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OR, IVHAT FRANK EVANS MISSF.I).
Marian Harlan was alone in the
world—her mother just buried.
She was a beautiful, brown haired
girl, with soft, shy eyes of violet
gray, and rosy lips compressed to a
linn ness far beyontl her years For
after all she was scarcely seventeen,
and so deacon Gray was telling her,
as he sat by the fire spreading his
huge hands over the tardy blaze,
and asked:
“ But what are you going to do to
earn your bread and butter, child? ”
“I don’t know—l havn’t thought.
Mamma had an uncle in New York,
who ”
“Yes, yes-—l’ve lieerd tell about
him —he was mad ’cause your mother
didn’t marry just exactly to suit him,
wasn’t it ? ”
Marian was silent. Deacon Gray
waited a few minutes, hoping she
would admit him into her secret
meditations; but She did not, and the
deacon went away home, to tell his
wife that “that Harlan gal was the
very queerest creetnr lie ever had
come across.”
In the meanwhile Marian was busy
packing her few scanty tilings into a
little carpet bag, by the weird flick
ering light of the dying wood fire.
“ I will go to New York,” she said
to herself, setting her small pearly
teeth firmly together. “My moth
er’s uncle shall hear my cause plead
ed through my own lips. Oh, I wish
my heart would not throb so wildly!
I am no longer meek Minnie Harlan;
I am an orphan all alone in the world,
who must fight life’s battles with her
ow r n single hands.”
Lower Broadway, at seven o’clock
in the evening. What a Babel of
crashing wheels, hurrying humanity,
and conglomerate noise it was!
Minnie Harlan sat in the corner of an
express office, under the flare of gas
light, surrounded by boxes, and won
dered whether people ever went eras
ed in this perpetual din, and tumult.
Her dress was very plain—gray pop
lin, with a shabby, old-fashioned little
straw bonnet tied w ith black ribbons,
and a blue veil, while her only article
of baggage, the carpet-bag, lay in her
lap. She had sat there two hours,
and was very, very tired.
“Poor little thing!” thought the
dark-1 paired young clerk nearest her,
who inhabited a sort of wire cage un- j
dor a circlet of gas-lights. And then
he took up his pen and plunged into
a perfect Atlantic ocean of accounts.
“ Mr. Evans.”
“ Sir.”
The dark-haired clerk emerged from
his cage with his pen behind his ear,
in obedience to the beckoning finger
of hi- superior.
“I have noticed that young woman
sitting here for some time —how came
she here ? ”
“Expressed on, sir, from Milling
ton, lowa —arrived this afternoon.”
As though poor Minnie _ llarlau
were a box or a paper parcel.
“ Who for ?
“Consigned to Walter Harrington,
Esq.”
“ And why hasn’t she been called
for ? ”
“ I sent np to Mr. Harrington’s ad
dress to notify him some time ago; I
expect an answer every moment.”
“ Very odd,” said the grey-haired
gentleman, taking up his newspaper
“ Yes, sir, rather.’’
Some three-quarters of an hour af
terward, Frank Evans came to the
pale girl’s side with indescribable
pity in his hazel eyes.
“ Miss Harlan, we have sent to Mr.
Harrington’s residence** ”
“Minnie looked up with a fever
ish red upon her cheek, and her
hands clasped tightly on the handle
of the faded carpet bag.
“And we regret to inform you
that lie sailed for Europe at twelve
o’clock this day.”
A sudden blur came over Minnie’s
eyes —she trembled like a leaf. In
all her calculations she had made no
allowance for an exigency like this.
“Can we do anything further for
vou ? ” questioned the young clerk,
politely.
“Nothing—no one can do any
thing now I ’’ .
Frank Evans had been turning
away, but something in the piteous
tone's of her voice appealed to every
manly instinct within him.
“Shall I send to any other of your
friends ? ”
HAMILTON, HARRIS FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1875.
