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Clerk of Council—J. M. Purdom.
Town Treasurer—B. D. Brautly.
Marshal—E. Z. Byrd.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
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Clerk Superior Court—Andrew M. Moore.
Sheriff—E. Z. Byrd.
County Treasurer—D. P. Patterson.
County Serveyor—J. M. Johnson.
Tax Receiver and Collector—J. M. Pur
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CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Southern News.
Tennessee has nearly seven hundred
more public schools in opeiation than it
had last year.
It is now estimated that Georgia’s crop
of dried peaches will amount in value
this year to 11,500,000.
The Texas farmers are not complaining
of hard times, as they ate but little in
debt and have the finest crop prospects
known for years.
The B nos to capitalists who have pur
chased the North and South railroad in
Georgia, obligate themselves to complete
the road by October, 1880.
The Fish and Game Association of
Alexandria, Va., recommends the exter
mination of the English sparrow by any
possible plan that may be suggested.
Since the cotton factory and cotton
seed oil mill were started at Natchez,
every vacant house in the city has been
occupied and there is a demand for more
houses.
A correspondent of the Charleston
News and Curier, wiites of the voyage
of the Azor to Liberia: The suffering of
the immigrants were intense. Tney bad
not been accustomed to practice self-de
nial, and soon exhausted the limited
daily supply of water. There was great
waste despite the efforts of the officers.
The fever spread rapidly, and before we
reached this point, which is a colonial
settlement on the west coast, belonging
to Great Britain, twenty-three or four
ill-fated emigrants had died. I have
never seen a sadder sight than when
their remains were committed to the
deep. The names of the dead will go
to you by the first mail steamer that
touches at this place.
Foreign News Items.
The famine in India is slowly dying
otit everywhere; the survivors are re
covering health and strength, and the
small quantities of food imported shew
that the people have a sufficiency of
grain.
By way of a monument to Thackeray,
London is to get out a superb edition o
his works. It will be limited to 1,000
copies. The undertaking attracts much
attention in English literary circles, as
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workmanship has ever been attempted.
The paper used will be made expressly
for this edition. Real China paper will be
used for the steel and copper plates, and
the very best artists, engravers and
printers will lend their aid in producing
the finest set of books ever published in
any country.
All Sorts.
Silver was first coined by Phidon, king
of Argos, about 800 B. C., 140 years
after the building of Solomon’s temple,
the epoch of the building of Carthage.
The oldest existing painting in Europe
is a Madonna and child, painted 880.
The oldest paintings in England are a
portrait ef the poet Chaucer, painted on
a panel about 1390, and a portrait of
Henry IV. in 1406.
Tea was first introduced into Europe
in 1660. by the Dutch East India Com
pany, and then only as a curiosity, show
ing the nature of the herb to universal
ly used iu the preparation of their so
much-loved beverage.
The custom ot wearing rings is very
ancient. It was prohibited in Borne to
all mechanics and men of low condition
to wear rings oi geld, so that jiermission
to wear a ring was a social distinction.
The usage ef rings for sealing is also of
great antiquity.
The “ British interest” which has the
largest representation in the present
House of Commons is that of the man
of war. There are two hundred and
thirty-nine men in the present House of
Commons who are either active or retired
members of the army or navy.
We have now in the United States
two hundred and fifty firms engaged in
manufacturing toys, the bulk of which
is exported to London and Paris. South
America, Cuba, Hamburg, and Russia
are a'so our customers. The trade is
rapidly increasing. It amounted last
year to over a million dollars.
Among the best known Americans, un
used and scarcely understood in Eng
land, are locomotive for “engine,” rail
road for “railway,” horse cars for “tram
way.” depot for “station,” switch for
“shunt,” baggage for “luggage,” store
for “shop,” bureau for “chest of draw
ers,” clever for “good-natured,” boards
for “deals.” calico for “prints,” corn for
“maize,” dry goods for “drapers’ articles
or haberdashery,” fall lor “autumn,”
dress for “gown,” fix for “repair,” hold
on for “stop,” guess for “think,” hard
ware for “iron-mongery,” homely for
“ugly,” loafer (or “lounger,” mad for
“angry,” map for “post,” pantaloons for
“trouse/s,” vest for “jacket,” quite for
“very,” rooster for “cock,” sick lor “ill,”
sleigh for “sledge,” stoop for “porch,”
suspenders for “braces,” venison for
“deer-meat,” and woods for “a wood.”
