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Indian Courtship.
Indians Among the Northwestern tribes of
innocence is as marked among
the girls as their color. The impression
that the red maiden does not entertain a
for high standard of morality is an error,
' she is taught as other girls are, and
grows up with well-developed ideas of
the responsibilities of life, and a firm
resolution to discharge them. Educated
in the faith that she was ordained to
labor, Work, she trains herself to undergo hard
and at sixteen years of age is
sturdy and and strong, brave against fatigue
She a perfect housewife,
may not possess New England
notions of cleanliness, but she takes not
a little pride in her personal appearance,
and in the arrangement of her lodge she
displays some crude ideas of taste and
a certain amount of neatness. If she
marry a white man she makes him a
good wife as long as she lives with him.
His home is her sole comfort and his
comfort her whole ambition. She thinks
of him and for him, and makes it her
study to please . him and make him re
spect and love her. She recognizes in
him one of a superior race, and by her
him, dignity and devotion endears herself to
and struggles to make him happy.
* At the agencies of the upper frontier
thousands of men are employed, and it
is not an exaggeration to say that the
majority live of them have Indian wives and
by the happily. maidens, They are not Indian sought after
for the girl’s
custom is to remain quiet until after the
-"" marriage riago contract is made and the mar
musi^ portion have the paid dowry, over. with The husband
which he
must invest his projected mother-in
, law
before the ceremony takes placo.
The process is a little out of tho usual
run, and a description may be of inter¬
est:
The aspiring bridegroom must be well
known in the tribe before lie can hope
to win a wife. Her people want to
thoroughly if he understand him, and know
her relatives can support not only her, but also
in the event of a pinch.
He must be a kind-hearted man, with a
tic temper warranted, to keep in any domes¬
lodge, climate, and he must have a good
and at least half a dozen horses.
If he be, and have all these, he can
fr-wooing go. Selecting the lady, lie makes
application cil to her mother, and at a coun¬
the price is fixed upon.
If the girl be especially pretty, lier
mother will demand a gun, two horses
and a lot of provisions, blankets and
cloth. A gun is valued at $50, a horse
at $20, aud he must furnish material to
bring Then the amount up to from $100 to$150.
he tries to beat the dame down,
and if he succeeds he knows there is
Some reason for letting the girl go; if
Hot, he understands that he is getting a
good choice. The courtship is left en¬
tirely to the mother —Montreal Star.
A Close Call.
_ 1 he people of little
a town in . Warrick .
County were on the brink of a fragrant
church scandal. Just before the close
of the services, a good brother walked
forward to'the pulpit, handed the minis
ter an announcement, as ho thought,
and asked him to read it to the congre
r °wnse ff?r ed t^ e ^' f U3t
tbf befm-e “!“S3£ minted rimo Tnln 11 d ^ doxoIogy
h»dc<, * ,„e
w T'
wMsa-ifca-aiffoHcnw. • - *4
My Own Pet Jh'am.—Are yon never
coming to see me again ? and I am dying to
see my darling once The more gaze into
his beloved eyes. old mummy that
calls herself your wife will never find it
out. How can you endure her ? Come,
darling, to one who truly loves you.
Xonr own and only Mary.
The good brother had handed in the
wrong announcement. At the close of
the reading the minister looked horror
struck, the congregation stared and at Brain
ley with cold, hard stares his wife
rose up in her seat and glared at him
lilce a tigress. He was equal calmly to the oc
casion, however, and rising and
with a look of perfect resignation on his
face he said; i
“Brothers and Sisters—It may ap- !
pear strange to you that I should ask
our beloved pastor to read such a terri
ble thing as that from tiie pulpit, but
the best way to fight the devil is to fight
him boldly face to fade. The writer of ;
that vile note is unknown to me, but it
is evidently some depraved child of sin
who is endeavoring to besmirch my
Christian reputation. I shall use every
endeavor to ferret out the writer and if
discovered will fearlessly proclaim her
came and hold her up to the contempt
of all good Christian people. ”
He sat down amid the murmur of
probation and him sympathy, right before and the his wife
■wanted to hug con
gregation. That evening he told tho
writer of the note what had occurred
and remarked with a grin that it was tho
-closest call lie ever had in his life.—
Evansville Ary us.
The Bicycles.
