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VOLUME X.
PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 29,
1880. •
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| Delivered by B. M. Bateman before the Debating
Society at York Chapel, March Cth, 1880.
n ad/ai ce, unless by special contract.
SHERIFF’S SALES.
FOR MAY.
WILL be sold before the caprt house dopr in Hits
lown of Perry, Houston county, during the legal
ours of sale, on the first Tuesday in May, 1880,the
following property, to-wit.
That house and lot in said town of Perry, Hous
ton comity, lying on the corner of Jtrmgau and
Main streets, and bounded by lands of C. C. David,
nml being one acre more or less, levied on as the
property of W. H Sccrest to satisfy one fi-fa from
Houston Superior Court in favor of H. L. Dennard,
V, V.\ H. Sccrest, sn viror, etc.
T.M. BDTNER, Sheriff.
• PPI.ICATION FOB DISMISSION.
J\ GeobgiA—Housion County:
R, B, Brown, administrator of Mrs. Lneaclia
brown, deceased, has applied for dismiSSibn from
his trust;
This is therefore to cite alt persons t ’Deemed to
appear at the June term 1880, of the Court of
Ordinary of said county and Bhow cause i any
they have, why said application should not be
granted. _.
iVt-ueas my official signature this Feb, 2»lh, 1830.
3ni A. S. GILES, Ordinary.
A pplication fob dismission.
Georgia, Housti n County:
James \V. Botvin,ekocnlor of Jesse T. Brewer, of
iiaid county, deceased, has applied foi dismission
from liis trust:
Thir is therefore to cite all persons concerned to
appeal at the June term 1880, of the Court of
Ordinary of said county, and show cause, if any
they iiavc, why said application should not he
granted.
fitness mj official signature this Feb. 5th. 1880.
3m. A S. GILLS, Ordinary
National hotel.
MA.C03XT Gr
Mits. W. F. Brown, Proprietress, (formerly of the
Drown House.)
HUGH L. PORTEtt,i Manager
Would respectfully inform tlie traveling public
that our rates of board will remaiu as heretofore:
Hath, 82 00 Fer day.
Jins. W. F. BROWN,
Proprietress.
John f. lewis. d. b. leonaku. b. o. levvi
LEWIS, LFONARD & GO.,
BANKERS AND BROKERS,
IIA WKINSVILLE, GEORGIA
buy and Sell Exchange, bonds Stock, Etc. Col.ce
tions promptly attended to.
ALSO MAKE LOANS ON GOOD SECCRITY
Advances niado on Cotton in Ftore at lowest rates
CAMPBELL & JONES,
MACON, GA.,
C0TTO3ST 3PACTOH.S
Mr BCHANTS,
IVarehome Corner of
POPLAR and SECOND RETS,
Greet their patrons with the annonnceinent that
their large and commodious Warehouse is now be
ing ontirely rebuilt in brick for the better accom
mod at ion of cotton consigned to them, and are con
fident that their facilities for hana'ing the next
fcrop cauuot be surpassed by auy house in the
State.
Their office and salesroom have been fo-arranged
with a view to improved light on samples and the
comfort of visitors, and a cordial invitation is ex
tended to all to call and see them. * '
Thanking their friends for the liberal patronage
extended to them in the past, they ask its contmu-
tmcc
Advances on Cotton in Store
mad'3 when desired,
at the lowest back rates.
r.AMDBEU & JONES.
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Ladies nnd Gentlemen: —
When, we look upon, the map of onr
country, and see that it embraces all the
territory between the Atlantic and tho
Pacifie, and then refer to our last cen
sus, and there learn that onr population
must now reach nearly fifty millions of
people, it requires an effort of the mind
to believe that this vast, abounding
country three hundred years ago was a
wasteland howling wilderness,inhabited
only by savages and wild beasts.
On the great rivers in the interior of
our country is seen steamboats, moving
like things of l'fu, bearing oiir produce
from one section to another, when but
yesterday in the history of time, noth
ing was heard in those solitudes but the
moaning of the winds, the singing of
the birds, the yells of savages, and the
howls of wild beasts. Even in the re
motest parts of our vast country is heard
the shrill whistle of the locomotive, the
song of the husbandman, and the hum
of machinery. Q.ur progress in popula
tion, in commerce, in agriculture, in
mechanism, and in the arts and sciences,
has far surpassed the most sanguine exs
pectations of the founders of onr great
republic.
