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About The Meriwether County vindicator. (Greenville, Meriwether County, Ga.) 1872-1885 | View Entire Issue (July 25, 1879)
The Meriwether Comity Vindicator VOL 7 TUE VINDICATOR vuni.iansD every Friday, b y WM. T. REVILJ., AT s2.t>o FEU AN N I'M. IK A.DS AND X gy Office north ►i"k l'l'tuc sqcari. Uit .< AdvfriWnif, Srrtca I k * vk* II mo 16mo | 1 ve.n i nick , ruo a5- ■i ru-bea 150 500 (i SO |lO 0.1 I 1510 a in ut ioo BUO woe 15 iCI 300 10 10 2d 00 •20 C*AS 10. 00 t CO' 700 nto 35 (0'35 (X) |O ’- '* X c j| MMtilfi* Iff- a liberal deduction ma le Jo thu** adverti>iug by tha nontb or year. COUNTY OFFICERS ORDINARY. A - ’■ llln,on SHERIFF...... • •••• -°* 8 * Ki< ‘ rc "“ CLERK 8. C •• 'V H E el C 1 •I AX RECEIVER *- 8 TAX I OLI-KITOR J O I’hitvHan THE a SURER ° Allll '''" s el u\ lAoH *• Malibw* COROMSR... ***** J,,, t COl NTY COMMISSIONERS. I.J. Milam, A tron Sibley, UJ.Kv. J U ' ICU * ,U " J. \V. E*tc*. BOARD OK KDI CATION. John 3V. I*.R W.J. kiaJttcm lt.evia, >*. A. Parker A. H. IPietßP, B*- SENATOR UO'li DhtUict, K. M. l)uueau ref'heskmattvi t y J, >V iliiam*, C. W. M t BUSINESS CARDS HEN BY E WARE. A TIOIINKV A I I.MY. A Jl. Ai YIMJ , OA. I’rmupl and failliltil aittuliou lal<l >• .11 bu*ni*- ftiinoit I t<* lilt i *n‘. D. U. KEITH, A riO UN El AT LAW /y ijiikit>vu i k La Will practice ill Mil ll' till' I and H.i inuul <* i (*tn|*>*iiiir the 1 '* ’ llios A ATKINSON, AITOENUY at lAW Opitr.NYll.l K. <•*-. JS. V. Mcl Al UilLlN, \ TIOHNEY AT LAW, J\ Ghvim ii.i.k, Oa Uuinc> I'.ornpUy and Fallblu.ly al U:i*k’ J d>. IL A. I’AlikhlC ATTORNEY AT I. AW, OiiKMivit ue, oa \\T|l [lar.l'i' In H e i'mil* <d lilt Cowi U 11 null, Ibe C< uii ol O.dinar- iud Ju. tlce Cowls ■ ! Metlwtlltr county Offhe ou the *"U'b l'• <1 'be I’ubln Bqutie, O' *1 door to tilt Lliuk Ho it - - • - <i. I'loid, J>. I>- I > ESIDENT DI.NT.HT J v, ORIKRVIIiLK Oa Term* Cayb. Ail wntk warranted. DU h b TKHHKI.L /—v EFERR b l'r< tcwnnai aetricra O l / Die Fubiic— Office aEli hi* l*Ui,Di J E. 0. Ttirell, at Ue L)i or ftfllfH’S SCROFtLI SlKtl' The Great Blood Furl' fior. Purely ttgttable mlilt not ft j-ariiclcL %i ar rtry or iodide Potaeb Fur tale by I >v. J. E. O. TERRELL & CO. WANTED Agents for tbe lasteat ceiling book iA He ages Tbe HOUSEHOLD *r,d Farmers Cyclopaedia. * A Book of 100,00* Fact* f Etery fanner *bo Met U.e book tub it. Eodoratd by Use leading cutn of Ute South- Agent* are meeting with great tDccem. Bend at once tor circular* and turn* oi agency. Addrea* ANCHOR PUBLISHING CO, aid in *0 Marietta, St, Atlanta, Ua GREENVILLE, MERIWETIIEII COUNTY. GA., JULY 25. 187!). An old song There are gaois lor all iosi*. *, Tin re ia balm lot all pam , Bui when youth the dream—derail*. It takes something ftoni ba: heart*, And it aevar eouies again. We are i*er and are lietter, Under uiaubtXKl’a siciuer rvign ; 1 Siill e leel that something *ni ; Followed youth with tty mg let t, > Am! will never come g a in. SonKlhing Ueaulilul h is vum.h. and, Am! we aiglt ka it in vuiu , We lieinild It everywhere — On the eartl. and in me air— But it uever cutnea again ! IMI. S'A IIDAUD. \% 11.1.1 A3l ILLEN’S IM AITI. William Allen w born at Kdenlon, Norb Carolina, in 1806. Ills parents ro il.oved to L> ntliburg four or five years h - lei. When he waa six let years old he went to Ohio,and was placed by hit ariW ;* the mother of Alfen O. Thuriurm, in the Chill rothe Academy, lit reatained there two y ea s aud then aindijvl law, ti.si in th< I til o ol Judge Hcoit and iillei w ards in the 4 tUoe ol Cos!. King, lie whs a.ltliUhd to die bat before l.e ws 21 years .!1, and in hie- 23tu V 4 at aeipiltud a local I >11)0 liy his shilllul dilcnreol a piisoncl ebarged witli muider At 27 yis of ag lie was circl ed a HepreSeiltalivw from Ohio in the Twfuty soeoud Congress as a Jackson Democrst I'eseivfd one term, ami in 182(1 tie was t-lct ted I.) llte United Stales Senate, lei vine horn Mauh -t, IXI7, to Maieli M, 1843. W hen he took his seat in the * Mate in \\a.