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About The standard and express. (Cartersville, Ga.) 1871-1875 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1873)
THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. VOL. 14. THE Standard 6c Express I, published every THURSDAY MORNING *r 8. H. SMITH & CO. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE: $2 per annum, in advance. f ■. l I-1 1 . --i - - TLL'JL. . -■■■ ’J -JW'-T' ~ Professional and Business Cards 1 ' -■ r ■ * JoHS W. WOFFORD. ThOMAB W. MILNER WOFFORD & MILNER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CAItTERSVILLE, GA. OFFICE up stairs, Bunk Block. 9-5-ts. (>1 <J. TUMLIN, X. ATT OR NE Y A T LAW, CARTERSVILLE, GA. Office over tbc Bank. JOHN L. MOON, attorney at law, UARTERBVILLE, GA. Will practice in tbe counties comprising the Cherokee Circuit, Office over Liebman’s store. R W * »nS*PHEY, attorney at law, CARTERSVILLE. GA. Will practice in the courts of the Cherokee Circuit. Particular attention given to the col oction of claims. Office with Col. Abda John son. Oct. 1. Ap. WOFFORD, attorney a t law. CARTERSVILLE, GA. OFFICE in Court-llouse. jan2« M. FOUTE, A ttorn e y at la w , CARTERSVILLE, GA. ( With Col. Warren Akin,) < ' Will practice in tlic courts of Bartow, Cobb. Polk, Floyd, Gordon, Murray, Whittield and ad Joining counties. March 30. Ip B. McDANIEL, ie attorney at law, CARTERSVILLE, GA. Office with John W. Wofford. jan ’IS O. TRAMMELL. attorney at law, CARTERSVILL 5, GA OFFICF W. Main Bt., next door to Standard £ Express Office. Feb. 15,1872 —wly. r|l II () MA N W . DODD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CAKTKBSVII.LE, GEORGIA. 0" ICE Bant - )„n lro . Dll. J. A. JACKSON, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN ANI> SFIGEGN. OFFICE in W. A. Loylesa’ Drug Store, next door to Stokely & SVilliams’. oct27 W. R. mountciuitle, Jeweler and Watch and Clock Repairer, CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. Office iu trout of A. A. Skinner & Co’s Store. GEN. W. T. WOFFRD. JNO. 11. WIKLE Wofford dks "Wlltlo, ATTORNEYS - AT - LAW, AN I) Real Estate Agents, Cartersville, On. SPECIAL ATTENTION given to the pur chase ami sale of Real Estate. -28-6 m. DENTISTRY. THE undersigned respectfully informs the citizens of Cartersville and vicinity that he has resumed the practice of Dentistry, and by close attention to business and faithful work | ha hopes to receive a liberal share of success. Office over Erwin, Stokely & Cos. Jan 30-6.i1. F. M. JOHNSON. Dental Card. THE undersigned, a practical dentist of 18 vears experience, having purclicsed prop erty ’and located permanently in the city of Cartorsville, will continue the practice in rooms opposite those of Wofford A Milner, iu the new building adjoining the Bank. With experience and application to my profession, charges al ways reasonable aud just, I hope to merit the patronage of a generous public. Office hours, from November Ist proximo, 8 to 12 a. m., 2tosp. m. Sabbaths excepted. Calls answered at residence, opposite Baptist church. R. A. SEALE, 10-17—ts Surgeon Dentist. DR. CHAS. D’ALVIGNY, DENT I T » Cartersville, (?*• SPECIAL ATTENTION given fO children’s teeth. 8-15— TO PLANTERS. BOWEN & MERCER’S Superplioaphate, SBB FEU TON. Warranted equal to any Phosphate manufac tured. Send tor the Pamphlet of Certificates aud Analysis, by Professors Means, Piggott aud Stewart, to BOWEN A MERCER, 65 South Gay St.. 12-12—wlm. Baltimore, Md. DR. W. A. TROTTER OFFERS his PROFESSSONAL SERVICES to the citizens of Cartersville. Office with Dr. Baker. Cartersville, Ga., Jan. 7,1873. IME! LIME! LIME! J>ERSONS WISHING THE BEST LIME can always find on hand, at the Store of Me onald A Brandon, an ample supply ol Alla- Lime from the Works of a -*-ly LEAK A HOLLINS HE AD. STEELING SILVER-WARE, SHARP Sc 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 our order the past year, and quite recently completed. An unusually attractive assortment of novel ies in Fancy Silver, cased for Wedding and Holiday preseuts, of a medium and exponsiv character. Tbc House we represent manufacture on an unparalleled scale, employingou Hurling Sil ver-Ware alone over One Hundred skilled hands, the most accomplished talent in Design ing, and the best Labor-saving Machinary, en abling them to produce works of tke highest character, at prices UN APPROACHED 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 925 BRITISH STERLING, woo anl—tf It Leads to -Happiness! A Boon to tbe Whole Race of Woman! DR. J. BRADFIELD’S FEMALE REGULATOR! It will bring on the Menses; relieve all pain, at the monthly “Period;” cure Rheumatism and Neuralgia of Back and Uterus; Leuuor rhoeaor “Whites,” and partial Prolapsus Uteri; check excessive flow, and correct allirreguiar ities peculiar to ladies. It will remove all irritation of Kidneys and Bladder; relieve Costiyeness; purify thc'uiood: give tone and strength to the whole system; clear the skin, imparting a rosy hue to the cheek, and cheerfulness to the mind. It is as sure a cure in all the above diseases as Quinine is in Chills and Fever. Ladies can cure themselves of utt the above diseases without revealing their complaints to any person, which is always mortifying to their pride and modesty. It is recommended by the best physicians and the clergy. Lagrange, Ga., March 23,1870. BRADFIELD & CO., Atlanta, Ga, —Dear Sirs: I take pleasure in stating that I have used for the last twenty years, the medicine you are now putting up, known as Dr. J. Bradllcld’s FKMALK KEGULATOK, and consider it the best combination ever gotten together for the diseases for which it is recommended. 