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TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—ll. Whaley.
Councilmen—Dr. R. F. Lester, E. A. Eier
be*, M. W. Surenev A. B. Purdorn, G. M. T.
Ware.
Clerk and Treasurer—G. M. T. Ware.
Marshal—Wm. M. Austin.
COUNTY OFFCERS.
Ordinary—Richard B. Oopps.
Sheriff—John X. Goodbrtad.
Clerk Superior Court—Benj.O. Middleton
Tax R( ctiviT —J. C. Hatcher.
Tax Collector—W. U. Causey.
County Surveyor—Noah Bennett.
County Treasure —John Massey.
Coroner—D. MeDitha.
County Commissioners —J. F. King, G. I
W. Haines, James Knox, J. G. Rich, Isliam
Reddish Regu ar meetings of the Board
3 1 Wednesday in January, April, July and
October. Jas. i\ Kins, Chairman.
COURTS.
Superiot Court , Wayne County—J no. L. i
Harris, Judge; Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor- i
General. Sessions held on second Monday
in March and September.
Blattar, Fisreo Orantj Georgia
TOWN DIRECTORY.
TOWN OFFICERS.
Mayor—R. G. Riggins.
Councilmen—D. I*. Patterson,J. M. Downs
J. M. Lee, B. D. Brantiy.
CJerk of Council—J. M. Purdom.
Town Treasurer—B. D. Brantiy.
Marshal—lL Z Byrd.
f COUNTY - OFFICERS.
— A. J. Strickland.
Clerk Superior Court—Andrew M. Moore.
Sheriff—E Z. Byrd.
County Treasurer —D. P. Patterson.
County Surveyor—J. M. Johnson.
Tax Receiver and Collector—J. M. Pur
dom.
Chairman of Road Commissioners—llßl
District, G. M., Lewis C. Wylly; 12 0 Dis
trict, G. M., George T Moody; f>B4 District,
G. M., Charles S. You man ns; 590 District,
G. M., D. B. McKinnon.
Notary Publics and Jusiiees of the Peace'
etc Precinct. 584 district,G.M.,
Notary Public, J. G. S'. Patterson : Justice
of the Pe*co. ft. 11. James; Ex-officio Con
stable E. Z Byrd.
Dickson?s Mill Precinct, 1250 District, G
M , Notary Public. Mathew Sweat; J slice of
tlie Peace, Geo. T. Moody; Constable, W.
F. Dickaon.
Patters on Precinct, 1181 District, G. M.,
Yota y Public. Lewis C. Wylly; Justice of
the Peace, Lewis Thomas; Constables, 11.
Preso rt and A. L. Griner.
Sehlattervillo Precinct 590 District, G. M
Notary t ablie, Y. B. vlcKimjfru : Justice o
the Peace, R. T. James* Constable, John W
Booth,
Courts—Suj.tnioi court, Pierce county
John L. Harris, judge; Sipaen W. Hitch
Solicitor Gt ner.d. Sessions held first Mon
dry in March and September.
Corporation court, Blackshear, Ga., session
held second Saturday in ach Month. Police
court sessions every Mr .day Morning at 9
•/clock.
Corner Broad and Chern Streets,
(Near the Depot,)
T. P. LITTLEFIELD, Proprietor.
Newly renovated and refurnished. Satis
faction guaranteed. Polite waiters will take
your baggage to and from the house.
BOARD $2.00 per day. Single Meals, 50 cts
C CHHBNT FA HAG if A Fil S.
Southern News.
The American says: Tne population
of Nashville and Edgefield, by absolute
count, in 1877, shows 40,819~-i'n which
inuny thousands of suburbans are not
included.
The demand for colored convict labor
ers is greater than the (Tex.) peniten
tiary can supply. Colonel Cunningham,
the lessee, finds no trouble Urine out the
black people, who are preferred, espe
dally lor the farm, to the whites.
Nashville American : Tnree hundred
student? are now attending Fisk univer
sity, of whom half are boarders. Every
southern state is represented, besides the
states of Illinois, Wisconsin, lowa,
Vouigan and Indiana. Chicago sends
seven students. Only one hundred and
twenty five were in attendance at the
dedication of Jubilee hall, between two
and three years ago.
From Washington.
The officers of the postoffice depart
ment estimate that the revenues of the
department are now suffering not less
than a quarter of a million dollars a
month by the flood of etamp3 by post
masters at small country offices at a
discount for use in cities and towns.
