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Jl«#B*s- Editors :—The poetry of
ft H- Wilde, beginning, “ My life is
jiie the saniriiet Jrdsesi is universally
admired and frequently found in the
periodicals of the day. His politics
are forgbttcn, his life of Tasso
encumbers the shelves, Qf book sell
srs, whilst this gem, recognized as
trrio poGWfc even ill feiilt-ttndttig
England, promises to embalm his
uainS in literary immortality.
It is not, however, so well known
that a lady of Baltimore, met the
distinguished advocate in the Court
of Muses, and replied with mufch
force and almost equal beauty. As
the stanzas of each are not found in
connection, it is proposed to give
those of Wilde separately, and in a
similar way Ihe litdy’s ails Wei 4 iii re
ply :
WILDK.
My life in like the summer rose
That opens to the morning sky,
But ere the shades of evening close,
Is scattered on the ground td dig.
Yet on that roses' humble bed,
The sweetest dews of night are shed,
As if she wept such w aste to see ;
But none shall weep ft tCstf fdi' tmJ.
LADY.
The dew* of night may fall from heaven
Ujton the withered roses’ bed,
And the (ears df fdrtd regret be given
To mourn the virtues of the dead,
Yet morning's sun the deWB will dry,
And tears will fade from sorrow’s eye,
Affection’s pangs be hilled to sleep,
And eveu love for«et to weep.
wtt.br..
My life is like thu autumn leaf
That trembles in the moon’s pale ray—-
its hold is fsa.il, its date is brief,
Restless, and soon to pass away,
Yet ere that leaf shall fall and fade,
The parent tree shall mourn Its shade ;
The wind bewail the leafless tree,
But none shall breathe a sigh for me’
I.ADY.
ike tree may mourn its fallen le#f,
And auturnu winds bewail its bloom,
And friends may heave a sigh of grief,
O’er those who sleep within the tomb.
Yet »oou will spring renew tho flowers.
And time will bring more smiling hours ;
In friendship's heart all grief will die,
And even love forget to sigh. #
Witbfci
Mv We is like the which feet
i'oon as the rising tide shall beat,
All trace shall vanish froita the sand.
«t. as if grieving to efface
All vestage of *he human race
On that lone shore, lond moans the sea;
hut none, alas 1 shall mourn for me.
t.ADY.
Ihe sea may on the desert Bhore *
lament each trace it bears away;
1 he lonely heart its grief may pour
0 er cherished friendship’s fast decay,
A et when all track is lost and gone,
The waves dance bright aud gaily on ;
ihas soon affection’s bonds are torn,
And even love forgets to mourn.
[I rom the New York Tribune.]
* n Everyday Story Graphically
Told.
ell nigh half a century ago a
n ‘married couple settled in one
• the W esteru counties of Penn
an^a - They had what their neigh
deemed a fair capital with which
‘ ‘-’‘‘gin life—a well stocked though
farm, sound health, good eom
and a more than aver-
M amount of shrewd intelligence
cu^ure - Vnder all this was a
* nc^ Pe trust in God and a jealous,
punitive love for each other, neither
their neighbors knew much
u t> American back-woods far
take pride in covering their
under a hide as totigh as
, of their own beeves. They had
oi four children, and night af-
Proto!?* ° Ter kitchen fire, the
they set themselves to an
*- what is the best thing we
■ ,? w *th them, and for them, the
teked daily with such a
Jc lu g of heart in myriads oi
homes, and answered so differently.
The fear of God seemed to Jacob
&ttd his Wife the best heritage to
give them ; the next best, plenty of
money.—To give them the first, they
began by hedging the children’s lives
with a system of rules, borrowed half
from the Jewish laws, half from the
theory df their sect.
Strict morality, the keeping of
Sunday as a periodical day qf peni
tence and wretchedness, the learn
ing, undor penally of dark closets
and thrashing, of the chief duty of
man, therein was their religion.—
Life they were shown as a straight
and hard path through a dark valley
with the terrors of Sinai behindhand
the traps and pitfalls of a fianiihg
hell on either side.—Even Jacob’s
wife, Mary, holding her darling to
her breast, than which no mother’s
ever ached or throbbed with more
tenderness, had no other sermon to
preach to them. It never occurred
to her or her husband that it was
into just fields of grain as those
about them, under just such tower
ing cedars, that Jesus led his disci
ples and taught them, by the sun
shine and the rain, the tender mer
cies of God. The world grew green
around them, faded again and wrap
ped itself in snow, year after year;
the river sank its mysterious song
to the woods at their very door ; and
overhand the stars that had declared
to the patriarchs of the old world
the infinite secrets of Jehovah bla
zoned them fbtth still unregarded.
