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£- The above rules will be strictly adhered to.
professional cards.
JOHN W. V/ OFFO RD ,
Attorney at Law,
t viJsLk, ciTjnnrt.
OFFICE OVER CI’RUY’H STORE.
Oct. 17. 1868.
Commercial Hotel, Cartersville, Ga.
BY JOHN C. MARTIN
TWO. STORY lIRICK BUILDING, comer of Depo
. i ( p‘ iml Market Street, East Side ts Railroad.
Rooms psod and comfortable.
Fnmltnre and Redding new.
office and spacious Dininp Room
Tjh l r(! „ ,-li with the best that the market
, r ,|, and charecs moderate.
hr Proprietor hopes, by good attention to business,
n ' lP rr liberal sliare of patronage. Dec. 1. ISGB.
ItTw. MG HP HEY, ~
ATTORNEY at law,
Cartersv Me, Ga.
WTTX practice In the the Courts of Cherokee Cir
cuit. Particular attention given to the collection
of cUint*. Office With Col. Abffa Johnson. Oct. 1
OR. F. M. JOHNS ON,
Dentist,
r FSPECT FULLY olTers his Professional
|\ « er vifes to the citizens of Cartersville
»,nl vicinity, -'lei* prepared to do work <UJ f TTr
„n the latest and most improved style.
Teeth extracted without pain, fby means of narcotic
,-nntv 1 Work all warranted. Office over Stokeley’s
-tore.CARTERSVILLE Ga. Feb. 20 1868.—w5m
JERE A, HOWARD,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
JOHN J. J O NES,
Attorney at Law,
Cartersville, Ga.,
VTTILL nUend promptly to all business on
\\ trusted to his care. Will practice in the
Courts of Law, and Equity in the Cherokee
Circuit. Special attention given to the collec
ti tn of claims. Jan. 1, 1866. lv
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REAL ESTATE AGENT,
CARTERSVILLE. GA.
I am authorised to sell, and have on hand several
Houses and Lots, and also numerous building lots in the
town of Cartersville. Also several plantations of vari
•ns sires in Bartow county. Parties desiring to buv or
» II will do well to gvemo a call. All communications
promptly answered. July 17, 1806.
BLANGE & DODD,
A T T 0 RNEYS A T L A W,
CKDARTOWX, POLK COUNTY, GA.
Will practice law irt the several
Court* comprising tire Tallapoosa Circuit;
dso, Bartow and Floyd Counties. Partic
ular attention given to the collection of
claims. jan i2,ly
WARREN AKIN,
Attorney at Law,
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA
Will practice in ail (lie Courts of the State-
Vis W. R. MOUSTCASTLE,
Jeweller ami Watch and
w Clock. Repairer,
the Front of A. A. Skinner Ac Co’s store
Partersvilte, Jan. 25’-
JAMES MILNER,”
Attorney atlaw,
AND NOTARY PUBLIC.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA,
xplU, practice tn the Courts of the Cherokee and ad
" joining Circuits, also the Supreme and District
fourt*. Piompt attention given to business entrusted
i my care. August 21 8816.—wly
J. C. C. Blackburn,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
EUHARLEE, BARTOW COUNTY, GEORGIA.
References : Industry, promptitnde and at
(pntici march 22. w l 3
T VV Milner, O H Milner.
MILNER & MILNER,
Attorneys at Law,
r ARTERSVILLE GEORGIA.
Will attend promptly to business entrusted
to their care. jan. 15. ly
y&v CALEB TOMPKINS, well
known for 20 years past, as a first
class IfMTCff CLOCK,
and JEWELLER REPAIRER,
MANUFACTURER, has com
menced work one door North of his former old
stand,on the East side of the Railroad, Cak
-lEBBYHJJB, Ga. Wili sell Clocks and Watches
Warranted. Nov, 10. wly
Two Dwelling Houses for sale, rent, lease,
or to exchange for Atlanta property, together
with everal residence and business lotss.
S. H. PA TIL 1.0, '
FASHIONABLE TAILOR,
\\[l\l attend promptly to the Cutting, Repair-. I*
t T Ing and Making Boys' and Men’s Clothing. jjPS
OaTce on the Second Floor of Stokely & Wll- \F.#
Maras’ New Brick Building. Entrance from ..iLiA.
Main Street, in rear of the building. Fab 17.
JOHN F. HARWELL
is still hammering away at his
f *W ff~r9 trade, Repairing Guns and Pis
tols, also GINS, THRESHERS, and MA
CHINERY, of almost any kind; in fact, he
is prepared, and can do, almost any kind of
work in METALS, such as Iron, Steel, Zinc,
Brass, Copper, Silver and Gold, Shop on
Main Street near Gilreath’s Warehouse, on
c ost side of the Railroad, Cartersville, Ga,
JNO. COXE, J. H. WIKLE.
