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VEGETINE
purifies the Blood, Renovates
and Invigorates the
, Whole System.
rrs MEDICAL PROPERTIES are
‘Alterative, Tonic, Solvent,
and Diuretic.
yegetine RELIABLE EVIDENCE.
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Mr. H. R. Stevens
VpfTAtine T)rar s ' r ~ 1 win moßt cheerfully
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| such bad coughing-spells that it
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Y egeune Cambridge, Mas*
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Her declining health was a source
ir A-A i* -of great anxiety to all her friends.
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° No, 49 Soars Boildinof
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V'-.ailnn ou Humors or Rheumatic Affec
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f and I have used almost everything.
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Mr. Stevens.
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f OgOllDO for Dyspepsia. Kidney Complaint,
and general debility of the system,
r a. I can heartily recommend it to all
f emetine •uffcrinjj from the above complaints
° Yours respectfully,
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THE GENUINE
DR. C, McLANE’S
Celebrated American
WO Paid SPECIFIC
OR
VERMIFUGE.
SYMPTOMS OF WORMS.
THE countenance is pale and lead
en-colored, with occasional flushes,
or a circumscribed spot on one or both
cheeks; the eyes become dull; the
pupils dilate ; an ' azure semicircle
runs along the lower eye-lid; the
nose is irritated, swells, and sometimes
bleeds; a swelling of the upper lip;
occasional headache, with humming
or throbbing of the ears; an unusual
secretion of saliva; slimy or furred
tongue ; breath very foul, particularly
in the morning; appetite variable,
sometimes voracious, with a gnawing
sensation of the stomach, at others,
entirely gone; fleeting pains in the
stomach; occasional nausea and vom
iting ; violent pains throughout the
abdomen ; bowels irregular, at times
costive; stools slimy, not unfrequent
ly tinged with blood; belly swollen
and hard ; urine turbid ; respiration
occasionally difficult, and accompa
nied by hiccough; cough sometimes
dry and convulsive; uneasy and dis
turbed sleep, with grinding of the
teeth ; temper variable, but generally
irritable, &c.
Whenever the above symptoms
are found to exist,
DR. C. McLANE'S VERMIFUGE
will certainly effect a cure.
IT DOES NOT CONTAIN MERCURY
in any form ; it is an innocent prepa
ration, not capable of doing the slightest
injury to the most tender infant.
The genuine Dr. McLane’s Ver
mifuge bears the signatures of C.
McLane and Fleming Bros, on the
wrapper. —:o:
DR. C. McLANE S
liver pills
a [f not recommended as a remedy “for
a ”. . *^ s tlrat flesh is heir to,” but in
* lections of the liver, and in all Bilious
oniplaints, Dyspepsia and Sick Head
*cne, or diseases of that character, they
stand without a rival,
AGUE and fever.
No better cathartic can be used prepar
a'°jy ,0 i 9 r after taking Quinine.
1 and P ur G at ' ve they are un
bewakf, of imitations.
J h e genuine are never sugar coated.
]■, a1 1 box has a red wax seal on the
t*’ w 'th the impression Dr. McLane’s
L p ER , P‘tLS.
C \f C r wra PP er bears the signatures of
i c ANE ant! Fuming Bkos.
C M*'? 1 u P on having the genuine Dr.
pi’ c l.ane’s Liver Pii.ls, prepared by
Br ° S '’ of Pittsburgh, Pa., the
Qa *J )Cln S Ml of imitations of the
tt'ffrtiie, spelled differently but
I* 01 ' Pronunciation;
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bibb AItVS ('IJAT.
j {fifteen Years Ba-k. With
oiitiseh iSiu riiijui,
•fitlnut(i ( qnsf 11 iif ion,
I had just finished reading of it and
was ruiuinatin, when my minor Free
■'■an come in. It carried mo back
aoout If) years to the time when iliev
come along through this same beauti
,nl region and destroyed everything in
their pa. bway L thought about
(ires and .Mississippi hurricanes and aval
anches and the pestilence that walketh
at noonday. 1 thou hr about women
and child, en rna ie iiomeless and deso
: late, and driven away to wander in
1 search ot food and shelter and a bidin
place t don 11 ink about these things
I often, lor the old sore has got well, but,
then, the scare is there, and theres a
weak spot in the bone underneath, and
it takes the rumatics whenever anything
happens that freshens up the horrors of
that march to the sea.
