet good night, and hugging there a little, and wisb ■uh them pJeasam-tlreams, and prom ising tlieiu to coma back on the next Sunday night, we It dried to bed. \V r e didn’t, have fir to go, as tin hed stood hear the litud of the stairs. John was Boon ii lied, but I always wss a Title slow and full of curiosity, I was looking arcund the little room. S "x. ' AT VAfif*]f Uioughtfl would sit down on a chest whiekhvas spread over with a nice white fioth, while I drew off my boots. So do>vn I sat, when stars of the east! I yeut plump into a big custard pie | I thought John twonld die laugh ing, lor he sui ! I Smashed that ens tard all to thunder tud the plate righ* in two. Yon seel we had to be awful quiet, so the old tnan would not hear. I wns nfw ready to get in bed, so I put the light out and p eked up my boots -Shaking to put them in a more c j lace, when clown one of my legs went thiough a pipe-hole, which ted .been covered by paper, to my Lip. • ' , Now one part of ine was up stairs while tisLlPQ£feSt P af ) me was DARIEN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 25, 1874. As my leg was very long, it reached a shelf which was occupied by dishes, pans, coffee pots, etc., and turning it over with a tremendous crash. The girls had not retired, and we could hear them laugh fit to split their sides, .1 felt awful ashamed and was scared until my heart was in my throat, for I expected the old man every moment. I extricated my leg from the con founded hole just in time, for the old lady looked into the kitchen from the room door and asked what all that noise was about. The gills put her off-ms best they could and I went to bed, while John was strangling himself under ihe cov er to keep fiom laughing aloud. Wo soon went off into the land of dreams with the hope of waking ear ly. I wish I could tell you my dreams, but it would take me 100 long. One moment I would fancy myself bv tin sills of my Sadie, sipping nectar from her heaven-bedewed lips, amt the next I would be flyng from the old man, w hile he would be flourishing his cane above niv head. This cam • (a an end ,by Jon giving me a kick. On waking up and looking around I saw John’s eyes as big a* niv fist, while the sun was beaming in at the window. Wnat to do we couldn't t< 11, fm. we he rd the old man having family prayer in the kitchen. John looked out of the window and | said we could get down over ®t 1 1 1- porch. ‘Get out and dress as s<in as pos sible,’ said ho. So in my hurry tny foot got fast ened in the bed clot-es, and out I tumbled, head foremost, turned over, and down the steps until I struck the dour, w hich was fastened by a wooden button, and ii gave way, out I rolico in front of ihe old man. He threw up his hands and cried : “Lord suVe us !’ for lie thought it was the devil. The old holy screamed until von could hu e heard her a mile. I* was s6/ scared and bewildered dial I could no.t get up'at oi.ee. J i was v—- Wrd/ on, cifiy tiling hut a -well, one {.m ’meiit. When I heard the girls mickerin it made me mad, and I jumped up i imd rusliod out of the door, leaving ] du- greater part of my only gaiment on the oitt door latch. jA Off I started foi and when half way through the yfrd the dogs set up <1 howl and went for me. When I got into the Imrn yard I had to run through a flock cf sheep, and among them was mi old mm who bucked oil a 1 tt.e and starred for me. With one bound I escaped the blow, sprang into the bam, an 1 began to climb up the log inta the mow, when an tld mother here pounced upon my legs, pecking them until they bled. I threw myself upon the hay, and after John had slid town the porch into a hogshead of uin wa cr. In came to me with one of my Loots, my coat and one of t e kegs of my pan if.. He found me cpitfpl'eb y prostrated. Tart of my sbrt't, my h it, one L g of my panjv,, my vest, stockings, neik.it and one boot. Were lift Inland. I vowed t en and tlisie that I would never go to se another giT, and 111 dm before I will. CHILDREN. There are many kinds of children in this beautiful land of ours. Some think of nothing else but dress and show and others chief de light is to see h ! ’ seen. They are unhappy wandi-Vers^seek ing pleasures from home, forgetting almost that they have kind .patents and little brothers and sisters who possibly need their presence and al ien'ion. There is however, another olass of children differing from these unhappy roving ones, and they are iho.