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the standard and express. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. VOL. 14. 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.) f For the Standard & Express J 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 '. J. H. ZEILIN & Cos., 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.
