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JfUIL^OADS.
WESTERN & ATLANTIC R.R.
Atlanta. June 2d, 1572.
MUIIT PAShf.Nf.ru TltAlX TO N. T. AND TIIF. WEST.
l.eavos Atlanta, •••••••• 8.35 o in
Arrive# Chattanooga, 4. 40 u m
DAT I’ASSBSbfB TRAIN TO TIIE SOUTH ANI) WEST.
eaves Atlanta, 8. 30 a m
Arrves Chattanooga 8.50 pm
LIGHTNING EXPRESS TO NEW YORK.
Leaves Atlanta, 4.05 pin
Arrives Dalton, 9. 23 p in
MUIIT PASSMN'OBK TRAIN FROM X. Y. TO THE WF.ST.
Leave <'hattanooga, 8. 20 pnt
Arrives Atlanta, 1.30 am
HAY I*AHSENIjKR THAIS FROM N, Y. TO TIIK WEST.
J.eaves Chattanooga, 8.30 ant
Arrives AtlaDta, .8.50 p in
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN.
I,paves Dalton, 1 00 a in
Arrives Atlanta, ... St.so a m
JOSEPH E BROWN, Presidin’.
Professional Paros.
I 8. MOP.PF., Dentia', Forsyth, Georgia. When you
( /» visit Forsyth, call at my office and have your
Dental Woik done us it should be. Teeth inserted
teeth filled, teeth extracted, teeth attended to in the
best style ol the Dental Art. Call once and you will
nut only call again, hut will bring r.ll your friends in
cluding sour sweetheart and mother in-law
inay2s-3m Respectfully, L. 8. MORSE.
1 T. TOOLKY, Attorney nt Lnw, Bnrnesvllle. Ga.
e| W ill promptly atten<l to till businosi* that may In*
lirought tiefore him within the Flint Judicial Circuit
Vtfticeover L. 11. Whitehurst’s etore. mny2s-ly.
\\T X. BEALL. Auorrev at Law, Thom
? » aston. Ga. Will practice ip the Flint Circuit or
elsewhere, ami attend promptly to business, jin 13- ts.
UJ T WKAYKIL Artornov nt Low.
Thomaston, Ga., nil! practice in nil tlie Courts
,t tlie Flint Circuit, and clsewiu re by special contract
)ihe.e in Cheney's brick building, Southeast corner
.tom, up stairs, janl'J-tf
Ml{ SANDWICH, A ttorriov anil Cnun
sel’or r.t Law, Thoinnaton. Ga. Will practice
n the several Courts oft.he State of Georgia, und attend
tminj.tly to nil business entrusted to ids care,
oiovl Its
I VR.T R. KENDALL offers his pmfVs-
I / atonal servieea to. the citizen- of 1 homaston and
.. urrutrn>lWtf[ Country. May tie found during the day at
t, lie Drue at night at the former residence of
i I it'igers A. Cheney’s Warehouse,
iin 11 \y
I K. Ki’] I>l >I XU, Attorney at Law.
*» ; • Itnrilesvil p, l’ike co , Ga. Will practice in the
r unities comprising the Flint Judicial Cin wit., mol
el-ewhere by special ontrnct Al business promptly
tiMondhd to tdlice in lJhler's building,over Ciiamlier's
‘J in Store. ugti- y
fJPIJOAIAS BKALL. Athirney at Law,
‘i TAomaSton, tin. Will pr.ic'iec in the Flint Cir
cuit and I'nrtn here hy special contract. aug27-1y
| OH Sr i. 1 1 \ LL. Attorney and Ooan«<»M*n
ft *it I.uw Will practice ie tin* counties composin'-
the Kiint Circuit, in the Supreme Court of t.enr ii.
and in the District Court of tlie UnHvil States for the
Northern and Sou hern Districts ot (eeoVgia.
Thom iitton, Ga.. dune tVth. jeju-tjy
I\U • ! M. DANIEL. wn.ir:or>Cv beat-
I / ed at Rev John W. Atwatci’s, tenders his l r<i
essional services to the snirrotmdftur v. antnunity, and
peitiises to no labor sit'd attention to those who
may p itrontte Iran. iulyb-’.y
D ENTISTTR7ST!
rj’F.nru KXTIIACTKIinn.I inn>rl«<) frnni
1 'otic to a whole set. in th - best, stvlo. Aching
W*' ;ti treated and tillid ivitli gold or cheaper material..
