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eien Timber Gazette
VOL. 7.--NO 45.
Darien Timber Gazette,
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING,
.IT DjtRIEJV , CEO KG El,
CORNER BROAD AND .NORTHWAY STREETS.
RICHARD W. GRUBB,
Editor and Proprietor.
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Timber Gazette, Darien Georgia.
City Directory. __
_ . COUNTY OFFICERS.
County Commissioners —.James Walker, Chairman;
A inn Strain. Joan M. Fisher. J. A. Atwood, T. 11.
o.gnilliat. James E. Holmes, Joseph Hilton.
C eric Board of Couruy Commissioners —Spalding
Kenan.
C erk Superior Court —L. B. Davis.
Ordinary— C. H. Hopkins, Sr.
Sheriff —T. Butler Blount.
Receiver Tar Returns —W. MeW. Young.
fax Collector— O. C. Hopkins.
County Treasurer —M. C. O’Neil.
County Surveyor —W. R. Poppel.
Coroner —Philip Maxwell.
The Commissioners hold monthly meetings on
the first Wednesday in each month.
CITY OFFICERS.
Ex-Officio Mayor— James Walker.
Ex-Officio Aldermen —Joseph Hilton, J. A. Atwood,
Adam Strain, J. E. Holmes, Thomas H. Gignilliat,
John M. Fisher.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Committee on Finance— Messrs. Strain, Atwood
and Hilton.
Committee on Accounts —Messrs. Holmes, Gigml
dat and.Fisher.
Committee on Harbor— Messrs. Hilton, Hoimes
and Strain. ,
Committee on Health and Cemetery— Messrs. Fisher.
Atwood and Holmes.
Committee on Paupers —Messrs. Atwood, Holmes
and Gignilliat. .
Committee on Jail —Messrs. Fisher, Hilton and
Atwood. .
Committee on Streets and Lanes— Messrs. Holmes.
Strain and Fisher. ,
Committee on County Roads —Messrs. Atwood,
Gignilliat and Hilton.
Committee on Public Buildings— Messrs. Gigml-
Lat, Fisher and Strain,
Committee on Police—Messrs. Holmes, Hilton and
Strain. , ... .
Committee on Ordinances —Messrs. Atwood, Strain
and Holmes.
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 M. lanes.
Port Wardens —Isaac M. Aiken, John H. Burrell,
and James G. Young.
Jailer —Charles H. Hopkins, Jr.
Board Pilot Commissioners— Dr. It. B. Harris.
Chairman, It. K. Walker. W. C. Clark, Arthur lial
lov, 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 Master; M.
C. O’Neil, Secretary
UNITED STATES OFFICERS.
Collector of Customs, Brunswick District— John T.
Collins. Headquarters at Brunswick.
Deputy Collector of Customs for lort of Darien
Charles H. Townsend.
Inspector —Edwin C. Davis.
Postmaster —D. Webster Davis.
Deputy Marshal —Joseph B. Bond.
SUPERIOR COURT—EASTERN CIRCUIT.
Hon. Will. B. Fleming, Judge.
Major A. B. Smith, Solicitor General.
Bulloch County—Mondays in April and October
Effingham County-First Mondays m May and
N Bryan County—Second Mondays in May and
County—First Mondays in December
March and Juno. . , .
Mclntosh County Fourth Mondays m May an l
Liberty" County— Tuesday after third Mondays
in May and November.
UNITED STATES MAILS.
The mails arrive from Sterling, No. 1, Macon &
Brunswick Railroad, every morning (bundaj (x
cepted) at 10 o’clock a. in., departing eitrj after
noon at 3p. m. Mail closes at ifj P; ™: .. .. .
Side mail for No. 3, Atlantic A Gulf Railroad,
departs 3‘4 o’clock every Tuesday
arrives at 3 p. m. every Monday, touching at
Riceboro and South Newport both way s.
RELIGIOUS.
Religious services at the Methodist Church
everv Sunday morning at 11 ocloek, and evening
at s'o’clock. School at the Ridge every Sunday
afternoon at 3)4 o’clock. Rev. H. E. Harman, pas
t0 Religious services every Sabbath at H • m. and
3 p . m at the Methodist Church, colored, Rev.
L. il. Smith. ii:i-’ -
UTO t1.,000 A YEAR, or $5 to S2O
i day in your own loealitj.
