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TMC WIRE-GRASS REPORTER.
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SUPERIOR COURT CALENDAR,
FALL TEHM, 1858!
AUGUST.
lit Monday, Floyd
Lumpkin
2d Monday, Clarke
Dawsoi)
3d Monday, Forsyth
Meriwether
Walton
4tbMond'y, Baldwin
t'hattabo’cbe
Glascock
Heard
Jackson
Monroe
Paulding
Schley
Taliaferro
lEPTEKIBER.
Ist Monday, Appliog
Chattooga
Cherokee
Columbia
Coweta
Crawford
Madison
* “ Marion
Mitchell
Morgan
Webster
2d Monday, Butts
.. Cass
Coffee
Libert
Fayette
Greene
Gwinnett
Pickens
Buniter
Washington
Frid’y aft’r, Pierce
3d Monday, Cobb
Hall
Hart
Macon
Newton
Putnam
Talbot
Terrell
Ware
4th Mond’y.Csmpbell
Clay -
Clinch
EmanUel
■i Lee ‘ E
Twiggs
- White
Wilkes
OCTOBEIt.
Ist Monday, Carroll 1
Dooly
. Early
Fulton ■
Warren
Wilkinson
OCTOPF.K CONTINUED.
. Tu \ Pike
after, )
Ralum
d’y after, $
2d Monday, Charlton
\r* - Fannin
Habersham
Haucock v
j Harris
Laurens
Miller
Scrivcn
3d Monday, Burke
Camden
Franklin
Haralson
Henry
Jones
; i >- Murray
Oglethorpe
Pulaski
Stewart
Union %
Worth
“Ef* i
Frid’y aft’r, Wilcox
4th Mond’y, Decatur
Dekalb
Houston
Irwin
Jasper
Lincoln
Polk
Tattnall
Towns
Whitfield
Thursd’y ) .. .
after, J Al ‘ lf,llr
Frid’y aft’r, Bulloch
Mond’y “ Effingham
NOVEMBER.
Ist Monday, Berrien
Milton
Randolph
Richmoud
Upson
2d Monday, linker
Bibb
.Catoosa
Muscogee 1
3d Monday, Spalding
Troup
4th Mond’y, Calhoun
Walker
T K, ! '} *■.“*
Mon. after, Dongherty
DEC'EMBER.
Ist Monday, Dade
Jefferson
Thomas
3d Jlnud-ir, Lowudes
Cam (Carba.
JAMES C. ROSS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA.
jo 23 “ w ts
HARRIS & HARRIS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Iverson L. Hauius, I Charles J.Harris, . ...
Milledgeville, Ga. | Thomasvilie, Ga.
march 31 w ts
r. s. Burch & wm. McLendon,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA.
oct!4 19 way
BAUER & BENIVET,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Troupville, Lowndes Cos., Ga.
sept 15 w ts
EUGENE JL. HINES,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
THOMASVILLE,"GEORGIA,
Office over McLean’s store. (jan26
JOHN M. DYSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
OFFICE next door to Dr. Bruce’s, Thomasville,
Georgia. jans-ly.
G. 11. DANIELL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
Office, corner of Bull and Bay Streets.
jan 12 w ly
JOHN B. MILLER,
ATTORNEY A[l’ LAW,
MILL TOWN, BERRIEN CO., GA.
WILL practice in all the Counties of the Brunswick
Circuit, and Berrien and Lowndes Counties of
the Southern Circuit. ma)’l2oy
JOHN C. NICIIOLLS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
WARESBOUOUGH, WARE CO., GA.
WILL practice in all the counties of the Bruns
wick circuit, aud Lowndes and Berrien of the
Southern niariiloy
GEORGE 11. WILLIAMSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
WARESBOROUGH, GA.
WILL PRACTICE in the fuljowiug£ountiescf the
Brunswick Circuit: Appling, Coffee. Pierce, Ware
Clinch, and Chariton. mar3ltf
SAMUEL B. SPENCEIt,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA.
WILL give his entire attention to the practice ol
Law, in the Counties of th* Southern Circuit.—
Office on the second floor of D. & E. McLean’s
brick building. (jan2ody
E. €. HOKGAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
NASHVILLE, GEORGIA.
