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Five minuses uftcr', the con (factor re
entered the car. X made room for him
at my side.
“hit down; conductor; you've noth
in" to do this minute. ”
He obeyed ' r ...
“What do yotf mean by telling such
Anecdote of Hon. A- H. Stephens, i
“The Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, •
of Georgia, has recovered froin his!
recent attack of severe illness.-’ i
At the time we write, this paragraph
meets the public eye in nearly every f
newspaper in the country, and enables \
an old and favonte contributor to .
various departments of this Magazine |
to tell the following story:
Twenty-flYe years ago we had -aj
political correspondence with Mr. j
Stephens, called forth by our mutual j
admiration and support of Mi*. Clay. !
When General Scott was a candidate .
for the Presidency Mr. Stephens was a j
member of Congress, and, being in
Washington, we determinedrto .make S'
his acquaintance, passing up Penn
sylvania Avenne, with Mr. Stephens’s
hotel address in our hands, our atten
tion was suddenly arrested by the ap
pearance of a persofi who seemed tobe
in the very last stages of a ; consuming
sickness. Itwasto us a miracle that any
one so attenuated, and wasted away in
A Democratic and Family Newspaper.
THOMAS J. CATER
BT . AfCS. to r. kaigrLETT.
- ‘/. newurfd^? corespondent relates that
r m tb* fudfhing after the terrible bathe oh
f'lWt, Sept 1, 1870, six hundred cavalry
kfcthitef, xVftlYont riders, galloped up at the
'"sound of me bugles, aud took their accus
tomed places in the French ranks.] '.
'Morning dawns on the heights of Sedan,
. "And the golden sunlight feHs .
UVti the.woods hnd rocky steeps, ’ ’ ’ \
Over the castlnwtdb, . ‘ . / . 1
Over the valley oi the Mi-use;
- Over the tented ground,
„ Where the seatatodhoslB are rallying
At the ahfih-bugies sbund.'
But yesterday, and the sun lciok'ed down
On a dark and fearful sight.
When hostile feie metdiostile foe, •
In stern, nnyielding tight;
'And gidloping to the rendezvous,
On the bright September morn,
'Six huhdredjriderJess steeds rush dn,
At sound of the bugle-horn:
'Morning dawns on the battle-E&ld,
Aud t uid-.r Ihu callii, bine sky,
'Sleeping the still, cold slesp ol .death,
Six hundred horsemen lie.
'No sound of the bugle stirs their souls
„ To tlie Klruggle and the strife—
'Ko sound but the angel-trump shidl call
The f dim again to life.
The ka-oken tanks of the •dunasstiSs,
'Hie warriors stout and bold,
"Are gathering in at tliemartiai, calf,
And the saddened tale is f61d:
While — - ' - '
a lie just How?”
I spoke Under my breath; he replied
Savannah morning news h ou ston
HOME
JOURN A
in the same tone:, *
’’ “About what?”
“About the reason yon stopped Just
now. - ’
He smiled: . v -
“To tell you the truth, I stepped to
take ou a single passenger—a gentle
man who has come down from Bays-'
water.”
i;*Eor the purpose of travelmg
a weekly Family newspaper
Sow Is the Time to. SnbScrifie for it;
“i or the purpose oi {raveling once
more over the same rout?”
“Exactly so—for the purpose’ of
traveling it in certain society. Don’t
be alarmed for your own safety—it’s a
Yon have your choice, and can take
either the Daily, Tri-Weekly,
or Weekly Edition. ; -
./‘Tlfts detective? fe sits by the
dorr yonder, with a ragged' ftur cap'
pulled over liis eyei Did you' eTOr
see a more perfect specimen-of .the di
lapidated conntiyman?”
I smiled; I conld hardly help it;
“What is'tlie case?”
.“A murder—a man and his'wife and
two, little. childrenT-^their’ throats cat,'
last night, aiidthe Jfouse set on fire
afterfwmls.”. . • C*
“Great heavens! what a 'monster!”
"We had continued the conversation
throughout in a'whisper, scarcely above
our breath, and how the conductor
rose tot! left toe to study the faces of
my fellow passengers, With 'curious
dread and hbrror.
