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•MV K,id Bill, ■ he took my bl;ith
'I didn’t/
‘Yon did/
‘Don’t I tell you to hush yonr dis
puting T
'Well, Ma, Uncle York give it to
me/
‘He didn’t Uncle Monday give it to
me.’
‘He didn’t.'
‘He did.'
Here the mother divided & pair of
slaps between the two disputants,
which silenced them for a few mo
ments.
At this juncture Rebecca cried out
with a burnt fiinger, which she re
ceived in cooking another pig-tail.—
The burn was so slight that she forgot
it as her mother jerked her from the
fir‘«
You little vixen !’ said the mother,
‘what possesses you to be fumbling a
boutthe fire? Mr. Butler, I beseech you
to forbid the negroes giving the chil
dren any more of those poison pig
tails; they are a source of endless tor
ment. And now, young gentlemen,
one and all of you, the next one of you
that brings one of those things into
the house again, I'll box his ears as
long as I can find him. Now remem
ber it! Come along to your breakfast.’
In a little time, after some contro
versy about places, which was arrested
by the mother’s eye, they were all seat
*J; John happened in, in the mean
time, taking his father’s seat.
‘ls s-sp!’ said William, ‘saasidges!
that’s what I love.’
‘Hoo,’ said Isaac, 'spareribs! that’s
what I love.’
‘Well, your gab, and eat what’s
set fcrefore you without comment. No
body cares what you love, or what you
don’t love ’
‘Souse!’ said Abraham; I don’t love
souse. I wouldn’t eat souse; 'tain’t fit
ten for a dog to eat.’
‘Get up, sir; get right up from the
table, and march out of the house un
til you learn better manners. I’ll be
bound, if I say you shall eat souse
you’ll eat it. Do you hear me, sir?’
Abraham raked himself lazily out of
his seat, and moved slowly off, casting
a longing look at the many good things
on the table, which, he evidently
thought, ‘fitten for a prince to eat.’
‘Ma,’ said he as he retired, ‘I wish
you’d make Bill quit laughing at me.’
‘William, I’ve as great a mind as I
ever had to do anything in my life to
«eud you from the table, and not let
you eat a mouthful. I despise fliat
a!x>minable disposition you have of re
joicing at your brothers’ misfortunes.
Reua ember, sir, what Solomon says:
He that is glad at -calamities shall not
go unpunished.’ ’
‘Ma,’ said Abraham, ‘mayn’t I come
to my breakfast ?’
‘Yes, if you think you can now be
have yourself with decency.’
Abraham returned, and they all
broke forth at once:
Ma, mayn’t I have some sassidge?’
—‘Ma, I want some spare-rib.’—‘Ma,
I ain’t got no coffee.’—‘Ma, if you
please ma’in, let me have some ham
gravy, and some fried hom’ny, and
some egg, and— ’
‘And some of everything on the ta
ble, I suppose. Put down your plute
—every one of you. George, what will
you have ?’
‘Some sassidge, and some fried pota
ter.’
‘John, help your brother George.—
What do you want, W’iliiam ?’
‘I want- some spare-rib and some
hom’ny.’
‘Nancy, help William. What do you
want, Abraham ?’
‘I reckon,’ said John, smiling, ‘he’ll
take a little souse.’
‘Now, John, behave yourself. He.
has 3uffefed the [unishment of his
fault, and there let it rest/
‘l’ll have,’ said Abraham, ‘some ham
gravy, and some egg, and some hom’-
ny.’
‘Help him, Chaney. What’ll you
have, Isaac ?’
Til have some ham-gravy, and some
hom’ny, and some sassidge, and some
spare-rib, and some— ’
‘Well, you are not going to have ev
erything on the table, I assure you. —
What do you want ?’
‘I want some hau.-gravy and some
hom’ny.’
‘John, help I— ’
‘No! I don’t want no gravy; I want
somo spare-rib.’
‘John, give him— ’
‘No! I don’t want no spare-rib; I
want some sassidge.’
‘Well, if you don’t make up your
mind pretty quick you’ll want your
breakfast, I tell you. I’m not going to
be tantalized all day long by your
wants. Say what you want, and have
done with it.’
•I want some bam-gravy and some
eassulge and some hom’ny.*
‘Help him, John/
John helped him to about a tear
8 oonful from each dish.
‘Now, Ma, jesL look at Bud John !
He haiu’t gi’ me only jist these three
little bit ’o bits.’
‘John, if you can’t keep from tantal
izing the children, tell me so, and I’ll
not trouble you to help fcbma
more. I confess that lamat a loss to
discover what pleasure one of your age
can take in tenting your younger
brothers. Rebecca, what do 'you
want?’
‘I want my pig-tail, ma’am.*
‘Bless my soul and body I haven't
you forgot that pig-tail yet? It’s
burnt up long ago, I hope. Look,
Bob, and see; and if it isn't, give it to
her. I wish in my heart there never
was a pig-tail on the face of the earth.’
Bob produced the half charred pig
tail, aud laid it on Miss Rebecca’s
plate.
‘There,* continued her mother, ‘I
hope now your heart’s at ease A
beautiful dish it is, truly, for auy mor
tal to take a fancy to!
