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Cate Hours.
Henry Ward Beecher p eached recently on
“bate Honrs and the Unfruitful Works of Dark
ness.
• If you want to make the ruin of a child 'sure
him liberty after dark. You cannot do any
t hing nearer to ensure his damnation that to let'
bimbfve liberty to go where he wall without
yastraint. A ter dark he will be sure to get into
fommunication with people that will undermine
til his good qualities. Ido toot like to speak to
pireute abont their children. Their child cannot,
,rjjl not lie, when his tongue is like amended bow;
jj, fl il not drink when there is not a saloon with
amile of his father’s house where he is not as
fe ll known a« one of hie own decanters; he never
jpi iniquitous things, when he iejaekingia filth,
jfjnetefu out of every twenty allowed perfect
frttim at night will be wounded by it. There is
nothing more important than for a child to be at
tome at night, or, if he is abroad, you should be
*ith him. If he is to see any sights or tajcs any
pleasure, there is nothing that he should see that
rou sh-rnld not see with him. It is not me rely
that the child should be broken down, but there
ir e thoughts that never ought to find passage into
toman’s brain. As an eel, if he wriggle across
vmr carpet, will leave his slime which no brush
ing can ever efface, 60 there are thoughts that
never can he got rid of, once permitted to enter ;
and there are individuals going around with ob
wene hooka and pictures under the lappels of
,»f their ci>ats that will leave ideas in the
mind of your child that will never be effaced.
There aro men here who have heard a salacious
neng and they never will forget it They will re
giet it to the end of their lives. Ido not believe
in a child’s seeing life, as it is oalled, with its
damnable lust and wickedness, to have all his im
aginations set on fire with the flames of hell. No
body goes through this fire but they are burned,
burned ; and they cannot get rid of the scars.
TwoYankf.es. —The following story is told of 51
Yankee captain and his mate. Whenever there
*m a plain pudding made, by the captain’s or
ders all the plums were put in one end of it. and
that placed next the captain, who after helping
himself, passed it to the mate, who never found
any plums in any part it
.tfter tliis game had been nlayep for some time
th<> mate prevailed on the steward to place the
plum end next to hi to, the captain who no sooner
preceived the alteration than picking up the dish
and turning it around, as if the Jliina,
he said :
“This cost me two shillings in Liverpool ”
11« thou put it down, as if without design, with
tbepla m end next to himself
“Is is it possible ?” said the mate, taking up the
did: •‘I shouldn’t suppose it was worth more
tl.tn a shilling.”
iud, as in perfect innocence, he put it down
the contrary way.
The captain looked at the mate ; the mate look
ed at the captain, and both laughed
•HI toll you what, young ’un,” said the captain,
"v. u’vc found me out ; so we’ll just cut the pud*
ding lengthwise this time and have the plums fair
distributed hereafter-”
Door-Yard Ornamentation.
We have made great progress the past few years
in our style of gardening. Formerly pvery little
door-yard, however small, was cut up into a
rinth of narrow walks, carefully edged wiih dwarf
box. '! his sort of needless and unsightly patch
vork is fast passing away, and a far better taste
is being shown in the smooth, soft capets of green
nvos, with the the needful flower beds cut out
vherever required. Flowers are like diamonds ;
their sott ng should be of the inconspicuous order,
t never the most prominent features of the two,
ss often seen among the ‘shoddy itf.s’ in both fash
■sable society and horticulture Our florists and
nurserymen still have a considerable demand for
‘box' foi edgings: and it is o pity although it is
true, that we have so rnnch bad taste show r u in our
abnrban gardens.
Some times the grounds are cut up into walks
'enabling an old-fashioned patched bed-quilt of
any color?, and the proprietor uotwishiug to be
n done hi the way of variety, crowds a thousand
H'v Wand varieties of plants into a space where a
Wdted would be a far better number, and show to
kitor advantage. This trying to see bow many
•arictieseau V grown, has been ft curse to potn
-I'H- and is rapidly ruining floriculture. A dozen
•’• aa s well grown, show better taste and judgment
t;una hundred, as far too generally seen.
" e hope our readers will remember this when
~akißg their selections of seeds and plants this
Choose only a few of the very best, and
of species that will give a succession of bloom
trough the season, and bestow upon these all the
lr e that would have been given to many, aud see
"greater satisfaction aud better results will not be
drived therefrom.
