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REPAIRED JEWELER.
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TS prepared to do any work in his line m
A the verr beat style. (eh2B iL
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OUX SMITH and
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western and Pa aula Circuits. June 1
DAWSON HOTEL
BY WILY JONES
f|IHE Proprietor has neatly *Uted up the
1 Dawsoq Hotel, aud is prepared to make
bit customers aaiiatied wit.ii both Ftlrt and
Lodging-
Counected with the Rotel Is s **BdiMt
HOOJli” iu which is kept the btst li
quors in the city.
No o*ins will be aoarH to pleane. fV226m
PAIMING ! PAINTING !
J AS. M.DODWELL,
HOUSE AND SIGN PAIKTER, 4c
DAWSON, G .A-,
IS prepared to do all work in his line — such
as house and sign painting, grainin?, pa
per hanging, Ac., in the very best style, and
on short notice, at reasonable prices.
fehl.Sm.
MILLS HOUSE.
Corner Queen A Meeting Sir*.,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
THIS First Class Hntsl has been thoroughly
repaired, refitted and refurnished through
-at and is now ready for the accommodation
of the Traveling Public whose patronage is
respectfully solicited. 0. aches always in
readiness to couvey Passengers to and from
the Hotel.
Th* Proprietor promises to do everything
in bis power for the comfort of guests.
{JOSEPH PURCELL,
f*b22-tf ' Proprie
BROWN HOUSE,
E. E. BROWN A SON,
Fourth St., Opposite PasseDger Depot,
Macon, Georgia.
FROM the Ist of Jalr the business of this
House will be conducted by K. E. Btown
& Ron, the Senior having associated his sou,
Wm. F. Brown, in tbs management and in
tereat of the Hotel.
The house contains sixty rooms, which are
reserved chiefly for the use of tiavellers and
transient guests. Competent assistants have
been ses cured in every department, and eve
ry attention will be paid to ensure comfort
to their customers. Rooms clean and airy, and
Che 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
tbeir quarters. julv27,tf
j.krot naown, tbos. u. stiaabt.
BROWN & STEWART,
"Ware House and
COMTission merchants,
at Sharp A Brown’s old stand,
J»«f WASO-V GEORGIA.
We are determined to use our utmost en
deavors to give entire satisfaction to all who
jnay favor us with their patronage ! and as
far as possible to be to them, in this depart
tncnt, (what we have often felt, and what eve
ry planter must feel that he needs) ju-t and
erliahle friends. That we may be better ena
bled to carry out this design, we have secured
a> business agent, the well known and reliable
Capt. John A. Ful'on.
“A just balancs," is our motto.
Afareh 8 1867.
W. R. & N, M. THORNTON
Practioal J>entists 3
A4 W'SOJT, GJi.
h) o®oa lo Barden's new building, West
We, Depot Street. Dec. 14
THE DAWSON JOURNAL.
Yol. 11.
IMi’.TKV.
Always Love.
Because Love’s sigh is but a sigh,
Doth it the loss Love’s heart disclose ?
Because the rose must fide and die,
Is it the less the lovely rose?
Because black night must sbreud the day,
Shall the brave sun no mors be gay ?
Bemuse chill autumn frights the birds,
Shall we distrust that spring will come?
Because sweet words are only words,
m Shall Love forever more be dumb ?
Because our bliss is fleeting bliss,
Shall we »ho love tot bear to kiss ?
Because those eyes of gentle mirth
Must some.imes cease my heart to thrill;
Because the sweetest voice on oanh
Sooner or later must be still;
Because its idol is unsure,
Shall my strong love tba less endure ?
Ah, no I let lovers brea'he their sighs;
And roses bloom, and mu-tic sound,
And passion burn on lips and eyes.
And pleasure’s merry world go round;
Let golden sunshine flood the skv,
And let me L ve, or let me die!
Baby oil the Porcb.
Out on the porch, by the open door,
Sweet with roses and cool with shade,
Baby is creeping over the floor—
Dear little winsome blue eyed maid.
