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THE DAWSON JOURNAL
Yol. 11.
POI-TIJY.
By »ml lly.
To a coming by and hy
Joy shall gladdon you and I,
Tears be wiped from many an eye,
In the coming by and by.
Oh despair not, weary one,
Ere your day of life is done,
Ere your race is fully run,
Joy shall gild life’s waning sun.
Every life some pleasure knows,
Ere the years draw to a close ;
Joy shall blossom like the rose,
Each shall find some sweet repose.
’Tis a saying old, yet right.
That the blackest, darkest night
Darkest is to mortal sight,
Just before the morning light.
Is your heart okircaßt with woe ?
Pass the hours of life too slow ?
Tears like rain though they should flow
Will but make life’s flowers grow.
Winter comes before ’tis spring,
Spring ere summer birds can sing,
ISnrno on quick and rapid wing
Present grief bright joys shall bring.
There’s a sometime by and by,
Coming both for you and I,
Rainbow, like Hope, spans the sky !
Clouds of gloom shall quickly fly ;
Joy shall bloom where sorrows die.
Augustus Treadwell
Racy Tines.
“Life is but a span of hoses ;
One is “Age” the other “Prime,”
Up and down the hill our course is ;
‘Go in,’ ponis—‘make your time.’
“Boyhood plies the whip of pleasure ;
Youthful folly gives a ptroke ;
Manhood goads them at his leisure—
‘Let ’em rip, they’re tough as oak-’
‘Hi, ha, there ; the stake we’ll pocket,
To the winds let eare be sent ;
Time, 2.4o—“whip in socket:
‘Give ’em string and let ’em went.
‘On the sunny road to fifty,
‘Prime is drowned in Lethe’s stream ;
‘Age’ is left, old, unthrifty ;
Like them proves a one horse team.
‘Age’ jogs on, grows quite unsteady,
Reals and slackens in bis pace ;
‘Kicks the bucket, always ready;
‘Give it up’—Dea'h wins the race.”
jwmwuK'cc-.naEvr'c ifc- mwwxssmemmiuattjmmfi
MISCELLANEOUS.
TUL OL.B> SOLOIlit:.
T have often occasion to pass thro’
a village on the St Alban’s loud, at
one end of which there is so tidy and
conveni tit a public house, that 1 al
ways give ri.y horse his bait there, if 1
happened to be traveling in my gig. 1
had frequently observed an old soldier
who, having lost an eye, a leg, and an
arm, in the service of his country, had
pretty well earned the privilege of
idling away the rest of his life in a
matner par icularly congenial with
the habits of one of his calling
Ho wotlLl sit on a beech outside the
door of this inn, with apijein his
mouth, and a can of beer by iiis side;
and thus he would pass all the fine
months of the year. In winter, he
merely changed his seat. lie was con
stant to his pipe and can ; he took both
with him to the warm chimney-corner
—and thus he enjoyed his out-pen
sion.
During the hour of baiting, I have
often talked to this old man He had
served lust in the early part of the
war on the Peninsu'a lie was lo
quacious enough on other subjects;
but if one questioned him concerning
those last military services, he became
on the instant morose, and uncommu
nicative, and one could not but per
cieve that the topic was disagreeable
and painful to him.
W hat most interested me about this
man was his love for little chbdren.—
He was generally sur rounded by a par
i el of curly headed urchins ; and often
have I seen the mistress of the little
inn consign her infant to the protec
tion of his one arm, when, by an irri
val, she has been called upon to atteud
to the business of the houso. The old
fellow never appeared so contented as
when thus employed.
His pipe was laid aside, his beer
forgot'en, and he Would only think of
amusing and carressing his charge, or
cf lulling it to sle-p. The bigger
children would cluster round him,
clamber ovei him, empty his pipe, *ip
set his can, take all sorts of liberties
with him, jet never meet with a re
buke. At times, however, ho would
appear lost in uneasy thought; gazing
with earnestnes upon the features of
the sleeping infant, while tears would
course down his cheeks.
