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4liounal fraud. *L.
IT IS G n NE!
Of nil the of onr Jiingnnjro, there
te rone more Solemn, thoityir i Xpn (used by
llte lips uiol tongue, it comt-s in nceeutanf
uadiies* from the heart of heart a. V Imt,
Win hl year is Rom I Old, yen, ohl; three
linn Irert ml sixty-five days, in tint ohl?
X"*. it |*iisseil the n|lultcil H(‘NutMis
mol is gone with its record into the solemn
luhl* of the oterioil it is buried, it
c.m imvoj* W iiwiiiM'fi'tl ■tfici't* in no no*
15f- for It. II U ami in #*ing further
MU <* nrtiief tot the moments are tolil by the
d'.il. mol take their flight utter it; hut
never n**aring il. n >r. never ivturin-oif to
tell whitUet .t is gone, or whither they an
going. Jt i gone with its records of joy
mol sorrows, its pleasuroN, its |)iiins, :t
lilossings, mol its afflictions, to the eternal
Im.ok-keeper whose record of tlioo mo
tui things is infallible, mo! ntu never In
questioned in the Courts of eternsl tidjii
(Lcntioil. It entered upon its cuewr il,
the dreariness of winter, when the wind
were bleak mid pitiless, mol its produces
sor tmd rolihcd not me of its (lowers, ol
its verdue, of its foliage, and its fruits
Jjs tienntiew had hulls!, witheied, drooped
ditsl mol fallen, mid whs gone. It ns
oeuded the throne, mid took the seeptei
it its hand, and commanded the stoim
while the winter lasted. Then spake tor
pid Nature into new life, mol the enrtl
again was carpeted with a lively and lovi ly
gre!*n, mol Mo* lilajes io I'rees'of the wild
woods was dressed again in new suits ol
gorgeous splendor. Till) l nils did mvel
Hud hurst to deck the earth with flower*
of rarest beauty and till the air with sweat
eat fragrance. The ih Ids and the tree
brought forth their fruits in the suiumei
season, and the autumn harvested and
gnrnnred Me m np for the then coming
drenrv winter. The flowers faded aim
lost their fragrance and beauty; the gras
withered its lively hemity, disappeared.
The leaves v>i re seared ami fallen, mol all
is gone, and skeleton nature is ‘Xnqqsnl
again in wintry arms. IX*it is tiiat. all that
is gone? la it only in reference to revolv
ing years ilMil we we utter die. sad word
i 1t nffjy in reference* to flowers tlmi
bloom V 5 fade mol die? No, the old
year that is gone has upon its solemn pa
gt>s the sad word written tlHfllsnmls o
times. How many fond 'withers, will
hearts grief stricken, who lias watched
with a mother’s vigilenoo and uuexiety hit
days around the hud of her sick and dying
child, waiting the* dreaded issue, has ex
clrimed in accents of despair and Madness,
it is gone, it is gone! How many hus
Hands have witnessed the lender cord
breaking one by one by the iey hand of
tenth that bound to him Hiol to earth, his
loved and cherished wife, and w hen the
beautiful rosy tint of youth has faded into
the pulor of death. The lips that gave
utterance to word* of gentleness and kind
bps* is scaled and hushed into* eternal si
lenee. The expressive eyes of sympathy
end tonderncss is closed and dimmed for
ever; and the precious spirit, Ah, the
Unsbund’s breaking heart forces the lips
to utter tlio solemn word, in accents of
grief and sorrow, it is gone, gone! But is ;
t| u ,t all that is gone? The flowers that
failed, the grass that withered, the leaves
that fell, the loved ones that died? No;
tile old year that has fled with its records
to be tiled in the Temple of Eternal re
netnttenmcc, has on every page iwitton,
perhaps; rtot fet uttered by liulnfm' tips,
Iks solemnity not yet felt by human hearts,
bnt to lie realised and uttered in anguish
and roworse, when it is too late, too late;
(he opportunity iB gone. It is gone. How
many dispairiug souls will exclaim: I-conld
(have giO*n that cup of water; I could have
Rflsited the sick; I could have gone to the
puot man in prison, and spoken words of
comfort and consolation; I could have
soothed the sorrow?^)f the poor toiling
wi- u*; I could have given to her and her
little ones bread; and me and mine would
not have suffered; I could have caught the
cries of the orphan off the winds of heav
* eii, and bushed them jjito silence, and my
bounty would not have been wasted. How
solemn it will be when the universal walls
ami arched domi s shall echo and reverber
ate the dispairiug wailing utterance of
millions of souls. It is 100 late, too lab*;
the opportunity is gone, gone;, forever'
gone I
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4 Terrific Attack.
