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THE DAWSON WEEKLY JOURNAL
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Seal It wcalcrit Railroad *»as
seugcr Trains.
WV. HOLT, Pres. | VIRGIL POWER. Sip
Uve Micnn B: 2° A ■ “•
Arrive at Eufattla p u.
Ltuve 7:20 a. m.
A rive at Mac»u 4:50 p.m.
Connecting wi'h Aluanv branch train at
.Snitlivi le, and with Fart Guiucs branch train
«; CV-hbe\
tirAUi.A Main xsn accommodation trains
Uivc M* con 8*25 p u -
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Jbnd.iy, Tuesday, Thursday "ltd Friday
nights. No train leaves on Saturday nights.
C<)LrMB ,f S passknokr trains.
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Arrive it #?ol»: m bus. I:'A‘A 1* m.
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Arrive a» Columbus a. m
Leave Columbus p m
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Uncoil an<l Brmifwick P«impu
ger Trains*
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(Santa.
,-_R. F. SIMMONS.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
i>./ H-so.r,
IJuOMPT attention given to all business
1 uttrusud t 0 bis care.
augS 9;tf
C ' *■ w °oltS. L c. HOTLK.
WOOTEN & HOYLE,
Attorneys at Law,
.«*#
Jan «-iy
c- w. WARWICK,
Att 'y at Law and Solicitor In Equity,
SMITHVILLB, GA.
, ‘cifca! > M C, (S! l l n Sr "" h Western and Patau
ooilecliont prompt), remitted.
K - J- WARREN,
ATTORNEY at law,
or YOUTH
K'ervous n.h-r! who Buffered for year* from
*ft* rffrrta ltT ’ T rem »tttre Decay, and all
th»nkenf \5 ut .*’ lu ' indiscretion, will, for
*ll «h 0 ne P a SU u' nK l '" n,l ' r ’si T . “end free to
’“•tint th„ - lt ’ , receipt, and directions for
n ored. Si 1 (r , ' m * > e r en ) e,l » hr »hich he WHS
Yenisei’s p.rl*' 8 w * B Dine to profit bv the ad
'“l. in perl!t£tcnnfide?ce ' lo “ ddreSS_
untß.i JOHN b. OGDEN,
t i Mo, 42 Cedar reel, stN.Y
Dawson Business Directory,
Dry Goods He re la it lift,
TUCKER, Dealers in all
Vykindsoi Dry Goods and Groceries. Main
Street.
KUTiVER, JACOB, Dealer in all
kinds of Dry Good«, Main street.
LOi LESS »V GRIFFIN, Dealers
in Staple Dry Goods and Groceries, also
and Commission J/erchants, .Wain Street,
\rrKENNIEY A CROUCH,
Dealers in Drv Goods, Clothing, Staple
Goods and Family Groceries, J/ain street.
ODD. W. F. Dealer In Fancy and at*..
ole Drv Goods, Main at., uuder ‘‘Jour
nal” Printing Office.
Grocery Jlcrclianl*. ~
FI’ETOV, J. A., Warehouse and
Commission Merchant, and Dealei in Ba
con, Flour, Meal and Provisions generally, at
Bharne & Brown’s old stand, Mtin at.
SHARPE A CO.,
I Dealers in Dry Goods, Groceries, and
Plantation Supplies.
Greer a sinimons, Gmeerv
and .Provision Dealers, South side Pub
lic Square.
HOOD, R. I*., Dealer n Groceries and
Familv suoDlies generally, 2nd door to
‘Journal” Office, Main at.
Bt'iigiliilt.
(''IIIEATHA C. A., Druggist and
J Physician Keeps a good supply of
Drugs and Medicines, and prescribes for all
the ills that flesh is heir to. At his old stand,
the Red Drug Store, Main st.
TAMES A I,OVI,ESS, Dealers in
tJ Drugs, .Medicines, Oils, Paints, Dye
Stuffs, Garden Seed, &c., Ac.
