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VOL. XI.
Professional Directory.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
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ISAAC I>. TOOLS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Vienna, da.
Will practice in the counties of Hous
toa, Dooly, Pulaski, Macon, Sumter and
Worth. Also in the Supreme Court of
Georgia, and in the United States Circuit
and District Courts within the State All
business entrusted to his care will receive
prompt attention. tebl-tf
O. C. HOIfNE,
A TtORNBY AT LAW,
bawkinsville, Georgia.
Having arranged all his other business,
will give exclusively his personal atten
tion to the practice tn Pulaski, Wilcox and
Dodge counties, and elsewhere by special
employment.
Tub Criminal practice, a specialty.
Jan. 4,1877. jan4-ly
WOOTEN & BUSBEE,
ATTORNEYS A T LA W,
VIENNA, GEORGIA.
aprU-tf
c. c. smith;
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
And Solicitor in Equity,
McVILLE, ... - GEORGIA
Retttfts to Rett. Clifford Anderson, Capt.
John b. RUtbeHord and Walter B. Hill,
Xsq., Professors of Law, Mercer Univeral
ly law School, Macon, Ga.
Prompt attention given to all business
entrusted to my care. mar 22 6m
EDWIN MARTIN)
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
PERRY, GEORGIA. *
Will give immediate and careful atten
tion to all business entrusted to him in
Houston and adjoining counties.
Office in Home Journal building on
public square. aprlS tf
ROLLIN A. STANLEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Dublin, Georgia.
Will practice in all the counties of the
•coaen Circuit. From long experience iD
the Criminal Practice, much of bis time
will be specially devoted to that branch of
hit profession. Iteb24-tf
JACOB WATSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Bawkinsvilie, Georgia.
WILL practice in the counties of Pu
laski, Dooly, Wilcox, Dodge, Tel
fhir, Irwin and Houston. Prompt atten
tion given to all business placed in mv
hands. apr Btt*
IiUTHER A. HALL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND REAL ESTATE AGENT,
Eastman, Ga.
WILL practice in all counties adjacent
to the M. & B. railroad, the Su-
Sreme Court of the State and the Federal
•urt of the Southern District of Georgia.
Far parties desiring, will buy, sell or lease
my real estate, or pay the taxes upon the
ame in the counties of Dodge, Laurens,
vVilcox, Telfair and Appling. Office in
ha Court House. apr!stf
J. H. WOODWARD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Vienna, Ga.
WILL practice in the Superior Courts
in the counties of Dooly, Worth,
Wilcox, Pulaski and Houston, and by
sp icial contract in other courts. Prompt
attention given to collections. mch4tf
1 0. RYAN. J. B. MITCHELL.
RYAN & MITCHELL,
A TTORNEYS AT LAW
AND REAL EBTATE AGENTS,
Hawkinsville, Ga.
WILL practice in the counties com
prising the Oconee Circuit, and in
the Circuit and District Courts of the
United States for the Southern District of
Geergia. f<*Htf
J. M. DENTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
g >RACTICEB In the Brunswick Circuit
I. and elsewhere by special contract
Offics at residence. Coffee county, Ga. P.
O. address, Hazlehurst, M. & B. B. R.,
Georgia. feb4tf
. W. IRA BROWN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Yienna, Ga.
I PRACTICES In the Superior Courts of
. Oconee Circuit, and elsewhere in the
Btato by apodal contract. Collections
and other business promptly attended
I* 3-18-ly
JOHN H. MARTEN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
- AND at. ESTATE AGENTS,
Hawkinsville, Oa.
PRACTICES In the Courts of Pulaski,
l Houston. Dooly, Wliocx, Irwin,
reltsir, Dodge and Laurens. may-tf
CHARLES C. KIBBEE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hawkinsville, Oa.
tUfILL piactice In the Circu'i and Dis-
TV trict Courts of the United States
tor the Southern District of Georga, and
a the Superior Courts of Houston, Dooly,
Pulaski, Laurens, Wilcox, Irwin and
Oadge counties. June 291 y
JOHN V. DELACY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
EASTMAN, GA.
Wilt practice in the counties of Pulaski,
Dodge, Telfair, Laurens, Montgomery,
Wilcox, and Irwiu, of the Oconee Circuit,
and Appling and Wayne, of the Bruns
wick Circuit.
Prompt attention given to all business
entrusted to his care. lunl7 tf
SB. r. V. WALKER. DR. V. M. JORDAN.
Drs. Walker k Jordan,
Having associated themselves in the prac
tice v.f medlcine, would respeotrulljr offer
their professional services to the ekiatfens
of Cochran and vicinity. Office on Second
Street, next door to postofflce. At night
Dr. Jordan can be found m his room in
tits rear of his office. uinrS2 ty
HAWKINSVILLE DISPATCH.
