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SA.ML J. JOHNSTON.
RAILROAD DIItIXTORY.
ATLANTA A WEST FOIST R- It-
Clian t; e o t Sclte <1 tile*
DAT I'ASSKNtiKtt TRAIN —OCTWAItD.
Leare Atlanta ‘ :l ® A M
arrives at Fairburn ° : '" J •' M
Arrive at West Point 11:10 a m
HAY PiSSENUEU Ti.AtX— INWARD.
Leave West Point 12:05 p M
arrive at Fairburn m o p M
Arrive at Atlanta i; ‘ J p m
KIGUT FKEIUUT AND PASSKNUEB TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta ’’ M
Arrive at We-t Point D-l ' *' M
Leave West Point n ' "
Arrive at Atlanta tine, am
L.P. Git ANT, Supertutenlent.
MACON A WESTERN RAILROAD.
ON and after Sunday, Feb. doth, DTI. the
followiujr schedule for Passenger Trains
will be observed un this Road:
DAY PASSENGER TRAINS DAILY,
(Sundays excepsed.)
Leave Macon at "-20 a m
Arrive at Atlanta at 2:23 pm
Leave Atlauta at.. 0:00 a m
Arrive at Macon at 11:30 a m
MOltr PASSENGEU trains (Daily.)
Leave Macon at 5: 6pm
Arrive at Atlauta at 10:16 p m
Leave Atlanta at 3:28 p m
rrivc at Macon at 11:05 p m
Trains arriving at Macon 11:3) a. in. and
10:15 p, in . make close connections for Savan
nah and all points in Florida.
The 10:15 p, tn. train connects at Atlanta
lor Eastern and Western cities.
Trains on the S.. G & N. A. R. li., connect
at Grifli i with the do* u day passenger train
ol Macon A Western Railroad, and run as 01.
lOWS :
Leave Gii.tia 1:00 p \t
Arrive at .Neunan 3:45 p u
Leave to vi nan i on \ m
Arrive at Gritliu ... .0:4? a m
11. W. BRONSON, M. T.
W. A. FULLER, Q. T. A.
WESTERN A ATLANTIC RAILROAD.
ON and after Sunday, February Id. 1871,
the Passenger trains will run on the
Western and Western Atlantic Railroud as
follows:
KIUIIT PASSENGER TBAIN'.
Leave Atlanta 10.16 )' m
Arrived at Kingston 1:14 a m
Arrive at Dalton 3i2G a m
Arrive at Chattanooga 6:10 a m
Leave Chattanooga 0:00 p m
rrivc at 1 1 dton 11:11 pm
rrive at Kingston 1:51 A M
Arrive at Atlanta 5:17 a m
lIAY PASSLNGEIt TWAIN.
Leave Atlanta 8:15 a m
Arrive at Kingston 11:45 a m
Arrive at Dalton 2:13 p m
Arrive at Chattanooga 4:25 p m
Leave Chattanooga -SsfiVjttt
Arrive at Dalton 8:10 am
Arrive at Kingston 10:30 A M
' ;',t.n<.v *2:00 r m
at .8 E. n. WALKER,
Master Transportation.
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
ON and after Sunday’January 22nd 1871
the passenger trams will run as follows
DAY PaSsXNgBB TRAIN.
(Daily, Sunday Excepted.)
Leave Augusta 8-.00 A m
Leave Atlanta 7:10 a m
Arrive at Augusta f :40 p m
Arrive at. Atlanta 6:35 p .u
NIGHT PASSENGEU THUS.
Leave Augusta 8:20 p M
Leave Atlanta 10:00 p m
Arrive at Augusta 7:30 a m
Arrive at Atlauta 0:40 a m
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta 5:30 p .«
Lt iv .-tone Mountain (1:30 A M
Arriva at Stone Mountain 7:00 p m
r’h" Both dry and n : ght passenger trains
will make close conmelions at Augusta and
Atlanta with passenger trains of connecting
roads. Passengers from Atlanta, Athens,
Washington and stations of the Georgia Rail
road, by taking the down day pr eenger train
will make close connection, at Cam.ik, with
Macon passeogir liain, and roach Macon the
same day. at 7: io p. m. J’aLo* Sleeping Cars
on all night trains. S. K JOHNSTON,
Superintendent.
