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Newspaper Page TextPUBLISHED BY HANCOCK, GRAHAM & REILLY, Volume 18. TO HEWS, POLITICS AND 'GSNEEAL PEOG2ESS—INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS. Tl\ree Doirars a Year, patabuc ik adtarce. riff SUMTER REPUBLICAN. ■eU.'BKD KY»Y FRIDAY HOWTEK*. , Graham IUU1J. TERMS of subscription t rt.rAYME.NTS ALWAYS TO BE MADE n ADVANCE. 'rt* Ten {asks of Minion type, solid, cuneti- '^‘Ji l rrti*euicnU not contracted for will be t specifying the length of e to be Inserted will be eon- »nt and charged for accord- i occupy < l\ed placet will be , nltovc regular rates, column inserted for twenty i» sell real estate,. . -i-jtfWS ZXJAl fci o mm ^l 0 n7^7 AMEKICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 5. 1871. Number 11. Dw’LYmiu. •Jso.W.tnoH. Wit MoCxcxi. YARNELL, LEIGH & CO., COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Foot of Market Street, Mr Special reference to Chattanooga BaoRaT jan. S0,-3ni. ATLANTA AUCTION*' AND COMMISSION MASfT. UNDER THE H. I. KIMBALL HOUSE Fronting on Railroad Avenue, ATLANTA, GEORGIA.’* C ASH advances made on consignments—Ne- gotiatiqns effected, FRANK SMITIH, “ and Broker. ^ Special attention paid to the eale hand liiy stock, such as beef march 2S-tf. cattle, horses and mnles for sale. Professional Cards. jj, v. U AWKINS. FRANK *. BURKE. HAWKINS & BURKE. k ttornoy« at Xmw, Americus, Georgia. Jno. D. CARTER, limSST AIT LAW, Americua, Georgia. ((£«- iu Americus Hotel building, comer ol Ucu »nd College streets. may 18 tf. C. T. GOODE, Attorney at Law AMEKICUS, GEORGIA. if office over W. T. Davenport's Drug store. JACK BROWN. A. ttornoy at Lia w , AMERICUS, GA. «« Office iu Court House with Judge Stan* fob IS it N. A. SMITH. Attorn oy" at Ziaw. T BE MERCHANTS .ml PUBLIC will find it to th.it interest to examine our stock ol' Bacon Sides, Bulk Sides, Shoulders, Hams, Flour, Meal, Bran, Com, Cow Feed, Soap; Starch, Pickles, &c. BARLOW k CALLAWAY. r Office on College street, i -t to Bepubli feb 25 tf. SAM LUMPKIN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, OFFICE I NKER HARLOW HOUSE. AMERICUS GA. pra.Ti.-f all the Courts of S. W. Ga. ,k!t M, lit permission, to Dr. Wnu A Greene. J. A. ANSLEY, Attorney-at'Uiaw Amorious, Ga.. K.J practise in the Courts of Southwestern '"'fpa and in the Lnited States Court* at 8a- ii.uh. Special attention givhn to collection of DUPONT OUKKKY HAWKINS & GUERRY, Attorneys-at-Law, tiu-ir professional service* to the public. “• cjouune to nractico in Sumter and adjoin- * n, ‘ ,u Ututed States Circuit apd -■.net Uurts at Savannah. Particular atten- *’? F 1Ton to collection*. Office—corner College George W. Wooten, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Morion*, «... Gro. Phillip Cook, Attorney at Law, AMERICUS. GEORGIA. Wi in the Counties of nacuu, l* Ue < Webster, Schley and Dooly. • ui the Supreme Court of Georgia, fence in Wax ~*I*lefraph Office. iOTT HOLLOWAY --?F NTI8 L; L-fwilha °'. tr Mrs ' c * A Wright's Millinery feb. 16,-ly.. °R- WILLIAM A. GREENE, AMEBICUS, GEORGIA guNTLNTES to ' V lQ J «urroundi ®-iMa of jstjtb? i of the liberal ^S^SmSUSSStSiSi ih^' tSsirsaaSlBgBiS^ '•“loater house, nearly opposite A. A. A HomotFAl. D^THOMAS E. SMITH won.d infonn his r*“« wdn Mound at ai! timee. . ,£*}**• He solicit* hi* old ^*.1 generally to caU on him. ptomising to wiSt?*** 40 U^bertof Dr S. B HAWKINS. IP ° mcE « Dr. EkJrH»V Drag Eton. »?*"“ "* *• Mmlwabt Church. *! 1 *«*“> ‘Mierth. good people of “«htrj canmUy. W. BARLOW. MCKKKL CALLAWAY. BARLOW & CALLAWAY, Wholesale Commission Merchants Americus, Ga. J. H. GAVAN, No. 11 Alabama Street, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, i* sole agent for the sale of £h* celebrated CINCINNATI BEER, for the Rtato of Georgia. Sold at Brewery prices. Has always on hand Unrivalled Deodora, Whiskies, Brandies and Gins, which lie sells low for cash. ap28-ly CHEAP AS THE CHEAPESTI G. W. GLOVER. 30,000 Barrels, Half Sacks and Quarter Sack*. 