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A.MERICTJS GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1874.
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‘Give up! How can I help it ?
Within four days I have been to every
bookbindery in the city, and not a bit of
work can I get.'
‘Bat have you tried anything else ? *
‘Yes, 1 have tried other things. I’ve
been to uioro than a dozen of my friends
and offered to help them if they wonld
hire me,’
«PF fixed pl«
Vo regular rat
li.a insert! d I
I offered to cither post their accounts,
make out their bills or attend to the conn*
tale, per -<puro (10 line*) ft 00
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Professional Cards.
, lt l« A. II AWKINP. ECGBNIS A. HAWKINS
Hawkins & Hawkins,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
lygRICPS. GEORGIA*
Mrs. Stanwood smiled as her husband
ipokc thus.
•What makes you*smilc ? ’ he asked.
‘To think that yon should have imag
ined that you could find work in such a
place.’
‘But how is Mark Leeds ? ’
‘He is worse off than 1 aui.’
‘How so ?'
‘He has nothing in his house to cat.’
A shudder crept over his wife’s frame
‘Why do you tremble, wife? '
‘Because when we shall have eaten our
breakfast to-morrow morning, we shall
COOK cb CRIS3?,
VTTOHNKY AT LAW.
AMTJtlCUH. GEORGIA.
JT1I.I, practice in tho Counties of Macon,
have nothing. 1
4 What!' cried l’etcr Stanwood, half
starting from his chair. ‘Do you mean
that ? ’
v:.ile<
.Thn
of (let
B. P. HOLLIS,
ittornoy at Xj
AMEUICUS, GEORGIA.
C. T GOODE*
A.tt:oriiev at Law
AMEUICUS, GEORGIA.
Iridge'a Drug store on Lunar etreei,
> as heretofore, in all the conrta of
All gone. I cooked the last this af
ternoon.’
‘But wc have pork ? *
‘You ate the last this noon.’
‘Then we must starve/ groaned the
stricken man, starting across the room.
Peter .Stanwood was a book-binder by
trade, and had now had been out of
work about a month. Ho was out
those who generally calculated to keep
about square with the world; and who
consider themselves particular fortunate
if they keep out of debt. He was
30 years of age, and had three children
to provide for, besides himself and wife,
and this, together with house rent, was a
heavy draught upon his purse when work
plentiful, but now—there was noth-
. MCCLESKEY.
Fort & McCleskey,
,rn‘ii* at Law and Solicitor* in Equity
AMEUICUS, GEORGIA.
rain the countit* of the South-
Circuit, in the Supreme Court of
n the District and Circuit Courts
eiilo of the public
N A. SMITH.
Attorney sat Tjaw
AMEUICUS, : : GEORGIA.
lt'-puhli*
bait f.
MERREL CALLAWAY,
attorney at Law,
AMEUICUS, GA.
r Kemlrick A Whoatlej’s Store.
Dt'roNT oouur
Guerry & Son,
attornoyai at Xia
OUCITORS IN EQUITY
A merle*a, Georgia,
W ILL practice in tho Superior G
Sumter, Schley, Macon, Dooly, Lee, Ter-
. W.UpUt knJ "Marion conntien; in the
‘na-n.i- Court «f Georgia and in the United
Court* at Savannah.
,.»cr S»-humport, Pickett and KingV,
.ml Cotton Avei
J. W. BRADY.
attorney at law,
AMEUICUS, GA.
hai?* Office over Harris k
Hardware Store.
M. D. McLEOD,
Physician and Surgeon.
H AVING returned to Amencua* respectfully
wnmnncea to bia former patrona and the
f w “ l * that he is ready to anawer calls in any
Of bn profession. Day Offlce-Davenport
; Btore. At night can be found
* lloi
apri!21-ly
Or. W. M. HARDWICK
TTA\ INQ r. a anted tho Practice of Medicine.
u xC'-rahia services to bis old friends and
iml to the paying public generally,
ttention will he given to all Chronic
^..particularly thoeeof Females. Ho will
f., r *nd treat ordinary case* at Ida
»?*j H 1 **™ M the Drug Btore of Davenport k
Ft 1 £■ bwdence—Surkville street, opposite
T.M. lurlow. febiltf
, Dr. J. B. HINKLE,
P,, .VNlclan and Hurgeon,
m* left at the Drug Store of Dr. E. J. El
v ,/.*'■ ° r at his resldanco (in front of Col
- JW\well#), will receive prompt and laflh
OUT OF WORK.
‘It s^no use, Maria, I have tried every-
‘But you are not going to give up, Pe-
just how wc were situated and offered
him my watch a pledge for the payment
of our rent within two months, with in
terest on all arrearages.
So, he’s got yonr gold watch ? ’
‘No, he wouldn’t take it. He said if I
wonld become responsible for the rent he
would let it rest/
‘Then we’ve got a roof to cover us.
and food for to-morrow.’
‘Don’t despair, Peter, for we shall not
starve. ^I’ve got work enough to keep
‘I do
‘But our flour
alive. 1
‘What is that ? ’
‘Mr. Snow has engaged me to carry
small packages, baskets, bundles and such
to his customers.
Well, this is a pretty go. My wife
turned butcher’s boy. You shall do no
such thing.’
