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" Witnomn LAW BIVOUAC.
BY PASCAL J . MOTE A
frlwfaivuicea riM oat ^ftWtid^fcglSS,.
With Uughter and aong and load revelrie,
When the soldiers’ tent* are in bivouac sprrsd
The morrow will mark the abodo of the deed;
Oh, merry veil be, the Confederates cry,
If dajlight brings be tile yell via dr veil die,
■Tor liTing or djing oar cau*e it ie juet,
Oarlivcs are our count nr'8,oar country's cur dust.
Ae the luiar* of night on vinge flew sway,
Laughter con tinned and each heart was gar,
Bat when the first dawn of daylight drew nigh,
the soldier grew bold, bat br-lh»d»dsep righ
For the lavrd ones of home—Lis mother—his wife,
Whose nanTee to defend he'd surrender hie Ufe;
Kuongh of these tlio'ts—hia country calls hence,
And freely he ol-»r* the arm of defence.
The battle raged long and the ensanguined field
Proved Southrous might die hut uever would
yield,
And wounded and dead they lie scattered aroond.
A-MERICTIS, GEORGIA,
Three daoHars^ a Year,
ASST, JmSTE 17, 1870.
Number 17.
Professional Cards.
j. L. McDonald,
2Doati«t,
AMERIcrS, • -
i,c,re-Dv«T W'estheimer’e store. Lamar~atreet.
Tenur-M.deratn, bat Stdfltly cash. sgrttf
%,tjja a. BAwnw. . nun *. win,
HAWKINS & BURKE.
A ttornoyw at Zi»w,
Americae, • Geftrti*. •*
octntf • ___ *
, HtltLES T. GOOD*. SAMUEL LUMPKIN.
Geode & Lumpkin,
ATTORNEYS 4TI.AW,
Ajnorlouw, G-oorgia.
TYf ILL practice in all the counties of the
W Boo in weet era CfrcuitisiMl in the counties of
States Circuit and District Courts for Georgia.
Office in tho Oranbemr building, over W.T.
actorssr i:T law,
Americas, Georgia. •
< Slice in AiiM-ricns Hotel building, corner ol
Jjniar and College street*. may Id tf.
MERREL CALLAWAYi ~
gy Office at Court Home.
June 28 tf
FORT & HOLLIS, ' ’
A T T illi. S ft YS A '£ LAW,
Ami Bolicitor* of Patents.
Amerieus, Georgia.
tr Orti- • in the ro >:u ovor K. T.Byrd s .-tore.
april 29tf
night; *
Tlie moon that aimwu^er that disa^ruus plain
Illumined the forms of - the maagloJ aud *Uin.
Ob, who will dcfeutlt lie brave lulJiiir’o fa .no
If those whom lie f«nglit for will own hi ui with
it * 17 • 8 •? I 7 *•
in arm wm struck do.vu doleii.lnig u
;ht;
BehaUuwcd the duM ut the fallen brave**....
Bes n-redib^uiinndathat nurttiieirgrts,.*,
Be heartfelt the bars that in meiii'ry a re’s a e I
Over the graves of our patriot dead.
JACK BROWN,
A ttornoy at Xj a w ,
AMERICUS, GA.
Ollier in Court House with Judge Stan*
ford. febUtt t
N. A. SMITH,
Attorney at Ij aw,
W ILL practice ia the Courts of Sumter and
adjoining Counties, aud fn Circuit Court of
United Static.
as* Office on College street, next to Itcpabli-
an office. feb 25 tf.
S. H. HAWKINS,
Atiorney-at-Law,
Will continue to practice in Sumter and adjoin*
inj; cuuiiik-m, and in United States Circuit and
it Savannah. Particular at ten-
J. A. ANSLEY,
Attorney-atXiaw
Amorloua, Go.,
Will practinu in Uio Courts of Southwestern
(i.-orgia and in the United States Courts at Sa
vannah. Special attent ion givhn to collection of
debts, the aale and pvrchaae of lands and tho in
vestigation of titles. A large assortment of legal
i.lanks always on hand. decMtf
A. E.BROWN,
ATTORXEV AT LAW,
Amcricus, Georgia.
W 1IJ. give prompt attention to all bnaiueaa
entrusted to Lm care. nov W tf
George W. Wooten,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
utS'f—Ovct 1L T. Byrd's store. jaulStf
E. B. AMOS,
Attomoy- at a IjAW,
A MERIC US, GA.,
TtTILL give prompt attention to professional
*■ kinuness in the different eourtsof Sumter
n-uhw, Webatcr, Lee and adjoiningcountice.
ottne with J. a. Ansley, over Ii, Emanuel •
• Jun f*tf
GEORGE w. KIMBROUGH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
A * s ^ > ,9 eDtr, d Agent for the salo and ]mrchasc
u fend in Southwest Georgia. Jnvestigat-
>ag titles strictly adhered to. Will faithfully at-
ieiid to all buainesa entrusted to hia care,
-surkville, Ld-e county, Ga. _ novlltf
JOSEPH ARMSTRONG.
Attorney at Law,
AUUNV GrOBQlA.
From the St Paul Daily Press.
DEATH OF J. E. TllOMPSON.
Deep Feeling of Surprise and Sorrow in
* the Community.
•TAILS OF TIIF. MELANCHOLY EVENT.
Before 10 o’clock this morning tho
iws had spread, from mouth to mouth,
•11 over the city, that one of the first
citizens of St. Purl,—a man universally
known and beloved,—Mr. J. E. Thom
son, President of tho First National
Bank, bad fallen to tho earth—deed.
On every bend there was manifested
i eager desire to learn the details of the
sod occurrence, and the morning greet
ing of merchants and men on the etreets
was subdued with a sense of loss and per
sonal grief. Heartfelt tributes to the
sterling excellence of his character, and
expressions of respectful sympathy with
his bereaved family, formed the common
of conversation.
s highest estimation'in which Mr.