BUSINESS CARDS.
BON FUN >AI.OOV.
ALL persons in want of something good to
Eat, Drink or Smoke can find them by
calling an our crulchmnn. Jiimnie Vickary, at
the RONTON SALOON, opposite the depot.
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BRICK BY THE MILLION.
UjTUEN you want Brick call on Cook &
Davis, one half mile west of Fairburn,
Ga.. and you can get them for the greenbacks.
Don't fail to give tbc.se gentlemen a call
when you want brick. apl3*tf
FA 188 l BN 11 Kill SCHOOL.
Capt. J. G. LISTER. I’rof. of Mathematics.
E. C. MOBLEY, Piof. of Modern and Ancient
I,anguages.
Mns. ANNA MALONE, Teacher of Music.
fTMIK first Session of this School the year,
I. 1871, will end tip* 30,h0i June. Students
charged only from the time of entering. Rates
of Tuition lower than any other similar-classed
Institution in the State. Number cl students
ut present, seventy-five. cpil-tf
THOMAS \\. LATHAM,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW
FAIRBURN, GEORGIA,
UJILL practice in the Superior Courts of
the counties of Campbell, Coweta. Doug
lass, Fayette, Fulton and other counties by
special contract—in the Supreme Court of the
State and the District Court ot the United
States for the Northern District of Georgia,
held at Atlanta. aplii-12m
OsCAB A. CANTRELL L CO.,
DEALERS IN
Dry Goods, Groceries, Kc.,
(in their new store, one door east of postolfice,)
FAIRBURN, GEORGIA.
,Tst»~Call on them and gel good bargains.
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Cfet Jfairhn SnttmL
VOL. U
ATLANTA BUSINESS CARDS
J . li Y N C II ,
ME R C 7i: I .V T TAILOR,
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CorueriAJdiiteha^lst .l and W. & A. RR.
Atlanta,.. A *i. . ..Georgia.
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jag- A line select the Choice Imported
Goods alwas on hand. s J ,
jesr Orders promptly tillhd, Ac.' mbl9*!m
JOUOlil, HOW llll) & ii.iinui.soi,
COM M ISSIO.N MERCII ANTS,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
1.1 QVO RS, CIGAR S, Ac.,
Whitehall Street, ATLANTA, GA,
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ATLANT A STEAM BREWERY.
C. A. GOODYEAR’S
CELEBRATED
SOutliorn A1 os
AND PORTER.
I*. O. Box, No. 518.
Capt. W. P. PLATT, Traveling Agent.
tp2B ts
J. L. DI KES K SON,
DEALERS IN
FAM 1L Y GROCE RIE S ,
Vegetables aad Country Produce,
on Whitehall, between Mitchell & Peter’s St.,
Atlanta, Georgia,
Respectfully solicits patronage from
the city and surrounding country. ap2B-lm
BOV KIN * MIBOPSIIIBK,
Grocers, Produce Dealers and
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
Nu. SO, Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga.
jjtar- Careful Attention given to all Consign
ments and the Execution of orders lor Produce
and Groceries.
Orders filled at the lowest Market
Prices upon the day they are executed,
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HUN NIC! TT & BELLINGRATH,
DEALERS IN
STOV ES K SLATE MANTLES,
TIMERS’ lIIIUHIMiS,
STEAM AND GAS FITTINGS,
Wrought Iron Pipes,
For Fleam, Gas nml Water Pumps, Rubber
Ilose. Tin Plate, Sheet Iron. Copper, Lead, and
Lead Pipes, plumbers' Brass Goods, Wash
Basins, Water Closets, Ac.,
No. 9, Marietta St., Atlanta, Ga.
Also, Contracts for Roofing in the best
style, in Tin and Sheet iron. ap'2B-l2m
J . WAKL IC k ’
MANUFACTURER OF
TINT W AII3D;
STOVES, TIY PATE, t\t> TIWERS’ FIVDIStIS.
Also, OIL LAMPS.
