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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
21y X)a\vson, Ga.
j; P. ALLEIT,
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REPAIRER jJjfcjalß JEWELER.
Dawson, G-a.,
IS prepared to do any work in bis line in
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1) iW£4s -HOTEL
BY WILY JOftES
mUE Proprietor has ne nly fitted up tho
I Dawson Hotel, and is prepared to make
!»ifl customers satis tied with both Fare and
Mjodging.
Connected with the Hotel is a
IIOO.II,” in which is kept the best li
quors in the city.
No oains will be spnred to fe226m
palm iMi i Painting i
JAS. M. DODWELL,
nctfSE ANt>;[SIGK PAIKTER, &c
DAWSON, GA,
IS prepared to do oil work In his Tine—snch
as house and sign painting, graining, pa
per hanging. &e., in the very best style, and
on short notice, at reasonable prices.
febl.6m.
MILLS HOUSE.
Corner Queftii & Meeting Sirs.,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
THIS First Ohm Hotel has been thoroughly
repaired, refitted and refurnished through
©ut and is now ready for the accommodation
of the Traveling Public whose patronage is
respectfully solicited. Ccachcs always in
readiness to convey Passcngors to and from
the Hotel.
The Proprietor promises to do everything
in his power for the comfort of guests.
IJOSEPU PURCELL,
feb22-tf Froprie
broTvT^Thouse;
JE. E. BK«Tliw * oti
Fourth St., Opposite Passenger ' t
JTlncon, Georgia.
FROM the Ist of July tho business of this
House will be oondneted by E. E. Biown
& Son, the Senior having associated his son,
\Vm. F. Brown, in tho management and in
terest of the Hotel.
The house contains sixty rooms, which aro
reserved chiefly for the use of travellers and ,
transient guests. Competent assistants have :
been sen cured in every department, and eve- ,
ry attention will be paid to ensure comfort
to their customers. Rooms clean and airy, and
the table always supplied with the best the
country affords. Porters attend arrival and
departure of all trains to convey baggage
and conduct passengers across the street to
their quarters. july27,tf
lkroy brown, (nos. u. stssakt.
BROWN & STEWART,
Ware House and
COM MSS 10.1 MERCHANTS,
at Sharp & Brown's old stand,
irs <KV G E (lit G I*l.
We are determined to use our utmost en
deavors to give entire satisfaction to all who
may favor us with their patronage I aud as
far as possible to be to them, in this depart
ment, (what we have often felt, and what eve•
ry planter must feel that he needs) just and
erliahle friends. That we inav be bettor ena
bled to carry out this design, we have secured
as business agent, the well known and reliable
Capt. John A. Fulton.
“A just balance," is our motto.
Jfarch 8 1867.
W. R. & N. M. THORNTON
JE*ro.ctical Dentists,
ii*i n'so.r, g*i.
tw Office in Harden's new building, West
3*de, Depot Street. Dec. 11 ,
Vol. 11.
POETRY.
[For The Dawson Journal.]
We Parted By the Hirer Aide.
nv PETR RlTltlstress.
I parted by tho Riverside,
From sweet Samantha Jane—
With feelings in my bosom w hich
Were next of kin to pain.
Mv angel's parent—cruel cuss—
Had sworn wo should not wed,
This was a stolen interview,
And swift the moments sped.
S,.id I, “my dearest, fly with me,
Or else this river deep
Shall boar me on its rolling waves
To death’s cold, silent sleep.”
“0 Fete,” she said, 'tween sighs and tears,
“I must not, —cannot go,
I love thee, but mv parent’s will
Must be obeyed you know.”
Then falling on mj awkward knees,
I thought tossy farewell,- —
Just here rough hands mv collar seized,
And in tbc stream I fell.
I turned my head for one fond look
E’er ’ncath tjie waves I sank—
Tho criiel psPf?nt filled with rage
Stood on the river bank,
_N. R. —Tt is needless to add, that I made
for the opposite shore.
How many a loving heart niters the
refrain of the following lines “don’t stay
long !’. There is nothing of poetrv in
the phraseology, buA- there is in the
o iching manner n which the words fro
qucDtly find voice—in the ‘yearning ten
derness,’ fund hopas and deep sympathy
of which they become the imperfect in-*"
terpretors. llis experience is the poe'-
tty of life and love must have be n bar
ren indeed who docs not find the.e lines
thrill like the echo of cathedral music,
to his heart of hearts.’