31 iscellaneous.
Besides her permanent exhibition, the
city of Philadelphia has a debt of £63,-
000,000.
Seven out of eight giraffes imported
last year for menageries in the United
States have died. The climate does not
agree with them.
There is much distress in Fall river,
Woonsocket, and other New England
manufacturing towns on account of the
shuttimg down of the mills, throwing
thousands out of employment.
According to the Shoe and Leather
Reporter, nearly all the patent and
enameled leather made in this eountry,
amounting to £*,500,000 a year, is man
ufactured in Newark, N. J., and it com
pares so favorable with that made in
England and France that ,t is exported
to those countries.
We hear of a tragedy enacted a few
miles from the city, a few days since,
that is so harrowing in detaii and so
strange as to be almost incredible. But
it comes to us from a source that would
leave no room for doubt. It appears
that a woman was killing chickens by
cutting off their heads with an ax. Two
of her children, witnessing the operation,
took into their heads the notion of
“playing” in a similar manner. The
result was the little girl placed her neck
on the block, while her little brother
chopped off her head. The father of the
children witnessed the terrible scene
from a hay mow, and in his haste to
descend to rescue the child fell, break
ing his leg.—[Green Bay Gazette.
Too True to be Joked About.
They were in the parlor together.
The light had gone out, and
they stood at the window in the
radiance of the moon. He had his
arm about her, and was looking dreamily
at the queen of night. Softly he spoke:
“ Darling, lam thinking how happy
we will be in our home when we are
married. It stall he a pretty home, aDd
you -hall be its dear little mistress. We
will have a little parlor, ana a little
dining-room, and a little kitchen for
you to manage. We -hall be there all
by ourselves, and we shall be happy,
my darling.”
“Oh, Henry,” she despondently
uttered, “I thought we were going to
board.”
There were tears in her eyes for him to
kiss away,bathe let her remove them with
what facilities she could command.—
'Danbury New-
JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, IS7S.
eLAY or Ih£ PERIOD.
BY ORrnKUS C. KEKU
The lingering, last orchestral swell
Along the crowded lobbies drifted,
When, at the prompter’s sigual ball
The curtain from the stage uplifted
And then, the flutter if applause
Was not that favorite might ha bolstered,
But murmured through the house because
to finely was the scene upholstered.
A glowering husband strode and fumed,
To think upon his wife unstable,
While she in psnslve bewutv bloomed
Besido a really lovely table :
What time a certain young Alphonre.
Whoee flirt ng caused connubial cholera,
Btood leaning near a Btatue b onze
Worth, easily, a hundred dollars.
The general Htory pceuird to be
Of marriage that had been too hasty,
And run its round of miserv
’Mong chairs and sofas rich and tasty :
“ I love you not I ’ the lady said;
“And knowing that, ’tis nil you can know
Then from her husband’s pleading fled,
Aud fainted near the Grand Plano.
From this ensued a meeting grim
B -tween the husbind and the lover,
Within a park of verd’.re prim.
Where chaste settees were spread all over.
A bullet idanled in his face
Cut short Alphonse’s life of honey,
And sprawled nim by a marble vase
That must nave cost a pile of money.
When next appeared the lady fair,
She was declining with consumption,
Unon a broidered lounee, so rare
To guess it’s price would bs presumption
A nd wheD, at last, f’om love ? he died.
With hufbsnd. priest nod poodle rear her,
The scene was greatly glorified
By an Imported, spacious mirror.
If such was not the plot exact,
It seemed the meaning of the bathos,
And Judged by any sober fact.