Thompson was held fay tho community,
and tne almost instant manner of his
death, accounts in some measure for tho
extraordinary interest manifested. A
man in tho very prime and vigor of life,
standing like a tower among his fellows,
has passed away like a shadow from the
land. Wo can hardly believe that we
shall not catch a beam from his great
sunny face on Thud street to-morrow, as
he lighU from his carnage. But he has
gone Uenoe.
F<5r several years past Mr. Thompson
hod been conscious of some sort of chronic
difficulty in his stomach, which waa
generally relieved, for the time being, by
a few spoonfuls of whisky orother stimu
lant. Doctor Wharton had given him
some light 1 - prescriptions lately, but no
ono thought there was anything serious
, the
On Friday he. made up * party to go
trout fishing, intending to return Satur
day evening, consisting of himself and
wife, his daughter Lena (aged fourteen),
and Mr Charles Wintenmite, of this city.
DR. WILLIAM A. GREENE,
-VMER1CUS, QKOlKilA.
(JoNTINUES to servo his friends of Americas
u!k«, ."“TOondjaR country iu *u the Uepsr
of “■ pmfc—oo. _ aj*16-ly
Dr. J. B. HINKLE
W 0 £P hi. KSITier, (in the
“ llt - of the IWcMiou) to the «ood
P,UrOW
**• Bpeekl stientiou Riven to Sundry.
tx tbs Draw BtorsorDr E. J.
w * u * rf * n “ th.t or lm. j.
• jnn. at.
Dr. S. B. HAWKINS.
M' 0mct •* »■ Udridcrt Dnt, atm.
M***** Church.
D. A. GREENE,
attoenby at law,
YHS5A,
*vnnL frithfolly stUodol to.|
T. L. CLARKE,
attorney at law.
°r. W. D. COOPER,
0™^ profisMUcnsI services to the dti-
1-.. , or Amenccs and surronodinR country.
-lOUHQtil.' 0 "- 1 '- U ° 0p “-
.t Ur. Them. H.rrold 1 ., CoUrptHill.
1)K. M. D. McLEOD, Ameri-
»uco*JrI!?r ®*-^ ) »e»ses of the Eye and Ear
.n^?y o ^ B*trove»ion cared by mechanical
■“otT—
H Dr. S. K. TURNER
HyM rraorrd thjwnntta. of Snnttrr
•hathe’i* lo«Sd 1 «j!*S^!^*SS 0 *A? , w
the family carriage, and the km
party set out. Mr. Thompson seemed to
be feeling unusually well; he got out and
walked a mile or so, up hill and down,
jost to straighten himself.'' He was in
fine flow of spirits. “Well,” ho 6 aid,
after executing a bit of difficult driving,
“I suppose I am a little the best driver
in those United States, anyhow,” and
all sorts of pleasantry and playful banter
he enlivened the journey till, at half past
four o’clock, the carriage arrived at
Bolles’ creek, near Afton; about eighteen
miles from tho city. • 1 ■ *
It was here arranged to send tho
rioge, with the driver and Miss Lena,
forward to a house u mile or so further
down the stream, where they designed
passing the night Mr. Thompson pull
ed ou his “Storm boots,” sent to the
carriage for a little barrel of ice-water,
and began to prepare the fishing tackle
with all the zest of a veteran sportsman.
They threw in thoir lines intending to
enjoy the Bi>ort till about 7 o'clock, at
which time the carriage was ordered to
return for tl cm.
At about 6:30 they had caught some
twenty-five or thirty nioe fish, and had
just reached as pot where the trout were
biting lively. Mrs. T. had so far been
the most successful of tho party, baring
more and larger fish, in her basket than
either of the gentlemen. Mr. Winter-
mute, who waa f6ur or five rods distant
from where the others were fishing to
gether, heard* loud exclamation from
Mrs. Thompson, then two screams in
successions. Ho sprang through some
intervening brush* and aaw Mr. Thomp
son in a half-lying posture upon the grassy
bank, pressing with one hand upon hu
side, and writhing aa if in intense pain.
He said : “I amj very sick.” Mr. W.
ran to a cabin near by, hoping to get
some whisky or spirita of some kind; but
they bad nothing—not even vinegar or
ginger, or pepper, or spice of any sort
Another bouse, occupied by Germans,
was visited, bnt nothing could be pro
cured. Returning in naste he found
Mrs. Thompson exerting all her jpowi
fay rubbing and chafing, to relieving t
stricken man. Mr. Wintermute fcaw in
his face that it waa the composure of
death. Mrs. Thompson ran to the near
est homso for mustard, returning only to
find her husband unconscious and giving
no sign of life. He was dead.
Mrs. Thompson would not believe
that he was uead. Only ten or fifteen
minutes had passed rince ha was lau
ing by her side; and now she sat on
ground with the dead head in her lap; no
help in all the world.
A' man driving along the road near faj
waa stopped and a hone taken out of the
wagon. His owner mounted and rode
swiftly for the carriage which enntaiffimi
what they had sought in vain for in the
the cabins. The memengcr found the
carriage just leaving the house, to meet
the appointment at 7 o'clock, and no time
waa loot in returning. Mrs. ""
now joined by her daughter,
her efforts to evoke life. The body was
•cut in to this dty. He arrived here
about 1130 (some evening), and haring
procured a large express wagon from Mr.
Webb, returned with Mr. HoweeThomp-
son, the brother of the deceased, and Dr.
Wharton, arriving at Bollo’s Creek at
4 o’clock yesterday morning.
