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General Directory.
CIVIL O iVKRNMk.NT
!\ . L. llulfliins, Judge Hop. Court.
1) T ain. Clerk Hup. Court,
J T Laaikin. t»r 'wary.
W. P. Cosh,, Sheriff.
VV E. Brown, Treasurer.
I). W. Andrtws, lax R,reiver.
.1 It Vtrner, Tax Colleetorr
R N MufftiU, Surveyor.
J, 11. Wilson, Coroner.
county com a isst on * its.
■J I> Spenee Chairman and Clerk, N
Bennett, J E Cloud, J. R Hop Kins, An
* drew Garner.
IliikiJ I.F VDOCiTION.
T K. W iun. School Commissioner J.
U. Spenee, A. T- Calillo A. J. Webb,
J. R. Nowell, T. E Wrnu.
JUPTUKS.
J Lawreuctv.lle, 4u7th dial —W r . C
Sai Sole. J P., M. L, Adair, N. P, Ist Fri
ftisy.
' T - u Berkshire, 405 dist —J, W. Andrews
J- I*. Charles McKinney, N. P- 3rd
Saturday
Ben Smith’s, 31(1 diaf—W. D. Simms
J. P, J O. Hawthorn, N. P. 3rd Sat
urday .
Bay Creek, 1295 diet —W. J Baggett
J. P.. J. V. MeKtvaney, N. P. let Sat
urday .
CateC, 408 th diet— .1 • M, A mold, J,
P., E. W Nndii N. P,‘2nd Saturday
Caine’* 562nd dist- A. Adrme, J. P
C B Pool. N P , 3rd Saturday
Duluth 1263 dist.— W F. Brewer. J
P„ Marion Robgrls, N P., Thursday be
fore 4th Satin day
Harbin’s47B dist-G.L. Knight
J. P, J. W. Hamilton, N. P-
Thursday before Ist Saturday.
Hog Mo'ntain, 444 dist—4. L
Sammons, J. P , W. L. Andrew*,
N. P. 4rit Saturday.
Martin’s, 544 dist—Asa Wright,
J. p, J. LI. Nowell, N. P. 4tn
Saturday.
Norcrcsh, 406-W. R. Simpson,
J. P, A. A. Martin, N. P. Friday
before 3rd Saturday.
Hock Bridge, 571 dist—A. J.
Lowery. J. P., E- J. Mason, N. P.
• Trd Saturday.
Wownnee, 4(14/'lfc^.i]ist— T. N.
Jo'mttiT J- **-. A &lx arris, N P
#1 Saturday
,, Buford, 550th dis—T. C. Bur
ton, J. P., J. M Posey, N, P. Fri
day before 3rd Saturday-
MUNICirAL.
John C. Smith, Mayor.
COUNCIL.
A L Moore, K I) Herrin 8 A Townley
VV J Brown
ARRIVAL AND DKCAKTURk Of TRAIN
Arrives from Suwannee. 5 50 p. in
• lajuves lor Suwannee, 7 a - in.
arrival and dkpaktukk or mails.
JvffMRUON —Arrives 12 m, departs
p. m., Monday and Thursday.
Thaulbs Stork.—Departs 6 u in ur
rives gpin, Monday and Thursday.
LtGANViu.il.— At l ives 10 a m. de
parts 1 p ut. —Daily.
Ykllow Rivkk.— Arrives 12 in., de
part* 6 u tn„VVe Inesday and Saturday
W. 11. H ARVEY, P. h
churches
Baptist--Rev .I E R Bariell, pastor
Set vices every Sunday
Mktiiodiht —Rev M D Turner Castor
Services on the Ist and 2nd Sundays.
Sunday School. — A T Cattillo, Supt
Everry Sunday ul 3 p m
I'rksbytkiuan Rev J F McClelland,
Pas’or. Services on 2nd and 4th Sundays
in each mouth,
Sunday School - -T R Cowell. Supt.
