The Weekly Sumter republican. (Americus, Ga.) 18??-1889, January 06, 1871, Image 1
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AMEKIOUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JA-NTJiYRY 6. 1871.
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HAVING OPENED MV
Professional Cards.
FRANK T- ICkU.
HAWKINS & BURKE.
Mtornoy
Jno. D. CARTER,
iffOaNKT AT LAW,
Americas, Georgia.
OHr, ii, Amorim, Hour Wljm 8- m, at
Um»r ami College Bireels. may 18 tf.
FORT & HOLLIS,
attohswts at law.
Ami .Solicitors of Patents.
Amcricus, Georgia.
.a-1 r*i — .ii th > r»>!n ovar It. T. Gyrd's atoro
april 2D tf
C. T. GOODE,
At t orney at Law
AMF.UICUS, GEORGIA.
,g- (mi -c r.vcr \V. T. Davcni-ort's Drugstore.
SAM. LUMPKIN,
attorney at law,
Georgia.
V.m».Ti<. in all ihc enrts of H. W. Ga.
Ii.frr*. by pcrmiiwiou, to Dr. Win. A. Greene.
OFFICE: With M. Callaway, E*q., in the Court*
JACK BROWN,
toraoy »t Zj a VA7 - ,
AMEUICUHp GA.
in Court House with Judge Ktan-
ft:h 16 If.
N. A. SMITH,
orixoy at Xji
. to Uepubli
v.ffi.i. feh25 tf._
J. A. ANSLEY,
Attorney-atLaw
HAWKINS & 6UERRY,
Attorneys-at-Law,
(•*Vr their proft-aaional service* to thepuhlic.
til! continue to practice in Sumter and arljoiu-
■'< ‘V'UtuUv, and in United Mate* Circuit aud
l>.«tnet Courts at Savannah. Particular atten-
i. n ci»«-n to collections. Office—corner College
i:.J Umar streets, over Granlierry & Co's.
A. H. JJRO WIST,
ATTOHXEV AT MU',
Americas, Georgia.
W 1IJ. give prompt attention to all business
entrusteti to In* cart*. uovSGtf
George W- Wooten,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
oaoricua, ■ ■ ■ CJrexm
lu the Court House. janlSU
GEORGEWiKIMBROUGHr
attorney at law,
A 11 Ag. nt for the sale and purchase
, “‘"i >“ N.uthwest Georgia. Invcstigat-
i'Ld mli "'i”' 1 - 1 ' * ,u * crt J to -J «dl faithfully at-
'tuiiville. Let county, Ga. novlltf
DR- WILLIAM A. GREENE,
AMSUieUS, GEORGIA.
fj AT1NUES to serve his friends of Americas
- .“'Uurrounding country in all the depart-
aprl6-l/
Dr. J. B. HINKLE
W 0 !^ i Vwn ,PIu1er his services (in all the
;< i r<T» rW * of ‘lie lTofcssion) to the good
f... 01 An >cncus and Sumter counts, ana so-
L* roifIf,^ > V Uc ' ,anc ® oI liberal patronage
l^towed upon him.
^ C1 *’ •Mention given to Surgery.
*V“ re J -
H,,. j ( £. , in the house known as
r utc. nearly opposite A. A. Adams.
June 8 tf
Dr - s. B. HAWKINS.
lgV OFFICE at Dr. Eld.
Drug Store.
the Methodist Church.
‘gain n ndertho good people of
FALL STOCK
I invito my friends and Customers to call am
examine it.
t intend to keep everything that should be in i
First Class Book Store,
and I think on examination it will prove to
Deeidea all kinds of
lOXXOOXs BOOKS
nsed in this communitv.
Revenue Stamps, Papers and
PERIODICALS OF THE DAY,
s.-i-ll ah cons read
ing, among the choi
Dickens’ Works,
Waverly Novels,
Mrs. Lee Hentz’s Work, —-
Queen H or tense—Muhlback,
Diary of the Cotta Family,
Old Fashioned Girl,
M»h»»1s—by name author,
All the Poets—different styles,
Marian Harland, Mrs. Holmes,
and othera too numerous to mention.
Blank Books & Stationery
t think can lx- beat i:
Rose Tint, White and Mourning
PAPER AND ENVELOPES,
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE Paper
INI TI M. PAPER,
FRENCH PAPER AND ENVELOPES,
Blank Books,
Inks of different colors,
Blue, Black, Bed and Pun ic.
Christmas Presents
TOYS,
OF V Alt I or S DESCRIPTIONS,
ut I have selected soroe very choice reading
Sweet moon, I love thee, yet I grieve
To gaze on Lhy pale orb to-night;
It tells me of that last dear eve
I passed with her my soul’s delight.
Hill, vale and wood and stream were dyed
In the pale glory of thy beams,
As we wondered side by side
Once more to tell love s burning t^esms.
My loud arm was her living home,
My haul within her hand was preeeed,
And lore was in each earnest tone,
And raptured in each bearing breast.
And many a high and fervent row
Was breathed from her full heart and mine,
While thy calm light was on her brow
Like pure religion’s seal and sign.
We knew, alas! that we must part,
We knew vro must be severed long.
Yet joy was in each throbbing heart.
For lore Was deep, and faith was strong.
A thousand memories of the past.
