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\\ ATSON & JOHNSON,
Attorneys sit Law,
THOMSON, GA.
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PAUL C. HUDSON,
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Thomson, On.
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the Augusta. Northern and Middle Circuits,
and in the Supremo 'Court, and will gtv*i
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wants of old and new patrons, if desired,'at
their residences.
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we furnish. $o! per week in veur own
town. Yon net and not be aw ay from home
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Machine Works,
am /r, lombard & co.
Exoprietors.,
Augusta, (ia.,
C-#'Engines, Cotton Screw*, Mill Gear
ing anil Machinery of every kind made
awl repaired. may23-Ai;
foot k Blacksmith
S h © P,
C. Wv ROBERTS
Announces to the Dublin that he
is prepared to do all kinds of V\ ood
and Blacksmith work. Building arid re
pairing Bnggies and Wagons a specialty.
I defy competition in prices.
Thanking tile public for past patronage
I respectfully solicit a continuance of the
same.
I am also prepared to do all kinds of
Plow work.
Shop at Scroggins old stand, on
Oreenway Street, near Shield’s Mill.
Gire me a call.
jan7-A§ G. W. ROBERTS.
~SL Mason k Son.
Watchmakers and Jewelers,
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At the old stand of V. ( ■
Jiruckner,
Main St, Thomson, Go.
Will repair Watches, Clocks, Jewelry.
Ac., aheap for CASH, and warranted to
give entire sitisfaction. We are :' o,
agents for the celebrated Crown Bp< itaelfc*.
C-vTWaalso have a complete „.oek of
Sewing Machine Fixtures on hand, and are
piepared to repdlr Sewfaig Mail ines at the
lowest cash prices. Give u a call.
jaclG-dm.'
\ James Gordon Bennett is said to have
made $60,000 on O'Leary’s walking vic
tory.
A Salt Lake Mormon has just married
I a woman of sixty and her daughter of
I eighteen.
It is reported that tbe vidow of Com
ißexlfcrq Y;ufdehilt will shortly \marry
i again. , , k ;
ThV pine forests of this country will
j bo enlisted in 30 to 50 years if some
I protection is not afforded.
■ Within two years about $10,000,(XX) of
\ gold have been derived from the Black
! Hills, sayß a Chicago correspondent.
£ A Stedivipins violin and dated
: 1709 sold at auction in Paris a few days
| ago for 21,000 francs (about $4200).
Mrs. Ann Hopkins, of Cedar Creek,
! Tenn., is 117 years old. She has three
! ohh living, her “baby” being 90 years
| of age.
A citizen of New bury port, Mass., has
now fattening for his table 500 frogs
He keeps them iu a barrel and feeds
them upon Indian meal.
The oldest woman in the world is said
to be Mrs. Perez, of Los Angeles, Cal.,
i who has attained the extraordinary ngt*
of one hundred and forty.
, Senator Spencer says that summer
will'bring a larger Indian war than wo
have ever had, and lie is iu favor of in
creasing the army to 40,000 men.
The Chinese never could use the tele
graph because of their intricate alphabet,
but the telephone is a God*send to them,
and they already have it in nee.
The Legislature of Virginia at its last
acsatM making it a misde
meanor lor any one to pay the poll-tax
of another in order to get his vote.
In the truck farms around Charleston,
8. G., about 1,000 acres are planted in
Irish potatoes and 225 acres in strawber
ries. TjtfLpdtatMSP. will render a gross
income of $200,000.
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Marriage is becoming very common
among the Catholic priests in Germany.
It may not be generally kuorvn that the
civil law protects them.
The venerable Mrs. Sarah J. Hale still
writes for Godey’s Lady’s Book. She is
i Uer <’ighty-ith year—a rare
I of physical and mental preservation.
The world can maintain sixty thousand
millions of people. It has never bad
more than two per cent, of that number
living, at any one time on its surface.
Lord Kinsate is .the only peer who
e.iii remain in the presence of the British
sovereign with his head covered on oc
casions of state. The privilege was con
ferred by King John in the thirteenth
century.
Sea fowls will smell a rain-squall at
the distance of a hundred miles, and
scud for it. Collecting under the rain
cloud they open their bills and catch the
drops, their only means of obtaining
fresh water.