The postmaster at St. Louis alone shows
his office is defrauded of revenue to the
amount of SIB.OOO per annum in this
way.
Foreign Intelligence.
It is rumored in Japan that a notifica
tion will shortly be issued ordering the
adoption of the foreigu style of clothing
by a'l officials of Imperial or Govern
ment appointment in dayo Ivan and
department of the imperial household.
It is likely that this order will also be
extended to all government depart-
I; is stated ou authority which cannot
questioned that 70.000,000 human
'•*e:ngs are now starving in the famine
stricken provinces of irorth China. Imag
ination fails to cope with so gigantic a
calamity. The London Times says we
cann A doubt that if the Chinese hav;
found their way to America from the
a, a-para lively eastern pro-
VOL. 11.
vinces by thousand, they will pour forth
in myriads from the famine stricken dis
tricts of the nerth as soon as a way is
opened to them. The Chinese difficulty
may speedily become a greater menace to
the future of the United States than the
negro difficulty was at ite worst. Negro
immigration was never voluntary, and
ceased with the abolition of the slave
trade, while it the Chinese tide begins to
flow in force, it is difficult lr. see where
and when it will stop.
Much alarm has been created at Mos
cow by the appearance of the Siberian
plague, One day a laundress at the
university, who was suspected of having
died from it, was subjected to a post
mortem examination, with the result
that the suspicions of the authorities
were confirmed. Since then several
other persons have succumbed to the
same malady, which is more disastrous
thou either small-pox or cholera, audtbe
police are now taking energetic meas
ures to prevent the disease from spread
ing. It is believed that the seeds of the
plague were brought from Tiflis either
by Turkish prisoners or Russian in
valids.
Shooting' Stars,
The lecturer reminded his hearers that,
besides tbs stars we tee on a clear night
and besides those the telescope makes
known, there are countless bodies mov
ing through space which even the most
powerful telescope fails to reveal till
they come either in the orbit of the earth
or of its atmosphere. These are what
are called meteorites and shooting stars,
and it is important to distinguish dearly
between the two. They are alike lumin
ous from the same cause, that of friction
in passing through the atmosphere,
though but few people have ever seen a
meteorite falling. The number of shoot
ing stars is infinitely greater than is
usually supposed, for observers with
telescopes often sec them flash across tiro
field in dimensions too small to be seen
with t'm naked eye. We know that
shooting stars undergo combustion in
passing through our atmosphere. What
becomes of the debris ? The snow of the
Alps, far away from furnaces, contains
globules of iron, and dust that as quietly
accumulated in exposed places contains
ihemalso. - ft -s supposed they represent
some or the debris. Though we may
grumble at our atmosphere in bad
weather, we must recollect it, at least,
does this—lt burn's up these bodies tliat
are pelting down upon us at a rate one
hundred times greater than the missiles
of an eighty-one ton gun, and, hut for
this burning up, they would he at any
rate awkward for us. In looking at the
knowledge accummulated witli regard to
shooting stars, the first point to notice,
Professor Hall says, is that certain great
showers are periodical, and always come
from the same parts of the heavens.
According to the constellation from
which they appear to come, they are
called Lyriads, Perseids, Orionids, Leon
ids, etc. The inference from these recur
ring periods is that the orbit of the eaith
then cuts the orbit in which a mass of
these is moving. With this fact of
recurrence it must be noticed that certain
cornets are periodical, and from a
comparison of their supposed orbits
with those of groups of these
bodies, a connection between them
is inferred, whatever may be
the origin of the comets, which
is not yet known Meteorites, on the
contrary, are never known to come from
the direction of a comet path. If a
meteorile is carefully examined, it is
seen to be a fragment of some rock, and
that of one closely analogous to our
earth’s volcanic rocks. If we consider
in turn th** volcanic sources from which
they could have come, we sco the sun
wou’d have force enough to drive off
fragments t but if is hardly likely that
there are solid rocks there to drive off.
Jules Verne is right, Professor Ball says,
in calculating that a body driven up
from the earth with a force equal to six
miles a second would not return. From
Geres three miles a second would be suf
ficient. Examining all the planets in
turn, it seems improbable that the
meteorites originate from any of them.
It seems much more likely that they
were in former times of greater volcanic
activity driven up irom the earth itself,
and they again, after lapse of ages, meet
the earth in its orbit. The theory that
they corns in from unlimited space is,
Professor Bell thinks, highly improbable.