“I have no friends ? ”
“Pe ! ips I can have your things
sent to fame quiet family lioti I ? ”
Minnie opened her little leather
purse and showed him t\\ o ton-eent
pieces, with a smile that was almost
a tear.
“This is all the money I have in
the world, sir! ”
“So young, so beautiful, and so
desolate! Frank Evans had been a
New Y r orker all his life, but he had
never met with an exactly parallel
case to this. lie Lit the end of his
pen in ; dire perplexity.”
“ But what are you going to do ?”
“I don't know, sir. Isn’t there a
work house, or sonic such place I
could go to, until I could find some
thing to do?”
“Hardly.” Frank Feans could
scarcely help smiling at poor Minnie’s
simpliciiy.
“They are putting out the lights
and preparing to close the office,”
said Minnie, starting nervously to
her feet. “ I must go —somewhere.”
“ Mi-s Harlan,” said Frank, quietly,
“my home is a very poor one—l am
only a five hundred dollar clerk—hut
I am sure my mother will receive
you under her roof for a day or two,
if you can trust me.”
' “Trust you?” Minnie looked at
him through violet eyes obscured in
tears. “ Oh, sir, I should be so thank
ful !”
* * $ * * He
“How late you are, Frank! Here
—give me your overcoat —it is all
powdered with snow and ”
But Frank interrupted his bustling
cherry-cheeked little mother, as she
stood on tip-toe to take olfhis outer
wrappings.
“ Hush, mother; there is a young
lady down stairs.”
“ A young lady, Frank ? ”
“Yes, mother; expressed on from
lowa to old Harrington, the rich
merchant. He sailed for Europe this
morning, and she is left entirely
alone. Mother, she looks like poor
Blanche, and I knew you wouldn’t
refuse her a corner here until she
could find something to do.”
Mrs. Evans went lo t tho door and
called cheerfully out:
“ Come up stairs, my dear—you’re
ns welcome as the flowers'in May!
Frank, you did qu'to right; you al
ways do.”
The days and weeks passed on,
and still Minnie Harlan remained an
inmate of Mrs. Evan’s humble dwell
ing,
“It seems just as though she had
taken our dead Blanche’s place,” said
the cosy little widow; “and she is so
useful about the house. I don’t
know how I ever managed without
her. Now, Minnie, you are not in
earnest about leaving us to-morrow ? ”
“I must, dear Mrs. Evans. Only
think —I have been here two months
to morrow, and the situation of gov
erness is very advantageous.”
“ Very well, I shall tell Frank
how obstinate you are.”
“Dearest Mrs. Evans, please don’t.
Please keep my secret,”
“ What secret is it that is to he so
religiously kept ? ” a.-lied Mr. Frank
Evans, coolly walking into the midst
of the discussion, with his dark hair
tossed about by the wind, and his
hazel brown eyes sparkling archly.
“Secret!” repeated Mrs. Evans,
energetically wiping her dim specta
cle glasses. “ Why, Marian is deter
mined to leave us to morrow.”
“ Minnie 1”
“ I must, Frank. I have no right
further to trespass on your kindness.”
“No right, ch ? Minnie, do you
know that the old house has been a
different house since you came into
it? Do you suppose we want to lo3e
our little sunbeam ?”
Minnie smiled sadly, hut her hand
felt very cold and passive in Frank’s
warm grasp.
“Y'ou’ll stay, Minnie?”
“No.”
She shook her head determinedly.
“Then you must be mode to stay,”
said Frank. “ I’ve missed some
thing of great value lately, and I
hereby arrest you on suspicion of
the theft! ”
“ Mis-ed something ? ”
Minnie rose, turning red and white.
“Oh, Frank, you can never eus
peet me! ”
“ But I do supret you. In fact, I
am quite sure that the article i3 iQ
your possession.”
“The article!”
“My heart, Miss Minnie! Now
look here—l know lam very young
and very poor, but I love you, Min
nie Harlan, and I will be a good and
true husband to you. Stay and be
my fiule w ifu! ”
So Minnie Ila' hin, instead of going
out as a governess, according to the
programme, married the dark-haired
young clerk in Ellison’s express of
fice, New York.
