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WOFFORD & MILNER,
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Q C. TUMLLN,
attorney at law,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Office over the Bank.
JOHN L. MO ON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Will practice In the counties comprising the
Cherokee Circuit, Office over Liebman’s store.
II W MtitPH LY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE. GA.
Will practice In the courts of the Cherokee
Circuit. Particular attention given to the col
cctiou of claims. Office with Col. A bila John
son. Oct. 1.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW.
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
OFFICE in Court-House. Jan 26
M. FOIIT E,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
( With Col. Warren Akin,)
Will practice in the courts of Bartow, Cobb,
Polk, Floyd, Gordon, Murray, Whitfield and ad
joining counties. March 30.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Office with John W. Wofford. jan ’72
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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OFFICE W. Main St., next door to Standard
& Express Office. Feb. 15,1872 —wly.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CAUTKRSVII.I.E, GEORGIA.
OFFICE over the Bank.
Janlßlß72.
DR. J. A. JACKSON,
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN AMD SCRCEGN.
OFFICE in W. A. Loyless’ Drug Store, next
door to Stokely & Williams’. oct27
W. It. Momitcastle,
Jeweler and Watch and Clock
Repairer,
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA.
Office in trout of-A. A. Skinnor & Co’s Store.
KEN. W. T. WOFFRD. JNO. H. WIKLE
Wofford fib Wiltlo,
ATTORNEYS - AT - LAW,
AND
R eal Estate Agents,
Cartersville, Ga.
SPECIAL ATTENTION given to the pur
chase and sale of Ileal Estate. -28-6 m.
Dental Card.
raft
THE undersigned, a practical dentist of 18
years experience, having purchesed prop
erty and located permanently in the city of
Cartersville, will continue the practice in rooms
opposite those ot Wofford & Milner, in the new
building adjoining the Bank. With experience i
and application to my profession, charges al
ways reasonable aud. just, I hope to merit the
patronage of a generous public.
Office hours, liom November Ist proximo, 8 to
12 A. M., 2to6P. M. Sabbaths excepted. Galls
answered at residence, opposite Baptist church.
R. A. SEALE,
10-17—ts Surgeon Dentist.
\)R. CHAS. D’ALYIGNV,
DENTIST,
Cartersville, Ga.
CJPECTAL ATTENTION given to children’s
£5 teeth.
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I Kidneys. Thousands of the good Hiidcrout in
1 all parts of the country vouch for its wonderful
and peculiar power in purifying the Blood,
stimulating the torpid Liver ancl bowels, and
imparting new life and vigor to the whole sys
tem. Simmons’ Liver Regulator is acknowl
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It contains four medical elements, never be
fore united in the same happy proportion in
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a wonderful Tonic, an-unexceptionable Alter
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Burn, Ac., &c.
Regulate the Liver and prevent
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Simmons’ Liver Regulator
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Price sl, pr package; sent by mail, postage paid
11.25. Prepared ready for use in bottles, $1.50.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
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STERLING
SILVER-WARE.
SHARP A FLOYD
No. 315 Whitehall Street,
ATLANTA.
Specialty,
Sterling- Silver-Ware.
Special attention Is requested to the many
new and elegant pieces manufactured express
ly to our order the past year, and quite recently
completed.
An unusually attractive assortment of novel
ics in Fancy Silver, cased for Wedding and
Holiday presents, of a medium and expensiv
character.
The House wo represent manufacture on an
unparalleled scale, employing on Sterling Sil
ver-Ware alone over One Hundred skilled
hands, the most accomplished talent in Design
ing, and the best Labor-saving Machinory, en
abling them to produce works of the highest
character, at prices UN APPRO ACHED by any
cempetition. Our stock at present is the lar
gest and most varied this side of Philadelphia
An examination of our stock and prices will
guarantee our sales.
OUR HOUSE USE ONLY
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BRITISH STERLING,
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an4—tf
Wm, Gouldmith,
Manufacturer and dealer in
METALIC BURIAL CASES & CASKETS
Also keeps on hand
WOOD COFFINS
of every description.
All orders by night or day promptly attended
to.
aug. 22
NOTICE TO FARMERS!
y OUR attention is rsspectfully invited to th
Agricultural Warehouse
OF
ANDERSON & WELLS,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
DEALERS IN
Guanos, Field and Garden Seeds,
FARM WAGONS,
PITTS’ THRESHERS.
Size 26 to 32 inch cylinder, with or without
down and mounted horse powers.
SWEEPSTAKES THRESHERS.
Size 26 to 32 inch cylinder, with or witgout
down and mounted horse powers.
Bali’s Reaper and Mower,
Buck-Eye Reaper and Mower
PLOWS—ONE AND TWO-HORSE
BUGGY PLOWS.
Also General Agents for
{i Pendleton’s Guano Compound,”
Cash, $67 per ton of 2,000 lbs.; Credit Ist Nor..
$75 per ion 2,000 lbs.
