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Darien Timber Gazette. VOL. 7.-NO. 30. Darien Timber Gazelle, PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING, vIT GEORGM, CORNER BROAD AND.NORTHWAY STREETS. BICHARD W. GRUBB. Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES : For one year (in advance) $2.50 For six months “ 1.50 CLUB RATES: Five copies, each one year $2.00 Ten copies, each one year 1,50 ADVERTISING RATES : Per square, ten lines space, first insertion.... $1.50 Per square, each subsequent insertion 1.00 Special Rates to Yearly and Lakue Advertisers Advertisements from responsible parties will be published until ordered out, when the time is not specified on the copy, and payment exacted ac ■cordingly. Communications for individual benefit, or of a personal character, charged as advertisements. 1 Marriages and obituary notices not exceeding four lines solicited for publication. When ex ceeding that space, charged as advertisements. itills'’for advertisements due upon presentation after the first insertion, but a spirit of commercial liberality will be practiced toward regular patrons. To avoid any"misunderstanding the above rules will be adhered to without deviation. .All letters and communications should be ad dressed to the undersigned, RICHARD W. GRUBB, Timber Gazette, Darien Georgia. 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 Hoard of County Commissioners —Spalding Kenan. Clerk Superior Court —L. B. Davis. Ordinary —C. H. Hopkins, Sr. Sheriff— T. Butler Blount. Receioer Tax Returns —W. MeW. Young. Tax Collector—O. C. Hopkins. County Treasurer —M. C. O'Neil. County Surveyor —W. R. l’oppel. Coroner —Philip Maxwell. The Commissioners hold monthly meetings on tho first Wednesday in each month. CITY OFFICERS. Ex-Officio Mayor —James Walker. Ex-Offcio Aldermen —Joseph Hilton. J. A. Atwood, Adam Strain, J. E. Holmes, Thomas H. Gignilliat, Isaac M. Aiken. STANDI NO COMMITTEES. Committee on Finance —Messrs. Strain, Atwood and 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 Paupers —Messrs. Atwood, Holmes and Gignilliat. 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. . Committee on Public Buildings— Messrs. Strain, Gignilliat, and Aiken. Committee on Police— Messrs. Holmes, Hilton and Strain. Committee on Ordinances —Messrs. Aiken, Strain \nd Atwood. Clerk and Treasurer —Spalding Kenan. City Marshal —Charles H. Hopkins, Jr. Deputy Marshal— Alonzo Guyton. Harbor Master— George Crane. Port Physician— Dr. James Holmes. Inspector General of Timber— George W. Fanes. Port, Wardens —Isaac M. /Aiken, John H. Burrell, and James G. Young. Jailer —Charles H. Hopkins, Jr. Hoard Pilot Commissioners—Dr. R. B. Harris. Chairman, R. K. Walker,"W. C. Clark, Arthur Bal lsy. W. L. Fulton, James Lachlisou. Mitchell. Lewis Livingston, Secretary. MASONIC. Live Oak Lodge, No. 137, meets first Wednesday ■ night in each month at their hall near the Magno lia House; James Walker, Worshipful Mas er; M. ■ 0. O’Neil, Secretary UNITED STATES OFFICERS. Collector of Customs, Brunswick District— John T. 'Collins. Head.juarters at Brunswick. Deputy Collector of Customs for Port of Darien Charles H. Townsend. Inspector —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—Mondays in April and Octooer. Effingham County—First Mondays in] May and November. . Bryan County—Second Mondays All May and November. _ , Chatham County—First Mondays in December March an l Juno. . Mclntosh County Fourth Mondays in May and November. ...... . Liberty County—Tuesday after third Mondays in May and November. UNITED STATES MAILS. The mails arrive from Sterling, No. 1, Macon k Brunswick Railroad, every morning (Sunday ex cepted) at 10 o'clock a. in., departing every alter noon at 3p. m. Mail closes at 2V 3 p. _ Hide mail for No. 3, Atlantic & Gulf Railroad departs o’clock every Tuesday morning and arrives at 8 p. m. every Monday, touching at Riceboro and South Newport both ways. RELIGIOUS. Religious services at tho Methodist Church every Sunday morning at 11 oclock, and 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. na. and 3 p.m. at the Methodist Church, colored, Rev. L. H. Smith, pastor. T ■ NJ I JU- li-i ' -J-iiL I "-- J * M i J-Artro $6,000 A YEAR, or $5 tos2o OH LS Is I 1 fU >* iu your °, wu