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w ATSON A JOHNSON'.
Attorneys at Law,
THOMSON, GA.
WOffle* 1 at the Court-house.
PAUL C. HUDSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Thomson, Gn.
Will practice .n the Superior CotirtH of
tha Augusta, Northern and Middle Circuits,
and in the Supreme Court, and will give
attention to all canes in Bankruptcy.
Aug. 25, If 74. tf
ALBERT RAPE.
Non-Henidont I>a?ntlt,
Can still be found ready to attend to the
\ranh< of old and new patrons, if desired, at
their residences.
Will also, as heretofore, 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.
Piiill HOTEL,
Charleston, S. C.
Q. T. ALFORD *6 CO.,
Proprietors.
Bates, $2.00, $2.50 and S3.HO per day
IhHIIH >s nt easily earned in
a § M M these times, but it can be
mad* in three months by any one of either
eex. in and part of the country who is will
ing to work steadily ut the employment that
we furnish $(1(! per week in year own
town. You need not he sway from home
orer night. Yon can give your whole time
to the work or only yonr spare moments.
We have agents who are making over S2O
per day. All who -gage at *mc ain make
money fast. At the present money cannot
he made so easily amt rapidly at any other
business. It costa nothing to try the lins
inesa. Terms and $5 Outfit free. Address
it tr> H. HiLi.Err ft Cos., Portland,
Main*
Hair Oiitting;
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(OFFICE UNDER CENTRAL HOTEL,)
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
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GIN GEARING,
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Machine Works,
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Proprietors.,
Auguwta, <i:i •,
WEngioe*. Cotton Screws, Mill Gear
ing and Machinery of every kind made
and repaired. may2B-A§
Wood & Blacksmith
Shojp,
G. W. ROBERTS
A NNODNCES to the public that he
/\ ja prepared to do all kind* of Mood
•ad BUckamith work. Building and re
pairing Boggles and Wagons a specialty.
Jdefv competition in prices.
Thanking the public for past patronage
I mapeetfoll/ solicit a continuance of the
MOM,
I am also prepared to do all kinds of
Plow work.
Shop at Scroggins old stand, on
Greaawsy Street, near Shield’s Mill.
Give me a call,
ja7-A§ O. W, ROBERTS.
A* Mason & Son.
Watchmakers and Jewelers,
At the old at and of C. C.
Bruckner,
Main St, Thomnon, Gn.
Will repair Watches, Clooks, Jewelry,
tn., i heap for CAftH and warranted to
giw. entire satisfaction. We are also,
agahta far the celebrated Crown Bpf :tacles.
•arw* also have a complete —ock of
Seariag Machine Fixtures on hand, and are
acapazad to repair Sewing Machines at the
lowest cash prices. Give ns a call,
Janlteiis.
Wade Hampton has entered hie 60th
year.
Tennessee has 29,000,000 acres of land,
with 6,000,000 under cultivation.
The population of Tens is estimated
at 2,000,000.
The Southern Baptist Convention will
meet in Nashville May 9th.
Habited says Thurman could beat
Blaine by say a popular majority of two
million!.
Jefferson Davis and wife called upon
President Dias, in the city of Mexico,
on the 29tli of March.
The judgement against the late Wm.
M. Tweed, _ w jth accrued interest,
amounts t $122,009,00ft *
It is stated that the wheat acreage
plauted this year in Tennessee is double
that of last year.
Notwithstanding the fresh section of
; of the Judgement Day which lias intru
ded itself upon Beecher's private life, he
continues to lecture at SSOO a tight.
While out hunting, near Knoxville,
Tenn., a pack of hounds attacked a flock
of sheep and killed twenty-three head in
one night.
Alabama, it is said, has not a single
Presidential appointment in any depart
ment at Washington. So much more to
the credit of Alabama.
Iu tho daily record of callers at the
White House one seldom sees the names
of other Republican Senators than Math
ews and Burnside.
Twenty-six gardeners are employed in
the Vatican gardens. The nnraber
during the temporal power was forty
five.
The shipment of 600,000 pounds of
buffalo hides from Fort Worth, Texas,
this spring, indicates the extent of the
winter’s slaughter on the plains.
