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HAWKINSVILLE DISPATCH.
VOL. XI,
Professional Directory.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
ISAAC L. TOOLE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW*
Vienna, Ga.
Will practice in tlic couatics of Hous
ton, Doolv, Pulaski, Mncoo, Sumter, and
Worth. Also in tlic Supreme Court of
Georgia, and in tite United States Circuit
sad District Courts within the State. All
business entrusted to his caro will receive
prompt attention. lebl tf
0. C. HORNE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hawkinsville, Ga.
The Criminal Practice, a specialty.
January 4, 1877. jan4 ly
G. W. BUfiBBE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
VIENNA, GEORGIA.
novlS tf
c. c. smithT
Attorney anti Counsellor at Law,
And Solicitor in Equity,
McYILLE, - - - - GEORGIA
Refers to Hon. Clifford Anderson, Cnpt.
J.lm C. Rutherford and Walter B. Hill,
Esq., Professors of Law, Mercer Universi
ty Law School, Macon, Ga.
Promot attention given to all business
entrusted to my care. mar 22 Cm
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 ot 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, tlio Supreme
Court of the State and tlio Federal Court
of the Southern District of Georgia. For
parties desiring, will buy, sell or lease any
Teal estate, or pay the taxes upon the
same in the counties of Dodge, Laurens,
Wilcox, Telfair and Appling. Office m
the Court House. aprls tf
J. 11. WOODWARD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Vienna, Ga.
WILL practice in the Superior Courts
iu the counties of Dooly, Worth.
Wilcox, Pulasi and Houston, and by
special contract iu other courts. Prompt
attention given to all collections.
mcli4 tt
t. C. RYAN. .t. n. MITCIIELL.
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 of the
United States for the Southern District of
Georgia. feblllf
J. M. DENTON,
attorney at law,
(PRACTICES in the Bnmswiclt Circuit
and elsewhere by special contract.
Office at residence, Coffee county, Ga. P.
O. address, Hazlehnrst, M. & B. R. R.,
Georgia. teb4tl
W. IRA BROWN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Vienna, Ga.
uPRACTICES in the Superior Courts of
V. Oconee Circuit, and elsewhere in the
Stale by special contract. Collections
and other business promptly attended
to 3-18-ly
JOHN 11. MARTIN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
Hawkinsville, Ga.
IJRACTICES in the Courts of Pulaski,
L Houston. Dooly, Wlioex, Irwin,
I’elfair, Dodge and Laurens. raay-tt
CHARLES C. KIBBEE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hawkinsville, Ga.
WILL piactice in the Circle c and Dis
trict Courts of the United States
tar tlie Southern District of Georga, and
>■ the Superior Courts of Houston, Dooly,
Mlaski, Laurens, Wilcox, Irwin and
•odge counties. june 291 y
JOHN F. LEWIS. D. B. LEOXARD
B. G. LEWIS.
LEWIS, LEONARD & C 0
Bankers and Brokers,
HAWKINSVILLE, - - - GA.
Buy and sell Exchange, Bonds, Stpclts,
Gold and Silver, and sttenu promptly to
•11 collections left with us.
Will lomake loans on good secu Ides.
iprs ly
LOST BOY
My little son Moses, but better known
tnr the name of “Bunk," left home Am
Tuesday, November 18th, 1877, and when
last seen or beard from lie was in Hawk-
Insvillc. He is about ten years of-age,
and is a light mulatto. He is probably
yet iu Hawkinsville or somewhere in tlie
vicinity. Any information of his where
abouts willbc•tank fully received.
SIMON LEITH, eol’d.,
nov22 2t # on Miles Bcmbry’s plantation.
Dickens’ and Scott’s Novels for hire
at Sturtevant’s Book Store
ELIAS HERRMAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
EASTMAN, GA.
Practices in the counties adjacent to the
M. &B.R. R. Collections made a spe
cialty. oct2s tf
W. W. HUMPHREYS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
EASTMAN, GA.
Will practice in the Superior Courts of
Dodge and adjoining counties, and will
bny and sell Real Estate, pay taxes for
non-residents, make collections, etc.
oct2s tf
P„ J. HODGE,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Hawmnsnills, Ga,
Will pmcticein the Superior Courts of
Houston, Doolv, Pulaski, Twiggs, Dodge
and Wilcox. 'Special attention given to
collections. oct4 ly
A- H. WOOTTEN,
Attorney and Couueellor at Law,
Mount Vernon, Ga.