—"Prolessor Bell’s Lecture before the
London Institution.
High-toned artists nowaday- won’t
take a subject’s “ full face jor the
reason that e full froot picture looks
awkward, strained and countryfied.
The full-front style of posing a subject
is calhd “ Chinese fashion.” because for
petty offenses in hina the right or k-.t
ear is cutoff, and tee Chinese are always
particulartohavc both ears wellc’ p’syed
in their photographs in order that their
friends may see that they have not suf
fered the penally of crime.
..Queen Victoria got tired of weinc
King Humbert go around with his atm k
ings dangling about his angles, >r> ct
conferred the order of the garter on i m
And he’s garter wear it, too, or tbere’li
1 be a muss
.TESUP, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1878.
"COME UNTO ME"
A sweeter song than e’er was sung
Kv root. priest, or sages;
A song which thro’ all Heaven has rung
And down thro’ all the ages.
A pnc'ous strain ol sweet record,
j . A note o! chwr Irom Christ our Lord ;
List! as it vibrates fail and f.te.
O grieving htart, ** Come unto Mo.”
O wise provision, sweet command,
Vouchsafed the weak and weary ;
A friend to ind on either hand.
A light to prospect dreary.
A friend who knows our bitter need,
Os each endeavor taking heed ;
W bo calls to every soul opprest:
“Como tv.to Me, I’ll uivs y< a rost.”
“ C-'aie unto Me.” The way’s not long.
His hands are stretched t< meet thee:
Now still thy so' bmg list the song
Which everywhere shall greet the*.
Here at His feet your burden lay,
hy ! n* :\th it bend another day.
Since quo to loving cails to thee.
“Oil heavy laden, couio to Me? *
A sweeter song than e’er was sung
By poet, priest or sages;
A song which thro’ all Heaven has rung
And down through all the ages.
How can we turn from such a strain,
Or lonter wait to ease our pain ?
Oh ! draw us closer, fxml, tht wo
May find our swoeteut rest in Thee.
[Eleanor Kirk.
_
My First Love Letter.
liT GUACE ©BEENWOOD.
Have I ever told you, Neil, of my first
I love letter? I presume not. It is a
■ story I have not been very fond of tell
i ing. But years bring to me, if not phil-
I osopliy, a comfortable sense of the com
; ieal in regard to all early illusions and
l dis illusions.
The moment of opening and reading
j the first love letter is a thrilling, an au
j gust point of time in which all the spring
j tides of passionate young life seem to
meet in a swift, dizzying whirl of emo
| tion. If from the right man, what tri
j umpbant joy! If from a suitor one can
j not smile on, what sweet pain 1 But you
i know all about it, dear.
I was very young when I received my
■ first love letter—indeed, not permanently
: out of short frocks and the bread-and
butter age.
Having 'lived the greater portion of
my life in the country, the companion of
my brother?, 1 was a desperate romp and
gipsy, delighting to roam Hie fields and
the woods, preferring the fishing rod to
the needle and even the stable to the
parlor. As yet, a fine horse was the rival
of ali mankind iu ;xny young affections.
Still I had read Scott, Edgeworth,
Hemans and 1.. E L., with an occasional
stealthy dip into Byron, and had my
ijwn foolish little rurownl’ - <i<>l
hero, my fairy prince, who was to come
iu love’s goo 1 time.
I u?cd to dream of him, as I sat like
iittle Eilie, among the alders, with my
feet in the brook, or as f rode along in
the woods. I thought little of his pedi
gree, but I resolved that he must have
patrician Greek profile, dark blue eyes,
and black curling hair, coming down on
his lofty brow in a Byron peak. I
made no account of houses or lands in
love’s Arcadia; but my hero must pos
seas a fine horse. The “steed of steeds,”
was a sine qxt/t non.
The removal from country to town
was an absolute sorrow to me, with my
nature-loving heart, and wild,free habits.
1 hated the busy monotony, the thronged
loneliness, the dull whirl of city life. I
could only console myself with occasional
flights back into my old rural haunts.
From the longest, roughest tramps I re
turned refreshed, prepared to endure
what I could not cur
I “came out "prematurely and tem
porarily when I was scarcely fifteen, on
the occasion of a.large wedding party.
I wore a long dress and white kid gloves
for the first time. My hair was curled.
Oh, the torture of a night and the hide
usness or a day in curled papers I
wore natural flowers and carried a large
beuq uet.
