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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-08-20
GONE BEFORE.

There's n beautiful facc in the silent air,
Which follows me ever and near,
With smiling eyes and amber hair,
With voiccless lips yet with breath Of prayer,
That feel but cannot hear.
The dimped hand. and ringlet of gold,
Lie low in a marble sleep;
l stretch my arms for the clasp of old,
But the empty air is strangely cold,
And my vigil alone keep,
There's snlcss brow with a radiant crown
And cross laid down in the dust;
There's smile where nevera shade comes now,
And tears no more from those dear eyes now,
so sweet in their innocent trust.
All, WELL and summer is coming again,
Singing her same old song;
But, oh 1t sounds like Il sob of pain,
As II floats In the sunshine and the ram.
Ger hearts of the worlds great throng.
There's beautiful region above the skies,
And long to reach its shore.
For know shall find my treasure there,
The laughing eyes and amber hair,
OF the loved one gone before.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-08-20
MISS BRIDGES SCHOOL.

THE NEXT SESSION WILL COMMENCE
l. on Monday. the Ia Of August. Miss
Il. teaches all the English Branches. Pupils
the usual rates.
Prices of Tuition:
Preparatory Class. Observation-Disclosures $40 90
Advanced ............ ................ II 80
Music on Piano and Guitar. ........... 20 90
Latin and French will be taught when desired
No deduction maze for loss time. etcept in
cases Of prOtracted sickness
Good boarding can he had in the family Of
the teacher, where the pupils will receive all
the attention and care necessary to their COM
fort and well conduct.
Athens, July ., lSG9-tf-S4
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-08-20
CANE CREEK ACADEMY.
Joghill, McMinn County, Tenn

WIS I'LL, IuOluluu OUunUy, lOllu.
THE FIRST SESSION OF TIE ABOVE
L Institution will open on Monday, the 18th
day OF september. 1850, under the charge of
Prof. -. ~. Esrunucr. formerly Prcsi-
dent of lIiwassce College, and MiSs sSatc
CarlOci1. recent graduate of the Mary
sharp College, Winchester, Tennessee.
TU1TH ION:
1st Glass. per Term Of five months = ! so
2nd Class. per Term of five months 10. 10 90
Sd Class, per Term of five months -. II 30
18th Glass. per Term of five months O.. IL 90
contingent fce.....,, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 81
HuI the Tuition and the Contingent Fee are
required IN Adrdnce.r
Board in families, $500 per week.
Young men can board themselves NJ Cane
Creek Camp Ground. in less than one mile OF
the Academy. free of rent.
Our Academy is large and magnificent
new Building. in full view of Chilhowec
Mountain, only two miles distant, and is locat-
ed in Il section of the country distinguished
for good health and good morals. and is free
from the temptations and vices incident to
towns and Rail Roads.
With first class Teachers. we have reduced
Board and Tuition ut least twenty five per cent.
For further particulars. address
W. {. VAUGHAN,
July Q. 1S60-tf-Si Sec'y and Treas.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-09-03
Funny Items.
Josh Billings says Goldfish are better
than an umbrella to keep you dry.

