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THE DAWSON JOURNAL.
Vol. 111.
POr/fRv,
Over llie River.
Over the river they beckon to me,
Loved ones who’ve gone to the further side,
lbs gleam of their snowy robes I see,
But their voices are lost in the rushing tide-
There’s one with ringlets of sunny gold,
And eyes the reflection of Heaven’s own
blue
He crossed In twilight, gray and cold,
And the pale mist hid from mortal view,
We saw not the angels who met him there,
The gate of the city we could not see !
Over the river—over the river,
My brother stands waiting to welcome me.
Over the river the boatman pale
Carried another—the household pet—
Her brown curls waved in the gentle gale—
Darling Minnie ! I see liar yet,
She crossed on her bosom her dimpled hands,
And peacefully entered the phantom bark;
Wo watched it guide from the river sands,
And all our suusbiuo grew strangely dark.
We know she is safe on the further side,
Where all the ransomed and angels be:
Over the river, the mystic river,
My childhood’s idol is waiting for me.
For none return from those quiet shores,
Who cross with the boatman cold and pals:
We hear the dip of the golden oars,
And oatch a glimpse of the snowy sail—
And lo I they have passed from our yearning
hearts;
They cross the stream, and are gone for
aye;
We may not slmdder the veil apart.
That hides from our vision the gate of day.
We only know that their barks no more
May sail with ours o’er life’s stormy sea ;
Yel somewhere, I know, on the unseen shore,
They watch, and beckon, and wait for me.
And I sit and think, when the sunset's gold
Is flushing river and hill and shore,
I shall one day stand by the water cold,
And list for the sound of the boatman’s oar;
I shall watch for a gleam of the flapping sail;
I shall hear the boat as it gaiDS the strand;
I shall pass from sight with the boataao pale
To the better shore of the Spirit Land ;
I shall know the loved ones who’ve gone be
fore,
And joyfully sweet will the meeting be,
When over the river, the peaceful river,
The Angel of Death shall carry me !
Angry Words.
There is nothing that sounds bo harsh,
so grating, so discordant to the ear, as
angry words. They thrill the uerves,
pam the heart, awaken bitter emotions
in the breast; they cause the eye to
flab, the cheek to glow, and they bring
a stinging, recriminating reply to the
we only control our tempera, when irri
tated by the baity language of o’hers,
and give the soft answer that turncth
away wrath, how msDy bit er leeliogs,
would we site ourselves ant our friends
Bn we do not make one <fl rt to sub
due our angry pn->i 01s, but yield to
them at once, and cruel, reproachful
words and abusive epithets pa«- our lips,
of which,soon after, we bitterly repeut.
We are told that the heart is desperate
ly wicked, prone to sin as the sparks (ly
upwards; and how true it is ! we feel it
every day and every hour. The most
trifling circumstances, even a word, or
look, or tone, are sufficient to fill the
heart with anger, and the tongue, (fiat,
unruly member, is ever ready to < xccute
its promptings, and word follows word
in quick succession, till wo scarcely
know what we are Baying. The seuod
of our owu sharp-tones excites us sti'l
more, and fans therflame, which already,
burns fiercely witbin our breasts. At.
length, we arc exhausted by our own
violcuce, the fires of anger gradually ex
pire, and we become cool and oollected.
In our hours of solitude, we reflect upon
what has passed, and our brows flush
with shame, as we recall our passionate
words; we reproach ourselves bitterly,
and wish that we could obliterate them ;
butweeaunot; they have sunk deep
into the hearts of our friends, and the
memory of them rankles painfully iu
our own. Angry words—they pollute
tht lips; they estrange friends; they
briug self-reproach to those who utter
them,and sorrow to those to whom they
j are addressed. Then let us guard our
hearts againat angry passions, and our
lips against angry words. Let us keep
constant and vigilant watch over our
tongues, the wounds of which arc sharper
than those of a two edged sword. Let
us try never to speak amiss, and a victo
ry inoro glorious thau that of a con
quering Lero will be ours.— Eianydist.
