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SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, MAY 18, 1876.
Until Death.
Make me no vows of constancy, dear friend,
To love me, thongh I die, thy whole life long,
And love no other till thy (lays shall end,—
Nay, It were rash and wroug.
If thou cans't love another, be It so;
I would not reach out of my quiet grave
To bind thy heart, if it should choose to go;
Love should not be a slave.
Mv placid ghost, T trust, will walk serene
In clearer light than gilds those earthly morns,
Above the jealousies and envies keen
Which sow this life with thorns.
Thou wouldst not feel my shadowy caress.
If, after death, my soul would linger here;
Men’s hearts crave tangible, close tenderness,
Love’s presence, warm and near.
It. would not make me sleep more peacefully
That thou wort wasting all thy life in woe
For my poor sake; what love thou hast for mo,
Bestow it ore 1 go!
Carve not upou a stone when I am dead
The praise which remorseful mourners give
Tu women’s graves a tardy recompense
But speak thorn while I live.
Heap not the heavy marble on my head
To shut awar the sunshine ami thedqw;
Let small blooms grow there, and let grasses wave
Anil ruin-drops filter through.
Thou wilt meet many fairer and more gay
Than I; but, trust me, thou eunst never find
One who will love and serve thee night and day
With a more single mind.
Forget me when I die? 4 The violets
Above my rest will bloom just as blue.
Nor miss thy tears; e’en Nature’s self forgets;
But while I live, be true!
A Kentucky riolo&'s Report.
A letter from Columbia, Kentucky, to
tha LouLville 1 ’omtuercinl reports as fol
lows (accurately, it is claimed,) a speech
delivered in that town on the 3(1 instant,
by a returned member of the State legis
lature:
Gentlkmen: I hardly know where to
commence in giving an account of my
stewardship. 1 will first speak of the
' (finenil statutes, it is very imperfect. IVe
i tried to repeal the whiskey law, but, the
Nawycrs wore too strong fur us; said that
| were all the way they had to make money.
; We came very near repealing the stuff
' outen Caiutucky. Then; is some conic
plaint about u extending the session.
You must remember that it taken one
week to organize, aim then it taken two
weeks to elect a United States Siuitor, and
that make one third of the constitutional
term of sixty days. And when the pro
vision wore made the popolatiou were only
half what are now, and of course we need
twice as much legislation now as then,
i The finances were in a very good eon-
I ditiun. Tim State are outen debt, and
I have $1,500,000. It’s true wo owe some
money, but it aint due till 1890. And we
! have more money in the trea-utv than we
! ought to have, for when there Ti.s loom r
1 there, everyone in Frankfort! ‘jjr?'
|at it. If we hadent a extended ■ session
! wo could linvo reduced the taxes ten per
I cent. The. legislater passed the bill at
ton cents, but the Sinit doffatet it and put
!it at five, and we concurred in it. The
) librarion has had $30,000 to puss through
his hands every year, and eouldont ac
count for $lO of the money. Hvcryboby
went there a :d backed eft all he wanted,
and there was no account taken of it. We
seed proper in our wisdom to investigate.
We raised the jurisdiction of the magis
trates to SIOO, and give them concurrent
i jurisdietisu with the Circuit Court. Tho
[ pleadings are to be oral. You don’t have
j to employ a lawyer, you can write out
yotlrown claim and put it in and demand
payment. We made grand larceny $lO
-i lie legislate!' put it at S2O, but the Sinit
reduced it to $lO- Little petty larceny
• anil miner offences are under ten dollars,
; and he can be worked on the street or in
I the work-house for whatever his offence
air. We extended the geological survey.
The State have paid out over one million
dollars and got hack nothing. We api>, -
printed $44,000 to complete the survey.
1 was opposed to it, but the Sinit. was too
hard for us.