As a mere machine for transportation,
the bicycle is entitled to a high
eratiom In England,and like more London, especially
in the large cities the
bicycle has taken an acknowledged
place with the cab, the omnibus, the
tramway, and tlie steam-car. In London
thousands of them are in use bv men
who employ them for the same purpose
that they would a Baddle-horse. They go
to their business on them in the morning
and return at night, with the same regu
laritv that other men traverse the same
routes bv means of the regular lines of
transportation. This is the case often
with men who live as maDy as from six
to ten miles from their places of busi
ness They escape the fetid air of the
omnibus, they have no fare to pay, and
os a rule they make the journey in less
time than they could were they to travel
by the usual vehicles of transportation.
In this direction the matter of
is of no small account. The
who uses a bicvele to go to and from
his place of business in London, or in
any of the larger cities of the country,
save not less than ten cents a day—a not
very large sum, it is true, but one which
pays him from forty to fifty per cent.
per annum on his purchase of a machine,
and gives him the advantage o, a
inspiriting and delightful method of
locomotion._____
Nobthers com contains most oil and
•tare.h, and Southern corn most mineral
mu albuminous matter.
Advancement of the Race.
hopeless people are continually qualities la
menting the decay of tlie finer
of the race—but those who stop to con
eider the matter will see that there is
no great cause for such complaints,
There is advancement in all the wavs
of life. The general level is on the rise
all the time. A writer in the Popular
Science Monthly says: As an advanced
science implies an advanced art—the
progress of the two being ever con
ditioned upon each other—so the great
advances of the sciences and arts human imply
a intelligence. corresponding development principle of
The of action
and mind reaction prevails world in the world of
as in the of matter, and
while the human intellect, by cogent
applications of its powers, lias established
multitudinous differentiations in things
once ponding inextricably intermingled, specialization a corres
differentiation an
of But its own powers has inevitably function* resulted,
specialization of being the
direct evidence of its greater perfection,
it is incontrovertible that the multipli
cation of specializations of knowledge by
human inquiry has resulted in improve
ments of the power of the human mind.
The strain now put on human power to
keep pace with the advances already
made is an assurance that there will
be in tlw future no lack of occasion for
continual mental development. All have do
partments of human enterprise
in truth been already so marvelously
developed as specialists to defy the complete of grasp
•f any but more than
ordinary fault capacity. stigmatize Croakers the advance may of find the
and
ngo as criticism mainly material. have Never ground diet
carping The poorer material
for its averments. ad
vance is fully matched by the moral
advance. Proofs of it are so multi
plied as scarcely to deserve enumera
tion. Liberty to think boldly and to
give free utterance to lionc-st convictions
is fast becoming a sacred principle of
society. Liberty of person, and equal
justice—irrespective of rank and wealth
—are now almost everywhere recognized
as divinest principles of instead government,
The sick and unfortunate, of be
ing left to die without aid or to pine
through a miserable existence, are now
everywhere provided for has at subjected the expense
of those whom fortune to
less severe trials. Sumptuary laws are
now not only known to be useless but
their principle is condemned. Private
war has almost ceased to be waged; and
the duty of revenge, once sanctioned by
religion, has given place to the duty
of forbearance and forgiveness. The
well-being of one’s neighbor is now
universally felt to be the good fortune
of one’s self. Vast accumulations of
wealth, instead of being squandered in
the purchase of places and useless de
corations for elevating one’s self above
liis fellows, are now employed in educa
tional, industrial and eleemosynary
foundations.________
A IaIlltcr , s Bream. „
Sir Godfrey Kneller, the celebrated
English painter, once related to Mr.
p 0 pe a dream.
A night or two ago, said Sir Godfrey,
I had a very odd sort of dream. I
breamed that 1 wasdead, and soon after
found myself walking up a narrow path
» S2
people -V”” v it. r ; hvi 1 rs ,., TSi*I ^1
them. As I drew near I could distm
gnish St. Pot.-r with his keyi si? with others
of the Apostles ; they wer © admitting
the people had as joined they the came next the I could door.
When I company
gee several seats every way at a little dis
tance within the door. As the first, after
my coming up, asked approached his for and then
ance, St. Peter name
his religion. Roman Catholic,” _ replied .
“lama
the spirit. then,” said St. Peter, “and
“ Go in, the right
sit down there on those seats on
hand.” Presbyterian; _ lie
The next was a was
admitted, too, after the usual questions,
and ordered to sit down on the scats op
posite to the other.
