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■ j.VIXN'- WM. B. SIMMONS.
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Weekly Gwinnett Herald.
T. M. PEEPLES, PROPRIETOR ]
Vol. 11.
For the Gwinnett Herald.
A Contrast between Washing
ton and Crawford’s Anni
versary.
ItY J. T. E.
Our old ex-Governor is gone,
In whom we once confided,
Who in Convention Sixtv-one
As President presided.
lie changed our anniversary
To limited communion,
Declaring Georgia then to be
No longer in the Union.
Nineteenth of January, it appears,
Was gravely recommended
For six months over seven years
The Union was suspended.
We lost that day by force of arms,
Nor was it celebrated,
Fourth of July, with all its charms,
Was also abrogated.
An Attempt at Poisoning.
New York, August 18. A
Greensboro (North Carolina) dis
patch says that a negro named Jim
Johnson was arrested there yesterday
for an attempt to poison a party of
twenty six on the dP«asion outlie
commencement of Rev.%l. Fontaine’s
Female Academy, *ht Reidsville, on
the 6th instant. Johnson, to avenge
himself for a supposed grievance by
Fontaine, poisoned the ice cream
which lie had been entrusted to freeze,
and the entire supper party of twenty
six including many young ladies be
longing to the elite of society, were
subsequently seized with poisonous
symptoms. No one has yet died,
but the physicians say that several
will riot recover. When arrested
Johnson called upon the negioes to
rescue him. The community threat
en him with lynching.
It is expected that the political
discussion between the colored men,
Saunders for Greeley and Garnett for
Grant, will take place on Thursday
evening. The challenge lf»s been
sent by Saunders to Rev. W. F. But
ler, colored, who is for Grant, invit
ing him to meet him and iiis col
league, George W. Hatton, who is
for Greeley, in like manner.
Greeley’s Philanthropy. —A wri
ter iti the Greenville (S. C) Enter
prise gives the following of the prac
cal benevolence of our next Presi
dent:
“In speaking of Mr. Greeley’s
kindness and goodness of heart, we
take in recording a fact
which occurred in Greenville shortly
after the surrender of Gen. Johnston.
The Rev. Mr. Gwin, a Baptist cler
gyman, had taken from him by the
Federal raids, two horses and other
property. He was a poor man, and
wrote an account of the raid and
robbery for the Tribune. Mr. Gree
ley received and read his communi
cation, and in return sent him a draft
for two hundred dollars. Now, this
shows the heart of the man. What
a contrast between this act of charity,
and those bloody expressions of dia
bolical revenge, uttered by General
Grant’s Secretary of the Treasury,
tho other day, at the public meeting
in North Carolina. He said the
bloody chasm between the North and
South had yet to be filled with other
carcasses ! This man was sent to ad
vocate the re-election to the Presi
dency ! How can a man, with a
Southern heart in his bosom, assist
in elevating sneh a military chieftain
to the Presidency,
Saratoga Gossip. —A Saratoga
correspondent writes the following :
“An ondit is just now spoken of,
and of course awakens a certain in
terest in Southern circles here, to the
effect that Mrs. John 11. Morgan,
“one of the richest widows at Sara
toga,” is much admired there. For
years since the fatal night in “64,”
when her gallant husband crave his
life to the cause of the Confederates,
she has lived in seclusion, faithful to
his memory. And her name now
recalls the brilliant fetes given during
the winter of the year just mentioned,
when Morgan and his bride made the
tour of the South, where his name
always awakened the enthusinsm felt
for Marion during the firstrevolution.
But the old days have passed, and the
seven years required for a physical
renewal have endowed another vital
ity on the reformed Republic ; there
fore a practical present calls for other
tnemoiies, other efforts, and a con
trasting life.
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Senator Trumbull stated in his
speech at Indianapolis,on Wednesday
evening, that there was “money
enough squandered by office-holders
under the Federal Government every
year to buy a house and farm and
give SI,OOO to every man in the
State of Indiana —and there are
400,000 men in that Stale.”
