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____ _____ ' ' "iiiimhipw i —uiiniirinißi i'Wiii * —— —_ - j j ! THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. VOL. 14. THE Standard & Express 1 pufiii be.) ercry THURSDAY MORNING BT 8. H- SMITH <1 CO. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $2 per aimmn, in advance. - ■■ vr*" ’tr-i-w - Professional and Business (’aids r .r- v -~.‘~z':.~rwn~ m z:r~\'. 7TZ2 JoHN W. WOLFORD. THOMAS W. MILKIER WOFFORD & MILNER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CARTEKSY i LLE, OA. t" ki- FILE up talvs, Bank Block. 9 ("V C. Tl MLIN, J. ATTOIt NE Y A T L A \\ r , oartersville, ga. Oilice over Die BanL. rOH N hi Moos, ATT ORN E V AT LA W, CARTERSVILLE, «A. W ill pnu tics in the counties coinpvi mg the ( herokee i ircuil, Office over Liebmau’s store. YV. M Ult 1 * HEY” ATTOIt NE V AT LA W , CARTERSVILLE, GA. Will prartice In Die courts of the Cherokee < ircuit. Particular attention given to the col cctlon ot . laims. Olllce with Col. Alula John son, Oct. 1. T l\ WOFFOBB, A T T«G RN E Y A T I, AW.j OARTERSVILLE, GA. OFFICE in Court-House. jan26 JYI. FOUTE, A TTO It N E Y AT LA W , OARTERSVILLE, GA. ( With Col. Warren Akin,) Will practice in the courts of Bartow, Cobb. : Polk, Floyd, Gordon, Murray, Whitfield and ad ! Joining counties. March 30. j Jj* It. MeDAXIEL, ATTORNEY AT LAW ,j CARTERSVILLE, GA. <Office 4 wlth John W. Wofford. jan ’72 w # D. TRAMMELL. ATTORNEY AT LA W, CARTERSVILLE, GA OFFICF W. Main St., next door to Standard A Express Olllce. Feb. 15,1872-wly. fjp hom a « w. no D n ATTORNEY AT LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GKORGIA. OFFrcE0 FFrcE °" r ,|lC **’ k - DR. J. A. JACKSON, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. OFFICE in W. A. Loyless’ Drug Store, next door to Stokely & Williams’, oct27 W. R. Wountcastle, Jewoler anil Watch anil Clock Repairer, OAETKR3VILLE, GEORGIA. Office In lront of A. A. Skiunev.A Co’s Storc.^ i.l \. \\ , T. NVC.i FIJI) .TNO. n. WIKLE Woffovct »*> v\/iui©, ATTORNEYS - AT - LAW, A x D ftertw Estate Agents, Cartel Avilie, Gu. PF.i l.lli ATTENTION given to tiie pur , hate and sale of RcM flte- _ 'Dental Card. MSBt rpHEuml.‘i ugne.l, a praAtißal dentist of 1% B years experience, 1 1 avinJ> l ! rclicsed pvoP. ertv "and located permancntlj* ja , tlie . c „£Jr‘ i aftersville, will continuethe pr.Vtlce in rooms opposite those of Wofl'ord & Milne”'', m the new handing adjoining the Bank. With experience and application to inv profession, charges al ways reasonable niul just, 1 hope to mAi'it the natronage of a generous public. Office hours, trom November Ist proximo, 8 to . v. M., 2to OF. u. Sabbaths excepted. Calls ,n wered atresideuce, opposite Baptist cliuiNh. It. A. SEALE, .1.0-17—ts Surgeon Dentist. )>IL ( IIAS. IFALVIGNY, I)KNT I S T j Ct irtersvllle, Ga. SPECIAL a\ ’’T ENT ION given to children’s teeth. 6-15— -Jr— rr.—a=a. '==-=™ ' - ■ E=2!u.j!iLaLi TO PL ALTERS. IJOYfEN St MERC®. B ’ s Superphosphate, SBB TON. Warranted equal to an> Phosphate manufac tured. 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It contains four medical elements, never l>e j lore united in the same happy proportion in i any other preparation, viz : a gentle Cathartic, | a wonderful Tonic, an unexceptionable Alter i ative, and a certain Corrective of all impurities of the body. Such signal success has attended its u«e ttiat it is now regarded as the GREAT UNFAILING SPECI FIC ior Liver < omplaiut and the painful offspring thereof, to wit: Dyspepsia, ( onstipation, .iaun vlice, Biltious attacks, sick Headache, Colic, Depre sion of Spirits, Sour Stomach, Heart Burn, &c,, Ac. Regulate the Liver and prevent CHILLS AND FEVER. Simmons’ Liver Regulator Is manufactured only by J. H. ZEILIN & Cos., MACON, GA., AND PHILADELPHIA, I‘rice |l,pr package- sent by mail, postage paid *L2S. Prepared ready for use in bottles, SI.OO. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. Beware of all Counterfeits and Imitations ] STERLING SILVER-WARE. SHARP A FLOYD No. 33 Whitehall Street, ATLANTA. Specialty, Sterling Silver-Ware. Special attention is requested to the many new and elegant pieces manufactured express ly to ourorder the past year, and quite recently completed. An unusually attractive assortment ofnovel les in Fancy Silver, cased for Wedding and liOIKIIIJ iiivrrill.*, Ola lUUIKMIi aim . .... .. .. character. The House we represent manufacture on an unparalleled scale, employing on Sterling Sil - vcr-Wnrc alone oyer One Hundred skilled hands, the most accomplished talent in Design ing, and the best Labor-saving Machinary, en abling them to produce works of the highest character, at prices UN APPROACHED by any competition. Our stock at present is the lar gest and most varied this side of Philadelphia An examination of our stock and pricer, will guarantee our sales. OUR house: use ONLY 925 BRITT.su STERLING, 1000 an4—tf Will. Goulchiiith, Manufacturer and dealer in METALICBUHIALL liAMETS A l o keeps on hand WOOD COFFIMS of every description. All order- by night or day promptly attended to. aug. 22 NOTICE TO FARMERS ! y oni attention is rsspectfullv invited to th , Agricultural Warehouse OF ANDERSON & WELLS, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, DEALERS IN Guanos, Field and Garden Seeds, FARM WAGONS, PITTS’ TH RESHERS. Size SIS to 52 inch cyliuder, with or without down and mounted horse powers. SWEEPSTAKES THRESHERS. «.