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LAWRENCEVILLE, GA.
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Vol. I.
THE IRISHMAN.
There was a lady lived at Leith,
A lady very stylish, man,
And yet, in spite of all ber teeth,
She fell in love with an Irishman—
A nasty ugly Irishman,
Awild tremendous Irishman—
A tearing, swearing, thumping,bumping,
roaring Irishman.
His face was no ways beautiful,
For with suiall-pox ’twas scarred
across,
And the shoulders of the ugly dog
Were almost double a yard across
O, the lump of an Irishman,
The whisky-devouring Irish
man—
The great he-rogue, with his wonderful
brogue, the fighting, rioting Irishman.
One of his eyes was bottle-green,
And the other was out my dear;
And the calves of his wicked look
ing legs
Were more than two feet about,
my dear.
O, the great big Irishman,
The rattling, battling Irish
man— *
The stamping, ramping, swaggering, stag
gering, leathering swash of an irishman.
He took so much of Lundy Font..
That he used to snort and snuffle, O;
And in shape of size, the fellow’s neck
Was as bad as the neck of a buffalo
O, the horrible Irishman—
The thundering, blundering
Irishman;
The slashing, dashing, smashing, lashing,
hashing Irishman.
Ilis name was a terrible name, indeed,'
Being Timothy Thady Mulligan;
And whenever he emptied his tum
bler of punch,
He'd not rest til! he filled it full
again.
The boozing, bruising Irish
man,
The ’toxicated Irishman,
The whisky, ftisky, rummy, gummy>
brandy, no dandy Irishman.
This was the lad the lady loved,
Like all the girls of quality;
And he broke the skulls of the men
of Leith,
Just by the way of jollity.
O, the leathering Irishman,
The bar bur;:".- savage Irishman.
The hearts of the maids, and the
men’s heads, were bothered, Pm sure,
by this Irishman.
A German Girl Aliasing.
Mis; lied wig Gorke lias been missing
from her home at Greenpoint since
Wednesday morning, and under cir
cumstances which lead to a suspicion
of foul play. Miss Goike arrive! im
this city from Altoona, Germany,
about one year ago. When she was
but nine years old her mother died.
Iler father, who was Inspector of liar
racks, at Altoona,'married about two
years after the death of her mother.
The step-mother maltreated Hedwig,
and prevailed on her father to allow
her to come to this country. Her
mother, dying, beqnalhed her pro
]>ertv to her children, lledwig’s
share amounted to about $2,000.
This was left in the bands of the
executor until Hedwig’s majority.
After her arrival in this city she
became a domestic for a private
fanwly in West Forty-seeond street-
Tliere she was visited several times
hv a naan who requested her to sign
a paper. Iledwig did not sign the
paper, preferring to wait untill
she got advice.
Last December the family where
she was living moved out of the city,
and Hedwig was thrown out of em
ployment. She met Mr. A. 0.
McGrcw, a representative of the press,
and applied to him for emyloyment.
Mr. McGrew was favorably impressed
with the girl, and becoming inter
ested in her artless narrative of her
story, took her to his home at Green
point. She proved to be a tractable
and inteligont girl. Sho was a con
stant attendant at church and Sun
day school, and endeared herself to
all. Among these was the family
of Mr. George Stein, the German
editor of the News. On Wednesday
morning she dressed herself, and
saying that she was going to visit
the family of Mr. Stein at their resi
dence at 337 East Thirty-ninth street,
went from home. She did not return
that evening, but her absence caused
no uneasiness, as Mr. McGrew
thought that she had remained at
Mr. Stein’s bouse. Meeting Mr. Stein
the next afternoon, Mr. McGrew
learned that Hedwig Lad hot been
at his bouse at all.
Mr. McGrew then called at the
Police Central office and Inspector
Dilks sent out a general alarm to
the various stations warning the
police to look sfter her. Miss Gorke
is a tall, beautiful blonde, about 19
years old, and very intelligent.—
Mr. McGrew connects her disappear
ance with the man who called upon
| her and wanted her to sign the paper.
