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VOL. t. DUBLIN, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1879. NO 48. DO NOT PART. BY MRS. M. A. KIDDER. Do not, oh / unhappy wife, Sever lightly life from life, Trust Mm yet a little longer. Once he was a helpmeet true, Once he thought of none but you— Trust him ; he may yet be stronger. You have walked for m&ny years With him through this vale of tears, And you got on well together, Till that angry word was said— Till (hat cloud appeared o’erliead That betokened stormy w6atlicr. When the flowers had not a thorn, Little ones to you were born, Till your bark seemed golden-freiglit- edj And the neighbors oft would say, Looking on you day by day, “Show me any so well mated.” Now that you are growing gray, And he has not long to stay, Why, 01 why should you be parted? Should vou break the bond and go, He will never better grow And you may be broken-hearted. Do not, oh/ unhappy wife, Lightly sever life from life, Trust him yet a little longer. Once he was a helpmeet-true, Once he thought of none but you, Trust him ; he may yet be stronger. UNCLE JEHOItAM’S WED DING GIFT. “Girls! girls!” cried I, triumphant ly, waving an old-fashioned yellow envelope in the sunny September air, “I’ve got a letter from uncle Jeho- rum “Open itl” cried Nelly Pinklnim, who.was my first bride-maid. “Do let us hear what ho says,” chimed in Alice Eden, my sccoud. So I sat down on the big traveling- trunk, with my hair all down my back. I had just unfastened it for Nolly to experiment a little with the bridal wreath, and, with the bevy of girls clustering' iirouud me, I broke the seal pf uncle. Jehoram's letter and read it. aloud wit\f'irll the elocutiona ry airs and graces thijjt l had learned at Madame Biflitonus “Institute.” “DEAK'-eNuscE”—it said, ifi queer, lit|)f™cramned hand like the characters oft a Chinese tea-chest-- “Yours of 21st iust. duly received Am glad to hear that yon are to be married to a worthy young man who is able to support you. Accept my f ood wishes. By this days express send you a present which I hope you may find useful—and no more at present from your affectionate uncle, Jehoham Johnston. “There!” cried 1. “What do you think of tliat'i” Alice Eden clapped her dimpled bauds. “The old darling cried!”cried she. “It’s a real cassirncre shawl, Nanny, you may be very certain!” “Or, perhaps a Persian rug,” said Nelly Pinkman, “all dim blues and greens and delic’.ous blotches of yel low!”'* “The deed of a house and lot!” said Mary Moxley. “Diamonds most likely !” interpos ed Juliet Grey'son. “Or real Orien- tial pearls each one as big as a tear drop/” “He’s very .rich isn’t he?” said Alice. “Of course he is,” said 1, “or at least, I’ve always heard so.” “And an old bachelor?” “Yes, an old bachelor!” “But he. doesn’t say whether or not he’s coming to the whdding!” “Of course he'll come!” said I. “What is he like?” questioned Nelly, thoughtfully. 1" burnt out laughing. “I)o you know girls?” said I “that I never saw him in my life!” And then Harry came in with delicions little boquet of rosebuds, and, of course, that put everything else out of their beads. For my hair had to be twTited up in a hurry, and Harry would insist on seeing the wedding wreath and vail on, and an exquisite tete-a-tete set of real pink Sevres came in from Mrs. Montagu Jekyll, and we never thought of un cle Jehoram again until next day, wheu there was a prodig* us peal at the door-bell, just as we were all sit ting down to a gipsy sort of tea, in the old scliool-rooin—the parlors and dining-room were in the hands of the confectioner’s men—and Betty the maid, made her appearance with a puzzled expression of face. “It’s a bundle ma’am!” said she: “come by express, with Mr. Jeho ram Johnson’s compliments on a card.” I jumped tip oversetting a cup of tea and a plate of peaches and cream, all excitement. “Bring it in here, Betty,” cried I, at once !” “Bless your heart, Miss,” said Betty, “it’ud-take four men to lift it! ' The expressman he swore awful when he lifted it up the steps, and said it ought to be pfcid double- rates !” ‘ „ We looked