Well, 1 was just a ruminatin when
my nabor come in, an 1 s meiiou or
other we got to talkiu ab ut dogs i ree
man said some of eat had senae and
memory and resentment just like human j
people. That his dog Dixy never mo
lested any bo ,y without provocation,:
but wou.d walk up to cm when they j
come inside the gate nd swe i around
keep his eye on eiu till they get inside ;
the house, He was a monstrous savage
lookin dog, ar.d every one that come in i
would much him up a lit tle tor fear of j
accidents. One day a stranger came 1
along and instead of nuchin him up, :
shook his stie at him. Dirv made for
iim like killin so e-. T bed
rough and tumble for a good while, a.; 1
Dixy tore the hind sights oil fa
and would have whipped him. but an
other fellew run in, and b tween them :
they mauled the dog mighty nigh to
death, '' ell, Dixy never saw that j
man any more for several ears, hut
one day he come along. (“Old Teacup,'
sail I), “i disremember his name’
s :id he, “a id he wanted to come in j
again on some bisness or ’her, (“ ron
works, said I,) and as ' e dident have a
sick he commenced muchin up the dog
and whistlin li tie tnrtle-dov • noies to
him, but Dixy t o e 1 him the very
minute he put his eyes on him There
was no disturbance, for we ere all
about, but that dog never did get rec
,moiled to that mao.
“0! ■ To unip V said 1.
“No,’ said he, “that wasent t e
ime What makes you keep callin
. Teacniup?’
“ Veil, 1 couldent tell you pr, zactly,'’
aid 1, “but Ive just finished readin the
troosal of Mr i-herman s letter, and
;ve got your dog story and the letter
s.o mixed up to ether I cant tell totlier
from which. Ive got nothin agin the
letter in particular, and if it had come
firth a little mere anonymous would
;, a .ve iked it first rale, for it aint often
i Northern Republican is honest enough
i tell the truth on us But then you
■in tlieres many a Dixy dog who hav
ent forgot, and all this muchiu-up dont
make any difference with me, for Ive
done harmonized. I shake hands across
the bloody chasm with everybody that
wants to. Ive no doubt .Mr. Sherman
is sorr. for wha he done and wants to
be friendly. lie dma e a better Pres
ident for the South than Grant.
“Who would? ’ said Mrs. Arp as sue
come in.
“Well, we were just tal in around
generally, ’ said I
“Now, Freeman loves mischief like
a dog loves to worry a cat, and says
he :
“The Major was just speakin about
Gen. Sherman’s lei ter, and lie thinks
votin for him tor the next President.
“Voting for Sherman— General Sher
man—the brute that roboed us of ev
en thing we h id and carried off our ne
groes. Well he wont —not he
loves him better than he does me. May
be if nobody runs against him but old
Satan be might, but ev.n then its doubt
ful who would treat us the worst.’
“But you bavent read his late letter,
said I. . .
“No; and I dont want to read it,
and I don't intend to read it. I think
a Southern paper ought to be ashamed
to print it. Ive never had any peace
or comfort since the night we had to
get up out of bed and run away with
nothing bet a few clothes. He got ev
erything we had, and burnt the piano
in Madison depot, and when we got
back home wc bad to borrow a bed to
sleep on, and put the poor children on
the floor. He dident leave but two
cows in the county, and we bad to do
without milk, and sugar, and coffee
and meat, and live on corn-bread and
mush for months. I say vote for Ger
man—never ”
♦‘But vou see,” said Freeman, “be
wants to’ help os out now. He wants
O SON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1879.
to enoonrag* the Northern people to
come down and buy I ml and build up
the waste places and shew us hov. to
get along better than we do ”
‘ Well, he's too lat so far as I’m
concerned,” said Mrs. Arp, “why did
ent he come ten years ago and wriie a
letter Their buzzards come ad pick
ed our hones and went hue , and now
we can get atom without any of them.
The country is settling up last enough
with our own people. \\ hat makes
the people so crazy about immigration ?
