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THE DAWSON WEEKLY JOURNAL BY J. D. HOYL & CO. pvsoit Mlceliln Journal PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. TERMS— Strictly in advance. Three months $ 75 Six months 1 25 One year 2 00 TO Advertisers .'—The money for ad rertising considered due after first inser ""Advcriiseaents inserted at intervals to be charged as new each insertion. An additional charge of XO per cent will be made on advertisements ordered to bo in .erted on a particular page. Advertisements under the head of “Spe cial Notices” will be inserted for 15 cents per line, for the first insertion, and 10 cents per line for each subsequent insertion. Advertisements in the “ Local Column,” willbe inserted at ‘25 cents per line for the first, and 20cent-per line for each subse quent insertion. All communications or letters on business Btended for this office should be addressed a“The Dawson Journal” LEGAL ADVERTISING RATES. Sheriff sales, per levy of 1 square $4 00 Mortgage sales, per levy 8 00 Tax sales, per levy 4 00 Citatiens for Letters of Administration 400 Application for Letters of guardia* ship ® 00 Application for Dismission from ministration 10 00 Application for Dismissiom from Guardianship 6 00 Application for leave to sell Laud— )ne sq |5, each additional square.... 4 00 Application for Homestead. 8 00 Notice to debtors and creditors ... 500 Lind sales, per square (inch) 4 00 Sale of Perishable property, per sq 8 00 ■stray Notices, sixty days 8 00 Notice to perfect service 8 00 Rule Nisi, per square 4 00 Rules to establish lost papers, per sq 400 Rule? compelling titles, per square.. 400 Kales to perfect service in Divorce cases 1 o 00 The above are the minimum rates of legal advertising now charged by the Press of Georgia, and which we shall strictly adhere to in the future. We hereby give final no* lice that no advertisement of this class wil be published in the Journal without the fee isyatd in advance, only in cases where we bare special arrangements to the contrary N. B. Barnes, 02 REPAIRER OF HATCHES, CLOCKS, ini Jewelry. Office on Main street Dawson, 6a. Satisfacticu guaranted. Charges ,ea 9 omble. sep 6,6 m. J.n. OCFKRT, JAS, 0 PARKS GUERRY & PARKS, /llfey? apj Calijigeloj? al Law, DAWSON, - GEORGIA. :o: PRACTICE in the State and Federal Courts. Collections made a specialty.— and dispatch guarantied and insured. Nov ltf R. F. SIMMONS, >if| al Lain J Ileal Jlg’t, Dawson, Terrell County, Ga CPE IAL a tendon given to collections, U conveyancing and investigating titles to Real Estate. Oct. 18, if 7 AMES I CEEL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, MORGAN, Calhoun Cos., Georgia. I3U3INE4S intrusted to mv c,re will be -*-* promptly attended to. /Special attention W!l1 given to collections. C. B. WOOTilil, Attorney at L a w, Htß.i.vr, _ tiF.onuiit I\\ P r *Uce in the State Courts and in L . Ciroi*it and District Courts of the Baited State* in Savannah gept‘27. I r. J. BECK, rll or n e y at Law, ■ \\ tt h Sa,, t ttnllionn i'oimtv.fia. I t'practice in the Alhay Circuiiandelse ■• <\re in the State, by Contract. Prompt at' ■ n 'n given tc ail business entrusted 'o hi? : Collections a specialty. Will also in ■ ''Otetitles and buy or sell real Estate in VA”’ aud i?arly Counties. ■ march 21—Lf I- Q CART LEDGE, I Attorney atLaw ■°uga\, _ . geosiba. give close attention to all busi- I ( _ ness entrusted to his care in Albany | __ 4-1 v IL- O. HOYL, ■Attorney at 7__a\v. Georgia. D - H. MILLER, at law, Morgan, Ga. J O^cem Ordinary’s Office. 