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£l. W. H . NEAL,
A TTOItXEY A T LA ll\
AND SOT AB Y PUBLIC,
THOMSON, OA .
AT7ILL practice in the Courts of
W McDuffie and adjoining Counties.
C-rCosTßYisciSfl n specialty.
H. C. RONEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
THOMSON, GA.
CdT Will practice in the Augusta, North
pm and Middle Circuits. _ nolyl
PAUL 0. HUDSON,
4 7 TOHXi: V 4 T LA W,
Thomson, CJsi.
Will practice in the Superior Courts of
the Augusta, Northern and Middle Circuits,
and in tile Supreme Court, and will give
attention to all oases iu Bankruptcy,
Aug. 35, I*7l. ts
Central l)ofel.
33 ''xT
MRS. W. M. THOMAS,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA
seplHf
JK 1• ) day home. Agents wanted.
») J Outfit and igpuuri tvoa. TRUE A
CO., Augusta, Maine.
JUDKINS & SHAW,
KEEP SUPPLIED WITH
FISH, BISTERS, ME,
VEGETABLES. Partridges, Doves. Squir
rels. Ducks. Chickens. Butter, Cabbages.
Potatoes. Eggs NOB FOLK OYSTERS,
11 • 10, etc. ' :TOr lers from the country
promptly tilled. Address
•JUDKINS A- SHAW.
Mclntosh Street, next to the New Post Of
fice. D2&S
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► ) New York, for Pamphlet of I<W pfL,'l':s
pontaining lists of dtHMi pewspajiers, 4ud
estimates showing eo*t of ndvprtishig.
PAVILIH ITEL,
Charleston, S. C.
O. T. ALEOKD & CO..
Hates, *;’>.<•<> per day Proprietors.
I. S. & P. C. TANTS’
Meat House,
Augusta Ora.
Vine CAROLINA. TENNESSE and KEN
TUCKY
E in n AT ,
Pork, Lamb, Veal. Mutton.
Cheese, Sausage, Mixed, or ALL PORK. tt*
ordered, Corned Reef, Pork, .and Tonj^nes.
A full stock always on hand-
A CARD,
I AM frequently asked bv ray friends if I
am doing a general practice, or only at
tending inch evils ns may be made in good
weather or convenient to my office.
In answer to the above. I would say to
my former patrons and friends, that from
this date I will enter upon the active duties
ol my profession looking iu part to those
who may ask my services for my reward.
Office on Main Street, in Holzendorfs
House.
May 10-ts. JAS. K. JONES.
CLOTHING BUYERS,
MrrEYr/a.y.
WE mean every word we say. bnt we
want you to be convinced by your
g>wn inspection, that we will do the best by
you in furnishing you with your
SUMMER
CLOTHING
FURNISHING GOODS,
HATS, BOOTS AND SHOES.
A lot of Clothing and Shoes just re
ceived.
We can sell you a good Summer Coa* for
,SI.OO.
A good pair of Brogans for $1.25, amt
other thing.-: as cheap in proportion.
* Come and see ns.
Yours Truly'.
A. J. Adkins.
THOMSON, GA.
ilhe lllcpuffie lEeeltln Jmtpatf.
VOL. VI.
To the Afflicted*
IN CALLING THE PUBLIC ATTENTION
TO THE
Indian Compound
COUGH MIXTURE
nOPv the cure of CONSUMPTION and
I 1 all diseases of the LUNGS and
THROAT, I say that nothing surpasses it
for Colds and Coughs, and can he taken
from old Cfge down to the cradle with impu
nity. and •without danger. But the profes
sional world is so full of Ainbiguousness
and Egotism, that anything pub before the
public as a safe nud reliable Remedy for
certain diseases is scoffed at and pro
nounced worthies* and a humbug. I say
try it before you condemn it, as I will give
you the name of every herb. Sic., that it is
| composed of. which you r.au examine at
your leisure. Vile litis Ovi, Amygdaius
Persies. Mel. Pm us Pahistms, Andromeda,
Arborea, Arctium Leppa. Tnula Ifeleiuum,
MaiTiibimn Yulgare, Autennaria Symphy
tum, Duichwachsener \V Qs.se rdost, Cepbfp ;
lan&us Occidental)*, Symphytum Offici
nale
It is prepared at my office. No. "><*> Peach- j
tree street. ATLANTA, GA., where it can \
he had in any quantity. If any one using '
it will say that it has done them no good, j
return the bottle and get your money re
turned. S. T. RIGOURS, M. !>.,
Clo-f*. Atlanta, Ga.