‘Why not ? ’
‘Because—because—’
‘Say because it will lower me in the
social scale.’
•W ell, so it will.’
‘Then it is more honorable to lio still
and starve, and see one’s children starve,
than to work ? I tell yon Peter if you
Maria,’ said he, stopping and gazing
his wife in the face, ‘we must starve. I
have not a singlo penny in the world.’
But do not despair, Peter. Try again
to-morrow for work. You may find
something to do. Anything that is hon
est is honorable. Should you but make
a shilling a day we would not starve.’
Hut our house rent ? ’
Trust to me for that. The landlord
shall not turn us out. If you will engage
to find something to do, 1 will sec that
have house room.’
I’ll make one more effort/ mattered
Peter, despairingly.
•But you must go prepared to do any-*
thing.’
‘Anything reasonable, Maria.
‘What do you call reasonable ? ’
‘Why, anything decent.’
She felt, inclined to smile, hut the mat-
r was too serious for that, and a clond
>assed over her face. She knew her hus-
>and’s disposition, and she felt sure ho
would find work. She knew that he
would look for some kind of work which
would not lower him in the social scale,
he had once or twice expressed it.
However, she knew that it would be no
to say anything to him now, so she
let tho matter drop.
On tho following moining the last hit
of food was put on the table. Stanwood
could hardly realize that he was penni
less and without food. For years he had
been gay, thoughtless anu fortunate,
making tho most of the present; forget
ting the past, and letting the future take
care of itself. Yet the truth was naked
and clear, and when he left the house he
said something must be done.
No sooner had her husband left than
Mrs. Stanwood put on her bonnet and
shawl. Her oldest child was a girl, 11
years old, and her youngest four. She
asked ncr next door neighbor if she
would take care of her children until
noon. These children were known to be
good and quiet, and so they wero taken
cheerfully. Then Mrs. Stanwood locked
up her house and went away. She re
turned at noon, bringing some dinner for
her children, and then went away again,
She came home in the evening, before
her husband returned, bearing a heavy
basket on her arm.
‘Well, Peter, what luck ? ’ she asked
after her husband had entered and sat
down.
‘Nothing, nothing/ ho groaned, 1
mado out to get dinner with an old chum
but could find no work.’ f
And where have you looked to-day ?
O, everywhere. I’ve been to a hun
dred places, but it is the same story in
every place. It’s nothing but one eter
nal no—no—no ! I'm sick and tired of
't find work I must Wo should have
been without bread to night if I had not
found work to-day, At such a time as
this it is not for us to consider what
kind of work wc will do, so long as it is
honest.’
‘But only think—you carrying our
butcher’s stuff! Why, I would sooner go
myself.’
‘If you’ll go/ said tho wife, I will stay
at home and take care of the children.’
Before he went to bed lie promised to
go to the butcher’s next morning.
And Peter Stanwood went upon his
new business. Mr. Snow greeted him
warmly, praised his noble wife, and then
sent him off with two baskets, one to a
Mrs. Smith and the other to a Mrs. Dix-
all.
One evening he met Mark Leeds,
other binder who had been discharged
with himself. Leeds looked careworn
and rusty.
'How goes it ? ’ asked Peter.
‘Don’t ask me/ said Mark. ‘My fa
ily is half starved.’
•But can’t you find something to do ? ’
‘Nothing.’
‘Have you tried? ’
‘Everywhere, but it’s no use. I havi
pawned all the clothes I have but these I
have on. I’ve been to the bindery to
day, and what do you suppose he offered
‘What was it?’
4 Why, he offered to let me do his cart
ing ! He has just turned off his negro
for drunkenness, and offered me the place.
The old curmudgeon ! I had a great
mind to pitch him into the handcart and
run him to the ’
‘Well/ said Peter, ‘if I had been in
your place I would have taken up the of-
Above the Clouds.
Now came the most stirring iuoideut
of our trip. From the height of 4,000
feet we steadily ascended, the country
dwarfing into a panorama of boys below
us. I had the aneroid barometer in my
hand, and so marked our progress up
ward. At 6,COO feet our breaths became
visible, just as they would on a frosty
morning. We already began to feel
cold in the body, but the rays of the sun
beat in upon us with a fierce intensity.
Tho index of the barometer steadily
crept around the dial, marking off the
thousands until it reached the fourteen,
then flying back again and starting from
zero,"from whence it progressed once
more around the dial, until it halted on
the verge of the two thousandth, telling
us that we were only about a hundred
feet less than sixteen thousand feet above
the earth.
At this height the world was an ob-
Ecurity to us, a vapory haze shut it out
from our view, and wc could detect noth
ing of it but the silvery lines that mark
ed the great bays and rivers. From a
contemplation of the indistinct scene I
reverted to my own feelings. The air
was very cold, and tho sun was very
warm. The theremometer stood at 82°,
the sun was intensely hot, as its rays fill
upon us, but for all that wc might as
well have been in an Arctic region. This
is one of tho most curious phenomena of
life above tho clond*. The rarefaction
of the air hardly accounts for tho chilling
cold which penetrates you through and
through, while the thermometer and the
heat of the solar rays aro indicating a
high summer temperature. At a height
of about 15,000 feet I was shivering
while my head seemed to be burning up,
and all the blood in my body rushed ton
ward it. I felt a very slight difficulty in
breathing, but my ears were stopped up,
and 1 could hardly hear what Mr. Fox
saying to me when he was standing by my
side.
fer.’
