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Tho Disguised Duke;
(»lt THE SLUGGER OF TIIE
SLUMS.
CHAPTER I.— THE ADDUCTION AND
MURDER.
‘Twas the early morning of a bcau
tiful day In midsummer, and just as
the goddess Aurora kissed the hori
zon and sank to rest in the western
portion of the hemisphere, that a
youth of commanding and dignified
demeanor strolled, at the top of his
speed, down the principal street of a
thriving English seaport town, not
three thousand miles from London.
Suddenly sm he walked along, he
was not heard to mutter anything.
Not an audible sound escaped him,
nor did the slightest change o’er
spread his noble countenance, so great
was his control over his powerful in
ward nature.
Ho hart just reached the corner,
and was on the point of turning
round it to proceed homeward by a
smaller street, crossing the other at
right angles diagonally, when, as if
by magic, In; did not meet any one,
nor, indeed, see any one else.
The east was clear!
“Ha! ha! ha!” would have been
the excited ejaculation of almost any
other young man of the same age,
under such trying circumstances;
hut our hero never flinched, nor ut
tered the slightest exclamation to de
note that anything unusually had
happened.
Hut there was a lire in his eye—lie
had only one—and a paler on his
cheeks—he had two or three—which
plainly denoted that he was prepar
ed to meet the situation firmly and
heroicly.
******
{To be continued in our next.)
N. J}.—This is the next.
Chapter 11.—Another Murder
and Another Adduction.
While these strange and terrible
events were transpiring in that lone-
ly vllage, unseen hy mortal eyes, a
trim-built wherry suddenly shot out
from the Custom House Wharf, in
Nassau, N. I’., and urged on by a
stiff breeze from the westward, went
speeding on toward Hog Island.
All unconscious of the fate that a
waited them, the inmates of the boat
sat conversing in low tones, in rela
tion to a strange and suspicious light
that was distinctly visible just at the
water’s edge, on the opposite side of
the island.
While they were conversing, let us
describe them.
Hut first let us tell who they were
Hut first of all let us tell what they
were saying.
“I tell you what it is,” said the
other one’s companion, I been round
this harbor for forty years, and 1 nev
er in all my experience ”
“What!” exclaimed the other,
“what!—what!” lie ejaculated, be
tween his clenched teeth—“what!”
“Yes,” rejoined his companion, ex
excited as the terrible truth gradually
flashed upon him.
‘‘ Y es—y es-es-s-s! ’ ’
All was now confusion. The other
man sprang up like a lion, or, if the
exact truth must be stated, was going
to, but immediately sat down again
before lie had arisen, and as sudden
ly, though with slow deliberation,
remained in that position for as much
as I don’t know how long.
At this very moment the splash of
oars was heard.
“List!”
“Hist!”
“II—sh!”
sh!”
As if the very heavens had been
rent asuned by one fearful smash-up,
the sky suddenly—
We forgot to mention that it was
very dark. A man could not have
seen his hand behind him at a dis
tance of two paces.
The darkness could have been felt.
The struggle was a fearful one.
Each powerful man, half crazed by
the terrible disaster, fought with
careful energy, a reckless persever
ance, a calm but gentle madness, nev
er before witnessed on that coast.
Hut, alas! what could be hoped for
in so unequal an encounter?
We give it up.
Hut there is an “eternal fitness of
things,” which may always be seen
at intervals— a providential interpo
sition of Providence. What might
have been the termination of this
desperate conliict can hardly be
guessed at and that with great cer
tainty. Hut it was not allowed to
terminate at all.
Hark! Through the silent watches
of the dim misty night, rendered
hideous by the combination of noises
prevalent at the hour, a horse’s hoots
—yes, a horse’s hoofs —
(to be continued in our next.)
N. B. —This is—the next.
Chapter ill.—Tiie Terrible Ef
fects of the Result.
But we must turn to our hero,
whom we left in such a critical situa
tion at the end of the first chapter.
Our hero is a duke, although he’s
not aware of it. lie was exchanged
in his infancy by his wicked nurse,
for reasons which will be left to the
reader’s own good sense to unravel.
Hut no more, as she lias long since
gone to another account.
Hut to proceed with our story. As
he walked along listlessly, but with
eyes wide open ami on the alert for
anything which might transpire in
that lonely section of the country,
his foot suddenly struck against
something on the pavement.
It was not a female in long, flow
ing white robes, with black hair
streaming down, nor was her face
o’erspread with a deathly pallor.
“Merciful goodness!” he exclaim
ed, in bitter agony, “it is not a she!”
(TO BE CONTINUED IN OUR NEXT.)
N.B. —More next.
Chapter Iv. —Conclusion.
Reader, you have followed the char
acters of this story through all their
strange vicissitudes, and in saying
farewell do you not feel a slight—
that is to say—but of course you know
what we mean ?
Ah, the human heart is but human!
Would that it could be otherwise;
but how fortunate that it is not!
There was a time when—yes, but
inethinks we hear a thousand voices
exclaim—
“ When !”
At this point we are compelled to
stop.
The End.
