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F. IF FILDES, Editor.
VOL.,V.
Miscellaneous.
AGENTS WANTED!
TO SKT.T. Orit CKI.KBRATKD
GOLDEN FOUNTAIN
Acknowledged by all wbo have used them to l»e
the best IVn made or sold in this country. Ni
blotting! No *oil**«l fingers ! Sixty lines writ
tou with one pen of ink ! Will outwear any steel
pen ever made Bankers, merchants, ♦eacher*
and all classes endorse them in the highest terms
of praise. I’ut up in neat slide boxes. Prices:
two boxes, 50 cents ; five boxes SI.OO. Sent
fiee of postage, and guaranteed to gr«v® perfect
satisfaction.
Liberal Commission to Agent*!
We are prepared to give any energetic person
tailing the agency ot these Pens, a commission
which will pay Two Hundred Dollars per mouth
Three sample Pens will be mailed for 10 cents.
Address.
WESTKI»X ITBLiSIKNG CO.
PimutnuH, Pa.
April loth. PJ7O. I'm
FURNITURE HOUSE.
JOHN M. WITT.
Cabinet Mater sTjiulci'liiki-r,
QUITMAN, GA.
rjIAKES pleasure in notifying the^
I. citi/.eu.s of Brooks and
Counties, that he has established at* . A--i
ijithinaii. a regular t ’ni’nit lire
and is prepared to put up to
order
lUJli FAUX, BEDSTEADS, SEC PET U
KIES, SIDEBOAUDS. TABLES,
WARDROBES,
and everything needed in the Furniture line, and
in any style required.
An experience of many years, justifies him in
assuring the public that his work will give satis
faction in every respect ; and prices will com
pare tav<»» ably with those «.f Savamiah or else
where, with tliis important advantage to the pur
chaser : every piece of Furniture leaving his es
tablishment will be warranted.
K<‘j)alrin;4; done with neatness
and dispatch.
MERTMirS BlffiESS.
In connection with the F’nrnliuro business, he
is also conducting that of PXDER I AKIdl, and
will put up. on very short notice, any desci ip
lion of <..'OFFIN- Plain or Ornamented, ucuily
li iiuMied, and mounted, if desired.
A general assortment of Coffins always kepi
on hat'd.
j£jjr- Prices as moderate as possible.
WANTED.
I »m in mi'll of a I II '.- quantity .•! SEA
SONED LUMBER,
rhinn. CljriT> . Miliili'. I!tii. -s W itinnt. A' ~ An,
i.tr which a liberal price "ill he juii l.
JOHivT m. WITT.
uitji'.r. l a..Jall 22, 1863. llt
liJld lUtII.IJANT MOW
GOLD WATCHES.
A NEW I ' -COVEKV.
and in* only GVnnineAb urinous or Bri!I:a»l Gold
Walet*es ir ;»np uetiiml by us. are t! «- most per
feci imitation of Gold ev«*r prod iced - made ot
Hd’.i! Alumi»K»u« Gold, being a lino bard metal
that will stand any climate, and never tarnish;
more durable and brilliant that: pure gold. Fine
Engine-turned. Hunting-* used. Full-Jeweled Le
vers (Gents’ and Ladies' sizes.) at sls each.
The Pout le-F.x’ra Ketined .Solid Aluminous
Gold, with fine Swiss. English and American
movements (nicked works), are equal to $250
Gold Watches: regulated and warranted perfect
time keepers, ut only S2O each.
Also Gold Chains latest and most costly
itt/len (Ladies'and Gents’) at $6, SB, $lO. sl2
to sls each. Elegant Aluminous Gold Chains
(Ladies’ and Gents’) from 10 to 40 inches long,
at $2, $4, SO, and each. Sent at lowest
wholesale prices.
No Money required in advance, but sent by
express payable on delivery. Places where no
express runs, goods w ill be sent by mail in reg
istered packages, by sending price in advance.
An agent sending for six Watches gets an ex
tra Watch of best quality, FREE. On paying
Express charge-. Goods nay be opened and ex
andned in express before paid for: and if not
satisfactory, returned. State description and
price of goods desired, and order directly from
THE EAGLE WATCH CO ,
118 Fulton street. New York.
June 10, is7o. 23-ora
(ll^dpWlfORfABLE )
ANII CT'liK FOB TIIK KITPTUR-
V Mi l - -ent pesl-pucl on receipt of HI cents.
