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THE MONROE M ADVERTISER.
GEORGE A. KING & CO.
VOL. XX) 11.
Professional Cards.
y i ii u i:,
Attorney and Solicitor al Lhh
In office with Hon. T. 15. Cabiness, Forsytb
<• ■ • ijjin. Collection of Claims a Specialty
Oct 12 1m
VV
X V • ATTORNEY AT LAW,
koh-yth, o.v.
Will practice in a!', the courts of ttie Flint
•Indicia! Circuit and the Supreme court of the
Sta'c. Sti a t attention given to collections.
liv’'Glib <• Lp-stairs over Ponder & Haul’s
Dry Goods store- novl2 lm
T. 15. A HANTS-. J. II- TURNER.
Cabarnss Sc Turner, •
ATTOiiftHY.** AT hAH
FOIisYTII, GrA.
Will practice in State and Federal courts.
novl2 3m
i L BI HNKH C. A. TURNER.
BERNER & TURNER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
FOILS n il, : GEORGIA
WILL practice in all the courts. Prompt at
tention given to all business entrusted to
hem. The collection of claims a specialty.
Office Up stairs in Pye’s Hall. oct!7
T. G. BATTLE,
A.T LA.W,
rOfitSYTBS, thiio.
in the Superior Courts of Mon
roe niuTndjoiiiine comities Also in the Su
preme Court, \S ifl give close attention to all
busiues> entrusted to iiim. Collecting doubtful
eaims a specially- in Courthouse.
novl3 tf.
T. W KING,
Justice ai Uie Pcac**
Otfice in the Court-house, up stairs.
Will attend to any collections intrusted to
his care. febUJtf
BeL. B. ALEXANDER
Oilers his professional services to the citizens of
FOKSYTII
ami surrounding country. Calls may be left
at bis residence or at the Drug Store of F- O
Mays and will receive prompt attention.
l)r. Alexander respectfully announces Unit
heretofore his plantation in Houston county
lias required bis absence from home occasion
ally for several days at a time, but bis arrange
ments are such now as to enable him to devote
his entire time to the practice of medicine, and
he will always be found at home or at his
office when not professionally engaged.
Forsytb, duly in. 1878. if
DENTISTRY.
1 have opened rn office in the Adver
tiser building (first room to the light, up
stairs) and am pit paired to do all kinds of
QrtETHrx DENTAL
T33J work
in a faithful anil satisfactory manner. H'lien
parties are not prepared to come to my office,
if notified 1 will cheerfully call at their res
idences.
T. E. CHAMBERS.
Miscellaneous Advertisements.
Monroe Female College.
FORSYTH, 0--/Y.
F" V V : v *
This long established Institution of Learning
will resume exercises
.August 20, 1878*
A full Board of Instruction, a healthful and
pleasant location, the refining influences of
ono of the most intelligent and moral com
munities in the State excellent facilities for
attainment in the tine arts, all find toeem
mend it to favorable consider: tom
Board and Literary tuition have been reduc
ed till the expense of both for rite fall tern.,
of four months, is only fill.
Those desirous of proem : a; for their daugh
tens superior advantages < mi ned and social
culture would do well to s, ml at once for a
catalogue of the Institution.
Thankful to the public im he liberal patron
a,re 0 f the past, the Institution looks with re
newed hope and confideuee to the prospect of
R. ASIH-RY, Present,
S. G. HILLYEK, D.D.
HOUSE and LOT
For Pale-
I offer mv house and lot situated on d/a in
Sun t, in Forsyth, within three minutes walk
of the’eourt house Square, f ; t:;ie .it .. sACltt
j,lCl£ Any one in search of a comfortable
home should see me at once. There is a beau -
tif Q ] .rra<s lawn iu front of the house, a large
cardim in the rear, and a strawberry bed and
tiue young orchard on one side t lie house
..j . i,,„ r rooms on first floor and two looms
up tairs L have expended a. great deal of
ntonev within the past three years to make
this a comfortable home. It is a bargain to
whoever will but it*
w lioev w L c ARM IC//.VEL
Valuable Farm lor Sale t heap
Rv dTection of the heirs and o r.t rs, tv ho
reside in Kv, we will sell La-fore the court
house door in Forsyth, Ga on the Ist 1 ues
dav m December next, the farm known as the
I nniD Giesham place, containing 110 acres of
land with comfortable improvements. 1 his
mcDertv is very, durable on account of its
proximity to Forsyth (being 2 mi.*. from court
house) as" also its fertility and local urn. V ill
! e cold at private sale if desired. 1 ith-s un
encumbered, terms o! payment easy, and price
very low. If not sold by l>t Tuesuay m Da’.,
♦hii farm will be rented. Call on address
this taim wr gTOKE & TURNER,
hot IS td Attorneys at Law, F orsy th, Ga.
Written for the Advertiser]
I lie Domly.
