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VOL. VI.
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State News.
Th<* Atlanta Agricultural and Industrial Associa
:< ii announces that they will hold a Fair, next
Uct<i!>er.
The Atlanta Georgian irresponsible for the fol
lowing :
Statistic —Of the sixtjMilno young ladies who
f a j n t*l away in Atlanta, during the •mnm»r. fifty
urcn fell in the arms of gentlemen, eleven fell on
tbe floor. and one in the water bucket. Nothing
irriiMia in any of the cases.
The Macon Citizen man swears that putting
drunken men iu their little beds is played out with
Lira.
John B'aek, of thoEufaala (Ala.) News, is bum
roin- around in Georgia. The local of the Macon
Telegraph fell upon John’s neck and wept, on the
occasion of their meeting sonfe days ago.
The firemen are get ting in a humor to hul l a Con
tention lo take avfion oil the Jury Law. Wo hope
they will do so.
TheGiaud Lodge of the I. 0. G T. meets in
Micon on the 4th day of October next.
Some sl4. 000 worth of premiums will be dis
tributed at the Agusta Fuir, which takes nlacS *"
John Templeton continues to delight # theoborig
luees of the seaport of Georgia.
Savannah papeisare indignant at leport tliat
tel low fever is la that city, and deny it most em
phatically.
JiuSnooTiNO Affray. —The unfortunate slioot
affray has not yet resulted fatally, though Mr
Milan is still by no means out of dinger. *'c-
Mahon is In jail, and presume Tvill remain there
«. il the result of the condition o f the wounded
tbuiis koow, —Atluuta Era. *
.Gurlos O. Johnson, ot Spaulding county, is after
the Atlanta Sun with a sharp stick. He claims
f?(>,‘iOQ fiom its for defamation of liis
character.
Augusta had a dog fight yesterday. Six huns
lied dollars a side were the stakes, with four hun
dred forfeit.
Paltouians swig twenty five kegs of lager beer
i week.
An Atlanta chap managed to “worry down” 19
apple dumplings not long since. He and the
dumplings were laid in the same grave, next day.
iwo negro wenches got to quarellng at |a ‘ big
•ueetin" in Henry County, last Sunday two weeks.
1 heir swee*heart6 “took it up,” after which one
*ent to jail, and the otbei to the liono-yard.
A ti'iffin man had bis Sunday coat and shoes
stolen from him last week.
W* learn fri>m the Savannah Advertiser that.
Miron nmurns the loss of fire dogs, all poisoned
Seed intends steeling clear of Macon, or he, too,
fc Ait go the ‘ way of all flesh,” that happened to
•*dog, iu those parts.
A band of Macon “cornet tooters” have been
pvseiitcd with a set of news Iver instruments by
Hen. \Y. A. Huff, one of the best men iu the
£ute.
Six hundred hands are at work op tli.e North and
H uth Railroad. • • .
The Sandcmville Georgian repels the charge of,
He leWcmph that the mob who phased the j
•*’ ' ' V:rr. oxford, from I’a iiwin Jail, come from
M *'%ton county, We thought at the time that
' T.con comtennpora'V was assuming unjustly
the good people of ’Washington, iu view ot j
•he riict that the parlies who comp sed the mob,
* r; e not recognized b, anybody’ who saw them, j
”erences will not do iu seiious a matter. —Bav.
-epublican.
5408 071 of Confederate bonds brought sl6 60,
*• an Auction sale in Savannah on the 2d instant.
tiOO.OO State of Georgia bonds issued during the
Ur brought $126. $G 300 of Georgia bonds,
-upon of like issue, so and for $lO.
Tl.c Ciceronian Deluding Club celeluate their
Tth anniversary iut'ihomasville to-night. A. T i
•• Intyre, Jr. has been appointed orator for the oc- ,
.
T “devil” of the Thomasville Enterprise bad i
* ftvvimeutal meeting with a polecat last week.
The Enterprise tells of a rattlesnake. 7 feet long,
'bh 15 rattles, l>eing killed neai Thoraasville, ou
J Utnlt. *
B'onswict is doing a big lumber business. It is ’
■ of the best lumbar.-ports iu the South, And j
‘ '° J id confine itself that trade.
