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Darien Timber Gazette.
VOL. 5.--NO. 52.
Darien Timber Gazette,
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORXING,
,4T I>JtRIEJ%\ GEORGIA,
CORNER BROAD AND.NOBTHATAY STREETS.
RICHARD W. G-RUBB,
Editor and Proprietor.
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City Directory.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
County Commissioners —James Walker, Chairman;
Adam Strain, Isaac M. Aiken, J. A. Atwood, T. H.
Gignilliat; James E. Holmes, Joseph Hilton.
Clerk Board of County Commissioners— Spalding
Kenan.
Clerk Superior Court —L. B. Davis.
Ordinary —C. H. Hopkins, Sr.
Sheriff —T. Butler Blount.
Heceiver Tax Returns—W. McW. Yoruqf.
Tax Collector —O. C. Hopkins.
County Treaxurer —M. C. O'Neil.
Cmsnty Surveyor— W. R. Popped.
Coroner— Philip Maxwell.
The. Commissioners hold monthly meetings on
the first Wednesday in each month.
CITY OFFICERS.
Hr-OJJlcio Mayor— James Walker.
Ex-Officio Abierm>n —Joseph Hilton, J. A. Atwood,
Adam Strain. J. E. Holmes, Thomas H. Gignilliat,
Isaac M. Aiken.
UTANDISO COJIMmXBS.
Committee on Finance— Messrs. Strain. Atwood
and Hilton.
Committee on Accounts—Messrs. Holmes, Glgull
11st and Aiken.
Committee on Harbor— Messrs. Hilton. Aiken
and Strain.
Committee on Health end Cemetery—Messrs. Glguil
liat, Atwood and Holmes.
Committee cm Paupers— Messrs. Atwood, Holmes
aud Gignilliat.
Committee on Jail— Messrs. Aiken, Hilton aud
Atwood.
Committee, on Stree.lt and Janet —Messrs. Aiken,
Strain and Holmes.
Committee on County Roods—Messrs. Atwood,
Gignilliat and Hilton.
Committee on lhiblic Buildings— Messrs. Strain,
Gignilliat. and Aiken.
Committee, on li/licc— Messrs. Holmes, Hilton and
Strain.
Committee on Ordinancet— Messrs. Aiken, Strain
and Atwood.
Clerk and Treasurer— Spalding Kenan.
City Marshal —Charles H. Hopkins, Jr.
Dejmty Marshal— Alonzo Guyton.
Harbor Matter —James Abeol.
J\irt Physician—Dr. James Holmes.
Inspector General of Timber —Gcorgo W. FaricS.
Port Wardens— lsaac M. Aiken, John H. Burrell,
Aud James G. Young.
Jailer —Charles H. Hopkins, Jr.
Board Pilot Commissioners— Charles S. Lang don,
Chairman, It. K. Walker, W. C. Clark, Arthur Bai
ley. Dr. R. B. Harris, James Lachlison and ltobt.
Mitchell. Wm. L. Gignilliat, Socrctary.
MASONIC.
Live Oak Lodge, No. 137. moots first Wednesday
night in each month at their hall near the. Magno
lia Houso; H. S. Ravenel, Worshipful Master; R.
W. Grubb, Secretary
UNITED STATES OFFICERS.
Collector of Customs. Brunswick District —John T.
Collins. Headquarters at Brunswick.
Drputy Collector of Customs for Port of Darien —
Charles 11. Townsend.
Boarding Master —Edwin C. Davis.
Postmaster— D. Webster Davis.
Deputy Marshal —Joseph B. Bond.
SUPERIOR COURT—EASTERN CIRCUIT.
Hon. Wm. B. Fleming, Judge.
Major A. B. Smith. Solicitor General.
Bulloch County—Thursday before first Mondays
In April and October.
Effingham County—First Mondays in April and
October.
Bryan County—Thursdays after 'first Mondays
In April and October.
Chatham County—Second Mondays in February,
May and October.