They were very quietly married,
early in the morning, and Frank took
Minnie home to his mother, and then
went calmly about Ids business in the
wire cage, under the circlet of gas
lights.
“ Evans! ”
“Yes, sir.”
Frabk with his pen behind his ear
as of yore, quietly obeyed the be
hests of the gray-headed official.
“Do you remember the voting
woman who was expressed on from
Millington, lowa, t wo months since? ”
“ Yes, sir—l remember her.”
A tall, silver-haired gentleman
here interposed with eager quickness:
“Where is she? lam her uncle,
V alter Harrington. I have just re
turned from Paris, when the news of
her arrival reached me. I want her;
she is the only living relative left me.”
“Ah! hut, sir,” said Frank, “you!
can’t have her.”
“ Can't have her? What do you
mean ? Has anything happened ? ”
“ Y r es, sir, something has happened.
Miss Harlan was married to ine this
morning.”
Walter Harrington stared.
“Take me toiler,” h ■ said hoarsely;
“I can’t bo parted from my only liv
ing relative for a mere whim.”
“I wonder if he calls the mar
riage service and wedding ring mere
whim,” thought honest Frank; hut
he obeyed in silence.
“ Minnie,” said the old man, in
faltering accents, “you will come to
me and be the daughter of my old
age? I am rich, Minnie, and you
are- all I have in the world.”
But Minnie stole her hand through
her husband’s arm,
“Dearest uncle, he was kind tome
when I was most desolate and a'ono.
I cannot leave my husband, Uncle
Walter—l love him 1”
“Then you must both of you collie
and be my children,” said the old
man, doggedly; “ and you must come
now, for the great house is as lonely
as a tomb.”
Frank Evans is an express clerk
no longer, and pretty Minnie moves
in velvet and diamonds; hut they are
quite as happy as they were in the
old days, and that is saying enough.
Uncle Walter Harrington grows older
and feebler every day, and his two
children are the sunshine of his de
clining life.
Printing.— The following is given
as a specimen of printers’ technical
terms. It don’t mean, however, as
much as it would seem to the unini
tiated :
“Jim, put Gcorgo Washington on
a galley, and then finish the murder
you commenced yesterday. Set up
the Ruin of Herculaneum, and dis
tribute the smallpox; you needn’t
finish that runaway match; lock up
Jeff Davis, slide Bon Butler into hell,
and let that pi a'oac until after din
ner. Put the ladies’ fair to press,
and then go to the devil and put him
tlPw ork on Deacon Fogy’s article on
eternal punishment.”
Washing not Taken In. —A good
old minister of one of our New En
gland B iptist churches, was agreea
bly surprised by the intelligeffce from
one of his flock, that five individuals
had expressed a desire on the next
Sunday to have the baptismal rite
performed upon themselves. - After
its performance, however, ho was
somewhat chagrined that only one of
the five joined the society of which
he was pastor.
A few Sundays after, the same
worthy elder waited on him with
the intelligence Hat ten more desired
immersion.
“And how many will join the so
ciety?” queried the minister.
“Two, I regret to say, are all we
can depend on,” was the elder’s re
ply.
“Very well,” said the good old
man, “you may as well inform the
other eight that this church doesn’t
take in washing.”
nr Mr. F. R. L you, of liiccboro,
1.33 on hand enough corn to last him
twelve months, in addition to which
he has one hundred bushels for sale.
A Coffee county man killed
: six thousand cut-worms on his farm
in three weeks recently.
1 Roll-cal}—the baker’s visit.
How Sut Lovingood Killed His
Bog.
When I wer a boy dad fetched
home a ditrttcd, worthless, mangy,
fllcebitten, gray, old fox lioini, good
for nothing but to s waller up what
orfer lined the bowels of his brats.
