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VOL; XI.
Professional Directory.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
IBAAO L. TOOLE,
Attorney at law,
Vienna, Ga.
Will practice in the counties of Hous
ton, Dooly, Pulaski, Macon, Sumter and
Worth. Also iu the Supremo Court of
Georgia, and in the United States Circuit
aad District Courts within the State. All
business entrusted to his care will receive
prompt attention. febl tf
0. C, HORNE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hawkinsville, Ga.
The Criminal Practiee, a specialty.
January 4, 1877. jan4 ly
WOOTEN A BtjsßfiE,
ATtOtINEIS AT LAW,
VIENNA, GEORGIA.
aprl*-tf
G C. SMITH,
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.
Promut attention given to all business
entrusted to my care. mar 22 8m
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 buildiug on
p üblic square. apriS.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
Milne in the counties of Dodge, Laurens,
Wilcox, Telfair and Appling. Office m
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, Pulaski and Houston, and by
special coutract in other cour ts. Prompt
attention given to all collections.
mcb'4 U
t, C. RYAN. J. B. MITCHELL.
RYAN & MITCHELL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
AND REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
Hawkinsville, Ga.
WILL practice in the counties com
prising the Oconee Circuit, and in
the Circuit and District Courts oi the
United States for the Southern District of
Georgia. feblltf
J. M. DENTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
I>RACTICES in the Brunswick Circuit
and elsewhere by special coutract.
Office at residence, Coffee county, Ga. P.
O. address, Hazleliurst, M. & B. R. R.,
Georgia. leb4tt
W. IRA BROWN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Vienna, Ga.
PIACTICES in the Superior Courts of
Ocanee 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 BEAL ESTATE AGENTS,
Hawkinsville, Ga.
PRACTICES in the Courts ofPtilaski,
Houston. Dooly, Wliocx, Irwin,
Telfair, Dodge and Laurens. may-tt
CHARLES C. KIBBEE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hawkinsville, Ga.
WILL piactice in the Circuit alid Dis
trict Courts of the United States
tor the Southern District of Georga, and
ti the Superior Courts of Houston, Dooly,
Pulaski, Laurens, WilCOi, Irwin and
Oodge counties. June 291 y
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1 JOHN F. DELACY,
ATTORNEY at LAW,
Eastman, ga.
Will practice in the counties of Pulaski,
Dodge, 'Pelfalr, Laurens, Montgomery,
Wilcox, and Irwin, of the Oconee Circuit,
and Appling and Wayne, of the Bruns
wick Circuit.
Prompt attention given to ail business
intrusted to his care. jnnl7 tf
JOHN F. LEWIS. D. B. LEONARD
R. O. LEWIS.
LEWIS, LEONARD & C0 M
Bankers and Brokers,
HAWKINSVILLE, V -• .• OA.
Buy and soli Exchange, Bonds, Stocks,
Gold and Silver, and attenu proihptly to
all collections left with us.
Will also make loans on good sccul Itlcs.
aprs ly
HAWKINSVILLE DISPATCH.
P.J. HODGE,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Hawkinsnille, Ga.
Will piactice in the Superior Courts of
Houston, Dooly, Pulaski, Twiggs, Dodge
and Wilcox. Special attention given to
collections. oct4 ly
A- H. WQOTTEN,
Attorney and Councellor at Law,
Mount Vernon, Ga.
Will practice in the Middle and Oconee
Circuits. Criminal defence a specialty.
Prompt attention given to the collection
of claims. sept 27 tf
Copartnership Notice.
Hawkinsville GA.,Sept. 17, 1877.
The undersigned have this day formed
a copartnership, under the firm name of
D. G. & J. C. McCormick, for the purpose
of conducting a warehouse and cotton
business. D. G. McCORMICK,
J. C. McCORMICK.
oct4 tf
RUST-PROOF
Seed Oats !
I have a large lot of Rust-Proof Seed
Oats, Which I will sell for Seventy-five
Cents per. bushel. J. S. WILLIS,
sept 37 4t Hawkinsville, Ga.
Book and Music Store.
A general assortment of school books
and stationery, envelopes, blank books,
slates, pencils, pens, ink and mucilage,
Dickens and Scott’s novels, and other
literature. Best violin strings, latest pub
lications, music, U. 8. Maps, Bibles, Testa
ments, Hymn Books, and other articles
usually found in a Book store, sold cheap
for cash. GEO. STURTEVANT,
tl Next to Thompson’s Drug Store.