We should have said, though, and
meant to say’ that the mercenary
villain dragged out a miserable oxis-
i tonee, and had the melancholy dis
> the good people
of that section of the country point at
his grave in derision and say
heard not what they said.
W hile the happy bride and bride
groom nested ng in the blossoms of
' ION | e ’ ,lvod a green old age,
and have long since been tenderiy
forgotteu by their happy children
fates fel * hQirßlo their princely es-
Finih.
(A r . Jl.—T/tis i* really the end this time.)
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A HINT TO PARENTS.
Messrs, mi tors; My education is
too limited to do this subject justice
l have been looking for someone to
devise a plan whereby this evil mav
be arrested. *
\\ bat I shall say w’ill be plain and
-gh, but I hope it will give no of- j
Parents are all to blame for the wav
< the rising generation is acting. \am
at a loss to say what will become of
our fair daughters. Yes, tens of thou
sands are being raised to know noth
".ms- n Ut f danjeßtic alfairs. J would
guess that there are, in the United
states, one hundred thousand young
"i* rali «! the prettiest
“*» world, who know
neither to toil nor spin, who are vet
dothed like the lillL if th“
vv ho tin urn the piano, and a few of the
thpPihK Uty,the f h . arp; vvho waJk ias
!• ™V, Bays ; sofl, Y» who have read
romances, and some of them seen the
interior of theatres; who have been
admired at the examination at their
r . hi uieir
higli schools; who are, in short, the
ferarden > the attar of
nit,, who yet can never expect to be
married, or, if married, to live with
out {shall I apeak or forbear) putting
their own illy white hands to dv
inestic drudgery. We go into the in-
terior villages ol our recent wooden
country -we find this the case in cit
nTi Iwl' i r V '• ,a g. eß »•, fraiJ 1 one extremity
of the Union to the other, the ringing
ot toe piano wires is- almost us unf
versai a sound as the domestic hum
<>l-He within. We need not enter
in person; imagination sees the fair
one erect on her music stool, laced
and pinioned, and reduced to a ques
tionable class of entomology, dinging
at the wire, as though she could in
some way, hammer out of them mu
sic, amusement, and a husband—
Hook at her snow white hands and
tapering fingers, as they glide over
*l. • o * fcuuu uvtT
the ivory keys. Is she a utilitarian ?
Ask her it she can write a good and
straight-fiirward letter of Ciness
Ask hei it she can compound, pre
pare and afterwards boil or bake a
good pudding. J n short, tell us their
use in existence, except to be con
templated as a pretty picture. It is
a sad and lamentable truth, after all
the incessant din we have heard of
the march of mind and the intermin
able theories, inculcations, and eulo
gies ot education, that the present is
and notoriety, oi exnausaess ana un
quenchubly burning ambition, and
not an age of calm, contented, ripe,
and useful knowledge, for the sacred
privacy of the parlor.
Display, notoriety, surface splen
dor—these are the first aims of the
mother; and can we expect that the
(laughters will drink in a better spir
it? To play, sing, dress, be gay, and
get a husband, is the lesson; not to
be qualified to render his home quiet,
well-ordered and happy.
It is notorious, that there will soon
be no intermediate class between
those who toil and spin, and those
whose claim to be ladies, is founded
on their being incapable of any value
of utility. At present, we know of
none, except the little army of mar
tyrs, yclept school misstresses, and
the still smaller core of editorial and
active blue-stockings. Allow a young
lady to have any hand in the adjust
ment of all the eomponants of her
dress, each of which has a contour
which only the fleeting fashion of the
moment can,settle; allow her to re
ceive morning visitants, and prepare
for afternoon appointments and even
ing parties, and what time has the
clear one to spare, to be useful and do
good labor ? The simple state of the
case is this: There is somewhere, in
all this, an enormous miscalculation,
an infinite mischief, an evil, as we
shall attempt to show, not of transit
ory or minor importance, but fraught
with misery and ruin, not only to
the fair ones themselves, but to soci-
ety and the age. We have not, we
admit, the elements on which to base
the calculation; but we may assume,
as we have, that there are in the Uni
ted States a hundred thousand young
ladies brought up to do nothing, ex
cept dress, and pursue amusements.
It is said that “revolutions never
move backwards.” It is equally true
of emulations of the fashion. The
few opulent who can afford to be
good for nothing, precede. Another
class presses as closely as they can
upon their steps; and the contagious
mischief spreads downward, till the
fond father, who lays everything un
dercontribution, to furnish the means
for purchasing a piano, and hiring a
music master for his daughters, in
stead of being served, when he comes
in from the plough, by the ruined fa
vorites, for whom he has sacrificed so
much, finds that a servant must be
hired for the young ladies. Here is
not the eud of the mischief. Every
one knows that mothers and daugh
ters give the tone, and laws—more
unalterable than these of the Modes
and Persians—to society. Here is
the root of the matter, the spring of
bitter waters. Here is the origin of
the complaint of hard times, bank
; rupteies, greediness, avarice, &e. —
Here is the reason why every man
lives up to his income, and so many
beyond it. Here is the reason why
the young trader, starting on a cred
it, and calling himself a merchant,
hires and furnishes such a house as if
he really was one, and gives to his
creditors a beggarly account of empty
boxes and misapplied sales. He lias
married a wife whose vanity and ex
travaagnee are fathomless, and his
ruin is explained. Hence the gener
al and prevalent evil of the present
times, extravagance—conscious shame
of the thought of being industrious
and useful. Hence the concealment,
by so many thousand young ladies,
(who have not yet been touched by
the extreme of modern degeneracy ,
and who still occasionally apply their
hands to domestic employment,) of
these, their good deeds, with as much
care as if they were crimes. Every
body is ashamed not to be expensive
and fashionable; and every one seems
equally ashamed of honest industry .
