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Vol. I.
POETRY.
A Growl.
I'm a grumpy old bachelor,
Hri 17 .lv and gray;
I am seven-and-forty.
If I am a day.
I am fussy and crusty,
And dry as a bone ;
So ladies—good ladies—
Just let me alone '.
Go shake out your ringlets,
And beam out in smiles;
Go tinkle your ringlets,
And show off your wiles,
Bewitch and bewilder
Wherever you can;
But pray—pray, remember,
I am not the man!
I’m frozen to blushes.
I’m proof against eyes ;
I’m hardened to simpers,
And stony to sighs.
I'm tough to each dart
That young Cupid can lance ;
I’m not in the market
At any advance.
I sew my own buttons,
I darn my own liose ;
I keep my own counsel,
And fold my own clothes,
1 mind my own business,
And live my own life ;
I won’t—no, the dickens—
Be plagued with a wife!
And yet there’s nine spinsters
Who believe me their fate ;
There's two dozen widows
Who’d change their estate.
There’s silly young maidens
Who blush at my bow ;
AH—all bent on marrying me,
No matter how;
I walk forth in trembling,
I come home in dread ;
I don't fear my heart,
But I do fear my head.
My civilest speech
Is a growl and a nod ;
And that—heaven save me!
Is “charmingly odd.”
So, ladies—dear ladies—
Just hear me, I pray ;
In the plainest way.
My logic is simple
As logic can be
If I won’t marry you,
Pray—don’t marry me !
9 fl
MISCELLANEOUS.
HE’S NOBODY BUT A PRINTER.
"Oh, lie’s nobody but a Printer!”
exclaimed Miss Ellen Dupree to one of her
f riends, who was speaking in terms of praise
and commendation of Mr. Barton Wil¬
liams, a young and very intelligent print
cr.
“Ellen, you speak as though a printer was
not entitled to respectability. I hope you
will ex-plain yourself,” replied Miss Mary
Crossman.
“Well, I hope you’ll excuse me, I do not
think it becoming for a young man who lias
to labor for a living, to try to move in the
society of those who are his superiors. And,
moreover, he might win the affections of a
young girl superior to him in rank, and
then do you think her parents would be
pleased ? I know I would rather live an
old maid all my days than marry a printer
—a man tliat has to toil all day and night;
and then, oh, to think of being ranked
among the poor,” whined out Miss Dupree.,
“Then you think they are beneath you?”
“Yes, of course.”
“Both in word and intellect, too, I sup¬
pose, do you not?”
“Yes, everything t”
“Are you superior to a Franklin, to a
Blaekstone, to Cambell, and many other
eminent men who were printers ? Or do
you believe your Intellectual powers soar
above many other distinguished printers of
the present day ?”
"O, now and then you come across one
tliat is respectable, but they are few and
far between. And as to Mr. Williams, I do
not consider him a Franklin, or a Black
stone, or any one else much.”
“Nor do I consider him bcneatli my
notice. Now, Miss Dupree, I think you
ought to reflect seriously upon what you
are saying, and have some regard for my
feeling. You know not what you may
come to before you die.”
“Well, I don’t think I shall ever come
to be the wife of a printer, or anybody who
has to labor, nor do I intend to countenance
such either.”
Miss Crossman remained silent for some
time, while her face reddened with indig
nation. Mr. Williams was her lover, and a
very good looking man he was. Ho was
of ordinary size, fair complexion, dark
hair, a high and prominent forehead—
lively and intelligont in conversation, and
fluent and affable in his address.
A gentle rap was heard at the door and
the servant immediately announced Mr.
Williams, ne entered the parlor, and
Miss Crossman rose and introduced him.
