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1 * iTTOBNEtS AT LAW,
Athena, Go,'
Office in Deuprec Building,
attorneys at law.
See over Talu'udge, llodgaon & Co.
Will pr.1
.CMPKIX,
Attorney at Late.
over Chililr, Nickerson & Co.
Athens, Georgia,
dice iu the Superior -.Court* of jlhs
'i fruit. XV Collection* a specialty.
G. C. Th.OI23.a3,
|An'OKNEY AT LAW.
watkissville, ga.
vFFU'K IN’ COURT-HOUSE, OPPOSITE
or.’.iuarv’e Office. Personal attention toall
,; m „ entrusted to his care. spk-tt
I
ACliHON & TUOMeVH.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Athens, Ga.
Office iu old KrtctkSit House Bailding Bread
ti», t. sNo at the Court House. All parties
It Criminal Warrants, can net them at
a. liv applying to the County Solicitor
office. dcclS-1874-tf
111, oinr K vir.iRn. tViLBlu F. Kelsey.
Raiiord Sz STolsoNr,
I Attorneys at Law,
■And t\>un*cllor ? * ami Solicitcr’a in Equity,
« tH-hran, l*ulu*ki County, Ga Special and im-
|incttiatf attention frivoi: to any business con-
lamia. Intruder* promptly ejected
and title* cleared up, and wild lands look*
|v 1 hfttr generally, will buy and sell lunda, pav
for nonresident* etc. Will practice in afl
•untie* continent to either the M. & 3.
k.orthe Atlantic & and K. R. Good re*
uce riven when desired,
ju’.v i«ik.tC
Passenger
lATLANTA l CHARLOTTE
Ail-Line Railway. -
Department
ATLANTA
—TO—
EA.ST'.liJR.3Sr CITIilia I
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
ul after June 1st, 1879, Trains will run
road as follow*, going East:
EASTWARD.
I Arrive at Lula...
■Leave I.ula
Lula
. 7.46 r ■
eastward.
NIGHT PASSEXAEK TRAIN.
»t l ute
. 6.23 r u
. 6.24 F SI
W1STWAED.
at I.ula
. 7.51 A M
GOING EAST.
LOCAL FREIGHT TRAIN.
a: Lula
.12.15 f If
.12.25 r if
WESTWARD.
a! Lula
.12.50 * a
.10.5 A V
Arriv
Leave
THROl'dll FUL1UUT TRAIN.
connection at Atlanta tor all points
.1 Southwest. Connecting at Charlotte
r all point* East. Through Ticket* on aale
liaiin-aville, Sei eca City, JGreen ville and
l>unanburg to all points East and West.
G. J. FoREACRE, General Manager.
J. HOUSTON, Gen. Pass.«fcTicket Ag’t
■Baby Soy.
bt ▲ ladt or aicixicrt.
U,t ^by h S^ kt0miDe ’
l*t me kb. thee whil. I can,
®ome day thou wilfbe a man,
And thy mother old end wan.
Baby boy. ’
Even now I am not yonn r.
Baby boy,
And in manhood's coming day.
J>‘b«r love thy heart will sway;
Old shall I be then and gray,
Baby boy:
Now thoiL clingest to my band,
Trusting all thy’steps to me ;
» hen I give my band to thee.
Lead thy mother tendarlv.
Baby boy.
Wilt thou love me then a. now.
Baby boy I
Age is timid with alarms,
Jesbte yean feaxmany harms
wdl you hold me in your arms.
Baby boy!
All my soul is upward barnc,
Baby boy;
Now at length I seem to eeo—
White I kneel and pray for tbee—
All that thou shah be to ms
Baby boy.
[From the Recorder.
Three Cherry-Stones.
A Sportive Company at
Public Table—The Penal-
. ties of Inopportune
Merriment.
Cn.nge of Schedule,
ul after Monday June 2d 1879, trainson
stern Railroad will
I Trains daily except Sunday.
; Athens 4.03 P. M.
Arrive at Lula..,..1.4)4. aA... 8.90 P. M.
I Arrive at Atlanta.... ICAO P. M.
laatvc Allauta 3.30 P. M.
| Leave Lute 7.46 P. M.
ivc at Atnens 10.00 P. M.
1 >u Saturdays this additional train will he
: Athens. 5.00 A. M.
cat I ate 6.45 A. M.
Arrive at Atlanta 11.30 A. M.
Atlanta 4.0 > A. M.
Lula A 8.53 A. M.
> at Athens 11.05 A. M.
both trains connect at Lola with trains each
lay oil Air Line Railroad. Passengers going
North connect closely at Late at 6.30 P. 41 with
ail train on Air lane Rail roe I and by taking
Hie 5.00 A. 41., Saturday train connect with the
L-t Northeastern train, reaching Washington
next morning to Breakfast and New Tore at-
1*. M.. making the unprecedented time of
.4 hours and 45 minntes between Athens and
Fork. Passenger* from Georgia Railroad
> ample time to lake the evening Brin and
thereby reach the Spring* of North Gc .'giato
s “i'i«r.
J. M. EDWARI-S,
Superintendent.
