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Jefferson News & Farmer.
Vol. 3.
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J. 0. Cain. J. 11. Polliill
CAIN & POLHILIv
ATTORNEYS AT LA W
LOUISVILL. GA.
May 5,1871. 1 ly-
R. W. Carswell. ■ ~ F. Denny.
Carswell & Denny
jrroK.vn rS J* 1 Liir
LOUISVILLE, GEORGIA,
YTILL practice in all the Counties in the
yY Middle Circuit. Alwßurke in Augus
ta Circuit. All business entrusted to their
trare will meet with prompt attention.
Nov. 3.27 ly
W. H. Watkins, R. b. Gamble.
WATKINS & GAMBLE
-jAITOMEVS AT LAW,
HoutsbtUr; <Ka.
January 22 lbT, . ly
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J. W. COOLSY—Dentist.
Louisville ami SaudcrsufftejEa. ~
Will practice in Jefferson and Washington
coonti'S. Orders left at tliis office will receive
attention. Prices reasonable JanHtf.
E, E, PARSONS,
B 1
Offers his services to the people ofWaslimg*.
ton and Jeffefsou counties.
Can be consulted at the residence of Mrs.
•r. Miller, in Louisville, on the first week in
. aph month; at their hoineguf p,e
erred. Wwtr promised to give fetisfaCtion.
January 23, 1873 ly
' MEDICAL
I'TBtxAlF.Api ?BXTTKY, ShxC locate# at
AJ home seven miles frop Louisville, and
offers his professional services to the cit'lxens
in the neighborhood.
Marsh, rljQO 1873 ; .
A. F DURHAM, H- 5T
fhyslclan ana rnrgu'ii.
•gffUt EJBS tfLLY treats Diseases of the
53 LuDgs -nd Throat, of the Eye,
Nose ami Ear, and all lofms ol Dropse# ;' dis
easps.of.ttte Heart Kidnayo, Bladder and Stric
ture,' secret diseases, long standing Ulcfctk. —
Removes Heinorrheidal Tumors without pain.
Makes a speciality of diseases peculiar to Fe
males. Medicines fsent_ to ffisjf point p% jh*
Railroad. ‘ All correspondence confidential.
Feby J 5, 1874 ly ;
£ AJkMVM ISftV&S,
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Bignon If Criimtfs Auction S tore,
254 Bread St., Augusta, Ga-
Aftlii Proprietor.
“tfood Hoard furnished at reasonable prices
by the Month. Week or Day.
*X- mWf<M’S
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Broad Street, "Near Lower Market,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA '. t
MONUMENTS, TOMBSTONES
Aai all kinds-of Marble woik kept
on hand and furnished to order at
short notice. Call and see.
Jan. 23, 1573. 1 2m.
msSal house,
AfANEAU, ga.
A. B* LUGE,— Proprietor.
iiOARD PER DAY 83.00.
liouisville, Jefferson Comity, Ga., Thursday, April 2, 1874.
The OideVt Furniture House jn tie State
PIATT BROTBERS,
sas & Ma S5? 0a
> AUGUSTA, GA. }
Keep always on hand the latest
styjesr of
FBE I I TOS &
Os every'Vtfrieiy manufactured, from
tl±p lorn st to I lie highest grades.
CHAMBER, FAF.LOR,
' DINING-ROOM,
* • » 1 k'rii
Library, Complete Suits,
or Single Pieces,
At pric4A.'Vliieh canuot fail lo suit
the purchaser.
-Dec. 25th 1873. 3in.
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TIMBER FACTORS
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COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
No. 200 Lay Street , Savannah, Ga.
Agents for HOLLY Flouring Hills,
C.IItTI£ItSf‘MLE.B f../
Liberal Advances made on Consignments in
hand. sept 4 Cm
Osceola Butler-& Cos.,
WHOLESALE and RETAIL
DRUGGISTS’,
Opposite Pulaski &. Scriven House.-
SA VAN AH, GA.
4 # to *» * l -
Particular attention paid,to
Country Mcrehuntr, Physicians am
Punters Orders.