RATE ÜBBRIPTION.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch will
be mailed (postage free} to subscri
bers in any part of the United States
one year for two dollars. Sis Months
for one dollar.
A deduction of 25 cents will be
allowed each subscriber in a club of
six, and iu a club of ten an extra
copy of the paper will be sent gratis
No credit subscribers taken. The
Dispatch has the largest bona fide
circulation of any weekly papei in
the State.
Geo. P. Woods,
tf Editor and Proprietor.
THE HORRORS OF WAR.
An Episode In the Rnsso-Turklsh Cam
paign of 1811.
In 1811 the opposing Russian and
Turkish armies stood facing each
other on opposite banks of the Dan
ube. During the night between the
Bth and 9th of September the Turks
succeeded, by making a feint, and so
attracting the Russians to a spot
some three miles below the real point
of passage, in throwing a force of
2,000 men and four guns across the
river a short distance above Giilrge
vo. The first attempts of the Rus
sians to drive this small body back
into the river were successfully with
stood; reinforcements were rapidly
brought over from the right to the
left bank, until finally 3,000 men and
fifty guns were assembled on the
northern shore. Every effort to ad
vance further and drive back the
Russian army, which had fallen back
into an intrenched position, was,
however, repulsed ; the Turks them
selves being obliged after a time to
construct intrenchments to withstand
the counter attacks directed against
them. Unable to drive back the in
vading force, the Russians desisted
from any further active measures
against it, but, bringing a strong
flotilla of gunboats up the Danube,
to prevent supplies being carried
across the river into the Turkish
camp on the left bank, they quietly
awaited events. The provision of
the Turkish force, thus completely
isolated, unable to advance because
of the Russian force in front of it,
unable to retreat because of the
flotilla which effectually prevented
any bridge being thrown across the
river, soon began to run short. The
weather became cold ; but* there was
no fuel with which to kindle fires.
Under these circumstances the suf
ferings of the men were very great
For some time there was horseflesh,
but it had to be eaten raw, as even
the tent poles had been cut up and
burned. Hundreds died daily, and
their comrades had not strength to
bury them. Disease was consequent
ly soon added to famine, so that
when finally, on the Bth of December,
peace was concluded, but four thou
sand men, who are descibed as being
but living skeletons with scarce suf
ficient strength to stand upright, were
left out of the thirty thousand who
three months before had crossed the
river.
HOW THEY D(TtHINGS IN TEXAS.
The stage robbers of Texas seem
to try to be as mild-mannered as pos
sible. Two of them stopped a stage
from Eagle Pass last week, in which
were three passengers, a servant of
the United States army, Mr. Cole, of
New York, and Mr. Melfront, of
Fort Clark. These were quietly sur
rendering all they had, but some
money banded out by Mr. Melfront
was dropped, and he stoopad to pick
it up, probably as an act of polite
ness to the robber, who was cover
ing him with his six-shooter. But
the latter misunderstood the action
and blazed away. Fortunately he
missed, and being assured Mr. Mel
front was not endeavoring to pick lip
a dagger at his feet, him
self’ for his haste. No donbt if he
had killed him he would have ex
pressed “unfeigned regret” at tbe
unfortunate “accident.”— lf. O. Re
publican.
SHARP PRACTICE.
A lawyer once had an Important
case, and the decision depended on
the way the jury would regard the
testimony of one lady. He lost the
case because the fair witness swore
positively to an occurrence which
she witnessed at the distance of sev
eral rods, although there were sever
al persons who stood much nearer
than she that saw nothing whatever
of it. The lawyer looked rather blue
when the jury brought in their ver
dict, but he revenged himself by ris
ing and telling tbe court a story of a
lady he once knew who was very
near sighted, but who always de
clared her eyesight to be excellent
Accordingly, one day a neighbor
stuck a darning-needle in the side of
a bam, placing her on the opposite
side of the road, asked her if she
could see it. “Oh, yes,” replied the
old lady, “I can see the needle easy
enough, but where’s the barn ?”
A pious hen crawled into a Mctho*
diet Church in Jefferson City, Mis
souri, a week ago Sunday and laid
an egg in the contribution box.
While the minister was making an
earnest appeal to bis congregation
for foreign missions the hen suddenly
left her nest, and presenting herself
in the chancel, cackled most ener
getically. The deacon* discovered
the egg when they went forward to
get the boxes. The pious hen’s con
tribution was adapted to the domes
tic rather tb the foreign field.
Straws swim upon the surface, but
pearls lie -at the bottom. Showy
parts strike every common eye, bat
solid ones are only to be discovered
by the most accurate observers of
the human bead anjd human heart.
HAWKINSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 14, 1877.
The Doctor’s Conquests.
BY JOSEPHINE ROBBINS.