For sale by Dr. A. P. Hill. Thomson. Ga.
no Duke of Caion!
Thi« amr..ugh.bve,i TENNESSEE LL,
1 whose pedigree ia wilt estaUirtred mid
can be traced bank through the nuest stock
for many years, is now uurruling on my
plantation four miles NoiV.h-c.4st of Thom
son, near the old White Oak Campground.
He possesses all the qualities of tin* finest,
blooded Block in the laud, is three years
old, of dark brown color, weighs about fif
teen hundred pounds, a model form, per
fectly penile and well disposed.
1 am prepared to take care of cows bent
from a distance at reasonable rates. A
number of his calves 111113' be seen at the >
residences of Messrs. 'l'. R. West, Wm. Ts.
Johnson, and others. Price of season
$.“.00,
M, \V. CURRY. j
May 10-thn.
GEORGIA DIRECTORY;
Lii'sl regular Iwnte now in preparation. j
I. Yv’ILL CONTAIN a complete Business
Directory of e\. J'V village, town and city
in the State.
si. IT WILL CONTAIN a complete SHIP
PER'S GUIDE jo i.vi'vy pni|it in the ,
State. ' !
8. IT WILL CONTAIN a full, elmwiflcrt list j
of ail rer-v:us in the State engaged in
any MERCANTILE, MECH ANICAL. I
MANUFACTURING or PIiOEEnSION-
Al. pursuit.
4. IT AVTLL CONTAIN a correct list of !
State and County officers.
IT WILL CONTAIN a complete POST.
OFFICE DIRECTORY of the UNITED
STATES and TERRITORIES. Also,
(|ll in-curate ii-tof EXPRESS STATIONS I
IN ALABAMA. GEORGIA. MISSISSIP
PI. SOUTH CAKOLIXA and FLOIIT-j
DA. prepared fjrpressly for liiis work by
Uonve Agents, and only to be fopi.'i in (
our Directories.
IT WILL CONTAIN n revised a--I
reet COUNTY MAP of the STA TE of |
OROROIA
7. IT WILL CONTAIN. In addition to the |
foregoing special features, so nmeli g; n
erat information that no business man !
cart afford to he without it. As it:: adver- i
sing medium we think it presents its own !
claims. 4pd w<- confidently commend it j
to the li.ihinss nubile, hoping to receive
a patronage coume!:iSin.te with its in
trinsic value, and the great pains be- j
Stowed upon its I n ; ; rat’pu,
RATES.
One I’ft‘G; and f\q»v of f’ook, no
Half o f* •* Ir,no j
Third 4i •“ ** if -* 1 IU no
Fourth 4i “ “ ‘ 4 10 00
Price of Book with Inch Card r» 00
Nam* in Capital Letters 1 00
Hil 111;111 :H, M A RSIIA IrL A. HRUI R,
prBIaIRHERS,
ATLANTA, GA,
j. /•
OTIaDSH.;
LOOKING Cl I ASS AND
preruns fra me maker,
OLD FRAMES RE-GILT.
OIL PAINTINGS
C A K E F U L LY C L E A N ED,
LI NE D and VA R NIS HE D.
m JACKBIIN STRKKT,
AIKiUSTA, (tIA.
ALBERT HAPE,
Non-Resid<*n < D< k ntiisl,
n
V;AN still be found ready to attend to ihe
wanta of old and new patrons, if desired, at
their residences.
Will also, as heretof ore, practice in adjoin
ing counties. Panic prices insured and all
work warranted.
Office at the residence of W. E. Speir.
Please address by letter, at Thomson, Ga.
08 ts
DARWIN G. JONKs*,
Atlanta Vinegar Works.
CITY OFFICE; 38 Broad St., ATLANTA.
niBER VINEGAR,
WHITE WINE VINEGAR.