ft will be remembered that sonic three
weeks ago wc published an article in* ref
erence to one R. A. Gentry, sometimes
called tipi. Gentry, bnt gencwiHjr known
as the yerker card, or eatsli all of the
Mnruirtg A’eirs, in which w said ho had
deelared that it was not penflisblo for
mefehunts to advertise in eoimtry or in
land papers, and we also made some refer
ence to his parsimony hv saying that out
•of his pocket a five cent piece had never
bi-eu known to come. So a few mornings
afterward* we met the Gent ry, who de
manded mi explainatien. Being over
awed, and in our wo frankly
confessed that we had published him to
11 liecanse ho deserved it. He
rted that he was the best friend
try newspapers had, and e, in
dity, then and tluje ackuowl
ut we ivhiu't believe one word of
- -aw— •-.*.. •
K R 71,1 W.'AT Cl' rFVK SOI LS, IVK r.'IJ. EXPLODED.
Oil TiWsday i veiling last a numlier of young genth incu of oui town, went io Grooverville to attend wind was intended to be a magnifirect Ball, and would doulitlesf.
have 111 11, hill the inch uieiiev 01 llio Meai.it r pi*mibited !• male atteinlauts, and hence, a flilluii). And ill tile drearim ss of the niglit our yoiinu gents started for towny, t>r
r ,,11,01-1.. unothei parly inimi diaU-lv on tin n* Way of less pretentions. Ir. U due to truth to slate that G -v. Eoinlei*, the violinist of all this country, formed one of the group,
and ioeeiitiird a back seal, in the ptiMKou with Ins iisii.d poiupus dignily, smoking Ins jii|-. Si vi ral buggies followed the phailon m a narrow pluce in the road whn li
was some SI vei.il iiiltidred yards in h ifjwli, and worn and a*p 11, the travel of many years. Our knights of tiio exploded Ball met, when about half tlirongb the narrow road,
Il lour mule Uam and three oxcalU. Iteie was a givi.l diliieuhy to evereome; Inn there was one Irmly for the emergency, who abase 111 his Mageaty nud stisal up in tile
middle of tile pliuiluii, and siiiu unto ti e man who was illing the mules, ;ml id i) to tlmse that were driving the oxen : *• Behold, i say unto you. this is the Mayor of Quit
mu., and his eatiinet. hetatliue ye are comm U led ti) give the load;" and m about three hoiirannil tweuty miuutcs the Wagon, mules, cart* and oxen, were stored away on
the outside ut the road.-and the .Mayor and* ins cabinet, musician and alt i:d:iuts,pissed in safely through the narrows.
it. lie then win iied us not to mention
Ins inline ii) mu* paper Itgnii , and we were
no alainieil ami oveumme* wiih fei.r ilmi in
the prest iiee of the Rev. Mr. Is tvis and
die Hon. A. T. Mclntyre, pinmmed linn
that we would not do it until we felt lilti
i and Aad an oppottiliiity. Now atti -
many comments upon our article unit lut
ing gathered from them some data, we tin
that we owe Col. Gentry an apology, h
we are credibly informed, that on m
occasion when lie was appealed to by poo,
logger that he, without thinking, dl*e>
from his pocket a piece of motley and,
upon reflection, put it in murtlier; there
fore ill that we did the Golem 1 irij'iNtiei
•Hid offer this im an apology, but wc f el
bound to ilMNDl't that the Cohen I did no.
act ill i.ocoiduiKV willy scriptural injune
lions, for he lit his left hand know what
ms right hand done.