Georgia Rail Road Company
rvRtxTXxDtsrr’a Orncx,
Avoi-aro, Ga., Jan. 17tb, 1879.
hi and alter Sunday, 19th, inst.. Trains will
ve and arrive at Athene as follows:
Lea e ATHENS.... 9.15 a x
Leave WiuUrville 9.45AX
Lceve I-cxingtoa .1".20 a X
ie-ave Antioch 10.48 a u
leave M axe vs 11.05 A X
I cave Woodvillo 11A1 A X
Arrive Union Point 11.46 am
Arrive Atlanta 5.00 r M.
Arrive MiHedgerillc.. S.SOrxi
Arrive Macon 5.30ri
Arrive Augueta 3.18 rx
Leave Auyu-sta 9.45 ax
L ave Macov J 4.10 AM
UrvcMiUedgeville 9.06 a u
J-csvt Allauta.. 9.45 AM
Leave Union Point...,. 13.55 pm
Arrive Woodville 1.15rx
Arrive Kaxeys US p u
Ar,ive Antioch 1.65 pm
Arrive Lexington ...2.45 p m
Arrive Winterville S.03 P M
Arrive Athens 3AO p *
rraina run daily, exoept to and from Macon
which arc daily oxeept Sundays.
K K. Dobsiy, Gen., Pas*., Agt.
8. K. 3i
JooxaoM, Supt.
tonrr cilkndab western circuit.
AtxvAxnaa S. Eawix, of Athens, dodge
Albxkt L. MrrcaxLL, of Athena, Solir tor Geo*
»Tal.
®rst Monday in April and Oetaber.
Llsrke, second Monday la May and No-
>mber.
, ^’vanklin, at ‘-e.d Monday in April aodOe-
Gainnett, first Monday in March and Sep
tember
^Habetvhamtiiinl Monday in Apnl and Oo-
^11*11, third Monday In March and ScyUm
Jackson, third
August.
JuH° a '*, frart ^ 1 Monday
Monday in Febnaiy and
in Jan par v i
toW bn “’ ** -'P^ 1 *>d Oo>
A Wjtoo, third itert, gk, Fsbraary
iVnyllU-
When I was a achoolboy, more than
6Ay years ago, I remember to have
read a story which may have been
fiction, but which was vtry naturally
told, and made a deep impression up
on me then. I will endeavor to draw
it forth from the locker of memory,
and relate it as nearly as I can recol
lect.
Three young gentlemen, who had
finished the most substantial part of
their repast, were lingering over their
fruit and wine, at a tavern in London,
when a man of middle age and mid
dle stature entered the pnblie room
where they were sitting, seated him
self at one end of a small unoccupied
table, and calling the waiter, ordered
a simple mutton-chop and a glass of
ale. Ilis appearance, at first view,
was not likely to arrest the attention
of any one. His hair was beginning
to be thin and gray; the expression
of his countenance was sedate, with a
slight touch perhaps of melancholy,
and he wore a gray surtout, with a
standing collar, which manifestly bad
seen service, if the wearer had not—
just such a thing os an officer would
bestow upon a serving man. He might
be taken, plausibly enough, for a
country magistrate, or an attorney ot
limited practice, or a schoolmas
ter.
He continued to masticate his chop
and sip his ale in silence, without lift
ing his eyes from the table, until a
cherry-stone, sportively snapped from
the thumb and finger of one of the
gentlemen at the opposite table, struck
him upon his right car. His eye was
instantly upon the aggressor, and his
ready intelligence gathered from the
ill-suppressed merriment of the party
that this petty impertinence was in<*
tentional.
The stranger stooped and picked
up tl.e cherry-stone, and a scarcely
perceptible smile passed over his feas
tures as he carefully wrapped it up
in a piece of paper and placed it in
bis pocket. This singular proceedure,
with their preconceived impressions
of their customer, somewhat elevated
as the young gentleman were by the
wintf they baa partaken of, capsized
their gnat ity entirely, and a burst of
irresistible laughter proceeded from
the group.
Uumoved by this rudeness of the
stranger continued to fiuish his fru
gal repast in qniet, until another
cherrystone, from the same hand,
struck him upon the right elbow. This
also, to the infinite amusement of the
other party, he picked from the floor
and carefully deposited with the
first.
Am'.d shouts of laughter a third
cherry-stone was soon after discharged,
which hit him upon the left breast.
This also he very deliberately took
from the floor and deposited with the
ether two.
As he rose and was engaged in pay
ing for his repast, the gaycly of tnes<
sporting gentlemen became slightly
subdued. It was not easy to account
for this. Lavator would not have
been able to detect the slightest evi
dence of irritatiou or resentment upon
the features of the stranger. He
seemed a little taller, to be sure, and
the carriage of his head might have
appeared to them rather more erect.
He walked to the table at which they
were silling, and, with an air of dig
nified calmness, which is a thousand
times more terrible than wrath, drew
a card from his pocket and presented
it with perfect civility Jlothe offender,
who conld do no leas than offer his own
in return.
While the stranger urcloseil his
snrtont to take the ca d from bis
pocket, they had a glance at the
nndress-coat of a military man. The
card disclosed his rank, and a brief
inquiry at the bar was snflSdent for
the rest. He was a captain, whom
ill health and jlong s rvice had enti
tled to half.pay. In earlier life be
had been engaged in several mffaiie
of honor, and, in the dialect of the
fancy, was a dead shot.
