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Newspaper Page TextCUTH APPEAL. BY SAWTELL & JONES. 3 ■ CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, S4TURDAY, JULY 16, 1870. VOL. IV—NO. 35. <Sl)c €utl)b£rt Appeal. —_ Terms of Subscription: 0*1 TxAi.*:v.-.$3 00 I Six Months $2 00 IXVJJtlABLY IS ADVAXCE. Rates of Advertising; One square, (ten lines or less,) $1 00 for the first and 75 c-nts for each subsequent insertion, advertising as follows : pj3 Months 6 Months 12 Months n >1*25 00 S45 on $ 75 00 V 40 00 75 00 100 00 '. 'I 50 00 90 Ou 150 00 Obituaries, $ I 00 per square. LEGAL ADVERTISING. Ordinaries.—Citations for letters of ad ministration, guardianship. Ac. $4 00 Application for letters of dismission trom administration 5 00 Application tor letters of dismission from guardianship'. 4 00 Application for leave to sell Land, 4 00 Notice to Debtors and Creditors, 4 00 Administrator’s Sales, 4 00 Sheriffs— Each levy, .... 4 00 14 Mortgage 9 fa sales 6 00 Sales of Land by Administrators, Executors, or Gu aid tans, are required by law to be held on tbe first Tuesday in the month, between tbe hours often in tbe forenoon, and three in tbe after- noon, at the Court House in the county in which tbe property is situated. Terms of sale must be stated. Notice of these sales must be given in a public gazette 40 days previous to the day of sale- Notice for the sale of personal property must be given in like manner, 10 days previous to sale day. Notice to debtors and creditors of an estate must be published 40 days. Notice that application will be made to tbe Court of Ordinary for leave to sell land, must be published for one month. Citations for letters of Administration, Guard ianship, Ac., must be published SO days—for dis mission from Administration, three months ; for dismission from Guardianship, 40 day a Rules for foreclosure of Mortgages mn3t be published monthly tor four mouths—for estab lishing lost papers, for the full space ot three months—for compelling titles from Executors or Administrators, where t-ond has been given by the deceased, the full space of three mouth*?. Publications will always be continued accord ing to these, the legal requirements, unless oth erwise ordered. Florence’s Love BY H. H. BOOK* Work and Think. Hammer, tongB, and anville ringing, Waking echoes all day long. In a deep-toned voice are singing Thrifty labor's iron song. Prom a thousand fly wheels bounding, From a thousand humming looms, Night and day the notes are sounding Though the misty fact’ry rooms. Listen, workmen, to their playing— There’s advice in every clink ; Still they’re singing—still they’re saying— “ Whilst you labor learn to think.” Think what power lies within yon. For what triumphs ye are formed, If in aid ot bone and sinew. • Hearts by emulation warmed. Mighty thoughts ye woo an l checrisb, What shall hold your spirits down ? What aibs. 11 make your high hopes perish ? Why shall ye mini Fortune's frown ? Do you wish for profit, pleasure ? Thirst at Learning’s fount to drink ? £rave ye honor, fame or treasure? Ye the germs have—work and think 1 Think, but not aione of living. Like the horse from day to day.; Think ! but not alone of giving Health for pelt or soul for payl Think ! Ob, be machines no longer— Be with wisdom’s powers imbued ; Think ! ’twill make you fresher, stronger ; Link you to the gieat and good! Thought exalts and lightens labor, Thought forbids the soul to sink : Self-respect, and love for labor. Mark the men who work, and think! Think !—and let the thoughts new-nerve you Think of men who have gone before ; Leaving lustrous names to serve you ; Yours the path tbeyv’e plodded o’er! Freedom fights and wins her charter With tbe sword of thought—the pen ! Tyranny can find no quarter In the ranks of thinking men. Think ! for thought’s a wand of power— Power to make oppression shrink, Grasp ye then the precious dower : Poise it! wield it! work and think. •Hold your headship, toiling brothers l ’Mongst u 1 , be it ne’er forgot, Labor for oarselves and others Is for man a noble lot. Nobler ’tis, and loftier, higher, Than vain luxury can claim, If but zeal and worth inspire, And trno greatness be our aim. Power to compass this is given ; Power that forms tbe strongest link 'Twixt an upright man and hoaven : His noblest power—to work and think. ‘God’s Omniscience.—God never for gets anything. 'AH tiis works from the Creation of the world to the tintiDg of a leaf, are finished perfectly. Did you ever stand under a full boughed heavy foliage tree in simmer time, and pluck one of its myriad leaves and examine Us delicate tracery, its coloring, the very perfection of finishing beauty, and then tiiink of the countless number of such leaves, of the migbty forests whose luxuriant growth covers so much of the world, and reflect that among them ail there is not a leaf unfinished, each per- ierct in its form and color. And did yon ever pick a flower, either from cul tured garden or wayside walk, enjoy its odor and bless its beauty, and Btop to think bow all the world blossom* with such fragrant beauty, and no flower of them all forgotten—tbe same careful hand filling each glowing heart with perfume and coloring each leaf with care. When we think of this omnis- cience of this never failing care, we feel something of the attributes of that power—unseen, yet ever present; un touched, yet ever felt—who gives to the violet its color,"to the tiniest leaf, an d yet whose hand controls the planets in their courses, whose fiat rules the count less worlds. — ■ ■ »*» ■ 1 , SQSr Rheticus, m commenting oil the present style of female coiffuro, says . ■ be a very poor soil that requires The day was damp and chilly. The foliage of the trees huug limp and mo tionless in the air; or, now and then, shivered and rustled while the cold breeze ran through it. Tbe bleakm outside caused me to shrink closely within my comfortable