Griffin Shir- Speaking of the lease of the
n & Western Railroad says :
'■■‘eon feels very much distressed about her ni- j
in the premises, and it is said that the J
’ii ami Brunswick Hoad wiil be almost ruined
operation. We feel on I van incidental in-,
in the effect at Macon and below there ; but, j
f*r as Griffin is concerned, we ftai the move-I
s ‘‘ sl bodes no gi»_d to us. Hopes have been in-
,Je, l that the Central would take hold of ad ,
on. North Alabama Hoad, bur indications j
* <re that they have a perfect understanding,
, k the lessees of Hoad and will there- j
’ 51 vuci.uiage i.o enterprise in competition with
lease. If this be so, the people on the line of j
J ’•* * road must look to their own resources and ■
fc,r s* e * tv complete-this road* *
®fos Sutdten fm
Written for the Southern Sun.
Acrostics.
I. *
Unrest and tendere-t floweret,
Os all my 6oiisehold*plants ;
8 > ahrinking is thy spirit,
A heavenly gu de it wants.
Blest Saviour, hear a mother’s prayer—
Ex ilt my lowly faith !
Let iiorude wind, or cure,
Liuht on my Rosa’s path
E'er while she sojourns here.
Gentle, and pure, and good,
Unknown, although, to fame.
Exalted is her womanh- od ;
Richer her virtuous name,
Resplendent ru<<r<-—it is by far,
Yes, even than-Heaven’s most beauteous star.
Loved for herself alone,
A gem of spotless purity,
fought left of earth—all gone.
Ere long to Heaven’s sweet minstrelsy,
You’ll wake your harp and song.
lb.
Return rfly muse, inspire my soul,
Help tue my broken Harp to snatch,
Off of the Willow. Now control
Despondency, and let me catch
Excelsior strains in which to piovo,
Love's tribute to a daughter dear ;
Let gentlest? zephyrs /an Iter o’er
And chase away e.ch cloud and care.
Pride hot thyself in that fair form
Os beauty Heaven's bestowed on thee '
Re uge alone from every storm,
Thou’lt find on mournful Calvary
Embrace thy Saviour’s dying love,
Nor slight the gift so freel, given,
8o when on earth you’re done, above
In holy triumph, up in Heaven,
A loud hosanna you will raise.
Live for this end, my daughter dear,
Attend your mother’s dying ohaige,
Noi shun your duty—nobly bear
vE ich cross, each trial, sent you here ;
You'll prove a’gem in your diadem.
111.
My little violet is the next^
A mother’s praise to share,
Ro-a and Della were the text,
Yet Bertie is as dear
Refraining from all fulsome praise*
Or heartless flattery,
But >ol man’s exalted lays,
Ever apply' te thee
Richer, than earth’s most costly gem,
The virtuous Woman is ; _
An heir to Heaven's bright diadem. M
Lot Hope —bright seraph! —cheer thee up
Amid life's cho<iiiar«d way ;
No bitter draught e'er fill thy enpj
TuUil WairgTn endless .day.
Motheb.
Death of Hon. John Slidell
A brief dispatch from London announces the
death of this distinguished American. The tele
gram does not state w.here he died, nor give any
particulars Os the 'sad .event. “John Sliddl is
dead” is all that the trans-Atlantic news-gatherer
has to say of the demise of a man who not long
since played a very prominent part in the politics
of the country of hisbirth v
John Slidell was horn in the city Os New York,
iiv 17W3. In early life he engaged in mercantile pur
suits in New York, but not being very successful
he abandoned commercial life, and, removing to'
New Orleans, Lousiana, embraced the profession of
law. He soon rose to eminence in his profession,
ard was appointed by President Jackson United
States Attorney for the District of Louisiana.
Soon after establishing himself at New Orleans
he entered political life and was elected to the
State Legislature, in which he served several
terms. - In 1813 he was elected to Congress, in
which capacity he served nmil 1846.
In tliat year President Polk appointed him En
voy Extraordinary to negotiate for the settlement
of ihe threatening questions between Mexico an
the Unite! States. This mission proved fruitless,
And the memorable war followed.
In 1833 he was ihosen United Senator to fill the
unexpired term of Pisrre Soule, appointed Minis
ter to Spain.
He was afterward" elected for six yeais, but up
on the passage of the ordinance of secession by
the State of Louisiana in 1861 he withdrew from
the Senate and entered the diplomatic serv.ee of
the Confederacy.
In the fall of 1861 he was appointed Commis
sioner to France, and, together with Mr. Mason,
«f Virginia-appointed in the same capacity so
England—sailed fiom Charleston.mn the Blockade,
anil, reaching Havana, embarked from that point
in the English mail steamer Trent for Europe.