The nett morning n note arrived at
the aggressor’s residence, containing
n challenge in form and one of the
cherry-stones. The troth then flashed
before the challenged party—it was
the challenger's intention to make
three bites at this cherry—three sep
arate affaire out of this, unwarrantable
frolic I The challenge was accepted,
and the challenged party, in deference
to the challenger's reputed skill with
the pistol, haa half deeded upon the
small-sword; but his friends, who
were on the aleat, soon discovered
that the captain, who had risen by hb
merit, had, in the earlier days or bis
necessity, gained hb bread as an ac
complished instructor in the use of
that weapon.
They met, and fired alternately, by
lot. The young man had selected
this mode, thinking he might win the
first fire; he did—fired and m'sted
l*b opponent. ■ • The captain leveled
his pistol anil fired — the ball passed
through the flap of the right ear, and
grazed the hone; and, as the wonnd-
ed man involuntarily put his hand to
the place, he remembered that it was
on the right ear of bis antagonist
that the cherry-stone had lallcn.
Here ended the first lesson. A month
had passed. IIU friends cherished
the nope that they would hear no
more from the captain, w hen another
hote—a challenge, qf course—and an
other of those accursed cherry-stones
arrived, with the captain's apology,
on the score of ill-health, for not
sending it “before.
Again they met-fired simultane
ously, and the captain, who was un
hurt, shattered the right elbow of hb
antagonist—the very point upon which
he bad been struck by the cherry
stone; und here ended the second
lesson.
There was something awfully im
pressive in the modus operandi and
exquisite skill of his antagonUt. The
third cherry-stone w:u still iu his
possession, and the aggressors had
not forgotten that it had struck the
unoffending gentleman upon the left
breast.
A month had passed—another—
and another, of terrible suspense; but
nothing was heard from the captain.
Intelligence had been received that he
was coufined to liU lodgings by ill
ness.
At length the gentleman who had
been liis second iu the former duels
once more presented himself, and ten
dered another note, which as the re
cipient perceived on taking it, con
tained the last of the cherry-stones.
The note was superscribed in the cap
tain’s well-known hand, hut it was
the writing evidently of one who wrote
feebly. There was an unusual solem
nity, also, iu the manner of him who
delivered it.
The seal was broken, and there
was the cherrystone in a blank en
velope.
"And what, sir, am I to under
stand by this?” inquired the ag
gressor.
"You will understand, sir, that
friend forgives you—he is
my
dead.’’
Pketty Girls for Sale at .
Church Fair—A Misery Beau
Wno Lost His Girl.
She Shook Him.
f .Tocky Mountain News.]
It has grown into a fashionable
custom of late to have a mock auc
tion sale of the prettiest girls at church
festivals. It tends to increase the re
sources of the church, and at the same
time very clearly demonstrates in
which way the affections of youth
are bent. For it is reasonable to sup
pose that no ambitious young man
will permit his sweetheart to be
knocked down to a rival until be bad
expended his last cent in the effort to
become the fortunate purchaser.
Acting upon this idea a fashion tblo
church in Denver is prepiring for a
festival, in which tlie auction business
to form a prominent feature. It
has put the young ladies in quite a
flatter of excitement, and unhappily
at this early stage of the novelty—
for, however common in the East, it is
novelty here—lias come very near
wrecking the future happiness of two
estimable young creatures. The facts
in the case are these: A young gen
tleman who confesses to an amiable
weakness for one u( the young ladies
who is to be disposed of on the occrv
*sion referred to, called ou his dul-
cinea a few evenings Bince. and very
naturally the subject of the festival
came up.
“ I ain to be sold, Charley—did
yon know it ?” exclaimed the enchan
tress
“ No! are you’ though ? I suppose
shall have to buy you.’’
"Of course. But how much do you
reckon I will sell for ?’’
This was a native inquiry, but it
led to a moment of brief but sagacious
speculation. If lie had any rival the
girl was likely to go high; if be didn’t
have any it would ap|iear as if he was
investing in an exceedingly cheap ar
ticle.
“ I don’t know.” The words were
long drawn oat, and his face was
grave. “ I snprose a dollar or
two!’’
If he Had reflected a moment longer
he never would have in tde this ob
serration. It was born, however, of
a sense of economy, and he had no
idea of what it would lead to. But
the words fell, from his lips lie
looked at his inamorata and caught
the flash of indignant bine eyes, which
made his heart sink.
‘One or two dollar*, indeed l I’ll
sell for fifty at the very lowest’’
" I can’t buy you, then.”
"Sir!” and the lady’s face was rigid
with amazement.
“That ia—I mean to say—confound
i , Maria, I can’t spare the money,
and the poor fellow looked appealing
ly at the divinity which was about to
shape the end pf his pane. But the
disaster had come. The young lady
rose from her seat like a queen, and
with the cruel remark that a gentle
man who thought so much of 950 was
not a suitable person to encourage as
a lover, sailed majestically from the
Old Bat Good.
Mark Twain as a Candidate fob
President j
I have pretty much made up my
mind to ruu for President. What
the country wants is a candidate who
cannot be injured ;by investigation of
his pa-l history, so that the qnepyes
of the parly will ba unable to rake up
against him things that nobody ever
heard of before. If you know the
worst about a candidate to begin with,
every attempt to spring things on him
will be checkmated. Now I am going
to enter the field with an open record.