room, while' Florence touched tbe coide of the piano, id the parlor below, with such pathos as to make me weep, though I scarcely know why! Scarcely know why ? Ah, me ! I think so; and yet why did a pic ture float before my mind, a photograph of the incidents and actors of other days, when I beard those same pathetic tones drifting through my conciousness, like fragments of heavenly dreams ? Tears are unbecoming—so tbe world says ; and tbe world is a tnost reliable oracle ; therefore, I repressed them with a determined will, ami turned them back upon the brain ! But still Florence played. I wondered if she too, was weeping? Where wero her thoughts? Full well I knew. They were going forth, like mourning virgins, to the bu» rial of a fife-joy—a joy which died and leit her utterly desolate, and widowed her soul. I frequently wonder why some hearts are peculiaily tried in the alembic of suffering and temptation, while others go through life without an experience which stiie them from tbe regular monotony of-orainary existence. Certain people alternate between joy und sol row, from year to year, until they are but shadows of their former selves ; others live along upon the same plane, from day to day, without any event to clearly mark a single hour. I say that I wonder at these things—and the more so, while 1 listen to the music which Florence was playing forth upon the air, and which I kotw was a re quiem. Shall I give a retrospect, and thus ex plain my meaning? One summer, when the heated term came on, my ward, Florence, fatigued with the studies of her graduation year, besought me to give her a glimpse cl country r-cene. I was at once disposed 10 yield to the request of tbe child, as I had been accustomed to calling her; but a desire to teuBe her, and thus make her doubly charming by the native way iu which she would importune me to grant the favor, caused me to give an evasive answer. ‘O, but you must consent! Haven’t I been studious during the past year? Haven't I practiced my music, toiled over my Butler, fretted over my Latin, and cried over my mathematics, until my mind seemed to have no room for anything hut study ? Of course I have. There, now, you will let me go; that's a dear good man ! Don’t kDit your brows, aud look so solemn ; for you will only have the trouble u! unknitting them ; and that will not be convenient, perhaps, fsow 1 have it all arranged, Kate x uybon and i raised it (iter, the night before we graduated. She is go- iig to the sea shore ; and I—I—am to ’accompany her—that is, if you will con sent 1 And I know you will, won’t you ? Please fay yes ?’ The beautiful girl stood looking into my face, the embodiment of beauty.— Her eyes, whicb at ordinary times were blue as the skies of summer, weie al most black with animation and expec tancy. Her cheeks were slightly flush- ed, uud her lips parted by the sweet, nees of smiles For the first time I re alized that tbe child Florence had de veloped into a beautiful maiden. Her voice aud figure cai rilOhny mind back to the times when the mother, my cous in, played with Me on the lawn at Wil low brook. Those were royal years for us both 1 One day however, she stood under tbe branches of tbe old apple tree, and blusbingly told me of her love for one to whom she was about to con fide ber future. My heart gave a sud den leap, sud then was still as death 1 My cousin, in her own embarrassment, did not notice my agitation. Ever af terwards, 1 carried a deep love in my heart of which nobody knew, except myself. Aud this is the reason why I remuiu a bachelor. Afterwards a strange destiny q|pced Florence, tbe eliiid of my cousin, in my care and that of my widowed sister, who presided over my household. Her father and mother had been the victims to a fatal epidemic, and their dying request was that I should be tbe guardian of their child. How little they understood the sad pleasure with which I consented to graut their wishes ? I need not give the detaile of the years of anxiety and joy which came to me, after little Floreuce became sn in mate ol my housq. I leave such mat ters to the comprehension of those who have human idols which they worship. Florence stood before me, as I have before remarked, developed into a beau tiful maiden. What could 1 do but consent to ber carrying ont the plans which she and Kate Payson had ar- ranged ? I had a morbid foreboding of evil whicb would come to her, if I yieb ded ; yet I thought that it an se from a possibility that I had outgrown the tastes and desires of youth ; und so, when Florence stood on tiptoe, putting her white arms around my neck, and kissing my bearded face, I was compelled to surrender and say, ‘Yes r ’ to her. A few days subsequently, her trunks were packed and she joined her friend Kate, with whom she proceeded to the sea-coast. I remained in town but a short time longer, and then left for the interior of tbe country, where most of my time was spent in fishing and hunt ing I was too remote from the bor ders of active civilization to receive eith er letters or newspapers by post; but I had instructed my clerk to forward by a special messenger any communication whicb was of sufficient importance to demand my immediate presence. One afternoon, wbeD the air was ex hilarating and most delightful, when the sugligbt sifted itself through the leaves of the grand old trees around me, and the injects droned their long unceasing notes, I threw myself prostrate ou the ground, in a shady spot, wbefe I could watch the fish in the deep clear p*>I be low me. Some weeks had elapsed since I had left the haunts of civilization, and for some reason, a longing came over me to return to business agein 1 This feeling came upon me suddenly and in explicably ; tbe atmosphere so balmly and delightful, seemed to become op pressive. I looked toward the western sky to see if a storm was ipproaching, but I could discern notbiug but silvery clouds which could harbor in their bosom a single trace of a storm. A power very mysterious was urging me homeward. I stood erect, and stirred myself most vigorously; and my smgn. lar sensations remained unchanged.