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VOL. X.
WHITTIER’S CORN SONIC
Heap high the farmer’s wintry hoard,
Heap high the golden corn;
No richer gift has autumn poured
From out her lavish horn.
Let other lands, exulting glean
The apple Irom the pine;
I he orauge irom its glossy green,
The cluster from the vine.
We better love the hardy gift
Our rugged vales bestow,
To cheer us when the storm shall drift
Our harvest fields with snow.
Through vales of grass and flowers
Our plows their furrows made,
While on the hills the sun and showers
Of changeful April played.
We dropped the seed o’er hill and plain,
Beneath the sun of May,
And frightened from our sprouting grain
The robber crows away.
All through the long bright days of June
Its leaves grew bright and fair,
And waved in hot mid ummer noon,
Its soft and snowy hair.
And now with autumn’s moonlit eyes,
Its harvest time has come,
Wo pluck av-ay its frosty leaveß.
And bear its treasures home.
Then richer than the fabled gifts
Apollo showered of old,
Fair hands the broken grains shall sift,
And knead its meals of gold,
Let vapid idlers roll in silk,
Around the costly board;
Give us the bowl of samp and milk,
By homespun beauty poured.
Then shame on all the proud and vain.
Whose folly longs to scorn
The blessings of our hardy grain,
Our wealth of golden corn.
Let earth withhold her goodly root,
Let mildew blight the rye;
Give to the worm the orchard fruit,
And wheat fields to the fly.
But let the good old corn adorn
The hills our fathers trod;
Still let us for his golden corn
Send up our thanks to God.
Many young persons are ever think
ing over some new ways of adding to
their pleasures. They always look for
chances for more ‘fun,’ more joy. Onee
there was a wealthy and powerful king,
full of care and very unhappy. He
heard of a man famed for his wisdom
aud piety, and found him in a cave on
the borders of a wilderness.
‘Holy man,’ said tho king, ‘I come
to learn how I may be happy.’
Without making a reply, the wise
man led the king over a rough path,
till ho brought him in front of a high
rock, on the top of which an eagle had
built her nest.
‘Why has the eagle built her nest
youder ?’
‘Doubtless, answered the king, ‘that
it may be out of danger.’
‘Then imitate the bird,’ said the
wise man; build thy home iu heaven,
and thou shalt then have peace and
happiness.’
No moral culture is complete that
does not include the determination
which gives strength to character. A
prize was once offered in a large col
lege for the best answer to the ques
tion, ‘What is the secret of success?’
The student who bore off' the palm
merely wrote one word, “Determina
tion. ’ This was tho thing in a nut
shell. The lack of determination will
surely lead to failures as determina
tion will iusure success. In educating
children, parents should see that they
are not forming the habit beginning
things and laying them aside before
completed. Set them an example of
courage and determination to begin a
work and go through it resolutely.
Measure their capacity and induce
them to work it up. Spare no time
and pains to teach them io have confi
dence in tin ir power.
Goethe was in company with a
mother and daughter, when the latter,
being reproved for something, burst
into tears. He said to the mother:
‘How beautiful your reproof makes
your daughter look? That crimson
hue and those silvery tears become
her much better than any ornament
of gold or peals; these are never seen
unconnected with moral purity. A full
blown tlower, sprinkled with purest
dew, is not so beautiful as this child
blushing beneath her parent’s dis
pleasure, and shedding tears of sorrow
for her fault. A blush is a sign which
nature hangs out to show where chas
tity and honor dwell.'
The ordinary injunction to boys is,
be men; but wo would say, be boys.
A boy has no business to be a man
until he grows into one; besides, it is
just as worthy a thing to be a boy—a
true, heroic boy—as it is to be a man.
Our duty is to till faithfully the places
in which we are, knowing that the
occupant adorns the place, rather than
the opposite. If you are a noble boy,
you are all that you can be ; for a noble
boy and a noble girl are just as noble
as a noble man and a noble woman.
The bar-room as a bank ! —You de
posit your money, and iose it; your
time, and lose it; your character, and
lose it; your health, and lose it; your
strength, and lose it; your manly in
dependence, and lose it; your self
control, and lose it; your home com
fort, and lose it; your wife’s happiness,
and lose it; your children’s happiness,
and lose it; your own soul, and lose it,
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 3, 1876.