I am going to own up in advauce to
all the wickedness I have done, and if
any Congressional committee is disc
posed to prowl around my biography,
in hope of finding any dark and dead
ly deed which I secreted, whv—let it
prowl.
In the first place, I admit that I
treed a rheumatic grandfather of mine
in the Winter of 1850. lie was old
and inexpert in climbingtraes; bat
with a heartless brutality that is char
acteristic of me, I ran him out of the
front door in his night shirt at the
point of a shot gun, and caused him
to bowl up a maple tree, where he re
mained all night while 1 emtied shot
in liis legs. I did this because he
snored. I will do it again if I ever
have another grandfather. I am as
inhuman now as I was in I860. No
rheumatic person shall snore in my
house.
I candidly acknowledge that I ran
away at the battle of Gettysburg.
My friends tried to smooth over this
tact by asserting that I merely got
behind a tree—that I did so for the
purpose of imitating Washington,
who went in the woods to say his
prnye s. I struck out in a straight
line tor the taopic of Cancer, simply
because I was scared. I wanted my
country saved, but preferr. d to have
somebody else save her. I entertain
that preference yet If I he bubble
reputation cart l>e obtained only at
the cannon’s mouth, I am wLling to
go there for it, provided the cannon
is empty. If it is loaded, my immor
tal and inflexible purpose is to get
over the fence and go home. My in
variable practice in war lias been to
bring out of any fight two-thirds
more men than I took in. This seems
to me to be Napoleonic iu its gran
deur.
My financial views are of most de
cided character, but they are not 1
likely, perhaps, to increase my popc-
laiity with the advocates of inflation.
I do not insist upon the supremacy of
rag money. The great fundamental
principle of my life is to take any
kind lean get.
The'rumor that I huffed a dead
aunt under one of my grape vines is
founded upon fact. The vines needed
fertilizing, my aunt had to be buried,
and I dedicated her to this purpose.
Does that uufit roe for the Presidens
cy ? The Constitution (of our coun
try does not say so. No other citizen
was ever considered unwortby of office
because he enriched his grape vines
with his relations. Why should I
be the first victim of an absurd preju
dice ?
I admit also that I am not a friend
of the poor man. 1 regard the poor
man, in his present condition, as so
much wasted material Cut np and
properly canued he might be made
useful to fatten the natives ot the can
nibal islands, and to improve onr exs
port trade with licit region. I’ll rec
ommend legislation on the subject in
my “ first message.’’ My campaign
cry will be “Dessicaie the* poor
workingman; stuff him into sau
sages !”
These are about the worst parts of
my record. On them I come before my
country. If my c mutry doesn’t want
me, I will go back again. But I rtc-
onuueud myself as a safe man—a man
who starts from the basis of total de
pravity, and projioses to be fiendish to
the last.
Jonathan Niles and his Fife.
In 1778, while the American army
wafencatuped atTappan, on the Hud
son General Lafayette had command
of the advance, his particular duty
being to guard the water front; and,
in order that any attempt on the part
qf the enemy at surprise might lie
guarded against, Lafayette issued or
ders that tln-re should be no noise ot
any kind by the troops between the
hours of tattoo and reveille.
, Jonathan Niles was one of Lafays
ette’s. musicians, and his instrument
the/fi q. He was a 90a of Connecti
cut, aud lie had a maimed and disa
bled brother who was a cunning ary
tificer, and who, among other quaint
things, had made the fife on which
Jonathan played. .
It was so constructed that it could
be blown to the shrill and ear-pierc
ing notes that belong with the drum,
or it could bn so softly a.id sweetly
breathed ii|>on as to give forth notes
like the gentle dulcimer.
One eveuing Jonathan wandered
down he the water’s edge, and, seated
upon a rock, gazed off upon the dark
ly flowing, star-gemmed fl >od.
Hi-* thoughts were of his hoa o and
of the lovt-d ones; and ation came
memories of the old songs that had
been wont to ghidd n the fireside.
Unconsciously he drew his flute
from his bosom and place ! it to his
lips. In his mind, at the moment,
was a sweet song, adapted from Mo
zart, which had been his 1. other’s fa
vorite.
He knew not what he did. To him
all things of the present were shut
out, and he was again at home, sit
ting at his mother's feet; and the
charm .was not broken until a rough
blow upon the back recalled him to
his senses.
"Man, what are you *\»iug ? The
eneral may be awake. It lie should
hear you—ah?’’ . . j
It was a sentinel; an l eveu this
guardian of the night afterwa'd con
fessed that he had listened, entranced,
to the ravishing music for :■ long time
before he had thought it I is duly to
stop it.
On the following morning .an or
derly came to the spot where Jona
than had been eating bis breakfast,
and informed him that the geiieral
wanted to see him at headquarters
Poor Jonathan turned pale and
trembled. He knew that ’Lafayette
was very stric., and that in those per-',
ilous times oven slight infraction* of
military orders were punished severe
ly.
As lie ai ose to his feet, the senti
nel of the previous evening came up
and whispered into Iris' ear:
“If it should be about the music,
Jbtlathnir, don't yon be alarmed: Not
a soul save > ou and me knows any
thing about it; I can swear to that.
