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Dade Ccunty Gazette.
RISING FAWN, GEORGIA.
THURSDAY, Au£. ? S I 1870-
Bill Arp ii! Trouble,
There is rich entertainment in Bill
Arp’s Constitutional account of the
“colic,” etc.
I once heard of a grumblin old farm
er who made a big crop of very fine corn
and oil being congratulated about it,
said;
Well, yes; m} r corn is all mighty fine,
but I don’t know how I’ll get along
with out some nubbins to feed the steers
on.
It’s a rainning now every day, hut it
come a little too late, and we’ll all have
plenty of steer food this year. I reckon
we will make some tolerable corn on the
bottoms, and the late planting is com
ing out smartly. If misery loves com
pany we can take comfort like the dar
key did that Mr. Stephens told about
in his speech, for poor crops are a pret
ty general thing in this neighborhood.
But maybe its all right—for we did
make an abundance of wheat, and it ain’t
too late to make right smart cotton and
git 15 cents a pound for it. A man
ought to be reconciled to what he can
not help, that is unless be owes a little
passcl of money lie can’t pay and is re
minded of it once a month on a postal
card. Thats bad ain’t it ?Or unless Iff*
lias got a lot of sickly no account child
ren. I tell Mrs Arp we ought to be
mighty thankful for thercs nary one
of the ten thats cross-eyed or knock-no#*!
or pigun-toed or box-ankled or lame or
blind or idotiotic and the grand-children
are an improvement upon the stock,
and I don’t believe any of om will
git to the poorhousc or carry a*pis
tol or go to the legislature and have some
feller offer em a hmiderrd dollars for bis
vote. A sound, healthy body is a bless
ing, and a fair set-off to most every kind
of bad luck that can happen to a man,
Air. Beecher was right when he said the
first rule to ensure good health was to
salect good, healty parents to be born
from. My ruminations on this subject
have been quite luminous of late, for
I’ve been powerful sick. The fact is, I
like to have died the other night, and all
of a suden. You see i bad over-worked
myself a fixing up a turnip-patch, and
got wet besides, and didn’t stop for din
ner, and was sorter hungry and billions
to start on and we had roasten ears for
supper and butter milk and honey, and
takin it all together I took the green
20111 dance about midnight and the small
ot my hack caved in and from then un
til daybreak I never sot up or lay down,
nor stood still a minute. Doubled up
and twisted and jerked around with ex
cruciating pains, I cavorted all over one
side of the house, for we had som Atlan
ta company oil the other, and my groan
ings were worse than a foundered mule-
It was just awful to behold and aw
fuller to experience. Spirts of turpen
tine, samphire, hot water, mustard
Baluster, mush poultice, paragoric, Ja-
B|rca ginger were all used externally
iiud internally, but no relief. I trotted
around and paced and foxtrotted around
and bugged the bed.post and laid down
and rolled over on the floor like a hnu
dered dollar horse, and my wife, Mrs.
Arp. she trottod around too dosed me
with this thing and had the stove fired
up and had hollered for hot water forty
times be for she got it .
i told you not to work so bard in the
hot sun, said she. Oh, Lordy, said 1.
] asked you to change your clothes as
you came to the house and you didn’t
do it. Oh, my country; said I.
Don’t wake up the company, she con
tinued. And yon would eat them roas
te;mars for supper —-did ever anybody
bear of a man eating roasten ears for
supper and then wash them down with
buttermilk and honey. Oh, my poor
back said I.
Do you reckon it’s your back —aint it
further round in front ? Oh, no, said l,
it’s everywhere, it’s lumbago, its siati
ker. its Bright’s disease, its Etna A esu
viotts all mixed up. Oh, lam so sick —
can't nobody do nothing.
Foor fellow, poor William, I’m so
onv lor you but yon vi:l wake u p
the company if you don t mind—l am
doing everything I can. You’ve taken
enough things now to kill you. 1 de
clare I don’t know what to do next and
all this comes from movin to the coun
try five miles from a drug store, or a
doctor. I told you how it would he—
plumbags and skyattiker ar.d a bright
disease, and the Lord knows what, and
I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if you bad:
the yellow fever to boot—caught it
a round Mem his, and its just broke
out oil you. Poor man, if he does die
what will become of us ? But if lie gets
well he’ll go and do the same thing over
again. Don’t grunt so loud. I declare
you make enough noise to wake up a
I grave yard, i never saw such a man.