L&wrenceville, Ga., Wednesday, August 28, 1872.
CHRISTINE NILSSON.
Marriage of the Prima Donna.
From an account in the New York
\Yorld of the marriage of Nilsson we
take the following :
“And now a subdued strain of
choral melody is heard from the
space near the central screen, and as
it grows a little louder and fuller
there comes in view the wedding
procession—first a band of surpliced
choristers, boys and men, singing a
tender,plaiutive, soul subduing hymn,
and # then, as the old prayer book lias
it, “the persons to be married, with
their friends and neighbors.” The
choristers file off to right and left,
the friends and neighbors halt at a
becoming distance from the officiating
priest, and the bride and bridegroom
stand revealed.
THE BRtDE,
in her traveling robe of white silk, is
dressed in a manner which harmon
izes perfectly with her fair skin and
her statuesque form of beauty. As
she stands before the priest with
slightly bowed head and folded hands,
one is reminded of the Ophelia of
her most successful impersonation.
Her complexion is of a pure, healthy
whiteness, and though there is a
tinge of red in the cheeks there is
not enough of it (o dispel the mo
mentary illusion that one is gazing
simply on a finished work of art
fresh from the sculptor’s hand. It is
only when the head is raised to meet
the fervent greetings of fiiends that
the form is seen to be distinctly a
thing of life. The eyes are Mille
Nilsson’s distinguishing feature.—
Ratlier,deep set, but large and full of
a clear, cold light, they seem to de
rive their almost supernatural lustre
from a hidden fire which shines
through them without displaying its
greatest brilliancy upon their surface,
and this imparts a certain weird
solemnity of beauty to her whole
asjrect. The solitary scrap of color
in her dress is to he found in the
j wreath of orange blossoms, one end
! of which droops from the hair and is
j subdued in tone by being hidden
j among the folds ot her veil. Her
i diess is trimmed throughout with
white lace, which follows the whole
line of the form in front and is again
seen on the edges of the light sleeves
| which show off to advantage the full,
' round arm. In stature she is as tall
as
THE BRIDEGROOM’
M. Auguste Rouzaud, an uninistaka
ble Frenchman in his olive complex
ion, if not in a certain slimness of
figure which no longer characterizes
his countrymen. Mr. Rouzaud has
the look of a Frenchman of breeding.
Thre is nothing outre about him. —
He wears beard, whiskers and tuous*
taclie, but are all trimmed with the
studied carefulness of the man of the
highest fashion, whose aim is to
attain to a certain “impersonality” of
outward appearance. lie wears the
simple morning costume in vogue in
England on these occasions, instead
of the dress suit in which the French
men go to the altar in their country.
He has regular and not unhandsome
features, in which there is an expres
sion of repose rather than of strength.
In age he looks a year or two under
thirty. He has known Mille. Nils
son since their childhood, and his
love for her has been the steady
growth of years. He accompanied
her therefore on her late tour to
America only in continuation of an
intimacy long since begun and long
extended to the two families, his
aunt, Mrs. Richardson, having for
years acted as the chaperone of Mille.
Nilsson. M. Rouzaud has a moder
ate fortune of from 400,000 francs to
500,000 francs, not counting his ex
pectations.
Behind the bride and bridgroom
are
THE BRIDESMAIDS,
four, or rather five, in number, if a
very beautiful child, wlio carries a
boquet is to be included in the list.
Two of them are the Misses Benti
nick; another is Miss Kate Vivian,
of Rochampton, and the fourth the
daughter of the Princess Poniatows
ki. The little bearer of the boquet is
Mille. d« Prieton. The bridesmaids
are dressed in sky-blue and coral,
made up a fa Louise Quarteze.
The bridegroom is accompanied bj
bis brother and by the aunt previous
ly mentioned. The bride, who is
orphaned both of father and mother,
lias no relation whatsoever present.