An old negro in Connec'icut
who had always been very constant in
attending church, and prided himself
furthermore in being the first there,
happened to be detained far beyend
the usual hour one Sunday morn
ing-
“ John,” said Cuffeo, as he stood
carding bis wool for trie occasion, ‘hab
do kindness to tel! me wtiat o’clock i
“Can’t tel! ye, Cuflee, do ole clock |
am stopped. * 1 shod think it am pur
ty considerable late ”
“Iso wouldn’t be exposed if it Twar
half an hour on top o’ dat,” returned
Cuffeo and hurried to church as
fast as his -bandy legs would carry
him. ,
lie entered towards tho end cl the
sermon, just as the parson was reitera
ting for the last time:
‘ The last shall be first, and the hist
shall be lust.”
Cuflee turned round and went out
exclaiming:
“Dat means me—l cum last but lee
out fused - anyhow ! De next time dis
nigger goes late to mectin, be no go at
all. 1 '
Tailor’s revenge—giving a customer
fits.
I)A.waoiV, TtIUHStVAV, FEBRUARY 13. ISOS.
Mebskb. Edit rh —I send you here
with as requested, a lettor of mine writ
ten erigonally to an old school-mate of
mino, now President of the Rochester
Theological Siminary. lie had re
quested me to allow him to publish
some of my communications touebiug
upon the condition of Southern affairs,
because many of his friends to whom
he had occasionally exhibited my letters
were greatly surprised to Cud the state
of things and the feeling of Southern
men so differont from what they had
been taught by their own Papers and
Politicians, and especially because the
working of the Fracdrnen’s Bureau ap
peared altogether at variance with the
expectations and sta'ements of the Rad
ical Party. Respectfully,
II W Aldkhoff.
Dawson, Feb. 7th 1868.
From the Rochester Daily Union and Adver.
Condition of Hie Month Under
Radical Rule—The Negro t o
tiutf Machinery—Agricn1 1n 1-
al Interests—Decline of Cot
ton Culture—Restitution and
Despondency of the People.
The following extracts from a private
isttcr of a resident of Georgia to a gen
tleman of this city, graphically portray
the effects of radical despotism at the
South :
Dawson, Ga , Dee. 14, 1867.
Respected Friend : I percicve from
your letters, what I had olten suspected
befoie, that the Northern people arc
most strangely, unenlightened 36 to the
true social and political of
the South, and that this ignorance, no
doubt fostered by corrupt politicians, is
rapidly Lurrying on uttgr yum in this
devoted land by hostile legislation de
signed lo subject the white man politi
cally to the negro. Ibis is inevitable if
the honest and patriotic, though blinded,
masses of the North do not come to the
rescue. Ibe late Democratic victories
appear to foreshadow such a course •
though as those elections did not change
the complexion of the present Congress
itiß to be feared that such a rescue will
come only after the mischief is done in
the Radical and Negio State Conven - !
turns now being heid in the Southern !
Stales. You will have learnd trom the
names that the Radicals and Negroes !
carried the late election in favor oft!
ties did not go to the palls at all. I
could till a dozen sheets with the reci
tal of incidents showing the sbameful
oess of the farce, and’the fully or mad
ness of giving the right of suffrage to
the iguoraot and bru'al Negro# With
■you 'he negro is more stimulated to
the lower classes of while men, but
here he is but one degree above the
mule with whicti he works in the li Id
Some of them put their votes into the
post office. The tickets were all furnish
ed them by the “Loyal Leaguers;” if
if you ask one whom he voted for, or
whether he voted for or against the
Convention, all the answer he could
make was that be voted the “yell w”
ticket. Many came with their wives
and children ; they evidently considered
it a great thing ; they brought halters
and bags along as they had been told
that they would get a mule for the one
or provisions for the other. Officers of
the Bureau had told many that unless
they voted the Radical ticket, they
would be sold back into slavery, or that,
they would be fined SIOO or S2OO. The
negro manifestly associates the rights of
suffrage with some pecuniary advantage
such as the possession of 40 acres of
land; hence, I think, when he becomes
disabused of this notion, he will in a
few years become wholly indifferent to
the privilege ; and, if less influenced by
“Loyal Leaguers,” he will sell his vote
to either party for a drink of whisky.—
So many whiles beiDg distranchiscd, the
negroes aided by corrupt, renegade
whites have large majorities in all the
Southern States; if therefore the Con
stitution to be framed by the Conven
tion now in sossion in Atlanta, should
not be defeated when submitted to the
popular vote, the Negroes will control
nearly all the offices of the Siato; im
pose taxes which only the whiles, as
property holders, will have to pay; raise
uo doubt a heavy school fund for the
education of the blacks; and iu Bbort,
you can readily imagine that without
I the restraint of self interest in the impo
sition oi public burdends which usually
acts upon the wb tc law maker, a negro
Legislature will ruu riot in their efforts
to live off the white man’s wealth.
