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' ‘ ‘ " WEEKLY ~ ~ Heittflk Bhmtnal. Volume VIII. White & Cos., ®tgale aalerhla |onraaL i EVERT WEDNESDAY. tERMS - - 8U)0 A YEAR. Advertising; Katcts. •One square, first insertion $ I 01) €aqh iiuserti&n 75 VOne Square throe months...... 10 00 •One square tax m0uth*.,.. ....... ...... 16 00 *One square tvehe months '2 O 00 tQnartw cofrnmn twelve months 40 00 ■Hal£ column six months 60 00 Half column twelve months.... 75 00 One column twelve months 12/ 00 <4" Ten lines or less considered a sqnitie All f raetfoyof spares uf uotpfo*l | (nil n.rf'H. BUSINESS CARDS. 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; —IN THE— UTEST AND MOST SCIENTIFIC NANNER, —BY— E. D. AMMONITTI, Artiat on If iiiiijiit Ilaii*, (OFFICE UNDER CENTRAL HOTEL,) AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. roarC-tf GIN GEARING, Shafting and Bolts, CHEAPER 1 HAN EVER —AT THE— Forest City Foundry -AND— Machine Works, GEO. R. LOMBARD & CO- 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)