‘ ‘ Farmer’s Choice, ”
Manufactured from Night Soil, at Nashville,
Tenn.—Cash $45 per ton; credit Ist Nov., SSO;
And all other kinds of implements and ma
chinery, which we sell as low as any house in
the South. Call and see us, or send lor Price
List. ANDERSON & WELLS.
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Theo. GOULDSMITH,
Agent for
GEORGIA MARBLE WORKS.
Cartersville, Georgia.
fob. 8
SAMUEL H. SMITH k COMPANY, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 16, 1873.
THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
SENATORS.
First District—R E Lester.
Second District—H W Mattox.
Third District—J C Nichols.
Fourth District—J M Arnow.
Fifth District—M Kirkland.
Sixth District—John D Knight,
i Seventh District—W L Clarke.
Eighth District—B F Brinberry, Rad.
Ninth District—Reuben Jones.
Tenth District—W A Harris.
Eleventh District—L C Hoyl.
Twelfth District- J E Carter.
Thirteenth District—R C Black.
Fourteenth District—C C Kibbee.
Fifteenth District—D W Cameron.
Sixteenth District—J F Roberson.
Seventeenth District—J S Cone.
Eighteenth District—J G Cain.
Nineteenth District—Columbus Heard-
Twentieth District—John A Gilmore.
Twentytfirst District 1 B D«veaux, col.
Twenty-second District—Thos J Sim
mons.
I wenty-third District—l H Anderson,
col.
Twenty-fourth District—B H Crawford,
Twenty-fifth District—W P Maddox.
Twenty-sixth District—W W Mathews,
Twenty-seventh District—E Steadman.
Twenty-eighth District—J W Hudson.
Twenty-ninth District—W M Reese.
Thirtieth District —Robert Hester.
Thirty-first District—VV S Erwin.
Thirty-second District—W H McAfee.
Thirty-third District—M Van Estes.
Thirty-fourth District—Samuel J Winn.
Thirty-fifth District—G Hillyer.
Thirty-sixth District—George L Peavy.
Thirty-seventh District—G W Reddy.
Thirty-eighth District—J A Blanco.'
Thirty-ninth District—J P Brown.
Fortieth District—H W Cannon.
Forty-first District—J A Jervis.
Forty-second District—John W Wofford.
Forty-third District—L N Trammell.
Forty-Fourth District—W H Payne.
REPRESENTATIVES.
Appling—Sellers Lee.
Baker—Wm H Hargard.
Baldwin—Wm M Williamson.
Banks—James J Turnbull.
Bartow—Thomas II Baker, Thomas Tum
lin.
Berrien—Wm II Snead.
Bibb—C A Nutting, A O Bacon, A M
Locket.
Brooks—J H Hunter.
Bryan—Henry E Smith.
Bullock—Robert DeLoach.
Burke—J A Shewmake, J B Jones, II C
Glisson.
Butts—M V McKibbin.
Calhoun—Thos J Dunn.
Camden—Ray Tompkins.
Campbell—Thos M Latham.
Carroll—Benjamin N Long, Rad.
Catoosa—Nathan Lowe.
Charlton—Geo W Roberts.
Chatham—T R Mills, Jr, G A Mercer, A
G McArthur.
Chattahoochee—J M Cook.
Chattooga—Robert W Jones.
Cherokee—W A Teasley.
Clark —H II Carlton, Frank Jackson.
Clay—John B Johnson.
Clayton—L C Hutcherson.
Clinch—Joseph Sirmons.
Cobb—W D Anderson, J D Blackwell.
Coffee—John Lott.
Columbia—Simmons C Lamkin, Wm Mc-
Lean.
Colquit—John Tucker.
Coweta—A Moses, Auselin Leigh.
Crawford—J W Ellis.
Dade—
Dawson—Samuel N Fowler, Rad.
Decatur—T A Swearingen, A Nicholson
Rads.
DeKalb—Samuel C Masters.
Dodge—James M Buchan.
Dooley—Hiram Williams.
Dougherty—Wm H Gilbert, Thomas R
Lyon.
Douglas—F M Duncan.
Early—R O Dunlap.
Echols—R W Phillips.
Effingham—C F Foy*
Elbert— J L Heard.
Emanuel—Green B Sponce.
Fannin Duggar.
Fayette—R T Dorsey.
Floyd—John R Towers, Fielding Hight.
Forsyth—Robert A Eakes.
Franklin —R D Yow.
Fulton—C Howell, W L Calhoun, E F
Iloge.
Gilmer—N L Osborne.
Glasscoek—Abraham Brassell, negro.
Green—G H Thompson, Jack Heard, ne
groes.
Gordon—R M Young.
Gwinnett—James IV Baxter, B A Blake
- 1 y•
Habersham—James H Grant.
Hall—Allen D Candler.
Hancock—George F Pierce, Jr, John L
Culver.
Harralson—R R Hutcherson.
