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VOL. I. PUIILIRHVU EVERY THURSDAY UY WIII'I'K ti .McIXTOSH ■ ■ • Proprletcr- TEH US OF SVIiSCItIFTIOX: 1 copy one year $'2.00 1 “ fi months 1.00 A/> I ’Kit TISIXO It- 1 TICS: One Dollar per mpuiro for first insertion ; fifty fonts for each subsotpifiit insertion. Local notices will be charged ‘2O cents per line. Special arrangements can be made for advertising by the quarter or by the year with the proprietors. —UMJW ■Q’im'w r Trr-ag s WATPCTrr.rrxgr 'B FAMILY REARING. Georgia Patrons of Ha>j’)a:uli\v. .A.Cl<lreH of th<* I'. Georgia State Grange or Ija1 j a- 1 TWIN'S or Husbandry, i Office T. .J. Smith, Master, Oconf.k, (ia ., Aug. ‘2B, 1871. i Brother Patrons: It becomes my duty, being so prominently identified Avitli tho great farmers’ movement in I Georgia, to invito your serious atten tion to the demands of the time upon ; our noble order. Our efforts as producers of the soil under a pro tecting Providence, to render our farms self-sustaining, have to a great .measure proven successful. Our good Lord and Master has sent us early and late lains ..ml fruit ful seasons, and our so long empty ■granaries will soon groan with more cheering abundance than they have since the unfortunate war. The ex cessive hot and dry weather, curtail ing our cotton crop, is to be hoped j will prove a blessing in disguise. The shrewd and sharp-sighted spectator, who has been so vigilant in heralding through the press the crop of four and a half millions of bales, will be hushed, and the cotton ring, true to ; their instincts, were forging chains to ; fetter us-—let us prepare to rend asunder, and, true to ourselves, fami lies, and country, rally under our bright and floating colors, the only promise to the tillers of the soil. We should take time by the forelock, using our utmost influence with our friends who have so kindly come tor ward and contributed to our necessi ties, furnishing food, etc., to hold our cotton until developments are made that are satisfactory as to the extent of the growing crop. Heartily congratulating you upon the spirit of self-reliance and forti tude which you have so nobly mani-.i tested under privations and disap pointments, grievous to be endured, and for which we wore totally unpre pared, let me earnestly and affection ately entreat you not to abandon the poliev of making abundance of sup plies for home, and heed earnestly the resolution as passed by the Cotton States Convention of November last year, and impressively reiterated in its session of July last, of planting! one-tliird of our arable land in small ■grain, one-third in corn and one-third in cotton. Hearken the warning' voice of the past whose syren song of planting all cotton, hurling us into bankruptcy of property and well near of credit and .character. Soon the season of sow ing of fall and winter crops—turnips, wheat, oats, rye, etc., will be upon us, and remember earnestly that the judicious and prudent farmer, the good and faithful Patron will gather into their granaries, that themselves, families and animals may have feed in winter. Our brother Patrons of all the cotton growing States, pledg ing to us their hearty concurrence in the one-tliird system, and, therefore, while our cotton production will be diminished, you may yet hope to real ize a greater amount of profit by the advance price of the same. Efforts arc being made through established agencies to secure supplies of grain for seed at reduced cost; and can’t I ask, with some confidence, where are tin good the true Patrons who have a surplus and will refuse to open their hearts and granaries in furnishing seed to promote the laudable end we have in view ? Though the hardships, privations and disappointments of 4ke farm are ! galling, let us bear it with Christian ; fortitude, promising ourselves by such sacrifices a better day will soon dawn, anil to hasten that better time we will do all in our power to promote tin interest of our noble undertaking. We propose soon to divide our State into districts, over which put wise and discreet deputies of our order, whose duty will lie to canvass, lecturing aud organizing granges. In this I invoke the free and hearty co-operation of every Patron in Georgia. Believing the weal or woe of the South; yes, of the whole country, is depending upon the success or failure of the Grange movement, I propose, in addition to the deputy movement, to devote my entire time to