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CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, THURSDAY,* JUNE 16, 1870.
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Tlie Trundle Bed.
As I ramaged through the garret,
Lwtt'aiag to the falling rain,
As it pattered on the shingles,
And against the window pane,
Peeping over chests and boxes,
tfhich with dust were thickly spread,
Saw I in the farthest corner
What was once my trundls bed ;
And I drew it from the receas.
Where it had remained so long,
Hearing all the while the music
Of ray mother’s voice in song,
As she sang in sweetest accents,
What I since have often read,
44 llu8h, my dear, lie still and slumber,
Holy angels guard thy bed.”
As I listened, recollection
That.I thought had been forgot,
Cutnc with all the gush of memory
Rushing, thronging to the spot,
As L waudered back lb childhood,
To those merry days of yore
When I knelt beside my mother.
By this bed open the floor.
Then it was with hands so gently
Placed upon my infant bead,
That she taught my lips to utter
Carefully the words she said.
Never can they be forgotten,
Deep are they in memory graven—
"Hallowed be Thy name, oh. Father i
Father 1 Thou who art in Heaven.”
A True Story of the
AUSTRIAN BUSH.
This she taught me, then she told me
Of its import, great and deep,
After which I learned to utter
"Now they lay me down to sleep.”
Then it was with hands uplifted,
And in accents soft and mild.
That my mother asked "our Father V*
* Father, do thou bless my child 1”
Years have passed, and that dear mother
Long has mouldered ’neath the sod
And I trust her sainted Bpirit
Revels in the house of God,
But that scene at summer twilignt
Never has from memory fled.
And it comes in all its freshness,
When I see my trundle bed.
EiRLY Breakfast.—A bad custom is
prevalent in many families, .specially
among farmers, of working an hour or
two before breakfast, attending to chores
hoeing in the garden, cutting wood,
mowing, etc. This is convenient on
many accounts, but it is not conducive
to health. The prevalent opinion is, that
the morning air is the purest and most
healthful and bracing, but the contrary
is the fact. At no hour of the day is
the air more filled with dampness, fogs
and miasmas, then about sunrise. The
heat of the sun gradually removes the
miasmatic influences as "the day advan
ces An early metal braces np the sys
tem against these external influences.—
livery one knows the languor and faint
ness often experienced for the first hour
tn t.he morning, and that this is increas
ed by exercise and want of food. We
do not agree with the boarding school
regime which prescribes a long walk
before breakfast as a means of promo
ting health. Probably the best custom
world be to furnish every member of
the family, especially those who labor
out of doors, with a single enpof warm
coffee, well milked, immediately after
rising from bed. Then let them attend
tochres, or mowing, hoeing, etc., for an
hour or two, while teams are feeding,
and the breakfast preparing. They will
feel better and do more work.—Ameri
can Agricidturalut.
Swallowed a House.—-John Hayner,
while on a bender, — 3 - -
while on a bender, recently, mads
mistake very natural to one in bis con
dition.
He imagined that he was indulging
in copious libatious of benzine, when, in
fact, he was drinking genuine linseed
oil.
Shortly afterward John felt a qneer
taste coming into his mouth.
The first idea that occurred to him
was that he was poisoned.
A physician was sent for, and he ap
plied a stomach-pump.
‘Is there arsenic in it, doctor P faintly
inquired the patient
‘No,’ replied the Esculapioiu, ‘it
smells like a newly painted house.’
‘ What!’exclaimed John.
‘It smalls like a newly painted house,’
repeated the physician.
‘Doctor,’ cried the now excited
tient. ‘you donjUneauto
Some years ago, two men, Charles
Storey and Edward Ladbary, had
charge of an out-lying sheep-station,
belonging to Mr. John Hassall, a
wealthy Austrian squatter. The first
named was the shepherd, the second the
butkeeper. Their hut stood in the
midst of a scene of primitive nature.—
Except the folds for the flocks, there
were no enclosures of any description.
The country was an open expanse of
grass, with a few undulations dotted
sparsely with evergreeD trees mostly of
the etringy-bark species. The walls of
the but were built of rough stakes,
with mud and reeds between them, oth
er long poles formed the roof, which
was covered with rnshes. The fire
place was constructed of stones collee
ted from the neighborhood, and in this
the men baked their daily dampy, com
posed of floor and water and salt, nnd
boiled their kettle of tea. Their stores
consisted of salt beef and pork, floor
and rice in casks, a chest of tea, some
sugar and raisins, and a few other ar
ticles. Tin cups and plates, and two
or three knives and forks formed their
dinner and tea service ; a kettle and
saucepan and gridiron were their chief
cooking utensils; some rough slabs of
the stringy-bark trees on tressels, tick
ing filled with wool, a couple of blank
ets, and a kangaroo-skin rug apiece,
formed tbeir beds.
Such a life as they led, in spite of its
sameness, its solitude and danger, has
its charms for many men. They were
contented. May be, their early days
had been spent in poverty and starva
tion in some crowded city, amid scenes
of profligacy, squalor, and suflering.
Here they enjoyed pare air, a bright
sky, and abundance of food, and were
moved from the temptations which bad
once beset them. Those who have once
occupied nearly every position in life
will be found among the shepherds and
but-keepers of Austria—men who have
been brought to poverty either through
tbeir own faults or the faults of others.