Harris—John W Murphey, Flynn Har
gett.
Hart —Moses A Duncan, Rad.
Heard--M C Summerlin.
Henry—Elijah Morris.
Houston—G M T Fagin, W A Mathew,
C H Richardson.
Irwin—Jacob Dorminy.
Jackson—Greene K Duke.
Jasper—Lucius B Newton.
Jefferson—Marcus A Evans, James Staple
ton.
Johnson—Robert J Hightower.
Jones—Charles A Hamilton.
Laurens—JolinT Duncan -
J ee—H B Lipsey, W F Sadler.
Liberty—Hendley F Horne.
Lincoln—W D Tutt.
Lowndes—Joseph A Ousley.
Lumpkin—M F Whelchel.
Macon —Leroy M. Felton, William H Wil
lis.
Madison—John F Kirk.
Marion—Edgar M Butt.
McDuffie—Alfred E Sturgis,
Mclntosh—T G Campbell, Jr, negro.
Meriwether—John B Roper, R A I. Free
man
Miller—lsaac A Bush.
Milton—A S Hell.
Mitehell—John B Twitty.
Monroe—Wm J Dumas, A H Shi.
Montgomery—John Mcßae.
Morgan—Seaborn Reese, James G Bost
wick.
Murray—B‘F Wofford.
Muscogee—John Peabody, Thos J Watt.
Newton —A B Simms, W F Davis.
Oglethorpe—J T Hurt, Willis M Willing
ham,
Paulding—Robert Trammell.
Pickens —A P Loveless, Rad.
Pierce—B D Brantley.
Pike—John R Jenkins.
Polk—E D Hightower.
Pulaski—T J Bankwell, C H Colding.
Putnam—Wm F Jenkins.
Quitman—Henry M Kaigler.
Rabun—
Randolph—Wm Colman, Charles A Har
ris.
Richmond—W A Clarke, P Walsh, H C
Foster.
Rockdale—James A Stewart.
Schley—C B Hudson.
Screven—John C Dell.
Spalding—William M Blanton.
Stewart— Wm VV Fitzgerald, John H
Lowe.
Sumter —Allen Fort, James II Black.
Talbot—Roland M Willis, Charles B
Leitner.
Taliaferro—Samuel J Flynt.
Tattnall—George M Edwards.
Taylor—Bennet Stewart.
Telfair—T J Smith.
Terrell—W Kaigler.
Thomas—A Fred Atkinson, Jasper Bat
tle, 001.
Towns--Judge G Stephens.
Troup—Francis M Longley, John L Hill.
Twiggs William Griffin, Rad.
Union—Marion Williams.
Upson— F F Mathews.
Walker—J C Clements.
Walton—Henry D McDaniel.
Ware—John B Cason.
Warren—C S Dußose, T N Poole.
Washington—P R Taliaferro, W G Mc-
Bride.
Wayne—Daniel Hopps.
Webster—John P Beaty.
White—A Merritt.
Wilcox -George P Reid
Wilkes—Thomas A Barksdale, John W
Mattox.
W r ilkinson—W C Adams.
Whitfield—Jackson Rogers.
Worth—Dugal McLellan.
BACON AND GREEKS.
I have lived long enough to be rarely
mistaken,
And had my full share of life’s
changeable scenes;
And my woes have been solaced by
good greens and bacon,
And my joys have been doubled
by bacon and greens.
With a thrill of remembrance e’en
now they awaken
Os childhood’s gay morning and
youth’s merry scenes—
When each day we had greens and a
plateful of bacon,
And the next we had bacon and a
plateful of greens.
Ah ! well I remember, when sad and
forsaken,
Here wrung by the scorn of a miss
in her teens,
How I fled from her sight to my
loved greens and bacon,
And forgot my despair over bacon
and greens.
When the banks refused specie, and
credit was shaken,
I shared in the wreck and was
ruined in means;
My friends all declared that I had
not saved my bacon,
But I lived, for I still had my ba
con and greens.
If some fairy a grant of three wishes
could make one.
So worthless as I, aud so laden with
sin,
I’d wish for all greens in the world,
then the bacbn,
Then wish for a little more bacon
and greens.
Oh ! there is a charm in this dish,
rightly taken,
Which from custards and jellies an
epicure weans;
Stick your fork in the fat, wrap your
greens round the bacon,
And you’ll vow there’s no dish
like bacon and greens.
BARNUM’S GORILLA.
A TOUCHING TRIBUTE TO HIS MEMO
RY.
The Missouri Democrat contains
the following obituary notice of one
of Barnum’s great curiosities which
is supposed to have been destroyed
in the last fire.
It is seldom that we are called up
on to note a more painful fact than
that which we now record, and which
is nothing more nor less than the ru
mored death of Barnum’s gorilla,
who is supposed to have perished in
the flames of the Museum, recently
consumed. The news of his untime
ly and frightful end will cause a feel
ing of heartfelt agony to fill the bo
som of his many friends throught the
country, who witnessed his playful
antics in his cage wherever Barnum
went on his last summer’s tour, or
enjoyed his society at a beer saloon
when the labors of the day and
evening’s exhibitions were ended.