BAKERY.
rL SOEOYIOJ, Baker, Confec
. tioner, and dealer in Family Groceries
Fi*h and Ovsters, j/ain Street, next to J. Wi
Roberts & Cos.
PH aSICIAAS.
HODVETT TV. H. Practicing Phy
sician, and Surgeon. Office at Cheat
ham’* Di ug S ore.
DBS. J. W. PRICE A SON,
thankful for past patronage, by close
attention and moderate charges hone to re.
ceive a continuance of the same. Office, Dr.
Gilpin’s old stand jin 13, ts.
Wiilrli K«-|>itirer.
4 I.LEN, JOHN! P„ will .epair
I\. Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, J/usic Books,
Acco d'ons, Ac , always tn be found at his
old stand, on North eide of Square.
Livery Slubles.
A SII4RPE. Sale
I and F-ed Stable. Horses and J/uL s
for sale. Horses Lo ti ded. North side Pub
lic Square.
j)imcr, A. G. & J. It., Sale,
1 Feed and Liverv Stable, Depot /S’ reet.
Good bo'-es and vehicles for lure on reason
able terms. Aptil 14, ly.
BAR- ROOM.
II AT WARD, Dttalvr in Fine Wines,
Brandies. Whiskies, L<ger Brer, &c ,
West side public Square, Main s'rcet.
brown house
E. E. BKOW.M A SON,
Fourth St., Opposite Passtiger Depoi
Macon, Georgia.
r I "MII3 House liaiiuz luely been rofit'ed
l and repaired, and is now one of the best
Hotels in the State, ami the most conve
nient in the city. The table is supplied "i'll
everything ttie market affords. leblS 69
LVOV, DiGHAFFKMIEID & IRVIN,
mWn i't LA
Macon , ... Georgia.
WILL give attention to Professional Busi
ness in the Macon, .S'outh.westdrn, and
Pataula Circuits; in the U. S Courts, in Sa
vannah and Atlanta ; and by Spetial Con
tract in ant part of the .N'tate.
Sept. 23,'69; ly.
PLANTATION FOR sE
I am offering for sale a plantation near
Whaley’s J/ills, in Terrell county, nine
miles Northwest of Dawson, containing Stj
Hundred acres of Oak and Hickory land;
Btto acres cleared, with good improvements,
Gin House and Screw, &c., &c.,
For particulars as to feints and price, call
o„ the subscriber in Dawson.
June 16,tf. WJI. KAIGLER.
VALUABLE PLANTATION
Jfoi* Sal®!
WE are offering for aile Four Hundred
Acres of Land, lying three miles'
South of Dawson, on (7bickisawhalchie
creek. One bundri and acres fresh cleared land,
with comfortable dwelling and out houses -
good cribs and stable. Young orchard of
five acres This i« a desirable place, and
thO"d wishing to purchase land near Dawsou
will do well to examine ours before purcha
sing. Water in eve'y field. Come and see
the growing crop. JOAL HARRELL,
July H-3m. J • B- F. HARKFLL
WEaBE BECAimG LARGE LOTS
of Coru, and Country Produce.
W. L. CLAY & CO.,
WHOLESALE
LIQUOR DEALERS,
AND
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
No. 1, Granite Block, Broad Street,
ATLANTA, CA.
e keep on hand Clav’aOld Kentucky Whis-
Wv and solicit orders and consignments.
-| kch24-fim. w - 1 C - *■ CO
DAWSON, GA„ THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1870.
ORICINAL POcTmY.
For the Dawson Journal.
To the Queen uv “flubs”—Sue
Zaii.
BY ASA CLUBS.
Fare Sue-san 1 have red the lines
In which you “go for” me,
An wunce agin with “jinglin rhyraea”
I’m bound tu “go fur” thee.
Vu sa I charm yu an hit atewa
jWI hart intu a slitter,
Tu think that / can charm yu suze,
Y u darlin little critter.
Mi lorrils [at wunsc fur nuke,
Tha ar at vore command ;
But with the lorrils yu must take
Poor Asa’s hart an hand.
