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B USINESS CA R J)S.
~ H. C. RONEY,
ATTOKNKY AT l, AW.
THOMSON. GA.
f,-f Will practice in the Augusta. North
ern and Middle Circuits. nolyl
R. W. H. NEAL,
ATTIIHNKY AT LAW,
THOMSON, G*,
PAUL C. HUDSON.
A1 TOli XE I ATLA W.
Tliumsnu, <in.
Will practice in the Superior Courts of
the Augusta, Northern and Middle Circuits,
and in the Supreme Court, and will give
attention to all cases in Bankruptcy.
Aug. 21. I HI. ts
Central ilotU
BY
MRS. W. M. THOMAS.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
Ilf
HUTTON STATKX
LIFE
Insurance Company,
UiIAUTFRED BY TILE
STATE OP GEORGIA.
Assets - 3600 000.00!
THK iiVNIiY COMPANY
I)oiu»' Lusimss in the f ; <m*h thnt Ims OKK
lU-NDUK!) TJi\)i SAM) I’OLLAUS
de]'»o''ijk*'l v j*lr the VfntUtTnties of
the StaS- us tt>r the
jjumtwetiuu of ) oliey-liohh rh!
Policies upon nil the various plans
of Insu'ance issued!
r S'*n-F»yfritrMi‘
Noßestrictions as toßesi;W’e
or Travel!
Strictly a HOME (’O., will
its CAPITAL mid
INVESTMENT iif HOME !
j t;corrox states,
Easier HOME ESTEEEJtISE!
O !•’ l it K:i - :
WM. R. JOHNSON. . - - VrodAnd. '•
WM. S. HOLT. - - I President.
tIEOMJE S. Old. tit. . . . Savetwi],
< E. Me A Y - - ... Actvarq. \
JOHN W. nCKKK, - - H. neraJ Agent..,
.1 AS. M. ÜBEFN. - C I'M li'itl Officer.
1 . .1. MAtflLI.. - - Snpt.if Ageneits.
rs. IV. Willini/hoin ,
Thomson. Ga. I‘is i r* t Agent.
FltUl*
F. \v. FITTS. H. XI. HOI.MKS.
IT ITS XMIIUKS.
Contractors & Builders,
Thomson Ga.
Estimates ami plans furnished on
application for any 'lnscription of work
in our line.
Agents for the otflo orated
P. P, Toale Mi\
Charleston, S. C., Manufacturer of and
Dealer in
nnnDC o a cu di
UjyHdjoAon|DLsl‘lLh
and Builders’ material generally.
F-2-c*
OIfDERS
FOR
DRY GOODS.
PEOPLE in want of Pry Goods will save
money, by sending their orders to
C. J. T. BALK,
No. 136 Broap-St., AUGUSTA. GA.
Best Calicoes at Bc. per vartl; fine yard
wide Bleached Homespuns, 10c.; fine
yard wide Unbleached Homespuns, ]oc.;
Splendid White Pique at 15c. per yard ;
Coats Spool Thread, lfi spools for SI.OO ;
(rood Neck Bitches at sc. each ; Ladies’
and Misses’ Untrimmed Straw Hats, I
new styles, at 40, 50, 60 and 75c., worth
double; Splendid Quality Black Silk at
SI.OO and $1.25 per yard; Black Iron
Grenadines at 35 and 50c.
Orders amounting to Ten dollars or
over will be sent, by Express freight paid.
C. I TANARUS, BALK.
&hf JflcDttfjle pleeliljj Journal
VOL, V.
For Sale-
large building, on Main street, hi
| Thomsen, occupied at present by -Sutton
Hamlet, Or. -las S. Junes and Mrs. J. C
Richards.
The house is well arranged, and finished ;
throughout: with one large store room and
office below, and live rooms above: and
with a kitchen and well of good water j
on the premises.
ALSO, the house, ou Main Htreut. now
occupied by Jt-rre F. Jones, ns a-atorehouse i
For terms apply to
JNO. I . HOLZENDOHF.
Nov.'Hf Thomson, Ga.
STOVES, STOVES!
T
1 HE i! are made of the best material.
They always have a good draft
Every Stove is warranted to bake well.