Every Sunday lit 9.30 a m-
FRATKRNAL.
Lawrencbvillk Masonic I.odgk.-- ft
U on a, W M., SA liagood, 8 VV„
S J Wiun JW. Meets on Tuesday
uight iin or befoi e full moon in each
month.
Mt Vrrnon CHAPTKtt, No 39, H A
M.—J D Speiu e, II C, A I Cattillo,
Sec. Meets Fiiduy nighi before the
3rd Sunday in each moHt!i.
Gwinnett Superior Court. —N. L.
Hotcbins, Judge. Convenes on the Ist
Monday in March and September.
Thomas Lta ILL
Having rrceutly located in Gwin
nett County tentlera his professions
services as a Physician to the Citizen*
Prompt attention to all calls will he
given. Office anti residence at the rest
deuce of A Cain on the Hurricane
Shoals road.
arch 24th 1884—6m0
NO MORE EYE GLASSES
Mitchell’s
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A certain, Bafo, effective remedy tor
Sore Weak fMuodEyß
lftSWicinc Jong Sight* dues*, and Be j
stveng the sight of the old
Ouree Io ir Drops. Granulation,
AUje Tonitii e, Ked Eyes. Mat
ted Eye Lashes, and
producing quick
relief and per
manent
cure
Also equally efficacious when used
in other maladies, such as Ulcers Fe
ier Sores Tumors, Salt Hheum,
§ ms Piles or tvherever in tnliuma
-etaaexDts. Mitchell’s Salve may he
Kljlp a ant age.
all Druggist 25 cents.
Ojuumett Milte •
TYLER M. PEEPLES, Proprieb r
VOL XIV.
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.
Receipt* of cotton at Ehaville
to ctye are between 2,000 nnil 2,-
500.
The first coffee raised in the
Unitsil States was grown on toe
Manatee river, in Florida.
• . K— . » -
Coloriuhv women, it is said* ciiu
endure more cold thau any other
class of pars ins in the country.
The famous driven well patent,
which has caused much li igation
a ll over country expired on Wed
nesday last.
S rawberriea are now quoted at
10 conts apiece, in some of the
markets; Thank you, but we don’t
wish ary, to cay.
H Franklin, of Burke county
has this season bought, 5' 0 coou
skins. This has been an unheal
thy season for the coons.
The old log crib t hat has stood
for a centnry or more in the lot
of Col JD Munnerlyn, in Wvy
uesboro, has at last been pulled
down.
There are four applic mts for
the position of postmuster for
ICay tiesboro. They are Mrs. Bea
roan, Colo Del S. -1 Bell, Mr. O L
Shewuiake aud Mr. M B Gray.
The state press is almost unani
mous ia its advocacy of pas.
sage of a state registration law
‘oomething is needed to reform
the present state of affiir in Go >r
gil ‘
lu all human probability there
never lived a man t r woman who
did not Cindidly believe that,
whaever else he might be ignor
ant of. at least he knqw how to
write for the newspapers.
A fast train on the Fast Tan
ttossee, Virginia and Georgia rail
road made the run from Atlant
ic Macon, last Tuesday, in two
hours and forty five minutes in
cluding ten stops.
The general tay act passed by
the legislature, levies a tax of
$500.00 on dealers in futures
This is a move in the right direc
tion, and means /hat the ‘ bucket
shops” must ultimately go.
The Athens prisoning case is
attractiug considerable attention
till over the “country, as the lady
whose life was threatened, is a
daughter of the late Jinlgt* Wtiso.
Lumpkin, of that city. 3'
Leprosy is increasing so,rapid
ly in Honolulu that government
action is about to be taken to pre
vent its spread, if possible. Vac
cinutiou with the microbe is to be
tried
7’helimbers of abridge over
PotoxchiUo creek, ip Newton coun
ty. Miss , over which Gen. Jack
son marched bis troops on his
way to New Orleans, are to lie
taken up and carried to /he
World's Exposition as relics.
li appears as if directors do
not aiways direct. At least the
failure of the bauk of Augusta is
attributed to the piesideut having
disposed of $130,000 of the bank’s
$150,000 capital without the
kuowltdge or consent of the diree
tors.
