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JTijon c'Otccktij Journal,'
Published Every Friday.
By Elam Clivirstiun.
TERMS—Strietly in .Idranre.
Three months 75
Sil months ?l -5
One year. $2
Hates of .Ideerlising :
One dollar per square of ten lines for the
first Insertion, and Seventy-live Cents per
square lor each subsequent insertion, not ex
deeding three.
Oue square three months $ 8 00
9ne square six months,l2 00
On* square one year 20 00
Two squares three months 12 00
Two squares six mouths ... 18 no
Too squares one year 80 00
Fourth of a column three moths 30 00
Fourth of a column six mouths 50 00
Half column three moths 45 00
U4k e *l ul>lll B ' x mouths 70 00
eooluuiu three months 70 oO
column six months 100 00
Liberal IPednelions .Hade on
Contract aldvertisements.
«ii«HMMMnMMiiimiiiniitiiiiiintiiHiniMntiiiiiimiiiiiitii'
Legal Advertising.
Sheriff's Sale?, per levy, $2 50
Mortgage Fi Fa Sales per square 5 (Ml
Uitatious lor Letters of Administration, 3 00
“ “ “ Guardianship,. 800
Dismision from Administration, 6 00
“ “ Guardianship, 4 00
Application for leave to sell land, (i 00
Hales of Land, per square, 5 00
Saks of I’erishatrle Property per rqu’r, S 00
Netices to Debtors and Creditors,.... 3 50
Foreclosure of Mortgage, per square, 2 00
Kstray Notices, thirty days, 4 00
Job fw'orh ol every description c-re
cutedwith neatness and dispatch, at moderate
rates.
SIMMONS & HOYL,
ATTORNEY’S AT LAW,
fwu’so.r, - - a cotta i.i.
L. c. r hotL. jan2s ly. R. r. si muons.
C. B. WOOTEN,
ATTORNEY] AT LAW,
2ly Dawson, Ga.
J. 1?.
WATCH Js£kg AM)
REPAIRER JEWELER.
Dawson, Da.,
IS prepired to do any work in his line in
the very best style. teb‘23 ts
j. ». s. snrrn,
(iUN BM ITT I and
Machinist,
IMH’SO.F, •• Georgia.
Rep*irs all kinds of Guns, Pistols, Sewing
ll.mines, etc., etc. 2 ly-
W. G- PARKS,
JYttorney at Daw.
Maiß ly /MirSO.Vjff.f.
C. W. WARWICK.
„fHorney at t.air and Solicitor
in JCquily.
dMITnV'Mi.E.U - - - Gi:o.,
WILL practice in Lee, Sumter, Terrell
and Webster.
J. E. HIGGINBOTHAM,
ATTOUSEY AT LAW,
Morgan, Calhoun Cos., 6 1a.,
■Will practice in at! the Courts of the South
western and PatauiaCircuits. June 1
BROWN HOUSE,
E. E, BItOWT As SOY,
Fourth St., Opposite Passenger Depot,
Macon, Georgia.
II'ROM the Ist of July the business of this
House will bo condnoted by E. E. Brown
A Son, tiie Senior having associated his son,
Wat F. Brown, in tho management and in
terest of the Hotel.
The house contains sixty rooms, which are
reserved chiefly for the use of travellers and
transient guests. Competent assistants have
been ie* cured in every department, aud eve
ry attention will be paid to ensure comfort
to their customers. Rooms clean aud airy, and
tho 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
GROW'ESTEEJV ts Cos.,
Piano Forte Manufacturers,
49ft It road tea y. AVtr \'ork.
Pianos received the highest award
JL ofmerit at the World’s Fair, over the
best makers from London, Paris, Germany,
the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Haiti
more and Boston ; also, the Gold Medal
at the American Institute, for Five Successive
Years f! Our Pianos contain the French
Grand Action, Harp Pedal, Overstrung Pass,
Full Iron Frame, and all modern improve
ments. Every Instrument warren ted five
years. Made under the surpervision of Itlr.
J. If. GitOVESTEEH, who has a
practical experience of over thirty five years,
and Is the maker of over eleven thousand
pianofortes. Our facilities for manufacturing
enable us to sell these instruments from SIOO
to S2OO cheaper than any first class piano
forte. Aug. Bl lyr
FORC iS* SHOE HOUSE,
Whitehall St.,
ATLANTA Li A.,
HAVE on hand the largest and best select
ed stock of HOOTS and S MiO US
eves brought to this market, and as they come
direct lro;n the F.ushrn Man niacin
t-fra wiii be offered to country Merchants
at Bev York prices', freight added.
and. W.’Foree formerly of Charleston S. < .
,frill Jj»e pleased to set* bis former customers.
Bov^-Iy
NATIONAL HOTEL,
It early opposite Passenger Depot
MACON GA.
