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THE DAWSON WEEKLY JOURNAL.
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WOOTEN 6 HOYLE,
Attorneys nt J*aw,
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Jan 6-ly
11. W. DA VS 3,
Attorney at Law,
ihinsojr. g*i.
iS“Oili e over J B Pp rv V S ore.
D. c 23 and, hot. ts.
WSE3S, BJUF3IJ & CO.,
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11,1 It H open '<> 11. I ee of c st,
I'fti ia; he i-T' petty h"> lit*-* fo r tul* end.
«10, tor ih« iu-p. ciiouof ili"se wishing ui :
octsar
G. V/. WARWICK,
Att'y at Law and Solicitor in Equity,
SMITHVILI.K , OA.
"I' dthc i ■»> 'n u h \Veste~n «n<i P<t»u»
*« circttim. C,l, o inn* |,r.,iii|,flv remitted.
K - J. WARR EN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
V/,/ '• k 'i'ie.r.r:, - - - *» ./■
F. SIMMONS.
ATTORNEY at law,
w.iH’so.r, (j./.
IJit > .!Pr » ton !o i given to ail busiue.s
““‘Mud to big cure.
augs ’SO - ,lf
tins mm, tCKMAN & Cos.,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
BOOTS, SHOES,
A *!» IIATS
No. 153 Congress Street,
K L'iontnin, i
s R R Ltnnn, v Savannah, Ga,
A. Voiwlnng ,
ot*t7;6m
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tit! VI
Tin & Sheet lion Worker.
r KEvS p’<»»snre in anvmnnrinff
1 z ni< <f D **4o'v, and nirrontuling p nn*
v. «h>*t h»- i no* *o ma* uhicturo
Ti iWiir#* nt vVhol<*n*le or R-*»ail, as I »w hh i»
••an hi* h<d *d.-e vht-re. AI»o, R -ofine, Gu -
«erii *:, old nil ki o 4 R**o>ti»i•• practically
<n Ir\ p'< <lnne f nt short no*|. *
Gn f p . Z c, •ml all kind- 4 of Vi tf.lt- wp.-k
h»m* Giv Irm c;x 11 at SouleN old «»«•:'?
’s-t** Pnhlic Square. Jnf.. 27. ly
r>. T*. ADAMS. II K WA>IinCRM, A A- APaMS*
iC-itotiioP, G.t Smv fiimih, Ga. A «nei icuj'jG *
ADAMS. WASHBURN J CO.
K ACTORS
AND—
Commission Merchants,
Kn. 3, StodJard’e L wrr Kni’ge,
el t'U;i l St K llllt /l, ft
Air':, !1 CriQ-iTT, Jamk* Baou*.
linker (linin'*. Oi N w on. Ga.
11 con 11. I 'oLQriTT, S.ivar.ri'ih, Ga.
COLQUITT & OACG3,
('O' TON /ACTORS & (lEVKRA!
( OMMISSION MKKCiI \NiS.
Ray tiu'iii, kavaiiitult, ftu.
Sneei ,1 i‘*.minm to ihp sale of Cn'lon,
I ,'iMih. rml T'lnber. Libir.l idveiiee* on
•lonApnmeot*. m.**'i;'f
BRO W N H O USE.
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j'til* UntHf !i a v i:. e 1. •c! • been rifit'e
1 , .1 ...,n: and .lid i* now one nt 'lie hi *
; 1 lit Is i ■ li ■ S' l. ■, and ; it ■* c n .
c toi !i oi v. Tie mnle is suj.plied *i I
•Vi-rt iliiiig t it- Hi.niif aft Ji'd*. lobiSiiP
THE CO
.Man'.it ic'nri rs nf
FIfJE CARRIAGES,
2470 EliOttdWiiy, Si5V lass.
A p nnnufnturiie tx’oneivcly cv
-V sty.. f Carriage, Buggy, and
Wag., , .uitablv (nr tin* 8 utli, fntn the
tinrsi Li nlauand ri.ajtoo down to tbir
V 'ooij -de
Mr. \V. Wi.f'dr.iff, of Griffin, Ga,,
.i k M'.wn llir- ughnilt tin S U'ti as
be ■ rig'ryi t of iho 00l Lra'id D iggy
.•*l‘i'i! 'To.e Wo and off C nr ril,” is.id
> i'li,, Wn lull P.hli’ufion Wag in, and
, civivl Vi•tiu* in N. V, n Ler“ wo
, ,;1 „|vrays k-on :i good .dock of there
1-ill; !>ie* anil Wag ns on liftftd, vrbith
r *.,id to bo sup. rn>r to a1u,0.,t any
a In in Am.' r; a.
