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A. C. QUILLAIN,
Dentist,
WILL be in Thomson from the Ist
till the loth of ejuib month. All
operations strictly First Claas. Office
on Main street, first door scuth of A. B.
Thraaher’s residence. Private engage
ments in the country promptly filled.
jan2t)-ly
PRICES? SUIT HARO TIM! $
I era bow prepared to do all kinds of
LOOT and SHOE Work on abort notice
ne it and choap, and most rßp**etfully
•solicit the patrouaga of the people.
Making fine French Calf Boots #8 00
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Half Holing (sewed work; 75
Half Siding (pegged work)..., 50
I um bo inferior material, and nil my
work is warranted. Shop in back room
of T. N. Lewis’ store.
flood li'.dae t*ikrn iu exchange for
work.
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J. 3MC." HARP,
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Tin & Sheet Iron Ware.
Also, Dealer in
CRBCKIRY AND GLASS WARE.
LAMPS and LAMP GOODS, Outtfr
lug and Hoofing done at Lowest Rates,
w lowest priw* guaranteed tor every
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ra J vlss;
U i-' . ML-.t >, Gn-etit Cu.. I^*l.
Round Southern homes, the bifds of
Spring,
Are fluttering ever now ;
The blue birds haunt the orchard trees.
The black birds track the plow.
Senator Chaffee is considering a #5,.
000,000 offer for his Leadville, Colorado,
mines.
At Powhar, in A ustWa, ih* petroleum
well lately discovered now yields 2,000
gallons daily.
Warmoth and Piuchbeck were elected
members of the Louisiana Constitution
al Convention.
It is estimated that the Colorado gold
and silver yield for this year will be iu
the neighborhood of #45,675,863.
it is estimated that two hundred thou
sand dollars worth of property is daily
des-troyodby fire in the United Htatea.
There are six Virginians in the pres
ent U. 8. Senate, to wit, Johnston,
Withers, Hereford, Davis, Coke and
Thurman
It ia expected that not less than twelve
thousand miles of railroad will be laid
in the south and west during the ap
proaching Rummer.
Mrs. Mary Towns, consort of the late
Governor Towns, died a few days ago
in Knoxville, Tcun. She lived iu Macon,
Ga , for more than twenty' years.
The Boston Post nominates for presi
dent Agnes D. fenks, of New Orleans :
for vice president, Mary Oliver, of
Washington. Close up the ranks.
The Russian Government has rec* nt
ly ordered that none of its subjects
shall leave that country without paying
one hundred roubles for cash veto
spent abroad.
Gen. Sheridan, who has recently visi
ted the western Indians, discredits thi
report* of a contemplated uprising of
the sav ige* this summer. Bfit who
credits Sheridan ?
Stcphcn W. i horsey, of Ai ka s * *>
youngest United States Senator, being
thirty-HoVen, and Uannibat Hamlin, of
Maine, i the oldest, having pusstd his
seventieth birthday.
Mr. Finney, a London dentist, claims
to have found a filled to< th in the jaw
of an Egyptian mummy. Dentistry was
farther advanced 4.000 years ago in
Egypt than is supposed.
There are not enough convicts in the
Joliet (111 } pris >n to meet the contracts
ma le for labor by the State, and unless
there is an increase of crime the State
w.ll have to pay slllO a day Vo cover
this want.
The Sunday laW just made by the
North Carolina Legislative prohibits
the loading of freight Mid the running
of trains on that day between sunrise
uud sundown. It doe* not apply to
mail trains.
An exchange Rays that Senator Logan
has the smartest wife, Senator Conkling
the gentlest born, Senator Dorsey the
most beautiful. Senator Sargent the
strongest minded and .Senator Gordon
the most distingue.
Mr. J. A. Rose, of Highland Prairie,
Win., weighs 242 pounds; so does hi
wife; their twenty-year-old son weighs
211, and a daughter, three years young
er, requires a supporting knee of the
capacity of IHI pounds.
Frank Miller, who until recently
earned his few dollars a week in the
prana room of the Dallas (Texas; Herald,
baa fallen heir, through his wife, to
#2,000.(100. He married Azelia Dore,
grand-daughter of Jeau Louie Cham
pagne, a Texas millionaire, whose death
occured not long ago.