We offered him the opportunity, thnmgli
flic columns of our paper, to deny having
said to nierebnnts that it did no good to
advertise in country pnpera, then we
1 would prove that he did. XVe understand
Mutt the Colonel, in lys rage, saya we have
waked tip the wrong piiksellger, tiiut. may
lie (rue, but w. think in our anotliing
iiininl ilify, we are trying to lull the right
one to sleep. It is a great convenience to
a minister to have a large until her of well
arranged nod thoroughly matured sermons,
hut it isn’t beat to have as many faces ns
Gentry, fol* they wear out, and the makri
of such faces us ho has been wealing i
now dead.
As n matter of course, if n country pa
per can do no good, it eun do no hufiu, and
Gv-nt’ must not complaiu when one of
them speaks tlio truth in it [airily and
uimplioity.
Patterson Tliweatt n Omiin
Old soldier vve endorse you fully, niul
publish your arlieh) without comment, as
it needs none:
A’t/itOi'S Jkrold A (lvr<;iiiu: I see the
SftViunnth A 'etc* gives you credit fol* advo
cating the ni]Kiyn*rniot BaUvraon T’hyveatt's
salary as Clomptroler-Gcuerai deling the
war. tlmve read his phiimphlet through
aud*through, nud viewed it from every
stumlp.iint, aud do pot see any justice m
it, his "vidualile services” and "111*. Hill’s
proviso” to the eoiilrary uotwit(istudiiig.
lb re is a man who occupied a boml -proof
position during the four long years of the
war, who had his large, comfortable oflioe
>n which to render his ‘valuable service,"
♦with his hluzeilig fires, all at the expense
of the State, and when his day’s work was
done could go home and sit down by his
own fireside and enjoy the sweet society el
his wife and children, and was drawsagr a
salary of <52.000.00 a veal', jatid iptnrfevly,
.ml who, according to his own statement,
had, when his fi st quarter's salary was
due iu 18(12, enough Confederate money
to support his family lor two years. Tins
geutleuum at tlio eud of tlio war, lmd m*-.
cumulated thousands of defiant, which he
could have invested iu real estate lmd he
chosen to do so; but like thousands of
others, believing in the ultimate triumph
of our cause and lmt his money was per
fectly good, ho choose tint to do so, Imt
burned it in the ground, and after the war,
when he had come to resurrect it, lo and
behold, it was of no value. Unfortunate
man.
Now, Messrs. Edit!”*--, you say this man
ought to bo paid again, Thiuk of it;
while this mail was laying up those thous
ands iiUdjOeaun proul, living with his
family iTFfIWirP how many thonsauds of
brave soldiers there wen-' bo.oiog the brunt
of the cruel war, facing the bullets al
most daily, marching day and night, iu
the cold or heat, rain or snow, sleeping ou
the cold wet ground, by their camp tiros,
reo.-iveiug only the pitiful sum of fkfti
tinlltir* jwr month, w hite their families ut
home wile, iu many instances, suffering
or Arms/ Many of These soldiers suyed
their wages until it umouuted to a few
hundred dollars, (the writer one of them)
i with the hope ol being, able, with it, to
■ relieve the suffering of tbei&huuilies per
-1 haps to rebuild their housed burned by
! the enemy—and they too. like Mr.
j Thweutt, found tlieir money worthless at
the close of the war. Many of those men
; never were paid* at all; aud they are now
haired by the action of the State Convon
| tioli from ever lieing paid. Where is tlio
justice in [laying this boom-proof over
again when these soldiers cannot bo paid?
! And remember, if he is paid it sets a
precedent for thonsauds upon thousands
!of similar claims, according to Til*.
I ThweuU’s own sti temout. And remember,
j too, if ho is paid it is to come ; ut of the
, laxos of those very same soldiers who pass
led through those foiu' long years of war,
aud by tlio widows of others w hose boues
■ now* lie bleaching nround Richmond, I’e
-1 t.-rshurg, Gettysburg, Wilder ness and
I'hiekau) iiiga. Vi a, iijiou ail the luitth*-
■ liel Is Will-re the country called them to
luty. Win reii fin* legi dhtor ti nt would
vote for sin Ii ail ni j ist. disviiuiliialioti? I
rhink, IdesHiH. Edo-as, tle-re are Imt few,
f any.