Few of them like to speak of their ear
ly lives. Whatever had been the posi
tion of Storey aud Ladbary, they
were now steadily performihg tbeir du
ty. Having despatched their early
breakfast, the two men counted arid ex
amined the sheep as they came out of
the fold, and picked out those requiring
any particular treatment. Storey then
started with the flock to a distant pas
ture.
Landbury had no lack of duties.—
There was the fold to repair here and
there, seme sick sheep to doctor, the roof
of the but to patch, aud a piece of gar
den ground, which he had wisely begun
to cultivate, to attend to. His dinner
was quickly dispatched, llis usnal
companion, a favorite dog, had disap
peared, he could not tell how, but much
feared it had been bitten by a snake
aud had died in the bush. lie lit bis
(iipe, ar*d smoked and thought awhil
Again he busied himself out of doors,
and once more returned to his hut to
prepare the evening meal for himself
and his companion. He was about to
hook the freshly-made dampers out of
the ashes, when he heard a low moan.
He listened—the sound was repeated.
He hurried out and looked about him.
It must have been fancy, be thought,
and was about to return to the hut,
when the sound again reached his ears.
It came from a cluster of bushes a little
distanco off. With an anxious heart
ho ran to the place, and there found his
companion lying on the ground, bleed
ing trom numerous wounds, and with a
spear head still sticking in his body.—
Lifting Storey in his arms, he carried
him to the hut and laid him on his bed.
‘It’s the work of those black fellows, 1
said Ladbury, looking round the lint
None were in sight He came back,
and warmed some water, balhod poor
Storey’s wounds, then he carefully cut
out the barbed head ot the spear, and
continued bathing the wound, except for
a short time, when he poured some
warm tea down the sufforer’e throat.
Every moment while thus employed he
expected the natives to attack the hut.
He had no longer Rover to give him
warning of the approaching of a foe.—
There was little doubt that his poor
dog also had been speared. The pain
being soothed, Storey at length, to Lad-
bury’s great joy, returned to conscious
ness, and explained that he had been
attacked early in the day by natives.—
He had run from them after receiving
several wounds, but had been speared
again half a mile or so from the hut,
and had crawled the rest of the dis
tance, till he fainted from loss of blood
and the pain he was suflering.
Sad indeed was the condition of those
two poor fellows, with no white man
nearer than twenty miles, and no sur
geon within, probably two hundred.—
Night at length came on, when, as the
natives never move about in the dark,
they knew they were safe. But they
both felt certain the attact would be re
newed by daylight, and the event prov
ed they were right. •
Soon after dawn Ladbnry, who, over
come with fatigue, had dozed off, was
startled by the sound of a spear being
forced through the reed-made door of
the hut. Another and auother followed
through the slightformed walls,
■VVe shall be murdered, mate, if I
don’t put them to flight,’ be exclaimed,
taking bis pocket-knife and bill-hook,
the only weapons he possessed, the first
in his left hand, the other partly covered
by his coat, so that it looked like a pis
tol. ‘All ready. We may never meet
again in this world, so, good bye, Char
ley, but I’ll chance it.” Suddenly he
sprang through the doorway, shouting to
the blacks, nearly fifty of whom he saw
before him, that be would shoot if they
didn’t run. They scarcely daring to
look at what they believed to be his
pistol, after exchanging a few werds
with each other, to his great relief be
gan to retire, and as he shouted louder,
took to their heels.
We are saved, Charley,’ he exclaimed,
almost breathless with excitement—
‘But the niggers will be back again.—
Do you think you could move aloDg if 1
were to help you ?’
‘No, Ned, that I couldn’t,’ answered
Storey. ‘But do you get away. You’d
easily reach Jenymugup before night
fall, and if you can bring help I know
you will; if not—why my sand is pret
ty well run out as it is. Gods’ will be
done. _
Ml am
firmly. 1 While yob have life I’ll stay by
you, and tend you as well as I can; so
that matter is settled.’
The boors passed slowly away. Lad
bury cooked their food and nursed hi*
mate ns gently as a woman could have
done. Night came, and at length they
both slept. Ladbury was awoke by a
call from Storey.
‘Ned, sleep has done me good; I
thick I could travel if I were once on
my legs,’ be said.
Ladbnry slightly made up their bed
ding and a few household articles they
possessed into a bundle, which be hoist
ed on to his broad shoulders.
* Now, mate, come alone,’ he ..said,
lifting Storey up, and making him rest
on bis arm. It was two hours past
midnight, and they hoped to get a good
start of the blacks. But they bad not
proceeded many hundred yards before
Storey found he had overrated his
strength, and sank to the ground.
‘Now, Ned, you must go,’ he whie-
pered. ‘Save yourself; I can but die
once, and yon’ll only lose your life if you
stop to help me.’
‘What I’ve said I’ll do, I hope to
stick to,’ answered Ladbury. Still Sto
rey urged him to continue his journey
alone. Ned made no reply, but sud
denly started off at a quick pace. Sad
indeed must have been poor Storey’s
feelings when be saw him disappear in
the gloom of night. Death was com
ing sure enough. Already he repented
of having urged his friend to fly.—
Daylight would discover him to the
blacks, and they would finish their work
in revenge for the escape of bis com
panion. Suddenly a footstep was heard.
Ladbury appeared without his bundle.