Mile. Grevy, the daughter of the
French president, has magnificent,
heavy black hair, falling to her feet.
It iu compared with that of the empress
of Austria, which, brown and silky,
reaches to her heel*. Like the empress,
Mile. Grevy is a huntrots, and has her
room carpeted with the skins of animals.
In the Government of Cherson, Rns.
sia, in the bed of a river a peasent
found an egg of unusual *ize. It in
eqoftl to forty hen’s eggß, whereas the
ostrich egg is equal to twenty-fonr. It
is of yellowish color, and being found
between tho clay and gypsum layers, in
supposed to belong to tho tertiary for
mation.
Fresh cases of plague are reported in
the Astroohan district, and General
Melikoff has been sent back. He will
destroy a considerable number of in
fected houses, and make a determined
effort to arrest the fuither development
of the pestilence. Tbe approach of the
warm season increases the danger, and
the general will be fortunate if his mis
sion is successful.
An unique celebration is to tak. place
in Pompeii, Italy, in November next/
Eighteen hundred years ago. ou the 24th
of November, the oily was burned from
sight by an eruption of Vesuvius. On
the 24 of November, 18"!*, there will be
a banquet and illuinirationa on the his
toric spot. Several houses will be un
covered in honor of the anniversary of
the event of A. 1). IK7U.
The railroad on the ice across the
Missouri Kiver at liismark has floated
away. During the last day of its ilse ii
wak from one to three feet under water,
aud big chunks of ice were sweeping
over it but trains of freight cars, bear
ing materials for the construction of
the Northern Pacific Bailroach were
hurried over up to the last possible mo
ment. The last locomotive to cross was
careened by the moving and sinking of
the ice, and the fire was extinguished
bv the water.
THOMSON, Ba.,- WiTNEsDAY, APRIL 9, 1870.
EPIGRAMS,
I.
V pompous attorney, while trying a
OHUSC,
Was quizzing a witness and looking for
flaws.
The witneas, who owed him a personal
grudge
Provoked him until he appealed to the
judge.
I demand, sir.” he cried, with fiery red
face.
“A little attention while tiying this
ease. "
“Your honor,” responded the meek lit
tle man,
“I’m paying as little rb any one can.”
The judge with a frown,
Looked solemnly down
Oh the squabble, and said, from the
bench where he sat,
“We want nothing but silence, and lit
tle of that."
11.
Said .young Romeo Butts to Mias Clara
hel Outts,
(As they stood in a resplendent
with light).
With a wearisome sigh, “Oh, I cannot
tell why
But Sbmehow, I feel like a fool here to
night."
Said Mirß TarabelCutts to ROmeo Butts,
With a pitiless smile that she could not
ooO'Ceai •
“Yes, you* face would betray, I am
nuke, what you say.
For you certainly look all yon say that
you feel ”
111.
“Oh husband’" said Mrs. Ophelia Mc-
Munn,
As she gazed at her willful and passion
ate son,
“Where that boy got his temper I never
could see.
I’m certain lie never could take it from
me."
“No doubt my dear wife, your assertion
is true—
I never have mured any temper from
you."
A WHISPERED STORY.
They told me the hem c wan
I minted. Nothing had been neon
in the shape of an apparition by
iho.st* who resided there j there
was no terrlfi'! diatnrbuneu, no
bright and mysterious light, bill
there '-. as a belief that
the hii’ise win. haunted. The
..ii “t was a ivell-Oeliiived ghost
ami, modem. On inquiring of
one ln) liuii slept the!‘t>, I learn
ed that lie hud h.-aid nothing
•xr *t t confused tnuHtt .r, a
sound if low indiatltit't speech,
us of someone trying to speak
while buffering utnler aphony.