Miss Dupree affected to be polite, returned
’’?!££££%• Mr. Williams and Miss ^ Croasman
con
versed freely—mostly upon literary subjects.
upon which both were wel1 an(1 - of
course, the conversation was interesting to
both, and Miss Dupree sat as though she
lia(i been seized by despair—now and then
any e ‘ vlI1R and a j azy everything nod of djS3en said ‘ to or assent her. Mr. to
Williams • was gone and Miss Dupree
turned to Miss Crossman and said :
' Mary ’ 1 am reall y astonished at you.
v Youarecertainlyinlovewlth ttat fellow
'
Wel1, - vou ma >’ do as - vou please, but I
■
assure you I’ll never consent to keepcompa
ny with a printer-
Crawfordville, Georgia, August 10, 187 i-
Miss Dupree took her leave, and Miss
Crossman was left to think of “love and
matrimony,” and her future blissfulness.
* * * ■ ■
Ten years were passed. A man and his
wife were seated before a blazing fire. The
evening was extremely cold, and the wind
blew fierce and keen. The editor was
lioused, with his wife, in their stately
mansion, furnished in most superb style,
and lighted brilliantly with costly chande¬
liers. They were the happy parents of
four intelligent and interesting children.
It was about an hour after sundown and the
bell had just been run*/of tea. A rap was
heard at the street door, and upon opening
it, there stood a woman, pale and dejected,
and apparently not far from the grave.
She had with her, three ragged children,
shivering with cold. The gentleman and
lady kindly asked them in to the fire.
“Sr, will you be pleased to give me a
little money to buy some bread for my.
hungry children. My linsband ha* been
drinking for the last three weeks, and left
me without a morsel to give these poor
innocents, or any fuel to keep them warm,"
and then she wept bitterly.
“Where do you live, ma’am?”
“In the garret of the old Plirenix note],
sir.”
“How long lias your husband been
addicted to drinking?” asked the gentle¬
man’s wife in a kind tone.
“About three years.” *
“Madam,” rejoined the generous editor.
“I am truly sorry for you, and of codrse
shall bestoit^upon you such charity as my
means will allow. Will you relate you
misfortunes. I always feel a deep sym¬
pathy for the unfortunate.’’
“Mine is a sad story. I was raised in
affluence ; my father was a wealthy mer¬
chant. My lmsband also was ricli when we
were married. We took a tour to Europe,
and returned borne, and we lived happily and
prosperously for two years. Mr. Brooks
was a fashionable young man. lie spent
money freely and we lived extravagantly.
Tliree years more and he was considered on
the declining ground, and finally, by high
living and unnecessary expenditures of
money, we were dispossessed of our home
and reduced to abject poverty ; and then my
husband took to drink ; and now 1 am
a beggar, and these children depending on
my success for a living, and I beseech you,
in behalf of my poor little children, to be¬
stow upon me such charity as you feel
disposed to grant.”
Her story was told, and met a kind
’C 22^*-■#»!.'4J -£m dK—35(WVvrwfiA'd k*«. - t. TJi. U*i
of the house recognized tlio poor woman ;
but she did not feel disposed to make her¬
self known, but ushered them into the din¬
ing room and sat down with them to a
warm supper.
“Madam,” said the lady, "what was your
maiden name?"
“Ellen Dupree.”
The poor woman was so overcome with
gratitude and surprise that, slic could not
litter a single word. She thought lier's a
familiar voice ; she had heard it before, but
she could not remember when or where;
and after a long time she murmured—
“1 think 1 have known you in time, but I
cannot remember your nauie, my good
lady.”
“Mary Crossman was my name when 1
knew you.”
“Mary who?”
“Mary Crossman.”
“My God ! who is your husband ?”
“O, he’s nobody, only a printer!”
The poor woman remembered being
introduced before her marriage, to Mr.
Williams—and she remembered too how cold
and indifferent she was on that occasion.
Yes, “nobody but a printer” went like a
dagger to her heart. That printer was now
her benefactor.
An Interview with a Striker,
[Donn Piatt in Cincinnati Enquirer.]