Had #qnal want of pub and pathos
'Twas not in captious spirit rash
That people, when the play was ended,
Pronounced it immoral trash
But ihea the Furniture was splendid !
THE STOLEN LOCKET.
In the elegantly furnished drawing
room of a wtst-end mansion sat a young
man whose genteel bearing, broad, noble
brow, from which liis chestnut hair was
tossed back in graceful carelessness, and
large thoughtful eyes bespoke him to be
one of nature’s noblemen. He was evi
dently waiting iinjiatiently for someone,
for. aR a slight noise was heard on the
landing, he would start, and fix his eyes
eagerly upon the door.
At last, apparently unable to sit still
any longer, he arose, and, walking to the
window, stood tapping nervously on the
glass, and watched with listless eyes the
chameleon-like crowd that passed. While
thus occupied he failed to hear a slight
rustle, as a girlish figure entered the
room, aud softly to his side,
touched him lightly upon the arm ; his
quick etart, and the loving yet gentle
manner iu which he gathered her to lilm
heart, showed at a glance that they
were lovers.
While they hold sweet converse, let us
pause a moment, while I describe my
heroine.
Bhe was ot medium height, of a slen
der, delicate figure, and jawsessed a
nameless grace of movement, which,
added to her other charms, bail won her
the name, among her many admirers, of
“Nellie the Irresistible.” Her beauty
was of the true blonde type, and, clad as
she was iu a shining blue dress, she
looked worthy of the name. On her
arms gleamed with a tawny luster broad
golden bands; and from one of these,sus
pended by a small chain, hung a tiny
heart-shaped locket, one Bide of which
bore a forget-me-not sot of turquoise,
with a brilliant diamond sparkling in the
center.
Guy Hartley, for such was our hero’s
name, had called, glad of an excuse, to
acquaint Nellie with some arrangement
which he hadjust completed with regard
to their soon approaching marriage; and,
after a short time passed in pleasant con
versation, he reluctantly rose, aud, bid
ding a tender adieu to the fair girl, left
the house with a firm, elastic tread.
Hardly had he taken his departure
when the front doorbell again rang, and
once more a young gentleman was usher
ed into the drawing room. The new
comer was tall aud slight, with jet black
hair, and a piercing look in the black
eyes that boded no good to an enemy.
Ashe sank into a chair, something glis
tening upon the floor caught his eye ;
and as he recognized it he could scarce
refrain from a shout of pleasure; for
Fred Acton had long been the secret
rival of Guy, each striving to win the
hand of fair Neliie Pomeroy. And now,
as he held in his grasp the tiny locket,
which, by some evil chance, had become
detached from the bracelet on Nellie’s
arm, he felt that he possessed an almost
certain means of revenge on Guy, and
stood, perhaps, a better chance ef win
ning the fair girl for his wife; for the
locket, as he knew, had been Guy’s first
love gift to Neliie, and was prized as one
of her choicest possessions.
At this moment, the footman entered
the parlor, presenting Miss Pomeroy’s
regrets, and a request that Mr. Ac-on
would excess her that afternoon. The
truth was that with her womanly intui
tion she had long ago divined the secret
which he had thought known to himself
alone; and, having ever treated him
with polite indifference, she felt less in
clined now than ever to endure a
tcte-a-tete with him.
Rising as the footman entered with
her message, and scarcely able to con
ceal the pleasure it afforded him at this
moment, when be was still trembling
with the fear of having been seen as he
hastily hid the shicing bauble in his
besom.be left his compliments and de
parted.
Going directly to a jeweler’s, he pur
chased a small ring, with which he fast*
eued the locket securely to his watch
chain, and then sauntered down the
street, in the hope of meeting Guy. His
wish was destined to be fulfllle4; for he
was shortly gratified by seeing Guy ap
proaching, with a serene, contented look
on his handsome face.
As they stopped to chat, Fred, as if
anxious to conceal something, placed
his hand carelessly on his. watch-chain ;
but Guy, as was noticed the
action, and Baid, laughingly: “What
is it you that are bo jealously guarding.
