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The Pocket Handkerchief.
We mayforget ourpnrse, onrpenluiife,
and many other things, says the
inconvenience, Hatter, without experiencing without any its
and even
know T n at times, but be to lose followed or mislay the
handkerchief may by very
grave consequences, as w’e all know.
Moreover, we make use of this article in
many other different w r ays. All who
make use of spectacles do not remove
them from their nose in order to put them
the very handkerchief, carefully into the case without using
and they use it again
before putting them on, wiping the
glasses with great care. The majority of
people pay by far too little attention to
an object so indispensable. Many put
it into the same pocket with their keys,
their purse, their snuff-box, without
troubling themselves concerning the
many tissue will strange substances with which its
not fail to come in contact in
so miscellaneous a company, and which
kerchief might sully the purity which the hand¬
to ought visit? to possess. Does oue go
pay a Before presenting them
selves to the person they wish to thank
or solicit, some have been known to dust
their boots with the handkerchief.
Does the careful wife see some grains of
dust left on her ornaments? She makes
them disappear with her handkerchief,
Boys in the school-room clean their slates
with them, in the play-ground the hand
kerchief is the necessary attendant of a
multitude of games. With this ;hey
wipe It off the dirt; they strike off the dust,
is used to stop the blood that flows
from wounds—always very numerous in
the age of leap-frog and prisoners’ base;
the age also of communism in liandker
chiefs. With wounds come tears, and
the handkerchief, full of dust, spotted
with dirt, with the blood of bodies known
or unknown, serves again cheeks for wiping the
eyes, the nose, or the furrowed
with tears. We do not wish, and we can
not tell here all the strange uses that
people make of the pocket handkerchief.
And then what signals have been con
veyed how by it! How many sad farewells,
many cheerful congratulations! The
very method of waving it has a language,
as the motions of the fan also have. But
no one lias^iitherto discoursed on the
language of the it pocket handkerchief,
And how useful often is as a help to
the pocket or the hand-bag! How many
mushrooms, raspberries myrtle-berries, have gathered strawberries,
and been into
the handkerchief in young days, and
more valuable things in later life! Then
there may be evil results traced to ite—a
number of ailments of which one cannot
guess the origin; diseases of the nose and
eyes. Fortunate it is for him that incurs
which nothing worse; diphtheria, for example,
the handkerchief may heedlessly
transmit. Let us not use the handker
chief except for its proper purpose; let
ns devote it to a special place; let us
change it as often as possible, and in
spire our children with a great disgust
for another’s handkerchief on account of
the disagreeable, nay, dangerous conse
qnences that may ensue. Much more
might he said about the pocket hander
chief, but enough has been hinted at to
set the reader to Blinking upon its im
uortance, its uses, and its abuses.
Why Some Americans Like England.
It has often occurred to me that many
of the New Yorkers wdio do not come to
London have kindred feelings, and are
in similar positions to tho Londoners
who do not go to New York. Similarly,
it seems to me that the nice people you
meet in America are like the nice people
you meet in England. “But,” said an
American affinities. artist “I have to me just discussing these
Cookham the Upper come Thames, up-from
on and
you tached ask me England why we when Americans really get so at¬
to wo got to
know the country. I will tell you. It
is settled. It is quiet; you can rest
here. I walked from Cookham to Med
rnenham companion Abbey. A lovely the only spot. I and
there. my callers were persons
A few came, ladies and
gentlemen boating all. Quiet, down the Thames,
and that was fresh, lovely
meadows, a shining river, an abbey
1,000 years old and a quiet country hotel
like a private gentleman’s house. Why,
sir, in my country that hotel would have
been a great white, and staring, modem
palace, with smoking and flirting and
cocktail-making howling going on
that would drive you mad 1 Peace,
quiet, worlds, finish, the end of tilings, a dream
of old a present of repose where
you may cultivate art and live on a mod¬
erate income; that is why we Americans
love England .”—English Idler to New
York Times.
French Treatment of Hysterics.
A new treatment of hysterical Medicate affections of
is noticed in the Gazette
Paris. In cases of paralysis of sensation
it has often been observed that when a
metal is applied for a certain time to the
insensible surface of a limb at the end of
about a quarter of an hour an incomplete
sensibility returned, on a restricted zone
of skin, and from that point spreads
gradually during the twenty-four hours
over the whole limb. Sensibility skin reddens, returns,
and at the same time the
the temperature rises, and even the mus¬
cular force seems increased. Strange to
say, however, in respect to this principle in the
of treatment, all metals do not act
same w’av with the same patients—on
some gold, while on others copper or
zinc is efficient—though the same metal
always on the same patient. Some of
the most eminent French physicians and
chemists have directed their attention to
this subject.
A Phenomenal Whistler.
William Gumby, a colored man living
in Philadelphia, is a very remarkable
whistler. His notes are indescribably
sweet, and yet withal powerful enough
to fill a largo-sized hall. Gumby can
whistle m two distinct octaves at the
same time, and when asked to give an
exhibition of his skill he whistled the
“ Mocking Bird ’ and several other tunes
in a manner in which not two but three
tones to were lie distinctly something audible. Utwecn The tones
seem a flute
and a fife, jswsessing the sweetness of
the one combined with the shrillness of
the other, and yet ixmmmina something
that Is-longed to neither, lie intends to
perfect himself, and then appear on the
stage.