Distressingly diffident, not to say
awkward, J early in the evening retired
to a deep window seat, w here I remained
watching the merry groups of wedding
guesta, and listening to their easy chat
ter, with chiidish wonder and delight.
Among the gayest of. the gay was a
certain fair young lady whom I had
known for some time as my double.
Not that she was in the least like me.
She was a blonde —very much blonde—
while I was a very brunette. She was
distinguished for sumptuousness of attire,
and dress was not then, any more than it
is now, my besetting sin, or peculiar
virtue, which ever you incline to esteem
it. But, oddly enough, this fair lady
bore my name precisely, surname and
baptismal. I used to think the circum
stance annoyed her, almost as though I
had stolen the fashion of her Parisian
bonnet, or the pattern of her costly
embroidered shawl. Aside from the
name there was little in common between
us, certainly no love. At this party -he
quite outshone the bride. I found it
curious to watcb ber—
Her lightness and brightnee did shine with
such splendor—
which wa? ali very pro[>er, he being a
rich tallow chandler’s daughter.
But not long did I watch my double,
for, my dear, at this very party I -aw
him, my ideal hero, my fairy priuce
From all that goodly company I singled
i him out a glance. There were the dark
V ue eyes, there was the Greek profile,
’ t e loack curly hair the Byron peak
t id all
Imagine the emotions of vour friend
when to her secluded window s at tbi
v*-rv young gentleman wa- brought and
presented a “Mr J ibn Treva yan,” It
. it wasn’t just 'I revaiyan, it was quite a t
respectable a name. The John I’ll stand
by.
Well, he stood by me and talked to me
for a blight, wondrous half hour,
precisely as though I had been a full
grown belle; mid I, under the -pell ot
his pleasant flattery, fell in with tiie
little make-beliel, and chatted away,
quite at ease, and said some things that
were really not so bad. Yet,when I spoke,
it seemed to me it was sqnia one else
talking in a second double. My very
voice bad an uniamiliar sound.
Mr. Trevalyan talked of poetry, art,
music, and flowers, in a low, sweet, be
guiling, particular way, a'ter the manner
of his kind. He said, of all the fine arts,
his enthusiasm was decidedly for sculp
ture, “so cold, so pure, so exalted,” and
he begged to know if I shared his sthetie
preference. I suppose, if I had been
properly trained, or a year or two older, 1
might have answered: “ I am enraptured
with music—Beethoven, Mozart, Henry
Bussell, and the Seguins; I dearly love
art—Vision, Michael Angelo, and Benja
min West; but I adore eoetry—Milton,
Byron, and N. P. Willis.”
“ f admire art and music, poetry, ar.d
all such things, but I don’t know much
about them yet. To tell the plain truth,
my particular enthusiasm is—just horses!
I suppose it’s perverse and improper, and
ail that; but 1 do know something about
horses, and I love them.”
My hero smiled, in a beaming, indul
gent way, and declared that he partici
| pated m my enthusiasm; that bis love
| for horses amounted to quite a passion,
j and that lie flattered himself he owned
the fastest trotter in all that region.
Ah! at that moment, to quote from
dear Miss Bremer, “our soul-, mot.”
Mysterious sympathy of passionate
young hearts!
His -eyes, upon a nearer view, were
gray, but their expression was full of
poetic sensibility. They beamed with
that tender deference, half wistful, half
wicked, hardest of all looks for even
“ little women ”to resist. I suspect the
fellow knew it. They all do.
There was, now and then, a mysteri
ous shade of sadness over his brow--an
i interesting, Lara like frown that came
and wont in that festive hour. I divined
that. Young as I was, be ’ „•! 1 J pveal
thoughts and ambition?, |,n at toiiows
anil sins, or meant to have them, which
was all tlie same.
At parting, he begged from my bouquet
a sprig of geranium, which lm placed in
his button hole “for r. membra nee.”
Then lie asked leave to visit iu, which I
graciously accorded. Then we m.ur .
mured, our adieus.
I went home with my head -irom: the
stars. My dear, absurd as it may seem,
I really believed I had that ni.dit met
my destiny, and met it, on the whole, in
a very satis'sefory shape.
I did not know just when to look for
my admirer, but I was ready for him
morning and evening. I grew strangely
careful of my dress. I assiduously
brushed and curled my hair. T applied
cosmetics to my sun-burnt face. I slept
in kid gloves.