&f)d SWEET CIDER.
Bent Ktanderd good* and lowest prices
gnaranteed.
We are bettor prepared thus #ver to furnish
all grades of thy
BEST and PUREST GOODS IN THE
MARKET.
june 21-ts. DARWIN G, JONES. J
POETICAL.
WHEN THE SONG IS GONE,
When the song is gone out of your life,
That, 3’ou thought would last to the end—
That First sweet song of the heart
That no after days can lend
The song of the birds to the trees —
The song of the wind to the flowers—
The song that the heart sings low to itself,
When it wakes in life's morning hours.
You can start no other song;
Not even a tremulous note
Will falter forth on the empty air—
It dies jn your aching throat.
It is ail in vain that yon try,
For the spirit of song has fled —
The nightingale sings no more to the rose
When the beautiful flower is dead.
So. let silence softl\- full
On the sad heart’s quivering strings;
Perhaps from the loss of all you max* learn
The song that the seraph sings—
A grand anil glorious pr>alm,
That will tremble and rise and thrill.
And till your breast with its grateful rest.
And your lonely yearnings still.
Love Illuming Roughly,
That tlie course of true love does not
always run smooth is sometimes verified
even in this amicably disposed metropo
lis. For some reason (probably the
action of atmospherical frigidity upon
the cuticle) the Winter season has been
net apart as the favorable time of the
year for the happy consummation of
“love’s young dream,” and the advent of
.lack Frost usually inaugurates the form
ing of matrimouinial alliances—botlx
offensive and defensive —for the discom
fiture of icy sheets nud cold pedal ex
tremities. Married men sjlxyfiys appear
to th-.- best advantage during cold weath
er-—they look so w.iam and comfortable
-and single opes probably “take note,’
and are anxious to profit by their example.
Home such thoughts must recently
have entered the head of little Charley
G—who valiantly wields a yard
stick iu behalf of a prominent dry goods
establishment., and whose seductive smile
is supposed (by himself ) to have quite a
cannibal effect xxpou the hearts of his
fair customers. Ohai-ley, who is a very
Beau Brnmmola iu dreM, and thinks
himself Don .Tuan No. 2. receutly fell in
love, over the cqijntor, with a beautiful
blonde who, to add to her numerous
other attractions, was an orphan, an
heiress (to be) and single... - . -
Not a thousand miles from Lucas Place
resides a widow lady unencumbered with
children, and quite comfortably situated
in regard to t|iis world goods. She
moves in the yery best of society in that
wealthy pnd aristocratic: neighborhood,
and with her resides her noice, Clara
~. , the bpautiful blonde with whom
our friend Charley became enamored.
But the old Imly, having higher aspira
tions than a “Clark Y. best spool thread
500 yard’s ,artillery aan for her niece,
peremptorily forbade that young lady’s
holding intercourse with Charles,
As Clara is dependent upon her aunt
she of conr, e, appeared to acquiesce in
those ambitions designs, but at the same
registered a vow to her looking glass
that no one in the world should ever
sui-plant the dapper yard stick man iu
her maiden heart, As it would not
answer to offend her wealthy relative,
however, the young couple indulged in
clandestine meetings; sometimes ;it the
house of a mutual friend, ot) Piuo street,
and sometimes (when the old lady wrs
attending prayer meeting,) at Clara’s
home. They swore eternal love or. these
occasions; vowed that persecutions
should never seoarate them, and should
the worst come to the worst, a crust of
bread, a brown stone pitcher (with hands
on both sides like they have at Ben De-
Bars’) filled with crystal fluid from the
bubbling spring, and a dry goods box on
one end somewhere iu the vicinity of
Kirkwood, would be transmogrified into
a palace of peace and plenty, sacred for
ever to their undying love.
