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ficutlnvealerii Railroad.
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THE DAWSON JOURNAL.
Yol. 11.
DAWSON JOURNAL.
DAWSON, GA., JAN. 9, 1868^
EDITORIAL RHLVITIES.
Century plants grow wild in Cali
fornia, and are rooted out of gardens
as a nuisance.
Milwaukee has officially decided the
value of a man’s beard In a fight a
ruffian pulled out a man’s beard and
the court awarded him fifteen dollars’
damages.
The Treasury building in Washing
ton is to cost $5,000,0000.
George Francis Train claims to be
worth $30,000,000.
Zaccheus Greely, father of Horace
Greeley, died at Fort Wayne, Penn
sylvania, on the 18th iust., aged 86
years.
The 4th of March is fixed for hoist
ing the American flag io Huvun::a by
native Cubans in favor of annexa
tion.
Seven hundred and seventeen Mis
sourians are enjoying the hospitality
of the State in the penitentiary.
The Kingdom of Bavaria is smaller
than the Slate of New York, and yet
its standing army numbers 100,000
men.
If tho Pope holds out two years lon
ger, he will have sat on the Pontifical
throne for a period exceeding that of
anv of his two hundred and fifty or
sixty predecessors.
The rumor that Secretary Seward
has bought Saturn’s ring, Jutiper’s
inoons and half a dozen asteriods is
contradicted.
The scientific men inform us that
light which left stars ol (he twe’th
magnitude when the Israelites crossed
the Red Sea, has not yot reached the
earth.
Five Pennsylvania patriots wish to
be the Radical candidate for the Vico
Presidency. These are Cameron, Cur
tin, Covode, Grow and Kelley.
It is repor’ed that ail the members
of the Republican National Commit
tee, except Horace Greeley and two
others, are in favor of Grant for Pres
ident.
The peasant woo predicted the
death of the Czar Nicholas within a
year, has made the same predie'ion in
the ease of Alexander. The former
monarch was indignan’ and imprison
ed the oflender, but the present Czar
heard the prediction with equanimi
ty-
Senator Sherman is preparing a re
port on international coinage. He has
received specimen coins agreed on at
the Paris Congress, w hich w ill pass for
the same value among the nations rep
resented there.
The Government tax of two and a
half per cent, on the cotton crop takes
one bale of every forty, a tax tar
heavier than is laid on any other pro
duct.
The Mexican General Marquez re
cently employed a bricklayer to make
a secret chamber in one of his hocses
and ‘.he man has not since been seen.
They say that Marqbez killed him to
save the secret.
The shower of stones at the 1 ate
eruption ol Vesuvius reached the alti
tude of 1,000 feet
It cost half a million to allow Bout
well & Cos. to extirguish themselves
with impeachment. But it was cheap
on the whole.
Phinens T. Barnum, n%phew and
namesake of the grtat P. T. B , has
been arrested in Connecticut for steal
ing bis step-lather's watch-.
The London Times calls the defeat
of impeachment “a startling instance
of the power of the public opinion on
a legislative body.”
A Florida negro went to a political
meeting armed with a pistol which he
.ingeniously inserted in his boot leg,
muzzle up, and cocked. He killed only
himself.
Fifty lives were recently lost by an
explosion on board a steamer at Liver
pool.
The Spanish government offers to
sell Cuba and Porto Pico to the Uni
ted State*.
Since the 20th of Bej>tember 50,673
bushels of apples have been shipped
lrom Toledo.
The domestic exports of the United
States fur thq quarter c’osing with
October Ist, were 890,0‘.0,000 in
value.
It is thought probable the Demo
cratic National Convention will be held
at Baltimore, soon after the Chicago
Convention
The last number of “Brick”
Pomeroy’s “La Crosse Democrat'* ap
}«ear* in eight page form.
DAWSON, GA., THURSDAY, JANUARY I>, 186^.
Relief for file Ocstiliitc People
of the Month.