Were busy in each glowing breast,
And hope upon the future cast
Her rainbow lines—and we were blest.
I craved a boon—Oh 1 in that boon
There was a wild, delirious bliss—
And, didst thou erir gaze, sweet moon.
Upon a more impassioned kiss ?
The parting came—one moment brief
Her dim and fainting form I viewed—
Twaa gone—aud there I stood in grief
Amid life s awful solitude.
Tell me, sweet moon, for thou can st toll,
If passion still unchanged Is lier’s
Do thoughts of me her heart still swell
Among herjnany worshipers ?
Say, does *ho sometimes wander now.
At eve beneath thy flame,
To raise to heaven her angel brow
And breathe her absent lover's name ?
Ob, when the gentle lids are wet,
| |I pray thee, mark each falling gem.
And tell mo if my image yet
Is pictured tremblingly iu them!
Aye, tell me, does her bosom thrill
As widely as of yore for me—
Does her young heart adore me still,
Or is that young heart changed like the
Oh let thy beams, that soft
If still my love to her is desr.
Bear to her gentle Iteart from m
shine,
thy every dollar’s worth of Advertising
his patrons con give him. If he is not a
working man, bnt one of those loafers
who sit around from day to day, clipping
items with shears, intent only on living
from the spoils of office he is unworthy
of support. Bat if he is a live man, and
takes care to present all the items of
news that transpire in his vicinity, then
giving so much time as ho can to to the
world beyond him, he is a credit to the
profession, a benefit to the place where
his paper is published, and one of the
greatest helps and promoters of enter
prises the country can produce.
It is the duty of those interested in
building up cities and towns to patron
ize and support their local newspapers
first Iu almost every county in the
country there is a newspaper published,
and it is the duty of the farmers, mechan
ics, merchants and property holders there
to support the paper, if it be live. At
tention will be called to their town.—
People will be attracted there. The pa
per and its place of pnblication become
known. When we see a liyo newspaper
we at once think it is printed in a live
town, by a live man, for live men do not
long remain in dead places. If wo see a
sickly looking, half edited and badly
printed paper, we nt once conclude that
it is published by some ragged, lazy,
shiftless, half'Starved, individual, who
corresponds exactly, to this respect, with
the community surrounding him.
Meanwhile, let the country editors do
all they can to make their papers inter
esting, and then let those immediately
surrounding these papers do all they can
to support the same, taking care to sub
scribe for their home papers, and then,
if they have money left or wish papers
from abroad to read, let them sultscribe
for such os suit tbeir fancy. But let no
man who has the interest of his immedi
ate section nt heart subscribe for our pa
per, or any other published out of the
town or county whore ho resides, till he
has first subscribed for his home paper.—
Pomeroy $ Democrat.
There lived ou street,
pretending establishment, surrounded by
trees and flowers, a young lady who was
celebrated for her beauty and accom
plishments. She was a blonde, with
blue eyes, white teeth, and a heavenly
smile—had the prettiest hand and foot
that ever were seen—and was tall, lithe
and elegant Her wit was delicate, point
ed and sparkling, and her mind as supe
rior as her person was lovely. The town
was at her feet and her suitors were as
importunate, ifjnot us many.as Penelope’s,
like whom she was continually wooed
and yet never won. Iu the midst of her
successes came the war, the end of which
found her family impoverished, and her
self reduced to want for the necessaries of
life.
But ine still was the prottnd, imperious
mistress of hearts as before, and she re
fused in quick succession the many offers
f marriage that were mode to her. She
hap no thought of matrimony as n re
source, but had other and totally differ
ent prospects in view. She proposed, iu
fact, to teace school.
A fellow-townsman, a gentleman of
wealth and position, and a bachelor, had
long been a worshiper ut her shrine.
He had houses and lands—estates in
country and lots in the city-
stocks, interests and investments wher
ever they would pay, aud his private
establishment on street was simply
dial. Seeing how the case stood with
whom he loved with his whole soul,
ho resolved, after many self-commnn-
ings and much reflection, to ask her to
be his wife.
“Sir,” said sho in answers to his pro
posal, “I do not love you, and I cannot
marry you.”
“Think tho matter over, my dear,"
said he, “and iu one week from to-day
give me your answer.”
Upon his return, on the day set, she
said to him :
‘Sir, you have wealth, aud I am poor;
yon live in a palace, and I, os you see, in
a cottage ; and I would like very much
to be rich. I will make yon a propo?
tion. I will throw the dice with you-
my bond against a hundred thousand
dollars ! Is it a bargain
OLIVER OPTIC series,
SUSY SUNNYHIDE,
LITTLE PKUDY’S STORIES.
AUNT FRIENDLY’S scries.
Pictures ar\d Frarr\es,
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS,
Pianos, Violins, Cuitars,
Flutinas & Accordeons.
friends to call and examine for them stive*.
MRS. E. C.e SPAULDING,
r 12 3m. Lamar Street.
BARGAIN OFFERED.
W E offer for sale Col. W. J. Patteraou’a valu
able tm-mitM-a in American.
