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THE MONROE ADVERTISER.
<;hough: a. Kfxo & go.
\OL XXI 11.
Professional Cards.
T. W. KING,
Justice of the Peace.
Otfice in the Ootirt-hbiise, np stairs.
Will attend t> any collections intrusted to
hit care. fcbldtf _
K. L BERNER. C. A. TURNER.
BERNER & TURNER,
attorneys >\-X la'W',
FORSYTH. : GLOKGiA
WILL practice in all the courts. Prompt at
lention given to all business entrusted to
In m. Lie collection of claims a specialty.
Office Up stairs : in Pye’s Hall. °ct!7
T. C. BATTLE,
attorney at law,
I’OUSYTH. ** EO
\\ ill practice in the Superior Courts of Mon
aim adjoining Counties Also m the Su
•,r me Court. W ill give dose attention to al
iMPiiie. entrusted to him. Collecting douhttul
calms u specialty. in Courthouse,
n .via tf. ______
J A. HI NT. r - °* JACOB -
V.ai nutville, Fon-jUI.
Hunt & Jacob,
Attorneys At Law,
;i ohsi in. <* t.
W ill practice in all the < units. State and
Federal.
s>, \L Hunt will be in Fmsylb whenever
. , febl2 If
required. _____
li. L. B. AL^XiiKDER
<)tiers his professional servici sto the citizens of
fohhyth
ann unrounding country. C5..11 may he left
bis result m e or at the Drug Store ot T O.
Ma vs and will receive prompt attention.
D r . Alexander respeetfullv announces that
heietoforc hi* plantation in Houston county
b... iv,.uired bis absence from home occasion
ally for several days at a tune but his arrange
ments are such now as to enable him to devote
I,K entire time to the practice o medicine and
he will always he found at home m at lus
office when not prolesCmoally engaged.
Forsyth, July 15.1878. if _
DENTISTRY.
1 have opened tn office in the Adver
tiser building (first room to the right up
, burD and am prepuired to do all kind* ot
' mntal
tt]3s WORK
tl faithful and satisfactory manner. H'hen
mi lies are not prepnn <1 l<> come to my olh, o,
if nmffil'l 1 wUleh. erl.diy eall at tl.eir res-
T. E. CHAMBERS.
Isaac W. Ensign,
dkai.ku ;in
Books, Stationery, Etc
Books Miid Stationery ai lowest cash prices.
NEWS /* GENT.
Subscriptions received for all newspapers
Hiel periodicals. A lull line ot school hooks
at publishers prices. Special inducements to
teachers. tehlJ Urn.
Matthew Semple & Cos,
i:(iiiiw,\if.iii:iiii\is.
It Houili Water St., Pliilatlelpliiu,
For the sale of all kinds of
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Dried Fruits
A SI’KCIAI.TY.
Satisfactory advance made v.lun desired
"-jj'-fiO.OOO Fruit Sick* for Stir at a Ilttnjavi.
liefer to Tuk Monroe Advertiser.
FORSYTH
MALE INSTITUTE
TIIE FAI.}. TERM BEGINS MpNDAY,
Aim lath, and will poptipue four months-
TIHIOX PAYAHI.K TiaWllLY
The amount paid me by the County Board
of Education will be credited pro rata on the
tuition of the pupils.
W D. THIUWOM),
july0v if ITtncipal.
Monroe Female College.
FORSYTH,
This long established institution of Learning
will resume exercises
A-Ugv£t 1.578*
A full Board of Instruction, a healthful and
pleasant location, the refining influences <>f
one of the most intelligent apd moral com
munities m the State excellent facilities for
attainment in the line arts, all tend to com
mend it to favorable consideration
fh'ard apd Literary tuition ha ye beep redac
•and till the expense of both fpr the f.t]! ten:.,
of four months, js only s7l)
Those desirous of procuring fiir their daugh
ters superior advantages of mental and social
culture would do well to semi ni ouee tor a
catalogue of the Institution.
Thankful to the public for the liberal patron
age of the past, the LustiUitionlooks, with,re
new ed hope and confidence to the prospect of
the future.
R. T. ASBURY. President,
S. G HILLY Eli, D. D.
Visited by u C.liost
A PROMISE MADE IN LIFE KEPT AFTER DEATH
—WHAT THE SPIRIT SAlD
[Baltimore American ]
“ Did you ever see a ghost?”
“No.”
“ Did you ever see any one who had seen a
ghost ?’’
“ I can’t say that I ever did,” the reporter
replied.
Whereupon the gentleman said that in the
person of one of the officers of the city gov
ernment could be seen one who had #nce
had a veritable interview with a spirit from
the other world. The reporter visited the
gentleman.
“ Yes, sir,” he said to the reporter, “ it is the
truth. I did once see a ghost, or have tn in
terview with a spirit. At least, I think I did.
