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Hr Editor's Wooing.
I | .i. A*' -A nn Maria Smith,
i>i :t\ thv condescension
j| ,-ifiture full of joys
■ ; ..nutncruu* to mention.”
] Copula arrow in thy glance,
I hr jiure love’s coercion
1 our very heart of hearts .
I c asked for oue insertion.”
] no fed the blissful pain,
I ,th our passion rages
1 , -,vlv place thy love upou
list <>f our exchanges.”
j »m«Nic in the lowest tone,
I i>; sUn-r iu thy laughter,
truth but “we will give full
» ilttrs hereafter."
ir would tell thetf of our plana .
.ui -i* tee lea to shatter,
» are full ju.«t now, and have
1 of other mattci
■t us marry, queen of Smith,
amit more hesitation,
'fry thought doth give our blood,
I l larpr circulation,’,’
| „
1 He Ivlnkc(l Me.
■J-’.ne, and 1 knew ’twas wrong.
■ e was neither kith nor kin ;
But do penance very long
HLli a tiny little *iu ?
hand: that wasn't right ;
Bk-ii have such wicked w.ui?
jjjginii.i) c - qui:v
were Hays and days.
Bui.chi,-f in the moon I know ;
Hovitire 1 saw her wink
wrequestetl him to go ?
* inennt it, too -1 almost think.
R i« ifti’i all 1 am not to blame;
| ID timk tlu* kia-i. I do think that men
Ltrr.pute without a sense of .shame,—
1 ». uder when he'll come again ?
MY WIFE’S inn DAE TOUR.
The Itest Way to Manage a Wife
Advice to Young 3len
W hen I married my second wife,
slip was dreadful set about going oft
on a bridal tour. I told her she had
tatter wait six mouthaor a year and
LI go with her, and she said-she had
rather go .alone—when a woman is
traveling, a man is out-and-out hum
bug. So I pave her seventy-five
fonts, and told her lo go and have
a good time. I never begrudge
money when my wife’s happiness is
concerned. . My first wife never
could complain of not going auy
tvhere, for I am dreadful fierce to go
oft’ on a good time myself. -1 don’t
pretend to say how many times I
twk her out tc see the sights ; and
there was no end to the free lectures
I let her go to. The neighbors used
to say—“ It beats all how the Skin
ners do go!”
i When tho circus was in Skunk-
Hhuthe manager gave my wife a
ticket I not only
Bfisfor my wife, but gave
1 don t boast
(v mention to show how
Edit of her happiness.
|RLk any man out to get
K.I until lio can consider his
only second to his j
Bohn Wise, a neighbor of
and when I got
to do likewise.
work in the
No---I should
Vi] the subject
' JLi suppose yju
- vour itml
. V^Jlj^sbe
'’j ■' »u are
I am quick to draw an inference.
I drew here that I was not a success
hs reorganizer of female women.
After this, I changed my tactics.
I let her havener own way ; and the
plan from the first Worked lifck &
charm. It is the best way of mana-'
ging a wife that I know of.
Os course this is between you and
me. It’s a secret worth knowing.
So, when my wife said she was
bound to go off on a bridal tour any-,
how, I cordially assented.
“<3to> Matilda,” said J, “ and stay
aa.long as you want to, and then if
you feel as though you would like to
stay a little longer, stay my dear.” ‘
She told me stop talking, and go
up stairs and get her red flannel
Bight-cap, and that bag of pyuny
foyal for her aunt Abigail. My wife
is a smart woman.. She was a Bax
ter —and the Baxters are a smart
family, indeed. Her mother, who is
going on eighty, can fry more flap
jacks now, than half of those primp,
up- town girls who rattle on the piano,
or walk the streets with their furbe
lows and fixings, pretending to get
a&ud if a young chap looks at; them
vary bard, but getting mad in
ncjst if you take-no notice of them at
nil. ' - ‘ ’ ;
Ah! girls ain’t what they Used jto
be when I was young, and tho fel
lows are worse still. When I went
courting, for instanee I never thought
of staying till after ten o’clock, and
only twice a week. Now they go
seven nights in a week, and cry be
cause there ain’t eight. Then they
write touching notes to each other
during the day—“ Dear George :Do
you love me as much as you did at
a quarter to twelve last night ? Say
you do, dearest, and it will give me
courage to go down and them Cold
beans, left over from yesterday.”
Let them get together and. court,
if they like it—and I think they do.