— When I returned to our tent, I fonnd a stranger there with tbe guide He ad vanced toward me and said : ‘Is this Mr. Jennison ?’ I replied that each was my name. ‘Then I bring dispatches to you,’ was his response, at the same time placing a letter m my hand Lookout Beacr, Sept. 3, 18— Mr. Jennison—Dear Sir: I regret to say that Florence is alarmingly ill. If you will hasten here immediately, you will confer a favor on her and me. Iu baste. Kate Payson. As fast as possible, I made my way to the Dearest railroad depot, and then was rapidly whirled over the interven ing distance between there and Look out Beach. At last,I stood by the bed side of' Florence. She " was sleeping when I entered the room. Ah, bow she had changed since 1 had last seen her! Her cheeks were as white as the pil lows on which she rested. Her long liair dishevelled, lay upon ber bosom and around her shoulders, and her lips were thiu and bloodless. - ‘Poor child !’ was my first suppressed ejaculation. Just then she opened her eyes, and, looking up at me, said, ‘They buried him in tbe sea ! I saw Qiera lower his body into the deep waters, while the moonbeans were shining on his face !’ No word, no look of recognition, ‘What does this mean ?' was my inquiry of Miss Payson. ‘I will tell you in a moment,’ she an swered, sobbing out almost every word. ‘Ob, sir, it is fearful! 1 have not the strength to speak to you at length !’ Just then Florence sat upright in bed and exclaimed, ‘Yes, it is fearful I They have buried him out of my sight forev er ! And they will never, never bring him back to me I’ Tbe, poor weiflt child then sank back, ward, and was soon in a gentle slumber. As sood as Kate could calm her own agitation, I gathered tbe following facta from her : During one of Florence’s visits to Miss Payson, she had become acquainted with a young gentlemau by the name of Carl Hoffman, a native of Gernntny, but long a resident of this cotfbtry. His fortune being considerable, enabled him to live a life of leisure; bis education being ex cellent and his tastes refined, he devo ted himself to those accomplishments which are attractive and elegant. Most of his time was spent at the studies of artists or at musical conservatories ; and he himself was no indifferent artist, and was a fine musician. He was a hand some man—so Miss Payson said ; and it was not surprising that Florence was attracted towards him. Sometimes he sat at the piano and improvised the most wonderful musical fancies, which hold his listeners speH bvuu-4, . At otber moments he discoursed upon the arts with such poetic fervor as to delight the dullest mind. But I will not dwell up on this point. Sufficient is it for me to say, that the drama which had begun in Miss Payson’s drawin r room, was re sumed at Lookout Beach ; and at la6t Carl and Floreuce stood side by side as avowed lovers, only awaiting my sanc tion wheu the season was over. One evening Carl sat at the piano iu one of the saloons of tbe hotel, playing ‘La Reve,’ that piece which is filled with all the patho3 of tbe sad heart. Now and then the promeDaders paused before the instrument, or on tbe verqpdah out side, listening for a moment, and then goiDg away with sober faces. Florence trembled with an undefimul fear. Sud denly Carl suggested a™ail upon the ocean ; and, ten minutes later they were dashing over the white waves. But the boat never came back ; for by the cai e- lessness of the pilot of another boat, a collision occurred, and tbe bark went down. In the confusion which followed Cnrl having been injured, was drowued; but bis affianced was saved by tbe men who survived. They bore her lifeless body to the hotel, where her friends took charge of her. For a long time it seemed impossible to restore her to con sciousness; and when at last her eyes opened, they gave only a vacant stare, wbi e she chanted the wailing melody of ‘La Reve.’ • Sadly 1 listened to the opinion of the physician that my ward would probably forever be a harmless maDiac. W eeks subsequently we b re her home, where we hoped that familiar scenes would res. toie her reason ; but month after moatb she restlessly wandered from room to room, murmuring, Carl! Cari! Come back to me Carl!’ Tbe holiest mission I now have is to watch over this unfortunate girl. Slow ly the days drag by her. Rapidly 6ho is fading. In a very little time she will be at rest, and tbe white chaplet of death will be upon her bosom. Till then dear Florence, my home is yours; and when you have been placed away iu the sepulchre, the memory of your sad face, and your wild beseech ing words, will linger with me to the end. [Communicated to tbe Rome Conner, j tlMf— we might say these four—pro- Columbus? LaGrange & Roma jao'ed lines, from Columbus to Rome; Railroad- j i rj ^t Eoirdou to Paris; from_ Rome to Eds. Courier—The above named road will, as projected, be of vast im portance; much greater than thought would, U a^tril a by many, and of a general characted of utility, rater than a purely local one.