A'hires- Or. K. li. Foote, (Author of Jlcdieal
(‘ommon Felloe.) No. 120 Lexington Avenue,
.New Vmk. lt-6m
\WAY \\ 1 I II SPECTACLES. Old eyes made
new, easily, without doctor or medicines.
Sent post paid on receipt of JO cents. Address
Dr. E. B. Foote, 120 Lexington Avenue. New
York. _ 11-son
I'liiHitiii;. bikguwimin
M A NUFACTORY.
QUITMAN, GA.
Bozemax & Lewis,
KESPECTFULLY notify the public that they
have purchased the ohop, Tools. .Material,
Ac-, recently owned by Mr. Hammd A. Graves,
and propose to carry on the manufacture of Car
riages. Buggies. Wagons, etc., in any style desir
ed, and iu a substantial, workmanlike manner.
MR. II T. FRET WELL,
Conceded to be one of the best workmen in thi.-
portion o! country, witt fmvt- charge of the Car
ring? and Wagon’Shop, which is a guarantee ot
e-md work. . , . .
\V,. are al-oprepared to do all kinds of wood
work, and General Repairing. And in connec
tion with our establishment, is a complete
BLACKSMITH SHOP,
Where planters and other? ne ding work in that
Fne. cm be accommodated on fair leini*.
We l are hard-working men. and desire to make
an honorable living, by strict alienuon to to;*
ness and theretorv respeettiiily solicit a poiti .n
of the patronage of the
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r nrr. 1 would cheerfnWy r^vnm -mu for
lmtronage. Messr*. liozeman A Lew
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r N.
! ELLA’S \1 mm PRESENT,
How Aunt Jamima Paid Tier
Debts-
BY AMY r.AXriOI.I'H.
‘The pinvi king old ereatiin:!’ sahl Mrs
bpenerr Crayton; 'wliat on earth could
have sent her here just now of till times
iu tlie world?’
‘My dear, try dear,’ said Mr. Fpcncer
Crayton,‘lie careful nhat y< n say, she
i boo u deal of property lo leave has
n y aunt Jemima.
‘But to come just now,’ sighed Effu‘
| Crayton, a blooming damsel of two or
! tl.re e and twenty, ’when we are all so
busy about Ella’s wedding!’
‘And in that green merino
dn ss,’ cried the bride elect, ‘and a cap
that must have been made in the year
one. How shall I evi r introduce her to
Percy, whose relatives are so ilegaut!
■Couldn’t she pass as the houst.lierp'er,
papa?’
HI s’: sh sh!'said Mr. Fp-nc -r Cray
tr n in whose p'li'cm-l'gie-H development
caution bad a prominent place.
‘Or,’ pursued the irrepressible Ella,
'couldn’t mamma ask ber if it wouldn’t
be jus.t as convenient to make her x T ;sit
at some other time?’
‘My dear and m‘t talk nonsense,’ s *id Mrs
Crayton with so many things to be done-
She’s here and vve shall just have to live
through the infliction,, but I wish she
wah tn Jerico.’
And Mrs. Crayton got, up and went
down stairs to see wl ether the cook was
not ruining the white soup tor dinner.
Meanwhile Aunt Jemima JoWiOu up
stairs sal before the register with a
countenance which would have been a \
study for Cruikshauk or I>ar!ev, or anj |
other delineat rof the human face divine. ;
That treacherous register! how little the .
family circle below had dreamed what
mischief it wa-=, when they expressed
their minds so freely on the subject of
dear old Aunt Jemima. Really it was
almost as good as living in tire far fum
ed I’alace of Truth.
‘Ah,’ quoth this wise old lady to her
self as she smut lied out the folds of the
much di spised merino dress, ‘sets the
wind that way? And after all their af
fectionate letters they have writleu me,
and the invitations they have sent me
to make their house my home. If! want
so certain that I was dreaming. Proper
ty leave indeed! I’ll alter my will just
the very moment I get home to Siowville
but I'll pay my nephew and his family
off in a different sort of coin first. I
| won’t take the cars to Jerico just yet.’
Aunt Jemima’s face was radical in its
border of crimpßd muslin when she
i came down stairs, with her knitting
; work in ber hadd, an hour or so after
ward.
i 'W hat a nice house you’ve got, NTe-p-
I hew Crayton,’ she said beamingly. ‘Them
; registers is a great improvement on tho
i old-fashioned stoves and fire places we
1 have in Hlowville.’
