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Agents of the Honston Home Jonrnal.
Fort Valley—Geo. W. Sturges.
Byron—Thomas B. Goff.
Marshalville—J. A. Edwards.
Haynevflle—Samuel Henley.
'Henderson—John N. Killen.
.Powersville—W. E. Warren.
Vienna—J. E. Lilly.
14th District—John S. Taylor.
Spalding—Rev. W. G. Wilkes.
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 14.
Little hoys out West have begun
falling into kettles of boiling soap.
A Methodist Church in Iowa has
the stars and stripes painted on its
steeple.
A WATERBURY’mau has christened his
daughter Glycerine. He says it will
be easy to prefix Nitro, if her temper
resembles her mother’s.
The Medical Museum.
GHASTLY SOUVENIRS OF OUR LATE TEB-
Ice-water in Cisterns.—John Quin
cy Aikins of Minnesota, packs his cis
terns with snow late in the winter or
early iu spring, when it can be ob
tained—packs it solid—and says he
finds it pays, since it will keep until
after harvest ancl furnish good ice-wa
ter for daily use.
/Adjusting a Three-Horse Evener.
—A correspondent says:' Take a lath
of the length to accommodate the
swingletreo used; put a loop of string
over it, and' hang from oue end say a
pound, from the other two pounds.—
Slip the loop until these weights hang
even, and put the shackle on the bar
according to those measures. The
power of the lever is as the square of
the length, hot as the length. The
lino horse should have the long end.
It seems that the Prince of Wales
and Prince Arthur, of England, being
iu princely fear of assassination, em
ployed a Scotland Yard detective
named Hagen to “shadaw” them and
warn them of suspicious persons.—
And the Vienna police, anxious also to
guard the sacred persons of their high
nesses, perceived this same detective
following closely in the princess’ wake
spotted him instantly as the assassin.
His protestations that he was in *tbqjr
employ were regarded as entirely too
thin, and he was hustled off to jail.
-C-O-Ce-
Lord Erskine, according to Rogers,
w.is next to Sydney Smith, the wittiest
mnn we ever knew. To all letters so-
fini.ting his “subscription,” Erskine
had one form of reply. 'Writing a
coarse hand, with the lines wide apart
ho said: “Sir, I feel much honored
by your application, and beg leave to
subscribe (here the reader had to turn
over the leaf) myself your very obedi-.
ent servant. ” He once saidvvery se
riously, “Rogers, when the hour
comes that all secrets shall be reveal
ed, we shall, know the reason why-
shoes are always made too tight.” And
when someone remarked that Lord
Mahon had died worth two hundred
thousand pounds, Erskine said, “Well,
that’s a very pretty sum to begin the
next world with.”
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Solomon’s Temple.—Francis Lan-
ger, a sculptor of Kaaden, but bora at
Weipert, began to cut the model of
of Solomon’s temple out of lime-tree
wood, according to the details given
by the historian, Josephus. For thir
ty years he worked unceasingly at the
laborious work, and at length died in
1850, at the age of 72. His son con
tinued the work until his. death in
1858. Two citizens of Kaaden then
took the matter in hand, and partly by
working at it themselves, and partly
by gettingbthers to follow the plans
and details left behind by Langer, suc-
in effecting it. The. completed work
takes np a space of 325 feet. The
present owners applied to the direc
tors of the Vienna Exhibition -as -to
whether they might exhibit it, and af
ter some little delay received a reply
that space should be reserved for it.—
This result of their labor during so
many years, requires twenty-eight
cars to pack- it in.
In the third story of what used to
he Ford’s Theatre in Washington, is
the Army Medical Museum, which is
as large a surgical collection as any in
the world. A correspondent of the
New YorkNews writes a letter descrip
tive of it, which contains these intert-
ing paragraphs:
Looking around, we find many
things that amaze and interest. For
instance, we are shown an arm that-
was torn from a soldier by a cannon
ball in the field of Antietam. After
long months of illness and suffering,
the man, with a regretful longing after
his old helpful member, returned to
the place of battle, and strange to say,
among a large number of bones found
and fully recognized Ms lost arm, and
afterwards deposited it for preservation
in the Museum.
