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BELLTON, GA,
by JOHN BLATS.
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The snows of eighty years had shed.
Their whitest Cakes on his aged head—
Homeless and friendless, he was weary of life,
Os its sorrows and burdens, and endless strife.
Little carhsj for rain or snow—
Uehad no friend, he knew’ no foe.
Brightest of sunbeam, beauteous her face,
Lightness of motion, girlish her grace—
Like a cloud o’er the sun, when brilliant in light,
Sorrow crept into her face, just so blight.
Tears Itedlmmed her bonnie blue eyes,
Toward hiin she springs, and sweetly cries:
" You are somebody's grandpa, now J know.
Why don't you go out of the snow?
1 have* grandpa, and he sit? fn his chair.
And my grandpa, too, has pretty white hair—
My grandpa lakes me on his knee,
Au<! I hug and kiM him. like this you see. ”
As toward the child, the old man bent,
the seemed to him, an angel sent—
Around hfs neck, her anus she threw,
And •wnrt|y the rye* of bhie—
Klfh after kiss, on his lips were pressed
As lightly he clasped her to his breast
Ihe tears roll down his sunken cheeks.
In broken and husky voice, he speaks -
" Tis long years since a kiss I’ve know,
Why did you kiss me, little one?”
You are somebody's grandpa, that I know,
If you are poor, and out in the snow—
Arid some little girl would be happy to-day.
If site knew J had kissed you,old aud gray—
You looked so lonely, and sick and sad—
’*h' toll me, have I'been very bad?
That you cry so hard, and turn away,
Don't you know me? I’m little May?
I kiss all grandpa?, because you
They don't all have little girls like me—
To love and ku« them every day.
Here'.- one more ki*.s from little May.”
The sunbeam is gone, but its brightness Is shed,
on the care-worn face, and snow-white bead-
I bort is joy in his heart, though tears in his eyes,
Th;st he brushes away, as be eagerly cries!
Methought men had ceased t«» lore each other,
Nor still regard each ns his brother-.
That kindness from the earth had tied.
And left only nf* ternet* In Its stead.
But, to-«iay 1 have learned that kindness is given,
As the wee’est gift to man from heaven—
f'usulli'”!, unsrlnsh, and sweet at its birth,
But sullied bct-omes (nun its contact with earth—
In childhood, the Hower of kindness is fair.
In manhood, *t is marred by the whirlwands of care.
How tenderly then, shoula we shicki this flower
I u pr-isponi y’s sunshine, or adversity’s shower,
tilt’ sent’«>r the seeds of kindness to-day—
A bountiful hsrvr-t will surely repay.
.Vodrrn Arrjo.
LOVED AM) LOST.
BY AIYRYP JEtTKRSOX.
■ And do you reject my proposal?’’
asked a young man who sat on a sofa in
an elaborately furnished apartment,
eagerly gazing into the face of a beauti
ful young girl, whose eyes were pen
sively fixed o.i some object before
her.
For some minutes there was a silence;
only the faint ticking of a French clock
on the mantel disturbed the perfect
stillness which Arthur Stanley clicl not
< are to break, and which Belle Parker
could not, for she was painfully agi
tated.
“ Mr. St w’ev ” she, said, at last, turn
ing tn him with a flushed face, “I re
spect you as a friend, and have, always
enjoyed your society ; if I have by w'ords
>r manner assured you of regaid other
than friendly, attribute it to my girlish
folly; as to reciprocating your affections,
1 fear I cannot,.’’
For a moment he did not speak, only
pressed more passionately the soft, white
hand he held in his.
“ But you will tell me, dearest Belle,
what has so suddenly altered your af
fection for me? or have I been cherish
ing a false hope? When I received
your reply to my letter last week, re
questing your hand in marriage, I could
not believe that my devoted attentions
for the na«t three years had been in
vain. Were those assurances that you
gave me* but a few evenings ago but
the impulse of a momentary passion ?”
“Do not, Mr. Stanley,” she said,
“ impose upon me the necessity of
reviving the past; let it be forgot
ten.”
“ No, Belle, dearest, the past is too
d< ar to me to be forgotten.”