080,3 m ■J. i^janes," l T TOr?NEY AT LAW, J Urr SOV, - OEOIiGIA. J 'V. J*hnston's store. Jan 7 i 1;!)I c alTcar i > W'J m - aTgladden, MfORGAX, ■ GEORGIA, v- V/nonr,!. ? ls „ professional services to the . of Calhoun. All calls promptly ,0 ‘ Cffice East side of the public Sept 20, Advertisement' Terrell Sheriff Sales. - Wi L o b ® 80 , M belore ,he Court-house first Tnesd’ of Dawson, on the fi st Tuesday in January next, between the Xny!" *""•* T‘ ber Two and conn, 206 1 a he 4th dif,trict of Terrell ~ v ' Kevted on as the property *of bom'‘u A ' fo 1 /, 0 Sl,i9ry a Justice court fi fa from the 1284th district. G. M., of Pulton county , n favor of T. M-Clatk & Cos., vs Marcus A Bell. Nov. 29, 1877. S. R CHRISTIE, Sheriff DISSOLUTION. Trn ] , nn ' 0F KIMBROUGH & PAS *■ 1 *IAL i, this dav dissolved bv mutual consent, All those indebted to the above hi m will please settle at once Dec. 1, 77. KIMBROUGH & PASCHAL. T WOULD respectfully sav to th? public x that I will continue business at the same p ace, and would be glad to see all of our old customers and twice as many new ne Dec 6,1 m W. C. PaSCHaL UJ I? 'PL! should send 25 cts. T 1 Cj to n. M. Glider of York, Pa , for a s.tuple copy of his beauti* ful Photograph Memorial Record. This is anew invention and will find many anxious purchasers in every neighborhood. Write for terras to agents of the grand picture entitled “The . Illustrated Lord’s Prayer. H. M. CRIDER, Pub., York, Pd. Piano and Organ Playing Learned in a Da/ ! MASON’S CIIARPS, wh’ch recently ce ated such a sensation in Boston and elsewhere, w ill enabl , any person, of my age, to Ma ter the Piano or Organ ,n a day, , ver though they have no know.edge of n ,tes etc. The Boston Globe says : “You can learn to play on the piano or organ i a day, even >t' you never played before and have no* the slightest knowledge ot notes, by the usj n! Mason's Charts. A child ten years old ca ) le irn easily. They are endorsed by the be3t musical people in Bos'on, and are the grand culmination of the inventive genius of the nineteenth cen turv. Circulars giving full particulars and many testimonials will be sent tree on a pli cation. Oue set of Mason’s Charts, and a raie book of great va.ue, entitled “Singing Made Easy,” both mailed, post paid, to any address for only $2. Worth more than SIOO spent on music lessons. ’ Address A. C. MORTON, Gene-al .Agent, At anta, Ga. Agents wanted at once everywhere. Best chance eve r i llVi ed. Secure territory before too lute Terms free. dec 6,tf TIiTT'S PILLS A Noted Divine says They are worth their weight in gold, READ VYh'AT HE SAYS: Pu. Tutt: —Dear Sir: For ten years T have been a martyr to Dyspepsia, Constipation, and Piles. Last spring your palls were reoonii vende.l to nxe ; I used them (Gut with little tuith). lam now a well man, have"'; ;1 app-thc, di ,r e* non per cct, regnlar stools, piles gone, ami I have gained forty pounds solid fiesh. They are worth their w< ijrlit in "dd. Rev. 1L L. SlMrt-ON, I-ouisville, Ky. wnwvnA m,t * n ** Dr. Tutt has been en k S Pj? i* .V g; •.red in the practice of “ - y 3 ■ * "**■“' J medicine thirty years, and CURS PICK BEAD- for a long-time was demon. ACIJ2. strator of anatomy in the Medical Ollege of Geor- TfjYYJC Pfl I 0 eia, hence persons using U 8 i v tlktav his Pills have the guaran- CURE DYSPEPSIA. tee that t hey are prepared fc ‘ or stientihe principles, and are free from all U I FILLS qu.ickcry. He has succeeded in CURD CONSTIFATIOIT com lining in them the M.wMr-.n liercdolore antagonistic TiiTTJQ i Q qualifies of 9. strengthen- BU 3 i O ! rialLv mo - .fu>/rative,anJafur- CURE TILES. ' tO V :c - , 1 heir first apparent ef pi-n a feet is to increase the ap fibl PiLl v) ; petde 1-y causing the. food to properly assimilate. CURD FEVER AND Tims the system is noun AGUE. ished, and hy tlu ir tonic ."T“.T ,„• ~ 1 action on the digestive or- TUT i ‘is P.| B 2 1 r 'i4.