loca ;tj \ I "lill INo risk. Women do as well as Ml ilill | men. Many make more than the s/1 ■U U Uamount stated above. No one 7 can fafl to make money hist. Any one can do the work. You can make *rom 50cts. t<i $2 an hour by devoting your evening, and spare time to the business. It costs nothing to try the business. Nothing like it ever on .e before. Business pleasant and strictly honorable. Reader, if you want to know all about the >es paying business before the public, send us your address and wo will send you full particulars an private terms free: samples worth s*> aIRO lr0( ‘: you can then make up your mind for yoursei . Address GEORGE STINSON & CO., Portland, Me. june 20 Garden Seed. \\TE HAVE ON HAND A SUPPLY OF FRESH V\ Garden Seed, just received, consisting in part of BEETS, CABBAGE, CARROTS, CUCUMBERS, CELERY, EGGPLANT, LETTUCE, OKRA, ENGLISH PEAS, * BIANS, TOMATOES, SQUASH, OYSTER PLANT, EARLY CORN, PEPPER, Etv. W. H. COTTER & CO., Druggists and Apothecaries. Professional Cards. ■yy ALTER A. WAY, Attorney-at-L.a\v anil Ileal Estate Agent, DARIEN, GEORGIA. Will practice in the Superior Courts of the 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. april2s yyr robert 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 Savannah, Georgia. april2s-ly I E. B. DeLORME, Ij. Attorney & Counselor-at-Law, ami Notary Public. DARIEN, GEORGIA. Office on Broad Btraet, near Timber Exchange. July 2 T\R. 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 JJR. It. 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, A ttorney-at-LaW, Commercial Building, jnnoC-tf SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. HENRY B. TOMPKINS. B. A. DENMAIIK. rnOMPKINS k DENMARK, Attorney s-at-Eaw, No. 105 Bay Street, SAVANNAH, GA. Practice in the United States Courts, and in the Superior Courts of the Eastern Circuit. jeo-tf .Miscellaneous. LOOK. OUT. HOYT’S COLOGNE, CORNING’S COLOGNE, 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 k CO., feb22-tf Druggists and Apothecaries, Wheelwright and Blacksmith T AM NOW PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDS JL of Wheelwright and Blacksmith work at Short notice. BUGGIES, WAGONS AND SIGNS PAINTED. Gorham’s Patent Attachment for shafts (a great saving of time and money to ail who use them) are kept on hand. All kinds of work done in first-class style. All I ask of the people of Darien and Mclntosh County is a trial. All work warranted. ROBERT MITCHELL, j e g_tf Second street, Darien, Ga. UlhMTm A LIMITED NUMBER of HS A nl I r S i acti ve, energetic; canvassers to ntiil I LiiJengage in a pleasant and profitable business. Good men will find this a rare chance TO SJIKK MONEY. Such will please answer this advertisement by letter, enclosing stamp for reply, stating what business they have been engaged in. None but those who mean business apply. Address je2o-ly. Finley, Harvey & Cos., Atlanta, Ga. nO n v MONTH guaranteed. sl2 a day Eli II 1 1 |at home made by the industrious. <! [I Icapitalnot required; we will start 1*1! II B! B- vou - Men - women, boys and girls I/ U V make money faster at work for us than anything else. The work is light and pleasant, and such as anyone can go right at. Those who are wise who see this notice will send us their addresses at once and see tor themselves. Costly outfit and terms free. Now is the time. Those’already at work are laying up large sums of money. Address TRUE & CO., Augusta. Me. jnne2o-ly Coihit Brothers. Perform Their Promise New Inducements to the Purchasing Public! Ilrives in Every lleiiartment! Ilrive* from tlie Jobbers ! 1 Special If rives from our Buyers ! ! ! Solid Fact! Solid Fact Savannah Prices in Darien. In Groceries, Hardware, Wood 6c Willow Ware- Crockery, Stoves, Glassware, Sadlery. OFFER SPECIALITIES IN DRY GOODS and Blankets. Shoes of all grades,in pegged ma chine and hand sewed. We keep in stock a fine selection of Ladies and Gents hand-made Boots and Shoes. We are offering the finest line of Gents FURNISHING GOODS, Clothing, Hats, Trunks, Valices, which we carry in endless variety and constantly receive from Nortneru markets only. Thanking yon for past favors and saliciting a continuance of the same, we aro yours, n2S-. COLLAT HI OTHERS. DARIEN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 