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APRIL VESPERS. The turtles drum in the pulseless hoy, The crickets ciesk in the pricklnl hedge, The bullfrogs Uoomr in the puddling sedge. .And the whoopoe whoops its vesper lay Away In iho twilight soft nod gray. Two lovprs stroll in the glinting glonm— His hard in her’n nnd her’n in his— She blushes deep—he's talking b ; z They hug and bu«s as they listless roam— Tin y roam li’s late when they get back home. Down by the little wicket gate, Down where the ereepfu! ivy grows, Down where the sweet nasturtium blows. A box-toed pnrept lies in wait— In wait For the maiden and her mate. Lot ciickets errnk and bnllfrogs boom, The whoopee Wails in the dismal dell— Their tuneful throbs will ne’er dispel The planted pain and rooted gloom— The gloom 0f the lover’s dismal doom. i ..I I •■*■■** Davy Jones' I.sicker—Origin of flic Phrase. Everybody has heord the phrase "Davy Jones’ locker," but I don’t think everybody is familiar with its origin. In the grimy re cesses of the fo’castle it runneth thus : Once upon a time there whs a captain, and he was a Tartar, if ever there waa a nautical Tartar. He thought no more of tricing op a poor devil of a lar and giving him a couple ot dozen than he did of knocking a man down because the wind was ahead, or his rorns bothered him, or any other good cause His mates were of the same kidney with himself, and made it pretty warm for the crew, or such of them as the captain had not left horn dc combat. Well the ship—she was a whaler—came info port short-handed, half of the crew having deserted at Madeira, and three of them having died, whom the captain also entered in the log as deserters, for that gave him the right to coiia; their wuges and “kits ” Then he shipped a new rrrw, mostly ‘ Dagos,” and such trash, for no white man would go with him, exeept one, a Welshman called Davy Jones, who didn’t see anv other way of getting home to Europe. The ship was bound for Catdiff', where the enptnin was to get a good charter for the East Indies and, being chiel owner in the vessel, he d dn’t want to miss it; but, as it happened, the winds were against him and he was three weeks out before he had passed the banks of Newfoundland, and that put him in a piecion« rage. He took it out of the crew all he rould, but licking a Dago was tame fun 10 him, and he wantid to relrcsh himself with a taste of while blood, while as it hap per.ed, the only candidate of that complexion on board was Jones, whom he never could get a fair excuse lor tricing up. Jones was such a prompt and obrdient sailor that his captain fairly hated the sight of him. At last, one day, ns Jones was taking his trick at the wheel, the captain came up and gave an order which couldn't be obeyed without throwing the ship on her Warn ends, mid Jones mildly explained as much ; whereupon the captain put him in irons for mutiny. That got the Welshman’s hot blood up, and he talked back. So the captain bud him up and went for his cat. "Strip,” says the cap tain, nnd “I’ll be, etc., if I do,” says Jones. Tbeie was a tussle and a tight, and the long and the short of it was that the captain got the worst of it, until bis c (fleers came to the nsene and titd down the mutineer Then the captain gets up with a very wicked light in his eyes and 6ays: "Bring out that lub ber’s luggage,” and they brought Davy’s box on deck. "Pitch out his gory trap*,” says the captain, and the sailors emptied Jones’ traps on the deck. ‘ Sew him up in a canvass sack ond put him into his gory chest,” says the captain, and you may he sure he didn’t have to give the order twice. Poor Davy Jones was thrust neck and crop into his own chest. "Throw open that lee gangway,” says the captain, and it was done. "Pipe all hands for loneial service,” says he. and be slams down the cover of the box and gives it a shove overboard. Jones hadn’t said a word all the while, except once, when they were swinging him up, when he says to the captain, in words which time and the poetic utmospbere of the fo’castle havecrys tallizid into an heroic couplet : “White sens is salt and timbers float, You’ll never beat me into port." And, sure enough, they never did ; for no matter how the wind blew or the sea rose, it was always heud wind and bed sea for the captain ; when the gale was at its fiercest and the