Mark mentioned the name of the same
individual again.
Why/ resumed Peter, ‘I have been
doipg the work of a butcher’s boy the
whole week.
Mark was incredulous, but his com
panion convinced him, at d so they sepa
rated.
One day Peter had a basket to carry
to Mr. W , his former employer.
He took the load upon his arm, and just
enteriug the yard he met Mr.
W. coming out.
Ah, Stanwood, i3 this you? ’ asked his
employer kindly.
Yes, sir.’
What are you up to now ? ’
I’m a butcher's boy, sir.’
‘A what ? ’
You sec I’vo brought provisions
‘What have you offered to do ? ’
‘Why, I even went so far as to offer to
tend a liquor store down town.*
The wife smiled.
do? mutterod Pe-
Dr. S. B. HAWKINS,
M Y WCE at Dr. FJdridRo*. Drag Storo.
y, M-nee near tho MothodUt Church.
.sciykx, tender tbo cood people of
‘Now, what shall
ter spasmodicaly.l
‘Why, we will cat our supper first and
then talk the matter over.’
* *ad country generally.
DR. J. N. CHENEY,
by8ic?an and Surgeon,
ELLAYILLE, GEORGIA,
ice in Court House. j»n20-ly
ip & Callaway,
Wholesale and IteUil
nothing Dealers,
"i&con, - - - Georgia.
Largest
and Oldest
clothing house
*aa STATU.
‘Supper! have you got ooy 7
‘Yes—pleoty of it.* ,
‘But you told mo you had none.
‘Neither h»d we this morning, but 1 ve
been after work to-d»y end found sow.
‘You been after work?’ uttered the
husband in surprise.
•Yes.’ ....
‘But how—where—whit 7 ,
‘Why, first I went to Mis. Snow s, 1
knew her girl was sink, nod I hoped the
-Wt hsvoworkrehsdone^I wen. *
you; I’m a regular butcher’s boy, sir
And how long have you been at work
thus? *
‘This is tho tenth day.’
l But don’t it come hard ? ’
‘Nothing comes hard as long as it
honest and will furnish bread for my ft
ily.’
And how much a day can you make
at this ? ’
Sometimes over a dollar, and some
times not over fifty cents,’
“Well, look here, Stanwood, there lias
been a dozen of my old hands hanging
around my counting room for a fortnight
•Inning for work. Last Saturday I took
pity on Leeds and offered him the job of
doing my hand-carting,but he turned up
his nose and asked me not to insult him.
But do you come to mv place to-mor
row morning and you shall have some
thing to do.I admire your independence.
Peter grasped the old man’s hand with
a joyful grip, and blessed him fervently.
That night ho gave Mr. Snow notice
that he must quit, and on the following
morning he went to the bindery. For two
days he had little to do; but on the third
a heavy job came io. and Peter Siam
wood had steady work.
TWINS.
The right way to do a twin child is to
be certain which one you havo got hold
of, then tie a string round his neck and
never, never take it off. Then you can
always tell which one it is, if you knew at
first, and if you didn’t know at first, yon
will know anyhow that it isn’t the other
HOW THERE CAME TO BE ONE IN
HEAVEN.
In form autl feature, fice and limb,
I grew so like my brother,
Thai folks got taking me for him.
And cftch for one another.
It puzzled all onr kith and kin,
It reached a fearful pitch;
For ono of ns was bom a twin,
‘ And not a sonl knew which.
Ono day, to mtko tin matter wore 1,
Before onr names wero fixed,
And we were being washed by nurse,
We got completely mixed;
And thus yo i see, by fate’s docruo,
Or rather nurse's whim,
My brother John was christened mo,
And I was christened him
This fatal likeness ever dogged
My footsteps when at school,
And I was always getting flogged
When John turned oat a fool.
I pnt this question fruitlessly
To every one I knew,
“What would you do if you were u
To prove that you were you ? "
Our cloee resemblance turned the tide
Of my domestio life,
For somehow my intended bride
Became my brother's wixa.
In fact, year after year, the same
Absurd mistakes went on,
And when I died tho neighbors came
And buried brother John.
SINGULAR CASE.
Wo did not remain long at this tre
mendous elevation. Wc slipped down
through the atmosphere to between 11
and 12 thousand feet above the earth,
and ’twas there we had our grandest
We had within our range of vision
at the same moment, Philadelphia, Haiti-
and Harrisburg, the Chesapeake
and Delaware bays, aud all their upper
tributaries, also Annapolis aud the most
of the smaller towns were included with-
this extended vision. But the grand
est feature of all was, when gazing cast-
rdly, we very plainly perceived the
Atlantic Ocean. There was no mistake
about it; the mist had lifted a little, and
could plainly sec where the waters of
the Delaware bay mingled with those of
tht Atlantic.