October 30, 1873 f 3 nd
CEiNTItL RAILROAD.
GEN’L SUPT’S OFFICE, C. R. R. I
Savannah. Uciubtr 10, 1873. )
ON and after SUNDAY the 12th Inst.,
Passenger trains on the Georgia Cemral
Kailruad, its branches and com.eetiuLS, will
run as follows:
Oul NORTH AND WEST.
Leave; Savannah....... a m
LeaveiAugusta. A...J ... 9:115 pin
Arrive m Augusta 4:OU p m
-Arrive ijl Macon t>:4s p in
Leave Alacen los tjolurnhus 7:15 p m
Leave Alacon for Eufaula.... 9:fU p m
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Arrive at Eulaula 10:2(1 a in
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(JQiIING SOUTH AND EAST
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Leave Columbus .l 1:30 am
Arrive at Alaeou from Atlanta...... (1:3(1 a m
Arrive at Alnccn frcnnLutaula 5:20 a in
Arrive'at Macon Irem (Jutumpus...... 0:45 a m
Leave Macon ....... 7; Io aHi
Arrive at AhgUsta 4:00 p m
Arrive at Savannah 5:25 p in
DAILY TRAIN C«UnDA,Y EXCEPTED)
BETWEEN E ATONTON AND MACON.
Katonton..'. S:UO a in
Leaving MilledgeViHe b:4d air.
Arrive at Macotu 7;4u a m
'-JL vi- ItETnK.Nt.NG.'
Leave Macon 11 111
Arrive at MUledgesville r: 4 p m
Atptive' at Eatontou.-,. J l uo P lll
Conueeip at'Gordon ivith Yassenger
Train to a. dt jin Savanmmak W
WM. ROGERS,
f eneral tSuperiuiendout.
iikNGE OF SCHEDULE ON SOUTH
CAROLINA RAILROAD.
CiiarOkston, October
ON AND AFTER SUNDAY, 19th INST.,
TH tTfollowiiig Schedule will be run on the
South Carolina Railroad :i
DAY PASSENGER TRAIN
Leave Charleston... a m.
Arrive at P- m -
Leave Augusta at B ' m '
■ Arrive at’Chai'lestwu -,..4:20 p.ip.
• ~ ' NIGIPP" EXPRESS TRiriN,
Leave
Arrive at Charleston - * :4U a - “*•
AIKEN TRAIN.
Leave Akin a* - 9 ;9° a ' m
Arrive at Angneta r ....Waa. ni.
- fceave, Augusta.... p ' “'
Arrive at Akin.-- -*- - - P* m -
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BoardinG Housß.
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Good Board furnished by We
month, week or- day. Chaises
modetaie.
Oct. 16ih 1873. ts \
1850. PROSPECTUS 1574.
OF THE
The SavaiiD k Morning News.
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In issuing this, the twenty»difth annual pros
pectus ot the Savannah Morning News, it is
unnecessary to revert tot lie history of the pa
per. For a quarter ot a century it has been
the conspicuous and consis ent champion of
Southern sentiment and Southern interests.
The car« er ol the Morning News has been one
of singular prosperity. It made a place ior.i .*
self from the start ai?d has ke;*t it, while a of
its contempoiarios of that day, and all save one
of its late.r rivals, have perished by the
side, and to-day it stands firmly established in
popular favor, with little or no competition
within the area of it* circulation.
The restless activity,energy and enterprise
of tlio age have so extended the sphere ol jour
na’i-ni that the modern newspaper is literally
encyclopedic in character, composing every*,
thing of specific or general in the vast domain
of art, scie ce, literal lire, religion, politics and
the news-* Its tendency is to occupy, the field
of the piimphlet, the magazine and the novel,
audit is gradually usurping the. functions of
those vehicles of thought and information. Its
scope embraces the discussion of every subject
which has been invested with interest by the
restless explorations of ihe human intellect,
and includes every topic calculated to instruct
or to entertain In the newspaper of to-day
the profoundest exegetical article goes forth
surrounded anti relieved by tho brilliant essay
the caustic review, tho pungent editorial, tho
sparkling letter of .correspondence, and them
cy paragraph —Hie whole forming a Commune
of Belle-L itres wherein the most noteworthy
literary effort lias scarcely any advantage of
position over the poorest item.