1 have been familiar with the prescription both as a practitioner of medicine and iu domestic prac tice, and can honestly lay that I consider it a boon to suffering females, and can but hope that every lady in Our whole laud, who may be suffering in any way peculiar to their sex, may be able to procure a bottle, that their sufferings may not only be relieved, but that they may be restored to health and strength. With my kindest regards, I am respcctfullv, W. B. FERRELL, M. D. Nkar Marietta, Ga., March 21,1870. MESSRS. WM. HOOT A SON.—Dear Sirs: Some months ago I bought a bottle of BRAD FIELD’S FEMALE REGULATOR from you, and have used it in my family with the utmost satisfaction, and have recommended it to three other families, and they have found it' just what it is recommended. The females who have used your REGULATOR are in perfect heulth, and are able to attend to their house hold duties, and wc cordially recommend it to the public. Yours respectfully, Kkv. H. B. JOHNSON. Wo could add a thousand other certificates; but we consider the above amply sufficient proof of its virtue. All we ask is a trial. - For full particulars, history of diseases, and certificates of its wonderful cures, the reader is referred to the wrapper around the bottle. Manufactured and sold by BRADFIELD & CO„ Price $1 50. ATLANTA, GA. Sold by all Druggists, 1-30 -ly. 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 ! yr OUR attention is rsspectfully invited to th Ap-ricmltural Warehouse OF ANDERSON & WELLS, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, DEALERS IN Guanos, Field and Garden Seeds, FARM WAGONS, PITTS’ TH RES HERS. 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 ami mounted horse powers. Bali’s Reaper and Mower, Buck-Eye Reaper and Mower PLOWS—ONE AND TW T O-HORSE BUGGY PlfowS. Also General Agents for u Pendleton’s Guano Compound,” Cash, $67 per ton of 2,0004b5.: Credit Ist Nov., $75 per ton 2,000 lbs. 4 4 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 for Price List. ANDERSON A WELLS. 52 _ Theo. GOULDSMITH, Agent for GEORGIA MARBLE WORKS. Cartersville, Georgia, leb. 8 SAMUEL H. SMITH & COMPANY, EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 13,1873. HMD IS MODE) MADE. Buy your Gooaln CHEAP. While you ean. The umler.signed has on hand and in constantly re ceiving New and Beautiful GOODS, oi every description just from the Eastern markets, which will be sold at the LOWEST FIGURES FOR C'M»D! I offer superior induce ments as regards Style, Quality, and Prices. An examination of my Stock will convince you that you ean buy your Goods cheaper of me than elsewhere Handsome Styles of DRESS GOODS! SHAWLS, Striped and Reversible, of the Eatest Fashions. PRINTS, Os every Style and Shadr WHITE GOODS, TNT otions; CLOTHING, MENS WEAR. BOOTS, H P 9 Caps, ILHII, GROCERIES. My assort incut ofEadies 9 misses and‘children 9 s BOOTS, SHOES & GAITERS, Cannot foe excelled iu ei ther style quality .or cheap ness. Mens 9 Roots and Shoes at all Prices, Hats Lower than the Lowest. I would call special at tention to my system oi'do ing business. Ist., 1 sell strictly for CASH. Having no accounts 1 lose no debts, and do not have to add on an extra profit of 15 to S5 per cent to make up for losseshnd time customers. 2d., I have but one price on each article, so that a child an bn y Goods as low as a man, and a poor judge as cheap as the best judge of Goods in the country. Ruy your Goods at the VIRGINIA STORE and save money. So trou ble to show Goods. A. P. NEAL. I From the London (Standard. Jan. 3. RADICALISM AT THE SOUTH. Almost every mail from America brings us some new illustration of the miserable condition of the Southern ! States, under the rule of the party which has acquired another four years’ lease of power. Three facts, concerning three of the noblest States of the old Union, are noted in a sin gle paper. Louisiana has fallen into such utter anarchy that two several sets of State officers and two separate i Legislatures have claimed the obedi ence of the citizens: of which, it would seem, that neither party was even decently respectable, and the quarrel was altogether 90 disreputable that, though the interests of the dom inant