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A MAP OF BUSY LIFE.
IAR3E3T CIRCir^Og;
Selected jHfcellany.
A F.iR IX THF i,ESERT *
•< oi the /oliowin- PJ 18 ®' Ih® lute
Tlmma* Pringle, *. Scotchman, who
jj ve ,j ,<verul yi*i* "i* fhe I .order of
tin- British oniony of the Cape of Good
}] 0 |m>. and wh» wrote it.in reference to
the Desert in that |>art of the world,
the celehratcil t’oieridge sav»: “ I do
not h ti :ife t<> <1 C are it a mono the
two or three most perfect lyric |<oetns
in our language
Afar in the Desert I love to ride.
With the silent flflsh-'ioy alone l>v my
side;
When tlie sorrows of life the soul o'ercast.
And. sick of the Present, I cling to the
Past.
When the eye is suffused with regretful
Prom the fond recollections of former
\ ears.
And shadow* of things that have long
ainee fled.
Flit o'er t he brain like ghosts of the dead,
bright visions of glory—that vanished
too soon;
Day dreams—that departed o’er man
hood's noon;
Attachment— by fate or by falsehood reft,
Companions ot early days—lost or left:
And my native land, whose magical name.
Thrills to mv heart tike electric flame —
The home of my ehildhood. the haunts
of my pride.
All the passions and scenes ot that raptu
rous tune ;
When ihu f- rl uus were young, and the
.EWorld was new,
tfn^iresli latwers of Eden unfolding
to new;
All—alf now forsaken—forgotten—jure
gone;
And l, a lose exile, remcmltercd hv nom—
My highest aims abandoned — my good
acts undone.
Aweary ofal! that is under the sun —
With Unit sadness of heart which no
stranger may scan,
I tlv to the Desert, afar from nnm 1 ' '
Afar ill the Desert I love to ride.
Wnh tlie silent Hush-hoy alone by mv
\ side;
W!i n tin wild turmoil of this wearvsoine
life.
iVi h it- sc nes of oppression, corruption
and strife ;
Tli nnnul frown a. d tlie base
man’s —
Tin- sgoiti.-r's 'aiigh. and th • snff-.-r.-r's
No. 48.| ; Athens, Georgia, Wednesday, July 29, 1874. \\
OLD SERIES—Volume LII.
NEW SERIES—Volume II.
SUNDAY HEADING.
More Abundantly.
I" recent address on “ Life in
Christ.” with special reference to the
words, “ that they might have it more
abundantly,” Mr. Spurgeon said;
“ la a great many Christians the life
of Christ is not supreme. A (Jari*tian
in the old times was, first of nil, n
Christian, and then a longer wav down,
fierhaps lie was a shoemaker. He was
a Christian, and perhaps he might be
long to Caesar’s household, hut that you
might h-irdiv know. Now-a-days what
are we? We are hankers and mer
chants ; cvoryhndv knows that. Then,
after a little inquiry, perhaps it may
h** found out that we are Christians.
The thing ought to l»e reversed. Onr
religion should he the first thing. Too
much tlie Lord Jesus gets the scrap*
and the spare victual*, gnd the world
gets the banquets. Men give to the
Lord Jesus their odd minutes, and to
[New Smjrris, (FIs.) Letter tnthsXew York Sen.| What do VOU meat! ? asked tllO
Cl nc "■'J"' J '“V, n ' astounded civil officer.
• WTaa; i «-,>»» *1*.«»»«**,
Kphraint—Weighing the Eridence In ten dollars for you, said the sap-
the Pulmetlo Scrub. I ient negro. What de law done
Yes, sah, was the reply.
What is it? asked his Honor,
wetting the end of his pencil.
De wardiet am dat de cullered
0 .. -rji i i ” no, uc lan uvwf maxi am dead, an’ dat he bad no
Some tune ago. one gwine for to drap for we? ^business out dah on da watah.
Spruce creek, a tributary of the. ^ nnd M ^
Halifax river. Among the blacks,, thin „, answered th( . j ust i ce . You
— t » . ' | nitonvi au mi. u llolILt • A uu:
Black was an important personage.! want for wurking for
lie preached with great unction, , your8elveilt f 0 yoa ?
collected a hat full of small stamps | D e „ W(J ft nds the wardiet and
once a week, did an occasional | <]<)0S all de work an . you takes
.,oh of carpentering, and was the I a] , do (lat de
only negro on the eastern coast of I Xhg J aw a[lows rae u f ee , and
Florida, south of St. Augustine, dwestlX p ruv j de « fee for you, in-
owmng a boiled shirt. The loss. d jg n antly responded -Mr. Sutton.
ot his tools was a serious misfor-
He could not give them
1 Hold up your right hands.
monev getting the main strength «if!* M ’ ws s P rPa d among
their live . I do believe that will have j moots, and negroes flocked to the
to lie altered before we shall see any | shore of Spruce creek. They
great work done in the land and multi- stripped and h- gan to dive for the
tildes of conversions. How it is going j lost articles. Tlie water was so
to lie altered I cannot tell, except by j depp> tkat they found it difficult
this, that hie has a wonderful fa u ty ■ to hr ; „ | M) * tU)m . Convinced
aeeomjili>limg grea things. A 1 - - e -*
tune, ne count not give mem j Dis V ere' a jist like de ole plan-
uji without endeavoring to recover tat ion times, grumbled one of the
them, bo a reward of one dollar • u jd d<irke ys. Old massa he go' 1
was offered for their return. 1 he j . d j de in , )n( . Vi and de cullurcd nra:
the settle-1 hedoall de work .