‘Ma, I don’t want this pig-tail.’
‘Take it away. I knew yon didn't
want it, you little perversa brat I
knew you didn’t want it; and I don’t
know what got into me to let you have
it But really, I tun so tormented ont
of my life that, half the time, I hardly
know whether I’m standing on my head
or my heels.’
‘Missis,’ said Chaney. ‘Aunt Dorcas
say please make Miss Louisa come out
de kitchen. Say if you don’t make her
come out de fire, her’U git burnt up
d’rekly. Say every time she tell her to
come out de fire she make a mouf at
her.’
‘Why, sure enough! where is Loui
sa ? Go tell her to come to her break
fast this instant.’
T did tell her, ma'am; and she say
she won’t come till she gits dene bakin’
her cake.’
Mm Butler left the room, and soon
returned with Louisa sobbing and cry
in it
‘Aunt Dorcas jerked me hard as ev
er she could jerk ’fore I did anything
't all to her/
‘Hold your tongue! she served you
right enough; you’d no business ffiere.
You're a pretty thing to be making
mouths at a person old enough to be
your grandmother. If I’d thought
when I gave you that lump of dough
that the whole plantation was to be
turned upside down about it, I'd have
let you do without it.’
Miss Louisa, after a little sobbing and
pouting, drew from her apron a small, dirty,
ashy, black, wrinkled, burnt biscuit, warm
from the kitchen sliorel, which would have
been just precisely the accompaniment to
Rebecca’s dish; and upon this, iu preference
to everything on the table, she commenced
her repast.
‘Well, L*u,’ said the mother with a laugh,
as she cast her eye upon the unsightly bis
cuit, ‘you certainly have a strange taste.’
Everybody knows that the mother’s laugh
is always responded to with compound in
terest by all her children. Fo was it in this
instance, and good humor prevailed around
the table.
‘l’m sorry,’ said Abraham, ‘for Louisa’s
b-i-s, bis, k-i t, kit, biskit. ’
‘Well, really !’ said Mrs. 8., ‘you are a
handsome speller. Is that the way you
spell biscuit?’
*1 can spell it, Ma,’ bawled out Isaac.
‘Well, spell it.’
‘B-i-s, bis, c’— (‘Well, that’s right.’) ‘h’—
‘Ah, well! that’ll do. You needn’t goany
further; you’ve missed it w'orse than your
brother. Spell it, William.’
William spelled it correctly
‘Ma,’ said George, ‘what is biscuit derived
from ?’
•I really do not know,’ said Mrs. 8., ‘and
yet I have somewhere read an explanation
of it. John, what is it derived from V
John.—‘From the French; bis twice, and
ouit baked *
Butler.—‘Rather from two Latin words
which mean the same thing; one of which
the French have changed as we have it,
while they have preserved the other unalter
ed
William.—‘Why, Ma, you don’tbake bis
cuits twice over.’
Abraham.—‘Yes. Ma does sometimes; don’t
you, Ma, when company comes?’
Mother.—‘No. I sometimes warm over cold
ones, when I havn’t time to make fresh ones;
but never bake them twice.’
Butler.-—‘They were first made to carry to
> «»; and they were then baked twice over,
as I believe sea-biseuits stiil are.’
Isaac.—‘Ma, what’s breakfast ’rived from?’
Mother.—‘Spell it, and you will see.’
Isaac.—B-r e-a-k, break, f-u-s-t, fust
breakfust.’
Mother.—‘Well, Ike, you’re another spell
er. Break-fastis the word: not break-fust.’
Abraham.— ‘I know what it comes from.’
Mother.—‘What.’
Abraham.—You know, when you call us
chillen to breakfast, we all break off and
run as fast as we can split.’
Mother.— Well, that is a brilliant deriva»
tion, truly. Do you suppose there wasn’t
breakfast before you children were born V
Abraham. ‘But, Ma, everybody has chil
leu*’
Mrs. Butler explained the term.
Isaaac.—‘Ma, I know what sassidge comes
from.’
Mother.—‘What ?’
Isaac.—‘Cause it’s gotsassin it.’
Mother.—‘Well, there, there, there! I’ve
got enough of derivations, unless they are
better. You’ll learn all these things as you
grow older.’
Just here. Miss Sarah, who had been
breakfasting at a side table, was seized with
a curiosity to see what was on the breakfast
table. Accordingly, she undertook to draw
herself up to the convenient elevation by the
table-cloth. Her mother arrested her just
in time to save a cup, and pushed her aside
with a ger.tle admonition. This did not
abate Miss Sarah’s curiosity in the least, and
she recommenced her experiment. Her moth
er removed her a little more empatically this
time. These little interruptions only fired
Miss Sarah’s zeal, and she was returning to
the charge with redoubled energy, when she
ran her check against the palm of her moth
ers hand, with a rubificent force. Away she
went to her grandmother, crying, ‘Gran’ma,
Ma whipped your prettous, darlin, angel
baby.’
‘Did she, my darling ? Then Grandma’s
precious, darling, angel must be a good
child, and mother won’t whip it any mo e.’
‘Well. I will be a dood child.’