the work of our order, and will visit, as I have been doing, all parts of Georgia where duty and my good brothers have called me. Brothers, wo have a great work to do. Let us set about it in earnest, and kindle a flame of brotherly love throughout our proud old State, and not he content until we enlist under our bright and flying colors every til ler of the soil in our midst. The political parties of the country will soon be arrayed, and the saga cious politicians attempting to allure us into the entangling alliances of party. Let us prove to them we are true to our profession and faith in adhering strictly to our fundamental law, doing nothing that will savor in the least iff committing our Order to politics. Let nie, in conclusion, exhort you to cherish and practice the cardinal precepts of our Order in every detail of life, and wo, under the guidance of the uvor-umroiful Husbandman above, shall confidently anticipate for our distressed and dispirited class the bright era of prosperity, plenty and contentment. Yours fraternally, etc., T. J. Smith, Master of O. S. O. I*. S.—Will the press of Georgia, not hostile to us, contribute as much ns the publication of the above? T. J. S„ M. G. S. G. More Bayonet Rule for Southern Whites. Washington September !!. Tin following letter was received here to-, day: Long Iskan. ii, N. J., Sept. 2, 1874. Gcii. IP. IP. /lel/rua/i, Secy of Il’iir: The recent atrocities in the South,' particularly in Louisiana, Alabama and South Carolina, show a disre gard for law, civil rights and personal i protection that ought not to be toler ated in any civilized government. It looks as if, unless speedily chocked, matters must become worse, until life and property there will receive no protection from the local authorities, until such authority becomes power less. Under such circumstances it is Un duty of the government to give all the aid for protection of life and civil rights legally authorized. To this end I wish you would consult with the Attorney General, who is well in formed as to the ouhnges already committed and the localities where the greatest danger lies, and so order troops, so ns to be available in cases of necessity. Ail proceedings for the protection of the South will be under the Law Department, of the govern ment, and will ho directed by the At torney General in accordance with the provisions of the enforcement act. No instructions need, therefore, be given to the troops ordered into the Southern States, except as they may be transmitted from time to time on ad vice from the Attorney General, or us circumstances may determine here after. Yours truly, U. S. Git AST. Asa result of the: conference held at the "War Department this morning between Secretary Bristow. Belknap and Attorney General Williams, the following circular was issued this af ternoon at two o'clock to United States Attorneys and Marshals. It lias*the approval of the President, the substantial parts of the same having been communicated to him during an interview with the Attorney General at Long Branch: Department ok Justice, I Washington, Sept. 3, 1874. j Sir: Outrages of various descrip tions, and in some cases atrocious murders, have been committed in your district by bodies of armed men, sometimes in disguise, and with the view, it is believed, of intimidating peaceable and law-abiding citizens and depriving them the rights guaranteed j them by the Constitution and laws of l the United States, your attention is ! directed to an act of Congress, passed April lltli, 18(>(!, entitled “an act to protect all persons in the United . States, in their civil rights, and tofur ! nisli means for their vindication,” and to another passed April 20th, 1870, entitled “an act to enforce the pro- ! visions of tho Fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United | States and for other purposes,” also to one passed May 30th, 1870, entitled an act to enforce the right of citizens j of tho United States to vote in the several States of this Union and for . other purposes,” which, with their amendments, make the deeds of vio lence and bloodshed offenses within the jurisdiction of the General Gov ernment. I consider it my duty, in view of the circumstances, to instruct j you to proceed with all possible oner-, gv and dispatch to detqet, expose, ar- ; rest, and punish the perpetrators of these crimes, and to that end you are to spare no effort or necessary ex pense. Troops of tin- United