My turn came next, end as I np
proached, S'. Pet r veiv Kr.oder. civilly asked I had
my name. I said it was
no sooner .* i i so than St. Luke, who
was standio: just by, turned toward me
and said with a great deal of sweetness :
“What! the famons Sir Godfrey
Knel'. r, from England ?”
“The same,” says I, “at r yonr serv
ice.” immediately drew
On this St. Luke
near to me, embrae ;d me, and made mo
a great many comp aments on tho art wo
had both of us followed in this world,
He entered so far into tho subject that
he seemed almost to have forgotten the
business for which I came thither. At
last, however, he recalled himself, and
said: Sir - Godfrey; I
“I beg your pardon, with tho pleasure of
wa3 so taken up
conversing with you. But, apropos,
pray, sir, what religion may you be of?”
“Why, truly, sir,” says I, “lam of
no religion. ’ ho, will
“Oh, sir,” says you and take oe so
good, then, as to please.” go m your
seat wherever you
A YOtrs'G and sprightly school-teacher
went into a Hackensack drug-store and
tllus addressed the clerk : “l would like
a sponge, bath.” “ Ah, oh, a—will you
please repeat; I do not quite understand
yon ? ” stammered the clerk. “ I would
Hke a good sponge, bath,” again de¬
minded the customer while a pair of
sha rp gray eyes, beaming with wonder
a!ld impatience, made him tremble,
More dead than alive he managed to
tel1 bis fair visitor his inability to catch
h °r meaning. “Well, I never! If this
a ’ n ’* queer ! I think I speak intelli
gently enough. I—want— you—to —
give —me—a—good — sponge—bath.”
At this moment the proprietor whispered;
‘’She wants a bath sponge.” At the
8aK) e moment she comprehended the
trouble and fled from the storo before
£ he could be recognized by any one, but
too late ! A gentleman raised his hat to
her, passed in and all was discovered,
The experiment of using Indian ele
phanta to carry heavy burdens in
jjjg- through the wilds of Africa has been
tried by the African traveler, The Eankin,
and pronounced a success. ponder
beast travels well, and is proof
the tormenting and poisonous
insects of that country,
_ __
WHERE SIX GENERALS FELL.
—
no»tf» Chars* ifro« n.<- rmnkiin risin
«** tn# «w*m »r me n,«,,«,«>.
[ ' v ' F " Cunuiu “ ha =>«‘ 1,e pw»weeuiv nm»..
AVe had pressed the enemy for miles
npoa miles, and at last had them in a
trap with a liver in the rear. At the
sound of a gun in our center, which was
the signal, our movement began—officers,
both field and staff and line, in their
signed places, by Hood’s order, leading.
For some distauce we moved down in
the line of battle, the bauds
the martial scene. Grandly the w hole
hue swept forward, and, clearing our
front of a thin line of battle of the
enemy, we for the first time caught a
glimpse of what was in our front. A
single the whole glance was sufficient and position. to understand From
scene
right to left in a semi-circle the enemy
were intrenched behind massive fortifica
tions, with head logs and abatfis, mak
ing a bne one and a half miles river. in length,
each flank resting on the Hood’s
army moved forward in splendid order,
every E‘l by brigade, its commander. regiment Across and company- broad
a
plain of half.a mile, with no impediment
1° secure a direct aim, onward we moved,
and ns Loweing pressed forward on the
right a wild veil awoke the echoes of
Harpeth, which, lingering, was caught
by Cleburne ami Brown, and renewed
itself on the left as Bates’ men replied in
thunderous chorus. Our men passed
straight ahead, the line unbroken by the
murderous fire of artillery, which swept
the earth.
“ T, ^ J cut as wind> e ° whcn forcs(s ar0
d
They went as waves go when navies are
stranded.”
The fire of the enemy was terrific; of
fleers and men went down in great rows,
Lowering surged at the bluff and hedge,
and fell back immediately under the
parapet. Mortal men could not pass
that hedge. Cleburne and Brown had
swept like a wave and carried all in
front. Adams, Gordon and Stralil held
the works in the center.' The firing was
helped intense, but din no battle. artillery Night on our side
the of was ap
proaehing, Cleburne, Strahl, dead, Gliisfc,
Carter and Cranberry were while
field and line officers went down by
scores, and the ground wounded. was dotted Still the by
the dead and
remnants of Strahl and Gordon held the
work in pure desperation. It was cer
tain death to retreat across that plain,
and equally as bad to remain. The
men fought doggedly and across the works
without officers, with no light save
the lurid glare of the enemy’s artillery,
which seemed to sear Franklin the eyeballs.
