I W. H- RHEA, EDITOR_The Constitution, the Union, and the Enforcement of the Laws.__v: PER ANNUM, IS ADVANCE
VOL. 1. DES AIIO, ARKANSAS, mDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 18C0. NUMBER 4.
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r3nu’-/tKibflR±n vwm.m win ■*rsrjv,iiB.i"SBi’-*ii^,1 ■_•»»;
w T i; v m DOATK
LEAVES MEMPHIS EVERY THURSDAY,
I.lglitning Express IAm-!
Regular 51<*t;t jtSii*. White and i.iftle
Red River Racket,
r -V ii Ia i*: < i i v ii;
JOHN WOODS CRN, - - - - Captain.
J. C. A3, Vat,.Clerk.
T EAVES MEMPHIS EVERY TIICRSD\V. at
1 j ’ 'clock, r». m.: arm es at Des A < .Satur
■ hi . : Augusla and V,'c-t Point. Sunday. Remrn
iu . k ;v,‘< Aitg.t^ta on Sunday: Des Arc on Mon
day. at 1<> o'clock, a. m.
1*1 . T tld 111h r » t>i■ w In.-it „nil siilt
for the trade, haring tin* best of Cotton p:ipt*»*,.
shippers " ill b ‘ perfectly sate. m»v f
Mr1.. piii* tind Wisiir tilt **»* £- ;e
FISOrVTIl^Xl. CITY ;
SAM HOUSTON,.Ma-ier.
il. C. Dunham, ----- Clerk.
mins NEW EIGHT DRAUGHT STEAMER
1 w,]l make regular weekly trips from M :m
pl N to Dos Arc, Augusta and Jacksonport on
Wliire river.
*• . '..yu-., ■ in: r -ly upon the regularity of toi
pai k •!. and all bu-iuess intrusted to her ir • v, .11
l ■ promptly attended. For freight or pa-are,
a pply '.ii i on id. n«v d i tf
LE WES MEMPHIS EVERY S \ TUP DAY.
Restphiti. Dhiie ami Utile Red
River Packet,
G K .■% EIJ AE PIKE;
PETE FLEMMING,.Master.
nilllS STEAMER HAVING E.EEN TIIOE
1 oughly refitted, will make regular trips
t :r.iughout the pcs —ui. leaving Memphis every
Saturday. For freight or passage, apply on
board, lev -Id-i f
.RemptiiN, U hile and 2.id!? Red
River Racket,
II Au v: E E I > j: la la ;
CAPT. REES, - - * - - - Commander.
IIexey Smithson, - - - Clerk.
mills FINE EIGHT DRAUGHT STEAMER
I is new running in ihe above trade, and will
continue throughout the season. She has supe
rior pa—engf-r accommodations, j'or freigh: or
pas.-age, apply on board. nov liJ-if
LEAVES MEMPHIS EVERY FRIDAY.
I
Memphis snd Yi hit? River Packet, j
M ASO > l C <» E >I ;
J. J. PILLSDURY, - Master.
J. P. McDonald, - - - Clerk.
rnms LIGHT DRAUGHT STEAMER HAYING
1 entered the above trade, will run regularly
from Memphis to the various point1* on While
river, l or or pns^ipc, Jjavinjr 5?upovi*jr
ncooiunio'la!ions, apply on hoarJ. nov ll>) fi'
MtiDpUis. While and kittle fled
filter Packet,
Jk. clmiral;
ELIAS TIIOMASSON, - - - - Master.
mill? LINE FREIGHT AND PASSENGER
1 steamer. having been thoroughly repaired,
will run regularly bet ween Memphis and the vari
ous points on White river throughout the season.
For freight or passage, apply on board, nov 2;-tf
Regular \*• vv Orleans, White and
kittle lied Riser Packet,
Side- Wlie<-1 Steamer
jL Jk. KJC Jk. Z'<X p
H. S. EATON, ..... Master.
rJ"'MIS FINE FREIGHT ANI) PASSENGER
L packet having been furnished with cotti.n
guards, and otherwise repaired, will run between ,
New Orleans and the various points on White
river, during the season, as a semi-monthly
packet._uov 23-tf ■
lleiupliis nnd W bite River Packet.
ACACIA COTTAGE;
Capt. DISMUKES, ... Commander.
mills FINE FREIGHT AND PASSENGER
L packet is now making regular trips between
Memphis and the various points on White river,
nnd will continue throughout tlie season. For
freight or passage, apply on board. nov 23-tf
DID YOU SAY NAILS OR CASTINGS ? |
I HAVE TWENTY-FIVE KEGS BEST NAILS,
_I and good assortment Castings of first quality
to sell cheap, cheap, cheap. Come and see.
cov3, J. U. QUISENBERBV.
in sixkss rvnns.
HOFFHElMER B50THERS,
IMPOUTERS AND DE/LERS IN
Brandies, Gins, Wines Cigars, &e.,
also,
DISTILLERS & MANUFACTURERS OF
Domestic; AVines a \ <1 T Acinorv,
32 & 34 Second St., ketw. Main & Sycamore,
nov 23-tf. CINCINNATI. O.