- tlie youngest limn evei eleeted t-i Hist lady. 111 18-fh lie declined to he it-tU) 1 ehtc‘*i 11S llte DeiUt t ralie iuinlt -Isle h r (lie l‘ esideney, w l-e*! il w Ihal the delegates weie n< 111 y iquslly and. vided la lwien Cass ami Van Bur. 11 it -18. J lie was eleeh and Oovernor ol Oh hi. in ihehi h wn.g State 1 niiVas* lie was a rail -llda'v hn H-electtoll, but wundctuaUd by II B. Hiycf lie winl into polilles younger' than m- si 1 oldh no w, leutaiited.il) longer Ihttu llte avetage, anil look himsill out, to n main, ns he (nought, In pi I vale life. These eiu uinstarteis gave line lo Yy gt-ueial im m s u that when le came' lorwni I in iis; ihe champion ol the “Oiiio idoa ft in lio-ni thi wt u man of gn al age, anT I 1 was called n*d always ill tv l id liy O.d Itu Allen. 11l -life ws it iet*i ci sad jl ilh n any episode, in w hich the heroic ipmiity was 11 vealeil and a sketch ol his 1 nicer wool I l> a story o| the cot epu sl ol ability, oatketl Ity almml tut sell reliance over oh tacks that Would have caused all oidinu y limn to turn aside. No' hitig go ttie New 3Kik Timer purled a iketeli id \\ i! 1 tarn Alien, In wlticiujrere many rein in it ,e uee* of his eate r,as l ifd to tlie writer hy the >|d loan hlines*> r, uni) lo that paper (tiedit i* given iol lunch that lollows. lh; firnt iipjicaraOTc in pulilica was a* a JirJ.H4.li J). ruo( r 11I,sud (.lie <‘f tire opt*, xji * nIK il iiy til in Uol hi* < ciilg dm. .Iw k nn ai l.e par red through Virginia tiesh Iroin tic i'(Ll 1 1 .field nl New Di li si r on hi* kV Ik tl.e liati iml cipilnt. The boy was 'lnn iivKig 111 Lynchburg. A'nlrew Jack ion, w a.km,' by lh<: ri.lc 1 I T ii"tn* J* It * -on, 1 * t>4@ii ncitied at the I wn Houw Hie lo<:I digntlarh-* had tus'lc their speech e* ol welc'ime. Bin) ih< two great men had I* tire 1 to Hieii loom iu the Bird Tavern. Two small boyt, one ol them it jean old uaii piw-tieadcd, followed them t<> the lav •rn and tm and to caP.li a girmpae of them wticn tlie negro Hervant opeoad the door of their ronm. J. Heron saw them peep ing iu, and asked them in a kindly P/ne what they wtnte.l. We want to nee Mr. Jeller*' u aud Gen. Jackson, ft;you pitoae *ir, the tow-headed urchin repliedjtml Mr, Jefieraoo said, good uaturelly, It fflat’a all you had better coma in. The two great men chatted with the f hiidren, and the txry with the yellow hair had the sattaUc tlon of telling Gin. Jackson, My name i Wiilisut Alien, air. In the same sketch the old man recall* how, when a gaunt boy of 16 years, he act out Irom Lynch burg ou a winter day to tramp over the mountains >n company withs bog drover on bis *ay lo Ohio. Contrary lo lbe pre diction ol hi* eon panion, be did uot Lh emne exhausted, and when they departed near GalltpoHs the lad Mailed on with a light heart P ward C'uiirffothe. When lie was not quite 111 yews old he weut lo Portsmouth, where the Supreme Coon an sitting, and pteHmied biinse fs* * c*ndidste‘lor admission to the bar. Tne igw min Km* failure of aeveral young men who were also candida'et tor the aame honor, worked upon him hi that