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Professional Cards.
11 1 ' ■ R KF.XOAT.T. f'flTers his prof^p-
I / sifinal services tc the citizens ofThomaston and
['■ •'ixlinp country. May be found durintr the day at
Har'liiway’a itore, at night at the former resi-
O!of ( harles Wilson. jan.l4-ly.
[ i REDDING, Attorney at Law,
'' Baroesvil'e, Pike co, Ga. Will practice in the
l ies comprising the Flint Judicial Circuit, and
were by special ontract All business promptly
. , * to, Olhco In Elder's building, over Chamber’s
angG- y.
BEALL, Attorney at Law,
1 * >ni;i*ton, (Ja. Will practice in the Flint Cir
m elsewhere by special contract. aug27-ly
\\ [■ WEAVER, Attorney at Law,
• rhomaston, Ga. Will practice in all tho
the Hint Circuit, and elsewhere by special
june2s-ly
J 'UN I. II ALL, Attorney and Counsellor
r .'i'n. .*>l practice in tho counties composing
* ircuit. In the Supreme Court of Georgia,
;. 1116 Court of the United States for the
- rt! an, i Souihern Districts of Georgia,
pmaiton, Ga., Jdne ISth, ISTO-ly.
JOSEPH 11. SMITH, Attorney and
, at Law. . Office Corner Whitehall and
Athinia, Ga. Will practice in ihe Su
s ;.. oartof the State, and the United States 1 Dis
i yt., All 'Communications addressed to him at
J l receive prompt attention. april9-ly
IVERSON & McCALLA, Attorneys
s uw, Covington, Ceorgia. Will attend regu-
Practice in the Superior Courts of the
[•s of Newton, Butts, Henry, Spalding. Pike,
‘ se lpson, Morgan, DeKalb, Gwinnette and Jas
declO-ly
Ii ME S M. MATIIEWS, Attorney at
.“‘**l Talbotton, Ga., will practice all the counties
’"-the Chattahoochee Circuit and elsewhere by
■ dec 10-1 y
WALLIS & WILLIS, Attorneys at Law
. nlhutton, Ga, Prompt attention given to
in our hands. declO-ly
NerT p. TRIPPE, Attorney at Law
Da. Will practice in tho State Couris
Vi-.',;'" , n 'ted States’ District Court at Atlanta and
declO-ly
I, 4.; Dl T NT, Attorney at Law, Barness
''a "Will practice in all the counties of
v^_^‘ r cuit and Supremo Court of the State.
IjAIUON BETHUNE, Attorney at
i, ">s !f T a Ga. Will practice in all the
be Chattahoochee Circuit, and Upson and
-"^^J^ c °untieß. declß-ly
O will continue the practice
declb-ly
IIaNNAH, is pleased to
practice t ?*Dzens of Upson that he will continue
*u.n n Medicine in its various branches at
dec!B-ly
' TALKER, Attorney at Law
V’ateWill practice in Circuit Courts o
'*lo-1 y ia United States District Courts.
I have moved up to
i, &Qd atn re^Mi. ? ssrs Cheney and Allen’s new build
er en " a S e( l in the practice of medi
larnVo*.? 0 at an ytime. Persons wishing
at r P »t° tin , my °® ce * can cal > Messrs.
IT, ■ y can Sawyer’s and obtain informa
ddiver?J e any meßsa ß° there, which will
DE. J. 0. HUNT.
The systoms of liver
SIM M 0 N S the a Td7
_ Wiia
The stomach jUT® f J™ rheumatism,
ness, bowels In general coltlV* H f 1 ' 6 and Rlck ’
with lax. Th»UTLr„"K°:fthr n * , it r ri l^
heavy sensation considerable ln«« “ Patn ’ and dull,
panied with painful sensation of hartnTlX’ ac<dom
something which ought to have been don! no " ndone
and low spiriS e Som^
■ times, some of the above
¥ I If ft V) I symptoms attend the dis
-11 I 1 |i H leaseI ease ’ an(! at other times
MJ i V U IE ■ very few of them; but
» I tfae Liver is generally the
Cun^hHjveFvrit?"" - "" org: n most involved.