WlLL.practice in the counties of the Southern Cir
cuit,and tiie counties of Dooly, Worth and Dough
erty of the Macon, and Coffee, Clinch aud Ware
of the Brunswick Circuits.
Flat Creek, Ga., Oct. 7. ts
HICE & MERSIION,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
MAGNOLIA, CLINCH CO., GA.
ATTEND to all business entrusted to their care, in
the following counties, to-wit: Clinch, Ware, Ap
pling, Coffee, Chariton, Lowndes and Ilerrieu,Geor
gia. Also, in the counties of Hamilton, Columbia,
and Jefferson, in Florida.
DAVID P. HICK. | IIKNRY M. MERSHON,
jan 5 w Dm
JAMES M. FOLSOM,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
MAGNOLIA, CLINCH CO., GA.
WILL practice in all the courts of the Brunswick
Circuit and in -the com ts of Lowudes aud Berrien
of the Southern Circuit.
j Judge A. E. Cochran, Brunswick Ct.
Kelcrences £ Judge p etor K Love> Southern ct .
jan 5 w ly
anmmm—nmmmmmmmmmnmmimmmmmm——dkmm
Illcbicrtl (Curbs.
S. S. ADAMS, | S. H. WILLIAMS.
NEW FIRM.
DBS. ADAMS & WILLIAMS, having formed a
Co-partnership, tender their professional services
to'tiio public. aog2s-tf
*ll. J. BKUUE, I H. H. EATON.
Dr*. BRirCE & EAT©IV,
HAVING formed a co-partnership, tender their
Professional Services to the citizens of Tiioruas
viile and vicinity. ie23-tf
Dr. W. 11. HALE,
IIAS disposed of his interest in the “ Wire-Grass
Reporter ” to Judge Love, and will devote himself
exclusively to his profession.
He may tie found at.ail times, when not profession
ally ehgaged, at his Office opposite East aide
Presbyterian Churc). je9tf
(Reform Practice.)
Dr. P. *. DOWER,
OFFER his professional services to the citizens
of Thomasville and vicinity. Calls at all hours
promptly attended to. feb2oy
DR. E. O. VItVOI.D
WILL continue the practice of Den
tistry in Thomasville and vicinity (mSaMSSL
Any order left at the Poet Office or at
his Offieeduring his absence from town will receive
attention at the earliest opportunity. [jaus-ly
, New Drug Store. J,
tDrs. BOWER A ELLIS
have opened a Drug Store at the
stand formerlwpecupied bf Palmer
& Bro., opposite E. Remington’*,
and are prepared to furnish
Drugs, Medicines, Perfumery, Inks,
Fancy Soaps, So c.
Upon fair terms to those who may
favor them with a call. To their Reform friends
they would say, that they have on hand a fresh and
reliable assortment of Hotuilic Medicines.
And will be glad to supply them with auch articles
as they may need.
Everybody.
DR. A. W. ALLKN’S
CELEBRATED SOUTHERN
LINIMENT,
IS A CERTAIN REMEDY for Strains, Sprains,
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Cramp, Nervous Head-
Ache, Sore Throat, Still’ Neck, Tooth-Ache, Pain in
the Head, Scalds aud Burns, or any thing like erup
tions on the flesh.
Also,for ail diseases to which horses arc subject.
Dr. Allen’s All-Healing Ointment,
IS a certain cure for Ring-worms', Scratches in
horses, Gveese Heel, Thrush, Collar aud Saddle
Galls; and all flesh wounds.
Manufactured by Dr. A. W. ALLENy Columbus,
Georgia.
For sale ia Thoroasviile, by Baum & Shiff; in
Monticello, by Palmer & Bro., and in Troupville, by
T. W. Ellis. A. W. ALLEN.
nov2 w Jy
“* I ,-jUU4n* Hides; Hides.
OAn A HIDES WANTED, for which Eight
ttUUU Cents in Trade will be paid, by
nisyfi E REMINGTON.
THOMASVILLE, QEORGIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 15,1858.
DO THEY HIM MX AT HOME.
Do they miss me at home, do they miss me t
’Twould be an assurance most dear.