It wa u laborious whisper, now
and hen audible, i asked him
wiiat words and lie told me that
t'vo he reno nilie'eii —“hills" and
‘boat,’ but no oilier., Thu onlt
thin/ remarkable about that was
that others who hud slept there
had heard the same words. That
gave me, I w as quite sure, a key
to the platter, and I smiled, 1
eonclink'd the purchase of the
house that very and ,y. Nobody
would live ill it, and it wits rot
ting through disuse. The own TANARUS,
who needed ready cash, was
glad to gel rid ol his pr tille-a
properly. The house itself was
a comfortrhie mansion, and cost
ten thousand dollars to buhd
and the grounds, rather more
than three acres, hart i eon ban' 1
Homely laid o.it in trees and
shtublicry, though now over,
grown with brambles. The ar
eliitect assured me that eighteen
hurdrod dollars would pat the
house and ground' in order an I
add modern conveniences, So I
bought it for two thousand dol
lars down and had the necessary
repairs made, their cost overrun
ning the estimate nearly two
hundred dollurs. 80 that for
lour thousand dollars I obtained
a handsome and convenient
dwelling on the banks of a noble
river, with the tin} - dem sne
sloping to the southwest, aving
picturesque views on either hand,
and iu a good neighborhood.
The night before ni} tfmiily were
to remove to it, I took up my
lodging in the house ahme, hav
ing had a pallet laid down in th.
library.
I suppose the stories I had
heard, though I had laughed at
them, made Ihvir impression on
mjr mind. Such things always
do, iu spile of reason. A vague
feeling of uneasiness fills us in
the presence of mystery, even
though our curio-ity or our pride
gets the bettor of terror, and
probotho thing to the bottom or
try to. That may account for
my restlessness, for I was rest
less and wakeful-. I had boon
busy “Ii day in arranging furni
ture mol in directing the men at
work n the grounds, in the lut
.er case handling tho p: do and
mattock quite often, and wa
horoughly tired. Yet 1 could
n t sleep. It was i,n o’clock
wtien I turned down two light so
tnat it gave onl> a faint glim
mer sod lay d-.wn. Bleveu
o'clock came, and twelve, aud
I still tossed on my conch with
op. n eyes. When the echo of
the last stroke ol the bell of the
church in the neighboring town
of ll—died awivy, I felt there
was something or some ono in
the room. I sprang up, turned
the light on full, and grasped tbe
I nded revolver which lay on the
II vary tabic. There wassiio Ono
there certainly- Ufa* f; epujd ace,
and the detor was locltffil, and I
laughed at ray alarm. The next
moment, as I threw mysei* ih the
great arm-chair, I felt there was
some oho elosuto me. JWthou
there was a low and abored
whisper at my right oar. The
words were distinct, ,’lioagh
faintly uttered.
‘•Let mo tell you my st. vy,"
I felt that to be true. Tin
thin icy forced whisper held me
by a spell. I eouid~7i**Thr,-„’
moved had flames burst Wound
me. Body and mind seemed
stricken With palsy. 1 could
hear, but tiothiug more Then
the whisper returned, and I can
remember all that fallowed, word
for word, and ban write it out,
again and again, without vary
ing a word or letter.
“It was three miles above the
cataract. As 1 stood upon the
river hank I could see, even at
that p'iot, with what swiftness
the Niagra wa hurrying toward
the fatal plunge. There was a
skiff tied to a root on the bans,
and as it afforded me a seat I
stepped iu and sat down-on the
stern sheets. There I iplayod
with my hands iu the stream and
listened to the dull, *,piyssaut
roar of the boiling wliters. As
I sot there I thoilght of my
young wife hulidl'cds < f miles
uwny, whom I hod loft a few
day* before to atlend to soinu
business in Cuujulu, and Wnom 1
Was to'rejdin the next day hav
ing taken this point An -my way
homeward. I sat there wtth my
ey es hull' cloned, and then, brow
ing myself backward, vvus'lulled
to sleep by monotonous noise,
lluw long I slept I do notjkHow,
but a piercing shriek, rising
above the dull roar of the falls,
awuketie 1 mo. I looked r round,
file lout had br' ken lobs t, and
1 was tar out in the sttfria fu and
dtifUhg rapidly toward il'.t fulls.
1 aprai-g tipt-o ss-.izi yfcz
pull to * shore. There w ere ho
ours in tfie boat.
‘'[glanced toward the short*.