One afternoon recently Charles receiv
ed a note from Clara, stating that her
relative would that evening attend prayer
meeting,
The intimation was enough, and 8
o’clock saw the young couple seated up
on the sofa in her aunt’s library, billing
and cooing in the regular orthodox tur
tle-dove style. Little Charley, hired on
by the witcheries of love, became per
fectly “immense.” He woum an arm
about her waist, and vowed that her form
was “sylp-like.” He toyed with long
golden ringlets, and likened them to
“truant sunbeamswith a few other]
remarks to the effect that heaven’s dear i
est gift to her sex was a “wealth of briuht !
golden hair.” Then when she blushe<l,
he swore the roses had been robbed,
and when she smiled, that her lips were
ruby portals to a casket of pearls. (By
casket he probably referred to that orifice
in the human countenance usually termed
the mouth, and the pearls spoken of
were undoubtedly the teeth, j
Indeed they talked so nice, and she
fed upon his glowing words with such a
relish, that the old lady was rattling
at the door, as though the house was on
fire full five minutes before the absorbed
lovers heard her.
“Great heavens ! my aunt!” exclaimed j
Clara.
Charley grew a trine pale, and mutter- !
ed an interjection or two pertaining to j
the front end of a mill pond.
It appears the old lady having reached
THOMSON, GA. AUGUST 23, 1878.
the place of prayer, found the meeting
epizpotied, or postponed, and conse
quently aft r. some little chat with a
neighbor oi two had returned home at
this moat inopportune moment.
What was to lie done? Not a closet
or nook invited retreat, and there Char
ley stood and wished that he was a
mileage or stationary bill, so that lie
could pass. She house, or member cf the
Legislator*, or some other dreadful
feature of modern civilization,
At last a brilliant idea occurred to his
lady-love. In the corner of the library
lay a bundle of carpet that had been
brought to the house that day to refur
nish the sift::) 1 room, and having been
duly inspected y The ladies was tempo
rarily left iu tumbled heap in the
corner.
A hasty explanation took place and
then Charley entombed himself beneath
the mass with a fervid vow that he would
die for her sale were it necessary, and
Clara then admitted her aunt.
That relative was not pleased at being
kept so long on the door step, and
sharply demanded what had become of
the servants.
“I sent them to bed, dear aunt, so
that I might have the pleasure of remain
ing up for you* return—bnt 1 fell asleep,”
innocently remarked the girl.
This loving explanation somewhat ap
peased the old lady, who after warming
herself, walked over to the bundle of
carpet, and pick ng up a corner, wonder
ed how it wouL »k % gas light.
Clara hastened > assure her it would
not look nice at all, ir, fact she was so
confident of it that her aunt need not go
to the trouble of undoing it.
The old lady pondered over the stuff
for a moment, while her niece sat trem
bling upon the sofa, and little Charley
felt that the world might come to an
immediate end, nud not annoy him a
particle by suddenness of the change.
At last, however, the crisis passed,
for with some new idea entering her
head, the old lady turned and remarked
that she was ‘Hired to death,” and
plumped her t.wo hundred and fifty
pounds avoirdupois upon the heap, and
little Charley assumed the shape of a
pail cake. Ho would have groaned but
did not have v iml . enough left for the
purpose.
, \ 'Mflffti attrrasUid
the old lady’s attention to her niece.
“Why, you are all dressed up to
night."
“ Yes, aunt, dear,” replied Clnr,i, men
tally conjecturing how Charley felt in
his pressed out condition.
“YesJ” returned the otlipr, “you look
very well, only rather pale. Are you
sick ?
“I—l don’t feel very wo]].'’ answered
hep niece, silently consigning her relative
to Chicago, or some other'.vu-lp'd place,
“I’m sure you dsn’t when you will
lace so tight, my dear,” affectionately
said the incorrigible old lady.
“I don’t!” faintly repudiated Clara,
while little Charley rnspefi the skin off
one of his ears ill trying to quietly twist
his head in a position where lie might
distinctly hear anything of interest.
! 'Ymj don’t! yon do; and at your
time of life it is positively :preposterous,
If you was a young giddy ,-irl, it would
be different; hut for a person of your
age—”
“o, aunt!”
Charley harked some more skin off'
and became decidedly interested,
“Mo there’s no 0 aunt about it” con
tinued the incorrigible, savagely oscil
lating her hand. “You mainitimes act
more like a silly schoolrgiri than a wo
man who las seen twenty-six years of
life.
“I haven’t!” and Charley put his mouth
in shape of a whistle, blit i? was imme
diately flattened out by a restive bounce
of the old lady’s.
