Georgia Historic Newspapers

    VOL. V.
THE APPEAL.
fUBLICHEI) EVERT FRIDAY,
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REMOVAL!
PLANTERS WAREHOUSE !
'TTTE now have the pleasure of informing
W the planters of Randolph and adjacent
counties, that E. McDonald haserected anew.
large and Commodious Warehouse, on depot
Street, south side of and near the public square.
The location being more central and near tbe
business part of the city, will enable us to oi
fer many more inducements to the planting
public than heretofore—where we will he
pleased to meet with onr numerous old plant
ing friends and customers besides many, many
new ones.
We Imvc ample arrangements for the recep
m tion and
Storap of Cotton ai Ms.
Thankful tor past favors, we hope, with in
creased advantages and personal attention, to
give general satisfaction and merit a liberal
patronage. The latest published Commercial
News will at all timeß be at the service of our
friends and patrons.
Liberal cash advances made on cotton and
goods in store.
Consignments Solicited.
Personal attention given to the sale of
Votton, Bagging, Ties, Salt, Guano, Thresh
ing Machines,, Cotton Gins, Wagons,
Buggies, Harness, &c., ike.
Plantation supplies furnished at lowest mar
ket prices.
Wagon yard, well, rooms, fire places, fur
nished teamsters free.
We are looking forward with pleasure to
the speedy completion of two new Hail Road
thoroughfares to oor city, whieh will doubt
less cause a great reduction in freights, there
by enhancing the value of cotton and making
our maiket second to none in the interior.
Planters, look to your inte est aid biing
totir cotton to Cuthhevt.
e. McDonald & co.
augß-4tn
~ ANDREW
Female College,
cuthbert ga.
THE exercises of this imtitntion will be
resumed on Wednesday, the 20th Os Sep
tember next, and close ou Thursday before the
last Sabbath in June.
The scholastic year will be divided into
Three Terms, beginning 2 f hli September, Ist.
January and lstot Apiil:
REGULAR COURSE:
PERTKItM. PKII ANNUM.
Primary Department sl2 00 S'iii (10
Preparatory ,l 15 Ol) dol'd
'Collegiate “ 20 DU 00,00
Diploma Fee, (paid on
graduat’ng) $5 00
Incidentals 100
Hoard, Washing, Fuel
and Lights, IS 00
Regular tuition of and; ughters living by the
ministry—no charge
Each boarding pupil should be urnished
With a Bible, Trunk, one pair of sheets, one
pair of Pillow-caßt 8, oae 'pair Blankets, four
4iaud-Towcls, over shoes and umbrella.
EXTRA COURSE:
PER ANNUM.
•Greek andFrench, each $lO 00
Tuition in Music 60 00
Use of Piano 8 00
Drawing and Pastel _ 30 00
Instruc'ion in Oi' Painting, 40 00
Calisthenics, conducted by a
lady 5 Po
'•Singing iu Classes No charge
Extra course pursued at the option ot Pa
rents and Guardians Payments must be made
in October, January atul April.
Each pupil should be present a* the opening
•of the School.
The undersigned having been elected Presi
dent of Andrew Female College, an old and
popular Institution, sends fraternal greetings
to the Colleges of the South, makes his bmv
to the public, and solicits sympathy and a lib
■eral share of patrouage.
Summoned to a high and holy work—that
vis preparing the mindsnnd hearts of the you g
Iter the business and pleasures, joys and sor
rows of life—lie w ill cull to his assistance
-the best educators of the country, and address
"himself to the task with all the zeal and in
dustry that he can command. Bliou’d time,
-whose verdict we woo, demonstrate that, he
-caunot preside with dignity and success—
that he isiucapable ofimparting instruction —
that he is is not in the proper place—that A.
K- C. does not return a substantial equivalent
to its patrons—the President will abandon
the enterprise and refund all damages reli
giously assessed.
Parents and guardians wishing to educate
girls should not forget our healthful locality,
refined society, commodious and well ventila
ted buildings, beautiful gvounde, magnificent
grove, and reasonable rates.
JOHN B McGEIIEE,
President A F. C.
Cuthbert, Ga., Aug. 16th, 1871, ts
Tlie City Bar
AND
BilliarcL Saloon
IS now supplied with a Large and Choice
Stock of
Wines, Liquors and Segars,
Both Foteign and Domestic, which can not
be surpassed by any Bar in the State.
All the delicacies of the season, iu the way
■of Fancy Drinks, fixed in etyie.