The view at this time was above the
possibilities of language to picture. The
peninsular of land between the Chcsa-
pcako and tho Delaware hat's was but a
thread of dark green upon the landscape;
the Susquehanna river was scarcely per-
•ptiblc, except by the dark line which
e knew to be tho great bridge across it;
the country below was but a checker
board of indistinct white and green
squares; Baltimore and Philadelphia were
ly masses of shade upon the map ; but
the great ocean was a reality, and to a
of it we constantly turned our eyes,
with a feeling that here was something
crlasticg and enduring. The pano-
nn that cauie within our scope of vis
ion was probably not less than 200 square
ilc.-, but from our height cf 10,000 feet
seemed to bo dwarfed to a space you
light cover with your handkerchief. It
■cmed to us as if we were looking thro’
the wrong end of a field glass.
When at this height of 1G,000 feet, or
cr three miles above the earth, Prof.
Donaldson told us that tho balloon had
obtained its equilibrium ; that it was
poised on an exact balance, and that as
soon as the gas commenced to condense.
the slightest degree, we would
descend rapidly. And it was precisely
this fashion that wedid co down.
A Romance in Real Life.
her »nd told her my story,
me at work on hor w«*h.ng. She gwe
me some food to bringto njeMl-
1 paid me three shillings when 1
dreo, »nd p»id me
"^WittTyon h»T0 been wuhing for our
butcher’, wife? ’ »ud Peter,looking rery
m °Of”2«1?b»r e ; »nd thereby emtt
enough io keep u. in food to-morrow, »t
Ly rate, »o to-morrow you m»y come
borne to dinner/
‘But how .bout the rent ?
‘O, I’« reen Mr. Sunpeon, told him
0UB PYBAMID
Which bus been slowly forming, from
the found.tion, for the Ustteo years, and
not yet actually completed now, pre
sent. tile following glorious tppcarencc:
OHIO.
TEXAS.
OREGON.
GEORGIA.
VIRGINIA.
MISSOURI.
NEW YORK.
INDIANA.
MICHIGAN.
A L A B A M A.
ARKANSAS.
D E I, A W A R E.
KENTUCKY.
NEW J E R S E Y.
MARYLAND.
LOUISIANA.
TENNESSEE.
CONNECTICUT.
NEW HAMPSHIR E.
WEST V I R QJ N I A.
NORTH CAROLINA.
MASSACHUSETTS.
PENNSYLVANIA.
The Democrat, will have a majority
of abont seventy Congressmen in the
Hauseof Representatives, and mako a
gain of seven U. S. Senators.
A pretty lively corps.
A few days ago a young man, about
20 years of age, arrived in this city from
Kngland, and commenced to look for
work at his trade. After several days’
fruitless search he entered a large factory
on Lombard street, and inquired for
work of the superintendent. The latter
questioned him, asking his name and
where ho was from, and other partiem
lars about his family. He told the su
perintendent that his mother resided in
Kngland and had reared him, his father
having quarrelled with her when ho was
an infant and had abondened them, and
it was supposed that he had come to
America but no tidings had been received
from him. When the young man had
concluded, the superintendent who for
many years had been employed by the
firm with whom he was at present engag
ed, said to tho youth, “I am your father,”
They discussed family matters at length,
and the father hearing from his son that
hb mother had never ceased to mourn
their unfortunate difference and his ab*
scncc, determined to proceed at onee to
Europe and bring her to this country and
endeavor in tho future years to atone for
the mistakes and errors of the past,
secured employment for his son, aud ob
taining the necessary leave of absence
from hb employers, he sailed last week
• Army literature—Magazines and
The Boston Spiritualist Scientist hav
tho following singular account of the oc
currence attending the dernbo of a Mbs
Smith:
In Lawrence, Susie Smith, a youug la
dy about 17 years of age, daughter of
Dr. Greenleas Smith, after a short illness
died on Wednesday, Sept. 9th, at six
o’clock, in the evening, and from that
time until Friday, at 12 o’clock, tho body
was apparently possessed in part by oth
er spirits.
On Wednesday, the day oft her death,
sho said, “Father, I have attended my
own funeral.” She described it as very
real, declared herself as perfectly con
scious of what she was saying, and abo
spoke of singing, aud gave the names of
hymns she had heard.
She continued ratioual during the day,
when filially, about C o’clock she passed
into violent spasms ; a gradual paleness
overspread her faftj from tho forehead ;
sho became speechless closed her eyes,
aud to the senses of those about her bed
side, -life was instinct. Indeed, there
seemed to bo no question about it. Our
readers are aware how a loving heart re
fuses to believe its companion hud de
parted this life, how it hopes against
hope almost to the tomb. So with the
father, mother, brother and sister gather
ed around this bedside.
Many miuutcs had elapsed, when sud
denly, to tho indescribable surprise of all
iti the room, came a deep, gruff voice,
the parted and moving lips of the body
indicating its whereabouts, which said,
'Hub both of her arms as hard ns you
an ! ” Without a second bidding, and
recovering from their surprbe, the com
mand was obeyed, wlicu came a second
voice, “Raise her up in end.” This be-
partly uuderstood, brought the
voice to say, “raise her up in end—you’re
deaf, ain’t you ? ” Up cauie the body, it
breathed naturally, but did not speak for
a few moments.
Dr. Smith sat behind the body hold
ing it up, when it again spoke in another
voice, “If I could move her legs around
so that I could get her up on tho foot
board, she’d be all right.”