“uul:irui.,thcultliv avaiO ■ UL- w , g-vao'Hions are produced. CURE BIIIOTJ3 COLIC ] The raphiitv with which J fir non* iokr on flesh, n “ t O i .VMle umter theinfiuence Ey i\ O I IJ, Lis 3 oi >hv '■ l ,ills > o 1 itself it -„ J du'iiicu fti. iratUiptabiluy CUKE KIEIfEi. COJ,- L,, hmly, and f r-- ■- -' f licnee tlieircfiicaey nl ctrr- TO VST’A i-tl ft 3 if.g m-rvotts debility,mvl- HIT fitiS CURE TORPID LIVER | pi ],m-ss of tile liver. nwmiiivr | chronic constipation* ard tTO.Sa B? *SB®SS.‘l Gray II i r tan be changed to a U gs black by :i rftiglc I.vlication of | H Tutt'sH i'l>vc. Ua alike magic. H R and is warranted as harmltse as jttr. ■ What is Beught? Read Answer ' NATURE’S OWN REMEDY, Fnterinsr at once into the Wood, expelling all scrof nlm.s "vbhilitic, and rm u.nauc aiitctiona. Alone, it it a’se'ari lima alt- rative. Imt when combined with Sarsipirnia, Allow Dock, and other kerbs,,lorms Dr. Tutt’s Sarsaparilla and Queen’s Delight, discharges trom the ears and nostn , e ftect*nf diseases, dropsy, kidney conipliunt, evil ei!ecu* secret practices, disordered ,l "-' r P j lir com . strengthens the nervous syslem imparts a lair com plosion, and builds up the body with t HEALTHY, SOLID FLESH. As an antidote to syphilitic l*>ison,h* e w£ww2e recommended. Hundreds ol cases 1 hare been radically cured hv it. Bmng purely g etable itscontinuea use will do no harm. Fhe best time to take it is during the summer and faU , and instead of debility, headache, fever and ague,you will enjoy robust health % \>w^?ork. Price, si.oo. Office, 35 Murray Street, New York. 1 o Cuns in P tives? * The advertisers, having been pe rm ane n 1 1 y cured of that dread disease. ConauoipM by a simple remedy, is anXKt). to known totals fellow auflerers the •* core. To all who desire it. L*"’ free o< ronv of the prescription used, ( ree . u charge), wiih the directions for W*V"'° n and using the same, which they w*\ find a cure for Consumption, -Asthin , ’wishing the perseription will please address, Rev. F. A 189 Penn St., W illiameourg, New Aor DAWSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27 1877. IIE WANTED HIE DOCTOR. One night last week a jolly old Ger min farmer rode to Chestnut Hill from Whitoraarsh after a physician for hii wife, who was very sick,— He dismounted from his hoTse in front of a saloon just as the boys inside had begun to moke merry over tho first keg of beer. He approached ard locked cautiously around the screen. The foaming glasses were held high above the heads of me re ve.ers, as one of the number pro nounced a toast appropriate to the oc casion. The silent watcher licked his lips and wished his errand had been one no' requiring so much dispatch. He was turning reluctantly away, when the crowd saw him. “Hallo!” they shouted, “there’s Fri'z. Bring him in!” H was laid hold upon and hauled up to the bar, all the while protest ia *' % “Toys, I was in quick hurry. Ole voornan sick liko de tuyval. I vos comemit der toctor,sooner as lightnin’!’ “Well, you can tako some beer while you’re here, and kill two brids with one stone,” was the reply. “Yaas, I kill vou chicken mit a cou ple of stones, und der ole vooman die mitout der toctor. 1 ton’t forget mvself of it, eh?” “Oh, she won’t die. You don’t get beer often, and you’ve got the ole woman al! tho time. Fill ’em up again.” “Yaas, I got her all der tim-, hot oAposen’ she go dado, I don’t got her any more somedimes. It’s better to go milder toct'r, seldom right away.” But he did’t go As one glass after another was forced upon him by the reckless crowd, the object of his errand was floated further and further from bis vision, until it was car ried out of his mind altogether and his voice, un'ingod with anxiety, join ed in the drinking songs, and arose above all others Thus he was found by bis son, lato that