LAGER BEER only Five Genu per glass.
SNUFF & TOBACCO,
BY THE JAR AND BOX
Very Low, at
ALLISON & SIMPSON'S.
CUTHBERT fg§| APPEAL.
A CJcorgia Volunteer.
BY XAIRFF.
We find the following touching
lines in the Richmond Enquirer.—
They were written by Mrs. Town
send, at a neglected grave of one
who was a member of the Twelfth
Georgia, a regiment whose gallant
ry was conspicuous on every field
where its colors waved, and which
won praise for peculiar daring even
among the “ foot cavalry ” of Jack
son :
Far up the lonely mountain side,
My wandering footsteps led :
The moss iay thick beneath my feet,
The piue sighed overhead.
The trace of a dismantled foit
Lay iu the forest nave.
And in the shodow near my path,
I saw a soldier’s grave.
The bramble wrestled with the weed
Upon the low y mound,
The simple bead-board, rudely writ,
Had rolled ou the ground ;
1 raised it with a reverent hand,
From dust its words to clear ;
But time had blotted all but these—
“A Georgia Volunteer.”
I saw the toad and -caly snake
From tangled coverts start.
And hide themselves among the weeds
Above the dead man’s heart;
But undisturbed in sleep profound,
Unheeding, there he lay—
His coffin but the mountain soil,
llis shroud. Confederate gray.
I heard the Shenandoah nil
Along the vale below,
1 saw tbe Alleglmnies rise
Toward the realms of snow.
The ‘-Valley campaign” rose to mind—
Its leader's name—and then
I knew the sleeper had been one
Os Stonewall Jackson’s men.
Yet whence became, what lip shall say,
What tongue will ever tell,
What desolated hearths and hearts
Have been because be fell ?
What sad eyed maiden braids her hair,
Her hair which he held dear?
One lock of which, perchance, lies with
The Georgia Volunteer.
What mother with long watching eyes,
And white lips cold and dumb,
Wails with appalling patience for
Her darling boy to come ?
Iler boy, whose mountain grave swells up,
But one of many a sear
Cut on the face of our fair land
Bygoary-lianded war!
What fights lie fought, what wounds he wore,
Are all unknown to fame :
Remember, on his lonely grave
There is not. e’ert a name !
That he fought well, and bravely, too,
Ami licit? bis country dear,
We know—else lie had never been
“A Georgia Volunteer.”
lie sleeps—what need to question now
If he were wrong or right,
lie knows, ere this, wtiose cause was just
I I God, the Father’s sight.
fie wields no warlike weapons now,
Returns no foetnan’s thrust—
Who but a cowar 1 would revile
An honest soldier’s dust.
Roll, Shenandoah, proudly roll
Adowit thy rocky glen ;
Above thee lies the grave of one
Os Stonewall Jackson’s men !
Beneath the cedar and the piue,
In solitude austere.
Unknown, unnamed, forgotten lies
“ A Georgia Volunteer!’’
In the Aiglit.
There comes unto all of us a feel
ing of loneliness ; a shadow like the
uiSht cotnes across the threshhold,
unbidden, and sits an unwelcome
guest at our sides, and repeats sad
stories of the past, which wo had
hoped were lost and forgotten,
which lifts the curtain of the future
and paints gloom and sorrow on the
hours yet to eotne The heart
strings, swept by unclean hands,
give out a song linked with griefs
and cares, and the sunlight flees from
its echoes, and leaves us in a trance.
Like Schiller’s Robber, wc realize
that the world is still grand, and
yet like him we feel that we are
miserable in all the outstretched
sublimity of creation. We feel
then our unworthiness, and as we
strive in vain to be men and women
in the likeness and less, until we
fa if so far below the angels that wo
lose sight of them, and fail to catch,
and as we have often done before,
the very of their plumage.
The songs we had heard in other
days conic back, and the faces we
loved spring up and smile upon us,
but all before us, those around us,
look blank and we feel alone in the
grandest work of the Master.—
Whence the cause of this night up
on the soul, we know not, but it
comes to all of us at some time.
Thank God, for it makes the sun
light more blessed when it does
come. It makes the flowers bloom
with a beauty wo knew not of be
fore ; it strikes the chord with
gentler touch, and gives a music as
we dream of in our sleep, when we
dream of Heaven.
“Good morning Mr. Henspeok,”
said a printer in search of female
compositors. “Have you any
daughters who would make good
typesetters?” “No, but I a
wife who would make a fine devil.”