Here, try this mush poultice. 1 thought
that water never would get hot. Does
it burn you ? Oh, yes; it bums, but tire
is nothing now let it burn. Oh ! I’m so
sick. Bring me the paregoric or lauda
num or something, l can’t stand it ten
minutes, said J.
There aint a drop left. You’ve taken
it all, There is nothing hut chloroform
and 1 am so afraid of that, hut maybe
it will relieve you William, how i do
hate to see you mi tier so, hut you will
never do as l tell you. Do please don’t,
wake up the,company !
Well, 1 took the chloroform and went
to sleep—tc the happy land—ail-blessed
relief, and in due time was restored to
my normal condirion. In my gyiations
my wind was exceedingly active. I ru
minated over my past life, and could find
a little comfort in what Lee Hunt wrote
about some Arab who was admitted be
cause be loved bis fellowmen. Just so 1
have loved mine, that is, except some.
I thought about money in comparison
with health and freedom from pain, and
l felt such an utte? disgust for riches; it
made me sick at the stomach. I would
have given a house fujl of gold for two
minutes cessation of thoseinternal hos
tilities.
Well I kept this numerous and inter
esting family in aJivelT state for a few
long hours, and it taught me a useful
lesson. I’m going* to take carte of myself;
I’m going to do anything Mis. Arp tells
me, for she has got sense—she has,
She takes care of herself-—not a grev
hair in her head, and is as blight as the
full moon; and when she gives ail opin
irw o iv *u> Eroiii that horri
ble night’s experience l am’ n— <i:m
ever satisfied she loves me as well as ev
er and wouldn’t swap me oft for nobody.
When 1 stand up before her and say ju
ror look upon the prisoner—prisoner look
upon the juror, site always says content,
And then she lias such a considerate re
gard for her company. Bill Ari*.
4*oo<l Humor isi I lie Family.
Good humor is rightly reckoned a most
valuable aid to happy home life. An
equally good and useful faculty is a sense
of humor is the capacity to have a little
fun along with the humdrum cares and
work ot life, Wc all know how it
brightens up things generally to have a
lively, witty companion who sees the ri
diculous points of tilings and who can
turn annoyance into an occasion of laugh
ter. It does a heap better to laugh over
some domestic mishap, than to cry or
scold over it.
Many homes *u|d lives are dull be
cause they are a^^ve<dßodeep]}' impiess
ed with the sense ol the cares and respon
sibilities of life to recognize its bright
and especially its mirthful side. Into
such a hoiiseboll, good but dull, the ad
vent of a witty humorous friend, is like
sunshine on a cloudy day. . •
While it is always oppressive to bear
persons constantly striving to say witty
or funny things, it is comfortable, see
ing what a brightener a little fnn is, to
make an effort to have soma at home.
It is well to turn off ail impatient ques
tion sometimes, and to regard it from a
humorous point of viewy instead of be
coming irated about it. “Wife what
is tlie reason I can never find a clean
shirt ?” exclaimed a good but impatient
husband, after rummaging all through
the wrong drawer. His wife looked at
him steadily for a moment, halt 'inclined
to be provoked; then with a comical
look she said : “I never could guess eo
nuimlrums; I give it up.” Then he laugh
ed and she went and got his shirt* > and
he felt ashamed and went and kissed her,
and then she felt happy and so what
might have been an occasion for hard
words and unkind feelings heVNme just
the contrary, all through the little, vein
of humor that cropped out to the sur
face.
Some children have a peculiar faculty
for giving a humorous turn to things
when they are reproved. It does just as
well often, times to- laugh things oft as to
scoff. Hiilighter is bettor tWm tears-.
Let iv. have a little mere tf it at heilc.