THE ADVOCATE’S RIGHT BOWER.
It may be asked what we mean by
putting a ‘right bower’ in such eon
! nection.
It was Judge Lurlington’s own ex
pression.
Half a dozen young lawyers, fresh
frem their studies, and just admitted
to the bar were listening to his advice.
The old jurist had a bottle of wine at
his elbow, and was in a communicative
mood.
‘YouDg men,’ he said, ‘whatever
may be your strait, never take a case
before a jury, or before any court, un
less you have your right bower for a
head.’
If the reader surmises from this
that the old judge was fond of euchre,
he will not have surmised amiss.
The young men looked at him in
quiringly.
‘I mean,’ he added, that you shall
never advocate a cause into the work
which you cannot enter with a clear
conscience. You shall never accept a
client whose cause you do not believe
to be just - ’
‘Can that rule be always adhered
to ?’ asked one of the listeners.
‘lt can,’ answered the judge,emphati
cally . It is a lawyers firm rock of
foundation, and the only sure point of
departure to the respect and confidence
of his fellows. ’
‘Have you always followed that rule,
judge?’
‘I was never tempted from it but
once,’ he replied. ‘I will tell you
the story if you would like to hear
it.'
Of course they would like to; and
having laid aside his pipe the old man
commenced:
‘One day I was waited upon by a
man who gave his name as Laban Sar
furt. He was of middle age, well
dressed, and at first sight appeared to
be a gentleman; but the illusion was
dispelled when approaching business.
He was hard and unfeeling, and natu
rally a villain. Success in speculation
had saved him from being a thief or a
highwayman. I heard of him as a
heavy dealer in the up-river lands.—
He asked me if I was willing to under
take a job, which would call me to
Shireton. I told him I was open to
anything legitimate which would pay.’
‘Mr. Lurlington,” said he, tapping
me with coarse familiarity upon the
arm, ‘I want to secure your services.—
You must not be engaged on the other
side.’
‘I told him if he would explain to
me the case I might be better able to
give him an answer.’ He bit an enor
mous quid of tobacco from a plug,
and having got it into shape between
his jaws he went on with his story.
‘The case was one of ejectment. An
elderly man named Phillip Acton, had
died, leaving a valuable estate. There
was nearly a thousand acres of land,
with opportunities for developing im
mense water-power, and ere many
years the land would be worth more
than a million dollars. At present,
upon the estate, and claiming it as son
of the deceased, was a man calling
himself William Acton.’
‘But,’ said Sarfurt, ‘lie is not a legiti
mate child at all. His mother was
Betsy Totwood, at one time a girl in
Acton’s employ. Acton I know was
never married. He brought the boy
up and educated him, and now the
fellow thinks he will step into his pro
tector’s shoes. I can prove, that lam
the only living relative of Phillip Ac
ton. He was my uncle—my mother’s
brother -and, to a lawyer as smart as
you thero can be no difficulty in prov
ing my title. I can bring the witness
es to your hand.’
‘He told me he would give me live
hundred dollars if I would undertake
his case, and an additional thousand if
I gained. That was a big fae—far
more than I had made in all my plead
ing. It was tempting and yet I saw
that it was not perfectly clear—not en
tirely honest. The probability was
that this William Acton was Phillip’s
child; aDd it was not impossible that
Phillip had married Betsy Totwood.—
It struck me that Laban Sarfurt was
a villain, and that he fancied that he
had young Acton so far in his power
that he could eject him from the title.
But what had I particularly to do with
that ? If I accepted a client, I must
serve him. I had no business but to
serve his interest. I finally told Mr.
Sarfurt that I would think the matter
over, I should probably have business
in Sbireton during the session of the
court, and I would call on him there
and examine more fully. I could not
take his retainer until I had further
light.’
‘But,’ said he, ‘will you promiso not
to take up for the other side ?'
‘I told him I would do nothing
without farther consultation with
him.’
‘Because,’ he added, ‘if you are for
me lam sure to win. Acton can’t find
a lawyer that can hold a candle to you.
I know them all.
‘No matter whether I believed him
or not—l did not feel flattered.’
‘Two weeks later I received a letter
from Sarfurt, promising me $5,000 if I
won.’