Will practice in the Middle and Oconee
Circuits. Criminal defence a specially.
Prompt attention given to the collection
of claims. sept 27 tf
1877. 1877.
FALL AND WINTER
Millinery Goods
I have received front New York and
Baltimore my stock of Milliner}’ Goods
for the Fail and Winter trade, embracing
the latest stylus of Ladies’ Hats, Ribbons,
Flowers, and all goods that may be de
sired in the millinery line.
The ladies are respectfully invited to
call and examine my stock. I am pre
pared to show .ny customers some new
and attractive styles, and I am sure as
cheap.as they could expect.
Dresses made in the latest styles, and
satisfaction guaranteed in prices.
Mltß. N. WESTCOTT.
Hawkinsville, Ga , Sept. 11, 1877.
sept 13 8m
Plantation for Sale-
By virtue of an order of the Court of
Ordinary of Pulaski county, will be sold
before the court house door in the town of
Hawkinsville, Ga., on tiie first Tuesday in
December next, within the legal hours of
sale, tlmt part of lot of land number two
hundred and forty-nine, lying north Coney
brancit 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
tlic river road. All of said lands lying in
the fourth district of Pulaski county, and
containing in the aggregate three hundred
acres, more or less. Sold as tho property
of Miles Sanders, late of said county, de
ceased, and lor tho benefit of heirs and
creditors of said deceased. Terms of sale
cash. September 19,1877.
MARTHA SANDERS,
sept2o td Executrix.
KELSOE’S
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 he
lound the best of Liquors, Cigars, &c.
Beds furnished when desired. Farmers
and others visiting Hawkinsville are in
vited to call. Satisfaction guaranteed.
I). KELSOE,
Hawkinsville, Ga., (late of Montezuma.)
sepß if
INSURE
YOTO, HOUSES
AND—
MERCHANDISE!
Tiie undersigned represents ns agent
two of tiie 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, $3,052,000.
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, ,fcc.,
for one, three ur five years, and will in
sure resiliences forever on the payment of
ten annual premiums. Rates will he as
low as any first-class and safe companies.
The above companies are prepared and
will make tiie deposit with tile State iu ac
cordance with the act of tho last Legisla
ture for tiie protection of policy holders.
August 30, 1877.
C. M. BOZEMAN, Ag(.,
aug3o 3m Hawkinsville, Ga.
JULIUS KING'S
#l?'° H
*4 jj OF OF JisiON
Sou.
—OFFICE OF
W. 1). KINO,
Jeweler and Watchmaker,
UAWKINHVILLK , GA.
Clocks, Watches, Jewelry, Guns, Pis
tols, etc., repaired at short notice and up
on the moat reasonable terms. All work
guaranteed. oct4 tf
Sewing Machine Needles of all
kinds for sale very low. Apply at
the Post Office, Vienna, Ga. tf
Fresh fish and oysters every day
at Herzog’s. " oclll-tf.
HAWKINSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 29, 1877,
Our Ticket.
FOR RATIFICATION.
FOR MILLEDGEVILLE.
For Senator 14th District,
HON. J. J. HAMILTON,
OF DODOE COUNTY.
For Representative,
HON. RUELL W. ANDERSON.
For neither Homestead of 1868 or 1877,
but for the payment of all honest debts.
For United States Senator,
GEN. JOHN B. GORDON.
ms.4.' - f ........ . _ .
Election on Wednesday, December 5,
1877. Come out and put in your ballot for
Milledgeville.
GORDON TO THE FRONT.
This cry was unnecessary a few
years since. When tho enemy cante
down upon our decimated army and
devastated country, in countless
numbers, there was no need to say
“Gcrdon to the front I” Gordon was
there. He fought as brave men fight
who know no fear and hear no call
but duty’s. When hope had almost
died, when the remnant of Lee’s gal-,
lant army had been almost annihila
ted, Ihe order was issued, the bugle
sounded forward, and Gordon headed
the last charge that broke the ene
my’s lines.
The war ended. The South was
under the iron heel of the oppressor.
The clouds of despotism hung with
the blackness of night over our un
happy land. To whom should the
people look in this, their darkest
hour, but to him who led them in
their vain battle for independence ?
They called Gordon to the front; he
led them to victory, but the fruits of
victory were stolen from us, and an
enemy placed at the helm of State.