Day unto day uttered speech, aiid
night unto night showed forth knowl
edge of Him, but both farmer and
wife were both deaf and blind. God
was to be approached only through
a dog-eared oliatechism, and fields
and river wove worth only so much
fish and wheat per yCnh
The childrens saltation being thus
provided for; the next thing: to he
insured was money, llusband and
vvifo worked and stinted themselves
as only a Scotch-Irish family can
work dr stint. All produce that was
saleable went to the market; the
children were reared on the refuse,
the skim-milk, poorest bacon, and
watery potatoes. Their clothes were
coarse and patched, their feet bare
and chilblained. The house grew
barer, year by year the father’s back
more bent, bis face harder, but the
balance in bank increased dollar by
dollar. As for the plump, bonny
Mary, she had long since joined that
sisterhood of lean, yellow-skinned,
toothless women, who, with dirty cal
ico dress and wisps £>i hair twisted
lip behind, are sometimes found in
fatm-housee, like ghastly megrims,
or daylight spectres of _ wasted life.
done she would sit up until near
morning washing and darning their
clothes, that they might look more
genteel than she, dragging heir ach
ing body to look fit them when they
slept, praying for them with a fierce
longing to have power to be God
llihlself—to be able to protect and
care for them. The boys had cer
tain strong animal propensities and
physical tendencies which required
skill aild knowledge to guide or re
strain. One had a morbid imagina
tion ; another a tendency to alcho
holic poison, against Which bis diet
and training from infancy should
have defended him. The girls, left
to themselves, were filling their
brain® with sickly, false fancies of
life, and their work in it. Bat what
time had Mary to read or acquire in
any way the power to comprehend
or hel, her children ?—There was
the scrubbing and churning to be
done, the money to'be saved. Boys
and girls were sent to colleges and
seminaries; every advantage that
education could give them was theirs;
the only mistake Jacob and his wife
made in this respect was not to edu
cate themselves as well. The chil
dren went forward ; they sat down
and grubbed.
What is the end of it all? Tfhc
daughters grew up dyspeptic and
sickly for the lack of early proper
food ; they married and died before
middle age, brilliant, hard women,
and neither of them in any sense re
ligious. One son went into politics,
was successful, is now a member of
' Congress, one of the most inilqntial
oi iiis party.—Jacob and his wife
read of bis life in His
wife’s reception, his popularity. But
long ago he was a stranger to them.
It is a year since he crossed the old
threshold. W bah is there in com
mon between him and the ignorant,
boorish farmer and his wife ? A few
weeks ago, the last of the sons came
home to die ; thd one of all the chil
dren who had real powers .of intel
lect ; the dfely one who was not
ashamed to talk of t# mothter” fondly
to the last, fie died in her arms a
drunken, worthless sot. The thin,
haggard woman closed his eyes with
out a tear. “I have lost all my chil
dren,” she said, “I must have made
a mistake somewhere in the begin
ning. God knows.”
Is no other mother making this
mistake ?
Trite Courage.
The “icfipilt dtt Corps,” the fear of pub
lic reprobation, or danger in rear, a§ well
as front, may impel even the constitution
ally timid to face the cannon’s mouth, or
mount the “deadly imminent breach.”—
But all these are wanting when “the pes
tilence walketh in darkness” and the “de
struction” threateneth, “that wasteth at
noonday.” Even renowned warriors have
been known to quake and tremble at the
sight of death in the sick room.—How
greatly then should we admire those hero
ic spirits, who, without the incentive of
glory, ambition, or reward, devote their en
ergies and lives to the alleviation of hu
man suffering, amid the depressing influ
ences of terrific and contagious maladies.
The above reflections are suggested by
the noble conduct of the MesSrs. Ivey and
John F. Daniel, students of Mercer Uni
versity, who have been unremitting in
their attention to their sick and dying
comrades. The former was almost forced
to return to his home ; the latter remains
at his post, and cannot be induced to leave
tliC bedside bf tile pddr fellows, who still
wrestling for life with the grim monster,
whose visits, alas! have been
of U*. '
This mention of Mr. Daniel is eminent
ly due to liis exalted courage and modest
worth. From the Professors df the Col
lege we learn that fi’Oin the beginning of
the first case to the present hour, when he
was left alone with but three of his af
flicted companions, two of whom stand,
lingering, shivering” on the brink of the
cold river, this big-hearted young man has
watched like an angel of mercy at the bed
side of his frieiids. Nor in his simple
modesty does he seem aware that his con
duct is in the least deserving of notice.