A variety of limbs and portions of
the human boay are here, and we are
informed that their rightfnl owners
visit and gaze upon these fragments of
themselves, with the most pathetic in
terest. v •
This,reminds ns of a funny story, a
reminiscence of the war, told of a liv
ing limb. A young officer from the
West was telegraphed as among the
killed in one of the battles of the Wil
derness. No trace after repeated
search could be discovered of his body,
until several weeks after, R')ien a youngs
man from the same town- -returned^
home from the battle field, bringing
with him portions of a leg, which ail
friends agreed in recognising as that
of the deceased officer.
The hour for the fnne-al was duly
appointed, the leg tenderly placed in
a satin lined casket, and friends gath
ered for a large and fashionable fuu-
ereal. The fair fiancee of the departed
had faiuted over the relic in most ap
proved fashion, solemn services, were
read, and the mourners were taking a
last look at the flower covered casket,
when the door flew open, and the sup
posed defunct body walked in, leg-
whole and hearty.
Now there is an awkward denoue
ment; however delightful, and .it al
ways seemed a pity that it could not
be deferred until the poor leg had had
its social, Christian burial.
Carefully laid out, one may see the
lumbar vertebne of General Braddoek,
also the third, fourth, fifth and sixth
cervical vertebras of John Wilkes
Booth, showing the course of a ball
through the spinal cord, which caused
his death. What a strange retribution
that this man’s skeleton should be
put on exhibition in the same building
in which his crime was committed.
In a neighboring ease are some of
the vertebras of Wirz of Audersonviiie
fame; also his right arm, which v ar
dissected to ascertain the truth of his
statement that the arm had been badiy
broken, and that, therefore, he was
physically unable to commit the-bru-
talities ascribed to him. The insult
proved his arm perfect. A small piece;
of the rope that hanged him lies sig-'
n.'ficantfy near.
The freaks of bullets are curiously
noticeable in the bone fractures. One
has passed to the cavity of the skill!
and lodged upon the horizontal plate
of the frontal bone; the man thus
wounded, having lived several months
in comparative health, 1 tiled, suddenly-
in convulsions. Tii another skull the
ballet lias fractured the bone and been
cut in half, part remaining, put-side,
and part entering aud lodging against
the an teriorpart of the skulk; And no
less curious are the caprices of various
missies extracted fro hi; wounded men.
One, en route, has seized ai d carried
with it'a large piece of a pocket knife,
and another a guard of a sword, splin
ters of wood, nails, etc.
. And just at this, time of Indian pan
ic, it is entertaining 'and nn comfort
able to note with What precision and
And now that scalping, with all its
terrible associations, has become a
“household word.” there is a Lead-
aching fascination in gazing upon the
•array of human scalps collected here,
and also upon the dainty squaw orna
ments, plundered, p'erhaps, from some
treasured jewel-case, composed of long
necklaces made of the ends of fingers,
fantastically interspersed with gaudy
beads, and bracelets and anklets of
human teeth. Also, the maid of the
forest aisles delighted in a head orna
ment and brooch composed ingenuous
ly of manly jaws,. fringed with gay
threads and bits of glass. Oh, fail’,
sweet child of nature !
The condition of wonderful preser
vation in which some of these Indian
specimens were found well illustrates
the extreme dryness of the climate of
the high uplands of the West. The
appearance of the skin is very like that
of some of the Egyptian mummies
when freshly unrolled from their spiced
and oiled cerements.:
Stacks of different kinds of arrows
are collected in the museum, which
have been taken from^flie bodies of
both red and u-liite victims, and show
ingenuous and cruel development of
inventive faculty.
The Great Soudan Railway.
Ismail Pacha, the Khedive or Vice
roy of Egypt, is a remarkable man.—
He has linked the Red Sea to the Med
iterranean l>y the Suez Caial; he has
made a garden spot of 3,000,000 acres
of desert soil in the Delta provinces;
he has transformed Alexandria and
Cairo into elegant towns; and ho has
built railroads, canals and telegraphs,
reorganized Egyptian finances, and
brought prosperity “to the humblest
fellah.”
His latest and grandest project is the
Soudan Railway that is to traverse the
fiercely hot Nubian desert, and connect
his capital with a fertile territory lar
ger than two empires the size of
France, and capable of sustaining more
people than to-day exist on the entire
African continent. The present pop
ulation of Soudan is variously estima
ted at from 7,000,000 to 25,000,000, in
cluding the White Nile. The resour
ces of this vast eqatorial territory are
practically without limit. The chief
traffic, after the establishment of the
railway, will consist of cotton, sugar,
gum, senna, dates, ebony, skins, ar
omatic woods, potash, gold, ivory, os
trich feathers, mats and negro laborers.