In addition to tLe political evils now
weighing down the South, I have to
mention tho utter prostration of all
braiches of industry; besides this, some
portions such atf Lousiana, Texas and
parts of Arkacsis and Mississippi, have
enJurt-d *errribie misfortunes of tbeir
own; fl iods, tierce etoims, excessive
1 rain-* or drouth-*, and the “army w*Tm,’
have destroyed ihcir properties or crops,
and then the yellow fever swept away
the poor people by thousands; in many
eases, whole families tell be for# this
fearful disease. However, you will
have seen this yourself in the papers
The condition of the planters in this
country is truly fearful. Last spring a
few of them had the means to rnako a
crop, so that they bought from the mer
chants their meat and breadstuff at from
2 and mostly 8 times the current, pri
ces of those articles; while to obtain
. these advances they bad U mortgage
j their crops, stock*, aud many times
all, to the merchants It was thought
that, if ootton would sell at 25 or 80
cents the planter might be ablo to pay
out; but, instead of that, cotton has
been steadily declining, 80 that it now
brings only 9 or 10 cents, which was
the price usually before the war The
war has loft note of them any re
somcis to fail back upon; hence, the
inevitable consequence that the planters
are utterly ruined ; they will have no
means to put in another crop without j
some miraculous aid; some who work
ed thirty or forty hands this year will
ingage not more (han 4 or 5. And this
fact will give rise to aoofhcT evil, for as
large numbers of negroes will fail to ob
tain employment, they will organize
themselves into large armed bodies as
they are already doing along the coast,
even taking cotton and selling it in Sa
vannah, and make their living by plun
der. It has already been discovered
that the planter can no longer expect to
raise his own pork, for the negroes are
fast killing up all the hogs in this conn
try. Ihen the negro has become whol- ,
ly unreliable as a worker; it now takes (
two to do the work of o„c before ernan— |
cipation. ,
If ootton should remain below 20c,
which, in view of the strong toreign
competition is highly probable, it will
no longer pay the cost of cuhivation ;
then the planter having no longer the
benefit of the seed as a fertilizer, will
soon impoverish Lis land so that he can
not even raise corn ; but whenever this
country is brought down to the cultiva
tion ofgraia only it will no longer pay to
cultivate the land at sll. lam living in
what is cullrd the “garden spot of Geor
gia, ’ yet 10 bushels of corn is all this
soil will bring by the eld of c >tton seed
>n « fav'Tabl' 11 •' iK.> »a owns
years we have resided h- re, there has
been only out favorable season The
planters arc and w holding buck their cot
ton, waiting for an advance ; but, 1 ?t »r
iu vain ; many arc trying to swindle
the merchants by soiling their cotton
secretly at other points, t-h ugh mort
gaged to them ; -others arc trying la
evade their liabilities by refusing te pay
their debts on the ground of extortion.
This cripples the meicbants, and most
of them will have to break. The con
sequence of all this is that there is
scarcely any money in circulation ; Ev
ery body finds it hard to meet his nee
cssary family expenses.