But Georgia’s true sons again took
control of her, and then they sent
their gallant leader to the highest
place in the national councils. Now
the end of his term approaches, and
from hill And vale, from convention
of town, county, and district comes
the familiar cry, “Gordon to the
front I” If there are men in Geor
gia who are plotting to defeat Gordon
they are wasting their efforts. The
people want him again in the Senate.
They have recently said so with grat
ifying unanimity, and they intend to
send him there. Those Who conspire
against him will have their owu mor
tification for their reward.— La-
Orange Reporter.
A VERY GOOD ARGUMENT.
The Savannah News makes the fol
lowing good argument in refutation
of the erroneous reasoning of Judge
Reese:
The more we think of the reasoning
by which Judge Reese arrived at his
conclusions regarding the tremen
dous (?) loss a removal of the Capital
back to Milledgeville would entail on
the State, the more we are struck
with its peculiarity. I<\r instance,
he says that the Opera House in At
lanta cost the State $250,000, and the
James mansion cost $109,000 —a
total of $350,000. He then leasons
that, since these properties would
not sell for more than half their cost
should the capital be removed, the
Stale would lose the other half. It
seems to us a very clear case that if
the State has been swindled out of
twice as much money as these build
ings are worth, she has already lost
$175,000 whether the capital remains
in Atlanta or not. Certainly if a man
is deluded into paying $50,000 for a
house which is only worth SI,OOO,
$49,000 of his money is gone forever
more, whether he resides 'in that
house or not. So it is exactly with
Georgia in this Opera House trans
action. Her $175,000 is already
gone “where tiie woodbine twineth,”
and if the capital were removed fifty
times over she could not lose it
again. Moreover, she clearly has
lost that amount only because of the
carpet bag abduction of the capital
from Milledgeville. Had it been per
mitted to remain in its time-honored
seat the State Treasury would have
been richer not only by that, but by
a much larger sum.
HOW THE COPPERS DISAPPEARED.
The plantation negroes were en
gaged in pitching coppers. It was
discovered that after a while several
coppers were missing, though no one
had been detected in picking up any
but bis own pennies. One old negro,
whose coppers had mysteriously dis
appeared, at length becoming satis
fied in his mind that there was foul
play going on, and observing that
one of the barefooted party had a
peculiar way every now and then of
jerking his foot up to his hand, call
ed a pause in the game, saying: “De
genman wif de tar on his heel will
please to wifdraw.” The suspected
individual retiring on this polite invi
tation, til i game went on without
the mysterious disappearance of any
more coppers.— Savannah News.
Ten thousand Louisiana refugees
have returned to New Or carts since
the overthrow of tlie carpet-bagger’s
regime.
Tho Death Trap.
BY C. T. lIARBAUGH.
The ringing sound that came from
a blackened smithy told that steel
was smithening steel, and the smith
who swung the pondrous hammer
Was a man of no common muscle.
He was young and remarkably
handsome; but there was an evil
lurking in his cold, black eyes which
would have repulsed the close ob
server. The light of his forge fire
rendered ghostly the objects in tho
remote corners of the shop ; but it
fell brightly upon the bright looking
piece oi steel which he was hammer
ing.
It resembled the jaw of some im
mense trap, strong enough to hold a
bear, and the wonder was that the
strength of man could prepare it for
its prey. If any man in Middleton
could control such a trap, it was the
man whose hands were fasiiioning it.
For a long time David Thrall had
been working of nights, with his shop
barred to visitors, and the clang—
clang—clang of his hammer hud
sounded in the furthest corner of the
.growing village. He was a man of
strong passions, the first to resent an
insult to a friend, and the last to give
up an argument when he found logic
against him.
No person had bothered him while
he swung the hammer over the terri
ble steel trap which he was making.
It is true that a few boys looked in
the window at the inauguration of
his work, but his maddening threats
against them had kept the prying ur
chins away’.
“I told her that she should never
laugh at my lovo and live to boast of
it to another man I” said David
Thrall, aloud, one night ns he paused
to wipe great drops of perspiration
from las brow.
“She laughed then and told me not
to let anger get the best of me, and
thought I would forget it. Forget ?
Never I” and the hammer came down
vengefully upon the glowing steel.
“I am making this trap because
yon rejected my love, Agnes Temple,
but it shall not tear your pretty skin.
No—no! I would not injure one of
your golden hairs ; but I am going to
teach you that there is one man iu
Middleton whose heart cannot Le tri
fled with.”
Thus he talked to himself, while he
stood over his anvil and swung his
hammer, whose every blow told on
his horrible mechanism, aud hurried
it toward completion.
