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JACKSON HERALD
ROBERT S. HOWARD,/
Editor and Publisher. S
VOLUME 11.
C _ W, DUPRE,
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IS IIEADQUARTEUS for good reliable goods, and the Leader in Low Prices. My stock of General Merchandise is the
largest I have ever carried, and the most extensive and best selected stock ever brought to Gainesville. My
Dry Goods Department
Is full and replete in every line. The most elegant line of DRESS GOODS. SILKS, SAIIXS. PGA IDS, STRIPES and
BROCADES ever offered here. A superb line of FLANNELS, \\ A J ERULOOI S, GASIMLRES, JEANS, CLOIHS, Re.
My stock of LADIES’ CLOAKS will equal that of every house in the city together. This line is complete in all grades.
Every lady can be suited here. My
G-love, Hosiery and. Corset Departments
Are full of the best goods and lowest prices. In MILLINERY, HAT'S, RIBBONS and TRIMMINGS, for ladies wear, l have
an elegant line, with MISS MARY lIEADEN a superb Trimmer, at the head of this Department.
Clotliing - 1 Clotblng l
Tn my Clothing Department may always be found everything pertaining to a first-class clothing store. This stock is unequal
ed in this section. “ KEEP’S” Shirts, Collars and Culls a specialty. No fancy prices. I have the largest stock of Boots and
Shoes, for Gents. Ladies and Children, ever ottered to the trade in Northeast Georgia. Ziegler’s Shoes, and other noted brands
in full lines. My stock is complete in every department, and as to prices 1 will guarantee to sell anything in my stock as low
as similar goods can be bought in Atlanta or Athens, or any other market. All! ask is an opportunity to convince you.
Come to Gainesville. Come to see me. (A W. DuFRE.
P. S.—l bu3' all kinds of Country Produce at highest market prices.
£egal Adiiertisemcufs.
Jachson Sheriffs Sale.
WILL be sold, before the Court House
door in Jefferson, Jackson county,
Ga., on the first Tuesday in March next,
within the legal hours of sale, to the high
est bidder, the following described pro
perty, to-vvit:
All that tract or parcel of land, situate,
lying and being on the Walnut Fork of
the Oconee river, in the county of Jack
son, and known and distinguished as the
K. E. Oliver place, being the place where
on lie resided at the tiiue of his death, and
bounded as follows, to-wit : on the north
by lauds of J. S. Messer, on the west by
lands of Mrs. Cynthia Long, on the south
by lands of Mrs. Emily Niblack and
Hardy, and on the east by the lands of
Neal Shockley and others, and containing
three hundred acres, inoreor less. Levied
on, and to be sold for the purchase money,
under and by virtue of a fi. fa. issued from
Jackson Superior Court in favor of Thos.
11. Loveless and Jane A. Loveless vs.
Green S. Duke. Said Green S. Duke holds
said lands under bond for titles, and said
Thomas 11. Loveless and Jane A. Love
less have made and filed and had record
ed in the Clerk’s office of Jackson Supe
rior Court, their deed for said land to
Green S. Duke, as required by law. 'Writ
ten notice given tenant in possession, as
the law directs. Property pointed out by
plaintiff's attorney.
T. A. McELHANXON, Sh’fF.
Administrator’s Sale.
AGREEABLY to an order of the Court
of Ordinary of Jackson county, Ga ,
granted at the October term. 1879, of said
Court, will be sold, on the first Tuesday
in March next, at the Court House door
in Jefferson, in said county, within the
legal hours of sale, one small lot of land,
containing one acre, more or less, adjoin
ing lands of O. G. W. Carter and T. \Y.
Garrison. On said lot is a very good log
house, known as the Merk meeting and
school-house, in said county. Sold as the
property of George Merk, deceased, to
pay expenses and for distribution among
the heirs at lav*. Terms cash.
HENRY MERK,
Adm’r of George Merk, dec'd.
Jackson Sheriff’s Sale.
WILL he sold, before the Court House
door in the town of Jefferson, Jack
son county, Ga., on the first Tuesday in
March next, within the legal hours of
sale, to the highest bidder, the following
described property, to-wit :
A tract of land, situated in said coun
ty, on the waters of the Mulberry river,
containing one hundred and two acres,
more or less, it being a part of the land
originally granted to Thomas Philips, and
is situated on the road leading from Jef
ferson to Lawrenccville, and adjoining
lands of J. G. Justice, Mrs. Roberts and
others. Levied on as the property of
Melchizedeck Charles, to satify a fi. fa.
issued from the Superior Court of said
county in favor of Benson & Justice
against V. Mahaffey and M. Charles.