We know of a man who cultivated three hundred
''unties of Gladioli last summer ; but one-tenth
C 1 the number properly selected would have fur
“sked all the beauty and other merits found in the
lot. To stri-e for the very best is commend
but to seek to obtain everything is like try*
to gjtin an education by studying every thing
‘“'i knowing nothing thoroughly. —Rural New
Liker.
or tub Printers’ Devil. — When Aldus
set up business as a printer at Yenice,
e vame in possession of a little uegro boy. This
I *as know over the city as “the tittle black
JtT 'i who assisted tire mysterious dibliofactor,
I‘■* 1 ‘ ■* votnc of the ignorant persons believed him to
j* uo other than the emlHKiiuieut of Satan, who
-*‘Ped Aldus iu the prosecution of his profession.
-' a * day, Maoutinue desiring to dispel the halluci-
by publicity, displayed the “imp’
l ’’e poorer classes. Upon this .occasion he
v‘ r <e this characteristic 6peech ; “Be it known
: that I. Aldus Manutinus printer in the
pyChmch aud Doge, have this day made pub-
J/i ripotme of tho “printer’s devil. All those
is tot flesh and blood may come
d P'nch bim."
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VOL. V.
[From the New Orleans Picayune
THE FIRE BRIGADE.
»Y XABITTA.
Wreath the cedar with the vine
Laurei with the holly twine * ’
Arch the window, drape the wail.
As for joyous festival ;
Float ye flags and pennons gay,
Heroes march oui streets to day.
Not from bloody fields they come—
Blaring trumpets and beating drum
Heralding the heroes’ name.
Trumpeting the conqueror’s fame—
Theirs the pride that knows no price.
Grand, sublime self-sacrifice.
Theirs the duty, stern and hard,
Knowing but its own reward ;
Theirs to toil with all their might
For another’s sacred ri”ht ;
Theirs to meed the proudest won—
Noble duty—nobly done.
Theirs to beed the dusting bell,
Breaking slumber’s silken spell ;
Theirs to so low prompt and fleet
Where the engines’ pulses beat ;
Theirs to feel that t aught appals
When the voice of Duty calls
Kang on high the bright festoon—
Sound on bugle and barsoon—
Khout ye people, cheer on c eer,
For the heroes are drawing near ;
Bloom ye roses, we must lay
Flowers at noble feet to-day.
Where the Demons of the fire
Flaunt their oriflanies of ire ;
Where their blazing banners fly
Toward the scowling midnight sky ;
Where they chuckle, hiss and laugh,
■Over what their red lips quaff.
Over what they kiss to death,
With their suffocating breath—
Where exulting, they devour
Miser’s ho ird or maiden’s dower ;
Where their scathing tongues consign
Unto Ruin roof and shrine ;
Where the heat, and flame, and smoke,
Blind and dazzle, scorch and choice ;
Where increasing horrors s cken,
Where dismaying dangers thicken ;
Prarnpt to do and brave to dare,
Our heroic band is there.
Wreathe the cedar with the vine,
Laurel with the holly twine ;
Arc h the window, drape the wall,
Arf for jo\cits so tival—
Float ye flags and pennons gay,
Heroes march our »t«eets to-day.
II 1. Kimball.
Id a report of a 1 nibtmd meeting in Grib,
fin, the Star s-.ys, ed.ioiially:
The celebrated 11. I. Kimball next took
the floor, u»*d showed Jhut he was as able
to impart his views as he is to put his ini*
mouse plans in successful operation.
We are no worshiper of great men, nor
will our columns ever be sided with fulsome
adulation of utiy political or personal fa
voiilej hut we feel that Kimball cannot he
flittered. Although more talked about in
tbe papers than perhaps any other nian in
Georgia, yet the half lias not been told of
his wonderful power? liaised a carriage
maker, lie went through the grades of ap
prentice, journeyman aud proprietor. He
can make every part and parcel ot a car
riage, including the painting, iu the very
highest and most finished style. From cars
riage-niaking he got to making railroad
coaches, magnificent hotels, opera houses,
and finally railroads, until now his monthly
pay rolls amount to over one hundred thou
sand dollars, or over three jhousand dollars
per day ; and yet, in age, he would be call
<*d by old men a mere boy, being about
thirty-five years old! It may be imagined
that a man with such comprehension, such
power of making combination*, such indo
mi table will and energy, would, if he could
talk at all, interest a business audience,
and he did. He even excelled Col. Hul
bel t in clearness and terseness of expres
sion. He endorsed and amplified upon
Col. Hulbert’s views of narrow guage, and
finally cheered our hearts by the statement
that if we, the citizens of Griffin, anjl those
upon the line of the road, would subscribe
liberally to the enterprise, and glire to it
our hearty and earnest support, his coin
pan? would take hold ol the road and build
it sharp and quick!— undertaking to raise
means upon such collaterals as our sub
scriptions and bonds would furnish.