‘ize2fito32 inch cylinder, with or witgout down and mounted horse powers. B a |j’ s - Reaper and Mower, Berk-Eye Reaper and Mower PLOWS—ONE AND TWO-HORSE BUGGY PLOWS. Also General Agents for “ Pendletons Guano Compound,” Cash, $67 per to.u of 2,000 lbs.; Credit Ist Nov., $75 per ton 2,000 lbs. “ Farmer’s Choice,” Manufactured from Night Soil, at Nashville, Tenn. —Cash $46 per ton; credit Ist Nov., S6O; Aud all other kinds of implements and ma chinery-, which y\ Q sell as loyv as any house in the South. Call and see us, or send for Price List. ANDERSON & WELLS. 62 Theo. GOULDSMITH, Agent for"-, GEORGIA MARBLE WORI^ Cartersville, Georgia, fcb. 3 SAMUEL H. SMITH & COMPANY, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 83, 1873. THE GEORGIA LEGISUTERE SENATORS. l irst District— R E Lester. ••second District— ll W Mattox. Third District—J C Niebo!s. Fourth District—J M Arnow 1-ifth District—M Kirkland. Sixth District—John D KnigLt. Seventh District—W L Clarke. Eighth District—B F Brinberry Had Ninth District—Reuben Jones lenth District—YV A Harris. Eleventh District—l, C Hoyl. Twelfth District- J E Carter. 'Thirteenth District—K C Black. Fourteenth District —C C Kibbee. Fifteenth District—l> 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. Twenty first District—J B Deveauv, col Twenty second District— Tho* J Sim ons. Twenty third District—l H Anderses Twenty fourth District—B H Crawford Twenty fifth District—YV P Maddox. Twenty sixth District—YV YV Mathews, 1 v,enty seventh District—E Steadman Twenty-eighth District—J YV Hudson. Twenty ninth District—YV M Reese Thirtieth District —Robert Hester. J hirty first District— \\ S Erwin. Thirty second District—YV H McAfee. Thirty third District—M Van Estes. Thirty fourth District—Samuel J YVinn Thirty-fifth District —G Ilillyer. Thirty-sixth District —George L Peavy. Thirty-seventh District—G W Reddy Thirty-eighth District—J A Blanee' Thirty ninth District—J P Brown. Fortieth District—H YV Cannon. Forty-first District—J A Jervis. Forty-second District—John w’ Wofford. Forty-third District—l, N Trammell Forty-Fourth District—YV II Payne. RF.PBESENTATIVKB. Appling—Sellers Lee. Baker—YVm II Hargard. Baldwin—Wm M YVllliamson. Banks—James J Turnbull. Bartow—Thomas H Baker, Thomas Turn lin. Berrien—YVm II Snead. Bibb—C A Nutting, A 0 Bacon, A M Locket. Brooks—J H Hunter. Bryan—Henry E Smith. Bullock—Robert DeLoach. Burke—J A Shewinake, J B Jones, II 0 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 YV Roberts. Chatham—T It Mills, Jr, G A Mercer, A G McArthur. Chattahoochee—J M Cook. Chattooga— Robert W Jones. Cherokee—W A Teasley. Clark-H H Carlton, Frank Jackson. Clay—John B Johnson. Clayton—L C Hutcherson. Clinch—Joseph Simons. J D Blackwell. Columbia—Simmons C T.atnkin, YVm Mc- Lean. Colquit—John Tucker. Coweta—A Moses, Auselin Leigh. Crawford—J YV Ellis. Dade— Dawson—Samuel N Fowler, Rad. Decatur—T A Swearingen, A Nic-Lalaon Rads. DeKalb—Samuel C Masters. Dodge—James M Buchan. Dooley—Hiram YY illiams. Dougherty—YVm IT Gilbert, Thomas R Lyon. Douglas—F M Duncan. Early—R O Dunlap. Echols—R YV Phillips. Effingham—C F Foy- Elbert—J L Heard. Emanuel—Green B Spence. Fannin Duggar. Fayette—R T Dorsey. Floyd--John R lowers, Fielding Hight. Forsyth—Robert A Eakes. Franklin —R D Yow. Fulton—C Howell, YV 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 YY' Baxter, B A P.lake l.v- Habersham —James IJ Grant. Hall—Allen D Candler. Hancock George F Pierce, Jr, John L Culver. Harralson- R R Hutcherson. Harris—John W Murphey, Flynn liar j gett. Hart —Moses A Duncan, Rad. Heard -M C Summerlin. Henry—Elijah Morris. Houston —(J M T Fagin, VV A Mathew, C II Richardson. Iryvin—Jacob Dorminy. Jackson—-Greene R Duke. Jasper—Lucius B Newton. Jefferson—Marcus A Evans, James Staple ton. Johnson—Robert J Hightower. Jones—Charles A Hamilton. Laurens —JohnT Duncan- J ee—ll B Lipsey, TV F Sadler. Liberty —Hendley F Horne. Ldncotn—W D Tutt. Lowndes—Joseph A Ousley. Lumpkin—M F Whelchel. Macon—Leroy M. Felton, William II Wil lis. Madison—John F Kirk. Marion—Edgar M Butt. McDuffie—Alfred E Sturgis, Mclntosh—T G Campbell, Jr, negro. Merhvether —John B Roper, K A I, Free man Miller—lsaac A Bush. Milton—A S Bell. Mitchell—John B Twitty. Monroe—Win J Dumas, A II Shi. Montgomery—John Mcßae. Morgan—Seaborn Reese, James G Bost wick. Murray— B’F Wofford. Muscogee—Johu Peabody, Thos J Watt. Neyvton—A B Simms, W F Davis. Oglethorpe—J T Hurt, Willis M Willing ham, Paulding—Robert Trammell. ."