Hold up your right hands, re-
tor
little seid has lieen winn in a mass of!
rock, and you could hardly sup|iose it
could live. Hot yet it has thrust itself
up t he rock, and hy-anu-hv it will move
the rock away to make sjiace for itself.
And life in God’s people at thi* time is
very like that need in the rock. Our
modes of living ami our h rivt* are alto
get her prejudh ial, I hrlieve, to any
very wonderful display i f life; but life
will do it somehow ; it will achieve its
purjiose by some means. 1 pray God
to 1 give us tliaf life. Here istite whole
world Ivtug in wickedness.
Do von believe tlie world i> to he an appointee of tli
verte 1 liy the missionary societies? Governor. Now. i
that the chances were against
them, all but one gave up the
search. This one was a good
swimmer, known as Ephraim.
THE FATE OF POOIJ EPHRAIM.
The plucky fellow spent several
hours in the water, hut finally
caught a cramp ami was drowned
before his comrades could rescue
him. They recovered the body,
and was about to bury it near the
beach, when the circumstance
came to the ears of Justice Sutton,
the carpet-bag i
Ithata’l?
Dat am de wardiet, was the
•answer.
Now, look here, Sutton broke
out. For God’s sake, what’s the
matter with you ? Haven’t you got
.common notice? Any pursed fool
SrttwW'k the man is dead. He was
out in the water, was caught by
cramps and drowned. IT aa plain
as tire nose on your face. Tlie
law makes it your duty to ascer
tain the cause of his desth. You
haven’t even found out his uame.
Old massa ho got\€ro hack and bring in a common
sense Terdict. or I’ll flue every
other’s son of you. The man
as caught by cramps and drown-
d. That’s all there is of the ease.
THE LAST VERDICT.
The terrified jury walked hack
to the scrub, and the jolly mock
ing birds greeted them with anew
flood of melody. They were out
/ Inpiirlv twfMit.v mmntpft. .Tn«tw*o
* I cried, f look there !’ i FQ OES HA HA ID ISE.
Jack had already seen it, and' ,
had sounded a long whistle and
began to put on the brake
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FRATERNAL DIRECTORY.
The Ltiugln.ble Goings on
and Goings off of the
Funny Folks.
LiTSKWJaU.
* Go to the cow-catcher!’ I crie-
ed; and he crawled through the
window.
A few minutes sifter he canic
hack, his face p ilo and his eyes -
starting out ot his head. Hc^
looked at me and I looked at him, PUR
but we silk} nothing. j
^1 pointed ahead, and there it ^ Tight-lacmgisugnin corai.igiuto
I got out and fetched in
lump.
The lamp was out! j A boy wijtes: 'We should
especially
liisibly Dcdlcnted to the
Laugh and -row Futs,
BV
GALIMATIAS.
This is good news for
peattAl the Justice.
Tlie negroes eyed him as if roed
itaring a mutiny.
Hold up your right hands, thun
dered his honor.
SWORN IN—THE INQUEST.
The tailored men hesitated^
Then one black hand was slowly
raised in the air. Tlie others fol
lowed it like the dumb blackbirds
of a shooting gallery. The J usticc
repeated the oath, but his hearers
remained dumb.
Say we do, he shouted.
Wt do, echoed the trembling
negroes. f .
Lower your hands, commanded
the Justice, and the blackbirds
in Florida the dropped from their perches. The
t<-.o
anil
A >1-1 «.4. teul •iir.anil- s*.
Il l .it ami fill y.
Di«j> me •<) mii-in^ a. d d i-k nielmi
cholv,
Wit -n n■; li-wom i* fu l, anil mv tliouulits
are lovtli.
AmI mv"’l , itil is sick with tlie bonds
man’- —
Oil* >• •• •« I" '• ■ I j~r —■>
pride.
Afa' nil- D.-si-rt alum- to ride!
Tiii-ri- is rapture to vault on the champ-
i.io stei-d.
And to limmd away with the eagle's
speed.
With the dind-frau^ht tire-luck in mv
hand —
Tlie oniv Law of the D-.-ert Land !
Desert I love to ride,
silent Hush boy alone by my
N far in th
With the
side;
O'er the brown kurro, where the fleeting
cry
Of the springbok's fawn sounds plain
lively—
And the timorous qitago M ' s shrill whist
ling neiuh
I* heard bv the fountains at twilight
'-■rey—'
Where the zebra wantonly tosses Ills
mane.