A Chinaman fell info a flume in
Flncerville, Cal., was swept with fright
ful velocity through a tunnel 800 feet
long, and dropped forty feet into a
(ca blithe was notihnrt mqch.
The Rev. E. E. Cummings, D. TANARUS)., a
well-known Baptist minister of Concord,
New Hampshire, celebrated a golden
anniversary by delivering in the First
Baptist Church, in that city, the same
sermon which ho preached in that house
fifty years ago, or on the last Snnday of
March, 1828.
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The Ujoderjt sea steamer .plying be
tween this country and Liverpool carries
'flfteen'iitnas its much freight as- the old
steamers of 1840 at nearly twice the rate
of speed. The consumption of coal was
then nearly eleven times as great ns at
present.
When a man goes to the theatre for
th first time, nothing surprises him
more than the wonderfnl rapidity with
which an actor writes a letter, unless it
may be the suddenness with which the ;
receiver ascertains its contents. One |
glanco-aiid he absorbea it ail and clasps j
his forehead with his left hand.
Oysters have always been considered
as forbidden food by the Jews,, the law
of Moses forbidding the eating of fish
without scales. In consequence, how
ever, of Mr. Darwin’s theories, a learned
Rabbi has arrived at the conclusion that
oysters arc plants, and may, therefore,
be eaten by Jews. An English paper
reports that the problem will be submit
ted to a grand council.
The Ninety-six (8. C.) Guardinn
chronicles the birth, of colored parents,
of a very singular child. From the
waist to the crown of the child's head,
its skin is pare white, from the hips to
tho knees the skin is of a coal black, and
from there down the skin is white. Tho
head is covered with hair as white as
driven snow, and is unusually long for a
child of that age. The child is large
and healthy.
Great labor and ingenuity are expen
ded on (he production of the Bank of
Bn*lrani cotes, They oro ;ntde- from
‘piftd new, win* liner, mid ft*'2oo years
have been manufactured in the same
family. The print*.* is done by a most
curious process in the bank building.
There is an elaborate arrangement for
insuring that no note shall Vie like any
other in existence; consequently there
never was a clUniiof a Bank of Eng
land note except by forgery.
‘A MAT OF BUSY ZIFF: ITS F Z IC*l UAT!O NS A NI) ITS I ’AST CONCERN'S."
ME CAREFUL tVIIAT YOU SAY.
In speaking of a person’s faults,
Pray don’t forget your own;
Remember those with homes of glass
Should seldom threw a stone.
If we have nothing else to do
But talk of those who sin,
Tit better wo commence at home,
And froim that point begin.
We have no right to judge a man
Until he's fairly tried ;
Should we not like his company,
We know tho world is wide.
Some may have faults- and who havo not ?
The old as well as young.;
Perhaps we may, for aught we know,
Have fifty to (Loir one.^
I'll tell you a better plan,
And one that works full well;
I try my own defect* to cure,
Ere I of other’s tell.
And though I sometimes hope to be
No worse than some I know,
My own short comings bid me let
The faults of others go.
Then let us all, when we commence
To slander friend c r foe,
Think of the harm one word may do
To those who little know.
Remember, curses, sometimes like
Our chickens, “roost at home,”
Don’t speak of others’ faults until
We have none of our own.
TIIE STORY oFa GREAT
PERIL.
In the autumn of tho year 1806,
business necessitated my leaving
Hong-Kong, where I had for some
years resitted, and proceeding to
Swatow, one of tho ports upon the
cast coast of China, open for foreign
traffic. I arranged my affairs at
that place sooner than I expected
for some days, I determined to pro
ceed in the Heather 8011, a hark
rigged sailing vessel of about throe
bust'red tons register.
! was well acquainted with her
captain, but what perhaps chiefly
induced mo to take passage iu his
was tho fact of his daughter being
ah ar . Lottie Moo e was a
haired, blue-oyed darling, - upon
whose fair head some seventeen
summers had smiled. Upon her
nut tier’s demise, she had quitted
her homo in England to accompany
her bereaved Hither in Ida wander
ings from dime to dime.
