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Vol. I. ORANGEBURGr, S. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1879. ISTo. 38.
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BR?HEN HEARTS.
.-A DISEASE THAT IS SOMETIMES DESO
LATING IN ITS EFFECTS.
It, is a common practice with those
who have outlived the susceptibility
of early feeling, or have been brought
up in the gajr hcartiessness of dissi
pated life, to laugh at all love stories,
aud to treat the tales of romantic
passion as more fictions of novelists
"hud poets. My observation on hu
man nature have induced tnc to think
otherwise- They have convinced me,
that however the surface of the char
acter may be chilled and fro/cned by
the cares of the world, or cultivated
into mere smiles by the arts of socie
ty, still there are donnaut fires lurk
ing in the depths of the coldest bos
om, which when once enkindled, be
come impetuous, and are sometimes
desolating in their effects. Indeed,
I am a true believer in the blind des
tiny, and go to the full extent of his
doctrines. Shall I confess it! I be
lieve in broken hearts, and the possi
bility of dying of disappointed love.
I do not however, consider it a mala
dy often fatal to my own sex ; but I
firmly believe that it withers down
many a lovely woman into an early
grave.
Man is in the centre of interest and
ambition. His nature leads him
forth into the struggle and bustle of
the world. Love is but the embel
lishment of his early life, or a song
piped in the intervals of the acts. He
seeks for fame, for lorlunc, for space
in the world's thought and dominion
over his fellow man. But a woman's
whole life is a history of the affec
tions. The heart is her world ; it is
there her ambition strives for em
pire ; it is there her avarice seeks for
hidden treasures. She sends forth
her sympathies on adventure; she
embarks her whole soul in the traffic
of affection ; and if shipwrecked, her
case is hopeless?for it is a bankrupt
cy of the heart.
To a man the disappointment of
love may occasion some pangs; iL
wounds some feelings of tenderness;
it blasts some prospects of felicity ;
but he is an active being?he may
dissipate his thoughts in the whirl ol
varied occupation, or may plunge in
to the tide of pleasure; or, if the
scene of disappointment be too full of
painful association, he can shift his
abode at will, aud taking as it were
the wings of the morning, can "fly to
the uttermost parts of the earth, and
be at rest." ,
But woman's is comparatively a
fixed, a secluded, and a meditative
life. She is more the companion of
her own thoughts and feelings ; and
if they are turned to ministers of sor
row, where shall she look for consola
tion? Her lot is to be wooed and
won ; and if unhappy in her love, her
heart is like some fortress that has
been captured, and sacked, and aban
doned and left desolate.
How many bright eyes grow dim ;
how many checks grow pale; how
many lovelj' forms fade away into
the tomb, and none can tell the cause
that blighted their lovliness ! As the
dove will clasp its wings to its side,
and cover and conceal the arrow that
is preying on its vitals, so it is the
nature of woman to hide from the
world the pangs of wounded affec
tion. The love of a delicate female
is always shy and silent. I.vcn when
fortunate, she scared}' breathes it to
herself; but when otherwise, she
buries it in the recesses of her bosom,
and there lets it cower and brood
among the ruins of her pence. With
her the desires of the heart has failed.
The great charm of existence is at an
end. She neglects all the cheerful
exercises which gladden the spirits,
quicken the pulses, and send the tide
ot life in healthful currents through
the viens. Her rest is broken?the
sweet refreshment of sleep is poison
ed by melancholy dreams?"dry sor
row drinks her blood," until her en
leobled frame sinks under the slight
est external injury. Look for her,
after a little while, and you will find
friendship weeping over her untimely
grave, and wondering that one who
but lately glowed with all the radi
ance of health and beauty, should so
speedily be brought down to "dark
ness and t|ie worm," You will be
told of sorao wintry chill, some casu
al indisposition Unit laid her low;
but no ono knows of Hie mental mal
ady that previously sapped her
strength, and made her so easy n
prey to the spoiler.
She is like some tender tree, tho
prido and beauty of the grove ; grace
ful in its form, bright in its foliage,
but with the worm preying at its
heart. We 11 ml it suddenly wither
ing, when it should be most fresh and
luxuriant. We seo it drooping its
branches to the earth, and shedding
leaf by loaf; until, wanted and per
ished away, it falls even in the still
ness of the forest; and, as we muse
over the beautiful ruin, wo strive in
vain to recollect the blast or thunder
bolt that could hav ? smitton it with
decay.
Couldn't Stop Her.