‘The five thousand dollars is a stroDg
argument. Was not law’ really a game
of chance, in which the strongest hand
and longest purse must win ? I told
myself yes. Yes—and I sat down and
wrote a reply, saying that I would take
the case. But I did not mail it at once.
That night I put it under my pillow
and slept over it, and on the following
morning I threw it into the fire. I
would not make up my mind until I
had seen other parties—until I had
been on the grounds; and I wrote to
Laban Sarfurt to wait.’
‘Two weeks later I harnessed my
horse to the wagon, and with my wife
and child, started for Shireton. I had
been married two years, and our 1 ttle
babe, a girl, was a year old, our pride,
our pet and our darling. Shireton was
a distance of about thirty miles. W T e
had been having rainy weather for a
week or so, and it had now cleared off
bright and beautiful. We stopped and
took dinner at a wayside inn, four miles
beyond which was a stream which must
be forded. The inn-keeper told me that
the stream was somewhat swollen irom
the late rains, but that if my horse was
trusty there could be no danger.’
‘Arrived at the stream—the Wampa
tuck river—l found the water indeed
risen, and the current strong, but I
saw that others had recently gone
over, and I resolved to venture. I
knew my horse and had faith in him.
My wife was anxious, but she trusted
my judgment. A third of the way
across, the water was over the hub of
the wheels. A little more and it would
have reached the body of the wagon.
I began to be alarmed; I feared I had
left the true track. Presently my horse
stumbled and staggered, having evi
dently stepped upon a moving stone.
The wagon swayed tipped, and
the flood poured in upon us. My wife
slipped, and in a moment more we
were in the water. With one hand I
grasped the harness upon the horse,
and with the other I held my wife. I
was thus struggling when a wild cry
from her lips startled the air. Our
child was washed away.
‘Oh, my soul! I cannot tell you
what I suffered during those moments.
I could not help our darling. If I left
my wife she was lost. I clung to the
horse and clung to my shrieking wife"
shrieking to God for mercy for her
child. The horse was struggling for
the shore. In the distance, upon the
bosom of the surging flood, I could
see our little one, her white dress
gleaming in the sun, being born swift
ly away. A moment more and I saw a
man plunge from the bank into the riv
er. I saw thus much and then an in
tervening point of land shut out the
scene. The horse was now rapidly
nearing the shore, and ere long my
wife and I were upon dry land, with
the horse and wagon. As soon as I
was sure my wife was safe I left her to
care for the horse, while I posted off
down the river bank in quest of the
swimmer and the child.
You may well understand that all
this time I was frantic. I was a ma
chine being operated upon by a surg
ing and agonizing emotion. How
long or how far I wandered I do not
know, but at length I met a man, wet
and drippiDg, with my darling in his
arms—my darling safe and sound. He
told me that he had caught the child
within a few rods c-f the falls, and then
in landing had cleared the fall abyss
by not more than two yards. He was
a young man—not more than twenty
five—handsome and stalwart. He
said he had seen my wagon tip, and
was coming to my assistance when he
saw the child washed away. ‘I threw
my life into the balance,’ said he, with
a genial smile, ‘and, thank God! both
the lives were saved.’
I asked him how I should ever re
pay him. He stopped me with an im
ploring gesture.
‘lf you talk of more pay than I have
already received,’ he said, ‘lf you can
rob me of the only solid reward I can
claim mercy! if saving the life of such
a cherub is not enough of reward in
itself, then hard is the heart that can
crave more.’ And with moistened
eyes he told me that he had a child of
his own at home—an only child—of
nearly the same age.
I asked him if he would tell me his
name. With a smile he answered
that his name did not matter—he was
not sure that he had a najne. I then
asked him if he knew me. He nodded,
and said he thought I might be Mr.
Burlington of Waldbridge. When I
told him that he was correct he said
that I must excuse him. He was wet
and must hurry home, and with that
he turned away. I was too deeply
moved to stop him, and when he dis-
appeared I started to rejoin my wife
with a dawning impression that the
man might be slightly deranged. But
my darling was safe—her broad, fleecy
cloak had kept her head above the wa
ter—and I went on my way rejoicing,
resolved that the preserver of my
child should not be forgotten.