Pay your Lumber Ac
counts and Avoid
Trouble-
Aii parties indebted to me for lum
ber are requested to settle on or be
fore October 15th, or 1 shall be com
pelled to place their accounts in the
hands of an officer for collection. I
shall regret to have to take such
steps against any of my old custom
ers, and hope they may act upon this
warning and prevent sucli a course
on my part. J. H. DUPREE,
Dooly county, Ga.
sept2o lm
KELSOFS
Bar and Restaurant,
AT
WATERMAN’S OLD STANDI
I have opened at Waterman’s old stand
a neat Bar and Restaurant. Tables sup
plied with the best the market affords.
Fresh Fish, Oysters, Game, Etc. Meals
at all hours. At my Bar will always be
lound the best of Liquors, Cigars, &c.
Beds furnished when desired. Farmers
and others visiting Hawkinsville are in
vited to call. Satisfaction guaranteed.
D. KELSOE,
Hawkinsville, Ga., (late of Monteitums..)
sepfi tf
3Pla.lrtat.ion for Sale-
By virtue of an order Of the Court of
Ordinary of Pulaski county, will be sold
befbre the court house door in the town of
Hawkinsville, Ga., on the first Tuesday in
December next, within the legal hours of
sale, that part of lot of land number two
hundred and forty-nine, lying north Coney
branch and South of Big Creek. Supposed
to contain one hundred and thirty three
acres, and that part of lots numbers two
hundred and thirty-two and two hundred
and thirty three, lying on the east side ot
the liver'road. All of said lands lying in
the fourth district of Pulaski county, and
containing in the aggregate three hundred
acres, more or less. Said as the property
of Miles Sanders, late of said county, de
ceased, and tor the benefit of heirs and
creditors of said deceased. Terms of sale
cash. September 19,1877.
MARTHA SANDERS,
septSO td Executrix.
INSURE
YOUR HOUSES
—AND—
MERCHANDISE!
The undersigned represents as agent
two of the largest and most reliable Fire
Companies in the world.
The Liverpool, London & Globe, with a
Capital of $27,000,000. Amount Capital
in United States, $3,652,000.
And New York Home, with a cash Cap
ital of $3,000,000, and gross assets $6,114,-
000.
Will take risks on merchandise, cotton
in store houses, residences, furniture, &c.,
for one, three or five years, and will in
sure residences forever on the payment of
ten annual premiums. Rates will be as
low as any first-class and safe companies.
The above companies are prepared and
will make the deposit with the State iu ac
cordance witli the net of the last Legisla
ture for the protection of policy holders.
August 30, 1877.
O. M. BOZEMAN, Agl.,
aug3o 3m Hawkinsville, Ga.
juyUs ecißG's
Jaktiqh JPmL
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-“—OFFICE OF-
W. D. KING,
JeWcler and Watchmaker,
BA yVKIJtBVILLR, GA.
Clocks, Watches, Jewelry, Guns, Pis
tols, etc., repaired at short notice and up
on the most reasonable terms. All work
guaranteed.' oct4 tf
HAWKINSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 18, 1877.
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch will
be mailed (postage free) to subscri
bers in any pait of the United States
ofie 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 teb 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.
Three Judges of the Superior
Court have died in Georgia this year
—Clark, Peeples and Hill.
Generals Gordon and Toombs have
consented to deliver addresses during
the fair at Americas, which begins
oil the 30th inst.
Up to this time Joe Brown has
paid into the Treasury of the State
two million dollars rental for the
Western and Atlantic Railroad.
The Catoosa Courier thinks that
North Georgia is solid for the re
election of General Gordon—when
the ballots are counted it will be
found that Southern Georgia is also
solid for his re-election. •
The Toccoa Herald caustically re
marks : ‘‘President Hayes will have
to order anew pair of boots at an
early day, his old ones having been
licked to pieces while on his Southern
tour.”
The difference in cotton receipts at
Macon between this and last year at
the close of September, is seven
thousand five hundred and ninety-two
bales in favor of last year.
The Columbus Times is informed
that Mr. G. B. Rogers, of Harris
county, will make this year 250 gal
lons of syrup from three-fourths of
an acre of sugar cane. This is more
than double the best yield of cotton.