Well, I naturally took a distaste to
him and had a sort of hankerin p.rter
hurt in his foehns and discumfertin
him every time dad's back was
turned. This sorter kept a big
skecr afore his eyes, and an nw fnl yell
ready to pour out the first, motion ho
see mo make. So he larn’t to swol
len things as he run, and always kept
his logs well under himself; for he
never knew how soon he might need
them to tote his infer! al carcass be
yond the reach of a Ilyin’ rock.
He luiowed the whiz of a rook in
motion well, and he never stopped to
see who threw it, but just let his lied
opin wide etiuff to gin a howl room
to cum, and set his legs ngwino the
way his nose happened to boa pint
in’. He’d shy around every rock he
seed in the road, for he looked at it
as a calamity to cum alter him sum
ffiiy. I tell you, Georgy, that run
nin’ am the greatest on*
yearth, when carefully usodftf Wlmr’d
Ia bin by this time ef I hadn’t relied
on these ’ere legs ? D’ye see ’em ?
Don’t they ’mind you of a pair of
entnpussea, made to divide a mile into
quarters? They’ll do it
Well, one day I tuck a pig's hind
dor ni onto the sizo ova duck’s aig,
and filled it with powder, rolled it up
in a thin sculp of meat and sot the
spunk a fire, and threw it out; he
swallered it at a jerk, and sot to get
away from doing it. I heard a noise
like bustin’ sumthin,’ and his tal lit on
my hat. His lied was away down the
hill, and his teeth took a dead hold
onto a roof. His fore legs were fifty
feet up the road mnkin’ runnin’ 1110-
shions, and his hind ones astraddle
ova fence. As to the dog, I never
seed him again.
Well, dad, durn his unsanctified
soul, flung five or six hundred under
my short, with the dried hide of a
bull’s tail, and gin me the remainder
next day with a wngin whip what he
borrowed from a feller while lie was
waterin’ his horses; wnginer got for
me, and hollered for mo to turn my
beggin’ and squallin’ into first rate
runnin’, which I imejully did, thanks
to these ’ere hamstrings, and the last
lick missed mo about ten foot.
An Awful Liar.
110 did n’t look like a liar. 110 had
in fact a George Washington face, and
his enunciation was loudly honest and
decidedly nasal. Ho sat roasting his
alternate sides in front of a red hot
saloon stove, amid a party of hum
mers who wore trying to out lie each
Other.
“ Tall.in, about lightnin’,” said lie,
“ I reckon none o’ you lazzaroni was
cver’struck, was you ? ”
“ No.”
“ Well I was. “Yes,-you see I was
out sliootin’ prairie chickens in Elli
noy last August, and there conio up
the awfullcst thunder storm I ever
seen in the whole course of my life.
It rained cats and dogs, an’ the thun
der rolled, and the forked lightnin'
darted all over the skies like forked
tongues. I got behind a haystack,
that sorter leaned over to the south,
and the fust thing I knowed the
lightnin’ struck that and set it on fire.
Then I moved to a walnut tree that
stood near, and a double jointed holt
ripped it to splinters. I moved to
another tree, and the lightnin’ struck
it. Then I begun to think it wanted
me, an’ so I jest walked o'it, bumped
up myself and took three or four of
the heaviest chips I ever hear 1. It
shuck me up right peer;, but beyond
rippen the coat offen tr y hack, and
I slittin one o’ my hoots from; top to
| toe, it didn’t do me no particular
damage. But you and d’t find Jim
around huntin’ a row of that kind
again.”
The discomfitted hummers looked
curiously into each other’s faces for a.
moment, and sneaked out, leaving
truthful Jaiucs master of the field.
PcntiLviatASCt;.—Robert Bruce was
driven one night to take shelter in a
barn. When he awoke in the morn
ing, he saw a spider din bing a beam
of the roof. It fell to the ground
twelve i me tin sue cession. The thir
teenth lime, it succeeded, arid gained
the top of the beam. He arose, and
said, “This spider lias perseverance.