To know that this moment some loved one,
Were saying I wish he were here; \ -
To feel that the group at the fireside
Were thinking of me as I roam,
0 ! yes ’twould be joy beyond measure
To know that they miss me at homo.
When twilight approaches, the season... ,
That ever is sacred to song,
Does someone repeat my name over,
Aud sigh that 1 tarry so long f
And is there a chord in the music
That’s missed when my voice ia away.
And a chord in each heart that awaketh
Regret at my wearisome stay.
Do they set me a chair at the table,
When eveniDg’s home pleasures srenigh! ‘
When the candles are lit in the parlor
And the stars in the calm azure sky!
And when the “ good nights ” are repeated
And all lay them down to their sleep,
Do they think of the absent and waft me
A whispered good night whilst they weep.
Do they miss me at home—do they min me
At morning, at noon or at night,
And lingers one gloomy shade round them
That only my presence can light.
Are joys less invitingly welcome
And pleasures loss hale than before;
Because one ia missed from the circle,
Because lam with them 110
BAD HABITS—ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN.
BY TIMOTHY TITCOMB.
It is entirely natural for people to form
bad habits, so that if the had habits be
avoided, the good ones will generally take
care of themselves. I had no intention
when I commenced this letter of saying any
thing about dogmatic theology, but J take
the liberty of suggesting to those who are
interested in this kind of thing, that if there
be anything that demonstrates total depravi
ty, it is the readiness with which young meri
imbibe bad habits. I have seen original sin
in the shape of “a short six” sticking out of
the mouth of a lad of ten years. It is
strange what particular painsboys and young
men will take to learn to do'tliat which will
make them miserable, ruin their health, ren
der tpem disgusting to their friends, and
damage their reputation.
... Some of the fashionable bad habits of tbe
day are connected with the use of tobacco.
Here is a drug that a young man is obliged
to become accustomed to before lie can toler
ate either the taste or effect of it. -It,is a
rank vegetable poison, and in the unaccus
tomed animal produces vertigo, faintness aud
horrible sickness. Yet young men perse
vere in the use of it until they can endure
it, and then until they love it. They go
about tlio streets with cigars in their mouths,
or into society with breath sufficiently offen
sive to drive all unperverted nostrils before
them. They chew tobacco—roll up huge
wads of the vile drug and stuff their cheeks
with them. They eject their saliva upon
the sidewalk, in spittoons, which become in
corporate stenches, in dark corners of rail
road cars, to stain the white skirts of unsus
pecting women, in lecture rooms and church
es, upon fences, and into stoves that hiss
with anger at the insult. And the quids af
ter they ate ejected ! They are to be found
in odd corners, in out-of-the-way places—
great bonlders, boluses, bulbs! Horses stum
ble over them, dogs bark at tbern, they pois
on young 6hade trees and break down the
of sweepers. This may be an
exaggeration of the facts, but not of the dis
gust with which one writes of them.
Now, young men, just think of this thing.
You were born into the world with a sweet
breath. At a proper age, you acquired a
good set of teeth. will you make of
ono, a putrescent exhrtlation r Arid the other
a set of yellow pegs? A proper description
of the habit of chewing tobacco would ex
haust the filthy adjectives of the language,
and spoil the adjectives for further use; and
yet you will acquire the habit, and persist
in it after it is acquired. It is very singular
that yonng men will adopt a habit of which
every man who uses it is ashamed. There
is probably no tobacco-chower in the world
who would advise a young man to commence
this habit. I have never seen a slave of to
bacco who did not regret his bondage; yet
against all advice, against nausea and disgust,
against cleanliness, against every considera
tion of health and comfort, thousands every
year bow the neck to this drug and consent to
wear its repulsive yoke. They will chew it;
they will smoke it in cigars and pipes until
tbeir bed rooms and shops cannot be breath
ed in, and uutil- their breath is as rank as the
breath of a foul beast, and their clothes have
the odor of a sewer. Some of them take
snnff; cram the fiery weed up their nostrils
to irritate the subtle sense which rarest flow
ers were made to feed—in all this, working
against God, abusing nature, perverting sense,
injuring health, planting the seeds of disease,
and insulting the decencies of life and the
noses of mankind.