That night he finished it. He held
it in the light of his coal Are and pro
nounced it perfect, smiled upon it
with pride, and showed that he had
strength enough to master its jaws.
“Now, ray boy, we’ll try you.”
David Thrall put his trap into a
sack, smothered the fire and left the
smithy.
He walked rapidly toward the out
skits of the village, seen by no one,
for the night was dark and the wind
high. It was in the fall of the year,
and the yellow leaves of the time fell
around him in a golden shower. But
he did not notice them any more than
to brush an occasional one from his
long beard, begrimmed, like his face,
with the soot of his shop.
lie did not come to a halt until he
reached the iron tracK that ran over
the load which he was traversing.
Middleton had not been honored by
the steam cars, which, as if to taunt
the place, left it half a mile to the
west.
-David Thrall threw his burden
down and a nigh of relief escaped him.
'then he struck a match and looked
at his watch.
“He passes about nine,” he mut
tered. “The passenger goes by at
ten, then the lightning express.”
He spoke witli a fiendishness al
most foreign to the human heart,and
set to work fastening the strong
chains attached to his infernal trap
to the rails.
He had evidently studied this part
of bis work, for he performed it in
darkness, and then rested.
But the end was not yet.
Throwing himself upon the spring,
he set tlie trap, and the terrible jaws
were ready to close upon their vic
tim.
The wind threw leaves over the
trap, as if intent on aiding the jealous
blacksmith, and as the clouds scur
ried westward, he saw thestar gleams
fall upon the leaves that covered it.
It was a picturesque place which
David Thrall had selected for the
deed upon which be had set his heart.
The road was narrow, indeed not
more than a path which led to Mid
dleton and the home ot Agnes Tem
ple. He knew the man lie hated
would traverso it before morning,
and he knew, toe, that bis trap would
hold him to the iron track.
It was a revenge almost too terri
ble to be recorded.
“There !” exclaimed the smith, as
he removed a pace and triumphantly
surveyed the result of his nights of
toil in the sooty shop. “Now let the
prey come 1 The trap is ready. I
wish yon a pleasant time of it, Jnlien
Wingfold. To be plain, I should like
to know how a man would feel be
tween two such jaws.”
Then be picked up his sack and
started back toward Middleton.
But he had not gone ten yards be
fore he halted. “The trap might
have been set a little easier,” he said
to himself, “It has not been worked
much, and tlie easier it is set, the
surer I shall betpf jmy prey.”
Inlent-npon readjusting the devil
ish invention, the blacksmith retraced
his steps, and for,the second time in
that lonely and beautiful spot bent
over the cross-ties- >
Replaced his knee upon the spring
to prevent tlie jaws from dosing and
catching their maker, while he tam
pered with the trigger.
Ho was in the midst of this work,
when from some unaccountable cause
his knees slipped from the spring,
an# oil, horror! the mighty jaws
clqlpd on his wrists 1
With a cry, indescribably full of
agty, the entrapped man tried to
spring to his feet, but the trap, fas
terfed as it was to the rails, held him
secSrely down:
Yhe sharp teeth seemed to cut into
thWVety marrow of his bones, and ho
wais experiencing to horror of a lilt
man being caught in the trap. He
tried to crush the spring, but it rvmild
not yield to the power which it had
lately owned, and then he tried to
tear himself loose.
But the pain occasioned by his ef
forts was so great that lie was forced
to desist lest he should faint, and iri
that condition be caught by the
train.
“If it had brtt caught my leg I” he
cried, “I could tear loose; but oh I
t!#S£'preeious arms of mined”
It was a terrible moment for tho
entrapped man.
All at once, in that, hour of terror.
he thought of the marl for whom he
had prepared the jaws of unyielding
steel:
He would doubtless reach the
crossing and release him before the
train was due, for Julien Wingfold
was not a vengeful rival.
All thoughts of revenge against
the beautiful Agnes Temple had left
his mind ; he looked up at the stars,
and they seemed to mock his misery;
he cried for help from the terrors
stricken depths of his heart:
But no footstep sounded upon his
ears. God and man seemed to have
left the hater to his fate.
Suddenly David Thrall started,
and a cry’ of despair swelled from his
throat.
The shrill shriek of the locomotive
told him that the one dread hour of
his captivity had passed away and
that tiie end of all was near at hand 1
“God in heaven have mercy 1” lie
cried. “Do unto mo not as I would
have done unto another 1”
But no deliverance came and the
sound of the whistle died away with
a mocking echo.