Dwelling nan uevt-n rooms, seven or eigbl out-
honscH, framed building*, twenty-firo Keren o
land, with elude® building loin, 300fruit trees
•ell selected—peaches ripening from last o!
i kinds of Hnm-
November. Four varieties
Blum trees, the CbieKasaw Pear, noi
relied; a* many an eight or
mer and Full Apples, n( arly
ley Apple trees. Also, a tiu< ... , —, —
ing pro|»er care one can enjoy fruit from the
jrtace cverj day in the year, till and examine
,r ! onr« HAWKINS A CITEBBY,
nov 41m Attorney!
Dissolution.
IJIHE finn of ADAMS, WASHBURN A CO., fr
ii* day diaeolvcd"ty consent. H. K. Wash
burn retires. .
We will continue the bunuieas and aohcit con-
ligumcnts of Cotton, i bulging prompt atten-
ion. We have arranged to hold cotton for three
months when deaiml, and advance three-fourtha
its value. ADAMS A BRO.
D. IU AI>:.*». A. A. ADAMS.
Savannah, Ga., Nov. 1, 1S70. nov 10 tf
medical card.
Money cannot buy itforSight
is Priceless.
Removal,
1L tZS£¥ A ? E - SMITH would inform Ur
.1 . ‘be public generally, that he
The Diamond Glasses
• the beat of hia ability.
J - H. CALLAWAY CO..
millers,
,KT <iA, NES GEORGIA.
-TO «nj M„1 «lw.y.o
NEW STABLE.
Haw „
nt- »,°k e «yd a new etaldo on CotU _
Iti* pfjJT? 1 "to be glad to aee ray friends
U»S t S*»cto«y-fced their stock and
!i Pve , th .«y M 7 need in my line. I
iUsss
•un SSX w,lh roon, y k>ta a id shelters
I. W. JOBDAN, Jr.
GETTING MARRIED.—Eb-
'SW,
‘“'•W.u,.
Box P;
Manufactured by J. E. SPENCER, Now York,
which are now offered to the public, are pro
nounced by all the celebrated optician* in the
world to be the most perfect natural, artificial
help to the human eye ever known. They are
uxound under their own superviawn, from urin
ate crjbUl pebble*, incited together, and derive
their name. “Diamond " on account of their
. or tho eye,
producing a dear and distinct vision, as ia the
uatunu hcaltliy right, and preventing all un-
plMaant aenaation, such a* glimmering sod
wavering of aighv. dizzineaa, Ac., neculiar to all
others in use. Tliey are mounted in tho finest
manner, in frames of the material u«ed fur that
purpose. Their finish and durability canuot be
excelled. Caution—None genuine unless bear
ing their trade mark -^ stamped
frame LLlfNEB A PiilCI
Watchmakers and Jewelers, sole scents foi
Watch — ..,—_ „—. ..
Americas, Georgia, from whom cniy they ca
be obtained. No peddlers employed. marl5-wly
Plantation for Sale.
I AM now offering for sale my Plantation in
Schley. Count ' * —
land.
isootbe place a very good dwelling liotuc with
• rooms, a tolerable gin bouse and all the no-
anyone desiring ft
place la situated 3
- . « Americas. To
ivert in real estate this is
Iteas—Eight Dollars per aero; one half cash.
^Apjj^^AmariCTU H. Dark, at
I nov 17^°^ 0rt0m * C. F. CIUSP.
Country Newspapers and Country Edit
ors.
To well edit a country newspaper is
one of the most difficult undertakings im
aginable. It is harder work to well edit
a first rate loon! country newspaper than
to edit a daily iu a large city, and require
more versatility of talent The country
editor is a peculiar institution. He has
an ardorous time of it If his paper is
worth a farthing lie mast make it so by
work. It will not do for him to sit down
with a pile of exchanges beside him or
u his lap, aud, with a pair of shears, cut
■ut this story, that piece of poetry, this
bit of war news, that caso of murder, this
terrible railway accident, and this piece
of personal abuse concerning some po
litical opponent—to make up the variety
usually fouud iu country newspapers.—
It will not do for him to rely upon the
scissors nlone to furnish copy by the col-
half-column, third-colnmn, or stick-
full, as the case may be, with no other
ilea than to have it easy for the foreman
to make up tho paper.
Tho country editor who makes a good
paper does it by labor and application.
He carefully reads the exchanges.—
Keeps himself posted as to what is going
He must know something of poli
tics, financies, religion, commerce, agri
culture, mechanics, fine arts, science,
medicine, fashions, and local gossip.
He must present to his readers a vari
ety ; a little proso nnd a little poetry;
something that is humorous, and some
thing sentimental. Ho must be ngly,
kind, polite, bitter, pleasant—everything
by turns and nothing long—or the read
ers of the paper will say there is a sumo-
to it. If he confines himself to one-
thing, they will say he is an old fogy and
ambition. If he writes of many
things, he has no consistency, and has
other desire than to make money and
cater to a depraved taste.
Ho must visit all the machine shops
and prominent enterprises. Ho must
write puffs for every store, grocery, shoe-
shop, oyster saloon, Ac., in such
ner that the proprietor of each will think
a finer puff than his neighbors. If
he stays in the office all the time, he will
know nothing of what is going on out*
sike. If he runs about town and is not
the office, people will say he is shift
less. If lie spends all hia time in read
ing, he cannot become conversant with
what is going on iu the neighborhood.