• Preparations were soon made for leav
ing the scene of their sad bereavement,
and the cartage arrived in this city, abpnt
10 o’clock yesterday morning. Bevtoal
of the moat intimate friends of the de
ceased were permitted to ace him as he
lay upon the sofa'for a short time, sad
the general remark whs that he looked
as though he slept—«o placid and so
peaceful was the expression of hia- noble
features. -
Concerning this great grief the common
words of sympathy seems almost an im
pertinence. Mr. Thompson endured bnt
a few minutes pain, passing quickly in
beyond “this bank and shoal of Mm©,”
but the widowed wife has suffered until
aheis now almost prostrated, and her
kindest friends are those who will spare
their attention iu this sacrid hour, of
Hits* hard to give np
the beloved one. * On ttet terrible night
after the calamity,—when worn to aLaer
exhaustion with two boars frantic efforts
to bring him back, Mrs. Thompson and
her daighter were taken to the residence
of Mr. Gilbert, leaving the lifeless hotly
at the form house,—some noise of ap
proaching steps were heard outside at
about 3 o’clock in the morning; and in an
instant both mother and daughter were
on the porch to meet the dear husband
anil father/ hope, quick-springing in the
breast, suggested that be had awaken from
the deadly stupor, and waa come to an
nounce himself.
A potU-mortetx examination was made
yesterday afternoon by Drs..Mnrphy and
Wliarton, assisted by Dr. D. W. Hand,
and the cause of his death wes ascertained
to bo the barsting of^one of tUeJvesaels of
tho abdomen, producing interior hemor
rhage. The infirmity of tho structure at
that point was of such a nature that he
might have been taken off at any time;
any slight occasion, leaning heavily over
a counter, a fall, an undue pressure of
any sort, would have produced the result.
Some reports have imputed his death to
drinking ice-water while iu a heated con
dition, bnt he drank the water at least an
hour and a half before the occurrence. He
had at the moment a trout on his hook,
and exclaimed, “O, I’ve got a big fellow,
bnt I can't get him out!” Possibly the
effort and excitement of the moment oc
casioned that degree of pressure which
raptured the vessel.
James Egbert Thompson was born in
Poultney, Vi, in the summer of 1828.—
He received an academic education in St
Lawrence College (at the time called Gov-
erncur High School), and at the age of
20 removed to the Stale of Geoogia; mar
ried at Fort Edward, N. Y. After build
ing up a prosperous business in Ameri
ca*, Georgia, in connection with his
brother, Horace Tompson, he made a
visit to Minnesota in 18G9, the result of
which was a determination to make this
city his future home. Since then, his
hiatoiy is so well known that his death
is regarded as a great loss, not only to
the circle of his immediate friends, but
a calamity to the city and to the State.
The funeral will take plnde from his
late residence on Dayton’s Bluff, proba
bly on Tuesday next Tho announce
ment will be mode in the newspapers.—
He will be buried in his family lot at Oak
land cemetery. His life was insured for
somo §10,000. Be leaves a wife and five
children.
Mr. Thompson was a member of the
Society of tne First Baptist Church in
this city. He set for himself a high
standing of Christian character, while
he cultivated a aimple and childlike faith.
He was for many years, and up to the
time of his death, a teacher in the Sab
bath School of the church with which he
was connected, and he was rated os pne
'apt to teach.”
But tho genial, social, qualities of
Mr. Thompson’s character were what
won for him such troops of friends.—
There waa about him a certain royalty—
the manners of tho skies. His presence
was itself a benefaction. St. Paal will
long cherish the memory of his noble
works and his noble ways.
PRESIDENTIAL
i eoe ins one of out exchanges espec
ially those of New York* somo talk of the
next Presidential nominees; who they will
be or ought to be. It is generally be
lieved that General Grant would have no
objection to n renomination. On the
Democartic aide, Chief Justice Chose is
suggested by some, also, General Han
cock, Governor Hoffman, and perhaps
Judge Black and Governor English.—
Our choice at this time, of all the mi
that are prominent before the public,
the Hon. Allen G. Thurman,- of Ohio, at
this time U. S. Senator, from Ohio. He
a statesman of broad, liberal, coin
hensive and Constitutional views, or
President, v/onUL in our opinion,
equal to any that has filleu the chair
sinoe the days of Andrew Jackson. He
has all the element about him, that goes
to make up the great and able man, and
has already made his mark as a U. S.
Senator. He lias not a superior in the
body and we question if he has on equal,
take him all in all.
We should like to see, if he ahonld be
nominated by the Democratic party for
the Presidency, the Hon. H. V. Johnson
pat oa the ticket as Vice President The
Sonth certainly deserves some recogni
tion by this tim<4 and we know-of nc
better or abler man than Ex-Governor
Johnson of Georgia, for aoch u position.
Such ia our choiou at this time, and if we
cannot get Judge Thurman, we would like
to see Hon. George H. Pendleton pnt in
nomination. We want * man of princi
ple, and no shifting, policy seeking poli-
b, u -on us.—.ViUatqrtill* Recorder.
Noce most be Dipped
A singular occurrence recently trans
pired iu New York. On Sunday after
noon at u Radical Baptist Clinrch, a lady
was baptized in the presence of a large
congregation, but on Monday called on
her pastor and said that afie was very un
happy because iu her baptism, on the
a day, the end oflier nose did
trader the water, and therefore
an nnbaptixed person. The
paator attempted -to allay her acruplea,
that at any rate she had done her doty
and .should be satisfied. A few days
afterwards she came back stating that
■he could not find peace, and that the or
dinance should be administered to her
satisfaction. The paator had bi» tank
filled to the brimft^and placed the can
didate so deep in the pool that she has
had no scruples about “the end of her
of the
tnd&nM.of J|Hf 2*uitaa MpoeBtom, man
aged to abut two little Jewish girls np m
L&£X$£ heKtmcoopIeo1
BUSCHES HOUSE HUBUHO.
ABOMAXCXOFT
C FIRST-OF NAY.
[DY HELEN FOHHESr GRAVES.] '' *
A man b like a vegetable,” said Mr.