’ Some how, often ns I rfevblVe'd the
matter in my mind, my fahey would
settle on a coarse, gross looking .man
opposite, with a bushy betod .and
shaggy coat, with the collar turned up
around liis ears. I felt convinced that
this man Withthe heavy hanging jaw
©LOTHING,
and curious, we gazedat the disappear
ing form, todfinally to give some relief
to our sympathetic; curiosity,ir? asked
a Jehu stkndihgmearby : ... ' .r .
‘WVho is that man?”'-
“That .man,” said the- coachman,
pointing Ms whip disdainfully after
the apptoitidn—“fliatihim,’’he reput
ed; ana 'hm face assumed a-look- of
complete disgust—“that -man,” the
words the third time being' uttered
with a diabolical' sheer, “is one of the
most contemptible and unprincipled
cheats in, ’Washington. ”
We expressed our surprise at such a
sweeping denunciation against ah in
is,in an respects, a Democratic jonrnnl, f-thiul
to Democratic principles,- Snd earnest in the advo
cacy of Democralicmeasores. It believes that the
success of-its party is necessary to the salvation of
the country. Its reputation as a news journal will
he maintained as -heretofore. In Domestic, For
eign and Commercial Intelligence, Literature, etc.,
it is not surpassed by any paper-in thee ounlry.
Its whole character is comprehensively stated in
saying that it . is a great Democratic and Family
Newspaper, devoted to the interests of the people
of the Bduth t To - every business man, its Market
Intelligence alone is worth many times its sub
scription.
COE Wt T. THOMPSON, with able assistants,
has controlbf the Editorial and News columns;
while its corps of Be porters are reliable in every
respbet!
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„ JI-—the rendezvous,
On the br/ght September morn,
ix hundred riderless ste&3S rush o:
At the soundhf the bu l:-hcm.
“Why, it’s Aleck Stephens, of
Georgia,” said the fellow, with evident
surprise at ohr ighoraheei ’ .
“And what has he done?” we asked,
with some warmth. 4 ‘What could such,
to honorable gentlemen, and distin
guished-member of Congress do, to
justify you - in speaking that way of
him?” ; „.
‘-Why; you,, see,” said the Mlow,
with an affection of meekness'— ‘ “you
see, we licensed hackrden of Washing
ton city get five dollars for .attending
a Congressman’s funeral—its one of
omr parqnisites—and we have had onr
eye on Aleck Stephens for this .four
years as being as good as five dollars in
pur pocket, but he keeps moving
about tod cheating ns out of onr. just
And so iiasl&us remarkable inan for
a quarter of a century lived on, in spite
of what appetos to.bethe matt unfa
vorable -—circumstances, pel-forming
MISCELLANY,
cross I caught the wide-open blue orbs
of the fair little girl. '
Obeying the , instantaneous impulse
of my heart, I arose and went over to
her.
“You heard, wliat . we were ’Saying,
my child?”
“Yes^-trmnrder—oh; howhomble!”
“Do not be frightened—ho oSie shall
hurt you.’’-■
She smiled up in my face with street
It was a bitter night in January—a
night when homeless wanderers op the
moors might" have sunk down and
frozen to death, and the very marrow
’■seemed; to congeal in one’s berhea.
‘■There’s oiie advantage .in steam,”
^growled a fat old gentleman in the
comer seat; ‘‘wind and weather don’t
•affect it No flesh and blood-horse
‘could stand a night like this, but the
■ iron horsy keeps straightahead, wheth-
.er the thermometer is at zero or a
boiling water bent ”
Just then the coiidWctoS entered, j
■ ‘Tickets, gentleineh; if-you please. ”
, - “It’s a dreadful Bight, conductor, I
said, feeling with stiflehed fingers for
my ticket/in the Ifreost pocket of mv
edat.
“Dreadful sir,” fpelfegfy rosiiorided 1
the conductor. “WTiy, the brakemen
can’t live ontside, and so I look the
other way when they creep in, poor
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Can a WOman Keep a Secret?
The Nineteenth Century,’ a periptli-
i&d published' in: Charleston,■ thus
treats this much mooted point:
‘JMen say women can’tkeep a secret.
It's just the reverse —women can, men
can’t. ' Women carry with them secrets
tliat would killany man. Woman never
tells; man always does. Woman suffers
tod dies; man . blahs and lives. Man :
cannot keep a secret; woman cannot
make.it known. What is sport to : the
man is death to the woman.' Adam
was a‘ sneak. Eve would have kept the
apple a sceret. Be ye faithful. Who
ever heard a woman talk about her
lover’s fiascos?’ Everybody has heard
a man gossip.. Man delights in telling :
No attention paid to orders unless accompanied
by the money.
