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GWINNETT herald.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
SAM. J. WINN. \VM. B. SUMMONS.
WINN & SIMMONS.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Lawkf.ncevii.lk Georgia.
Practice in Gwinnett and the adjoining
counties. mar 15-1 y
NATHAN I. HUTCHINS, OARNKTT M'MIIXAN,
lawrenceville, Ga. Clarksville, Ga.
iiutchins 4- McMillan ,
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TYLER ~M. PEEPLES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
LAWRENCEVILLE, GA.
Practices in the counties of Gwinuett,
Hall, Jackson and Milton.
Pension claims promptly attended to
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DRS. T. K. & G. A. MITCHELL,
LAWRENCEVILLE, GA.,
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generally. Keep constantly on hand a
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Prescriptions carefully prepared,
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LAWRENCEVILLE, GA.
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SURGEON DENTIST,
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and vicinity that he
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e oth to the 18th of each month. By
prompt attention to business, and reason
, ( prices, he hopes to secure a liberal
patronage.
*3®" All work warranted. mat'22ly
B - P. ROBE RT S~
Attornet at Law,
ALPIIARETTA, GEORGIA,
l • attend to all business entrusted to
in t| Ure ln 'l 10 Ri^g e circuit; also
the {'.. Cottnt ' e 8 of Hall and Gwinnett of
the M estern circuit
Connected with Col. If. 11. Walker
n. . Land Warrants and
cam the United States
V'vtrnmeiU. June U-C»m
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Weekly Gwinnett Herald.
T. M. PEEPI.ES, PROPRIETOR ]
Vol. I.
When You’re Down.
When legions of “friends” always bless us,
When golden success lights our way,
How they smile as they softly address us,
So cordial, good-humored and gay.
But oh! when the sun of prosperity
Is set —then quickly they frown,
Ami ci y uul til tones or severity,
Kick the man! don’t you see he’s down!
What thoHgh you know not a sorrow,
Y our heart was os open as day,
And your “friends,” wheu they wanted to
borrow,
You’d oblige—and ne’er ask them to pay?
What though not a soul you e’erslighted,
As you meandered about through the
town,
Your “friends” become very near sighted,
A nd don’t seem to see to y ou when down.
Whe you’re “up” you are loudly exalted,
And traders all sing out your praise;
When you’re down you have greatly de
faulted,
And they really don’t fancy your ways.
Your style was ‘tip top’ when you’d money,
So sing every sucker and clown;
But now ’tis exceedingly funny,
Things arc altered because you are down.
•
Oh, give me the heart that forever
Is free from tbe world’s selfish rust,
And the soul whose high, noble endeavor
Is to raise the fallen man from the dust;
And when in adversity ’s ocean
A victim is likely to drown,
All hail to the friend whose devotion
Will lift up a man when he’s ‘ down.’’
From the N. Y. Journal of Commerce.
Prices of Cotton.
We have been frequently asked to
give the prices of cotton for some
past period, and it is evident that a
table setting forth tbo highest and
lowest points reached by this great
staple during a series of years would
possess ro little interest for a large
circle of readers. We have there
fore compiled, with much care, the
annexed exhibit, extending from
1825 to the dose of the current year,
giving the highest quotation of mid
dling cotton in this market, during
the twelve months ending December
31st in each of the periods named.
The lowest point it has reached for
fifty years was iu the spring of 1845.
We recollect the date most distinctly.
A gentleman living in New Eng
land had about four thousand dollars
to bis credit in a Southern bank. He
came to the writer and asked how it
could be made available at his home,
as lie could not buy a bill of exchange
except at a high rats, and the bank
notes were at a consideiable discount.
We suggested the purchase of cotton
as a remittance, remarking that it
was lower than it had been before,
or ever would be again in our time,
lie made the purchase at or about
four cents a pound, shipped it North,
where it sold soon after arrival at or
near nine cents a pound, thus more
than doubling bis capital. lie it
not living now, or we should take
this occasion to remind him that he
never said “thank you” for the advice
that delivered him from liis dilemma.
LOWEST AND HIGHEST PBICES OK MIDDLING
UPLAND COTTON IN EaCH OF THE YEARS
NAMED AT THE CITY OF NEW YORK.
Lowest Highest
Y’ear. price, price.