Arthur arose impatiently and turned
from her. Belle watched him silently
as he paced up and down the room as
if in deep meditation.
■‘Belle, ha.e you no pity for me?”
Arthur said more gentiy, coming to her
side again. “Wehavehaa misunderstand
ings enough ; do not mar my future any
longer. Oh, Belle, think how I have
loved you all these months and years!
Think bow I must suffer in the future,
if you banish me from you! You are
not wise to play with me thus,” he
added. “ You make me reckless—you
make me—”
“ Hush!” she said, suddenly. “It is
n t Arthur who speaks.”
"It is truth,” he interrupted. “ You
are cruel to give me your love and then
take it from me. Do you not know that
I love you as my life, Belle, dear?
What is there before me? Only a life
spent in a mad, vain endeavor to for
get the past, to shut you out of my
heart.”
Arthur ceased pleading, for he saw
that be could make no impression on
her cold heart, and walking to the hat
rack in the hall, prepared for departure.
Brlle followed him to the door, and in
the glow of tiie bright moon’s rays saw
him sadly depart.
Belle watched him, as he slowly and
" ith bowed head retraced his footsteps
homeward along the lonely village
road, until distance bid him from
view.
“ Wil! he ever return, and am I not
cruel in sending him away?” she solilo
quized, as -he stood in the door look
ing in the direction whence he had
gone
»*-**«■*
Years passed by, and numerous
changes befell the quiet village of Irving
ton on the banks of the Hudson River.
Arthur, by the death of his father, ex-
Jndge Stanley, had fallen heir to con
siderable property, situated in Hastings,
a neighboring village, and had taken up
his abode there, and was now engaged
in th' extensive practice of the law
which his father had left him.
Iwas one day while quietly seated in
his office, preparing « lengthy argument
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VOL. 111.
involving a question of ownership to an
extensive estate, that his office-boy an
nounced a gentleman and daughter,
Parker by name.
‘‘Show him in, Teddy,” which was the
familiar title of the office boy. And in
walked a gray haired old gentleman.
His troubled expression and downcast
look make it apparent that something
was destroying his happiness.
Arthur arose to greet him, and bade
him be seated.
In a tremulous voice the old man ac
quainted him with his grievance:
i he said he had come in behalf of his
daughter, who had, a few years ago,
married a man whose wealth led him to
i dissipation and intemperate habits, and
who made her home a misery to her. and
she now sought a separation from him.
| “ Perhaps you had better hear the
, story from her own lips,” interrupted
; the old man; and calling in his daugh
; ter, who had been seated in the outer
I office, he introduced her as Mrs. Thomp
son, rite Belle Parker.
Arthur bade her be seated, and she
I began to relate her story, which was
. simply marriage without love. After
. she had finished, a slight color was per-
I ceptible in Arthur’s cheeks; the refer
' ence she had made to her once peaceful
■ home in Irvington, and the many poor
■ young men of the village who had sought
i her hand and heart, caused the sweet
I memories of eight years ago to rush to
| his brain, and almost persuaded him to
reveal his identity.
“ Does she not recognize me,” he
thought. How could she fail to recall in
I him her old lover, whom she had so
; cruelly discarded just eight years ago ?
J Perhaps his trip to Europe and the cul
j tivation of a beard had altered him
somewhat.
Arthur promised to give the matter
i careful consideration, and instructed
them to call again in a few days to swear
1 and sign a few preliminary papers,
which they promised to do. Taking the
old gentleman’s hand, the daughter led
him to the carriage that was in waiting
at the door, and they quickly drove
’ away.
After they had gone, Arthur fell into
a deep reverie, and it was some time be
fore he could recover himself. He grad
ually forgot the incident and resumed
his study.
A few days afterward, the rumbling
of carriage wheels was heard rolling
alone the village road, and a carriage
halted in front of hie door. He recog
nized at once the occupant, who was
fortunately alone, and prepared to re
; ceive her.
i “ You are punctual to your promise,
Mrs. Thompson,” said Arthur, as he
arose from his seat at his desk and offered
! his hand to greet her.