A Star in Her Crown,
A young lady was prepairing for a
dancing party and standing before a large
mirror, placed a light crown orna
mented with silver stars upon her.
While thus standing a little lair-head
sister climbed into a chair and put up her
tiny fingers to examine this beautiful
head-dress, and was accosted thus:
“Sister, what are vou doing ? Y’ou should
not touch that crown !” Said the little
one: “I was looking at that, and think
ing of something else.” “Pray tell me
what you are thinking about—you, a
little child.” “1 was remembering that
my Sabbath-school, teacher said, that if
wc save sinners by our influence we should
win stars for our crown in heaven; and
when I saw those stars in you crown,
I wished I could save some soul.”
The elder sister went to the dance, but
in a solemn meditation; the words ol the
innocent child found a lodgment in her
heart, she could not enjoy the associa
tion of her friends. At a reasonable
hour she left the hall and returned to
her home; and going to her chamber,
where her dear little sister was sleeping,
imprinted a kiss upon her soft cheeks,
and said, “Precious sister, you have
won one star for yonr crown.” ami"keel
ing down at the bedside, offered a lei
vent prayer to God for mercy.
From Ilorgaiavillr.
I received your postal card of July 21st
asking for my long neglected arrears
for your paper; well I did not get mad or
insulted about it, for I thought I had
come off well, instead ot being visited b\
a special agent, or an ofticcr, and per
haps having to talk *a good deal and
give them dinnei or a watermelon to
keep them in a good humor I got oft with
a polite dun; and I cannot say I object
much to its being sent by a postal card
as the public generally in this improved
age, seem to know more about a fellows
affairs than lie does himself anyway.
Blit really I did feel some compunctions
of conscience over it, for I am fully
aware that several things are essential
to the successful! running of a good pa
per, and the prompt pa ving of the printer
is one of the most important. That is
just as.jiecessarvLto the healthy exjstenc^
- jirrfT-l ri r* -r Irr- t
iqxiu a thirsty ahdwirchcd soil,to pro
duce a healthy and remunerative .crop.
\Ye have an abundance of rain now,
the prospects are brightening, and tpe
•old farmers faces, are coutraJtinPso fast
that I imagine it will be some time be
fore they assume their usual#physacue
again. But notwithstanding the bright
prospect iiqw some of us. are hurt ty-dav,
the up land that was planted eaflly is be
yond redemption, the bottom* on the
.creeks that were not planted so early
bids fair to he all that could be .desired.
YYm. Tittle near Morganville lias the
best prospects at this time lor a corn
crop i ever saw on the place.
Acuffs hoy has killed three or four
good sized rattle snakes lately, and of
course hung them up before the rain,
whether that had any influence over the
weather or not Ido not say, but one
thing I am assured ol the venomous rep
tiles are out of the way and we have had
abundant rain.
We have been a constant reader of
the Gazette, and am much pleased with
its moral tone,, independent stand and
humorous and spicy editorials. May it
long live and find its way to the homes
of all (who will pay for it.)
Wc a’eglad to see that the 1 renton
school embroglio is being ignored by the
editor ef the Gazette, we see no good
that could come of bandtdng u ords about
it, let the high school established there j
pursue the even tenor ol its way under
the able management ot its l.’rolessors
and it will survive and flourish upon its
own merits, indepenpent of outside de
pendences, the publication ol the contest
speeches will he a sutieient recommenda
tion, and the integiity, and fidelity ol its
trustees or managers a sufficient guaran
tee for its perpetuation amis iccess.'
It. Watson.
From Hu nr* Statiosft Trim.
freeing yon invite communications
from all parts of the comity and surround
iug counties; 1 will give you a few items
.from this part oi'Teun.
Crops are looking fine since the rains,
but before the rain the future prospect
looked gloomy; the farmers were becom
ing very despondent. But it is the gen
eral opinion now, there will be more
corn made here than was last year.
Wheat crops were good. Oats light,
friuee 1 have been here 1 have had the
pleasure of attending a Y 1 E. protracted
Uuttii g f.t Y\ a!nut Gu vc. conducted by
]ro’s. Paiks and Darnell, who are gord
laborers in the cause of our blessed Sa
viour. The meeting is still progressing
and we trust will until a multitude ol‘
souls are gathered home.