B r Wt M2NSE &> SON,
t-s £Late o( Granite Hall,)
Proprietors.
Flit* MHanoa.
Parties wishing to purchase Grove
stoen’s justly celebrated Pianos, can
save from thirty-save to fiity dollars by
•Pplying early at
THIS OFFICE.
Voi. rr.
W. R. & N. M. THORNTON
Practical Dentists,
11.1 IIVSG.V, Gel.
Office in llarden’s new building, West
Side, Depot Street. Dec. 14,
STEVENS HOUSE,
21, 23, 23 & 27 BROADWAY, N. Y.
Oppotile Howling Green.
Os THE ri’KOPGAI PLAY.
HI IIE STEVENS HOUSE in well and widely
I known to the public. The location is es
pecially suitable to merchants and business
men; it is in close proximity to tiie business
part of the city—is ou the highway of South
ern and Western travel—and adjacent to all
the principal Railroad and Steamboat depots.
THE STEVENS HOUSE has liberal ac
commodation for over 200 guests —it is well
furnished, and possesses every modern im
provement for the comfort and entertainment
of its inmates. Tito rooms are spacious and
well ventilated provided with gas utnl ra
ter—the attendance is prompt and respectful
—and tho table is gauorously provided with
every delicacy ol the scasou—at moderate
rates.
The rooms having been refurnished and re
modeled, we are enabled to offer extra facil
ities for the comfort aud pleasure of our
Guests.
GEO. E. CHASE k CO.
I’ropriefors.
HENRY, MOORE & GEN UN G,
Manufacturers and Jobbers of
CLOTIITTST Gr,
No. 522 Bron lwnv, opp. St. Nicholas Hotel,
NEW YORK.
niilUp Hoary. .Jr. f formerly of llom ys, Smith
Townsend.
.Join) T. Henry, formerly orSnulHliury Si Henry.
Alex. T. Moore, > formerly with Jlanryn, Smith
Isaac i\ Ueontigp ) & Townsend,
We have ready a large, handsome and well
assorted stork of
n iJf I Vl*l t*E CJLOTMKMc W
maaufactlircd by ur exclusively for the Southern
Trade which we are prepared to sell at Low
Priced and on Liberal terms. Our stock is ad
apted in materia', style, tcutftlis and siczs, exclu
sively for the South, and comprises goods from
goods from the lowest priced to the liuest made,
including u large assortment of goods for
EAIEEM>JtiI\V'S II:*#:«//*.
The recent decline in woolen and cotton fab
rics will (‘liable us to oiler Clothing at much low
er prices than it has been sold l«»r at any time
since ini. Cash mid elose buyers from tin* South
are invited to examine our -toek before purchas
ing, as we believe tv- «.tii < '* greae inducements.
We will bis happy u orders, and our
long experience in the Southern business onaJVvs
us to make selections which will becurtaiu to give
entire satisfaction.
Descriptive (liteJogwcß with prices sent by mail
if desired. 11KNUY, MOOIIK* GKXI’MJ,
August2,3m 522 Broadway New Yoak,
H ESLKYAN FEMALE COLLEGE,
MACON, GEORGIA.
mllE THIRTEENTH ANNUAL SESSION
J ol flip WeiMevuti Female Oollpge will t>pi;in
on Monday, October 7lh under the following
Boxrd of Instruction.
Rpv. John M Honnell, D. D., Pres. and
Prof, of Mental and Moral Science ard Rhet
oric.
Rev. Coshy W. Smith, A. M., Trof, of
Mathematics.
Christian Schwartz, Prof. Ancient and
Modern Languages.
Mrs. Allice R. Leak, Assistant in Literary
Department.
Miss Kate T. Clusky, Governess., and As
sistant in Literary Department.
Mons A. and« Castro, A- M., Prof, of Instru
mental and Vocal Music, and drawing.
Madame de Castro, Teacher of instrument
s’ Music.
Assistant in Music.
Mrr. E. T. Crowe, Teacher of Painting
PAYMENTS.
The expense of a hoarding pupil in the reg
ular course of study, is about $340. One third
is due ou dty of entrance in October, one
third Ist. January, and one third Ist. April.
Modern Languages, Music, Drawing and
Painting, extra. The cost of Books will vary
with the class. Payments are positively re
quired in udvance, and there will be «u ra*
riution from this rule, except by special cou.
.ract.
Kor further information apply to anv mem
ber of the Faculty. W. 0. BASS,
Sec’y of Facility.
Aug9-tf
NOTICE.
SIXTY day? after date, application will be
made to the of Cour; of Ordinary of Cal
houn County, for leave to sell the real estate
of TANARUS, T. Sawyer, late of said county doc’d.
MANERVA J. SAW \ KR,
aug9 Adm’x.