seas running mountains high, then they used to see Davy Jones sitting on the weather quarter of his locker, to keep it trimmed, and a holding on to the sheet of his canvas,which he hud hoisted as a storm-sail, and riding the waves as free os a dory. And it is a fact, vouched for by scores of truthful sailors and confided to countless marines, that whenever a veasel crosses the Gland Bunks and the weather is particularly bad, you con see by the help of a good glass, or o glass ard a half, an old-lashioned bark riding in tfe teeth of the gale, with every sail set, but without an inch of way ; and if you look a little to windward, and with the eye of faith, you wjll see what looks like a ccffin riding free on the billows and never shipping a sea, though the waves be Ificlv enough to swamp a Conarder. Then wiii krow that you have seen Davy Jones and his locker, and if you be a wise man you will not wai t to see any more ol hint or it, for it will be time for you to go below.— Cent*. Del)oil Free Frets. Ameklcan Courage. — Mr. Archer Aoder son, writing in an Knglish magazine, sug gests that the obstinacy at American cour age, the resolution with which the men on botbsdesiu oor late war “stood killing,” accounts for tbe indecisive character of bat tles. We quote fioio the atlicle: ‘The annals of few countries show a mote obsti nate resistance or bloodier battles Kun ersdorf has gCDetully been cited as one of flic most satguiDury fields of modern times Eiederieh there lost J 9.000 men, killed and wounded out of 60.000. At the battle of Cbickaroauga the Confederates oounted 17,000 meu killed and wounded, out of a total force of 45 000 ; and many other fields show losses in almost as high a ratio. To their honor, be it said, the Americans who eon/rocted them stood killing about as well. In this lies an explanation of the indecisive character td so ior»" ——i ; -. j. Tl»e Poindexter Case. It is strange how diffrren ly eivil'zat’on looks upon the same matter. In Jiipan, for instance men, women and children bathe freely together, and with no thought or 'Hugestion of indecency. There is, in the United States evpn, a wide diflerenee in the views which wompn of different sections en tertain in respect to what constitutes an in sult from a man. It is undeniable that at the North a degree of contact and famil iarily is tolerated without a thought of im propriety, which in the Smith is resented as an impertinence and insolence Tlip recent tragedy at Rtehmnnd. Va.. in w+ifeh Chnrtes 0. Curtis was shot dead bv John Poindex ter. is a ease in point. The murdered man had complimented Miss Isabella Cottrell, Poindexter’s sweetheart, on her pretty foot, and had ns the young lady declared squerz* d her arm rather too warmly in helping her into tlie carriage With this us a provoca tion, Poindexter cowhided Curtis ard then shot him dead, and the jury could,not ugree that Poindexter had committed a crime in taking Curtis’ life. A New York girl the other day invited her aunt from Savannah, who was visiting her, to enter a Broadway shoe store with her. Arnminta, the niece, much to her aged relative’s horror, projected her pretty foe? and ankle across the clerk’s knee, had her old boots removed and submitted interestedly, holding her dress conveniently out of the way, while the clerk began the process ol encasing the Dir one’s nether extremities in a new nnd extra long pair of sln “high buttoners.” 'The Savannah sunt was shocked beyond expression at her niece’s strange im modesty in exposing her stockinged foot to male gaze, and when the shoecletk, bigin ning at the lower buttons, gradually pro gressed upward in his work of buttoning, Georgia modesty ond propriety could no longer endure the shocking spectacle, and down came the o|<J girl’s son umbrella on , the shoe clerk's head with n whack, and her fingers, tingling with almme, made busy with his hair. It wns to no purpose that Ara mintu explained that such occurrences were the ‘regular thing” in New Yoik. That is undoubtedly the truth, and the reporter who has been interviewing New York belles, apropos of the bloody tragedy at Richmond, doubtless correctly reports the views which prevail among women in Gotham. lie says : I asked one of the belles of Fifth aveooe if she allowed a shoe clerk to put ou her shoes. “Why, of course I do,” she said, “and lace them up foo. 