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Old Series- —Vol. 25, ISTo, 122
Railroad Schedules.
R 3vised and Corrected by B, F. Brown, Gen
eral r;-ket Agent, Planters’ Hotel.
PORT ROYAL RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta —4:20 a. m. and 8:20 p. m.
Arrives at Augusta..7:2s a. m. and 8 :()0 p.m.
Arrives at Fort Royal 3:00 p, m.
Leaves Fort Royal 9:30 a.m.
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Lea yes Augusta at 8 :45, a. m. and 8:15, p.m.
Leaves Atlanta at 7:00, a. m. and 10:30 p. m.
Arrives in Augusta 3:30, p. m. andß:ls,a.m.
Arrives in Atlanta at 5:45, p.m. and 6:25, a.m.
SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta at 9:00, a. m. and 6, p. m.
Arrives Augusta at 5:15, p. m. and 7:50, a. m.
MACON AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta at. 10:45, a. in. andß;lsp.m.
Loaves Macon at. .6:30, a. m. and 8:00 p.m.
Arrh es at Augusta..2:oo, p. w. and 8:15 a.m,
Arrives at Macon at. 6:40, p. rn. and 7:40 a.m
CENTRAL RAILROAD.
i. •: ves Augusta at 9:05, a. m. and 8:0a, p.m.
Arrives at Augusta at 4:00 p. m. and 6, a.m.
OIIARLOTiB COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA RAIL
ROAD.
Lo aves Augusta at 9:30, a. m. and 4:15, p.m.
i r uns in Augusta at 8:05, p.m. and 8:45, a.m
F Iri CONSTITUTIONALIST
s D NDAY, FEBBUABY 28, 1875.
TAKING THINGS EASY.
Rev. Mr. Curtis, of Baltimore, deliv
ered a very interesting lecture recently
on “ making things easy.” He seemed
to think that labor and toil had be
come abhorrent to the majority of men
and women of this age, and exemplified
his convictions as follows :
How much labor is expended in toys and
boi>ks to amuse children ? Notwithstand
ing the effort to make play easy, it is not
as hearty as it used to be. Children go to
school to recite what they have learned at
home. This makes the teacher’s business
easy. If a boy was refractory ho got
marks on his poison, where it did him
some good. Now they get throe marks on
paper, where they do no good. From the
number of persons who become doctors
and lawyers every day, he is inclined to
think things are made easy for them.
Once upon a time every merchant paid his
debts. The merchants in these times have
business made easy for them. They get
other people s money and gamble with it,
and when they fail they have made it easy
for them. Young gentlemen entering so
ciety now have everything made easy.
The conventionalities that formerly ex
isted have been superseded. A lady was a
sort of divinity, and it was an honor to be
permitted to kiss her hand. Now a young
gentleman puts ids arm round her waist
and pulls her all around the room in the
dance. Dinner parties were formal, but they
represented real hospitality. They now
represent only money paid to the caterer,
who does everything for you except chew
ing your food and putting it in your
mouth. Writing letters now requires no
thought nor labor. Instead of a seal we
lick the envelope.
In the churches short sermons are in or
der. It would be considered arbitrary to
preach over thirty minutes. The church in
old times sought to conduct souls to
Heaven, now it only seeks to land them
within the furtherest verge of purgatory.
Pure giving is gone out of use; it is to give
for the love of God, not to buy a ticket for
a lecture—that is a business transaction.
Getting sick is mado easy hy the doctor.,
The dentist puts you to sleep and then
pulls your teeth. Funerals are commer
cial undertakings. In former times all the
offices for the dead were performed by
those who had the most love for them. It
is much to be regretted that you cannot
make religion easy, because it is crucifix
ion. All our amusements derive their zest
from the labor they involve. We have be
come changed. We have not the character,
the energy, the strength of former genera
tions. There is only one exception—things
are not made easy for the poor at all. In
farmer years poverty was an honor, glo
rified and no disgrace. Now it is a shame
and held up to reproach or hidden by
shams.
There is a deal of truth in these
sharp criticisms, especially the last
illustration. A man of means may
commit- gross crimes and yet climb
back into the social scale ; but woe to
the pauper man who filches a loaf of
bread to keep him from sheer starva
tion !
Naughty.— The Baltimore Council
men having expelled one of their mem
bers for accepting a fifty dollar bribe,
a naughty fellow says they got on a
rampage with him for “ undercutting
regular rates,” and determined to make
of him an example which should be at
once final and tremendous.
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Augusta. —The Greenville (S. C.) News
says:
Augusta seems to be an attractive Winter
resort for persons who have newly born in
fants to dispose of. The climate is salubri
ous, board is cheap ahd the canal is con
venient.
Well, it people from abroad come
here to play King Herod, how the
deuce can we prevent it? Does the
editor of the Neivs know anything ?
Andy Johnson. —The New Orleans
Times asks Andy Johnson how much it
cost in greenbacks to get the Shelby
county. Tenn., delegation, numbering
about fifteen, to stick to him from first
to last; also, how he maneuvred a
written pledge from them before their
election to support him for Senator ?
The Times says it took 810,000 to
work that Shelby county delegation
alone.
B. T.—A woman writing to the N.
O. Picayune says she is “ thoroughly
disgusted with the infernal Beecher-
Tilton nastiness.” The Picayune re
plies : “ Don’t read it, madame.”
This is somewhat after the manner
of Dr. Johnson, the great lexicographer.
Soon after the completion of his dic
tionary, he was warmly accosted by a
lady, who expressed her delight at his
having expurgated all bad words. “ I
see you have been looking for them,”
grimly retorted Johnson.
A religious body having resolved to
build anew church, the pastor went
about begging very zealously, accept
ing not only the widow’s but the child’s
mite. In the school, one Sabbath,
while instructing them, he compared
himself to a shepherd, and then en
quired what the latter did with his
flock. One bright eyed little fellow
promptly replied, “ He shears them.”
JjrJailß (Eoiistiliitionalist
IFor the Constitutionalist.
THE FIRST DOWNWARD STEP.
A Lesson to Young Men.
Any one visiting our jails, more es
pecially in our large cities, the thought
must often recur to them of the appar
ent respectability of a large number of
the prisoners awaiting their trial for
robbery without personal violence.
