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THE DAWSON JOURNAL
BY J. r>. HOYL & CO,
, Hnw .Joe Weakened.
In that great horse shoe Lend of
the Little Bear paw Mountain, which
catches a great flood of sunshine at
noon-day, we had a village. Sixty
strong and sturdy meii weie digging
into the base ot the black-topped
mountain in search of silver.
We were not in luck, and though
each man was gloomy and discourag
ed, there was no excuse for murder.
We had banded together toshate and
share alike, and if fortune smiled on
one all would receive benefit*.
One night when the day’s toil of
fif'y-seven men yielded an estimate of
only SG, the miners cursed and swore
and felt like stiiking each other. We
were short of provisions, new tools
were needed, and the men turned in
for the night with a determination to
strike fur some other locality if the
next day’s wo:k should exhibit like
barren results.
At midnight there was a great out-
I cry. It was not an Indian altack, as
! each miner anticipated when he lush
ed out, but a horrible murder had
j been committed, and the murderer
captured by one of the s ntinels. A
miner uamed Joseph Swain, but hard
ly known in camp by any other name
thin “Joej” occupied a tent in com
pany with an old man named Arnold.
The two were on good terms, but
while Arnold had about &300 in gold
coin, acquired in speculations,
Swain hadn’t a dollar outside the
common land. The gold was buried
in the earth under the bed on which
the two tdept, and Swuir. could not
get at it oy night without arousing
his companion. Had he secured it
during the day and made off he would
have been overhauled very quiukly,
and his punishment nothing less than
hanging. It could be no more if he
added murder to the lobbsry, and
that night, when we all felt so bitter
against luck, and when partners felt
so much like striking each other, Joe
Swain muidered the man who had
done eo much for him. He was get
ting away with the gold when halt
ed, and though he made a sharp fight
for liberty he was tied hand aud foot
within five minutes aft9r the first
alarm.
Arnold was dead, stabbed in three
or four places, and the gold was found
in Joe’s belt. Thore was nj show for
I the murderer. Ho could not even
plead impulse or heat of parsion. In
deed he was not the one to avoid con
sequences. He made a statement to
the effect that he had deliberately
murdered and robbed the goed old
man, and added :
“Now, boys, there’s no use of a
great fuss over this ma'ter. Put a
guard over rre, and the rest of you go
back to your sleep. You’d hang me,
of course, and when morning comes I
shall have a request to make. I shan’t
try to get away, and I am not going
to play the baby when the last bon r
comes.”
Joe Swain was known among us as
a game man. He had fought Mexi
cans, trailed Indians and killed three
or font wl ite ruffitns who had mi.de
themselves a terror to certain locali
ties. Armed with his bowie-knife he
would have been a match for any four
of us, and it was owing to his pres
ence more than that of any one else
that our village was not troubled with
the roughs and gamblers who attach
themselves like leeches to other
camps.
Murder was a crime that could not
bo palliated in a mining camp. Had
it been anything else the majority of
the men would have been in favor of
letting Joe jump the diggings and go
unpunished. But when they looked
in on the white-faced and blood-stain
ed cor[ so of the good old man who
had been like a father to all of them,
each heart hardened against the mur
derer, and each man said to the oth.
er:
“Joe Swain must hang for this !”
There was no need of a trial. When
he was brought out after breakfast,
he sa :
“Boys, I don’t want any fuss over
♦his thing. I killed the old man, and
t is your duty to swing me up to a
limb. I knew what I was up to, and
I knew I’d have to stretch a rope if
I couldn’t get away. I don’t deserve
a kind word L nd I shau’t look for any
sympathy. The request that I want
to make is that you won’t hang mo
till sunset. I know it is bad to have
one of these affairs hanging around
the camp all day, but yet it won t
make no great difference to you as
long as you are working for almost
I nothing. Now then all in favoi 4 of
| waiting till sunset to hang me say
aye'”
“Aye I” shouted every mau around
him.
“Those opposed will say no!”
Not a voice was heard.