‘Well th. n, mother won’t whip it any more,’
and this conference was kept up without, the
variation of a letter on either side, until the
grandmother deemed it expedient to Temove
Miss Sarah to an adjoining room, lest the
mother should insist upon the immediate
fulfilment of her promises.
‘Ma, just look at Abe.’ cried out William;
‘he saw me going to take a biscuit, and he
snatched up the very one I was going to
take.’
‘Abe,’ said the mother, ‘I do wish I could
make you quit nick-namiug each other; and
I wish more that I had never set you the ex
ample. Tut down that biscuit, sir, and take
another.
Abraham returned the biscuit, and Wil
liam took it with a sly and triumphant gig
gle at Abraham.
‘Ma,’ said Abraham, ‘Bill said God durn.’
‘Law, what a story! Ma, I'tleclare I nev
er said no such thing.’
‘Yes you did, and Chaney heard you.’
Williams countenance immediately showed
that hta memory had been refreshed; and he
drew ed cut, ‘I never none now,’ with a tone
and comrteiuuice that plainly imparted guilt
to some extent. .His mother suspected that
he was hinging uqan technics, and ahe put
putthe probing question, ‘Well, what did*
you say ?’
‘I said I be teetotly ’od ’urn,’
‘And that’s just as bail. Mr. Butler, you
positively will have to take this boy in hand.
He evinces a strong propensity to profane
swearing, which if not corrocted immediate
ly, will become ungovernable.’
‘Whenever you can’t manage him,’ said
Mr. Butler as before, ‘just turn him over to
me, and I reckon I can manage him.’
It is duo to Butler here to state that it
was mutually understood between him and
his wife that her credit was not staked upon
these general drafts, and therefore he did
not feel himself bouud to honor them; but
whenever she valued on him (as tho mer
chants say) for a specific amount or a spe
cial purpose, her bills were never dishonor
ed.
‘When did he 6ay it V inquired the moth
er, returning to Abraham.
T u know that time you sent us all chil
dren to the new ground to pick peas-’
‘Why, that’s been three months ago, at
last, and you’ve just thought now of telling
it. Oh, you malicious toad, you; where do
you learn to bear malice so long? . I abhor
that trait of character in a child.’
‘Ma,’ said Bill, ‘ftbe haiu’t said his pray
ers for three nights.’
Abe and Bill now exactly swapped places
and countenances.
‘Yes.’said the mother, ‘and I suppose 1
“hould never have heard of that if Abraham
had not told of your profanity.’
‘I know better,’ dragged out Abraham, in
reply to William.
‘Abraham,’ said the mother solemnly,
‘did you kneel down when you said your
prayers last night ?'
‘Yes, ma’am,’ said Abraham, brightening
a little.
•Yes, Ma,’ continued Bill, *he kneels down
and ’fore I say ‘Now I lay me down to sleep,
he jumps up every night and hopg in bed
and says he's done said his prayers, and he
hain’t had time to say half a prayer - ’
During this narrative my namesake kept
cowering under the steadfast frown of mot ti
er, until he transformed himself into the
perfect personification of idiocy.
‘How many prayers did you say last night,
Abraham?’ pursued the mother iu an awful
ly portentous tone.
‘I said one, and’— (here he paused-)
‘One, and what V
‘One, and a piece of tother one.’
‘Why, Ma, he couldn’t ha’ said it to save
his life, for he hadn’t time’—
‘Hush, sir, I don’t ask for your assist
ance.’
‘I did,’ muttered Abraham, -I said tother
p ; ece after I got in bed.’
‘Abraham,’ said his mother, ‘I declare I
do not know what to gay to you. lam so
mortified, so shocked at this conduct, that I
am completely at a loss how to express myself
about it Suppose you had dieu last night
after trifling with your prayers as you did,
who can tell what would have become of you!
Is it possible that you cannot spend a few
minutes in prayer to your Heavenly Father,
who feeds you, who clothes you, and who
gives you every good thing you have in the
world! You poor sinfulehild. I could weep
over you.’
Poor Abraham evinced such deep contri
tion under this lecture (for he sobbed as if
his heart would break) that his mother deem
ed it prudent toeonclude with suasives, which
she did in the happiest manner.
Having thus restored Abraham's equini
mity in a measure, with a gently encourag
ing smile, she continued:
‘And now, Abraham, tell your mother how
you came to say a part of the second prayer.’
‘I couldn’t go to sleep till I said it, ma’m.’
‘Well, that is a good sign at least. Aud
what part was it?’
‘God bless my father and mother.’
Mrs. butler felt quickly for her handker
chief. It had fallen from her :itp, and -she
was. glad of it. She depressed her bead be
low the table in search of it, dismissed the
children before she raised it, and then rose
wi»h a countenance suffused with smiles and
tears.
‘Poor babe,’ said she, what an odd com
pound of good aud bad they are !’
The grandmother returned just at this
time, and discovering some uneasiness at
Mrs. Butler's tears, the latter explained.—
As she concluded—‘The Lord bless the poor 1 *
dear boy,’ exclaimed the venerable matron,
raising her apron to her eyes, -that shows
he’s got a good heart. No danger of the
child that can’t sleep till he prays for his
father and mother.’
