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CONFERENCE.
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yjIIST DAY'S PROCEEDINGS.
rORKNOOX aRRSIOX.
Hr. Seventh Annual Hesaion of the Bainbridge
('..r.ffrenre met at 10 a. m. to-day, April
■ {t»hop Pierce, presiding.
Byn ro'itioa of Pro. Lester, Rev. J. F. Mixon
B Secretary, and J. W. Pierce Assistant
H;.- vi opened with reading scriptures, sing-
B tivl prayer by Pishop Pierce.
of delegates from the several pastoral
being called, the following responded :
Bl*robn.lge —Rev. Walter Knox, Pastor, J. P.
Bkn»n. 11. J. Crawford alternate for J. C.
Rev. R. B. Lester, P. E., Joseph
Rev. Win. Peck, Pastor, Win.
Km.try Stringer, E. Merritt and I). I>. Hall.
Rev. Wm. lane, Pastor, Dr. Wyatt
Haue. Miller, Rev. John M. Potter.
llev. J. F. Ainsworth, Pastor, J. W.
Buro Rot. P. C. Harris, I’astor, Geo. W.
Tboi. Odum, Thos. Ballard, Thos. Brown,
0. lUwLs.
Rev. R. A. Ilowren, Pastor, Hun
■ MrKinnoD. and John McKinnon.
ltev. J. It. Maulden, Pastor, S. Pen-
Kev. J. F. Mixon, Pastor, Rev. Win
■ffii, C. J. Munnerlyn, Rev. S. S. Dixon,
■fcnity--lWv. (J. ('. Thompson. S. 11. Dickin-
W'. Funderbuck, J. C. Patterson.
Mission —Rev. Willis M. Russell.
motion. Conference adopted for the hours
9a. m. and 2 p.m. Adjournment 11
>5 the afternoon to be governed by cirouni
■
h ur of 11 having arrived, the meeting ad
t>> hear the interesting introductory ser
hy Uev. Walter Knox.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
inference met at 11 p. m., opening exercises
by Rev. IVni. Peck.
■‘"me brief remarks were made by Bishop Pierce,
as to the object of District Confcren-
W niatle of the list of appointments, and
■ representatives present answered to their names.
■The reports of the different pastors and dele-
Be« were made, and when the entire list was gone
■eugh with. Conference adjourned with theben
■rtiou by the Bishop. In the evening at 8 o'clock,
interesting sermon was preached by the
who without doubt is one of the ablest
iq the l. nited States.
[ SECOND DAY—FRIDAY, STH.
forenoon session.
met at the appointed hour, Bishop
■rrc. in the chair. The opening exercises were
hy llev. Samuel Anthony. Minutes
and adopted.
pastor at Fort Gaines, and
BJ- (orley. at Alliany, were reported present*
V Ulf following delegates from Decatur: Thos.
■Jrter.Joa Averitt. Uev. I. A. Towers, and Wm.
•’a alternate for Thos. M. Allen.
■ Colquitt—l>r. B. J. Heard.
* lT °—l’etor \ anlandigham, alternate for Wm.
■ ’owTerville—lsaac Jordan.
■pomuville-R, H. Ilardiway.
1 c *he ahsence of Rev. C. R. Jewett, who was
at home on account of ill health, Thom
\ * v represented in the call of charges by
B " Dardiway and Jos. Smith.
B ‘ Dieree made a few remarks, calling the
B” u >n l he Conference to the fact that there
!vm sports of some having charges, to
B PTi>und for mission any operations
B 'hcbeiuids of the District, and invoking
attention and assistance of the Conference in
and getting in immediate operation meas-
B ‘. ' r applying such destitute places with the
‘Rg of the gospel.
|\\ r " tor nox introduced the following :
Btm'*nT Vv from various parts of the
'‘Strict, show that there is much land
possessed in neighborhoods where the ever
Bit t^lt °f tlod is n °f preached ;
FP ’ 48 a Strict Conference we
• ri’Cvinuiend the ministers contigous to
Btk , t ' cc^P l eJ sections, as much as in them lies,
Br*ch »r t ~t he brethren, to seek to
■ brethren present, Revs. Sam i Antho
| ' Duncan, G. C. Flark, J. B. McGhee, L.
t " hOUr ° f U ° ck>ok havin 8 arrived, Confer-
BT Tp . J ' UrtK>l to hcar a sermon by that venera
,n *™oe of the Lord Rev. Dr.
