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Jefferson News & Farmer.
VOL. IT.
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J. G. Cain* J- H. Polhill
CAIN & POLHILL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
LOUISVILL, GA.
May 5, 1871. 1 ly-
R. W. Carswell. W. F. Denny.
Carswell & Denny
.ITTOK.Vt I'S .ST MU’
LOUISVILLE, GEORGIA,
WILL practice in all the Counties in the
Middle Circuit. Also Burke in Augus
ta Cireuit. All business entrusted to their
care will meet with prompt attention.
Nov. 3.27 I y
VI. H. Watkins, R- L. Gamble.
WATKINS & GAMBLE
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
HoutslHUe, <Ka.
January 22 lc-7 . ly
J w. COOLEY—Dentist.
Louisville and Saiulcrsvillc, Ga.
Will practice in Jefferson and Washington
counties. Orders left at this office will receive
Attention. Prices reasonable Jan 8 ts.
Louisville Academy.
G, A. HOLCOMBE, A. M. —Principal.
MRS, C. C. GOODE—Assistant.
For information as to rates of Board and Tu
ition, apply to the Principal, orlo any member
of the Board of Trustees.
{E. H. W. HUNTER, Chm'n.
A. L. PATTERSON,
J.H. WILKINS,
J, H. POLHILL,
. J. G.CAIN, Secy.
Louisville, Ga., March 12, 1874. 3m
MEDICAL
Dr. W. W. BATTEY, has located at
home seven miles from Louisville, and
offers his professional services to the citizens
tn the neighborhood.
March, rhoo 1873
A. F DURHAM? M- D.
Physician and burgeon.
Sparta, Ga.
SUCCESSFULLY treats Diseases of the
Lungs and Throat, disease* of the Eye,
jffose and Ear, and all forma of Propsey ; dis
eases of the Heart Kidneys, Bladder and Stric
ture, secret diseases, long standing Ulcers, —
Removes Hemorrhoidal Tumors without pain.
Makes a speciality of diseases peculiar to Fe
males. Medicines sent to any point on the
Railroad. All correspondence confidential.
Feby 15, 1874 .ly
T- MARKWALTER’S
Broad Street, Near Lower Market,
AUGUSTA , GEORGIA
MONUMENTS, TOMBSTONES
And all kinds of Marble work kepi
on hand and furnished to order ai
short notice, Call and see.
Jan. 20,-1373. 12m.
OV* ER
Bignon Sf Crump's Auction Store,
284 Broad St., Augusta, Ga
r J. I. PALMER, Projrietor.
f . Good Board furnished at reasonable prioes
ty Week or Day.
marshal house,
APAmAH, GA.
B. LI|CEf— Proprietor.
. PER DAY $ 3 00.
The Oldest Furniture House in the State
PLATT BROTBERS,
& JS&4 HSIM) A2S>
AUGUSTA, GA.,
Keep always on hand the latest
styles of
FBEiITO&E
Os every variety manufactured, from
the lowi st to ihe highest gra Ic*.
OEAHB3F., PARLOR,
DINING-ROOM,
Library, Complete Suits,
or Single Pieces,
At prices which cannot fail to suit
the purchaser.
Dec. 25ih 1573. 3m.
BOURNE & BOWLES,
TIMBER .FACTORS
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
No. 200 Bay Stmt, Savannah, Ga.
Agents for HOLLY Flooring Hills,
fVIKTIiKS I'lltK G,f.
Liberal Advances made on Consignments ii.
hand. sept 4 Gin
Osceola Butler & Cos.,
WHOLESALE and RETAIL
DRUGGISTS’,
Opposite Pulaski &. Scriven Houses
SAVASAir, GA.
Particular att.ntiou p: id to
Country Mcrchantr, Physicians aid
Punters Orders.
October 30, 1873, 3.iH
CENTRE RAILROAD.