Gen. Howard proposes to meet the
cases of distress in the South by a lib
eral application of tho surplus funds
under his control as bead of the Freed
men’a Bureau. An unexpended bal
ance of over $8,000,000 still remains
in the exchequer of the Bureau. In
the case of some South Carolina plan,
ter?, who had no money to commence
.operations for raising cotton last year,
though not legally authorized to make
such disposition cf the Bureau funds,
advanced a sum of SBO,OOO, taking a
lien on the crops for tho repayment of
the money. When the planters sold
their crops the entire amount was li
quidated, and General Howard’s bene
ficent course was gratefully appreciated.
In the case of tho Mississippi planters,
who lost everything by the river inun
dations, it is proposed to adopt a similar
considerate and politic plaD of action;
.tid to relieye immediate distress among
the working people, it is suggested to
establish depots of provisions at points
convenient to the district in which the
greatest want prevails. General Gil
lem advises that some such stcpsfhnuld
be taken and acted on without delay;
and recently stated, in conversation with
a correspondent of tbc New York Her
ald, that the present distress, in his
judgment, was confined to the alluvial
counties of Mississippi, where the plan
! tors had all their agricultural imple
ments swept away by the overflowing,
lie admits there is a rising of the ne
groes, but not of a political character,
the scope of the insurrection embracing
nothing more than the slaughter of pigs
and poultry. The conspiracy against
hogs is especially sanguinary, numbers
cl them being nightly waylaid to furnish
pork suppers for the hungry darkies
Necessity not being cogn’zant of law,
and neither work nor food being within
cnvencint reach of the negroes, this
method of satisfying nature’s longings is
considered justifiat 1 by tne friends of
the negroes. General Gillem received
assurance a from the President and Gen.
I Grant that whatever scheme he adopt
j ed to give immediate relief to the suffer
ers in the Sou'h would receive their ap
probatim.—
ContiHutioiiniity of Ilie Rccoss
strisctioia Acts.
There ass several highly important
cases about to come before the Su
preme Court of the United States,
each of which will test the constitu
tionality of tho Reconstruction Acts
One case, the trial of which is expect
ed to begin very shortly, will decide
the question as to whether Virginia is
in or out of ’.he Union It is confi
dently believed that the deci-ion of
the court will be that Virginia is not
now and never has been out of the
Union, in which case the situation in
the Southern States will be materially
changed. The President, it is said,
will then instruct the Military District
Commanders to act in strict accord
ance with tho decision of the highest
tribunal of the nation, and permit the
civil governments to resume their
functions untrammelled by the military
power. It is the belief of a prominent
Senator here that a majority ot the
Judges of the Supreme Court, when
the McArdle case comes up, will de
cide that the Reconstruction Acts are
unconstitutional, that Chief Justice
Chase will deliver the minority report
and nrake the most of the oppoitunity
to champion the acts and identify him
self yet more earnestly with the Radi
cal party North and South. If the
bottom should thus fall out of the
scheme f-r Africanizing the Southern
States, it is believed Gen. Grant will
reject any nomination coming from the
Republican party.
Worthy or Imitation —We notice
in a Western paper the fact that there
is a merchant in the town in which the
paper is prin ed, who, whenever a man
buys a good bill of goods from hint,
makes the purchaser a present ol the
village paper in which he advertises,
for one year, and .hus lie manages to
keep toe customer constantly remind
ed of his business—and lie will never
forget such a present Shou <J that
man give his customers two dollars in
greenbacks or in goods, it might soon
be forgotton ; hut when he is once a
week for fif'y two weeks, placed in re
ceipt of his friend's bounty, can any
one doubt its being a good way to ad
vertise ? This is worthy of imitation
by business men
Sea tdatous-stories are told in Frank
fort in regard, to the conduct ot the
Prince of Wales and his brother-in
law the young King of Greece, during
their recent two days’ sojourn in that
city. One day the Prince and Kiug of
Greece, rode in an open barouche with
three lorettes through the streets They
bad several bottles of brandy in their
carriage, and were noisy and intoxica
ted.
A 11 AllvrED HOUSE.