■ 1 i«ee.
Hi gwietii 'MiM
YOL- YL
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Opening exercises conducted by Ret. S. S.-
Sweet. The question sprung by the resolution of
Rev. Walter Knox in the forenoon session, was
brought up and discussed at some length by Judge
Allen, Rev. W. M. Ilays and G. C. Clark. All
concurring in the opinion that the destitution con
templated is not so great as is supposed, and that
such is the geography of the country where this
destitution is supposed to exist, and such the
scarcity and scattered condition of the population,
it would be inadvisable if not entirely impracticable,
to establish any regular separate charge in these
places ; but that preachers upon contigous works
might and ought—when they can without neglect
of their regular work—to preach and establish
churches in these places. After some discussion
by Brothers Ilowren and Ainsworth, the resolu
tion was put to vote and passed.
The resolution introduced by Rev. Walter Knox
and passed, Resolved, That this District Confer
ence Vecoramend the brethren and friends of Fish
Pond church, Camilla Circuit, do unite and build
a house of worship on near McElveen
ville.
Upon a question arising as to the propriety of
multiplying church organizations, Dr. Pierce made
and few pertinent and forcible remarks in the nega
tive.
Upon motion of Bro. Knox,the election of Dele
gates to the Annual Conference was made first in
order of business for to-morrow morning.
Conference then adjourned with benediction.
THIRD DAY-SATURDAY, 6TH.
Conference met pursuant to adjournment.
R. B. Lester, P. E., in the chair. Opening ser
vices conducted by Rev. Wm. Martin, of South
Carolina Conference. Minutes of yesterday's ses
sion read and adopted.
The business in order being the election of dele
gates to Annual Conference, upon motion the fol
lowing committee was appointed to make nomina
tion :
Dr. B. J. Heard, Joseph Smith and S. Dickin
son.
Bishop Pierce took the chair.
The following resolution introduced by C. J.
Munnerlyn, was unanimously passed :
Whereas, In the estimation of this Confer
ence the publication of the introductory sermon
delivered to this body by Rev. Walter Knox,
would be conducive to the interests of the church,
therefore be it,
Resolved, That Bro. Knox be requested to fur
nish a copy of it to the Southern Christian Advo
cate for publication.
Election for delegates to Annual Conference
was held with the following result:
Delegates elect, Rev. M. C. Smith, C. J. Mun
nerlyn, R. Jones, AY. H. Graham,
Alternates, Rev. Jordan McCullers, Geo. Wight,
Judge Allen and J. S. Moorman.
Rev. Mr. Martin, of the South Carolina Con
ference, was introduced and made a few remarks.
R. M. Tydings, of the Florida Conference, was in
troduced, Rev. J. B. McGhee, President Andrew
Female College, was introduced and addressed the
Conference in regard to the interests of that insti
tution.
Conference adjourned to hear a sermon from
Rev. S. Anthony, Agent Orphan’*,.Home, South
Georgia Conference.
FOURTH DAY—SUNDAY, 7TH.
There was no business transacted to-day. At
9 o’clock Love Feast was held, and at 11 o’clock,
Rev. Dr. Lovick Pierce entered the pulpit and
preached one of the best sermons to which we ever
had the good fortune to listen. Dr. Pierce is the
oldest man we ever saw in the pulpit, being eighty
odd, and for upwards of sixty years has he been a
faithful soldier in the array of the Lord.
In the evening, Bishop Geo. F. Pierce occupied
the pulpit. The house was literally crowded from
pulpit to door, and even in the gallery there was
not a spare seat, in fact never have we seen such
a crowd assembled at divine services in the city of
Bainbridge. Such a sermon as was preached on
this occasion, is listened to not often, and the plain
and forcible manner in which the great Bishop
dealt his strokes against sin had a telling effect,
and in the closing services when the Rev. S. An
thony exhorted mourners to the alter, crowds
flocked there and considerable interest and feeling
was manifested.