As 1 drove one morning up to the
door of the inn, and passed the bench
on which the old soldier was, as usual,
sitting, with his lit le flock of children
ploying around him, one of them, a
very young one, suddenly backed into
the road, and in another moment more
would have been crushed ; but the old
man sprang forward ; with a vigorous
and wonderful effort he seized the
child with his only arm, and ti rew i
j several feet out of the way of danger;
’he fell with the exertion, and was
among my horse’s feet.
In suddenly drawing up, I had un
willingly done my very worst by the
poor leilow ; for 1 had caused the ani
mal to trample upon him a second time,
and a wheel had likewise passed over
his body
lie was taken tip ii,sensible. We
carried him to a bed, and alter a lift e
tune fie recovered his recollection.—
Hut he was so severely injured, that
we feared every moment would be his
last.
DAWSON, GA., TIIUIISDAY, DECEMBER 11>, ISG7.
The first words the old man uttered
were :
“The child 1 the child 1”
We assured him that the child was
safe; hut fie would not believe us, and
it became necessary to send to the vil
lage to search for the little creature,
who had'been hurried homo with the
others upon the confusion that the ac
cident had occasioned.
He continued to call for the child,
and was in the greatest distress of
mind till wo had lound it, and had ta
ken it to him as he lay. llis delight
at seeing it alive and unhurt was in
tense ; he wept, he laughed, fie hug
ged it to Ids bosom, and it was not till
fie grew very faint and weary, that he
would suffer us to remove it.
A surgeon arrived and pronounced
that the poor man was so much hurt,
inwardly as well as outwardly, that
nothing could be done to save
him ; and desired us merely to give
him cordials or cooling drink, as tie
should appear to wish for either, lie
lingered for a few days.
I fiad been the cause, though inno
cently, of the poor fellow'’s death. Os
course I took care that all was done
that could alleviate bis sufferings ; and
as long as he lasted I went every day
to pass a few hours oy his bedside. —
The rescued child, too, was brought
to see him each day, by bis own de
sire.’
From the moment he bad been calm
and contented. He knew he was dy
ing, but he could part with life with
out regret—and ihe cloud which I had
so often observe 1 upon his weather
beaten countenance before the accident
never after returned.
The day before he died, as I was
watching alone by his side, lie asked
me for a cordial. Soon after he had
swallowed it, he laid his hand upon my
arm and said :
“Sir, if you will not think it' too great
a trouble to listen to an old man’s talk
I think it will ease my mind to say a
few words to you ”
He was, of course, encouraged to
proceed.
“I die contented —bap; ior than I
have for some years lived. I nave had
a load upon my heart which is not
quite removed, bu. it is a great deal
lightened I have been the means,
under Providence, of saving a young
child’s life. If I have strength to tell
you what I wish, sir, you will under
stand the joy that blessed thought has
been to my heart.”
I gave him another cordial, and he
spoke as follows;
“It. was in a stirring time ihe Duke
of Wellington’s wars after the French
had retreated through Portugal, and
Hadajoz had fallen, and we had d.iven
them fairly over the Spanish frontier,
the light division was ordered on a lew
of their long leagues further, to occu
py a line of posts among the moun
tains wh'ch rise over toe northern
banks of the Guadiana A few com
panies of our regiment advanced to
occupy a village w hich the French had
just abandoned.
“We had a brisk march over a
scorched and rugged country, which
had alieudy been ransacked of all that
could have supplied us with lresli pro
visions; it was many days since we
had heard the creak of a commissary’s
wagon, and we hud been on very short
commons.
“There was no reason to expect much
in the village w e were now ordered to
The French, who had just marched
out, would, of course, have helped
themselves to whatever was portable,
and must have previously drained the
piaffe. We made a search, however,
judgingtliut, possibly,something might
have been concealed from them by the
peasants ; and we actually eoon dis
covered sevetal houses where skins of
wine had been hid.