Mclntosh County—Tuesdays after last Mondays tn
April and October.
Liberty County—Tuosday aftor second Mondays
In May aud October.
UNITED STATES MAILS.
The mails arrive from Sterling, No. 1, Macon &
Brunswick Railroad, every morning (Sunday ex
cepted) at 10 o’clock a. m., departing every after
noon at 3p. m. Mail closes at, 2% p. m.
Side mail for No. 3, Atlantic k Gulf Railroad,
departs o'clock every Tuesday morntng and
arrives at 8 p. m. every Monday, touching at
Riceboro and South Newport both ways.
RELIGIOUS.
Religious services at the Methodist Church
cverv Sunday morning at 11 oclock, aud evening
at 8 o’clock. School at the Ridge every Sunday
Afternoon at 3 o’clock. Rev. H. E. Harman, pas
tor.
Religious services every Sabbath at 11 a. m. and
3 p. m. at the Methodist Church, colored, Rev.
L, 11. Smith, pastor.
New Bakery
—AND—
CONFECTIONERY.
ALSO, A FINE STOCK OF
Dry Goods and Groceries,
(At M. Cullinan’s old stand.)
FRESH PIES, BREAD AND CAKES EVERY DAY.
Party and Wodding Cake made to order.
Pure, delicious ice-cold Soda Water on draught.
Jtlso,
A Fine Stock of Candies
Of our own manufacture constantly on hand.
Parties winhing anything in our line are respect
fully invited to give u a call.
Isadore Collat.
Btaj-17-ly Proprietor.
Professional Cards.
-yyalter a. way,
Attorney-at-Eaw and Heal
Estate Agent,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Will practice in the Superior Courts of tho
Brunswick and Eastern Circuits. Also, in the
Federal Courts in cases of Bankruptcy, etc. Par
ticular attention given to the collection of claims
and the examination of land titles. april‘2s
Yy ROBERT GIGNILLIAT,
Attorney-at-Law,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to all legal business in
the Eastern aud Brunswick Circuits, and in tho
United States Courts at Savannah, Georgia.
apriUfi-ly
T E. B. DeLORME,
-1 -i* ,
Attorney &. Counselor-at-Eaw,
and Notary Public.
DARIEN, GEORGLV.
Office on Broad street, near Timber Exchange.
July 2
JQR. SPALDING KENAN,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Offers hi* professional services to the citizens of
Darien and vicinity. He can be found at all hours
day and night, at his office on Screven street, next
door to Mr. Wilcox’s dwelling house. augH-ly
R. B. HARRIS
Offers his professional services to the citizens of
Darien and surrounding country. All calls prompt
ly attended, both medical and surgical. Office
under the Masonic Hall, in old Custom House
building.
J J. ABRAMS.
Attorney-at-LaWj
Commercial Building,
jnnefi-tf SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
HENRY 1(. TOMPKINS. | 11. A. DENMARK.
rpOMI'KINS & DENMARK,
Attorneys-at-Law,
No. 105 Bay Street, SAVANNAH, GA
Practice in the United Rtatcfl CourtH, and in the
Superior Courts of the Eastern Circuit. jef>-tf
Miscellaneous.
JLmOOZS. out.
IIOYT’S COLOGNE, COUNINO’S COLOGNE,
LUBIN’S EXTRACTS, POMADES.
HAIR OIL, TOILET POYVDER,
LILLY’ WHITE, PUFF BOXES,
ROUGE, • TOILET SETS,
And in fact, a fall assortment of perfumery and
Fancy Toilet Articles. Soaps—toilet, laundry and
medicated. Give ns a call.
W. H. COTTER & CO..
feb2'2-tf Druggists anil Apothecaries.
BANKRUPT STOCK
OF ONE OF THE LARGEST
New York Wholesale
Going' louses!
—AT—
-140 CONGRESS and 130 Sx. JULIAN STS.
Savannah, Ga.