'' ‘Ye?,’ said Mr. Crayton obsequiously,
I liope you found your room convenient
! Jemima.’
1 ‘Prodigiously convenient,’ said the old
lady.
‘And comfortabl ?’
i ‘And comfortable.’
Mr. Crayton began to have a kind of
' impression H at bis aunt’s manners bad
! grown eccentric, but he said nothing
and Aunt Jemima sat knitting away lis
tening to all that was going on, like an
eldi rly edition < f the celebrated Irisi -
rnuuU parrot which we have all beard
of.
She permeat' and the house during tin
!vi st two weeks, r s toe cj-presaioU .s a!
HERE SHALL THE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S P.tOKTS T.I LINT AIN, UNAWED BY FEAR AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN.
QUITMAN, GEO., AUGUST 5, 1870,
! linvable; she was down in the kitchen,
seeing the meringues beaten up, and the
wedding cake iced down; she Was up in
the cellar counting the number of bas
kets of champagne ordered by her nep
j hew; she knew the list of Ella's trouseau
by heart and the exact income of her bus
band that was to be, and she could have
(old the number of mealies in the tulle
rail, it anybody had wanted to know.
'A unt Jemima has such a good memo
ry,’ saia Ella sweetly, l’oc her father told
ber of the solid family silver io Autd
| Jemima’s plate closet at home, and who
| knew vhat disposition tho old dear
would make of it if she was properly man
aged.
The]!wedding day came at taut, Aunt
Jemima was trundled to church and
back in one of the foremost carriages;
for,’ as Mr. Crayton remarked, ‘it wou’t
do to c.floutl lu r, and old people are so
sensitive! And the glories it tbc \v <1
ding reception were itr their lull tide
when Aunt Jemima, clad in tire inevita
ble green merino dress, and a sewing
silk shawl with an impossible rose cm
broidered on its center behind.
‘Do have a chair, Aunt Jolliffe,’ said
mischievous B b Crayton, who was thii
teen the exact age to relish all manner
of jokes at his sister’s expet.se.
‘Thankee, Robert, I gaess I will,’ said
Aunt Jemima, comfortably ensconcing
herself by the s'Ju if tho table. ‘You
needn’t stay no longer Euphrasia. ]
know all about the wediiin’ presents. —
Law snkes alive! 1 was here wlion
every otic of them come!'
Euphrasia looked di.-moved. The
room was fast filling with guests, who
having paid their compliments to the
bride in satin and her appendage groom,
were now according to the fashionable
routine coming to view the glittc'dng ar
ray of presents.
’How lovely !’ said Mrs. C. J D. Han
na taking up a silver card receiver be
tween her finger ai.il thumb.
‘Ya-as,’ said Aunt Jamima, hoodie s
of Mrs. Hanna’s stare. ‘But fijis plated.
Effie said she knowed it xvas from its
cheap look And there a cologne set, with
Mrs. Jelb rs’ c.ird to it, Ella’s downright
sarrin it came from the dollar store. ,Mr
Parkins sent them silver forks; Nephew
Oraton expected a tea service at the very
least; but its j ist as he says, ‘the rich
est arc tho meanest!’
Mr. Batkins, whose plump figure just
then fried in the doarway turned scarlet;
but Aunt Jemima went on her voice
sailing through the crowded apaitment.
‘Them ear rings was from Ilarvey
Jones Mrs. Crayton said it was mean
not to send a full set, but Jones couldn’t
afford bo much as lie did send—don’t
never pay his washerwoman. And the
decanter stand is from Mrs Ellis. Ellin
sent her a coffee urn when she was mar
lied, and it was dreadful small of her,
she sad] to send back one that didn’t
eo&t as much. J! 11 isos always was stin
gy Noice Crayton says!’
At this stage of the conversation, a
Indy whose lavender silk dress betoken
ed her recent bridchoud, tl runced indig
nantly out of tliD room.
‘That there family biblo’ went on Aunt
Jemima, smiling complacently round on
the assembly, ‘was from old Mr. Jarvis.