UY GENEVIEVE.
Onward is the watchword of the present age,
dud change is written on every page
Ot the world's where we survey
1 ne actions of the learned, grave and gay.
experience proves that time always brings
Vv ith it an ever changing course of things;
Dut of the long list of centuries past,
None ure so full of changes as the last.
W ithin that period the human mind
Has left its former efforts*far behind.
Mighty cities have been built up where then
Were the haunts of wild beasts and savage
men.
W here then the timid deer idly strayed,
Or the Indian “ woo’d his dusky maid,”
Is now seen towering the stately dome,
W bile through the deep groves fairer damsels
roam;
And where the fieice red man hotly pressed
I he fawn by Ins unerring aim sore distressed,
Avir the fiery steed, with laden train,
Thunders on iron track back and forth again-
An 1 where the terrific war-whoop broke
On the dull car of night, ’mid flame and smoke,
Now the church, reared for our Creator’s
praise,
Bathes its lofty spire in the halcyon rays
Of the midday sun. While ou Sabbath days,
By the church-bell s sound, are assembled there
liich anil poor at the aitar of prayer.
Lightning now, too, lias yielded to man’s skill,
Conveying news everywhere at his will;
And now thro’ the depths of lire mighty sea
iVe have anew medium, safe and free.
These and many results, incredible thought,
By labor and study oui age has wrought.
Lut we leave these triumphs of man
And humbly ask attention while we scan
One of the follies of the present day,
\v hiclr take some of ouryoungiuen far uniray,
And since this gent is always the most handy’
W e’ll take up, then, our friend, the dandy.
'i ou may know him, as a lady once said.
By his very soft hands and his softer head ;
I he amount of brass on his fingers keeps pace
W ith the brass watch in his pocket—the brass
in his face
On a closer inspection soon will follow,
1 he exquisite how and standing collar;
With luxuriant hair brushed with great pains,
Covering perhaps a thimble-full of brains,
lie giories, too, in a very small foot,
Lncased always in an elegant boot,
Whose neat polish, by “ Sambo” laid on well,
1 lie polish ot his mind doth far excel,
L ist, a costly cane of beautiful shape,
Makes him ready and eager to play the ape
Tims dressed and equipped, he is daily seen
Promenading the streets with stately mien;
M ith thumbs in his button-holes, and confi
■dent air,
He thinks to captivate the ladies fair.
But in t!it fop’s formation ’twos decreed
His chief honors should rest with the foaming
steed; •
For oft we see his steed come thundering by,
And seeing the curl of his waving lash
We know he intends to cut quite a dash ;
That he cuts a dash is extremely tiue,
Ami a very ridiculous one too.
In raising the dust or throwing the mud
Fpon passers-by in a perfect flood,
Ladies or gentlemen, ’tis all tbe same
To our hero—be is riding for fauie.
So on he goes with Ins borrowed trotter,
Feet on the dash board anil a ‘ two-forty”
motto, x
A nd learns to produce the whip's .-h irp twang,
Aim frequently use the pompous “ge-lang.”
In the public assemblies he too takes part,
And finds great room for employing his art.
To church, yea, to church, does the dandy go,
Foi close observation and gaudy show ;
On a bench near the girls he takes a seat,
On the back ot the next tie puts his feet;
Ami with complacent air he looks around
lo see if a pretty lass may bo found,
Who is dressed as tho’she possessed the “tin,”
Ami looks simple enough to be taken in.
When lie wishes to show otf well, lie’ll wait
Until service begins, and come in late.
Ami oli! how proud lie call stint up the aisle,
Dangling Ins cane in the latest style;
Oh! what killing glances shoot from his eye
Ai the lovely maiden-as lie passes by.
But time is out, my poem is ended,
I sincerely trust I’ve u.it otleuded.
Gentlemen, one am! all, adieu ;
Lacies’, good luck—the dandy may lie a bus*
Land true.
A C heerful Home.
A single bitter word may disquiet an entire
family for a whole day. One surly glance
a gloom over the household, while a smile,
like a gleam of sunshine, may light up the
darkest and weariest hours. Like unexpected
flowers which spring up along our path, full
of freshness, fragrance and beauty, do kind
Wcrus and gentle acts and sweet dispositions,
m ike glad the home where peace and bless
ings dwell. No matter how humble the abode.
If it be thus garnished with grace and sweet
ened with kindness and smiles, the heart will
turn lovingly toward it from all the tumult of
the world, will be the dearest spot beneath
the circuit of the sun. And the influences of
home perpetuate themselves. The gentle
grace of the mother lives iu the daughter lon
after her head ;s pillowed in the dust of death;
and the fatherly kindness liuds its echo in the
nobility, and courtesy of sons, who come to
wear his mantle and All his place; while on
the other hand, from an unhappy, misgoverned
and disordered home, go foith persons who
sliaii make other homes miserable, and per
petuate- tue sourness and sadnes, the conten
tions and slrife-s and railings which have made
their own early lives so wretched and distort
•a. Toward the cheerful home ihe children
i r “as clouds and as doves to their win
uows,’ while from the home which is the
ab>*i:e of discouteut and strife and trouble,
they-fly forth as vultures to rend their prey.