I cannot conceive, that idlers, male
or female, can have respect enough
SAMPEL H, SMITH &■ COMPANY, EDITOBS AND PKOPMETOB&
CARTE RSVILLE, GEORGIA,
““fertable. I cannot imagine,
hat thej should not carry about with
H‘ e ® s . uch » consciousness of being a
ffiank in existence, as would be writ
ten on their forehead, in the shrink
, ? humiliation of perceiving that
P U c eye bad weighed them in
Ja *ance, and found them want
tiD -Novels and romances may sav
fM s ° t r , th .at about their ethereal beafl-
1 mcir etnereal beau
‘e!> their lady tricks, Ac. I
ma n S° c u? ce Ption of a beautiful wo
‘s or a fin . e Inan * iu whose eye, in
• js c port, in whose whole express
m.nm !?i Be » timent does not stand
f Su“ pare the sedate ex-
L.nnmn ° f t i lls sentiment in the
ountenanee of manor woman, when I
u°wn to stand, as the index of
"baracter and the fact, with.the su
perficial gaudmess of a simple, good
im nothing belle, w r ho disdains use-
7 wuu uisuains use
lulness and employment whose em-
I pire is the fashionable follies of the
| uay, and whose subjects dandies, as
H ? d as ,useless as herself. Who
1 ilnlnf?’ haS m? 8t attracti ons for a
' ? n . of he, ! se ; The one a help-mete
a fortune in herself, who can aid to
“° ne > If the ha «band has it
ca P sootbe him under the
oss of it, and what is more, aid him
butterfly Und the othor a painted I
butterfly, for ornament only during
mouuisoi pros
pt ity > sbe then becomes a croaking
rcpmmg, ill-tempered termagant’
w ho can only recur to the days other
miirv V « ed i tnUmph ’ t 0 1 111 bit ter the
neiPof a i IJ k pov T rty ’ and hopeless-1
knoa husband, who, like herself,
knows not to dig, and is ashamed to
Ln°?f. *'“! '!!. is severe I a „-
guagei will give no ott'enee. I mean
A lor the good of our country We
SeUcTnH of power - We need en
ergetic and stern applications, to
u ach as deep rooted malady as this
W toward e f Ver Verged more rapid
h ill o ; ex travagance and expense
iuZ/Z: «?y
but good. ' Men of tho Vhf
iTK' «i»
Dos that croak and complain ofthe
condition ol our country, here is tlu*
ongm ol jour evils. Instead of train-
K your son to w'aste iiis time, as an
1 gentleman at large—in
tteD thi lUCUlcatillg 0,1 your daughter,
that the incessant tinkling of a harp
sichord or a sdUnfui and Jadv-like
oss ot the head, are the chief requS
ltcs to make her way in life—ii you
can find no better employment for
them teach him the use of all the
kmmng implements, indiscriminate!
l v . nn Y , 1 uw , muiscnminate
ei’irvfnr n ’ thi,1 e tllat ™ 11CC
eSsai J 101 a good housekeeper. Train
your sons and (laughters to an em
h “h'fronV ‘° ~ ’a y ' O hold the
*Dgn lront, and to walk the f/00.-m.. ,
to e tliesn“( and d |v Pen< •' ° nCe ’ and suffl ciency
to themselves in any fortunes any
country or any state of things When
?ou in 1 1 ! ldreU | iaVC lbese Possessions]
5 oil may go down to the grave in
peace. Let it be remembered, even
” tbc j iI , ld ; S °[y° utk and of prosner
eWftfus 'ironrtiie obligation of la
bor and of (tvai-Hn,, |°„* I 1
membered that idleness is ever the
parent of vice; and that it is in the
genial house of youth, that all these
habits of thought, and of conduct are
acquired, which determine tho hap-1
piness or the misery of future days.
Let it lastly be remembered, that all
the hours of time and of eternity, be
long to wisdom, industry, and perse
verance. Stilesboro.
GREAT MEN AND TIIEIR
WIVES.
From the days of Socrates to Char
les Dickens there has been one long
succession of unfortunate examples.
Poet and painter, dramatist and nov
elist, philosopher and linguist—the
Moleries, and Miltons, the Byrons,
the Bulwers, the Duress, the Scali
gers, the Sheridans, the Thackerays
—will all marry and quarrel in the
future, as in the past, blame their
wives for successive catastrophes.