Do you like to see Georgians sell their
lan s to foreigners and then move
s raight off to Texas? Gen Toombs
out and lie's got m. re sense than all
ot them. Aint they buying up all the
g 1 i mines and iron mines and copper
mines and railroads in the country, and
bv and by they'll own everything thats
worth having, and we poor fol s will
have to move away or ! ire to them for
cooks and washerwomen.'’
Familinr sounds from the nursery
indicated awa t of harmony and Mrs
Ar: departed.
Freeman ruminated for a minute,
and then says he :
“Major, the women who went through
the war will never be harmonized, and
I dout blame em. 1 wish Col. Howell
could hear Mrs. Arp ialk for half an
hour. She dout much-up anybody very
inch, an i she do t want anybody to
much her up—does she?”
“Not much,'’ say s I.
Youis, Bill Arp.
V S. range People.
Scientific Notes.
r. E. R. Heath, in a paper on “Pe
ruvian Antiquities,” describes a strage
people lividg in a town called. Eten,
:in seven degrees south latitude and
about two miles fom th sea They
; number about 4,000, and they speak
i b sides he Spanish a language which
j some of the recently brought over 01. -
-; nose laborers understand, hut there is
n ther similarity between the two
j people. They intermarry uncles and
nieces, brothers and sisters, nephews
aunt , that is promiscuously, and no
apparent curse of consa guinity, but
i they will not permit any intermarriage
into their number, or with the outside
w rid. They have laws, customs and
dress of their own, and live by braid
ing hats and mats,and weaving clothes.
They will give no account of the place
whence liey came, or the time they
settled at Eton. History does not
mention their existence before the
Spaniards arrived. Among th n there
are no sick or deformed persons, their
cu tom being to send a committee to
each sick or old person, and those whoare
reported past recovery or past useful
ness arc promptly strangled by the
public executioner Eton ordersj it,
they say, and with Eton’s orders there
is no interference.
Americas Republican: “We learn,
through the kindness of the attend
ing physician, Dr. J. M. 11, West
brook, that on Friday night last,
about half past eight o’clock, Judge
Robert J. Hodges, of this county,
was struck down and dangerously
wounded by an axe in the hands of a
negro demon, on his plantation. The
extent of the injury could not be re
liably sscertaitml at the time the in
formation was transmitted to ns. The
blow was delivered immediately
above the left eye, slightly fracturing
ibe skull, and then a knife wound on
the left side of the neck, which was
made in the attempt by the blood
thirsty villain to cut the throat of bis
victim. The scoundrel then made
good his escape It is to he regret
ted that he was not captured and
punished most severely tor this great
outrage. Mr. Hodges rested very
comfortably, we are informed, Friday
niorht, and was quite cheerful and re
signed, for the good mau knoweth
full well that bis life is in the hands
of One who can heal or take away at
his pleasure, and trusts in Him most
implicitly.”
Says the St. Augustine Press : “The
cost of living in St. Augustine is de
cidedly cheap. A man and familv can
live here for one-half of what it costs at
the North, and if he is deficient in
brains, can live on fish, and do so for
five cents a day—oysters and clams
thrown in. A friend at our elbow
thinks we have put the cost too high.
He says five cents’ worth of fish would
last three days. We think he is right,
and stand corrected.”
Anew industry has opened up in
South Florida, that ot killing alligators,
boiling all the skins from their heads,
and fixing up the latter as curiosities
for Northern tourists to take home with
them.
.JOHN PHtENIX AND JEFF.
DAVIS.
A New Story Tohl of file Great
est of American Humorists.
A New York correspondet of the In
dianapolis Journal give- the following
interesting reminiscence of the late Job a
Phoenix—Lieutenant Derby, of the U.
States army.