Going through the train after it left
Cumberland, I encountered a familiar face
in that of a man in very poor attire, who sat
nursing an old-fashioned pair of saddle¬
bags, that looked as if they had been left
over in Cumberland by some trooper on his
way to Braddock's defeat. It was only
after the owner of these bad clothes and
ancient saddle-bags had called my name,
while holding out his hand, that l recog¬
nized an old acquaintance. I had known
him during the war, at Cumberland, as a
well-to-do mechanic. He now appeared
care-worn, gray and evidently quite poor.
“The world has not gone prosperously
with you since I knew you in Cumberland,”
1 said, seating myself by liis side.
“No, indeed. 1 have had a hard old time
since then. I had a little money, and was
fool enough to put it an oil speculation, and
it went into a hole where I couldn't follow
it. Then my wife died, leaving a large
family of children. Then the hard times
came, and I went from had to worse, until
I am now about as near the bottom asainan
can be and live.”
“What are you doing now ?”
“Nottifng. I did until this strike, and
now, like the rest, I am out.”
“Tell sne something about the strike, if
you can ?”
Certainly I can. 1 am one myself. I am
on my way to Martinsburg.”
“Without a ticket?’*
“Without a ticket.”
“Why, the conductor will put you off.”
“No he won’t he is one of us. They all
are. There is no man works on this road
that doesn't hate it. The company never
asked anything hut hard work for poor pay,
and now it finds that we have no love for
: it.”
“You have had a hard time of it?”
“Hard times doesn't express it. You
fought four years to liberate the slaves:
we are in a worse condition than the uig
gers, for they bad food clothing ami shelter
for themselves and families. We must find
all that out *( eighty cents a day and a
day runs fi < n ten to fourteen hours. Why
Colonel, yoi* wouldn’t believe it were I to
tell you tot lie distress wc have been made
to suffer. 1 lere’s my family; why, those
children d< W taste meat from one week’s
end to anoti -r j and as for clothing, it is a
shame to »*. them and know what they are
exposed to. ,?y have kept in bed during
the Winter aany a day because I could not
buy fuel, a i et coal ought t»> be as cheap
hereasdit. When we complain they tell
us to’git’ij ont like^t, for there are
plenty o f 1 ‘ to take out places.”
■'
“I fear t A* i' inly too true.”
“Not mu When it comes to tliat there
won’t be a > -os to take.”
The exp 0011 of this poor man's face
was not p j <1 t as he said this. I was
glad my ; te ned friends, Garrett and
King, w( G it present to note that
conn tens 11 i would have made them so
uncomfort Me
“I fear. ; intinued, “that you are
engaged i fool's fight. To allow the
discharged laborer dictate as to the employ
of anotlu-J to overthrow our entire
structure. ,,s-i and commercial. You will
pitch dow:. ip<>n yourselves the opposition
of all or uized communities, and poor,
few and uv rmed as you, are, I cannot see
what is to -i gained.”
“We can lestroy the road,” he said, with
a calm do rminatiou really startling; “we
can destro "every railroad in the United
States. V ■ don't suppose litis movement
is couliin t'i the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad' Uextends to every road, every
workshop d factory in the iand. Misery
States has imi« km £ the to each workmen other, of the United
n and threatened
starvation »ur bond of union. These
great monoxides will learn in a few days
that they 1 jst give way to justice or be
destroyed Joan
"In tne time you will starve. You
cut awaj tne only support—a poor one,
true, but 1 support—from under you by
such viole; -p ••
“No wi»von't starve; the people sym¬
pathise wi' 1 us ; we shall not lack for bread.
Why, do ^011 know that this railroad bus
been so o> etlrtjc, hard and abusive of the
people of ’arylandand West Virginia, that
they won! ! not only he glad to see us
punish it, ' t help do it.”
u us
1 did tut think much of my friend’s
threats at he time, attributing much of liis
talk to • e excited boasting so common
to such >
Si ring events. Facts have since
demons* 1 1 hat lie told only the truth.