She answered pleasantly, and Heated
■ herself. After explaining the law of
i the case, and obtaining her signature to
I a few legal documenta, Arthur’s conVer-
I nation gradually drifted off to other sub
i jects, and finally reached the village of
I Irvington.
“ Pardon me, but have you a recol
; lection, Mrs. Thompson, of a bright
■ moonlight evening about eight or nine
! years ago, when you said farewell to a
I young man who had been paying atten
j tion to you ?”
i “ Why do you ask that question, Mr.
I Stanley ?” she said, inquisitively. “My
■ recollection scarcely extends so far back,
■ and since my marriage, I have scarcely
i had time to think of anything but my
i unhappiness.”
Opening a small drawer in his desk,
Arthur drew forth a delicate little note,
1 which had been preserved with the
I greatest care, and handed it to her, and
; at the same time asked her if she recog-
I nized the writing.
In a moment her face flushed, and,
i taking a more careful look at Aithur,
j she recognized in him her discarded
i lover.
“ Ah! Mr,. Thompson, I see it recalls
to your memory an incident which time
and passing events had almost oblit
erated ; you still remember your answer
! to mv request for your hand and heart, the
; result of which was dooming me to the
j solitary abodes of study, in order to shut
■ your image out of my heart.’’
“ Yes, Mr. Stanley, I see my folly
now,” she said, wiping away the tears
that were fast filling her large blue
eyes. “My pride and girlish fickleness
would not allow me to see it then; but
their reward has come; I married a man
who was very wealthy, and against my
father's wish : his wealth led him to dis
sipation, and instead of making my
home happy, he made it very unhappy.”
“ Since that memorable night. Belle.
J have not forgotten you; you were the
means of my ever remaining a single
man, though many have crossed my
i pathway, gome perhaps more beautiful
i than you, in other’s judgment, yet 1
j could see no worth nor happiness in
1 them; your eyes haunted me wherever
I I went.”
“Forgive me!” she said. “I did not
! think your love for me w’as so strong.”
She covered her face with her hands,
and wept as though her heart would
break.
“ Then you acknowledge, Belle—par
don me for calling you Belle—that you
discarded me because I was a poor
student, and that you thoqght no happi
ness abided in poverty?”
“ I did,” she said; “ but regret my
action.”
Further conversation was interrupted
by the entrance of the office boy, an
nouncing a gentleman on very important
business. Arthur bade her good-oy, and
she entered her carriage.
******
Months passed; winter’s chilly air ap
peared, and sent to blos
somed flowers. The next term of the
county court was to be convened on
1 Monday, and Mr*- Thompson’s case was
BELLTON, BANKS COUNTY. GA.. APRIL I, 1880.
second on the calendar for trial. In the
meantime, Arthur engaged himself by
collecting the evidence and securing the
necessarv witnesses.
The day for the trial arrived, and
Arthur gained his case.
The following day, Mrs. Thompson
; called upon Arthur to thank and repay
! him for his services.
“ No, Mrs. Thompson,” said Arthur
emphatically, “ 1 should be only too
pleased to render you any service in my
power and that gratuitously and will
ingly; there is but one thing that I re
gret in reference to you, and that is that
you were not as wise once as you are
now.”
* « * » » «
Mrs. Thompson now resides with her
aged father, whose life is fast declining,
in the quiet village of Irvington, a wiser
and a better woman. Arthur remains
a bachelor, wedded alone to his profes
sion, through the falsity of this woman;
and although he receives an occasional
friendly visit from her, he never in con
versation refers to the past, bravely sub
mitting to his fate of “ loved and lost.”
The Shepherd Condemned.
One of the distinguishing traits of
civilization, indeed of Christianity, is
the estimation in which children are
held. Theirhelplessne^sistbeirstrength.
It appeals to all that is noble in man
i and tender in woman. Even those peo
ple who are not “ fond of children ” are
generally interested in them when they
are not called upon to make any
particular exertion in their behalf.
They like to hear about them, and can
be stirred up to great indignation about
their wrongs. Men are seldom so rough
and coarse that little children need fear
them; and in spite of much brutality
and cruelty toward them, there is always
in the general heart a wide and deep
strain of humanity to which their
claims and their wrongs never appeal in
vain.