-e wLo love and honor their pa rents and love to stay at home ..ml be useful and pleasant, and try to be a blessing to the dear ones. Someiof them is a moth consuming everything aaound them, and while others are sunbeams inspiring light and glad ness around the fireside. Little read er, which of this class do you belong to? Honor bright, are you obedient to jour parents'and kind t<> your brothers and sisters and try to do your duty at home, and make it indeed a “home sweet home”? We hope you are. “Gracious me!’ exclaimed a lady in the witness-box, “how should I know anything about anything 1 don’t know anything übout?” ®a?* are t nownem f, T TVTTTYTTTTTT |LiW Days of J. Wilkes Booth BY ONE WHO WAS WITH HIM. Tn the hp°',vrflul country near the '■% the Rappahannock, about 3 milafJo the south of that- grand old river is situated the house and farm wberej Willey Booth met his unhap py eu . Once a thriving and pros per land, where on every hand one saw , ie green fields teeming with phn uud card the happy song of the) r(1) as when, tl.eir day’s work V, they wo nded tbeir way to ,K 'Wppy homes; but Where now lie t down fences and the vvurn- 'ell too plainly that the ron X and of war iias swept over that mice *,,!ui iful Und, and left too many BQ, d t>r es of his presence. As a Inantiful evening in April, when *. lj?e Lorßemeu wa re seen com ma 'LjA the road that leads to Ed- (Mr. Garrett's house) 1 l;^ Willie Jett, Lieutenant -and Wilkes Booth, or as he was til -bdneed, Mr. Boyd. Mr. Jett asked. j, r y father to let Mr. Boyd re mnin Aj, j. few days, as he was wo T l, 'jri and could not travel. My tathe se 11l ei 1, and Messrs. Jett and R n h|v : rods off iu the diredtiou of Gaia tltd Court Husi. Mi'loyd then said lie was very ,u,lc H-|ligne i, aud would lie down on the ?raHS j n t j ic yard. He seemed very and when asked ii iiis wound p:,ineHJ Juif snicl yes, tiiat riding jarr e*l If, (Jle ate very little suppt r and "o°u ijdred. We slept in the same room t tu |,i,n that night and not iced tl.at hjjjjnd a pair of Colt’s revolvers ■“V 1 ’bftry bniulsome dirk, which he 8 "* ' "f, llui L'if of a friend. ’lose quite early t e. next mom* mg uni seemed to be in very good spirits.! a* it was quits warm he staged , u t | H) p t)l -eh or in the yard 'lie tin t( IU t ßiy wi;h tbe children .da' lUi irulllJ d him.He seemed to be vmy hulj c) f children, aud took some pams •t'/.howiug them a pocket com pass a ■ Ull o j Jf .ra glass that lie had w '' h'm. Jest before dinner he and my pro[iosed to prac- tu e '‘djtng with a pistol. We were; ids spleudi 1 I ■*.i To a miKHT ,1.. L^~Jm size of f hiie a' ev. ry sf.o'T The marks of the balls are there now in an ld cedalmost in front of the house. In the siteruoou Hairol I came and Limy proposed to go a.vav the next morning! All !he did not think that ibe imxi sun would rise upon hi-j lift less body. Tiny ipent tiie evening in talking and seeded to be quire merry. H.tr rolrl to'd a great many jokes, and kept all Aa g iod humor. That ■'iglit they propo e l lo sleep in the barn, and my ilrotlmrs who had just return ed from tiie army, shot in an adjourn ing one, n r fear of losing the r horses, as them) had been several stolen in the neiglH.'ovhoo I. The ofliei part lots been of.en (old, md is f.imiluir to all. How the sol l iers can|Pi and how he was shot, and .he barrjfcuiTied; hmv in desperation iv beggjrd |l.e oflicer to withdraw his men tidy yards, and ho would come out aiulilight them all; how lie refuse-. ;o snrn ipler, and b .Idly stood with the llauitjs creeping closer and closer i until at List a sharp report and he lay , quivering in the agonies of death on 1 'he floor. One of the last remarks was: Captaih, it is very hard that this man’s property should bodes- j troyed wjieii lie knows nothing of me. He w,J cm ried lo the house and laid upi.q tiie floor of the porch. A man wan sdnt for the do tor who soon came, lm* <|o\tld do nothing, as the] fatal bulfjn had done tiie work. While the dnfltejr was kneeling beside him 1 he iiskeduiein to show him his bauds, i When lie sa,wi!i3 nails tarn dark he 'hupped 11 einlaiid said, nsfj/.ws, use -113s-i. D° w sinkingA rapi dy. I Uiice afsLj he called to the captain | ah 1 wbis| fred faiutly, tell my mother j I died tir yiy conwtiy. I did what 1 I ; bought v-'.'