DR. SIMMONS’
Liver Regulator,
It has been used by hundreds, and known for the last
35 years as one of the most reliable * e )as :
harmless preparations ever offered to the buffering “"f
i. is sure to cure*' 1
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fever and ague dropsy, boils, pain in back and limbs'
asthma, erysipelas, female affections, and bilious dis
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J. Felder Perry, Ga.; Col E. K Sparks, Albany
Ga.; George J Lunsford. Ksq., Conductor 8. W R R-
C Masterson, Esq, Sheriff Bibb county; J A. Butts’’
Bainbridge, Ga ; Dykes * Sparhawk, Editors Floridian!
Tallahassee; Rev. J. W. Burke, Macon, Ga.; Yirgii
Powers Esq., Superintendents. W. R. R.; Daniel Bui
lard, Bullard's Station, Macon and Brunswick R R
Twiggs county, Ga.; Grenville Wood, Wood’s Factory’
Macon, Ga ; Rev. E F. Easterlinn, P. E. Florida Con
ference; Major A. F. Wooley, Kingston, Ga.; Editor
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VOLUME FIFTEEN.
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TIIE Campaign which will soon be inau
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of Congressional and Legislative Representatives in
November, promises to be one of the most important
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a reliable and efficient newspaper, and each issue will
embrace a fair epitome of the week’s news, both foreign
and domestic. ,
As heretofore, the local news of this and the adjoining
counties will be made a specialty.
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wealthy section, aud is one of the most available
ADVERTISING MEDIUMS
in Middle Georgia. To the merchants of Macon and
Atlanta, it offers superior inducements for reaching a
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TWO GOOD BOOKS.
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THOM ASTON, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 4, 1871.
pOETfiY.
SURAT AMES. ~ ! '■
Men once were surnam’d from their shape of estate,
(ion all may from history worm it),
Th-re was Lewis the Bulky, and Henry the Great,
John and Peter the Hermit.
AnJ tiuv, when the door-plates of misters and dames
Are read, each so constantly varies
From the owner’s trade, figure, and calling, surnames
beem giv'n by the rule ©f contraries.
Mr. Box, though provok'd, never doubles his fist,
Mr. Burns in his grate has no fuel,
Mr. Playfair won’t catch me at hasard or whist,
Mr. Coward was wing'd in a duel
Mr. W ise is a dunce, Mr. King is a whig,
Mr. Coffin’s uncommonly sprightly.
And huge Mr. Little broke down in a g!g,
While driving |„ t Mr. Golightly.
Mrs. Drinkwater’s apt to indulge in a dram,
Mrs. Angel’s an absolute fury ;
And meek Mr. Lion met fierce Mr. Lamb,
Tweak and hi? nose in the lobby of Drury.
At Bath, where the feeble go more than the stout,
(A conduct well worthy of Nero)
Over poor Mr. Lightfoot, confined with the gout,
Mr. licavyside danced a bolero.
Miss Joy, wretched ffiald, when she chose Mr. Love,
Found nothing but sorrow await her;
She new holds ia wedlock, as true as a’ dove,
That fondest of mates, Mr. Hayter,
Mr. Oldcastle dwells in a modern-built hut,
Miss Sage is of hutdbaps the archest;
Os all the queer bachelors Cupid e’er cut.
Old Mr. Younghusband’s the starchest.
Mr. Child in a passion knocks down Mr. liock,
Mr Stone like an aspen-leaf shivers.
Miss Poole used to dance, but she stands like a stock,
Ever since she became Mrs. Rivera.
Mr. Swift hobbles onward, no mortal knows how,
He moves as though cords had entwined him;
Mr. Metcalfe ran oif upon meeting a cow,
With pale Mr. Turnbull behind him.
Mr. Baker’s as mute as a fish in the sea,
Mr. Miles never moves on a journey;
Mr. Gotobed sits up till half-after three,
Mi. Makepeace was bred an attorney.