Within five minutes the iron mon
ster would bo upon him, and the most
terrible drama ever enacted in that
lovely country would have reached its
tragic finale.
He heard the rumble of the train,
which seemed to approach on the
wings of tlic wind. He raved, be
cursed, and tried to wrench his
wrists from the jaws of the steel,
tried to break them off, and bear life
and bleeding stumps away 7 , lint in
vain. With the tenacity of death it
self the Samsonian trap held him
down.
The locomotive shrieked again, and
David Thrall paused and looked over
his shoulder. He saw the headlight
now; it dazed his eyes, and he could
not shade the precious orbs with his
hands. Then he shrieked at the top
of his voice; but the cars came on.
“No deliveranee? oh, heaven 1” he
exclaimed, sinking back in the few
seconds he had yet to live. “I have
merited this: What a terrible thing
retribution is 1 lie will be happy and
she will smile upon him with all her
dazzling beauty. But I—l—oh, Godl
pity me. Chained to tlic track—
caught in the trap made by my own
hands tor a fellow being. It is just.
Heaven forgive me, and comfort my
poor ”
The roar of the coming train
drowned the sweetest word that ever
parted his lips—“mother.”
The rumbling of the train had
scarcely died away in the distance,
when Julien Wingfold, returning from
the homo of Agnes Temple, crossed
the track. lie stopped where the
Instrument of death had been placed,
and passed on without noticing its
handiwork. If he had hut glanced
down, he might have seen two bat
tered steel jaws, closed now, upon
the lifeless hands of his rival, the
blacksmith.
The remains were discovered on
the following day, and the presence
of the trap told the awful story.
David Thrall’s widowed mother
soon followed him to the grave.
The little smithy still stands in
Middleton, ami the superstitious say
that at night David Thrall can be
heard beating steel with steel before
his forge.
Julien Wingfold is a happy hus
band and father now, but lie never
thinks of that one night’s work with
out a feeling of thankfulness as well
as of horror.
SHE DIDN’T FAINT.
From the Detroit Free Press.]
A short time siuce a young man
with very white eyes, and a girl of
eighteen, with very long curls, stood
together on the City Hall tower to
gaze upon the beautiful panorama
below. In a minute or two the girl
began to leel giddy, and as the sen
sation increased, sfie cried out—
“Oh, Will 1 I’m going to faint!”
up?” he shouted, as he
put his arm around her.
“Oh! I’m so—so—so—l’m sol”
she gasped, as she began settling
down.
“Here, now I don’t you do it I” he
bluntly exclaimed, as lie held her up.
“I love you like all jewhitlakef, and
you know it, biifcl couldn’t pick you
up and carry you down them wind
ing stairs if 1 was engaged to the
whole family 1 Brace up! If you
fain’t, I’ll run I”
She didn’t fain’t, but it was neces
sary for him to keep his arm around
her for the next fifteen minutes.
A Buffalo man dreamed that he
was going over the falls, and he had
his wife by the throat when he woke
up. Next night she had a dream,
and broke his nose as she struck at
an Indian
The,passion for tobacco is so great
among the Hottentots, that they will
exchange their wires for the seduc
tive weed.
WHY LEE FAILED AT GETTYSBURG.
No Cavalry-The Great Importance of
this Arm of the Service.
Train a giant for an encounter and
lie can be whipped by a pigmy—if
you put out his eyes. The eyes of
an army’ are its cavalry. Before Ew
ell crossed the Potomac, Gen. Lee
wrote to Gen. Stuart, commanding
the cavalry, in subs’ance as follows:
“Ewell will cross tire Pofotnae on a
certain day, at a certain point. Hill
will follow Ewell, crossing on a given
day at a given point; Longslreet
will hold the gaps in the mountains
arid protect the crossing of these two
corps ; after Hill has crossed, Long
street will vacate the gaps and fol
low Hill; on Longstreut vacating the
gaps in tho mountains, you will seize
them and protect Longstreot’s cross
ing;-then follow Lougstreet, throw
yourself on the right (link of tiie
army, watcli the enemy, give me nil
the information you can gather of his
movements and collect supplies.”