Since 1 have been in Tennessee I have
met many of my old friends, and several
very hadsome young ladies.
Now voung men ol Dade county, let
me advise you to come to lenn., it you
want io see pretty girls, Ido not know
when 1 will be able to return to my home
in Ala., as Ihave falTn desperately inlove
with one of Tenn’s fairest daughters, and
I think 1 am piety badly wounded,
jthough if I receive proper attention irom
the right physician I think 1 will recov
er soon.
Kind readers .1 will leave you for the
present, trusting the good editor will
give ns a place in his valuable columns,
as this is our first attemt, with many
kind wishes to the editor, and the many
readers, 1 remain very respectfully,
\V. G. O.
Perry Texas.
Ed. Oazkttk —We take pleasure in
saying that everything about Terry is
moving as lovely as a marriage belle.
Married last Saturday Mr. Win. Louis,
to Miss Willie Kerby, all of Teiry.
Jiain is badly needed in this vicinity.
The wheat crop is about all threshed.
Mr. A. Meadow lias gathered bis corn.
We had 1 read made of new corn for
dinner to-day,
Trospcct for cotton toleiablv good.
Warm dry weather with a pleasant
breeze, 'flic Theinometer varying from
90 to 100 in the shade,
i Water has become an object, the citi-
I zens arc busy digging wells, .lames Nay
lor and Scrougc, dug a well last week.
Naylor did the digging and Scrougc the
circular work.
Seveial of our citizens are going west
soon to look at the country.
We anticipate a nice time at the Terry
school house next Friday evening as Ti o.
O’Bryan’s school closes then, and the
students will give a concert.
S. Hillis is visiting Waco. Steve is a
nice jovial fellow, and is very fond of ice
water,
Mi SK M aggie Nvlorbas returned from
*9- .IL camniiiiwt oi.r down in Falls conn
h ?y'r>be“snid the attendance was very
| large.
Major Slier ill is an experienced gnrd
ner lie might do well out here by loca
ting on the Brazors near Waco as vege
tab’es demand a fair pre.
Master Joe Naylor says that riding
pitching ponies is no comparrison to rid
ing a well grown pitching calf, for they
can toss you higher ami let you fall lad
der, with the least exertion on their part
ofanvthing that walks on tour legs.
You will not only see lightening and
stars, but will hear it thunder when you
strike the ground.
W e are in receipt of a few numbers of j
of the vJazkttk, many thanks to the edi- |
itor, hope that it may have a libera! pat
ronage in this county.
P. S. —(King to the drouth the cale
crop is very short, consequently cale seed
verv scarce. f. S.
duly 30th 1870.
Iflcu Waiitcil
The great wnunt of the age is men.
Men \vh i are not t<*r sale. Men who are
honest, sound from ecntei to circumfer
ence, true to the heart’s core. Men who
will condemn wrong in a friend < r foe, in
themself as steady as the needle to the
pole- Men who will stand for the right
if the heavens totter and the earth reels.
Men who can tell the truth, and look the
world and the devil right in the
eye. Men that neither hrag nor run.
Men that neither flag nor flinch. "Men
who can have courage without shouting
to it . Men in whom the courage of ev
erlasting life runs still, deep and strong.
Men who do not cry nor cause their voices
to he heard on tlie streets; hut who will
fail nm be discouraged till judgement
he set in the-earth. Men who know t heir
places and fill them. Men who know
their lmisness. Men who will not lie.
Men who are not too lazy to work nor
t<*o proud to be poor. Men who are will
ing to eat what they lived earned and(
near what they have paid for.[ex.,
Mr. J\ \V. Jones, of !s<tker county,
for six years has sent the first cotton
hale to market. According to the News,
the cotton merchants of'that coy arc
determined to make Gj iff in thebeM cot*
ton market batw.-en M aeon and At
lanta. Last season (Jrfiftn received over
: thirty thousand hales of cotton, and she
experts-to-receive forty thousand the coni
ng sen o oil,
.r. B. BYRON'S
CASH EMPORIUM,
205 & 207 MARKET STREET, - - GHATTAKCHA. TEHK'
Leads the market and the season with the largest stock and lowest p-j,
Spring and Summer Doods.