Noises, Groans, Uneasy Doors—A Liv
id Human head, Dripping with blood,
Rolling over the Moor—The Ghost
of a Murdered Peddler.
Near I.acon, Illinois, there is a lone
ly house that just now beats the unen
viable notoriety of being haunted. It
is an unpainted two-story structure
standing by itself, away from the main
road, and where dark deeds could he
perpetrated with little risk, and is whal
is termed a “renter’s” house. Some
time last spring a family came to the
neighborhood, and, leasing the adjoin
ing ground, moved into the house.—
The first night of the arrival was sig
nalled by mysterious noises, groans,
etc., proceeding from a certain unoccu
pied room, attended with opening and
shutting doors, &e.
The next night wan noiser than the
first, and glimpses were had of a shad
«>wy form, passing swiftly into the
room and out doors, which opened and
shut of their own accord. They re
mained a week, keeping their own
counsel, and and imparting their fears
to the proprietor alone, who bought
their silence and released them from
ah engagements.
Two weeks later another tenant ar
rived and moved into the house, whol
ly uniODscious of its ghostly visitors.
The firs' and second nights passed
without any disturbance; on the third
while soundly sleeping, they were
awakened by a most heart-rending
scream from the room before alluded
to, followed by heavy blows, and then
a w ild, haggard-looking person came
out, passed through the door, which
seemed to open and close of its own
accord and disappeared in the dark
ness. The occupier of the house was
no coward, and his firs - impulse was,
that robbers were at work, but he
seemed spell-bcund and unable to
move himself.
Severn nights passed with more or
less alaims his family grew nervous
and declared they would not remain,
but he still believing that something
more tangible than spirits produced
the row, determined to watch taenext
night in the room adjoining the small
sleep ng apartment from which the
nois s came Somewhere between 12
and 1 o'clock the door opened and
the same figure appeared, muking di
reet'y for the spot where the watcher
stood. It was a fearful moment, but
ghost or no ghost, he was not to he
frightened, and as the apparition pass
ed dealt it a blow which seemed to
pass clean through the intruder. There
were the same heavy blows and
shrieks, and then a livid human head,
dripping wi h blood, rolled out upon
the floor.
The house was vacated the next day,
the owner purchasing his silence with
means sufficient to carry him to Kan
sae.
Now for an explanation of this
strange affair Last winter the house
was occupied for a season by a rough
and sinister looking family of “refu
gees,” who are believed to have mur
dered a peddler traveling about tho
country carrying a pack. lie visited
most of the farmers through the neigh
borhood, and was lust seen just at
nightfall, going in the direction of this
house, which it is believed he never
left alive. Shortly after they removed
no one knows whither, and took with
them a barrel of salted pork, though
never known to fatten or purchase a
pig. Headers of newspapers at -this
time will remember the arrival at Lou
isville, Ky., of a barrel, which, excit
ing suspicions lrom its sickening stench,
wa? opened, and found to contain hu
man remains, shipped by whom has
never been discovered, though detec
tives are at work upon the subject
An examination of the floor shows
daru-look'ng stains, par'ially eradicat
ed with a plane, and there are certain
suspicious spots upon tho wall. In
corrobora’ton, tbe New York papers
of two weeks ago had a notice asxing
information concerning one Juan
Blanque, a Neapolitan, last heard from
through a letter mailed at Lacon iu
Decetnb >r last, w herein he sta ed be
was meeting with great success. : j
Ihe information herein -eontcinod j
gained from the owner ol the ptermses
in person, and except the supernatural
part, which he cannot account, is fully
credited by the writer.
General Grant. —ln a life of Gen.
Grant, by Col. Badesu, a member of
his staff, just published, it is state 1
among other things not f itherto known
to the public, that the General was a ;
slaveholder, and that, about the times j
of D/nelson and Shiloh, lie was three
times suspended by Halleck, who at j
that time commanded the department. I
When Halleck was ordered to Wash- j
ington as mi'itary adviser and com
manding General, he offered the com
mand of Grant’s army at Corinth to a
Quartermaster named Alien, whose rank
was that of Colonel
Artificial Comb for Bees —A
Swiss invention his been introduced to
aid bees in tbe formation af the if comb.