VorDk. Women do as well as
non. Many make more than ike
imount stated above. No one
can fafl to make money last.
Any one can do the work. lu can rna'e rom
50 cts to $2 an hour bv devoting jour e ' L “'o
and*spare*time to the business It oosts nothing
to try the business. Nothing like it ever off. red
before. Business pleasant and strictly
Reader if you want to know all about tin t
paving business before the public, send us jour
address and we will send you
private terms free; samples worth •
you can then make up your mmd fo j
Address GEORGE STINSON & CO., Portland, Me.
June 20
Garden Seed.
WE HAVE ON HAND A SUPPLY OF FRESH
Garden. Seed, just received, consisting m
•jpart of
/BEETS, CABBAGE,
CARROTS, CUCUMBERS,
CELERY, EGGPLANT,
LETTUCE, OKRA.
ENGLISH PEAS,
BEANS, TOMATOES,
SQUASH, OYSTER PLANT,
EARLY GORN, PEPPER, Etc.
W. H. COTTER & CO..
Druggists and ApotheCa^es.
Professional Cards.
ALTER A. WAY,
Attoiney-at-Law and Real
Estate Agent,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Will practice iu the Superior Courts of the
Brunswick and Eastern Circuits. Also, iu the
Federal Courts in cases of Bankruptcy, etc. Par
ticular attention given to the collection of claims
and the examination of land titles. april2s
ROBERT GIGNILLIAT,
Attorney-at-l Law,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Prompruttention giveu to all legal business in
the Eastern and Brunswick Circuits, and in the
United States Courts at Savannah, Georgia.
april‘2s-ly
rE. b. Delorme,
J.
Attorney & Counselqr-at-Law,
and .Notary Public.
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Office on Broad straet, near Timber Exchange.
July 2
jJR. SPALDING KENAN,
4 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. aug3-ly
R. B. HARRIS
Offers his professional services to the citizens of
Darieu'aud 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-LaW,
Commercial Building,
juned-tf SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
HENKY B. TOMPKINS. B. A. DENMARK.
rjJOMPKINS & DENMARK,
Attorneys-at-Law,
No. 105 Bay Street, SAVANNAH, GA.
Practice in the United States Courts, and iu the
Superior Courts of the Eastern Circuit. jeC-tf *
W f. GARRARD. P. W. MELDRIM. W. W. FRASER.
/ 1 AIiRARD, MELDRIM & FRASER,
l X
Attorneys-at Law,
DARIEN - - - - - - GEORGIA.
Office at the Magnolia House. Marl9-Iy.
CAREY W. STYLES, j W J. WILLIAMS. | J. U. VINCENT.
WILLIAMS k VINctNT,
Attorneys & Counselors
At Law,
BRUNSWICK, - - - - GEORGIA.
Will practice in all the Courts of the Brunswick
Circuit . In the Supreme Court of Georgia, and in
the U. S. District and Circuit Oourts for the South
ern district of Georgia. L? id cases a specialty.
Office in Littlefield & 7ison’ ; new building, on the
Bay. apr2-t f .
Miscellaneous.
XiOOIS. OUT.
HOYT'S COLOGNE, CORNING'S COLOGNE,
LUKIN'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
fel)22-tf Druggists and Apothecaries.
I S J I 5 !Tf P A WAITED NUMBER of
Ml f| A| I 9 I active, energetic canvassers to
If fi.l • Li U engage in a pleasant and
profitable business. Good men will find this a
rare chance
TO MAKE HONEY.
Rneh will please answer this advertisement by
letter, enclosing stamp for reply, stating wliat
business they have been engaged in. None but
those who mean business apply. Address
je2o-ly. Finley, Harvey Cos.. Atlanta, Ga.
/NnnOl MONTH guaranteed. sl2 a day
i I S 92 II lit home made by the industrious.
' i <I 11 I Capital not required; we will start
I 11 11 11 I you. Men, women, boys and girls
t)/ KJ 'iJ 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 for
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. juneao-ly _
Collat Brothers.
Perform Their Promise
New Inducements to the Purchasing
Public!
Drives in Every Department!
Drives from the .loliliers ! !
Special Drives from our Buyers ! ! !
