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THE DAWSON WEEKLY JOURNAL
BY WESTON & COMBS.
gatosott ©leekln Journal,
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SwftMlraal Catft.
C. B. WOOTEN,
Attorney at Law,
MACON, GA.
T't’lLL practice in the Circuit Courts es
\v South-west Ga., and in the District
and Supreme courts of the State and United
States. All business from whatever section
or of whatever character entrusted to him
will receive prompt attention. oet-b~’7l.
Lyon, DeGraffenried and Irvin.
Attorneys at Law,
IfIACOS, • - - GEORGIA.
WJ ILL give attention 'o professional bus
v V iness in the Macon, South western &
Pataula Circuits ; in the U S Courts, anSa
vannah, and .Atlanta, and by epcciil con-
any part of the State.
~"B\ JVL. HAKFEK
Jlttopy api Colippellor at Lato
n.m'so.v, ga.
DR. G. W. FARRAR
HAS located in this city, and offrrs Ins
Pro'essional services to the public -
Office next door to the “Journal Office,” on
Main Street, where he can be found in the
day, unless professionally engaged, and at
night at his residence opposite the Baptist
church 2-ts:
k. j. w a rr¥^,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
STAUKSW'ILLE, - • -
C. w WARWICK,
Att’y at Law and Solicitor in Equity
SMITHVILLE, QA.
Will practice in South Wesern and Fataula
circuits. Collections promptly remitted.
B. A. COLLIER. C. T. CIIKVES.
TOWNS HOUSE,
ItltOAll ST.,
ALBANY, GA
' BY
B. A. COLLIER & CO. .
McAFE HOUSE,
At Smithvillf, ta.
undersigned having fitted up the Me
-L Afee //ouse at Smith ville, takes pleasure
in notifying the travelling public that the
above house is now in the “lull tide”of suc
cessful administration by himself. He will
spare no expense to make it a First-Class
Hotkl. J/eals ready on the arrival of the
rain. W. M. McAFEE.
PftIVISIONS
IK Mi
We are now prepared to fell
PROVISIONS ON TIME
CRIM & TUCKER.
M ya‘2s, if-
COTTONr
CAMPBELL &. JONES
Again offer their eervicea to rianter3 and
Merchants, as
,Wareliouse & Commission
MERCHANTS.
And ask a continuance of the patronage so
liberally given them the past, season.
Close personal attention given to the Stor
fgo and Sale of Colton, and to the filling of
orders for Bagging and Ties and Plantation
Supplies.
> Refer to the patrons of the past season.
A’emember the place—
Iron Warehouse,
Poplar st., MACOKI, GA.
P • S.—Agents for the Winship Improved
Cotton Gin and John Merryman & Co.’s Am
won iated Dissolved Bones, which we now of
fer at . reduced price, septli 8m
Dawson Business irectory,
Dry Gouda IVcrcliauts,
C RIM, Ac TUCKER, Dealers in
Dry Goods Clothing, Boots and Shoes
Groceries Ac. v4!so agents for some of the
most approved Fertilizers. Main Street.
KUTN ER, EDIVARD, Dealer in
Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Groceries
Hardware, Crockery etc.
ODD* W. F. Dealer In Fancy and sta
ple Dry Goods, Main st., next door to
J. W. Reddick’s.
Grocery Merchants.
Hood, b. ie, Dealer in Groceries and
Family supplies generally, at W. F.
Orr’s old stand, under ‘Journal” Office,
Main gt.
T OV I.ESS, ,1. E. Grocer and Com
mission J/erchant, Dealer in Bacon,
Flour, Liquors, &c.
REDDICK, J. Grocer dealer in Ba
con, Flour, Lard, Tobacco, &e.
HARDWARE.
Lee & BROTHER, Dealers in
Hardware. Iron and Steel, Wagon Tim
bars, and Plantation Tools. Also Manufac
turers of Tin Ware,Main st., at J. B. Perry’s
old stand.
Baldwin, anorexv. Dealer
in Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware 6’ut
teriy, Furniture, Ist door from the Hotel.