All ne -dine work nreinvited to call.
t-ey" I'rices teasoiinble and satisfaction trenvniiteed
JuneS-tf JOHN M. LCKQUKctT.
DR. G. P. CAMPBELL,
Operative & Mechanical Dentist,
nAltx ES V 11. LE,GEO ll GI A.
jum S ts
jiOTELS.
THOMASTON HOTEL
11. T. .IRWINS, Projiviflor,
T HOM ASTON, A.
'I'MIE un<leivs:ineil having tsiken charge
1 nf the above House takes pie sure In announcing
to tin* public (fcnccrnlly.tliat n*>«ft**rt will be spared to
uii.ke it ii first-lass Hotel, ami every iftort will be
nude to give. satisfaction to all wh ill tavnr him with
4 heir patronage. People living in the country and
■visiting Thoniaston will always find aocouimodatb n,
ml meals furnished at. teiihonabk* hours at re luecil
ittes. Citizens of Upson are l especlftllly solicited to
ail their ec|*lout and patronage.
e,- I ,ti't» U 11. 1\ JENNINOP.
GrIIEER HOUSE,
Fors.rill, <* eoi*«i*isi.
GREER & IVEY; Proprietors.
♦
Ed. Califiway, in the office.
We InVlte a call froth nil who appreciate good
living clean, soft bed and polite attention to every want
Porters in attendance on the svrival of every
train, to take charge of your baggage and escort you to
the hiiu**. 4*
, tw~ Regular Coach Line tunning front Forsyth to
Indian Spring, oti and after first of June. ,
junel-tf GISEKB & BKO.
ELDER HOUSE,
UNOr viN SEUINGS,
W. A. El.Otill & Sb*« Proprietors.
r jPiIIS woll known house i» iicvi - open for
i lhe reception of visitors.
KATES or BOARD.
1 < r Month 17 ►>,,
children jod Servants ' '
Per 2
I*. L. MIZE. K. K. S ASS KEN, A gen
MIZE & SAS3EEN,
Proprietors
SASSEEN HOUSE.
corner tutiUtf asi> phtok eic.tK'ii,
ATLANTA, - GEORGIA
BOARD:
JttUSsirsT, pr.fc D 1 !'
etECLE Meal,
Mej. M. C. MARTIN, Clerk,
barnesville hotel,
j. u. CAMP, Proprietor,
BiRNESVILLE, OA.
Persons stopping at this Hotel are assured that every
Mag will be done to render their sojourn eomforUbje
fid pleasant. Th* übloa will be furnished with the
est the vMKfcet way'JU-tf
VOL. HI.
Written for the Thomaston Herald.
LIFTED.
chapter I.
Not m:vny years ago there lived in a cer
tain village ol Middle Georgia a family by
thc sonorous name of Cowsliorn. Whence
their ancestors derived their broad -soundin ,r
cognomen this family themselves didn’t ex°
aotly know, unless ’twas through an inci
dent that tradition brought down to them to
the effect that one of their old-time great
grand-mothers while out to the “cuppen”
milking on a certain occasion had been near
ly punched to death in the short-ribs by the
horn of a vicious old milch cow since which
painful circumstance someone or other of
the female members of tlie Cowsliorn family
Inis ever liad an instinctive and ominous
dread of these ferocious beasts. Tlieninnc
<iiate family consisted ot father, mother, sis
ters and brothers amounting in all to about
a halt dozen, or such a matter, who, although
a devastating scourge in the form of a long
and bloody war had swept over the land,
crowding them from the condition of good,
well-to-do livers, nearly within the grim
jaws of poverty, yet called in pride to their
assistance, under whose disguising influence,
together with the aid of a great deal of native
ingenuity in such economical contrivances,
for instance, as remodeling and renovating
time-lionored and fashion-deserted external
appendages of paraphernalia &c., in order
that they might thereby save something for
the wants of the inner man, these people did
actually cause their less fortunate neighbors
to ac know ledge them as some of the “upper
crust! ’ Indeed they held as high heads as
tlie “biggest bugs” in the community.