THE WEDDING PRESENTS
Were unusually numerous, nearly
every distinguished person invited to
the ceremony having contributed to
them. The bridesmaids’ and other
iriembers of the bridal party were
uine ltandsotno and costly lockets,
“COMING EVENTS CAST TIIEIR SHADOWS BEFORE!’’
manufactured by one of tho jewelers
to the court. Seven of these lockets
are set with rubies and diamonds,
forming in a design of her own the
monogram of Mille. Nilsson. The
same jeweler also supplied a costly
necklace —a present to the bride—
composed of three rows of oriental
pearls, and valu'd at one thousand
pounds.
—
A CJrim Joke.
The late Isaac O. Barnes lias
been the subject of many good
stories, one of which has not yet
found its way into print. He had
been invited to attend the funeral
of a particular friend and crony,
and as the deceased had, at their
last interview, specially urged his
being present, he felt in duty
bound to respond. Arrived at the
house of mourning, he found the
family assembled in a very small
and uncomfortable room, in the
middle of which stood the coffin
that all might take a last look at
the face of the departed. The ser
vice was conducted by two cler
gymen, friends of the family, who
with their long prayers and exten
ded “remarks,” consumed fully
two hours, during which Mr.
Barnes suffered untold agony of
suspense and impatience. Hardly
had the second minister pronounc
ed his “amen” when Barnes, in his
well-known squeaky voice,turning
to the person sitting nearest to
him, said :
“Did you know Kid?"
“Yes, sir,” said the man addres
sed, in a low voice.
“Good fellow, wasn’t lie?’ con
tinued Barnes.
“Yes, eir,” still in a suppressed
tone.
“And he was a mighty smart
one, too,” squeaked Barnes.
“Very smart,” almost whispered
the other, as the company present
began to look in that direction.
“Yes, he was,” piped Barnes,
still louder, with one of his ex
pressive expletives, “and if lie had
the running of this funeral, he’d
have been under the ground an
hour and a half ago.”
Wliy we Should Wear lscard£.
Tiice arc more good reasons for
wearing tlm beard than tie* mere
improvement of a man’s personal
appearance and the cultivation of
such an aid in the every’day diplo
macy of life. The l air of the
moustache not only absorbs the
moisture and miasma of the fogs,
but it stiains the air from dust
and the Boot of our great, smoky
cities. It acts also in the most
scientific manner, by taking beat
from the warm breath as it leaves
the chest, and supplying it to the
cool air taken in. It is not only
the respirator, but with a beard
entire we are supplied with a com
sorter as well, and these are never
left at home like the umbrella and
all such appliances when they are
wanted. Moffat and Livingstone,
the explorers, and many other
travelers, say that at night no
wrapper can equal the 1 eard. A
remarkable fact is, too, that the
bearJ, like the hair of the head,
protects against the heat of the
sun; it acts as the thatch docs to
the ice house; but, more than this,
it becomes moist with perspira
tion, and then, by evaporation,
cools the skin. A man who ac
cepts this protection of nature
may face the rudest storm and
the hardest winter. He may go
from the hottest room into the
coldest air without dread, and we
verily believe that he might sleep
in a morass with impunity ; at
least, his chance of escaping the
terrible fever would be better than
his beardless companions.-—Ameri
can Artizan.
Said a teacher to a pupil : “You
are very stupid, James —a real little
donkey; and what do they do to
donkeys to cure them of their stu
pidity ?” “They feed them better
and kick them less,” replied tbe arch
little urchin.
——— tm
While standing in one of the ro
tunday of one of the hotels between
showers, the other day, a reporter of
one of tbe local papers was intro
duced to twenty-three colonels, four
generals, two majors, and one civilian.
mg • *
“I say, friend, your horse is a little
contrary, is he not ?’’
“No, sir!”
“What makes him stop then ?”
"Oh ! lie’s afraid somebody ’ll say
wo, and he shan’t hear it.”
“Could cuss, but not cipher,” was
what a fond father was obliged to
admit of his sob.
Names of the States.