‘What! did you tbiuk I really was
going ?’ he asked in low voice. ‘You’ll
not beg me to leave you again, mate.—
Come get on my shoulders; we’ll see
what I can do.’
Ladbnry walked on with the wound
ed man on bis back for half a mile or
more. ‘Now sit down here, and I’ll go
back for the bundle,’ he said, placing him
under a bush. No one but a man long
accustomed to the wilds of Australia
could have found his way as Ladbury
did. He soon again passed Storey with
their bundle on his shoulders, and once
more returned for him. Thus thsy
journeyed till the sun rose, when they
reached a stream which they well kuew,
having travelled aboat seven miles.—
Ladbury, however, was so completely
exhausted by big exertions that be felt,
unable to crawl another mile, much less
to carry bis two burdens. Storey had
again become so ill, and his wounds
were so painful, that it seemed doubtful
that lie would survive if moved further.
Though the daDger was great, Ladbury
resolved to camp where they were for
some days, ’till Storey had partly recov
ered stiength. At last he bethought
him, that though Storey could not walk,
and ho oould not longer carry him on
his shoulpers, he might drag bint along,
shold the blacks not have traced them
out. He accordingly, with the aid of
kb» sticks cut’froiu the bush, and their
bedding, formed a sleigh, which, without
much difficulty, he coaid drag along.—
On this he placed the wounded man,
with sch provisions as remained, and
recommenced his toilsome jonraey over
the grass. He could move but slowly,
aud often had to make a wide circuit to
ovaid any copses or rocky ground which
lay in his course. Even now, too, they
were cot safe, for the blacks, finding the
hut empty, might pursue and overtake
them. Still the brave Ladbury toiled
on; his own strength was rapidly giv
ing way. Once more he was obliged to
halt near a stream.
‘We must camp here to-night, mate’
he said to Stoi ey. ‘Perhaps to-morrow
my legs will be able to move, to-day
they can do no more.’ The night pass
ed away in silence; the morning was
ushered in with the strange sounds of
the Australian bush, and the sun rose,
casting a fiery beat over the plain. 8to-
rcy had not moved. Ladbury looked at
him anxiously, expecting to find him no
longer alive. He roused up, however,
and after some breakfast, Ladbnry
again harnessed himself to the sleigh,
and moved on. Often be was obliged
to halt-some-times be could move only
a lew hundred yards at a time; a few
minutes’ rest enabled him again to go on.
Still the stages became shorter and the
rests longer as the evening approached.
He felt that be could not exist another
night in the bush. The station could
not be far off. A faintness was creep
ing over him. On, on, ho went, as if in
a dream. Several times he stumbled
and could scarcely recover himself. A
sound reached bis ear,it was a deg’s bark.
With the conviction that help could not
now bo fur off, his strength seemed to
return. The roofs of the wood sheds
and huts appeared. No one could be
seen. Even tben bo and his friend
might perish if he did not go on. It
was the supper hour at the station. On
he must go. He got nearer and nearer,
stumbling and panting. The door of
the chief hut was reached, and he sank
fainting across the threshold. Every at
tention was paid to the two men. Lad
bary soon recovered. Poor Storey was
conveyed to the hospital at Albany, but
so great had been the shock to his sys
tem that in a short time, he sank under
its effect
We read of the gallant acts of our
soldiers and sailors in the face of an en
emy, but is there not also heroism in
the character of this Australian shep
herd—heroism which might never have
been suspected bad no fcircumstancss
occurred to draw it out ?
Jim Smiley’s Frog-
He cotcbed a frog one day and tuk
him home, aad said be cal’clated to ed
ucate him; and no he never done noth
ing ft# three months but jest stayed in
his back yard and learn that frog how
to jump. And yo* bet he did learn him,
too. He’d give him a little punch np
behind, and the next minute yon’d see
the cussed critter whirling in the air like
a doughnut. Sometimes when he got a
good start he’d tom a summerset, cr
maybe a couple of ’em, and come down
ker flop, all right, liko a eat. He got
him up so in the matter of catching Al
and kept him in practice so constant,
that he’d nail a fly every time, as far
he could see him.
Smiley said all the frog wanted was
education, and be could do almost any
thing, and I believe him. Why, I’ve
seen him set Daniel Webster here Oil
the floor—Daniel Webster was the name
of the frog—-aod sing ont: ‘Fliea Dan’l,
and quicker’n yon could wink he’d
spring up and snake a fly off’n the coon
ter there and flop down on the floor
again as solid as a gob of mud, and tben
fall to scratching the side of his bead
witb bis bind foot, as indiffernt as if he
hadn't no idee he’d done any more’n any
other frog mought do. You never seed
a frog so modest aod straightfor’ard as
that frog was, for all he was so gifted
And when it came to a square jump on
a dead level, why, be coaid git over
more ground at one straddle than arry
other animal of his breed you ever seed
Jumping on a dead level was bis strong
suit, you understand, and when it come
to that Smiley would ante up money
onto him as long as be bad a red. Smi
ley was monstrous proud of his frog, and
well be mought be, for fellers what had
traveled aud bin everywhere all said he
laid over every frog tbat they ever seed.
Well Smiley kept the ugly cuss in a
little lattice box, and be used to fetch it
down town sometimes, and lay for a bet
Once a feller—a stranger in these parts,
he was—come across him with his box,
and says be:
‘What monght that be you’ve got in
tbat box?’