Hon. Jeremiah S. Black lias fonnd
some trouble in getting his fee as coun
sel for Belknap daring the impeachment
trial, and has brought suit against that
warrior for $5,000 for services.
The Courier Journal remarks, “Ken
tucky raises more hemp, needs more of
it, and uses less of it, according to'popu
lation, titan any other State in the
Uniou.”
The capital invested in the London
cab business is over two millions sterling,
snd the earnings of the cabmen, of
whom there ar more than 10,000, are
twioe as much.
An organ of the tobacco trade asserts
that if the tobacco consumed anuusllv,
abont 4,000,000,000 pounds, could be
made into a roll two inches in diameter,
it would encircle the world sixty times.
Peter Cooper, of New York, recently
entered his 88th year in the full posses
sion of all his faculties. His fortune is
estimated at $10,000,000. He began
life as an apprentice to a ooachmaker.
After several failures in bnsincss he in
vented a glue that made his fortune.
A free negro woman waa kidnapped in
Cincinnati twenty-five years ago by a
slave dealer, and sold into slavery in
Kentucky, whore she remained until the
close of the war. Recently sho sued
Sheriff Ward of Little Rock, the kidnap
per, for $15,000. A long and closely
contested trial resulted in n verdict for
$5,000.
Henry Goodrich is a mnaic teacher.
He has travelled from place to place
until he has taught music in every State
in the Union. It is said that he has
married seven of bis pupils, and most of
the States are yet to be beard from. In
Clarksburg, Va., be outdid bis former
matrimonial exploits by m. irving two
girls in the same village. He is now in
jail.
Gen. Fitztaogh Lee, in his reply to
Gen. Longstreet, is evidently of the
opinion that the latter really expected to
succeed Gen. R. E. Lee in command of
the Confederate armies, after Gettys
burg, and had the vanity to believe him
self the abler man of the two.
Texas is growing with marvelous ra
pidity in all tho element* that go to
make a great and powerfnl State.
Among these elements her religions de
nominations are keeping pace with the
general growth and development. The
Methodist Episcopal Church South in
Texas now contains a membership of
77,000.
Texas estimates an increase of fitV en
per cent, in her wheat crcp over last
year. The acreage last year was about
400,000; this year it will b about 450,-
000 acres, which at an average yield of
thirteen bushels per acre will produce a
crop of 5,850,060 bushels.
Avery remarkable fact is mentioned
in connection with Edison’s phonograph.
A lady in New York sang a verse o£
“God Save the Queen,” which was re
corded by the phonograph, and the tin.
foil eeut to England, The tuna was
there reproduced, even with a false note
which the singer bad given,
Major General Phil. Shari den Is sued
for half s miiliou dollars—being the
plunder of a Louisiana plantation, stock
and crops, which be ia charged with
having seized and converted to his own
use during the late unpleasantness.
Pbil. per contra, says the bill is exorbi
trnt, and, besides, be was doing that
stealing on behalf, of the United states
Government, and not oa his qwß ac
count.
“A MAP OF btJisY LIFE: ITS FLUCTUATIONS AND ITS VAST CONCERNS .”
TRUE 1.0 VE.
I would that every angry shaft
From trouble’s bittor sheaf,
Would wing its flight to pierce my heart,
To give to thine relief.
I would that every ill and woe,
And every corking Care,
Wc uld force their way within my heart,
That 1 for thee might bear.
Tctgenial deem the ioy chill,
The biting frost snd cold,
The stormy tempest, Love, if thou
Wert sheltered in the fold.
If my frail bark were tossed about,
Of angry waves the sport.
Calm as the glsssy lake, I’d feel,
If thou w ert safe in port.
. And if.thy choice o'er me should pass,
i To Mass another's life,
His truest friend I'd ever be,
Bebauee then wert his wife.
A GAME OF HEARTS.
Morton Levyllian looked into his
companion’s f'aco and wondered if
she rouliy possessed a heart! Or
was she only—as had been said—a
creature of intellect, or one who
required not, aud wished not, the
most precious of all life’s blessings
—love. Rather a difficult question 1
and her beautiful, queenly counte
nance, with its lustrous brown eyes
and delicately chiseled features, did
not servo to satisfy his doubts.