“The ayes have it, aud lam to be
I hung at sundown,” continued Joe,
j“I want to wiite half a dozen letters
j and sleep for two or th ee hours and
I hope you won’t crowd in on me.
Select your tree, get your rope ready
and whan the time comes I’ll be on
: hand.”
If Joe had been o captive in the j
hands of the Indians, end was to be
burned at the stake at sundown, eve
ry miner would have wagered his out
fit that Joe would have died game.
In this case, where he was to meet a
disgraceful death at tho hands of the
men who had worked and fought be
side him for months, most of the aim
ers thought h’d take the noose with
out the quiver of a muscle ; but there
were two or three who said:
“He is a brave man, but when he
takes his last look around he will
weaken.”
Before the day was four hours old
there was a st'argo wager between
two of our men. It was rifle against
rifle that “Joo Swain would show £
woman’s heart before he swimg off.
The doomed man was left to himself
all day lorg. A strong guard was
placed about his tent, but no one en
tered it to interrupt the work of his
last hours The corpse of his victim
was buried at the foot of the lone
tree on which Joe was to swing, end
as the six men carried the body past
near his tent the murderer came out
and stool with uucovered head toshow
his respect for the dead. He wtote
five letters, drew up a brief will, ate
a full meal about mid-afterncon, and
about half an hour before sundown
he was ready. Before starting for
the tree, he said ; “After I am eoDo
you will find my will. Tne letters in
there are to be forwarded as scon es
convenient. This is a shabby old
suit of clothes to be hung in, but it’s
all I had, and I couldn’t go around
borrowing. Have you got the rope
nnd the barrel ready?”
“Yes, everything is all ready,” re
p’ied a voice.
* That’s right,” said Joe. “Now,
then, fotm in procession, give a con
spicious place, and we’ll march along.’’
Tne man wasn’t smiling. His face
was pale, his eyes had an anxious
look, and it was plain that he realiz
ed the grimness of his last hour on
earth. The procession was formed,
and Joe marched away for the tree
as steadily as a soldier on parade.
His h"ndß and feet were free, and
as he halted beside the old barrel, with
the noose dangling above his head fie
said:
“Boys, tie my bands behind my
back, and after you lift me up tie my
feet together. If you mako a bungle
of this you’ll get a bad uame all thr: ugh
the diggings.”
When Joe stood on the barrel, the
noose around his neck, the men fell
back a little. He looked from man
to man with steady eye, looked up at
the limb, and then looked over the
heads of the men out upon the green
prairie. The sinking sun had filled
I the grass with millions of sparkling
| jewels. A score of antelope were trot
ting along about a mile away; great
birds were sailing toward the Rocki
es with lazy wing ; the fLwere nover
seemed so thick and beautiful as
then.
For a moment we all looked south
watd, and there was something in the
vision that softened every heart.
When ws looked up at Joe again
we hardly knew him. All the hard
lines had melted out of his face, his
eyes were full of tears, and there was
a sob in his throat, as he turned and
whispered :
“Don’t blame me, boys—it is my
last look on earth ! Now, do your du
ty !”
Not a man moved —not a man
could move.
Taking a swift glance over the
prairie and another up the mountaio
aide, Joe softly said: “God forgive
me that I was not a better mao—”
He fell forwerd eff the barrel, bis
own executioner, and no man dared
looked up, until the body hung limp
and lifeless.
DAWSOX, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 18,1878.
: Joe had weakened. All those who
had bet on his "game” hist. Yet,
when we talked it over in low voices
at tho camp fire we agreed that brave
j Joe’s * ravest act of a lifetime was
shown when the tenderness was al
lowed to creep into bis heart and his
eyes to fill with tears —when he prov
ed to us that he had a soul.
Whiskey Facts.
P T. Barnurn spoke on temperance
in New York recently. Speaking of
the nutritive qualities in whisky, he
said' “There’s some nutrition in a
potato, but there’s no mote nutrition
in a glass ot whisky than in a pound
!of ten penny naifs. Whisky won’t
digest. I’ll undertake to say—and
I’ll give SI,OOO to this society if my
words are not proved true—that if
you take blood from the veins of any
drinker, even a moderate one, you
can distil alcohol from it. The old
fasioned doctors used to kuow about
this. Whisky makes men mad. It
had the same effect in sbakespeare’s
time, when they had a bettor article.