The great candor and frankness, as we as
perspicuity of Mr. K. was admired by all*
He said he had cast his lot m Georgia.
Here lie expected to live and die. His te*t
was the honor and prosperity of Georgia
firs’- and second, the interest of Kimball.
He asked the co operation ot the citizens
who are to be benefit ted by his operations
and pledged himself to stand square to
them, and to deal fairly, frankly and hon
orably. With their co-operation vast
things could be dune, without it, compara
tively little. ‘
The Lilliputian Stale of Rhode Island has
but 289,030 acres of impinved laud; ns
farms are worth twenty-one millions; and
its farm products nearly five^millions.
-An Independent romm-at - I ~ ~ “ !
al r>ev otea to tjae Interests of GeoreiS:
CAMBRIDGE, GA„ THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1871.
Hon. A H. Stephens.
A correspondent ui the Charleston Cour«
ier, thus describes bis visit to the home of
Mr. Stephens, near Crawfordvilic. He
says ;
Having a little leisure time this after
ruxjr, I called to seo Geoigia's grea*.;st
man Alexander H. Stephens—whom I <iad
known in my boyhood. He is looking much
older—disease ifi beginning to make its
mark upon him. When I entered his ebarn*
ber be was sitting in an arm chair, looking
over and filing away letters* Handing
the package to his nephew, saying, ‘here,
William, are those letters,* be at once en
tered in conversation with me, by etiquir
ing ‘how are you getting aloug in Caroli
na ?‘
I answered bad enough, but no so bad as
people abroad seem to think. Said he :
‘The reform movement in youT State was a
mistake. I never knew a map that ran
from a dog that did not get bit. There was
some in Georgia who proposed the forma
tion of such a party, j opposed it, and
I think I was instrumental in defeating it. ?
As be piogressed and warmed up on the
usurpation of the Radical party, straightens
ing his frail form up in his chair, his eyes
brightening, I was carried back in my im
aginations twenty years when I heard him
upon the stand, where he never had an
equal before the masses. I will not repeat
his views upon the political condition of
the country, as expressed to me.
He does not, however, think that the
Tammany Ring 1 will lead us to victory in
next Fresidental election. He is writing a
‘School History of the United States* I
asked him if it was intended for the South.
He s-tid no. It was for the whole county,
win 'fever the people loved and wanted the
truth. Mr. Stephens is able to walk about
Jos grounds on crutches, being sorely af»
fkneii with rheumatism. His works, ’Tit 1 ’
‘History of Causes that led to the
War,* should be ‘ pfaced in the hands of
every child in the land. It js an nn
ansvv* r.ihle vindication of the South, such
as no othet living man could have written.
CANT.
The New York Mail denounces Every
Saturday and Harper’s Weekly for re-pub
fishing Charles Keade's new novel. The
story, the editor says, is ‘soiling to the
hitherto fair pages of Harpers Weekly.’ 0
ye gods ! has it come to this, tljat Readu
can do sparsity what Curtis and Mast have
hepn striving at for many years ? Readc's
story is oneot love and passion, the world’s
;hrohs, and about which all men know so
much and women as they should, and
which occupy the thoughts ot all from
youth to imbecility, is there no harm in
love when it assumes the wildest and most
reckless form ? Is their no immorality in
slander ? Is there no immorality in hatred,
in vengeance, in falsehood ? Does not love
so monopolize all crimes of human kind
that when its mad doing are sketched by
masterly hands, the recital must soil the
paper on which it is published ? Bah !
Harpers’ Week'y was soiled long ago wiih
slime and blood. Up to the war rupture it
was pro-Southern, but the Soutfi excluded
it from instinct, and the publishers turned
upon its former patrons and showed their
teeth. Curtis, the editor, wrote mad appeals
or vengence and continued slaughter ; he
maligned and misrepresented the South
held them up to the scorn of laymen and the
anathema ot religion; and Nast, the sketch
es drew such scenes of falsehood, such
tableaux of lies as shocked even the most
violent abettors of Coersoih.