1 he class of men wuo disturb and disorder and
distress the w orld, are not those born and nur
lured by the hallowed influences of Christian
home; liut rattier those whose early life lias
been a scene of trouble and vexation—who
have stalled wrong in the pilgrimage, aud
whose course is one of disaster to th mselves
and trouble to those around tbeui.
He was a countryman, and he walkeu
along the busy streets and read a sign over the
door of a manufacturing establishment, “Cast
Iron Sinks,” it made him mad. lie said any
fool knew that.
FORSYTH. GEORGIA. TUESDAY MOUSING, DECEMBKR. 17, LB7B.
TALHAGE’S TIJIUU WATCH
[New York Herald.J
Dr Taimage preaihed yesterday morning,
as usual, in the Brooklyn Tabernacle on tbe
night side of city life, this time expatiating on
the “Third Watcii of the Night,” which he
described as by far the most horrible. He
chi.se his text from Genesis, 1., s—“And tbe
darkness He calleth night.” Two rand di
visions of time, sai 1 Mr. Tannage—one of
sunlight the other of shadow. I have spoken
to you of the first aud second watches of the
, night. I speak now of the third —that is, from
twelve to three o’clock. The thunder of the
city has rolled from the jair. Slight souuds
now cut the night with a distinctness that ex
cites your attention. Solemn aud stupendous
is the third watch! There are respectable
men abroad. Tim city missionary is going up
to that court to take a scuttle of coal to a poor
famihe Men who are forced to toil into the
midnight are hastening to their pillow. But
the great multitudes are asleep. Tbe lights
are out in the dwellings. The street lamps,
standing in a long line, reveal the silence and
the slumber of the town. Stupendous thought!
a great city at rest! Let the great host sleep |
God’s slumberless eye will watch.
But there are thousands who will not sleep
to-night. Go tip that dark court. Be careful
or you will fall over the prostrate form of a
drunkard lying on his own doorstep. Look
about, lest you feel the garroter’s hug. Look
in through that broken pane. No bread, no
light, no lire, no cover. They shiver in dark
ness. They begged, but got nothing. They
had rather die than go to the almshouse, iou
say these are vicious poor. So much the more
to be pitied. Their last light has gone out.
They are in hell now. Where I have ten
prayers for the innocent I have twenty for
the guilty. The vicious poor have had two
shipwrecks—that of the body and that of the
soul—wreck for time and wreck for eternity
Pass on through that alley. Open the door.
It is not locked. They have nothing to lose.
Strike a match and look—beastliness and rags!
From the corner a wild face starts out of the
straw and moves toward you just as your light
goes out. Strike another match, Here is a
little babe. Not like those beautiful children
presented this morning for baptism- It never
smiled, it never will smile. Strike another
match The face of that young woman is
bruised and gashed now. No hope lias dawned
on that soul for years ; hope never will dawn
on it- The match has gone out. Light it not
again, for it would seem to be a mockery.
Pass out and on. There are thousands of
such abodes in our cities. An awful gloomy
and overwhelming picture is the city in the
third watch. After midnight crime does its
chief, During the daytime the villains lounge
about, a part of the time asleep, a part awake,
hut when the third watch arrives they will
rouse up with eye keen, mind acute, arms
strong and feet fleet to fly or pursue. Many
of them have been brought up to the work.
They began by picking boys’pockets,anil now
they are preparing to blast the gold vault of a
bank. So long as the children of the street
are neglected there will be no hmk of desper
adoes.
In the third watch the gambling Louses are
in full blast. Stir up the fires ! Bring on the
drinks ! Put up the stakes ! Many a till will
spring a lead. Gaming is making efforts to
become lespectable. A member of congress
played with i member elect and won $1&0,-
000. The old way of getting a fortune is so
slow ! Come, let’s toss up to see who shall
have it! And so it goes on from the wheez
ing wretches pitching pennies to the million
aire gamblers in the stock market. Legislators
tired of making laws take a respite in break
ing them. Officers of the court while away
the time while the jury is out. There is no
excuse for this crime. There are $7,000,000
annually lost in New York at the gaming ta
ble. Ihe agents of these gaining tables are
around our hotels. They ask a stranger if
he would like to see the city and show him
what they call tbe‘■lions" and the “elephants.”
(Laughter ) If a young man through morbid
curiosity has seen the “ lions” and the ■*ele
phants” he will never see lieavou. Look out
for those men who move around hotels with
sleek hats and a patronizing air and are so un
accountably anxious about your entertainment.
All they want is your money. You are a fool
it you can’t see through it. (Laughter.)