‘ekens—A P Loveless, Rad. Pierce'"- 1 * D BrantLi T' Pike—Jon n Jenkins. Polk—E D li.'^tower Pulaski—T J Ban^. 11 ’ CH ( old,n 2- Putnam— Wm F Jen.. , Quitman —Henry M Kai^^r* Rabun-- Randolph—Wm Colman, CharW A *' ar * ris Richmond—W A Clarke, P Walsh, iT 1 Foster. Rockdale —James A Steyvart. Schley--C B Hudson. Screven—John C Dell. Spalding—William M Blanton. Stewart- Wm W Fitzgerald, John n Lowe. Sumter —Allen Fort, James H Black. Talbot-Roland M Willis, Charles B Leitner. Taliaferro—Samuel J Flynt. Tattnall—George It# Edwards. Taylor—Bennet Stewart. Telfair—T J Smith. Terrell—W Kaigler. Thomw—A Fred Allnnson, Jasper Bat tle, col. Towns--Judge G Stephens. Troup—Francis M I.ongley, John T. Hill. Twigg* William Griffin, Rad. Union—Marion Williams. Upson—F F Mathews. Walker—J C Clements. V\ alton—Henry D McDaniel. Ware -John B Cason. Warren—C S Dußose, T N Poole. Washington- P R Taliaferro, YY' U Mc- Bride. Wayne Daniel llopps. Webster—John P Beaty , White—A Merritt. Wilcox George P Reid Wilkes—Thomas A Barksdale, John W Mattox. Wilkinson—Y\ C Adams Whitfield—Jackson Rogers. Worth—Dugal MoLeßan. For Die Standard & Fvpre ■. THE OLD Ho3f.Fi, t u mi lo Do- dear old borne to-dny, ftut «|i! how changed the -pot; ■ iiok ♦wer and shrub we loved to tend Lay »ithered and forgot; them hack, | And tke tears would come, tho’ I pressed Whan I viewed the time stained walls, And thought of the dear one* who long ago I mot within its halls. Our fatter bar gone long year; ago To a fairer home in the skies, [place \nd the marble white, mark the silent Where his aged body lies; For he was the first of the household baud That the Reaper gathered in, A ud left eo lonely, the dear old home Whose light and joy he’d been. A ml no mother came to the open door, With smiling happy face, And showed by each fond word and look That I still held there a place; Bull thought of heron the Evergreen shore, In a brighter, happier home, [door, YVhere she patiently waits at the golden Till all her household come. And still another, with golden hair; Oiu- sister fair and true, Oh! sadly 1 missed her ringing laugh, And words of welcome too. Her grave is made near our parents dear, And flowers of beautiful bloom, Bend lightly o’er her silent dust, And scatter their rich perfume. And now not one, that I used to love, Meet roe within that home; All are not dead, but far away Iu other lands they roam, But 0! I missed them sadly there Among the old home bowers; Friends of the beautiful by-goue days; Friends of my childhood’s hours. Yud I turned from that home to memory dear, From the loved old home to-day, And the trees waved low, and seemingly stood Like sentinels old and gray. But Faith points far to another home, Where all is joy and love, And Die re we’ll meet, at the Savior’s feet. In our Father’s house above. ~ L. J. C. Branson, Fla., Jan. 7th, 18*73. MR. 81 MON SHORT ON “THE COLAPARCHEE, Jail. 11, 1873. Editors Telegraph and Messenger: I see your papers are full of “the Labor Question” —“Immigration” and so on, once more, and as I have been engaged ever since the blasted war, in settling those questions for myself, I thought I would spend a Saturday night In telling you how 7 it yytis done, and the result of the settlement. You know 7 , for I have told you, how 7 it was with me w hen I came home a paroled prisoner from the W 7 ars. Thar was my Yvife, Molly Short, and her five children—and all the money they had was a fifty cent piece on which Molly had cut her teeth when a baby, with a hole punched through it and a piece of black elastic run through and tied in a hard knot. YVe did not want to spend that , though the children hadn’t a shoe and wur ail out at the elbers. Thar wur some meal, midlin and peas about the house, but all the chickens and pigs could not make one grunt or a single cock-a doodle doo. Nnry a darkey w 7 as to be seen. Old Jim and Simon W’ould a stood by me, but thar wives had gone arter free dom and Jim and Simon had gone aider their wives. As for myself, Simon Short, (lie only thing I eould show 7 for four years marching and fighting were a mule I had picked up w ithout a clear title to him—a ragged shirt, breeches and hat, a eertifleut of parole and a ten cent shinplaster which wouldent a bought a light to my pipe. Things wtU’ desperate, and thar it was in May, and nothin planted.— Says Ito my wife, Molly, ses I, do you know wliar we can rustle up some niggers to put a few seed into the ground? Ses she, Simon, I knows of only two niggers you ken get, and one’s me and tother’s yerself; and the sooner you hire them niggers and pitch in, the less likely we’Jl be to starve. That’s a fact, ses I, and w T e’il pitch in spotly. And we did. I ploughed—the chil dren drapped, and Molly kivered.