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j. G. Cain. J-R- Polhlll
CAIN & POLHILL,
attorneys at law
LOUISVILL, GA.
May 5, 1871. 1
R. W. Carswell. W. F. Dhnny.
Carswell & Denny
rfTTOB.m*•» 4* ww
LOUISVILLE, GEORGIA,
WILL practice in all the Counties in the
Middle Circuit. Also Burke in Augus
ta Circuit. All business entrusted to their
tare will meet with prompt attention.
Nov. 3.27 ly
V 7. H. Watkins, R- L. Gamble.
WATKINS & GAMBLE
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
ILouintoflU, ffia.
January 22 1874. >7
J. w. COOLEY—Dentist.
Louisville and SandersviEe, Ga.
Will practice in Jefferson and Washington
counties. Orders le't at this > ffloe will receive
attention. Prices reasonable Jan 8 tt.
~~~dr7e. e, parsons,
Offers his services to the people of Washing
ton and Jefferson counties.
Can be consulted at the residence of Mrs.
j.. Miller, in Louisville, on tiie first wesk in
aoh month. Wilt serve at th-ir homes if pre
ened. Work promised to give satisfaction.
January 23, 1873 ly
MEDICAL.
DR. W. W. BATTEY, Inc, located at
home seven miles from Louisville, and
oilers his professional services to the citisens
in the neighborhood.
March, rhoo 1873
OVKB
Bignon if Crump's Auction Store,
184 Broad St., Angusta, Ga
J. I, PALMER, Proprietor.
Good Board furnished at reasonable prices
bar the Month. Week or Day.
T- MARKWALTER/S
" Broad Street, Near Lower Market,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
MONUMENTS, TOMBSTONES
And all kinds of Marble work kepi
on band and furnished to order at
short notice. Call and see.
Jan. 23, 1873. 12m.
SPOTSWOOD HOTEL
JKocon, ©a.,
Nearly opposite Passenger De-
Et, and only one minutes walk.
>ard, $3.00 per Hay.
THOMAS H. HARRIS,
Proprietor.
April ISth, 1572.
MARCIA OUSE
A P ANN AH, GA.
he B. LUCE—Proprietor.
BOARP PER DAY $3.00.
Louisville, Jefferson County, Ga., Thursday, February 12, 1814.
COLLEGE.
This tnstitntion, now rapidly growing In
l-opnlar favor, was font ded in 1856 and char
tered in 1857, frr ihe purpose of placing a Col
legiate Education within the r.ach Os the in
dustrious Farmer and Mechanic, as well as
those mors highly favored. To this end. all ex
penses of dress, style of living, tuition, and
board, have been reduced to the lowest prac t
cable rates. All superfluities and luxuries are
discouraged, and a young man is estimated by
hia ability, application and moral character
rather than the cnl and coat of hia coat. Wit
a course of study, inferior to none, and a stan
datd of scholarship not below the highest, we
offer an education to the struggling youth of
the Country at less than HALF the COST a
other Colleges of the same grads.
BOWDON COLLEGE
Is tbs tool of no Political faction, nor Religious
sect. No Student nor Citizen is proscribed for
political or religious opinions. We inculcate
the Christians Religion, not dogmas; patriotism
not office-seeking.
BOWDON COLLEGE
Is free from that most fatal temptation to young
men, the retail of spirituous liquors. The in
corporation laws forbid it under a heavy pen
alty; and the Mayor and Council have full
powsis to suppress disorder, remove nuisance,
and to promote the general good over a teri
tory of two miles in leugth and one and a half
miles in width. We iuvite all Citizens in search
of a location remarkable lor good health, pore
Water, good society, wholesome laws, educa
tional faciiitie., aud NO WHISKEY, to settle
among
BOWDON COLLEGE
Affords snperior advantages to the honest Yeo
manry of Georgia. Observation proves that
great men spring from the rural districts.
There, true genius grows in its native forests
uneorrupted by the cunning snd craft, the
greed and luxury of City life. It is to this
class ofstudeuts that our Institution is pecu
liarly adapted, while its simplicity, common
sense, and good taste, cau but correct many
evils of a more artificial life.
Clasßesin BOOK-KEEPING are organized
for the benefit of those who desire to prepate
fur business; and in Arithmetic, English
Grammar and Geography, for those not fully
prepared to enter upon the College Course.
PRIZE SCHOLARSHIP.