And Smiley says, sorter indifferent
liko: ‘It mought be a parrot, or it
mought be a canary bird maybe 1 But it
ain’t, it’t just a frog.
And the feller tuk it, and looked at it
careful, and turnod it round this way
and that, and Bays :
‘H’m 6o ’tis. Well, what in thunder
ia be geod for? 1
‘Well,’ Smiley says, easy and careless
‘he’s good enough for one thing, I should
judge—he csd just out jump ary frog in
Calreras county.
The feller tuck the box again, and
tack another long and particular look,
and gives it back to Smiley, and says
very deliberate:
‘Well, I don’t see any pints about
tbat frog tbat’s any belter’n any other
frog.’
‘Maybe you don’t’ says Smiley. ‘May
be you understand frogs, aud maybe
you don’t understand ’em; maybe you
aint only au amateur, as it were. Any
ways I’ve got my opinion, and I’ll risk
forty dollars that bo can out jump any
frog in Calaveras county.
The feller studied a minute or two,
and then says kinder sad like : well, I’m
a stranger here, and ain’t got narry frog
but if I had a frog I’d bat with you.’
"And then Smiley says: ‘That is all
right stranger 1 That is all right. If
you'll hold my box a minute, I’ll go and
git you a frog;’ and so the feller tuck
the box, and put his forty dollars along
with Smiley’s, and sot dowu to wait.
So he sot there a good while, think
ing to hisself, and tuck the frog out and
pried open his meuth and tack a tea
spoon and filled him chock full of qui.il
shot—filled him pretty near to the chin,
and eot him on the floor. Smiley went
out to the swamp and slopped round in
the mud for a long time, till he kotched
a frog, and brought him in, and gin
him to the feller, and says :
‘Now, if you are ready, jept set him
alongside of Dan’l with bis fore paws
even with Dan’l’s and I’ll give you the
word.’ Then he says, ‘one—two—three
—-jump 1 ‘and him and the other feller
touched np the frogs from behind; and
the new frog hopped ofi lively as a crick
et, but Dan’l never moved a peg—he
gave a heave, histed up his shoulder—
so—like a Frenchman, but it warn’t no
use; be couldn’t no more stir than if he
was anchord out.
Smiley was a good deal snrprised,
and he was disgusted, too, but he didn’t
have do idea what the matter was, of
B®. A cockney conducted two ladies
to an observatory to see an eclipse of
the moon. They were too late; the
eclipse was over, and the ladies were
disappointed, ‘Oh,’ exclaimed our he
ro, ‘don’t fret; I know the astronomer
well; he is a very polite man, and I am
sure will begin again.’
jQy According to Milton, 'Eve kept
silent in Eden to bear her husband talk,’
said a gentleman to a lady lriend; and
then added, in a melancholy tone, ‘Alas,
there have been no Eves since.’—
‘Becan8e,’ quickly retorted the lady,
there have been no husbaad worth
listening to.'
BSL. A negro was caught in a roan's
garden at Roanoke, North Carolina, the
other night, in close proximity to a lot
of fine cabbages. When interrogated
as to what lie was doing, be replied,—
course.
The feller tuck the money and started
away, and when be was geing out of
the door he sorter jerked his thumb over
his shoulder—at dan’l, and says again,
very deliberate, ‘Well, I don’t see no
pints about that trog that’s any better’n
any other frog.’
Smiley stood thar scratching his
head, and looking down at Dan’l a long
time, and at last he nays: I do wonder
what in the name of creation that frog
throwed oft for that a’way. 1 wonder
if thsir ain’t something the matter with
him ; he ’pears to loeks mighty baggy
somehow.’ And hctuckhould of Dan’l
by the Dape of the neck and liftsd him
np and saya ; ‘Why blame my cat, if he
don’t weigh five ponnd.’ And he turned
him upside down and shock him a little,
when most a doable hand fnl of shot
came rattlin’ ont on him onto the floor !
Then Smiley seed how it was and he
was the maddest man 1 Ha dropped
the frog and tuck after' that feller, but
be never kotched him.
Pat and the Hah.—Pat went to tbo
house of the priest to confess his sins,
and passed into the kitchen to ask for
the holy father;- but, perceiving tbat
there was no one in the room, while a
fine ham was lying oil the table fresh
from the market. Pat lost no time in
securing the prize. Hiding it as well
as he could UDder bis coat, be proceed
ed to the apartment of the prieet, and
said,—
‘Here, your riverance, is a fine leg of
bacon wbicb I stole and brought as a
present to your holiness. Will you taka
it?’
‘Take it!’ said the confessor; ‘by no
means. Carry it back, instantly.’
‘Faith, an 1 did, sir, and he said he
wouldn’t taka it by no means.’
‘Very well then Patrick, you may
keep it.’
‘An’ IH be absolved, your riverance V
demanded Pat
'Yes; it is yours if th* owner does
not take it back.’
A Novel Combat.
