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Professional Pards.
TV ALLEN. A f tor oft v at Law. Thorn
• aston, Ga. Will practice in the counties Com
prising the flint Judicial Circuit, and elsewhere by
special contract Ail business promptly attended to.
Office in Cheney’s brick building. mchll-ly
DR. T. R. KENDALL offers his prufes
tficnnl services tc the citizen® of I homastou and
itirweuiTrog country. May be found diirin-; tiie day at
P 0 Hardaway’s store, at night at the former resi
dence of Charles Wilson. jan 14 ly.
L REDDING, Attorney at Law,
D • Bamesvll e, Pike co, Ga. Will practice in the
counties comprising the Flint Judicial Circuit, «nd
tbewhere by special ontract AH business promptly
wended to. Office in Elder's building, over Chamber’s
Ti n Store. 6 au g6- y
| fIOMAS BEALL. Attorney at, Law,
»if "^ ~maston« Oa. Will practice in the Flint Cir
-81 and elsewhere by special contract ang27-ly‘
W T* WEAVER. Attorney at Law,
’ * • Thoraaston, Ga. Will practice in all the
"nrtsof the Flint Circuit, and elsewhere by special
watr *ct. june2s-ly
JOHN I. HALL, Attnr ney and Counsellor
y JJ; Will practice in the counties composing:
e .* Circnlt. In the Supreme Court of lieorala,
M m the District Court of the United States for the
’rthern * n( i Souihern Districts of Georgia,
thomaston, Ga., June 18th, 187"-ly.
SKPII U. SMITH. Attorney and
£'°nnsellor at Law. Office Corner Whitehall and
streets Atlanta, Ga. Will practice in 'he Su-
Wor Courts of Coweta and Flint Circuits, the Su-
j rfra e Court of the State, and the United States’ Dis
ncti'ourt All com r.unications addressed to him at
’ snta will receive prompt attention. april9-ly
ANDERSON & MoCALLA, Attorneys
*t Law, Covington, Ceorgia. Will attend regu
!:irl7, and Practice in the Superior-Courts of the
of Newton, Butts, ll* nry, Spalding. Pike,
Upson, Morgan, DeKalb, Gwinnette and Jas-
P». * declO-ly
JAMES M. MATHEWS, Attorney at
fj haws, Talbotton, Ga.. will practice all the counties
ttiposiog the Chattahoochee Circuit and elsewhere by
?ec >al contract declO-ly
WILLIS & WILLIS, Attorneys at Law
i * Talbotton, Ga. Prompt attention given to
s| ne*s placed in our hands. declO-ly
J>OBERT P. TRIPPE, Attorney at Law
In 11 Porß yth, Ga. Will practice in the State Coarts
si. n ‘he United States’ District Court at Atlanta and
c dec 0-ly
,T A. HUNT, Attorney at Law, Barness
Ga Will practice in all the counties of
imt Circuit and Supreme Court of the State.
\JAKION BETHUNE, Attorney at
f «nmiJr aw ; Talboton, Ga. Will practice in all the
t * ie Chattahoochee Circuit, and Upson and
wether counties. decl6-ly
JjR- ROGERS Will continue the practicp
Medicine. Office at B. D. Hardaway’s Drug
dectß-ly
J)R 0. w. T. HaNNAH. is pleased to
She D " 0 , ‘he Citizens of Upson that he will continue
TW. 00 / ,°* Medicine in its various branches at
tn - Ga. declS-ly
WALKER. Attorney at Law
State practice In Circuit Courts «»
<*clO-iy a ' n United states District Courts,
0 JOB WORK
promptly and neatty
a A the Hkbald office. Orders respect-
Prices very reasonable.
P m The systems of liver
|S IM MO NS tF’®” ““
I— MWiU st
The loss ofarmoir«henal’,UHra
ness, bowels in general costive H s ' c^*
with lax. The head is troubled w/thn a f» ftlter . n:,tin e
heavy sensation considerable <lnll
pamed Witb painful sensation of havTnTue acc°m
aomething which ought to have kL„ ,7 ’ g ! * ft , und °ne
I 7 I t,meß : some of the above
■ I II? n n 1 8vni l’tom« attend the dis-
L I V H R I Pase, and at other times
| 1 U U I r»fI :r r« feW . of ,hem ? Tint
i——l tbe Liver is generally the
CuretheLlve^vit!T ,81,, ™ BB ° rgan ra ° 8 t involved.