I was almost angry, and felt thor
oujfhly aitttoyed when I received the
letter from Dr. Grahame couched in
such friendly terms, aßking me to
allow him to make my house his
home for the Winter, while he prose
cuted some medical investigation—a
task full of painful difficulties, and
dhe which would keep fill his energies
on the strain during the whole day.
“1 so long for some quiet nook.”
(he wrote me)j “where I can crawl
away and fest after my day’s toil,
and I have such a dread of strangers.
I know, were my old and dear friend,
Arthur, alive, he wotild open bis
doors to me, and so I feel that his
wife will do no less.”
What could Ido ? I could not re
fuse him, and yet I could but look
upon his coming as a sort of intru
sion. I had become so used now to
my lonely way of living, that I was
almost happy, at least I was content;
and then in three months more my
two darling daughters would return
from school, and they, too, might
not care to find a stranger in their
home.
All this I thought and felt; but I
wrote the letter of welcome which
brought him at once—glad and at
rest, to find a “home” he hastened to
tell me.
Years had made their change in
him as well as in myself, I thought,
and he looked much older and more
careworn than when last I had met
him (at the death-bed of my husband}
to whose side he hastened at the first
knowledge of his Illness.
Ah I yes, his great kindness and
tenderness to roe and my little daugh
ters at that dreadful time could not
be forgotten, and so I made him wel
come ; and when, day by day, he
grew into my life and way of living,
we were very content, and I grew to
look for his Coming at evening with
something like interest, and then af
ter tea he would read to me while I
sat quietly sewing some pretty things
for my darlings, and little by little I
studied the great man during those
long winter evenings, and learned to
know him—not only great in name,
but noble, brave and grand by na
ture.
None others that I had ever met
seemed to combine such manliness
and strength With such thoughtful
tenderness and almost womanly gen
tleness. No one could blame me
that I dared to hope he might love
one of my daughteis. I who knew
his great soul, his generous nature,
knew that naught but happiness
could be the lot of the woman so
blest as to become his wife, and my
heart yearned for such happiness as
this for my children.
And now the schooldays were
over, and I waited to introduce him
to my two pretty daughters, whose
fresh young beauty made the pale
mother look older and paler than
ever, I thought, as I stood With an
arm around each While I told him
how I hoped they might become
great friends. Yes, the school-days
were over, and now as I had promised
him all along, when I fancied he was
wearied with the quiet of the old
house and me, all would be changed.
The dreary halls would echo to the
dancing feet of youth and beauty,
and the girlish laughter would ripple
through the cold parlors whose doors
were rusty upon their iron hinges.
No more evenings in my little sit
ting-room, with no one but me, a
sedate woman of six*and-thirt,v.
Oh 1 I was glad for hie sake, and
so happy when he answered my anx
ious question of “Are they not beau
tiful, Doctor Grahame ?” “Yes, they
are lovely indeed—more lovely than
even their mother has painted them.
We shall be very happy, our little
family.”
Ah I I wished it with all my heart,
and surely if he could withstand the
beauty of Mary’s laughing blue eyes
and golJen-yellow curls, Katie’s
brown eyes and witching ways must
capture his stubborn heart.
It was a quiet spring evening, and
I left them seated together on the
Wide piazza and sllppled away to my
quiet room, where I listened to their
merry laughter as it floated out upon
the still air.
They were happy and If Well,
the change from the loneliness of the
past two years to the joy of having
my two darlings once more with me,
had made me strangely sad, from
sheer happiness, I thought, I had
often heard of joy that killed , and
somehow I felt as if my heart Would
break all that long evening—and it
was long, so much longer, I thought,
than even those dull evenings which
the doctor and I passed all by our
selves ; but it passed at last, and as
my two daughters burst into my
room, with rosy cheeks and eyes
aglow with happiness, I felt that I
was blessed indeed in their dear
presence.
Weeks passed, filled full of joy for
the two bright girls, who walked and
rode daily with the doctor; and he
seemed bent npon making their lives
one endless round of pleasure, and to
have almost completely forgotten
me—so stately, coldly would he bid
me “good-day” when we chanced to
meet, which Was but seldom nowa
days, for I purposely kept myself
apart from them Who could find do
amusement in me.
And oh 1 I had made a discovery
which had threatened to kill me with
humiliation and shame. I had re
cognized the tagging unhappiness at
my heart, the spasm of jealousy which
swept ever me each time he smiled
upon my children. I loved the man
whom I had wished to beeorae my
son, and to whom already my first
born, my May, had given her heart,
not without the asking, for he bad
said to her, one evening under the
moonlight: “Little May, I hope
some day to have the right to love'
and protect you always.”
I loved him ; but no one but God
knew how well, and I would crush it
out from my heart. I only wanted
a little time to outgrow my shame,
and then I could be the true mother
again. I could give him to my child
willingly when I knew that he had
won my heart with honest worth.