While fishing on the banks of a beau
tiful stream in Western Louisiana, I
was startled by the roaring.or some ani
mal in the canebrake near by, appa
rently getting ready for action. These
notes of preparation were succeeded by
the sound of feet tramping down the
cane and scratching the shells upon the
ground. Rushing to the trysting in
stead of there being, as was supposed,
two pararie bulls mixing impetitionsly
in battle, there was a large black bear
raised npon his hind legs, his face be
smeared with blood, which dropping
from bis month rolled down his shaggy
breast. Frantic from the smarting of
bis wonnds, he stood gnashing his teeth
and growling at bis enemy. On a bank
of anow-white shells, in battle array, was
Brain's foe. a monster alligator. He
loosed aa if he had just been dipped in
the Teche, and emerged, like Achilles
from" me Styx, witb an invulnerable coat
of mail. He was standing on tiptoe, his
back curved upward and his tongueless
mouth thrown open displaying bis wide
jaws, two large tusks, and rows of
teetb. His tail six feet long, raised
from the ground, was constantly waving
like a boxer’s arm to gather force; Ins
big eyes, starting from the bead glared
furiously upon poor Bruin, while some
times uttering hissing cnee, and tbec
roaring like a bull.
Bruin, though evidently baffled, had
a firm look, which showed that he had
not lost confidence in himself. If the
difficulty of the undertaking bad once
deceived him, be was prepared to go at
it again. Accordingly, letting himself
down up«n all fours, be ran furiously
at the al%ator, which being ready for
him, threw bis bead and body partly
round to avoid the onset, and met Bruin
balf-way with a blow of the tail that
roolled bin on the shell. The bear was
not to be pat off by one hart; three
times in rapid succession he rushed at
the alligator, aod was as often repulsed
in the same manner, being knocked by
each blow jast far enough to give the
alligator, before he returned, time to re
cover the swbg of his tail. The tail of
the alligator sounded like a flail against
the coat of hair on Brnin’s head and
shoulders, bat be bore it without flinch
ing, still pushing on to come to close
bold with his scaly foe. Finally, he
made his fourth charge with a degree
of dexterity which those who have Been
this clumsy animal exercising would
suppose him incapable of. This time
he got close to ihe alligator, before the
tail struck him, that the blow came with
but half its usual effect. The alligator
was upset by the charge, and before he
conld recover his feet Bruin grasped
him round Ihe body, below the fore legs,
and holding him down on his back,
seized one of the reptile’s legs in his
mouth. The alligator was now in a
desperate situation; be attempted in
vain to bite, for bis neck was so stiff tbat
be conld not tarn hig head round.
Seized withjdesperation, the amphib-
ions beast raised a shrill scream of des
pair; but being a valiant warrior ‘by
flood and field,’ be was not yet entirely
overcome.
Writhing his tail in agony, he hap.
pened to strike it against a small tree
that stood near the bayon. Aided by
this purchase he made a convulsive
flounder which precipitated himself and
Bruin locked together, into the river.—
The bank from which they fell was four
feet high, and the water below seven
feet deep. The tranquil stream received
the combats with a loud splash, then
closed over them in silence. A volley
of ascending bubbles announced their
arnval at the bottom, where the battle
euded.
Presently Bruin rose again, scramb
ling np the bluff bank, cast a glance
back at the nver, and, all dripping,
made off to the canebrake. V. L.
Mam’s Shortcomings.—‘Man is a won
derful creature, but if he equaled the
beasts, birds and insects in tbeir own
peculiar powers, how much more won
derful would he be ? If, for instance, he
conld swim like a fish, run like an ante
lope, glide like a serpent, gallop like a
horse, climb like a monkey, spring like
a tiger, and fly like an eagle; or if be
could roar like a lion, sing like a night-
engale, scent like a hound, hear like a
rabbit, hold on like a leacb, persevere
like an ent, see as far as a bird, guide
himself like a bee, jump like a grass
hopper, sleep like a toad, aod diet like
an anaconda, what a marvel would he
appear. Bat takiug bis shortcomings
into consideration, he is not so mnch af
ter all. Think ot it. If a man’s voice
bore the same proportions to bis own
weight that a canary bird’s does, his
lightest word would be heard at a die.
tance of eight hundred miles ; and if, at
the same time, be bad, relatively to bis
bulk, the same jumping power as the
tiniest flee, he could spring from New
York City to China at a single bound.—
Ah 1 that would be something like.”
A Mother’s Death-
Few who have lost their first and
dearest friend can read the follewing
with ur.moistened eyes: —
Death comes an unsought eguest to
every board, and at his special bidding
some beloved cyie goes home tcHiis mys
terious home.
Time and philosophy may teach res
ignation unto hearts made desolate by
his coming; but they can never fill the
vacancy therein, when she that was opr
mother no longer casts a halo about our
darkened heart.
A mother’s place—so loved, so wor
shiped—once empty must be forever so.
A breast once panged by a mother’s
death, no medicine can reach with beat
ing.
No mind, however sacred, no heart,
however hardened, can forget the gen
tle being whose sufferings begot his life.
A mother is truly our gnardian spir
it npon earth. Her goodness shields and
protects ; she walks with our infancy,
our youth and mature age—ever shel
tering us with her absorbing Jove, and
expiating our many sins with her blessed
prayers.
And when our mother, with all her
burden of love, her angelio influence,
her saintly care ceases her beauteous
life, bow much we lose of borne, of hap
piness, of heaven, do ooe can reckon ;
for our mother was oods but ours, and
we only can know bow holy she was—
bc*K sacred her memory must always be.