Stuart, piobably thinking lie could
carry out Lee’s orders, and at the
same lime make a brilliant dash
toward and threaten Washington,
worked by his right Hank, separating
himself from Longstreet, crossing the
Potomac and between the enemy and
Washington City—making a swoop
toward Washington, then turning
west to join the army of Northern
Virginia, when he found the enemy
had crossed the Potomac and were
between him and that army. This
necessitated It is riding entirely
around the Federal army, and
brought him, whether from necessity
or not, 1 cannot say, to Carlisle,
Penn. From this point he struck
South and joined the army of North
ern Virginia, being late in the even
ing of July 2d. It is thus evident
that so far as deriving any assistance
from his cavalry fiom the —of June
to the evening of July 2d, it might
have had no existence. Every officer
who conversed with Lee for several
days previous to the battle ot Gettys
burg, will remember having heard
such expressions as these: “Can you
tell me where General Stuart is ?”
“Where on earth is my cavalry ?”
“Have you any news of tiie enemy’s
movements ?’’ “What is the enemy
going to do?” “If tl.e enemy does
not find us we must try and find hitn
in the absence of our cavalry ns best
we caul” The eyes of the giant
were out; he knew not where to
strike; a movement in any direction
might prove a disastrous blunder.
Had out- cavalry been in position,
Lee would have known of Reynolds’
approach in the direction of Gettys
burg twenty four hours before this
corps reached Gettysburg. Lee
could, and piobably would, have oc
cupied Gettysburg on tbe 29tU or
30th of June and rendered his posi
tion impregnable.
Had our cavalry been in position,
Lee, if lie saw proper, could have
permitted Reynolds’ corps to have
occupied Gettysburg as it did—but
instead of this corps being unmassed
by two brigades of my division, it
would have been attacked by Long
street, Ew'ell and Hill’s corps. In
that case the fate of the corps no one
can doubt; and had the enemy
thrown forward reinforcements as he
did, they would have been crushed
in detail.
Had our cavalry been in position,
the chances are that the battle never
would have been fought at Gettys
burg ; but whethei there or else
where, the battle would have been
planned and digested with that eon
svmmate skill and boldness whtcL
characterized the plans of the great
est of American soldiers in his seven
days fight around Richmond, his dis
comfiture of Pope, his Ciiancellors
ville fight, and Ins scries of battles
in 1864, from the Wilderness to Cold
Harbor.
FORREST’S LAST CHALLENGE.
(Summer before lust when Judson
Kilpatrick was canvassing Indiana
for the Republicans he spoke of Gen.
Forrest in such a way that the latter
challenged him to fight a duel. As
soon as the cliallengc was sent, For
rest wrote to Gen. Basil Duke, of
Kentucky, that in case his invitation
was accepted—which he did not
doubt for a moment—he would call
on the Duke to be bis second. The let
ter further said that in the necessary
arrangement he would like Gen.
Duke to insist that the duel should
be fought on horseback with sabres
as that was the proper way for two
cavalrymen to meet. Gem Duke at
once engaged for his principal a steed
tor the encounter—a horse recom
mended by liia owner to go over a
church steeple if necessary—and
awaited Gen. Kilpatrick’s reply.
Kilpatrick; however, declined to fight
on the gro ;nd that lie and Forrest
“did not move in the same social
sphere.” Hud this duel been fought
it doubtless would have been con
ducted in a style delightfully dra
matic—N. Y. World.
Nothing else will bring that ghast
ly expression to a man’s face that
flits over his countenance when, in
the midst of a gay party, he sudden
ly remembers that he has left his
handkerchief at home on the bureau
and will have to go out and wip<* lifs
nose on the side of the house.
The way they weigh hogs in Kan
sas is as follows: They first tie the
hog to one end of a rail, balance the rail
on the fence with rocks tied, to the
other end, and then guess how much
the rocks weigh.
“And where was the man stabbed?”
asked an excited lawyer of a physi
cian. “The man was stabbed about
an inch and/ a half to the left of the
medium line, and about an inch
above the umbilicus,” was the reply,
i “Oh yes, I understand now; but I
I thought it was near the Grand Cen
tral Depot.”
DONT’S FOR HUSBANDS.
Don’t think when you have won a
wife that you have won also a slave.
Don’t think that your wife has less
feeling than your sweetheart. Her
relationship to you simply is changed
not her nature.
Don’t think that you can dispense
with all the little civilities of life to
ward her you marry. She appreci
ates things quite as much as other
women.
Don’t be gruff and rude at homo.
Had you beer that sort of a fellow
before marriage tite probabilities are
you would be sewing on your own
buttons still.
Don’t make your wife feel that she
is an incumbrance on you by’ giving
grudgingly. What she needs give
cheerfully as if it were a pleasure so
to do. Site will led better and so
will you.