Not less than two hundred millions
acres of productive cotton, sugar and
grain lauds will be tapped by the Khe
dive's new project.
The Nile will be used as at present,
to .tire first cataract, which is about 900
miles from the Mediterranean by the
tortuous windings of the river. At
this cataract a ship incline, three miles
long, will lift vessels to the placid wa
ters above the rapids, and will enable'
them to reach the second cataract at
Wada Haifa, where the tourist now
nrepares for a long camel journey
across the hot lauds of the Nubian
desert. Here the new railroad begins
that, following the general course of
•'tile Nile, annihilates the desert wastes,
and brings Shendy and Khartoum and
tiie Soudan within the pale of civiliza
tion. The railroad will be 889 kilo
meters in length, or something, over
500 miles. The total cost will be 820,-
020,000, and the vast undertaking is
to be completed in three years. No
oiie doubts the ability of the Khedive
to execute the work—one that, every
thing considered, exceeds in construc
tion difficulties our highway across -the
Rocky Mountains.
}•»« in in o A i
Dr. Dio Lewis writes: “Hippocra
tes recommended hot- fomentations for
the relief. of the cbeateufodominaland
other pains. From his time down to
the present, hot fomentations have
been the favorite remedy for a great
variety of affections. If I were asked
to select from all possible methods of
treatment one, and one alone,, with
which I would undertake to combat
human suffering, without a moment’s
hesitation I should select hot fomen
tations, For pains in the spine end
shoulders, for pains in the head, for
pains in the chest, stomach and abdo
men, for pains in the limbs, for pains
in ray and every part of the body, hot
fomentations constitute the best single
remedy.
The old fashioned method with flan
nels wrung out ofhot water is perhaps
the best method.
A happy .way of protecting the
nurse’s hands is by dipping the flan
nel m boiling watery lay it upon; a
towel, roll the the towel and then
wring.it. .
The nurse who understands the hot
fomentation art, and applies it indus
triously, will accomplsh ten times as
much as the doctor with all his drugs.
We hear certain cautions about the
weather which do a great deal of mis
chief:
1st . Yon must avoid night air.
28'. Yon must avoid damp air,
3d. You must must be careful to
keep out of the draft.
On the contrary, night air is a good
thing. In fact, it is the only kind of
air we breathe at night. Our soldiers
found it the best-kiudrof air to breathe
at night, even down in Virginia, and
after sleeping in a Wet corn-field, with
no roof over them but the blue vault,
rose in the morning not oulyfree from
colds but feeling much better than
they ever do when crawling out of
their close bed rooms at home. I have
slept by an open window every night
for thirty years and I find it a capital
thing. EvPiy member of my family
bas done the same thing with the same
satisfaction.
In regard to damp air, it may be
stated that a moisture in the air never
hurts the lungs. If the skin be pro
tected and kept dry and warm, the air
may not only be loaded with moisture
without any harm to the lnhgs, but in
a large majority of cases with positive
benefit-.
As to a draft, it simply means air
in motion, and it may be said with
truth that there can ho no ventila
tion without such motion. Whether
a draft is dangerous depends upon its
temperature, its velocity, our dress
and the state of our health. We can’t
live without a draft, because wc can’t
live without a change of air, and while
I should-be sorry to mislead any one
iu regard to this point, I am free to
say that’ -the common horror about a
draft of air is silly ..and absurd..