The Watkinsville Advance.
VOLUME I.
SUNSET.
BY HALLIE O. YOIINO.
In the far west, as tho day grows old,
I watch a city of dazzling gold;
From the minarets that pierce tho sky
I listen to hear the muezzin’s cry;
Altars arc many—and all aglow—
Their incense smoke is white as snow;
Banners of crimson are floating out
From arches of opal scattered about.
Steeples and spires in splendor vie,
And temples of jasper touch tho sky.
Hast thou, O! city above the trees, .
An Abelard and Heloise?
My fancy is busy in peopling thee,
Bo high above our earth and sea;
Thy glory illumines the bending skies,
And I dream thee a glimpse of paradise,
And wonder, and worship from afar,
-as angels swing the gates ajar.
the Golden age.
Story of the Discovery of Gold in
California.
^ was the month of January, 1848,
. small shanty in tho rather squalid
' n a
tittle hamlet of Yerba Buena, on the Bay
°* San Francisco, that two young men
trom the States, having just printed on
a weekly hand-press the 150 copies of their
paper, sat down upon stools,
weary, faint and discouraged, to talk
over the prospects of the country and be
moan the fate that had cast them whero
society and money were so scarce. They
were hii’tli Americans, but tho land of their
was as remote to them then as St.
Petersburg hey. to a peasant of the Amoor
va They longed to return, but
never Mexican expected to be rich enough. The
months war was just ended a few
before. The treaty of Guada
lu P? Hidalgo gave California to the
United States. The California so ceded
included the present State of that name,
Nevada, and most of Utah. It was an
empire larger than France and England,
Divided by a range of mountains almost
as Carpathians, lofty as the Alps and longer than the
south, the running from north to
easternhalf was a terra incog
n ji a °f barren containing desert buttes throughout and mount
spin’s, its
whole extent but one feeble settlement
°f whites, known as Mormons. Un¬
known savages of the lowest aboriginal
t. v P° dominated all the rest. The west
em half, as it then appeared, was one
rank great valley covered with bright flowers,
wooded verdure, clumps of majestic oaks,
hills, sloping from the coast
range on the west and the Sierras on tho
eas b hills, plains and valleys alive with
berds of deer, elk, antelope and cattle
®nd horses as wild as the game ; the
charming panorama enlivened amt per
fected by sparkling rivers, whose waters
were as clear as tho cloudless sky above
them, their banks flanked with a dense
growth of ash, maple, alder, willow,
hazel, cottonwood, sycamore, wild grape
vines, and, toward their confluence with
the bays, waving tule of the darkest
cornfields green, resembling the at first sight the great
on lowlands of the Ohio,
Hi a d this vast valley region there w.ts
but one white settlement. It was known
os Sutter’s Fort.
It was located near the confluence of
the Rio de los Americanos with the Sac¬
ramento. To the far south, beyond the
sources of the San Joaquin river, not
far from tlio Pacific ocean, stood the
“Ciudad de los Angeles,” Mexican in
its construction and population. A
Catholic mission at Santa Barbara and
another at San Luis Obispo (Saint Louis,
the Bishop); another at Monterey on
the bay of that name ; another at Santa
Clara iu the lovely valley of that name ;
another called Mission de San Jose not
far from the latter, and another at the
village of Yerba Buena, which has since
grown into the city of San Francisco.
It was then a collection of adobes, built
around the public square we now call
“the Plaza.” The waters of the bay
extended as far as Montgomery street,
where the Bank Exchange now stands,
and a few whalers and small coasting
schooners lay at anchor 300, yards from
shore, about where the postoffice now
stands on Battery street. There were
also American settlements at Sonoma
and .Napa, composed of farmers who
emigrated from tho Western States a
few years before, and here and there
arose along the borders of the tale the
smoke from the hut of tho lonely trap¬
per of beaver. These, with the ranches
of the old Dons, their corrals and the
inevitable adobe dwellings, surrounded
by innumerable what cattle and horses, made
up the sum of there was of civilized
and semi-civilized life in California at
the time the two young printers of Yerba
Buena were discussing their situation.
Now and then a vessel put into the bay
of Diego, Monterey, or San hides, Francisco, or San
to load with or a whaler
for repairs, dropping a few Mexican
dollars or doubloons, which were the
currency of the country. It was, to an
active or ambitious mind, a dull and
listless life; but to the majority, who
loved ease, a healthy climate and beauti¬
fully-diversified scenery.
A plearfng land of drowey head it wap,
Of druarnB that flit before the half-shut eye,
And of gay ea«tlen in the, clouds that pass,
Forever flashing through a summer sky.
About the same hour that the two
Yerba Buena printers were deploring
their fate of isolation from the busy
world, a scene was enacting that was to
have a greater effect upon the material
interests of modern society than any
event since the discovery of America,
It was on the 19th day of January, river, 1848,
on the south fork of the American
flftv-four miles east of Sutter's Fort.