BEESWAX!
BEESWAX!
AAA FOUNDS Beeswax wanted, for
which we will pay the highest
market price in Groceries.
A tig 142 m PRATT k COCHRAN.
Lee I*oxt|»on«‘«l SlieriHS Mule*.
\\ r ILL be seld before the Court Hoti*o
r T door in the leiva of Staikvillc Leo
County, on the first Tuesday in Sept, next,
within the legal boms of sal*, the folio whig
property to-wil : Lots of land Nos. 141, 148
and ITS.lying in the lltli District of Lee
county, levied on by virtue of tivo tax fi fas
issued by Grorgo C. Edwards vs Decatur
Jones, for his State and county tax for the
year 18lif>. Property pointed out by George
Q Edwards, T. August bill, 18C7.
J. G. Me KIN NAN, Dept. Stiff.
Terrell Superior Court, |
May Term, 1867. )
IT being represented to the Court by the
petition of W. 0. Carter, Administrator of
Robert JI. Carter, deceased, that by Deed of
mortgage dated the lthb day of November,
1858, James It. Bynum conveyed to the said
Robert M. Carter, a lot of land sitnate, lying
and being in the town of Dawson, in said
countv of Terrelt, containing six-tenths of on
ocie, more or less, known in plan of said
Town by No. (96) Ninety six for the purpose
of securing the payment of two certain prone
iseory notes made by (he said James ft. By
nnin| to Ihe-said Robert M. Carter ; one of
them due the SJtli day of December, 1860,
lor the sum of Seven Hundred and Filtv Dol
lars each, making the seen of Fifteen Hund
red Dollars, whicA notes arc now due and
unpaid.
It is ordered that the said James R. By
num do pay into tide court liy the First day
of the next teim, the principe interest and
cost due oil said notes, or show cause, if any
he has, to the contrary, or that in drlault i hci o
of a loiecloeure be gianted to the said W. 0.
Carter, Administrator as nforesnid of said
mortgage and the equity of rei'emptioni of
the said James R. Bynum therein lie forever
barred, and that set vice of this Rule he pei
fccted on sa'd James R. Bynum according
to haw.
A Tiue Extract frem the Minutes ol this
1 Court, August 13ih lbf.B.
J. C. F. CLARK, Clerk.
DAWSON, (»A.,F]MDAY, SEPTEMDED ‘J7, l«OT .
FOHTKY.
THE NEW ENGLANE MANUFAC
TURERS TO TUElli SUBJECTS.
Ho ! nil yo Wen tern Ravage*
Who 1i vo on corn and pork,
Come up aud buy your yankee goods
And keep our mills at work.
Come up—we’ve got our tariff lixed—
You can’t buy any eliMpcr,
The “moral party” rules the land,
Wo ai-o its consoienco-kooper.
Tfio pinky South who alwaya kicked
Against our just protection,
We’ve got her safo—there’s not a vote
From all that hated Rootion,
While they’re out it gives us all
A most convenient season
To line our nest—and so we #ny—
They’ve lost their votes by treason.
Tour Western coni, and jxirk and rye
Are firstrato thiugs to tax out
Bo now we lay the duties high.
Your broad und burly bneks on,
You like it too—your Western men
In Congress-- House aud Senate,
Stands ready up to vote the tax
Faster than we can pen it.
We taxlyour coats, wc tax your huts,
We tax your bread and butter,
JFe tux your Itoots, your socks, and shirts,
Now don’t you (fare to mutter ;
for while we fund you round tnd round
With strong and tripple tie s,
Tho “tax oil wool’’ We deftly pull
Across your Rluepy eyes-
MISCELLA NEOpS.
A TIIKILLITCi BOMAIICE-
Nolly Glover was the prettiest lass
iu the pit village. lier eyes were of
tho sweetest blue ; her cheeks were like
a rose; and you might have thought
her browu hsir was tho fiocst silk.
Then she had a figure like a fairy, it
was so trim ; aud with a waist you
could almost spaa. I loved Netly, but
as for that, all the chaps of tho village
were iff the same utiod, und she might
have had her pick of us; tho worst of it
was, she treatad us all alike and would
not look at one more than another.
She had a smile for every body, and
was always good temperd, but these it
ended ; and, somehow, none of us caul I
screw up courage to try her funner. I
don’t know how often I thought it over.
It canto iuto my head the first thing in
the morning, end th' re it remained the
last thing at night, whon it either kept
mo awake, or haunted my dreams. At
last it took possession of mo. No mat
ter where I was, digging or blasting, or
luLntiing, above ground, or d<wn iu
the pit; my thought* turned on Nelly,
and from being the merriest fellow in
the village, I just carue to be the dul—
est. One morning there was no work
in the pit for my gang, because the
viewer wanted that part of the seam
shored up, ann > f "1~~ *T . \
mat i i.iJ.a have it out with NcJljr, so
I made myself smart, and set out, walk
ing as brisk as ii it was a wager. You
may think it conceit in me, but I can
.say that I was then as clever a chap to
look at as you woo and often s c, and I
knew it. For all that, 1 began to walk
a bit slow when I caught sight of Mrs.