States will be stationed at different and con venient points in your District for the purpose of giving all needful aid in the discharge of your official duties. Yon understand, of course, that no interference whatever is hereby in tended with any political or party ac tion not in violation of law, but pro tection to all classes of citizens, white and colored, in tho free exercise of tlio elective franchise and the enjoy | ment of other rights and privileges to | which they are entitled under the j Constitution and laws as citizens of j the United States. Tho instructions are issued by tho authority of the j President and with the concurrence of the Secretary of War. Very respectfully, George H. Williams, Attorney General. —Somebody observes that when six young ladies sit down to talk about a new dress pattern a small boy with a tin horn is a refuge for the wear) —A Boston preacher, in speaking of the danger of permitting the Bible to be crowded out by the newspapers, perpetrated the following pun: “Men, nowadays,” said he, “are like Zac clieus—desirous of seeing Jesus, but they cannot because of the press.” (JUITMAJN, GA., THURSDAY, SEPT DIRER 10, 1574. A Wonderful ('use. ILLNESS OF A WE1.1.-KNOWN CITIZEN - UK IS MYSTERIOUSLY CHARGED WITH ELECTRICITY ELECTRIC SPARKS DROP FROM HIS FINGEKH, AND ONE EYE EMITS LIGHT LIKE A LAMP —THE IIATIENT SLOWLY RECOVERING. Among those well known and high ly esteemed oilmens who have recent ly disappeared from our thorough fares, where \vc have, been in the habit of meeting them in our daily walks on the boulevards, no one is more missed than the cheerful countenance of Major Edward Gottlieil. On the I 23d of July past he was suddenly stricken down by paralysis, and has j suffered greatly ever since. It is with unfeigned pleasure we learn from him personally and also from i his distinguished and attentive mod- j ieal attendant, Dr. Nicholson, that he is slowly but surely recovering, and that his reappearance in the daily in tercouftc of iife is only a question of j a short time. This ease of paralysis has many | strange features which require con- j stunt watching, and although the | Major is very sick, yet so hopeful anil encouraging are the symptoms that two days ago he wrote to Dr. Nichol- j son the following characteristic note:, “Dead Doctor —I am much better \ this morning; have been refreshed j with sound sleep last night, and am j now waiting for my breakfast of ham : and eggs with a starving appetite. ! If you don’t come to see me to-day, I shall try to call on you to-morrow at head-quarters in person. G.” Those familiar with Major Gottlieil ! will appreciate the quiet good humor of his note, which even liis present af- i tiiction could not repress. Always: the child of health, so also has lie ; been the man of generous emotions! and kindly deeds, the conßcioiflhcss | of which has no doubt tended to buoy up bis spirits under circumstances ol not only physical suffering, but of an almost unparalleled PHYSICAL PHENOMENA. A sliort.time after Major Gottheii’s affliction commenced there was devel oped in him symptoms which it is stated have but one parallel in the history of medical science. One eve ning lie was lying asleep as profound and peaceful as when in health. The faithful watchers sat just within the adjoining room, ready to answer his slightest call. Suddenly he cried out in frightful screams of agony, and al though paralyzed and incapable, or dinarily, of moving without aid, lie sprang up in bed. The paroxisms of pain did not iu the least affect the clear conceptions of his intellect, on the contrary* they were rather strengthened than otherwise. Arous ed in this manner from sound slumber his first conceit was that someone had applied to him a galvanic battery heavily charged. Becoming assured that such had net been the case, be then thought that someone hail stolen into his room and done something to him, what he knew not. This iu turn gave way to the positive assurances of his wife and friends; but it was plain something hail happened, of an extraordinary physical character, and the Major, with his usual scientific turn of mind, set about its investiga tion. Lifting up bis paralyzed arm, be discovered that it was covered with what appeal'd to be a phosphoric light. Holding the stricken limb still higher, electric lights dropped from the FINGERS like drops of liquid fire, while the whole arm and the corresponding sides of the face and the