And yet what a record of heartless- j
ness and indifference our great men
have left in their domestic life. Dr-
Franklin, that old utilitarian kite
flyer, went to Europe, leaving his
wife behind, and never saw her face
for eleven years. She had shared
his poverty, practiced his Poor Rich
ard maxims, pinched aud economis
ed, patched and darned, worked ear
ly and late, bred children, nursed
them through jaundice, red gum
whooping cough, measles, scarlet fe
ver aud fits, while Bcniamine enjoy
ed the splendor of a court, velvet
cushions, great dinners and choice
society. Os course when he came
back, the poor drudge was no match
fur the philosopher; there was a
great gulf between them. That her
heart rebelled is manifest in the head
strong acts other children. He quar
reled with his sons and disinherited
one of them. Thus the mother was
revenged. A just retribution for any
wrong on woman is sure to come, in
the vice and crime at her.children, to
the third and fourth generation.
Henry Clay thought he could safely
leave his wife at Ashland to her chil
dren and make butter for the Hexing
ton market while he made laws for
the nation and love to the lovely wo
men in Washington. There his heart
stood always epen as my boarding
house door, but shut against her who
was playing Solomon’s wise woman
on a farm in Kentucky; cutting out
linsey and jeans far the “nigger.”
ITis dream of ambition over, sick and
sad, he went oack to Ashland to find
that the domestic drudge, called by
the holy name of wife, had raised up
for him a race of degenerate aud way
ward children. lie was filled with
the bitterness of disappointment.
But they measured the depth of the
mother’s humiliation. The annals of
indifference and relation were but
equal. Was it the sorrowful mother
that made one son crazy with hope
less love; another a sour, disconten
ted man, overcome through life with
a sense of inferiority; and jockeys
and gambelers of the rest ? Truly,
wisdom is justified by her children.
We do not gather grapes from thistles,
nor figs from thorns. By their fruits
ye shall know them. Croat pacifica
tor ! How could he fathom the cause
of our social wrongs? We cannot
quench our thirst at sweet and pleas
ant streams whose fountains we have
poisoned. He might despise the wife
who ministered to him in carnal
things, but just aud mighty was her
revenge. Henry Clay is dead, com
promise matters are scattered to the
winds; but his misdeeds live after
him. His own Theodore still lingers
in the asylum at Lexington. There
is but one thing immortal, and that
is love. — Mrs. Stanton in Baptist Un
ion.
transfixed.
The following rare bit is from the
-Saturday Evening Post: “We shall
aG ver forget that evening we spent
at Magruder’s years ago. We ad
mired Miss Magruder, and we went i
around to see her. It was summer
tune, and moonlight, and she sat up
on the piazza. The carpenter had I
been there that day, glueing np the
rustic chairs on the poarch, so we
took a seat on the step in front of
Miss Magruder, where we could gaze
into her eyes and drink in her smiles,
it seems probable that tho carpenter
must have upset his glue-pot on the
jA. where we sat, for after enjoying
Miss Magruder’s remarks for a coup
pi of hours, and drinking several of
her smiles, we tried to rise for the
purpose of going home; put found
that we were immovable fixed to the
!S en Miss. Magruder said:
liont, r wouin't: ‘?he »nvS:
1 and uf l a t ‘T! dder tono after that,
ft un O M » h f re thinkin » Whether
it would be better to ask Miss Mrgru
-1 and uh vvit pdraw while we disrobed
! home 111 Highland costume
warn we , shou!d tirge her to
shm m P - th pokcr ’ or whether we
t Z d r?M 0n J eternfie wrench and
ra « b,ed °wn the yard back
ward. About midnight Miss Ma
gruder y awned, and said she believ-
«l sue oeuev
!n(h J voul ? §° t 0 bi ‘ (l - Then we
hnV 1 y aßkod her if she thought
mT kl , bor w ould have any objection
finding us lus front steps a few
; y8 ’ bec *ause we wanted to take them
home for a pattern. We think Miss
d,mbf U< e J must have entertained
in raHed f i ° Ur t sa , nity > for rushed
, her father , and screamed.
LntE , ad . er with a double
i, (l ” r T uuwii witn a double
“rr T1 >en he explained
the situation in a whisper, and he
)f ™ a * S; , UV and cut out the P iece
T f h kp t 0 winch we were attached,
inen we went home wearing the
).a eh and before two o’clock brushed
°\r young love for Miss Magru
thvlur)1 V ° n ®Y er called again, and she
min an f UWUy 0,1 11 il k
nan. liiereis a melancholy satis
iacdon in recalling these menories of
enfi;V UI i ld rtdlectin 8' upon her influ
human£rt UP °" the “notions ofthe
AX OUTSPOKEN JOURNALIST.
A newspaper called the Coach has
WARNING.
carrie- E'S dip,r of the Coach
cai ie.T ais office in his hat, and will
always be found at home
t he fighting editor has gone to the
docks, but the Cardiff Giant takes his
place, and will be around every Sat
urdayeveni,,.. to settle alt dfffl™!-
"t. &££
c!u!ffm\ , hi , ,u? Wl,SOfall ,ho ® Who
rp ! lG Coach hna. :k,
whip over who he pleases.*
The Coach has neither money nor
credit, and doesn’t need any.