Mr. Gardener can t tell a fiow’r from a root,
Mr. W T ild with timidity draws back,
Mr. Ryder performs all his journeys on foot,
Mr. Foot, all his journeys on horseback.
Mr. Penny, whose father w’as rolling in wealth,
Kick’d down all the fortune his dad won ;
Large Mr. LeFever’s the picture of health,
Mr. Goodcnough is but a bad one.
Mr. Cruikshank stept into three thousand a year
By showing his leg co an heiress,
Noiv I hope you’ll acknowledge I’ve made it quite clear
Surnames ever go by contraries.
Items Home-Made and Stolen.
Indiana’s infant city is Loogootee.
A lady lately died in Boston who had not
been outside the house in forty years.
Richmond has a watch two hundred
years old, and it still keeps time.
A girl of twenty, at Alton, 111., is digging
a well for her father at seventy-five cents
a foot.
In Montreal the whipping post, a? a pun*
ishment for minor crimes, has been revived,
it is said, with excellent results,
A trunk containg a corpse, and checked
as baggage, was sent through from Omaha
to California a few days ago.
Dr. Mary Walker has four corns on her
toes from wearing tight boots. Women are
rapidly obtainiug their rights.
Anew weekly, The Billet Doux, address
ed “to the daughters of Eve all over the
‘world,” has made its appearance in Dublin.
A man living in Kansas City has a full
set of furniture made of the tree on which
his father was hanged ten years ago.
In Galveston, Texas, an indignant fath
er, whose daughter had married against
his will, sent her for a wedding present a
patent burial case.
Indiana is emphatically a railroad State.
Out of ninety-three counties in the State,
seventy-one are crossed by one or more
railroads, with stations at the county seats.
Washington, Indiana, has passed an
ordinance prohibiting persons who have not
attained years of discretion, from congrega
ting about the railway stations.
Asa sure means of identifying a fugitive
Senegambian, a Philadelphia paper states
that he has big feet and protuberant mouth.
That ought to point him out anywhere.
A Chicagoan claims to have discovered a
new system of phrenology which is support*
ed by Biblical authority. He is about to
make his revelation known to the world.
An heiress at Galesburg, 111., thought h
would be fun to marry a blscksmith, but
after a month of wedlock she returned home
and had her measure taken for a divorce.
A Yankee inventer claims to have devis
ed a car in which and invali can ride up
, or down a stairway or elevator way with no
more exertion than to lift a one pound
weight.
It is fashionable for young women in
New York to discard their genuine names,
and have their cards bear the expressively
characterless “Toodie,” “Pinkie,” or “Sa
die,” whereby they are known in “their
set.”
In New Hampshire politics are said to be
taking a decidedly religious turn. It ap
pears That the Free-Will Baptists, the Meth
odists, and regular Baptist each have a can
didate for Governor, and it is thought the
Methodist will carry the day.
A scientific writeron hunger ventures the
assertion that if every girl in Paris should
tie her girdles quarter of an inch tighter
everv'dav, the city could hold out a month
longer. The invention of a galvanic or
electrical process, by which the now useless
leather trunks could be regenerated and
eaten in the fashion of stewed tripe,
would add two or three months more.
The Cincinnati Enquirer thinks the
daughter of Gen. Anderson has taken- her
ducks to a poor market, like the majority
of English and American women who have
inarried Italian counts. “The Italian count,
as‘a general thing, is a black-whiskered
beast addicted to drinking, gambling, and
occasion ly beating his wife when she fails
to provide him with money enough to pur
sue his elegant recreations.”
Letter of si Dying Wife.
Tht following most touching fragment of
a lett«r Irotn a dying wife to her husband,
was fiuDd by him some months after her
death, between the leaves of a religious vol
ume vbieh she was very fond of reading.
