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VOL. XI.
Professional Directory.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
ISAAC L. TOOLE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Vienna, Ga.
Will practice in the counties of Hous
ton, Dooly, Pulaski, Macon, Sumter and
Worth. Also iu the Supreme Court of
Georgia, Rnd iu the United States Circuit
and District Courts within the State. All
business entrusted to his care will receive
prompt attention. ffcbl tf
0. 0. HORNE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Itawkiusville, Ga.
The Criminal Practice, a specially.
January 4, 1877. jan4 ly
WOOTEN & BUSBEE,
ATTORNEY S AT LAW,
Vienna, Georgia.
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c. c. smithT
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
And Solicitor, in Equity,
McVILLE, - - - - GEORGIA
Refers to Hon. Clifford Anderson, Capt.
John C. Rutherford and Walter B. Hill,
Esq., Professors of Law, Mercer Universi
ty Law School, Macon, Ga.
Promnt attention given to all business
entrusted to my care. mar 22 Gm
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. aprl2 tf
ROLLIN A. STANLEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Dublin, Georgia.
Will practice in all the counties of the
Oconee Circuit. From long experience
in the Criminal Practice, much of his
time will be specially devoted to that
branch of his profession. feb24 tf
JACOB WATSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hawkinsville, Georgia.
Will practice in the counties of Pulaski,
Dooly, Wilcox, Dodge, Telfair, Irwin, and
Houston. Prompt attention given to all
business placed in my hands. aprß tf*
LUTHER A. HALL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND REAL ESTATE AGENT,
Eastman, Ga.
Will practice in all counties adjacent
to the M'. & B. railroad, the Supreme
Court of the State and the Federal Court
of the Southern District of Georgia. For
parties desiring, will buy, sell or lease any
real estate, or pay the taxes upon the
same in the counties of Dodge, Laurens,
Wilcox, Telfair and Appling. Office in
the Court House. aprls tf
J. H. WOODWARD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Vienna, Ga.
WILL practice in the Superior Courts
in the counties of Dooly, Worth,
Wilcox, I’ulassi and Houston, and by
specinl contract in other courts. Prompt
attention given to all collections.
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t C. RYAN. J. B MITCHELL.
RYAN & MITCHELL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
AND REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
Hawkinsville, Ga.
WILL practice in the counties coni
prising the Oconee Circuit, and in
the Circuit and District Courts of the
United States for the Southern District of
Georgia. feblltf
J. M. DENTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
| JBACTICES in Ilia Brunswick Circuit
l and elsewhere by special contract.
Office at residence, Coffee county, Ga. P.
O. address, Hazlehurst, M. & B. R. R.,
Georgia. leb4
W. IRA BROWN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Vienna, Ga.
UPRACTICES in the Superior Courts of
I Oconee Circuit, and elsewhere in the
Stale by special contract. Collections
and other business promptly attended
to 3-13-ly
JOHN H. MARTIN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
Hawkiusville, Qa.
PRACTICES in the Courts of Pulaski,
Houston. Dooly, Wliocx, Irwin,
Telfair, Doilgc and Laurens. may-tl
CHARLES C. KIBBEE,
attorney at law,
Hawkinsvillc, Ga.
WILL piactice in the Circun and Dis
trict Courts of the United States
lor the Southern District of Georga, and
n the Superior Courts of Houston, Dooly,
Pulaski, Laurens, Wilcox, Irwin and
Dodge counties. June 2S)ly
JOHN F. DELACY,
attorney at law,
EASTMAN, GA.
Will practice in the counties of Pulaski,
Dodge, Telfair, Laurens, Montgomery,
Wilcox, and Irwin, of the Oconee Circuit,
and Appling and Wayne, of the Bruns
wick Circuit.
Prompt attention given to all business
entrusted to his care. luul7 tf
JOHN F. LEWIS. . B. LEOKAIID
It G IiIBWIS.
LEWIS, LEONARD & CO.,
Bankers and Brokers,
HAWKINSVILLS, - - - GA
Buy and sell Exchange, Bonds, Stocks,
Gold and Silver, and att'-nn promptly to
all collections left with us.
Will alao make loans on good secu; dies.
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HAWKINSVILLE DISPATCH.
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch will
be mailed (postage free} to subscri
bers in any patt of the United States
one year for two dollars. Six months
for one dollar.
A deduction of 25 cents will be
allowed each subscriber in a club of
six, and in a club of ten an extra
copy of the paper will be sent gratis
No credit subscribers taken. The
DisPATcn has the largest bona fide
circulation of any weekly paper in
the State.