It duemuirt lie bank was lined with
men, women and children, who
nHy have called to me, hut I
could hour nothing. My first
impulse was to leap overboard,
lint then I could not swim.
A man nil the shore threw a
lasso. 1 united he coming of
tiie hoop, and reach-id my band
toward it, but it fell short, it
whs drawn in, uud the man, run
ning swiftly to a point further
'Kiwii, tried again, Ho appear
enlly cast it with greater force,
but it fell further off than before.
I was being drawn nearer to the
center of tho li use shoo.
‘‘And now there came the leth
argy of despair. I sat there
without hope ami without fear.
Sly doom was inevitable. The
motion of the bout grew faster
and faster, the distant hanks
whirled past me, and then my
spirit ro e in a kind of eestrey.
I gave a sharp glance around me
and laughed. As tho boat struck
the edge ol the abyss and rose
for the final plunge, I caught
sight of a dense mist; J head
above the r ar the rush of a
thousand wings; I fell ns though
struck with a numbing blow, and
breath and conscience left me
•ug.thor.
‘•lt seemed to be a dream, for
when Trecovered I found ,1 was
here in my own Mouse. Yonder
sal tny wife, clad in black, her
head buried iu Imr bands. Yus!
it seemed to boa dream, for
iliou ,ii I tried to speak to her
my lips made no sound uud 1
heard nothing. I touched her,
but she did not heed ii. I looked
around the room bewildered.
“It was this library. I here
on a long table, which did not
belong here, lay something like
a human I rui e’o ereti by a sheet.
tVbai was it doing hero? Whose
body lay there? A uew and
more unspeakable terror seized
mo I would like to have cried
out. i could not. f wan dumb.
“My wife arose and went to
the labio. “Now,” 1 said to my
self, *T shall know all.” Sho
rais- and tho cover !roiu lit head,
and stooping down, kissed the
I*. eof the eorp-o. Could it be
I that ni} lather n.-luw, Col.
| Burnesloigh, had died while 1
I was away ? I did not walk, but
| i was moved by sorno unseen
j power until I stood by my wile
| aud ovo tne dead body, and
i looked and. wn. I recognized tiie
cold, lifeless luce. It was my
own/’
Then tho whisper ceased, and
1 fell in a deep sleep in tbe chair.
It was daylight when I awoko.
I looked-. Wound. Had 1 dreamed
at all ? On the table was tho
fragment Of a newspaper. Pick
ing it up, my glance caught the
name of a former owWCr 'Of the
house, sand I t-teivd as f l ows:
“MIiI.ANCHOt.Y CasUALTV. A
tet-Hblo eveht oc'Cnicd on Friday
last. Robert Grant, of this vill
age, ou his return from Toronto,
where he had been oa business,
stopped at Niagara. lie took u
walk above the fulls after break
fast. lie must havo got in a
boat und lost or broken both tho
oars—- though it is said no oars
wore iu the boats at all. He was
secu afloat by a large crowd of
people just above the full. Every
effort was made to rescue him,
but unsuccessfully ; and he was
carried to his death." His body
was recovered on Sunday, and is
now on its way here. He leaves
a wid> w."
I bad certainly never seen that
parable before. lam quite sure
of that. From that lime out
there have been no noises in the
house, except such us could be
easily explained, and the whis
pered voices never came again.
Yet, il it were no dream, or no
imaginary whisper, why- should
the ghost have told his story to
me, and why should he tell it ai
all? •
SUIS ICH (111 III).HU.
Hills above hills in gnuidunr rise,
Ami stretch their tups towards the Skios;
They east a screen on vales below,
Iu streaks of shadow and golden glow.
Meadows, rich in emerald green,
Cast baoV a glittering, dazzling ahSnn,
That gives 1 1 the sky its vernal hue,
la sliadea of green and violet bine.
Brooks that How tejf meadow's edges
Kipple their song to the glowing hedges;
And murmuring, bubbling as they go,
Tell pleasant stories of the long ago.
(Written fur the Joubnll )
True to the Last.
HY M. K. HARMON.