Brain Ga iwra —Persons who talk most
do not always think most —that is, have
mosi conscious thoughts pass through their
minds nor necessarily do most mental work
*Be aye sticking in a tree, Jock ; it will be
growing when you are sleeping' So with
every new idea tha* is planted in a think
er’s mind. It will be growing when he is
sleeping. An idea in the brain is not a
legend carved on a marble slab ; it is an
impression made on a living tissue which is
the seat of active nutritive processes. Shall
the initials I carved in bark grow from
year to year with the tree? and shall not
my recorded thought grotf into bew forms
and relations with my growiug brain ?
Daniel Webster told one of the greatest
scholars that he had to change the sixe of
his hat every four years. His head gfew
larger as his intodect expanded. Illustra
tratioiisof this sanje fact were shown me
by a famous phrenologist of Loudon. But
organic mental changes may take place in
shorter spaces of time- A single eight »*
i,t sleep has often brought a sober second
thought which was a surprise to a hasty
conclusion of the day before.-O. W.
Bolxks.
Hope. Hope is the angel that leads us
through our infant days j and cheers us
through our youth's gayest hours. Hope
filants flowers of unfading beauty iu our
inward world ; the only soil where they
could flourish in unfading bloom and be
come a garden of delight. And when the
days of manhottJcoma, laden With cares
and sorrow, then hope, that cheerful Angel
of the skies, sits down beside us and cheers
as with hope of better days. And in old
age, when the weight of years and power
of disease bend the frail body, and we
trembling stand mi the verge of the tooinb
and listen to the roaming of the distant
ocean beyond, then hope whispers.of a time
when we shall rise iu the image of him
who 'is good uriip ail, and whose tender
mercies are over all his works.* Yes, hope
cheers us in joy and sorrow, in adversity
and prosperity, through life ; au<J in the
hour of death, and winds around us the
mautle of his loye, an I through a resur
rection introduces us into heaven, our final
home, there to be the companions of an
gels while‘life and health and being last,
or i:nmortality endures. *
Oh, blessed hope 1 thine is a noble work
to cheer the desponding sonl. You cheer
the pilgrim on his weary pilgrimage—and
enable him to preach the gospel to the
poor, and plant the standard of universal
redemption in the hearts of men
Robert Jones.
Billing's Advice to Joe. —By awl means
Joe, get married, if ypfi have a fair stow.
Don‘t stand shivering on the bank, but
pitch in and stick your bed under and the
shiver is oyer. There ain‘t enney more
trick in gettin mare<3;afteryou're redy than
there is in easing peaiiqts. Menny a man
has stood shivering on the shore till the
river awl run out. Don't expect to marry
an agel, them hev awl been picked up long
ago. Remembei, Joe, you ain't a saint
yourselfr. Do not marry for buty exclu
sively ; buty is like ice, awful sl'pperly,
and thaws dredful easy. Don't marry for
luv neither ; luv is like a cooking stove,
good for nothing when the fuel gives out.
But marry a mixture. Aud let the mixture
be some buty becomingly dressed, with
about $250 in her pocket, a good speller,
handy and meat in the house, plenty of
good sense, a tuff constitution and by laws,
small feet, a light stepper ; add to this
sound teeth and a warm heart. This mix
ture will keep in enny climate, and not
evaporate. If the cork happens to be left
offfor two or three minutes the strength
ain't all gone, Joe. For heaven's sake
don't marry for pedigree. Thar ain't much
ig pedigree unless it is backed by bank
stocks. A family with nothing but pedi
gree generally lacks sence.
Babies.— We love little babies, and love,
everybody who does love babies. No man
has music in his soul who dou't love ba
bies. Babies vyere made to be loved,' es
spepiallv girl babies; when they grow up.
\ man isn't worth a shuck who hasu't a
baby, and the same rule applies to a wos
man. A baby is aspring day in wihter
and if it is healthy and goodnatured. and
you're sure it's yours, it is a bushel of sun
shine, no matter how cold Uie weather. A
man cannot be hopeless as loug as lie loves
babies one at a time. We love babies, no
matter how dirty they are.
Babies are born to be dirty.
We love babies because they are babies
aud because their mothers were lovable
and lovely women. Our love for babies is
only bounded by the number of babies in
thp world. We always look for babies;
we do. We always have sorrowful feelings
for mothers that have no babies and don't
expect any.