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Morning News to keep the papi r fully abreast
i oi this tide of progresi and improvement, and
to this end no expense has I een spared. That
their efforts have been in some degree success*
full, is evident from the 'flattening encomiums
bestowed upon the paper by its contempora
ries, and from the large circulate n and influ
ence t-» which it lias attained The plans of
he Proprietor for 1d74 comprehend a nearer
approach to the ideal journalism of the time
'ban ever before. Tho features that have giv
en the paper a marked iiidividua'i'y among
8 ‘Uthern journals, and which have brought it
up to Is present lugh aiandard of popularity
w 1 be retained*a <1 improved upon. Kvents
of interest transpiring in any portion ot the
world within reach of the e-ectric w res. will
find in li M rn ng News a p oinp* and reliable
ch oniciei ? an i its ar angemenU for gathering
•lie-news are such tlmt all important omissions
ot the telegraph are reasonably sure to be sup
p ied by its stall’ of special correspondents ; so
that the readers of the paper are, certain of
finding in it.'- comprehensive column< the la
test i.nd fresli-st imelligunce, systematically
group-d and attractively edited.
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will consistautlv pursue the policy which has
characterized it from the first. Questions of
national or sectional interest will be candidly
and impartially discussed, while every subject
of a political complexion will be treated with
an eye single to the well are,the progress and
the substantial development of the material
resources of the South. The system of carpet
bag robbery and plundef that ha> impoverish
ed our section the popular practices ofcf otlicial
knavery and corruption—and all those odious
•features of which have for their
object the prostration ofsovercigu Stales and
the disestablishment of civil government, in
the South—will be held up to the -eveies t
condemnation; and at all times, in season an
out of season, the paper w ill advocate the pr]
mitively pure doctrines of a strict construe »'
lion of the Constitution, and the adm nistra*
tion of the powers of the government—Execu* 4
tive. Juuical und Legislative—within the
limits prescribed by that instrument. In sub.
serving the interest of a section that has been
so sorely oppressed and so persistently belied
the course of the Morning News will be, as
heretofore, either cautiously conservative or
sharply aggressive, as the nature of the cir
cumstances may seem to demand; and it will
be the aim and purpose of the conductors of
the aper to maintain its position as one of tin*
leading exponents of Csoulhern opinion.
,ln th'*news department, the current. local af°
fairß of Georgia and Florida wilbe chronicled
was the same picturesque and pungent assi“
duily that has made them such prominent and
popular features of the paper. The local de>
partinent is iu charge of a gentleman of skill
and reputation, and will continue to be the
most complete and reliable record of home
©yfcptf ta be found i» any Georgia journal.—
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piotA The figures are collated b) experts, and
their accuracy is such as to commend them to
merchants add businessmen in this and the ad*
joining States. The local market reports are
compiled with laborious care and may be re.-
lied on as representing every phase ot Savam
nah’s commerce.
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compendium of the freshest intelligence, and
comprises all of the modt attractive features of
the Uaily. It contains thoughtful editorials
upon matter of current interest, lively cons
densations, characteristic paragraphs, and
latest telegrams and market reports up to the
hour of going to press It specially commends
itself to the farmers and planters of Georgia
Florida and the adjacent States, and is sum
nished at a price that places it within the
reach of all.
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ly may also, with equal truth, be said of the
Tri-Weekly News. It is one of the be&t
papers of its kind and contains everything of
interest that appears in the Daily, together
wjth the latest telegrams and commercial inteli*
ligeuce.
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Song of the Mystic.
BY FATBKR KVAX.
I walk down tho Valley of Silenco—
Down the dim, Yjlc le;s V. l’.ey—alone;
And I heard not the fall of a footstep
Around me—save Gon and my own;
And the hush of my heart is as holy
As hovers when angels have down.
Long ago, I was weary of voices
Whose mus 0 my heart could not win;
Long ago I was weary of noises
That freited my soul with their diu ;
Long ago, I was weary of places
Where I met but the Human—and Sin.