Many have been clerks in stores or
book-keepers. Some have an open,
candid look, a frankness of speech to
inspire confidence, and the remainder
are net only well dressed, but there is
an absence of dishonest expression in
their countenances. To my mind there
is no doubt it would be a curious sub
ject for inquiry, how far this honest
expression of countenance is real or
assumed. I think it is real, more es
pecially where prisoners have been
committed for their first offense, and
their previous lives unexceptionable.
Some may argue that a really honest
man would never bo guilty of theft,
under any circumstances. I would
simply say the class of men I am re
ferring to, nineteen cases out of twen
ty, never had the slightest wish to act
dishonestly, when they took their first
downward step. It commenced with a
slight irregularity. To escape detection,
they told a lie. From the fact they
have made things smooth, for a time
they gather boldness, and when posi
tive acts of dishonesty are committed,
it is with the faint hope they will be
able to repay the money be'fore the
theft is detected. The first step to de
gradation made; the second, third and
fourth follow in quick succession, and
the man who has no intention of being
dishonest; who would consider it an
unpardonable insult for any one to
doubt his integrity, finds his downward
steps arrested by the detective officer.
I will briefly mention three cases that
have come under my own observation :
The first is a young man whose father
held a position in the Post Office at
New York. The father died and left a
widow and two children unprovided
for. The elder was the young man in
question, at that time about sixteen
years of age; the younger was a little
girl of three. A gentleman obtained
for the widow a situation as house
keeper, with a salary of two hun
dred dollars a year, and permission
for her children to live with her.
The son, who had received a fair
mercantile education, determined to
give his mother all the assistance he
could. He not only searched through
the columns of the newspapers, but
daily made personal application among
the merchants. At last he was suc
cessful. The proprietor of a dry goods
store being impressed with his open
and candid appearance, engaged him
at three dollars a .veek. He was found
to be trustworthy, industrious, relig
ious, ahd having a great capacity for
business. At the end of twelve months
his salary was raised to four dollars a
week. At this time a position in an
other store was offered him at twelve
dollars a week, and he accepted it.
Here he succeeded well, and at the ter
mination of his second year’s engage
ment was receiving fifteen dollars a
week, and with the following pecord:
“ Wo have not a steadier young man
than W. M. in our store, or one with
such natural business abilities.” Un
fortunately, he now became acquainted
with young* men with larger incomes
than ills UVi li, liHli Li- l/LIUIL |
taste for display which leads so'many
young men, of naturally honest inten
tions, into difficulties. By imitating
those richer than himself, he got into
debt. At first his liabilities were trif
ling ; in a few months, however, they
had so increased that his creditors, not
being able to collect their money,
threatened to report him to his em
ployer. One of his creditors calling at
the store, dreading an exposure and
having charge of the cash drawer, he
took from it what money he required
to pay the bill. The same night, re
ceiving his salary, he made up the
amount he had taken, and determined
he would give up all the expensive
habits he had so foolishly acquired. In
the meantime, the creditor who had
obtained his money told others, and a
second one went to the store, and, on
the young man pleading for a little
longer time, told him he should go at
once to his employer ; a second time he
took money that was under his charge.
Other creditors now became pressing,
and he kept abstracting small amounts
but balancing his book every week on
receiving his salary. One day his em
ployer called him aside and asked him
if he owed A. B. a bill ? He told him
yes, and that he was going to pay it
during his dinner hour. Again he took
money from the .cash drawer. Suspi
cion having been aroused, his. cash
account was examined and found
to be fourteen dollars short.
On his return, when charged
with having his money short,
he admitted taking it, and asked for
forgiveness. He was, however, arrested,
tried and sentenced to nine months
imprisonment. I will now show you a
case which I think is instructive in
proving how fatal may be the ultimate
effects of the first downward step, in a
man of a naturally honest disposition.
M. Y. when a child was compelled by
his father to gain his own living by
selling papers on the streets. A mer
chant who lived in Philadelphia, and
often went to New York on business,
after repeated conversations with him,
(as he generally found him at the
Courtland street ferry,) thinking he
had some elements of good in him,
offered to take him to his own home
and educate him. The boy willingly
accepted his offer, and being naturally
intelligent, in a few months made great
progress in his studies. So much so
that at the end of three years, his friend
having died, he was able to accept the
position of book-keeper in a large im
porting house in the Quaker City. He
was respected by his employers, who
had great confidence in him, and show
ed their confidence in him on many oc
casions. M. Y. finding himself rising in
society, paid more attention to his
dress, and mado many acquaintances
amongst young men of his own class.
Unfortunately his friends were not all
equally honest and respectable with
himself. Many of them were gam
blers, and M. Y. finding them pleasant
fellows, had not strength of mind to
give up their acquaintance. One night
he was persuaded to visit one of those
hells to be found not only in all large
cities but unfortunately in our own, I
mean “gamblingsaloons.” Fortune was
adverse to him and he left the room
’minus one hundred dollars. Again he
went and lost, and for a few days had
sufficient strength of purpose to spend
his spare time where his amusements
were recreative and not destructive.
Once more he is persuaded to enter
one of the gambling hells, not to play,
but to wait for a short time for some
of his acquaintances.* After a little
pressing he consents to play for a
small amount. Alternately he lost and
won. The stakes were raised in value,
this time he lost—having been allured
AUGUSTA, GA., SUNDAY MOENING. FEBEUARY 28, 1875
by the enticements of success,, and
goaded by the * disappointment of
failure. Fevered by gain and mad
dened by loss, he became in a most
evil sense careful of nothing. From
this night it would be useless to trace
M. Y.’s career further. His first cul
pable irregularity brought on others,
still more blamable till at last they
culminated in acts of direct dishonesty.
He now found that gambling in its in
tensity consumes. The sudden alterna
tions of feeling exhaust like an ague ;
that the hope of the gambler is never
an anchor, but an unmanageable sail
carrying him onward to the rocks of
destruction. The fear of the gambler
is never a salutary restraint, but
always a dangerous frenzy. His
pleasures fever him, and his pain
maddens him, to live such a life that it
is better to sink into utter dulness than
be thus excited. Again and again did
he try to hit on some means to restore
the money that he had robbed his em
ployers of, and his anxiety became so
terrible that he took to drinking for
relief. At last his hollow eyes, haggard
looks, and pale complexion made his
employers suspicious that all was not
right. A slight irregularity in his books
having been noticed, a thorough ex
amination was made, and he was
found to be a defaulter to the amount
of eighteen hundred and twenty-five
dollars. He was arrested, tried and
sent to the peniteutiary for three years.