neck were illumined in like manner. The phe nomena was wonderful to behold. It was plain the patient was mysterious ly anil wonderfully overcharged with electricity. Feeling ft mysterious in fluence in his left eye, he called upon his friends to examine it. lhey \ found it to be perfectly natural in ap-. pearance,except that it emited a bright illumination, which cast a light on ; the wall sufficiently strong in a dark- j cued room to enable li. ill to see tin-1 Hgures on the wall paper. In a word j the eve shone out like it lamp. It was at this stage, but after these j wonderful physical indications bad abated, that Dr. Nicholson was called in and it will gratify the many old , and cherished friends of Major Dot-! tbeil to be informed that the synip- j toms of his painful illness have taken a favorable turn Already lie has j measurably recovered the use of his lower limb, and with steady increas- ] ing strength, the strongest hopes are j entertained of liis speedy recovery. ' The facts in this case as related above were obtained by a representa tive of the Times directly from Mr. (lottlieil and lys estimable family. —New (hieane Times I A Novel Injunction. —From Sur prise Valley, Georgia, comes the sto ; ry of an old fellow who got very jeal ous because liis wife went to a ball with a good-looking fellow and stayed out until broad daylight. The old chap went to a justice of the peace and told his story, winding up with: “I want yer to help me, for that ar thing has been going on about long enough.” “Well,” says the justice, j “you can write down to Yreka, and J see if some *of the lawyers can t get you a divorce.” “Divorce!” roared the angry man. “whothe douce wants a divorce?” The justice began to get wrathv. “If you don’t want a divorce, what the deuce brought you here?” “Why, I want an injunction to stop further proceedings.” Remarknb!<; Suicide, A LADY SEVENTY-ONE YEARS OLD BLOWS OUT HER OWN BRAINS. One of the most lamentable suicides that we havo ever been called upon to chronicle took place in Jones county, at a late hour on Monday night. Mrs. Jonathan Holmes, an old lady sov enty-ono years of age, deliberately blew out her own brains with a shot gun, producing instantaneous death. About midnight her family was alarmed by the report of a gnu in her room, and on going thither found the old lady lying dead upon the floor, with nearly the whole of the upper portion of her head blown off. She seems to have placed the muzzle of tlie gnu against her forehead and pulled the trigger with her foot. Mrs. Holmes, for the greater por-, tion of her life, lived in comfortable circumstances. She raised a family of children and had a number of. grandchildren. She had a great deal i of trouble during the later years of: her life, and there is hardly any doubt that her troubles preyed upon her mind until her reason becamo im paired, and that it was in this mental condition that she committed the awful act. In addition to her other troubles she lias, for some time, been in bad health. The deceased lived about five miles | from Clinton, on the Monticello road. This case is a very remarkable one. "Wo do not remember to have ever read of any ease in which so aged a person, of either sex, committed the most violent act that can be commit ted, and in so violent a manner. She : must have been the victim of the pro fouudt'St despair, else she would have waited the ordinary course of nature, which promised tier, at most, but a few more years of trouble. About two mouths ago a gun was discharged in her room. No one was in tlio room with her at the time, and she never accounted satisfactorily for the discharge. It is now supposed that she then made, or was about to make ail attempt upon her life.—Ma con Telegraph. Habit. It is so difficult, to break up estab lished modes of action, and turn the channels of one’s activiti* s in new directions, that it is not surprising that the mature in life, who have suf fered from not being started right in the first place, should lay, as they are inclined to, great, stress on the impor tance of making in all things a good ! beginning. There arc a few habits which form a pretty good foundation for success in life and insure the friendship of the discerning and vir tuous. First, among them w ; would place the habit of self kelp. This may and should bo formed in a child before it can walk or talk by provi ding resources for its amusements and leaving it, within bounds, to de