Wt'iji ’ t he. laborers of the United
States hah hound them lirmiV With one
body. Where two people think alike there
is organization, When they feel alike there
is action, and Uiere is no motive so powerful
as hunger. A man without wages, with
the cry of hungry children in his ears, Is a
man to be ffai ed. We are given to attribute
the violence In France to false teachings of
the Commute. This is not true. No man
kills another on a difference of opinion.
Masses do not go at throats for an idea.
When Paris gets up at night and inarches u
hundred thousand strong, with their blue
shirts outside the pantaloons, it means that
Paris is starving. There are hungry
stomachs under the blouse nnd famishing
families in the home. Human nature Is the
same the wofld over. While it is estimated
that, we havdnearly four millions of men
out of employ, they who have wages find
themselves Very little lletter off. It is
hunger and privation to one—starvation to
the other.
-- y, ^ --
An Excellent Invention.
Mr. Wm. Boston, the Master Me¬
chanic of thetoeorgia Railroad shops at
Atlanta, haaginvented 4hich a smoke stack for
locomotives retains cinders and
soot. This docs away with flying cin¬
ders which are such an annoyance to
passengers. The coal btiffiet Clinton,
Del. Taut, made a trip from Atlanta,
for the first time, yesterday, with one of
these smoke stacks; Mr. Tantsaysitis
a perfect success.— Vhron. (Jon.
We have received a printed ticket jrom
Boston to this effect :
For President 1880.
WzftK Hampton.
The South will, no doubt, appreciate
the compliment thus paid to it, by its
Northern friends, in bringing out, at this
early date, a Southern man for the Chief
Magistracy Of the Union, and certainly
General Hampton has, by his courageous
course in bis State, done much to win
the respect of good men of all sections.
But the Presidential election is a long
ways off yet, and much will take place
before the nomination is made. If, at
that time, it shall scorn wise to give a
Southern man the first-place on the 11 a
tionai ticket, Georgia would like to have
her claims to the honor considered. She
llls mel1 Wl ^ im ier bmils who will prove
second to none in the United States in
reflecting upon the nation from the
White House, and in administering the
affairs of the government witli dignity.—
Savannah Nm:x.
The latest reports from the Rio
Grande are that matters in tliat quarter
are entirely quiet. The resolute al
titude assumed by this government
011 the object of liorder raiding
lias apparently had the double effect
of intimidating the cattle thieves,
and stimulating the Mexican authorities
to greater vigilance than usual in the
performance of their neighborly duties.
Their force 011 the Rio Grande has been
strenghtened, , and General Trevino .
seems to 1* disposed to use it for the
prevention of raids which might give
trouble.
No. 25.
POETRY.
Drifting Away.
Drifting away from each, other,
N ulling between but the world's oold
screen,
Nothing to lose but a heart.
Only two lives dividing
More and mure every dj^y;
Only one soul from another soul
Steadily drifting away.
Only a man's heart striving
Bitterly hard with its doom ;
Only n hand, tender and bland,
Slipping away in the gloom.
Nothing of doubt or wrong,
Nothing that either can cure;
Nothing to shame, nothing to blame,
Nothing to do hut endure.
Tiie world cannot stand still,
Tides ebb and women change;
Nothing here that is worth a tear;
One love less—nothing strange.
Drifting away from each other,
Steadily drifting apart;
No wrong to each that the world can
reach,
Nothing lost but a heart.
Good-Bye.
Sweet is child-hood—childhood's over,
Kiss and part.
Sweet is youth ; but youth’s a rover—
So's my heart.
Sweet is rest; but by all showing
Toil is nigh.
We must go. Alas ! the going
Say “good-bye.”
MISCELLANEOUS.
Uriel ts • ctt- History of Mexico. , .