The doctor was preparing to carry this
suggestion into effect when he, with the
body, was actually taken—lifted from
their positions together—and both
placed updn the foot board.
The body was now possessed by a spir
it that was cheerful, lively, and not
like its natural occupant.
The doctor was about to ask if she had
not better be laid back when the
force again lifted them, carried them
backward—he to his feet and sho falling
to her first position in bed, apparently
dead as couid possibly be.
A few moments elapsed—the doubt
is settling into a certainty—when
mild voice opened a conversation which
continued three hours ; during this time
it acknowledged that the body bad been
controlled by spirits out of the flesh.
A trance sleep followed.
The next morning the body opened
its eyes and said to the doctor, “Please
lio down on tho side of the bed.” He
obeyed, and tho voice said, “Who am I,
anyway ? ” He replied, “You are Susie
Smith.” It answered, “No, I ain’t; Su
sie Smith died last night,” and the opin*
for England, intending to bring back with
him on his return the wife from whom
he had so long been separated.—Balt,
Gazcttce.
The merriest monarch in the
world is Victor Emanuel; the finest
looking, Kaiser Billy; the most stack up,
Alexander II, of Russia; the thickest
head, Francis Joseph of Austria; the
most republican, Leopold of Belgium;
the richest, Peter II of Braxil; the most
amiable, Christian IX of Denmark; the
youngest, Oscar II of Sweden and Nor
way ; the most productive, Queen Victo
ria ; the dirtiest, the Emporor of China;
the most married, Abdul-Axis Khan of
Turkey, and the “dorgonedest,” General
Grant.—Brooklyn Artjut.
ion is maintained.
On Friday the symptoms were again
worse; there were several fainting spells,
but after 12 o’clock there were no indi
cations of life.
The next morning, while in a lower
room, and endeavoring to decide where
to lay the body, an apparition, or Susie
Smith, as the incredulous or credulous
will have it, walked into the room with
plain footsteps and said, “Right on th
school hill, right on tho side of tho road/
then disappeared.
The illness and decease occurred at
the residence of her sister, corner of Ce
dar and Franklin streets. The young
lady resided in Lawrcnco for a number
of years, and was organist at Webster
Htll, with a large circle of acquaint
ances.
A LEGEND ABOUT LAWYERS.
[Translated trout the French.]
A journal lately annouuccd that the
corporation of sheriffs had addressed a
petition to the Minister of Justice, re
vesting that the office of Justice of tho
'eace should hereafter be accessible to
retired sheriffs, and not pertain exclus
ively to lawyer* and attorneys who havo
left the bar. I was recently talking
about this request with a sheriff.
•Why not ? ” said he with heat. “Wc
as good as lawyers; perhaps better.
Of what aro they proud ? It is true,
they say, that the sheriffs have never
furnished a Saint for Paradise. I don’t
dispute it. But tho lawyers! They
have only furnished one, aud even he
entered Ilcavcn by a trick worthy of
trade.”
Ah ! ” said I. “Is there a lawyer in
Paradise ? I avow this surprises me. I
believed tho celestial dwelling guarded
against lawyers as firmly as against res
taurant keepers and tailors. Relate to
me the history <f this lawyer who has
forced tho celestial guards.”
“Willingly. About three centuries
o a lawyer slipped into heaven under
the name of his cousin, Abbe de Citeaux,
who had just died in tho savor of holi-
All went well for two days, and
one suspected that there was an in
truder in the celestial dwelling. But at
the end of two days our lawyer was home
sick for tho court. He was bored, lie
set out, to survey ibe court of heaven,
staring at the passers-by, as he had for
merly dono in tho hall of Pas Perdue,
in order to place his hand upon a good
client.
A cause ! a cause ! I must have a
cause! ’ said he, clenching his fists. ‘1
want a cause; ought I to plead for noth
ing ? ’ but all the passers had a joyous
air which hardly denoted the pre-occu
pations of chicanery, lie was dismayed
—furious. All at onco he espied a
young woman, clothed in mourning
robes, who, with eyes east down and
melancholy brow, walked slowly along,
leading a child by the hand.
‘Victory!’cried our man, making a
ioyous gambol. ‘Behold the cause! be-*
lold the widow aud the orphan.”
With a turn of his hand ho adjusted
his band, draped his robe elegantly and
presented himself to the widow, making
one of his most amiable hows.
Madame is a plaintiff,’ said he in a
honied tone. ‘Oh, you may have, mad*
atne, all confidence in my ability. For
the rest, I have the ear of tho tribunal.
*"ivo you the papers ? As for tho jus—’
The lady raised her eyes and uttered a
cry of terror. ‘Mon Dicu!* said she,
but this man is Mon. Parlccrcux. It is
year since then, my poor child.’ At
the cry raised by the widow a great
crowd gathered. They surrounded her,
they questioned her, they uuderstood
tho truth. Immediately a general cla-
resounded under the whole celestial
vaults.
‘A lawyer ! There is a lawyer in Par
adise ! But what is St Peter thinking
of?' St. Peter soou arrived on the spot.
He perceived his error and commanded
the intruder to leave instantly tho dwell
ing that was forbidden him. Mons.
Purlecreux, intimidated for an instant,
cry quickly recovcrrd his assurance. He
mounts a small hill, turns up his sleeves,
coughs, blows his nose, then extending
his hand toward the auditory, ho cries :
Quid ? Cur ? Quart ? Quonuxlo ?