The Catoosa Courier says there is
a man living in Ringgold who never
heard of Brigham Young, and who
thinks that General Lafayette is
President of the United States.
The Mineral Georgia Association
at Macon has refused thirty thousand
dollars for two forty-acre lots in Haral
son county. The property is said to be
a bonanza mine and is worth one
hundred thousand dollars.
A woman was offered a thousand
dollars if she would remain silent for
two hours. At the end of fifteen
minutes, she asked, “Isn’t the time
nearly up?” And thus lost. .
A negro “possum” hunter in New
ton county the other night burnt
two hundred panels of fence to
smoke out one poor “possum,” and
yet some folks think the game law
is a hardship.
Judge Grice has received his
commission from Governor Colquitt
and is now prepared to enter upon
the arduous duties of the Judgeship.
He will hold his first court ill Bibb
county on the 22d inst.
Mr. Wm. Parkman, ot Chattahoo
chee county, has a pair of mules aged
respectively thirty-five and twenty
nine years. They are still young
and active, and Mr. P. has made
twenty-eight crops with one and
twenty-four with the other.
A prominent lawyer of Macon
county, in a. private letter to a gentle
man in Baldwin county says: “This
section of country is almost unani
mous for Miiledgeville.- Knowing
there is no half-way ground between
true patriotism, on this question, and
infamy, those who voted for the con
vention and who will vote to ratify
the constitution, connot, if guided
by the principles of true patriotism,
vote otherwise than for Milledge
ville.”
A schoolmistress in a suburban
town, who had long been anqoyed by
the perversities of a male person of
nineteen, on one of the closing days
of last term kept him in and under
took to whale him. He, however,
disarmed her, and returned several
kisses for each blow. The school
mistress, unable to forgive this breach
of discipline, looked him sternly in
the face, and, shaking her forefinger
at him in a menacing manner, said
solemnly; “William, I give you pre
cisely fifteen minutes to stop hug
ging me, ancf if yon disobey me I
shall punish you severely.”
The fact comes out in a St. Louis
divorce case that Joseph Siemon
compelled his family to dine every
da£ solely on soup tnade from a fien
cent shin-bone, and habitually skim
med out all the meat Tor himself.
There is nothing that binds heart
to heart so quickly and safely as to
trust and be trusted.
Had He a Charmed Life?
A Strange Incident in the Career of
Stonewall Jackson—The vain Efforts
of a Northern Rifleman to Slay the
Silent Hero of Manassas—A Strange
Reminiscence of the Wilderness.
That was an awful day when that
Confederate lion, Stonewall Jackson,
crept upon poor Hooker hidden in
the Wilderness. Lee on one side
Jackson on the other, aDd the woods
around Chancellorsville shook and
trembled, and were almost sWept
from the face of the earth by the
whirring round-shot, the hissing shell
and the sei earning grape-shot. Men
were struck stone dead as the battle
line advanced or retreated. White
faced recruits and bronze-faced
veterans were torn to fragments and
hurled against the living. Wounded
men fell in their tracks to be crushed
in the earth by the great limbs cut
from the trees by shot and shell.
The roar of guns, the crackle of
musketry, the fierce shouts and awful
groans made such a hell upon
earth of that battle-field as was never
6een before nor after.
Fighting Joe Hooker was in a box,
but not a man in bis great army
dreamed that it was so until the
long gray line of Stonewall Jackson
came creeping through the quiet for
est at three o’clock on that ever to
be remembered 2d day of May, 1863.
The fight earthworks had been
thrown up to face another way, to
wards Lee. All lines faced Lee, all
men were looking for Lee, when
three divisions of Confederates, mov
ing with soft step, took Hooker’s
army in the rear and drove one brig
ade pell mell into and over another,
until veteran soldiers were without
strength or presence of mind. That
awful night when
THE WOUNDED WERE BEING BURIED
ALIVE
in the woods, and the dead were
thicker than the leaves just broaden
ing into full life, a report ran through
the reorganized ranks that the great
Stonewall Jackson had been killed.
Tliousands believed it, but three of
us, lying side by side ill the new bat
tie line born after night came down,
put no faith ill the rumor. Why we
did not is what I started to write
about.