The regular quarterly meeting commences to
day, Rev. R. B. Lester, P. E., presiding. The ser
vices in the church will be protracted, and as many
of the visiting preachers are to remain, quite an
interesting revival may be successfully hoped for.
Our Extra.
AVe present to our patrons this afternoon an
Extra edition of the Sun. In it will be found
very much interesting matter, both reading and
advertisements, besides a full account of the Bain
bridge District Conference. Some of the adver
tisements in this evening’s edition were crowded
out of our regular issue Saturday, but that
shall be no loss to our patrons as this sheet goes to
all our regular subscribers and exchanges.
Ministers who desire a copy of this Extra, will
be cheerfully supplied with the same on applica
; tion at this office. AYe will be glad to see any of
the visiting preachers who may see fit to honor us
with a call.
As Insane Clergyman.— There is a clergy
man in Quincy, 111., Rev Sidney Corbett by
name, whose salary has been reduced one
hundred dollars at his own request This
looks to us like a clear cast of justifiable
insanity.
A Western w oman, aged 26. has been
sued for seducing a boy of 16 The parents
of the unhappy youth brought the suit and
claimed SI,OOO damages, but as the lady
offered to repair the wrong by marrying
the seduced one, they were nonsuited.
The Lcen’s Troupe.
This Pantomime and Comedy Company gave
a performance in our city, on Friday night of this
week. Without assumig the role of a critique, we
will say a few words relative to the merits andde
merits of the troupe.
The first piece, “Addles Troubles,” was very well
rendered indeed. The quick and various changes
made by the piquant Mrs. Hubbard kept the entire
audience ever on the <pii vive as to what was next,
while the good rendition of the cross old man’s
part by Mr. Meagher, served to keep the auditory
in a continuous roar of laughter. Mr. S. H. Hubbard,
who took the - part of the highly sentimentalized
Cuffee—wringing in a first-rafe banjo solo, by the
way—is an actor of considerable merit, and why
he should be playing low comedy to forty dollar
houses is something beyond our divination. We
have seen Sam in years gone by tread the boards
of a legitimate theatre, when, as the sentimental
Romeo, the accomplished Sir Thomas Clifford, the
dashing Claude Melnotte or blood-thirsty Richard,
and many other leading characters of the standard
drama and tragedy, he always won his way to the
name of favorite, which makes it the more strange
that he should now class himself with such a troupe
as the one with which he now travels. Os course
he did his parts well, as he never fails to sustain
his cast, but Sam old boy, we would rather see you
where you would have a better field for operations.
The songs, dances, comicalities, &c., introduced
in the olio were very good, some of them excellent.
The pantomime of Humpty Dumpty—if our
opinion amounts to much—was the most misera
ble thing we ever saw put on the stage. The way
in which the Leons perform it, we can’t see for the
life of us, anything in the entire piece to laugh at,
not a single trick is introduced, nothing funny said
or done, and if it was not for the splendid band of
Italian musicians in the ochestra, one could go to
sleep over it.
REMEMBER THY MOTHER.
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Lead thy mother tenderly.
Down life’s steep decline;
Once her arm was thy support,
Now she leans on thine.
See upon her loving face.
Those deep lines of care;
Think—it was her toil for thee
Left that record there.
Ne’er forget her tireless watch
Kept by day and night,
Taking from her step the grace,
From her eye the light.
Cherish well her faithful heart,
AYhich through weary years,
Echoed with its sympathy
All thy smiles and tears.
Thank God for thy mother’s love,
Guard the priceless boon :
For the bitter parting hour
Cometh all to soon.
A\ T hen thy grateful tenderness
Looses power to save,
Earth will hold no dearear spot.
Than thy mother’s grave ?
Wioy7
BY MARY HARTWELL.
I can see that day.. AYhite cumuli were heaped
over the wood tops, but the middle sky was blue
and clear. Though I was dozing on a saloon step,
this day of beauty got even through my wavering
sight. Perhaps I sat there an hour, perhaps an
age, in which the blinks I got were the recurring
days.
