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32i3qn.1TH3 23MJT i wAfl « ntetprii < TOL 1--N0 Sii. TLiOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 22, '8S!t $5.00 PER ANNUM 5 1 P CD H' . CD O ■s M; o H h-> lAj ^ O O' c+ 0 H cd fy 4 F5 Cd? O <Tt- gfl ch fcr* c+ ODDITIES OF MARRIAGE. An Odd Book Made Up from Newspaper Clippings. Wnolbridge Odlin’s hook, entitled “Curiosities of Matrimony,” lias been published. The book, ns the com piler says, “is a compilation of such marriage nnouncements in the last hundred years ns call forth the most brilliant wit of the poets.” In his preface he says: “This collection of marriage nouncements has been copied from old newspapers published within the last hundred years, of which the compiler lias examined between 200 and 300 volumes, selecting such as he thought woi th repeating to the pres ent generation. The old wits were famous for punning upon names which they could utilize for such purpose, and many of these announce ments will provoke laughter in spite of one’s self. * * * * Many such marriage notice as the compiler has found have been rejected as too flat for insertion, and, on the other band, he found some were rather too sharp for our modern civilization. We give the following extracts: In this town (Concord,) February 1314, Mr. Isaac Hill, one of the editors of the 1’atriot, to Miss Susan Ayer, daughter of Copt. Richard Ayer. As I Tito best way, it seems, smother I'or the loss of a wile is wutke.l out tlie other itiy, Through Cnncoril street t took mv wjty, I sow i, sight I thought t|tiite rare— A Hill walked out to take the Ayer, Ami now since cart It and air have met to gether. I think there'll be a change of weather. In Flavervillc, Mass., August, 1829 Cotton K. Simpson, of Pembroke, N. IT., to Mif» Sarah R. Marble : .An ojd calculation of gait valid flsa*'’ _* ' ' TMo.ves “a stone that is rolling will gather no moss." A happy expedient has lately been th ious courtship of thirteen days, and thirty-five days after the death of his former wife. deep ’ sorrow t marry another. In West Springfield, Mass., Decern her, 1820, Stephen Bu inpley, aged 70, a revolutionary pensioner, to Miss Sarah Dewey, aged 38. In ’70 he fought ami bled, At TO he woo’d and wed. In Washington, May 17, 1834, Joshua Peck to Miss Amelia Bushel. Al/.ookera, bolts and wedding— What changes of measure marriage makes; Quick ns a thought, at Hymen’s beck. A Bushel's changed into a I’eck. June 20, 1815, in Corroll county, N. C., by Rev. B. Graves, Captain William Graves, son of John Graves, Esq., toMissNaucy Graves, daughter of General Azariah Graves. The graves, ’tis said. Will yield the dead When (Jahriel’s trumpet shakes the skies, But if I loti please, From (iraves like these, A dozen living folks may rise. At Herculaneum, Mo., May 23, 1821, John AY. Honey, Esq., to Miss Mary K. Austin. From sweet dowers the busy bee Can scarce a drop of honey gather; But oh! bow sweet it flower is she Who turns to Honey altogether. —Concord (N. II.) Monitor. dead confederacy and transmute them into inspirations for future services to the living republic. [Loud applause.] Of justice, because it will seek to gather and preserve as witnesses for history the unimpeachable facts which shall doom falsehood to die that truth may live. [Cheers.] Of justice, because it will cultivate national as well as southern faternity, and will condemn narrow mindedness and prejudice and passion, and cultivate that broader, higher, nobler sentiment which would write on the grave of every soldier who fell on either side. “Here lies a hero—a matyr to the right as his conscience conceived it.” [Applause.] I esteem it a high privilege to have my name enrolled with such a brother hood. My heart’s desire and prayer to Almighty God is that I may so live as not to bring discredit to your ranks, and as lien I am dead to he esteemed worthy a place in your memory. [Loud applause.] A CONFEDERATE ORGANIZATION IN CHICAGO. which Marble may Cotton. uglil [iiflicr and tiillivate (I) i—< Married at Washington, Ky., March, 1814, Mr. .Samuel January to Miss Pamelia January. A cold match. At Black Lake, L. I., February, 1828, James Anderson to Miss Anna Bread. While toasts the lovely graces spread And fops nroiiHil them flutter, * I’ll he contented with Anna Bread, And won’t have any hut her. In Bozrah, Conn., zVugust, 1819, Mr. John Bate, of Williamtown, Mass., to Miss Mary Ann Bass, of the former place, after a courtship of one hour. Is this not angling well, I ask, Such tender bni. to take ? • • He caught in one short hour a Hass : The Bass, though, caught the Brte. Married.