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Dress Goods! Dress Goods I
In endless variety, from the lowest to the finest grades. Prices from ten to fifty p Pr cem! ] 9
than any other house that sells on time. Corded fiiqtie, fie. per yard, (lord sum aor ~ilk
per yard. My glove and hosiery department is complete, being filled with all f( H - r,<w : ,V.
the sett son, which will he sold at prices that will astonish you. Good two-button kid . ,'^. r
.*t)e; others in proport ion. Hosiery from fie. per pair up to the finest grades.
Clothing ! Clothing I
My room No. 20fi, is full to overflowing with new and attractive spring and summer eluk ?
made to order this season, from the very newest fabrics and cut in the very latest styles, m
med equal to any custom work in f he market, and from 2fi to at) percent, cheaper.
I also haVe the agency of Messrs. Devlin it Cos., of New N<rk, who have a national r< q n
for their perfect fits, beautiful work, and the superiority of their goods. They furnish, mt* wr ;
samples of all the new fabrics as soon as they are produced, from which to make selection.', ami \
will take your measure Hiid|bave ß your clothing made to suit your ow n taste, ."a’l'lae
rtuteed or no sale.
Boots and Shoes I ;
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Bint).lacing all the standard brands? in styles, qualities aud prices, that never fail to please. ,
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Mens*, onfha*, hoys’, ladies’, misses’ and childrens*, bought direct from the manufu-turi • f
h> the ease, and will he retailed at wholesale prices. Straw hats from ten cent - up.
Also, agent for the perfect fitting and thoroughly reliable Domestic paper patterns. 1 'a!
Jcgues sent tree upon applination.
J have in stock everything usually kept in a first-class store, all of which I wit sell at • g
prices, which means invariably ten to fifty per cent, less than Credit prices. Remember
when yon buy from me you do not pay lor other people's credit. Very respectfully,
J. B. PYRONL
V*l’. S. I?Tv order department i? managed l>y my brother, L. Pyron. who will he j 1*- 00l tot
i hnve your orders for samples or roods, to tvliieh bo \vill give prompt and can lui a: unit ion.
Al! goods will bo sent (;. O. 1). j>cr' express/ If clothing shoes, or other goods in solid ]*i *es,|
, thoy will he sent subject to inspection and approval, the parties ordering paying>y.pres- clurgc.
l’liOl’Kl ETON OF
Enteprise Grocery Store
204 Market Street, bet. .Seventh and Kigth,
Chattanooga, - - Tennessee
CHOICE TEAS, COFFEES, SUGARS. CANNED GOODS AND FAN- '
CY GROCERIES.
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A choice flttfele of Coffee for per lb. l>y retail. lea from dOe. fo one dollar. All eth ,
goods iotd t bottom prices. When you are in the eity Cittl and see me.
"X". A- SNOW
’ft hofesflfc atid rel Ail dealer ifi
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Stoves of all kinds Tinware '
HOUSE-FURNISHING GODS, ETC,
Manufacturer of Galvanized Mid 'fleet trim flood?, Corujeeft, .'teanifloat and 1' stiiiery Co| , r
c H a T TAxoo<;a, - T k x x.
SIMPLICITY I O UFERIORiTY n f
I @;mpufied b u maintaineU l
Improvement September, 1878!
( jgy*. .. regard for the ctr-ioand of this
progressive aye, v tu)W offer to t..D We.-Id
■yp IEWJICTOR
Vy HeTcliaiit.i i iul o'.hcrs.
*or Lltfstratc-V and Trices. Liberal Terms to tbe Trade.""
D. n’t buy until youbay© seen the lightest running machine ii
the Ever Reliable “VICTOR.”
VICTOR sdklNC MACHINE COMPANY,
2 JPDWII’OWX, COXN., and li g am i \Yahas X Avenue, CHICAGO, l Ll* J