Furthermore, this terrible ‘train up
on a people used to wealth and super
fluity, who never had to hen »te iu buy- j
iug aoythirg they wanted, is having a
sad effect upon their mrale. Mary
take to hard drink ; pnblio confidence
is destroyed; and we hear almost daily
of some outrageous ease of swindling—>
This slate cf things of course, effect*
me very seriously. A war of racts is
thought by many inevitable.
i firmly believe that this country, at
least, the Southern two-tbirds of it, will
become a howling wilderness again—
another Hayti. And why all this?—
Because the Northern people loved the
savage negro better than their white
Southern brethren. The Northern
men are sowing a crop of tho fiercest,
bitterest hate in the breasts of South
ern men and their descendants, which
whenever there comes a season for tho
gathering, will produce, most fearful re
sults. Was there ever a civil war after
which the vanquished patty were nn re
cruelly insulted and impoverished thau
this people ? Was there ever a people
left with a darker and more helples-* fu
ture ? It is only that this people know
the utter futility of the thing, sr they
would rise again and shake off this hate
ful tyranny, aiyi break this mockery of
a Uuioo with a people who aro either
fanarics or worshippers of the “almigh
ty dollar,” but aro utterly incapable of
that sentiment of a noble, magnani
mous victor, who spares the foe when
down. I write the sentiments of every
respectable Southern maD. But I tear
I have already dwelt too ring on this
subject.
The weather has been delightful with
the exception of three or four cold days.
This is really a pleasant country to
live iu ; the winters arc c>ld only a few
days at a time, g morally i tier a rain.— •
lu summer ilie thermometer vanes be
tween SO and 95 deg re s; but wo ate
witLiu reach of the Gull breezes, so that
there is seldom any lack of a Irek
wind. la Tenncscee it is usually two
hut at night for comfortable sleep.—
Here it is always delightful at night,
and although one sleeps on the cover
the first half of the night, soma cover is
always needed the rest of it. Then wo
have no mosquitoes, except near water
courses ; and although there is much
rickness io this part of the State, the
only and principal diseases arc chills
aud fever, bilious and intermittent fever,
typhoid is very rare hero, though very
common and generally fatal iu Upper
Georgia apd Tennessee.
The diseases of this region are very
I rarely fatal. It is indeed surprising
how few people die here. During two
years we have resided in this place, two
or three children died l»st year, and
S' me four or live persons this year If
this country could support me, 1 would
exchange it for no other that I have
seen I have nowhere found the peo
ple so generous, social aud hospitable
I could go for weeks from one house to
another, and enjoy their unstinted and
hereditary hospitality. What a pity
that such a peoplo have to become
mean and calculating ia order to make
enough to live, n. w. a.
Woman's Grare.
I can pass by the tomb of a man vri'h
somewhat of a calm indifferenoe; but
wben I survey the grave of a female, a
sigh involuntarily escapes me. With
the holy name of woman, 1 associate
every soft, tender, and dolicate affecliuD.
1 think of her as the ycuog and bash
ful virgin, with eyes sparkling, and
cheeks crimsoned with each impassioned
feeling of the hesrt, an the kind affec
tionate wife, absorbed in the exorcise of
her domestic duties; as the chaste and
virtuous matron, tired with the follies of
the world, and preparing for the grave
into which sbe must so soon de'cend.
Oh ! there is something iu contempla
ting the character of a woman, that
raises the soul far above the vulgar lev
el of soejetj. fsho is. farmed to adorn
and humanize mankind, to soothe his
c-arcs, and strew bis path with flowers.
In fie hour of distress she is the rock
on which he leans for support, and when
fate calls him from existence, her tears
bede w bis grave
Ml !■“» ■
i n > w v . j c _ done, to his memory
lie open to the cm ; but the mock aud
uiiebstruslvc excellences ot the othey
sleep with her uunotiecd in the grave.
Iu her may have sbcnc the gcuius of a
poet, wiih the virtues of a saint. She,
too, may have passed unheeded along
the s'erile pathway of her existence,
and felt for others as I now feci for
her.—[Anon.
Lahorund I»l«m y Power.