Stuart’s cavalry had been ' follow
ing up Hooker’s army, but it was
like a rat following in the footsteps
of a horse. Lee was so far away
and coming up so slowly that
er had time to throw up light earth
works, seize the best ground, fell
tiees to protect his flanks, and make
ready to shatter and hurl back the
expected attack. On that second
day of May his soldiers, hidden in
the woods or lying m the fields,
washed their clothing, wrote letters
home, made comfortable beds for
themselves, and were not in the least
troubled about what another week
would bring forth. Asa deep river
suddenly bends to avoid a bluff, so
did that great army of Lee’s bend to
avoid the wilderness. It split in two
to attack at a given hour on both
sides, and Joe Hooker sat in his
tent and congratulated himself on
his impregnable position—considered
impregnable by him when two great
highways ran along the rear of half
of his army. So universal was the
feelings of security that soon after
noon three infantrymen started out
to
Bkd, BUT OR FORAGE FOOD.
Sigel’s corps was on Hooker’s west
flank, and commanded that day by
Howard. Part of this corps faced
the old turnpike and plank road,
part faced the other way. Most of
the men were hidden in the woods
and behind ridges, and up the broad
highways, which should have been
first looked to, Stuart was pushing
his cavalrymen as skirmishers. We
three men were beyond Sigel’s corps,
and on the point of entering a farm
house from which everybody had
fled, when, less than rifle-shot away,
we caught sight of the Confederate
advance. The cavalrymen were ad
vancing slowly, evidently expect
ing to find a heavy guard at some
point, but at the time we imagined
that less than a regiment bf Stuart’s
men were feeling along up to pick up
stragglers, locate positions, etc. We,
At least, did not fear them, and the
proposition to enter the house and
secure a better view of the roads
speedily conveyed us to a chamber
window. We could see but little
more from the post, but we did see,
soon after reaching it,
THAT SAME STONEtVAtt JACKSON
ride from shelter out upon the turn
pike in full view, attended by only
three ar four officers. He had come
out there to make observations.
Like a cat, befofe she destroys the
mouse, he was wondering at what
point he should strike to disable bis
victim soonest.
Griin-minded and sour-tempered
was the third man of ils,' 3ud war’s
horrors delighted him. When he
had taken the second look at the lit
tle party sitting bn their horses in
the open road, a wicked smile crossed
his face, and lie whispered :
“By the hundred gods of the
heathen I but that chap on the left
there is old Stonewall Jackson, and
I’m going to drop him!”
Old Pete, our sour-temfmred com
panion, had a first-class Minie rifle
with him. He had carried it for
several months, in some way escap
ing the attention of the inspector,
and iu some way always secured am
munition for it. I saw him, in at
least a half dozen instances, shoot
down videlts or skirmishers who
seemed to be half a mile away, and
he was known throughout the regi
ment as a deadf shot.
There was considerable firing
around us ,fi ona foragers, stragglei s
and men cleaning {Ueir guns, amf a‘
shot from the window might..not
attract particular attention. Rest
ing tiie heavy gun aerosktliw
sill, and having as Bteady rest as a
hunter ever asked for, “Old Pete”
was ready to keep his word.
IT SEEMED LIKE COLD-BLOODED ASSAS
SINATION.
I could almost count the buttons
on Jackson’s coat, and there seemed
no escape for him. I was watching
him when the rifle cracked.* He had
a field-glass to his eye, and the only
movement we could see was a quick
motion of the head, as if the bullet
had cut close to his ear. The glass
was not even lowered. “Old Pete”
swqre a terrible long string of oaths
as Be realized his failure, but in a
minute was ready again.
“I hope never to draw another
breath if I don’t kill him stone dead I”
he muttered as he knelt down.
Jackson did not face us as before*
yet was a good mark even for a mus
ket. We watched him as before, and
this time the bullet must have swept
past his face, as he dodged his head
backwards. The glass was down
then hut he raised it in an instant
and went on with his rurvey.
“Have I got to be a fool ? or have
I grown blind ?” howled “Old Pete,”
as he looked down upon his un
harmed victim. “I’ll kill him this
time, or shoot myself in this cham
ber ?”
It was dangerous to remain there
longer as the cavalry had crept
nearer, and Jackson’s aides seemed
to have got the idea that a sharp
shooter was posted near by. Yet
“Old Pete” would have had a third
shot if the Confederates had been in
the house.
THE TARGEif WAS AS FAIR AS BEFORE.
He took a more careful aim, and
yet when he fired he saw splinters
fly from a railway over beyond the
General. The cavalry were then
close upon us, and our two muskets
were lost in the hurried flight from
the house. Half an hour after that,
Jackson was driving our brigade and
divisions as he willed.