If i’m a trump, yu ar the same,
An I have often secu
In Moyle’s rules fur evry game,
The Ace must take the Quean.
I*ll try tube as good a boy
wore shoo*fly,
An es 1 brought yu aught but joy,
1 think I’d want tu die.
Untu some railway 1 would go,
z4n lie upon the track
Untcll l h?erd the whistle blow,
An then why />d go back-
The Greak and Lattin darlin .Sue
I’ll try fur yore deer sake;
But when yu talk of that fle-brew,
Yu farely make me shake.
1 could not larn hit es l tried,
The task would be too much
Fur I am on Napoleyun’s side
And cannot swallcr Dutch.
Dent wait fur fashuns tugit wuss,
Tu hunt them other climes;
they’re too much fur us,
Who hav’nt got the dimes.
So cum—l’ll leave the “shoo fly,*’
Au yu the Greshun Bend, *
An happily our days shall hie,
Untell our lives shill end.
MISCELLANEOUS.
An Incident in Arkansas
Life.
I shall never forget my first vision
of William Denton. It was in tae
Court House at Little Rock, Arkansas,
in the summer of 18:14. The occasion
itself possessed a terrible interest, well
calculated to fix in the memory all its
circumstances. A vast concourse of
spectators had assembled to witness
the trial of a young and beautiful girl
on ail indictment for murder. The
Judge waited at the moment for the
sheritf to bring in his prisoner, and
the eyes of the impatient multitude
eagerly watched the door for the ex
pected advent, when suddenly a stran
ger entered, whose remarkable ap
pearance riveted universal attention.
Here is his portrait done as accurately
as pen can sketch it.
A figure, tall, lean and sinewy and
straight as an arrow ; a brow massive,
soaring, and smooth as polish m irble,
intersected by a largo blue vein fork
ed like the tongue of a serpent; eyes
reddish yellow, resembling a wrathful
eagle’s eye—as brilliant as fearfully
piercing, and finally, a mouth, cold
and sneering—the living embodiment
of unbreathed curses ! He was habit
ed in leather, ornamented, after the
fasliiou of Indian costume, with beads
of every color iu the rainbow.
Elbowing his way proudly and
slowly through the throng, and seem
iugly altogether unconcious that he
was regarded as a phenomenon that
needed explanation, the singular be
ing advanced, and with the haughty
air taking his tin one, seated himself
within the bar, crowded as it was with
the disciple of Coke and Biaekstone,
several of whom, it was known, es
teemed themselves far superior to
those old and famous masters.
The contrast between the disdainful
countenance and outlandish garb of
the stranger excited especially tlio ris
ibility of the lawyers, and the junior
members began a suppressed titter,
which soon grew louder and swept
around the circle. They doubtless
supposed the intruder to be some wild
hunter of the mountains, who had nev
er before seen the interior of a hall of
justice.
Instantly the cause and object of
the laughter perceived it. Turning
his head gradually, so as to give each
laugher a look of infinite scorn, he
ejaculated the single word —‘Savages !’
No pen can describe the unspeaka
ble malice, the defiant force which he
threw into that term; no language
can express the internal furore of his
utterance, although it hardly exceeded
a whisper. But he accented every
letter as if it were a seperato omission
of fire that scorched his quivering lips,
laying horrible emphasis on the n both
at the beginning and ending of the
word. It was a mixed growl, inter
mediate betwixt the growl of a rod ti
ger and the hiss of a rattlesnake —
“sacuges ! ’ It cured everybody of the
disposition to laugh.