I walked thro’ the world with the worldly
I craved what the world never gave;
And I said : “In the world, each Ideal
That shines like a star on life’s wave,
Is tossed on the shores of the Real,
And sleeps like a dream in the grave.”
And still did I pine for the Perfect,
And still found tho False with the True ;
I sought ’mid the Human for Heaven,
Dut I caught a mere glimpse of its Blue,
Aud-I wept will n the clouds of Mortal
Vailed even that glimpse from my view
And I toiled on, heart-tired of Human ;
And I moaned ’mid the mosses of men,
Till I knelt long at ail Altar,
And heard a voice call me—since then
I walked down the Valley cf Silence
That lies far beyond mortal ken.
Do you ask what I found ia the Valley 7
’Xis my tiysting-plaee with the Divine;
And I fell at the feet of the Holy,
And above me a voice said : ‘Be Mine,”
Aud then rose from the depths of my sp r.t
An echo—“My heart shall be Tliiue.”
Do you ask how I live in the Vail :y 7
1 weep and 1 dream, and I pray—
But my te .rs are as swee*as the dewdrops
That fall on the ro es ot May ;
And my prayer like a periume from cen-ors,
Asceudoth to God night aud day.
Iu the hush of the Valley of Silence
1 dream all the songs that I sing,
Aud the music floatsdown the dim Valley
Till each rinds a word for a wing,
That to men, like the Dove of the Deluge,
Theme-saga of Peace they may bring.
But far on tlie deep there are billows
That never shall break on the beach :
And 1 have heard songs in the silence
That never shall float into speech;
And I have dreams in the Valley
Too lofty for language to reach,
Do you ask me the place of the Valley,
Ye hearts that are narrowed by care 7
it lieth far away between mountains,
And God and ills angels are there;
Aud one is the dark mount of Sorrow,
And oue the blight mountain of Prayer.
TWENTY-FIYE CENTS.
‘Please, sir, will you buy my chest
nuts V
‘Chestnuts! No!’ returned Ralph
Moore, looking cajreles-ly down on
the upturned fico,ivhose large brown
eye-, shadowed by tangled curls and
flixenhair, were appealing so piii
fu ly lo his own. “Wbai do 1 warn
of chestnuts V
‘Bui, please, sir, do buy 'em,’
pleaded the little one, reassure ) by
the rough kindness of his tone. ‘.\o
tiody seems to care for them, and—
and —’
She fairly burst, into lears, and
Moore, who had been on the point
ofbrushing carelessly past her, stop
ped instinctively.
‘Are you very much in want ol
money ?’
‘lndeed, sir, vve are,’ sobbed the
child, ‘mother sent n.e out, and—’
‘Nay, little one, don’t cry in such
a heart broken way, said Ralph,
S noothing tier (own with careless
g ntleness. ‘I don’t want youi
chestnuts, but Hi re's a qua t. r tor
you if that will to you anv good,’
He did not stay to hear the de'ight,
and incoherent thanks of the child,
pouring out through a rainbow of
smiles und tears, but stiode on his
way, muttering between his teeib :
‘ I hat cuts off my supply of cigars
lor the next tvfeuty four hours. 1
don’t care though, for the brown
e>ed object reajiy did cry as if she
dadn’t a friend |a the world. Hang
it! I wish I was rich enough to
help every « r< afure out of the slough
of despond !’
While Ralph Mi orewa indulging
in these ve y natural tefl ctioirs
the dark-omed little dam-el whom
l-e had comforttd was .dashing down
ihe street, with quick, elastic step,
utterly regardless of tin- basket of
unsold nuts that still dangli and upon
her arm. Down au obscure- lane
she darted, beiween tall, ruinous
rows of houses and up a narrow
wooden stair-case to a room where
a pale neat looking woman, will;
large brown eves Ike her own, was
sewing as busily as if the bieath ol
life de( end ’d Upon every stitch, and
two little ones contentedly playing
in the sunshine that temporarily
supplied the place of. die absent fire.