Glover 1 * c 'ttage who should come cut
but Nelly herself. She never looked
pretier tbrin at that minute ; but appear
ing so suddenly, she dasbod my spirt,
and I hadn’t a word to say to her.
‘‘Why, CbarLy, what is the matter?’
sho rrind iu a frighted s A rt of way.
“Well, it is just this,’ I said. And
there I stopped.
‘ls any thing wrong with Jack ?’ she
cried quicklv.
“Jack ?” '
“Yes, be is down in the pit, they say
it is foul, which makes mother and me
uneasy. You haven’t heard anything?’
And she loolei ii n y eyes us if she
would search me through.
no,’ I answerod, steadying, now
that I thought I could comfort her. ‘He
is all right. You rousr/t mind what
the old women of the village say, or you
will be looking for a blow up every day
in the year, when there is nothing more
than commcn I bavn’t come to you
about Jack, Nelly, it is about your
self.’
She gavo me a look now ; then her
check flushed up like flame, aud her
eyes turned away.
‘Do you know what I want to say,
Nelly ?’ I went on. ‘I wish you did,
for I can’t tell it. It, is more than I’ve
got words for. llow I love you, how
you tre always before me, how I’m
crazed and mad ibout you ! IJut though
I can’t say all I want to, here I staud,
and I wouldn’t change with a king, if
you’ll tuko me as I am !’
‘Oh, Charley, you don’t know how
you pain me/’ she answered.
‘Dont say that Nelly. I doubted
about speaking to you, hut now that I
have done it, now that I can’t go on de
ceiving myself, if you have any pity in
your heart, show it to me and I will
cherish you to the day of rov death.’
‘lt’s no use,’ she replied, ‘I can nev
er marry a pitman. 1 gave the prom
ise tc. mother ar.d Jack, when we walk
ed up the village at the funeral of my
father and brothers, all three killed iu
the mine—our gnat sot row, which I can
Dcver think of without crying ’
And fhc tears, it is true, were run
ning down her cheeks, though, (or the
moment she seemed to he harder
than stme. And l seem and turned
to stone myself. 1 had to recolection,
no fooling, and no sense, and I couldn’t
have moved a step to have saved my
life. 'Jlicu it all flashed upon me like
lightning l took a last loik at Neliy,
drof ped my head upon my breast, and
without a word more, walked out of the
gate.
Our tillage seldom looked bright, no
matter hew the sun shone, and now Ii
felt as if the sun would never shine
again for me, as my eye fell on the
lino of cottages, with the clouds hang
ing down fioui above, and nothing
round hut a waste 1 thought lmight (
as well ho iu toy «H aTC asecntiu-
uo to live there Besides T should al
ways be tnectng Nelly, perhaps lurk
ing about tier mother’s eottaec and mak
ing her as miserable as myself. IVby
shouldn’t Igo away to Yotfeshirr, or
Derbyshire, or the diggings in Austra
!i.t, for that matter ? Tho notion, if it
was good for nothing more, gave me a
little more spirit. It turned my
thoughts, and I stepped out quicker,
going straight home. I hadn’t much
to setile, only to bid good bye to she
folks I lived with, aud I came out,
pack on bark, arid began my tramp.
1 stopped at the door and looked
back, remembering I might never 6ce
the place again, and dismal as I now
thought it, with its gajiug walls and
shaken roofs cncumbciing tho blacken
ed ground, I had been happy there.
Not one of those cattages but would
open its door to me; not one whero i
wouldn’t meet a friend. And there I
had been born. It was the spot cn
earth that, even in that hour of L‘*ter
ness, 1 loved best, and I didn’t turn
away without dashing my hand across
over my eyes.
I was walking on, when suddonly the
air rang with a crash that shook the
ground. I knew what it sigailied
Such sounds denote but one result in
the black country, and throwing down
my pack, I daited off io tho spot, with
the feelings that animate every minor
on such occasions. It didn t seem a
minute before I came to the dust-heaps
round t he pit’s mouib, but some were
there bi fjrc me.anujthc off men and the
women were runhig up trem tbff village
iD a stream. The smell from the pit
almost knocked me down as I came up,
and I had to get my breath a littin,
when three or four of us crept up to
the mouth and looked down. The ex
plosion had deetroyed the cage not loav
ii g a stick of ,t, cut it had not injured
the signal rope ; hence a moans of ceun
rnunication remained for any one iunne’
eiiatcly below. As soon as I saw this
I set to work to lig a cross bar, and
presen’ly bad it ready.