in a fit of de*; erstsoo Le ra-hed to aa adjacen< tavern at.d a>>Qfeht courage in a long horn ol peach brandy and honey, a beyerege tbst wa* filming its way into Ohio from the Bvuth. Jus excitement wot so great that the atimauint had only the efiict, aays the account, ol nerving him ior the erdeal, and, alter five minute* o! questioning, one vl the luilges, a legal geoiwsnan ot the old school, excUimeJ : Gh, b—i !THEM**.low can lake care oi himael.'; let’s go aud liq uor. The ataemhied Judge* vac abed,and iu doe time William waa announced aa a member of the Ohio bar. A succeasfal run oi practice and some brilliant stroke* made him so prominent st 26 year* of age that he was chosen by the Jockecn bun u their csndidvtc tor Coa- res*. The ilhfriet at that lime was thooght to lie sale for a Whig majority of from 1 500 to 5,000, and .the nomination was tendered as a compliment. There were opposed t) him llte Whig candidate and a boiling Independent Whig cs-idi ilata, and an independent Jaeksou or l)eu>. ecratic candidate ; but the two Whig* withdraw, and the parly came together in Ihe support ot a compromise candid .te Duncan McArthur. William S. Murphy the i. dependeut Democratic' aspirant, u -1 mained in the field, aid tltc flglit was a iiiaucuiai te. One evening young Allen Warned that Murphy was going lo make su attack upon hint in a stump speech, the ih vt morning at Jack C >u:t Mouse, twen ty miles a way. Thither Alien hastened, sad when the meeting began lie waa scut c„ in tie back-, ail ol the house. The or alor Hss.de l him w iili ridicule, nml inked *lllO assembled voters (vliettior Ihry wished t*> be represented in Congress by the*thing ill-Tind pic urcd to Tiie spesch If-* ncuicd t lutvo been 1 tie. live, ami it was thouglit lor the moihdsil that Allen’* pros pects w ere ruined Bit against the entrea ' 1 t/TTi is it fends, tbe young man arose and w alked to the plaltorm, in .king I,is appearance confouu as nearly as ho could t - the green ai il avvkwaid la y th >t has ' e 11 -iescribed to the aa-eiuhle,t electors, lie vval greeted w Irh mars ol lsughtcr while lie ku'. il tiieiu Iti in the platform, lie look e l family al the a idieneo till thoy vvete •lied ol laughing, and then he delivered a speech - never alluding to the attack upon liunse t that tmlied the tables oil the in dependent J K'k-int limn amt won lor lit in Ins teal in the Home ol Bo| re.-entati ves. The count showed that lie wa* elected by one majority in a tolul poll of nearly 10- 000 votes, lie was a cendt late for ie-ulei tiou, but lie tv is ihfentrd Ity between 20) and 800 votes, though lie lull 1,-520 abend ol his th k> t. Mis eunva-s lor tne Kenator sltip in 1800 was a short and tollliant one. ‘The caucus ol Democrats nouilnaled him or. tl.e fecund halh-t, giving him evety vI pollc-l. Me suci c odu-l the late 'Thom as Ew ing in the H> uat< The sitiry of Ills refusal to be the Demo cratic nominee Ipr the I’resiliency is told us follows : it w*i**vv)itle Hcnator Alien was solving out his second term that the ineiliofi bk; DemoCiulle Uonveolion ot Mflß was held in Baltimore. Mis liten ts uiged him lo lte a cirinlnlnte, bill he ili-l not see Ins way c 'em lo a nominal inn, and always i!dined, to have his name used. When the convention came together, however, it was loiilul llial the itelcgates were neaily eipmlly divided between Cass ami Van llu leu. The piiuct|ial suppoiters ot lailli gt tiamen refused fo yield, slid 11 vvns feared lliul s la 1 11 *-1 and dlsaslMiiv tpi.