F.~LEPTIEN,
Clock and Watch-Maker,
Ars i > .ii a\ i:i.l i: i j ,
BUENA VISTA STREIT, DES ARC,
Three doors east of G. & M'Larcn & Co.’s
I>ESPECTFUEEY INF(»RMS THE CITIZENS
1 l)o; Are and the adjacent country, that lie
has a new and select stock o '(.'locks and Jewelry,
lie is, as usual, prepared to execute all kinds of
Clock and Watch Work, in a workmanlike man
ner. and to Repair and Clean Jewelry, etc. nov 3
DES ARC HOTElT
BY J. ( . TAKKIVrON,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
H aving leased this well-arranged
Hotel, the proprietor respectfully informs
travelers and I lie public generally, that he has com
pletely renovated the premises, and is prepared
to accommodate all who may favor him with their
patronage. If miremittcd cave and attention will
secure the favor of all, hoisdetermined to please.
<11 ARGES REASONABLE.
The Bar attached to this House is supplied
with the best of Liquors an 1 Cigars. nov 3.
F. .1!. KOISINsos, ------ i;. j. BRANCH.
ROBINSON & BRANCH,
(Successors to G. W. Vaden.)
WITOI.ESAI VXD EF.TAIL TlFAI.l'.r.S IN
( i roct'ries ;mtl I *r<xlH <*<*,
KH'EIVIXG, FORWARDING A (RUMI ■ IN MERCHANTS
nov3. DES ARC. VRK VNS AS.
C. M J.ARKN. ------- S. X. JACKSON.
MXAREN £c JACKSON,
Successors to G. & .1. McLaren & Co.,
DES ARC. ARKANSAS.
Dealers in stavee and fancy dry
(•"ods. Ready Mad" < loidtiug. Hats and
Caps, Bonnets, i c is and S ues. I Lard ware and
t’uttlcry. Books. Stati, riary, etc. Also. Receiving,
r'.i w r d'.i.r ■ i • - .11 AiiO-r ittrs. t
lRvin, : . co.,
i«i*;ii;Ti:iw a whoumlk ulaleim in
i'ORLKIN & DOMKMK’ ! UY-<!<H)I;S.
.AND
*
ol ( lot !iin<?»
No*. M_! ami Ml Ma 1 M ro<;*tf north side,
r.rtv H)-C,n. LoriSVlLLE, KV.
A. STKW.VBT, W V. STI'.WA IIT, II. ST KAY A IIT.
STEWART & BROS.,
I locoiA'iii", I \)r\v;ir<lin«»‘
4\D t (MI?l|NSIO\ AIEZ'.dl 4\TS.
no, DES ARC, ' RK A? S VS.
X£. c. H^CAaiLtE & CO-'
1>..S A Ilf. ARKANSAS.
EAJ.ERS IN ST A PEE AND FANCY M1V
(. ..i i-, Rea iy-Mude ChcLing. Ii.::.-. < if.
Honrs. Slioes. ii i. aware. G'lo- iisv.are. lire.. I.:...
I'ni v. > dl ng a I’d ( .ii!':: i- Non Morelia a! s. in,
I*it*»i-" j i«> \ i„ < u: i>"*.
T J JOBE,
Attorney at Law,
DES ARC, .ARKANSAS,
a; 4 jHl.L PRACTICE IN PRAIRIE AND Till!
T \ adjoining counties. Particluar attention
given to ( ullettrons.
UKFKtifxi'i:s.—T. .1. & C. Povrell, Knoivillc.
Tenri.: Thus. II. ('allawav, Pre-id. nt of Ocoee
Hank. < levi land. Term.: M.ra c e: Alar-h. Chatta
nooga. T, tin.; lion. John 11. Ruin].kin. Rome. (Ia.:
lion. William Daugherty, Ooiumhus, <»a : ll"M.
.Joseph T. McConnell. Ringgold, Gn.; William II.
Inman, President Northwest era Bank, llinggold.
Georgia. nor
J. T. PARHAM,
-eVi*«*hit <‘<*t :»n<I 1 Suiltlt'i*,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
^SOLICITS CONTRACTS FOR BCiFldNCS OF
O every style, lie is also prepared to Furnish
R. -igns. Estimates and Drawings of all the mod
ern orders of architecture; build, superintend
and furnish working plans for building at mode
rate prices. Orders left at the ‘•Citizen office,”
will receive prompt attention. nov3-y
T. SWIM.RS, ------ - - j. I.. NKEl..
DRS, SANDERS AITEEL,
Hcldcnt I’liyHielans,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
H aving formed a partnership in
the practice of their proles ion. tender si
eon: it.nation of their serv ices to the citizens of
I)<v Arc aii'l adjacent country, ui ice. up Main-,
SI : • ’ -. I •
J. J. LANE, ------ W. II. I IIAMRKR8. ;
DES. LANE & CHAMBERS,
rr.WINO FORMED A PARTNERS!', IP IN
1 the practice of ttieir t oh ssion, t n ler
their services to the citizens of itos \re and ltd..a
ceni country. From their experience, th y hope |
to share at least a portion of the patronage of the
public. Office on Buena Vi-tu street, at Balsh's
Drug Store. nov (i j
T. 3. KENT,
A11 or n o y ;it 1 a ft At' ,
DES AltC, ARKANSAS,
AT TILL PRACTICE. IN THE COURTS OF
vY Pn.irie, Wh'te, Monroe. Arkansas, St.
Francis, Jackson and independence counties. All
busiti'. *s intrusted to lih care shall meet with
prompt attention. Office^ Lyon street. nt»23-tf.