I will not tell you of the emotion of
my wife when she held her child once
more in her arms. We reached Shire
ton before night and found quarters at
P comfortable tavern.
< On the following day Ladan Saifurt
flailed upon me and was about to
apread his evidence for my inspection,
when I interrupted him. I told him
*' could not accept his confidence un
til I had made up my mind to take
liis case in hand. Something seemed
to whisper that there was danger
ahead. I did not feel comfortable in
that man's presence. I felt as though
he was trying to buy me. The court
would sit iu four days. I told him I
would give him a final answer in two
W from that.
f That evening I made a confident of
my wife, and asked her what I should
tig. ‘lf I take the case,’ I said, 'I am
sure of five thousand dollars.’ She
bade me do what was right. God has
been very kind to us,’ she said. ‘Let
us look to him for guidance.’
After this I called on the clergy
man of the place, whose son had been
my classmate in college, and whom I
had once before visited. He received
me heartily, and by and by I asked
him about William Acton. The result
of all he told me may be summed up
iu his closing sentence. Said he:
‘I am sure that William Acton was
Phillip Acton's child —in fact I know it
—jmd I think the father and mother
were married. Betsy died very soon
after her child was born, and wo know
Philip always treated the boy as a
legitimate child; and that he loved
him as such I can confidently affirm:’
On the following morning afier
breakfast, as I sat by the window in
the bar-room, I saw coming from the
strSct the man who had saved my child.
He was walking slowly like one in
trouble. I pointed him out to my
host, and asked him who he was.
‘That is William Acton. Perhaps you
have,heard of the trouble he is likely
to biave with Laban Sarfurt.’
I said I had heard.
T hope he may come out all right,’
the host added; ‘but lam fearful. He
has got a hard and heartless customer
to deal with.’
I pjut my mouth and held my peace
until Laban Sarfurt called for his final
answer. I said to him:
‘Mr. Sarfurt, I have been consider
ing all this time whether I could un
uert;P;e your case with a clear consci
ence! —whether I should be helping the
side of justice and right in helping
you. I had concluded that I could
not do so before I had seen William
Acton, to know him by name. I now
know him for a man who nobly risked
his own life to save the life of my child.
For that deed I will reward him if I
can. I have as yet accepted not one of
your private disclosures, I have gained
from you nothing that you could wish
to keep from the public. I cannot take
your case, but I tell you frankly, that
if you prosecute, I will defend William
Acton.’
I did not mind Sarfurt’s wrath. He
raved and swore, and then he went off
and engaged two lawyers to take his
case. I called upon Acton and 1 told
him I would defend him if he accepted
my services as I had accepted him. He
took my hand and thanked me.
I have made a great many pleas in
my life, but I think I never made a
better one than I made to that jury on
that occasion. By their verdict, Wm.
Acton was the lawful possessor of the
estate his father had left.
From that day I never hesitated to
refuse, a case to which I could not give
my heart. Such a stand on the part of
a lawyer becomes known, and the pub
lic feels it; and what the public feels,
juries are sure to feel too.
Concerning William Acton, I will
only add that he became my bosom
friend. He alw’ays felt that he owed
his title to his valuable propertj to
me; and I knew that I not only owed
the life of my child to him, but that I
was indebted for the home that was
mine for thirty years. He was vei’y
delicate in the gift of that piece of
property. He deeded it to my wife.
The husband of my oldest daughter is
I his oldest son.
Nothing makes a young man so
happy as to get around the post office
after it is closed, and see a letter in
his box; to have his heart whisper
that it is from her, to dream sweet
and tender fancies, hallowed with love
sacredness, all night, and to come
down in the morning and find it a bill
of seven dollars for his last year’s
underclothes.
A young girl, now living in the Rue
Voltaire, in Bordeaux, France, who
was born Avithout arms, uses her mouth
in the most extraordinary manner. She
can write Avith the greatest facility, can
thread the finest needle, embroider,
knit, do crochet work, mark linen, etc.,
with marvellous regularity, and can
even with her mouth tie a sailor’s
knot.
An English or Irish gentleman, an
amateur bull fighter, killed two bulls
in the presence of sixteen thousand
people, at Barcelona, in Spain. He
was serenaded at night, and gave his
share of the proceeds of the fight to
the hospital of Barcelona.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON.
