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THE
Independent South.
IS Pl'BMSlIEED EVERY SATLUBAY, ‘
AT
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PER ANNUM.
ALWAYS IN
ADVANCE.
[Let (hose children wlio cnn read,
read the following to the little ones
who can not read. We think the
little ones will lie pleased with these
rhymes, and will learn to he good:]
LITTLE TOTTY.
nr REV. JAMES KXAPTOS.
Little Totty went to Mu!
Ma was very busy
Rocking in her old arm chair
Little sister Lizzy:
‘Get to sleep, my pretty one,’
Patiently and checrly
Sang she oft, for 0 she loved
Little Lizzie dearly.
Soon to dreamland Lizzy went,
Then that happy mother
Thought that like her children twain
Never was another:
llaby was so cherub like,
Tottv was so sprightly,
Day or night to see them smile
Made her heart dance lightly.
..Ah! but why o’er Totty’s Jirpw
I-langK -that 1' mwlness?'
Why in rapture from her eye
Beams no ray of gladness?
Can it he, oh life’s rough path
One so young hath started?
You shall hear a simple talc—
Tottv is true-hearted:
‘Dearest Mu, as Fred and I
On the lawn were playing,
Naughtily I took a stone
In the pathway, laying;
It was hut a tiny thing,
So in sport I aimed it
At a little robin’s head —
Hit it hard and maimed it.
‘Soon it died. ‘Now let us Incite
Secretly, and throw it
O’er the hedge,’ said cousin Fred,
‘il/a will never know it,
But behind your pretty vase
Carefully we had it,
Purposing, when found, to say
Little Tibby did it.
Clasping Totty to her breast,
Heaving with emotion—
Lifting up her eyes to heaven,
Beaming with devotion: •
“Yes, my child,” she softly said,
•‘Go to Him in sorrow.”
Tell him all, and .joy shall be
WAYNESBORO, GA
‘5'Iic New Census Paper.
JFiiat is your age?
JFliere were you born?
Are you married, and it so, bow
do you like it?
How many children have yon,
and do they sufficiently resemble
you to preclude Iho possibility of
their belonging to any of your neigh
bors?
Did you ever have the measles,
and if so, how many?
Have you a twin brother several
years older than yourself?
Have you parents, and if so, how
many of them?
Do you read the New Testament
regularly?
(Flint is your fighting weight?
IFhicli do ton like tho best' for
light reading, The Gunmuker of
Moscow, by Cobb, or the President’s
last message by J. D ?
Are beans nil article of regular
diet in your, family, and if so how
docs it go?
State whether you nrp blind deaf
idiotic, or have t he heaves.
Ilotv many chickens have you,
and are they on foot or in the
shell?
Also, how many succedaneums?
Is there a strawberry mark on
your left arm?
IFliicli food do you prefer, rum
or mixed drinks?
State how much pork, Impending
Crisis, Dutch cheese, popular, sov
ereignty, standard poetry, Gavetty
paper, slave cotTeTcnlnip',' reel ‘ flan
nel, old junk, perfumery, coal, oil,
liberty, hoop skirt, and Disunion,
secession, Conscription, Constitution
subjugation, annihilation extermina
tion hell and damnation &c., you
have on hand?
IFere you and your wife worth
anything when married, and, if no
what proportion of her tilings wen
your’u and your things were hern.
JFere you ever in the peniten
tiavy?
If four barrels of empty in
poured on a barn floor will cover
it, how many plays can Dion
Bourcicaultwrite in a year?
Arc you troubled with boils?
How many empty bottles have
you in the house?
Do you smoko, and what?
How does your meerschaum col-
“And for such a wicked thought
Now my heart is smitten,
Though poor little Tibby be
But a silly kitten;
And I can not sleep to-night
First without confessing:
Do you think that God again
E’er will grant His blessing?”
crake,
Do you over drink whiskey with
out any ice in it?
Does your mother know you are
out?
Do you read the Independent
South.
Scene in a Sanctum.—Enter a
large, strong man, with a long cow
hide in hand.
‘Is tho editor in?’
‘He is.’
‘You?’
‘Yes.’
‘I have come to settlo with you.’
‘ (Fell, (editor draws a revolver)
go ahead.’
‘I have taken your paper now
about a year—’
‘ (Fell.’ (Capping his pistol).
‘And tin article in your last week’s
paper (editor cocks tho pistol) con
vinced mo that you need ’
‘I deny your right to give if.—
be cautious, sir.’
‘Give you what?’
at -8‘«
IFhcre potpiis smoke, in
lakes
And dunlplmgs grow on j free|
IFhcre ginW'fbread 1 is foind
staclffi f
And “smeircase” by the tun,
And when yqn do a job of work
You get tho “ready John
IFhcre njtur’s lesions may
read
Ill every babbling brook
IFliere bumble-bees don’t fting
el up,
And nnily cows don’t hook?
PROSPECTUS
OF
DE’BOW* REVIEW
n. S. VOL. SVIII—-SEW SERIES, VOl. VIII
Adapted Primarily t«» d,o Confederate Stat«
America, Inclulint' Statistics of Foreign end
mcfttiu Jiidiutiy and Enterprise.
IPubliMied M onthly in
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September 'J9, 13ti--
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