There were more intrust in tho fi.-hbill
than anything else. I opposed it, think
ing it, were not benificiaf. No man can
imp, dip or seine for four years. Weap
j preprinted S3OOO to get aigs and hatch
I cm. it air a fine ol $0 and jail to violate
| the law- The Sinit appropriated 31.25,000
to clean out Cnintuck river. Wo reduced
;it to SOOOO. If if, had stayed at the first
stun $1,000,000 would have been required
i and our children wouldn’t a seed the end
of it. 1 tried to kill the bill by amend
ment, askin’ for SISOO to build a bridge
over Orcen river, at Neatsviile, but they
I killed my amendment, and we then taken
a square vote on it and killed it. I kept
Ia copy of all the bills I passed, but for
i gotten to bring them. 1 got two otlior
l.ills put through—one from here pro
hibiting the sale of liquor, it was the
most easiest bill to put through I lied.
This is what l got done while I were thar.
i wouldn’t suffer my country to go info
the dog law. It were too severe. A malt
were to ho fined and jailed for failing to
1 git liia dog in—l put in a bill peryidin
I that each bony lide housed wiper should
I lie allowed one dog. If a hunter, three
| hounds, but no more. If he kept any
: more he was to be taxed one dollar on the
head, and the money put into the jury
fund, and go one-half to the owner oi tho
sheep killed by dogs. I were iri a bad fix.
I had no Striker to put in my hills. Mr.
Iluffaker was a nice man and a republican
1 hut whenever he would git up in a bill
they would raise a pint of order on him
and down he’d sot. He couldn’t stand
before a pint of order. And now gentle
men we have a Siniter to elect, and we
have .{wo candidates, Hr. limner and B.
•S. MfcClue, and lei me advise you to elect
no man, democrat or republican, who
cant stand before a pint of order. Wo
bad tlie reputation of beiri tho most
soberest set of men that ever went to the
legislater. W o had hut three regular
drunkards —Capt- Shanks, Capt. Ford,
and another man whose name 1 cant re
member. I tdi.a ml you, gentlemen.
From France lias come intelligence of a
tragic encounter between two journalists,
both of whom wore celebrated as marks
men. The re.-nit was one of the moat re
markable on record. They met at Bin ]
the morning, and after the usual prelimi
naries, the signal to lire was given. Roth
the duellists fell dead eh the spot, each
having received a ball in the region of the
heart- -They were both married, and
leave-large families. The affair took
place near Toulouse.
As the train stopped for ten minutes
and that individual who goes along tap
ping the wheels with his hammer, was
passing rapidly by the smokipg ear, one of
the windows was hoisted and a torrant of
tobacco spit was ejected which completely
deluged him. The machinist paused for
a moment, and, wiping/ some of the
streams from his person, said to the
offender:
‘'Mister, what part of the country did
you e-line from?”
“Me!” said spittar, puckering his lips
for another expectoration, “I came from
Kansas.!’
“1 thought so,” said the machinist,
“for if you had "lived jp Massachusetts or
Connecticut, they would have had a water
wheel in your mouth long ago. ” — Boston
Bulletin.
—.—
• ■ > Mist^Jcen.
Many a man lives with a woman half a
lifo-litnc wit hout suspecting that the wife
of his bosom has really forgotten more
than he ever knew. Many a carpet
knight who plume* himself upon his won 1
dentil skill in smashing hearts Js In'!
mentally measured and intellect -rH
turned inside put; by the smiling gu*
whom he thinks he is captivating. Many!
a veteran beau who nulls on his globes !<■-
depart, feeling proudly conscious of ha v
ing made a profound impression upon t he
susceptible soul of the belle who has en
dured him for an evening, would he won
derfully enlightened, if not edified, could
ho hear the sigh of relief which escapes
her lips when the clang of the door an
nounces his depart ure.
A Conscientious-^Yoter.
“ 'Rent dis livin' ’lection hizness, V/.o
done laid down anew flatform!” said Pete
to some other darkies.
I‘VVbat sort of anew flatform is dat?”
was :e I ed by another darkey.
“W t duy niii’t gwine to fo'j me no
more SSftt wlm I 'zo votinfor, <ln\- how!"
mm ’L' k f * j
“YVha l ! yon gw in a to k no’ fmut it?
You aio’i.bin to skol since do las ’lection
an’ cau’f t’bad nohow!” returned/ a third
darker.
“Nebber you mind Lout my readin’,
nigger; dat don t 'splaino do pint. Rut
I’m tellig’ of yer dat when 1 goes to a
’publican an’ gets uiy ticket, Tze gwinc
to make him read it strait down from de
top to de bot tom ”
"Well?” t|hey said.