Ihe letter, which was literally dim
with iear marks, was written long before
her htsband was aware that the fatal dis
ease had fastened upon the lovely form of
his wi:e, who died at the early age of nine
teen years:
“IV len this shall reach your eyes, dear
George some day when you are turning
over the relics of the past, I shall have pass
ed awfij - f rover, and the cold white stone
will Lr ’"eening its lonely wntoh over tiie
lips you Lave so often pressed, and the sod
will ho graving green that shall hide for
ever from y(»ir sight the dust of one who
has so often nestled close to your warm
heart. lor many long and sleepless nights
when all besid® my thoughts were at r»st,
I have wrestlec with the consciousness of
approaching death, until it has.forced itself
upon my mind ; and although to you and to
others it might iow seem but the nervous
imagination of a girl, yet, dear George, it
is sol Many weary nights have passed in
the endeavor to \ring myself to leave you
whom I love so well, and this bright world
of sunshine and beauty—and hard, indeed,
it is to struggle on alone with the sure con
viction that I am shout to leave all forever
and go into the dark valley! But I know
‘in whom I have believed,’ and leaning on
His arm, ‘I fear ncevil.’ Do not blame me
for keeping even all this from you. How
could I subject yof, cf all others, to such
sorrow as 1 feel it parting, when time
woull soon make it apparent to you! I
could have wished to live if only to be at
your side when your time shall come, and
pillowing your head upon my breast, wipe
tho'death damp from your brow, and usher
your departing spirit into its Maker’s pres
ence embalmed in woman’s holiest prayer.
But it is not to bo, and I submit. Yours is
the privilege of watcliing through long and
weary nights, for the spirit’s final flight,
and transferring my sinking head from
your breast to my Saviour’s bosom ! And
you shall share my last thought, and the
last faint pressure of the hand, and the last
feeble kiss shall be yours, and even when
flesh and heart shall have failed me, my
eyes shall gaze on yours until glazed by
death ; and our spirits shall hold one last
communion until gently fading from view
the last of earth—you shall mingle with
the first bright glimpses of the unfading
glories of the better world where parting is
unknown.
Well do I know the spot, dear George,
where you will lay me ; often have I stood
by the place, as we watched the mellow
sunset, as it glanced in quivering flashes
through the leaves aud burnished gold;
each, perhaps, has thought that someone
of us would come alone, and which ever it
might be, your name would be on the stone.
But we loved the spot, and I know you will
love it none the less when you see the quiet
sunlight linger and play over your Mary’s
grave.. I know you will go there, and my
spirit will be with you then, and
whisper among the waving branches, ‘I
am not lost but gone before.’ ”
SATAN’S OWN INVENTION.
An Infernal Engine for Pouring out
Showers of Fire upon (he Hearts of an
Enemy—Tinselled War made Hideous.
Mons. Ludre, a French civil engineer and
chemist, has invented an engine of war
which he has given the name of Satan’s
Rockets. The following is a description of
this formidable and infernal weapon of
destruction :
A tin receiver in the shape of a conical
ball is placed at the end of an ordinary
rocket. A chamber filled with a composi
tion of which sulphide of carbon is the base,
and which in combustion gives out a tre
mendous heat, is placed in this receiver ; a
match connects the chamber with the end
of the rocket.
When about to bo used the tin ball is
filled with petroleum, and then the rocket
is shot off in the ordinary way. On strik
ing the spot aimed at, the rocket lights the
match, the composition inside the chamber
is instantly ignited, the bail bursts and sets
the petroleum ablaze, and a shower of fire
falls and continues burning. This rain of
fire will cover a space of from 20 to 25 yards
square, according to the size of the rocket.
They are manufacturing three sizes. The
first throws a quarter of a gallon of petro
leum ; the second half agallon ; and the third
a gallon. They can be thrown 31 miles ;
The aim is very accurate, and precision is
obtained by means of a stick attached to
the rocket, which preserves the inclination
given to the rocket at the moment of firing.
Experiments have been made against St.
Cloud. In less than ten minutes a consid
erable extent of ground was covered with a
sea of fire. A committee of artillery officers
witnessed these experiments. This com
mittee has declared that, in view of the
fearful effects of this engine of war, no civ
ilized nation should use it except in retali
ation, and that it should be employed solely
in the event of the Prussians throwing shells
filled with petroleum into Paris, as they did
at c traßbourg.