“Just lower me gently,’ I said to two
banksmen. ‘I may pick up one or two
if there’s any near/
“You can’t go down yet!’ eriel tho
viewer. ‘Dow many aio there iu tbu
pit?’
‘Half an hour ago there were fifty,
replied the timekeeper; ‘but I am lhank
ful to say ttey all come up but ten.
‘ Aud they arc ail lost,” said the
viewir, ‘for there will be another explo
sion directly.’
‘I II go dowu anj how ; I said dog
gedly, ‘and if nobody will lower me, I’ll
jump down.’
A good many were on tho heap now
—men and women—s me of 'he women
—•yiticr, and some praying, but when .l
fence, two or three called out,
‘ Good bye, Charley, God bless you,
brave lad.’
The bankstr.en lowered me down, and
I sank through the pits mouth. A Da
vy bmp was tied round my waist,
ami I held a rope in my hand, so that I
might signal to be hoisted up if the air
became too foul. l>ut I bad no inten
tion of going back till I bad searched,
the pit, and seen if there were any alive
One th.Dg I didn’t care about my life ;
and another, I would have been asham
ed to face the folks above without do
imz soon thing, so I felt impatient that
they lowered me at such a snail’s pace,
and i kept looking up and djwn, to
measure the distauce yet to be travers
ed. The shaft had never seemed so
deep to me before. I strained my eyes
into the darkness below and saw no bot
tom, I glanced up and tho gleam of light
grew smaller and fainter. I seannod
the walls of tho shaft, and marked only
their black bound. But my piwgrcss
was notified by the increasing density
of the air, which began to effect my
brenthifig ; aud as I went cn, I bad to
shift uiy face from sido to side to make
a little current. At last my feet touch
ed the ground.
I looked around ns I jumped off the
straddle, and saw the furnace was out
which put a stop lo tho ven'ilation of
the mine, as far os it depended on the
bratt.es, and no air entered but by the
shaft. The stench was overpowerirg
and from this and the silence 1 guess
ed the worst It iras plain that the
explosion had killed the horses, for
not a sound came from the stable,
which was close to the shalt, and what
hope could there bo for human beings
in a distant part of the pit?
You may bo sure I didn’t stand to
take these reflections; they floated
across me and I was working forward
before they got through my mind 1
knew the old mine blindfolded ; but
with that foul smell and the deep
• doom, was some minutes sertunb
fing to the top of the incline, keeping
iny linns stretched out as I went along
to feet for anything in the way. And
it was luckily 1 did, or I should dash
my heed against some empty trucks,
and in the state I wav in that would
have finished me. Thus 1 reached the
first gallery, which you could only en
ter stcoping. , . V g
I pushed open the trap door and
went on a tew steps though my Davy
I amp was what pitmen call afire -
the flame being all blue—and 1 knew
Ihe air was so much gunpowder ; out
I stumbled along. It I wasn’t to save
nnv one, it didn’t matter what became ;
of myself, aud I pleased myself »>’-•' j
the thought that Nelly would hear I
had died iu the attempt. And then |
all at once, it came into my head what
sho had said about Iter brother Jack j
being in the pit.
This gave my heart such a turn that
I staggered, and the perspiration pour !
ed from my forehead like water. 1
rushed torward ns if 1 was mad ; my j
t ot struck something; 1 bent down
over what scorned to be a corpse and (
the gleam ol the lamj> fell on his lace.
It was Jack Glover! I didn’t know
vvbother ho was ulivo or dead, but l
caught him in my arms, and with the
jitrength of a giant and tho speed of a
dter—hardly conscious, hardly breath*
ing; 1 made a dash for tho shaft.
It was easier work going back when
you wero once in tho main or halve
road ; for now tho shaft was before
you instead of behind, and thong h ymu
wouldn’t think i , this mado a wonder
ful difference iti tho light.
Dark as it was, though not to a pit
man's e-yes, and I had found out that
Jack breathed when 1 leuehed tho
shaft. The discovery nerved me
afresh, and kept all my senses at work
without my seeming to know it. I
only felt that there soon would ho an
other explosion, go I placed Jack on
the straddle ami taking the rope from
my Davy letup, tied him hand and
foot, then pulled the signal rope, and
as the people above hauled the tackle
and lilted the straddle from the ground
1 hung on by my arms. Thus wo be
gan to mount the shaft
It wasn’t till we had got twenty
feet up that I lolt the strain of stand
ing on nothing, but from that moment
it became just terrible My hands
seemed ready to snap; the ache in iny
arms spread through every muscle;
my head spun around; my feet kicked
about in agony. I watched the mou h
of the pit till my eyes swam, and as I
reckoned tho space between, my
strength waned and my misery deep
ened ; T thought I must drop before I
reached the lop.