— It will fill an important lmk in the fu ture great channel of transportation be tween the Appalachee Bay and the ^ Northern Lakes of Michigan aud Hu-. ] jol . g ron, and, by its situation midway be tween the ocean and the Mississippi river, by its course nearly due North and South, and by the variety of cli mates at its termini, and productions raised alongside, is destined to be, wben constructed, one of tbe most important and best paying thoroughfares ia the United States. r Starting at its Southern end, from St. I r> >' 8 Marks, on the Appalachee Bay, and I T e - passing by Tallahassee and Quincy, in the State of Florida*, thence by Bain bridge, Cnthbert, Columbus, LaGrange, Carolton, Rome and Dalton, in Georgia ; thence by way of Cleveland, London, and the proposed Cincinnati Southern Railroad, via Clinton and Jacksboro, in tbe State of Tennessee; Williams burg, London, Paris and CovingtoD, in Kentucky, to Cincinnati, Ohio; the whole line forms a main Jrunk road thus far. From Cincinnati this tmnk diverges into two main branches ; one in a North western direction to Chicago and Lake Michigan, via, Cambridge, Anderson, Logan’s Port, and Vmlpariso; and tbe other to Pqrt Huron on the Lake of that name via Toledo and Detroit. Decatur, and from Rome to Stevenson, woi£d, if constructed, benefit tbe farmer as the merchant, tbe manufac- ud the laborer of the North and Northwest, as well as the planter or merchant of the South—both sections aft interested in the shortening of dis- taiitBR Let Northern and Southern captla] help to build these important r Edqexe L* Hardy, Ch’f. Eg’r. S. R. & D. R. R. Borne, Ga., June 17th, 1870. In comparing distances, we find that from St Marka to Columbus, a railroad line could be made iu about From C lumbua to Rome Ibe bee line is 128 miles, And touches LaGrange,Krank- lift) miles lin and CarroitQn. added to it 10 per cent for neces sary deviations to avoid nat ural difficulties, and heavy expenditure, we find 141 “ From Rome to Dalton, by Rail • road finished. 38 •' From Dalton to Loudon, E. T. & Ga. R. R . 82 “ From London to Paris (projec ted Cincinnati S. R It. to be buiit. ISO “ From Paris to Covington and Cincinnati, 80 “ Total distance from Columbus to Cincinnati, 521 miles Distance by the existing rontes : Columbus to Macon. 100 miles ; Macon to At lanta, 103. 203 miles m Atlanta to Chatta nooga. 138 “* Chattanooga to Nash ville, 151 “ Nashville to Louis ville, 185 « Louisville to Coving ton and Cincinnati, 107 —781 miles Difference in length saved, miles, 263 Distance from Columbus to Dalton, via Rome. 179 miles Distance frem Columbus, via Ma con and Atlanta, 308 - Distance saved, * 124 *• A Hero of Eleven Divorces.—On the 11th of April, 1866, Samuel Leslie was married at Wooster to a young lady twenty four years of age, Samuel having reached the mature age of fifty- seven. He had possessed ten wives be fore this, each of wborn bad obtained divorces from him. Sho had known him but from tbe 8th of March to tbe 11th ot April, but be had money ; and she laid all the blame upon his former wives and gave him her young and virgin heart. She lived with him but a short time when she discovered that he was a common drunkard, and he com menced to display his affection for her by bitting her over tbe head with a shovel, throwing boiling water at ber, driving her out of doois at tbe dead of night, and other such pet acts as were not very pleasant, to say the least. She applied for a divorce, but he pleaded so warmly and made her so many promis es that she withdrew her application, but he soon renewed bis former course and she again made her application.— This time the suit was prosecuted, and on Saturday Judge Boynton gave her the divorce and $1,200 alimony. This was tbe eleventh divoree suit that has been brought against him.—Arkaron (Ohio) Tmes. Josh Billing* says: ‘‘If a titan hain’t got a well balanced head, 1 like tew see him part bis £fdr in tbe middle.” s^h 'In the first instance tbe sstoiog of miles iD distance, divided by 15— tbe uv erage speed, will effect a saving of be tween 17 and 18 hours, and iu mouey of 3, 4, or 5 cents per mile, respectively, $7 89; $10 51, and $13 15, for each trip. In the second case, the saving of 124 miles between Columbus and Dalton, represents 8 bou s and twenty minutes, and in money, at 3, or 4, 5 cents per mile, respectively, $3 72; $4 96, and $6 20 cents for each trip, and we must not overlook the saving on the trans. portation of goods Tbe distance reduced from Columbus to Chicago is 817 miles Tbe long distance, 1080 “ Tbe distance, reduced, from Columbus to Port and Lake Huron, 850 “ Tbe long distance, Ills “ By adding 170 to tbe above distances, we find tbe short distance between 8L Marks and Cincinnati, 691 “ The long distance now run, 1238 “ The short distance between Chicago and St. Marks. 987 “ Tbe long distance now run, 1534 “ The short distance between Lake Hi ron and St. Mark*. 1020 “ The long distance now run, 1567 “ The piesent route to St. Marks is via Macon & Brunswick railroad, At lantic & Gulf railroad, and Florida rail- road, 388 miles from Macon. If we now consider a road from Co lnmbns, Ga., to St. Louis, Mo. ne find: Columbus to Rome about 141 miles Rome by the projected road to Decatur 125 44 Decatur to Corinth. 95 “ Corinth to Columbus, Ky. f 143 “ Steamboat to Cairo. Cairo to Odic, 121 “ Oden to St. Louis, 64 “ Total from Columbus to St. Louis 689 miles. By the present routes : Columbus to Chattanooga, 341 miles Chattanooga to Corinth, 216 “ Corinth to St. Louis, 328 “ Total, 885 “ Magnificent Distances. Astronomers estimate that some of theTNisr distant stars, seen by Lord Rosses telescope, give [o tbe earth the light which left them 50,000 o—having taken all that time, at^Wjieof 200,000 miles, or eight otir earth, in one steend. to fef!3Mr^hat the rays emitted now will not reach our solar systerq until an other 50,000 years has passed away.— Take our earth for a central point, and one of tlese distant stars being due east and another due west, their dis- tance‘ < fron each other would be double this distance from the earth, or, 100,000 years woald be consumed in the passage of rays fif light from one to the other— more time than is allotted to 3,000 gen erations of the human rsce. If time ao oecnpieo is inconceivably vnst, how can we form any conception of the distance? Multiply the 100,000 years, reduced to secotJk, by 200,000, and yon £<jt tbe diettnee, between two such stars, in milt*; but the number is absolutely over whelming. 