Our lowest cash prices are published.
Persons wishing CHARTRR OAR STOVES
can send money by Express.
PRICES: No- No. 7, s:i.-.,00.
No. s, *4i),o*l: No. ‘.I. -U*! 7.00.
Held to unt i l; At COMB*.
I>. 1. FFJ.LERTON, Stove Dealer.
V. Augusta. Ga.
Our Gratuitous rxpouent*
(iGiittCmen. although perfectly neuhvil in
•this mattei, ns far as soTf-intelvst is run
e« r;*«-d ; nut Iw-ng a man of fashion myst If,
yet I c mini :< t rain on this ocriteimi IT m
ik ing to e.vplain the bbservaiion of whiuh ,
,»ny studied < xperivnee in regard fn matters
tit \\ earing apparel, ami the eoutforl am! ;
saii :.f-K'tiini of of yes gentlemen- all ho’j
limuH'Ustono'd to that I (irmly believe,
from wliat l have seen iny wife lias heard j
the tame thing fhiu tr >uo;ny. durability, •
f-pleml dity. suhst iniiabf y. nnd g«»od tits etu) '
be had in the clothing Inc by trading at
A. j. ADKIMS'.
-i
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/a******' ' ■-
NASHVILLE
Busi :• ss C /ilegr
AND
TKI.KHH.UM! INSTTITTI 1 '
MMCE L’leajieHt and best colleges in the
| South, i <»m -. «.f study short, practic
al thorough- i in; thing needed by business
meu.
Tim Lebanon business College and I*. 1c- j
graph institute have been united with the |
above colleges ufc Nasiiville. 'i’hesi iue now !
THE LEADIKQ COLLEGES.
Kvety ttiiiti; poHiiiiibi;; lo tW- Uoinuicrcial |
Courso, together with Telegraphy, taught
practically bv exp- nei.ooil iiihtrncturK. |
I his is Uit i to get a Business Educa
tion.
feiul for I’oil go Joiir.-al to
THOM AS TONKY,
GlO-tf Nasviille, Tenn. I
Jar.. H. Hulse’s
SCOURING WORKS,
No. 123 Broad Street, near
Lower Market,
Alto'llSt Jl, (SrU.
J. THOHNE & (V.
IJ»7 Bi.oa Stkkkt, AFGHSTA. GA.,
nearly opposite the Fountain,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DKAI EtlS IN i
HOES, SHOVELS,
BLOWS. SWEEBS GIi.VIN ('K.U)LKS, i
SerniES. A XUS. lilTLUiii. }
HA »D WAV F»' uit: At( 1' KN 'I Bits’ Tr«)l.S.
IKON wild S | rj‘l,
BLACKSMITHS TOOLS.
Merchants supplied at lmttoiu pilots.
Planters give us a call.
We keep the celefirak-d Whife Man's j
Cotton Hoe. *
K.l _*-!Ȥ
SIOO Reward.
rPHE ciiiizenn and 'Town Council of Thom-
I son will pay the above reward-for the |
arrest, with proof sufficient to convict, the
person or persons who committed a burglary
by entering the house of Dr. A. f). Hill, j
Saturday night la*,t, the ldth, inst.
Thomson, Ga., July VJ. 187A
SHIN6LES.
If. W. VOTMi will furn
ish Pine Shimdesat-St imm*
thousand.
T’lti-tf
VOETICAI .
Oicr The River.
Over the river they beckon to me.
Loved ones who’ve crossed to the fur.
tber side;
The gleam of their snowy robes I see,
Rut their voiceft are lost in the dash
ing tide.
There’s one with ringlets of suuuy gold.
And eyes the reflection of Heaven's
own blue;
Me' crossed in the twilight gray and void :
And the pate mist hid him from mol
t’d view :
We saw not the angels who met him there.
The gates of the city we could not see.
Over the river, over ilm river,
My brother stands waiting to welcome
me.
(Her the river the hontintn pale
Carried another the lumshold pet:
Her brown curls waved in the gentle gale,
Darling Minnie! I see her yet.
She crossed on her breast her dimpled
hands,
And fearlessly entered the phantom bark:
We saw it glide from the silver sands.