Hamilton was once applied to for
professional assistance by a man of
New York city, who held the guar
dianship of several orphan children.—
These children, then very young, would
on coming of age, if they had their
rights, succeed to the possession of a
valuable estate. In the title deeds
of this estate the guardian had discov
ered material defects, and he thought
he saw a way, with the assistance of
an able lawyer, by which he could se
cure the title to the whole property
himself. He opened to Hamilton the
whole business, exhibiting copies of
the title deeds, and explaining how he
would like to proceed. He promised
to the great jurist a large reward if he
would undertake the business. Ham
ilton said he must give to a matter so
important due thought before he deci
ded, and set a time for his client to call
again.
The guardian called according to
appointment. Hamilton put in wri
ting the minutes of their conversation,
which, upon his second visit, he read
aloud.
‘I think,’ said Hamilton, when he
had finished reading, ‘that this is a
true statement of your plans ?’
‘Ye?, sir,’ answered the client. ‘That
is correct. And now, if I may ask,
what have you decided ?’
‘I will tell you, sir,’ replied Hamil
ton, sternly; ‘you are now completely
in my power, and I consider myself as
the future guardian of those unfortu
nate orphans.
I have decided that you will settle
with them honorably, to the very last
penny, or I will hunt you from the sur
face of the earth !’
It may be unnecessary to add that
the false-hearted guardian did not
pursue his nefarious scheme any fur
ther.
A DISGUSTED WIDOW.
Captain W has just returned
from the Warm Springs. The Captain
is a widower. At the Springs was a
widow who x’ather set her cap for the
Captain. The girls told him to look
out, and the Captain replied, well, he
was ready.
Sitting out in the portico, one even
ing, the cool breeze fanning like a ten
cent palm leaf, and thinking of his
daughters far away at school, the wid
ow moved up close by aud opened a
conversation.
‘I hear, Captain, you have grown up
daughters.’
‘Yes, madam, I have.’
‘How I should like to see their pic
tures.’
‘I will show you a picture of my eld
est daughter,’ said the Captain, hand
iny her one.
‘Oh, such a sweet face,’ said the wid
ow, ‘and such a fine eye ; Isn’t she
called like you, Captain ?’
‘I don’t know, madam, that she
is.’
‘lt is a wonder to mo, Captain, you
do not get married.’
‘Well, ma’am, I never think of it;
for the woman I’d have might not
have me, and then, you know, vice
versa. ’
‘Yes, but what kind of a lady would
suit you ?’ and the widow looked her
sweetest.
It was right here the Captain’s won
derful nerve never forsook him, but,
setting his eye steadily at the widow’s
he hardened his heart and replied:
‘Madam, she must be ninety-five years
old to a second, and worth two hun
dred thousand dollars.’
‘lt is getting so chilly out here I
must go for my shawl,’ said the widow;
and she looked frigid zones at the Cap
tain as she brushed by him with a toss
of her head.
A maiden lady said to her little
nephew: ‘Now, Johnny, you go to bed
early, and always do so, and you’ll be
rosy cheeked and handsome when y r ou
grow up.’ Johnny thought over this a
few minutes, and then observed: ‘Well,
aunty, you must have sat up a good
deal when you were young.’
‘You see,’ said Uncle Job, ‘my wife’s
a curious woman. She scrimped, and
saved, and almost starved all of us to
get our parlor furnished nice, and now
she won’t let one of us go into it, and
hain’t had even the window blinds of
it open for a month—she is a curious
woman!’
The San Francisco Chronicle has the
exclusive information that England’s
defense of Turkey is only make-believe
and that a great empire is to be estab
lished between the Bosphorus and the
Adriatic, with the Duke of Edinburgh
and his Russian wife (the Czar’s only
daughter) on the throne. This solves
the problem.
The following notice is posted con
spicuously in a Scotch office: ‘Shut the
door, and when you have done talking
on business, serve your mouth the same
way.’
The stranger who bought a quince
at a Detroit grocery, under the idea
that it was a ‘Spanish apple,’ is red-
I hot for a war with that country.
SIMPLICITY IS BEAUTY.