20,000 pounds Clear Bib Bacon Side*. oyim: ■T FRANCES L. KEELED. las! how little do we understand The human heart, although each mortal breast Doth feel its throbs and own its presence there! low oft we strike its sadwt chords with words Unkind and hush ! how oft destroy its peace By some unguarded glamflf, home selfish act That vanishes like theiaornmg mist, to ne’er Again be tl(Wght^f^y oarselvc, yet goes And cornea forever in that other heart I How do wearing with agony, when we, Forsooth, would only jistJ How do'we crush It by unj usi remarks, aod ways that speak A lack of tript! and thji^gh we know what balm S . Would soonest heal ou^fcwm ye fail to find The remedy for other ■’We give The fewest, faintest words of cheer when they TU Are needed most, v and we Withhold our love When deepest yearned^ prayed for almos asked. f > O! if the heart could only*%Ad the heart, What unknown things, wha£^se%ret- sorrow would f J * Be then and there reveajjtf! Mysterious st rang A y '•* It is, more than strange, that hearts will not Unto each other yiehft themselyss and give The contentsvp ! Yet soit is! .They ne’er Unbar the halted doors, and when they light The mystic lamps within their chambers deep, They keep the curtains closely drawn so that The unvaried light of truth may never gam From out the windows. Ob, the human heart! None, none but God can penetrate its mask And tru^v understand its life of lives ; . 0 The ' konjpcommunings that^ are whispered Ths|Qpia^t^woe^fhe-ho^^lh b«Jf And those all spoiled by blight; the wasted And untold struggles that are traced upon The sacred tablets of its hidden cells! frmm i T Take Them aaTeafinJThem. In all the busy times of life, While josting one another, —. ainly mark each speck, eadi fault, Pi,. Interests do not lilind them, Who has resolved, with all their friends To take them as they find them ! I mean that other kind of folks. In common styled the neighbor, f Smiths, and Browns, And Tompkinses and Greens, Who in this moving world of ours Are ever on the scenes; They do not want your lecturings, TliqAma joufruli. b*i»4 Ilia, So, for the future, ’tis the best, To take them as you find them! Mlaoolla] 5.000 Lard. pounds Bulk Moats. Cheese, Sugar, Coffee, TOBACCO, SNUFF, &C. Onion Setts, • ^ j Garden Seeds. Whiskey of all Grades. Boots and Shoes. * — - • GOODS to the amount of XOO pounds sad up ward, delivered anywhere within the city limits free from Drayage. -TERMS STRICTLY CASH, “W G. W. GLOYER. jan. 28,-3m Mormon Elder desert him in Michi gan. From the Detroit Free Press. A little incident happened at the Grand Trank Junction Friday liveiniig, which gave a hundred passengers any quantity of fun and merriment, and resulted in the reclamation of three women who have for several years past been living in Salt Lake City in the capacity of wives to a Mormon eldernaraed Coleman. It seems that Cpleinan*left Salt Lake City some days ago for a trip to the East, having aome church matters to see to on Long Island. What is a little unusual for Mor mons to do, the elder decided to have his three wives accomjpany him, it l>eipg his intention, fr^tnone'of; the diem to assist in the conver sion of other women. The party along to Chicago, and there stopped for day or two, taking a look around the city, upd the elder making some purchases tosend'to friend# at-Salt Lake. They left Chicago Friday, it being the intention t<£change off at Grand Trunk Junction, Ii»ke, tfeat polygamy waa joow a Recog nized institution, iiu, the land, and that J ^'JCongrepu had sanctioned it While they ’did not believe, they could not dispute, of them were ever allowed to read any other than Mormon publications. They determined to boldly refuse to pro ceed with him farther than Abe junction, and trust to the ehivahy of the passen gers and tlielawof the Btate to prevent laltreatment oTbeing forced on. When the train arrived there, the elder.,found that he must wait for a conple of hours before connecting with the Grand trunk. The quartette sat down in the hotel par lor and the elder then proceeded to lay down a programme for the balance ot the journey, telling hie wives that the least show Of insubordination wonld suit in their arrest.^ They did not reveal their plan until, the four were on the platform, and the train within a few min utes of starting. The oldest wife then plainly told him tueir intention, in a quiet, even voice, and. added that if ho wanted to create a “ scene” they were ready for it Coleman was at first thunderstruck, and then gave way to a burst of xage.