— By-and-by, arter we got the craps started, along comes old Jim without his wife, who had gone along with the soldiers to Macon to take her free dom, and seeing me to work said he’d pitch in too. Then I told my ivife to lay down the shobel and de hoe and me and Jim would see it out; and we have been doing it ever since, with the further help of old Simon, who got back next year, and brought one of his sons along with him, and also two of my boys, who are big | enough to give us a little help now and then, and are never so happy as I when I will allow them to do it. Now, Mr Telegraph, this is all the trouble and anxiety I have had on the labor question on my planta- I tion since the war. I have made bul |ly crops. I have plenty to eat and to I spare for the whole concern, and I have got more money than a man of my needeessities has any use for. The : fact is, though I don’t like to blate about it—l’m rich, according to my views, and the whole secret of the matter lies in my settlement of the labor question. When I settled that I would be my own nigger I was in dependent at wunst, and could get as many more as I wanted to. Don’t you see? When a man is in a tight, and wants to borrow money he can’t find it? When he has money in plenty it comes to hirn of itself. Just so about labor; when you do your own work you can get help, and first rate help, too. But if you want it to work while you laze, it is hard to get, and good for nothing when you get it. That’s the philosophy—depend on it. According to my reckoning thar is thirty thousand white men in Georgia a talking about the “Labor Question” who want to bring it down to this solution. Why, if they wur to become their own laborers, the nuestion would be settled at once. There are a hundred and eighty thou sand hales of cotton and food enough for their families made right off. T hat w 7 ould lift Old Georgia out of the sucks in a single year. That is a good living and fourteen millions in spending money beside. But that is not all. For their ex ample would set others to w 7 ork and make those who w ork now 7 work bet ter. That is all that is needed to set tle this great labor question in Geor gia on the bed possible foundation. IjCt every man take a solemn oath on his hoe handle that he will lead the row on his plantation this year, and no man need ever writ** a line on the labor question so far as Georgia is concerned. And this is also my remedy for the two grations. As for the negro emi gration to Arkansas, I sav it is one of j the most glorious privileges left to us in Georgia, that Yve can quit it when we please. What man w 7 ould take it away? There are two classes of nig gers, and naterally enough they are separating and going off to them selves. Thair is a class which is high on voting and politics, and don’t like work. They like to steal hogs and chickens—hold meetings—run for the Legislature and make speeches on equal rights. They don’t like a w 7 ell ordered and quiet country, and emi grate to Arkansas, or South Carolina, or Louisiana, w’here they can find a majority like themselves. I don’t tnink that class of negroes will e\ 7 or be satisfied to live in a country where wiiite men bear sway; and the result will be that they will get together and organize two or three States on a strictly African foundation. There are many others who are content to work for a good living and want things quiet and comfortable about them. These will stick to Georgia and the other old States and will get along w 7 ell w 7 ith us, while the others are drifting back to bar barism. That is my notion. And as to the immigration of for eigners, r say let them come if thev want to. There’s plenty of room. The country might lie better if it w 7 ere thickly settled, but I don’t want or expect them to make crops for me, because I can do it for myself. And I tell all your readers if they will come down to the hoe handle they will feel just as I do—happy—strong —independent—asking no odds either of emigration or immigration. Old Jim says to me one day Yvhile he wur carrying a row 7 along with me, ses he, master, what you link of this here freedom— don’t you think it ar a humbug? Ses 1, Jim, I never saw any yet. When 1 wur a boy I had to go to school, and father strap ped mo es 1 played truant. When I got older 1 fell in love w ith Molly and wur a perfect slave to her, ’cept for three months, when she kicked me, and then I w 7 ur a slave to old Bill Jenkins’ grocery. YVhen I got r v>ueu x wxflii/u/ war x wur worse than ever, for I did not own my own time, nor my carcase nuther. And noYV see me here, Jim, w’orking from sun to sun and never going outside of the fence ex cept to church—a slave to my family yet. And this is the most freedom I ever saw 7 , because love and habit make the bonds so easy I don’t feel ’em. Thar’s no such thing as free dom, Jim, because the moment a man casts off'the bonds of duty, he becomes a bondsman to the devil. “Dat’s so*,” ses old Jim, and I say, Squire, that is just the w 7 ay of it. Simox Short. A young lady who lias been sudently lifted from poverty tooppu lence by an alliance with money and old sge called the attention of an old lady friend to one of her new presents in the shape of a cluster diamond ring. The old lady dropped her spec tacles to the end of her nose and ex clamed: “Lor sakes ! I thought it was an old seed wart ?” KISSED THE WRONG ONE. On Chestnut street resides a widow lady with her lovely daughter. She has several nice young men hoarding with her, one of whom is supposed to be somewhat “sweet” upon Bella.