“A soldier, sir, I take it, after hot
service or fatigue, seldom thinks of
much beyond the comfort of drinking
to excess; and I freely own that our
small party soon caused a sad scene of
confusion.
‘ Every house and hovel was search
ed, and many a poor fe'low who had
contrived to hide his last skin of wine
from his enemies, was obliged to aban
don it to his allies. You might see
the poor natives on al. sides running
away ; some with a morsel of food,
others with a skin of wine in their arms
and followed by the menaces and stag
gering steps of the weary and half
drunken soldiers
‘Wine, wine !’ was the cry in every
part of the village. An English sol
dier, sir, may t>e for months together
in a foreign land, and have a pride in
not knowing how to ask for anything
but liquor. I was no better than the
rest.
“ Wine !’ said I to a poor half starved
and ragged native, who was stealing
c tl, and hiding something under his
torn cloak.
“I have none !’ he cried, ns he broke
from my grasp, and ran quick and
fearfully away.
“ ‘Wine !’ ‘give me wine !’ said l to
him.
“‘I have none !’ he repeated.
“I had already drawn my bayonet.
lam ashamed, sir, to gay, that we
used to do ti at to terrify the poor crea
tures, and make them the sooner give
us their liquor. As I held him by the
collat with one hand, .1 pointed the
bayonet to his breast with the o her,
and I cried:
•“Wine !’
“ ‘l have none ! —it is not wine !’—
and ho spoke the words with such a
look of truth and earnestnes, that had
I not fancied I could trace tbrou sh
the folds ol tis cloak the very shape ot
a small wine skin, I should have be
lieved biin.
“ ‘Lyiug raseal!’ said I, ‘so you won’t
give me the liquor? Then tho dry
earth shall drink it !’ and I stuck the I
point of my bayonet deep into that
which ho was still hugging to his breast.
“Oh. sir! it was not wine that trickled
down—it was blood, warm blood!—and
a piteous wail went like a chill acios.-
iny heart! The poor Spauiard opened
his cloak ; he pointed to his wounded
child; and his wild eyo asked mo plain
er than words could have done, “Mon
ster! are you satisfied?’
“Tbo littlo boy had fastened his
small, clammy hands round a finger of
each of us. He looked at us alternate
ly; and seemed to ask, from his
father and his murderer, that help which
it was beyond the power of one of earth
to give. The change in the poor child’s
countenance showed that it had few min
utes to live. Sometimes it lay so still,
I thought the last pang was over; when
a slight convulsion would agitate itß
frame, and a momentary pressure of i’s
little hands would give the gasping fath
er a short, vaiu ray of hope. You may
believe, sir, that an old soldier, who has
only been able to keep his own life at
the expense of an ey# and two of his
limbs—who has lingered out many a
weary day in a camp hospital after a hot
engagement—must have learnt (o look
on death without, any unnecessary con
cern. I have sometimes wished for it
myself; and often have fell thankful
when my poor wounded comrades have
been released by it‘ from pain. I have
seen it, too, in other shapes. I have
seen the death blow dealt, when its ef
fects have been so instant that the brave
heart’s blood has been ppilt, and tho
pulses have ceased to beat, while the
streak of life and health was still fresh
upon the cheek—when a pmile has re
mained upon the lips of my brother
soldier, even after be bad fallen a corpse
across my path. But, oh ! sir, what is
all this compared with what I suffered
as I watched life ebb slowly from the
wound which I had myself so wantonly
inflicted in the breast of a helpless, in
nocent child! It was by mistake—by
acc.deot. Oh, yes ! I know it, I know
it well. and day aud night I have striven
to forgot that hour. Hut it is of no
use: the cruel recollection never leaves
my mind—that piteous wail is ever in
my ears 1 The father’s agony will fol
low me to the grave !’’
Great l>og FigUt in Frogtown.
Thsre is an excellent moral to tho fol
lowing story, which is told with great
skill. It shows us how a whole village
is sometimes torn to pieces by a tight
between two puppies.
