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GEORGIA HOME JOURNAL.
W. ADDISON KNOWLES, Prop’r.
VOLUME XII—NO. 23.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
METROPOLITAN
Cotton,Stock & Produce
EXCHANGE,
Library Building, AUGUSTA, Ga.
Send for copy of rules for trading. Cor
respondence solicited. Daily market re
ports furnished free of charge,
H. E. CUMMINGS,
febß 83 Manager.
RUFUS CARTER & CO.,
(Successors to Smith & Carter,)
—WHOLESALE—
' TOBACCONISTS,
832 Bd. Str., Augusta, Ga.
■STTobacco exclusiyely at Wholesale
only febß 83
DIAMONDS, WATCHES,
SPUE ill JEWELRY
For Bridal Presents. Send for illustrated
catalogue and price list to
A. F. PECKERT,
may 23rd, ’B4. Atlanta, Ga.
LORILLARD’S
MACCOBOT SNUFF.
CAUTION TO CONSUMERS:
As many inferior imitations have appear
ed upon the market in packages so closely re
sembling ours as to deceive the unwary, we
would request the purchaser to see that the
red lithographed tin cans in which it is
packed always bear
Our Name and Trade-Mark.
In buying the imitation you pay as much
for an inferior article as the genuine costs.
Be Sure to Obtain the Genuine.
Ivorillard’s Climax
RED TIN-TAG PLUG TOBACCO.
The Finest Sweet Navy Chewing
Tobacco Made.
The Genuine always bears a Red Tin-Tag
with our name thereon.
BEWARE OF ALL IMITATIONS.
may 9th, ’B4.—3rao.
ii iiii e.
AGENTS FOR
wMmmim
ECLIPSE ENGINES
Saw Mills, Planing Mills, Sepe
tors, Presses, Cotton Gins,
Condensers, Etc.
E5T'We sell all of the above upon the
most favorable terms, and ask the farmers
of Greene county when in need of anvthing
in this line to give us your orders. We al
so have control of Morgan county south of
the Georgia Railroad and solicit the trade
of this section.
W. A. KIMBROUGH & CO.,
feb. 29th, ’B3. Greenesboro’, Ga.
GEORGIA Mil StIEDEE.
GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY, )
Office of General Manager, >
Augusta, Ga.. Nov. 17, 1883 )
C COMMENCING SUNDAY, the 19th inst.
t the following Passeneer Schedule will
be operated. Trains run by 90th meridian
time, 32 miuutes slower than Augusta time:
PAST LITTE!
NO. 28, EAST DAILY.
Lve Atlanta 2:45 p m
Ar Gr’nsbo’ 5:21 p m
“ Athens... 7:15 “
“ Augusta 8:05 “
NO. 2 EAST—DAILY.
Lv Atlanta 8 25 a m
“ G'boro’.l2 09 p m
Ar Athens 445 p m
Ar Wash’t. 255 “
“ Camak. 157 “ •
“ Mil'dge. 449 “
“Macon.. 645 “
Ar Augusta 3 55 p m
NO, 27. WEST DAILY.
Lyc Augusta 7:40 am
Ar Athens 12:30 am
“ Gr’nsbo’ 10:15 “
Ar Atlanta 1:00 pm
NO. 1 WEST —DAILY.
Lv AugustalO 30 a m
“ Macon.. 710 “
“ MU’dge. 918 “
“ Camak.l2 29 “
“ Wash’t.ll 20 “
“ Athens. 905 “
Ar G’boro’. 2 15 p m
Ar Atlanta. 5 45 p m
NOl 3 WEST —DAILY. NO. 4 EAST —DAILY.
L v Augusta .9 00pm LvAtlanta.B 50pm
At G’boro’. .144 am Ar G’boro’ 146 a m
Ar Atlanta.. 640 “ Ar Augusta 610 a m
■STSUPERB IMPROVED SLEEPERS
TO AUGUSTA & ATLANTA.
Train No. 27 will stop at and receive
passengers to and from the following
points only: Berzelia, Harlem, Thomson,
Camak, Crawfordville, Union Point,
Greenesboro. Madison, Rutledge, Social
Circle, Covington, Conyers, Stone Moun
tain and Decatur.
