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} ■•■■■■ zgtsrpm DUBLIN, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1870. FTP "->" 11 MY MARY She bloomed in the country, Where sunny summer flings Her rosy anrts about, the earth. And brightest blessings brings. Health was her sole inheritance, And grace her only dower ; I never dreamed the wildwooil Contained so sweet a flower. Far distant from the city, And inland from the sea, My Mary bloomed in goodness, As pure as pure could be. She caught her dewy freshness From hill and mountain bower, 1 never dreamed the wildwood Contained so sweet a flower. The raiubow must have lent her Some of its airy grace; The Wild rose parted with a blush That nestled on her face. Tllclsunbcums got entangled in The long waves of her hair, Or she had never grown to be So modest4iud so fair. The early birds have taught her Their joyous matin song. And some-of their soft innocence, She’s been with them so long. And for her now, if need be I’d part with wealth and power ; I never dreamed the wild wood Contained so sweet a flower, WHY THE SEA IS SALTY. Once niton a time, but. it was long |rc- were two brothers—one h itnd one poor. Now, on Christmas eve the poor one hadn’t so much as a crumb in the bouse, either meat or bread, so lie went to his brother tb a.sk him for something to keep Chriatmas with, in God's mum. It was not the first time his brother was forced to help him, and you may fancy be wasn't very glad to see bis face, bn! be said: ‘•If you will do wlmt I ask you to do, I’ll give.yon a whole flitch of ba con.''' So flic poor brother said he would do anything, and was full of thanks; • ‘•Well, here is the flitch.” said the rich brother, ‘’and now go straight to hell.” “What I have given my word to do I must stick to,” said (he other; so lie took the fli.eli and set. off. He walked the whol^day, and at dusk lie came to a place where ho saw a very bright light. “Maybe this is the place,” said the man to himself. So lie turned agide and t he first thing lie saw was an old, old man, with a. long white beard, who stood in an but-honse hewing woftd for the Christinas tire. “Good even,” said the man with the flitch. “The same to you; whither are yon going so late?” said the man. • “Oh! Pm going to hell if I only knew the right way,” answered the poor man. - _ “Well, von arc not far wrong, for this is hell,” answered the old man; “when you get inside they all will be for buying your flitch, for meat is source in hell; hut. mind you, don’t sell it unless yon can gct-tlie hand queru which stands behind the door for it. When von come out Twill teach yon how to handle the quern, for its good to grind almost cvcry- So the man with, the flitch thank ed the other for his good advice, and gave a groat knock at the devil’s door. When he got in, everything went as the old man had said. AH the devils, great and small, came swurrn- ing up to him like ants around an anthill, and each tried to out bid the other for the flitch. “Well!” said the man, “by rights my,old dame aud I ought to have this flitch for our Christmas dinner, but since you have all set vour hearts on it, I suppose I must give it'up to you; but if I sell it at all, I’ll have for it that quern bohind the door yonder.” At first the devil wonldn’t hear of such a bargain, and chaffered and haggled with the man; hut he stuck to what he had said, and at last the devil had to part with his quern. When the man got out into the vard lie asked the old woodcutter how he was to handle the quern, and after he hud hom'd how to use it, ho thank ed the old man and went home fast he could, but still the clock lmd struck twelve on Christmas eve be fore he had reached his own door. “Where in the world have yon been?” said his old dame “here have I sat hour after .hour waiting and watching, without even two sticks to lay together under the Christmas broso.” “Oh!” said the mao, “I could not get. had; before, for i had to go long way, first for ono thing and flicn for another, but now you shall see what you shall sec.” So lie put. the quern on the table and bade it it first, to grind out lights •then a table cloth, then meat, then ale, and so on till they liud gotevery thing that was nice for ;i Christ mas fare. He had only to speak the word, and the quern ground out what he wanted. The old