GEN’L sUPT’S office, c. r. R. (
isAvanNAH, October IU, 1873. )
ON aud after SUNDAY the 12th Inst.,
Paesenger trains >,u the Georgia Central
Railroad, its branches aud connections, will
run as follows;
DOING NOR'lll AND WEST.
Leave, Savannah 8;45 a in
Leave Augusta “ ! J® P m
Arrive m Augusta— 42W p m
Arrive in Mfccon 6:45 p m
Leave Maceu tos Columbus 7;lspm
Leave Macon for Eufaula 9:10 p in
Leave Macon for Atlanta 7:30 p m
Arrive at Columbus 12:45 a in
Arrive at Eufaula 10:20 a in
Arrive at Ailauta 1:40 am
COMING SOUTH AND EAST
Leave Atlanta . ...12:20* m
Leave Eufaula-..... - 0:45 p m
Leave Columbus .. 1:30 a m
Arrive at Macon from Atlanta b:3O a m
Arrive at Macon from Eutaula 5:26 a m
Arrive at Macon from Columpus 6:45 a m
Leave Macon 7:15 am
Arrive at Augusta 4:00 pm
Arrive at Savannah - 5:25 pm
DAILY TRAIN (SUNDAY EXCEPTED)
BETWEEN EATONTON AND MACON.
Leaving Eatonton s=oo a m
Leaving MilleugeviUe b;4J a m
Arrive at Mac /:45 am
RETURNING.
Leave Macon P m
Arrive at MlUedgesville 7:14 p m
Arrive at Eatju.on 9 i oo p m
Connects daily 8 ordon with Passenger
Train to and rom Savanannah and Augusta.
WM. ROGERS,
eneral Superintendent.
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE ON SOUTH
CAROLINA RAILROAD.
Charleston, October
ON AND AFTER SUNDAY, 19th INST.,
THE following Schedule will be run on the
South Carolina Railroad:
DAY PASSENGER TRAIN
Leave Charleston * "*•
Arrive at Augusts »t P- “>•
Leave Augusta at 8.20 a. m.
Arrive at Charlesten 4.20 p. m.
NIGHT EXPRESS TRAIN,
Leave Charleston - ®. 50 ’
Arrived Augusta 7 a. m.
Leave Augusta 6. P- m.
Arrive at Charleston. 5.40 a. m.
AIKEN TRAIN.
Leave Akin at
/ ve at Augus
Leave Augusta
Arrive at Aki “ o; m
Geueral Ticket Ant.
BoarpwG House,
Mrs, M. S. MILLER, Proprietor.
Good Board furnished by tlie
month, week or day.
moderate.
Get, 16th 1873. $f
LOUISVILLE, JEFFERSON COUNTY, GA., JUNE 4,1874.
1850. PROSPECTUS 1874.
OF THE
The Savannah Morning News.
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only lo Savannah, but to the Slate.
—ktanta Ga. Constitution
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best on the Continent.— Sanders
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iness man—able, fresh, spicy.”—
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ably ediied daily in the Southern
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sprightliness- . invaluable to mer
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turn Index.
In issuing this, the annual pros
pectus of the Savannah Morning News, it is
unnecessary to revert tothe history of the pa.
per. For a quarter of a century it has been
the conspicuous and consis'ent champion of
Southern sentiment and Southern interests.
The career of the Morning News has been one
of singular prosperity. It made a place for.i •
sell from the start a»d has kept it, while a of
its contemporaries of that day, and all save one
of its later rivals. have perished by the way?,
side, and to-day it stands firmly established in
popular favor, with little or no competition
within the area of its circulation.
The restless activity, energy aud enterprise
of the age have so extended the sphere of jour
nalism that the modern newspaper is literally
encyclopedic in character, composing every
thing of specific or general in the vast domain
of art, science, literature, religion, politics and
the news. Its tendency is to occupy the field
of the pamphlet, the magazine and the novel,
and it is gradually usurping the functions of
those vehicles of thought and information. Its
scope embraces the discussion of every subject
which has been invested wiih interest by the
restless explorations of the human intellect,
and includes every topic calculated to instruct
or to entertain. In the newspaper of to-day
the profonDdest exegetical article goes forth
surrounded and relieved by the brilliant essay
the cauatic review, tke pungent editorial, the
sparkling letter of correspondence, and the ra
cy paragraph—♦hew hole forming a Commune
of Helle-Lettres wherein the most noteworthy
literary effort has scarcely any advantage of
position over the poorest item.