10, 1880. just our. Hood’s Great Book OF THE WAR. Advance and Retreat, Personal Experiences in the United Stales and ('onfed erate States Jinnies. By General J. B. Hood, Late Lieutenant-General Confederate States Army, pnplislied for The Hood Orphan Memorial Fund. —BY— General G. T. Beauregard. New Orleans, 1880. The entire proceeds arising from the sale of this work are devoted to the Hood Orphan Me morial Fund, which is invested in United States llegisted Bonds for the nurture, care, support and education of the ten infants deprived of tiieir parents last summer at New Orleans, (the melan choly incidents of which sad bereavement are still fresh iu the public minds. The book is an elegant octavo, containing 360 pages, with a fine photograph likeness and a line steel engraving, made e<pressly lor this work, four large maps of battle fields, bound iu handsome gray English cloth three dollars, or in a fine sheep binding with marble edge, three dollars and fifty cents—ln half bound Morocco, library style, four dollars, or in best le vent Turkey Mo rocco, full gilt sides and edges, five dollars. On the receipt from any person remitting by mail or express, 01 the amount iu a registered letter or by a postal order, bank draft or check, a copy will be immediately sent free oi postage, registered as second-class matter. The volume is published in the best style of typography, on elegant paper, with illustrations, executed at highest .specimens of art. The author, the subject, the purpose, all alike render it worthy a place iu every library,—on every desk—or upon the book shelf of every house in the country. Agents wanted in every town and county in the United States, and a preference will be given to honorably discharged veterans from the army. To the ladies, who feel a desire to express their sympathy with The Itood Orphan Memorial Ihmd the sale of this book among their circle of friends, will afford an excellent way of contributing sub stantial aid to so deserving a cause. For Terms, Rates to Agents, Etc., Ad dress with lull Particulars, Gfn’l G. T. Beauregard, Publisher, On behalf of the Hood Memorial Fund, j 30-tf. New Orleans, La. GEORGIA & FLORIDA INLAND ST E All BOAT COM PA AV. The Darien Line! Savannah,St. Catharine’s, Doboy, Darien, Union Island, SL Simon’s Brnsnwick, SL Mary’s and Fernandina. Connecting at Darien with steamers for all land ings on the Oconee and Altamaha Rivers. . v 3*: -j' DAVID CLARK Captain F. H. WARD. A\7TLL leave wharf, foot of Bull street, every TT MONDAY and THURSDAY at 4 p. m., for above points, connecting at Brunswick with Ma con Brunswick and Brunswick and Albany Rail roads for all points on the line of those roads, at Fernandina with Transit Road for Jacksonville. Cedar Keys, and all points on Florida Central Railroad and Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad, and with steamer Flora, Captain Joe Smith, for ail points on St. Mary’s river, 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. Darien, Georgia. SPECIAL NOTICE. CAPT. THOMAS WHITE, Agent, is authorized to adjust, promptly, all claimant Darien. W. F. BARRY, General Agent. J. N. HAKRIMAN, Manager, sep22-tf Savannah, Ga. Singer Sewing Machine. -y |RS JULIA CLARKE HAVING SECURED the agency for the genuine and old reliabie Sin ger Sewing Machine, is now prepared to servo all those who are in need of the best machine that is made, and at very reasonable, prices. Mrs. Clarke is also actirg in Darien for Messrs. Ludden 'k Bates music store, Savannah, and will be pleas ed to take orders for any thing in their line. Give her a call opposite Mr. Reuben Walker’s offices. Darien, Ga., December 26th, 1879. A GREAT SOUTHERN PAPER. THE NATIONAL FAMILY PAPER or the SOUTH. 