All about her the shadows dance,
All above her the roses swing,
Sunbeams in the lattice glance,
Robins up in the branches sing.
Up at the blossoms her fingers reach,
Lisping her pleading in btoken words,
Cooing away in her tender speech,
Songs like the twitter of nestling birds.
Creeping, creeping over the floor,
Soon my virdie will find her wings,
Fluttering out at the open door
fcito the wonderful world of things.
MISCELLANEOUS.
[From The Weekly Ramancist ]
TWO WEEKS A DETECTIVE.
by bbickiop.
T havo tried my hand at almost
every thing and nave urnu experience
in certain thinga that will probably do
me more good and lay up for my mor
al benefit. But among them ail I re
member none with so many pleasant
emotions us those that relate to my ex
pe ience as a defective.
Now, don't stra ghten yourselves
back, expecting to hear of blood and
thunder, for I have nothin jot the kind
to relate.
Tho whole thing happened in this
citv, where they do sometimes eneoun
ter funny incidents, as well as those of
a graver character
I had been floundering about for
some time in quest of I onest labor, and
finding that my board bill was like’y
to increase faster than my means of
liquidation, I resolved to strike a bee
line for something different lr«un what
I had sought for bes re I attempted
to cenvirioe a Wall Street broker that
I was honest an I understood his busi
ness like a top, and that I could make
my services worth from thirty to forty
do Jura a week.
Bit hones’ people are always eus
pi cions and he gave me to understand
th it he could get along very well with
out me. My next attempt was at one
of our larg, dry goods establishments
but strange as it may seem, they, too.
thought they could gel along witi out
me. A publishing-house on Broadwuj
'seemed ju-t as blind to their interests,
and so 1 presented myself at the bar
of a drinking-saloon that flourished in
$.50 magnificence on one of the cross
streets in the immediate neighbor
hood.
‘•Do you wish to hire a first class
bar keeper ?” I said, presenting myself
to the proprietor.
“No, sir,” said .hat individual, plac
ing back the tumbler that he had si and
upon the bar in expectation of choking
twenty cents out of rne.
“Do you know of any one who
does ?”
“No, sir. Where have you beeD
tending?”
*■ Well—l—l have done a fairsharo
of bar business at the Express on Nas
sau street, and—”
‘ Buy ; who do you think I am ?”
said the knight of the toddy stick,
placing both hands upon the bar and
looking any thing but pleasant at
me.
“Well, sir, I took you for the boss,’
said I.
“Ycu did, eh ? and did you take me
for anything else ? Did you, or do you
take me for a fool ?’’
“Why do you ask that?”
“Because you are trying to p’ay a
poiut on me; but it won’t work old
boy ; it won't work.”
“Whatdoyeu mean?”
He looked at me a moment, as much
as to say, I would like to punch your
head if I dared to.
“I hope l have done nothing to of
fend you,” I said.
“By tt ravy, you are a hard
one!”
“1 hank you ; but I don’t See it,”
“Oh, of course not.” -
“What do you mean ?”
“You are a detective,” he said, after
a moment s silence.
“Bad guess for you j I am only plain
Mr. ”
“Oh, of course you are cot going to
ow n it. Bui I know you, and have
half a mind to m»6h you 1”
“For what?”
“For bringing your ugly red head
in here for the purpose of finding out
something.”
DAWSON, GA., FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1867.
“1 have found out all I wanted
to.”
“You have, have you?” tml he
turned toward hitt tnon.y drawer and
produced a revolver.
“Now what?” I asked, somewhat
bewildered.
‘•Now you take yourself nut of
here!"
“Would you assault a pencable cit
izen 7”
“You are a sneak in the employ of
the Excise Comm'ssion.”
“You were never more mis'uken in
your life. I am a better man than you
take me for."
“And you are not a detective?”
“No, sir, I am nothing of the kind.’
“I wi/1 bet you fifty dollars that you
are.”
“I am sorry thnt I haven’t the
means of taking that amount from you,
but the truth is lam so rear dead
broke that I could not patronize a band
organ.”