The 1 Rather Bull stilled from
Swatow just ns day broke. On the
evening of the next, day, a little
before ten o'clock, 1 was silting
with Miss Moore in the saloon, ad
miring somd water-color sketches
that young lady had executed, when
the chief mate entered.
“There’s a largo .junk coming
right, toward us, sir. By the num
ber ol sweeps she pulls, 4* reckon
she carries a considerable crew," ho
said.
I knew what lie meant, and so
did the skipper, just as well as if lie
had spoken all that was passing in
his mind ; moreover, .1 appreciated
his motive for reticence, for if be
had said plainly that he feared she
was a pirate, it would have alarmed
the fair girl, who, thoughtless of
danger near, was chatting so vivac
iously wit li me.
Captain Moore ran upon deck;
and witch 1 heard him shortly after
ward toll the mate to call ail hands,
I also proceeded to the poop, and
found him gazing intently through
a pair of binocular glasses at a Chi
nese craft that was advancing, with
furled sails, in the dcud calm, being
propelled by bn array of oars that
flashed and glittered in the phos
phorescent water.
“He’s an ugly customer, and no
mistake. We shan’t have much of
a show if l e attacks us, but I will
let him sup that we are on the alert.
Perhaps wo can maringe to intimi
date him.” he said, as he stooped
down and commenced casting adrift
the lashings of a small cast-iron
four-pounder that was only useful
as a signal gun.
Dire-’ 1 v I It is un formidable cannon
was loaded ’ ith black cartridge
an 4 discharged, the junk altered
her course, and passed under our
stern a ei nsidorable distance away.
Captain Moore, when he noticed
this movement, was inclined to
think that she was a mere trading
junk.
At midnigh' I retired to my
berth, and had just sank in the
i sweet embrace of sleep, when I was
startled to wakefulness by the boom
,of a heavy gun, while the crash of
I falling spars, mingling with its
| echoing thunder, told mo plainly
: that our vessel was attacked, and
; that the first shot had taken terrible
effect upon iter.
I grasped my revolver and rushed
| through the saloon toward tlie eqtn
! panionway, only halting for an in
stant near the mizzen mast to glean
a cutlass from tlic rack which sur
rounded it, ere I ascended to the
: deck. The scene that met my eyes
on gaining it baffles all description.
Tangled cordage, rent sails and
riven spars lay in confused heaps
I around, and from under the chaotic
j ruins issued deep groans of agony
THOMSON, QA*, MAY .8. 1878.
from the -wounded and dying, while
myriadsjof. torohos aboard a huge
junk that had ranged al, ngside,
shed across the sea a wiord, yellow
glare, revealing only too plainly the
dread effects of wanton carnage.
As tho junk ran under our bows,
a multitude of fierce demons, pow
der grimmed and insatiable in their
lust for blood, ’’clambered to our
deck, and pressed their way aft
i ho fallen spars and multifarious
impediments effectually prevented
any one passing along the portside ;
so Captoin Moore,, three stsTman
and myself, tho only' survivors,
rushed into the alley-way to star
hoard of the deck-house, and there
stood resolutely' at bay.
Our murderous antagonists pos
sessed no fire-arms, but each one
carried a short, ponderous • native
sword, called apa Iceem ; those,
however, were of littlo’uvail against
tho winged messengers of death our
trustworthy revolvers sent into tho
midst of the advancing horde, until
it became apparent to them and to
us that o n- ammunition was giving
out. /
“Find Lottie, Mr. Carter. We
have no chance; but, lor heaven’s
sake, save her from those merciless
wretches. 1 have my death-wound
n w,” cried the skipper.
1 sprang down tho cabin stairway,
and found the fair girl kneel ng at
lire table, imploring succor from on
high. 11 or face was glmslly pah - ,
and a tremor visibly convulsed her
frame when she saw my blood
s ained brow.
“Are they' subdued? Where is
my father?" she cried, hs site sprang
to her feet.
I caught her in my arms, 'lllll
boro her bodily on dock. It had
been my intention to place iter in
the captain's gig, that hung in the
quarter-davits, and lower it into the
sea; hut- hardly ad we emerged
from tlie companion hutch, when,
above the da h of steel and the
groans of the wounded, 1 hoard ring
out from throe hundred throats a
word of .dreadful import— “Hhiny !"