In the third watch also* dmiiktness does its
worst. The drinking man will be respectable
at eight o’clock, at nine he is talkative, at ten
his tongue is thick, at eleven he blasphemes,
at twelve l.is hat falls off,‘at on -he falls to the’
floor asking for more drink. Drunkenness
makes men mad. One of its victims came
home one night and frtund his wife had died
during his absence, lie went into the ro in
where siie had been prepared for the grave,
ihook her from her shroud .and tossed the body
out of the window.
The land is soaked with sin. Something
radical must be done. You do not see the
worst. If Christi in men ami women would
go forth among the wandering and the desti
tute they might make the darkest alley of the
city kimfle with the gladness of heaven. Do
not think pious counsels will stop the gnawing
of empty stomachs or warm stockingless feet.
Take bread, raiment, medicine, as well as
prayer. \\ e want no such inapt work as that
of the man who went into an hospital during
the war and gave to a soldier who bad had
b ‘th legs amputate l a tract on the sin of dan
cing. (Laughter.) Generous, helpful work
would bring buck thousands. I see them
coming now. Cry up the news to Leuven 1
Set all the bells a ringing! Spread the ban
quet and keep the jubilee 1
But there is a man who won’t reform. Well,
then, how many acts in a tragedy ? I believe
five.
Act the Fhst—Yo ung men starting from
home. Parents and sisters crying. Wagon
pusses over the hills. Farewell kiss thrown
back. Rmg the bell and let the curtain drop.
Act Second —Marriage altar. Bright lights.
Full organ. Long white veil trailing through
the aisle. Pray er and congratulations and ex
clamation of “ How well she looks.” Rffie
the bell and let the curtain drop.
Act 2 htrd —Midnight. Wtuiian waitiag for
staggering steps. Old garments stuck into
the br ken window pane. Many marks of
hardship on the face. Biting the nails of
bh odless fingers. Neglect and cruelty and
disgrace. King the bell and let the curtain
drop.
Act Fourth —Three graves in a dark place—
grave of the child that died from lack of mc-d-
“In God we Trust *’
icine ; grave of the wife who died of a Lroken
heart; grave of the husband who died of dis
sipation. Oh, what a blasted heath, with
three graves, plenty of weeds, no flowers!
Anguish coiling its serpent’s coil around the
crushed heart. Blackness of darkness forever.
Woe! woe! woe! I can not bear longer to
look. Come, come. King the bell and let the
curtain drop.
W copy from the Atlanta Constitution a
tabulated statement of sums appropnuted as
salaries to the several officers of the State
government.
Governor’s salary $4,000.
Salary Secretary of State, $2,000.
• Salary Comptroller-General, $2,000.
Salary Treasurer, $2,000.
Salary Attorney-General, $2,000. .. r
Salary state Librarian, SI,OOO. '•
Salaries clerical force, secretaries and mes
senger of executive department, SO,OOO.
Clerk Secretary of State, SI,OOO.
Clerical expenses comptroller’s office, in
eluding insurance and wild laud departments,
SI,OOO. i
Clerk Statu Treasurer, $1,(10Q,
President of Senate and Speaker of House,
$7 per diem and 10 cents per mile mileage.
Members of General Assembly, $4 per day
ami 10 cents per mile mileage.
Secretary uf Senate, S(K) per diem to pay all
cleiieal expenses of Senate,
Clerk of House, S7O per diem, to pay all
clerical expenses of House.
Door-keepers and Messengers, $4 per diem,
Assistant Doorkeepers and Gallery Keepers,
$3 per diem.
Page of Senate, $1.50 per diem.
Three pages of House, $1 50 per diem.
Chaplain of House, $1 per uietn.
Keepers of closets, $1.50 per diem.
Judges of Supreme Court, $3,500 per an
num-
Future Judges of Supieme Court, $3,000
per annum.
Judges of the Supeiior Court whose terms
do not expire until 1880, $2,500 per annum.
Other Judges of Superior Courts, s2,oooper
annum-
Solicitor-Generals, $250 per annum-
Reporters Supreme Court, SI,OOO per an
num.
Clerk Supreme Court for stationiry, etc.,
SSOO.
Trustees Lunatic Asylum, S3OO.
Keeper penitentiary, $2,000.
Academy for the Blind, $12,000
Deaf and Dumb Asylum, $15,000.
State Lunatic Asylum for 1879, $49,625, in
addition lo overdrawn balance of $50,375.
For Lunatic Asylum, 1880, SIOO,OOO.
Resident physician, of Lunatic Asylum,
$2,500.
For repairs to public buildings in Atlanta
and Milledgeville, SB,OOO
- work on vault in Comptroller-General’s
office. S2OO.
Payment of interest of State debt and eight
per cent, bonds falling due, $803,000.
Contingent fund. SIO,OOO.
Priutiug fund, SB,OOO.