I may have been dreaming; I don’t know.
But it was a most remarkable, a most inexpli
cable revelation.”
“It was at the time o. the war. I was on
the Confederate side in the war, a soldier in
the First Maryland Cavalry. In the same
company with me was a gentleman from Cal
ifornia, whom you may call Copleston. I’d
rather you wouldn’t publish his real name,
lie was a splendid fellow', and before long we
became very intimate, and gradually grew to
he most devoted friends. lie was the bravest
of men, but at the same time unusually warm
hearted and affectionate, and our affection for
each other was something unusual among men.
“ One day we were together in a pretty hot
tight near Greenland Gap, Hardy county, Va.,
during Gen. W. E- Jones’ raid, and as we had
no artillery with us our regiment was dis
mounted and detailed to storm a church in
which a body of the enemy had entrenched
themselves. It was a nasty piece of work, and
the prospects were slim ot getting back alive
As we went at it Copleston turned to me and
said :
“ Look here, old fellow, let’s promise each
other that if one of us is killed without a
chance to say good bye, he will couie back
again to see the other, if such a thing is pos
silde.”
I understood him and promised. We got
off this time w ithout much damage, but it was
understood between us that the agreement was
lasting.
Not long after this we we:e scpaiated. He
was sent off with a detail for scouting Work
ujon the Mississippi, and before he got back I
was captured by Aveiill at Moorfield, after
the Ghainbersburg raid. They sent me to
Camp Chase, near Columbus, Ohio, and here I
lay for a long time, with some fifteen or twenty
thousand other prisoners, hearing little or
nothing of our men on tin* other side of the
Potomac, and then only from the new pris
oners when they were brought into camp. Of
Copleston we heard n< thing at all
in Camp Chase we lived in big barracks,
about three hundred men in a barrack In the
one in w hich I was, most of the men were
Marylanders of our old command. We slept
in luniks around the room, and the room was
heated by three big stoves. One night I was
sitting by the stove pearest die dopr, thinking.
It was late, and all the others were in their
hunks asleep. I sat there alone for some time,
looking at the fire and lost in thought Sud
denly I felt impelled to look up, and there,
just in front of me, on the other side of the
stove, and between it and the door, stood
Copleston.”
“ Were you alarmed at all ?”
“ No, I was not alarmed, only surprised.
There was nothing to alarm. It was or.ly
Copleston, dressed in the same gray suit and
black felt bat. I thought, of course, at the
instant, thut somehoty lie had L>eeq gaptpyed
and brought a prisoner to the camp, and had
only just learned where I was. I exclaimed,
“ Why, Copleston, when were yon brought
in ?” and tried to rise up and shake hands with
him. I could not move.
Copleston looked at me sadly for a moment
and then said: “ No, I was not brought here;
don’t you remember our agreement?”
“ Great heavens!" I excclalmed, “ were you
V*
“ Yes,” he said. “ I was killed to day ”
He then went on and told me all about it
One dav be and one other of our men wore
surrounded in a house near Lnrnv, in Page
county, Ya , by a squad of Federals, and after
a little fight, in which Copleton was wounded
in the leg, the two were captured and taken
into the enemy’s camp. They were held for
a few days, and were then sentenced to be
shot ;vs an act of refbliation fop soirje sins laid
at Mosby’s dpor. A sapgeaat’s guard took
(hem into the woods, and wiiu some touch of
pity offered to let them run the gauntlet. In
dian fashion. The other man accepted this
slight chance of escape, but was shot as he
ran. Copleton refused to move, and was killed
where he sat on the ground.
“ All this, sir, I assure you, was tpld me by
this strange visitor- As he finished he said;
“ Should there ever he any other occasion for
me to see you, I wilt come, and then disap
peared. not going out by the doofi, hut simply
fading away- I was. of course, stiongly
moved, hut shortly after that I retired to my
bunk. The next morning T told the men in
the mess of the circumstance, and was of
course laughed at.
Three weeks afterward fresh prisoners qer.e
brought in from the Aymy of Virginia, who,
with other new-, told of Copleton’s death,
just as I had already heard of it from himself.
The men f the uiess no longer laughed at my
sto: V
I d*> n>i ppetend to explain tills at all. I
think it can’t he explained. lam superstitious,
I think, and, as I said before,may h ive dream
ed it. but then it would Ik- a strange dream.
♦ -
— —•
A Fem.m.e G iMyd F.Tt —YhiWg *> Oman of
.j pnesiown, N. Y., the home of Senator Fen
ton, became weary of the monotonous duties
of School teaching, and devoted her leisure
lo urs to Warning the fascinating ami fluctu
ating g um. She luis succeeded so well that
she now travels in palace cars on the (Yptpil
road. q*'v PP' 4 ii'|C , ime-v-(Om. into which she
invites tne occasional Boston drummer or
other young man who thinks he knows the
game. The result Is said to he very one sided,
the fortune of tin* game being invariably with
the fair one. One moan spirited creature, af
ter enjoying the advantages of her instruction,
had her arrested in Rochester as a swindler.