Narrow sheets of wax are imprinted, by
machinery so as exactly to represent the
dividing wall of comb betweeu the cells,
these strips are attached to the top of
the empty hive, before the new swanu
:s pi.* i?, thus CDabl ng the bees to go
immediately to work, and .Iso guid
ing them iu making the sheets of comb
in the proper direction
One hundred aDd twenty-six farms,
comprising neatly eight thousand acres,
added to productive force of Florida du
ing November.
From ttie Cincinnati Commercial.
Tint Orrtipttliciit: o? Ike People.
Social statistics arc a very modern
growth in this country. VVe have been
too .busy with living and acting to tuko
account of our modes ot life or methods
of employment Up to the date of the
Inst census, we believe, no attempt bad
been made to classify or record the em
ployments of the people, aud even tho
statistics gathered under that head in
1860 must be regarded as very rudimen
tary and imperfect Still, as presout
ing what may be taken as an approxi
mation to tbe facts, the figures represent
ing the occupations of tho people arc
highly interesting.
An analysis of tho returns gives the
following number of adult persons en
gaged in the several employments spec
ified :
Agriculturists, - 3,219,495
Mechanics & manufacturers, 480,905
Diylaboters, 969,000
Servants, 560.000
M rebants, 123 000
Clerks, 185 000
Physicians, 54,000
Clergymen, * 37,000
Lawyers, 33,193
Our entire population having been a
little over thirty one millions, tne num
ber of persons whoso occupations are
reported amounts to about one in every
six, or very nearly the average of heads
of 1 unifies or legal voters to the whole
population. The remaining five-sixths
may he reckoned (as ts definitely done
in ihc- British census) as the “domestic
clas»,” or women and oersons under age
Excluding this class, aud taking on y
the five millions seven hundred thous
and (in round numbers) who are re
turned as having an active occupation,
we fiud the following result:
Proportion iu agriculture, 1 to If
Or rather more than one half.
Proportion engaged in manu
factures, 1 to 12
Proportion engaged in mer
cantile life, 1 to 18
Proportion employe! os day
laborers, 1 to 6
Proportion employed as ser
vants, 1 to 10
Proportional number of phy
sicians, 1 to 100
Proportional number of oler
gvnicD, 1 to 150
Proportional number of law
yers, 1 to 175
If we take the persons composing
what are commonly called the learned
professions, we fit and that there arc, a?
compared with the whole population :
One physician to every 600 pooplc.
Oae clergyman to every 800 people.
Uno lawyer to every 1,000 people.
One merchant to every 250 people.
One mauufaoturer to every 65 people.
One farmer to every 10 people.
Appearance cf Jfscs. —The llall
owdl Gazette has possession of a very
ancient work called the “Spy," from
which it:-ays: ’The following descrip
tion of the Savior of mandkind, writer
by Publius S-'ntalus, Governor ts Judea,
and sent to the Roman Senate when
fame of the Messiah began to spread, is
quoted by the ‘Spy’ iu a letter ts Bed
redin, Superior of the D rvesscs of the
Convent of Cogin in Notcli?:
“There lives at this time in Judea, a
man of singulir virtue, whose name is
Jesus Christ, and whom the barbarians
esteem as a Prophet; but his own fol
lowers adore him as the offspring of im
mortal God. He calls back the dead
front their graves, and heals all sorts of
disease with a word or touch. He is
tall and well shaped ; of an amiable,
reverend aspect: his hair of a color that
can hardly be matched, falling into beau
tiful curls below his ears and very grace
fully touching Gn his shoulders, and
parted on the crown of his head like the
Nazarites; bis forehead is very smooth
anu large, his cheek without other spot
than tout of a lovely red : his nose and
mouth are formed with exquisite sym
pathy ; bis heard thick and of a color
suitable to the hair of his hoad, react
ing aD inch b low his chin, and
parting in the middle likp a fork; his
eyes btigh', clear and sereno ; he re
bukes with niagesty, counsels with
mildness ; bis whole address whether in
word or deed, being elegant and g’ave ;
no man has seen him laugh, but he is
often seen to weep; he is very temper
ate, modest aud wise, a man for hi? ex
cellent beauty aud divine perfeotioui,
surpassing the children of aten.”