I picked ut> a book in London which
gave recoips for the manufacture of
all k'nds of liquors which could be
sold at 50 cents a gallon. What do
you suppose they usei? Capsicum,
litharge, potash, white lead, sulphuiic
acid, strichnine, prussich acid, and
when the ale was flat, it was to be
enlivened with ten pounds of putrid
horse flesh.”
Snake-Bitten at Second Hand. —A
Mr- Bray, who lives at six-mile Can
non, left a cane at tho town of Sut.o,
and asked a friend who was going to
Sutro last Smday to get the cane. Tie
fiiond started home with the cane?
but on the way came upon a rattle
snake. He struck the snake with the
cane and broke the cane in two. He
then began punching tho snake’s
head to pieces with the sf liutered
en ’ of the caup, and finally' killed it.
When he got home he told Mr. Bray
a bout breaking the cane. Bray said
he was glad the pieces were brought
to him, as he could put them together.
He took the two pieces aud fitted
them in place and then sat down to
his dinner. Ho had a small 6ore on
his hand, and soon began to complain
of a teriible jumping pain, therein. In
a few minutes D became evident that
he had gotten some of the poison t.f
the snake into the sore by handling
the cane. He was put through a
regular course of treatment for snake
bite, and in about three d-ys came
out all right- The poison affected him
as though the snake bad bitten his
haod.— Virginia City (Eev.) Enter
prise.
Figlit It out.
The following clipped from the Cit
izen Soldier, is respectfully recommend
ed to the serious consideration of lazy
and desponding yourg men :
Peter Cooper failed in making hats;
failed as a cabinet maker, locomotive
builder and grocer, but as often as lie
failed he tried again, until lie could
stand upon his feet alone, then crown
ed his victory by giving a mil
lion dollars to help the poor boys fn
time to come.
Hoiace Greely tried three or four
lines of buiness before he fmindod the
Tiibune, and made it worth a million
dollars.
Patuck Henry failed at everything
he undertook, until he made him
self the ornament of his ago and na
tion.
The founder of the Nrtc York Her
ral kept on failing and sinking his
money for ten years, and then made
one of the most profitable newspa
pers on earth.
Stephen A. Douglas made dinner
tables and beadsteads many a long
year before he made himself a giant
on the floor of Congress.
Abraham Lincoln failed to make
both ends meet by chopping wcL>d ;
to earn his salt in the galley slave
life of a Mississippi flat boatman; be
had not even wit enough to run a
grocery, and yet he made himself a
grand character of the niu6teeuth
century.
General Grant failed in everything
except in smoking cigars ; he learned
to tan hides but could not sell hides
enough to buy him a pair of breech
es. He “brought up” on tep of a
wood pile, teaming it to town tor S4O
a month, and yet Le rose to the presi
dency.
THE RARE OLD DAYS.
“Bill Arp” In His Oltl lluunts
Again.
Special Correspondence Constitution.
Gainesville, Ga., June ‘29
Mr. Editur: — I have taken a re
cess, and m now luxuiiatin’ in and
abi ut the scenes of my cbilhood.—
Half a century ago the family doc‘or
found me not far from this place, one
lovely morning iu June. Considerin’
our present sta'us and the amount of
devilment done in by-gone years, it is
right hard to imagine that you and
me were once dear little sweet inno
cent Labes, aint it? Sometimes I
think it would have been better had
we been Ooru little cusses and got bol
ter instead of worse as we grew up to
manhood. My fond mother always
said I was a promising child, and
firmly believed I would some-day be
either a preacher or a presodent. I
don’t know that she lias altogether
givon it up yet, but everybody else
has-
“Twas in this salubrious region I
got my educa'io'i, at a manual labor
school, and by wot kin’ 3 hours a day
on the farm, ballanced off for my
board. The ludiments of farmin’was
there instilled iuto about a hundred
of us congregated from all parts of
the state and myself excepted, embra
ced the wealtheß*, lazyest, and mis
cheivous set of devils ever pened up
ogether. I have never forgotton
those rudiments which were mainly
labor-savin' devices, such ass ippir >
the line’.-pins out of toe wagons,
hiding the breast ebanes. tying tom
cats to the cows’ tail puttin’ bee-gums
in the recitation rooms and ptovin up
yaller j tekots’nests just to see the
horses runaway.