That man only is truly brave,
who fears nothing so much as com
mitting a mean action, and undaunt
edly fulfills his duty, whatever be
the dangers which impede his way,
CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1871.
ADDRESS
To all Agricultural Societies, State
and Local, and to all the Friends
of the Agricidtural, Mechanical
and Commercial Interests
Throughout the Country :
It is known that “ The Agricul
tural Congress” was inaugurated
in October, 1870, at Augusta, Geor
gia, by the invitation of the Cotton
States Mechanics’ and Agricultural
Association, the Augusta Board of
Trade, and the City Council of Au
gusta. The objects sought to be
accomplished must commend them
selves to all who feel concerned for
our prosperity, which depends so
much on the successful direction of
enterprise and capital in every de
partment of labor. The Congress
■was composed of delegates from
eleven States, besides the District
of Columbia, embodying an array of
talent and zeal unsurpassed in any
prior assemblage in this country for
the advancement of the interests
embraced within the scope of its
objects. They affected a tempora
ry organization, and adjourned to
meet at Selma, Alabama, ou the
first Tuesday in December next, at
which time it is expected to perfect
and launch it upon its patriotic mis
sion of usefulness as a permanent
institution. Having no merely sec
tional or partisan aims to accom
plish, it challenges the cordial co
operation of all who, animated by a
similar spirit, desire that labor
should be dignified, enterprise stim
ulated, and capital intelligently di
rected into appropriate and diversi
fied channels.
The public may have an idea of
the scope ol' its objects by glancing
only at the subjects which “ The
Agricultural Congress ” proposes to
consider, and on which it has taken
steps to elicit information. Under
its direction committees have been
appointed to report to the session at
Seltna, upon the following subjects,
viz: Ist, Immigration ; 2d, Pisci
culture and Entomology ; 3d, Su
mac; 4th, Horse,llogs and Cattle ;
sth, Labor; 6th, Irrigation and
Ditching ; 7th, Hemp; Bth, Sugar ;
9th, Horticulture, Fruits, Wines,
♦fee ; 10th, Agricultural Education ;
lfth, Fertilizers: 12th, Cotton and
Sheep; 14 th, Apairy, Grasses and
Cattle ; 14th, Potatoes, Turnips and
similar Crops; 15th, Rice; 16th,
Botany, in its relations to Agricul
ture ; 17th, Mi; ing and Manufac
turing of Iron and other Minerals ;
18th, Wool and other Textile Fab
ric ; 19th, Ramie and other Textile
Crops ; 20th, Tobacco ; 21st, Tur
pentine ; 22d, Cereal 23d, Manufac
tures in general 24th, Miscellaneous.
Those to whom these several sub
jects have been assigned are gen
tlemen of intelligence and expert
once, and believed to be keenly
alive to their importance. Ilcneo,
a voluminous body of valuable in
formation is expected to be present
ed to the approaching Congress at
Selma for its consideration. This
programme needs no comment to
awaken interest. It makes its own
appeal. Argument could give it
no additional force. It commends
itself to the judgment and heart of
every enlightened patriot.
Under the impression that “ The
Agricultural Congress” is purely
sectional in its aim, a National Ag
ricultural Congress, was organized
at Nashville ou the occasion of the
late Agricultural Fair of Tennessee.
Fearing that this might lead to di
vision, when, harmony and concert
are indispensable, “ The Agricultu
ral Congress” was represented by
the Hoti Mark A. Cooper, one of its
Vice Presidents, who was tendered
the courtesy of a seat iu the Nation
al Agricultural Congress, permitted
to explain the object of our Asso
ciation, and thus correct the mi.sap*
prehensions as to its sectional char
acter. Hence that body appointed
delegates to Selma, to confer with
the Agricultural Congress in rela
tion to the feasibility of consolidat
ing the two organizations. It is
confidently hoped that the result
will be harmonious co operation,
under one flag, of all the friends of
agriculture. Therefore, the divis
ion thus at one time imminent need
not damp their zeal, nor relax their
efforts in behalf of the Agricultural
Congress, but the happy termina
tion of Major Cooper’s mission
should rather reassure their confi
dence and stimulate them into ac
tivity.