and sa\»gei-F
if this bold Tail-
strength the red men propel their ar
rows, .those on ekhibitii
The Postal Cards.—The postal
cards are, at present, very pleasant
toediums of correspondence—very con
venient -modes of expressing ones
thought^ in the briefest manner pos
sible-very acceptable offerings in
family circles, that have not yet grown
callous to their influences. But the
foul-minded, whom Horace, in the
far-back days, lashed* and at whom
Dr. Samuel Johnson thundered in
Johnsonese, still survive to mate these
sources of the interchange of friendly
feelings, real nurseries of evil. It is a
gratification to be able to state, how
ever, that, such parties as may write
indecent mattempon these cards- are
headed off in two'wtrvs. * One is, that
It Is made the duty* of all clerks to
throw all such
, , =—The oth
er is. that all such writers, if discov-
ST®* subject to “a fine 6f not less
^m«lMiicr more than 55,000 for
each offense.” After a few splurges
of the foul-thonghted and dirty-pen-
Bed, some criminal will be detected'
example trail be made; the evil
*ul disappear; and postal cards will
•^ooma—what they are intended to be
TfiTCst conveniences for the tjansmis-
Q°n of correspondence, that- is not
*Beant to be altogether pri -
.those on exhibition having
pierced skulls,' fractured- the tong
bones and passed entirely through the
spinal column. The skiil with which
the primitive sons/ofthe forest handle
these missies,.we apprehend, will soon
be among the “lost arts,” in conse-
quence^of the introduction of the latest
Remington among them. A
In the ahatomical section of nearly
one thousand- crania there are nine
hundred of American Indians. These
are classed geographically into regions
and subdivided according to tribes.—
The dimensions of enehkkull are ta
ken. -Borne of them are so very an
cient and fragile that the most extreme
care had to be used in removing them
from their original resting places.—
Among these are numbers which from
their peculiar shape and condition,
and still more from the localities and
positions in which they mere fonud,
undoubtedly belonged to that people
who inhabited the valleys of the Ohio
and Mississippi prior to their oceupa :
tian by the Red lndian, and who left
monuments of their wonderful indus
try in the huge mounds scattered thro’
that locality.
Several, of these skulls were : token
from these mounds,-' and the chemical
and physical condition of the crania
prove beyond doubt their great antiq
uity. Representing, as these crania
do, the intellectual developements of
tbs' earliest inhabitants of this conti
nent of whom we possess any record,
then of the various - tribes .of -the Red
Indian who have proceeded ns, then of
the various races, of the -Caucasian,
they afford a fine opportunity for the
h stndy of ethnology.
000 ;
After Hie co:
way enterprise, nothing remains but
the removal of- obstructions in the
White Nile, , to open to commerce and
Civilization thejtiiores of thegreat in
terior lakes—the .’Albert and Victoria
Nyanzas—and to nnveil the mysteries
that have so Tong bafiietl the curiosity
of the scientific, hi Equatorial Africa:
With-English and Russian expedition’s
penetrating to the heart of Asian se-
cresies, and Egyptian'railroads and
telegraphs running to the African
Equator, we -will soon be in Alexan
ders fix, without new worlds to con
quer, explore, or bless wit-lil the tri
umphs of peace. The tourist, driven
from Paris by .the.wintry blasts of De
cember, will soon dream of a twenty
day’s trip to the delightful lakes of
Central Africa.—Coiislitutiou.
Lime and salt.—Prof.Johnson rec
ommends for fertilizing purposes to
mix one bushel of salt and two bushels
of dry lime under cover, and allow
mixture to decompose gradually, thus
forming chemical union. For this
purpose the mixture should be made
six weeks before Use, or better still,
two or three months, the heap being
turned over occasionally. This salt
and lime mixture when applied at the
rate of thirty b rishels to the acre, forms
an admirable top 'dressing for many
soils. It acts powerfully on the veg
etable matter of soila. Fifty-six bush
els applied to turnips have produced
as large crops as barnyard manure.—
It is destructive to grabs and insects
in the soil; it attracts moisture from
the air, and is useful against dronth.
Its decomposing power is remarkable,
and if three orfour. bushels of it are
mixed with a load of muck, the latter
will be thus thoroughly powdered.
Breaking up hens.—Writes a cor-
_ respondent to an exchange: My plan
Many of these specimens- illustrate is to take a- strong string four feet
curious and unnatural habits af differ
ent tribes, some being flattened later
ally, others posteriorly, or 'anteriorly,'
or both, and others again having the
entire superior part of "the skull de
pressed. One skeleton of a dimin
utive papoose was shown to us, who
died wbUe 'ondergeing tiie flattening
process, The pqgfe little creatqre w£§
found fastened iq ’onmch of' a free.