it v 'l want any kind of a Vehicle,
GOOD warranted W -hk. send y ur nr
ires direr- 1) to ihi* Hou-e, or thmugb
■, r , y of , ur A Tints, i t.d 'hoy will havi
pr unpt attmti n illustrate! circula.*
will b> sent to anv person who w.l!
write for them. May 6 ly
C. A. CHB.ITUAM,
General Commission Merchant
Dawson. Georgia.
M-[L|, buy on tlic beat terms possible, anything
\\ the pt.tillers 11' oil, or sell tor the .Merelmols,
anything they have to sell.
t'u• t o.i bougiit ami sold on commission.
.Now on )|.Hid and to arrive tttte isks c leor Bihbc
,*des tv hied will be sold low lor cash
C. A. CHEATHAM.
march 11-'Oil. .y
L,iOA, l>«haAi FrnNl.hlii &. iitVLt,
at
, 11,icon , ... Georgia.
uni r. give attention to Prof sainnil Bn*'*
! \V ti..»s in the Macon, .S'nirh.w. ■tern, and
Ip t ill i Circuits ; in the U S Oeuns, in 5.,-
I valimit and A'bnu: and by S.n-oa! Lon-
I tran' In anr pir: of the .s T ute.
I Sept. 23, '39 ; ly.
L.COHEN & CO.
IMPouTITtS OF.
Brandies, ¥llllßs, Gins, Segars,
A'p DFALKns IV
hY'E, BQ'IRBOd AID M3N r NGAHELA Wdl'-K/.
Also, Manufacturers of the Celebrated
Stonewall Hitters,
leh~'ll SI.. •1 litnict, Grt.
.n. JtvUty 13,-
HA I v HOOM !
MV -i» ' f. : 'iiora ia n•" enmnl. t■, 'ltd
.•01,1' 1- * ti-“ d'andi' Wiiiskie.-, ,
i. ,l„, eho ce Cigars When toll S t a.'li
’ I’AT WaBU.
I onU at _
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Dawson, ga., Thursday, march 10, iB7o.
| Oan Bdsinsss Directory,
Dry Gouilk llerrhiiut).
| >VRvr,v Ac mKLBonr, i'pnier»?n
", ( ,rv (Y>odv, Groeerioa and Hx id ware,
J/dn Bt-r«*et.
r'Kin, &i TUCKER, p«nler*in»t!
V J km, I* ol Dr_v Goods and Groctnc*. Main
Street.
KUTVIER, i \COR| Dealer in all
kinda n( D, v Good*, Main etreet,
I«VI.K*S A. CiKIFFIW, Dealers
J in Si api Diy G'ods and Groeeries also
and oinmi**ion Mo'v hants. ,Wiin Street,
MiKLYHEV a crouch,
I) aler* in l)rv Goods, Cii hilig, Siaple
Good* and Fnuily Groceries, .1/iin street.
/ I’lll, \V. F. Dealer In Fancy and sta
' *nl- Drv Goods, Main st., uuder '‘Jour
nal’’ Printing Olfice.
iJHEPIiES, W. Iff., Dealer in Staple
and Fancy L'ry Goods, MaiD street.
Grocery Ylerehaiilti.
1 RTStI’R. k. I>., De ler in Groceries
t\ md Family Supplies, dfain Street.
PIITON, .¥. A., Warehouse nnd
1 CoinniiS'lon Merchant, and Dealer in Ba
con, Flour, Meat and Pm,visions generally, at
Shapep & 3ioa n’s old stand, M ain st.
gyiKAiN,
r iRNHI. s*ll Alt PE A CO..