Now the joke of the matter is there also
dwelt in the same settlement a poor, yet
good-natured and sublime kind of a youth
of some thirty odd Summers, more or less,
who possessed little more of wordlv goods
than the name (among numerous motherly
old ladies—bless the dear old creatures) of
being a good moral boy in all respects ex
cept as to it slight thirst for liquor.
William Buffington (for that was tlie
young gentleman’s name) although far below
the Cowshorns as to “social equality,” it
seems had managed to insinuate himself
among them, and to be it very frequent visi
tor it t their res idef.ee; which some of Wil
liam's equals thought remarkably strange,
and especially so'since some of the Cowsliorn
girls had recently married rich men, a cir
cumstance, itself, they imagined sufficient
to authorize 'lie family to cut Billy’s acquain
tance. It appears they didn’t, however, but
on the contrary he had received so much en
couragement from i>ilsiana, one of the re
remaining single girls, as actually to aspire
to her fair hand ! Now this was just what
Dilsiana wanted and had been waiting for; j
in fact she had paved the way so well for
him as to have almost popped the question to
him e’re lie had summoned up sufficient
courage to -‘axk her (using his language) if
she had any purtieular injections to working
in double harness with ‘Billy in the low
grounds’ of sorrow: thus to pull for better
or wuss through out the course of tiffs wery ;
pilgrimage here below?” To which Dilsy
(after staring vacantly into the lire place for
several minutes) replied, “Why Mr. Buff
ington, la me! You extonish me! 1 never
did think you cared anything lor me more
than jest as a friend;” while she at the same
time, turned upon him Iter full, flashing,
smiling coal black eye—no, not black, but
as soft a mild, grey, pink as ever shorn out
of a woman’s head—and continued, “your 1
question, sir, takes me so much of a suckling
that I skeercely know what to comply to it, !
’sides, the men is so deceitful now-days that
no girl never knows when one’s a
fooffn of her. ” Fhe “paused for a reply”
and gave William such a fascinating wink
out of the left corner of her right hand eye
that he swore he had never seen the like of
it before; it must be an importation from
some heavenly shore. Indeed it came over
him like a spell, intensifying the flame that
of late he had begun to imagine would burn
up his very liver in spite of all he could do.
And did she return his love? Now there
was a mistcry he could not as yet solve; !
sometimes he thought she gave him to un
derstand things were olriglit, and all lie had i
to do was to speak the word. Well, he had
done that thing, and she had seemed to j
doubt his sincerity; what more could he do?
True lie had never “dipped so low” as to
get down on on his knees, pour out his soul
at her feet, and tell her in sobbing accents
“whar hurt him;” but he thought he
liad given her to unilerstan, plainly enough
that he was in a dying condition; when he
proposed matrimony to her as before stilted,
and she had expressed a belief of the gener
al deceitfulness of the male portion of man
kind. Although she seemed to act very
strangely, and for what reason lie couldn’t
at that time make out, to save him. lie
had imagined previous to ‘proposing’ to her
that he would have no trouble with her, but
that she would come right square in; and
now that she held back, and seemed at times
moody and thought he was naturally puzzel
ed - |
[To bi continued.'}
Physical Tkaning.— The movement in
augurated in Germany by Friedrich Jahu
for developing manhood by physical train
ing lias taken ground in France. The city
of Valence has just founded a large public
gymnasium* which it is expected will prove
a model to be followed by all other cities
throughout the country. It was only open
ed last June, and already has 100 pupils
paying two francs per month, and 100 others
who receive instruction gratuitously The
course of instruction comprises lessons in
fencing, gymnastics and shooting, which
are now regularly followed, and it is intend
ed soon to add instructions in swimming
and in horsemanship. From time to time
there will be public axhibitions, in which
the pupils will contend for special prizes.
Children ol both sexes, from the age of five
to ten years, from a separate division attach
ed to the school. It is said that the city of
Rouen is about to follow, the good example
of Valence immediately.
THOMASTON. GA.. SATURDAY MORNING. AUGUST 31, 1872.
Mk. Editor;—l submit the following let
ter for publication, if you have space and
think it worthy of print:
May 10th, 18(18.