1825.. 13 27
1826.. 9 14
1827.. 8 12
1828.. 9 13
1829.. 8 11
1830.. 8 13
1831.. 7 11
1832.. 7 12
1833.. 9 17
1834.. 10 16
1835.. 15 20
1836.. 12 20
1837.. 7 17
1838.. 9 12
1839.. 16
1840.. 8 10
1841.. 9 11
1842.. 7 9
1843.. 5 8
1844.. 5 9
1845.. 4 9
1846.. 6 9
1847.. 7 12
1848.. 5 8
A Mount Vernon fire year old
bearing bis mother remark in com
pany that “she usually found her
first impressions of people to be cor
rect ones,” called out at the top of
his voice: “Mamma, what were your
pressions when you first seen me?”—
The subject of conversation was im
mediately changed.
£9“ Are you near sighted Miss?”
said an impudent fellow to a young
lady who did not onco choose to
notice him. * “Yes, at this distance I
can hardly tel! whether you are a
I*ig 0* » puppy”
>♦♦
tegf There are birds who only
make a noise at the approach of bad
weather; and there are persons who
only pour out a prayer when God’s
chastening hand is upon then).
«“The dearest spot on earth—
The storo that don’t advertise.
THE TEMPEST.
BY GEORGE D. PRENTICE-
I was never a man of feeble
courage. There are few scenes of
either human or elementary strife,
upon which I have not looked with
a brow of daring. I have stood
in front of battle when swords
were gleaming circling around me
like fiery serpents of the air—l
have sat on the mountain pinnacle,
when the whirlwind was rending
its oaks from rocky clefts and scat
tering them piecemeal to the
clouds. I have seen these things
with a swelling soul that recked
not of danger—but there is some
thing in the thunder voice that
makes me tremble like a child. I
have tried to overcome this un
manly weakness—l have moral
courage in philosophy —but it
avails me nothing—at the first
low moaniugs of the distant cloud
my heart sinks and dies within me.
My involuntary dread of thun
der, has its origin in an incident
that occurred when I was a child
of ten years. I had a little cousin
—a girl of the same age of my
self, who had beeu the constant
companion of my childhood.—
Strange that after the lapse of a
score of.years, that coumenace is
so familiar to me. I can see the
bright, young creature —her large
eyes flashing like a beautiful gem,
her free locks streaming as in joy
upon Hkj rising gale, and her
cheek glowing like a ruby through
a wreath of transparent snow.—
Her voice had the melody and joy
ousness of a bird’s, and when she
bounded over wooded hill or the
fresh green valley, shouting a glad
answer to every voice of nature
and clasping her little hands in
the very ecstacy of young exist
ence, she looked as if breaking
away like a freed nightengale from
the earth, and going oil' where all
things were beautiful and happy
like her.
It was a morning in the middle
of August. The little gill had
been passing some days at my fa
ther’s house, and she was now to
return home. Her path lay across
the fields, and 1 gladly became the
companion of her walk. I never
knew a summer morning more
beautiful and still. Only one lit
tle cloud was visible, and that
seemed as pure and white, and
peaceful, as if it had been the in
cense from a burning censer of the
skies. The leaves hung silent in
the woods, the waters of the bay
had forgotten their undulations,
tbe flowers were bending their
heads as if dreaming of the rain
bow, and the whole atmosphere
was of such a soft and luxurious
sweetness, that it seemed a cloud
of roses, scattered down by the
hands of a Peri from the far-off
gardens of a I'aTadise. The green
earth and the blue sea were abroad
in their boundlessness, and the
peaceful sky bent over and bles
sed Them. The little creature at
my dido was in a delirium of hap
piness, and her clear, sweet voice
camejringing upon the air as ofteu
as slit heard the tones of a favor
ite bird,.or found some strange or
lovely flower in her frolic wander
ings, The unbroken and almost
supernatural tranquility of the
day continued until nearly noon.
Tlien, for the first time, the indica
tions of an approaching tempest
were manifest. Over the summit
of a mountain at a distance of
about a half a mile, tbe folds of a
dark cloud became suddenly visi
ble, and at the same moment a
hollow roar came down upon the
winds, as it were the sound of
waves in a rocky cavern. Ihe
cloud unrolled like a banner-fold
upon tbe air, but still the atmos
phere was calm and the leaves as
motionless as before; there was
not even a quiver upon the sleep
ing waters to tell of the coming
hurricane. To escape the tempest
was impossible.