But if she is the woman that she appears she
will not be discouraged. She has a future
before tier
FORSYTH. GEORGIA. TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20. 1878.
Iced T<-a.
THE PERILS THAT LINGER IN THE DISTANCE
AROUND THE COOLING BEVERAGE.
[Burlington Hawkeye.]
Singular enough, science has not yet assail
ed iced tea. But it will not do to permit peo
ple to enjoy this cool, delightful beverage
•imply because its taste is grateful to the wea
ried system during the scorching weather. We
must do our duty, though science may shrink
from it, uud the people may cry out against us.
There is danger in iced tea, and if you would
live long and well, shun the cooling cup. We
have not the space to devote to an extended
discussion of the matter, and can only cite a
few instances from a long series of carefully
made experiments, which cannot fail to oarry
conviction to the most incredulous mind.
On June 10th, of this year, John C. Hemp
stead, of West Hill, began to drink iced tea at
dinner and supper. He kept up this practice
for nearly three weeks, and then one day going
dow’n the Division street steps, he slipped and
fell, abrading the skin on both legs, and run
ning a sliver into the ball of his thumb so far
that it made his teeth ache when he pulled it
out. His clothes were also considerably tom.
When he went home that evening he learned
that his eldest boy had been whipped at school
for sticking a pin as far through another boy
as the head would let it go. He was warned
to quit drinking iced tea, but he persisted in
the practice, and is now sleeping in the valley
between West and North Hill, where he liv<s,
and says he never felt so well in his life. But
may be he lies about it
Henry Esterfeldt, of eighth street, drank
iced tea regularly every summer for three years.
He noticed that, after drinking it about two
months, his boots began to run over at the heel
£le persisted, and one Sunday afternoon while
he was out driving his horse ran away and
smashed .sl7 out of a borrowed buggy. He
paid the money but neglected the warning.
He went on drinking. He went on drinking
iced tea, and in less than six weeks someone
poisoned his dog. These statements can all
be verified by writing to Mr. Esterfeldt, who
is now living in Kansas City, the father of
eleven children, all of whom inherit their
father’s vice.
A young woman who did plain sewing in
this city, while employed in the family of Mr.
Ralph Henderson, of Maple street, became ad
dicted during the summer to the use of iced
tea She soon ran a sewing machine needle
through her thumb, and for many days when
ever she picked up a cup of iced tea a sharp
pain ran through her thumb. Slip refused to
obey the warning, however, and Ul six weeks
she was carried away. The man who carried
her away married her first, and they are now
living in Sagtown.
Last week, at the beginning of the healed
term, two eminent scientific gentlemen of
Burlington took a strong, health}' black and
tan dog and immersed him in a tub of pure
cistern water, into which a weak solution of
iced tea had been poured. They held the dog’s
head under the water fifteen minutes, although
he struggled violently, thus showing tlje natu
ral and instinctive aversion to ;i substance
which intelligent human beings blmdlv and
eagerly drink, and when the gentlemen took
him out of the tub lie was quite dead. If a
teacupful of iced tea in a tub full of water
will kill a dog, think for yourselves what must
be the effort of a strong undiluted cup of this
decoction upon the system of a weak woman.
Last summer a lumber puller in the employ
of F. T. Parsons A Go. declared that In- could
live on iced tea. Before lie had time to go to
his hoarding house, however, he fell off the
raft upon which he was at work and was
drowned.
A sjnglg fjpftp of jped tea poured up-m the
tongue of a living rattlesnake will produce the
most startling effect, instantly causing the man
who administers it to fly for his life, and Lis
life will be in imminent danger unless lie dis
tances the snake before the first turn.
Eleven grains of strychnine mixed in q tpu
spoonful qf iced tea will kjl} the oldest man
im America.
These instances and facts might be multi
plied by scores. We have said enough, how
ever, to warn every person of the danger that
lies in the tempting goblet of iced tea. If
suffering and death ensue from its continued
use, the Hawkeye feels that it has done its
duty, and washes its hands of all responsibil
ity in the matter.
Wlial Cause*. Hard Times.
1. Too pinny spend money and tqq feyy earn
4*
4. Tqq much money is spem wastefully and
uselessly, and too little saved and made pro
ductive and accumulative.
3. We buy too much that we do not pay
cash down ; too much of what we do not ac
tually need.
4. We buy too lyiuf'h hreqd fjpu we ought to
produce at home.
5. We are too wasteful, know too little how
to econotnize, and have too little disposition
to do so.