Train No. 28 will stop at, and receive pas
sengers to and from the folllowing stations,
only, Berzelia, Harlem, Bearing, Thomson,
Camak, Crawfordville, Union Point,
Greenesboro, Madison, Rutledge, Social
Circle, Covington, Conyers, Stone Mountain
and Decatur.
The Fast Line has Through Sleeper from
Atlanta te Charleston and connects “for all
points West and Northwest, East and South
east.
E. R. DORSEY,
General Passenger Agent.
Jko. W. Green, Gen’l Manager.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
HARDWARE!
CHAMPION
REAPERS & MOWERS,
Buckthorn Wire Fencing, Eureka Post
Hole Diggers, Ice Cream Freezers, Ma
han's Vehicle Seat Sunshades, Fairman’s
Ice Crushers, Sarven Patent Wheels, Car
riage Makers’ Supplies, Jacobs' Patent
Wheelbarrows, Plain and Stamped Tinware,
Richardson's Celebrated Handsaws. Fishing
Tackle and Seine Twines. A full line of all
kinds of Hardware. Write us for prices
before buying. No matter what others sell
at our prices are always lower.
Thorne Hardware Co*,
1032 Broad St., Corner lltb,
AUGUSTA, : : : GA.
A First-class
COMMERCIAL Business School.
OHS I rpr Equal to any North or South
Send for Circulars, free.
MACON, GA. w. McKAY, • Principal.
CRAZY PATCHWORK.
Having a large assortment of remnants
and pieces of brocaded silks, satins and
velvets, we are putting them np in assorted
bundles and furnishing them for “Crazy
Patchwork” Cushions, Mats, Tidies, &c.,
&c. Package No. I—ls a handsome bun
die of exquisite silks, satins and brocaded
velvets (all different). Just the thing for
the most superb patterns of fancy work.
Send postpaid for 56 cents in postal note or
1-cent stamps. Package No. 2—Contain
ing three times as much as package No. 1.
Send postpaid for $ 1.00. These are all of
the very finest quality and cannot be equall
ed at any other silk works in the U. S. at
three times our prices. They will please
any lady. One order always brings a dozen
more. Ladies’ Manual op Fancy Work,
with 400 illustrations and full instructions
for artistic fancy work, handsomely bound,
postpaid, 50 cts. Order now. Address,
The Rochester Silk Cos.. Rochester, N.
Y. may 9th, ’84.—2m0.
The Model Soda Water Establishment of the South.
GINGER ALE, SODA WATER,
EQUAL TO ANY THAT IS IMPORTED.
—MANUFACTURED AND FOR SALK BY —
©litstfs l®Mtag ’Wtsl.ij
1348 BROAD ST., AUGUSTA, GA.
■HTOrders filled promptly and shipped by Express in Clinton’s Patent Shipping
Cases. No goods misrepresented. feb29 83
6. H. U.
THE GREATEST ARTISTS OF THE
WORLD ACKNOWLEDGE THE SU
PERIORS Y OF THE PIANOS
AND ORGANS SOLD BY
G. 0. ROBINSON & CO.
They are selected from ten of the BEST
Makers, and are so much Superior
to Others at Prices so mucli
Less that Pcrchasers
Save from
$lO to SIOO
By visiting or writing to
6.0. ROBINSON & CO.
E.1.0.M.—L.P.Q.S-
Large and increasing sales of musical
merchandise verify the fact that G. O.
ROBINSON & CO. SAVE MONEY for
EVERY PURCHASER.
SHEET MUSIC, the LATEST PUBLI
CATIONS, MUSIC BOOKS of every de
scription: the latest Italian Strings.
The Latest and Most Popular Sunday
- School Book
"LOVE 11 PEii;
LOWEST PRICES, at
G. O. ROBINSON & CO’S.,
831 BROAD STREET. AUGUSTA.
DEVOTED TO THE GENERAL WELFARE OF THE PEOPLE.
GREENESBORO, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 6,1881
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
DANGER!
Under the first impulses of the
moment we will resort to all kinds
of remedies for
j PILES,
| making them worse by so many dif
j ferent remedies. External reme-
I dies are known to relieve but noth
ing more, whereas by an internal
treatment we are relieved at once,
and cured permanently. The
EffllßU FILE HUE,
for internal use is prepared ex
pressly for piles in their various
forms. Send for pamphlet, or ask
your druggist for it.
