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About The Meriwether County vindicator. (Greenville, Meriwether County, Ga.) 1872-1885 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 17, 1879)
The Meriwether (founty Vindicator VOL. 7. THE VINDICATOR. ITBU*IIBI> KVSMY FB!D\ V BY \VM. T. REVILE AT $3.00 l*Eti,A>vM M, 1..N ADVANCE. < Iffice North Side of the I*ubfic Square. RATES OFADVERTISING Space Iwk 4 wks j3mo|Bmo j 1 vr 1 ißch 100 250 430 '4* (HI •12 ltd 2 inches 150 500 ,8 50 10 00 15 00 li inches 200 800 1000 : 1500 25 00 j cni 5 (VO 10 00 j 2000 3500 ,35 00 104 700 15 00 i35 00 35 00 |OO 00 1 ivii 10 o*l 20 at) j 3500 8000 , SIOO A litwru! deduction made to those adv erasing iff- lie- month or year, THE PEOPLE’S RRIG STORK, lURNTSVH I K. CKOHCi \ I> W :.i A \\ return* ttumks tolii* t >r |wst tii\trs and Lopr* in tin fiKmri to Ih* abU' to f urn id i Uhmh wiilt Mtint ink-. Oils am! all otlu i art u it > u;t n< rally in bin lint* on UtU-i Rniih limn h’n*toftrr. TTw**- tinjr l>rnj> ft >m him util be furnifttn'd with priori prion* Fuki *f ( imrgi Patrcuu”t* it! tin* Peo)i* of MfinvctluT ivspi’otivcly Ii<*i- Win a WRIGHT. 38 bm Wmt ii t t.it ■' I <ir Stile 1 ! ’ •j II |HI "ill l.s run. , Edward. Island, •MM * and 100 H.oih In .if lb:>t Hu.i I'lnf I ‘rit t ♦,'> tttlls JM'I I \ \ * ) I I hninl f• i t mhl a V Ii **, half ll<|M I'-Wtf ilrMvk YY.llft r I tit ,i,tl *n< *♦ t• > *t| limit! I'ufTnio l*iU il hwjKiiat*t Flit t El .niMm. ami S* |Niral<*r t ■>miMtu'l ff l; I t rinw < Tt*h \pp|y fit tin Utah *4 luilrtt Soutl| t*asf_ of Oi. • u v ilit A * 'vw l<#h A. LOW KK, i.i i) i .•> \ i V. • t It. . I | *(4 A< "t t‘A t .!t.ut.i M; AMi IlMAtlOi Is AN aft ]*•*. ( *! * K* Jrwrlri Sjlvt-r \N nr* 'Fa’th* I'iit4 v, Sjrt tl* 4 A lliH bi" n (i\i 'l a Fun* Sftitik t \\ aU •! •> Jt wi In < hit, 118 0 Hull'cr* At f*f { Inn i- ' >* 1 *l l >f# i-f.lv I *r tin 1 \Hjf V'. in *H y‘**i ?ir\t!iin/ in in) Urn a*rlnup 1 . yt:b. L-rji/al in )i-<\ 4t v in Hi -' a*'' j A : ; my /*> **i un NS otwn-w m t *r * WIIUM KKIWIRING \ SIWIAI/I'V o <tf J wi |**/1i * % ul N* • Ml*-* fur .til kinl* <f •’ V in;' M V‘ ilifli'* 1 Kiamioii tn <1 n-v l* n;il *tru •.< r •*!'* 9 iM ift 'i fr an tiv titi/i tut nt , M riwftlM r A. LOWKK. *2*. sitj HASSELKUB A- PATRICK. m \ vr rxt’TrßKßs </• amj wuuraiv BOOT S, SHOES, LE A T’l IE RA N DEI Nl) ENGS, GRIFFIN, GEORGIA, Take pleasure in annouaung to the uti. zens of Meriwether and ariysining C'emties, that they have on hand and will constant!)- keep the (.skoxst aud itsr selected aswst meat of BOOTS A HIJtiEH in mtrrm.z ocobuiA, Artx.vTx not excepted, sod that they will retail them at the LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICES. They offer their Homemade Brogaaa <g> f1.50 per pair. “ Kip Wranewßhoe* f 1.50 " " “ Childre* 1 * Copper Tip @fioo “ " They offer most srastx.vrixL moods, aad invite tytevaoDr to come and examine PRICES AND QUAL - HIES before wasting their money da mainn j GOODS. H.YHSLLKUB A PATRICK, 22 Hill St.. Griffin. Ga | (RKEKNVILLE, MKRIWETHF.H COUNTY. uAj OCrOBKK 17. 1879. LITTLE SCOTT. * . _____ linos in liKtnory of little Scott, infant mof (.apt. R. A. and Mrs. V P. Ut-itnl, Ul MISS DOI.UK KOTOR. He is ttime ! the mother's swei't j.-y. The father’s pet, the ehtldren's toy . 5 es. tlie loved little Is tsken in life's early morn. ti\tt, darling little J-cott is gisie. There me so many trials in life. S uiueb of discontent and .su, . ; dial know s it all, and He sow tn-st, Ami gave the little wiind'rrr rest : Sleep, little Scott, for thou art bleat. \ * Not oft are ertTttlly hoja'S fultilleil. Hut oft by grief our hearts are ehilhil, Aud huiiuui life is void and vain. rx> tls ma w ish him back again . 