0. W'e are too speculative, unscrupulous and
actually dishonest in our efforts to make imax-v
7. Too many of ua prefer idleness to indus
try, and too few of us know how to work and
derive pleasure and profit from our l^hor
8. We spend top mp,:!, time iu teaming what
is not nselui aud t little in informing our
selves upon the Ix-st method of promoting
our material prosperity.
9. We know too much f pulitips,spmjd too
lUUCh time and ipopey as p..nut-inns and know
*ou mile abo.it {Mililical economy and the sci
euce of a rtable and economi and successful
public policy.
10. We are too superficial mid impatient,
and lack the clear purpose a;,d pemisieut, pa
fiept application necessary to permanent suc
cess.
11. We depend too much upon our “sharp
ness” and readiness to take advantage of cir
cumstances, and not enough upon earnest labor,
13. We talk too much and think tqq lip Ur,
13. We spread qupH'lvei ever too great a
iqrface, slid 'has laii to dig deep enough in
one place fur the nuggets that will surely in
rich us.
■•♦-
Mary Benton, of Eaton, Durham. England,
is in her one liundred and forty eighth year-
She cooks, washes and irons, threads her own
needles, and sews without spectacles. What
a deal of gossip that woman must hare heard
ir her time.
: —♦*
Some men jirs a\, no stow luat the only
time they get ahead,is when they buy a cabbage.
“In God we Trust 5 ’
How tlie Labor Reformers Pro
pose to Remedy the Evils of Ike
Times.
The remedies thus far suggested to the Con
grcssioual Labor Committee at New Ycrk on
the stagnation of business and industry are the
following:
Abolish capitalists.
Abolish interest.
Abolish private ownership of land.
Abolish private property.
Abolish the patent laws.
Abolish the custom duties.
Abolish all laws for the collection of hills of
credit
Abolish private ownership of machinery.
Abolish the praetiee of giving government
lands to railroads.
Prohibit the employment of children under
fourteen.
Prohibit the employment of anybody but
citizens on public works.
Prohibit the doing of public work by con
tract. Prohibit Chinese immigration.
Lay a graduated tax on incomes io prevent
large accumulations of property.
Furnish government work for the unem
ployed,
Open industrial schools at the expense of
the government. Raise the income of the
government by direct taxation.
Put the soldiers at work on the praries.
Enact a universal eight hour law.
Create a bureau of labor statistics.
Create a department of industry,
Make it illegal for women to work long hours
Have all the machinery run on the coopera
tive system for the benefit of the people.
Amend the constitution for the benefit of
the laboring men.
Establish government co-operative societies.
Make the administration of justice gratuitous
Give everybody the right to vote—women
included.
Let the General Government control public
education.
Establish minority representation.
Let the Government issue unlimited green
backs.
Call in all Government Bonds and National
Bank notes.
Let the Government own and run all rail
roads and telegraph lines.
Keep politicians out of office.
Submit all laws to the people for approval
or condemnation.
Abolish the United States Senate.
Abolish the practice of licensing tenement
cigar factories.
Abolish the wages system.
Restrict the powers of the President and
House of Representatives.
Compel persons to spend their money as
soon as possible after they get it
Abolish the tariff.
Colonize the unemployed ou the prairies.
Fix the rates of wages by law.
Let Congress pass u prohibitory liquor law.
Lend $4,000,000,000 to the people without
interest.
Legislate so that the people may have two
half holidays every week,
Pass a general apprentice law.
Issue United States Bonds In lower denom
inations than sr*o.
Resume specie payments ithme Mately.
Reduce the taxes.
Impose a tax on steamships, to give sailing
vessels a better chance.
Pass a general lien law.
Rent all landed property to whoever will
P M y Bie highest taxes to the Government.
Prevent the locking pp of trust funds by
assignees.
Provide free travel on the railroads at the
expense of the Government.
Modern Definition of Coiiiinereinl
Terms.
Bankrupt—A man who gives everything to
a lawyer so that his creditors will pot get it.
Assignee—the chap that has the deal and
gives himself four aces,
A Bank —The place where people put their
money so it will he handy when other people
ilied it.
Depoitor—A man who don’t know how to
spend his money and gets the cashier how to
siiow him.
President—A big fat man who promises to
boss the job and afterwards sub lets it.
A Director—One of those who accepts a
trust that don’t involve either the use of Jqs
eyes or hi§
Cftshipr—fs often a man who undertakes to
support & wife, six children and a brown stone
front on five dollars a month and be houest.
Collaterals—Are certain papers as good as
gold, due and payable on the first of April.
Assets—Usually consist of fivi> chairs and
an old stove; to these may he added a spit
toon if the “ bust" aint a bad one.
Liabilities—Are usually a big “ blind” that
the assets wont “ see” nor "raise,"
A note-r-A promise to do an impossible
thing at un impossible time.
An endorse—ls a man who signs a commer
cial philopcua with a friend aud gets out.