faction at Washington were in volved, General Grant shrank at first from interference. Finally, he decid : ed to interpose in behalf of his friends, and, supported by a decree of the Su preme Court of the Union, (which seems to have about as much to do with the matter, under ancient con stitutional rules, as the Court of Queen’s Bench), he has ordered the Federal troops to uphold the authori ty of the party represented by the negro Lieutenant Governor Finch back—the party more odious of the two to the respectable people of Lou-* isiana. The Legislature of South Carolina, from which the South Caro? linians are excluded, and which is composed of emancipated negroes and Northern adventurers, lias elected as United States Senator a member of the latter class, who has secured his election by wholesale purchases of the votes of negro Legislators. A dispute arose thereupon, and one of the supporters of the beaten (negro) candidate expressed his disgust in such very explicit language as led, in American parlance, to “a free fight” around the Speaker’s chair. Finally, the State of Alabama, once among the most solvent and best trusted in the Union, has purchased and sold a railway; and, having nei ther paid the money for the first pur chase nor received that for the second, is exposed to the humiliation of see ing the property held and sold under an order in bankruptcy. It is need less to say that no such things could have happened under the old regime. Men like Warmouth and Pinchback would never have been elected to govern the citizens of Louisiana while the Southern whites elected their ow n rulers. A Patterson would never have dreamt of offering himself as a candidate for the seat once filled by John C. Calhoun; and if he had. his election would have been as impossi ble as the receipt of bribes by the chivalry of the Palmetto State. * And in the old days Alabama’s credit was as good as that of Canada; and her citizens were as justly prdud and jeal ous of her financial honor as English men of the fiscal credit and good faith of England. These wretched scenes are part and parcel of reconstruction pursued by a Radical Congress, and applauded by English Liberals. The Hrot oßjoot of that systoni WRS re venge—the punishment and degracia- i tion of the Southern “rebels.” The second was the establishment of Rad ical ascendency in the South. The Radicals know that at the time of Lincoln’s election they were a minor ity in the North ; and after the war, which had given them the ascenden cy there, was over, they might be come a minority again. But if they could appropriate the franchises of the Southern States to their creatures, and thus secure a number of “rotton boroughs,” whose representatives would be nominated by themselves, without regard to the wishes of the people, they might contrive, though in a popular minority everywhere, to maintain themselves in possession of the Presidency, the electoral col lege, and a majority in both branches of Congress. In order to effect these ends, it was necessary to disfranchise tke real people of the South, and cre ate a “bogus” people in their stead. The first was done by means of the penal acts so lavishly passed by Con gress. America prides herself upon having shed no blood on the scaffold. It is true that she did not, as other conquering Governments have done, take the lives of the chiefs of the van quished party. But it is equally true that she nas inflicted upon the con quered people, as a whole, heavier punishment than has ever been im fjosed by modern conquerers upon a arge portion of their subjects.— Wholesale disfranchisements, subjec tion to the rule of enfranchised slaves, and a system of government directed to fleece the conquered country for the benefit of its conquerors, have, for seven or eight years, perpetuated dis tress and exasperated the bitter feel ings left by a war carried on with unusual ferocity. In half the States of the South a negro constituency, organized under the leadership of ad venturers from the North, has mo nopolized political power; has exclu ded the Southerners from all partici pation in the control of their own af fairs ; has taxed them without allow ing them representation, and misspent the produce of those taxes in such a manner as to add the keenest sense of humiliation to the bitterest con sciousness of injury. The honor of States as honorable as Great Britain has been dragged in the dust; their debts have been left unpaid while their people have been fleeced; their rulers have filled their own pockets with the produce of unlawful bonds issued at an enormous discount; and while the negroes, who pay no taxes, have been kept in good humor by liberal appropriations, none of the real needs of the country have been attended to. The forces of the Federal Govern ment have been at the disposition of the peculators and jobbers from the North who exploit the negroes for their own