A Scholarship for four years, will be awar
ded to the applicant who cau stand the best
examination tu all the branches of a primary
and common school, on the Third Qay of Au
gust of each year. The name of student and
hi. teacher will be published in the Cata
logue.
PERPETUAL CALENDAR.
Fall Term opens on Third Thursday in Au
gust.
Spring Term opens Third Thursday in Jan
uary.
Commencement Day on Wednesday, after
the first duudaj in July.
Expanses.
TUITION FALLTERM *72 00
“ SPRING TERM *32 00
BOARD per month including all
items *l2i to 15
Books will be furnished to Students t Pub
lishers prices. For Catalogue and further in.
formation, address the Preside..-
KEV. F. H. M. HENDERSON
or J. D. MOORE, Jr , Secretary
Decern per 26, 1872, ly
CENTRL RAILROAD.
GEN’L SUET'S OFFICE, C. R. R. J
Savans ah, October 10, 1873. )
ON and after SUNDAY the l‘2th Inst.,
Passenger trains ■•n the Georgia Central
Railroad, ite branches and connections, will
run as follows:
GOING NORTH AND WEST
Leave Savanuah.... .......... 8;45 a m
Leave Augns.a 9=05 p m
Arrive in Augusta 4:00 p m
Arrive in Macon 6:43 p m
Leave Macen tos C01umbu5........ 7:15 p m
Leave Macon for Eufauia.... 9:10 p m
Leave Macou for Atlanta 7:30 p m
Arrive at Columbus 12:45 a m
Arrive at Eufauia 10:20 a m
Arrive at Atlanta. 1:40 am
COMING SOUTH AND EAST
Leave Atlanta ..12:20 a m
Leave Eufauia 5:45 p m
Leave Columbus 1:30 a m
Arrive at Macon from Atlanta 0:30 a m
Arrive at Macon from Eulaitla 5:26 a m
Arrive at Macon from Columpus 6:45 a m
Leave Macon-..- 7:lsam
Arrive at Augusta 4:00 p m
Arrive at Savannah 5:25 p m
DAILY TRAIN (SUNDAY EXCEPTED)
BETWEEN EATONTON AND MACON.
Leaving Eatonton 5:00 a m
Leaving MilledgeviUe 6:43 a m
Arrive at Macon < :45 am
RETURNING.
Leaves Mac0n.............. 4:00 pm
Arrives at MUledgesville 7:14 p m
Arrive at Eatonton 9;00 p m
Connects daily at Gordon with Passenger
Train to and from Savanannah and Augusta,
WM. ROGERS,
eneral Superintendent.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE ON SOUTH
C A ROLINA RAILROAD.
Cham-isvox, October
ON a4ND AFTER BUNDAY, 19th INST.,
TH E following Schedule will be run on the
South Carolina Railroad:
DAY PASSENGER TRAIN
Leave Charleston —W® » m
Arrive at Angusiaat p. m.
Leave Augusta at - ° ! *“
Arrive at Charlesten 4:20 p. m.
NIGHT EXPREBS TRAIN.
Leave Charleston P- “•
Arrive at Augusta..-. J’rJ: *• m *
Leave Augusta °:00 P- “•
Arrive at Charleston .5:40 a. »•
AIKEN TRAIN.
Leave Ai •• m
Arrive at Augusta m ’
Leave Augusta
Arrive at Atken m.
General Ticket Ant.
BoardinG HousE.
Mbs. M. S. MILLER, Proprietor.
Good Board furnished by the
month, week or day. Charges
moderate.
Oct. 16th 1873. ts
BOURNE & BOWLES,
TIMBER FACTORS
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
No. 200 Bay Street, Savannah, Ga.
Agnti for HOLLY Flooring Will,
C4ETEBSr»hE «.*.
Liberal Advances made on Consignments in
uand. sept 4 6m
Osceola Butler & Cos.,
WHOLESALE and RETAIL
DRUGGISTS’,
Opposite Pulaski &, Scriven Houses
SAVANAH, GA.
Particular attention paid to
Country Mercliantr, Physicians aid
Pl.i nters Orders.
October 30, 1873, 3 m
CORMACK HOPKINS
DEALER in
STOVES,
Tin JVare,
House Furnishing Goods*
AND
yg/ooM
CUTLERY
AND
Plated Ware.
No. 167, Broughton Street,
SAVANNAH, GA.