BR. SIMMONS’
Liver Regulator,
17 ** be *tr!ct
-35 years as“m«''of^he^ for the ] *«
harmless preparations ever offer«d to*the « C ff rt ? Ua
t-Lkcn regularly „nand
Dyspopsia; headache,
It E I; ItLt TO 11. l £r
i ■ bladder, camp dysentery.
j affections of the kidnovV
Jf v ;; r^r rv v usn ? 8 - ohil,s > »f the ®ki n . KS;
O the blood, melancholy, or depression of spirits, heart
>urn, colic, or pains in the bowels, pain in the head
fever and ague, dropsy, boils, pain <n back and llmhl'
asthma, erysipelas, female affections, andbilioul dte'
eases generally. Prepared only bv ”
J. II- ZEULIN & CO.,
?hl C f V : - y TANARUS, 'IV S5 - Druggists, Macon, O a
W h ?« f ?Ur Wl | n f h gh, l r ® ? P Pc t Rb l® persons can fullv at
test to the virtues of this valuable medicine, and to
whom we most respeettiilly refer: *‘ ia 10
Gen. W. S. Ilblt, President S. XV R R Pf imn ,n...
s*l J. Perry. o».| 00l K. K S,«mCV
Ga; George J Lunsford. Ksq., Condnctor « W R I* -
C .person. Esq, Sheriff Bibb county; j‘ A. Hutu
Gst ty’ Dy £ es * Sparhawk, Editors Floridian’
Tallahassee; Rev. J W. Burke. Macon, Gn; ViS
Powers F.Pq Spreaintendent S. W. R. R ; Daniel Bid
— r, L Bullard s Station. Macon and Brunswick I: R
Twiggs county, Ga.; Grenville Wood. Wood's Factory’
Macon. G*; Rev. E P. Kasterlinn, P. E Florida Con^
p - w “°” !y ’ Kinss, ° n ' >»-
For sale bv John F Henry, New York, Jno D. Park
Cincinnati, Jno. Flemming, New Orleans, und all Drug
gl>la • apl2-ly
SIXTY-FIVE FIRST PRIZE MEDALS AWARDED.
THE g-reat
u th ßrn Piano
M AN U FACTORY’.
'WUNT. KN“ABE Sc CO_ 3
manufacturers of
GRAND, SQUARE AND UPRIGHT
PIANO FORTES,
- BALTIMORE, MD.
rHESE Instrumftntß hnve been before the
Public for nearly Thirty Years, and upon their
excellence alone attained an nnpurcliased pro eminence
which pronounces them unequalled. Their
TONE
combines great power, sweetness and fine singing quali
ty, as well as great purity of Intonation and Sweetness
throughout the entire scale. Their
TOUCH
Is pliant and elastic ntl err '<-e!y free from the stiffness
found in so many Pianos.
mxr -WORKMANSHIP
they are unequalled using none but the very best seas
oned material, the largo capital employed in our busi
ness enabling us to keep continually an immense stock
of lumber, Ax*,, on hand.
All our Square Pianos have our New Improved Over
strung Scole and tbe Agraffe Treble.
We would call special attention to our late improve
ments in GRANI) PIANOS AND SQUARE GRANDS,
Patented August 14, 1566. w'hich bring the Piano nearer
perfection than has vet been attained.
Every Piano fully warranted 5 Years
We have made arrangements for the Sole Wholesale
Agency for the most celebrated PARLOR ORGANS
AS’ D MELODEONS, which we off r, Wholesale and
Retail, at Lowest Factory Piices.
WM. KNABE & CO.
Beptl7-6m Baltimore, Md.
“OUR FATHER’S HOUSE;”
op, THE UNWRITTEN WORD.