1 1) aler* in Dry Goods, Groceries, and
Plan iiinn Supplies.
f' It 17175i A *«l H Ho\*i, Grocery
* F and J’ruvision Dealeis, South side Pub
lic Square.
n4?GD, B. 11.. Dealer in Groceries and
F miplv -uunl'CS generally, 2ud door to
Journal” Olfice, Mam s'.
M 4 25115,1., K. 1 . A Cos. Orocer7 and
H ovisi n, and, h r*. N*x, door to the Bo
'ei aiain Sn ee', Dawson.
JimK .IMS.
rtfIEATH 4 »I, C .4., Drugeist and
\J /’iiv-ician. Keep* a good supply ol
Di ngs and Medicines, and prescribes for all
ihe ills that flesh is heir to. At hi* old stand,
<>,e Red Dug Store, Vain st
JA 4S> A I.OVI-E4S, Dealers in
Dugs, AI dicines, Oils, Paints, Dye
s ufi*. Girden Se-il. , &c.
tsiiovA 'Fiiyloi-’a khop.
Plliniiry Bro’s., Boot & Shoe nra-
I kers, and Taylors, West sido Public
Sq isre, s.ime building with Tin shop.
BA KFKY.
I E. kOI.OUON, Rdter, Corifee
e| • lioner, and dealer in F.mily Groceries
Fish and O vters, J/ain Street, next to J. W
lloberts & Cos.
Pil . MCIA.VS.
5 f OD>E T T W. 11. Practicing Phy-
I 1 sieian. and Surgeon. Office at Cheat
tiain’s li.ug Si ore.
IYRt. I. W. Pa. ICE A M>Y,
ts thuiklul for past patronage bv clo.-e
Mention and moderate charges hope to re
• e a contii.uanee of the same. Ofii ■*, I)r.
Gilpin's nlil stand- j" 1 13, ts.
IVatcli itepairer,
4 JiI.EN, .SOCIIi P„ will .epair
.‘V VVa dies. Gloeks, Jewelry, J/tt‘ic Books,
*cco d'ons, Ac , always to he Irmnd at bis
dd stand, on North side of Public Square.
Livery Stables.
PAH XU3I, >V sll 4 R PE, Sale
i 8 and F. ed Stable. Horses and J/nL s
r or aal e . Horse* boarded. North side Pub
lic Square.
ISAii 14u0.11.
I) V T 4E* E¥, Dealer ia Fine Wines,
Brandi s. Whiskies, Lager Brer, Ac,
W.'st aid* public Square, M tin street.
.-i-fN* ."-J nuki -iuu-il. ttiwrT.'t".--wrswiwrirM
AND
CONFECTION ERY.
.1. 1.. SOLOMON
'IIAKF.S pleasSre ‘ft announcing to the ei i-
I zeus of Di«son and surrounding coun
try, that he has determined to relieve the
wants of the people by the permauent estab
lishment of a first class
Bakery & Confectionery,
in this pi ce, on Depot street, next door to
J. W. R berts A Oo , whe-e lie is ready, at
,11 linie*. m tarnish families with
FRESH BREAD AND CAKES.
And w 11, at Ihe shortest notice, furnish all
ivinds of (ielifMcie* for
WEDDINGS, PARTIES, &C.
RESTAURANT.
J V addition to tbe n' ove, I am (filing up,
i and will have open, by the First of Ooio
her, a
fIkST CLASS RESTAURANT.
Where I will be orepared to cater to the
want* of tile inner n’an, in the wav of
o t'STKtts, iriuj fc.f.ne »c.
serv. and to anil every varietv of tas'e.
We wont'l any to our customers that no
I.iqu ns will he’kept, and ladies can, wiihoui
vlilli'lence visit, our house, with the assurance
ib.i we will do everything in our power to
me-it 'heir pa'ronage. Give me a call.
[) .11*1 f„rge* 'be place. ®Vpot street, next
door ti J WRoller s & Go.
J L SOLOMONS.
Pcpt2S,’69, ly.
Sale and Feed Stable.
Wk expect 'O keep on hand, all the season
tirsr cfisa Horses and M uleg tor sate. In our
j pm-,. bases we 'look •> « hat is needed ,n this
I inn, *nd »nw* to merit a 15h**r»1 p»r.ron*ffe
| f rom rhnup who may ne#*d stock. 0-»!l on us
Sf»f >r u pu tha-injr .
oc2l f FAUNT7M A SHARPE.