night. The boy grasped him by the sleeve, and said: “Fader, come home.” Fritz turned, and at the sight of his boy a great fear arose in his mind, swept away the fumes of the beer and brought him to a scuseof the situation. In an awf-s’ruck tone he asked : “Yawcup, how you vas come bore; vas somedings d8 matter?” ‘■Yaw,” replied the boy. “Veil, spoke up about it. Vas der ole voomn —was your mu filer—is she dade? I can shtand dom best. Don't keep your fader in expense, poy. Shuid it out. Vas ve a couple of op ftanses, Yawcup?” ‘ Nein,” answered the boy, “you vas at uder. A ieedle baby coom mit ter house.” Fritz was overcome for a moment, but finally stammered out; “Vos dot *o! I e-pose it vas not so soon a’ready. Veil —veil, in der mid dle of life, we don’t know vath’s to turn next up. Men exposes. Fill up der glasses ” The boy ventured to ask the old man why, bo had not seen the doctor. “Vv did she want a to"tci ? Patter she told me so. I got him poo’y quick. Nnvare mind, I safe more as ten dol lar tocter hill on dat baby Dot vos a good child, Fill up der glasses. \ v hoo ray for dat little buck baby ! V von’t go home till yesterday.” Fritiz got home at last, and was in Chestnut Hill again a'ter a couple of lavs after some medicine. The t oys crulueß’t get him back •gain, though he said to them: “Yeu hate I ten to my peesness notv.” I have heard it stated that Senator Cook'ing’s purpose was to provoke a challenge fiom Senator Gordon with a view ofplar ir.g himself under the aegis of the law, and holding up Gordon before the coun'y as a blood-thirsty Southron of the old reqime, hoping thereby to arouse in the North that soit of sym pathy which did su-h wonders for Sum mer. In short, that Ccnkling has de liberate y planned to present himse f as a victim ol Southern outrage. It is needless to say that these suggest ions emanate lrom persons of Mass* - chusetts birth or education, or both Conk ingisnotthatsortof mau. Wnat ever he may he, he certainly is not cue of thos*' MolW-coddles whoina moment of peril, are ready to take advantage ef any cover, from a New England statute to a woman’s petticoat.— Cor respondent of the Washington Capitol. Cancels prefer to eat women of about sixteen to twenty-four years ot age, end invatiably roast that delicacy, hut people over fifty are generally boiled. —Du ChaiUu. DID HE TET-L A LIE. A good story is told of a ship own er of Liverpool, which will hear re l peating. Our merchant was a Quak er and prided himself on his honesty, lie would not hive told a downright falsehood tosave the value ol his best sli p. Jacob Penn was his name. Once upon a time Friend Jacob suf fered one of his ships to set sail from Calcutta for homo without any insur ance upon eilhei vessel or cargo. At length he became uneasy. He was confident his ship had encountered bad veither,and lie feared her safety. In this strait he went'to hi- friend Isa- | sc. He called him Ftiend; though I am under the impression that Isaac was of tho children of Israel. “Fr-.end Isaac,” he said, “I would like for the to insure my ship which is at sea, I should have done it before, but have carelessly neglected it. If the canst have the policy signed, all ready for delivery, at three o’clock on the afternoon of the, morrow, I will send and get it, and send the money in full.” Isaac did not seem to be anxious to insure the ship, but upon being a- Bured that no unfavorable intelligenc es hail been heard from her, he said he would have the policy made, out, to take effect on and after!lire-o'clock of the following day, but to cover the ship and cargo from the day of bet leaviug India. Early the following dly Jacob re ceived a messnge by the hand of a Captain just arrived, to the effect that bis ship was stranded and her cargo iosh This was veiy unfortunate.