By Daniel March. D. D m Author of the popular
“ Night Scenes.”
r pniS master in thought and Lnffuajre
1 shows us untold riches and beauties in the
Great House, with its Blooming flowers. Sb'ging birds,
Waving palms. Rolling clouds. Beautiful bows Sacred
mountains. Delightful rivers, Mighty oceans. Thunder
ing voices. Blazing heavens and vast universe with
countlesss beings in millions of worlds, and reads to us
in each the Unwritten World, Rose-tinted paper, or
nate engravings and superb bindi"g. “Rich and varied
in thought.” ‘'( haste.” “Hasy and graceful in style.”
“Correct, pure and elevating in its tendency.” “Beau
tiful and good.” “A household treasure ” Commenda
tions like the above from College Presidents and Pro
fessor, ministers of all denominations, and the re'igions
and secular press all over the country. Its freshness,
purity of language, with clear, open type, fine -teel en
gravings, substantial binding, and low price, make it the
book lor the masses. Agents are selling from 50 to 150
per week. We want Clergymen, School Teachers,
smart young men and holies to introduce the work for
ns in every township, and we will pay liberally. No
incelligent manor woman need be without a paying
business. Send for circular, full description, and terms.
Address ZIEGLER A MoCURDY,
16 8. Sixth street, Philadelphia Pa.
189 Race street, Cincinnati, Ohio,
69 Monroe street, Chicago, 111.,
503 N. Sixth street, St Louis, Mo.
geplO-m or, 102 Main street, Springfield, Mass.
ADVERTISER.”
VOLUME FIFTEEN.
A First-Class Democratic Newspaper!
TIIE Onmpaiffn which will soon be inau
gurated, and whioh will culminate in the election
of Congiessional and Legislative Representatives in
November, promises to be one of the most important
and interesting epochs in the history of the State. In
view of this fact, it is the duty of every person te snb
scribe for some available newspaper. To the people of
this section, The Monroe Advertiser presents superior
claims. , , _
No pains will be spared to render the Tiik Advertiser
a reliable and efficient newspaper, and each issue will
embrace a fair epitome ol the week’s news, both foreign
and domestic. . ~.. .....
As heretofore, the locftl news of this and the adjoining
counties will be made a specialty.
The Advertiser is published m a very populous and
wealthy section, and is one of the most available
ADVERTISING MEDIUMS
in Middle Georgia. To the merchants of Macon and
Atlanta, it offerf superior inducements for reaching a
large, intelligent and prosperous class of people. Terms
of idvertlsing HARRISON.
septl7-tf Box 79 ' Forsyth, Ga.
TWO GOOD BOOKS.
Should be Had in every Family.
DEVOTIONAL and Practical Polyslott
FAMILY BIBLE, containing a copious index,
ical and Historical Index, ‘ , .®“ lteen bnDan,a P a ? es
'Ttw ss Sb«sSs&“>'feu*.;, the Unton.
forms for men o e ery articles of copartner-
X J" i&S. i. p hr ‘he National Fuh-
IShjut {nil*?*? ‘coc'nSiw has taken the keener for
THOMASTOX, ga., SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 18, 1811.
jpOETI^Y.
HEALTH.
A clear bright aye,
That can p.pree the aky, .
-With the strength of an eagla’s vudon. *
And a stAdy brain,
1 hat can bear the strain
And shock of the world's coilUion.
A well knit frame.
With a ruddy fl-me,
Aglow, and the pulses leaping
5V ith the measured time
Os a dulcet rhyme,
Their beautiful record keeping ;
A rounded cheek,
Where the roses speak
Os a soil that is rich and tr ing,
And a chest so grand
That the lungs expand.
Exultant,- without the stiivlng;
A breath like morn
With the crimson dawn
As fresh in its dewy sweetness:
A manner bright
And a spirit light.
With joy at its full completeness;
Oh, give me these,
Nature’s harmonies,
And keep all your golden treasures ;
For what is wealth
To the boon of health
And its sweet attendent pleasures?
jVIISCELLANEOUS.
MARRIED FOR FUN.
Wedded in a at Alldnisht— A
Couple who would not “Back Out.”
From the Quincy Herald.]
