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R. W. H. NEAL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
THOMSON, GA,
OmcE.—OrerJ. H. Montgomery's Store.
CHARLES S. DuBOSE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
WARRENTON, GA.
diT Will practice in the courts of the
Northern, Middle and Augusta Circuits.
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THOMSON, GA.
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ALSO. .Tost received a fresli supply of
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Prescriptions carefully compounded.
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SPEIR A EMBREE.
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continue the business of a Livery and Sale
Stable. They will keep a good assortment
of Fancy and Substantial Stock, and the
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POET IVA L.
C*o it Alone.
The is a game much in fashion, I think it’s
called Euhere.
Though I’ve never played it for pleasure or
lucre.
In which, when cards are in certain condi
tions,
The players appear to have changed their
positions.
And one of them cries in a confident tone—
“l think I might venture to go it alone.”
While watching the game, ’tis a whim of
the bards.
A moral to draw from the skirmish in cards,
And to fancy he finds in the trivial strife
Some excellent hints for the battle of life,
Where, whether the prize be a ribbon or
throne.
The winner is he who can “go it alone ”
When great Galileo proclaimed to the world,
In a regular orbit was ceaselessly whirled,
And got not a convert for all his pains,
But only derision, and prisons, and chains—
“lt moves for all that,” was his answering
tone.
For he knew, like the earth, he could “go
it alone.”
When Kepler, with intellect piercing afar.
Discovered the laws of each planet and star,
The doctors who ought to have lauded his
name,
Deriedhis learning and blackened his fame;
“I can w’aifc,” he replied, “till the truth you
shall own,”
For he felt iu his heart he could ‘ ‘go it alone.”
Alas for the player who idly depends.
In the stuuggle of lifo upon kindred and
friends ;
Whenever the value of blessings like these,
They can never atone for inglorious ease,
Nor comfort the coward, who finds with a
groan
That Ids crutches liavo left him to “go it
alone.”
There is something, no doubt, in the hand
yon may hold,
Health, family, culture, wit beauty and gold,
Tke fortunate owner may fairly regard,
As each in its way a most exoolleut card—
But the game may be lost, w ith all these
for your own,
Unless you have the courage to “go it alone.”
In battle or business, whatever the gamo,
In law or in love*it is ever the same.
In the struggle for power or scramble for
pelf,
Let tliis be your motto, “Rely on yourself!”
For wheth€»r the prize be a ribbon or throne,
The victor is he who can 4 ‘go it alone. ”
SELECT Arise ELLA XV.
Central Park Mysteries.
On nn eminence overlooking tke lake
in Central Park, and a couple of hun
dred yards from the Seventy-second
street entrance, the Commissioners have
recently erected a wooden structure,
known from its shape as the Octagon.—
It, would stand iu a square of about
fourteen feet. Numerous funnels jut out.
from the sides, straight or I. shaped,
with the orifice downward. These are
for ventilation. There are two doors,
but no windows. The Octagon stands oil
a platform, and is approached by
steps. As yon enter the door you
see before you a round white table,
about the size of aud ordinary card table.
In the centre overhead is a cylinder that
resembles a piece of stove pipe. A metal
rod like an elongated car hook hangs
from this within reach of a man’s hand.
This Octagon is the home of the camera
obscura, the only one of its kind in this
country. It has been in operation for
some time, although the fact is known
to comparatively few.
Yesterday a Sun reporter visited the
Octagon. The courteous gentleman in
charge invited him to enter. He did so,
and the door was shut. All was dark except
the surface of the white table. Upon it
was depicted a most beautiful landscape,
with men and women walking about,
children and dogs frisking, and horses
trotting along at a brisk gait. The scene
was at once recognized.
CENTRAL PAftK IN A MINIATURE.
A perfect picture of the park tq Eie
south of the lake was spread out upon
the table. A movement of the rod
Brought another section into view, and
by and by New York city as far down as
Dr. Bellows’ church was distinctly flung
in miniature upon the table. Still an
other movement, and Hoboken and the
Palisades were presented. The Eighth
avenue cars rolled along on one side and
the steam ears rattled past on the other.
The spoke of every wheel and the face of
every passenger were clearly marked.—
Every color and the tint of the folliage
was there, and the slightest waving of a
leaf was faithfully represented. Every
portion of the park not shut off by some
physical obstruction was in turn reflect
ed, and the attitude and motion of each
person walking or seated was distinctly
seen. The camera produced upon the
table a series of pictures most beautiful
and startling, the moving figures—ap
proaching, receding, crossing—making
it seem like a glimpse of fairy land.