It has been the aim of the conductors of the
Morning News to keep the paper fully abreast
oi this tide of progress and improvement, and
to this end no expense has l eeu spared. Thai
their efforts have been in some degree success
full, cs evident from the Battering encomiums
bestowed upon the paper by its contempora
ries, and from the large circulation and influ
ence t» which it has attained. Tlie plans of
•he Proprietor for 1874 comprehend a nearer
approac ito the ideal journalism of the time
than ever before. The features that have giv
en the paper a marked individually among
Southern journals, and which have brought it
up to its present high standard of popularity
wilt be retained and improved upon. Events
ot interest transpiring in any portion ot tlie*
w orld w.thin reach of the electric wires, will
find in iheM an aig Ne.vs a prompt and reliable
chronicler ; and its arrangements for gathering
ihe nows are such that all important omissions
of the telegraph are reasonably sure to be sup
plied by its staff of special correspondents; so
that tile readers of tlie papei are certain of
finding iu its comprehensive columns the la- :
test and freshest intelligence, systematically
grouped and attractively ediied.
In its editorial conduct the Morning News
will consistantlv pursue tlie policy which has
characterized it from the first. Questions of
national or sectional interest will be candidly
and impartially discussed, w hile every subject
of a political complexion will he treated with:
an eye single to the welfare, the progress and
the substantial development of the material
resources of the South. The system of carpet
bag robbory and plunder that has impoverish
ed our section the popular practices of cf official
knavery and corruption—and all those odious
features of Radicalism which have for their
object the prostration of sovereign Stales and
the disestablishment ot civil government in
the South—will he held up to the severest
condemnation; and at all time*.,in season and
out of season, the paper will advocate the pri
mitively pure doctrines of a strict construc
tion of the Constitution, and the admnist a*
tion of the powers of the government —Execu*
live, Judical and Legislative—within the
limitsprescribed 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 the
leading exponents of Southern opinion.
In tlm news department, the current local afa
fairs of Georgia and Florida wid be chronicled
was the same picturesque and pungent assi«
duity that has made them such prominent and
popular tealures of the paper. The local de*
partment is in charge of a.gentleman of skill
and reputation, ana will continue to be the
most complete and reliable record of home
events to be found iu auy Georgia journal.—
The commercial department is full and com
plete The figures are coll&ttd bj experts, and
their accuracy is such as to commend them to
merchants and business men in this and the ad*
joining States. The local market reports e
compiled with laborious care and may be «•
lied on as representing every phase oi Savan*
nah’s commerce.
The Weekly News is a carefully edited
compendium of the freshest intelligence, and
comprises all of the most attractive features of
the Daily*. It contains thoughtful editorials
upon matter of current interest, lively con*
densations, characteristic paragraphs, and
latest telegrams and market reports up tothe
hour of going to press. It specially commend
itself to the farmers aud planters of Georgia
Florida and the adjacent Slates, and is furo
nished at a psice that places it wfrlin. the
reach of all.
What is here said of the Daily and Week 1 *•
ly may also, with equal truth, be said of the
Tri’Weekly News. It is one of the best
papers of its kind and contains everything of
interest that appears in the Daily, together
with the latest telegrams and commercial intefa
ligence.
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Tbi«WeEklyNews fiOO
Weekly News 2 00
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J. H. ESTILL, Savannah’
McCOMB’S HOTEL,
AEilledg evilly, G a
ll> H> McCQHßi—Proprietor
BOARD PER DAY $3.00
IHaT OTHER WILLIE,
liV BELLA FRENCH.