One hundred years ago the cotton
gin, the steamboat, the railroad, the
telegraph, tho teaping, sewing and
modern printing machines, and many
other inventions of scarcely less value
to our business and happiness, were en
tirely unknown. In the last kindred
years the iugenuity of our people lias
well nigh annihilated lime and space.
As an evidence, the Czar of Russia is
sues his war manifesto against Turkey
and we have'it here in Macon, Ga.,
verbatim d literatim, the same day. One
hundred years ago iron was not consid
ered a part, of our produsts,—we now
produce more than the world consumed
at the beginning of onr national exist
ence. Our implements of husbandry
and war a century ago were insignifi
cant. The reap-kook has' been super
seded by the magnificent reapers; two
hundred pound cannons have taken the
place of the feeble ordnance of 177G,
and the ponderous locomotive has taken
the place of the pack-mule and the
horse cait, and the long-range repeating
rifle has taken the place of the feeble
bow and arrow and smooth-bored mus
ket; even the mind of man has under
gone a great change. Man is not now
moved by vague and unmeaning super
stition, neither is sophistry so milch
employed,as in days pust,iu the place of
reason. Two hundred years ago people
were put to death in New England for
prneticii.g witchcraft, now the most ig
norant would be ashamed to confess
that they believed in such an abomina
ble heresy.
One would liaVe to possess indeed a
vivid imagination and great command
of language to describe the glory and
renown our country wilt eventually
reach, judging the future by the past.
Nothing will tend more to give ud im
petus to the genius aud prosperity of
onr people than an honest ajjd frugal
administration of our government, both
state and federal. Geniils always lan
guishes where government fails to give
full protection to life, liberty and prop
erty. If we continue to be blessed with
peace, and receive the full measure of
our rights under our constitution and
laws, language will be utterly inade
quate to describe the national splendor
that awaits our oountry in the fnture.
We can hardly claim to have reached
our manhood as a nation yet. Our
minipg, commercial and agricultural in
terests are so vast that they are almost
beyond.human computation. Onr ex
ports^ of domestic goods a few years ago
amounted to five hundred millions of
dollars per annnm, our revenue from
customs to two hundred and sixteen
millions, and our internal revenue to
one hundred and thirty millions.
Notwithstanding our power and vast
resources, a century ago we had no ac
knowledged national existence; at that
time we numbered only three millions
of people. Qur internal resources are
now so great that we could live prosper
ously for all time to come if the ports of
every nation on the earth were closed
against us. ■ We could prosper in con
sequence of our industries being so di
versified; our mines of coal, iron, lead,
copper,'gold and silver seem almost in
exhaustible; our agricultural resources
are far from being developed, • that
branch of industry being yet in its in
fancy. Xf the resources of Texas were
-fully developed, that great state alone
could supply the entire demand for
cotton: - .If the resources of our entire
furnished, Reju-
ited. country were taxed to their utmost, it
— could support a population of five Unn-
~ ' died millions of people. If the entire
population of Europe was tiansported
to otu- shores, We eonldgive them room,
afnd then on# eoUntry would not' be
ery densely populated.-
The time is not far distant when the
i power of oar nation will be so great that
the proudest monarchies of Europe will
be insignificant when compared with
oar republic. In intellectual develop
ment. wo compare favorably with the
old world. With, pride we point to our
Washington, Franklin, Adams, Jackson,
Calhoun, Glay, and Webster and other
illnstrions names too tedious to men
tion-. Our only hone, however, for the
perpetuity of our republican institu
tions, depends upon the education of
the masses. Man, if he is very igno
rant, will endure slavery without feel
ing that he is degraded, but if he is
properly educated-, he will suffer death
before he will submit to it. If the mas
ses are spffered to drift off into benight
ed ignorance, the fe\V that are educated
will govern the many, anarchy will pre
vail, and the name of our great repub
lie will be eventually lost in the surging
vortex of revolutions.