‘Mary! back already? Surely
you have not sold your chestnuts so
soon !
‘Oh, mother, mother, see!’ ejacu-
luted the breathless child. ‘A gen
tleman gave tne a whole quarter.’
If Ralph Moore could have seen
ihe rapture which his tiny silver
c'ifi diffuse I around it, in the poor
widow’s poverty stricken home, he
would have begrudged still less the
tempo'ary privation of cigars to
which his gent rosity had subjected
him.
»**■»*
Years came and went. The little
chi-sinur girl passed as entirely out
of Ralph Moore’s memory as if her
pleading eyes had never thouched
the soft spot in his heart, But Marv
Lot) never Ibrgot the stranger who
had given her the silver piece.
* * * # »
The crimson window curtains
were closely drawn to shut out the
storm and tempest ot the bleak Di*
cumber night—the fire was glowing
cheerily in the well tilled grate, and
the dinner table all in a glider wiili
cm glass, rare china and p dished
silver, was only waiting fir the
presence of Mr. Audley.
‘What can it be that detains pa
pa V said Mis. Audley, a f .ir hand
some matron ol about thnty as she
glanced at the and al of a tiny enam
eled watch. ‘Six o’clock and he
does noi make li s appearance.’
‘The e’s a man with him in the
study, mamma—came on business,
said Robert Audley, a pretty boy
eleven vears o ! d, who was reading
bv the fire.
‘l’d cad him again.’ said Mrs. Aud
stepping lo the door.
Lsut as she opened it, the brilliant
gas light fell full on ihe face of an
humble looking man in worn and
threadbare garments, who was leav
ing the ltou-e, while her husband
s ood in the doorway of his study,
apparently relieved to be rid ot Ins
visitor.
‘Charles,’ s >id Mrs. Audley,
whose check hao pa'ed and flushed,
‘who is that man and what does lie
warn ?’
‘His name is Moote, I believe, and
he came lo see if I would lx slow
upon him thm vacant messenger
ship in the bank.’
‘And u ib yon V
‘I don’t kuo.v, Mary—l must
think about it.’
‘Charh s, give him the situation.’
‘Why my love V
‘Because I ask it of you as af i
vnr and you have many times sii l
you would never deny me anything.’
‘l’llße true to my word, Mury,’saui
the lover hu-baml, with hii aA' c
tonate kiss, ‘l’ll »r te the fel ow a
note this v> ry evening. I believe
I’ve got his address somewhere
about me.’
An hour or iwo laier, when Bob
by and Frank and little Minnie were
tucked snugly up in bed in the spa
cious nursery above stairs, Mrs. Aud
ley told her husbmd why she was
interested in the fate ol a man whose
face she had not seen tor twenty
years.
‘Thai’s right my little wife !’ said
her husband, folding her fondly to
his breast, when the simple lale was
concluded ; never forget one who
has been kind lo you in the days
when you needi and kindness most.’
Ralph Moore was sitting ihe self
srine night in Ins poor . lodging, b •
s de his ailing v ife's sick b and, when
a livi rit and servant brought a note from
dial rich and prosperous bank di
reclor, Charles Audiey.
‘Good news, Bertha !’ he exclaim
ed joyously, as he read Ihe briel
woid-, we shall not starve—Mr.
Audley piomises me the vacant situ
ation.’
You have diopped something
from the note, sad Mrs. Moore,
pointing to a sip of paper that lay on
the floor.
Mr, Moore stoop and to recover the
estiay- It was a fifty dollar bill
neatly folded in a piece of paper, on
which was written :
‘ln greatful remembrance of the
silver quarter that a stranger bestow
ed on a little chestnut girl twenty
years ago.’
Ralph Moo-e had thrown his mor
sel of bn a I on ihe wateis of life,
a-'d-if er main years it had returned
to him.
A )«(lv w is stopping recently at a
Chicago lintei with her little son.—
The boy was not perfectly satisfied
with rn liters and things at the din.-
ner-t ibb-. and expressed himself frl
puentlv to that effect. The mother
find'y Ktse, and remarked in an un
derto e to the youthful offender:
‘•Come with me up stairs, and I
will attend to your case.”'"