-m I would be the result* 111 their anxiety to inske a coinpioinhc, hut still uuwiiliiig to give uj• lo each oilier, s cornmltlee comp'ised ol both Car* nod Van Bureu men weut over t'om Btllimoie to Wnshiogton to consult with Hcnaior Allen noil see* If he would a• ci pt the- uoniinatkrn. It was neatly n.hl night when they arrived si Ids house, and the rcivanta told them flint ha lr.ul retired to tits room uml could not he wen. The*) Insisted u|K)ii being admitted, however, uml going to the Hwihloi's r-oms lound him sitting ou the edge ol the tied hi ills nig hi clothes, 11*,* w* not a mail to take •. ficiic.; nt ilii; Intiu-ion. They were sure ol that, an.l, without ceremony, they S' •'m o made known the object ol their visit. T hey told hlui llrut they were hopc'lcaHy divided between Isa and Van Bjreii ; that there wm 1.0 prvtptci that they would b.: nlde to settle their difli,fences, aud l.ir the rake ol huruiony, and, as they ►aid, hoping lo tervc the b.at iuUtests ol U>c party, they loriitslly oflered him tiie nomination, w ith the assurance that the convention would endorse and ra'lfy any action that they might take. The Heoator never changed his |>oalUon. lu hi* night dress a* he w as, he sat there < n the edge ol hi* narrow bed ted thought over iLc templing offer which we* being made lo blot. He uever denied that he was grat ,fled by it, or that he was ambitious to be I'luaideut. There is no doubt that il cant ed him a great struggle to refuse the noutl notion ; but he did refuse, and tor the rea son that lo accept it would have been to betray Cass, liis mind wa* quickly mod., up, hud turning to the committee, he said quietly, but with much tuppretted emu lion : Geottemen, I thank you, but 1 cannot accept. Why t why ? they asked, almost iu one breath, and he replied : I will be frank will ya. Y'our 1 fler Is the most tempting ooe which has ever come to me in my life. I want to accept it, hot 1 cannot. I will not, because all through this eoo'cal 1 have been the per sonal friend an 1 odvLer of Mr. Caw. J have always been hiendiy to Mr. Vsn Ka ren, but Core bs* trusted me absolutely with alt the detail* of fii* canvass ; hat ta km my advice in everything ; baa done nothing ot importaocc winch didoot meet my approval. F<rme to accept the nomi nation after all this woaid seem very much like— indeed, I think it woaid be, s treoch eroax bctcayal ot my friend. For these reasbos I must not and will not accept the nomination. lam tor Com until tb end, and it yoa tealJy waul to serve tue, yt will go bock to Balliiitoie and nuwtoalo him. It area daring this caovsH thu Unmade a speech oa the wbart in Philadelphia, wliito waiting for the steamboat to Mart, and aatccsifuily competed in the metier ot volume of volte with a steam whistle that wa* believed tote controlled by some ma licious Whig : e)J It became ihe boast 01 the Democrats it that section that tlici: champion, Bill Allen, could talk down all the steam w lustlts in Philadelphia, In the courso of years, foubOess in memory of this episode, lh<H*h ioigettiug the uifurc' nl ihe noise withwhich ho competed, the volume of ills voce came to be likened un to that ol a foghtnii, ami countless jokes were passcil on l)at Hkejnsr during the canvass In 1848 Wul later tor the Uovcrm i sliip ot OUi<k It|r told that once, when he was in the Seifa'e, a patty ot distiu gi irhcd politicatix wero crossing tlie Allc gliany Arountsinr In a slugo coach. Sud denly one ol Uiei|lntciiu| ted the conver sation s ilh a 8b tfjtad a gesture command ing fHence. Wfktdo you hear 7 they nsko I. Nothing