“Den I ’zu gwinc to a Dimicrat and ax
him to read it back’ards from de bottom
up, an’ ef dat ticket don’t dove-tail at bof
ends like a burn draw’, she don’t go inter
de box, dat’s all!"— Suvuniutlt News-
A Touching Incident.
In flic graveyard at Albany, in this
State, there is a solitary, unmarked grave.
It holds the dust of a Federal soldier who
died just after the surrender. When Col.
Cary W. Style- was about concluding his
Memorial speech on the 20th of last
mmtii. he paused, and then said with
much feeling, "hut my friends, in drop
pipe the tear of sympathy on these hon
ored graves around us, and covering them
with the garland of lovs and tender mem
ory, let its not forget the one Jorie spot,
where lies all that is left of one who in
war was not our friend. lie had no
doubt, the same view of his duty that wc
took of ours, lie, no doubt, felt tho
same high impulses of a patriot’s heart
which carried him’ into danger, and laid
him in his untended grave. For him, no
doubt, the same care of a mother’s love,
the same tendernessol'asistflr’saffeetions,
the same sacred associations of home
existed, that have been so vividly and
alfeetiugiy brought homo lo our hearts by
the Scenes and exercises of the day. For
that mother, and these si-tors I bespeak
for the stranger in his final resting place
a kindly notice. •
•‘How sublime are exercise s of human
fellowship and charity it is to forgive, and
the deeper the soar, the holier the for
giveness. - Here, to-day, let there lie no
indulgence of feelings that do not sweetly
liartuoni zo with the sincerest professions
of peace, fraternity arid good will, which
(led grant, may from this day. henceforth
arid forever, mark our I bon as one
people.”
After the orator had concluded these
remarks, whose noble spirit did hint so
mush honor, a great many of tho company
present came up to him, and gave hearty
approval Col• Stylus’ words. They, in
many instances, however, expressed their
surprise to hear that a Federal soldier was
buried in the cemetery, and asked to have
the grave pointed out to them.
The friond.whw gave us this incident in
the day’s proceedings assured us that
before the gathering dispersed the flowers
on that lone grieve were piled up a foot
thick.
How glad we would be to know that
the poor fellow’s mother could hear of
t his. —A thin ta Common wealth.
Professor (to Frenchman) —“What is a
circle?” Frenchman (after much reflec
tion) —“A rouhd, straight line, with a
hole in the middle ”
The Champion Liar.
One evening when the winter blasts j
moaned sadly aoross tbo street corners, j
and the captains of the ferry boats wore
anxious looks, soven or eight vessel own
ers and “laid up” lake captains sat
around a cheerful base-burner in a saloon
near the river. After the usual amount
of growling about tbo ono of
them told a story. There might have
boon an ounce of truth in it, but the
crowd felt certain that the ounce was
offset by twenty-four pounds of the “aw
fulest kind” of lying. Therefore, a sec
ond man told a story to beat it, and then
a third man heat the second. When the
fourth man started out lie said:
“Gentlemen, I have also seen tough
times. When 1 was sailing the schooner
Fortune, forty years ago, two of us were
swept overboard in a storm on Lake F.rie
one black night, A hatch cover went
with us, and it so happened that we both
clutched it. It was not large enough to
support two. I was captain—he a sailor;
I had a family—he had none. I shouted
to him to quit his hold, and when he
would not, I reached over, clutched his
throat and held on till his fingers loosened
and he went to Ihe bottom of the lake! It,
was twenty miles off Point Betsey, and
with a shrill, wild shriek, which yet
lingers in my ears, the poor wretch went
to his death! May the Lord forgive me!”
With his clmir tilted against the wall,
; lanky, sunttuwerish chap had been nod
ding bis head right and loft, as if sleep
ing. As the captain’s narrative was con
cluded, the the stranger rose up and sol
emnly said: , . *
1 H: am that man!”
The crowd looked at him in astonish
and lie continued i
i ' j. l r.n Point. B&tncy next morn
ing in ffme for br.vdf fast, and I swore a
solemn oath t> jJ and link you for choking
me, if I had to wait a hundred years to
do it 1”
“You can't bo the man,’’ replied the
captain, looking suspiciously at the fel
low’s big fists; “it was forty years ago.”