48 Columns. Do you Take it ? mHE SUNNY SOUTH HAS BEEN CONSTANTLY I improved till it has now nearly attained to perfection. TTie last issue came to us enlarged to 48 columns, is really a grand number in every re spect, and everybody should send for it without delay. In future it will combine all of the best features of all of the papers of theday. and justly be called the national J amity paper of the South, for it will soon reach almost every family. It will con tain every possible variety of reading matter,with splendid illustrations,and everything to entertain, amuse and instruct a family. Make up clubs in every community and send right along for it. Clubs of live can get it tor $2 each, a year. A sin gle copy $2 50. Don't wait for agents. Address J. H. & W. B. SEALS, d26-tr. Atlanta, Ga. ANNOUNCE M E NT. \\TE FEEL GRATEFUL TO OUR MANY \ | friends and customers for 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 be sold. Remember that we 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 BRUSHES, And tho best article of No. 1 KEROSENE OIL at lowest prices. Prescriptions carefully compounded night or day. W. H. COTTER 4: CO., feF22-tf Druggist* and Apot'faac'&rfe* EMIL A. BCHWABZ. NICHOLAS SCHWAKZ Emil A. Schwarz & Bro., DEALERS IN CARPETS & FURNITURE, 125 Sc 127 BroughtoißSt. SAVANNAH, BA., Carpets, Oil Cloths, Matting, Cram i'lothS , Hugs, Jttats. 37 a X3’H.INriTXJXI.33, In Variety and Style. Curtains, Cornices, WINDOW SHADES. UPHOLSTERY SHADES, AND TRIMMINGS. Wall Paper &c Decorations CHURCHES, OFFICES AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS FURNISHED. EMIL A. SCHWARZ & BRO., SOUTH. SOUTH. PULASKI HOUSE, SAVANNAH GEORGIA. GOOBSELL BROS., PROPRIETORS. rll HIS HOUSE IS NOW OPEN FOR THE RECEP t tion of guests. It has been thoroughly ren ovated, and is now being extensively repaired. Liberal arrangements made with weekly boaders. (iiiUllaKl/b I’.KGM., nov2l-tf. Proprietors. Administrator’s Sale. MONDAY THE Bth DAY MARCH, 1880. GEORGIA—McIntosh County: XTNDER and by virtue of an order of the honor- J able Court of said county, to the undersigned as administrator oi the estate of Charles A. Davis, deceased, will be sold at the store of the deceased, at Cain Creek, in this county, on Monday, the Bth day of March. 1880, the personal property re maining unsold belonging to said estate,consisting of Ship Chandlery, Groceries, Hardware and store fixtures, kr. Sold for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said estate. Terms of sale cash. ROBERT P. PAUL, feb27-2t. Administrator. Citation by the Ordinary.. GEORGIA —Mrlntosh Com i ty: rpo ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN;—WHERE- I as Glasgow Handy, of said State and county applies for Letters of Administration on the estate of Tenali Cummings, deceased lat<> of said county. These are therefore to cite all and singular the kindro and and creditors of said deceased to be and appear.at my office, in the time prescribed by law, and show cause (if any they have) why Letters of Administration should not issue to the applicant. Given under my hand and official signature this March the. Ist, iO. CHAS. H. HOPKINS, /N WEEK in your own town, and no I 1| Eg leapital risked. You can give the busi x . a trial without expense. The best i\Hlg I opportunity ever offered for those wil b) v *Jing to work. You should try nothing ■ else until you see for yourself what you can do at the business we bffer. No room to ex plain here. You can devote all your time or only your spare time to tin* business, and make great pay for every hour that you work. Women make as much as men. Send for special private terms and particulars, which we mail free. $5 Outfit free. Don’t complain of hard times while you have such a chance. Address 11. HALLETT & CO., Portland, Maine. juncGi nr—Ti-- imi | M it- ii—wiran i— 1 Administrator’s Notice. GEORGIA —Mclntosh County: is hereby given that the subscriber has been duly appointed Administrator of the es tate of Charles A. Davis, late of Cain Creek, in the county of Mclntosh, deceased, and has taken upon himself that trust by giving bonds as the law di rects. All persons having demands against the estate ot said deceased, are required to exhibit the same, and all persons indebted to said estate are c&lled upon to makepaymefit to. feblJ. ROBERT P. PAUL, Adm’r. HIDES, DEER SKINS AND— ■W"ax Wanted. ■■ rAM PAYING THE HIGHEST CASH PRICES for the above. No or drayage . charged. lam selling ROUGH RICE above quota tions at all times. Sacks returned io shippers. Send to me before shipping elsewhere. M. Y. HENDERSON, nov2l-3m. 180 Hay Street, Savannan, Ga. Application for Homestead. GEORGIA —Mclntosh County. JERRMIAH OWENS has applied for exemption of personalty and setting apart and valuation ot homestead, and I will pass upon the same