'That is what a shoe clerk is for. Only a silly woinun, with country ideas, would object to a shoe clerk putting on her shoes. Every well-bred lady in New York expects the clerk to luce up n pair of shoeß.” “But suppose the clerk should remark, ‘you have a pretty foot,’ or, ‘your foot is small,’ would you be indignant ?” “Ce,tainly not. I should consider the rental k the same as if a servant lmd made it.” “Do you allow u young gentlenmu clerk to put on a new kid glove?” “Yes. In Paris the glove clerk always puts on a new glove for you. While I would not allow a young gentleman friend to put on my glove. I consider it highly proper for a glove clerk to do it ” "Suppose a gentleman at a party in your own set should squetzo your band in the Lancers, what would you do?” “Now, that k a different thing. If he were an intimate friend 1 should take it as a joke. If he were my lover 1 should return it ; hut if lie were a casual acquaintance, and 1 thought he squeezed my hand imper tinently, I would cat him dead. I shouldn't tell anyone, but the man would suffer u silent punishment.” “Would you go back to the same clerk three times, as did Miss Cottrell, if he said your foot was pretty?’’ •'Y r es, if 1 had business there If his re marks offended me, I sliou d tell him to please make no remark. I shouldn’t buve gone to my lover with a silly story.” Just Before Dawn.—“Ah ! neaven does indeed temper the wind to the shorn lamb,” pathetically said old Mrs. Diflendorfer the other evening nl a lea fight, alter putting awav her twenty-eighth cup of Young Hyson. “Why, what do yon mean ?” “You know that yonng widow, Mrs. Biffbn, who lives across the street from us? Well, she lias had nothing but sorrow, trouble and distress for the past five years. First her father was killed by a burglar; then her mother marritd a nigger- minstrel; after that she had the yellow fever and small-pox together; and next her husband failed, and she hud to tuke in washing. It was per (ec'ly dreadful. 'The poor woman nearly went crazy. She wns just beginning to hear ap a little ugo : n, when her brother was sent up to the penitentiary for iife ; and, finally, last month her husband died in a fit, and the very next day her bubv choked to death on a gum-drop.” "Gracious! the poor thing!” “Wasn’t if just terrible t Everybody be lieved she’d commit suicide then ; and she would have done so, too, but last week some body providentially coaxed her to go to a church raffle—nnd what do you all suppose happened?’’ “What, lor heavm’s sake, what?" “Why, she won a seal-skin sacque !” "You don’t menn it ?" "She did, though— perfectly splendid—came within an inch of the floor, 'l’be darkest hour is just before dawn—after all. Now, isn't it?"— San Francisco Post. A Nkw Version. —When Damon, who was a red-ribbon man, had the ague, f’yth ias used to sit up with him all night, and take his bitters for him And Damon used to lend Pythias his rezor to cut his corns with. They borrowed money of each other and never quarreled about it. They would play through a long game of croquet and never fight or call each other “measureless liars.” For nearly two years they belong*d to the same cboir and never had a row. They used to meet at Smith’s grocery and tell each other funny Ptories about the neighbors while they browsed out of the cracker bar rel. They were always careful of each othei’s feelings. Pythias had a foot like a snow-plow, and his bools used to frigbteu the eat tie, but Damon always professed to admiie it, and used to sigh and say, “Oh, Pythias, if 1 odl_v had such a foot as that I’d marry some girl that could support me cut of her own income." But Pythias would smile and say be was not proud if oature b»d built so much ol him on ttie - — J -* J — „ i i i. Saturday Nioht —Another wpek, with all its fever dreams. has gone into the dead of the past. 