The Committee of National Defence has
given* the invention a at Batignolles,
and has ordered the manufacture of these
satanic rockets on a large scale. Two hun
dred workmen are employed, This force is
soon to be augmented, and within a few
days there will be a large stock of these
rockets on hand, to use in case of necessity
against the Prussians.
Laughter.
Dr. Beecher declares it a real blessing to
have one in a family who is sensitive to the
ludicrous. There is enough to reflect the
sad side of l fe, its irritable side, and
its sober side. We need one or more to
show the' mirth that often trembles just
below the surface of painful things. A real
impetuous laugh dissipates many illusions,
sweeps the twilight out of our invaginations,
and brings honest daylight. But it must
be real. No dry, hacking laugh. It should
be spontaneous, outbursting, irresistable,
infectious. We have seen men fall to laugh
ing wlto have not beard the cause of mirth,
but have only caught the contagion of other
men’s laughing. It is hard not to laugh
with men who are in earnest about it.
Religious Intelligence.
Church deacons are expelled at Elmira,
N. Y., lor saying “by telegraph.”
The Jesuits have been expelled from Mar
seilles, and their newspaper suspended.
A Baptist church in Akron, Ohio, has
arrangements for beating the water that
supplies the font.
Dr. Prime predicts that within the life of
some now living, there will he a union of
all Evangelical Christians of New York.
The Millerites of Massachusetts, undeter
red by previous failures, have fixed upon
Feb. 11 as the day of the final judgement.
A Portland paper asserts that a man
recently walked into the office of the Zion’s
Ad?p«*tc. in out, aud inquired Air.
Zion was in.
The Wesleyan Union Church in Harris
burg “is being decorated for the live bird
oyster pie festival and eastern ancient wed
ding.”
Watt? composed G 97 hymns, and Wesley
COO. About a tenth of them live, and are
sung in every Christian church where the
English language is used.
Mormon preachers in England declare
that Prance is suffering .the penalty sent
from Heaven for not embracing the M"r
mon religion, and that other nations will
be punished in turn.
The Presbyterian Banner advocates the
addition of sacred music to the studies to
be taught in theological seminaries, and
says every minister should know how to
sing, and to sing well.
A correspondent of Zion’s Advocate ex P
presses the opinion that the innumerable
water courses and lakes of Maine indicate
that God desighed that State for the Bap
tists !
A Connecticut pastor declined an addition
of SIOO to his salary, for the reason, among
others, that the hardest part of his labor
heretofore had been the collection of his
salary, and it would kill him to collect
SIOO more.
Several of the churches in Boston which
maintain women as missionaries among the
poor, are well satisfied with their labors.
The undeserving poor prefer men as mis
sionaries, as they are more easily deceived
than experienced women.
One of the Baptist churches in Chicago
is to have a chime of seventeen bells, cover
ing two octaves, ono of the largest in the
Unitc-d States. The largest bell, a B flat,
weighs nearly four thousand pounds, and
the cost of the whole will be S7OOO.
The Advent Herald says that the Rev.
Mr. Adams, of Holyoke, Mass., recently
immersed forty-four persons in twenty
two minutes ; and that Elder Pike, of New
port, once immersed ninety-seven persona
in less than sixty-five minutes.
A farm laborer named Joseph
who has become insane through a love of
music, entered the Canandaigue Baptist
Church on Monday of last week, and de
stroyed a cabinet organ and melodeon, in
order to compel the congregation to pur
chase anew organ.
Bishop Clarkson, in the Spirit of Mis
sions, tells the following story of himself:
Not long since, in a frontier town in Ne
braska, appeared the following notice:
‘ Elder Clarkson of the Episcopal Society
will preach in the schoolhouse this evening,
and administer the Apostate Right of Con
firmation.”