Coxe Sc Wikle,
Commercial Agents,
NOTARIES PUBLIC
AND
attorneys at law,
With Gen. W, T. Wofford,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Will attend promptly to the Collection of all
Commercial Paper, Demands between Foreign
*nd North Georgia Merchants, and also to
Boling Protests of Commercial Paper for non
payment, etc., etc., etc.
Refer by Permission, to Gen W T Wofford,
Hon Warren A kin, W H Gilbert 4" Cos, N Gil
re.a'h <s• Son, Hon J R Parrott, Howard 4'
Peacock, Cartersville, Ga. feb 21 wly
S. O'SHIELiDS,
Fashionable Tailor ,
CARTERSVILLE. BARTOW COUNTY. GEORGIA.
Having just received Charts of the latest
styles of Gentlemens’ and Boys’ Clothing,
European and American, announces that he
IS prepared to execute all kinds
Ti of work in the Fashionable Tail
j-AS. oring line, with neatness and in -JtJ,
,J Nb!e style. Over J. Elsas & Co’s store,
Cartersville mch ’gg
THE CARTERSVILLE EXPRESS.
VOL 8.
Kennesaw House.
(Localcit at railroad depot.)
FFUIE undersigned having bought the entire
l interest of Dix Fletcher, Trustee for Lmi
m W - I letcher, in the Kennesaw House,
and the business will lie conducted, in the tu
turf'; under the name and firm of Augustine
A. Fletcher .V Frever. Thankful for past fa
vors and patronage, they will strive to give the
utmost satisfaction to all pa*rons of the Ken
nesaw House. AUGUSTINE A. FLETCHER,
„ IP . PTT( . , F. L, FREYER.
MA RIF.TTA, Jan. 12.’.19.
K> T - J. M. Lyke*.
American Hotel,
ALABAMA STREET,
ATLANTA. GEORGIA.
AV II I x u L Y K E s
Proprietors.
E HHtAGE carried to and from Depot
Irec of Charge. May 11. 1860
E. R. SABS EEN, R. D. MANnT"
Georgia. Tennessee.
THE OT.D TENN. AND GEORGIA
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
S ASS EEN & MANN, Proprietor.l
J. W. F. BRYSON, \ c/ ,
ISAAC N. MANN, j LlerKS ‘
January 1,1869.
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The genuine have the Pill surrounded
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All Orders for the United States must
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474| Broadway New York.
DR. MAGGIEL’S PILLS OR SALVE
ARE
25 Cents Per Box.
For sale in Cartersville, by
W. L. KIRKPATRICK,
dec. 1, 1868.w1y Druggist:
TIRE AND LIFE
JFttt ©omjanits :
SO. MUTUAL FIRE INS. COMPANY,
Athens, Ga. Policy Holders participate in
profits.
/ETNA FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,
Hartford, Conn. Assets over five millions.
3Lt'Cc ©ompanitsT:
SO. LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
Atlanta, Ga. Gen. J. B. Gordon, President.
CONN. MUTUAL LIFE INS. COM’Y,
Organized 1846. Members $58,000. Assets
23 millions. Purely mutual.
For Fire and Lifej'lnsurauce apply to
JOHN T. NORRIS,
General Insurance Agent,
Apail 22,1869. CARTERSYILLE, GA.
JAMES P. MASON,
Book, binder and Paper Ruler,
JjjQi^ ER LAWSHES BIJrLDGI
Whitehall Street,
ATLANTA - GEORGIA.
May 1, 1869
CARTERSVILLE, BARTOW COUNTY, GA- JULY 15, 1809.
DR. JOHN BOLL’S
Great Remedies.
SMITH’S TONIC SYRUP!
FOR THE CURE OF
AGUE AND FEVER
OR
CHIUS AND FEVER.
The proprietor of (hi* celehraGd medicine justly
claims for it a superiority over all remedies ever offer
ed to the public tor the *uje. certain. »j,ee</u and Per
manent care of Ajrur amt Fever .or Cl,ids and Fever
entir.wr ol , gh&rl or »"** standing. He refers to the
entire Western and Southwestern country to bear him
testimony to the truth of the assertion, that in no case
whatever will it fail to cure, ir the directions are strict
ly followed and ca nett out. In a great many cases a
sing e dose has been sufficient for a cure, and whole
families have been cured by a single boitle with an-r
--sect restoration of the general health. It is, however
prudent, and in every case more certain to cure, if its
ttse is con*inued in smaller doses for a week or two af
ekl .. d,se ? Re has been Checked, more especially in
difitcult. and long standing cases. Usually, this medi
cine will not require any aid to keep the bowels in
good order; should the patient, however, require a
cathartic medicine, after having t-.ken three or four
doses of the Tonic, a single dose of BULL’B VEGETA
BLE E AM’LY PIi.LS will be sufficient.
DR, JOHN DELIAS
Principal Office
No. -40 l iftli, CJross street.
Louisville, Ky,
Bull’s Worm Destroyer.
To my United Stales and World-wide Read
ers:
I HAVE received many teslimorials from profe3-
8 onai and medical men, as my almanacs and vari *
ous publications have shown, all of which are genuine.