*B t-es;. A gasp, a quiver, laid aj was over. A dark stain on | the fioorjaml a solitary charred post which stuuds where he fell, are all that rtuiiu to tell the tale. It h- been said by some that Booth was bgiijiyed by false friends, but when ve remember that there was uo te egrajif. within a humired miles of the end that lie was killed with in fortj-t-lgfit hours after crossing the Hiippalunock, any one can perceive the folly of such an assertion. '®S3u ‘'four money or your books!” remarks i highwayman at the Custom Ho Ise. j , at Texas papers state a fact wpich may no: be ■ enerally known 1 10 owners o! land held or owned by ; uD\ person, that is not surveyed and pvtentiril by ihe first of January. 1875, reverts back to t.lie State of Texas. There* is no relief to be had by thi| or courts, as it is a cons® WHY TWEED IS IN PRISON AND RICHARDSON OUT ? WbetuWilliani M. Tweed was tried and convicted of neglect of official du ty, it was held that the of duties devolving upon iyO|JPI officer could afford no excuse 'Br Ins neglect of nny of them. i If th s was good law for Tweed, I why is it uot good law for Richard-J son ? Yet Richarclsou sweats that he knows very little, and indeed nothing of most of the papers which he signed, and that he knew scarcely,j anything w hatever of the, contracts which put hundreds of! thousands of dollars into the pockets j of the contractors. lie goes on very innocently to assure the commit ee before whom lie is testifying that he knows oi no better way to conduct the busine s of the Treasury Department, We c?ui tell higj of one improvement that might he niade : turn out uu in compe ent man like him and put in a man of intelligence, sense, aud hon esty. It is very pi.tin that if Mr. Richard son were on trial iu New York for neglect of duty, and if the same law were to be applied to him which was administered m the Tweed case, noth ing more than his own confession would be required to consign him to th j penitentiary. Y. Y. Sun. The Romance of a Restaurant. A Chicago correspondent of tUe; Troy Times says : A bit of romance recently caino to! my notice which has not before ap- j pealed in print. Some time in De cember last, a girl about seventeen; years of age, w-i^>_at t hat time was j serving as table wall r in a large di-j uiug restaui.int, was uriested for ; stealing a package of money from a ] gentleman's overcoat, which was bang ing in the room while lie was eating his dinner. At tue preliminary ex amination a i>hi ty *w re to bAviug seen her talo- tlm.e.., t down and hang it up quickly rgatu; that she soou lef (wits 1./Id for t i tested that she < merely ,J,ved the ' coat to avoid its geiting /oiled; in Avam, with tearful eyes, H.* offered to be searched. Tiie eircumstaiiccs suspicious, ami the oflLcis iuexor-j able. In the meantime t.ho gentleman who had lost the money became in i terested in her history, found sLe was jau orphan girl, aud though compara j lively friendless, bearing nn excellent j character. Further than tins, he as ] ceitained she was of Jtnglish pareut ' age, that her name was the same as his own, and to make the story short, j from evidence wuieh he could notdis : believe, that she was the daughter of | hie u u brother, w hom he supposed ' to have died childless in Australia several years ago. Of course he de j dined prosecuting her, aud, as lie is •wealthy and without mai kin, he at once arranged to her home with j him on his return from the West, 1 whituer lie was tlion en route. The other day lie, with his uewlv adouted child, so strangely brought fo him, started for New York, whence they will soon sail for .England. The Washing to J correspon dent of the Baltimore Sun says the personal influence of the President aud the efforts of Gen. Gordon car ried (Jen. McLaws through, and he was confirmed with ery little delay. I Gen. McLaws is not the first Confed erate General whose appointment lo office bus been continued by the Sen ate, but he is the first me who has been wo fortnnafe without {raving pre viously sealed his aileplanee to the dominant party. The world moves. The will of the late Muir. Le uoir Joussei m a.ssijris a sum of ten milli ms of francs $2.000,000)*for the creation of a vast Hospital forlthe