‘•Then I will bet you the drinks,’
he staid placing his revolver back
again.
“I tdl vou I have suspended pay
ment until I can get a job. lam sor
ry.”
“Ah 1 here comes my friend Young;
he will know about you ”
And as that individual put in on ap
pearance the proprietor took him one
side aud inquired as to who I was.—
Th s operation seemed to tone the fel
low down wonderfu ly, for his friend
immediately turned and took me by
the hand.
“My dear fellow,” said he “how is
this ?”
“You know as much about it ns I
do It appears that this man is labor
ing under a mistake of some kind.’’
“lie takes you tor a detective ”
“So it seems. Bather unkind eh ?’’
‘•Not much of a compliment sure
ly."
“Say no more about it,” paid the
propri tor, placing three tumblers up
on the bar.
“What shall it be ?”
Everything was nicely washed down
and we started for the door, armed
with smoking evidences of the bar
keeper’s forgiveness. I soon made
known my tightened cond tion to the
detective and that he at once made my
heart light by telling me that he
thought I would make a good detec
tive and that he would at once take
yie upon his force and give me employ
inent. It was sole’y cut of respect fi r
his official dignity ' that I refrained
from dancing a breakdown then and
there upon the sidewalk. 1 slept sound
ly and happily that night, and the
next morning, in answer to a hint from
my landlady. I as onished her by the
immensity of my expectations.
I went to the oflire and received my
instruc ions. It was real y a serious
case that I had taken in hand, and
puzzled me considerab’y at first
It appeared that a robbery had been
committed, and suspicion rested up in
a fashionable woman, who, in compa
ny with several young lady boarders,
occupied a bouse that was sel h tn vis
ited by any other of her sex. This per
son had quite a gt od share of our
world's goods and rode out in splendid
style.
H‘ e was, therefore, a hard person
to arrest without first obtaining posi
tive evidence of her guilt, and this was
now my work :to find out by some
means or other all that there was to
be tound out respecting this mysteri
ous affair I v sited the locality of
the mansion and took the measure of
the place so far us it could Le done ex
terna ly.
My r.oxt step was to disguise my
self as a peddler of cheap jewelry, oh
ta Ding the outfit from the office. Jn
this disguise I visited the basermnt
door and was met by a pert little Irish
beauty, to whom I discovered my
wares. Bhe cast a contemptuous look
upon iny stock, evidently knowing that
there w ere but a few, it any, real dia
monds among them, and, wi h a shake
of the head, was on the point of shut
ting the doer in my face.
Nature has furnished me with some
things, among which may be mention
ed a flippant tongue—a tongue that
always wags in the pre-enoe of ladies
v ith remarkable fluency So I sot
that organ in motion to its fullest ca
pacity. Mie rather seemed to Ike it.
At all events she opened the door ani
listened, while the pert frown that she
had ornamented her features with
when she first learned my errand en
tirely disappeared and gave way to a
smile—a smile that gradually grew
bewitching.
I warmed to my task all the while,
Bbowing her a flashing set of jewelry
and expaciated upon its real worih and
beauty ; and above all how well they
would become her. She look these* and
looked it over with some more attention
than at first, and, uuder my skillful
handling, she actually sighed when she
plaoed it back into my tray again.
Bat that was not the last of it, by
any manner of means. I set down my
bundle and taking her by the band, I
proposed that she should accept the
jewelry as a token of my esteem. She
lock, and up arobly in my face and I clinch
cd the whole arrangement by avowing
myself a bachelor aud somewhat better
off in the world than mv calling would
indicate, and that I loved her.
This was a clinoher, indeed. She ac
ccp'ed my gift with a pleasant smile
and gave me her name in return for one
I gave her, and roadily consented to
have me call on her the next evening.
She acknowledged that sha had no lov
er, aud that I was fully as Iri.-h a man
as she could well conceD herself with,
and so, with a sly kiss and a warm good
by, I loft the house
The next night I called again in the
eapaeity of a lover Nelly was ready
to receive me in the kitchen. Bbo was
all miles and swoctness and seemed not
a little delighted to find that I owned
better clothes than I wore while follow
ing my profession. She woro the jew
elry that I gave her, and for all the
world looked liko a regular coquette.
