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You that are in need of goods be sure and give • usacalL Our motto is “quick sales and short j profits. ' We are also proprietors of SMITH S CKLKBKATKI) KTO.MACH KITTEIW. Be j sure and give them a trial, they are cold by i all Grocers and Druggists, throughout several j States. *. P. SMITH *L SON. Bax . ■ . ■ A . \ : (Sri,; .:•?>..* is :> .-} 17 CENTS A MONTH WILL BUY J * a newspaper for one year. Every family is j abla to have The Gazette at this low price. SUMMERVILLE, GEOUGIA. FEBRUARY 28, 1878 Dntll Dath. Make no vows of constancy, dear friend. To love me, though 1 die, thy whole life tong And love no other till thy days shill end— Nay, It were rash and wrong. If thou oan*t love another, bo it boj I would not reach out of my quiet grnvo To bind thy heart, if it should cliooae to go— Lovo ehould not boa slave. M.V plMd ghost, I truat. will vralk serene In clearer lights than gilds those earthly moms. Above the jealousies aad envies keen WrUch sow this li v with thorns. Thou wotililat not feel my shadowy caress, If, after death, my soul should linger hero, Men's hearts crave tangible, close touderness, Love's presence, warm and noar. It would not make mo alnop more peacefully That thou wai t wasting all thy lifo in woe For my poor sake; what love thou hast for me Bestow it ere 1 go. Curve not upon a stone when I am dead The praiyds which remorseful mourners giva To women's graves—a tardy recompense— But apeak them while I live. Ileapnot the heavy marble on my head To shut sway theuuahiue and the dew: Lot small blooms jrow there, and let grasses wavft, And raindrops filter through Then wilt meet many fairer and more gay Than I; but trust me. th -u caus't never find One who will love and serve thee night and day With a more single mind. Forget me when I die. The violets Abo vs in y rest will blonemn just as bine, Nor mi--* thy tears; o'en Nature's self lorgeta: But while 1 live, be true I i??rv. j l-l_ ■■""-V. l . ""a COWI’KIt AND JOHN GILPIN. “Thn Diverting ITMory of .Tohn Gilpin,” tlia production of a Hinkle wan, to re poat, writieu Uy a man who lived in por p:itual dread of eternal punishment; and while it was being read by !!<?ndurxon ( the actor, to lai'g’e audiences in its author was ravin# mad. Southey, in his fine biography of the poet; ways that llen rWson read to crowded audiences in Lon don. all through Lent, John Gilpin, at hi#h pricey. “The ballad, which had become the town talk, v.ua reprinted from the itevMpapers, wherein it had lain thr /, years dormant. Gilpin, pasain# at full et.retch by the Bel! at Ldmonton, wae to be .M*‘*n at all print ahops. One print-seller sold pix thousand. What had eucr.ee led bo well in London was repeated with infer ;r ability,d>ut with equal suecesp, on provin cial stages, and the ballad became in the highest decree''popular before the author’s name became known.* l ' The last reading: to •’which Cowper listened appears to have been that of his own works. Beginning with the first volume, Mr. Johnson wont through them, and he listened to them in silence tHI he came to John Gilpin, which he not to hear. It reminded him of cheerful days, and of those of whom he could not bear to think. “The grin at Jo’an Gilpin,” he said, “little dream \s hat the author sometimes suffers. How I hH/tvd myself yesterday for hsving ever w.-oteitr Gn his death-tad, when the •clergyman told him to confide in the love t!i who fl'H)ri'-cl to s:ive ail uroh, Cowpor fravo pitswonate cry, bog-- gjjnghim riot to giv him such conßolatioiiH. 'fo our Ignorant ys it looks tli. t t! a author of our ln*st an 1 most popular ■ivmnK SihuM hh'.'o thou .'hi his sins -l:i ;> is cL iiablsj frimuld Lavs t/olio-'/ci himsolf al rcw'iy ilamn<l.— A. P. Russdl. IIAII B v .Z i'.ot ND. At the City Hall M.trkflt, Boston,rwftutty, while a Jftfly was purehif iriff a a man about fifty years oid, anti a stranger to her, approached and j>mai ked: •‘Mieeus, I have traveled over Kurope, Asia, Africa, and tho Holy Land. I have viewed the pyramids, failed o the Nile, arid fished in the Tiber. Permit mo to of fer you a word of ad vice; Don’t cook that fish with the scales on.” “I didn’t mean to, sir, M she indignantly ropliod. “Very well, missus. I have crossed the Atlantic Ocean fourtesn times; ascended the Andes; sailed up the Missouri and down the Mjasießippi, and tramped across the Great Desort. Let me say one word more: Cut the bead olf before you cook it !