Selby, thoughtfully robbing his specta
cles; “he don’t like to be uprooted when
once he has taken kindly to the soil'*
“But uncle,” coaxed Blanche, timidly,
“ the old house is to shabby, and the
landlord won’t pnt on any repairs, and
the neighborhood ia getting sp terribly
Dear,” said the elderly gentleman,
'don'tyon suppose Shakespeare knew
what he was about, when he wrote that
We hod better •
“ Bsarrthaee ills we have
Tkan fly to others we know not of.'
■“Pshaw!” said Blanche, elevating her
Jtoee, " I don’t believe Shakespeare
ever moved in hie. life—what ahonld he
know about it!” .... .
^wpgyww^gaU^^yedtolya^
ever, if you are, bent upon 'boiug fash
ionable——
'lit isn't a question of fashion, nucle,
if a a question of common comfort anil
decency,” interposed Blanche.
“Well well, have it yonr own way,” as
sented Mr. Solby. “Only don’t ask me
to gohonao hunting.
“I’ve no such idea,” said Blanche,
saucely. “As it a girl of eighteen
couldn’t find a house without falling back
on her ancle’s greater experience.”
Mr. Selby looked lifter his neice with
an amused, loving smile, os the pretty
young girl bounded off, dork-eyed and
elastic, with brown curb drooping over
her ivory- fair brow.
“A house, indeed 1 thought old Mr.
Selby. 4 ‘ Tho first thing sloe’ll be finding
will be a lover, and then what will the
old uncle do? It’s the way of the world,
I suppose; but I could almost find it in
my heart to wish that little Blanche
would rema'n an old maid all tho days of
her lifo. I know Fm a selfish old dog,
but we’re all selfish in this world. She
has a snug little property of her own, too,
that will tempt fortuno-hunters. Ah!
well-a-day! a pretty girl in this generation
is exposed to as many perils as were the
warriors of old who went out with shield
and buckler, to fight their wav through
the world.”
Blanche Selby was radiant when she
came home in the yellow April twi-light.
“Eureka, uncle!” she cried, gaily, “I
have found it”
What? the Philosopher's stone ?”
'Nojhe house.”
“Oh 1” said Mr. Selby, “ Well where
is it?”
On Glenn Street. The prettiest
house, in perfect repair, with a delicious
little green gem of a garden around it—”
“ Full of frogs, and fever-and-agne, I
suppose
“No yon incredulous old unde—full
of lilies of the valley and tulip beds, with
two royal old elms drooping over the
front porch——"
“ Oh ! h—h !” cried Mr. Selby with a
counterfeit shuddei . “ tlist accounts for
the blue mound on the mantle and the
mildewed wall-paper, and the leaky
roof.
‘'Nothing of the sort, uncle. Didn’t
I tell you tho house was in perfect re
pair? Bnt uncle ”
"Well, what’s coming now?”
The lady who owns the boose—she’s
a widow, uncle, and hair just like the
shells of a ripe chestnut—would like ibe
privilege of retaining just two rooms for
herself, on the second floor. She lias had
jeverses, and cannot afford to keep the
whole bonse.”
Cool for the widow, upon my word!”
said Uncle Selby. “So I’m to open a
tenement house for her benefit, eh?”
Uncle!”
Well, what else does it amount to?
How many children has she, I’d like to
know ?”
‘‘Only one son, undo, and ”
“A noisy, romping schpd-boy. I’ll go
bail, playing ball rathe back garden, and
■mashing in all the window-glass, beating
cate tormenting dogs. I always did hate
boys.”
' Wrong, uncle, all wroug from the
' ining!” cried Blanche, gleefully.—
is a young clergy man, and he preacli-
tho Mill Street Church, aud one of
tho rooms is to bo his study.”
Worse and worse.” said Mr. Selby
i a grim face, 44 he’ll be trying to con
vert me and giving me handles of tracts
to distribute among my friends. No,
Blanche, no—tell the young clergyman
and his mama, to clear out. If I’m to
have a honso at all, I wont it entirely to
MSlf.”
ilnnche colored and hung down her
head.
“But uncle I promised them they
should have tho two rooms. I didh't
ippose yon would object.”
44 My near, that shows how much you
still have to learn of yonr uncle’s charac
ter;” said the old gentleman, drily.
"I can’t do it, uncle,” ponted Blanche
I promised them, and cannot forieit
my word.”
44 Forfeit a fiddlestick," said nncle
Selby, grafiiy.
“And the young clergyman was so
ilite, and I promised to take a class
is Sunday-School.”
“Soyou got up a flirtation with tfae
young clergymen, eh ?” said uncle Selby.
"Apretty war yon hare of housing,
miss.”
I couldn’t refuse to speak to him,
could I ?” demanded Blanche, with somo
asperity.
“Well, well, all there is left for ns to
do,’, said Mr. Selby, shrugging his shonl-
ders, “jsto go and undo tho mischief
you’ve conjectured up, ns well as maybe.
Yon say you engaged the house ?”
44 Yes, uncle.” whispered Blanche.
“ At what rent ?”
"Only fifteen huudred dollars.”
“Upon my word!” laughed nncle Sel
by, “your widow understands the great
art of making a bargain remarkably well.
I’ll go there to-morrow rafrrning tho first
thing.”
Blanche cried a little, bat Blanche’*
tears only seemed to strengthen her un
cle’s grim determination to have nothing
to do with interesting young clergymen
and soft-eyed widows.
44 Gome Blanche,” said tho old gentle
man, resolutely, tho next morning aa
they rose from the breakfast table.
44 Must I go with you, nade ?” hesita
ted the young girL
• •Of aimii-ca ”
from Mr. Selby’s lips. 4< Mirime don’t
you remember mo—old Ralph Selby,
uaiyou used to-tease so mexoileeslw
To think I should meet yon here, Mxu-
nie, of tdl places in the world! And yon
are a widow, too”—with a glance at her
black garments—“dear me, dear me!”
