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VOL. 0.--NO. 19.
Darien Timber Gazette,
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING,
AT IKiRIEA', GEORGIA,
CORNER BROAD AND NORTHWAY STREETS.
RICHARD W. GRUBB,
Editor and Proprietor.
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Timber Gazette, Darien, Georgia.
City Directory.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
,County Comnrissioners —Januis Walker, Chairman;
Adaifi Strain, Isaac M. Aiken, 4- A* Atwood, T. H.
Gi r niUiat, James E. Holmes, Joseph Hilton.
Doam of County Commissioners— Spalding
Kenan.
Clerk Superior Court —L. B. Davis.
Ordinary —C. H. Hopkins, Sr.
Sheriff —T. Butler Blount.
Receiver Tax Returns —W. McW. Young.
Tat.Collector —O.jp. Hopkins.
County Trpssurfr —M. C. O’Neil.
('twillt/ Snrvrgtrr—' W. 1!.- Frtppel.
Coroner —Philip Maxwell.
The Commissioners hold monthly meetings on
the first "Wednesday in each mouth.
CITY OFFICERS.
Ex-Officio Mayor —James Walker.
Ex-Officio Aldermen —Joseph Hilton, J. A. Atwood,
ulam Strain, J. E. Holmes, Thomas H. Gignilllat,
Isaac M. Aiken.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Committee on Finance—Messrs. Strain, Atwood
.nd Hilton. , _ , ~,
Committee on Accounts —Messrs. Holmes, Gigml
liat and Aiken.
Committee on Harbor— Messrs. Hilton, Aiken
and Strain. . „ _.
Committee on Health and Cemetery Messrs. Gigml
liat, Atwood and Holmes.
Committee on Hauliers— Messrs. Atwood, Holmes
and GignilUat.
Committee on Jail- Messrs. Aiken, Hilton and
Atwood. , . _ „ ...
Committee on Streets and Lanes— Messrs. Aiken,
Strain and Holmes. , ~ .
Committee on County Roads —Messrs. Atwood,
Gignilliat and Hilton. .
ConmiiUm on Buildings— Messrs. Strain,
Gignilliat, and Aiken.
Committee on Police —Messrs. Holmes, Hilton and
Strain. . „. .
Committee on Ordinances —Messrs. Aiken, Strain
ind Atwood.
Clerk and Treasurer— Spalding Kenan.
City Marshal —Charles H. Hopkins, Jr.
Deputy Marshal —Alonzo Guyton. •
Harbor Master —James Abeel.
Port Physician— Dr. James Holmes.
Inspector General of Timber —George VY lanes.
Port Wardens —lsaac M. Aiken, John H. Burrell,
and Janies G. Young. *
Jailer —Charles H. Hopkins, Jr. * .
Board Pilot Commissioners—Gh arles S. Lang don,
Chairman, K. K. Walker, W.-C. Clark, Arthur Bai
ley, Dr. R. B. Harris, James Laehlison and Root.
Mitchell. Win. L. Gignilliat, Secretary.
MASONIC.
Live Oak Lodge, No. 137, moots first Wednesday
night in each month at their hall near the Magno
lia House; H. S. Ravenel, Worthipful Master; R.
W. Grubb, Secretary %
UNITED STATES OFFICERS.
Collector of Customs, Brunswick District— John T.
Collins. Headquarters at Brunswick.
Deputy Collector of Customs for Port of Darien—
Charles H. Townsend.
Boarding Master —Edwin C. Davis.
Postmaster—Y). Webster Davis.
Deputy Marshal —Joseph B. Bond.
SUPERIOR COURT—EASTERN CIRCUIT.
Hon. Wm. B. Flaming, Judge.
Major A. B. Smith, Solicitor General.
Bulloch County— Thursday before first Mondaj s
in Anvil and October. .
Effingham County—£irst Mondays In April and
October. „ . ,
Bryan County—Thursdays after first Mondays
in April and October. .
Chat iiaiu County—Second Mondays in February,
May and October. , „ ,
Mclntosh County—Tuesdays after last Mondays in
April and October. ,
Liberty County—Tuesday after second Mondaj s
in May and October.
UNITED STATES MAILS.
The mails arrive from Sterhng, No. 1, Macon k
Brunswick Railroad, every morning (Sunday ex
cepted) at 10 o’clock a. m.. departing every after
noon at 3p. m. Mail closes at 2. 1 i p- m.