H» million Xm. RlvoH tl.o Mow
mg summary of the revolutions, etc., in
Mexico since 1H21;
1821. ,,,, J lie independence . , , Mexico of
is
declared.
ln_.i. r 11 st , congress assembled. ,, ,
1829. Guerero being president, Bust
amente, commanding „ ..... , the ,, army, induces . ,
liis soldiers to declare him president, and
compels Gut ltro to abdicate. Santa
Anna plays the same game ou liusD
by the army. a* “ “r» 1 liree presidents govern
with little fighting, until
1830. State governments were abolish¬
ed by revolution and Santa Anna made
president. Same year Hustamentn was
recalled, San la Anna’s defeat at San
Jacinto having deprived him of power,
1838. Mexico revolutionized; ha I an
unpleasantness with the French, who
blockaded Vera Cruz; Santa' Anna
drives off the French.
1840. Federalist, led l>y Urrea, revo¬
lution.
1842. Junta of Nobles revolution
against Santa Anna and form the repub
lie.
1843. New constitution adopted.
Catholic religion and apostoric creed to
exclusion of all other religion.
1844. Revolution by Pcredcs. Santa
Anna deposed, and Herrera made prfis
denf try cobgress.-
1845. Santa Anna banished and Her¬
rera elected president. Same year Pere
des revolts, and, ordering an election, is
elected president.
1840. Santa Anna is recalled. Peru
des deposed and Salos elected president
Salos sells out, and Santa Anna is made
provisional president. War witli United
States is in progress.
1847. Americans victorious; Ranta
Anna flies, and Penas is made president
pW> tern.
1848. Peace made with the United
States.
1851. Arista elected president.
1851-2. General revolution.
1853. Arista resigns, and Santa Anna
made dictator.
j Santa 1854. Revolution abdicates, led by Alvarez ;
Anna
1855. Correra made president, re
signs, and Alvarez is dictator.
1850. Comonfort heads a movement
against the church, is elected president,
and sequesters, property of the clergy,
1857. Comoriforts is deposed.
1858. Zuloaga is rtthd'e president, but
is obliged to abdicate,
1859. Miramon makes himself presi
dent, but is speedily dejsised.
1800. Zuloga again made president.
1860. Revolution headed by Miranibn.
1861. Juarez elected president
declares himself dictator. The French
invasion and Juarez, Lerado, and Diaz
have kept things lively since 1861.
Minister Boker is charged with trans
bating “Mary had a little lamb” into
Russian for the private benefit of the
Czar and liis household.
Sir Henry Thompson, the eminent
English physician, thinks that even the
moderate use of fermented beverages
diminishes the mental power.
The Rochester Express says Hint old
Ben Wade is exactly like one of those
fron-ciad hulks—still afloat, but danger
ous only to tiie navigator -
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History and Uses of Gunpowder,
Who invented gunpowder ?
No one knows. All agree that its com¬
position ami properties were understood in
"“«•« is*?;; a jasswar lenity- Authentic a; history as ex
the c .
ting Like other authentic things, from the fabulous.
rolled some have gunpowder, invented, as ages ft>r
un, way been
gotten, and ro-lnvented. Certainly ill
some torm it was known and used for fire
works and incendiary material long be¬
fore any one dreamed of a gun, or using it
to do move than create thaSjpftie terror in warfare,
And yet it is said £ of the ancients
had means of using %o throw destructive
missiles among their enemies—-probably a
species of rocket or bomb. Nor does it
seem, in its infancy, to such have been applied to
industrial purposes, as blasting and
quarrying rock, for there Is evidence that
the people who used it for fire-works at
their feasts, quarried immense blocks of
stone with hammers by splitting them out of the quarries
and wedges.
with the first religious uses probably ceremonies were of the connected
An old pagan that
ancients. tradition taught
those were the most powerful gods who
answered priests, therefore, their worshippers who practiced by fire. The the
the upon their
credulity ingenuity in of inventing people, exercised producing
ways of
spontaneous lire, which they told the
people Was sent try the gods from heaven in
answer to their prayers. The accounts of
old writers, still preserved and dating back
to three hundred years before Christ,
describe a “sulphurous and imliaminable
substance” unmistakably like our gun¬
powder. There was a certain place called the
“Oracle of Delphi,” once visited by Alex¬
ander the Great, when this kind of fire was
produced by the priests, and it is said that
the Druids, the anCien't priests of Brifian.