As may be well supposed, the camera
has yielded some surprising revelations
to the gazers. A New York dotective,
who has several times made use of the
camera for professional purposes, accom
panied the Sun reporter in his visit to
the Octagon. The detective related
some interesting stories connected with
the camera, a few of which are given
below.
A JEALOUS WIPE.
About the beginning of April two ele
gantly dressed ladies visited the Octagon,
aud were admitted alone to see tho won
derful sights it reveals. They were both
young. One of them, who was very
beautiful, was greatly [excited, and had
to be restrained more than once by her
companion. Scene after scene passed
before them, until at length the lake
came into view. An arbor on the oppo
site shore was more than usually distinct,
for the sun was shining full upon it.—
Inside it were seated a lady and a gentle
man in a tender attitude. The features
and dress of both were as plain as though
i they stood before the gazers as large as
| life. The younger lady after gazing at
the pah- for a moment exclaimed.—
I “There ! I told you, it is my husband,
I just as I suspected.”
She was intent on starting for the
boathouse to cross the hike by stealth
and confront the pair, but her friend re
strained her.
AN ELOPEMENT.
Toward the close of March an elderly
gentleman, a professor at a well known
college, visited the Octagon, accom
panied by a detective. Scene after scene
was brought into view, until at last a
distant part of the park was shown.—
Walking down a pathway in the centre
of the picture was a couple. The elderly
gentleman at once roeognized the lady as
his daughter and the gentleman as the
young artist with whom she had eloped
•two days previously.
Early this mouth Detective Lambert
came on here from Ohio in pursuit of a
forger and defaulter named MoMurray.
He received information that he was hid
somewhere in Yorkville or Harlem. The
detective on his way thither recognized
McMnrray on Third avenue, near Seven
ty-first street. The detective sprang
from the car, but his man had disappear
ed. For two days the officor paraded
that neighborhood, but to no purpose.—
On the third day he extended his walk
as far along Seventy-second street as
Fifth avenue. As he glanced toward the
Park he thought he recognized McMur
ray near the Casino, some three hundred
yards away. He went toward the spot
and examined the neighborhood thor
oughly, but saw nothing of the man.—
The New York detective before referred
to happened to be at the Casino on busi
ness, and recognizing the Ohio officer
asked him what he was after. On learn
ing his errand, the New York officer
said, “If you’ll come with me to that
octagon building yonder, they’ll show
yon the whereabouts of the fellow you
want,if lie’s in the park, in two minutes.”
A FORGER CAPTURED.
Detective Lambert went to the Octa
gon accordingly, and explained his
wishes. The Camera was put iu motion
and iu thirty seconds he discovered Mc-
Murvay seated in an arbor not two hun
dred yards away, calmly smoking a cigar.
In five minutes’ time the officer had his
man. “I watched tho whole proceed
ings,” said the New York detective to
the Sun reporter, “as it was cast upon
the table. I saw Lambert approach,
MoMurray start aud try to dodge him,
and the detective grab him and bear him
down to his knees. Then I saw' Lam
bert put tho hankcuffs away, and Mc-
Mnrray quietly light a fresh cigar, hand
another to Lambert, and both walk off
together apparently the host of friends. ”
Last Wednesday a lady residing in
Fifth avenue visited the park with two
friends, accompanied by her little boy of
four years. While the lady and her
friends were chatting together in an arbor
the child strolled away, and when the
alarmed mother became conscious of the
fact he was no where to be seen. Search
was made in every direction by the lady
and her friends, but to no purpose. At
length an officer who was consulted by
the distressed woman, directed her to the
Octagon. Thither she and her friends
went. The camera like a good angel
wqut tq work to disclose the whereabouts
of the lost boy, and la a few minutes a
small white speck was discovered in the
sheep pasture.
“That’s most likely your child, mad
am,” said the expert iu charge of the
camera.
A LOST CHILD FOUND.
The lady examined the speck carefully,
and there sure enough was her darling,
every feature and limb discemable, lying
curled upon the grass fast asleep.
Mr. Cody, better known as Buffalo
Bill, visited the Octagon the other day.
He was greatly astonished and deligted
with what he saw. “That’s what they
should have had when they were after Capt.
Jack in the lava beds,” said Mr. Cody.
President Grant, in his last visit to the
city, spent nearly an hour in the Octa
gon, aud gazed with interest on the
views presented by the camera. Three
of the President’s party had remained
with the carriages on account of being
weary, and the camera subsequently re
vealed them going up a by-path to the
Casino for the purpose of refreshment.
To settle a bet a petition was recently
presented to a worthy oitizen of Detroit,
Mich., praying for the abolition of the fire
aud police departments and hia own execu
tion. He glanced at the first few lines and
“chalked” down hia name.