Early in the morning of that day, James
W. Marshall, who was building a mill
for himself and Sutter, from which they
expected to supply the ranches and set
tlements with pine lumber, mck' of the tl null up
from the bedrocks of the race
a small seventeen piece of yellow metal. It It weighed malic
about grains. was
able, heavier than silver, and in all re
speets resembled gold. About 4 o'clock
in the evening Marshall exhibited his
lied to the circle composing the mill
company laborers. Marshall, P, Tlioir nanu s were
James W. L. Wiinmer, Mrs,
Wimmer, James Barger, Ira Willis, 8yd
ney Willis, Alexander Stephens, .Tunes
Brown, Eskiah Persons, Johnson, 1 fetiry Bigler,
Israel Smith, William Geurge
Evuns, Charles Bennett and William
Scott. The conference resulted in the
rejection of the idea tlmt it v m gold,
Mrs. Wimmer tested it by boiling it iu
strong lyi Marshall afterward touted
it with nitric acid. It was gold, sure
WATKINSVILLE, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 16, 1880.
enough, like all and the discoverer found its
in tho surrounding gulches
wherever he dug for it. The secret could
not bo long kept. It was known at
Yerba Buena three months after the dis¬
covery, and the two printers above men¬
tioned put this slight notice of it in their
weekly paper, The Californian, on the
19th of April:
New Gold Mine. — It is stated that a new
gold mine has been discovered on the American
not) Fork of the the Sacramento, land of William supposed A. to Leidesdorff, ho (it was
on
Esq., has been of this exhibited, place. and A specimen represented of the to gold bo
is
very pure.
May opened with accounts of new dis¬
coveries. The Californian of May 3
said: “ Seven men, with picks and
days." spades, gathered SI,600 worth in fifteen
That was a little more than $15
per the day per man. said: On the 17th of May
have same paper loft the “Many for the persons dig¬
gings. already Considerable coast
excitement exists
here. Merchants and mechanics are
closing doors. Lawyers and alcaldes
are leaving their desks, farmers are
neglecting their crops and whole families
are gings. forsaking their homes ” for the dig¬
By May 24 gold dust had be¬
come an article of merchandise, tho
price being from $14 to $16 per ounce.
The Californian of that date had these
advertisements:
BOLD ! a OLD ! HOLD !
Cash will be paid for California gold by
11.11. Buckalew,
Watchmaker and Jeweler, San Francisco.
OOLD t GOLD ! HOLD !
Messrs. Dickson <fc Hay are purchasers of
Sacramento gold. A liberal price given.
Bee Hive.
On the 29th of May tho Californian
issued a slip stating that its further imb
licatiou, for the present, would ijeaso.
because tho mines. nearly all A its month patrons later had gone
to there
were but five persona-women and clril
dren—left in Yerba Buena. Tho first
rush was for Sutter’s Mill, since cliris
tened Coloma, or Oulluma after a tribe
of Indians who lived in that region.
From there they scattered in all dircc
tions. A large stream of them went
over to Weber creek, which empties into
the American some ten or twelve miles
below Coloma. Others went up or
*
down the river. Some, more adventur
ous, crossed tbe ridge over to tho north
and middle forks of tho American. By
the close of Juno tho discoveries had
extended to all the forks of the Ameri
ean, Cosumnes Weber (known creek, Hangtowu then the creek, Mako- the
as
sume), Yuba the Mokelumna, Tuolumne, the
(from uvas, or yuvas—grape),
called in 1848 the “Yuba,” or “Ajuba,”
and Feather river. On July 15 the edi
tor of the Californian returned and is
sued the first number of his paper after
its suspension. It contained a descrip
tion of the mines from personal observa
tion. He said :
“ The country from the Ajuba (Yuba)
to the San Joaquin, a distance of about
120 miles, and from the base toward the
summit of the mountains, as far as Snow
hill (meaning Nevada), about seventy
miles, has been explored and gold found
on every part. There are now probably
3,000 people, including Iuditins, cngJtgcd
in collecting gold. TllO amount collect
ed , , by each , man ranges from „ $10 to $350
per collected day. with The publisher of this paper
the aid of sfvshovel, pick and
a tin pan from $44 to $L8 per day—aver
agmgSlOO The gross amount collected
may exceed $600,000, of which amount
our merchants have received $2o0,()00, all
for goods, and in eight weeks, iho larg
est piece known to be lound weighs
eight pounds.
On the 14th of August the number of
white miners was estimated at 4,000.
Many of them wore of Stephenson s regi
ment and the disbanded Mormon battal
day that ^hfomian when a man remarked with his on pan that or
lasket, does not average $30 to $40 per
■ lay, he moves to another place. l'our
thousand ounces a day was the estimated
production of the mines five months
after the secret leaked out. In April the
price of flour here was $4 per hundred;
in August it had risen to $16. All other
subsistence supplies rose in the same
proportion. Here is part of a letter from
oonoma, to the Cahfomiaa, Aug. 14 :
"1 have heard from one of our citizens
who has been at the placers only a few
weeks and collected $1,500, still averag
ing Ids $100 a day. Another, who shut up
hotel here somo five or six weeks
since, has returned with $2,200, collected
with a spade, pick and Indian basket. A
man and his wife and boy collected $500
in one day.”