‘Willie, why don’t you go and
play with ihe boys, and not he for
ex er stuck at my feet?’
Such was Mrs. Grey’s impatient
question one day, when her litde
son c.mie and seated himself in ihe
parlor, when his mother was con
versing with a visitor.
‘I would rather be with you than
the hoys,’ he answered timidly.
‘Oh, I never saw such a body ?’
‘ls it wrong to wish to he near
you, mamma ?’ said the child, and
his nether lip trembled as he spoke.
‘Wrong? Os course iuot. But
you are old enough to liave some
manliness about you. See, yonder
are Will and John Gowdy on the
ice. Run alongand keep them com'
pany, I want lo talk with Mrs.
Brown.’
The boy picked up his little cap,
and went off without another word.
Mrs. Grey lurried to her visitor.
‘lsn’t he a queer child V she ask'
ed.
The other raised her sad eyes
and fixed them with such a painful
expression on the mother’s face, thin
lor a moment Mrs, Grey felt al
most offended. She was a sorrow
ful looking woman, this Mrs. Brown.
‘1 had a son once; but he is gone
now,’ she said at last, and th re
were tears in her tones.
Mis. Grey gazed at her wonder
ingly. She had not known this he'
fore.
‘lt is a bitter thing to bar open
partially healed wounds,’ Mrs.
Brown continued : ‘Bui let me teli
you my story.’
‘Several years ago. I was about
to give a party; a grand allair it
was to die, and my head was almost
turned while making preparations.
My Willie (hi? name was Willie,
ton,) was about sixteen years old.
He had never been to school; I had
educated him myself At home, he
was all a mother’s hean eould de
sue; blithe was shy, and when I
forced him into company, he ap
peared so awkward that I often fell
ashamed of him. This was one
reason of my and, eidinglogive a party.
If he was obliged to act the part ol
host lie would overcome his bash*
ultie-s, I thought. But Willie nev
er approved ol it.
‘I shall be so glad when that
party is over,’ he said one day ; for
since you have got it into your head,
I have lost my mother.’
‘Poor little baby!’ I responded,
slightly provoked at his lack of in
tere-t. ‘I wonder lioxv many more
years I shall have you lied to my
aprons! ringsji’
I spoke sneeringly. and a proud
Hush instantly overspread his face.’
* ‘I will be tied there no longer,’
he returned, ‘I will seek other com
pany in the future.’
‘I was frightened at the result of
my words. Still I made no re
sponse. My son putting on his hat
and coat, went out. It was the
first time in his life he had ever left
me without informing me where he
was going.
‘ln good time the party came off.
It was a gay affair, and none were
gayer than Willie. He was a sort
of an extremist, and took no medi
um stand. A'ter that, his books
and work were neglected, and his
days as well as his evenings were
spent abroad. Fast young men be
came his constant companions, I
was left alone to mourn over the
change I had wrought. At first, he
made it a rule to be in ai night at
ten o’clock • but after a time, he be
gan to stay out later ; and daybreak
sometimes found him from home. I
tried to expostulate, tried to win him
back to his old habits, but my ef
forts were unavailing. He had got
a laste of anew life, and it held
him by a charm. Well do I retneu>„
her the first night he came home in
a slate of intoxication. It was hi?
seventeenth birthday, just a year
from the time I had given the parly.
I had seen him under the influence
of wine once or twice In-fore: but
on this night he had drunk so deep
ly, that some of his companions had
to help him home.
‘The hours of that night were
dreadful hours ol self-reproach and
agony. I was so glad when morn
ing came to dispel the gloom—-so
glad when reason returned to my
erring child. He was very mu- b
ashamed. He said again gnd again
he would do better ; hut his resolves
were worthless. Two nights later
he was again brought hmftP intoxi
cated. After that it was a pommon
ppcupence. He fell lower ancj Iqwer,
squandered all my ready moqpy, and
w’tjpn I refused lo mortgage my
property, that he might have more,
he left tpe with an outh ; f'TMt
night a large .firm, was robb> and and
ii was discovered that Wiil e was
one of the perpetrators of the deed.