Fred? A love-token frem some fair
lady?”
“ Yes, but. for fear ;hi it might
blight your ho es in < ..< :ly pe:
haps I had better not show it you just at j
present,” laughed false Fred, nervously. !
“Oh, never fear for me!” said Guy,
“ for I have already edged my bird, and
ho shall cot prove a dangerous rival to
your suit.”
“ Well, then behold !” replied Fred,
removing his hand, and disclosing to
view the tiny locket.
Guy turned pale as death , but mas
tering his emotion by a violent effort, he '
playfully insisted upon knowing the
name of Fred's charmer.
"Oh, come” said Fred, “you are
feigning innocence ; for surely you must
have often seen this trinket upon the
arm of fair “Nell, the Irresistible,” who
has this day bestowed it upon me as a
pledge of her true love.”
Guy had stood as if turned to stone
while this flippant speech was being rat
tled out, and then, with a few common
place words, passed on ; hut his tread
was not as free and elastic as before he
met Fred, and his head, which then had
been raised proudly, was now bent for
ward dejectedly ; for a dark cloud had
suddenly arisen, which threatened to
overshadow forever the bright morning
of his happiness.
Fred watched him pass on with a sar
donic smile on his handsome yet sinister
face, and thought to himself, “Ah, my
fine fellow, there’s many a slio ’twixt
the cup and the lip, as you may find to
your cost ; and then you will know the
consequences of standing in the way of
Fred Acton I”
That evening, in her luxurious home,
Nellie watched and listened in vain for
the familiar footsteps she had lenruqd to
know so well ; and she retired to rest at
last, sad and dispirited, and with a dim
sense of impending trouble, that was
yet too vague to shape itself into con
nected thought.
The next morning, as the family were
gathered around the breakfast table, a
servant entered the room with a note ad
dressed to “ Mlbh I’omeroy.” Grasping
it eagerly, spasmodically, Nellie toro it
open, and with blanched face read the
following laconic note:
Nei,lie: All is over between us.
Thank Got), I have discovered your per
fidy before it was too late. I had the
fullest confidence in you, Nellie; but
that is past now.
I leave for F'rance to-morrow, never I
trust to revisit this country, which
would now be but a sad borne for me.
Your once devoted lover,
Guy Hartley.
Mr. and Mrs. I’omeroy, occupied in
their own conversation, had not noticed
the sudden paling of their daughter’s
face, as she hurriedly scanned the fa
miliar writing, till, as she reached the
fatal termination, her eyes closed, and,
with a low moan of agony, she sank to
the floor in a death-like swoon.
* # a a * *
For five years Guy wandered through
Europe; for five years he vainly strove
to find forgetfulness and happiness in
constant excitement and change of scene;
but, failing in this, he had at iast resolved
to visit again the land of his birth, if
only to mark the ravages which tinre
had made among his old friends. So he
returned to London.
Not once bad a suspicion of Fred
Acton’s treachery crosed his mind, for
to Guy he bad always shown the better
part of his nature; besides, the proof of
Nellie’s duplicity I ad seemed too con
clusive to admit of any lingering doubt
his love might have suggested.
And Neliie? Thrown into a nervous
fever by the cruel note from Guy, she
wavered long between life and death;
but, finally, her perfect constitution
gained the victory, and she again mingled
in the gay world of fashion ; but a cer
tain sadness was perceptible in her man
ner, and a weary look in her blue eyes
showed that her heart was not interested
iu the gay scenes by whien she waa sur
rounded.
Vainly had Fred Acton sued for her
nand. Feeling that he was in some
manner connected with Guy’s mysterious
benavieur, she had only scorn to give
him. At first, she had hoped that some
trivial act of hers had displeased Guy,
and he would soon return, but as the
i weeks rolled on and no word came from
j the absent one, she finally ceased to ex
: peet him.