Such devotion and self-abnegation are in
deed wonderful and rare, and we doubt
not the Faculty and Trustees will make
some public recognition of Mr. Daniel s
efficient services.—Macon Telegraph.
Thp Negro —His Education and Im
provement.—General Armstrong, the
most prominent educator of the blacks at
the South, writes from Virginia to “Old
The efforts at enlightenment of the
freednfen have so far amounted to but lit
tle. The Frcedmen’s Bureau, out of its
$13,000,000, expended $3,500,000 only for
educational purposes. The exhausted
Southern States could not do much; while
Northern liberality expended about $4,-
000,000. The total outlay, divided among
nearly five mlUiethft of people, during a
period of ten years, shows an annual out
lay of less than a dollar for each teacha
ble youth. Since emancipation, the negro
child has had less than a tenth of the ad
vantages enjoyed by the New England
child. So low was the starting point, and
so meagre has been the aid, that no consid
erable change has taken place.
The real result has been a general men
tal quickening, a thirst for knowledge on
the part of the young, and a desire for
better things. The stolid contentedness of
degradation has been broken up, and strong
aspirations have teen Created. Tbe lowly
and often despised labors Os negro teach
ers have saved the country from the dis
asters that befell the West India islands
after emancipation, by reason of neglect to
furnish instruction when the ex-slaves were
eager for it Thure they relapsed into
barbarism, commerce decayed, and wide
spread ruin broods over those islands. At
the present time, some of the Southern
States are providing by taxation for sys
tems of schools. Yirgima takes the lead
in the good work, and a universal system
is only a question of time.
*•* ,
A young htdy Writes to an exchange
giVifig a receipt for having fun. She
says, invite half a dozen boys and
girls to your house when your pa
and wa-are away; put a half-dollar
silver piece in a dish with molasses'
an inch deep iff it, and offer it to the
boy who gets it with his mouth. The
more the boys who try to get it, the
more fun will there be. That girl
deserves a diploma.
FOB THE
BAINbIUDQE GA.. RtejjW l
The Harem—Life J
Mr. De Leon, in “Thll
Eastern Wdliian,” in Hag
azine for February, Jt is 1
dies enjoy a much #d>le,
liberty tiiaii is
They visit each
and enjoy all the pleas’. ;
and scandal which their
can do. As they never read, and
never work, and no household
dtitiGs to occupy their leisure, talk
ing, eatiiig and drinking and unlim
ited smoking are tiieir only resour
ces for killing time. At home they
vary these amusements by calling in
thb aid of the singing and daheitig
girls, as they do not consider it dig
nified to practice or possess these
accdmjfiishments themselves. The
singing and dancing women are pro- #
fessionals, and generally of very un
equivocal character—in fact, are al
most Universally a very disreputable
Glass. Tlibh, too, oh Fridays the
ladies go to bath, and spend the
day thei* chatting and gossiping
with each other, this is their club,
and they enjoy it once a week.
Shopping, too, is another of their
pastimes. In the bazaars you meet
them in groat numbers, either oU
foot or perched on small donkeys,
muffed up and covered with large
silk cloaks, with only a bright pair
of wicked-looking eyes visible, and
guarded by an old woman or sable
eunuch. They are quite as eager
and as animated in shopping as any
Western woman can be. The richer
•ladies have also goods brought to
their houses by female traders, who
make a very profitable trade out of
their fanciful Who are en
tirely regardless of expense in giati
•fying any whim or caprice that sei
zes them.
The expenses of a man’s harem in
Turkey far surpasses all those for
IVDfi us ilio A-IV^ULCSC^j^ t >lv < l.|L XV 1— Vi IQ
most expensive luxury.
Tlie best trait of these lazy, idle
and uneducated women is their de
votion to their offspring. They are
good mothers, and their love and de
votion are reciprocated by their chil
dren. The strongest sentiment the
Turk has is his reverence for his
mother. However elevated his po
sition, he always stands up in her
presence until invited to sit down H a
compliment he pays k» hone besides:
It is related.of the famous Ibrahim
Pasha, of Egypt, that on one occa
sion, having offended his mother,
the old lady intentionally omitted
askitlg him to sit down, *nd com
pelled him to stand up for an hour ;
a severe punishment fOr ai Oriental.