— He came home the other evening about 8 o’clock, and the hallway be ing dark, was passing on to the sit ting room, when a light, graeefel form swept past him with the seductive rustle of crinoline. He knew it, clasp ed it in his arms, and after pressing several impassioned kisses on its lips, let it drop again at the words, “Hur ry up, Massa George; I’s got to gwyne after soft soap!” A WILD CAT STORY. We find the following in the Early County News: On Monday night last, about one or two o’clock, Mr. W. A. Buchanan, who is now r residing on his planta tion about a mile from tow r n, was aroused from his slumbers by a noise at his horse-lot. On repairing to his stable he found both his horses had broken out of their stalls, w’here it was thought they were securely fast ened, and left the premises. On go ing to the lot he had called to his brother, Major, to go with him.— Finding the horses gone. “Willy,” went in pursuit in the direction he heard them running, leaving Major standing in the public road in front of the lot. He had stood there but a minute or two when he was approach ed from behind by a wild cat which seized him by the hip. He turned round and kicked it off, but it imme diately sprang at him and seized him by the breast, each time bringing the blood. Major got it by the throat this time and threw it off, but it came again, and inflicted another wound on his shoulder. The fight was, of course, not altogether a silent one, and the noise had attracted the attention of his brother, who called to know w hat the matter w’as. Upon getting a reply from Major that he was about to'be eat up by a “var mint,” Willy came to the rescue. On his near approach to the scene of con flict, the cat immediately turned up on him. He succeeded in keeping it off until he could draw his pistol. As soon as posssble he commenced firing upon it, and probably w’oundeil it, as it ran off and jumped the yard fence, passing around the yard a few times, retreating under the dwelling house. A freedman was called to reinforce the party, and after several shots from a rifle his catship was fully conquer ed. It was not a large cat but cer tainly one of the fiercest of its species. It weighed only eighteen pounds.— On examining the horses next morn ing it w r as found that they had both been bitten by the cat, and its tracks were plainly to be seen in the stables, From the Columbus Enquirer.] A SHORT SERMON FOR YOUNG MEN AND BOYS. People iu this Christian land have been lamenting for a long time that so few 7 of the youth of the male sex attend church on Sundays. What Is become of our young men and boys ? Alas for them! many of them squan der the holy hours of the sabbath May in loafing al>out street corners, or in Yvalking over the city, while some of the more vicious, perhaps, may lie seen darting into dark alleys, or entering tho back rooms of suspi cious places. Jt is no uncommon sight to see squads of drunken youths perambulating over the town, w 7 ho, by their noisy obscenity and profan ity, disturb and shock the sensibili ties of refined and virtuous people.— Young men, beware of such a course persist no longer in it. Upon you, in a very few years’ w ill rest * the cares and responsibilities of Church and State to this country. Need w 7 e tell you that intelligence and good morals, supported by perfect physical development, are the great bulVurk of civil and religious liberty ? Up held by these the pillars of the great temple are safe; but with vitiated morals, mental imbecillity, and ener- vated manhood among the young men of our section, what have we to hope for but a fearful degeneracy, and final overthrow and ruin? \\ v e admonish the boys and young men of this city and vicinity to ponder these weighty truths, and prepare to act upon them at once. Go to church on Sundays. Listening to a good ser mon—w 7 hich may be heard at any one of our churches—can do you no harm and if properly received and reflected upon, may do you much good. God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day holy; and how can you do this without going up to the sanctuary of the Lord, there to re pent of your past shortcomings, and to petition for divine strength and aid to enable you to overcome your evil propensities? God is a being pre-eminently w r orthy of your respect and homage, and unless it be render ed Him, you can have no just claim upon the divine guidance and bless ing. Young men, go to church on Sundays. But is not parental and church au thority somewhat culpable in this important regard? Do parents, by proper counsel and