The success of books like “ Helen’s
Babies;” the intense and almost thrill
ing anxiety which the whole country
shared over the fate of Charley Ross;
the general recognition of the pathetic
and softer element of human nature in
Bret Harte’s story of “The Luck o*
Roaring Camp,” and a score of like in
cidents, demonstrate the power which
the children, in spite, or rather because,
of their weakness, exert over the rest of
their race. The trial of the Rev. Mr.
Cowley, for the cruelties and neglect of
the children which he had in charge,
has provoked a national interest and a
national indignation, and his conviction
and sentence will undoubtedly excite a
national gratification.
The case was essentially a bad one for
him. He bad no disinterested witnesses
to refute the accusations made against
him by the children ; his own testimony
was often so indirect and sly, that his
very lawyers had to rebuke him, while
the judge himself was obliged to reprove
his wife for her evasive and equivocal
answers. The only theory that the de
fense attempted to set up was an absence
of willful cruelty; that Cowley did the
best he could for them; that he was
short of funds and made whatever he
was able to command go as far as it was
possible.
But the reply to all this seems to have
been comprehensive. It was to the ef
fect that, notwithstanding he could not
sustain those inmates he was already
undertaking to care for, he not only
permitted, but solicited, others to enter
and divide the already scanty fare. He
had only to put a little more water into
the milk and cut the slices of bread
thinner. His object was to keep the in
stitution running, in order to prosecute
his claim to the $5,(00 a year which
came to him if he established his case;
and as two or three years of income had
already accrued he bad a sordid motive
for retaining the children instead of
turning them over to the authorities.
It was not from a hatred of children,
i not from a love of cruelty and torture,
1 but from avarice, that he starved,
neglected and abused them. To secure
himself in a comfortable position with a
snug little capital afterward, he was not
only willing but anxious to gather about
him a flock of unfortunate children and
expose them to the sufferings entailed
by neglect, privation and even starva
tion. To this extent, at least the jury,
judged him guilty of willful cruel'y,
and the verdict will probably receive,
so far as the public is informed in the
case, general approbation.
The Mistakes the World Sees.
Os all profession in the world there
are rone in which the mistakes made are
brought so prominently before the
. public as that of journalism. A mer-
I chant may make mistakes in his figures,
j in hie pr ces or weights or measures, but
I it does not appear where every person in
I the city and vicinity can see it. It is
I not proclaimed to thousands of r yes the
I next morning, nor published where all
I can know it. If a doctor gives a wrong
prescription it isn’t known by everybody.
But in journalism every such blunder i<
seen aud noted by thousands. A word
mi'pelled, a letter out of place, an un
grammatical sentence or misstatement of
Lets overlooked in the hurry and bus
.tie of rapid work, is pourc?d on by
cri'ics and the journalist informed that
tuch mistakes are inexccstble.
Mademoiselle Alice de Gilberton
de Breuilles, a young lady of distin
guished family, has just fallen a victim
to her love for mountain climbing. She
resolved, without a guide, to ascend the
Pic du Larmont, in the Pyrenees. She
had mounted gome distance when her
foot slipped and she fell into the abys-,
below.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
The library fair at Atlanta netted
$2,113.09.
Atlanta talks of putting up grain
elevators.
A NEW map of North Carolina is being
prepared by the State Geologist.
The new court-house at Atlanta is to
be surmounted by a first-class city clock.
Nashville sends to Petersburg, Ya.,
for an architect for .her centennial
buildings.
The ice factory at Montgomery, Ala.,
prodtt'ces congealed water at a cost of
twenty-five cents per 100 pounds.
Gas-works are being erected at Spar
tanburg, S. C., and water-works and the
telephone are in contemplation.
Twenty-five drays were seized at
Charlotte, N. C., in one day, for unpaid
licen-e.
A mild form of small-pox has at
tacked four negroes at Byron, Ga. They
have, been quarantined.
The Little Rock Gazette says there is
enough stone in the Fourche Mountains
of Arkansas to build a larger city than
New York.
