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ATLANTA INDEPENDENT.
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Franklin and his Paper. —Soon af
terhis establishment in Philadelphia,
Franklin wrs offered a piece for pub
lication in liis newspaper. Being very
busy, he begged the gentfemau would
leave it for consideration. The next
day the author called, and asked his
opinion of it.
“ Why sir,” replied Franklin, “I am
sorry to say I think it highly scurrilous
, and de&uuatory. I> ut being at a loss,
on account of my poverty, whether to
reject it or not, thought I would put it
to this issue. At night when my
work was done, I bought a two-pennv
-ioaf, on which I supped heartily, and
then I wrapped myself in my great
coat, slept soundly on the floor till
morning, when another loaf and a mug
of water afforded a pleasant breakfast.
Now, sir, since T can live in this man
ner very comfortably, why should I
prostitute my press to personal hatred
or party passion for a more luxurious
living?*
One cannot read this anecdote of our
American sage without thinking of
Socrates’ reply to King Arehelaus,
who had pressed him to give up preach
ing in the dirty streets of Athens, and
come and live with him in his splen
did courts.
“Meal, please your majesty, is half
penny a peck at Athens, and water I
get for nothing.”
English Marriage Laws.— Not the
least of the barbarism still clinging to
the'inarriage laws of England is that
one making it unlawful to be married
after twelve o’clock in the day. It is
almost past belief that such a law ex
ists, but it is said to be a fact by the
“ Pall-Mall Gazette.-’
“OWE NO MAX ANYTHING.”*,
Atlanta, Ga. Thursday, May 9, 1872.
Influence.— A gentleman lecturing
in the neighborhood of London, said,—
“Everybody has influence, even that
child,” and he pointed to a little girl
in her lather’s arms.
“That’s cried the iqpn.^
VAt theelooche said to the lecturer, ~
“ I beg your pardon, sir, but I could
not help speaking. I was a drtmkard;
but as 1 did not like to go to the pub
lic house alone, I used to carry this
child. As I approached the public
house one night, hearing a great noise
inside, she said,—
“ Don’t go, father!”
Hold your tongue child !”
“ Please father, don’t go!”
“Hold your tongue!” I said,
“ Presently I felt a big tear fall on
my cheek. 1 could not go a step
further, sir, I turned round and went
home, and have never been in the pub
lic house since—thank God tor it! I
am now a happj' man, sir, and this lit
tle girl has done it all; and when you
said that even she had influence, I
could not help saftlig, *xiiat J s so; sir.*
All have influence.”
A person who was called into court
for the purpose of proving the correct
ness of a doctor’s bill was asked by a
lawyer whether “the doctor did not
make several visits after the patient
was out ot danger ?” “ No,” replied
the witness, “I consider the patient in
danger as long as he continues his vis
its.”
The New York Tribune says: ‘We
have just received a receipt for the
cure of diptheria, from a physician who
says that of one thousand nine hun
dred cases in which it has been used,
not a single patient has been lost.
The treatment consists in thoroughly
swabbing of the mouth and
throat with a wash made thus: of table
salt, two drachms; black pepper, gold
en seal, nitrate of potash, alum, one
draclim each. Mix and pulverize, put
put into a tea cup half full of water, stir
well, and then till up with good cider
vinegar. Use every half hour, one,
two and four hours, as recovery pro
gresses. The patient may swallow a
little each time. Apply one ounce
each of spirits turpentine, sweet oil,
aqua ammonia, mixed, every hour, to
the whole of the throat, and to the
breast bone every four hours, keeping
flannel to the part.
Castilian Pride. —Probably but a
small proportion of our readers were
aware that Spain was at war with half
the countries in South America, and
has been for some scores of years. It
has been a most comical sort ot war,
one possible only for a State like Spain,
too proud to perceive its own ridiculous
ly humiliating position. Spain could
not endure to recognize the independ
ence of its colonies, and it had not the
strength to tight them. So there has
been a long cessation of actual hostili
ties, but no declared peace. Our gov
ernment offered its mediation to the
peaceful belligerents, and has been suc
cessful. But does the reader suppose
peace to have been declared ? Oh, no.
Spain could not brook such an indigni
ty. England might be so poor-spirited
as to acknowledge the independence
of her colonies; but Spain never! But
pragmatical Spain would consent to
agree to “a general armistice
and that is solemnly declared by the
plenipotentiaries of of Pern v
C?»ju, ILoitadoi , ltd r! f ii*,. xjy.i 1 1 IS
not a peace. By no means. And Spain
has not ack no wedged the independence
of the allied republics, nor will she ever!
Srißrr of the Age.—A distinguish
ed admiral in our navy tells a good
one ot his ten year-old lad, a very
bright boy who has been brought up
in the Episcopal church. Coming
home from school the other day ho in
formed his mother that, in common
with all the boys in school, he had that
day received twenty-flve bad marks.
“Fur what, pray?” “Oh, because the
teacher asked us to repeat the second
commandment, and none of us did it.”
“ Why, my boy, you certainly knew
that. Why did you not repeat it?”
“ Os course I new* it, but do you think I
was going to stand up there and rope** ■
and have all the boys think I was re
ligious?” —Proof Sheet.
A country curate complained to old
Dr. Ruth that lie received only flve
pounds for preaching a certain sermon
at Oxford. “Five pounds!” said the
doctor; “why I wouldn’t have preached
that sermon for fifty !”
A young man being asked why the
hair on the top of his head was so thin,
replied: “ The girls tore it out pulling
mein at the window.”
No. 17.