An Omaha paper says thero is no use in
making such a fuss about the shooting of a
constable, as there are forty candidates for
the office.
Mosquitoes are very lively in Louisville,
and the people are sorry for the harsh things
-they sung and said about the beautiful
snow.
TERMS-TWO DOLLARS IN ADVANCE.
An Interesting Law-suit
Though Hon. Gustavus A. Henry is
.in his seventieth year, his eye (I put it,
quite apropos, in the singular number,
since he unfortunately lost his left eye
entirely a few months ago from neural
gia) is as bright as ever when he recalls
the wordy wars of his more youthful
days. He related this morning an inci
dent in his practice which ought to go to
record, and I give it, as near as possi
ble, in his own words :
Fifteen or twenty years ago, said the
eagle orator, I was attending the Cir
cuit Court of Roberston county at
Springfield, when a sad, heart-broken
woman, of about ftve-and-twenty years,
came into my office and inquired wheth
erl recognized her. I did not. She
was the daughter of a venerable friend
<4 mine, and I had known her when she
was just budding into womanhood, when
“grace was in all her steps, and in
every gesture dignity aud love.” But
now, how changed! She seemed the
very picture of mute despair, and her
features revealed the story of her wrongs
ere her lips repeated it. She told it
without any affectation of modesty, rage
or tears, and but for tho occasoinal quiv
ering of her thin, bloodless Ups, one to
have simply heard without beholding the
narrator, might have imagined her re
citing the woes of another. She had
been beautiful, talonted, aceompUshed,
her father (Mr. S—) having lavished
both the wealth of his purse as weU as
his affection upon the idol of his heart.
But the spoiler came in the person of
young W , whose father, then dead,
had also been a particular friend of my
own. Under promise of marriage, and
after importunities, which were backed
by what the law should denominate ab
solutely physical force, she yielded to
him she loved so unwisely well. ’Tis but
tho old, old story, over and over again ;
for man, all the pleasures of passion for
woman, the sorrow and pain. The
wretch not only refused to perform his
vows, but he fiendishly mocked her pray
ers and defied her tears—refusing to
make the only reparation in his power
for the great wrong which had plucked
the luster from her eyes and the rose
from her cheek. The child born of this
unholy love had died, her old father
went about with bowed head, heart
broken, unable even to advise what course
to pursue, much less to avenge his
daughter. Hence she was loft helpless
and wretched, and it was in this frame
of mind she approached me for counsel.
My energy was fired and moused at
once. “I will institute suit for damages
and breach of promise at onoe, poor
girl,” I cried in tho indignation of man
hood. “Money will but poorly repay
your sorrows, yet in so far as a verdict
for ten thousand dollars will do so, you
shall be avenged.”
Soon as suit commenced, Mr. W.
began Iris siege on me. He first tried
flattery. Ilia old father, he said, would
turn over in his grave if he could but
know that Major Henry was prosecuting
Ids son. Finding nothing could ever
damp my ardor in behalf of tho poor,
injured girl, and that in spite of our
previous friendship,l now held him in su
preme contempt, ho sot about his de
fense, and being wealthy, engaged all
the best legal talent in Nashville and
Springfield. When the day for trial j
came I advised him to give me a judgment
pro Konfcsso, for go,(MX), and I would
dismiss the suit. I assured him he
would regret the exposure of a public
trial, and would fare worse to spurn my j
proposition ; and that I was thoroughly j
aroused, and should handle him without |
mercy. He laughed in my face at the j
suggestion, and defied nie even to get
SS,OQQ damages, for he felt perfectly as
sured of a verdict in his favor.
George Boyd was my associate counsel,
a sound lawyer, well read and pains
taking. He opened tho argument, lay
ing down the law in plain, forcible lan
guage, and was followed by defendant’s
counsel. When the last of these closed
it was about dark, and I begged of the
court the privilege of making my speech
at once. I detained the jury for little
over an hour, in the best speech of my
life, and made by candle-light. I was
wanned up as I had never been before.—
Her father was in the court-room, his,
long gray hair falling about his shoul
ders, and his ruined daughter sitting,
with bowed head, by his side. From
the beginning of my speech to its close
you could have heard a pin drop—in fact
there was no other shadow of sound but
my own voice, save now and then the
broken sobs of old and young in the au
dience. In less than five minutes after
beginning I had the crowd, judge, jury
and spectators completely in my hands,
and felt myself master of the occasion.—
I was only sorry I had not demanded
$20,000 instead of SIO,OOO. I portrayed
the cold, sly, snakey steps of the seducer,
the importunities, the final overpower
ing mastery of his strong mind and body.