! And all our sunshine grew strangely
dark;
We know she is safe on the further side.
W here all the ransomed and angels be:
Over the river,the mystic river.
My childhood's idol is waiting for me.
For none return from those cpiiet shores,
\\ ho cross with the boatman cold and
pale:
We hear the dip of the n ouvs:
An l catch a gleam of the snowy sail
And lo! they have passed from our yearning
hearts,
They cross the sina.u and are gone
for aye.
We may not minder the vail apart
That hides from our vision the gates
of day :
We only know that their harks no more
May sail with us o’er life’s stormy sea.
Yet sonic where. 1 know, ou the unseen
shore.
They watch aid bcakon an-. I wait for
me.
And I sit and think, Whim the sunsets
gold
Is flushing riv: r and hill and shore.
1 shall one day stand by the widens cold
And list to Um sound of the boatmans
oar:
1 shall watch for a gleam of the flapping
sail: t „
.Ut-ij. >4- .-Uf’-i-w. tl "'i
kGmiiil ;
I shall puss from night with (he boat
man palo
To thg lu-tUi shore of the Spirit Laud.
I shall know the loved who have gouts ho
for.-
And joyfully swi-i-t will this mi-etini' ho.
AN'htsu ovt-r tlio river, ilus peucoful river.
The Angel of I loath shall curry me.
[joi/knAi. oonrossroNDENoi-;. |
I.INUOI.N (IHNTV-ITS TI-lItKI
TOKV, lIIVI'JtS. LANDS. s<
I liY, IVATIvHS. -ICItUTH.Vt'KM.
KAII HOADS AND THU N \TTDN
AL D l-’.BT.
Ui.NtOLN Cos., Ga., i
July, 1875. \
Lincoln county was laid out from
Wilkes iu 1796, and embraces a territory
:-iretelling, on the tins East, up the beau
tiful Savannah from the mouth of
Lift!# River, a distance of over 30 miles, .
to idshon, at mouth of Broad Iliver ; .
then stretching Westward along the
hanks of Broad, some six miles ; then ,
from that, point, without nitieli variation,
to Uaysville, on Little River ; thmrtlown
the valley of Little River to tine begin
ning point. Shelias within her limits
ov.-r 30(1,OOU acres, washed on three sides
by handsome and beautiful rivers, with
numerous large and beautiful creeks run
ning through her territory,flowing eitlu i
into the Savannah, or Little Rivers, giv
ing to her over 10,000 acres of fine hot
tom lands. Within her limits are all the
vaiiety of soils that Eastern Georgia has, j
and her forests are magnificent and ex
tensive, embracing vast numbers of oak
and hickory, and noble pine forests.
She certainly possesses more inviting
FIELDS FOlt AOKI' l'i.Tt HAJ. PllltSriTS
than most of people are aware of, and !
she lias uiiieli fine and delightful seen- j
cry, and her water is plentiful and in '
many places of icy coldness in the hot i
months of summer ; often found so cold
as to hurt the teeth, and rivaling the’cel-:
ebrated springs of North Georgia in that I
respect.
Countless herds of cattle and sheep
might graze on her grassy plains, and j
many farmers iu the county are looking
toward that species of business.
HER MINERAL WEAI/I'H,
though yet unexplored, is supposed by
mainv saiegW-fuJi inen to he valuable, from
Geological indications., ! should do i
great injustice to ray subject if here I :
should fail to say that many distinguish
ed Geologists hare paid (ArMies’
tain a visit, and came away well pleased
with the fine indications.
Truth is, the only thing our county j
needs to make her take the first rank
among her surrounding sisters in almost
every respect, is for her to have
A RAILROAD,
and it should reach from Augusta, by
way of Appling and Lineoluton on to
Elberton, for the Elbert branch will soon ’
be completed, tapping the Air Line, and :
then m a lew veair. no dpuht, the same
THOMSON, fIACTUr 28, IB7S.