— While thus excited, one of the women disappeared, and the other two walked into the ladies* sitting room, filled with passengers, and sat down. He followed them in, threatening them first with ar rest, and then with instant death, if they did not immediately get aboard the train with him. Having taken the first step, the women were plucky enough not to back down, and defied him to do his work. His loud and passionate conver sation at length attracted the attention ot a railroad man, who walked up to him, and in his English way exclaimed : ‘‘See ’ere, you feller, wot you fooling around ’ere for ? Hif you don’t hexercise a lit tle care, hril knock you hinto the middle of next Monday ! ” Coleman saw that he vtois helpless, and was fairly white with i|ge. He tried to reason, offered money 4od promises, but the women were firm, and warned him that if be did not quit their presence, they would expose him to the passenger, and secure his arrest.— What could he. <16 f Any .' white man would have mashed his head in a minute, especially if asked to by a female in dis tress, and Coleman saw that to use force wonld end in his arrest. Having said “ they wouldn’t, ” he felt quite sure thd his wives would not go on, even though the trunks in the baggage car contained all their finery except what was being worn. He was making one last appeal, when bluff John Bull came back again and stormed: “See ’ere, you blasted swell hof a pocket-pitcher, hit you don’t bo bout of ’ere in two minutes, 1x1*11 break hevery bone bin your body, hi will!” The game was up, 1 '' and, as the conductor yelled “All aboard, "Coleman sneaked out and got aboard the train, not caring to lose the baggage and wives both. As for the women they looked over their pin money, found that they hod about twenty dollars between them, and determined to come to this city. The missing one was found in the woodhouse, where she had taken ref ugo, and the three walked to the street cars on Michigan avenue, and then rode in. One of them passed over to Windsor, after dinner, and the other two were at an intelligence of fice oq Woodward nvcuue during tho af ternoon, to secure places as house rants, calculating to remain in the city nntil some better arrangements cai made. Notice. Co«rt for W.b.t« tter tli.i? MOKDATi Uurd Honda; in Msv. . » y^gggjEig T ®!* Receivers Notice. i .ttt.ilM 1.x luitn? ?’ K T lL * purpose of receiving tbs Hayeth* 8th. W° n » Tueadar x • V. t “fciassday, Hit iwxDist.h April,at JOd ' W.*** and take that route through, the elder claiming (hat he bad friends at Port Hu ron. The four occupied seats as near to gether as possible, aqd, to avojd romark or ridicule,* each one was furnished with a ticket, thus seeming to be going along like ordinary travelers. At Chicago only one of the wives was registered as “Mrs. 'Coleman, ” the other two giving other SEKmVlrffirooms, Coleman staung to the Clerk that they his nieces. It seems that while the elder was out trading, during their stay in Chicago, the women got their heads together, and determined to give him the. slip. Oue had beon married to l£xn five Groceries, Provisions, COUNTRY PRODUCE. , 8i lbs to the Dollar. ,'good, 60. cts. per lb." .'Bacon, as cheap as can be had in the city.. ja=s=-We ■wish it um that we do not keep or.deal in oihcr Liquors of ally kind. m'ibi 8tateth< encountered, but were met by Coleman just as they were de scending the stairs. Hi* inquiries 'were t*rifef« C *’ aMl. r „ thus suited, although appearing suspi cious thereafter. Iu coining oyer the i . £ Central road, the four occupying two frj 1 'gb^terlat^ir.rOSMminat »«■ JI lour, steal, 4EC., 2^ d to tok< , sm9Ve> tlrat there ' - xraa no each thing *» losing his four huu- dred Doonds ofjjjatrimoayonatrain run : S&t mSfl laying another plan. He had informed Them, previous to departing from Salt without reason, and in every sense such an unmitigated offence against civiliza tion as to merit the epithet barbarous.— We can stand the posterior promontory, the shoes with heels in the centre, so that, indeed, “the hollow of the foot makes a hole in the ground,” and the waving and switchy movement of the body, and that.brave swind of the arms which ever prompts to a military salute —all this and more we can stand; but the head-gear of the day we are com pelled to cry against as unbearable. Yet wo only now put in a plea for our dear little friends under 12. Oh ! take the hay-stacks from their heads and shoulders! It is a crying wrong done to them. Now, sweet sixteen has notions of her _ irn, and we may say a will of her own. — Besides, she is a candidate, and has a right in some sort to fix up her own plat form ; and while she does, in our opin ion, greatly mar her form by this day’s head gear, she is not exactly under her ma’s control, and if she damages her prospects she must take the consequence. Therefore we venture only to give this bit