The quiet comnuinifv round about Ben
Bow, a small town in Marion county, Mo.,
about twenty-five miles from this city, was
thrown out of its qua tom ary even channel
two or throe days since, and set in social
agitaupc, by the extraordinary matrimonial
freak ot a highly esteemed young couple, in
which pluck had more to do than mutual
attraction. The sensation consisted in that
the parties did not want to marry, never
intended to marry, and had no idea of what
they were doing until the wedding was a
fact, the result of
A THOUGHTLESS DARE.
The particulars as obtained from a cor
respondent shows that the couple, Joseph
Chiprran and Miss Nannie Hutchison, one
evening the present week, were passing the
time in a conversation upon matrimony,
without, however, any serious import
During the tete a lete Mr. Chipman thought
lessly made the boast that he could back
Mi'S Hutchison out in getting married.
Miss Hutchison retorted that he could not
do anything of the kind, and challenged
him to a trial-. The young man declared
that he go back on what he said,
and tbat ,4hrr«! we f( jdi ng tfcui-t
night unless she concluded to take back tho
challenge. THer young lady was disposed
to dffy the young man. and while neither
contemplated any serious ending to the
affair, neither
WOULD GIVE UP.
The bridegroom to be, thought that when
the ordeal came the lady would hesitate ;
the lady believed, for very excellent reasons,
that the young man, when the test came,
would eat his challenge and postpone the
ceremony. How much both were mistaken
was realized before many hours had passed.
It so happened that there was no authority
competent to perform the ceremony nearer
than Emerson, four miles away, where a
minister resided. The young man proposed
to go after a clergyman and have the
nuptials celebrated that night. The young
lady, not to be outdone in proposition,
declared she would accompany him, and
save time and trouble. The couple left
-home in a buggy, late at night, for Emer
son, with no intention ol figuring as prin
cipals in a wedding, and leaving their
acquaintances laughingat whatthey deemed
a first-rate joke. Arriving at Emerson,
neither of the parties was prepared for
surrender, and each determined to see bow
far the other would go. The minister was
hunted up and got in readiness, and at
midnight,
SITTING IN TIIE BUGGY,
the words were said, the parties joined, and
the benediction pronounced before they
realized the situation. What makes the
affair the more interesting is the report that
the bridegroom was engaged to be married
to a young lady of the neighborhood, and
inter.ded and desired to fulfill the contract.
He is the son of a well-to-do and respected
farmer ,and will, it is hoped, prove a good
husband. The couple, though married
when they did not want to, have concluded
to accept the situation and make the most
out of it. Though married on a dare, may
they never have cause to regret their mid
night nuptials.
THE SEQUEL —A SAD ONE.
From a party residing at Ben Bow we
learned yesterday that the parties to the
wedding that occurred in that town a few
days since, an account of which was pub
lished-yesterday, are in a sad predicament.
The bride was engaged to a young man in
that vicinity, and was to have been, and
expected to be married to him in May. The
bridegroom was, as stated, betrothed to
another lady, and the nuptials were to have
been celebrated in a few weeks. The ban
ter which led to the unexpected wedding
was made at a party at which were the
bride that should have been of the bridf'
groom, and the bridegroom to be of the
bride, thinking at the time that it was a
good joke. Consternation prevails among
the four most interested, who do not at
present see their way out of a disagreeable
embarrassment. The married couple hare
not as yet treated the marriage as a reality,
and are waiting at their respective homes
until some way shall be found torele .setbem
from their difficulty. The marriage whs
regular and legal, and so far there appears
to be no help for the parties, who are sorely
distressed.
One Way w Hint.
A gentleman whose custom it was very
often to entertain a circle of friends, observ
ed that one of them was in the habit of eat
ing-something before grace was asked, and
determined to cure him. Upon the repeti
tion of the offense, he said : “For what we
are about to receive, and for what James
Taylor bad already reoalyfd, the I*ord |
make us truly thankful."
j New* Summary.
i iran d Rapids, Mich., girls are suspen
j ' rom school fur gum-chewing.
. f A Davenport, lowa, couple got divorced.
I,l y, out didn’t like it, and were remar
nea next day.
Mrs. Field, of Michigan, was dumb four
years, has just recovered her Speech
and id making up lost time.
An apocryphal story is going the rounds,
of a Jersey girl being hugged to death by
r.cr lover. Don’t believe it.