The mystic veil of night had
descended, ana silence reigned
supreme, while, tile tiiOOII decor
tteiivuiis 'with silvery
splendor as she glirtort ewinl}*
through tile western skies. Tbe
slurs were dimpling he calm
blue Vagit above the bead ol
sweet Maud Dorchester, a beau
tiful, bright-eyed girl ol ei litocn,
with a wealth of golden hair,
wh i with Iho foild and tender
confidence ol first love, \Vus lean
ing upon the firm >f Sir Walter
Hadeliif. Ills regiment was to
start for the far East iho next
da}, and he hud come to Lid her
goodbye.
“Will you ever bn faithful and
truo to me, Maud ?” Un asked
tei derly and earnestly, placing
a broad gold ring upon her
shapely linger
Tho timid clasp of her band
and tho tremor of her down cast
eyes were sufficient answer. Ho
stooped and kissed ho * brow and,
with ono last ten flr, passionate
aiieau, was gone, and before she
could realize tho pain of the
parting, the form of the otio so
dear to her hud disappeared.
Sir Waller readied his desli
nation in <lne time, and soon won
tho respect and confidence of
officers and men by his soldierly
bearing and fearless bravery.—
Me was always found in the
thickest of the fight, and sought,
rather than shirked, difficult dti
tics and posts of danger.
The war raged for three long
years, and many a bravo soldi* r
went down before the iron hail
of the enemy. But peace was at
last declared, and Sir Walter was
at liberty to return homo. He
had gone out to fight the battles
of bis country with a biave.
hopeful heart, but littlo of world
ly goods. Ho was returning
crowned v itb honors mid a rich
man. In hi* ansouco the legacy
of an uncle had UneXj. veto dis
placed him in the ranks of the
wealthy, and ho was returning
to lay his honors, his lurtunoand
him**ell at the foot ot Maud, his
guardian angel, whoso imago lie
curried in his heart through all
the lung, weary years of his ah
scnce.
Thu cool autumn breeze was
mailing ti e leaves of the groat
shad- trees,*! nd the Iho guy
throng that crowded tho busy
streets of Aluyevillo gazed with
admiration upon tho erect, hand
some form of Sir Walter, ns he
stepped from his carriage and
mounted the steps of the Dor
chester mansion, his heart beat
ing with joy in anticipation o|
meeting Maud once more. But
a sand disappointment awaited
him. The t re rigor who answer
him bis summons informed him
that Maud’s parents had died,
leaving her penniless, more than
two years ago, and that sbe had
loft, the quiet town of Maysvil o
and gone out into the busy world
us nu no' ress.
Sir Walter turned away almost
in despair, and thoughtfully and
sadly retraced his steps to the
street.
“I will find her, if she still
lives!” ho exclaimed, with a-pas
sionate determination not alto
get Her hopeless.
Ilis plans were' soon fol-htcd,
if, indeed, wo can call that a plan
which was little else than u sud
den resolve to search tho wide,
wide world until ho had found
his lost darling. Ho was soon
on his way to Paris, whero'ho
visited every- place of public en
tertainment and was a c -nsUni
attendant at all the theatres.
Bu|, his tireless search, prompted
by that love which ih knowr on
ly once in a life time, was entire
ly fruitless. Thus two lotig
years parsed in careless wander
lugs and repeated disappoint
ments.
But now let us return to Maud.
After her tuber's death, she had
gone to her cousin's, in London,
whor tihe walked listlessly about
the house from day to day.
dl'cam ng over the past, with a
faint h pq of Sir Walter's return,
if he still lived. She was sitting
in an arbor in'front of ibo hum
ble little cottage, one beautiful
spring day, wrapt in mo dilution
when hlio was aroused by
bur cousin's voice, informing
her thut a gentleman had culled
and wished to seu her. “Who
can it be'/" she thought to her
self, as she throw aside her sun
bonnet and opened the drawing
room dear. A tall, dark-haired
gentleman rose to meet her with
a 1W bovy. lie introduced him
qglf'as the manager of a Edition
theatre, and Wished t<) employ
her. With salt “thank you."
,ho accepted tbe position oft'eted,
mil was to sing some Scottish
air's the succeeding night.