The gates at the passenger depots
which shut out all people not having
tickets for the trains were yesterday
closed at the Union Depot against an
elderly woman wearing spectacles and
using a.i umbrella for a cano.
"Can't pass without a ticket," said
the man at the gate as she ctunc.
"I want to sr-c if there's anybody
on that train going to Port Huron,"
she answered.
"Can't pass without a ticket, mad
am."
"I've got a darter in Port Huron, I
have."
"Can't help it, please. My orders
are very strict."
"I tell you I want to send word to
my darter !" she exclaimed, adjusting
her spectacles for a better view of the
official.
"Yes, but wc cau't help that, you
sec. Please show your ticket."
"I want this 'ere railroad to under
stand that I've got a darter in Port
Huron, and she's got a baby four j
weeks old, and I'm going tosend her
up word in spite of all the gates in
this depot."
"Please show your ticket, uiadam."
"I tell you once more"?
"Please show your ticket, madam."
She gave the old umbrella a whirl
and brought it down on his head with
the vim of an old-fashioned log-rais
ing, and as be staggered aside she
passed him and said:
"There's ?13' ticket, sir, and I've
got more behind it! Af ebbe one man
and a gate stop me from sending
word to my darter to grease the ba
by's nose with mutton tallow if the
weather changes cold, but I don't be
lieve i' IV
And she walked down to the train,
found some one going to Port Huron,
and came back carelessly humming
the melody of "The Three Blind
Mice."?Free Press.
What Makes Home Happy.
If home is the kingdom of God, and
the kingdom of God home may he, it
is because the spirit of God is there.
It is because the woman who is the
queen of that home makes homo the
centre of her thought, her hope and
her prayer. It is because the man
who hay sworn to love her, to honor
her, and to cherish her, knows that he
best keeps his oath by making her
home and his home glad, cheerful and
beautiful; because he does not neglect
it and desert it. To them there grow
up children next their hand ; who are
glad to surprise their mother with a
new pleasure, or to relievo her from
some old care ; children who find their
father their best companion, and who
have no secret from him from boy
hood's and girlhood's joys and sor
rows. The original trinity, the trinity
from which all scholastic and ecclesi
astical trinities were formed, is the
sacred triuity of the father, the moth
er and the child, one in three and
three in one. It is a life individual;
a life only perfect when each share
with each, each is intertwined with
each, and each sustains all.?Edward
Everett Hale,
Good News for the Girls.
\Vre learn that a club is being form
ed in Beaufort by the young men to
he known as the "Yum Yum Club."
The object of the club will be for
charitable purposes; and, judg
ing from the young men who have
already joined, the object will be suc
cessfully carried out. One article of
their constitution provides for the
protection of old maids. Another
imposes a fine on any member who
jshull visit a young lady three times
without being successful Id kissing.
her goodnight at the door ; another
makes it a fine of 85 on any member
who takes over twenty-four drinks a
day. A*, the next regular meeting
permanent oflleors will be elected.?
Augusta Evening Nctos.
Thk virtue of a man ought to be
measured, not by his extraordinary
exertions, b.qt by his every day con
duct.
Hateful.
The death of the Confederate Gen
ejal, J. B. Hood, removes from the
domain of tho perceptible another
leader, in the State sovereignty rebel
lion, and another obstacle to tho
Norlhernization of Southern society,
so essential to the unification of the
national character and the prosperity
of tho Southern section. Gen. Hood
was not, however, so great an obsta
cle as many other conspicuous chiefs
of the rebellion that are still alive,
for he was not a politician, and took
no active part in political affairs.
His death is, therefore, not an event
of the same benefit to the South, or
tho country, that tho death of Jeff.
Davis, or Joseph K. Chalmers, or C.
E. Hooker, or Governor Blackburn,
or Ben Hill would be.?Chicago
Times.
If anything answering the form of
a man can sink lower than this mis
erable piece of ignoble malice, we
have failed to reach it in human
I history. Hero is a maimed soldier
literally hacked in a hundred fights,
Jone who had retired from the field for
ever, seeking the support of his large
family as best he could, in no way
interfering with public affairs, simply
I living the life of a good citizen, as he
promised when paroled, who falls a
few days after Iiis wife, swept away
by a pestilence, leaving a large fami
ly of helpless children, aud this
wretch in human shape, standing
afar off, utters an anathema in the
presence of these distressed, forlorn
little children which would shock a
a hyena. May God have mercy on
you, mau, for surely judgment
awaits you as it did Ananias aud Sap
phira. If such a hell-born hale be
"the Norlhernization of Southern so
ciety" contemplated, we devoutly
pray that we may, one and all, man,
woman and child, sleep where Hood
sleeps before it comes to us and ours.