Quamlot’
‘You tire me/ bluntly replies the
guardian of Heaven. ‘Go hence. I
have already said it ; I repeat it to
you.’
‘I consent to it, if only the thing is
legal. I demand of the tribunal perrnis-
n to put ono question to it.’
Put it, but quickly.’
•Gentlemen, if there is iu the universe
n place where the law ought to he re
spected, it seems to mo that is hero in
tho sanctuary of eternal justice. Ah,
well, gentlemen, according to the law, a
proprietor is not to ex pell a lodger with
out sending a summons to him by a sher-
I await my summons and I mako
my reserves.’
St. Peter was moved by this reason-
g. ‘So bo it. Let some oue go after
tho sheriff to make the summons.’ Five
officers immediately started in
quest of the sheriff. But after a long
search they came hack without bring
ing with them the civil officer. ‘Ah,
well.’ said St. Peter, ‘where is the
sheriff? ’
Impossible to find one in Paradise.’
In fact, although I have not thought
of it before, there has never been
admitted here. What shall we do not
to violate the law ? ’ A burst of
laughter replied to him. It was Mods.
Parlecreux who nearly swooned with de
light on seeing the embarrassment of
the celestial guardian. ‘I shall await
my summons a long time/ said he,
making a victorious gesture. ‘The
sheriff who wiil bring it to me is not yet
born.’
St. Peter was taken aback.
One of the advisers whispered to him
the idea of allowing a sheriff to enter
Paradise for a few hours only, in order
to hasten the departure of the lawyer.
‘That would he a bad expedient/ replied
he, ‘you do not kuow lawyers Ours
would find means to cavil upon tho legal
ity of the summons. He would pluuge
us into the troubled waters of tho law,
and finally he would not leave us. Af-
terfthat 1 should find myself with a law.
E er and sheriff on my hands. The first
i enough/ And this is how there came
to be a lawyer in Paradise.”
Can you Spell it ?
On tbo wharf boat, yesterday, was a
large and anxious crowd, eagerly gath
ered rouud a lot of household traps
which were awaiting suipmeut, aud bet
ting fast and furiously ou tho spelling of
the word bureau.
In tho party was a furniture trao, and
to him was awarded the double honor of
holding tko stakes and deciding the bets.
Tho word Lai been spelled b a-e-u r-o,
b-e-r-a-o, b-u r e w, l> a o-r e-v, b-o-xt-
r-a u, b-Q-o-r-u-e, L-a-u-
r-e-w, b-a-r-c-o, b-u-c-r-o-o, b-u-
r-a-c-u, b-a-u-r-o-o, b-o-u-r-o-o,
b-e-a-u-r-u-o, b-a-r-o-u, b-o-o-u-r u-n,
and every other way in which the word
could possibly be got at. Aud now they
all had their money up on their way of
spelling, and wore anxiously awaiting
the decision of tho furniture man, who,
having occasion to use the word every
day, was, of course, competent authori
ty-
‘Gentlemen,” said he, “the beta are
off. The word about vLicli you are dis-
I u‘ing, complex us it may seem, ortho-
graphically considered, is in reality ono
of tho most simple of the many words
which, bo it in the ebauneis of business,
in State circles cr mound tlie domestic
firt-tide, ate of daily recurrence, uud
which every one iu this enlighteued age
should kuow liow to spell, and spell cor
rectly. Gentlemen, you overlook the
pronunciation, uud hero is where your
error arises. Were you to rinse for a
moment and consider how simple the
word is yon could not possibly make
such egregious blunders. It gives me
pleasure to decide the question for you
ut once, and return you each his respect
ive money, without further dispute. You
ere all of you iu tho wrong, aud here-
ter it is to be hoped you wiil notat-
mpt to stake your money on something
concerning which you show so lamenta
ble a degree of iguorauc ?. Tho corroct
orthography, a* used by me during tho
lost twenty .tears, is b-u bu r-o-w row—
Burow."
And then that crowd took, rath man,
s respective money, uud walked
thoughtfully away, more than ever con
vinced of tile unexplainable iutricacits of
t“eEnglUb language.
No More Sen Sickness.
-ople
(esaetner saloon steumet will be
r service by the end of autumn
ire toid will astonish the good
f Calais? when she c:»mes along
ir pier, a gigantic vessel, three
undred and fifty feet in length, driven
twenty miles an hour by two pairs of
puddles. Apart from the contrivance of
tho swinging saloon, her natural size and
accommodations are enough of themselves
i* reduce to a minimum the discomforts
4 such u passage a* that between Dover
uud Cabuse. Her speed cannot fail to be
great, driven through the water, us she
will be, by two {.airs of engine*, exerting
a power of -1,000 horses on four paddle
w heels of large diameter. ’Tho width of
her deck is forty fett, and her estimated
draught seven feet au-1 six inches. It
be r
wary
! she
i carry steam e
.y, lie.iiR slijpi’fl
each end, und fitting with lock
ing rudders. For forty-eight feet from
each stem she has very little free l»ourJ,
and each end of the centre por tion, which
is twenty-five foet long, is so shaped as to
net as a second or inner bow, throwing
off the wale 1 * which will wash freely over
tho deck. Iu the coatn of the vessel if
swung tho famous “Bessemer ’ saloon, a
sumptuous chamber seventy find high.