The last case I shall mention is that of
a young man who was a book-keeper
for a small jobbing house in Philadel
phia. His salary at first was small,
only receiving nine dollars a week. At
this amount he continued to live with
in it, but having an increase of salary,
luxury and dissipation and the wish to
live like others richer than himself led
him into extravagance. His case, as
in many others—-gambling and whis
key-brought him into debt, and how
to relieve himself was the question.
No idea of dishonesty appears to have
entered his mind ; he only attempted
to put off the evil day as long as possi
ble, and for a time was partially suc
cessful.
At length he was pressed by people
to whom he had lost money by gam
bling. In order to raise the amount, he
collected a bill, intending to replace
the sum in two or three days with his
salary. In the meantime the store
keeper, meeting one of the firm, told
him he had paid his bill. Not finding
any credit against him, lie was ques
tioned, and at once admitted receiving
it. He was prosecuted, found guilty,
and sentenced to six months’ imprison
ment. I think that in these three
cases the young men did not intend to
wrong those who had placed confidence
in them ; and even after the first down
ward step had been taken, many of
them would have revolted at the
idea of committing an act of dis
honesty, and yet they all ended
in being thieves. Genuine poverty had
not anythmg to do with the crime they
committed. In all the cases it was a
love of luxury, or the equally danger
ous wish to imitate the style of life of
those richer than themselves. In two
cases the money first appropriated was
restored. But step by step they went
down, eaclj step swifter and deeper
than the former, until they found it
impossible to return. I now submit to
the reader whether the instances quoted
are not enough to prove that the first
downward step is hardly sufficiently re-
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have no posll/lvc lUtßlitlono ooaunit Qi
dishonest act the chain gang or peni
tentiary have no terrors and therefore
can hardly teach a lesson. The great
point to be held in dread is the first
culpable irregularity, which, among
criminals who have hitherto occupied
a respectable position in society, is in
variably the first downward step to an
abyss, from which it is difficult, indeed,
to return. H.
He Thought it was Delirium
Tremens. '
The New Brunswicker says : Sniffles
brought his two weeks’ spree to a close
on Thursday night. He lay on a lounge
in the parlor, feeling as mean as sour
lager, when something in the corner
of the room attracted his attention.
Raising on his elbow he gazed steadily
at it. Rubbing his eyes, he stared
again, and as he stared his terror grew.
Calling his wife, he asked hoarsely :
“ Mirandy, what is that ?”
“ What is what, Likey ?”
Sniffles’ name is Lycurgus and his
wife calls him Likey for short and
sweet.
“ Why that—that—thing in the cor
ner,” said the frightened man, point
ing at it with a hand shaking like a
politician.
“Likey, dear, I see nothing,” replied
the woman.
“What, you don’t see it?” he shriek
ed. Then I’ve got ’em. Oh, heavens !
bring me the Bible. Murandy, bring it
quick! Here, here on this sacred book
I swear never to touch a drop of whis
key. If I break my vow may my right
hand cleave to the roof of my mouth,
and—”
Here, catching another glimpse of
the terrible object, he clutched his wife
and begged in piteous tones:
“Don’t leave me—don’t leave your
Likey and burying his face in the
folds of her dress, he sobbed and
moaned himself into a troubled sleep.
Then his wife stole gently to the cor
ner, picked up the toy snake, and threw
it into the stove.
A Summer episode, as evolved by
little J olmay : Last Summer our dog
Towser was a lying in the sun a trine
to sleep, but the flies was that bad he
cuddent, cos he had to cetch ’em, and
bime by a bee lit on his hed, and was
about like the dog was hisn.
Towser ho hel his hed still, and when
the bee was close to his nose, Towser
winked at me, like he said you see
what this duffer is a doin, he thinks
I’m a lilly of the vally wich issent opn
yet, but you just wait till I blossom
and you will see some fun, and sure
enuff Towser opened his mouth very
s!o so as not to fritten the bee, and the
bee went inside Towser’s mouth. Then
Towser he shet his eyes dreamy, and
his mouth too, and had begun to make
a peacefle smile wen the bee stung
him, and you never see a lilly of the
vally ack so in al your life.
The Clarksville Chronicle stated that
the proprietor of the Southern Hotel
in that city, Mr. J. Tarpley, declines to
renew his hotel license until the Civil
Eights bill is disposed of. If it is
passed and is approved by the Presi
dent, he will not take out a license at
all.
The new directory of San Francisco
shows that city to have a population of
230,000. During 1874, 1,300 buildings
were erected at a cost of 85,000,000,
and $2,000,000 were expended in public
improvements of a substantial charac
ter. Two banks have just been start
ed, one with a capital of $10,000,000,
and the other with a capital of $5,000,-
000.
The Religious Papers.
REFUSING BISHOPRICS.
Church andjitate has a word to say
on this subject:
If clergymen go on refusing Bishop
rics it will be in order for somebody
to write anew book on Apostolic Suc
cession. Bishops being such by divine
right, and essential to the validity of
orders and to the being of a church, it
would be well for somebody to put that
thing so that there shall be a fair de
gree of harmony between theory and
practice. What is to be inferred when,
after having shown to a demonstration
that Bishops are descended from the
Apostles, it turns out to be a matter of
perfect indifference with you whether
you are in the succession or not ? ”
THE CHURCH OK ENGLAND.
The Episcopalian is reminded by a
correspondent that after the reforma
tion in England, a manual of religion,
published by the authority of Parlia
ment, was circulated throughout all
the towns and parishes of England, in
which it was taught thatrthere was no
mention of any permanent church offi
cers in the New Testament but Presby
ters and Deacons; that there was no
certain rule prescribed or limited by
the Word of God, for the nomination,
election, presentment, or appointment
of ministers, but it was and is left to
be declared from time to time, and age
to age, by certain rulers and ordi
nances to be made by the ministers
with the consent of the people; that all
the particular churches of the world
may be called Apostolic, forasmuch as
they have received and been all found
ed upon tiie same faith and doctrine
that the true Apostles of Christ did
tedch and profess.