One evening as 1 sat, }ong after
midnight, Musing, lonely and sad in
my little room, I heard the rustling
of soft garments near ray dbor, and
Hpcftf Hstiftng closer, was sure I could
hear a sob low and deep. I sprang
to the door and found my daughter,
Katie, kneeling upon the threshold,
pale and tearful.
“I feared you were sleeping, mam
ma,” she said, “but I so long to tell
you something which lies heavily on
cry heart.”
I led her in, and held her close to
my heart, while sobbingly she told
me how she had learned to love Dr.
Grahame; how at first he had seemed
to return all and more than she gave
hiM ; how he had spoken words which
gave her heart hope that she did not
love in vain; and now she feared that
she had given her heart in return for
nothing. My heart stood still while
I asked her to tell me what were his
last words.
“Only these, maramai “Little
Katie, I hope some time to have the
right to love and protect you al
ways.”
Merciful heavens! the same words
by which he bad caught the artless
heart of my May!
lhis was infamous, and as the
memory of my own foolish love rose
before my eyes, my face crimsoned
wiih shame, and grief kept me silent.
I pressed my child to my heart clos
er, closer, and vowed to be revenged
on the man who had brought this
misery upon us.
No sleep visited my wretched pil
low that night, and when daylight
finally appeared I was nearly wild
with the fever of anxiety which had
complete mastery of my soul.
How could 1 tell this man he must
leave us ? How could I let my little
May know that she had been duped
by the same winsome subtleties which
had deceived her sister? Yet it must
be done; this monster must not sleep
another night iu the house be had de
filed. It must be dotie, and I must
do it.
The day was long in passing, bnt
at last evening came, and the hour
which always brought him from his
day’s labor, sometimes weary and
old-looking, but always kind and
gentle—the gentleness of the wily
fox, I thought, now that I knew his
baseness.
I heard him open the little gate,
and come up the walk, the steps, and
into the house. I met him at the
parlor door, and breathless with agi
tation, bade him enter.
“Dr. Grahame,” I whispered, for
I had no voice to speak aloud, “we
must part. ' I am a lonely, unprotect
ed woman. Leave me and mine, and
my house, I implore you 1”
He turned deadly pale, and catch
ing my bands in both his, exclaimed
while he trembled in every limb :
“Not till you tell me you will not
give me the right to protect yoti al
ways.”
Great heavens 1 those words again,
and to me 1 Was the man mad ? I
tried to snatch my hands from his,
but he held me fast, while he called
aloud, “Katie ! May! come, come I”
And when they flew to my side in
alarm, he cried, “Oh, Katie 1 Ob,
May! help me to pursuade the sweet
mother to give me the right to pro
tect you all forever. You each gave
me your promise long ago. I love
her. I want her for my wife. Re
peat your dear consents, my daugh
ters !”
And that was what he meant, after
all; and it was me he loved, in spite
of age, and the sweet girls who were
each old enough to be his wife 7
Thank heaven, I held each of their
secrets alone, and I bad their con
sent, so I gave him mine.
HOW HE DISPOSED OF A CHICKEN
GIZZARD.
“When I was a lad (said a face
tious gentlemen, the recorder of the
anecdote,) 1 was, or rather fancied
myself to be desperately in love with
a charming young lady. Dining at
her parents’ house one day, I was
unfortunately helped to the gizzard
of a chicken, attached to one of the
wings. Aware, like most ‘good
boys,’ that it was extremely ungen
teel to leave any thing on my plate,
and being over anxious to act with
etiquette and circumspection In this
interesting circle, I, as a‘good boy,’
wished strictly to conform myself to
the rules of good breeding; but the
gizzard of fowls I Alas it was impos
sible 1 how unfortunate ! I abhorred
it 1 No, I could not either for love or
money, have swallowed such a thing.
So after blushing, playing with the
annoyance, and casting many a Side,
long glance, to see if I was observed,
I contrived at length to roll it from
my plate into my handkerchief, which
I bad placed on my knees purposely
for its reception, and the next minute
all was safely lodged in my pocket.
Conversing with ihe object of my
affections, daring the evening, in
a state of nervous forgetfulness I
drew forth my handkerchief, and in
a superb flourish, oat flew tbe giz
zard I Good heavens I my fair one
started, colored, laughed ; I was pe
trified; away flew my ecstatio
dreams, and out of the house I flifng
myself, without one ‘adieu,' bot with
the consciousness of the troth of that
delectable ballad which proclaims,
that ‘love has eyes I’ I thought no
more of love in that quarter, believe
me I’
An Irishmaß s eefttg hrsT friend
lying dead drunk la the gutter,
exciuflttd, “Ah, pow* Jamie, an
surely 1 Wish I could take Half
yowf disease fe myself/'
Special Correspondence of the World.]
WHERE LEE SURRENDERED.