If he devotee ranch time to local matters,
it is not expected that he will be posted os
regards national affairs or things far-
reaching outside of his sanctum.
IIo mast see that his paper goes to
press nt u certain time, and that it is
filled. He must see to tho collection
of money, sod paying out of the same;
must pay lor his blank paper, his em
ployes, rent, and household expenses.
If ho dresses well, )>eople will say that
be ia making money, and refuse to pay
their subscriptions j for, as a general
thing, people do not like to see others
getting along iu the world. If he does
not dress well, the community at once
says he is a poor, shabby devil, unable
to support himself—therefore tumble to
advise others.
It is expected that he will puff every
candidate for office, publish everything
good concerning him, and keep back
everything that is bad. In this respect,
he must make black white and white
black, stopping not to consider the wear
and tear upon conscience, or to think
that so soon as the man whose character
needa so much bolstering shall bo elected,
the editor will be turned upon, forgotten
or abased.
Many of our country papers would be
better than they are, if the people inter
ested in tbeir publication would give
them a belter support. The country
editor has t. hard time of it at best. If
the editor is • workingman, and
Think of tho Poor.
How much of true religion is with the
poor! Christ seems to have taken them
under his special charge. His Gospel
preached to the poor, and this was
of the signs that was sent to John
tho Baptist in prison. With his own
blessed hands he fed the poor by a crea-
tivo act, having compassion on thorn
when they fainted. His miracles, we
have reason to think, were, in tho large
majority of the instances, wrought npon
tho poor, ami “the common people
hard him gladly.” The Apostles at
Jerusalem were always anxious that
Paul should rememl>er the poor. And
when Christ shall sit on his throne of
judgment he will make inquest concern
ing all we have done, or failed so to do,
regard to the hungry, the nuked, the
stranger, tho prisoner, and the sick, and
will regard ns as having done, or failed
to do, ull this to himself. There nre
powerful motives to muke ns think of the
poor. When it is well with us we should
remember them. When we hear the
storm beating upon our habitations, nnd
yet are securely sheltered, warmed and
fed, sitting over our books or among our
children, we should think of the poor.
iomtkehiiptper interesting, lioisvor- UMEjuinoBomedictna MoUmtocbirt.
■argtun
'It is," said he. And thereupon they
pledged to each other their words to bide
the hazard.
arranged that but three persons
should be let into the secret; that
should select a friend, and that tho two
selected friends were to choose tho third.
Miss named tho Hon. Mr. ,
a prominent member of tho bar, os her
friend ; Mr. chose the Rev. Mr.
—-—; pastor of the fashionable church
on street, as his; aud these two
made choice of Dr. , an eminent
professor in the Medical College, as the
friend of both parties. By these gentle-
ineu the preliminaries wore arranged,
and the programme was this :
The Doctor was to give a party at his
house, on a certain splendid Friday
evening, at which were to be present
11 the Ifest people of Louisville *’
Evil Friendships.
There is nothing in which the young
need more caution than in the formation
of their friendship. If you form an evil
acquaintanceship, yon will surely get
snare to your soul. It is so much easier
to go wrong than to go right, that he
will drag yon downward instead of your
being able to lift him np. A friendship
founded npon any thing but sound,
tuous principles, is not strouger than
in the flames. It will not survive
self-interests. As soou us the rulers had
made Judas their miserable tool iu
traying Christ, tliey cured no more
him. “What is that to ns ? See thou
to that,” was tbeir sneering reply, when
he came back, tortured with remorse nt
the consequence of his deed. Those
who have been your foremost flatterers
in the shine, utterly desert you when the
dark hours come, no matter what bene
fits you have heaped npon him.
An Incident iu Calaveras.
One day in 1849, an honest miner
Calaveras bit himself with a small snake,
of the garter variety, aud, either ns a pos
sible antidote, or with the determination
to enjoy the brief remnant of n wasted
life, he applied a brimming jug of whisky
to his lips, and kept it there until, like
repleted leech—which it iu no other r
spect resembled—it fell off. The next
day, while the body lay in stato upon a
pine slab, and the bereaved partner of
the deceased was unbending in a gome of
seven-up with a friendly Chinaman, the
game was interrupted by a friendly voice,
which seemed to proceed from the jaws
of the corpse:
l say—Jim!" Bereaved partner play
ed tho king of spades, claimed “high,
and then, looking over his shoulder at
the melancholy remains, replied: “Well,
what is it, Dave? . I’m busy." “I say—
Jim!" repeated the corpse in the same
measured tone. With a look of intense
annoyance, and muttering something
abont “people that could never stay dead
more’n a minute,” the bereaved partner
rose and stood over the body with his
cards in his hand. “Jim,” continued
the mighty dead, “how fur’s this thing
gone?” “I’ve paid the Chinaman two
and a half to dig the grave," responded
the bereaved.
“Did he strike anything ?” Tho Chi
naman looked up ; “Me strikes pay
UMIWU 1UUXOU U|J , iuu auiira
dolt; me uo belly dead ‘Melicau’ in
grave. Me keep ’em claim." The corpse
aatuprigidly; “Jim, get my revolver
and chose that pig-tail off. Jump his
damn sepulchre, and tax his camp five
dollars each for prospectin’ on the pub-
lie domain. These Mnngolyom hordse
—Jim! ef any more serpents come
in' round here, drive ’em off. Taint
right to be bitin* a feller when whisky’s
two dollars a gallon. Dern all fureig-
hm. .nvlmw And ! 1\a ,
palled on his boots. Such, dear
-was tho origin of the anti-coolie move
ment—[Stm Ff'mcisco tfew* Later.