He was accustomed to be a favor
ite among the gentle sex. Wealthy,
intellectual, and handsomo, ho was
very naturally appropriated by ma
noouvo'ring mammas aud marriagu
blc daughters Clara Vane was
unlike the women with whom he
had been thrown in contact. Al
though among, she was not one of
them, and her indifference hurt him
more than he cared to confess, even
to himself. Bo this evening, as they
wandered together through the
trilliantly illuminated tootns of a
fashionable devotee, he asked earc
losslv, albeit his eyos rested search
ingly upon her faco:
“Miss Vane, do you beliovo in
lovo?" Sho laughed, and although
her dusky check crimsoned a little,
displayed not the slightest discom
posure as she answered.
“No—at least not as you do.’
That sentenced implied a certain
amount of something that the gen
tleman scarcely liked. Ilow sh .uld
sheVnow whether Chelr belief wero
similar 7
“Indeed I” lie commented, Borne
what dryly, “Would it bo importi
nent in me to inquire what your
belief really is ?”
She bit her lip.
“I make no pretensions to under,
standing any one’s ideas upon this
or any other subject better than
they themselves do. I only know
that my own opinion of love is very
different from tho latter-day senti
ment which is now dignified by
that name.”
He smiled provokingly,
“So is mine. We agree thus far,
at any rate. Perhaps wore wo to
compare notos the similarity would
exist still further.’’
“Scarcely probable,” she answer
ed, calmly. “But it is not an lntor
esting topic, and as it is of no con
sequence whether we consider it in
the same light or no, I propose we
discuss some other subject. ’
Of course after that the conversa
tion was changed.
“Confound it! what’s the use?”
he murmured, sadly, that night—
or rather that morning—after re
turning home. “Here I am, fairly
bewitched after a woman who, if
report speaks truly, is not capable
of feeling a particle of affection for
any man and who has demonstra
ted beyond peradventure her utter
indifference to mo. In love with
an iceberg! That’s what’s the
matter! But I swear I won’t make
a fool of myself any longer! She
can go her way, and I'il go mine!”
Whether this resolution would
have been kept or no, is a question
that must forever remain unsettled,
as the next day Miss Vane had left
town —gone, no one knew where;
to remain, none knew how long.
But we, being wiser than the
majority of folks, may follow her
away from the crowded metropolis
•to a beautiful country seat, down
in Kent, where, disgusted aliko with
the world and herself, she had
sought refuge for the summer
months with her young married
friend. Mary Thurston.
“Now, Clara,” said this yoU""
lady, as they sat together, s >mc few
evenings after MM Vane's arrival,
‘•of course yon know how gM I
am to have you here, and all that
sort of thing; but what in the world
possessed you to come ? Pop, when
I saw you last, yon gftvp mo n0
encouragement tb hope for this
; visit.”
“Well, Mary, to tell the truth, J
; hadn’t the slightest idea of paying
it two wpcks ago; butr-_-
“ButyfUat?” eagerly her
companion. “You wove not in
volvpcl in any love affair, were you ?
THOMSON, GA, MA.Y 1. 187S.
I hoard tymething of a serious kind
of flirtation yon were having wit h
somebody- It didn’t become too
serioas—did it?”
“Yes, it did 1” answered her guest
impetuously, startled out of tier
usual reticence by that strange
longing for sympathy, yliieh sonie.
times seizes tho proudest of us. *‘l
became acquainted with a man en
dowed with extraordinary gifts of
mind and person, and I undertook
to teach him a lesson. But, alas,
for human volition I I learnod tho
lesson 1”
“Docs he know it?” interrupted
her friond anxiously.
“Know it ?'’ she ropeateil in scorn.
“No! nor never will 1 And that is
the reason I have como to you so
unexpectedly.”
Tho conversation was hero put to
an end by the ontranco of Captain
Thurston.
“A letter for you, Mary. From
Morton, I fancy,” ho said, careless! v
tossjng it into her lap.
The quick blood rushed ini t
Clara’s face, liven tho nuuie emit-dj
her heart to flutter strangely ; bit.
neither of her friends tiotioed her
agitation—both being ongrossed in
their missives.
“Oh, dear!” sighed Mrs. Mary,
half unconsciously.
Clara and her husband looked up
in Burpriso. Her face was glowing
joyfully, albeit her eyos wero full of
tears.