Fred Acton, after repeated refusals
from Nellie, had at last given up all
i hopes of winning h“r hand ; but loving
her still, as far as his selfish nature was
capable of loving, he attempted to
drown his sorrow in the wine cup; and,
with drinking and fast horses was rap-
j idly eating up the haudsome property
left him by his father. Oae day, while
riding at break-neck speed, his horse,
j frightened at a fluttering rag, allied, and
I threw him. When the hastily summon
ed physician had examined his wounds,
he pronounced him fatally injured.
Knowing, then, that for him all
thoughts of revenge on Guy were use
less, and that he must soon render up an
account of his evil deeds, his thoughts
turned to Nellie, with a feeble wish that
he could undo the wrong he had dons
her. So he dictated n letter, confessing
his sin, begging her forgiveness, and
containing the locket, aud diipatched it
to the injured girl, who, true woman
that she was, could not but pity the dy
ing man, bitterly as he had wronged her,
and, that he might not die thinking him-
Belt unforgiven, sent a note to the hotel
to which he hail been carried, but the
messenger reached there only in time to
hear that the unhappy Fred Acton had
breathed his last.
Guy had supposed that Nellie and
Fred were long since married ; but hardly
had he set foot in London when lie was
recognized and accosted by one of hisold
friends, who, among the gossip he had to
relate concerning Guy’s old circle of
acquaintances, mentioned the fact of
Fred Acton's death, and also said that
Miss Pomeroy was as beautiful as ever,
but unmarried. At this Guy’s heart
throbbed wildly, and his brain almost
reeled with the idea that [lerhaps his
own rashness had dashed tho cup of
happiness from his lips. Could there
have been treachery in Fred Acton’s
conduct, and had he wronged Nellie nil
these weary years?
Wildly he asked himself these ques
tions while on the way to Iris hotel; and
by the time he had arrived there ho had
resolved that he would at least sec Nel
lie and have nu explanation with her.
Once more he turned his steps toward
the well known house wl ere he had spent
the happiest hours of his life; once more
he was ushered into the familiar room
where even the pictures on the walla
seemed to smile on him iu friendly recog
nition. Bronzed by travel, the old
family servant failed to remembor him,
so he gave no name, merely requesting
io see Miss i’omeroy.
.Nellis soon appeared but bsrdly
she crossed the threshold when the eyes
of love recognized him, and with a wild
scream of “ Guy, dear Guy!” she was
folded to his heart.
Long explanations followed. Nellie
told of the loss of her locket, on (he day
of Guy’s last visit, and how she had re
gretted it, being his gift Bhe also told
of the dying confession of Fred Acton,
and his restoration of her locket, which
she showed him, worn on a blue ribbon
about her neck.
Guy, penitent, hut loving, was fully
forgiven by his deeply wronged Nellie,
who, iu the joy of such a reunion, had
no heart to blame him.
Soon after there waH a grand wedding
iu the stately mansion ; and although
the bride’s ornaments were milk-white
pearls, there hung suspended from
the centra! cluster of her necklace
a tiny locket, bearing on it a blue forget
me-not.
Fasliion’K Foibles.
A mere thread of gold supporting a j
solitaire diamond is the favorite engage- I
ment ring.
Hliirred lawn collars and cuffsare edg' and
with Valenciennes thread, or else very
fine torchon lace.
New fanciful parasols are of ecru
pongee or foulard striped around with
gay colors to match those in the cos
tume.
The finest lawns and French nainsook
are used for white dresses, arid the trim
mings are embroidery, lace and tucks.
Young ladies have rosettes of narrowly
folded satin ribbon of five or six differ
ent colors to wear with white drtsses.
The long slender searf pin is now the
fashionable brooch, and is the most im
portant article of jewelry. Antique
styles are most liked.
Blank velvet dog-collars now rival
gold necklaces as a support for lockets.
(Some are fastened by gold clasps, and
others have a jeweled spray set on the I
front.
Laundried suits will be fashionable :
this summer for dressy toilets. The !
costume linens in chamois gray arid blue j
shades are garnished with bands of em- j
broidery.
