Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

F. II FILDES, Editor. VOL. 111. Oc (Quitman fanner. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. IN AOVANCK. F*r one year ()<) For six months 2 00 For three months 1 For single copy 1° TERMS FOR ADVERTISING. INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. One square, (10 lines, or less,) first insertion $2.00; each following insertion. SI.OO. When advertisements are continued for one month or longer, the charge will be us follows : Number w cr> £ £ -SC K of | § § § Squares. ' j» * " X $5 00 $lO 00 $ 15 00 S2O 00 2...... 800 15 00 25 00 35 00 s' 12 00 13 00 35 00 45 00 4 l(i 00 24 00 40 00 53 00 5 20 00 35 00 45 00 CO 00 A Col’ran 35 00 55 00 80 00 12<) 00 1 “ 60 00 80 00 130 00 200 00 Obituary notices. Tributes of Respect, and all articles of a personal character, charged for as advertisements. , For announcing candidates for office, SIO.OO '^UsceUancoits*. LOOKING rou A DOMESTIC WIFE. BY KIT CARLYLE. *1 hardly know wliiclt I like beat, Jose phine Reynolds or Ilottic Burke,” said | young Benson to himself. “Josephine is a splendid looking girl, a queen in every movement, and commands adtnira tion wherever she goes; hut on theothci hand Ilettie is a little gem, and has a sweet disposition although, perhaps Jose phine has as good. Both can shine in the parlor, and for aught I know in the kitchen also, as all fanners daughters should be able to do. Well, I’ll call ou them this Monday afternoon and endeav or to decide then. It’s washing day I know, hut so much the better time V so tnd on them household duties; and as 1 a u going out of town the forntei part ot th; week it will he a good excuse lor call lug now.” Geoige Benson was a smart intelligent young man and engaged in profitable business which hid fair, in a very lew years to’place him in independent circum s'ances. lie wished to many, but felt the necessity of wedding someone who was domestic and who would be a helpmate lie was very much interested in both Ilettie and Jos< phine and hardly knew which he would prefer for a wife as both had many excellent qualities, but finally decided in favor of the one who should prove to be the most domestic. George’s walk that afternoon brought him to Mr. Reynolds’ about three o’clock Josephine’s mother came to the door aud ushered him into the parlor. In a few minutes Josephine entered and wel c.i mad him cordially. To his surprise instead of seeming fatigued as one will after a Mouday’s washing site looked as fresh and blooming as a rose and as trim in her dress as though ready for a party while her mother in her old calico work ing dress looking jaded aud caicworn and referring by way of apology, to its being washing day, sooii left the room. “Excuse my calling on Monday, M:ss Reynolds,” said George, ‘but I was go. ing to leave town for a week and thought I would happen in a few moments before I went.” •O, you are perfectly excusable,' repli ed Josephine ‘and I am very glad indeed that you called ’ ‘I shall make a short stay,’ continued George, ‘as I presume you are quite wea rv with your ’ " ‘Oh no not at all; I have been down to the village shopping all the afternoon. Mother always does the washing as 1 haven’t any taste that way.’ ‘Then you’ve been at liberty all day? <Yes, certainly; washing day is not different with me from any other; I nev er did a Monday’s washing in my life. Mother tried to initiate me into the mys teri es of the art one day', but I was so awkward that she had to give up the experiment; and she said then there was no danger of my making a wash-wfiman. “Indeed,” said George to himself. ‘Father’ continued Josephine, ‘would hire the washing done every week, but mother says she had rather do it herself for economy’s sake.’ ‘A knowledge of housework, especial ly of cookery, is very' desirable to a young lady,’ replied George. ‘1 suppose it was once considered so,’ -cplied Josephine;‘ but gentlemen now a I days generally’ hire their wives a w-ash j woman and housekeeper and that an ■ swers every purpose and stives the lady the trouble of acquainting herself with such disagreeable matters. Gentlemen of the fpreseut day fc do not wish their wives to he slaves but companions.’ ‘Very convenient logic for the ladies,’ thought George. ‘Some have a taste for such duties, and prefer to make themselves acquainted with them,’ said he, ‘for the sake of over seeing their servants, and knowing for themselves that things are doing as they should he iffor no other purpose.’ ‘True, blit I’m not one of that sort. I abhor them. Housework is perfectly hateful—detestable to me. Oh, dear, 1 should consider a man very cruel who wished me to confine myself to it, even part of the time.’ •tVtll,’ continued George drawing a long breath tor he was surprised to hear Josephine express herself so directly con trary to all his previous notiontof a wo man’s duties, ‘a lady sometimes marries a poor man finds it for her and bis inter est to conform to circumstances, and at tend to duties which are disagreeable to her, for the purpose of assisting her bus band and rendering his burden lighter.’ ‘Yes, but I make no calculation of that kind,’ said Josephine, firmly though pleasantly for she was really an agreea ble girl, although allowed to grow up with erroneous notions in regard to do mestic affairs. '1 prefer not to wed a man unless he is able and willing to support me in ease and style.’ ‘Then you would not make the right kittd of a wife for me,’ thought George thoroughly sick of Josephine’s remarks ; and as soon as possible he changed the topic of conversation. ‘What a lucky escape,’ said our friend to himself, an hour afterwards, as he was wending his way toward Ilettie Burke's ‘lt’s a good thing for me that I sounded her upon housekeeping before I proposed otherwise I might have got myself into a p>retty fix. What a figure I should cut with such a wife 1 Why I should ho obliged to turn cook and washwoman myself, for I covldn’t afford in my pres ent circumstances to hire all my work done. I should have to stop at home and wash Monday iron Tuesday perhaps, and bake Saturday leaving three days out of the seven to attend to my own business. What a fix ! Beautiful time 1 should have! my business would be nog ! lected, aud I should be poorer than ever ! and even il l could afford to hire a house keeper it wouldn’t better the ease much, as I should have to give her directions and sec that things were done properly for Josephine is far above such detesta ble matters as she calls them. A man that’s going to have such a wife- ought to know it in season to he initiated into household mysteries before marriage. Such a miss would do very well for a rich man but not lor me. Now for Hot tie Burke; and if she turns out like Jose phine in her tastes and dislike of domes tic duties setting aside the knowledge of them which she cannot well avoid hav ing. as all say that her mother has drill ed her thoroughly in them aud is full ol whims relating to their being slavish. &c , why then I’ll seek a life companion in some other part of the country and ; peibaps make it a part of my present | journey abroad to look for one.’ Ilettie welcomed him in an old calico j dress, with short sleeves, ala wash tub, ! and with her brown hair, that generally curled beautiful, gathered up neatly aud snugly on the back of her head. “I supposed I should apologise,” said she, as they entered the parlor, but i j dislike apologies; and then you know that Monday is washing day, and we' farmers’ daughters have to be in the suds then.’ ‘And there’s where I hope to find you,’ George came near saying, but checking > himself, he replied;’ ‘I know it—it's a part of a woman’s duties, and I am sure an apology now would he out of place!’ ‘So I thought,’ returned Hettie. ‘I fear I’m intruding,’ said George. ‘O, by no means,’ repled Ilettie; ‘we are through with our washing, which held out later than usual, as mother has been quite unwell lor a week, and I was obliged to do the whole of it to-day.— You will stay to tea of course; it will be perfectly convenient. Mother’s headache has come on and she has lain down, but father will be in presently to entertain you.’ George’s countenance was now bright ening up every moment, and he began to HERB SHALL THE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY TEAR AND UNERIBED BY GAIN. QUITM AN, G L. 0., AUG GST '2B, 1S(S8. ! think his fears groundless in regard to Ilettie; but he was resolved to test Iter thoroughly. ‘Does house-work agree with yon?’ on quired he, half trembling from uncertain -1 ty as to ti e probable reply. ‘O, yes,’ returned Ilettie, ‘T am gener ally pretty healthy, and then I’m fond of it too, and you kuow that’s half the bat tle. Mother even goes so far as to say, sometimes, 1 can cook and take care of the house as well as she; hut then that’s Iter flattery, of course to encourage me.’ ‘But such is hard, and some say slav ish,’ continued George* ‘I lliink differently,’ replied Ilettie; ‘it is not slavish, and need not be so hard as many contrive to make it. There’s a right way to do everything. Some have what is called a knack, but that is sim ply finding out the easiest way of doing a thing and doing it well, One can make honse-work more comparatively easy in that way.’ ‘Well, some consider it a disgrace,’ continued our hero, ‘and others complain that they have not a taste for it.’ ‘lt is not a disgrace,’ I think a young lady may well be proud of a knowledge of house keeping. Many of the first hi dies of the land have not felt themselves above it, and why should I who ant nothing hut a farmers daughter? As for taste that way, a girl may as well acquire one first as last. A man’s wife must understand such things, and the time to learn is when single. I often think how ashamed I would he if marri ed, and unable the first day of commen cing housekeeping to c iok my husband a decent meal. What would he think ? why, that l was a mere doll, good for nothing but to look at; I should cry from sheer vexation.’ ‘Well, really, I begin to almost think, lief tie, said George, that you would even consent to many a man who would ex pect you to do housework all your da;s, if you loved him, you serin u> make such an agreeable business oi it; but I should have but little respect Jo? a man who subjected you to it unnecessarily. ‘Yes,’ replied Ilettie, smiling, ‘if! real ly loved a man. his being poor would not lead me to reject him, even if his station was such as to subject me to close atten tion at home duties all my life.’ ‘That’s the very girl for me,’ said George to himself, as Ilettie left the room ti) arrange the tea-table, T need look no j farther.’ And before he left the house that u'gnt, he had made her an offer of his heart and hand, which had been ac cepted. And so ends onr sketch. If there is any moral in it, young ladies of ordinary discretion will not fail to discover it. (><l<l itml liven. A sailor having purchased some medi cine of a celebrated docter, demanded the price. ‘Why’ says the doctor, ‘I cannot think of charging you less than seven shillings and six pence.’ 'Well I’ll tel! you what;’ said the sail or, ‘take off the odd and I’ll pay you the even. ‘Well,’ replied the doctor, ‘wo don’t quarrel about trifles.’ The sailor then put down sixpence and was walking off, when then the doc tor reminded him of his mistake. ‘No mistake at all, sir—six is even I and seven is odd all the world over, 1 bid you good morning.' ‘Be off,’ sai 1 the doctor, ‘it is a sell —but I have made fourpenco out of yon i still.* j A poor fellow says: ‘ln an evil hour I j became addicted to drink. From that j moment 1 have been going down, until I have become an outcast—a loafer—a thing of no account; fit for nothing else but to be a member of Congress.’ i A western editor in respouse to a sub ! seriber who grumbles that bis morning | paper was intolerably damp, says ‘that it is because is so- much jdue on it.’ It is said to be dangerous to he work ; ing with a sewing machine near a window j when there is a thunder storm. It is.also very dangerous to sit near some sewing machines when there is no thunder | storm. Many and varied are i he female charms ! that conquer us. Here we find a woman whose strength,, like Samson s, is in her Pair: a second holds our affections by her teeth : and a third is a Cludarella who wins hearts by her pretty little foot. A LEAP YEAR STORY. * It Is a well known fact that the ladies are allowed by the conventional rules of s iciely and common consent to take the lead of the men every leap year, and, if they feel disposed, go so fur as to pop to question, without being considered rude or forward. Although the right or privilege is conceded to the ladies we seldom hear of their taking advantage of it However, in one case, in which ts c lady availed herself of the privilege of leap year occurred in New York on New Year's day. We will relate the particulars, hut not give names for the reason that the parties are residents ol the city aud do not realise the idea of having the privacy of their domestic af fairs brought before the public There is a certain fashionable hoard ing house in the city of New York (we .vill locate it on Thirty-Third street) where a very handsome young widow was hoarding. This lady we call widow Cheerly who has a fortune of thirty thou sand dollars left her by her deceased husband, and no children. Three yqutig cletks (we will name them Smith', Brown and Jones) who for tneily boarded afe-Tliis boarding house, oalfhd tipbn the landlady on New Years day. The widow Cheerly was in her room and saw the young gentleman ap proaching. She immediately dressed herself up in her bridal array called the landlady and inquired the names of the young gentlemen. The landlady went to the parlor to receive her visitors,-'Thu widow followed inffticdiatcly and;with out waiting for an introduction approach ed Smith and sSffl: ‘Will you consent to beedtae my hus band 1’ The yyung man blushed, aud was very much confused at hearing the ques tion from a lady ho had never seen, but he finally succeeded in stammering out : * ‘Owing to the shortness of our ac quaintance and another person having some slight claim upon my affections, you will please excuse me.’ ‘Certainly,’said the widow, ‘I will with pleasure, as 1 did not notice this gentle man (addressing Mr. Brown) before I spoke to you or I would have proposed to him first. W ill you marry me Mr. Brown.’ T will’ said Brown. ‘The ice is now broken. I would have been a married man years ago, if I could have mustered courage enough to pop the question. But as you have taken advantage ol the leap year and removing the stumbling block, 1 will become your husband just as soon you please?’ ‘Right off, remarked ther widow. ‘Land lady will you please send for my bonnet and other out door apparel.’ Tito necessary articles were sent for, and Mr. Brown with his intended Lang, ing gracefully ou his arm, started for the residence of the pastor of the Boat man’s church. W hen the minister was about to couple them in the bonds wed lock each heard the other’s name for the first time. Everything went on as mer ry as a marriage Bell, with the newly married couple all that day. The next morning Brown awoke. The effect of the numerous drinks of the day previous having entirely worn off'. lie became serious. Ho tho’t he was in rather a bad scrape—out of employment in the middle of the winter, very little I money, and a wife depending on him ! for support. While revolving the sttb |ject ever.in his mind and not being able j to decide what he had belter do—run or commit suicide—his wife awoke. ‘My dear,’ said she, ‘have you any objections to collect a few bills?’ He started thinking that she supposed he had something coining to him, that she desired him to collect a little for her I benefit, and he muttered rather surly: j ‘No I tiave no objections to collecting money when there is any coming to me : j ‘I don't mean that, my dear. Get up ! an J go to my bureau drawer, and there ! you will find bills to the amount of five hundred dollars for rents due me for the last month. You will please accept the money from me as a New Years gilt.’ Brown leaped from bis bed, scarcely believing bis senses or that he distinct y understood his wife, and then rushed to the bureau and there found the bills she | wished him to collect, j When we saw Brown Ire was out col lecting bills. He fouud it a very easy job—and we beard him expatiating upon the benefit of matrimony. To prevent fish from smelling in the summer, “tut their notes off.”' SOME SHAKING. Tom is a queer genius, and gets off some tall ones occasionally. 11c visited ns the other day, in our sanctulX with a ‘How do you do, old fellow?’ ‘Hallo Tom,’ said we ‘where have you been so long?. ‘Why, sir, I’ve been down on Severn river, in Anne Arundel County, taking Shanghai notes on the chills and fe ver.’ ‘All, indeed,’ said wo, ‘are they very bad down there ?’ ‘Rather bad,’said Tom, drily. ‘There is one place where they have been at tempting to build a brick house for eigh t weeks. Well, Ilia-other day, as the hands Were putting an the bricks, prepara tory to finishing it they were taken with a chill and shook the whole building down and kept on shaking till the bricks were dust of the finest quality. Just at that juncture, the chills came on with renewed force, and they commenced sha king with such gusto, that they were entirely obscured for hours, and the peo ple of the nighborhood tho’t the sun was in an eclipse.’ ‘Gas!’ said wo N it at all,’ said Tom. ‘Why, I was sixteen miles further down the river the oilier day, and saw four men carrying a big pine log, from on board of a schooner to the shore. The chills came on, and they shook the log, widen was thirty feet long, all up in pieces 'of the proper length for firewood, and then taking a reshake of it,.split it arid piled it up, at the same timeisfpking all the knots out of it.’ ‘Can’t believe anything like that Tom ’ ‘lt’s a fact,’ said Tom, aud he resum ed: 'There’s a farmer down there, who, in an apple p'cking season, hauls his nig gers out to the orchard, and sets’one up against each tree. In a short, time, the citillscomo on, and every apple in the orchard is shaken off the trees on to the ground.’ ‘lncredible,’ said we, holding our sides with both hands. ‘Fact,’ said Torn; ‘they keep a man a long side each negro to take him away as soon as the ft ait is off, for tear that lie wilt shako the tree down!’ Tom continued: ‘Mr. S , a friend of mine, and a house carpenter, was on gaged a few days ago covering thej'oof of a house with shingles. Just as he was finishing the chill came on lie shook every sliinglootf and they are supposed to be Hying about yet.’ ‘Another gentleman near the same place was taken with a chill the other day at dinner, and shook his knife and fork down his throat, besides breaking the crockery ware on the table His lit tie son, who was sitting at the table at the same time was taken with a chill and shook all tiie buttons off'of his inexpress ibles, and then shook himself clear out of them.’ We then prevailed upon Tom to desist who did so, with the understanding that lie was to give us the balance at some other time. How Cupids Arrows Fell. —Fanny Jones says when she was in love, she felt as it in a tunnell with a train of cars coming both ways. Jimmicks says that when he was in love he felt as if he were being hung—and had a cat in his hat and a peck of Bumblebees under his waistcoat. Jimmicks knows the symp toms. Julian says she felt—oli my —as if she were in a bower of moonbeams sinking into a bath of effulgent honey, beneath a blaze of balmy stars, to the tones of slow music. Spiritual Maxims. —That gin siings have ‘slewed’ more than the signs of old. That the reputation of being fond of cocktails is not a feather in any man's cap. That the money spent for, port supplied by portly gents, would support many a poor family. Not Much Idle Time. —Down on the “Eastern Shore” of Virginia there is an editor, who is also his own compositor aud pressman, who makes occasions' voyages along the coast to Norfolk as captain of the schooner Polly, who preaches on Sunday, teaches scnool on week days, and still finds time to take care of a wife and sixteen children. Wealth without friends iadike life with out health; the one an uncomfortable for tune —the other a miserable being* The jealous man poisons his own ban quet and then partakes ot it. [53.00 per Annum NO. 29 CUKE OF A CHIPPLEi Liverpool has a good local story of a tiger which escaped from a menagerio and terrified the suburbs for some hoars, la one outlying district a man who had ‘lost the use of both legs/ had sat for twenty years a sturdy, stunted vagrant, making a good thing out of his infirmity. But in an evil hour for his professional profits tlie road where lie had taken up his seat for a score of years was the scene of a fierce stampede. Down it poured, pcllmell, men women and chil dren, at full speed, screaming with ter ror and crying out—'The tiger I tiger f" The cripple had heard the news of the tiger's escape, and now fear leut him legs, or restored his old limbs; he started up, threw away the big tow) on which lie had sat doubled up every day, and with an energy that left nothing behind to be desired he bounded dowu the road and soon outstripped all competitors.—■ The tiger' was caught; bnt tire 'crippli' was never seen again, at least in that neighborhood. A gentleman who is rather given to story—lulling, relates the following. When 1 was a young mau l spent Sev ern! years at .the South, residing for n while at Port Hudson on the Mississippi River. A great deal of litigation wan going on there about that time, and it was not always an easy matter to obtain a jury. One day I was summoned to act in that capacity, and repaired to court to get excused. On my name being called I informed bis Honor, the Judge, that I was not a freeholder, and therefore not qualified to serve. ‘Where do you reside?’ inquired the Judge. ‘I an stopping for the time being at Port] Hudson/ ‘You board at the hotel, I presume/ ‘1 take my meals there, but have rooms in another part of town where 1 lodge/ ‘Do yon keep bachelor’s hallT ‘Yes, sir/ ‘how long have you lived in that man* ner?’ ‘About six months/ ‘1 think jou are qualified/ gravely ra inakcd the Judge, ‘tor I have never known a man to keep bachelors hall tho length of time you name, who had not dirt enough in his room to make him a freeholder! The court doesn’t excuse you.’ An advertisement appears in a wes tern paper which reads as follows: ‘Run away—a hired man named John with bis nose turned up five feet eight inches high, and had on a pair of corduroy pant* much worn.” A young lady who was rebuked by her mother for kissing herjiutended, justh tied the act by quoting the passage Whatsoever that men should do unto you do ye even so to them. ‘I say mister/ said one crossed eyed individual to another, how came your eyes so crooked ?’—Through sitting be* tween two girls and trying to make love to both at the samo time/ replied the other. Tom and Joe were talking over their travels, when Tom asked his chum— ‘Were you ever in Greece?’ ‘No/ replied Joe; ‘but 1 once fell into a thundering big tub of soap 1’ Never bo so iudc as to say to a rnarr, “There’s the door;’ but address him moro politely, thus; —"Elevate your golgo tlia to the summit Jofyour pericraniww, and allow me to present to your occular demonstrations that scientific piece of mechanism which constitntes the egress portion of this department/ “Honesty is the best policy, hut ft keeps a man shocking poor, ,r said Smith as he wet the sugar without mixing it with sand. A negro being asked if his master wa» a Christian, replied, ‘No sir—he’s a mcnr tier of Congress/ Content hai gs not so high but tbatP rnau on the ground may reach it. There are, around u»; thousands and! thousands of homes, ail the chambers of : which arc made (lark or cheerless for ! lack of the “small, sweet courtesies” off life, so cheaply given, and so magical iw> llicir cfl’ect. Every pound of cochineal contains • seventy thousand insects, boiled to' death.