Our republic has exerted a powerful
influence upon other nations; its exam
ple has tended to loosen the shackles
upon the subjects 'oi tile mor.t despotic
governments in Europe. The time is
not very far distant when the example
of our republic will be felt by tho whole
civilized world; and before many more
decades roll arouDd, it will shatter the
century and iron-bound frame-works of
despotism to atoms. Our great repub
lic has demonstrated the fact that man,
if educated, is capable Of self-govern
ment. The glorious Declaration of In
dependence, written by the immortal
Jefferson, has done more for human*
liberty than all other acts of statesman
ship combined, since the day the En
glish people wrung from the hands of
King John the famous aud never to be
forgotten Magna Charta, which has
been, and always will be, considered
the bulwark of English liberty,
I will say but little about the late un
fortunate and lamentable struggle be
tween the northern aud -southern por-.
tions of our republic. Would to Gad it
ccuklbs stricken from the book of time,
and totally obliterated from the memor
ies of our peoplel Our prosperity and
happiness as individuals,.aud a.« a na
tion, depends much upon our own con
duct. We should remember that Jeho
vah poured out his wrath upon his own
chosen people in consequence of their
disoledience. We should as a people
and ini'.iyulnals, and as a' nation, deal
honestly, maintain onr integrity, culti
vate all the graces that tend . to adorn
and ennoble the Lusnuu character, ever
keeping in view the golden rule, “do
unto others as you would they shoe.Id
do unto you.”
I spoke of the influence onr govern
ment exerted upon other nations. The
first guu that was fired in defense of
American liberty has been reverberating
around the globe in the minds of the
people from that day to this. On that
day the wedge was stuck in every throne
in the universe, and republican senti
ment has been driving it from that day
to this, and will continue to drive it
Until the last throne iu Europe is shiv
ered to atoms. The Nihilists of Russia
and Germany aj-e Republicans; they are
trying to do what our forefathers did
do,—get from under the galling chains
of despotism. Every crowned head in
Europe is frightened nearly to death;
they do not know who to trust; their
knees are smiting together .as Belshaz
zar’s did whe saw the hand-writing on
the wall. The same spirit that actuated
the people of France during the reign
of terror (as it termed in history), now
moves the N ihilists in Russia and Ger
many. The violence that marks their
course only shows the great necessity
for it.
The declaration of onr independence
has taught the world what human liber
ty is, and set the ball in motion, and it
will continue to move bn and on,. until
the last monarch will be knrled from
his must” old throne.
The despots of Europe had as well
try to extinguish the fires of Vesuvius
as to stop the march of liberty when it
is once put in motion. They are sur
rounded by large armies, the® palaces
are guarded by picked men, yet the Ni
hilists make the old adage true, “uneasy
lies the head that wears the crown.”
THE EINGERINtx STAY
of winter in the lap of spring.
Atlanta Constitntion.
Winter still lingers in the lap of
spring. I don’t biamerthe old gentle
man for setting there as long as she
will let.him, but I wish be would make
haste and go. Tfiis coquetting of youth
with old age is amusing for a little
while, but we can get sick of it quicker
than anything in the world. I never
see an old gray-headed widower mak
ing a fool of himselfyibont a young wo
man but what I think of winter trying
to wed the buds and blossoms of the- bonud 011 a flesh woand oi ‘ bt,iise ^
Dr. M. M. Griffith, of Bradford }
Fa., reports some astonishing results
obtained by the administration of crude
petroleum to consumptives. He claims
that oiit twenty-five cases of well mark
ed tuberculosis so treated twenty are to
all means of diagnosis cured ; the rest
have been materially benefited;an none
have been under treatment more than
four months. The nausea attending
the nse of ordinary crude petroleum led
him to adopt the semi-solid oil that
forms on the casing and tnbingof wells.
This, made into three to five .grain pills
by incorporating-any inert vegetable
po vder, was administered, from three to
five times a day in one pill closes. This
first efieef, he SayS, is the disappearance
of the'conshf night.sweats are relieved,
appetite improves, and weight is rapia-
]y.gained. It is to be hoped that Dr.
Griffith has not mis’aken some self-lim
iting phase of throat or bronchial dis
order tor trne consumption of the lungs,
also that continued trial of the alleged
remedy will "justify the high opinion
h® has fqs; - } ecl in regard to its effleae”
spring. I never hear of a nice young
girl raarrjing an old man for his mon-
but what I think of the same thing.
How his cold breath freezes on her
warm lips and his thin and icy arms
chills the blood that courses through
her ycuthfill veins! Such things will
happen, and I can’t help it; but it al
ways makes me sad. At such times I
want to be young and rich and marry
her myself, just out of pity. It’s so un
natural and cut of season. “Oh, the
snow, the beautiful snow,” somebody
said, but .it is not butifnl to me now.