Tho ventillation And comfort of this sa
loon, we aro told, will be such as have
never been kuo-xu at tea. Tho special
mechanical appliances will absolutely
contract all roiling, f<>r they will be com
plotely under the command of one man,
who, by moving a handle, will ke.-p the
llr.f r ot the saloon in lino with the spirit
level. Tho swingiug tuloon is intended
to counteract rolling motiou only, but
the other freaks of a channel sra will, it
is hoped, bo pretty effectually annihi!a‘ed
by the geueral steadiness *’
Tho supporters of tho nxi
wln’ch the
ve beds of
saloon is hung rest tip
India rubber, which will prevent the
transmission of that disigrecublc vibra
tory motion known io well to landsmen,
and make this magnificont cabin ■ s care
refuge from the ills of a sea voysg -. I
will be treated like a Lely’s drawing
room, and if, notwithstanding every
thing, some tqueamish stomach should
still be effected, such luckless person wil
bo expected to retire to private cabins
A Call for a State Convention
OP CON FKDEB ATE SOLD1EU3 TO OIU1A
AN ASSOCIATION OP SURVIVORS.
Wo find, and publish w : .;h pleasure and
hearty approval, the following call which
appears iu the Atlanta papers of Thurs
day:
The undersigned soldiers of the late
army cf the Confederate Suite*. Assured
in their minds that much of the evil con
sequent upon our late unhappy war has
arisen from a demoralization of the pub
lic sentiment, by intrigues of unscrupu
lous politicians for selfish purposes, and
desirous Hf/u u to infuse into the publio
mind and heart such a chivalrio spirit as
w e trust will enable the posterity of those
who secured American independence and
constitutional government in the revolu
tion of 177G to preserve tho same from
the spoliation of mere partisan jobbers in
politics; anxious also to organize an as
sociation of the soldiers who survived the
revolution of 1800, for social and benevo
lent purposes, respectfully ask that each
oompuuy of the different regiments uud
but tali tons, of all arms, who served in
the Confederate army from Georgia, send
tw o accredited delegates to a convention,
to meet iu Atlanta ou Wednesday, the
20th day of January, 1875, for the pur
pose ol organizing an association to l>o
known ms tho Survivors* Association of
Confederate soldiers for the State of
Georgia.
Signed :
J P Simms,
John Milledge,
G M Hanvey,
il L Thomas, J M Paco,
L Goldsmith, Robt J Uomleraon.
I W Avery,
W A Hemphill,
A H Colquitt,
J B Morgan,
J U Erwin,
Sam II Crump,
Jno T Henderson,
T N Hooper,
C A Withers,
L L McClorksy,
E Y Clarke,
Henry Myers,'
E N Atkinson,
J S Main,
Jurats Hunter,
A St Clair-Abrams,
J H Dent,
J H Baker,
J D Mathis,
J II Lowe,
and over two thousand others, whoso
mum s are not iu piiut for want of space
fu the pu|ier. It is earnestly requested
that the call be r. published in the papers,
daily aud weekly, of the State. Arrange
ments will l»e (terfcctcd with tho different
railroad companies for half faro rates.
DeUgalts ere rt quested to forward their
name* to the Mat or of Allauta that ti»-
ruDgeuientv imiy bo made for their enter-
P M B Young,
H D Capers,
Ohus W Field,
B W Fmbcl,
W S Walker,
Ueury Jackson,
Clement A Evans,
Geo T Anderson,
H F Muddox,
John B Gordon,
W J Magi!!,
James M Smith,
Wm T Wofford,
It A Alston,
A C Garliuglon,
A II Rogers,
L J Gur.Tell,
R J Henderson,
Iwerr. Bovce,
W B Jones.
B S MoForlin,
T L Irwin.
K G Hitt,
Front ihe Lcuisvil't Courier Journal.
The editor of the Salem Bepublicnn
!irouters to kick the editor of this paper
like him that c
‘RadicalDm, it wou^l seem,” says an
’.mnge, “has gone to tho dogs.” Yes,
1 we are very sorry for it too.
vo are very sorry for tho
dogs.
The will of Ben Butler’s invincibility
before his people is broken. It is a
miracle, ns well nea misfortune, that his
neck has so long escaped a like fate.
There is something for which the gods
should he remorselessly overwhelmed by
an avalanche of thnnk.* in the result of
an election which shelves, even [though
it he but temporarily, such political
monstrosities iu Benjamin F. Butler.
at Free Pres* : “Chicago i* mad
Larn’t had a ease like De-
becat
it, win
\Y<
wives, w
with tho
him to li
living with four
n’t see why they should
man to live with four
only now and then, und
utmost difficulty, they can get
Chica;
with c
An account of a Georgia railroad acci
dent sjkeuks of Mr. So-and-so’s “lady**
and Mr. Scmebody-else’s “madam” Is
it possible that Georgia men have ceased
to travel with their wives ?
