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About The Dawson weekly journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1868-1878 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1870)
THE DAWSON WEEKLY JOURNAL sy s. B. WESTON. OMJSOH Ottleekla Jfoutiul, ; n-BUBHW> KYKRY THURSDAY. Jf n.ltS-SlrUtly tn advance. three month* Si* months . $ 00 n«e R TISIMQ RATES : No. ftc’M ON K MONTH. | | TWO MONTHS .i THRXE m’tHS SIX MONTHS. ONE TEAR. -Jp 00 * 5 01) I7 00 *l2 50 S2O 00 ,oo 760 10 00 18 00 25 00 7 00 10 00 12 00 20 00 30 00 ''•J 9 00 1-2 00 16 00 95 00 40 00 10 00 ]g 00 25 00 40 00 «0 00 J7' 15 00 .5 00 35 00 60 00 1 10 00 25 00 40 00 «0 00 110 00’200 00 .--The money for ad considered due after first inser “ Alrertisements inserted at intervals to be charzed «s new each insertion. An additional charge of 10 per cent will l*„u,le on advertisement* ordered to be in -rt, «i on a particular page. Ailrertisamente under the head of spe oi,l Notices" will be inserted for 15 cents „ f |i n p for the first insertion, and 10 cents Set line'for each subsequent insertion. Advertisements in the “ Local Column, •ill be inserted at 20 cents per line for the first, and 15 cent- per line for each subse quent insertion. . AH communications or letters on bustness intended for this office should be addressed to •*Tut Dawson Journal” RAIL -ROAD GUIDE. 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 - Arrive*: EufnU 1:< m» am. |,e«re Eu’aula 7:18 P. M. Arr ve aJficon y:, ° A . M - Curares s’ -8 ntthvHle wiili Al auv triin on Jbnd.iy, Tuesday, Thursday "ltd Friday nights. No train leaves on Saturday nights. C<)LrMB ,f S passknokr trains. Leave MicO'i :‘25 A M. Arrive it #?ol»: m bus. I:'A‘A 1* m. Lfave Colunibns 1 *2:2. r . p m Arrive at M 'Con.... P. m COLUMBUS NIGHT PASSANGKR TRAIN Leave MH'*nn . 7:4" r. M. Arrive a» Columbus a. m Leave Columbus p m Arrive at aI/jcou 4:43 a. m. Uncoil an<l Brmifwick P«impu ger Trains* GEO. W UAZELBUKST, President. L-ave Ma'on 9:15 a. m Arriveßrunswick lo:*20 p .m. ! Lt'avp Brunswick -.4:30 a* m. JrriveatM con 7:50 p. m. TRAINS TO HAWKINriVILLK L’lve-Micon 3:00 P. M. Arrive at. Hawkinsvilie 6:30 p M Lpiv« H twkinsville 7:oO a m- Arrive at Mriuott 6:15 a. m. Thia traiu tuns daily, Sundays excepted. Western A Atlantic Railroad. FOSTER BLODGETT, Sup’t. NIOIIT rABStSN6F.R TRAIN LfitVe Atlanta 7 00 P M Arrive at Chattanooga H.3t> A M Uave Chattanooga 7 50 P. M Arrive at Atlanta -..4 14 A. M day passenger train. Leave Atlanta .8.15 A. M Arrive at Chattanooga .4.20 P. M Leave Chattanooga 7.1 o A. M Arrive at Atlanta 8.17 P. M Dalton accomkndation. We Atlanta 8.10 P M Arrive at Dalton 11 85 P. M L*«ve Dalton 2.00 A. M Aruve at A'Un*. 1 I <IO A M (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 VOL V. —NO. 28. 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.