Side avail for No. 3, Atlantic A Gulf Railroad,
■departs Stf o’clock every Tuesday morning and
arrives at 8 p. m. every' Monday', touching at
Rieeboro and South Newport both ways.
RELIGIOUS.
Religious services at the Methodist Church
every Sunday morning at 11 oclock, and evening
at R o’clock. School at the Ridge-eVery Sunday
afternoon at 3>£ o’clock. Rev. H. E. Harman, pas-
Religious services every Sabbath at 11 a. m. and
3p. m at the Methodist Church, colored, Rev.
li. H. Smith, pastor. 1
MTO *6(900 A YEAR, or $5 to S2O
i dav in your own locality.
Vo risk. Women do as well as
oen. Many make more than the
amount stated above. No one
I can fafl to make money last.
Anyfiine can do the work. You can make from
50 cts. to $2 an hour by devoting j T our evenings
and spare time to the business. It costs nothing
to try the business. ’Nothing like it ever offered
belore. Business pleasant and strictly honorable.
Header! if you wanl to' know all about the best
paving business before the pubbe, send us your
address and we will send you full particulars and
private terms free; samples worth $5 also free;
you can then make up > ? our mind for yourself.
Address GEORGE STINSON & CO., Portland, Me.
june 20 •- - ■
/tin At WEEK in your own town, and no
(1I 11 1 -apital risked. You can give the busi
* . nKu'e a trial without expense. The best
1 11 II importunity ever offered for thosewil-
I / 1111 ling to work. Y'ou should try nothing
* else until you see for yourself what y ou
can do at the business we offer. No rootn to ex
♦lain here. You can devote all your time or only
your spare time to the business, and make great
j>av for every hourthat you work. Women make
as much as men. Send for special pnvatu terms
and particulars, which we mail free. $5 uutni
free. Don’t complain of bard times while you
have such a chance. Address H. HALLETT A LG.,
Pofltjiftd.Maine. J unejl> .
Notice.
' A T.L' VESSfILS AND STEAMBOATS WJUND
A to Darien by the inland route from the South
must report at the quarantine station at Doboy
foi-inspection and permitted to proceed.
JAMES HOLMES, Port Physician.
By order of the Mayor. .ijTNti
Cards.
yyALTER A. WAY,
Attorney-at-Law and Ileal
Estate Agent,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Will practice in the Superior Courts of the
Brunswick and Eastern Circuits. Also, in the
Federal Courts in caßes of Bankruptcy, etc. Par
ticular attention given to the collection of claims
and the examination of land titles. april‘2s
W ROBEIiT GIGNILLIAT,
Attorney-at-Law,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to all legal business in
the Eastern and Brunswick Circuits, and in the
United States Courts at Savanuah, Georgia.
aprilM-ly
T e. b. Delorme,
1 j.
Attorney & Counselor-at-Law,
and Notary Public.
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Office ou Broad stroet, near Timber Exchange.
Jnly2
JQR. SPALDING KENAN,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Offers his 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. augß-ly
jyt. R. B. HARRIS
Offers his professional services to the citizens of
Darien and surrounding country. All calls prompt
ly attended, both mcfiliral and surgical. Office
under the Masonic Hall, in old Custom House
building.
J J. ABRAMS,
Attorney-at-LaW,
Commercial Building,
•jnnefl-tf SAVANNAH. GEORGIA.
HENRY 11. TOMPKINS. | B. A. DENMARK.
rjJOMPKINS A DENMARK,
Attorneys-at-Law,
No. fos Bay Stroet, SAVANNAH. GA.
Practice in the United States Courts, and in the
Superior Courts of the Eastern Circuit. jeG-tf
Miscellaneous.
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LUBIN'S EXTRACTS, POMADES,
HAIR OIL, TOILET POWDER,
LILLY WHITE, PUFF BOXES,
ROUGE, TOILET SETS,
And in fact, a full assortment of Perfumery and
Fancy Toilet Articles. Soaps—toilet, laundry and
medicated. Give us a call.
W. H. COTTER & CO.,
feb22-tf Druggists amt Apothecaries.
THE
GEORGIA STATE FAIR,
At Macon,
Oct. 27th to No. Ist, 1879.
The Most Magnificent and Best Appointed
Grounds in America!
Liberal Cash Premiums
In all classes, and the largest offered by any
Pair in the Unitod States.