The most remai hrhlc story on record
came ell at Frogtown on the frontier of
Maine, some years ago. It engrossed
the entire c -umm-.ity iu one iadiscrimi
tata u.c!cc—mtermidible lawsuits or
suits at law, distractiou of the town and
it. downfall o r iuiu.
A fanciful g.-nius, named Joe Tuck
er, a man about- town, a louog. r with
out visible means of support, a do-noih
irg, loafing, cigar-rmokii.g. good natur
cd fellow, owned a pre'-ty, beast, always
ot Jo-’a heels, and known as well as his
master, aud irked far hotter by the Fiog
towuers.
One day Joe and Lis dog were pass
ing Bunion’s grocery store, wheu a pie
bald, ugly looking deg, standing along
side a wood wagon, hounded into Joe
Tucker’s dog, knocked Lin heels over
head, and so frightened Bob Carter’s
wife, who was pasiing towards her hus
band’s blacksmith shop with Lis dinner,
that she tumbled, and her old sun bon
net flipped elf aud scared tho horse at
tached to the wagou. He started, hit
Laitherum’s barber pole, upset tho
load of wood, all of which falling down
Gambo’s rifreshmeut cellar struck one
o! Gambo’s children on the head, kill
ing it for a short time stone dead, and
frijihtoued Mrs. Ganffio that she let fall
a jrew pan of boiling hot oysters into
her customer’s lap, who sat waiting for
the savory conco- tion by a table in a
corner, instead of the dish. Mrs. Gam
bo rushed for the child, the customer
for the door. Mrs. Gambo screamed,
the customer yelldd out.
‘Oh ! oh ! oh ohsoh, my potr child.’
‘Eh, esh-e-c-c,’ screamed the poor
cLild.
‘Ob, murder-r r ! Oh, my everlast
ing sin, I’m scalded to ail eternity !'
•Murder, murder !’ roared the custo
mer.
The horse, a part of Iho vrjgon, and
some wood, were ou their mad career.
The owner of the sirange dog came out
of the store just m time to see JooTuck
er size a rock to dom duh lire savage
dog, and not waiting to soe Joe let drive
gave him such a pop on the back that
poor Joe fell for y feet up the street
and striking a lerig ladder upon which
Jrtn Ederby was perched, paint pot in
hand, some fury feet above terra firm a,
brought ladder, Jim and paint pot
sprawling to the earth, crippling poor
j Jim for life, and sprinkling blue paint
j ever the broadcloths, satiucis and culi—
i ooes of Abraham Miller, a formal and
’even letup, ivd Q raker, who ran out of
the door ju-t as the two dog. 4 had got
j fairly at it nip and thigh, nip and catch.
J A glance at things sc wed to oouviuco
(Abraham > f the true slate of the case,
aud in au unusually clcv.tcd tor-e of
voice, Abraham called out to Joe Tuck
-1 er, who had righted up :
j ‘Joseph Tucker, thy dog’s a fight
i mg !’ t
| ‘Let ’em fight it out,’ yelled the pug
! naoious owner of the “ranged g. ‘Let
I eru fight it out. lii bet a h’g of wood
* my dog can beat any d> g iu towu aud I
can beat tho own< r,’
We have .-aid Abraham Miller was a
q riet man ; Q rakers are proverbially
so But the gauntlet turowu by the
stranger from the country Hired the
gall of Abraham, he rushed into the
btorc, aud front tne back yard, having
slipped Lis collar, Abraham brought
forth a t rind.e cu;r, lew, and
power io!.
“Friend 1 ’ said the exoited Quaker,
“thv and ig shall be well beaten, 1 prom
ise thee. Hyko, ti. *e him !”
“Turk, bore boy !’
Aud the dogs went at it. ’
Hob C'urter, tho smith coming up in
time to hoar the stranger’s and. Banco to
tho town, and bent, on a fight with some
body for the damages of his wife, clam
ped the collar of the stranger, and by a
series of ten-pounds-ten upon the face,
back, and sides of his bully antagonist,
with his natural tledgo hammers, Bob
stired up tho ire of the bully strangor
to the top of bis oompass, and they
made sparks fly dreadfully.