The deceased gorilla was a young
man of exemplary habits, and by his
versatile industry supported an aged
father and mother in Jersey City,
who can hardly bear their present
loss. His original name was Briggs,
and he was of Yankee, not Celtic or
igin, as has been erroneously stated.
Mr. Barnum became acquainted with
young Briggs many years ago, and,
keen observer of human nature that
he is, he soon saw that the boy pos
sessed talents which would, if right
ly applied, bring him into public no
tice. Mr. Barnum first employed
Briggs as a mermaid, but his nerv
ous, sanguineous temperament
unfited him for wearing a wig
and a cod fish skin, and he was short
ly after promoted to the position of
wild man. In this he achieved no
success, and it was not until Barnum
put his great traveling show on the
road in 1870, and gave Briggs the
position of gorilla, that he develop
ed those eccentricities that have made
him famous. For two years no bet
ter specimen of the gorilla tribe has
been seen on this continent. Though
naturally convivial and social in his
taste, he sat in his cage an object of
wonder and admiration to thousands,
and submitted to being stirred up
with a long pole for the benefit of
country clergyman, who stood by ex
plaining to their youthful Subbath
-school scholars how fearfully and
wonderfully we are made. No
murmur of discontent ever escaped
his lips, except at Terre Haute, In
diana, last July, when he was heard
to remark that he be d—d if he could
stand it much longer wearing a hair
overcoat in hot weather, on a salary
of $lO a week. His salary was at last
elevated to $12.50 a week, and he was
allowed ice in his den thereafter, and
no better behaved specimen of his
tribe was ever placed on exhibition.
Mr. Barnum, we are informed,
with characteristic energy, has tele
graphed to Africa for other specimens
of rare and wild beasts, to supply the
places of those destroyed by the late
conflagration. He may procure ele-
E bants, lions, tigers and cockatoos,
ut he can never fill the place of
Gorilla Briggs. Not even Dr. Liv
ingstone, with all of his experience
in African jungles, can capture so
fine a specimen, one who could caper
so nimbly around his seven by nine
cage, and dance to the lascivious tick
lings of his keeper’s club with such
patience. Gorilla, adieu, and may
the hairy four legged Phoenix who
arise from your ashes possess your
noble qualities of mind and heart,
and give entire satisfaction to a delu
ded public for the usual pricO of half
a dollar.
Last week 350,000 cigars, valued at
$25,200 were shipped to New York bj 7
Key West cigar manufacturers. The
business steadily increases.
Arkansas squirrels crass the Mis
sissippi on bits of tanbark. A plan
ter lost 200 cords in a single morning.
QUEER DOG-DOINGS.
ANECDOTES ILLUSTRATIVE TO CAN
INE SAGACITY.
The writer of a philosophical trea
tise on the consciousness of dogs, in
the Bi'ilish Quarterly lie vine gives
among others the following interest
ing anecdotes illustrative of the hab
its of “Our Poor Relations:” The
Dowager Lady Stanley of Alderly
some years ago took her skye-terrier
with her in a close barouche from
Grosvenor Crescent to London bridge.
At London bridge Lady Stanley em- !
barked in a steamer for Gravesend,
where she left Smerock with her j
children, and returned to town. — j
Next day the governess wrote to say
the dog had escaped from her charge
at Gravesend, and the same night the
animal appeared in Grosvenor Cres
cent, alone, foot-sore and covered
with mud. An equally remarkable
case was that of a hound, which was
sent by Charles Cobbe, Esq., from
Newbridge, county Dublin, toMoyn
alty, county Meath, and thence long
afterwards, conveyed to Dublin, and
the same morning made his way
back to his old kennel at Newbridge,
thus completing the third side of a
triangle by a road he had never trav
eled in his life. Mr. George Jesse
gives series of similar stories; a
butcher’s dog slipping his chain and
running home 120 miles, which he
had been taken by railway; an offi
cer’s dog returning 180 miles, also
originally traversed by rail, etc. The
only situation in which animals seem
to lose themselves is in the streets of
a great city* where the very cleverest
of dogs, even, notably, retrievers (as
the keepers of the admirable home
for lost dogs will testify), fail to find
their way for very short distances. —
In the opinion of the writer, the the
ory which best explains the ascertain
ed facts is, that the creatures in ques
tion have a certain sense of the mag
netic currents sufficient to afford them
a sort of Internal mariner’s compass,,
marking the direction in which they
travel. We know that the magnetic
currents affect the needle, and the
hypothesis that they may also affect
living frames, with special organiza
tions, seems no way incredible; while
the fact that a dog, who can find his
way for a hundred miles in the open
country, may lose it in five hundred
yards in a town, seems to point to
the multitude of streets turning at
right angels as the cause of confusion
to a sense which simply indicates a
straight direction.
