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JoHN W. WOLFORD. THOMAS W. MILKIER
WOFFORD & MILNER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTEKSY i LLE, OA.
t" ki- FILE up talvs, Bank Block.
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oartersville, ga.
Oilice over Die BanL.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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AND •
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j stimulating the torpid Liver and bowels, and
i imparling new life and vigor to the whole sys.
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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
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of the body. Such signal success has attended
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FIC
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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
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MACON, GA., AND PHILADELPHIA,
I‘rice |l,pr package- sent by mail, postage paid
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SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
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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
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The House we represent manufacture on an
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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
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BRITT.su STERLING,
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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.
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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