BRICK FOR SALE!
j have en hand a Urge lot of BRI 'K
1 I «,|l »• 1' at a ieduc'd p-ice; Py
,; n s wishing to purchase will ti. and it to iheir
interest to address R. MOULHi IMP
Knlanii, Ala
jau 27, 3m,
[Written for the Daily Advertiser.]
JLiltle Jimmie.
71i?it home, that dear old home of mine,
How many a wreath doth memory twiuo,
Os forms that onocits bowers blest,
Rut now who sleep and take their rent!
Parents and sisters, brothers dear,
still are woveu in the liuk;
In fancy still I see them near,
When now and then i stop to think
Os one among that happy baud
FPuoae voice my heart made always light—
Os Jimmie, dear and precious lamb,
ffith eyes so sparkling and so bright.
His rosy lip, his dimpled check,
llis dear young heart, so pure, so meek,
Betrayed a soul of perfect love
As gentle as the moaning dove.
Oft in my hand I’d love to hold
His curling locks of shining gold,
With which foud nature loves to deck
A lovely form and lovelier neck.
But oh, our fondest hopes decay,
Our brightest joys soou fade away ;
For, like a tender, budding flower,
Plucked front its oriental bower,
Jimmie, ere yet in perfect bloom,
Slept in an angel guarded tomb.
While spring’s sweet buds and blossoms stay,
Decking with flower* each hill and dale,
Death’s chill Augers are f earing away,
His form, to sleep in some lone vale.
He sleeps in peace, nnd we no more
His infant voice will hear below
Rut when we’ve passed thro’ trials sore,
And laiu beneath the sod so low,
//b angel voice will sing of lore,
As we approach the throne above.
Kdaw Kneri.
Marry l oiisjg.
That all people slioukl m ■ rry none
will deny. Then, when should people
marry ?
We emphatically say that marriage
is a habit that should be contracted in
an early stage of life.
There is a kind of vigorous bosh
that old fogies spin out to the effect
that no man should marry until he is
twenty-live. Translating their advice
it is this—no man should marry until
he has acquired habits of idleness and
dissipation—until he has wrecked his
frame by riotous and reckless living—
until he has frittered his affections
away in tho coquetries and flertatious
of society—until he has spent nil his
money in wasteful extravagance—until
Lis ideas and opinions are so firmly
fixed that ho cannot conform them to
those of tho woman he marries—in
short he should not many until lie has
wasted the May-time of life, and wants
a housekeeper and machine.
We say marry as soon as yon can
find a good and honest girl that will
love you—if you are poor, don’t fear—
you wiU spend as little married as you
will single—if you are ambitious, still
we say marry—it will calm, moderate
nnd give good tone to your ambition,
it you are moody, marry-it will c.ieer
you- up. If you aro frivolous, marry
—it will chasten you down If you
are dissipated, marry—for home plea
sures will keep you from the saloons.
If you are not dissipated, marry—for
it will increase your happiness tenfold..
Marry while you are young, and
givo your wife the benefit of the sunny
and strong love of youth—give her the
worship, and lavish love of the spring
time ot life, so that she will have its
sunny memory to cheer tho winter
that must come. Marry young, that
the opinions and prejudices you must
form may not conflict with those your
wife must form.
Marry while your nature is plastic
with impulse, and can be moulded as
she wants it. We hope the young
men wiio read this will think over the
matter and act upon the conclusion
they must come to.
We have addressed our remarks to
young men because we have heard
somehow that young ladies will marry
anyhow the first reasonable opportun
ity.
Love of God.—ls we had an angel’s
vision and could see the vast wo lias in
space, in all their huge proportions re
volving with such inconceivable veloci
ty, we would stand aghast with horror
and shrinking into our own insignifi
cance, wo would regard the Maker and
Kuler of all with slavish fear and cry
out “What is man, that Thou art mind
ful of him ?” But the goodness of God
has limited our vision. We aro not
overwhelmed by their awful magnitude
we are not terrified by their fearful
rapidity, we are not dazzled by their
amazing effulgence. We see only tiny
specks in the far distance and wo en
joy the soft radiance of the stars, and
our hearts are lifted up in adoring
gratitude to a loving I’ather and not
to a God of terrible majesty.