The foJowing from a highly educated and popular
pnpsician in Georgia, is certainly one of the most sen
sible uommunicationf I have ever received. Dr. Clem
ent knows exactly what he speaks of, and his testimo
ny deserves to be written in letters of gold Hear
what the Doctor says of BulCs Worm Dertr, yer
Villanovv, Walker co., Ga. )
June 29th, 1866 $
DR. JttllN BULL—Dear Sir:—l have recently giv
en your “Worm Destroyer” several trials, and find it
wonderfully efficacious. It has not failed in a single
instance, to have the wislted-for effect, lam doing a
pretty large country practice, and have daily use for
some article of the kind. lam free to confess that I
know of no remedy recommended by the ablest authors
that is so certain and speedy in Its effects. On the con
trary they are uncertain in the extreme. My object
in writing you is to iind out upon what terms I can
get the medicine directly from you. If I cau get it
upon easy terms, I shall use a great deal of it. lam
aware that the use of such articles is contrary to the
teachings and practice of a great majority of the rea
ular hue of M. D.’s, but I see no just cause or good
sense in discarding a remedy which we know to be ef
ficient, simply because w e may be ignorant of its com
bination. For my part., I shall make It a rule to use all
and any means to alleviate suffering humanity which
I may be able to command—not hesitating because
someone more ingenious than myself ntay have learn
d its effects first, and secured the sole right to secure
hat knowledge. However, lamby no rntans an ad
vocate or supporter of the thousands of worthless nos
trums that flood the country, that purport to cure all
manner of disease to which hum in flesh is heir.—
Please reply soon, and inform me of your best terms.
I am,sir, most respectfully,
JULIUS P. CLEMENT, M. D.
Bull’s Sarsaparilla.
A GODD REASON F°R THE CAPTAIN'S FAITH,
READ THE CAPTAIN'S LETTER AND THE LET
TER FROM IIIS MOTHER.
Bentoa Barracks, Mo., April SO, 1866.
Dr. John Bull-Dear Sir: Knowing the efficiency
of your Sarsaparilla, and the healing and beneficia'l
qualities it possesses, I send yon the foiiowinir state
ment of my case: e
I was wounded about two years ago—was taken
prisouer and confined for sixteen months. Being
moved so often, my wounds have not healed yet I
have not sat up a moment since 1 was wounded! I
am shot through the hips. My general health is im
paired, and I need something to assist nature I
have more faith in your Sarsaparilla than in any thing
else I wish that that is genuine. Please express me
half a dozen bottles, and oblige *
Oapt. C. P. JOHNSON.
St. Louis, Mo.
P. S.—The following was written April 39, 1865 by
Mrs. Jennie Johnson, mother of Oapt. Johnson.
DR. BULL—Dear Sir: My husband, Dr. C. S. John
son, was a skillful surgeon and physician in Central
New York, where he died, leaving the above C. P.
Johnson to my care. At thirteen years of age he had
a chronic diarrhiea and scrofula, for which I wave
him your Sarsaparilla. IT CURED HIM. I have for
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almost miraculous. lam very anxious for my son to
again have recourse to your Sarsaparilla. He is fear
ful of getting a spurious article, hence his writing to
you for it. His wounds were terrible, but I believe he
will recover. Respectfully, JENNIE JOHNSON.
BULL’S CEDRON BITTERS.
AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS.
ARKANSAS HEARD FROM,
Testimony of Medical Men
Stony Point, White Cos., Ark., May 28, '66.
DR. JOHN BULL—Dear Sir: Last February I was
in Louisville purchasing Drags, and I got aome of
your Saraapparilla and Cedron Bitter*.
My son-in-law, who was with me In the store, has
been down with rheumatism for some time, commen
ced on the Bitters, and soon found ins general health
impro w }, o t, ee n j n bad health, tried them,
and he also improved. . , , .
Dr Coffee, who has been in bad health for several
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and Sarsaparilla. Ship me via Memphis, care of
k„ p „,«i 6 walker
All the above remedies for sale by
L. H. BRADFIELD
Druggist,
WAITEHALL STREET,
ATLANTA, GA.
feb 20, 1869*01 v
HOW I BECAME 4 H EH EDICT.
BY EMMA GAB ISON* JONES.
Yes, I’m a married man at last!—
That’s my wife sitting over there in
the great rocking-chair, that slender,
delicate creature, with the soft, creamy
face, and lustrous, golden hair; -and
that queer little tiling in her lap, over
which she coos so tenderly, is my son
and heir, Chancellor Tovvbridge, Jr.—
Heavens! what a degree of importance
it gives a fellow to know that his
name will live after his body is under
the sods ! I never knew what it was
to be a man before; I’m one now, ev
ery inch of me, as Lear was every a
king.