My Dearest Julia:— Your favor of Feb
ruary last reached me in due course of mail,
and had I yielded to the first impulses, it
w ould have been answered at once. But
you are aware, doubtless live the angels of
good arid evil, which are ascribed to every
one by the ancient my Biologists, and which
are said to be continually at war in the hu
man breast, the one to constrain the
light and the other diametrically opposite.
So also are there two primary principles,
w liich, in our efforts to harmonize, places
us not unfrequently in an unpleasant atti
tude. 1 allude to duty and neglect. lam
somewhat inclined, however, to nol proa
the last mentioned charge, because of an
exceeding pressure of duties.
The weather now is so pleasant, the
bounteous sun having at last rolled from
Aries, and the expansive atmosphere is no
longer cramped by winter’s chilling cold.
The ethereal mildness of spring is upon us,
and music wakes around, veiled in a shadow
of roses. How delightful at early morn to
pass along the borders of some fair ones flor
al paradise, opening its vistas and green
alleys, bright w ith dew and sending on the
soft wing of vernal breezes the potent 'fra-
grance.
But would it not be a bliss untold for you
and 1 Julia, to wander amid the gay, green
of smiling natures universal robe, alone be
neath some shady bower, when the hollow
whisping breeze, the plaint of rills, that
purling down amid the twisted roots which
creep around their dewy murmurs shake on
the soothed car, for me to see your rosy
cheek shoot a fresher bloom and your ruby
lips blush deeper sweets while your bosom
heaved with w ild palpitations and all your
yeilding soul w as Love.
1 know too well Julia, that yon are too
noble, too generous and too intelligent to
permit a feeling of jealousy to enter your
mind, if I tell you w hat a gay time I have
been enjoying with the charming young
ladies of this burg.
r i lie memorial custom or usage instituted
at the fall of the conquered banjicr of the
South, to perpetuate a nations love for those
who nobly fell beneath its battle torn and
and blood stained folds, never more to heed
the call of arms until the last reveille shall
sound from tlie battlements of Heaven, was
most affectionately observed by the fair ones
alluded to above. At the appointed hour
the bivouac of our noble dead was surround
ed by many fair and pretty ladies, with
tlieir escorts and attendants, laden with
choicest flowers and evergreens. It was
certainly a pleasant though melancholic
task, to constitute a bearer of these fragrant
wreaths and look upon the gentle one as
she quietly and tenderly placed them over
the little, mounds beneath which the many
heroes slept the eternal sleep because of a
stern resolve and a patriotic effort to tree
their country from oppression. Every
mound received the tribute of immortellea,
fashioned in the most expressive forms that
loving hands could weave. 31 v mind natu-
rally turns from the consecrated resting
places of these heroes to that merciless ene
my, who placed them there, and to that
party of thieves and swindlers, host of fiends
w hose souls are more agitated in their slum
bers, by some some hellish scheme, titan
any ship was ever tossed by the angry bil
lows of the mighty sea. They have torn
down the great watchtower of liberty erect
ed by Washington, Jefferson and their
compeers and over its smouldering ruins
they have erected a huge mass of envy,
shame, theft, treachery and a nastiness of
corruption that would shock the olfactory
nerves of the vilest fiends of perdition. Still
unsated they continue to commit deeds that
have no name, nor was ever suggested to the
wild brain of the hell-dames in Macbeth.
But Julia, don’t be alarmed. All is quiet
along the Potomac. The colored troops fit
nobly. The Ku-Klux arc lying low and
the unbleached Ethiopian American citizens
are reveling in their late success. As long
as I exist im this vast diabolical, conglom
erated, terrestial, congelation of gelatinous
matter, 1 will ever look through the realms
of abyssmal space upon you as my grandiff
erous, melliufiuous., raptu-preglorions,
transmutated, quintcsccnce and orbicular
star.
Mmiiii-t liy.
From the voices of the Grant and
Wilson canvassers, we think we hear
the distant rumbling of Monarchy.
Centralization we know has .been the
ehief aim of the party, but we did not
think any one had gotten so bold as
to advocate Monarchy. At a recent
meeting of a Grant and Wilson Asso
ciation in New York, Edward Sey
mour, in addressing the meeting, said:
The present struggle is for State sovereign
tv, and the battle to be fought is the same as
that in which Grant was victorious against
the South. The defeat of Grant now would
restate Slavery and Uie slave power. The
Coustituti. n repudiates State rights, but
docs not say that a President shall serve but
one term: under it Grant may be renomina
ted forever and forever.