Incidental expenses of assembly, SIOO.
1 lie Moffett register lius come down like a
locket. A year ago this law was in force iu
one State, Virginia; had been passed in an
other, Louisiana, but was not yet iu force, and
was before the Legislatures of New York,
Pennsylvania, Tennessee, South Carolina and
Mississippi, with every prospect of being
adopted in these States and becoming law
But to-day the Moffett register has’fallen into
disrepute everywhere. A hill proposing this
law wag, presented before the Legislature of
Georgia the other day, but there is no hope or
possibility of its passage. The press and peo
ple of Georgia are unanimously opposed to it,
and it is scarcely likely that it will get a dozen
votes in the Legislature. That our Moffet
register law will be abolished at the coming
session of the Legislature, the results of the
late election leave no doubt. Even in Virgin
ia, the originator of this new mode of raising
taxes, the Moffett register has proved a fraud
and a failure. The revenue derived from this
source has decreased from month to month
until it now yields but little more than the old
revenue from liquor licenses used to return,
it is said that at the next session of the Vir
ginia Legislature this law will be repealed and
the old system r.eudopled. As for the Moffet
register bills now before the Legislatures of
New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee aud Mis
sissippi, they have mysteriously disappeared
since the failure of the law in Virginia has
been made apparent, and are to-day denied
and repudiated by those who advocated their
adoption.— JSetc Orleans Democrat.
A New Cave in Kentucky.— Another
w on,lei ful cave lias recently been discovered
near Glasgow Juncii n, Kv. It has already
been explored for a distance of twenty-three
miles in one direction, called -the long route,
and sixteen miles in another direction, called
the short route. The avt-nues a very wide; a
span of horses can be easily driven through
for a distance of eleven miles. Three rivers,
wide and very deep are encountered on the
long route. One of them is uavagable for
fouiteen mi.es, until the passage becomes too
nanow to admit a boat. The cave is wonder
ful beyond description, and far surpasses in
grandeur the Mammoth or any cave ever be
fore discovered. Several mummified remains
bare been discovered in one of the large rooms
They were reposing in stone coffins, rudely
constructed, and from uppearauc.-s have been
in this cave for centuries. They present ev
ery appearance of the Egyptian mummies
Only one of the big trees of California has
been felled by the hand of man. To accom
plish this it required the work of five men for
twenty two days, not chopping, but with lone
augurs, boring it down. After the tree was
completely seveied, the veteran stood still
unmoved and refused to fall, until by ropes,
pulleys and wedges, the enormous trunk was
brought to the earth- This tree was found to
be over t*-0 feet lone, ninety-six feet in cir
cumference ut the base and sound to the
heart.
A widow who used to go forth every day
with a watering pot and sprinkle her bus
band’s grave, upon being highly compliment
ed for lr r devotion, replied, “I told Jimmv
be.ore he died that I wouldn’t marry again
till Hie grass grew on his grave, and as grass
is rather backward this season I thought I’d
hurry it a liitie.”
Wade Hampton's Second Inaugu
ration as Governor.
[Columbia Register ]
In accordance with an indication from Gov.
Hampton that he was prepared to be inaugu
rated as (governor of South Carolina, under
the late election, the president of the senate,
the speaker of the house of representatives,
the clerks, of both houses and the committees
appointed to visit Gov. Hampton, repaired to
ins residence on yesterday at 2 o’clock r. u.
m company with the Chief Justice, L ent’
Gov. Simpson and Col. Wade H. Manning,
the governor’s private secretary, for the pin*;
pose of witnessing the inauguration which hscF
been authorized by the concurrent resolution:
of the two houses of the legislature.
The party left the state: htntsu in carnages,
and after a short drive were soon at the gov
ernor’s residence, where they were met “and
invited in by Col. Wade Hampton, Jr.. .The
governor was lying in a bed, with an expres
sion of pain upon his countenance, but other
wise appeared lo be getting on well-Mndeed
his friends were agreeably disappointed, for
he appeared stronger and much more cheerful
than they expected to find him.
As the members of the party went to his
bedside, be shook hands with them and had
some pleasant remark for each. The object
ofthevisU being made known, Chief Justice
Willard, sitting by his bedside, held a small
Biole, upon which thu governor held his hand
whiie the oath was being read—at the conclu.
eton of which, taking the book into his own
hand, lie raised it to his lips and then signed
the oath in a steady and legible hand, although
lying upon his buck. Lieutenant Governor
Simpson then took and subscribed the oath of
office of lieutenant governor, After which
Gov. Hampton expressed to the legislature,
through the committees, his appreciation of
the sympathy extended him by tbe body, and
said that the greatest regret he feels in conse
qunce of his painful accident is that he is de
pi ived of the privilege of conferring with and
consulting the general assembly about the
matters of importance to the people of South
Carolina Which they are considering.