The eloquent Rev. Air. Chopin, thus
speak- of the achievements of labor
lie asks “whocan adequately describe
the triumph* of labor, urged on by
tlje potent t-poll ol money. ft has .ex
tor etl the secret* ol tho universe, and
trained its; pOvyeia into myriads of
forms of use atld beauty. Prom the
bosom of the old creation, it I Taft de
veloped anew the creation ol indtntry
and art.
It has been its tasker l its glory to
overcome obstacles. Mountains have
been levelled uhd valleys been exalt
cd belurc it. It has broken the rocky
wul iuto fertile glades ; it hat crowned
the hill tups with fruit aud venture, and
bouu 1 orouad she very fret of ocean,
ridges of golden corn. Up fromribe.suu
less and hoary deeps, up from the
shapeless quarry, it drags its spiritless
marbles, aud rears its palaoes of pomp:
It tears the stubbuin met us from the
bowels of the glofie, aud makes them
ductile to its will, ft marches steadily
ou over the swelling flood, and through
the mountain clefts. It fins its way
through the winds cf ocean, tramples
them iu its course, surges aud mingles
them with flakes ot fire. CivfiiZAiiou
follows in its path It achieve* grand
er victories, it waves more durable, tro
phies, it bolds wider sway than fhd con
queror. lbs name becomes tioud and
his monuments mumble ; but tabor con
verts his red lutUiu fields into gardens,
aud errtts msctnnt nts significant of lxH
: ter thing.-*. ItJlths iu u ofurnot diiv
'«n by the wind It writes with the
lightning. It sits crowned as a t quccn
in a thousand cities, aud sends up its
roar of triumph from a million wheels.
It glisteus iu theira'urle cf the loom, it
ring-aud sparkles from the steely ham
mer, it glories in shapes of beauty, it
speaks iu words of power, it makes the
sinewy arm strong with liberty, tbs
poor roans heart rich with content urowns
the swarthy and sweaty brow with hon
or, and dignity, and peace.
‘jfcZg’Unc.a Isaac was a great
stickier for grammar, lie always
stuck t,o it that the adjective ‘good’’
admitted of no degrees of comparison,;
‘■for,” said he, “wlmt is good is good,
and good is pool enoiigh.
“One day .fake was reading’aloud
the adventures of »n unlucky and not
remarkably bright youth. Uheu he
( tune to ll.e Sentence :
“Long ere Jue re'urged ” Uncle
Ike suddenly- filler.!-up tod him, Ter the
seventeenth time :
“iut, tut,, boy ! 1 fiat's very bml
grammar: readciGTectly— tuny eared
—theie is no su.-h compound adjec
tive as ‘Long ea- I.’ _
No.
One* Niglit iu a Hospital.
nr jane t/ieb.
“You will come again lady V
“Would you not like for mo to
come ?” I said, art I bent over, the low
bed.
“I will die if you leave me now,” be
said.
“Then I shall come; but now it is
time to return—a night’s rent will do
you a world of good ”
“l wish you would not go," he said
faintly. ’
i ho tones were so full of entreaty, so
full of an unknown wanting, that 1
stepped and paused.
“You are very much better—surely
you do not fear.’’
!3lie will come to-night,” ho answer
ed, laying his I ami on-tnine, and gazing
upun m» with his dark, sunken, but
burning eyes, “and I cannot meet her
alone,”
I felt bis pulse—-there was do fe
ver, no delirium in its quiet beat. 1
rose to go, but an unknown power
restrained rite, throwing aside my
wrappers, I sat down on the foot of
the bed
“An tour, more thao an hour !”
lie murmured. “Have 1 ebam-ed
much ?’
“Yes, very much,” I auswered sad
>y-
-1 *d lo will know me—know nio
anywhere.”
.“You arc much better,’’ I rallied,
smoothing the white pillowT “In a
few days you will be able to return
borne, ” . ■ *
“When Madeline comes, she will
tuke mo with her ”
1 shaded the light from the sufleror's
face; still bis bund clasped mine, and
bis searching glance rested on the clos
ed door.