October 30th, 1873. 4ms
The Oldest Furniture House in the State
PLATT BROTBERS,
sag a sin iebs® a® ss«,
AUGUSTA, GA.,
JL ep always on hand the latest
styl> sos
FQIIITOiS
Os ev« ry vnrie'y manufactured, from
the lowest to the high, si grades.
CHAMBER, FARLOR,
DINING-ROOM,
ANE>
Library, Complete Suits
or Single Pieces,
At prices which cannot fail to suit
ihe purchaser.
Dec. 25ih 1873. 3m.
Dwight L. BoaKKTS. F. A. GazDeii.
Dwight L Roberts & Cos
Commission
merchants.
SAVANNAH, GA:
Oc*. 30, 1773. 4m.
NOTICE.
The firm of M. A. Evans k Cos.
hBS this day been dissolved. The
business will be continued in the
name of Warren, Evans k Cos.
All persons indebted to ihe old firm
will please call and pay all claims
ngainst them.
L. C. Wa REN,
M. A. Evans,
N. T. Harman.
Bartow, Ga., Jan. 1, 1874.
Report of the County School Commis
sioner of Jeffereon County.
Louißvillb Feb’y. 2d 1874.
To the President ol the County
Board of Education, Sir : —
I herewith submit for your inspec
tion my Roport of the educational
work ol the County lor the year
1873.
The School law now in foice res
peals the old law, by which funds
were raised for the education o! the
poor, aud leaves that large class of
our population wholy destitute ol
any chance of eduoaiion except
which is accordeJ to them by ihe
charity of Teachers and other char
itable persons. Asa necessary con
sequence they must grow up and
enter society as active members
without any education. Which is
equivalent lo saying, they must en
ter society in readiness for crime—
“for treason stratagem and spoil— ’’
And the Phi'anthropist must c n
lemplate our social prospect t-s it is
colored by this lac’, with the most
gloomy foreboding. The County
may save a few dollars by ii at pre«
sent. But it will only be by nurs
ing a bampire to prey upon her life
blood hereafter. It is sowing to ihe
wind and the harvest will be the
whirl-wind.
This, however, is on» fault of the
present school law, and n<>t of the
citizens of thecouniy. For, io their
honor be it said, they have always
paid cheerfully and without one
murmur whatever tax for Poor
school purposes, the vx isdom of the
Grand Jury might recommend, un
til ihe law was repealed. And this
is but one of many proofs that if we
had a local School law for the coun
ry the philanthropy and far sighied
wisdom ol ihe peop'e would
prompt them to make a proper pro
vi-ion for education. Even since
the law was rep* aled a tax for Poor
school purpo-es was assessed and
cheei fitly paid in 1873. Not one
citigen object and. What specific
amount was thus raised I have not
been informer!. It will be exhibited
in the report ol the Treasurer. Bui
aga nst the fund thus raised, y. u
have audited claims ofTeachers in
the ye :r 1873 amounting to $l,O-5 5,-
94. These have all been pail,
leaving still a stir plus larger or
smaller in the Treasury. And I
am happy to infor n you that for
tha t small amount judiciously
watched over by your ca-e no less
than 97 poor children attended our
best schools, some for a part,
others lor the whole ol the yeai
1873. And it may well smprise
you to know that nearly twenty pe
cent of the white child.en of the
county, which attended s -hool in
the y< ar were poor childr, nan I ac
cepied as such by your Board.
Aware that you, a3 well as the
Grand Jury, are hampered by th
pre ent school law and powerless to
act, 1 make no recommendation in
the premise. We must wait for
some kind angel to trouble the wa
ters of public opinion and of leg si
tion. We need a law locating power
some where in the county to levy a
tax for«ducaiional purposes, An l
experience v ill prove, what her lo
one year or a hundred years, tha
until such a law is made and execut
ed in the county, we will remain
hewers of wood and dreweis ot wa
ter for a better educated popula
tion in a different section of Up
country.
The County Treasurer ha» receiv
ed and by your ordor has disbursed
$2,199 6o in p»ym< nt of :he st:h<>0 1
debt of 1871. This leaves abou:
or.e third ol that debt still unpaid.
But as the Teachers for that year
were, fully fore-wamed that the Pub
lic School fund would only pay a
part of the bill and even a less pari
than has b< en already paid, and as
the patrons generally paid tuition in
full, leaving what was paid by the
State due to patrons and not to
Teachers, there cart be but little
wrong done to Teachers ii that re
maining third is never paid hy Ihe
State. It is. or should be. due to the
Patrons and not to Teachers.
