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VOLUME HI.
PFWB’S FIRST DIF.
8T SAM USX LOVE*.
p,n; * on 4y Mtiia wild flower* plsylng—
'A and flower*—the Attest for him—
fu tl.e bright stream, by whose bank he was stray*
I.onging to bathe—but the boy could not swim.
He ventured his foot in a shallow hard by,
When the nymph of the stream, with sharp mocking
cry,
Baid, “Cupid, don’t dabble—be oastious or bold,
Jnmp In, or keep out,
If you dabble no doubt
You’ll go tome with a cough,
And the ladies will scoff—
For the very worst dung is for lore to take cold."
Cupid, thus taunted, jumped In, nothing daunted;
“Well dono,” said u nymph to the boy;
“Once o’er head and ears, boy, away with your
tears—
I be wilder the plunge, oh, the brighter the joy!
1 o give you thfg lesson, sweet Cupid, is luck,
With your dear little wings, too—l’m sure you rs
ft duck—
But, wild duck, don’t dabble,”
The nymph said to him,
u Once o’er head and tars,
Away with your fears,
For love never sinks when determined to swim! ”
** on LO VE Olf HIM.
“I,” cried Haddie Winstanley, pit
eously, “Ia burden to my husband?
Oh, Sarella! Sarella! for pity’s sake
don’t say that!”
It was the day following tlio family
hegira—that most dismal, doleful and
intolerable of days, when the furniture
was piled up hi the echoing and uncor
peted rooms, the pictures turned blankly
with their faces to the walls, the yawn
ing chimney-pieces destitute of crack
ling flames, while the dreary spriug raiu
beat against the windows with a mourn
ful and monotonous Bound.
At the back of the little farm house
the gnarled apple trees were striving to
break out into bud anti blossom, and a
few faint-colored spring flowers lifted
their golden heads above the grass and
dead leaves, while at the front the rest
less billow* o£ tlia A_t lu i> tt n*( 1 In-,
the moaning wind, flung their fringes
ot foam high up on the shores, flights of
sea-birds eddlied overhead, and tho low
hanging reach of leadeu clouds shut out
the misty shimmer of the horizon.
Haddie had wandered about the house
all day wrappped in a shawl, looking
about as forlorn as the daffodils and jon
quils outside, in the vaiu endeavor to
find some habitable nook or corner where
she could i>oro over her book.
She felt herself ill-used in the extrem
estdegree, this sunny-haired, rose-lipped
human fairy, in that all was not made
smooth and easy to her little feet.
She had married Carlos Winstanley
three months ago, supposing that she was
entering into a human Eden through
the golden circlet of the wedding ring
and the bowery arches of the orange blos
soms ; and here, lo and behold ! he had
failed the pretty little house in Park
Terrace had been sold, with its antique
furniture, its bric-a-brac and rose-liued
curtains, and here and there they were
banished for the rest of their lives to the
dismal, ono-storied farm-house, the sole
relie of Carlos Winstaifley’s scattered
fortune !
“ It isn’t like a city house,” said the
young man, cheerily ; “but I’ve always
had a sort of loving for a farm life, and
we can he just as happy here as it it
were a palace—eau’t we, llaldie ?
And Haddie, with a lialf-friglitened
glance at the restless waves of the At
lantic and the groups of cedars writhing
in the blast, clung to his shoulder and
whispered:
“ Yes. But,” she added with quiver
ing lip, “it will be very lonely, won’t
it?”
“ Sarella is coining to stay with us and
help get settled,” said Winstanley.
“ Why, what could such a butterlly as
you do with all this confusion ?
Haddie said nothing. She could
hardly tell her husband how much she
feared and disliked his stern maiden
■ister, who stood up so straight, and
wore her iron-gray liair twisted up hito
ft tight knot at the back of her head, in
an inexorable fashion, which made Him*
die feel as if her gold frizzes and braids
were vanity and vexation of spirit, in
deed; and had a way of looking over
and beyond her, as if she (Haddie) weie
no account whatever.
But Sarella was needed, and she came,
just as she would have come to nurse a
wounded soldier, or keep watch ovei a
household of measles, or scarlet four,
or undertake any other difficult or thank
less task.
And, upon this rainy day, Sarella went
backward and forward, and looked win
a sort of contemptuous pity at the P O -' 1
little wife, wrapped in her fleecy white
shawl. with a rose in her U-dr and a
book in her hand.