It suddenly occurred to me that such a long
continuance of fine weather ought to be enjoyed
more actively. I mumbled a number of jokes on
nature as I staggered abroad. After a tiresome
journey I came upon an alley and a group of boys
traveling through a game of marbles on their knees,
like penitents stumping to Jerusalem. And in
their midst was Billy. Billy was a noble looking
boy. I paused and tried to get in position to look
at him. I felt a maudlin pride in Billy. He had
Nora’s blue eyes. (Blessed Nora! She was gone
where she couldn’t be cursed any more ; poor little
broken-hearted thing.)
As Billy photographed himself in my eyes, his
bright hair blowing, his lusty fingers gouging a pit
for the centre marble, the contrast between what
he and I were born to be, and what we were,
struck me like a bullet.
I had tried to reform. Oh, yes. And every
failure was a link in my chain. I was utterly
given over to the snakes and the furies.
Now here was Bill, walking in my vagrant steps ;
a vicious Arab under a beautiful Caucasian guise.
“ Say, Bill,” begged one of the tribe, casting a
covetous eye on his industrious jaws, “ let me chaw
your wax awhile.”
Bill, with graceful generosity and contempt of
gain, tossed it over, saying :
“ There ; you can take it and keep it; I don’t
want it no more.”
AYhile I stood in drunken dolor against the
fence, the group whirled up suddenly into a maeL
strom. The centre toward which they were all
sucked, was a steadfast rock with churning fists
and a yellow top.
“Bill!’' I shouted in fury, “come here, you
young scoundrel!”
Hearing my voice over the broil, he dashed
through the boys and came, crying, bloody and
ruffled.
“ AYhat are you fighting about ?” I asked, stand
ing in tremulous judgment over him.
•* I can’t tell you, father,” he answered bravely.
AYhat! Even the boy despised and dared me!
I lihed my hand, and felt that I could kill him.
“ Take that, then—and that, you little wretch,
I'll show you how to be a bully, and turn against
your own father.”
My muscular hand brought a frightful blood
gush out of his bruised face. I thoughthe should
feel that his father was a solid man in 000 ree-
foe the Right— justice to ale
BAINBRIDGB GA-, APRIL 13th 1812
I pect, if the rest of my body was a maas of moist
! wretchedness.
The boy, the boy. I groan when I remember
it.
" Oh, don't, father,” he begged, wringing his
little dirty hands, “ Qh, father, please don’t strike
me, and I’ll tell you all about it. The ;boys said
you was a drunken old bloat. And fig fight any
body that calls you that, father; I wifi if you kill
me for it."
I sat prone dowtSn the ground. That was the*
hardest blow I ever had.
“ Get up, father,” said Billy, casting a bloody
and warlike glance behind him, “ and I’ll help you
along.”
I took hold of him, but a weakness not bom
of rum, kept me at his cracked, stubby, little
feet. There was no one in the world who cared
whether I rose or went on down but him. He
cared. I put my arms around the boy and cried
against him. No more drunkeh glazing repent
ance for me. Every tear was hard as a pearl with
resolution. The good Christ appeared that in
stant in his love and long suffering, through the
boy, as plainly as he appeared to dying Sir LaUn
fal through the leper. When on earth, He was
always going about picking up the abominable, and
since He has left the earth, He sends for them by
messengers they cannot help knowing.
Men should respect in me that spark which the
boy respected. I would show him what a grand
and overmastering thing is that soul which the
God of glory values.
“ Don’t cry, father,” requested Billy, while he
ceased not to paint bloody sunrise on his face.—
Better than a sunrise' was that little face to me.—
His eyes looked bluer and more heaven-like than
the sky.
“ Do you love your father ?” I asked, holding to
him like a woman.
“ Yes sir, I’ll lick anybody that calls you names,”
the bright, tender firmaments in his face gushing
with another shower.
A horizontal hail of mud and pebbles hit us
while he was speaking. Billy .Teared up like a
charger snuffing the battle afar off. But I made
him retreat from the enemy’s lines.
AYhen the boy and I were laid at night in a low
tavern which was our only home, I asked with my
face turned from him : “ Billy, will you help your
father to try once more ?” Upon which he bound
ed up and pumped my arm with all the vigor and
familiarity that the street had put in him.
“ Yes-sir-ee! I will that, you bet,” vowed Billy.