•We had occupied a seat together on the
sofa for sometime when Mrs. Winslow
came iu to make some inquiry of Nelly,
and that individual, with much evident
pride introduced me as her lover, in or
der to put to rest any suspicions that
her mistress might entertain regarding
my honesty. That done, we were left
alone again.
The neat Irish brogue that I had
dawned upon her with' completely car
ried the fort by storm, and she freely ac
knowledged that in all probability I
was the man that fate had ordained for
her, and was not long in finding her
toDgue to say ‘yes’ when I asked her if
she wnu'd be my own darling.
In this way a week passed Ly-., °nj
found me every night by the side of
Nolly, and sho began to reporfe all sorts
and degeees of confidence io me all of
which was thankfully received.
One evening I visited her in an ab
stracted manner, which at once attracted
Nelly’s attention and oaused her to make
inquiries.
‘Nelly,’ said I, ‘I am in samo troub
le.’
‘Trouble, is it ? What for V
‘For you darling,’ said I approaching
her.
‘Faith, what has happened to me?
‘You are in great dai ger, Nelly.’
‘From what, sure ?’
Nelly, darliog do you love me ?’ said
[ placing one hand upon the table an 1
the ohtcr behind me aud lookiog into her
face very lovingly.
‘What makes you ask, sure?’
‘Beoause I wished to be sore of it.’
‘Why, of course I do and she laughed
quite prettily.
‘Then I wish to save you.’
‘From WLat ?,
‘From beiug arrested,’ I said eyeing
her closely.
‘Bad manners to ye, what would I be
’rested for?’
‘I will tell you Nolly. There is al
most certain proof that your mistress
committed the robbery in the house be
low bore the other night, and they pre
tend to B*v that you are knowing to the
whole uifai aud have a put of the tuon
ey.’
At this she seemed to loose all power
of speech, and seated herself involunta
rily iu a chair. 1 continued :
‘Now, Nelly, as we are soon to be
married, aud I do not wish to have you
f, und out in any thing of this kind, I
vak you caudidly if you know anything
about the robbery or if you have got
any of the money,’
‘No a cent; I know nothing about
it; divii a thing.’
‘Well, I am gild to hear you say 60;
it docs my heart giod. But do you
know darling, that they will arrest you,
for all that, and then your eharroter is
gone entirely.’
‘But if they don’t find any thing—’
‘You'are all right, darling. lam not
at all backward iu saying that it 1 had
any of the money I would see tbom in
a mighty warm place befoie I would
givo it up to them, at all.’
‘Do you say so ?’ soe asked, springing
up.
‘Faith I do, and if vou have got any
of it, give it to me, and if ihey do ar
rest you there will be nothing to eon
vict. ID you sec ?’
‘Och I murder, murder 1 what will I
do ?’ she moaned, alt the while rocking
herself backward and forward in her
chair, and to all appearances in great
trouble.
‘Do at once and get the money. Stop
tell m», you bad no hand in the rob
bery ?’
‘No only I took a part of the money
to keep.’
‘Then who did commit it?’
‘My mi-tress and her man, sure.’
‘Who is he ?’
‘Bill Duckers ; he’s up stair now.’-
‘Say nothing, but go and bring me
the money.’
She left the room and I went to the
window and set a signal that had been
agreed upon between two officers and
myself, and then waited her return.
In a about five minutes she catne
down ■ ‘airs with a large roll of bills,
and king c.ntioasly around, she plac
ed them tu my hand.
‘There, now, away wid yees out of
this. Bad luck to the dirty thaves that
got me into this scrape.’
‘Ab, never mind, Nelly ; its all right
now.’
‘Ah ! there goes the door-bell,’ and
away sbe fljw up stairs, closely followed
by my humble self.
