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Professional Cards.
iuoiii a. bawkixs
Hawkins & Hawkins,
attorneys at law,
*MEBICU3. GEORGIA*
jan 14tf
•an. coox. c. r. cusp*
COOK dJ OHZSP,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
AMEllICUH. GEORGIA,
W ILL practice tn the Conn tie* of Macon.
D*.l ' ■“*
t. Lite Supreme Court of Ocorgia i
L'wtnct Courts. The partnership
•end to criminal Snrimws.
Office over Natinnsl Bank.
B. P- HOLLIS,
\ttornoy »t Im
AMERIOUS, GEORGIA.
II- office in IlawkinB’ Building,
il.lts FORT. J. n. MCCbRSXKY.
Fort & McOleskey,
1 Uorneyt at Late and Solicitors in Equity
AMERIOUS, GEORGIA.
W lLLpncticein the counties oftbo South-
Weetern Circuit, in the Supreme Court <
M. Office
iaulOtf.
N A. SMITH.
Attornay eat Zmw
IMEUICUS, GEORGIA.
W ill practice in the Courts of Sumter ant
adjoining Counties, and in Circuit Court ol
•r Office on College street, next to Itepubli-
•an office. febltitf.
MERREL CALLAWAY,
Attorney at Law,
AMERIC08, GA.
•TOffice over Kendrick A Wheatley’s Store.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A wife is like an unknown sea
Least known to him who thinks he knows
Where all the shores of promise be.
Capricious winds, uncertain tides,
Driva the young sailor on and on,
Till all his charts and all hia guides
ProTS false, and rain conceit is gone,
And only decile love abides.
Where lay the shallows of the maid.
No plummet line the wife may Bound;
Where round the sunny islands played
The pulses of the great prefound.
Lies low the treacherous everglade.
And sailing, he becomes, perforce.
Discoverer of a lovely world,
And finds, whate’er may bo his course,
Green lands within white seas impearled,
And streams of unsuspected source,
Which fred! with gold-delicious fruit*.
Kept by ungussacd Hesperkles,
Or cool the lips of gentle hrntes
That breed and browse among the trees
Whose mind-tossed limbs and leaves are lutes.
The maiden free, the maiden wed,
Can never, never be the same.
A new life springs from out the dead.
And. with the speaking of a name.
A breath upon the marriage-bed,
She finds herself a something new
(Which he learns later, but no lesa);
And good and evil, false and true,
May change their features,who can guess?
Seen close, or from another*iew.
Tears sjiring beneath a careless touch ;
Endurance hardens with a word ;
She holds a trifle with a clutch
So strangely, childishly absurd.
That he who loves and pardons much
She stiffens to the awful strain
Of some supreme or crucial hour,
And stands unblanched in fiercest plain!
A jealous thought, a pretty pique,
Enwraps in gloom, or bursts in storm ;
She questions all that love may speak.
And weighs its tone, and marks its form,
Or yields her frailty to a freak
That vexes him or breeds disgust;
Then rises in heroic flame,
And treads a danger into duat,
Or puts his doubting soul to shame
With love unfeigned and perfect trust.
Sales of spiritons Liquors.
poronr ooebbt
Guerry & Son,
Attomoy* cat Tmw
AND—
Oi.ICITOKS IN EQUITY
Amrrlcui, Georgia,
fir ILL practice in the Superior Courts of
n Humtcr, bebley, Macon, Dooly, Loo, Ter
re!!. Webster and Marion counties; in the
riepreme Court of Georgia and in tho United
Dr. W. A. GREENE,
G RATEFUL for the liberal patronage bestow
ed upon him daring the paat ten years,
will continue to aerve those desiring his P*o-
fMtional Services as heretofore, and solicits a
continuance of their patronage.
fd9 Cm
Dr. W. J. REESE,
T ENDERS Ilia Professional Services to th
peojJeof American and vicinity.
A!-o offers a good STOCK of DRUGS, togetl
rrwith GARDEN SEEDS, Ac.. Ac. Next door t
i. W. Sheffield A Co He would like to see hi
• lit friend* at hin Store.
j*n5tf
Dr. G. F. COOPER,
Will give hie
entire time
To the Practice of Medicine, and solicits a share
of public patronage. Calls left at the Drag
frtore <.f Dr. E. /. Eldridge, or his residence
»*rar the Female College, will receive prompt
Attention.
jan.2-tf
Dr J. B. HINKLEi~l
I’hyslolan and Surgeon-
C lLLS left at the Drug Store of Dr. E. J. El
drida-eorat his residence (in front of Ool
"• Maxwells), will receive prompt and taftb
Dr. S. B. HAWKINS.
« I OFFICE at Dr. Eldridge’s Drug Store.
Residence near the Method!<t Church.
*> lernces I again tender the good people of
i !» • “d country generally.
Dr. W. M. HARDWICK
TTAYINq resumed the rractioe of Medicine.
** offers bis services to his old friends and
9'rons and to the paying public generally.