Druggists.
CIIEATIIAR, C. A., Druggist and
Physician. Will visit by day or night,
patients in Town will prescribe for
any and all the ilia that flesh is heir to.
Keeps a complete supply of Drugs and Med
icines. School Books and stationary—Gar
den Seeds &3., &c., At his old stand. The
Red Drug Store on Main St., <TERJ/S Strict
ly Cash.
JAIMES, DR. J. R., Dealer in
Drugs, J/edicines, Oils, Paints, Dy«
Stuffs, Gar den Seed, &c., Ac.
Eivery Stable.
PRINCE, I*. G. & 3. K., Sale,
Feed and Livery Stable. Carriages,
Hacks, Buggies, Drays, Wagons, Harness
and Mules for sale or hire. lloises boarded
at reasonable rates. Depot Street.
BLtCKSMITH S6HU\
WARE, RAHDALL. Will make
V T and repair Wagons, Buggies Plows,
Dickson Sweep, Shoeing horses, near Post
Office-. Always ready to do work good and
cheap Jan. 19 ly
HARDEN & SPARKS.
SEND their annual greeting to their many
friends and patrons. 7hey arc at their
old stand, ready and willing to serve them in
the
Storage and Sale of Cotton.
They deem it unnecessary to make pledges
—for “by their fruits ye shall know them.’
Judge us by these—we ask no more. Y >ur
interest is our interest; and our long experi
ence enable- us lo guard and advance it.—
Mom we cannot promise—more you will not
expect.
The usual accommodations extended to
those who honor us wi'h their pa'ronaee.
septl-l 6m HARDEMAN & SPAKKA
latltEtEVF,
WAiIEHOUS E.
NEAR THE
UepoL
I hereby iuform my friends and the public
generally, that I will weigh and store
their cotton at SOcts per Bale for the first
and 12 1-2 ets for each month thereafter.
I will sell cotton, for my patrons,
FREE OF CHARGE*
This Ithinlc, with my long experience in
buying ar.d sell ng cotton, coupled with the
consideration that mv Warehouse is entirely
isolated from any other huilding will secute
to my patrons advantages unequnled in
Southwest Georgia. Perfect satisfaction
guaranteed. J* A. 11l AKS.
p % S. Call in and examine our stock of
Dry Goods and Groceries. We will sell o
you as cheap ts any body in town. We are
at liter's old Stand, near Depot, and near by
his Wrehouso. JOHNSON & LKh.
sepr2l lm
GEORG! A,Calliouu County:
A'oticc is hereby given to all parties
concerned to show cause before me on the
first Tuesday in November next, why betters
of Administration on the estate of Stephen
D. Jobnsoo, dec’d, should not be vested in
lie Cletk of the Superior Court of said coun
ty, or some other fit and proper person.
Given under nay hand and official signa
ture this September 30th, 1871.
J. JOHN BECK, Ordinary.
oc!s 30d
LAWTOJI * WIGLISGHAM,
BUCCeBBOrH to
LAWTOS & LAWTOiI,
fourth street,
Macon, Georgia,
WAKBHOUBK
Cotton and Commission Merchants.
Advances made on Cotton in Store when
desired. Guano Dealers. aug. **-■*
PLANTATION
Fo* B^l©*
I OFFER for sale mv place, five miles be
low Dawson, immediately on the Railroad,
Detaining 1417* acres. Well watered and
imbered. Asa Stock Aarm, unsurpassed—
Healthy .desirable everyway. To any one
wanting a homo, here is an opportunity to
eet one at half its real value, as I am deter
mined to sell, either for money or cotten to
a responsible party. Apply to W. F. ORR,
Dawson. If not sold, will be for rent.
a ‘scptl4 3m W.T. BURGE.
DAWSON. GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1871
Kathleen, The Little Clay
Bearer.
BY GEO. XLINQLE.
Kathleen, poor weary one, where are thy locks
of gold ?