As the only resort, wo fled to an
oak, that stood at the loot ot a
tall, aud ragged precipice. Here
we remained and gazed almost
breathless upon the clouds, mar
shalling themselves like bloody gi
ants in the sky. The thunder was
not frequent, but every burst was
so fearful that the young creature,
who stood by me, shut her eyes
convulsively, clung with a desper
ate strength to my arm, and
shrieked as if her heart would
break. A few minutes and the
storm was upon us. During the
height of its fury, tbe little girl
lifted her finger toward the preci
pice that towered above us. I
looked up; an auiethcstiue flame
was quivering upon its gray
I.owest Highest
Year, price, price.
1849.. 6 11
1850.. 11 14
1851.. 8 14
1852 ;. 8 10
1853.. 10 11
1854.. 8 10
1855.. 7 11
1856.. 9 12
1857.. 13 15
1858.. 9 13
1859.. 11 12
1860.. 10 11
1861...11 28
1862...20 68
1863.. 54 88
1864.. 72 1 90
1865.. 33 1 22
1866.. 32 52
1867..
1868.. 16 * 33
1869.. 25 35
1880.. 15 25^
1871.. 14*4 21^4
Ga., Wednesday, January 24, 1872.
“ COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE! ”
peaks, and the next moment tbe
clouds opened,the rocks tottered to
their foundation, a roar like the
groan of a universe tilled the air,
and I felt myself blinded and
thrown I know not whither. llow
long I remained insensible I can
not toll; but when consciousness
returned, the violence of the tem
pest was abating ; the roar of the
winds dying in the tree tops, and
the deep tones of tiie thunder
coming in faiutcr murmurs from
the eastern hills.
I arose, aud looked trembling
and almost deliriously around.
She was there—the idol of my in
fant love—stretched out upon the
wet, green earth. After a mo
ment of irresolution, I went up
aud looked upon her. The hand
kerchief upou her neck was slight
ly rent and a single dark spot on
her bosom told where the path of
death had been. At first I clasped
her to my breast witli a cry’ of
agony and then laid her down and
gazed into her face almost with a
feeling of calmuess. tier bright,
dishevelled ringlets clustered
sweetly around her brow, the look
of terror had faded from her lips,
aud an infant smile was pictured
beautifully there —the red rose
tinge upon her cheeks was lovely
as in life, and as I pressed it to
my own the fountain of tears
opened, and I wept as if my head
were waters. I have but a dim
recollection of what followed—l
only know that I remained weep
ing and that I was taken tenderly
by the band, and led away where
1 saw the countenance of parents
and sisters.
Many years have gone by on
their wings of light and shadow,
but the scene 1 have portrayed
still come over me at times with a
terrible distinctness. The oak yet
stands at the base of the preci
pice ; its limbs are black and
dead, and its hollow trunk, looking
upwards to the sky as if calling
to the clouds for drink is an em
blem of rapid and noiseless decay.
A year ago I visited tlmt spot,and
the thought of by gone years came
mournfully back to me—thoughts
of the little innocent being who
fell by the whirlwind—in the mem
ory that she had gone where no
lightnings slumber in the fields of
the rainbow clouds, and where the
sunlit waters are never broken by
the storm breath of Omipotcncc.
. My readers will understand why
I shrink in terror from the thun
der. Even the consciousness of
security is no relief for me—my
fear has assu nod the nature of
instinct, and seems, indeed, a part
of my existence.
Mania for Office.
We doubt if there has been a
time since the earliest giving of
the laws, down to the present, that
demonstrated such a thirst for of
fice, as now to be found. We
speak of it generally from the
highest to the lowest official posi
tions. Numbers of men, who in
the “palmy days of the Republic”
would as soon thought of playing
the game that Joshua did with the
sun as to have expected an impor
tant office, now feel themselves
qualified for any place. The result
has been especially in the South,
that our public places have
filled almost entirely by ignorant
imbeciles, and the laws upon the
Statute Books are, in many instan
ces, a disgrace to civilization.
Corruption rules the day, and
there is a general “hankering” af
ter the solt places and flesh pots.
It grows worse every year;
spreading broadcast demoraliza
! tiou and trickery ; to be success-
I ful is to understand "waya that
are dark, and tricks that are vain,”
i and have to form Constitutions,
! Cliques, and every deviltry that
1 Radical villainy and carpet-bag
thievery has ever cursed this
country with. These things ought
not so to he. Our capitol is sur
rouuded with an army of youug
! men, place hunters, while there is
I no position that goes begging.