So, too, our vision i limited down
ward. It would fill Us wi h loathing
to see ugly monsters swimming, plung- i
ing and diving in the water we drink
and hideous reptiles wriggling, and
squirming in the food we eat. The !
mercy and love of God has contracted i
our vision above and 1> in\v, to save us
on the one side from terror, and on the
other from disgust. And thus by liis
providence in the material universe,
lie has taught U 6 a lesson in the moral
world. We are not to have the tele
scopic eye to see sins afar off nor the
microscopic eyo to scan those of our
neighbors closo at hand. In pitying
tenderness, Ho has thrown liis veil
over things too low for us to scrutinize
and has said “into these thou must not
look.” In humble imitation, let us
throw the veil of charity over the mo
tives of others and pry not into the
“secret things which belong unto tho
Lord our God.
We aro taught too by the honeficont
arrangement of the physical system of
nature, not to search out with fearful
foreboding the far distant future, nor
to scrutinize too closely the carking
cares of to-day. In pitying tenderness
God has thrown a veil over both. To
attempt to lift it is an effort to frustrate
tho love of God aud can only result in
misery to ourselves.
Below Hi" EurtliN <Tlltl A
Wc*t Virttiiiiii I*l l. winuit Fulls
into ii *uliterruiieuu Stiver.
Wlum we were publishing a paper
in Lowisburg, West Virginia, several
years ago, a very singular accidont bo
fell a young man there, which wo
narrated briefly at the time. A few
days ago we chanced to moot him hero,
in Muskegon, uud ho narrated his ad
venture at our request. It occurred
on tho farm of Gen. A. W. G. Davis,
in Greenbrier county, in 18f»fi. We
give the story in his own words, as
near as wo can recollect them :
“I was plowing on Gen. Davis’ farm,
in 1850,” said ho, “unsuspicious of be-
ing oi} insecure grou and, when sudden
ly the eartli seemed to fall beneath
me. I saw the horse descending, but
was too frightened to let go tho plow
handles. Tho pitch of the horses with
the earth gave my fall an impetus
and somehow I caught the mane of
one of them in rny fail, and so held on
instinctively. What 1 thought wheu
faUing, I can hardly teU. At any
rate, I did some rapid thinking.—
When I landed I fell on the horse
whose maue I had hold of, and, al
though the horse was instantly killed,
I was merely stunned and confused.
On recovering I looked up, and the
hole through which I had fallen look
ed so small I concluded I must have
fallen full 150 feet. My first thought
was to call for aid, but I instantly re
called tho fact that I was at least a
mile from Gen. Davis’ house, and that
there was not the remotest probability
that any one had seen my descent in
to the earth.
“j_t was then early morning, and as
I had brought out my dinner with mo
no one would miss me before night
tall. W Itile going over those facts in
my own miini, 1 hoard the rush of wa
ter near at hand, and it appeared to
me that I must have fallen upon the
bed of Sinking creek, which as you
kuow, falls iuto the earth a x>ve Frank
fort, and does not come out but ouce
till it reaches tho hanks of the Green
brier river. To say where I was, or
to attempt to foil >w the aubterranious
passage, was tho next question. 1
sometimes took tho team to my own
tenant stables, and might therefore
not be missed for days; so I de
termined to follow the stream. 1
waded in it, and, judging from its
depth of from one to three feet, 1 con
cluded it must be the identical Sink
ing creek spoken of. Leaving my
dead companion behind me, 1 follow
ed tlm stream. For tho most part I
had pretty easy work es it, but sotno
times I came to a deep place, where I
was lbrood to swim for a considerable
distance ; again was often precipitated
headlong into deep water by the pre
cipitous nature of tiro rocky bed ot the
stream.
“Talk about the darkness of tho j
grave ! The grave itself could not
have been more impalpably dark than
the passage I was lollowiiig. The oc
casional nppiing of the waters was an
inexpressibly dear sound to my ears.
Day and night were the same to me.