pend upon those resources. Thou as it grows older, it should be taught, | and gently compelled to perform iu its own behalf all that it can do. Few of us but know young men and young women perfectly helpless for all the ordinary uses of life. If they alone were sufferers it wouldn't matter much but they uro social leeches, always, I demanding service and never render ing it. Good husbands, good wives, good parents rarely if ever, are found !in this class of people. They are so | dependant upon others -so perfectly : unused to the graver uses of existence —that no reliance can be placed upon them—they arc of little use in the world. Parents, no moral is needed; I look to your children—enable them 'tobe of use; for, unless they possess I this faculty, humanity is no better for having known them. L.u'ijp. vrj'.D iiv a Lion.—Just before , ! the performance came oil' at the cir- i cus at Pulaski, Friday night, an un- j I fortunate accident occurred. V bile j ; one of the employes was engaged in ! holding a coal oil lamp, it slipped j | from his hand, failing upon the pro- j joctiou to the lion’s cage, breaking it ! and igniting the combustible liquid. : The oil ran into the cage a stream of | ' flame, causing the animal to retire j ; before it and to crouch at the oppo- i ! site side. At this juncture another j j employe thoughtlessly went inside the ■ {cage with a view to its extinguishment, jAt the very moment he put his head j j and shoulders through the door, the boast raised himself upon his haunch-; es, gave a fearful roar and sprang I upon the unfortunate man just as he | had gotten fairly on the inside, tear i ing the flesh from his face, flesh from I I his breast, and flesh from his arm, so horribly lacerating him that but little hope is entertained of his recovery. He was as nothing in the grip of the lion, which would have killed him in a few moments more had not the mas ter of the beast interposed, with whip in hand, and made tiro animal stand at bay. The lion was considered the tamest animal of the kind known to circus men. Having been greatly aroused by the fire, lie was, however, ready to attack anything that came in bin way. To add to this, the em ploye was not known to the lion, and needlessly endangered his life by the intrusion, though it was for the un appreciative animal’s benefit’—Nash ville Banner. “Another in them pants?” said a fond mother to her young hopeful, i “What 'readful on-kneesy follow I you are. ” Fashionable Mourning. “I am afraid we arc going to have no yellow fever this year.” Wo pricked up our ears at this strange, this awful exclamation. Our very blood was chilled at the melan choly sonibreness of this remark, as if the speaker had received some dire personal injury by the non-appear ance of the fever; tlio teorfull melan choly of tlio speech, the soft, sad look upon his troubled brow, made us pause iu genuine horror, disgust and fear. "No fever, no cholera; the city was never healthier,” pursued this demon to his friend, in sepulchral tones; "just my luck. When the thermom eter aud death rate run up, and two hundred and ninety-six deaths were scored in one week, 1 felt sure I was going to do a heavy business. 1 or dered quite a stock iff mourning goods from Paris. You know all our mourn ing is Parisau. To the French be long all the honor of mourning for lost friends fashionably. They have given a spirituality, an elegance, an ethereality to grief that makes it quite attractive, and even pleasant. There is no more of the old Hebrew style of wallowing in ashes and wear ing sack-cloth. No; a person liow-a days can mourn without violating the rules and ordinances of fashion. The late war developed the Messieurs He lh’uil. They have patented some new fabrics that would just suit this clime, and which run, as it were, through the whole scale of grief, from the heaviest black satin for widows, half mourning, quarter mourning, to dresses that bear just a suuycon of grief, suitable for complimentary mourning or juvenile sorrow. You know what Milton says: “There’s a charm in melancholy;” and the ladies know that as well as old Milton did. M'liy, half my customers are in bogus mourning, grieving and mourning over apochryphal uncles and fictitious aunts. “Ah, I see by your smile you ridi cule those ideas. Sorrow, my friend, has become refined, etlierial and mod ernized, suited to the age in which we live. "Why should it not ? It has been catalogued and subdivided; each