A woman-hater! That’s what I’ve
been called all my life, and the cogno
men was not misapplied. T did hate
women, and excluded myself from
their society, and railed and sneered at
their frailties until Well, until
that little woman yonder glorified the
whole feminine gender! I’m a chang
ed man. I can t pass a bit of female
apparel in a shop window, a water-fall,
or a knot of ribbon, without a tender
thrill at my heart. I’m a fool, that’s
about the amount of it ! No matter,
till up your meerschaum, my wife does
not object to smoke—sensible women
never do! [
Twenty years ago ! Bless my soul,
what a long way to look back ! Such
a misty, winding road, cut across at
every turn by the grass green graves
of dead friends and blighted hopes!—
Ah, me! I would not go back and
trend it all over again, if I could !
Twenty years ago 1 met with my first
disappoitment, and it made me a mis
anthrope, a woman hater! I was a
young stripling, then, just sixteen, the
sole idol and comfort of an overfond
mother. We lived all alone in a little
nest of a cottage, just put from the ci
ty; and mother did the housework,
and managed the small dairy, from
which we derived our support, while I
attended the academy. She was bent
upon a great man of me, poor, fond
mother! She confidently believed I
possessed any amount of undeveloped
talent, and denied herself a thousand
little comforts, in order to secure for
me the advantages necessary to bring
it into action. Looking back upon
those claps now, it offords me a kind
of melancliolly satisfaction to know
that she went to eternal rest, happily
unconscious that all her unselfish la
bor had been spent for naught; still
fancying, in the egotism of her love,
that “her boy,” as she called me,
would one day cover himself with the
lustre of great deeds.”
i shared her belief, then; ar.d when
my sixteenth year, and my academical
course both culminated at once, and
poor mother expended the hoardings
of an entire year to purchase me a
new cloth suit, I thought my fortune
made. Asa matter of course, the next
step to be taken was matrimony. By
way of beginning, I set myself to work
to get up a poem, to be dedicated to
the fair one of my choice, Miss Jessie
Weaver. The composition consumed
a round week. Day after Day I shut
myself in my bedchamber, and racked
my brains over rhyming syllable, while
poor mother drove the cows to and
fro, and even brought the water to
cool her milk pans. At last it was fin
ished, and elaborately copied on scent
ed, rose-colored paper. There were
some two dozen verses, I think, con
taining swashy sentiment, and mor
bid melancholly, sufficient to stock a
regiment of ordinary novels; but sit
ting on the stone steps of the dairy,
with her butter-paddle in her hand,
mother listened while I read to her in
a confident, declamatory style, her lov
ing eyes full of subdued exultation.
“I always thought so! I always
thou ?ht you’d make a great man, my
boy,” she said, proudly.
I sent the poem to Jessie, with no
doubt whatever in regard to its recep
tion. I held too high an opinion, of
her good sense to believe, for an in
stant, that she would fail to appreciate
it; and she didn’t, as her gay laugh
and dancing eyes attested at our next
meeting.
“You’ll be famous by-and-by, Chan
cy,” she called after me over the gar
den-gate; “a second Byron.”
I stroked my sprouting mustache
with serene self-complacency, riming
my eye over the rich medow-lancls,
and alluvial fields, surrounding her
father’s stately mansion. She was an
only child, and would inherit all this
wealth. I had made up my mind to
propose to her on my next visit; and
it wonld be the proper thing to make
her a present on such an occasion.
There was a gay, ruby-brooch on
exhibition in one of the shop windows,
and on this I had set my heart; but
the price was twenty-five dollars.—
How should I ever manage to get it ?
I made known my desires and inten
tions to mother on my return home.
She looked serious and thoughtful for
a moment, and then she arose, and
going to the corner cupboard, took
down the blue China-bowl, in which
she always kept the proceeds of her
butter-pats. I can see her now, with
her slight figure, and pale, worn-face,
as she stood in the glow of the firelight,
over the heaps of silver pieces she
poured upon the table.
“Only twenty-five dollars she said,
with a suppressed sigh, as she return
ed the surplus two dollars to the bowl;
“but take it, my boy, and welcome !”
I took it, and bought the brooch for
Jessie.
“Isn’t it splendid mother ?” I said,
a few eveni jgs after, as I was giving
the finishing touch to my toilet, pre
paratory to the all-important visit. —
She’ll be sure to take it, won’t she V^
“To be sure she will, my boy,” she
replied, fondly fluttering round rue,
polishing the bright brass buttons on
my blueeloath coat with the corner
of her apron, and twisting my well-oil
ed lock ; over bets thin, labor-worn fin
gers; “and she ’ll take you, too, if she
is not devoid of a,)} r a." turn,”
My heart swelled with gratified
vanity ns l put the glittering toy in
my pocket, and started. She follow
ed me out, and down to the garden
gate.
“Good -by, my lx>y,” she called, as I
hurried through. Something in her
voice made me look back, and I notic
ed that her face had a strange, white
look, and her eyes were running over
with tears.
“What is it, mother ?” I asked,
j turning and taking her hand.