“DON'T STAY LONG." 1
A look of yearning tondetuess
Beneath 1 er lashes lies,
And hope and love unutterable
Aro shadowed in her eyes,
As in tome deep unruffled dream
Are cloud’s and summer ski<e.
Mite passed to daily womoni ood,
From dreamy, sweet gi|,l life,
And crossed rhtciosy threshold put
To liijd herself a v ife;
Oltl gOdtiy should he lead her eteps
A o g t! e path ol life. -
Aid ns the clarpcd her sm^F white hands
\Tpou4pjt,rrn so s’ri^^^
Hew oft, r, like a sutMncr sigh,
Or a sMtrf plcadingStug,
She whisj eiawith a porting kiss,
“Dt loved one, don t stay long.”
Ids almost always on her lip,
Her gentlest parting words,
Swi 1 1 as the fiagrancc from lose leaves
When by soft zephyrs stiried,
Aid lingering in the memory
Like songs ol summer biids.
And in his heart they nestle warm,
When oiber scenes sn.id )
H >slays not till she Hearty grows,
And her fond i yes arc hid,
Iu tears which lie in bitterness
Beneath each veiling lid.
And oh, how many hearts are kept
By that love uttering song !
There's scarcely ore who, on life’s waves
Is swiftly borne along,
Bat what has heard from some dear lips
Those sweet voids’—“don’t stay long.’
MISCELLANEOUS.
Tiat: os.a cabtman.
A TRUE STORY.
I have a miml to tell a little story.
That it is brief may be seen at a glance,
and that it is true I most emphatically
avow. If the rcadtr de pises it because
of the first, or tho editor r< jects it for
the reason of the last, then will I es
chew truth in the future, and devote
myself to the elaboration of lies into
chapters and tbc purest fictions into vol
umes of seventeen hundred pages each.
With this understanding I proceed
: at once to remark that five years ago,
| or there about?, John Anslcy—or‘l’ap
Asley, as he #as familliarly called—was
u v e owner cf a handcar and earned a
- I” conveying misscllaneous par
livuig -’ section to another, atid re
cels from en„ , reasonable remu
cciving therefor * 4
Deration of filly cents pm ’““**• . ,
To designate the occupcticn in
proficst language possible, ho wa» a
hand cart-mau, and when not employed,
could always be found during working
hours at the corner of Montgomery and
California s’rco’s.
His hair and long heard was quite
grey and hia limbs feeble ; and if he
could not shove as heavy a 1 .ad through
tho deep sand or up the steep grade
above as-the stalwait Tcuton'on the op
posite corner, thereby losing many a
dollar, all tho light loads in the neigh
borhood fell to his lot, and kind-hearted
men not unfrequcntly traveled a square
or two cut if their way to give an easy
job to ‘Pap Ansley.’
Four years last September,— I recol
lect tho month, for 1 had a note of four
thousand dollar to pay, and was compell
ed to do somo pretty sharp financiering
to meet it, —Laving two or three dozen
volumes of books to transfer to my lodg
ing, 1 gave ‘Pap Aueley’ the task of
‘ transportation.
Arriving at my room just as he had
deposited bis last armful on the table,
observing that the old man looked con
siderably fatigued, after climbing three
(lights of stairs fivo er tis times, I invit
ed him to take a glass of brandy—a
bottle of which I usually kipt at my
room for medicinal and soporific pur
poses. Although grateful lor the invi-
DAWSON, FIIIIIfAA, .II’TVK !L2l,
tation lie politely declined. I urged,
but ho was inflexible. I was grcatlv
astonished.
‘lbi you never drink V asked I.
cry seldom,’ he rep.iod, dropping
into a ohair at my request, and wiping
tLe perspiration from off his forehead.
‘Well, if you drink at all,’l insisted,
you will not find in tho next six months
so fair rin excuse for indulging, for you
seem fatigued and scarcely able' to
stand.’
‘lo be frank, said the old mar,'l do
not driuk any now. I have not tasted
any intoxicating liquor for fifteen ycais
—since—since—’
‘Since when ?’ T asked, thoughtlessly
observing his hesitation.