Joe Tucker’s dog, reinforced by
Abraham Miller’s, took a fresh start,
and betweeu the two, the strange dog
was being cruelly put to his stumps. —
Deacon Pugh, one of the most pious and
substantial men in Frogtown, came up,
and indeed tho wholo town was assem
bling, and Deacon Pugh armed with a
heavy walking s'ick, and shocked at
tho spectacle before him, marched up to
the dogs, exclaiming as ho did sr ;
‘‘Fie, fie, f.r shame ! disgraceful!
you mean citizens of Frogtowu, will you
stand by and—”
“Don’t thee, don’t thee strike my dog,
D aeon Pugh,” cried Abraham Miller
advaueiug toward the Deacon, who was
about to cut right and Est with his
cane.
‘Your dogs?’ shouted tho Deacon,
with evident fervor.
‘Not my dogs Deacon Pugh,’ said the
Quaker.
‘What did you say to for, thm ?’ said
tho Deacon.
‘I never said they were my dogs,
Deacon Pugh.’
‘You did !' yelled the deacon.
‘Deacon Pugh, thee speaks ground
less,’ sail the Quaker.
‘Y'ou tell a falsehood, Abraham Mil
ler/
‘Thee utter a mendacious assertion,’
reiterated Abraham.
‘You—you—you toll a lie!’ shouted
the Deacon.
‘Thou hast provoked ray civil pas
sion, Deacon Pugh,’ shouted tho stal
wart Q inker, ‘and I will chastise thee.’
Aad into the Deacon’s hair went the
Q inker.
The Deacon, nothing loth, entered
into the fight, and we leave them to
nip and tuck,’ to look to the stranger,
and Bob Carter, who fought and tit, and
fit and fought until Squire Catcheu and
the constat le came up, and in the at
tempt to preserve peace and arrest the
offenders, the Hquiie was thrust through
the window of a neighboring watch
maker, doing a heap of damage, which
lawyer Hooker, iu attempting to aid the
constable, was hit iu mistake by the fu
rious blacksmith, in the ribs, and went
reeling down Gambo’s cellar with fright
ful velocity.
The friends and fellow churchmen of
Deacon I’ugL took rides against the
Qrak.r antagonist, and thin the shop
hoys of Abraham, seeing their employ
er ibus beset, came to the rescue, while
two Irishmen, full of fun aad frollic,
believing it to be a ‘free fight,’ tried
their Lands and sticks upon tho combat
ants so iudiscrimintaely that in loss
than Lallan hour the happy village of
Frogtowu was shaken from its propriety
hy one grand, sublimely rediculous and
almost terrific battle.
Heads aud windows were smashed ;
children and women screamed; dogs
barked; and so furious, mad, ard cxei
i and btsanue the wholo community, that
a quiet looker on, if there had bceu any
would have declared that the evil ones
were all iu Frogtown.
A heavy thunder storm fi r ally put
an cud to the row, tho dogs were more
or less killed, a child severely wounded
a man sttided, a wagon broke, the horea
rau hitnidf to death, his owner badly
beaten by Bob Carter, whose wife and
the wives of many others wero danger
ously scared, the painter, war crippled,
dry goods ruined, a Quaker and a dea
con, two Irishmen, lawyer Hooker,
Squire Crtchcip, and some fifty others,
shamefully whipped. Lawsuits ensued,
feuds followed, aud the entire peace
and good repute of Frogtown annihila
ted —all by a remarkable dog fight.
Kegrocs, Colored l*eoi»le, Etc.