Trotting and Running Races 1
Every day, by some of the
MOST NOTED HORSES ON THE TURF !
A .
Music will be furnished by the celebrated
U. S. 13th Infantry Band
f ——
Many of the Prominent Statesman,
Now before the Public, will attend the State Fair
as visitors, and several will make addresses.
GREATLY REDUCED RATES
For Freights and Passengers, on all the
liailroads in the State.
A cordial invitation is extended to you to be an
Exhibitor, and you are requested to write to the
Secretary at Macon for a premium List and other
information.
THOS. HARDEMAN, Jr.. President.
L. F. LIVINGSTON. Gen’l.Sup’t.
sep26.tf. MALCOLM JOHNSTON, Secretary.
For Rent.
* N EIGHT-ROOM DWELLING HOUSE IN THE
A
City of Darien, formerly occupied by Mrs. Dun
wody, or Broad street. Possession given October
Ist. Apply to JOE MANSFIELD.
Darien, Ga., September 26th, 1879.
PREPARED AND SOLD ONLY BY
W. H. COTTER & CO.
W. H. COTTER & CO’S.
Magnetic I.inimcnt
Is an invaluable remedy in all cases of Rheuma
tism. Neuralgia, Chronic Pains, etc. It is also an
excellent application to all bruises.
W. H. COTTER & CO’S.
Cholera Mixture
Is a sure and speedy cure for all Dowel Affections
and Summer Complaints incidental to our climate.
These preparations are uuabantekd to give imme
diate relief, aud should be kept in every family.
—FOR THE LADIES—
#. H. COTTER A GO’S.
Sewing Alaehine Oil
The Best oil made for all fine machinery. apl’J-tf
Garden Seed.
' *
UT E HAVE ON HAND A SUPPLY OF FRESH
Garde* Seed, just received, consisting In
part of
BEETS, CABBAGE.
CARROTS. CUCUMBERS.
CELERY. EGGPLANT,
LETTUCE, OKRA.
ENGLISH PEAS,
BEANS, TOMATOES,
SQUASH, OYSTF.R PLANT.
EARLY CORN, PEPPER. Etc.
IV. H. COTTER & CO.,
Druggists and Apothecaries.
DARIEN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31, 1879.
Steamboats.
GEORGIA & FLORIDA
INLAND
STEAM BOAT COM I‘A NY.
The Darien Line!
THE STEAMERS
David Clark and Centennial,
-TRI-WEEKLY—
BETWEEN DARIEN AND SAVANNAH,
AND WEEKLY TO SATILLA RIVER.
* C SI K II I L K :
The Steamer DAVID The Steamer CENTEN
CLARK, Captain John NIAL, Captain W. C.
Fitzgerald, will leave Ulmo, will leave Hotel
Hotel Wharf, Darien, Wharf, Darien,
FOR SAVANNAH, FOR SAVANNAH,
every Wednesday and every Saturday, touch-
Sunday, touching at all iug at all intermediate
intermediate landings. landings.
RETURNING, RETURNING,
Leave Savannah every Leave Savannah every
Monday and Friday at- Wednesday afternoon,
ternoon, arriving at Da- arriving at Darien every
rien every Tuesday and Thursday, and leave Da-
Saturday, and leave Da- rien the same day for
rien the same day for St. Simon’s, Brunswick
St. Simon’s, Brunswick, and Satillu River.
St. Marys and Fernan
dina.
Through rates of freight to and from Northern
and Western ports.
Steamers connect at Brunswick with the up
ward and downward trains of the Brunswick and
Albany Railroad and with the Macon and Bruns
wick Railroad.
THOMAS WHITE, Agent, Hotel Wharf.
NPECIAL. NOTICE.
CAI’T. THOMAS WHITE, Agent, is authorized
to adjust, promptly, all claims at Darien.
J. N. HAKKIMAN, Manager,
sep22-tf Savannah, Ga.
Rule Nisi.
STATE 0E GEORGIA—McIntosh County.