duffle stood by blessing her stars, and kept oil ask ing where he had got this wonderful quern, but lie wouldn’t tell her. * “It's all ono where I got it; you see the quern is a good one, and the mill stream never freezes, that’ enough.” So lie ground meat and drink and dainties enough to last till Tweltli Day, and on the third day he asked his friends and kin to his house and gave a great feast. Now, when his brother saw all that, was on the table and all that was behind in the lai dor, ho grew spiteful and wild, for lie couldn’t bear that his brother should have anything. “’Twos on Christmas eve,” lie said to the rest, “he was in such straits lie came and asked for a mbr sel of food !n God’s name, and now lie gives a feast, as if lie were Count or King;” .and lie turned to his brother and said ; • But whence, in. hell's namo, have you got all this wealth?” ^Vorn behind the door,” answer ed the owner of the quern, for lie didn’t care to let the cat out of the hag. But later in the evening, when lie had got a drop too much, lie could hot keep Ins secret any longer, and bronght / out the qu<Trh and said “There,.von see what lias gotten me all this wealth;” and so lie made the quern grind all kinds of things. When' his brother saw it lie set his heart on. having the qneVii. and after a deal of coaxing he got it; hut lie had to pay SHOO for it, and his broth or bargained to keep it until buy harvest, for he thought, if I keep it till then I can make if grind meat and drink that will last, for years. So you may fancy the quern didn’t grow rusty for want of work, and when hay harvest came the rich brother got it, hut the-other took care not to teach him how to handle it. It was evening when the rich brother got the quern home, and next morning he toJd his wife to go out into the hay .field and toss while the mowers cut the grass, and lie would stay at home and got the dinner ready. So, when dinner time drew near he put the quern on the kitchen table and said: “Grind herrings and broth, and grind them good and fast.” So the quern began to grind her rings and broth ; first of all the dish es full, then all the tubs full, and so on till the kitchen floor was quite covered. Then the man twisted and twirled at the quern to get it to stop, but for all his twisting and fingering the quern went on grinding, and in a little while the broth rose so high that the man was like to drown. So lie threw open the kitchen door and rdn into the parlor; but it wasn’t long before the quern had ground the par lor full too, and it was only at the risk of his life that the man could get hold of the latch of the house door through the stream of broth. When he got the door open he ran out and set off down the road, with the stream of broth and her rings at his heels, roaring likea wa terfall over the whole farm. Now, his old dame, who was m the field tossing, hay, tlio’t it a long time to dinner, aud at last she said: “Well, the master doesn’t call us homo we may as well. go; maybe ho finds it hard work to boil the broth and will be glad of my help.” The men were williug enough, so thoy sauntered homewards; but just as they.gota little way up the hill what slio’d they meet but herrings, and broth, and bread, all running, and dashing and splashing together in a stream, and the master himself running before them for his life, and as ho passed them ho bawled out, “Would to heaven each of you had a hundred throats; hut take careyou’ro not drowned in the broth.” Away he wont, as though the evil one wore at his heels, to his brother’s house, and bogged him for God’s sake to take back the quern that in stunt; for, said lie: “If it grinds only ono hour longer, the whole parish will be swallowed up by herrings and broth.” But his brother would not. hear of taking it back till the other paid him down $800 more. So the poor brother got both the money and the quern, and it wasn’t long before ho sot up a farm-house far liner than the one in which his brother lived, and with the quern lie ground so much gold that he cover ed it with plates of gold; and as the farm lay by- the seaside the golden house gleamed and glistened far over the sea. All who sailed hv pu t ashore to see the rich man in his golden house, and to see the wonderful quern,' the fame of which spread far and wide till there was nobody who hadn’t heard tell of it.