“Nothing, nothing at all, my dear.
! Only this new joy won’t make you
1 (jiiite forget me, will it, Chancy?”
“Oh! mother, no!” I cried, throw
ing my arms round her neck, and kiss
ing her white cheeks. “I shall never
love any one else as I love you.”
“My darling my pride,” she mur
mured. “No other ever had such a son
—you never caused me a moment’s
sorrow, Chancy.”
“I’m glad of it, mother. Good-by.”
“Good-by, my boy !”
I left her standing there in the au
tumn dusk, and went up to Squire
Weaver’s The fates were propitious;
I found Jessie alone in the parlor
singing to her guitar.
“Tis you, Chancy ?” she said care
lessly, as I entered. “There, sit down
while I sing to you.”
I obeyed reluctantly enough, for I
was in a fever of impatience. To this
day I have no idea of what she sang;
but the instant she finished I was at
her side.
“Jessie,” I said, unfoldiug the scent
ed paper that contained the brooch,
“here's a present I’ve brought you, and
Tut she cut short my declaration,
which I had “cut and dried” weeks be
fore hand, with a scream of delight.
“For mo, Chancy ?” as the glittering
toy flashed on her sight; ’tis the very
tiling I wanted. You dear, darling
boy—how shall I ever thank you ?” —
and seizing me round the neck, she
gave me a hearty kiss.
The touch of her red lips fired my
blood like wine, and t- et my brain in a
whirl of excitement. In a breath I
was on my knees before her,
out my love, and the hopes I had cher
ished, in frenzied accents. At first
she stood amazed; then, as the full
sense of what I was saying dawned
upon her, she broke into a gay laugh.
“Oh, Chancy ! you silly, silly boy !”
she cried, “you are too amusing. I
gave you credit for more sense than
this. Get up, child, and stop this
foolish nonsense. I’m to be married
in two weeks to Mr. Dunbar.”
What I said or did, how I got out
of the house, I never knew. 1 found
myself in the meadow's, making my
way down to the river. A dull pain
throbbed through both heart and brain,
and one strong, irresistable impulse
impelled me on. My mother’s loving
watchfulness had hitherto kept my life
from all care and sorrow; and I
shrank from pain, and only thought
of ridding myself of it. The great, au
tumn moon was just up as 1 reached
the brink, pouring dowrn her silver
splendor on the turbid, foaming ivaters.
1 sat down benath the shadow of a
drooping willow, listening to the mul
titudinous gurgle of the waves, and
the moaning rustle of the branches
overhead.' tVI other’s cattle-bells tink
led softly just below, and a solitary
bird, a nightingale, perhaps, sang
mournfully from a neighboring thick
et. Ail these sights and sounds were
as familiar as my own identity; and I
felt an infinite pity for myself, looking
upon and listening to them for the last
time —for the last time it surely was;
after the cruel blow I had received life
was out of the question. One plunge
into those dark waters would end all!
And then, when Jessie heard of my sad
fate, she would repent of what she had
done, and love me when it was too
late. I even fancied how my funeral
would be conducted, after my body
was found; and actually suffered a
good deal from fear that there would
not be an appropriate epitaph written
for my tombstone. If I had only have
had a scrap of paper and a pencil, I
should have composed and left one
myself; but not having these requisites,
1 "had to resign myself to my fate.—
Divesting myself of the new, blue-cloth
coat, and hanging it very carefully and
conspicuously on the branch of a tree,
I prepared to make the fatal plunge.
Bub at that instant my mother’s face,
wan and pallid, and full of beseeching
love, seemed looking up from the
moonlit waters. A keen pang shot
through my heart. How would she
bear my loss, she who had always lov
ed me so ? I could not do this deed
without even bidding her farewell—l
could not break my mother’s heart!
Snatching down my coat, I struck
across tho meadows at a rapid pace. —
At the cottage-gate I paused, chilled
to the very soul by a feeling of awe
and dread. The moonlight streamed
down. There sat my mother in her
low sewing-chair; I could see her wan,
white face plainly. I opened the gate,
and went up the gravel-walk with sup
pressed steps. She might be asleep,
I thought—and she was, that quiet,
dreamless sleep that knows no waking.
She was dead.
1 Two or three days after her funeral,
our old pastor came down to see me.
“Well, Chancy, my lad,” he said, af
ter a few moments’ comforting conver
sation, “what do you purpose doing in
i the way of making a living?”
j “I am undecided, sir—l haven’t
| thought much about it. I’ve beon
writing a good of into, and I
thought perhaps ”
Bu t he cut me short by a gesture.
“No, my lad, no! Give that up, it
isn't your vocation. Follow in your
good mother’s footsteps —stick to your
dairy, and yoeiil make a man .of your*
self.”