Geo. P. Woods,
tf Editor and Proprietor.
CAPITAL QUESTION SETTLED.
Atlanta, August 21 The Con
stitutional Convention to-day decid
ed to leave the location of the capi
tal to a dicision by a vote of the
people, separate from the Constitu
tion.
THE BIG LOAN—GEORGIA CONVEN
TION.
Atlanta, August 22.—The State
Treasurer, under the decision of the
Attorney-General, would not advance
to the Constitutional Convention
more money than was appropriated
by the Legislature. The Conven
tion passed an ordinance authorizing
the President to borrow money to
defray the expenses of the Conven
tion, to be repaid by the next Gener
al Assembly, upon which General
Toombs loaned the Convention $25,-
000.
It is estimated that about five hun
dred lives were lost during the re
cent riots in the North.
“Increase your receipts and de
crease your expenditures,” is the
valuable information sent to the
fools who forward twenty-five cents
to a New Yorker in answer to an ad
vertisement “How to get rich.”
Mr. John Davis, a farmer, who
lives in Taliaferro county, and who
is seventy-four years old, through all
the vicissitudes of wars, panics and
drouths, has never bought a bushel
of corn or a pound of meat since he
began business for himself.
The Advertiser tells of a man in
Russellville, Monroe r. lio
was doubletaxcd because he did not
take his county paper, and there
fore did not know when the books of
the receiver would be closed. His
single tax amounts to near aa bun-,
died dollars, and thus he has paid
dearly enough for his false economy,
to say nothing of his lack of intelli
gence.
To drive off red ants grease a plate
with lard and set it where the ants
are troublesome ; place a few sticks
around the plate for the ants to
climb up on ; they will desert the su
gar bowl for the lard; occasionally
turn the plate over a fire where there
is no smoke, and the ants will drop
off into it : reset the plate, and in a
few repetitions you will catch all the
ants; they trouble nothing else while
the lard is accessible.
The New York Tribune of the 9th
inst. states that there has been a
heavy decline in the prices of sugar
within the last two months, which is
due to the fact that the market is
overloaded. The Tribune predicts
disaster to some firms, and cites the
caste of one house that is currying
25,000 hogsheads, which, if sold at
the present market rates, would be at
a loss of SBOO,OOO.
Can any one tell why it is that
the soul of a young and pretty wo
man is more dear to the average
deacon than a squint-eyed woman
with a wart on her nose ? When
we have seen a young and pretty
woman go up to the altar, we have
noticed half a dozen deacons knock
their heads together in their eager
ness to whisper consolation to her
bruised spirit. But when the squint
eyed woman knelt down only one
deacon went near her, and he merely
touched her on the shoulder and
said : “Pray fervently, sister, and all
will be well.”— Exchange.
A child charmed by a black snake
in Jefferson county, Tenn., fed the
snake for over a week. The father
discovered the snake coiled up in the
child’s lap and killed it, whereupon
the little one went into spasms of
grief and refused to eat food of any
kind. Site cries almost continually,
except when asleep, and physicians
state that she will live but a short
time,
J. H. Parnell, of West Point, and
J. I). Cunningham, of Atlanta, have
realized $5,000 each from peaches
shipped North, the present season.
A man in Hart county, Ga., uses
only two letters in spelling his
name—Bob Bobo.
A New York woman says if death
loves a shitiiDg mark, it’s a wonder
it never Aimed at her husband’s nose.
HAWKINSVILLE, GA.. THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 30, 1877.
THE CAPITAL QUESTION.
The People to Determine by a Sepa
rate Vote Whether Atlanta or Millctlgc
villc Shall be the Capital of Georgia.
The Augusta Chronicle says:
The attempt to name Atlanta in
the Constitution as the seat of gov
ernment, though vigorously pressed,
disastrously failed, and the Conven
tion decided by an overwhelming
majority to let the people determine
by a separate vote whether Atlanta
or Milledgeville shall be the capital
of Georgia. We have never doubled
that this would be the result; we
have certainly never doubted that
this should be the result. We advo
cated the adoption of such a course
because we believed it would lessen
the opposition to the new Constitu
tion, because we thought it afforded
the only means of settling a vexed
question satisfactorily and forever,
and, above all, wo advocated it be
cause we believed it was just aud
right. Under the resolution adopted
the friends of Milledgeville and At
lanta will be afforded a fair field for
the Capital fight, and, however, it
may bo decided, the defeated will
loyally abide the issue. It is im
portant that the controversy
shottld be terminated, and we are,
therefore, gratified at the adoption of
the amendment which makes the vote
on the Capital decisive, whether the
Constitution, with which the ques
tion will be submitted, is adopted or
rejected. If the people prefer At
lanta as the seat of government, suit
able accomodation for the General
Assembly, the Governor and the
other oflicers of the State should at
once be provided in that city. If
they prefer Milledgeville, the pnplic
buildings there should be occupied
and the expenditure of money in At
lanta stopped.