example, impress ii}>on their boys the vital importance of properly spending the Sabbath day? Do parents try to restrain the w 7 ayw 7 ard and vicious propensities of their boys, whose natural hearts and tendencies are at variance with the holy teachings of the Bible and the Church ? Does not much of the fear ful responsibility for youthful derelic tion rest upon the parents? We fear so. Again, is the Church doing her wdiole duty to w 7 in the hearts and love of the young? Do her prayers DGlUtrVcl AK- W’xn^.l rich throne of grace ? And allow 7 us here to inquire, does not the system of weekly collections keep at least some of the young men and boys away from church on Sundays? We have been impressed for some time that such is the tendeney. If so w r ould it not be bettor to adopt some other plan for the maintenance of the Church and her ordinances? Tho many of the youth of this country are drifting to ruin and to Hell, and it behooves both parents and church members to ponder w 7 ell the paths of their feet, and to perform the full measure of their duty in the premises. We commend these thoughts to the earnest consideration of all good men and women, Yvho have deeply at heart the welfare of the church and the country. Lost.—A Texan tells the story of lost opportunities: “Now', you see,” said he “land w T as cheap enough at one time in Texas. I have seen the day when I could have bought a square league of land, covered w ith fine grass and timber for a pair of boots.” “And why didn’t you buy it?” asked his companion. “Didn’t have the boots,” said the Texan. * COULDN’T NEGLECT HIS BUSI NESS. A German settler in Ohio, found guilty of selling liquor contrary to Faw r , and sentenced to imprisonment in the county jail for thirty days, pro tested as follows: “Chair 1 Go to chail ! Me go to chail! But I can’t go.—Dere’s my piziness—my oakery. Who pakes my pread when I peen gone?” Then, casting his eye about the Court appealingly, they fell upon the goodnatured face of jolly Chris. Elhvanor, a fellow'-countryman, who had no “piziness,” and forthwith a brilliant idea struck him. Turning to the Judge, he said in sober (Hirnest: “Dere,s Chris. Ellwaner! He’s got noditigs to do; send him !” AN IRISHMAN’S THIRD. Wheif three Irshmen dug a ditch, for which they w'ere to receive four dollars, the trouble w’as how’ to divide four among three and have it equal. One of them remained quiet, and the other two at last deferred to his judg ment, as he had been to school and knew arithmetic, to make the divi sion. He did it at once, saj ing: “It’s alsy enough ! Shure there’s two for you two, and two for mo, too.” “Be gorra,” said one of his co-laborers, “w’hat a great thing it is to have learning!” “And,” said the other as he pocketed his single dollar, “and to know' Tithmetic too! It’s like o as two’d never divided them four dollars equally.” “Cast iron sinks,” is the legend on a Hartford plumber’s sign. “Well, who (hie) said it didn’t ?” was the inquiry of an inebriated man of sin, who read it over three or four times, and chuckled w’hen he thought he saw’ the point. An applicant for a pair boots atone of our shoe stores was asked what number he w T ore, and replied, as socn as he could recover from his surprise, “Why, two of course!” A man died in Indianapolis recent ly from the effects of the excessive use of ice water, having swallowed three gallons in one day, besides a quantity of half-frozen milk. He ac quired the moi-bid craving for it through the sudden breaking off of the habit of chewing tobacco. Are you not afraid that whiskey will go up into your head ?” asked a stranger of a man he saw T drinking at a bar. No,” said the toper; “this li quor i? te . weak to climb.” THE WRONG PANTS. HOW 7 A GENTLEMAN PUT ON THE WRONG PANTS—A DIVORCE CASE THE CONSEQUENCE—AN EVER TRUE TALE. Davenport our sister city, has just had a sensation. It was all about a pair ol pantaloons,..and is to termin ate in a divorce suit. A Davenport legal gentleman w 7 ent one evening last w 7 eek to have a quiet game of bil liards. He stuck to his cue for sever 'd. faithful hours, convivialized with his friends still longer, and then went home. On retiring to rest he was most singularly uneasy, and tossed anout for some time without drop ping iuto that peaceful slumber usu ally derived from a clean conscience. His lady w 7 as annoyed and complain ed kindly. Tt w 7 as no use, however. Something droY’o sleep tVom hfct eve lids. At this juncture his lady was taken suddenly and alarmingly ill, (fyow fortunate he had remained awake!) and he was appealed to to hasten off to the nearest drug store in quest of a restorative. He hastily attired him self, double quicked ‘down street, rushed into a store, obtained the arti cles so urgently required, and pro duced his pocket-book to pay for It. Great Ctesar! What had transpired? He had never seen that w 7 allet be fore—and the pants? they were not his own. Could it be possible he was in his right