CLERK’S OFFICE SUPERIOR COURT, )
July 30th, 1879. j
FT APPEARING BY THE PETITION IN WRI-
L ting of J. H. M. Clinch, Administrator of the
estate of John H. Mclntosh, Sr., deceased, together
with a copy in substance of the paper lost, or de
stroyed; that S. Harris, Tax Collector of Mclntosh
county, Georgia, on the twenty-seventh (27th) day
of January, A. D., eighteen hundred and one, exe
cuted and delivered to John H. Mclntosh, Sr., de
ceased, a certain deed of fifty thousand acres of
marsh land in Mclntosh county, Georgia, at the
mouth of the Allumaha River, and about Doboy
Island, granted to Edward Walsh in the year 1704,
which said deed is lost or destroyed, and the rec
ord of the same was destroyed by fire in Darien,
in said county; that said land is still the property
of the estate of John 11. Mi In tosh, Sr,, deceased.
It is therefore ordered, that Ibe said Sampson
Harris, then Tax Collector of Mclntosh county,
Georgia, and Edward Walsh, grantee, and the heirs
of Armand Lefils, grantee, and W. Street, deceased,
and Sarah A. Thomas and Chas. 8. Laugdon, claim
ants, show cause on or before the next term of the
said* Court, why a true copy of the deed sworn
to, which with the petition now on file insaid office,
should not be established fully and in lieu of said
lost or original deed.
Witness the Honorable William B, Fleming,
Judge of said Court, this July 30th, 1879.
L. B. DAVIS,
augl-3m. Clerk Superior Ct., Mcl. Cos. Ga.
PLANTERS' HOTEL,
SAVANNAH, GA.,
Cheapest and Best
HOTEL IN
THE SOUTH.
Rates $1 50 and $2 00
per Day,
. According • to I.oration of
Bloom.
JOS, HEHSCHMCILprop’r.
jy’s-tf. _
ANNOUNCEMENT.
TXTE FEEL GRATEFUL TO OUR MANY
T V friends and customers lor their liberal pat
ronage during the past year, and we have entered
anew year with 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 he sold. Remember
that we have constantly in stock a full assortment
of
PURE MEDICINES,
PAINTS, OILS,
VARNISHES,
PATENT MEDICINES of all kinds,
HAIR DYES,
lIAIR OILS,
HAIR BRUSHES,
TOOTH BRUSHES,
And the best article of No. 1 KEROSENE OIL at
lowest prices.
Prescriptions carefully compounded night or
day.
W. 11. COTTER k CO.,
feb22-tf Druggists and Apothecaries.
THE BALTIMOHE
Weekly American.
TIIF, LARGEST, BEST AND CHEAPEST
PAPER IN THE %RLD.
AN EXTRA COPY SIX MONTHS’ FREE,
FOR A CLUB OF FIVE, AND
ONE YEAR, FOR A CLUB
OF TEN.
A varied lot of valuable Premiums given
for Clubs of from 5 to 300 copies, a list
of which is published in THE WEEKLY
AMERICAN. Specimen copies sent free.
Address, CHAS. C FULTON,
American Office,
septo-tf. Baltimore, Md.
Ordinances, &c.
AN ORDINANCE
Entitled Aii Ordinance to Protect the
Public Health of the Port ot Kin rien
toy Quarantine anil Otherwise.
Section I. —The Board of Commissioners of
Mclntosh County who are exofficio Mayor and
Aldermen of the City of Darien, in Coun<il assem
bled do ordain and it is hereby ordained by author
ity of the same, That at the first annual meet
ing of this board for each and every year, then;
shall be elected a Board of Health, to be composed
of five (5) members, and also a Port Physician,
who shall be, by reason of his office, a member of
said board.
Sec. 2. — Be it further ordained , That said Board
of Health shall have power to visit and inspect,
at their discretion, any or all lots, enclosures,
yards, streets, lanes, thoroughfares or wharves,
and to require Ihr same to be cleansed of any
filth or unwholesome matter found thereon, by
the owners or tenants of such property, within
twenty-four (24) hours alter notice is given; they
will also cause such gleanings to be forthwith
rendered or placed Within reach of the public
scavenger. Upon negleet or refusal of the owner
or tenant of any such property to comply with the
foregoing requirements they shall be reported to
the Police Court, to be punished, as hereinafter
providod, and the said cleaning up shall be done
by the Marshal, and all expense thus incurred
shall be paid by the owner or tenant of such
property.
Sec. 3.— Be it further ordained, That said Board
of Health are hereby empowered, in their discre
tion, to have any or all unteuanted houses opened
for ventilation and the premises of the same
cleansed. And any expense so incurred shall be
paid by the owner of such house or lot.