grade has been classified and liveried; there ‘settled grief,’ ‘inconsolable,’ ‘melancholy,’ and, lastly, ‘pensivciiess,’ just the tiling for young ladies. “I myself have done something in this lino on tlu-so improvements on the old style. I have brought some little bonnets into the market, rather pronounce, it is true, but which are just the things for young widows at an evening party. I myself am the patentee of tho new tearful handker chief, prepared with artificial tears— crying, bohooiug is not allowed now a-davs;it does no good, and gives the mourner a red nose instead of conso lation; it is far from a beautifier. But what’s the use of mourning over this? My usual luck—a big stock, and tho city is irremediably healthy.” “Oh, don’t be- despondent,” replied the friend, a big, fat, red monster, who looked as if apoplexy was threatening him every moment, "I saw a fine load of green watermelons come in this morning.” “What good will watermelons do? Ten to one they work themselves off with nothing more serious than colic. No, nothing looks promising, unless we can arouse a grand patriotic feel ing and get tho ladies to go into mourning for poor Louisiana, us those of Paris did for Alsace and Lor raine.” It took us about two hours to re cover our senses after this funeral dia logue. We cannot sleep at night any longer, for rows of men, dressed in a sombre black, mountains of coffins flit? by until our very hair stands on end, and wo cry out in our sleep. Our landlady says tint if we do not stop drinking we will have to find new lodgings, as she does not want lodg j ers with jim jams. To such an ex tent are wo misinterpreted. — New Orleans Picayune. Hair Chiiractorization. i A writer says: “Coarse black hair j and dark skin signify great power of character, with a tendency to sensu ality. Fine black hair and dark skin , indicate strength of character, along i with purity and goodness. Stiff’, j straight black hair aud beard indi cate a coarse, strong, rigid, straight forward character. Fine dark-brown hair signifies the combination of cx- j quisite sensibilities with great strength j of character. Flat, clinging, straight: hair a melancholy’ but extremely con-j stunt character. Harsh, upright hair is the sign of a reticent and sour spirit. Coarse red hair indicates: powerful animal passions, with a cor responding strength of character. Auburn hair, with florid countenance, denotes the highest' order of senti ment and intensity of feeling—purity, with high capacity for enjoyment and suffering. Straight, even, smooth : and glossy hair denotes strength, harmony and evenness of character, i hearty affections, a clear head and su perior talents. Fine, silky, supple' hair is the mark of a delicate and sen sitive temperament, and speaks in fa vor of the mind and character of the i owner. Crisp, curly hair indicates a hasty, somewhat impetuous and rash i character. White hair denotes a lym i phatic and indolent constitution.” r.,~ J. .I >.*. . *r*w*. Living dogs and cats are nuis j anecs, but dead ones are intolerable. —The greatest object of curiosity jto a woman is the dress of another l woman. lii a Rad Fix. It has never been definitely settled to the sat isfaction of the public who : the man in the iron mask was, but ; generations to come will know all \ about. Dick Palmer, who got inside of something worse than a mask. ' His mother sent him after a brass kettle, which one of the neighbors had borrowed, and on the way home the boy turned the kettle upside) down and put it on his head. An other boy gave it a blow and it shut ; down over Dick's face as close as a ■ clam in his shell, one of the ears dig- | ging into his head behind, and the i other pressing on his nose. The vie- i tim jumped and shouted and clawed at tlu; kettle, but lie couldn't budge it. A man came along and lifted at it, but Dick's nose began to come out by the roots, and the man had to) stop. A crowd ran out of the corner : grocery, Dick’s mother was sent for, and the boys danced up and down , and cried "Oh, golly!” without was- j ing. One boy said they would have i to take a cold chisel and drill Dick ■ out of the kettle, and another said j they’d have to melt tlio kettle off’, while everybody rapped on it to see how solidly it was on. Then they tried to lift it off', but Dick roared “murder!" until they stopped. Some j said grease his head, some said grease | the kettle, while the boy’s mother sat down on the curbstone