Where are the silken, golden locks 1 loved to
braid of old t
Where is the glitter of thine eye, the light along
thy face—
-411 gone’ quite gone, all shorn and lost t oh who
In thee could trace
The Kathleen of Killarney’s hill, the fairest of
us all;
2Tie dearest far of all the seven beneath the vine
twined wall.
Oh, vine-twined wall, your ears have rung with
laughter in the past
With old grand songs, such dear old songs, aud
iaiuHt the leaves were cast
The whispered words when twilight came. Thy
leaves ? no crown, / think,
Bound conqueror’s brow, in ail the world, so fon
dly link on link
As crowns dark, crisp, that used to bind our he
roes then. Oh, say
Have fairies of the wild-wood power to give back
one day,
To give one small, one little day ? but if they have
oh, where
/s wild-wood of the fairies? tell me where, oli t
Tell me where.
The stain is on thee, .Kathleen; on thy tatters, on
thy face *
On thy shorn, soft hair, thy tired, thin hands
th?y pass thee in the race—
Thine eye is fuled, faded; thou art weary, yet
stay not,
The gang moves past, the eyes that watch turn
on thee, falter not.
/ would bear thy burden, Kathleen, / would bear
it could these hands
Move one grain more, or moving it relieve thee
from these bands-
Turn not thine eye upou me lest the agonies that
wake
Be too much unto this burdened heart that trem
bles for thy sake,
That would shed its lingering blood-drops or
would fear no gang or scourge
Could it give thee rest, my Loved, my Lost, stay
let the pale crowd surge,
Let the weary feet move wearily, let all move on
still on,
la these arms,if I can bear thee, thou shalt rest,
thou little one!
Clasp me tighter, weary Kathleen- -what I thy
touch is icy cold,
What thy clasp undone forever ? Give me back
the braids of go Id,
Give me back the blue eyes glitter, the fairest of
the seven
Give me back, or grant, God merciful, that alone
she lind not heaven.
A Balloon Incident.
THRILLING AND TRAGICAL SPECTACLE.
The recent shocking balloon acci
dent at Paoli, Indiana, is thus describ
ed more in detail by a correspondent
of the Cincinnatti Gazette, his letter
being dated the Ist instant;
Professor Wilbur was engaged by
the Orange County (Indiana) Pair to
make an ascension in his hot air bal
loon each day of the fair. On each as
cension but the last he had check ropes
attached to allow the balloon to go no
higher than he desired : but on Satur
day evening, September 30, the clos
ing day of the fair, he detached the
lines to allow the serial ship to take
him whithsoever it would.
Mr. Knapp, the editor of the Orange
County Union, had arranged to make
the ascent with Professor Wilbur. Af
ter inflating tho balloon to its utmost
capacity, Mr. Knapp stepped into the
car The Professor had hold of the
rope which attached tho car to the bale
loon, and gave the word to “let go.”
Prom seme cause he failed to reach
the ear in time. As the car began to
rise Professor Wilbur kept hold of
the rope and attempted to get in. He
succeeded in getting his elbow over
tho inside of the edge of the basket,
his body outside and feet dangling in
tho air, and in this perilous position
started up. When about fifteen or
twenty feet from the ground it came
in contact with one of the ropes that
held the balloon while being inflated,
and threw Mr. Knapp out, who fell to
tho ground, sustaining considerable in
jury. The balloon being lightened cf
a part of its weight, shot upward al
most with the speed of an arrow. Pro
fessor Wilbur still clung to the basket
and endeavoring to gain the car, as
cended to tho height of about one mile
as near as could be guessed, and when
at that attidude the spectators were
horror stricken to see him lose his hold
and t fall to tho earth.
It was truly a heartrending specta
cle, and one which we may hope never
to 6ee again. Men and woman shout
ing, shrieking, screaming, and falling
upon their knees, and in the anguish
of their hearts imploring Heaven to
protect them. But prayers and sym
pathy were unavailing. The professor
was seen high up in the air with face
down, arms and legs extended, his
body in a circular motion descending
at a fearful speed. He was about one
minute in falling, and struck the earth
with his head first, bursting it open.