We have no list of exchanges, and
don’t expect any. If any one says
anything mean of us we desire a
copy. If anything good they can
keep it to themselves.
Our stock of modesty is barely suffi
cient for our own use. We have
none to sell, and don’t know anyone
in these parts that wants to buy any.
RESOLUTIONS.
Resolved:
That quotation marks are a nuis
ance.
That we don’t know anything
about grammar.
That we can’t spell and don’t want
to learn.
That we never saw a Rhetoric.
That wo won’t do anything for
nothing.
We will never go back on a friend
or let up on an enemy.
HOW ST PAUL LOOKED.
Some years since the pastor of a
New England village church adop
ted a plain to interest the members of
his flock in the study of the Bible.
It was this: At the Wednesday even
ing meeting he would give out; some
topic to be discussed on the ensuing
week, thus giving a week for them
to study up. One week th? subject
was St. Paul. After the preliminary
devotional exercises, the pastor call
ed upon His deacons to “speak to the
question.” One immediately arose
and began to describe the personal
appearance of the great apostle to the
Gentiles. lie said St. Paul was a
tall, rather spare man, with black
hair and eyes, dark complexion,
bilious temperament, etc. His pic
ture of Paul was a faithful portrait of
himself. He sat down, and another
pillar of the church arose and said,
“I think the brother preceding me
has read the Scriptures to little pur
pose, if his description of St. Paul
was as I understand it a father short,
thick-set man, with sandy hair gray
eyes, florid complexion, and a ner
vous sanguine temperament,” giving
like his predecessor an accurate pic
ture of lnmsel.f He was followed by
another and who was withal an in
veterate stammerer. He shoke about
as follows: “Me bro-bro-bretheren.
ap-pe-pearance of St. P-p-paul.
But one thing is clearly established,
and tha-that is St. P-p-paul had an
iinp-p-pediment in his speach.”
The effect can be imagined. A “ti
dal wave” of audible smiles swept
over the congregation, the good cler
gyman taking his full quota. He
immediately arose and dismissed the
assembly.
Dangerous to those who Mis
behave.—The New York sun tells
of a small octagonal house, perched
on a summit in Central Park, New
York wherein by looking on a white
table one can see in a flash every
body in Central Park, and exactly
what everybody is doing. It is a
Camera Obscura, and is used by the
police—by persons in quest of friends,
parents who want to know where
their lost children are staying—lov
ers who wish to discover whether
Tom or Susan have—parents uneasy
about Torn or Susan—scandal mon
gers who like to see what the affec
tionate couples who seek the groves
and grottoes are about, and wives
and husbands who think it is just as
well to keep their eyes opea. It is a
dangerous institution.
A lady in Edenburgh wears a
mole-skin mantle manufactured from
the coats of nearly 600 moles captured
on her own property.
THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 26, 1873.
paragraphs.
-Jr, Tetegraph and Hessen
th *. S enui »e cotton cater
iSru m ‘ ntage iUS°U,h
a J‘i g;
&!??£ r ? "k& th l United Staies « a vs
bet&'SVd.h annSSl,aU not j
•iinh d V <^ s *. fro,n Guatemala to May
obth state that the President has is
a decree granting religious lib
tesr-mt t h G ‘ S at °* A numbe r of Pro
testant churches will be erected.
The Atlanta National Bank of
«T a stateboSl“ f at he p“r Cightper '
cinh orf Grant is to pre-
MAvf* thls c °uutry into a war with
Mexico,.we want him to distinctly
ffj l that these veins are not
tL sna ed a - pori to aid in furnishing
me supply ot gore.
ITALY.
Rome, June 17.-The Senate to
a n- eand a blll for the suppression
GS o S!° U Tif rpomtions by a v °te of
he rovD Ahe “ easure n °w awaits
the lojal sanction to become the
jgw n * E a D c bo r e J K ‘ ke i’> “Down
vTnila n awakened one night by a
violet thunderstorm. Being some
“\Wfe) mid ;- h , e awokehisi wife with
I>iv f i.f W T, fe i do y . ou su PP°es the
ncj i Judgement has come?”
Shut up, you fool p* was the affec
tionate reply. “How can the Day of
Judgement come in the night?” y
Adjustment: Bootmaker (who has
SYofl ? f . tro, . ll, te.with his eusto
uter) I think, sir, if you were to
cut your corns, I could more easilv
m u. y< ‘-! a P uir -” Choloricold gentte
ni.ui— Cut my corns, sir! I ask you
to ht me a pair of boots to my feet
hd . J in not going to plane my feet
flown to fit your boots!”
Some people are as careful of their
troubles as mothers are of their ba
bies; they cuddle them, and rock
them, and hug them, and fly into a
passion with you if you try to take
them away from them; they want
you to fret with them, and to hein
them to believe that they have been
worse treated than anybody else.
SLEEP AS A MEDICINE.
A physician says the cry for rest
has always been louder than the cry
for food Not that it is more impor
tant but R is often harder to obtain.