of., advice—for we love them all —and that is to free their gay heads from the abominable burthens which must be as uncomfortable *nd unhealthy as they are ungainly and shocking to good taste. But mind you, fair young friends, whose friendship and good opinion the Dit- patch would not lose, hardly for the world itself, wc sesame no authority; but in humble attitude we supplioate the queens of lovqand beauty to make them selves more beautiful by a little independ ence in this matter 1 With reference to our dear little girls, for them we would head an insurrection. Their heads are not so near the grave that their hair should be dead. Sitting Up with a Sick Friend. Mark Twain’s First Experience as an Editor. I was a very smart child at the age of thirteen—an unusually smart child* I thought at the time. It was then that I aidmjflret newspaper scribbling. Mid, Timra Ne« larkLaMr.) most unexpected to me, it stirred up s Few persons outride of tho newspaper WUat It, Gotta to Keep Them. Up —the ManU for Starting New fine sensation in the community. It did ndeed, and IuwTery proud of it, too. idee of the force employee, end’tSe » printers “devil,”-'end a pro* amount of money relmiredto conduct a gressive laid aspiring one. My nude finst-class journel in New York, had me on his paper (the Weekly Han nibal Journal—$2 a year, in advance- 500 subscribers, and they paid in cord- wood, cabbage, and unmarketable tor- Husbands keep out of the Kitchen. Husbands ought “to keep out of the kitchen.’’’ A Iiusliand who did not, thus V^tfes of tho consequences : ' I found some fault some timo ago with - Maria Ann’s’custard pie,- and tried to offices* and few indeed inside, have any tell her liow hiy mother made cnstaid nips), and on a lucky summer’s day ho left town to be gone a week, and naked a if I thought I could edit one issue of the paper judioiously. Ah, didn’t I want to try ! Hinton was the editor of the rival paper. He had lately been Little Girls and Roasted Hair. orb or fashion’s abominations. The following well conceived and just condemnation of one of the most glaring follies of Fashion is from the Richmond Dispatch, and worthy of all serious con sideration : We love the little girls—those sweet buds of womanhood from seven to eleven. We often- wish that they could never grow older, and that their ^bright happy faces could never bear the traces of the sorrows, disappointments and' cares of this world* Holding these sentiments, cannot withhold the expression of complaint ngaist Fashion for dress ing up the heads'of so many of these terrestrial angels in the artificial mimi- cry of hair—a miserable imitation, which together with their own naturally soft and glossy ringlets, is made to . appear crisp and dead as though it had been roasted in the fire. What an abomina tion 1 First the natural hair of the in- nooents seem to have been wound around a poker as hot as it could be not to set in the. flame, and then over that is placed the coarse imitation, dead and lustreless. We have been an hnmble victim, an amiable acqnisescent in fashion—seldom daring to find fault with whafrwo always know the world—and what’s more im portant, the ladies—will assuredly adopt But we .cannot submit tamely to this out rage on innocence, beauty, grace, and •lth. We will at least protest; and j beg mothers, as they prize, those gra- b* to save these tender, and!sweet char- • of theirs from UuAdaily monstrosity. iey are so gentle, and, like infants, it seldom that they (Jan bo ungraceful if they try. They are full of health, and that precious oil distilled by health that penetrates the tubes of their ringiots and gives. them their charming glossiness " ‘ Md to please fashion. To see one of these in nocents, with ,beaming-face and rosy cheeks, with a mountain of sundried or kilzhdriod hay fastened lampily with pins, like batchers* skewers, beneath their.bonnets, is indeed an abomination. Tho whole matter of this huge burthen wool and flax and old rags, or lint, r, and tree-bark and 'dead hair) that ' v piles upon young people’s heads From the Louisville Ledger.] Taking care of the sick is oue of the cardinal principles of secret societies, Odd Fellows, Masons, Knights of Pythi as, Sons of Temperance, Sous of Malta, Red Men, the Knights of E. Clamplus Yitus, and even the Kn Klnx moke it a point to take care of the sick. The mem ber who is so unfortunate as to contract any of the current fevers, break a leg in a coal hole, get a pistol-bullet through