The old man told me yeais
ago he was a well to do farmer
mar Syracuse, N. Y. He had but one
child—adaughicr. While attending a
boarding school in that city, tbo girl,
then hut sixteen years of age, formed an
attachment for a young physician. Ac
quainting her father with the circum
stances, he flatly icfiftcd his consent to
her union with a man ho had never seen,
and removing hot from school, di patch
ed a note to the young gallant with the
somewhat poined information that his
presence in the ncigborhood of the Ash
ley farm would not meet with favor.
The reader of course surmises the re
sult, for snch a proceeding could and
can have but one result.
In less than a month there was an
•elopement. Tho father loadd his
double barrel shot gun, and swore ven
geance ; but failing to find the fugitives
lie took to the bottle. II s good wife
told him not to dispair, but he drank
the deeper at and aceuscd her of encour
aging the elopement.
In three months the wife died, and
at the expiraiim of a year the young
Couple returned to Syracuse from Con
necticut, where they*learned alter the
death of bis wife, of which they had
been aprised he bad sold bis farmpquan
dcred the proceeds, and was almost des
titute. Learning ol their arrival, Ans
ley dia- k himself into a phrenzy and
proceeded to the hotel where they were
stopping, attacked the husband, wound
ed him iu the arm with a pistol shot,
and then attempted the life of his daugli
ler, who hup;ily escaped uninjured
through tbc interp onion of poisons
brought to the spot by the report of the
pistol. Ainolcy was arrested, tried on
the plea ts insa itv. The daughter and
her husband returned to C, rscecticut,
since which time the father had not
heard from them, lie was sent to a
luoaiic asjlutn, r roin which he ras dis
missed after reuiaing six months. l,i
1801 he came to California, lie had
followed mil .it g for two years, but find
ing bis streangth unt qu.-.l to tho pur*
suit, returned to this city purchesed a
hand-cart, and"—the rest is known,
'tiirce then,’ concluded the old man
bowing bis head in ngory, 'I have not
seen my child 1 rcgrcled that I had
been so inquk-iuve, and cxjreEcd to the
si ffurct the sympathy I really felt for
him. Aftei that 1 seldom passed the
comer without looking for ‘l’ap Ains
ley,’ and never saw him but to think
of the sad story he had told mo.
On? chilly, drizzling day in the De
cember following, a gentleman having
purebasad a emaii marble top table at
an auctiou room oppisitc, proffered the
old man the job of conveying it to his
residence on Stockton street. Not wish
ing to accompany the carrier, he had
selected the face probably giving the
best assurance of the careful delivery
of the purchase.
Furnished with the number of the
house, the old cartman, after a pretty
trying slruggle with the deep decent of
California street, reached his destina
tion and deposited the table in the hall.
Lingering a moment, the lady did not
seem to surmise the reason, until he po
litely informed her thafj’ierjhusbnnd, for
which he took him to be—had proba
ble by accident neglected to settle
for the cartage.
“Very well, I will pay you,’ said the
lady stepping in an adjoining room. She
returned, and stated she had no small
er coin in the house, banded the old
man a [twenty dollar gold piece. He
could not make tho chaDge.
‘Never mind I will call tomorrow,’
said he, turning to go.
‘No, no !, replied the lady, glancing
pityingly at the white locks and trem
bling limbs; ‘I will not permit you to
put yourself to so much trouble;’ and
she handed the coin to Bridget, with
instructions to see if she couid get it
changed at one of the stores or some of
the markets in the ncighboihood.
‘Step into the parlor until the girl re
(turns; tbc air is chilly and you must
. ®old,’ costmucd the lady very kindly.
v ; '-e added, as he looked at his
" n i C ’ A no one there but the
rough attire, Mk.
childeD.’ , , ~ ,
‘lt is somewhat chilly,’ ropi>.
man following her into the parlor atu
taking a scat near the fire.
‘Perhaps I may find somo silver ill
the house,’ said tho lady leaving the
room, ‘for I fear Bridget will not suc
ceed in getting the twenty dollar gold
piece changed.’
‘Come here, little one,’ said the o'd
man, coaxiogly, to the younger of the
two children ; a girl about six years of
age. ‘Come, - love little children;
anil the little child who had been watch
ing him with curifsity from behind the
large; arm chair hesitatingly approach
ed. .