Then they began to hoist faster. I
mustered up all my s’.reng'h ; I tight -
ened my grip on the straddle, though
my fingers were growing numb, I
steaded my feet, and hardly trusted
myself to breathe. 1 could now see
the walls of tho shaft; could feel the
purer air ; I heard voices, and pres
ently tho tackle swung ; strong arms
caught me round, and I was landed
on the bank.
They had Jack Olovcr off the strad
dle before you could look around, and
he was carried away w hile they raised
my head and poured a little brandy in
my mouth. 1 called out for the view
er.
“What is it, Charley Batson?’’ lie
asked, bending over mo.
“Everybody away from the pit, sir,”
I said.
“You are right,” he answered, “it
will come in a minute or two ”
They got me to tho top of the bank,
when I heard a scream, and there was
Nelly, trying to throw herseif on her
brother Jack, but kept back by the
other women. tShe never glanced at
me 1
izr let myself drop from tho bar, as
I came up, and so escaped seeing her
again.
But I made up my mind that I had
looked on her for the last time.—
I told my helpers that I could walk
now, and when they let go my arms, I
turned towards the door, intending to
pick up my pack and drag en at least
to the next village.
But I could no mpre walk five miles
than l could fly. When I came to the
pack Dank down by it, aid felt that
I must give up. I was so boated that
I thought there was now T another ex
plosion at the pit; as I bad expeoted
and though it shook the ground under
me, 1 didn’t lift my head. All 1
thought of was sti etching out my arms
and legs, and lying quiet. How long
I lay there I never knew. By degrees
I recovered a little strength, and my
thoughts took more shape, when I de
cided to return to uiv old lodging and
have a day’s rest before I set out on
my wanderings.
The day passed and the nigltt, aud
the next day, and I was still in bed,
the good folks tending me like a child.
My limbs, which had been racKod
with pain, now felt easy, and I was
ready for a start again. IJut I thought
there would be opposition, bo I got up
very quietly, and was putting < n my
things w hen the room door opened,
and io my wonder, in came Jack Glo
ver.
“llalloo, Charley, hero wo are,” he
; cried, sei/.’ng my hand and giving it
Ia hearty squeeze. “Who would have
thought ol us two being be'e alive to
day ?’
« Weil, Jack,” I answered, I nm
glad for you, but shouldn’t have cared
lor myself’’
“How’s that?” he asked.
“Hecause I have something on my
mind
“You !” he said, laughingly, giving
me n litt’e push “Hero, sit down and
have a i ipe and it will go oil hko the
smoke.”
i “I don’t care if I never smoke a p;p«
- again,” I said, savagely.
“Now, 111 tell you w hat it is, ’ said
Jack, “you have been having a till
with our Nelly.”
“I havn’t,” I answered, mv check
burning.
“Well, you know best about that,”
continued Jack ; “hut it’s wind 1 gues-t
! because you wero seen talking w.th
i her, and she laid a crying tit directly
after-: and when she heard from me
that it was you that brought me up
from the pit, she fell on my neck and
fainted."
“Didn’t sire know it before ?’’ I ask
ed, relenting.
“No.”
“Then I’ll just tell you all about her
anti mo,” I said.
1 was a long time telling it, hut Jack
sat up *s if he was listening to a play,
or a sermon at chapel. I gave hrn a
description of Nelly that would have
done tor the Hue and day ; went in.o
all thft ft*p ! ma s dh* Mtd raised in mv
breast, told iiitn how l had wa’chnl
for h r, thought of her and dreamt of
LeY; and finally, recounted «ur las'
No. - »*r».
colloquy. .Tack never moved a mus
cle, and not till I stopped for breath,
did he put in a w ord
“Don’t you think you’ve been n lit
tle (ii-t, Charley ho then said, dulri
cus'y.
“How do you mean ?” I inquired.
“Why, in giving up so. Suppose,
when Nelly said she couldn’t have you,
you had put your arm round her w aist,
and said she ir list!”
This view had novel struck mo, and
rather took me bae.i.
“But there was her promise to you
and her mother never to many a pit
man,” 1 urged.
“Ho there w as. Hut did you never
i hear that promises wero made to ho
broken !*’
“1 can’t say that I have,” I said chip
ping r n my hat.
‘•Where are you going?” Jack in
quired.
‘You wait hero u minute,” I repli
ed.
With that, I look two strides down
tho stairs into the road, and hurried
off to Mr*. Glover’s cottage I stood
outside a minute when l opened tiie
door, and the first thing l saw was
Nelly, sitting by her mother anil look
ing like a ghost—only ghosts never
look pretty. She gave mo ono look,
then started up and sprang into my
arms.