Ths Franklin Ky , Favorite
fells of an aged i colored man in
Simpson county who is a noted
rabbit-hunter, killing more than all
others combined //is game he
smokes, like bacon, and uses for
summer food. His only weapon
is a smooth, round stone, which
he lias carried iu his pocket for
forty years. At any ordinary
distance bis aim is as true as a
rifle’s
Seaator “Joe” Brown is Iha rul
ing spirit of a large railroad in
Georgia. He was being hauled
over it one day in his specia car
when the conductor came to him :
with along face and informed him
that a drunken man was aboard,
and he didn’t kaow what to do
with hint. “Where doea he wish
to go?” asked the Sena or, in his
quiet, easy way. ‘He say# th;»t
he wants to go to h—V’ said tne
man of the bed-rope. “Oh well,”
replied Mr. Brown, “put him off
at Cartersville:” And the town
in* iiHcvr recovered from tl e joke
Tired Mothers
A little elbow leans upon your knee;
Your tired knee tlml bus so much
to bear,
A child’s dear eyes are looking loving
ly
From underneath a thatch of gold
en hair;
Perhaps you do not heed the velvet
touch
of warm moist fingers folding yours
st tight.
You do not prize this blessing over
much
You almost are too tired to pruy to
higlit.
But it*lsblessedness ! A year ago
I did not see it as f do to-day.
We are so dull and thankless, mid too
slow
No catch the sunshine till it slips
away.
And now it seems surprising strange
to me
That while I wore the badge of
motherhood
I did kiss more oft anil tenderly
The little child that brought me on
ly' good,
And if some night, whon you sitdowu
to rest,
you miss the elbow from you tired
knee.
The restless, curly head, from off your
breast,
The lisping tongue that chattered
uonstautly :
ff from vour owu the the dimpled
hands liadsliped
And ne’er would nestle in your palm
again.
If the white feet into the gjnve had
tripped,
I could not blame you for your heart
ache then.
I woudersotliat mot Iters e vet fret
At little children clinging to their
mothers gown
Or that the foot paints when the days
arc wet,
Are ever bluek enough to make
Vtheui from.
If I could find a little muddy boot
Or cap, or jacket; ou (uy chamber
floor
If J coul«f>kiss a nyiv resless foot , *
And heat- It piatfcr in my house
oucemtW ; „ V i V,
1-f l-coukHuiSud broken d? if to-
To morrow 'make a kite Dak reach
There is qo yVunmW t Wond
OouliYshy \
HJne was blissful content than I,
r*M* r l, I the dainty pillow next my
Niiwp
I I never Rumpled bv a shilling head
Jdy singing bird ling front his nest has
flown,
My little boy 1 used to kissis dead !
Toudcr aud/Irud,
Chapter 111
THE DREAM Ol' A LOT.
Somehow then i; seemed to me
as if we had settled down into the
old grove, and things were going
on as before ; that we somehow
knew our child’s hear/ to be in an
ojhe’rs keeping ; that the quiei
enevoutfnl days passed on with
out anything to break their mono
tony. Then Christmas, and with
it a let er to Ruth, whose hand
writing we knew well, and a li> lie
box containing a ring. How well
she loved him, my little Ruth !
How her pure child’s lace grew
bright widt joy when rending his
tender words I How her lips
.sough often the finger where rest
ed his ting w' eh she thought no
pie was near.
“He is coming back in tbe
spring !’ I heard her murmer ;
and she laughed bitterly, for very
joy. at_t.be thought of happiness
hat lay in his,return.
Bub then spring came and, did
not bring hint} the bright days
flew on, aul the littlejwbite gate
did not move beneath his hand
ar dRu b's eyes did not gladden
at his coining.
Very rarely did he write. He
was never a good coirespondent.