The doer opened, and in there step
ped a p ir of itlalwart officers who were
to see me out,
Nelly screamed murder and ran for
the kitcbeD, which scream brought the
mistress and her lover to the scene of
actiOD.
‘What does this mean?’ demanded
they both.
‘lt. means that you arc my prisoners,’
said I, approaching them.
Then and there followed one of the
mest exciting fl gbts of oriooline shat I
have ever witnessed, for in less than a
moment the entire corps of boarders
were in ’ nr hair, aud, for one, I am con
fident that I was doDe brown. Nelly
scorned to see through the cheat that
had been praot.ioed uoon her, and she
joined in the fight with a pan of dirty
water that I found to be any thiDg but
eye-water.
But the battle was a short one, and
we marched our prisoners off to haad
quarters and succeeded in obtaining all
the stolen money ; but up to the present
writing my bead has not ceased to re
mind me of the two wocks that I acted
in the capacity of a detective.
THE H(il1» OF FOni’KII.
How They Strike a Stranger.
An Italy correspondent ol the Clove
land [Ohio] Plain Dealer rays :
I don’t think Pompeii was ha’f as
much noted before the eruption as
since. She Las been partially dug up,
and her streets are small, as her !>t id
iugs. There is nothing approaching
the grandeur we had reason to look for.
Now und then there is a house or pal
ace of some dignitary that has a par
tial air of grandeur, with its marble
statuary, founta nsand courtly grounds
but it is no great shakes There is a
great deal of puny statuary in Pompeii
—a vast amount of chiselling—that
don’t show up much for these times of
big things.
It seems as if the whole city was n
mass of one story huts, poorly ventila
ted and still more poorly lighted. Vast
numbers of rooms of all characters wo
into that had no signs of a
window; ns the roofs were all burned
off we can form do idea how they got
their lights; pel haps the ancients had
a cheaper light than the light of the
sun The streets are all sosignificunt
ly small and narrow, although tolera
bly straight; the average width from
curb to curb is noi ovei ten feet and
the sidewalks from two to three. You
will observe a very singular obstruc
tion iu all the streets of tuoso immense
ttenes placed in u line across the strei ts
and protruding eight or ten inches
above the pavement, and not over a
foot apart. How their wagons or carts
managed to get past these it is diffi ult
to guess, iu fact, the carts, or what
ever Vt hides they used, could not
have had axles longer tnun throe or
throe and a half feet; ‘.hey may have
been twice that, but how could they
meet ? 'J he stone pavement is badly
worn in many places, and the construe
tion of the houses was so inconvenient
that perhaps it was thought better to
be wiped out and begin aga n.
I can seo no where possible for light
to enter these rooms except from the
outer doors. We pass into many in
ner rooms and cannot see where light
could enter; the r rmv are mostly
small in every part of the city. The
tragic theater is small, and the comic
theater still smaller. They had gay
old wine cellars ii> those days, large
enough to hold a considerable quanti
ty—l dare not tell how much, for I
may under estimate Their baths
public baths, a > called—arc very small
affairs ; a marble pool of a circular
form, not ten feet across; another of
an oblong square, not over eight by
ten feet, was called the public baths
and th sc were on the street called
“Public Bath Street.” There nre one
or two baths of a lesser denomination.
The end walls of the above named
baths have been preserved, aud a small
fan light s.ih remains at each end of
the gabie. The lead pipes for supply
look like ours, except til y w ere closed
at the edge and soldered. The faucets
look exactly lise a brass shut-off gas
fuiie.t nf modern make.
The whole of the ruins resemble the
photographs; except in view witn the
uuaided eye, they don’t lo k quite so
grand ; there is scarcely a wall or col
umn or any ruin, remaining over
twelve or fourteen feet high at the ex
treme. All this may be dull to you,
so it was to me. I felt it a duty to go
und see Pomp ii, and dow nrr satisfi
ed. It did not reach my expectations
by a long distance. The nariow streets
for a people who used wagon*, were
Ik rritde. Why did not Gluuees or
Diomede attend to widening them ?