tW, was the reply ; but Bill Allou is add 1 css the Senate to-dar, and it wLr -n uolsy we may uot ' hear his open tug mS,rk. T lie CiirreapimdoM ol tlie Tinu s sai I to the evGovcruoi unit a short time betorc his deaths (1 ivermw.vvliy do you roiuso to elite) jsob!ii->na ij®i j o Because lam on#|ot thu few old men tvko, unliko lienrySliay, know when I have rcaehod my lililiest point—when it i time l<ir mo to give Bp the power which 1 am no longer stioiiff enough to Ute lor the good of !ln< |w*ople. Vise Uoy 11 ml 1 lie ISnkc. U An E' glish fanner was one day ul work in the Holds, when he saw a party of hunts men lilting about bis iartn. Me had one field that he was Specially anxious flioy slum LI not ride over, as the ciop was '.ln a eoml It lon to be badly Injure.l by the tramp ol horses jro lie dispatch,nl a boy in Ids employ to this field, tutting Id in 10 shut the gale, and keep watch over 11, ami on in> sec uni to sutler It -to be opened. The tioy v enl ns lie was hid. but was scarcely t.t Ins post In lure the huntsmen cane up peremptorily ordeilng gate opened Till# the boy declined l* do, stating Ibe or ders he had received, and his determina tion not to disobey them. Threats mid bribes were 1 lleie-l, alike in val . One af ter anotiiei came foiwaiil as spokesman, bill all with tlie same Il'Mill ; the I><>y re mained immovable in Ids determination lint to open the gate. After a while, one *f noble piescm e advanced, and sai l, in com man ding tones . My boy, do you know me? I inn tlie Duke ol Wellington -one not aeeuslomed to be disobeyed ; Slid I oomumml you to open that gate, that 1 and my Irieuds may pas- through. The boy lilte-l bis cap and stood uncov ered I efore tin* man whom ail Knglatnl de lighted to honor ; I licit answered firmly, I am sure thu Duke-yl Wellington would uot wish mu to ili.tolny orders. ! must keep this gate shut , no oii<* Is to pas* tho ugh without uty mailer's cxfjrenM pet mission. Greatly pleased, tlm sturily old warrior lifted Ids own hat, uml said, 1 honor the man 01 boy who cmii milhir he bribed mu lilgbtedcd Int i doing wrong. Willi mi army of such voldiers, 1 could could not only <:< lt<| ici the Ku-neh, hut I he world. And, Immling (tie hoy a glittering sover eign, the’old duku pul spur* to his horse, and galloped sw*y , while the boy ran oil to bia work, shouting at the lop of Ins v'Jcn, riurrati ! lmrtsli I I've done wh.it N ipnlroii couldn't d>— I’ve kept out the Duke of Wellington. <foi*ipiiti*!iil to 11 Wile, Tlie following neat and beautiful reply was oisi'e by the late Daniel O Uonnetl in response to a Pissl given iu compliment to his wile, who was the oh|act of ills long sllachitietyl* 1 1 was given at a political meeting. The English language could lur uiali uolbing more touchingly tender aud graceful: “ Ti.ere are some topics of so sacred and awcet a nature that they may be compre hended by tbo**e who arc happy,but they cannot possibly be detcrilxxi by any hu man being. All tbst I shall do is to thank you in the name of her who wa* the disin terested choice of my early yjuth ; vrlio wros the cheeitnl compstiion of my manly years ; nd who lathe swee'eat >o'a e of that ‘sere and yellow leal' ag at which J have* arrived. Iu her name 1 thank you \ forezpeiience will ahow to ns Eli that wm cannot I rattle with malignant enemies unless hi* new at home l war n and sow. for table—antes* the honey oi Usman iiie i< prete 1 ted by a band that be loves.” In a cbureli in Richmond, Va., the otbei Huoday, the congregation noticed a auiaii, in