5 mir little SeiHt in free from pain t lisla, He softly ats.ve his head, t'tiat link- form is dear that’s dead Minis, sing swta'tly luound the s|s t. Make bright the grave i.l linte Sntt, He w )t• ih riiiul but Hot t *i^t*l In rvrtlm.H of liiiii vlinv anvi ls r.iuiti flu* stars. SotUI lint a iioim*. !* i liajs bis liritr om s hen li ’ll guilt. 'l'hrmgii gold*n antral*tlw Fatht *< sub When NM arv sttuL art satiMtird Mii itole^. Two mt n writ talking N-u may nay wliat you hsiid oik , I an m>t Ik lit*\t‘ fhiit^t b*i vv(HiJti first imp tv. laws *n • lii'UK . Milt! lilt’ll \ lola If lllb lit W N wltilf ■$ tir-'- 1 Uu.dSt, '£ X.W6 v/ . >' f 'l*r v" mi re o t asily ml rtMliif 1 ? ' ”1 dtn v l know, mi, wha! (bnl may iUf .*i w hal lif Will liot lu.' s,’tnl Uk oflu’i \n \ n vriviilly bui I tin uoi i .-aitl ;t ti.irafif tube flu vi lint it in of flu* laws if nat Hi Ma n is no violation of flu laws <,f mitinv oi nillirr of ilif laws of Uhl. (hal I ki low ft Mtvt* tin witki l acfioiis i tf wii knl mrti ’ NN bat thfii do you rvpard a uiirat lc to 1m; t" 1 it/ ti‘l if f . br iiitTiiv such an infrr (• Ft lit ( W ifll flit (sfabllhlKtl roilix* of I bmps a* infallibly hlk.ws us tb< pifs< tii and fin* atiion >'f Mipt i naf lii.-tl j tow i r NN bat IM •*" li iw it with \ot| Np if t< m | pli’.tm If It* half past t w<'l \• i \HClly ” |(*plU;d lit Y\ rll Mir Maid h< pulling out Ids wah L it i *mo’rlth U vvilh im I p n ialj\ lot puiy wal. h:l liU! forwllrtl. hut I j.*;a\ I* ■ l rM*ft, now, fn s<; I u*,vtip tI. * 11• i nul.. ;tv f i!*• , y imi im i Ia n ! • •• h 1 1.... ** . * imw f '* K; !t f! tin la \of Hit WiiU'ii ? I hav v 11*iit* what w.ifflidoitj with all lt liiV\>, tould H'rt hav4 donf for itm if bnf I havi dom vtoh net* to iioim* of itulawt my iwrUon \h •*u \ an inti tfi mmic of mijm riot infi*lli/i-nt hir a Mtdtnhlr *ml I )ihvi MUNjMmli and m> law huf>p'% imstiadof h-v w.ili )i, Uk Hiiivi rsi iuMliad of moving of Hk hands I I da t .j* woilldlv )f Idlmo’lf ami you hav< all that I < otifi*fid< and for iu ji iuii:i |i* , moth** words tin* ompa *t lunabh* pns un of a mr/htv fmiid, working tin divim will, and if Im in y ftt tn vtotk rjiinn li < who <an him!* r him '* What ran- binder • lb hu done it ofmiM’i ftrail om i* or twt< - alo adv ami win) dare mh\ he rimv tot 11. it a,’.bn V" Sunday Mapa/bi* \ Painful i"'.'i i.• 1 ' nU’fiky inoruillg w fdh wVI U or i/ht old t if i/j m* weo lioMiny down t hnira and hi r* o #i Nlitikei K.tr<f grurery, and unart umamly at r r *mg that this win* tin pnati k( t rttnfrv on *arth, a atrammr #*ntered and mrid f.tlr rm n I Muppox you no nit farm! tar with |4o’ifie " NV* :r< . ' t l,i \ replied in a ejiurufc Ad y>m ktMw nl! a!s;ut fh f'i'*daim rit al prin< iples of liis r'v “We do.” Well I'm glad of il Vir I've made a 1s t with a feller law k la-re an to how tie- rend, ing of tie- (kxistitulion Isgiri" Oncol v-.u jus. write in* down th. first ten w ird " 1/iJe ti- if U f'.a.a *twt> jC I's-tetk ftr-iy man ts-gan srvah-hing his limhl aud cau'e/tn y eyeing in* Heights r < tin: ts'gmi neiUer ng Now I lay me down to - .' and a second said something aliout ' Kesolve/I," arel Uiird wrote mi tin top of a > r;vker t*x “On motion, it wa*. vobyl lll4’ that ." j There was a great de-! 