*' *Do you think I’m a heathen?” she re torted. “I guess I know how to oook a fish!” “You may, madam—you may. I have soldiered for Queen Victoria, fought for Uncle Ram, drawn a pension, kept a post office, learned to fiddle, and was never sued in my life. I beg your pardon, madam, but let me advise you not to oat the bones of that fish. Rome folks eat bones and all, but they sooner or later corns to some dis reputable end!” “I'll thank you to mind your own buei ness!” she said, as she picked up the fish. “I have traveled over the smooth prai ries,” he replied with the greatest politeness, “climbed the Rocky Mountains, killed In dians, fought grizzles, suffered and starved and perished, and I leave you w'ith the kindest and most earnest wishes for your future welfare. Also cut off the tail before cooking-!” * And he went away. StIICIDAL MANIA. Sometimes a person determined to de stroy himself will wait months and years for an opportunity of executing the deed in the particular manner he has marked ■ cut for himself, and the very inclination to 1 suicide may be removed by withdrawing the 1 particular objects that woul l awaken tlis idea. Thus a man who has tried to drown himself will be under no temptation to cut tils throat. Example, it is well-known, is a powerful cause of incßm icnt to the suici dal act. We were once told by a physician that a hypochondriacal paliont used to visit him invariably the day after reading Die report of asuicklein the daily papers, possessed by a morbid fear of imitating the aotof which lie read. Sir Charles Roil,,Sur geon of Middlesex Hospital, was one day de scribing to a barber who vas shaving him, a patient’s unsuccessful attempt to cut his own throat; and, on tho barber’s request pointed out the anatomy of the neck, show iest how easily the act might have been ac complished. Before the shaving operation was completed, the barber bad left the shop and cut liis throat, according to Kir Charles Bell’s exact instructions. Kome times there is an epidemic of suicides, as at Versailles, in 1793, when out of a small population 1,300 persons destroyed , them selves in one year; or as in the Hotel des lavalides in Paris, when six of the inmates 1 anged themselves on a certain crossbar within a fortnight. Very often this disease Is hereditary, nnd at a certain age the members of one family will all in turn evince the suicidal tendency, while even children of very tender years have bean known to end their short lives by their own act, from force of example. Curious, too, aro Iho methods of self destruction, but they are too painful to Irene descrip tion. A Frenchman mice attempted to ring his own death-knell, by tying him self to the clapper of the church-bell which thereupon began to swing, and alarmed the villagers by its unwonted tones. All cases of determined suicide are character istic of confirmed insanity; whereas in cases of impulsive insanity, the perpetrator will often regret the act before it is com pleted, and endeavor to save his life, as did Rir Hainuol Romilly, thus demonstrat ing that Ihe very a'Unnpt may effect the cure of the disordered beam. The months of March, June, and July are the favorites with men; September, November, and January for women, in which they volun tarily end their lives. In youth men hang themselvea; in the prime of life use firearms; and when old revert to hanging. Women usually prefer OpViia'fl “muddy death.” Poisoning is a method adopted by the very young of both sexes. We have the consoling reflection that, prevalent as brain disorder is in our country, at least eighty per cent, of cases of insanity are curable, if treated at an early stags; while it is to bo noted that it is not pleasurable productive brain-work that does the mischief, but rather the men tal strain which result* from the high pressure of our artificial life.— C/taiubcr’ Journal. Washington stickkt London. It. Is especially gratifying to Ameri cans to sec in tho London limes a suggestion’made to the Metropolitan Board of Works that the name of tho new and important thoroughfare bo tween Charing Cross and Victoria Embankment shall he “Washington street or place, in ho* >r of one of the best and bravest men i hat the English race has ever produced.” The writer in the London Timex al so propones that the corners of that thoroughfare shall bo aioruud with that armorial shield of stars and stripes which, as he says, “from being for cent urie3 tile bad go of an old Eng lish family, is now that of a groat na tion.”— Commcrci if Advertiser, BUKNED TO Jjga rn UY A MKTKOIt. An intelligent black boy was trudg ing along a highway at night in tho vicinity of Pah stine, Texas. There was ana ■ o woman riding a horse in the same direction the boy was going. The intelligent black boy reappeared in Palestine that night out of breath and us pale as lie could get. lie aaid he saw a ball of fire come out of the sky and strike tho woman and set her ablaze. The horse ran one way with the woman afire on hi* buck ; and lie ran back to town, to tell the people what had happend. The people went to look after further particulars of this curious incident. They found the woman lying on tho ground, with all her clothing- burned off, but with life enough jn her to tell that she had been.si ruck in the breast by a ball of fire. The horse was found with bis inline signed, and Iho woman died the next day. The people t hink she was lilt by a meteor. —A< Jmu'u) He publican. When elected