These alarming symptoms were not
unnoticed by my tender mother; but she
noticed that my manner had grown quiet
and maidenly, and took great comfort
thereat.
8;x days I waited in vain. The
seventh—magic number! brought—not
him, but a letter. It was a dainty-look
ing missive, all rose tinted and gilt
edged. This was before the time of
envelopes—a remote age 1 ordering on
the “ Drift Period,” you may think, in
the insolence of your nineteen summers.
It was directed—this letter of letters—
in one of those rearing Italian bandH
once so fashionable. It was sealed with
lilac colored wax, and the seal bore the
motto —how well 1 remember it, though
I didn’t in the least know what it. meant
then—of “ Tovjnun fiilele."
With my heart beating into my finger
tips I broke the seal—l opened the letter, j
The very first lino was something start
ling, unequivocal: “My dearest fxive !”
Without waiting to lead another word,
I turned the leaf to look at the signature :
“ Oh, my prophetic soul !” it was “ John S
Trevalyan!”
I made no copy of that letter, and ;
! find memory has been a little unfaithful
jin regard to the exact wording. I know
j that 1 read it with great satisfection—in
| especial, a love-like Inventory which it
| contained of my most amiable and ad
-1 mi fable characteristics. There were
I things set down there that I had nup-
J posed known only to myself.
Toward its close the letter assumed a
I practical tone. I will, with your
leavf "’ it ran, “ call on your father in a
day or two. Iu the meantime, love, per
j haps you had better coufidi our dear
' seeret to no one, unless it be your
! brother Tom.”
Ah, heavens! the letter was not for
jme I Alas! I had no “ brother Tom.”
Providence had been bountiful in wins
to 'ur bou-e. Our cup had run over
w - that particular sort of We*sing.
It. h< respectable name of Thomas bad
. somehow never s’ruck my mother’s
roving fancy. At the baptismal font she
1 had n* ver given it in.
Fatal omission!
“ Madam, you might have saved me
j from tai?.”
1 rescaled that letter. 1 sent it with
all dispatch, and a courteous apology to
my double, now my rival, 1 was wretched,
but 1 could not be base.
Y’es, she married my John. After
that 1 git no more of her letters, which
was some consolation.
No, she was not pretty, even on her
wedding day, but she was charmingly
dressed.
John still lives. He has grown rich
and stout. Ho has no longer the Byron
expression ; but the Byron peak on his
brow is more pronounced than ever. Ot
all the beautiful enthusiasm of his
youth, tlTat for fast, horses alono remains.
He has, 1 believe, uererbeenso unhappy
or wicked as he promised to be, though,
for a time, he fell into evil ways and was
sent to the legislature.
My double has made several visits to
Paris, has grown fonder and more au fai
of dress than ever. As she has no chil
dren, she gives her whole mind to it—
“ but that’s not much.”
I never could think herthe companion
for John in intellect and soul. I never,
in truth, could help thinking that, if I
had bad a fair start with her, if I had
had her clothes, if 1 had had her brother
Tom, it might have—but ah—
Of nil snd wools of tongue or pon,
The snddestaro these: “It might have been.
THE INDIANA DEMOCRACY
In Sfnto Convention Assembled,
Promulgate a Platform of
Principles.
At the meeting of the Indiana demo
cratic convention held at Indianapolis
lust week, tho pommittee on resolu
tions made tho following report, which
was unanimously adopted :
The democracy of Indiana, assembled
in delegate convention, declare that the
national bank notes shall be retired, and
in lieu thereof there shall be issued by
the government an equal amount of
treasury notes, with full legal-tender
quality ; that wo are in f vor < f making
the United States notes, commonly called
greenbacks, a full legal tender in pay
medt of all debts, public ami private,
except such obligat ions only as are by
the terms of the original contract under
which they were issued expressly pay
able m coir'.
That Uns fight fb i'snc paper money,
as v.- ll as coin, is the sole prerogative ol
Ibegovunm* nt, and such money should
be issued in such amounts as the sound
busimvi interests of the country may,
from time to time, require.
Wo are in favor of such legislation by
eongicss os will authorize the taxation
iiy the states ol United States notes in
common with all other money.
That we (hem il unwise ami inexpedi
ent to enact further legislation for the
landing of tho national debt abroad
through the means of homo syndicates or
other methods; and we believe tho true
policy of the government and tho best
interests of the people would bo sub
served by legislation so as to distribute
said deH among out people at borne, as
affording them tho most favorable and
practicable opportunity for the invest
ment of their earnings in the funded
debt of the United Btat,e.