Fine Ready Made Clothing
—AND—
GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS
MUST BE SOLD
Regardless of Cost!
•
The greatest chance that ever was offered. No
more high prices. Send your orders. Satisfaction
guaranteed every time. An immense stock of
Clothing, enough to supply all, and at prices at
least one thing less thau any other store.
This is no Humbug,
as thousands who have bought can testify. Ad
dress or caU at the
M’ZES'W youk:
Bankrupt Clothing House,
140 Congress and 139 St. Julian Streets,
janJl SAVANNAH, GA.
PREPARED AND SOLD ONLY BY
W. H. COTTER & CO.
W. H. COTTER & CO’S.
Magnetic Liniment
Is an invaluable remedy in all cases of Rheuma
tism. Neuralgia, Chronic Pains, etc. It is also an
excellent aj>plication to all bruises.
W. H. COTTER & CO’S.
Cholera Mixture
Is a sure and speedy cure for all Bowel Affections
and Summer Complaints incidental to our climate.
These preparations are guaranteed to give imme
diate relief, and should ho kept in every family.
—FOR THE LADIES—
W. H. COTTER & CO’S.
Sewing Machine Oil
The Best Oil made for all fine machinery. apl9-tf
Garden Seed.
VVTE HAVE ON HAND A BUPPLY’ OF FRESH
iV Garden Seed, just received, consisting in
part of
BEETS. CABBAGE.
CARROTS, CUCUMBERS,
CELERY', EGGPLANT.
LETTUCE, OKRA.
ENGLISH PEAS.
BEANS, TOMATOES,
SQUASH, OY’STEIt PLANT,
EARLY COHN, PEPPER. Etc.
W. 11. COTTER A CO.,
Druggists and Apothecaries.
DARIEN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 20, 1879.
Steamboats.
FOR SAVANNAH AND
FLORIDA.
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA INLAND
STEAMBOAT COMPANY.
THE STEAMER
DAVID CLARK,
Captain John Fitzgerald,
Will leave Savannah every
MONDAY AND THURSDAY
AT 4 o’clock P. M., FOB
ST. CATHERINE’S,
DOBOY, DARIEN,
ST. SIMON’S, BRUNSWICK,
ST. MARYS, FEItNANDINA,
and all landings on Satilla River on
THURSDAY’S TRIPS.
Freight and Passengers
taken at Lowest Rates.
J. S. LAWRENCE,
GENERAL MANAGER
THOMAS WHITE,
nop 27. General Agent at Daricp.
Savannah and Melonville
STEAMBOAT LINE.
INLAND ALIThE WAY.
THE STEAMERS
ROSA AND CENTENNIAL
For St. Catherine’s, Doboy, Union Island, Darien,
St. Simon’s, Brunswick, Satilla River aud St.
Marys, Ga., Fernaudina, Jacksonville, I’alatka
and all points on St. Johns River, l'la.
STEAMER ROSA,
Captain P, 11. WARD,
Will leave wharf foot of Drayton street, every
TUESDAY at 4 o’clock p. m.. for Jacksonville,
Fla., touching at all the above points, except Sa
tilla River.
W. jF. BARRY, Agent.
STEAMER CENTENNIAL,
Captain WM. C. ULMO,
Will leave wharf foot of Drayton street, every
THURSDAY, at 4 o’clock p. m., for Satilla River,
touching at Darien, Brunswick, aud all interme
diate landings.
All contracts of the Steamer Rosa on tho Satilla
River will be sorved by the Centennial.
J. P. CHASE, Agent.
Both steamers connect ft Brunswick with
Macon,and Brunswick and Brunswick aud Albany
Railroads.
Through rates of freight issued by steamers
Rosa and Centennial for points on Altamaha, Oe
mulgeo and Oconee rivers, will be protected by
Steamer Halcyon, C. M. QUARTERMAN,
Agent Steamer Halcyon, Darien, Ga.
Trough low rates of freight and passage and
bills of lading given to all points.