Such a chuckle over the death of
Grant, or Sherman, or Sheridan from
a Southern journal would put the
brand of Cain on the brow of such a
man in any patt of the South; but
Chicago has a law unto itself, and
this may be admissible among the
Chicagoans, though we sincerely hope
it is not.? Columbia Register.
A Monstrosity.
There is in Kaufman, Texas, a lit
tle negro girl, about five years old,
bearing in many respects a striking
resemblance to a logger head turtle.
The nose is hardly more than an idea,
while the eyes have that peculiar and
unintelligible stare as if looking eve.
rywhere and seeing nothing. From
the back of the neck downward an
impression is easily distinguishable
resembling the breast-bone of the tur
tle. All the limbs are deformed,
ending in web-fooled claws, as if
drawn up by an application of hot
water. This monstrosity, strange as
it may seem, possesses the power of
speech and shows a degree of intelli
gence entirely at variance with all
heretofore preconceived ideas of an
intelligent countenance. With an
appetite which is insatiable in its de
mands, and a fondness for raw meats,
especially fish ; a courage, or rather
an incapability to appreciate danger ;
a love for aquatic sports and a wild
joy in the water renders the negio
girl, if such she may be called, a phe
nomenon unrqunlcd in this or any
other country.
Naughty Blue Jeans.
Several years ago the ladies of
Louisville, Ivy., mado a present of a
suit of jeans to old "Blue Jeans"
Williams, of Indiana. The other day
Williams uttended the inauguration
of the distinguished disseminator of
yellow fever and small pox, who is
now Governor of Kentucky, and Wil
liams mado a speech. During his re
j marks he said: "To the ladies of
Kentucky he was bound by peouliar
tics of gratitude and admiration, for
he had come to the ladies of Louis
ville naked, and they had clothed
him." Blue Jeans never had a habit
of putting things delicately.
This is what Ilobert G. Ingcrsoll
says of the women : "I tell you wo
men arc more prudent than men. 1
tell you, as a rule, women arc more
faithful than men?ten times as faith
ful as men. I never saw a man pur
sue his wife into the very ditch and
dust of degradation and take her in
his arms. I never saw a man stand
at tho shore whore sho has been mor
ally wrecked waiting for the waves to
bring back even her corpse to his
arms ; hut I have seen woman with
her white arms lift man from the mire
of degredation, and hold him to her
[ bosom as though ho were an angel."
GIRLHOOD'S PERILS.
?o?
SAFE HULE FOR YOUNti LADIES IN THEIR
RELATIONS WITH YOUSU MEN.
We copied yesterday, says the Ro
chester Herald, a brief nrtielo from an
oxebnnge, warning young ladies to
beware of favoring the attentions of
men who cannot, with reason, bo ex
pected to marry thorn. Men, whose
intentions arc honorable, woo girls at
their homes, and not by stealth and
in out-of-the-way places.
It is difllcult to persuade an Amer
ican girl that she cannot take care of
herself. The customs oj our society
throw her early' on her own resources.
While still in her teens she enters so
ciety and associates with persons of
the opposite sex on walks, drives and
excursions. Her mother seldom thinks
of providing a. female companion for
the daughter, but trusts wholly to
tho purity and modesty of the latter
to protect her from advances in the
company of meu which will compro
mise ber good name. And it should
be remembered that tho girls of no
other country are so worthy of this
confidence. Thrown upon their own
responsibility the vast majority of
them pass the ordeal unscathed, and
when they marry are as chaste in
thought and life as though they had
never passed the precincts of their
homes without the companionship of
their mothers. They become the best
of wives and mothers, true as steel to
their personal honor and to that of
their husbands.