The general gaze, however, was
then diverted by the advent of the fair
prisonei, who came in surrounded by
her guard. The apparition was enough
to drive even a cynic mad, for hers
was a style of beauty to bewilder the
tamest imagination and molt the cold
est heart, leaving in both imagination
and heart a gleaming picture, enamel
led with lire and fixed in a frame of
gold from the stars. It was the spell
of an enchantment to be felt as well as
seen. We might feel it in the flashes
of her countenance, clear as sunlight,
brilliant as the ins; in the classic
contour of her features, symmetrical
as if cut with an artist’s chizel; in
her hair of rich ringlets, flowing with
out a braid, softer than silk, finer
than gossamer; in her eyes, blue as
the heavens of southern summer,
large, liquid, dreamy ; in her motions,
graceful, swimming, like the gentle
waftures of a bird’s wing in the sunny
air ; in her figure, slight, ethereal—a
sylph sor seraph’s; and more than
all, in the overlasting smile of the rosy
lips, so frank, so serene, so like star
light, and yet thrilling the soul os a
shock of elec-tricity.
As the unfortunate girl, so tasteful
ly dressed, so incomparable as to per
sonal charms, calmly took hor place
before the bar of her judge, a murmur
of admiration arose from the multi
tude, which the prompt interposition of
the Judge could scarcely repress from
swelling into deafening oheets. Thu,
murmur was followed by a loud un
earthly groan from a solitary bosom,
as of someone in mortal anguish.—
All eyes were centered on the stran
ger, and all were struck with surprise
and wonder, for his features writhed
as if in torture—torture that his rain
of tears could not assuage. But what
could be the cause of this sudden emo
tion ? Could any connection exist be
tween him, the apparent rude hunter,
and that fairy girl, more beautiful
than a blossom of summer, and in
countenance celestial as a star ?
Tho judge turned to the prisoner—
“Emms G-reoiiloaf, tho court has been
informod that your counsel, Colonol
Lindsey, is sick and cannot attend.—
Have you employed any other T'
She answered in a voice sweet as
the warble of the nightingale, and
clear as tho song of tho skylark—“My
enemies have bribed all the lawyers,
even my own to be sick; but God will
defend the innocent!’’
At this response, so touching in its
simple pathos, a portion of the audit
ors buzzed applauses and tho rest
wept. On tho instant, however, the
leather robed stranger, whose aspect
had previously excited so much merri
ment, approached the prisoner, and
whispered something in hor ear. She
bounded several inches from tho floor,
uttered a wild shriek, and then stood
pale and trembling as if in the pres
ence of a ghost from tho grave. All
now could perceive that there must be
some mysterious connection between
tho two, and the scene assumed the
profound interest of a genuine ro
mance. The stranger addressed the
court in accents as sonorous as the
tone of au organ—“ May it please
your honor, I will defend the legal
rights of the lady.”
“What!” exclaimed the astonished
judge, “are you a licensed attorney ?”
“The question is immaterial and ir
revalent,” replied the stranger with a
sneer, “as your statute entitles any
p trson to act as counsel at the request
of a party.”
“But does the prisoner request it ?”
askod the judge.
“Let her speak for herself,” said
tho stranger.
“I do, ’ was her answer, as a long,
drawn sigh escaped, that seemed to
rend her very heart-strings.
“What is your name, us it must be
placed on the rocord ?” interrogated
tho j udge.
“William Denton,” said tho stran-
gor.
The case immediately progressed.
Wo will briefly epitomise the sub
stance of the evidence. About twelve
months previous the defendant arrived
in the town, and opened an establish
ment of millery. Residing in a small
room back of her shop, and all alone,
prepared the various articles of her
trade with unwearied toil and consum
mate taste Her habits were seclud
ed, modest, and hence she might have
hoped to escape notoriety, but for the
perilous gift of that extraordinary
beauty, which too often, and to the
poor and friendless, proves a curse.—
tilic was soon sought after by those
gay fireflies of fashion, the business
of whose life is everywhere soduction
and ruin. But the beautiful strut.ger
rejected them all alike with unuttera
ble scorn aud loathing.
Among these disappointed admirers
was one of a character from which the
fair milliner had everything to fear.
Hiram Shore belonged to a family at
once opulent, influential, and dissipat
ed. lie was himself licentious, brave
and revengeful, and, a duelist of es
tablished and terrible fame, lt was
generally known that he had made
advances to win the favor of the love
ly Emma, and shared the fate of ail
her woers— a disdainful repulse.