Freights for Altamaha, Ocmulgee and Oconee
Rivers must be prepaid.
Freight received daily. Sundays excepted.
J. H. SMITH, Manager.
O. S. Bksson, General Business Agent. I’eblO
REGULAR LINE
On the Altamaha, Ocmulgee
and Oconee ltivers,
THE NEW AND LIGHT DRAFT STEAMER
37* O 3C. ,
Drawing twenty’ inches only when
laden, will ply regularly ou the waters of the
■Altamaha, Ocmulgee and Oconoe rivers, during
both summer and winter, connecting with A. k G.
R. U. at Doctortown, and M. & B. R. R. at Lumber
City Bridge, and with Savannah by steamer David
Clark, Captain Tom White, at Darien. Freights
are kindly solicited. Strict attention phall be paid
to all freight and business consigned to her. Live
and let bve, shall be her motto. With permission,
respectfully referring all parties to R. C. Bowin,
House Creek, Wilcox county. Smith Turner, Ab
berville, Wilcox county. T. F. Fnsscl. Wilcox Lake,
Telfair county, Stephen Middleton, Appling
county, steamboat agents at Darien, and railroad
agents at Doctortown and Lumber City, and Robt.
Mcßride, Montgomery county.
der'2o-iim JENKINS 8. HOLMES, Master.
announcement!
VVTE FEEL GRATEFUL TO OUR MANY
V V friends and customers for their lil>eral pat
ronage during the pil'd year, and we have entered
anew year wall the determination to deserve a
larger share of their trade. We do not keep cheap
drugs, but sell a GOOD AND PURE ARTICLE OF
MEDICINE as low as it can be sold. Remember
that wo have constantly in stock a full assortment
of
PURE MEDICINES,
PAINTS, OILS,
VARNISHES,
PATENT MEDICINES of all kinds,
HAIR DYES,
HAIR OILS,
HAIR BRUSHES,
TOOTH BRUSHF.S,
And the best article of No. 1 KEROSENE OIL at
lowest prices.
Prescriptions carefully compounded night or
day.
W. H. COTTER k CO.,
fehW-tf Druggists and Apothecaries.
notice.
Wheelwright and Rlacksmith
I AM NOW PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDS
of Wheelwright and Blacksmith work at short
notice.
BUGGIES, WAGONS AND SIGNS
TAINTED.
Gorham’s Patent Attachment for shafts (a great
saving of time and money to aU who use them)
are kept onjhand.
All kinds of work done in first-class style. All
I ask of the people of Darien and Mclntosh
Countv is a trial. All work warranted.
ROBERT MITCHELL,
jeC-tf Second street, Darien, Ga.
Ordinary’s Citation.
EORGIA, McINTOSH COUNTY—Whereas, the
X estate of Dr. Samuel W. Wilson, being un
represented, no annual returns having been made
for several years according to law. These, are
therefore to cite all and singular the kindred and
ail parties concerned to be and appear at my office
within the time prescribed by law, and file their
objections, if any they have, why the law should
not be enforced and other exoentors appointed.
Given under my hand and official signature
this 2d dnv of Jun", 1579.
CHARLES H. HOPKINS,
|uae6-*f Ordinary. Mcl. C.
Question of Modesty.
It Is strange how different civilization
looks upon the same matter. In Japan, for
instance, men, women an Children bathe
freely together without a vestige of cloth
ing, and with no thought or suggestion of
indecency. There is, in the United States,
even a wide difference in the views which
women of different sections entertain in
respect to what constitutes au insult from
a man. It is undeniable that at the North
a degree of contact and familiarity is tol
eratod without a thought of impropriety,
which in the South is resented as an im
pertinence and insolence. The recent
tragedy at Richmond, Va., in which Charles
C. Curtis was shot dead by John Poindex
ter, is a case in point. Tho murdered man
had complimented Miss Isabella Cottrell,
Poindexter’s sweetheart, on her pretty
foot, and had, as the young lady declared,
squeezed her arm rather too warmly in
helping her into the carriage. AVitli this
as a provocation, Poindexter cowhidcd
Curtis and then shot him dead, and the
jury could not agree that Poindexter had
committed a crime in taking Curtis’ life.