his diaphram, or look upon the wine when it giveth its color in the cup until he getteth snakes in his boots, has a dead sure thing having some one to watoh—sit beside his bedside in the silent watches of the night, to cool his fevered brow with wet rags, and remind him when it is time to quackle down his medicine. Fraternity and self-interest coinbiue to insure careful nourishing, for if the sick member is al lowed to die, the brethren are assessed to pay the undertaker, the sexton, and the brass band which plays the dead march in going to Cave Hill* and Champagne Charley on the return. This is all right But, sometimes, when a lodge is weak, and the season sickly, sitting up with the sick is rather binding on the robust bers of the order. So it proved with a well-known gentleman who lives on Main street between Brook and Floyd. Night after night he was compelled to watch with a sick brother. He would come home, swallow a hasty supper, go out to visit the sick, and come home abont the time the clarion cock iu the adjoining yard sent forth his greeting to the auroral dawm Singularly enough he would come smelliug of champagne, cigars and other febrifuges. His wife began to grow uneasy. She thought that this sick busi ness was well enough in its way, but that he was carrying it to excess. This suspi cion WM intensified by the discovery of some long blonde hair, which bore ex ternal evidence of having been crimped, adhering to her hfisband’s garments.— Her hair was black, ondshedidntcrimpe it She said nothing, however, but men tally resolved to learn something further about this sick friend. Accordingly, on Tuesday night when the humane hus band started for the bedside of his sick friend, accompanied by a lady compan ion, she followed him. He was tracked to Lafayette street where he suddenly disappeared. As they were deliberating on the best means of recovering the lost trail, Mr. Ed. —:—* a friend of the hus band* came along, and the lady inquired of him it he knew where the missing man could be found. His presence was im- peritiyely required at home. Ed. didn’t know where he was, but if the wife would go back home he agreed to hunt him.— She said she would, but she didn't do it She went around the corner and watched Ed. until she saw him enter a certain house. Before that house she took her position, and watched and watched. In a few moments her husband came to the door, aocompanied by his sick friend, who was fair, frail, and gorgeous* with an abundance’of enameled shoulders and wealth of scrambled hair. There was kiss at the door, a shriek just outside* and a moment after a rash of an enraged wo man, and a rapid''succession of keen strokes from cowhide, impartially di vided between the husband and the sick friend. After receiving a round dozen he comprehended the situation, and receded from the premises with a speed that was almost marvelous. The husband out of the way, the infuriated concentrated her favorn on the fair one with’ the golden locks. A “jailer" chignon, about the size of a hornet’s nest, was torn off and trampled underfoot; silks Were torn'to ribbons* and sharp nails plowed deep furrows through the. thick! coating of paint Shrieks of rage and howls of an* guish were melodiously blended. Final ly* exhausted and satiated wiUi gore, the wife and her compariiofi left the scene ol cernege, bearing-'ffith them a blonde chignon and an ^mlnense pannier. aa tro phies. As for the husband, he has not been soeu siucc. It Is presumed* however* tbat he will not sit up with any more sick friends. In fact, theprobabil- meanft, most pronounce without taste, —nay, and not a few'of the old onea too—we, although not fastidious by. any ifies are that he is sick himself and, wants to send for McGinnis. FOBCK AND EXPENSES 9^ THE PBEJS. The Herald has had foi.years the larg est number* of editors, reporters and correspondents of any daily in.the city, and cm the whole makes the poorest use of them. That office has very ordinary material generally, for theieason that in tellectual and cultivated men will not con sent to such total suppression of indilid- jated, and one night . friend found an *‘ w ?* ““Aed the oowxrn. , the peer felW. bed, in Conseqnenfly, it i, ooin»eUedto employ which he stated th»t he could no longer P*” 008 to do jn.meihocre we, endure life, end hed drowned himeelf »het e lera number might do in »®>per.