Next morning ihe tov n was wild with
excitement, and I was almost crazed
wiih anxiety, for inv boy had fled.
The news was pa'se> I from mouth to
mouth ; mv home was searched, and
my son called a villian; but I had
no power to prevent either. No oue
gave me a word of sympathy.
“‘You have onl? yours-df to
blame,’ said a blunt old woman, who
called during ihe day. The boy
was happy at home, but you drove
him into bad company
‘That night, at the hour of twelve
a« I sat alone, a window was Opened
sofdy, and Willie stepped into ihe
room. With a glad cry I sp'ang 1
toward him; bui lie pushed me
rudely’ away,
‘‘Can you hide me anyxvhere ? he |
said. ‘The hounds are alter me.—
Had you given me the money yes- ■
lerday, this would not have been.” j
“Oh, Willie,’ I cried.
“Yes, mother ’ he said, sternlv.
You have made me a criminal, I
want lo tell vou I have secretlv mar' !
rh'd Kale Hastings, God knows
what will become of her.
‘Kate was a pretty little creature, !
only sixteen years old, innocent as ;
the violets which grew around her 1
home. My bleeding heart gave a
quick, painful throb, as he contin
ued.
‘ ‘The world will not believe we
are married. She will be scorned by
all. Hark! they are coming.—
Mother, 1 am too young, too wicked
to die, bin I must die. Farewell!’
‘I s nv his purpose now, for his hand
clutched a reviver; and springing j
to mv leel, I throxved my ar ns about' 1
him to shield lint from hims-lf — 1
But lie shook me oft. The next ino i
memeoi the loud report of hi-: pistol
echo'd through the house. One
glance showed me his lileless form.
stretched on the flo >r- Then exist
ence wn3 a blank to me.
•When I axvoke to conscious css,
the morning sun was shining, and
the house was filled with people.
But even justice wa* sau?fi"d, and I
was soon left alone with ihe dead.—
All day teaile-s and motionless, I
sat b side the mangled corpse.—
S >me peopl •, kinder than ihe res',
came in to make preparations lor the
funeral , and passed silently out;
but I did not heed them.
Kate Hastings came just after
dark. She was dressed in deep
mourning, and her face was so ghast
ly that it startled me.
• ‘You too have come lo reproach
me ? I said.
‘No, mother. You suffer enough
without my reproaches. I have
come to waich with the dead ’
•‘1 wish to watch aloue,’ 1 siid.
‘lt is I who will watch alone,’ she
returned, ‘lt is my right. lam h ; s
wife.’
‘How calm she was! There was
noi even a tremor of the voice to
Icll how shesuffeied.
‘Yes, it is your right, my poor
child! I said. It gives me anoth
er pang to give him up even to you,
my daughter ;still I do it.’
‘She looked up quickly.
‘He has told you P
‘Yt B.’
‘Yt t you speak kindly to me, and
do not condemn us !’
‘A sad but b*auiiful smile for a
moment lignt’d l.er leitures till
raised one ol my hands, and kissed
it reverentially.
‘Thank you !’ she said. ‘Some
limes you will be glad for having
shown this kindness to one so
much in need of it. Now mother
leave me.
I left the apartment; but 1 did not
retire. All night I sti o i ihe floo r ,
outside the the door, Imping that
Katie would hid me enter, but no
such summons camp. D .ylight
returned, and the busy world again
moved, still I heard no movement in
the clumber of death. At last my
anxiety became so great, that 1 open
ed the door, and glanced in. The
girl knelt by the corpse, apparently
asleep. Softiy I stole forward, and
raised the drooping head. But no
sid eyes met my gaze; nothing but
the white face, the staring orbs of a
corpse. Katie bad died by her own
hand, ns a bottle which she clutched
provd.
‘The mxt day, they buried the
pair, my erring son and his child*
wife, iu oue grave: and as the clods
fell on ihe coffin, the brightness of j
my life went pqt forever.’