‘What is your name, dear r inquirod
the cartman.
‘ Maria,’ lisped (ho little one.
‘Marin,’ be repeated, with the great
tears gathering in Lis eyes. I once bad
a little girl name Maria, and you look
very much as she did.
‘Did you V inquired the child with
interest; ‘nnd was her name Mari* East
man, too ?’
‘Merciful God !” exclaimed the old
man, starting from his chair, aud again
dropping into it with his head bowed
upon his breast
‘This cannot be ! and yet why not ?
lie caught tho child in his arms with
an eagerness that (tightened her, and
gazing into h:r face until he saw con
viction there, rose to leave the house.
‘I cannot meet her without betraying
myself, and I dare not tell that I am
that drunken falher who once attempt
ed to take her life, and perhaps left her
husband a cripple,’ ho groanod and hur
ried to the donr.
The little rnes were bewildered.
‘You arc not going V said tho moth
er, at that time rc-appearing and dis
covering the old man in the act of pass
ing into the ball.
lie s’oppcd and partly turned his
face, but seemed to lack rcßolulion to
do onxht else.
‘He said he bad a little Maria once,
that looked just like me, mother,’ shout
ed the child, her eyes sparkling with
delight.
Tho knees of tho old cartman trem
bled, and he leaned agaii st the door
for support. Tho lady sprang t( ward
him, and, taking him by the arm, at
tempted to conduct him to a chair.
“No, no,’ ho exclaimed, ‘not uutil you
tell mo I am forgiven.’
‘Forgiven—for what ?’ replied the
mother in alarm.
‘Recognize in mo your wretched fath
er, and I need not tell you,’ he falter
ed.
‘My poor father I’ she cried, throwing
her arms around bis neck ; *al 1 is for
given—all is forgotten.’
All was forgiven, and the husband,
when he returned Lte in the afternoon,
was sc . c ly less rejoiced than his good
wife at the discovery.
Whether or not Uridgct succeeded
in changing the double eagle 1 never
learned, but this I do know—it took
the benest female all of two months *o
unravel the knot in which the domestic
sffiirs of her family had tied themselves
during hot absence.
I’ap Ainslcy still keeps his cart, for
money would not induce him to part
with it. 1 peeped into the back yard
of Mr. Kastman one day last week and
discovered the old man dragging the
favorite vehicle round tho enclosure
with his four grandchildren piled pro
miscuoualy iuto it.
[Fiom The American Messenger.]
“Toueli Aot, Taslc A'ot.”
The lute Governor Briggs, of Mas
sachusetts, was a well known and able
advocate of “total abstinence from all
intoxicating drinks.” He told mo that
he was once accosted by a lady at a
large and fashionable party, who said,
as he declined a glass of wine :
“Kt-ally, Governor Briggs, I think
you a little fanatical on this subject.—
What possible harm can a glass cf
wine do, taken at parties, and wed
dings, v. i h one’s friends
Governor Briggs replied, “if you
wil go hy yourse'f into t>; ma corner
here, and spend a half hour thinking
over the families of your acquaintances
and friends, and count tho number of
victims to intemperance in each fami
ly, and can then come back to me and
say you think me fanatical in trying to
avoid so great a danger for myself,
and doing all I can to k<ep others
from an end so common and so dread
ful, I wiil take wine with you, il you
wish rno to do so, for 1 know Vou are
a reasonable woman; but I feel very
sure that, ‘touch not, taste not,’ is the
on'y saA: tule.”
SShe replied, laughing. ‘Of course
I’ll do it, or tiny thing e'so that yon
request, but don’t expect me to be
converted ; for you radical reformers
always exaggerate dangers.”
She went, and in half an hour re
turned, pale, her eyes tilled with tears,
exclaiming*: “Oh. Governor Briggs,
how could yru ask me to do such a
thing at a patty ? I ant appalled; it
is so dreadful to find that 1 do not
know a family that clots not number
one victim, and some have had all their
brightest and best full by it—lathers,
husbands, children ;it is too dreadful
to think of. I would not have believ
ed it. You are quite right, and I wil)
never ask you to drink vv'ne, nor ever
call you fanatical for not taking it.”