Schumann’s Pharmacy
ATLANTA GA.
mav2 84
BY
B. M. WOOLLEY,
Atlanta, Ga.
Reliable evidence
given and reference
to cured patients &
physicians. Bend for
my hook on the hab
it and its cur#, free.
OPIUM
AND
WHISK. T
HABITS
CTTIRE.
SAVED HIS LIFE.
A Physician’s Testimony.
I was called to see Mr. John Pearson, who
was confined to his bed with what, appeared to
1)0 consumption of the worst form. As all of
his family had died with that dread disease
(except his half-brother), his death was regard
e l as certain and soon. After exhausting all
the remedies, 1 finally, as a last resort, sent for
a bottle of Brewer’s Lung Restorer, and it
acted like magic. lie continued the use of it
for some time, and has been fully restored to
health. So far as I could discover, he had con
sumption, and Brewer’s Lung Restorer saved
his life. IJ, O. HOLLOWAY, M. D.
Barnesville, Ga.
Another Rescue from Death.
In 1881, while sewing on a machine, my wife
was taken with a severe pain in her side, which
was soon followed by hemorrhages from tier
lungs, severe cough, fever, and she could nei
ther eat nor sleep, and in a few weeks she was
reduced to a living skeleton. Her stomach re
fused to retain any food, and the physician
thought one of her lungs was entirely gone.
At a final consultation of two physicians, her
case was pronounced hopeless. I tried Brewer’s
Lung Restorer, by advice of one of the physi
cians, and she began to improvejtfter the third
dose. She continued the medicine, Ana Is noW
in excellent health, and 1s better than she has
teen in several years. I believe Brewer’s Lung
Restorer saved her life.
BENJ. F. HEARNDON,
Yatesville, Ga.
From Macon.
In August, 1881, it was discovered that my
Ron’s wife was in the last stages of consump
tion. She was coughing incessantly, and at
times would discharge quantities of pus from
her lungs, could not sleep or retain anything on
her stomach, and we thought it only a question
of time when life would be compelled to give
way to the fell destroyer. After all other
remedies had failed, we got Brewer’s Lung Re
storer, and began it in very small doseß, as she
was very weak. She soon began to improve;
continued the remedy, and was restored to life
and health; and is to-day better than she has
ever been before. I regard her restoration as
nearly a miracle, for which she is indebted to
Brewer’s Lung Restorer. It. W. BONNER,
Macon, Ga.
Brewer's Lung Restorer is a pnrely vegetabfe
preparation, and contains no opium, morphine,
bromide, or any poisonous substance. Send for
circular of long list of wonderful cures.
LAMAR, RANKIN, & LAMAR,
MACON, GA
For sale by Copelan, Seals & Armor.
WOOD WORK,
BLACKSMITHINB,
—AND—
General Repairing,
-BY
J, ! HOWELL & 1,
GREENESBORO, GA
\V r E have just opened business at the
* v Copelan Shops, in Greenesboro, and
are prepared to do all kinds of work in our
line.
BLACKSMITHING,
making Wheels, Turning, Shoeing, Forging
and repairing of all kinds. We ask for the
public patronage. We do first-class work,
and guarantee it in every instance. Terras
CASH.
•W^.C3-03SrS.
One-horse Wagons, S4O to $45. Two
horse Wagons, $02.50 to S7O.
J.M.HOWKLL & SON
GREENESBORO, GA.
ml n t Send six cents for postage and
I / [ receive free, a costly box of
I / | goods which will help all of
either sex, to more money
right away than anything else
in this world. Fortunes await the workers ab
solutely snre. At once address True & Cos.
Augusta, Maine. mch. 7 ’B4
CANARY BIRDS*
FINE IMPORTED CANARY BIRDS
guaranted good singers, also the finest as
sortment of Cages in the city. Plain and
Mixed Bird seed, Gravel Song Restorer,
Mocking Bird food etc. etc. Orders by
mail promptly attend to and satisfacton guar,
anteed g,t
E. J. HICKEY,
Fashionable Hair Dressing
Saloon!
No. 212 Bth Jackson Street, rear of E.
R. Schneider's,
AUGUSTA, - - - GA.
WEDDING
Presents in large variety in Solid Silverware
and Jewelry. Send for illustrated Catalogue.