“Peru m<*, Harriet!" she had met
out, whou at last her slender thread G
UISIND I AWN, DADE COUNTY. GEORGIA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14. ISBL
patience was quite exhausted; “ why
don’t you do something ?’’
“What shall I do?” said Haddie, pit
eously.
“ I'm sure there’s enough to be done, ’ :
said the rigid elder sister. “ Can’t you
turn and sew that piece of carpet to fit
tho hall?”
“ I never did such a thing in my'life,”
said Haddie, eying the heap of carpet
ing as if it had been a wild beast ready
to spring at her.~“l don’t think I
could sew anything so big and heavy.”
‘' There’s all tho china to be washed
Rnd sorted on the shelves,” suggested
Sarella grimly.
“I should be sure to break it,” fal
tered Haddie.
“Thecurtains are all ready to be
tacked up to the west-room windows,”
sad Sarella, looking arourjl lor a tack
hammer.
“Oh, I couldn’t do that,” said Hnd
die, more frightened than ever. “I
should be sure to turn giddy on top of
that step-ladder.”
Sarella looked disdainfully at her
beautiful little sister-in-law.
“I wonder what you are good for,”
said she, sharply.
Haddie hung her head, flushed scar
let, and said nothing.
“For all I can sec,” severely went on
Sarella, “my big brother might as w ell
have married a big wax doll. It was ail
very well so L -ng as lie was a merchant
in receipt of a big income. But now’—
goodness me, what sort of a farmer’s
wife do you suppose you will make ? ”
“ I don't know,” confessed Haddie,
feeling herself arraigned before a sort of
consolidated inquisition.
“Do you know anything about but
ter and cheese ?” demanded Sarella, re
lentlessly.
“No!”
“Did you ever makeup a batch of
In. J -wir is
sued this iron-hearted catechist.
“ No,” whispered Haddie.
“Can you cut and fit your own Ken
sington stitch ?”
“ I can make the Kensington stitch
in antique lace, if that’s what you
mean.”
“ Antique lace ! Kensington stitch !’’
echoed Sarella, in withering scorn.
“Can you make your husband’s shirts?”
"He buys them ready-made,” fal
tered Haddie, “At least he always
did.”
“Humph!” said Sarella, ‘“I sup
pose, now, you couldn’t clean house, or
wash up the curtains, or make a lot of
currant jelly, to save your life ?"
“No,” said Haddie, with a trembling
voice, “I’m afraid I couldn’t.”
“You are nothing more nor less than
a burden to your husband,” said Sarella,
with the air of a Judge pronouncing
sentence of doom. “ You're no more
fit to he married than yonder white
kitten. And I pity Carlos from the
very bottom of my heart, that I do !
Ami, thus speaking, Sarella picked up
the whitewash brush and stalked away,
while poor little Haddie wailed nut the
beseeching words with which our story
commences.
“ Oh, Sarella, dear Sarella ! ” she
pleaded, “I’ll try to do my best.”
“ Your best! ” repeated Sarella. “And
what does that amount to? You’re a
100-poiuid weight around his neck a
blight upon his future —that s what you
are ! ”
And she whisked into the kitchen,
while Haddie ran up stairs to the garret
to have a good cry.
Haddie was very sad and pensive fora
dav or two. Carlos looked at her piti
fully, afraid to ask if she were discon
tented in her new home, for he knew
well that he had none other to offer her.
Sarella sniffed at her selfish inefficiency,
and the very scrubbing woman put on
airs, while ‘Betsey Baker, a neighbor,
who came into help with the “settling,
caught the popular tune, and said,
loftily; . , .
“Please, Mrs. Winstanley, stand out
of the way while we’re a-stretehiug
this carpet, and don’t header us ef ye
can’t help us 1
\t the end of the third day of domes
tic saturnalia, when Carlos Winstanley
came home, Haddie was nowhere to be
found, and on her cushion was pinned
the following note:
Pear Carlos,' Don’t be vexed, but I h>ve
-one a wav to stay with Aunt Dorcas Dutton un
fi, the Beach farm is settled. I don't seem to
be of much use to anybody, aud perhaps Sarella
will get along better without me. Affechon
stelv your wife,
•‘There!” said Sarella to Betsey
Raker “ Didn’t I tell you so ? She’s
s0 i az y she can’t bear to see other folks
work! And I don’t know whatever Car
los was thinking cf when he married ter
instead of Hosanna Martin, who took
the prize io r tread and eake at the
“ Faithful to the Bight, Fearless Against the Wrong.’
county fair, and has got a chest full of
linen and bedquilts at home.”