A New York merchant absent-mindedly
O ’p’ed a love-letter to his “heart’s idol,” in
the letter book of tho firm, before sending
• Minnesota farroara are enjov'og a live’y
wheat-thief shooting season. They sot
spring-guns in the barn, and pick up the
wou .ded every morning.
i he present wife of a Buffalonian objects,
not without reason, tohis keeping the mem
ory <>f her five predecessors green by wearing
that number of crape bands upon his hat.
An anti-kiseing society has been formed
by the Galena, Illinois, girls. “No kissing
before marriage” is their motto. Non
sense )
A little Massachusetts girl, afflicted with
nasal catarrh, coughed a couple of brass
buttons from her nose, and immediately
began to improve.
Old Mother Hubbard, in Vermont, went
to the cupboard the other day arid took
arsenic. Cause—an unfiltal son. Result—
unfilial son gets all the property.
The-o is a carriage manufactory at South
Bend, Indiana, which turns out, in com
plete finish, a lumber wagon every twenty
minutes, in addition to other work of equal
amount.
The people of Toledo have instituted a
new social entertainment, called a “Dick
ens party.” All who attend must be clad
in character after their idea of Dickens’s
creations.
A fire escape being tested in Richmond,
broke, and dropped three men about thirty
feet on to the pavement, ma-hing them up
a good deal. They said they’d as lief be
burned as crushed to death.
A man in Unity, New Hampsire, recent
ly separated from his wife because she used
a pound of tea a week. He said he had
tielked to her with all tho eloquence of a
Cicero, but without ava 1.
The editor of the Petersburg Index parts
his hair in the middle because John Ran-'
dolph, Milton. Charles 1., Lord Peterbo
rough, Alcibiades and Julius Cmsar did.
That do exhaust the argument.
The Helena (Montana) Itorald is rejoic
ing over the luscious beef furnished during
Foe holidays, grass-fed beef, beef that never
saw an ear of corn or any other grain ;
raised in the gulches and plainsof that Ter
ritory. ;
Sweet and euphonious ares the names of
localities in Michigan. Here are a few :
“Ghost Lake.” “Rattlesnake Swamp,”
“Gallows Ilill,” “Whiskey Station,” Jack
knife Ridge,” ‘Cut-throat Creek,’ “Betsey’s
Bridge,” and “Old Woman’s Mask.”
The ice factory at New Orleans now has
seven immense ice making machines, run
by one engine of one hundred and fifty
horsepower. The ice is made in moulds 22
inches long, 12 inches wide, and 2 inches
thick. There are 1600 ton made every day.
Out Wesd they tell a story about a dog
which was greatly interested in music,
which attended a singing-school, and was
subsequently f Hind in the backyard with a
music-book in front of him, beating time
with his tail on a tin pan, and howling
“Ooe Hundred ”
At the sale of effects of the old Exchange.
Bank of Virginia, in Richmond, on Tues
day, $5,0)0,000 in Confederate bonds
brought S7O; $1,000,000 in Confederate
notes sold for $lO, and $13,50) in Virginia
and North Carolina bonds, issued during
the war, brought thirty dollars.
A gentleman who has seen it, thus des
cribes the Tennessee panther : “When it
switch its tail from side to side, and flashes
fire outen its big.yaller “yes, it ’peered to
seem as if it wus streekedly spotted like hy
turns ; but when it got sorter more gentler
then it ’peered to seem of-a dove-colored
brown.”
Mormon phvsicians are forbidden, under
a penality of $1 000 and not less than a
year’s imprisonment, to prescribe any of the
more powerful agents known, to the medi
cal profession, without first explaining to
the patient and his friends thei? medical
properties, and procuring the unqualified
consent of all concerned.
Boxford, Conn., is a quaint old Puritan
town—not a glass of ale sold in the place.
It borders on eight towns, is eleven miles
long and six miles wide, and has a popula
tion of eight hundred and fifty souls, about
the same as one hundred years ago. Ap
propriately enough, the chief industry of
the town is the manufacture of boxes for
shoes and matches.