I was cut to the heart, but, some
how, his words stuck to me. Jhe
more I thought of them, the more I
was convinced of their sense; and * af
ter awhile I made up my mind to take
his advice. I threw away my pens
and paper, and took to my mother’s
old occupation, driving the cows, and
making butter-pats for market. It was
a solitary life, yet I soon grew to love
it. Twenty years after I found myself
a rich man, the proprietor of the great
Pearl Valley Dairy, and owner of Wal
nut Hill Farm.
I had ample means, so I gratified
my love for travel. I wandered all
over Europe, launched my barque up
on the raters of the Nile, and sat
beneath the shadow of the pyramids;
returning home agaiu, sun-burned, and
foot-sore, with a weary, loveless heart.
I shut myself up, having no intercourse
with my fellow men, only in my busi
ness relations, and regarding woman
kind with a bitter feeling of hate and
distrust.
One sunny autumn afternoon—l
have a vivid remembrance of it, even
to this day: it was early in October,
and the sunlight, streaming down up
on the great Walnut trees in front of
my dwelling and glinting through the
tawny chesnut-leaves, seemed to have
a peculiar warmth and brightness.—
I lav on a little liill-side, just beyond
the bouse, half buried in yellow broom
sedge, listening to the distant roar of
the pines, and watching, by turns, the
blue smoke curling up from my meer
schaum, and the busy village-folk
down below me. There was a fair or
something of the kind, on foot, and an
unusual bustle prevailed.
After awhile, I noticed a trim, girlish
figure, wearing a brown robe, and a
jaunty little hat, coming up from town
in the direction of Walnut Hill I
watched her with a feeling of interest,
in spite of myself; and when she actu
ally turned into the lane that led up
to "my door, I felt my heart palpitating
like a boy’s. Could it be possible that
any woman would have the audacity
to force herself into my house, to beard
the lion in his den ? On she came, her
brown veil and streaming ribbons flut
tering in the wind, her little gaiter
boots beating a brisk tattoo on the
gravel. I lay quite still till she passed
me, then rising on my elbow, I watch
e l her covertly. On she went, straight
up to my house, up the front steps
and then, bang ! went the knocker. —
I heard the door open, and knowing
that she had been admitted, I arose,
and sauntered up myself, thoroughly
vexed at the tremulous eagerness I felt
to know who and what she was. She
rose from her seat as I entered, salut
ing me with a pretty little bow.
“Excuse me, sir,” she said; “but you
are Mr. Chancellor Trowbridge, I be
lieve, and I am Jessie Dunbar ”
The silvery voice, the familiar face,
the name, and some glittering orna
ment in hex - bosom, all struck me at
one and the same moment. I felt my
head spinning round like a top; but I
managed to ask her to be seated again,
and as she complied, I satisfied myself
in regard to the ornament she wore.
It was my ruby-brooch, the one for
which I had given the hard-earned
proceeds of poor mother’s butter-pats
—I could have sworn to that. W hat
could it mean ?
“We are holding a fair, Mr. Trow
bridge,” she began, “for the benefit of
the soldiers’ orphans; every one is giv
ing tis something, and I’ve come up to
see if you won’t help us. You will, I
am sure.”
“No, Miss,” I answered, assuming a
stemess I did not ft el; “’tis a principle
with me, never to encourage such insti
tutions.”
“Sir,” patting her dainty foot impa
tiently against the carpet, “not encour
age feeding the orphans of dead sol
diers —do you mean that ?”
Her clear, dove-like eyes embarrass
ed me with their steady gaze.
I arose and took out my pocket
book.
“How much shall I give you, Miss
Dunbar ?”
“What you can afford, sir.”
I handed her a fifty dollar bill. Her
eyes gladdened so, they fairly dazzled
me.
“Oh, Mr. Trowbridge!” she cried, “I
did not expert this, llou are so g od,
so generous!”
She took out a delicate little purse,
and crammed it in, then she turned to
go.
“Good-by, Mr. Trowbridge!” she
said, pausing in the door-way, and hold
ing out her hand. “I thank you very
much, indeed; but won’t you come
down to the fair to-morrow night ?
Please do, Mr. Trowbridge.”
I did not promise her, but I went,
nevertheless; and after the fair was
over, I attended Jessie home. My old
sweetheart, grown into a buxom mat
ron, met me in the hall.
“At last, Chancy,” she said, grasping
both my hands; “but you’ve been an
unfriendly, old curmudgeon all these
years, and we may thank Jessie for
luring you out of your den, I suppose.
She’s won her bet by it, too. \ou see
the girls were all here, laying plans foi
the fair, and they got to talking about
you; and young Dr. Snyder offered to
bet twenty-five dollars that none of
them had the courage to go up to v\ Si
nut Hill and ask you for ad 'nation.
But Jessie made the venture, and now
that von have come out of your seclus
ion, do lie sociable, Chancy, for the
sake of our old friendship.”
I took her -t her w- rd Almost c**-
NO. 4.
erv evening fft -r th-1 found me at Mr
Dunbar's pka-ant home. Anl on*
spring night, when tl e air was sweet
with l>. lm, and the moonlight s >?t and
mellow, and the great apple-tree be
neath which we sat, was white with
fragrant bloom, I made the same prfc
pos.il to Jessie that I had made to her
mother twenty years before, not on my
knees, however, but sitting by her side,
with her little hand in mine.