ulited wire that ran down the puipi< rail, up the wainscoting, and out at a hole iu the window frame. Upon oueol the pH. lars ol the pulpitpd most bi>iden from sight, was s teleplmns Irouarnliter. This arrange ment was lor the benefit ot aa invalid young lady, who lor years bad been una ble to attend service m U>e church. The clergyman was anxious during the morn ing sermon, aa bis tboagbls reverted to the distant iteteoei, to kooe li she noard, and bis pleaame may be imogioei when be learned that the entire service—sermou, prayers, by me a, organ and singtag—had been audible to the young lady* A mao who is aU able to make a bow to his own conscience in the moroiog, is [ hvdly in s condition le respectfully salute I Use *t*l ot the world during the day. “A Cmpplng .tloiikukc.” Don’t know wliat a era *ping moitgage is J To be sure you alnt never lived in the country, then, paid sn honest, batd-woik ing and thiiity tanner of email maaue, sho iiius in an eastern county, to o.ie oi our lawyers, as eminent lor hh boiiti >m n-a ai tor bis ailmi.a'do talents ; you sto a law yer and d'.u’t kn.'w wlrnt a crapping mort gage ! ? Well, i’ll toll you. i made one ot them du'iiml tilings .men lt;e way ol it was j Ist Ibis :—You sen I we.it d.'Wn to Hie store at tlie fork* of tlie road in my neighhoibood, to lay few ar ticles that was needed at home, aud when l got 'em iu the emt io go t ome,my Irioi and Stmrpman, he is the merchant you know, who keeps a little store down there —j-ist a little country Blorn—Slinrpman, he said to me. What is the use ol bothering alone w ith little tilings ot Hits sort ? Why don't you just make a "crapping and then you can get anything you want, and won't have to pay for it until your clap comes In, and then you can pay il oil with a bale of cotton or so. It sounded mighty easy ! .^.pe-l one ol the cuasd tiling* and started oil home with nty toad. Well, sir,them mort uagea Is ct.iious things. I hadn't more’ii g..t up the red l.ill going home, bcl.iro I commcncc.l to think ol what. I I. ceded, and the intirnal tiling made me think of tliicgn that 1 must have that I never wanted lu - loir. You see 1 always had money on ban.! lo Imy wlrnt me and the oi l woman wanted, and i Imd fought shy o! debt all my lde, I ui nil the nclahhoni was a trying tl.cir bunds ot “crapping moitgag," mid I thought 1 W"tt*Q yo in l.ir a lilt lu too Well, I did, 1 kept on wanting things, am! I kept 011 getting tilings. Me i.lt got along fine, and Hhnrpman sold thu old wo man lots oi nice things Unit we never had wanted before, but that we wa* hound to have after ! signed tho "crapping mort gage.'' They lit cod w ants; they do At lint the crap cuttle I*l, 1 gent three bales < f cotton down to the store lo pay it oil, 11* Hharpinan said It would .lo ; but It itidu’li I then sent down nil my (odder ; tint that didn’t do It. i talked (lie m> Iter over With the olii woman, am! she g< t up alt her ducks, chickens and egg*, and 1 sent down all the corn i lnid made, and that did not do it: sol jimt git on my horse mill role down to tue st 're to see about it. 1 looked at what we had bought come to, ail'floured up, you know, and there waa at way* what you cull n balance agin you. H> I just look out my pocket book Unit hail had the mortgage iu it al thu time, and pall oil tlie mortgage and took Ihe confounded tiling and went back home. VVtil, w hen 1 gol there 1 tli ught I’d toad over Unit paper tlntl always 11011. aged to keep a balance agin me somehow or other; I done so. Well, now what do you think there wa* in that crapping molt, guips I Ihi| 0 the recording angel al./i listening, hut 1 wish I may he d—d il that Vie little crapping mortgage wcre’nt spread iill over my land. My homy, my mums, my stock, my fatming utensils, my liouso liol i ami k.tchen furniture, even tlie dish rag was Hung into P. 1 always llionght Unit the tiling* must have Imlia-nihher lii them, they stretched so, anil they ought to tie ciillol dial rag mortgages,and not crap ping mortgage* oughtn't they ? Well, let me tell you.