- So one day there came a skipper who wanted to see the" quern, and the first thing ho asked was if it. could grind salt. “Grind salt!” said the owner, “I should just think it could. It can grind anything.” When the skipper heard that he said he must have the quern, cost wlmt. it would; for if ho only had it lie thought he should he rid of his long voyages across stormy seas for a lading of salt,; Well, at first the man wouldn’t hear of parting with the quern, hut the skipper begged and prayed so hard that at last ho let him have it; but he lmd to pav many thousands of • dollars for it. Now, when the skipper had got, the quern >n his hack lie soon-made off with it for lie was afraid lest the man should change his mind; so lie had uo time to ask how to handle the quern, but got on board his ship as fast, as he could and sot sail. WJion ho had sailed a good way off ho brought tho quern on- deck and said : “Grind salt, and grind both good and fast.” Well,'the quern began to g ind salt so that it poured out, like water, and when the skipper got the ship full lie wished to stop the quern, but whichever way he turned it, was no good, the quern kept grinding on and the heap of salt grow higher and higher, and at last down sunk the ship. There lies the quern at tlie bottom of the sea and grinds away at this very day; and that is the reason why the sea is suit. v j YtILL ARP’S SUNDAY CHAT. In Which Ho Becomes Somewhat Domestic in His Views. Atlanta Constitution. It’s a hard winter, shore. Maybe it’s because we havenb got. used to country life—living five miles from a bottle of paregoric, or a gallon of kcroseno, or a plug of tobacco, or a spool of thread, or a pound of soda-r- with nothing to varygato tho monot ony but a passing drove of mules every day or two—no visitors, no poddlers, no sowing machino agonts, no sunshine, uo nothing, but to sit by tho fire and read, and fool blue, und look out of the window, anti amuse the children. There are no brick sidewalks nor paved stroots to walk on,; and the big road to town has lost its .bottom and reminds One of the way old father Bunyan’s pi I grim traveled when trying to reach the promised land. I had hoped tho grand jury would present it as an unabated .liuisuncc, hub tluy were so busy presontin tho governor and Murphy and other fnrrin matters, they overlooked our home concerns! Maybe they’ll attend to etn when thoy get through with the cipher dis patches. Everywhere is mud, and liiiro, and slush. When it aint freozin its tliawin or ruiniti, and the children and dogs track mud all over tho house. We cant keep cm in and wo cant aeqnemout,. Tho hoys have got traps 3ot in the swamp, and are obliged to go to cm every fifteen minutes, and if they catch a bird its as big a thing as kill in atuolofant. They built a brick furnace in the back yard, and have been cook in on it for two days, baking lioecakos and fry in eggs, aud hoilin coffofs and their afflicted mother has mighty near surrendered pfor -she cant keep* a sjtiHot, nor a spoon, not* a knife, nor a plate in the kitchen, and so she tried to kick the furnace over, and now goes about limpid with a sore too. Some of the older ones have found a elmlk quarry in a ditch and taken a notion to drawin and sculpture, and made pictures of dogs and ehiekhns, and snakes all round the house on tho outside; and while the good mother Was a cook in the two youngest ones chalked over tho inside as good as they could. The mantel-piece, and jams, arid doors, and bedsteads, and sewin machine, and window-glass wore all ring-stroa ked and striped, and as I eonldotit do justice to the subject myself. I waited for reinforcements. When the maternal ancestor appeared, was n peopin through the crack of the door. Hlie paused upon the threshold like an actor plaviri high tragedy in a theater. “Merciful fathers!” then a long and solem pans. “Was there over such a set upon the face of the earth? What shall I do? Aint it enough to run anybody dis tracted? Hero I’ve worked and worked to make this old house look decent, and nqw look at it! I've a good mind to wring your little necks for you. Did ever a mother have such a time as I have—cant leave ino one miunit that they aint into inis your old tom cat,” said I; “Ourl had him fuston'ed up in that, nail kog that’s got a hen’s nest, in