Avery few minntes after he subsided, I heard
his soft breath going in and out the doors of his
lips in regular cadences. AYhile he slept and start
ed up to fight his skirmishes over, I flogged my
weak brain to work, and planned and planned and
planned.
AYhen I look back at that wretch in soiled tav
ern sheets, glaring into darkness with watery eyes,
my legs tremble under me, though they have gone
stoutly these many years. It was such a very
straight path up from that place, and I came so
near falling, time after time.
The next day I got work on the railroad. From
the gutter I could not go directly back to the bar,
since drunkenness is one of the vices which is not
tolerated in lawyers. It was hard to shovel dirt
in the hot sun. I sat down half fainting. A
good-natured Patrick came slyly with a bottle,
and bade me “ whisht at it,” which I put forth
the will to do—like a wild beast—when Billy
swooped down from a passing freight and squared
himself before that Irishman, while the very tat
ters at his elbow bristled with wrath.
« Look here, now !” threatened he, sending the
bottle far over a track, “if you get my father to
drinkin’ again, I’ll kick you.”
It would have been so very hard for the boy to
fulfil the threat with his baby legs, on Patrick’s
high breeches, that my Irishman took jolly com
passion on him, and roared a vow neyermore to
put his slimy temptation to my face.
After I had delved awhile, Billy had anew suit,
a set of books and school privileges. Then a situ
ation as copyist was opened to me. The boy and
I fell into the habit of striking hands and going
to church on a Sunday. Oh, I tell you, it makes
a man’s heart swell like a green bulb to have an
honest hand coming seeking his.
Finally I got into practice. Sometimes the
thirst came on me and I stormed up and down in
my office, and twisted out little locks of hair, as if
the curse hung to the roots of that. Once I lock
ed the door and threw out the key and was a pris
oner till my associate came.
Passing a saloon one evil time, the clinking of
glasses and the breath of mine enemy penetrated
my senses. That saloon-door sucked me just half
way in, when I was shocked through my coat-skirts
and quite knocked into the streets.
“Here, father,” pleaded Billy, charging me with
a second jerk, “come £ut of this—come out of this,
we're a-going to make men of ourselves father.”
“Yes, men. Billy,” I subscribed. So I didn’t run
into that side track because I had such a faithful
tender.
Coming up socially, often does much for a man
morally. Cases multiplied, and I seemed to grow
with my trust. The boy and I had smart lodgings
in town. He rose in school. I was so proud of
him.
I’ve heard how women love their children with
close peculiar devotion. I think I must have lov
ed him with a mothers love. There’s no other
way of expressing how near the boy is to me.
AYhen he came from school and met me on the
streets, he was often carrying the sachel of a
smooth-haired, dark-eyed girl, to whom he would
pyr'laim as he loyally touched his cap : “That's my
father !” with such a proud accent that the blood
leaped in my veins.
Oh, my good fellow, it’s A glorious day fee yon
when your child is proud of you.
We live altogether now ; Billy, his dark-haired
Nora, the little rowdies and I, in a home with no
end of verandas and vines. The respectable han
dle of Judge is set to my name, but Billy’s chil
dren, who give the echo to his former street train
ing, stand in no more awe of it than they do of
the venerable Roman handle to my countenance.
We tumble like wild colts in the grass. But they
have no idea that * x “~ - raster ever lay in. alower
ttaxL ~ \ __l
Blessed be enduring love.
I think often I may be in my dotage, for quiet
matron Nora often looks up from her baby in
Surprise at my walking the veranda and maunder
ing in a sort of ecstacy :
* “The boy 1 The boy 1”
, ■
[From the New York Sun.]
Carpet Baggcry.
Washington, March 22. It is curious to note
the number of carpet-baggers in Congress at the
present time, the term “carpet-bagger” being meant
to designate all the Senators and Representatives
from the South who are really from the North,
inasmuch as they neVer went South until the close
of the war.
Alabama has one carpet-bag Senator and one
carpet-bag Representative. Spencer of tlie?Senate,
was bom in New York, and was a citizen of lowa
or Nebraska when he entered the army in 186 2
He went to Alabama at the close of the war.