—W. Y. Sun.
A bad omen—To owe men mor\ey.
Lawrenceville, Ga., Wednesday, March 6, 1872.
Matrimony Extraordinary.
An entertaining article entitled
“Tony Weller’s Widows” appears
in the Chester (Pa.) Republican,
from which the following is an
extract:
Another very courtable widow
was a young lady of Washington,
Pa. She became engaged to a
young man named Robert , in i
1845. Her father, however, ob ;
jected to this match with one of
his clerks, and when the young
lady received a tempting proposal
from a wealthy suitor the parental
influence soon effected a marriage,
despite the former engagement.
In less than three months her hus
band was killed by a kick from a
horse. Robert was a second time
then a suitor, but delayed the
important question until fifteen
months had elapsed, when, to his j
horror, she informed him that she
was engaged. In three months
thereafter she was married. Two
years elapsed, when the married
couple removed to Syracuse, N. Y.,
where among the victims of the
cholera, when the pestilence swept
that city, was the second. Robert
again sought her hand, and when
a year had elapsed, was on the eve
of a declaration, when lo! lie re
ceived an invitation to her wed
ding. Her late husband’s busi
ness was found in such a state
that, to avoid immense losses,
she married the surviving partner.
Shortly after that she removed to
Detroit, Michigan. A few years
elapsed, when herself and husband
were on a steamer that was wreck
ed near Buffalo. The husband per
ished and the wife escaoed solely
through the exertions of a friend
who was on board. His gallantry
inspired such sentiments in her
breast that sl.e married her brave
preserver a few months after her
third widowhood. The happy pair
removed to Pittsburg. '-re her
husband «,.*> engaged in tbe mer
cantile business. Thither Robert,
still cherishing his first love, fol
lowed them. One day, as be was
passing the husband’s store, lie
saw a terrible commotion. Rush
ing in, he beheld the mangled
corpse of that gentleman on the
floor. A tierce of rice, on being
I hoisted to an upper story, had
fallen through the trap, killing him
i instantly. Anxiously Robert in
| quired if any one had been sent
to inform his wife, and was told
that the book keeper had just gmte.
Robert started for Alleghany city,
where the deceased had resided,
at the top of his speed. The book
keeper was just ahead of him, and
from past experience, knowing the
virtue of prompt action, and ap
prehending tint the clerk had de
signs on the widow, he ran for
dear life, side by side. The race
continued until they reached Hand
street bridge, when the clerk was
obliged to stop and pay the tolls,
while Robert, a commuter, passed
over without stoppping. Reach
ing the house of the widow first,
Robert told the heartrending news,
and in the same breath made a
proposal of marriage. True to
lier promise, after a year of mourn
ing, she became his wife. As all
of her husbands had died wealthy,
Robert was comfortably fixed
after all. This case is a remarka
ble example of what pluck and
perseverance will do for a man,
while at the' same time it teaches
a lesson on the danger of delay. *
We frequently hear of men of
the “lower class of society” licking
their wives, and we sometimes do
hear of the strong minded who
have the nerve to pitch into the
lords of creation; and when such
strong-minded do pitch in they
generally go it tooth and nail. It
is a rare thing, however, to hear
of a gallant young man undertak
ing to lick a young lady, but such
an occurrence actually took place
in the western part of the city a
short time since. It appears that
the young folks had a lintle squab
ble over the tea-table, and the gal
lant young man daubed the face
of the young lady with a spoon
taken from the molasses mug.
The consequence was, the young
gentleman was subjected to tbe
penalty ol licking it off, which he
did in the most gracelul manner,
and declares that he would gladly
lick lasses the balance of his days.
It is easy in the world to live
after the world’s opinion; it is
easy in solitude to live after your
own ; but the great man is he who,
in the midst of the crowd, keeps
with perfect sweetness the inde
pendence of solitude.—
“COMING EVENTS CAST THEIR SHADOWS BEFORE!”