Ladies of experience make up rich
stuff plainly, tbeir freshness and beauty
being enough for the first season ; after
wards the; can be modernized by new
trimming, etc.
Buttons of real tortoise-shell arc
shown for rich costumes. Home of these
are inlaid with colored pearl to represent
flowers and leave-;, and others have gold
or silver birds or bees.
For the hair are large ornumental pins
representing stars, iotu< leaves, bucter
flifs, a dove, or flower mounted on acurled
wire that makes the ornament quiver as
the wearer moves
New cravat bows are long and slender,
and are of embroidered or brocaded rib
bon loops of very bright colors down one
side, while the other half is of white
!"■. either Valenciennes or duchesse.
AN EXTINCT RACE.
" The Private Soldier in the War of the Re
bellion, ' ‘
The “ private soldier in the war of tire
rebellion.” He is dead. Or lost. Stray
ed or stolen, possibly. We do not know
where he is, blit he is not here. He has
gone away to some place. Perhaps he
has ceased to be necessary. Perhaps if
he were here he would be in the way.
At any rate he is not around. He does
not go to the legislature. We do not
find him in congress. He is not eagerly
sought as a candidate for anything. No
body seems to know anything about him.
Occasionally he appear* on the pension
list with one leg, a wi e and seven chil
dren, and eight dollars a month. If
Hour takes much of a rise, he will not
last much longer at that rate, and we
shall soon be deprived even of the occa
sional glimpse we now have of him.
It is asserted, and quite generally be
lieved, that at one time he was quite nu
merous, and was even considered rather
convenient, ii not, indeed, quite indis
pensable. It was found that upwards of
100 ot him were necessary in order to se
cure mere lines of commissions for three
eminent and deserving men. When field
commissions were wanted for three even
more eminent and great men upwards of
1,000 private soldiers were necessary.
One thousand ! It seems an enormous
number now, when by consulting the
congressional directory we llnd there
arc none in all this proud republic. But
12 or 16 years ago even that, incredible
ns it may appear to us to-day, was con
sidered a small number. There were
private soldiers and private soldiers.
There were even hundreds of thousands
of them.
And they were useful. They dug
trenches; they constructed long lines of
breastworks, and then, when an enemy
came within sight, they climbed over
them and went outside of them to fight.
They worked and watched and fought.
Cooperating with great and eminent
men who have since passed to their
rewards in one oflice and another, these
private soldiers sometimes rendered
very useful service in winning great
battles. Oh, they were useful. Borne
historians have even gone so far as to
maintain that without them the war
could hardly iia/e been carried X> a
successful termination. They were really
quite useful.
And now they are all gone. It - vie ms
sad, looking back at the war, that none
but the generals and colonels gnd ma
jors and line officers should have sur
vived its dreadful ravages. Provi
dences, even mindful of the wants of a
great am! growing nation, undoubtedly
took special care of these great men,
and in great anxiety that the country
should not suffer from a lack of eminent
men, kind of forgot the private soldiers
and let them wander away. And so
they are all gone. Borne of them got
shot. Home of them got married and
moved out of the world, to settle upon
tracts of government land, where the
Indians could get at them more easily.
Borne of them went into business. Borne
of them aro teaching school. Home oi
them are driving dray. Rome of them
went away and didn’t leave their present
address. Put all the same, they are ail
gone and it accms dreadfully lonesome
without them. There used to he so
many of them [Hawkeye.
Not Modest llnoiigli.
The poets arc primarily responsible
for the delusion that (lowers are pre
eminently modest. They jrri>etiially
tell us of the morleet lily and the timid,
bashful violet, and have firmly con
vinced the public that with the possible
exception of the peony, which in New
England is considered to wear an in
delicately healthy look, such a thing as
an immodest flower does not exist. A
very little unprejudiced observation will
show that this is a gross delusion.