Virginia, the oldest of tlie States,
was so called in honor of Queen Eliz
abeth, the “Virgin Queer,” in >. e
reign Sir Walter Raleigh mu • r
first attempt to colonize that re
Florida—Bonce de Leon lain’ n
the coast of Florida on East
day, and called the country i. i.:
memoration of the day, which wn
Pnsqua Florida of the Spaniards, or
“Feast of Flowers.”
Louisiana was called after Louis
the Fourteenth, who at one time
owned that section of the country.
Alabama was so called by the In
dians, and signifies “Here we Rest.”
Mississippi is likewise an Indian
name, meaning “lmng river.”
So also is Arkansas, from Kansas,
the Indian word for “smoky water.”
Its prefix was really arc the French
word for “bow.”
The Carolinas were originally one
tract, and were called “Carolina”
after Charles the Ninth of France.
Georgia owes its name to George
the Second of England, who first
established a colony there in 1782.
Tennessee is the Indian for “the
River of the Bend,” i. e. Mississippi,
which forms its western boundary.
Kentucky is the Indian for “at tho
head of the river.”
Ohio moans “beautiful.”
lowa “drowsy ones'”
Minnesota "cloudy water.”
Wisconsin “wild rushing channel.”
Illinois is derived from the Indian
word illini, men, and the French
suffix ois, together signilying “tribe
of men.”
Michigan was called by the name
given the lake, fish-weir, which was
so styled from its fancied resemblance
to a fish trap.
Missouri is from the Indian word
“muddy,” which more properly ap
plies to the river which flows through
it.
Oregon owes its Indian name also
to its principal river.
Cortez named California.
Massachusetts is the Indjan name
fur ‘thecountiy around the great
hills. ’
Connecticut from the Indian
Quoiich tu Cut, signifying “Long
River.”
Maryland after Henrietta Maria,
Queen ot Charles the First of Eng
land.
New York was named by tho Duke
of York.
Everybody knows that Pennsylva
nia means “Penn’s Woods,” and was
so called after Willian Pinii, its orig
inal owner.
Del aware after Lord De la Ware.
New Jersey, so-called m honor of
Sir George Cataret, who was Gov
ernor of the Island of Jersey in the
British Channel.
Maine was called after the pro’ ’ 'C3
of Maine in France, in couipl 1
of Queen Henrietta of linglan 1
owned that province.
Vermont, from the French
Mont , signifying Green Mount
New Hampshire from Hampshire
county in England. It was formerly
called Laconia.
Tho beautiful little State, Rhode
Island, owes its name to the Island
of Rhodes in the Mediterranean,
which domain it is said to greatly
resemble.
Texas is the American word for
| the Mexican namo by which all that
J country was called before it was ceded
to the United States.
Concerning Colonel's. —The too
profuse use of the title of “Colonel”
elicits these pertinent remarks from
the Philadelphia Post:
To cali a man a “Colonel” is to
convey the idea that he is of a mild,
meek and benevolent disposition. It
is also an evidence that ho never was
a soldier. For instance, we may re
call some of the Colonels of Philadel
phia. There is Colonel Forney, Co
lonel McClure, Colonel McMichael,
Colonel Mann, Colonel Fitzgerald,
Colonel Phillips, Colonel Hinchen,
Colonel Green, and Colonel Fritz
Of what regiment! And we might
mention many more gentlemen of
high standing who have never been
in the army, and can only be called
“Colonel” as a tribute to their antipa
thy to blood. If every Colonel was
a soldier, the standing army in Phil
adelphia would be a menace to our
liberties. Their number is as great
as it was in San Francisco, to which
John Phoenix bears witness to in tbe
following story : The steamboat was
leaving the wharf, and everybody
was taking leave of friends—all but
Phoenix, who had no friend to bid
him farewell. Ashamed of his lone
liness, as the boat sheered off, he
called out, in a loud voice, “Good bye,
Colonel 1” and, to his great delight,
every man on the wharf took off his
hat and shouted,“Colonel, good bye!”
Is 2 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
Life’s Brightest Hour.