Property pointed out by plaintiffs in fi.
fa. Written notice given the tenants in
possession, as the law directs.
T. A. McELHANXON, Sh’ff.
Jackson Sheriff 's Sale.
\VT ILL be sold, before the Court House
' T door in the town of Jefferson. Jack
son county, (la., on the first Tuesday in
March next, within the legal hours of sale,
to the highest bidder, the following de
scribed property, to-wit :
A house and lot, situated in the town of
Jefferson, (la., containing one acre, more
or less, located on the cast side of Curry’s
creek, on the Danielsvillc road, adjoining
lands of J. E. Randolph, John Simpkins
and others. Levied on as the property of
Wm. Watson, col'd. to satisfy a li. fa. is
sued from the Justice Court of the 245th
District, (J. M., said county, in favor of
Pendergrass & Hancock vs. Wm. Watson,
col'd. Levy made and returned to me by
W. 1). Elrod, L. C. Property pointed
out-by J. I>. Pendergrass, Administrator.
Written notice given to the tenant in pos
session. as the*law directs.
T. A. McELHANNON, Sh'ff.
Jackson County.
W hcreas, Simeon 11. Cronic applies, in
proper form, for Letters of Administra
tion unon the estate of Peter Cronic, late
of said county, dec'll—
-1 his is to cite all concerned, kindred
and creditors, to show cause, if any they
can, at the regular term of the Court of
Ordinary of said county, on the first Mon
day in March, ISS2. why said Letters
should not be granted the applicant.
(liven under my official signature, Feb.
1, ISS2. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Jackson County.
" hcreas, S. P. Higgins, Administrator
ot Mary Simmons, dec'd, represents to the
tourt that he has fully and completely ad
ministered said deceased’s estate accord
ing to law. and is therefore entitled to a
discharge from said administration—
Hus is to cite all concerned, kindred
ami creditors, to show cause, if an}' they
ean, at the regular term of the Court of
rdinary of said eountv. on the first Mon
y* April, 1882, why Letters of Dis
mission from said estate should not be
granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this
January 4th, 1882.
11. W. BELL, Ord'y.
Jackson Countv.
Whereas, C. Yarborough makes ap
plication for Letters of Guardianship ol
the persons and property of the minor
children of E. D. Yarbrough, late of said
county, dec’d—
This is to cite all concerned and the
next of kin to show cause, if any they can.
at the regular term of the Court of Ordi
nary of said count r, on the first Monday
in March, ISSg, why said letters should
not be granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, Feb.
1, ISB2. 11. W. BELL, Ord'y.
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Topics Discussed
BY XIIK riIILOSOriIKII OF CHEROKEE
GEORGIA.
[Atlanta Constitution.]
I see that the St. Louis Republican
is somewhat alarmed, and wants t<>
know whether it is good policy to en
urage the tremendous flow of immi
gration going west all the time with
increasing numbers. He wants to
know if there is not some desirable
limit to this sort of business, and arc
wo not in danger of* losing our
American name and nationality.
Those are very nice conundrums to
put to a man now. It is most too late,
but I don't blame him. The wonder
is that those western people bavent
seen ilte danger long ago. Thousands
if these immigrants ir.me as paupers,
md hungry, and filthy and diseased.
Nearly all of the foreigners come poor,
and those who can work will work any*
wieie for most anything, and this
rediues the wages of our own people
by an unnatuul competition. How
they do swarm to the west. Dav after
Lay the trains groan with ’em, and the
cry is still they tome. Well, I don’t
blame the poor creatures for the;, are
just human, and if we are to take a
rreat big hearted, ehantab'e view of
the matter, we must let 'em come just
asdong as there is room for them and
safety for ns. If they pull down the
wages of our people there is no law
igainst it. There is no tariff to protect
the labor of an American citizen from
this foreign competition. Our tariff
•iroteets the proprietors but not the
workmen. It protects the plow but
not the plowman.
This question of a desirable limit to
population is a conundrum too hard
"or me. Man is a very sociable sort,*
of an animal, and most all of us like
plenty of nabors, but Lhoy are crowded
over in Europe, and the government
mcourages cm to go. The iot is
Hiding over and the scum falls to us.