So much-for the nature of the habit; and
I would stop here, but for the fact that I am
in earnest aud wish to present every motive
in my power to prevent young men from
forming the habit, or persuade them to aban
don it. The habit of using tobacco is ex
pensive. A clerk on n moderate salary has no
right to be seen with a cigar in his mouth.—
Three cigars a day at five cents apiece
amount to more than fifty dollars a year.—
Can you afford it? You know you cannot.
You know to do this you have cither got to
run in debt or steal. Therefore I say that
you have no business to he soon with a cigar
in your mouth. “It is presumptive evidcnco
against your moral character.
Did it ever occur to you what you arc,
what you are made for, whither you are go- 1
ing 1 Tint beautiful body of yours, iu
whoso construction infinite wisdom exhaust
ed the resources of its iogenuityy is the tea
ple of a soul that shall live forever, a com
panion of angels, a searcher into the deep
things of God,- a being allied in essence to
the divine. I say tbe body is the temple, or
the tabernacle, of sneb a being as this; and
what do you think of stuffing the front door
of such a building full of the roost disgust*
nig weeds that you can find, or setting a
slow match to it, or filling the chimneys with
snuff?
It looks too much like an endeavor to
f*
smoke out the tenant, or to insult him in
such a manner as to induce him to quit tbe
premises. You really oiigHt to be ashamed
of such behavior, A clean mouth, a sweet
breath, Unstained teeth and inoffensive cloth
ing—are not these treasures worth preserv
ing? Then throw away tobacco and all
tligughts of it, now and Be a man.
Be decent, and be thEnkful to mti “for talking
so plainly to you.
But there are other bad habits beside the
use of tobacco. There is the habit es using
strong drink—not tbe habit of getting drunk,
with most young men, but tbe habit of ta
king drinks occasionally in its milder forms—
of playing with a small appetite that only
needs sufficient playing with to make you a
demon ors dolt. You think you nrc safe.—
I know you are not safe if you drink at all;
and when you get offended with tiie good
friends who warn you of your danger I
know you are a fool. I know tho grave
swallows, daily, byscores, drunkards, every
one of whom thought he was safe while he
was forming his appetite. A young man
who forms the habit of drinking, or puts him
self in danger of forming the habit of drink
dog,'is usually so weak that it don’t pay to
save him. “3 ■ -
I pass by profanity. That is too offensive
and vulgar a habit for any man who reads a
respectable book to indulge in. I pass by
this, I say; to come to a habit more destruct
ive than any I have contemplated.
Young man! you who arc so modest iu
the presence of women—so polito and amia
ble, you who are invited into families where
there are pure and virtuous girls; you who
go to church and seem to be snch a pattern
young man; you who very possibly neither
smoke, nor chcjv, nor snuff, nor swear,
;nor drink—you linvo one habit ten times
! worso thaii all tbeso put together—a habit
that makes you a whited sepulchre, fair with
out, but withjn full of dead men’s bones
aud all uucleanliness. You have a habit oi
impure thought, that poisons tho very springs
of your life. It may lead yofl into lawless
indulgences ty it may not. So far as your
character is concerned it makes but little dif
ference. A young man who cherishes im
pure images, and indulges in impure conver
sations with his associates, is poisoned.—
There is rottenness in him. He is not to be
trusted. Hundreds of thousands of men are
living in unhappiness and degradation to-day,
who owe their unhappy lives to an oarly
habit of impure thought. •
To a young man who has become poi
soned iu this'way, all women appear to be vi
cious aud weak; and when a young man lo
ses respect for the sex made sacred by tiie re
lations of’‘brother aud sister, be stands upon
the crumbling edge of ruin. I believe it to
be true that a man who has lost his belief
in tyoman, lias, as a general thing, lost his
belief in God. 1
The only proper way to treat such a habit
as this is to fly from it—discard it—expol it
—fight it to tho death. Impure thought is a
moral drug quite as scductivo and poisonous
to the soul as tobacco is to the body. One
should have more respect for bis body than
to make it the abode of toads, and lizards,
and uncieati reptiles of all sorts. Tbe whole
matter now resolves itself into this: a young
man is not fit for life until lie is clean—clean
and healthy, body and sonl, with no tobacco
in iiis mouth, no liquor in bis stomach, no
oath on his tongue, no snuff in his nose, and
no thought in bis heart, which, if exposed,
would send him sneaking into darkness from
, the presence of women.