“What’s tho matter?” they asked
in a breath.
“Oh, nothing much!" she ropliod.
“Only I’m so glad. Clara, I never
know that you wore acquainted
with my half-br. thor, Morton Lo
vylliau ”
Poor Clara I Her face, even to
the roots of her hair, was scarlot;
but she made no reply*, and her
friend continued, remorselessly, “lie
is coming to pay us a visit, and we
rray expect him every moment.”
All the color fled swiftly* from
Clara’s chcok.
“Now, don’t be a goose I” whis
pered Mary*, softly. “Just read
this.’
So .Clara read follows:
“My Deak Sisteh —l am sick of tliuJ
‘Great Metropolis,' sick of life, iwiff
nick of myself; mu fits*, i fact,' a mis
anthrope—sick of everything. So, to
improve this woeful condition of affairs,
shall Htart to-night for your sweet pretty
country home. For the last fow months,
I have made a fool of myself by falling
in love, and that is a very serious busi
ness for a man of my peculiar tempera
ment, I can nßßure you. Did yon, dur
ing your visit Imre, ever know a Miss
Clara Vane 1 I was in France at the
time, you rem' mber. Well, we have
been indulging in what. Dame Grundy
would call ‘a pleasant flirtation, ’ and, for
the first time iu his life, your brother
professes himself conqured. People say
she has no heart. Tlmt I don’t believe.
It is utterly impossible tlmt so glorious
a woman should be minus that most
feminine appendage. But, one thing is
certain, she has no heart for me, and
that has left me without a heart for any
thing else. (Please don’t think this is
intended for a pun—l am in anything
but a punning humor.) As you know I
am not in the habit of proclaiming my
miseries, and lute pity above all things.
Burn this as soon us read, keep all infor
mation contained herein to yourself, and
don’t say ‘woman’ to me while I remain.
Lovingly, your brother, Mokton.”
Even as Clara read, a tall figure
darkened the doorway.
“Oh, Morton !” shouted his sister
joyfully advancing with outstretched
hands.
After greeting tho husband and
wife, the new comer glanced ques
tioningly over at the silent lady
standing in the shadow of the room.
“Clara, here is my brother,” said
Mrs. Thurston, smiling. “I believe,
however, you are already acquaint
ed with one another.”
Thus urged, Clara advanced.
“.Miss Vane I—and here!” said the
gentleman in amazement. Then,
recover! tg himself, “Excuse qie,
but this meeting was so utterly un
expected, that I—” and here his
glance fell upon tho letter which
she still held.
“Mary gave it to mo,” she stam
mered explainingly, interpreting
aright his mute, astonished look.
He smiled. Somo way, her era
harassment put him very much
more at case.
“She did?” Well, what do you
think of it ?”
She looked around for assistance
from some quarter; but husband
and wife had left the room. So,
very unwillingly, she answered ;
“I don’t know."
“You don’t? Well,” endoavor
ing to look intd th§ oyos which so
pertinaciously sought the floor, “are
you sorry for me ?"
very low; trio
moment “ley Clara Vane” was
clgspcd close In a pair of manly
arms, from which she made not the
slightest motion to cstricatp her
self.
A Texan bride, after tho oonclu.
siem of the marriage ceremony,
i gracefully stepped forward and
reqn sted the clergyman to give
out the hymn:
“This 1* the way I long have sought.
And gjoaraedheceujS J ** not”
GLIMPSE PICTURES.
A spacious hall Ablaze With light,
A thousand <£ger faces turned
To catch the words that thrill the night.
Prom girlish lips, as sweet as learned;
Tho flattering gaae, the loud applause,
The dainty brow with liurals twined;
The vict’ry wen in plonded cause.
The brilliant triumph of the mind.
A ooay chamber, curtains white,
A cradle swaying to and fro,
A young wife, crooning to the night
And sleeping babes, tunes quaint and low;
A manly step just at the door,
The quickened pulse, the waiting hush—
And then—such greeting as of yore !
Gives lip and cheek tho brightest flush.
Which picture likes the maiden best,
Tho path to Fame—or Love and Rest ?
ir-—■ '■ I—- 1 —-
for the McDuffie Journal.]