Sec. 4. — Be it further ordained. That any person
resisting, by neglect or otherwise, any of the pro
visions of the preceding section of this ordinance
after twenty-four (24) hours notice is given him
or her by any member of the Board of Health,
shall be, upon conviction thereof, fined for every
such offense not exceeding s2f> ou or placed on the
chain-gang for not exceeding thirty (30) days, and
the Marshal or his assistants are hereby ordered
to obey all orders emanating from said Board of
Health, which may be given lor the purpose of
carrying into effect the pro visions of the ordinance.
Sec. s.— Be it further ordained, That said Board
of Health shall meet monthly, or at the call of its
chairman, and report to this board their actings
and doings, and also examine into and reoom
mend any measures which may be, in their judg
ment, necessary to preserve the public health.
They are also hereby empowered to fill, by elec
tion, any vacancy that may at any time occur in
their board.
Sec. G.— Be it further ordained, That it shall be
the duty of the Port Physniun to visit and inspect
ail vessels arriving at this port from any point
(foreign or domestic) reported to him as infected
with contagious or malignant diseases of any
nature, and if after investigation any such dis
ease is found to exist aboard of such vessel, he
shall forthwith order the same to be removed to
quarantine grounds and the sick or diseased per
sons aboard said vessel shall be, at his discret ion,
removed to the quarantine buildings, near Wolfe
Island, so that tin' proper attention may be given
them. He is hereby empowered to employ, where
he deems it necessary, sufficient guards to pre
vent communication with such vessel or sick per
sons, and to transport, any necessary medicines
or sustenance to the same. Also, to employ
nurses when required, reporting such action to
the chairman of this board.
Sec. 7. — Be it further ordained, That after the
required time .of quarantine shall have been com
plied with by such vessel, the Port Physician shall
cause her to be thoroughly fumigated and
cleansed, anil two (2) days after such fumigation he
shall issue a permit for her removal, and all ex
pense tints incurred shall be paid by the master
or owner ol such vessel. And the quarantine
grounds spoken of in tliis ordinance are hereby
declared to be the grounds in Doboy Sound, to
the northprd ©f Wolfe Island, known as the lower
quarantine grounds.
Bec. h. — Be it further ordained, That the regular
quarantine term shall begin on the first day of
April of each and every year, and end the first day
of November of the same year unless circum
stances should require other dates than the
above, and the Port Physician is hereby instructed
to issue, his proclamation, endorsed by the Mayor
on the said first day of April, to all pilots and mas
ters of vessels arriving from any South American,
West India, or Gulf ports, requiring the same to be
anchored at the quarantine grounds ami reported
lor investigation and fumigation, even though
they may have no sickness aboard. And in the
event that any vessel witli sickness aboard of a
malignant nature, shall arrive at other dales
than those above specified, it shall be the duty
of the Port Physician to proceed as during the
regular term of quarantine.
Sec. 9.— Be it farther ordained, That it shall he
the duty of every pilot of this port before board
ing any vessel cither at sea or inside the bar to
make a diligent inquiry of the master of said ves
sel, if there is on hoard any malignant, contagious
or infectious disease of any nature, and if there
should exist such disease he is hereby forbidden
going aboard, under a penalty of SIOO and dismissal
from office.
Sec. 10.— Be it further ordained, That any mas
ter of a vessel re'using to answer the above in
quiries of the pilot, or deceiving him as to the real
presence of infectious disease on board, or as to
any death on the voyage from said cause shall be
lined in the sum of SIOO.
Sec. 11.— Be it further ordained, That any master
of a tow or other steamboat violating the provi
sions of this ordinance as contained in section 9,
whether as a pilot or master of such boat, shall
upon conviction, be fined in the sum of SIOO lor
each and every such offense.
See. 12.— 8 eit further ordained, That it shall be
the duty of the Port Physician to examine into
any cases of a malignant or contagious disease re
ported to him as existing within the city of Darien
or its vicinity, and report the same to the chair
man of this board, who is hereby authorized to
cause the removal of such persons, at the expense
of the city, to some point designated by the Board
of Health, so as to prevent the spread of such
disease.
Sec. 13. — Be it further ordained, That the lee of
the Port Physician shall be:
For every vessel boarded in Doboy Sound
for inspection S2O 00
For every vessel boarded in Sapalo Sound
for inspection * r >o 00
For every vessel boarded at or near Darien.. 200
At the Ridge a •*.. 500
For all vessels boarded at night, with infectious
disease on board, double day rates, (S4O, SIOO,
$4, $10), and he is hereby required to make month
ly reports of his actions, and doings to this board.