The phraza “colored people,” always
used in the Jacobin, aud two often in
the Democratic press, has no meaning
in if. W o are all “colored people ’’ —
Caucasian, Monglian, ote, as well as Af
rican. Wo Caucasians, aro blonde,
brunettes, etc., cto. AH “colored peo
ple, some light, as the Saxons, somj
dark as the Spaniards, with Moorish
blood in their wins. Negroes are
no more ‘colored people’ than wc Whites
are.
liut ‘a negro’ is a negro ,and nothing
but a negro, and a negro man differs
more from t white man, than a white
man from a white woman. The negro
has not any hair on his head—only
wool; no brain, no head, nor mouth,
nor chin, like a white man’s ; no shoul
ders, legs, nor feet, u: r heels, nor shins,
like while men’s—and iu other parts
cl his anatomy, not lit for newspaper dis
cussion, he differs in ail respects from a
white man.
Thus tho negro is a negro, and only
a uegrs, admirable in Lis sphere of life,
for which God made him, to bo the ser
vant cf the white man—but odious and
accursed, when, as in tbc South, he rides
over the white man as Lis master
A'’ w York Kxpress.
“How often do you knead bread ?’’
asked one housekeeper of ano‘. her.
How often ? Why, I might say wo
need it continually,” replied the oth-
I er.
A H iker has invented anew kind
jof yeast. It makes bread so light
! that a pound on’y weighs twelve oun
’cts
No. -XT'.
HOW PEHBLIIN ASIiED'ITIIE
OI.I> MAT.
]IY JOHN QUILL.
Peebles luid just asked Mr. Merri
weather’s daughter if she would give
him a lift out of bucholordotn ; aud she
said “yes.” It therefore became ab
solutely necessary lo get the old mans
permission, so as Peebles said, that ar
rangements might be made fur hopping
the conjugal twig.
Peebles said he and rather pop the
interrogatory to all of old Men iweath
<r s daughters, and bis sisters and his
female cousin, and his aun' Hannah m
the country, and the wholo of Ins fe
male relations than to ask old Merri
weather,
But it had to be done, so ho sat
down and studied out a speech which
he was going to disgorge tc ol 1 Mer
riweather the very first chance he got
to shy it at him. 8o Peebles dropped
in on him one Sunday evening, when
all tho family meandered around lo
class-meeting, and found him doing a
sum in beer measure trying lo calcu
late the exact number of quarts his in
terior could hold without blowing the
head off of him.
“blow are von. Peel) ?” said old
Mari weather, as Peebles walked in as
white as a chunk of chain, and tremb
ling as if lie had swallowed a condens
ed earthquake. Peebles was afraid to
answer, because be wasn’t sure about
tbut speech. He knew he had to keep
liis grip on it while he hud it there, or
it would slip away from him quicker
than an oiled eel through an auge>'
hole So ho blurted right out:
‘Mr. Mernweather, sir : Perhaps it
may not be unknown to you, sir, that
during an extended period of some
four or five years I have been busily
engaged in the prosecution of a com- j
mercial enterprise—”
‘-Is that so, and keepirr’ it a secret
all the time, while I thought you was
tending store Well, by George,
you’re one of ’em, now ain’t you ?” said i
the old man.
Peebles had to begin all over nenin
to get the run of it.
“Mr. Mernweather, bir : Perhaps it
may not he unkixrwn to you that dur
ing a p riod of s me five years I hare
been engaged in the prosecution of a
commercial enterprise, with a deter
urination to procure a sufficient main
terrance ”
“Hit down, I’eeb, and help yourself
to beer. Don’t stand there holding
your hat like a blind beggar w ith a
paralysis What’s the matter with
you anyway? I never see you be
have yourself so bad in all my born
d aV B ”
.Peebles was knocked out of lime
again, and had to wander back and
take a fresh start.
“Mr. Merriweather, sir: Tt may not
be unknown to you that during a peri
od of five years, I have been n the
prosecution of a commercial enter
prise, with the determination to pro
mise a sufficient maintenace ”
“A whitrii-nn<%?” asked old Merri
weather; but Peebles held cm to the
last word like it was his only ohunee,
and went on.
“Iu tho hope that some day I might
enter wedlock, and bestow my eaithly
possessions upon one whom I could
call my own. I have been a lonely
man, sir, and have felt that it was not
good for a tnau to be loft alone, there
fore ”
“Neither is it, Feeb, and I’m all fired
glad you dropped in. How’s the old
man ?”