line would be coni-'.ne on through Ba
ling Gap, opening up Tie great North
west with C»f., and our sea
ports. Wlmi fi-N H! ?,..Jor Augusta to
1 take up all her j and money in
building factories, niidVit last- find hei
seli’ sn itched oil from the opportunity
of having this groat tfhroughfare from
the North-west, ruuin -g .out to other
I commercial ppints/led dug lier fur lie
hind iu the race for suj rfemuey. If rail
roads do not pay 7UvidSp<uls now, do Au
gusta’s magnificent factories declare,
large ones now ? BheTi'Ver can loose her |
opportunity to 1 ijildUmr factories, btit
she may eventually loq-e the tinul oppor- ;
tunity to secure tlri great rente. And
besides, she has ulntldy lost El tier!
county and a htr;;e •oiitiguous country,
by reason of Branch to the
Air Line Railroad.
THE SMAI.I. OHjilS CKO IS
are tine in this couutyjand the crops of
corn and cotton look (line, but will not
. look so long if this present spell of dry
and hot weather lusts. All fanners hope
now for a vain soon.
And now, Messrs. iSlitors of the Jor u
nai,, one more thought and I closo. /
am in favor of 'in inert an and circula
tion and expansion of the cnrrencj / of
this ft (public. T would not make the
public debt any Target , hut I would re
tire, say some tweijty’or thirty millions
of foreign lamdc, and put, in circulation
twenty or thirty millions more of enrren
ey. Thus the national debt and national
liabilities not, being any way increased,
would not caiisf u rise iu gold. It is
well known *L|i f -p- r il, England and
Eranea have a gn ater amount of curren
cy in eirculat.iou, in p.iiportion to their
weiflfh lriid pojiul,dipß than these United
States jiave, when oin long lines of com
munication through this continent re*-
; quire more per eapitnm and ill the same
ratio of wealth. In my opinion our cir
culation is not gfi.it enough in the South
and gr ail West, and j also Ihiuktliat the
people of the North have too much. So
it should be equalised ill all parts of this
great country, and at the same time iu
crea, ed, and this uu-riiiise sUould ho kept
up to Uie increase * f, -vealUi and pvipuhi
tiou. V- v i .-■■* ■
Like Uiiince has recently done, \yc
ah.iitht institute free i ulc, for it is one
of tin tjrtntd th>i r •ho yf pijt,ideal n on
Oir; . -lid w--e|i ,nv y t ilstoui Houses
r umi all that mi;- -e As for taxation,
it;:
and (Itcn wluvii ofliriuls
sLi iil the people will know it*. As j
Minims now staml, and it is cuiiHcd nome
wli it l»y t!io un«f«Mistitntionul policy of
tlu* I'V.lei'iil iJovernineutj the N *rth is
suflerin:: wilh infla'nution > t the cam*n
<•>, *ii you will «1 low the expression)
while the great. West, and the poor South
are pi mug under a very feeble and very
thin .state of em-reuey circulation. It
needs both etpuili/.ing and increasing in
hulks.
Our public debt, should not excite
alarm, if we could h ive honest men to
manage it. Kuglaud, for a century, has
grown wealthy and more wealthy, even
in the face of the fact her public debt
lms grown larger and larger, and to day
her consuls stand about the same that
our greenbacks do.
1 am well aware tbia money and finan
cial question is one of vast extent, and
most intricate in ail its parts, but if you
will excuse me l will say t his much as
some of my opinions on tnniuccs.
Yours Truly, T.
• # •
THE BATTLE OF KETTLE
CREEK.
| From Atlanta CumitUution.J
The centennial celebration of this im- ;
port.-urf imttle wiil not occur until Feb
ruary 14th, 1879; but as it will be the j
next great cent-uuiul event in this State, j
a brief account of it, is certainly not ill
timed. We shall not assume that our i
readers know all about the battle ; for j
one paper in the State missed the facts
far enough to locate the Little field in
Ware county. '-Rhirbattle really occurred !
in Wilkes county, about nine miles from
Washington, and perhaps half that dis- j
tanee from the rails of the Washington i
branch of the Georgia Railroad. The;
Creek preserves its revolutionary name,
and its peaceful waters flow into Little
River, a confluent of the Savannah.
The fall of Savannah ou the 3rd day of
January, 1779, and the loss of Howe’s
army had a most disheartening effect
upon the patriots of the whole State.