The late Fitz Greene Halleck once
said: ‘A letter fell into my hands
which a Scotch servant girl had writ
ten. Its style charmed me- It was
fairly inimitable. I wondered how, in
her circumstances in life, she could
have acquired so elegant a style. I
showed the letter to some of my liter
ary friends in the city of New York,
and they unanimously agreed tiatit
was a model of beauty and elegance.
I then determined to solve the mys
tery, and I went to the house where
she was employed, and asked how it
was that, in her humble ciicumstances
in life, she had acquired a style so
beautiful that the most cultivated
minds could but admire it. ‘Sir,’ said
she, ‘I came to this country four years
ago. Then I could not read or write.
But since then I have learned to read
and write, but I have not yet learned
to spell; so always when I sit down to
write a letter, I select those words
which are so short and simple that I
am sure to know how to spell them.’—
There was the whole secret. The re
ply of that simple minded Scotch girl
condensed a world of rhetoric! into a
nut shell. Simplicity is beauty. Sim
plicity is power.’
The western train which arrived at
Camden station over the Baltimore
and Ohio llailroad on Saturday after
noon, brought a mother with two
babes, ticketed from ludianopolis,
Ind., to Crisfield, Md. The woman’s
name was Kichardson, and when she
left Indianapolis she was alone. Those
babies were born on the fly. Mrs.
Richardson left Cincinnati on Conduc
tor Frank Harris's train. She occu
pied a seat iu the ladies’ car, and had
travelled a part of the night before
from Indianapolis, and looked sleepy
and tired. Mr. Harris saw she was
troubled and on asking her the cause,
was requested to please send some
married lady to speak to her. Mr.
Harris did so, and through the medi
um of this third party was informed
of the probable increase to the passen
gers under his charge. The car was
cleared, and half an hour afterward
the passengers informed that two
bouncing boys had begun life at the
rate of thirty-live miles an hour. Mrs.
Richardson is the mother of four other
children, and makes her home on the
eastern shore of Virginia. She contin
ued a journey to her Southern home
without delay. -Baltimore American.
Grasshoppers are rather a novelty
in Texas, and if you were to tell a
Texan anywise familiar with the rail
roads that grasshoppers could stop a
train, he would laugh at the idea, aud
think you were “poking fun at him.”
For all this, the grasshoppers are
stopping trains right here in Texas.
Sunday night when Mayor Lord and
Alderman McGowan were going to
Austin, just beyond Giddiugs, the
track was so covered with hoppers
that it took the train two hours to
make six miles. In places they were
two feet thick ou the track. The
wheels running over them mashed
them so that the track became so slip
ery the wheels revolved without going
a head. The stench from the masa
cred insects was so great and overpow
ering that the windows of tho cars had
to be closed.—Houston Telegraph.
The Boston Post publishes a mastei
ly communication from Conway liobin
son, a Virginia lawyer, whose great
genius for his profession and wonder
ful legal knowledge have elicited em
phatic commendation in England as
well as in this country, demonstrating
conclusively that the Southern bayonet
order of the President, indorsed by h's
cabinet, is a gross violation of the prin
ciples of constitutional law as expoun
ded by the ablest commentators. That
‘the military should be under strict
subordination to and governed by the
civil power,’ and ‘that elections should
be absolutely free,’ are amongst those
fundamental principles without a fre
quent recurrence to which our free
government cannot be preserved.
It is a remarkable fact, but fact nev
ertheless, that the greatest scarcity of
good vegetables is frequently to be ob
served in farming districts. Large
cities are always well supplied with
the best qualities, while the rural dis
tricts are often suffering for them.
This is probably owing to ignorance
of the manner of their cultivation
among our farmers generally, and is
but a sorry commentary upon the in
telligence of our rural population. Let
us change all this.
A waiter advertising for a situation
says he can ‘fold napkins in three hun
dred different ways,’ but what the
boarding community wants just low
is a waiter who tan carry a dish of
soup without soaking the first joint of
his thumb in it.
The name Hell Gate, it now appears,
is older than the Dutch settlement of
Hi Id. In a very ancient map of this
locality, found in the library at Mu
nich, Manhattan Island is represented
as covered by Mohicans, but “Hello
Gatte” is indicated in the East river.
FEATHERS.
He who fears death is not a believer
in God.
Empty pockets remind men that
thej - should be economical.
The power of honesty is so great,
that we love it even in an enemy.