“I’ll measure off the same distance,
shoot off-hand, and bet my life that I
can hit a soldier’s cap nine limes out
of ten !” giotvled ‘‘Old Eete” as he
hurried forward, and suddenly over
come by indignation and chagrin he
battered his cherished gun against a
tree and destroyed it.
As if seeking personal revenge,
Jackson’s legions passed right by us.
The nearest brigade of Sigel’s corpse
was picked up and dashed to pieces
as a strong man would lift and hurl
a child. Running along with the
amazed and frightened men, but
bearing off towards our own division,
we picked iip other muskets to re
place our lost oucs. Reaching a
knoll fi'om which we had another
view of the turnpike, we halted for a
last look; over the heads of the
frightened, fleeing soldiers—over the
ground strewn with arms and ac
coutrements—over the blue smoke
jusi now beginning to rise
WE SAW JACKSON AGAIN.
He was far away but it was Jack
son.
“Curse him! but he has got a
guardian angel,” howled Old Pete as
he shook his fist toward the turn
pike.
No other man ever had a rifle
drawn on him at such fair range and
escaped three cool, carefully aimed
bullets. His escape sent a thrill of
superstition through each mind, and
from that hour to this moment, when
the news of Jackson’s death reached
us, “Old Pete” never spoke a word.
It was a puzzle that he could not
solve. As we lay in line, every mus
ket barrel still hot and every eye
peering through the darkness to
catch sight of the grey line coming
on again, an aide came hurrying
along and shouted out:
“We’re all right, boys; Stonewall
Jackson has been killed up th# road
there!”
“Old Pete” leaped up, whirled
around to face the bearer of the news,
and savagely shouted back :
“You lie ! you lie! you lie! Stone
wall Jackson can’t be hurt by shell
or killed by bullet 1”
BUT it was so.
Lying in the arms of those who
loved him, so Dear us that the cries
of our wounded must have reached
his eats, was the mortally Wounded
General, whose skill and strength
had no match. While the white
faced dead looked up to the torn and
shattered forest trees—While the
wounded cfawled here and tbej-e in
their awful agony—while the living'
looked into each other’s anxious
faces and wondered if another night
would find any of us there, the
legions of Jackson wefe strangely
silent. Now and then ettme the sud
den boom of some great gun, Bound
ing like a deep groan of dispai’r, but
there was nothing more to break the
silence. While men rested in line
battle, having the awful horror of
war on every side, there was one who
gave up his life as he whispered,
“Let us cross pver the river and rest
under the shade of the trees.”— De
troit Fret Press.
A Texas town was recently visited
by a for the first time ip
its biatory, and the hospitable inhabi
tants proposed getting up a horse
race for his entertainment.
“Pat, what makes you start after
that rabbit when your gun has no
lock on rt.” “Hush, my darlint, the
rabbit don’t know that.”
Glass slippers hive been produced,
and young l..dies, when the fabion to
wear them comes in vogue, will have
to be careful abou\: boles in their
stockings.
■ . jr
ThAre are thirteen candidates to
represent Washington county in the
next General Assembly, and several
iWedinffiSf to hear from.
A Black Hills Adventure.
A few days ago a man named
Montgomery Smith, hailing from St*
Louis, had tWo singular and narrow
escapes rolled into one. He left a
camp about thirty miles up the Hills
to bring letters here to post, and in
trying to shorten the distance a little
he lost the regular trail and got into
a bad bit of country. While hunting
for the trail he Came across fresh
signs of Indians, and with hurry out
of the neighborhood, he ran directly
upon a large brown bear which was
sleeping on the side of a thicket. The
thicket was on a side hill, and Siilith
was going at a good pace when lie
turned the Clump. The bear was so
near when the man caught sight of
him that there was neither time to
halt nor chance to turn out, and as
bruin was cleared by a flying leap he
made a stroke at Smith as he went
over, inflicting a slight scratch on
one leg, and then set off after the
miner with the intention of catching
him for dinner. The flight led over
broken ground, up and down a ridge*
and then along the base of a broken
ledge.
Knowing that the bear would soon
overtak > him, Smith had his eyes
peeled for some place of refuge, and
he found a good one. Close to the
ground was a rift in the ledge, made
by part of the rocks settling down or
crumbling away. He saw it only
thirty feet away, and the bear was
not a hundred yards in his rear.