I’m thinking of the wheat in the boot,
and the early-corn and potatoes, aud
the fruit crop. I never did like a north
wind iu the spring of the year. It’s
shore to bring a sickly rain, or a snow,
or a sleet, or something. Its an ill
wind that comes to us from that quar
ter anyhow! They never -blow any
thing kind'or refreshing, and I reckon
Wou'd freeze us to the vitals if they
could,
We thought the spring had come,aud
tile birds and the trees, aud the flowers,
and the turkey hens, and the little
wrens that are building their neats in
porch thought so too. But its a great
mistake. The cm pets have been taken
up a little ahead of time, and the chil
dren have bad to put on their shoes and
stockiugs again. We’ve doneclcaned
up the premises once—a regular spring
rejuvenation—raking and burning and
wliite-washiug outdoors, and scourin
and eobwebbing and quicksilvering in
doors. Besides it being a fit and prop
er time for it, we were expecting com
pany, and so I was gently put in har
ness end went to wrk with a will. My
wife wanted the front walk border
ed with nice, shapely rock, and a ditch
cut wide enough to fill up with rich
suit all siftdd fine for tho flower seed.
When I had finished that job she hud
me to white-wash the rock and sow the
seed, and she wanted two or three little
circular holes dug and filled up in tile
same manner, and I did it so uiee, she
wanted two or three more, aud kept on
wautiug until she got to nine, nlid then
she said the dog would be capering over
them in the night, and I had to split up
144 little sticks aud stake the dog out,
and then she wanted enough of those
beautiful wild Jillies from the swamp .to
border a terrace, and they had to be
spaded up with enough earth to keep
em from knowing they had to be mov
ed. Its a good idea not to let a man
knew the extent of his job; when I look
around the front yard and survey the
amount of work that has been so quiet
ly drawn out of me, I feel proud of-rny
labors and amazed at my docility, It
seems to me now that all is done; every
thing is done; but I reckon not—I reck
on not. Mrs Arp has got some more
developments stowed away iu her fer
tile brain which will come forth iu due
time. She wont tax me beyond en
durance. She will temper the wiad to
the shorn lamb. I very frequently feel
like I was a lamb. Bat then she'pnys
well—pays promptly, not in filthy lucre
but in smiles and grateful looks—not
in romantie rhapsodies or gushing tor
rents, but in that calm and serene glow
of satisfaction which lights up her ap
preciative countenance and makes me
feel proiul to do her bidding. Some-
folks would rather hear a woman ex
claim: “Oh! my—how lovely—how
beautiful—exquisite splendid—best
man in the world—coma, let me kiss
you, yon dear feller.” I don’t think I
would like that. I reckon not, though,
as it was never tried on me) X can’t say
for certain—maybe I would.
Everything aronnd and about our
premises is mighty clean and nice now.
I wish it would stay so, I don’t care
so much about it myself, but it harrno
nizes with Mrs. Arp and the girls and
the scriptures. I’m afraid l am a little
heathenish about such things, fori
dont like to live under such constraint
—to have -to scrape Uv shoes so much
nnd shtit the doors and, hang np my hat
and empty tue wash.-bowL I don’t like
to see the ashes taken np qnite so clean
and so often and so much sweeping aud
scrubbing. I don’t think the broom
ongbt to be sec in the corner upside
down nor the clean towel hid in the
Clean np things about once a month.
But there’s no room to spare and so I
have to endeaor to live like a gentleman
whether I want to or not. I’ve got an
idea that a little clean dirt is healthy.