Sam Brannan laid _ exclusive claim to
Mormon island, in the American, about
levied twenty-eight miles above its mouth, and
all the a gold royalty of 30 per cent, on
who taken there by tho Mor*
mons, fused after they paid it for a while, better but re
came to a
standing September of the rules of the mines. By
the news had spread to Ore
gon and the southern coast, and on the
2d of that month the Californian notes
that 125 persons had arrivedintown “by
ship” gings”—near since Aug. 26. In the “ Dry Dig
of August, Auburn—during tbe month
five cartloads one man got $16,000 out of
of dirt. In tho same dig
gings $8,00 to a good $1,600 many day. were collecting from
a In the fall of
1848, John Murphy, now of Han Jose
discovered Murphy's Camp Diggings , in
Calaveras, and some soldiers of Sto
pheuson’s Mokelnmne regiment discovered Rich
gulch, at hill. That winter
one miner at Murphy’s realized $80,000.
It was common report that John Mur
phy, who had mined collected a number of Indians on
wages, over $1,500,000 in
Kr , [(UiMt before the close of the wet
^agon of 1848. A Frenchman fishing
j a a prospect hole for frogs for bis break
fa ., t) at Mokelumno hill, iu November,
] 848, discovered a speck of gold on the
side of the excavation, which he dug out
with Three Lis sailors pocket-knife who had and deserted sold for took $2,150. out
$10,000 in live days on Weber creek,
Such strokes of good fortune turned all
classes into miners, including the law.
yers, doctors and preachers. The ex
js/rtsof and gold merchandise dust in, exchange amounted for pro.
duee to
$500,000by tho25th of Scptemls-r. The
ruling price of gold iis dust was $15 js-r
ounce, though intrinsic value was
from $19 to $20, A meeting l/*a.eiiwortlt, of citizens,
pre*iilwl over b T. M.
and addressed I 3 >y Hawu -l Biaunau,
passed resolutions in September not to
patronize merchants who refused to take
gold dust at $16 per ounce. A memori¬
al was also sent from San Francisco to
Congress in that month for a branch
mint here. It stated, among other
things, the opinion that by July 1,1849,
$5,500,000 worth of dust, at $16 per
ounce, would be taken out of the mines.
The figures were millions too low. Ileal
estate in San Francisco took a sudden
rise. A lot on Montgomery street, near
Washington, and it resold sold in July for $10,000,
was in November with a
shanty on it for $27,000. Lots in Sac¬
ramento, or New Helvetia, also came up
to fabulous prices that winter. By the
month of October the rush from Oregon
caused tho Oregon papers to stop publi¬
cation. In December the Kanakas and
Sonorians came in swarms. A Honolulu
letter, Nov. 11, said :
“Such another excitement as tho
news from California created hero tho
world never saw. I think not less than
500 persons will loave before Jan. 1, and
if the news continues good the whole
foreign will go.” population, except missionaries,
The news did contiune good, and they
came, some missionaries included. Soon
there came up from the mines com¬
plaints of outrage Kanakas and lawlessness, most¬
ly against and other foreigners.
How well they were founded, to what
they led, and how they were suddenly
mid summarily silenced, is a story that
covers history a very interesting part of the
of California, and the progress of
civilization in America.
Samuel Seabough.
TT L. e or r P]ftwftrs r Oners,
It’s a trite and homely saying, “ You
cftn,t ° a obliged t ypnr cake to ami keep it too,” and
wo are square our actions with
J* P ra % closely; lmt there is one pecu
lmr 8atlsfac tion mtho cultivation of flow
ers > f ™‘- “ l a certain sense, they are an
exception to the practical operations of
«‘c rules of addition and subtraction, as
embodied m the expression of thorn in
the old and popular axiom above quoted,
Dlmu ? the graving and blooming sca¬
S0 H 8 of many of the best bedding plants
and annuals the flowers can be cut freely
ami used and tho ottener they are ro
moved tho greater tho amount of bloom,
When plants are allowed to perfect seeds,
they soon cease to produce more flowers,
as the whole strength of the plant is
necessary to mature the seeds. Tlierc
fore, if you want flowers, cut them and
use them; place them on your tables,
give them to your friends, and remember
those that are sick, help and perhaps, too. you
may use them to some oue who is
disheartened, or even to lift up a de
graded one who needs, above all else,
your sympathy. ‘if It would bo sad, flowers iu
deed, objects so beautiful as
fishness. should be Give the occasion them with of growing liberal sel
a hand
and ho who sends tiio sunshine and tho
rain will bless you with increasing blos
soms. A gift of flowers can seldom bo
inappropriate, either to young painted or old,
and purity and goodness are on
every petal. With the gift
0ur hcnrta arn lighter for lts „ ;lkr ,
Our diiu-rememlK-rfd fancy’s ago renews fiction* its youth,
Au>l tuk«
Tlio euise o£ urosent truth.''