“Jus- five years ago to-night
since I left .Maud,” Sir ' Walter
.Aumurml .to himself, as In
made hi* w ay through the crowd
into a London theatre. He
was standing in a dls
taut copier, looking unconcern
idly at the i etiplc when a sweet,
clear voice rang out qn, tho cool
summer air. Ho raised his
drOopilig lashes to look upon tho
lair singer and tho next instant
he bounded forward toward the
stage. Ho had recognized his
long lost love, but before In
could reach her side, she saw
and knew him, and with one
wild cry of joy, foil fainting to
the floor. lie seized her ill his
strong arms and Curried her to
Ids carriage, which was forln
iia ely at hand, and soon had her
safe in her cousin’s house. Care
ful nursing and aitcnt on restor
ed her to consciousness, when
sh found Sir Walter bending
over her, his dark eyes gleaming
witn joy. Ilis tender words of
love and his fond caresses soon
. restored iho smiles anti roses to
her Chooks.
The marriage bells were ring
ing merrily in Maysvillo Ohapi I,
and Maud, the fair young bride,
arrayed in the most ologant at
tire of white silk and diamonds,
with a beautiful pearl nocklaco
around her soft white throat, and
a wreath of orange blossoms dec
orating her golden hair, was led
'o the altar- by Sir Wultet', who
was liappy in knowing that the
long search was ended and- the
little actress found— actress no
longer, but mistress of Dorches
ter mansion, where tho bright
days of thei* young weddou life
lengthened into years of unalloyed
happiness, and that pilfo, for
vent love, constant through so
many troubles, was "True to the
Last,"
Another &atrtiirfg Invention.
Wo are enabled to lay hefore
ihe readers of the l’ost, ibis
morning, a piece ol exclusive in
indigence which wdi be found ,f
intcii e and universal interest
It roaches us by tho last mail
from London, anil indicates that
I he Old and New Worlds are
about to bail tlid approaching
dua n of cheap telegraphy* on
land and under tho sea between
and through.ml all the countries
of tho civilized globe, hut more
particularly across the Atlantic
Ocean between Europe and Amer
ica. Wo learn that iho Amori
enn Cable Cnmpanv of New York,
through its general agent", who
is nu* in London, has just closed,
signed and sealed one of the mo-t
important contracts tliai over
was connected with the subject
of telegraphing, and by which
tho new company has keen rod
the exclusive right to tho uso of
anew invention, or process, for
sonding messages by Cables and
otherwise.
Ono party to the contract
guarantees to send ten messages
of twenty words euc-h per min
ute through the conducting wires
between Paris or London and
Now York. This is the mini
mum Speed stated in tho contract;
but it. is said that at tho maximum
speed what could i.i thir
ty minutes would be equal to the
number of words contained in
ono number of the London Times
or the New York Herald. And
it is also asserted that by this
process an entire numhcr’of eitli
er of tho übove named journals
could he dispatched through the
cubic from New Vork to London
or Paris, or from London to New
York, alid be reproduced at those
points in faa simile, .or a stereo
typed block or plate, complete
und ready to he printed from iu
thirty mimi cs, and at a trifling
expense. This would mako an
average rate of about two thou -
sand words per minute.
Rfimiiiiscences of Columbia Cos.
By AN 01.D CITIZEN.
Hon. Nathan Crawford Bar
nett, the present Secretary of
State, is a lintivo of Columbia
county. His father was Win.
Barne't. and his mother's maiden
name was Anna Crawford, a sis
ter of Hon. Wm. H. Crawford.
Hi- parents were of English and
vSeoich extraction, and emigrated
from Virgin s to Georgia, and
settled in Columbia. Losing hib
lather when quite young, tho
widow uud children moved to
Ogictl orpe and settled in Lex
ington. Here young Harnett
grew up to manhood, surrounded
by some of the best of Georgia's
citizens—William 11. Crawford,
Tho*. W. Cobb (of both of whom
I have already spoken), Stephen
Upson, and that “prince of good
fellows,” George It. Gilmer.