The lad understood at once what
“attending to his case” meant, but
there was an important matterof de
tail which he was painfully anxious
to have moreffully explained/ so,
pulling backward ,pn the hand of his
mother, ho blubbered out, in a voice
| loud enough to he heard over most
of the well-filled dining-room :
“feay, mother, are you going to
take your hand or your slipper I”
The enthusiasm wiili which this
j brief address was receivee was un
bounded.
Story of the Curfew.
The first line of Gray’s Eh-gy—
‘The Curfew tol s the knell of
pariing day,’ has made the word
curfew familiar to every English
speaking hoy and girl. The worn
is formed of iwo French words cou
vre feu, (covered fir.-) aud came into
u-e when William the Norman, tin
first monarch of England of the
present line, made a law that all
fires should he < xtinguished at the
sound of the evening bell.
To many hearts in the old coun
try that cherish its traditions, the
curfew recalls a story of love’s devo
ti >n.
In ihe time of Cromwell a young
soldier, for some oflense, was con
demned lo die, and ihe time of his
deaih was fixed at the ringing of the
curfew. Natura’ly such a doom
w ould be featful and bitter to one
ing the years of' hope and prime hu;
to ihe unhappy youth death was
doubly terrioh-, since he was soon
to have b en married to a beautiful
young lady whom he had long lov
ed.
The lady who had loved him ar
dently in return, had used her ut
most eftons to avert his fate, plead
iu with the judges, and eve-i wiih
cromwell him e.f, but all in vain.—
In her despair she tried to bribe the
oid sexton not to ring the b> 11 (tut
she lound that impossible. The
hour drew near for the exeeu -ion.
The preparations were com,de.< and
The officers of the law brought forte
the piisoner, und waited while ihe
sun was setting, fit: the signal from
t' C distant bell tower.
To ihe wonder of everybody it
did not ring! Only one human be
ing at that n oment knew the reason
The poor girl, half wild with ihe
thought of her lover’s peril, had
rushed unseen up the winding stairs
and climbed the ladders into the b. 1-
frey loft a id seized the tongue of the
b 11.
The old sexlon was in his (dace,
prompt to the fatal moment. He
threw his weight upon the rope, an I
the bell obedient 10 his practised
hand, reeled aud swung t > and fro
i . the tower But the brave gir
kepi Iter hold, and no sound issued
from its metallic l.ps.
Again and again the S' xtou d*ew
the rope, bui with clasp- rate strength
the young heroine held un. Every
moment ma le ht r position more
liearfm; every sway of the bell’s hug- 1
weight threatened lo fling her
through the high tower window; but
she would not et go.
At last the s. xton went away.- -
Old and deaf, be hud not noticed
ihutthe curfew gave no appeal.—
Tne brave gid descended fr.mi the
belfry, wounded and trembling.- -
She hurried fioin church to the place
ot execution. Cromwell hiinsell
was there, aud was just sending to
demand why the hell was sileni.
She saw him,
and her Irnv
Lately white with sickening horrflr, glows with
hope and courage now;
At his feet »he told her story, showed her
hands all bruis'd and torn,
Aud her sweet young face still haggard with
the anguish it had worn,
Touched his heart with sud Jon pity, lit his
eyes with misty light—
“Go, your lover lives,” cried Cromwell,
“Curfew shall not ring 10-night/*
How Alexander H. Stephens
Started in Life.- When Stephens
was a boy, two sisters, old maids,
attracted bv Ins b'ightness, adopted,
educated, and destined him fur the
church. But a few months of iheo
-1 igical training convinced the young
student that the profession hud no
attraction fir hint, and he announce
ed to his hem factors his intention
of exchanging the pulpit lor "the bar.