A New York girl the other day invited
her aunt from Savannah, who was visiting
her, to enter a Broadway shoe-store with
her. Araminta, the niece, much to her
aged relative’s horror, projected her pretty
foot and ankle across the clerk’s knee, had
her old boots removed and submitted in
terestedly, holding her dress conveniently
out of the way, while the clerk began en
casing the fair one’s nether extremities in
anew and extra long pair of fifteen-dollar
“high buttoners.” The Savannah aunt
was shocked beyond expression at her
neice’s strange immodesty in exposing her
stockined feet to male gaze, and when
the shoe clerk, beginning at the lower
buttons, gradually increased in his up
ward work, Georgia modesty and propriety
could no longer endure the shocking
spectacle, and down ciimo tho sun um
brella on the shoe clerk’s head with a
whack, and her lingers tingling with
shame made busy with his hair. It was
to no purpose that Araminta explained that
such occurrences were the “regular thing”
in New York. That is undoubtedly the
truth, and the reporter who has been in
terviewing New York belles, apropos of
the bloody tragedy at Richmond, doub
less correctly reports the views which pre
vail among the women in Gotham.
At the South, however, there is no im
mediate prospect of the adoption of the
views or tho degree of freedom from men
which is tolerated in New York and else
where in the North. Nor can it be denied
that the looseness which many shoo-clerks,
hack-drivers, car-conductors, policemen
and others exhibit at the North in hand
ling women is, from the Southern stand
point, very shocking. They find a breast
pin out of plumb, or a hairpin sticking a
sixteenth of an inch further out than it
should, or a lock of hair astray, or a watch
slipping out of a belt, or a gather of a
dress have started the stitching, orartower
in the hat droops a tritle, or the shawl-pin
dosen’t hang just so, and they insist on
fixing these matters, and keep fumbling
and pawing aud kicking away at a lady
until attention is drawn to the perform
ance and annoyance is the result. One
of these fellows will put his hand under
a lady’s elbow to lift her over a straw on
the walk or across a six-inch gutter, and
when going up a rise of too of three steps
will insist on putting his hand upon her
waist and partially lifting her up. If he
helps her into a carriage he wants to lift
her in, and in assisting her to alight he
makes her jump into his arms, where he
holds her as long as he dares. AVhile
riding with her he always has his hand on
the seat behind her, ready to seize her waist
every time there is a jolt big enough to
give him an excuse for doing so. In fact
he seems to be continually aching to paw
in one way or another every lady into
whose company ho is thrown. It may not
ho improper between people pretty well
acquainted with each other, but it doesn’t
look w<;ll, and ladies, while they don’t
like to appear to ho annoyed, still feel so,
and wish to be let alone. —Providence (It.
I.) Dispatch.
Suggestive Warning. —ln a tavern in
Calcutta there is a notice hung on the
halls, “Guests are requested not to beat
the waiters and servants.” This recalls
the supplication in a London inn, “Do
not kiss the servants on the stairs; it
makes them drop the dishes;” and the sol
emn admonition printed and stuck on
the doors of the only “hotel” in Blue Dog
Gulch, Arizonia, “Gentlemen are earn
estly requested to remove their boots be
fore retiring.”
X. has in vain essayed the theater,
novel-writting, journalism—fortunes re
main unkind.
“Still out of luck?” queries a friend,
on seeing him walking the boulevards on
his uppers.”
“Out of luck?—why, sir, if I were to
turn shoemaker everybody would instan
taneously be bom without legs—that's the
sort of luck I have."
An old farmer in England, hugely puz
zled by our meteorological reports and
transalantic prophecies concerning the
weather, is said to have delivered himself
of the following astounding sentiment:
“Well, sir, I did not mind the weather so
much when it was arranged and ordered
by Providence; but now that it has been
handed over to them interfering Yankees,
why, be hanged if I can stand it.”