I ! m afraid that little tender children are
washed and bathed too much. Thfey
get pnny, and pale, and delicate. Poor
little things. Its very disagreeable to
em. I never saw one that liked it, and
thats pretty good evidence its not ac
cording to nature. Once a week is very
reasonable; bat this every night’s busi
ness is a sin. They say it keeps the
pores open, but maybe they onghten to
be kept open all the time. The sur
geons say that a handful of fresh earth
A RHYMING ROMANCE-
washstand where me and the little boys
Cant find it. I thiuk I Would like a
reran somewhere close about where me
aud the children! could Jo as we please
drfa enjoy a’ little-dirt on the floor and
throw the saw and the hammer ahd. R-
few nails aror-- 1 kick off our mud
dy shoes a tal Y-ȣ t! oWil ts and pop corn
marbles and tumble
care it up, and I’ve found oilt that the
best cure for scratches in horses feet is
walking in plowed ground. I never
saw a healthy child that didn’t love to
play in the dirt, and the sand, and make
frog houses and mud pies. Bat still I
don’t go to extremes. I don’t want em
to get so dirty their skin liasent got any
pores at all and their little ears vonl J
sprout turnip seed. Everything mnst
be done in reason and iu season. There’s
some things I am mighty particular
aboiit—such as clean dishes and butter
and milk and sausage meat. I saw a
woman milking the other day, ‘ and she
pulled the cali away by the calf’s tail
ind then wiped off the cow’s tits with
the Cow’S tail and went to milkin
thought there was too little water and
too much tail in that, though I reckon
it's none of my business. Everybody
has to eat their peck of dirt, they §ay;
but I don’t want mine in butter, j
April 11. Bill Arp.
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THE .CESTSUS-
Dawson Journal.
The tenth census of the United States
is to-’ be taken in tl;e month of Jane
next. Supervisors for the five coitus
districts of the state have been appoint
ed. Tne enumerators—those who are
to do tho counting, have not yet been
appointed. They will be appointed
soon by the supervisors.' To no enu
merator cr.n be assigned more than 4,000
of estimated population. It is presum
ed that three will be appointed for
Terrell county. The rates i f compen
sation for enumerators has not been an
nounced, but itia estimated that an uc-
tive and energetic one can, under favor
able circumstances; make about three
dollars a day. The prevalent idea that
they are to get four dollars a day for
their work is a mistake.
At the request of Hon. W. A. Harris,
Supervisor for this district, we publish
the appended extract fdom a letter of
instructions sent out from Washington
to the Supervisors throughout the coun
try.
The appointments should bo made
with reference to physical activity; and
to aptness; neatness and accuracy in
writing and ill the U&C of figures. These
requirements are scarcely more in the
interest of the Census than in the inter
est of the enumerator himself. Unless
the officer appointed be fairly proficient
in all clerical exerCisefi;, he will find his
dnties very trying and his pay very
meager. To appoint old or broken men
to this duty (as Supervisors will, on all
sides, be pressed to do) would not be an
ae.t of charity, but of cruelty.”
Beauty that Endures-
He was young he was fair and he par
ted his hair like the average beau in the
middle; he was proud he was bold but
the truth must be told—he played like
tt fiend tin the fiddle.
Barrifag his voice be Was everything
nice; and his heart Was Sc loving and
tender that he aiwavs tiimed pale when
he trod on the tail of a eat by tho fen
der.
He clerked in a store and the way he
tore of calico jeans and brown sheeting
would have tickled a calf and made him
laugh in face of quarterly meeting.
He cut quite a dash with his darlin,
mnstache which he learned to adorn
and cheerish, for one girl had said while
she dropped her proud head, that it
would kill her to see the proud thing
perish.
On Sunday he would search the
straight way to church, unheeding the
voice of the scorner; and demurely he
sat like a young tabby cat with the
saints in the amen corner.
He nang like a bird and his sweet
voice could be heard fairly tugging aWay
at long meter; and we speak but the
truth when we say that this yonth could
out sing a hungry mosquito.
She was young, she was fair, and she
scrambled her hair like the average belle
of the city, she was proud but not bold
—but the truth must be told—the way
she chewed wax was a pity.
She cut a swell did this wax-chewing
belle and men flocked in clouds for to
meet het, but she gave them all the
shirk for she loVed the yonng clerk, who
sang like a hungry mosquito.
So she hummed and she hawed and
she sighedjand chawed, until her heart
aud her jaws were broken, then she
walked by the store where he stood at
the door awaiting some loving token.
She raised her eyes with a mock sur
prise and tried to enact the scorner, but
to tell the truth she grinned at the youth
who loved the amen corner.
* * They met alas—alas! what
came to pass was soft and sweet aud
precious, they wooed, they cooed, he
talked, she chewed—oh! how she 1 .veil!
Good gracious! They had to pa fy.is he
rose to start her grief cann->t bo painted;
these were the facts, she swallowed her
wax, then screamed, then choked, taeu
fainted.
Her pa appealed, her beau scared
l'ushdd out to get some water; the watch
dog spied his tender hide and bit him
as be “oughter.”