Fads About a Controverted Point in
History, and New Light on iti
Philadelphia; Pa., May 28.
Reading a paragraph in one of the
dailies contioverting the assumed
Historical fact that General Lee sur
rendered beneath an apple-tree at
Appomattox Court House, I be
thought me of an artist friend of
mine who had been an eye-witness of
the scene and had designed a sketch
of the famous locality and of the
house where the two afterwards cOii
sulted together upon the terms of
surrender. A copy of this was in my
possession, and I took a look at it.
The two are represented on horse
back, under what bears a striking
resemblance in the picture to an
apple tree in general contour. Grant
is seated upon the small black horse
that he so delighted to ride while in
the field. To his left rear are Gener
al Sheridan and Colonel Lewis Mer
rill. General Lee is seated upon his
famous gray stallion ; his right hand
is raised in a graceful gesture. The
ground gently slopes away to the left
of the picture, and on this slope are
halted Lee’s personal staff and
escort, while in the distance there
are Camps with troops drawn up in
front of them, bivouac fires showing
here and there, and artillery and
wagon parks.
McLean’s house, in which the ar
ticles of surrender were signed, is a
two-story frame with wide verandas,
after the fashion of Southern houses,
and in the distance looks very much
like the former headquarters of
Major Andre, the Lefferts mansion
in Brooklyn.
The following conversation con
tains what my friend had to say on
the subject, and will settle several
historical facts. I Inclose his full
name and address, for private refer,
ence, but at his request shall simply
designate him as Mr. K., premising,
however, that he and his work are
well and favorbly known in our city.
Correspondent—Mr. K., there is a
paragraph going the rounds which
says that Lee did not surrender to
Grant under an apple tree. Is that
a fact ?
Mr. K.—My recollection of the
circumstances attending the surren
der of General Lee is about the
same—it is in the main correct. I
was on the right of our line with the
cavalry when the flag of truce came
in. After the firing ceased we
descended to the bank of a small
creek and conversed with the op
posing cavalry skirmishers. They in
formed ns that General Lee had gone
up to the town to meet General
Grant. They met at the house of
Mr, McLean. There were no apple
trees near the house that I could
see—nothing but locust, walnut and
willow trees. I made a sketeh of
the house, which I have in my pos
session.
C It might interest the readers
of the World to read your recollection
of the events that followed.
Mr. K.—The next morning, the
memorable 10th of April, 1865,1 was
with those who went out to the edge
of the town with General Grant to
meet Lee and make final arrange
ments in regard to the surrender.
It had been raining that morning,
but at the time they met it was not
raining. General Grant.halted on
the level ground at the top of a
knoll. General Lee advanced up
the hill from the direction of his
camp, which lay in the valley and on
hillsides beyond. A little way down
the knoll, where his pickets were
posted, he left his staff officers and
came on alone. As he reached the
level, General Grant stepped his
horse briskly out to meet him. Both
generals raised their hats in salute,
and drawing near each other con
versed for more than an hour. Lee
appeared to do all the talking.
Grant sat perfectly still, with his
cloak thrown carelessly back and his
hands crossed on the pommel of his
saddle. I dismounted and made my
sketch, not more than twenty feet
from them at the time. The next
morning I finished the sketch by
putting in the surroundings. Grant
wore the sugar-loaf shaped, stiff
rimmed regulation hat, covered with
oil-cloth, and had on a blue cloak.
His pantaloons were inside the boots.
Lee had on a white felt hat, with the
rim turned up flat against the crown
on both sides. He wore a blue cloak,
or talma, and his pantaloons inside
his boots, and rode a gray horse.
After conversing some time they
rode away, accompained by Che staff
of each, to the McLean mansion.
C.—And it was not an apple tree
they met under ?
Mr. K—The tree under which
they met at the edge of the town was
not an apple tree.
C.—Was McLean’s house a head
quarters ?
Mr. K.— l think not. I under
stood the day before, the 9th, that
Lee was waiting at the house of
McLean when Grant came up. I
have tbe original of that sketch in
my possession now.
A REMARKABLE WOOL CLIP,
The wool clip of the San Francis*
co (Cal.) Sheep Company this year
Was in many respects a remarkable
one. It wgs probably the largest
single clip in the United States, or
perhaps in the world. The flock of
the company comprise 39,400 sheep,
and their yield of wool was 331,000
pounds. As amongst this number
there were a good many lambs last
fell, this was an average of over nfe
pounds to tbe sfceep.
*—
As yon cannot avoid your own
company, make H, as good as possi
ble,
(Jeff, ffrant has arrived in Liver:
pool and is being hospitably enter
tained.
What Aiiffi Cynthia Knows
About Cracked Lives.
fI&W TO OVERCOME DISAPPOINT
MENT.