SATURDAY PREACHERS.
The Jewish Times is not quite in
agreement with other Israelitish pa
pers. It extols its ministers and Sab
bath.
Unfortunately, wo have but few
preachers, but the few we have are
good ones and worth listening to.
They are eloquent, learned, pious and
erudite, and it is a pleasure to listen
to them ; but we evidently should have
some great object in view, beyond the
pleasure of the hour. In this respect,
therefore, the SabDath especially is of
peculiar value to plodding, careworn
denizens of earth. It comes to us laden
with the richest treasures that infinite
benificence could offer to man. It not
only relieves us one day in seven from
the weariness of business, competition
and physical toil, but it affords an op
portunity for laying up a store of in
struction, spiritual strength and com
fort for the future.
COLONIZATION OF PALESTINE.
The Jewish Times favors this scheme.
We quote:
Sir Moses Monteflore, the venerable
advocate of the Jews, has issued a cir
cular letter urging the colonization of
Palestine and the encouragement of
Jewish-agriculturalists and mechanics.
The project seems by no means im
practicable. Whatever opinion people
of a liberal turn of mind may entertain
regarding the veneration due to the
ancient home of the Jews, there can be
no doubt entertained that millions of
Jews look upon Palestine jis the land
holy par excellence , the place nearest
to the future abode of bliss, and in di
£ect with the Paradise of
burning longing dwells in the breasts
of thousands of our brethren for the
land which, in their opinion, is alone
worthy to contain the temple for the
worship of the true God, and where
they may best secure the due prepara
tion for entering the home of eternity.
ENGLISH DISSENTERS.
The New York Observer hopes that
the schisms in New England will never
be healed :
Dean Stanley, of Westminster, a week
or two since, intimated that he thought
the breach created by the act of uni
formity of 1662, might ere long be
healed. Ho is greatly mistaken.
never was more brotherly feeling ex
hibited or felt between Dissenters and
Churchmen than exists to-day ; but the
breach was never wider before. It can
never be healed. Tho Establishment
will soon be overthown, and then there
will be no Dissenters in England, as
there are none here.
WHAT TO EAT, DRINK AND AVOID.
The Jewish Messenger speaks strongly
about the diet of its co-religionists :
It really appears to us that the
words of Isaiah become applicable to
many iu our day. Says he, in his 65th
chapter, fifth verse: “ They sit about
among the graves, and lodge in the
vaults, they eat the flesh of t he swine,
and have broth of abomination in their
vessels.” Such are the acts of many in
our day ; and to such an extent is this
carried on, that even in someso-termed
Jewish boarding houses they are con
strained for the accommodation of
their boarders to depart from the strict
tenor of the laws. As for our butchers,
many of them who should be depended
on, as men of strict integrity, are so
lax in principle, that the greatest care
is required by customers, who are zeal
ous for the law, that they are not im
posed upon.
EMBER DAYS.
The Churchman calls attention to the
observation of Ember week :
The Ember season ought to bring
to the minds of churchmen the thought
of a serious responsibility. It is the
question whether tho supply of minis
ters is adequate to the needs of the
church. For it must be remembered
that it is by no means enough to keep
the ranks full. A constant augmenta
tion is required. It is, we know, the
general belief that the church is grow
ing rapidly. Of one thing there is no
doubt, and that is, that the frame
work of the church has been greatly
enlarged. The House of Bishops has
been increased by creations of new dio
ceses and jurisdictions. But skeleton
regiments and paper brigades do not
constitute an effective army.
SENSATIONAL PREACHING.
The Christian Intelligencer deprecates
pulpit sensationalism. It is a dark day
for a church, and it pretokens great
spiritual decline when the people cease
to be content with thoughtful, devout
and scriptural teaching, and clamor for
celebrated teachers. The demand will
create the supply, and the church will
be filled with declaimers and ecclesias
tical charlatans. There wll be no
truly great men produced, and, what is
worse, no truly good men.
BISHOPS.
The Methodist, after showing the plight
in which American Bishops are placed,
says: In England tho great prelates
of the third order fare no better.—
Whatever they do, someone pounces
upon them. The Ritualists abuse them
for their co-operation in the passage of
the “ Public Worship Regulation Act.”
The Church Times calls his Grace of
Canterbury “ poor Dr. Tait,” sneers at
Archbishop Thompson and pours con
tempt on Ellicott. The Bock (highly
Evangelical), in noticing a lecture to be
given by the Bishop of Peterborough,
adds : “ We have no intention of going
to hear him.” The same paper pub
lishes a poetical squib, which, trifle as
it is, shows better than serious writing
the state of popular feeling.
DECIJNE OF CONGREGATIONALISM.
The Christian Union gives a sad pic
ture of the condition of Congregation
alists in Maine. One-fourth of their
churches have no settled minister.
Many of them have no preaching
whatever. “It is theimiversal custom
to celebrate the Lord’s Supper only
when an ordained minister is present
with them to lead in tho service.” The
result is, that in those pastoriess
flocks tiie regular observance of that
sacrament has ceased. Some have fallen
into the practice of communing once a
year, making a special effort to secure
an ordained clergyman for that Sun
day. In several cases “ churches have
not communed at the Lord’s table for
a period of six or seven years.”
(Detroit Free Press.
How a Detroit Boy Turned Pirate.
CHAPTER I.—THE BOY.
He was ono of that kind of boys who
need a good whipping about twice per
week, but who think they ought not
to be whipped more than once in two
years. His amusement was sliding
down hill on nothing, bluffing some
boys, and preparing Cayenne-pepper
lozenges for unsuspecting cats. He was
often heard to remark :
“ Things lias got to get up ’n howl
when Leonidas is around !”
CHAPTER II. —AT TWILIGHT.
Time, sundown—scene, the interior
of a well-preserved wood shed. The
sound of blows and cries rent the
solemn stillness of twilight’s mystic
hour, and the old man was heard say
ing :
“ There, I guess that’ll last you for a
day or two! Ive put up with your
sass as long as I can i”
No reply—nothing but deep drawn
sobs and quivering sighs.
The old man threw away the strap
and walked into the house, and Leoni
das sat on the corner of an old table to
meditate.