It is hardly two months since Blackburn
said in the House of Eepresentives: “This
side of the chamber, which has demon
strated its power never means to yield or
surrender until this Congress shall have
died by limitation.” And now the caucus
Republicans have repudiated Blackburn,
and told him he did not speak for the
party.
The Replicans of Ohio are to havo the
assistance of old Zacli. Chandler in the
approaching campaign, and the old vet
eran has signified his readiness to take the
stump against the Democracy. The con
test in the Buckeye Stnto promises to be
unusually lively this fall. Both parties will
doubtless have their best men on the
ground.
There is a Ladies’ Economy Club in Phil
adelphia, which is composed of members
whose husbands get small salaries. To
make these salaries go as far as possible is
one of the objects of their organization.
Undressing Little Ned.
“AVhoro is Whisky Bill, who used to
drive that old white horse in front of a 25
cent expresswagon?” repeated tho man, in
tones of surprise.
“Yes.”
“Well, now, It’s a curious case,” he
slowly oontinuod. “AA’o all thought he’d
gone to the dogs for sure for ho was drink
ing a pint of whisky a day; hut a lew
months ago ho braced right up, stopped
drinking, and now I hear he’s in good
business and saving money. It beats all,
for the last time I saw him he seemed
half under ground.”
When you go homo at night and find
that all is well with your own flesh and
blood, do you go to sleop reasoning that
tho rest of the world must care for itself 7
Do you ever shut your eyes and call up
the hundreds of faces you have met during
the day, and wonder if tho paleness of
death will cover any of them before the
morrow ? AYlion you liavo onco been at
tracted to a face, even if it be a stranger’s,
do you let it drop from memory with your
dreams, or do you call it up again and
again as night comes down, and hope it
may lost) none of its brightness in the
whirling mists of time?
“So ‘Whisky Bill’ was hunted down.
An inquiry hero and there finally traced
him to a little brown cottage on a by-street.
Ho sat on the step in the twilight, a burly,
broard-shouldered man of fifty, and in
the house three or four children gathered
around the lamp to look at a picture-book.
“Yes, they used to call me ‘Whisky Bill’
down town.” ho replied, as he moved
along and made room; “but it is weeks
since I heard the name. No wonder they
think mo dead, for I’ve not set eyes on
the old crowd for months, and I don’t
want to for months to come.”
“They tell me you have quit drinking.
One could see that by your face.”
“I hope so. I haven’t touched a drop since
February. Before that I was half-drunk
day in and day out, and more' of a brute
than a man. 1 don’t mind saying that my
wife’s death sot mo to thinking, but I
didn’t stop my liquor. God forgive me,
but I was drunk when she died, half
drunk at tho grave, and I meant to go on
a regular spree that night. It was low
down, sir, but I was no better than a
brute those days,”
“And so you left your motherless child
ren at home and went out and got drunk?”
“No. I said I meant to, but I didn’t.
The poor things were crying all day, and
after coming home from the burial I
thought to get ’em tucked away in bed be
fore I went out. Drunk or sober, I never
struck one of ’em a blow, and they nevor
ran from me when I staggered home.
There’s four of’em in there, and tho young
est isn’t quite four years yet. I got the older
ones in bed all right, and then camo little
Ned. He had cried himself to sleep, and
he called for mother as soon as I woke
him. Until that night I had never had
that boy on my knee, to say nothing of
putting him to bed, and you can guess
these big fingers made slow work with the
hooks and buttons. Every minute he
kept saying mother don’t do that way,
and mother done this way, and the big
children were hiding their heads under
quilts to drown their sobs. AVhen I had
his clothes off and his night-gown on I
was ashamed and put down,and when the
oldest saw tears in my eyes and jumped
out of bed to put her arms arouud my
neck I dropped the name of ‘AA'hisky Bill’
right then and forever.”