Two legislatures have already refused to
•uy thl, pret, tided claim, and the next
lit do likewise. Mr. Tliweutt’s Very
■cut aud ''valuable service,” in my opii •
n, was nothing more than any oflmr
mi st officer woi Id have done. No doubt
I I f. Thweatt made a good oflleer; but
ere there not hundreds in (he army
equally ns competent that would In-va e.x
I changed places with him and done the
work free of charge. Yea and even pan)
largely for the swap, and who would mil
ask every legitlnfure from now to infinity
(which proposes to do) U) [lay them
once, niueh less twice.
Obtl SoI.DIIC'I
s*v - -
A Ch istmas Legend.
It WHH Chrislmas Eve. The night Was
very dark and the snow falling as fast to
11, imi*iin, the. thareoa'-hiiruer, drew his
clonk lighter ai'oniid him, and the wind
vvliisth and ticreelv throngh the trees of the
black forest. Hn hurt been to carry a lo.nl
\ Io n castle near, and was now hasteniu;
| homo to his little Imt. Although he work
j rd very hard, lie was pour, gaining fanrh
) eiuntpii ini* tlie wants of his wife and foie
! little children, lie was thinking of them,
when ho heard a faint wading. Gmd and
ly the sound, he groped about and found
a ii*tits child, soantiU uio-lled, shivering
aud sobbing by itself in the snow.
"Why, littlo one, have they left thee
here all alone to face this erne) blast?”
Tin* child answered nothing, hut looked
piteously up iu the charconl-burnei's
face.
“Well, I cannot have thee here. Thou
wouldn't he dead fa-fore morning."
Ho aaving, Hermann raised it in his
arms, wrapping it in his clonk and warm
ing its little cold hands in liis bosom.
When he arrived at Ids Imt, he put down
tho child and tapped at the door, which
was immediately thrown open, and the
childrjsn rushed to meet him.*
“Here, wife, is a guest to our Christmas
Evo supper,” said lie, leading iu tho little
ore, who held timidly to his finger with
its tiny hands.
"And welcome lie is,” said the wife.
“Now come and let him warm himself by
the fire.”
, The children all pressed mind to wel
come and gaze at the little new coiner.
They showed him their pretty fir-tree,
decorated witli bright, colored lumps in I
honor of Christinas Eve, which the good
mother lmd endeavored to make a y*W,* for
the children.
Then they sat down to supper, each
child contributing of its portion for tin*
guest, looking well a Invirntion at its cl ar
bine eyes <uel golden hair, which shone no
as to shed a brighter light in the little
room; and as tiny gazed, it grew into a
sort of halo round its head, and his eyes
lien in, si with a heavi nly bistro. Boon t* i
white wings appeared- at his shoulders, and
7 nii F.ixer roc sc ckxtlfmax of our to irv proposed to ac-
COMPAXY THE YOFSC I,AI>Y HOME, HUT sHE GOVt.DN'T SEE If
IS THAT 1,10 HT. PRESS OX YOCXG MAX, PERSKVEKEXOH JSD A
SLICK HAT WILL Do WOXDEKS.
| he seemed to grow larger, and then tin*
lasoitifid Vision vanished, spreading out
j his Imuila as in benediction ver them.
Hermann and his wife ell ou their
! knees, exclaiming, in nwe-strnck voices;
••Tin* tioiy chnsl-rhil'.j!" aud then em
| lirue* and their wutnleriug children in joy and
| tnauk ulm ss that tlicy had uutertaincd the
; tieiivemy guvst.
Thu next morning, as Herman passed Inr
I tiio place where he hud tonud the fair
j child, he saw a cia* ter of lovely white
flowers, with dark green leaves, looking
| 118 1 hough tilt* BIIOW iw4 IliuHHOlOwl.
Ht rinmi jiluckrU nue t ami curried tbem
; ! t*vrt*utty iioiuo UkiincliiUlreH* wht> tr®a-
I tli* fuir hj(>*B>m > KD<i tt)ded them
| cartifully In riniaWwt' of Unit wuudr
-; ful (-hiiMtninH JSve, isaliiug Chryt*an-
I theiiiiia; and t*vnry y J ur, n* th tiim? came
! roMttd, luey |>iti Jidda a p*f4uii of their
I IflMlt aud tfUVt* It to Mia poor litUtf child,
/iccikTiling to the vrol ot Christ: “luiw
j much us yo have dole it uuio one of the
| iuiht of them* my bNtlifou, yo have done
lit ditto me.’ — H, Aivhtjitw,
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TOJrniiiTilßW"• "Tr
DEAR FATHER COME HOME.