The committees feeling that it would be a
lax upon the governor’s strength for them to
remain longer, wished him a speedy restora
tion to health and retired, not having remained
m Dhe .room for more than fifteen minutes,
uud reached the Capitol in less than one hour
from the time they left it. Members of the
committee say that the governor never ap
peared nobler than during the inauguration
ceremony. Throughout the entire visit he
ivas calm, resolute and self-possessed, showing
a cheerfulness wliieh is believed to be tbe in
dication of rapid improvement.
Power of a Miner's Superstition,
LFroui ihe Virginia City (Nev.) Chronicle.]
A leportsr was talking with an old miner a
few days ago who implicitly believed that no
death ever took place in the mines without a
a warning of some kind. “You see,” he said,
“death never comes of a sudden upon the men
in the mines. You reporters write up acci
dents, and how something gave way or fell
quicii and killed somebody. Now, this ain’t
so. ’/here’s always some warning. When I
see my lantern begin to burn low down and
blue, I kuow that there is danger ahead. If
it keeps on fora few days and then begins to
waver and flicker, I’ll watch it close* to see
where it points. Now, you may set me up us
a fool, but what I’m tellin’you is the gospel
truth. When the flame leans over (as if it
was being worked by a blow-pipe) and points
to a man, death Ims marked him. Some years
ago, when Bill Hendricks was killed in the
Savage, the flame of rny lantern pointed right
to him lor over an hour, and when he moved
the flame would turn just as if Bill was a
loadstone and tire flame was a mariner’s nee
dle. I knew he was gone and told him to be
careful about the blast. Well, he got through
ail right and got on the cage. As we got up
the cundie kept acting strangely, and at times
the flame would stretch out long and thin
toward Bill. At length it gave a sudden
flicker and Bill reeled to one side and was
caught in the timbers I heard his dreadful
cry as lie disappeared down the shaft, and
while he was bounding from side to side,
dashing out his brains and scattering his flesh
down to the bottom, my light went out. I
never lit that lantern again. It hangs up in
my cabin, and it always will. There is more
inu candle flame than people think. I’d rath
ei see a cocked revolver pointed at me than a
caudle flame; a revolver sometimes misses,
but a caudle flame is sure to kill when it starts
toward a man.”
I’oor sum Proud.
oung men out of business are frequently
sadly hampered by pi ide. Many young men
who go \N est take n ore pride than money,
and ljiiiig back all the pride and no money at
all. A young man who works for his board,
no matter what honest work he does, has no
reason for shame. A young man who eats
the bread of idleness, no matter how muon
money he has, is disgraced. Young men
starting in life ought to aim first of all to find
a place where they can earn their bread and
bu.ter with hoe, axe, spade, wheel-barrow,
curry comb, blacking brush—no matter how.
Independence first The bread and butter
question settled, let the young man perform
his duty so faithfully as to attract attention,
and let binr constantly keep his eyes open for
a letter chance. About half the poor, proud,
young men, and two-thirds of tiro poor, dis
couraged young men are always out of work.
The young man who pockets his pride, and
carries an upper lip as stiff as a cast-iron door
step scraper, need not starve, and stands a
good chance to become rich.
Toothache. —At a meeting of the London
Medical Society some years ago, Dr. Blake a
distinguished practitioner, said that he was
able to cure the most desperate case of tooth
ache, unless the disease was connected with
rheumatism, by the application of the follow
ing remedy; “Alum reduced to an impalpable
powder two drachms; nitrous spirits of ether,
seven drachms; mix and apply to the tooth.”
Hundreds of people will be pleased and re
lieved by this simple remedy if it possesses
the virtue attributed to it. If we have any
readers who suffer from this painful affliction
we hope they will give it a trial. The mate
rials wili cost only a few cents and can be ob
tained at any drug store.
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There is an arsenic spring in California.
Tlic tiirl Wc All Want.
The true girl has to be sought for. Sht
does not parade herself as show goods. She
is.uot fashionable. Generally, she is not rich
but oh, what a heart she has when you fiud
her! so large and pure aud womanly. When
you see her you wonder if those showy things
outside were women If you gain her love,
your two thousaud are millions. Slie’ll not
ask you for a carriage or a first class house.
She’H wear simple dresses and turn them
when necessary, with no vulgar magnificat to
frown upon her economy. She’ll keep every
thing neat and nice in your sky parlor, and
: give you such a welcome when }’oii couie
hoqie that you your parlor Ligber
than ever- Ylhe'H eutartaiu true friends on a
dollar*, and astonish yoh with the new tliought
liow little happiness depends on money. She
will make you love home (it you don’t you’re
a brute) and teach you how to pity, while you
scorn a poor fashionable society that tbiaks
itself rich, and vainly tries to think itself hap
py. Now, do not, 1 pray y'ou, say any more
“ 1 can t aff °rd to marry.” Go, find the true
woman, and you can. Throw away that cigar,
burn up th it switch caue, be sensible yourself,
and seek your wife in a sensible way.—Atlan
tic Monthly.