Spain and the South Ameri
can Republics.
The following is the text of the
armistice between Spain and the
South American republics, which
a cable telegram recently stated
had been published in the official
gazette at Madrid :
The plenipotentiaries of Spain
and of the allied republics of
South America met at the Depart
ment of State, in Washington, on
the 14th of April, 1871, and agreed
upon the following :
Articles of Armistice between Spain
on the one hand and the allied lie
publics — Eilufia, Chile, Ecuador,
and Peru —on the other.
The mediation of the United
States having been offered and
accepted towards relieving Spain !
and tbe allied republics of tbe
Facific from the technical state
of war which has existed since the
hostilities of 1860, the President
of the United States has for the
purpose conferred full powers up
on Hamilton Fish, Secretary of
State.
His Catholic Majesty lias con
ferred like powers on Mauritio Lo
pez Roberts, Knight Grand Cross
of the Order of Christ of Portugal,
Grand Oflicer of the House of the
Conception of Portugal and of
Leopold of Belgium ; Knight Com
mander of the Legion of Honor of
France, Superior Chief of Admin
istration, deputy in various legis
latures, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary of his
Majesty Amedio 1., King of Spain,
to the United Slates of America.
The President of the republic of
Bolivia has conferred like powers
on Colonel Manuel Freyre, Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Pleni
pottntinry of Peru to the United
States of America.
The President of the republic
of Chile has conferred like powers
on Joaquin GudOy, Envoy Extraor
dinary and Minister Plenipoten
tiary of that republic to the United
States of America.
The President of the republic of
Ecuador lias conferred like powers
on Antonia Flores, a Senator o!
that republic and its Minister
Plenipotentiary ad hoc.
And the President of the re
public of Peru has confericd like
powers on Colonel Manuel Freyre,
Envoy Extraordinary and Minis
ter Plenipotentiary of that repub
lic to the United States of Amer
ica. And the said plenipotcnliaV
ries having exchanged their full
powers, which were found in due
and proper form, have agreed upon
the following articles :
Article 1. The suspension of
hostilities existing de facto between
Spain on the one hand, and the
allied republics of Bolivia, Chile,
Ecuador, and Peru on the other,
is converted into a general armis
tice or truce.
Art. 2. This armistice shalrcifti
tiuue indefinitely, and cannot be
broken by any ol tbe belligerents,
save in three years after having
expressly and explicitly notified
the others of its intention to re
new hostilities. In this case noti
fication must be made through the
government of the United States.
Art. 3. Each of the belligerents
during the continuance of this ar
mistice shall be at liberty to carry
on commerce with the neutral na
tions in all articles in which trade
is considered lawful in a state of
peace; all restriction on neutral
commerce therefore ceasing.
Art. 4. The present agreement
shall be ratified by the respective
governments, and the instruments
of ratifications shall be exchanged
at the Department of State at
Washington within four months
from date.
Art. 5. Those governments which
shall have sent their ratification
within the time fixed in the prece
ding article may make the ex
change separately in the two
moutns following.
Art. 6. If any one of the gov
ernments, on account of circum
stances over which it has no con
trol, shall not be able to effect the
exchange of the ratifications with
: iu the times fixed in the foregoing
articles such delay shall be grant
ed it as it may request from the
other party without the necessity
for a new agreement.
Art. 1. The proceedings for the
ratification and exchange shall
not interfere with the continuation
of the conferences designed for
the negotiation of a peace.
in testimony of the stipulations
made in the foregoing seveu arti
cles, the undersigned Secretary of
State of the United States, in the j
character ot mediator, and the j
plenipotentiaries of Spain, Bolivia,!
Chile, Ecuador, and Prill have
signed the foregoing agreement at
the Department of Btate at Wash
ington on the 11th day of April,
1871 :
Hamilton Fish,
Mauricio Lopez Roberts,
ricnipotcnciario de Espana.