But may we not borrow consolation
from the thought tbat our loss is Heav
en's gain ; that surely one angel watches
over us, erasing with grateful tears the
records of our sio, aud making easy our
path to her with blessed and blessing
prayers ?
Lira’s Stream.—Life bears us on like
the stream of a mighty river. Onr boat
at first glides down the narrow channel
—through the playful murmurings of
the little brook and the windings of its
grassy borders. The trees shed tbeir
blossoms over onr young heads; the
flowers seem to offer themselves te the
young hands; we are happy in hope,
and we grasp eagerly at the beauty
aronnd ns, but the stream still hurries
on, and still onr hands are empty. Our
course through youth and manhood is
along a wilder and deeper flood,, amid
objects more striking and magnificent.
We are animated at the moving pic
tures and enjoyments industry around
us; we are excited at some short-lived
disappointment. The stream bears ns
od, snd onr joys and griefs are alike left
behind us. We may be ship wracked,
but we cannot be displayed ; whether
rough or smooth, the river hastens to
its home, till the roar of the ocean is in
enr ears, and the tossing of the waves
beneath our feet, and the shore lessens
from our eyes, and the floods are lifted
np around us, and we take our leave of
earth aod its inhabitants, until cur fu
ture voyage there has no witneas save
the Infinite aud Eternal.
A Good Mimort.—When Napoleon
was at Erfurtli, in 1807, a legion of
kings and princes thronged his court,
and doffed their ancient crowns before
his royalty of yesterday. At one of his
soireet, which was attended by that bril-
liaut company, the conversation turned
upon a papal bull which had been issued
by ono of the early popes, respec
ting the precise date of wbicb different
opinions arose. Aa Austrian prelate
assigned it to one particular epoch,
while the Emperor contested the cor
rectness of his reference.
'In a matter of this nature,’ said the
cardinal, ‘your majesty will admit tbat
I am the more competent authority;
and I think that I am, moreover, cer
tain tbo bull belongs to the period I
have stated.’
‘For my part,’ rejoined Napoleon, ‘I
will not say that I think; bat I will at
once put it on another issue; 1 am certain
that your eminence is mistaken. But
the point admits of an easy verification.
Let somebody bring hither the work of
Baronius on the early history of the
churches, and if I am wrong I will read
ily acknowledge my error.’
The book was brought, examined,
and the date indicated by the Empe
ror found' to-be correct. The astonish
ment of the circle may be conceived at
witnessing such an instance of accurate
Recollection on a subject, which one
would have thought could never have
existed in a mind constantly occupied on
such a variety of matters of so tremen
dous an importance to the destines of
the world.
‘When I was a lieutenant,’ resumed
Napoleon. This sentence spoken with
the utmost simplicity and indifference—
when I mat a lieutenant—produced a sin
gular effect on the assembly, and the
representatives of the thousand-year-
old monarchies of Europe exchanged
sinificant smiles with each other.
‘When I had the honor of being a
lieutenant of artilery,’ said the Empe
ror, in a more emphatic tone, ‘I was
garrisoued for two years in a city of
Dauphine, in whieh there was only one
circulating library; I read through ev
ery book iu the collection thrice, and my
memory has not lost one single incident
of what I read at tbat time. The book
just referred to was in the catalogue of
the library. I read it witb others, and
as you see I did not forget its contents.
His eminence will, therefore, excuse my
apparent presumption in differing in
opinion with him on such a topic.’
Koskoo !
IHE CHEAT REPUTATION
Which K06K00 baa attained in all parts of tha
eonatry
As a GREAT and GOOD MEDIClNK
And the Large Number of
lettimoniule
which arc constantly being received from Phy
siciahs, and persons who rat* been cured by
its use, is conclusive proof of its remarkable
value.
AS A BLOOD PURIFIER
IT HMM EQUAL
BEINO POSITIVELY THE MOST
Powerful Vegetable Alterative
YET DISCOVERED.
DISEASES OF THE BLOOD.
"The life of the fl **h is ia the Blood," 7s
Scriptural maxim that science proves to be
true. The people talk of bad blood, as the
cause of many diseases, and like many popu
lar opinions this of bad blood is founded
truth.
The symptoms of bad blood are usually
quite plain—bad Digeatien—causes imperfect
nutrition, and consequently the circulation is
feeble, the soft tissues loose tbeir tone and
elasticity, snd the tongue becomes pale, bfoad,
and frequently covered with a nasty, whits
coat. This condition soon shows itself
roughness of the skin, then in eraptire and
ulcerative diseases, and when long continued,
results in serious lesions of the Brain, Liver,
Lungs, or urinary apparatus. Much, very
much, suffering is caused by impure blood. It
is estimated by some that one-fifth of the hu
man family are effected witb scrofula in some
form.
When the Blood is pure, you are not so lia
ble to any disease. Many impuritiea of the
Blood arise from impure diseases of large cit
ies. Eradicate every impurity from the foun
tain of life, and good spirits, fair skin and vital
strength will return to you.
KOSKOO!
AS A
LIVER INVIGORATORt
STANDS UNRlVALLED.
BEING THE ONLY KNOWN MEDICINE
that efficiently stimulates and corrects the
hepatic secretions aud functional derangements
of the Liver, without Debilitating the system.