The battle of had been
fought, and the Federal army had
escaped. We held the field, but at what
a tremendous cost! Six Generals and
oyer one hundred field officers lay there
as the result. Our loss was tremendous
for the length wounded of time we were engaged,
Our dead and were never mim
bered—corporals commanded commanded companies, and
Captains regiments,
Colonels commanded divisions the next
morning.
Duties of United States Commissioners.
m, ere are manv different kinds of
United state8 Commissioners.
aro the United States Commissioners of
2 SSS I*.”™,
appointed ....... f
oominissioners by district and
r i rcin 't courts. All of these, except the
district and circuit court commissioners,
aro appointed by the President, with the
advice and consent of the Senate. When
t) ie term United State.s Commissioner is
U8f understood a without to any refer qualifying to Commissioner word, it of is
a ft
Unit^d States Circuit Court,appointed Revised tin
der Statutes. sectionf>27,chapter The and vi.,pf duties the of such
power and
an officer are numerous
q’jie following are some of thorn : To
institute prosecutions for violations of
civil right; laws; to grant search warrants
internal revenue officers to prem
| ses i n certain* justice cases ; enforce to apprehend awards
fugitives from in differences ; to between
of captains’and foreign consuls masters
crows, to summon
0 f v^sels in oases of seamen’s wages;
to issue warrants for arrest imprison of foreign
seamen in certain cases ; to or
bail offenders against United States laws ;
to discharge poor convicts sentenced by
any courted tho United States to taking pay a
fino or fine and carte, upon Ids
oc .th, afior ho lias be n confined thirty
days, that he is unable to pay; to ad
minister oaths and take acknowledge
merits of tho execution important of various function legal
instruments. A most
of tlicsa commissioners is to enforce
obsf rv t ice of the laws concerning or
affecting the* election of Dio President
a ._.j Vicc-Pesidtnt of 1lie United States
a U a G-eigressional Representatives and
Delegates. *
.
A jiAN is astonishing the people of
Milwauitoe by walking on water. He
wears shoes resembling coilins, and goes
three miles an hour at a swinging gait.
The Presbyterian Church of Canada
reports 710 pastoral charges and 659
ministers. Tlie pastoral charges Con¬ em¬
brace 1,350 clnu’clies and stations.
nected with the church are 63,843, mak¬
ing a population of 300,000. There aro
107,871 members. During the year 10,-
748 were added to the fellowship of the
church, the net increase being 3,619.
The entire income for tho year was $1,
J 62.154._____________________________
F'iiio Opera; Olasses, I
BRONZED JEWELRY. %
EXQUISITE IVORY GOODS, FIN 5 DIAMONDS, WATCHES and
EWELRY. ^
BIGGEST and COSTLIEST STOCK • the Auguata Market.
on
For Tho Tr 0 ii davs,
ELEGANT SILVER SERVICE, f l) HEADED CANES.
FANCY FRENCH FANS, SATUi i PEARLS,
F. A. BRAD Jeweler*
Dec,17,*81.ly. n!
ons Suggestion.
when a Hindoo priest
It is • said tharbabe he
lit!ifl uses the folio w
baptizes a it tie babe, thou enterest
ing wor j s . ,Q e ix ]j aronn< j thee
the world weee u live that you may
smile; coutries, while all around you
depart in sari! see—these Hindoo people
weep.” Let' jsend tracts to, are they
aro the ones vjildu’t it be a good idea
not? Why wd send ns some of their
to have then mango for the tracts?
roligion in < ltd use a little of that
Some of us ctn to good advantage, in
kind business, of religitV.r instance the Christian
our o the house of correction
that was sent 'eking his littlo child in
last week for k the heel of his boot._
the head with
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NATUR- ""it
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a it 1 ' \ , - and effectual for nre
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g oace * T . . f s " .... lUl ,lld
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... u ot - y°nth, faded
or gray,
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® os a ' la 'C, to a rich brown, or deoji
all( ' be desired. By its use thin
black, as ua/cned, and baldness often
hair is ti> ttvays cured. It checks falling
though not imedlatelv | ’ and mhws a ne\*
0 j y, a {, cases where the glands aro
growth in i while to brashy, weak, or
not decay teased hair, it imparts vitality
otlierwiS' l and renders it pliable.
and stre
cleanses the scalp, cures and
The Vi (information of dandruff; and,
prevents stimulating, and soothing
by its c< heals most if not $11 of the
propertied' ‘discuses peculiar to the scalp,
humors a^-tmol, clean, and soft, under
keeping itions diseases of the scalp and
which cond ssible.
hair are in?