So do you just ray it wasn't you.
Stick to it, and you’ll come out all
right.’’ L
Jonathan looked at the man pity
ingly.
“Wbat! My mother’s son tell a lie
like that ? It would be the hear iest
load I ever carried—heavier than 1
ever mean to carry, if I have my
senses.' ‘
“Just From LeadvIIle”
A conductor on the Michigan Cen
tral Road came across him the other
day;' The train, coming east,
had just left Jackson, when
the man from Leadvfile
was discovered on the platform
of the' rear ear. He seemed to have
an object in being oat there instead of
in the car, but the conductor was de
ceived a* to his motive-' Conductors
rarely ever get hold of the correct
theory when they find a man with a
long neck and a Iran satchel sitti g
out on the rear platform.
“Trying to beat my wav—great
heavens! but how can you say that'?
replied the man fromLeadville to the
conductor's brief bat vigorous sain-
tiod. "No, sir eel I came opt here
for fresh air. I've camped out so
iong that I’in sick as a boss the mins
it I feel a roof over me. I’il b»in in
a minit and pay my fare to Detroit.
I’m going up there to engage seventeen
hundred men to return to Lcadvil’e
with me.’’
The conductor suggested that he
enter the car and pay his fare at once.
Michigan railroad conductors don’t
seem to care a clamshell whether a
passenger hails from Lsadville or
Bnngtoivn. - • 1
“Pay my fare to once—of course I
will ?•’ replied the man from Lead-
ville. “The owner of the Huckle
berry mine wouldn’t" look very well
trying to beat a one-track railroad
out of three or four dollars’ fare. I’ll
be in there in just a minit—just as
soon as the gnawsu3 feelin* of the
stumnrek is kinder gone. You’d bet
ter go in and git change tor a five
hundred dollar bill, so a* not to detain
me.”
The conductor went back through
the cars and returned. The owner of
the huckclberry mine was no longer
on the platform, bat was sound asleep
in the center of one of the coaches.
"Pay my tare ?” lie shouted, as the
conductor gave him a vigorous shak
ing up. “Do yoa charge me double
fare because I own the biggest and
richest silver mine iu Leadvidu. Am
I to be imposed on because I am about
to engage thirteen hundred laborers
in Detroit, at two dollars a day per
man ?”
“I want yoar fare,’’ said the con-
ductor. '
' ull W r ant it twice over?’’
“You haven’t paid your' for* vet,
but you must or I shall pat yog' off
the train.”
“I appeal to my fellow-ptS3engefs,
I do!” exclaimed the man from Lead-
ville; “ even i»do own the H”ck-'
leberry mite, and a hall interest in
the Short-cake, I’m' not to be swin
dled ?”■
’"I give yon one quarter of a min
ute to pay your fare!’’ said the con
ductor, as he reached for the bell ropr.
•'I’ll pay,” replied the m m, after a
few seconds—"I’ll pay now, and sue
the company when we reach Detroit.
I’ll have to pay you ill silver bars, as
I'am short of gold coin-and green-
haSfe.’’
Hu fished up hi* old s itcliel, took
about four minutes to unlock it, avft'
after a dive and a scramble he fishet}
Ingenious but Unsuccessful
ey walked;
vd, and yet
Adowa the street the;
walked in the busy crow>
alone, for each to the other was all,
or, all to the other was each. At
any rate they liked each other. Kind
of
“Leaudor.” site said, and there was
a tremulous intonation in the tender
voice, “tho summer, the long bright
summer days and the starry summer
nights, filled with the voiceless glory
of their love-lit beauty, will soon be
here.” • r
“Hero,” ho made her answer, “they
are here now. Did yon read of the
five young people who died so recent
ly, and in snch a heart-rending mans
ner; poisoned by vanilla flavoring,
love.. M. Schweringgehanptiklechl-
uisser, who has investigated the sub
ject very thoroughly, says tbe natives
of South America poison the vanilla
beans for the purpose of increasing
the strength and delicacy of their pe
culiar flavoring. It is terrible, love.
I tremble when I think how many
times and how narrowly we escaped
death last summer'.”
Hero shuddered and clung more
closely to his arm. but she said noth
ing, and Iieander went on: "And
Professor. Doremus says the.flavoring
extract of the lemon is almost identi
cal with the active principle of yellow
lever, and he thinks the government
ought to prohibit its manufacture and
use. But I will stand between you
and dinger, my own, with my verv,
life.’’
“It is too good of you, Leantler,”
sbe aaid cheerfully: “1 am not wor
thy of such devotion. But do not
grieve for me, dear, for they have a
new flavoring for ice cream this year
—I satv it advertised yesterday—that
it is not only harmless but healthful,
and far more pleasant thau these old
and dang rou* flavoring*. Do not
weep, dear,” she continued, as Lean-
der caught his breath and shuddered,
“ter we can have all the ice cream
we want this snminer, and stili.be hap
py.”
And Leander? Oh yes, he did not
say anything,, bat he looked as though
he thought they might be happy. Oh,
yes, very, very thappy. Most ever
lastingly happy, he seemed to think.
Too happy, oh, too, loo happy. He
could.noi speak. lie could only gasp,
and ft el his e npty pockets and 814b
and kind of choke up and look, oli so
mighty mighty hap{ty. Oh, yes.—
Exchange. ' r.uJza.