■ ■ ■■
The One Ensciilinl.
Remarks by a colored In-other m Georgia :
“ Bredtyn, my sperience is dat it ain’t de per
fession ligion, but de casional practice of it,
dat makes a man ceptable up yonder. When
yer gits lo de golden gate and Peter looks yer
right in dc eye, and yer shows him yer long
creed, aii says, pompous like.dat ver loneed
to dc big Piscopalian Church, de Poslle’ll
shake Ins head and say, “ Dat ain't nutf ter git
yer through.” But if yer takes all yer hills
under yer arm, yer grocer bills and yer rent
bills, aud he looks eui over and finds ern all
receipted, be'll say, “ Yer title’s dear," and
unlock dc gate, and let yer pitch yer voice fer
de angel’s song. But it aint no use ter trabble
along dat narrer path, less'n yer carry, folded
in yer kreed, a good recommendation from
jer creditors. Hebbeu ain’t no place for a
man whu has ter dodge round a corner for
dat little bill dat nebber was paid.”
Bread for Dyspeptics —Add one pint of
unbolted flour, two tablespoonfuls of pure
sweet molasses, a little salt, and a very little
cooking soda. Dissolve the soda in a very
sniall quantity of milk or water, just enough
to make the dough right for baking It may
be eat with a small piece of beef steak, a little
mutton chops, or without either of these with
- YTS \\t\Ut sweet butter. Let the bread be
ihe principal part of the mcaL A larger quan
tity of tbe bread may be made, using these
proportions, so as to answer for the day.
Xcw Denth-De liing Machine.
A gun which promises to be the most terri
ble agent of destruction of modern times is on
exhibition at the office of the patentees and
inventors, Francis E Meyers and F. Schultz,
in New York. The “ rifle battery,” as it is
called, is so constructed as to deliver its fire
either in right linos or in horizontal radiating
linos. The barrels, ranging in number from
six to twenty, are sufficiently far apart to pre
vent from continuous firing, and are fired suc
cessively. instead cf simultaneously, at the rate
of 20,000 shots an hour. A steel cover in front
of tb ■ gunners protects them from the enemy's
flic. These guns may be fired continuously in
one fixed direction, or from side to side, or the
battery may be made to vibrate latterly of it
self, at the discharge of each gun, thus sweep
ing the field in front. The barrels are about
an inch apart, and at intervals, where the guns
are held by clasps, they are inclosed within
asbestos or some uou conductor of heat.
The battery may be divided into the barrels
and the breech lock of machinery by which
the barrels are loaded and discharged, the
whole resting on a turn table or pivot. Tlie
balls are placed in a cartridge receiver at right
angles to and resting on the blocks. At the
right of this is a crank at the left a lever. By
pressing the lever in a given direction, the
block is forced up to the muzzle of the gun,
when an automatic lever called the “ fingers,”
takes hold of the cartridges and withdraws
them from the receiver. Another turn of the
lever and the balls are forced into the muzzles,
and the battery is loaded. Then the crank at
the right is turned, and at every revolution a
needle is thrust forward, and stiikes a cart
ridge with sufficient force to explode it. Again
the lever on the left hand is turned, and the
“fingers” advance and withdraw the spent
cartridges, and the battery is again ready lobe
loaded. By means of a screw placed In the
centre of the block, tbe battery may be ele
vated or depressed at pleasure. Tbe inven
tors are trying to have their guns adopted by
the English government. They claim that
they will be especially effective in naval en
gagements With a toy model of the battery,
a ball was fired through an oak plank an inch
in thickness at fifteen yards.
Onl*it* and EpiilcmicK,
A correspondent of the Scientific American
recommends onions as a specific against epi
demics not as esculent, but sliced and kept in
a sick room, where ll ey will absorb any at
mospheric poison, They should be replaced
by fresh onts every hour. It is noticed that
in the room of a smad-pox patient they will
blister and decompose with great rapidity, but
w ill prevent the spread of the disease. Their
application has also proved effective in the
case of snake bites A w riter, in an exchange
paper, says: “We are troubled often with
severe colds, tbe result iff colds of long stand
ing, which may turn to consumption or pre
mature death. Hard coughs cause sleepless
nights, by constant irritation to the throat, and
a strong effort to throw off offensive matter
from the lungs. Tbe remedy 1 propose has
boon tried by me, and recommended by me
with good results, which is simply to take
into the stomach before retiring for the night
a piece of raw’ onion, and chewing it well be
fore swallowing. This esculent, in an uncook
ed state, is very beating, and collects tbe
waters from tbe lungs and throat, causing im
mediate relief to the patient. Tbe w riter once
recommended the. preparation of a strong
onion broth made with beef, mutton or fish to
be eaten by an acquaintance whose lungs and
liver were so disordered that he was incapable
of doing any kind of work. lie could scarce
ly get abont and was growing weaker and
losing flesh every day. He followed my
recommendation, using the onions and catfish
mainly, and in two or three months he was
restore 4 to perfect health
Advertising—A Study.
