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Volume 3.
THE WEEKLY D E M 0 C R AT I to her only his “second-best bed.” It
In published Evert ThvhsdAt is hard, and at the Same time rather
, BEN- E- RUSSELL, Proprietor, amusing, to realise that the author of
I “Hamlet.” “Macbeth,”an d “Midsuin-
AitVKRTltjlNC* RATES AND RULES, j mer Might’s Dream,” had such a com-
Advertisements inserted at $2 per square tnonplace thing thought his house a se-
cond-best bed. and painfully sugges
ted than he should have a wife who, in
his opinion, was not worthy*of first class
sleeping accomodations. Addison and
his friends thought he was a magnificent
match when, after a long and tedious
courtship he-married the Dowager
Countess of Warwick . Dear Spectator!
How his high bloody spouse worried
that, gentle spirit, and made him only
too glad to fly from the stately saloons
of Holland ivpuse and take refuge in a
humble club room with his book, his
glass, and to boon companion. Many
a time, we doubt not he wished himself
back in his bachelor garret, free From
care and curtain lectures, and undis
turbed by the unsocial skeleton which
confronted him at the other end of his
dining table. Addison’s torture was
made by this eouplet in the Cam
paign:
•‘And, pleased the Almighty’s orders
to perform,'
Rides in the whirlwind, and directs
the storm.
But, whatever Marlborough might do
on the plains of historic Blemheim, the
poor poet was obliged to add that he
himself had, in the shape of a wife, a
whirlwind and a storm which it was
cheaper.to dodge than to direct.
Burns was the .sweeteefc of song wri
ters and the champion love-maker of
his day; but he was far from satisfied
with Jean Armour, and “Bonnie Jean”,
must have been a saint in petticoats
if she was satisfied with him The truth
is that ‘‘the inspired peasant,” whose
memory and whose verses will live as
long as the English language endures,
was sad scapegrace in domestic matters,
and utterly unable to keep his roving
fancy within the bounds of law or gos
pel. M rs. Burns has, of course, a pass
port to immortality in the same boat
with her liege lord, but it would have
beer, much better for her had she given
her heart and hand to some honest
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|>er nil mouths, in advance, - 1.00
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The Married Life of Literary Men
Y'nc matrimonial infelicitier of Charles
bickens, which are now the theme of
considerable discussion and speculation
on both sides of the Atlantic, naturally
suggests the inquiry - —Why is it that
liter,try men are so frequently unlucky
in their ventures after wedded bliss?
The question might with quite as much
propriety be put in this way, Why is it
that women who marry literary men
arc so frequently disappointed in their
hopes of happiness?
Th ere ought not, gurely, to be any
incurable incongruity between tlie pur
suit of letters and the liberal exercise
ot the domestic feelings. Because a man
can write a fine poem, a fine play, a fine
novel; because he can produce a noble
history, a splended system of philoso
phy, or an elaborate treaties iu physical
science, is no reason for his being a
had, or even an indifferent husband.
? he mere fact that his intellectual ,fac
ulties are highly cultivated, and fitting,
ly employed, oughtr-one woulcT'think-
to simulate his affections and keep them
always in vigorous and healthy exercise
mound legitiinat objects. Yet in spite
"f the excellence of this theory, it too
°hen fails, and fails miserably, in prac-
tiee. Soerates.is. almost as famous on
mcount of the terrible' dance which
Xai
where he lived and died. Byron was
worse than Burns.. He commenced his
matrimonial career with no love at all
and did not improve daring the short
year which the experiment lasted. Un
doubtedly there was fault on both sides
but the bulk of the fault was with him
or rather, perhaps, w’e should say, with
the roue father aud half mad mother
who. brought him into the world. He
was no more suited to matrimony than
he would h ave been to the study of di
vinity. Had he married Mary Cha.
worth instead of Miss Milbanke, the
result would have been the same in kind
if not in degree. He got on very ami
cable with the Countess Guicoioli sim
ply because he was not married to her.
Had he taken ;he vow to “love, honor,
obey, etc.,” the sunny-haired Italian
girl would have had reason to sympa
thise with the heroine of Mrs. Stowe’s
monstrous fiction.
Swift may or may not have beed mar
ried to Stella, but he treated her so bad
that we imagine he must have had a
legal right’ to do so. Van'nessa fared
no better, and both Esther Touhomrigh
had cause to curse the day when they
rst looked upon the face of the great
ean. Read the “Tale of a Tub,” and
the adventures among the “Brobdignaga
and Yahoos.” and then fancy the author
of these awful satires with wife and
children by his side! There is horrible
mockery iu the very idea, and yet,
as Thackeray safS^Swift could love
and could pray.” But what love and
what prayer were his! Who but his
Maker can unravel the mystery ol
them?