'if coughing anil sn's-zing are I imt: blowing, w Ix-n a ts<y i catnc in awl said the stranger’s bone luvi | rtin away, out and seven fn:<-n | brightened up aud smiled and seven men I dr/k fresh' chews of VAnu/xj aud trie<l not to i i'X/k Vyi important. wbu the gr-s ■ r *ail 1 ‘The ( oustimuon ? Why, every 00c <rf 1 yiu can repeat it by h art w ith your eyes ahnt —’rf e-sirae you can,” There is <mt thing that GencraJ Grawt de serves credit for lie knows how to make a speech that never iiores his audience with its iengrh. and never evowded out of the j>aper for want of space. Ex/ har-ge. i When General Toco Thumb was in the *how buaioesa be was entitled to the same credit for the same re-aivm IR it much easier to commit to memory short speeches prepared for him fry his managers ’han iong ones. u av News. Salaries of Public Officers. FYasu the Athuitn Disimh h C\>l. H. 11 J ones, w riting uhi i^aper. tit , ibo wrotohcnUy low snlarit'B tmid to State ofliot rs, says : “The*i* wr\' utterly inaiie duate to supply even llw wruiUr of a family, and hence there ia no alttrnative but abject fKivertv i>r i.iakii.g a *mtw* w S4>mewhen% thox- who an' beguiled into act'epting office, unless Uiey are iof abundant means.” I bis is uier* try . Many and many n man in ih'uridtt a larger family than any state of fit ial on a much smaller salary. There i* a j grout diflfeicntv lH*i\vtH*n i*< .vu. tny and ex travagancc Udwivn legitimrte and illeglt* j iu^e ! expense*. • [Aug. Um*u. M e enlireh agree with the Chronicle aud t'onatitutionaliat. The notion that public ; office# wort* eivated for the purjvn# 1 ..f milk : ing men rich, is a mistake, at least far h* > this country' is conccrm<V he idea is one iKiirowetl trom file hereditary and uohllity -y sterna i I Europe, where the acioitv of eer lain families art <unsidi uil l he entitled to , xpe: si l b true principal iii our Kepub* i li* an system is that little should be fair pa\ fi i real set \i> is tti tla Stair*, ami the jusi im.usurt of such pay would be hlhui! ih >.'Uiie ns that which similar aeryiets t <u!d etumnniitl in private husim -v eatuh Uahmeuls. "Ih guiled iub iuveptiug offit'e” is a rich and original mod* I exfiressing it \N o hu\i sti ii it.a is i ardt lit .cub iafe trying' to Ih k uile' tin* pttiple to el *et him, but we would Iraki'u Koletuii uHitlavit that we ’ rs ' yH k• ' 4 w all w 1 *x. ij- the P* * pb ; rrieifti*! laguftc any IniVn to take an • dti* e which pnai ttvi i one tiiouxaud tiollars. I lie t*difi>t of the 1 t legmpli has either been beguiled into an innoeeiit belief tli.it Hu* Many ('it i/euv’* v. bo usu il'y muki* eallw ihlotlgli the m W sp.tpi IN oil lilt'll to bt'.mie * ‘undulates are really i imllfif mh*, <n he is hlinst lf try ing to jtatiu oil a good joke on a rit duhais public It the State n .dly be guiit il or t taint i itm *I nien into taking >iliet*, Hut. would b more jlUtlhv ill tin* deiiituitl ha salaries liiglit r than the -same men eould p-M ure by similar w -uK in private eiiterpri Hut tin i 'at.' does no mui li tiling M\er\ munis ptffetily free to dt-Jim the ill epluiice of |IHV olliee wbox* pay he t looks too small I n Ins s< i'. it i a r M'spfaiHi bi lit it s I ben Is riot the least danger in tl* world Unit there will not br p>nt‘ f ~f otliei im i ready to t,.. . t * \\ e verb tin TtT pr*. lio Ii: ii Jiri 1 Hi it W i I he imi.mlh rs of t >i j t !> , ; t 4 . tk.io l rviiMurt r, w itlfilieir two lliOiirit id tlollar sal a it’.a ami lfbt rul allowance for el ik hire Tin- Stall* will muiliri have to **‘4h<*igijil it'-r to draft 'hia prim nt i t jieciili.it'!y ii-ljn.i wjnutx tr:i\a /ant sahun m should not b*- b sto’.yi i It is a time 1 l ", wages in* es * s private bu -iliesH Ihe public tuXt .U it H*;V\ a Imjl*' dell to the peopl. ami many cun not pay them Without fe.'Mi i Ini hg property lliale<ifot Hi' u * oinlort Ihi ■ via y t hmg this dill) ttt procuring remiMcrniivt employ* im nt in private Imihiim s*. eoml cch greatly to tin tlt iiioi’ili'/i jig hfiamblt for publh* of h* * i. eoiunion f.