There was no time to guess whether
the crevice was big enough to admit
the man, and too small to let the
bear in after him, or so small that the
victim would be overtakeu and de;
voured. He had dropped hik giin to
aid his flight, and running at full
speed, he made a dive and went into
the device head first, raking enough
hide off bis shoulders and back to
make a pair of baby shoes. The bear
wasn’t ten seconds behind him, and
as Smith reached the back end of the
cave, which was not over six feet
deep, the bear put his head into its
mouth and tried to work in his body.
This he couldn’t Jo, owing to ills
stout shoulders, hut for a quarter of
an hour Montgomery Smith was
doubtless the worst frightened man
in North America. There was room
enough for him to turn afotlhd in;
but he was compelled to lie at full
length and look into the fiery eyes of
a bear which could get within four
feet of him and wanted to come Dear
er. Bruin didn’t give up trying till
ha had badly cut and bruised him
self against the stones and his snarls
and growls put more religious
thoughts into Smith’s iieild than had
ever lodged there before; The bear
couldn’t get him, but neither could
he get ttie bear. He had nothing to
shoot with, neither food nor drink
and yelling at a bear to clear out and
go home has no effect in this rarified
atmosphere. r l he motith of the crev
ice was ten feet long, and Smith
could look out over his trail for forty
rods or more 110 matter at wliat point
the hear was.
The animal was walking up and
down before the ledge, probably Ash
ing for a plan by which be might get
something better than roots for din
ner, when the miner caught sight of
three Indians creeping along on the
trail be had made. They had, per
haps followed it for a mile or more,
and must have known that the bear
had the first claim. The redskins had
just came into view when they saw
the bear, the bear saw them and
Smith saw the whole thing. They
A red at him once apiece and then
turned and ran, and after about three
minutes’ waiting Smith crawled out
and made 2:40 time t>ll his breath
gave out. —Deadwood Letter to Cin
cinnati Enquirer.
POSTPONED HIS MARRIAGE.
One morniug two or three days
ago a middle aged man with a sore
thumb and a look of anticipation en
tered Justice Brown’s oHice and soft
ly sat down. He put his hat on the
Aoor, sat up very erect, and for three
straight hours hardly moved a Anger.
At noon, as the Justice was ready to
go, he asked the strange man if he
wanted anything.
“Yaw,” he Calmly answered.’
“Well, what is it f”
“I vhants to see der Shustice.”
“I am the man,” replied His
Honor.
“I tinks so all der while,” said the
man as he sat down again.
“Did you want to see me on busi
ness ?” asked the puzzled official.
“Yaw.”
“What is your business—what do
you want to ask me ?”
“I vhants to get raarriet.”
“Well, where's the bride ?”
“I doan’ kncfw about any prides.”
“Where is the woman whom you
desire td marry ?” asked His Honor.
“I haf nefler seen her,” wAs the
calm reply.
“Well, how can I marry you to
anybody ?” „
“I doan’ know.”
“Where is the woman ?”eiclaimed
the Court.
“May be in Shicago!”
The man went out and sat down
on the other side of the alley, intend
ing' to have a further conversation
after dinner, but an old barrel fell off
the shed on his head, the newsboys
rolled an old pumpkin at Mfh, and
he went away, saying :*
“I shall get marriet no more till
next year!”— Detroit Free Presiu
The other day a than placed a pis
tol close against another and fired.
The ball struck a button which was
so very tightfy Sewed on that the
force of the bullet was broken and
the man escaped unharmed*. Wives
who value the lives of their husbands,
will now pay a little more attention
to the buttons. Parties who have
their lives insured, would do well to
attend to their own mending.
IVAR ON A GREAT AND Gbott MAN.
The Athens Georgian reports the
editor of the Gainesville Eagle as
saying:
“An effort is being made in Geor
gia to foment antagonism to Senator
Gordon, and solidify the Incongruous
elements against him for his over
throw in 1878.” The Colonel further
Ihiuks that this scheme conceived in
Atlanta, before the adjournment of the
convention; is taking form in North
Georgia. Well, that such a move
ment has been or is being contempla
ted by some is more than probable.
But Colonel just possess yourself
with patience aud know jre, that
when such movement fully shows
itself, the indignation of the people
of Georgia will be so great towards
it, that it will be left without much
form or comeliness. What would be
the justice? What would be the
good sense or policy in antagonism
to General Gordon in his re-election
to the Senate ? Has he not done
his whole duty by the whole people ?