Chivalry and magnanimity may
nearly always be calculated upon in
dogs, and wife-beating is an offense
to which the four-footed beast never
descends.
Rover was a Labrador dog, and
much attached to a small dog named
Aline. On one occasion, Aline was
missing for several days, and at last
it was discoyered that she had a lit
tle family of puppies, which she had
hidden In a hole, in a bank on Asuott
Heath, aud thither for many days
Rover had carried her some of his
dinner. Rover also fought with an
other dog and wounded him severely,
after which he persisted for a long
time in bringing his enemy a portion
of his own food until ho had recover
ed.
Another anecdote is equally as
good:
A large well-led dog was observed,
on a very rainy day, sitting under
shelter in his own den in the yard of
a country house, and watching a
strange dog who was standing drench
ed through, in a miserable plight.—
After thinking about it for some
time, the big dog suddenly sprung
up, crossed the yard, jumped, as he
was accustomed, at the latch of a
woodhouse door till it opened, and
then, leaving the door open for the
wet dog to enter, returned to his own
abode, and rolled himself up in the
peace of a mens conscia red.
Like his human brother, the dog
frequently goes through the some
what complicated mental process in
volved in conscious deception. He
pretends to be asleep, or invents ex
cuses to lag behind in a walk, or af
ter stealing food, when he hears a
step at the door, shrinks back into
his kennel and lays himself down in
an attitude betokening long unbrok
en repose. The most diverting in
stance of a beast’s hypocrisy of this
kind which we hear is one thus de
scribed by Mrs. Symonds, of Clifton:
“The dog was a poodle puppy call
ed Baldi. One night, after we had
all gone to the play, supper having
all been ready for our return, we
found the pigeon-pie in this condi
tion: one pigeon having been ex
tracted, and the whole cleverly filled
up with a bit of damp inky sponge,
which my father (the late Mr. North)
always kept in a glass on his writing
table to wipe his pens on. Baldi
looked terribly guilty, and there was
no doubt where the pigeon was gone;
but why he should have thought of
concealing his guilt by filling up the
hole, I have not an idea.”
Mr. Froude, in his awful descrip
tion of the death of Mary Queen of
Scots, tells us how her little dog was
found to have followed her to the
scaffold, hidden under her flowing
robes, and that, when her head had
fallen, the poor creature, in the ago
ny of its grief, lay down precisely in
the severed place of the neck. Is it
imaginable how the sympathy of a
dumb mourner could be more forci
bly expressed ? Another story of a
lighter sort was recently published
in the entertaining pages of “Animal
World ,” and illustrates the same sen
timent in a less tragic way.
A lady was seriously ill and con
fined to her bedroom, to which her
favorite dog was rarely granted en
trance. The servants of the lady,
daily made beef tea for her, and
threw T the meat, after the juice had
been extracted, to the dog. Appar
ently the brute came to the conclu
sion that his dear mistress was be
ing starved, or at all events, that his
piece of meat would do her good.—
Waiting a favorable opportunity, in
the evening he stole into her room
with the beef in his mouth, and
when she awoke she found it deposi
ted as an offering of affetion on her
pillow-.
Strongest and most suggestive of
all the anecdotes recorded of dogs are
the numerous histories of their
drowning themselves under condi
tions w T hich almost compel us to class
the act as voluntary and conscious
suicide. Not long ago many news
papers copied a mournful story of a
poor dog who was cruelly discarded
*n his old age by his master, and after
ineffectual efforts to find shelter in
another house, was seen deliberately
to stand gazing at the rushing waters
of the Loire, then painfully lift him
self on Ms crippled limbs, and leap
into the stream. The spectator held
out a stick to save him, but the beast
gave him a look of despair, turned
away his head, and floated down
without au effort to save himself.—
Similar incidents are to be found in
Jesse’s “Anecdotes of Dogs,” where
we are told of the suicide of a hand
some and valuable Newfoundland
dog belonging to Mr. Floyd, a solici
tor at Holmfirth. The animal show
ed low spirits for some days, and then
was seen to throw himself into the
water, where he endeavored to sink
by keeping his legs perfectly still.—
Being dragged out, he returned time
after time to the river, till at last he
succeeded in keeping nis head under
water long enough to extinguish life, j
LET THEM AMUSE THEM
SELVES.
BY HENRY WARD BEECHER.
In old-fashioned times boys and
girls were left to their own wits for i
amusements, nor do I think that this :
was a very bad thing to be left with.
I never go into a toy-shop, especially
one of those magazines in New
York, where ten thousand toys are ;
heaped together, without pittying the
modern family.
Once the dear old aunt promised
the little girl that if she would be
good she should have a doll made for
her. Already she had had little thin
and crinkly paper dolls, and picture
dolls on slates, and handkerchief dolls
folded and pinned, which could be
opened out again, on pressing need,
to the uses of a handkerchief.