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Petrifaction of a Human Body,
Your correspondent learning that there
was an jt <;m 0 f general interest at Quincy, (’
tjl(lk th( , train for tllllt place to . (lay
invcstigat0i tho line of y Logan uim . y iB and a Shelby little village
on couu
(; cs Seeking out Dr. W. V. Spooco and
Mr William Kellison, to whom my in
formant had directed me, 1 learned that
the rt! po r t„ were true, and that there was
a curiosity right there, at least for this
. )!ir £ a f y 10 -world
Mr. Kellison’s mother visited him sev
cra i y oarB ago, coming from Illinois,
jq,, r B on, as j n duty bound, gave a boun
tiful dinner in honor of tlio event. Ho
gays that his mother ate very heartily,
BO much so in fact that tho next day she
was hours’ taken illness, suddenly died, ill, and after a few
Mr. Kellison, who
j H an intelligent farmer, had his mother
1 >nricd in a “lim< stone gravelly’* knoll on
tho farm. Five years afterward, on sell
mg tho farm, lie was compelled to re
move her remains, when it was dis
covered that the body had turned
to solid stone, and it took a dozen men
with ropes and pulleys to drag the ic¬
mains from the grave.
The old lady was seventy years of age,
in good flesh, and weighed about 130
pounds when she died. When exhumed
the petrifaction was perfect, and tho only
part of the body lacking is a small por
tion of tho left ala of the nose. Some
idea of her weight may be conceived
when it is stated, and is a fact, that it
took two horses arid a wagon to remove
her. The weight of her body is now es
timated by good judges to be at least
1,000 pounds. The remains have been
laid away in Prospect Graveyard, Quincy,
O., where they now are, but Mr. Kelli
son yesterday promised them to your
correspondent and a scientific gentle
man present, who intend to present them
to one of the medical museums of tho
State .—Sidney Correspondence Oincin
nati Enquirer,
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A Fellow-Feeling.
The manager of a dramatic combina¬
tion playing an engagement in Detroit
was approached on the last day by a
stranger, who asked for a pass for that
evening: should I give pass?”
“Why demand. you a was
the blunt
“On account of the fellow-feeling,”
was “Sir, the serene I do not reply. know you.”
“ Neither do I know you, but that isn’t
the fellow-feeling I had reference to."
“Do r, you lielorig ° te the profession?”
« No
“ Then I fail to see how there is any
thingin common.”
“You struck this town last Monday,
didn't you ?” asked the stranger.
“ Yes.”
“Bo did I, and fro going out of it to
night dead broke, same as you. That’s
nay ixiint, may it please tlio court,"
‘Tho "court" whistled a melancholy
tune, figured up tlio cosh receipts once
more, and then wrote tho pass without
further argument.
--
Pr all cam* from educating his daughter
at for a wiping seminary. Ins inoiitli She reproved the table her father
and he went on efeth him’
to the Urn and hung
will.— JJr/roil /Vi* Press. '
When tlio Foe Comes In.
A newly elected Justice of the Peaco
who had been used to drawing deeds and
wills, and little else, was called upon as
his first official act to marry a couple
who came into his office very hurriedly
and told him their purpose. Ho lost no
time in removing his hat, and remarked,
“ Hats off in the presence of the Court.”
All being uncovered, ho said: “Hold up
your right hands. You, John Marvin,
do solemnly swear that to the best of
your knowledge an’ belief you take this
yer woman ter have an’ ter hold for yer
self, yer heirs, exekyerters, administra¬
tors and assigns, for yer an’ their use an’
behoof forever ?”
“I do,” answered the groom.
“You, Alice Ewer, take this yer man
for yer husband, tor have an’ ter hold
for ever; and you do further swear that
you are lawfuly seized in foe simple, are
right free from all sell, incumbrance, bargain and and hev good
to convey to
the said grantee and assigns yerself, ?” yer heirs, ad¬
ministrators
“I do,” said tho bride, rather doubt¬
fully. “Well, John, that’ll dollar
bo about a
’n’ fifty cents.”
“Are we married ?” asked tho bride.
“ Yes, when the foe oomes in.”
After some fumbling it w r as produced
and handed to the “Court,” who pock¬
eted it and continued: “Know all men
by health these presents, that I, being in good
and of sound and disposin’ mind,
in consideration of a dollar ’n’ fifty cents
to me in hand paid, the receipt whereof
is hereby acknowledged, have declared do and by theso
presents you man
w ife during good behavior and until oth¬
erwise ordered by the Court,”
Not Up on Goats.
The goat is an every-day sight, and
the man who does not study him and
learn his ways and habits lias only him¬
self to blame. Saturday forenoon a
“ William ” was quietly feeding on Co¬
lumbia street when a load of household
goods the went past. The owner kept pace
with wagon, carrying under bin arm
a lino mirror about five feet long. As
ho came opposite tho goat ho mot a
friend, and of course ho had to stop and
tell why he was changing locations and
how much he expected to be benefited.
Tho glass was heavy, and ho naturally
dropped one end to tho walk to rest Ins
arm.