- in Beer creek. The friend ran down 01 “*“*"• The entire etaffof theHer-_ there, and dieoorered Hinton wading aid reaches, it in said, ora two hundred back to shore 1 He hed concluded he uieu whose aeleriea ereeege S2i e week, wouldn't The village wee full of it for Tho entire expensesiof thoeetabhrittWt several days, but Hinton did not .us- are estimated. I understand, et *15,000 e pectit. I thought this wee e fin, op- week on an everege-eometuue. running portunity. I wrote an eiebor.tely higher, end aomeUmea meteruily wretched account of the whole matter, t° wer> _ , , end then illustrated it with vilUinou. The apenm. of the Tribune erotanked cuts engraved on ih« bottoms of wood- next I* 8 editors, repartees and eri type with a jack-knife, one of them pondeute number nbonton. hundred and a picture of Hinton wading out into the fifty, and their rate at compensation in creek in hie shirt, with a lantern, sound- mnoh higher than on tho. Herald,..^ he ing the depth of the water with a walk- ‘ “V' b ° U ‘ ing-atiek. I thought it wm dreperately Durmgth.lateFranoo-Gcr«au funny, and w« densely unconscious that they were often as much ea mOOO, there was any moral obliquity about such and they were dap vet, large while the a publication. Being satisfied with the . ,. . ,* effort, I looked around for other words era S®- Ukm 8 “ onU * ttftor monl ^ to conquer, and it struck me that it The World ha. a targe.core of vote*, would make good, intereetiug matter to and has the reputation of getting better charge the editor of a neighboring conn- 8errice out oI tr, paper with a piece of gratuitous ras. newspaper in the city. Its joornalu- cSUtyand “see him squirm!” I did it, U ° ‘““hes are^almost « numerous as putting the article iato the form of a those of the Tribune, though its expenses parody on the burial of “Sir John are not, X hare understood, more than Moore," and a pretty crude parody it or *7,000 * was, too. Then I lampooned two promi- The Times to conducted with entail nent citizens outrageously—not because ^ urce ’ moat of which m resident. Sala- they had done anything tode9erveitbut riesare said to bo liberal at home, bat merely becaoso I thought it waa m, du- “th® slender for domestic aa4 foreign ty to make tha paper lively. Next I correepondeeta of whomJthaa few com- gently touched op tho newest stranger— pared with tha other quarto*, the lion ot the day, the gorgoooa journey- The employee and expenses of the other man tailor from Quincy. He was a morning papers are tow and tmall, taking simpering coxcomb of the first water, the great dailies as a criterion. As to the and the “kmdeit".dre*ed man in the evening papers, they almost always con. State. He was an inveterate woman 8U ^ economy before enterprise, and their killer. Every week he wrote lusby expenses, though extremely judicious, ■poetry" to the Journal about his rarely remarkable, newest conquest. His rhymes for my an EXPnxsivn niaamrr. week were headed “To Mary iu H J." The „ » people, have the meaning to Mary in Hannibal, of course. ra(ralaUoI1> no t only at home but abroad. But when setting up the piece I was sud- of possessing »liberal ibare of common donly riven from head to heel by what U nse, especially in matters of a practical I regarded as a perfect thunderbolt of ^a. An exception to tins seems to be humor, and X compressed it into a snap- tteir p^sion for starting newspapers, py foot-note at the bottom—thus: “We whio ijU almost a monomania. Every will ietthis thing pass, just this one; but d(J or two some new journal springs up wish Mr. J. Gordon Runnels to on- to oae of our cities or towns which, the derstand that wo have a character to sus- origiMU)r Jee b confident, will make a tain, and from this tune hence forth fortane for him, and hecomean authority when he wants to communa with his intUoUlia . It struggles atbng for a lit- friends in h-1 he must select some u , whi l e , u d dies without making the other medium than the celumus of this , mldle . t eo ho anywhere. Its example journal!”. teaohes nothing, however. Other men The paper came out, and I never knew wh „ i*^,. themselvoa born journalist*, any little thing attract so much attention , re just „ wilUng und anxious to those playful trifles of mine. For mo eey and talents-if they have once tho Hannibal Journal was in do- any—certainly their time—in the same mand-a novelty it had not experienced bo^^, m anner as their unfortunate before. The whole town was stirred predecessors. Hinton dropped in with a double-barrel- ^ au instance, The Paper, a modest ed shot-gun esrly in the forenoon.