AN UNACCOUNTABLE WONDER.
From die Henderson (Texas) Times ]
It is a well known fact in this com
munity that Robert Burk, a young
man about twenty years of age and
son of R. T. Burk who lives about
seven miles north-east of this place,
had been very strangely affected from
some unknown cause for nearly two
years before Thursday of last week.
During these two years he wae sub
ject to something like fits which
often amounted almost to madness
and utter insanity.
His father, an honorable and truth
ful man, makes the following state
ment : “On last Thursday morning
my son was in bed and quite unwell.
He said that lie could feel something
crawling on the inside of bis. stomach,
and was confident that it was either
a snake or a lizard. Soon after it
was felt in the stomach my son says
that he became very sick, and while
he was attempting to vomit, some
thing which he took to be a lizard
came up into his throat and be suc
ceeded in seizing it by the tail but
failed to cxtr.,ct it. About three
o’clock in the afternoon he again ex
perienced similar feelings, and while
he seemed to be choking to death he
put his hand fax into his mouth and
pulled out a full grown lizard or cha
meleon. lie was so shocked by this
process that it was with great diffi
culty that ho recovered. This took
place before my own eyes and in the
presence of my wife aud three chil
dren. Since that time he has experi
enced complete relief for the first
time in nearly two years. lam at a
perfect loss to account for tbi? more
than strange occurrence, and should
not have believed it, had I not been
present in person. As very small
and j’oung chameleons were frequent
ly seen on a vine which grows over
the water bucket, it might have been
that he swallowed one when it was
quite small. It was evidently not in
the stomach during this long interval
as he breame very sick when it was
first felt in the stomach. While
afflicted he eanstantly complained ot
very painful sensations from bis feet
to bis brain.”
COTTON.
Two cotton wagons meeting on
the road to Augusta, Ga., the follow
ing dialogue took place between the
drivers:
“What’s cotton in Augusta?” says
tbc one witli a load.
“Cotton,” says the other.
The enquirer supposing himself
not to be understood, repeats :
“What’s cotton in Augusta ?”
“It’s cotton,” repeats the other.
“I know that,” says the first, “but
what is it ?”
“Why,” says the other. “I tell
you it is cotton. Cotton is cotton in
Augusta, and everywhere else that I
ever heard of.”
“I know that as well as you,” says
the first, “but what does cotton bring
in Augusta?”
“Why it brings nothing there, but
everybody brings cotton.”
“Look here,” says the first wagon
er, “you had better leave the Stale ;
for I’ll be whipped if you don’t know
too much for Georgia.”
A “Housekeeper” informs the Sa
vannah News that in that city meat
and milk keep remarkably well this
summer, whereas last summer it was
very difficult to keep them even with
ice. Last summer meat could hard
ly be kept on ice for twenty-four
hours ; now it will keep that length
of time without ice. He attributes
this difference to the freedom this
year from the malarial poisons that
prevailed bust, summer.
ONLY A ROSE.
BY SUSAN ARCHER WEISS.
Irene Eliott came slowly down the
garden walk, with one hand holding
up the train of her rich silk dress,
while in the other she carried a small
flower-basket aud scissors.
Her errand seemed forgotten, as
she passed listlessly onward, seem
ing unconscious of the brilliant blos
soms which on either side bent to
ward her, as if offering themselves to
her hand.
Blit at length one spray of crimson
roses caught in her dress, and ar
rested her. She paused, aud, placing
the basket on the turf at her feet,
commenced mechanically gathering
the blossoms.
In the act of severing one half
blown ros'e, she suddenly paused,
and, turning her head, stood in a
listening attitude, motionless as a
statue.
Her ear caught a sound from the
little arbor near—a light, low laugh,
careless and silvery as the tinkle of
the spray in the fountain close by.