— Should Ftiend Isaac happen to hear the news before lhe policy was made out, he would not make it at all; or, if it was made and not signed, he would notB!gn!•; Whatshould he da? He want ed to ant honestly. It would not be rigtit to let Isaac go on and make a policy under such circumstances. — Finally he hit upon a p'an. Ho sum moned his coufi iential clerk, and sent him with his it ossnge: “Tell Friend Isaac,” hesaid,“that I have hsatd from my ship, and if the policy is not signed, ho need not sign it at all ” The cicck was close upon the stioko of throe when the clerk arrived. Friend Jacob’s message was deliver ed. The ship had been heard from, and if the pole? was not yet signed he need not sign it, “I thiuk I am iu season to save it,” the clei k said. “No, sir,’ answered Isaac, prompt ly ar.d emphatically. Now, in t'U’h. the poll yof insurance had not been signed, for the insurer had been iu doubt; hut when he heard the mess age he judged at om e that the ship was safe, aud that Jacob sought to save the heavy item of the premium hb had agreed to pay “No, sir,” ho said; “you are not in time. It is past three o’clock. The, policy is signed. I will go and get it.” na slipped out and hastily finished and signed the policy, and, having dried the ink, he brought itto theclerk demanding in return the sms which had been agreed upon. The money was paid, and the policy was taken home to Friend Jacob, who received it very gladly. The end we c n readily imagin ; and it is not difficult to judgs which of the two felt more sore over the ma.ter. A lady reader writes the New York Herald, lor a recipe to remove heck les. A ladyin Rome who has tried the remedy recommended the fallow ing; Bathe the face lightly with co ogno water after tea, and at about ten p. m. brush ho'.h cheeks the fore head and chin with acarefully selected muctache. If this does nol remove the freckles it will, under ordinary circunts'ances cause them to be for gotten. A Tree Groani-g Like a Human Ueiko. —Quite a sensation has been created in Amitychtirch neighbnrh' Clark county, Ala. byapine tree which groans like a human being in dis'ress dying. A number of persons of both colors visited the place Sunday to hear the doleful sound- With the colored people the interest in the mysterious sound enhanced by the fact that the tree stands hard by a large graveyard, and near the place where a man cf their c olor was killed by lighiuing ayear or two ago.— Clark County Zemocal, WHY TIIE OLD TRAPPER. JOHN ,NO R 7 ON, DO EX IP T SMOKE. I filled a pipe with a choice brand of tobacco and proffered it to him. “Thank you, Henry,” said he, “if it he all Ihe same to yon, I won’t take it. I know it’s a comfort to ye, and lam glad to see yon enjoy it. But I have never used the wend; not for the reason that I had a conscience in the matter, but because the Lord gave n e a nose like a hound’s and better too, I dare say. for I dpubt if a hound knows the sweetness of things, or can take pleasure ftom the s out that goes into his nostrils, But he has been more merciful to man, and gave him the p< wer to know good ami evil in the air, aud sntellia’ has always been i ono of my gifts, and I could not make you understand, I dare say, the pleas ure I have had in tho light oxetcise of it. For you know that natur’ is no more bright to tho eye than it is sweet to the nose, and l have never found a root, or shrub or leafthat had not its own scent. Even the dry moss on tho rocks, dead ami juiceless as it seems, has a smell to it. And as for the ’arth, I love to put tny nose into the fresh sile, as a city loves the n. zzie of her smeltin’ oottle. Many and many a timo when alone hero in the woods, I have taken my boat, and gono tip