COmcs from a s °und
sleep. Oftvvo men or women, other
wise equal the one who sleeps the
best will be the most moral, healthv
and efficient. Sleep will do much
to cure irritability of temper, peev
ishness, uneasiness. It will restore
t 0 VRor an overworked brain. It
will euro a oroKcn apnai. Z"
cure sorrow. Indeed we might make
a long list of nervous and other mala
dies that sleep will cure. The cure
of sleeplessness requires a clean, good
bed, sufficient exercise to produce
weariness, pleasant occupation, good
air, and not two warm a room, a
clear stomach, a clear conscience, and
avoidance ot* stimulants and narcot
ics. For those who are overworked,
haggard, nervous, who pass sleepless
nights, we commend the adoption of
habits as shall secure sleep; other
wise life will be short and what there
is of it sadly imperfect.
THE GREAT MYSTERY.
The body is to die. No one who
passes that boundary comes back to
tell. The imagination visits the
land of shadows, sent out from some
window of the soul over life’s rest
lass waters, but wings its way back
without a live leaf in its beak as a
token of merging life beyond the
closely blending horizon. The great
sun comes, goes in the heavens, yet
breathes no secret of the ethereal
wilderness. The crescent moon
cleavas her nightly passage across
the upper deep but tosses overhead
no signals. The centinel stars chal
lenge each other as they walk their
nightly round, but we catch no coun
tersign which gives passage to the
heavenly music. Between this and
the other life there is a great gulf
fixed across which neither foot nor
eye can travel. The gentle friend
whose eyes were closed in their last
long sleep, long years ago, died with
rapture in her wonder stricken eyes,
a smile of ineffable joy upon her
lips, and hands folded over a tri
umphant heart; but her lips were
speechless, and intimated nothing of
the vision that enthralled her.
A BEAUTIFUL INCIDENT.
There is a poetry of deeds as well
as of words. There natures that per
haps would make a grievous failure
in weaving though into beautiful dic
tion of prose or rhyme that flash out
their native nobility or beauty in
acts that have a romance beyond ex
pression, and that are the incarna
tion of poetic sentiment.
The heart that puts noble or beau
tiful feeding into practical achieve
ment utters the true poetry of the
world.
The following touching incident is
one of those acts of exalted and ex
quisite sentiment that have a pathos
beyond all word-utterance of the
most gifted genius:
A short time since, in this city, a
brilliaut and much admired lady, j
who had been suffering for some time !
with a trouble of the eyes, was led to ;
fear a speedy change for the worse, I
and immediately consulted her phy- 1
sician. An examination discovered j
a sudden and fatal failing in the optic 1
nerve, and the information was im- 1
parted as gently as possible that the i
patient could not retain her sight 1
more than a few days at most, and i
was liable to be totally deprived of it j
at any moment. The afflicted moth-;
er returned to her home quietly !
made such arrangements as would |
occur to one about to commence so
dark a journey of life, and then had
her two little children, attired in
their brightest and sweetest costumes,
brought before her; and so, with their
little faces lifted to hers, and tears
gathering for some great misfortune
that they hardly realized, the light
faded out of the mother’s eyes, leav
ing an ineffaceable picture of those
dearest to her on earth—a memory of
bright faces that will console her in
many a dark hour. —Covington {KiJ.)
Journal.
.THE
Standard & Express
| Is pubmheJ ewiy THURSDAY MORNING
BY
8. H. SMITH & CO.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICK:
$2 per annum, in advance.
fsiMMQNSI
For over FORTY YEARS this
purely vegetable
■'vc*' Mttlicine has provtsl to be the
GREAT UNFAILING SPECl
ofcareftil experiments, to meet a
111,111 our , M ' o ‘luce
the pr.epar.ed,
f torni Ot; SIMMOX’S I.IVJOi’ It r
Mr**
ONE DOLLAR BOTTLES
Sent by mail . .V.n'S P » r
-A? CAUTION.
t<»?uS.e”VSoure.Z- r v.n^ n \ on,S Uvei * K^nla.
Trade Mark, Stan. >Vnn L with the
None other i> «eiHiinc. d b ° Uui '° uabl ' ok<J1 '.
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MACON, GA., AND PHILADELPHIA.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
Professional and Business Cards
JOHN W. WOFFORD. TuO MA3 W. JULN'ER
WOFFORD & MILNER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CAHTERSVILLE.GA.
I lCi; «P stairs, Bank Block.
n-5-tr.
Office over the Bank.
JOHN L. MoON ,
ATTORNEY AT LA W ,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Will practice in the counties comprising tlie
Cherokee Circuit, Ollice over I.iebnian’s store.
jj \V. MURPIICY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE. GA.
Will practice in the courts of the Cherokee
Circuit. Particular attention given to the col -
ection of claims. Office with Col. Alxla John
son. Oct. 1.
P. WOFFORD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
OFFICE in Court-llouse. jan 26
m. i o u r i:,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
( With Col. Warren Akin,)
Will practice in the courts of Bartow, Cobb,
Polk, Floyd, Cordon, Murray, Whitfield and ad
joining counties. ' March 30.
B. McDANIEL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CARTERSVILLE, GA.
Office with John W. Wofford. jan ’72
C, H. BATES.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Office oyer store oi Ford ft Briant.