Then a girlish voice said :
“You must certainly be a poet in
disguise, Colonel Alston. That sen
timent would do credit to Tennyson,
or more properly to Byron—only it
isn’t fashionable to refer to Byron in
these days of superior modern po
etry ”
A voice answered—a man’s voice—
low and earnest, with a certain tone
of suppressed passion :
“Delphine, why do you trifle witli
mo? You know what I mean—you
have known it for weeks—aud you
yet refuse to admit it. Or, if you
really have no heart, why not telf mo
so at once ? Why not give me a def
inite answer, and let me know ray
fate ?”
The pale cheek of Irene Eliott be
came yet paler as she caught these
words. She drew a quick breath,
aud her teeth clenched upon her un
der lip until the blood almost sprang.
Her lianos dropped beside her, and
the rose which she held fell at her
feet.
As if with an unconscious impulse,
she placed her feet upon it, and
crushed it into the earth. .
For months she had secretly loved
this man—the proud, cold, high-bred
man whom she now heard laying his
heart at the feet of another.* It had
seemed at first as though she might
win him; for, though not actually
beautiful, she was brilliant and clev
er, and an heiress, and many had
bowed tc these attractions.
Bat then came Delphine—her
cousin Delphinc—with her fresh,
girlish beauty, her airy grace, and
winning, capricious ways, which
seemed to cast a spell around all who
approached her; and in the sunshine
of that glad, tender, yet wayward na
ture—half woman and half child—the
proud, stately Irene had felt herself
eclipsed. She, the heiress, and Del
phine, the daughter of a poor country
clergyman.
The click of the garden-gate
arouse l her. A bouyant step came
up the walk, and handsome, laughing
eyes looked into her own.
“Really, a most charming picture !
—Were I an artist, I would straight
way put it upon canvas, and make
my reputation. A royal red lose”—;
he stood back with an air of critU
cising admiration—-“with white roses
bowing lowly before her, and crim
son roses lying crushed, like bleed
ing hearts, at her feet. The picture
shall be called ’The Queen Rose of
them all.’ But where is that white
rosebud,-the fair Delphine?”
“Present, at your service!” an
swered a laughing voice, and a sylph
like figure stepping forth from the
vine-covered a’bor, bowed gracefully
before him. “What does your lord
ship desire of nte ?”
Colonel Alston followed slowly—a
handsome, noble-looking man, with
steel-gray eyes, which looked as
though there was hidden fire beneath
their depths, though they now wore
a grave and almost cold expression.
lie turned at once to Miss Eliott.
“You are gathering roses ?”
“Yes. To wear to the dance to
night.”
“Will you allow me to assist you ?
I would sparo you the thorns.”
She smiled bitterly at the uncon
scious mockery.
llo.v little he suspected the pain
which he was even at this moment
causing.
Arthur Carey had turned to Del
phine.
“And you, too, want roses. Here
is my favorite, clad in regal crimson
velvet, folded around its heart of
gold. Will you wear it to-night?”
She received it coquettishly.
“I cannot promise. It will depend
upon the humor of the moment.”
She reached up to a pure white
half-blown rose, which peeping
through a veil of soft moss, hung
above her head.
It was beyond her reach, and Col
onel Alston gathered it.
“This is my favorite,” lie said, in
a low voice—“of all roses the most
beautiful.”
She held the two side by side.
“A white and a red rose—York
and Lancaster. One hardly knows
which to choose. Which would you
prefer, Irene?”
“Neither,” she answered, coldly.
“Keep your roses. They have
thorns 1”
“Oh, 1 don't feel the thorns! But
if I cannot decide in favor of one,”
she added, with a laughing, half-mis
chievous glance, “J will keep both—
till they die.”
“Cruel!” said Arthur.
But Colonel Alston turned away,
with a look of almost displeasure in
his steel-gray eyes, and joining Irene,
ihc two walked away together.
Delphine's glance followed him.
There was something of regret in her
“What a bright, airy creature she
is !” said Irene, pausing btfore a wax
jessamine. “I wonder if she has a
heart?”
“She lias a heart—a tender and
true woman’s heart—if one could but
get her to acknowledge it,” said the
colonel quietly.
lie stood absently by, apparently
forgetting to assist her ; and, when
she furtively glanced around, she
saw that he was writing on a slip of
paper.
‘ Miss Eliott,” said he, when he
parted from her, “may I ask of you a
favor ? Will you be kind enough to
deliver this to cousin Delphine ?”
Upon reaching the library, she
threw down her flowers, and looked
at the paper.
It was only a leaf of a pocket or
notebook, folded into a nai row strip,
and twisted into a simple knot.
What had he written therein ?