A Louisville Romance.
A Louisville (Kentucky) correspondent
oi a California paper tells the following
improbable story :
how” muny yi-r.ls it take now to make
a dress? If 1 .- slier Hebcr C. Kimball
here he tell you he used to
buy six yards ..{ calico for his wife Yilate,
who was a t:»:> woman. That used to
makeadre*. «ud.it was a pretty large
pattern; thei- .. goes up to seven since
my recollect -u, then to eight, then to
nine, then to :uu, then to eleven, and I
have l>een c«iled npon to buy eixteen L
nnd seventeen ytirds for a dress. I know
there is a eanso for this. Aly wife will
Dear me, Sister So-and-so wears
such a thing, and I want to look as well
as 'sho does; and ybn have plenty of
means, Brigham; oh” yes, you have plen
ty of mean-, ami yon cun buy it as well
as not” Well, all that I have said, and
my general reply is: “If lam pressed
to tho necessity of indulging my family
mother wore
mother before her wore, and wo
until the day of her death, when
occasion to wear a cloak; and when she
left tliis place for the next apartment,
she was forty-nine years old, nnd they
went to her daughter. I do not know
what has become of them. Sho did not
take a cloak worth $25, $30, $40, or $50,
il sit down in it with a child with a
piece of meat in each hand to grease it
haps, whilo wearing it, take up
that lias a piece of chicken iu one hand
and a piece of pork in the other, or a
cup of milk to drink, and as likely as not
sorno of it is spilled on her .dress, aud
then the/ say, “well, I declare my dress
spoiled.” I recollect very well, and
■ do others iu this room, when our
fathers and mothers raised the flax and
the wool, and when it was carded with
hand-cards, spun on hand-wheels, and
woven into' cloth on hand-looms; and in
this way the wants of the family had to
g> without. But now every woman
wants a sewing machine. What for?—
To do her sow ng. Well, but sho can do
a hundred times as much sewing with a
machine us she could by hand, aud she
;loes not need a machine more than one
day iu two or three weeks. “Ob, yes,”
says she, “I want my sewing machine
every day in my life.” “What are you
going to do with it?” *' I atu goiug to
sew,” and when the sowing machine is
procured they want a hundred times as
much cloth as they used to have. Now,
they want a hired girl for every
child, and a hired man to every cow in
the yard.
A Frenchman who has Killed
his Forty-third Sentinel.
In looking over my files of journals, 1
find mention in September of a young
named Hoff, who boasted of having
killed eight German sentinel. The next
Hon. Mr. who was to have a li
cense in blank, ready to be filled nt a
moment’s warning, and was to hold Mr.
—’s check for $100,000; and the Rev.
Mr. x
form tho marriage ceremony, if callei
so to do. The dice were to be thrown ii
Hon. Mr. ’s study, whence tho
quintette were to proceed to the party,
whore, if Miss — lost, they were to
celebrate the wedding, and, if she won,
thev were to mingle with the guests
without remark.
At precisely 9 o’clock on tho eventful
evening, the players and their friends
met in the Hon. Mr. —'h study. By
agreement of the parties themselves,
they were to throw poker dice, and to
cut cards for the first throw. The gen
tleman cut a queen and the lady a jack,
and now came the tug of war. He was
cool, calm and pale ; alio was statuesque,
imperious aud collected. Hia lips were
compressed; hers were formed into an
extended arch spanning the whole mouth
and completing the Ihjw. The Iwaiu
sat on opposite sides of a small table,
and the umpires stood overlooking them.
The dice-box being set before him;
Mr. placed his finger over the top,
and with the thumb clasping the side,
he gave it a shake and threw two fours
and two deuces. Putting asido the fours
he threw again, nnd threw another four.
Then throwing tho two remaining dice.
ho threw two Jives, no hud throw
therefore, n full—three fours and two
fives.
And now came Miss ’s turn.
was a thrilling moment, aud the result of
her silk dress in tho stillness of that
room sounded like the tree tops
wiuu. She began by drawing off her
right glove, exposing a hand of exqaisite
beauty and delicacy, on the fore-finger
of which sparkled a diamond. Then,
taking up the box quickly, she gave it a
long shake in the air, und turning it
down npon the table she threw—noth
ing 1 A cloud thereupon passed over her
faco, and the arch of her lips assumed a
still more bow-like curvature. But noth
ing dannted, she at once retook the box
and threw again—this time turning np
four deuces! and the fifth dice cocked !
Terrible mischance! Miserable luck
Again she threw, and threw two deuces
and two trays. Putting all the dice
back into the box, she had but one oth
er nnd the last throw, upon which now
rested her only chance. For tho first
time since she set down she spoke, ask-
then, all
of a sudden, riie snatched np the dice
box and shook it vehemently, and threw
three fours and two sixes, and icon!