[This inqironKivc sin! popntsr song illustrated.)
The night was dark, ands gentle rain
was falling, and the hoy had not yet re
: turned, and as the night grew older the
| paternal anxiety increased, and after the
1 noon of night was past ho arose from his
sleepless conch and went in search of his
! wayward boy; found him with cue in his
hand defineing the geometrical angles on
' a billiard table. Tho old gentleman ile
| fined some lines across his sons rear guard
ami went home with him, eras near to
him as he could as the little boy was
; in -pi it” a lmrrv to find his littlo bed, in ]
which to go to sleep.
He has lost all taste for the angles now j
and prefers to pocket himself early in liis |
little bod.
TELEGRAPH NEWS.
| lIEATH OF EX-OOVEIIVOJt WAIIMOTH's VICTIM.
Nk% (>ki.ean, Dec. 28.—Daniel C, By
erly, who had a eollissiou with Goveruoi
Worm,,tli, is dead. Byeriy was a printer,
(SI me to Now Orleans in 1845, was forty
eight years old, and at Mie time ot tho un
fortunate occurrence was managing editor
of the Iht/Min. A duel was piimling be-
I tweeu Mr. Jewell, of tho JhtUeHn, and
' Governor Wormotli, which was to have
! tieeu fought to-morrow, ill Alabama, with
! dueling piatols, at ten paces.
Eighty carriages and hundred- on foot,
; followed Bvt-rly to the grave.
Tho Byeriy inquest will be held tomor
row. Tiio doctor says only one wound is
superficial, and that either of tho other
live were mortal; two in tho bock of left
sice entering the spleen, and others ou tlie
I side between tlie fifth and eighth rit s. any
one of which would have proved fatal from
pneumonia iu a couple of weeks.
MHUABI K AXO THE VOi'E.
Bfjimji, Dee, 29. —The OfflcLU OntHte
of tu-llav [inblishes Bisiuarek’s eirenlm
note of the 14th of Mav, 1872, which was
read in secret session of the Von Arniui
trial. The mat- (tri-Wei that Iwmisk- ~
the deolaration of the dogma of the irifali
liility of tin- Pope it is desirable that tin
j powers should take steps toward con ertert
- action in view ol tlio next Papal election.
Tlie (.arbor of Keel fa frozen over and
navigation is suspended.
(iKXBHAI, KMEIIV.
Nkw Oiu-eans, Deo. 2!l.—Tonehing tin
reported assignment of Gen. Sheridan to
the commi lid of the Department of tin
Ghlf, Gen, Emery said to a 'Timm repor
ter: "I have received no official intelli
geuce concerning tlie reports alluded to,
nor any measures looking to my removal.
The banditti in Washington, who are
writing tor the newspapers, are nitrelv
trying to create an opinion against mo, all
other efforts having failed.”
wheat.
Loxdow, December 29 —-This week’s
Mark Dme Eeprrex says: “Tho wheat
crop of Great Britain is above tin- average,
and we shall enter the year 1875 propiti
ously. We have had n splendid seed time.
The continental markets are quiet, with
no change in prices.”
Bt'RXBD.
CtncAao, December 29.—A fire at Otta
wa. Illinois, to-day destroyed th Opera
House, valued at 866,(KK), and Russel! &
Bun's funiitnre store; loss 815,000. In
surance on the Opera House 825,000, and
on tho furniture store 80,(KH).
THE rAUI.T.STS.
Aladbid, December
lms taken place at the town of Risla. m
tlio Proviuee of Barcelona, between a
body of Carlists ami a body of National
| ti*oo])s, in which the former were defeated
j with a loss of 50 men killed.
A modest dividend.
I New York. Deoember *2o.—At a meet
ing of tlie Directors of the Lake Shore
and Michigan Southern Railroad, held to
day, a dividend ”f three-fourths of one
per cent, was declared, payable on Feb
ruary 1.
DEAD.
Bayonne, December 29.—The Carlist
organ, Cnartel Real, asserts that the well
known Spanish statesman, Espertero, died
on the 21st inst.