benefit. All remonstrance has been vain. It was as easy as it was useless to expose the injustice, to foreshow the effects, of such a policy. The Radical majority in Congress eared neither for the injustice, nor the consequences, so long as they profited by the one and the South erners suffered by the other. They maintained and aggravated a tariff which compels the Southern planter or farmer to pay twice the value of everything he buys—taxes him, that is, to the full extent of his proper yearly outlay on implements, cloth ing, everything necessary to his cul tivation, not for the benefit of the Union, but for the personal advan tage of Northern traders and manu facturers. Show them that this is to ruin the South, and they are all the better pleased; for hostility to the Southern people is the avowed policy of their party. Gallant and high- s pirited nations have been misgov erned before now. Hungary and Ye- | netia were ill-ruled after 1849, but at ! leas! their rulers have intended them to prosper if they would but be con tent. But never before has a nation been governed as the South has been governed since 1665, by rulers whose avowed object is to punish and injure them—never before have rulers been enemies of the country they It is in vain, of course, to appeal to such a faction against the folly of their course. But we might have thought that those who had no self ish end to gain must have seen that every object, we do not say inherent ly good, but decently plausible, must suffer by such a policy. Grant that the welfare of the negro is of indef initely more moment than that of the white man—grant that it is right to sacrifice the latter as completely as may be neceasftry for the elevation of the former—grant more than the wildest negrophile fanatics would dare to claim—is it not clear that to embitter the strong against the weak, the larger number against the small er, the higher race against the lower, must end in the ruin of the latter? The present state of things cannot last forever, and every year that it lasts makes the change more danger ous to the hapless creatures who are made the tools of oppression and in justice. WHAT BEECHER THINKS OF DEATH. I have known morbid people to speculate as to how they were going to look in their coffins. I have known grown people who were full of imagination about the grave. Death is not onlj heathenish, but barbarous in their thought. I never think of dying except with pleasure, as I would translation. To me the mere passing through is noth ing; it may be a little longer or a lit tle shorter. I have always hoped it would be very short. I may horrify some people by saying it, but I pray God will give me sudden and instan taneous death. I would rather die by being struck by lightning than die with consumption. If it be God’s will that I should become old and tottiing and grow feebler and feebler before I die I am willing that it should be so, but if I were left to my choice I should like to break off short and die a strong man, in the middle of battle; but that is for God to de cide, and not me. Dying to me is not all the humilia tion of the body. It is the exaltation of the spirit. It is the emergence of the soul from this outward form. It is our developement out of this sphere into a higher one. It is hot ushering of men into a state of weak ness and gloom. It is the inaugura tion of a condition of power and joy. It is the moving of the soul in the direction of amplitude and glory. It is the endowing of the soul with the riches of immortal life in its highest forms and in its greatest beneficences. I jdo pot know that a nightingale sitting in the twilight ana singing with all its little soul, has the least idea that the whole neighborhood is charmed with its song; but I can conceive that a soul may be in such a blessed state of experience that it may, like a nightingale, charm the wide circles in heaven with inspiring music. The Apostle did not care to be un clothed; he did not care to get. rid of his burden, except by overcoming it through divine grace; but he desired to be clothed upon. He desired a better manhood—spiritual manhood, heavenly manhood. He did not take a gloomy view of suffering aud death. Some men think of dying. Ido not think of anythiug black or smirching when I think about death. I think of gold and precious stones and flashing wings. Some men think of an iron gate with an ugly, grim jailor, who, with a big key, tnat is not rusty, turns it often. I think of a “ pearly gate,” as Milton calls it, which turnsongolden hinges. Some men think of dying as they think of disease. I think of dying as the flight of the bird—higher and higher into the purer ether. Now, it seems to me that no thought of death is valid or right which does not leave you stronger, more joyous, happier. lam not go ing to die downward. lam not go ing to die toward hell. I mean, by the grace of God, to die toward