At last, wearied with my efforts, I
laid down on a comparatively dry rock
to rost, and must have slept for hours.
Wheu I awoke again I took to the
water, carefully ascertaining which
way it ran, so as not to lose my labor
by retracing my steps. It seemed to
me that the further I went the more
difficult progress became. When I
had gone perhaps a mile, I came to a
place where the archway narrowed so
much that I had to crawl on my hands
and knees in the water.
“Here was a dilemma I had not
looked for. I tried either bank of the
river, but found no passage. I could
swim uudor water for a considerable
distance, hut the distance before me
was unknown, and I halted long be
fore making tiie dangerous venture.
At last I concluded that my fate was
equaUy doubtful in returning as in
proceeding, aud plunged boldly into
the current, an l soon found that it
was so swift in its confined passage
that I had to hold my breath to go
through. In the course of twenty or
thirty l'eet I again got my head above
water, and took a long breathing spell.
Again the archway above seemed to
; enlarge, and the bed of the stream be
came more even. I sped along com
paratively rapidly, keeping my hands
outstretched to prevent my running
against tho jagged rocks. Wearied
out, I agaiu laid down and slept souud-
ly in my wet clotlres.
“On waking, I pursued my course :
down the subterranean stream, and at |
last, in the long d.stanoe ahead, saw j
j a giimmer that looked very bright in
| tiie darkness 1 was then shut in.—
Nearing this, I found that it did not
increase in brightness; and when 1
] had gone perhaps a mile, I came to
j another place where my path narrowed
to tho very tunnel tidied by tho water,
j My case was now become more dos- |
! porate. I could not possibly retrace
1 my stops, so I submitted myself to the
current, and was immeasurably over
joyed to find myself rapidly swept into
daylight. Exhausted and half drown
ed! I crept out upon the land and was
not long in recognizing tho objects
about me. 1 had come out into the
Greenbrier river, as I know from tho
familiar look of Gen. Davis’ mill on
the bank. On reaching home I found
that I had been over forty-eight hours
in making my perilous journey of six
miles underground.” The hole where
' this man went through is now fenced
round. On listening, one can plainly
hear the rush of water below, and a
stone thrown down will sometimes bo
hoard to splash in the stream.
A lady asked her gardener why the
weeds always outgrew the (lowers.
“Madam,” answered lie “the soil is
mother to the weeds, but only stop
mother to the flowers.”
■•MMce Im ic eii ii ij«- -ffilugn*
lili' Mistily oi ti To li lies* ee
Fiinilly.
One night, about tho first of Janua
ry last, two young men living in North
Alabama, wore murdered in a very
shocking and mys.erious manner.—
They were brothers, and one of them
was married. The latter was seated
at his own fireside, engaged in read
ing, wheu several men, wearing masks,
rode up to tho house aud called him
to the door. He came, and was shot
and was severely wounded. He suc
ceeded iu getting away, however, and
went to the house of a neighbor,
where the assassins found him very
soon after, and going into the room
where he lay in bed riddled him with
bullets. The next day the youngoi
brother was found dead in a siuk-hole,
some two miles from home.
lhese young men were born and
raised in lonnessee, and a gentleman
from Alabain I, who was himself for
merly a resident of Teunossee, gives
us tuo history ol their family, which is
quite romantic enough loi a first-class
novel. Tne story, as told to this re
porter, runs briefly thus :
I wenty years ago tne town of Blank,
in Middlo Tennessee, was one oi the
fastest and most fashionable places of
its size in the South. Os couise the
name of the town was not Blank,
" inch is merely borrowed for the oc
casion. Fvery other name which ap
pear* in this, except that of Louisville,
wifi be borrowed for the same pur
pose. But one real name will be giv
en. One of the finest plantations in
tne neighborhood of Blank was that
ol Air. Brown. His residence was one
ot trie most elegant and costly iu the
county. But Mr. Brown took less
pride in his splendid farm and boauti
lul homo than in his beautiiul daugh
ter, at that time a young girl of not
more than sixteen, and the reigning
hello ot tiie wnolo neighborhood, iia
lavished upon Her all taut wealth could
buy. Iu tiie Grecian beauty of her
face, in the exquisite grace ot her slen
der form, iu tuo richness of her toil
ettes, in the elegance of her equipage,
and iu all else that goes to constitute
a queen of society, she was without a
rival. Lovers and admirers tiocked to
her shrine fri m every quarter. Some
of them were rich, aud few or none
were po, r. But tueir wooiug was in
vain. They came, and wooed, and
went, leaving her still in maiden med
itation fancy-free. This, however,
could not last always. In about the
fourth or filth year of her reign as an
unmarried belie, she met a gay arid
handsome youug lawyer of Louisville,
named Smith. They first met it is
belioved, at a watering place iu the in
terior ol this State. In a short time
they were engaged to ho married, and
tiie day was appointed lor tho event
to take place. But it would soem
that tho appointment was made with
out tho consent of Mr. Brown, for,
when youug Smith reached Blank, for
the purpose of fulfilling his engage
ment, lie found that the old gentleman
had placed his daughter in a carriage
andqu etly carried her beyond the limits
of tho Stato. Young Smith returned
to Kentucky, and nothing more was
heard of him in Blank for six or eight
years.