it.” “Why, Carl, what upon oarth did von put the cat iii there for?” “Why, main- ma, bo's a sot.tin, and I wantod him to lay somo littlo kittens; Mo and Jessio wants some kittons.” “Well, it does look like everything was born to trouble, as*tho sparks fly upward. The old spotted smv has eaten half of her pigs, and tho pota toes are rotting, arid Daisy has gone dry, and wo will have no more butter till spring. William, liadent von bettor , buy a lottory ticket ? Who knows hut wo might draw.tho capital prize?: I toll you I’m getting awful tirod of being poor.” “Blessed are the itiouk,”' 'said I, “for they shall inherit the, earth.” “240 acres is us much of the oarth as I want,” said Mrs.' . Arp, “and more, too. I ! d rjitlior have a few,carpets; and .sumo-nice clothes, und a carriage and horsos, and two or throe old- fashioned darkies to do the work and look after tho children—that's wlmt I want.” “Blessed uro the poor In spirit,” said I, “for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” “Well, I’m poor enough in spirit; goodness knows,” said sho, “and when every thing is quiet, arid the ‘children asleep, there’s a. comfort in rouding about blessings in tfio distaneo ; hut you might as well preach serenity to a man going over Niagara Falls as to talk of meekness to a mother that’s raisin those kind of children.” “Its in the stock,’’ said I; “the Arps al ways was mighty hard to raise, and you’ve got along with om so far titna- zinly well. Thereaint, uunther.ontan in the world could have done it,” This last remark made everything calm and Boroon, and “tliores no loss on our side.” Yoiirs, Bill Atrr. A rash cow, on a farm about four miles from Columbus, on Sunday last, put its tongue through a crack in a stable in search of food. A vicious horse in the aforesaid stable mniediately seized thatcow’s tongue between his teeth and bit off about three inches of it. The cow is in a critical condition, und no doubt now wishes she, had kept her tongue be tween her own teeth. A town cow— ono of tlioso from Augusta, for in stance—would never have been caught up in that way. A writer, describing a bevy of i girls, says: “each face was a picture.” Painted by her own hands, wo* pre sume.—Norristown Herald. chief and its been the samo tiling over and aver, and over with all of cm for the lust*29 years. I’d rather beeiran old maid a thousand times over.’ I wish there wasont a child in the world—yes I do!” (Looks at em mournfully for a minnit.) “Come here, Jessie, von little pale-faced darling. Mamina aint mad with yon; no,, you're just the sweetest thing in tljc world; aud poor little Carl’s broken finger makes my hoart ache every time I look at it. He did have tho sweetest little hand be fore that boy mashed it all to pieces with his nmal: aud there’s that great scar on his head, where the brick fell on him, and another oyjr his eye, where he fell on the hatchet. I won der if I ever will raise you poor little things ; you look like little orphans ; tuko your chalk und mark some more if you want to.” When 1 came in she was a helpin om make a bob-tail dog on tho closet-door. “I’ve found It is well known that very largo- grained gunpowder is now*used in tho hoavioat rifled camion, as such guns undergo much less strain from powder of this kind, which biirns slowly, than would ho the caso 'with a more suddonly-cxplosivo agent. Hence has arisen a maxim among modern artillery officers; Tho largor the gun, the larger the grains of pow der. In England, tho inch -ami -a- liulf oubos, formerly employed in tho oiglmy-ton grin at Woolwich have gi ven place to six-sided prisms, about an inch thick at tho base. A charge of folTr hundred und sixty pounds of this prismatic powder 1ms boon fired from that gun with less strain upon it than was formerly exerted by charges of the other kind a hundred pounds lighter. Tho idea of the prisms eanio from Germany. There is something singularly re markable in tho fact that there is a citizen of Connecticut who is said to bo well educated, win) has seen most of the world that is worth Hefting, having spent upwards of forfy-oigiit yours in China and Japan, and lias secured a professorship in Yale Col lege, and yet, in spite of all this, persists in parting his name in the middle! London, Fcbnmry-3.