at each other in a sort of delightful bewilderment. “It must ho somoting very valua ble,” said. Juliet breathlessly. “A sewing machine perhaps?” sug gested Harry. “Nonsense !” cried Alice. “As if a rich old uncle would send anything as pokey and commonplace as that?' “Well, perhaps it might help to solve the riddle somewhat,” said Harry, gravely, “if we were to go out and look at it/” And at this suggestion we all rush ed out en masse. There in the middle of the marble- paved hall stood a huge, oblong bun dle, some three feet high, and wide in proportion. ‘No wonder the expressman swore!” said Harry with a shrug of the shoulders. “It’s carpeting?”* “Oli, the dear old creature!” cried Nelly. “A real Ahusson from Paris Oh, do opeiyit, somebody!” Harry slowly produced from his vest pocket a tortoise-shcll-luindlod knife, and ripped the coarse burlaps Covering which enveloped the parcel. We all started back. “A rag carpet!” exclaimed my husband-elect. “A common coarse, thing only fit for a dustman’s kitchen!” cried Nel ly Pinkham; while Alice Eden, who had worked- herself up into a high state of nervous expectation, burst into tears. “Who over heard of such a thing!” said Juliet Grey son. disdainfully. “The horrid, mean old miser!” “Girls!” cried I; recovering myself as best I could, “you must not talk so. Uncle Jehoram meant it all in kindness. I dare say he thought 1 could muke it useful—and I mean to accept it in the spirit in which it was offered.” Harry stooped down-and gave me a kiss. “Yoii’ro a dexr, sensible little thing,” said he; “and uncle Jehoram has a right to be proud of his niece.” “Bnt you’ll never put it on exhi bition with the other presents?” said Al : ce, incredulously. “Of course I shall,” said I. And I did. And the girls never never knew of the little private “cry” I had all by myself when they thought I was selecting the prettiest flowers to decorate, the big bride-cake, for had expected something very niece from the rich old bachelor tiuclo whom I had never seen, and some how the bundle of striped rug car peting was a disappointment. Bnt the eventful day came, with its white Batin bows, and odor of hot-house flowers, and rustle of silks and luces, and uncle Jehoram’s rag carpet occupied a place of honor among the silver teupots, and china serv-ces, ‘and embroidered sofa-pil lows, and countless pretty gimcracks that burden the “present-table.” We had been married for about lialffan hour, and I was stauding be side Harry under the great floral bell, receiving the congratulations of my friends, when a queer, little brown-faced man, in a faded wig, and a suit of clothes that exactly matched his complexion, walked up to me, bowing slowly. “Wish you much joy, Mrs. Mon teith,” said he. “Thank you, sir,” snid I, trying to remember who he was, and failing altogether. Bu11 made up my mind that he must -be the eccentric little Methodist minister who lived around the corner, and who was in the habit, of going where lie pleased, whether he was invited or not. “I’ve been looking at your wed ding presents,” said he. “Curious thing, that bundle of rag carpet/” pointing at it with his nobby walking stick. “Shouldn’t have supposed yon’d have put that among your pret ty gimcracks.” ‘Well, it is rather a strange gift,” said my husband, “particularly as it came from it rich old curmudgeon, who—” But I checked Harry wTtli a look. “From a dear relative of mino,” said I, “whoso kind remembrance gratifies me beyond expression!” “Oh l” said the little brown man, looking from Harry to mo with keen, bright eyes like those of a bird. “You’re pleased with it, then?” “More pleased than I can op press!” I answered earnestly. “Hump!” commented the little old man. “Would you object to having it lifted down and unrolled ? I’ve some curiosity to look at the pattern ?” It was a strange request, but we scarcely knew how-to lefuse it; and presently the gay stripes of the rag carpet were unrolled on the floor be fore' the astounded eyes of our wed ding guests, yard upon yard, back wards and forwards, until, from the very heart of tho tightly-packed cyl inder, out fell a small, bluek, leather box!” “Eli!” said the little brown man, pouncing on it more like a bird than over."