But among the millions who stand
untarnished, there are scores and
j hundreds who fall into the mire. De
lighted with their freedom, flattered
and fascinated by the attentions of
well-dressed ami agreeably appearing
men, these use gradually thrown of
their guard, and in an evil hour, by
false and insidious promises usually,
j but sometimes thiougb the lire and
recklessness caused by wine and
I drugs, take the fatal step which for
ever separates them froni their con
sciousness of purity, and robs them
of their right to rank among the
chaste and honorable women of socie
ty. There is but one safe rule for
girls to adopt in their relations with
men, and that is to encourage no ad
vances which cannot be witnessed
and approved at home. This rule, if
observed, will save infinite sorrow
and trouble to many who even now
are treading dangerously near the
precipice. Those chance acquaint
ances which American girls arc ac
customed to make on the curs, at ex
cursions, in stores and elsewhere,
without any guarantee of the stand
ing or respectability of the men intro
duced, should be avoided. And in
all cases the judgment of a discreet
mother or some woman of discern
ment and observation should be
sought respecting the propriety of eu
couraging such acquaintances; but
above all, under no circumstances
should a promise, however solemnly
made or likely of fulllllment, sullice to
persuade a maideu to surrender her
self, with all such surrender implies,
until the law has pronounced her a
wife. No circumstances whatever
can justify such action, nnd in niue
ty-nino cases out of every hundred it
is followed by a lifo time of bitter re
morse, if not by immediate suffering
nnd disgrace.
Smaliness of the World.
Dr. Motley, after three years and a
half .spent in a voyage of scientific
exploration around the world, says
the voyage loft a deep impression of
the smaliness of the earth's surface.
Wo live in the depths of tho atmos
phere as deep as the sea animals live
in the depths of the sea. Like these
wo can crawl up into the shallows or
mount at peril in a balloon ; but the
utmost extent of our vertical range is
no greater than wo can walk horizon
tally on the earth's surface in a cou
ple of hours. If there were land the
entire length of the equator it might
be possible to run around the world
in three weeks. A walk of about
four mites a day would bring a man
from Behring Strait to Cape Hope in
about seven years. The earth as a
component part of tho universe may
be compared to a small isolated isl
and Oil its surface.
With tho Statp of California again
in the hands of tho Central Pacific
Railroad ring, and tho city of San
Francisco given over to tbp tender
mercies of Kearney's, gang, with
Mayor Kalloch at their head, it is not
probable that tho Chinese will need a
j second invitation "to go."
Critic's Farm.
Editor Orangeburg Democrat:
I think I met you on a "day out"
ntul you brought up at Critic's. Well,
as somebody enquires through the
Times for Critic, I will just sny that
I accidentally stumbled upon him,
and to look at his crop was the next
move.
But first, let me say to Santco that
he did not look well for ear marks or
ho would have known that Critic is
no other than? Let me give him
one of the car-marks, "I promised to
correct all errors published in your
agricultural column. I must be as
good us my word." Friend Critic is
not an expert at hiding Iiis personali
ty
He says: "I have this class of
lands (poor sandy) to contend with."
This has misled some. Critic's place
is A Iso. 1, with only a few sandy
knolls on which he is experimenting.
As said above, I came upon Critic ac
cidentally. Ho with along face thus,
"Fields white, with cotton going up
aud bauds all lclt to pick in the fields
for others?supposed for variety."
I thought, is this one of the phases of
farming which he finds so "pleasant"
as to wish to teach others.
Soon, however, the elongated face
assumed its usual proportions as we
weut by amber cane, black top, red
top, &c, through the rows of cotton.
So many cotton seed and straw, so
many cotton seed and salt, so man}'
of this, and so many of that. Don't
you see the difference here? Don't
you see the difference there ! Accus
ing tho whole South with cotton on
the brain; himself with another,
though I may say counteracting and
healthy weight thereon, i. e. peas.
Peas on the left of us,
Feas on the right of us,
Fcas in front of us,
Feus everywhere,
Except on a sandy knoll; here Critic
failed, and lie has been administering
a medicine to Mr. Dukes that in this
instance lie didn't take himself.
The orchard?the tree ia the cor
ner, "the Curtis," fill your pockets.
A few trees were suggestive of the
coming Fair, and a Tantalus cup to
loitering juveniles. M. L. B.
The Mania for Office
Is increasing yearly?not only in our
county, but throughout the Slate and
the United Slates. It is a terrible
disease, and when once it gets posses
sion of a person it never "lets up" on
him until the goal has been renched
or death comes in mercy and claims
the vi.tim as his own. V2or some
time past we have felt strong symp
toms of the disease stealing upon us,
but our excessive modesty has en
abled us to hold it in check pretty ef
fectually up to this time. But we
can do it no longer. Wc must speak
oul. We want an ofllcc ! Wc want
to be elected as editor of your family
paper. Do you sec the point? Very
well ; the polls ire now op:n, read)
for the ballots. Send them along.
They must be green, ami have en
dorsed on them "Two Dollars," &C,
occ. Or, if you haven't that kind of
ballot, two of the "dollars of our
daddies" will elect us just the same.