By and by we will be overrun, too,
and there will be no further west logo
to. Somehow I always did dislike
these great big bloated cities, and I
:an't see what makes folks want to
crowd together so close for. It is not
healthy, and it brings poverty and
suffering and crime. I like to *ee a
State speckled and dotte 1 all over w th
small, hr.ving t >wns —towns large
enough to support two or three
churches and as many schools. I don't
like to see a city grow so large as to
absorb and dry up and freeze out the
naboring villages. Augusta is large
enough ami so is Savannah ami Macon
and Columbus and Rome. Atlanta is
getting most too big. She lias out
grown herself, and stuck her legs too
far through her breeches. She is not
ready for a fire or a pestilence. She
attaches more importance to popula
tion than anything else, and brags
about her forty thousand souls. I’ve
wondered many a time what makes
folks in a city want more folks to come
there. What do you v,ant with a
100,000 people in Atlanta? Would
you take a million if you could get cm.
Is there any goo 1 reason ldr wanting
any more than you have now; I can’t
see the goo 1 policy of running after
people an 1 begging ’em to come to our
Slate, ami especially to our cities.
I like a large family, but I like a
large house for ’em. and as soon as
they can paddle their own canoe it’s
best fo r ’em to start out. I don’t want
to be as lonesome as was R >binon
Crusoe, i don t fancy the feller I saw
away down in Florida last winter, who
was fighting-mad because another feller
had moved in fifteen miles of him. But
I think we have got enough people in
our State to do for tiie present, and as
we ne< and more 1 think more will continue
to come in the same old fashion© 1 way.
I think so. When \ve*u : se our popula-
FOR THE PEOPLE.
tion from the crad’r. we arc prepared
for ’em by the time they grow up, for
they have been working along with us
ail the time, but when folks crowd into
a j’oung city there is nothing ready
for ’em. Neither streets nor pave
raents, nor water, nor sewers, nor fire
defenses, and so when trouble comes
nobody is ready for it. Better go slow
and build as you go. The country
ought to fill up faster than the towns.
There are too many merchants and not
farmers enough. Farming is not
progressing like it ought to and it is
owing mainly to the lack of capital t.o
farm with. The capital of the country
has gone to town. Landlords have
rented out their land to niggers and
poor white (biles who can't buy a reaper,
or a drill, or a harrow, or a horse rake.
VVel 1 , th?re was a short crop last year
and the farmer was hurt, but the mer
chant wlio carried him was hurt the
worst and lots of 'em went under.
I was ruminating over this when I
took up I)r. Felton’s big speech that
he made the other day in Augusta and
lie assumes firstly that we want a dense
population, and secondly that vve can't
get emigrants to come here because
our State is solidly democratic. There
fore he wants ns to bust up the concern
and go for the independents and
nationalize the people and then immi
gralion will flow south like it flows
west and we will all get rich and so
on and so forth. Now, while I don’t
admit that we hanker after that sort
of immigration, I can’t see that our
politics has anything to do with it.
The doctor had his own way in these
parts for s ; x 3’ears and nobody moved,
here to speak of. More folks came to
southern Georgia than did to northern
Georgia, where the doctor and Emory
Speer had nationalized politics and
made it at least powerfully mixed. No.
sir ; the reasons why immigrants don't
come south are numerous and peculiar.
They arc not thinking about politics,
for New York has been a democratic
State for half a century, and so was
Missouri and Ohio. In the first place
the western railroads all had subsidies
of government lands and they sent
their circulars all over the civilized
world and advertised their lands, and
they have their agents in New York
and at all the ports and they almost
force these foreigners to the west in
order to sell them land. They carry
them west for almost nothing—much
cheaper than they can travel south—
and the lands a r e cheaper when they
get there. Now we see that the
Southern Pacific is doing the same
thing, and emigrants are flocking to
Texas by thousands and buying lands
from Texas railroad companies, not
withstanding Texas is solidly demo
cratic. Tim town of Abilene has now
2,000 inhabitants, and a year ago it
didn’t have a house. It is all bosh
about our politics keeping immigrants
away r . Next the doctor says that our
solid politics keeps capital away. W by,
I reckon there is solid democratic
capital at the north, and I can’t see
why our democracy should scare that
away. The republicans haven’t got
all the money. We have been calling
them kindly ever since the war, and
declaring our good will and loyalty,
but every four years their republican
politicians raise the bloody shirt on a
pole and call us barbarians and mur
derers and outlaws, and that is what
kept capital away and people too. Rut
thank the Lord that game is about
played out, and now capital is coming
rapidly. Capital don’t care anything
about our politics. Capital don’t cu e
whether Dr. Felton goes to congress
or stays at home. I reckon our politics
and politicians and oil" gubernatorial
and congressional conventions will
compare favorably with New York and
Ohio and Pennsylvania or any other
nothern State. Politics is a fraud and
a trick everywhere, but don’t let u
saddle our poverty on the organized
democracy. I have no doubt the
(looter thinks it is the devil’s brother
in law and looks upon the failure of
iast year’s crop as a visitation of
Providence upon democratic iniquity,
for what is born in the flesh is bred in
t.he hone, and it would take a misihtv
pure democrat to command respect
Irom an old line whig.