(Victory !)—and knew that, niv
bravo comrades had boon beaten
down—that the pirates held undis
puted possession of t he vessel.
When in Swutow the ship's jolly
boat, or dingy, had boon injur and ;
and, since our departure, the car
penter had been employed repairing
her bottom, as site lay inverted on
the poop. I knew that 1 should
not have time to lower the gig
when 1 hoard the war-cry change
to it note of triumph ; and 1 instinct
ively felt that our only chuneo of
escaping deatii lay in concealing
ourselves hcncat.li Lite little dingy,
as the cabin and hold would ho
thoioughly searched for pl.indcr
“Crawl under quickly. i will
follow you," i whispered in the oar
Of the terrified girl, as I raised the
stern of'tlie light craft.
As if mechanically, site obeyed
ntc; then, with much difficulty,]
managed to creep under myself;
and scarcely had J re-lowered our
frail tenement to too deck ere it
wits surrounded by a horde of mis
creants, who were vociferating
loudly.
Even at this hour, 1 shudder
when I remember the agony of sus
pense 1 endured daring the ransack
ing of the vessel.
At length it became obvious that
the piiuLes had accomplished their
work of plunder, for 1 heard one
direct his satellites to set fire to the
ship, and burry back to their own
vessel.
Soon the sound of plashing oars
told me that the piratical 01 aft was
speeding away from the haples
vessel she had destroyed; so, 1
cautiously uplifted the dingy, and
crept from beneath hoa. A bright,
glowing flame, shooting skyward
from tlie fore-hatch, plainly indica
ted how well tlie marauder chief’s
mandate had been obeyed, and told j
me in words of fire that I must im
mediately bear Lottio from tlie
Heather 8011, and trust to a less
greedy el meat for safety. 1 quick
ly lowered the gig, but site sank 011
touching the water; the pirates had
stave f in her bottom. The in
creasing roar o> tlie grasping flames,
that twined like glittering serpents
up the shrouds a id masts, inspired
mo with extra energy. I uplifted
tlie dingy and, when Lottie Crawled
from beneath it, with her assistance
boro it to tlie taffruil.
“We have r;o time to lower it;
we roust launch it bodily,", l said
catching my darling in my arms.
‘Be not afraid, dear love,” l cried,
then sprang with Iter into the seeth
ing sea.
Wo sank deep beneath the briny
flood, hut I struck vigorously up
ward, and soon gained tho surface.
Then, drawing the loving girl's head
upon my shoulder. I swam rapidly
toward the drifting dingy. It was
on its keel and floating bouyantly ;
so I clambered in, drew Lottie after
mo; ajtd then sank, weak and pros
it rate from over-exertion, in the
; stern sheets. My fair eompan-on
railed my head, and gently tended
i me until l recovered my faculties—
i r covered thorn just, in time to see
8-1 rot >’ Heather Hell sink, a hoi
oeicst, to her grave in tho coral
depths.
Soon after, a vessel, which proved
to bo tho Lily, rescued us from our
position and carried us in
ninety, to Tlong-Kong, in which city,
six months subsequently, I led to
the hymeneal altar the dear, brave
girl who had shared my peril on
that eventful night.
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A Youthful Thespian,
A few days ago, young Gurley,
whose father lives on Crcgh: n
street, organized a t heat rial com pa
nv and purchased tho dime* novel
play of “II am Jett.” Tho company
cojbsistod of three boys and a host
ler. and Mr. Gurley's hired girl
wa: to he tho Ghost if the troupe
could guarantee her fifty cents per
nigliL
Young Gurley 8 ’d,denly bloomed
out as a professional, and when his
mo Iter asked him to bring in some
wo ;<!, ho replied :
‘Though I am penniless thou
Coijst not degrade me !”
1 You trot out after that wood or
I’ll h vo your father trounce you !”
she exclaimed. *
“The tyrant who lays his lmiul
til' ll mo shall die !" replied the boy,
but ho got tlie wood.
He was out on the step when a
tmm canto along and asked him
where Lay layette street was.