Irene Eliott was not a high-mind
ed, not even an honorable woman,
where her own feelings or interest
were concerned.
She carefully opened the paper,
and slowly and deliberately read the
few words thereon inscribed. A look
of almost fierce passion grew upon
her face—anger, pain, jealousy and
hatred. Then, as she again read the
lines, her eyes lighted up into a kind
of triumph.
She crumpled the note in her hand,
and tore it in two ; and, at that mo
ment, hearing Delphine’s light step
in the hall, she thrust the fragments
between the leaves of a musty old
folio volume on the table before her,
and commenced busying herself with
the flowers.
Delphine, meantime, had been left
in the garden, alone with Artur Ca-
rey
“The colonel is offended,” said the
latter, as Alston, with a cold, dis
pleased look, turned away and joined
Irene. “llow can you trifle so with
him—and with me, Delphine?” he
added, looking her full in the eyes.
“Who.says I am trifling with the
colonel ?” she asked, looking down
at the roses in her hands.
“I say so !” he answered firmly.
“It is nothing to you.”
He was silent for a moment; then
ho spoke, in a low, deliberate voice :
“Delphine, be true to vour better
nature ; lay aside this lightness, and
tell me, once for all, whether—wheth
er I can ever hope to be more to you
than a friend ?”
She slowly picked to pieces the
red rose which he had given her.
IV heu she raised her eyes, they were
glittering in tears.
"Let us still be friends,” she said,
gently.
“Nothing more ?’’
“Nothing more.”
An expression of pain passed over
his face.
“I am glad you have spoken plain
ly at last. I might not, perhaps, be
willing to consider your decision
irrevocable, but that I have just dis
covered what puts an end to all mv
hopes. Your heart is not free to
bestow upon me. I can but envy the
colonel, and wish you all happiness.”
He held out his hand, and she
gave him her own, still without rais
ing her eyes. Then, when he had
gone, she stood for some moments
still and thoughtful. The tears
welled to her eves.
“I will be true to my better na
ture—l icill lay aside this foolish,
wicked trilling ; and to-night—” she
pressed the white rose softly and
shyly to her lips—“to-night I will
make it up with him; I will make
him happy.”
*****
She had never before taken so
much pains to look beautiful, and
had never so well succeeded.
Glances of admiration followed her
as she passed down the lighted
rooms. For a single instant, as site
entered, she had caught sight of a
well-known face, calm, cold, almost
stern, as the steel-gray eyes met her
own ; and then, though she looked
around more than once, she saw it
no more.
Still she was bright, smiling and
happy, for she knew she could chase
away that cloud from the brow of the
man she loved, and make him also
happy.
Presently a lady addressed her:
“Delphine, you naughty child,
what have you been doing to the
colonel ?”
“Nothing, that 1 know of.”
“You little hypocrite, haven’t you
sent him away to California ?”
“To California?”
“You pretend to know nothing
about it. Haven’t you heard that he
leaves here to-morrow, with Mr.
Howard, for San Francisco?”
Delphine felt sick and faint. Her
first thought was that it could not be
true; but before she lelt the party the
matter was placed beyond a doubt.
Colonel Alston hail indeed ap
peared at the party for a few mo
ments, but only to take leave of his
host and hostess.
He was to leave the next day for
California, having suddenly decided
to accompany his friend, Howard.
He called the next morning to pay
his parting respects to the Eliotts,
hut Delphine would not see him.
She tvas offended, as well as deeply
pained. Was ibis his love? Was
this treating her with proper respect
even ? Let him go, she said to her
self; a man of such a disposition
could not be of the kind to make a
woman happy.
But as days passed resentment
died out, and she felt only regret and
anguish. She had not known until
thus parted how deeply she loved
Colonel Alston.
He was a man snch as she should
never again meet with—good, noble
and true—she could not bnt feel, and
he loved her as perhaps no one else
would ever do. All this she had
thrown away—had lost by her own
foolish caprice and folly—and Dcl
phinc made in her own heart a sol
emn resolve lo lay aside the idle co-
quetry which had cost iter so much.
A year passed. Delphine, though
often wooed, had not yet been won,
while Irene Eliott, recovered from
her disappointment, had become the
wife of Arthur Carey.. Though of a
different stamp from Alston, tie was
yet worthy a woman’s love and es
teem, and Irene was as passionately
attached to him as ever she had been
to Alston, whose memory she regard
ed with dislike
One bright spring day, not long
after his marriage, Arthur Carey was
looking over some musty old vol
umes in Mr. Eliott’s library, when he
came across a torn slip of paper.