mind? Was it not rath er all a distempered dream ? lie re solved to see, and w ithout stopping to take the remedy with him, he rushed back to the wife of his bosom. He did not flourish a revolver. He did not smash furniture. He did not strikp attitudes like a gladiator. He j simply took part in the following! conversation: “Jane?” “Yes, dear.” “How 7 are you feeling?” “Better. Much better. I think a good sleep is all I need. How 7 kind of you to go to so much trouble.” “Very kind, wasn’t it?” “Very kind, honey,” “Jane, shall I turn on the gas?” “If you like, dear.” “Jane?” “Yes, dear.” “Do these look like my panta loons?” “\Y T hy, what can you mean, dear.” “I moan, do these resemble the trowsers I wore home this evening?” “Why, how can I tell, d>ar.‘” and Jane raised up withs una surprise and reluctance, gave a quick glance and screamed outright. “Husband,” she said, with some embarrassment, “youv’e made a ri. diculous mistake somewhere, whil* out w 7 ith your friends. What in th w 7 orld have you been doing to-night?’e “That’s rather thin, Jane. We* don’t usually take off our pants to play billiards. When I w 7 ent to bed to-night I had my proper pantaloons r/ gJI, - WL. Jr i , in my w 7 ay. I put them on. I dis covered at the store they were not mine. I returned at once, and now 7 I find the pair that I left on that chair are missing.” Jane began to sob, w 7 eep and pro test her innocence, while the husband paced the floor in deep reflection. “Jane,” at last he said, “I guess you can go home to your parent to morrow 7 . You and I have got along very well for a year or two, but the thing’s played.” And dow 7 n stairs lie went with a deaf ear to the frenzied appeals and prayers she showered after him. An investigation on tho morrow disclos ed the fact that the mysteriously pro cured pantaloons contained just |3OO more t han those w hich so mysteri ously walked off. Jane left on the flrsVtrain for her Illinois home, a bill of divorce has been filed and no one has called to exchange pantaloons and pocket-books.— Jioek island Cor. Chif•ago Journal. ZACH. CHANDLER COVERED WITH BLOOD AND MOLAS SES. - At great expense I have obtained a complete narative of the celebrated fight between the Hon. Zacli. Chan dler, of Michigan, and Mr. Hanne gan, of Indiana, son of ex-Senator Hannegan, w’ho w’as Minister to Prussia. It happened in the Nation al Hotel, at mealtime. Zach. took advantage of the fortuitous concourse of several persons to abuse Voorhees loudly while in his presence. His remarks resounded all over the din ing-room, such as “Traitor,” “Scoun drel,” etc., plentifully consorted with oaths. “Dan,” said Hannegan, “I w’ould not stand that foul-mouthed vituper ation.” “I won’t,” said Dan., and he walk ed over to Chandler and struck him a back-handed blow’ which resounded like a whip-crack. Chandler, w’ho had got up wrong end foremost, immediately struck out at Voorhees, and Hannegan, inter posing, remarked: “Gentlemen, this is not the place for a personal collision—a dining room where you disturb other people. Think of your positions, and do not disgrace your constituents.” “Who in h—Fare you?” exclaimed Chandler, and with that he struck Mr. Hannegan with all his force on the side of his face. Hannegan was stunned by the blow’, which he had not expected, be ing a peace-maker and not a fighter; but he picked up a molasses pitcher and brought it down or. Zach’s fore head so that he w r as covered with blood and molasses, which strange as it may appear, seemed to improve his appearance. He took up the nearest jug he could find to strike Hannegan with it, but Hannegan ducked his head, and Zach. struck an entirely harmless person in the abdo men, who forthwith got the cramps and walked out of the dining-room on his belly. Hannegan. said that he now’ understood that Zach. meant business; so forthwith he took that great patriot by the top-knot, and, Sushing his head down toward the oor, dragged him along, planting blow’s all over his frontispiece, and nearly making an intelligent counte nance out of the Senator. Much spent, gasping and frothing, Zachari ah followed his hair across the floor, and several ladies, rushing in, cried: “Oh, don’t kill that man l” “No, ladies,” said Hannegan, “I just want to keep him from injuring me, and if you will take care of him, I shall let him go immediately.” With this Hannegan gave Zach. a last shot, which effectually finished him, and the Michigan Ajax rolled over on his back, and was wheelbar row’ed away by some of the servants. SUBSCRIPTION * 92 per annum. * ~ m 4. The ready-money syStom-Dnn or be done. “Ox Shulng” is a sign now hung out in Indianapolis. * Cast iron dish cloths are advertised by a Maine hardware man. “Shut the door I” is the opening l^,ffi n of "* ~r,' e n,h to .The editor of the Louisiana Sugar i. ti „ started the Louisiana Cot ton Boil. A . iitorar y oonfipondflDt of the A Pennsylvania editor hl« la('k ot knowledge of figures by liv