I was forty-seven when I courted
my second wife, but it seemed just
as nice to sit on a little cricket at her
feet, and let her smooth my hair, as
it did thirty years ago.
As I said before, my wife was a
smart woman ; but she couldn’t be
anything else and be a Baxter. She
used to give lectures on woman’s
rights, and in one place where «lie
lectured, a big college conferred the
title of L. L. D. upon her. But she
wouldn’t take it “ No, gentlemen,”
said she, “ give it to the poor.” She
was always just so charitable. She
gave her boys permission to go bare
footed all wip ter, and insisted on it
so much in her kind way that the
boys couldn’t refuse.
She fairly denotes upon my chil
dren, and I’ve seen l}er many a time
go for their trowsers’ pockets after
they had gone to sleep, and take out
their pennies, . aiu\ puV .i* l her
bureau drawer —for* fear they might
lose them.
I started to tell you all about my
wife’s bridal tour ; but the fact is I
never could find out much about it
myself. I believe she had a good
time. She came back improved in
healt, and I found out before she
bad been in the house twenty-four
hours that she had gained strength
also, I don’t say how I found out
In conclusion, I would say to all
young msn, marry your second wif©
first, and keep out of debt by all
means, even if you hav§ to borrow
the money to do jt.
Commercial Items.
A ship has arrived in Thames
with manure from .Australia for-* trial ip
England..
Texas is to send samples of coal, lead, slate,
iron, marble, copper, silver and gold to the
Vienna Exposition.
The value of the manufacturing products
of the state of New Hampshire, ten yeafs
aco, was 837,000,000. Now it is $71,000-
000.
The Meridian (Conn.) Britannia works
are run night and *fey« which indicant* a
great demand for the braud of goods man;
ufawlured tb'f®’.
Ona million six hundred thousand feet
of window glass, were manufactured at
Ottawa, Illinois, tn the last twelve months.
Well posted judges estimate the tobacco
ot Missouri, last year, at 30,000 hog*
Tbe previous year it reached
gBjOQ hogshead.
iSfetrmers will hold a State Conventiog
jjMßofeiHgton, Illinois, -January
f^Sfkto discuss railroad tariff,
Senator Gordon Serenaded—Hia
Address.
In common with hundreds upon
hundreds of citizens of Atlanta, Jwe
wended btr way to the mammoth
ornament of the Capital of Georgia,
the H. I. Kimball’ House, for the
purpose of witnessing the spontane
ous expression of the sovereign peo
ple of Georgia of their esteem for
Georgia’s favorite son, the gallant
and chivalric Gordon/ who, as. the
newly elected representative of the
grand old commonwealth in the Sen
ate of the United States, was to be
honored with a serenade, and to re
ceive the plaudits of the people.
THX SOEKt
Entering the broad portals of the
magnificent Kimball House a bril
liant scene burst upon the sight. In
dense maB8„ row upon wedged
into every conceivable and uncon
ceivable place, in all sorts of pos
tures and in every spot capable of
affording a gljmpse of what was -to
occur, stood the men who had as
sembled to do honor to the man -and
the • occasion. Every countenance
bore the look of pleasant anticipa
tions and a muriaur of voices, sound
ing like the music of a distant moun
tain torrent, fell upon the ear. All
ogc-R, occupations and ranks in life,
had their representatives .present
The arcade was a living moving mast
of human beings.
THE GALUERIES.
Looking up. the eye was dazzled
by a bewildering maze, a flashing
garland of Georgia’s fair daughters.
It was a scene of joy and happiness
and Georgia’s Capital had gathered
there her beauty and her chivalry.
Blight eyes, languishing ill dewy
lids, flashed their lambent splendor
upon the scene ; bewitching toilets
added all that was possible to add
to the native charms of the beauti
ful wearers, and the soft melody of
ruby lips, the low sweet voice, (a
most excellent thing in woman,)
whispered like a rippling brook along
the brilliant corridors and in the
gorgeous parlors.
- JUCSIC.
One of our best city bands had
been engaged for the occasion, and
at intervals discoursed inspiring
strains, patriotic and national airs,
stirring the heart with pleasant mem
ories and heightening the effect, as
only music can.
BBMATOR GORDO*.
Precisely at eight o’clock a move
ment, was perceptible in the vast
crowd that thronged the gallery, and
a number of gentlemen were seen
passing through the-assemblage and
descending the main stairs leading
to the first floor of the arcade.