Sec. 14. —8 eit further ordained . That all ordi
nances or parts of ordinances conliieting with any
of the provisions of this ordinance he and the
same are repealed.
Read third time and passed April 11, 1879.
Spalding Kenan,
junel3-tf Clerk and Treasurer.
To Pilots and Masters of
Vessels.
First—All Vessels arriving at this port from
South America, the West Indies, or ports on the
Gulf of Mexico, boring no sickness on board and
haring had no burials on the voyage, shall he
anchored at the Upper Quarantine, one mile above
the inner buoy, up the Caruoehan River and
remain until visited and inspected by the Port
Physieian. Tin- ballast ground being near at
hand, such vessels may lie .:!< ansed and disinfected
while throwing off tlieir ballast, and will not be
detained, under favorable circumstances, over
five days, when the Port Physician wiil visit them
and finding all right will give a written permit to
proceed to their destination.
Second—Vessels arriving from any port having
fever on board, or deaths on the voyage, must be
anchored as near as may be safe to the hospital,
on Clam Bank, or Lower Quarantine Ground, and
remain until visited by the-Port Physieian.
JAMES HOLMES. M. D..
Port Physician.
Approved; JAMES WALKER, Mayor. jel3-tf
" J. J. SUTfON,
BUILDER and CONTRACTOR
DARIEN, GA.
Plans, Specifications and Estimates furnished.
I guarantee to my friends and the public to give
entire satisfaction to all work entrusted to me.
Kir No Wood Butchers employed. “<Ui
june27-tf J J. SUTTON.
She Told His Fortune.
“This is the station, is it?” he ashed, as
they opened the door of ceil No. 5 at the
Central, and waived him in.
“Yea.”
“Then I’m the same as in jail, am I?”
“You are.”
“All right! This is the last god-darned
time I’ll believe anybody under oath! So
go ahead with your old basiile business.”
“He was a young man of twenty four,
wearing his overalls in his boot 1 gs, and
before coming to town he had broken off a
twig from a peach tree and placed the
blossom behind his hat-bund and over his
left ear.
“Hast thou been deceived?” inquired
our reporter as the officer got through
locking the door.
“Has I? Well you’d better bet I bast!
I’m a reg’lar eight-rail fence blown flat by
a tornado! I’m going to commit suicide
when I get out o’ this, I am!”
A chew of tobacco and a few kind words
opened his heart, and he explained:
“You see, I lost my dog in town the
other day, and I came in this morning to
find him. Dad, the darned old basswood
told me to call on fortune-teller and find
out who stole Tige, and 1 was fool enough
to do it—f-o-o-1 enough to do it! I called
on a woman back up hero about a mile, gin
her two dollars, anil says, I Where’s Tige?
He’s up here in a Dutchman’s yard, says
she. Did be steal him says I. 110 did,
says she. Then I’ll bust his head, says I.
You will marry rich, have lots of happi
ness, live to be a hundred years old, and
go to Heaven when you die, says she; and
she stopped rolling her eyes and hawked
on to them two dollars like a turkey cn a
‘taterbug.”
“And you found Tige?”
“Hold on! I found the Dutchman’s and
says I, where’s my dog? I don’t know,
says he. You’re a liar, says I; and with
that we had it, which and t’other, and
he had just flung me out doors when the
constable came along and nnild me.”
“Well?”
“Well, I’m in a nice fix, I am. Tige
gone, two dollars gone, me in tin-jug, and
dad planting corn with a blind eye and a
lame back! We’re a nice family, tako sill
in heap, and you go out and bet ton to one
we are! No, you can’t help me any ’less
you want to leave mo si lead pencil. 1
feel like composing a poem on fool, and
I’ll write it on tlie wall here. Good-by,
Mister —come back in an hour and I’ll
have the peom done aud be in my grave,
mebbe, for I can't bear up under more'll
a wagon-load of woe.”
