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The McDuffie Journal. A Beni Live Country Pcpcr. Published Every Wednesday by M in t k c; o m i? s . Terras u! i-ne copy, one year One copy, six months 1.00 Ten copies: iu chibs, one year, each.... 1 •'»<> Single copies "»c ts. *cff .VII subscriptions in varibly in advance BUSINESS CARDS. £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 S3 «qHflNli£RS! SSKSte . DOUBLE • mssm iUNT, MENT) 25c. to (». P. HOWELL A CO., ► ) 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. —-V v - 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 ! « Advertising Kates. - 1 >ifj* square, first insertion ...iji 1 (XI . Each subsequent insertion. * 7,1 ; One square three months.. 10 od One square six m0nth5.......... j:. od One square twelve months.d...do (id Quarter column twelve monthev."’; fy Half oolmnn six months .1 SO Half column twej?e ipontha 7r» ixj ; On» column twelve mouths {gf Ten lines or less considered a squall All fractions of squares a;*£ counted as fuU NO. 34 —— ■ 1 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. —: 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.