That we are in favor of such legislation
as shall fix the legal rate of interest at
not exceeding six per centum per annum;
we demand the restoration of the silver
dollar of four hundred and twelve and
one-half grains to the coin in the conn
try, and with full legal-tender quality
in the payment of debts, both public and
private, and that the coinage thereof
shall be unlimited, upon the same terms
and conditions ns may 1m- provided for
tlie coinage of gold.
That wc aro in favor of the immediate
and unconditioned repeal oi the resump
tion act; that wo are in favor of the
most rigid economy in public expendi
ture? and we declare that the f< ps arid
salaries of all public officers should be
reduced ; that we arc iu favor ot the
repeal of the bankrupt act.
Thai wc sincerely deplore the recent,
violent collisions between labor and cap
ital, and to prevent the occurrence
thereof, ami to protect the future public
order and security, we believe—
That the wages @f employes of corpo
rations engaged in the business of min
ing, manufacturing and transportation,
should be a first lien upon the property,
receipts and earningsof said corporation,
and that - aid lien should be declared,
de fined and enforced by appropriate leg
islation.
That we favor a passage of a law
for tiie ventilation of coal mines—one
tha* v..,a’d, be j nit to the miner and the
owner. Ihe democratic party is the
friend of the common school system, and
will, in every legitimate wzv, labor
for i's suceea ■ and will oppose any
attempt to divert any portion of the com
mon school fund to any e>-ctarian put
, pose.
'flint tleiastaoportionm'-ntof the state
for leei-lative purposes was grossly un
iu-st and dishonorable, and we demand
that tie next 1 -:-i latiirc, in apportion
t,be -trite for legislative purpose*, as
will D* • ir imperative duty, shall have
r gar i clone to imputation and con .igu
itv of t' rritory.
• That t! jurisdiction claim and and ex
ere e.l b.' tiie circuit courts i.f tic
Unit! 1 ~ia' s over q lentionscf coiporiite
* and individual rights, arising under toe
laws of the States, tends to oppress and
burden litigants to such an extent as to
amount to a practical denial of justice in
many eases, and we consider the legisla
tion which lias conferred such jurisdic
tion as unwise and hurtful to the true
interests of the people, and we demand
such legislation as will resumt and limit
the jurisdiction ot such courts to such
matters as aro clearly contemplated by
the constitution and expressed in the
Judiciary act of 1789.
We are opposed todays legislation,and
protest against the grant of subsidies by
the federal government, either in lands,
bonds, money, or by tlie pledge of the
public credit.
That we abhor and hold up
to public detestation the lenders
of the republican ] arty who se
cretly connived at. and with barefaced
effrouterv carried out the scheme, hy and
through venal returning hoards, whereby
Samuel J. Tilden and Thomas A. Hen
dricks, the people’s choice for president
and vice president, were wrongfully kept
out of the positions to which u free
people had called them. \V r e hold it up
as the monster crime of the ago—a crime
against tree government, a crime against
the elective franchise, and a crime that
can only be condoned when the malefac
tors who seated a fraud in the presiden
tial chair are driven from power and
consigned to everlasting infamy by the
people whom they have outraged ; and
wo denounce the act of the president of
the United States in appointing to high
and lucrative positions the corrupt
members of the reluming-boards, mid |
condemn the acts of fcdeial officers in
attempting to interfere with the rights
and powers of the slate courts in the j
prosecution ot these criminals.
That our senators and representatives |
in congress be, and are hereby requested
to secure the passage of a law giving to 1
the soldiers of the Mexican war a pension J
similar to that now given to the soldiers i
of the war of
The Cruel Turtle Dove.
That trim, gentle-looking, drab-colored j
bird, erroneously called turtle-dove by j
dwellers in the United States, ami gen
erally deemed so innocent and puie that :
io H tor tun e.iitle ot any otlu'r ii-i '
branded as heinous in the extreme, in ro t
so innocent after cM Hh moaning, nad
snunding voice is n mockery and a cheat;
its soft, dark eye* me a sham ; its sober,
Quaker gaib is calculated to deceive ; its
timid movements are not to Is: trusted.