And did she take the money, you ask
I answer most emphatically, she
did
Here endeth my second lesson.
tQT The Chicago girl whose “going*!
on" are described below, exposes one of
the reasons why divorces ore so popular
in that city:
The other day a dashing girl of some
what fast proclivities was walking np
Dearborn street with her lover, when an
express team, driven at a rather rapid
rate approached. The girl is an excellent
horse-woman, and a littlo laughing doubt
expressed on the part of tho young gen
tleman aa to her equestrian abilities in
duced her to push forward at full speed,
grasp the hone by the rein and jump
npon bis back, much to the horror of the
astonished expressman, who found the
office of driver so summarily and extraor
dinarily taken out of his hands. After
riding for a couple of blocks likea female
John Gilpin, the young lady reined in her
steed, descended from her elevation, aud
with a nod to the expressman rejoined
her diacomfitted lover, who will never
again express doubt of her spirit or her
horsemanship.
Brigham Young on Female Frivolities.
[ t'rum a Salt Lake P»pcr.
Bigkam Your.- said: I do not like to
charge the Lulu s with extravagance, bnt
But now, let some women get
Thb Fate of tits Impxachebs.—It is
worth the people’s while to muke the
fate that has already visited the chief
conspirators in the matter of impeaching
President Johnson. Ashley, who orig
inated and proposed the infamous act in
the House, has been repudiated by his
theu constituents, and is now a wander
ing lecturer for the sale of corner lots in
Montana. Senator Drake, who stood up
in his place and assailed President John
son with a degree of brutality that would
have been disgraceful to any other body,
t • !-_i • the political revolu-
has been buried _
tion that has swept over 'Missouri. Sen
ator Yates, who camo into the Senate
trembling under the weight of his last
debauch, to vote for conviction, though
he had beared nothing of the trial, will
soou sink into obscurity by the action of
his own party friends in the Legislature
of Illinois. Williams, cf Oregon, who
was most bitter and vindictive in the
persecution of the President, has already
been repudiated by the people of his
State. Senator Howard, of Michigan,
who went to the Capitol on a stretcher in
ordor to vote for the conviction of the
Prnsidsa>r*»— rtmttgh vtoyto that-po
litical oblivion from which he will never
return. Senator Conness, another of
the President's accusers, has been con
signed to private life by the people of
Californio, and has left that State to be
come u kind of police-court lawyer in
New York. Senator Frelinghuysen, of
New Jersey, has been mastered out of
political service through a verdict of the
people of his State. Morgan, of New
York, has shared the same fate, and
Pomeroy, of Kansas, will enter his pol
itical tomb when he leaves the Senate in
1873. Morton finds himself in opposi
tion to tho will of the people of Indiana,
with a prospective order of dismissal
staring him in the face. Willey, of
West Virginia, goes into political retire
ment after the fourth of March next,
nnd the whole baud of impcachers is fast
going.
“Down to tho vile dust from whence they
sprung.
Unwept, unhonored and unsung."
Hint to Young Journalists.—The
Courier^Journal, in the course of a long
article on journalism, has the following
paragraph which young aspirants to edi-
toriul fame may take to heart:
Wonderful Work of 8argery.
manufacture of a human face.
The Canton (Illinois) Register of a late
date hod this account of a wonderful sur
gical operation:
“ There lives in this city a young lady
name Lizzie Twineham. Some: years
ago, when she was but a young girl, she
waa attacked with an ulceration of the
face, which entirely destroyed her nose,
upper lip and nearly all • the adjacent
bones. By the time the ravages of the
disease-were arrested, she was the moat
hideous-looking being that was ever
gazed upon. Her eyes and forehead
and mouth there was nothing but a Urge
unsightly hole, in which the raw and
purple flesh was visible away into the
throat. None could look upon her with
out taming away in horror. Her parents
were poor, and sho was compelled to
leave home. She sought work, but her
presenoe was so disagreeable on aooount
of her terrible affliction, that she oould
not obtain a situation. About four yean
ago ahe found herself out oi employment,
and with no home. She was advraed to
go to the poor house. Despair and wretch
ednoss seemed to be her lot Shunned
she was by society, and abandoned by
all, her sensitive nature was racked with
torment she seriously contemplated sui
cide. Just at this time, a friend sug
gested that probably Dr. Wright of this
city, might be able to remedy deformity
and improved*) appearance of her face.
With tears in her eyes and with hut faint
hope, she called upon him. At first the
doctor thought it was a hopeless case,
but the despondent and despairing con
dition of the gixl’a mind induced him to
take the cose under serious consideration.
He oonsnlted with Dr. J. H. Rainey,
dentist, in regard to the feasibility of
supplying teeth and the upper jaw,
which had been entirely eaten away.—
After examination. Dr. Rainey thought
he would be able to supply the deficien
cy. Dr. Wright then determined to en
ter upon the work of making a new face
for the young woman.