- tit ie, was set up in Pittsburg, not long When ho found that it was an infant (as ^ IX> Democratic organ, with a grand ho called me) that had done bun the gourish of trumpets; and. after three damage, he simply pulled my ears and energetic horn-blowing, it went away; but he threw up his situation p^bea with a dead loss, it is stated, of that night sud left town for good. The ^ Few penoog but would regard tailor come with his goose and a pair of *80,000. month as it high price for tha parted for the* -U.fretione,trying. It would be cheep, two lampooned citizens came with Ihroats Ul , „, . of libel, and went away ineensed at my ed mortals from committing a similar insignificance. The country editor folly, though it won't, of course. Those dri^taft^a maae 8tad y "f^iubjcctssy by forgiving mo cordially and inviting that no ouo newspaper out of twenty, ever me down to the drag store to wash away survives its first year, and not more than all animosity ina friendly bumper of one out of forty ever mate* anything, rSSwE: 8 Qg °' W “ Which certainly isnot.eueouraging:. If My uncle was very angry when he got men have money they would better invest back, unreasonably so. I thought, oon- it in almost anything rather than a news: siderieg what an impetus I hod given the paper enterprise. So far as the prospect H been uppermost in his rmnST inasmuch would be as wise tf thoy bought Ene stock ss by his delay he had *o wonderfully re- in hope of obtaining dividends. The esped dissecting, tomahawking, libel and proverb, “A fool and hia money are soon t ambition to be a journal ed when he looked at the account and ■. , ,. that I actually hooked the unparallel- the fool ha* ed number of thirty-three new suberi- bers, and had the vegetables to show for it—oord-wood. cabbage, beane, and (9^Tbe wickedness of the times finds pie. Maria made the pio after my re ceipt. It lusted longer than any other pie we ever had. • Maria set it on tho table every day for dinner, and yon see Icould not -eat'ft'-bocanse I forgot to tell her to put m any eggs or shortening. It| was economical; hat in a fit of gener osity I stolo it from tho pantry and gave it to a poor littloboy in tha neighbor hood. The boy’s funeral-was largely attended • by ;his former playmates. I did not go mysoit ViLen there was. tha buckwheat cake. I told Maria Ann. any fool could beat her making those cokes, and’ she said I. had better try it So I did. I emptied the batter oil oitl of tho pitcher ono even ing, and set the cakes myself. I got th* floor aha the salt and water, and warned by the past, put in a liberal quantity of c$gs and shortening. I shortened with tallow from roast beef, because I could not find any bird. I lit my pip® and pondered—yeast—yeast, to bo sure. IhadXorgotten tho yeast I. went and woke up the baker and got six cents’ worth of yeast. I set the pitctier behind the sffiing-room stove nod went to bad. V v _.. ‘. " Jathe morning.I got np.early and prepared to enjoy .my triumph; bat I didn’t. That yeast was strong enough to raise tha dead, and the batterwaarnn- rung oU over the oarpeU I scraped it up and put it in another dish. Then I got a., fire in the kitchen and pnt on tho griddte -The first lot of oskea stuck to the griddle. Tho second dittoed, only more. Maria - came down and naked what was burning.- Bhe-advised me to grease the griddle.' I did so. One end of tho griddle got too hot, and I dropped tho thing on my tenderest corn while trying to turn it around.:! Finally the cakes were ready for breakfast, and Maria got'the other Bungs. We sat down.— My cake did not have exactly the righ t flavor, t took ono mouthful and it satis- fiW mm ..I lost my. appetite at once.—. Maria wonld not let me pnt one on her plate. I think those c akes may he reck oned a dead-loss. The cat would not eat them. The dog ran off and stayed avrsy three days after .one was offered him- The hens won’t go in ten feet of them. I throw them into tho hack yard and there has not been a pig on tho prem ises since. I eat what is put before me now, and do not allude-to my mother’s system of cooking. . . Tus Massacke or the • Feench Gee- Esans, Thomas asd Lecomte.