A nice yoang man at Portland kept look
ing into the window of a married lady,
until he saw her shake a handkerchief,
when he called at her room. After being
picked up at the bottom of the stairs, and
having his bones set, it was explained that
she was only shaking some apple-peelings
from a napkin. Her husband 9ays she did
perfectly right in hitting the visitor with a
water-bowl.
A youog of the name of Joseph recently
tickled a young lady in the church, on
North Bars Island, in Ohio. The lady
squealed, and the preacher becoming indig
nant, said Borneo and men should no more
sit together under the droppings of his sabc
tuary. But-, even with the possibility of
being tickled before their eyes, the ladies
refused to be separated, and on the very
next evening all sat together. The preacher
was indignant and brought the male portion
of his congregation before a jus.ioe of the
peaoe. A jury was demanded, and no ju
ror should be a member of the church.
Thrpe days the trial lasted, but at last the
oppressed went free, end now ia cbnrch
they tickle each other as of yore, to keep
awake in an amusing manner.
DEBATING SOCIETIES.
Men v*ho Rrcrivrd Benefit trum Them.
The celebrated Lord Mansfield, nf;er a
j full Cviur-e at Oxford, and even nfier his
entrance upon legal studies, sougnt im
provement in a debating club. Herein
were dit-cussed some profound legal ques
tions, questions involving many intricate
points of law. lls entered into these dis
cussions with all tho earnestness of real life,
lie was careful, copious, and thorough
every way, in his preparations ; so much
| so, indeed, that they were found Dot only
adequate to the wants of the occasion, but
served, in a high degree, to render him
ultimately one oftne first juriets of the age.
Curran is another signal example. Every
thing seemed to be against his cherished
aspirations. A., award and ungainly in
! gesture, hasty and inarticulate in utterance,
with a voice naturally bad, he early pro
; voked the name of “Stuttering Jack.”
! Since the days of Deuioetheues had no man
1 apparently had such obstacles to contend
1 with. AftPr completing his college course,
j and, like Mansfield, entering upon profes
sional studies, ho still persevered in the en
deavor to overcome the difficulties lying in
hia-way to success as a punlic speaker. lie,
too, sought aid in debating societies. He
patiently withstood the ridicule awakened
by his ludicrous, unprepossessing manners.
I He bore failure with fortitude. He turned
1 all criticism to good account; and, at length,
! came to be one ol the most effective orators
of which any age or country can boast.
Fox, distinguished alike for the good and
the bad that marked his strange career,
gave powerful though unconscious, tes
timony to the value of debating associations,
when he confessed, as he did, that he had
acquired skill, ns a debater, “at the expenso
of the House of Commons.” He had made
it a point, daring the whole session, to speak
on every question, important or not, merely
to improve himself in the art of debating ;
that is, he had deliberately turned the
British House of Commons into a Tsort of
debating society for his own personal con
venience. What success ho ultimately
reached, ns a deliberative orator, may bo
learned from a witness no less competent
than the celebrated Edmund Burke, who
declared that Fox came, “by slow degrees,
to bo the most brilliant and accomplished
debater the world ever saw.”
We take one example more, and that from
our own country ; not because we have not
many to give, but because be is the tvpe
and representative of them all. We refer
to Henry Clay,—a name that awakens at
once the thought of evory thing that is fas
cinating and forceful in deliberative elo
quence. Without wealth, without patronage,
without academical discipline, without
every thing, it would s?em, essential to the
formation of such a character, he rose, by
dintof unyielding perseverance, to be among
the princes .of eloquence, in a land abound
ing in the most gifted orators. Henry Clay
owned fraakly and always his obligations
to the exercises ?>f a debating society.
Deatli from Excess of Excitement.