With wild hoof scouring the desolate
tiau women must oive themselves to
C uircii w >rk. So .-e .1 them ar • d ling
it, but they are only a le v. U ■. for a
r. a Stftini. o.i iir - of the w .ol * riuureh !
As yet 1 see t.ie hu n hi thu aiuler.ie-s.
nml here an i there njH»n ••nine twig* of
its bough-1 can .->-e ilie glow o fire,
for God has not left the Church But
lean see yet mure hush than fire. But
tlie day shall come when through t e
entire Iiu-ii a divine firoshall glow and
tie hush shall lie full of the irl-irv of
Cod. Util, poor Chun h Aim I !
low is lay slat,;, now cm.;! are thy lo ; ;
agii ist tliee; hut tin; Lord on high i*
mi h ier than them all, and He shell
s-.-t ti.ee ahluze with His glory an I Hi*
power. It must and shall oinie.”
Just tie Sutton went for his ten
dollars with the vim of a Twelfth
warn politician. He ordered an
inquest. Material for a jury was
under his nose, and he utilized it.
After the corpse was drawn up
nutlet tin p .mottoes, Ephtaim's
black e. mra -s were empaneled.
It was an odd jury. One was
without a shirt, a third without
a hat, and a fourth minus half of
1 !•! p.iuiul.iu.io. Tlitif M.o u
pair of suspenders in the whole
party. Three wore cow-hide bro-
gans. without stockings, the oth-
. t rs were harclootetl. All were
greatlv alarmed at the action of
| the Justice. They loudly pro
claimed their innocence, and bog-
red to he let off.
* Compose yourselves, gentle
men, said Mr. Mutton.’ ’You are
, • fashion.
“ e short armed lovers,
j A boy writes;
'I saw it open the lamp door avoide all extremes
and blow it out,’ said Jack in an those of wasps and bees.’
awful terror; 'and then it got A Virginian is under arrest for
down and walked away in front of pawning his wife’s corset for a
the engine.’ quart of whisky. He believed
Well, I guess there never was that tight lacing would kill her.
two men on a a engine so mortal
ly scared us my fireman and me.
However, I went out again with
the lamp and tied it on. I also
turned the rope once or twice
around the door, so it could not be
opened without some trouble.
'Jack,’ I said, when I got
hack into the cab, ' tlicrv’s going
' Would you take the last cent
a man has for a glass of soda
water? asked a smurt youth.—
' Yes.’ responded the unthinking
proprietor, whereupon hopeful
pulled out; a cent and got the
drink.
Dr. Ctjrior wants all the young
to be some terribly dreadful thing ladies to hand together and say,
happen to us to night. That ' No lips shall touch n>y lips that
woman’s a ghost of evil. No liv- have touched a bottle.’ Rather
ing thing could d# as that has rough this on the follows that
done.’ , were brought up by hand.
Jack's
teeth
... , were chattering j A drunken Chinamen felt rich
with flight, and so were mine tor nnd e ] }ded k i s progress in Am-
tlie mutter ot that. J eriean civilization went through
I felt that we had been singled the streets of San Francisco cry
out to he the cause or the victims ingf • Hoop-la I hoopla! Me all
same as Melican man. Hair cut
[nearly twenty minutes. Justice
Sutton, hook and pencil in hand,
impatiently waited their return.
The weather was hot, and the ne-
froes came out of the brush with
4reaming faces. They had had a
mrd time. They brought in the
following verdict :
Do colored man am dead. His
'name it am Ephraim J inkins. The
cause of his death it am crabs.
^rtilis done caught him, an’ he am
drownded.
If the poles of a magnetic hat , . x
terv had been applied to Sutton’s j _ ’ H l0 . r, ‘ a F , S& in £ . i •
lie could not have been i 174 we must show the light that there is something grand in
of something awful.
KN16HTS O r
ItoHYll C-A*t) So.
M vSONIC HALL, or^-ry Taosdmj night, *1 f
o'clock. ' -.If ' ' ■
T. A. BCRKE, C. C.
L. SciiEvcyctL, K. of It. A T. ,
Mocst Vkrsos Lodoe. ,
Mount Vernon Lodge, No. 22, P. A. M.
Meets the 4th Friday night in each month.-
at Masonic llsll. R M. SuiiiU, ,W. W.
I. M. Kenney, Secrcturj. - ^
Atiitests CnAPTEn. No. t.R. A. M.
Meets the si-wmO Thw**rt rrtght fti
month. Wm. King, Jr., It. P. I. M. Ken
ney, Secretary.
VVtllj^.ys Loikh;, No. J5,1. 0 6. J?.
Meets rteft Monday iifslit, st Ocld Fel
lows Hall. 7} o'chick. J. O. GMOey, N-6.'
Win. Hodgson, R. S. ,
Oliver Encampment, No. T4,1. 0.0. P.
Meets the first and third Thursday nights
of each iwontn, aL Odd-Fellow s’ Hall. If.
Beitsse, C. P. Y. II. Wynn, Scribe.
Oconee Lodge, Knights op jEturno,
Meets every Friday nitrht at Odd Fellow*
Hall. L. M. Lyle, &. K. C. E. J. Chmtj,
Scc'y.
Evans Lodge No. TC, T. O. 0. T.
Meets every Tuesday night at Odd Fel
lows’ Hall.' ,Tns.O’Farrell, W. C. T. W.
C. Ash, W. R. Sec'y.
t'L.tnsE OorsTT Grange No. 101.
Meets 1st Wednesday in each month af
the Fair Ground. Dr. ff. R. J. Long,
Master. R. II. Boon, Secretary.
Union Prater-Meeting Society.
Meets every Monday night, at 74 o'clock
at Prot. Rutherford's Room, in the Libra
ry Buildinir. Rev. E. D Stone, Prtfiid'f.
II. R. Bernard, Sec'y.
“ Star of the South” Fountain,.
No. ID, Meet* on the first and third
WVilnesday-nights of each month, at
8 o’clock. W. A. Flwlger, W. M. Fi
ll. S. Harris, W. S. •
CIIXJRCH DIRECTORY
Keep a good lookout. Jack, I s i 1()rt ane drunk ii ke hell!’
said; we re only a mile trout G
' ' 1 , where we are flagging No. \ A Cincinnati reporter
plain*
1 I lie fl
And 'the' flttii-footed 'ostrich over tin
waste
Speeds like a horseman who travels in
• haste.
Hieing away to the home of her rest,
\Yli<-j0 *|e'.*n<j Jier mute have (cooped
Far hid tnm» the pitiless plunderer’s
view. t ' • * '
In the pathless dep’hs of the parched
karri mi.
Afap ifi Mh' Detert I love to ride.
With the silent Bu*h ln»y alone by tn;.
side -
Away—away—in the wilderness vast.
Where the white man's foot hath never
passed.
And the 'quivered C«ranc« or Baeluian
Hath rarely crossed with his roving clan—
\ re-;ion of emptiness, howling and
dr-nr.'
Which man hath abandoned trom famine
and tear —
Which the $nakes and the lizard inhabit
alinict* -J *
With the twilight hat frhm the yawning
s’one —
Where grass nor herli, nor shrub takes
root.
Save. poi^ouous tliorns that pierce the
And the bitter melon, for food and drink
Is the pilgrim's fare by the salt lake
lii'hili-s-
A region’ of 'drought, where no .lvcr
glide*! /• •
Nor rippling brook with osiered sides —
Where sedgy pool, nor bubbling fount.
Nor rree. nor cloud, nor misty mount.
Appears to refresh tjie aching eye,
But the barren earth and the burning
s ky.
And the blank horizon, round nnd round.
Spread -void of living sight or sound.
And here, while the night winds round
me sigh.
And the stars burn bright in the mid
night sky.
.Vs 1 sit apart by the desert stone.
Like Elijah, at Horeb’s cave alone,
‘ A still small voice’ comes through the
wild,
(Like a father consoling his fretful child)
Which banishes bitterness wrath and
fear.
Saying—inah is distant, but God is near
Power nf Example.
In a town in B iVitrui tiiere was a
little, tiiniii!e-do\vti church building,
where the duke, as often as he cn;!u>
that wav used to g<> in an- pray. if.
on coming out ot the chapel, he hap- j n()t . M .i S()m . rs |» u t American citi-
peneil to meet any or the peasants in 1 ... „ ... fi.iiui
he field, he loved to converse with «ftw ^lcd upon to fulfill a duty
them in a friendly way. wh »« h y«>u owe to society.
One (jgv he met an <il<l man with J ^ohiImmiV done tolc you n
whom lie fell into conversation on \a- | mighty lie, Judge,’ interposed one
rious things; and, taking' a iikin ■ to. of the astonished negroes. ' We
the man. he aske i him, in parting, I nehher owe no ’sicty liuffin. Don’t
whether lie could do anything tor him. 1 owt , nobody liuffin. Mtts’ be some
The peasant replied, " Noble ^ lr < j ( ) ddor cullered men sitles we.
you yon can not do anything better Oh, good Lord! exclaimed the
for me than yon have .lone already , l Justiw f 'You’re not on trial.
How so ?” answered lie. " 1 do
not know that I have done anything
for you.”
“But I know it.” said the old man ;
for how can I ever forget that you
saved my son?’He travelled so long
in tlie wavs of sin that for a long time
he would have nothing to do with the
church or p ayer; nnd sank every day
«ice|*er in wickedness, home
ago he was here, and saw you,
Jr, entei the rhajiel. “ 1 hould like
to see what he does there,’ said the
oung man scornfully to himself, an
he glided in after you. But when he
saw you pray so devoutly, he was so your r jght hand
impressed, that be also began to pray ,
ami from that moment he became a
new man. I thank you for it. And
that is why I sahi you can never do
me a greater favour than you have
dune me already.”—From the German.
You ure a jury—a coroner’s jury.
You are to he sworn in; and do
the best you can under the circum
stances. Nobody cares whether
you owe anybody anything or not.
A FEW SIMPLE QUESTIONS.
The frightened negroes were
Some time i Dlorc than reassured by this cx-
nolile I planation. They began to assume
tin air-of importance.