The approaching session at Selma
will, therefore, be an event of the
first magnitude. The fate of “ The
Agricultural Congress ” will be fi
nally settled. It will be determined
first, whether it shall expire for the
lack of support, or become perma
nent as an instrument of future use
fulness ; and, secondly, whether
the two Congresses can be consoli
dated upon a satisfactory.basis, and
thus by combining their energies,
bring the united intelligence and in
fluence of all to bear upon tbe ac
complishment of their great and
laudable purposes.
Selma, through her delegation, at
the session in Augusta, generally
pledged herself to do everything
that should render the next session
pleasant and attractive. At the re
quest of the Hon. R. M. Nelson, one
of the delegates from Alabama, a
committee of gentlemen of Selma
was appointed to make arrange
ments for the session and tendering
the hospitalities, he closed by say
ing “ delegates would be allowed to
pay no hotel bills in Selma.” The
hospitable and refined city could
do no more. She showed that her
heart was ih this matter, and it is
not doubted that she but reflected
the zeal of the noble State she
adorns.
It is unnecessary to refer to the
accustomed liberality of the rail
road companies. They sympathise
with the objects of “The Agricul
tural Congress.” Their interests are
identified with them, and it is not
doubted that they will cheerfully
pass delegates to and from Selma
over their respective lines at re
duced rates.
“The Agricultural Congress”
contemplates no pecuniary’ benefit
to its members. It can offer no pre
miums. Its existence, as well as its
usefulness, depends entirely’ upon
the voluntary sacrifice of the time
and money it will cost each mem
ber to bestow his personal attention
and service in advancement of its
purposes, and upon the extent to
whieh it can command the confi
dence and suffrages of the intelli
gent, practical, and energetic men
of the country. If they will rally to
it with alacrity and activity, it prom
ises a career of usefulness worthy
the noble industries it would foster,
encourage and direct.
The above views are presented
to justify the following suggestions,
which are submitted with deference
surpassed only by the earnestness
that prompts them :
1. Let no association, State or lo
cal, whose object is to promote ag
riculture,.manufactures and mechan
ic arts, fail to be represented in the
Agriculturol Congress.
2. Let associations be formed in
localities wherein none exists.
3. Let each society’ that may ap
point delegates, send up to the Con
gress a small contribution, propor
tion to its number of members and
its ability, to meet the necessaryt ex
penses of the session—such as the
Secretary’s compensation and print
ing. The Congress has no salaried
officers except the Secretary’. His
duties are onerous and demand
compensation. They’are also indis
pensable. Let all constiluence,
therefore, remember to bo also con
tributors to a fund for the pnrposes
indicated.
4. Let each association, proposing
to send delegates, act at once and
take proper steps to arrange with
railroads for reduced rates.
What is necessary for our own
success and usefulness, are earnest
ness and activity on the part of all
associations, and the friends, every
where, of the advancement of our
country’s prosperity. The time is
short within which to act. Do not
procrastinate. By proper effort an
amount of intelligence and practi
cal wisdom may t>e concentrated at
Selma, which will give an irresista
ble impetus to our organization and
plant it on a solid foundation.
Then go to work, friends--friends
of the plow, the furnace and the
workshop—friends of our country
—unite, heart and hand, to make
permanent the Agricultural Con
gress established to advance and el
evate all industry.
Respectfully submitted.
Herschel Y. Johnson,
President Agricultural Congress.
October 14, 1871.
Such a likinder.
Ludicrous blunders sometimes oc
cur with happy terminations. A
St. Louis lady with her little girl
went out one afternoon for an a'r
ing in the park. Seated at the foot
of a monument was a young man
whom the little girl took to be her
father, and ran into his arms before
she discovered her mistake. Her
mother apologized and the'man ex
cused her, and commenced playing
with the child. The mother sat
down, and finding her new made ac
quaintance to be quite a gentleman,
entered into conversation with him.
Just then a busy body who knew
her passed through, ran directly to
her husband and told him he had
better look after bis wife, stating
where he had seen her. Stung by
such an insinuation, the husband
hurried off to the park and found
her as represented. lie seized the
man by the collar and was about to
shoot him without hearing a word
of explanation, when suddenly’ he
relinquished his hold and asked him
his name, and greatly to his aston
ishment learned that he was ad
dressing his own brother, whom he
had been separated from since child
hood, and save for a sober second
thought lie would have murdered.
The story of the separation was one
not at all new; in boyhood they
had lived in an eastern home, and
one seized with the spirit of adven
ture, went to the Pacific coast, fail
ed to write home, and became as it
were, dead to the family. The oth
er brother came West several years
after and settled in St. Louis, where
the first brother wandered after a
somewhat eventful experience, and
the recognition took place.