I will follow its example Twelve
times have I be n beaten; the thir
teenth I may succeed.” he rallied
his fellows, and defeated Edward and
was crowned king.
WIT and HUMOR.
’Ours at home—tho baby.
A pair of tights—two drunkards.
For music lovers—a Patti on a
Grisi plate.
The way for a desolate old bachelor
to secure better quarters is to take a
‘ better-half.’
The Chicago Times describes an of
fice holder as ‘ collector- of the port
of Ararat, when Noah arrived there
with his ark, and has uninterruptedly
held office ever since..’
It is the sagacious remark tif a keen
observer that you can generally tell a
newly married couple at the dinner
table, by the indignation of tho groom
when a fly alights on the brnlo’s but
ter.
When a boy falls and peels the
skin off his.nose, the first thing ho
does is to get up and yell. When a
girl tumbles and hurts hers If badly,
the first thing she does is to get up
and look at her dress.
How soon some women change
their minds respecting hus
bands? Airs. Spinn was fegaiver toll
ing her husband that he wasn’t worth
the salt in his bread ; but when he
got killed in a railway collision she
sued the company for live thousand
dollars.
Tho Texas Jimplecnte thus tolls his
experience: The proportion of tho
married nmong the insane is smaller
than that of the unmarried. No mar
ried man can afford the luxury of in
sanity. To dodge fire shovels and
flat-irons, a man wants all his wits
about him.
An old lady, on hearing that a
young friend had lost his place on ac
count of misdemeanor, exclaimed:
“ Miss Demeanor? Lost his place on
account of Miss Demeanor? Well,
well! I’m afeard it’s too true that
there’s alius a woman at the bottom
of a man’s difficulties ! ”
A Boston editor blushes for tho
ignorance of three young girls of that
city, who tried to get their horse’s
lie and down so that it could drink by
unbuckling tho crupper. Probably
those are the samo girls who unbuck
led tho breeching-strap going down
hill, because it pulled against the
poor horse so.
Quills arc things that are some
times taken from the pinions of ono
goose to spread tho opinions of an
other.
A farmer complains that a hook
and ladder company has been organ
ized in his neighborhood. He states
that the ladder is used after dark for
climbing into the hen-house, after
which tho hooking is done.
Deaf men claim immunity from le
gal punishment on the ground that
none can he condemned without a
hearing.
We are told that the smallest hair
throws a shadow. And so it does. It
throws a shadow over your appetite
when you find it in your victuals.
A pious minister in South Carolina,
hut a great beilover in certain wea
ther signs, was asked to petition the
Throne of Grace for refreshing show
ers. lie replied: “My friends, I will
do so, but it is not going to rain till
the moon changes.”
A Michigan farmer’s daughter al
most killed a young fellow by putting
a d*m of condition powders in his
cider. He was slow in his wooing,
arid sho wanted to make him frisky,
as she calls it.
It is an interesting sight to see a
young lady with both hands in soft
dough, ami a mosquito right on the
end of her nose.
Tho new building of tho Now York
Tribune is nine stories high. .When
a man comes in and wants to know
‘ who wrote that article,’ he is told
that the author is on tho top iloor
with the elevator broken.
A gentleman of color called at a
Kentucky post office recently and
wanted to know: “ Does dis postorfis
keep stamped antelopes?” He was
doubtless convinced that he had the
wrong ideer.
Why is a newspaper like a tooth*
brush ? Because every one should
have one of his own, and not be bor.
rowing his neighbor’s.
Boarding school.miss : ‘O, Char
lie! I expect to graduate at next
commencement.’ ‘Graduate? what
will you graduate in?’ ‘Why, in
white tulle!’
• •
A Pennsylvania ladies’ man says ho
is never satisfied that his lady friends
understand a kiss, unless he has it
from their own mouths.
$2.00 A YEAR.
From the Macon Telegraph.
The Story of Jones, of Jones
County.