T. J. WOODSON,
Attorney at Law,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS,
AT TILL PRACTICE IN THE FIFTH JUDICIAL
>Y Circuit, and the counties of White, Jack
son and Monroe. -Ill business intrusted to his
cure will he promptly attended to. nov J.
E. T. SWEYER,
1 )enl itst,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS.
TTTILL CONTINUE THE BUSINESS IN ALL
\V its branches, including continuous Cum
Work. Office on Buena Vista street, up stairs,
Jackson's new building. nov 10-tf.
C. A. HUDSON,
Carpenter :m<l Joiner,
DES ARC, ARKANSAS,
Dealer in sash, doors, mantles,
Window and Door Frames, etc. Shop corner
Erwin and Park Streets. N. B.—Collins mil ’ ' to
order, on short notice. nov ij-y
i
! POETICAL._
A FJALM OF LIFE.
BY LCNUIELI.GW.
Tell me not. in.moivnful numbers,
“ Life is but an enpty dream !"’
For the soul is deal that slumbers,
And things are tot vital they seem,
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is tut its goal:
“Dust thou ai t, to di»t returuest,”
Was not spoken of he soul.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined endor way;
But to act, tliiit each to-morrow
Find us further that to-dfly.
Art is L.ng, and Timels fleeting,
And our itearts, flung It stout and brave,
Still, like muffled liruris. are beating
Funeral marches tothe grave.
In the world's broad Jeld of battle,
In the bivouac of life,
Be noi like dumb, driven cut tie!
Be :i hero iu the strife!
Trust no future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act—-act in the living Present!
Heart within, andCiod o'er head!
Lives of great men all remind us
We can mike our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footstep! on the saints of time;
Footprint-, that ncrhaps another,
Sailingo'er life's solemn main,
A forlorr and shipwrecked brother,
Sceinp shall take heart again.
Let us. 'In n, be up and doing,
W itli t heart tor any fate:
Still afieving. still pui-uing.
Learn to labor and to wait.
T11E Moss FOSE.
Tin- tugel of the flowers one day
Beiittdi a rose-tree sleeping lay—
That spirit to whose charge is given
To 1 he young buds in de.v from heaven,
Aw ning f •.in his slight repose,
Tilt Angel whispered to the Rose—
“ (Mhndest object of lav care,
StU la’re.*t found where all is fair.
Ft.- the sweet shade ilmu hast given me,
A-: what thou wilt, tis granted thee."’
Tjen said the Rose, with deepened glow—
“ til me another grace bestow;"—
7 Ai gel l ati-e l in si! lit the [gilt—
Vtint grace was there tlie flower ii.nl not ?
*Twas but a moment—o'er t>>e Rose
i veil of moss tlte Atigel throws.
An.1. r died in Nature's simplest weed,
t'ouid tin-re a flower that Rose exceed?
i mi i - . ra - n<wnw». • vww '
T£E WIDOW; OH- THE JEW BE.Q
KEIi'S SECSET.
A BK UT1I71, STORY.
Hi' l ink" l like ail old clotlie.-mun, but lie
1 w..' i. id ." a lav.her—a broker wait .1 bad eliar
j ae.er. ana what the: must have been, when ii
* bad J.r a broker. we le..ve to imagination
I a id d<,li 1a — -li to deuiie. lie was reputed tile
| 1. t'Oe-i man • i Ills l:ade ; and, as lorn oi ilia;
trade ate supposeu to be mere electrical ma
chines. worked by Hints, not hearts. ;i supre
macy of tirmness must have left him a fearful
conglomerate. lie was a withered old man
now. almost d cable 1 with age an l rheumatism,
with a hooked li—, and light l»r<»\ ;i eyes, red
toiind the 1111s, and a-trange mixture of surli
ness and sti'j ic.ou ,n In.-, in. 0. lie !i.ii ki d a
•r-iss between a m.i.u.tl and a wc.i 1 1. which
he was. in eliarucu 1 as well as countenance.
.No one li.. 1 a g ■■ -.»I wad to v ol h.m. I he
publican at the cottier was sure there was
something queer in a man who did not take an
hone t glass like the re.-t, and the baker
looked down on him because be ate ' seconds
on prim pie. If a distre.-.- was to be put on
mile- around the neighborhood, they prayed
that it lniuht mu ho by old Joe Jlappiu. of
1 Iborn Building-. One old woman said she
a as :■ 1 v< have the Knijieror ol Ibrosha tts
hull; her daughter said .-lied liefer. '1 lie
very children were afraid c 1' him. and scream
ed if he tame near them, unless they were
impudent and mocked him. But to the little
ones he was the district bogle ; and old doe
Mappin stood in lloihorn Buildings, scaring
the riotous small fry of the gutters, for the
•• black man " of more civilized nurseries.
Everybody said the man had a secret.
Some thought he was a coiner, others that he
had committed murder, and went to look at
the body or grave. Others again said he had
a mad wife locked up in the garret, on straw';
but none knew exactly what they thought, ex
cepting the broad fact that there was a secret
somehow ; and of course if belonging to him.
a disgraceful one; "lie could have nothing
but villainly to conceal,” said the inspector to
policeman X. 82.
Why the report arose of his having a se
cret in his life was because evening after even
ing. he was seen stealing in the dusk from his
garret, along lloihorn. toward the W est End.