, J. P. STEVENS & co.,
Atlanta. Ga
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
LAND *
REAL mfiClCI.
. f_
THE undersigned have (Pencil an agency
at Greenesboro’, Ga., fe>r the purciiase
and sale of Real Estate. Parties having
lands for sale can have tiled jldvertised
FREE OF CHARGE!
and parties desiring to t Land,
Houses and Lots, or any ,7 l( y.nd of Real
Estate, would do well to apt > the un
dersigned. .No charge ujfc' V 1? is effect
ed. Very respectfully, r.
JONES & KNOM LES,
REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
GREENESBORO, GA.
We havo spent over 51 00,000.00 in defending
our rurlit fo the Durham Bull iou.*ir tnuU*-mark.
Undoubtedly he is to-day the tnof i valuable Bull
in the world. Now it stands to reunon that wo
couldn't nllord to protect him mi thoroughly if
IUaAUKWICLIAM BULL DURHAM To
bacco, of which ho is the reprisuiitative, wasn't
the BEST Sinokiog Tobacco ever uiade.
The sales of Blackwell's Bull Durham Rmnldng
Tobacco far exceed tlioo of any,or her brand in
the world, simply l*ecaime it haw Ifeen, iH, and will
lie, the best that can he made. AM dealers have it
Look for trade-marl; cf tlio Bull o < .very pack ago.
TO BE LET,
To tlie lowest bidder, the work
of repairing Trimbles Bridge over
the Appalaohee the
Oouri-hehse doonPffKorfiuii 1 ; ikur
gan county on Tuesday, June 17th,
1884, within the usual sale hours.
Specifications can bo seen at the
Office of the Clerk of the Board of
County Commissioners of Greene
county, Ga.
By order Board County Commis
sioners. *
JESSE P. WILSON, Clerk,
may 14th, 1884.
Of Kentucky University, Lexington, Ky.
Students can begin any week-day in the year. No vacation,
Tirpe to complete the Full Diploma Business Course about 10
weeks. Average Total Cost, including Tuition, Setof Books and
Board in a family, S9O. Telegraphy a specialty. Literary Course
free. Ladies received. 5,000 successful graduates. Over 500
pupils last year from 13 to 45 years of age, from 22 States. In
struction is practically and individual'? Imparted by 10 teachers.
Special courses for Teachers and Business Men. University
Diploma presented to its graduates. This beautiful city is noted
for its healthfnlness and society, and is on leading Railroads.
Fall Station beaint Sept. For circulars and full particulars,
address its President. WILBUR R. SMITH, Lexington, Kj
WOMAN.
Her Health and Happiness are Mat
ters of Great Concern to all
Mankind.
Near Marietta, Ga.
Some months ago I bought a bottle of Dr.
J. Bradfield’B Female Regulator, and used
it in my family with great satisfaction. I
have recommended it to three families, and
they have found it to be just what is claimed
for it. The families who have used it are
now in perfect health and able to attend to
their household duties.
Rev. 11. B. Joiinson.
State of Georgia, Troup Cnunty.
I liaye examined the lecipe of Joseph
Bradfield, and pronounce it to be a combi
nation of medicines of gjyat merit in the
treatment of all diseases* of females for
which he recommends it.
Wm. P. Beasley, M. D.
Dr. J. Bradfield: Dear Sir— My daugh
ter lias been suffering for many years with
that dreadful affliction known as Female
Disease, which has cost me. many dollars,
and notwithstanding I had the best medicai
attendance, could not find relief. I have
used many other kinds ot medicines without
any effect. I had just about given lier up,
was out of heart, but happened in the store
of W. W. Uckler several weeks since, and
he, knowing of my daughter’s affliction, per
suaded me to buy a bottle of your Female
Regulator. She began to improve at once.
I was so delighted with its effects that I
bought several more bottles of it; and,
knowing what Ido about it, if to-day one
of my Family was suffering with that awful
disease, I would have it if it cost SSO a bot
tle, for I can truthfully say it has cured my
daughter sound and well; myself and wife
do most heartily recommend your Female
Regulator to be just what it is represented
to be.
Respectfully, H. D. FEATIIERSTON.
Treatise on the Health and Happiness of
Woman mailed free.