“ The first business \
upper lip. This was
Journalism does not come like reading
id writing, altogether by nature, albeit
nature 1ms much to do with it; and so
there is lmrdly a more useless appendage
in a newspaper office than a youth of
culture aud ambition, who has a turn
for kid glovos and a nice sense of the
glory of a silk hut But there is always
room for a go-ahead chap, with a man’s
heart in hintf and a skull full of brains
stuck on to it, a chap who dosen’j mind
crashing his head gear down over his
eyes, aud wadding his breeches in his
boots and starting after a rumor like a
Scotch terrier after a rat, pursuing it
through all tho subterraneous alleys and
holes, the highways and the by-ways, the
tdnms and dens of town and country,
to'supply au
„ n exceedingly
diffiicult and delicate operation. The
disease had not only destroyed the lip,
but it had resulted in the healing pro
cess. iu connecting the flesh of each
cheek to the stub of the upper jaw bone
in an unnatural manner. It was neces
sary to cut the flesh loose from the bone
report raised tho number to twelve, aud „'rp ,!lvv,,,, 1 , , 7 ’
will, cull day o! glory Hoff added to the '*
- i,... „f I,i. l.-ia.iic l' ln K ‘“ to ,l ‘ r " lines oi fact. Sue!
a chap is none tho worse if he is a gentle-
aud certainly something tho better
Hoff l>ccamo the event of tho day, aud
lieu he hail killed the thirtieth sentinel
General Trocbu mentioned him with
praise in the order of the day; his exploits
placarded over tho walls of Paris,
-I am sorry to write it—the Governor
publicly decorated him with the cross of
the Legion of Honor. At tho thirty-
e ghth sentinel the mode aud manner of
the killing were explained, the journals
giving a very pretty biography of this
% onng man, evidently “ born to be
hanged,”unless begets himself shot very
soou. Ordering au air-guu of a particu
lar structure, which could be fired with
out any great report. Sergeant Hoff crept
along upon his stomach, under walls and
hedges, until near enough to bring down
some sentinel. As there was no report to
a the guard, he could wait for the re
lief, and if made by one or two
enabled to kill another before the
alarm forced him to crawl away. In litis
munner Sergeant Hoff hits assassinated,
wording to the last report, his forty-
third seutinel.—Paris Letter to the AT. I”.
Beast Butler tor Phesidknt.—Gen
eral Butler, on his way to Washington,
spent a day iu New York. An intelligent
correspondent says:
closeted the greater part of the
day with a number of prominent politi
cians, with reference, it is understood, to
such future arrangements as will bring
him before the country as a Presidential
candidate on the Alabama claims plat
form, strengthened by a Canoda-nnncxa-
tion plank, nnd possibly by another
favoring the absorption of Mexico. As
I wrote a few days ago, this idea will
tuke form aud snbstar.co at u public
meeting to be held hero its soou ns the
gentleman from Massachusetts names
tho time.
To tho above it may bo added that
steps have been taken iu tho South to
give certain States to General Butler ijn
the next national Convention, and his
friends profess that they are receiving
much encouragement.—Pittefatrg Com•
dal
fi^y-The New York Day Book, out of
patience with trimmers, third party men,
bolters el id omne genus, thus moralizes
“ What need has tho Democratic party
to make any sacrifice of principle or
character with the insignificant number
of mongrel .discontents ? We have al
ready in our hands States enough to
make a good majority in the Presidential
Electoral College. All these we are now
to keep, besides gaining two or three
more—that is, if we do not bargain away
our strength, aud sell ourselves to the
devil and tho negroes.”
The Press of Georgia*—There
ninety-one newspapers published
Georgia. Of these fourteen are issued
daily, seven try-weekly, five semi-weekly,
one semi-monthly, and one bi-monthly.
Seventy-one are devoted to politics and
general news, four to religion, five to
literature nnd education, two to temper
ance and ten to agriculture.
re^Not long ago the body of a deceas
ed native was carried, down to the
banka of the Jumna, at Etowah, In-
India'to be burned. The pile was made
and the wood was. lighted, and, while
waiting so as to give some little time for
a good blaze, the men moved off to a lit
tle distance, squatting themcslves down
to have a smoke. . A huge crocodile,-
seemingly, watching their movements,
rushed out of tho water at this point of
the ceremony, seized the corpse end doub
led back, making tremendous headway
into the river with the body between lua
i :
if he is a scholar, and, in either event
both, is not likely to bo damaged iu I
morals by his contact with crime. Ou
the contrary, he will be greatly benefited
his character by his knowledge of the
world, of men, business and Iranian
ture. which this rough and tumble
perience affords. At all events, tho ...
perience is essential, and he who thinks
himself above it had l>cst leave jour
nalism to supply itself, as it surely will,
with more ardent nnd more active
upon the inside. After this was done,
aud the wounds healed, a picco of flesh
was taken from the bock part of the
cheek and transplanted to form a lijy—
This was a most extraordinary operation,
b was completely successful.
‘ This lip being formed, the next step
was to supply a nose. This required
several operations. A piece of flesh was
taken from the forehead in such a man
ner as to scarcely leavo a scar, and
brought down and made to grow where
the nose should be. Other pieces were
taken from each cheek, and applied in
the same manner.
“It was necessary that mouths should
intervene between each operation, that
the parts might become perfectly healed.
I he different operations were eminently
successful, and the work is now com
plete. Dr. Rainey has supplied the teeth
aud a biid?e for the nose, which holds it
a the natural manner. A stranger
meeting her would never imagine
that sho was once without a nose or up
per lip. Sho would pass in company
without special observation on account
of any deformity.
Georgia.
Hurrah for old Georgia I Hurrah for
the wliito Democracy of Georgia I She
lias been true to her instinctive love of
liberty and right, and to her traditional
renown for intelligence and bravery, and
has fought her enemy and whipped him.