Let any one think over the victims
of intemperance he has known, and he
will be convinced that Infinate Wis
dom wrote this warning, “Look not
thou upon the wine when it is red,
when it giveth its color in the cup,
when it movetti itself aright. At the
last it bitelh like a serpnnt, and sting
eth like an adder.”
Whi'e I write this, I remember that
my father, tho late Major B who
was also a warm advocato of “total
abstinence,’ told me about a dinner he
once took with Judge a man of
uncommon ability, and at that time
honored aud esteemed. There was a
decanter >.’/ wine on the table, and
when Major B— declined it, saying,
“I am a bel ever in the absti
nence rule,” the judge replied, “How
can a man of your sense and modera
tion adopt suc h :m extreme opion ?
One glass of wine a day has never hurt
anybody yet, and never willand he
drank his “rne glass,” and so did each
of his three noble, promising sons who
sat with him at the table. My fath
er’s years were not prolonged to three
score; hut long before he died Judge
and his three sous had gone down
to that grave over which our heavenly
Father has written, “No drunkard
shall inherit the kingdom of God.”
Times are so dull in Bowling Green
Kentucky, that hens lay lust years
eggß
- from drinking ice water oc
curred in New York City last w.ok.
Ripe pcsches aro selling at fifty cents
a ji-co ia Memphis.
A Parable for lici*iiios« men—
Tilt! Effect of Printer's Salt.
There was onco upon a time a man
who kept a store end sold goods whole
sale and retnii, who became melancholy
because customers were shy aud times
hard.
And ho Raid, L>! Tam ruined and
the sensation is disagreeable.
And my ruin is more painful to bear
bccauso it is slow in progress, oveu as
wafer doth gradually become hotter in
the pot, wherein the lobster boileth, un
til the crnstaccous creature shrieketh
out his soul in anguish.
Lo! it is hotter to bo ruined quickly
than to endure this slow torture.
I w ill g.vo my money away to the
poor man—oven the poorest, which is
he that piinteth the newspapers ; and
I will shut up my shop apd wrap myself
in sackcloth of dosolation, and pnss my
days in cursing the hardness of the times
and rending my trowsers.
Aud even as he sxid, to ho did; for
he was not like other men’s sons who
arc foolish and know it not, rnd they
will do and so, performing that which
is contrary.
For the s< ns of men are fickle, and
he that is bom of a woman dofh spite
his face by dentally diminishing the
length of tho nose thereof.
And. lo ! the printer—even he who
puhlishcth newspapers—was made glad
by tho bounty of him who sold wholesale
and retail; and he did sound his praises
and print them moreover ; aDd did blow
his trumpet, of fame retpccting that mans
dealings from the rising of tho sun even
to tho going down of the same.
And he—even the printer of papers
did magnify and enlarge upon the stock
of goods which tho trader had io lit
store, and did publish the variety, and
the excellence, and the newness, and
the beauty, and the cheapness thereof
tiil the piople —yes, all of them, far
aniFncar, were amazed.
Aud (hey said, lo! this man hath
gathered from the cast and west costly
merchandise and wares of wondrous
value ; even the workmanship of cunning
artificers—aid wc knew it not.
Go to, then. Wc will lav out our
silver and geld in those things which
the printer printed of and that which
he doth publish shall be ours. Fur this
man’s merchandise is better than the
bank notes of those who promise to
pay, and therein lie, even banks of de
positc which beguile us of our money
and swindle qs like sin.
But the trader was still sad, and bo
said the money that these people bring
mo for the goods in my store i will give
to the printer, and thun will I ruin my
self’; I will do that which no one hath
yet done in my time or before. I will
make the printer man, whom all men
scorn for his poverty, rich, arid lie shall
be clad in fine linen and rejoice.
And the sons of men shall meet him
in the market place, and the shcrifl
shall shun hint, and the scoffers shall
be rebuked and shall take off their hats
to him that was poor.
And he shall flesh the dollars in the
eyes of the foolish, and shall eat bank
notes and sanlwichcs
Yua, even shall ho light his pipe with
cotton monev, and cast his spiltlo on
the beard of other toon.
For 1 shall ruin myself, and he who
advertises me shall enjoy my : übstance.