1 one knew where he went to, though more
than one lounger had set out to follow him,
but somehow the old man always contrived
to escape, doubling the streets in such a quick
and unexpected manner, that, however it was
done, lie invariably got away. All sorts of
pains nau neon mane 10 inc h, nmi, out nicy
all lailed, every one of them ; and the bro
; Bl , I I still. Little ’J eddy,
lii' i: rd ’s In>v. ( line the nearest to the dis
cover.. nut lie lost him at last somewhere up
in the lew road. liter Regent's Park, though
that vv.'.s a good measure to have taken, too.
Moreover, he saw that Joe was decently
dressed beneath his shabby old cloak—a tiling
no one else would wear; and from that time
the report had got about that it was a love al
lair. wish some mysterious celebrity, and that
Joe was buying a wile with his gold ; for ‘•lie
had a ('alifornoyworth,” said his landlord %
little boy Teddy.
One evening Joe sot out as usual, with his
shabby old cloak and battered old hat, but
well enough beneath, lie walked cautiously
at first, hobbling, ns was natural to him now,
with his rheumatics so bad, but, after be
passed through his particular quarter, turning
round constantly. as it' to cough, but in reality
to see if any one were following, lie walked
briskly on, cutting through all .sorts of queer
alleys anil bye-places, winding and doubling
like a fox; the best topographer in Loudon
could not have followed hint. At last became
to a pretty house in Regent's Park—a house
evidently inhabited by a gentlewoman of for
tune, as well as of taste, for all the appoint
ments were in such perfect keeping, and there
was such a wealth of costly simplicity about
it as could only belong to both of these con
ditions. The broker looked up at the window
as he came beneath it, and a little girl of four
. on or fifteen—but slight of her age—lean
ing out from among the geraniums, cried, an
answer to his look, " why, Joe, how late you
are to-night! ”
That ssveet voice! The old man used to say
to himself, that lie would not exchange its
i; Joe ! ” for a good fippun note ! lie nodded
to her affectionately, and carefully scraping
his shoes, went in with the air of a man who
knows that he will be welcome, lie took off
r
^ * #
his hat and cloak, and put tlicm away inadark
corner, and then clean and respectable look
ing, he went up stairs to the drawing-room.
-V lady, still beautiful and still young—
young at least for the mother of a child of fit
: teen—was sitting there embroidering. Sur
rounded by every beauty and every luxury—
nestled in that lonely house, like a bird in a
golden cage—how strange the change which
had thrown together anything so graceful as
that lady and the old Jew broker. "Vet they
were well acquainted, they were even friends;
for she rose when he entered, and advanced
toward him kindly, and shook hands with
him, and petted him as a woman only can pet.
without any visible overt act. I>ut all that
•Joe seemed to wish for w is to sit a little while
and watch her as she bent over her embroide
ry, and t*> hear again that she was contented
and happy.
u Are you certain, sure that you want for
nothing ? ’ inquired Joe, nor Miss Margaret
neither?”
‘•Nothing, Joe, nothing,” and the sweet
lady looked up affectionately, as if she had
spoken to a father.
“That’s enough, that is all T want,” mut
tered Joe, and then he went back into the
depths of his quiet modi.aliens, watching the
lady's face, and every now and then glancing
round the room, as if to see that till was right
and to find out where he could alter and im
prove. After this had gone on for a short
time. Joe Mappin asked for Margaret in an
uncouth way, strangely softened, like a mas
tiff partly mesmerized. ’J he lady rang the
hell, and Margaret came. It seemed to be
the usual way in which she was summoned
when the broker as there, for she came at
once, without giving the servant time to call
her. She also slmwod the most unaffected
gratitude and love for the old man. running
up to him, and taking his hand, and calling
hint, “ 1 'car Joe,” a.' if she meant it.
*• And there is nothing that the little lady
wants ?’ said J oe, patting her head and smooth
ing down her curls. •• lias she gowns and
bonnets enough, lady? for you know she lias
hut to ask and to have.
" Why, •Joe. I don’t wear such a frock iu a
week ! said Margaret, laughing; and it was
only last week that you gave that beauty,
though l liadn t yet half worn my blue silk.”
Joe Mappin drew her between Ids knees,
and hclujlier hu-e in h:s hands. "Silver and
gold isu t good enough for you both !” he said,
with almost a pas-ion < f fervor in his voice;
".-o ncversliut yourself for fear of me.”
lint they both sad again limy had all thov
couei . e. vii ii tiiey were prince -os.
in a fair, tower,” .Margaret added; and when
tin- assurance had been repealed to almost a
weari.-ome muiiber of times. J. ■ Mappin was
content, and so relap i*d into silence again,
kn 1 th re lie .-at. till the la-1 ravs of tin: sun
had gone, an i candles had been brought—
they were of the tine-t wax. you may be sure
—a peculiar expression ol teude lie—on his
mu-lilt face. as he was reading a -weet chjip
tcr lovingly—listening to a noble song admir
in' !y. And then when lie was quite mullled
up in his greasy old cloak, a- he had come,
and hobbled rheumatically when he came near
quarters.