At nine o’clock on Christinas night,
1833, the people of Little Rocs were
startled by a loud scream, as of some
one in mortal terror ; while following
that, with hardly an intorval, came
successive reports of firearms—one,
two, three —a dozen deafening explo
sions. They flew to the milliner,
whence the sounds emanated, and
pushed back the unfastonod door. A
dreadful scene was presented. There
she stood in the cantre of the room,
with a revolver in each hand, every
barrel discharged, her features pale,
her eyes flashed wildly, and her lips
parted with an awful smile ! And
there at her feet, weltering in his warm
blood, his bosom literally riddled with
shot, lay the all-dreaded duelist, Hi
ram Shore, gasping in the last agony.
He articulated but a single sentence
“Tell my mother that I am dead aud
gone to h—ll !” and instantly expired.
“In God’s name, who did this ? ’
exclaimed the appalled spectators.
“I did it!” said the beautiful milli
ner, in her sweet, silvery accents. “1
did it to save my honor !”
Such is a brief abstract of the es-
sential circumstances, developed in the
examination of witnesses. The testi
mony closed and the pleadings began.
First of all, Fowler, Hike, and Ash
ley (all famous lawyers at that time in
! the south-west) spoke in succession for
the prosecution. They about equally
partitioned their eloquence betwixt
the prisoner and her advocate, cover
ing the latter with such sarcastic wit,
railing, and ridicule as made it a mat
ter of doubt whether he or client was
the party then on trial. As to Den
| ton, however, he seemed to pay not
tho slightest attention to his opp tnents,
but remained motionless, with his
forehead bowed on his hands, like one
buried in the deep thought or iu slum
ber.
When his time came, however lie
suddenly sprang to his feet, crossed
tho bar, and took a position almost
touching tho foreman of the jury, ho
then commenced in a whisper, but in
a whisper so wild, peculiar, and in
describably distinct as to fill tho hall
from floor to galleries.
At tho outsot ho dealt in pure logic,
analysing and combining the facts,
till tho whole mass of ooufusod
evidence lookod transparent as a
globe of crystal, through which tho
innocence of his client shone lumin
ous as a sunbeam, while the jurors
nodtled to each other of thorough
con vie* ion. That thrilling whisper
and concentrated arguinont, and lan
guage simple as a child’s, had satis
fled the domands of tho intellect, and
this, too, in only twenty minutes. It
was like the work of a mathematical
demonstration.
He thon changed his posture so as
to sweep tho bar with his glance, and
like a raging lion, rushed upon his
adversaries, tearing and rendering
their sophistries into atoms. His sal
low face glowing like a red-hot iron,
tho forked blue vein swelled and
wreathed on his brow, his eyes re
sembled live coals, his voice was the
clangor of a trumpet. I have never,
before or since, listened to such ap
palling denunciation. It was like
Jove’s eaglo charging a flock of crows.
It was like Jove himself hurling thun
derbolts in tho shuddering eyes of in
ferior gods. And yet in the highest
temper of fury he seemed wonderfully
calm He employed no gesture save
one—flush of a long, bony fore-finger
directly at the palid faces of his legal
foes. He painted their venality and
unmanly baseness in coalescing for
money to crush a friendless female,
till a shout of stifling wrath broko
from the multitude, and some of the
sworn panel cried “shame !” And thus
the orator had carried another point
—had aroused a perfect storm of in
dignation against the prosecutors -
and this also in twenty minutes.
He changed his theme once more.
His voice grew mournful as a funeral
dirge and his eyes filled with tears, as
he traced a vivid picture cf man’s cru
elties and woman’s wrongs, with spe
cial applications iu tho case of h : s cli
ent, till half the audience wept like
children.
But it was in tile peroration that he
reached the zenith both of terror and
sublimity. His features were livid as
those of a corpse; his very hair ap
peared to stand on end; his norvos
shook as with a palsy ; he tossed his
hands wildly toward heaven, eacli fin
ger spread apart and quivering like
t. e flame of a candle, as ho closed the
last words of the deceased Hiram
Shore—“ Tell my mother that lam
dead and gone to h—11! ’ His empha
sis on the word hell embodied the ele
ments of all horror. It was a wail of
immeasurable despair—a wild howl
of infinite torture. No language can
depict its effect on all who hoard it.