The microscope, like most useful
inventions, has been brought to its
present perfection, not by a single
vault of inventive genius, but by
slow and thoughtful steps of pro
gression.
An Irishmen noticing a lady’ pass
ing down the street, espied two
strips depending from under her
mantel. Not knowing that these
were styled sashes and were hang
ing in their right places, he exclaim
ed ! “An’ faith, ma’am, yer gallns*
es arc loose!”
A pound of turnip seed contains
three hundred and one thousand
two hundred and eighty-eight- If
you don’t believe it count ’em.
A doctor was asked to dance the
“Lancers”; he declined, but express
a willingness to lance the dancers.
Great Fires of Modern
Times.
Norfolk, Virginia, was destroyed
by fire and cannon January 1, 1776.
Property to the amount of $1,500.-
000 was destroyed.
Soon after New York passed into
the hands of the British, Septem
ber 20, 1776, five hundred buildings
were consumed by fire.
In 1811, December 26, the tliea
ter at Richmond was burned in
which the Governor and many lead
ing citizens perished.
Six hundred warehouses, and
property to the amount of $20,000,-
000, were destroyed by fire in New
York, December 16, 1835.
April 27, 1838, in Charleston,
1,158 buildings were consumed,
covering 145 acres of grouud.
April 10, 1845, in Pittsburg
1,000 buildings were destroyed by.
fire. Loss, 86,000,000.
Fifteen hundred buildings were
burned in Quebec, May 28, 1845,
and in less than a month afterword,
1,300 more—in all two-thirds of the
city.
July 19, 1845, in New York city,
402 stores and dwellings and $6,-
000,000 worth of property were
consumed.
June 12, 1846, the whole of New
foundland was destroyed by fire
and 6,000 persons rendered home
less.
September 9, 1848, in Albany,
600 buildings, besides steamboats,
piers, &c.; 24 acres burned over.
Loss, $3,000,000.
St. Louis lost 15 blocks and 23
steamboats by fire, May 17, 1849.
July 8, 1850, in Philadelphia, 350
bttildijgs were lost by fire, 2o per
sons burned, 9 drowned, 120 wound
ed. Loss, $1,500,000.
In San Francisco,May 3d to sth,
1851, 2,500 buildings were burned.
Many lives lost, "and $3,500,000
worth of property destroyed.
December 24, 1851, 35,000 vol
umes were destroyed by fire in our
Congressional Library.
July 12, 1852, 1,200 houses were
burned in Montreal.
August 25, 1854, Damauiscotta,
Maine, was entirely dertroyed by
fire. The same day more than 100
houses in Troy, N. Y., and a large
portion of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
October 9, 1857, a great fire oc
curred in Chicago ; "$500,000 in
property destryed.
July 4, 1 865, the city of Port
land, Me., was nearly destroyed by
fire: ten thousand people rendered
homeless; loss, $15,000,000.
February 17, 1865, the city ot
Charleston was almost destroyed bv
fire, and great quantities of military
and naval stores.
THE GREAT FIRE IN LONDON.
This great fire, whose ruins cov
ered 430 acres, extended from the
Tower to the Temple Church, aud
from the northeast gate to Holborn
bridge. It destroyed in the space
of four days 89 churches, the city
gates, the Royal Exchange, the Cus
tomhouse, Gu id hall Sion College,
and many other public buildings,
besides 13,200 houses, laying in
waste 400 streets. Over 200,000
people camped out after the fire in
Islington and ITigh-gate.
Concerning this fire, Sir Christo
pher \\ ren built a monument with
this inscription thereon:
“ This pillow was set up in a per
petual remembrance of tl»t most
dreadful burning of this Protestant
city, begun and carried on by ye
treachery and malice of ye Popish
faction, in ye beginning of Septem
ber, in ye year of our Lord, 1666,
in order to ye carrying on their hor
tid plot for extirpating ye Protes
tant religion and old English liber
ty, and ye introducing Popery and
slavery.”
This inscription was finally erased
by order of the Common Council,
January 26, 1831.
The Church of the Campagrtia,
Santiago, was burned December 8,
1863, and 2,000 persons persons per
ished in the flames.
It will be seen from the above
record that the conflagration in Chi
cago is the largest which has taken
place in the world since the great
lire in London in 1666. — Washing
ton Chronicle.