Prominent among them strode Gen.
Gordon, his tail, soldierly figure and
classic head the centre of attraction
to all eyes. A prolonged shout of
enthusiasm greeted the Senator .as
he took his stand; upon the- atairs in
full new of the assemblage.— When
the enthusiasm had somewhat sub
sided, General Gordon, ..in a firm,
clear voice, proceeded tp address the
audience in substance as follows :
uiNATon gobwom’s anpEßSs.
fellow Citizen—This- occasion calls
for the profoumlest expression of my
and I fo«d mo*T<>olj *U© to
give adequate expression to the feel*
ings that this unexpected and grati
fyjug occasion arouses in fey heart
‘ You have honored me with youg
confidence, and have chosen me Bj
represent Georgia in the Senate of
the United State* the bulwark of
the Republic, where the expression
of the will of a free people is least
likely to be warped, and the dignity
and wisdom of the Republic holds
ita firmest sway..
But the contest for thie mqst hon
orable position iii the retrospect, i®
not altogether free from pain. I
found my name in competition with
that of Hon. Alexander H. Stephens,
justly called the “GreatfOommoner.”
A name
to us aud®' Vw-I;. . -J
ted f
such
FOR THE RIGHT—JVStICt TO ALL. '
B.MXBRIDGE GA. FEBRUJt’.T Ist 1873.
io us legacy to posterity forever! I
also came in contact,during the con
test, with the Han. B.
H. Hill, my illusmotisfriend, of
whom it is enough to say that he m
the authrir of the world-famous
Notes on the Situation, the bugle
notes of liberty, which first sotmded
the alarm to our countrymen, and
aroused them from their lethargy, to
battle for their rights and maintain
the dignity of
pendence, a noble deed vdl
countrymen will not soon Mkl
also came in contact with off
ous hearted and noble friend, Col.
Fielder, a man whom the people k>ve
and respect, and whose life is devo
ted to the welfare and progress of
your dear old commonwealth. Again
thanking you, I feel compelled to
declare that I have not sought to de
pretiate the intellect or fair fame of
competitors; had I done so, the re
sult would not have given pleasure
to my heart.
I feel the responsibility of the
frust imposed upon me by my peo
ple, but calmly, .hopefully accept the
great trust given unto my keeping,
with the confident hope that the du
ties thus imposed will be performed
to the best of my ability, anti that
my course, in the sphere in which
your will has placed me will be such
as not to impair the confidence you
have given me in the past. In con
clusion, fellow-citizens, allow' me
again to express my sincerest thanks.
CONCLUSION.
Senator Gordon was greeted with
prolonged cheers by the vast assem
blage as he retired.
Loud calls were made for Toombs,
Stephens, Hill, and other illustrious
Georgians, but without avail, none
of the gentlemen appearing to satis
fy peoples 3Tbo band
played several inspiring airs, and
the crowd slowly dispersed, exceed
ingly gratified with the brilliancy
and success of the happy occasion.
—Atlanta Herald.
Immigration from Texas.
Editors Atlanta Herald :
Having “interviewed a family of
teu persons returning from Texas,
yesterday, I ask, as a favor to the
many people of .Georgia, afflicted
with the “Texas fever,” that you al
low me a little space in the Herald
to give their experience.
Having neglected to gain permis
sion to give names, they are with
held for the present. The head of
this family was, in ante-bellum days
a well-to-do farmer in Spalding Cos.;
but after the war; worked away for
two or three years, became disgusted
with the new order of things, and
finally decided to emigrate to Tex
as—tlie promised land, flowing with
milk and honey-—where many imag
ine fortunes are made, without work
ing for them. Together with sev
eral other famflies, he gathered to
gether his effects, sold hi* lands at
a sacrifice, and, with high anticipa
tion After more than
two years of struggling agaimgtth|
diseases, lack of convenience^Mbdi
comforts, to which a
igrants to anew country JH
jeeted, he concluded that
“picking lip fortunes” in
pCTay&i out, and concluded to come
bade $o Georgia and get another
start in life.
This gentleman informs to that
of those who jfent -out
to
ctSSEse the that
he the a large
number of men
who are willing to bind themselves
to labor for one year for any- com
pany or individual who will pay their
expenses back to Georgia.