We know you can find abler candi
dates, but you cannot find one more
willing to servo you. Our patriotism,
right here, knows no bounds! Our
love for the "dear people"?our cou
slilueul8?(those who subscribe and
pay iu advance)?amounts almost to
i-dollar-try 1 Tho sacrifices we are
willing to make cannot be estimated !
On this point it may be enough to
say wo expect to devote our entire
income, after paying expenses, to the
support of the poor 1 There, now ;
show us a candidate who has ever
promised more. Your vote 1 your
vote 1 wo want your vote 1 "Denr
people," do you hear? Two dollars
sent us, in advance, will Meet us for a
year.?Edgvfield Monitor.
The Washington Fost says : "The
South will raise this year about fivo
million bales of cotton, two hundred
thousand hogsheads of sugar, and
nearly six hundred million pounds of
tobaceo. This will be a half million
more bales of cotton, twice as jnuch
sugar, and twelve million more
pounds of tobacco than she ever
raised before. Jf prices continue fair
tho South will ho comparatively rich
er when she markets the present crop
than any other auction of tho coun
try."
A man seldom improves who has
no bettor moilcl than himself.
On the Birthday of a Friend.
To-ihiy. some eighteen years ago.
A little flower sprang from earth;
Twas frail, and bright ami pure as snow,
And spreading gladness from its birth.
The parent blossom watched the bud
With tender and unceasing lovo,
And f'?r reward site saw it grow
Tho sweetest llowcr in the grove.
Perhaps, it eould not peer in grace,
Those wondrous flowers of beauty rare;
Or, nestling in its humble place,
He seen by rhose who passed it there;
But well sufficed it to engage
Tho prtdse of those who cared to view
Rather the flower of sweet perfume
Thau those of rich and gaudy hue.
Accept my verso, dearest friend;
it is lor thee their measures flow;
Be still a modest, gentle flower,
Content to humbly live and grow;
Fulfill thy mission faithfully;
itcuiembcr, it is woman's lot
To soothe, to comfort and to love,
And render earth a blessed spot.
More than Two Bales to tho Acre.
Several times during the last four
years we have taken occasion to call
attention to the new process of cotton
planting so succesfully pursued by J.
J. Crump, of this county*. The result
of this process was 1,310 pounds of
ginned cotton to the acre iu 1877,
1,000 pounds in 1878, and Ibis season
ti e prospects are good for the heavi
est yield he has ever had. For the
benefit of our readers and exchanges
wo will again give Mr. Crump's form-j
nla* lie prepares his land in Decem
ber by digging boles thiee feet from
each other, each eighteen inches
square and eighteen inches deep;
these holes he fills with manure to
within four inches of the top and the
remainder ot the way with top soil.
At the usual season he plants with
a view to having three stalks to a
bill, and piles the clay from the bot
tom of the pits as deep over their tops
as the supply will admit of, with a
view to keeping down the grass, and
thon cultivates with band and hoe,
never allowing a plow to be used.
The preparation is made in December
in Order to subdue the fiery qualities
! of the fertilizer, aud the boles when
prepared will make at least three
crops without changing their contents
?tho second crop generally being
the best, and the first nnd third being
about the same. This plan has gotten
beyond the sphere of experiment and
I there is no longer necessity for a man
[ to scrape over a dozen acres when he
can obtain more cotton and better
cotton by Mr. Crump's process.?Ab
erdeen (Miss.) Examiner.
Poor and Proud.
Young men out of business arc
sometimes sadiy hampered by pride.
Many young men who go West take
more pride than money, and bring
back all the piide and no money at
all. A young man that "works for
his board," no matter what honest
work he docs, has no reason for
shame. A young man who cuts the
bread of idleness, no matter how
much money he has, is disgraced.
All young men starting in lite ought
to aim?first of all?to find a place
where they can earn their bread and
butter with hoe, ax, spade, wheelbar
row, curry-comb, blacking brush?no
matter how. Independence first.
The bread and butter question set
tled, let the young man perform his
duty so faithfully as to attract, and
let him constantly keep his eyes open
for a chance to do better. About
half the poor, proud young men, and
two-thirds the poor, discouraged
young men, are always out of work.
The young man who pockets bis
pride, and carries an upper lip as
stiff n9 a cast-iron doorstep scraper
need not sta:ve, and stands a good
chance to become rich.