I lemembered that of old, and I
told her so, ki the hope that the
knowled might comfort her for his
si'ence.
One d iy my sister, Kate, receiv
ed a letter from some acquaintance
who resided iu Loudon, and who,
among other.tbings,] made men
tion of Brian Vaughan.
“He is as handsome as]-ever,"
as a great favorite with the wo
men. They say he is engaged to
a Miss Claxton, whose father is
whose father is oue of die wea tlii
est merchants here. I saw them
together m.the Park yesterday.”
Kate read ihut portion of her
leltter in a quiet audible voice
then rising, gently, she kissed
Ruth softly, and left the room',
while 1 sa< there trying hard to
believe i\ h >ugli my heart grew
sick at the ring of truth.
She was sitting at the win
dow, her head resting on her
hand.
“Ruth !”
She lifted her sweet, pale
fuse.
"If imy uot be true.”
She turned slightly 'o me, and
smiled It was mere pitiful, that
mule movement of her white lips
than v tempest of tears.
“I ave to right to condemn
him if it is,” she said. “/1 was
ißlMiabdaaßi ilir a f,r
OUK OWN SECTION- WE l,Alton I'olt ITS ADVANCEMENT.
LAWRENCEVILLE, GA. JANUARY 27 1885.
us both. With me it s memory
still lingers—with him it was for
got ton as soon as passed.”
“Honest love never dies dear !”
“Does it not ? Then wlmt is
honest love, James ! Ho told
me not to trus* him before he left
He kept nothing from the Usf.
And if / am fo.t'tsh enough to be
lieve in him twelve months after
he has left me, t is my fault, is it
hot f ..But,” and she rose sudden
ly to her feet, as if moved by an
irribtabie impure, her hands clasp
ed nervously, her eyes bright wiih
passion, “1 cannot doubt him ! I
cannot! My heart refuses to be
lieve what my reason ! I prom
ised I would trust hint an 1 1
will.
Before 1 could answer a word
she had darted past me and I said
no more of her.
Time passed, autumn glided in
to winter, and day by day I saw
my darling’s step grow lteavi r
and the blithsome laughter more
seldom than ever. She drew more
gentle—andc o n s i d e rate- -and
slowly it dawned on me that not
for long she would be with us
Oh, my God ! my God ! will I ev
er i hose days when I watch
ed her drift away front the golden
shorts of her w manhood 1 Wht n
Stiver yXmoinen t bet life was
from 'fr<Sfn\-slow subtily
—and I, witn all my pus -
sionate j rayers—could prevent
it ? Often aud often I stole out
iuiothe uight and prayed Got to
me strength to bear the cross that
had fallen rpon me.
She could not walk far now—
orly so the etui of tbe little gar
den when she had often played,
and where the flowers vere dying
l would wrap her up watmlj, tnd
talk and laugh with as if I were
not aware she would soon be
where my voice could never ream
her.
Then, one day she could not
walk at all ; another came and we
laid her in her little “white rose,’.
oJ a room aud whon another came
I knew she was dying.
The flowers and I will go to
gether, /times.”
The setting sun glimmered in
through the window and rested
on her hair. 1 was setting by her
side, with hot hand in mine.
“It will not be long ill I cotut
to you,’’ I whispered. “Ruth, per
haps some angel will tell you some
thing about me that will your
heart with pity—something I have
borne so long and whose burden
has been so heavy.”
,‘A folded leaf f’she questioned
softly. “Ah we, all of us, have
those. It is the part of the lot
of man. Theie are very few who
indeed who have not some sorrow
they would gladly hide away from
their dearest friends. But you
mnst no. think my life has been
an unhappy one. Youhrve tried
to fill it with gladness ; and, be
lieve me, I hav« sldom had a sor
rowing thought, and never one
caused by you.”
I stooped and kissed her,
Outside the bud was setting.
The room was tilled with shade ws
Faint murmurs of the outer world
btole upward through the si
lence.