Solomon’s Temple Lieutenant
Women, an officer of the Royal En
gineers, has for a long time punt been
engaged, at the expense of an English
society, in making extensive explora
tions on tho site ol the Temple ot Sol
omon ; in Jerusalem, and has already
made some startling discoveries lie
has, it is stated established oy actual
deinonst ation that tho south wall of
the sacred enclosure, which contained
the Temple, is buriod lor mote than
half its depth beneatli an accumula
tion of rubbish—probably the ruins of
the successive buildings which once
crow ned it—and if hared to its foun
dution the wail would present an un
broken face of solid masonry of near
ly 1000 leet lon s , and for a large por
tion of that distance more than 150
feet in height.
* In Gibson county, la., four white
men waylaid a negro named Mulligan,
suspected of havipg stolen money from
Samuel Stcene, and hong him several
tijjes, with a view to extorting a con
fession. Tbe negro did not confess—
probably because he knew nothing
about it. The Democrat says the lynch
ers are all Republicans What a ter
rible outiage that would have been had
it occurred in Georgia.
IVo. 41).
Extinction if tiie Elephant.—
According to tho People's Magazine,
thoro i? reason to apprehend, at no dis
tant day the almost total cxtiactioo of
this coble and valuable animal. It says
that an enormous uumber of them ere
destroyed in tho course of every year,
often as unpleasant neighbors to man
in the wild state, prone to make havoc’
with the rice and grain field, but far
more persistently and fully to meet tbe
demauds of commerce far the ivory of
the tusks. Though the largest, and the
strongest of all exi-tiog quadrupeds, tho
animal is very readily decoyed into cap
tivity in order- to be domesticated, aod
is as easily slain by the hunter’s rifle.
The great hull elephaut of three ton3
weight—leader of herd—generally falls
lifeless in an instant, if a ball is skill
fully planted in tho eye, or at the base
of tho trunk, or behind the ear; aui
‘crack’ sportsmen have been known to
kill right and loft one with each barrel
In part of the northern province of
Ceylon, upon the reward es a few shil
lings per head being offered by tho au
thorities, 3,500 wore dispatched in less
than three year* by the natives. Shef
field alono requires annually the slaugh
ter of a large army of the huge pachy
derms, estimated some years ago at 22,-
000, to luruisj ivory for the various ar
ticles produced in its manufacturing es
tablishments ; and every civil.zed couc
tay needs a supply of the material for
the useful and ornamental arts. Hence,
not being prolific, it, is by no means im
probable that long before our human
story is over the elephaut will be num
bered with extinct species.
Men and Women Get of Employ
ment in New York —The New York
World publishes a i nrcfully prepared
statement, showing that fifty thousand
men and women in that city are now
out of work, and calls tho serious at
tention of Congress (which devotes so
much of its attention to radical legisla*
tion) to the startling fast. The Woild
says:
Fifty thousand persons in New York,
who live by the lubor of their hands,
out of employ, is a more truthful state
ment of our financial condition than
columns of deftly arranged figures re
luting to the national debt. Look at
some of the facts •
Os tho 28,000 artisans employed in
the jewelry’ busmens, 40 per cent, are
out of employ ; carpocters’ wages have
been reduced from $3 50 to $2 50 a
day’, and only half of the journeymen
can find employment; of ha'ters, there
are 400 who can get work hut one day
in six • of tbe 20,000 tailors in the city,
one quarter are unemployed, the quan
tity of work for them is"CO per cent,
less than that assigned them at this
time last year, and their wages have
been reduced by 33} per cent; 'he
iron-workers say that their business
has not been, in twenty years, so dull
as it is now ; at least 1,000 shipwrights
are out of employ, an 1 fritn < tie rad
ol the East river to the other but five
vessels are building, of which two are
steam boats, two tire ferry boats, and
one is a sailing vessel; and, to close
this sad list,, it is estima'ed that 3,000
servant girls are seeking places, but
find none.