W’e might lengthen the list of matri-
nt ippe led him, as for the treasu-
rp s ol wisdom which he has transmitted ! monial bankruptcies among literary
an admiring posterity. Shakespeare’s 1 men, but the instances given will
s p< rience with Anna Hathaway could • abundantly suffice.
n , t have been particularly pleasing, I Now, why should the brain kums of
•-L he would not have left her when (the race so often form such unprofitable
ne did and as he did, and bequethed j alliances ? Possibly this has something
l -
to do with _it: High genius—‘and we do
not mean the pinch-baek stuff which
generally passes under that title—is a
species of inspiratioa, which lifts the
possessor, while the fit is on him, above
the earth and earthly things. He is, to
speak, a habitant of celestial regions, a
companion of celestial beings, a sort of
temporary demigod, who is in the
world, yet not of it. The going up is
easy bat the coming down is difficult to
accomplish gracefully; and, when the
descent is finally made, the contrast of
surroundings is apt to disturb the men
tal equanimity. of the areal voyager, un
less he has a large infusion of sturdy
common sense—and common sense is
seldom joined to high genius. So Soc
rates returns home from the grove
where he has been discoursing upon the
anatomy of the soul, and finds Xantippe
darning stockings, or sewing a button
on the Socratian shirt. He salutes her
in an absent-minded manner; treats her,
it may be, in a condescending style of
indpfinite superiority; rouses a tempest
which he cannot quell, and at last is
obliged to fallback in good order* with
a three-legged stool in the immediate
vicinity of his venerable bead. So,
Shakspeare, with his bosom full of es-
tatic visions; with Juliets Beatrices,
Imogens, Desdemonas and Rosalinds
linging to his fingers, goes to his plain
house and sees plain Madam Shak
speare nursi ng the baby or scolding the
cook. His romance and her reality are
too much for him, and he flis away to
the tavern, and then to London, and
becomes an alien and an outcast from
the domestic Eden. So Addison car
ries Cato, Sir Roger de Coverly. Will
Wimble and the rest of the excellent
company to the boudoir where the grim
dowager awaits him; behold these shado
wy friends of his all fade into the air,
leaving him to battle alone with the
majestic lady who, as Sam Johnson
says, “took him to her slave.” Addison
retreats to his club, and laments that he
ever put his neck into the silken noose.
So Burns exchanges the ramble among
the heather, where bright eyed nymphs
and lightsome fairies had been his as
sociates, for the poor cottage where his
Jean is engaged in attending to a large
and interesting family-—and straight
way he, too, is upset by the tumble
from aloft, and retires to commune with
John Barleycorn,” or apothosize
• Alary in Heaven.” So Byron, with
his arm around the waist of an imagi
nary Medora, Donna Julia, Haidee or
Dudu, lounges through the hall, where
a constable is in waiting, and meets the
Lady Anna Isabella Milbanke Byron in
the library. She rebukes him for be
ing out too late, or lor running in debt
without the slightest ability to pay,
and of course the blood of Childe Har
old is up in an instant, and a scene oc
curs at which we may laugh or weep as
we please—for there is in the back
ground of it exile, misery, shame, and a
lonely death in a foreign land. So Dick-
ins, with a cloud of Little Nells, Little
Dorrits, Kate Dorn beys and Agnees
around and within him, sits vis a vis to
the fat, fair, possibly dull mother of his
juvenile tribe, and finds she is “un
sympathetic and uncongenial,” and that
he must shake off a yoke which should
hare been adjusted to his shoulders af
ter twenty-five years’ wearing.
Shall we blame all these men for
having made a clumsy choice in the
great lottery where the blanks are many
and the prizes few ? Yea, verily—but
pity them, too. They are fashioned of
finer spiritual clay than the rest of us,
and the fragile material, though pre
cious beyond measure, is liable to flaws,
and easily—alas, to easily marred. Af
ter all, should not the giants dwell alone?