Postmasters everywhere arc authorized to act an
IT WILL CONTAIN
man who Was coming on frbm.Chicago
got off at Bunn’s - Four Comers; with
her baby in her arms a corpse!’-’
“Frozen to death?”
• “Aye, frozen to death, and she never
thought, poor thing; but it was asleep.;
‘My baby’s cold,’ says she, liut Wre^ll
. soon warm it, when -get home. ’ It;
a nightas tliis?”
And the condncibr opened the dbor
and -plunged across tlie coupling into
the next cor, crying out:
“Hardwick!"
It was quite a considerable city, with
it handsome iron depot; flaring gas
lamps aud the usual crowd around the
platform,-with hands . in its pockets,
.and its cigar ends flaming through the
night.
Onr car was nearly the last of the
long tt-niil; ahd but oHe pkSSenger en
tered it—a ttenfla 1 young gM Wrapped
in u gray blanket shawl; ail'd wearing
a neat httle ti'ai'eliiTg- liat of giny
‘straw, trimmed with stphe bbSfc-e'd. vel
vet flowers. .She seemed to hesitate,
like one unused to traveling, and final--
ly sat down near tlie door. •
“Pardon me, youug lt>dy,” said I,
“but yon had better come nearer to
the stpve.” ’ *.
She ttnr-ted, hesitated an instance,
'and then obeyed.. -
%.‘Does this -train go ■ to ■ BayswEter?” •
>he t.'sltcd in a voice, so doltciousfy soft .
'andkwei t that it sceihhd to- thidll
tliroughme. - - :,
NEWS FROM ALL QTTARTEKi
Money can be sent by Post Office order or Ex
press at our risk. Address ,
,1; H: KOT'taL,
: • .111 Boy Street, fiavaunah.
I drew the water, and held up the
enp; but instead of-taking it ; she ap-
proachedj'she bruehed suddenly past
me, opened the door, and ruttied out
upon the platform.
“Stop her! Stop her!” shouted the
detective, springing to his feet;' “she
will be killed; cpndnctor, -bmlfeTnii.Ti
holdup!”’
Mterature of the Highest Order,
I AM AGENT FOB THE CELEBRATED
SOUTHERN FARM & HOME
PEABODY
HOUSTON COUNTY AGRICULTURAL CLU
Agriculture, Manufacture
women don’t. Woman never fells tales
out of school; iiibh are always blabing.
So. doWn with toother old adage.:
Woman can keep a' secret, and her’
ability, to do so is proved by the con-
duet-pf’a-St. Jolins (New Brunswick)
Aud every mrtnber will contain articles of inteVeet to tlie PLANTERS: lii Polife
will lie
DGNSESTiC ECOKORSY
1 Will Sell at WiafiUfacturers’ New York Prices. - - $50
Believing that the success of the Democrats: Party is the only hope of saving the cot;
from f nr.ti'Ctal and social min, and of restoring it to its former condition of honor,;
pcr-l^and freedom from tyranny and oppression. Nevertheless, IT WILL NOT E
POLITICAL PAPER, IN THE STRICT MEANING OF THE TERM, hut vriii!
A BoiiD and Ingenious Thief.—A
sliarp trick wras' performed this mom-,
ing which fdr singularity afld address
is quite equal to anything that hgploo-
currpd in a long time. Acamage’eon-
tamlng a lady stopped in front of No.
13 Broad street, and she alighted.—
She entered, holding in her hand a
check on Van Schaiek & Co., amount
ing to S525,'payable t6 bearer, and
drawin. by a well-known firm. The.
check was presented and paid. The
lady returned to her carriage, and just
•NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS.
thiiig,-1 bcEeve.”
- “What?” I ejaculated, .“yon Sure
ly, do not inean that child—”
• v ‘Tmeto, ” add the detectivejeahnly,
“thsit child as you call her, is Attila
Burton, -a mimed woman, of twenty-
six years of age, who last. nitotymur-’
dered four persons in cold blood, and
avnAtrying-to escape to Canada—that’s
wEall metui;’’.:
. Tlie train was stopped, and a party
of us, headed by the'condnctyr and
I-iuivo dnVbf thfi Feabody Cotton-Seed Shdlera. in operation tit my gin house near
Fort Valley, and know that : .1 .
j. W. BURKE AGO.......