—At Williamsburg, on Friday, April 25, 1853, by Rev. Mr. Malone, at St, Peter’s church, Mr. AV. Moon, to Miss Ann Cooke. lie is not mad, though lunar light His broth did overlook, l or lie has gained, to his delight, A wife that is a Cooke. “His goose is cooked,” and other maids May envy her the boon, Whose tall ambition wished and got The bright man in the Moon. In New York, March, 1833. Mr. Thomas A Secord to Miss Cordelia Ketclmm. “Kctihem, Conklin, If you ran r •■I hove."say* shu—"HecoriFs the man,” Married at Bridgewater, December 16, 1788, Captain Thomas Baxter, of Quincy, aged 66, to Miss AVhitman, of the former place, aged 57, after a long and tedious courtship of 48 years, which they both sustained with uncommon fortitude. In Concord, February, 1825, by Rev. D. McFarland, .Samuel Payne, Fsq., of Canterbury, Conn., to Mias Ruth Barker, daughter of Lemuel Barker, of this town. Some females full in love with wealth, Some with lovely swains, lint Sarah, in the bloom of health. Takes to her bosom I’aytic. In Concord, October, 1809, Jere miah P. Raymond, of Wcare, to Miss Susan Gale. A constant Hale forever prove To fan the (lame of virtuous love. In Boston, April, 1821, by Rev. William Sabi no, Joseph AVillicot to Miss Susan AVhitmarsh, after a ted- Gorclon Greets the Veterans. The late meeting of the cx-confed- cratcs of Georgia, in Atlanta, to or ganize a slate association was anotable event. The address of Gov. Gordon on the occasion was short hut full of pathos, patriotism and love for the men, who twenty-live years ago wore the grey. The Governor said : i I'pMimliw iBwnitii iir of^Tiii once 1 Invincible and still immortal confederate army. [Applause!] It is fortunate for both you and myself that hut few words are expected of me to-night; for while my heart is full and my brain is throbbing with thoughts of the present, memories of the past and suggestions for the untried future, any extended remarks by me would he altogether unseemly. It is still more fortunate for you that others arc to speak, for the wealth of their utterances will in some measure com pensate, I trust, for the poverty of mine. I will not attempt to describe the feelings that thrill me on meeting for the first time a convention of con federates gathered from all portions of our state. You must know, my brethren, that to hold a place in your confidence and affections is both food and sustenance to my spirit, and almost as needful as daily bread to my physical man. [Applause.] Nor will I attempt to describe the heartiness and completeness of the wel come accorded you. You must know that there is not an acre of Georgia’s soil that will not he honored by the tread of your soldier feet, and not. a home in her borders hut would he made brighter and happier by claim ing you as a guest. [Cheers.] . It is fittiug, herhaps, that state organization should have boon effected in this capital city. Not solely because it is the capital of your . (; riu ij u „ state, hilt because of the memories that cluster around it, and because its battle furrowed and buttle hallowed hills will remain a fit memorial of your peerless valor so long as martial valor is honored by men or these everlasting hills shall endure. [Loud applause.] I rejoice that a state organization, too long neglected, is at last pcrfcclcd. It is a brotherhood which all honora ble men must approve and which heaven itself will bless. It is political in no sense except so far as the word “political” is a sy nonym for the word “patriotic.” It is a brotherhood over which the geni us of philanthropy, of patriotism, of truth and of justice will preside—of philanthropy, because it will succor the disabled, help the needy, strengthen the weak and cheer the disconsolate; of patriotism, because it willj cherish the past glories of the Chicagoans on Tampa. ClliCAiio, Aug. 10. — Rcprcscnatives from the hoard of trade and the lumbermen, the produce and mer chants’exchanges, who have been in Florida and other Southern stales exploring for commercial purposes, have returned to Chicago. The main object of the delegation’s trip South was to consider the feasibility of the scheme of deepening the Tampa, Fla., harbor and making it the terminal point for South and Central America and AVcst India vessels. It was learn ed that the harbor will now admit ve,y>cl.s drawing twenty-six feet of w*ilcr witlv Kafefcy-near thc prtrf, and with the dredging and improvements which are now in contemplation, the draughts of vessels may he increased •to thirty feet. The magnitude and superior facili ties of Tampa harbor for a receiving point were a surprise to every one of the delegation and they express sur prise at its not being utilized long ago for extensive commercial relations with the South and Centre 1 American countries. The matter will he repor ted to the various exchanges nnd they will he urged to endorse and push the scheme to its consummation. The Big Tunnel Done. K.voxvii.i.a, Ti:xn„ Aug. 12.