Women always look down-hearted who
have no babies, and men who have no
babies always gamble, and drink whisky,
and stay out nights trying to get music in
their souls; but they ean't come it Babies
are babie3, and notlrog can take the.r
places. Pianos play out and good living
plays out, and beauty plays out, unless
tlisre's a baby iu the house. We've tried it;
we know and we say there’s nothing like
a baby. Babies are * prolific subject, and
we intend to talk more about the babies in
tbe future—Chicago Tribune.
The portaits of sick prisoners were
shown opon these ’spotless' pages, to rouse
to greater heat the passion for revenge
against the Sooth, and every means within
the compass of a coward's pen or a bar’s
pencil werednvoked to swell tbe rich river
of hatred, and launch upon tbe floods lar
ger fitets of desolation. —N. T. Democrat.
SPEAK THE TRUm.
Os all things which lower one iu the es<i
timation of his fellows, nothing will more
surely do it than falsehood. A single pre
varication sometimes blasts one’s reputa
tion forever, and causes meq to say, *He
pannot be depended upon: his word is good
for nethiog.’ seejps pitiable, indeed,
when a young man gains such a name, for
it will almost inevitably* folio*** him through
life. Could anything seem nobler than the
course of that noble Athenian, who was
so scrupulous to his adherence to trn'.h
that bis fellow citizens excused him from
taking the customary oath in giving his
evidence, saying, *VY e know this man will
speak the truthl’
A strict adherence to truth, in all places
and under all circumstances, cannot fail to
aid one in keeping his heart and mind
pure. It will exalt, him in the opinion of
his fellow men, and smooth over many oth
erwise rough places in life's pathway, rend
eying success iu life more certain.
‘T<et all the ends thou aim'Bt at be thy country’s
Thy God’s and truth’s; then, If thou fall’st,
Thou fall’st a blessed irartyr."
Breaches of promise have tbeir amelio
rating circumstances. The woman who
suffered from one recently, and afterwards
refused to marry her promising young man
because of his religious faith is declared
judicially to have no further claim upon
him, and must ‘hoe her own row' hereafter.
Tips should be a warning for all future
time to all confiding damsels. Let them be
sure of their sweetheart's religious views
before they confide in him too lar. It would
not be a bad idea to have newly introduced
beauxs make an avowal of faith at the first
visit, or better still, to have the mutual
friend who introduces him states his case,
as thus, for instance: ‘Miss Smith,,Mr
Jones, Presbyterian, or Mr. Thompson,
Hardshell Bobtist.’ And Miss Smith, hav
ing her own religious views, might, on the
instant, dismiss any oqe whose religious
views would seem to be inconsonant with
the harmonious progress of a breach of
promise dase.—New York Herald.
Newspaper Consolidation. —T{io ifont
gomery Mail and Advertiser have been
consolidated. W. W. Screws and M. J.
Williams are the proprietors of the con
solidated paper.
Seek wisdom rather than riches.
Mary and Her Lamb.
Parodies on “Mary Had a Little Lamb” have
become quite popular of late. One of the best of
its kind —a double parody, indeed, on “Mary” and
“Truthful James” is the following :
Which I wish to recite,
And my language is plain—
That from fleece that is white,
And from schooling in vain,
The Mary lambkin is peculiar,
Which the same I would rise to explain.
Ba-ba was his name ;
And I hope I may die
If Lknow what the same
May express or imply : -
But his voicie, it was plaintive and babe-
IBce,
As I frequently remarked to Mari.
Jt was April the third,
Arid quite nice was mint-sauce,
Which it might be inferred
Was on Ba-ba, of course ;
But hejilayed it that day on the master and
school
Jn a way that I would scqri; to endorse.
Which we had a day school,
And Ba-ba choose to go ;
It was reading, the fool
Not the first word did know,
But he frisked as fie went to his class
With a frisk neither pensive nor slow.
For tbe master grew mad
In a way that I grieve,’
And my feelings were sad
At his off and Nye sleeve ;
Which were stuffed full of rattans and
rulers
And the same with intent to bereave.
But the jumps that were made
By that frisky white pet,
And the pranks that he played *
Took the children —you bes,
Till at last he knocked down a big bottle,
And the same spilled the iuk that was jet.
Then eyes looked at lamb.
And the school screamed “ha-ha,"
And the master said “D—n,
Do you know where you are ?
We cannot do wiite for this lambkin”—
And he went for that frisky Ba-ba.
Jn the scene that ensued
I was absent, I think, *
But the floor it was strewed
Like nutmeg in a drink,
With the fleece that rattan had been hiding
Os the lamb that ran foul of the ink.