Queen Victoria received the holy com
munion at the parish church of Crathie,
Scotland, a few Sundays ago. Although
the Queen has always been an attendant of
Presbyterian service while in Scotland, she
has not heretofore been a communicant, and
the breastß of the high church party are
filled with horror.
The, vicar of Doncaster found the accom
panying lines written in pencil on the bel
fry of Doncaster parish church. They hap
pily define “ringing,” ‘‘chiming/’ and
“tolling
To call the folk3 to church in time,
1 chime.
When Mirth and Pleasure’s on the wing,
I ring.
M hen from the body parts the soul,
" I toll.
A curious accident occured at a church
in Meriden, Conn., a few days ago. A
gentleman was promenading the aisle with
his overcoat on bis arm, when from the
pocket of the coat, to the amazement of
himself and others, slipped a pack of cards.
Smiling a ghastly smile, he scooped up as
many as possible of the pasteboards, and
vanished.
A prayer meeting at North Argyle came
near breaking up in a row in consequence
of unjustifiable interference in the exercis
es. A Mr. McGowan was leading in prayer
when he was disrepectfully requested by
several persons to “put in a word for Billy”
—Billv being a boy from the poor-house
whom Mr. McGowan was suspected of ill
treating.
The Baptist minister at Pittsfield, Mass.,
has recently resigned, owing to a controver
sey over a clause of the Church covenant,
that members shall abstain from intoxica
ting drinks as a beverage, and the unwill
ingness of some to abide by that law. They
thought they only joined a church, but find
that they also became members of a total
onstinence society.
The Dublin Review, a Roman Ca'hoTic
quarterly, highly in favor in the United
Kingdom among the “faithful,” a«j-ures its
readers in its last number that Catholics
form one.fourth of the United State?, and
that they are increasing in number not
only mure rapidly than ail other classes,
but at a greater ratio then the general in
crease of the whole population, large as that
ratio is.
Five Eurasians (men with European fath
ers and Hindoo mothers), who have hither
to been known as Christians, recently joined
the Mohammedans in Calcutta, having been
circumcised, and submitting to other Mos
lem ceremonies. On being asked the reason
for the profession of that faith, they replied
that it seemed to them that Christianity was
a religion intended for rich people who
could live in fine houses, and especially for
men and women with white skins, and not
for poor, dark people.
A California Obituary.
Boddlepopster is dead! The bare an
nouncement will plunge the city into un
speakable gloom. The death of Boddlep >p
ster was most untimely ; he should have died
twenty years ago; Probably no man ol hie
day has exerted so peculiar an influence
upon society as the deceased. Ever foro*
most in every good work out of which any
thing could be made, an unstinted dispenser
of every species of charity that paid a com>
mission to the disburses Mr. Boddlepopster
was a model of generosity, and weighed, at
the tiaie of his death, ono hundred aui
ninety-odd pounds. Originally born in
Massachusetts, but for the past nineteen
years a native of California, and partially
bald, possessing a cosmopolitan nature that
loved a York shilling as yell, in proportion
n* vilud. as a Mexican *.*»•»
of our memoir was one whom it was an
honor to know, and whose close friendship
was a luxury that only the affluent could
nff <rJ. It shall ever be the writer’s proudest
boast that he enjoyed it at less than half
the usual rates. Mr; B. was the founder of
the now famous B >dd!epopster Institue, and
for some years preceding his death suffer
ed severely from a soft corn, which has
probably done as much for agriculture as
any similar concern in the foot-hills of our
State. In 18G3 he was elected an honorary
member of the Society fir the Prevention
of Humanity to Mongolians, and but for the
loss of an eye in carrying out its principles,
would have been one of the handsomest
whites that ever resided among us. There
is little doubt that he might have aspired to
any office in tho gift of the people, so uni
versal was the esteem in which he was held
by tlnffie he voted for. In an evil moment
he was induced to associate himself in
business with the Rev. Albert VV illiams,
and though he speedily withdrew from tho
firm, he was never able to wholly eradicate
the disgrace from his constitution, and it
finally carried him to his grave. Ilis last
words, as he was snufied out, were charac
teristic of the man. 110 remarked, “Fetch
me that damn catnip tea.” The catnip
consolation arrived too late to be of any
use ;he had gone to the devil. Farewell,
noble heart—pure soul—bright intellect!