Flowers, ns a rule, have no sense of
modesty whatever. The lily arrays it
“?lf in simple white and stands on top
of a tall stalk to solicit public attention
Would we consider a lady particularly
modest who should dress herself in the
simplest possible white garment and
stand on the top of a barrel in the front
yaid to challenge the admiration of
passers-by ? The violet is compelled, by
circumstances over which it has no
control, to re-i lo very near the surface
of the ground, where it is frequently hid
behind bold and forward blades of grtss.
That the violet is not of a bashful and
retiring disposition is, however proved
|by the fact that it is always ready to
j display itee-1 f in the button-holes of
j brokers and men about town, in whies
j society a really modest flower would
blush to Ire found. As for the morning
' glory, tire shameless way in which it
j climbs to the windows of second-story
| bedrooms, and peers into privacy as if it
| were a disreputable elevated railroad, is
| utterly incompatible, not merely with
modesty, but with common decency. In
short, the average flower does not know
| the meaning of modesty, and although it
may be ill-scented, crippled, arid con
taminated by intimate association with
depraved worms, it will rear its head
and mutely asked to Ire plucked and laid
’ on the bosom of beauty.
WALES AND WHIMS.
Mr. O'Lurry,
•'(roo*l-afternoon Mjb. O’Larry ;
1 t to fciine weather Bure, i ft-r the rsiala’.
Too e} ’m dHiigr t r b gnn i tin;. to hul<l Ireland—
I he i it?-head & I one, l’iu i.iaiitixj’
A rut n widely Ju-t Attain ye trn older
N ij hlrnHpJl Brims to tfoiti’ *o marry,
A (id his father Is *ild wit ibe ptuwloD—"
“ lie to V" said Mrs O f Lurry.
‘ An’ Brown’s pIR g->t into Hmlth’s gartlin’,
Mi lit** iiligaut c bliegea min’.
An’, och but there rose* u srreat quarrel,
’O.ae -rnith Rave the crajtbur a batin'.
An’ Mrs Mahoney lasi evenin'
( rhey’ve chrtoto iu <1 them Mike. Jack an’ Harry
Had a tr nlfit, a.’l three iu a mliinlt—”
" She did Y' Bald Mrs O’Larry.
“ An’, whist I Mf.llie Mullins was coinin’
From theßrnc’ry, when Father Umirfee. rldin'
'Long the road, tpies he • out, an' he jumps from
Hla horse to eee what aho was hid in .
W iuppri up in her aprrffi; ’twas whisky.
* An’ 1h that the stutf,’ he nays, * to carry
To your home.’ An’ the bottle was smashed, dear."
*• l! was?" said Mrs. O’Larry.
“ An’ they say t’other uUht such a mlr’cln
ruk plnce at Pat Mbaimbnesny's waktn*.
The bv*s asir all (Linkin' when news came
Of a fi<nt Jut leluw Id headsbrakin’.
' Och 1 u hat ehaM we lo V ►a\s Jim Hoonef.
' On my account none of yes tarry/
Bav the corpse, upakin’ up, quite polite like."
*’Musha ! no?" Bald Mm O'Larry.
“ A n' thin nlver a word more rayraarked he:
P.d Hh>.uhn*-*y always was Oliver :
But faith, ! roust hid ye irood-dny, ma’am.
Or I 11 stand here cunvandn’ furlver.
’ 1 to alldom 1 mate one so pltolnt-
Not at all like your cousin Jane Barry ;
An I hope soon tohea'* inon* of your talk, ma’am."
Arrahi now,” said Mrs O'Larry.
NO. 45.
‘I nm speaking,” Raid a long-winded
j orator, “ for the benefit of posterity.”
“ Yes,” said one of the hearers, ‘‘and
If yen keep on much longer your audience
j will lie there.”
. . A good character ish pretty much
der same to a man ash a goot umbrella.
Ven iargglouds dhreaten over his head,
all be ish got to do vaa to hold him up,
und der storm basses over, he is none der
verse
..Mr. Mackey, of California, haa an
income of |i36,000 per day, but what,
good doea it do him? Ho can’t drink
over ten glasses of soda water per day.
and he’s got to die on his merits, the
same as the rest of us.