But there shall be a brand new doll,
set apart and consecrated to the high
ends of doll life, but it shall have
eyes, and nose, and mouth, marked
off with ink, and set forth in the sight
of all men and girls. The joys of an
ticipation almost equal the rapture of
possession.
At lenght the creative work is
done, and the little girl comes into
possession of a cotton doll stuffed
with bran, and the face brought out
in a manner that would make an old
Egyptian hieroglyphic dance with
envy. A bit of well-worn calico, ten
years ago flaming new, in a dress
that excited envy, a shred of worn
out lace, a scrap or two of ribbon—
these are the whole stock in the
child’s hand.
But what joy do they produce! Ah,
no poet has yet sung one of the gen
tlest, richest, and most fruitful of
earthly joys—the joy of a pet-loving
little girl, with her first real doll.—
Sacrechgeographers have long search
ed for the position of Eden. We
don’t know about the old one, but
the door of young paradise is placed
not far from the corner where the lit
tle girl has laid her doll to rest. Her
imagination supplies all that is lack
ing. This is not a corner of a garret,
nor a nook in the closet. It is a
splendid room. Those are not cob
webs, but tapestry hangings. Those
bits of crockery—is there in Dresden
or Sevres manufactories any ware so
fine in their eyes as this delph is in
the little girl’s?
But now-a-days children are buried
down under the loads of toys which
are upset upon them. Dolls? In one
little girl’s treasury house I can count
twelve —small dolls, large dolls, chi
na dolls, wax dolls, with eyes that
move, and eyes that don’t, speaking
dolls, creeping dolls, and white and
pink—with chairs, and doll sets of
china, and beds, bureaus, stoves,
houses, carriage, wagon, and wheel
barrow, till the very inventory be
comes burdensome.
Do not children enjoy these? Cer
tainly. But. no more than aforetime
children enjoyed the home made and
scanty provision for amusements. It
is the creative faculty in children
that furnishes them their chief de
light.
If the imagination is killed by the
superabundant supply, it has no
chance to create, all is done for it. —
This suppression of imagination by
overloading is not confined to amuse
ment. It is a deadly sin in art, liter
ature, oratory, and all other depart
ments which have for their object the
moving of men’s thoughts.
A chest of tools—not too many—is
a far better present to a lad than a
cart-load of wagons, machines and
finished things. No boy ever flew a
kite that he had bought with half
the pleasure that he experiences to
see the work of his own hands rising
heavenward.
Some of our happiest hours were
spent in damming up a brook. We
toiled at stones, we burdened our
selves with loads, we worked for
days, and days, at spare hours, in
laying the ledge across the stream, in
stuffing in clods, in adjusting boards,
to carry a sheet out as a water-fall,
and in a hundred wriggles of ingenu
ity that were an intense pleasure, at
the same time that they were stirring
up ingenuity and serving as a real
education.
A good knife and a ball of twine is
a good enough capital. Let the boy
make his kite, make his base-ball,
make his sled, make his bat, his lad
der. All true pleasure consists in the
creative activity of the human facul
ties.
Stir up boys and girls to amuse
themselves. Then amusement be
comes a hand-maid to education— lV.
Y. Leader.
TOO MUCH FOR WHISKY
STILLS |
A certain town of Eastern Tennes
see boasted in having four whisky
stills. The son of the man who start
ed the first one went into it one Sun
day morning and drank so freely as
to get drunk. He then went to a
distant church, and made such a
diturbance that they were compelled
to turn him out.
Going into the woods, he remained
until he got sober. He then resolved
never to get drunk again and to
work until the whiskystills were
all broken up. Meeting with an
active agent of the American Sunday
School Union, he secured his advice
and assistance in organizing a good
Union Sunday-school near these four
distilleries. They have all since been
closed. The owner as he shut up the
last one for want of business, said,
“ That Sunday-school is too much
for us. Anything but this singing
the Bible into folks. Its no use to
fight that.”
Governor Vance, of North Caroli-
Ina, is now giving lectures.
THE RETURNING PRODIGAL.
To Thee, insulted Father, God
I turn these melting eyes ;
I weep o’er paths which I have ,
trod,
The paths Thou dost despise.
I
Long have I wandered from Thy j
ways
Long left Thy smiling face;
Long spent the best.of all my days,
Abusing Thy rich grace
O, wounded Father, throw Thine
arm
Around Thy straying one ;
Secure from wandering, shield from
harm,
As Thou hast often done.
ThedyingSaviour’s blood’s still free
To cleanse the sin-stained soul;
Has not this blood atoned for me,
The weak one of the fold ?
O, gracious Spirit, hear my cry,
And dwell within this heart;
That I may. henceforth ever try
To act the faithful part.
‘ W. J. Mitchell,.
From the Homo Commercial.]
BILL ARP ON A BUST-LE.