heav en. And lam going to think of it so as to take some comfort of it be forehand. lam going to shake the tree of life so that if I do not get the golden fruit here, some leaves shall drop down for the healing of my heart. Our Ladies and Their Home spun Dresses. —We made brief mention a month or two ago that numbers of our best ladies were ap pearing at church and on the streets in dresses of Columbus made plaids and checks. The paragraph has been copied from one end of tne country to the other, and many have been the plaudits of the press upon the ex ample ofour ladies. Brick Pomeroy, in his paper of the 4th inst., has this to say on the subject : “God bless the women of Columbus ! Let them now prevail upon others of their sex in the South to do likewise. Let the women of the South refuse to wear other fabrics than those made in their section of the country, and the day will soon come when the South will vie with New England in the wealth and worth of her manufacto ries and then achieve her lasting in dependence. With the beautiful wo men of that outraged land to encour age industries, men are not patriotic who do not give this subject atten tion and support. There is no sense in paying a Northern railroad capit alist to transport raw cotton half way across the continent to his mill—pay a Northern capitalist to make the cotton into cloth in New England, then pay to have the goods brought back to the South to bo worn, when they might as well be made near home and their profits saved to the country and people where the raw staple is raised. “A line of cotton mills in opera tion from Baltimore to St. Louis, would injure the fanatics and monop olist of New England more than all the soldiers the South could ever raise—all the lines of forts and fortifi cations it could ever build. Again we say, God bless the women of Co lumbus. Their’s is a glorious exam ple.” A watering-place correspondent writes that “very few bathers bathe at the West End,” whereupon, Mrs Partington says she had an idea they bathed all over.” A STRANGE MEETING. In the New York Dispatch of a re- I cent date Is an incident growing out of the rebellion under the above ! heading, and the journal referred to relates how, on an evening or two j previous, a good looking man, a la borer about thirty years of age, took the cars at Centre street depot, New i ark, for New York. There was but one vacant seat in the car that he en tered, and that was by the side of a handsome and elegantly dressed lady. The man sat down, and after his fair companion had removed her veil he was surprised to reconize in her his wife, whom he had not seen for more than twelve years. The lady threw her arms around his neck and kissed him tenderly, and mutual explana tions followed. It seems that they had been mar ried just before the breaking out of the war, at the home of thelady, in Missouri. Her father was the owner of a large tract of land, but had only a little money. He joined the rebel cause, and the daughter also warmly adhered to the oppinions of her fa ther. Her husband, however, was a decided Union man. She abused him violently on account of his prin ciples, and told him if he sided with the “Bloody Yankees” he might leave the place, and she never wished to see his face again. He took her at her word, and the same night left her and joined Fre mont’s army as a private. He was several times taken prisoner and as often escaped to our lines. He press ed on with Sherman to tbe sea, and at the conclusion of his term of en listment, joined a New York regi ment, and by this means, at tho end of the war, found his way to Newark, where he has since worked quietly in a factory. His wife’s father was killed at Vicksburg, and she was left possessor of his uncultivated farms. She sup ported herself by working in a milin ery establishment in St. Louis till af ter the war. Her land rose in value, and she sold it for a good price, and realized about $50,000. With this sum she started a millinery of her own in St. Louis, and succeeded splendidly. She is reputed worth $40,000 or $50,000. She was on her way to New York to buy goods when she met the man whom she had sup posed long ago dead. Remorseful for driving him away, she had refus ed all offers of marriage. The joyous meeting caused the husband to for give the wife’s error, and a present of anew suit of clothes, a diamond ring, and a splendid gold watch, when they arrived in New York, served materially to increase his re spect and affection for his longlost wife. They are now stopping at a fashionable hotel, joyous over the ac cident that reunited them. A SERENADE. THE SORROWS OF A SERENADING lA j v t.n —a uaia an-oir a;ic itis- EVIDENCE A few nights ago a gentleman of this city was going home at a some what late hour when he heard in the distance sweet strains of music, or at least what he first supposed to be mu sic, but which proved to be principally “straining” and other dismal sounds that seemed to come from a bosom racked with anguish, or a stomach overloaded with green fruit. Softly he drew near, and, at last, discover ed whence the sounds proceeded. A youth, over whose upj>er lip the bar ber could not have slipped the back of his razor blade more than twice, stood leaning against the gate-post with his eyes fixed upon a chamber window in the second story of the house before him. In his hands he held a guitar, upon which he picked with the air of one who is not cer tain he is on the right string, while from his parted lips came the follow ing song: I have 10-hoved thc-he Zu-hula, Fo-lior th-hy life was so-hong; Oh, Zu-hula, da-harliug Zu-hula, Wa wa has su-huushine all the while, Here the young man paused to spit and fill up again with wind, and then struck into the chorus: Oh. Zu-hula, moluder-hing Zu-hula, Si-hileut is my silver so-hong; Oil, Zu-hula, da-harling Zu-hula, De-hear departed Zu-hula Zong-oug-ong. The singer here took a rest of a few seconds, looked anxiously down the street to see that no policemen were in sight, then throwing a peculiar plaintive sound in his voice ne sang: When the moo-hoon is shl-hi-ning o’er the la-la hake. Oh the-hen, I’ll think of thee-he-he-hee, Oh, the-hen oh-h thc-he-hen I’ll thl-hl-hi-ink of thee-ee-ee! Here the front door being suddenly opened, a sepulchral voice said “Siclc himTige!” and out bounced a dog about the size of a flour barrel ana with a good set of natural teeth. The singer turned a back summersault out of the gate, and with the dog nip ping at his coat-tail at everyjump, disappeared flown toward the heart of tne city. Hereupon, the gentle man who was a witness to this serio comic drama, turned and left thespot, but not until he had seen a middle aged man in a single garment with an abbreviated narrative, rolling over in the hull-way convulsed with mirth, and saying, whenever he stopped laughing long enough to say anything—” Oh - thee - hen—Oh-the hen, I’ll think of thee !” The gen tleman had walked several squares from where the scone occurred, pass ing a broken guitar that lay in the edge of the gutter, when he met the dog returning with a wild expression in nis eye, and a pair of suspenders and a portion of a coat-tail in his mouth. —Bawling Green ( Ky .) Demo crat. A Glimpseof the Other World. —Mrs. Gardner, wife of a Michigan farmer, recently died under circum stances the most extraordinary.— Two of her sisters were dead, one but lately, only a few week ago. The cause of her death was a congestive chill, and after she had been consid ered dead for six hours, and was being prepared for the grave, she returned to consciousness and talked freely with her attendants. She sta ted to those around her that she had been to the better land and had seen both of her departed sisters, with other friends, that it was a most beau tiful land beyond description! She said that she had permission to return to tell living friends what she had seen, but tnat she was anxious to return. She passed away soon after making her statement, and seemed overflowing with joy and happiness. Farm, Household and Garden. •CIDER AND PICKLES FOR FE VER. Some two months ago a resident of I Detroit named Broer, was taken ill with some sort of a fever, and for two weeks there was little hope of saving S his life. He continued to sink in : spite of all the physicians could do, ; and they finally gave him up. All ; through his sickness the man had ! continually asked for pickles and ci der, and when he got so low that his death was considered only a question of a few hours, Mrs. Broef decided to gratify his wishes. A glass of sweet ! cider was given him, and he deciar ed himself much better for it. More , was given through the night, in place j iof medicine, and the next morning I the doctor declared that a most favor i able change had taken place. Some | strong pickles were procured aud giv- j en him and he began to call for gruel I and broth. To In; brief, he is now ' able to move around the house, and j everybody in the neighborhood, as well as the physician, gives the cider and pickles the credit of performing the cure. PULLING AT THE HALTER, j A year ago I had a four year old j horse which had contracted tne habit of pulling back whenever she was j fastened. She would be sure to break loose, if what held her could be bro-. ken by her drawing in such a back-1 ward way. She was eureri of the habit by taking a rope two feet long, fastening one end around her body, just back of her shoulders, and pass ing the other end through the ring of the halter and tying to the post. She lay hack for her usual pull for a few times when fixed in this way, but' soon found she was drawing from her body instead of her head, which she did not relish, and soon gave it up entirely. She can now be left any where with perfect safety, as nothing will induce her to pull back when fastened.