CHAPTER 111 —A BLOODY RESOLVE.
“ That’s the last licking I’ll ever take
from any mortal man !” whispered the
lad, shaking his fist at the kitchen
door. “And I’ll make the old man
sorry that he ever laid a strap over his
only son!”
He resolved to run away and become
a pirate! He would sail the raging
main, revel in murder, acquire ducats,
and then come homo and take revenge
on his father. With Leonidas, to re
solve was to execute. He entered the
house, passed up stairs, and was soon
engaged in making up a bundle, con
sisting of one pair of patched pants,
one photograph of his girl, one jack
knife, one cotton sock and a few wal
nuts. The bundle was thrown out of
the window, and then—
CHAPTER IV. —LEONIDAS LOOKS AROUND
the room for the last time. The bed
stead looked familiar, the old blue
chest in the corner had a thousand
tender memories connected with it, and
t&Q lypfefi. down chair seemed to itoid
“ I would if the old man hadn’t lick
ed me,” answered Leonidas ; “ but I’ll
show him what kind of a coffee mill I
am.”
He passed down stairs, and halted to
embrace the baby. He wasn’t down on
his mother, and he gave her a sweet
smile. He crawled in behind the stove
and whispered to the dog:
“ Good-by, old Samson ; I’d like to
stay here, but I’m too old to bo licked.”
And he passed out of the door, and
the great wide world was before him.
CHAPTER V —SOLEMN THOUGHTS.
Securing his bundle, Leonidas crept
into tho back yard to see if it was real
ly best for him to become a pirate.
The polar wave chewed at his ears and
reddened his nosfe, and he wondered if
the pirate business wasn’t pretty cold
business. He didn’t know whether it
was best to make for Toledo or Chi
cago in order to become a buccaneer,
but he finally passed through the gate.
He walked around tho house several
times to catch a glimpse of his mother.
It was hard to tear himself away. He
knew how she would take on next day,
and the papers would call it another
Charlie Ross case, and he decided to
go into the yard and think it over
again.
CHAPTER VI —A RAY OF LIGHT.
After a little time spent in thought,
Leonidas decided that if his father
would agree never to lick him again
and would give him two dollars a week
to buy candy he would not run away
and become a pirate. He would go iu
and make the proposition to the old
man, and if it should be rejected—
farewell to home—welcome a career of
blood.
He went in. No one had noticed his
absence, and each face looked as natur •
alas if he hadn’t been gone twenty
eight minutes. He felt some little deli
cacy about broaching the proposition,
and, as a “feeler,” he asked the old
man to lend him his knife. It was
handed to him and returned after a
while, and Leonidas decided to put off
making the proposition until morning.
He got into his little bed feeling that it
was positively his last night, but the
next forenoon he was heard splitting
wood in iho back yard and saying to
Jack Sparling:
“I’ve concluded to wait until he licks
me just once more, and then nothing
can stop me—nothing on earth.”
“Hallo ! you black rascal, what are
you doing—rubbing your sooty nose
against that fish for ?”
“I ain’t rubbing my nose again ’um.
mas’r.”
“What are you doing?”
“Me talk to ’um dat’s all.”
“Talk to a fish ?”
“Yah, yah.”
“And what do you say ?”
“Me ask ’um what’s de news at sea.”
“And what does the fish answer to
that ?”
“By golly, he says he don’t know.
He hain’t been dar dese tree weeks.”
A lady in Paris attended the last bal
masque out of mere curiosity. She wore
a pretty pink domino, which made her
particularly conspicuous. She supped,
and when she left the ball she found
she had drunk too much champagne.
A policeman put his hand on her shoul
der, and she sank down horrified at the
idea of being taken off to the station
house. When they picked her up she
was dead ; she had died from fright.
So the body was taken off to the
Morgue, clad in its carnival finery, and
there it was recognized the next day
by her husband.
List of Marriages in Augusta.
1869.
Aug. 4—Carlos G. Wilson and Kate E.
W liite.
Aug, 4—Edward Bench and Becky Dryer.
Aug. 4—John H. Sharp and Annie Loyd.
Aug. B—A l nold Casey and Amelia Green.
Aug. 10—Bony Howard and Annie Had
ley, c.
Aug. 11—Thomas Collins and Mary Sulli
van.
Aug* 15—Christopher Lanham and Ca
milla Todd.
Aug. 15—Harry Perry and Lucy S. Lowe, c.
Aug. 17—-James R. Dewberry and Ella V.
Beal.
Aug. 19—John Kinnebrew and Margaret
i Wright, c.
Aug. 21—Frank Gaines and Katy Holmes.
Aug. 25—Joel K. F. Goodlet and Lizzie
McGran.
Aug. 26—Martin New and Nancy Floyd.
Aug. 29—Charles Thomas and Adeline
Harris, c.
Aug. 29—Armford Johnson and Rena Wil
liams, e.
Aug. 29—Robert Pinkney and Amy
Elicks, c.
Aug. 29—Nelson Williams and Emma
Rosemay, c.
Aug. 29—Adam Lewis and Sarah Hicks, c.
Sept. I—John Whooten and Anna Bones.
Sept. s—Blackwood K. Benson and Mrs.
Mary A. Bass ford.
Sept. s—William Jones and Bose Patter
son.
Sept. 7—Jack Wright and Martha Morris.
Sept. 7—Wiley Hall and Irene Chappell.
Sept. 7—Richard Brooks and G racy John
son, c.
Sept. 9—Thomas W. Roche and Annie H.
R. Tabb.
Sept. 9—James Harveston and Elizabeth
Brasill.
Sept. 10—Randle Spires and Betsey
Spires, c.
Sept. 16—Pleasant King and Ann Prather.
Sept. 16—William Knight and Kate V.
Chew.
Sept. 19—Harry West and Louisa Deci
ples, e.
Sept. 20—Caroline (?) Emory and Winny
Watkins, c.
Sept. 22—John R. Mill house and Mrs. An
nie M. Doney.
Sept. 23—J. T. Seago and Mattie L. Brown.
Sept. 23—John Parish and Lizzie Nelson.
Sept. 23—John F. Sturman ahd Elizabeth
M. Hard.
Sept. 24—Joseph E. Duren and Georgia A.