But she did not express herself thim
plainly to Carlos, when ho asked her,
wistfully, if she knew why Haddie had
gone away.
“ I think she’s sick of farms and farm
work,” said Sarella, purring up her lips.
“I think, Carlos, she’s like the little
portulaccas in the garden outside, that
only blossom when the sun shines.”
And Carlos was more wretched than
ever, fancying that he had darkened his
young wife’s life, and dragged her down
into poverty with him.
“She will come back to me when she
chooses,” he said, sadly. “I shall not
go alter her.”
And he grew paler, colder and more
silent as he went about the duties of the
farm ; and Sarella, to use her own ex
pression, “flew around as lively as a
cricket,” and put things into the neatest
of order.
“We’re better off without Harriet
than with her, it’s my opinion,” said
she to herself. “A china doll of a wom
an, only fit to l>e waited on and made
much of. Ido think Carlos was crazy
when he married her.”
At the month’s end, however, Haddie
came back, and fluttered down the lilac
] shaded garden walk to meet her lius
| band, like a bird, as he returned from
! his day’s work.
“Oh, Carlos ! Carlos ! ” she cried; “I
I’am so glad to be here again ! ”
“Little one,” he asked, almost re
proachfully, “why did you leave me?”
“ I have been at school,” said Haddie,
radiantly. “I have been learning—my
profession. Oh ! Carlos, you can never
tell how awkward and helpless 1 felt
here, in my own house, knowing that I
was as ignorant as a child of all Ute
tilings I needed most to comprehend.
I love you—oh, so dearly—and I felt so
. nnniAi>j> .a *.,■ .... —....iUoiw. v•.•
in vour sore need as a wife should help
her husband. Sarella despised my ig
norance—the very servants looked down
on me as a helpless doll; and they were
right. But they shall never do so any
more, for I’ve learned to be a house
keeper at last—Aunt Dorcas lias taught
me everything. I can make butter like
gold, and cheese that even Sarella will
not criticise. I shall prepare you some
strawberry shortcake to-morrow, and my
bread and biscuits are as light and as
white as swandown ; and I’ve made you
a shirt, Carlos, all by myself, and Aunt
Dorcas says I needn’t be ashamed of it;
and I can wash and iron, and clear
starch as w’ell as ever old Chloe did
when I was a girl at home.”
“ Haddie ! Haddie !” he cried. “ Why
did you do this ? ”
“For love of you,” she answered,
simply; “to be to you what a wife
should be to her husband. You needn’t
think lam going to settle down into
a common drudge, Carlos. I like
Bhakspeare aud the Kensington stitch
as well as ever. But a farmer’s wifo
should not be blind and helpless at the
head of her own household, and I am
thankful that I have learned to do all
these things.”
“You are an angel, Haddie ! ” he said,
earnestly.
“lain only your true, loving little
wife,” she answered, hiding her face on
his breast.
Sarella needed to stay at the Beach
farm no longer; Betsey Baker was dis
missed, aud Haddie took her place at
the helm, and of all liapp.., efficient,
stirring, farmers’ wives Mrs. Miustanley
bore away the palm.
“ I never supposed there was so much
in her,” said Sarella. “Carlos couldn’t j
have made a better choice if he had i
tried for a year.”
“It does beat all,” said Betsey Baker.
THIEVES' DIALECT.
Among thieves there is a distinct class
of slang which is in quite eommou use.
They denominate a sentence of imprison
ment as “air and exercise,” and call a
drunk a “ ball.” A penitentiary is known
as a “ Kmidiug-scliool,” and a surgeon
is termed a “ bone-setter.” Money is
known among them as “ chink,” aud a
policeman as a “cop.” “Darbies” are
hand-cuffs; “earth bath” is a grave,
and “eternity-box” is the proper name
for a coffin. Hemp is denominated
* neck-weed a slungshot is called a
“ neduy,” while the head is known as
the “dimple.”
When a man dies he is said to have
“croaked,” and when he is buried he is
said to have been “ put to bed with a
shovel. ”
By means of this slang the thieves of
various countries can talk to each other
although ignorant of
the language of the country in whi li
they happeu to b*
- PLEASANTRIES.