A SMALL BtmiNESS.
AlteonPa., December 29.—A man
named Frank Cramer was arrested here to-;
day ou a charge of manufacturing coun
terfeit nickels.
TILTON.
New York, December 29.—The bill of
particulars is denied. Tilton may intro
duce all uis papers in court.
THE BARN-BERNER.
Chicago, December 29.—Lieu ten a i
General Sheridan, accompanied by Gen
eral Rucker, Major Geo. A. Forsyth, and
Colonel M. Sheridan, of liis staff, left
here last night for New Oifleans.
Washington, December 29.—There
need lie no doubt uhont it; General Sheri- ,
dan has documents in his pocket attaching
Louisiana to his Department, which he
may promulgate at liis discretion.
ARRESTED.
New York. December 29.—John Pitgh,
a Roanoke, N. C., pilot, •nestml iu .
Jersey City last night, on a charge of hav- j
ing stolen the steam propeller Sparkle, !
which Was under seizure at Gowanus Bay. j
resumed.
New York. December 29.—Tho Pacific I
Mail Steamship investigation was resumed
this morning. Testimony was adduced as
to false entries iu the books of the com
pany.
ANOTHER.
Milwaukee, December 29. — A woman,
who refused 11 raise her veil, left a child
resembling Charley Uu.--S. 49
NEWS-SUMArART.
It i r* ported that Bryant link sent no :
| lice ol contest to Hon. Julian Hurt ridge.
They are afflicted with matrimonial le-1
I vei in Tin urns county. It ms urn to have i
j become epidemic.
A firm in Rome sold*7so ponad* of can j
i fly on • dvristuins day.
Sombody is talking about starting n new
! paper at Orlando,* Florida. Good heav .us j
: w hi re is this tiling to end.
A Colored female in Marianna brought 1
three infants into the world the other day.
The latest authority on sporting ninth is i
.-tales that the original "home stretch” is -
he stretch across the muleuial knee.
Ml,eon would not let the lvrH shoot
‘ their lire-|'p(-i*s on C’lirislteas day. Tin j
mayor laid an embargo on said sport.
The Lunatic Asylum now contuins five ,
] Inn,died and liiuely-livt-patients.
Mr. West Harris, one ol Cutlibertli's
j obtest and most respected citizens, Is
1 dead.
Doings of the "week" is the latest style
| id noticing fmtfrii'*< s.
i Two brothers named Ezell, living in
! Putnam county, have killed thirty-four
wild turkeys this fall.
George W Watkins, son of Harry Wat
kins, the comedian, while in a drunken lit
I .-.tabbed a woman named Emma Cooper,
!in Augusta, on Wednesday night. A umu
; named George Keruaglmni lTiterleared,
: when went lor uiui with liis little
j knife.
A prisoner in the jail at Gainesville lit a
..re the other night and barbecu. and nim.-cll
m spite of everything that could be dime.
Loyalty in the Dominion must be at a
low ebb when a paper over there Is per
mitted to speak ot her M jesty as “the old
laily over the water.”
The Eagle and Pbranix Manufacturing
’ tk.mpany, ut Columbus, gave Its opperu-
I tives two days tass Week to rest, and sup
plied them with fat turkeys and other
dainties. There was a general joiificutlou
and all were merry and happy.
"Only a woman's hair,” remarked Spi
j veils, musingly, us ho gazed down into ills
plate; It U headed woman, at that! It
j may oe very si utimetitul, but it somehow
j gets away with uiy appetite.”
i Mitchell Smith killed John Hinson wi h
Ia time. T hey were faith sei reely twin y
I years of age, and got into a ip.arre! uiamt
| ii hat, when leaving a party at Mr. Cobb s
* ten miles from Culiifalt.
Delouega hiul to forget the usual egg
i uogg and CUnstulas tix.ugs, because lie
I liens in that seuriuU ha)e uegugtcd to do
i tlieli duty.
The GuiuesviUe tri-woehly Knylc h.issus
-1 peudeit.
The defeated candidates in Macon have
! hehl a meeting tor condolence. Not one
j will bolt the nomination.