dressed in all Hie sjaijfage hsjhy pnja’I-iQ
merits—beads, feathers and fringes. —
long'-tokteh one end around the hen’s
neck, .so that she could not get-it - ofl£
but not to choke; the other ; end' -was
fastened to-;a peg driven into the
ground, and she was .ldftfo scuffle to
stutheutelf. ' - - '
inhalfanhi ___ __
them haltered longer t-lian one day;
and with-good feeding they wifi lay
'" —-in ten days. -
A Woman Sold at Auction.—About
a week ago a widow woman named
Gathner, living In the Sixth Ward,
met a male acquaintance on Gratiot
street and complained to him that she
was out of flour and wood, and . almost
discouraged. He told her that she
ought to many again, and she said
she could’iit find a husband. “I’ll
sell yon at auction,” be continued, and
we will put in a proviso that the high
est bidder shall court yon a week in
order that yon may know him.” The
woman laughingly consented, and the
man mounted a box aud-began crying
out. 'Af r CTowdtossietfi6lecl’andh‘Sj= sta
ted the facts in the case, saving that
he had known her for years. Knew
her to be industrious and of good
character, and then he opened the
sale. Bidding was lively, and every
body-in great good humor. In the
crowd was an old bachelor named Pe
ter D. Joslin, boarding on Maple
street; -and be wasthb'oitly one wlicr
took the joke as a real fact. He jump
ed the bidding from forty-three cents
to $5 and then raised it to 88. Tim
auctioneer cried-“iast call” r <fir; ’that:
fignre-andthe- Widow, was ; “knocked
down.” Joslin handed her the mon
ey, agreed to the proviso and then
treated the whole crowd,- none of
whom had a thought that the: mar
riage would even take place. One
did,' however, yesterday morning, af
ter the terms of the proviso had been
faithfully carried out. And while it
is quite certain that Joslin has found
a good help-meet, the bride-groom’s
friends say that lie is sober, steady,
good tempered and well oK—Detroit
Free Frees.
To clean paint.—Use but little wa-
ter at once; keep it warm, and clean-by
changing it often. A flannel cloth
takes off all fly specks better than cot
ton. Soap will remove the paint, so
nse but little of it. Cold tea is the
best liquid for cleaning varnish paint,
window panes and mirrors. A saucer
of sifted ashes should always be stand
ing at hand to clean unvarnished paint
that has become badly smoked; it is
better than soap. Never,put soap up
on glass, unless it can be thorough'
A LITTLE NGNSEUSE.
BY MAT ADELEB.
It was Moyer's turn for invention
ted gossamer bustle” for the
•ItwasTa thin bag of india 1 rnoper^
which was to be inflated with gas to
give it the proper distension and .suf
ficient tightness. When .Urn model
was completed, Mrs. Moyer determin
ed to tiyit. She went into; the*, yard,
while Moyer worked on; the -kitchen
gas to till, the bag. It worked , well
enough fora few moments,' when alt
at once Mrs. Moyer began to atoend
with frightful rapidity. She had bare
ly (ime to scream down to Mayer to
put the chilifren to bed early, and to
tell Mary Jane to set bread, and the
hui
neit iuStant she was two miles above
the snow line. It was embarrassing
for Mrs. Moyer—very embarrassing,
especially as sbe could not reach round
to the bustle to turn off the gas in or
der to come down. So she floated
around up there among the thunder
storms and clouds and crows and au
rora borealises for several hours, en
joying the scenery and studying the
air currents and wishing she had
hrought her muff and a book to read.
Then she commenced to descend grad
ually, until she come within a couple
of hundred feet of the earth. °She
then screamed some as she floated
along, and several enthusiastic stu
dents of natural history tried to bring
her down with shot guns, under the
impression that she was some new va
riety of ostrich or flamingo^ But a
sudden gust of wind struck Mrs. Moy
er and blew her against the Presby
terian Church steeple with snoh force
-that the “inflated gossamer bustle”
exploded violently, impressing the sex
ton with the conviction that the sa
cred edifice had been struck by light
ning. But when he came out and saw
Mrs. Moyer caught by her pannier on
the weathercock, with her pararol
pointing east or west, as the wind hap
pened to shift, he comprehended the"
situation. It cost 8600 to build a
scaffolding to get Mrs Moyer down,
and even then Moyer thd not intro
duce his bustle into market. He will
Bell out his patent rights cheap. Mrs.
Moyer wants him to.
They have two very enthusiastic un
dertakers in Camden. They ire al
ways on the lookout for bnnness and
always trying to get ahead of each oth-
The wife of a prominent citizen
was known to be quite ill some time
ago, and hoth undertakers made np
their minds to provide, for the fpnerai
if she should d e. One Thursday
night the husband dropped the pare
goric bottle on the floor, and soared
the invalid so that she gave a little
scream, ^/i’he next instant tiie family
heard somebody staggering up-stairs,
kridekiug the pilper .off the wall with
some kind of an implement. It was
Jones, the undertaker, bringing up
one of hi« hermetically sealed coffins.