into tho inlet, when thu wild roses were in bloom, or down into some hay where ’.he white lily cups was all open, and sot in my boat ami smelt ’em by the hour, and wondered if heaven smelt so, Yos, I have cer tainly Leon gifted in tny nose, for 1 always It no wed I smelt things—the men and women I was guiding did not — an l f >und things in tho air they never susppioioned of! And I have feared that smokin’ might, t'ke away my gift; and that if I got the stiong smell of tobacco in my nose. I should never scout any other smoli iheJ was lesser and finer than it. Bo lam sorter o’ naturally afeard of the weed. But wh-t is medicine for one man, may be pison for ano her, as I 1 aVo noted in ani mals that the bail; that fattens the beaver kills the rat. And so you must tjot take offense at tvhat I have said, but sinnke as much as you want to, and I’ll scent the edges of the smell as it comes over niy side of the fire,— Ami so we’ll soit o’jine works, as they say in the settlements; you do the smokin’ tnd I’ll do tho smelin’ and think I’v got the lightest end of tho stick at that.” And the old man laughed in every line of his time-wrin. k'ed face. —From one of Murray’* Adi rondack Stories. A HORRIBLE AFFAIR IN INDIANA. Cincinnati, Decambor 14. —An ao_ count of a most atrocious fratricide, at the instigation of the mother of the murderer and the wile of the mur dered man, reaches us from Indiana. The murder ocouried at Lawrenceville, Dearborn county, lu ffana. The vic tim was a lumberman named Joseph Kungler. He had trouVe with his wile, and had sued foi a divorce, but was yet living in the same house with lo r. On the night of tho murder he went down town, and in his absence his wife persuaded rh.-ir son', thirteen years r.f age, to kill his father on his rt-’urn. He proposed to do eo, and, hilling a shotgun, lay in wait for his father. When ho came the hoy shot him through the hack f the head.— Hi' fell motally wounded and for help. The mother then took the gun and laid it by his side, he teing still alive and cading lor t help. The mother and son then retired, hut could not sleep, snd finally arose, and, cooking supper, ate it. and thus spent the night, all the time hearing the moans and pleadings of the wound' and and dying may. Iu the morning a neighbor came an 1 found Kungter still alivo and lying in a pool of blood, Inti unable to speak The wife was meantime at work, paying no atten tion to him. Cstie said he had Com mitted the act himself. After he diel the Coroner made an examination, found tl is could not be true, and began an investigation. The boy, be*ng ac cused, finally confessed the whole etlair, atid said his mother had heen urging him to shoot his father for a . year. Both parties are under arrest. ' The excitement in the town and sur rounding country is intense. My Araheiler, So ripe and meller, And goodness! Can’t sho love a a feller! Her eyes ere black And j ink her smeller, And, gvodness! Can’t she hug a feller 1 . Her checks are red! Her hair is yeller And goodness! Can’t she kiss a teller.' TiIKIIOMEXTRA D A S’ A FFKCTED BY THE NEW CONSTITUTION. In a communication to the Atlanta Constitution non. \V. 0. Toggle, of Troup county, a prominent,member of the late Constitutional Convention, Says; Tho new constitution settles tho dif ficulties suggested about the home stead. As to all debts existing at the timo of its adoption tho homestead of I IBGS can be taken at any timo. “Fection 111, Artic’e IX. Home- s'ead and exemptions of peisonal propetfy, which have been heretofore set apart by virtue of the provisions of the existing cunsti’ution of this State, and in accordance with the laws for the enforcement thereof, or which may be hereafter so set apart, at any time, shall be and remain