There was hardly any gardener in
Pompeii. There were some frescoed
walls rather curious to look at, ahd
some chiseling in marble rather nice.
The Neapolitans have taken all the
works of art under their jurisdiction,
and show them up at two francs a
head. Nothing but lizards are to be
seen in the streets and among the
ruins. They seem to think that all
that is left belongs to them, and they
are more than than half right. They
jump out and in their holes in number
less quantities as you pa s, and many
times seem to look you in the face, as
much as to say : W hat are you hero
for ?
We went to the excavating pi*,
where about a dozen n.on and boys
were busy carrying out the liri und
ashes of two thousand years. It is
easily removed, about like a mass of
wet coal od y a little harder anu heav
ier. They were excavating a street
and a room of a house as we were
there. The dirt was shoveled into a
basket, and boys carry it to a cur,
which is run on rniis, to a pit and
dumped. As they rem ved the earth
from the wails, they seemed to have
the appearance of being newly built
Most of the outside wa'ls are of brick
Wherever a door is, it is always brick,
then the wall is continued with a sort
of soft stone, and the whole is usuahy
plastered over wi’h this universal out
side covering which sometimes resem
bles marble. Their columns were
mostly so built, although inside of
court were found many nicely wrought
marble co’umna.
1 think I said that we were some
what disappointed in Pompeii; so we
were. Somehow people write these
things up too high. Pompeii is r,ot s >
big a thing as we are induced to be
lieve from what we read ; and you’ll
say so when you come to look at it.—
A small collection of oue-storv houses
without windows Perhaps they may
get down to where the houses are two
aud three, and perhaps several more,
storios high Perhaps they will find
roofs and windows before they get
through
We see plenty of places for distil
ling or manufacturing tbe r wine. In
fact, it wus a smart little city for the
TVo. 343.
time it throve, and it may bo worthy
of all that has been said of it yet T still
think it has been writton up a Iteth too
high.
A Deaf Florida Rebel.
The New Orleans Picayuao has the
following:
They had down in Florida, not long
since, and perhaps have now, a shrew 1
old fellow known as ‘Old Hunter. 1 Eve
ry body know him. lie was was deaf
us a poit aud thiough his
deafness and his shrewdness
be managed eompletoly to hide bissym
pathy for either party during the war.
It was suspected, however, that be was
with tbo Confederates io heart, and
that though his house was guarded by
the Union troops, ho sold as many sup
plies to one as the other, for be dealt
h 'stores.’ Every means bad been tri
ed by the Union officer* to procure
some admission of preference but of no
avail. When reduced to a corner, he
never lacked an expedient to get himself
out. But one day a Union captain put
up a bet that he could trap him aud get
his secret. lie accordingly went up to
Hunter’s and skirmished, but not one
hint could ho get. lie would be deaf to
questieno that were uupleasant, and the
enquirer was bafl-d. At last there
came two l»rgo bull dogs into his stoie
—fi- rce fellows, aud exactly alike.
‘Fiuc dogs, these,’ yelled the inquisi
tor in liij ear.
‘Yes,’ was the reply.
‘What are their Domes?’in the same
loud tone.
‘Why,’said the old man. I dal 1 one
Beauregard and t'other .McClellan.’
‘You do?’ shouted the enquirer;
‘which do you like bes* ?’
‘Hey.’enquired Hunter, putting down
his ear. ‘Which do you like best?'
was repeated
‘Ob, wall,’ said he wit Tia twinkle
in his eye, ‘both of ’em are as ugly as
the devil.’
The captain paid the bet.
O.i another occasion a party was
dri k ng in hi ■ ore, wh n -me of i’ em,
faking advantage of tho old man’s deaf
ness proposed a toast:
‘Here’s to old Hunter, the two sided
old villain ; may he be kicked to death
by mules,and his body be sunk in th<
sea a hundred fathoms deep. .May n
prayer be said over him, and bis blind
soul wonder raylces through all eter
nity.’
Tbo toast wss drunk in great glee, in
which the old man j >in.