Josh Billings says Goldfish are better
than an umbrella to keep you dry.
First Common Person-'I say, Bill,
that there 'Ouse o. Lords il in n VERY be-
nighted condition" Second Common Per.
son-"Well, If the 'Ouse is in the dark, /
should say, iudgiu' from tho speeches, it
isn't for the want O. long-winderB %
A %greenhorn lately took q notion to get
married. After the ceremony was conclu-
ded, the happy husband took a twenty-five
cent stamp from his pocket, deliberately
walked up to the parson and handed it TO
linn, saying, ''parson, keep the whole, you
need not give me back any change"
The manager Of country theatre look
ed into the house between the acts, and
turned with n face of dismay to the promp-
ter, with the question Of "Why, good gra-
cious, where is the audienoeY" "Sir, " re-
piled the prompter, without moving q mus
Gle, she is just now gone to get SOM bee"
As a horse Car was turning the corner
of Pleasant Street, Westbrook, the other
day, an old lady was seen by the track Wig
orously waving her fan TO tho conductor.
On stopping the car, tho old lady, instead
of getting in, desired to know if he had
seen a large yellow dog around the stable
in town.
An intelligent gentleman from Ger,
many, on his first visit to an American
church, had n contribution box with a hole
in the top presented 10 him, and whispered
to the collector, 81 don't got mein babers,
unit can't vote.
An offended woman, not having an in
yitation TO the funeral of q near neighbor,
sent tho following note TO the mournors: 81
think have been sighted ia being omit
ted nom your list Of Invitations. We will
probably have a funeral Mt our house one
OF those days, and we won't invite you"
-Orpheus O.. Kerr contributes the fol.
lowing, under the title Of 'Neptune's Ac-
cOlade:" UT
/ "Ho meets the maid at Newport,
in Soils aerenest sheen,
And on the sands sRlutes her
AS beauty's blooming Queen.
r"lWere 1 a Queep, what wsuld,sl thou
For him who asking hath p
pdask tlee, love, 10 make mo
Companion OF the bath /"
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-09-03
Personal Items.


Gladstone is going to visit Ireland T.
see the effects OF establishment.
Judge Cardozo, OF New York, colcbra.
ted his glass wedding on the 10th, atLong
Branch.
Frank Leslie has been Obliged by the
New York Courts 10 pay an alimony Of $50
to his wife indefinitely.
Helen Armstrong, % little American
girl, Is exciting considerable interest among
the musical critics on the Rhine.
-Le.po-toi, the celebrated Chinese ply
stefan, of California, has some 700 patients,
and an income OF 1000 per week.
Henry G. Evans, formerly Of the New
York Evening Mirror, died ia BROOKLYN on
Saturday last, aged 81 years.
-Rosecrans is about to organize n COM
pany to build n railroad from the city Of
Mexico to Acapulco ON the Pacific coast.
Mile. Neville, the rich young belle of
Brussels, and the principal owner of the
independence Beige, died recently at Spa.
Stephen Pierce, Of Caldwell, N. j.,
was killed by lightning on Sunday hast,
He in the third Of the family who has lost
his life from the same cause.
Richard Theodore Greener, colored.
and the only graduate of his race of Han
yard, has come out as a reader, and is said
to be n fine elocutionist.
One Of the handsomest cadets at West
Point is undor arrest, and, report says, will
be expelled, for visiting n lady az the hotel,
having twice been forbidden to do 30.
Ike Marvel having spoken disrospect-
fully Of the New York and New Haven
Railroad in the Hearth and Home, that pa
per is bauished from the trains and Sta.
tons on that line.
Miss Sarah II. Lowell, who died recent
ly at Bangor, at 20, has been SO wears in
bed with consumption, and succeeded i'm
surviving a whole family, none Of whom,
herself excepted, had the disease.
Thirteen years ago when Peter Moves
carried the mails from Patten 10 Fish Xiv
er, Maino, n woman one day requested him
to bring her back q half pound of tea.
Peter was removed before he could comply
with tho request. He was recently reap
pointed, and carried the woman the tea on
his first trip.
Mrs. Kate Baxter, Vanderbilts daugh-
ter, was recently run away with i'm n car
riage containing, besides herself, her
little child, the little daughter of n friend
and q Mrs. Prison with hcr child. Mrs.
Baxter, with great c%oolnoss, first threw up
on the grass her friends child and then
leapod out with her own, and Mrs. Prison
followed with hers. None OF the party
We're seriously injured, but the carriage
was finally wrecked upon a stone wall.
Ellen Gray, n young milliner Of Fort
Edward, N. Y, has lately received a lega-
cy of some millions Q9i it Is said Of dollars.
A few years ago she became engaged TO a
young Englishman, who subsequently re-
turned TO England and inherited a large
property. just as no was about coming
over TO marry tho milliner, he died and
willed his property to her. Tho will has
been contested aud proved valid, aud Miss
GrnY Inns conc over for fha mnnnu
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-09-03
The Midnight sun.