I jest wish you could ha,’ seen the gals’
faces when il come. Ela she bad been J
calkeluting on a set if pearls from him
at the very least, for lie’s let- go.lfnfhci .
aud she just cried. As if auyl ,dy wan
ted a dusty dd Bible!’ she sai 1 ‘I told
ber it was a thing you eouMu'l h e
houscVithont. But, law! gala is galls,
aud thought she'd a had the hy.-Jen
The lace set is from M ss r-ce; our folks
say it is sccon ! —’
‘lt’s not so, it was new from Lospou- j
id’s’cried a chocked voice.
‘And the golil thimble! V, liy say- l
she is that all Harry Morton’s going to}
send mo rxiieri he was my beau so long j
before Percy came alo g. Dread, ul pi a
cushin ain't it? Bill Miss Ur.-.jt m siy.-i.
for a rich woman like Mi- 1 . B.aii i >
send such small potatoes do< - beat all 1
A portly lady in black velvet pi' ? •!
forward here and viudict:vi !y eau'gh lup
the pin cushion.
T am very sorry Alias Crayton is not
pleased,’blic said snapping her bps to
gether like the click of a trigger, ‘but
my unfortunate gift shall no longer of
fend her sight. ’
‘No offense at all; said Aunt Jemima,
while Euphrasia, wringing her hands in
despair, endeavoring vainly to stem the;
avalanche of ler words,’ when uoue’s
meant nine’s taken you know. Oh yes!
the gold jelly spoons. Young Jayeox l
sent them, and Mr. Crayt-m -i v:. ! - Jay
Cox had better pay lbs dec to toil and
bis board bill, afore be Bends such ex
travagant things us them. Dreadful in
teresting relics wedding presents is."
The giggle through the room was be
coming universal, but at that instent
Mr. Crayton with a face the color of a
boiled lobster edged Ins way i..t > L
; room. Sonic Rumor cf the harfuby in*
' dis reel disclosures which were goiu
j on had leached his ea s.
‘My dear Aunt Jem mu, p ay lit r.—
conduct you up stairs,' he -.H h.oki >,
nervon-ly around.
‘Thankee, Nephew Crayton, I’m very
comfortable here,’ said Aunt Jemima
steadfastly. ‘l’m agoing home Jo night—
not to Jericho where you xvisiied I was—
and it ain’t likely I shall over come again
And as to my property I’ve writ to my
lawyer l’ts nc use putting on so much
extra bow and smirk to a poor old wo
man whose dress looks ns if il was made
in the year one. 1 do like to see tho
mask stripped of a hypocrite’s face once
in a while, ’ added Aunt Jemima chuck
ling.
And in the general confusion incident
to the bride’s fainting, and Mrs. Crayton
indulging in ti e preliminary symptoms
of hysterics, Aunt Jemima shook the
dust of Ci avtoc mansion off her feet, aud
departed.
‘And now,’ said Aunt Jemima, Tl!
quit ’em; and the best of it is, I boat
’em with the l' own weapons.'
A Pii kpocket's Ti-icii.
The pickpockets who are to bo f.nnd
(if one could find them) in almost every
crowd of people in the city, at the de
pots, the church doors, the street car
platforms, tho theatres—acquire a ski!!
in their thieving practices that would
give them a fine living ut hum-.-il. work.
An east, rn paper tells this story of their
dexterity:
A queer case was that of a physician
lit this city, Dr. , wiio on going to
the opera with a friend, was ca rti noil n 1
the ticket < dice to look out for pickpock
ets. lie clapped his hand to his witch,
a valuable on.-, engraved with Ills name
and the name of the lociety or friend
who gave it to him. It was there all
right, and he made Bine of keeping it
there by keeping bis band on it all
through- the p : forma nee of tho opera.
On coming out, what was his astonish
ment to find his watch gone! It had
been taken in spite of his watchfulness.
Reflecting that a watch i-o engraved
could nut well tie disposed of easily.
even in Nexv Yolk, lie mlvuiti*ed his
loss ill the next m -r: lag's papei-n. ami
added licit it la-wad (we la lie?e JlOt))
would to paid for il.; rec'Very, and “no
qu (it it,up tusked."
Before noon the bell r .i: -, a ■ and a very
elegantly dr a-1 man, iu appear tnco a
perfect gentleman, inquired I.r the ad
vertiser of a lost watch.
‘Have yeti got it?' adp and the I) rotor,
quietly.