Reminisences of Columbia County.
BY AN OBD CITIZEN.
Arum 20, 1878.
Editor McDuffie Journal:
Some time last year i gave to tho
many readers of your popular Diary
Of general and local te-ivs Berninis-
CtitlCeH of ' 'ollll' ; • i;l ('■■■my ■-!!■■■
Old Ciiizc ■” I have b. .•>. several
*'!:■ to inu tb' ■
''“fdi'udos iif Lung Ago." iSuch
whs my original intention, but,
from various causes, 1 have delayed
the work. 1 will now resume it;
aud will, front time to timo, as the
spirit moves mo, and professional
engagements permitting, givo you
for publication “Brief Biographical
Sketches and Anecdotes or Inci
dents of noted men of Columbia.”
I would thut someone more compe
tent than myself had concoived and
executed the idea.
A history of Georgia -complete
and accurate, from its colonization
by Oglothofge, down to the latifi
eiition of tho Constitution of 1877
W“a consumation to ho devoutly
wished." I know of nothing that
would advance and perfect this
work so tiMHclt as “memories” oi this
Bdpt, written by competent men in
each and every county in the State.
I made this suggestion during the
st-tpion of tho late Constitutional
Tho idea was respect*
ftajly entertained and approved, and
1 jlppo will (hi carried into practice.
f'rom / n y own
§B> 1 ory, a* jJ!V lack us it goes,
aßLng minted to tliis county in
nWj-but ifi most instance* from
cflpvorsa'.i.ouH with somo of tho old
citizens yet alive, who either figur
ed in thoso old days, or as they
hturd them from the lips of friends
who liavo passed away. Doubtless
riilny mistakes of minor importance
1 have and will make, hut fow, i
think, us to matter* of fact. Of
ovtf thing I can say of a truth:
‘'Nothing will I extenuate, nor
aught set down in malice;” and
nothing will I write to wound the
feelings of uny one. Some of tho
chant ters I shall mention may be
unkuown to fame, hut they were
useful and prominent men in their
dny and generation in this county,
and perhaps there may bo now
living thoso who will gladly read of
them, of whom thoy have heard but
not known.
OI.l) TOM COBB.
•Thomas Cobh emigrated from
Virginia and settled near the head
waters of Greenbrier creek, in Cos
lurnljia county, in the eaily dawn of
its history. If” was a remarkable
man in many respects, and lived to
the advanced ago ol 115 years, and
died at his home in this county.
He was called the “patriotch pio
neer,” of the county, and lived to
see the evidences of civilization,
progress, cult hit. and thrift follow
in tho wake "I •■'■ pioneers of
fioi ieni' c -.-h . atm ml.o 111 t u!c
lores!, . m ttuud, lu prepare
the naj tor the plow and tho hoe.
He lived to see his grandson,
THOMAS W. COBB,
in tho concils of the nation, a wise
and useful legislator, and on the
Bench, an able and honest jurist.
Thomas \V. Cobb was elected to
Congress, and was a warm support
e- of the administration of I'resident
Monroe. With Forsyth, Gilmer,
Cuthbcrt and Tatnal, he associated
to form that galaxy of talent, which
shed a lustre on the already fair
fame of Georgia, sooa to bo recog
nized as tho Empire State of the
South.
I regret that I havo not had ac
cess to moro incidents iu the life of
Old Tom Cobb, hut of this I have
board: his lifo was a long and use
ful one as a successful tiller ol the
soil, Where once ho saw tho tuli
pine find huge oftk, tho hickory,
vvftlnqt, elm mid usli flourishing in
primeyal stateliness, fie liyed to see
fiolda of cultivated crops, pnd other
evidences of thrift an I progrpap in
agi icnlmre. Tho mime of Gobb, in
after yea s, became as familiar as
household words, if not to tho coup,
ty of Columbia, at least to the
whole people of Georgia,
Tom Cobb was the grandfather
of Mrs. C, 11. Bhoskley, through
her mother, who was a Banning.
Judge Benning’s father once lived
in this county, I think. When I
came to the county there were troo
negroes hero who were either freed
or purchased their freedom from
t ho Cobbs and Hennings.
It Was Alive.