The sound of the fall was heard by
the citizens of Paoli, a half mile
from the place. His hat, which came
off a few seconds before he started,
fell within four feet from him shortly
after he reached the ground, he hav
ing passed it about midway down.
The balloon rose to an immense
height, and taking a northwesterly
direction, landed some three miles
from the scen6 at the disaster.
His body was taken to tho Albert
House, in Paoli, and cared for by his
wife, who witnessed the terrible trage
dy.
It is stated by some persons pres
ent that Mr. Knapp gave the word to
“let go” before Professor. Wilbur gain
ed the car.
Why are young ladies so partial to
sunlight ? Because they are daugh
ters of Eve.
A Missouri newspaper claims that
the hogs of that State are so fat that
in order to find out where their heads
are it is necessary to make them squeal
and then judge by the sound.
A Talc of 10S5.
Tho year 1685, which Wodrod has
called a “black year in Skotland,” 6aw
many of the saints of God suffer for
the Master’s sake. But it was one
too, of great deliverance, and heard
glad hymns from joyful lips. It is of
one of such deliverances that my sto
ry speaks.
Early in tho spring of that year tho
Godly lien wick determined to preach in
the viemity of Blaganuach, among the
mountains, and the place chosen was
an impenetrable morass, where, if the
dragoons did appear, they would bo
helpless, from the nature of the ground,
while their prey could escape ou foot.
The text that day was, “Ho that toucli
etli you toucheth the apple of His
eye.”
While the congrogatiun, dooply in
terested, wore listening with eager at
tention tho outlooks announced that
tho dreaded foes were only a quarter
of a mile distant. All was confusion
in a moment. Tho greater number
hastened to tho morass, while one who
had changed clothes with the preach
er, in case of such interruption, took a
different direction hoping his ministe
rial dress would decoy them from the
right path. His ruse succeeded. Most of
the cavalry, determined to secure the
preacher at all eronts, followed him.
Speedily they found advance over the
springy, boggy turf impossible, and
determined that two or three of tho
most robust should go on toot. This,
too, failed ; for unaccustomed to tho
ground, and oncumborod with heavy
armor, the men flounced in the quag
mire and wore with difficulty rescued.
One in his struggles broke bis leg and
this incident endod the pursuit.
The injured soldier was carried back
to Blagannach, and there left at the
house of a Covenanter. Tradition
says that time and suffering wrought
a change on him—that from being a
reckless desperado, he became an ear
nest Christian, and preached the faith
he once labored to destroy. Thus this
accident which to him may have seem
ed a great evil was the means ot bo
stowing on him the greatest possible
blessing. Thus God is
From seeming evil still educing good.
The persecuted Covenanters escaped
unhurt, and in the deep forests which
then clothed the valley of tho Crawick,
their leaders met that same evening to
appoint a day for the same sacred ser
vice. This done, commending each
other to their Father’s care, they
sought their severai hiding places,
thanking God for the deliverance He
had vouchsafed to them. Most of the
leadors afterwards sealed their testi
mony with their blood. Let us who
know little of their sufferings, seek to
possess their faith.
Over t!ic River, nay Darling.
BY A. W. FRENCH.
1 have grown weary iny darling,
Weary of wondering here
A evt?r to meet or t o greet yon,
Never your sweet voice to hear.
Shadows around me are falling
Longer my feet ca nr.ot roam
Say ! are you waiting my darling,
Waiting to welcome me home f
Over the river my darling
In the bright mansion of gold
AVer 1 long to be sitting
Close by your side as of old.
Say ! arc the pearly gates open,
/s there a place left for me ?
Will I be welcome among you,
JFlicn from this earth I am free
Tho’ here in life wc were parted.
Nothing could chill our food love
.Dearer and brighter it groweth
As / draw near you above.
JPaiting the spirit’s last bidding,
Calmly death’s eomeing tide,
Soon / will meet you my darling,
Down by the lone riversde*
Hide Dealer's Sign.