Cure fur Dyspepsia.
Milk and lime water are now frequently
prescribed by physicians in cases of dyspepsia
and w eakness of the stomach, and in some
cases are said to prove beneficial. Many per
sou* who think good bread and milk a great
luxury frequently hesitate to eat it, for the
reason that milk will not digest readily; sour
uess of the stomach will often follow. But
experience, proves that lime water aud milk
are not onty food and medicine at an early
peiiod of life, but also at a later, when, as in
the case of infants, the functions of digestion
and assimilation have been seriously impaired.
A stomach taxed by gluttony, irritated by im
proper food, inflamed by alcohol, enfeebled by
disease or otherwise unfitted for its duties—as
is shown by the various symptoms attendant
upon indigestion, dyspepsia, diarrhoea, dysen
tery, and fever—will resume its work, and do
it energetically, on an exclusive diet of bread
and milk and lime water. A goblet of cow’s
milk may have four tablespoonfuls of lime
water added to it with good effect. The way
to make lime water is simply to procure u few
lumps ol unslaked lime, put the liuie in a
stone jar, add water untd the lime is slaked
aud of about the consistency of thin cream ;
the lime settles, leaving the pure clear lime
water at the top. Great care should be taken
not to get the lime water too strong. Keep to
the tiirection as to the consisteuc3’, aud when
the water rises pour it off without obtaining
any of the lime. The lime water is also very
good to apply to burns and scalds. In slaking
the lime, particular care should be taken that
none of the particles fly into the eye.
Seventeen Sermons.
1 he perfectly contented man is also perfect
ly useless.
T ry to see yourself through the eyes of those
around you.
T he ideal saint of the young moralist is cut
from sappy timber.
ihe vigorous idea keeps warm though
wrapped in few words.
Great power of acquisition is common to
millionaires and bogs.
Faith tnat asks no questions kills the soul
and stifles the intellect.
lie who thinks poorly of himself cannot w in
the respect of his fellows.
Happy is the man who has neighbors willing
to forgive his mistakes.
Appear to be better than you are, and aim to
be what you appear to he.
T he trouble with many communities is that
their dead men refused to be buried.
Only inliuite wisdom cun distinguish the
difference between some men aud beasts.
Man believes that to be a lie which contra
dicts the testimony of his own ignorance.
The gilded calf, having wealth without soul,
finds more worshippers to-day than in the
days of Moses.
lie whose only claim to the title “gentle
man” is in his clothes, must necessarily he
careful as to what he wears.
Whether he is great or small, set that man
down for a fool who boasts that he does not
read the local papers.
I he Lord can more easily have faith in re
ligion that wears an old coat to church than
the man in the coat can.
It is better to arise from your knees and shut
your hens cut of your neighbor’s yard than to
indulge in long prayer.
Ciio West.
Yes, son, yes, yes; go out west and buy a
farm. There is no life so independent as that
of the honest farmer. Da not be discouraged
if the work is a little hard at first. The grass
hopper.? will eat up all your first planting, but
they will devour it so early in the season that
you can plant a second time. They won’t
eat that planting until just about three days
before harvest; then you will have nothing
to do all fall and winter and 30U can put in
your full time starving. The nexl3’eai’scrop
wili be destroyed by constant rains and Hoods.
The third year a drouth will burn up every
thing that has a root or a leaf within ten miles
of your farm. The fourth year, however,
everything will go well. You will raise a
booming crop, get it ail in and safely housed,
and sit down happy and contented, waiting
for the market to rise. Then a praire fire will
come along and burn up everything you have
m the world except the clothes you have on
Buy a farm. A young man is neglectful of
his best interests anu most solemn duties who
do:‘s not buy a faim right away —Burlington
llucktyc.
There is great complaint of the idleness and
worthlessness of the negroes. Many of them
follow gambling as their chief occupation and
the natural consequence is that many personal
encontres occur and frequently murders re
sult. Labor in this county is not wo;th half
as much as it was five years since. Many of
the colored people have rented or leas and small
pieces of land, and often neglect their own
crop id worxiug for some white in in for pro
visions, when tlky can’t steal.— Bar/ttieiUt
OilZc ttc.
Soap boilers and bide workers have proved
to be exempt from yellow fever.
PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETOR
The extreme heat of misery is a small boy
with anew pair of boots and no mud puddle.
Mending blue stuckiugs with white yarn
makes them a darn sight too conspicuous.
Mr. Stocking has married Miss Anna Frost
‘‘Hose Anna! ’
Thirty-one churches were burned in the
United States during October.
Among the most remarkable inventions rep
resented at the recent paper exhibition at Ber
lin were paper teeth.