It wag in thesa parto I first tasted
the heavenly juice in achool-girlß lips
I felt like Isac when he kissed Rebec
ca and lifted up his voice and wept
and I can almost weep now athiukin’
about it. Oh, tuemmory -sweet mm
mory—what would I give for power
to recall the blessedness of that mo
ment', and kiss that girl again. It
was nut far from here that I first
found out it was not good for a
man to live alone, and alter a brief
ooartship the love ot my youth took
me up as tenderly as Mary took up
her little pet lamb. She gently put
on the bridal and the gear, and I’ve
been workin’ in single harness ever
since. Oh, blessed chains—delightful
Sing Si^g—when a man gits used to
it he (eels like it is the only life that
wi 1 fit him for heaven. Thero was
no special fuss made over our nup"
tial—no dietnon rings—no fancy
trusso froii New York —no long ga
'axy of attendance —but there was a
preacher and a license—a brief cer;-
rnony that I didont hear afw prom,
isos that I assented to and which
have ever since been kept fresh
and green in my roemnrtoiy. We
made no wedding tour to Niagara or
New York, for the prudent old folks,
of blessed inetnmory thought a ride to
Gainesville would do as well, and so
it was here that we sought the Elysiac
fields and found them. Well as to
that we would have found them any
where considerin’ our frame of mind
Flue Giz/ard, Shake Rag, Clinches
Pop Skull, Wolf Skin, or any other
precinct in the county would have
seemed as lovely as a paradice. I well
remruember the old family carriage
we traveled in --with its stair-case
steps that led down to the ground
and folded up in tho door like a pock
et-book- -the cupalo seat for the dri
ver and the venerable darkey who
filled it, drtssed up iu old military
coat with brass buttons all over it, and
wearing a bell-crowned hat about fif
ty years old and when so arayed he
was as happy as a king. Peace
to thy ashes, old Yngih If there be
horses and chariots in heaven, may
be thiiu art happy still.
And now, when I recall the congen
trated bliss of that delightful tour
I say, young man if you can find a
! pretty girl built up from the ground
] all right, and standing rquar on her
| paster joints, go take her and be
happy —that is if you can get her, but
! don’t marry a tiusso with the girl
thiowd to.
’There is trouble in this political
camp. The pot is biliu. Four men
in the field and more a waitin. Three
of my’fiiends look mity serious, and told
me in confidence there was no salva
tion hut harmonize on some good
man. I think any one of them could
be persuaded to make the sscrafico
for the good of the party. The lon-
VOL 14 -isro. 20.
ger I live the better I am satisfie 1
there is such a thing as disinterested
I benevolence. Willingham told me
j that if the worst came to the
j worrt they would take up ao Atlanta
man who had bought a lot in Buford.
He said that made him eligible. I've
a strong notion to bum a lot in Bu
ford my,-elf. In haste
Bu,t A nr.
P. S.—l met Harris at the Kim
ball and he wouldn’t eat nothing hut
fish. He said it was brain food, and
if he didn’t eat slieephenda twice a
day he couldcnt nigh get up them
brilliant paragraphs. I thought I
discivered sheeephead iu ern. Do
keep him in fish. B A.
How l>ixie Became a Nation
al Air.
In 1857, when 0 irnphcU'a Minstrels
weie at Mobile, Dan Emmet, one of
the members of the company, hea'd
the negroes sing an air ami chorus
while rolling cotton on the levee.
He '.nought it good, so by a little
alteration he arranged it into what is
called a “walk around,” which always
winds up the entertainment of au
Ethiopian concert. It was a success.