Man’l Frevrb,
I’lenipotcnqiaro del Peru.
Joaquin Godoy,
Plenipotenciario dc Chile.
Antonio Flores,
Plenipotenciario del Ecuador.
Man’l Fkeyrk,
Plenipotenciario de Bolivia.
— *
A important convention, com
posed of all the narrow gnage
railroad companies of the United
States, is to he held in St. Louis
next June, for the purpose ol dis
cussing the question whether rail
roads of this description will an
swer the purpose ot roads of wider
gauge, and generally of ascertain
ing their cost, the expense of ope
rating them and keeping them in
repair, the relations of their
freight capacity to the demands
of the country, their safety and
accommodations as respects pas
senger traffic, and what general
i system ought to bo adopted in
their construction and manage
ment. The convention, it is said,
will be attended by the most emi
nent civil engineers and railroad
builders of the country, and may
perhaps result in a new departure
in its railway history.
Rousing the War Spirit. —The
New York Herald, with a soit of
devilish delight, is out, from day
to day, with inflammatory articles
designed to stir up the bad pas
sions and arouse the war spirit of
the people, and thereby prevent
a peaceable solution of present
differences with England. Its
Meat Uet is to- units- the -Ntui.’
by showing that England “took
sides with slavery ’ during the late
American war. It dcclara that,
“not only were the sympathies and
the moral of the British
government and the British aris
tocracy pledged to the so called
Confederate States, but tliat Lords
Palmerston and Russell were only
waiting for a convenient pretext
to become an active armed ally of
Jeff’. Davis.” \
/ We Lave received some alluvial
deposit specimens from E>q. T. E.
Matthews, of Gwinnett Go. The
sample sent is evidence of the soil,
from which it was procured, being
rich in the precious metals. Gwin
nett county is evidently auriferous;
but needs energy, enterprise, capital
and ambition to develope it’s biihlet/
resources. The Air line Railroad /s
performing wonders for that section
of country, such as were only vissiojn
nrv a few years ago. —Dahlonew
Signal.
On the morning of the lsll>/ at
Vicksburg, Miss., a fire destroyed
Smith’s foundry and the property
of Frank Gallagher, Jas. Callahan,
Jas. Ilerlin, Matt. Irving, on the
east side of Levee street; and
Ryan Dro.’s sash factory, the resi
dences of Mr. Garter, Mrs. David.
Mrs. Gannin, Mr. Honninglian, and
all the small houses between Le
vee street and the river, south of
the Vicksbnig boarding house.
Loss, $75,000.
Tub Atlanta Air Line —We learn
from contractors that work on the
road between Atlanta and Char
lotte is being hastened forward.
The iron, with the exception of a
few miles, has been purchased,
and will be laid from threo or four
points. Estimates arc promptly
paid. It is expected the road will
be completed this Fall, as the par
ties in power appear to have the
money. We must hurry up our
own road so as to be able to reap
the advantages of the connection.
Columbus Sun.
• A deplorable condition of affairs
is said to still exist in Chicot coun
ty, Arkansas, in and about Lake
V.llage. The negroes are insolent
and occasionally threaten the
State guards sent down by the
Governor. Nearly all the white
citizens have moved their families
beyond the county line or out of
the State. None of those engaged
iu the Lake Village butchery have
been arrested yet.-—-Columbus Sun.
How fust time Hies when you arc
working against it; how slowly when
you uro working to fill it up ! What a
difference between trying to get your
work done before your dinner honr, and
trying to (ill up your hour before dinner
with work.
[s2 A YEAH, IN ADVANCE.
Something New Alnmtj Pat
rick Henry.