“D. Boon.”-— The great, pioneer
did not, as we are accustomed, add
a final “e” to his name. If engaged
in a literary task, he might have
done so. On the beech tree, on
which his name is carved, six miles
from Jonesboro—l forgot to tell
the story some time ago —the great
bear killer and Indian fighter in
scribed the following legend. I
give it as photographed b}’ the ar
tist, F. J. Fisher:
D. BOON
KILD BAR
and
in Dogwoo Trf.e June 1769.
The stump of the dogwood tree
still stands some ten feet from the
old beech, and down the sides of
the latter, there are deep scratches
as if the frightened animal first at
tempted, and, failed to ascend it,
had then climbed the rougher dog
wood, and became the victim of the
huntsman’s skill. A mile from this
tree are the falls of Boone’s creek.
The story is told that Boon, when
pursued by hostile savages, was ac
customed to conceal himself behind
the sheet of water that rushes over
the precipitous rocks. — Memphis
Appeal.
A contempt of the sacred rite of
marriage not only endangers the
morality of the individual, but
strikes at the very foundation of
social order and domestic happi
ness.
A Lively Editor.
A young friend of ours, named
Gumbs, undertook to start a paper
out in Cambria county, a short
time ago. lie called it the Cam
bria Milky Way. lie said in his
prospectus that he intended to make
the Milky Way lively, spicy, vig
orous, fearless, * and entertaining;
and lie did. In the first number he
called the editor of the rival paper
“ a diabolical liar, an unmitigated
scoundrel, and a remorseless assas
sin.” He alluded to the Mayor in a
cheerful paragraph, as “ a corrupt
magistrate, whose torments from
the remorse which festered in his
soul were only surpassed by 7 the
physical agony which is always the
punishment of the depraved and ri
otous debauchee.” He soothed the
feelings of the Post master with the
remark that “ the peculations of
this official Dick Turpin can be com
pared to nothing but the terrific rob
beries committed in tbe past by
those dastardly Spanish buccaneers
whom he so closely resembled in
general character.” He announced
under the head of “ Social Gossip, ’’
that a certain young man had been
rejected the evening before by the
lady of his love, and volunteered
the information that it was “ the
wisest thing she could have done un
der the peculiar circumstances;”
and he related how, upon the pre
ceding day, he heard another youth
named Alexander Jones remark to
a friend that “ if anything will make
a man feel juicy about the heart, it
is to talk velvet to a pair of sky-col
ored eyes by moonlight, in a clover
field.” The next edition of the pa
per was not issued at the regular
time. Finally, some copies were
sent over the town in a balloon, and
they contained these editorial re
marks
“ The editor has found it impos
sible to go out to hunt news items,
because the Mayor and the editor
of the Times, and the postmaster,
and Alex. Jones, and a number of
other individuals whose names we
have not been able to learn, have
been sitting on the curb stone and
roosting around on the back fence
all the morning with shot guns and
other murderous weapons, and look
ing as if they were in earnest. We
give notice here that wehave moved
the fire proof safe against the door
of our sanctum, and have lined the
stairs with spring guns, cross-eyed
Irishmen, and insane bull terriers
who have not been fed for a week.
The privileges of a free press shall
not be interfered with while we
wield a pen or possess a bull dog.”
The Milky Way, however, died the
next day, Mr. Gumbs having slid
down the water spout and taken the
early train for Kansas. These out
rages against editors will have to
be stopped, oy William Penn will
have died for his country in vain.—
Philudelphia, Dispatch.
Truths in broken doses.
Without a friend, the world is a
wilderness.
If every one would mend one, all
would be mended.
Great minds are easy in prosper
ity, and quiet in adversity.
Begin life with but little show;
you may increase it afterwards.
Tell not your secrets to your ser
vant, for then he will be your mas
ter.
Religion is the best armor that a
man can have; but it is the worst
cloak.
Experience without learning does
more good than learning without
experience.
He is not only idle who does noth
ing but he is idle who might be bet
ter employed.
Practice without knowledge is
blind, and knowledge without prac
tice is lame.
What did that young lady mean
when she said to her lover, “You
may bo too late for the cars, but
you can take a buss ?”
If every man w’ould reform him
self, the world’s reformation would
be accomplished, and philosophers
would be useless
If you would be pungent, be
brief; for it is with words as with
sunbeams—the more they are con
densed, the deeper they burn.
Leisure is a very pleasant gar
ment to look at, but it is a very bad
one to wear. The ruin of millions
may be traced to it.