This. then, was the broker’- secret, and this
was it.- history :
About 1;11 ecu years ug • doe M.q ] in. aim esc
an old man even then. Was called to m-’k the
goods ‘i a e' rtain t aptain Thornton, li\ ug
at the West land. The t 'aptain wa- one of
th'-e gay. reek less, loveable men. who, by
dint of sheer animal mag.tetism, live tor years
on credit, and are only brought to account
when it becomes a matter of life and death to
some of the poorer creditors—those creditors
are sorry for their debtor as if it were tliem
- Ives going to the (jM. cn s betu li.aml accus
ing themselves bitterly—the tender-hearted
at least—lor the trouble tle v are bringing m
Mappin the hardest of his profes
sion, the irou-hearted. grasping broker, who
wa- believed not to have a single human feel
ing. even lie was touched by the gallant lYauk
ne-s, and gracious manlier of bis victim, and
as lor his wile, that noble, patient, glorious
woman, with her little one in her arms—
something rose up in hi.- heart for her which
he had never felt in his lile before. It was
an infinite yearning worship : such as he had
read of in the novels of the libraries he had
seized, but which lie always thought trash,
ami the mere mouthing- of author fools, lie
lelt now. for the lirst time, there was such a
thing in t lie human heart as love—the love of
beauty, the love of \irtue, love for pity’s
sake.
Captain Thornton was carried off to the
Queen s bench, and, after a short terra of im
prisonment, died suddenly of apoplexy. He
had lived too freely and hud taken to little ex
ercise. and being one of those lair-hail ed men
of ^anguine temperament, who re mire absti
nence and work, and who love idleness and
luxury, ho had met the late any medical man
would have predicted. His wife and child
were thus left alone in the world and penny
io-s. 'J lie broker had never lost sight of them.
(jilts from au unknown hand, money, cloth
ing, and even tuod, had kept 31 rs. 1 hornton
1 r*mu want; all the mure welcome, as by her
marriage, she had displeased her relatives,
who were, | crimps, not sorry lor this excuse
; to avoid maintaining her. \\ lien the (fap
1 tain died, then Joe Mappin came forward
openly, lie told hci he had lived.ni lshmaelite
life, without pity and without love; he told
her how she had roused feelings in him—f'ccl
• ings of reverence for humanity, such as he
had not known bclore; and ihe old man
bowed himself before her as ton superior bc
; ing, and besought of her the privilege oi
maintaining her and her child. He wanted
j nothing, he said, but to know that they were
happy, and sometimes to hear them say so.
lie had not a relative in the world to whom
| he could leave his money—not one that they
^ would wrong by taking it; be had hoarded
I because it was his nature to hoard j but he
: never knew to what end he saved. Now he
should have saved for heaven, if she would
accept her life on these easy terms. They
were so hard 1 and if they objected to his go
ing to see her, he would not. indeed, indeed,
it was her happiness, and that sweet baby’s,
not his own—he cared for, in the offers.
What could she do, that gentlewoman with
out fortune and friends, or the means of earn
ing her own subsistence? What could she
do, but look at her child, hold out both hei
hands to that strange old man, and burst inti
tears of gratitude and shame, and sorrow, al
mixed up together, as she faltered out Yes,’
and took her iate from his hands. She under
stood the truth of his feelings, and was her
self too noble to assume a false dignity which
would have been less dignified than the ac
ceptance of his generosity. iShe thankee
; him by her tears, and she kissed his withered
hand; and that touch bound old Joe Mappii
as her slave for life ; the first, last, and only
time a woman’s lips had ever touched him
and in this manner their lives had passed foi
the last fifteen years.
He.took a beautiful little house for the
widow and her child, and furnished it with
every luxury, dress, jewelry, furniture, orna
ments—whatever it might he that was rare
and expensive, he bought them. He lavished
money, like water, and thought nothing dear
which would call forth a smile from the wo
man, or a joyous expression from the child.
Their pleasure repaid him everything—it was
his heaven, his life.
Put the time was coming fast, now when
poor old Joe Mappin. the broker, must face
the boundary lines between time and eternity,
and learn the great secret. "When the winter
had killed Margaret’s dowers, had stripped
her geraniums of their leave-, and had frozen
the songs of the birds, the old man and Death
stood face to lace. His rheumatism and asthma
had been very had for a long while; and liv
ing in his niggard and neglected wav. had not
given him the host chance of recovery, lie
knew he was dying, hut he could not die in
peace without looking once more on those two
faces he loved so much—the only two he ever
loved through the whole of his long life.
They could not come to him. for they did not
know his address, nor eve i his surname. He
was only ‘ Joe in the beautiful house in
Regent's Park, and the servants thought he
was •• Missus' ijucer old uncle—perhaps from
Ingey or foreign parts.” Put they could not
come to him. he would go to them—and must
—whatever the ri k. He could not die hap
pily—he I elieved he could not pass away at
all—without seeing them once more.
Though the seal of death was rigidly set
on his face, the old manresolve-l to make this
long and perilous journey, lleknew he should
hasten the supreme moment, but it would be
even bettor if be did. lie .-aid sadly. lie bad
done all lie could do now ; he bad established
the dear on re, and hi . death would not deprive
them of a farthing, or a single comfort. He
had saved enough; let him die 1 He sent far
a neighbor to dress him l’..r the la-t time, in
his decent clothes; and when this was done
—between fainting and h tiu fit.- of paui—he
told her to go for a end. ; ml bargain with the
man ibr his fare to lb s'- 1 'ark. 1 localise
he was old and weak, he wouldn’t bo done by
the biggest rufiian among them, he growled
out. V, hen the worn in left the room, old Joi
dragged himself as h« -t h • could to a small
iron safe he had let into the wall with his own
hand. Mo one knew it was there—not even
: the landlord, imr those prying e\es of little
I Teddy. He unlocked it, and took out a roll
; hi i.ijuk notes, railway script, au«i moneacn
bonds, and tied tin n. all in a cotton handker
chief. toueiln r witii a parchment tied with red
tape, sealed with a big -cal. and indorsed ' J• «e
Mappin’s Will.’ in hi- own haml-writiu^.