My heart was so full I couldn't
speak at first, but I thought 1 must
do something, so I slipped my arm
round her waist, as Jack recomrn n
ded Now I felt sure of her and of all
the happiness that the world could
give, and as my breast swelled proud
ly, 1 began to bear a little malice.
“Ah, N. lly !.if you had wily loved
me 1" I said.
Nelly tightened her arms around my
neck.
“Bow happy wo might have beer.,”
I said.
“Then we can bo, Charley 1” she
murmured.
“llow, Nelly 1 We can never many
you know'.
Tho little finger unlocked, and I felt
Nolly falling away; but I remembered
Jack’s counsel, and hold her by tho
waist.
“There’s your promise to your moth
er and Jack,” I continued ; “how aro
we to get over that ?”
“I forgot that,” faltered Nolly, as
w hite as a sheet.
“And what do you say to it, moth
er?” I cried to the old lady.
Mrs. Glover got up, and took Nel
ly’s hand and put it in mine.
“That’s wbat l say to it," she said
heartily ; “and I know Jack is of the
fam AlW¥}iiS is wnat i say to it!” I
cried, giving Nelly a kiss.
You won’t i>o surprised to boar that
wo were married the next week ; and
now I am tho view el cf the colliery ;
and as for Nelly, she wi 1 tel! you that,
though she has married a pitman, and
has bur roughs mid smooths, like other
wefnen, there is no happier woman in
the Kingdom.
The Dead wife.
In comparison with tha loss of a wife
all other bereavements are trifl, s. The
wifo ! she who fills so large a space in
the domestic heaven, she who is so bu
sied, so unvreired —bitter, bitter is the
tear that falls on her clay ! Y*ou stand
beside her celftu and think of tho past.
It seems an amber colored pathway,
where the sun ehono upon beautiful
flowers, or the stars Lung glittering
overhead. Fain would the soul linger
them.
No thorns are ronem’ e cd above that
sweet clay, save these your haitd may
have unwillingly planted Her noble,
tender heart, lies open to jour inmost
sight. You think of her now as all
gcitflenes, all beauty and purity. But
she is dead 1 The dear bead that laid
upon your bosom, rests in the still dark
ness, upon a pillow of clay. Ibe hands
that Lave ministered untiringly, are
folded, whites and oold, beneath the
gloomy portah*. Tho heart whose eve
ry beat measured ac eternity of love,
lies undt r ypufr-fect. The flowers she
bon: ovr with smites, b-md now above
her with tfftTs, shaking the dew from
their potiD, that the verdure around her
may bo kept green and beautiful.
Many a husband may read this ic
the silence of a broken home, 'j here is
no white arm ever your shoulder ; no
spe-king lace to look one in the ejo of
love !no trembling lips to murmur—
“Oh 1 it is so sad 1”
The little one, whrse nest is rifled,
gazes in wonder at your solemn lace,
puts up its tiny band to stay the tears,
and then nestles back !a its father's bo
som, half conscious that the wing which
sheltered most fondly, is broken.
There is so strange a hush in every
roost. No smile to gn ot you at night
fall. And the old clock ticks anu strikes
strikes ami ticks! if was such music
when she could Lear it! Nowit seems
to knell only the hours through
which you watched the shadows us
death gathering upon her sweet face.
It BUikcsono I—that fatal time when
the death warrant tang out—-‘there is
no hope,’ Two ' shu Ires piaciuly still
—sometimes smiling fatally, sometimes
grieving a little, for she is young to
tread the vally of the shadow. Three !
the babe has beau brought io, its little
face laid on her bosv-m for the l ist
time. Four 1 her breath In comes fain
ter, hut a heavenly joy irradi ates her
brow. Five ! there is a slight chance
—Ol that she might live! Father
spare her.
‘ •Thy will be done !”
It was her soft, broken accent. Yes !
Iltavenly Friend, who cavcst her to
bless me. Thv will be done.
Fix ! there me footsteps Lear. Weep
ing fit -tuls ir. und. She bids tbe.u
farewell as she unjiuiuDß, “meet me in
bcavm.” The ih.n p dross father up
on h<r pallid feature* at the seventh
hour. She lici very still—f omctinies
she hears mu c. Eight ! jarnTg away
so gci.tly 1 But her hards yol cling to
you is, and ho the lies, while the old
houi-o click tolls forih nine—ten—elev
en—twdvo solimn strokes. You spring
to your feet. The lips arc still—cold to
your lips. Tho ijjjall hand b.s fallen
back—its tench grown icy. Sho is
gone. She will never speak to you*
again on eaith You must bear that
cold gs ssj that love so lately kindled—
and you full weeping by her side.