“Yon haven’t” “Why, yes you have,
and nearly twenty-seven 1 Why, what
in the world ails the gal ? What are you
whimpering about, Clara?
“My—my heal aches. Please don’t
talk,” begged her niece, not quite posi
tive as to the effect her decision might
have on the young maiiyr under h r
aunt.
“Y< nr head aches, docs it. Well no
wonder, wearing that mass of hair on
the hack of your head is enough to make
it ache. What nonsense it is when there
is no one to see you; besides it is posi
tively making you baldheaded 1”
“I’m not 1” vigorously responded the
young lady, burying her face in her
hands, as she thought of all the nioe
things the fellow had been saying.
“You are not! Yes, yon are. There's
a bald spot on the top of your head the
size of my hand 1” and the old lady ex
tended a pp,lm in illustration. “Now,
what in the world are you crying about,
Clara? Sakes alive niece, you'll not be
able to visit tlie dentist to-morrow. ”
“Botljer the demist ! Do, keep still
aunt 1” cried Clara, while Charley tried
to scratch his head and had his arm
nearly dislocated by a few restless moves
of tlie old lady as she indignantly rep
rimanded her niece for her disrespectful
petulancy.
“It was your own wish to go to the
dentist’s, Clara ; you know it was. You
said that set hurt your mouth, and you
wanted —Goodness gracious ? What un
der heaven does ail the girl ?” For Clara
i had darted out of the room with a cry of
i s(bothered rage and anguish leaving her
! relative to bounce up and down qh the
I pile of oarp.et in sheer astonishment, nn
i til Charley G’s. respitatory organs were
like a pair of collapsed bellows.
Then the old lady followed her niece
up stairs, and when tjie house was quiet,
Charley unlocked the door, and stealing
forth, walked down Lucas Place a sadder
but wiser mau,
Clara left town on a visit, and young
ladies who patronize tlie Fourth street
dry goods establishment think Charley
must be suffering from a case of unre
quited affection he looks so fiat and talks
so dismal.
A BEAUTIFUL* EPISODE.
A FOURTH OF JULY SCENE IN
GEORGIA
Vinil of colored .Sunday .School* la
Hon. A. .Stephen* — Their .Sony* and
Music Happy Relation* of the
({ace*, Etc.
Correspondence Baltimore Sun.
Savannah, Ga., July 27. —1n the midst j
of the endless tnlkiugs and writings j
I about the Hamburg (S. C.) tragedy, I
send yon, by way qf parenthesis, a little I
account of a far different scene, which I j
witnessed on the fourth of this July in
i the little town of Crawfordville, iu Geor
gia, the home of Alexander H. Stephens. I
Regarding the first mentioned, I will say
in passing, that any respectable white *
man, if he had occasionally visited the \
! town of Hamburg, iu South Carolina,
Mould have thought at least that he fore
saw a serious conflict of some sort be
tween. the few white men and the many
negroes there. Gentlemen in Augusta
i of the highest, character, and gentlemen
; whom Georgia negroes love and depend
upon, assured me that in the same town
j of Hamburg white men, while passing ]
! through it or lingering iu it, were often
i subjected to annoyances and insults by
] colored men, and that the late disaster
did not come, sooner th;in something of
j the sort had been expected from antece
-1 dent circumstances. But I shall say no
more on that subject. Tim day will I
1 come when the wrongs) of the white peor
| pie of South Carolina will he considered
along with those of the uegrops. It is
fbpposaibl* that tlm truth can be wholly
and always suppressed.
In Georgia whore, thanks to Qod, j
there arc reasonable relations between |
tin! two races, matters ape incomparably :
better for both. It so happened that I !
was on a visit to Air. Stephens at Liberty \
Hall, on the Ith of this present month, j
The first notice I had of flip intended j
oelehration was on the afternoon of flip
lid (Monday) wlnm a young oqlnped man
came into Mr. Stephen's lipd-rooiq, iu or
: dor to get some instructions from him re- ;
| gnrdiug the oppuing luldrcu.; which the j
, former was to make on the next day to j
about eight or ten Sunday-school dele- I
: gations, who were to assemble in a grove I
in the outskirts of the village. The j
' young man sat at. Mr. Stephen’s writing.- j
table, and having gotten his points, rose, |
; thanked his friends and left. On that j
day, also, a committee informed my host j
; that after their celebration and dinner |
were over, the Sunday-schools would go ]
! in procession into his grounds, if it
I should he agreeable to him, and sing I
j some of flieip songs. Ha cordially as-!