Yet he at the time was absolute ar
biter of life and death throughout
Egypt, and still a slave to the whim
of an old woman, because she was
his mothef; WOMen Who cab coal
man and reverence arid Obedience as tiii
qualified as this, surely must deserve
it
The practice of purchasing Geor
gian and Circassian Women for the
harems is still kept up, Constantino
ple being the great mart or depot of
these willing victims.
They prefer the gilded slavery of
the harems, where they soon become
despots to the life Os barclship
privation which would be theii* lot
at home. On all the steamers com
ing from Constantinople* you may
meet some sensual-looking Turkish
of Egyptian magnate in charge df a
bevy of veiled females/ whom he is
bringing back to replenish his stock
of wives or slates.* They are care
fully secluded in private cabins/ and
when permitted to breathe fresh air
on deck resembles walking bundles
of black silk, so carefully are they
enveloped,- neither faee nor figure to
be seen.
The surprise of foreign visitors to
these caged birds, is very great when
they are contemptuously condoled
with on the little care their husbands
take of them, and the indifference
they must feel toward them, in per
mitting their unveiled faces to be
seen by every eye. The Eastern
women is proud of the precautions
her husband takes* to insure her fi
delity, conceiving if to be a fnark of
his interest in her. At the same
timejthey conceive themselves per
fectly at liberty to baffle that vigi
lance if they can, and intrigue is a
J S Ajq Educated and
tnan is a rara avis among them, Such
a one was the Princess of Sai'd Paslia
former Viceroy of Egypt. She not
only was a musician, but a poetess
as well, and impressed all foreign la
dies who saw her, by the grace and
elegance of her manners and speech.
While very young, the Eastern
women may be charming, but they
become prematurely old at an age
when Western women are in their
prime. Early development (they
are marriageable at ten years Os age)
and the indolent life they lead, stuf
fing themselves with unwholesome
food, tend to produce this effect, to
gether with the enervating effects of
climate and early maternity.
Such i& a true picture of the life
of an Eastern woman, who is the
pampered and petted plaything, not
the companion, counsellor and friend
bf her husband, and whose code of
morality is so lax as to justify the
restraints placed upon her, unless,
indeed, it niay be argued 4hat the
effect is produced by that very cause,
and the system which seeks tb pre
vent produces the universal laxity
of morals which no one can deny.—
A r . Y. Com. Adu.
TolfEfcp Eggs Through the Sum
mer.—Ten gallons water, five pints
slacked lime, five pints coarse salt.
Put this brine in a good barrel, re
moving one head ; neither a vinegar,
lard or oil barrel will do ; a whiskey
<sr molasses barrel is best. Place
the eggs in a brine, most of tljem
Mtjfctiu *o tne bottom and arrange
theniseivfes Sodal! end ddwfi; fcßnie
will float on the surface, but small
end down as the others. Now place
the head of the barrel which you had
taken out on the surface of the brine,
for the purpose of weighting down
the eggs which float and also to pro
tect the lime in the mixture from be
coming carbonized on the surface
and falling in little grains and flakes,
which cement themselves to the eggs,
giving them a rdtigh and yellow ap
pearance. tlggs packed iii this way
will keep six months.
Chinese Proverbs. —The ripest
fruits grow on the roughest wall.
It is the smallest wheels of the
wagon that come;? in first:
The man who holds the ladder at
the bottom is frequently of more ser
vice than he who is stationed at the
top of it.
The turtle, though brought in at
the back gate, takes the head of the
table.
Better be the cat in the philanthro
pist’s family than the mutton pie at
the king’s banquet.
The learned pig does no t learn
his letters in a day,
True merit, like the.pearls inside
of an oyster, is content to remain
quiet until it finds an opening.
Tie top strawberries are eaten first.
He who leaves early gets the best
hat.
Pride sleeps in a gilded crown;
contentment in a cotton night cap.