and sobbed 1 out, “Oh! Iticliard, why did you do ! this ?” Tlio crowd took it coolly; it wasn’t their funeral, and a boy with a brass kettle on his head isn’t to be I seen to day. Tears fell from the ket tle, and a hollow voice kept repeat ing, "1 11 never do it again.” Finally they had Richard on the walk, and j while one man sat on his legs and an other on his stomach, a third com pressed the kettle between bis hands, and the boy crawled out, his nose all scratched and twisted out of shape, a hole in his head and a bump on bis forehead, liis mother wildly em braced him, till tlio boys cried, “ilip la 1” and little Richard was led home to loaf around on the lounge and have toast and fried eggs for a week. H fruit Free Press. A Beautiful Incident- Day before yesterday, in bis speech for the prosecution iu a seduction ; case, ('apt. Barziza related a fable of i a swallow building her nest 'neath 'the eaves of a court 1 muse, ;rtel when her young were hatched and in their I callow Jleiplcssin'-s wi re dependent 1 upon her, a serpent l ame and devour ed them. Y.’aeii she discwveired her loss her lamentations were sorrow ful and distressing to witness, anil a friend attempted to console anil a~- l suage her grief. Her reply was that ! she mourned not so much the loss of her tender little ones as she did that they perished where they did. She had sought the protecting tegis of the I temple of justice, hoping that the weakness of herself and young would find there a defense from all harm. The application made by Capt. Barziza was prettily anil effectively | made. There sat a defenseless meth | er, and her still more defenseless ) offspring, seeking iu the temple of justice redress for wrong, and she j met with calumny anil vituperation in tlio very sanctuary where she sought ' safety. Yesterday morning, after the court was opened, and the clerk was read i ing the minutes, a beautiful swallow j flew into the courtroom and perched j upon the judge’s head, and flying off alighted upon the volume of statutes j in front of him, looked him full in the ! face, chirping, and then flew to the jury box, hoping from railing to rail ing, and scat to seat, avoiding those j who sought to capture it, and with another merry chirrup, flew out of the window to the freedom and happiness of God’s sunlight and air. I The incident was a pretty one, oalcn j lated to awaken all the poetry of one's j soul and to beget a higher apprecia- I tion of justice and right. —Houston • Tclegruph. A Perfect Homo. The most perfect home I ever saw was a little house into the sweet in cense of whose tires went no costly things. A thousand dollars served as a year’s living of father, mother, and three children. But the mother was the creator of a home; her rela tions with her children were the most beautiful I have ever seen; even the dull and common place man was lift ed up and enabled to do good work for souls by the atmosphere which this woman created; every inmate of her house involuntarily looked into her face for the key note of the day, and it always rang clear. From the rosebud or clover leaf, which in spile of her hard housework she always I found t put by our plates at break | fast, down to the story slio had on ■ hand f o he read in the evening, there j was no intermission of her influence. I Shelias always been and always willbe j my ideal of a mother, wife, and homo ; -maker. If to her quick brain, lov | ing heart, and exquisite face had been | added the appliance of wealth and the enlargements of wider culture, hers would have been absolutely the j ideal home. As it was, it was the best 1 have ever seen .—Helen Hunt. ■ —A Georgia negro who bet $lO j that Gen. 'Washington commanded the Federals at Bull ltun, handed the | money over with the remark: “We!!, , dis yere Bist’ry business is all mi's and I up, anyway.” Days of the Mock. The names of these are derived from Saxon idolatry. The Saxons lmd soveii deities more particularly ador ed than the rest, namely: the Sun, Moon, Tuisco, Woden, Thor, Friga, aud Seater. Sunday being dedicated to the sun, was called bv them Sun lUidaeg; his idol represented tliu bust of a man, with the face darting bright rays, holding a wheel before liis breast indicative of the circuit of the golden orb around our sphere- Monday was dedicated to the moon, anil was represented by a female on a pedestal, with a very singular dress, anil two long ears. Tuesday was consecrated to ’i’liisei), a