MosesD. Hodge, D. D., of Richmond,
V»., is pronounced by the Atlanta Con
rt.itulUn to be perhaps the most eloquent
minister in the South.
At the last term of court at Abbeville,
S. C., thirtceh persons were sentenced
to the penitentiary for periods of from
one year to imprisonment for life.
The Memphis gas consumer pays his
$3 50 with commendable serenity,while
the gas octopus rakes in the $3.50 with
still more serenity.
Co) tIMBUS, Ga., boasts of being the
birth-place of Blind Tom. A full brother
of Tom is a day laborer, as a yard band,
ut thr Engle and Phomix Cotton Mills
of that city.
The value of the oranges shipped
from Columbus, Ga., during the s ason
just closed was $17,2)4.40. Columbus
is th' d ipping port for a considerable
portion of Florida.
Gov. Roberts, of Texas, is more than
seventy years old, yet nt a recent leap
year ball he danced, dressed in home
spun, with seven young ladies. The
next day he commuted two death sen
tences.
At Macon, Miss., Monday, Sam Bow
ler, who murdered Col. .1. A. Reed, a
white man, while executing n writ of
seizure on his (Bowler s) pronerty, was
convicted and sentenced to be hanged on
Friday, the 2d day of April, 1880.
TliECity Council of Knoxville, Tenn.,
reduced the salary of the Mayor from
SI,OOO to SIOO per year, and now that
official is trying to block the wheels of
city legislation until this sweeping act of
reform is rescinded.
A package of fine tobacco sent by a
young lady of Asheville, N. C., to Rich
mond, to be sold, brought $5.25 per
pound, when it was learned that the
fair shipper intended to devote the pro
ceeds to the relief of the Episcopal
Church at Asheville.
The importation of wines and liquors
is on the increase, as every foreign
vessel brings a more or less quantity of
these luxuries. Three days ago the
French ship Alphonse et Marie No. 2
arrived with 1,20) casks of wine and
brandies. — Neu> Orleans Timet.
The Muscogee correspondent of the
Columbus (Ga.) Sun writes: Many have
not half as much labor as they wanted.
I think there is fully twenty per cent,
less labor in any settlement this year
than last. There is but little daily labor
in the country now.
A new steam rice-pounding mill is to
be erected at Savannah. Already over
800,000 bushels of rough rice arc an
nually brought to that city to be cleaned,
and, with increased facilities, it is be
lieved that a large increase will be made
in this amount.
The number of mules and horses
which have been sold at the several
livcry-stab’es in Montgomery during the
present season is about 6,00 ), or prob
ably more. Three fourths of this num
ber were mules, and the remaining one
fourth were horses.
The large quantity of improved farm
machinery which has been sold to the
farmers recently by dealers in this city
is taken as an indication that our farm
ers are improving their methods of agri
culture, and reducing, as far as possible,
the cost of production.— Montgomery A'L
vertuer.
Butler County, A'abama, claims to
have the smallest human being known
to exist at ihe present time. 'I he name
of this liliputian specimen is Miss Can
ady, of Oakey Streak. She is fifteen
years old, and is scarcely the size of the
usual two-year old child. She has not
grown any since her second year, owing
to a long attack of aicknew l .
At the last meeting of the Petersburg
City Council the Finance Committee
reported a sale of 3,235 shares of pre
ferred stock of the Petersburg and Wel
don Railroad, owned by the city. It was
sold to pay the bonded debt of the city
; falling due August 1, next. The amount
realizedby thesalc, which was confirmed
i by the Council, was $163,000.
I The Nashville American mentions a
few signs of progress in Tennessee, as
follows: A mammoth cotton compress
in course of construction at Jackson; an
ice factory started at Chattanooga Satur
day; Columbia is also to have an ice
factory; the Roan Iron Company at
Chattanooga and Rockwood is employ
ing over 1,200 hands; the. Nashville cot
ton mill running day and night.
Five little stone-cutters are whack
ing away on the marble for the Custom
house building. It would take them
about one thousand years to finish the
stone necessary for that purpose. Unless
the United States looks into the matter
j the present generation will be long in
; the grave before the the Custom-house
■ is finished.— Memphis Appeal.