valid as against nil debts and liabi’fiies exis’- ing at the time of tho adoption of this constituticn, to (he same extent that they would have boon had said exist ing constitution not been revised.” As to debts created after the adop tion of the new constitution, the old homestead before 18G8, called tho “pony homestead,” contained in the Code in paragraphs 2 )40 to 2049 in clusive, and the acts amendatory thereof, can ho taken, cr the now homestead of 1877. The homcs’oad of 1877 takes the place of the home stead nf 18G8 in the constitution, but the enactments for he enforcement of tho constitutional provisions, except such parts ns are inconsistent with the new constitution, temaiii of force until modified or repealed bv the General Assembly. Art! XII., Par. 111. THE FIRST BANJO. WHY TIIE POSSUM ms NO II.VIIL ON HIS ’tail. Go’way, fiddle!—folks i tired o’ liearin’ you a-squawkin’. Keep silence fur yo’ betters—don’t you lie,ill de banjo talkin’? About de ’possum’s tail she’s gwine to lector —ladies, listen— About de ha’r what isn’t dar, an’ why de ha’r is uiissiu’. “Dar’s gwino to be a oboiflow,” said Noah, lookin’ solemn For Noah tuk tho Herald, an’ ho reud do ribber column An’ so he sot his hands t<> work n cl’aiin’ timber patches An’ ’lowed lie’s gwine to tiild a boat to beat do steamah “Natchez.” 0” Noali kep’ a-nailin’, an a-chippiu’, an’ n-snwin; An’ ol! de wicked neighbors kep’ a lnughin’ an’ a pshawin': But Noah didn’t min’ ’em—knowin’ whip. Win gwine to happen; An’ forty days an' forty nights de raiu it kep’ a-drappin’. Now, Noah had done ootched a lotob ebry sort o’ It ns’es Ob all do shows a-trabbellin, it beat ’em all to pieces! He had a Morgan colt, an’ sebrul li6ad o’ Jersey cattle An’ druv ’em ’board de Ark as soon’s fie homed de tblinder rattle. *Den soch annder fail obrain!—it come so awful hobby, De ribber liz imrtiejitly, an busted troo de Jelihne; Do ppople all wuzdrownded out—cep Noah an’ do critters, Aii’ men he’d hired to work de boat— en’ one to mix de ‘jitters. Da Ark she liep’ a-asilin’, an’ a-jailin’, art a-sailin’; Do lion got his dander up, an’ like to lin k de pallin’ De sarpints biased— de painters yel’ed toll what wid a-l de fin-sin’. You e’n,dn’t hnrdiy henh de mate a hossin’ rouu an’ cussiu. *w, Ham, de only n'ggnr what wuz runnin’ on de packet, Got lonesome in de barber simp, an’ c’Ujdn’t stan de rnckef; An’ so, for to amu." he-se’f, he steam ed some wood an’ bent it, An’ soon ho had a banjo made —de fust dat wuz^iavented. lie wet de ladder, strstjhed it on; made bridge, no’ screws an' apron; An’ fitted in a prop >r neck—’twuz leiry loh’an’ tap’rin’; He tuk some tin, an’ twisted him a thirn! ie for to ring it; An doft de mighty question riz; how wuz he gwiue to string it? Da ’possum had as fine a tail a3 dis dat l’s a-singin’; De ha’rs so long, an’ thick, an’ strong —des fit for hanjo-stringin’; Dut nigger shaved ’em oil as short as wash day dinner g aces; An' sorted oh ’em by de t,irse, from lif t e E’s to basses. Ho 6ttung her, tuned her, struck a jig iwz ‘‘Nehber min’ de we.idar” She siun’ like foriy-leben band a hlayin’ all to-geddei; Some went to patin’; some to daucin; Noah called do figgers— Au’ Ham he sot an’ !:ti"ck"d do tune, de happiest ob niggers! Now, senco dat time—it mighty strange—ddfe’a holds slight’s sho win' 0% any Ua’r open de 'possum’s tail a groWiafi An' con * *rdat nigger’s ways; bln peeßje nebber toe' ’em— Fur wtMf fvtrdnds de nigger—dat’a de banjo au' de 'poestnt. VOL. XII. —NO 46. AN OLD TIME DA NOE IN COL HA DO. The fits? settlers of Boulder came here in 1858. In 1859 quite a num ber came, and some sixty log-houses were erected before 1800 stepped in. Of these loghnuses but a few romain. Christmas, 1850, saw a jovial crowd ot dancois in one of these house', win dowles", we be ieve, at that tim r .