Instead of saying he could .be re
nominated under the Constitution for
ever and forever, why not have said
nominate him once forever. In the
same sentence he spews out the infa
mous and willful falsehood that ‘‘the
defeat of Grant now would reinstate
slavery and the slave power.” In the
same speech lie states that he looks on
the public press as a nuisance, and the
people ought to rise in their majesty
and put down the newspapers which
malign our President. The Press is
the only ventilator and illuminator of
the dark halls of fraud and corruption,
where honest working men’s liberties
are dissected and destroyed like the
dead carcass under the knife of the
studious physician.
Farrwfll Address of Pr.'sldi-ntTrnmmcll.
Senator*: The hoar is about to strike
which demands the adjournment of this
Senate, and the wide separation of its mem
bers, who, in all human probability, are
never to be reassembled.
To me that is a solemn thought, and I am
( deeply affected by it.
It becomes me as your presiding officer to
say that I have never in my life participated
in the daily routine of a deliberative assembly
in which I have observed greater earnest ness,
a more untiring industry or a more exalted
public spirit. I gratefully acknowledge the
uniform respect which I have received as
President of this body, and the decorum
which lias ever marked your daily sessions.
In your hearing as Senators and fidelity
to tlie great trust w ) ich the people confided
to you, the State of Georgia lias suffered
neither disparagement nor harm.
Allow me to say that the trying ordeai
through which your patience and your pow
ers of resistance hate passed, should, in tlie
fair judgment of the community, enhance
the approval to which you are so justly en
titled.
Never in the history of the State have
questions of greater consequence been
brought before this Senate, and in my judg
ment, never could it have been possible for
the reponsibilitics which come along with
them been met by a higher, firmer, purer
spirit.
We may, without offensive self- compla
cency, say that we can calmly await the
public verdict upon our motives as well as
upon our conduct, upon w hat we have done,
as upon the manner in which we have done
it. To omit this reference would be to ig
nore, with reprehensible want of sensibility,
the most striking points in our present his
tory, and to turn away from those signs of
recovering and restoring reformation as will
in future times cheer the heart of the chron
icler of Georgia, and the cause the heart of
every true son of the State tq exult with a
noble pride.
If our trial has been a sharp and searching
one it has not over-matched our will to do
right, or our nerve to resist the allurements
of temptation.
If I do not overstate or mistake your
claims to the public approval, then you have
not given your time to the service of the
Styte in vain or failed in the critical and
perilous duty you undertook when you as
sumed the seats which you are now about
to vacate.
We must now part as a body of Senators
forever. May heaven bless you each and
every one in your private relations and for
tunes, and if you si mil in the future sustain
a connection with the public service of this
grand old commonwealth, may you still he
fortified with the same zeal imd with the
same purity of purpose. I fervently hope
that each one of you may be spared to reac h
your homes in perfect health and find a hap
py household to wldpiric and embrace you.
Thanking you for the kind and flattering
resolutions which you had adopted in rela
tion to myself, I now declare this Senate
adjourned sine die.
A Schoolboy's Li tter.
A youngster attending school has written
to his mother the following characteristic
letter:
“Dear Mother, —I got another licking
yesterday, but I had on three pairs' of pants
and it didn’t hurt me much. I was licked
#
because I put six pins in Mr. ’s chair. I
knew that they would not stick him, and
made a bet that they would not, Mr.
was so mean and hard that the pins w ould
not go in. 1 won the bet, which was a dog.
He is a good dog, and 1 am training him to
bite old ‘Hardsides,’ as we call him, some
night when becomes home after dark, and
if Zack is good after him as lie is after cats.
1 wont get licked any more. Zack and I
killed the cats Sunday, though I was at Sun
day school and church all day, and it w asn’t
a good day either. That makes the third
licking I got this week. One was because I
had a Dottle of milk in my room, and tlie
other because I wrote a composition on ne
groes that old llardsides didn’t like. I said
that a negro was a hard subject to write on.
It was like a dark African going down a
dark cellar on a dark night without a light
to look for a black eat that was not there.