Feb. 0-
BE. W. A. TEOTTEE
OFFERS his PHOFES3SOXAI. .SERVICES
to the citizens of Cai tersviiie.
Office with Dr. Baker.
(Jartersville, oa., Jau. 7,187.5.
Medical IVotice.
DR. W. HARDY, having removed to this
city, proposes
PRACTICING DICINE,
in ail its brandies, and is also prepared for
OPERATIVE SURGERY.
•u—9l-1
DR. J. A. JACKS OF*,
PRACTICING PHASIC IAN' AND SHi£EoN.
OFFICE in the Clayton Building on West
Main Street over the store of Trammell A
Norris, where he may be found during the day,
except when out upon a professional call.
Oct. 27.
W. It. .Tfoiintcanillc,
Jeweler and Watch and Clock
Repairer,
CAKTER3VIUK,. GEORGIA.
Office in trout of .V. A. Skinner A Co’s store.
GEN. W. T. WOFFRD. JNO. 11. WIKLE
Wofford ds Wllilo,
ATTORNEYS - AT - LAW,
AND
Real Estate Agents,
Carter svil G
SPECIAL ATTENTION given to the pur
dsu« su ale if lie.il Estate. -23-Cm
TO RENT.
IIoiTSE AND LOT desirably located on
Forest street
Ajtply io B. SCOFIELD.
READ HOUSE,
■* routing Passenger l>ej»ot,
JOHNT.READ, Procrietor.
Lar s© Fronts
from
SMALL INVESTMENTS!
THE NATIONAL
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
ISSUES THE LARGEST POLICIES
For tlxo Smallest
Amount or Money
Ol any Safe ompany In the United
States.
PAYS ALL BOSSES PROMPTLY ! *>
efore Insuring in any other Company, call
a,U M°° u JOHN T. OWEN
March I*—£ m ,
— A gen t.
SeTiM Macliini Needles and Maciiiue Oil
Kept Constantly On Hand,
And for Sale By j, e. SCOFIELD,
mch!3tf CARTERSVILLE. GA.
M. 11. AMKLK. u. XV. W A.LDRUP
Wm. 11. IVIKLE & CO.,
DEALERS IN
TOBACCO, CICARS AND PIPES,
CONFECTIONERIES,
FANCY groceries, etc..
Post Office Building. Carter* vUIe. Ga.
Feb. ()-ly.
WANTED -MONEY I
FAffiaarjistsfsj
pi e», to come and settle up for the same Wc>
w ant money, and money we must have .
a bly% it we cun, forcibly, if we must tilL ;
™ talking, for that dm,’t“rfng the „io„-
do’ti'e foh- thing. U and caß and pa'V’up BteVuie
caVu" Kaffir, u, « t the >' “«-t
Ciirtersvillc, Ua./wch 0|' 187.1. -u‘ N E & C °‘
F. M. RICHARDSON,
dealer in
OFFFKITO,
TIN WA8.33, cfcc,
Cor. Whitehall and Hunter St’s,
ATLANTA, GORGIA.
Er Laavshe,
NO. CO, WHITEHALL STREET,
ATLANTA, GA.
HAS JUST RETURNED FROM MARKET,
and is now receiving and opening one of
the largest stocks of
FINE JEWELRY
In upper Georgia, selected with care for the
FALL AND WINTER TRADE
W a t o la e s
m
£SSSSL.
01 the BEST MAKERS of EUROPE an
AMERICA.
AMERICAN AND FRENCH CLOCKS;
STERLING and COINJSILYER-WARE,
And the best quality of
SILVER PLATED GOODS,
SPECTACLES TO SUIT ALL AGES.
Watches and Jewelry repaired by Gompcten*
Workmen. Also Clock ami Watch Makers
Tools and Materia'-.
sep 13-1 y
COTTON GINS!
THE IMPROVED
WINSHIP COTTON GIN!
For lightness of draft, fast ginni tg, cleaning
the seed well, and making good sample, this
Gin has no equal. It is made of the
X33*3SIT MATERIAL
to be had in this Country or Europe, in good
style and well finished. Planters ire invited
to call on us in Atlanta, or at any-cd onr Agen
cies, and examine this Gin, before purchasing;
also to scad in their orders early, to insure
their being filled in good time for the comiug
crop, Bend for Circulars.
GILBERT & BAXTER, Ageuts, Carters
ville, Ga.
WINSHIP & GO,,
Atlanta, (k,
Mtfy 1K73. vims
TANARUS, B. SHOCKIEY
KmJ'Jw! '•Cffier.vill,,
Iniiitiuir tin* deiftoi *"* P*^ c sqtiar**
goods oral! kin, li. ’ UUI * K<l|ler " l m>k of
P • S . M
1 bought a
DOMlanc sewing machine
it has not' eost one doUar pr f** nt tin ‘ e
iove it to Im- mZ.I riV w!£k reiJi “ j :'- 1 '•*-
it runs very light, docs its "• htni ,iew *
wea,> le» than «;;r u .l c hino k IHTl H T' V,,iv *»»-•
woulti BotcxchtTiirc it know of, I
<*« «.,> Other .uX rlh ‘ n * w, “ s « »>••! lN*st
Atlanta, May Bth. __ C.aki Bmohx,.