X President’s Daughter in Need,—
Mr. Speaker Blaine, having called Mr. Da
wes to occupy the chair, appeared on the
floor of the House on the 4th’, saving he
had a few juliAites ago had an interview
in the Speaker's room which had deeply
touched him. It was with the widow of
Robert C. Wood, late assistant surgeon in
the United States army, and a daughter of
Zachary Taylor, facte President of the Uni
ted States. She had presented a petition
which ire Would not have read, as it presen
ted a state of facts that ought not to be
expected, viz. : that a daughter of Zachary
Taylor was in need of assistance. He had
assured her that he did not believe there
would be a vote against the biH which' he
now introduced, granting to Mrs. Wood a
pension of SSO per month, to date from
the death of her husband, March 28,1869,
and it was passed by a unanimous vote.
A man in Kentucky has been married
four times, each time having been married
by the same minister, m the same house,
to four sisters the same family.
%*ird to take
e vbi$ and X ,or
m school gave one of'
tuitions ever given to
‘Paring potatoes thin.”
faith, an* missus told mo
, jf.si ’em soft, and I’m goin’ to bile
’em till they're soft, if it tak,gs all day.”
“Why, Biddie,” said Mary, “how
long are you gSing to bbil th'oSb eggs '*
You’ve had ’em on ten minutes al
ready.”
There is only one good substitute
for the endearments of a sister, and
that is the endearments of some
other fellow’s sister.
“ We’re in a piekle now,” said a
man in a crowd, “ A regular jam,”
said another. “ Heavfin preserve
us,” moaned an old lady.
“ Why, my friend,” said Roger, “I
brought the suit to oblige you.”—
“To oblige me, indeed! how so ?
“ Why, to oblige you to pay”
A bishop, fond bf hunting, being
rebuked that the apostles never
hunted, replied, “ No, shooting was
very bad in Palestine, so they went
fishing instead.”
A sweet little bdyj ohly eiglit ears
old, walked into the scene of a teach
er’s examination, last week,and bawl
ed out, “Annie, your feller is down
to the house!”
“ What a fine head your boy has 1”
said an admiring friend: “Yes;”
said the fond father, “ hfl’B it Ghlp of
of the old block—ain’t you, Johnny ?”
u I guess so; my teacher said I was
a young blockhead.”
My dear sir,” said a dying parish
ioner to his clergyman, “if I should
will the church SIO,OOO would it im
prove my prospects in the next
world?”—“I cah’fc. assure you it
would ; but mere be no JKra
in tryiiig:”
A sewing circle was quickly broken
up the other ’ clay, by tlifes inhdeent
remark of a la<ly preseiit : I always
had a great desire to know how a
case of small-pox looked, so I called
on a sick lady this afternoon, just
before coming to tlie Circle:”
A cow at Rome, Ga., lay down in
a damp place the other day, and her
tail frore firmly to the ground. A
Southern pstper, in giving a pathetic
account of the affair, says that When
tjie cow got Up there was another
cold snap—the tail actually broke.
A Drumnier went mad at Indian
apolis lately, and pit2zled his em
ployer in New York by telegraphing
to send on immediately one barrel of
condeiised beef, thirteen steamboats,
one medium white elephant; and
ten gross Os june bugs (assorted.)
A lady had a favorite lap-dog,
which she called Perchance. “A
singular name,” said sciriebody, “for
a beautiful pet, madame. Where
did you find it ?” “ Oh,” drawled
she, it was named from Byron’s dog.
You remember where lie Says; Per
chance, my dog will howl”
At a ball given in Philadelphia—
“ Then you are fond of dancing sir ?”
said a pretty girl to her partner. —
“On the contrary, rcisfl, I detest it.”
“ But this is our fourth polk, if I
don’t mistake ?” “ True, but the
fact is, my doctor has ordered me a
good perspiration at my octet.”
A Connecticut boy, just learning
to read, asked his father what credit
Mobilier was. “ It’s our national
game, my boy,” replied the father,
who with the*shrewdness Os a native
of the “ Land of Steady Habits,” was
looking ahead. “ You’ll be able to
play it when you get big enough and
go to. Congress.
A Pottsville man, who says he
hasn’t attended church for twenty
years, boasts that he can remember
perfectly the preacher’s text on the
last occasion of a visit to' the sanctu
ary. And this is the way be remem
bers it, when asked what it was—
“ It’s easier for a camel to enter a
circus, than for a man to eat a pack
age of needles.”
“ Where's the state of matrimony?”
“ It’s one of /the United States. It
is bounded by hugging and kissing
on one side, by babies and cradles
on the other. * Its chief products are
population, broomsticks and staying
IN ADVANV.
out late of nights. It was discovert
ed by Adaqv aiid Ere in trying to
find a noi tilwesh passage out of Par
adise.”