at 10 o’clock on the first Monday in April, ISSO, at my office in the city of Darien. CHAS. H. HOPKINS, March 5, 1880. Ordinary, Mcl. co. J. J. SUTTON, BUILDER and CONTRACTOR DARIEN, GA. * Plans, Specifications and Estimates furnished. I giwrantee to my friends and tho public to give entire satisfaction to all work entrusted to me No Wood Butchers employed. $ jnne27-ti J J. KTJTTON. Notice. T HAVE APPOINTED SHERIFF T. BUTLER 1 Blount as my Agent in Darien, who is duly authorized to collect ail out-standing accounts and receipt for the same. All those indebted to me will please call upon him and settle. foh2o-tf. BRUNO PFEIFFER. U. q a A per copy, to single subscribers, is the yiUU price of the Philadelphia WEEKLY TIMES one fnsr. tto any address. Signs ami Portents. When the cresent of the Joung moon rests supinely, its young horns in air, it is a sign of dry weather, because in this po sition it holds all the water —thus prevent ing its fall to the earth. Don’t forget this sign of the new moon. It is rarely you will find ono bo impartially accomidating. Whosoever finds a four-leaf clover is gen erally a liar—it is so much easier to detach one leaf from a five-leaf stick than to hunt for one with four; and the temptation to mendacity is too much for average clay. When a mouse gnaws a hole in a gown some misfortune may be apprehended. The misfortune has already happened to the gown, and may he apprehened to hap pen to the mouse. An old sign is that a child grows proud •if suffered to look in a mirror when less than twelve months old; but what the av erage infant can see in a mirror to make it proud is difficult for any but its parents to understand. A red sky in the west at evening indi cates the next day will be pleasent, bar ring accidents of rain, snow and hail. If you take down your shingle prepara tory to putting it up in anew location, it is a sign you are moving. If a hen runs scross the street directly in front of you, it is a sign that a hen will soon be on the other side. If she crosses over just behind you—Pshaw ! who ever knew a hen that wouldn’t die right in her tracks, rather than cross one’s pathway in his rear? When you see a cut running around furi ously, it is a sign that the crockery or glassware is in danger. Where you drop a knife, and it sticks iu the floor, it is a sign that someone is com ing. If you are a small boy that someone may be your mother, and her coming may be to remonstrate with you with her slipper. To dream of a wedding is a sign of in anition. To dream of a funeral betokens too much pork and cabbage. To dream of finding money betokens that it is easier to dream of finding money than to work for it. To dream that it is Sunday morning is heaven. To be suddenly awakened from your sweetest sleep to find that it is not Sunday—That is to say, very disagreehle. It is a sign that you will be unhappy. A great many more equally infallible signs might be given; but the reader has probbably had enough for one day. The man who believes is sufficiently credu lous to believe that our knowledge in that line, as well as in every other line, is in exhaustible. A Woman With a History. Rochester plumes itself upon “a woman with a history.” She was the daughter of a wealthy grain speculator of Toronto, from whom she received a small fortune. Mar ried to a young merchant in St. Catherines she soon left him, removing all the available funds she could carry away. At Buffalo, whither she went, she led a gay life and is said to have been married again in that city. She first went to Rochester in 1864, engaged a suite of rooms and was seen up on the streets daily. She had a carriage at her order and servants to do her bid ding. From 1867 to 1869 she was absent from the city, having squandered her money. She went to Cleveland, where she enjoy ed life as she had in Rochester. Her car riage was at the door when she wanted it; servants went and came, and jewelry and fine dresses were abundant. Pleasures failed at last and false stimulants were resorted to. Slio sought relief by taking opium. Returning to Rochester, she liv ed very quietly for a time, but soon ascer tained that she had only to “touch the wire” and money would come from Cleve land. She telegraphed, and the old life of extravagance was resumed. She would at times buy SIOO or S2OO worth of goods a day, only to give them away. At one hotel she was noted for her liber alty to the servants, to whom she gave dresses and jewelry without regard to their cost. She is supposed to have spent SSO, 000 in a little over two years. .The end came at last, the Cleveland fund failing. The hotel was left, and poorer quarters taken. Then she began buying right and left without paying for anything, and now she is in jail awaiting trial. “Y’es,” she says, “I have taken opium for years. 