“And little Ned?”
“Meltbe I’d have weakened but for him,”
roplied the man as he wiped his eyes.
“After I got tho child’s night-gown on,
what did he do but kneel right down be
side me and wait for me to say the Lord’s
Prayer for him! AVliy, sir, you might
have knocked me down with a feather!
There I was, mother and father to him,
and I eouklu’t say four words of that
prayer to save my life! He waited and
waited for*no to begin, as his mother al
ways had, and the big children were wait
ing, and then I took him in my arms and
kissed him and called Heaven to witness
that my life should change from that hour.
And so it did, sir, and I’ve been trying
bard to lead a sober, honest life. God
helping me, no one shall call mo ‘AA’hisky
Bill’ again.”
The four children, little Ned in his
night-gown, came out for a good-night
kiss, and the hoy cuddled in his father’s
anus a moment, and said:
“Good-night, pa good-night, every
body in tho world—good-night, mu, in
heaven—and don’t put out the light till
we get to sleep !”—M. Quad.
Contagion by Birds.— The Swiss papers
are much alarmed over the following facts:
Two brothers, merchants of Uhter, in the
Canton of Zurich, have a large collection
of various birds and monkeys, which were
sent in a cage from Buda-Pesth. Imme
diately after the arrival of the birds the
two brothers and the wife of one of them,
and a shop-girl became sick. A third
brother, who is a sergeon, understood the
cause of the illness and ordered all sus
picious birds to be killed—fifty or sixty in
number—the cages to be destroyed and a
strong sanitary cordon around the house
to be established. A tinker, who had done
some repairs to the cages, also became sick
and died in the hospital, as well as an inn
keeper and his wife, at whose inn the
birds stayed for some days. The number
of sick has already reached eight, and
their state is very bad. The illness is de
scribed as a black typhus.
She Forgot Something. —A lady in
Portland, Maine, called at a jewelry store,
and after making a purchase went home.
Two hours later a messenger called at her
house and informed her that she had left
something at the jeweler's. “Now, let me
see,” she mused, what can it be ! Here is
my pocket-book, and there on the sofa is
my fan, ami I have got my gold watch
here, and my bonnet—why, where is my
bonnet? oh, there it is on tho floor; it fell
off the table—and really I can't think
what I have forgotten. Why, to be sure !
How absent-minded lam ! 1 declare if I
haven’t forgotten my darling, precious
little babe!” And so she had—only that
and nothing more.—Norristown Herald.
The Charleston News and Courier at
tacks Wade Hampton for his willingness
to yield in the contest with the President,
and reminds him that, if tho surrender
policy had been acted on in the past, lie j
would never have been Governor of South j
Carolina or a Senator of the United States.
$2.50 A YEAR.
Happy Thoughts.
Honor never given alms but awards jus
tice.
Children are earthly idols that hold ms
from the stars.
A week mind sinks under prosperity as
well as under adversity.
AVhen our hatred is violent it sinks us
even beneath those we hate.
The foundation of domestic happiness
is faith in the virtuo of woman.
A warm, kind word is a wonderful inspi
ration or comforting balm to a sensitive
heart,
As the soundest health is less perceived
than the lightest malady, fio the highest
joy touches us less than the smallest sor
row.
It is with wit as with razors, which, are
never so apt to cut those they are employed
on, as when they have lost their edge.
How great a bounty it is to hold tho
royal girts of the roul that they shall bo
music to some, fragrance to others, and
life to all.
No man can be brave who considers pain
to be the greatest evil of life; nor temper
ate who considers pleasures to be tho
highest good.
AVordly friendship is like our shadow;
whilo we walk in sunshine it sticks closo
to us, but the moment we enter the shade
it deserts us.
Some people possess good qualities
which are very serviceable to others but
useless to themselvos, like the sun dial on
the front of a house to inform the neigh
bors and passengers.