— 1 The fol lowing vivid description of the execution of General Clement Thomas and Gener- al Lecomte has been furnished by an eye witness, to the Paris Liberie. He .states: Gen. Thomas loving heard that one of hia former oids-de-camp hod been seized by the insurgents, instantly started to try and obtain his release, end at 6^ o’clock in the evening, bent on this errand, he arrived at the Place. Figalle. He.was dressed in citizen’s clothes, with gray pantaloons, abrown overcoat andhigh silk yjfefeble; fagnips enougfa to ran tli* % fit inu8tration ^ B gnitablo locality. ^ y Afe the Frenoh fair held in Boston we are The no™ Pxcmro Bamnoxa- ^^.vrarewwta.mtaWrd.pte^ The Omaha Herald says: tod paper and nblworono mde tavmg is quite frequently made in £orlt8 ''“S' 11 f * c - 8,mile of .heart, ty u ta thriomUidon of the other a reri bit ola niekle." Above fairs and progress of the Northern Pa- the scale* was inscribed the appropriate cifle Railroad. Information is reliable motto* “Beware of modern love—^ftoni *remarkebleenergj “ 8 ^***!L^^ and vigor. Tho grades are completed ed Bostonians act npon the advice ot the tor two hundred and sixty-six milee week Scotch parson to hia son John. ^ “If yon bufc he stood erect as a statue, nntil a ball One of the insurgents who happened to bother©, instantly recognized him, and going straight np to him* said “Are yon not Gen. Clement Thomas ?” ‘No l ” replied he to his ruffianly-looking interlocutor. ‘ - r 'i . * ’I am making no mistake, I am posi tive,’* said tho insurgent. “Youareearily recognized by your beard." “Well, even it were me," repUed the ex-general, with a look of determina tion,”; “have not I always done my daty r’ - ’ ’ ! , “You are no morenorleas than a miser able coward and a traitor,” said the in surgent* seizing tho old general by the -r.vrr., j .. ; • - - Within a few minutes a inob had gath ered around the two men, and tho Gener al was dragged before the Central Repub lican Committee* which was in session at Nol C Rub des Rosiers, where within a four moments ho was condemned to death* and at 6 o’clock he was led into the gar- ,, den at the back of the house by a file of r National Guards. The old warrior showed uo signs of fear, and walked boldly for ward to meet his fate. Arriving at th« end of the garden he took off his bat, ' which he retained in his hand, and turn ing, vith his face to the i executioners, looked at them. with an undismayed ex~ pression. Instead of killing the old man according to military usage, bysimnltaae- ssrsSSixstt victim* a shudder of Dulnth, through Minnesota, ^ and to marrr.** sava tho pious divine, “my boy. SSSSlwriBitt ^.w^an who has mo’nayTlfo wonwo may torn-oat badly, bat Gad I wifl be completed, in all prebabih^to d ?L mereenarv ^poaitton "is not lha a {7L%! confined to Boston. O&rfear which _. „ omu 4 ' ColumbiaT more favor* ... heaven _ with the same unhappy ma’a- dy.; Verily, the device npon the child'of 45?"’A Galveston young man lias loot the knight mustuba changed.. -Bravery faith in human nature worse than Grant is no longer meritorious. “None but the did. He courted a girl over two weeks, rich deserve the * ' und her parents said they wouldn’t per- mit any mch thing, ao- the young people Bci cnnvcreat ion with an old concluded .to- olopo. He got a yonng “a man, a friend of lna, to take tho girl to gentleman whohad .reached the age of New Orleans, where he would meet them seventy-three, I remarked that he looked and marry the girl, and go somewhere healthy and strong. “Yes ” said he • and enjoy life semdbly. The yonng «I enjoy better health than I used to.— llfe he had married her and gone to keeping occasionally took a e laaS of- liquor) house. The deceived, chap says you but for the last seven years I have used won’t catch him courting up another girl I neither* and during this time my health for some one else, not if he knows it [has much improved.” —the fifteenth—was lodged* either by in- * tention or accident; in his forehead* near “ his right eye, upon receiving which he fell dead; No sooner hod he fallen than Gen. Lecolnte waa brought into the ^ar^ ■ den, his face waa of an ashy paleness; and * he had crossed his arms npon his chest In' feeblo accents he protested against his cold blooded assassinaton.'- The men who ushered him into the garden were soldiers of the 98th infantry, who shouted: “It’* bis turn nowj ’twos ho who gave, us the order to firs'upon- the people P’ Half a moment later General Lecomte waa a corpse." - — An old bachelor says of woman, “She can kiss' another woman sweeter and then talk about her worse than one of those reform republicans talk about the Prea> dent.”

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Weekly Sumter republican. (Americus, Ga.) 18??-1889, May 05, 1871, Image 1