Now let us hold on awhile. We are
doing pretty well considering and more
northern capital has been invested in
Georgia in the last twelve mouths than
in five years preceding. I don’t hear
of any northern man who ha3 moved
here making any complaint about our
treatment. Major McCracken did have
a little skirmish with your city council
about his railroad, but that has been
amicably settled, and am glad of it. I
traveled through the country' one day
with the Major and heard him sav, as
he looked at the wheat fields all rough
with corn stalks and bad plowing,
‘You must have a blessed country
down here in Georgia, for if we put our
wheat in the ground that way in Ohio
we would not expect to make the seed
we planted.” Jesso. That is what
is the matter. We want no better farms,
but we want better farmers and better
fanning, and I don’t believe an in
dependent succeeds any better in that
line than a regular democrat. At least
they don't in m3’ neighborhood.
Bill Arp.
A
A Newspaper Notice.
“Are 3’ou the editor? - ’ said a man
who wore a conciliatory smile and a
dyed beard, as he took a seat in our
office.
We acknowledged that at present
we served and instructed the public in
that capaoit}’, and to prove our asser
tion we showed him the blisters made
on our hauls by our exertions in
operating the Archimedean lever that
moves the world.
“ Well, I want 3 - on to surprise me
by a flattering personal notice in your
paper. I'm going to run for constable
in the Eighth ward, and I want some
thing neat in the way of a send off.”
“Our columns are always open to
advance the best interests of the
public, but we shall first expect you
to surprise us with a pecuniary com
pensation, not necessarily for publica
tion, but mere]}’ as a pledge of good
faith.”
“ I'll pay. A man can't expect to
be surprised without paying for it in
advance. What have you got ?”
“We can accommodate you with
an3’ kind of a personal notice, from a
cheap electro plated biography’ to an
eighteen earat obituary, and at a s<\n!e
of prices varying according to the
amount of strain on our columns and
veracity. In molding public opinion
wo def3 r competition. Now, how would
you like this ? It is a neat little
pre-Raphaelite gem, and will cost you
only $1.50:
“Our enterprising townsman, Col.
B , than whom there is no more
popular and genial gentleman in the
length and breadth of our great Empire
State, has consented, at the earnest
solicitation of many friends, to sacrifice
his very profitable private business
for the public good, and lias authorized
us to announce him as a candidate for
the office of constable of this precinct.”
“ If that is not strong enough, here
is a Michael Angeio, full length, in
which your good qualitias of head and
heart will be touchingly alluded to,
add you will be commended for 3’our
generous impulses—only $2.59 each
insertion. Then wo have a brilliant
thing, after Mozart, which is really
intended for Gubernatorial candidates
speaks of ymur simplicity of
character, jeans clothes and pay-as-you
go proclivities—hut it can he easily
modified to suit a prospective con
stable. It will cost 3 r ou $3. There
are several others from $2 to $lO each.
For referring to you as an old land
mark, $1 extra is charged.”
“ 1 reckon you etui s;uv tee off three
dollars’ worth, but you mint throw in
somethin:* about my brilliant war re
cord
*• We always do that.*’
“And just wind up by surprising
Capt. BillSmike. lie is running against
me. I wouldn’t say anything he might
take offense at. Only say he is not
fit for the office, bccouse he has the
record of a convict . You might add
that my brother hasn't got a wife that
has fits. I don’t care to lug any
personalities into this campaign unless
I am obliged to.”
“We can’t do it, Colonel. Your rival
is our personal friend. He is a sub
scriber.”