, And Mrs. Elmsley smiled and colored
with glistening eyes/a* she recalled the
days when Ralph Selby had been her
first love—rough and brusque, and
tie disposed to be domineering, bnf
and noble-hearted withal, as a *
tepiplar of old.
“Yon’re as pretty as ever Minnie, said
the elderly gentleman, holding her hand
in liis, and looking at tho dewy eye and
tho luxuriant brown hair, which seemed
as yet untouched by time.
. /‘Nay, yon mostnet flatter me, Ralph,”
smiled the widow. “I have been used to
meet the world on for other than that,
since we parted. This house is all I
have left of the fortune which onoe
seemed so boundless to me, aud even
niwMnJjr. . L .„—
yon should have the two rooms you want
ed, andtuoro too if you should think it
necessary?”
“But,- uncle ” liegiiil Blanche
mischieviously.
Mr. Selby frowned at his neico with
many pantomimic sigrnw that she shonld
hold her tongue l and promptly concluded
the bargain with Mrs. Elmsley on the
spot. -
“Didn’t I tell you she -was a pretty
widow, _ uncle?” demanded Blanche a&
they walked homeward. “And you
did’t see the young clergyman after alL”
44 Tho idea of Minnie Cleveland hav
ing a son old enough to preach the
Goepel!” said Mr. Selby, mechanically
rubbing his eye-glasses. “Pretty!—she
was the beauty of all our set, when I was
ayouug man.”
So they hired the picturesque cottage
in the suburbs, with the elm trees nod
dling over the poarch, and the lilies
gleaming like strings of pearls under their
green glossy leaves; -and the Juno roses
blossomed and died, and the summer
glow softened into autumn, and when the
ehn leaves showered down a yellow rain
on tho lawn below. Uncle Selby met
Blanche coming from early service at the
Mill street church, one clear, crisp morn
ing.
“Uncle,” said Blauche, eagerly. “I
have something tossy to yon.”
“And I wanted to tell you something,”
said her nncle, with rather an embarrassed
nir; 44 but yon may say your say first”
“No, uncle*~you,” insisted Blanche,
“you are the eldest.”
“ Well, then,” said uncle Selby, 44 I’m
going to marry Mrs. Elmsley.”
“Oh/ uncle—how nice 1” cried
Blanche, clapping her hands. “You’ll
be my father-in-law, then !”
44 Ion are mistaken, my deal*,” said Mr.
Selby, complacently. “Minnie will be
your aunt.
“Oh! uncle, you don’t uuderstand,”
said Blanche, coloring aud smiling, and
mercilessly pulling the scarlet berries off
tho mountain-ash by the gate. “Herbert
has asked mo to be his wiie—and I said
yos.”
“Herbert Elmsley, eli?” said Mr.
Selby, “well my dear I believe he’ll make
you an excellent husband. I congratu
late you, Blanche.”
“And yon, uncle,” said Blanche, reach
ing up to kiss tho gray-mustaclied man,
who seemed in her young eyes, “to bo
beginning the world so late in life.”
But she did not know that autumn
sunshine is sometimes scarcely less radi
ant than that of spring.
Neither had ahe known, when she went
house-hunting, that she was finding not
ily a house, but a husband for herself
id a wife for Uncle Selby.
•Of oourse, cried Mr. Selby. “Don’t
I need a witness of whatever bargain I
ay conclude to make ?”
“Bnt I don't want to, nnele.”
“Nonsense, child—come along.”
And Blanche, the more submissive end
yielding of the two, was forced to
p*ny her nncle.
Even unde Selby waa forced to con
fess that the cottage on Glen Street was
44 aUttie gem of* palace,” and he almost
SS, 1 !?‘ , ’ ray np
In a law minutes the parlor door
—TheloRnringii taken from a tomb opOaed. and a tall gracatnl lady ia black
1 itoia in Western New York: “In memo- ... • ,
’ ry of Adeline Cobh, who wee etrocklnrL m . I .!Sil^L^ aol * 3r3rqn ’*“'• “ heb *‘
ry of Adeline Cobb, who was struck by
Mr. H. Boswell, waa also lightning by her fr^nd Maiy Hicks.
y, it’s Minnie Cleaveland ?” burst
Nathaniel Wills died in Boston, on
the 20Ui ultrno, at the age of ninety.—
His father was Nathaniel Wills, a publish
er well-known in the days of the Devolu
tion, who was an apprentice with Benja
min Franklin in the minting office situ
ated upon the spot where tho Daily Ad
vertiser' building now stands, and was
also a member of the Boston “tea party.”
The subject of this sketch was also a
publisher and journalist. He fouuded
the Eastern Argus, of Portland, and was
tho original proprietor, and for many
years editor ox the Boston Record, which
was established in 1S1C, and was the first
religious newspaper in the world. He
also started the Youth's Companion, the
** * ‘Vs paper. Two sons, Nathaniel
— „ ills, the poet, our late senior,
and Richard Storrs Will, followed the
profession of their fibber and grandfath
er, and one of his daughters, Mrs. Parton
well known as an authoress.
Houiuble Double Suicide ts Nick.—
Particulars of the double suicide at Nice
arc given by the Paris Gankrit. On Sun
day morning lately some peasants found
iu the grounds of the Villa Teissere, in
the Valley of Montegat, near Nioe, *
young woman bleeding and insensible.