Had this man been a close olmorvor lie
would have seen the goat and wished he
hud a brickbat. Hud ho mndo gout na¬
ter ture than a study lower ho would have known bet¬
to the glass. But lie was
a man who despised tlio trifles of life, and
ho was telling how many tons of coal
the new house would save him this win¬
ter, when the goat, who had been getting
mad for two long minutes at sight of a
rival in the minor, went through the
glass like a thunderbolt, and jumped
into tho street with the frame clinging
to his shaggy sides. All tlmt ripping,
and raving, and cussing—all tlio open¬
ing excited of front doors—all the inquiries by
an hod the citizen crowd, could have boon saved
but beckoned to the small¬
est boy on the stecet and asked him to
give away a few points on goats. — ex¬
change.
Wearing a Mask.
What a’good thing it would be if women
would only that speak honest their minds. desire There is
nothing that men mysterious more than that
to understand race
is so like them, and yet so unlike, who
share their homes but not tlioir thoughts,
irrational. who are so shrewd, Tho so practical and tho so
invisible poor men barrier yearn and
break down the see
into the real life of those they love so
well; but the loved ones smile and chat¬
ter and say pretty things, have and ingenious
things and and things improved they in the borrowing, borrowed
from mow
but never one word of the real thoughts
that are working in their busy brains.
So the men flatter and lie because they
think the women like it, and the women
accept it all because they think it is man’s
nature; and tho men think women
empty-headed angels, and the women
think men are flue intelligent brutes; and
tho two classes go accordingly, on loving and despis¬
ing ono another and all for
the want of a little truthfulness iu con¬
versation.
An Editor’s Trials.
No words can tell how much Thack¬
eray’s generous soul suffered in his edi¬
torial capacity. There is a class of peo¬
bureau ple who look upon an editor’s office as a
of general relief : young widows
witli numerous children send in manu¬
scripts with a frank avowal that they are
conscious of but possessing that no feel literary ability
whatever, they sure this or
that one will be accepted, as otherwise
they there and their little boys, ones must starve ;
are farmer who write diagon¬
ally beg across brown wrapping paper, and
for favor as a moans of acquiring an
education ; there are thousands who
have failed at everything else, but are
sure tious they arid impudent, can write ; some are modest preten¬
others and
appealing, and with the latter it is par¬
ticularly vituperative, hard to deal. A great the many are
and look upon editor as
a deposit installed to crush all rising
genius. More than once, when Thack¬
eray hich paid out of his own purse the writers for articles
w he could not use, re¬
proached him for his suppressing The work matter be¬
which surpassed own.
came unendurable to him, and he gave it
up.
Use of , Woolen Clothing.
Prof. Joeger, of Stuttgart, recom
mends tho use of woolen clothing both
in summer and winter,and has invented
a sort of normal dress by which ho
claims tho accumulation of fut and water
in the system can be prevented. This
normal clothing has two essential prop
erties :
1. It consists exclusively of wool,
avoiding all materials woven from plant
fila r (cotton or linen),
2. It makes a strong point in keeping
warm the middle line of tho front of the
,i t principal ... peculiarity of the
"
clothing is tlm exclusive use of sheep’s
” v, ‘ u avoiding pocket and other
Uumg'i of cotton.
NUMBER 37.
THE SOUTH TO THE MOUTH.
[A fraternal salutation inspired by the yellow-fever
vieitatum.]
t.
’Twaa after a glorious battle
In tho swamps of the ltapidan,
1 lay on my back at midnight,
A wounded ami helpless man;
But I could well bear my torture,
I heard < taping gashes and broken bones,
such delightful music
From Yanks with their moans and groaui*
I hated tho Yanks like “cold pizon,”
Ho They shot my father and mu;
Ami always I aimed for killing,
carried a loaded gun.
The tiring and crashing of battle,
The hot charge and the warrior’s cry,
I<eft, high-heaped, drenched earth with victims,
And the wounded who bogged to die.
Far __ off we could hear the roaring
Toll of the raging of murderous men;
Wo could only have fearing or hoping
That our side might the v ictory win.
We lmd marched to the light in tho morning;
Now, I fought until forced to stop ;
1 was hungry and thirsty,
With nover a bite or a drop.
I thought of the old-time dinners,
With many a Christmas feast;
Now, of the wasted fragments
I’d have snatched for tho very least,
I thought of the sprayful fountain
That played l»y my father’s door;
I thought of the wild-rice bayou
That oft my canoe glided o'er;
I thought of tho mighty river,
Tho plantations flowing through;
I thought of the distant heavou
That sendoth tho rain and dow—
But these were all empty fancies,
Which even increased my tlilrst,
Until in powerless longing
I was like Tantalus cursed.
ii.
Suddenly, A in tho thick dark noun,
weak voice made mo of angola think;
It Bald. “ Halloo! hero. Johnny.
Would yo Ixi afthor takiu’ a ahrlnk?”
I whh almost a-dylng,
And could not oven mine tho tin cup,
Ho the friendly hand of the stranger
To my lips then raised it up.
Sweet, aweot was that drink of water;
I nover drank sweeter draught,
For life was gained from that bounty
1 gaspingly, deeply quaffed.
Then I whispered, ‘‘ Give mo your hand, my dw>
Our bauds met in a tight, tight clasp.