While it acts freely upon the Liver instead of
copious purging, it gradually changes the di*»
charges to a perfect natural state.
SYMPTOMS OF LIVER COMPLAINT AND
OF SOME OF THOSE DISEASES
PRODUCED BY IT-
S3r Dobbs says if marriages are
made in heaven, he is sorry for it—for
tbat very many alliances reflect no great
credit on the place. Dobbe was locked
ont, the other night, daring ‘that rain.’
A lawyer once asked a
man concerning a pig, in court:
Dulcb-
‘What
A Royal Romance.—The Queen of
Prussia was] the other day, the heroine
of the following adventure :—
She was walking with ooe of her la
dies on the road leading from Sans-Sou-
ci to Potsdam, when she saw an old
soldier who had lost one eye and one
arm, sitting by the wayside. The old
man looked very sad, and the queen
stopped in order to ioqure what was
the matter witb him.
‘Oh, madame.’said the veteran, who
evidently did not know who the lady
was, ‘I am in the deepest distress. I
have but one child—a daughter, a young
girl, who, until recently, was employed
as a chambermaid at tha Royal Palace
in Potsdam. She received good wa
ges, but the other day, one of the girls
who hated her for some reason or oth
er, charged her witb having stolen some
articles of value, and, although my dear
girl strennoosly protested her inno
cence, she was discharged. Now she
cannot find another situation, aDd so
am deprived of my only snpport, for
my scaDty pension is not sufficient to
buy bread enough for us.’
‘I believe I can help you, my friend,'
said the qneen.
The Teteran looked at her incredu
lously. The qneen, however took down
his name snd that of his daughter, and,
after giving the old man some money,
continued her walk.
The Berlin correspondent of the Bal
tic Gazette, who relates the above, adds
that the queen, after examining the case
of the veteran’s daughter, ordered that
a more lucrative position should be giv
en to her, and Bent a handsome present
to the veteran.
A .allow or yellow ei-lor of the ikin, or y.I
lowish-brown .pots on the face and other perte
of the body ; duluess and drowsiness, some
times headache; bitter or bad taste in Ihe
mouth, internal heat ; in many eases a dry,
teasing cough ; unsteady appetite ; sometimes
sour stomach, with a raising of the food; s
bloated or full feeling about the Btomacb and
aides; aggravating pains ia th. aides, back, or
breast, and about tbe shoulders ; couetipation
of tbe bowels; piles, flatulence, coldness ef
the extremities, etc.
KOSKOO!
Is a remedy of Wonderful Efficacy in the core
of diseases of the Kidneys and Bladder. Id
these Affections it is as near a specific as any
remedy can be. It does its work kindly, si
lently and surely. The relief wbicb it affords
is both certain and perceptible.
DISEASES OF THE KIDNEYS AND BLAD
DER.
Persons unacquainted with the structure
and functions of the Kidneys cannot estimate
the importance of thoir healthy action.
Regular and sufficient action of the Kidneys
is aa important, nay, even more so. than regu
larity of tbe bowels. Tbe Kidneys remove
from the Blood those effete matters which, if
f iermitted to remain, would speedily destroy
ife. A total suspension of the urinary dis
charges will occasion death from thirty-six to
forty-eight hoars.
When the Urine is voided in small qnanti-
ties at the time, or when there is a disposition
to Urinate more frequently than natural, or
when the Urine is high colored or scalding
with weakness in tbe small of the back, it
should not be trifled with or delayed ; but
Koskoo should be taken at orce to remedy the
difficulty, before a lesion of the organs takes
place. Most of the diseases of the Bladder
originate from those ef tbe Kidneys, tbe Urine
being imperfectly secreted in the Kidneys,
prove irritating to the Bladder and Urinary
passages. When we recollect that medicine
never reaches the Kidneys except through the
general circulation of the Blood, we see how
necessary it is to keep the Feantain of Life
Pure.
A
HEROIC REMEDY.
HENRY’S
CARBOLIO
Constitution
RENOVATOR!
RASED ON SCIENCE.
PREPARED WITH SKILL,
and all the available ingenuity and experlneei,
that the art of pharmacy of the present day
can contribute
And Combining ia Concentrated Form the mot
Valuable Vegetable Juices
Known in tbe History of Medlolnea ft
PURIFYING THE BLOOSi
Imparling
NURTURE TO THE SYSTEM*
Tone to the Stomach,
And a Healthy Action of tha Liver, Kidaeye,
Secretive aad Excretive Organa.
A DYING ZOUAVE
Lay breathing his last on the battlefield, hi*
companions surged on and left bim alone.-*
They knew the cause of his approaching end—*
it was the deadly bullet. No friendly voice
could cheer bim to life—no human skill could
save him.
Thousands of Precious Lives
are to-day as rapidly sinking, aod as surely
tottering on to an untimely end, in Suffering,
Agony, Wretchedness, and Ignorance of tha
cause which
Science can arrest and assuage,
Moorish into new Life and Vigor,
And cause the Bloom of Health
To dance once more npon their withered
DISEASE, LIKE A THIEF,
Steals upon its victims unawares, and before
they are aware of its attack, plants iteelf firm
ly in tbe pystera, and through neglect or inat
tention becomes seated, and defies all ordinary
or tempotary treatment to lelinquish its mer
ciless grasp.
Do You Know the Cause of
The wasted form—the hollow cheek?