Before casting it into the fire it oc
curred to him to ascertain whether it
were of any consequence.
There were some lines on it, writ
ten in pencil. This is what lie read:
“You must give me a definite an
swer this evening. If you will accept
my love and become my wife, wear
the white rose on your breast. If I
see you without it, 1 shall know that
my hope is va>n, and this will be my
final adieu. This is my decision. I
await yours. C. A.”
Was this some old love letter of
his wife’s? lie turned the paper,
and found the address—“ Delphine.”
Ilis thoughts went back to the
well-remembered evening in the gar
den, just two years ago, and to all
the circnmtsanees following. Was it
possible that Delphine, foolish child,
had thus capriciously thrown away
her own happiness? for lie knew that
site had loved Alston. Might there
not ho some mistake somewhere?
When, two months after, Delphine
came on her usual summer visit, he
took advantage of their cousinly re
lationship, to mention the subject to
her.
She had never received such a
note as he described, never heard of
it, did not believe that Colonel Al
ston had ever written her such.
Then lie spoke to his wife, who
thought it all a mistake, and advised
that the matter should be dropped.
“If he did really write this note,”
said she, “lie probably afterward
changed his mind, and destroyed it,
as you sec. It is foolisli to* think
further about it, and wrong to be
putting false notions into Delphine’s
head. It will only make her un
happy.”
And as she thus spoke, she in
wardly trembled with a sense of
guilt and fear. Wliat if her sin
should find her out?
Arthur Carey did not agree with
Iris wife that the matter should be
suffered to drop. lie knew where
Colonel Alston now resided; and
that night, without saying anything
to either his wife or Delphine, lie
wrote to the colonel.
And thus it happened that not
long after, when the roses were in
bloom, Delphine sat one evening in
her favorite arbor, reading ; and that
suddenly she started and dropped
the book, at the sound of a well
remembered voice, which she had
not heard for two years.
Two persons were coining up the
garden walk together—Arthur Carey
and—yes, she could not be mista
ken—Colonel Alston.
“I have brought you an old friend,
Delphine,” said Arthur.
She rose, and gave him her hand
quietly, almost coldly. Yet some
thing in the iirm, warm clasp caused
her heart to thrill, and, looking up,
she met the earnest light of the steel
gray eyes bent upon her.
lie had not changed, except that
she thought him handsomer than
ever, while she had grown from a
young and careless girl into a lovely
woman.
When Mr. Carey presently left
them, Delphine rose, and the two
walked slowly down the bowery alley
toward the house. In passing the
white rosebush, Alston paused.
“It is two years since I last gath
ered a rose from this bush. Do you
remember it ?”
She looked up. Something in the
steel-gray eyes caused hers to droop.
“I w'rote you a note that evening.
I have since learned that you never
received it.”
“Never—until long after!” she fal
tered.
A moment’s silence, and ho said,
in a voice which trombled slightly :
“And if you had received it, Del
phine, what would have been your
answer ?”
She hesitated ; then, reaching up,
plucked a white rose, fastened it on
her breast, and looked up with a shy,
tearful smile. There was no need of
words between them.
An hour alter, he said, regretfully :
“Two long years of life and happi
ness lost.”
“And all for a rote—only a rose!”
she answered.
We have felt the thorn ; but the
sweetness and perfume are left to us,”
he said.
Of Irene—of her shame and humil
iation—what need to say aught? It
can he imagined.
A sea monster has been seen in
New Bedford, Mass. Some young
wumcn were out rowing when they
espied a frightful shape come up
from the water quite near the boat.
They screamed so loudly that a boat
load* of boys went to their help. '1 be
monster did not appear to avoid
them, but calmly waited for them to
come ou. Boldly rowing forward
they came near enough to get a fair
look at the creature. It was a wa
termelon.
Young Joseph, the leader in the
new Indian war, says the government
has lied to him six times, and that
lie shall take twenty scalps for every
lie. Hold on to your hair.
A Western paper has this : “The
daughter of Mr. I’roddy has returned
to her father’s bouse from a visit
East, and oh ! how many fond and
foolish boys rejoice over the I’roddy
gal’s return.”
Family Discipline.
A TRUE INCIDENT.
In the year 1864, there lived in
the county of , State of
Georgia, a family, consisting of
husband, wife and six children.
The husband having lost his father
in early childhood, was left under
the guardianship of a gentleman
who was remarkably rigid in ex
acting obedience from all over whom
ho had control. He was blessed,
however, with a pious mother, who
in this respect, had no superiors in
all the country. Blessed witli means,
he i\as sent to schools of high repute,
and received a liberal education.