‘The same to yourselves, gentlemen,’
said he, ‘the same to yours-lves.’
Os course he had not heard a wo-d
that was said.
Street Ktiiics. —When you tread
on a lady’s traiD, in the street, you are
not required ti apologize. You havo a
right to be io the street. So has the
lady; bat she has no more rigLt to car
ry her train, with the expectation of
having it respected, (bar she has to
oring her cradle in tho street and rock
her baby in if. A train iu tho drawing
room, however inemveuient, is graceful
and appropriate; and il you do not like
it, y„u may keep out of the room You
must go into the s‘roet, yu have a right
there, and you have a riaht to step on
tb6 sidewalk, and if any f ioli*h w Jinan
ebros-’s to lay five yards of satin between
your feet and the fl igs, it is at her ri.-k,
n it yours.— rrjviden.ee Juurml.
Curious Love-Letter. —Madam—
M st worthy of my admira ion, after
long eonsidera'ion, and much medita
tion of the great reputation you possess
in the nation, I havo a strong iucliaa
tion to become your relation. On your
approbation of the declaration, I shall
make preparation to move my situation,
to profess my admiration, and if such
obligation is worthy of observation and
can obtain commisscration, it will be an
aggraudizatjon beyond all calculation,
of joy and exuliation, of Yours,
Sava Desidsrmox.
Tiib Answer.— Sir: I perused your
orrtiou with much deliberation, and a
little consternation at the great iufatua
tion of your weak imagination, to show
cueb veneration on so light a foundation.
I suppose your animation was the fruit
of ricrcati' n, or had sprung from osten
tition to display your education by an
odd enumeration or rather multiplica
tion ( f words of the same determination,
though in great variation, in such re
st cctive signification. Now, without
disputation, your lab.ri -us application,
too tedious au oecupaticn, dcsetves com
mcniation, and thinking imitation sufi
cient g.aiification, I am without beiita
tiou, Yours, Mart Moderation.
To Test Super-puo piiates Su
per pbo phates show a better < Sect up
n the turnip crop than any other. If
then, yin wi*b to know which is
really the best in the market, prepare
for every super phosphate you wioh to
try, two or three rows of turnips. Ma
nufe moderately eaob throe rows with
the same weight, or valu’ of super-phos
phates—Dave between each three rows
n • anmanurtd Plant all at tie same 1
time, and with the same sort of teed,
ar and weigh or measure the product, and
you cau very easily decide which ma
nure is the best worth the money By
exchanging super chosphates with your
neighbors, who may Lave of a different
make, you can make a general test, with
out baying all the sorts. Those kind
that make the best turnips, you may be
sure are tboso that will make the
best cotton and other erops. No other
plant is as good to test them with."
Southern Cul.
“Steel your heart,” said a consider
ate father to bis son,. “for you are go
ing now among some fascinating
girls.’’
“I had much rather steal theirs,”
raid tbo unpromising young man
FIJI!, FACT, AUD FANCY.
What kind of a ship hi.* two mate#
and no eaptuin. Courtship.
Spiri'uul munifisstntion* —Pimpl«».
The be«t throw ut dicei* to throw
them ax ay.
A girl that has If •! her boao may M
well hong up her fiddle.
“Lot’s organize,” as the music grin
der auid wheu ho slopped in front ol
our c ffice.
A henpecked husband saya that In
stead of himself so 1 wife being one, thay
are ten; for she is 1 and he is 0.
An indiscreet roan confided a secret
to aoother, and begged him not to re
peat it. ‘lt’s all right,’ was the reply,
‘l’ll be as close as you were/
If a man reap ‘whatever he soweth/
what a harvest of coats and brecchaa
tho tailor will havo one of these dajs.
An exchange writes the following epi
t ph over tho late 1L and cat paper at
Washington : ‘Qnck ripe, soon rotten,
little known, soon firgotton/
In winter it is sometimes difficult to
understand the elerk of the weather ;
but when it sn ws violently you cau al
ways see bis drift.’