As I have no Bible at hand,
the Justice continued, you will he
compelled to affirm. Hold up
** : Not Yet.
“Mv son, give me thine heart.”
“Not vet,” said the little boy as he
was was busy with his trap and hall;
“when I grow older I will think about
it.”
The little bov grew to be a young
man. ; . .
“Not yet." said the young man, “I
am now afriit to <enter into trade,-
when I see my business prosper, then
' ‘Ml have.no more time than now.”
Business did prosper.
“Not yet,” said the young man of
i usin «w; “raV children must now
have
Come.—During n refigons’awaken
ing in a factory village some time ago.
a foreman was awakened, but could
not find pease. His sujierior sent him
a letter, requesting him to call at six
o’clock. Promptly he came. “1 see
you believe me.” said his master. The
foreman as ented. “Well see; hen; is
another letter sending for yon by One
equally in earnest.” sai l his master,
holding up a dip of jwqier with some
texts of Scripture written on it. He
took the paper nnd began to read slow
ly, “(’ome—unto— Me—all—ye— that
—labour.” etc. His lip* quivered, hi*
eyes fillet! with tears; then he stood for
a few moments, not knowing what to
do. At length he inquired: “Am I
just t believe that, in the same way I
relieved vnur letter?” “Just in the
same wav,” rejoined the master. This
expedient was owned of God in setting
him at liberty. —Selected.
Excitement.—The Rey. Dr. Ar
not having been charged with “exate-.
ment.” when speaking on total absti
nence, he replied: T
“People need not tell me that I am
excited on these questions. I know
that I am. I should be ashamed be
fore God and man if I were not. Then
is more in the public-houseso Glasgow
to stir the spirit of ft minister than all
that Paul saw at Athens. In mtr min
istry I meet the horrid fruits of the.*e
whiskey-shop; Iseemenand women
perishing in these pitfalls. -Th*s nufii-
her of the victims is so great that it
overwhelms me. .My brain is u
ing, my heart is breaking.
Church is asleep, and the worid too.
and they are hugging each other. A
am weary with holding in. I ,nu?t c, 7'
I would rather lie counted singular m
Ain dat ar’zactly rig it, Judge?
asked one of the proposed jury
men, whose troivsers was held in
place by an old fish-liuc.
* Certainly, it is right,’replied
Sutton. ' Why not ?’
Am it ’cordin to law? was the
next question. ' Cause ’cepin* it
uiu’nt ’cordin to de law, us culler-
ed gemmens den don’t hah nuliiti
to do wid dis yah murder.
Why, good Lord, man, ex
claimed the Justice, 'who said it
was a murder? Everybody can
see that it’s uothing but
accident.
Well, den, continued the ques
tioner, ' why you done make dis
yah fusin’ for?
It isn’t me, the Justice an
swered. ' It’s the law. The body
has been fouud. The law directs
tnc to impanel a jury. That jury
must hear the evidence, retire
find out who the dead man is and
how he came by his death, and
return a vet diet in accordance
ve my care- when they are settled j. wuuiu mhuu — , - . ...
l»e. I shall be better able to attend ! the judgment of mau, than be unfaitn-
,fm ful in tbe judgment of God.
“ religion."
COMES IN.
The Justice was warming tip
The negroes looked as though they
wanted to know all about it be
fore they were sworn in.
How much you gwine to git for
dis yah job, Judge? asked another
of the incipient jurymen.
The law allows me ten dollars,
that has
Gentlemen, spoke the Justice,
after all had squatted, you are
now sworn to perform the func
tions of th law. The law is im
plicit in lhe definition of the du
ties of a coroner’s jury. The law
prescribes that testimony shall le-
taken. In this case, that is a
mere matter of form, for you
yourselves were witnesses of the
death of this tuan. The law, hpw-
r.-jutifs that you ahull care
fully weigh the evidence, ascer
tain how the man died, who he
was, and so on. This yon will
do, by virtue of your oath
jurors.
The witnesses were then pro
duced. Their evidence was very
clear. Ephraim had gone into
the water with the intention o
making an honest dollar by driving
for Parson Black’s tools. While
his companions watched him from
the hank of the stream, he sank
and was not seen again until his
hotly was grappled and drawn
ashore. The jury eagerly listened
to till that was said, but asked no
ptestions. They were evidently
tfr.iid of the Justiee, and looked
upon the whole thing as a sort of
v’otulou ceremony. His Honor
summed up by saying: 'Gentle
men, you will now retire, and
after carefully weighing the testi
mony, return with a verdfuF.-
THF. JOLLY MOCKING BIRDS.
The jury withdrew to the scrub.
Their voices were soon heard
above the music of the mocking
birds who had gathered in the
trees about them. The negroes
were having a hot dispute, and
the birds seemed to lie enjoying
the scene. In a few minutes one
of the colored men returned. He
told the justice that the jury had
sent him for the testimony.
' Pshaw’ exclaimed Sutton;
'1 haven’t got the testimony. You
have heard the evidence, and have
got all their is of it. There is no
m >re testimony.