‘ The hardy pioneers when after fun bad it. On tho night in question about two hundred sons of toil and seekers of gold and thsir fort anas and seventeen ladies had assembled at the above-named place to partake of a frontier terpsichoroan. Marinus Q. Smith was then one of the beaus ot the town, and his dress suit consisted of pants made out of seam’ess sacks and colored blue by the aid of log wood. A Icdy now living in town had an e!eg mt dross ma le out of flour sacks, also colored hy the ail of log wood. There were few white shirts in the neighborhood then, most of the pioneers woari/ig woolen or flannel ones. A man with a wlu'e shirt ou was in style. Hud caul l dance with his coat off; a man wi bout any would wear a c< at buttoned up to the neck. Coats for dancing purposes did net seem to be any too numerous, conse quently the pioneers helped oaoh other out. For instance Alf. Nicholas had six white shirts, which were all at the ball, and the coats of those white-shir ted lellows went to cover the backs of someone else. When one fellow had a dance he weald loan his coat to an other, and then his turn would come, and so the white shirts tmd long coats were .all night, and went around among the two hundred melt. There w6re no va'l flowers among the aeventeeu ladles. But they say the supper for the occasion was a grand affair. Wash boilers full of coffee, groat hunks of black-tailed deer, jack rabbits, ILh, game and delicacies brought from the states in cans, all went to make tip a glorious supper— ot e that the partakets would like to see repeated. There may not have been much style, but the seamless sacks and llmr bags saw as much pure onj'iyrhent as does the finest and gaudiest attire of Ui-iiy.~Bou'(hr ( Col. l Mirror. A 1)00, A MAX AXD A MOLE. A North Carolina wagoner gold his dog to a Laurens county man tha oilier day for half a barrel of sot" ghum syrup. The dog, however, re fused to he sold, and took refuge un der tha wagon. The Laurens comity man crawled after him, with a piece of meat in one hand and a rope in the other. Although there were severnl spectators of tho scene that ensued, it is diffi tiilt to got at Hie facts All sgiee that there was a scuffi * under the wagon, accompanied by yelps and yells; hut no one is willing to affirm t.iat tho man had the dog.— Finally the dig, as it would seen;, brushed up against the hind legs' of tho off mule, and then all was still.— It is net certain what killed the dog. One of the spectators said he thought lie hoard a trace chain rattle; but when he went nrouniFto examine the mule it wa* nrleep. The man had lost his hat, his coitjand the greater part of his trousers, and subsequent examination proved that the dog died with one ear and a handful of hair iu his mou'h. —Atlanta Constitution. PoCndixo trr TtiK Wrong Watch During a recent charitable perform ance at a theatre in Portsmouth, u gallant major, who volunteered to amuse tlie audience between the parts with some conj iring tricks, asked for a lady's watch. A valuable gold one* said to be wrrlhjfifty guineas, was band ad to hint. The trick was to pound up a counterfeit iu a mortar and hand the real one barkjuninjured. Being a novice, however, the gallant inajor.it is said, poundel thereal one up and handed tho counterfeitjibaek. Fancy the ladv's feelings.— London World. - Nothing so thoroughly pleases a man who has learned that ft collection is to be fallen in his church on Sunday morning, aud who has consequently been unab'e to be present, on ascouc* of a seveie patn in his back as to at, tend the evening service, and hear the clergyman announce that "as many who desire to, give werArot present at the it will now b* repeated.”,