“I loved your mother years ago,
Jessie,” I said; “but I was a silly boy
then. I am a man now, and I love
you as no man ever loves but once.—
Do you think you can be my wife?”
“I think I can, Mr. Towbvidge,” she
answered, simply j “and I’ll do my best
to make you a good one. I’ve
thought of you a great deal all my life,
and loved you, I believe, even before
I ever knew you. Mother used to tell
me abcut you when I was a little girl;
and I always thought it was wrong in
her to takeyour poem andyour brooch,
and then laugh at you; though, of
course, it was right for her to like pa
pa. But I’ve always felt very sorry
for yon; it must have been terrible
when you went home and found your
mother dead. I’ve got the poem and
the ruby-brooch you gave mother; and
I am very glad you love me so much,
Mr. Towbmlge. Yes, I’ll bo your
wife, and I’ll try to make your life so
happy, that you’ll never remember the
sorrowful past.
So I married the daughter of ray
old sweet-heart; and there sho sits in
the great rocking chair, before the
blazing wood tire; and that little thing
on her lap is my son and heir, Chan
cellor Tovs bridge. Jr. And regard to
myself, Chancellor Towbridge, Sr., I
am the happiest man that ever the
sun shines on.
From the Southern Watchman.
JEWWIE CILE.
As everydody else left the city, I de
termined to spend a few weeks in a
tovvn I shall call tiozzleville, in one of
the Southern States. Being a healthy
location, it was a place of consderabie
resort during the summer months. —
Having a college, many private schools,
four churches and two or three print
ing offices, with between three and four
thousand inhabitants, most of them
wealthy —having settled there to edu
cate and show oh their sons and daugh
ters. Having no business to attend to,
the streets were constantly crowded;
gentlemen, old and young, lounging,
and the ladies, particularly the young
ones, all the time on the street, in the
morning on foot and in the evening
driving; for I believe almost every one
owned a vehicle of some kind. My
room being on the corner, I could see
everything that passed on the two prin
cipal streets. As e\ery one was out
every day, I soon knew everybody in
town, i had been there about ten
days, when, one morning, the street
being crowded as usual, a pale, delicate
looking country woman came walking
up the street and asked,
“Where is Col. Harris
“What Col. Harris V”
“The editor of the weekly Journal.
I’m Jennie (dale, and I want to see Col.
t! arm.”
“He’s in his office, madam,” (point
ing to his office)
rihoAvent up, (the office being on the
second floor) and asked of a gentle
man who was sitting there, “Are you
CoL Harris?”
“No, madam; Col. Harris is not in.”
By the time he answered her, she
drew out a pistol and shot at him.—
He, being frightened, ran down into
the street, his coat on fire from the
powder, a dozen men running after
Him to extinguish the fire, all asking,
“What’s the matter? wliat’s the mat
ter ?”
“That woman shot me and she
wants Col. Harris; that woman shot
me, I tell you.”
Col. Harris hearing him, left and ran
up the street at full speed.
By this time she came down, asking,
“Where is Col. Hariri ? where’s the ed
itor of the Journal ?”
By this time every one on the street
was running in every direction, not
kilowing what w r as the matter or wheie
to run. VValking up the street with
the pistol in her hand, and meeting a
man, asked, “Are you an editor?”
“No, madam, I’m a stage-driver,
(waving and cracking his whip,) I
know nothing about the editor.”
Meeting another, “Are you an ed
itor ?”
“No, madam, I’m a professor—a J
teacher— (showing his books,) I know
nothing about a newspaper.”
Bv this time every editor, sub-editor !
and plinter’s “devil” had disappeared
and every printing office shut. She,
going on down the sti'eet asking for the
editor, the merchants and clerks all
run and hid, some leaving the street,
some shutting themselves in, and some
hiding under the counters. The loun
gers and ladies, running at full speed
in every direction, dropping their hats,
walking sticks, parasols and fans—all
scampering and getting out of the way.
Meetiug three or four old men, wllo
could not keep up with the crowd, she
asked, “Do you know anything of the
editor ?”
“No, madam, we know nothing of
the editor—we have no business —do n’t
do anything at all!”
In live minutes not a soul was on
the street but Jennie. The printers
had sent word to the Marshrl that a
woman was in town intending to kill
even' editor in the place, and was shoot
ing everybody she met. Soon here
came the Marshal, with half-a-dozen
deputies and as many friends. Meet
ing her, she asked, ‘‘Are you editors i
"No, madam— .no; we are peaceable
riflVrr; kmw nothing about the edit-
ora, and have nothing to do with news
papers.”
“ \\\\\ I want to see Col.' Ha i is. Ile
put a pitco in the jwipor about me* and
1 must see him.”
* Wk know not hing about it, madam;
we don't read the papers."