A country youth inquired at a city
drug store for ten cents’ worth bf
“love powdprs,” something that
wouldn’t stir her up much, but make
her dream of him of bights. The
urbane druggist’s' clerk put up Bomb
magnesia, and cautioned the purcha
ser not give hia victim too much
of it at a time, but rather wiu her
affections by degrees.
A laughable incident took plahti iu
the parlor of the Union Hotel, Sar
atoga, a day or tw o ago. Two coun
trymen were gaping around the room
when a lady approached wearing a
fashionable trail, One of the party
dodged it; blit tilt! dtliet’ talked
straight across it, and finding out his
error apologized with—“ I beg your
pardon, madam ; I thought you had
passed some time a jo,”
Two laches were chatting gayly,
when the conversation turned upon
the subject of dress. Lal.lv No. 1;
in reply to a facetious refli atfe bf No;
2, said : “I’m in no itiood for hrifling
to-day, aiid Ini backed iip j’n
good ifiteUtibijs by the presence of
Zion’s Herald in my pannier.” No.*
2 remarked : “ There’s no tlac of
your feeling so particularly good
about that. I have the Christian at
Work in mine.”
Tho Danbury Nows givos t*u ac
count of tlite vifcissitndefj oil llhf MU
experienced i>y a young man in tlittt
place. He went to see a fouug lady;
previously just having been tot ttii
oyster supper. As he neared the
iiouse he saw liol»
the steps ari4 hailed him : “ Hello;
old tadpole : z’at you? Where! iti
my lovely Gnzolla ? Where ish my
lovq, w dr*awii».r -Jtttto
looked at Tne young man and tliixii
ing he wanted something, placed his
hand sadly on his shohloer, turned
him gently around and filled ihe
sprifec under his coat tail with leath
er. The young man don’t go these
any itio're ; lie says small pbx is he
reditary iff the family.
It is told on a certain M. Ik flbt m
thousand miles from this eity; that
he was called to see a cask' it fotv
days ago. Going in to she tKfc pa
tient, the Doe to- broke out df the
house like a stivak df fffeand Hgiit
nidg; felliiig small p’dx, ti 11, ieriisa
lem and crickets, rind riiu over a
fence, knocked doflii a yearling, atfll
leaving his horse hitched at the geito;
the last seen of him he was going
through the woods bareheaded, bawl
ing “smallpox, bvG— d; small pox."
The M. D. has b’ee’ii ijurifaritiiifc't
ever since, and refuses to allow ariy
one to see him.
The following gdo'd tliihg tfe find
in the Waterbary paper :
“ What do you call that ?” indig
nantly asked a customer at a cheap
restaurant; pdjritilig td an tfbject bo
had discotertiff.lri his plate of hash.
“Wristbarid with sleeve-button
attached, sir,” said tho waiter; brisk
ly*
“Well, do you cdnsidei that m
proper thing for amm i > find in his
hash?” asked the customer, in wrath.
“ Good graeious; sir!” cried the
waiter ; “ would you expect to find
ten dollar silk umbrella in a fifteen
cent plate of laasli ?”
An Aged Darkey; —The Columbus
Sun saye,: A lady informs us tlra* on last
Friday a negro woufu* died in Columbus
aged 116 years. Ada light iB4 y6ars okf.
and a grandchild off fifty or a"xty winter*
lived with her. The name of tbe Centena
rian was Lettie Terry. She was once the
slave of the father of fob F. G. Wilkins*
first wife, bite report 1 that sh * had cut
her third set of teeth since six years ago.
After spectacles for a long peril <t,
her second eyesight returned. And in her
later days she could see as well as when a
child. She said she was quite a large girl
during the f jVoJu iomrv war , was stolen
by speculators from Maryland, brought to'
this section and sold 10 a gentleman, iu
whose family she remained uuiil after the
surrender in 1865.
A Female at the Bab. —We learrt
that a widow lady in Bullock county,
who is possessed of considerable one
gv arid good sense; on Frfdaf last,
argued her own cause before tbe
court in sessiou at Union Springs,
and secured a verdict m' her own
favor, a result which higher gratified
her aud pleased her many ftp ends.
With the “facts in the case, and com
mon sense,” she proposes hereafter
to be her own client, as it is hi aprr,-
and more to her interest iu tbe fi
nal results.— Co’a t/tiu* Sun.
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