Those very qualities which lift them
above their fellows make them more
fastidious and more fickle than the ma
jority of mankind. Their ideals of wo
manhood are so grand, so perfect, so
immaculate, that none bat angels can
realize them—and angels are not as
plentiful upon this terrestrial ball as
“when the morning stars sang together,
and all the sons of God shouted for joy. ”
At least it is safe to assert that the gen-
A Wonderfcl Ride
The night trani^ left St, Louis for
this city on Tuesday n^ht about 7
o’clock with a gobdload of passengers,
who were comfortable and warm in the
sleeping coaches, although the air with
out was rather cool and chilly. Before
the train started a lad, between sixteen
and seventeen yearn of , age, stole softly
under one of the sleeping coaches,
straddled himself across a truck, about
five inches wide, and lying on his stom
ach, his hands clutching a cold iron bar
above for support, and his feet entang-
eled in a chain below, he prepared him
self for an all night ride over more than
three hundred miles of road. Did he
think that any moment he could be
jostled off of his insecure hiding place
and perhaps left in some uninhabited
portion of the country - through which
the train passed alone to die ? Did h&
consider that sleep mig|it overcome him
while on his perilous trip and death en
sue, or that numbness might creep over
him and his hands thus fail him as a
support? Doubtless not. He was only
thinking, probably, of reaching his des
tination, which was his home, and which
be had but lately left.
The train moved on, the boy clutch
ing the iron bar tighterand hugged his
support more closely. Off shot the train,
the iron horse screeching its loudest;,
faster, until its speed at times reached
a mile a minute; but still the boy, only
about four feet from the ground, kept
his hold, never closing his eyes for a
minute. What thoughts must have
flashed through his mind, young as lie
was—minutes must have Seemed hours,
and hours weeks. But the night at last
was done; the first streaks of dawn il
luminated the horizon, and when the
train reached Otiseo, Ind., about twenty
miles from Jeffersonville, the boy was
still safe and sound Some of the chains
of the breaks had become broken, and
in repairing them the men found to
their astouishment, the boy still lying
there, unconcerned and even laughing.
He was taken off by the conductor,
stiff and cold, and covered with dust
from head to foot.
The conductor questioned him as to
how he attempted such a ride. He re
plied that he lived in Jeffersonville, and
that a short time ago he went to St.
Louis with an elder brother, who ran
away to California, leaving him in a
large city alone with no money;-that
wishing to get home, he undertook this
novel method, and said he, ‘I didn’t
mind it so much except for the dust.’
The conductor said that as he had rid
den thus far free, he might take the
best seat inside the cars and ride the
rest of the way at the same cost.
On the back of his coat were little
rents which had been made during the
night by the slight pressure of the car
on his back. Expressions of sympathy
were tendered by the passengers as
soon as they heard of his perilous jour
ney, many of them saying they would
have been willing to have paid his pas
sage had they known of his reckless de
termination. It was indeed a wonder
ful ride, and betokened an extraordinary
courage on the part of the boy.—Cour
ier Journal.
Lincoln's Religions Faith.
Ward H. Lamon, the reputed author
of a life of Lincoln, his intimate friend
and law. partner for many years, an
swers a criticism of Henry Ward Beech
er in relation to Mr. Lincoln’s religious
views, in a letter to that Reverend
gentleman which concludes as follows:
He entertained the belief that the
Holy Scriptures were not of divine in
spiration. On this point his mind had
reached a fixed and unalterable decision.
He was an infidel, and rested in his con
clusions. It would certainly have been
pleasant to me to have closed the chap
ters of his biography without touching
Upon his religious opinions,' but aaeh
an omission would .have' violated the
fundamenta’ principal upon which eve
ry line of the hook was traced. Had it
been possible to have truthfully asserted
that he^was a member of the Church
of Christ or that he believed in theNew
Testament, the fact would have been
proclaimed with a glow of unfeigned
satisfaction. I come now to complain
of the injustice which you have done
me personally when you say that the
heartiness of his arguments upon Mr.
Lincoln’s religion casts a certain doubt
upon it, and leaves the impression that
he was inspired by an anti-Christian
animus. Pardon me, my dear sir; al
though not a professing Christian my
self,.I may say that few men possess
a deeper veneration for the Christian
religion and all that the orthodox
church regards as sacred, than the hum
ble individual whom you make the sub
ject of your somewhat severe criticism.
I may not always employ the language
which would best declare my meaning,
but when so many very good people in
pious and loyal zeal sought to make
their idol (and I might say mine) a de
vout and rigid Christian, I deemed it
unjust to him and injurious to Chris
tianity itself to permit such an error to
pass without correction and refutation.
Ward H. Lamon-
A Picture of Philadelphia.