Marietta Street, between Whitehall & Broad,
Atlanta, Georgia.
rr.*!~ We call the attention of the citizens
of Campbell, Fayette and Douglass counties to
the advertisement ot Mr. J. Warlick. We
know him to be one ol the high toned, honest
and energetic business men of At'anta. Go
| to his house and buy yoor wife anew Stove
and you will fmd him all right. Success to all
such men. ap2l •Im
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Address A. M. SPEIGHTS & CO.,
Atlanta, Ga.
O. A. HARVEY,
FAIIIBUEN, GEORGIA,
DEALER in
POPULAR FAMILY MEDICINES,
BOOTS, SltOLfc,
11 an)>Yfu «', Family Groceries,
I* ÜBE LI Q l O H.S , &c .
TERMS STRICTLY CASH.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW »
E C. M OBLEY,
Attorney at La w ,
Fairburn, Georgia
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Blacksmith W ood Shop,
DAVIS, PICKARD & CO., on Main street
Fairburn, Ga.. propose Io do all kind of
Blacksmith and Wood Work at old prices.—
Satisfaction guaranteed in work and price.
Give him a call. aj>l3 12m
FAIRBURN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1871.
For the S.ntiuel.
A Stroll.
Oh. that men should pit (in enemy iu their
mouths to steal away their brain.
Shakespeare.
Not only steal away their brain, but
their happiness property. Not
only happiness and property, but steals
away the joy and peace of a long life
.of happiness of the wife and child and
dethrones that confidence that should,
rule supreme within the circle of love,
a that wdtfhL freeze The
blood of tlie t^imsmi v
annals of crime and suffering by intem
perance on Adam’s race The story
we are about to relate is not the work
of vain, delusive fancy.
Long ago, dear leader, as we walked
the streets at night in a large city,
cries of distress and a woman’s wail
were heard. It was a low sorrowful
cry that trembled on the air, burdened
with grief. No appeal for help was
uttered—no call for man’s assistance;
but it came to the ear like the sobs of
a heart that was breaking, or a spirit
whose hope in the world had fled.
Wc paused as we heard it. The
tluskof the evening was mingling with
the clouds of night. In the imperfect
gloom wc saw no object, nor could dis
cern no living creature; yet, spell
bound we were transfixed to the spot.
These sad despariug tones had put our
heart in a tumult of sympathy. It was
such a wail as we sometimes hear when
the light of the world fades on closing
eyes and the widowed are left desolate.
Again it came, trembling, thrillingly,
on the startled shades of night. This
time we detected fiom whence the cry
proceeded, and, hoping to be of benefit,
moved by sympathy, we entered the
house.
The room in which we found ourself
was destitute of furniture of every
soit. The naked walls and bare floor
looked dreary and chill in the autumn
twilight. Through the shutterless win
dows and the broken sash the cold cast
wind blew a piercing sting. The mossy
sill and the green wet spots on the
loosened plaster disclosed continued
damp. Over the dark abode there
brooded the chill of want. Our life
blood ebbed with a chilling fear, and
oui heart grow nick with a nameless
(head.
In the furthest coiner of the room
a woman of middle age bent above a
child’s pallet of straw. It was from
her the cry that alarmed us proceeded.
With a dreary hopeless air, her body
swayed as she sobbed, and the tears
ran down her face Ike rain. The hol
low cheeks were livid and the great
dark eyes had lost their brightness,
but ever, in the wreck we discerned
what she once bad been. The profuse
black hair was still upon her head, hut
its ebon gloss was gone. The form
that once had been rouuded and tall
had now grown angular and slim, but
the mind could go back through the
aisle of years and see what the form
had been, when she flung the spell of
beauty over men’s hearts in her youth’s
spring time.
But even as we looked, a child’s low
utterance foil upon our ear.
“ Do not weep, mother, do not cry
so bitterly! I’m not hungry now—l
want no food. I feel most comfortable.
Beautiful forms and shining radiant
faces seem to be looking down upon
me from a far off height. I see the
sheen of glancing wings, and bear the
music, so sweet, so sad, that trembles
out on the air. Are those bright forms
the angels, mother, and the music, the
songs of the better land!”