Pe- ial attention will be given to all Chrome
particularly thnae of Few
P»-*enb*foraa4 treat onBaary
He will
jj®?*- Office at the Drag Storeof Davenport A
.Residence—8tarkviHe street, opposite
”° * T. M. Fur low. feHltf
A bill to be entitled an act to regulate
the sale of spiritaous, vinous and malt
liquors in the State of Georgia, and
for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of the State of Georgi:
That the question whether or not spirit-
ous, vinous or malt liquors shall be sold,
bartered or in any way disposed of for
valuable consideration, in quantities
less than five gallons, in any incor
porated city, town or village, county or
militia district on the following condi
tions and regulations: In case of an in
corporated city, town or village, a request
to have such question so submitted most
be signed by persons qualified to vote for
members of the General Assembly, and
resident in said city, town or village, in
number equal to at least one-fifth of the
whole number of votes cast at the gen
eral election for officers of the municipal
government, held next before tho pre
sentation of said petition, and laid before
the persons in whom, for the time being,
the corporate authority of such city,
town or village is vested, at a regular
meeting.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That
when such petition shall be so presented,
it shall be the duty of 6uch corporate
authorities to name a day, distant not less
than thirty nor more than sixty days, at
which an election shall be held at the
place or places, and in conformity to all
the regulations prescribed by the laws
and ordinances of said city, town or vil
lage, for the election of the persons ex
ercising the corporate authority thereof.
8ec. 3. Be it further enacted. That
notice of such election shall be adver
tised at least once in each week inter
vening the filing of the petition and the
day appointed for the election in each
newspaper published in said city, town
or village, if any, and also by posting the
same in at least five of the most public
places within such corporate limits
Sec 4. Be it farther enacted, That
those who favor the restriction of the
sale of spirituous, vinous aod malt
liquors, as indicated in the first section
of this act, shall have written or printed
on their ballota “For Restriction,’* and
those who oppose such restriction shall
havo written or printed on their ballots
Against Restriction.”
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted,
That the managers of such election shall
keep, or cansc to be kept, duplicate lists
of voters and tally sheets, and shall cer
tainly sign the same, one of which shall
be forwarded, on the day after the elec
tion, or as soon thereafter as possible, to
the Secretary of State, and shall be by
him forthwith laid before his Excellency,
and the other ahall be filed with the
porate authorities aforesaid. If it shall
appear to his Excellency, the Governor,
upon courting and consolidating the re
turns, that a majority of the legal votes
cast are for restriction, then he shall,
without delay, issue his proclamation, an.
nouncing tho vote, and declaring that
the restriction named in this act. of the
sale of spirituous, vinons and malt
liquors, shall take effect within the
of this act, for the oorporate authorities
of cities, towns and villages, which elec
tion, so advertised, shall be held in the
manner and under the regulations pre
scribed by law for holding elections for
members of the General Assembly; one
tally sheet and list of voters to bo filed
with the Clerk of the Superior Court of
said county,and another to be forwarded,
without delay, to his Excellency, the
Governor, and the subsequent proceed
ings shall be the same as hereinbefore
prescribed in the case of incorporated
cities, towns and villages.
Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That in
case it is desired to restrict the sale of
spirituous, vinons and malt liquors, as
indicated in the first section of this act,
in any militia district in this State, a re
quest in writing, signed by persons qual
ified to vote for members of the General
Assembly, aod resident in said district,
in number equal to one-ffifth of the
whole number of votes cast in said dis
trict, at the general election repre
sentation or Representatives, in the
county in which said militia district may
be, most he filed with the Ordinary of
said county; aod thereupon it shall he
the duty of said Ordinary to designate
a day for the election in said district, and
cause the same to he advertised as here
inbefore specified, in case of the sale of
liquors in the county.
Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That
the election so ordered and advertised
shall be held at the place and in the
manner and under tho regulations pre
scribed by law for the election of Justi
ces of the Peace. Duplicate tally-sheets
and list of voters shall be kept, and when
certified aod signed by the managers,
shall be disposed of by them, and all
snhsequent proceedings shall he as here
inbefore required in the case of a county
election.
Sec. 9. Bo it farther enacted, That
when proclamation shall be made, as
hereinbefore provided for, it shall not be
lawful, after the day named in said proc
lamation, for any person to sell, barter,
or in any way dispase of, for valuable
consideration, any spirituous, vinous or
malt liquors, in any corporate city, town
or village, county or militia district
named in such proclamation, in any
quantity less than five gallons.
Sec. 10. Be it farther enacted, That
any person violating the preceding sec
tion of this act, shall be punished as is
prescribed in section 4310 of the Code
of Georgia, published in 1873.
Sec. 11, Be it farther enacted, That
nothing in this act shall be construed to
prevent the sale of wine for sacramental
purposes, or of spirituous, vinous or
malt liquors, as medicine, on the pre
scription of a physician in regular prac
tice.
8ec. 12. After an election shall have
been held under the provisions of this
* i any city, town or village, or any
county or militia district, no other elec
tion shall bo held therein for the pur
pose herein named within two years from
the date of such election.
Sec. 13. No election shall be ordered
by the corporate authorities of any city,
town or village, or by any Ordinary un
til a sufficient amount of money, to he
judged of by such corporate authorities
or such Ordinary, has been deposited
with the petition, to cover the expenses
of the advertisement required to be
made.
Sec. 14. All laws and parts of laws
conflict with this act are hereby
pealed.
A SOLEMN SKETCH.
PUFFING AN UNDERTAKER
‘‘I’ve taken your paper for twenty-six
years,” he commenced, as he reached
the head of the stairs, says the Detroit
Free Press, “and now I want a puff.”