Buckley of the House was also born in New York {
entered the Union Army from Wisconsin, and
was not mustered out until 1866, when he.immedi
ately went into Alabama and Politics.
Both the Arkansas Senators and one of her Re
presentatives are carpet-baggers. Senator Rice,
born in New York, entered the army from Minne
sota, and did not settle in Arkansas until 1864.
Senator gClay sprang from Pennsylvania, and
alighted in Arkansas from the saddle at the close
of the war; and Edwards, the carpet-bag member
of the House, who lived in lowa several years pre
ceding the war, alighted the same way.
Both the Florida Senators are carpet-baggers.
Osburn, a native of New Jersey, entered Florida
in 1865 as Assistant Commissioner of the Freed
man’s Bureau, and Gilbert was formerly a New
York merchant.
The Louisiana Senators are likewise carpet-bag
gers, though AYest elected a year ago, was bom in
New Orleans. He left his native place at an early
age, and was next heard of in Pennsylvania. He
was in San Francisco when the war broke out.
and, at its close, settled temporarily in Texas and
then in New Orleans. Kellogg, the other Sena
tor, is a Vermonter, who possibly never Saw Louis
iana until after the war, when he was appointed
Collector of New Orleans. Louisiana has four
Representatives (the fifth has died since his elec
tion,) all of whom without exception, stayed away
from that State until the close of the war. Syphelr,
a native of Pennsylvania, went to Louisiana in
1866; Sheldon, of New York, went there in 1865,
Darrall, of Pennsylvania, went there the same ;
and Morey of Massachuseets in 1866.
Mississippi has oue pretty carpet-bag Senator
with a pretty name—Adelbert Ames. He was
from Maine before he came from Mississippi,
“settled” as provisional Governor, 1868. Besides
the Senator Mississippi has three carpet-bag Re
presentatives, viz : McKee, of Illinois ; Perce; of
Michigan; and Barry, of Kentucky. All these
gentlemen became Mississippians after the war.
Sawyer, Senator from South Carolina, went
there in 1859, but retired to the North during the
rebellion, at the close of which he was appoint
ed Collector of Internal Revenue for the Second
District of South Carolina—the beginning of his
political career. Elliott, the carpet-bag Represen
tative, was bom in Boston, and is first heard of in
South Carolina as a delegate to the Constitutional
Convention of 1868.
Texas has a carpet-bag Representative in the
person of William T. Clark, who was a stranger to
the State until 1866, when he went intq business
at Galveston.
Os A T irginia’s Representatives three—Platt, Por
ter, and Stowell—are carpet-baggers, Platt is a
Vermonter, Porter a New Yorker, and Stowell a
New Englander. All went to during or
at the close of the war.
So it seems the States of Alabama, Arkansas,
Florida, Louisian, Mississippi, Sonth Carolina,
Texas, and Virginia, which are entitled in the ag
gregate to sixteen Senators and thirty-six Repre.
sentatives, have in. fact but seven Senators and
twentwo-Represntative3—the rest are all carpet
baggers from the North.
Again it appears that the States of New York,
Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesotta. Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Vermont, Massachusetts, Maine Illi
nois and Michigan, which are entitled as a whole
to twenty-two Senators and 105 Representatives,
really have thirty-one Senators and 120 Represen
tatives here in Congress. How is this ?
It may be set down as tolerably certain that
whether the average carpet-bag Congressman rep
resents the community which he deserted or the
commnity upon which he foisted himself, he does
repreent with continual devotion the interests of
himself and his “friends..
The following speech was made by the
winner of a prize in a foot race: ’’Gentle
men, I have worfthis cup by the use of my
legs: I trust I may never lose the use of my
legs by the use of this cup.”
The following advertisement was in a
New York paper recently:
"Wanted, by a boy, a situation in an
eating-house, He is used to the business.”
firiutaidge IfoeMg £im.
Advertisements
On the iriodt Reasonable Terms. All advartls*
meats are due after the first insertion, and
when not spiecified as to the number of
times to be Insetted, will bo pub
lished until ordered out, and
ho charged arc wdingly.
JOB WORK
Os every description neat
ly and promptly executed. W»
guarantee entire satisfaction in this
line of our business. Patronage solid lad
from all quarters. Send ub your ord*y»,
NC 43.