A terse writer says that Nature
likes to let the best of us find out,
from time to time, that, after all,
we do not know much.
Grief knits two hearts in closer
bonds than happiness ever can;
and common suffering is a far
stronger link than common joy.
A generous mind does not feel as
belonging to itself alone, but to the
whole human race. Wc are born
to save our fellow creatures.
The three things most difficult
are to keep a secret, to forget inju
ry, and to make a good use of leis
ure.
Everyman has his weak side;
and it is very often the case that
this weak side is the best part of
the man.
An humble man is like a good
tree—the more full of fruit the
branches are, the lower they bend
themselves.
The ear and eyes are the mind’s
receivers; but the tongue is only
busied in expending the treasure
received.
Outlook of the World.
This year has been prolific of
physical and political calamities.—
There has been distress of nations
and perplexities, the sea and the
waves roaring. Volcanoes have
been active, and tidal waves in re
mote parts of the world have put
forth destructive energy. In our
own country, violent storms and
tornadoes have been frequent. In
Persia there lias been according to
the latest accounts, a severe famine,
although the representative of Per
sia in London but recently denied
it. Added to all this are late re
ports that Hoods and hail storms
have ruined the fertile fields o!
Southern Hungary. One third of
the district of Banal, the granary of
the Austrian empire, is under wa
ter. These lands had in former
times been waste marshes. They
were reclaimed by the construction
of dams under the reign of the Em
press Maria Theresa, and made the
most fertile fields of Hungary.—
But now the country has returned
to its original condition, for a cul
pably negligent administration has
turned a deaf ear to the pleadings
of the peasantry. It failed to re
pair the dam and thus caused the
calamity.
The cholera has for the last two
years been lingering in Russia,
though is has been attempted to ex
clude the knowledge of its exist
ence from all but the officials of the
imperial government.
Whilst plague, famine and tem
pest have thus been abroad in tho
world, wars and rumors of war have
been scourging Europe. France is
panting and well-nigh breathless
from the exhaustion of a great
struggle’ and the humiliation
of a terrible defeat, whilst many
homes in Germany are dark with
tho bereavements by which the tri
umph has been won. In Russia,
armies are gathering anl drilling
and navies preparing, in anticipa.
tion of Hostile movements —the East
and the West looking for and fear
ing the impending blow. In Spain,
a weak young king is in trouble
with his people, and there is a de
ficit in the national exchequer. It
aly and Rome are at Loggerheads,
and tho Pope is deprivod of his
temporalities. Turkey, in fear of
everybody, and able to trust no one,
is on the point of open rupture with
the rebellious Egyptian Khedive,
and the Khedive himself is culti
vating the friendship of the great
powers in order to secure strong
backers for bis expected conflict.—
Tn England, a great though peace
ful revolution is going on, but the
“ Battle of Dorking ” has revealed
a degree of weakness and incompe
tency which throws shadows over
the future. In the religious world
also there are shakings and convul
sions. Our own country, for a
time, has a breathing spell, and po
litically is comparatively quiet, with
otdy election campaigns and heavy
taxes to disturb our tranquility’.—
Baltimore Sun.
Mark Twain’s MotcJ.
Having lately opened a hashcry,
I send you these rules and regula
tions :
This house shall be considered
strictly intemperate.
None but the brave deserve the
fare.
Persons owing bills for hoard will
be bored for bills.
Hoarders who do not wish to pay
in advance are requested to advance
and pay.
Boarders are expected to wait on
the colored cooks—for meals.
Sheets will be nightly changed
once in six months, or more if nec
essary.
Double boarders can have two
beds with a room in it, or two
rooms with a bed in u if they
choose.
Boarders are requested to pull off
their boots if they can conveniently
do so.
Beds with or without bugs.
All money and other valuables
are to be left in the care of the pro
prietor. This is insisted on as he
will be responsible for no other loss
es.
Inside matter will not be furnish
ed to editors under any considera
tion.
Relatives coming to make a six
months’ visit will be welcomed ; but
when they bring their household
furniture, virtue will cease to be a
forbearance.
Single men with their famiiftfe
will not be boarded.
Beds with or without boards.
Dreams will be charged for by
the dozen.
Nightmares hired out at
ble rates.
Stone vaults will be furnished to
snoring boarders, as the proprietor
will in no wise be responsible for
the broken tin-pan-ups ot other
ears.
It is said that in London “a child
is born every five minutes.” It
must be a little unpleasant to the
children to have the process repeat
ed so often.