Not a groxt while after the above
incident, the heart and hand of Miss
Brown wore sought by a wealthy anl
most worthy young gentleman, named
Jones, who lived in a distant part of
the State. His suit met the hearty
approval of all her friends, for he was
rich, handsome, and a thorough geu
tlemun, and in a short time they wore
married. But the marriage was an
unhappy one. Mr. Jones had a 1 irge
plantation in one of the cotton States,
and his business interests required
that ho should spend much of his time
there, and this he is said to have done
leaving his wife at her father’
where she preferred to stay, in the en
joyment of that society and those corn
torts which w 're uit to be found
among tho cotton plantations of the
South. Thu* matters went on for sev
eral years, when there came a divorce
suit, ut tho instance of tho lady, though
upon what grounds our informant
never knew. The divorce was grant
ed, and Mrs. Jones resumed hor maid
en name. It was believed that neith
er husband nor wife was much to
blame in the matter —that they were
more sinned against than sinning.
A year or two passed by and young
Smith, who had never forgotten his
love for the beautiful Tennessean, re
turned and renewed his suit—this
timo with much better success, for
there was no formidable opposition, if
any at all, and lie and Mrs. Brown
were married.
And then tho war came on. Young
Smith was among tho first to espouse
the cause of the South and join the
army for her defense. He became an
officer in a cavalry regiment, and con
tinued in active service until the dose
of the struggle. lie then returned to
Blank, where he soon after began tho |
practice of his profession. He return
ed to find that his father-in-law was a
bankrupt —that the war had involved
him in utter ruin. Very soon Mr,
Brown’s magnificent home was sold,
and ho lemoved to Blank with his
family, consisting of his wife and two
sons—the two young men who were
recently murdered in North Alabama. !
Soon after his removal to Blank from j
his old homo, fivo miles distant, Mr. j
Brown died, leaving his wife almost!
or quite penniless. About the same i
time the two boys removed to Alaba
ma, and Mrs. Brown was left alone
with Mr. and Mrs. Smith,
i They lived in an elegant two story
cottage in the suburbs of Blank.—
Early one morning, in the summer of
1867, Mr. Smith was found lying at
his front dour quite dead. The weath
er was exceedingly warm at the time.
VOL. V. —NO. 4.
and it was supposed that he had seat*
od himself in the window of bis room
li} the upper story, that ho had gone
to sleep while seated there, aud had
fallen to tho ground, breaking hi*
neck. • ®
Another period of two years went
the way of aU the other years of tho
life of this young widow, still as beau
tiiul as ever, though saddened and
subdued by the cloud* which had
swept across her pathway. And then
the met singular event in this singu
lar story came to pass. Mr. Jonos,
the first husband, who had never
ceased to love the woman from whom
ho ha I been separated by a decree ot
the law, returned to Blank and pro*-
posed a socond marriage. The prop
osition was accepted, aid some time
last spring the marriage took place,
the divorced husband and wife reu
niting with warmer hearts and firmer
laith tnose vows of constancy which
once before they uttered, aud uttered
in vain.