“Doomed for a certain time to
roti 111 (lie earth I" replied Gurley in
a hoarse voice, and holding Lis
rb.Tit arm out straight.
~*~l say-—you ! W here is Lafayette
street I" called the man.
“Al>! Could the dcud hut speak
ali!” continued Gurley.
The man drove him into the
iotasc rind his mother sent hint to
1 tldr'jJTifliSrJi i.iu/l- po.aloes. 1
“I go, most noble duchess," lie
said us lie took u]i the basket, “but
my good sword shall some day
avenge these insulin!”
Ho knew that (lie grocer favored
theatricals, and when he got there
lie said:
“Art thou provided with a store
ol that vegetable known us tho
'later, most excellent duke?"
“VVluit in thunder do you want?”
growled tlie grocer as he cleaned
tho cheese knife with a piece of pa
per.
“Don't try to got off any of your
nonsense on me, or i’ll crack you 1
empty pate in a minute," roared
the grocer, and “Ilatt.let" hud to
come down from his high horse and
ask fog a peck of potatoes.
“WliaL made you so long?" asked
his mother, as he returned.
“Tliy grave shall lie dug in tlie
cypress g'adel” he haughtily an
swered.
\Vlien his father came homo at
noon Mrs. Hurley told him that she
believed tlie boy was going crazy,
and related what had occurred.
“I see wlmt ails him,” mused the
father; “this explains why ho hangs
around Johnson’s barn so much."
At tlie dinner table young Gnrley
spoke of his father as tlie “illustri
ous count,” and when his mother
asked him if he would lnvve some
butter gravy he answered.
“flio appetite of a warrior cannot
lie satisfied with such nonsense.”
When tlie meal was over the
fa her wi nt out to his favorite
strode tree, cut a sprout, and ill
hoy w.is asked to step out it.to the
woodshed and seo if tho penstock
was frozen up. He found tho old
man there and he said:
“Why, most noble lord, 1 had
supposed tine far away!”
“I’m not so far away but what
I’m going to make you skip!"
growled the father, “i’ll teach you
to fool around with ten cent trage
dies ! come up here I”
For übouPfive minutes tho wood
shed was full of dancing feet, flying
arms and moving bodies, and then
the old man took a rest and inquir
ed :
“There, your highness, dust thou
want any more?'
“Oli! no, dad—not a darned hit!”
wailed tho young manager, and
whilo tho father started for down
town lie went in and sorrowfully
informed the hired girl that he must
cancel her engagement until the
fall Boasu...
Ono of Ihe most prominent men
I spoken of for 1 fin liisliorjirie in too
Metho list Kpu-eopol Church is Hr.
Alliens l> j).i) mhhl, Fresidcnt < I
; Emory College. If elected, he will
he the youngest n an ever in tho
’ office, ail lie will he also one of the
I most worthy.
TWILIGHT.
I ntn sitting in tho twilight,
In the moonbeam’k silver light,
While around me, all around me,
i There's a fairy land, to-night ;
And the zephyrs whisper to me,
Whispei to mo soft ami low,
As they used to, ever used to,
In tho long ami long ago.
In tho twilight, golden twilight,
I tun ever dreaming o’er
All the sunny days of childhood,
All the sunny days of yore.
And 1 cannot now forgot them,
While tho shadows come and go,
As they used to, over used to,
In tho long and long ago.
CHAEMED BY A PANTKEP.
A TEXAS STORY.
I hud been three weeks in west
ern Texas, when 1 went out, one
hfi limn b f'<ip tr> n l>v t- iinj' X’l HUME OTI
tiic prairie, in company with Karl
Vanhorn, an exper cnccil hunter and
woodsman, and a fine, good-natureo
fellow. Tho givat prairie—one
vast expanse of waving grass—
seemed as devoid of till track or
landmark as the ocean itself, so
Karl directed me to stay with him
for fear of getting lost. i did so
until in the afternoon, when lined
by a race after one of the curious
mule-cared Texas tablets, (as big
as a dog) I got separated from my
companion, and soon \ was cut of
sight of him, and wholly at, a loss
which way to go. I was lost on the
prairie, mid 1 galloped m aimlessly,
consumed in the meantime by
raging thirst.