He was a very tall, slender man, had
face which hadn't smiled since 1842,
and hia neck was embraced by a white
cravat, and his hands were thrust into
black gloves.
“I’ve got a new hearse, a new stoek of
coffins, and I want a local notlbe,” he
continued, as he sat down and sighed, as
ready to screw a coffin lid down.
“My dear sir,” replied the man io
the corner, “I’ve met yon at a great
many funerals, and your general bearing
has created a favorable impression. Yon
sigh with the sighers, grieve with the
grievers, and on extra occasions you can
shed tears of sorrow, even though you
know that yon can't get 10 per cent, of
your bill under six months.”
“Yes,” sighed the undertaker, in
stinctively measuring the length of the
table with his eye, and wondering to
himself why editors’ tables weren’t cov
ered with crape, with rows of coffin nails
around the edges.
“Death is a very solemn thing,” con
tinued the man in the corner, “but still
is an occasion when one can appreciate
neat thing. I’ve seen you rub your
knuckles against door posts and never
change countenance; I’ve seen yon listen
to eulogies on men who owed yon for
twenty years before their death,'and you
looked even more solemn than the be
reaved widow; I’ve seen you back your
hearse up to a door in such an easy, qniet
way that it robbed death of half its ter
rors. All this have I seen and appre
ciated, hut I couldn’t write a puff for
you.”
“Why not ?” he demanded.
“For many reasons. Now you have
new hearse. Could I go on and say:
‘Mr. Sackcloth, the genial undettaker,
has just received a fine new hearse, and
wc hopo that our citizens will endeavor
to bestow upon it the patronage such
terprise deserves. It rides easy, is hand
somely finished, and those who try it
once will want no other.’ Coaid I sav
that?”
‘No, not very well.”
‘Of course I couldn’t. You can call
Learn a Trade.
I never look at my old brass compos,
ing rale that I do not bless myself, that
while my strength lasts, I am not at the
mercy of the world. If my pin is not
wanted I can go back to the type case
and be sure to find work; for 1 learned
the printers’ trade thoroughly—news,
paper work, job work, book work and
press work. I am glad I have a good
trade. It is a rock upon which the pos
sessor can stand firmlv. There is health
and vigor for both body and mind in an
hou9st trade. It is the strongest and
surest part of the self-made man. Go
from the academy to the printing office
or the artizan’s bench, or if you please
to the farm—for to he sore, true farm
ing is a trade, and a great one at that—
lay thus a sore foundation, and branch
off into whatever profession yon please.
You have heard, perhaps, of the clerk
who had faithfully served Stephen Girard
from boyhood to manhood. On his
twenty-first birthday he went to his mas
ter and told him his time was up, and
that he certainly expected important
E romotion in the merchant’s service.
Eat Stephen Girard said to him:
“Very well. Now go and learn a
trade.”
What trade, sir?”
Good barrels and butts most be in
demand while you live. Go and learn
the coopers’ trade, and when you havo
made a perfect barrel, bring it to
Dr. B. J. HEAD,
Having again located is Americas, offer* Ids
ritt »T or ^‘ontl scirices to the dtizets of the
40 '* surrounding country. Thankful for past
Wl11 giTebis entire attention to the
°. rLi ' profession, and therefore feels as
sured of giving satisfaction. He hae for many
. made the study and treatment of chronic
.yLT* * »P«d*Uy, particularly those diseases
tofasaales,and chin to have discor-
radiwmedwe and treatment peculiarly adapt-
&SES.
tL»» ao ® 0,1 the Sat side of public square, in
o#a| p tod ** ***«•
W. P. BURT,
EISTTIST,
AMKOICUB, GA. t
^operations.
porate limits of such city, town or vil
lage, from and after a day named, which
shall not be less than thirty nor more
than ninety days from the date of such
proclamation
Sec. 6. Be it farther enacted, That
in case it shall be desired to restrict the
sale of spirituous, vinons and malt
liquors, as aforesaid, in any county of
this State, a request in writing, signed
by persons qualified to vote for members
of the General Assembly, resident in
the whole number of votes cut in estd
said county, equal, in number to one-fifth
county, at tho general election for mem-
The yonng man went away and in
time brought to his old master a splendid
barrel of his own make.
Girard examined it and gave the mak
er two thousand dollars for it, and then
said to the maker:
Now, sir, I want you in my counting*
room, bat henceforth you will not be
dependent on the whim of Stephen Gi
rard. Let what will come you have
good trade always in reserve.”
The yonng man saw the wisdom, and
understood.
Years ago, when the middle-aged
men of to-day were boys, Horace Greeley
wrote:
It is a great source of consolation to
us, that when the public shall be tired of
us as an editor, we can make a satisfac
tory livelihood at setting type or farming;
so that while onr strength lasts, ten
thousand block-heads, taking offense at
some article they do not understand,
coaid not drive us into the poor house.”
And so many a man becomes truly
independent.—Printer's Circular.
eaite Eg
__ A precocious hoy in an up-town
b«ra'cUth”HouM”of Repre»eoUtiT<» ftmil, m uked which m ftepwtet
nil of the two, hurting Mother's feel
ings or hie finger. Henid the former.