Aud every day that clock repeats
that old story. Matty another taio it
tcllcth, too—of j’ys past—of sorrows
shared —of beautiful words and deeds
i registered above. You foe!—oh 1 how
i ' ften, that the gravo cauuot keep her.
| You know she is in a happier woild,
i yot that sometimes she it by your sido
j —an angel pretence I You look at your
, innocent babe, and thiuk that a seraph
j 'is guarding ir. Cherish these emotions
J —They will make you happier. Let
her holy preseneo boas u charnr to
keep ). u from evil,
in all new and pleasants connection,
give her a place in your heart. Never
torget what sho'lms been to vou—that
I sho has loved you. Do tonder to her
memory—so may you meet bir wiih a
! sou! sustained—a bright and beautiful
1 f-| ifit biiJc, where uo cue shall ray any
more for ever—“{?he is dead ?”
Co!«Bumpt!oS.—At a medical Con.
gress in Paris, very recently, there was
a most interesting discussion on tho
subjeet of consumption. Wo find tho
following paragraph with regard to it
; in tho I’uris letter ol the New York
Times :
j “The first question discussed in the
Medical Congress was a question
1 which readies end interests, more di
rectly perhaps than any other, every
family. It was tho question of turber
| etilur, its contagiousness and prophy
latie. The discussion turned mainly
on tlicst two ; oints : Is tubercular
| consumption contagious, anu may it
; not be prevented by inoculation '( I
: should tell you that the profossi in, tir*
,ed of being baffled by a disease so
I m’ow in its progress and yet so cer
tainly latil, have been experimenting
of late years all over Europe, and that
I enough new lacts have been arrived
| at to warrant a certain number of tba
experimenters to declare tha' tubercu
lar pbtl.i.-i ■ is contagious, and that a
healthy and an infected person ought
not to sleep in the same bed. Expe
riments have been made upon rabbits
and other animals by inocului iog under
the skin the matter Iront tubercles, and
these inoculated animals die consump
tive in three months’ limo. The dis
cussioos of tho Congress established
no new doctrine in a posi ive way, but
they brought out many valuable facts
which will put the profession a step in
advance in the right directi n.
For the information of those individuals
who foolishly imagine that the lifo of a
newspaper man is a paradise, and
fraught with untold pleasure and privi
leges, wc givo the following sketch ol
the duties of this unfortunate individu
al, ccnetruicg wb( m such a wrongttn
pression exists. It is takm from Mr.
Hunt’s volume on the “Fourth Es*
late !
A man who cncc becomes a journal
ht must aim >et Lid farewell to mental
rest or mental leisure. If he fulfills
Lis duties truthfully, Lit attention must
ever be awake to what is passing in tho
world, and his whole mind must be de
voted to tho irstant examination, and
discussion, and record, of current
events lie has little time for literary
idleness, with such literary labors on
his shoulders, lie has no day* to
spend on catalogues, er in the dreamy
discursive researches in public libraries,
lie has no months to d> vote to the ex
haustion cf any one theme. What he
has to deal with mn6t be taken up at a
moment’s notice, be. examined, tested,
aud dismissed at oDge. ; and thus his
mind is ever kept occupied w'th tho
mental necessity of the world’s passing
hour.”
An old lady being asked to subscribo
to a newspaper, declined on the ground
that when sho wanted news sho manu
factured it. Here is some of her own
manufacture:
Mrs. Jasper told mo that sho heard
Great Woods’ wife say that John
Ilardstono’s sunk mentnned to her that
Mrs 'frosty was present when the wid
ow Barman said that G- ptain Hcrtcil s
cousin thought Il«2. Doolittles sister
believed that old Mrs. Ox by nckoned
that Sam Trifle’s better half had Vld
Mrs. Spaulding that she heard John
Rbennes’ woman say that her mother
told her that Mrs. 'Bagatelle bad two
husbands.
An Englishman nnd a Yankee wero
disputing, when the former sneeringly
remarked
“ Fortunately the Americans can go
no further thau the Pacific shore.” _
The Yankee scratched hit> pro’ifio
brain for an instant, and thus repiicd
“Why, good gracious ! They arr al
ready leveling t6o ltocky Muuutaius
•uid eat ting the dirt out West. I had
a letter last week from my cousin, who
is living two hundred miles west of the
Pacific .shore, on mttdo land !
. . ... a -. j*--' '
lkw it was Dose—An Irbhman,
addicted to telling queer stories, said he
saw a man beheaded with his hands
tied behind him, who directly picked
up his head and rut it on Lis shoul
ders in the right place.
“11a! ha! ha!’’ said a
‘llow could ho p : ck up his head when,
his hands were tied behind him ?
,At,» sure wbat a ; urty fool ye ore l* -
said Pat ‘O mldn’t ha pick it up with
1i t tat e ? •To the de A vsi p
but In latiou ’.'