“I know it was, and far forty years I
have been aching to lick you out of your
boots!' ’ ;
The captain had lied, but he didn't
want to own it, and he said:
“That sailor's name was Pick Rick.”
“Kerreut!” bowed the stranger, "‘that’s
my name!”
“Rut he was taller than you.” _ ajj
“Ruing in the water so long that nigh fj'
1 shrunk just a foot!” was the cool re
joinder.
“Well, 1 Hfiow you can't bo the man,”
replied tin; captain.
“1 am the man, and now I am going
to tnauld you to pulp! No man can choke
me and then brag about it!”
Jle sailed in and upset the captain, but
v . L ii sot upon by the whole crowd,
lie got into the eye of the wind and hung
there for a time, hut presently lie paid
oft' a little, got the wind on his quarter,
and went at it to lick ten times his weight
in old liars, lie was a very ambitious man
and those who could got out doors got
out, and those who couldn’t, offered him
a gallon of whisky to come to anchor. lie
furled his sails on this understanding, and
as he set his glass down for the third drink
he v ijied his bleeding ear and remarked :
“When a man tries to sacrifice mo in
order to savo himself, lie don’t know who
lie’s fooling with!”
J 1 u was the biggest liar of them all but
lie made the most out of it.
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Grant Responsible.
It, is not unlikely that the Senate will
decide that it has no jurisdiction in the
ease of Belknap.
The broad argument that impeachment
was estopped by the acceptance of the
late Secretary’s resignation, lias been
urged with effect by his able counsel,
though the speech of Judge Hoar on the
other side was ahio and impressive. Tho
republican senators seem to be more than
ready to accept a principle which will
spare their party and the administration
a serious disgrace.
Asa private citizen Uelknap can be
tried by criminal procedure. He lias been
indicted by a Washington grand jury, but
it is not safe to assume that the District
•courts will do justice when a friend of
Babcock and Grant and Jloss Shepherd
is in the dock.
If Belknap escape impeachment, the
attention of the people will again bo di
rected to the haste with which Grant ac
cepted she resignation which shielded an
official thief from the consequences of his
crime. The President’s declaration that
he know nothing of the charges against
Belknap until after he had regretfully al
lowed him to depart, may have weight
with very young children and the ma
rines.
The vote which dismisses the Secretary
from the bar of the Senate affixes a last
ing stigma on the President. —New York
Sun.
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Two Orphans’ Adventures.
On Saturday last, Conductor Ben Colo
discovered, crouched under one of the
seats in a smoking ear, a boy and a girl.
“Mi ster, is this the road to Haven?”
said the boy, as he crawled out, and the
girl said' "Mister, please don’t put us
off, our folks live there, and we ain’t got
any father or mother, and here’s a let
ter,” at tiie same time drawing from her
laded calico apron a crumpled piece of
paper, and handing it to Mr. Cole. After
looking at it a long time, for it was badly
written, badly spoiled and blurred; ho
made out this:
“Ail good people: These children ain’t
got no father or mother. They died here
in February, and fs’e been tending to
NUMBER 20.
’em. They ain’t got no ftilfcs here, and
(heir folks live in Haven, Connecticut,
fs’o a poor nigger woman, r.fd ctjtft keep
’em no longer, is’c got mysiuffljsijipport
theysc a going back to their mSfe,, They
in good children, and don’t dojpmn no
harm. Jane Mai pwL”
Mr. Colo sat down by the boy, -who
was about thirteen, years of age and
bright. He learned that in the spring 4
John Howell with his wife and two cliil- ’
dron left New Haven, Conn., for the west
and arrived at Pueblo, but that both died
and during their sickness the old negro,
Jane Maupin, was (ho only attendant at
their bed-side, and when the children
were thrown out upon the world, orphans
friendless and penniless, she cared for
them as she would for her own children.