• now da\w llk* |av i.fM limn lire honor that cmi'ch it. Ili 'li '.d.tn'h will only ngj/rivale th* evil. If model,ii. Halurit v have un iiiounne' in *liuiii>isbing it. even in iliaf way they me v. li<ime and iM tiefir iul, !/*' piihlh oMI eei t* have fait |:#\ hr tljeif work, but llot Mich I ; t pliM't'M as w ill “beguile He people to for Hake their Ibid* of privnt* hilror in the u'tejijpt (iiHfipfKiinting to tin* lur*/** nmJ‘M‘l - to net un official p*iHifionM I.outlier in ono Hour. N* umlcrful im the change* that huv* fM**n ♦ fft' t .lof It*# yearr* in Uk- iminnfai’tnie <1 h aliier by Hie nw of * hemi# als and mru bin ' cry m tin plat * of lia old fie*li)o*.et|'tan pit and tlk slow i.minp ila'ion <,f the currier anil tann.-r If some < f our old leather inunubv turers r.-ould Is losum <.*• .1 men who wi-rc ar r ustoiM il Vi -s*k their hid' , for -. c.>umuml. ujs - i Hymr ryw) >f ..w-tjr W • < rtain seaw/ns how they would stare to iw e the present pr-<f;< ce But every day we ! hear of something new- infills direction. A ’ joint stor k company veu, recently formed in , Detroit f'ir the jairjs/s' of mm i'ig leatln r in one hour. V, e give tli< info- cation for ' what il is worth, bot it <!'*-•■ irs-k like sleight I nl luiri-l The jiror ois a chgiiiical one |M.-rformcd by the action of <.ertuin expen sive materials , the compounding of wlifili in th*; right proportion* is a secret It is daim<xi that rotes, tarmod with tie- iiair on, Hl‘ srift UK 'the finest W'sil bide* of the i ih.-cr, tl'irw, dog, etc , an- snnsitli and soft, while calf and kid show the texture and gram which shoemakers irmsi. admire. N-> bark is rerpiic and except a liltie to give tlie. profs-r .xilor lo llm I'.ath' r. Bark is worth \r ii, fit a rsvrd, ami s.lsmt 'w< hurjdrrd cords are rrsiuirerl )-, tan 1.000 hidr-s by the cr/mmon metliod. '1 wo cords would be sufficient P- give the proper Color U> the wtuie uurnber of hides, and the saving in this item will la; enerrmiuH. V e und -r land ths.t. the ( .'im\mny are turning 'ejt from two thou sand t/> three thousand hides per n-omlis. How'is arti(j4c is w< ;tring we have not been able Pi awjert ur. isit shall watch tht res .rit with intgrext.--Commercial B .Ik-* jin. Ttio nuiu with a glass Eye. ; Reeky Mountain News. As* train on the Khiurs Pkeitie pullitl avnaFftlan he Sixtoenth depot, a tew mom- a tall, angular iptH-iuien of hu **** * *W4t opjxwite a lady ]NWBcnjfor and.’to all appearanrot. was intently enjtai*. her face. At ilixi the lady j rwlenew with good-natured in . dtflftiMice. But M la> it Ix'pi i to ti ll on * l,e N®T'” i Wits ,l l wc 'hiar and astoniNii l impertinence. llr apparently !lrt^jß*"*'uil .V °t looking two w'iivh at once, i eyoa was rntk-M, exeited and , al) itirvetions The other, li\e<l Hi|pr, fastened on her with an umtevia- She turned her lieiul away, hut • U lM ’ r vi ** ou lu ' *ried to hide Itchi*#* pajH-r, hut site felt that eruel eye : I’ioraktlnxHtjdt the seroen, and ureeplug J W.ttt&BNy loot all owr bar feau.iaxi, It I seemed to he picking them up one by one, aud examining them vv it ii cure. Tlie tiling I is* came unendurable, and she cried out to him tiercel) : “Sir, why do you l.sik nt me no persist I cut ly ?" 