When once it. has been insulted or injured
by one of its kind, too dove Is conns as
cruel and on tuigcouidy In artless -s any
murdeiei can be. Some years ago I wit
iKs-td ti,.ht between two foniale moan
ing doves which for utter batbarousucss
could not be exceeded. 1 was angling in
a brook foi sun porch, halt prone on a ;
grassy bank, lost in a brown study, with
a cigar between my lips, when I hap
pened to see a dove alight on a gnarled :
bough cl a plane tree a few yards distant, j
I mini diatcly it began to coo in that,
dolefully plaintive strain so well known
to every lover ot nature, and was soon I
joined by a male, who perched himself
within a foot or two of her. I espied l
their nest, not yet finished, in the fork
of an iron-wood free near hy. The
birds made very expressive signs to each
other with their heads by a series of!
bows,nods and sidewise motions, of which
I understood enough to know f lint some 1
intruder was near—perhaps they meant j
me. The fish were not biting any too |
well, but the shade was pleasant and the j
grass fragrant., the sound of the water
very soothing and the flow of tho wind
steady and caiding, so I did not care to
move just to humor the whirnofn pair o<
billing doves. It proved, however, after
all, that I was not tiie cause *>f alarm.
Another female dove presently dropped
like a hawk from a daik, den ;o of leaves
above the i*air, and struck the first on the
buck ’villi beak and wings. A fight cn- ;
sued, witiii.M-d with enlm interest by
myself and the male dove. At first the
combatants struggled desperately to
gether on the bough, fiercely beating
• ach other with their wings, and plucking
out the feathers from breast and neck,
ail the time uttering low, querulous
notes, different from anything I had ever
before heard. Pretty soon they fell off
the bough, arid came whirling down upon
the ground, where they continued* the
battle with constantly increasing fury,
.their eyes (airly flashing fire, and cutting
alii thrusting with tlicir beaks like
swordsmen. Blood began to show itself
about their heads, and in places
their necks were quite bare of feathers.
Wbeu at last one of them became so
exhausted tha' uither struggle was
impossible, the other proceeded to take
it stand upon its helpless opponent, and i
would have quickly made ari end of it ‘
had i not interfered. The vanquished
bin! was minus on eye, and was un
abie to fly for some minutes. The secret
•if the battle was jealousy. The male
-at f.y and watched in a nonchalant way
1 oni.il it was all ov< r, when he very
1 lovingly “ rutted up to the, victorioi.s
1 an : began cooing in a low, soothing
1 tone From that day to this 1 h.*v<
1 -udiat-d tl.c figure “innocent as ■„
I dove," and, whenever opportunity of
| ieted, have sped a two ounce arrow full
- at the breast o' the bird, widow or ro
i widow. \Yh* n properly cooked hy par
j boiling, Mi ft! Dg and baking, a dove u
| a choice bit lor tne table.
YVAIFS AND WHIMS.
We Uns."
Oi l .h -if.wson Jones was smoking his pipe,
And Jim was on his knt*j:
i he father |<av< his mouth a wipe,
And kissed hladariii 4 woo.
“ A ttory y-r wonts, un* I’ll be bounM”
I’ried live 1 ) I ‘HVitjon J<nes;
“ Now apeak up quick an then 4ft down,
F< r I)ad n:u v :e6’ h!s bonefl.
The oM nun straight wai brought to taw,
His boy spoke up and out
** Well, lud.” bait) he, “that great big ww
-Bmth a■’ North —what whh’i about?”
Old Jefferson r.eratchtd his crizu’y head,
Am) gtizDl into the fire,
Then tilled his chair against the bed,
And montuliy tuned bia lyre.
!
; “ Speak, Dad.” the eager archin cried,
“ An’ tell me all the Btory ;
j Describe the was- Ha pawmp an’ pride,
An’ all its other gj.-lory I ’
" Waal, boy,” said Jones, “ we tit an' fout,
An* fout an' tit like crime;
: An’ the w.mv—it wus. bey on’ a doubt,
A pow’iul skeery time ”
Hi.' veteran pimped, nnl closed his eyos—
Anon there caine snore ;
“ But Dad ” npokv Jim, in blank surprise,
’• Ain t thar a lee tie more TANARUS”
" Won I, vans,” old Jones replied, “ the waw,
In btory an* In 1 hyme,
k'oun’s mighty gran’: but we unasaw
A pjw ful skeery time
..“Now, J.'htmy,’>ays grandma, “ T
want you to sit still as a mouse.”
“ Mouses don’t sit still, grandma.”