The Bradfield Regulator Cos.,
Box 28, Atlanta, Ga,
—Montgomery Oil Works, Montgomery,
Ala., Sept. 28, 1883. Messrs. Haile &
Mower, Atlanta—Dear Sirs: Send me half
dozen bottles Mandrake and Buchu. It is
the best medicine in the world. If its
virtue was known to all, as by accident it is
known to my family, what suffering would
be relieved and what benefactors you would
be to the world. Yours truly, W. P. Tan
ner. Treasurer.
—We have a nice line of Parasols. Tbe
ladies will do well to make a note of this.—
W. A. Kimbrough & Cos.
SELECTED POETRY.
UENEMBER THY MOTHER.
Lead tliy mother tenderly
Down life’s steep decline;
Once her arm was thy support,
Now she leans on thine.
See upon her loving face
Those deep lines of care;
Think—it was her toil for thee
That left that record there.
Ne’er forget her tireless watch.
Kept by day and night, •
Taking from her step the grace
And from her eye the light. .
Cherish well her faithful heart,
Which, through weary years.
Echoed with its sympatiiy
All thy stniles and team.
Thank God toy tViv mother’s love,
Guard the priceless boon;
For the hitter parting hour
Cometh all too soou.
When thy grateful tenderness
Loses power to save.
Earth will hold no, dearer spot
Than thy mother’s grave.
HIS MOTHER'S PRAYER.
THE RINGING OFTHEBELL
BRINGS IT TO MIND.
A TOUCHING STORY OF A MOTHER’S
BOUNDLESS DEVOTION.— HOW ITS
RECITAL CHANGED THE TENOR OF
SIX LIVES.
About thirty-three years ago, one
lovely Sabbath moruingeightvoung
law students were strolling aloDg
the bank of one of the tributaries
of the Potomac river. They were
going to a secluded spot in the
grove to murder the precious hours
of that holy day in playing “whist”
and drinking wine. Each of them
was a son of a praying mother. As
they were sauntering along and
amusing each other with idle jests,
the court-house bell—used for call
ing the Presbyterians to their house
of worship—commenced to ring. Al
though fully two miles away.it soun
ded in the ears of those thought
less youths as plainly as if it were
upon the other shore of that narrow
creek. Suddenly one of them stop
ped, and told him who writes this
account thereof that he would go
rj} farther, but tjiat he would re
turn to town and go to church.
Then your correspondent shouted
to the other six, who were a short
distance ahead ; “Boys, boys, come
back here; George is getting re
ligion. Come, we must assist him,
we must baptize him by immersion
in the water.” Speedily we all sur
rounded George, aud told him that
only by going with us could he
save himself from a cold bath, to
which, in a calm, soft but easy tone
of voice, he replied :
“I know very well that you have
the physical ability to put me into
the stream, and hold me there till
I am drowned, and if you choose,
you can do so without my showing
resistance; but before you do, I
have a few words to say, and then
I will yield without a struggle. You
all know that I am nearly two hun
dred miles from home, but you do
not know, as I now propose telling
you that my mother is helpless and
bed-ridden. I cannot remember
ever having seen her out of her bed
and, I never did see her out of her
room. I am the youngest of the
family. Whon my father concluded
to send me here "to get the benefit
of our preceptor’s instruction—he
and my father having been life-loug
personal friends, and he charges
nothing for my tuition—he could
scarcely prevail upon my mother
to consent to my leaving her. The
struggle almost cost her what lit
tle life she possessed. At length,
after many prayers upon the sub
ject, she consented and the neces
sary preparations for my departure
from home were speedily comple
ted. My mother never spoke to
me on the matter till the morning
on which I left for the East. Then,
after I had eaten breakfast, she
sent for me and asked if I had ev
erything ready and properly pack
ed. I told her that all was comple
ted, and that I would be off as soon
as the stage came for me. Kneeling
beside her bed, at her request, with
her loving hands on my head, she
prayed for her youngest born. Many
and many a night since, I have
dreamed that whole scene over. It
is the happiest recollection in my
memory. I believe to the day of
my death I will be able to repeat
every word of that prayer. When
she ceased praying, she spoke to
me thus:
“My precious son, you know not
—indeed, you never can know—the
agony of a mother’s heart when
parting forever with her last born —
to her still a babe. When you go
forth from beneath the home of
your nativity, to pursue the 3tudy
of your profession, and of your
dear father’s choosing as well, you
will for the last time this side of
the grave look upon the face of
her who loves you as no other mor
tal does or can. Your father is not
able to pay you expenses for mak
ing visits home during the two years
of your course of studies. I cannot
, possibly live so long as that. The
j sands in the hour-glass of my feeble
existence have nearly run out. I
have, therefore, had a severe strug
gle, for I heard jonr kind, indul
gent father assuring you that the
whole case rested with me—that,
although you migblrnever have an
other such favorable offer, nothing
could possibly induce him to Set
in the matter against my wishes ;
so T have yielded. In that distant
and strange place to which you are
going, there will be no l<?viug moth
er to whom you cam apply for coun
sel when assailed,by tei*ptationd.