Wo shall meet again.
• .
Lord Byron’s Tomb,
A correspondent of the London Times
has shocked the poetic sensibilites of Lord
Byron’s numerous worshippers by depicting
the repulsive and squalid surroundings of
his last resting place. If, by chance, a
stray pilgrim should seek the hallowed spot,
he will take the cars at Nottingham, on tho
Mansfield Railway, and ride six miles, to
Ilucknal Torkard, the railway station of
Newstcad. The village, about a stone’s
throw from the 3tation, consists of a long,
dirty, irregular lane, at the end of which is
the church, a small weather-beaten struct
ure, supposed to date back to the eleventh
century. The church yard is as bare of
vegetation as Arab a Petra, without its
sunshine. Tho surrounding country is a
wide, sandy desert of unreclaimed land,
with occaisonal stunted bushes and black
ened furze ; all that is left of the famous
Sherwood Forest, the scene of Robin Hood’s
exploits. The entire aspect is desolate and
woe-begone, presenting no attraction to
visitors and neglected by the public, which
still professes to enshrino the memory of ono
of England’s greatest poets.
In a vault beneath the chancel are buried
Lord Byron, his daughter, the Countess of
Lovelace, and several of his poorer ances
tors—the wealthier ones preferring more
attractive burial places. Tne Byron pew,
with its green baize lining, now faded and
torn, has fallen into the hands of strangers,
who seem to be but little impressed with
the poetic fame of its former occupants.
A plain white tablet, erected by Mrs. Leigh
“To the Memory of the Author of Chi Ido
Harold,” is the only token of regard which
any of his admirers have taken the trouble
to bestow. Is there no room in the Poets’
Corner at Wesrninister for the remains of
one whose fame at one time claimod the
moremacy among the great poetic princes
of the world’s literature? Perhaps tho state
ment of the faqts, in connection with the
late assault upon the poet’s character by an
American authoress, may stimulate his
friends 1 1 give to his ashes a more fitting
resting place.
Trial of the New San Francisco Plying
Machine.
The newly-invented “flying machine”
was put into operation yesterday, with
considerable success. When everything
was tightened and got in good running or
der, and the propeller arranged to cause
elevation, it was just 12| o’clock. The fire
for raising steam was then kindled, and in
one minute and a quarter steam was open
ed. At 12. 47 P. M. the machine was cut
loose, and the propeller started. She then
rose most gracefully in the air, amid the
cheers of the crowd who had gathered to
witness the ascension. The machine was
guided by cords attached to both ends of
the balloon, and in the hands of persons on
the ground. She ascended about fifty feet
and sailed .along about a block, when she
was pulled down to have her boiler replen
ished. Again she arose, this time to a
height of about 200 feet. All the machine
ry connected with it worked to the perfect
satisfaction of the inventor, who intends to
place it on public exhibiti'tn at some place,
of which notice will be given. The name
given her is “America.” San Francisco
Bulletin. •
Correct Spna.lt.iiig.
We advi«e all youDg people to acquire in
early life the habit of correct speaking and
writing, and to abandon as eariv a3 possi
ble any use of slang words or nhrases. The
longer you live the more difficult the ac
quirement of correct language will be. and
if the golden age of youth, proper season
for the acquisition of language, be passed
in abuse, the unfortunate victim, if neglec
ted, is very properly doomed to talk slang
for life. Money is unnecessary to procure
this education. Every man ha3 it in bis
power. He has merely to use the language
whiclf he reads, instead of the slang which
he hears, to form his taste from the best
speakers and poets in the oountry ; to treas
ure up choice phrases in his memory and
habituate himself to their use, avoiding at
the same time that pedantic precision and
bombast which shows the weakness of vain
ambition, rather than the polish of an
educated man.
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