When Frank Pierce was President,
Jeff. Davis then Secretary of war, is
sued a general invitation to officers of
the anuv who were ssillful and an hts
men to send in stigg stions for the new
uniform which it had been decided to
adopt. One such invitation was sent
to each officer. Lieutenant Derby was
very ready with his pen a really inge
nious artist. In reply he sent to the
war department a design for anew uni
form or nther a peculiar additio ito
the old uniform—the amendment con
sisting mer ly of a ring attached to the
seat of the trousers of each private sol
dier. Eacn officer was to carry, instead
of a sword, a long pole, with a hook in
the end like a shepherd’s crook. The
pole and the ring enabled officers to
keep the privates from running away in
battle. Fugitives could easily be
caught by ii and brought back. Str g
giers could be kept in iiue Moreover,
the ring would be very useful in the
cavalry service to fasten soldiers to
the saddle to prevent them from falling
oil: and in the artilery service the
rings were to he used for draught pur
purposes in the absence of mules.
These specifications were accompanied
by tho most grotesques pictures, repre
senting officers hauling hack coward y
recruits by the serviceable ring, cavalry
securely fastened to the top of their
steeds by the same device, and artil
lerymen harnessed to cannon, drawing
them through narrow defiles, or up an
acclivity inaccessible to mules, by ca
bles attached to the posterior staples.
On another sheet of bristol-boar.l
was an illustration in gaudy colors of
“Derby’s Rotary Mule Howitzer,'’ ac
companied by the following description:
“Upon the back of a young and
vigilant mule, strap a mountain how
itzer, the muzzle pointing toward the
tail. A similar piece of ordinance is
fastened with iron hands under the ani
mal’s abdomen, the muzzle aimed be
tweeu his forelegs to the front. There
are four gunners, to each piece, and a
“iiorsuader,” he is called, whose bus
i icss it is to persuade the mule to stand
lirm and not retreat, by stuffing him
with oats, after each discharge, with a
tin sausage-stuffer. When Indians, or
other legitimate game, appear in view,
the mule is, by a crank movement on
the tail, limbered to the front. It don’t
matter which way the mule face, (and
here is where mv patent comes in), one
gun is olways pointing towards the front.
At the command “Fire !” the top how
itzer is discharged. The recoil throws
the mule on his hack, bringing the sec
ond gun into position. This is dis
charged, which suddenly throws the
mule to his feet again, when the gun-
uers swab out the mule’s throat with
hay and reload. The accompanying
illustrations (in brown, red, blue and
gold, and still on file in the War de
partment) represented the rotary mule
in seven different attitudes, looking
contented and happy all the time.
This was felt to be outrageous auda
city on the part of a subaltern. The
clerks in the war department laughed
at the funny letter immoderately, hut
their superiors looked serious Jeffer
son Davis, the head of the department,
was terribly indignant, and he resolved
to defend his wounded dignity. Charg
es and specifications were drawn up
against Lieutenant Derby, and the offi
cers were actually named for his court
martial, when Win. L. Marcy, secreta
ry of state, said to the the irate seare
tary : “Now, see here, Gen. Davis;
don’t do it. This Derby has undoubt
edly a superfluous development of hu
mor. But he is shrewd and ingenious,
and really a fine draughtsman. lie
has valuable qualities. You can or
ganize a court that will convict him,
but you will be a butt of ridicule on
account of it all your life. Better file
the suggestions of the crook-and-ring
and the lively rotary mule, aud say
nothing.” And he did
Fifteen I>ollars tor a Kiss.
Otto McNanny is a St. Louis man of
middle age and sedate manners. Mary
Englebreeht is young, with a shapely
figure and a pretty face, and she dress
es with artistic neatness. Otto saw
Mary in the street for the first time,
and was overcome with admiration.
He threw one arm around her waist,
drew her to him, exclaimed, “0, gir
ly, girly,” and kissed her three times
before she could break away. ITesub
seqitently paid fifteen dollars fine in a
police court.
Necessityof Sun tight.
Instead of excluding the sunlight
from onr houses, says the .Manufactur
er and Builder , lest it fade carpets,
draw flies and bring freckles, we should
1 open every door and window, and bid
it enter. It brings life, and health, and
joy. There is healing in its beams.