! Let all this sort of thing stop —
■ let the “office seek the man, and
' not the man the officelet every
body go to work to earn an honest
living by the sweat of their brow,
and a brighter day will dawn upon
i our glorious Sunny South. — Mid
! die Georgian.
| ®
tdr A very modest young lady
| who was a passenger on board a
■ packet ship, it is said, sprang out of
; net berth and jumped over board on
hearing the captain during a storm
j order the mate to haul down the
I sheets.
The Newspaper Press.
Rev. T. 1). W. Tnlnmgo, of Brook
lyn, in a recent sermon, presented
the following earnest stirring thoughts
respecting the power and capabilities
of the newspaper press. An instrue
mentality of such vast influence as is
this in our day slieuld l»o wielded
by those who appreciat their moment
ous responsibility, and employ it for
the improvement and elevation of
their fellow-men. The eloquent dis
course is reported phonographically
in the Methodist:
“The newspaper it the great educa
tor of the Nineteenth Cetury.—
There is no force compared with it.
It is book, pulpit, platform, forum all
in one. Aud there is not an interest
—religious, literary, comercial, scien
tific, agricultural or inehcanieal—that
is not within its grasp. All our
churches, and schools, and colleges,
and asylums, aud art galleries feel
the quaking of the printing pres*.
In our pulpits wo preach to a few
hundreds or thousands of poople; the
newspaper addresses an audience of
twenty thousand, fifty thousand, or
two hundred thousand. Wo preach
tlireo or four times a week; they every
morning or evening of the year. If
they are right they are gloriously
right; if they are wrong, they are aw
fully wrong.
I find no difficulty 'in accounting
for the word’s advance. What lias
made the change? “Hooks,”you say.
No, sir. The vast majority of citi
zens do not read books. In the Uni
ted States the people would not aver
age one book a year for each individu
al. Whence then this intelligence—this
capacity to talk about all themes,
secular and religious, this acquain
tance with science and art, this power
to Che Bible, tho nowspapor —swift-
winged and every where present —
Hying over tho fence, shoved under
tho door tossd into the oounting
honse, laid on the woik bench, hawk
ed |through the cars! All read it!
White and black, German, Irishman,
Swiss, Spaniard, Amorican, old and
young, good and bad, sick and well,
before breakfast and after tea, Mon
day morning. Saturday night, Sunday
and we»-k day.
I consider tho noVspaper to bathe
grand agency by which tho gorpel is
to be preach ed, ignorance cast out.
oppression dethroned, crime extripa.
ted, the world raised, heaven rejoiced
ami God glorfied. In the clanking
of the printing press as tho sheets fly
out I hear the voice of tho Lord Al
mighty proclaiming to all tho dead
nations of the earth, “Lazarus, come
forth !’’ and to tho retroating surges
of daikness, “Let there be light.”
“Nations are to be born in a day.”
Will this great in rush into tho king
dom of God come from t lie personal
presence of missionary or philanthrop
ist ? No. When the time comes for
that grand demonstration of the spirit
I think the press in all the earth will
make the announcement, and give
the call to tho nalioas. As at some
telegraphic centre, an operator will
send the messages North, Smith, East
and West, San Francisco and Heart’s
Content catching tho (lash at the
same instant; so, standing ai some
centre, to which shall reach a.I tho
electric wires that cross the continent
and undergird the sea, some one shall,
with the forefinger of the right hand
click th? instrument that shall thrill
through all lands, across all islands,
under all sons, through all palaces,
into all dungeons, and startle both
hemispheres with ike news, that in a
few moments shall rush out from the
ten thousand times ten thousand
printing presses of the earth : “Jesus
hath come! Fall into line, all ye na
tion ! Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace, good-will toward
men ! Hallelujah !”
Stick to the Fence. —For fifteen
years daily, at Stanford, Connecti
cut, a man has sit on the fence and
watched every railroad train as it
passed.— Ex.
He is probably trying to make up
liis mind if it would be safe to ride
on the cars. Old fellow, yon stick
to that fence! If the top rail is
sharp, turn it over, or put a cushion
on it. Fit up a smoking apartment
on the next panel if you like, and
rig a luxurious coach on to the next
one to that’. Bring our your bag
gage, tako a check for it, and bang
it on a post. Bny a ticket and punch
it yourself. A»k yourself the dis
tance to the next station and get
insulted. Secure, as your means w ill
permit, all the luxuries of railroad
travel, but don’t get off that fence
to onjoy them. So shall you die a
natural death, and tho good wito
shall not expend the faun fighting
the life insurance company over your
old corpse. You’re iu the right o’
this thing, old rocstei!