This steamer was overhauled November Bih by
Capt. Wilkes, of £’ e United Stales steamer Ja„
cinto, the Commissioners, Slidell and Mason, cap
tured, and in defiance of international lawmaker*
to Fort Warren, Boston harbor, and confined as
prisoners of war.
The history of the release of the Commissioners
and their re-embarkment for Europe is too fresh
iu the memory of oar reader* to warrant repeti
tion. Since, the Hon Mr. -Slidell has resided
nn st ot the time in Europe.
The announcement of his death will carry a
feeling iff sadness to many a beait among the old
residents of the Guff States.— Cincinnati inquirer.
This town (Orawfordville Georgia)
doubtless existed during the revolutionary
and yet what a couiiterpant it presents to a
thriving city like Denver, io . Colorado, dr
Omaha, in Nebraska, which had scarcely
a pi ace on the map at the begiuing of the
rebellion ! F'Miicy’s Press.
And there arc, says the Richmond Dis
patch, a gooff many towns in Pennsylvania
between which and the towns above named,
a similar contrast might be drawn. Foi
instance, look at Uuiontowu, Pennsylvania,
a town now of only a few thousand inhabi
tants, though it was a large village long
before the fiist house was built iu Chicago !
How does your logic appear in this light,
Mr. Forney ?
-A.n independent Journal — ©voted, t'o tin©* Interests of. Georgia.
BaINBRIDGE, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, IS7B
About Beefsteak.
HOW IT WAS DISCOVERED —A PRIEST BORNS HIS
FINGER AND IMMORTALIZES HIMSELF.
i
Beefsteak wag discovered in. ancien
times, by a Roman priest, whose name we"
forgot, though it can be found in a book
the title of which we dc not rememb°r. He
had beet a piece*of beef,” to be of*
fared to tbe god in whose temple he had
officiated, and seizing >t by the thumb and
forefinger, for Uie purpose of conveying it
to the altar lie found it so hot that he was
compelled to drop it; and instinctively
placed his thumb and finger in his mouth.
They happened to be covered with the juice
of the steak, which he tasted, and lost all
sense of pain, in the exquisite enjoyment
thus conveyed to tWo palate.
Beii>g a man of genius, he placed another
slice upon the coals, which being conked,
he innocently devoured, loofifiig sight' of
his official duties, which required that it
should be placed before the g () d. For a
bug time he pursued this course until his
sleek appearance attracted attention, and
he was watched, and ihe secret discovered,
lie would have been pmt to death but for
the judge on hi* trial eating a steak, where
upon lie was acquitted and made a Pontifex
Maxiiuus (High Priest) as a toward for the
benefit he had conferred on mankind.
Beefsteak became a rage and there were
broils going all over the empire ; for tho
Romans were a little more quick-witted
than the Chinese; who daemed it necessary
to burn down a house to roast a pig. It
wassa blessed (lay fdr mortals when the
priest burnt his fingers.
[From the Quitman Banner
From Jimpsey A. Hunter.
The following note we publish at the nr*
gout request of tfco writer, who Js.c^oiifinc ij
sentence of death, for the killed of Thomas
M. Alexander. The intention of this note
vve presume, is to notify the public tli;U he.
(Hunter) will make a speech in his own
defence, when brought before couit at
November Term, to receive his final sen*
teiice.
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.
Quitman Jail, August 1, 1871.
Friends and foes, bear witness to tliesuf
fefings of.Jimpsey A". Iluuter 1 The fleas
have spotted his shirt with blood ; and for
dvery Boot on his shirt, there dre ten times
as fnany spots and bruises on his body, and
that shirt has to be changed every third
day owing to the fleas ami perspiration,
caused-from confinement in this hot dun
geon, where it is impossible Upkeep clean.
Heretofore, before tbe wooden door of the
dungeon.was left open, I came very near
suffocating, from float, and is now, at
times, not much better.
So reader, remember and try and bo in
the Court House* at the next November
term. You will thus oblige, and bear me
eight or ten hours it permitted ; and the
lane must be a mighty long one if there .is
lift crook in it. After all. I trust in God ;
all things will be made right—as lam only
given up by Him to my enemies, as Peter,
one of the ApostLs, was given up, to be
silted as wheat, to try his faith.
JIMPSEY A. HUNTER.