We drew nearer and looked upon the
face of the child. Pale and wan it lay
upon its bumble bed. The torn and
tattered sbreads of an old worn out
dress clung to the wasted limbs and
sunken chest. Long yellow curls
shrouded the bead in a golden floes that
gleamed like silk; and on the pure
white temples the dark blue veins were
prominent. The violet eyes were largo
and bpiglit, but the sweetyoung mouth
| trimbted with emotion.
“My child! fPy child 1" and the mother
gave way to the anguish that wrung
her heart. f ‘To see her dying thus,
my little one, dying of starvation and
j disease inhaled from these malignant
j damps. Oh, God, be merciful and spare
my child—my only one, ray little girl!”
The clasped Lands were rained high
iu passionate entreaty and lips mur
j mured inarticulate. Like a sweet young
flower in the autumn winds, its petals
| (.losing fast, the rose of clay was fading.
The little face was white like snow,
i and the tint of the lij>s was gone. A
chilling Lost on the limbs bad blown,
and now they grew iigid and still’; but
a smile still 1 oven and on the chiseled
lips as sweet as the touch of an angel s
kiss. The soft blue eyes were still
bright and clear, but they looked on
her mother with a tear of regret. She
knew she was dying, but she knew her
mother would be desolate. And thus
she died, with a smile on her lip and a
ifyar iu her eye. The fresh turned ear Hi
presses down on her bosom. The violet
eyes have o; ened iu a better and
night she was dying were the glimpses
of the heaven where her spirit sings
now, and will sing forever.
Dear reader, there is little more to
be told, and you will have the seijuel
of the story. Fight years ago the
widowed, desolate woman stood before
the altar in all her loving beauty and
in the presence of God promised to love
and obey one who was dear as her own
life. Then a bright future gleamed
through the dim vista. Other eyes
than hers looked upon this young man
as the rising star of his day. A few
years passed and witnessed his success.
The tempter came, lie yielded, and the
tempter only released his hold when
it saw him laid in a drunkard’s grave.
The light that a loving wife and doting
friends looked upon with so much pride,
was extinguished. The eyes that once
sparkled from a conscience of rectitude
and flashed with the light of intellect,
now glared with a demon like, wild
frantic look.
Thus the tempter had destroyed the
happiness of a household and sent an
unoffending woman into a cold world
without money or friends. As she
gazes on the past she utters the heart
rending sigh, “What might have been,”
and looks to the grave as the gale that
will lead her to a reunion with her an
gel child that has gone before to that
land of rest.
For the Sentinel.
“They know nut what they «lo.”
Women caunot bo too care! ul of how
they speak to their husbands. Harsh
words can never do any good. Bui
they have drove many a tnau farther
from lie:ii ta and homes. Men are often
out of humor noth with themselves and
the balance of the world. No one can
tell or describe the various passions of
the human heart, and often when a man
lias been doing tho very best lie could
to provide for bis household and ret urns
to bis borne to hear angry words from
those for whom he Las been toiling.—
It fills his Boul with disgust and loath
ing, and he naturally turns from home
to seek more congenial company, and
too often finds it only among the dissi
paled. And thus from word to word
and step to step many a good man is
brought to ruin and disgrace by the
tongue of a hot headed and foolish
woman. Then the woild talks and
frowns upon the mined man, little
thinking that the real cause was in bis
own home. “Truly it is belter to live
in the house top than in a wide houstft
wiili a brawling woman. Truly theiiM
ways lead down to hell.” Proverb. .
Toombs in the North. —“ Massa Bob ”
Toombs, of Georgia, will visit the
North shortly. A good many years
ago Toombs lectured here in Boston.—
I o was, in years gone by, the groat
Fcc-Fo-Fum of the Abolitionists, who
accused him of having boasted that lie
would call the muster-roll of his slaves
on Bunker Hill,which bo has repeatedly
and publicly denied. It is a curious
fact that ail bis old slaves stick by him
since emancipation, for be is at bottom
a kind, large-hearted man, proverbially
free with his money. But he has a
terribly caustic tongue, and whatever
comes uppermost he speaks out with
out fear or favor, lie is stout and
vigorous in his person, with an eye full
of fire and expression. Asa speaker
and debater in the United States Sen
ate, where wo heard him repeatedly
before the war, bo had few superiors.