Rut having learned from the father that
they wore from New Haven, and that
they had an undo there by the name of
Martin Howell, she conceived the idea
that they ought to go back, and the
thought, that the letter she wrote and
gave them would be a passport to all the
world. They started three weeks ago,
taking the A. T. and S. F. train for Atch
ison, and a conductor had put thorn off'
near Pueblo.
But they had started for Haven, and
they resolved that they would go. Ry
“stealing rides,” now in n freight car.
now under the seats in the smoking car
and now in the caboose among the pits of
trunks and packages, and begging their
food they reached Topeka, fifty miles
from Atchison. They wandered around
Topeka all day. and at night they hid
themselves in a fiat car laden with build
ing stono. In the gray dawn they reached
tins city, begged a breakfast and dinner,
and at 2 o’clock bid themselves under
the seat in the Missouri Pacific car, where
thej’ were found by Mr. Cole.
Mr- Cole took the chi’dren to Kansas
City, the end of bis “run ” cu t *or them
there, telegraphed to Mart: . V. we!! at
New Haven, Conn., and fcailv" in an
swer to send the children in -r.’oofthe
conductor to New Haven ant and aw upon
him for the expenses of th : trip. They
are on their way. A'*%son ( /Cunsas)
Ratfiot
No Mother.
The other day, when a A,err an I dig
nifiod judge ordered a prise ner i.> stand'
up and offer objections, iflm bad any, to
being sentenced to prison for a tong term
of years, the prisoner rose and said:
“I never laid a mother to shed tears
over me."
1 His words entered every heart in the
courtroom. He was a rough, bad man,
in the middle age oflife, and he had been
convicted of burglary, but every heart
softened toward him as his lips uttered
the words, lie felt what he sard, and
tears rolled down his cheeks as he con
tinued:
“If I had had a mother's love and a
mother’s tears —someone to plead with
me and pray with me — I should not now
lie what I am!”
Ah! That’s it! There is power in a
mother’s love, in her lqars, pleadings and
prayers, whose influence is hardly to be
realized. God pity the lad who has no
home to go to—no mother to whom he
can tell all his troubles and his griefs—
no mother to put her arms around his
neck brid beseech Heaven to put him in
tho. right paths I There is no heart like
a mother’s. Hor child may wound it
again and again, yea, pierce it with a
sword, and its last pulsations will still beat
with love for tho ingate. It is the first to
excuse his faults; the last, to condemn.
There is no love like a mother's—none so
enduring, so tender, so far-reaching. It
is lavished upon tho child in the cradle,
and it follows tho boy over the ocean. It
calls up tiic wanderer the first thing in
the morning, and it remains with him
until sleep closes tho eyes. When a
mother’s love for her offspring dies out,
it is a certain sign that he had become
a being too atrocious to longer live among
men.
There are no tears like a mother's.
Nothing can so lighten the sorrows of a
child —nothing so restrain a mind front
wandering into evil paths. Tho man looks
back over his childhood ami youth, and
regrets nothing so much as that he has
brought fears of sorrow ami sadness to a
fond mother’s eyes. Every tear a mother
sheds over a wayward child is recorded in.
tho Great Book, and lie shall answer for it..
There are no prayer’s like a mother’s—
none that reach so far, and none so earn
est. The wanderer on foreign shores
feels this in his heart, and he is thankful
to Heaven that he can feel it. Kneeling
at her bedside and asking the angel to
guide tho feet of hor children in right
paths, who can doubt that a mother’s
prayers are heard in Heaven?
“I never had a mol her to sited tears
over me!”
The sorrowful words of that burglar
might be the words of many evil-doors.
“No mother” means aching hearts, bur
dened minds, deadly woes and paths
which lead down to ruin. Heaven he kind
to the lad who must battle through the
world without a mother s tear, a mother’s
prayers, and a mother’s boundless love to
give him hope, strength and courage!
A telegram from Ann Arbor, Michigan,
says that Mr. Josh. G. Leland, a promi
nent resident of that city, died on Thurs
day from rite effects of the bite of a rat.
Borne days previously lie attempted to
kill a rat, and it bit him on the hand.
The hand and arm commenced swelling,
and continued to swelhmtil they reachu l
an onoamous size. Death resulted i,t
about a week. Mr. Leiand was seventy
years old.
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Tito smallest hair throws its shadow,