At a recent mass temperance . meet
ing in Philadelphia one of the speakers
peculiarized tha condition of affairs
there thus:
“Let us,” he said, look at the reli
gious progress of the great Quaker City.
Throughout its length and breadth
there are only 500 churches devoted to
the worship of God. Allowing an av
erage attendance upon each of 200
souls, the total is rendered of 100,000
worshippers. Now look at the ginmills.
There are 8,000 of them. There is
One rumshop for every 88 inhabitants.
The total number of persons who gulp
down intoxicating beverages each week
amounts to 600,000. At these grog
shops 650.000 is spent daily, 8350.000
a week and $15,000,000 a year; while
by twelve o’clock to-night there willl
have been more men in your saloons
than there will have been in your
churches.
William Duke, who killed Parker, in
Jasper county, some months ago, and
afterwards escaped, returned to Monti-
cello last Saturday, as we learn from the
Covington Enterprise, and surrendered
himself to the authorities.
Of the Savannah and Memphis road,
the Cblumbus Enquirer says.
RICHARD SIMS
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Bainbridge, Ga.
BQk,Office in Court House.
Decatur County Sheriff’s Sales.
Will be sold before the Court Ilousa door
in the town of Bainbridge, on the first Tues
day in April next, between the usual hours
of sale, the following property to wit:
line Gray pony horse and one buggy,—
Levied on as the property ofJacob Harrell
to satisfy a Superior Court fi fa in favor of
Belchers & Terrell.
W. W. Harrell Sh’if.
One bale lint cotton marked W. S. R. No
1. Levied ones the property of W. S. Ro
binson to satisfy a Superior Court fi fa on fa
vor of Belchers & Tyrrell.
W. W. Harrell Sh’ff.
Lot of land No 203 in the 27th Dist. said
county. levied on as the property of D. S.
Love to satisfy afi fainfavor of Burrell Rob
erts, Admr.
W. W. Harrell Sh’ff.
Lot of land No. 386 in the 16th Dist. of said
county. Levied on as the property of J. C.
Glover to satisfy a tax fi fa in favor of T. J.
Jeter Tax. col~ȣ said county. Levy made
a ad returned by 'Constable.
W. W. Harrell Sh’ff.
Lot of land No. 200'in theToth dist. said
county. Levied on as the property of W. B.
Parker to satisfy a tax fi fo in favor of offi
cers ofcourt.
W. W. Harrell Sh’ff.
Lots of land No’s 363 and 362 in the 2lst
dist. of said county. Levied on as the pro
perty of John Hal Mo satisfy a Justice Court
fi fain favor of of - Benejah Pate. Levy
made and returned to me by a Constable.
W. W. Harrell Sh’ff.
Lots of land No’s 457, 458 in the 15th dist.
of said county. Levied on as the property
p/R H r . Mathews to satisfy a Superior
court fi & in favor of A. Davis & Co.
.-.Vf ‘ - - W W. Harrell Sh’ff.
Lets of land No’s sit and Hum th;zOth dist.
of said county. Levied on as tire property
6f R. W. Hooks to satisfy a Stiperibl' court 11
Ik in favor of Benjamin t>. Sasithi . n
. 7 W. W. Harrell Sh’f
Lot of land No. 20 in the 22nd diet, of
said county. Levied on as the property of
Jos. D, Pepper to satisfy afi fa iirfkvor of
W. H. and Catharine Andrews.
W. W. Harrell Sh’ff
One Store House and lot in the • city of
Bainbridge, now occupied by E.-J. 1 lender-
son and bounded asjollows: On NortK .by
Broughton street, on West by Wfest etreet ind
on South by Troup street and on East by store
house occupied by G. R. Maytopl Levied
on as property of Ira. W. Sanborn to satisty
a fi fa in favor of Officers of Court.
W. W. Harrell Sh’ff.
One dark bay mule and fifty bushels corn
more or less ; also lots of land No’s 203 and
238 ip the 27th dist. of said county. Levied
on as the property of D. S. Love to satisfy a
Superior court fi fa in favor of John Jones.
W. W. Harrell Sh’ff.
Lots of land No’s 72 in the 21st dist., lot
No. 79 in the 14th dist. and lot No. 6 in the
20th dist. all in said county. Levied on as
the property of John R. Hayes, to satisfy
four Justice Court fi fas in favor of S. H.
Ray, Jno. M. Cooper & Co. Satterfield and
Dickinson, and T, M. Allen. Levy made
and returned by Constable.
W. W. Harrell Sh’#
Lot of land No. 404 in the 15th dist. said
county. Levied on as property of R. J.