1 Me, madam, why, bhsa my soil! : 1 haven't lav'll liMitdllg at you." “You have, sir for a half hour or more j your eye lias been alisolutely viv.lisl ii|mwi lll> fIMV ” "1 beg your pardon, madam, htrt it’s thin eye, is it initr lifting Ids tingia to his li ft optic. 1 Yes, sir, it's that ey<■ ". "W ell, inwlatn, that eye won't do \.at any harm. It generally looks any way it i pieaM's it me a goial deal of trouble. A great may complain of it At first 1 I 1 bought the. were making fun of me, but ! I've found oil differently now. I've been knocked dW two or tlnee times for tin inipertinciiet of that eye I would leave it out altogether but for the hsiks of the thing It’* a glass eye madam only a glass eye I liopo viMi’ll extuse 11. Hut, u|kmi my soul, I’m not surprised licit even 11 glass eye should feel inlcntstcd in so pretty a woman, V and In- brought liW otln-r eye to bear upon lu r in nndisguisi'il admiration. lln lady laiiglijigly mci pled lie- expln nation, and tin- r(sl of (lie Journey was passed very pIfHNUHI[) lo Isilb of t bein iirnThok. Tin* vol.t ly whit-lt lit) was W lii f o \vti>slit*4l. On tlif Hint ni*l itTi*, wliirlj tl U n fi(*< will u 1 'if tli' nt aft T- inomy, ut \ei*al R.tVf (Ik ir vli wm Ankhi^ Hit 111 Hsia<4ir (i nut l iU si it I that Ik- <lil uoi mti iKI I. niuK' ii h| .11 li, Imt m, fhjvt wiin Uk laM op|HMl.iiuity In wmiiM luivr t fXprt HM Llh hulitfimti<m of Uk t oiiiMr tlicMtn all* \N liH |i>f Mil li; lift | it Sfiiatrr I fan ,H4*h Ik n t alh-fi ilk* k-nat or to ord*r, ImH tin* *|ji< f juntirr* allowfd him to \ntn‘i-et\. lit rootimif'fl NV** art hlhhil to Rn a liieii offirial of thiw | gtiMty of crimes, nlioiil to walk out ol these Wills whitewashed by this senate, This /lari day is in lull keeping with tills dark deol. 1 vole erfiTTty "’and am not ashamed pf my s/'nllnieiitM. Hcnnlof tJniidh 1 sjso gave his views why lie voted guilty in a clear, sensible and wise insiiner. Those voting guilty lire Senators, Bower, f itudler, Clark' 1 lemeiits, Cliflou, llraki-, Dc.M'AK, Folk -t, Grantluud. Grimes, llnmil too, of the Hlli llea/i, ibslgew, iloiton, l.uinpkin, MeDimlel, Ti ny, Itussell, Him moos, HtaU-n, ,Stephens, Tison.of lie- 4lli, 3th. s Ihose voting not guilty are Hruiators lioyd, liryiin, ( abimiss, Casey, Cuiiiiiiing. Dußomc, Fain, Ibimillou, Harrison, Haw kins. Howell, Mi l-e<sl, I’restnri. Tison, ol the 10111 ; Troiitm.-ui, Turner, and S\ cllmru. 17. f'airitt.i liig/jwn pen. i Tie- fotlowiny tofiksiu tie- 'G nili mini's ifiigaxim: friend of mine,' traveling afoot with a cwnpuoion through the green lutii-x of the midland counties fame nm x|>e(rte<J|y u|*/u a Country race course, and found In one portion of the gr-aind a thimblerig cxtablisbment in full work, fn spit* of remonstrances his com panion, a thorough madcap, whom I will esll A, its* isfisl on 01/scrving tlie game. rsild tie gent like t/> tx-t u crown lie coulfl find the little pea Y said the expert. Agn-ed, was the answer. Tin- money on ts/tli sirl w;ut 'ie]sil<sl. and A, lifting up tlie thimi/le, pointed out tie- re>|.iin-d |sn and took the stakes. A, •s-rxm/l het. "dmilrle or rjthts,” ended, to the obvious surprise ol the offleiator at tlie fsxtrd, In tie- sane re. suit. A ihird *)et “a p<aind or nothing," steadied .he nerves of the l-wr, and tie trick was nccomptialicd with much circuni ■pection. Again A lifted up a thimble am) allowed the js-a, taking at tin- same time the Stake. ‘So, help me,' etc., said the l/e wUdered artist."