: I drives away disease and dampness,
mould, megrims. Instead of doing
this, howeve , many careful housewives
cJo-e the b! nds, draw down i he shades,
lock the door, shut out the glorifying
rays and rejoice in the dim and musty
coolness and twilight of the unhealthy
apartments. It is pleasant and not
unwholesome during the glare of the
noontide to subdue the light and ex
clude die air quivering with heat, but
in the morning and in the evening we
may freely indulge in :he sun bath, and
let it flood all onr rooms, and if, at its
very fiercest and brightest, it has full
entrance to our sleeping rooms, so much
the better for us Wire netting in
doors and windows exclude not flies
and mosquitoes only, but all other in
sects, and those who have once used it
will continue to do so. With this as a
protection from instrusive winged crea
tures, one may almost dispense with
shades and shutters and enjoy all the
benefits of an open house without any
annoyances so frequent in warm weath
er. But better the annoyances with
sunshine than freedom from them with
out it Statistics of epidemics have
shown that if they rage in any part of
a ci y they will prevail in houses which
are exposed to the least sunshine,
while those most, exposed to it will not
be a all or sightly affected. Even in
the sane house persons occupying rooms
exposed to sunlight will be healthier
*.nd repulse epidemical influences bet
ter than those occupying rooms where
no sunlight enters.
The wife of a miner in Hopewtll,
Pa., had yellow hair of wonderful length
and abundance. It was so heavy’ as to
a bother, but her husband would not
let her cut it off, even when offered a
good price by dealers.,in hair. Lately
work became scarce wi ll him, and he
did not know how to make a payment
soon coming due on his little house.
The los3 of his home seemed prob iblc.
Then a stranger came along and offered
S2OO for the treasured yellow hair.
That amount of money would raise the
mortgage on the homestead, and ihe
husband reluctantly made the sale. He
could not help shedding tears when he
saw ihe stranger’s shears despoiling his
wife’s head of its beauty, and sh“ wept
when she looked at uerself in the glass,
but they oousoled themselves with the
crisp bank notes, and the buyer went
away wi.h the hair. A few days af
terward the miner went to pay the debt,
and learned that the bills were all
counterfeit.
Michnel Hall’s capacity as a drinker
was under discussion in a Sulro (Nev.)
barroom when he entered He was
proud of the distinction accorded him,
and offered to bet $lO that he could
drink a quart of whiskey in ten minut
es. The wager was midcund tlia mon
ey put into the hands of a stakeholder.
A quart of such whiskey as is sold in
mining towns was measured out Hall
swallowed fully a pint at a draught,
but after that the fluid went down har
der, and ten minutes an 1 a quarter had
elapsed when the last was dr nk. So
he lost his $lO, but th it was not the
worst, for he immedi itoly fell to the
floor, remained unconscious forty-eight
hours, an 1 then died William Hell
killed himself as foolishly in Waldron
Ark. He had he m a performer in a
circus, but intemperance ha 1 incapaci
tated him for such employment, and he
became a barroom bummer. His sn ! e
remaining gymnastic feat was to stand
on his he id, which he was ready to do
for a drink. Two men 'et that he
could not remain inverted an hour, and
he attempted the feat, but a rush of
blood to his head resulted fatally.
The venerable wife of a celebrated
physician one day. casting her eyes out
of the window, observed her husband
in the funeral procession of one of his
patients, at which she exclaimed : “I
do wish my hushand would keep away
from such processions. It appears so
much like a tailor carrying home his
work.”
A lady taking tea at a small party,
being very fond of hot rols, was aked
to have another. “Keally, I cannot,”
she modestly replied : “I don’t know
how many I have eaten already.” “I
do,” unexpectedly cried a juvenile up
start, whose mother had allowed him a
seat at the table. “You’ve eaten eight;
I’ve been countin’!”
VOL. 14--NO 51.
FEMALE LAWYERS IN THE
SUPREME COURT.
President Haves Congratulated
—The Attitude of the .Judges.
Washington, February, 17.—The
President has receiveif a large number
of letters from distinguished women in
all parts of the country, thanking him,
in the name of their sex, for approving
the act admitting women to practice in
the Supreme Court, and thus extending
the sphere of women’s usefulness. The
Justices of the Supreme Court do not
however, share in this rejoicing, as they
once decided, unanimously, that women
were not qualified to practice at their
bar, and one of them, at the White
House reception, Saturday, remarked
to same ladies who were quizzing him
about it, that they intended to change
their consultation room into a nursery
where women who wanted to argue
cases before them could leave their ba
bies.