Stoniker.
Sept. 26—Augustus Shepherd and Molly
Wright, c,
Sept. 29—James F. Turner and Eugenia J.
Dove.
Sept. 30—Robert E. Baskerville and Mary
J. Tice.
Oct. 3—Cuff Mason and Henney Young, c.
Oct. s—John Donoughon (or Donougher)
and Ellen Buckley.
Oct. C—John W. Roberts and Barbara
P a rish
Oct. 6—William T. Godbv and Sallie J.
Wynn.
Oct. 7—Richard Bussey and Alice Cloud, c.
Oct. 7—Jesse Thompson and Jennie Ful
gliam.
Oct. 7—William B. Rain and Mary A. Ra
chels.
Oct. 7—Handy Clark and Sue Darby, c.
Oct. 9—Edward Bentley and Rosetta
Ramsey, c.
Oct. 9—Fred Walker and Emma McDade.
Oct. 9—Samuel Scott and Ellen Whita
ker, c.
Oct. 10—Isaac Warren and El mi re Ram
sey, c.
Oct. 10—Frank Hammond and Maggie
Eatorn.
Oct, 10—William Mitchell and Sofa Riles, c.
Oct. 10—. Joseph M. Kreistler and Susan J.
Ginton.
Oct. 10—Irvins Short and Fanny Thom
as, c.
Oct. 11—Daniel Watkins and Nancy
Welsh, c.
Oct. 11—Francis J. Tanner and Sarah J.
Dixon.
Oct. 12—Morris Harris and Ella Myers.
Oct. 12—F. W. Clayton and Mariam A.
Harris.
Oct. 12—Jacob Sancken and Elizabeth
Treser.
Oct. 14—William M. Palmer and Annie E.
Shaw.
Oct. 14—Juriah H. Milton and C. H. Hel
muth.
Oct. 14—William McCabe and Julia O’Con
nor.
Oct. 20—Solomon Dunn and Amanda
Cooper, c.
Oct. 21—Oscar Easton and Rachel Mor
ris, c.
Oct. 21—Dennis Washington and Thama
Farers, c.
Oct. 23—Jemy Anderson and Rosanna
Bugg, c.
Oct. 24—Win. Wilson and Amanda Powell.
Oct. 24—James Parker and Susan Butler.
Oct. 26—Michael Vaughan and Hannora
Fitzgerald.
Oct. 27—Willis Mervery and Grace Thomp
son, c.
Oct. 27—John McElrath and Mrs. Fannie
A. Roatli.
Oct. 28—Henry W. Doscher and Emma R.
Eberhart.
Oct. 28—George W. Hardwick and Anna
M. Stovall.
Oct. 28—Frederick Hudson and Louisa
Bailey, c.
Nov I—Alexander Cooper and Maria
Hoffman.
Nov. 2—William Anderson and Mrs. Sa
rah Smith.
Nov. 4—Edward B. Pierce and Emma B.
Gurley.
Nov. 4—William Williams and Mariam
Wilson, e.
Nov. 7—William Guess and Mattie Bus
sey.
Nov. 7—John J. Carpenter and Fannie E.
Brvan.
Nov. 9—James M. Saxon and Sophrony
Taylor.
Nov. 11—Tapley B. King and Annie Jack
son.
Nov. 11—Starling W. Attaway and Eliza
beth Deas.
Nov. 14—Solomon Dunn and Louisa
Thomas, c.
Nov. 17—Nicholas Williams and Ella
Jackson, c.
Nov. 19—Dennis Jackson and Phibby
Bynes, c.
Nov. 20—Edward Brown and Easter Mor
gan, c.
Nov. 21—Aleck Thomas and Julia Cum
ming, c.
Nov. 21—Isaac Haywood and Maria Ba
ker, e.
Nov. 24—Daniel McCook and Frances
Butler.
Nov. 24—Alfred Royal and Drucilla John
son, c.
Nov. 25—John Cranohaw and Anna Jack
sen, c.
Nov. 25—Frank Redfern and Betty Sykes.
Nov. 25—William Parsons and Charlotte
R. King.
Nov. 25—Jas. M. Jones and Savannah A.
Boulineau.
Nov. 27—Abraham Williams and Martha
Devert, e.
Nov. 28—Daniel W. Thompson and Mary
C. Shackleford.
Nov. 29—J. F. McGrau and Lucy M.
Lyons.
Nov. 30—Albert Verdery and Clara
Bridges.
Nov. 30—William A. Purdey and Eliza
beth Roe.
Dec. I—Joseph H. Parnell and Ellen T.
Roney.
Dec. 2—Constantine S. Cason and Eliza
beth Norman.
Dec. 2—William Hatter and Amanda Ir-
wins, c.
Dec. 3—Clifford Smith and Rebecca Jack
son, c.
Dec. s—Alex. F. Shaw and Mrs. E. B.
Burdick.
Dec. 7—Alpnbnso Gagnler and Bailie T.O.
Anderson.
Dec. 7—Joseph Chavel and Mary Ohris
line.
Dec. 9—Robert Canady and Henrietta
Waiters, c.
Dec. 11—Boyd Robinson and Frances
Robinson.
Dec. 11—Jerry Carroll and Rebecca Har
ris.
Dec. 11—James Eulow and Winny Clover.
Deo. 14—Thomas Harris and Amanda
Smith, c.
Dec. 14—Algernon S. Belcher and Sarah
Stephens, c.
Dec. 14—Robert W. Ruling and Molly
Gordon.
Dec. 16—Isaac Burgett and Lizzie John
son, c.
Dec. 16—Barton Smaily and Annie Har
ris, c
Dec. 16—Butler Filpot and Virginia Car
ter, c.
Dec. 19—William Tetstone and Matilda
Williams.
Dec. 22—Alvin R. Alley and Eugenie S.
Veulquez.
Dec. 23—Thomas Lawrence Gantt and T.
Lettia Ann Amelia Johnson! !
Dec. 23—James M. Savage and A. F. Bar
ton.
Dec, 23—Zack T. McKinney and Demirua
Henderson.
Dec. 23—Sebastian K. Johnson and Sophia
Flournoy Carter.
23 —Lippis Johnson and Nancy Ma-
Saxon 23—darnes C. Goodwin and Mary A.