She was removed to the town, bnt died
before reaching it. From her statements
’ -“ er information it appears that
the daughter of a bookseller, and
waa a brilliant pianist. During the win
ter month’s she waa rathe habit of resid
ing at Nioe, and bad their made the ac
quaintance of a man named Morplain.—
Morplain being without resources, they
determined to pnt on end to their anxie
ties by killing themselves. According to
the statement of the dying woman, ahe
left Nice with her companion. “Itwas,”
she said, “oar last night We took with
us a phial of laudanum, a revolver and *
sword stick, We choae this as the best
spot for our purpose. We made a bed
with our outer garments, laid upon the
moss. We slept till daybreak. We had
prepared everything, ami at seven o’clock
camo tho adieu. I had taken off my white
pettiooot, which Morplain hung upon
the bxauche* of a tree, We drank the
laudanum. Wo suffered much, bnt we
could not die. Morplain said to me, “I
can bear it no longer/ 1 shall blow out
my brains.” I cried oat I would not be
left alone with hia corpse, and I said,
‘ Shoot me here* (pointing to a spot where
i gaming wound in her breast waa vi si
de). I ilidi-ot wish to be disfigured, and I
entreated him to aim there. He fired
point blank.” The comapondent of tho
Gcndois adds that the statement is verifi
ed by the facts of the clicmian being
burned and the akin blackened by the
powder. Morplain,” added the dying
dying woman, “ shot himself through the
head, and yon will find him lyingyonder.
He feared a failure, and yon will aee that
he yet holds a poniard in hia hand,”
Crops, Weather, &c.
Farmers report to the Rome Daily that
crops in that section are in fine condition,
and very promising. There is a large
area in cotton, but plenty of wheat and
corn for home consumption. The wheat
crop especially is nnusually fine.
The Rome Courier, 7th inst, says:
The saving of one of the beet crops of
r heat ever grown in the section will com
mence this week.
Tbe price is not yet fixed. Some think
that which may be delivered before July
in good order for immediate grinding
will command $1 SO.
The general belief, however, is that
very little red wheat will be sold for over
$1 23, in this market.
We get the following items from the
Eatonton Press and Messenger :
The Wheat crop, much of which has
been harvested is turning oat finely.—
The heads are large and wqll filled.
Some anticipate getting* yield of forty to
fifty bushels to _ the acre, which is cow
tainly good. • r
Sinoe our lost considerable more rain
has fallen in this section. A portion of
the time the ground has been too wet for
plowing, Corn, cotton aud grass is do-
rag its beat growing.
Of crops in Jefferson county, a sub
scriber reports as follows to the Savannah
News : . .
The corn is small, and in many places
not a good stand. I think cotton is look
ing very well, and tho planters are up
with tlxeir work, and so far as I see iu
this neighborhood the crops are in good
fix. Since tho rains all the cotton is
coming np beautifully, and a fine crop
of gross. Oats is nearly a failure. Bye
good. No wheat sown here.
The Sparta Journal says tho planting
of corn in Hancock has almost ceased;
there is not enough in tho ground to feed
stock till Christmas.
It seems says the LaG range Reporter,
that the wheat crop in this section prom
ises well, though some think tho yield
will not bo as full as anticipated. The
crop is almost an entire failure in all di
rections, so fur ns we have heard.
The past week has been dry and warm.
Gardens are much in need of rain; crops
not materially suffering. No sickness of
importance.
Thermometer ranging at highest points
from 85 to 94.—Albany JSVtrft 7th inst.
Wo have rain now, and as the wheat is
made and the corn crop in the very best
condition, no fears are now had for the
result of of this year. Never in the his
tory of tho country for one hundred
years, has there been .such an abundant
harvest of wheat, nor so good a prospect
for corn* In many States of the great
West, tvfc crops of wheat have been held
bock for higher prices; aud now the pros
pect force* the whole immense stock on
the market which has already reduced
good flour to 83 50 per barrel, and extra
flonrto SI 50, with tho certainty of much
lower prices. This is u damper on the
shy locks who gloat over the miseries of
mankind; bat good cheer to tho poor
who have worked hard for the last ten
years to bnv flour at $10 00 per barrel.—
Air-Line Eagle.
Our exchanges from ever part of Flori
da represent the crops in fine condition
id rains as abundant.
The crops around Ikunesrille are re
presented in a fine condition.
Advices from Quitman* represent the
ops suffering for rain.
Cotton caterpillars have made their ap
pearance in Lowndes county, Alabama.
Crops ill Coffee aud Crenshaw conn-
ties, Ala., are looking fine, corn and su
gar cane being largely planted.
There is much old cotton on baud in
the county.
The Thomasville Enterprise of the 8th
inst. says:
Sinoe our last issue parties from almost
every section of the country have report
ed sufficient rains and the general pros
perity of the crops. One gentleman tells
us that his cotton suffered greatly from
the depredations of cutworms, complete
ly destroying fire acres and compelled
him to plow it np and plant corn, while
another represents the grass-hopper as
doing considerable damage to cotton in
his neighborhood. Neither of these
evils however are very extensive, and we
may consider the crops generally fair.
there is a myatwy about the effect of
weather on piety. Sabbath heat seems
hotted, Sabbath oold colder, and Sabbath
join wetter, than that of any other day;
for tile same measure of heat, or cold, or
rara, on a week dity, wi|i not keep a man
fromhis usual business.^
The following anecdote which we
copy from the New Brunswick Times,
may be pertinent to the Jerseys’, bnt it
will not apply to onr city. The great mis
fortune with our property holders is they
place such a high valuation upon their
property that it deter* other* from’pur
chasing and improviug. A liberal policy
on their part would result in a more sat
isfactory prosperity of the city.
Idleness is the parent of poverty; yet
. je landed proprietors of New Jersey
have become rich almost with folded
arms. We are reminded of the story of
» poor gobbler, who once owned * shanty
in Wall street, New York. Year after
year he had smoked his pipo and ham
mered his soles satisfied with his lot and
almost unmindful of the wonderful
change* going on around him. One
day the Knight of St Crispin was waited
upon br on olegantly-dreeeed gentleman
who did not wish his shoes mended, bnt
did wish to buy the shoemaker’s house.