Solid Fact! Solid Fact
Savannah Prices in Darien.
In Groceries,
Hardware,
Wood & Willow Ware
Crockery,
Stoves,
Glassware,
Sadlery.
OFFER SPECIALITIES IN DRY GOODS
and Blankets. Shoes of all grades,in pegged ms
shine and hand sewed. We keep in stock a flue
selection of Ladies and Gents hand-made Loots
anil 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 Nortnern markets only. Thanking
you for past favors and salieiting a continuance
of the same, we arc yours,
COLLAT BROTHERS.
DARIEN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 30, 1880.
JUST OUT.
Hood’s Great Book
OP THE WAR.
Advance and Retreat,
Personal Experiences in the
United States and Confed
erate States .I r mies.
By General J. B. Hood,
Late Lieutenant-General Confederate States Army,
puplished for
The Hood Orphan Memorial Fund.
—BY—
General G. T. Beauregard.
New Orleans, 1880.
The entire proceeds arising from tbe sale of
this work are devoted to tbe Hood Orphan Me
morial Fund, which is invested in United States
Registed Bouds for the nurture, care, support
aud education of tbe ten infants deprived of their
parents las’ summer at New Orleans, (the melan
choly incidents of which sad bereavement are
still iresh in the public minds. Tho book is an
elegant octavo, containing 300 pages, with a fine
photograph likeness and a line steel engraving,
made etpressly for tins work, four large maps of
battle fields, bound iu handsome gray
English cloth ibree dollars, or in a fine
sheep binding with marble euge, three dollars
aud fifty cents—ln half bound Morocco, library
style, four dollars, or iu best levent Turkey Mo
rocco, full gilt sides and edges, five dollars.
On the receipt from any person remitting by
mail or express, oi the amount in a registered
letter or by a postal order, bank draft or bkeok,
a copy will lie immediately free of 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 in every library,—on
every desk—or upon the book shelf of every
house in the country.
Agents wanted in every town anf 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 Hood Orphan Memorial Fund
the sale of this book among their circle of friends,
wiß afford an excellent way of contributing sub
stantial aid to so deserving a e.use.
For Terms SSates to Agents, Site., Atl
tlress with full Particulars,
Gfn’i. G. T. Beauregard, Publisher,
On behalf of tbe Hood Memorial Fund.
j 30-tf. New Orleans, La.
Davis’ Brothers,corner of Bull and York streets
Savannah. Agents lor Savannah aud Darien.
GEORGIA & FLORIDA
INLAND
ST E A4I BOAT COM PA AV.
The Darien Line I
Savannah,St. Catharine’s, Doboy,Darien,
Union Island, St. Simon’s Brusnwick,
St. Mary’s and Fernandina.
Connecting at Darien with steamers for all land
ings on the Oconee aud Altamaha Rivers.
DAVID CLARK
Captain P. H. WARD.
T ITTLE leave wharf, foot of bull street, every
> t TUESDAY and FRIDAY 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 ail points on Florida Central
Railroad and Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile
Railroad, and with steamer Flora, Captain Joe
Smith, for all 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 aud
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 claims at Darien.
W. F. BARRY, General Agent.
J. N. HARRIMAN, Manager,
sep22-tf Savannah, Ga.
Singer Sewing Machine.
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
& 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 25th, 1370.
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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 Jamil y paper of the South, for
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tain every possible variety of reading matter,with
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Address J. H. & W. B. SEALS,
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IUE FEEL GRATEFUL TO OUR MANY
t ? friends Lind customers for their litieral pat
ronage during the past jear, 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,
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HAIR BRUSHES.
TOOTH BRUSHES,
And the best article of No. 1 KEROSENE OIL at
lowest prices.
Prescriptions carefully compounded night or
dav.
W. H. COTTER k CO..
feb22 tf Druggikts and Apothecarifffi.
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the exciting contest of the Republican and Demo
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throughout the country, directly and effectively
upon the twenty-fourth Presidential election, to
be held in November. Four years ago next Nov
ember the will of the nation, as expressed at the
polls, was thwarted by an abominable conspir
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tion agaiust all aggressors, The Sun is prepared to
write a truthful, instructive, and at the same time
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Administrator’s Notice.
G KO liG lA—Mclntosh ('on nty:
Ordinary's Offick, March 31st, 1880.