They talked to her some time—ask
ing who sho was, where she came from,
Ac., until they could surround her, mid
while some of them drew her attention
m front, the Marshal, a man weighing
two hundred \ ounds, crept up behind,
nid taking liei elbows, held her firmly
until those in *ront could venture up
and take the pistol. She turned round
and looking at the Marshal, said:
“Ain’t you a nice set of men, to tlfff o
ten or twelve great big men to anest
one little woman; and had to creep up
behind. Why didn’t you come up in
front and take the pistol ?”
They then searched her to see if sho
had any other weapon—still being
afraid of her. It took several stout
men to guard her to jail, a few miles
off. Not a lmniau being was seen on
the street, not a store opened, until
Jennie was on the road to jail; thou
had to drag some of the clerks out from
under the counters —many persons
coming out of the cellars. Not a lady
was seen on the street that day, and
the editors did not make their appear
ance till next day, when, he:* ring she
was safe in jab, they came out an 1
opened their offices.
It was several days before the town
wore its usuf.l appearance -the profes
sor and students, and even the preach
ers, being afraid to venture on the
street. Nothing was talked of for sev
eral days but Jennie Gale.
About the time everything becamo
quiet and was moving on as usual, a
country woman going into a store,
someone thought they saw a pistol in
her pocket. Every clerk left her alone
in the store; the other merchants, hear
ing another woman was in town with
a pistol, shut their doors; the editors
slammed heir doors and locked them;
the hotels closed their doors. The
news getting to the Marshal that there
was another woman in town with a
pistol, he gathered up his deputies and
came to the only open door on the
street, just as the woman, amazed at
the excitement and being left alone,
turned to teave. Seeing them sho in
quired,
“Where’s the clerks all gono to ?”
Do you want the editors, ma lai ?’’
“No, I want some sugar and coffee.”
“What are you doing with a pistol in
your pocket?”
“A pistol ? I’ve got a twist of tobac
co in my pocket,” (producing it.)
The deputies soou spread the news,
and every door was opened as hastily
as they had been shut, and the clerks
waiting on her very politely, occasionly
eyeing the plug of tobacco. This caus
ed such a laugh over town that all
seemed ashamed of being frightened at
a plug of toboceo.
A few days after this the Marshal
received a “bucket,” informing him
that. Jennie’s friends in another State
were determined to release her and
punish him for arresting her; that some
half-dozen women had already left her
neighborhood, on their way to Sozzie
villo, This caused great excitement.
Spies were out and guards sot on every
street and road leading to the town.—
The news soon spread that Jennie’s
friends had arrived, when the whole
town was again excited. No one dared
to move until the spies and guards saw
them safely housed with their friends.
Tha t again caused a laugh, particular
ly among the young men and students
—they asking, every day, “Has Jeunio
Gale arrived t"
All determined now to be quiot and
not notice such things. But the next
week, a man and his family moving,
with his wagons and stock having a
shot-gun on his shoulder and having
some business to attend to, handed
the gun to his wife. She, laying it on
her shoulder, came walking up the
street. The news soon spread, that a
woman was coming with a gun.
“A gun ?” was asked by many.
“Yes it’s agun thU time.’, no pistol;
it’s a gun; Isa v it myself, and I tell
you it’s a guu!”
Every one hast n: and into the stores,
peeping through the windows and doors
and the boys and negroes following
her, saying, “It’sa guu; it’s a gun!”
The woman, looking amazed to see
such a stir raised, walked on through
the streets without halting. The
Marshal and liis guards coming up,
puffing and blowing, asked, “Where’s
the woman with the gun ? where’s the
woman with the gun ?”
I never, in my life, saw so much ex
citement about a woman. I verily be
lieve,, if two wommen had marched up
Broad street, exposing pistols, they
could have taken the town. Every
man, woman and child would have sur
rendered.
They kept Jennie in jail till Court,
when she was tried and sent to the
Penitentiary for 12 months, for shoot
ing a pistol in the town of Sozzlevillo.
When her time expired, the citizens,
being afraid she would return and be
1 revenged, had it to appear she was cra
zy; for no mna woman would dare
shoot at an editor; at any rate, she
was sent to the asylum. What ever
I became of her I cau’t tell, and have
| never been able to decide whether it
was Jennie Gale that was crazy, or the
citizens of Sozzlevillo.
A Georgia. Tkavelek.
Tho following inscription is from
Greyfriar’s church-yard:
“Our life is but nwintei’s day,
Some only breakfast and away,
Others to dinner stay
And are full fed.
The oldest man but sups
And goes to bed.
Large is his debt
That lingers out the day.
Tie that goes soonest
Has the least to pay.”
‘Do you think, Doctor,’ asked an
anxious" mother, ‘that it would improve
little Johny’s health to take him to the
springs and let him try the writer t ‘X
havn’t a doubt of it madam,’ ‘What
springs would you recommend, Doc
tor?’ ‘Any spring, madam, where you
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