The death of Gottschalk, while at the piano,
in the act of performing his favorite com
position, “La Morte,” is by no means the
first circumstance of its kind related in mu
sical and dramatic history. We recall im
mediately Moliero and his “Maladie Irnagi
narie.” The chief personage in the comedy
was a sick man, which part was played by
the author himself. It was the fourth
nightof the run ' Moliere, weak and ai'ing,
went on for the character, and got through
it until the scenes in which his “business”
was to fall as dead. Thi3 he did so well
that the audience and the persons in the
play were deceived. But, alas! it was no
acting, for the poor dramatist was dead in
truth. Hughes, the dramatist, died in an
hour after he received the account of the
success of his play of ‘The Siege of Damas
cus.” Moidy, the tragedian, difd in the
very middle of his perfotmance of Claudio,
in “Measure for Measure.” He had been
melancholy fur some time, on account of
the loss of sume member of his family, and
on the evening ot the play was seen to
retire to his dressing room and weep. But
his impersonation was much better than it
had ever been before; so much so, indeed,
that his fellow-actors remarked it. At last,
in the scene where Isabella bid him prepare
for execution, and be answers in those
beautiful lines beginning, “Ay, but to die,
and go we know not where”—ha suddenly
became faint and fell to the stage. The
audience for a little while imagined it was
anew point, and applauded accordingly.
But the truth was very soon made manifest.
Somewhat similar was the death of John
Palmer, for whom Sheridan may be said to
have written “The School for Scandal.”
The play was “The Stranger.” Palmer,
who bad been like Moody, beset with mel
ancholy for sometime before, after uttering
the line, “There is another and better
world” with touching pathos, suddenly
paused, closed his eyes, and leaned upon
the Francis of the evening, Whirfield. He
had spoken his last words on earth. Ed
mund Kean's last appearance was in
“Othello.” When he came to those grand
lines—“O ! now, forever, farewell the tran
quil mind 1 Farewell, content !” Ho
paused, then slowly, slowly, until the music
of the last cadence became but as a breath,
“Speak to them, Charles,” whi-pering to
bis son ; “I am dying!” and so he was.
When to Advertise.
The exnerience of the most successful
business men supplies but one answer to
this question, an i that is constantly. A’om
ioricty is a condition of success in all em
ployments which dtmruid the support oj the
public; and there is no way in which this
notoriety can be so surely gained as by ad
vertising. When the blood in the human
is sluggi-b, brisk exercise is rest .red
to, to quicken it. When the public appe
tite for your wares is dull, stimulate it by
a recital of their flavor and richness. A
man may be made hungry by hearing an
eloquent description of “good things,”
which a moment before he had not a wish
for. Moreover, the fundamental principles
of keeping your name &Dd your business
before the people, have special force in dull
seasons. When trade is brisk, advertise.
In the oil regions, when anew well is dis
charging a comparatively liberal stream,
the owners bore into it and double th«
oleaginous volume. So when customers
are coming in crowds, “bore into them with
advertisements, a.x?i you wili treble theii
numbers.—A'jV.« Ar. l Mfavie
m Fatull.m.ltlu-lvaud
A Hardshell Baptist minister, 11
! •omewhere on the frontier of Missouri, was
in tie habit of saying to hia family and
to his oh tire h: •* Friends, you need not take
ar»y unusual care about yous livfa; the
n> 'tnent of your death km ‘writ’ before the
foundation of the world, and too cannot
alter it.” Hia wife observed when he left
on Saturday to meot one of hia frontier
missionary engagements that he dressed the
flint of his rifle with unseal oare, put in dry
powder, fresh tow, and took every paina to
make sure that th<* gun would go , ff in case
he came upon an Indian.
It struck her one day as she saw him in
the saddle, with his rifle ou hia shoulder,
and she said to him: “21 y dear, why do
▼ou take ,‘h s with y *? If ie w*«
‘writ' before the foundation of the world
that you ware to be killed during thia trip
by an Indian, that rifle wnr’t prevent it;
and if you are not to be killed, of course the
rifle is unnecessary; so why take it with
you at all ?”
‘ Yes,” be replied, “to bo sure, my dear,
of course you are all right, and that is a
very proper view ; but, see here, my dear—
to be sure—but then*~Buppo?e I should
meet an Indian while I am gone, and his
time had ooine,.and I hadn’t my rifle with
me, what would ho do? my dear, wo
must all contribute our part toward the
lulfiilment of the decrees of Pruvidonco.
“-'.il— 1
Kercher on Ifttemt.
No blister draws sharper than inter
est does. Os all industries none is oompar
able to that of interest. It works all day
and night, in fair weather and foul. It has
no sound in its footsteps, but travels fast.