But, unfortunately for a Public
School system, toe fact that the
Siate has not paid the entire bill of
1871, whieh, it was distincUv
announced at the lime the contracts
weie made, would not and could
not be paid entire, has rendered the
enterprise of a public school system
unpapu ar among many of our peo
ple. This should not be so. And
time for the people to look into and
understand ihe subject more fully
will certainly give us a local School
law for the county, or a general law
for the State, locating somewhere,
either with the school Board, the
Grand Jury, the Ordinary, or the
Board of Cuunty Commissioners, the
power of taxation fi>r educational
purposes. And the school Innd
wht n so raised should be for the
county, and should be kept m the
county, and carefully secured anil
watched over, and should not be
subject to the enormous attrition in
cident toi'B passage to the State
Treasury and back again. And in
my intercourse wiih the proneriy
holders of the county during the
last summer in the school work, in
obidience to instructions from tin
State Departmeni, I brought this
subject lo their attention. And I
found as many as nine tenths ot the
properly holders of the county hear
tily in favor of such a law. Indeed
i rarely found one who was opposed
to it. They feel that the social,
civil, moral and pecuniary salvation
of the county and of posterity de
pend upon it.
By order of the State Con mis
sioner I made a carelul examination
of the School population of the
county, between the ages » f six and
eighteen years, in the spr ng. 1
found an aggregate school popula
tion of 3,122; o' tin s 1,227 ate white
and 1.895 ate colored. Th> re were
also 47 Confederate soldiets under
thirtv years of age who are entitled
to public school privileges.
1 found in existence, in the first
half of the year, 13 private schools
ofall grades, wiih an average atten
dance, as reported by the Teachers
of 624 pupils. These were all
white. There was no ptivate c Jor
ed school in the County. The while
schools were about as numerous and
as wed attended as they generally
are in the county. Let the above
exhibit shows that not qui e tony
per cent, of our white children are
m the habit of attending school—
This lamentable faet calls all da ses
of our p> ople to ponder long and
carefully what we are doing. We
may cry out against public scho >1
systems and against taxation for
that purpose, and fbnter ourselves
that we are an educated people. —
But the law is just as fixed and in
varable as that which governs the
changmg Moon, unless ih-re is a
change and a great improvement in
some way, our posterity of no dis
tant day wi I be by degrees sup
planted bv the gradual ingr< ss of a
more inte lig nt an 1 enterprising
population, oui homes will become
their ho nes, our graves will be in
corp rated, in their little larrns, and
our descendants will become employ
ees upon their own pit mil h >me
steads. From this source, mor
than any other, whatever Politicians
may say, resu'ted our late sectional
subjugation and present humiliatio i.
And like causes will produce like
iffects till time shall end.
The School law required us to
keep open our Public si hools so
at lea t three months of theye.T in
order to draw our potion of the
Public School fund. But as out
people had been accus'omed to di
vide the school year into two un< -
qual terms of six snd f.iurn) nibs, as
the first term was out, and the
most of ihe patrons wi-bed »c iool
for the rem ining four months, and
as they had to foot and were willing
to toot the larger pait of the bill
out of their private purses, 1 thought
it best to spread li e Sta e fund
over a term of four in place of ihree
m rnihs, and thus avoids Beeming
clash with a long established custom.
Therefore,having organized befote
hand, about the middle of August 1
opened twenty-five public schools
in the county; seventeen white and
tij ht colored schools. But for
some reason unknown to me, one ol
h-white scho >ls in upper p..rt
of the 76ih sub-dist. w is broken up
a short time after opening and was
never repotted to me. And anothei
white school in the Blst. sib-d.st
was kept open but part of the term
as appeals in ihe tabular exhibit
marked A which acaompanys this
report, and which I with to be con
s and red as part of th s repot t. This
latter school, however, wis supple
mented, and reported in full.
In the sixteen white schools thus,
kept open, there was a maximum at
tendance of 512 pupils—32 pupils
to each. The Teachers were gen
erally competent—a large majority
of them eminently so, and ail of
them were faithful and gave gener
al satisfaction. I did not visit the
schools as often as the law requires
or the na'ureofthe case demanded,
for the simp'e reason that I ha l la
bored, and was 1 iboring, to a qre it
degree, without remum ration, and
c ould not thus incur that addi ional
labor. But if 1 had done so, and
made the charge which the law al
lows, it would have taken up tool
much of the school fund, snd left sol
little for distribution among teach- 1
ers as to render the system unpopu- j
lut. That L wished to avoid.