Shortly alter he was admitted to his
new p ofession, a luwsuit arose in
volving the esiate of the younger
sister, the other having in the mean
while di’-d. He asked her to It t
him manage the case for her, but
she. fearful of his experience, pre
ferred looking for some older law
yer. At last one wrote to her whom
site appioved, and having asked the
advice of her Itiends she confided the
matter to him. The contest was
warm, vexatious, and long; bn' she
cone out so triumphantly of what
hati bepti regarded as a hopeless
snarl, that she doubled her counsel’s
modest fee. The intercourse beo
twdpn the two had been by letter ex
i lud vely, she living in the country,
he iV a distant city so that he trick
whiih you have already guessed
Stephens had played on her was,
uoier'ibc ciicumstauces, quite ureiK
No. 48.
itable. Out of ins fee he repaid
what she spent on his education,
and his success in so delicate a piece
of business was a fine begint.ing for
a young lawyer .-winter Ocean Let •>
ter.
The Stain Upon the Fame of Charles
Dickens.
There never had been, and is not
until ibis day, so far as we are
aware, the slightest breath of scan>
dul concerning Mrs. Dickens. She
1 had bore the reputation of a true
wife and a fond mother, and never
alio we i the teputation ot her hus
band to tempt her into a search af»
ter individual notoriety. Neither
prosperity nor adversity has caused
he/ to lose her -elf-respect, and the
calmness with which she has endur
ed the suprernest mortification which
can overtake an honorable and high
spirited woman proves her to be the
possessor of some of tbe noblest
qualities that a lorn the sex. Dick
ens himself vas unable to present
any substantial reasons for hiscoursdP
In his pr.vate litters, written at the
period when the affair was in pro
cess of consummation, he alleges iu
con potability nf temper, lack of
mutual sympathy, differenceoi tastes
anti other things of the same in
tiefimte sort. He accused her of
nothing, and never even hinted that
she had committed any act which,
in the eyes of the law or of public
opinion, would authorize a divorce
Yet on these trite generalities he
based his right to abandon the bride
ol his youth, the mother of his chil
dren, the lady who, for twenty-five
years, had worn Ids name, thorn the
day ot the separation to the day of
his death they never met. It is Slid
that site was not allowed robe pre
sent at the funeral, and it is certain
that the only reference to her in his
will was such a one as no thorough -
tired gentleman would, under the
circuinJtances, have been guilty of.
Living, i.:> insulted her—dying, he
stamped upen her.— St. Louis Re
publican.
Hints for House. <oe:s.
Do everything at the proper time.
Keep everything in iis place. Al
way- mend 3our clothes beiore wash
ing them.
Alum or vinegar is good to set
colors, red, green or yellow.
Sal soda will bleach; one spoon
ful :s sufficient for a kettle of clothes.
Save your suds for the garden aud
plants, or to harden yard3 when
sandy.
A hot shovel held over varnished
furniture will take out spots, v
A bit of glue, dissolved in skim
milk and water,will restore old rusty
crape.
Ritibons ol any kind should be
washed in cold suds, and not rinsed.
If flatirons are rough, rub them
veil with fine salt, and it will make
them smooth.
If you are buying a carpet for
durability, you must choose small
figures.
A bit of so tp rubbed on the hin
ges of do >rs will prevent them from
CiOaking.
Scotch snuff, if put in the holes
w! ere crickets run out, will destroy
them.
Wood ashes and common silt wet
with water, will stop the cracks of
the stove, and prevent the smoke
horn escaping.
Green should be the prevailing
color for and wtndow
drapery.
“Hans, how old are you?’’ “Ver
der old school-house is pilt, 1 vw
two weeks more as a year, vat f
painted ret, as you go home mii
your back loehint you, 011,der tigh'
hand side of der ol blackshwiit shop
vat sthands vere it vas purnt dowt
next year vill be two veekg.
Sally,’ said a fellow to a girl who
had red hair, ‘Keep away from me,
or you’ll set me 00 fire,’ ‘No dan*
ger of that replied tbe girl. ‘You
are too green to burn,’
A country lady tells of a smart
wife that helps her husband to raise
seventy acres of wheat. The way
she helped him was *lo stand in the
doorway and skake a broom at him
when he sat down to rest,
A most excellent artisan in B
lo had a sign, “Adam
founder,” A countryman CT*
to market thought it rs •»;. _.
sign—for he read it,
bias--fouiuhr.”
his wtie was named