A night in a hospital! Tositsur
umnded by the Buttering; to Jeel the
clasp ol the fevered hand, as if it was
sending its molten Java through your
being—life arid death, earth and ira
mortality
1 was startled from my reverie by
Uic suodep movement of my patient,
and the glad cry that rung from bis
“Mhe has cornd I**
The door swung noiales’y back, and
u t.il, nmgmticemly formed woman,
whose blacu vestments swayed to and
|O , and over whose shoulders hung u
wealth of raven hail, stood within the
open portals.
l»hWit seemed
to mo mi unseen shadow c|uug around
her. 1 looked upon my pat.cut, his
up Its whole l'flcty Ws
tyy the low bed, her arms wound
around the dying man, and her lips
pressed passionately to bis.
A glory not of earth 101 l over the
white face j the limbs relaxed; I bent
eagerly forward, suppressing the cry
that rose to my lips. In the dim light
my patient vvas a one. I gazed eager
ly around. Purely I did not dream I
brought the tight to bear upon my pa
trent's features.
lie was dead ! Throwing tho sheets
over the still form, I hastened to the
watcher’s department. They bore
bitn quietly into another chamber.—
Ills bunds were clasped tightly over
bis chest; within them lava cltscd
ease containing two miniatures. 1 un
fasUmod it. Ihe oue side contained a
picture ol the •unkjiuwq dead ; the oth
er— and there burst upon my view the
mirrored s6lf of that beautiful woman
—thtfcuas Madeline. It was band
mi to me to retain until someone call
ed lor it,
’I Lure were no mqurnera, but I gath
ered white roses and flung them over
flic new grave, and went back to life's
duty a sadder,' ar.d I trust a belter
woman
“It is singular,” stud the attending
surgeor. to me, “that the wife of the
gentleman you mused that night
should have died at the sumo hour,
only ten minutes before. I am fold
sh» was suddenly indisposed aa she
rose from the supper table, and about
twelve, almost wl.fiout a struggle she
died, cal.iug passionately upon her bus
band.”
He passed on to attend his duties,
not noticing the deathly pallor that
gathered on my face 'l went borne
w it|i a terrible fear l acking my whole
systeirt. 1 wept as if softie part of my
life had been drawn into a vast void
—swept as if the late of these two was
blende-J with my o»u. _
Never w ithout a shudder do I recall
that one night iii a hospital.
‘Charlie, my dear,” said a loving
mother to a hopeful son, just bud
ding into breeches. “Charley, my
dear come here and get some can
dy.”
“I guess I won’t.naiad it now moth
of/’ replied Charley, “I've got iu some
tobacco.”
“I say Oiein,” cried two disputing
darkies, appealing I t decision to a sa
ble umpire, “which word is right; diz
actly or dezictly ?”
'Hie sable umpire reflected a mo
menf, and then, with a look oi wisdom
said; *•••»
“I cau’t tell pierzuet’y.V
AVheutly has produced the ’White
Faw'n at Niblo’s, ‘ that thrift may ihl
' low fawning.”
The only General for whom we
i feel any great degree of respect is
i “General News,” when ho is Well dres
| sod up.
FTrauri Towers, on a bust,’ cut tip
j face of At friend w'itlr a sbfgel. —
• •
laloiiifcrautc In Uligli Place*.
“Mack,” the Washington correspon
dent of the Cincinnati Commercial, in
his lettor of tbo 17th uH., tolls the fol
lowing ; - • " ' 3
There never was greater noed than
at present for a vigorous prosecution
of intomperunce in high places
\\ hetlier Senator had become
discouraged or disgusted I knew not,
but he seouis to Lave- entirely relin-
quished his Cbriijtjan efforts, of a year
ago, to reform Gfrngressional breth
ren through the agency of his temper
unco society.