The tale isijjfad. the sequel s'ern
—so thinks the youth thns bitten.
lie sings no more as oft of yore
—he gave the girl the mitten.
Shelpined apace her pretty face look
ed slender and dejected; her father kind,
bnt somewhat blind beheld her and re
fleeted.
Her income tax he spent for wax—
she smiled and called him clever.
She went to work forgot the clerk and
chawed in bliss forever.
MANUFACTURE OF CHICKENS-'
So perfect are the artificial incubators
now becoming, that they are even ri
valing the hen in certainty and rtliabil-
Uy. Regulators have been jn vented .to
some of them that so systematically
regulates the liedt. as leave nothing
f?r the attendant to do but fill a eo : «l
oil lamp once a day during tlie process.’
These regulators are made to work by
uivers methods, with electricity, expan
sion, and contraction of metals, mercu-
ry, etc. They will open a little door to
lrt off the heat if it becomes too warm
inside, or they will close it if it. becomes'
too cool. And not only that, bnt the
mechanism is Sntih that, if necessary;'
they wiil tnri; down, the wick of the
lamp or raise it np,os occasion requires.’
The eggs being thns kept at a rsgtf.ar
temperature, with- conditions affecting
moistnre, ventilation and turning care
fully attended to, they are almost sure
to bring forth the chicks without troub
le. In connection with them goes dtii
important adjunct styled an artificial
mother, which, supplanting the mater
nal instincts of the natural mother j
takes the proper care of the young
brood until they reach sufficient age to
grace the table of some fanciful epi
cure.
But, as great a marvel as (hisndy
seim, the French have invented an ap
paratus v-bicli does away with feeding
on the part of the fowl even after it is*
giown. They place them in rows, fas-"
teu them in a peculiar manner, ah (I,
with a forcing pump and India-rubber
tube, literally stind the fotid into the
chicken without giving him tlie pain or"
-pleasure of swallowing it. This is
called the ‘ ‘stuffing” process, and is in-
ended to put os much food in them as’
possible, with a view to fattening then!
quickly nnd surely. The long-vexed'
question as to whifii is the mother of'
the chiiken is at once settled, for ill
seems that dispensing with the hen iu
s-tting, and taltenicg without eiitifig,',
might- safely be styled a manufacture i/f
aiekeus.
To grow beautiful in person, then we
must not only conform to all'laws of
physical health,-and by gymnastic arts
and artificial appliances develop the el
ements of our physical being in sym
metry and completeness, but we mast
algo train the mind and develop tlie af
fections to the highest possible, degree.
To be beatifnl we must feed the spark
of intellectual fire by feading-und medi
tation, until it btirns in a steady flame,
irradiating the countenance with light-.
To be beautiful we mnst put a great
organizing and ennobling purpose into
the will, concentrate our tuongbts and
affections upon it until enthusiasm
welis up in the heart, suffuses the Coun
tenance and rebuilds the body upon
its own divine plm. To be beau
tiful we must cherish every kind im
pulse and generous disposition, making
love the rnling affection of the heart
and the ordering principle and inspir-'
mg motive of live. The more kindness
the more beauty; the more love the
more loveliness. And this is the beau'y
that lasts. Mtre physical good looks
fade with years, bleach out with sick
ness, yield to the slow decay anil wast
ing breath of mortality. But the beau
ty that has its seal aud sonree in kind
dispositions, noble purposes and great
thoughts, outlasts youth aud maturity,
increases with age. aud like the lus
cious piese'b/ covered with the delieate
blush of purple and gold, which comes
with anlnum ripeness, is; never so beau
tiful as wliefi’ waiting for tlie gathijfcr’a
hand. Sirc'li beauty endures through
time and eteinity.
Who Struck Billy Patterson?
A correspondent of tliti Camcsville
(Ga.), Register, wh6 is writing a series
of “Historical Sketches, Reminiscences
and Legends,” gives the following ex
planation as to the origin of the above
query:
Many persons have heard thj question
“Who struck Billy Patternon?”- without
knowing the origin of it. I propose to
enlighteu them a little on the sabject
William Pattefson was a very wealthy
tradesman or merchant of Baldmore, in
the State of Maryland. In the early:
days of Franklin county he bought up a
great many tracts of land iu the County,
and spent a good portion dt big tirnfe' in
Franklin looking after his interests
there. Be was said to be as strong as a
bear aud as brave as a lion; bnt like all
brave men he was a lover of peace, aiid
indeed a good, pions man. Neverthe
less his wrath could be excited to a
fighting p’tcli. On one oeCiision be at
tended a pnblic gathering in the lower
part of Franklin connty, at some dis
trict court groand. During the day
the two opposing bnllies and their
friends raised a row, and a general
fight was the conseqnence. At the be-
ijinuing of the a'ffrdy, and before the
fighting began .Billy Patterson ran into
the crowd to persuade them not to
fight, but to makepeace and be-friends.