Some of the Grithli hoys rocked the
j M.iCou ami Western train on Wednesduy
i wi it pustot ti tuc city.
livelier Icctuits on tlie ulow groth of
| oburactor, with au after puce on toe ouaii
: ;e of looking it. Experto crtite.
A (X)iored trooper trum iiaiuiiritlge, re
! port* tutu, on i UcSiiay eveuiog tic x Ut up
lut the Uiveru oi Mi *. Collier (eoiortd, j mluj
ik room was acuiee, he wua iuviu.il Vo
I bare tue bed of u Mr. “Cnclivt, wuo at
j i tuly morn wu# iouu d uot u> te tii**ie. us
| uiu \%it tle u lot earn it uoioteU uuopv.
4 JOcket tXHJik.
Tine gletuuiug knife and the ahrill-tout'd
; pmtoi pmycU dti impntaui i-.s to kuc .co
| UVllho Wivk.
A;t iuteliJgvUt biiu k man at a eok>rcd
au euug iu e..u'ingiou .aai Mommy auSU.
; ‘ 1 tie time liua com. u lit u the Ijl.ca h* s * l *
[ CUUUUI le UWVvll ivy i.n pwit** itao d.u, .
riugf* once luaU inu tit our uutit-h juuVc ;
i Uteii removed, amt t>y the tu.p ut Ciuu, 8
UetiueU, Vte Witt Vole ua wt pkc—M*.
The Terry Home Junrmil i r. poysibU
tor the aiait mt iit tlmv a cciiutii cauOidule ;
paid the tare ul twenty eight hi glue* from
Tort t. l.ey io Ttrr> oil i ue.-duy mat* a. and
that eVeiy uuo ih the homtu.k.AOU votea
ugaihist lit hi.
The Pans police has forbidden tlie use
; of OeiL.in sU ee id to the people with vei os
i 1 pedes, and CouiUiaiided that in ah others
| uiey must carry hello hy day juke sleighs,
; aud lanterus ai niglit.
The New York it arid asks Gov. Tildeu,
(it New Yolk, to intercede witu iTesn e t
Grant in beUail oi tli>: poor fallows wi o
have heeu long lying m Albany I'cnucn
tiury upon conviction upon the ivu-Klux
law.
It is a pity that Steam hasn’t got a
battalion ot political pimps like Johnson of
Lake City.
Where in the duce is that honest man
Conover, gone to?
Little field seems to be lying rather
low,
It is a source of great regret to all good
men that such a shiu.ng light as the iiuu.
Abijaw Gilbert cannot he unanimously re
elected to the United Slates Beuate.
Sawyer, of the Jacksonville Union, has
a nose for rings, aud he is a perpetual
thorn in the side of several disinterested
patrons in his neighborhood.
Tuesday morning, while three white !
boy s were out gunning near Springfield
plantation, Chatham eouhty, they came
upon a uegroboy, when, its we learu. utter
some .words, one of the, w hite buys dis-!
charged one barrel of his gun at tlie negro, !
the charge, small shot, taking effect in his !
hands, tmgbs and arms.
“And you have been married three
times, have ycu Patrick?"
,“Y'es unhide, sir.”
“Aim what de you say of it—weich wife
did you like best?”
“Well, Becky O'Brien, that I married
tho first time was a good ivoniau—too good
for me; so she got sick aud died, and the
Lord took her.
Then I got married to Bridget FLmna
gan. She was a bad woman, sud got sick
atnl died too, aud the devil traik her.
Then, d—m fool that I was, I got mar- :
ried to Margaret Haggerty. She was
worse, very had—so bad that neither the *
Lord or the devil would have her, so I
have to keep her myself.”
“Woman is a delusion, Madam!” ex
claimed a Crusty old bachelor to a witty
old hidy. “And a than is always hugging
some delnsisn or other,” was the quick
retort.
Yon say, Mrs. Snlth, that you lived With |
the defendant five years. Can you show ft
marriage certificate ?"
‘‘Y'es, yer honor, three of ’em—two \
gals and a boy.”
Flowers are beautiful thoughts that
grow np out of the ground, and seem to
talk to us, pointing us upward *3 God and
Heaven.
There is no joy great as that which
springs from a kind act or pkau>Rt deed. I
W. D.R. MILLAR & CO.
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Manufacturers of
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