.Don’t meddle in affairs of the
house under her charge. You have
no more right to be poking your nose
into the kitchen than she lias to walk
into your place of business and give
directions to your employes.
Don’t find fault with her extrava
gance in ribbons, &c., until you have
shut down on cigars, tobacco, whis
ky, Ac.
Don’t leave your wife at home to
nurse the children, on f he score of
economy, while you bolt down town
at nights to see the show or spend a
dollar on billiards.
Don't bolt your supper and hurry
off to spend you - evenings lounging
around away from your wife. Before
marriage you couldn’t spend evenings
enough with her.
Don’t prowl in ihe loafing resorts
till midnight, wasting your time in
culpable idleness, leaving your wife
lonely at home to brood over your
neglect and her disappointment.
Don’t think the woman you prom
ised to “love, cherish and protect”
becomes your servant as her part of
tho contract.
Don’t think that board and clothes
is a sufficient return for all a wiiti
does for you.
Don’t expect your wife to love and
honor you if you prove a brute un
worthy of love and honor.
Don’t caress your wife in public,
and snarl and growl at her in private.
This proves y u both a hypocrite
and a dog.
Don’t wonder tiiat your wife is
not as cheerful as she used to lie
when she labors from early morn till
late at night to pander to the comfort
and capripe of a selflsti pig who has
not soul enough to appreciate her.
Don’t, if your wife has faults, be
constantly reminding her of them,
wltile you have never a word of com
mendation for her virtues. If she
did that with you you’d be as mad as
a hornet.
Don’t expect your wife to have no
failings. Not to have them is not to
be human, and y’ott thought you were
marrying a woman when you married
her. She thouglitshe married a man
and don’t deceive her.
CIVILITY IS ALWAYS REWARDED.
My young friend, said a gentleman
on horseback, one day, to a lad who
was standing near a well, will you do
me the favor to draw a pail of water
for my r horse, as I find it rather diffi
cult to gel off?
Instead of giving a gruff reply, as
many a boy would have done he drew
the water and gave it to the horse
Ilia manner was so pleasant and
cheerful that the stranger, delighted
with his spirit, asked his name and
residence, and then, after thanking
him, rode on.
The good-natured lad thought no
more of this act of civility, until
some months later, he received a let
ter from tho gentleman, offering him
a clerkship in his store. The offer
was accepted. The lad prospered,
and filially became the chief magis
trate of a large city.
Thus you see that a little act of
civility to a stranger was the first
round in the ladder by which that
boy climbed to itonor and wealth.
Now I do not say that civility will
always lead to such honor, but I do
say that it always raises its posses
sor in the opinion of others, and in
his own self-respect. Bo civil, there
fore, boys and gills. Civility is an
ornament you should all possess.
A GRAVE DECEPTION.
It was a melancholy funeral, des
pite the of
Michael O’Loughlin, at French’s
Prairie, Oregon. The deceased had
quarrelled with his wife, hid been
divorced, and in his dying moments,
it was stated, had requested that the
coffin be not opened, as he did not
want his wife to take a last look at
him. The request was complied
with, and the funeral services were
held in a church. A few days after
the funeral the wife asked a Mr.
Gregory to wind up the business of
the deceased. Mr. Gregory began
to do so, but soon t umors reached
him that O’Loughlin was alive.
The grave was opened, the eoflin-lid
was taken off, and there, in the bot
tom of the coffin, lay a dead sheep 1
It is thought that O’Loughlin was
the author of the heartless decep
tion.
‘1 will not learn a trade,’exclaimed
a young Chicago blood to his father.
But ihis business of learning a trade
is only a question of time, for within
a year that young man was studying
harness-making in the Slate prison.
A German looked up at the sky
and remarked : “I guess a feedle it
viII rain somedime pooty quick.”
“Yees do, eh ?” replied an Irishman.
“What business have yees to purtend
to know about American weather, ye
ftirriucr ?”
NO. 48
[From tlic La I ’l range Reporter.
ONE OF TIIE OLDEST MEN IN GEOR
GIA.
I had the pleasure of meeting to
day, Mr. Joseph Boyd and his wife,
living neat tho village of Ilogansvillc
in 11 oup county, who arc now on a
vmit to the family Ot their s.>n, Mr.