Suddenly, Limp, nerveless iu my living IlngerH fainting
grew hia clasp.
I spoke and intently listened,
But never a word he said,
And sadly I knew another
Spirit from that red Held had /led.
Tho surgeons and helpers were busy;
I lay until morning-light,
And then to ray toar-diimnod vision
Was slowly revealed this sight:
A soldier had found a canteen.
Dropped there in the thick of tho fight,
And he, with two balls through his body,
Dragged himself to mo in the night.
And there on liis cap gleamed tho letters
“ IJ. H.,” on the blood-stained gold band,
And I saw that he was a brother
Against whom I hud raised my red hand.
Ho was Union and Irish—
Lightly o'or him rest tne sod f
The blue that he loved above him,
His spirit gone home to God.
Oh! men may light like devils,
As if hell on earth doth reign;
But doop chords in each human bosom
Some sympathize with pain.
Thank God for the noble pity,
Darting like electric thrill,
Inspiring Bidding a evil kinship-emotion, pussions bo
still.
m.
Oh 1 comrades, yo know our diatrcBnea
Wherever tho fever breathed;
Soon over the death-marked threshold
The funeral flax whh wreathed.
Tongue never can sneak the horror
Growing blacker day by day;
l'en never can write our anguish,
Nor time’s waves wash the record away.
Oh! comrades, yo knowouj distresses
Maduall Immunity sad;
And, hurried down trom the Northland,
The Bich bounty wo freely hud. *
North gave us money, with nurses
And doctors noblo and true;
Drugs, Tlio North provisions, did 1 and sho clothing—• could l
a ao
All honor to sincorest virtu/*,
Tho spirit of Bayard tho Good;
To tho chlvalric North all honor,
Who showed to us truest knighthood i
The Game of Boston.
The gamo at cards called “Boston,”
says a late writer in the Now York Times,
after tho capital of Massachusetts, anil
much played by our forefathers, bus
lately England been revived, it is said, especially in New
and in New York,
here, and is greatly enjoyed on account
of the skill required for proficiency.
Boston is played by four persons with
two packs of cards, which are nover
shuffled. One of the packs is dealt and
tlio other cut alternately, to determine
the trump, the trump governing the
giimo. The dealer deals five curds to
each player twice, and deals six cards
the last time around. If tho first player
can make, or thinks ho can make five
tricks from his hand, ho says: “ I go
Boston,” bid him and his fellow-players words: I may over
with tlm “ go 6, 7, 8,
9, 10, 11, 12 or 13,” as the hand of each
may justify. Bkould any one fail to
make the number of tricks lie bids for,
ho must pay to each competitor a forfeit,
regulated by a scale of prices agreed
upon beforehand. The agreement is
sible. 1111 poralivo; without it the the game is complex impos¬
It. is accounted most
and difficult of all games at cards, and
is therefore a favorite with professional played in
gamblers. France Boston Inis been
and England, where it is often
spoken of as tho American game. Ben¬
jamin Franklin has the reputation the of
introducing it in Paris. He gave it
name of his native city, and is said to
have been a very clever player. The
philosophers of the eighteenth century,
who were Jus companions, in delighted France,
were very fond of (lie game ami
in its novelty. Baron d’Holbach is re¬
ported to have said that only a man of
genius could excel at Boston. The game
has always been played more or less in
the Southwest, where much money if
still lost anil won by it.
Diary of a Dollar.
Found myself yesterday morning in
the pocket of a man who had promised
to love, honor, protect and cherish ore
with all his might and main.
And this morning where am I ? Burst.
Broken. In a hundred pieces. Lying
disjecta membra, etc., iu grim saloon tills
or But dirty I pockets. anticipate.
I was on the reserve force and laid by
to pay a bill. expected My comrade was that a 50-cent day’s
piece who was to pay
expenses. Suddenly this comrade disappeared.
On dit, ho was borrowed. I came next,
I went thus:
For u cigar after breakfast, 10 cents ;
for a glass of beer at 10 a. in., 5 cents;
for four glasses of beer for the crowd at
12 m.,20 cents; for another cigar, 10
cents ; for boot-blacking, 5 cents ; for a
shave, 15 cents; for fruit, 10 cents; for
ear fares, 20 cents ; for another glass of
beer, 5 cents. Verily, wliat a shadow is
a $ ! What a shadow it pursues [—New
York Graphic.
Tan Emory City (British Columbia)
StvtIra t suys it is read in every house in
that town ; but there are only two houses,
and one of those is the office of the Sen
(inti nott/pspui'.
Ww WMiinsi’illc gulrantt.
A wEKKLT PAFKB, P0BLISHK3 AT
Watkinsville, Oconee Co., Georgia.
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UBEBil TUHHH roil XOBE SPACE
ALL SORTS. “
A Chinaman has entered the Harvard
Freshmen class,
Gkouge Bancroft inches says high. Washington
was six feet two
Offenbach mado much money from
his operas, but died poor.
Mas. Florence’s costumes in tho
“ Mighty Dollar” are insured for $25,
000 .
A Paris shop had 67,000 customers
oue day tliis full, and sold $280,000 worth
of goods.
Vermont has four venerable ex-Gov
emors living, each of whom is more than
80 years old.