He is at homo in tho best thought and
culture of the timos, lie used not un
frequently in Lis spueclics to quote
from the works of John Stuart Mill and
other liberal thinkers. Jjc is very popu
lar in Georgia, but his genius and in
tellectual power fire thought to be
ahead of his practical judgment, which
is not rated very high at Loit;c. Bos
ton Comjpr.
The Grand Jury of Dougherty comi
ty Superior Court have been doing
their duty in ferretting out crime.
{NO. 12.
Georgia C li i p s.
Wednesday was a dark day for tlie
Augusta bow wows. About eighty
I arks wore wrecked in a huge tank of
water by remorseless policemen.
Dalton is bragging on the ugliest
gill in the State.
One day last week a Catoosa county
hello fell into a well, but without a
yell she immediately went to work and
climbed out.
Mr. John Lamar, of Griffin, aged
eighty years, started for Calafornia
last Monday, to reside there.
Brunswick has two new boat clubs.
One of the boats is named Brick Pom
eroy.
Dalton is said to be improving very
rapidly.
Monroe county holds her fair at For
syth oti the 29th of July.
The Talbotton Standard says it is
now pretty certain that the Columbus
and Atlanta Railroad will he built
It will pass through Hamilton, Harris
county.
The lightening killed a worthy ne
gro on the plantation of Mr. Dickey,
near Thomasville, last Thursday.
A negro woman living noar Haws
kiusville, was cut off at the untimely
ago of one hundred and two, last Fri
day.
Comptroller Bell, after an extended
tour in Northeast Georgia, reports ex
cellent crop prospects.
Thomasville has organized a Tem
perance' organization.
llawkinsville still goes it string on
draft playing and woj.
The Romans refuse to buy sausage
of their butchers since a firm in that
city has advertised to buy cats.
Thomasville is rejoicing in the ben
cficicnt influence of the dog law.
The Fulton county alms house has
ninety-seven inmates.
The North Georgia diamond fever is
on the increase, but the diamonds
themselves arc not.
Columbus is enjoying a season of
tho drama, as interpreted by the suf
frage stingers of that city.
The base ball nuisance lias broke
out over the State. Atlanta isn’t
yet afflicted, thunk the Lord.
Valdosta has had a SBOO fire.
Savannah had a SIO,OOO fire the
other night, the origin of which is
wrapped in mystery.
The track of the Brunswick and Al
bany Railroad is within thirty milss of
Albany.
The hotels in Albany are doing a
lively business.
Champagne cocktails are all the go
among the Albany people. Our aris
tocrats continue on whisky strait, and
seem happy, too.
The traveling agent fur the Savun
nah Adveitiser is a gushing voting
man. The gills are looking for him
here in Atlanta, and we want him to
be careful where he gushes.
r* lie Screven House of Savannah
olos< and yesterday, and will not he
'. before October next, when,
we understand, Colonel Hewitt, of the
Globe Hotel, Augusta, will take
charge.
How Long Shalt, Wk Sleep. —“ The
fact is, that life becomes concentrated,
and its pursuits more eager, short sleep
and early rising become impossible.—
We take more sleep than our ancestors,
and we take more because we want
more. Six hours sleep will do very
well for a plowman or biicklaycr, or
any other man who has no other ex
haustion than that produced by manu
al labor, and the sooner he lakes it af
ter his labor is over the better; but for
a man whose labor is mental, the stress
of work is on his brain and nervous
system, and for him, who is tired in
the evening with a day of mental ap
plication, neither early to bed or early
to rise is wholesome. He needs letting
down to the level of repose. The long
er interval between the active use of
the brain and his retirement to hud,
the better chance of sleep and refresh
ment. To him an hopr after midnight
is probably as good as two hours be
fore it, and even then his sleep will
not so completely and quickly restore
him as it will his neighbor who is phys
ically tired. Ho must not only go to
bed later but lie longer. ITis best
sleep probably lies in the early morn
ing hours, whop all tho nervous excite
ment has passed away, and he is in ab
solute real.’'