‘Right, my deer ehild/’ oeid the greti-
' 1 U..J .h. ta U annnti
grocer or a dry goods man a ‘geniat
friend,’ and it's all right,, bat yon aren’l
genial—you can’t be. It's your business
to be solemn. If yon could even be
solemn than you are, it would be
money in your pocket.”
That’s so,” he said, sighing heavily.
Tf it was an omnibus, or a coal cart,
a wheelbarrow, I could go on-and
write a chapter on every separate spoke,
but it isn’t, you see.”
He leaned back and sighed agpin.
“And as to your coffins, they are
doubtless nice coffins, and your prices are
probably reasonable, but could I go on
and say : ‘Mr. Sackcloth,the undertaker,
has just received his new styles in spring
coffins, all sizes, and is now prepared to
see as many of his old customers as want
something handsome and durable at
moderate price. Could I say that ?”
Another sigh.
“I couldn’t say that you were holding
a clearing-out sale, in order to get ready
for the spring trade, or that, for the sake
of increasing yonr patronage, you had
decided to present each customer with
chromo. I couldn’t say that you were
repairing and repainting, and had the
most attractive coffin-shop in Detroit. It
would’nt do to hope that people would
patronize yon, or to say that all orders
sent in by mail would be promptly filled,
and that your motto was : “Quick sales
aud small profits!”
He put on the look of a tombstone,
and made no reply.
You see, if you had stoves to sell, or
dealt in mackerel, or sold fishing tackle,
erything would bo lovely. Yon are
an undertaker—solemn, sedate, mourn
fuL You revel in crape, and you never
)ass a black walnut door without think-
ng how much good coffin lumber was
recklessly wasted. The tolling bell is
music to you, and the City Hall flag at
half-mast is fat on your ribs. We’d like
to oblige yon, but you see how it is.”
“Yes, 1 see,” he sighed, and he formed
in procession and moved down stairs,
looking around now and then to see if
the hearse was just thirty-four feet be
hind the officiating clergyman’s carriage.
A Definition of Religion.—Re
ligion means the moving of the human
soul rightly toward God, toward man,
and toward duty. He who is using his
whole self according to the laws of God,
is religions. Some men think that de
votion is religion; bnt it is not all of re*
ligion. Here is a tune written *
parts; and men are wrangling and quar.
reling about it. One says that the har
mony is in the bass, another that it is
the tenor, and another that it is in the
alto; but I say that it is in all the six
parts. Each may, in and of itself, be
better than nothing; but it requires the
whole six parts to make what was meant
by the musical composer. Some men
say that love is religion. Well, love is
certainly, the highest element of it,‘bat
not that alone. Justice is religion
fidelity is religion; hope is religion; faith
is religion; obedience is religion. These
are all part and parcel of religion. Re
ligion is as much as the total of man
hood, and it takes in every element of
All the elements of manhood in their
right place and action are constituent
parts of religion; bnt no one of them
alone is religion. It takes the whole
manhood, imbned and inspired of God,
moving right, both heavenward and
earthward, to constitute religion.
The First Trial ot Salem Witches.
The magistrates took seats in front ot
the pulpit, faced the assembly and an
nounced that they were ready. The
prisoners'wefe brought in and pat upon
a platform in sight of all present. The
officers in charge of them said they had
made diligent search for images of pup-
pets belonging to the accused, bat had
! bond none. Prayer was offered and
Sarah Good was examined.
This woman was an object of general
dislike. Her husband, a weak, dependent
)erson, had become alien at*, d from her.
she was forlorn, friendless, broken down
by her sad condition and bad repute.
The minutes of her examination are in
the handwriting of Exekiel Cheever, the
village schoolmaster, as follows :
“Sarah Good, what evil spirit have
you familiarity with ?”
‘‘None.”
‘Have yon made no contract with
the devil?”
“No.” * ♦
“Why do you hurt these children ?”
“I do not hurt them; I scorn it.”
“Who do you employ then to do it?”
“I employ nobody."
“What creature do you emplov then?”
“No creature ; hut I am falsely ac
cused.”
Why did yon go away muttering
from Mr. Parais’ house?”
“I did not mutter, hat I thanked him
for what he gave my child.”
“Have you made no contract with the
devil ?”
“No.”
Hawthorne, the magistrate, desired
the children, all of them, to look up>
on her, and see if this were the person
that hurt them; and so they all did
look upon her, and said this was one
of the persons that did torment them.
Presently they were all tormented.
“Sarah Good, do you not see what
you have done ? Why do yon not tell
us tho trnth? Why do yon thus tor
ment these poor children ?”
‘I do not torment them.” '
‘Who do you employ then ?”
‘I employ nobody; 1 scorn it.” .
‘How came they thus tormented?”
What do I know ? You bring oth*
era here, and now you charge me
with it?”
“Why, who was it ?”
“I do not know, bnt it was some yen
brought into the meetinghouse with
you.”
“We brought you into the meeting
house.”
But you brought in two more.”
Who was it, then, that tormented the
children ?”
It was Osburn.”
What is it you say when you go mat
tering away from people’s houses ?”
Tf I must tell I will tell.”
Do tell ns.”
‘Then, if I must tell I will tell. It is
the commandments. I may say my com
mandmenta,! hope.”
“What commandment is it?”
“If I must tell you, I will tell—it is
psalm.”
“What psalm ?”
After a long time she muttered over
)me part of a psalm.