Rev. Edward Fontaine, of Louisian
na, recently read a highly interest
ing paper before the Long island
Historical Society on Patrick Henry,
the great Virginnia orator of tlio rev
olution. Mr. Fontaine is adeeendant
of the distinguished man of whom
lie spoke, the facts being compiled
from unpublished family documents,
and correct many errors to be found
in the biographies which have already
appeared
Rev. Mr. Fontaine said that ever
since lie was seventeen year ot age
he had kept a journal, and all the
anecdotes told him of Patrick Ilenry
by the oldest of his grandsons and
three of his daughters had been care
fully written down. From that
sou ice lie should draw tlio material
for his lecture, and and at the same
time endeavor to correct many mis
takes in what had been said of him.
The biography written of him by
\Vm. Wirt,, in 1707, had passed
through fifteen editions, but it
abounded in mistakes, and some ot
them he hoped to bo able to correct.
The Father of Patrick Henry
was Colonel John Henry, of Aberden,
m Scotland, who came to this country
in the year 1083 and settled in Vir
ginia. He became a Justice of the
Peace, a Magistrate, and was also
a Colonel in the Colonial forces. He
married a Mrs. Sim, the widow of
Colonel Sim, of Winchester. She
was formerly Miss \\ inston, and de
(•ended from the celebrated wulsli
family of iliat name. Patrick Henry
inherited the prudence of liis Scotch
father and the fire of his Welsh
mother, iyul they combined to make
him an orator who spoko as Homer
wrote. Although Patrick Henry
filled almost every position o. honor
and*trust which it was in the power
of his fellow-citizens in Virginia to
bestow upon him,
lie was a I‘oor in Ai
when elected Governor for the fourth
time. He declined tho honor on
account of his proverty. Tho times,
however, havecliangod in that respect,
for now men take their seals without
being worth a cent, and retire from
office worth millions of dollars. But
the idea never seemed to occur to
him while the sword and the purse
of Virginia were at his disposal that
lie could amass wealth by a judicious
\iise of hi* patronage. Although he
Aover attended college ho receivod
all excellent classical education from
Ilis undo, and was also taught “to
lie true and just in all my dealings,
so bear no malice or hatred in my
/heart, to keep my hands from picking
land stealing, and to do my duty in
I that state of life which it shall please
God to call me.” An error has been
committed in regard to the statement
put forth of tho apparent want of
preparation of his speeches; and from
wliat Mr. Wirt has said it might be
supposed that there was nothing of
the “smell of the lamp” about them.
He was, however, another illustra
tion of the saying that “a poet is
horn, but an orator is made.” He
had poetical abilities of very high
order, but Ids speeches were all care
fully prepared.
Ilis Personal Appearance
was exceedingly striking; he was six
feet in heigth, had dark curly hair,
and a very commandisg countenance.
But his most remarkable feature
was his eyes, which were doeply set,
and of a" hazel hue; his organ of
speech was perfect, and its tones
were like that of some grand wind
instrument, and always under perfect
control. He had a poetic tempera
inent, and, although born a poor, lie
made himself a great orator, and in
liis speech on free trade ha said, “Fet
ter not cominei ce. Let her be free as
air. anil she will return upon the four
winds of Heaven to bless the land
with plenty.” Those were words
which could not been uttered by auy
man unless he had been a poet.
In preparing for his work ho spent
one honr every day in prayer, a prac
tice which is now very seldom ob
served except by Ministers of the
Gospel and old fashioned men and
women. In 1789 he retired from
public life very Jpoor, and the next
nine years he spent in secured g a
competency for his family. During
that period he laid up an ample for
tune for each one of his thirteen chil
dren. find then, in 1796, finding that
his family was in easy circumstances,
lie retired ftom the practice of his
profession, but with a corstitntion
sadly shattered by a complication of
diseases, not ono, however, of which
had been brought on by vice or
excess of any kind.
The American Home Missionary So
ciety sustained sixty missionaries in Kan
sas lust >ear, twenty one more than iu
the year proceeding.
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Marriages and deaths, not exceeding
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vertising his wife, olid all other personal
mutter, double rates will bo charged.
No. 51.