'The funeral dram of time has beat the grave march of seven more days. ’lTieir events alone live now in the minds of men. At the n idnight hour we lay our left hand on the ccffio lid of the dead days, and stretch our. right to rock the cradle of the new-born week that comes with the »nn in the morning. Saturday night I Who does not welcome it ? It is the curtain lilt ing itself from the co'neh of repose, the day rpst of to-morrow. Wp have all read “’The Cotter’s Saturday Night" of Robert Burnp. and ail have loved it, too. Each on a Sat urday night relaxes his brow of care, lets drop his labor-hand and bonnds homeward with buoyant heart and elastic step. His heart-love and nestlings are there. Happy man, happy home nnd happy souls I A week is gone.dnly is done. Awaiting hi* coming, the dear one has thp hearth a little brighter, though it be always bright, and she smites a liftle sweeter, though her smites are always pweot, to-night. She has the smite, the ca ress, the love-word for him who, through the week, has faithfully fought his life-bat tle. and with these she gree's his coming, and lie, nnd each ore, feels that she before him is the best wife in the world, because she is his world, £fi, well 1 this is as it should be. now Gkn. Harder Learned a New Point in Tactics —Gen. Harden, whose manual ol infantry tactics was in use in all the Southern armies, visited a rural Georgia town one day during the war, and the com mander of a “second-class militia” company sought to do him and the general honor bv parading his command in front of the inn in which Hardee had rooms. ’The writer upon tactics came out upon the balcony to review the command, and the militia officer put his men through their paces. In one of the maneuvers the men became confused and got into a hopeless tangle. Hardee, in telling the story, said that lie could think of no possible way in which they might be extri cated, and waited wiih groat curiosity to see what the militia commander would do. That rural tactician looked at the contused muss lor a moment with a scowl of perplexity upon his foiehead ; then his face cleared and he shouted the order : “Disentangle to the front; march.” Whereupon the men rushed forward and formed a new line without regard to the older of the old one. Hardee said the com mand was nol in his own or anv other book on tactics, but that it ought to be. Very Pathetic— One loves to linger, says Bierce in the San Francisco Aigonaut, on every detail of a death like that, and it is with a satisfaction as deep and serene as the reflection of the dome of n Virginia City restaurant in a plate of soup—a satisfaction so perfect us to resemble a sinful pleasure— that I record the (act iu Mr. Davis’ last moments he had a chance at the consolations of religion. His father, a Carson clergyman, was with him on the scuff l'd : “Samuel,” said the good man, choking with emution, ‘ would to God I could die for thee!” * The erring son was deeply touched. •’ V> ould to God yen could !” he murmured. “But, no,” continued the pious lather, poiuting upward, “it cannot be ; your only hope lies there." Sam cast his considering orbs aloft, then shook his head despondently, remarking : “That kind of a knot doesn't give”—pres ently adding, from force ef habit—‘a damn.” “Belcher life !” assented the sheriff. Woman’s Memory —A woman will go on a shopping tour in quest of a score of dis similar articles. 'The ribbon must be ten fingers and a half lung and half a finger wide ; the carpet must be like Mrs. Spriggins’, only that she wants her’s brown where Mrs. S.’s is green ; the first knot in the string she carries in hfr pocket is the width of the win dow curtain ; the second knot, the length of Susie’s skirt ; the third knot, of the picture coid, and the whole siting the distance around the center table. Besides these she' has buttons to buy. cotton to select, silk to match, and heaven knows what not; she will come home at uight without having made a single blunder, with a full satchel and an empty pocket book, and express packages will be arriv ng for a week to c<>me. But rtie strangest part of this strange, eventful story is that she can also tell you, ofl-bnnd. the costume of every lady she saw during her tour, either on the street or in tiny ot the numerous shops visited. Can a nmn do this? A victim of omnibus pick pockets in Paris determined to set even with them, po be put into his pocket another pocket-book con taining only a slip of paper, on which were written the words : “This time, yon rascal, you’ve lost the rewards of your labor.” He got into the sume omnibus end waited, re solved to have the first pick-pocket that meddled with him arrested. Twenty minutes passed and nothing happened, and, tired of waiting, he got out, having first assured himself that the