“Rath,” I asked, huskily and
God knows it was hard to say
“would you like to see Brian
Vaughan ? ’
Silence a long silence
then :
“Oh ! If I only could !” she
whispered.
Twenty four hours later I was
seated in Brian Vaughan's chain
bers. awaiting his return. He had
gone to a ball, so his obsequious
valet in wl ich i ifcrmed me ; but
I was informed not to depart un
billed seen him, and my pa
tiencewasat last rewarded for
»t day break the door epabed and
they came in.
jje seemed pleated to s e me
aud held out his hand with gay
femilili ir y.
“Why /i’verite my deat fellow
when did you ar ive ?”
‘Duly a few hours ago,’’ I an
swered.
“And what nnforseen event has
shaven you out of that mouse hold
at kuit.
Tbs early m< ruing light came
ciepingin through the half close!
shutters, and I saw the lines had
hat'Jutted »ruuud his mouth, and
a bold reckless man, but not a hap
pie one. I, in my untaught wis
dom, could tub that causual
glance at his weary face.
How are they ail at home 1'
His eyes avoided me as he put
lie question, at.d toyed nervously
with the chain of his watch,
“Kate is wlll,’ I answered
“Ruth,” and my voice was so quiet
and cold /hat it seemed destitute
of foeltug “is dying, and want t to
see you,”
He repeated the words after me
slowly, as if he could not grasp
their meaning ; then his eyes grew
dark with honor ; and then thro
his qUitoring lips came, a low,
hoarse cry, like the moan es ani
mttl in pain.
“She has asked for yon,” I con
intted stolidly, “and I promised I
would bring you.
He rose to his feet and he came
over to where 1 s u.
“I is a joke Events ?” he mnt
tered, forcing the words ibrougu
his wst/e dry lips. “It is not true
.She was well aud happy wueu 1
last saw her.
“Her heart was not true I entei
rupted.
He shrunk from me as if from a
blow.
“No 1 No !” He cried. I
have not killed her! Jamek I love
her !”
Tue anger which had lain dor
mant tn me for eo long sprung in
to life a/ sudden bound
“It is false !” I cried you desig
nate vile passion by the holy uautc
of love ! fs it love that utterly
destroys a woman's soul ! that
lakes the heart from oat her bos
om to throw is back into face f if
so, lo?e iftust be an abribuie to
devils not of angels !”
He laid his forehead on die cold
marble of the mantel, aud his
frame snook with heavy tearless
sobs.
Yn das I watched him in spite
of myself, some little piiy stole in
to my heart—for I knew that in
pathway of sin, sorrow walked in
his footseps tnd hfs way weary in
deed.
Dead silence reigned in the
room save for the slow monoton
ous ticking of the btt.e carnage
clock on th-j chimmney piece, for
silence sconced the only thing we
could bear.
Then he raised his head he look
e>l years older with that gray, ash
eu hue on his face ; but he spoke
very quietly, and his face was the
only index of the storm that raged
within.
We spoke no word while the
train took us back to Kinston,
only once lie oroke the silence
and tkßt was when we cauie with
in sight ol the old familiar place
and her little deg came bounding
forward to meet us.
He looked from the animal
(which had recognized him, and
was jumping around him in fran
tic delight) to me with a . mute,
bueationing gaze, and 1 heard
him rnurmer below his breath,
“Can anything she loved be had
py when she is dying ?”
There was a strange quietness
about / ho house that sen/ a name
less chill through my heart ; but
when Kate met us at the door, I
saw by her face that my fears
were groundless.
That Ruth was still alive.
“Don’t make a noise !" she said.
1 think she is sleeping.
Slic was lying with eyes closed
but not asleep, and the slight
noise we mede on entering die
turbed her. .She turned, vitii the
smile that sprung so lightly to
his lips, and—saw him standing
there.