Meii groaned, women shrioked, and
one poor mother was borne away in
convulsions. The entire speech occu
pied but an hour.
The jury returned a verdict of “Not
guilty” without loaviug the box, and
three tremendous cheers, like succes
sive roars of an earthquake, shook tho
court house from domo to corner
stone, testifying the joy of the people.
At tho same moment the beautiful
milliner bounded to her foot and clasp
ed the triumphant advocate in her
arms, exclaiming—“Oh, my husband !
my dear husband!”
Denton smiled, seized her hand,
whispered a word in her ear, and the
two left the bar together, proceeding
to the landing, and embarked on tho
steamboat bound for Now Orleans.
It seems that they had previously
parted on account of causeless jeal
ousy, alter which she had assumed a
false name and came to Little Rock.
How he learned her danger, I could
never ascertain.
They returned to Texas. The hus
band was a Colonel in the revolution,
and escaped its perils only to fall the
next year in a terrible fight with the
Camanchos. Anew county in the
cross-timbers, a county of wild woods
romantic as his own eloquence, and of
sun bright prairie, beautiful as his
own Emma’s sweet face, commemo
rates his name—the name of a trans
cendant star that set too soon, which
else had now been the first luminary
in the political sky of Texas, if not in
the circle of the Union, for ho was
nature’s Demosthenes of the western
woods !—A. Y. Sunday Times.
Wittily, if not Wisely Said.
The Rome Commercial extracts the
following humorous morsels from well
known humorists:
“Let us remember the poet Homer.
Twenty cities claimed Homer dead,
through which the liven, Mr. Homer
couldn’t have got tiusted for a sand
which and a glass of beer, or words to
that elfeck.”
A. -Ward, Showman.
‘ There are more people who love
liquar than any other one thing, and
yet there are fewer of them who will
admit it.” Bio Jons.
“I never bet none of my stamps on
the man who tells you what he'd a
done if he’d a been thar. I notis them
sort don’t generally git thar.”
Josh Billings.
The war ended bad for us, but I’ve
got one consolation. I Killed as mauy
of them as they killed of me.”
Bill Arp.
Going and Coining.
BY EDWARD A JKNKS.
Goins- -the great round Sun,
/Jrujfifing • lie captive Day
Over behind the frowning hill,
Over beyond the bay,
Dying*
Comlug- -the dusky Night,
Silently stealing in,
Gloomily draping the soft., warm couch
Where the goldeu-haired I) ay had been
Lying.
Going—the bright, blithe Spring ;
Blossoms t how fast ye fall,
Shooting out of your starry sky
Into the darku-ss all
ftliudly I
Coming—-the mellow days ;
Crimson and yellow leaves ;
Languishing purple and amber fruits
Kissing the liearded sheaves
Kindly I
Going—our early friends :
Voices we loved arc dumb,
Jbotstcps grow dim in the morning dew ;
Fainter the echoes come
Ringing :
Coming to Join our march—
Shoulder to shoulder pressed :
Gray-haired veterans strike their tent*
For the far-off purple IFest—
Ninging 1
Goiug—-this old, old life ;
Beautiful world I farewell I
Forest and meadow I rirerand hi!11
King ye a loving knell
O’er us I
Coming—a nobler life;
Caming, a better land,
Coming, the long, long, nightless day :
Coming, the grand, grand
Chorus t
Patch-Work Quills Do Pay
Confession.
BY MRS. JENNIE T. HAZEN LEWIS.
A little nephew of mino once caught
three curious bugs which he was go
ing to carry to a man who had a col
lection of crawling things, and who
had offered the magnificent reward of
throo couts for the rarest specimen.