As D Hair,
a Ia incomparable. It is color
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Ttl . vr.., * 1101 ... tber oil .. nor dye, . and , will
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l ' ess ’ ““"F cambric. It imparts an
not 8o ^ > ‘l, lasting perfume, and as an
ftgroeablf^ lfl toilet It is economical and
article for; ,; 9 excellence,
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. Hi train , re rarer, better, other article
tlie market than any
Childs, Nickerson, Wynn iV Co
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ATHENS. GA.
Wholesale and Retail Dealrs In
M. u [ ARD W ABB 8#
IKTesilsi, Steel '
Fairbanks Scale, Mill Findings,
A GlilCL TUBAL IMPL1MEN1S,
Hollow Ware, Feed Cutters,
Cl ircular, lid ancs. Cross Cut Saws, Corn Shcllc-rs. the
Celebrated
WEBSTER WAGONS.
WATT IILOTFS, HOUSE AND M ULE SHOES,RUBBER AND LEATHER
BELTINGL.
Harness leather Cotton,
-1L ItOFES AND. CORDAGE, SHOE FINDINGS, HARNESS OF ALL
S,an.28,ly. DESCRIPTIONS, ETC
HR. II. S. SMITH.
—Proprietor of the
€Md Reliable Brag Store
TAKKES this method of informing his friends and patrons that
nto Ins new and ho has Imov
Commodious Store
Griv© Him a Call.
II. S. SMITH, Crawfordville, Ga.
CAKPUTS—713 Broad St. BSIVBMSlilrt) 183B, ORD^EIUBS—9D
George Brsadit
A.. Bailie,
--THE LIVE-
Cy si r p eta 11 d Cm r o eery Deal or
OFFEIIS A full LIVE of the FObbowiNru ooriDS.tow Fou cash its
or EtiUIYALBKT
Carpet
s;,srs Store Shades, rr.;-. y. Knp«
iW(Shades all sizes. Rustic Shades, Pajicr Hhadus. any size. Winnowr
for Curtains Lace Curtains, cheap and Duo. Curtain Lioim and J.hiis.
Cornices, Wall Papers and Holders. Fire Screens, Room Oonters. Ficiittre Frames
Beautiful Chromes. Mosquito Nets,
GEOCEnY DEPAETMEKT.
mv worm ■ “The Nimble Hixpeucn 'GARPEite boltev than the Slow Shilling.” MADE “Quick AND
«a 1 - and Small Pron'ts tor Dash." AN.) Oil, Oi/G’ilS
Va!1). CURTAINS AND SHADE''. HUNG AT SHORT NO HOE.
[MASONIC HALL BUILDING, AUGUSTA, GA.
Dec.l7,’8).ly.
MYERS &M > 1
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JOBBERS IN
DRY ©©©D^,
O.I3.«a. EEO£3iOI , 37-.
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS AND CLOTHING.
m-'PsRVNKi) would respectful IV inform tho merchant* of Taliaferro
rir idS'ilont^unSSl^any »tj — - « • ,n Dl.UhiAf.MaU wum 1 } * c-l roci*Jvr»(l, and in pries
,, ,. r .j c : s nOW A
special furniture of our huStness is the esta blishine nt .
wiioSjKBAijiiia
BOOT.SHOEAND ILAT HOUSE
tl7rVJ\ ‘and rrUl Mtffiti.av it will bo to the interest of purchase to
our stock before purchasing elsewhere.
MYERS & MARCUS; ^ ,
286 and ”88 Broad Street Augusta, G».
September 9, 18sl.—yl
Wot 1 Use La wren ce & Martinis Q
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Kir WITHOUT Proprietors, 41 Biver St, Chcas®, ni uw
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