The proprietor of a tan-yarJ, adja
cent to a certain town in Virginia, con
cluded to build a stand, or sort of sign
on one of the main streets, for the pur
pose of vending his leather, buying
raw hides, and the like. After com
pleting his building, he began to con
eider what sort of a sign it would be
best to put up for the purpose of at
tacking attention to his new estab
lishment; and for days and weeks he
was sorely puzzled on this subject.
Several devices were, ono after anoth
er, adopted, and, on further considera
tion, rejected. At last a happy idea
struck him. He bored an auger hole
through the door post, and stuck a
calf s tail into it, with tho bushy end
daunting out. After a while, ho no
ticed a grave looking personage stand
ing near the door with his spectacles,
gazing intently on tho sign. And
there he still continued to stand, dum
bly absorbed, gazing and gazing, un
til the curiosity of the hidedealer was
greatly excited in turn. He stepped
out and addressed the individual
“Good morning,” said he.
“Morning,” said tho other, without
moving his eyes from the sign.
“Bo you want to buy Leather ?” in
quired the doaler.
“No.”
“Do you want to sell hides ?”
“No.”
“Perhaps you are a farmer.”
“No.”
“A merchant, may be.”
“No.”
“Are you a doctor ?”
“No.”
“What are you, then?”
“I am a philosopher. I have been
standing here for an hour, trying to
ascertain how that calf got through
that auger hole!”
A young man who has been attend
ing county fairs rogards the vegetable
known as the prize package to be the
great American staple product this fall.
A Temperance Story.
Judge Hay, tho tomperance lecturer,
in one of his es Forts, got off tho follow
ing hit at ‘moderate drinkers
‘All those who in youth acquire the
habit of drinking whiskey, at forty
years of age will be total abstuinors
jor drunkards. No person can use
whiskey for forty years with modera
tion. If thero is a porson in the audi
, once before me whoso experience dis
putes this lot him make it kuown, I
will account for it, or acknowledge
that I am mistaken.’
A tall, largo man arose, and folding
his arms arroas hi breas 1 , avid :
‘I offer myself asono whose own ex
perience contradicts your statements.’
‘Are you a moderate drinkor ?’ ask
ed tho judgo.
‘I am.’
‘How long havo you drank in mod
eration i”
‘Forty years.’
‘And were never intoxicated ?’
‘Never.’
‘Well*’ romarkod the judge, scan
ning his subject from head to foot,
‘yours is a singular case; yet I think
it is easily accounted for. lam re
minded by it of a little story - A col
ored man, with a loaf of bread and a
bottle of whiskey sat down to dine on
the bank of a clear stream. In break
ing the bread ho dropped off the
crumbs into toe water. Those were
eagerly seized and eaten by tho fish.
That circumstance suggested to the
darkey the idea of dipping the bread
into tflo whiskey and feei’i ig it to
them. He tried it, it worked weU.|b'orae
of tho fish ate of it, became drunk,
ahd floated helpless ou the surface. In
this way ho easily caught a largo
number. But in the stream was a
largo fish, very unlike the rest. It
partook freely of the broad and whis
key, with no perceptible effect. It was
shy of every effort of the darkey to
take it. Ho rosolved to havo it at all
hazards, that he might learn his name
and nature. He procured a not, and
aftor much effort caught it, carried it
to a colored neighbor, and asked bis
opinion in the matter. Tho other sur
veyed the wonder a moment, and then
said : ‘Sambo, I understand dis case.
Dis fish is a mullet head ; it aiu’t got
any brains.’ ‘ln other words,’ added
the Judge, ‘alcohol affects only the
brains and, of courso, those having
none may drink without injury.’
The storm of laughter which follow
ed drove the ‘modorato drinker’ sud
denly from tho house.
The ‘‘Fifth Cull.”
A good story is told of a couple of
farmers who lived a sow miles apart.
One day one called on tho othor, hap
pening around at dinner. The porson
called upon, by tho way, was a vory
penurious old fellow. He was seated at
tho table enjoying his meal Tho visi
tor drew to tho stovo looking vory wist
fully at tho table, expecting tho far
mer to ask him to dine. The old far
mer kept on eating. “What’s tho
nows up y< ur way neighbor ?” (still
eating.) “No nows, eh ?”