A. J Loyd, of La(7range. Mr. Boyd
was born in South Carolina, during
the war of the revolution, and has aU
tamed the great age of nearly or
quite one hundred years. More than
half a century ago he movod to this
btale, and although tho frosts of a
century have sdvered his looks still
he has not the appearance of extreme
old age. He still wears an abundant
crop of hair ; his form is erect; his
teeth tolerably good ; lie moves aboat
quite spryly, and his eye-sight is
quite good. 1 held a copy of the At
anta Constitution in my hand, and
lie tools, it and icad the flue print of
that without tlic aid of
glasses. He lives about one mile
from the village. When asked if be
could walk trom his residence to
Ilogansvillc, he replied promptly:
i es; and I can walk from I.a(irange
there. ’ 'I he distance from here to
Hogunsville is about fourteen miles.
All his functions seem to be going on
well, and lie is in tiie average enjoy
ment ol life. llis wife is not quite
so o.d, she being not far from ninety,
but has tiie appearance of beinv
mtich younger, is hearty and enjoys
lito quite well. For nearly three
quarters of a century, has this re
markable couple lived together as
man and wife. Mr. Boyd is un
questionably the oldest man in the
county, and perhaps in the State;'
and from c.very appearance the indi
cations arc that lie may still live
many’ year-:
THE CHURCHESTn GEORGIA.
The following statistics of the
Churches in this State may bo inter
esting to some of our readers:
Ihe Baptist Church in Georgia has
183,000 members, nearly’one to every
six persons in tite State. Of these,
81,000 are negroes: There are 114
associations. The Church has under
its control otto university and four
very high schools.
1 he Methodist Church South has
95,000 members, of which 13,000 are
negroes belonging to the Colored
Methodist Church, an independent
organization. The Church has over
1,600 preachers, tivo universities of
high standing, and four colleges and
two homes for orphans.
Ihe Methodist Church North lias.
15,000 members, about 3,000 being
white. This Church Ims one univer
sity and five academics.
'fhe Protestant Methodist Church
has 2,509 members.
Presbyterians have in Georgia 140
churches, 59,000 sittings, 9,400 mem
bers and property worth $653,400.
The Episcopal Church has 29
churches, 11,000 Sittings, 4,500 com
municants and 39 clergymen.
The Christian Church has 50 min
isters, with 5,000 members and
and property worth $150,000.
I lie Catholic Church has over 30,-
000 members, 25 churches, 35 chap
els, 24 priests, 10 religious schools, I
college of high order, 1 asylum for
orphans, and property worth over
$500,000.
Ihe Lutherans have ten churches
and 3,000 sittings.
I lie Universalists have 3 churches
and 2,800 sittings.
There are in Georgia 2,020 Israel
ites. 'I iiere arc several synagogues,
the three at Atlanta, Savannah and
Macon being worth SIOO,OOO. Be
sides there arc several benevolent in
stitutions.
HER BROWN HAT AND STRIPED
SILK.
A woman is far more sensitive than
a man. She has finer feelings and a
more delicate mind. There are very
few men who realize this, and in con
sequence woman is made to endure
much unnecessary suffering. One of
our merchants was going to church
with Ins wife on Sunday’ morning,
when she suddenly stopped and put
her hand to her head.
“What’s the matter?” he asked,
startled by the look on her face.
“Oh I I’ve got on my brown hat.”
“Eh?” ejaculated the astonished
husband.
She burst into tears.
“Why. Martha, what is the matter
with you?” he demanded.
“Don’t you see what is the mat
ter 1" slnyeturned in a sobbing voice.
“I’ve got on my brown lint with mv,
striped silk. 01 what will people
say ?”
Two Irishmen were talking about
an accident, when the following col
loquy occurred : “Shure, how is the
man that was hurt?” “An’ lie’s no
better.” “Is lie conscious ?” “Yis,
lie’s conscious, but divil a thing does
he know I”
A youth asked permission of his
mother to go to a ball. She told
him it was a bad place for little boys.
“Why, mother, didn’t you and father
go to balls when you were young ?’’
“Yes, but we have seen the folly of
it,” she said. “Well, mother,” said
lie, “I want to see the lolly of It too.”
A woman suggests that when a
man breaks Ids heart, it is the same
as when a lobster breaks one of his
claws ; another grows immediately.
Every day that Brigham Young’s
widow weeps, forty-nine handker
chiefs arc thrown into the wash.
A pie. which was presented to.
King George in 1792 weighed 380
pounds, and Contained 181 birds, one
leg of veal and one half of a ham.
The United States henglit 310,001)'
bscs of coif c from Brazil during’
Sept ember.