—Don’t you never sign ,onc. You never will get through paying it, sod when them store fellows tell you how easy il is to get tiling* now and pay for 'em in • lie fall, you rctnember what i tell yott about a crapping mortgage. And having finished his description ot tlie c little engines of oppression, lie pull ed out Id* twist ol home-made tobacco,that looked as rich and brown ns wnlnutgnood, cut oil a chew with ids horn-handle anile put it into hla month, put tho knite srrd tobacco ini t ids breeches pocket aud walk ed away. He turned round alter w alklnp a little way, and aald rellcctlvely : Dafc'i you never sign one lu the world ; il yru do, you'll never get through paying it ofi* —[lia'eiftb Observer. —MOi e. - ■ ■ i.. 1 ■ Oeitili of lv. Allen. Hon. William Allen died suddenly at his boms near Uhildcoihc, 0., Friday' mornlnr. Ilia Illness waaol very 'Brief du ration. He was in Chillkotlie on Wcdnet day, spi aietiMy iu mott excellent health and spirit*. Ills first mention of filnrs* was on Thuto4lay morning, but he did uot icgmrd his condition of softie*lent coaae ipienco to receive sPeoflou ontil the slier - neon. Af 4P.m. he hod sympfotna of a chill and Dr. Heott, bit sou-fn-fftw, and Uir physician!! ioducod him to take some medicine and go to bed. Dr. and Mrs. Bcertt remained in attendance upon him, although Got. Allen contiJeied It nsclcas and otged them lo retire. He was op aesr eral times during die night. About 180 lit hi morn ng he an**e taddemly, let? Ida bed, *<sggerd to a chair, tell into U and died wi'bont a word. Dr. Scott had mat ed himself In an ae joining room and re tpondol haPily to Mrs. Heron’s cry, but be ie>re lte reached the Governor’s aide, he waa dead. A certain lawyer was compelled lo apol ogize to ike court. With stately dignity tw roae to bis place aad said: You; Hooor is right and lam wrong, as your Honor generally is. There was a dsxeo look us the Judge* eye, nod be bstdiy knew whether te feet happy or Has the lawyer tor contempt oi Jourt. jNO 32 KntacA. I No burlier kno ieth whom he may share, and the tnau who rushes into n barber shop and drops into a barber chair, with out seeing who occupies the next chair to thu, tight ur lelt may get badly left as a case proved yesterday. A solid old cili /.in in the wholesale trade was taking it easy, his luce covered with ’atlier, when iu came a young iuau who llutig ofi bia cat, lion need into a chair, and called out: Entry up, now, lor I must get back to tin stoic heliue old Blank doea or nn will raise thornier I Il ing him, lie won’t even give a mail time to die f The rolid clti/eu turned his face to glnura at tlie other, anil live barber noticed n rcdiieuing ol Ida lace, . U hog on a vacation thta aomraerf oik eil Hie bmher, who was preparing to shava the yiiting man. Yucndon I Mow In topbet can I get away Irum old Blank ? And if I could he pays Niioli a stingy, contemptible salary that I codi.lnT ailird eveu n ride ou tha (cm boat ? • 'f 71 '(I - . (.Uj * • • f Why don’t) on ask him tor a ralaef (piuriicd tlie