“The God that made heaven and
earth (though she was not willing to
mention the word “God”).
Her answers were in a very wicked,
spiteful manner, reflecting and retorting
igainst the authority, with base and
ibusive words with many lies she was
taken in. It is alleged that her husband
had said that he was afraid she was either
witch or would be one very quickly.
The worshipful Mr. Hawthore asked him
why he said so of her—whether he had
ever seen anything by her. He an
swered, “No, not in this nature ;” bnt it
was her bad carriage to him, “and, in
deed,” said, be, “I may say, with tears,
thatshe is an enemy to all good.”—The
Galaxy for March.
Known by their Fruits.—The roots
of plants are hid under > ground, so that
they themselves are not seen; bnt they
appear in their branches, flowers and
frnit, which argue there is a root and
life, in them. Thus the graces of the
spirit planted in the.sonl, though them
selves invisible, yet discover their being
and life in the track of a Christian’s
life, his words, His actions, and the frame
0? his carriage.—Leighton.
GEORGIA NEWS.
TLu Albany Xeics of the 11th inst. an
nounces the death of Mrs. Merrick
Barnes, of that city.
Corn-planting is still retarded in this
locality by excessive wet weather. Plan
ters are fall three weeks behind, and bnt
few will get through planting this week.
—Albany Fetes.
The Ritek.—The excitement regard
ing high water and fears of a freshet
to have been entirely dissipated in
consequence of the river falling rapidly
yesterday. At an early honr yesterday
morning it was found that the water was
falling, and it eontinned to recede
throughout the day, about sundown ap
pearing to have fallen four feet, and was
then about 27 feet. The mark, which
was waahed away, has not yet been re
placed, hence the exact height of the
water cannot be determined.—A ugusta
Constitutionalist, 10/A inst.
A yonng man named W. J. Ray at
tempted to commit suicide at MadiXon,
Georgia, on Sunday night last by taking
opium.
Civil* Rights.—Some trouble is likely
to result from the mass at the theatre
Monday night. Yesterday a colored
woman named Clara Thomas, and the
negro man who was pat down stairs,
Peter Hill, made complaint before the
United States commissioner and asked
that warrants be issued for the arrest of
the young men who they say were im
plicated in their expulsion. No war
rant waa issued, for the reason that the
officers hare not been officially notified
of the passage of the civil rights bill,
bnt as soon as they officially receive it
from headquarters, it is presumed that
warrants will be issued for the arrest
of several parties.
Last night, a negro mau named Jim
Karl, alias Lieutenant Karl, and a num
ber of negroes—about forty—were dit>
cussing the propriety of going to De-
Give’s, and demanding admittance to
the dress circle, but they concluded not
to try it Karl seemed to be leader, and
was very demonstrative. He is a car
riage driver for Mr. Bob Lowrey.—At
lanta Fetes, 10/A insL
Tho colored folks have arranged a
grand excursion from Savannah to Ma
con and Atlanta on the 4th of May.
The Dawson Journal is nine years
Old.
Gov. Smith has appioved tho resolu
tions passed by the Legislature concern
ing the Treasury. He aaya :
It is no part of the doty of the Gov
ernor under the constitution to pro
nounce or pass upon a judgment of
oenaure against an official of the gov
ernment. Bat the resolutions contained
provisions and directions to the Gov
ernor which, in my .opinion, the inter
est or the commonwealth renders need
ful; they are therefore with this explana
tion approved. Jambs M. Smith.
We take the following from the Sa
vannah Advertiser of the 10th inst:
Mrs. D. H. Porter, relict of the late
pastor of the First Presbyterian Church,
died yesterday.
The first shipment of the Georgia crop
of rosin, thirty-six barrels, was received
yesterday from Messrs. Powell & Co.,
No. 7 Macon k Brunswick railroad, con
signed to Messrs. Jas. F. Brown & Co.
It classes as extra pale.
‘But me no but*” is very well to read
in a book, but when it comes to a negro
who can butt a hemisphere in the butt
end of a stick of timber, it sounds
tough, aud yet it was done at No. 10}
on the Gulf road. The blow peeled the
top of the negro's bead, but after the
sand and splinters (some of them
inches long) were washed off and pulled
out he wanted to know “if de train was
GENERAL NEWS.
Camden, N. J., March 10.—The Dem
ocrats have elected the city treasurer and
assessor.
The Stato Grange reports 1,146 work
ing Granges in Ohio, with a membership
of 65,000.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has declared a quarterly dividend
of two per cent
Alexander Harkneas Las been recog-
nixed as British Vice-Consul at Savan
nah, Ga.
Robert Todd Lincoln is vice president
of the Harvard olnb of Chicago, and he
(Special t. 'mutilation.]
Washington, March 10.
The news from New Hampshire has
been eagerly read by both parties. It in
believed that a dose count will show a
democratic triumph in all save the gov
ernor, which election will be thrown into
the legislature.
The debate on the admission of Pinch-
bach continues, and is listened to with
interest. Owing to the present complex-
... ... . .. ion of the senate, it is not likely he will
made them a speech at their annual dm- ge t the coveted prize.
A number of southern nominations
Brigham Yonng has caused the Mor- * * n to-<l*y.