Jimmy put his bugs uuder a tum
bler for safe keeping, and went to bad
to droim of tho small fortune he
would have the next day, and how he
would spend it. He came pattering
down early in the morning to look at
his treasures, and lo ! they had eaten
each other up. But, whether tho top
of them had made common cause, and
eaten one, or one had oaten the two,
and then with appetite only, whetted
by bug diet, had begun to devour it
self, must over rom tin a mystery.
Whatever tho facts in tho case were,
one fact was certain, —tho otdy remain
ing bug was eating itself; at sight of
which cruelty, or the loss of his prop
erty, Jimmy burst into loud lamenta
tions, and could only be comforted by
three pennies from my purse.
Now, I am that last bug, and I must
eat myself; or, iu other words, take
the other side my own question and ar
gue against myself iu favor of patch
work quite.
Once upon a time, I lay ill many
wooks, of a fevor. It happoned that
I had a quilt called an “Album quilt, ’
the olocks of which had bi>en contrib
ted, and pieced by ditforont girls ; as
had many blocks given by the boys.
There was a small white block, in the
center of each large one, upon wlrich
was written, with indelible ink, the
name of the donor.
This quitt was on my bed; and du
ring my convalescence I spent mauy
hours in reading over the names and
recalling tho histories of tlio writers,
which would havo otherwise slipped
from my “memory-string.”
Sweet Nell Gray, fair as a lily aud
as frail, was laid away ’neath the grass
while she was scarcely more than a
child. Marsh S.—her name moans
bitter waters, and bitter indeed were
life’s waters to her—a mother but not
a wife; so the grave hid her and her
baby away from unpitying, scornful
eyes, and the tangled blackberry bush
es are her only monument.
Hannah Gould, a plodding farmer’s
wife with a troop of two headed chil
dren.
Alice Bray ton with her starry eyes
and curls of jot, entrapped by a hand
some scamp, married, forsaken, and
swallowed up in a groat city.
Charity Martin —sunny haired, sweet
tempered Charity Martin, a slattern
and a scold. I might writo a story of
each, but space forbids.
Os the boys, some went to the bad,
and became members of Congress.—
Some are happy, prosperous farmers,
and take the Western Rural; some
sailed away and were lost at sea, and
some were lost to manhood, and swept
into ths great vortex of woo, aud crime,
and all track of them lost; and one,
tho dearest and noblest of them all,
walked a little way with me in life’s
journey, then turned aside, wearily put
away tho cup from his lip, while I
went on alone.
My sister bad a patch work quilt
which I pieced, when I was a little
girl, and when I visit her we make it
a sacred duty to fetch out tho quilt,
and tell who had a dress like that
block, and who an apron like tliis.—
Your brother Jim bought this for me,
and how we laughed because it was
old enough for grandma. And this
ono with tho purple dots, was worn
for tho first time the last day of our
Summer school, and tliis, with the
winter-green berries on, I wore that
day I went chest-nutting on the hill
with Will Conrad, and a week there
after he was buried
So we gossip over tho patch work
quilt, sometimes laughing and often
weeping.
During the last war, when old
hands and young were busy for our
soldier boys, it came into the head of
some pretty creatures to piece album
quilts for the boys who were in the
| army. It was done in our town, and
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the name and address of each contrib
utor was put in the center of her
block. The quilts were carried into
the hospitals, tlm poor maimed, bleed
ing hoys wore brought there, and lairs
on the cots and were covered with
those quilts, and some vory pretty ro
mances grew out of it, one of which I
relate
Minnie Waterman’s name was on
one of the quilts, and it came to pass
that one Lieut. Holmes was woundedy
and that identical quilt covered him,
and as ho read over the names it struck
him that Minnie Was a' sweet name,
find ho wondered if she were 8. sweet
girl, and as he wondered he resolved
to write her, and ho did. He was not
the son of poor but honest parents—
like the little boy in the Sunday school
books but tho son of rich, and re
spectable ones. Tho correspondence
wont on till the close of the war, then
he came and saw Minnie, and it came
to pass she found favor in his eyes, and
ho man-led her, and carriod her off to
benighted Massachusetts, and! I’ve
hoard they lived in peace.