From the Newmk (O.) Times.
WONDERFUL SPIRITUAL MANIFESTATIONS “IN
A HORN.’’
A few weeks ago, two ladies—Mrs. Garner
and Miss Vinccut—arrived in Newark and
were shortly afterwards announced as
“ Trumpet Mediums.” In a very short time
rmuois.began to circulate that all other pha
ses of spiritualism were eclipsed; and the
spirits the ladies hqd in charge were quiet,
orderly and dignified, disdaining tho uncivil
practice of upsetting things ; turning a cold
shoulder to all material agencies, and making
their communications by word of mouth (or
rather trumpet.) Being somewhat incredu
lous and of inquiring mind, on Tuesday even
ing we repaired to the “ spiritual rendez
vous,” In order to ascertain what truth Mad
am Rumor had carried fortli.
We found some half a dozen seekers for
knowledge of unsceu things present. Our
first cate was to make a thorough examina
tion of the room ; we explored every hidden
recess, and examined the walls and ceilrog
carefully, and are confident what we witness
ed was independent of mechanical or indi
vidual agency. A half circle was formed
before a stand, upon which was placed two
ordinary tin diouer horns, very much batter
ed, minus mouth pieces, which bad been bro
ken off. We examined the horns-atid found
nothing snspicious about them, nothing dif
fering from other horns. The door was lock
ed and medium, Miss Vincent, (Mrs. Gar
ner being in Dresden) seated herself at the
end of the circle. The lights were blown
oflt and several pieces of church music sung.
At the expiration of about fivo minutes, we
beard a sound as if a hall had been shot in
to tho hotn, accompanied by a quick flash of
phosphoric light, when it began to rock upon
the stand.
“ Brother King (the guardian spirit of the
medium) is with us,” announced’ Miss Vin
cent.
All was hushed ns death, and a deep fcoL
ing of solemnity sccined to pervado the en
-1 tire circle. Presently the horn slowly as
cended the wall, crept along tho ceiling, and
then flew off in different directions about tho
room: The medium ftquested the spirit to
manifest itself to members of the circle; im
mediately it passed along, giving each a gen
tle rap and an opportunity for feeling it. If
returned to the stand, and the medium inquir
ed if it had any communications to make.—
The horn instantly left the stand and roahed
through the room with great velocity, issuing
a rtoise like steam escaping from an engine,
and scarcely With leas power. After several
circuits of tbe room it halted and stood in
air, just bcfuic the circle, and a voice which
no unaided mortal could be suspected of
imitating, slowly but rather indistinctly
uttered : “Ye are the children of earth, but
lam the child of heaven, invisible.” .The
voice undoubtedly proceeded from the horn,
and waa of ao much power that it eould
have boon heard a square. It sounded as
the voice of a person speaking through la
bored breathing. Several ’ commnhieatTdhi
were received purporting to have come from
the Spirit-Land, and descriptions of departed
ones which are said to have been accurate.
Conversation waa continued with the ghostly
visitant for about ten minutes, when he drop
ped his horn and bade us adieu
. The candle was re-lit and the circle broke
up, erory member of which was tally con
vinced that a supernatural agency controlled
the horn.
The most curious part of the manifesta
tion, however, is the fact that after the de
monstrations, the Interior of the born, which
before the circle waa formed was clean and
bright, was fonnd, upon examination, to be
thickly coated with a limy substance.
The whole thing may be an imposture,
tbe skillful work of a cunning brain, bat we
aro cqpfidont the agency was indenpndont of
tho medium. She was seated in the circle,
during the manifestations, with her hands
held by one of our citizens, in whose hones
ty we have great confidence, and her voice
was often beard at the samo time tbe horn
was speaking. Mrs. Van Uuskirk, the lady
at whose liouse the mediums are staying, en
joys the confidence of community, ana sbo
states that often in the night the horn will
visit the bed of the modiutns, and hold long
conversation with them, and that she has
long been awakened by these nocturnal viai
tations.
From the Cosmopolitan Art Journal.