; Some lively buisiness has been done
i in silver during the past few days. Ten
, thousand odd dollars in currency were
I taken in yesterday and $11,571 in stand
i ard dollars. '1 he last sum was derived
from the customs, Silver fractions are
running heavily, especially quarters and
halves. The small coin comes in lumps
of $10,600 at a time.— New Orleans
Times.
They are just beginning to find out
in Virginia that Sir Walter Raleigh was
never in that State. In North Caro
lina it has been known from the first
i that he was never on this continent,
j never at Roanoke Island, as some sup
i posed, and never in Wake County,
I where the present town-the capital—
| stands that is named in his honor.
In the pastoral regions of Texas one
thousand head of stock cattle, as is us
ually found on ranches, will double the
number within three years. This al
lows for losses from age, diseases and ac
cident. The net increase is at the rate
of thirty-three and one-third per cent,
per annum. This accounts, in part, for
the fortunes accumulated in a few yean
by cattle raisers. >Some of the cattle men
; are immensely wealthy.
The gambling mania has full sway in
the city, and the keno rooms do • pay
ing business. The mania seems to per
vade the uppc-r-crust and the under-crust
of society, and the young man and the
old gather in the rooms and the genial
“ keno men” gather many a penny from
the better part of the city’s denizens. —
Austin ( Tex ) Statesman.
Haddon & Co., of Bainbridge, Ga.,
have just caused (a’ sensation by obtain
ing the contract on the lowest bid fur
nishing the pine flooring for the great
bridge extending from New York City
to Brooklyn. The contract calls for
1,112,000 feet of yellow pine and 264,000
of white oak lumber. The Georgia bid
for the yellow pine contract was only
$19.50, the lowest price that has been
asked in the vicinity of New York for
many years.
The Mississippi House of Representa
tives refused to pass the Senate bill
granting the release of the penitentiary
j to the present lessees at sl.lO for each
I convict per month, and adopted a sub
stitute, appointing a commissioner to let
out the same to the highest bidder. A
long and angry debate of ten hours’
duration followed. The substitute pro
vides that convicts be worked on public
works, and that lessees shall not charge
beyond SSO per head for convicts so cm
ployed.
Pointe Coupe (La.) Pelican: Our
negroes who were foolish enough to go
to Kansas have written to their colored
friends to send them money to return to
Pointe Coupe. This, our colored people
emphatically refuse. They say that, if
these deluded darkies could go to Kan
sas, they may return the best way they
can. home, of them suggest that they
should work their way back. Indeed,
some have expressed the wish that these
modern pilgrims should remain in Kan
sas.
Isa few days the construction of two
hundred freight cars will be commenced
at the Georgia Railroad Shops in this city.
One hundred of these will be box-cars,
fifty coal-cars and fifty flat-cars. The
construction of this large number of new
cars is necessitated by the great increase
of businessof the road. Gen. Alexander
says there is a great demand all over the
1 country for more freight cars. The busi
ness of the Georgia railroad is much
greater than it was at this time last year.
Four first-class passenger coaches for the
road are now building at Wilmington,
Del. — Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
The largest quantity of loose tobacco
ever sold at Richmond, Va., on one day,
was sold last Wednesday. One lot of
Published Every Thursday at
BETjIZTON, (GEORGIA
I
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
Oaeyear(s2 numbers), $1.00; six months
(26 numbers) 50 cents; three months (23
I numbers) 25 cents.
Offiee in the Smith building, ea t of the
j depot.
NO. 13.
bright leaf, grown in Southwest Virginia,
and North Carolina, weighing 75,000
pounds, was sold at the Centre Ware
house at prices ranging from $12.50 to
S7O per one hundred pounds. Most of
it ranged from $35 to S7O, and was
raised by Capt. A. M. Alexander, of
Asheville, Buncombe County, N. C. At.
the same warehouse three fine one horse
plows were given to persons having piles
weighing over 1,030 pounds obtaining
the highest price. ; i i :•>
Little Rock Democrat : Sheriff C. T.