Os the e ght colored schools, four
were taught by white mid four by
colored tcacheis. But 1 found great
difficulty and much labor and
annoyance in organ zing and keep
ing open the schools. As they are
commonly called “free s< hools” I
could not gei the patrons to under
stand why th- y had to pay a part
of the tuition. They preferred teach
ers of their own race, and I could
not find such who were at al! lit
either in character or education.
The four whom 1 employed and re
commended to your Board for ceni
ficaesfor four mon'hs, though of
good moral character, were not “apt
to teach” and were miserably in
competent in education. 1 employ
ed them not from choice but neces
sity. I could not obtain while
teachers for colored schools from
the fact, that the public fund was
not sufficient to remunerate them,
and they were unwilling to trust the
patrons lor their portion of die tui
tion. And the patrons would not
or could not pay in advance. Os
the four white teachers whom 1 em
ployed, three were eminently com
petent and gave fall satisfaction.
But oue continued his school only
fbronemomh. There was a max
imum a'teudmce upon these eight
schools of 383 pupils. They wer
iri the mosts rict sense of the word
elementary schools. But many of
the pupils made very satisfactory
progress and some of them evinced
a rate aptness to learn. This por
tion of our population is fading very
swiftly away, and this is pre-emi
nently true of the children. Having
made a careful enumeration of the
school population of the county
twice in the last three years I know
that the colored children of the
County are diminishing about eight
per cent, per annum. And it were
not difficult to show, it this were the
proper place, that th'S oecrease re
sults to a very great degree from
the want of education among the
adults. If those who turned them
loose in the great struggle of life to
care for themselves in all their un»
fitne-s and unpreparedness to do so
shall refuse to educa e them or to
assist us to do so, and thus prepare
them for that struggle, then how
ever onerous and unequal the bur
den we must either shou der it, or
catry them as a great moral incub t
and festering gangr- ne upon ihe
body politic, and see them lade
away like the red man has d-me.
In the exhibit m iraed B which
accompanies this report and which
I wish to be considered as part of it,
you will see in tabular form the full
character of e ich school in the Coun
ty with its location and teacher or
leachers. The School law now
makes )'our Secretary the eus odian
of the Public School Fund. As such
I received Torn the State Treasury
$2,156 11. 1 his amount I distri
buted to the Sub-dißtricis and the
proper claim mis according to law
and instructions received from the
S&te School Commissioner. I sub
mitted a copy of that distribution
fur your inspection and approval at
your Meeting on the 23d of Decem
ber las'. I re-submit it in exhibit
marked C as part of this report.
You approved it and ordered me to
pay out accoidingly. I have done
so, and 1 herewith submit lor your
inspection the proper vouchers.
In one sub«di>trict (the 84th) aft' r
the most caret jl effort 1 was able to
organize but one school, and it a
colored school. Hence the portion
of the pitb'ie fund falling due to that
sub-d.B net was mope than sufficient
to pay the claim of the teacher, as
appears in exhibit C herewith sub
mitted. There remains therefore in
tie Trea-ury $66 56J wl.i h b
longs to the 84th sub-dis rict ,and is
subject to your order.
With due defference I regard that
S revision of the sch ml law which
the school fund to the
counties and again t© the suu-di<-
tricts in proportion to the number
of children in each, as unequal, un
fair and calculated to render the
law unpopular. In our old settled
country the following proposition
is true with very rare exceptien—
i. e. wherever lands are fertile it ia
less healthy, and consequently few-
er children are raised than in lec
tions where the lands are less fertile
and health ia belter. Consequently
in sections where the lands are bet
ter and the. accumulations upon
them more valuable aud where, of i
course, the largest amount of taxes
are paid, there the people draw the
smallest amount nut ol the Treas
ury. But in sections where the
lmds are poor and the accumula
i tions upon them leas valuable and
I where the smallest ampunt of taxea
j are paid, but where children are
l more numerous, there the people
draw the largest amount from the
No. 41.