My story is done, and it had never
been written had there been no patch
work quilts.
The Noi-lh Carolina W;ir.
Holden’s war still rages, but it has
in a measure shifted tho object and
subject of hostilities. Holden’s Stan
dard is furious upon United States
District Judge Brooks, denounces
him as a sympathizer with the Ku Klux
murderers. Last week one of Kirk's
negro sentinels shot a United States
soldier, contrary to military law, and
much effort was n'oedo'd to prevent tho
“boys in blue,” from coming down oli
Kirk s ragamuffins. A correspondent
of tho World gives tho following as
one of several transactions illustrating
Kirk s modeofsecuringevidence against
the peolo of Allamance comity.
IV illiam Patton, whoso name has
already figured in telegraphic dis
patches, is a young man, a plain court ■
tryman, timid of disposition, and easily
imposed upon. He was arrested and
taken to the cfttrfp where a 1 fellow by the
name of Berbin, acting as lieutenant
colonel, told him ho must confess all
he knew about the Ku-Klux. He re
plies that be knew nothing of them.
The rope was then put round his nee'*,
an u tli© ond thrown ovor tho limb of n.
free, and he was told that he had but
throe minutes to live unlets he dis
closed all about the Ku-Klux. Uuder
the threat and immediate prospect of
death, he fainted. On being
tho rope was again drawn up, and he
again fainted. On being recovered
the second tinto, a pist >1 was placad
against his head, and lie was asked if
he did not belong to the Ku-Klux;
at the same time being assured that
if lie denied it ho was to die. Under
tkest threats he acknowledged ho be
longed to' the organization. Thery
under the same threats, ho was order
ed to give the names of all he knew
to be members of it, and he promis •
cuously mentioned a number of names’
of gentlemen of the county, who were
thereafter arrested.
Two Poor.
Brother Moore, of the Rural New-
Yorker, was sitting iu his office one'
afternoon, some yoars ago, when a
farmer friend came in and said:
I riend Moore, I like your paper
but times are so hard I cannot pay for
it.”
Is that so friend .Tolies ? I’m very
sorrow to heaT that you are so p tor,
and if you are roally so hard ruu I will
give you my paper.
“Oh, no, I can’t take it as a gift/
“Well, then lot s see how we can
fix it. You raise chickens, I tre
lieve.?”
“Yes, a few, but they don’t
anything hardly.”
Don t they ? Neither does my
paper cost anything hardlv Now I
have a proposition to make to you : I
will continue your paper, and when
you go home you may select from
your lot one hen and call her and briug
me the proceeds, whether in' eggs or
chickens, and we will call it spuaro.,*
“All right, brother Moore” aud tho
old fellow chuckled at what hethouhgt
a capital bargain. Ho kept tho
con tract strictly, and at tho end of
the year he found that, he had paid
about four prices for his paper.
He often tells the joke on himself,
and says he never has had tho face to
say ho was too poor to take a paper
since that day.— Farmer Planter.-
Married Mkn. —There is an’ expres
sion in the face of a good marriod
man who has a good wife that a
bachelor’s cannot have. It is indescri
ba jfe. Ho is a little nearer the angels
than the prettiest young fellow living.
You can see that his broad breast is a
pillow for somebody’s head, and that
little fingers pull his whiskers. No
ono evor mistakes the good married
man. It is only the erratic one that
leaves you in doubt. The good one
can protect all the unprotected females,
and make himself generally agreeable
to the ladies, and yet never leave a
doubt on any mind that there is a
precious little woman at home worth
all the world to him.—Sav. Advertisor.
Watering the Streets of London.
—Some experiments have been made
this summer in watering portions of
the London streets with a patented
preparation, composed of water,
common salt and chloride of calcium
dissolved. The experiment tints far
has been so satisfactory that power
has been given the sanitary committee
to arrange for the watering of the
entire district of the West minster
board of works with this patent so-t
lutionfor one year, which will thor
oughly test the value of this uew'
j. article for its designed use.