While a few .people* peihaps, have
been lucky, and benefited themselves
by leaving our good old State for’ a
home in the West, we have constant
testimony to the feet that thousands
£«* r '3*pl e have, and ore now being
tttuaed by “breaking tip”
BBBBHfcWest - ’'
■'Wfcibbern things, and ex
ytance, is need
;■ HTomes, made attrac
as they may be,
* ny m tbe
H ®v. other direction.
Fax.
Bug%ttd Farming ifureaus'
Sunset Cox made a characteristic
speech in the House of Ifrpresenta
tives the other day in ridicule of the
Department of Agriculture, and'par
ticularly of the “Bureau of the Mi
croscope,” which 1 has been recently'
made-*ya integral part thereof. Cox’s
speech ©B entomology in politics con-*
vuised the House with laughter, and
he wound up Wy sending to the Clerk
a slip from the Philadelphia Sunday
Dispatch, requesting the ’ Clerk to
read it very slowly. Ihe Clerk read
as follows :
“t\ T e owe our thanks to Judge
Kelly for the latest Patent Office Re
ports. We already , have sixteen
hundred of these interesting vol
umes in our little library, but they
have been read and re-read so many
times that we know every page of
them by heart. This new volume
came opportunely and gratefully on
Christmas morning, and that night
we gathered our little family around
the fire and read it through to them.
■ *
The affecting tale entitled ‘lmprove
ment in Monkey Wrenches/ seemed
to touch every heart; [laughter] and
when we came to the climax ■ of the
little story about ‘Reversible Pie-'
boards,’ there was not a dry eye be
tween the front door and the stable/
[Laughter.] During the reading of
the pitteous narrative entitled ‘Gum
Washers for Carriage • Axles,’ the
whole family gave expression to
boisterous emotion, and the girl was
so much excited that she lost her
presence of mind and went around
to her mother’s inadvertently with
six pounds of sugar and a butter
kettle full of flour, and come home
at midnight intoxicated. [Laugh
ter.] We can never sufficiently
thank Judge Kelley for the innocent !
enjoyment thus furnished us. The,
memory of that happy evening will
linger in our minds very much lon
ger than that hired girl ever lingers
when she lights on a lot of substance
which she thinks will suit the consti
tution of her aged parent.” [Great
laughter.]
The True Girl.— The true girl has to
be sought for. She does not parade her
self as show goods. She is not fashiona
ble. Generally she is not rich. But, oh!
what a heart she has when yon find her!
so large* and pure, and womanly! When
you see it you wonder if those show things
outside were really women. If you gain
her love your two thousand arc a million.
She’ll not ask yon for a carriage or a first
class house. She'll wear simple dresses,
and turn them when necessary,
with no vulgar magnificence- to
frown upon her economy. She’ll keep
everything neat and nice in your sky par
lor, And give you such a welcome when
you come home that you'll think your
parlor higher than ever. She’ll entertain
true friends on a dollar, and astonish you
with the new thought how Tery little hap
piness depends on money. > She’ll make
you love home, (if you don’t you are a
brute,) and teach you how lo pity, while
you scorn a poor fashionable society that
think* itself- rich, and vainly tries to thlfik
itself happy.
No do not, I pray you, say more, “I
cau't afford to marry.” Go and find the
true woman, and you can. Throw away
khat cigar, burn .up that switch cane, be
Sensible yourself, and aeek your wife in a
Impsible way.
Thx Results of am Gxbter Sumter.
—The Danbtiry News gives a sad
account of the vicissitudes of life
experienced by a young man in that
place. He went to see a voting lady
previously just having been, to an
oyster hopper. As he neared the
house he saw her father standing on
the steps, and hailed him : “Hello,
old Tadpole : z’at you ? ' Where ish
my lovely gazalle ? Where ish -my
love now dreaming? 1 * The fetfeef
looked at the young man, thinking
h® wanted something,* placed - hio
hand sadly Upon turn
ed him around and filled the space
under his coat tail with leather. The
young man don’t go there any more.
He says small-pox is hereditary in
the family
A company is to be organized at Strea
tor, Hlinoi*,for the purpose of putting into
operation glass works wed rolling wiife
Sixty thousand dollars have ahead/ been
pledged.
Put in to fill otd.
RsadasAßna I
| Mr. William H. Aapjnwall, off
York, hu *et out ou a trip t* the
A Brooklyn merchant baa let J
American banking house in Venice. |
is where Europe learned the rudihiel
banking. I
The Boston Board of Health J
jvdffte Sober fearheet. They Lave j
lished two new hospitals, and areaftd
contagion with a vengeance. Alreed
effect is teen in the gradual retreat oj
dread disease. f
Minister Bancroft is off innsing a|
the Pyramids, plotting a book of
tions.