The withered face—the sallow complexion f
The feeble voice —the sunken, glasrjr eye ?
The emaciated fbrm—the trembling frame f
The treacherous pimple—the torturing fore f
The repulsive eruption—the inflamed eye ?
The pimpled face—the rough colorless akin f
and debilitating ailments of tbe present age ?
Tbe answer is simple, and covers the whole
ground in all its pliazes viz: the
FANGS OF DISEASE
AND
HEREDITARY TAINT
Are firmly fixed in the
Fountain of Life—the Bloody
THE
Indiscriminate Vaccination
during the late war, with diseased Lymph he#
TAINTED THE BEST BLOOD
In the entire land. It has planted tbe germ ef
the most melancholy disease in the vein# ef
men, women and children on all sides, and
nothing short of
A HEROIC REMEDY
will Eradicate it root and braoeb, forever*
Such a Remedy is
HENRY’S
CARBOLIC
CONSTITUTION
RENOVATOR.
KOSKOO!
A certain preacher haviog chang«
ed hie religion, was much blamed by hi#
late associates. To excuse himself, he
said -be bad seven reasons.’ Being
asked what they were, he replied, ‘A
wife and six children/
A little Sabbath School scholar
said she couldn't help laughing to think
how astonished Goliah must have been
when the stone from David's sling hit
him, as she didn’t believe that such a
thing ever entered his head before.
^ A young man advertises in a city
' for a place as salesman, and
; deal of
says
meets with great success in the cure of
DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.
Almoet nine-tenths of oor people suffer from
nervous exhaustion, aod are therefore, liable
to its concomitant evils of mental depression,
confused ideas, softening of the brain, insanity,
and complete breaking down of the general
health. Thousands are suffering to-day with
broken-down nervous systems, and, unfortu
nately, tobacco, alcohol* late hours, over-work,
(mental and physical,) are causing diseases *of
the nervous system to increase at a fearful ra
tio.
The symptoms to which diseases of the nerv
ous system give rise, mav be stated as follows:
A dull, heavy feeling in the head, sometimes
more or less revere pain or headache; Period-
cal Headache, Dizziness, Noises or Ringing in
he Head ; Col fa.-ion of Ideas; Temporary
Loss of Memery ; Dejection of Spirits ; Start
ing during Sleep; Bad Dreams ; Hesitation in
Answering Questions; Dulness of Hearing;
Twitching of the Face, Arms, etc., which, if rot
On reaching the Stomach, it assimulates at
once witb the food and liquids therein, aaft
from the moment it passes into the Blood, it at*
tacks disease at its fountain head, in its germ
and maturity, and dissipates it through th# av
enues of the organs with unerring certainty
utL
and sends new and pure Blood boundii$
through every artery and vein.
The tuberculea of Scrofula that sometime#
flourish and stud the inner coating of the #V*
domen. like kernels of corn, are withered, die-
solved and eradicated and tbe diseased part#
nourished into life. Tbe Torpid Liver end In-*
active Kidneys are stimulated to a healthy a**
cretiou, and tbeir natural functions restored t#
renewed health aod activity.
Its action upon the blood, fluids ef the totys
and Glandular Aystem, are
TONIC, PURIFYING AND DISINFKCTANT.
At its touch, disease droops, dies, and the vie-
Lira of its violence, aa it were,
LEAPS TO NEW LIFE.
f romptly treated, lea l to Paralysis, Delirium,
D
Insanity, Impoteuey, Apoplexy, etc., et c.
KOSKOO!
•et quack remedy. FORMULA
around each bottle. Recommended by the
best Physicians, eminent Divines, Editors,
Druggists, Merchants, eto.
D.,
The Best and Moct Popular Mkdicine xv Use.
PREPARED ONLY BT
J. J. LAWRENCE, M
ORGANIC CHEMIST.
Laboratory and Office, No. 6 Mai* St..
NORFOLK, VA
Trice—ONE DOLLAR PER BOTTLE
For eala by DniB^i.u era
It Relieves the entire system of Paisa rad
Aches, enlivens tbe .pirita, and impart# .
Sparkling brightneaa to the Eye,
A n*y glow to the Cheek,
A ruby tUge to the Lip,
A clearness to tha Head.
A brightne— tn the Complexion,
A buoyancy to the 8pirita,
And happiness on all iMm.
Thousands have been rescued from tetg*
of tl e grave by ite timely use.
This Remedy ia now offered tor the ftffbBa
with the most solemn assurance of Hs intrinsie
medicinal virtues, and powerful Healing prop*
erties.
For old Amcnoas or tw*
Kidneys, Retention of Uittff,
And Diseases of Women and CkiUfau
Nervous Prostration, W eakness, General La«si-
tude, and Loss of Appetite, it is uosarpseseA
It extinguishes
Affections of ihe Bones. Habitual CostvvtXMf
Diseases of tbe Kidneys, Dyspepsia,
Erysipelis, Female Irregularities, Fis
tula. all Skin Diseases, Liver
Complaint. Indigestion, Piles,
Pulmonary Diseases, Con
sumption, Scrofala
or King’s Evil,
8y p Lillis,
Prepared st
Prof. M. E. HENRY,
DIRECTOR-OBNERAt
on mm
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gy~ CONSTITUTION RKNOVALOR k«
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