Tim had just been reading in the
evenihg paper a sad account of an
unfortunate affair. A man had com
mitted suicide, leaving a written ex
planation that it was owing to hard
tiroes, and his being completely dis
couraged and tired of living.
“A broken life)” said Tim.
“Yes,” said Aunt Cynthia, as she
energetically snapped off a long
needleful of yarn from the blue ball
she was holding; “but there are
plenty of cracked ones left. I won
der why parents do not bring up
their children to expect disappoint
ments) to overcome difficulties, and
to know that success is always hardly,
and never easily, won.”
Aunt Cynthia, running her hand
up inside of the stocking she was
preparing to mend, calmly proceeded:
“The sooner young people under
stand their true positions in the
school-room of life, as scholars who
will not all win prizes, or as soldiers
who cannot all be promoted, the
fewer instances We shall have pf this
giving . way to discouragements.
Poor victims of pernicious education,
either dying by their own hands, or
living lives of stunted inferiority and
half developed vitality!”
“I know of men,” said Tim, “of
whom people say carelessly, ‘Had
good prospects as any one once, but
met with a disappointment; couldn’t
get over it—love-cracked, you know,’
and they laugh as if it were no seri
ous subject.”
“Yes,” said Aunt Cynthia, as she
looked severely over her spectacles,
“but it should have just the opposite
effect. We can all go forward with
everything in our favor, but it is a
strong man and a strong ship that is
not swerved from their course for a
storm. How much more worthy of
admiration than one who, struck by
some blast of fortune, bows his head
repininglv, and is thereafter content
to walk backward like a crab through
life. It does me good to think of
Squire Hurtnor, for it was the
making of him.”
“What was ?” asked the girls, get
ting out their work for the evening,
while Henry, who had been looking
out of the window, now came forward
and put more wood on the fire, and
then turned, like the others, an atten
tive face to his aunt.
Taking another stocking, she com
menced : “Years ago, when I was
about your age, Harry Hurtnor was
clerk for Simpson & Cos. He was a
gay, fine looking fellow, not at all
particular as to whether his salary
was sufficient for his many expenses,
for he was bound to have a good time
at any rate. He was engaged to the
only daughter of one of the solid,
substantial families of that day who
did not approve of his habits and
mode of life, and Who finally suc
ceeded in influencing Lucy, much
against her Will; to dismiss him. I
have heard him say that, as he went
home that night, the pavements
seemed to barn his feet, and the very
air to suffocate him ; and that in his
own chamber he went to the glass
and talked to himself like this:
‘Harry, are your eyes opened at last ?
They think you are going down, do
they ? But you are bound to go up,
my boy 1 Remember that.’ He be
came one of the closest and most
constant of clerks, strictly attentive
to business, and saved his money and
wisely invested it. In time he rose
to be head clerk, and on the evening
of the day he was admitted junior
partner he married rich old Mr.
Simpson’s youngest a
lovely and accomplished wife she
made him.”
•‘There wasn’t anything cracked
about him,” said Tim.
“No, indeed,” Aunt Cynthia said
with animation. “He made defeat
serve but as steps to his own progress.
That is the way one who is every
inch a man will deal with disappoint
mefit—control it for his own good."
“How will one who is every inch a
woman bear it?” asked one of the
girls. “Ho you know of an instance?”
“I had a dear friend in a country
village who was discarded for one of
more brilliant and showy appearance,
yet without her unaffected goodness
of heart and disposition! Tbe gen
tleman acknowledged bis error after
wards in tbe most graceful and
convincing manner by placing his
daughters in my friend’s family to be
educated and brought up, their moth
er being only too glad to be relieved
of all care of them until they should
arrive at an age to share her own
round of folly and dissipation!’’
“And was your friend happy in
thus caring for other people’s chil*
dren ?” asked one of the young ladies.
“One of tbe happiest I have ever
known. She was continually bring
ing comfort and happiness to other
Dconlc
“How different from MfsS Stough
ton at ‘The Pineal’ Yet people say
she was both lovely and beloved
once.”
“Yes, but she brooded over, fos
tered and dwelt upon her disappoint-'
metit till it grew to mammoth pro
portions, darkening her whole life,
aftd like Aaron’s serpent seeming to
swallow up everything else. What
ever you expect, my children, In life,
be sure and took for difficulties, but
learn *o overcome and rise superior
to them. We are human clocks,
as it were—God’s time-pieces—=a#id
cares, troubles, vexations and obsta'
cles are the weights to keep our
moral and physical, intellectual and
spiritual machinery in regular mo
tion, in order to accomplish the
highest good and aim of our being.”
“Bnt why are some so much more
heavily weighted than others ?” asked
Tim.