Gen. Urevost, and the victorious Col.
Campbell of the British army followed
up their victories so vigorously flint in a
very short time there was very little left j
of the American army iu Georgia. Col. i
Campbell pushed upward rapidly, and in j
the last days of January took possession i
of Augusta. After resting there a few
days, he pursued the march, into the
interior, ruthk-sefy destroying property, j
and insulting the people a» he fnoved
along. It was a march from the sea on
Sherman’s plan, but ou a small scale. I
Most of the people fled as lie approached,
into South Carolina. The few who re- |
maiueil were reassembled by Col. John |
Dooly. His party was shortly reinforced
by 250 men under Col. Pickens. Men- j
aced as theywere l.y Col. Campbell, j
their situation grew worse when it was I
known that tbenctorions Boyd had raised
a partisan corps of 7,0.7 mini whom he was
leading towards Georgia to desolate the
State. Pickens and Do ily, now joined by
Col. Clarke, resolved to attack Boyd, and
save, if possible, upper Georgia from
utter destruction. “Much., "said Stevens,
“depended ou this battle. It was a
moment big with the fate of upper
Georgia.”
On the momingof the 14th of January,
1779, Boyd very carelessly halted at a
certain farm near Kettle Creek, aud his
army were dispersed in various directions,
engaged in killing and gathering stock,
and ether operations. This was the
patriots’ opportunity. They advanced
iu three divisions, the center led by Pick
ens, the commander of the day, the right
under Colonel Doolv, and the left under
Ciarke, with orders not to fire a gun!
until within at least thirty-five paces.
Pickens, stopped by a half-formed aba
tis, skillfully gained the flank of Boyd,
when lie attacked him with great bravery.
Boyd was shot- down, and his men (led,
but were rallied on ahill across the creek.'
Clarke quickly found a ford, and soon
rose upon the hill in the rear of the
enemy. His deadly fire completed the
( victory, and the loyalists tied ill utter
defeat and confusion. Not two hundred
and fifty of Boyd’s eight hundred ever
■ reached Augusta. Boyd himself and
i seventy of his men were killed, and as
many more were wounded amt taken
prisoners. The rest fled in every direc
tion. jSomc were afterwards hung as
traitors and miscreants, some skulked
amo>g the mountain passes of North
Carolina, and the whole organization was
annihilated.
It is difficult to overestimate the im
| portauee of this great victory. It not
only saved Upper Georgia from invasion,
but it infused new vigor into the droop
ing cause of liberty in Georgia and South
Carolina. MoGreth immediately fell
back to Aligns!a, which was soon aban
doned, mid Campbell's retreat Was only
made possible by the burning of’ all the
bridges that he marched over.
We me glad to learn from the Wash
ington Onzetlc that iirriin;.'.vments are
being made to celebrate the centennial
on the old liattle-field. Upper Georgia
can no!, well refuse to parcieipti o in the
ceielvtariou of u battle that saved her
from Um barbarities of British warfare
during ;l.e revolution. Out of pure
grajiiwjde we sl-n-mld rail) in 1879 to
revive the J-velueri. • of our brave hiii)
,i
THE PLAGUE.
Its Itvai'iM’.ruiare in Hie Vlarstiy Districts
ul VV csii-i i. Asia—D ili sI S[ii-c ;i,i,
| Freni I!.,- t in iuimti Ga-.-tu . July -
A ■ old and very unwelcome visitant has
mad* its appearance in the marshy dis
tricts between tile Tigris and Euphrates.
It. is the old-fashioned plague, which
under the name of black death, destroy
ed in Europe, • between 1348 and 1351,
about 25,000,1)00 of people, Italy losing
half its inhabitants ; Germany about,
t,240,000 souls, euq London alone 100,-
000of its residents. In China 13,000.000,
and in the other countries of the East
24,000,000 persons are said to have fallen
victims to this epidemic, which seems to
have extended to Africa in the south and
to Greenland in the north. No such de
strncttve scourge had been known, and,
as usual in the middle ages, the Jews in
Europe were held responsible. It was
said that they had poisoned the wells,
and at Mayeuce 12,000 of them were
massacred.