He was rather nn tinsmith look-
I ing individual, and as ho sauntered
into tho store tho crowd silting on
tho barrels winked at < ach other
and made remarks about his person.
•‘Who e did it come from ?” asked
one, pointing at him.
“Somebody left tho door open
and it blow in,” said another.
“I don’t think’s it’s alive,” said a
third.
“Touch it and sec,” remarked a
fourth.
“Yes, it’s a man—see it move?"
queried tho first. All hands laughed
heartily.
“I’m a poor man, and don’t want
■ i ll vo any trouble with any body,
i • , -i Christian, and l don't beliovo
in turmoil and strife, can’t partici
pate in it. I. pray yon, worldly
minded people, that, you will allow
me ’o depart lit peace," said the
arrival.
Ono of tho crowd, moro daring
than any of the rest, hammered tho
man’s hat down over his eyos and
another dabbed his nose full of trio
lassos from a barrel standing by.
Thon the poof Christian took a
small volume from his pocket and
began reading the Scriptures in a
drawling, sing-song tone.
While ho was engaged in this tho
crowd played all sorts of trieks on
him.
One put some eggs in his pockets
and some mashed them.
Thon the biggest man in tho
house poured somo oil on his hat
and lighted it.
Then the clerk Ifit, him under the
noso with a cod fish.
Then that man quietly put tho
little volume in his coat-tail pocket,
and the clerk went head fit si into
the molasses barrel. When the big
gest man in the house picked him
atdf from-ttndee tho was
next to an impossibility to guess
where his left off and \vbore
the codfish begun. No. 1 tnnde
work for the glazior as ho hits a
ventilator in the window. No. 2
hatched out half a barrel of eggs,
and No. 3 got up on tho pie shelf
and stayed thore. As No. 4 walked
out of tho door on his back he won
dered how much it would take to
'make him as good as new, and the
poor Christian min remarked :
“ , ho next time you folks pick
mo up for a slouch, look out you
ain’t in the wrong pew. Good-day,
fellers."
The clerk is waiting for them to
come round and settle for damage
but they must have forgotten where
tho place is, as t hoy pass right by
without looking in, aud their bills
remain unpaid.
Josh Billing’s Sayings,
When a man measures out glory
for himself lie alwus beeps tho halt
bushel.
Old age liaz its priviledj.es—-one
iz tew find fault with every tiling.
A phools money iz like his brnoes
very oncazy.
Marrying for her mutiny is very
much like setting a rat-trap and
baiting It witli yure finger.
Gravity fz no more ovioenco of
wisdom than a paper collar iz of a
hardest thing that any man
aao do iz tew fall down on tho ico
when it iz wet and got up and praze
the Lord.
A weak constitusinin kan bo
strengthened, but a weak sot of
brnnes cant.
A man with a few hranes iz like
a dorg with one flea on him, dread
ful oneazy.
Fume is climeing a greased pole
tew win a puss of ten dollars and
spiling a suit of clothes worth fif
teen.
A kicking cow never lots drive
until jist nz the pnlo iz full, and sel
dom misses the mark. It is jist so
with sum men’s blunders.
About one half the pity in this
world iz not the result ov sorrow,
but natisfueshun that it ain’t our
boss that haz hiz leg broke.
Give a smart child a pack ov cards
and a speilin book, and ho will learn
tew pla a good gnmc of hi lo jack,
long before he Him spell a word ov
too sylabM,
Young man, w hen y n havo to
sarch Webster’s dictionary tew fin i
words big enuff lew ponvey yqye
(penning you c “n ml*P yu * mind
Up that you don’t mean much.
Fool* aud drunken pirn alwua
make thi* mistukp, th“ pno thinks
they arc sensible, upd the other
think tboy arp sober,
A Bit of Experience.
“Good natured editing,” says some
wise man, “spoils half tho papers
in tho United States " Yea, verily.
“Will you please publish tho poetry
I send ?" says one ; “It is my first
efb rt and some crude lines go in
to encourago budding genius.
“Our church is In great peril,”
say another; “will you publish our
appeal" and a long lolorOUH plea is
inserted.
“My father took your paper for
twenty years," writes another j “1
think you ought to publish (ho :es
bhttion passed by tho sessions of
tho Big Brake church When ho
died ;” and in goes resolutions of no
interest to a majority of tho mil
el's.