Not long since I met a gentleman
who is assessed for more than a mil
lion. Silvered was his hair, care was
upon his blow, and lie stooped be
neath his burden of wealth. We
were speaking of that peaiod of life
w hen we had realized the per
fect enjoyment, or rather, when we
had found the happiness nearest to
being unalloyed. "I’ll tell you,” said
the millionaire, “when was the hap
piest hour of my life. At the age of
one and-twenty I had saver! SBOO.
I was earning SSOO a year, and my
father did not take it from me, only
requiring that 1 should pay for my
board. At the age of twenty one I
had secured a pretty cottage, just
outside of the city. 1 was able to
pay two thirds of the value down,
Hud also to furnish it reapectahb. I
married on Sunday—a Sunday in
June—at my father’s house. My
wife had come to me poor in purse,
rich iu the wealth of her womanhood.
The Sabbath and the Sabbath night
we passed beneath my father’s roof, ]
and on Monday morning I went to
work, leaving my mother and sister I
to help in preparing my home. On
Monday evening, when the labors of
the day were done, I went not to my
parental shelter as in the past, hut to
mv own house— my own house. The
holy atmosphere of that hour seems
to surround me even now in the
memory. I opened the door of my
cottage and entered. 1 laid my hut
upon the little stand in the hall, and ;
passed on to the kitchen—our kitchen
and dining-room were both one then
1 pushed open (ho kitchen door aad
was—in heaven ! The table was set
against the wall. The evening meal
was ready—prepared by the hand of
her who had come to he my helpmeet
in deed as well as in name—and by
the table, with a throbbing, expectant
look upon her face, stood mv wife.
I tried to speak, and could not. 1
could only clasp the waiting angel to
my bosom, thus showing to her the
elastic burden of my heart. The
yeais have passed long,long years—
and worldly wealth has llowed in
upon me, and 1 am honored and en
vied, hut—as true as heaven—l would
give it all—every dollar —for the joy
of that hour of that June evening,
long ago!’’
Colorado Antiquities.
It, is very generally supposed that
evidences of the former settlement of
the West by civilized races of men
do ri"t ex st within the limits of Col
otada. This is a popular error. It
i«, perhaps, true that Arizonia and
poitious of New Mex : co exhibit in
greater abundance evidence of the
presence of a by-gone and forgotten
iace, but they are by no means en
tirely lacking in Colorado. On the
Las Animas River, in the county of
the same name, there are multiplied
proofs of the former habitations of a
race of men entirely different in their
habits and mode of living from the
savage tribes of the plains. These
proofs consist of the remains of
stone houses, traces of irrigating
ditches, broken pottety, stone trays
which were evidently used for crush
ing grain, and earthen pipes of an
entirely different shape and make
from any in use among the savages.
On San Francisco Creek and the
Cliicoso in the same county, the same
evidences of the occupation of the
country by an extinct race are abun
dant. On the stream last named,
there is the course of an ancient
ditch, evidently made for irrigating
purposes, plainly traceable for many
miles. At Cannon City in Fremont
county, relics of the same nature
were found on the first settlement of
that place. We have in our posses
sion an unfinished stone pipe which
we found a foot below the suiface of
the earth, on the site of that town as
early as the year 1861. It is true
that the manufacture of stone pipes
is common to all the tribes of Indians,
but their workmanship is easily ;
known to any one who has familiar
ized hiimclf in the least degree with
the subject.
Tbe pipe in question is identical in
form and material with those found
at Trinidad among the remains of
ancient houses, and entirely different
from those made by any of the tiibes
of wild Indians. In view of these
facts, not generally known, there is
the best possible reason for believing
that Colorado is a fruitful field for the
researches of archceologists. Who
these strange people were and how
they became extinct are questions well
worthy of intelligent inquiry and re
search.— Pueblo People.
A Michigan matron is the last
woman who set a tub of boiling wa
ter on tbe lloor. The baby was a
beautiful one, and tbe mother is in
consolable :,iuce its tragic death.
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No. 24.
A Novel Duel.