[|2 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
How tn iMck Out a (Jowl Hosts,
BY JOSII BIUJNGS.
First—Eel tho color be a sorrel,
a roan, a red, a gray, a black, a
blue, a green, a chestnut, a brown,
a dapple, a spotted, a cream, a
buckskin, or some other good
color.
Second—Examine his cars ; see
that lie haz got tew ears, and
pound a fin pan class to him tu
find out whether his hearing iz
good.s.All houses are diim, but a
dell and dum boss are not desira
ble.
Third—Look well tn his eyes;
see that lie bus got a pupil in Ilia
eyes, and not too largo a one nei
ther; bosses with too large pupils
in their eyes arc near-sighted, and
can’t see oats, and have to wear
green goggles, and green goggles
make a boss look to much like n
trakt peddler.
Fourth—Feel ov his neck with
the inside of your right hand ; see
that the spinal collnm iz well fat
ted, and runs the whole length ov
him from fore to aQ. —a horse with
out a phatt spinal collnm from
fore to aft—ain’t worth —(speak-
ing sudden) —ain’t worth u well
defined euss.
Five —1 nt yure hand on liiz
breast, (this is allowable in the
kase ov a quadriped ;) see if bis
hartc kail beat TO; squeze bis loro
leggs tu see if lie iz well muscled ;
lift up liiz before f’ectand see it there
iz enny frogs in them — hogs keep
a bosses feat kool and sweet, jest
az they du a wel or a spring ov
water.
Six—Look wel tu biz sliooze;
see what number lie wares—num
ber eight is about right.
Seven —Run yure hand along
the dividing ridge ov his withers
tu the kpmmenscincut ov his tale
(or dorsul yfertibra,) and pinch
him az yu go along, tu sec if lie
nosse how to kick.
Eight—Look *ou his hind legs
for some spavins, kurbs, windgalTs,
ringbones, skratciies, quit tors,
thrush, geese heels, thoroughpiiis, -
spring halt, quarter-cracks ; sec es
lie has got a vvliiil bone ; look for
some pin hips; hunt lor strains ill
the back tenders, let downs u»d
capped hocks.
Nine—lnvestigait hi# teeth; sen
if lie ain’t fourteen years old larst
May, with teeth filed down, and a
six-yecr-okl black mark burnt intu
the top uv them with a hot iron.
Ten —Smell ov his breath tu see
if ho liuint got sum glanders; look
just back ov liiz ears lor signs of
pole-evil; pinoli him on the top ov
hi 7, withers for a fistula, and look
sharp at both shoulders for a
sweeny’.
Eleven—Hook him tu a wagon
that rattles, drive him tu an Irish
man and his wheelbarrow ; meet a
rag merchant with cow-bells
strung across the top ov bis cart,
lot an express train pass him at
forty-five miles tu the hour; when
he is swetty heave a buffalo robe
over him tu keep oph the cold,
ride him with an umbred higlialcd,
and learn liiz opinyun ov these
things.
Twelve—Prospekt his wind,
Bareli dilligently for the beeves, j
ask of he iz a roarer, and don’t bo
afraid tu find out es he iz a whis
ller.
Thirteen —Be sure that lie ain’t ;
a kirbbiter, ain’t balky, ain’t a j
weaver, and don’t pull at the baiter, j
These arc a few simple things i
tu be looked at in buying a good
family boss ; there iz a great men
ny other things tu be looked at
(at your lezure) after you have
bought him.
Good bosses are skarso, and
good men that deal in any kinds
of bosses, are skavser.
Ask a man all about bis wife,
and he may tell yo. Examine his
oluss fer a Sunday-school teacher,
and you will find him on the
square ; send him tu the New
York Legislature, and rejoice that
money won’t buy him j leud him
seven hundred dollars in the high
way, without a witness or a uote ;
even swop dorgs with him with
perfect impunity ; but when you
buy a good family boss ov Jiiin,
young, sound and trow, watch the i
man cluss, and make up yure
mind besides that you will hcv tu
ask the Lord tu forgive him.
“An honest man is the noblest
work ov God.” This fatinms say
ing was written, in grate anguish
ov heart, by tho late Alexander
Pope, just after buying a good
family hoss.