“I am particularly anxious that
the views I pres nt should go before
the church this week.” Out go a
covey of small pithy contributions
to make room for three columns
from it ponderous D. D.
Tbero is an immediate necessity
for tho exposure of ono who is a
hitter enemy to the truth, writes
another, as ho sends an attack upon
an antagonist which will fill an
entire page.
“1 um about to publish n hook
identifying tho great imago of brass,
iron and clay, and I would bo
obliged to you to publish the ad
Vance sheets of tho filth chapter,
which 1 herewith enclose to you.”
“Why do you not publish in full
R’s great speech in the general
assembly? It would increaso your
circulation largely.”
“If you will publish-tho sermon 1
transmit to you I will take eight
extra copios.”
“Tho church must bo aroused on
the subject of foreign missions,”
says a pastor as lie forwards the
hah’of his lust Subbath’s services.
A good-natured editor surrenders
to them at once, and they go away
happy, utterly unconscious that
they have helped to spoil the paper.
Pro* by toriun.
Sotind Sleep.
It is wonderful how much may
bfe done to'protractfextsterreo by the
habitual restorative of sound sleep.
Late honfs pnd pi strain al'e oi
course, incompatible with this so-
Incoment. On this topic Dr. Rich
ardson says it has been painful to
him to trace tho beginnings of pul
monary consumption to late hours
at “unearthly balls and ovoning
parties,” by which rest is broken
and encroachments made on the
cinstilution. But, he adds, “If iu
middle age the habit of taking defi
cient and irregular sleep he main
tained, every source of depression,
every latent form of disease, is
quickened and ileitsifiod. Tho
sleepless exhaustion allies itself
with !( other processes of exhaus
tion, or it kills imperceptibly, by a
rapid introduction of premature old
ago, which leads directly to prema
ture dissolution.” Thoro, at once,
is an explanation why many peo
ple die earlier than they ought to,
They violate the pr mary principle
of taking ft regular night’s rest. If
they sleep it is disturbed. They
dream all sorts of nonsense. That
is to say, they (lo not sleep soundly,
or for any useful purpose) for
dreaming is mold ■■ more than
! wild, imaginative notion;, pass
i mg through toe brain while half
sleeping or dosing. In dreaming
there is no proper or restorative
rest.
If wo and o to-day the nin will
shine ns brightly, and tho biuls will
sing ns sweetly' to-morrow. Busi
ness ill not be suspended a moment
an I the great mass will not bestow
a thought upon our memories. “Is
ho dead ?” will ho the solemn in
quiry of a few, ns thoy pass to their
work. But none will miss us ex
cept our immediate Connections, and
in a i-hort time they will forgot and
laugh as merrily as when wo sat
be-ido them. Thus shall we all
now active in life, pass away. Our
children crowd clone behind us, and
they will soon he gone. In n tew
yearn, not a living being can say,
“I remember him.” We lived in
another age, and did business with
thoso who slumber in the tomb.
Thus is life! How rapidly it pass
ed.
A sailor on ono occasion applied
to a sea-captain for relief for cramp
in his stomach. Tho captnin had a
household medical book, with the
diseases and remedies each num
bered. He found the sailor's com
plaint under No. 15, and prescribed
tho medicine, Unfortunately, how
ever, there wa a run upon No. 15,
find tho bottlo was soon empty.
But, the skipper mudo up u dose by
pombit'lßg -No*- 8 end 7, saying,,
tig and 7 moke 15,” end the siiilor,
to wlmm the eclculaiion seemed
quite natural, felt for a week a tor
ward til ho wauled t die an* bo
out of his misery,
TN ti#nber I@.
Proprietors.
Religious Department.
Til 13 JOYffi Ofr liOftC* AGO.
The pfesc lit nifty lie cheerful tts the dawn
of huiduict’h day.
And for things iti tbeftihlrtfft em charming,
light and gay ; .. ..
Yet, nothing o’ef tho afy Can the Rweet
enchantmen throw,
Like the wandering of memory to the joys
of long ago.
The sunshine of the moment, unbroken
though it seem
is often quiokly ruffled like tn’6 Walef* of a
stream;
Yet, though that stin Re darkened and the
hi ream its banks o’erflotf,
Naught can destroy the sohwe of joys
of loug age*;
Arid when with grief and sorfbw, the heart
is stricken down.