Lost -the bottom of the pocket in
which Carl Schnrz carried the German
vote.
The more dogs a poor man keeps
ihe less able he is to drive the wolf
away from his door.
Make yourself an honest man, and
then you may be sure that there is one
rascal less in the world.
Gordon will probably have a place
iu Tilden’s Cabinet. Bring out the
next Senatorial candidate.
Love of truth shows itself in dis
covering and appreciating what is
good wherever it may exist.
A liar begins with making falsehood
appear like truth, and ends in making
truth itself appear like falsehood.
Ireland to the front, be jabers. A
light house on the coast of Cork has a
lantern of 20,000,000 candle power.
“Let there be no disturbance at the
polls, but be sure you vote,” is the ad
vice of our wise and sagacious Gover
nor.
The hab.t of being always employed
is a great safeguard through life, as
well as essential to the culture of every
virtue.
NO. 44
Wealth, after all, is a relative thing,
since he that has little and wants less,
is richer than he that has much, but
wants more.
The people of the United States are
now ready for a change in the admin
istration, and that change will be
made next Tuesday.
Be constant in what is good, but
beware of being obstinate in anything
that is evil; constancy is a virtue, but
obstinacy is a sin.
There are 7’2G,341 German voters in
this country, and nine-tenths of them
are believed to favor Tilden and Hen
dricks and reform.
The pork men are anxious for the
European war to hold off until they
lay in a supply. The farmer prays for
it to begin forthwith.
She woke him up at three o’clock in
the morning to say that she had de
cided, on the whole, to have a dark
green suit and a green velvet bonnet
this winter.
‘Mr. , father wants to borrow
your paper. He says he only wants to
read it.’ ‘Well, go back and ask your
father to send me his supper. Tell him
I only want to eat it.’
‘What’s usee play pokel?’ remarks a
Nevada Celestial. ‘Me hold four klings
and a lace; Melican man hold all same
time four laces and a kling; whole
week washee gone likee woodbine.’
‘Last Sunday being a pleasant day,’
says the Norwich Bulletin, ‘most of
the boys who attending Sunday school
brought home a good many chestnuts,
which a kind man had given them.’
Anew religious belief is gaining
ground in Ohio. Its adherents are
called Eternalists. They hold that
the soul is immortal, and occupies a
succession of bodies on earth—-both
men and animals.
The reporter of a Kansas journal
suddenly realized wealth, and yet he
wasn’t happy. Somebody asked him
the cause, and he candidly asknowl
edge that he couldn’t get accustomed
to wearing a shirt.
The “matrimonial repoterr” of a
Georgia newspaper describes a bride
as “looking a very lily, cradled in the
golden glimmer of some evening lake
a foam fieck, snowy yet sun flushed,
crowning the ripplinga of some soft
southern sea.
A California paper highly recom
mends charcoal for fattening turkeys,
and says that it should be pulverized
and mixed with mashed potatoes aud
corn meal, as well as fed to them in
small lumps. Others say it should be
given only in lumps.
The best way to clean the inside of
tea pots, coffee-pots, or old iron pots
and pans, is to fill them with water
in which a few ounces of washing so
da is dissolved, and set them on the
fire. Let the water boil until the in
side of the vessel looks clean.
For the past twenty years the na
tions have been building iron-clads.
In the coming European war the test
will be applied for the first time on a
really grand scale. Our own fight of
the iron-clads will fade into insignifi
cance if German v, Russia, France and
England are it. * ed.
Sitting Bull continues to feel a deep
interest in the Federal campaign in
South Carolina. He compliments
Grant for his kindness of heart in pre
fering this field of army operations to
the Indian territory, and adds: “Tbo
mortality among the troops will not
bo so great.”- Brooklyn Argus.
Some of the scientists now argus
that the moon, instead of being a cold
orb, is in fact red-hot, so much so that
no living thing known to our world
could live there for a moment. This
knocks the green-cheese theory into a
cocked-hat, and puts the man in the
moon into a rather warm place.
When a crowd of jayhawkers start
ed a disturbance in a Texas church
the other Sunday, the preacher raised
a shot-gun from behind the pulpit
and said: “William Dellon, sit down,
or I’ll make it painful with you.” Wil
liam sat down and paid strict attention
to the sermon, and so did his comrades.