His instructors were men after the
pattern of ills guardian ; men who
made free use of the rod in the school
room, as many could testify, who
still live in Georgia.
The wife also lost her father while
quite young and was blessed too with
a pious mother, who was liberal to a
fault, having a kind heart and ivord
for all. Each seems to have inheri
ted the disposition of their respective
mothers, so that when children were
born to them they ruled them after
the pattern of their raising—the fath
er rigidly, the mother charitably
The mother possessed as much pa
tience as ever fell to the lot of mortal
—a temper never ruffled—and an
untiring energy, especially when her
children were interested. It might
be inferred that with these opposite
temperaments, each having the right
to rule their offspring, differences or
unpleasantness might sometime ex
ist; but one never interfered witli
the other while the child vias being
disciplined.
The mother, however, frequently
sought to convince her husband that
milder means would accomplish the
result. She was joiued in this hv
her mother and a widowed sister who
resided with them—'wo powerful
auxiliaries.
At the time of which we write,
they had two little boys going to
school, someone and a half miles
from stheir home. These children
had been carefully taught by their
parents, who were pious, The ten com
mandments, and especially had the
father sought to impress them with
the sin of lying and profanity.
One evening, a friend informed the
father that the eldest of these little
boys had used profane language at
school. This was sad news to the
father, who utterly detested anything
of the hind. He soon communicated
the fact to the mother, who shared
equally with him the mortification
felt. The father evidently exhibited
upon his face the workings of his
mind and heart, for the wife moved
by fear that her child would be se
verely corrected, could not restrain
her feelings, and tearfully enquired
of her husband what source he con
templated pursuing. That look, so
earnest, so pleading, made the father
relent, and to determine for once to
try milder means, and to the great
joy of his wife he so informed her.
When the little ones returned home
from school, the father took them
some distance from the house and
informing his child of what he heard
desired to know as to the truth of the
matter. Looking up into his father’s
face, and seeing no traces of anger
(for the father was in tears) he fell
on his knees—confessed his guilt,
and clasping his father promised nev
er to repeat the oli'ensc and tearfully
begged his forgiveness, lie was
told that it was cheerfully granted,
hut he had offended his heavenly fath
er, and that ho must also seek for
giveness of Him.
The little one seemed to compre
hend the truth, and exclaimed, “Oh,
father, pray for me now.” The fath
er knelt and there besought for his
crying child forgiveness from God,
and earnestly prayed that ho might
ever be kept from the sin of pro
fanity. The children were dismissed
and went immediately to their room
—the father to his own room where
the rest of the family were congrega
ted. The mother anxious 'to know
the olfeet of the remedy made haste
to enquire. She was told—when the
widowed sister said, I will go to
their room and sec what they are do
ing ; and upon doing so, found both
upon their knees by their bed in
tears, and the oldest praying audibly.
The boy lived to be 15 years old,
and was never heard to speak an un
truth, nor to utter tin oath, or to
make use of vulgar or unbecoming
language afterward. He was a model
youth, beloved by all, white ami col
ored. He was exceedingly devoted
to his mother, and withal a Christian
When became to die. calmly he met
the monster, and as the family stood
’round his bed weeping, lie said,
“dear pa and ma, don’t weep for me,
I will soon bo with Jesus.” Taking
each tenderly by the hand he bade
them good bye and then thanking
the good doctor who stood by him
for bis kindness, bade him too good
bye, winch affected this strong man
all unused to weeping to tears. His
was a triumphant death. The death
of this boy was a terrible blow to his
father, for he idolized him, amt for
a long six months his heart rebelled
against this stroke o! Providence,
when lie through faith and prayer be
came submissive, and could say not
my will but thine be done.
The writer has this object in giving
this incident to the public, that should
these lines meet the eyes of any pa
rents who have been cnfoicing obedi
ence simply through fear of the rod,
to beg them not to rely wholly upon
its use, but to adopt milder means—
remembering that kindness will dig
down more hills—fill up more val
leys and make more rough places
smooth than aught else beneath the
sun.— Uno, in Sparla Timex and
Planter.
An extensive black lead mine has
been discovered in Floyd county, and
will soon he opened.
NO- 35.
lSones of the Brave.
Exhuming the Itemains of Custer an
His Command—Appcaraueo of flic
Uloody Field—Some Light Throw r
on the Massacre.