I Rented.
On the next day, about 2) o'clock in I
the afternoon, preceded by the white j
brass hand of the village, wo saw ffiem
coming, and a goodly sight it was. Be
sides the Taliaferro county schools, the
Crawfordville, the Bethel, the New Sa
lem, the Battery and the Springfield,
there were the White Plains from Greene
and another from Wilkes. Mr. Stephens
was rolled in his chair out into the long
piazza as the vast crowds advanced up
the lawn. As tlie various delegations ar
rived at the piazza they filed to the right
and, lingering under the shades of the
trees, sang, each one, a song, and wheel
ing, retired to some distance ill the rear
until the last one had performed its ap
pointed piece. Then, all the delegations
forming in mass, a young colored man
standing upon the steps announced tliaf
! all the schools would sing several pieces
iu chorus.
And now, gentlemen, perhaps you
never heard a Georgia negro sing. At
all events, I am confident that you have
never heard twenty-five hundred of them
sing iu chorus as they did on tljat after
noon, partly for the entertainment of the
invalid statesmen whom of all men they
honor and love the most, and partly in
their humble way f r the worship of
God. As t! ey began there was some
danger lest in such a throng the time of
the music might- not be well preserved.
But, Mr. Gorham, the leader qf the
brass band, arose from bis seat in the pi
azza. and marking the time with his
walking cane, the chorus continued in
even harmony until the end. Such a i
sight. Riid such a hearing I might- desire, I
but I cannot expect to fitness again. |
Men and women, young men and yctuig j
women, boys and girls, and even some I
little children lifted up their voices in
that shady old grove and sent them to- S
Wards heaven in a tumult of haimony in !
which not a discordant note was to be !
heard, in the midst of which the tears 1
which we could not, if we w.-cld hav- re
| prated, came from oar eyes. These
! schools, I heard, had been ivstmcted,
f lie most of them, in Sunday school raa
i sic under the auperintendanee of their
| white jiaKtore, and they had in their
I hands their music books. The negro’s
i voice is always true, and when, as in this
I ease, they had baen trained, it is wonder
ful to notice the harmony ar,d the aum
-1 pass which it can attain in numerous
! churns, in such chorus these sang wiyh
| all their heart and all tiieir might on that
afternoon. The music, which I call
grand, becausc.that seems to me to be
j the bent term which I can employ in tie-
I li' ing it. Them- neat and orderly appeiu
ance, with thoir Sunday clotheg-Md sim
| pie banners, not only gratified Mr. Ste- i
phens, but, as he said that night on his J
bed, enraptured him. When the whole
chorus was over the yopng leader upon
the steps called out in tljo name qf the
multitude for an address from him.
Though having known him since my
boyhood, and lieird him speak on many,
very many oeoiv.-ions, f have neve -■ span I
him under the influence of such intense
feeling. He lee,nc<| from jjis chair, with j
his arms resting over the railing, and j
nothing but physical weakness prevented !
Ipm making what wouk} otherwise hfjvs :
been pi r laps as el sqm-id a speech as he l
ever made. Even as it >yas, his voice, to i
the astop : shmenf. of hm ntte.a. n , rang j
out under the i spir.ition of his feeling !
so that it could be heard in the villa , I
nearly half a mil : distant. He spoke et i
his profound gratification at the develop
ment which this day’s exhibition evi- !
deuce-! by "the colored people, especially I
in his ue ghbolhood, iu the midst of the |
cordial relations of tire two races were i
making. He never appeared to us so 1
wise, so earnest, so gentle, ns he spoke |
to this multitude of their duties in edu- j
eating their children to a just under- j
standing of all the behests of tlieir new
condition. He looked as if he v/wiiiil ]
have wept because Up lyas pot strong !
enough to say morn qf the things of !