‘1 have,’ c. idly return -d the .stranger: j
‘here it is. 1 claim the reward.’
'Here is the men gy,’siil tho 1) c lor; j
‘and now f want to a d,-—’
‘Oh, but you said there w iti’d ho no I
questions,’ answe - I the urs.n.slu die.
‘True,’said the Doctor, ‘bat 1 only
want to know how un h r heaven you
got that watch when J kept my hand
on it all the time?’
‘An: you sure you kept your hand tin
it all the time?’
‘Yes, positive.’
‘Now, let roe refresh your memory;
Don’t you remember, at one interesting
stage of the perfiorinanee, there was a
fiy lit on your ear, and you rai.s and your
hand to brush it ol’l^'
‘TVs, it’s ft fact,’said the Doctor, I do I
rt'tn> ruber that. ’
‘Well, sir, said the elegant stranger, |
'that was the time you fist your watch.}
f tickled the top of your oar with a
straw, and you li.it died iff the sup-1
posed fly, and did’t notice, when your
hand went buck, that your watch was
no longer there. Good morning, sir.'—
Tiffin Tribune.
A good story i.s told of an Ann I'ieati
traveling in Baris, liuv.ug occasion to
take u bath his physician refommeiidiMl j
awo c hath. In the employ of the is- 1
labiishm cut there was a Colored man I
whom lie laid known in America, amt nl
him ho ii.q-.iire'l how they c uild give a j
v.-i.u; I ath for S' vcnly-five .a-nts. *Vv' lty
me a,’n.'iid the n- gro, ‘that wine has
be n iii the bathroom f r one v.-' i-k and ;
you is trie thirty eighth p-r.soii that j
mg',id in it.’ ‘Wedl I suppose therm
throw it away whoa they are d»no with j
it. ‘Oh, no, master; they send it and nvn :
stairs for the people who bathe f >r twcri
ty-five cents. And then what do they '
do xv it-, it?’ ‘Bottle it up and send it to j
Am-rica, whore they sell it for Rrencli j
wine.’
rcy-.Jo si Boilings says: Thare haint
b.- ii a bug made yet in vain nor one
that want a good job. Th ire v. lots of
human men lading about bl.ick«.<m:t!i
shops and elder saloons - till < v r t' e
‘ country, that d'in’t seem necessary for
any tiling 1.-u: to beg plug tobacco and
swear and steal v.atjTiri -lons, but let the
kclery brake out once and then y 'U w:il
see the v.-isdom of having jidt eueh men
I laying around; they help count.
ts-y At Kalin-v, Ohio, a young woman
1 vv.-at iq»‘o a store atul asked tor ‘feline
tines for lynical purposes.’ The
si rk lu! i ii r h ■ was out of them bn
: Inc! some mighty goo 1 cat got fiddle
strings. K ■ faiati.d, and had to be car
; ~at on a verve *’ s' amp ■ Such I-
Tlie Three Klsr.cs.
BY MBS. li. 11. UItOWXIXO.
1 have three kisses in my life,
So sweet and sacred unto mo
That now, till death (lews rostjou them,
At\ lips shall kb--less he.
One kiss was given iu childhood’s hour,
By one who never gave another,
In life and death I still sh ill feel
That last kiss of my mother.
The second burned my lips for years
For years iny wild ima l reel'd in bliss
At every memory of the hour
When my-lips felt young Love's first kiss.
Tilt- bis! t.f the sacred three
Had all (ho wee which e’re can move
Tho heart of woman—it was pressed
I'pon tho death lips ot my love.
When lips have felt the dying kiss,
Ami felt tho kiss of burning love,
And kissed the dead—then never moro
In kissing should they think t > move.'
A ROMANCE mREAL LIPS.
As Ext:: vumiXAliv 'I i kmisati > •• op \ L ink
Si'T.uiATt n —A Widow and Yet a
Wjiio.