Mrs. Bfown could say no more,
for sobs choked her utterance.—
Her listener, too, was deeply affect
ed, as fier pale face and tearful eyes
showed.
Leaving the bereaved mother far
a moment, Mis. Grey siole softly to
the door, and called.
I ‘Wiihe.’
The child heard her, and came
quickly to her side.
‘What is it, mamma ?
‘lt islonesome in without you, dar
ling,’ she said, drawing him to her.
A smile lit up his face,
‘Then do ym love me, mamma?’
‘Love you ? Oh, Willie !’
Her arms were about him now,
and she was sobbing on his shoul
der.
‘Did some body tell you about
those bad boy s?’ he asked woder
ingly. ‘The have got a flask of
whisky, mamma.’
‘Thank G >d ! you are saved, my
darling!’she'cried hysterically.
She drew him close- to her, she
clung to him, she showered kisses
on Ins wondering face. But never,,
until he was a man, with a so i ol
his own, did she tell him the history
of i Ii it other Willie, w ho-e childhood
and his had been so much alike, and
how bv the knowledge of that other
Willi ’s unlortunate career, he had
been saved by he-, perhaps, from a
1 ke fate.— Peterson's Magazine.
Scien ific Information.
The natives of Java extract poison
from bamboo canes.
Among curiosities sent to Italy bv
an African explorer are two dwarfs
belonging to the dwarfish trilie of
Akkas. Tney are 2S ioc's high,
light copper color, very prominent
stomachs and small limbs. Lps
ltrge, nose flat, hair long and kinky,
and they are very agile.
All the chocolate sold In tlie
stores is said to be much adultera
ted.
It is said that the bottom ol the
North Atlantic Ocean has been slow
ly- but continuously sinking ever
since the miocene perioii, caused,
probably by- the at'ruction of gravi
ti Uncoupled with the centripetal
force of the earth.
Wit and Humor.
A gieal object in life—A giant.
If your litain is o>fi e blow-it out.
‘Letting oft sleep,’ is a liule boy’s
definition of snorim-.
Epitaph tor a cannibal—Ore who
bis lelow-tflen.’
When is a match frivolous? When
it makes light of things.
Why should a magistrate be very
cold? Because he represen s just
ice.
What nation is moM 'ikely to suc
ceed in a difficult enterprise? De
termination.
Why is a ship dr sign ited as ‘she ?’
Because she always keeps a mau on
the look-out.
Many of the daily papers say they
are opposed lo inflation, and yet they
are constantly blowing up persons.
Newspaper readers do not like to
peruse indifferent poetry by little
girls—unless ihe little girls are their
own.
The Cincinnati! elephant that
swallowed two gallons of whisky at
one gulp says that he took it for a
did.’
A man hangs himself and ‘no
cause’ is as-igued, when every one
must know that the rope was the
cause.
A Florida correspondent says that
although many person suffering from
co isumption iu other States have
gone there and been res ore I lo
health there are o'd established Flor
ida families last dying of the same
disease.
Bone Meal as Manure.—Among
all the specific manures for grapes
vines, pear trees, grass lawns, ete ,
the Horticulturist says none, perhaps,
embodv more of the ingredients of
plan--food lhan bone meal. It
should b a applied as early in the sett'
son after the frost is out of the
ground as possible. About half a ton
to the acre, makes a dr?ssiag that
will prove valuable two or three
years. We have used it to advan
tage in the growing of potatoes,
peas, beets, &c We sow it with
the seed in the drill or hill, and in
the culture ol melons we have found
it better than the best manures.