Hydrophobia is a subject that is excilifig
discussion in the press. Wc find a gener
al concurrence in the opinion that it is a
disease of very iare occurrence, even
among d*>gs. Yet it is auuuallv the sub
jeot of as much alarm and uneasiness as if
it was one of tho commonest and most pre
valent ills that flesh is heir lo. —How rare
it is, every one may judge if he will ask
himself how many authentic cases he ha»
ever known within the sphere of Iris own
personal information. You will not often
find a man, even.armfhg physicians of the
longest practice who wiH say he lias s«en a
case of hydrophobia, dliose that are le—
ported in thh newspapers are often unfound
ed on accurate examination iuto them.
Nothing is more readily taken on trust
than a case of hydrophobia. If the discus
sion of the subject shall, lead to its more
careful consideration ; if physicians will
trace back the apparent symptoms of the
true caus6 ; it the effect of imagination, so
potent iu many cases, can bo discriminated
from the real effects of a dug bile—then we
think that hydrophobia, now admitted to
be very tare, wilt become still rarer, and
perhaps cease io disquiet the publie mind,
which is now annually pertubed at a seaspn
when all well informed.people know there
is ccitaiuly no greater danger than at any
other lime ia the year.— Philadelphia Age,
« There is Room at tho Top.
Vhfey say the professions are crowded,
By seekers for fame and for bread ;
That the members are pushing each ether
As close as their footsteps can tread,
vdftufc be not discouraged, my brother,
Ir’V- sn#er exertion to stop ;
Tho v thousands are pressing around yoO,
Th ire is plenty of roqm at the top.
Be true to thy love and thy country—
The dastard win? never a prize ;
But the earnest are eter the victocs,
And he who on justice relies.
Who wins the good guerdon by labor,
Will garner sweet rest on bis crop,
And find, as the hills sink below him,
That there’s room enough left at tlje top.
Oh ! let not the evil disturb you,
There’s if you hut search it out;
Make pure thine own-conscience, my brother,
w Nor mind what the rest are about
And whether your w.nk may have fallen -
In sanctum, in office, or shop,
Remember, the low grounds ars crowded,
But there always is room at the top.
Items.
The fifty-third victim of the New York
riots died last Friday.
The latest idea of the Atlanta ice
works is # a bouquet frozen iu the centre of
a block of ice.
The British Admiralty do.not intend to
construct any more large armor-plated
ships.at prebent. *
The name ot Sevens Up is claimed by a
new town in lowa. It is fauciful, pretty,
and suggestive.
A L ndon jeweller has been five years at
woik upon avvatch,. aud it will worth
sto,ooo«vhen finished. . •
John Harper, of Saratoga, the owner of
Longfellow,'is the man who plays on a
harp of a (hundred) thousand stiings.
A Minnesota man has agents out along
the Cedar and Des Moines rivers gathering
-njnseng, and expects to ship 250,000
pHtrrmn tff l"fl'tr"(rvvv »v »l*»o JUCll'*
During last year . 940.000,04)0 letters
passed through the post offices of Great
Britain, and of the whole number only 27,-
000 were alleged to be lost.
Two firms'in Natick, HJass., annually
consume the skins of two thousand horses
in providing envelopes for the balls used in
the great national game.
The Washington Capital is discussing
life moment us question : 4 shall we have a
better White House to put our President
in, or a better'President to put in our
White House? 4
The Boston Nows, the organ of the Mas
sachusetts prohibitionist, says the Repub
lican party in that State is a nondescrip
animal, in which a tutu head is joined lo at
prohibitory body.
Calais, Maine, ia a nice place for young
men to go to. The local paper there says
that two thirds of the wealth of the town
is to bo Inherited by young girls. The
rich, men there do not have sons.
Out of 31,500,000 inhabitants of Great
Biitian, only about 30,000 tire owners of
real estate. A land refo/fh party would
not be a bad thing for that government.
The polar steamer Polaris, Hall, master,
arrived in St. John’s, NV F., a few days
since. The officets and crew bad a pub
lic reception from the colonial authorities
and a banquet at the Governor’s mansion.
New York, July 28. —A sensation story
is out that a hundred and fifty tbousaud
infected buffalo robes are on the way to
this city from Buenos Ayres and Mouute
video, where small pox has been raging.
Severe stems in Pennsylvania have
completely destroyed hundreds of acres of
growing crops. In Northumberland conn
ty, ‘great chunks of ice 4 have fallen, and a
large belt of laud iu Wyoming has been
devastated.
It tot»k 10,000,000 dozen of Imported
corsets to sufficiently squeeze our American
women, last year, besides 1 500,000 made
in this country. About 200 dozen were
imported exclusively for some anomalous
creatures who call themselves men.-.