—The Brit ish Medical Journal publishes the following: “Tho Vienna Medico-chi rurgical Centoal Blatt, of January 24, stutes that the origin of tho pes tilence in Russia is as follows: A Cossack returning from war to Wet- lianka brought his lady love a shawl which was ♦ probably a part of his spoil. Tho girl wore it two days and sickened with all the symptoms of the plague and died. During the following four days the other mem bers of her family sickened and died. The disease spread rapidly but the local authorities did not pay any attention to it till liulf the inhabi tants of thevllago had died, and those remaining alive wore unable to btiyy tho victims.” No mutter how good nattired u man may be, lie will invariuhly get mad when ho discovers that there is no towel in tho room and is com pol led to dry his face op tin hod quilt. A Warning to Newspaper Stop pers. ■ y . A certain man got, mad at-the edi tor and slopped Ins paper. The next, week he sold all his corn at four coats below tho market priori; then his properly Was sold for taxes he- cuuso Iii' only hoard ol tho con vent ion tlireo days after iI lmd adjouruiM; he lost, ton dollars betting on Mollie .McCarty t-wo days after Ton Broook hud won tho raco; lie was arrested and fined eight d-.lluis lor hunting on Sunday , and ho paid $300 for a lot of forged notes I hat lmd been ad vertised two woeks, and the public cautioned not to negotiate them. Ho thou paid a big Irishman, with a leg likea derrick, to kick him all tho way to tho newspaper office! wlioii ho paid four years subscription in ad vance, and made the editor sign arid swear to au agreement to knock him down and rob, him if'ho over ordered Ins papor stopped again.—Truthful Rwhuiir/e.’. Tlie Democratic Stntosineii^Uoin- ing South. j ..I Philadelphia Times. ; Siiuuol J. TiMon evidently clops not mean to let Souafcor ^hurman get ahead of him in the affections of the solid south. Some time, ago tljc library societies at Chapel jlill uni versity, North Carolina, engaged Mr. Thurman as their orator for next Juno.* Now the boys at Trinity'col lege, also in the land of tar-heels, have prevailed upon Mr. Tildon to orimment theircoiiiiiio’neemclrit. Sen ator Bayard, who has a son at tho university of Virginia-, wUl hold forth there, doubtless, arid from the way tilings look at this inohiont the coriri- t-ry liidj fair to witness the sublime? spectacle of a whole army of demo- ora tie statesmen flocking toward tho cotton fields at the close of t'lio pres ent academic yoiir. Her Grandfather Whipped Wash ington. Lqwsvjllk, Ky., February 8.— Mrs. Eliza Lunghorii died yesterday in this city, aged eighty-onp years. She belonged to families woll-known in the history of Virginia and Ken tucky. Iler grandfather, William Payne, hud ajicrsonul difficulty with Geiioial Washington, during which Puyno knocked the father of his country down in the Alexandria, Vu., coni't-houso yard. The pastors’ association, of Merit- phis, through a committee, beg tlmt there shall bo no Mardi Gras this season. Thoy say: “Wo have recent ly bqen the recipients of the world’s sympathy and charity. More recent^ ly still, wo have had to appeal to the sympathies and ask tho aid of oiii- logislatnrc for relief. ,Now, it seems, to us tlmt self-respect and due regard! for the opinions of-our follow-citizonsi, abroad, should prevent the usual, carnival of February. Tlioro is too' much want of the needs ariesof life —too much apprehension of epidem ics; thero are too many unemployed persons-*—too njiiny nowly-mndo graves—t o o many , widows and orphans—too many broken hearts,, for any such merry-making as Mardi: Gras.” • The state of Maryland 1ms just built a work-house for tramps, near Baltimore, at a cost of $324,000, ujw on a plot of ground 500 feet long ondi. 300 wido, surrounded by u liigh.w.all.. Tho interior is made up of work shops und cells. Tho statiijo for commitment reads: “It shall 1$ tho, duty of every justice of poaco of' tUe - state to euutfo to’ bo arrested and, mi duo proof, to commit any vagrant, or habitually disorderly person, not insane, to this institution for a pc, riod of not less than two or more tlmi) six months.” It is expeoted tlmt this will very soon rid the state of Maryland of the tramp nuisance. The natives of Afghanistan find fault with the British troops, because they fight on Sunday instead of hold ing religious services.—Free Press.