In the spring of 1801, when the war
broke out, Mrs. John Wood came to
New Orleans to play an engagement
at the old Varieties Theatie. She
produced ‘Pocahontas.” Near the
close ot tha second act there is a zou
ave march by the ladies of the “corps
de ballefte.” At tiie rehearsal of the
piece, the leader of the orcheetra w s
in a quandary as to what music they
would hava. Carlo Patti could not
select anything that would sait. the
stage manager, T. B. McDonough,
and the cousequence was the rehear
sal came to a standstill.
At length Patti struck up “Dixie.”
It suited and was ad >ptod and played
with a chorus to the sine air. “Dix
ie” took the town by storm; the pi
anos rang with i'; the boys sang it
and the negroes whistled it. A man
sician by the name of Romeo Miners
arranged it for a inarch for the Wash
ington Artillery. Bit ery, and bom
that liourall Southern in m and wo
men hailed it with delight. Cold
must he the Southern head that dues
notg'ow with delight at the sound of
our dear “Dixie.” But the composer,
Dan Eiume , what of him? Why,
he can be found in a very common
rarie'y saloon in Chicago now, play
ing on his fiddle for a mete pittance,
eking out a miserable existence by
playing “Dixie” tu an admirin { crowd
of uewpaper boys, roughs au i boer
jerkers.
.Snuff Dipping.
Sunrnj Soil h ; It is not generally
known to what extent this prac'icr of
dipping snuti' trued in some sec
tions of our fair S. nth, nor how mi’-
rons and young girls of inteligence
and high social standing are slaves to
a habit that gradually undermines
their health, shatters their nerves and
too oftbn insidiously opens the doors
to the teirihle opium habit.
Snuff dipping is demoralizing in
the first instance, because in most ca
ses it fosters concealment and deceit
The habit is kej t secret from parents
aud friends
We know daughters whoso snuff
bottles are concealed in their rooms,
whore they iue it constantly without
the_know'edge*uf their parents. We
have seen at hoarding sci ols, girls go
into hysterics when deprived of then
snuif and borrow tobacco from the
servants, as a substitute until they
could obtain their nsua! stimulaut of
Sto'ch and Macoaboy; and we are
are well at quanted with throe—beau
tiful young girls weie it not for the
sallow hue tarnishing their curnplee
tions—who are at present under ruod
ical treatment lor derangec entof the
nervous system and digestive organs
arising from the constant use of suuff.
Their physicians have assured them
that it was the cause of the disease
thus blighted their, young lives, and
that medicine must be in vain as
long as the rrac ice was continued
and still they cling to their snuff bot
tles as persis'eutly as the toper to his
demijohn Aud this when they know
that this vile poison nourishes the
worm disease at the root of life, si
leutly, slowly, but surely destroying it
ere its ptime; for aside from the filthi
ness of this habit, the constant drain
of the salivary glands, produced by
frequent spitting and the na'cotine
poison of the weed itself, throw the
pelicately balanced svs'em out of or
der aud bring a train of diseases to
render life insupportab'y burdensome.
Don’t rely upon friends—dor.'t rely
upon the Dame of your ances'ors.
Thousands have spent the prune of
life in vain hope of help frum those
they call friends, and many thous
ands have starved because they had
rich fathers. Rly upon the good
n ime which ij made by your own ex
eitions, and know that betlertlian the
best friend you have is unques fiona
ble determination, united with decis
jin of character.
Our Senator at Botnfe.
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Iu tho afternoon of the sims lay
a large au fence assetnVeJ iu the col
lege.chapel fo hear the address to the
graduating class, delivered by Judge
I Clarke. Those who have had the,
privilege of houring this distinguished
Georgian are aware of his power.—
Peisonallya strangir to this communi
ty, his reputation ga’hered for him a
largo audience though tha hour was
very unseasonable. His theme was
' discussed in a most scholarly manner,
j From the beginning to the end the ex
quisite taste of tho diction, the grand
eur of the sentiments, and the iointi
! table grace of the orator held the at
tention of tho assembly in profound
silence. Judge Clarke is the Benator
elect of the 11th district of Georgia.—
His ta'ents, which have always plac
id him in the front rank of his peers,
will certainly make him prominent in
■ our next General Assembly.— Tufa*
graph §' Messenger.