A man was writing an order for n
lew things lie wanted, when the trades
man, glancing at a memorandum, “ wnn
1 haf pond of schott,” said, •“ You don’t
spell shot right.” “ That is so eaid the
| customer, “ put on another t.”
4 Hmv rehto his head upon the lap of esitlv,”
i he brvo younß man that rottolhn brinrile muls.
He ton rued. whin incck Ammih h-iiat the girth,
Tto late the lesson of Ilf. a hi: rah out school.
Bread culture solid judgment, torrmlth of brain,
i Thought that has drunk at the Phrinn spring;
I Grand eiiith and h*lgM_£f culture he must yaln
Who safely iHes the (rick irtuie round the rinß
(Hawkeys.
A gentleman observing a servant-
I girl, who was left-handed, placing the
knives and forks on lhe dinner table in
; tho same awkward position, remarked to
her that sue was laying them left-handed.
11 Oh, indadel” said she, “so I have.
Be pleased, sir, to help me.turn tho table,
round I”
To wliat base uses do we come at last
Hostess (whispering to amateur)—“l
want you to sing next.” Amateur
(whoso voice is not quite what it used to
be) —“ i thought 1 wasn’t to sing till
quite at tiie end.” Hostess. — Yes; but
there are not ices enough, and I want
some of lhe people to eo ”
• . . Waterford, N. Y., has tho champion
absent minded young woman. Bhe was
recently married, and a few daya after
had her furniture insured, but the next
day appeared tieforo the agent ami
wanted the policy chanted, explaining
that sire had forgotten that she was
married, and had had her maiden name
inserted in the policy.
“ How did you come to know her ?”
asked a mother of her little girl, as she
saw her bidding good-by to a poorly
dressed child at the church-door. “Why,
you see, mamma, she came into our
Runday school alone, and I made a place
for her on my sent, and I smiled aud she
smiled, and (lien we were acquainted,"
was the sweet answer.
..“Look at Texas!" proudly shouts
the Bbreveport Sentinel. Ah yes, we
see, we see; he has the drop on him,
hasn’t he? Yes, indeed: there he goes.
Now the crowd has caught him ; now
tney are hanging him. Now the crowd
returns; now they are—hut somebody
has shut the saloon door and we cannot
see what the crowd inside is doing.
<• Look at Texas?” Oh, certainly. Nice
place for a panorama.—[ Hawkeye.
..My friend, if thou wouldst have
knowledge of men, take all thine earthly
possessions, even unto the uttermost
shekel, and enjoy thyself in the enter
tainment of each and every one who
will gratuitously partake of thy boun
teous goodness. This,so long as thy purse
shall last. T hen, when thou hast spent
thine all, shalt thou have great wisdom,
for thou shall have learnt that (or what
thou gavest thou shalt find none to
offer unto thee a dinner in return ; nay,
not so much as a sardine.—[Graphic.
. How to Do It. —A subscriber of a
Hamilton paper wants to know what will
atop hens from pulling out their feathers.
There aie two effectual preventives of
this disgraceful habit of the hens. The
most thorough is to pull all the featherß
out yourself. The hen don’t look as
well after this, but she cannot pull out
any more feathers. Another remedy
consists in pushing her feathers through
and bending them into a hook on tte
other side. This is a clincher.—[Syra
cuse Times.
Burlington Hawkeye Ap intelli
gent farmer, living in Des Moines county,
has invented a henephone, modeled on
: the principle of the telephone, by which
one old reliable ben, occupying a centra!
office in the hennery, (its on ail the nests
about the establishment, leaving the
other fowls free to lay eggs, scratch and
cackle. As fast as anew nest contains
the full complement ot *ggs, it is con
nected with the central office by a copper
wire and the business is settled. The
only trouble with the machine is that it
sits so hard that it hatches out the por
celain nest eggs along with theothrrs,
so that one chick in every nest is born
with glass eyes, and the farmer has to
buy and train a dog to lead it around.
This makes it expensive.