* . . 8 . , The Macon postoffico is causing trouble
oharch to exoommnmcta his nine , 0 tho fsithfal. Mr. Freeman is under* ,
teenth mother-in-law. obligations to Beloher, the preMnkjp-
The German Fusilier, ol Charleston, while Jack Brown. Amo fa-
an ...... ... .... floating around for the place. Mr. Glov-
8. C., said to-be tho oldest military or-. ^ oama wtil -be withdrawn; and it is not
ganization in the United States, will oel- improbable that Brother Brown may
ebrate their centennial anniversary on Ao*t to the tnrface. Db Laver.
the 3d of May next
The tide of travel is now at its flood.
Hotels, boarding houses, and private
house* have all been invaded with the
cry, take us in. Many have to sleep on
the boats, and others take refuge ou the
upward bound steamers.— Patalka Her-
Gordon and
Senator Gordon, ot Georgia, and Rep
resentative Lamar, of Mississippi, have
returned from New Hampshire. The
Boston Herald (Independent Repnblloan)
says: “The speeches made by Messrs.
Gordon and Lamar in New Hampshire
cannot fail to do good. The Southern
question ban been discussed too exclu
sively in the North by Northern men.
We welcome to New Eugland such repre
sentative Southern men as Messrs. Gor-
Tlie following ballots were taken op in don and Lamar. They apeak tho senti-
jury-room in Elizabeth N J after a ments of the intelligent white citizens of
recent trial: 1 not giltj; 2 not Goiltny; tbe S“> u >. “ d their «>?•?<* *honld
3 nst Giltey; 4 not Gilty; 5 Gnlty; 6 Nut
Tbe Japanese Minister, Yonshida, is
rejoicing over the birth of his daughter,
the first child of Japanese parents born
in this oountry.
Gilte; 7, nort Gutter.
Samuel W. Allen of Nevada, is be
lieved to be the greatest headsman in the
world. His ranch is eighty miles long,
and he owns 325,000 head of cattle.
A citizen of Indianapolis having lost
at faro three hundred dollars belonging
to his employers, hia wife took a pistol,
went to the winner, and made him give
back the money.
France
A Singular Plea for the Plymonth
Pastor.
What to Do when you are in
Trouble.—Don’t try to quench your
sorrow in rain or narcotics. If yon be
gin this, ycu must keep right on with it
till it leads yon to rein; or, if yon pause,
yon must add physical pain and the con
scientiousness of degradation to the aor-
yon seek to escape. Of all wretched
i, his condition is the most pitifnl
who having sought to drown bis grief in
drink awakes from his debauch with
shattered nerves, aching head, and de
pressed mind, to faoe the same trouble
again. That which was at first painful
to contemplate with, after drink, seems
unbearable. Ten to one the fatal drink
will be again sought, till its victims sinks
a pitiful wreck.
Work is yonr true remedy. If mis
fortune hits yon hard, hit you some*
thing else hard; pitch into something
with a will. There’s nothing like good,
solid, absorbing work to care trouble. If
you have met with losses, you don’t want
to lie awake thinking about them. Yon
want sweet, calm, sound sleep, and to
eat your dinner with appetite. Bnt yon
can’t unless you work. If yon don’t feel
like work, and go a loafing all day to tell
Tom, Dick and Harry the story of year
woes, yoa’U lie awake and Jteep yonr
wife awake by yonr tossings, spoil her
temper and yonr own breakfast the next
morning, and begin to-morrow feeling
ten times worse than yon today.
There are some great troubles that
only time heals, and perhaps some that
can never be helped at all; bnt all can
he helped by the great panacea, work.
Try it, you who are afflicted. It ia nota
patent medicine. It has proved ita effi
cacy since first Adam and Eve left be
hind them with weeping their beantifnl
Eden. It is an official remedy. All
good physicians in regular standing pre-
-scribe it in cases of mental and moral
diseases. It operates kindly and weU,
leaving no disagreeable sequelae. It will
care more complaints than any nostrum
in the materia medica, and comes nearer
to being a “cure-all” than any drag or
compound of drags in the market, and
it wul not sicken yon if yon do not take
it sugar-coated.
$GT California Item in the Milwaukee
Fetes : They got Wah Tsing, a California
heathen*, on the gallows* the other day,
with a rope around his neck, and he inr
from said county, next held before the
filing of said petition, which, when to
signed*, shall he presented to the Ordi-
S of said oounty, and thereupon it
a
j - - o . _ , i . o , : ■ ,i ••unoxee uxe n-”ii i xes, sain *vn*
ud tdTnttM * *n election, tie a nig .round- them,’ explained the tion of ten thousand Immortal «onls may I ij, m _ -cbokeo. yott bet.- Md then they
eeia preecrihed in the preceding Bection dear child. depend on the education of. child r I dropped him.
fied questioner; “Md whj is it vorse to J Bishop Beveridge has truly jmd etrik- ired . wmiH0 Nje , ,‘he Sheriff
hurt tho feeling.7” “Beeaiue joncan t |ingly .aid: “Who^kMiw. hot the «lv»|?, ChokM like h _,,,.. .. Y „.. M Wi| .
FROM \YA -ilHQTON.
THE MACON P03T OFFIOE AGAIN.
Brother Jack Br _ of Sumter, Prob-
ab!.-.
qniet the apprehensions of the North,
that if the Southern States are allowed
to govern themselves they will in some
way deprive the colored people of their
polical rights, if they do not remand
them to slavery.