\yhich his heart was full to overflowing, 1
and ho ceased only when he became ut- ■
terly unable tq speak longer. We culled !
for several songs from I lie separate j
schools wjqsp tlnur own programme had I
been finished, after the singing of which, i
when the suu wps nearly down, they -
filed back again and shook the feel|le
hand if their !;:.:str as ' they retired. :
Though he lift'd lipei} listening to them I
several hours, and though he had beqq J
exhausted by the talk he hud given them, j
yet ho see: ed reluctant to see them do- i
part. That flight op If is bed, before pre
paring for sh ep, lie sa'd timt no exltibi- i
t on on that auui /ersurv had ever grati
tieil him as much, and that if such had
beet! tlifl will of < jod |:q woflld have al
most wished that lie coflld have died
while hsteuiug to that, music which, of
all he lead ever heard, was the most en
rapturing. And then lie spoke of the
gen -rally good condition qf file negroes 1
iu that sect.on, where many of them own j
snug little farms and other property, and
between whom ami tlieir white neigh
bors tin- ii.oct f,itsfldly r,-’, r ti.inii obtain.
Though lie sail! nothing of their attach
ment to him or his services to them, yet
it is very plain, and is delightful t:» see.
the many thousands of negroes in that
section 1 ,ok up to-him a., til jar great ist
and 'nest earthly rieml, and that his in
i fluouco upon them has been benign to a.
I degree that is wonderful.
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Mrs, Whistlet’s Case—Why She
Qhangeti her Oburoh.
The lacts in Mrs. Wliistlet’s case, seem
to have been these : Mrs. Whistlet has
singular absence of mind, and on the
hist Sunday that she attended her own
church, Hr. Duuderby began to rend
from the scriptures the account of the t
deluge. Airs. Whistlet was deeply at- j
tentive, and when the doctor came to the
story of how it rained for so many days I
and nights, she was so much absorbed in ;
the narrative and so strongly impressed !
with it, that she involuntarily put up her :
umbrella and held it pvpr her head as she
sat in the pew. It appears that Mrs. j
Moody, who sits in the next pew in i
front, frequently brings her lap dog to !
church with her, and when Mrs. Whist
let raised her umbrella suddenly, the ac
tion affected the sensibilities of Airs,
Aloody s dog in snpli ft manner that he
began to bark furiously.
Os course the sexton came in for the
purpose qf (removing the animal, but it
dodgedintoa vacant pew on the other side
of the aisle and defied him, barkiug vie
ciferously all the time. Then the sexton
became warpj and indignant, and he
flnilg a hymn book at the dog, whereup
on the dog flew out aud bit his leg. The
excitement in the ehuroh by this time, of
course, was dreadful. Not only was the
story of the deluge interrupted, but the
unregeuerate Sunday-school scholars, in
the gallery, actually hissed the dog at
the sexton, and seemed sq enjoy the con
test exceedingly.
Then Elder McGinn camp after the
dog vitji big cane, and as he pursued the
animal it dashed toward} tlie pulpit and
ran up the steps in such a fierce manner,
that the doctor quickly mounted a chair
and remarked, with eager flashing
through bis spectacles, tint if this T
grio f
- dismiss the oongieg&tioi:. *Ti;6 l.
‘,e s'dc'. crept softly the stairs, anc !
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after a short struggle, he succeeded iq
grasping the dog by one of hjs hind legs,
i Then he walked down the uislft yvith it;
I the dog meautime yelling with super
j natural energy, and the Sunday-school
I iioys making fractious remarks. >
Airs. Whistlet turaed around, with
i other members of the congregation, to
watch the retreating elder, and as she
j did so she permitted her flflpqflspioua
j umbrella.fo dfup over so that the end of
I one of tlie ribs caught Airs. Aloody's bon-.
; net. A moment later, when she was
straightening up the uinhttUa, tfle bon
net was wrenched off anil hung dahfiljflg
upon the umbrella. Airs. Aloody had
\ become exceedingly warm, at any rate,
over the onslaught made upon her dojj (
but when Mrs. Whistlet ran<fl».t4 bPc
bonnet, she fairly boiled over, and turn
ing around, white with rage, she scream
ed :
“Whnt'd you grab that bonnet for,-
you catamount. ? Haven’t you made
enough fuss in this sanctuary to-day,
skewing a poor, innocent dog, without
snatching off such bonnets as the likes
of you can’t afford to wear, no matter
h mv mean you live at home, yon read
headed lunatic, you ? Yon let my bon
-0 its alone, qy I’ll warifl yon with tips
parasol, if j{ js ji| ifleptiug ; pow mind
me !”