Old Hardsides stopped me and licked me for
that. Send me more of them pies. I made
a good trade with some of them, If you
will send me live dollars I will slop all my
bad habits, except cursing and. swearing,
and chewing and drink, and one or two
others. You had better make the trade.
Give my love to Julie, and tell her to send
me that little fiddle I left in the old trunk.
“Your affectionate son, Billie.”
A Revolutionary soldier was running
for Congress, and bis opponent was a young
man who had “never been to the wars, ” and
it was a custom of the old soldier to tell of
the hardships lie had endured. Said he:
“Fellow citizens, I have fought anobled
for iny country, I have helped whip the
British and the Indians. I have slept upon
the field of battle with no other covering
than the canopy of heaven. I have walked
over the frozen ground till every footstep
was marked with blood. ”
Just about this time, one of the “sover
eigns'' who had been great I .}' interested in
his account of his sufferings, w alked up in
front of the speaker, wiped the tears lrom
his eyes with the extremity of his coat tail,
and interrupted him with—
Did you say you had fought the Britieb
and Injuns?”
“Y"es sir.”
“Did you say you had slept on the ground
while serving your country without any kiv
er?”
“I did.”
“Did you say your feet covered tip:
ground you walked over with blood?”
“Y'es,” replied the speaker, exultingly.
“Well, then,” said the tearful citizen, as
he gave a sigh of pent-emotions, “I guess
I’ll vote for t’other fellow, for I’ll be darned
if you hain’t done enough for your country. ”
Conversation.
Conversational power is a gift ot birth. It
is some men’s nature to talk. Wonts flow
out incessantly, like drops from a spring in
the hillside—not because they are solicited,
but because pushed out by and iuward force
that will not let them lie still. We have
known persons whose tongues ran from the
rising of the sun until the going down of the
same. One sentence ran into another as
continuously as one link in an endless chain
took hold of another fink. We always mar
vel whether they do not wake up of nights
and have a good talk all by themselves, just
for the relief it would give them. From this
extreme there is every degree of modifica
tion until we come to the Opposite extreme,
in which men seem almost unable, certainly
unwilling, to utter their thoughts. Some
men are i*x>r in simple language. Tliev
have thoughts enough, but the symbols of
thought—words—reftise to present them
j selves, or come singly or stingily. Others
are silent from the stricture of secretiveness.
Others arc cautious, and look before they
speak, and before they are ready the occas
ion has passed.
In regard to language itself, the habit of
reading pure English, and of employing it
every day, is the ltest drill for a gtxtd talker.
People always act more naturally in their
everyday clothes than they do when dressed
up for Sunday, and the reason is, that they
are unconscious in the other. It is so in
speech. If one allows himself to talk coarse
ly and vulgarly every day and out of com-
pany, he w ill mostly assuredly find it not
easy to talk well in company.
Habit is stroger than intention, and some
where the common run of speech will break
through and betray you. To converse well
at some times requires that you shall con
verse well at all times. Avoid on the one
side vulgarisms, all street colloquialisms,
even when they are not vicious; for bywords
and slang sentences amuse only w hen they
are new. As soon as they become habitual
they corrupt your language, without any
equivalent in amusement. The best lan
guage in the world is that which is simple
and transparent that no one thinks of the
mortis which you use, but only of the
thought or feeling which they express.—
Fx(llou’s Ifagasin-e.
ScnGng the Vow—A Thrilling Camp*
meeting incident.
A correspondent of the New York Com
mercial Advertiser, writing from Bound
Lake camp meeting, tells the following story:
Many people sleep in the same tent here,
being separated by partitions. As young
Methodist follows are thrown with pretty
young ladies a good deal, it is nothing against
them that they sometimes fall in love.
Last night, they say, this happened: A
young Methodist fellow from Ballston had
become quite interested in a pretty daughter
of a religious fanner. Last night, while a
dozen cold-hearted fellows were trying to
sleep, they were continually disturbed by
the lovers’ spoony talk which they distinctly
heard through the cotton cloth partition.
They heard hint say in a low, sweet Clar
endon voice, “Now, Caroline, dear, do let
me seal the vow—do.”
“No, James, I cannot. What would my
father and mother say?” replied a sweet
girlish voice.