Ebx, of Upson County, Ga., passed
through k the city yesterday, with a man
loaded down with chains. The prisoner
was a murderer, a fiend in human shape,
who, on the Ist of March, 1878, took the
life of his wife, eluded the officers and
escaped to Texas. Ever since then the
officers have been on his trace, and at
last their efforts were awarded by cap
turing the villain, at Forney, Texas.
His name is Andrew C. Irvin. In Texas
it was something else; Fox is a good
officer, and takes his man to Thomaston,
the county seat, llpton County is in
Middle Georgia.
Houdoun’S statue of Washington in
the rotunda of theHtate-howsc was made
under the direction of Jefferson, one of
his Revolutionary compatriots, and an
other one, Madison, supplied the inscrip
tion. Ihe old stove, which its fabricator
stiles “a warming machine,” ornaments
the same locality after ninety years of
existence, and having afforded comfort
to the honorable Burgesses of William -
burg, as well as modern legislative
solons in Richmond. H has on the
sides in raised figures, “1770,” the year
in which it was presented to the colony
of Virginia by the Duke of Beaufort.—
Richmond ( Va.) Commonwealth.
The first African Baptist Church at
Richmond, Va , has 8,000 members; but
this immense aggregation of Christianity
does not prevent a terrib’e church quar
rel, which is shaking the congregation to
its foundations. It sex'ms that two
sisters were found fighting for supremacy
in the favor of their »|leor, pastor, and
this is how a pious old brother summed
up the matter for the Commonwealth:
“De membersis still consequencing on
Bruddor Holmes, ’bout daX ar afiar wid
de wimin, but as yit no rececdins her
bin menced gin ’im. He sac is clar.
howsomdever, dat if de sisterin gin deir
evidence dat'she’s guilty, dere is plenty
folks in de church what will go for
bouncin’ Brudder Holmes, suah.”
Giles Virginian; J. M. Peters, of
this place, made this week, for one of
the convicts employed by the New River
Railroad Company on the New River
Railroad a pair of shoes which, we think,
are about the largest ever manufactured
in the State, or, in fact, anywhere else.
These shoes actually measured fourteen
and a quarter inches in length and five
inches across the bottom. Four and
three-fonrths pounds of sole leather and
two and three-fourths pounds of upper
leather were used in their manufacture,
and they weighed, when finished, just
five pounds. Mr. Peters'bill for making
them was $4-50.
Nashville American: Messrs. W. H.
Cherry, Wm. Morrow, Tiros. O'Connor
and A. M. Shook closed a trade Monday
for the ground, forty acres, at Cowan,
on which they propose to erect, at once,
two iron furnaces, (hot-blast coke) at a
cost of $200,00 >. These gentlemen,
owning the most of the stock in the
Tennessee Coal and Railroad Company,
including the Sewanee coal mines, have
made up their minds to go to making
iron on a large scale. They have at their
mines, in operation now, 200 coke ovens,
and they are building 200 more, so that
in less than six months they will have
one of the largest coke ' works in the
United States. As the coke has been
tested for several years, no risk is taken
in erecting the furnaces.
Journalism on Wheels.
An editor in one of the North Georgia
counties owns a portable print ing offiice.
The editor is a first-rate blacksmith,
and occasionally changes his location,
stopping in any neighborhood where the
farmers are disposed to furnish him
with work, and as soon as he gets bis
shopincood running order, he ssis up
bis old Ben Franklin hand press, buys
a gallon or two of syrup, a few pounds
of glue and casts a roller. Then he buys
a dozen quires of paper, and in a few
days “The Thunderbolt of Freedom”
makes its appearance, claiming a large
circulation and offering superior induce
ments to advertisers.”
A tramp found a woman alone in a
Virginia farmhouse, and threatened to
kill her if she did not give him five cents.
“ Well, here it is,” she said, showing the
coin, “ but, I guess I’ll shoot it to you,’
and she dropped it into the barrel of a
shot-gun. The fellow did not wait to
get it.
A home for infirm Israelites is to btt
established ft! Cleveland, Ohio.