For a moment or two they
looked >i! each other. Then all
the pain and doubt,with which the
past few months hid shadowed
her soul, fell from her like a vei ;
and remembering only that he was
the man she loved, foe held out
her arms to him, w?th a 'ow cry of
“Rut li!” was all he said
Then his tired head fell on her
little, thin hands ; keeling there
he ci led like child.
“Hush,” the girl whispered in
her pretty, womanly voice. It
hurts me to see you in pain ! You
must not cry. It is better for me
t*> go, God wants me besides
very lovingly) I have you now
Perhaps if I were to live t should
lose you.’’
“No he cried passionately, rais
iug his white httggared face to
to hers -.
“1 will never leave you agaiu !
Ruth believe me—trust once
more—and, before Gotl. I swear I
w.il never again betray your
trust.
“I kuow you would try,” she
said, softly; “but it is dittiouh for
weak, huutbu nature to conqxer
its inclinations; aud, (with a tiny,
wistful smile,) my heart is such a
foolish one, longing so much for
love, that it will be better a 1
rest.”
Th* long, bright day drew to a
closa The light faded, and niglu’s
cold, jreary mantel fell quickly cn
the longing earth.
“Brian,” the girl wtiispe/ed, lay
iug her cheek against Ins own, be
cause she oould not bear /he pits
ous questioning of his eyes, ‘you
will try to be a better man for my
sake? I want to die in the ho|jt«
that some day I will cer/ainlj
meet you—for even in God’s
home, I know my soul will long
for yours!”
Very softly he kissed ner—
hough the lias that toueheh hers
were qutrering with pain.
“I will try he said.
Then hoarsely, broakealy, he
continued.
• “Child, what will I do without
youT Oh my God! (with a sud
den awful agony)—.wnat will I do!
what will { dos”
Bhe laid her s until, trembling
hands on his face.
“Don’t! don’t!” she pathetical
ly pleaded. ‘You t ust not
greive! My tvs/ will not be rest
if I kuow oy dying I have tilled
your days with sorrow. ’
“You forgive me,”
She smiled.
“Yes. freely! And remember
if you Imvc been tie cause of tlio
only pain my heart has < ver fcl,
you have been tlio cause nln, of
my life's greatest joy.
Those were the lasi words slm
spoke to him.
Od je ne kissed her, and she
suiiicd—but sbe had not the pow
er to speak.
So we watched her, while the
star:, came out in the heavens and
the moonlight, stealing in through
the window, bathed her in a silver
iigui.
All at once she lifted herself uy
from her pillow, and, with a light
that was not of earih on hei face,
said, softly:
“Look!”
But we could see nothing. J
bent over her.
“What is it, dearj” I asked.
“God's Angel!” she whispered
“Stand aside and let him pass!”
jdnd I drew back—awed and
still.
•‘Darling! darling! stay wiib
ns!”
Broken and piteous was Brian
Vaughan’s voice; but she did not
heed him; .for the sweet, brown
eyes,.that had so oft grown ten
der at bis coming—the smiling,
red lips, that had nsver known
lover’s kiss but his—were mute
and still f< rever.
“Ruth my love —speuk to me, if
bui „o whisper oue word of for
giveness!”
In that anguishing cry of his
pierced the clouds that separated
os from the great Unknown and
siole upward to her ear. I know
it grieved her to give no answsi
back, even if she w> reetandiu • be
fort the very throne of heaven.
CHAP7KB IV.
COMING OUT OF THE SH..DOWS
“James! James! can’t you hear
mt!”
Dimly the voice pierced the
dull stupor that seemed to envel
op my brain. Slowly I opened
my eyes and behold vaguely
around me.
I was lying on the grass, and
Ruth was kneeling besiue me.
Afterwards 1 lemembured /hat
in) sister and Brian Vaughan
stood near, with faces fall of grave
concern. But then I seemed ouly
oble to realize that Kith was near
me; and involuntarily I stretched
out my hand and touched heres
It was warm and living. Then
■he was not dead? aud I———
JOHN T. WILSON, Jit, Publisher.