—The Cumberland Gap tunnel—one of the longest straight tunnels in the coun try—is completed. It is 3,750 feet long, fourteen feet wide, and twenty-three feet from to]i of rail to face of arch. Much tim bering was required in its construc tion. During its building three very large and line minor veins of coal were pierced. The tunnel is owned by the Knox ville, Cumberland Gap and Louisville railroad, which will connect at Knox ville with the Marietta and North Georgia, thus giving a through, direct I and short line to points north of the ^ oln l Ohio river, and the northwest. The Marietta and X'ortli Georgia I is being rapidly pushed to completion. completed forty miles south of Knoxville, and track is laid north of Blue Ridge to the Iliawasscc river. The Fastest Railway lime. From the Railways of Kngland. The question “How fast can a loco motive run?" Has been a good deal discussed recently in the engineering papers. The conclusion appears to he that there is no authentic record of any speed above eighty miles an hour. That s]>eed was obtained many years ago by a Bristol and Exeter tank eu- ginc with nine foot driving wheels— a long extinct species—down a steep bank. But it has, apparently never been beaten. It is, indeed, not a lit tle strango how sharply the line a]) pears to have been drawn at eighty miles an hour. Records of seventy- live miles an hour are as plenty as blackberries. Records of eighty are execedidgly rare. Records of any greater speed have a way of crumb ling beneath the lightest touch. Address of the Ex-Confederate Association to Their Country men. This association, which virtually had its inception and sprang into exis tence at the grave of the nation’s illus trious general, I>S. Grant, has ap pointed the committee, whoso names are attached to this address, for the purpose of raising funds with which to erect a monument over the 7,000 American soldiers who died while prisoners of war at Camp Douglas, and who now lie in unmarked and neglected graves at Oakwood Ceme- tary, near this city, where several acres have been assigned us through the medium of the AVar Department, on which we propose to erect this monument asa fitting memorial to our former companions in arms. And we trust, as it is lifted toward the peaceful skies, it may he symboli cal of the sweet and enduring peace with which a great nation emphasizes its unstinted brotherly reunion. These men, during our terrible civil conflict, wore the gray, fought be neath a ling that went down in disas ter and defeat, in a cause that is buried in the deep grave of oblivion and can never he resurrected. • AVhether that cause was right or wrong is of little avail now, tor we are again a united, happy and prosperous people. As we have said, these men wore the gray, but the fact still remains that they were American citizens and American soldiers, and it is the com mon senUineutut-tbe noble wnfUlberalT people of this great land of ours that no American soldier’s grave should he neglected, whether lie sleeps beneath the ice and snows of the North or reposes beneath the (lowers and forests of the South. And now, our countrymen, while yet the echoes of our rejoicing over tlio sucecessful establishment of con stitutional republican government in this fair land, by the wisdom and de votion of our common ancestry, arc sounding in our cars, we ask you to aid us in erecting over these men a monu ment to commemorate only American valor, which is the common inheri tance of us all. On our committee are the names of ill ree honorary members of our associa tion, who were gallant soldiers in the union army, viz. : Gen. I. N. Stiles, Gen. Joseph Stock and Charles I’. Packer, president of the Park Nation al Bank of Chicago, which is the depository of the fund. AA r e request our friends to send con tributions to the above named hank. Sums in any amount will lie gladly received, and they will lie duly ac knowledged by the secretary of the committee. Any information in regard to the matter can be obtained by addressing either Col. John George Ryan, chair man, or F. R. Southnmyd, secretary, room 615, No. 225 Dearborn r.treet, Chicago. John AVhite, president of association ; John G. Ryan,chairman; Charles P. Packer, II. T. Coffee, I Lee France, Joseph Stockton, I. N. Stiles, Georgia Forrester, R. II. Stewart, F. R. Southnmyd, secretary of committee. To the Front. AS ALWAYS, The City Shoe Store, (Mitchell House Block. ) Has just opened up to the young and old gents the handsomest line of shoos ever of fered in our city, in all styles, from the narroAvest to the wid est lasts. Patent leather shoes, hand some line of gents’ toilet slippers and full line of ladies’, misses’ and children’s shoes. Oils: “AVhat’s the matter Jack? You look all worn out.” Jack: “I've been visiting a young couple with their first baby.” In the suburbs of Boston—Mamma: “Come down fron that JEsculus Ilip- pocastanum, Elsie ; you will fall and hurt yourself.” Elsie—"Why mam ma, this isn’t an .Esculus Hippocust- anuni! It's an Acer Saccharinum.’ -Life. Mr. Sissy—“Awthau, what do you suppose Mr. Fwcsh meant?” Arthur “What did he say T Mr. Sissy.— “Why I told him I was going to get mawwied ; and awsked what I was going to wear for my trowscau.” Mitchell House Block.