President, Washing ton wass7 ; John Adams was fi2; Jeffer son si: Madia hi, ill); Monroe, 59; : John Quincy Adams, 58; Jackson, fil; Van Huron,Jl; Harrison, 87; Taylor, 64; Polk, cl; Pierce, 48; Buchanan, 60; Lincoln, 51; Grant, 46. j CaiNli.SU HABITATIONS. Eastern architects may get some hints of things to follow or avoid from a de scription which the Virginia City Chroni cle gives of the structure erected by tho Chinamen in that city: “Between lights the Chinaman is an industrious animal. Just now he Is turning his energies to building, and like his fighting, some of it is contrary to law and also shocking to a correct architectural taste. On the Northwest corner of I and Uuion streets John has created a marvellous affair. It is built out far enough to occupy a third of the roadway. The front elevation (height five feet) is composed of odds and ends of stone picked up in the neighbor hood. The one window is formed of three oil cans—two upright and the other laid across the top. TUo roof of this edifice —which has a frontage of about twenty-five feet and a depth of thirty or ujore—would make a handsome playground for a school, as it is perfectly fiat and composed of earth. The interior, which the reporter doubled himself up to enter, is divided into numerous little dens and one spacious saloon, with earthen floor aUd one oil-can window. The place is shortly to be opened as a restaurant, provided the police don't in terfere, which they should do. The idea of utiiiiing oil-cans for building material has been eagerly seized by other Celes tials, and the consequence is numerous fireproof shanties. The cans, filled with earth and piled one upon another, make a solid wall, and no bullet can penetrate them—not a slight consideration these times. Underground residences are also popular. A big square hole is dug into the hillside. Covered in with sti-ks, straw, and an • occdsional plank. The door is naturally fitt-riished by the Eastern slope. Although snch trifles as Jiglit and air are left out of consideration, the bomb-proof character of the underground structure has a charm for the Chinese inhabitant. The only 1 drawback to srich a house is the probability that on some rainy night an enemy may take it iuto liis shaven head to dig a trench and direct the water of the street down the chinriiey.” kgo n.iwcis is Trail. Tliis G riot, ns on might exp hum flio name given P, a dace upon these fragile object.. It is executed ii tliid wi-e*: The dancer, drece 1 in a core ;c and very short skirt, cat a wiilo v wheel of mod erate diameter f.v-t * ' and iiori/. >n! Jiy upon the top of tier b* and. Around 'this wheel thread* are fied ne.-]. ue’utly diitr.ut from each other, and at the end of e-u:h of fire threads is a idip-iico-e, which h kept open by a glass loud. Thus equipped, th? young girl comes toward tho rp*ec'.tori with a banket full of ege*. which p!'o passer, around for in p Mom to prove that they are r-al, and not imila ions. The music strikes up a jjarky, inonobn- ca strain, and tiio d-.ncer b J:h to whir! j around with great rapidity. Then, Hei/, : ug an eg-g she puts it. in one of the slip-riboees, and, witti a quick motion, throws ft frjm , her iri encii a way ai to dra v the knot tight, j The swift turning of.the dancer produces a centrifugal fore, which stretch"* the j thread out straight like a ray shooting j from the circ.omfoi’e.iM of the circle. One, after another the are thrown out in these epp-noo until they make a her- , izontal aureole or halo about the dancr’s head. Then the dance becomes still more j rapid —so rapid in fact that it h difficult to distinguish the features of tho girl; the j moment! is critifcal; the least f.tlee f.irp, the li’Vt 1 rreg:ilai'lty fn time, aud the <-ggs da**ii against each other. But can the da :c be Mopped? There w l>ut ! one way*—tlmt' in to romove the eggs in the ' •ay in which they bare been put in place. ! Thi;* operation ie by far the more delicate of the two. It is n-that tho dancer by a single motion, exact and urieri in,;, j KhoulJ take hold of the egg, and remove it from the noose. A single motion of tho hand, the local i liter fore nco with one of Ihn threads, and tha gerierul arrangement . is suddenly broken, and tho whole per formance disastrously rnd-ul. At lust all tho egge are successfully ,removod; tho dancex* suddenly slope, and without soefn uig in the least di/zied by the danco of twonty-nve or thirty minute*, *ho ad vances to the spoctatore with" a firm ste', and presents th*un tho cvegs, which are irn 'mediately broken in a flat dish to prove that there is no trick about the perform ance. — Scribne r a M<mth l y. ...... . -. r - Thb Connecticut room in the Mb Ver- : non Mansion on the Pot</inac ns the only ! one of the thirteen set .