THE SEMI-WEEKLY EXPRESS
JAS. WATT IIAEKIS and BAM'L H. SMITH
Editors ai;d PRorRiRTORS.
CARTERSVILLS, GA., FEB. 24th. 1871.
Editor Constitution: In your issue
of the 17th instant, the following state
ment appears:
“We are credibly informed by a gen
tleman who has just returned from
Cherokee county, that on Tuesday last,
au outrage was committed about ten
miles from Cartersville, on a Burns,
of South C irolina. It appears that
Dr. Harris and a Mr. Burns had come
with a party who had moved from 8.
Carolina to a place near Adairs vi lie.—
Mr. Burns was in a buggy and Dr.
Harris was riding horseback.
“Dr. H. stopped to purchase some
apples, and Mr. B. drove on. Coming
to a negro cabin, Dr. H. asked for some
fire, and being told to come in and get
it, be alighted and went in. While in
the house several white men came in
and went out. Dr H pursuing his
journey overtook three men, and a con
versation ensued about hunting. One
of them grabbed hold of him while an
other repeatedly snapped a double bar
rel gun at him. He demanded to
kuow the cause of this harsh treat
ment, when one claimed to be an offi
cer, and that he was arresting him for
a rape.
“Dr H. advised them to put him in
jail, and not take his life. After some
parleying, they touk his horse, money
and pistols, aud telling him that they
would spare his life it he wouldn’t say
anything about the occurrence, turned
him loose, and pushed on after Mr. B.
They failed, however, to overtake him.
On the route they reported that-they
had captured oue horse, but had turn
ed the man loose, aud were after an
other one of them.
“Dr. H. went to the residence of Col.
J. E. Brown, and with Mr. Burns, Mr.
Evans, and Mr, Kitchens proceeded to
search for the perpetrators of the out
rage. The horse was found locked up
iu the stable of a Mr. Pearson, who is
supposed to be one of the party. At
the approach of Dr. H. and party, the
family fled to the woods. One of the
desperadoes is said to be named Born.
Nothing but the horse was recovered. ’
As we are old citizens of Bartow co.,
and think we can, without any great
show of vanity, claim some character
for houesly aud fair dealing, we ask
,ou to publish this statement of facts:
<’n the day referred to, the under
signed, in company with Daniel S.
Ford, were going up what is kuown in
this county as the Tennessee road,
some nine miles from Cartersville, were
met by a Mr. Stover, who said to us
that a man was at the house of a col
ored man named Richards, near by,
abasing Richards’ family, and asked us
to try and relieve this colored family.
We proceeded to the house of Rich
ards, aud found a man there in the act
of raping a colored girl—some thirteen
or fourteen years old—who was crying,
and otherwise demonstrating to us that
she was being forced by tne man,
whose name we did not know. It is
also proper to state that the girl is
well known to us, aud known to be a
! cripple, and tha she cannot walk with-
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out clutches. This man was armed,
his pistol lying on the bed within his
reach.
As soon as be saw us, he got rip,
picked up his pMols, and ordered the
girl to dry up, for that he could with
the fire of his pistol raise ten armed
men. As we were unarmed, and un
derstood his remark to be made for
our benefit and information rather
than for the girl, we allowed him to get
on his horse and leave; we at once pro
ceeded to get guns, and commenced
the pursuit to arre t him. About one
and a half miles from the scene of the
outrage we came up with this man and
arrested him. We then determined to
carry him to the house of Esquire Si
las Bell, who is a Justice of the Peace,
to have him bound over to appear at
the Superior Court to answer for the
crime he seemed to us to be guilty of.
After we started, one of our party had
occasion to stop, another was absent
when the arrest was made, and the
country being there rough and broken
he slipped from his horse and made his
escape. We took his horse, and Pear
son carried the liorse to his house and
locked him up.
The next day, while Pearson and
his wife were abse; t from nome, the
stable was broken open and the horse
carried away. The saddle and pistol
of this man are yet in the possession of
Toarson, where the owner can get
them if he will apply for them. Our
fear is that the party from whose pos
session they were taken will never ap
ply for them.
We know nothing of Dr. Burns, Dr.
Harris, or ,r. Harris. All we can say
is, that if the man we caught at the
house of the negro Richards, is the
kind of company Dr. Harris keeps, it
does uot redound greatly to his credit.
It may not be out of place to say,
that Daniel 8. Ford, who knows much
of what was done, is one of the oldest
and most respectable citizens of this
county. Pearson is at, present a Jus
tice of the Peace in his district, and
ordered the pursuit and arrest of the
person who, it seems, is Dr. Burns. —
Vaughan is an ex-Justiee of the Inferi
or Court. In this county this is un
necessary, but those abroad who may
wish to kuow us, and !he probabilities
of Dr. Burns having been outraged,
we would ask them to call upon Hon.
F. M. Ford, Gen. Win. T. Wofford,
Captain B. G. Pool, the Ordinary, J. ,
A. Howard, and the ederk of the Su
perior Court, Thos. A. Word.
We must uot forget to say, in an
swer to the charge of robbery, that Dr.