n rmaii hero , sire of tlio Germ ms, Scythian- and Saxons. He was represented as a venerable old man, with a long white heard, a scep tre in his band, and the skin of a white beur thrown over his shoulders. \\ id ay was consecrated to Wod en, or Odin, a supremo god of the Northern nations, father of the gods god of war, of Mars. Ho was repre sent- 1 as a warrior in held martial attitude, clad in armor, holding in his right hand a broad crooked sword, and a shield in his left. Thursday was consecrated to,Thor, eldest son of Woden, who was the Roman Jupiter; he was believed to govern the nir, preside over lightning and thunder, direct wind, rain and seasons; he was represented as sitting on a splendid throne, with a crown of gold adorned with twelve glittering stars, and a sceptre ii his right li uni. Friday, or Friga, Hertha, or Edith, was the mother of the gods and wife of Woil cu; she was the goddess of love and pleas'.: ,o, and was portrayed as a fe male with a naked sword in her right hand and a bow in her left, imploving that iu exi .vim; eases women should fight as well as men. Saturday, or Heater, is the same as the Roman S.ituiTus; ho was represented on a pedes! .1, standing on the back of a prickly !i h <•: Ileil a ] ercli, his head bare, with a thin, meagre face; iu his left hand lie held a wheel, and iu his right a pail of water witli fruits anil llo" -: ’ rp of tlie fish imp! • 1 , a :-!.■{ -er of Seater should pus.-. :1. :-h .-very diflfi ■ nib. ' 1 - <: nematic uf their unity . freedom, aud llie pail vab i . :• plietl that lie would water the earth and make it fruitful. A ’Virginia Wife Onuses Social Equality.—A recent issue of the Bo livar \’a.) Built Up contains the fol lowing: “While at the Junction lost Monday wo were bffd ffiy a gentle man of veracity a ? 1 juke, practi cal in its nature, on uie fellow B yd, who ran for Tax Collector of Fayette county on tig? Radical ticket. Tlio day after the election a negro man call lilt Boyd’s house while he was eating dinner. Boyd invited the eb ony civil rights man and brother to sit down at the table with him aud appease his hunger. Sambo slid into a chair alongside this sociable Boyd, but Mrs. Boyd did not like such con duct, a?.d slie hastily gathered tlio , four corners of tlie table-cloth, brought them together with a jerk, throwing ! plates, glasses, dishes, vegetables, meats, etc., all into a shapeless mass, | anil then pitched them into the yard. Having thus plainly expressed her ' sentiments concerning the social ' equality of the races, she told Mr. Boyd that ho could remain in full pons- ssion of the house, and enjoy to his heart's content tlio company of liis African friends, but as for herself she would go to her mother’s, and there remain, never to meet him again. Boyd’s own brother, we are informed, escorted her to the family mansion, and this miserable husband fled the country.” * The lawyers of Now York are likely to make a good tiling out of theßeech er-Tilton scandal. First, there is tlie great cast? of Tilton vs. Beecher, in which 8100,000 damages are claim ed. Then Mr. Henry C. Bowen sues the editor and reporter of the Brook lyn Eagle. for libel, claiming damages to tie amount of $150,000, while ho also lias the editor of the Argus ar rested on a criminal charge. Mr. Tilton threatens some suits for libel against New York and Brooklyn ed itors. Mr. Beecher may follow his ex ample unil sue editors all over the country. Mr. Moulton has a right to sue Beecher for charging him with being a blackmailer. Mrs. Tilton may try to vindicate her character in j the courts agniiitst the charges of Til ! ton anil Moulton, and Susan B. An j thony has a grievance in the charge that she sal in Theodore’s lap, which may require legal redress. Certainly l the prospect of a large libel crop in ! very promising in New York. A Love Story. —“Pliairest of tho plniir,” sighed the lover, “pliancy my plieelings when I phorsec the pliear ful cuusequmice-J of our phleeing plironi your phatlier’s phamily,. Phew pheilows could have phaced the music with so much phortitnde as I have; atul as phiclo pliortuno re phnses to smile upon our love, I pliiiul myself pliorcod to phorego the pleasure of becoming your husband.. Phair Phrances, pharewell phor-- ever.” “Hold, Phranklin, hold,” screamed Phrances. “I will phollow you phor -1 ever.” But Phranklin phlcd, and loving, j Phrances phuinted. [ —To remove stainsirom character I —get rich. NO. 30.