Too Much Land.
American Agriculturist: We know
a farmer who, ten years ago. owned one
hundred and fifty acres, and was doing
well, he now owns five hundred, and is
worse off than before. And why ! Be
cause this large farm is a great bill of
expense to him ; he cannot afford to
keep it up in good condition, and it
hangs as a millstone of care about his
neck. Ilis wife and children, both
sons and daughters, are obliged to work
hard to keep the great machine run
ning. We presume his boys decla:e
they will eave home as soon as they
are old enough; arid the girls say they
will die before they will marry farmers.
Neither sons nor daughters are educat
ed as they deserve to be, they cannot
be spareil for this from work on the big
farm. Now we dec’are that such a
farm is a curse to its possessor and his
family, and an injury to the whole ag
ricultural interest. If that man wants
to save liimse'f and his household, he
should sell at least one half of his land,
improve the remainder to make it more
productive, ielcase his children from
bondage, and try to make his home a
comfort. He will live longer, lay up
as good property, and will train up a
more intelligent and happier family.
Au Unfortunate Affair.
On last Friday afternoon a difficulty
occured in this city between Messrs.
Jesse W. Walters and Anson W. Tuck
er. As we understand the parties were
settling up some business matters, and
a dispute arose, which ended in a diffi
culty, in which Mr. Tucker was severe
ly cut, once in the breast and twice in
the right leg. Both young men are
welhknown and ranch liked in the city,
and the affair is much regretted by the
many friends of both Mr. T acker’s
wounds are not dangerous and lie is
doing as well as could be expected.
Since writing tiie above we under
stand that Mr. Tucker’s condition is
critical Amputation of the leg may
he necessary to save liis life ; and even
then recovery is doubtful. Dr. Willis
Westmoreland, of Atianti, was tele
graphed for yesterday, and wi'l proba
bly arrive in the city to-day. —Albany
Yews.
urnm • ■
Shooting Affray.
Last Monday between 12 and 1 o’clock
Col B. B Bower, accompanied by his
friend Mr Maston O’Neal, went down
to the tent of Mr. G. B. Thompson,
Photographer, at which time Col. Bow
er made some demand of Mr. Thomp
son, which Mr T. declined to comply
with, whereupon Col Bower shot Mr.
Thompson, the ball entering the lower
region of the abdomen, inflicting a pain
ful but not dangerous wound. It seems
that Mr. Thompson had written a let
ter which serious’y agrieved Col. Bow
er, and upon his aemand for the same
of Thompson, tint gentleman declined
to give it up, hut destroyed the docu
ment by cram i)g it in his mouth and
chewing it up This caused the collis
sion, Mr. O’Neal also becoming slight
ly engaged, by attempting to prevent
Thompson’s destroying the letter. Fur
ther than this we know nothing, all
parties declining to he interviewed.
We deeply regret the unfortunate oc
curence.—Ba inbridge Dmorrat.
At the burial of Ashburton Webster
at Marshfield last v.eek the lid of the
casket containing the remains of his
grandfather—the great statesman Dan
iel Webster—was opened, and his face,
the body having been embalmed, was
perfectly recognizable.—. Yew Yoik
World.
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on the margin of your paper that you
are duo us for subscription, and that you
are requested to pay up and renew at
once.
HANGING THE WRONG
MAN.
St.lf i Another Case That Indi
cates the Ganger of Relying
on Circumstantial Evidence.
CoLT-MBt's, CrA., February 17.—1n
the jail of this county, under sentence
ofdeadi for murder, lies a negro with
a strange history In November, 1876
a man named Holmes was murdered in
the most fjul and wanton manner.
This neg:o, Sam Hall, was arrested on
the charge of being the murderer, and
after a long trial was convicted. The
circumstantial evidence was very strong
against him, and the Shhcriff of Musco
geeo swore positively, to the best of his
belief, to the iientity of the negro.