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James A. Scott, col, is editor of the Mont
gomery , Alabama Advertiser, a staunch Dem
ocratic paper. . *
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The yellow fever epidemic is saiifltrrihath
cost the couu try $170,000,000. The total num
ber deaths from it at all points was abStit TI -
000. - : •
. One of the articles shipped from India to
China is salted rats, which tire, as is well
known, highly appreciated in China as an
article of food.
I here is something nice about the balance
of trade. A worthy farmer who comes into
town loaded with new wheat almost every
day, goes home loaded with old rye.
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‘ Prisoner at the bar,” said the Judge, “Is
there anything you wish to say before sent enca
is passed upon you The prisoner looked
wistfully towards the door, remarked that he
would like to say “good evening,” if that
would be agreeable to the company. But
they wouldn’t let him.
Ingenious W csteru swindlers happen into
saloons, make bets on future events, and give
the stakes to the landlords to hold, then, a few
duys later, happen back, and agreeing to draw
the bet, obtain good money from the saloon
keeper, their base counterfeits having in the
meanwhile been mixed up with his cash.
Whenever a man begins to feel that he is so
great that the country n standing in the mid
dle of the road waiting for him to come by, it
is about time for his friends to look up some
soft place in a lunatic asyium to lay him down
in.
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We would like for some double-storied
modern statesman to tell us why it is that
there are cc-rtain seasons when a politician
can sec a horny-handed son of toil clear across
the street, and at other seasons cannot sec him
a foot and a half away.
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When Mary went to heaven’s gate
Saint Peter met her there,
And asked the reason why she came,
As there she knelt in prayer.
Poor Alary spoke and groaned with pain,
As though she liad the crump:
‘ A foolish virgin,’ sir, was 1,
A-fooling wan a lamp.”
1 he longest train believed to have ever been
drawn by a single engine, recently traveled
over the Northern Central Railroad, of Penn
sylvania- The train consisted of ISA empty
freight ears, one J.tudcd eight wheeler, two
Cabooses and a dead engine. The train was
0 “00 feet long, or 000 feet more than a mile.
Ihe distance traveled was thirty-one miles,
mostly up grade, at a speed of ten miles an
hour.
This item is going the rounds: “ It may not
be generally known that common cooking
soda is a sure remedy for the bite of a rattle
snake, if applied toon enough. An incision
may he made to the depth of the wound made
by the fangs of the snake, and into this cut
the soda should be sprinkled. It will imme
diately bubble up and turn green, caused by
the action of the soda in neutralizing the acid
of the poison.”
An exchange notes the fact that the lowest
price at which cott<n lias sold in this country
during the last fifty years was in the spring
of 1845, when it went as low as lour cents
per pound. Ihe highest price paid for it, dur
ing the same period, was SI.OO, in 1804. It
sold tis high as fifty two cents’ however, for
good money in 1800.
A Galveston News special says; Ten arinvd
men, some of them masked, enteied J. W.
Wayman’s store at Cirdeville, and forced the
proprietor to open the safe, w hen they took
therefrom about #I,OOO, and provided them
selves with new r suits of clothes There wane
about ten or twelve men in the store when
the robbers entered, whom they made holdup
their hands and took their money and watches.
Some of the men present claim that they re
cognized Jackson, one of Bass’s men, as the
leader of the party.
A Romantic Caueek. — William Buckley, a
British soldier, convicted of receiving stolen
property, or being concerned in uu attempt
upon the life of the Duke of Kent, was sen
tenced to transportation in Australia for life.
He escaped and fell i.i with a tribe of natives,
with whom he res;ded thirty three years, w ith
out meeting a while man until lie discovered
a party of tourists, and saved them from a
treacherous attack by a wandering band of
native winriors It is believed tuat he owed
his sufety to his gigantic size and ferocious
appearance. A more romantic explanation is,
that baying taken a spear from the grave of a
dead chief, lie was supposed by the natives to
be their leader come to life in anew body.
Buckley says these people imagined that tha
world was supported by props, which were In
charge of a man who lived at the extremity of
the earth, and that unless the props were
renewed from time to time, the w hole fabric
would tumble to pieces.
Gen. GOl don was felled by a bullet in his
cheek at the battle of Sharpsburg. When he
began to recover consciousness he soliloquized
dreamily: “I have been struck in the head
with a six pound solid shot It has carried
.away my head. On the left side there is a
little piece of skull ieft But the brain is gone
entirely. Therefore, 1 ain dead And yet £
am thinking. 110w r can a man think with his
head shot off? and it 1 utu thinking I cannot
be dead An ! yet no man can live after his
head is shot off I may have consciousness
while den I bu* not motion If I can lift my
leg then lam aiive. 1 will try that. Can I ?
Yes. there it is titled up ! I’m nil right f* The
Geneiat says that every stage of the soliloquy
is indeiibiv stamped on his mind, and that in
his exhausted state the reasoning was carried
on as logically as ever man reasoned at big
desk.
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