- ‘AWJiat’sG this,?. Not — clip, month?" ..... Diamonds in good truth. The sbiuti Uniting blaze of a necklace 1 ^— the glitter of solitaire ear-drops that nearly dazzled onr eyes’! “Uncle Jehoram! It.is uncle Je horam!” cried I, the scales suddenly falling from my mental vision. “Niece!” said the little.man, as he ceremoniously hung tho sparkling chain around my nock, “if you had scornfully rejected tho old man’s homely present* .and sent it back to him, as some young women would have done, you never would have discovered the secret of the old fitmi ly diamonds. Niece, yon arc a sen sible girl, and I congratulate your husband on tho possession of a treas ure more precious than rubies !” And on this undo Jehoram John son made a curious little bow, like a jack-kuifc shutting itself up, and disappeared among the crowd. And from that moment to this I have nevor seen him, although he writes me a kind letter every year, declin ing all invitations to visit us. “I am but myself,” ho writes “When I die, you will find that I have not forgotten you. Un til then, letTne live on, like the soli tary old oyster that I have taught myself to bo!” And the rag carpet covers the floor of our second guest-chamber, which is furnished after a substtincial stylo, and the diamonds arc the envy and admiration of all my female friends! Memphis Appeal: What tho South most -needs just now is colonies of Northern or European immigrants, who will take up large tracts of land, divide them into small farms, and subject them to intelligent and thor ough cultivation. Colonics ranging iu number from ten families to a hundred could settle and divide up from a thousand to ten thousand acres of land. Land is plentiful und can be purchased at prices rang ing from twenty-five cents to five and ten dollars per acre, on easy terms. The sugar cane crop of Lousianu will amount this season to 225,000 bogheads, or 250,000,000 pounds, worth $14,025,000, and the yield of molasses to 300,000 barrels, worth $3,000,000. Last year the nroduc tion of sugar was less than 150,000, 000 pounds, and that of molasses in proportion. A TOOTHACHE SAINT. How Sufferers of Old Sought Re lief 1 Vo m Torture. In the Botnan Calondar the patron saiut of fchpso afflicted with toothache is found in St. Appolonin. She is specially invoked by racKod sufforers, according to Bishop Jowel; and tho “Fantussio of Idolatrie,” printed in Fore’s “Aots and Monuments,” bus: "To Saynt Sytli for my purse; Saint Loyo sauc my liorso : For my teeth to Saynt Apolyno." In tho ltoyul Library at Stockholm is preserved a numusonpt chm m for toothache, consisting of a Latin prayer to this saint. At Bonn-oi» the-Rhino a tooth, said to have boon ope of hers, is shown in a glass case in the church on the saint's day, und is devoutly kissed—jjf e., tho oase containing tho tooth, not tho prooious relic itself—by people of both sexos, as a preventive against toothache. One of the most popular charms against the complaint consists in carrying the following form of words somewhere about tho person: “Ass Sant Peter sat. at the gents of Jcrn- sultn our Blessed Lord and Savour Jesus Christ piu-sod bv and saod, What Eleth thee lice sued Lord my Teeth ecketh ho sued arise ane follow mo and * thy Teeth shall nover Eako Eny moor. Flat t Eiat t Eiat.” This is a transcript of a Lancashire version, and should bo worn inside tho vest or slays over tho left breast. Under slightly differing forms this charm is very # eommon throughout England, Scotland and Ireland. Two copies arc preserved in tho Edinburgh Museum which were worn as late as 1855 aucl 1869., Another form of written charm was given up by a young woman at Chelsea to tlie late 1 cardinal* Weld. It was carefully scaled, tho penalty for opening it be&g a return of the. toothache, and consisted of tho wo.rds: "Good ilovil, cure her, And take her for your pains.” A cure the girl would probably dis like ut tho cost. Bishop. Hall, in his character of Virtues and Vices, says of the superstitious man: “Ho wears Punicolsian characters