“Dear, you frig heued us so!’
she whispered, softly, laying her
h/tle, cool hand on my forehead.
“What is the matter? Are you
ill?”
1 could not answer her. I seem
ed to have lost die power of speech.
I could only ga/.e, with a mute
thankfulness in my eyes.
“You must have fainted Ev
eriite,” saidVanghan. quie/>y, “and
iiiitt ia a stupor a long time—for
it was late beiore you we. e miss
id, and wo had some ,it tie difficul
ty iu finding you.”
I rose Slowly to my feet. I
was as weak as a child, and but
for uis timely help would have lal
'en.
“I saw you leave the bridge,” I
said; “go I must have lost con
sciousness just after that. And
ye/,” I added, with a quick, invol
untary shudder, “1 was conscious
all the time; for 1 lied a vision—a
dream—or what you will—ihe
horror of which was so realistic
that in that brief while I suffered
years of anguish."
Uutb turned and put her hands
hi mine in silent sympathy. Then
for once all my dear bought le
erve gave way, and with a low.
cry cf gratitude I folded her to
my heait.
* Thank (foil! it was only a
dream!" 1 said “Child I thought
wo had lost yon ”
Before Brian Vaughan left that
night, I told him cf my vision.
He listened in silence. Then he
said:
“Everitte Ido love her—(»od
only knows how much! I mu go
ing away—but only to leturn
The feelings that I thought wer 9
dead years ago, have gained re
newed life by nei trust, and now
are stro tg enough to enable me
/( break from the old associates
and live tor her alone.”
“You will try?" I pleaded; “for
she loves you; and God tins given
her a heart to feel deeply—too
deeply perhaps for perfect peace.”
He went; but in the summer he
came back again; ami / married
them in trie little gray church lie
fore whose alitr she had often
knelt.
That is many years ago. Sh<
is a happy mother now, in her
stately Loudon home, and we
meet but very rarely. She bus
not fi rgotten us—this child of
our adoption—hut other cares
at. 1 other li)Vi;s divide her etteu
tion.
As for mys If, I am quietly pur
suing the even tenor of my way
s'-tcuro in the knowledge of a just
and meiciful God, who, wqen He
shall close my tired eyes in rest,
will know how the heat and bur
den of the day have been borne.
THE EaD.
A <u*lly Fair Ol'lluolM
— >
In the last few weeks of war a
a confederate, serving under Lej,
wrote home to his father that he
was almost discouraged. As soon
as the old muu received the letter
he mounted his mule and _>et off
ai a gallop, hut was soou halted
by eu acquaintance, who called
out—
“Hedo ! has there beeu another
fight ?”
“Not as I’ve heard of. but I’»e
got a letter from Cyrus.”
“Wbut does Cyru i say.
ho s out o’ bates and clean dis
couraged.”
“And where are you guiug V'
“Down to A bner Smith’s to bor j
row #700,009 to send to Cyrus to j
get a cheap pair of id oes ; aud j
we’re going to write him a long ’
utter, and send him o’ buX o’ pilisl |
and tell him to hang on ‘.o the last
tor. if Cyrus gets low spiriied and
btguis to let go the infernal Yerk
will be riding over us afore we kin
back a mule outer the barn.”
“Thai’s so ! tlia’s so ! nodded
the other. “I kir let you have
the money myself as well as not
I was saving up to buy three
plugs o’ tobacker aud a box of
matches all at Once, hut the army
mnstnV ga barefoet when it only
lakes *700,000 a r #BOO,OO to buy
a purty good pair o’ shoes.—Aus
>in (/ ex) Dispatch.
Mining is being actively pushed
in the new gohl mines lafe!y dis
covered in Murry county, Geor
gia.
a n Ei* alp.
bus
Jo n it e e y. xr
jsr * /) i y ; > - £ ■' p* #
•ALLOUHEUS T 'o!d
NEATLY AX'4
* vW'■ *$ . ■
PROMPTLY EX ECU
-1 ED.