'■s' *V‘ )an y woman woke her husband
* s V v jstorm aud said: “I do wish you
D snoring, for I want to hear it
thqV.iX-. "
If ;s cruelty to cast your bread upon
the waters if tho bread is sour and
beit ,v. It might give the fishes tho
dytpepeia.
V hen the bold Highlander went
coi ling ho tersely introduced himself:
“A a Saxon, I am Roderick Dhu.” Ann
re] lid, “Dhu tell!”
Ijfisn’t because a woman is exactly
afvfd of a cow that she runs away aud
sciva is. It is because gored dresses
arc jot fashionable.
Yhtcn a New Orleans man wanted his
piciu'6 in nu heroic attitude, the artist
panned him in the act of refusing to
dri'.L— Boston Transcript.
j young lady wrote some verses for a
papr about her birthday and headed
thp “ May 30th.” It almost made her
haj turn gray when it appeared in
pr t, “ My 30th.”
You don’t know how it pains mo to
puish you,” said the teacher. “I
gins there’s the most pain at my end
of le stick,” replied the boy. “’T any
ra , I’d bo willing to swap.”
ailey says; “ What men call aeei
df Is is God’s own part,” but it is hard
to onvince a man of this when ho steps
do h a step that ho didn’t know was
tli e and busts a pet corn. Ho thinks it
th other party’s part.
It’s a long way from this world to
thuioxt,” san\a dying man to a friend
\v>) stood at his bedside. “Oh, never
mho, my de.u fellow,” answered the
friW cowJunsb, “you’ll have it all
(i Jvu hill.”-L
Ur, iofcered Jit the fe*tiTl, '
% tebfct rut. - >
A Wtshf.washj fluid! brimnj *d
Thuj*rge Ui Jip'eU ki, A.
QtKith lie, “ I with that I eould get
A pair of frozen l
jv>r uuiuirer wear as thin &* this
Consumptive lemonade.
—o* City Di r t ick
•• II aaloa ! Fob, how are you ? ” Bob,
wlu had been iu jail for tljfi some
moiths past answered well,
thaik you; but I have been in trouble,
you know “ What trouble ailed you?”
“A voub’e passed iu dunmee.”
Atoung lmly who was doing tho Alps
repeteu progress to lier guardian : “I
trie*to climb the Matterhorn; didn’t
reae tho top. Ws absurdly high—
everthiug is hi,™ in this country.
Plee send me some money.”
I iiati' iW 'ile, pestiferous fly
That let me be
When I w'Wild take my morning nap;
I equirm about and try to slap
That fly,
But I
But slap my face in vain attempt
To kill the wretch.
Av alleged poet says that violets are
•hiavenly gems on Nature’s polonaise,”
uu we presume on the same plan it
ma: be said flat white turnips are the
butms on Nature’s negro-minstrel
dIIST.
“’ve five cents left,” said a loafer,
‘ ‘so ’ll buy a paper with them. ” “ What
pape do you buy?” said a friend, cu
rbui to learn the literary taste of hi*
aiqmintance. “A paper of tobacco,”
jepl id the loafer.
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I tke about half a pint of rectified
spiri and mix with it a few drops of
colomg solntiou and concentrated es
sencof brandy, that is the brandy flavor
pie fired by the druggist, and by brisk
agitation the mixture acquires the ap
peamce of cognac. You like a little
bead Very well; I add a little out of
this ial, a preparation of nitro-benzoin,
or attficial oil of bitter almonds. Now, .
as I pur it out the bubbles remain for
somdtmc at the top. However, it does
not Me ripe or full-bodied yet, so I add
a fewdrops of a preparation principally'
eompsed of glycerine and called by the
trade “ age and body.” Another good
shak< and all I need iB a label certify
ing hat the article is “ 10-year-old
eogne brandy,” aud there you have my
bramv ready for the market. Of course
the xperiment has been a very hasty
one. 1 .-imply intended to show you the
prunple. In practice about half a
poun of each of the substances I have
just lade use of would be added to forty
gallon of rectified spirits, and a very
and by no means injurious
bran# is the result. In brief, the
1 adnltiatiou of spirituous liquids, that
is, tli artificial production in a few
hoursby chemical progress of a similar
result to that attained by nature in the
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CHURCHES;
Preaching by the Circuit preacher,on
tl, fi 3rd Sunday in each month, at 11
o’do k: a. m. and at the Furnsce at 3
o’c ock p m.
