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About The Dawson weekly journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1868-1878 | View Entire Issue (March 10, 1870)
THE DAWSON WEEKLY JOURNAL. If s. It W oSTtM. g iWs oii journal, nB LIBHItI> KVKHV THI’BSIUT. TEtt .tIS-Strlelt'j in Mranet. Three "' nnl, ' a ""’j i 25 gi, • .i <>.> SverS rates : 1 | ON K MONTH. . 1 I: I I, 1 two months I j i j THREE Jt'THS J I SIX MONTHS I | ONE TEAR. gan'Rrf I s,lu| 7 ou * l 2 s " f2l> tit i. 0 1,1 n 111 10 00 12 00 20 0" 30 00 THRt K- ‘ ! 9 „„ 12 On 15 On 25 On 40 00 10 no 18 on 25 on 40 On tiO Oo pH ij go .5 00 85 00 60 00 110 00 7”cT 2# n " 40 °"' lln (MI 20 " 00 Tt in "irv tin ai T eit'BiO*COu»iJ.ned ltu ‘ s •‘ fter h,St 1,,8er ‘ lll> a'iv Tii-em "9 ir,-.prterl •»'. interval* to be h ,) ,s nr« bi-itr i ‘n. i inM tnin it fhafft* 1 ”t 10 ■>•"• «•"* * » ( A iveni*-mem* oidere Ito b» in -if .2eiwi i in.,,. Ju ■ '*»*-*» j.|-, lor the ti st ununiiin, on.i 10 oe n per life lUMq'e.tp roo, „ r ivri- i*-tnelit- 111 Ilf b"l "nil, will b- n-e el -t 2n eel tP ’ >"»** " ,H rt and ls'!.‘!!t‘P ,r lftfie lor e-icn pu»>**c , 1 u on* oi 1 • t* 1 * «n h*i-in-- 8 i „!Hr^lin,fc 1 in,fc *1 ;i be s-iii.-*. 0 to * 1158 Haw*-N JOUN aL ’ BAH -ROAD GUIDE. •voiillnv*» evii itHilrouil. vV 1/ HOLT, Fos. | VIRGIL POWER. Sap |,„ve \i Ifii. 5.15 4 M ; 'five km 11.15 x. it ; !.fv CVi;-h u* 12 45 P. (/ ■ jrriv i ‘1 ' ">n 62n I AI. u„.« '.l iun 8 V ./; arrive* s' F. i vIU 5 80, PUjlfVf* B .r.uU 7 20, A V, ; Arrive* *' 14 >«•■" 4 s', I’d. A I,IS*NY BII'NOH 8 i hvtlle 1 46. P VI ; Arrive* a. A |., H ,s 11 PM:I, ■v s Mbmv P 85, AM; Arrive* a' S i hvitl 11. A M. leivf Oai'ir.-r* 857 P M ; arrive at Fort t 5 1 i P. M ; It P ,rI *’ nit. 7 05 A ,|j t ; tit flit hi. V.nft a. M. :u»<l 52s*ii M j[i r ’Uriiiit*. GEO. IV II aZI'.FO.F RSI', Pepsi del t. inve Ma-n *- 3 " * u A- ivc a B .i,.v-ick >* v l, ,ve B..m*«i«K *’ " ,4 riv* a. VI n ... 7:5n r. M. VirlN* TO HA - KlN*>’ll ! * [, ,re* 34 pan aKo'O Y. M Ariv - H * inn Vil 6:80 1* »• i u v/l ,„q V It * 7:"<» a M A, ire if VI 1" : 20 A. M T is train lin * da, S irntav* i.Jcop'ed TRAINS TO JK'l’P j . lV , AJ M . >n ... a. M - d’r.v • at J •*: ,:4i * r 11 Leave A M. An vea M « n.... ■ ; fi;S " p »• In * train run* dsiiv, .Sil:id.l'* » xc. pien. Wcslerji & FOSTER VI.(*Ij(iETT, Snp’t. 0 \ 7 t'assenokk train. li»»ve Allti, a . • • 645A. V Lpivp Halt,in .... 2.8" P- VI Arrive ai (Jhattunnoga . • * Leave l!hal'annoia . • 8.2." A. M Arrive at Atlanta . - • 12 >5 P- V! NIUIir TRAIN. leave Atlanta . . . 7 00 V M Anivp a: Oha'tuMOnga . • 4.10 A M t.eiTe Oeanaimi gn . • 4Sn P M Ar, ,|i,„ n . . . 7 SoP. " Ariv at Atlanta . - 1 41 A. VI *a< nuuaiWA M—nBBMI / is ire.^73TOfl groi'j .sional ®ar^. c B.WnTKN. L C. HOYI.K. WOOTEN 6 HOYLE, Attorneys nt J*aw, 1>t115’50.»,«.1. 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., itE.iL t:sT.tvr , Tcncil «4»!i.aj, tia. VRK elf iin > tnr til-* a****,,-.ibe iwrliin t »u ,a>lus end a 'mi-. 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 m o 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. 5.. • , FKOW > ti 1 utlii St., t i j>n i* - f‘a.- <' g i lb R .’/ <(oii. C torg i:i. 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 _ 1 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* ’’