Dec' SSP n and Harr t Keart, c.
wSns^7 J Ln " alker and Savannah
Dec. 25—John Allen and Racy Crumley, e.
Dec. 26-Berryan Jones and Lizzie Clark c
TiSey am F ‘ Chappmar a nd Maria
Dec. 26—John Morris and Mary Touch
stone.
Dec. 27—Albert Miller and Martha Key
Dec. 28—George Miller and Mary Hud
son, c.
Dec. 29—Tillman Tarence and Elizabeth
Burley, c.
Dec. 29—John U. Ansley and Mrs. Ida
Benton.
Dec. 29—Alexander E. Palmer and Julia C.
Catlin.
Dec. 30—Benjamin S. Fisher and Eliza
beth O’Donal.
Dec. 30— Alfred E. Burch and Sarah J.
McDade.
Dec. 80—Stokes M. Freeman and Annie
Cheely.
Dec. 30—George Small and Nancy Ed
wards, c.
Dec. 31—Gust Barnes and Nancy Jack
son, c.
OMISSIONS AND CORRECTIONS.
1852.
June 15—Robert C. Kerr and Eliza Bover
Metcalf. * ’
1866.
Jan. 15—Henry McCall and Sarah E. La-
Taste.
March 18—Jacob V. Davis and Sarah E.
Gibbs.
March 25—Jame3 Meyer and Ruth Ann
Anderson.
June 15—John Lumpkin and Sarah
Thomas.
Sept. 29—Thomas Turner and Annie Gol
phin.
Nov. 28—William Riley and Dilsy Malone.
1867.
Aug. s—William Cartledge and Mary
Broadw*ater.
Nov. 12—Claiborne Snead and T. Cora
Clanton.
Nov. 12—W. K. Nelson and CarrieP.Nich
olas.
Dec. 18—Jeremiah T. Skinner and Sarah
J. Baston.
1868.
Jan. I—Patrick Sheahan and Mary Bren
nan.
July 15—John W. Adams and Sarah E.
Huntington.
Dec. 2—Daniel Quinn and Mary C. Caver.
Dec, 3—Lewis Williams and Mary Mar
shall, c.
Dec, 6—Silas Harper and Phibby Bran
non, c.
Sept. 28—Henry A. Brahe aid F. Pauline
Zeigier (instead of Caroline Fergler, as
published in the last list).
We find or. the record the following mar
riages with license dated 1867, and minis
ter’s certificate dated 1868 (though the
month is same), indica.irg that the mar
riages took place a year after the license
was issued. These are manifest errors, but
we cannot determine which is the proper
year. We hope those interested will in
form us where the errors lie, so we can cor
rect them:
1867 OR 1868.
July 29—William Johnson and Milly
Jones.
Sept. 24—Hampton Washington and An
nie Maria Jolliver.
Bept. 28—Lee Rogers and Viola Dirley.
Oct. 2—Frank Beall and Rose Stewart.
(Jet. 3—Gilbert Clark and Melissa Jenkins.
Oct. 30—Allen Jackson and Ariana Dor
sey.
Nov. 29—Cap Williams and Mary Ham
mond.
Dec. 19—Jochua Fields and Martha
Simms.
Dec. 20—George Hale and Piney Johnson.
[Danbury News.
How His Water Pipe Burst.
One of our oldest citizens called on
us, Friday morning. He came in rather
heavily, and dropping into a chair, put
his hands on his knees, and looked
on mestl v at. ns
asked, after a pause.
“ No.”
“ That’s singular, for last night was
about as cold as any we’ve had, an’ I
have had the greatest time with the
pipes up at the house that you can im
agine. I knew it was going to be an old
buster at bedtime, an’ so I went down
cellar an’ turned off the water. This
mornin’ I went down an’ turned it on
again, but not a drop could we get. It’s
the first time I have had any trouble
with them pipes since they were put
in the house, an’ I felt real sore over it.
But they must be thawed out at any
rate, an’ the old woman an’ I set about
it I went over to one of the neigh
bor’s, who’s got a well, an’ lugged over
a pall full, and the old woman biled it,
an’ I tried that on the pipe, but it
didn’t seem to do a bit of good. Then
I went over to the well an’ got
enough water to fill the bHer, an’ we
heated that about as hot as water can
be made, an’ I poured every bit of it
over the pipe, but neither that didn’t
amount to anything. I tell you I was
scared then, and for awhile we could
only look at each other an’ spekerlate
as to the cause of the failure.—
Pretty soon my nephew from
Mill Plain drove in, an’ when I
told him the row, he said that if we’d
put woolen clothes about the pipe an’
then pour on the hot water, it would
take effect at once. We did that. The
old woman wrapped up the pipe, an’ I
went after another biler of water, an’
the road was so slippery that it seemed
as if I’d never get back with it. Well,
we biled that, too, and we poured it
slowly on the cloths, an’ if there was
any frost there it must have.come
then. But it didn’t. Not a drop would
come. I’m blamed if I know what’s the
matter with the blasted pipe. But I do
know that I’m dean tuckered out with
this mornin’s job an’ about disgusted
with Kohanza water. It’s mighty queer
you "have saved your pipes.”
“ What make3 you think your pipes
are frozen ? ” we asked.
“ Frozen ! ” he exclaimed, with some
disgust. “ What on earth would I be
taking all this trouble for if they ain’t
frozen ?”
“To be sure ; but there was a serious
break in the Main street main, last
evening, and the Water Commission
ers shut off the water at ten o’clock,
and we didn’t know but that the water
was not ”
“ Godfornitus! ” he suddenly gasped,
bounding out of his chair. “ I see it
all now; for heaven’s sake keep it out
of the paper,” and he bolted down
stairs like a shot.
Bishop Whittingham, of Maryland,
will in a short time be called upon to
vote for or against the confirmation of
the election of Dr. DeKoven to the
Episcopal Diocese of Illinois. He de
clined to approve the election and con
secration of Dr. Dudley because that
clergyman had been married twice, and
St. Paul declares that a “ bishop shall
be tho husband of ono wife.” Bishop
Whittingham is now called upon to de
cide whether he will vote for Dr. De-
Koven, who has never been married,
and is a rigid old bachelor. Ho can
hardly vote affirmatively, for his au
thority, St. Paul, says “ a bishop shall
be the husband of one wife.”