A Vermont Anecdote.
The late Rev Mr Twichell was the
most noted Methodist minister in Ver
mont, for shrewd and laughable say
ings In the pulpit ho maintained a
suitable gravity of manner rnd expres
sion, but out of thepu’pit he overflow
ed with mischief. Occasionally he
would, if emergency seemed to require
induce something queer into a sermon,
for the sake of amusiug tho flagging
attention of his hearers. It was him
who originated the story of the great
mosquitoes.
Seeing that some of his audience
were getting sleepy he paused in his
discourse, and distressed as follows—
“ Brethren, you haven’t any idea of
the sufferings of our missionaries in
the new settlements, on account of the
mosquitoes. In some of these regions
they arc enormous. A great many of
them will weigh a pound, and they
will get on tho logs and bark when
tne Missionaries are coming along”
By this time all ears and eyes were
open, and he proceeded to fiuioh his
discourse
The next day one of his hearers call
ed on hint to account for telling lies in
the pulpit.
“1 here never was a mosquito that
weighed a pound,” said he.
“But I did not say one would weigh
a pound. I said ‘a gtent many’ would
weigh a pound, amfl think a million
would.”
“But you said they would bark at
the missionaries ”
“No, no, brother; I said they would
get on the logs and bark.”
The Right Persuasion.—lc terri
ble agony a soldier dying ia the hospit
al. A visitor asked him :
“What Church are you of?”
“Os the Church of Christ," ho re
plied.
“I mean of what persuasion are you?”
then inquired tho visitor,
“Persuasion,"’ asked the dying man,
as his eyes looked heavenward, beaming .
with lovo to the Savior, “I ampersand ]
td that neither death cor life, nor an—l
gels, nor prinu’pjliries, nor peweru, cor i
things to Como, uor heightb, nor depth, j
nor any crea'ure, shall separate me from
the love of God which is in Christ Je
sus.”
Another Fenian ixploEton has occur
red in England, this time killing sever
al policemen. The basis ol tho Union
Fenian Brotherhood under the presi
dency cf John Mitchell ispuhli.h^d.
CARRIERS’ ADDRESS
TO TBE
I’atrois of the ’‘Dawson Journal.”
January Ist., 1868.
The Carrier greet* with rustic lay,
Bis patrons on this New Year’s day ;
The poet’s horse in haste ho mounts
And doings of the year recounts.
The ancient bards were said to sing,
As muses taught, when on the wing;
Poured through the soul their sweetsst song,
That flowed in measured strains along,
But no such aids the Carrier claims;
Modest arid humble r.re his aims.
The history of the fleeting year,
Be w 'ave3in verse with boyish fear,
Though it may wring fromsomo a silent tear,
Whose heartr, like autumn leaves, are with
ered, dry and sear.
’Trrou.-i prove a task for Byron, Moore—-
Or any hard of ancieat lore,
To tuns to pleasant, jingling sound
What sixty-seven has brought around,
Commerce, science, education—
The planting interests of the nation—
Every branch is paralyzed—
Tho money market is capsized—
The cotton-field hae been deserted
Sambo’s mind has been diverted,
He lays down the shovel and tbe hoe,
To Legislative halls to go,
The jury-box and other places,
Bust share their quoto of black faces,
The poor “white trash” must stand aside—
Let Sambo into office “slide.’
Joe Brown and Blodgett otand no show—
Cuifec to Con~rees too must ge.
If things more on at such a rate,
Thro’ the year of aixty-eight,
The Itadicals may legislate
The negrec’s kinky hair all straight,
Steveus and Sumner epeak and write,
Os nothing but to “strike out white,”
Our once proud nation in their hands,
Would soon be bare as Afric’s sands.