“These gentlemen tell the people of
New Hampshire that the tnrbnlenoe of
the South comes entirely from eorrapt
government, and that tbe political rights
of tho negro can never be taken away
from him, and that the talk of a new re
bellion is absurd. Northern men have
been going through New Hampshire,
preaching tbe danger of another rebell-
and the reversion of the results of the
the greatest wheat producing
conntiy in the world. She produced in ,,r reUtion to the negro. Those who
le7 o , oqo nnr% listened to Messrs. Gordon and Lamar
1873 the enormous qnentity of 332,209,- cannot fai i to be ctUflod that wh»t they
000 bushel*. The United States rank *• local self government. It should
second in this r. Hpeet, and Rnssia third, not be a party qaestioo. How long can
The evidence Frru it never T, DK .S’ "th^M^
heard in fnner.1 oration or sermon, and Gordon and Lamar oonld extend their
seldom in private conversation, the opin- travels and speeci.es in New England,
expressed that a man with 810,000 and without anyfparty trammels whatever
income had gone to hell they could do much toconvinoe our peo-
K pie that the time had come to secure lo-
' Washington, March 10.—Tbe nomina- cal government to tho South, and that
tion of Glover will be withdrawn as Post- we are preparing a chalice that will soon-
master for Macon, Ga. er or later l*e pressed to our own lips.
Paris, March 10.'—Rom ora of a con * ”
templated coup d'etat by the Bonapartists
a circulation, and cause some uneasi-
S8S.
St. Louis. March 10.—Civil righ's re
sulted to-day in the killing of one negro
who interfered with a bar-keeper refusing
drink to a black man; and another trouble
resulted in missing a negr-», bnt killing
boy and a man by wild shots.
'The question is vital to ns, as well an
to the Booth. We cannot sustain free
institutions in one section while tramp
ling down in another. We most main
tain liberty f«r all, or submit to a despot
ism which will denv the rights alike to
all.”
cause known of the snicide.
Really there is little more to be said
either for or against Mr. Beecher. That
he is guilty is proved by a mountain of
evidence; that he is innocent resta upon
the word of himself and his paramonr.
In casting op the score, however, it be
hooves ns to be liberal
Tilton deserves all he Los got for his
folly. Mrs. Tilton is a sublimated jackass
in female attire. The question that ought
to perplex os relates to the degree of the
pastors guilt; bow greatly was be tempt
ed: how far waa he justified in ignoring
Tilton; bow large or amall relation does
this particular embarrassment hold to
ward the general tenor of his life.
There is a story that, daring Mr.
Beecher’s sojourn in London, some wick
ed Americans caused him to be shadowed
by an expert detective, and that this pro
fessional person tracked him to some very
font places. Is Mr. Beecher a life-long
debauchee—a lecherous mackerel caught
at last upon a pin-hook—or is he the gal
lant of an episode, the victim of a ridio-
nloua affection for a wax doll?
The wisest and strongest of men have
succumbed to the most artificial feminine
wiles. Yonr strapping wench, however
comely, rarely exercises any substantial
or lasting power. The woman who brings
herself and her hero to the block is usu
ally a fidgety, light-headed fool, frivo
lous and aaw-dnaty, with a turn for flirt
ing; in short, an artfnl liar, who dupes
by a species of sentimental simpering
very potent with ardent, credulous, con
ceited, vain, and imaginative manly ns*
tares. There is such a thing as being
“too sweet,” and this seems to be Mrs.
Tilton’s virtue. She is obviously a can
ning little dowdy, with the trick of inno-
cence. In person a Becky Sharp, in char
acter a Lizzie Greyitock—not possessing
any of the talents of Thackeray’s heroine
nor any of the beauty of Trollope’s—she
seems to have taken Mr. Beecher and
done for him by the aheer force of hia
weakneaa. Men are such fools, and, un
luckily, the better the man is, the bigger
the fool is likely to be; for, where women
are concerned, if a man is not a fool he is
generally a villain.
In aluson somebody most be deceived;
often enough it is the libertine; rarely the
wife. She knows what she is about from
the first. Now and then she has the ex
cuse of cruel treatment at home, pro
ducing desperation and that sense of
recklessness which drives both to irre-
she pro-
Sports on Beecheb-Tilton.—'Sports,'
it is noticeable—and this has been no
ticed for the first time—are beginning to
make their bets on Beecher and Tilton
S reference to potting down stakes on
ismith Maid and Monntaia Boy.
These gentlemen do not look upon the
Plymonth business in the light of a scan
dal. They take a much broader view.
Beecher they look upon as a sports
man—a mighty banter before the Lord,
thongh not of the Nimrod type. This
class of men like the best borne to win,
and they believe in Beecher. Tilton they peVrs in the church have alwayTeold at
high prices, bnt vei7 likely the universe!
ible actions. In any event i
with her eyes open, and
right to complain ot the conaec,
In an affair between a man and a married
woman the true claimant for commisera
tion is the man, sot the woman. The
world adjudges differently. It allows an
innocent yonng girl, doped and sedooed,
to g6 headlong to the devil, leaving the
scoundrel who has betrayed her to cat
and come again, while it visits upon the
victim of somebody eise’s wife Its sever-
Plymouth Kisses.