COPY OF THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
IJ\ of Converse Parkhurst,deceased, late of the
State of New York, properly certified, together
with a duly authenticated copy of the probate
thereof and of the judgement of the Surrogates
| Court,ofthe County of New York and State ot New
York, admitting the same to record, having been
duly filed in this office,and there being no executor
1 i r executors resident ofthe Btate of Georgia, named
jin >aid will,and Adam Strain of said county .having
I applied for Letters of Administration thereunder,
upon the real and personal property of said es
tate in the county of Mclntosh and State of Georgia,
these are to cite and admonish all and singular the
heirs and creditors of said Converse Parkhurstde
ceased, to be and appear before the Court ol'Ordi
nary of said county, on the first Monday in Way
next by Id o'clock's, m.. then and there or before
that time to file their objections, if any they have
i to the granting of said letters testamentary, other
wise Letters of Administration cum lotto mento an
nexo will he issued to the said Adam Strain on
| -aid estate in Georgia as prayed for.
C. H. HOPKINS, Ordinaty Mcl. C. Ga.
Darien, Geortra, April 2d, 1880.
J. J. SUTTOfY,
BUILDER and CONTRACTOR
DARIEN, GA.
Plans, Specifications and Estimates furnished.
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entire satisfaction to all work entrusted to me
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' one year, to any address.
Beautiful Sentiment.
One sometimes finds a gem among the
castaways of the forgotten years. The fol
lowing congratulatory letter to a young la
dy on the eve of marriage is venerable but
is good. The gentle heart that indited it,
■with the bride and her maidens, may have
passed away with the flowers that perfum
ed the past; but the ‘ old, old story” is told
ns sweetly now as then, and the same
stalely c ramonies usher in the event which
links the destinies "of two hearts.
“I am holding some pasteboard in my
hands three stately pluekings from the
bush of ceremony. lain gazing upon a
card, and upon a name; a name with which
your throbbing heart was lost. There is
nothing strange about that card. The
maiden sign still looks up from it, calm
and customary, ns it looks on many a
frendlv visit, as it lies in many a formal
basket.
“lam gazing, too, upon a card where
the nearer parent tells the world she will
he “At Home” one day; and that is noth
ing new. But there is another card whose
mingling there put a tongue of fire into
its speechless pasteboard. It tells us that
feeling is maturing into the tiny, and that
these cards are but the pule heralds of a
coming crisis when a hand that has press
ed friend’s hands, and plucked flowers,
shall eiose down on one to whom she will
be a friend and flower forever after.
“I send you a few flowers to adorn the
dying moments of your single life. They
are toe gentle type of a delicate, durable
friendship. They spring up by our side
when others have deserted it, and will be
found watching over our graves when those
who should, have forgotten us.
“It seems meet that a past so calm and
pure as yours, should expire with a kin
dred sweetness about it; that flowers and
music, kind friends and earnest words
i hould consecrate the hour, when a senti
ment is passing into a sacrament.
“The three great stages of our being are
birth, the bridal and burial. To the first
•ve bring only weakness, for the last we
have nothing but dust. But hero at the
altar where life joins life, the pair come
t irobbing up to the holy man whispering
the deep promise that arms each with the
other’s heart to help on in the life struggle
of care and duty.
“The beautiful will be there, borrowing
now beauty from tbe scene tho gay and
tlie frivolous will look solemn fyronce, and
youth will come to gaze on all that its sne
ered thoughts punt for -anil age will totter
up to hear the old words repeated over
again, that to their own lives have given the
charm. Some will weep over it as if it
were a tomb; some will laugh, as if it were
a joke, but two must stand by it for it is fate,
uot fun, this everlasting locking of then
lives.
“And now can you, who have queened
it over so many bended forms, can you
come down at lust to the frugal diet of a
single heart?
“Hitherto you have been a clock giving
your time to all the world. Now you are
a watch buried in one particular bosom,
marking only hours, and ticking only to
the beat of his heart, where time and feel
ing shall be in unison until these lower
tics are lost in that higher wedlock, where
ail hearts are united around the “Central
Heart” of all.
“Hoping that calm sunshine may hal
low- your clasped hands, I sink silently
into a signature.