The plague has since spread into Eu
rope at different periods, but its ravages
have been confined to narrower limits.
Tu 1576 Titian died from it at Venice.
In 1665 it raged in London, nearly 70,-
000 having fallen victims to it. In 1720
not far from one-half the people ol
Marseilles were swept away, and about
1790 it was very fatal in Russia and Po- .
laud. The latter visitations of the plague i
have mainly been confined to the
countries lying on the eastern shores of ,
the Mediterranean. The disease is fatal |
in the majority of cases, death occurring j
in less than a week after the first attack.
Nowhere have its symptoms been more
faithfully anil vividly described than in j
Defoe’s wonderful description of the \
plague year in London, which is true to
reality, though the basis of the narrative
is imaginative.
About thirty years have elapsed rinct* !
the hast violent inroad of the plague into
Egypt and Asia, Minor. Its ravages in j
the former country are briefly, yet elo
quently, portrayed in Kinghdte’s Eotheu. -
People were beginning to hope that it !
had died out, When ill 18*57. some eases
appeared ill the low and malarious dis- :
tricts of Mesopotamia. The spread of j
the disease was quite slow, ami it did not
attract much notice until the close ol
1873. Fiona that time until now cases
have multiplied,jand the area of infection
has been widened. Some localities have
suffered frightfully. The future alone
can bill whether the malady will he con
fined to sections to which it appears
almost eutlomic, or whether as at former
periods it will overleap its limits and
advance toward the civilized centers. It
may be aided, as other diseases, by dirt
and poverty ; but, on. the other hand,
the channels through which infection
may be spread are largely increased.
Medical skill, as yet, has discovered no i
specific against it. and. like small-pox. .
NO. 30.
which Imlf a century ago seemed Ukeh
to be stamped out, it may be. entering
upon anew cycle of vigor. As yet there
is no reason for alarm, but there certain
ly is need of watchfulness on the part ol
European officials mid physicians. Trace'
in tiie East will doubtless grow into dis
favor, and the quarantine regulations of
ibe Mediterranean ports will be very
vigorously enforced.
ELOCUTION IN THE DARK.
»*«»" trtemus Ward PJayrd it on th< ;
Professor.
Oriswokl, the “I'at CoutPibuh »r, 1 in i
somt* veer >llwt ions of Artemus Ward, !
tells the fallowing sjory :
fn the spring of 1839 I. accepted a j
proffered editorial position on the Clew- j
land National Democrat, and renewed !
my acqnaintauee with Artemus Ward.
Ini the first evening of my arrival lie
voluntd* red to show me around a very
desirable achievement, as 1 was to tiil i
the position of city eilitofi
He "’showed me’round” so suecessfully
that abunt 2 o clock in the morning 1 :
began to fee! almost lit home in C'-teve- I
laud as if I hud lived there all my days, !
to say nothing of my nights. Artenuis
invited me to share his bed with hint for
the remainder of the night, amt f accepted, i
Adjoining his room lodged a young
professor of elocution who was endeavor
ling to establish a school in Cleveland.
He was just starting out. in business, and
was naturally anxious to propitiate the I
; press.
1 bet s get the professor up,” said
Artenuis, "and have him orate for us.”
1 remonstrated with turn, reminded
■ him of the lateness of the hour, that i
was not acquainted with the professor,
and all that, but. to no purpose,
“He is a public man," said Ward,
“and public men like to meet represen
tatives ol the press, as restaurants are
supposed to gel-up warm meals at. all
lion r«. ”
He gave a thunder!Mg rap a! the door
j us he shouted, “Professor-r I"
lie sthere? What you waul ’. eriej
a inalilod voice, evidently beneath the
bed-clothes, for it was a bitter eul*l night
in February.
“His I, brown, of the Piaiudea-ler. ”
said Artenuis, and nudging me gently in
the ribs, he whispered, “That'll fetch
him. the power of thi l press is invinci
ble ( t *s tie- A vet ce. a- anew level' which -’
Hi- l-eirmrse »w ..dw.„.-,d ,
the opening of the door, ands could
just discover the dim outline of a siiu'ted
form shivering in the doorway.