The Boston Post, in a recent article upon
advertising, remarks:
“ Advertisements seen in a family or busi
ness paper from day to day push tlie interests
of those who insert them more eloquently than
can be done in any other way The boy who
stands upon the street corner and thrusts cards"
and other circulars into the faces of the pass
ersby irritates rather than conciliates, while
the first step to take and vfie find point to gain
in the introduction of a business matter. The
flaming daubs that disfigure and desecrate
picturesque rock fill us with T.urderous feel
ings against the m?; a w ho Ims instigated this
glai’ttg outrage upon nature and enlightened
humanity. Circulars are intruders, and busi
ness operations, of whatever kind or extent,
are prejudiced rather than advanced by this
mistaken Every form of adver
tisement other than that which appears in
newspapers, magazines or similar periodicals
is considered obtrusive and fails to be well re
ceived. It brings with it the flavor of abrupt
ness and irregularity that awakens antagonism,
no matter how much it may be intended to
persuade. It bounces in upon one with a kind
of bumptious informa’ity that startles and dis
gusts. the newspaper advertisement on the
other band, carries its credentials. It i found
in company, and it Ims all the advantage of
being introduced by its friend.”
A curious case was recently tried at Cam
bridge, Illinois—that of Flora A. Spurlock,
against Charles W. Green. The plaintiff, a
clergyman’s daughter, was married to the de
fendant two rears ago, and has by him a child
nine months old She sued to haye the mar
riage declared null and as if it had never ex
isted, and her child a bastard. She swore that
she never loved her husband, but was forced
to marry him by her mother, who had watched
and guarded her, and had written or dictated
her letters to him. filling them with expr< sc
ions of affection she never would have made
voluntarily; that she had loved another man
and had pleaded against this* marriage, and
prayed for death and contemplated destruc
tion rather than submit to it; and finally. lc
-ing wearied out and worn and distracted, had
submitted herself an unwilling partner to the
marriage ceremony, but did not consider that
in spirit she was ever married to Grern lie r
mother admitted that this was true, but plead
ed that she had acted, as she thought, for her
daughter’s good. The husband consented to a
verdict, mot wishing to hold an unwilling wife.
Woman.” savs Jones, “ i the salad of life,
At once a boon and a blessing ”
“ You’re right," savs Brown. •• A salad she is,
And the principal part is the dreaming!”
Oik* of Life’s Shadows.
At 8 o’clock the other morning a Second
street wife followed her husband down to the
gate as he was starting down town and kindly
said to him:
” W illiam, you know how sadly 1 need a
blue hunting dress.”
“ Yes . dear,” he remarked, “ but you know
how bard up I am. As soon as I can see my
way clear you shall have the dress, and anew
bat to boot. Be patient, be good, and your re
ward shall be great.”
Forty minutes after that lie emerged from a
restaurant with a big basket and a fish pole,
bound up the river. In the basket was a chick
en, pickles, cake, fruit, pie and a bottle of
liquid of a rich color, and he was just lighting
a twenty-cent cigar when his wife came along.
“ "VV hat! you here ?’’ he exclaimed
“ I was going to the market. Where
are you going—what’s in the basket ? ”
“ I was going to carry this fish pole around
to a friend on Jefferson avenue,” he modestly
answered
“ And that basket ? ”
“ This basket—well, I was going to tuke it
to the orphan asylum as a present to the chil
dren. It is a donation from six leading citi
zens.”
“ William, I don’t believe it!”
“ Sh! don’t talk so loud ! ”
“ William, I shall talk louder yet!” she ex
claimed. “I’ll bet you are going fishing!"
“Mary, have I ever deceived you?” he
plaintively asked. “ I never have As proof
of my sincerity you can take this basket to the
asylum yourself! ”
“And I’ll do it!” she promptly replied as
she relieved him of it.
“ Mary, hadn’t you ! ”
“ No, sir, I hadn’t! You’d better hurry up
with that fish pole, as the man may want it,
and be careful bow you stand around in the
hot sun!”
She left him there. He watched her take
the car for home, and then lie returned the
fish pole and crossed the street and said to an
acquaintance:
“ Tom, I’m suffering with neuralgia, and the
excursion is off till next week Too had, but
we can never tell what a day may bring forth.”
There were chicken and pickles and other
good Jtliings on the table at dinner, but he
never smiled. Even when his wife wished
she was an orphan, if that was the way they
were fed, he never betrayed the gloom in his
heart. It was only when she handed bint the
bottle lie had so carefully tucked into the has
ket, and be saw it labeled “ Good for Little
Children,” that he said:
“ Mary, It’s an u\\ ful thing for a wife to get
the impression that her husband is a cold
blooded liar!”