But lo ! iho trading man even he who
sold merchandise, became rich, and
even as the Cnoiean beast lieth in the
mire, stirred he not bo reason of rnucb
greenbacks.
Aud the people flocked to his store
from the .North, and from the South,
from the East and from the West.
Neitbftr did they ai k for credit, for
the pi inter man —oven lie who though
poor niakelh many rich —had told tho
people they must, come down with the
spondulicks, and they did even so.
And the printer nj deed, and his
“phat” did abound, and his “pi’* did
not waste.
But tho trid r could not become
poor, aud his melancholy ceased, and
the smiles of happiness were upon his
face.
And pin money did abound in tho
poeket of his wife. And his children
did becomo mighty in the land by rea
son of the dollars which many of tho
people who read his advertisements had
poured into his money bags.
A Wife Wlrat €rutv*.
There is in this city a young marri
ed woman whe is very strongly HI oted
with a mat ia for imitating the crowing
of the moruir.g cock, while ia a state
of somnolence. We are assured that at
the hour appointed by nature for chan
ticleer to frighten nway the miupight
prowlers from yawning graveyards, the
fortunate husband of the ‘‘etowirg
wife,” on the first night of his mar
riage, was roused from Lis slumbers by
a mjst lusty crowing. On opening
his eyes, what was hit astor.isLm nt to
behold his better half seated in the
middle of the connubial couch of conju
gal bliss, fl ipping her wings and crow
ing m a most loud and clear voice,
stretching out her nook after the most
appraved rooster fashion ! Thrice did
she thus ‘herald in the morn,’and tLcn
sank back and slept on. In the morc
iug he spike to her about, aud was r.ot
more surprised than amused to learn
that she had been born in the country,
and that a favorit; ‘Shanghai,’ which
roosted with his feathered family in
tho h.n coop near the window of thema- j
temal b;d chamber, frightened her
mother by his loud crowing, arul thus
•the child was ‘marked.’ And ever
since she has been wont to wake tho
the echoes of the coming dawn by imi
tating ‘ye rooster’ and still, each morn
she ‘flaps her wings and crows.’
: As the business of the husband re
quires him to rise Tery early, he U rath-
1 1 r pleased than otherwise t», liud his
wile possessed of this additional accom -
No.
plishment, which dispenses with tho no
cesssity for an alarm clock, though
having hoard his grandmother say that
tho crowing of a hen indicated ill-lue l -,
unlo h her bond were immediately cut
off,’ ho is in some doubt whether, in or
ih r to insure good fortune to hin house
hold, ho is not in duty bound to stop
liis wife’s crowing by solving ber mu
sical throat. \Yc advise biut to let his
“hen” crow on, so long as she does not
‘p ck’ him.
Borne persons may question the truth
of this remarkable incident; but we
can assure such that it is true in every
particular, and can be vouched for by
responsible parties who have known the
lady front infancy) and tho moral
of it is, that ladies who do not desire
“crowing children,” should not. sleep
tco near the hen coop. —ltnhmovtl Ex.
A Touching Passage —Ilow elo
quently does C'haui’aubriaud reply to
tho inquiry “Is there a God?” Our
French brethren in Masonic error should
receive this icason from their country-,
men :
■’There B a God ! The hefbs of the
valley the cedars of the moutain, bhfls
11 m ; the insect sports in his beam;
the elephant wlu.’es Him with the ris
ing oil) of day ; the birds sing him in
tqc foliage ; the thnndrr j rocLitns Him
in the Heavens; tho ocean declarco his
immensity. Man alone has suid
there is no God. Unite in th ught at
the same instant the most beautiful ob
ject in nature. Suppose you sco at
onco all tbo hours of tho day and all tbc
seasons of (heyear; a morning of spring
and a morning of autumn ; a night be
spangb and with stars, and a night cover
<l with clouds j meadows enameled with
flowers and forest hoary with snow;
fields gilded by tints of autumn; then
"lone you will have a just conception of
t .c universe.