Preaching by the Missionary Baptist
t tire Furnacs on the first Sunday and
Saturday night bMore, in each month,
by the pistor, Ujv. T. C. Tucker.
MASONIC:
The regular meeting of Rising Fawn
bodge No. 293 F. A A M , the Ist and
3rd Saturday nights in each month. T.
I. Lumpkin, W M., J. W llussey, Szc
ectary.
Tren'oi Ijidge No. 179 F. & A. M. ,
me. tr. on the 2 id and 4‘.h Friday nights
n ench month H. A. Russell, W. M ,
J. A. Beunett, Secretary.
Trenton R >yal Arch Chapter me;et
n the 3rd Wednesday ineac’ m'nth.
'. A. B. Tatum, H. P.; W. U. Jaco
vay, Secretary.
.COURTS:
Cvurt o Oni..&ry meets on the firs
lliiubv iu each ra nths. G. M.. Crab
roc, O-rliaary.
Tie Justice C *urt for the Rising
Favn district., ou the Srd Saturday in
;tch month.
EDUCATIONAL :
The com i v Brardoi Education meets
[ n the call’of the cbfcirinar. E. B.
Ketcbenide, Ciuniy School Cjinmits
*/ mer.
* > H ESSION A-Tj CARDS.
r. I. J. MTKIN.i i 11. P. LUMPKIN,
llisiug Fawn, i ( Lxwyette.
rp J. LUMPKIN A HKO.,
Mtorneys at Law,
K -ting Fawn <fe LVayette, Gi.
Will pay promps attention to the col
lect i>n of claims and all business in
trust'd to their care, in the several
court*of the counties of Hide, Walker,
C Jiittopga and Catoosa. 1-t!
Mm lb a Men Railroad
TIME CAR I*.
T'feing effict Febrnmy 20th, 1881.
NORTH HOUND.
No. 1 Mail.
Arrives. Leave*.
Chattanooga, | 8 00 . to.
Wauhatchie, 8 J"> *• ni BtU
sioraansville, 834 “ ft 54 "
Denton, 851 “ 852
R s’Uf? Fawn, 9 *4
sulphur Springs, j 033 “ 332 “
Valley Head, 355 “ 55 “
Fort I’Kvne, j 10 21 10 22
Brandon, 10 26 “ 10 3*
v'ortersville, jlO 50 “ 10 oO
Collinsville, 11 0” “ li 03
Greenwood, !li 36 “ 11 26
\ttfllla, 1150 •* 12 11p.m.
Whitney, 12 58 r- w 13 7 “
Spriugville, 131 “ 133 ‘‘
Trusiviile, 2 t'7 “ 208 ‘
Birrainrhatn, j 243 “ 248 ,
Woodstock, j 402 “ 403 *,
Coaling, ' 434 “ 436 ..
Cottondale, j t 52 “ 463 •<
Tuscrloos.i, | 512 " | 515 i,
Eutaw, 618 *' 703 ,<
Miller, 741 ‘ 742
Epee. 751 " ?52 *•
Livirg&tcn, | 814 “ I 816 o
York, 840 *• ! 841
Meridian, I 950 “. 1
Chas. B. Wallace L. B. Mobrisos,
Sq> libtn cent. Gin’l Pas*. Ag’t.
Greasy Creek, in Arkansas, is one of
the latest natural wonders which this
country call boast of. We hare already,
iu response to those lands which raise
bread fruit and manna, produced a
spring whose waters are said to taste like
turtle soup ; but now the Kev. John K.
Ycatts, a Baptist divine, is quoted as
authority for a spring near Greasy
creek, flowing forty gallons a minute,
colored like apple cider, aud tisting like
applejack. He saw hundreds “lying”
around the spring, in a state of blissful
intoxication, laughing aud trying to
slap then hands. The name given to
j these springs is the Millennium springs ;
doubtless as signifying that they bring
back the golden age. Some persons
may refuse to believe in their existence ;
yet no one can deny that the Rev. John
It Yeatts is a possible and plausible
ruiin*.
The Concord School of Philosophy
has adjourned without deciding whether
Ia man milking should prefer to have the
S oow kick him or the pail over. Demand
j ait extra session.