Burns did offer us money to let him j
go, but we did not take any by force i
or with his consent. All we wanted
was to bring a criminal to justice.
David A. Vaughan,
Wesley Pearson,
William ullens,
J. 0. Stoter.
Bartow County, Feb. 20, 1871.
Speech Makdtg in Prayer. —Should
prayer, offered in public, be an ora
tion ? A few montus ago, he went to
church on a Sunday evening, iu a large
country town, and heard something
which so impressed us that we have
siuce thought about it very often. It
was not the sermon; there was noth
ing memorable iu that. It was a pray
er, or at least, when the minister be
gan, he said, “Let us pray,” and the
people - bowed their Heads as if in sup i
plication. Then fir t, a
brief euology upon human nature, set
ting forth its dignity aud independence.
Then there was a description of the
horrible and enslaving effects of sup
perstition, and of false views of the
character of God, which have always
been entertained in the Christian
church. After this, the results of mod
ern theological criticism were summed
up, aud the prayer concluded with a
sketch in outline of the “good time
coming, when man will be emancipa
ted from the bondage of traditions,
and rites, and superstitious, usages,
aud will reverence and worship only
the Divine in his own nature.” This is
no caricature; it is an accurate report
of what we heard on the occasion
above referred to, and in important re
spects, it is much like what we have
often heard in our denomination and
in others. There is a great deal of
praying in public that closely resem
bles speech-making. Os course we in
tend no criticism of the obvious ideas
and opinions of the ministers whom
we heard; we only ask whether such
an oration can properly be termed a
prayer ?— Liberal Christian.
A man at Long Branch ref us. and
to bathe on Sunday because he had
‘nothing to do with Sabbath breakers.’ l
A fond wife threw a bottle of
hair-reviver at her husbands head, at
which he said: ‘We must part—the
dye is cast.’
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Alice COf).
Our lives are chords and God has strung
them all over the key board humanity.—
. What a wonderful diapason they make !
Men sweep them with a mystic touch and the
symphony they call poetry. Therr are few
Beethovens in the musical world ; there are
fewer Mahons in the poetic. Few utter in
poesy the octaves of our lives - deep and res
onant of kingly power ; or strike fiercely the
minor chords of despair—the wailings of un
comforted grief; but the common singers,
whose touch is glad and bouyant, who carol
common songs, rythmetical with common
toil, are many. There are few nightingales
—the lark’s strain gladdens every field
“Dead—Alice Cary—aged 50.”—-The wire
clicked it to us the other day.
We are whirling on, and to-morrow her
grave will have been passed; drop the flower
of your love to-day!
Alice Cary sang while she worked. The
whitened year sheaves of her life were bound
with song. She sang common songs No
word paintiugs; no portraitures of voluptu
ousness ; no swelling resonance or mad wild
cries; no Umnings of physical beauty—hot
lips that cling; eyes that dare; arms that
open half to circle; bosom distended, pant
ing; every passionful curving, swelling limb
instinct, quivering, bending, yielding to the
fierce desire to hold ! to have ! arms pearly,
snowy breast! Hands, full of woman’s
work ; heart, full of woman’s faith and ten
derness, she sang sweetly, naturally. Her
songs were bu t the echo of her heart. There
is that in the conception of a singing toiler
that wins irrisistibly our love and sympathy.
Why should we not all sing—not grand jubi.
lees, or mighty paeans, for the strained souj
tires, but each in the measure of his ownca.
parity? How musically sounds a song with
the sweep of the sickle through the grain.—
We are all reapers on the plains of life, —
Some sing songs, and some live thorn. This
woman did both. We rejoice that she sang
humbly. Milton’s grandeur wearies, und
Byron’s passion surfeits. We turn from
them and gather strength and purity from
the real life of Alice Cary’s carollings. We
are stifled with the bloom of Moore’s tropic
al exuberance ; and back to our own loved
violet.
We are glad she sang. We love her the
more for singing of faith, in toil; Qf hope, in
doubt; of rest, “beyond the cedars and the
stars.”
Your grave is passed sweet poet. The
wave of yesterday covered it. Vale!
Macpblah.
Curious Feat of the Telegraph.—
Within a week or two a singular
achievement of the telegraph has oc
curred. A gentleman suddenly be
came ill of pneumonia in Washington
City. His physician, a gentleman of
great attainments and fame, resided
in New York, and he was anxious that
this physician should be consulted
about his case. A telegraphic wire
was by his direction taken into his
room, and the New York doctor being
summoned to the telegraph office
there, the Washington physician at
tending the patient informed him of
the state of the case, and even enabled
him to feel his patient's pidse by caus
ing the wire to vibrate as the pulse
did. The case thus being thoroughly
diagnosed iu New York, the necessary
prescriptions were sent thence to
Washington. The attack, though vio
lent, soon yielded to the treatment,
and the patient is now a very cheerful
convalescent. This is the first case of
the kind we have heard of. It is quite
au interesting feat of telegraph.
How Congressmen Used to Trav
el.