1 “Life, if one is inclined to specu
late, is a perpetual query. Discipline
is Uke medicine. Some need more,
and some less, of it. It is bitter to
take, but few escape the need of it
sometimes. There are many whys
and wherefores no scientist can solve,
or philosopher answer. Let us do
the best we can. This it is that will
comfort us when the infirite Hand
shall cease to press the spiral springs
of our being, when the wheels of life
run down to stop forever, and the
soul secs, what ildw the body inter
cepts from view; the arC of our little
liyes complete! Then we shall not
sorrowfully haVe to say,‘Ah 1 if I
had but known— ’ ”
Aunt Cynthia was looking steadily
into the glowing coals, and her
nephews aild iiicces were looking
steadily at her, but no more was
said.
THE FUNNIEST OF MARRIAGES.
A good story is told of how he
performed the ceremony of marriage
while he was justice of the peace. It
was his first attempt, and the appli
cants were of the true western type.
They called upon Cody in the log
cabin where he held his justice office.
Bill had a book of forms, which he
took down and studied attentively
to get some idea of how he should
tie the knot. There were ftfrriiS for
nearly every transaction of life, but
he failed to find what he was looking
for, and finally slammed the book
down and observed to the parties:
“You two fellers join handsand
the “two feliers” did soi
Then he Said t the gfdofh : “Are
you willing to take this woman to
be your lawful and wedded wife, to
loyalher) hdnOr her, and obey her ?”
“Yoti bet your butes,” was the re
sponse of the bashful hair-lifter.
“And you, Miss, are you willing to
take this here man to be your Wedded
husband, to love him, houor him, and
support him ?”
She giggled and nodded in the af
firmative; but this didn’t suit Bill,
who said: “See here, Miss, we’ve
got to have this thing on a dead
square, and we can’t marry folks by
halves in this country. We are
bound to go the whole hog. If you
want this here man for a lffisband
you must speak out and say so, as
though you meant it sure. I’ll ask
you again. Will you take this here
man to be your law fill bedded hus
band, to love him) honor him, and
support him ?”
This time the lady, responded
bravely, “YeS sir; I will.”’
This satisfied his honor, and he re
marked, “That settles it. Now look
here, you two; you are man aud
wife, and whoever Bill Cody and
God Almighty have joined together,
let bo man put asunder.”
“And now,” added Bill, “let’s take
another sip of tarantular juice, and
drink to the happiness of the happy
couple,” which everybody, with true
Western unanimity, proceeded to do.
GOLDEN WORDS.
Dispose not thyself for much rest,
but for great patience.
No man doth safely rule, but he
that hath learned gladly to obey!
He is the happiest, be he king or
peasant, who finds peace in his home.
We would willingly have others
perfect, and yet we amend not our
own faults.
Occasions of adversity best dis
cover how great virtue or strength
one hath.
An honest man is believed without
oatb, for his reputation swears for
him.
Our duties would seldom be disa
greeable if we did not perversely
resolve to think them so.
Every day cheerfulness is a for
tune in itself. Sunshine does have ft
more marked effect on all around.
YhC hdbit of being always em
ployed is a great safeguard through
life, os well as essential to the cul
ture of every virtue.
NOT EVERYTHING KIR SELF.
A poor old man was busily en
gaged in planting and grafting an
apple tree, when someone rndely
asked : “Why do yon plant trees if
you cannot hope to eat the fruit of
them ?” With great calmness the
old man raised himself np, and lean
ing on his spade, “Someone planted
trees before I did, and I have eaten
the fruit | 1 now plant for others,
that the memorial of my gratitude
may exist when I am dead and gone.”
Y should think that the old man was
onee a kind boy.
The Burlington Hawkeye solemn
ly states that, the other day, one of
its editors cut out of an Eastern paper
a inap of the Rtissian War, and hung
it on a hook for reference. One of
the Compositors, prowling about for
copy, got hold of it, thought it was
an editorial article, Httd set up a
column and a half “A New Plan for
Funding the National Debt,” before
the foreman discovered wbat he Was
at and killed him/
——-
This is neighborly: “In' Tattnall
county when the oat erop is to be
harvested they give an ‘oat reaping.’
The fatted calf is killed, everybody
and his neighbor come with then
cradles, and it iB astonishing how
soon a ten-acre field of oats will
melt before a half dozen cradles,
swung by a half dozen stalwart men.
In that way the whole community
have their oats reaped. It is a good
custom.”
When a man is laid up with a bro
ken leg and there is no flour M the
Ifotree, nothing pleases him so much
a# to have the members of the socie
ty to which he belongs present bis*
with a series of resolutions express
ing their great appreciation of bis
high moral character.
m—m " ’
Another conscientious man t ©jp
posed to having the drag store# open
on Sunday. He Is a druggist iriin -
set f, and Sunday is the only day he
has to go Ashing.
NO* 24
A SKELETON IN A CLOSET.
How a Mexican Woman Preserved the
Remains*
[From the San Antonio Express.]