Gov. Dix, of New York, has a ma
daughter resident in Paris.
Bayard Taylor is reading in Gj
where he married bis wife, and is at
on anew novel which is to be brougfa
in June.
The death of Bnlwer Lyttoa renß
the last of the great literary • triumvM
of English novelists, though Bir Kdfl
was equally distinguished iu dramatic fl
ing and in fiction. ‘ m
Gen. Schenk, the'American Miuistl
i nglaud, has his two daugnters at I
don with him, who are 'greatly ad ml
for their beauty and taste in dress. I
elder one is engaged to be married tfl
member of parliament. M
The. Khedive of Egypt will send I
his th'ira soil to us, if indeed he has I
arrived in this Country already. An Ail
ican, who is a general in the Egyptian ■
my,, will accompany him on his t
through 4jio Uni ed States. |
Philadelphia editors Are boasting a
tie to interested outsiders on the sire
their fortunes. A good, live; paying pa
is fortune enough, for publisher or 6
scriber.
There are at this time twenty-five I
India vessels on their way to Boston, wl
rich cargoes will foot up immensely in
aggrvgatvef our importations. " *
Kansas colonial schemes are active lu
aboute, at the present time.
It would tie extremely pleasant to
lieve the whole of that Hartford sto
about a man in that city wearing the id<
tical stockings which his good mother ki
forhim-fifty years ago.
During the last yo«.r, one hundred *
sixty-eight persons, over seventy years o
died in Providence, which w%s just f
less of that class of persons than for -
preceedingyear-v -i
'There are plenty of deffevttfng pod*, f
it is a retire t pleasure -to- go about amt
them unseen and reliewthetf wßrta.
The girls at Saratoga object to’ bein
pressed to manly vests - which wear hap
lumps in the shape of gold watches.
An editor says.his ancestors hare barn
in the habit of living a hundred- yearl
His opponent responds by saving tha
“that was before the introduction of cap
ital punishment.”
An.lowa county Squire concludes tin
martial knot -ceremony thusly:' Then
that the.court hath joined together let u*
man bust asunder; bu s suffer little-ehihhret
to come unto theta, to help yoh God. '
The heirs of Robinson Crusoe have in
stitwted a suit to recover the Island o
Juan Fernandto.foufidifig-their claim upoi
the ground that be has ' ‘ monarch of al
he surveyed.”
A young lady who has been greatly an
noyed by a lot of young simpleton* wht
stopped under her window at night k
sing. “If ever I cease to love, ~r wishes ul
to say that if they will cease their foolish
ness, come in and talk "“business,” they
will confer a favor.
A man in Covington, Ky., made a bet
recently that he could drink a pint and a
half of Cincinnati whisky in two hours
He won the bet, and his wife remarked at
the funeral the next day that it was the
first money he had earned at hard labor in
ten years. . , •
A gentleman did not always agree with
hie wife, nor the with him. On oue oc
casion she summoned a-physiciau, declaring
that her husband bad poisoned her.' The
husband loudly protested bis iuaoosnvc
and offered as a clincher this test “Doe
tor open her right here, on theXpOt! I’m
willing E
Early riseing was once an indication of
thrift, but now it indicates that a man is
thiJsty. ‘
An lowa man cannot remember where
he bid a coffee-pot full of silver, during the
war, and has scratched nearly every hair
outesi his head thinking about iii
Legislation for New York Cftjr wSU evi
dently furnish at least three-fourths of the
important business of the session at Albany .
A stoae ifiarkt a little grave in
the midst of V a Western prairie, beam the
single word* „Polecatsoentedem." A man
hid buried his clothartbcre.
An Illinois sehool-boy didn’t think ha
would get a dogging ndit day, though his
teacher told him so, and burned down th®
school-houae before “Meat day’ came
“If there ia anybody under the canister
of heaven that I have in utter excrescence,’'
says Mr*. Partfeigtoa, “it Is tlfe slander
going about litre a boa constrictor, circula
ting hii rsfomet upoa hooeat folks.'* ■
John Templeton is in Key WestJJJi
longer the Troupe remains
the Din patch, "the stmngu^t^B
» ~b; r • vr-t’n r "' ,r 1