“ Pshaw ! I thought you were run
ning an indupou le it paper in the in
terest of the people, but I see you are
the subsidized organ of a political
clique,” and off he went to see the
editor of the other paper.— Texas
Siftings.
Farming in Dakota.
“ Yes. sir,” resumed the Dakota man
as the crowd of agriculturists drew
back from the bar and seated them
selves at a little table. “Yes, sir;
we do things bn rather a sizeable
scale. T have seen a man on one of
our big farms start out in the spring
and plow a straight furrow till, then
turn around and harvest back.”
“Carry his grub with him?” asked
a Brooklyn farmer wh raises cabbages
on the outskirts.
“No, sir; they follow him with a
steam hotel, and have relays of men
to change plows for him. We have
some big farmers up there, gentlemen.
A friend of mine owned one on which
he had togivc a mortgage, anil I pledge
3’ou my word the mortgage was due
on one end before they could get it re
c .rded on the other; you see it was
laid out in counties.”
There was a murmur of astonish
ment, and the Dakota man continued :
” I got a letter from a man who lives
in x my orchard, just before I left home,
and it had been three weeks getting
to my dwelling house, though it travel
ed night and da\’.”
” Districts are pretty wide up there?”
asked a New Utreht agriculturist.
“ Rea onably, reasonabh',” replied
the Dakota man. “And the worst of it
is, it breaks up families so. Two years
I saw a whole family prostrated with
grief —women yelling, children howl
ing and dogs barking. One man had
bis camp packed on seventy-four
mule teams ami was around bidding
everybody good-bye.”
“ Where was he going ?” asked a
Grovesend man.
“ He was going half-way across the
farm to fee i the pigs,” replied the Da
kota man.
“ Did he ever get back to his fami
ly?” .
“ It isn't time for him yet,” returned
the Dakota gentleman. “Up there
we send young married couples to
milk the cows and their children bring
home the milk.”
“ I understand you have fine mines
up that way,” ventured a Jamaica
turnip planter.
“Yes; but we only use the quartz
for fenci g,” said the Dakota man,
trying the edge of his knife with his
thumb preparatory to whetting it on
his bootleg. “It wouldn't pay to crush
it, because we can make more money
0:1 wheat. I put 8,000 townships in
wheat last fall.”
“ llow many acres would that be ?”
“ \Ye don't count by acres. We
count by townships and counties.
Mv yield was $08,000,000 worth on
wheat alone, and I’m thinking of
breaking up from eighty to one hun
dred more counties next season.”
The Philosophy of Life.
“ Time, faith and energy’.” Per
haps there never was a period in our
history, say’s Robert Morris, when
greater necessity’ existed for the exer
cise of the recuperative energies of
the people than at the present moment.
Thousands have been injured by the
vicissitudes of trade and the change
of fortune. The rich have become
poor and the independent have lost
their means of support. Many under
such circumstances are disposed to
despond. They fear that their chan
ces have gone by, that the tide in their
alfuirs has been at its flood and is sub
siding, that the future has little hope
or no encouragement for them. Not
so however, in a country like ours, if
they possess health and energy, and
are on the sunny side of fifty. Inge
nuity, industry and perseverance,
“time, faith and energy,” will accom
plish much. Some of the moA emi
nent men that ever lived were compar
atively obscure in early life. Adver
sity not only tested their energies, but
;t roused and excited their minds.
They saw the necessity of an extraor
dinary struggle ; and nerving them
selves to the trial and temptations of
life they rushed on boldly, and in
most cases with success. The truth
is, that experience, although severe,
is a most excellent taskmaster. No
one knows better how to enjoy wealth
than the individual who has acquired
it througL the sweat of the brow. Few
understand the real mutations and the
true philosophy of life, who have not
seen the air-blown bubbles of youth
and hope fade away as they attempt
to clasp them ; who have not realised
much of the disappointments and vex
ation to which human flesh is heir. It
is only by trial that we feel the spirit
of manhood within us, and with a
moral courage, worthy a lofty and in-
tellectual nature, determine not to be
intimidated by a single blow of mis
fortune, or be disheartened because
clouds and darkness occasionally ob
scure the prospect. This at least is
the true policy. The Deity has given
us many noble attributes. We live in
a world which presents man}’ means
of sustenance. Our country is rich
in soil, fertility, in health and in enter
prise. Millions yet unborn may grow
up and prosper upon her bosom, while
new courses of industry, of wealth and
of prosperity are developed with every
year of our national existence. Again,
then, we say to those who have suffer
ed, or are suffering from the mutations
of fortune, be not cast down, do npt
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despair. Gather a lesson from some
of the frail' hut green and glorious*
vines, winch, born in darkness and ob
scanty”, spring l forward and court the
sunshine and light as essential to
their existence. The gloom of to-day
may serve but to prelude the glory of
to morrow. The thick cloud which
hovers above and darkens our path,
may soon pass away ahd give place to
the blue skies and golden sunshine.