‘No, I believe not.’ (Presently a
thought struck tho visitor.) ‘Well,
yes, friend, I did hoar of one iteqj of
nows that was worth something.’
*na‘ what is that ?’
‘Neighbor Jones has a cow that has
five calves.’
‘ls that so ? What does the fifth
calf do when then tho others are suck
ing ?’.
‘Why, ho stands and looks on, just
as I do, like a fool.’
‘Mary, put on another plate.’
A Rites
Avery important strippling, whom
favoritism had made quarter-master in
a regiment of infantry, wishing one
day to dismount from his charger for
tho purpose of wetting his whistle and
adjusting his spurs, called out in very
commanding tones to a spectator who
was standing near :
‘Here, fellow, hold this horse.’
‘Doos he kick ?’ bawled out tho per
son addressed.
‘Kick ! no. Take hold of him.’
‘Does ho bite ?’
‘Bite ! no. Take hold of the bridle,
I say ’
‘Does it tako two to hold him ?
‘No ’
‘Thou hold him yourself.’
An Irishman noticing a lady pass
down the street, espied two strings de
pending from under her mantle. Not
knowing that those were styled sashes
and were hanging in their right place
he exclaimed : “An’ faith, ma’am, yer
gallussees aro loose !”
“What does ho know ?t’ was the in
quiry of a business man, who wished
to engage a young person as au assist
ant. ,‘Well,” the party inquired of
replied hesitatingly, “he is great at
euchre.” There was no engagemeut
in that instance.
A young man says that there may
have been such a thing as real true
love in oldeu times, but that now the
notion is entirely obsoleto; and if you
ask a young lady now-a-days to share
your lot, she immediately wants to
know how large that “lot” is.— lndex.
The author of “My Summer in tho
Garden” remarks that: “Nothingl
shows ono who has friends are like
prosperity and ripe fruit. I had a
good friend in the country, whom I
almost never visited excopt in cherry
time : ‘By their fruits you shall know
them.’ ’’
Young Brother—“ What’s tho mat
ter, Mary ? Aro you unhappy because
neither of those tellows you were flirt
ing with at croquot yesterday proposed
to you ?”
Mary—“ Both did, Tom. And —I
said yes to the wrong ouo L”
The Drapers.
(Still as was the ocean,
In a calm light and pule,
A hundred ships lay on it,
Each with a windless sail*
A hundred skippers were fretting,
Each search’d the sea and tlie skies,
Each for a wind was praying,
But never a wind would rise.
The prayers rose up to /7euveu, •
7n Euglish, German, Greek,
Each of the hundred skippers,
lu his own tongue did speak.
Each of the hundred skippers,
Loath in tne calm to stay,
Wanted the wind to waken.
To blow him on his way.
Each in his own direction,
Would have his good ship blown,
vtnd a hundred winds were Wanted,
If each was to get his owu.
Each on the deck was paring,
With discouteuted mind
And when tho wind would come uot,
All though the Lord unkind,
Poor fools! Had he granted their Wishes*
Snd were the end to see,
The hundred winds would havo hurled them
2Y> the bottom of the sea.
A Frceich Tragedy.
A correspondent of tho World
writes :A j oung, beautiful and aristi -
cratic woman made her appearance in
Grenoble some months siuco with an
artillery officer. She led an extreme
ly retired life. Her neighbors though
tlioy picked out from hor conversations
that nh« was a native of Meaux, pos
sessed some f rtuno and was an or
phan. Her relations with tho artillery
olfieerwere unhallowed. A brilliant
marriage was offered him. Ho accepted
it. Tho neighbors of tho first-men
tioned woman seeing nobody coiue out
of her residence for some days, inform
ed the police. The door was broken
open.
Tho young woman was found on hor
bod. fche had pastod close all her
windows, lighted charcoal, swallowed
laudanum, and tied a ropo with a
slip knot around hor threat, the other
end fastened to tho ceiling. Heath
seemed to have refused all theso sum
mons. Sho was still alivo, though in
sonsiblo, and thero wore appearances
that sho had long been wooing death.