Among the reminiscences told o*
the Ft anco-Prussian war is the ac
count of a curious duel between two
suboidinato officers of the French
army.
“Von intend to fight a due!, eh 1”
asked the commandant.
"V es, Colonel. \\ ords hare pass
ed which can ouly he wiped out bv
blood. We don’t want to pass for
cowards.”
“\ erv well, you shall fight, hut it
must be in this wav : “Take your
carbines, piece yourselves on a line
facing Mfilmaison, where the enemy
\ou will march upon their gat*
risan with equal step. When sufli
ciently near their posts yon will fire
upon them. Tho Prussians will re
ply. \on continue to advance ami
fire. \\ hen one falls the other may
turn upon his heels, and his retreat
shaH he covered by one of my com
panies.”
“In this way,” concluded the com
mandant, "the blood which vou both
demand will he spilled with profit
and glory, and lie who comes back
will do so without regret, without
the lemurs of having killed or woun
ded with lii.s own hand a Frenchman
at a time when France needs all lu-r
defenders and all her children. If
you both fall, who shall sav you are
cowatdsf | may also mid that 1
thus give you an excellent opportu
nity tor put'ing a couple of Gentian*
on' of the way, a service which will
procure for you a good lecomtueiida
lion for rev ard and promotion.”
The matter was arranged as the
commandant had dictated. At twenty
paces from the walls of M iknttison,
one ot the adversar es was wounded,
staggered and fell. The other ran to
him, raised him up, and cat tied him*
off on his shoulders amid n perfect
hailstorm of balls both, thenceforth,
entitled to the greatest honor and te
sped U- m the whole regiment.
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Tuuuui.e Shot kor Somibouy.—
In the course es a long editorial ex
perieuce, we have heatd ot main
strange affairs. Inn the most singular
of all occurred last night. A wor'hy
citizen, who lives in the mo«t thickly
settled patt of the town, went home
as usual at eventide, and aftci eating
the supper prepared for him by his
faithful helpmeet, read the Register,
and told his children “he hoped they
had been good all day,” and went t >
bed.
The household was soon locked in
the arms of Morpheus, but about
midnight was aroused by a tremen
dons noise in the yard made by a
mass meeting of cats, who were cele
brating the full of the moon. Our
worthy friend arose from his couch,
invested himself of that of which lie
had been divested when he sought
j repose, took a double-barreled shot
gut; iu his hand and sallied out the
back door, determined to extern-inate
a part of the feline luted.
He got a good range on the squal
ling cats and let fly one bnriel, when
ho was horrified to hear leiuinin*
scicams from the next house and a
female voice exclaied : “Run, Freddy,
it’s mv husband.'’ In the twinkling
of an eye, from the next house a
man’s form, clad in the apparel of
night, dropped out of a second story
window and rushed around the (mi
ner, shouting; “Don’t shoot, don’t
shoot again ; she invited me to call.”
Our worthy citizen shouldered his
ordnance and walked back into liis
own house, greatly astonished at
wlint lie had seen and heard, and was
smartly rated by his own wife about
“not minding his own business,”—
Th 3 lord and master of the next
house will return to the city by an
early train to morrow morning, and
probably f:e will he astonished, 100.
—Spruioju Id (IU.) Ret/ister
A doctor returned a coat to a tai
h>r because it did not fit him. The
tailor seeing the doctor at the funeral
of one of one of his patients, said :
“All, doctor, you are a happy
man!”
“Why so ?*' asked the doctor.
“Because," replied the tailor, “you
never have any of your bad work
relumed on your hands.”
Happy Bridegroom—“ More mon
ey, inadame ! more money ! Hare
von forgotton my money has bought
everything you have—even the dress
you stand iu!” Fair BriJe —“No,
sir; nor have I forgotten that your
money also bought what stand# in
tlie dress."
A boy eleven years old, at board
ing-school, receiving a visit from his
i father, he performed the ceremouy of
introduction between parent aud
teacher, a la young America, by say
! ing to the latter, “Mr. W , this ie a
father of mine "