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A Tough Witness. <
Judge Davis on Troops at
Elections.
The tollowing, letter from Senator
David Davis to a committee ot the
Illinois Legislature expresses hi* views
on the question of military interfer
ence at elections:
U S. Senate Chamber, )
Washington, May 17, 1879. j
Gentlemen—I have had the honor
to receive yoar letter oi the 3d inst.,
conveying resolutions of a “joint cau
cus of tbe Democratic members of the
General Assembly of tbe Slate of Illi
nois.’’ It is hardly necessary for me
to say that I am in favor of perfect
freedom of election* from the inter
ference or the presence of any part of
the army at the polls ; because that
opinion was empliatically expressed
on the floor of the Senate. This is
government of legal nthoi ity, found
ed on the Constitution and tho laws
made in pursuance thereof. One of tie
grievances of which our fore lathers
complained was that the King had
quartered troop* on them, and sought
by military power to coerce them in
to submission. It is little less than a
public scandal, alter a century of na
tional existence, that any purty could
venture to a.-k the people’s approval
of a species of tryahny that is forbid
den in England and wherever else the
parliamentary principle is respected.
Very truly,
David Day lx
He then went to the general’s quar
ters, a tent pitched in a commanding
site, overlooking the whole line he had
to guard.
Lafayette was pacing to and fro,, sad
and moody, as though his thoughts
woe unhappy. . -1
“Comrade, who arc yon ? ’ ,
“Jonathan Niles, general
“Last evening I heard music down
by the riv.'i’s biak. Were you the
musician V"
“It wa< I, general; but j knew cot
what I did.’ I meant not to disobey
v.mr order. I sat and thought of
home, and of my mother, and ’
The general started at the sound of
that word, and the shadow Upon his
face grew soft rod ethereal.
Qfyoni mother? And I thought
al mine. It was a theme of Mozart’*
and was my inother’afavorite. It you
will be so kind, go bring your instru
ment, and play tor me that strain here
in my tqpt. It will do me good.
In the after years—even to'hia dy.
ing hour—the man loved to tell that-
story. Though he would never urge
the truth upon any mau in considera
tion of so mean a thing as the benefit
that might re-ult, yet be could not
put away the thought that -the sweet
est and most blessed memory of all
liis soldier’s experience might have
been lost to him had he grasped at
the opportunity to tell a lie on the
one occasion of all liis life when a lie
might, to some, have seemed most
opportune and profitable.
j up two old paper collars, the remains
Curiofiit;
on unti
-And now that young man’s soul is
convulsed with anguish, and his re
marks upon church festivals are frar-
ful to contemplate. -q •
brought Aleck Benn to
. end. He was a colored
boy of Alexandria, and in an evil mo
ment was tempted to investigate an
old thirty-two pound shell Exactly
how he proceeded is not clear, but
they found the string that had tied
his trousers in the next yard, and
held a funeral over one of his tracks.
It .wasn’t much, but the minister said
be was satisfied he had Benn there.
of a shoe-brush, aud an old darning-
needle threaded with a foot or two of
string.
Come 1 I’m in a hurry.” said' tho
conductor. "* :
“I want this train searched ; I’ve
been robbed of over $8,000 worth’ of
silver bar*!” shouted the mlu from
Leadville, turning the old satchel
wrung side out arid holding it'up.
The train was Stopped and he was
ordered f > alight. He lo >kcd from
the big b'rakeman to the conductor
alid sorrowfully remarked:
"Yes, I’ll dismount. I’ve been
robbed,' insulted and abused,‘and I :
want to sit down oft a log and think
it over and plan my . reVenge. The
owner of the Huckleberry mine can’t
be stepped on with iinpanity, and yort
hear Mie!" - "
The train started. As the last car
reached him theHnckleherryiim made
a grab for the platform, missed the
railing and the last seen of him his
feet were twinkling above, the bulls'
rushes of a roadside swamp.' Hejhad
got a - lift of fifteen miles, and was
donbtless perfectly satisfied. .
At the last session of the Legislature
two raCsures were introduced of more
or less interest to (he State at
large. These were a bill to lay a
direct tax on do"s, and another to
tax whisky ad valorem after the man
ner of the Moffett register. These
bills will come np before the Legisla
ture at its coming session in July on
of Advaztiauiu
AtWertlwiocnt. Bill hi imcrte.1 at ONE DOL
LAI! pcr..]umre for tho 6 rat insertion, sd8 FIFTY
TENTS per square forrark colinuancc, for ar.r
Arne underooe month. Forlon^rpuloda a lib
>"■“ T ."f
DECISION OF THE UNITED STATU SUP KENS COO *T
* Subscriber* *jjo'do Mt |j rc *xjpze*» not lei to
Uie contrary, are consider-d wishing to continne
their subscription*.
If subscribers order the discontinuance of
thei. pertedk^v* P«MtelW>» W <X»tin«
••flu them until all arrearage* are paid.
*. U taUcribsra neglect or reftrae to Ukt tfatii
Periodicals from the o*se to which tho? are dl-
wetod, they tn hold responsible until thov ham
■ettted (heir hUte sad eedend then dlscooUanod.