Yea, and furthermore has be not
done more than any Other man has
done, or probably could haVb dbne;
for the people of the South? It is
said by those who have the best op
portunity of knowing, and even by
some who are not favorably disposed
toward Gen. Gordon, that his high
bearing iu the Senate, his wise con
servatism, his unimpeachable in teg-,
rity, and his honest zeal in behalf ot
the people he represents, have given
him an influence in Congress, eveu
with the most extreme Republicans,
that no other man has or could pos
sibly possess.
HE WANTED TO JINE.
“You watt’ to jine the ban’, do
you ?” said an old negfo preacher to
a young convert.
“Yes, sar, I wan’ tojine.”
“Well, sar, do you believe Gerltp.lt,
a pickaninny little shaver, slewed a
great big man culled David, dat was
lcnger dan de Centro Market, wid a
pebble dat was no bigger dan a huak
leberry ? Eh ?’’
“No 1 1 don’t believe nothin’ like
dat,” was the reply.
“Den You cah’t jine.'” ;
“Well, den, I be’leves it; On wid
de kaiakisei”
“Do you bTeve, 1 ’ continued the dea
con, “dat dar war a man called Joner
who swallowed a whale and kept it
down a awful long time before he
spitted it out ?”
“No, sar, can’t make me b’leve
dat,” was the response.
“Den you can’t jine.”
“Well, now, by jingo, I b’leve dat
too. Go on wid de katekise.”
“Do you b’leve dat dar was a man
named Delilah, and. data woman
called Sampson g*t down iu dc cellar
of a big house what weighed more’n
de Centennial, and lifted it kerslap
clean out ob de world ?”
“Don’t b’leve nothin’ ob de kind,”
was the indignant reply.
“Den you can’t jine.”
“Don’t want to jine. I don't
b’leve dat fish story you told me
either.”
There was no further “katekisfe."—
Mobile Register.
BABIES.
We love babies, and also any body
else .who loves babies. No man has
music in bis house who doesu’t love
babies: Babies were made to be
loved, especially girl babies, when
they grow up. A man isn’t worth a
“shuck” who dosen’t lore a baby,
and the same rule applies to a Woman.
A baby is a spring day in winter; a
hot house in summer, a ray of sun
shine in frigid winter, and if its a
healthy, good Matured baby and it’s!
yours, it’s a bushel of sunshine,'no
matter how cnld the weather is. A
man cannot be a hopeless case so
long as he loves babies, one at a
time. We love babies ail over, no
matter how dirty; they were born to
be dirty. Our lov for babies is only
bounded by the number of babies in
the world. We also have sorrowful
feelings for mothers who have no
babies. Women always look down
hearted who have no babies’; and
men who have none aiwayS grumble
and drink and stay out St flights try
ing to get music in their souls, but
they can’t come it. Babies are
babies, and nothing can take thetr
place.
The other day a resident of Vicks
burg went up to Thompson’s Lake to
get a shot at a big alligator, and
while eating a cold bite in the shade
a man jumped over the fence, pre
sented an old army musket M his
head, and cried out > > >
“Stranger, unkiver yer bed I”
The Vicksburger was dumbfound
ed, but made haste to remove his hat,
and exhibited a pate which shone
like newly-polished pilpaw.' -
“Stranger that saves ye!” con
tinued the man, shouldering his
musket; “I thought ye was that red
headed colporcher what charged my
wife seventy oents fur a teptyraint
that haint got a! goadarned pictef In
it.”
At a recent sale of short-horned,
cows in New England a beast named
‘Fifth Dutchess ofHillhurst’ was sold
amid great applause for $22,500.
She is said to b 6 the highest priced
cow in England and is described as a
“charming creature.” The largest
sum ever paid for a cow is believed
to be $36,750 for the ‘Dutchess, of
GcneVa,’ which was sol’d at New
York Mills in that State two or three
years ago. $22,500 is the next high
est sum.
The negroes around Albany are
talking about removing to Colorado.
NO. 42
A GOOD ONE.
During the first year of the war,
when change was seareo and large
firms were issuing their own cur
rency, a farmer went to a store in a
neighboring town and bought some
goods and gave the merchant a fi\ e
dollar bill, of which he wanted
seventy-five cents back. The mer
chant counted it out and hauded it
over to the farmer, who looked at it
a moment and inquired :
“What’s this ?”