It gnaws at a man’s substance with invisible
teeth. It binds industry with its film, as a
fly is bound in a spider’s web. Debts roll
a man over and over, binding hand and foot,
and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh
until the long-legged interest devours him.
There is but one thing on a farm like it,
and that is the Canada thistle, which
swarms now plants every time you break ita
roots, whose blossoms are prolific, and every
flower the father of a million seeds. Every
leaf is an awl, every branch a spear, and
every plant like a platoon of bayonets, and
a field of them like an armed host. The
whole plant is a torment and vegetable
curse. And yet a farmer had better make
his bed of Canada thistles than attempt to
be at ease upon interest.— Henry Wa r d
Beecher. * _______
Little by Little
Little by little the printer pays out his
money. A little for a press, a little for
type, a little for paper, a little tor rollers, a
lntlo for ink, a little for help, a little for
rent, a little for wood, a little for this and a
little for that, but continually a little, never
stopping, a constant drain. Little by little
the printer’s bills accumulate. A. owes a
little for a subscription; B. owes a little for
advertising ; C. owes a little and D. owes n
little, on clear through the alphabet and
back, and through again and many times
over. A. neglects his bill; B. does not settle
his ; C. thinks his but a trifle and not
needed ; so on down the list little by little
the money goes out, and not even a little
comes in, until finally the poor printer’s
resources aro all exhausted and down he
goes into the gulf of despair, while over his
head floats his hundreds of unpaid dues ;
but he grasps at them in vain—they afford
no help. Reader, do you owe w bill to the
printer? PAY IT!— Youngstoiim Vindi
cator.
How a Camel Goe* Through the Eye of a
Ifeedici
The passage from the New Testament,
“It is easier for a camel,” etc., has perplex
ed many good men, who have read literally.
In Oriental cities there are in the large
gates small and very low apertures, oalled
metaphorically “needles’ eyes,” just as we
talk of windows on ship board as “bulls’
eyes.” These entrances are too narrow
for a camel to pass through in the ordinary
manner, even if unloaded.
When a loaded camel has to passthrough
one of these entrance it kneels down, its
load is removed, and then it shuffles through
on its knees. “Yesterday,” writes Lady
Duff Gordon from Caifo, “I saw a camel go
through the eye of a needle, that is, the low
arched door of an inclosure. He must
kneel, and bow his head, to creep through ;
and thus the rich man must humble him
self.”
Food Medicines.
Dr. Hall relates the case of a man who
was cured of biliousness by going without
bis supper and drinking freely of lemonade.
Every morning, gayg the doctor, this pa
tient a rose with a wonderful sense of rest,
refreshment, and a feeling as though the
blood had been literally washed, cleansed
and cooled by the lemonade and the fast.
Ilis theory is that food will be used as &
remedy for many diseases successfully. For
example, he instances cures of spitting blood
by the use of salt; epilepsy and yellow
fevef. watermelons ; kidney affections, cel
ery ; poison, olive or sweet oil; erysipelas,
pounded cranberries applied to the parts
affected ; hydrophobia, onions, dec. So the
thing to do in order to keep intend health,
is reaily to know what to eat, atii uot what
medicines to take.
How they Conjugate in Arkansas.
An Arkansas applicant for a toaobei’s
certificate conjugates the verb “to do” as
follows: Imperfect—l have done it. Plural
Weuns done it, youos done it, theyuns
done it. Perfect—l gone done it, you gone
done it, he gone done it. Plural—Weuns
goue done it, youns gone done it. Future
—I guine done it, you guine done it, ho
guine done it. Plural—W r eun? guine dene
it, youns guine done it, theyuns guine done
it. Future perfect—l dons guine done it,
you done guine done it, he done guine done
it. Plural—Weuns done guine done it,
y- uns done guine done it, theyuns done
guine done it.
How to Get a Fine WUiU House out of
au Empty. Barrel. 1
Put the barrel in a seoure place, near a
spring of good wafer, on the road to the
grog f-’nop. When you want a dram, take
the price of it in your hand and start to the
grog shop ; go as far as the spring, drop the
money through the bung-hole, take a good
drink of water and return home. Repeat
this operation till the barrel is full, knock
out the bead, and you bare the price of a
splendid brick builcicg. Fact.
NO. 15.