I dwelt upon woman’s trusting love and
unselfish devotion and constancy ; drew
the picture of the poor girl as I had seen
her but a few months before, and dwelt
upon the contrast now. I depicted the
heart anguish of the old father tottering
to the grave undor the cruel blow of tho
man he had trusted as a son. I hurled
anathemas against the seducer—l pro
tested, iu the name of our Common) ntan-
hood, against the wrong inflicted upon
our mothers, wives and sisters, and in the
person of that poor girl demanded of the
jury whether they could be bribed into
cowardly silence by the villainous author
of all these woes. I closed with this
apt and forcible quotation from Soott:
Where shall the traitor rest,
He the deceiver,
Who could win maiden's breast.
Ruin—and leave her!
In the lost battle,
Borne down by the flying,
Where mingles war’s rattle
With the groans of the dying,
There shall he be lying.
Her wings shall the eagle flap
O'er the false hearted :
His warm blood the wolf shall lap
Ere life be parted!
Shame and dishonor sit
By his grave ever;
Blessing shall hallow it,
Never, Oh never!
The effect was electrical. When the
Judge could compose himself and the
crowd sufficiently to charge the jury to
retire and make up their verdict, the
foreman asked that his honor should
retain his soat, as they would return in
five minutes. Sure enough, in less
time, they brought in a verdict giving
damages in the whole amount asked,
SIO,OOO. This completely broke up and
ruined the seducer, and he moved out of
the country. If the very curse I had in
voked in the words of Scott had been
directly visited upon him, misfortune
could not have followed sooner or more
signally. He died a sow years ago,
scorned of all men and women ; while
his victim afterwards married a clever
gentleman, and is to-day a happy wife
and mother. —Louisville Journal.
A pre-Adamic Man.
A Paris correspondent of the Trib
une reviews, the recent report of M.
Emile Riviere, dispatehod in 1871 by the
French Minister of Public Instruction,
to examine the caverns of. Mentone, Ita
ly, in the interest of Archaeology.
Riviere pursued these explorations
with zeal and was rewarded by t\io dis
covery, at various depths, down as low
ns ninety-one feet, of numerous fossil
remains of fauna, with various human
impliinents and ornaments of flint and
bone, and in one cavern 62 feet below
the surface, at a depth of twenty-one and
a half feet, on the 26 of March, 1872, he
found a fossil human skeleton—lying in
the attitude of sleep and surrounded
with the debris accumulated by the re
fuse of the life of each day.
The skull was ornamented with perfora
ted shells a bone poiniard 7 inches long
was by his side—and flints and the bones
of animals used for food all around him
The skeleton was almost perfect and in
dicated a man over six feet high. From
the surroundings of the skeleton the ex
plorer pronounces him to have been the
cotemporary of extinct animal species,
and as belonging certainly to the paleo
lithic epoch. In reference to other dis
coveries made, the writer says :
But few instruments of bone or horn
were found, and none of them presented
any traces of drawing or engraving.
Stone arms and instruments are counted
by thousands. They are of flint of va
rious shades, generally rudely cut, and
must bo referred back to the most an
cient stone epoch. All of the shafts
of long bones are Bplit lengthwise. There
are only five exceptions £b this rule in
more than 10,000 instances. This was
done in order to extract the marrow,
which either served ns nourishment, or
to anoint the body. After the bones
were split some of the pieces where shar
pened for use as arrows, pius, needles,
while of others chisels or smoothing in
struments were made. But few excep
tions, all of these instrumets are very
rudely made, A single objeot of pottery
was found in the early exoavations, and
near tho surface. It is a fragment of a
small disk, very thin and of a blackt
color.
The skeleton rests to-day in the an
hropological gallery of the Mqsuem of
Natural History here, and we await the
judgment of leading anthropogists as to
the significance of the discovery.
Unguarded Language about Wo
men.—We have probably all of us met
with instances in which a word heedless
ly spoken against the reputation of a fe
male has been magnifies! by malicious
minds until the cloud has been dark
enough to overshadow her whole exist
ence, To those who are accustomed,
not necessarily from bad motive, but
from thoughtlessness—to speak lightly
of the ladies, we recommend these hints
as worthy of consideration :
Never use a lady’s name in an improp
per place, at an impropper time, or in
mixed company. Never make assertions
about her that you think untrue, or allu
sions that you think she herself would
blush to hear. When you meet with
men who do no scruple to use a woman’s
name in a reckless manner, shun them ;
they are the very worst members of the
community, men lost to every sense of
honor, every feeling of huu-anity Many
a good and worthy woman’s character
has been forever ruined and her heart
broken by a lie manufactured by some
villain, and repeated where it should
not have been, and in the presence of
those whose little judgment sould not
deter them from circulating the foul and
bragging report, A slander is soon prop
agated, and the smallest thing derogato-
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ry to a woman's character will fly on the
wings of the wind and magnify as it cir
culates, until its monstrous weight crash
es the poor, unconscious victims. Re
spect the name of woman ; your mother
and sisters are women, and as you would
have their fair name untranished, ani.
their lives unembittered by the slander
er’s bitter tongue, heed the ill your own
word may bring upon the mother, the
sister or the wife of some fellow crea
ture.