He bad been wailing on the front stop,
and hearing the scream, concluded
the end had come, and rushed in all
ready. He dashed up the stairs as
the husband opened tlie-door, set the
coffin upon the carpet, and exclaimed
eagerly: “Gimme the first chance,
bury her for forty dollars, wi h silver^,
plated trimmings. ” Before - tire in
dignant, man hatL thne to reply, .a
frpisei was heard in the-; attic. Hfre$r
enfly Brown the othe£ undertaker,
appeared* on the third-story landing,
and heaving one of- his “incorrodible
burial caskets” down the stairs, he
suddenly slipped down the banisters,
and screamed, “Don’t do it; I’ll plant
her for thirty-eight dollars; five off for
cash, put a monogram on the casket,
and throw in a tombstone. ” Brown
had been watching Jones, it seems,
from the roof of the bouse next door,
and would have" beaten him but the
trap-door stuck. They were led away
by a policeman, but before the reach
ed the corner, ot the street Jones had
Attorney
BYRON,
*3*Speclal attention given to collections.
difed. The policeman was not partic
nlar. about details. - * “Only let it be-
deep,” he ssiid. Vwith something solid
on top to. hold her down.”
I over the glass, then rub
i a chamois skin or flannel,
glass will shine like crystal.’
Yentriloqnism is a very beantifql
science when practiced with . discre
tion, but Brown’s boy around the
corner from ns, admires it with less
enthusiasm than he once'did. Brown’s
boy learned the art by watching BHt-z,
and the other day he was entertaining,
his little brother by holding an imagi
nary conversation with a :;mysteriaus
person who was supposed to be in a
Saratoga trank. When Brown’s boy
wonld lift the lid, the voice would
would grow lond, when he closed it
the tones would, die away in a "kind of J
smothered fashion: At the close of
the performance, Brown’s boy placed
his_lips very close to the trunk for the
purpose 0 f producing- a final effect,
when the lid slipped and caught his
nose. It was a spring lock, and it
snapped, down and held the ventrilo
quist-firmly. Then Brown’s boy in
angnisb, got his little brother to hold
np the trank, and Brown’s boy lifted
all he could with his nose,- and the
cord to. that. So he did. and.ihen
turned in and went to sleep. The
pole was really one end of a ladder
Clyhnmmer did not walk 1 anv tba
night, :bnt - abont «ix o’clock in th
morning, whilp be was still asleep, the
workingmen came after the ladder.—
As they trjed to take it* down, they
observed that it stuck, bnt thinking it
might be frozen they gaveit A tmxible
pnU, and the next minute an able-
bodieil American citizen, named Cly-
liammer, dressed in an Unbleached
muslin night shirt, and embracing a
bolster, might have been seen emerg
ing suddenly from a second story
window, feet-foremost. At first Cly-
hammer.thought there had been an
earthquake; but when the workmen,
notsering him, began to move down
the street with fhe ladder on their
shonldexs, and Clyhammer dangHo^on
tiie. end, with one 1^ tied by q string
aud his garments trailing in the deli-
cions momiug breeze/ ber grgsped tbe
situation and begin to reason with tiie
workmen, and to present the matter,
to them in different lights, anil to
swear and insist on being released! —
When they got him homo he had
eleven kinds of rheumatism, and all
the known varieties..of neuralgia. Me
now'rivets himself to the bed-stead at
night.
We shall never forget that evening
wo.spent at McGrader’s, years ago —
We admired Miss McG ruder, and went
round to seo her. It was summer
time, and moonlight, and she sat up
on the ‘ piazza. The carpenter had
been there that day glueing np the
rustic chairs on the porch; so wo took
a seat on the step, in front of Miss
McGrader, where we could gaze into
her eyes and drink in her smiles. It
seems probable that the carpenter
must have upset his glue pot on the
spot where we sat, for after enjoying
ing Miss McGrader’s remarks for a
couple of hours, and drinking several
of her,smiles, we tried to rise for the
purpose of gomg home, bnt found
that we were immovably fixed to the
steps. Then* Mm McGruder said,
“Don’t be in a hurry,” and we told
her we believed we wouldn’t. The
conversation bad a sadder tone after
that, and we sat there thinking wheth
er to ask Miss McGruder to withdraw
while we disrobed and went home in
Highland costume, or whether we
should urge her to warm up the poker
so that we co:ild thaw ourselves out;
or whether we should give one terrif-
tic wrench and then ramble down the
yard baokward. About midnight Miss
McGruder yawned and said she be
lieved she would go to bed. Then we
suddenly asked her if she thought her
father would have any objection to
lending ns his front step for a few
Says, because we wanted to take them
home for a pattern. We think Miss
McGruder must have entertained
doubts of onr sanity, for she'rushed
in and called her father and screamed.