You imfst, thereiolti; w*ile u Lov,
leArk trf* rely on yourstdf—to*,*’
‘no,’ when urged to do wrong. I
cannot be with you, bat I will daily
commit you to the care of God,
who is everywhere present, behold
ing your evil acts as well as your
good deeds. Every Sabbath morn
ing, from 10 to 11 o’clock, I will
sjteud the hour in prayer for you.
Wherever you may be” during that
blessed hour, when you hear the
church bells ringing for the assem
bling of God’s people, let your
thoughts carry you to this chamber
of death, where your dying mother
will be agonizing in prayer. Com
mit to memory the eighth,ninth and
tenth verses of the first chapter of
Proverbs. I hear the stage coming.
Kiss me farewell. Now, the last
words you will hear from my lips
are in the language of Solomon :
“My sou, if sinners entice thee, con
sent thou not.”
When he had finished, he and we
were all weeping. Involuntarily we
had opened the ring which we had
formed around him. Unmolested
he passed out and went to church.
He had stood up against fearful
odds and each of us admired him
for doing that which neither of us
had the courage to undertake—
break away from wicked compan
ions and go to church. He had
left without a word and silently we
all followed. Without either one
knowing that any other, had done
so, too, each of us managed to throw
his cards and flask into the creek,
so that by the time we reached the
church every pocket was emptied
of its former contents. Never again
did any of that little company play
any games on the Sabbath. Six of
them have gone to their longhomes,
each a Christian. Only two of us
are yet living—George, an able
lawyer in lowa, and your corres
pondent. Both of us have been
church members for years.
THE LICENSE SYSTEM.
The Columbus District Confer
ence of the M. E. Church, South,
which was recently in session at
Talbotton passed the following res
olution by a large majority :
“ Resolved, That we pledge our
selves as individual members of
this conference that we will vote
for no candidate for the Legislature
—or any candidate for official po
sition, who is not willing iu legis
lation upon the liquor traffic to con
tribute his influence iu favor of
prohibition.”
The Macon Daily Telegraph and
Messenger comments as follows :
“We do not consider it the part of
wisdom, even from the standpoint
of temperance, to make ‘prohibit ion’
an issue in the election of members
of the Legislature. The progress
made by prohibition in Georgia,
within the past few years, has been
due to local option methods. Make
prohibition a political question and
a reaction will set in against it,and
many counties will return to the li
cense system. Mark the predic
tion.”
To which we would add our opin
ion that a well regulated and strict
ly enforced system of high license,
giving to lager beer and wine as
the least harmfnl beverages the
benefit of the lowest rate in the
scale, and exaoting the very high
est from whisky and similar strong
drink, because of their baleful ef
fects, would operate to the best ad
vantage under existing circumstan
ces. High license, with every local
and State statute already existing
vigorously enforced would, we are
confident, work a beneficial change,
and would keep the subject within
the bounds which reasonably ought
to limit it.—Atlanta Journal.
—The Planters Journal is of the
opinion that the low price of wheat,
the great staple of the northwest,
which is steadily falling in value,
will make lands in that section so
much less desirable that inside a
year tide of immigration will stead
ily turned toward the south where
more profitable agriculture can be
followed.
—A Baptist Doctor of Divinity
said, some time since, that his
brother, wuen he began preaching,
bought a horse to carry him to his
appointments, relying on his in
come as a preacher for the means
of payment; but his first year’s
salary was two pairs of cotton socks
four yams and a quart of Sorghum
syrup!