As he sat upon the steps, on Sun
day evening, he claimed the right to
! a kiss for every shooting star. She
I at first demurred, as became a mo
dest maiden, but finally yielded. She
was even so accommodating as to
call his attention to the flying melc
oi? that were about to escape bis ob
servation, and then got to calling
him on lightning bugs* and at las*
got him down to steady work on the
light of a lantern that a man was
swinging about the depot in tho dis
tance, where trains were switching.
Are you going to sow oats liberal
ly this fall? Do not sit still arid
talk about the dry spell, and tell your
neighbors what you would have
made if it had rained in time, but got
up and sow a large oat crop, so that
you may not have to buy corn next
year. One aero of good Und put jo
oats will make feed enough .for one
horso or mule for three or four
months, and if you make more than
you wish, thoy are always ready sale.
4JKA'. MOOD'S CHILDREN.
"J5EQUE ATHEJ) TO TUE SOLDIERS Ol
TUE SOUTH."
On Tuesday we learned that Gen.
j. B. Hood bad bis life insured 41m:
850,000, and tins amount would come
to Iiis children at once. Desiring to
be perfectly assured upon this poinli
and feeling that if the report woce
true-, there was no use-collecting funds
for the children, we telegraphed to
the New Orleans Picayune for precise
information as to their condition.
The following dispatch was received
in answer z
"New Orleans, September 2.?
General Hood left absolutely fKiibing.
The benevolent association, the army
of Northern Virginia and other par
lies here are at work preparing to
raise a fund for the support of the
children. With his dying breath he
bequeathed his children to the sol
diers of the South."
"And wilh his dying breath he be
queathed his children to tho soldiers
of the South!" The strong man turn
ed in the agonies of death towards his
helpless little ones, his great heart al
most broken over their bereavement.
His life was spent, ami they were to
be left penniless and alone. There
was not even a moihcr, to whose ten
der care he could consign them.
Their bereavement was absolute.
There was no strong and helpful gov
ernment to which he could appeal,
lor his sword had been drawn and hia
blood spilled in a failing cause.?
When death had chilled his poor
shattered frame live little ones would
be helpless indeed* How his.father's
heait must have ached as he thought
of their dreary and dessolate future.
But at last, with one of those
glimpses of hope that come to lighten
death, his face brightened J*nd he
said: "1 bequeath my children-to
the the soldiers of the South 1" And
consoled at last in having found
fathers for his little.ones, he died.
And shall this ptaeious. legacy be
disregarded? Vcos" man:! he gavo
his sword to his country. He gave
the flower of his life .to its service.
He gave a leg to Georgia. Ho gave
an arm to Virginia. And now, dying
in honorable poverty, he gives to
his o'd soldiers all that ho has loft?
his children 1 Will not his soldiers
be proud of this trust? Will not
their hearts grow tender over the care
of their little ones? Shall the old
hero who died, trusting his darlings
to his best and only fiiends, have his
trust betrayed? Never! These chil
dren are tho childran of the South
and the old soldiers will take care of
them.
Now, there will be five thousand
soldier.-,, or the sons of soldiers, who
will read this article to-day. Let
every man who reads it sit down
aud send something to tho lnnd.
One dollar from each man will he
enough I That will make a liberal
fund. Then let every man who was
l a soldier?let every man whose heart
went out to the soldiers?let every
man who loves the brave or piths tho
helpless?send al least one dollar to
I the fund for General Hood's children !
! Send at once. Lei every man res
pond ! The Georgia fund must reach
810,000 1?Atlanta Constitution,
Of course the Administration is
"gratified" with the result of the Cal
ifornia election. Wc do not consider
it within the range of probability
that anything will happen this fall
that will not "gratify" tho de facto
: President. We fully expect him to
weep tears of joy when Kwing's elec
tion to tho governorship of Ohio is
announced on the 15th of ne\i.
month.
Don't live in hope with your arms
folded. Fortune smiles on those who
roll up their sleeves und put their
shoulder to the wheel that propels
them on lo wealih and happiness.
Cut this out and carry it about with
you in jour vest pocket, ye who idle
in saloons or at the corners of thu
?dreets.
An exchange says: "Kevoseno
will make tea kettles shine as bright
as new." "Yes," remarked another
paper, "kerosene will do wonders; it
will make a house shine so it can bo
seen for miles but it is terribly de
structive to paint."
The numerical disproportion be
tween the sexes is becoming greater
every year. It is thought the census
of 1880 will be so remarkable in ibis
respect as to dishearten most singlo
women under thirty.