! didn’t put it there.” No.' safii tin- winner, retreating with the sfs.il of tire war ; '! always carry my own pea.’ 1 am not answerable for the morality of this story. An old man's advice to a yramg man : don't love two girl* a., urn*-. jy/ve is a good thing, tsit It is Uke butter in warm weather—it won’t do to have too much of it ! on hand at one time. Humor in the Family (iood humor is rightly rockoccd a moat valuable aid to happy home life. An is|iml ly goral and useful faculty is a sense of hu mor, or the capacity to have a little fun along with the humdrum cares and work of life. We ail know how it brightens up tilings generally to have a lively, witty com panion, who sees tlie ridiculous points of tilings and who can turn au annoyance iuto an occasion for laughter. It is a great deal la-tier to laugh over some domestic mishaps than to cry or scold over them. Many Ilona's and lives arc dull la-cause they are allowed to lieotane too dts'plv with a sense of the cares and reapiaisihili. ties of life to recognise its bright, and es pecially its mirthful side. Into such a household, good hot dull, Urn advent of a witty, humnnais friend is like muuddne mi n eUiudy tUy. W kite Hto always oppress ive to hear persons constantly striving to say witty or funny tilings, il is comfortiilibr toma 1 what a hriglitner a little fun is to, make an elfort to have some at home. It M well to turn oil an impatient ipiestiou some tiun's, and to regard it from a humorous point of view instead of becoming irritated a I Kin tit "Wife, what is the reason I can never find a . lean shirt ?" exrlaimcd n g(*l lint rather iiupatiant tnishand, after mnning ali through thu wrong drawers. His wife! looked at Inin steadily for a moment, half inclined to he provoked, then withacomical look, she said : "1 never .valid guess conun drums ; 1 give it up." Then lie laughed, and they Imilli laughed, mid slie went and got Ins shirt, and lie felt ashamed of him self and kissed her, and liieii she felt happy; ,9-V UUSilt l.mve,, Iseiy.ao. iVc'oeip'V ty Itiird words mid unkind fivlings, beiume Just tlie contrary, all through the little vela of humor Hue cropped out to the surface. Some children have a peculiar faculty for giving a humorous turn to things when they arc reproved. It docs just as well often times to laugh things ofTas to scold them I-slighter is belter (Inin tears. I.ct us have a little more of it at home. •lust IL‘forti\yawu. “All ! Heaven d.M's Indeed temper the w ind to the shorn lamb," pathetically said old Mrs. 1 tilfendorfer the other evening at a I'll light, alter putting sway her twenty eighth clip of Young Hyson. “Why, wliul do you mean 1" “Y’ini know that young widow, Mrs lijlfeii, who lives ace ms the streel from ns ? Wi li, she has had nothing but sorrow, troulile and distress for the past (J i,ni, an; a burglar ; then le t uiutjier Him■ i-d a nig ger- mliiNtiel , after that she lutd the yellow fever and Mitmll li\ together ; mid next her Ihimliiui.l failed, and she had to take in wash ing. 1t wn* perfectly dreadful. Tl.c |sK>r woman nearly went cra/.y. Sin- was Just beginning to hear up a little tigalii, wlien lid lirotlier was sent up to the penitentiary for life ; and finally, last month her bus band died in a lit, and tlie very next day her Imby choked to dculli on a gum-drop." "(IruclouH ! tie psr thing!” “Wasn't il just terrible Y Kverylusly believed slic'd commit suicide lie u ; and sin would have done no, 100, bill last week soinelswly provi dent ially coaxed her to go to a < Inirch ruflle and wind do you ali Huppiss ii happened/'” What, for heaven's sake, what t" “Why she won a seal-Nkiil steeps: I" “You don't mean it Y" “She did, though |erfi!Ctly splendid emne wiliiin mi inch of tin' fiis/r. The darkest lean is just before dawn ufter all Now isn’t It Y"- f ail Francisco I’.srt. 