At last, l came to a grovo of
trees, mostly meztic bushes, and to
my great delight found a little
stream of cool water issuing out
from the side of a green bank.
Kneeling down, I quenched my
thirst, while my panting horse
drank eagerly close hy mo. Weary
and overcome with heat and anx
iety, 1 concluded t> rest rtlyi elf and
horse in this shade until it grow
cooler; and throwing myself down
at the foot of a tree, 1 soon li-ll
asleep
A terrible dream invoke me 1
opened my eyes bewildered mil
agitated, and they encountered a
pair of fiery, intense orbs that sent
a thrill of horror through my veins.
Crouching near me, with eyes fixed
upon me, was a liugo brindled pan
ther. As soon as he met my look
lie began to waive his tail and creep
nearer. Seeing my danger, the
first impulse was to spring to my
feet and recover uiy gun that, I had
leaned against a tree at a littlo dis
tance. But to my horror, l found
myself unable to move. 1 was held
spell-bound by those terrible eyes
that I had found ti. ' 1 upon me at
the instant of awaki nm.; •' .Ho my
nerves were unstrung hr sleep and
the terror of a warning dream.
Witli all l e will at my command I
strove to withdraw my eyes from
the fearful orbs, creeping slowly,
stealthily near me. Attain and
again I made an effort to move, but
my limbs refused to obey. I was
charmed by this terrible brtilc —
held p wcrless by the spell of bis
eyes, as a bird is eliarine I by a eat,
and a squi rcl fascinated bv a rat
tlesnake, There I lay motionless,
feeling my faculties every moment
grow more paralyzed, though mem
ory was heightened into unnatural
vividness, and incidents of my boy
hood rushed over mo one after
another, anil I saw the face of my
motlior arid sister ns distinctly as I
ever saw them with actual vision.
Nearer crept my horrible charm
er; seconds seemed hours. If' 1
could onl}' move my eye lids or cry
aloud to break tho spell !
Suddenly I felt that the panther
was about to make the fatal leap
lie was now in springing distance.
I saw him gather his limbs togeth
er; 1 saw tho movements of Ids
muscles under liis bountiful skin.
He crouched lower, flattening his
head against the grass and then
leaped forward to light upon my
defenseless tody. For tlie space of
a single breath, he hung suspended
in the air; I tit in that brief half
second my eyo took in tlie picture
with fascii at and distinctness—tho
broad, white breast, the I'the, strong
limbs, every keen claw stretched to
its fullest extent, the eyes burning
like living coals, tlie glistening
fangs, tho red jaws ! Great stars!
can I ever forgot the sight! I
thought it was my lust sight on
earth, and strove to shut tny eyes
upon tho horror, when suddenly the
sharp crack of a gun sounded near
me, the breast of tho descending
boast was instantly dashed with
blood, and with a shrill cry ho fell
almost upon my body, shot through
tlie heart. The spell was broken.
I bounded to my feet in time to
save myself from being torn by tho
dying struggles of the H I*ll l
Karl Vauhoru stood m ar me, his
i smoking gun in his hand,
“A pretty fellow you are to go to
sleep by Panther Spring—the greai
resort, of all tho animals hereabout
i It was a mercy I saw your horse
and came to you in time. Why the
mischief didn't you jump up and
go for your gun? Your eyes won
wide, open.”
‘ I could not move, a muscle,
I hough [ fell my life depended on
it,’ I answered, all in a tremble, as
I leaned against, a tree, too weak to
stand. “Tho panther held me spoil
bound hy his eyes; the fear nara
lyzed me the moment I woke. Did
you over know of such a case?”
“Yes,” lie answered, gravely. “I
know of a child who was charmed
! tho same way by a stump tailed
cougar The father came
them and jirioi—<—— k*A
-mtssoil it, and tho child was so bad
ly lorn it died.”
“Thank God, and your good gun
and steady hand, that made you
aim surer, my boy. Como, let a
go home; I vo had enough of the
prairie for one day. ’
Beriegecl Twenty-Three Times.