1 use two ounces a day now, and I have for some time. The doctors say it is enough to kill me, but I cannot stop it. I went to the cure at Dansville, where I tried to break the habit by taking a smaller quan tity; but it was no use. The struggle was worse than the effects of the opium, and I left the cure. I feel at times as if I must follow every impulse, and I cannot resist always.” Rocking tlie Baby to Sleep. It’s the sweetest hour in all the twenty four, when the tired mother with her feet trotted almost off of her, sits down to rock the baby to sleep; when the hol low of her arm is 1 of tangled threads of gold, and the snows of her white bosom are not more fair than the peace ful little face lying against it. Her voice may not be cultivated and tine, but it is sweet enough to croon “Bye baby bunting,” for the little ears that listen; her face may not he “lovely” or “beautiful,” or even “bright but it is the radiant face of an angel to the sleepy little eyes that look up into it. Rock ing the baby to sleep—and while she rocks building castles for the baby to live in mapping out the spotless fu ture of baby’s life, comforted by the wee little form that cuddles so willingly up in her arms and “rested” from all her days’ work. I know a mother that rocked her baby to sleep last week; that sat in the darkening room and rocked the wee night gowned figure; that sang “Bye baby bunting” with her heart full of mother anguish and her voice brave and strong through mother love; that rocked her baby softly, and softer still, and final ly, when the old, well used chair that had “rocked baby to sleep” so many times was settled from its gentle motion, she laid it down on the tiny ruffled pillow, and, still singing softly and slowly her “Bye baby bunting,” knelt by the little form, while he went out and told them to bring a coffin for their darling.—Catha rine Cale in New Orleans Times. Whether a dumb man always keeps his word. $2.50 A YEAR. An Arkansas Cyclone. This is the way in which one was de scribed by a man who was jin it: “I was about 200 yards from my house when I saw it coming. It was in the praiarie when I saw it, and looked like black smoke from a large furnace. Its shape was like a funnel, inside it was red as fire, and around this was the black foggy mist. In looking at it I saw large and small tim ber carried along with it. My attantion was attracted by the roaring, and, as it was coming in the direction of my house, I ran to it for the purpose of protecting my family. I put my three little children in a side-robm among some com, and, with Sylvester Bull, was holding the door, and all at once the whole building was crushed to the very ground by large trees being blown against it. It blew me about sixty feet, and when I became conscious I found myself among a lot of timber and logs, and Sylvester was lying by my side dead; his bead and whole body were crush ed. As I was on my way to the house I looked again at the cyclone when it was about 100 yards away, and saw it lift and carry a lot of hogs and a cow. The chil dren when found were not more than thirty feet from where I had placed them, but none hurt. My wife was considerably bruised, being blown about sixty yards, among a lot of lumber. My sister-in-law was carried about fifty feet and thrown to the ground, her arms and shoulders badly bruised. My blacksmith-shop was also blown flat to the ground, my bellows en tirely destroyed, all my planes, augers, saws, and chisels were carried off and have not yet been found, with the exception of one saw found one mile from the shop and broken in two pieces. My wagon was torn up badly, the front wheels being about sixty yards from where the wagon stood, lodged against a