“But, Caroline, you have promised to he
mine—now let us seal the vow—let us, do
let us—won’t you ? Do kiss me!”
“No, James, I cannot—O, I cannot.”
In a moment the tent partition parted, and
a big-wliiskered brother, who wanted to
sleep, shouted: “For God’s sake, Carrie, let
Jim seal that vow. He’ll keep us awake all
night if you don’t.”
The vow was sealed.
AY hen I told a young lady, who is here
from Congress Hall, about this sealing joke,
she said that “James reminded her of some
of the Congress Hall scllows—only they al
ways wanted to seal things before
there was anything to seal. She said
Brow n’s boys, down in New York, got en
gaged to young ladies just to seal the vow,
and after they had sealed it till winter, they
went off’ and got up another vow with a
fresh young lady.”
I told her that such bad young men ought
not to be countenanced—“that every young
lady should set her face against them.”
“Alas!” she replied, “I have set my face
against them too much already. They will
never reform till we take our laces away
from them altogether,”
How the Colored Men Look at It.—
A sanctimonious politician with a crape band
around his hat, asked a Washington colored
man of great influence with his people, if he
should not vote for Grant—the man who set
him free. This led to the following col
loquy;
“No, sah; Mar's Linkum's de man wha'
set me free, sail,” says old Tone, Lifting
his head with noble defiance, “an’ 1 don’t
vote for none o’ yersecond-handed Moeeescs.
Gib me dc A loses what went straight inter
Egypt an’ set my people’s free.”
“Then I suppose you call Horace Greeley
a Moses, ” .said tlie man with a sneer.
“AVell, like’s not,” replied Tone reflect
ing; “though I spec’s he’s more ob u Dan’l,
’cause lie ain’t fra id to go into de den ob
iions; but I’ll tell you w hat. Mars Greeley
war tighten’ for my ’pressed peoples long
fore Mars Grant lamed to smoke and drink
w hisky, an’ aster Mars Grants lighten’ his
way trou’ tie rebellion, I recken t’was his
soldiers done de fightin,” and, he added
w ith a shrewd look, “todder side was most
ly run down that ar time. You can drain
a bar ! mighty easy dats nighly empty. De
lacs am, I’se gwine fer Greeley, and I se
gwine ter ’noculate my speeches fur’ 1 ken.
Dar's an uncommon big crowd ready to
swurenade him fust night Incomes to de
AYhite House, you ken bet on datar, mars,”
and the craped hat took its departure, a mad
der if not a w iser man.
Sensation. — A young gentleman recent
ly created quite a sensation while reading to
a circle of young ladies a poetic effusion,
“To a beautiful Belle,” by pronouncing the
last word in tw o syllables.
Suratogo Sennil»l-Thr SrMstillou «f thf
( iarradnn and Grand I nlon.
It seems that a and welMo
do young grocer of Philadelphia, named
Tumblestone, become enamored of a young
lady l>elonging to a wealthy and aristocrat
ie family uamcd Levy. Mamie, * as she
was called, returned the affection of Turn
blestone. They both attended the same
church, and were, we beleive, members of
the same SahUnh school: but the high-ton
ed mother of “Mamie,” a widow lady, find
ing that her daughter was deeply in lore
with Mr. TANARUS., the dealer in coffee and sugar,
sought at once to break up the match, She
hustled her daughter off to Georgia, where
she was brought into contact with a naugh
ty young Southerner, who, the mother
thought, was just fitted to be her son-in-law.
But Mamie louged for her grocery man, to
whom her troth had been plighted. She
endued the young Georgian; she him. The
mamma manag'd to throw the young j>eo
ple together on every possible occasion, and
employed all a mother’s whiles to fan the I
flame of love in her daughter’s breast. It
was no use, and one morning the match
makers awoke to find the young lady miss
ing. She had fled, no one knew wither.—
Search was made, but without avail till at
last it was leraned that Miss Levy had reach
ed the Quaker City.
It seems that she had returned to her lover’s
arms, told him just how things stood, and
the two had quietly gone over to Camden
and been made one flesh. Without con
summating fully the marital pledges which
made them husband and wife except to se
cure the documents which made their mar
1 raige legal, the twain seperated. returning
to their individual homes. This was on Ist
; of July, and scarcely had they got back to
I Philadelphia when the mother arrived.—
j But it was too late. Her child was mar
ried and the son of Georgia was dicomforted;
What next?