Good Digestion.
“Give u3 this day our daily bread”
and good medicine to digest it, is both
reverent and human. The human
etoniach and liver are fruitful sources
of life’s comforts; or, disordered and
diseased, they tingle misery along
every nerve and t'nrougheveiy artery.
Tho man or woman withyoorf digestion.
seen beauty as they walk, anrl overcome
obstacles they meet in the rotine of
life, where the dyspeptic sees only
gloom and stumbles and growls at
every imaginary object. The world
still needs two or three new kinds of
medicine before death can be perfect
ly abolished ; but that many lives havo
been prolonged, end many sufferers
from Liver disease, Dispepsia and
Headache, have been curod Mkhhku.’s
Hnr.VTi.vn, is no longer a doubt. It
cures Headache ia twenty minutes,
and there is no question but n bat it is
the most wonderful discovery yetmado
in medical science. Those afflicted
with Biliousness aud L’ver Complaint
should use Mbkkkll’s Uki’atine.
It can be bad at Du. J. R Jaxes.
There are seventy-six members of
the Bonate, aud it costs $209,235 tt
year for one hun Ired anl tweuty-ono
employes in salaries. There are two
hundred and ninety-three Representa
tives aud eight doingites from Terri
tories in the House, and it costs $225,-
165 for,salaries of employes Tho
Senate clerks are paid about twenty
five pur cent, more than those of the
House. At those rates the clerks of
the Senate averageeacli Senator about
$2 753, while those of the House av
erage each Representative about
$7lB. The Senate has obstinatoly re
sisted all attempts to make the ecus
pensatiou of is employes correspond
with that of tha employes of the
Douse.
A lad, ratlior small for his years,
work- in an office as errand boy for
four gentlonu-n. One day the gen
tlemen were chaffing him about be
ginning so small, and said to him:
‘ You never will amount to much ;
you never can do much business; you
are toe small.” The httlp fellow look
ed at them.
“Well,” said he, “as small a? I am,
I can do something which uone of
you four men can do.”
“All! what is that! said they.
“I can keep from swearing!” said
the little fellow. There was some
blushes on four manly faces, and
there seemed to be very little anxiety
for further information on that poiut.
He sot him down on the steps that
had been newly painted—and when
he riz to travel home—That gal of
his —she fainted.
Sombny has taken trouble to write a
book about “How to Find the Stars.”
Don’t want to read it—step on a bit
of orang • peel.
> ——
A Cincinnatti piper say*: “The lat
est thing in hose—the fee:.” Does the
man put on his stocking over nis
head '!
A knock dowu argument is usually
propounded.
The Houston Telegram says there
is a paper at Brownsville, T *xas,print
ed one half in Spanish and the other
in Josh Billings.
In making a strawberry short-cake
core should tie taken to have the ber
ries in excess of the saleratus.
When he was a young man ho
rushed into a burning building and
gallantly dragged her out by the hair
of the head. They were married the
next winter, and now she rushes in
and drags him out by the hair of the
head whenever she foal like if. Such
is true love.
A Steam Carriage.
Whilst driving on the Champa
E'ysees, says a recent Paris letter, we
had a view of a very neat vehicle dri
ve n by steam, which was being test
ed on a sidestreat running parrallel
with the main drive. It moved along
steaddy over the stone pavement ai
the rate of about six miles an hour
stopped in an instant, when required
and when it reached the end of the
rquar turner! around with all the ease
that a carriage and pair of horsco
could be turned, and requiring hard
ly as much space. It was very neat
and compact, and male no noise.
Very liltie smoke coming cut of a
funnel in the top, which was net
mue than ten inches high. The
whole vehicle was not more than
twelve feet long, and there were seats
for about sixteen passengers. It had
something of the appearence of a
handsome omnibus moving along
without horses.