Constantinople has undergone
more sieges than any other city in
the world. It lias boon besieged
twenty-three times; twice by the
ancient Greeks; thrice by the Ho
man emperors; once by tho Latins,
t he Persians, the Avaros, tho Sclaves
and hy one of its dethroned sever
o'gns, Michael Palcologus; twice lay
tho Bulgarians; once by ihe Byzan
tine robclH; seven times by the
Arabs, and tiirco times by the
Turks. It was taken hut six: by
Aloibiades, the Roman ciipcrors
Septimus, Severus and Constantine,
the Doge Dandolo and Count Bald
win, the Emperor Michael Puloolo
gus and Mnhommed If.
In G 7-, under Constantino 11., it
was be ieged for seven y ars by I he
Arabs. They made the surround
ing c, untry a desert, uprooting
trees, levelling villages and habita
tions, and converting tho flourish
ing environs into a wa-te. Then
came tho Crusaders in 1204. Tbe
devastation commit ed by the
Fiench ami Venetian champions of
the cross exceeded even that of the,
Arabs. They burned tho richest
and largest quurler of the city, and
inflicted such a blow on it that it
never rocovcaed its former w alth
and prosperity. They profaned the
Cathedral of St. Sophia, broke into
the tombs of the Byzantine empe
r rs, dragged out their skeletons,
md scattered their bones in tho
streets. They fired tho public li
braries, ridiculed the Greek religion
by decking their horses witli the
vestments of tho clergy, and their
htsids with the pontifical tiaras.
Were it not for tho inconipai able
beauty and advantages of its situa
tion, Constantinople could never
havo risen again from its ashes and
survived such terrible calamnities.
Sun Spots.
The phenomena of sun sp> ts tire
now familiar; multitudes of people
have seen them and oveiybody Inis
read ithou them. It, is well known
blint the surface of the sun is not
that uniform disk of light Unit it
w s formerly supposed to bo, hut
abounds in gulls, dark chasms, up
rushing streams of flaming gasos,
and lurid prominences, sometimes
100,000 miles high. But these
striking effects are not uniform;
the sea of solar fire, like our own
oceans, is sometimes quiet. The
spots are varuble, being now many
and enormous in size, and again
few and small. This periodicity,
mOreove , is proved to be regular.
A son of tlie Emerald Itlo was
observed one morning to look very
blank and perplexed, and a friend
asked bin what ailed him. “Fat,”
said lie, “1 hud a dream.” “A good or
a bad one?" inquired his Incud.—
hie answered, “it wasa little uf both.
Failli i’ll tell ye. 1 dreamed 1 was
with the Dope, who was as gieiitu
jin.lonian as any in the distnot, an
no uxed me would 1 drink. Fuix,
would adu It swim? And seeing
the craythur an l 10 lemon, an the
sugar on the sideb ard, 1 luld Inin
1 didn’t care it 1 ink u woe drap of
the punch. ‘Gold or hot?’ asked the
Pope. ‘Hot,yor holiness,’ 1 replied,
and with that lie stepped down in
to tho kitchen for tho bidin wathor,
but before lie got hack I woke
straight up ; and now its disthroos
ing me that 1 didn’t take it eowld.”
During some period of Mr. linn,
dolph’s political career, he had tlie
ill-lot tune to offend a eoxoombish
young fellow, who determined to
avenge himself by insultiug tlie
It anoko orator oil the first oppor
tunity that occurred. Al length
the opportunity presented itself,
when 1 lie young sprig, merlin
itanduipli ou the pavement, walk'd
up to mm . very impudently, and
said: . -
“J never give the way to a damn
ed rascal.”
Mr, Randolph, immediately pull
ing off ills lull and making 1110 gem !
Ucman a low bo , replied:
“V\ ■ 11, sir, l always do,” and gave
him the pavement.
fVnmber ID.
Pr c*pi*i e loi\s.
THE 01,1) KOt'.KS U OS E.
The dear old folks,'we miss them ;
| And the edrner over there,
By the dreamy, dickering firelight,
Looks desolate and hare.
Ana we s ed the silent tear-drop
On each precious, vacant chair.
Some tender, sweet reminders*
Of these, dear ones now we hold —
Tlie Bible .ind the s-pectaclca
Are worth thoir weight in goid.