White Lilacs Grown in the
Dark —With the French gardeners
much alieniion is given to forcing
the LilaG. Houses are built for the
purpose without glass, as the forcing
is done in the dark, in order that
ithe ft iwsra inay be white. Plants
! that h ive been fo-ced are a long
xvhile iu recovering. In small gar
dens; where space is invaluable, it
will hardly pay to try to resuscitate
them. Hence garden plan s that
are forced into bloom for sale- in the
market and by peddlers, are nparly
i useless to the purchasers until they
have grown a year.
| A Gkanoer's Drea.u. —The La
i mark Gazette, a staunch Griiger
j P a P rpu dishes the following, \jt rich
j is 100 good to he lost: I
‘‘A granger dreamed that he tied ;
| he went straight to the spirit World ;
ihe knocked at the gate of th/.\ew
Jerusalem and it vv.is operie/ unto
him. I lie books were opened, tie
was asked : ‘Did you ever belong to
any secret society V to wliicjl he re*
plied, ‘1 did—-to the Grangers,’
j ‘ Then, sir, you cannot be admit*,
ted—depart.’ He then went to the
bottomless pi', where the sane ques
tions wee again asked him by the
devil and was again fold to depart.
Alter he was gone a little way off he
was accosted by the homely ruler of
the pit, when the following propo*
sitiens, r.v«*re »nt*>le: “Stranger,’
'•iid Nick, 1 will not admit you
here ; they do not want you in heav
en ; hut 1 will s II you’two hundred
barrels ti brimstone lor cash, ten per
cent, ofl, and you can start a little
h 1 11 of your own, with no agents @r
mitidle men.’”
Tit .jus Thumb Ecupseu.—Chi
cago Times: M-stof ns straggle in
to the world weighing from six to
twelve pounds, and straggle out
again after a time, weighing hom
one hundred to twice that numb, r
of pounds. Having done nothing
during the fattening period, we are
permitted to glide into the
oblivion of the tomb unnoticed, just
as we are allowed to loaf into the
activity of the world unheralded.
11, howerver, nature had arranged
with Mrs. Oliver, of Dubuke, so in*,
traduce some of us into this vale of
tears we would have achieved the
notoriety o! at least a newspaper
paragraph. The thrifty youngster
which be did help into distinction
weighed just one pound and a halt,
is seven inches long, and eats any
tiumher of meals a day. It ismen
ti mod as evidence oi the littlenessof
the young Oliver that an ordinary
finger ring will pass over the babe’s
hand, and might serve as a bracelet.
A Mon nan bridegroom was sim*.
u!tancons!v married’to three blashing
brides in Salt Lake City recently?
S me confusion was created after
the cerem ny bv e tch bride persist*
ing on ler individual right to the
first kiss.
Herr H errmann Linde prof ssess
the extraordinary acquirement of
being able to recite all Shakespeare’s
plays from memory. He commenc
ed lately a series of recitals, at Co
logne with the “Midsummer Might’s
dream.”
They laugh in Chi ago be ause a
St. Louis detective went there and
had his pockets picked on a horse
cir.
Parents’ Paradise.
We were much impressed lately
by the orderly behavior of a large
lamtly of children, particularly at
the table. We spoke of it to our
host; and pointed to a paper pinned
to the wall, on which were written
some excellent rules. He said he
gave each child who obeyed those,
rules some reward every month.— J
We begged a c py for the benefit ofl
our readers. They were called I
Rules and Regulations for Parents l
Paradise. I
1. Shut every door after you, an!
without slamming it, ■
2. Never shout, jump or run fl
the house. I
3. Never call to persons up staifl
or it. the next room; if you wishH
speak to them, go quietly where thH
H
4. Always speak kindly and
litcly to the servants if you
have them do the same to you.
5. When told to do, or not to
tiling, by either parent, never Hi
why you should or should
do it.
G. Tell of your own
of those of your brothers and sit^H
7. Carefully clean the
snow offvour boots before
the houtise.
8. I3e pr mpt at every
9. Never sit down at the
in the parlor, with dirty
tumbled hair.
10. Never interrupt any
tion, but wait patiently yoor
speak.
11. Never reserve your
tiers far company, but be
polite at home and
13. Let your Grst, last,
confident be your
Optic’s Magazine.
NO. 5.