6-3*“There is a story of a young Ten
nesseean who did not believe in dreams,
lie dreamed one night that ho was smash
ed up on a railroad train, and had a very
vivid, shivering feeling of falling from a
great height in company with a locomo
tive, and beating- the hissing mnusler to
tho bottom of the abyss, where they lay
in a common ruin. The tuoxhed np
woke him. aud he told liis dream to his
father. To show that he despised visions
and repudiated dreams, and rose above
hallucinations, he took a railroad trip
that day and placed himself on the safe
side of suspicion of his bravery aud har
dihood. He had no other object than to
express his opinion of dreams and dream
ers. He w;is kiiled on that trip iu lex*
than twenty four hours after he had dream
cd of his death by rail, very much in the
Rnme manner in which he had been
frightened out of his sleep the night
before.
Some writer of more than ordi
nary ability has perpetrated a piece of
poetry which is certaiuly very appropri
ate to this obituary, and for the benefit
: readers we give it in full:
Newport, who will drink kerosene oil 1 y
the quart whenever he can get it. Be
craves it to snob an extent that the family
ore compelled to hide not only the can
which contains it, but even toe lamp*.
Ho has been known to drink half a pint
atatime. The effect of it ia similar to
mean whiskey; it produces a wild intoxi
cation. When under the influence of it.
he will Ughl matches and hold them
within his month, talk idiotically, mimic
man and beast, and sets like a frantic
baboon generally.
•&- The Cedar Town Express, which,
by-the-way is a new and very lively sheet,
is responsible for the following:
Gas Thompson, who is a strong Dab
ney man, upon being joked pretty severe
ly by some gentlemen on the opposite
side, just after hearing a report that Fel
ton was elected, made the following with
ering reply. “Well, gentlemen, yon
beat ns in the Seventh Congressional
District, bu‘. we oiw you h—U in Massa
chusetts!”
Which times are best.?—Meal times.
We buried it deep in the dirty soil.
So deep they’ll ne’er uncover it.
Unless sonic radical boring for oil.
By tllc dearly-loTcd scent should discover it.
Geokoia State Collge of Aubicul
TUBE AND THE MECHANIC ARTS.—The fol
lowing conntb-8 aro u-preseuted by stu
dents in this College »t the present time
Baldwin, Bartow, Bibb, Butts, Catoosa^
Cbattoogn, Clark, Clay, Clayton, Cobb,
Coweta, DeKalh, Dooly, Elbert, Frank
lin, Fulton, Greene, Gwinnett, Hall,
Harris, Heard, Henry, Houston, Jones,
Leo, McDuffie, Metriwether. Mitchell,
Monroe, Morgan, Mnxocgee, Oglethorpe
Polk, Putnam, Pulaski, Randolph. Rich
mond. Schley, Spaulding, Tab ot, Ter
rell, Thomas, Twiggs, Walker, Ware,
Warren, Washington, Worth. Vacan
cies, exist in the counties of tbe State
not mentioned in the above list. Young
men desirous of a thorough vientific
education, free of charge for tuition fees,
should communicate with the President
of the College.—Chronic!* ami Sentinel.
Philadelphia Scandal.— On Thurs
day, tho day after Father Gerdemann’f
disappearance, R : gbt Rev. Bishop Wood
received a letter from him stating that
the reason he had left the Catholic
Chnrch was that ho could not believe in
the infallibility of tbe Pope, and saying,
“By tho time yon read this yon will
know all about me, and therefore I have
no need to make an explanation.” He
also said that his debts hod overwhelmed
him, and used other like expression's.
Tho youug female organist of the chnrch
with whom, it is alleged. Father Gerde-
mann disappeared, is named Maggie
Witley, a Protestant, whose parents re-
sido iu Reading.
•Not adrgm was hcsnl, not a funeral note,
its corpse to oblivion wo hurried,
tone escaped a gentlenum'x throat,
en the ffadical party was buried.
It’s coffin was mado of a ballot-box,
With white men’s votes around it;
And it looked like a baboon taking it’s rest,
With a linen duster around it.
it’s tomb,
t’s carpct-bag we placed on
With a paper collar within
On that we laid a fine tooth comb.
With a Jerusalem traveler upon it.’
A Noble Mother.—Woman’s rights
a natural right, must come to me by
my mother. I believe, as I sit and think
of her wonderful genius for doing what
ever sic took in hand, that if she had
been told to do it by her sense of duty,
and then the way had opened, she would
have led an army like the old queens, or
ffftYPrnfd n Irimnlnni What cfw,
governed a kingdom. What sho did gov*,
era was great, growing, hungry, out
breaking bairns—keeping us well in hand,
smiting all hindrances out of tho way,
keeping us fed and clad bravely, and pay
ing for schooling as long as wo coaid be
spared to go, out of the eighteen shillings
a week the quiet, manful N|hcr made at
his anvil.—Exchange.
• t®- A country paper tells this story of
a new boy in one of tho Sunday schools :
“The precious youth was asked who
made the beautiful hills about them, and
replied that ho did not know, as his pa
rents only moved into town the day be
fore.”
Another Sensation.—Tho New York
Herald having nearly exhausted Crcsar
is m, creates another sensation by elabo
rately sketching wbat would happen if
the animals in Central Park ahould get
loose on Sunday I
Butler ia preparing a letter claiming
that he waa betrayed by his friends, ami
promising uncomfortable relations. He -
. | to f orm a new party in
f*.
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