McGrader came down with a double-
barreled gun. Then we explained the
situation in a whisper, and he procur
ed a saw and cut out the piece of step
to which we were attached. Then we
went home wearing the patch, and
before two o’clock crushed out our
young love for Miss McGrader. We
never called again, and she threw her
self away on a dry goods man. There
is a melancholy Satisfaction in recal
ling these memories of youth, and of
reflecting upon the influence of gine
upon the emotions of the hqman
heart.
* E. W. CROCKER,
A-ttomLoy at
TORT VALLEY. GA.
a5*CollccKoB3 ted Criminal iter • specialtgr
Office at Mfflor. Brown &' Co's.
NOTTINGHAM,
£ is r £ £ a t
a
FERRY, GEORGIA.
PRACTICE in fhe Courts of Honston and %n
Joining counties. Prompt attention given to ajl
business entrusted to my care. Collections of
claims a. specialty- J
fob 02.' tf.
C.B.COUS.',
t zt$
SfciCON, GEORGIA.
O FFICE with Lanier and Anderson, otc
Second street, for the present
few 22 - 1
2m.
DUNCAN & MILLER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
PERRY, GEORGIA.
JONES& BAXTER
General Commission Merchants,
No, 100 Cherry Street
MACON, GAl, June, 1873.
yy AVE in Store and constantly arriving,.
precession slowly wound its way down
la f 3 ' vv ^ sn ,°“ me specks stairs in search of Mrs. Brown and the
i tea, and Tnb the panes dry j : key. After aseertaihing with a slip-.
per the toughness of -the in
the last patch on young Mr. Brown’s
window glass. Wash off the spec!
warm tea, and r
make a paste of .
and pnt ahttie - m the centre o!
panel Taken diy clothand mbj pants, BroTO^^ed hfot'^d
subdues the most confirmed and vi-
Aquafoetis will explode as- well' as
■r i “ ■ r “ out
A SS- 7 — 1 — vu” jecting above the window-sill on the
e and uffeetivej—no of hjs remaining qye Mr. Waxtel, of dntside, and it 6<*arred to him that
Kutikbh. IdoVk a. snd ««ar>t . it'would be a good thing to tie the
large quantities of:
CORN, OATS and HAY,
TENNESSEE HAMS, SIDES and
SHOULDERS.
WESTERN BACON and BULK
MEATS,
LARD in Cans Kegs and Barrels,
FLOUR of all Grades in Barrels,
Qferter, Half and Whole Sacks.
COW PEAS, BRAN and MEAL,
SUGAR, COFFEE and MOLASSES,
SOAP, CANDLES, and STARCH,
CHESNUT-GROYE and ACME.
WHISKY,
Pure PERUVIAN GUANO,
CEMENT and PLASTER PARIS,
Agents for the Celebrated Chewac-
Ia (Ala) Lime, which We offer for sale
at the Lowest Market Rates.
Apl 5 3-m
DR.
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IDEWTISIT,
PERRY AND HAWKINSYlLLE GA.
JJE WILL the first half of esch month
in his office in Perry, over the old drugstore,
and one-fourth, or the latter half of each month i
will be javen to his practice in Hawldnsville, at
Mrs. Hudspeth's. &ug*23tf
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We waB^Mgd.s in ereiy TOWN, VIL-
L AGE iana/HAiHiET. - in. the co.untjy- to'
"most simple and most effectual plan
for preventing cows from Mel'
when - being milked Is'that of ft
Rug a. Mather strap ralner snugly house one night last Janaary, he" Je-
abont the body of the cow just in terrained to fasten a cord to his leu
went to bed, melsffichply, depr^ r
l, and with a noze squeezed ;is thin
a table-knife. He_will probably
not practice-ventriloquism ana profes- f
sion. 1
. Our old friend Clyhammer had a
habit of walking in his deep, and
when he visited his father-in-
solicit
front of the udder. This plan at once mid tie the other end fof. the cord-
mnfirma -m*_ t „ll. a.,.,! 1 , ,? ooru.
not the other end of ms leg) to some
thing, bo that the jerk would wake
him if he attempted a somnambulis
tic prowl. Clyhammer saw a pole pro-
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