TERMS :—s2 OO per Annum, in Advance.
WHOLE NUMBER 573
LEGEND OF THE POTOMAC.
Written for the Home Journal.
Ten years ago I heard from Bish
op Marvin the legend which is sub
stantially set out below. I know
not if it has ever been in plant.
President Jefferson said that it was
worth a # voyage across the Atlantio
(before steamships) to view the aw
ful grandeur of the gorge at Har
per’s Ferry. The wonderful valley
between the Alleghany and Blue
Ridge chains extends from Penn-
YV LUISA BOubtU
ern streams find easy kccess to the
gull through the Tennessee river,
those farther north flow evJfc and
through mountain passes into the
Kanawa and James rivers. Still
farther north, where the great val
ley widens into a plain the Shen
andoah masses the springs of.eith
er range and glides to a meeting of
the waters, far exceeding the beauty
of Ovoca, where the Potomac pier
ces the Blue Ridge. Such perfect
types of the Beautiful, with its soft
sweeping curves, and the Pictures
que, with its awful angularity, are
seldom brought so close together.
But to the legend.
Waking from his tiny bed on the
crest of the AUeghanies, the little
streamlet started on its journey
with current scarce sufficient to
slake the mock-bird’s thirst. It
sought its mother’s home, the dis
tant sea. Leaping down precipices,
gurgling over the gravel, purling
through the forests and singing in
the valleys, it hied along, a joy to
fish, and beast, and man. Wind
ing across the broad plain of the
Shenandoah, it met the obstructing
Blue Ridge. Two thousand feet
athwart its way rose the opposing
range. Love hath not fear—inno
cence knows naught of despair. In
gentlest accents of faith the prayer
went forth. “Oh, Mighty Moun
tain, pass me, I pray thee, to my
mother, the murmuring Sea.”
Scornfully the frowning rocks re
plied, “Trifler, away !” Sadly re
sentful the little thing rejoined,
“I go, indeed, rude monster, and I
return to force, not ask, a passage.”
The lordly Sun, with rays ot light,
kissed up bis sorrowing child in
fleecy vapor. Eastern breezes bore
it to its native peaks, escorted by
ten thousand clouds from Ocean
sent. Again the forests and valleys
echo to the singing hills. Little
Potomac, attended by a thousand
sisters, hurries from the heights.
Like tented hosts, they spread o’er
all the plain. Widening and deep
ening, as if to rival the volume of
Chesapeake, they swell up to the
the brow of the scornful ridge. It
yields, it.breaks, and the conquer
ing floods rush through, tearing the
gorge to its lowest base. And so
the cheery children reach the em
brace of Ocean mother.
There is a moral to this legend,
worthy of a purer civilization than
the red man’s.
Milledgeville.
—Some years ago we had in our
employ a man who several times a
day ran out of the office to buy a
drink of whiskey. Every time he
went out the cashier was instruct
ed to drop ten cents in the drawer
to our credit. At the end of sev
enteen months, the man who had
gone out so often had drank himself
out of a good situation, and the
drawer, when opened, was found to
contain four hundred and nine dol
lars, which we loaned to a young
mechanic at seven per cent, inter
est. He used it to purchase a set
of tinner’s tools. On the fifteenth
of February, 1876, he returned it
to us with interest, saying, in his
letter, that he had a wife, two chil
dren, and property worth five hun
dred dollars. The other fellow is
hunting for food.—Pomeroy’s Dem
ocrat.
; a—
—Those, who are in the habit ot
attributing all financial and com
mercial troubles to Wall street will
be interested to learn that business
is fully as stagnant and depressed
in every country in Europe as it is
here. Aooording to the last re
ports from Great Britian steamers
representing the value of a million
of dollars are laid np in ports.
More than 120 steamers are lying
idle on the Tyne alone.
—A young wife who thought she
was losing her husband’s affection
went to a seventh daughter of a
seventh daughter for a love pow
der. The mystery-woman told her :
"Get a raw piece of beef, cut flat,
about half an inch thick. Slice an
onion in two and rub the meat oo
both sides with it. Put on pepper
and salt, and toast it on each side
over a red coal fire. Drop on it
three lumps of butter and two
sprigs of parsley, and get him to
eat it.” The young wife did so*
and Jier husband loved her ever af
ter.