The black mau shook his Read,
and rejoined his fel ows in the
scrub. \\ ithin three minutes,
however, he reappeared.
' Ef de jury don’t got dc testi
mony, how de debbil de jury done
gwine to weigh it?’ he asked.
' Weigh it in vour minds!’
screamed the almost frantic jus
tice. ' Yon heard all the evidence,
and it’s your place to decide upon
it, not mine.’
Rick went the dumbfounded
juryman. The mocking birds
pitched in with renewed euergv (
hut the voices of the disputing
jurors were still heard above their
shrill whistling. At hist the noise
partly died away, and the jury
were seen picking their way
throng the palmetto scrub. They
temples
more excited.
if all the devils in hell are agin a pair of runaway horses, lint we
- ; 1IS ’ i believe that a good deal depends
*ouL, he cried, dt you ever tear ] { ordered Jack to thc front of on whether a man is on a fence,
the engine to watch the lamp. I or trying to climb over the end
nigger ?
Hold on dih. Judge, broke in
one of the jurymen. Dat ar am
your wardick. You done tolo de
jury dat de crabs caught £ph.,
anti he am drowned.
Crabs, be d—d! shrieked his
ht.nor. I said cramps. Get away
from her, quick, or I'll put a fine
sin- every man of you. Hope I
be shot if lever put another
nigger on a Jut.,.
The colored man sloped, and
Sutton fixed up the verdict to suit
himself. They had intended to
fine the clergyman ten dollars for
He did not seem to like it, but j hoard ot the wagon,
he went. j a woman who was baptized rc-
I wrote on thc hack, of the time ; cen tlv lost her back hair in the
card these words:
'For God's sake don’t p:iss thc
switch. Weare flagging 174.
I stuck the paper ou the eudot
a hit of pine wood and kept it
ready.
When I luukoJ uUaurl iig.-fin L
saw the shape as plain as I see
you, sir, walking toward ns, ami
afterward got on the front of the
engine.
I could.see the head-light of
No. 135 on the side-track, and I
Her husband believ-
drnpping the tools in the river, J
I>ecause, said they, us ought to j wms sure our flagging' signal lamp
make de m >ney well as de .Judge. ! was out. for there, was that female
Up to this hour they firmly lie- i figure walking ahead of us on the
lieve that they were outrageously j track for thc time,
swindled. • I wasn’t so scared as before, so
! I just lighted the pine stick at the
THE SIGNAL LIGHT. j fire hox, and held it ujy flaming
• — : i bright with the paper upon it.
An Interesting H.irratioe of Life j As I passed the engine No. 135
>• on lhe Hail. ! I threw it toword thc engineer.
I It was getting (lark, hut by the
An engineer who had neglected engine light I saw him pick it up.
to display his red lamp flagging j He read thc paper, as you know,
signal, and being reminded of the sir, and waited till No- 174 had
omission when approaching thc got in; and so their was no coi-
traiu ajruiust which he was bearing lision.
briny wave,
ing that
4 * lloligion never was designed
To mate our pleasure* K«, M
fished out the appendage with a
hoop-pole and dried it on thc
rocks.—Belfast Journal.
A postmaster in Vermont re-
CClVOtl a It'Uui the otKoi* «luy rli-
rected as follows:
Wood,
John,
Mass.
After puzzling over it for som *
time he made it out as follows :
'John Underwood, Andover,
Mass.
One of the men connected w ith
a menagerie 1 went to church re
cently, and heard a chapter from
thc Revelations, lie said, when
he came out, that he would like
to engage the, person who wrote
altout those beasts with seven
beads to travel with his show and
lecture on the animals.
A man who was seen coming out
of a Texas newspaper oflioe with
First M. E. Church.—Service nt It*
o'clock, a. M..iind 74r. m .every B.ibt-nth.
says j*’.v R ev J. A. Lewis. Jr., Pastor. Sa'i-
bath School at 9 o'clock, a. m.; Y. L. O.
Hurris, Superintendent. Prayer Meeting
on Wednesday evening.
Raptist Chcrch.—Service »t II
o'clock, a. M., anil p. M.. every Ssblmth,
by Rev. T. E. Skinner, Puslor. Ssbhalh-
School »t 9 o'clock, a. M.; Lnniar Cobb,
Fsq.. Superintendent Prayer Meeting on
Wednesday afternoon 8-J o'clock.
Presbyterian Chlrch -Service »t IF 1
o.clock, and 7$ p. m. every Sabbath by the
Pastor. Rev. C. \V. Lane. Snlibatle
School at :$i o’clock, p. M. Prayer Meet
ing Thursday afternoon o’clock’
Oconee St. M. E. Chcrch.—Rev. >V
W Arnold, Pastor—Services every Sun
day util A. M. and 7$ Sunday
School :i£ r yt. Prever-Mceting TlmrartaT
ul-lllt 7* Ooloek, *tt. JHlheeaan. «. «.
Sup’t.
Emmanuel Church.—7fcv r A I. Dry**
dale. Hector. Services at 11 a.». •Tfrr.
every Sabbath in the mouth except (ho ;
first, when there is afternoon services a*
4 o’clock. Sunday School halt-past 9 A V.