He was sentenced to be hung He now
states that in 1872 he was sentenced
to the penitentiary for fifteen years for
horse stealing. He effected his escape
in February, 1877, and was consequent
ly in jail in November, 1876, when the
murder was committed. This story
has been substantiated in the most com
plete manner, and the innocence of the
negro of the crime .f murder is clearly
proved. The negro says that when he
was arrested on .he ihaige of murder
lie felt, as lie knew himself innocent,
that he could not be convicted. He,
therefore, declined to acknowledge him
self an escaped convict, until he fouud
that his life depeuded on it. He will,
of course, be carried back to jail to
serve out his sentence for horse steal
ing. Had lie not been in jail at the
time of the murder, he would have
been hung for a ci ime he did not com
mit.
Ten Rules fur Young Men.
Always pick up a hot poker by the
cold end.
Never spend your money when you
can get things for nothing.
Do not despise a twenty cent cigar < r
a two dollar dinner because another
man pays for it.
Remember that it costs more to go
to a high priced theatre than it does to
take a back pew in a free cliurck.
Nothing is troub’esuine to you that
other people do for you willingly
Never pay to-day the man you can
pul off untill to-morrow.
Never trouble yours'■lf to do for an
other what he can do just as well for
himself.
Never buy what you don’t want sim
ply because the mail says he is just out
of it.
Do not poultice your own elbow for
the boil on another man’s neck.
When angry, be sure you can hand
le your man before you call him a 1 ar.
At Owensboro, Ky., Miss Anna K.
Darble, a handsome young lady from
Fort Branch, Ind , entered Judge Scott *
room and whipped Edward Boone, a
prominent young man, until the Sheriff
interposed. She said Boone had slan
dered her. She used inlior punishment
a big black snake whip.
Worth Twice the Sum.
We are just in receipt of Tub Chi
cago Ledger, the leading Family Pa
per of the West, which is now entering
upon its seventh volume. The Ledg
er is a large forty-eight column weekly
paper, printed upon bold, plain type,
which can be read with ease, by either
the old or young, and is filled with
choice stories and matter of particular
interest to every household. This ex
cellent journal is supplied to subscrib
ers, postage paid, for the extremely low
price of one dollar and fie tv cents
per year. In order to more rapidly in
crease its present large list of readers,
the publishers of this paper have just
made anew contract for the manufac
ture of several thousand fine Nickel-
Plated English Hteel-Barrcl-and-Cylin
dcr Seven-Shot Be v jive, s—22 caliber
—which they propose to distribute
among their subscribers at cost, and,
therefore, offer ouo of these elegant wea
pons of defense and The Ledger one
year for Three Dollrs. The revolv
er will be sent by mail, postage paid,
o.i receipt of the price. They have al
ready distributed 5,000 revolvers, and
are mailing hundreds dai y. Now is
y >ur time to get a first-class revolver
aid the best paper in the country for
less than half thcaotual worth of either.
Three sample copies of The Ledger
will be sent to any address for ten
cents. Address, Tiie Ledger, Chica
go, 111.
DISSOLUTION.
Brown Station, Gn., Jan. 27. 1870.
I''HE lion Of .JOHNSON & lIILI.
l is th s day di-soived by mutual consent,
Hr. Johnson letirinjj to emberk in business
in A lint;. Til- business will he eontiuued
at Brown Sro ion by K G. Hill & Son, who
i 1 be p! ased to serve our old patrons and
-olk'it the p-trot.ige ol the public geueratlj.
The business of the oli firm will be wound
up bv eitber'or both mnubera of the firm.
Those holding claims agiiost us will please
n-esent them at ..nee fur parmsnt. Those
indebted 'o us will ple.as come and settle
at t n:c. It von desi;e extension come and
renew your papers u it a', we may close up
cur bo .ks. Very Respee'fn! v,
F.LAM JOHNSON,
K. G. HILL.
P P.-In retiring from the business, at
the l elm of w'lteb l have s:ood for twelve
years, nd bidding adieu ip the friends and
t ons with whom l have been pleariu ly
mingled, both socially and in business rela
tions, I car not take my leave without r> -
turpi g an i.ffec'ionate bow as a token of
the warm f.ietidship w dch I feel tor the ck
iz us of ibis commuiiiv; and in bidding
adieu to in • fi-me- parinrr, I bespeak lor
him the ho e tha h • may receive a iibetal
patronage i.pd poape- iu the new burins*.
Moat It ■sperHiillv,
ELI SI JOHNSON.