Love for Children.- -To the reflecting
mind, there is no claim so strong as that
which a child has upon us, for unremitting
devoted, affectionate cherishing. It is
there because we have been happy, That
happiness we sought, careless, utterly
thoughtless of it. Exclusively seeking
om own gratification, we have forced it
to encounter this rough world and all its
trials. The voiceless baby speaks to our
conscience: you who have subjected my
helplessness to all these wishes and wants,
liow deeply hound you are to provide!
And this unconscious plea urged with
smiles so sweet, and glances so bright, as
could well fascinate of themselves. Every
day develops new charm. The baby learns
to smile recognation, and then creep to
its mother; an arch expression mingles
with tlie smiles of the child, and elevates
to the rank of intelligent beings; and as
it nears the extreme verge of childhood,
intervals of tempered seriousness descend
upon its eyes and brow, foreshadowings
of the deep and awful emotions of maturi
ty. Drop by drop water wears holes in
the solid rock; day alter day, with smile
and arch look, and grave questioning, the
child penetrates into the hearts. If there
he a love that it is undying, it is that of
the child. If there be a love in which
lurks no alloy of selfishness, it is that of
the parent for the child. The love of man
and woman is a beautiful and terrible
emotion, strong beyong expression, tri
umphing over terror and death; and yet
the best security for tbe permanence and
happiness of woded life, is to be found in
that seemingly fragile chain which is knit
by children's hands.
A Minin’ of Babies.— Some time ago I
there was a dancing party given in acer- j
tain neighborhood in Texas, and most of i
the ladies present had little babies, whose
noisy preversity required too much atten
tion to permit the mothers to enjoy the
dunce. A number of gallant young men
volunteereil(o<i mind the young ones while
while the parents indulged in an old Vir
ginia breakdown. No sooner had the wo- |
men left the babies in charge of the mis- i
| chevous devils than they striped the ba- !
; hies, changed their clothes, giving the j
apparel ot uiie to another. The dance
i over it was ffme to go home, and the moth- j
; er hurriedly took each a baby in the dress ;
! of her own and started, some to their
homes ten or fifteen miles off and were
1 far on their way before daylight. But the
; day following there was a tremendous row
in the settlement; mothers discovered ti.at
) a single night hail changed the sex of their
■ babies, observation disclosed physical
I phenomena, and then commenced some
lof the tallest female pedestrainism; lving
I miles apart, it required two or three days to
unmix the babies, and as many months to
j restore the women to their natural sweet
disposition. To this day it is unsafe for
! any ofthe baby mixers to venture into the
neigborhood.
The jvaves of a woman’s handkerchief
have wrecked many a man, and the waves
of a woman’s hand without the kerchief
have wrecked many a small boy.
$2.50 A YEAR.
Hotel Advantages.
i lie Bronson House, Bronson, Branch
county, Mich., announces the following as
its peculiar advantages: This hotel was
built and arranged for the special comfort
and convenience of the traveling public.
On arrival each guest will be asked how
lie likes the situation; and if he says tho
hotel ought to Rave been placed farther
from the depot and nearer the business
part of town, the locatien will be immedi
ately changed. Corner front-rooms up
only one flight, for each guest. Bath, gas,
water-closet, hot and cold water, laundry,
.telegraph, fire-alarm, restaurant, bar-room,
billiard-tables, daily papers, coupe, sewing
machine, grand piano, a clergyman, and
all other modern conveniences in every
room. Meals every minute, if desired,
and consequently no second table. Eng
glish, French and German dictionaries fur
nished every guest, to make up such a
bill of fare ns lie may desire, without re
gard to bill of fare afterwards at the office.
W aiters of any nationality and color. Ev
ery waiter furnished with a libretto, but
ton-bole bouquets, full-dress suits, ball
tablets, and the liair parted in the middle.
Every guest will have the best seat in the
dinning-hall, and the very best waiter m
the bouse. Any guest not getting his
breakfast red-hot, or experiencing a delay
of sixteen seconds after giving his or
der for dinner, will please mention the
fact at the manager’s office, and cooks and
waiters will be blown from the mouth of
the caaon in front of the hotel at once.
Children will be welcomed with delight,
and are requested to bring hoop-sticks and
hawkeys to bang the carved rosewood fur
niture especially provided for that purpose
and peg tops to spin on the velvet carpets.