Treasury. In a word, ti> e rule is,
they who pay much draw ltte,
whilst they who pay lilt'e draw
much. On the broad principles
of political economy this can be
sustainod. But where a sy>tern is
just s' ruggling into birth snd pant
ing for popular favor, is it wise to
stiai gle it with pabulum, which,
however nourishing, it cannot sw al»
low t I feel satisfied from observa
tion t!ia\ however this provision
mnv work in the Slate it
will rentier the law unpopular in
this County until it is changed. I
illustrate. The Tax books show
that this county contained in 1872
1.862 polls— sl,B62 00. Assuming
that this is about an av- rage Coun
ty, it ought to receive about sl,loo*
00 out of the proceeds of the State
Road. This, to say nothing of the
other sources of accre'ifu to the
School fund would give the County
$2,962 00 of School Fund. This,
of course, is to be abated by neces
sary expenses But, one of two
things is obvious, either the expen
ses are made by fir t>>o large, or the
mode of division which i- in propor
tion to the number of children, do s
the Countv injustice. 1 think the
latter is tnie. The proceeds of the
State Roud and the other sources of
revenue to the S ate School fund
ought to be suffi ieut for it. tor
there must b • a S a e school sy?teni
kept up. But the Poll Tax might
he It ft in the counties where collect
ed. And they should be increas and
largely. Aid ibis amount added to
a heavy tax on dogs which we need
in selt-detence, an 1 a heavy tax on
sales of liquors, with a light prop
erty tax, and the small amount to
be received fiotn the State would
enable us to keep open free schi ols
for ten n onths in the year. From
& careful calculation and the little
experiment made last Fall I am sat
isfied that for Fifteen Thousand
Dollars, carefully and economically
handled we can run a good school
in reach of almost every child in the
county, for ten months. H.ow can
that amount lie raised f I suggest
the following feasible method —
Poll Tsx—increased to $3 00 $5,580.
Tax on Dogs—ssy— 1
Taxon 19 venders es liquor fliK) each 1,000,
Pro rata of State fund—say - 1,200,
Hitherto raised for Poor 5ch0015........ 1,800,
Property Tax ..... ........ 4,414.
15,1
The seeming »ax of $4,414 00
would riot be a drain on ihe County
for il is Iss by $2,500 00 than the
amount now paid by patrons for prt
vate tuition. And as private tuition
would be no longer required, it
would lie a real reduction of the ex
pense of the County by $2,700 00.
Vet the introduction of such a sys.r m
would be the morning of a glorious
day lor the County. It were plant
ing a tree whose rich npe fruits
would drop into the lap of gratified
posterity and they would rise up to
call us blessed. I return gratified
acknowledgements to each member
of the Board for their cordial co-op
eration with and uniform courtesy
toward me.
Respecilully Submitted,
D. G. Phillips, Sec’y.
OOUXTtfBXAIITXBS
For wedlock’s bond l never sigh,
In freedom's light I love to bask ms.
1 wouldn’t marry ’em—not I
If twenty duchesses should ask me!
I never yearned for worldly pelf,
I love to dwell alone and humble;
To sew my buttons on myself,
And when 1 prick my noger.—grumbto,
1 own there's one Occasion, though,
When even my contentment fails,
I do not like the gi. Is I know
To go and marry other males!
I know I should be quite at sea
At aught beyond a mild flirtation ;
Aad nursing "cherubs” is to me,
A most unpleasant occupation ;
Till true love* course shall smoothly ran.
And while unfettered hearts are plenty,
It may be sweet to cherish one—
But I prefer to worship twenty !
Bat, eh! the even rosy glow
Os my contentment sadly pale*
When any of the girls I know
Will go and many other melon!
From gout I’m not entirely free —
But gout befits my social station;
I'm older than I used to be—
But that's the ca<e withs i creation;
go. why the damsels 1 adore
Although they smile upon me sweetly.
Will go and fancy some more.
Is whet perplexeo me completely!
Perhaps I feel no crashing blow—
Ho gnawing pang my heart assails;
Bat still I hate the girls yon know
To go aad marry other malee !
•‘Fellow trabelleri," said a color
ed preacher, ‘‘ef I bad been Batin’
dried applt» lor a week, an' den
i took to drinkiu* for a monf, I couldT
feel mote s well’d up dan I am dis
miitit wid pride an’ vanity, at set in'
such fulltendanoe here due vent u\”
“What is a more exhilarating
sight,” asks * Vermont paper, “that!
I tq see eighteen handsome girls •
'ding down bill On an oxa'eri
I “Nineteen,” says an experienced
itor of the Boston Poe*.