Sho remained insensible for four and
twenty hours after tho discovery, and
then expired. Thero was found upon
her table - a sheet of paper containing
theso words:
“A poor creature socks in death that
peace she may no longer hopo to pos
sess in this world Lot them who
discover my body tako no step to dis
cover who I have beon, or what namo
I bear. Moreover, all search would
prove vain. I have no family—l have
not even a friend in the world. No
body knows mo hero. I die without
remorse, because my sufferings hove
beon so long and many. My hopo is,
God will look with mercy upon the
crime I commit in ending life, for He
kuowoth every day of ruy lifo has
boon martydom. 1 forgive from the
bottom of my heart ho who has caused
me all my wretchedness. Ho took my
heart and he trampled it under foot
May ho never know the manner of my
death !. I’ut my body in the ground,
and let an humble wooden cross chal
lenge prayers over tho unknown one’s
grave. —Miserrimui /”
A Holy Recollection.
BY MISS E. C. S.
Mothers who from a stern sense of
duty, have punished while you wept
over your wayward children, did you
over tako thorn to tho secret chamber,
where no eye can see, savo His who
reaila tho inmost thoughts, and thero
on bended knees, ask for guidance of
Him, who said “Train up a child in
the way ho should go.” In deep hu
mility and unwavering faith, havo you
said—liord show us tho way ? Aud
havo you ever failed to reeeivo a bles
sing -oonor or later ? Many instances
aro on record, and many more are re
corded only on the heart of the once
wayward one, where the remembrance
of those spirit communings havo
proved a “savor of life unto life.”—
Forgotten for a time may be the holy
recollection, tho warning voico may be
stifled by a long courso of sin, but tba
hour will come when it will be remem
bered, and that voice will plead more
earnestly, for having been so long
neglected. It may bo tho mariner,
who has boen conspicuous for his coarso
jests, profane language, and vicious
habits; but at some timo, wltf n the
fearful storm is tearing away mast,
rigging, and hopo, a sense of utter
helplessness will come over him, and
he will seek protection from his moth
er's God. It will bo recalled by tho
votary of pleasuro, the frequentor of
the haunts of vice, he who has dead
ened by dissipation all the sweet im
pulses of his being, yet it will he re
called, perhaps like Moore’s man of sin,
by sceiug a child at prayer ; aud mem
ory will go back over the years of
crime and guilt, to tho happy past
when, puro and innocent, he bowed
at his mother’s knee.
Ah ! yours is a serious as well as
a sweet responsibility. Not only is it
j’our sweet task to mould tho mind of
jour child, and fit it for usefulness
here, but on your faithfulness partially
depends his hope of happiness in tho
world to come ; for a mother’s prayor
is the invisible chain that links the
soul to hoavon —Orpluini Uo:ne Ban
n. r.
‘That man,’ says a wag, ‘came to
this city forty years ago, purchased a
basket, and commenced gathering
rgas. How much do you reckon he ia
worth now ?’ We gave it up. ‘Noth
ing, he continued, after a pause, ‘and .
he owes for the basket.’
VOL. VI. —NO. 37.
Yesterday, To-tlny, To morrow.
To-morrow ! A peiiod of time that
is always comiug but is never here :
to-day is present, yesterday has been,
but to-morrow we have never seen.—
Wo may say wo will do this or that
to-morrow, but when tho time comes,
it is uo longer to-morrow, but to-day.
And we do not know that it will come
to any of us. Remember children,
tho proverb. “Boast not thyself of
to-morrow.” Don’t put off any*
thing that should lie done to day, till
to-morrow ; for the time that you now
call to-morrow, may not come to you.
Yceterday. It is gone from us for
ever, freighted with whatever stood or
evil wo have don >. If we have done
well it is a comfort to know that it
stands forever on the records of yes*
terday : bni if wo have done evil how
fearful to know that it also is there to
appear against us at the day of judge
ment We cannot roll baick the whoela
of timo to correct it; cannot turn back
and go over if as we can a piece of
work. Remember this childien, and
try to keep the record bright.