See here Mark Antony—if I was
you I wouldn’t take on so about the
fashuns. They don’t bother me. It’s
none of your bisness what the women
put on or put off so they behave them- j
selves and look just as purty as they
can. They are a heap better than you
or me anyhow, whether they behave
or not. I wouldnet give one woman
for several men no time, would you ? '
Now see him smile and pat that off
foot. If women want to wear bussels,
let em wear em. I thought that pan
nears was the best because they stuck
out side ways and wasent in the way
ofleaninback when they sat down,
but they know which is the best side
to stick out on, and it’s nobody’s bis
ness but theirs. They may wear any
thing they want to, bussels and hoops
and hangovers and convexes and col
lapses and whimmadiddles and stick
outs and topknots come down and
anything else so there is a woman
hid away somewhere inside of it all.
It’s all a sham—that rubber buasel—
there aint no substance nor backbone
in it. I’ve seen em flat and seen em
blowed up. There aint a bit of harm
in em, but I never see one on a wo
man that I don’t want t > hit it just
hard enuf to make it pop. I golly,
wouldent she jump high and holler?
But I’m not a going to do it; no, sir;
I’ve got too much respect for women.
Their bussels don’t hurt nobody, and
I do despise to see a man always
pickin at a woman’s close. If they
didcnt wear something to disguise
em the men would quit bisness when
they cum about. Purty women al
ways did wear something to skeer
the men away. I’ts been so forever.
During the war I seed one woman
who jest dressed as nateral as life,
without any paddin or stullin, and
when she cum along the boys jest laid
down and rolled over and hollered.
They warent fit for bisness for a week.
But I couldent bear to see em go with
their faces all tied up like they do in
Turkey. That would mighty nigh
kill me. If I can look into their
blessed countenances I can put up
with their fore riggin and their hind
riggin and t<op riggin and all. A
good, sweet, purty face speaks for all
the balance of the craft. I wouldent
marry narry girl on the earth till I
see her face, and not then if she did
ent suit me. If the eyes, nose and
mouth are all right, natur is an en
dorser for all the balance. Paint aint
nothin—shape is everything. They
can’t paint a shape, nor a glance of
the eye. You may paint a house ev
er so white, but that don’t signify
what’s inside of it. But when you
see bright roses and posies and blos
soms in the front yard, and a vine
over the.door, and clean, clear win
der glass a shining, you may bet yonr
hat on the balance. You needent
worry about the bussel nor the back.
Women have been doing that way
ever since old Solomon wrote about
em. If they do lean a little as they
go, it’s all right. They can straight
en up when it is necessary. JSTo spi
nal disease about that. Thems the
very sort what can lift two bushels of
meal without crackin a bone. It’s
only a passing fashun—and will last
till something else comes along. Na
ture made ’em that way, and you
can’t change it. The more you try,
the more you can’t. The more you
abuse their bussels, the more they’ll
stick ’em at you—so let ’em alone, I
say. They are all the same about
fashions, and the last one would put
em on if they had their own way and
plenty of money. I wish I was jest
rich enuf to give every lady in the
land a string of diamonds and a hat
full of pearls. Good gracious! how
quick that Methodist dissippliu would
be busted on the jewelry bisness.—
Well, I do like to see em look purty,
and so far as I am concerned, if rib
bons and flowers and flounces and
furs will help do it, it’s all right.— ’
Some of the “birds are dressed up
mighty line, and I reckon their pride
aint much of a sin after all. But un
derstand. me, Mark; I don’t hanker
after bussels, tho they do say it makes
the nicest little shelf for the arm to
rest on in the world, when a feller is
dancin around with his gal. That’s
all right, provided the feller aint a
dancin with my gal. If he is, why
he may take her and keep her, that’s
all. Bill Arp.
Dressing for Church.— There
was a time when good taste demanded
the use of the plainest clothes in the
sanctuary, when the wealthiest were
distinguished for their conspicuous ab
sence of personal adornment, and sar
torial display was a mark of vulgarity
at such times and places. But now it
would almost appear as if, whatever
might be thought of a modest garb in
other places, the proper costume for
the house of God, where, theoretically
we all go to be reminded of our com
mon origin or destiny, were an ag
glomeration of all the jewelry, and all
the chignons, and all thepaniers, and
| all the feathers and furbelows in one’s
i wardrobe. The wearer is to carry all
; this piled agony to the sanctuary as
I to a fair—as if her errand were not so
5 much to praise as to be appraised—and
there employ the sacred time in envi
ous comparison of her own mountain
of millinery with the Himalayan tri
umphs of her neighbor.— Exchange.
SUBSCRIPTION :
$2 per annum.
Agricultural Department.
COFFEE.
For a long time 1 used the coffee
ground as coarsely as it is usually
sold in the shops. Although procur
ing the best berries possible, I did
not uniformly succeed in obtaining
at the breakfast table a first rate bev
erage. I consulted many wiseacres,
some of whom said that the water
used should be hotter, others that the
coffee should be first soaked in cold
water, etc., etc. By accident one
day, I happened to have tho coffee
re-ground to the fineness of snuff.—
Herein lay the mystery. I have
never since failed to obtain a strong
full-flavored beverage, and that too
without using so large a quant itv of
coffee.