“ It must l>e,” she replied as she took the
other chicken leg.— Detroit Free Pres*.
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Hog Cholera —“ While iho cholera has
been fatal in many neighborhoods where pre
ventives, such as copperas, turpentine, tar and
sulphur have been used and the pastures fre
quently changed, disease lias been generally
controlled. My experience lias been this.
Before using turpentine and tar I lost several
times nearly my entire stock of hogs; since I
have used these preventives, with sulphur,
•opperas and ashes, mixed with salt, I have
scarcely lost any, always checking the cholera
in a few days Take the usual feed of corn,
shell it and put it into a vessel, pouring tur
pentine enough to thoroughly cover it; with
a shovel take the coin out and put it in a
basket, draining the turpentine into the vessel
again Continue the use of the turpentine on
corn until it acts freely on the kidneys, then
discontinue.— Samvel Perkin*.
Washing Made Easy.— The Ohio Cultiva
tor gave a receipt foy washing clothes ‘ which,”
it rather extravagantly said, “was worth one
thousand dollars to every housekeeper.” It is
as follows: “Put one pound of unslacked
lime in one gallon of water: boil twenty min
utes, let it stand till cool, then drain off or
strain it and put in a small jug or jar.
Soak the dirty clothes over night or until
they are wet through, then wring them, and
put on plenty of soap, put them in the boiler,
well covered with water, into which pour a
teacupful of the washing fluid ; boil briskly
half yn hour, Ihen wash them thoroughly >yitJ*
some suds; rino, and your clothe* \ v ';p
letter than by the Old v',y of washing twice
before Ijoillog This is an invaluable receipt
and every poor, tired woman should try it.
Scratches- —The following is said to be a
speedy and certain remedy. Have the foot
w ashed thoroughly w ith cold water. Ihen bathe
the parts affecte I w ith tepid emstile soap suds
and immediately thereafter with a wash made
as follows . Blue vitriol one ounce; rainwater
1 pint: (soft water, or water that has been
boiled will answer.) Whiskey 1 pint; dissolve
the blue vitriol first in the water, then add the
whiskey! Keep the foot bandaged to keep
the parts clean w hile in the stable and apply
the wash thtre times a day, liberally, until
cured If necessary, the horse may be worked
while the curing.process is going on, but the
cure will be more speedy if he is exempted
from work for a few days
Keeping Sheep —ln a pasture of not more
than twelve acres on the farm, I keep an av
erage of five head eattle, four head horses,and
from six'y to seventy head of sheep. The
reason for keeping sheep on cattle and horse
pastures is, that a great many weeds grow
which only the sheep will eat. Any patches
of weeds or lu iers may he eradicate and in a short
time by introducing sheep. In dry seasons if
pastures arc short, sheep w ill clean out corn
fields, doing very little damage, and the com
the sheep may get will not hurt them any. |
Mr. Richmond, Ilhnoi*.
Dentistry. —The follow ing pleasant rem
edy is said to be effective: Beat one egg in a
tea cup, add a tablespoonful of loaf sugar, a
teaspoonful of ground spit—, and Till up cup
with sweet milk; be sure it has not become
sour Give the patient a tablespoonful every
ten or fifteen minutes until relieved.
Hickory Cut in Attgcst. —“ Fifteen years’
observation has taught me that hickory cut in
August is not liable to be worm eaten, and will
last a long time. The tops of the trees are
also more valuable for fuel when cut during
the month mentioned.
Slobbers. —A correspondent of the Rural
World says: a horse can be speedily cured of
the slobbers by giving him one or two gallons
of wheat bran. He said it never failed. ,
PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS
An Evening Cull.