pocket-book was still there. He opened it, and in place of his piece of white paper there was a blue one. which he unfolded ami read as loiiows : “Wbat a sly joker you are.” “Chawi.e?,” languidly drawled Josephene, looking up from her book, *‘l pee one of the studies at West Point is trigonometry. Wbut is trigonometry, anyhow?” “Trig onometry,” replied Charlie, toying with an invalid moustache, “is a—a— is the science of pulling th*. trigger, of course” *‘l thought so,’’ replied Josepbene, resuming her novel. “Where shall we find res!?” asks a re ligious weekly. My dear sir, the very best place to Dud rest, and a pit nty of it, is to become a cloik in a dry goods und grocery store that does- not advertise. An unsuccessful lover was asked by what mischance be happened to lose his divinity. “Alas!” said he; “1 flattered her uulil she grew too proud to speak to me.” The paragrapber that was banged said to the guaid aiound the gallows : “This life is but u hemp-tie show.” “Like cures like.” That is the reason some fellows pul a cabbage leaf iu the hat for suu-stroke. Thoughts thut burn—Amateur poetry w .nc b asket is uvsißtf vy- NEW FIRM! Copartnership Notice. IH A VE this dav sold a half interest in my business to G. F. Turner, and the came and style of the firm will bp known in future as Harper -t Turner. R. T. HARPER. J'nnmry 9th, 1879. We respectfully solicit a share of the pub lic patronage, believing we can show as fine wnd well assorted stock of goods as will be found anywhere. Our stock of DRY GOODS Is complete in every particular, nnd includes a fine assortment of Ladies’ Dress Goods. Linens, Rlenchings, Domestics, and Fancy Notions of all kinds. ClotHing S A new and elegant lot of Clothing, of every style and quality. Gents’ Underwear a spe cialty. UATS AND CAPS To suit the tastes of the masses, and at prices that will meet the tequipments ol the trade. BOOTS AND SHOES! <sur stock ol Roots and Shoes, having been bought ut a bargain in the Northern mar kets, we can afford to sell cheap, and are pre pared to offer extra iudaeemeuls to the trade. Furniture! We have also a large lot of Furniture—Bed steads, Bureaux, Washstunds, Watdrobes, Tables, Chairs.,’ etc—which we will sell at extremely low figures. Bed-room setts a specialty. GROCERIES. S|tecial attention is called to our stock of Groceries, which is quite large, and com prises every article kept in that line. Our stock is being constantly repl nished with Goods that are carefully selected by ex perienced buyers, and are bought for cash from first hands, thereby enabling ns to setl to advantage—both to ourselves and customers. With all these facilities we are prepared to ex hibit at all times a complete general stock, and parties wishing to buy can always find some specialties at v<,ry low prices at our store. Give us a call. t- HP ,, a M This important organ Weigh* %>iit about three pounds, and all the blood in a living person (about three gallons) passes through it at lea£t once every half hour, to nave the bile and other impurities strained or filtered from it. Bile is the natural purgative of the bowels, an<! if the Liver become*, torpid it is not separated from the blood, but car ried through the veins to all parts of the system, and in trying to escape through the pores cl the skin, causes it to turn yellow ©r a dirty brow;, color. The stomach becomes diseased, and Dye pepsia, Indigestion, Constipation, Headache, Bili ousness, Jaundice, Chills, Malarial Fevers, Piles, Sick and Sou* Stomach, and genera! debility fol low. Mrrrrll's Hkpatinf, the great vegetable discovery for torpidity, causes the Livt r to throw off from one to two ounces of bile each time the blood passes through it, as long as there is an ex cess of bile; and the effect of evea a few doses upon yellow complexion or a brown dirty looking skin, will astonish all who trv ft—they being the first symptoms to disappear. The cure of all bili ous diseases and Liver complaint is made certain by taking H sr atwh i n accordance with directions. Headache is generally cured in twenty minutes, and no disease that arises from the Liver can exist if a fair trial is given. SOLD AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR PILLS BY ALL DRUGGISTS. Price 25 Cents and SI.OO LUNGS The fatality of Consumption or Throat and Lung Diseases, which sweep to the