He had the bundle under his grea.-y old
cloak; and then the Woman came hack and
found him panting and pale, and she sen am -d
out that he was dying, list he -wore at her
between each ga-p, and i >1-1 her to hold her
n n-e and In !p him down stairs. And then,
half -tumbling and half carried, the old man
got down the stairs at last, aud .so was put into
the cab.
lie gave the man bis directions in an un
dertone, jealously yarding the name from the
crowd standin. curiously ah lit; and then he
drove out of 1 iolborn forever. As lie left his
old neighborhood, with nil it- associations of
pitile- ne - ai.d sorrow f v. inch he had h«-ui
the in-ti • s.n-i •. and the hearth-cause, a
change -eenn d toe n.e over him. I he mas
tiff face dip:
ma i./.ed. lie wasps- ;ng b om the v. tM of
men and mammon, into that of love and death,
and tlie evil intluem-i- of his material life fad
ed before the punlication of this great bap
tism.
'I’he journey—was a long one f .r a dying
' man—tired him sadly, lie did not care though
for the pa’:i it can- 1 him ; hi- only fear was lie
should die ere he reached his home—the
home of his 1 ter and j
i but lie survived it—in a sad state of suffer! ig
1 ami prostration ; and only ju-t survived it; for
wlieu carried bv the cabman in his arm- a- if
lie had been a child, he was brought to the
presence of those loved • m-s ; ail that his fail
ing life left him power to do. was to place the
package in the widow's lap, and murmur
i faintly, “It is all your.-." to die with her tears
tailing softly on his face.
A TTA CUM LX IS A XL COl'UTlXG.
The following excellent little story was ex
tensively printed in newspapers about sixteen
years ago. It is good enough to he brought
forward again. \\ c do not know who wrote
it. nor what country furnished the face de
scribed :
\\ e have heard a good story of which an
Alabama sheriff was the hero. Court was in
session, and amid the multiplicity of business
which crowded upon him at the t -mi time, he
stoi mod ;,t the door of a beautiful widow i n
the sunny side of thirty, who by tbe way had
often bestowed melting -ide glances unoii the
atoresa.d slier !1. lie was admitted, and the
widow appeared; the confusion and fright
which the arrival (>i the \ isitor occasioned sot
olt to greater advantage than usual -the capti
vating charm> of the widow M. Her chocks
bore the beautiful tints of the apple blossom;
her lips resembled the rosebuds with which
they were tilled, resembled arrows that only
invited a inn (pardon tic pun) to do full ex
ecution. Alter a few < ommon-place remarks :
‘•Madame,” said the matter-ol-faet sheriff
“I have an attachment for you.”
A deeper blush than usual mantled the
cheeks of the fair widow; the downcast eyes,
whose glances were center^ 1 upon her beauti
ful foot, which, half concealed hy her flowing
drapery, partly patted the Hour. .She with an
equal candor replied :
‘•Sir. the attachment is reciprocal.”
For some time the sheriff maintained an as
tonished silence, at length lie said:
“Madam, will you proceed to court?”
“ Proceed to court?" replied the lady with a
merry laugh; then shaking her head, she
said:
‘ No, Sir; though this i* leap year, T will
not take advantage of the license therein
granted for my sex; and, therefore, greatly
prefer that you should proceed to court!”
“Hut. madam, the justice is waiting.”
“ Let him wait; I do not wish to hurry mat
ters in so unbecoming a manner; and, besides,
sir, when the ceremony is performed, 1 wish
you to understand that l greatly prefer i
minister to a justice of the peace.”
A light dawned upon the sheriff’s brain.
“Madam,” said be, rising from his chan
with solemn dignity, “there is a great mistake
here; my language has been misunderstood
'flic attachment of which 1 speak was issuec
from the office of Squire (*., and command,
me to bring you instantly before him, to an
svver a contempt of court, in disobeying i
subpoena in the case of Smith vs. Jones.
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A wife’s farewell to her husband ever;
morning, buy—buy.
A
A REMINISCENCE BY TUB LAST NAN
WHO STOOD ON IT.
—
George Wilkes writes this week irom Niag
ara to his Spirit:
I said I had something to do with the fal
lingofTable Rock, that broichshell on theC’an
ada side, which in 1*50 jutted over the very
cauldron of the seething waters, but which
tumbled into it on a certain day in the month
of June, of that, to me, well remembered
year. About noon on that day, I accompani
ed a lady from the Clifton House to the Falls.
Arriving at Table Rock, we left our carriage,
and as we approached the projecting platform
l pointed out to my companion a vast crack
or fissure which traversed the entire base of
the rock, remarking that it looked wider than
it had ever before appeared to mo. The lady
almost shuddered as she looked at it, and shrink
ing back declared she did not care about go
ing to the edge. ‘•Ah,’’ said 1 taking her
hand, "you might as well come on, now that
you are here. I hardly think the rock will
take1 a notion to fall merely because we are
on it."