Gem len, said Brother Gardner, as he rose
up and placed his hand on a cop}’ of “ The
Great Orators of Madagascar ’ —•** gem’len, do
ole woman war out to deliber de washin’ de
odder night, and I drapped over to see lie
M idder Joimsing fur a few minits. I sot down
on de frunt steps in de deepnin’ twilight, an’
while de skeeters sailed aroun’ frew de sleepy
atmosphere, 1 axed de widder why it was dat
de man who does de moas’ Mowin’ about hard
times hez the leas’ to lose by a panic; an’ she
showed de gold fillin’ in her teef ez she sweet
ly replied:
Misser Gardner, dar will be tatur bugs
jes’ ez long ez dar am tatur.’ ’
De soft clouds sailed across de azure sur
face of de bewtiful union, an’ 1 axed de wid-,'
uer why de church preachers stood up in deir
pulpits an wept ober de heathens in China,
but forgot to even heave a sigh ez dey p:.ased
base ball, dog fights, jumpin’ matches, an
borhood rows on deir way home, an’ de wid
der she shined up her brass rings wid her ap’ony
an’ replied:
“ ‘ Misser Gardner, all butchers may be Con
est, but all butcher scales may not weirh six
teen ounces to de j*oun\ It aiu powerfufttasv
fur us to fin’ fault wid odder people’s itDses,
an’ jes’ like us to iorgit dat de ends of ouifuwn
turn up.’ — :
“ I sot dar in de increasin’ daikness, feelin’
a goneness for de want of a sweet turnip to
eat. an 1 axed de widder why de man who
doau mean to squar’ up wid his grocer am
jc-st de chap who finds fault wid de size yf a
quart measure, an’ she dodged a pincli-beetle
an’replied:
Misser Gardner, dis world am so eonsti
tooted dat de dog which barks de loudest gits
de nmas’ hones. Money am powerful good,
ole man, but do nex’ bes’ fing to it am a good
pa’r o luugs an’ plenty of surface between da
eye an’ de chin! ’
“ Gem’len, ez soon ez de ice goos outen da
river an’ I git a little time to thought about it,
I ze g wine to dwell on sich tilosofy ez de above
an’ ligger up conclusions wid a soft peneil."-*-
Detroil Fret Prtss
A bawl room—the nursery.
Green apples strike below the belt.
Edgar Fawcett wishes that “man could make
love like a bird.” He does Edgar, he does;
like a goose.
** Felt slippers,” a sign on Treiuout row,
makes bad little boys tremble as they pass,
they’ve felt 'em so often.
“ Mother, I heard sissy swear.” “ What did
she say ? ” “ Why, she said she was not going
to wear her thtnud stockings to church/*
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*' One tiling,” says an obi toper, “ was never
seen coining through the rye and that is Ilia
the kind of whiskey one gets now-a days.
During the past w inter a New Hampshire
woman has cut and piled twenty-three cords
of wood, She wishes to be known by her axe.
Old ITob lias much to answer for,
Be cause of this warm spell,
For every other man you meet
Bemarks, “ It’s hot as—” well!
“ 1 say, Fit, what are you about—sweeping
out the room?” “No,” answered Pat, “I'm
swapiug out the dirt an’ leaving the room.”
After a hoy is tired out hoeing potatoes
nothing seems to rest him more than to dig
over a few square rials of greensward in search
of bait.
A Minnesota lather who has five grown tip
daughters lias sued the county. He claims
that liis residence has Ween used as a court
house foi the past two years.
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The mild-eyed cow is grazing now
On pastures fair and green,
And now we eat grass butter sweet,
Oh, Leah Margerine!
•* Have you ever read the ‘Tale of a Bum
ble Bee?” asked George of .Sarah Jane. “No,”
said she, as she turned the color of red paint,
“ but I’ve felt ’em.”
“If you want to sleep well, lay your feet to
the South,” says a medical journal. If you
have big feet we suppose you have a right to
lay it to something, but hasn’t the poor South
had enough laid to it ?
The musical, merry mosquito
Most certainly is very neat, oh!
For'he gives you sharp pain
While he sings sweet strain,
Unheeding the cry, “ A ou must quit, oh!”
Ex-Governor Miller, of Minnesota, is deliv
ering a lecture in that Slate, which is entitled
“ All Men sre Liars ” Ilis tickets read, “ All
Men are Liars— admit one.”
The triumphant knight at Orkney Spring*
tournament crowned Miss Mary Mostly, daugh
ter of the Confederate Colonel, Queen of
Love and Beauty. Miss Mostly is described
as a blonde, graceful and sylph-like.
A man in Illinois committed suicide by
drowning, lately, in six inches of water. He
couldn’t have done it alone, but bis wife, with
all that self sacrificing devotion characteristic
of the sex, sat oil his head.
“ Sweets to the sweet,” said the swell of a
boarding bouse, passing the syrup fo the daugh
ter of the proprietor. And “ beets to the beat,”
remarked the young lady, shoving a dish of
that vegetable towaid the youth. The obser
vation cast a gloom over the company.
1 Go straight, young man,” the maiden said,
“And get your bead sand papered:
For, by you moon ! I’ll never wed
A fellow with a frowsy head!”
lie went. And now the flies delight
To rooft upon liim day and night.
And hum sweet prises while they bite.
When little Thomas stoops Uidtoy with ber
ries, jam and jelly cake, no art can soothe the
cira-tenetl boy—no nostrum ease his stomach
ache. And if the griping pain; defy the med
icines prescribed to foil, his parents will do
well to tty the limpid, liquid castor oil.
“Doctor, wliat do you think is the matter
with my little boy t” “ Aby, its only a coi rus
tified egesis autispasmodicaliy emanating from
the animal refrigerator producing a prolific
source of irritability in the pericrania! epi
dermis of the mental profundity.” “Ah,that’s
what I told Betsy, but she ’lowed it war wur
ruius-”
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