Thera was a man which he live )in Jones
tVhirli Jones is a county of red hills and
stones— , V,
Ami ho lived pretty much by getting of*
Isms, *
And liis mules but skin and
bones,
Apd his hogs were as fl it ae his corn-bread
pones,
And he had ’ bout a thousand acres of land.
Tliis man—which Ills name w.ia also Jones—
He swore that he'd leave thorn old red hills
and stones,
For he couldu’t make nothin’ but yellowi-h
cotton,
And little o{ that, for Ms fences were rottc,
Aud what little com he had there was
boughten,
And he couldn’t get a living from the land.
And the longer be swefo tho madder h- got,
And he rose nil!'walked to the stable lot,'
And ho halloed to Tom ter come there and fix
For to emigrate somewhere where the land
was rich, T> , .
And to-quit raising coelileburs and tlisTes
and slch, ,
And wasting their time on barren lan ’.
So hinNind Tom th(sy Mtchod up their mules,
Protesting that folks mighty Fiji mo's,
That ’ud stay in Georgia ilieir time out,
Just scratching a living, when all of flions
mout
Oct places in Texas whore cot ton would sprout
lly tho timu you could plant it lu the land.
And ho drove by a house where a man named
Brown
Was living, not far from the edge of town,
And he bantered Brown for to buy bis plain,
And said tiiat seeing that money was ilia-.e,
And seeing that sheriffs were hard to face,
Two dollurs un aero would get the land.
They closed at a dollar and fifty cents,
And Jones he bought him a wagon un I teats,
And loaded ids corn and women and truck,
And moved to Toxas which It tuck,
His untiro pile with the lied of luck,
To get there and gut a little land.
But Brown moved out on the old Jones farm,
Aral lie rolled up his breeches and hal ed his
arm,
And ho picked all tho rocks f:om off'n the
ground,
And lie rooted It up and plowed it down.
And sowed his coin uud wheat In the lend.
Five years glided by, and Brown one day,
(Who'd got so fat that he wouldn't weigh)
Was sitting down rather lazily
To the pleasantest dinner you’d ever see,
When one of his children jumped on Bin
knee
And snys, “Yon's Jones which you bought
his laud."
And there was Jones standing out at the
fence,
And he hadn't no wagons, nor mules, 11
tents,
For he had left Texas afoot and come
To Georgia to see if he couldn't get some
Employment, anil ho was looking as humble
As if he had never owned any land.
But Brown ho asked him' in, and he sot
llim down to his victual- smoking hot,
And when he hail filled himself and tho
floor,
Brown looked at him sharp, and rose and
sworo,
That “ whether men’s land was rioli ®r poor,
'• Thar’s more in the man than that is in
the land! ”
Confederate Forces. —Gen. I).
11. Hill’s Magazine publishes the fol
lowing carefully prepared estimates of
the Southern forces during the late
war, condensed trap calculations
made with great care, by Dr, Jones,
Secretary of the Historical Society,
and approved by Gen. S. Cooper,
Adjutant General of the Confederate
Army.
Is it not amazing that the g illent
000,000 could successfully maintain
the field for a period of four years
against the combined lorcos of Yan
keedom and lhe rest of mankind?
1. The available forces of the Con
federate army did not, during the
war, exceed 600,000.
2. The Confederates never had for
their defense more thau 200,000 men
in the field at one lime.
3. From 1861 to 1865 the Confed
erates actively engaged were only
600,000.
4. Losses—The total number o!
deaths during that time were 200,000'
5. Losses of prisoners counted as
total josses, on account of the United
States policy of exchange, 200,000.
6. The loss of Confederate States
Array, by discharge, disability am)
desertion amounted to 100,000.
7. At the close of the war, the force
of tli Confederate Army was less
than i 00,000.
8. Out of 600,000 men, 500,000
wore lost to the at rvice.
| A nid little toy, upon being prota
j sed live cents by his qioth-r if tit
1 woe-1 take a dose of castor oil, ah.
I tain 1 e money, and then u>‘d JH
pari 11 at she might; cattor oil ia iu
sire .