LAUGHING,
>. “ Laugh and grow fat,” 4s an adage so old
that it is almost denied a place in the memo
ry. llut it should not bo forgotten ; there is
a well of philosophy and psychological truth
in its wisdom. Wbo does not know tbe fre
est and kindest souls are always susceptible
of a real hearty fit of laughter T And, on
the other band, who does not know that the
cold, cynical smile is always indicative of re
serve and mistrust 7 Qive ns the man or wo
man whose laugh riugs, and we will show you
a person of kind heart. But place us in the
presence of a sickly smile, or a dry, hollow
laugh, aud we button up our affections as If
we were in tho keeping of a dark thought.
“ A man may smile and smile, and be a vil
lain but it is hard for a man to laugh and
laugh, and still be a villain. A laugh, in it
self, implies something good, and kind and
generous, and His hence the dark-hearted
person does not harbor any thing like a
“ loud smile.”
This subject may impress itself more for
cibly on our minds if we turn to childhood
aud learn character by action. jfThe child
who is always quiet, sedate, little Dombey
likc, attracts our care and sympathy, and we
would give the world if it would laugh and
be merry as other children. We are fain to
believe wrong in such silence.—
But tho child who is ever light-hearted and
riotous in its noise, we can easily understand
and read tlnvcharacter in its ini pulses aud un
affected action. Now apply the same judg
ment to big children—sometimes called grows
Arsons —and we can easily sec how nfltcb
good and how modi evil is in the countenance,
if never distorted into the convulsions of a
musical opera of wit and humor, there ia
something wrong, and it behooves us to be
chary of confidences until we learn—if we
ever do—tho character and disposftiOH'of tbe
quiet, immovable face.
W e do not wish to preach metaphysics,
but we do wish the whole world could laugh
more, would see more of tho ludicrous in
each other’s actions, would imitate childhood
in its merry-making and unaffected pleasant
ry. Then should we see fewer sad, care
worn faces in the street, fewer pale sufferers
by the fire-side, less misery everywhere.—
We always had a childish belief that the
millenium promised in the good book was
tho time when every body should learn to
iSugh ; and now that we begin to grow out
of our childish weakness, still that one belief
is with us—the millennium will be here
when every body learns to laugh.
From the Boston Post
A FUGITIVE SLAVE CASE.
New Yoke State, August, 1858.
Dear Post Let me tell you about the
fugitive slave case, tbe one before which the
Boston one pales its ineffectual fires.
There is a town in the interior of the
Btato, tbe name of which town tortures
couldn’t drag from me, but the first two let
ters of its nick-namo are tbe Saline City.—
Now, the inhabitants of this city bare a
great and abiding horror of tho fugitive
slave law. They have a fugitive slave bellt
to bo rung upon dire emergency; they have
a fugitive slave vigilance committee, and are
cocked and primed generally for United
States Marshals.
Now, some wicked man, name unknown,
oqcc telegraphed from Buffalo that the slave
catchers had seized a colored gentleman in
that eity, and that they and their victim
would be in the Saline City by the 12,20
train.
Immediately the fugitive slave bell was
rung; its effect was marvellous. It remind
ed one of Mrs. llcinan's “ Bended Bow,” or
Roderick Dhu’s Fiery Cross.
Every colored person who heard it, drop
ped whatever be was doing and hastened to
the square. Barbers’ apprentices left aston
ished and irate old gentlemen half shaved,
boot blacks left incensed exquisites with but
one polished boot, waiters caused late break
fasters to go,hungry, and in tbe twinkling of
an eye the Square was filled with a dense
mass of “ thick darkness that could be felt.”
Tbe crowd were told of tbe canse of their
being called together, and were admonished
to be at the depot when the 12,15 train came
in. .
When the 12,20 tftiii carte, the depot pre
sented a strange spectacle. Not a white face
was to te seen. An Englishman, who was
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on board the train. m/U a tjk -7”
et book that a eity in Centra] Hew Tort wee
entirely populated by negroes. They eest
y found au
manifestations of fesHwH lie ebwddjbe"re
“ Don’t be afeerd child! Dey shant neb
ber git you again. Now, honey, yoe’s all
right Don’t be seared at cbm white trash
anymore.” ■ y ,
And be was borne In triumph through the
crowd and hurried into a coach, which e
waiting ohtsido. By this time be ve petri
fied aud speechless, saying bis prayersin
wardly, and making hurried preparations to
die a violent death.
