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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. SUBSCRIPTION RATES : For one year (in advance) $2.50 For six months “ 1.50 m CLUB RATES: Five copies, each one year $2.00 Ten copies, each one year 1.50 ADVERTISING RATES: Per square, ten lines space, iirst insertion.... $1.50 Per square, each subsequent insertion 1.00 Special Rates to Yearly and Larue Advertisers Advertisements from responsible parties will be published until ordered out, when the time is uot specified on the copy, and payment exacted ac cordingly. Communications for individual benefit, or of a personal character, charged as advertisements. Marriages and obituary notices not exceeding Tour lines solicited for publication. When ex ceeding that space, charged as advertisements. Bills for advertisements due upon presentation after the first insertion, but a spirit of commercial liberality will bo 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; 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. A GREAT SOUTHERN PAPER. THE NATIONAL FAMILY PAPERou THE SOUTH. 48 Columns. Do you Tab' it? rpiiE SUNNY SOUTH HAS BEEN CONSTANTLY 1 improved till it has now nearly attained to perfection. 7’he last issue came to us enlarged to 4S 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 Jamil y 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 five 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, d2G-tr. Atlanta, Ga. ANNOUNCEMENT. 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, HAIR OILS, 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. TEE SUN FOR 1880. Tho Sun will deal with ihe events of the year 1880 in its own fashion, now pretty well under stood by everybody. From January 1 until Dei-em ber 81, will be conducted as a newspaper, written iu the English language, and printed lor the people. Asa newspaper, The Sun believes in getting all the news of the world promptly, and presenting it in the most intelligable shape—the shape that will enable its readers to keep well abreast of the age with the least unproductive expenditure of time. The greatest iuterest to the greatest num ber—that is, the law controlling its daily make-up. It now has a circulation much larger than any other Amerit an newspaper, and enjoys an income which is at all times prepared to spend liberally for tho benefit oi its readers. People of all condi tions of life and all ways of thinking buy and read The Sun: and they all derive satisfaction of some sort from its columns, for they keep on buying and reading it. In its comments on men and affairs, The Sun be lieves that the only guide of policy should be common sense, inspired by genuine American principles and backed by honesty of purpose. For the reason it is, and will continue to be, absolute ly independent of party, class, clique, organiza tion, or interest. It is for all, but of none, it w ill continue to praise what is good and reprobate what is evil, taking care that its language is to the point and plain, beyond tho posibility of being misunderstood. It is uninfluenced by motives that do not appear on the surface; it has no opin ions to sell, save those which may be had by any purchaser for two cents. It hates injustice and rascality even more than it hates unnecessary words. It abhors frauds, pities fools, and de plores nincompoops of every species. It will con tinue throughout the year 1880 to chastise the first cl iss, instruct the second, and discountenance the third. All honest men with honest convic tions. whether sound or mistaken are its friends. And The Sun makes no bones of telling the truth to its friends and about iis friends whenever occa sion arises for plain speaking. These are the principles upon which The Sun will be conducted during the year to come. The year 1880 will be one in which no patriotic American can afford to close his eyes to public af fairs. It is impossible to exaggerate the impor tance of the political events which it has in store, or the necessity of resolute vigilence on the part of every citizen who desires to preserve the Gov ernment that the founders gave us. The debates and acts of Congress, tho utterances of the press, the exciting contest of the Republican and Demo cratic parties, now nearly equal in strength 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 acy, and promoters and beneficiaries of which still hold the officers they hold. Will tin* crime of 187(5 be repeated in 1880? The past decade of years opened with a corrupt, extravagant, and insolent Administration intrenched at Washington. The Sun did something townrd dislodging the gang and breaking its power. The same men are now’ intriguing to i*estt>re their leader and themselves to places from whence they were driven by the indignation of the people. Will they succeed ? The coming year will bring the answer to these mo mentous questions: The Sun will be on hand to chronicle the facts as they are developed, and to exhibit them clearly and fearlessly in their rela tions to expediency and right. Thus, with a habit of philosophical good humor in looking at the minor affairs of life, and in great things a steadfast purpose to maintain the rights of the people and the principles of the Constitu tion agaiust all aggressors, The Sun is prepared to write a truthful, instructive, and at the same time entertaining history of 1880. Our rates of subscritions remained unchanged. For the Daily Sun, a four-paged sheet of twenty eight columns, the price by mail, post-paid, is cents a month, or #<* SO a year: or, including the Sunday paper, an eight-paged sheet of fifty-six columns,the price is cents a month, or $7 7 a year, postage paid. The Sunday edition of The Sun is also furnish ed seperately at Si*l 20 a year, postage paid. The prieeof the Weekly Sun, eight pages, fifty six columns, iH #1 a year, postage paid. For clubs of ten sending D*l we will scud an extra copy free. Address I. W. ENGLAND, Publisher of The Sun, New York City. EMU. SCHWABZ. NICHOLAS SGHWABZ Emil A. Schwarz & Bro., DEALERS IN CARPETS & FURNITURE, 125 Sc 127 Brouglitcm-St. SAVANNAH, GA., Carpets, Oil Cloths, Matting, Cram Cloths , Hugs , .T Metis. JIP XT 3FL IKE X "T* XT 10. E, In Variety and Style. Curtains, Cornices, WINDOW SHADES. UPHOLSTERY SHADES. AND TRIMMINGS. Wall Paper & Decorations churches, offices axd runlic B UILDINGS FURNISHED. EMIL A. SCHWARZ & BRO., 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. I guarantee to my friends and the. public to give entire satisfaction to all work entrusted to me tf , } - No Wood Butchers employed, t# j* jnue'27-tt J J. SUTTON. ! e,. rn per copy, when sent in clubs of 10, is the M I cjU price of the Philadelphia WEEKLY TIMES ' 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.”