also used something of this sort in their
sacrifices, for they not only produced thunder
sudden fire, but they also imitated people
and tliuir lightning, This to terrify must have the been with
power. more
-than two thousand years ago. It is known
that the Chinese, on the other side of the
world, had gunpowder about the same
time, which but. they used it chiefly formed for fire-works, the main
then, as now, and ceremonies.
feature of all their festivals
In India, it was early used in war, for a
writer who lived about A. D. 244 says ;
“When the towns of India are attacked by
their IggS^nKiSf enemies the people do not rush into'
Roman who £?t"». lived Just after the
emperors, which
crucifixion of Christ, and “had lightning, machines and the
imitated thunder ut
same time emitted stones.” Then, about
A. I). 220, there composition was written he a recipe thrown “for
an ingenious nearly to corresponds on
an enemy,” gunpowder. which very During the
011 r little is many
hundred years that follow, re
corded until about the ninth century, when
there appears In an old book, the
reoipw for gunpowder, and a description of
a rocket, it is said that in iowb the Sara
doubt somekmu or bombs and of war-rockets
about History this affords aecoun’ts other wars
undoubtedly time, used in in which gunpowder was'
some form. But in
powder 12Ma monk, and Friar it is asserted Roger Bacon, made gun¬
Independently, ; he discovered it
existence elsewhere. knowing It not nothing unreasonable' of its
is
to believe this, for in those days people
kept their and inventions to the,utsefyes if they
could, news traveled slowlv. fiehwartz Some
authors say a Herman named
discovered it in 1320, and perhaps he did,
did too, Friar ami as honestly ami independently Indians, the as'
diine.se. Bacon, or the East or
• Others insist that it was cnventeif
Saracens origiimlly from in India, and brought by the
Africa to the Europeans, who
improved It. At any rate, an English
gentleman who has made a tiaiislatfon of
some of I lie laws of India, supposed to have'
been established 1,500 years before the
Christum era, or over 3,300 yearsago, makes
one of them rend thus : “The magistrate,
shall not make war witli any deeiHtful
machine, andaitnl, or with’ poisoned weapons, or
cannon Or an# kind of fife at ms.”
— HI. Nicholas.
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In 1857 the United States government
nnule an attempt to introduce camels for
service in the arid wastes along the
southwestern frontier. Ten camels were
landed at New Yrirk, but all save one
pair, a male and a female, died soon
after from the effects of the voyage,
The survivors were transferred to
Nevada, whose sandy and sterile soil
produces an abundance 6f prickly shrubs
which no other animals would touch.
Qh this kind irf food the single pair of
camels flourished and multiplied, and
their descendants now number over one
hundred. They are hardy, useful ani
male, and- arc capable of good service sW
1 beasts of burden in the sandy wastes of
1 the Southwest.
If you want to teach a dbg arilnnetic,
tie up one of his paws, and lie will put
down three and carry one every time.
• France has forty million hens, witli
only live million women to throw things'
at them .—Danbury News.
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A Chinese gambljng linn runs games
in sixty different places in Sari Francis
CO. <4T'
A Palatka, Florida, preacber was driv¬
en out of his pulpit recently by blind
mosquitoes.
/ / T"' , ; U ' ,l YT / d - i/ 7~ / .1 vo,ln
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^ J” -t-breeinteusl tpatudy law. ^
J'resideut Hayes has already promised*
to visit Virginia, West_ Virginia and'
Kentucky in the month of August,
A girl graduated at the head of thirty
eight young men in Botes College, Mass.
The natives of Japan, from religions
motives, abstain from ail flesh meats.
The Hours, or Parsecs, in India, wor
Ship lire as an engrfem of the Deity.
Baptism by immersion in the water is
of Hindo o origin.
Jacksonville, Florida, lias torn tip her
(r»cf railway.