A little fluffy q? excitement waS
occasioned yertcrday morning by a
report made by a backman that in'
the bouse of a Mexican woman
named JesilSd Iteseudez, west of San,’
Pedro, a lltirHan skeleton was con
sealed. The hackman reported to*
Deputy Marshal Shardien that he
Opened a trunk belonging to this wo
man, in which he found a small box
carefully wrapped with a piece of oil
cloth, and the fact exciting his,
curiosity lie opened the box and
found it to contain human hones.
Shardien proceeded to the house in
question and made inquiry Concern
ing the matter, bdt the woman' de
nied any knowledge of the reported
skeleton. Her manner, however,'
convinced the ollioer that she was
deceiving him, and a Search of the
premises was instituted. This search
resulted in the finding of the skele
ton, the bones bfeltlg placed in a bag,
all Jumbled together, aud hung up m
a cioset in the house.
The wpman was brought beford
Justice Houston in the afteriioon,'
and an examination of the affair was
made. The woman’s statement td
the Justice was straightforward aijd
reasonably accounted tof the “skele
ton in the closet,” yet a singular
story withal. She said she lived;
here about seven years agb, and had*
a boy abbut fifteen _ yeafs of age.—
She movdd to victoria about that
time aud shortly afterwards her boy,’
who was in poor health while here,
died. The remains were burled tfCaif
Victoria,’ and some time afterwards
—abotlt three years ago, we under-f
stand—the graveyard where the re
mains were interred fell into private
bands, and the owner announced
that he intended to cultivate the
grohfid and that parties who had
friends burled there cottld rctoove
their remains; otherwise the graced
wduld he obliterated. The woman's!
affection for her dead boy was. MO
strong to lose trace of his resting,
place and she had all that was left of
him, the skeleton, exhnmed. She
was very poor, had no money with
which to purchase a coffin ttfid have'
the bones buried in ahy graveyard,*
so she kept them in a boi awaiting
the time when she could have them
interred according to her desire:—
She learned their hiding' plafte inj
the trunk had been discovered, and
fearing they would be taken from
her, she placed them in the bag am#
hung them in the closet where they
were found.
A physician in this city Who had
attended the woman’s boy while
here, corrobated that part of the sto
ry, and declared that some hairs,
still adhering to the sktrll were of
the same color as the hair of the
sick boy.- As ffo Charge of a crimi-'
nal nature could be sustained she was'
discharged, and the bones of the boy
will now, no doubt, find a final rest-’
ing place.
The Hinesvilie Gazette says f tf it'
is bard to convince some people that'
wool griming will pay in this low
country. The idea has become pre
valent that sheep can only thrive orf
the hill-side. This is a mistake;
there are some as fine sheep in Lib
erty county as can be foftnd iu Mid-*’
die Georgia. Mr. W. A. Kennedy
this spring sheared one two year old
ewe, and Obtained nine and a half
pounds of wool.”
Two Irishmen on a Certain occa
sion,- occupied the Same chamber.
In the morning one of them inquired
of the other, “Dennis, did you bear
the thunder in the night?” “No.
Pat, did it really thunder f” “Tea, {£
thundered as If hiven and earth would
come together.” “Why the deuce,’
then, didn’t ye wake me, for ye kuoW
I can’t steep when it thunders.”
Boy criminals are just now bringing
themselves Into public notice. In
Fredericksburg, Va., James Finch,
aged 11, deliberately shot and killed
a playfellow wfio reproved him for
swearing. In New Orleans, Nathan-
Boyd, aged 9, purposely set fire to &
house ont of reVehge for being
whipped. In San Francisco, Arthur
Beunett, aged 15, nearly killed bis
sister by stabbing her. In Buffalo,
Robert Aikeps, aged 10, mortally
wounded another boy with an axe.
Don’t work too hard. Don’t work;
so hard that you can’t go home at
night and jaw around if supper isn’t
ready, and have strength to kick
things around, and get up after sup
per feeling renewed strength and go
down town and play billiards till one
o’clock and come homo and sleep'
till nine. No, don’t work too hard/
It is best to have a little pleasure as
well as work in the world ; besides,
work breaks down the constitution.-
The Washington National Re
publican says : “The President de-'
cides not to remove Collector Clarks,
of the second Georgia district, and
has dismissed the charges that Were
brought against him as being un--
sustained.”
The Chinese missioflafy who 1#
trying to convert Americans to'
Buddhism has got to give bonds that
his religion will not interfere with a
man wnO wants to run a grocery bill
of SBOO per annum on a salary of
SSOO, or he will not get many cofl/
verts. *
£
All flies are Very wise. No tffiC
ever knows, as he sits ffi a doze, ho if
much a fly knows that alights on his
nose, till he levels the blows, when
away the By goes.
The farmer w tKf produces bnt
ohe crop, and buys everything
efse he consumes, wtll always be
poo l/