A merenant’s advice in selecting a
wife was, ‘Get bold of a piece of a cal
ico that will wa. h.’
We are curious to know how many
feet in female arithmetic go to a mile,
because we DcVtjr met with a lady
yet, whose shoe was not, to say the very
least, ‘a mile too big for her/
A maiden being asked what fortune
she would bring her husband, re
plied :
“I will bting him what gold cann .1
purchuse—a heart unspotted and vir
tue without n stain ; the inheritance
from parents who had these, and noth
ing else to leavo ine.”
An enthusiastic ornitho'ogiat writ
ing from Jersey city, where tbry havo
sparrows, discourses ns lollows ;
“It were a blue bird I seen first.—
Last year it were a owl. The instance
lmn about to relate are a fact. Tho
bird to which I allude to, were theoao
I seen.”
’Twero the first bird of spring;
lie attempted to sing,
But ere he bad uttered a note,
lie fell fr.-m tho limb,
A dead bird was him, —
The music had friz in bis throat.
A pretty and young girl s'epped in
to a linen draper'* shop, wtiero a
Spruce young m; n who had long been
enamored of her, but dured not speak,
stood behind tbo counter In order
to remain as long as sho
cheapened everything. At last aho
said :
“I believo you think I am cheating
you.”
“Oh no,” said the young man, “to
me you aie always lair."
‘ Well,” whispered the lady, blush
ing us she laid an emphasis on tho
words, “I would stay so long bar
gaining, if you were not so dear !”
‘Oh, pray lit me Lavo my way Ibis
time, saida young gentleman to hi-, la
dy-love. ‘Well, Willie, I suppose I
must this once, but you know that after
we are man id I shall aU ays have a
Will of my own:’
‘I wonder said a Scotch maiden,
what my broth r J hn sees in the lasses
that he hkbs sae well. F r my part 1
would uae eie the company o’ one lad
for twenty lasses. ’
* A pootintorded to say' ‘See the pale
martyr in a sheet of fire,’ iustead if
which the printer made him siy, ‘see the
pale mirtyr with his shirt oa fire.’
An old rrvolutljList says, that of all
the solemn hours ha ever saw, that oc
cupied iu geing home one dark night
from the widow Ben’s, ifter being told
by her daughter Sally that he ‘needn’t
come again* was tho solemn.
We frequently hear of our generals
eapturing ‘pieces of artillery.’ ‘Wbat’s
tho use of capturing pieces V says Mrs.
Partington. ‘Why net capture wholo
ones V
At first the di.-ipated resort to wido
to stimulate their wits, and in the end
have to resort to their wits to prooure
their wine.
Readers, did yon ever enjoy the ec
staoy of courting? You didn't! then
you had better get & little gal an-try.
An English temperanoe paper ex
plains tho fall of tin..' by saying that tho
apple which Eve plucked contained al
cohol.
An Ohio paper tells a novel love ato*
ry. A young couple planned an elope
ment, the young girl descending from
her room upon the traditional ladder,
but at the gate they were met by the
f ither of the girl and a minister, by
whom tho young couple were eecortcd
to the parlor, where to their surprise
they found all their relatives collected
for the marriage ceremony, which took
plaoc at ocee. It was a neat paternal
freak.
Rancid Butter —We cut from ad
exchange the following rceeipe:
‘To a pint of water add thirty drops
(about half teaspoonful of liquor of
chloride of lime. Wash in this two and
a half pounds of rancid butter. When
every partiole of butter hascomo in con
tact with the water, let it stand an hour
or two: then wash the butter again in
pure water. The butter is then left
without any odor, and Las the sweet
ness of fresn butter. These prepara
tions of lime have nothing injurious in
them.’
The aitae paper says : ‘Wo forthwith
obtaieed some of the most rancid butter
and it was bad enough for any stomach
that had more sens bility than a wagon
wheel. We and lotored it as per receive,
and when plaoed on tbs table along
with the new good butter, very able
judges could not distinguish which waa
the new butter Hero is a factworth a
year’s inbseription to a papr,