T. A. Burke, S. 6k Sup’t.
PiitMtTiVK Baptist C.hchch.—Her.
D. Patman r Pastor.—Services every second!
Saturday and Sunday in thc montA, IT!
U o’clock, a. st.
St. Mart's Chapel, (Episcopal.) —
Reunlnr services every Sunday at II a. m.
and 7^ p in., by Rev. II. E. Lucas, Re«-
■or. Sunday School at 9 a. tn, ., ,
SlF.TIfODtST (Coloied) Cm.-RCtT.—Ser
vices every Sunday at 11 a. mi, slid si 8
and 7jjp. in., hv Rev. J; M. taryyle. Past.-
Piayer-rneeting Thursday ninht, 7J o’cl’k..
Sunday School at 9 o'clock, a. m.
B .ptjst (Colored) Church. —Service*
-,t II n. in. and 3 p. m„ every Bundny. by
Rev. Flovd Hill, Pastor. Sunday School,
9 a. m. Prayer-meeting 'Fhwrsd&y r.ight r
7i o'clock.
with thc facts. Can’t you see ?
WHERE THE coloked man approached*his Honor and asked
permission to examine the body.
He sisscuted, and Ephraim Was
thoroughly overhauled. They
felt of his pulse, put their ears to
his heart, turned an old jack knife
and several nickels, out his pocket,
and looked in his raputli. ' lJoue
gone,’ said the juryman with the
fishing lielt, aud ail again retired
the flag, attempted to prevent the j My story may
inevitable' collision by a mode not bift it’s true, sts heaven is mv
in the rules, made the following' judge.”-* >r
singular statement to the general j r-
superintendent: You may discharge me and
Vou see, when we got the order ! Ja |f like , %r ' )t sUmri
I vent to the front ot the engine: the fl ^ , V but l
to help my fireman to fasten on , ^ J tcr % yhat r ’ ve ^
tl K lamp. The u-on strap had go , Wheh we t to the end of the
bent and would not go uito the slot I . j f HI f d Jack had fainted
oxide to hold it, so we tied it on J ay , ail(J ^ VJls lyiug on the front
with a piece ot rope. It dejayed , f £ j for e the she devil
tls just about a mmutehx.ng th.s. : hj|d pllt ^, 1C Iig hs out somehow,
}\ as 1 '"‘v" ' , . , in spite of him aud the rope I tied
Tes sir. After taking so much rmi i dtlie door.
troubled to fix a lamp on we should;
tot be so green as to go away !
without a light in it. "• “0tiitla”-l9m.
0 Well, we were a little behind From “Pascakel,” her Last Novel
time,'and had not much to save j .. Sprinj , in the x ort h ; s a child that
the connection. I was keeping a j vvakes from dreams ot death ; spring in
sharp lockout ahead, and we were | the South is a child that vvakes from
getting aloug pretty fast. _ | dreams o; love.
It wtis not a clear night and it I One is a re>cued and wel«»med from
was not a thick night; I had a ! the grave; hut the other conies snail-
good view of th n s ah- a 1. - J in ? "" a Heaven '
WT II > T1..„ “ Lives blind the phrase runs; nay,
Well,' fiir, you may think * vc j r woul( l rather sav love sees as God
lost my senses, but I tell you SMjS and with infinite wisdom and in
solemnly that I ■ saw a woman, or ft 11i10 pardon.”
a woman’s ghost, walking straight *>1 was sleeplees, and full of th se
up the middle of the track toward dreams horn of memory, which are
my enoiue ! sweeter than nil the dreams ol fancy.”
It was no use whistling, she was “But in-modern days it is not the
so close. I crawled out of the men of Genius who.are eminent; it ts
, • 1 .1 j 11 the men talent. All the earth over, it
cab wmdow as quick as I could, ifl eirefu , „ utloU9 c -mbi„ations
and went along toward the trout, now .«uc< c sis ; and it is exactly
just in time to see tae form sitting, d ,;,, „{■ which the nervousness, the iin-
011 the buffer-beam and puttiug, petunsity. the impressionability, the
out the light in the ; eJ lamp. ! force and tlte weakness of men of gen
The creature got off when it t it* ar -incapable. What Europe crowns
saw tne, and walked away in front now, are—drill sergeants and accoun-
of the engine, and as we thundered 1 tants -
along after it, it somehow disap-
seem strange, . his nose split open, one eye gotig-
FIRE DEPARTMENT".
THE FIRST VERDICT. 1
They were gone hut a few Sec
onds. On th6ir return Jiiitice
said Mr. Sutton. But tnai utts to tho 8urub
nothing to do with j’our duties 111
the ease. Your course is explic
itly laid down- in the law.
The negroes conferred together - - ^ ,
for a few minutes. Justice Sutton Sutton pulled a black book; and
wt/bpcoming impatient, when one pencil from his pocket and pre-
f them stepped over the corpse pared to record the verdict,
li Xd whar Well, stutlemeu/he said, bavo
mail came in. - you lound B verdict IU this oee
peared.