“ Nature,” observes an eloquent writer
” scatters the seeds of genius to the
winds, and though some may be choked
by the thorns and brambles of early
adversity, yet others will now and then*
strike root, even in the clefts of the
rocks, struggle bravely into sunshine,
and spread over their birthplace and
all the beauties of vegetation.” So
with the ways of fortune. It is a cher
ished theory of onrs, that sooner or
later even in this life, the beings who'
cling to truth, virtue and integrity,
who have hope in heaven, wl o make
proper use of the faculties and ener
gies with which they are blessed by
Providence, will ultimately succeed,
may, in the true spirit of philosophy,
smile upon the storms and tempests in
which, for a time, they may be sur
rounded. “Time, faith and energy,”
are especially essential after such a
convulsion as has been experienced
in the monetary and commercial
world of this Union. The worst, we
feel satisfied, has gone by. The fu
ture should not be disregarded, for in
that future, with the proper faculties
animated by the proper motives, and
pursuing steadily add Vigilantly laud
able objects, contentment, peace and’
prosperity will assuredly be found.—
American Register.
Confidence in Self.
Rely on yourself; take it for grant
ed that you can accomplish your plans.
Never say *• I can’t”—they arc ignoblo
words. He who does not feel within
himself the power to conquer fate, is'
not a man in the true sense of the
word. Of course it is a misfortune
for hi in, since he can never be of any'
benefit to himself or anybody else.
Ileaven help the woman who marries
him! Somebody says, "Oh, I don’t
like these self-conceited folks !” My
friend, self conceit and self confidence
are two qualities as different as light’
and darkness ; and though the selT
conceited man may not be the most
agreeable of companions, we infinitely
prefer him to the creeping, cringing,
craven spirited fellow who is never
ready for an emergency, and who, like
Uriah Ileep, spends his life in trying
to be ” umble.” The man who says
“ I will do it!” —who says it from his
heart, and means it, too —who bends
his whole energy to the work, almost
always accomplishes it; and then
people call him lucky and successful,
and all that sort of th ; ng, when, in
fact, his luck has been brought about
by his own persevering efforts and by
his confidence in himself. Fortune
detests cowardice; and the man who
will not be conquered by trifles is her
prime favorite.
A Sticking Darkey.
At a colored revival the other even
ing, Jim Brown experienced a change
of heart. Yesterday he met Parson'
Brown, who asked him : “Is yer gwine
ter stick, James ?” “ Bet ver bottom 1
dollar ; I’se sticking like der seed-tick
in der spring ob de yeah.” “ I’se glad 1
yer talk in dat. strain,” said the par
son ; “ but kin yer pass a }’ard fence
after dark whar dar is close hangin*
out widout liistin’ yer leg ober der
fence ?” “Do you expect me to be
come a saint in one day said James;
“ I’so a gospel infant what has ter be
fed on light diet.” “ How about chick-'
ens ?” “ Last night, arter I had jined
de gospel band and started home, I !
passed Col. Jones’ house. I hadn’t
mo’an past his yard when I found I
was carriu’ two ob his old roosters.
Satan must hab shoved dein into my
hands.” “ Jim. yer gwine to bring do
church ter discredit.” Dat’s what
my conscience tole me, and I went
and put dem old roosters back and got
two young pullets to brile.” “ Don’t
tell lies, Jim.” “ You jis’ go wid me
and hab some ob de stuffin’. I can*
smell ’id brilin’.” He went’.
Fees and Doctors.
The fees of doctors is an item that
very many persons are interested in
just at present. We believe the sched
ule for visits is 53.00 which would tax
a man confind to his bed fora year,
and in need of daily visits, over SI,OOO
a year for medical attendance alone !
And one single bottle ofHop Bitters
taken in time would save the SI,OOQ
and all the year’s sickness. — Tost,
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