for the toothache.” Printers and Printing. Many who condescond to illumi mile this dark world with the fire of their genius through tho columns of u"nowspapor little think of tho Inf. of -tho printer, who sits up at mid night to correct their false grammar and orthography und worse punotuu- tion. Wo have seen the arguments of lawyers, in high repute as scholars, sent to the printer in their own hand writing, ninny words — especially technical and foroign terms—abbre viated, words misspelled and fow or no points, and these few, if any, cor tftinly in tho wrong places. Wo have seen the Bormons of oininont ‘divines’ sent to the press without points or capitals to designate the divisions of the sentences; also tho letters of tho political and scientific correspond ents. Suppose all those had been so printed—the printer would have boon treated with scorn and contempt. No one would have believed that such gross and palpablo faults Wore owing t:> the ignorance or carelessness of tho author ; and no one but the practical printer knows how many hours the compositor, and after hint tho proof reader, is compelled to spend in roduoilier to readable condi tion manuscript that often writers thomselves would be puzzled to read. —Ex. last and Boggs’ opponent Bcoopod in tho oonstublcship by a two thirds vote. The anti-Boggs party swept their candidate into office on the tidal wavo of popularity, aud poor' Boggs- was left perched high up on tho* spike-mounted picket-fence cvff de spair. Boggs will never run for office again, not oven for President. Ho says it is too groat u strain'oiu character. If lie can regain the esteem of bis neighbors by grubbing along in the old way, lie intends to do it, and leavo office-seeking to people of cast iron reputation. Boggs is just coming to his souses. Boggs was as peaceable a man as ever lived. Ho was sober, honest and respect ed. He bad never pounded his wife. Never taken any interest, in a dog fight. v: Hud. never, been known to pawn somebody olse's.wntob. , And never had attempted to steal a saw mill. character was above re Bible Errol's. Herb is a bit of information which will do for that conventional Borup- book which ia tho property of every well-regulated household. Many edi tions of the Biblo have been published during the last 300 yours, and into not a few of them some peculiar errors have crept. What, is known as tho “Breeches Biblo” (Geneva, 1560) was so called becauso Genesis iii., 7, was translated : “They sewed fig leaves together and made them selves breeches,” insfead of “aprons,” as in tho English version now used. In the “Trcaclo Bible (1568) Jere miah viii., 22, was made to read:. “Is there no treacle in Gilead,” etc., ir.stead of “balm,” and in 1609 the word was changed to “rosin;” ‘balm’ was first used in 1011. Tho “Vine gar Bible,” printed in Oxford in 1717, by John Basket, derives its pame from the heading of Luke xx., which was niude to read: “Tho par able of the vinegar.” The book bad many other errors, from which it has also been called, after tho print er’s mime, “A basket of errors.” In 1631 a Bible was printed in England, and in 7732 another appeared iu Ger many, both of which made the seventh commandment read: “Thou shalt commit adultery,” the word “not” being omitted. It has been very appropriately called tho “Wick ed Bible.” __ Boston Post: “It is extremely funny to read in tho Republican papers of the period iialicized and small-capped typographical shrieks of R-r-r-evolution, und along in par allel columns stiff puffs of Secretary Sherman’s refunding success, which could nevor be unless the country was as peaceful as a lamb in grassy How Boggs Ran l'or Office. lie was a shining light iu society. All Boggtfvillo looked up- to and honorod him. But a change camo, a fearful, cliro- ful cliungo. In an evil hour Boggs accepted the nomination for tonstable of his native village. Alas ! poor Boggs ! Little did ho understand the deceit and treachery of the wicked world. His eyes wore spoil opened, how ever. In less than a week after he was nominated tho opposition had fully established the following damaging ehurgos against his character : 1. That ho was a free lover and an infidel. 