Tiie Queen op All. Honor the dear old
mother. Time has scattered the snowy
flakes on her brow, plowed deep furrows
on her cheeks, but in she not sweet and
beautiful now? The lips are thin and
shrunken, but those are the lips which
have kissed many allot tear from the child
ish cheeks, and they are tlio sweetest lips
in all the world. The eye is dim, y.-t it
glows with the soft radiance of holy love
which can never fade. Ail, yes, she is a
dear old mother. Life’s sands are nearly
fun out, but feeble as she is, one will go
farther and reach down lower for you than
any other upon earth. You cannot walk
into a midnight where she cannot see you;
you cannot enter a prison whoso bars will
keep lier out; you can never mount a scaf
fold too high for her reach that she may
kiss and bless you in evidence of her
deathless love. When the world shall de
spise and forsake you, when it leaves you
by the wayside to die unnoticed, the dear
old mother will gather you in her feeble
arms and carry you home and tell you of
all your virtue, until you almost forget
that your soul is disfigured by vices.
Love her tenderly and cheer her declining
years with holy devotion.
Don’t.
Don’t insult a poor man. Ilis muscles
may be well developed.
Don’t color meerschaums for a living.
It is simply dying by inches.
Don't throw dust in your teacher’s eyes.
It will injure the pupil.
Don’t turn up your nose at light things.
Think of bread and taxation.
Don’t boast of your pedigree. Many a
fool lias bad awise ancestor.
Don’t buy a coach to please your wife.
Better make her a little sulky.
Don’t write long obituaries. Save some
of your kind words for those living.
Don’t publish your acts of charity. The
Lord will keep the accounts straight.
Doli t put oh airs in your new suit of
clothes. Remember your tailor is suffer
ing-
Wise Sayings.
Too much prosperity makes men fools.
Experience keeps a dear school but fools
will learn in no other.
Wealth is not his who gets, but bis who
enjoys it. .
Employ your time well, if you mean to
gain leisure.
A man may have a thousand acquaint
ances, and not one friend among them.
It is best to live on a little, than to out
live a great deal.
By others faults, wise men correct their
own.
We should take a prudent care for the
future, but so as to enjoy the present.
A jeweler of high standing stated that
some young ladies, whoso parents keep ac
counts with him, frequently want some
ornaments for an evening, and instead of
renting them from a lender they get him
to send home for their mother’s inspection
some set that suits their fancy. It is worn
that evening, and returned the next day
as unsuitable. This and other devices of
a similar nature, aro resorted to bv schem
ing females to desk tlieir person with val
uable ornaments, without incurring any
expense other than the telling of a few
falsehoods.
A True Noble mao. (if the late William
M. Hunt, a characteristic little story is told
by a Boston correspondent of the Art Am
ateur. A young critic one day rashly ven
tured to suggest that M. Millet, Mr. Hunt’s
venerated friend, “missed it,” in not choos
ing now ami then more elevated subjects
for his pictures than the course French
clodhoppers he loved to paint. "Mv God!
man, what is nobLr than a man wr fling
and wringing Lis bread from tbestubtorn
soil by the sweat of his brow and the break
of his back for his wife and children!”
cried Hunt With dilated eyes and quiver
ing fist raised above Lis head as it to strike
the trembling wretch to earth.
$2.50 A YEAR.
Do All For (loft.
How may wo abide with God in the work
of our calling? By throwing into the work
a holy and pure intention.
It is clear that intention is to our actions
what the soul is to the body; and that,
just as it is the soul and not the body
which makes us moral agents, so it is the
motive or intention, with which a thing
is done, which gives to the action a moral
character. To kill a man in wrath, or mal
ice prepense, is murder; but to kill him
accidi ntally by an action which we could
not possibly foresee would do him harm,
is no sin at all.—Again, a good and holy
work, such as prayer, becomes hypocrisy,
if done in a false pharasaical spirit.
The great built of work done, in this
busy bustling life is not done with any in
tentions of complying with the will, or
furthering the services of Almighty God.
The many who run to and fro from morn
ing to evening in the, work of their calling
think nothing of subserving His designs,
and are even unconscious, in many cases,
of the place they-hold in His system.
The intention of some persons in their
work is simply to gain a livelihood by it.
To render this livelihood more abundant
and more independent, they rise up early,
late take rest, and eat the bread of careful--
n.’-s, a perfectly innocent motive, nay in a
merely moral and social point of view, a
commendable one, but not a spiritual mo
tivo such as glorifies the work and redeems
it from earthlincss.
Again, a better class of men work from
the high and elevating motive of duty.