And we look, with heaitfeit, reverence
On their garments every fold.
Poor grandpa, wonk and tottering,
Went first ;,.*s by a stroke
He died while sitting in in his chair
No warning; wonrhc spoke;
I None knew it till dear grandma
From her morning nap awoke.
Then, oh ! what desolation
For tbe fond and faithful wife,
Who had been liis tme companion
Through yuurH of joy and strife.
And whose tender ir inis; rations
— ——Had lengthened out his life.
Poor ■' i„ ■ ,
And her white hair whiter still,
Ak the roses bloomed and fa led
On tho grave beside tho hill,
Till one morn she lav, like grandpa,
In her chamber, cold and still.
Tho old folks, how we miss them 1
E’en the children at their play
.Speak low in reverent whispers
Since tho dear ones p.issed away
From earth’s trials to the. blessings
Hid beyond tue gates of Day.
Don’t Call A Man A Liar.
Never tell a man that lie is a liar,
unless you arc certain that you can
lick him; for as a general rule,
when you say that, it means fight.
I have an ived at this conclusion
through sad experience. 1 know
that it is not safe to giv tho lie to
a muscular Christian.
I did once. lam sorry fi rit nov
as 1 never grieved for anything cl e
in the wholo course of life.
We were standing on the side
walk in front of tho club, when 1
made the statement. We had been
talking politics; and who got over
it are—to put it mildly—lunatic- or.
elso want aq,office. This man made
an assertion touchihg- tho fame of
my favorite candidate, which I' be
lieved to he untrue. It is probable
that if it had hem true ns it was
false, I should havo taken tlw same
course, because you understand how
i got my ornamenta eye.
1 mildly suggested that a man
who would make Such a statement
us that was lost 'to all sense of
shame and would bo guiity of any
base erir- c.
He disagreed with mo on that
point.
As for himself lie, never made a
statement except upon tho m st
ample proof. My candidate w-as
the meane-t man ti at ever went
unhung.
I told him he lied.
I have been kicked bp- a mule:
Imvc fallcn fout of a second story
window on a hard pavement; eaten
persimmons; beard Miss Blow read
1 poetry for two limit's and a half;
skated; hunted; mdo a sharp hack
ed horse of mustang parentage, an
ado] t in tlie ai l of “bucking," suf
ferod grief of various kinds, and still
clung to life—but a!! these me
feathers in the balance, us compared
wiih that little word, liar!
Immediately after sa ing it I sat
down—not, in the way people usual
ly s l down.
I sat on tit" rim of my right ear
about ten feet from tlie spot where
i laid beet) standing w hen I made
übo of the exp.'essi n quoted above.
I am not used to sitting in that
position and do not think it agrees
with mo.
I lmvc heard of people who got
up on their car, and walked off. I
wish I know how to do it, I worn 1
have propelled mysof away from
that spot immediately if 1 possessed
this happy facility. 1 proceeded to
bring myself away to ton perpen
dicular fully intending to use tho
means of locomotion nature had
given mo; but when I came light
side tip, something heavy run
against my noise, and as 1 felt rath
er tired I sat down on my other
ear. I like a change —it is too
monotonous doing the sumo tiling
over again. , , a ,,„
.Somebody look my large friend
sway anil l was quite pleased when
ho was gone. ■ I have concluded to
look twice at a man beforo I give '
tho lie again. My eye is in mourn,
iiif;, my nose swelled to the vino of
a citron \\dth Uio a cotor of a blush
rose, and my stm-c o.othes took 1 kc
they had been through a patent
sausage machin®,-: l w utd not have
that man’s temp-rfor anything in
tho world.
A north Mississippi man Mr. A.
11. iVlcAlliKtor, bus putontod a gun
which he clsinwj,‘: : .'ti .b,e tired' one,
thousuud.timoa a injnuiy. A biilv
has boon introduced iu--Cong redact
appropriating s2,Mhi to rest t##**
gun, \rffVr-ilviy \f*t#f adopt fug it- in
the afnty. ' ' '
I About lift) lowa editors are on an
excursion through Texas to Galves-
Uon. '