The platform jutted from the mainland
me sixty feet, but to give the visitor a still
more fearful pnjecti .u over the raging waters,
a wooden bridge, or staging, had been thrust
c *■ ^
beyond the extreme edge some ten feet. This
terminated in a small box for visitors to stand
in and was kept in its position and enabled to
bear weight by a ponderous load of stones
heaped upon its inner end. The day was !
very bright and hot. and it being almost lunch
time at the hotels, but few visitors were out,
so we occupied the dzzy perch alone. We
gazed fearfully out upon the awful waters, we
stretched our heads timidly over the frightful
depth below, an 1 we felt our natures quelled
in every fibre by the deafening roar that seem
ed to saturate us, as it were, with an indefi
nable dread.
"I his a terrible place!" said T. ‘"Look
under there, and see on what a mere shell we
stand! For years and years the teeth of the
torrent, in that jetting, angry stream, have
been gnawing out that lioiluw. and some day j
tlii- plane must fail." My companion shud- j
do red, and drew herself tug* ther in alarm. < fur 1
eves -wept the roaring circle of the waters once :
agam. We gazed about in fearful fascination,
when suddenly, turning our looks upon each I
other, each recognized a corresponding fear. |
"i do not like tliis place.” exclaimed 1 quick- j
ly. "Tim whole base of this rock is probably
i di.-integrati 1. and perhaps sits poised in a
i in of steps ur notches, readv to tall
1 out and topule down at any unusual perturba- i
tieii. The ti.s.'iire there seems to me to he !
; more than usually wide to-day. I think we 1
ha I hotter leave, for I do not fancy stick a
! finish; ari l be-ides, my paper must be pub
lished next Week.”
With these very words—the latter uttered
: half joeo !v. though not without alarm — I !
M '/f i nn corn) mi- nV Iiai;« 1. and, in absolute 1
: panic. we tied a-fast as our feet could carry
us toward what might he called the shore.
We hurst into a laugh when we regained the
lan 1. and jumping into our carriage felt actu
ally as if we had made a fortunate escape.
W e rolled back toward the Clifton, but before
we had proceeded two minutes on our wav. a
thuiid ■ring report, like the explosion of an
! earthquake, i ur: t upon us. and, with a long
roar, the ground to mblc 1 beneath our wheels.
W e turn-. . t ■ find that Table Rock bad fallen.
We were the last upon if. and it was doubt
le-s. the unusual perturbation caused by our
• thing f-ot.-teps. that disturbed the exactitude
: of it.- equilibrium, and thrilled it from its
I final poise.
!u a minute mure the road was full of hur
rying people, and during the following half
' hour we were told a hundred times in advance
I of the next morning journals, that, a holy and
- gentleman who were on the Table Rook, had
: gone down the falls. We are told that the
trot o ' a dog would shako old Loudon bridge
from end to end. when it would not be dis
1 e rhed by the rolling of heavily loaded wains.
Table Rock had probably not been run upon
i m the way 1 have described for years—per
• hups nevei; and. therefore, whenever l h-.-ar
it spoken of. I always shudder and feel as if I
had Something to uo with it.- fall.
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R K At LX I SO T.N ('! S »>| \ 1’oUTICAJ. C.YRRV.R.
We see it noticed in the Massachusetts pa
pers that Josiah (Juincy, tlie venerable Ex
Pre-ident of the Harvard I niversity, is nine
i i , y -ars of age. 'This veteran politician may
p.i-v-ibly have to record of himself what no
; other man ha-i ever had to say—that he has
, witne-1 the rise and fall of an empire.
Born before the Revolution, he was an eye
witness of the struggles which ended in the
foundation ot the Republic; he entered the
National Legislature in 1*04; rendered him
self conspicuous while there by moving the
impeachment of Jefferson, then President of
the I’nited State-; lived through the second
•11V1 1 11 i.l •
• war nuii i-iimaim. <miu uiiuuuu mu
political conte which have since threatened
the integrity of the l i;ion. and now. towards
the close a career protracted beyond the usual
period allotted to man. ho is likely to he a
spectator of the dissolution and ruin of the
pttwerii.il confederation built up by the labors
and wisdom of our forefathers. And it is a
melancholy fact tiiat few men have contribut
ed more to bring about this result by their
tierce and vindictive abolitionism than this
unnogenarian politician and one of irs sons.
It is. perhaps, a just, though rare, historical
retribution, that the former should live to
assist in reaping the dragons’ teeth that lie
has sown. Put few will envy him his re
j flections. ,
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Yf. Mopkele Uaybe.—Some crusty old
bachelor thus describes a well-known ‘•house
hold institution:’’ ‘ It hys a strange hostility
for its nurse's cap and nose, which it will
clutch and lmld w ith savage tenacity, if in the
least offended. It is never happy but in its
mother’s arms, especially if it is being nursed
by a gentleman. Jt prefers the floor to the
cradle, which it never stops in longer than it
can help. It i> very playful, delighting in
pulling the table cloth off, or knocking the
China ornaments off die mantle-piece, or up
setting its food on somebody’s lap. It invents
a new language of its ow n. almost before it
can speak, which is perfectly intelligible to
parents, though Greek to every one else. It
dislikes treachery iu any shape, and repels
the spoonful of sugar if it fancies there is a
a powder at the bottom of it. It is not fond
of public entcruiin incuts. invariably crying
before it has been at one five minutes.”