poor in the su nirbs of Puns. The only condition appended to the gift jis that the establishment shall bear the name of her husband. Her mag nificent art collection which is valued at nearly a Million of franes ($200,- 000,) she leaves to the State. Au exchange says that a Mich igan man dreamed reeent'y that his aunt was dead. The dream proved true. He tried the same dream on j his mother-in-law, but it didn't work. It is computed that 11.364 old hoop skirts are annually thrown mb- j the lake at Cleveland. ) havi g special re t,r v liA>to $2.50 AIYEAR. Truth in Parentheses. I really take It vary kl*4, 1 hit visit, Mrs. Bklutftar I 7 have not seen you each as if* — Tbe wretch has anse to a Inner 1) ‘Your daughters, too, what lovea of girls— What hoaria for painters' easel* I [tome hare and klaa the Infant, deer*— Aud give It p'rk&pi the meaalaa 1) Your charming boys I aea are home from Reverend Mr. Raise!*; Teas vary kiud to bring them both-. jWhat boots for my new Brntesia L> • W bat I little Clam luft at boats 1 f-’eil uow, I call that Shabby: 1 should_baw loved to klaa her <•— (A flabby, dabby, tabby U ‘Und Mr. A, I hop* ha'a well, ib I though be livi-s so handy |e never now 4ropa l to fl be better lor our bloody l) JComc, take asi at—l )on( to hear bout Matilda'a marriage; You're come, of coarsa. to bead the day 1— (Thank Heaven. I hear the carriages ■ What I moat yon go f next tint* I hop. Y< u'U give me longer KMnri; Nay—l shall eeu yoa down the stairs— (With most uncommon pleasure It '•Good-bys! Osod byet reKjtnaber si). Next time yoa take your dimers ! (Now, David, miud I'm not at homo In futare to Skimmers 1“ \ . {$T The Wilmington papers an nounce the death of ex-Oorernur * Henry T. Clark, al his residence in Tiuboro, on the 15th instant. A* Senator from the county of Edge combe, as speukur of the Seuate ut North Carolina, when it r wti a place of tLe highest honor, and m Gover nor of North Carolina in the beigtn ning of t-httae days that trieij men's soul's he ever catne up to tkm full measure of his duty. Higher wulogj than this can uo man have. Nw? fc Carolina had cause to b proud of her 1 son. Way The observaucejof the 27th al ' April will be very general throughout j the State this year. Itay The number of chartered Ma sonic Lodges in Georgia, is two died and eighty, with a in eat berth jMj War Philadelphia has another million 'dollar* to the Inter- * national Centennial Celebratiou. She is evidently in earnest. Day I> isn't economical to kill a i dog by ehmikiug him on. bntter, bnl ■ the right kind of article thesmlrll will ’ beenougK and you 4 can save tbs but j ter for the boarders. j ISrTwo deacons were onoe diapu- ! ting about a proposed new grave yard I when one said: “I’ll never be bur ied in that ground as long aa if re." “What an obstinate man !'* said the other. “If iny life is spared, I will.” Danbury man, who received a telegram from Buffalo, requesting him to come thither to attend his mother-in-law’s funeral, sternly, de clined, saying that be never attended celebrations during Lent. SayOu a woman with red hair who wrote poetry —Unfortunate woman f how sad is your lot 1 Your ringlets are red, but your poems are not. B&>Here is a bit of conversation lately overheard in a street in Provi dence between a young lady and gen tlemen : “Charley, did you ever bear' it s lid tbat if a person fouud a fourtt leavijd clover and put it in their thb Srst gentlemen or lady the walked with would be their or wife?” “No—never heard*it b Hon* ’ “Well I found one aud pjMM in inv shoe this morning, and jyff ** tb#first one I have walked with. ?- wonder if it is true. ? ’ gST A New Orleans, La. merchant, moved by the pitiful tale of a woman who said her husband lay dead at home, that, she hadn’t the means of burying him, charitably gave her $1 to get the poor man under ground. Before giving the money, howevar, ha went to take a look at the dead mau. Sure enough, it was a swollen, dia clored corpse, that should have been hurried days ago, and in his hurry to leave the noisome tenement, be forgot - bis umbrella. So he reluctantly turned to claim it. He hurried quick ly but softly up stairs tiptoed to the door, lifted the latch, and saw the • corpse sitting up in the coffin ing his sl4 over very deliberately. fear A r „ - v*' ; "V/ ” t r',,''! u