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All articles published lor the benefit of
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will be charged for us ailverti-i meats
The Art of Living Bril A Riv
al of Mr. Bryant.
Wo copied in a recent numbor of
the Journal an account given by the
poet Bryant of the mode of life which
lie had pursued for many years, and lo
which may fairly be alliibtited his re
mat liable health of mind and body at
a very avanced ago. A Georgian,
who professed to be ninety-six years
of age, and a carpenter by- trade, has
been moved by Mr. Bryant’s letter tw
giving Ids own method of preserving
health, which is somewhat different
from that of the poet, lie says:
‘ I get up about live in the morning,
drink about six or eight di inks •yadLL**
sol ill corn whisky by uIGgrV ;j
clock. By that time ’ fSflPi) j
and dressed about five hundred loot
of plank, more or less, then take break
fast.
“My breakfast is generally a smoth
ered chicken ami a stewed catfish or
two or three trout; sometimes two or
three shad, with beaf steak and ham
and fried eggs, with two or three doz
en boiled eggs, fifteen ui twenty but
tercukes, with a little coffee or tea—
say about six or eight cups—just as 1
feel about the number of cups, i then
joint, tongue and groove the plunk.—
By about ono o’clock I am ready for
putting up or down, at which time I
dine.
My dinner is not always the same;
but generally I take about three or
four quarts of turtle or pea soup, a
small baked pig or a rested goose,
sometimes a quurler of a lamb or kid,
greens, beans, peas, unions, eschalots,
potatoes, cabbage, and other like veg
etables, by which lime 1 have drunk
about fifteen or twenty drinks of old,
solid corn whisky. After dinner 1 put
up or down my plunk, as the ease may
be; take a few drinks during Ihe time,
say about twelve or fourteen.
“I then take the last meal, which is
generally called lea; don't use any
meat; chink about six quarts of good
buttcr-rnilk, with, about one and a half,
or two pounds of light, bread: take
about four drinks to hold it steady,
lay down about eight, and rest better
than if I had crowded nTy
I t .eu rebt well, dream pleasant dreams,
i ise eai ly again.
“'This has been my mode of living
through life. I am stout and active;
weigh from two hundred and sixty to
two hundred and seventy-five pounds;
health fine. My head is as black as a
gander's back. lam not very extruv
igant in Using tobacco; only use about
two or three plugs a day, say one and
a halt pounds; smoko some and chew
the balance —not that I like tho wee.
use it only to keep my flesh down.”
—Appleton’s Journal.
Kr-Kux attack on a Negro Clinton,
'The Amcricus Republican has the tol.
lowing: A drunken negro stumbled
into a colored prayer meeting, a few
nights since, while the congregation
was kneeling, and in limiting about for
a seat fell heavy on a brother, who,
suddenly starting up, yelled out “ Ku-
K lux!” and in ono bound went through
the window. On an instant the con
gregation was in the greatest confu
sion. The women shouted, screamed
and prayed; the men yelled and fought,
striking anything and anybody near
them. The lights were put out through
tho melee, and the house was emptied
as speedily as the affiighted darkies
could distangle themselves and get out,
except tho drunken wretch who had
been trampled upon and knocked about
until he was nearly senseless. As soon
as it became quiet he got up and made
a dash for the door and was soon hurry
ing homeward. On the way he met
some gentlemen, to whom he said:
“The damn Ku Kluxers come down to
church jess now, and kilt al out twen
ty five, arid whipped the wimmen and
driv us all out. They skint me all over
with great big knives, and my bones
ain’t got a hit of meat on ’em. Dis
poor deflictcd chile is a dead nigger,”
and ho went staggering homeward.
Few are probably aware of the fate
of Lord Byron’s heart. After his death
at Missolonghi, in 1822, his body was
embalmed and sent to England, but
the heart was begged and obtained by
the Greeks, who enclosed it in a silver
case. Four years later, aftei tho pro
tracted siege of Missolonghi, a sally
ing party, carrying the relic with them,
out away with great sacrifi/c of life,
through tho Tuikisli lines; but the
heart was lost in i tossing the marshes