}>. rt for the origi uil Btatos which is not yet adequately fur- ! nished, and money is to be raised by ut ir- ! tainmente at the B--idgeport Opera Hom e to fix up irnl buy a set of furniluiyof Con- I Hsnticut wood in tli ? style of 1776. A young man whs recently asked why he did not mu.n-y, when he I promptly replie 1: “A/y dear sir, I’ve j been salesman in a dry goods store for ten year*,” NUMBER 1). A NCI I,NT W II It AT. I have before me sn ysn writer, heads of wheat, grown on the eastern sido of the Mississippi, within ten miles of Memphis, from grains taken from an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus, sent some years ago by the American Con sul at; Alexandria, to the patent office at Washington. The sialks and leaves are very like those of Indian corn, though smaller, and the heads of grain like that of sorghum or broom corn. Strange but true it is, that this wheat, degenerated but perfect in all its incidents, still gruws among the weeds and grass that cover mounds in the lowlands eighteen miles west of Memphis. How many centuries since these kindred products of Egyptian agriculture were separated, the one to move slowly, perhaps with nomadio tribes, around the globe, crossing Asia aiid the Pudlie ; and the other moving west in our time a-rocs the Atlantic, and both growing green even here in the year of our fjord, 1873, beneath the shadows of an<>l! -r Memphis on the shores ’of -m her Nile? The same writer;* r t the* game raoe of people cud: ,v i the same crop* and ; ,a> nev. an d,; qt'.n in the game peou liar manner, rw;:*\ a century ago. rnmAL v;a£ A contemporary is inclined to bs severe on tho; ■ ■'•••' vhn use postal cards I*.** ri" ”■*; of correspondence with fi iends. v. ;r rurhtsln eourteey have letter writers vCo do not con sider their e;. undents of impor tance cmto, i'e tbdr episyles to them the poor e* ■ -zi{ limerzt of an en closure? Hfcw is a communication to be entertained whori the, writer con fesses by tne - -nil c* J that it Isn’t worth a sJc-T oi paper aad a postage slump? That the posifad card is very useful for notes, for announce ment;, for ec'ipii j.-iT- ting any simple fact that dries n>fi Vn'tfYor a response, no one can deny. J3u,i vve submit that so cial custim on, J,t' to establish that a missive of this kind tailing for a re sponse, ’excepting on business mat ters concerning the recipient, is an impertineuee; and that a postal card partaking of i in? nn, ure of correspon dence its ordinarily understood, is entitled to nu respo t or consideration whatsoever. J£Pliopa AN cc.viu.vis. A Japanese fid it or writes of Euro pean customs: "if, we. olysorye the practice of Europeans, it would appear that tiie power of the wife is greater than that of the husband, and that this error has been brought about- by the want of a correct view of the dic tates of na! ure. YTc will point out ex amples of this, in going through a door the wife ‘pusses .first and the husband follows her; the wife takes the bed: c t and tho husband the next best; in visiting the wife Is lirst saluted ; in forms of address, the wife is Un t mentioned. Moreover, while men art in company with ladies they are particular hi their conversa tion, and are not permitted to smoke without the ladies’ permission being first obtained. These and like cus toms are innumerable, and the power of the women is far greater than that of the men. ’’ A SOI.tJIICI’.’S lIIJOK. 1 In military history and biography ' tho must uubibiu work tho has pr-uluceJ is "Momoirs of Gone Val W. T. Shermap, writteu'by Illinsoif,” j or, as it might be called, "My'' Deeds in My Words.” The sharpness, oon ciyeuoss and arbiUariuess of the ku tobiographer's style are charaatsrlstlo of tho man. He is intensely con scious of hie superiority. The word of cbmrriauil' U heard ringing in every page bfcii is two octavos. Nornuij ochild, without,being laughed at, have writ ten what he lia* written unless ho had done what he lias done. Through out. his autobiography he appear* self-centered, seif-referring, splf-ab sorbed, and when 'opposed, prouder than a ecore of Ki'unish hidalgo*. Like George Eliot’s inkeeper, he di vides human thought into two pacts— namely, “my Idee,” ai.d “humbug.” There is no middle point; but then his intelligence is as solid, qu'fck, broad and full of resources at his will is defiantly self-reliant. Though there id suinelhirig bare, bleak, h(trsb, abrupt in his style, his blunt egbttem every now and then runs into a rude humor. He pats on tho back men, os brave (f not as skillful us himself, and looks down upon them with a good natured toleration as long as they look up to him, but when tiiey do not, disbelief in Sherman denotes iucom petency or malignity in the critio. IJis onmlik'ti are heated and some times vindictive. The grave has closed over a man who, in his sphere did at least as' much as Sherman to overturn the rebellion, and yet Sher man spares not Secretary Stanton dead, any more than no spared Stan ton living. Still the book is thor oughly a soldier’s book and must take rank among the most instructive and oimtiniug military memoirs ever written. Harper's. *r—• A sweet thing in cuiubs—kouey.