Every leg of the beast
W as a gamboling tool,
So a black-leg at least
Was the fleecy legged fool;
And we found on his tail, which was taper,
What is pulled over eyes—that is wool.
Which is why I recite
And my language is plain—
That for fleece that is white,
And for schooling in vain.
The Mary Larnpkm is peculiar.
Which the same I am free to maintain.
[Albany Evening Journal
THE SOUTHERN SUN
Published Weekly by -
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NO. 52
RrgAt Mat.—Varied hash,
instructive, decidedly the best Agriculs
tnraj monthly on our table. The
handsome engraving of General Johnson
Hagood, President of the South Caroling
Agricultural and Mechanical Sotiely, is
worthy of the Magazine and Gbnerol, Ha
good is no Militia General, but a Confedor*
ate officer, whq won r hTs spurs upon the
field of battle, and in taking the lead in
favor of improved agriculture, he
following bis old habit of being always m
the front. Dr. E. M. Pendleton of Sparta,
Ga-, Dr. C: U. Shephard Sr., the oelebra*
ted chemist, and B; Mason, of it la., Col. D,
Wyatt Aiken, and a score of other well
posted planters, make their contributions,
to this number. A glance at the names of
the various places at which correspondents
dates their contributions is convincing
proof of the wide, circulation and extensive
influences of the Rural Carolinian. The only
wonder is that such a Magazine can be
supplied at the low rate of $2 per annum,
and yet afford a reasonable profit to the
publishers, Messrs. Walker, Evans & Coos«
well, Charleston, S. C.
r 1
llow xnE Laura Fair Jury Agrebdl— On
the night of the day that the Jury in tho
Mrs. Fair case lemlered a verdict, the case
and the verdict were the subjects ofarima*.
ted discussion in all tho saloons and other
public places in San Francisco, Ttfo of
the jurors in that case happened to be ip
one of those saloons, sitting quietly and
unobserved in a corner, where the verdict
was being discussed and the case common-*
ted on with much animation. After some
time, one of these jurors arose and said:
‘Gentlemen, piy friend hero and myself
were two of the jurors in that case, and I
will tell you how it was decided. During
the progress of the trial not one juror had
spoken to his fellow-jurors of tho case. No
one had opened his lips another in re*
g.-ird to the evidence of any arguments; it
seemed to be a sealed subject to us all, aud
when we retirod to make up a verdict, nq
o&e juror knew anything of tho pjpnicn of
his fellow jurors. On entering ihp jurys
room, the first thing done was to cut a
piece of paper into twelve pieces, and to
place a number on each from lup to 12.
These were put in a hat and drawn, and the
slip drawn was the number of the juror.
On these slips each juror wrote hie finding
in the case, and when his number was call
ed put into the hat. When I wrote my
finding, ‘Alurdcr in the first degree,' I
hardly thought there would be another such
finding on any of the slips but when tho
slips were all deposited and taken out and
read, to my great astonishment it was
found that juror, on the fiist and ouly
ballot, had voted just as I had, ‘Murder in
the first degree.' We obtained the inci
dent last niglU from authority wc consid*
cred reliable. —San Jose Patiiot.
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Another Suicide. —A man named James
McGarr committed suicide in East Macon
on Saturday night last, by taking a drachm
ot morphine. He was about 44 } ears of age,
and came over fiom Columbus one day last
week. He was recently connected with tbe
police force of that city. He was found in
a dyiug condition, and beyond the reach of
medical aid. He had aliout him a vial of
laudanum, which indicated that he was de«
termined upon destroying his own life, No
reason is assigned soi 1 his rash act. —Mes*
seger.
Cunning Sayings. —Our little four-year
old remarked to her mamma on goin to bed
‘I ans not afraid of the dark.' . .
‘No, of course you arp not/ replied her
mamma, ‘for it can't hurt you.'
'But mamma, I was a little afraid once,
when I went into tbe pantry to get a
cookie.'
‘What were you afaid of asked her
mamma. . ,\ L
‘I was afraid I could’t find the cookie*/
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The late President Lincoln was somes
what astonished one day while he was in**
specting the prison at Washington. A
prisoner said to him firmly, ‘How aro yoo
Mr. President ? lam glad to see yoo. J
believe you and 1 have been in every jail
in the tJnion/ Mr. Liocoln replied that the
jails at Springfield and Washington wero
the only ones be was ever in. 'Very like*
ly,‘ responded the rogue, ‘but I've been in
all the rest.'
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