But his efforts for peace were unavail
ing, and while making them, some of
the crowd in the general iifelee sfrtlek
Billy Patterson a severe blow from be
hind.. Billy at once became fighting
mad, and Cried oilt at top of Ms
voice, “Who struck Biliy Patterson?”
No one eonld or would tell him who
was the gnilty par*y. He then propos
ed to give any man 8100 who would t-11
him “Who struck Billy Patterson ?”
From 8100 be rose to 81.000.. Bat nof
81,000 would iudnee any man to’ telV
him “Who struck Billy Patterson.”
And years afterward, fu Ms will, he re
lated! the atrbrVo fCcts, and iaquea’h d
Mrs.- Frank Leslie fills accep*ably the tfaSn^thit^S^ tell ‘thfeM^h!’
position of efMor-iu-chief of the L&lie
jCrjwspripcr, formerly - filled by two of
struck Billy Fattesoh.” His will is re
corded in the oVdinarv’s office atOarner-
~-jn, and
German Emigration to America’"
SaFaunali News.
1 he repi.it of the Commissioner of
E:uigra.i..u of the German Empire ctfe-
tiiius some very .significant figures'.
From it we learn that 83,327 emigrants'
left the country, during the year 1879 : .
Of this entire number 30,808 came to
the United States. There is an in
crease of the total emigration in 1879 of
orer 9,000 persons, while tha emigra
tion to the United States shows an in-"
crease of 10,435. The signs already ap-’
parent in the empire indicate that the
present year will wBn.si an activity in
■ m gration wMch will surpass the great 1
movements in 1871 and 1872! This ex
traordinary exodus is generally attribu
ted to the eontempl ited increase of the
armies of the empire. Similar 1 move
ments are also in progress from Scandi
navia and other portioris df Europe,'
which, added to that from ther>Britisk'
Isles, will swell the grand total of addi-"
tions to the population of . the»United
States to almost incalculable p'fop'tfr-
tion. Speaking of the German emigra
tion movement, the New York Iribune
commends the fact to the 'tlidfightful'"
consideration of the people who' are try
ing to bring about the renomfhaaon of
Gen. Grant. It thinks such a course',
will drive the great mass of the Germans
in this country from the . ranks of tho
Republican party, as it cannot be do
med that they have grave apprehensions’
as to the result of a third Presideutiuf '
term.
m 0 n
A wholesale grocer in this city,
became rich iu business, says his i
lias always been when lie sold goods or
credit, to at once subscribe td the \of\l
paper of his debtor. So long a’-
cu.sti m' ;r advertised liberally and '■
roiisly, he rested, but as soon as he 1
gan to contract his advertising space, ]
took the fact'as evidence that there w;
trouble i ahead, arid.he invariably went'
for Ms debtor. Said lie; “the man who"
feels too poor to make his business
known,is too poor to do business.” The •
withdrawing of an advertisement; is evi
dence o'f weakness that business meu
are not slow to' act npoii—New lork
Times'.
Tiiu most original verdict was tha£ ot
il-i-shjnry, before whom a prisoner-
pleaded “Gniltv,” throwing’ himself on 1
the mercy of the court. The verdict
was “Not guilty.” The Judge in ifur-
priSS exclaimed: “Why, he has confess
ed &s cpiReY’ The foreirfau responded^
“<?)>, my lord, you do. not know that
fellow, but we do.' He is the most no
torious liar in the whole country, and
no twelve men who know his character
can believe a wor
prisoner escaped, as tlie jaiy ad td
their Verdict;
A'
might ha
the shore
ed the wa'tef over tli!
the fi'.’-e fa' the l'-'conf
dashed agiihsl the cars!
sides,'lin’d a floating ’
away the cab of the
died Ji
n’ ion;-flu'(l. ill ally; th
tlip shore
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