GEN. WM. M.. BROWNE,.
.Pahlisliers.
... .Editor.
JOURNAL FOR THE HOME AND F1REMDE.
It will do all that Is claimed for- it !
“Yes; can I be Of any service to
•yoUf!” : ■
. ‘T)h, no—at least not until we reacb
'Baxswater. I would like a carriage
then.”
‘'We shall not be thr-re yet. these
Tlivoo hours.”
.‘•Do we stop again?” '
“Only at Exmouth.” . ’ 1
She drew a deep sigh, seeniingly -of
relief, and settled btick.in a- qomer.—
By the light 1m the lflin^ dlut hnng -in
its bniss %tin : e Yqjjposite, I could see
1u r. face, Gjtit hf a lovely’child. Ap-
Aer'entiV ® was no mart than sixteen
pViW large biro eyes, g()18eh. hair,
tu-nshed smoothly back from her. face
:tn<l a little rosy month like that of a
baby.
' ‘Do -yon expect friends to meet you
TttjBayswater, my child?” 1 asked in-
“N6, sSl d fen -going to schooL
‘there.” . i
“It will be an awkward hour: for tyon
Ho r.nive at—one in the morning.”
“O, I am not afraid,"she said, wit Ji
nn artless little laugh; “I shall go
’straight to the seminary. ” .
So the express (rain thundered on,
with steady, ceaseless pulsing nt its
Lrqti.SVcaih ap'd constant roar.
Suddenly. l£e whistle sotmded, -
tllih trnin began to slacken its speed.
rfwSgpv we are not at Exmout.h
{yet,” ’i 5 thought, “unlessl have fal
len iinc’oiiseibusly asleep tod allowed
the progress of time to escape me.”
I glanced at my watch;, it was Rarely
hnK-past eleven, tod I km-w we were-
'not due at Exmouth mitil after twelve,
I rubbed the frost from the pane and
looked out
Wo had stopped at a lonely Httle
way station in the midst bf a dense
pine woods.
lV is this Ikdvsouth®'’ .. .
It was the soft Voice bf the pretty
travidli-r oiposito.
“No—I don't know what place it- is;
■some way station.”
“Does this train stop at way sta-
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It is wall known that the hull of the cotton seed-is as good a fertilizer as the seed.it-
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FAMILY CIRCLE
jo*- it will aim at a high standand in literature, and wfll raideaV r to exclude sf
trash which finds publicity in fco many of out papers.
phthiesN- No^was it ;lo
fbund her,. lying: quite
j before we
lead by the
liy mangled
side of-the te
by'the forcevL.
abnost; beyond recognition! -
“Well she escaped justice in this
It willl taL a stand for wbnt it believes to be the EIGHT SIDE in all qnnt
come before the puifcc, and wiU ADHERE TO THE RIGHT, without f*
egardleta alike of the flattery of ftiencLs and the hatred of foes.
Tho Southern Parm and. Heme, publiHhod by 3.
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M.Browne,'is on onr table. AVd have carcfaily
watched this monthly from-the first to the pres-
world if not in the nexl;” said .the de
tective, gloomily, as he-stood looking
ent number, snd regard it as among t ie Hist pub
lications of its cbnaractor in the United Staten.
Every, farmer should have a copy- Terms $2 per
aiiTinm:—Christian Observer, Catlettsbnrg, Ky.
We present the table of contents of the last
number of the Southern Farm snd Home, pub
lished st Macon, Btf., to show our readers what
valuable information they are losing by Defecting
to subscribe to this magazine. This-one number-
is of more valnc to any farmer who can read, than
tile money necessary to secure the magazine the
entire ycar>—Georgia Clipper. - -
The Farm and Home, published by JT. W.-Bnrhe
k Co., Macon, Ga-, is gotten lip in the handsomest
style; and-lsfnEof the ttoA useful and practical^
information. Let the farmers of tiiis section sub
scribe at once for this most valuable Agricultural
Journal. Price $2.00 i year. If is worth th«a
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jgp- n will monfully defend And earnestly labor to prcmote the interfcU of tfc«;
pie nrioog whom it circulates, find it* erfmnns will ever be open to all coramun.ci:
of interest to its readers.