Women's Wrongs and Man's
Vanity,
By special request we print the follow
ing, clipped from the New York Ledger .
While we heartily approve the sentiments
therein expressed, we must be allowed to
any that there are two sides to this ques
tion, and that our fair friend must not
be surprised or offended if somebody
should espouse the cause of the opposite
sex, and hurl a rather ugly stone into a
glass house.—[Ed. Journal.]
The vanity of mankind is something
outrageous. To be sure, it has been
considerably tickled of late, and there
never can have been a time when women
were more ready to take the initiative in
matters of love making and courtship.—
I scarcely wonder that men have come
to believe that they will but have to
write,’ ‘I came, I saw, conquered,’ at
the end of any little affair of the
heart in which they figure; though, mind
you, they are sometimes mistaken, for
we are not alike, by any means. Butwhatl
do marvel at is, that judging by their
looks and manner, men never can believe
that a lady has any proper and single
motive in going anywhere or looking at
anything; that always behind all her
actions lurks the hope of seeing or being
seen by him.
Now, to a lady who deserves the name,
man in the abstract is of very little im
portance. The men with whom she may
happen to be acquainted take higher or
lower places in her estimation. She may
drees for them, and think of them, and
even fall in love with one of them, as we
all know. But, jlust a man wallring in
the street, standing on a corner, sitting
in a chnrch pew, at a concert, at the
opera—what can he matter to her 1 She
does not know whether he is even a re
spectable person. She cannot possibly
wish to attract his observation or form
his acquaintance. He is merely one of a
long procession in the same Bortof clothes.
She does not give him a second thought.
Yet, let her enter a picture gallery, or
stand for a moment before a shop win
dow, or take a walk for the good of her
health, and Bhe will, if she has the ordi
nary power of observation, see plainly
enough before long that someone man
among all those men cannot believe that
she desired to see any picture save that
which he made of himself ; that the ~1V«
draped in the window were not so much
the object of her admiration as his mus
tache ; and that the motive for her walk
was a glimpse of himself in the latest
fashion-plate attitude on the steps of a
hotel.
It is uot that they look at her—no
woman ever felt much offended by a
surreptitions glance of admiratni—but
they so plainly think that she would like
to know it, that she does know it, and
that Bhe in return is looking at them
with delight and admiration.
It is the sort of thing to make a wo
man's blood boil, yet she has no means
of defence. She cannot face about and
say :
“Gentlemen, my motive in being here
is to be found in this music, these pic
tures, this fresh air. I don’t want to see
you ; I would not have your aoqnanin
tanoe if I could. You are offensive."
She must look at nothing, and make
the best of her way home.
I suppose women who are not ladies
have been the cause of all this—women
who carry on what is called, in vulgar
parlance, “flirtations" with strangers.-
Bnt men should discriminate, and should
understand that there are ladies Still in
the world, and that women may hate «'
taste for music, art, the shop windows,
or pedestrian exercise ; that there is not
always a man, and an unknown man, at
the bottom of it, whenever they go any
where. Nay, even if she should ait near
a parlor window, with work or book, to
ward the closing hours of the afternoon,
perhaps it might be as well for Messrs.
Jones, Smith and Robinson not to make
so sure that she sits there for the pur
pose of seeing them pass by, or at least
it might be well for them not to” show
their opinion so plainly nntil they are
snre." Mart Kile Dallas.
»♦» •
Declined to Answer. —Somebody
writes to the San Franscisco Chronicle
to ask whom Cain married. The Chroni
cle sternly replies : “We are sorry to
be obliged to refuse to answer this ques
tion. Upon any subject of a public na
ture we never refuse to throw tht desired
light. Bnt this is altogether r di.lfeient
thing. It is a family matter, with which
we do not dare to meddle. Gain died
some time before many of us were bom,
and such idle curiosity regarding the
family affairs of a deceased person we re
gard as reprehensible and calculated to
violate the sanctities of domestio life.—
For these reasons, and because we do not
wish to injure the feelings of the relatives
of the deceased, we decline to answer the
question.