A toper sneered at a young man
for wearing spectacles, when the
latter said: “It is better to use
glasses over the nose, as I do, than
under the nose, as you do !”
An ancient maiden, observing a
sign over a tailoring establishment
bearing the inscription; “Fountain
of Fashion,” exclaimed, “Ah, that
must bo the place where squirts
come from!”
If you have been tempted to evil, j
fly from it; it is not falling in the j
water, but lying in it, that drowns. .
NO. 44
Caprice.
She bung tbe cage at the window—
“ If lie goes by.” she said.
“He will hear my robin singing,
And when be Bits his head
I shall be sitting here to sew,
And be will bow to tne 1 know.”
Tbe robin sang a lore-swop song, 1
The young man raised his head,
Tbe maiden turned away and blushed
** I ant a fool,” she said,
And went to bordering in silk
A pink-eyed rabbit white as milk,
The ytiling man loitered slowly
I*y the house three times that day ;
She took her bird from tbe window—
*• lie need not look this way.”
She sat at her piano long,
And sighed and played a death-sad song.
But when the day was done, she said
“ I wish that he would come!
Remember, Mary, if be calls
To-night— I'm not at home,”
So when he rang she went—the elf!
She went and let him in Itomelf.
1 bey sang full long together
Their songs lov -sweet, death sad ;
The robin woke from his slumber,
And rang out clear and glad.
‘•Now go!” she sadly said, •* ’tis late.”
And followed him to latch the gate,
lie took the rose-bud from her hair,
While •• you shall not!” she said ;
He closed her hand within his own.
And while her tongue forbade,
Iler will was darkened in the clipse
Os binding love upon his lips,
VARIETY.
What is lovely woman’s favorite
line in the dictionary? The last
world.
The young lady whose feelings
were “all worked up” will get a
fresh supply.
“Figures won’t lie.” Won't
they’ ? Does a fashionable woman’s
figure tell the truth ?
Advice to lovers—When you can
not catch the last car at night, take
a “buss” instead.
There is a man out West who is
so lazy’ that he has applied for a po
sition as a railroad sleeper.
Glory is well enough for a rich
man, but it is of little consequence
to a poor man with a large family.
What you keep by you may
change and mend, but words once
spoken, you can never recall.
Have nothing to do with a man
in a passion, for men are not like
iron, to be wrought upon when hot.
The world would be more happy
if persons gave up more time to an
intercourse of friends.
Richmond has a society called
‘The Daughters of the Gulden
Candlestick.” They are probably
snuffers.
A man up in Portsmouth, New
Hampshire named his two children
Ebonezer and Flora, and always
spoke of them as Eb and Flo.
Everything here is as we esti
mate it, and tbe changes in our
heart make the changes that we
feel.
He that has no friend and no ene
my, is one of the vulgar, and with
out talents, power, or energy.
Four things are grievously emp
ty : A head without brains, a wit
without judgment, a heart without
honesty, and a purse without mon
ey-
Happiness and pride are absolute
ly incompatible. Continnal vexa
tions, fancied slights, and injuries
provoke and wound the self suffi
cient mind.
Conscience is a sleeping giant;
we may lull him into a longer or
shorter slumber; but his stars are
frightful, and terrible is the hour
when he awakes.
The heart of man is a well of se
crets from which we bring up but
one bueketfull at a time; and troth
—that is, the whole trnth—lies still
at the bottom.
The recent railroad disasters have
so affected a young man’s nerves in
Connecticut that lie has broken his
engagement with a lady because
she wears a train and is indifferent
. about her switch.
The “ Fifth Calf.”
A good story is told of a couple
of farmers who lived a few miles
apart. One day one called ou the
other, happening around at dinner.
The person called upon was a very
penurious old fellow. He was seat
ed at the table enjoying his meal.
The visitor drew to the stove look
ing very wistfully toward the table
expecting the farmer to ask him to
dine. The old farmer kept on eat
ing.
“ What’s the news up your way,
neighbor ?” (still eating.) “No
news, eh ?”
“No, I believe not.” (Presently
a thought struck the visitor.)
“ Well, yes, friend. I did hear of
one item of news that’s worth some
thing.”
“Ha, what is that?
“ Neighbor Jones has a cow that
has five calves.”
“ Is that so ? What does the fifth
oalf do when the others are suck
ing ?”
“ Why, he stands and looks on,
just as I do, like a fool.”
1 “ Mary, put on another plate.”