Tlie Hancock Courier tela tea the fol
lowing .strange atu! extrar rdiuary narra
tive;
Every o: ce and a while the truih o'
the adage that ‘lruth is stranger thin
fiction’ is verified. Wo have the fuels
o! a si range story, the scenes of which
tire laid in tliis comity and the | a t'cs
ti which arc well known to many of o r
readers. The main lines of the story
run as follows:
Some fifteen years ago there live 1 in
the me thorn part ol Portage town diip,
a voting tndrriel couple by tlie name of
William and Anna Clarkinson. 'They
owned a little furm urn! made on ugh Jo
kca p tl cm c unlortahly in the world and
were apparently h qipy. Willi rut wis
handsome tin 1 well educated, having
graduated with honor ut an Eastern Uni
v.-rdly. He vv is one of those kind of
mm who are never satisfied no niattei
linvv good their fortune, but always wish-
ing for something bettor. He did not
like the honest but humble occupation of
farming—he thought ho was fitted for
better and grand ■!' tilings than to delve
in flic earth Wealth accumulated too
sh vvly by follow ing- (hi; plow; ho wanted
to make money by the thousands of and >1
lurs, and despised Rinrtli Bums. This
spirit of dt.-quict preyed upon him day
and night, and r. ; >lv 1 that he vv. uU
pi and and dr dge on the farm no longer,
lie loved his young and beautiful wife,
and was loth to leave her, but argued
that be could go away and ii a few
years earn on ugh to keep both in luxu
rious ease during the balanco of their j
days, lie laid lie plan of those fairy!
castles b. fore bis wife, but she, like a true
woman org e l that they were better and
happier in their pleasant little farm home
in each o'hers society than they could
ever bo elsewhere with millions at their
command. Mr Clarkinson cnuld uot ho
made to sec il in that light. TTe was
egotist'cal and amblt'eus, and moreover
did not like the hard manual labor of the
far n.
So tho farm wa/sold. Mrs. G'l nkin
son went to live with her parent ; and
Willia n Blurted for tile golden State of
California with tho exn.rctation of‘pick
ing up’a couple of million dollars iu a
collide of yea:s But ‘man prop.uses
and God di;-piißiOur plans f r the
future at best arc but ill-defined sliad
(jvvh, for who can till what the mm row
may b. ii g I >rt!'? The great Pacific
railroad at tlo.t ti.no was I ut a wild
dream nl a f vv vi ionary mortals, and
the trip to California ovi r t!:e prairiiw
and plainsoccupjtd many months instead
of a 1 vv days as at pi cscut.
Fora few mouths Mrs. Clarkiueoti ec
oa- ionaliy l.e-.id ' I'her hm-.band, either
directly or through Koine if the i.mgh
i rs vviin me name, uain vv ith vvlitc'i
her hm-ibaud was going Th u there
was along int'-rva! tlufin - vvdiich no
word came. After a time t!ie:d were
wild and dreadful rumors that the train
had been attacked by Indians, and every
(ne k fib .1. ‘I ..is was at lust to > tint 1:
lull;, vi ;Iti '■ i by one poor fellow who
was found by another party a few days
afer with just ITo enough left to tell
how tlie train had been attacked one
dark night, and In Ibie any could recover
from their surprise all were kill, fi and
| i-crtlp -d, and the Indians rode triumphant
; !y away with their bo .ty.
i For three years Mrs. Che.kin-on
i mourned tho loss of her and a l husband.
! But son* 'W seldom kills. No matter
I how severe the pain or how eet-p tie
I sorrow, time casts shadows over Urn
’ pist, ai.fl the- wound is healed vvith
1 scarce: Il scar. Toils it was with Mrs.
1 Glnrk'na-m. After the lapse of throe years
1 she married again, and after a Erne
i moved lo Wood county. Chirkuisoft
; was forgotten, or if over rem "tibered,
it was ou’y as vve stand tn the sunshine
to-day and ren.e nber how pleasantly
: the sin shone last year. For nearly
twelve years fi e WHS as happy as a
kind and affectionate hn band, and two
bennti. 1 and loving cb: dun Coh and
make a noble and true woman. At the
, I rid of that time 'vh . catiics is* tip
| $2.00 per Annunf
NO. 31
In the Ist inst.), affliction ngain casta'
!it s mantle o’oi lier heart. Doatli claimed
! her husband, and again she was a sor
rowing, weeping widow.