The cobbler stared. Boy my house !
lought be. What can such a fine
tleman want with a house like this ?
I will give you ten thousand dollars
0& m A Western coroner’s jury returned a
verdict that the deceased camo to his
death from exposenre. “What do yon
menu by that!” asked a relative of the
dead man, “there are two ballot holes in
hu skull." “Justso,” replied tho coro
ner, “he died from exposeure to bullets.”
'*;n thousand dollars! He had Hover
heard of so much money, and his eyes
grew like saucers with astonishment.
44 Well, wall,” said the gentleman,
who mistook fhe expression of the shoe
maker’s countenance, and thought he
was surprised at the smallness of the
offer. “Well, well 1 What tciU you take
fox it ? Suppose we say fifteen thousand
and call it a bargain.”
Off went the apron down went the lap-
stone and hammer, and the excited worker
in leather rushed into the kitchen where
his wife was superintending the pot of
come into the shop; there is the bi
fool there you ever saw; he has ol
me fifteen thousand dollars for the old
house and bit of land where there is not
room enough to raise a cabbage.
It ia needless to say that the bit of land
was sold, and the cobbler became a gen
tleman, living upon hia income, while
tl»© “tag fool” became the poscesaorols
ruKWmonejr
would not buy to-uay.
S6U Tho faro from Chicago to New
York is now only $20.
—The worst sold man in America
lives at Lafayette, Indiana. He lias
been winding np a clock every night fox
seventeen years, and last week by acci
dent, found out that it was an eight day
clock.
—A smart boy of Bdlefontaine, Ohio,
after eating a green apple, exclaimed:
“Oh. dear, I've chewed a Good Tem
plar H. “A Good' Templar?” said l»i*
mother. “Yes, he’s giving me the grip. ”
' —The Atlanta Intelligencer says that
<>5,000 copies of the first volume of.|fr v
Stevens’ War between the States has*;
been sold.
—Crops look finely around Powder
Springs, Georgia.
■Mrs. Senator Sprague will spend
next winter in Georgia, whero her hus
band is about to establish a largo cotton
mill.
-Augusta boasts of on .tinmens* brqck-
cspnble of turning out 300,000
bricks daily.
-Atlanta is to have a new ear shed, *
Street railway amt waterworks at no wry
distant day.
—General Starr is not ft shooting star,
bnt knowing that he would, become a
fixed star if the Canadians caught him,
he disappeared in s twinkling, It was
tho best he conld planet.
—“Anything to pleaso tho child,” as
the nurse said when tho child crawled
out of the window.
—A woman took her second husband
to keep herself from fretting to death
over tho loss of the first one.
—Tho wheat crop of Northern Georgia
has not promised a better yield sinoe
1857.
—Senator Sprague is of the opinion
that negro voting in Rhode Island will
so disgust tho people that the State will
go Democratic by an overwhelming ma
jority.
—Mrs. Edwin M. Stanton has reoeived
$53,000, tho public contribution in mem
ory of her late husband.
—The Prince of Wales lias bought an
estate in Ireland, and will take np his
permanent residence there.
—A Thomas cat twenty-ono years of
age, has deceased iu upper Georgia.
—A man in Syracuse ate fifty lemons,
won a bet, and died all in one day.
—Louis Napoleou having ordered the
importation from Kentucky cf a few bar
rels of old Bourbon for use in the imperi
al household, a Parisian wit remarks
that it is only tho ‘spirit of tho name’
that tho Emperor likes.
—A lady iu Paris advertises for em
ployment as “ornamental guest at dinner
and evening parties.*
—“Some Utica ladies heard that a
white Radical young lady was going to
marry a nigger, so they coaxed her not
to do it, got her a situation in Now York,
and famished he^an outfit and money
to emigrate, and puts stop to miscegena
tion in Utica. What did that bad girl do
but go as far as Albany nnd telegraphed
for her nigger to come on and many
Tho nigger ‘came on' like a little
man, and those old ladies are swearing
because they famished the bridal outfit.”
■A New York correspondent asserts
that at a first class hotel, a few days
since,, a sham marriage was performed by
a bar room habitue between a well-
dressed stranger and a beautiful woman
with whom he had been living two years,
bnt who had grown scrupulous during
the McFarland-Richardson denoument
The villain was paid sixty dollars for his
nefarious work.
A writer iu the Chicago Advance
nays: “Not long since I heard sung in
the church the anthem 4 Rock of Ages,’
which there is a solo to the words,
Should my Tears,’ etc., which was sung
as follows:
“Slioo-hoo-hood my-hi te-lxears
For-eh-ve-her flo-ho,
Shoo-hoo-hood my-hi ze-heal
No-ho la-hangour kno-ho;
This-his-for her si-hin co-honld
No-hot idi-ha-to-hone,
Thoa-how mu-hust ss-liave.
And thou-liow ah-ba-olone, *
In my-hi ha-hand no pri-hiee I bring,
Simply to thy craw-hoss I di-hing.
—The latent hit of gossip from London
iatotlio effect that Qneen Victoria is
soon to take to herself another husband.
This report sound* rather strange when
we take into consideration her oft-re
peated remark that she should never
marry again, bnt we are assured that the
rumor is far from being an idle one
This time it is not John .Brown who is
spoken of as the favored suitor, bnt *
person of higher birth, a prince of the
house of Schleswig-Holstein. The name
of the noble is not stated. He is, how
ever, said to be a relative ofPrinoe Chris
tian, whjdi latter gentleman waa also
a suite* for the hand of the Queen.