KnlereU In the Post Office utLawr
rtincevllle, Oa., as second class mail
matter.
The woes of a liitshlii: man
“You d-dou't know now b-b-bash
fill I am,” he murmured “The
gals just worrit the life outen me.
When I stood up to be married
they all giggled, an 1 when the
minister asked me if I'd fake this
woman to be my wedded wife, I
stud T was ‘purty well, thankee,’
and when he proiinced us mail and
woman, and said, ‘what God hath
joined together .et no man lip
apart,’ I broke down snd bawled
Oh, it was bonible! Hut that’s
no hing to what's to come, 'flout
leveti o’clock the old man sez, sez
lie, ‘John, your room’s at the head
o' the stairs.’ 1 was so •keered
that when I tried to stand up my
legs gin away, and I fell over tue
dog and got bit iu three piaeea. I
waited nil everybody'd goce to
licit, l ueii I crawled up stairl like
u spoon thief. I was 'front to go
in. so 1 sat on the stairs anil shiv
ered. - /t’s no use,’ sez i,' wat's
got to ho hez to be so I shucked
off my clothes out in the dark and
shot my eyes. Then I made a
break for the door. I found the
bod and pulled the clothes over
my head an’ laid on the front rail.
In the morn’ I peeped th.ough my
fit geis to sue it I could dress and
git away ’ioie sho woke up, and
hang me lor a pirute if I want in
bed with the old man and the old
wornau. Oh, I can’t go back. I
cau’t—l can t, ” and /he poor thing
wept afresh.
NO 44
Where Nut lo start, a paper.
In his letter to the amateur
journal, Robert J Burdette otters
some sage advice rogurdiDg the
s arling of news papers. Says
be.
If he start a newspaper iu a
town where nobody wants apa
per.
Or where ther* are alrsad five
papers ia a two j oper town.
Or, if u long primer man tries
to start a nonpareil paper;
Or, if he try to run an eight
column paper on a two-column ha
sis.
Or, if he skin his home adver
tisers and cut rates for foreign
ads.
Or, if he start out by giving a
$3 putt'for a ten cent comb.
Or, if u« start a paper because
be has failed at eveiything else.
Then, indeed, hath he bitten off
more Uian iie can masticate, and
his paper, beloved by the gods, will
die fresh and young.
Patwotic MKill;iiants of the
Revolution. —In that immortal
Coagiess that adopted the Declar
atiou of American Independence
sat many merchants. It was the
merchant John Hancok that pre
sided over its deliberations, and
that first put a bold and unshrink
ing intrchauiile signature to that
perilous declaration. With him
in glory and in danger, were the
merchants Robert Morris aud
(Veorge Clyiner of Peusylvania,
Elbridge Gerry and Samuel Ad -
ams of Massachusetts, Wtllium
Whiwple of New Hams hire, Phil-
Livingston aud Francis of New
Humpesire, Phillip Livingston
and Francis Lewis of New York,
Joseph Hews of North Carolina,
and Button Gwinnett of Georgia.
“Will you kindly tell me what
is going on in that church?’’ asked
a tramp of a gentleman whe had
just descended the steps.
"They are holding a church
fair.’-’
"I am very sorry.”
“IV by are you sorry, my friend? ’
“ Well, I was going to ask you
to help me, but if you’ve beeu m
there it ain’t no use.”
- —• e» • — - —■
For burns sweet oil and cotton
are saopiug remedies. If they
are no' at hand sprinkle the burn
ed part witi xouer and wrap louse
ly wi ll a soft cloth. Don’t remove
the dressing until ihe inflaniitiou
subsides, as it will break the new
skin /hat is forming.
Seven hundred larrel of oil
were takeu lrorn a whale found
dead in the Bay of Santa Cruz
Cal., recently. »
The insurance companies doing
business in the city of -Lthous
have reduced their ra'es this year
on account of the water works, so
ae to many times repay /be ex pen
se of the same. -—l '