on a railroad found the advertised
train not going to start, in consequence
of the fireman having. neglected to
keep np steam, and ordered a special
train, at a cost of about forty pounds,
wluch ho-paid tod then brought to
action forAhe recovery-af the* money,
and ten-pounds, additional fair his.own
lossbf favo hours’ time. The. judge
expressed himself “astonishe.d” that
the comptoy had resisted such a claim
and the juty gave the plaintiff^ a ver-
should have taken prompt measures to
-prevent it.” -
They lifted np the dead fair tiling,
and carried it to the nearest place of
fefugfrT^a: lonely farmhouse 'among the'
frozen hills, tod we returned to 'the
team,-rea’cMng Bajtevafer only .a few
minutes behind ’onr regular time. ■ *
. .Aid when in tlie next morning’s'pa-
pers I read to account of the murder
ess, I thought of the slender creature’s,
blue eyes and rosebud mouth, with a
The-totalqf the losses and damages
to Strasburg during the siege is. esti
mated to amount to 97,07(5.000. Of
the 3,59S houses in the city, 148 have
been, completely destroyed, and from
2,000 to 3,000 damaged."
"..An Outrage axd Swift Retribu
tion.—On -Thursday evening last a
young ladyi " whose name wehavebeen-
unable to learn, was attacked by a ne
gro named Bill Bland, who had been
at work in a coid bank near the wind
mill six miles south of this place, and
was shamefully mutilated. In strug
gling to release herself from the grasp
Then Let Everybody Rally to Its Support!
The Wae In Europe.—Baron Gerdt’,
the Prussian Minister, does not appeal:
to indulge in ver-y strong hopes of the
capitulation of Paris. In conversation
a few days since with prominent gen
tlemen in Washington, he stated.-.that
he htd received no official dispatches
We have not the time to call on every man m the county ana w nun to
don’t wait, but come npof jow own accord! Reader, if you take tty
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other than the last circular of Bis
marck, already published, hut that the
situation was no means as encouraging
for the PnissiaB tony as it was on the
original investment of Paris, The
cold weather and intense enthusiasm
of the French, he thought, might yet
redeem Paris. At an interview with
Secretary Bontwell the latter was posi
tive in the opinion that King William
had lost his one great chance for im
mortality as a great and generous man
in liis withdrawing his army from
French soil on the capture of Metz
and Strasburg. Mr. Boutwell thought
that, with tiie.se cities in their posses
sion, the Prussian Generals should
lions?”
. “Not generally; they must have
been specially signalled here. You
.are cold, my child; your voice trem
bles.” . . . .. t"
‘•It- is cold,” she Said, in a scarcely
nndible voice, drawing iter shawl
toonnd her. “Oil, I wish they would
hurry on!”
“We are moving once more,” I said,
“C;:ndiU'!<-r”4-foi- the man of tickets
was passing through the tar—^“why
‘did we stop at that backwoods place?”
"Out of water,” was the reply, as he
hurriedly passed by.
Nowi"knew.perfectly well that this
nnsw p was’ not the teuc’sohttion of the !
ihattf r. Onr delay did not exceed half
it minute, :.ltogether too short a time ;
for repleni.-htng the boilers; s n;l where j
‘on earth was the Vat r to com • front'
in that de oj-toe str.-ich of brrreaqnii^ ]
'food-..
of the demon, she was thrown viojent-
ly to the-ground, and tbs ht'avy foiin
of the negro billing upon her, broke
three of her ribs and otherwise injured
her. We are’ informed that as soon
as. he accomplished his devilish designs
sis.—Auburn Iteifgencer.
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he attempted to shoot her, but, fortu
nately, tlie pistol would not fire. The
girl is to orphan, and but little hopes
oj her recovery are entertained. The j
negro was arrested, and, after making |
a full confession of the deed, was hung :
up by the side of the road, where he:
was left hanging for three days, with i
a paper pifcited to his coat, upon which ;
woo • nn oC44-.-.-n GT r.f tliic Imrifr !
B?gs leave to inform the people of Perry and riefnih" that he has opened a DOLLAR
| STORE at Tcundcy's old stand, undo-the office of tlie HOUSTON HOME JOUBHAL,
where he will keep a splendid stock of Goods, ’ .- ~J*
the Prussian Generals should
have retired, and the French would
: gladly have let them go. But if they
! had done so it would have been in vio
lation of the spirit of the whole Ger-
iftan nation, then fully aroused, and
eager for Baris and nothing less.—
S(ir. Heirs.
was written, “Let this man hang.
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