Excuse me for disturbing you, pro
fessor," said Artemus,* in his blandest
manlier, “but 1 am aiivi.ins to introduce
you to my friend hero, the new ‘local’ of
the Democrat. He has hour I much of
you, mill declares positively he can't, go
to bed until lie hears you eloeute.”
“Hears me what?" answered the pro
lessor, between his chattering teeth.
"Hears you eloeute -recite declaim.
1 uderstaud ? Specimen of your elocu
tion !”
11l vain did tht' prol'esrnr plead tire
lateness ot flit* hour, and his tiro hail
gone out. Artemus would accept no
excuse.
“Permit me, at least,” urged the pro
fessor, “to put on some clothes and to
light the gas.”
“Not, at all neeesslJrv. Eloquence,
my dear hoy, is not at all dependent on
gas. Here (straightening up a chair be
had just tumbled >vor,) get right upon
this chair and give us ‘The boy stood on
the burning deck,’ ” adding m a side
whisper in my ear, “Hie burning deck
will warm him up.”
(ieutly, yet firmly, did Artsmns boost
the reluctant professor upon the chair,
protesting that no apologies w. re ltoees
surv for ills appearance, and assuring
him that clothes didn’t make the man,
although the shivering disciple of Dfe
mostheiies and Cicero probably thought
clothes would make a man more com
fortable on such a night as Unit.
He gave us “Ca vabiane.t ’ with a good
many quavers of the voice, as he stood
shaking in a single, short, white garment; ;
then followed, “On Linden when the I
still was low,” “bvvot'd of Bunker Hill,” j
etc., “by particular request of a friend,” I
as Artemus Wald said, although I was too
nearly suffocated with suppressed laugh
ter to make a last dying request, bad it j
been Accessary. It was too ludicrous to
depict tlie professor, an indistinct white j
object standing on the chair “eioouting,”
as Ward had it, and we sitting on the ;
floor holding ourselves, while A. W.
would faintly whisper between his pangs
of inirtli,. "just bear him.”
It wasu.t in Ward's heart to have his :
fun at the expense of another without
recompense ; so next duv I remember he
publisht and a lengthy and entirely serious !
account ot our visit to the professor’s
room, spoke of Ills wonderful powers as
an elocutionist, and expressed the satis
faction and delight with which we listen
ed to Ins “uneqnaled recitations.”
The professor was overjoyed, and pro
bably is ignorant to this day, that Arte
mus was “playing it on him.”
Thomas Johnson, Mi Hedge ville,
lost his house and fifth wife by the
March tornado. He soon got another
house, however, and then he got another
wife- a young and pretty one, too.
A<lv«‘rtisintr Kiites.
>ne sqrtare, firnt insertion...... $ 1
\rcli on .sequent in ne rtioa..7s
; nt3 -square ihree inoiitlis . 10 00
>ne square six months 15 00
)ue s mare twelva icoiiths 00
r column twelve months 40 0®
(alf colmmy six months t»0 00
falf c'liomn twelve months....-t*.... 75 (X)
hiv column twelve mouths 125 00'
r fen lines or iess considered a square,
\1! frictions ol squares are counted as full
-■.qnrtres. ’•
A DROVER AND HIS CHILD,.
A TOUCH 7NO STOB7.
.My name Is Antony Hunt. I am a
drover, and I live miles and miles away
out on the Western prairies.
One day, about ten years ago, I went
away from home to sell some fifteen head
of cattle—fine creatures as I ever saw,-
f was to buy nne dry goods and groce
ries before 1 went, and above all, a doll
j for our youngest Dolly. She had never
! kau a store doll of her own, only the rag
-baby her mother had made for her.
1 Jolly could talk of nothing else and
went down to the very gate to call after
me to ‘lmy a big ’tin.* Nobody but a
patent could understand how full my
mind was of t.lmt toy, and how when the
cattle were sold, the first thing I hurried
off to buy was Dolly's doll. I found a
large one with eyes that would open and
shut when you pulled a wire, and had it
wrapped ii> paper and tucked it under my
arm, while f had the parcels of calico
and deiane and sugar and tea put up.