M bile you aro gazing upon that sun
which is plunging under the vault of
the West, an other observer admires
him emerging from tho gate of the
East. By what inconceivable magic
docs that aged star which is sinking fa
tigued and burning in (be shades of the
evening, reappear at tbo same instant
.resh and humid with the rosy dews
of morning ? At every instant of the
day the glorious orb is at once rising,
icsplendeut at noon-nay, and setting
in the West; or rather our senses de
ceive us, ana there is properly speak
ing no East, West, or South in the
world Everything reduces itself to a
single point, from whence the King of
Di y sends forth at once a (ripple i;ht
in cue. substance The bright splendor
is porhaps that whLdi nature can pre
sent that is most beautiful, for while it
gives us on i lea of tho perpetual mag
nificeneo and resistless power of G-od, it
exLihitH at (Lc samo time a shining im
ago of the glorious Trinity. °
A Btart?.i no Discovery —A Froo,
Eour Inches Long TaKen from a
Young LadyV, Etomacii. -A party of
young people, recently amusing them
selves tit the house of Rev Mr. White,
near Terre Ilanto, Indiana, where sud
denly somewhat startled on hearing
the croaking of a frog in their midst.
Vi bile they wore vainly searching
for tho strango visitant—an unwelcome
one certainly irt a Fort parlor—they
noticed that one of tln-ir number, a
young girl of seventeen, named May
Oopnxi, turned as white ns a sheet
and laid her hand nper. her breast.
Tbo croaking efmtin led, 'Hnd Miss
Copaxi suddenly uttered a terrible
scream and swooned away. -As her
young companioniagathcred round her
applying the proper restoratives, they
rondo a startling discovery that thrill
ed them w ith horror!
Mr. White coming in nt this junc
ture, inquired as to tho moaning of
the strange tumult, nud was informed
that tho croaking of a frog was heard
proceeding from tho stomach of Miss
Oonaxi.
\ es there could be no mistake; tho
nohe of the frog came front the young
girl 1
She swooned away three Ernes be
fore tho kind minister could inspire hes
with sufllcient hardihood nnd coolines
to endure her misfortune as became a
( hris ian • and her companions were
obliged to curry her home in a carri
age. . ,
Dr. Williams, a promising young
surgeon, on a visit to some relatives in
this place, was immediately sent son
He perceived at once that’his patient
was a difficult caso ; but with retniri;-
able sell possession and a steady hand,
he at once proceeded w ith the work
which could alone savo the girl’s life.
Before night, he lino made an incision
in the flesh just below the breast, nnd
extracted a large, green, speckled
frog, a’ni'st four inches in length
Tue giri is now doing wall an j wi’l
recover [Rochester Union.
Success and its Secrrt. —Franco,
wo are if formed, produces fifty per
cent, and Eng’and, one hundred per
cent, more jer acre from their soi’s
than the farmers of this country. Why
is this ? Tho day was, and has not.
long since passed, when English far
mors wero in danger pf starvation upon
soils that now produce not on y grain
enough for ali England’s people, but
a little to spare for other nations Why
is it ? llow has this wonderful change
been wrought ? Simply by drainage,
heavy manuring anil careful cultiva
tion. American fanners appear to
think that heavy manuring will dam
age the soil, and unfit it for yielding
largo crops. Away with such folly, it
I has had is day; lot us have the more
• sensible and economical plan of feed
ing the land abundantly adopted, nnd
! this day will eonte when we, too, shall
tivera po thirty five bushels of wheat to
the acre, instead of fifteen.
FIN, FACT, AND FAUCT.
Teeth aro stopped with gold, and
tongues may be so likewise.
Tho man is not always a thiof who
steals a march.
Why is an oh! dog like an inclinetf
plane? Because he is u slow pup'
(slope up.)
A wotnart in Chicago, on visiting
her husband’s office, discovering long"
hairs in hia hair-brush, has sued for a
(livofcC.
A young lady in the millinery lino
■ having been deserted by her lover, ex-
claimed :
“Such a menial ought to bo batter,
ed to death with thimblos, atid buried! 1
in a band-box 1”
A Western editor has placed over
: his marriages a cut representing a
largo trap sprang, with this motto ;
“Tho trap down—another ninny ham
mer caught 1’
Why arc young ladies kissing each
other like an emblem of Christianity ?
Because they aro doing uhto each, oth
er ns they would that men should do
to them.
A woman who was enjoined to try
tho ofTect of kindness on her husband,
and »ns told it wrAtld heap coal* of
free on liis head replied that she had'
“tried bilin’ water, but it didn’t do a'
bit of good.”