J. E. SCOFIELD. Agent, Culinniie, Ga.
w. A. DEWEESE, Apt,
JjAvrst; prnoi.vsED tiik stock of
(iltOCEßllijj,
produce, confectioneries,
LIQUORS, .V <
"uRStftU £?!*', * * <,*>■*•». Will
tier Puckett’* ii.?i U .fiT ss iU U,e ol, ‘ »»«Mti un-
Uudr old customers HndLvV.'.^i l^ 11 -’ I ,? viU;s *U
SftISSK Kp s£SS
£agg?XnaJrtttite w!
invite, h|, n-teS' " , 1 * 1 * “J 1 * linti.v, au,[
PLANTERS' & MINERS’ BANK
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA,
ORGANIZED JUNE, 1872.
. DIRECTORS
LEWIS TIJYII IV ,
M. G. DOBBINS,' '/* J ',i?°' VA RD,
n'-J. «ilso.v.*" " i:'u
n w President,
B. W. K. PEACOCK, Cashier.
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL, SIOO,OOO,
Daid in, #50,000
C. D. ROGERS & CO.,
Sucessors to I. C. Mangold & Cos.,
merchant WILLERS,
And Pronrietors of
“Holly Mills.”
CARTERSVILLE GA.
SPOTSWOOD HOTEL,
(Opposite Dejjot,)
BOARD $3 00 PER DAY.
11-l l-6.i1.
sic ivrmvu
T. R . GRIMES
Desires to inform the residents of Cartersvi
and surrounding district that he
has opened a
Tea and Hoiso-Fiiraistoi Store
on West Main Street, first door east of Gould
suiith’s Furniture Store, a choice selection of
NEW GOODS including the following :
CARPETS,
Matting, Buggy and Door Mats, Oil-Cloths,
Hearth Rugs, Hassocks, Tubs, Buckets, Sugar
Buckets, Rolling Pins, Clothes Pegs, and Wood
W are in variety.
BASKETS,
of every kind, Combs, Brushes, Fancy Soap
and Toilet Articles, Looking Glasses, Travs
ami IV alters, Castors, Plated S|>oons, and a
variety of House-Furnishing Goods.
Musical Instruments,
Stationery and School Slates, Green and Dried
Fruits, Nuts, Candies and Crackers, Canned
Fruits and Jellies.
LaMreth’s Vegetable and Flower Seeds,
and would call particular attention to aver
choice selection of
TEA,
just received direct from Europe, in original
Chinese packages, and which will be sold un
usually low, beginning with a really good ar
ticle at 75 cents per {sound.
Coffee, greeu and roasted, Sugar, Spices.
2-20
It Leads to Happiness!
A Boon lo the W|ole_Race of Woman!
DR. J. BRAD FIELD’S
FEMALE REGULATOR!
It will bring on the Menses: relieve all pain
at the monthly “Period;” cure Rheumatism
and Neuralgia oi Back and Uteru?; Leueor
rhmaor “Whites,” and partial Prolapsus Uteri;
check excessive flow, and correct all irregular
ities peculiar to ladies.
It will remove all irritation of Kidney* and
Bladder; relieve C'oativeness; purifv the Blood:
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 all the above
diseases without revealing their comuLiints to
any person, which is always mortUyiriy to their
pride and modesty.
It is recommended by the lrest physicians and
the clergy.
LaGUAVOE, Ga., March 23,1870.
BRAPMELD ft GO., Atlanta, Ga,—Dear
Sir?: 1 take pleasure in staling that I have used
for the last twenty years, the medicine you are
now putting nii, know n as Dr. J. Bia'diield’s
FEMALE REGULATOR, and consider it the
best combination ever gotten together for the
diseases for which it is recommended. I have
been familiar with the prescription both as a
practitioner of medicine and in domestic prac
tice, and can honestly tav that I consider it a
boon to suffering females, and can but hope
that every lady in our w hole land, w ho mav Ik
suffering in any way peculiar to their sex. mav
he able to procure a bottle, that their sufferings
may not only lie relieve- 1 , but that they may be
restored to health and strength. With my
kindest regards, 1 am respectfully,
\V. B. FERRELL, M. D.
Near Marietta. Ga., March 21,1870.
MESSRS. WM. ROUT ft SOX.-Dear Sirs:
Some months ago I bought a bottle of BRAD
FIEI.D’S FEMALE REGULvTOR from vol.
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 letnales ivlio
have U9cd your REGULATOR are in perfect
health, and are able to attend to their house
hold duties, and we cordially recommend it to
the public. Yours respectfully,
Rkv. 11. B. JOHNSON.
We could add a thousand other certificates;
but we consider the above amply sufficient
proo' of its virtue. All we ask is a’trial.
For full particulars, historv of diseases, and
certificates of its woudenul cures, the reader is
referred to the wrapper around the bottle.
Manufactured and sold by
BRADFIELD <fc CO„
I'ricfe |1 60. ATLANTA, GA.
. . . , Sold Wy all Druggists,
1-30-1?.
SUBSCRIPTION :
$2 per annum.
NO. 27.