2. That- ho had fed his neighbor’s liens on poisoned corn. 3. That heJiad brokenhis mothor- jn-law’s jaw with an iron boot jack. 4. That lie on one occasion gave a wagon load of green watermelons to an orphan asylum. 5. That he had served a term in tho State Prison for horsestealing. 6. That ho had set fire to his next neighbors barn, merely because ho refused to.lond him a hoe. 7. That because he had found a button off his shirt, he tied his wife to the bed post und mushed iu three of her ribs with tho stove poker. 8. That hip chief Sunday amuse ments were cock-fighting und card playing. 9. That ho sold his vote oycrv year regularly to tho highest bidder. 10. That lie wasn’t tit for the place anyhow. These charges, though without the slightest foundation, were religiously believed by a majority of tho voters of Boggsville. And Boggs’ political goose was cooked. His chances for being elected were not worth three cents on tho dollar. When Boggs passed along the street, his neighbors looked at him witli suspicion und crossed over on the other side. Boggs wa9 a miserable being. Tho clay of town-meeting came at A Duel in the Dark. Bravery, or born insensibility to fear, is unlike courage, which sees and fools danger, but overcomes any sense of .rtppi'ohpnsion by pride, reso lution and force of will. Bravery is naturally much rarer than courage, and, being rather physical than mor al, is not sojtigh a quality. There are those wl*o oontond that bravery, in its full, ideal significance, does not exist; that it is always influenced by sonic ox tornal oirciimstunco or de pendent on something bolides itsolf. ■This story illustrates tho opinion: At a dinner party in Paris, forty odd years ago, woro prosont a number of the veterans of tho Napoleonic : wars and younger officers of tho linny. I’lie conversation having turned up on bmverv, the venerable Goiioral Kxoolsnmn, who luul bo distinguished himself i,t Ausloriitz and in the dis astrous Russian oampaign and had emnma’uiled ii calvary corps at Waterloo, startled the young officers by declaring t hat all men were cow ards in the dark, and told this anec dote to sustain Ills position : A youthful nontenant in the omporor’s service, burning for distinction, and having no opportunity to gain it at Iho time, chose to construe the re marks of an older and suporior officer into an affront, and challenged him. The latter, waving all difference of rank accepted, the strangojKjnns be ing that they should moot at night in a dark room, the seconds retiring with the candles after placing tho weapons in their adversaries’ hands, giving tho word from tho .outside, and entering after each report. Tho principals woro put in opposito cor ners, the' youngor having won £fbo first fire. As soon as his p’stol had boon heard, tho seconds rushed in and found the elder officer upright, with a bullet-hole so near his head that his cscupo seemed well nigh mi raculous. It whs now his turn. Tho candles wore again removed, uud tho next discharge brought the seconds again in tho room. The young officer lay prostrate.. They thought ho had been mortally hurt, and, hurrying to his side, found to thoir amazement ho had not lieon touched. Ho was overwhelmed with confusion, uud tho seconds begun abusing him (or his polfrooiwvy in lying down to avoid his antagonist’s ball, which would coftiiiny have kill ed him lmd ho stood up. Tlisjr wore interrupted by the older officer witli these words: “Not so fast, my friends. Don’t censure tho young man. Where do you think I was at the first fire? On my hands and knees in the'corner; bnt was up quicker tlmn ho.. His agility, not his courage, is to bo called in ques tion. By my faith, gentlemen, wo are all cowards in the dark.” It was afterward whispered through tho compuny that tho anecdote was strictly true, and tho principal of it was no other than Kxcelsman him self, who had shown prodigies of valor i.t Eylau, Fried land and Boro dino. No woman bus over yet been found wild run walk past a tli nisuiid mil:- iicry stores in a thousand consecutive hours.