They have always been noted
I wot back into the cab trembl- in Texas for their vigorous mode
la" srine. 1 of expression. The San Antonio
1 told John thc light was out,! Herald says that a gentleman who
and to wo and get it and light it. j came several thousand miles to
After he had done it he went view tha country with the pur-
out and tied it on. ! pose of purchasing got a large
I went to sec if it Wn$ burning 1 sized red ant on him a few days
all right and it was burning all ago. stranger as he was, he cavo-
riorht and it was burning bright.. , rted around aud used as appro-
' I- said nothing to Jack about priate language as if he had lived
what I had seen? here all his life and moved in the
Well, it was no more than three host society.
minutes, and we were going on
smart, when I saw that same fig- ...“The country is only human na
cre walking up the track towards tnre iva bed in fnit’ermilK ; tne town
the eugine as belore. 1 is human nature ■ #aked in btandy.
plained to a policeman that he
was not a subscriber to tlie paper
—he had simply entered the office
to ascertain if tne editor was in.
'And he was in,’he mournfully
added.
When a» Ohio railroad engin
eer detects a rag baby on the
track, he immediately reverses
tue engine aud stops the train;
but let him have a chance at a hu
man being, and he dashes at full
speed, exclaiming to the coal-
heaver, while a holy enthusiasm
lights up his countenance :—
' There’s going to be another au-
gel born, Billy!’
A School-hoy’s Composition on
Tobacco.—' This noxious weed
was invented by a distinguished
man named Walter Raleigh.—
Wlieu the people first saw him
smoking they thought lie was a
steanilioat, and as they had never
heard of such a thing as steamboat,
they were terribly frightened.’
On a recent trip of one of the
Illinois River packets—a light
draught one, as there were only
two feet deep of water in thc
channel—the passengers were
startled by the cry of' Man over
board !’ The steamer was stoped,
and preparations were made to
save him, when he was heard ex-
claimirg: ' Go ahead with your
darned old steamboat ? I’ll walk.’
PROTECT YOUR LIFE
AND PROPERTY.
AO IF IS THE TIME TO PVT VP
LIGHTNING RODS!
Copper and Iren Rods put up at
25 Cents per Foot.
DEST recommendations and certifi-
JD cate given.
igfOrders from thc country solicited.
Address
June 10
C. V. VERONEE,
Athens, Ga.
Athens Fire t'o. No. 1.
Meets on the fourth Thursday in every
month, at Firemen's 11*11. E, P. Undtopi
Captnin, J R. Christy, Sec’y.
PtONEEIl Hook AND LADDER Co. No. 1.
Meet* on the first Wednesday in every
month, nt Firemen's Hall. H. Beusse-
Pjes’t. A 1L Vonderlmth, Sec'y.
Relief (Colored) Fire Co. No. 3.
Meets on the Hist Monday night in rrerv
month, at their Hull. T. Boyd, fap’t,
U. Johnson, Sec'v. \
Arrival cud Departure of Trains-
Dav up-train on the Georgia Railroa<V
arrives at 4.20 o’clock, P. M.
Day-down.train leaves every morning,
except Sundays, at % o’clock, A. M.
Night down train leaves the depot at
8 o'clock, P. M.
Nig'.it up'tnrin arrives at 4.25 o'clock,.
A. M.
Night Irakis ran daily, including Sun
days.
Both trains make dose connection a»
Union Point with the up and down trains
on the Georgia Railroad.
.Selling Hundreds per Week.
ECL1P.SE STATIONERY
P \ CKAGE-
Each package contains lOs'ieets writ
ing paper, 10 envelopes, X led pencil, l
penholder. 2 pens nnd a gift of Ladies’
or Gents' Jewelry.
Remember, all the aijove articles in an
elegant package sent, post-paid, for only
25 cents. This u superior to all other
articles of the kind. The prize of Jewelry
is oltan worth more than thc price of
the whole package. Don’t let this pass
you, try one package, and you will never
buy Stationery any other way. We are
l>ound to sell lO.'OOO packages before
1875. Send for a sam pie package. i»
will be the most goods you ever bought
for the money. Address W. M. BURROW,
200 Main Street, Bristol, Tcnn.
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•*■««« WELL AUGER ANC this Company. /
Ticket3
NOTICE,
Superintendent's Ofeice, * }
Georgia II. R. and Banking Cosip’t, >
Augusta, Ga., 1874. \
PERSONS DESIRING TO ATTEND
THE Commencement'Exercises of - thc
Colleges below named—Covington Fe
male College, June24th; Madison Female
College, July 1st; Emorv College; July
28d ; and State: Dniverisiry, August 3th
—will be passed over- thc Georgia an«t : ’
Macon and Augusta Rail mad* for ono
Fare required going and Return Ticket* .
given Free. 1
Passengers will purchase Ticket* ftoift
the Agents. Conductors are requited: to.
collect Fare from passengers not having
Tickets properly dgnedbyan Agent of
will be good for Ten
or iowa. ahkan-as and daki