To-day. Is passing, so gently yotf
scarcely notice it: but it is passing,
and once past, it has past forever.—•
Moment by moment it slips away. If
you would know the value of time,
just reflect for a moment, a crumb of
it is given to us at once: we must use
that or waste it, bofore another is giv
en. Nothing else is given to ui w
sparingly. Any thing else, we muy
accumulate, but wo cannot lay up time;
it slips from us without our will or
consent. The old Romans had a god
oallod Saturn, which moans time.—
Noticing how fast time slipped away,
they set their wits to work to explain,
the causo of this, and the conclusion
thoy came to was, that Saturn de
voured all his male children as soon
as they wore born : so minutes, hours
and days disappeared soon after they
came into existence, and were never
seen any more, but others like then*
kept coining. What a numerous fam
ily old Saturn hqd, and what a cruel
father to gobble them all up ! The
wise old Romans believed this folly,
for thoy knew nothing about the Bible
God. But we know bettor : we know
{hat God givos us time, and He will
require us to account to Him for it. —
How solemn is tho thought! Tiy
children, as your beautiful 60ng s«y*
to,
‘Give to each flying minute,
tfoim lhiiiy to keep in store.*
that you may not be ashamed or afraid
to meet at the bar of God.
“loiactlne”
It is the sweet, sweet song, warbled
to and fro among the topmost boughs
of the heart, and filling the whole air
with such joy and gladness as the
song of tho birds do when the summer
morning comes out of darkness, and
day is born on tho mountains. We
have all our possessions in the - future
which we call “sometime.”
Beautiful flowers and singing birds
are there, only our hands seldom grasp
the one, or our ears hear tho other.—
But oh reader, be of good cheer, for'
all the good there is in a goldon “some
tirno when the hills aud valleys are
all passed ; wlieu the wear and fever,
the disappointments and sorrows of
life aro over, then thero is a place and
the rest of God.
Oh, homestead, over whose roof
falls no shadow or oven ’clouds; and
over whoso threshold the voice of sor
row is never heard ; built upon eter
nal hills and standing with thy spiroa l
and pinnacles of celestial beauty ons
high, those who love God, shall rest
under thy shadows, where there is no>
more sorrow nor pain, nor the sound
of weeping—“sometime.” — Trentice.
Immortality —How beautiful the?
folio vying gem from the pen of tho late
Goo, D. l’reutice, and how happy the
heart that can these beauties as he
portrays them:
“Why is it that the rainbow and the’
cloud come over us with a beauty that
is not of earth, and then pass away,
and leave us to muse on their fwied
lovolinoss ? Why is it that the stars'
which hold their nightly festival around
the midnight throne are placed above
reach of our limited faculties, foreveY
mocking us with their unapproachable
glory '( And why is it that bright
forms of human beauty are presented
to cur viiw, aud then taken from us,
leaving the thousand streams of affec
tion to flow back in Alpine torrents
upon our hearts ? We are born to a
higher destiny than that of earth. —
Thero is a realm where the rainbow
never fades—where tho stars will be
set out bofore us like islands that slum
ber on the ocean, and where the beau
tiful being passes before us like a me
teor will stay in our presence forever.”
A negro witness, on a horse trial iri
a New Jersey court, was aked to ex
plain tho difference between a box stall
and a common stall. Straightening
himself up, he pointed to the square
enclosure in which the Judge waa
seated, and said:
‘Hat are’s what I call a box stall,
dere where and it old hoss is sittin !’
It took a good many raps of the
Judge’s gavel to restore order in that
court.
Gon. Albort I’iko, of Arkansas, the
distinguished Mason, recently vLited
Newburyport, Massachusetts, the place
of his birth A little supper, to he
given him by his friends at one of the
hotels, was spoiled by the landlord
saying that there v, as not enough
money in tho city to buy a supper o f
him for a Rebel General. Anoth* t
Republican was found, however, who
was not so ardont, aud in his house
the supper took place as proposed.—*
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