I A Model Yoiig Lady*
Not long sinee an honest, hard-working
, old fanner, not a thousand miles from Tal
botton, was driving his worn out and jaded
horse through a certain street, and he saw,
just .n front of him, a bevy of young ad.ea,
numbering three, taking a quiet Evening
stroll, and gaily chatting. They wore rigged
out in a]J their &ne*y and really appeared
beautiful §> this old
his bread by the sweat of his brovC fife
drove on slowly, and just as he passed them,
by some accident, his horse was trippod*
and he, wagon, horse and all were turned
over into tho street. Two of the young
ladies turned up their pretty little nos 64
and fled with a few hysteric little screams,
while the other, who was the finest dressed
and by far the best looking one, ran, with
a countenance picturing pity, and assisted
the old gentleman to get his horse up, help
ed to hitch him to the Wagon, gathered up
the things that had fallen out, and sent tho
farmer and mechanic on his way rejoicing.
We say from our heait, God b’ess this
young lady, and may a silent amen go up
from the heart of every one who reads this.
The old gentleman did not learn the lady’s
name, but, suffice it to say, she’s a resident
of Talbotton, &nd a treasure worth digging
after. If we were old enough to think of
serious matters, we’d follow such a woman
to the end of the world. She’ll moke a
good wife, so, marrying men, take notice
and look her out.
And, now, young ladies a word to you:-*-*
When you meet a poor, hard-working me
chanic don’t turn up your nose at him, but
treat him kindly and return his salutation*,•
although he may have the marks of labor'
on his clothing, and never, no matter what
his position may be, laugh at a man when
a misfortune overtakes him, but act tin*
part of this noble young lady and you’ll
never lose by it. —Talbotton Standard
An Awful Mystery,
One cold night about New Year's, a erf
of fire was raised in Mqunt Bethel, a littli
town about seven miles from Plainfield*
over the Springfield Mountains, in Somer
set county, N. J. A building over a hundred
years old was in flanies. It Was occupied
by a german farmer named Beust. He
rushed from the burning building, suppo
sing that his family were safe. He missed
one of his daughters, and ran back in the
house to save hes, He had eatfght her in
his arms and Was making his Way to the
door, when the floor gave way and both
were burned to death Since then the ruins
of the house have been removed.
The mansion was built in the old fashion
ed style, with huge fireplaces in two of the
rooms, the chimneys sloping towards each
other, and joining before reaching the roof*
Walled in the cavity between the two fire
places a human skeleton in perfect preser
vation was discovered. An old flint-lock
musket stood at its side, and two rusty
knives lay at its feet. The musket is of the
old Biitish pattern. It is supposed that the
remains are those of a Tory soldier who
met his death at the hands of the colonists
during the revolution. The oldest inhabit-'
ants are unable to explain this horrible
mystery. The remains of the father and
daughter were also found in the ruins.—*
Weekly Examiner .
Helm bold*
New York, March 18. —American circles
in Paris were exciting towards the end of
February by the following bit of scandal!
Avery well known citizen of New York,
famous for the fortune he has made by the
sale of patent medicines, was in Palis with
his wife. They had been there some time.
He is entirely addicted to gambling.
His trip abroad is said to have been under
taken chiefly to break him of his vice, which
is making serious inroads on his fortune.
He returned to his room in Paris
morning about two o’clock. His wife wa*
not in their lodging, but he knew where she
was to be found. So he went to the house
of a Mrs. 8., and found that lady, his wife
and two men, busilly engaged in playing
cards. The New Yorker flew into a tower
ing rage, andupbraded his wife in the
most intemperate language. Early next
morning the outraged wife obtained certifi
cates of two or three French physicians,
who had never seen her husband, vouching
that he was insane, and should be placed
in a lunatic asylum. Armed with these she
went to Mr. Washburne, and through this
intervention made the police arrest her
husband and lodge him in a mad-house.
Meanwhile Mr. Washburne grew uneasy
at the thought of the responsibility he had
assumed, and the next day sent au
American doctor to see his incarcerated
countryman. This doctor at once dis
covered that his countryman wm vane,
and be was liberated,