They are allowed to bang on the piano at
all hours, fall down stairs, carry away des
sert enough for a small family in their
pockets at dinner, and make themselves
as disagreeable as the fondest mother can
desire. Washing allowed in rooms. La
dies giving an order to “put me on a flat
iron” will be put on at any hour of the
day or night. A discreet waiter, who be
longs to the Masons, Odd-Fellows, Sons of
Malta, Knights of Pythias, C. O. M’s and
M. D R.’h, and who was never known to
tell the truth or time of day, has been em
ployed to carry milk-punches and hot tod
dies to tho ladies’ rooms in the evening.
The office-clerk has been selected to please
everybody, and can lead in prayer, play
draw-poker, match worsteds in the villiage
store, shake for the drinks at any hour of
the day or night, play billiards, a good
waltzer, can dance the Gemma, make a
fourth at euclire, amuse tho children, re
peat the Beecher trial from memory, is a
good judge of horses, as a railroad or steam
boat reference is for superior to Appleton’s
or anybody else’s guide, will flirt with any
young lady, and not mind being cut to
death when “pacomes down;” don’t mind
being damned any more than a Connecticut
river. Can room forty people in the best
room in the house when the house is full,
attend the annunciator and answer ques
tions in Greek, Hebrew, Irish, Choctaw, or
any other polite language, at the same mo
ment, without turning a hair. Dogs al
lowed iu any room in the house, includ
ing vv(h)ine-room. Gentlemen can drink,
smoke, swear, chew, gamble, tell shady
stories, stare at the new arrivals, or in
dulge in any other innocent amusement
common to watering-places, in any part
of the hotel. The landlord will always bo
happy to hear that some other hotel is the
best house in the country. Special atten
tion given to parties who can give infer
matio as to “how these things are done
in Yewrup.
Heirs of God.
Asa child in the family partakers of the
nobility of its head, so we partake of the
grandeur of our God. iu the exhuberant
language of almost all the Apostles we are
called heirs of God, as if honor omnipotence
immortality ami endlessness of glory were
our portion as w ell God’s prerogative. This
allying of man to God, gives trancendent
importance to every one. It should humble
me fictitious nature of pride. It should
exalt the insigmficance that belongs lo
tlie inferior conditions of life, judging
from the liumun standpoint. Itgivesmen
in prosp* ct, the dinities anil immuities of
pricely estates. The steady attitude and
teaching of Scripture meet the brevity of
; life, the rapid flight of time, with the con
• solution that above and beyond the pres
ident roll the eternal years of God,and that
they are ours. Me do not perish with the
insect. Compared with man’s existence
here the stable heavens, the unw-asting
mountains, the sea and all that is therein;
enduring from age to age unchangablo,
i the great performances of fife. Andyetthe
the life of God is so much grander
than these things that they seem evanescent
in his hand. The heavens are to be roll
ed together like a scroll of"paper. Like ves
ture or a garment Cod doth change them
and iiirt them utterly away, so enduring
is he above all time measures. But man
j inherits all of God’s prerogatives. Eternal
j years are ours; not simply years that are
; given to ganius, nor years that are given
I to greatness. Every child that enters life
I to cry shall yet go out of life to sing and
to shout; for God hath crow ned him with
I his own eternity.
Criticising Newspapers,—lt is a very
easy mutter to criticise a newspaper, but to
publish one, so as to interest, amuse and
instruct the public, is no small undertak
ing. Those who are so prone to find fault
with every little item which does not suit
their critical and exalted ideas, should
buy type, ink and paper, and publish an
organ of their own. Let them try it for three
months only, and if it don’t give them
some new ideas of the newspaper business,
then we are no judge of human nature.
The conceit would be taken out of such
individuals so quickly that they would
hardly know what was the matter with
them, or whether they stood on their
hands or feet. We however would sug
gest a trial.
Before Fanny Fern married James Par
ton, she wrote in a description of Broad
way; “Here comes James Parton, who
doesn’t believe in the devil.” George D.
Prentice of the Louisville Journal, copied
it, and added: “Ah! Fanny, that was be
fore he was married; are you sure he don’t
believe in the devil now?”
“Don’t be afraid,” said a snob to a Ger
man laborer; “sit down and make your
■ self my equal.” “I vould haft' to blow my
I prains out,” was the redly.”