stump; the hind wheels were both smashed up; wagon bed has not yet been found excepting a few splinters. All my bedding and wearing apparel was carried oft’ and entirely de stroyed. I lost all my provisions. Im mediately in the rear of the wind came a flood of water, just like a water spout appearing to pour as if from a funnel.” The Vanity of Men. The late Harriet Martineau offsets in her autobiography, the vanity of men against the vanity of women. She says that during a visit to London, where she saw the first men of the nation she saw exhibitions of vanity in bigh places that woman could not surpass. There was Brouhgam wincing under a newspaper criticicm, and playing the fool among silly women. There was Jeffrey flirting with clever women in long succession. There was Bulwer on a sofa, sparkling and languishing among a set of femafo votaries. There was Campbell, the poet, obtru ding his sentimentalities, amid a quivering apprehension of making himself ridicu lous. He darted out of our house and nev er came again, because, after warning he sat down in a room full of people (all authors, as it happened,) on a low chair of my old aunt’s, which went easily on cas tors, and which carried him back to the wall and rebounded, of course making everybody laugh. Off went poor Campbell in a huff, and, well as I had long known him, I never saw him again; and I was very sorry, for his sentimentality was too soft, and his crav ing for praise too morbid to let him be an agreeable companion. There was Edward Landseer, a friendly and agreeable companion, hut holding his cheerfulness at the mercy of great folka’’ graciousness to him. To see him enter a room, curled and cra vated and glancing round in anxiety about his reception, could not but make a wo man wonder where among her own sex she could find a more palpable vanity; but then all that was fogotten when one was sitting on a divan seeing him play with the dog. Then there was Whewell, gasping at praise foi universal learning—omniscience being his foible, as Sydney Smith said— and liking female adoration, rough as was his nature with students, rivals, and spec ulative opponents. Charity. Night kissed the young rose, and it bent softly to sleep. Stars shone, and pure dew-drops hung upon its bosom, and watched its sweet slumbers. Morn ing came with its dancing breezes, and they whispered to the young rose and it swung to joyous tones. Lightly it swung to and fro in all the loveliness of health and youthful innocence. Then came the ardent sun-god sweeping from the east, and smote the young rose with his scorching rays, and it fainted. Desert ed and almost heartbroken, it dropped to the dust in its loveliness and despair. Now the gentle breeze, which had been gamboling over the sea, pushing on the home-bound bark, sweeping over hill and dale, by the neat cottage and still brook, turning the old mill, fanning the brow of disease, and frisking the curls of innocent childhood, came tripping along on her errand of mercy and love. And when she saw the young rose, she hastened to kiss it, and fondly bathed its head in cool, refreshing showers, and the young rose revived, and smiled in gratitude to the kind breeze. But she hurried away, for she soon perceived that a delicious fragrance had been poured upon her wings by the grateful rose, and the kind breeze was glad and went away singing through the trees. Thus charity, like the breeze, gathers fragrance from the flowers it refreshes, and unconsciously reaps a reward in the performance of its kindness, which steal on the heart like rich perfume, to bless and to cheer. The Local. Editor. —A local editor should have ten years steady practice to get into the full merits of his’ business. The posi tion is just beginning to be appreciated in the South. Horace Greely wise enough to know what it meant years ago. It is the brains of a newspaper. No man is fit to edit a newspaper unless he’s been there. In Raleigh a few years since local editors were as cheap as five cents calico, and so the paper had a fifty dollar per week editor who could pick his teeth and gaze at the polish of his boots cocked on a lev el with his head, the whole compli ment of the pager was thought complete. But they are learning. The truth will pan out alter a bit