15(five have only begun ta look a comparatively small distance out, into infiote space, or perhaps, to us, into the iffinulsd creation. We may imagine a in’lfw) -t4 stars placed in a straight line, n 'acb as far d.stant from its next as the two we have above supposed, and yet tie distance between the two last extremes would be too short for a meas ure t* tisasure across the vast creation, though extended over new sp-.ee once in each miante, for a million years Howvasl—infinite—that Eternal Mind wbio’. filled these vast spaces with the creations we are able to see aDd con template, and whose presence intelli- genty fills the entire bounds of in finite spafce! whose knowledge aud power a r e not exhausted on the grand, the sjtblime system of the universe, but also bids of the microscopic insects in all tbe vast universe, without diverting his ittention at any time from either the grqltest or smallest object witbiu the ra?ge of our conception*. How appropriate, to turn.our eyeB tom all this vastness, and look at our. delves, inhabitants of this little “dirty fpeek, men. call earth !” How diminu- |ve tbe size of a man’s body compared with these va'st distances ! How short bis gar^y y c VastVje deration, w hen gt-L and periods Advice to Young Men- There is no barm in a certain mod erate and occasional amount of inooceDl pleasure. But a young man who has his own way to carve in life, can spare neither the t ; me, the strength, Dor the expense of much social pleasure. In the country, where the style of living is simple, one can get all the gaiety he needs without spending much money.— We recommend to every young man who is starting in life the most rigorous economy in expenses; in clothes food and equipment. Young men usually do Dot take their measure of economy from what they actually endure, but from wbat society around them is ac customed to demand. By far the greatest number of young men have only their hands, their good character, and their motber-wit for capi tal. Success will require ingenuity, industry, and rigorous economy. The practice of these qualities for teal years fought to put a sensible man no a good foundation, on whicb be can, jtuild an eDdaring prosperity. But if a young man must have three or four ‘outings’ a year; if be must join various societies which tax his slender resources severe ly ; if he must be counted upon for par ties, balls, suppers, or drinking bouts; if he must pay for billiards and prime cigars, he will find it uphill work to save euough to make-bis mid-life and old age comfortable. Yooth may be the time fur pleasure, but that is no rea son why a man should squander the best part of his life. Youth is good for pleasure'; but is the very time too, for learning, for work, or self-discipline.— Aud pleasure itself does not need to be pecuniarily expensive. Do not* be ashamed to economise, no matter what the girls think, nor wbat the boys think. Build yourself up in Intelligence and sound morals. Acquiring an honorable competence, you will have a chance to lend money to the fools that ridicule your rigid economy and your scrupu lous employment of them. Resolve that except the most imper- otive necessities required for health and strength, you will not spend a penny, either for charity or luxury, except out ol your income. Earn your money be fore you spend it. The effect of this will be to curb all expensive impulses, aDd reduce your actions iu the spending of money, to a conscientious rule. We believe that sixteen men out of every twenty that begin life poor remain so to tbe end of life; but that every one of these sixteen earned enough, if it had been saved, to have made him entirely independent. Foolish spending ie tbe father of pov erty. Do not be ashamed of hard work. Work for the best salaries or wages you can get, but work for hall price rather than be idle Be your own master, and do not let socie-y or fash ion swallow up your individuality—hat, coat, and bouts. Do not eat up and wear out all that you earn. Compel tie creation ot the universe 1 How contracted the capacities of iiis mind, compared with the all embracing intelli- (pace of that powerful Mind who orig inated, preserves and regulates the biundlesa creation ! How proper to re press the swellings of pride, to thus discover our own nothingess, and how appropriate to humble ourselves before that Being, who gave and preserves our existence ! measured by your selfish body to spare something Involved iu r Iwr profit*--saved,- Be tsfazj Ue-sj.-Ar Differeude saved id tbe two projected roads, of 196 miles, from Columbus to Rome, and from Rome to Decatur, *r 13 boors in time, and at 3, 4 or 5 cents k mile, respectively, $5 88; $7 84, and $9 80 for each trip. If a railroad was buiit direct from Rome to Stevenson. Tennessee, the bee lino being 60 miles plus 25 miles for Dr. Franklin on Death.—We lustra most dear and valuable relation. Bit it is the will of God and Natnre tb»t these rqprtal bodies be laid aside when the soul is to enter real life. This ie rather an embryo state, a preparation for living. A man is not completely born until he iB dead Why should we grieve when a new child is born to tho immortals ? We are spirits ; that bodies should be lent us while they can afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge, or doing good to our fellow- *Erea£iires, ia a kind and benevolent act litfitoflT'Wh'-n they become unfit lor these purposes, and afford ns pain in stead of pleasure—instead of aid be come an incumbrance, and answer none 7>f the intentions (or which they were given—it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way. We ourselves, in 'ft.iiie cases, prudently choose a partial death. A mangled, painful limb, which cannot be restored, we willingly cut off. He who plucks out a tooth parts with it freely, since pain goes with it; and he who quits the whole body, parts at once with all the pains and diseases it was liable to or capable of making. Our frieDd and we were invited abroad on a party of pleasure which is to last ftfrever. His chair was ready first, and he has gone before us; we could not conveniently start together. Why should you and I be grieved at this, ■luAwe are ookd to follow, and know wlqeLe to find him ? own appetite, hut merciful to others necessities. Help others, and ask no help for yourself See that you are proud. Let your pride be of the right kind. Be too proud to be lazy; too proud to give up without conquering every difficulty; too proud to wear a coat that you cannot afford to buy; too proud to be in company that you can qot Keep up with iu expenses; too proud to lie, or steal, or cheat; too proud to be stingy.