StillII qhin plm^rwahm
nollfjin* publishers, and tho papers are Sent t
the fortaer direction, they an held responsible.
6. Any person who receive! a newspaper and
makes oseot it. whether he has ordered it or not
U held In tew to be * eetoeetbiji.
Terrible—Awful.
Truf.—‘‘The man that will take a
newspaper for a length of time, and
then send it back ‘refused,’ and un
paid for, would swallow a blind dog’s
dinner, and then stone the dog for be
ing blind.”
“He would do worse than that
He would marry a girl on trial, and
send her back With the words ‘don’t
suit’ chalked on her back, after the
honey-mton.’’
‘Worse than that. He would steal
the chalk to write it with, and after
ward* he would use it on his shirts, to
save the expense of washing, and then
sno his wife’s father for a month’*
boarding.’—Standard.
‘Worse yet. He’d chase a sick
rat ten miles over a corduroy road,
and institute a post-mortem examina
tion after he had caught him, in or
der to recover a stolen grain of corn.’
—Morgantown Star. .
He would steal rotten acorns from
a blind pig. He Would steal all the
winter meat of an editor:—Somerset
Herald.
He would sponge a living from the
hard earnings of his poor old father
until the poor old gentleman became
unable to work, and then let him die
in tl.e poor house, and afterwards sell
hi* remain* to the medical students
lor anatomical pui'iiosos.—Bluffton
Banter.
11c Would dig up thu bones of his
mother and make dice of them, and
play “chuck-a-luck” on hi* grand
mother’* tombstone for a cop;icr cent
which a horse ihicf had stolen from
the eye of a dead fifteenth amend
ment.— Quitman Banner.
A puppy’s eyes open in nine days.
We have waited that time in the vain
endeavor to add something else to this
man’s character, but to use the ex
pression of a Georgia Judge, “the En
glish language is insolvent.’’—Atneris
cus Recorder.
Still worse. No man in America
would trust him with the anchor of
the “Great Eeasteru’’ and that too in
the middle of the desert of Sahara.
He would stick pins in a blind aud
crippled orphan baby two weeks old.
—Dispatch.
You have all touched thu man up
enough. Some of yon have drawn
largely on your imagination. Who
ever heard of an editor having w inter
meat and alter all none of yon ever
made mention of what he would do
with hi* mother-law.—Banner.
Friday America’s Lucky Day
Medical Effects of Onions.—
A mother writes to an English agri
cultural journal as follows: "Twice a
weekend it was generally when we
had cold ment mincedr—I gave the
children a dinner which was hailed
with delight and looked forward to.
This was a dish of boiled oniona.' The
little things knew not that thay were
taking the best medicine foi expelling
what most children sufier troio—
worms. Mine were kept tree by this
remedy. It was a medical man who
tanght me to eat boiled onions a* a
pecific for a cold in the chest. He
id not know at the time till I told him
that they were good for anything*
else.” The editor^of the journal i
"A case is now nnder.our own obser
vation in which a rheumatic patie
extreme snfierer, finds great
from eating onions freely^ either cook
ed or raw. He assert toot it is by no;
means a fancy, and he says so after
having - persistently tried Turkish
baths; galvauism and nearly all the
potions and plasters that are adver
tised as certain alleviatives or cares.”.
Vermont comes to the head with
ah"rae having seven legs and five
horn*. A horse fitted np as elabora
tely os this ought to be killed and
stuffed and nailed up somewhere orf
a hat r&fk, " " •'
Prosecution Attorney—“Air. Parks
state if you please, whether you have
ever known the defendant Co follow
any-profeasion.’.i-ot ->
“He’s been a professor ever since
I've known him.”
“Profe: sor of what
“Of religion.”
“You don’t understand me, Mr.
Park*. What does lie do ?”
“Generally, what he pleases”
“Tell the jury, Mr. Parka, what the
defendant follows.”
“Gentlemen of the jury, the defend
ant follows the crowd when they go
in to drink.’’
“Mr. Park* this kind of prevarica-
tion will not do here Now state bow
this detendent supports himself., 1
“I saw him lost night support him
self against a lamp post.”
“May it please your honor, this wit
ness '
with the court.
Judge—“Mr. Parks, state if you
know anything about it, what the de
fendant’s occupation is.”
"Occupation, did you say ?**
Counsel—“Yes, what is his occupa
tion f n
“If I ain’t mistaken, he occupies a
garret somewhere in t<- wn.”
“That’s all, Mr. Parks.”
Cross-examiueJ.-—“Mr. Parks, I
understand you to say {hat the defend
ant is a professor of religion. Does
his practice correspond with his pro
fession ?”
• “I never heard of any correspond
ence or letter* passing between
them.”
“You said semething about hi* pro*
pensity for drinking.' Doe* he drink
hard?”-
"No, I think he drink* as ca«y as
any man I ever saw, *
“One rnr.rs question, Mr. Parks.
You have known the defendant a
long time; what are hi* habits—loose
or otherwise ?” r
“The one he’s gbtion now, I'think
is rather tight gander the arms, and
too short waisted lor the fashion.”