His liberators, swelling with just pride, tat
surveying him with tbe pleasing concrioea
ness of having done a good action; but the
coach had not gone many yards before toe
of them began to rub bis eyes and look sav
age • Then be broke out—
“ Look here! Isn't dis Sam Johnsing,
who libs up in Sait alley end moods boots
and shoes dare 7” ‘*- * * * W
“ Yes, sail I” faltered Sam, who had Hip
bom in tbe city. ’ ? •''’lff;
Den what do you mean by fooling twin
dis way, eh 7 Get out of bear imtaedfcto,
and take that wid you.”
That waa the asaistanco of a No. 14 square
toed boot, which sent Mr. Johnsing out of
the coach flying—and coded the Great Fugi
tive Slave Case.
shaving a note. . 7 *f|
Old Skinflint waa tbe most celebrated bro
ker in Philadelphia—bia “ shaving” opera
tions wore famous, as he usually took net
only the board and whiskers, but •* one pound
of flesh in addition.” Young Harry Scare*
was one of those dashing chaps who love
wine and bones, and who form a majority of
tbe borrowers. Harry bavingriiany wants,
on varions occasions borrowed of Skinflint
at three per cent a month “ off,” and having
at sundry periods made “ raises,” paid off his
responsibilities. At last be got tired of swill
constaut borrowing and repaying. It would
be six veers before bis estate could be sold,
under the terms of bis father’s will, who bad
prudently postponed that event until Harry
should reach the age of “ thirty,’-’ and Hurry
i concluded it would be better to make a heavy
operation at onee, and be rid of tbe bothe
ration ‘of continued borrowing. Away to
Skinflint's be hied, determined to procure a
good round sum, and so be done with if.
“ I want ten thousand for six yean.”
“ Hem I what security will you give I”
- Oh, you may have my bond—that will
bind my property ”
‘‘ Hem I wbat discount will you gives
You know my rule is always to take discount
• off—besides, you owe me one thousand,
due to-day, and I lent you ten in tbe street
the other day.”
“ 1 won t pay wbat I have been paying:
< and a quarter per cent is enougT Y&
tike It ” out,” end take wbat I ewe ypu bo
rides.” 2
“Hem ! well, here's a bond for ten tbod*
sand dollars at six years; sign it, aud It will
all be right.”
No sooner said than done. Harry affixed
his autograph, and hummed a tune while
Skinflint got bis check book and made e cal
culation.
“ Have fan got ten dollars about your*
I *hed Skinflint in a momentif so, let me
“ Ali right, old hoy,” said Harry, suppo
i *'ng be wanted to make change, “here it ie.”
“ Hem I bem!” said Skinflint, locking up
bis desk and making preparations * to shoot.”
, “ Stop, old fellow,” said Harry. “Where’s
• my money 7” vf*
i “ Your money! you’ve got it!”
“ Got it 7 what do you mean TANARUS”
“ Why. I was to take * off * the discount,
wasn’t I, and the thousand I” * |
” Yes; I want my money!” m *
“ Why, my dear fellow, you’ve got it.—*
Ten thousand at one and a quarter n month
(or six years, is nine thousand—e thousand
i you owed me, and just paid me the ten, rt>
i all right, my dear boy — a fair business trana
• ‘ rrorurmEs"”
1 Stepping into a ehnrch aisle, after dismis
sion, and standing to converse with others,
or to allow occupants of tbe pew to pa* out
and before, for the courtesy of precedence, at
! the expense of a greater boorishnem to tboM
behind.
To guzzle down glass after glass of cold
‘ water, on getting up in the morning, without
any feeling of thirst, under the impression of
tbe health giving nature of its washing oat
1 qualities.
To sit down to a table and “ force” your
-1 self to oat when there is not only no appetite,
! but a positive aversion to food.
To take a glass of soda, ortoddr, or saflga
rcc, or mint drops, on a summer day, under
1 the belief that it is safer and better than •
glass of cold tap
To economize time; by robbing yourself of
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dicr 7 Because he could write about fecc.