Then Airs. Whistlet first seemed to re
alize that her umbrella made her con
spienotis ; so she furled A and concluded
to escape from an embarrassing position
bv going home. And as she stepped in
to the aisle, her enemy gave her a part
ing salute :
“Sneaking off be'ore tlie collection,
too ! You’d better spend less for breast
pins and give more to the poor heatjien
if yon don,t want to ketch it hereafter!”
Then she began to fan herself furious
ly, and as Mrs. Whistlet emerged from
the front door and things hpcatfle calm
er, t.lio doctor resumed tlm story of the ’
flood. Rut Mrs. Whistlet has given up
her pew and gone over to the Presbyte
rians, and there are minors that l\{ps,
Moody is going to secede also, because
Elder AleGinn insists that she shall leave
her dog at home.
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Cooley's Rooster,
Hlmkspeare, yon will remember, says
that “The morning nqck loud.” I
do not know that flie divine bard inten
ded this remark to refer especially to
Coo'py’s rooster, but it fits h : m with sin
gular exactness I do not know whiff
the breed was—Black Spanish, | Ijiijievfi
but lie was tlio most aqiflflitet}, earnest,
'■ liolo-sotiled, and vehement rooster any
where around. Ho turtied out earlier
and crowed louder than any pfher roos
ter in the State pf Pelaware. He could
e v>w oftener in a minute—he could hold
on the last note longer, and begin agaiu
quicker than any known barn-yard fowl j
and he would often wake np iu the night
and emit half a dozen vociferous screech
es iu order to make sine that he had not
| lost bis voice since sunset. When he
began to run up the scale in the morn-
I ing, lie -soon had every other yposter
i within ten miles hard at work, and I
i used to lie abed listening to the vocal
; contest, and observing how Cooley’s hif4
al ways got morn noise out of his larynx
than any four of his competitors. I
| shouldn’t have minded it if he had been
a little farther off, and slept later. BiR
when I live alongside of a rooster that iq
an early riser, and lias a voice that is q
cross between a fog-whistle an, 1 , a stearq
coffee mill, tlie matter becomes serious.
It. was useless to complain to Cooley
about the chicken, He owei} me a
, grudge for banging his balloon to ejjth
! ers. So, in self-defenoe, I procured about
i a dozen small torpedoes and pasted them
all over witli flour. Then I strewed,
them on a bed in my garden, whereoq
the bird was wont to disport hllftself iq
the early morning. He crowed a good
deal that morning i came down,
but toward breakfast time I noticed that
his voice wins softened, and hi? vocal ex
ercisps less frequent. When I went out .
I found him standing nppn one leg, look
ing abjectly miserable, moving hp bead
from light tp left as if he hud something -
in his mind; and I observed that the
torpedoes had disappeared. I moved to- .
ward him with the intention of jamming
lijm against something when he suddenly .
attempted to jump over tlie fence. He
fell short and struck the [lost. There ■
was an explosion, and the rooster—oh ! .
w lie re was he ? A couple qf (h'unistipkg
were found by sqmehody ou t in the turn- ,
pike, and a stray gizzard was picked up .
iu the graveyard, while a few bloody .
feathers were scattered over Cooley’s as- .
paragus bed ; and that was all that was .
ever kflqwu abqnt jt. Wheu this meets .
Cooley's eye, he will understand why ,
that iposter disappeared, and lie had
better take the news calmly. No, Span- .
isli rooster shall interfere with my rights
as an American eitizqp.— Max Adder.
Lunacy is still increasing in Ireland. .
At the close of the last year.the number
of patients under the supervision qf the _
Inspeptors-General was an * in
crease of 194 on the preceding year.
tv-.,- , r tTgies’s Indian presents,.
uiar that apwarii of jt? 090 a: i weakly
taken in et the doars.