—Home Journal. Railroad. From Stevenson to Nashville, From Nashville to Vincennes, Total^ From Vincennes to St. Louis. From Columbus, Ga., to Rome, 75 miles 113 -‘ 229 “ 417 miles. 148 “ 141 “ Total distance via Nashville, By the.routes now in use : From Columbus to Chattanooga, 341 m Chattanooga to Stevenson, 38 *' Stevenson to St. Louis via Nash ville, 490 “ 706 869 m Difference saved*by these two new roads, 163 miles. A Beautiful Sentiment.—In Augus tin Daly’s great play “Under the Gas light” Laura Courtland utters these ht^oitifu! sentiments : “Let the woman you look upon be wise or vain, beautiful or homely, rich or poor, she has but one thing she can give or refuse—her heart. Her beauty, her wit, her accomplishments, she may s*7i to you—but h>-r love is tbe treasare without money and without price. She only asks in return that when you look upon her, yonr eyes shall speak a mute devotion; that when ymu address her, your^tyice shall be gentle, loving and kind. That you shall not despise her because she cannot understand, all at once, your vigorous thoughts and ambi- Nearly 11 hours, or at 3, 4 or 5 cents tious plans, for when misfortune and a mile, it would be, respectively, $4 80; $6 52, or $8 15 for each trip. evil have defeated your greatest purpo sos—her love remains to console you.— Comparing the distances from Colum-_You l.s>k upon the trees for strength bus to Louisville, we find via :-and grandeur; do not despise the flow ers because their fragrance is all they have to give. Remember, love is all that a woman can give—but it is - the bftly earthly thing which God permits us to carry beyoud the grave.” Dalton, Loudon. Paris and Lexington, 553 miles Atlanta, CbattanMga and Nashville, 676 ** 124 miles, minutes, an^in Difference saved, Or 8 hours and 20 money a' 3, 4 aod 5 cents a mile, res pectively, $3 tfl; $4 96, and $6 20 lot each trip. And via Rome, Stevenson and Nashville, 514 miles Against, by the present routes, 677 “ Making a saving in miles-* 163 m Or nearly 11 hours, and in money S4 89: $6 59, and $8 15 for each trip. Alike results want no comments.— Railroad lioes producing difference* as above staffed, possess, a character of general utility, rather than local. These —«®, A Waterbary “infant” named Freddy, went to .his mother one even ing, and inquired, ‘ Mother, what is a gone sucker ?’ Ilia mother said be must not ask such questions [ but Fred dy persisted, and was finally sent to bed to say his prayers by himself, instead ot on bis mother’s lap, as usual. So Fred dy prayed—‘ God bless papa and mama and baby, but as lor me, I'se been a bad boy, and Igutsi Tm « gone sticker." Self-reliance.—Tbe first thing you want to learn, to develop what force is in you,'is self-reliance; that is, as re gards yonr relation to man. If I were going to give a formula for developing the most forcible set of men, I would say, turn them upon tbeir own resour ces, with moral and religious truths, When they are boys, and teach them to “depend on self and not on lathsr.” If a boy is thrown oh his own resources at fifteen, with the world all before him where to choose, and he fights the bat tle of life single-handed up to manhood, and don’t develop more than an average share ot executive ability, then there is no stuff in him worth talking about.— "He may learn to “plow, and sow, and reap, and mow,’’ but this can only be done with machines and hr.rses, and a man wants to be better than either of these. Wipe out of your vocabulary every such word as fail, give up wish es for improbable results, put your hand to the plow, or whatever tool you take to, and then drive on, and never look back. Don’t even sight yonr per son to see if it is stra-gbt; don’t be consistent, but be simply true. If you go out to “see a reed shaken by tbe wind,” it is pretty likely you tqiil never see anything of more consequence. How the Heavens /be Shifting.— " The ctenml and incorruptible heav ens,” ax they were termed by Aristotle, are undergoing continued and marked changes. The so-called fixecl stars, the land marks of the universe, have their own projier motions, not accounted for by that of the solar system. 8irius— as that wonderful aid to physical astron-. omy, the spectroscope, reveals—ia shoot ing throngb space at tbe rate of one thousand million miles a year. Many stars, more distant still, may even ex ceed this rate. Cooper's recent cata logue of stars shows that no fewer than seventy-seven stars previously cata logued are missing. This, no doubt,is to be ascribed in part to tbe error of former observations; but it is certain that to some extent at leasftt is the re sult of changes actually in progress in tbe siderial syBt-ra. Of temporary stars about twenty have been observed, and more than six times that number are known to be variable. It appears quite certain, also, that some of the nebulie have undergone a change both of form and brilliancy. When th% celestial lamps shall, by their own light, record their history on the photographic page, Qiir knowledge of these mysterious lu minaries, whose fires wax aDd wane, or go out m mysterious darkness, will be less involved in doubt. 9QT A gentle Quaker had two horses, a very good and a very poor one.