XST A Colorado store keeper so
laces liis customers with FvNcKU 1
2-bakO.
RAILS OF ADVERTISING.
space 3 mo’s. 6 mo’s. 12 mo’s.
1 square 8 4 00 j 5 6 <>o $lO 00
2 #q'rs 600 JO 00 IA 00
3 Rqr'B SOO I 14 00 20 00
y oil. 12 001 20 00 30 00
% col. 20 00 I 35 00 60 00
one col. 40 00 * 75 00 lt'i* oo
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No. 42.
Goaf by Leaf the Itoscs l’all.
lent by loaf the roses fall,
Drop by drop the springs run dry,
One by one beyond recall,
Summer beauties fade and die;
But the rows bloom aguin.
And iiie spring will gush nncw,
In the pleasant April rain,
And the sun and dew.
Ho in the honrs of deepest gloom,
When the springs of gludncss fail,
Am? the rosis in the bloom
Drop like maidens wan and pule;
Wc slmll find hope: that fits.
Like a silent gem apart.
Hidden fur from careless eyes,
In the garden of the heart.
Some sweet hope to gluddcn wed,
That will spring afresh and new,
When griefs winter shall have Hrd,
Giving place to ruin and dew—
A sweet hope that breathes of spring,
'I hrough the weary, weary time,
Budding for its blossoming
In the spirit’s glorious clime.
Locking up the old Folks.
How a Kentucky Girl Munuyed an
Elopement.
From the Nashville Banner, Dec 24,
A lather romantic lunaway affair
occurred at Franklin, Kentucky, early
cu Fiiday evening. The father ot a
certain }onng lady of that place had
lefosed to give his consent to her
marriage, and had treated her lover
with g-oat bareness, on account, it ia
alleged, of liis being poor. But
though loie docs not, in most in
stances, run particularly smooth,
nothing can prevent two happy hearts
fioin uniting their destinies for better
or for worse, whenever the owners so
resolve. To make our story brief,
a plan was concocted by which the
pair were to run dawn to Mitchellvillo,
just this side of the State line, where
arrangements had been made tbe day
previous with a magistrate to perforin
the ceremony.
The feud ’couple appeared at tho
depot «t Franklin shoitly after five
o’clock on tho morning mentioned.
It having been suggested by some
unfeeling wag that they might jiossi
-Itrj.be oyotiHMUi ny lier "irate JaTfier7
and their hlhsful hopes blasted nt
the very moment of realization, tho
bridegroom became considerably de
moralized, but was soon reassured by
his pluckier companion, who coolly
remarked, “I don’t see how ho can;
I really don’t, lie lives three miles
from here, Rnd if he comos ho will
have to walk. He can’t make' tho
distance afoot before tho arrival and
departure of the train. I foresaw the
danger of such a denouement last
night ami made my arrangements
accordingly. I went to the stables,
hid all the bridles, locked the doors
and throw the keys away. When I
left home this morning mother and
father were asleep. 1 quietly turned
lire key on them aud threw it away
loo.”
It need hardly be said that her
cxnlunation was highly satisfactory.
The train rolled in at 5:57, the love s
jumped aboard, and were married at
6:20 at Mitchellvil’o, on tho arrival
of the train at that place.
The gill was certainly worth the
trouble of winning, but we have a
notion that if her husband tries to
kick out of the matrimonial traces tho
keys w ill Oo turned on him, too, some
of these days.
jtir The latest device for break
ing up a setting hen is to put a
couple of lumps of ice in the nest.
£#* Fanny Fern tells of an
aged female who thought she was
“us young as Hheevcr was, and as
handsome as she never was.”
EW What is the difference Ikv
tween a fool and a looking-glass ?
One Bpeaks without reflecting and
the other reflects without speaking.
-
#fegr“N ame the longest day iu
the year,” said a teacher to a
young hopeful of five summers.
“Sunday!” responded the little
man.
IST An item in a lawyer’s bill
to liis client ran thus : To lying
awake at night thinking over your
case forty-five dollars.
<»>i
A clcngyman named Fiddle
“respectfully declines” the degree
of I>. D. because, as said he real
ly did not wish to be known as tho
Rev. Fiddle D. D.
it, old fellow,” said two
idle scajHj graces to an honest la
; borer at work—“ Work away while
we play—sow and we’ll reap ”
“Very likely, my lads,” replied
the man coolly ; “I’m sowing
, hemp.”
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