AH the graves of both men at .
officers were discovered without dip
liculty. The remains were found to
be scattered over an area of several
hundred acres.
All that evening, in camp, tl. •
soldiers were converting coda;
boughs into stakes, or head board
with which to mark the graves
Mach stake was cut just three fo
long, and wa3 intended to be driven
into the grouud two-thirds of i
length. On the morning of ihe thirc
a fatigue party was ordered out t>>
exhume and re-inter the remains a
the soldiers who fell around Cusb-
There were large and small tranche
Some contained but few remain
Others contained long rows of se;>
arate sets of bones, indicating tbu f
as many as a dozen bad been bum
together. Where a little band ha
fought together, and had falh
side by side, or in a heap, they re
ceived burial in about the same ol
der in which they fell. Only Urn
naked bones remained in flu: treuehe
There was no traces of 11 sh aid eot
ruption, and no odor, except that
which was wafted from the should
of wild flowers blooming in the val
ley below.
In a few hours the thin layer of
dirt had been removed from the
bones of over two hundred soldiers
nuil the remains re-interred in the
same trenches, but rattier more de
cently than before. Three feet of
earth, tastefully heaped and packed
with spades and mallets, was put
upon each set of remains, and the
head marked by a cedar stake.
The same day the hones of the
officers were exhumed. The remains
of the following officers were un
mistakably identified : General Cus
ter, bis brother, Col. Toni Glister
Colonel Keogh, Col. Cook, CupL
Tates, and Lieut’s. Smith, Calhoun,
Crittenden and Reilly. They hud
been buried just as tlmy had fallen,
with the single exception of Go.
Custer, who had received interment
alongside his brother.
The grave of the Custers was near
the summit of a little knoll, right
where the gallant soldier had taker
his last stand. The ground for twe
hundred feet around was filled wit
remains. Over sixty men had bee
killed on that little’ elevation. Th
surfai col the knoll was strewn wit.
dry bones of horses, which v.\
bleached to the whiteness of ivovv.
Prom the position of the bones it. w
evident to the observer that tin
horses had been shot for the pnrpos
of forming a breastwork. It loofci
as if the animals had been led into ;
position forming a half circle am
shot in their tracks.
While the work of exhumation war
going on, Col. Sheridan had a part;,
of scouts and interpreters scourin',
the vicinity for any undiscovered re
mains. There were eight of theta
scouts, mostly Crow Indian , in
cluding “Curley,” who claims to b
the only man who escaped from Cm
ter’scommand. Col. Sheridan think
there is great danger that “Guriev
is a liar. He discovered that tha
red Crow knew very little about tin
battlefield, and propably knew i
about the battle. Another one of th
scouts is the celebrated Half Velio
Pace, who was badly wounded in tin
Ileno light and who is a fellow <
some veracity. Tlesidcs these then
were three well known interprets
named Barrett, LaPourge and Her
deen, the latter having fought umbo
Reno. The country for fifteen mil
around was well searched. The
discovered no evidence that any oik
had escaped and was afterwards run
down and killed.
Col. Sheridan says that the India.•
after winning the light, ran away; v.i
left a large amount of camp eqtre
page. The bottom in which Cm
encountered them has been a favorite
camping ground for the Sioux
many years. Every time they brok.
camp there they abandoned more bi
less traps. There are not less tben
ten thousand lodge polls lying
around in the tall grass. A search
in the vicinity of the battlefield r
vealed the bones of some twenty 01
thirty Indians.
To he in company wi.h tlio ;o
love, satisfies us; it docs not signify
whether we speak to them or not.
whether we thir.k of them or iodide;
ent things, to be near them is all.
The beet society and conversation
iri the world is that in which the
heart has a greater share than the
'head.
Women exceed the generality of
men in love, but men have the ad
vantage in friendship.
A man is more faithful and ni
to another person's secrets than t*.
his own ; a woman, ou the contrary,
keeps her own secret hetlet lli-i'
another’s.
Fly from him who, from merccu;
osity, asks three questions about
thing which cannot interest him.
Love is far from being a guy p
sion. True love is almost always
chagrined, melancholy and ill-lft
tnored.
Women charm as a general thin;
in proportion as tli-y ate good. A
plain face with a heart behind it is
worth a woild of beauty. Men who
have tried both uniformily agree to
this.
Nobody knows to this day wh.-i
time Noah had of it in the ark v, ;ti
the antediluvian ancestors of tie.
present Kentucky mule.
It eo-.t about to semi a lon
wheat from Chicago to Liverpool