Tho testimony in the great Brooklyn
trial reveals a singular proneness to giv-
, . a . w . ing and receiving personal endearments
date for Cleik of the next Honse of Rep- among certain prominent actors in the
resentatives, is also a candidate for mat- ncandal. Mr. Tilton awears that Mr.
rimony with the beaotif al and fa sinating Beecher kissed him, and that be endnred
Yinnie Ream, the scnlptoress. We give it, even after he knew that Mr. Beecher
it os one of Madame Rumor’s morceaus.— had committed adultery with his wife.
Washington Chronicle. Mrs. Monlton says that she kissed Mr.
Atlanta, Ga., M.roh 10.—The n.gro B«»hcr directly upon hi. confectioni of
barber that suicided here to-day was one ROilt aod threNt of eelf-morder. Mr.
e party who. u>on the panage of tbe Beecher ia represented on eeTeral occa-
ci.d right, bill. Tinted the bar room, in moo. m laying hie land CKMoingly upon
toe city aod demanded tbe eame right. Mra. Monlton a shoulder; and from »
as white men. Thia condnct resulted in P nt l0 , Mra. Monlton br Mr.
a loss of patronage. He bitterly regret- Beecher e counsel, it would leem that an
ted hia conduct, and the depression pro- attempt will be made to chow that not
dneed by the loss of bminesa is the only on'7 Mrs. Monlton, butataoMr. Monlton
id Mr. Tilton were in the habit of kiss-
, , a ... __ „„ , ing Victoria WoodhulL On reading of
A correspondent of the New York thrae things, the profane reader ia re-
Graphic says that a Mr. McDonald, of minded of the popular quatrain :
London, has invented a new type setting «< I saw Esau kissing Kate,
machine, which he is now engaged in _ la fact, we all three sa*
perfecting. He sets np several columns
of the Times daily. The difficulty, ns in
all the., machines, bin the distributing, . “<*
aw trtk ij a ... . fondling would seem to be a usual and
and Mr. McDonald gets orer this by not customary observance in the ritnal of
distributing at alL In the Times office, Plymonth congregation, though it doea
which in a little world in itself, there is a not y®t appear that anybody has kissed
type foundry, and every morning after ? en J7?’ - Sherman.
„„ Kw m ..v,*“ v Apart from the alleged kissing of Mrs.
the type set np by theee machines has Tilton by Mr. Beecher, which b in db-
been used, it is thrown into the melting pate in the case, it appears by an abun-
pot and recast, and is all ready to be nsed dance of unquestioned testimony that
again at nisnt. the great pastor is wont frequently to re-
^ 84 lieve his gashing feelings by these ex
pressive demonstrations; and his exam
ple, at least in this respect, would nat
urally be imitated by the generality of
s devoted flock.
Perhaps here is the secret of the as
tonishing popularity of Plymouth
Church. The kissing all around, in
culcated by the pastor in practice as
well as in precept, most be highly grati
fying to many of the members, especi
ally the old maids, while the younger
people may learn to five op the sinfnl
diversion of the round dances for the
superior bliss of piona kissing. The
, pews in the chnrch have i
do not look upon as a first-class trotter, high prices, but very likely _
They do not pnt faith in hia legs, which publicity which these peculiar facts have
are extravagantly long; but some fancy now attained, may render the eompeti-
the shape of his cheat, its breadth and tion at the next annual vendnemore pro-
compass, and the way be carries hia head, dactive than c
which one gentleman at the Everett
House last night declared to be the very
style of Blair A thole. The beta have Another Reward fob ChakurRoob.—
been running two to one against Tilton. Mayor Stokley, of Philadelphia, has is-
owing to the aureoly which the iUostri- sned a pioclamation, embracing the law
°*» % W. B - now, by the way, reed jo,t en«ted by the Legislature of that
“ State, calling attention partienlarly.to the
are entirely ignored. They are of immunity from pnmshment, given dor-
opinion they know all about them, end ing the next thirty daye, to an; one hav-
that no more evidence ia required. i ng custody of little Charlie Boas, and
who will restore him to any magistrate
on think Beecher knew P**eats. Following the proclamation is
wbat he was about ? Do yon think he is a card from the father of the minting boy,
a darned fool ?” in which he saya: *'I am — that
both of the abductors were killed at Bay
eiaewhere of the diMoTeiy’Vhve December 14,1874. In addition to~the
toads in the oentre of trees or inside of , . .
apparently .olid .tone. A French nat- ,ro f 8W«antead
nralirt,M. Margelidet, haajnat published <7 U» ‘We Uw, I will giro satisfactory
the results of an experiment of that ns- assurance to any person having custody
"rc* 16 5 ol ' h « of the child, or who shall be tbe medium
H through Whom he shrtl be restored to
the cavity, and then sealed op the month me » thnk 1 wlU P a J whatever sum of
lowed in a large stooe, pet e toed into
the cavity, and then enaltin op the moath
of tbe cavity with impermeable cement money is required np to S5.000, for ex-
On the 15th of last January, five years, penses or otherwise in bringing abont hia
Si Hh&£ “Ob. George, yonr mster is a nice girl,
atire and well, though in a torpid con- bnt she does dress hor head np so."
dition. Nor has it since its release taken “Yes,” said George; “bnt it is the fash-
SET nourishment whaterer. ton; there's nothingin it, yon know.’*