The victory is recorded in n large majori
ty in tho Legislature, aud five out of the
seven Congressmen of the State. Gov
ernor Bullock has to be tolerated anoth-
r . for he was not in the field to be
hoisted as a trophy of justice on tho
spear of tlio Georgia Democracy. We
heartily congratulate the noble old State
on her triumph, the news of which will
send u thrill of joy from ond to end
through this wide land of States.
Grant’s Attorney General was sent to
Georgia to lick an election law, into a
sliajMi to make the Radical victory wire,
Three thousand Federal bayonets
failed of tho purpose for which they
were nnlawfnlly sent, and Georgia fol
lows np North Carolina, Now Y'ork and
Alabama, to enforce the lesson upon that
would be military tyrant, that tho spirit
of Democracy is not yet so far crushed
that it dares not to vote its convictions,
its principles and its judgments in the
presence of American soldiers. Grunt
lias made many stnpid blunders ; but
his grandest Jiasco in political tactics is
his new bayonet exercise. If a sensible
idea can get into his head, he must, by
this time, have learned that tho people
ave not yet prepared for the yoke of his
imperial government. Georgia counts
one more Btate in the column of Demo
cratic States for 1872. Hurrah for
Georgia 1 As one of her sons, we would
hug her for her manly fight and splen
did victory.—Mobile Register.
Georgia Senators.
The Chicago Tribune (Rad.) thus pre
sents the merits of the Georgia Senatorial
squabble in a nut shell:
‘The real question for the Senate to
determine is whether a State Legislature,
after having once performed its constitu
tional duty of electing Senators, can
ihange its mind and elect others to the
tame places. If it can do so, then there
s no longer any certainty as to who are
Senators and who are not. We do not
believe that the Senate can afford to
tablish such a precedent as would bo __
toblished by the admission of Messrs.
Farrow and Whiteley to seats for which
Messrs. Hill and Miller had been pre
viously chosen by a Legislature at that
time unobjectionable.”
A Nick Man Fob a Pulpit.—Chicago,
Dec. 11.—Rev. S. A. Holt, a Universal-
ist clergyman, residing in Belvidere, HI,
was arrested at the Railroad depot in
Aurora yesterday for an outrageous ex-
poseure of his person in the ladies wait
ing-room when it was well filled with
persons of both sexes. He was taken
before a city magistrate and fined $50.
There was a strong disposition on the
part of the gentlemen present to lynch
the reverend offender, bnt other counsel
prevailed..
Jaws, leaving the followers and mourners
in perfect bewilderment
tSF A baby in Dubnque was treated
two weeks for trichina, when it turned
oat that he had swallowed a hair-pin.
Sound Advice.—The December num
ber of the Southern Cultivator, just re
ceived, closes its ‘Thoughts for the
Month with the following sound and
sensible advice: With tho experience
of the closing year, fresh in mind, the
farmer should now devote himself to
maturing his plans for another year and
■ readers will pardon us—we will
take the liberty of offering one little
piece of advice: Make your arrange
ments to use still less labor than ever be
fore. Do this either by planting more
largely of crops which require compara
tively little labor, or by substituting ma
chines for human labor. Just there, in
judgment, lies the solution of the
much-vexed labor question. Instead of
renting your lands to negroes, who make
little or nothing on it, and work it jast
enough to prevent it from recuperating,
and thus benefit neither yon nor them
selves, sow it down in small grain, grass
es and clover—these require little labor
and yield handsome returns, and will,
moreover, be the most efficient means
for stopping gullies and restoring (what
most of our lands need so badly,) a good
supply of vegetable matter to the soil.
A Living Head on a Dead Body.—
George Wittlcs, a sailor, fell dowo- the
hatchway of the steamer Brazil on the
28th of October, and his neck was bro
ken. His body was paralyzed. He
gmdnally wasted away and died yester
day at the Centre StreeT ”
Street Hospital. Wit-
ties presented the remarkable spectacle
of a living head on a dead body for forty-
nine days. His case naturally attracted
the attention of all the medical men of
this and other cities.—N. Y. Sun.
uMr. Krupp, the proprietor of the
famous foundry at Essden, Prussia, has
perfected a new cannon for the aerial
warefare against balloons.* It is a rifled
steel gun of five feet in length and throws
a ball of one and a half inches in diame
ter. It is attached to a perpendicular
shaft, andean easily by turned in any re
quired direction. This ingenious gun
has been forwarded to Versailles to be
tried against the balloons by which the
Parisians carry their
Greencastle, Franklin county,
Pennsylvania, has a colored man who
has doable orgaization, and can change
his heart in.fonr different positions,
while his bowels revolve around like a
ball with great rapidity, backward and
forward, and when their motion ceases
an extra set of ribs slide down and cover
the entire abdomen. He says he does not
suffer in them^sl from this curious freak
of nature.
■w^>
writer in Paris intimates that the
Prussian celebrities hid better not be
prodigal of their persons if-they ever
expected to get into that city, as there are
plenty of French would-be Wilkes Booths
ready to make short work of King, Prince,
1 or Bismarck, or, for that matter, “ the
whole bilin* of ’em,” If they can but get
a chance. 5*
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