— When seen riding the latter it turned out that his better half bad taken tbe good one. ‘What!’ said a sneering baohelor, bow comes it that you let your wife ride tbe better horse ? The only reply was,— ‘Friend, when thee be married thee‘11 know,’ The Walls of China. All the cities of Chin3 are surroun ded by high, strong walls, whose mas- sive proportions s stranger has no idea of until he sees them. The walls sur rounding the city of Pekin are from twenty-two to twenty-five miles iu length, aud on an average fifty feet high. This wall is sixty feet thick at the bot tom, and fifty-four at the top, and once in a few yards there are immense but tresses to give it still greater strength. At every fifth buttress the wall for the space of one hundred and twenty six feet in length, is two hundred and fifty- six feet in thickness. Id several places the foundation of tbe wall is of marble, and wben the gronnd is uneven, im-. mense quantities of cement, as durable nearly as granate, and about ns bard, have been osert to level up tbe ground. The tnajn body of this wall is made of brinks, 'each twenty inojus ifHg, ten inches wide, and five inches thick.— These bricks are burned very hard, and have Arec.iselv the appeqranoe ot stone. Oollbe insitie of thiffwall, as in nth era in other cities, there are esplanades, or stairway, with gates to them for ascending them. And over all the gateways there are immense towers, as large as great churches, and much high er, constructed of these great burnt bricks. On the top of this immense wall there is a railing both ou the out side and inside, comiog up to a man’s waist, which railing itself is a wall, thus giving a sense of security to a person walking on the top. The outside rail ing is made into turrets, for the use of cannon, in case of attack. The entire top of the wall is covered with strong burned brick, twenty inches square, re sembling tbe flagging of our sidewalks injarge cities, only, as I have said, theae walls are fifty-four feet wide. There is no way of getting into the city, only to go through this immense wall. And wherever there is a gate for the purpose of getting through, there is another wall built inclosing a square space, compelling all persons who go into the city to go through two trolls, by passages at right angles to each other. Tbe walls are so immensely thick, that these passages through them, arched over with cut stone, remind one exactly of our railroad tunnels in the United States. At each rf these great arch ways there is an enormous gate made of strong timbers, everywhere as much as ten iuches thick, and covered on both sides with plates of iron, like the sides of our war ships. These gates are shut early in tho evening, generally before sundown, and are not allowed to be opened during tbe night for any pur pose. They are fastened on the mside by means of strong beams of timber. Farueos Should Take Enough Sleep. —Said one of the oldest and most suc cessful farmers in this State : “I do not care to have my men get up before five or half past five in the morning, and if they go to bed early and cbd sleep sot^-:d(y, thew-will At mqr.e work than if got up at four or half past four.” W e do not believe in the eight hour law, but nevertheless are inclined to think that, as a generel rule, we work too many Injure on tbe farm, Tbe best man we ever bad to dig ditches seldom worked, when digging by the rod more than nine hours a day. And it is so in chop ping wood by the cord; the men who accomplish the most, work the fewest hours. They bring all their brain and muscle into execution, and make every blow tell. A slow, plodding Dutchman may turn a grindstone or a fanning mill better than a Yankee; but this kind of work is now done mostly by horse pow cr; and the farmer needs above all elae, a clear head, with all bis faculties of mind and muscle light active aod under control. Much, of conrse, depends on tempera meot, but, as a rule, men need sound sleSfi and plenty of it. When a boy on the farm, we were told that Napoieon needed only four bouts’ of sleep, _and the old nonsense of “five hours’ sleep for a man, six for a woman, an! seven for a fool” was often quoted. But the truth is that Napoleon was enabled in a great measure to accomplish what be did from the faculty of sleeping soundly—of sleeping when he slept and working when he worked. We have sat iD one ol his favorite traveling carria ges, and it was so arranged that he could lie down at full leogth, and wheu dash ing through the country as fast as eight horses, frequently changed, could carry him, be slept soundly, and when he ar rived at his destination was as fresh as if he had risen from a bed of down.— Let farmers, and especially farmer’* boys, have plenty to eat, nothing to “drink,” aud all the sleep they cau take. How to Get Sleep.—How to get sleep is to many persons a matter of high importance. Nervous persons, who are troubled with wakefulness and excitability, usually have a strong teDd- en6y of blood to the brain, with cold ex tremities. The pressure of blood on the brain keeps it in a stimulated or wakeful state, and the pulsations in the head are often painful. Let such rise and chafe tho body and extremities with a crash towel, or rub smartly with the binds to promote circulation, and with draw the excessive amount of blood from the brain, and they will fall asleep in a few minutes. A cold bath, or a sponge bath, and rubbing, or a good run, or a rapid walk in the open air, or going up and down stairs a tew times, just before retiring, will aid in equaliz ing circulation aud promotion to sleep. These rules are simple, and easy of ap plication, in castle or cabin, anti may miiiisterto the comfort of thousands who would freely expend money for an auo- dyue to promote “Nature’s sweet res torer, balmy sleep.” Beauty of Elrity,—Goethe was in company with a mother and daughter, when the latter being reproved for some thing, Washed and burst into tears. He said to the mother : “How beautiful your reproach has made your daughter ? The crimson hue and those silveiy tears become her much better than any orna ment of gold or pearls; these may be hung on the neck of any woman; these are never-seen unconnected with mortal parity. A full blown flower, Sprink’ed with pnrest due, is not so beahtiful as this child, blushing beneath her parent’s displeasure, and sheddiug tea* ol sor. row for her fault. A blush is a sign which nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwelt.” I®. Intentions are the which actions blossom. luida . * ml- from The answer to the question, ‘Wbat is a house without a baby ?’ is, ‘Well comparatively quiet.’ J6T A little girl of eight or ten rum mers being asked what dust was, re plied, ‘that it was mud and the juice squeezed out.’ I®. Suppose a feller what has noth in’, marries a gal what has nothin’, in her things his’n, or his’n her’n, or is bis’n aud hern’u bis’n ? £y A lady correspondent of A country paper says, “What a pity wi can’t travel like men do, with a bq paper collars and bosoms.”* • Ascuiiscript being told that it * was sweet to die for his country, ex cused himself on^the ground that be never did like sweet things. tar a young speculator, having married a very homely girl, the posses • or of a large fortune, declared that it wasn’t the face of his wife that attract ed him so much as thefyvre. IS“ A speaker in exhorting a misccK laoeous audience recently urged each and all to come up to the work and “be a man.” Of course the ladies couldn’t quite see it. IS* Wben au ill natured man was try ing to quarrel with a peaceable mart, the latter said,—‘I never bad a.fuss with but one man ; he was buried- at four o’clock; it is now half past three.’ IS" A little girl who was watching the balloon ascension at Lewiston, Me., suddenly exclaimed,—“Mamma, I shouldn’t think God would like to have that man come up to heaven alive!” IS" Mrs Harris says it is not as much trouble for a “nuss” to take caro of sick people as some folks imagine.— The most of ’em don’t want anything, she says, aDd if they do, they don’t get it. 1®. A Boston gontleman who could not waltz offered a young lady one hun dred uollars if she would lot him hug her as much as the young man did Who just waltzed with her. I®. Not loDg ago a captain of vol unteers was publicly presented with d handsome sword. He began his reply thus: “Ladies and gentlemen, thissword is the proudest day of my existence. Said Kate to her new husband) ‘.iohn, what rock does true love spilt upon T Quoth John, and grinned front ear to ear, ‘The rock of yonder cradle dear.’ 1®. When our clocks are a little fast) we always set them right at once. Peo ple ought to do as much for their fast peers a" J (daaghtcpvlwt ,lbey generally let them run. ‘Well, Bridget, if I engage you; I shall want you to stay at home when ever I shall go out’ ‘Well, m’am, I have no objections,’ said Bridget, ‘pro vidin’ you do the same when I wish td go out.' ErST The minister took for his text; —‘Tbe flesh, the world and tho devil;' and informed his astonished atldience that he should dwell briefly in tbe flesh; pass rapidly over the world, and hasted as fast as he could to the devil.’ ‘Who’s that gentleman, iffy liftlfj man ?’ was asked of an urchin. ‘That one with the spike tailed coat V ‘Yea ’ was the response. ‘Why, he’s a brevet uncle of mine.’ ‘How’s that ?’ was ask ed. “’Cause he’s engaged to my Aunt Mary!’ B®_ Au old criminal was once asked what was the first step that led to ruin, when he answered, “The first Step was cheating a printer out of two years sub; scriptioD to his paper. When I done that the devil got such n grip on me that I could Dover shake him off.’* An old Baptist minister eri-. forced the ne'ecssily of difference of opinion by this argument: “Now if ev ery body had been of my opinion, they would all have wanted ray old woman.” One of the deacons who sat just be hind him responded : “Yes, and if every bojy was of my opinion, nobody would have ber.” Love in the Indian language is ''ScbimlcndajnowUchewagin.” I^'“Jonathan, where were you g01 ing yesterday when I saw you going td the mill “Why, I was going to the mill, to b,e sure.” “Well, I wish I'd seen you, I’d got you to carry a gri^ for me.”. #\Vhy, you did see me, didn’t u “Yes, but not until you gdS clean ouQof sight.” But" “Barber,” said a tarmer to hi* tonsor, “now corn's cheap, you ought hi shave for half price.” “Can’t, Mr. Jones,” said tbe man 6f razors; “I real ly ought to charge more f for wheri corn’s down farmers make such long faces, I have twice the grpuud to gd over.” I®. “Why,” said a country clergy man to one of his flock,“do you sleep id your pew wben I am in, the pulpit; while you are all attentido to every stranger whom I invite to preach for me ?” “Because, sir, when you preUcU I am sure all is right; blit I can not trust a stranger without keepHlg * good look out.” The following is a young minis- I ter's idea of the expansive nature of] the human mind: “Yes, my dearl friends, the mind of man is so expaij;| sive that it cart soar from 8tar. to *tat;l and froth sachelite to sachelitc, anal from sernphene to seraphene, and fronil cberryheam to cherrybeam, and from] thence to tile cedtrc of the domb heaven.” Vert True.—,Yn exchange gives thel following recipe for making an utter fali-[ ure of life : “Young man, it is” edejr ic|| be nobody. Go to the saloon to spetid your leisure time. You need Hot drink much now, just a little. In tbe meantidtd| play checkers, dorrtinbas; or sotrtetbins else. If you read, let it he the “dime novels,” of tho day; then go on keeping your stomach, foil, and head empty, anq iti a few years you will US flobBdy, less you should turn out to be a drunk-j ard or a professional gambler, cither t which is worse than to be nobody.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Cuthbert appeal. (Cuthbert, Ga.) 1866-1884, July 16, 1870, Image 1