'l'lic Biiptihin of Henry Clay. Hc-v. Dr, Berkley writes to the Ht. Ixmis I leniis rut that he 1/ttptiwsl Henry Clay in his parlor at Ashland, at the time adminis tering tin- ordinance to his daughter-in-law, Mrs Thomas Clay, and four of his children, on the 22nd of June, 1*47, a few sjas-ial friend* only Is-ing present. Tim watx-r was applied by the lu.ii.l out of a large cut glass urn, which, among his many presents, had ts-en given him l.y a niariufacturi-r in I’ilUburg, I’tt 'lt was said that this piece of cut-glass tim !*-g. s then known. Mr. Clay was then seventy years old. lie wna suh rs|iient|y publicly ra/nfirmed In ebureti. Although the great statesma.i allow.-'! so many years to elapse before liaving rewived li..- s.u-rament of baptism, la- was by no means neglectful of his religious duti. ; to the contrary, lie was a constant attendant at church, arul a close listener to the d<s-trines pn.-aetied. The Rev. Dr. Berkley, who per formed the cer.snony as als/ve stau-d relaUrs criticism which Mr. Clay made upon one of his sermo"*, when a young man and first appointedreetorof Chris.’sCbureh In I-cxiag ton, Ky., which is very eharacterhrtlc of tin great marl. The Ihs-tor says in Gw- sermon in 'ps-stiofi. he had more of hirnw-if tluui of Clirist. Tlie next .lay Mr. Clay c<arunenlpil ed him upon its delivery aud style, rie/re os a gpeeeli tluu. /is a scmwjn, aisl luhh-il. -*wl-n i go to / hureh I like lo hear something in a sermon that will giddc a sinner to Iris Hav k.” Mr. Clay was an earnest man. lie .lid nothing by lullves. When hi* mind became fully engaged lu reference to bh* religbaj* duty lie seixed and discussed every vital qiaartksi in connection witii it, as Im- did in tliose grave matters of state, by which be iuts made his r/ariu- immortal. A little girl w ho was spending s few days with a farmer uncle, visited tin- barn-yard and while Us/king at list well-fed rx.ws, re marked : “Why, uncle, Jort see, tin; cows are chewing gum. aren't they ” NO.it SILENT MEN. Wimbingt.ai n*v made a speech. In tin* w idth of his fame lie once attempted It, failed, and gave it up ermfiwed and abashed. In framing uj* Ihe ConstKution of the Uni tst States, the lalsrr was almost wholly per formed in a Committee of the Whole, of which George Washington was lire chair man, tint he made only two speeches dur ing tlie convention, which were of a very few words each. The convention, however acknowledged the master spirit, mid histo rians atfiun thnt had it tag been for Ids per sonal popularity, and the thirty words of his first speech, pronouncing It the best that could la united u|a>n, the Constitution would lmve been rejected by the people. Thomas Jefferson never made a speech. He couldn’t do g. Na(Kdeou, whose cxeewtivo aldlity Is alm.sit witlioc.t pnraUak ss4i Ida greatest troulile was In finding men (4deeds rather than (4 word* The r .ogu’ul ConclusioDß. 