.. A woman never so fully realizes her
dependence upon man as when she
j undertakes to sharpen a lead pencil.
. .Ladies in favor of a second matri
j monial mortgage wear little bunches of
j violets on their dresses. A pretty con
! ceit and significant design.
“What’s honor?” asked F&lstaff.
j That’s easy. Any woman who Hits
j behind another woman in church can
j tell what’s on her in two minutes.
.A young lady in Winneeome, YVis
j consin, refused an offer of marriage
! recently, on the ground that her father
j was not able to support a larger family.
I Some wid.'-avt nice f<l ; ou phon'd jump At the chance
j In build up h foi I uni* in nulling ium plantH ;
Make lii own importations diirct front Hong
IConK—
When h tea ti Vt r’n Minted just rend il Oolong—
V 1 y m>on the yottiuc 1 idles a Hingln,; will he :
“ .Mi, wliata Hue cduh what u aplendld Bohre!"
. “ The bright lexicon of youth,” in
which “there iH no such word us fail,”
docs not seem to he a very popular
dictionary in the mercantile community
j just noiv.
. “ Truth lies at the bottom of a well.”
We have often verified this by looking
down into 11 well and seeing Truth’s
honest countenance in the smooth waters,
[Wercc-ster Press.
. The mail with a stomach as uncom
fortable as a tenement house will be glad
to learn that pop-corn will curedyspepsin.
It don’t take over five hundred or six
hundred bushels for the most stubborn
case,
.. A ’ movement is on foot among the
church people of Chicago to lure the
youth of that city from their wicked
ways, by establishing billiard and bow-
Pnig allr'.’s and shooting galleries under
4. Hsrv' 1 v*v*
Philosophers say that closing the
eyes makes tko sense of hearing more
I acute. A wag suggests that this ac
-1 counts for the many ryes that dose in
our churches on Bundays.
If you put two pci .oris iu Ihoiamo
lied room, one of v/boin has the tooth
ache, while the other is in love, you will
find that tie' person who has tne tooth
ache will go to sleep first.
. .Newton did not labor half so hard,
wiih hand ami brain, to discover the
principle of gravitation, as the ingenious
nod ambitious compositor labors in
overspncinir to get a tat paragraph.
A lady that would please herself in
marrying was warned that her intended,
although a good sort of a man, was very
singular. “ Well,” replied tho lady,
“if ho is very much unlike other men,
lie is much more likely to be a good
husband.”
Tlie New Pope.
The, Rome correspondent of the ism
don Timfs, in ft letter to that journal,
speaks as follows of Cardinal I’eccr,
elected pope : “ IVcci is tall, with
a fine head, a high forehead, nar
rowing at tho temples, a long face
and straight features, lie has a large
mouth, a prominent chin, a cheerful, open
countenance, and large, well-shaped cars
His lacc reminds one of Consul VI. the
renowned minister of Pius VII. lleliaH
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a fine, sonorous voice, great dignity, even
austerity of manner in public life, but
privately is affectionate, unassuming,
sociable and witty. As Camerlengo, he
has been the head of that party which,
without formerly renouncing the right
of the holy see acknowledges the wisdom
of submitting t the decrees of Provi
dence and accepting what seem to be
irrevocably accomplished fact?. ’Hie
general opinion is that for learning, tael,
energy, dignity, am minify, real moral
worth and sincere piety, the sacred college
could not find a more deserving pope
than Cardinal P- cci. A' Perugia he
followed the same policy recommended
hy the late Cardinal Itiaris Brorza.8 r orza. A*
Naples he advised good Catholics to ful
fill their duties as citizens at the munic
ipal and provincial elections, even when
the clerical pres , prates in * -o interpret
much of the Vatican, enjoined the policy
of abstention. Cardinal Peeci snok*
with great spirit and energy against the
propo il for tof removal of the conclave
from Home, ami other measures advo
cated by the reactionary party. Ho
enjoys the confidence and support of tin*
liberals, at least a reasonable majority of
them, of the sac - "! college, and plays the
4jirni part as tun sustained Vy Cardinal
in the conclave of 184(1. Cardinal
I eon’s private li'c at all periods is ab*>T<*
reproach. He has considerable literary
talent, aud hat written poetry. He
never had intercourse wish the luucion
arh 'of the pr j ent Italian government,
but Is es.teerard by them ail ( and thnso
with whom the necessity of his duty
brings trim m cin tact are perfectly
charmed with hint,”