One gentleman, who vvas an exem
plary member of the Congressional
Temperance Society a year ago, as
tonished and appalled the boarders at
Willard’s one morning last week, by
entering the breakfast room in his
night shirt, at 10 a. m ; another was
taken heme in a hand cart, not many
Sunday’s since, while still another,
over who-te conversion all the ladies
wore a year ago saturating their pock
et banterchiefs, and “carrying 0 n” in
a more melo-dramatic way than any
thing recorded of the Brick Lane
Btanch of tbo Ebenezer Temperance
Society, of which the eider Mr. Wel
ler’s “seeon wintur” was such a bright
and shining light—that gentleman,
(need I say he is a distinguished Sen
ator from the West f) has been for a
weok or mure confined to his room and
a diet of pickled cabbage to help him
over prolonged carouse, terminating
m the deliriums. N./r is this all;'-
Would that it Were. It is not even
the worst.
As thia subject is a delicate one, I
shall be pardoned, I trust, for with
holding names. The moral sense of
tbo nineteenth century revolts against
such publicity as a vile slander. The
newspapers are licensed to be funny
over the police court reports, and to
blazon forth £poor John Smith’s de
bauch as an awful example, but be
tween a groat man and his “little
weakness” the moral one hangs a viel
which no journalistic Asmodcus dare
lift, with incurring censure as a respon
sible scribbler and an envenomed cal
umniator.
A particular case (I repeat that I
usa no names) has • become so serious
of late, that an eminent Bwhnn „f the
Methodist Church has iMpnt for,
and has come nil the w'(tffiM*Fhij B
delphia to sea. wb.*-t oi
ftce is, or ought lo be, to adminis’er,
instead of prohibit vpili'tkul consola
tion.
M |1 JLot*.
By Joe Blank.—Re keeriul that
you alius git your muna before you
givo a reeeet ; and alius git a receet be
fors you give your muna.
Fl you air ouh » quarter es a second
tu late, you won’tthar iu time.
We’ve got lots of men with toweren
intollcx and hrillycut geuyus and all
that, but then you see we need just a
few men of good caramon sense like.
There may be seme swett sadness iu
chewing the bitter cud of adversity, but
the most uv ’em iu this section would
rather hav terbacker you know.
Es wise «en never made tifistaks,
this wood be a Lard wm Id for fools—
ol whom a great many are wbiob.
Its no uso to be in.zombie to da be—
couse you’re afrade you cau’t.he happy
to-morrow.
It required all kinds nv men to tnaik
up the wut ld, and so you tee there had
to be some egotietikie dutu fools for ho*
t:l cletks.
‘lt don’t take as ranch sense to pick a
lock or forge a check as it'dusto fijt'dd
rt. •
When it rains podden, you • hold up
your dish, hut don’t *ptnd your time
wateben for a shower, ,
It don’t take a smart man to be a
fool.
You can’t do business without pease
any more tfcao yu keu start a kooper
shop on a lung hole,
A. man that don’t kno enny thing,
will tell it the first' time Lo gets a
chano*.
Es I enjoy enny thing more than the
prosperity of a m*od man, it iu the pun
ishment of an in eroa! scoundrel.
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The citizens of Diinville, To., bnve
deemed by Vote to make a eoroortife
*„b-*criplioti of $125,000 to the Norfolk
aud Uieut Western liuiiroad,
The pulisco-iptions for the erection
of the Uresbytei ian Female College
iu Abingdon, Virginia, bavo already
reached tfio handsome sum of $5,000.
lion. Wm. Lander, who w-as a
member of the Confederate Congress
died in Lincolnton, N C., on th* Gtli
inef.
Aaron Jones has got into court in
Cincinnati lor threatening to punch »
man's bead. , -
William Daniel, aged 101,has jusn
died in Fayette otmnty, 111. Hi? sisteiq
aged 10f3, hia loss. ,
It Las Iwen legally decided in Eng
land that a stamped sac simile of a sig
nature bears the same value as the
written one.
Gov Baker, of Iu , jfltlonad one
hundred and fir et*n coh\i ts from the
State prison in 1807.
George M. Dent, a brother in-law
of Gen Grant, is a candidate for Con
gress in Arizona.
A Christian mnri lad better go lo
the theatre than go home whming be
cause 1 e can’t go.
A flew way to pry old debts—sittle
them. .