grave at least one-third of an death’s victims, arises from the Opium or Morphine treatment, which simply stu pefies as the work of death goes on. SIO,OOO will dc paid if Opium or Morphine, or any preparation of Opium, Morphine or Prussic Acid, can be found in the Globb Flow er Cough Syrup, which has cured people who are living to-day with but one remaining lung." No greater wrong can be done than to say that Consumption is incurable. The Globe Flower Cough Syrup will cure it when all other means have feiled. Also, Colds, Cough, Asthma, Bronchitis, and all diseases of the throat and lungs. Read the testimonials of the Hon. Alexander H. Stephens. Gov. Smith and Ex-Gov. Brown of Ga. f Hon. oeo. Peabody, as well as tho6e of other remarkable cures in our book—free to all at the drugstores—and be convinced that if you wish to be cured you can be by taking the Globb Flower Cough Syrup. Take no Troches or Lozenges for Sore Throat, when you can ret Globs Flowf.r Syrup at same price. For sale by all Druggists Price 25 Cents and SI.OO Grave mistakes are made in the treatment of all diseases that arise from poison in the blood. No! one case of Scrofula, Syphilis, White Swelling, Ulcerous Sores and Skin J >isease, in a thousand, is treated without the use of Mercury in some form. Mercury rots the bones, and the diseases it pro duces are worse than any other kind of blood or skin disease can be. • Dr. Pkmherton’sStillix gia or Qubbn's Delight is the only medicine upon which a hope of recovery from Scrofula, Sy philis and Mercurial diseases in all stages, can be reasonably founded, and that will cure Cancer. S IO,OOO will be paid by the proprietors if Mercury, or any ingredient not purely vegetable and harm less can be found in it. Price by all Druggists SI.OO. Globe Flower Cough Syrup and Merrell's Hkpatinb for the Liver for sale by ail Drug gists in 25 cent and SI.OO bottles. A. F. ME33ELL it CO., Proprietors, ' PHILADELPHIA, PA % HE PAT INE. l GLOBE FLOWER SYRUP., S TILLINGIA. Gullelt’s Improved Cotton Gin. Pi.ANTKr s are respectfully irvi*ed to ex amine Ibis Gin before burin? I will keep =ample Gin. with Feeder, (5 mdenser- and Gullett’s Double Revolvng Cotton Press (dispensing with n lint room.) always on hand for exhibition. We guarantee the most per feet satisfaction to purchasers, in every par ticular. The price will he reduced next s> a son from $4 to $3 50 per suw on the Gins and fiom $1 25 to SI the Feedeis. I refer all to the accompanying certificates of our cotton buyers and planters of Inst year, and to the certificates of well known planters who are using Gullett’s Gins, as to the extra prices obtained lor cotton pinned on them. J A. BEKKS, Ageut. Griffin, Ga., March 10, 1879. Gsiffin, Ga , March 1, 1879. We, the undersigned, are using the Gullett Improved L'gtat Draft Cotton Gin The Gin is of superior workmanship For fast ginning, safety in running and light draft (to do the same work,) we think it has no equal; but the most important featine is the attach meet for opening and improving the sample. The best cotton is improved by it so as to bring from to )£ cent, and stained and dirty cotton from % to 1 cent per lb. more in the Griffin market than on other Gins (Signed) W J Bridges, T W Manley, J T Manley. . Griffin. Ga , May 17. 1878. Tr> J A Beeh, Agent for the Gullett Gin Mun'f'g Co, Griffin, Ga: —At your re quest, we, planters and dealers in cotton, give tn the public our opinion of your Gin. We take pleasure in saying to all in need of new Gins that it is now a well established fact that cotton ginned on these Gins brings a higher price in our market than any other, and the Gins are growing in public favor. Colton ginued on them sold lust season at from to 1 cent per pound above the mar ket piice. Mr. Guliett’s attucnm<-nt for im proving the sample of cotton, we me satisfied, is what he cluitns for it. The Gin appears to have reached perfection in gin machine v. (Signed) A C Sorrel, 1’ J Brooks, R P McWilliams. S B Me Williams, 1* W Pat terson, R H Sims T J Bloodwortb. I am also agent for the celebrated Eclipse Portable Engine, manufactured by Frick & Co, for the counties of Batts. Spalding. Fayette and Clayton. J. A. BEEKS. mai2B;3rn - v klWi* ’ S f\r §2 'V SV\ OFFICE! N? 177 W. 4 T r ST CINCINNATI, 0.~ L/C. 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