1 tie house has pixssed and the actinic no dnidit will, the resolution directing tike gov ernor to sue Treasurer Itcnfme imh) his se curities for tlie interest lie mid limy eiaifesa to liave received fr.Mii interest (*i tlto state's money. Th.' senate lias stud, however, that lie and they have done nothing wrong, for he lias la'cri voted not guilty. Ho If this soU i* brought, and we think it ought, it will |mi! the Judgment of seventeen rn'iia t'Ma hi triul before the courts. Tiiey have said Mr. Iteufna.' mid his wenritim havo done no wrong in taking it. Ilow Mr. Itcn fns' uud lus iMiekers liecam* sitltled to iu- A'A'yt on liyyblic fund* la '*.’xxt tnaddeH tlie mb ids of the people. He admitted that he hod dime it. The h>aiae decided that such action deserved Imtstudinient. No, said the seventts'ii semgora, he iuts dime nothing wrong ; lie was entitled to ali Im could make, as he plivai ignorams' and mg take tlie pitiui|ial Tlie rvsirta slsaild decide wliether tills money Is'lougs to TreasunT IfenfriN' ami friends or tlie pulilie. Kn/|. Slit* Doottn’l littiij' her Hair. I’riMii tin- Madison, Ind , f.'iMirier. M i>-" I.i/zie Bruce, of Scott comity, who cut UK) lu res of wheat with a reaper hurt, harvest, is now hauling It to tlie city and selling it. Hie lias wild several wagon loud* to Mr. J. I). Taylor, the miller. Miss Urn. i is not only indiisfrious and iiityj^. limit wear lu r hair Imngisl, either An old bachelor, having In'eti Imiglied at by a party of pretty girla, told them t “You are small potatoes.” “We niuyjie small iKitat.s'S," said one of I hem, “but we are sweet ones." "See tin- tins>n," said a lady to her neph ew, a (night little (my of 5, us tiny sal hs-k --lug out the window the other day. “The moon !" mild the little mini. “You can't see the moon in tin daytime ” “Yes, you can," continued Ids mint j “there It is over the trees." The little fellow had to admit that lie saw it, luit added,, '"lalli’t lighted anyway."- liosf.m TuuiM-rlpt. tjueen Victoria oniv signified to Viscount Maediiff, now Kml of Fife, Hint she would not lie unwilling to have him for a son-in law The liohleuian respe/t fully decllueel llw honor He is not yet HO, waa schmiled at Eton, has <'iglil r.'sldenees in th: High lands, arid is warmly spoken of by all class es. His four sisters are ladies of extreme beauty, hut have not been enviable lu their wedded tilr. A asliliigton newspaper easually ob s/'rves that ip-tin midst of nil honors lavished ii|kiii Gen Grant, the feasting that Is given him mid the homage that b paid him, it In pitiful to see his only brother going about town, dirty a <1 rugged, a harmless Imbecile, borrowing a quarter or a half dollar from anvlHsly who will give It to him. 'Tli** (Jriivc of (Jen. Morgan. . . 'I he Winchester : v*., ,\t states that a plan has been set on t'fii there for oblain ing fr>an ( ongress an kppmpriali/si of five thousand doll/us with which to erect a monu inent to the memory of that grand old revo lutionary soldier, Gen. Uauiel Morgan, the hero of the Cowpetis. The remains of Gen. Abaga/i now lit iu Mt. Uehroa Ceme tery, Winchester, mid t)ie slot/ which once covertsl tin- tomb is now nearly all chippial off and lias been carried away by relic uhnU-rs. Renfroe’H Case*. ‘ Haintw), you nr< < barged with stealing a pig. What have you to say for yourself f" “ •' ell, Mars Jedge, 1 own up, I did take dat pig ; but i didn't know it was wrong, lie mao what live in mV house 'fore I did uaetcr take pigs, and I bln takiu plga all " along, and never kuowed it waa wrong 'till 1 took dia one. and lie boss told me It was agin de law. I'm willin' to give op dia pig if you’ll let me off.” “All right.-Hambo ; if you did not know It waa against the law to steal pen, you liave not committed any offence. Toil are discharged—l-aGrangc Reporter The latest yarn about fast time Is to the effect that on a certain American railroad a young man put his head out of the ear win dow to kiss bis girl good bye, when the train went ahead so rapidly that be kl—rd an old African female at tlie next station.