Ou refuelling his.majority, Na-
than C. Barnett niovud to Mon
roe, Walton county. Soon after
wards lie moved to Clarke conn
ty, man ied Miss Margaret Mor
ton, and settled in Watkinsviile.
While liera he was first elected
Surve} or, and assisted in sur roy,
iug tho Cherokee i’urehaso. In
iridG ho was elootud to the Login
lalure, and was one of the warm
uinl zealous supporter* of the act
to build the \V i-torn amt Atlan
tic Kuiiroftd. Having lost hi<
wife several years previous, lie
married, in 18+1 Mary Ann Coop
er, of Hiiiris county, in 181/
ho was elected Secretary of Slate,
and Was re-elected under Goo.
W . Crawford. Again, in 1860,
lie becamo Secretary of Stale un
der Gov. llowell Cobb. In 18(11
when the offices of Surveyor
General and Secretary of Slate
were combined, he was elected,
and continued in olfico during
the eight years of Gov. J. Ii
Brown’s administration.
When iho iron rule of military
power proclaimed Georgia a ter
ritory, N. C. Barnett quietly, yet
pa* riotieallv, folded tho drapery
of his honest office around him.
and boldly taking with him the
Groat Seal of State, followed the
lead of that noble old Roman,
Ghftft. J. Jenkins tho then G v
ernor. When the L'emoeraey
agaiu canto into power under
Gciv. Janies M. Smith, ho again
bocarao Secretary of Slate, and
to-da)’ holds the same office un
dcr Gov. Colquitt. For many
years he has been a prominent
member of tho Methodist Church
FanSe Awaits Him.
Many persons are evidendy
born to fill exalted positions, the
buds of genius showing them
selves almost ns soon as the
cbpson one is out of his nurse's
arms. .Many of our most emi
nent statesmen gave evileneo in
their youth ol tiro possession of
supeiior talents, which event
ually placed them on the very
pinnacle of fame. A San Fer
nando street hoy has a brilliant
future before him, and if lie is
not one day ranked high among
the nohlo army of newspaper
paragraphers, this deponent lias
utterly failed to rend tho signs
aright. He fame bounding into
the house the other day, and ap
proaching his mother, asked:
“Ma, will candy rot folkses
teeth ?”
“Yes, Willie, it will indeed,
and I do not want yon to eat
any of the injurious stnfl'.’’
Tho embryo laugh-bu filer was
sil-nl for quite a while, ovldont-
No. 15.
|ly rehearsing in his mind the
continuaneo of tho eonversa ioni
and getting h s queries in A
shape that would enable him
steer clear of ail pitfalls. Finally,
he continued:
“Will it not rot 'girl'* teeth
too ? ’
“Certainly, my dear.”
Another silence, and more
menial figuring, and thou he
asked:
“Mu, Hotter lam isn’t a bad
word is it?"
“Oh, no, Willie, ,'tliat iS the
name of a foreign city. Y’ou will
And it in yttii^geography."
“Well, you wouldu’t lick 'A tal
low for lulkng t out it, weald
you V’
“Must cortainly not.”
“Houest Injun you wouldn t f”
and liis face bore an expreaeio* of
duup earnestness.
“Ot course not; why do yok
ask such questions?”
“Well, Mary Dawsou is coming
over here to tell on me. Sbd.kdd
a whole two-bus* worth of eaudy
and wouldn’t give me a bite, so
I tcld her just to eat it herself
an’ 1 hopod.il would Rotterdam
teeth net.”
He escuped chastisement but
the moral lesson read to him will
servo as a guide post through
all liis future life.
The NewlSenate,
The Senate will be cotnpusr
soually aud politically, as follows:
Alabama—lßßß, John T. Morgan,
an d.; 1885, Geo. S. Houston, and.
California—lßßl, Newton Booth,
r.; 1885, James T. Farley, and.
Connecticut—lßßl, Wm. W. Eaton,
and.; iBBS, Orville H. Platt, r.
Florida—Cbas. W. Jones, and.; 1885,
Wilkiusou Call, <l.
Illinois—lßß3, David Davis, fcud.j
1835, John A. Logan, r.
lowa—lßß3, S. J, Kirkwood, L;
1885, Win. Allisou, r.