Odom to satisfy a tax fi fain favor of T..J.
Jeter tax Col. said coonty. Levy made and
returned to me bv Constable.
W W. Harrell Sh’ff.
Lot of land No. 258 in the 15th dint, of
said county. Levied on as the property- of
George Dean to satisfy a tax fi fa in favor, of
T. J. Jeter Tax Col. said county. Levy
made and returned to me by Sonsaable.
W. W. Harrell Sh’ff.
Lots of land No’s 89 and 90 in the 20th
dist. of said county. Levied on as the pro
perty of R. W- Hooks to satisfy a Justice
Court fi fa in favor of A. J. Swicord.
W. W. Hsrrell Sh’ff.
Lot of land No 267 in the 27tli dist. of
said county. Levied on ao as the property
of Mrs, Delilah Eggarton to satisfy a tax fi fa
in favor of T. J. Jeier Tax col. of said county.
Levy made and returned by a Canstable.
W. W. Harrell Sh’ff.
Lot-s of land No’s 208 and 209 in the 27th
dist of said county. Levied on as property
of S. G. O’Neal to satisfy a tax fi fa in favor
of T J Jeter Tax Col of said county Levy
made and returned to me by Constable.
W W Harrell, Sh’ff;
Lot of land No 452 in the 15th dist of said
county. Levied on as the property of Ben
son Cloud to satisfy a tax fl fa in favor of T J
Jeter Tax Col of said couniy - Levy made
and returned to me by Constable.
W W Harrell Sh’ff
Lot of land No 116 less 40 acres, lot No f25
less 20 acres and 105 acres off of lot No 124,
all in the 20th dist of said county. Levied
on as the propepty of Mary Gandy to satisfy
a Justice Court fi fa in favor of Cliett and
Jones Levy made and returned by Consta
ble.
W. W. Harrell, Sh’ff.
Decatur Mortgage ShefifTSales
Will be sold before the Court House door,
in the city of Bainbride, on the first Tuesday
in May next, between the legal hours of sale,
the following-property to wit: >
The undivided half interest in lot of land
No. 176 in the 19th dist. of Decatur county,
Levied on as the property of A. E. Harris to
satisfy a mortgage fi fa in favor of John T.
Jones., If. W. Harrell, Sh’ff.
Lot of land No. 104 in the 20th dist. , of
said county, except one and one-quarter
acres in northeast corner of said lot, Levied
on as the property of Thomas M. Allen,
Trustee for Averetta A. Allen, to satify mort
gage fi fa in favor of Elizabeth McLauchlin.
W. W. Harrell, Sh’ff.
One stock of goods now in store house
formerly occupied by A. T. Reid & Co., con
sisting of dry goods, clothing, shoes, hats,
liquors and groceries, also one iron safe.
Levied on as the property of A. T. Reid
& Co., to satisfy a mortgage fi fa in favor of
Grover. Stubs & Co., W. W. Harrell Shff
Lot of land in Shot well addition to town
Bainbridge, and known in survey of said
addition made by J. H. Carter, as No.’ 6,
containing one and one-half acres more or
less, known as the property of Geo. A.' Pad-
rick, deceased, Levied on as the property of
Geo. A. Padrick, deceased to satisfy mort
gage fi fa in favor of Daniel McGill. Adm’r,
and Carrie B. Donalson, Adm’rx J. M. Don-
alson. W-. W r , Harrell; Sh’ff.
Qne lot in city of Bainbridge, and im.
provements thereon, hounded as follows: on
the north by Shotwell street, on the -east by
property of T. B. Hunnewell, on the south
by dwellings of Mrs. B. D. Scott, and on the
west by Church Street. Levied on as the
property of Alfred T. Reid, to satisfy one
mortgage fl fa in fhvor of Mattie R! Reid vs
A. T Reid. W. W. Harrell. Sh’ff,
Lot of land No. 140 in the 19th dist; of
Decatur county. Levied as the property of
Wm. J. Bruton to satisfy one mortgage fi fa
in favor of D. B. Curry, Guard, vs said
Bruton. W. W. Harrell, Sh’ff.
W. W. McGRIFF,,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Bainbridge, Ga.
tQ. Can be found, for the present, with
C. G. Campbell. Office No. 1, Sanborn’s
Range; upstairs. Feb’y26, 1874-ly.
Bower A Crawford,
ATTORNEYS AT LA W,
Bainbridge, Ga.
tST Offioe is. tka-Cput House. £1&T