“Mr. Merriweather, sir,” said Pee
bles, in despairing confusion, raising
his voice to a yell, “it may be unknown
to you that during an extended period
of lonely man, I hav® been engaged to
enter wedlock, and to bestow nil my
eornmircial enterprise upon one V.hom
l could procure to boa determination,
to be good for a sufficient possessions
—no, I mean—that is—t h a t—Mr.
Merriweutt er, sir. It may no; be un
known ”
“And then again it may. Look
here Peeb, you’d better lay down, anj
lake something warm, for you ain’t
well.”
Peebles sweating like a four year old
colt, went in again.
Mr. Merriweather, sir: It may not
bo lonely for you to prosecute me
whom you can ea Ia friend for a com
mercial mnintennncA*, ’but—but—oh,
dung it—Mr. Merriweather—sir—it—•
is —”
“Oh, Pueb’es, you talk as wild as a
jackass. I never seed a more first
class idiot in the whole course of rnv
life. Wbut’s the matter w ith you, afty
how
“Wr. Mernweather, sir,” said Pee
bles, iu an agony of despuir, “it may
not bo unknown that you prosecuted a
lonely man who is not good lor a com
mercial period of wedh.ek felt for some
five years—but ”
here, Peebles, you’re drunk,
and if you can’t behave better than
that, you’d better leave. If you don’t
Pli chuck you out, or I’m a Dutih
man ”
“Mr Merriweather, sir,” said Pee
bles, frantic with despair, “it may not
be unkunvn to you that my earthly
possessions are engaged to enter wed
lock five years witir a sufficiently lone
ly man A Ito is not good lor a commer
cial maintenance ”
“Th. bloody <lu<x - e he isn’t. Now
you jist git up and git, old hossq orl’ll
knock what little brains out of you,
you’ve got left.”
ith that old Merriweather took
Peebles by the shirt collar and the part
of bis pants that wears out first, il he
sirs down much, and thot him out into
the street, as :i lie had just run against
a locomotive going at-tlie rate of ibrtv
Hides an hour.
Btfcro old Merriweather b-d a
chance to shut .he front door, Peublea
collected his logs and on© thing and
unotlicr that were lying around on the
pavement and arranged himself in a
vertical position, and then ho yelled
out:
“Mr Merriweathor, sir, it may not
be unkhown to you v which
mido the old man so wretched mad
that ho went out and set a bull terrior
on Peebles before he had a chance to
raise a brogan, and there was a scien
tific dog fight with odds in favor ol the
dog, until they got to the fence, and
even then Pebbles would’have carried
bull terrior homo, griped like a olamp
on his leg, if the meat hadn’t been so
tender, and the dog fueling that some
thing must eventually give W’ay, held
on until he got his chop off of Peebles
calf, and Peebles went home hulf a
pound lighter, while Merriweather aa
serts to this day that he had to draw
all the dog’s teeth to get the flesh out
his muir.ti, “for he had an awful holt
for such a small animil ”
Ol course Merri weather's daughter
heard about i', and she was so mad
that she never gave tiia old Han any
peace until ho went around the next
day to fee Peebles about it. Peebles
looked as pale as a ghost from loss of
| blood and beef, and tie had about a
j yard and a half of muslin wrapped
around his off leg, and Merriweather
' said:
“Peeb, I’m sorroy about that muss
j lust uignt,but if you didu’t behave like
: a raving maniac, I'm a loafer. I never
I seed such a deliberate ass since I was
, born. W bat’s the meuniug ot it any
way ?’’
“I was only tryin’ to ask you to let
nie nlarry your daughter,” groaned
i Peebles ■
“Great—vvliat?—hope you didu’t
mean to say well, I hope l may be
shot. \\ ell it you ain’t a regular old
j wooden headsd idiot—l thought your
mind whs wandering. Why didn’t
you say it i igbt out ? Why; of course
you can hqve her. I’m glad to get
rid ot her. Take her, my boy go it,
go it, and 1 11 throw a lot of first-class
blessings info the bargain.”