—In Washington last weds, an-officer
of the House of Representative* created
immense sensation by appearing at
the some theatre with two dashing and
elegantly dressed nigger weochrs. He
bore his honor* manfully mod meekly,
paying no attention whatever to the cu
rious looks directed toward him by his
white brethren. Borne very exited white
folks went to the manager of the theatre
to protest agmusi the “outrage,” as they
called it, and to suggest the propriety of
putting the wenches and their white gal
lant oat of. the theatre. The
declared he couldn’t do it short of nfine
of five hundred dollars, whiSh he did not
propose to incur this season.
TELEQPAPBIO.
- ■■ •
Brad-
a Circuit Court,
fhccftae of Myra
trbi.Kew Orleans,
' decree of the
be-Drifted States
title to
to
SpjWS, the
principal basis of hlra.'Gaipa’ claims and
expectations, is still in c^tirpaty.
: —
- ConstAKTCtoPUE, June p^—-The fire re
sulted in © loss of*,300 Even. 7000 build
ings, rind twenty-five nsfflwti dollars
wortiLof property- English underwriters
loss heavy. The AmencaaChmchofthe
immaculate conception was bn fire several
times, and ia consadorahlji damaged; but
the Gobelin b^estry,* giftidtlw Emprchs
Eugenie, with which tho church was
decorated, was saved unharmed.
The loss of life is frightful; whole
families were hemmed in’nnd burned.
Some, in * spirit of fatalism peculiar to
their race, shut themselves np in their
houses. Two hundred rod fifty-two meu
are dead and many more missing.
London, June 0.—The alarm among
farmers over the continued dry weather
amounts to a panic.
Telegraphic communication with Bom
bay is complete.
D’Israelli is about retiring from po
litic*. He will be raised to a peerage.
Florence, June 9.—Tho insurrection
at Lucca has been suppressed.
Bombay, Jane 9.—-The cholera is rag
ing in different parts of India. It is par
ticularly severe at Madras.
Paris, June 9.—The^Emperor attend
ed the Longchamps races.
Deputy Gambetta is sick.
, The counsel for tho Beflioidea were al
lowed to see their clients the find time
to-day.
General MelHnent declines the Graud
Mastership of MoSons.
The Empress Eugenie has sent 10.000
francs to Constantinople.
Tbo Pope has written a letter to the
Bishop of Tarbei sustaining, in positivo
terms, the dogma of infallibility.
Madrid, June 9.—The question of a
future monarch waa discussed in the
Cortes yesterday. A motion was made
that a King be elected by * direct vote of
the poop la. After some debate this was
rejected. The proposition requiring a
candidate to receive a majority equal to
one-half of the whole number of the vote*
of deputies was carried by 133 to 121.
This is legarded as haying, utterly des
troyed tho chances of the Duka as Well
as all other candidates who have thus for
been named. None of these will be aide
to get 179 votes, the number required by
the passage of this resolution. * There is
much excitement among all classes of the
people. General Prim mado a personal
explanation. He quoted from a dispatch
of <lio Philadelphia correspondent of the
London Times, relating to his connection
with tho proposed Cuban Junta. He
pronounced the dispatch a malicious in
vention. There hail been no negotiations
between him'nnd tho American govern
ment or between him and the English
capitalists, aa stated in the dispatch.
Dispatches from Cadiz state that the
Brigands have been captured nnd a por
tion of tho ransom money recovered.
L. The Fenian General Gleason ia
said to be only six feet six inches US,
with braadtfx and bnildin proportion.Ho
has served in the papal army, waa Lieu-
tenant-Colonel of the sixty-third Nev
York infantry during the late war, rind
The Boston Post thus shows up 9.
nest of cowardly knaves that have been
quartered on the United States Senate
by the Radical party:
The vile language uttered daring the
Friday night session of the Senate will
lead Ithe reader of the report given in
another column to doubt the sobriety, at
least of the Radicals, who seem to have
found no terms too intemperate to ade
quately express their hatred of the Sonth.
Mr. Carpenter would ‘curb the cruel
devils,’ Mr. Hamilton ‘would take them
by the neck andknock them in the head,’
and other remarks were equally violent.
The degradation, of this Congress is too
palpable to admit excuse or poliation,
even among its political sympathizers
and conjngatora. There ahonld bo
neither modocation nor tenderness wast-
ed upon tfra motions, Carpenters and
Hamutons who inflict society. Rene
gades in politics, profligates in demeanor,
habitually obscene in language and to
tally disgraceful to the country, they
serve only indicate the ropolsireness
of partisanship, its object cowardice and
its cruel malignity, and, in contrast, to
present the Southern people as deserving
tho utmost consideration and respect”
Anxa Dickixsow ox Woman.—God did
not create woman as * violet, to smell
sweqt, nor as a late, to send forth harmo
nies, but os He created man, an immortal
soul, and aa rich coring duties and re-
33^J^±A****
are held in the handa of God, and must
swing down at last ldo not expect a
miracle to be wrought VI do not believe
the mfiieuiunt will dawn when woman re
ceive* the ballot What woman needs is
the broadening of the brain, the expan-
—- of curaeter gained through the
r that trill como with the ballot.--
an moat hdlp man afinit auto bo
helpod by him, sho I
‘ well done. '* Ko good will come to man
>man Jcceping them aaonder. j There
work a man can do bat what will be
better done b.T haring a woman at hi,
aide.
What Sanm Oiu abe Made or.—
Moat of the solid oils now brought into
the market are jnado ol cotton-seed oil;
renned and bleached. Among all the
snbetitnteejbr ‘the r gennfhe olive oil,
none u better than aGAtao-aeed, sinoe vre
fro able to get it freah; while the gran-
ton-seed oil memblet linseed oil in it.
drying ptneHiMi ' end UhtMWonse-
cmenuY,' a better oil iorpaintara than ior
labncatiDg machinery. Boiled with lith-
m- Tho Census Taker, wiil bo pleas
ed to hear of an increase in their pav
haeof liquor by the glam inbarrooma. Mrs. Mattie Maraton, oIMadiaom