ing that “figures won’t lie.” ■— 0 —. Zeh Crum met wonders whv poor people are never afflicted with klep tomania. We call it stealing, then. The general assembly of the United Presbyterian church left the adoption ot the new version of the psalms in metre to the respective congregations. A negnw speaking of one of her children who was lighter colored than the rest said, “I never could bear dat brat, cause he sbowatirt so easy,” Thirty thousand Louisianians turn ed out in mass meeting in New Or leans on Monday to give moral sup port to their legislature, which was ; to meet that day. a- - sweet girl of a farmer out West whose horses are down with the epi i soots»5 oot f» " ants to marry, and advertise ; for ‘a good family man suitable fora j buggy.” I * r, .'r J*®,* wa - v cloan a stained steel knife is to cut a solid potato in two dip one of the pi.vcu in brick-dust, | such as is usually used for koifivclean ing, ami rul* the blade with it. < ’aliloruiu is making brandy from } ?><; bquor is very pleasant and after driukinga quart or so, a man Will cheerfully stand any amount of abuse from his wife. A citizen of Montreal has been sentenced to pay six dollars and costs, or to go to Jail for thirty days, for refusing to tell the census enumerator the ages of his unmarried daughters. 1 he girls advised the old gentleman to go to jail. killenny sentry challenged an intruder on the Irish encampment during the recent English manoeuvres who are you?” said Pat. “I’m tho ofh cer ot tiie day,“ was the reply. ‘ then l*y the powers, what are you doing here at night at all, at all?” 1 11 flttl biVris liUl^iiiA’ttbuesa^vs: l ‘Com mend us to that Baptist brother who, on going into the water to be bap tized, replied to the suggestion that he had better take his pocketbook out of his pocket during the ordinance ‘Nr, I want my pocketbook baptized wif h me.’” NOT TO BE FOOLED. In Philadelphia there lives a doctor so lean and attenuated that the sobri quet of “Old Bones” is far from being a misnomer. This doctor had a -indent, and that student is trying his best to be come a doctor. He attends to the of fice w’hile the doctor attends to the out-door patients. Among other fix tures in the office is a weird skeleton, so hung and adjasted that it will W’alk out of the cupboard where it Is kept; and by manipulating it rightly It can be made to go through several grotesque antics. One day while the student sit por ing over some medical work, the street door opened, and a youthful peddler with a basket of knick-knacks presented himself. When told that nothing in his line was wanted, the little rascal began to “talk back” In a most, impudent manner, and was finally ordered to leave the office. This he refused to do, and thinking to scare him, tho student pulled a string, and open flew’the door where the skeleton was hidden, and that emblem of death sprang out at the boy, who, frightened half out of his wits, dropped his basket and scampered out of the office, taking up a position on the opposite side of the street to await futher events. Just then the doctor, “Old Bones,” came from his study, and learning the cause of the uproar, he went to the dpor and motioned the boy to come and get his w r ares. “No you don’t,” he called out, “I know you, if you have got your clothes on.” A BOY’S LETTER ON THE ZOO TY AND OTHER THINGS. Dear Sue : The horses is all got the epigramic very badly. Us boys hail so much fun the other day! Little Frank’s hobby-horse had glue runnin’ out*of his nose, so w-e knew he had it, and w’e took him into the bath room and got some of ma’s fine towels and rapped his legs up in hot water and burned sulpher matches under his throat, and swinged his mane off, and the paint came off his leg, and the glue all come unstuck, and Frank can’t ride him any more. Wasn’t it jolly? Then the matches Sut us in mind of havin’ a Boston re, so w r e coaxed sister Sadie to give us a box of Sw’ias houses you brought her from Urip; and we set ’em up and touched ’em off, and let her rip. The town w r ent like blazes, and we throwed some of sls’s dolls in for dead bodies, and then saved the arms and legs for trofys. But you bet W’e got soared w’hen the flames Vent so high, so we turned on the hose, and the fool Jim Blain Ist the water run all over the floor and down in tho kitchen on the cook’s head, and she thought the pipes had busted, and run for a man to fix ’em, so in a caught us in there, and the boys run home, but I got thunder, you bet. It didn’t hurt much, cause I had on thick clothes* Our Frank Is in pants. He went in last Sunday. I’ve got a new’ girl. I don’t like Jenny Bird any more, or I guess she don’t like me any more, cause wnen I give her a handful of peanuts she ! thro well ’em in my face, and I expect j Jim Blain told lies about me. I’d ! kick him, only his father keeps a | candy store, aud I git all the candy I j w’ant for nothin’. Your affectionate brother, Charles* P. S.—Please bring me a goat