And Peebles loosed ruefully at his
defective leg and wished he hadn’t
been such a fool, but ho wont out and
married the girl and lived happ'y with
her for about two months, and at the
end of that time, be told a confidential
friend that ho would willingly tnko
more trouble and undergo a million
more dog- bi'es to get rid of her.
YJih Wonders of Ancient Home.
MoT rn writers, talfiug London and
Paris far their measure of material civ
ilizrtioo, total unwilling to admit that
It ane could have reached such a pitch
of glory and wealth, and power. To
him who stands within tho narrow lim
its ol the Furam, as it new appears, it
seems incredible that it could have been
the con.ro cf a much larger city than
Europe can now boast of. Grave his
torians are loth to compromise their dig
nity nnd character tor truth by admit
ting statements which seem to men of
limited views to ho fabulous, and which
transcend modern experience. Hut wo
should reai rnber that most Gs the mon
uments of Ancient Home Lave entirely
disappeared. Nothing remains of tho
palace of the Ciciars, which nearly cov
ered the Palatine Hill; little of the Fo
ra wLieh, connected together, covered
a spice tv. ice as large as that inclosed
by tho palaces of the Louvre and Tuil
erittd with all their galleries and courts ;
almost noth ng of tho glories of the Cap
itoliue Ilill ; and little comparatively
of those Thermae which were a mile iu
circuit. But what does attests an nn
parrthJed grandeur—the broken pillars
of the Forum ; the lofty eolumos of Tra
jan and marcus Aurilins ; the Panthe
on, lifting its spacious dome 200 feet in
tho air ; the mere vistihule of the baths
of Agrippo ; the triumphal arches of
Titus and Trajan and Constantine! the
bridges which span the Tiber ; the aque
ducts which the Campagna ; the Cloaca
Maxima, which drained tho marshes
and lake of the infant city; but above
all the Collosseum. TVhat glory and
shame are associated with that single
edifice 1 That al me if nothing else re
mained of pagan antiquity, would indi
cate a grandeur and a folly such as can
not now be seen on earth. It reveals a
wonderful skill in masonry, and great
architectural strength ; it shows the re
sources and wealth of rulers who must
have the treasures of the world at their
command ; it indicates an eDormoas pop
ulation since it would seat, all the male
adults of the city of New York, it shows
the r.stlcsß passion of people
for excitement, and tl e necessity on the
part cf the rulers of yielding to this
taste. What leisure and indolence
marked a city whiefi could afford to
give up so niqck tiino to the demoralized
>ports ! what facilities for transporta
ti m were afforded, when so many wild
beasts i ruld be brSught to the eapitol
from tho central parts of Africa without
oailiin; cut uuui-ual comment: how im
perious a populace (bat compelled tho
government to provide such expensive
sports. Hours at Home.
“I wonder w here those ciouds arc go.
ing ?” sigh'd Flora, pensively, as sho
pointed jwbh her Jelicato finger to tbo
etvy ma s, i that floaied in the sky.
•‘I think they arc going to thunder,’
said her brother.
A'ner;ro was driving a mule in Ja
maica, when the animal suddenly stop
ped and refused to budge ‘Won’t you
go, rb V said the boy. ‘Feel gran’, do
you? 1 s’pose you forget your sadder
was a jackass ’
‘T think,'said a wilt, who eould net
ncr«s v.itli her huebana, ‘[think, Mr.
Jnuos, Wft had better dhiie tho bouso.
\ ou shall live on one side and I on tho
other.” ‘‘Very well, toy dear,’ replied
the wretch, ‘you take tho ou'.slde and
I’ll have the* inside.’
It needs no prophet to t*ll us that, a
boy or girl or girl who refuses obedi
ence to a kind parent will not be likely
to make a good citizen or n gtod'Chris
tiuu.
An old bachelor say a the talk of
w men is usually ab ut meu : tfea
. e.r iu he ; he.