There are moments when by some
strange impulse we contradict our past
selves —fatal moments when a fit of pas
sion, like a lava stream, lays low the work
of half our lives.
Tho footprints of a barbarian In the sand
prove tho presence of a man to that same
atheist who denies the existence of a God
of whoso hand the whole universe bears tho
impress.
The sweetest, and most clinging affec
tion is often shaken by the slighest breath
of uukindness, as tho delicate rings and
tendrils of the vine are agitated by the
faintest air that blows in summer.
Don’t let us rejoice in punishment, even
when the liund of God alone inflicts it.
Tho host of us aro but poor wrethes, just
saved from shipwreck. Can we feel any--
thing but awe and jvity wheu we see a
fellow-passenger swallowed up by the
waves ?
A Bird’s Courtship and Death.
Do hirets have a language of their own,
and havo they any of the emotions of hu
mans ?
A lady who lives on Olive street relates
the following: A few days ago thero fell
in front of her window from a troo a
“chippy” or ground bird, such ns chatter
about in jiflrks or streets. It seemed
wearied and crippled. She picked it up,
carried it in the house, fed it from her
own mouth, and at night placed it in the
cage with her canary. The canary at once
bestowed upon the newcomer all of the afc
tention of a mother, and nestled beside
the little stranger during the night. In
the morning the lady placed the chippy
in tho window, so that it might have the
privilege of regaining its freedom. It
plumed its tiny wings and went away. Tho
canary mourned during the day as if ho
had lost his mate. In the evening tho
chippy came back and porched upon tbe
the window. The sash was raised, and it
llew in and nestled upon the cage. The
canary at onco struck up his liveliest
notes, and seemed gratified. This was
repeated two or three days, tho chippy
going each morning and returning in tho
evening.
One day it went away and did not come
back. The canary drooped, and the next
day fell dead from his perch in the sun
shine that played over his gilded cage in
the window. That night the chippy re
turned, and during the evening it mourn
ed over its dead companion. In the morn
ing it clung to the cage until it was turned
out. For a few days the empty cage was
hung in the window, and on each succeed
ing evening the chippy returned, and
chirped as if it was grief-stricken. One
day it brought a petal of a tube-rose in its
bill, dropped it m the cage, flow away,
and never came back.
A Novel Confession.
Seventy years ago, in a Vermont town, a
young lawyer—a member of a large church
—got drunk. The bretlien said he must
confess, lie demurred. Ho knew the
members to bo good, but they had their
little faults, such as driving sharp bargains,
screwing the laborer down to low wages,
loaning money at illegal rates, misrepre
senting articles they had for sale, etc. But
they were good peoplo and pressed the
lawyer to come before the “church meet
ing" to own up to his sin of taking a glass
too much, for they were living where tem
perance societies existed. The sinner
finally went to tho confession; found a
large gathering of brethem and sisters,
whose eyes glistened with heavenly' de
light as the lawyer began his confession.
“I confess,” began he, “that I never
took ten per cent, for money.” Six -was
the legal rate. On this confession a broth
er’s head went down with a groan. “I
never turned a poor man from my door
who needed food or shelter.” Down wont
another head. “I confess I never sold a
slam milk cheese for anew one.” Where
upon a sister shrieked for mercy. “But,”
concluded he, “I have got drunk and am
sorry for it." The meeting was peacefully
dismissed.
About four thousand negro refugees have
arrived in Kansas. Governor St. -John
says that they have been distributed
throughout the state, that the great major
ity of them are at work and doing well,
anil that those yet to come will find no
difficulty in obtaining employment in the
West.
The Philadelphia Times, full of fore
boding, says: “When the Ohio campaign
gets farely open there is going to be a life
struggle between Foster’s Louisiana re
port and the platform on which he is run
ning for Governor. It will be a very in
teresting collision.”
Senator Thurman, it is said, is probably
the most accomplished scholar now in
Congress. He knows literature and man
ages to keep pace with current publications.
Now is very time to pi; nt your summer
advertisements in tho Gazette.