Aud trouble’s robe of mourning succeeds
the gaudy crown,
When tempests dark and awful, o’ef wasted
pleasures blow.
It is sweet tw revel fondly in th joys of
kmg ago.
When in misfortune’s senfioif the friends wo
most revere,
No sympathy can give us to dry the
ing tear
When U nder hopes are dyltt# f torn decep
tions cruel snow—
’Tis sweet to pause and listen (o the joyd
of loug ago.
And when life’s march is elided, and itn
tumult nearly o’er —
When tho breakers amt the surges dash
upon the bench no moro;
It is then when all is quiet that our tnemoc
ries backward flow,
Eternally to linger with the joys of long
ago.
(Written for ths MaDnflte Jot-ReAJ,. j
Extracts from Ecclesiastical Hi
tofy**For ths Yottngi
BY REV. J. S. JONKS.
1346. Tho emperor Louis of Btt
variu, deposed by Clement VI.
1347. Nicholas Gabrini, slrhaftietl
Rionzi, restores the tribunate at
Rome, on tho !9tb of May, and
rules with sovereign authority for
seven months.
1378. Schism occasioned by the
election of two popes, Urban VI.
who resi led at Rome, and was
acknowledged by the greatest part
of Germany, Bohemia, Hungary*,
and Kngland; and Clement VII.
recognized by Franco, Spain, Scot
land, Sicily and Cyprus*
fiftH epoch
Tcytiio beginning of the Refetttma
, tion by Lnthvr 1517.
1383. A crusade preached in
EnjjuoHi, by enter of UfiW/w ugeinst,
France and tho followers of Cletu
oßt. On this occasion John Wick
litt'o writes agnjntt botli the Popes,
in a book containing the principles
of his doctrine.
1407. John Kuss begins to propo
ga'e his doctrine in Bohemia. Ben
edict XIII. (Peter of Lufile) lays
Franco under an interdict, the king
and clergy having endeavored to
put an end to the schism.-
1409. Sixteenth general council,
at Pisa* to put nil end to the' schism,
Both Popes aro deposed by (he
cardinals, who elrfi-t Alexander '
so there wore no less tliun three
Popes at oneo.
1410. Alexander V. dies, and
John XXiil. is elected.
1414. Seventeenth general council
at Constance, to res ore pence to
the Church.
1415. The doctrine of Wickliffe
condemned. John Hums appears
beforo tho council, and on his refus
ing to retract, is sentenced to he
degraded. Being then delivered to
' the emperor Sigiwinutnl. whose sufc
• conduct hi I.:M oh'Tiiticil to eu to
lii ‘l • oil i, fn t ''ill Prilll'C
given up to tho Elector I'niuiinc,
who, without any trial, orders him
to bo burned alive.
1410. Jerome of Prague, a dis
ciple of I lass, condemned by the
council of Constance, and burned
Juno Ist.
1417. The council of Constance,
afur tho Voluntary abdication of
Gregory XiT,, and John XXUI.,
..epoeo Benedict XIIi., whereupon
Martin V. is elected Nov. 2. (Ire. t
disturbances in Bohemia excited by
the Hussites,
1431. Eighteenth general coun
cil, held at Basle, for the reunion of
the Greek Churcn, and the reforma
tion of abuses. Its session continued
till 1443.
1437. Disputes between Pope
Eugeni,is IV, mid the council of
Basic, by which he is depos d.—
Pope' Eugcniiis assembles another
council at Ferrara.
1439. Tho council of Ferrara
transferred to Florence, where a
reunion is effected with the Greek
Church.
1467. Tho monastic ordor of the
M mimes instituted by St. Francis,
of Paul.
1492. Election of Alexander VI.
(Borgia) whose seandulous conduct
dishonors his exhnltod situation.
1512. Nintoonlii general council
(fifth of Lntran) in which tho prag
matic sanction is abolished, and the
concordat between Leo X. and
Francis king of France, is confirmed.
1517. Luther begins to declare
dguiqft the Roman Church, and
lav* tho foundation cf his reforma
tion.
[Tobe Vontii ued)