A trip to Saratoga was proposed and the
' young Georgian secretly telegraphed to
“come on.” Arriving here, put up at one
of the principal hotels, and in due time the 1
Southern lover came and registered at the l
same hotel. Mamie, he knew had been
formerly married to Tumblestone, and he
ought to have given up the game. He |
ditin t however. He only made new com- ‘
binations, lie was bound to beat the Phil- |
adelpliia grocer any way. The way he ,
sought to do it was this:
He told the mother, that inasmuch as I
“Mamie” and Tumblestone had not dwelt !
together at all as husband and w ife, it was
nothing but a paper marraige, and not bind
ing. The weak and wicked mother fell into
the trap, and ‘Mamie’ was badgered cajoled
and deceived' till at last she yielded. Rev. j
J. M. King was sent for, and “Mamie” and
her Georgia lover were formally married, 1
and thus made parties the one to a felony j
and the other to the crime of bigamy. Os
course the antecedents in the ease were kept j
concealed from the officiating clergyman. 1
About this time Tuinblestone, suspecting
something wrong, came on from Phildelphia,
ami was confronted with the fates stated
above. IJis legal wife had committed big
aifly by marrying his Georgia rival. A legal
examination followed before one of our
justices, and the fact was elicited that both
mother and the Georgia man knew of Levy’s
marraige to Tumblestone. This was enough
to make the act criminal. All the parties
lett town at once, and legal proceedings
have been commenced in the case. The
name of the Georgia gentleman who felo
niously married the wife of Win. IF. Turn
blestone is John E. Ilollingsworte. He be
longs to Macon, Georgia.— American Un
ion:
IMPORTANCE OF INSPIRATION. —We IRUKt
remember that, touching all the higher
issues of life, men come to be apathetic and
asleep. They get hardened in sin. They
become bound under the power of' custom
and liolden of passion, They get into old
thinking and feeling and find no impulse
to get out. They set their faces in a given
direction, and feel no motive to turn about.
Even if the will is present with them vet,
how to perform that which is good they
find not. Now what they need is not so
much a fact as an inspiration. Or, rather,
it is fact inspired— truth that palpitates with
all strong emotions and all intensity of life.
In vain we coolly recite to them the Creed
and Commandments. In vain we count ofl
the Christian duties in a formal way, as a
devotee counts his heads. In vain we are
scholastic and learned, and logical and
proper. It is like Trading off to sick per
•sons the labels in an apothecary’s shop.—
What is wanted is something to start a re
action, and beget a more healthy life.—
There must be a resuscitation; that is,
einee there is shortness of breath, renewed
inspiration. Coldness must have warmth
apathy animation, and dead ness life: and
to undertake to :e.-tore vitality with dry
facts would be like rubbing paralyzed
limbs with pieces of ice. The question Is,
how to put into men anew affection ? how
to relax their hatreds, and break down
their prejudices, and make their natures
kind and gentle V But this must lie done by
warmth and quickening, just as the sun re
laxes the frozen earth. Church aml Shite.
- Among the patent- recently granted i*
one for a bustle, prominence of the bustle
is regulated by means of drawstrings laced
to the'hoops from eyelet holes in the outei
edge <>f the apron, pus.-ing up through the
apron, and drawn at the waist when the
apron is “attached.” A skirt elevation is
also patented by a Brooklyn gentleman.
“A tape, with rings attached is sewed under
the neck of the dress; a cord passes through
the lings ; the middle is attached to the
waist and ends for drawings come out at
the sides near the waist.” These suffice to
show how fearfully and wonderfully we
are made, the feminine gender. For ox
duisite gemkinua whom a w rinkled shirt
front pains, there is invented a non wrinkling
shirt bosom near the lower pirt ot the bosom,
composed several thicknesses, a longitudinal
belt is cut out leaving but ont in front, or
one there and one-in rear to act hinge, to
prevent the wrinkling otthe bosom.
Th- are the rate* to wtTlOff fa
>ll c>ntm-v f..r advwrtiainf, «K#l«iWat
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