•fYon can take your scat, Mr.-
Parks.”
a final reading, and will pass or he
lost: We see from the Atlanta Con
stitution that Hon. Gustavu* J. Orr,
State School Commissioner, has been
actively interesting himself in favor of
hbth these measures, as it is proposed
to give the proceeds, of the revenue
from them to the public 1 . School (und
ot the State. That, paper states that
Mr. Orr has, since the 1st of. March,
visited thirteen ' counties, in all of
which,’ except four, he ha* obtained
fill) and strong recainmendattpoa in
favor of both laws proposed. He
believes that thc,^>reat mass of the
people hi tlii* State are jrr favor of
them. 2 !fl; j ‘‘ ' 1
The Washington correspondent of
the New York - Herald, says it has
leaked ont to. day that in the pro
tracted meeting of the Joint Com
mittee last night Senate/ Thurman
mad a very forcible and emphatic
speech, declaring that of course, the
appropriations most be passed; that
it would be unpatriotic and disas
trous to the Democratic pirty to re
fuse them; that Die army must be
Ah Chino"Made a Deacon.- - Ah
Clung, a Chin* man, twenty five year*
ofage,' was ofdained yesterday as .1.-^
con in Trinity,,Uhurcb,, iai this city.
The ' religious Chinaman* who has
taken the qaiue of Walter C. Yopng,
haa been a resident of this ooantry
for fifteen years, for the past two
years.he has been a student auder the
care of Trinity Church, The Rev.
Dr. Beers, in tiTs' addres*, spoke of
the ordination fts the first in which a
native of China had been admitted to
the orders of the Church. The young
man few discarded . the costume
adiar to life racet qnd wear? :hfa
;r shoit.—San Francisco Calf*
There is a popular superstition
against Friday as an unlucky day, and
yet it is somewhat noteworthy fact
that, for Americans at least, it lias
been peculiarly fortunate. Here are
some (acts that the Chicago Times has
been comp'ling on the subject, and
the perusal cf them will sustain the
assertion that Americans should be
rather inclined to honor that day than
otherwise. It was on Friday, the
third of August 1492, that Columbus
sailed from the harbor of Palos for tbe
new world. It was on Friday, the
twelth of October, 1492, that fie first
saw the lacd, after sixty-five days of
navigation.
It was on Friday, the fourth day of
January, 1493, that he started on hi*
return to Spain to announce to their
Catholic majesties the glorious result
baa shewn"a dfenositioh * to **trifle ] l ^ e ' r expedition, aSd on Friday,
tho P tnHe | the fifteenth of March, 1439, that he
disembarked in Andalusia. It wa*
on Friday, the thirteenth of June,
1494, that he discovered the Ameri
can continent On Friday, March 5,
1497, Henry VIL, of England, gave
to John Cabot his dispatch for the
voyage which resulted in the discov
ery of the continent of North Amer
ica. ; . ,
On Friday, September 0, 1565,
Mendez founded St. Augustine, the*
oldest town in the United States. On
Friday, November 10, 1620, theMay-
flower first disembarked a few immi
grants on American soil at Province-
town, and on Friday, December 22,
1620, her passengers finally landed at
Plymouth Rock- It was on Frilay,
February 22, 1732, that George
Washington was born. On Friday,
June, 16,1776, the battle of Bunker
hill was fought, and on Friday, Octo
ber 7, 1779, that the snrrender of
Saratoga took place, which event de
cided France to give her rod to .the
Americans. The treason of Arnold
was discovered on Friday. York-
town surrendered on Friday, and on
Friday, June 7, 1776, Richard Henry
Lee read the Declaration of Independ
ence to the Continental Congress.
Sixty seconds make a minute, but
the second minute stretches into hoar*
when a fellow has to stand on one
foot while his wife concientioosly em
ploys hereolf in deciphering the hiero
glyphics on the sole of tbe other. He
always feels relieved, too, when' she
throws it down angrily; saying: “No;
therefa no web defined W in your
foot. You’ll never make a walker,
so yon may as well go to work. Other
sna’-ained oad necessary supplies voted f women can marry walking husbands
and he favored the
t of the ap-
propriation bills pare and simple un
der any circumstance*. The speech
of Senator Thurman will have an imv
p-utaut effect, especially as in the
joint caucus to be held in a day’ or
two he will,-ilrfe understood, lead off
in the same direction. With Mr.
Thunuan on this groondit needs only
that the Southern men make known
their ..will to cause the immediate
adoption of a resolution tp i post the
appropriations without further delay
and arijoirn. ’" * '“ ‘
Mrs. Philip William*) who_ died in
Winchester recently'^was ihe first per
son to,start the idea of strew
ing flower* on Confederate grave*.
She will be remenjbered so: long as
i«M»toui:;
NcWS,
and live easy;
snch luok.”
lint I haven't got no
Senator Hampton, it is annonneed,
intends to make a speech in tho
Senate soon, in which he will take tho
ground that the appropriation hills
ought to.he passed, pore and siui| le,
and that in particular the army
hill must be passed. He will declare
report says, tHsfe not only his deter
mination. but that it represents the
spirit and desire oi thu people of
Sooth Carolina, and, in his belief, of
tber Sontb generally, and that an early
adjournment is highly advisab'e.
Manhattan Beach.—Tin’s sum
mer resort near New York city ha*,
become • wonderfully popular. The
grand opening tfiisycnr will be on
Jure the 14th.
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