hurlH't. Wliy don't 1 ask him lor the hand ot his Irrcktod-tioaed daughter f He’d discharge me in a minute, though lie's niukiag mon ey and cun nflurd it. If tlie old liynus would have a stroke oI apoplexy, the Jun patliter might Mo *or®elhing, but such chaps always live to be a hundred yoata old. (J.in vets iihiii ceased lieae. fbo sofod man got out ol liia (hair, took a brushing and *at (luw 11, aid win u the clerk aroao from Ids chair and turuci around, aaowbaUa woul-l have looked black beside hh face. Ms tried to bow ami Hpaak, but something wouldn’t let him, uml when he started to put 111 ilia coat he held it tails up and col lar down. He was stili struggling with it when thu Sidid man rose up, looked iiroun I mid walked out, saying never a woid. The limber wot tho young man's head mi.! held cologne to his nose, but he walkoii sideways when ho went out, and Hutu wua an uncertain wobble lo his knees. In applying tot tho vacant poalj tiou li Jay, statu what shot) you shave at. William Augustus to sleepy room-mate: "Come, John Henry, why don't you get up with tlie lark,us Ido ?" John Henry, grimly ; “Been up w itli him ail night." C donut Itoticri U. lugursoll aays, let mo prophesy, In /iv.i years Iroin to-dsy no >1 an ut lulelligenre in the United Btstev will preach tiie InfaniotM doctrine of eter nal put.fshrnenl. A good many men will be practicing, Inalaad of preaching If, are leal, within the nn-lgncil period. < Amanda I wish you Pi put ltia v large bl l)le iu a protnlneul place on U center lo ble and place thn o or four hymn biKfkf earelcHsly lound on thu sola. I hav adver tis'd lor an young man Pi hoard lu a 4 heel lu! and (Jhrislian tarnily, and I tell you w hat il you girls don’t manage either one ol yob to lake him in, why I will never try anything lor I am tired out. — • WEto • a— ll N'iiic aie overstuchej. with painnce. Death has nothing terrible la it but what life has made so. Cenaii'c is a tax, a man pays the public for ls*ing i rnincut. 'Tim iuau lack* moral courage who treats win 11 he should re:real. lie who allow* kindness toward animals will dUplsy the same cliaratAerialle to ward men. Do come and see ns ! sounds very well; but hoar much heart 1* there in Kla many cate* ? If yiu would reu.ier your children bfp ><**, never c impel or periml tUeua to help themselves. Never reflect ou a post action which was done with a good motive sa4 the best judgment ai Ihe ti.ne. Feeiiiig* conic and go, likf light troops following the victory o'. tl>s present, bat principle*, like troops ot tbs lias, ore un diaiuthed and stand last. The wafer that flow* from a spring does sot beta# In tbs eetdoot winter. And those sawthnerts of Iras friendship whfsb flow from the hnsrt cannot be frossn bp a IversHy. One great re-'.rrt of doaisatis eojoynaeat ia 100 much overlooked —that of briefing our want* down to nor circornslouces , in • teod 0/ toiling to bring oar ebsamafOMSi up to <>ur wants. Wishing to pay bis trtsnd n a gentleman remarked, “I hear yoa hana n very industrious wife." “Tea" mpffni the trier.d, with a twelaachjiy smite, ’■ha's never wile ; she’s always Sod ing aomnthmg fur me Pi do. Tbs beat mean* to learn our taaits Is to tell other* ol theirs, (Ley w ill be too proof •o be alone ia their detects, and Wit seek them in oa and reveal them to HA Tha greeter part of alt ton mfmhfsf at the world oomoa tram the tost that men d> B*t understand ther own aim. Ttwy have aadertoksa to build a tower, end spend no mu labor so ton tiniidstliiii than would be ncccaiary to Srnct s hot