Iu the olden time, says a Washing
toil correspondent, the wealthy Sena
tors and Representatives used to
journey hither from their homes in
their own carriages, which they thus
had for their own use during the ses
sion in this city of muguificent distan
ces. Rufus King used to come with
his four bay 8; the four iron grays
which Jackson drove from the Hermi
tage when he was Senator, have never
been surpassed; and Calhoun’s four
in-hand chestnuts, which brought him
and his family from Fort Hill, were
much admired. Henry Clay, when he
was first a member of the House, rode
from Ashland here on a thoroughbred
colt of his own raising, and it took
him longer to get here than it now
does a California member of Congress
to come by rail from the Golden Gate.
“In Liquor.” —One of the boys at
the Western depot, while walking over
a pile .of freight the other night, step
ped upon the head of a barrel of whis
key, which fell through and left the
youth standing up to his waist in a
small ocean of “liquid fire. ’ That boy
was emphatically ‘in liquor,’ and
should be lectured by his mother. -
What a glorious “posish” his would
have been for some old topers we wot
of.—Enquirer.
r ADVKKTISEMIvXTS.
08. JOHN BULLET
GREAT REMEDIES.
“ -L. ' '
§- j| jT t .j| w
SMITH’S SllirP,
FOR THE CURE OF
AGUE ANO FEVER
OR
CHILIS ANO FEVER.
■Die proprietor of tfii# celebrated medicine justly
®’ ai “ s t . for '* *; "“Perionty over ail remedies ever offer*
ssjti
hitaKi- 1 * ’l°f 0 "-“<*»*>•••»KrteT
i . °7’ and * nd c»“rie<i oat. In a great many case# a
single dose has been sufficient for a cure, and whole
families have been cured by a sinirle bnttu m-tiK .
prudent, and in every case more certain to cure, if its
c^ ntinued in •mailer dose# for a week or two af
thC i* d,Se j? e h ®* b<H!D check^l » more especially in
i 1 ®' 3a JJ f nd ,OD ?r »*«Ddlng case#. Usually, this medi
cine will not require any aid to keep the boweis in
good order ; ghould the patient, however, require a
cathartic medicine, after having taken three or faur
BU? FAM*LT n M *l.i! n u?K°* e ° f BULL ”* VTOKTA
tJLK tAM LY PIuLU will be sufficlert
DR, JOHN BULL’S
Principal Office
Wo. 40 Fifth. CrosN street,
Louisville, Kj.
BULL’S WORM DESTROYER,
To my United Stattea and World wide Read
erg:
T HAVE received many testimonials from rrofes
ous l ? en > ** “‘manses and vari
ous pubUcatiOßii have shown, all of which are genuine.
T h h r « . fo , llow . ln * fro “ • highly educated and popular
P iK? ilC * n ln 9 eo^ia » 5 * certainly one ©f the most sen
sible commumc&tionf l have ever received. Dr. Elem
ent knows exactly what he speaka of, and his teitimo
d.e.B^ 10 be wrltten in letter# of gold Hear
what the Doctor says of Bull's Worm Destroyer
Villanow, Walker co., Ga. )
June 29th, 1866 $
DR. JOHN BULL—Dear Sir:—l have recentlv .1.
en Destroyer” several trials, and find u
wonderfully efficacious. It has not failed in a single
n n rlu D °u t 0 hav * the wished-for effect. lam dolw,
pretty large country practice, and have daily use for
some article of the kind. lam free to confesa that I
know of no remedy recommended by the ablest author#
that isiso certain and speedy in its effects. On the con
trary they are uncertain in the extreme. My object
m writing yon is to find out upon what terms l can
get the medicine directly from yon. If I can get it
upon easy term#, I shall use a great deal of it rim
aware that the use of such articles is contrary to the
teachings and practice of a great majority of the ren
ular line of M. D.’s, but I lee no cau eor
sense in discarding a remedy which we know to bf^N
“w 7 becau,e w T e m »y be ignorant of its com
bination. For my part, I shall make it a ruie to use ail
and any means to alleviate suffering humanity whilh
I may be able to •ommand—not hesitating because
someone more ingenious than myself may have learn
and its effects first, and secured the sole right tc secure
hat knowledge. However, lamby no m< an ß an ad
vacate or supporter of the thousands of worthies# n “-
trums that flood the country, that purport to cure^ll
manner of disease to which hum m flesh ig heir
Please reply soon, and inform me of your beat term.
I am,sir, most respectfully, m, ‘
JULIUS P. CLEMENT, M. D.
BULL’S SARSAPARILLA.
A GOOD REASON F n R THE CAPTAIN’S FAITH*
READ THE CAPTAIN’S LETTER AND THE LJ£T
TER FROM HIS MOTHER.
Benton Barrack., Mo., April 80, 18«6.
Dr. John Bull—Dear Sir- Knn.i*. .v _
of your Sarsaparilla, and the healhfe an*d h® 0 *! 11 ! 07
qualities it possesses. I send you the foU«»? al
ment of my case: 7 e r °‘ ,ow Ing state-
I was wounded about two *#»-. „„
prisoner and confined foT sixteen
moved so often, my wounds have a Bdnfr
have not sat up a moment since 1 w!« t ed / e }' 1
am shot through the hins wa ? y ou nded. I
paired, and I "need soSlhin/ U ‘"V
fcave more faith in your Sarsaparilla th Ji t natnre - 1
els*. I wish that that is genufne 1 Plem,J D . Sn 7 th,Dg
half a dosep bottles, and oblige * P eaae ex Press me
Capt. O. P. JOHNSON.
Mrs. j"enTte*./ohnson^mo ther r o by
New York, where he died Telvi P n / ,a * n D Central
Johnson to my care. At thirteen , above c - P
a chronic diarrhoea and RcrofuU 7 ft! P 9 had
him your Sarsapariita. IT CURED KIM
ten years recommended it to many in New Au? r
and lowa, for scrofula, fever sorp 7 an ? e York, Ohio,
ty Perfect success has attend it’
erf in some castes oj scrofula and fever- CWt *
almofd miraculous lam very anxiou Vr n ? M W * r *
again have reconrse to your Sarsanariu/ i?! 7 , to
ful of gel Ung a spuiious artcle h .„„M He '* feur ‘
yo« for it. Hi# wounds were ter’rlbte bo t I ?
will recover. Respectfully JENNIE JOHNSON.^
urn cum mmm
r.
AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS.
■
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ARKANSAS HEARD FROM,
Testimony of Medical Men
Stony Point, White Cos., Ark., May 28, ’66.
DR. JOHN BULL—Dear Sir: Last February I was
in Louisville purchasing Drugs, and I got some of
your Sarsappanlla and Cedron Bitters.
My son-in-law, who was with me In the store has
been down with rheumatism for some time, commen
ced on the Bitters, an,' soon found hie general health
Improved.
Dr. Gist, wh-> has been in bad health, tried them
and he also improved. ’
Dr. Coffee, who has been in bad health for several
years —eiomach and liver affected—he improved ver»
much by the use of your Bitters. Indeed the Cedron
Bitters has given you great Popularity in this settle
ment. I think I could sell a great quantity of vour
medicines this fall—especially of your Cedron R
and Sarsaparilla. Ship me via Memphis, car. r.t
Rickett Ac Neely, Respectfully. ’ 1
c B WALKER
All the above remedies for sale by
• '
Is. 11. BRADFIELD,
Druggist,
Broad Street,
Atlanta, Georgia.
February 20, 1871—wly
new advertisement^
" " '" n ' L " " —T- ' . "V— -„ IM
$5 TO $lO PER DAT.
who ongag? ia Q nr new busing o7B ? nU «> *u
fheir own locS'itie'* k K | f H r,:
Thwe in a^LAl S f rUrti ° nS SflU fS by fe r '
i nose in need «f permanent, mxrtlt.Kl* tl!
should address at once, GEORUK vi rv w, ’ y *
CO., Portland, Maine. 1 ts » JS a
for 6 months. Subscribe for it For P 7ear; U
•Address -DAY-BOOK,/^
DR. S. 8. FITCH’S Family PhrslrU
Paces ' sent bv mail free.
cure alTdiseases of the person; skin hair * lo
complexion. Write to 714 Sew
UNCLE .JOSHES —
TB JINK FULL 0 F FUN
yu»ih. IWdTe,, Burton. SSSSTvS;^'
auntlriints, and Mirth-Provrilns to '
rubU,he,l lntcAVcr.™»l,h Cu& h K,'rr
indT. e riv*M, *•«..« off artor' & '
mad »carty KWFunny Engravings. IHnstrtu '
Cover. Prjce 15 cents. Sent l»v mail, port-na,
to any partofthc Tniteti States, or, receipf!!;
St., C N. Y lCk& lltz ff era H Publishers, 18 \vnn
A. B. FARQUHAR,
Proprietor Pennsylvania Agricultural
Work#-
YORK, PEXXSY LVAX lA.
Manufacturer oflmprovad Polished
DICKSON SWEEPS SOUO STEEL SWEEPS ANr
SCRAPERS. STEEL PLOWS, SHOVEL PLOW
BL J°. E S. CUfnVATORS, HORSE HOES
H 0 W S> »O«SE-POWERS.
THRESHING MACHINES. ETC.
Sp»<* for ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE.
A ?r PJ SJ* A S ER » COItEK AND BLICKH
by D. H. \Unttemore, Worcester'
BRICCS & BRO’S
Illustrated & Descriptive Oat;
OF FLOWER & VEGETABLE SEEDS,
• : »*»•#»*,'; AND
Summer Flowering Bulbs
FOR 1071.
Will be readv for mailing bv the middle of K.,
uarj-, notwithstanding ofcr great logs •ftyue
per, engravings, Ac., bv fire, which rWtm l'
the Job Printing Office of the ItcM hester Vv "l‘
crut <6 Chronicle, 25th, December, 1870 it >hii
be Printed on a most elegant new-tinted pai. r
and illustrated with nearly 11 r -
Five Hundred Original Engraving#,
And two flnelv executed Colored
mens lor all of which were grown bv ourselves
the past season from our own stock of Seed* i„
the originality, execution and extent of the o ,
gravnigs it is unlike and eminent! v superior to
ai s^ t r h Yrii ftta^ l°gne or “Floral Guide” extant
The Catalogue will consist of 112 pages, and **
soon as published will be sent free to all who or
dered Seeds from ns by mail the last season To
other; a charge of 15 cents percopv will be lU;l .i,
which is not the value of the Colored Plates. \v l
assure our friends that the inducements we offsr
to purchasers of Seeds, as to quality and ex
tent of istock, Discounts and Premiums, are un
surpassed. Please send orders for Catalogue,
without delay. 6
Our Colored Chromo for 1871.
W’ill be ready to send out in January The
Chromo will represent forty-two varieties of
showy and popular Flowers, of natural size and
color. We design to make it the best Plate of
Flowers ever issusd. Size, 19x24 inches. Th,
reeail value would be at least $2; we shall bow
ever, Hirnish it to customers at 75 cents pr.'. ...
and offer it at a premium upon orders for
See Catalogue when out. BRIGGS * BKofli-
E,Il Rochester, X. Y.
Ift9AF THt ‘VEGETABLE" jQ-n
Balsam”JO ((f
The old standard remedy for Coughs. Cold* < , -
sumpUou. “Xothinff better." Ccti.EK Bkos. ,t
Cos., Beston.
$3 WATCH $3 WATCH
THE GREAT EDROPEA.V
EUREKA ALUMINUM SOLO WATCHtR.
have appointed
L. "V. liefoi’esit & Cos. Jewelers,,
40 A 42 Broadway New York.
SOLE AGENTS FOR THE U. 8.
and have authorized them to sell their great
Eureka Aluminum Cold Watches for
Three Dollars, and to warrant each and
every one to keep correct time for one year.
This Watch we guarantee to be the best and
cheapest time-keeper that ia now in use in
any part of the globe. The works are in
double cases. Ladies’ and Gents’ size and are
beautifully chased. The cases arc made
the material now so widely known in Eu
rope as the Alluminum Gold. It has theex
«c/ color of Gold , which always retains; it
will stand the test of the stri ugest acids; no
one can tell it from Gold only by weight, the
Alluminum Gold being 1-1 G lighter. The
works are made by machinery, same as the
well-known American Watch. The Allumi
num is a cheap metal, hence we can afford
to sell the W’atch for $3 and make a sma"
profit. We pack the Watch safely in a small
box and send it to any part of the IT. S. on
receipt of $3.50; fifty cents for packing and
postage. Address all orders to
L,.V. DEFORRES r &CO , Jewel
ers, 40 & 12 B rod way, New York.
AN INDEPENDENT FORTUNE
ix four months.
Can be made in a quiet way by men that are
capable of keeping the secret. Address
JAMES GOODWIN, 67 Exchang?
Place, Xcu lark.
YTPHAM’s E>el>ilafoi*y
superfluous
hair in fito minute*, without injury to the : ■
Sent by mail for f1.25.
CPHAMS ASTHMA CUBE
Relieves most violent paroxvsms in five mim -
and effects a speedy cure. Urice $2 by mail.
The Japanese Hair Stain
Colors the whiskers and hair a beautiful blaci
or BROWN. It consists of only one prepar
75 cents by mail. Address S. C. UPHAM, No.
721 Jayne Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Circulars
sent free. Sold by all Druggists.
MJMJUM'MfM
TO THE WORKING CLASS—We are now
prepared to furnish all classes with const* n
employment at home, the whole of the time or
for the spare moments. Business new, light,
and profitable. Persons of either sex easily earc
from 60c. to $5 per evening, and a proportional
sum by devoting their whole time to the busi
ness. Boys and girls earn nearly as much as
men. That all who see this notice may
send their address, and test the business, we
make the unparalleled offer: To each as are
not well satisfied, we will send $1 to pa . for
trouble of writing. Fnß particulars, a valua
ble sample which will do to commence work on,
and a copy of The People' s Literary Companion
one of the best and largest family newspaper*
ever published--all sent free by mail. Reader,
if you want permanent, profitable work, address
E- C. A LLEN £ CO., Augusta, Maine.
Agents ! Read Tnis !
¥1/ T E will pay agents a salan
W V Os S3O per week and expenses, or
allow a large commission, to sell our new and
wonderful inventions. Address M. WAGXtB
A CO., Marshall, Mich.
Curious, How Strange!
The Married Ladies’Private Companion coe_
tains the desired information. Sent free for!
stamps. Mrs. H. Metzger, Hanover, Pa.
AVOIDQUACKS.—A victim of early i D<iis
cretion, causing nervous debility, pre? lß ,’
ture decay, Ac., having tried every advertiser
remedy, vain, has a simple means of self-secure,
which he will send free to his fellew-suflerers-
Address J. J. H. Tuttle, 78 Nassau jst.,N. T° rK '
New $26) (A Mqnths
Sewing r Send stamp for -j A rial
Machine.) full particular*, (at Eome»
W. D ANIELS A CO.. Savannah. Georg*
MEW JOB TYPE.
We have just received a supply of new «°' o
Type, from the Cincinnati Type Foun
and we are prepared to do Job Printing -
the neatest and moat tasty style, upon si K ’ r *
notice, very low for cash,