This motive exalts the eharaqte*to the
highest pitch to which a mere natural
character can attain. “It is my work,”
says the man, “and I shall not shrink from
it, however much of danger and hardship
it may involve.” “
It is a fine inind which so speaks; per
haps we may admit that the owncrofsuch
a mind is not “far from the kinhdom of
God, ” but if the intention have no refer
cnec to God’s will and service, truth forbids
us to say that it i& a spiritual mind. Cice
ro and Seneca might have worked from a
sense of duty; but they, knew nothing of
the living and loving Lord, who appoints
laborers to various parts of His vineyard,
endows them according to their dilligcnca
in improving those talents. Godmusten
ter the mind before our motives can be
supcrnaturiilhsed.—Ggldbum’
tr— * ,
. Ills Idea of a Minister.
In liis farewell sermon to his Chicago'
congregation, prior to leaving for his new
home and ministry in New York, Rev.
Robert Collyer gave his idea of a minister’s
calling as follows: “You have never held
me us one set apart and above you, who 1
could not laugh on one occasion, or touch
the springs of laughter, or love old ballads
that have poured from the living heart of
the people, or bo touched by noblefmusio,
or witness a wholesome play, oreould stay
to supper hut go out before the dance, or
could eat crosses and lentils like the old
anchorites, or could not tell stojies to the
children that have nothing at all to do with
Moses and the prophets; or bo interested
beyond measure when young men and'
maidens God had made for each other
caught the secret ho had kept for the true
moment. In all things it hap been my
pride and joy to be one with you, to the
peril, I suppose, of what some men call
.ministerial dignity. But I have always
believed that the nearer a minister could
come to his people in every wholesome
human way the more surely he could help
tlmm and they could help him; aud the
record this church has made through all
these y: ars -I say it with proud humility,
thanking God -lias justified our faith in
such wholesome human ways. I know I
have vexed you many a time, and hurt
you, and you have hgld your own, I hope,
and made the account square. But it was
all manfully done, and may help to prove
that our friendship and fellowship were
not devoid of a **gbt austerity, and that
we have not taken the fatal drift toward a
society for mutual admiration. It has
been a sweet aud kindly relation on this
human side as ever man had in the world,
and, for aught else,.l am forgetting that
already as 1 speak to you, and shall not
need the kindly touch of time and dis
tance to rob me of what no man wants to
keep.”
A Tair of Sweet Voices. — “The Sweet
est voice I ever heard,” said the Bishop,
“was a woman’s. It was soft and low, but
penetrating, musical and measured in its
ace. lit,. but not precise. We were on a
steamer and she murmured some commort
place words about the scenery. Ido not
r member what she said, but I can never
forget the exquisitely tender musical voice.
“The sweetest voice I ever heard,” said the
“professor, was a man’s. I had been out
fishing nearly all day and got back u> the
hotel about 3 o'clock. The man ciuno out
and roan and, ‘dinner’ till it soured the milk
In the cellar. I have heard other voices
unco then, but 1 never”— - But the Bish
op, with a look of intense disgust all over
his face, had already walked away out of
h. -l ing and was lighting a fresh cigar by
himself.—[Bangor Whig.-
He Wanted to he Loved.—William (tho
father of Frederick the Great) was two
thirds crazy. This benign - monarch, who
gy. atly end--ared himself to his subjects
by kicking nrtd cuffing them, was walking
in the str eti one day, when a quiet and
timid looking citizen, seeinjfhim approach
fled in terror.
The king followed the fugitive*., and at
last overtook him and grasped him by the
collar.
“Why do you run aVay?” he demands
fed. M *
“Your Majesty, I was afraid of you,” was
ills reply,
•Air and of mo, you scoundrel!” replied
the king, at the same time niakiug it very
lively for the citizen, with the royal cane,”
don't vou know (whack, wkaQk, whack, )
that I want to bo loved not feared ?'** " '" t
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A housemaid writing to a freind reR pest
ing t'.,“ fi shions. says: “As for lo nees,
the loer it is the mo fashunable you shr
tl st. Miss Goodra, gavajpe a blew silk
of h- in; I cut ft nees orf, and Suzin Sim
m, ns cut orf h rn, ah we’ attrax a grate
1 dof ffcm’ina to our nees. .promuna
ing m tho str, ,-ts like other laddies, and
haiding up our cipze. Nobody isn't noth
ing now which doesn’t hold up Her cloze,
and the hier yon fifties ’em the more wru
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