What w tho difference between a fixed
star and a meteor ? Ono is a sun, the
other a darter.
The woman who has the best time at
a party is tlio woman who bus the great¬
est show of real lace.
Tiif, Rochester Herald says that the
man who has a corner in pork should bo
made to squoal.
A Nevada ball report says : “ Miss
Honora X. was full of eclat—in fact, the
eclatist lady present.”
The honey crop is a pronounced fail¬
ure by one-half. So that wo have not a
sweet thing in bees this year.
No less than 5,000 Chinamen are now
building anil railroads in Oregon, Washing¬
ton, British Columbia.
Atlanta has a new enterprise, a watch
manufactory. for turning out It six begins watches with day. facilities
pur
W. W. Corcoran, of Washington, has
given away $3,000,000 in public benefac¬
tions and $1,000,000 in private charities,
Henry Wallace and Jnuo Wallace,
leyan his wife, University, have entered Ct., college “Freshmen." at Wes¬
as
Si’AiN, with only 17,000,000 twice of inhab¬
itants, wheat turns doos out Italy, yearly with 28,000,000 as much of
as
inhabitants.
On tho occasion of the celebration of
the tenth anniversary of tho capture of
Rome, all political offenders were par¬
doned by the King of Italy.
The postal savings banks in Italy taka
in twice as much money as they pay
out, tho institution being considered
safe and convenient by the poople.
A hill collector retumod to Memphis
on horseback with a bag full of gold and
sil ver coin. Tlio horse ran away, the
hag burst, and a great crowd followed
for a milo, picking up the mouey.
An effort is on foot at Washington to
procure the assembling thereof a world’s
convention to promote international ar¬
bitration, Sept. 3, 1883, tho centennial
of tlio acknowledgment of American in¬
dependence.
“Everybody is looking at Rhode Isl¬
and,” remarks the editor of the Provi¬
dence Dispatch in the course of an edit¬
orial on “The Duty of tho Hour.” This
explains tho recent advance in the prico
of microscopes.
Profanity has increased to such an
extent in Now York since the telephone
was introduced that tho company has
boon forced to put up the a sign : “ Please
don't swear through telephone,’’over
each instrument.
Is swinging is, under healthy?” circumstances. asks a young
lady. the It hinge breaks, somo the pastime in
But if
not only always unhealthy, glad to but extend dangerous. tho
We are to
young arid inexperienced experience. tho knowledge
attained by years of
Keeping poultry of some kind or other
is almost universal iu China. The poor¬
est household has, wherever practicable,
its pert cock and three or four lean hens,
which mud stalk hungrily in search iu of and anything out of the
shanty else of tho family eata¬
ble that no ono may
happen to able tg digest.
It lias been estimated that of the
horses iu tho world Austria has 1,867,000;
Hungary, 2,179,000; France, about 8,
000,000; Russia, 21,470,000; Germany,
3,352,000; Great Britain and Ireland,
2,255,000; Turkey, about 1,000,000; the
United States, 9,504,000; Canada, tlio Argentine
Republic, Uruguay, 1,600,000. 4,000,000; 2,624,000;
The Number of Uleli People in Paris.
M. Paul Leroy Beaulieu attempts to
calculate approximately the number of
rich persons actually living in Paris. He
takes as his principal basis of calculation
the value of the houses in tho French
capital; and uiion these figures builds up
his theory, on tho assumption that the
less wealthy inhabitants spend about one
sixth of their income in house rent,
while the richer house-holders speud on
an average from one-eighth those who to one-tenth. with
It will be easy for agree
him to follow out tho theory when they
have the following list of rents, as ex¬
tracted from an official source: It ap
pcars that there are 10,000 private which houses
or apartments, tho rents of range
frojn £160 to £320 a year, 3,000 between
£320 and £540, and 1 400 between the
latter sum and £1,080. rather Finally, there tho
are 421 houses, or palaces,
rent of which exceeds £1,080. It in not
necessary to follow out the sums by which
the incomes of those various classes of
rich men is traced out, but it may sufliee
te say that M. Beaulieu reckons that
there are about 8. (MX) persons in Paris
who spend incomes of £2 000 and up¬
ward; and this wih given be seen be by fully tlie aid borne of
the figures already The conclusion to is also
out by the facts.
supported by tho returns of horses and
carriages kept in the capital, which show
that there are from 7,500 to 8,000 per¬
sons who keep private horses.— Econo¬
mist Erancais.
Clear Grit.
A plucky Kentucky school ma’am is
Miss attempted Hillbretb, te punish of Hopkins a boy named County. Merrill She
for some misaeamor, when tho youth
drew his knife. Miss Hillbretb unarmed
him, and he brought a club to his assist¬
ance, but she finally father whipped him. That
night bretli's the boarding-house boy’s went and to cursed Miss Hill- her
shamei'iiUy. tlio school-house The to next continue day ho his went abuso, to
but tho lady hail armed herself with a
pistol nuil dared Merrill to enter the door.
Merrill ran home, and was returning with
a shot-gun, when he was arrested and by an at
officer, but soon escaped, in now
large. _ ______