Thank Heaven Jthere are patriots brave
,Our land lrom such disgrace to save,
1 he ball which wns so nobly put
In motion in Connec’icu',,
Is gaining volume as it speed?,
And cowering Bads, like slendor reeds,
Quake and tremble ; for they may
Be c. u-lied beneath it any day.
God speed the sunshine of that day
Fanatic rule is swept away—
Truth and right assume again
O’er this bright, land their wonted reign.
With l’opc and Heconstruction past
Prosperity again will a cast
ner smile upon our
And plenty reign on every hand.
Now friends, though dark may be tbe times
May hope make merry as tbe bells io chimes.
Fill hearts with joy aud purses with dimes,
That all may respond to my humble rhymes
And liberally shell out — not the dimes.
But QUARTERS and HALVES —these
depreciated times.
Promptly the news I’ve brought you each
week.*
A nd now tbe reward is quite small that I seek
A year of plenty may you share,
The ills of life aud anxious euro,
Corroding thoughts that comforts mar
Be distant from vour bosom far;
To you be every pleasure given
Till safely boused aud crowned in Ileaven.
JAMES E. 11ROWX,
Carrier.
GOSSIP.
[FOR GENTLEMEN EXCLUSIVELY].
James Bennett, of Lixington, Ky.,
ha? got bis twelfth wife. Nothing
short of a bailor’s dozen will suit him—
■’hat is one more.
The attempt, says a New Orleans pa
per, to start an asylum for useless young
men failed, as no building could bo con.,
siruited largo enough.
A young man generally gives a look
ofhit iiair to his sweetheart beforo he
marries her After marriage she can
help brrself—and use no scissors.
An Ei'glish Fitly, writing to a Lon
don paper, says the faces of American
Ijdieo are perfectly eharming, and that
she coal I never conic to America and
return unmarried wero she a man.
“An unloved wifo” who ought to
know of that of which she speaks, be
cause she has had so much experience,
,-ayj that the reason that ladies look so
much to money in the matter of mar
riage is, that now a-days they so seldom'
find anything else in a man worth hav
ing- . a
‘‘l shall die happy,” sai! the expir
ing bu'band to the wife who was weep
ing mo-i dutifully by the bedside, “if
iou will only promise not to marry that
oVjeot of roj unceasing jealousy, yon#
cousin John.” Mako yourself quite
easy, love,” said tbe expectant widow,
“I am engaged to his brother.’*
Somebody—a woman of coarse—in
quires why, when Eve was maoufactur.
ed from the spare rib, a servant wasn’t
made at the same time to wait on her?
Somebody else a woman we imagine—
replies in tbe following straia ; *'•''
Because Adam never came whining
to Eve with a ragged stocking to bo
darned, colhr to be sewed On, or It
glove to mend “right away, quick now.’
B cause he never read the newspapers
until the sun got dcwu behind the
palm trees, and then stretching himself
out, yawned out, ‘ain’t supper mo3t ready
my dear V‘ lie made the lire, and
bung the kettle over it himself, we’ll
venture ; and pulled the radishes, peeled
the po’atocs, and did every thing els«
he oi'ght to. Ho milked the oows, fed
chickens, anti looked after the chickens
h m elf.
lie never brought home half a dozen
friends to dinner when Eve hadn’t any
fresh pooegraaa’es, and the Mongo sea
son was over. lie never staved out till
eleven o’clock to a ward meeting, hur
rating for an oat candidate, and then
scold because poor Eve was sitting up
and crying inside tbe gates. He never
played b iliards, rolled teD pins, and
drove fast horses, nor choked Eve with
tobacco smoke, tie never loafed around
corner groceries, while Eve was rocking
|little Gain's cradle at home.. In short
he uid not think she was especially cre
ated for the purpose of waiting on him,
and was not under the impression that
it disgraced a man to lighten a woman’s
ceres a little. That’s the reason that
I Eve did not n eu a hired girl; and wiJi
lit was the reison her fair dsc?bd*n>a
Idi 1. ' ~ ’
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