Don* Piatt, as janitor of the Galaxy
‘Club Room, 4 has fallen early in the action.
The Don didn’t hold out as long as Mark
Twain did by several months. This thing
of writing magazine fun to order is very
weatfrfg on delicate constitutions.
On the Ist of Jaly, the birthday of,
Brigham Young, bis wives and cbildien j
gave him a suiprise, party. It was his
Tcv ntieih birthday, but how many of his
wives aud children participated in the
demonstration is not stated by the Utah
papers. •
The Alabama darkies are bolding politi
cal meetings at which‘no white man is al
lowed io attend. 4 They say that they in
tend to have their own way* this year, and
that ‘the. carpet-bagger or scalawag wh°
interrupts them will go ’way with a flea’in
his ear.‘
‘Mother/ said a little girl wt#> was en
gaged in making her doll an apron„‘l be..'
liove I will be a Duchess wheu I grow up.*
'How do you ever expect to become a
Dutchess, my daughteij‘ her mother asked.
•Why, by marryiug a Dutchman, *o be
sure,* replied the girl. A.?
A well was recently dug to the depth of
six feet at Newnanvil le, Pa. While the
digger was at his dinner, a stream about
six feet in diameter burst through the bot
tom, filling the well, and soon oveiflowing
tbe adjoining land. It still continues to
Bow,.and there is now quite a lafge run
formed whsre before was dry land.
Gov. Palmer, of Illinois, is determined to
punish the lynchers of Martin Mere.a, .who
was hanged by a mob for murdering his
son. The brute certainly deserved hang*,
ing ; but the Governor is right in his ro
. solve to bring the rioters who. tgok the law
into their own bands to a strict accouulaN
bflity for their actions.
Tjie New Orleans Picayuue says tliat
under tlfe direction of a ban class of whites
the negroes of thaf city have organized an
imitation of the Ku-klux Klan, the object
in View being to control the political, in
fluence of the colored population in favor
of the faction headed by Lieut-Governoi
Dunn. .
Already one hundied indictments have
been found against members of the Ku
klux Klan io North Carolina, and there is
a cheerful prospect that t)io number will
be increased to one thousand by the time
the United .States Circuit Court sits. Ver
ily, North Carolina is invalublc to the
Radicals.
At a recent review at Bushey Park, Eng**
land, the Prince of Wales wore tight pain*
taloons and brilliantly shining high top
boots, a circumstance that has set the mil*
itmj viUlva In EagJflmJ cjuito **&**&} ii
was an innovation upon all received no
tions in .the British .army as regards the
crtrrect costume for the lower extremities.
The idea is a sensible one apd will lake.
The Paincsvilh Telegraph says there i'b
a young and intelligent lady of eighteen
years in Lake county who will harness
her span of horses in the morning., hitch
them before the mower, let down the fence
in the meadow, and-cut her six acres of
grass before noon. She will then feed and
take care of her 46am and duplicate her
morning's woik in tbe. afternoon.
Koopmamicbap, the famous importer of
the heathen Chinee, has been U> Tuscaloo**
sa, Ala,, to look after the interest of about
350 Chinamen who were taken thcro lo
work on a railroad aud have received no
pay. He found them living on blackber**
ries and crawfish, and probably deemed
the diet healthy for the Mongolian consti*
lotion, as he left them to continue the
same iegimen.
In Lancaster, Ohio, the people engaged
in the last celebration of our nation’s in
dependence were fortunate in the engage
ment of a colored chapiaiu who graduated
from-Oberlin Ctrllege, and was progressive
iu bis ideas, as may be. judged from the
concluding prayer which he vented on the
occasion of a mixed assemblage of patri
otic celebrants: I pray the Lord I may
live to see tbe day when the colored man
may forget his prejudice eo far ffs to be
willing to receive all other races as hi*
equals.*
A Snake Story. —The Augusta Chroni
cle and Sentinel is responsible for the fol
lowing Snake stoiy :
A gentleman residing in Green county
gives us the following remarkable snake
story. He says that he had repaired to
tbe banks of a small stream for the pur.
pose of securing a email fxv for breakfast.
His attention was soon attracted by a wa
ter snake lying a few feet below him, in
the edge of the water, with his head rest
ing on the bank. He had hooked a young,
alligator once by patting a small fish on
his hook aud playing it on the top of
the water, and he might hook the
snake in the same way. Cutting a small
piece fiom a fish and bating jris book, with
It, he began to play it slowly aronnd the
snake’s bead. He gave evident signs of
interest in the bait ronnd him,
but made no move. Soon, by accident, the
piece of fish touched the back of his bead.