A Quaker bad bis broad brim blown
off, and chased it a long time with
fruitles zeal. At seeing a boy
laughing at his disaster, he said to
him : “Art thou a profane lad f” Tfce
youngster said he sometimes did a lit
tle in that way. “Then” said he, tak-‘
ing a half dollar from his pocket,“ hee
may damn yonder fleeing tile fifty
cents’ worth.” w
A young lady having ncceptod tho'
offer of a youth to escort her homo,
fearing alterwards that jukes might (>e
Cfncked at ber expense, il the fact
should become public, dismissed him
when about half way, enjoining his se
crecy. “Don’t bo afraid of my saying
anything about it,” said he, 1 for I feel
as much ashamed of it ns you do.**
They tell ot an old farmer who,
while in town ono day, was asked the
best time to put in rye “It is about
the best time now,” said the old fellow
looking at his watch, “and if you’ve'
got any postal currency about you, I’ll
go rnd show yon how it is done,”
When tho Hindoo Driest is about
to baptiso an infant, he utters the fol
lowing beautiful sentiments : ■ <
‘ Little baby, thou enterest tho world
weeping while all around thee smile;
contrive so to hvo that you may de-
Dart in smiles while all arotrml yotf
weep.”
Church Choirs.
We find in one of our exchatgcs the
following “so called” rules for theben
h‘. of choirs in ebarehes :
Mewsick is 1 of the Arts & sigent
sos. A singer is a artist, & a singing
master is it singhingtist if ho teaches ;
Hghentiftcnlly, otherwise he Is a hum
bug. To them ns wants to excel, a
phtio rooles will bo very pcrceptablc,
& by follerin which you can succeed.
1. If you sing in a quiro ollwaz
hold tho last! tone alter the rest is dun
so that the poepul can hecr you seper
cight.
i. When you come to'n hijjb no»t
thro your head back & shot your izd,“
it makes it monr expressive.
3. When you get done with tho h? 1
lone and want to see the line, open
ver ize sgait).
4. If onny body else looks on the
book with you, hold it strate in frunt
of yer own face, and then it won’t be
in their way.
5 Ollwnze object to the toon the
quire leader solects ; and choos a pirti
er otic yourself, it shows your good
tastb.
G Ockashunly sit still and let the
rest of the quire sing the him without
yer ; it spiles tho effect of yotfr voice
to have it too conation.
7. Dooring the sermon ntid grayer
keep turnin over the leaves of your
book—it shows you art* devoted (a
mewsickle porsoots.
7J, Spend some of jour time in’
itten in books an riten noats to sum 1
else in the quire, for if you want' to’
Bing clear yer musent weary your mind’
and vois by listening too Chose td the
servis. , , . „
8. If its in the evening beet time
with tho hand with which you hold
| tho canale with—the oddienco ean Jee
jit plan r. • ■ •-t ias*
!>. Donnt forget to whisper some—'
it takes away embarassment and iMips
to pass time awa. . ,
10. Fill your pockts with peanuts'
before you go ;o meetin, arid throw
the sht-is on tho floor—the secksfon
can tell then where .he quire jets when'
he sweeps out.
11. Olwazo take the best seat—
someboddy must have it, nnd it may
as well bo you as anybody else.
12. While you are singih if you’
meet tho i of 1 of your friends in kon
gregashun, smile and bow—it shows
you ain’t too much sot up to recognize
an old friend even if you are in the
quire. f ' If™ .
13. Never sing exzoctly with fhe'
feeder—keep a leetle ahed which will*
encurrige him with yow dxzample.—.
H the rest of the quire sing ahed of
the feeder you keep btffiiwt * rmdfifthar
rest sings behind yow keep ahed' this''
wil l give variety. „
14. Follow the roofe daJy every Siitr-’
day, & il’you have good success,ybus
will bo sure to saekseed. *
p. benson;
which the Sr., it stands for singger.—>
Song Messenger. : 'I
Josh Billings, m his advice to a
young lady as how she shall receive at
proposal, says: “You ought tew taka
it kind, looking down hill with cm
preshun about half tickled and half
scar;. After the pop is over, ifiyour
iuver wants tew kiss you* I don’t
think 1 .would say' yes dr' r<d,' but let
tho thing kind of take its own course: