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The Portrait of Queen Marguerite.
Formerly the pencils of Latour, the
paint brushes of Largilliere and of Wat
teau, took the responsibility of leaving
to posterity a charming image of the
Princesses of their time. To-day it is
the pens of literary gentlemen, who, re
maining inactive in a political point of
view, exercise themselves in tracing
sketches and paint with art the
'qst royal of beauties, to wit: the Queen
'taly.
" .gone by, not very long*ago—
tir blka ifl Highness—she
uc Diißa 10 K,., nde a8 a tea .
out, of bed once oy twice py an ulm*
getic wife wbo.takes an honest pride
in lotting him know that she ie pro
prietor of that particular portion
of the globe.
Do you want the best literary paper in
the world ? If you do be sure to read
the offer of the publisher of the New
York Ledger in another column, every
body is acquainted with the ledger, and
itneeda no argument from ui to prove
it the best family paper in the world.
We learn that Mr. Frank and Perry
Greer, had a difficulty with one of the
colored men working on the railroad
near Jackson, that may prove fatal.
We were informed that the freeedman
caught the bridle of the team Mr, Greer
was driving, and attempted to lead them
contrary to his order and refused to lose
his hold, when tpid to do so, for which
Frank struck him he in return raised
hisshoyel to return tb.o blow when Per
ry seized one of tlio slats from the wag
on bed an and knocked him down inflicting
a serious if not it. el wound. •
J . G. Daughtry k £ro keeps a full sup
ply of meat,-Corn, Flour, Syrup, Sugar,
Coffee, and in fact any thing that is
good to eat. ! ■ !
l w
Messrs White and Yancy are sawing
a large amount of Lumber at their steam
mill near .T. 0 Beauchamps and those
who want such lumber as can bo made
with the logs to be had in this country
can get any quantity for -the cash.
J. G. Daughtry & Bro. sells Haiman
and Ferguson Plow Stocks, at $1,85
We ara pained to learn that Mrs. Ress
pff.l, bf BarnasVillo daughter of our high
er esteemed fellow citizen B. F. Ward of
this county died at her homo yesterday.
We are sorry to announce that Mrs.
Wilson Smith is suffering very much
rffcain with neuralgia in her eyes. It
does seem truly hard that a woman so
noble should have to suffer so severely,
and we hope a kind providence will soon
restore her to her usual health.
Mr. Robert Watson of this County,
and Mi*** Katie shivers of Washington
County was married at the residence of
Mr. Wiley Fears in Jasper County, on
Thursday evening last. Rev W. J. Ox
ford officiating. Onr friend Bob has got
the right sort of pluck, when ho say’s
he’s goinj. to marry ’he dont let noth
ing daunt him. He was to have married
thursday morning at 9 o’clock but the
Surging*billows of the Ocmulgee as she
stood at high water mark bid defiance
to the happy union; but Bob put whip in
the direction of Tennessee until he came
to whore ther was no Ocmulgee, then
changing hik ionrso to the direction of
the “•tat” that he had chosen to guide
him through liie find drove in about
twejvhqurffbemnd “skedule time,” We
liope he may be equally succesßfal in
overcoming all obstacles through life.
Eight Pounds good Rio Coffee for one
dollar at J. G. Daughtry & Bros,
tm • -♦ -j
John and Boler Moore have been
arrested for the murder of their aunt
Mrs. Charles Tankerley Cheroke6
county. It is supposed the two men
murdered their old aunt for the
purpose of getting her money, as
it was known throughout the neigh
borhood she had about $2,000 in
coin. Nine hundred dollars of this
money was found in an old can,
which had been partly buried under
the house, and the supposition is
that the two fiends succeeded in
getting the other $l,lOO.
Why Mr. Seney Gives.
i Interview with Is. Y Tribune]
' 1 feel that lam a trustee, respon
sible for the right use of the money
given me. With the experience
that I have, I believe that I am the
person best qualified to carry out
the provisions and duties ot that
trustee-ship. What certainty have
I that these provisions and duties
would ever be duly carried out after
my death? Absolutely none.
Whereas now, by making these
gifts in my lifetime I am sure that
tke precise object I desire is accom
plished in just the way I want.
And then too ‘I am more and more
convinced of the truth of the word’s
“It is more blessed to give than to
receive. The greater danger of in
creasing riches that it fosters a dis
position to hoard money only for
the sake of hoarding it. Slightly
to altar a common word, it be
comes a money mania with them:
they gloat over their millions just
because they are millions, and not
because of the happiness producible
from them. Now! maintain that
such a spirit is unworthy not only
of a true Christian but of a true man
and I have determined never to let
it appear in my character.
, EXCITEMENT IN ROCHESTER.
Tb Commotion Camed by ihe office.
-of a Physician. "
aces at coat at this
An unnsnal article from *
Democrat ami Chronicle
paper recently and ha m
conversation, both an gl# nftill at COSt at this
on the street. Ap*
commotion in Ito
the same paper '"***
in powders at cost at this
sentanftce.
days w _
Heel bolts for sale at this office
cheap for caah.
Monticello had a fire Monday last
the east s id© of of the Court House
square wa entirely destroyed ex-,
cept the Roberts,building,
There is More Strength restoring
power in a 50 cents bottle of parker,s
Ginger Tonic tha# in a bush of meal
or gallon of milk. As an appetizer
blood purifier and kidney corrector
there is nothing like it, and inval
ide find it a wonderful invigorant
for minds and body. See other
column.
We have received the march
number of the “Cottage Hearth/’
and find full-of choice matter by
■otme ©f the most talented cocXiibu"
tori in the country. It Ts the cheap -
est Magazine 6f its quality and the
belt at its price in the world. Ev
ery family should take a first clas*
magazine and all who wish to sub
scribe ftr ouch an one can do no
better thai ! to for Cottage
Hearth.—No. 11 Bromfield St.
“ Bos-ton, Mass.
If you want to suberibe for tho Home and
Farm the best’ .paper printed 1 in the
world jit the price; call on us and” sub
scribe only 50cts a year.
We are in receipt of some beautiful
executed chromo-lithographie seed
packets from J) Laxureth'&Bons of Phil
delphia the*pibheev 3*edjnen of this con
tinent. Th* artistic designs and color
ing are so true to nature and superior to
the ordinary illustrations as to be be
yond comparison. But the merit of il
lustrations is not the most important fea
ture,’tisthe contents of the packets; and
the quality of their Seeds has been prov
ed by tests extending up to a century.
Their Almanac and Catalogue is the bfest
vet and should be in every country
house-hold- It is mailed’, 'to all who ap
ply for it, ** ‘
THe Trub I
have seen a tall ship glide by a
gainst the tide as if drawn by some
invisible bowline, with a hundred
strong amis pulling it. Her sails
were unfilled, her Bteamers were
drooping, she had neither side
wheel nor stern-wheel; still she
?
moved on, stately, m serene triumph
as with her own life, But I knew
that on the other side of the ship,
hidden beneath tjie great bulk that
swam so majestically, there was
little toilsome sU>am fug, with a
heart of fire and arm of
iron, that was tugging
it bravely on, and I knew if the lit
tle steam tug untwined her arm and
left the ship it would wallow and
roll about, and drift hither and
thither, and go off with the reflu
ent tide, no man knows whither.
And so I have known more than
one genius, highdecked, full-frieglit
ed, idle-sailed, gaypennoned, man
but for the bare, toiling arms and
brave, warm beating heart of the
faithful little wife that nestles
close to him, so that no wind or
wave could part them, would have
gone down with the stream, and
have been heard of no more.
Count Them.
Count what? Why count the
mercies which have been quietly
falling in your path through every
period in your history. Down they
come every morning and evening,
angel messengers from the Father
of Light to tell you of your best
friend in Heaven. Have you lived
these years wasting mrrcies, tread
ing them beneath your feet, and
consuming them every day, and
never realise • from whence they
come I You have murmurred under
your afflictions ; but who has heard
you rejoice over your blessings?
Do you ask what are these mercies?
Ask the sunbeam, the raindrops,
the stars or the Queen of night.
What is life but a mercy? What
is the propriety in stopping to play
with a thorn bush when you may
just as well pick sweet flower* and
eat pleasant fruit? Count mercies
r before you complain of afflictions.
An -Attempt q
Which if Corn
Have Sent a
dignation and Horror. 8. |
to the Heart of Every i
Good Cjtizen of Our
. Coupty, n \
On Friday night last the qitfiei;
home of Mr. Wiley Heard, who
two miles from Indian Spring /ame
very pear: being the: scejfae of
one of those cold blooded s sick
ening outrages,that are becoming so
prevalent throughout this /fair land
of freedom.” . . /
There lives with Mr*/ Heard an
orphan girl who for Several years
has enjoyed the protection of his
hospitable home a, 0 f the fam
ily, and who in ' a b £ rn fox the kind
protection of Mttr. 71., and his good
Lady, recipro/ates j their kindness
by making herself’useful and per
forming allf the duties of an obedi
ent and ikidustriouß girl. Every
thing mowed along as smoothly as
if this young girl, was under the
kind protecting sare of a devoted
father until a few days past.
About the middle cf January,
Mr. Heard had occasion to hire for
the year a young negro who claim
ed to be a railroad hand, and gave
his name as‘Cap 5 or ‘Careen Mar
shall’ but it is doubted now wheth
er this is his real name, as he admit
ted to one of the other • etnployees
on Mr Heards place that he was an
ex-eoqyict.- • 1
“Cap’As he called himseif, was
engaged as a general “handy boy’
cutting and cAVr/ihg stove wood,
drawing water <fec. # , Oft * 1 ’ tonday
evening of last week- ‘ while the
young lady was attending to the
domestic duties* of the family, this
dare-devil ev-contict'anVl” perhaps
murderer, had occasion to pass her
and With the imrmcfcnefe and man
ner indicating the promptings of a
devilish heart put his hand* * upon
her * for Which*'she abused him very
much, threatening *to .hoot him
with Mr. Heards pistol, and telling
him she would inform Mr. If . and
have him punishetj'ds he deserved;
whicjt sfie did but "so strong was his
protestation of innocence claiming
that the touching of her was acci
dental, it was ‘Thought that her
fright had caused her to mistake
his actions and upon his pleading'
of innocence, and pledes of good
behavior, it was decided to let th©
matter lest.
But in the bosom of that human
fiend, all the black and revengeful
impulses of his abandoned and ma*
lignant heart was aroused to action
and on friday night, at t]ie lonely
nour of midnight, while the entire
family were sleeping the sleep of
■ \ t
the innocent, not a feint wnisper
warned them, that around the qui
et home was gathering the plan for
one of those tragedies that almost
daily appear in the press ' all over
the land; but such was the case.
This demon, in his deep laid plan
of revenge, had learned that he
could enter the house by the use of
any small instrument in removing
the bolt of the door, and thus make
an entrance through the dining
room into the house. And having
procured a knife on friday evening
with which to do his deadly work,
selected that night as a fit time for
its accomplishment.
At the hour named above, he
v\ith the stealth of a professional,
unbolted the door, crept noiselessly
through the room where Mr Heard
was sleeping and up stairs into the
room occupied by the young lady;
the taking of whose young life he
had unquestionably premeditated
without the slightest protest ot
conscience. Finding the bed on
which she was sleeping, he placed
hie murderous hand upon her face
and moving it quiatly to her ne&k to
find the place to plunge the ghastly
knife to accomplish its deadly work
at one fell stroke; but the interpo
sition of a kind providence gave
her the presence of mind to ''leap
from the bed, and rush down stairs
into the room below before the work
of the would be assassin could be
accomplished : and as she had the
presence of mind to strike a match
and wake Mr. Heard before he
could make his escape. Mr H. at
once started with lamp in one hand
and pistol in the other and the
rascal seeing the approach of the
light retreated from where he had
sought a hiding place under the
bed, forcing opn a window, made
hie exit-on to-thf shed-room-sliding
dowu the roof, and fell into the
yard bslow distance of about thir
teen feet. •Mr. Heard reached the
window just in time to fire at him
as ( he ran through the yard. He
was seen after daylight by some of
the freedmen ©n the place, going to
wards the railroad, camp with his
clothes and has not been heard of
since.
He is about eighteen or twsnty
years old, weighs 140 or 150 pounds
smooth face tolerably dark, and
wears a dark coat with red stripes
under each pocket, has a broken or
deformed finger, on the right hand,
and consiberable scar on the mus
sle of the arm. Any informa
tion as to his whereabouts will be
thankfully received, *lt is the
duty of overy law abiding citizen
to try to bring him to justice.
A * EPISODE OF THE BATTLE
OF GETTYSBURG.
Midway between the contending
lines was a solitary tree that in
peaceful times had given shade to
the harvest hands at their nooning.
Early in the morning some- Confed
erate sharp shooters had crawled
out to this tree, and were able to
reckon their game at every shot.
So destructive, in fact, did their
fire become, that the wild impreca
tions were spouted at them 'by the
federals and threats were made if
taken they would ge£ no ’ quarter,
All at once there came a 1 lull in the
firingjfrom that part of the line. A
Confederate 1 : seen * to irise up
fromthe base of the tree and to ad
... 9 i ,
vanpe toward the Federals with his
hand raised. 'Shots were fired at
lim, but there was curiosity at his
approach, and the word was, “Wait
till we see what he wants to do.”
Some thought he had a mind to
desert, and encouraged him with
shouts of “Come over Johnny } we
won’t fire.” But, if the Confeder
ate spoke, what he said could not be
heard in the dip of the cannonading
and musketry, thhri growing heavy
and continuous as th© day wore on.
Forward still he came, and all eyes
strained to see what it cold be that
he meant to dq. There call be no
truce oh the battle field till the bat
tle is lost or won. The man", who
raise* the white flag there', or gives
afry signal of the kind, has no right
to look for its recognition on the
other side. Ho may only trust to
their shrewdness to understand au
emergency. It might he merely a
trick to decieve. Suddenly the
Confederate dropped upon the
grass, and for an instant was lost
to sight. It was thought 'he had
been hit. But only for an instant,
for a thrill of enthusiasm passed
through the Federals, murmurs of
admiration were heard, and then
a cheer as hearty as if given in a
charge, burst forth from their
thrpats, and the cheer repeated in
creased in volume, proved that un
selfish actions are possible, and
are noble hearts to appreciate and
respond.
The Confederate sharp-shsoter,
who had been doing his best to de
stroy his antagonist, had observed
in tront of him a wounded Federal,
lying helpless on the ground be
tween the two linesand begging in
his agonizing thirst for a drink, and
at the almost certain risk ot losing
his Own life, and had gone forward
to give comfort to the distressed
enemy. This it was that caused the
Federal cheer, and for a minutes
Stopped the work of death in that
neighborhood. Whenthe sharp
shooter had performed this act of
me rcy he hastened back to the tree
and with the warning cry. Down,
Yanks, we,re going to fire ! the lit
tle, unpremediated truce was ended
and was soon forgotten in the grand
event that followed almost imme
diately after,
The next day —the fourth of July
a heap of Confederates was found
under that tree. Whether the hero
of the day before was one of the
ghastly dead will proDablv never be
known—New York Star.
An lowa Girls Ambition.
The smartest girl I’ve mti in lowa
I met yesterday at Nevada, Story
county, northweiterff lowa miss
Belle Clinton Miss Clinton is a
bright- eyes, rosy-cheeksd girl of
about twenty, as full of fun and
health and viger as a good girl can
be. Two years ago Miss Clinton was
a school teacher. Saving up by her
teaching about $l6O she last spring
borrowed a span of horses from her
father, rigged up" a ’ypr&irieTc£bon
•r,” and, taking her little . brother
started for Dakota. Miss Clinton
says laughingly to-day speakiqg of
her trip.: “Why I never lived so
nicely in my life and I never, had
such an appetite, and tuch courtesy
I received everywhere 1 R ough face
men would come up to our camp,
and after I had talked to them aw
hile, offer to build my fiire and act
ually bring water to me. We went up
through the wheat country whicn
they call ’Jim River cauntry, It’s
about 100 miles east from missoury
at Fort Sully. I homesteaded 160
acres ef land. Then I took up a
timber claim of 160 acres more,”
“What.is timber . .claim?”
Why I hired and we set out
ten acres of trees This gav# me 160
acres more; so I Have 320 acres now.
But I must tell you about thesese
trees. They were young locust, apple
and blackwalut sprouts. 1 sowed a
peck of locust beans a pint of ap
ple seed and two bushels of black
walnuts in our garden in lowa a
year ago. . These sprouts were little
fellows and we could set them out
fast—just go along and stick in the
ground. But.they are just as good
I believe my 3,000 little black wal
nut sprouts will be worth sls apiece
in ten years, and S2O apice in fif
teen. My locust trees will some
time fence the whole country.”
“Then what did you do?”
“We built a shanty‘and broke up
five acres of land; and this fall we
came back to lowa -*to ■ spend the
winter, and here we 1 >ln the
spring'lll go back with more black
walnut and lobiisf sprouts‘and take
up *6O abrfes'tore."* The trees are
just What I want to plant and
they’ll pay better than any wheat
crop that could be raised—only I’ve
got to wait for them ten or twelve
years ; but I can wait.”
Her© is a' girl who owns in her
own right 320 acres of iplendid
black prairie now and who will
own ’4BO acres in the spring every
acre 6f which will bring $5 within
three years and $lO within five
yea 4 apd S2O withiii ten'years. Her
black walnut and locust •*trees will
be worth as much mere. ‘ At thirty
she wfill be worth $25,000 4
FOLLOW THE PLOW
Hard time* are now upon us,
* And people are in debt;
The countrys full of trouble,
And the worst is coming yet;
“Tis not without its cause,
Lnd I’ll 'tell you plainly now,
The only way to stop it 1 • •* *•• •
Is -to follow up the plow*.
.t * . • . , Ol'.t
Fil up your fields and prairies.
With a crop that's good ! as gold
An and mine your hills and vhllcys
Foriron, salt and coal. " ‘ •
The earth’s a proud producer,
And we can tell yon how 1
To make a princely fortune—
• Tis to follow up the plow.
There are too many people
Who from their duty shirk —
Who’d rather make a fortune
By some other means than work.
But he who works and plants his field
In corn and cotton now,
Is king among the “monied men”—
He follows up th© plow.
A NATION NO MORE.
THE LAST OF THE MIAMS AS A
TRIBE.
Wabash, Ind., February 3. —The
Hon. Calvin Cowgill, government
paymaster, to-day finished paying
off the Miami Indians, payment be
ing made to representatives of the
tribe.
This;; payment is the final one
under th? second treaty made with
this tribe. This treaty was accom
plished during the administration
of President Pierce, when Indian
Commissioner Manypenny met the
three chiefs, Peemy-o-tahma, Big
Legs, and Meshin-go-mesia, and
engaged in a ‘‘big talk,” which re
sulted in the tribe selling their
birthright, so to speak, or in other
words, exchanging the perpetual
aunuity to which they were enti-
tied under the treaty made years
before the round sum of $22,000,
payable in twenty* six years, with
the interest in annual payments.
This sum, with one year’s interest,
makes up the payment now made,
and with it the great father at
Washington lifts from the Miami
tribe the fostering hand with which
he has fed and maintained them
for so many years.
Toward the close of the last year
a number of .the most prominent
representatives of the tribe now liv
ing met here upon call and com
pared notes, The census roll of the
pure disclosed that of the mighty
tribv, which numbered its warriors
■brine thousands ' a’ half
ago, only 321 living SOU I S can' now
lay claim to the name Miami, and
to share of each in this last distri
bution is only about S7OO. When
this, money is spent, and the few
farms still held by them of the old
reservation of their fathers are gat In
ered in by the speculators, they
will, many of them, no doubt, f a j]
into vagabond lives, dependent for
support upon public charity.
dwelling in this vicinity have
made feeble attempts at farming
but they are generally shiftless and
ignoraut, with no thought of the fu
and but little caie for the comforts
of the present. A settlement of
Chief Me-shin-go-mesia’s band.
some distance south of this city, i=
much higher in intelligence, all be
ing fairly educated and in comfort
able circumstances. Their leader
who was the last chief of the Mia-
mis, and one of tho parties to the
la#t treaty with the government,
made in 1879, died with his honors
and lacking only a few years of be
ing 100 years old.
It is within tho memory of mam
of our pioneers when this famous
tribe, now almost extinct, roamed
at will over these fertile valleys, and
claimed them as their own. About
the year 1840 the first treaty was
effected, and the various bands scat
tered widely. A small paw agency
I. T. A few still remain in tho vi
cinity of Napoleon, Ohio; other
small groups can be found in many
counties of this state, and a grand
son of old Me-shin-go-mesia, the
Miami nation's last chief, lives with
his family at Fontana, Kan Hit
name is Mahq i-wan, or “The
M hite Lion, and he lias >. wide
reputation upon the frontf • as ar
interpreter. ‘
The Miami's, at the time thoii
savage life was first disturbed by
th© white man in tins part of the
country, occupied all the territory 1
for about thirty miles from Ell rivet
and lying between Lafayette and
Fort Wayne. Their neighbors upon
the north were the Pottowattomier
that warrior tribe so famous in the’
early struggles upon the border.
Millions of acres of the finest
land ever tilled by men were theirs'
but within fifty years treaties and
trades hare deprived tuen* of all
except the few little farms which
will soon pass frpm their possessioi
forever.
The Miami nation is no more.
3umptbr Republican : A you**
farmer of Sumpter county who had
been greatly worried by the im
mense flock of birds feeding upon
hia young oats, conceived the idea
oi poisoning them, so he mixed a
quantity of dough and strychnine
in one of his wifes stove pans for
baking bread. The wire aft a
scouring the pan, baked a„ raison
pudding in it and gave some to her
sister-in-law, and the rest of the
family partook of ii. A few min
utes aftir dinner she thought oftha
stryehnine mixtur*, and became
frightened, thinking that all of
them wer* poisoned and so inform
ed the rest of the family. Then
there were scared people, All
the emetics to bo thought of were
brought forth and swallowed. Salt
and water by the quart, ippecac,
lobelia, castor oil, sweet oil, milk,
and other things were swallowed,
until every one of them were so sick
that they had to take their beds
The neighbors hearing of it went in
and the good old mother got the
bake pan, examined it, and declared
there wa* no harm in it, as it had
been so thoroughly scoured no one
could possibly 1 poisoned i:i eat
ing from it. Tlit vie4 ms of emet
ics are cleansed up for the coming
summer diseases.
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