His snakesbip took this as an insult and
showed his resentment by • snapping at it
furiously, and after three or four efforts
caught in his mouth. Tbe gentleman
tightened, the line, and his astonished
snabeshipdiscovered that be wa3 sold.
After performing diverse evolutions,
with tbe hope of either running or fighting
bis way out ot tho scrape, b.e acknowU
edged that, although his great ancestor had
been too much for tho woman, the son of
the woman had‘now become too much for
him, and gracefully submitted to be .lifted
on the buuk and have his head bruised.
The queer antics of the first had uow at\
traded a second to the spot, and rebaiting
his .hook with a piece of fish, the angler let
it down gently till it touched his head as
he fay tipon the Jhia bead a
little elevated. Soon as the lioolf' touched
him he seized it, and quickly found iiimself
by the side of bis companiou. In less than
half an hour he had caught four—all that
he could find. or.e of them got loose af
ter being drawn to land anl got back into
the water, but he readily bit at the hook
the second time, and was caught again.
On ‘a good day for snakes' tbe geullematt
thinks he would catch them faster than
some men could unhook them.
The True Idea. —The Now York Ex**,
press, a Democratic paper of great ability t
in a well-timed article discussing the lie*
ing issues of the day very appropriately
says :
4 Thp real 'new departure’ is to be from
despotism and faction to the .recognized
lights of men aud of the States.—There
will, under Democratic rule, again be less
taxtvDou and more accountability ; less
military government and more civil authori*
ty, less usurpation by the Executive over
the Federal Judiciary and Congresft, and a
clearer record cf and respect for the rights
of bach department of Government, as
laid down in the written law for tbs contrql
of each of these departments. If we never
again see the blessings of a free govern
ment, as it existed from George Washing
ten to the commencement of the civil war*
w ft may at least hope to save wflat is left
us-in the Constitution of our fathers, des*
pile, the innovations which now distinguish
and disfigure tbe admiuistation of law.
A Much Married Man. —Hero is an ao«
count from an exchange of a much married
man who had a very lively run of luck :
.‘We have frequently beard of men who
had ill-luck in marriage ; but Thomas
Francis, of Albany, has been particularly
unfortunate iu that relation.—His first wife
killed herself 54 years ago ; nine' years
after this his second spouse ran away from
him, and died of destitution in Illinois ; six
years later, his third consort drowned. Iu
1858 his fourth helpmate was killed, and hff
having been convicted of the-murder was
sent*to prison for life but pardoned out.—
In another decade tbe filth partner of his
bosom mysteriously disappeared , and very
recently the sixtli idol of his soul aougbt
peace and oblivion by hanging herself to
the bed post.
One of the characteristics of hotel
is illustrated in an.incident which occur*
red in Saratoga. General Sherman arriv*
ed at midnight at a prominent hotel, dress',
ed in an old soiled duster buttoned close to
his throat, over which his straggling red
beard radiating in a thousand separate and
distinct directions, and without giving bis
name inquired if he could have a room*
The slerk in the blandest manner informed
him that be had just one left, a rear room
in the fourth stcry. When the clerk had
read the name of the distinguished guest he
no difficulty in Gliding a splendid rood) van
cant room on the ground floor »« Oo**t.
A Wisconsin postmaster has* written to
Washington fur ‘some eternal revenu
stomps/ saying he bad 'several cols for
them.*
» ■ » ' ■■ I ■ ■ '■ ■' + SUM—MU •
When has a man the right to scold hfs
wife about the coffee ? When ho has •uf*
ficient ‘grounds.’ .
'Salt” is thelubject of a school boy*g*
latest composition : ‘The salt is * spice
which spoils the potatoes, if yon forget to -
pnt it on,‘
OFFICIAL
STATE OF GEORGIA.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, (
Atlanta, July S, 1871. f
ORDERED :
By big Excellency, tbe Governor, that his Pwt
clamation of June Btb, 1871, oflferitg a reward a t
One Thousand Dolbu| for tb® apprehension a off
delivery of Mathew lanla, with evidenee to poo*
vict, to tbe Sheriff of Jackson county, be, and tM
game is hereby revoked, and that tbe Secretaif,
State give public notice thereof.
Given under my hand and seal of oAea.
david a. cormre, .
Secretary of btat#
July 13 7*4w
NO. ID