A Nevada audience dislikes to be
disappointed. Three thousand persons
gathered to see a murderer hanged at
Carson, and their enjoyment was spoil
ed by a reprieve from the Governor.
That night a jiarty of miners, who had
walked ten miles to witness the execu
tion, oaught a horse thief and hanged
him to a tree.
-New Series— V ol. 3. JSTo. 41
T . T . _.. lAtlanta Herald, isth.
It Looks; Like Another Bonansu to a
Man Up a Tree.
c-'nstant and careful reader of
the Her'dd may occasionally cast his
eye over the caption of an article
which, £.t first thought, from the egre
gious words of the lines which form
the heading, might be disposed to give
an incredulous stare', and for the mo
ment conclude that the ensuing article
I is sensational and gotten up merely to
attract attention and divert the reader.
! But we have a standing rule, which
nears upon this species of articles,
and when we make a statement, if it
does not.*’ pan out,” we stand prepared
j fuee 1^13 B°od. This by way of pre-
In the Sheffield District, of Rockdale
Rio 1 1? ’ u Ve \ a S eQ tleman named A. J.
fin- ’ hohas P ursue d the honest
i calling of a farmer, and latterly he has
erected a saw mill on his land, from
which he furnished the surrounding
country with lumber. A few days ago
he had pine tree cut down and the
stocii brought to the mill, and rolling
it in place he set his saw to worlT
After cutting into the log a foot, he
heard a peculiar grating noise from
• the saw. This circumstance attracted
the attention of Mr. Black, and he ini
mediately stopped the machinery.—
His curiosity prompted him to inves
tigate the matter, and taking his axe,
cut intp the log. The surprise of Mr.
Black may be imagined when he dis
covered
A *ll. K OF GOLD COIN.
Mr. Black did not know whether his
eyes deceived him or not. But, being
a very plain and practical man, at once
took hold of the “ yaller bo\” and ex
amined them closely. There were
thirteen pieces of what appeared, from
the in3cribtion to be Spanish coin.
They were octagonal in shape, and re
sembled closely the American fifty dol
lar gold piece. When these coins were
all gathered up, and Mr. Black was
certain he was not dreaming, he began
looking more closely at the surround
ings. It appears that an excavation
iJtid, at some remote period, been made
in the fine tree, the coin deposited and •
the place plugged up with wood. All
the evidences were plainly visible, and
the tree had grown at least eight inch
es over what at one time was its outer
surface.
It was nothing but natural for Mr.
Black begin thinking how the money
came to be there. He had often found
honey in trees, and’possums and squir
rels and coons, but he had never
“ treed ’ a gold mire before, and especi
ally where the currency was stamped
and
BEADY FOB CIBCCLATION.
It was brought to Conyers and the
story is in everbody’s mouth. The
pieces of coin are supposed to be worth
about forty dollars apiece.
In the course of speculation many sur
mises a,re indulged in as to by whom and
when it was placed there, and the only
lucid conclusion is that it must have
been done by DeSoto and his followers
during their memorable raid through
this section in the sixteenth century.
His line of march, after landing on the
Florida coast, was up the Savannah
river to nearly as far as the present
site of Augusta, where they struck off
in a westerly direction towards the
Mississippi river. Those who have
read Pickett’s History of Alabama, can
the Savan
as Rome, - section as far
DeSoto passed the present sire m
Atlanta, about sixty miles above, and
crossed where the Western & Atlantic
Railroad is now, at about Cartersville.
It is a well established fact that he and
his party were camped for a long time in
the Naehooehee Valley, and that they
roamed over the hills of Northeast
Georgia in search of gold. It is not
improbable that one of DeSoto’s
troops, becoming sick or lame, and
therefore left behind by his comrades,
and fearing capture by the savages,
resorted to this means of saving his
money. Other conjectures are in
dulged in as to who could have placed
the money in such a place, but we
think the above solution the most sus
ceptible of belief.
Mr. Black is well known in Rockdale.
The above story comes to us duly au
thenticated, and the -only trouble we
apprehend is that everybody in that •
section will set to work and cut down
and split up all the trees in the hope
of finding Spanish dollars.
IFrftm tho Chicago Tribune.
How They Looked at Each Other.
There has been nothing as yet so
tragic as the contemplation of Tilton
by Beecher. When his enemy rose to
take the vacant chair, Beecher was
whispering earnestly to Judge Porter.
The electric shock which startled the
audience violently broke short that
conversation. Looking up to see the
cause of it, Beecher found himself face
to face with Tilton. For a moment the
fascination stupefied him. He grew
paler and paler, until he was whiter
than he will be when he lies dead. The
change from his usual redness to worse
than mortal pallor was indescribable.
He looked as if, with one huge gulp,
his heart had swallowed every drop of
blood in his body and then had stop
ped. His face wore an expression *of
horror, as if he were peering in a look
ing glass and found Death grinning
over his shoulder. The apparition of
his accuser was a stupendous sur
prise, and, for an instant, it petrified
him. His recovery was slow. The
shcck unnerved him, and he could not
escape Tilton’s haunting eyes unless he
clout's his own. Innocent or guilty,
with those relentless orbs blistering his
heart, many would have been in
agony. Tilton did not look at Beecher.
He looked into him, as if his body
were nebulQus, with one torturable
spot in the centre, which “ the moon
freezing crystal ” of his sight could
pic rce like an infernal pang.
Hints to Hobse Fanciebs. -If your
horse is in the habit of kicking, use a
low board and your horse wijj soon get
over it.
Keep your horse fat; don’t allow any
or e to get a lien on him.
When your horse refuses to take up
at; oat, consider him as having failed.
To make your horse very fast, tie
him with halters.
Look carefully after the bits of your
horse, or you may soonJ>e looking
after the bits of your wagon.
If you have the proper address you
may receive a couple of lines from a
horse, but on no account drop a line.
However well you may be attached
tc your horse, you must be certain
that your horse is well attached to
your carriage.
When you tell a horse to “get up”
look well to his “get up.” Some horses
get up within the buggy, but, like deep
sorrow, “leave their traces behind.”
Shepard’s Stabch Gloss makes iron
ing easy, and is soonomical. Try it.