She follows weeping to the" grave—
she hears the sad, solemn words: “Dust
to dust, and ashes to ashes’’—the earth
(alls with a dull dreary thud upon tho
coffin as the sexton slowly covers up all'
that remains of him who onoo hved aa
wo live, hut whose voice is now silent
and whose spirit has gono before to tho'
other world. The widow raises the
black veil and looks around. As she
and ms so she meets a pair of eyes fixed
inlently upon her. Sho starts—‘mem
ory rushes hack fifteen years and brings*
up the picture of her first husband—«
there can be no mistake—lis he. Tho
roc gnition is mutual. Ho speaks- ho
calls her his ‘’dear Anna,” as ho did \u
the days long gono by. Tliero is a>
scene —the widow and wife taints —the
hr.‘lined stranger explained his relation
to tho woman, and all repair to the
h..mo of her who ten minutes ago was a
widow, but noyv is again a wife. Then,
with one arm around his wife and her
- ,ds clasped in his, Mr. William Clark
n tells how lie was not killed" fejf the
Iml am, at the timo of that sadden
’ might on tho plains, hut was taken
prison r by tho Blaokfeot Indians and
carried far away among their mountain
fastnesses, and during all those long
years had boon, forced to slave for his
era 1 captors. He had finally escaped,
ami during his flight through mountain
gulches had disc wersd n rich gold de
posit. I low lie had written back to his
old friends, hut could get no answer.
Ho then went hack and worked tho gold
min i which he had discovered. Ho
.grew rich, and longed to again visit tho
home of his youth and happiness. He
ha 1 got off the cars at Porryshnrg and
taken the stage to Bowling Green—had
hired a buggy there and was driving to
his old homo wheu ho overtook tli j funer
al—a strange impulse induced him to
j follow—how (ho widow’s person seemed
!ii i.gely familiar, ‘.and when she drew
| aside her veil ho recognized her as tho
| hiding and beautiful wife he had bidden
. : d ■ uto fifteen years before and whom
j ho thought to be dead.
They are now living happily together.
I The dreams of his youth are realized—
j he is we dlliy, but oh, at what a cost,
j The past is past, however, and forgot—
I ton. The present is prosperous and
| pleasant, and the future bright and
| cheerful. Wo will draw the curtain
■ here mid leave them.
Verily, "truth is stranger than fic—
| tiyn.”
A POOH horse;
Rev. Mr. Dye, of Fairfield county Coats.
was traveling through Western Ohio,
mounted on a tall, lank, rawboned ani
mal (a good frame to build a horse on.)
when he came to the junction of two
roads,’and not knowing which might
lead him to his destination asked a rag
ged dirty looking urchin in which of the
two roads would lead him to W.
The boy, in a rough and uncouth man
riicr, said, ‘Who arc you old fellow?’
Mr. Dye, being greatly astonished at
the chilu’s incivility replied, ’My sou I am
a follower of the Lud.’
’A follower of the Lord, eh? Wall,
it in I:" mighty little difference which
ru and you lake, you’ll never catch him
with thatlioss.’
A v< ry good joke iB told of a gentle
man in Cambridge, Md , who had a farm
a sat rt distance out in the country which
!, I, •. <1 to a tenant, the landlord to get
(wo fifths of the crops. When the crop
was 'lived the tenant saddled his horso
.ami took the landlord's share “to him,
. i/usl'up iii a handkerchief, who upon see
| dig the bundle, asked what ho had there.
I 'V ur share of wheat,’ says the ten-
L ii lloid—'My what?’
Ton nt -‘Your Kharifi of the wheat.'
I.indlerd -’Taka it bank! take it
bad;! Aa ! next year, it you only bare
: five grain , bring ihem hi a wagon, hut
I never con e again on horseback.”
1 toy- Tim 11 jwto . Dost says :'A Lon—
'l, -an .: ‘mi has gral ted a piece of ne
gro skin mi the shoulder of a white boy,
[ ( ml is watching to sec whether it will
< row there.’ The Hartford Times adds:
‘Congress has 1 men engaged in a similar
..xperiaieiit for some time hut it don’t
i stem to w ok. j
: i; j. A young man, who had been nar
> ei ,g .some of his own wonderful ex
! p'oits to a (r.wd of loungers one day
was thus relinked by an old codger a—
| n mg the listeners; ‘Young man ain’t
y ,0 mliamed to talk so when there are
o'der far; than yourself on the ground”
Toe coward who would strike tho‘
ninth r ol his children deserves to he
m. id v- it'. |lgi. tiling and condemned to
v. .mb r (.’ ..ru .By over a desert of gun—
powdl.“ .
’I . Li; on th“ Brunswick arid A'l--
ini|,v ral ;ir»‘ ii“'v running eighty miles'