“It’6 IKy Cimency,” said the mer.
chant:
“Wal; tain’t good for nothing
where I live," said the farmer.
“Very wellj” replied the merchant,
“keep it until you get a dollar's
worth and bring it to my store, and
I will give you a dollar bill for it.”
The farmer pocketed the change
and departed. A few weeks after
he went into the same store, and
bought goods tp the amount of one
dollar, and paying .over the indenti
cal seventy-live cents! he took out a
handful of pumpkin seeds and count
ed out twenty-five of them and
passed thbrii to the merchant.
“Why,” said the merchant, “what
is this ?” , t
“Wall,” says the farmer, “this is
my currency, and when you get a
worth, bring it to my place
and I will give you a dollar bill for
it.”
DESCRIPTION*HOST CRUEL. I
A man in Wisconsin has applied
for divorce upon the ground that his
wife married him under l'aise preten
ses. He says she told him while he
was addressing her that she could
hoe an acre of potatoes and split two
cords of wood between breakfast and
dinner; and she has proved herself a
fearful fraud, because she could only
split half a cord and hoe three times
across the field. It seems hard that
men are eoiiticnialljr.to be made vic
tims of by these designing women.
Why will wives trifle in. tills lpanr.ur
with the tenderest affections of their
husbands? Why will they shatter
their heart strings ? How much
happier would have' been the homo
of this Wisconsin woman if she had,
emulated the example of the Shoshone
squaws 1 One of them goes out
and digs turnips all day and then
wheels them at night in a push ear,
while her self-sacrificing husband, in
the consciousness of his Unspeakable
love, sits on the front doorsteps
smoking Lone Jack tobacco and
meditating upon the number of
drinks of pyrotochnienl rum he can
put in his jug with the money he gets
when he sells that squaw.
HOW THE APOSTLES DIED.
1. Peter was crucified in Home,
and at his own request head down
ward.
2. Andrew was crucified by being
bound to a cross by cord3, on which
he hung ,two days, exhorting the
people till he expired.
3. St. James the Legs was thrown
from a high pinnacle, and then
stoned, and finally killed with a ful
ler’s club.
4. Si. James the Great was be
headed by order of Herod at Jerusa®
lent. i ,
5. St. Phillips was bound and
hanged against dipolar. ,
6. St. Jiartholemew was flayed to
death by commarid of a barborous
king.
7. St. Mathew was killed by a
halbert.
8. St. Thomas,' while at prayer,
was shot with a shower of arrows,
and afterward run through the body
with a lance.
9. St. Thpnjas.was crucified.
10. Mathias—the manner of his
depth is somewhat doubtful; one
says stoned then, beheaded, another
spys he was crucified.
11. Judas Ispariot fell and his
bowels gushed out.
12. John died a natural death.
13. St. Paul was beheaded by
order of Nero:
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The ThemasviTlc Times says : “On
last Tuesday night during the preva
lence of the storm, some party or par
ties entered the Superior Court Clerk’s
office and tore every, leaf out of book
N,' record of deeds for Thomas coun
ty. The dates ran from ’73 to ’75,
and covered over six hundred pages.
The back of the book was left rest
ing against the corner of the fence
enclosing the court house square in
such a manner os to show chat the
thief wanted it to be seen. Parlies
having deeds registered during the
years named would do well to look
after them. Someone was evidently
interested in hrtVing this record book,
destroyed. Who is it ? We sincere
ly hope that the scpundrcl may he
apprehended and punished to the full'
extent of the law.”
“Which do you prefer, Linda, a
cornet band or a repd band ?” asked
otip schoolgirl of another.'
like a cornet band."
“.And which do you prefer, Sadie f”
“I think a good reed band is the
sweetest.” ,i ,
“And which say you, Emma ?”
“Well, I think we shall all agree
that a good bus-band is the sweet
est f”
The first ingredient in conversa
tion is tulftb ; the next is good sense
the third, good humor; and the
fourth', wit.
Muclj of the charity that begins at
home is too feeble to get out of
door's.
Twenty-five counties In Virginia
have reflised to grant licenses for
the sale of intoxicating liquors.
“Can you return my love, dearest
Jane?” “Certainly, sir; I don’t want'
it, I’m sure.”