Tiie Maryland Ace negro law authorizes
the binding out of negroes from the age of
five years and upwards, until they are thirty
’ years of age. and in case they run away 01
' secret themselves, directs that they shall hi
1 sold as slaves for life.
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The Pacific Ocean covers an area largei
• than that of all the dry land on the surface
of the globe.
ALL SORTS OF PARAGRAPHS.
What would this world be without woman ?
A s/t //bless concern.
When is thunder like an onion? When
it comes peal on peal.
“Never saw such stirring times,” as tho
spoon said to the saucepan.
Prentice defines the “slavery issue to he
about 2;">.Ol)0 nigger babies a year.”
Misery loves company, and so docs a mar
riageable young lady.
Among the latest literary curiosities are
“ Lines on the death of an unborn infant.”
One ought to have dates at one’s fingers
ends, seeing they grow upon the palm.
The shortest article we ever saw in a news
paper was the article a—aud perhaps tho
best.
“Piaising the wind.” is now denominated
more classically, “ exciting the financial
JLolus.”
If petticoat government is more oppressive
than formerly, it is certainly double in
extent.
Why was St. John preaching in the wil
derness like our copper coin ? Because it was
one sent by (dod.
“If dirt was trumps, what a hand yon
wot ild hold,” i id mb to a filthy partner at
whist.
A new poem by Coventry Patmore is an
nounced in London; it is called “Faithful
Forever.”
A\ hy had a man better lose liis arm than
his leg ? Because, losing his his leg he loses
O O
something “ to boot.”
An apple tree in Norwich. Connecticut,
which has had neither bud. blossom nor fruit
all summer, is now in full bloom.
Barnum is going to open a new museum in
Philadelphia after the manner of his famous
institution in New York.
A San Salvador paper says that more than
fifty shocks of earthquake were experienced
there on the 21st of J uly.
Why are country girls’ cheeks like French
calico ? Because they are warranted to wash
and retain their color.
Never strike children on the, head since
Providence lias supplied them with so much
mure suitable a place for punishment.
i ne young lauv wttn "speaking eyes lias
become quite hoarse, in consequence of using
them too much.
A punster passing by the shop of Mr. Tas
well, observed that bis name would be spelt
As-well without the T.
The man who planted a dagger in his ene
my’s breast, raised a crop of hemp that ele
vated him in the world.
If you wish to cure a scolding wife, never
fail to laugh at her with all your might until
she ceases—then kiss her. Sure cure.
A young lady was asked how she could pos
sibly afford, in these awful hard times to take
music lessons. " Oh. 1 confine myself to the
• low notes.’ ”
A schoolmaster asked ono of his fair pu
pils, "fan you decline a kiss'” Propping a
perplexed courtesy, she modestly replied,
"Yes. dr; but I don’t like to.”
A man arrested in Virginia for being en
gaged at Harper s Ferry, replied, "lie did
not know Harper, nor where he kept his d—d
old Ferry.”
The Princess Mathilde, cousin of the Em
peror, has, like Pauline, another member of
the Bonaparte family, been sitting nude to
an artist for her picture.
‘AYoman is at the bottom of all mischief.”
"Yes,” said Frank, "and when l used to get
into mischief, my mother would soon he at the
bottom of me.”
Rev. Charles B, Parsons, the actor preach
er and "Roaring Ralph Stockpole.” of di
vines. has abandoned the Methodist for tlie
Episcopal church.
The original MSS. of Burn’s immortal
"Scots wha hae” was to be sold, with other
relics, at auction iu London on the lUth
instant.
A young lady says the reason she carries a
parasol i- that the suu is of the masculine
gender, and she cannot withstand his ardent
glances.
When you negotiate for a house having all
the modern improvements, you will, as a gen
eral thing, find that a mortgage is one of
them.
If a young lady has a thousand acres of val
uable land, the young men are apt to conclude
that there are sufficient grounds for attach
ment.
Many a man thinks it a virtue that keeps
him from turning a rascal, when it is only a
lull stomach. One should he careful aud not
mistake potatoes for principles.
i A man having boon frequently convicted,
; in Perth, Scotland, of stealing spades, justly
acquired the sobriquet of the “ knave of
spados.”
It is a pleasant thing to sec roses and lillies
; glowing upon a young lady’s check, but a bad
sign to see a man's face break up in blos
soms.
Somebody says a baby laughing in its
dreams is conversing with angels. Perhaps
so—hut we have seen them crying in their
waking hours as though they were having a
i spat with the devil.
A speaker at a stump meeting declared that
he knew no East, no West, no North, no
South. “ Then,” said a bystander, “ you
1 ought to go to school and learn your geogra
phy.”
At a recent festive meeting, a married man,
who ought to have known better, proposed
“ The Ladies,” as the “ beings who divide our
sorrows, double our joys, and treble our
expenses.”
A peasant woman was sent with an infant
! recently to the Paris Foundling Hospital, four
I francs and a half being given her to pay her
fare. Fhe murdered the child and pocketed
the money.
At a christening, while the minister was
making the certificate, he happened to say,
"Let me see, this the 30th.” “The thir
tieth!” exclaimed the indignant mother, “in
deed, it is only the eleventh!”
Whatever we may think of woman’s right
to vote and legislate, there can be no disputing
her right to bare arms—and the prettier the
; better and more irresistible. This is a right
descended from old mother Eve.