; Then, late u- it was, I started for home,
it might leave been more prudent to stay
till morning, lad 1 felt anxious to get
home and eager to hear Dolly’s prattle
alxmt her toy. ,
1 w is mounted on a steady going old
horse of mine, and pretty well loaded.
Night set. in before f was a mile from
town, and settled dark as pitch while 1
was in the middle of the darkest bit of
road 1 know of. 1 could have felt my
way through, [ knew it so well, and I
was doing so, almost, when the storm
tied had been brewing broke, and pelted
Hie vuia in torrents, while J was five- or
six miles from home.
1 rode as fast as [ could, hut all of »
i sudden i heard a little child’s voice': f
stopped short and listened—l heard it
again. 1 called and it answered, f
couldn’t see a thing—all was dark us
pitch. 1 got down and felt about, the
grass called again, mid again was an
swered’. Then l began! to- wonder. I
uin not, turn’d, Imt ( was known- t<s> bwai
drover, and to have money about me. It
might Ixj a trap to catch me unawares,,
and rob ami murder me.
I'm not superstitions— uot very; but
how could a real c-in and lie oin on the*
prairie in such a night, r.nd at sneb an
hour? it might, be more than hun-aw.
The bit of coward that hides itself nv
most men showed itself in me then, and
t Was itaii inclined to run away, but
: once more 1 heard that cry,' and 1 sash
’if any mail’s ctat-M is hereabout, An
loiiy Kind :s not the man to let it die.’
1 searched again.
At last 1 h -though* me of a Iroffow un
der tin- lii’d, an 1 ('roping that way, sure
! enough 1 found a little dripping tiling
that- moaned anil sobbed as 1 took it ini
my arms. 1 called my horse and the
beast came to me. I mounted, and tack
ed the little thing under my coat as well
- I could, promi mg to take it home to
mammy. It seemed tired to death al
most and pretty soon it cried itself to
. sleep ..gainst my bosom,
L had slept there over an 1 hour when I
-aw my own windows. There were
, lights in them, and 1 supposed my wife
i laid lit them for my sake ; hot when I
got .(ltd tiie yard f saw something was
’ tiie matter, and stood still, with a dead
fear at heart,, five minutes before I could
lilt lb- 1 aii’ii. At last i-. did it, anil saw
my uni full ot neighbors, and my wife
in the midst of them weepiHg.
When she saw me she hid tier face.
‘Dh ; don’t tell him,’ she said, ‘it will’,
kill him.’
‘What is it, neighbors?' I cried.
And’ one said :
‘Nothing now,, 1 hope—what is tiuit im
your arms ?’
‘A poor lost child, said 1 ; ‘I found it,
on tiie road.’ I then lifted up the sleep
ing thing, and saw the face of my own
child, my little Dolly.
It was my darling, and uone other,
that I bad. picked, up on the drenched
road.
My Itf-tlc child had wandered out to*
meet, daddy mid the doll, while her moth
*‘- "m* at work, and they were there la
menting her as one dead.
I thanked Heaven on my knees before
them all.
It is not rnilcli of a story, neighbors,
but I think of it, often in the night, aud
wonder how 1 cotiid bear to live now if I
had not stopped when J lieard the cry
Id- help upon the road, tflae little baljy
cry, hardly loader than, a ‘squirrel's
chirp.’
I in-' <ow Tree. Among the inanv
curious phenomena winch presented'
themselves to me in the course ol my
travels, says 11 1 confess there
were few by which my imagination was
so powerfully affected as by the cow tree,
rtii the p in-lied side of a rock on the
Mountain, of \ enezuola grows a tree
with dry. and leathery foliage, its large
woody routs scarcely penetrating into
the grouud. For several mouths ic.- the
i year its leaves are not moistened by a
shower,. its branehes look as if they
I were dead aud withered ; but when the
trunk is bored, a bland and nourishing
milk flows from it. It is at sunrise that
| the vegetable fountain Hows most freely.
At that time the blacks anil natives are
seen coining from ail ports provided with
large bowls to receive tiie milk, which
grows yellow aud thickens at its surface.
Some empty their vessels- on the spot,
while others carry them to their children.
One imagines fie sees the family of a
shepherd who is distributing the milk ot
his flock.