A correspondent of the Independent
travelling in Sweden, was intensely
delighted with the coffee served oil
the steamboats and hotels. “At Ur
sula, we determined to find out how
they made such perfect coffee as wo
had just drank, and stepped into the
neat little kitchen of the little hotel,
and this was the report: Take any
kind of coffee pot or urn, and sus
pend a bag made of felt or very hea
vy flannel, so long that it reaches the
bottom, bound on a wire just fitting
the top; put in the fresh ground pure
coffee, and pour on freshly hoik'd
water. The fluid filters through the
bag and may be used at onceneeds
no settling, and retains all the aroma.
The advantage of this over the ordi
nary filter is its economy, as the cof
fee stands and soaks out the strength,
instead of merely letting the water
pass through it.”
A French chemist asserts that if
tea be ground like coffee before hot
water is poured upon it, it will yield
nearly double the amount of its ex
hilarating qualities.” Anothe writer
says: “If you put a piece of lump su
gar, the size of a walnut, into a ten
not, you will make the tea infuse in
half the time.” Persons who have
tried this last experiment say that
the result is satisfactory.— Boston
Journal of Chemistry.
THE COMPOST HEAP.
The winter is the time to prepare
the compost heap—to gather the ma
terials and incorporate them, so that
in spring they will be in a condition
for the crops to digest easily. It is a
work which is easy of accomplish
ment if it is steadily pursued; but
unfortunately it is one which receives
but little attention from the majority
of Southern planters. There are ve
ry few places where the materials for
a large heap cannot be collected dur
ing the winter months, if we will on
ly take the necessary trouble. The
fallen leaves from the woods, all re
fuse vegetable matter, creek mud
and a little lime, will make an excel
lent compost with stable manure,
cotton seed and all other matter
which will produce fermentation and
decomposition. It is astonishing
what a large pile of fertilizing mat
ter can be collected in a short time if
attention is given to it every day.—
Wherever river mud or muck can be
had without too much hauling, noth
ing is better when mixed with slack
ed lime in the proportion of a bushel
of the latter to half a cord of the for
mer.—Marietta Journal.
The above advice is timely and
good, except that part of it which re
commends the mixing of lime with
stable manure. Such a mixture
would set free the ammonia contain
ed in the manure, cause it to escape
and be lost. It would be much bet
ter to mix clay, sand, or gypsum
with the stable manure, in order that
it may be absorbed and retained.
TO HAVE GOOD HAY CROPK
The question is how to get good
crops of grass and hay, and this ques
tion was touched upon in the discus
sion upon this subject at the last
meeting of the State Board of Agri
culture of Massachusetts, when Mr.
Johnson said:
The first thing which a farmer must
do in order to increase his hay crop is
to look to his manure. We cannot
prepare the ground for seed properlv
unless the manure heap is cared for.
That is the first thing. Then it is
important that we should plow our
ground properly, that it may be in a
suitable condition to receive the ma
nure and seed. If the ground is not
plowed to the depth of seven or eight
inches, possibly nine, we cannot get
a surface cultivation so thorough that
the roots will not be liable to dry up.
We can not get mould enough, to ase
that term, by shallow plowing to in
sure our crop against the dry seasons.
And it is also essential, as every far
mer well knows, that we should'have
a proper quantity of manure, in or
der that the soil may have a plenty
of food, and that we may have a pay
ing crop of grass. It does not pay to
mow ground where we do not get
more than ten or fifteen hundred
pounds to the acre, high as labor is
now. I should say that on most soils
about fifteen cords of compost ma
nure should be applied to the acre in
planting the ordinary farm crops
preparatory to seeding our grass
WINTER CLOTHING.
In his experiments to determine
the heat conducting power of linen,
cotton, wool, and silk, Sir Humphrey
Davy found not only that these ma
terials conducted heat in tire order
given above, linen b£ng the best, but
also that the tightness or looseness of
weaving possessed an important in
fluence. It is therefore evident that
in the selection of winter clothing,
and especially of that to be worn
next to the skin, the materials of least
conducting power, as wool and silk
should be chosen, and the fabrics
should be loosely woven.
As regards the external garments
the same rujes apply with equal force,
but in this case care should be taken
to remove overcoats and shawls when
in a warm room; especially should
this precaution be observed in the in
stance of furs worn by ladies. The
habit of wearing these articles for
hours in succession while shopping
and visiting, often so weaken the
powers of resistance in the wearers
that they become the ready victims
of inflammations of the throat and
lungs. To such an extent does this
occur in New York that many of the
most skillful physicians advise their
patients to discontinue the use of fun?,
and the advice is often followed K ith
the most satisfactory result.— Scrifr
ner's for November.
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