Khutucky—lßß3, James B. Beak,
and.; 1485, J. H. Williams, and.
Maine—lßßl, H. Hamlin, r.j 1883,
James G. Blaine, r.
Massachusetts—lßßl, H. L. Daweri,
r.; 1833, George F. Hoar, r.
Minnesota—lßßl, S. J. B. MeMU-
Hau.'r.-1883, William Windoin, r.
Aiissonri— 1881, P. M. Cockrell, and.;
1885, George G. Vest, and
Nevadu—lßß3, Wm. tlliaroa, V. j
1885, Joliu P. Jones, r.
New Jersey—lßßl, T. F. lUtuthilpßj
an d.; 1883, J. B. McPherson, and.
North Carolina -1883, Matt W.
Kiuisom,aad.; Zebnlut; B. Vance, and.
Oregou —IBB3, LaFayette Grover,
and.; 1885, J ames H. Slater, and.
Rhode Island—lßßl, A. li. Burn'
side, r.; 1883, H. B. Anthony, r.
Tennessee—James E. Bailey, and. f
188.'’, Ishnm G. Harris, and.
Vormout—lß3L Goo. F. Edmunds;
r.; 1885, Justin S. Merrill, r.
West Virginia—lßßl, Frank Here
ford, and ; 1883; Henry G. Davis, and.
Arkansas 1883, A. H. Garland, d.f
1885, Jauies D. Walker, and.
Colorado—lßß3, Heury M. Teller;
r.; 1885, N. P. Dili, r ;
Delaware—lßßl, Tbos. F. Bayard;
an d.; 1883, Eli Saulsburv, and.
Georgia—lßß3, Benjamin H. Hill;
and.; 1885, John B. Gordon, and.
Indiana—lßßl, Jos. E. McDonald;
and.; 1885, D. V. Voorkees, and.
Kiiushs—lßß3, P. B. Plumb, f.j
1885, John J Ingalls, r.
Louisiana—lßßs, W. P. Kellogg;
r.; 1885, B. F. Jonas, and.
Marylaud—lßßl, Wiu. P. Whyte,
and.; 1885, James B. Groonie, and.
Michigau—lßßl, Z. Can l*r ( t:f
1833, t bus iW. Ferry, r.
Mississippi—lß9l; B. E. Bruce, r.f
1883, L. Q. C. Lamar, and.
Nebraska —1881, A. S. Paddock;
r.; 1883, Alvin Saunders, f.
Now Ilatnpsbir:—lßß3. Edwaftl tf.
Rollins, r.j 1885, a republicans.
New York—lßßl, Francis Keruan,
an d.; 1885, lV.wooe Coukling, r.
Ohio—lßßl, Allau G. Thurman, and,;
1835, Geo. 11. Pendleton, and.
Pennsylvania—lßßl, Wu>. A. Wal
lace, and.; 1883,' J. DmVfcameron, r.
South Carolina —1884 M.
lor,aad.; Wudo Hampton, and.
Texas—lßßl, Samuel B. Maxey, <ts
1883, Richard Coke, and.
Virginia—lßßl, li E. Witbei r d*;
1883, John W. Johnston, and.
Wisconsin-1881. Angus Cameron,
r.; 1885, M. H. Carpenter, r.
Senators Spoucer, Sargent, Bur
mini, Conover, Oglesbv, McCreery,
Shields, Morrimon, Mitchell, IK*****,
Chaffee, Eustis, Danuis
Matthews, Patterson wui Howe re
tire. The Senate will coirsist of for
ty-two Democrats, thirty-three Red
cals ami erne fndepeu tout. New
Hampshire will he represented by
but m# Senator until Jnue, when the
vacancy will bo filled by the eleotio|
of u Radical. A H
The Tarty-sixth Congress wi
pass judgement on about tw
tested election casos, tho seaM
of T’ennsylvania, Hancock <!■
1 siring nf Massachusetts,
ana. Fors;, the of
ta'uisiaim, Hankie of
tin of .North Carolina beufl
nth re Cnatesta.iits srafl
u ; mu: ti‘ Seen. .Ag|| I
VirelnU and Third W idH ,
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