Six or eight months after this came
the murder of the lady’s two brothers
by unknown assassins, t ius ending a
story than which very few in real Trfe
are more romantic or more curious.—
C'ouritr Journal.
m Milking Squirt Gum.
A gentleman ofthis city, iu iHustrat
ing his views of the usurpations of
Congress upon Georgia aud othor
fetates tells tiie foUowing story.
I Hero resided iu Hartford a genera
tion or two since, a worthy old gentle
man named Wm. Watson He kept
a small shop on Main street, whore he
disposed of publications of the Tract
and Peace Societies. Being in delicate
Health, he requested his clerk, in
sprinklinq: the store, to bo more care
ful—to sprinkle a loss amount of water,
a he feared he would take cold. “I
will be more careful, sir,” replied the
clerk. The next day the old p<>ntle
mae, shivering, made tho same cor»-
plaint—“too much water ” Tho clerk
patiently endeavored to suit his em
ployer, but to no purpose. “Jerk u.,
the pot. said tho old man, “as you
spriuklo on tho water, so that it will
discharge but a very small quantity.”
“[ will, sir,” meekly replied the clerk.
The next day came the complaint—
too much water on tho floor “Did
you jerk up the pot?” “Yes, sir,”
said the clerk. “Did y»u jerk it fre
quently?” Yes, sir.” “Then,” sai l
Mr. Watson, “that plan has failed,
and we must try another.” “But there
is hardly enough wt*f,T now to lay the
dust,” said the clerk. “ 1 much, too
much, ’protest" 1 thf' old gentleman.
“Now you must abandon the watering
pot, take a tumbler of w.u, ; fill your
mouth, and spurt it on the flu r.”
The poor clrek looked discouraged
But suddenly starting up, he exclaim
ed vehemently, “1 11 bod lif oil
Bill Watson is going to make a *q <rt
linn of ms ! And he t »ok his hat. left
the store, jumped aboard iho first train
and tho next day ho onlistod into the
navy.
Tho time will como, probably, » hen
a patient people will rise up and say
to Clias. Sumner and company, “You
can’t any longer make squirt-guns of
us.” —Hartford Timas
fall Shawer* in ii-va'lj nml
4'iiiilu lliu/
During the rain, last week, n quan
tity of small fish fell in one of the
showers at Bixmile Canon, Nevada.—
Tiie fish a e described as two or three
inches long, bluish i:i color, with brown
stripes dowu the sides.—{C'astroville
Argus.
We are creditably informod of a still
more strange occurrence of a fr*h
shower in this county, which occurred’
a few week* since in the vicinity of
Laguna Se. o, ten miles north of Mon
terey. The shower extended for »
distance of three or four miles , there
were no clouds visible at tho time. —■-
The fish were of different kinds, and
varying in length from six inches to
three feet. A person who witnessed
the shower, and is deep in piscatorial
knowledge, pronounced them of the
species inhabiting salt water. Will
some of our savanj give a solution' of
this phenomena ? —[Monterey Repub
lican, Feb. 10th.
Good nature gathers hon’ey from
ovary herb.
A Buffalo paper heads its court re
ports “Halls of Justice.” Query, hauls ?
There is much talk in Washington
about the staff and line—perhaps it
involves a scheme to catch Fish.
An old song makes mention of a
garden of delights, under the inn • of
“Cupid’s Garden.” In Cupid s G tr
don choose single flowers, and Ik Wo.” *
of widow’s weeds.
An Irishman being asked on a lato
trial for a eirtificate of his nVarrir ge,
exhibited a huge scar on his Lt
which looked as though it mig’nk h
been made with a tire-shovel. : The
evidence wins satisfactory.
Ladios should never indulg> in an
ticipation, for we know how objection
able a woman is who looks forward.
Sewing machines are being intro
duced into tho female high schools in.
this country, to let the girls know what
! they may have to come to when they
! g< t married.
“A Frenchtna. was lately found in
a paroxysm of tears over the fmnposod
tomb of Washington at Mount Vernon
i but it turned out to be only tho ice
-1 house.
j “Are you u ar-sightod,-Miss ?” said
an impudent ft flow to a young lady
who did ne t chocsoto notice him.—
“Yes: at this distance I can hardly
tell whether you are a or ptn-’v* ’’