— Cor. Country Gentleman. — ♦ - Plaster on Clover Fields—A bushel of plaster pur acre sown on clover fields, as soon as the clover begins to form its leaves in spring, will have a very marked effect, so much so that the trial once made, the application will not be omitted here after—try it on an acre at least. Cure for Dyspepsia.—Dr. Dio Lewis with his clubs, dumb-bells and pen, is making an earliest and good fight against tne abuses and artificial uses of the present generation. The best remedy we have seen lately for dyspepsia, and we earnestly recom mend it to our dyspeptic friends, he publishes in a recent article. He says that “six months of hard work will cure the worst case of chronic dys pepsia.” Gray Hair.—An English hiwrerontljr wnorted th»t tin *,»wluc portion of lime In the system ; the cause of premature gray ha! . and advises to avoid hard water, cither for drinking purposes, or wh< i con verted into tea* coffee, or *. ip, as hard water is always strong y im pregnated with lime. Hard "water may be softened by boiling; let it be come cold, and then use it as r bever age. It is also stated that a liquid that will color the human hair black, and not stain the skin, may bo made by taking one part of bay run , three parts of olive oil, and one >art of good brandy, by measure. Tie hair must be washed with the mixture every morning, and in a short time the use of it will make the hair a beautiful black, without injuring it in the least. The article mus be of the best quality, mixed in a bottle, and always shaken well befor- appli ed. All kinds of poultry and meat can be cooked quicker by adding to the water in which they are boiled, a lit tle vinegar or a piece of lemon. By the use of an acid, there will be a con siderable saving of fuel, as well as shortening of time. Its action is beneficial on old tough meat, render ing them quite tender and easy of di gestion. Tainted meats and fowl will lose their laid taste and odor if cooked in this way, and if not used too freely, no taste of it will be ac quired. Hominy Pudding.—Prepare as ft>r batter cakes, add one egg to each pint, some whole cinnamon, sugar to suit the taste, and a few raisons, and bake like rice pudding. A little butter or chopped suit may be added. Serve hot or cold, with or without sauce. A few years ago, when the menin gitis was raging with fearful fatalitf in the town of Sandersville, the phy sicians adopted the plan of applying an iron to the back of the neck as hot as it could well be borne, and holding it there until it could be borne no longer. The result was speedy relief and fewer deaths than under, any mode of treatment —Atlanta Herald. Chicken Pie.—Take two full grown chickens, or more if they are small, disjoint them, and cut the backbone etc., as small as convenient. Boil them with a few slices of salt pork in water enough to cover them, let them boil quite tender, then take out the breast Done. After they boil and the scum is taken off, put in a little onion cut very fine, not enough to taste distinctly, but just enough to flavor a little; rub some parsely very fine when dry, or cut fine when green—this gives a pleasant flavor. Season Well with pepper and suit, and a few ounces of good freah but ter. When all is cooked well, have liquid enough to cover tho chicken, then beat two eggs and stir in some sweat cream. Line a five quart pan, with a crust made like soda biscuit, only more shortening, put in the chicken and liquid, then cower with a crust the same as the lining. Bake till the crust is done, and you will have a good chicken pie. THIN BISCUITS, OR NOTIONS. Take one pint of flour and make into dough, as soft as can be rolled, with sweet milk, a salt-spoonful or salt, and two ounces of lard. Roll out with the bread-pin into round cakes nine inches in diameter, and of a wafer-like thickness. Stick well with a fork. In baking do not allow them to brown, but remove from the oven while they retain their white ness, yet they are crisp, and will melt in the mouth. SUBSCRIPTION $ M per annum. POETICAL. AX OLD STOlt Y XE WL Y TOLD. Tommy, prowling o» the Uwn, •spied a sparrow just at dawn Up and at her labors, Secure and sweet she bopped along, Or flying westward sang a song That roused her sleepy neighbor*. But Tommy intuit to breuk his last, “That tune, song sparrow, is vour Im v\ Uatever you intended, Just light down on the grass agatn, 111 ‘‘at you up iu seconds ten. And so your story ’s ended." Ttio sparrow is a little cbil, Aud plaiu of dm*#, hut full ot wit; 80, when upon the grass she lit, Aud Tommy at a bound llad whisked her oft behind a tree, And growled, “I'll make a mead ot Uwt, u She plucked up courage, “Tom,” said she, “Just set me on the ground, And do, 1 pray you, have tfio grace Before you eat to wash your tacc." Tom was a cut of high degree Aud used to good society ; “Your words are wise, you bird," said he, „ “Though you’re a silly creature , Knowing that lnauners make the rn»n T He set her down and slow began, With dignity (can only cuu) To wash each solemn feature. Scarce was his paw across his nose. Before aloft the sparrow rose. Front tallest tree the garden grows She sends him down this song: “O Tommy don’t you wish you could For breakfast have a sparrow good * Birds art* such tender, dainty food, Aud all to cats beloug.’’ Tom eyed her with a rueful grin ; “I must say, bird, you took me In, But long as I’vo to stay Upon this earth so full of cheat, Os artftil birds aud all deceit, My breakfast when its caught I’ll eat, My face wash wheu 1 may.’’ And so You know Do all the race of eats Until this day LiJ*i*nteoTT A Cos., Philadelphia, are about to kttuc a volume of poems from the pen of the Southern poetess, “Pearl Rivera." Below will be found a “quaint and carious,” and at thw suiuu time a thoroughly original poem by this young poeies •:: J/r FACTORY. I live hi Good-will Kingdom, And for twenty years or more I iiave owned this model factory, Just you step inside the door! There are many unseen weavers Busily at work within; There are many wheels a-going, But you hear no whir or din. Bee the Heart-wheel In the center, Large and strong aud never still. With magnetic power moving All the other wheels at wilt Love, the fairest of my weavers, Tams this mighty wheel, my friend, Weaving countless threads of beauty That uo human strength eou rend. Round this wheel, revolving swiftly, Watch the wheels of Hop*; aud Joy, Aud the tripple wheels of Duty Busy in my life’s employ. How Hie weavers cheer each other, i Aati Uow tun wiAl Tuny offcy Love’s gentle orders, It would take me long to tell. In this high and spacious chamber, With its windows paned with Boe the Brain-wheal, wheel of magic. Weaving threads of every hue. Thought, the wisest of my weavers, At this wheel unwearied stands. Until Bleep, with weary fingers, Steals the distaff from her hands. God up reared this noble structure— Twas a God-like gill and free— And He put the wheels In motion With this solemn charge to me: “See you keep this building holy, Fair without and fitir within ; Keep the wheels all bright and busy, And yyur work unstained by sin.'* But sometimes old Core, on crotches, Hobbles in and clogs the wheels. And then Sloth, the cunning vagrant Follows close behind his ueele, With a loathsome breath of canker, And his wallet still of dust, And with stealthy 6tep approaching. Specks each Idle wheel with rust. And sometimes old Mother Gossip, Gadding where'er she doth choose, On her way from Tittle-Tattle, Saunters in to tell the news; And that giddy coquette, Pleasure, On her way to Folly-Town, Btope to show her gaudy trinkets And the fashion of her gowu. And sometimes poor Bcowllng Envy Comes to tell me with a whine, That my neighbor owns a factory Twice as large and fine as mine. But these visitors come seldom, And they do not tarry where They must stand iu mortal terror Os my Watchmen, Faith and Prayer. 80 I live in peace and quiel; And when any thing goes wrong, Or the days seem long and weary, Take my harp aud sing a song; For my weavers weave the faster, And the wheels turn swifter round, When I touch my harp with gladne«« And awake a cheerful sound- Black Snow.— The K eokuk (Iowa) ConstiMion of the 13th says: “On last Tuesday afternoon commen ced the great snow storm of the winter, and the greatest storm of the West for many years. It continued until Wednesday afternoon; thee set in afuriou9 wind, which took the snow from the hills and piled it up In the valleys. On Thursday morn* tag the inhabitants of the northern portion ofth is State when they awoke were not a little surprised at seeiug the earth covered with a black in stead of a white garment, as it was on the night before. This strange and unnatural phenomenon is accoun ted for on the supposition that after the wind had swept the snow off the hills then the dry earth was taken up and scattered over the face of the snow, giving it this peculiar coloring. This would be a satisfactory explana tion if this unusual appearance had boen confined to localities, but ac counts say it was general." A Problem for Insurance Men. —An unnsal question has been rais ed in the little State of Delaware. Professor West effected an insurance on his life for $25,000, and then mur dered a negro and mutilated his body so as to induce the insurance compa nies to mistake it for his own and pay over the amount. The question now arises, when West is hanged tor the murder will the companies b© compelled to pay over the insur ance to his family? The point is emphatically a knotty one, and curi ous withal, although It cun ever arise In a city like New York, where murderers go unpunished,and where a poor woman who steals the price of a loaf of bread suffers a heavier pen alty than the wealthy wretch that shoots and tomahawks his victim in in its most public haunts,—JHr. NO. 7.