A. Ward. —Mark Twain lectured
in Chicago on A Ward and told the
following anecdote:
As Artemus was once travelling
in the cars, dreading to be borer! and
feeling miserable, a man approached
him, sat dow n and said:
“Did you hear that last thing on
“Horace Greeley?”
“Greeley! Greeley?” said Artemus
“Horace Greelej? Who is he!”
The man war quiet about firo
minutes. I’retty soon lie said:
-if* George Francis Train is kicking
un a good deal of a row over in
England. Do yon think they will put
him in a Bastile?”
“Train! Train! George Francis
Train? ’ said Artemus, solemnly. “I
never heard of him ”
This ignorance kept tho man quiet
for fifteen minutes; thou lie said:
“Wliat do yon think about Gen
eral Grant’s chances for the Presiden
cy! Do you think they will run
him!”
“Grant! Grant? Hang it, man,”
said Artemus, “you appear to know
more strangers than any man I ever
saw.”
The man was furious. lie walked
up tlio car, but at last came back and
said:
“You confounded ignoramous, did
you ever her of Adam?” Artemus
looked up and said:
“What was his other name!”
This Chinese Wall. —Mr. Sow
aid, who visited the great wall of
China during his visit to that
country, recently gave the follow
ing description of that wonderful
structure:
The Chinese have been, for at
least two or three thousand years,
a wall making people. It would
bankrupt New York or Paris to
build the wall of the city of Pekin.
The great walls of China is the
Great Wall of the world. It is
foidy feet high. The lower tl
I feet is ol hewn limestone or gran
ite. Two modern carriages may
pass each other on its summit. It
has a parapet throughout its whole
length, with convenient staircases,
buttresses and garrison houses at
every quarter of a mile; and it
runs, not by cutting down hills
and raising valleys, but over the
uneven crests of the mountains
and down their gorges, a distance
of a thousand miles. Admiral
liodgera and I calculated that it
would cost more now to build tin?*
Groat Wall of Cliiira, through its
extent of one thousand miles than
it has cost to build the fifty five
thousand miles of railroad in the
United Stales.— Ex.
“Willie," said an interesting young
mother to her youngest hopeful, “do
y»u know what the ditf-rence is
between body and soul? The soul,
my child, is what you love with; the
body carries you about. This is
your body," touching the iilile fel
low’s shoulder; “but there is some
tiling deeper in. You can feel it
now. Wliat is it?"
‘Oh, I know,” said Willie, with a
flash of intelligence in his eyes,
‘‘th u’s mv flannel shirt!”
The field is too wide, the harvest
too great, the world too broad,
and humanity too precious, either
for delays, for jealousies, or for
strifes. Indeed this human life is
all too short to allow the indul
gence of vain regrets. And when
the sense of weakness, or of guilt
and sin, overbears the weary head
and heart, I can but remember the
trusting and triumphant joy of the
Apostle.—i Fohn A, Andrew.
The Federal officers in theSeuate
of Florida arc said to be fnriuus
at the turn affairs have taken in
that State. Speaker Stearns, of
the House, lias resigned his speak
.ership as well as his seat in tho
legislature, from Gadsden county,
in disgust. Verily, the hitching
up of the thieving Governor Reed
for trial and impoachineut, is stir
ring the Idle ol the thieves in tho
Legislature of our sister State.
“Come here, my little fellow. ’*
said a gentleman to a youngster
of five years, while sitting in a
parlor where a large company were
assembled, “do you know me?’*
“Yiththir. 1 * “Whoam I ? Lotmo
hear." "Yon ith the man who
kitheti mamma when papa wath in
Philadelphia.”
A True ITci-iilYy.—We prophesy
that in tm years, u bottle of X) irbv'a
Prophylactic Fluid will be as uxmpen-a
blc in every household as a pepper box
or suit stand.*—Auburu Gazette.
— .
What tree bears the most fruit to
i maifcel! Ailo-tivie.