The following is a description Of the
scene witnessed by Mr.. Campbell and his
party in the north Of Norway, as they
STOOD on n cliG 1000 feet above the sea.
The passage is unsurpassed in graphic
beauty:
The ocean stretched far away in silent
v]astncss ut our feet: the sound Of it's waves
scarcely reached our airy lookout; away in
the north the huge old sun swung low
along the horizon like the slow beat Of the
pendulum in the tall clock of our grand
tather's parlor cornor. We all stood silent,
looking Mt our watches. Whom both hands
come together Ot II o'clock midnight, the
fun round orb hung triumphnntly above
the waye-O bridge Of gold running due
north spanned the water between MS and
him. There he shouc in silent majesty
which knew no setting. We Involuntary
took of our hats; no word wnsslid. Com
hinc, ii you can, the most brilliant sunset
and sunrise you ever saw, and its beauties
will pale before the gorgeous coloring which
now lit up ocean, heaven aud mountain. In
half m hour the sun had swung mp perccp-
tibly on his beat, the colors changed to
those Of morning, q fresh breeze ripplcd
over the flood, Il s0ngster after another
piped up IN the grove behind u5-we had
slid into another day.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-09-03

A Crowded Circus Tent Frustrated by
Winds-Intonse Alarm among the
Spectators.
From the Dayton Cohioj Ledger, Aug. II.
Yesterday afternoon, about 8 o'clock,
while Bryants menagerie and circus was
in full blast, at the corner of First and
Webster streets, there came very suddenly
a furious gale of wind, followed by heavy
shower of rain, which for n short time
seemed as though it would scatter every
thing before it. The performance
about half over, when all at once the guy
poles inside were lifted from the ground,
and considerable creaking was heard thro'
the entire canvas, which spread great con
steruation among the vast number of peo-
pie gathered under the pavilion. IL was
evident that the pavilion would instantly
fail unless great force was applied outside
TO hold on to the ropes. Some fifty men
took hold of the ropes on the south side,
and attempted to hold it from blowing
over, but It was utterly impossible. In
another instant the ropes snapped, the
center pole came unfastened, and with o
terrible crash the large pavilion was dash
ed to the ground, upsetting mt the same
time two of the wagons containing wild
animals.
AZ this point several voices cried out,
''The animals are aoose." This terrific
alarm, added TO the intenBe excitement
caused by tho falling of the canvas aud
breaking of the seats, and screaming Of
women and children, made confusion more
COMPOUNDED, and the scene n of the Wild
est disorder and the greatest danger we
ever had occasion TO witness. The people
were now all terrified, and fled everywhere
IN the widest confusion, Amid the
screams OF at least u thousand women aud
children, who were trying to eytricate
themselves from beneath the broken
benches, and crawling out from under the
canvas, mothers and fathers seized their
children and iranticoliy rushed their way
ont rs best they could. Many Of the
children were pressed down in the excite.
ment and tnmpled in the dirt; some were
very much bruised. Mans men and women
fed to adjacent housesand closed the doors
behind to escape from being oycttaken by
the wild animals, which they imagined
we're in pursuit Of them. But two persons
were seriously inlured-W. IL. Mitchell,
VINO was flung across n bench while mt
tempting to support q guy, and u little girl,
whose name we did not ascertain, had her
ann broken and received n severe wound
ON the head.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-09-03

with wash-room, &C., and all thetoilot aocos-
sories. Massive and elegant s~tairways lead,
by easy steps, from the main floor to tho up-
per stories, and nothing seems wanting TO
promote the convenience and comfort Of
their customers. The whole store ia tied
mp in the most elegant style, andit is in fact,
the largest and most commodious millinery
establishment in the world The house i'm
ports their silks, ribbons, velvets, lsces and
French flowers, and "a their sales extend over
all The northwest and to tho Pacific, and reach
a million dollars a year, they can give their
customers the benefit of the richest goods
and latest styles, at the lowcst'pricos. Eve
~ dealer in their line, who comes to Chi
cago, will be sure TO visit this millinery pal
ace.
The manufactures Of Chicago give emplov-
mont to tens Of thousands Of workmen, aid
an assurance Of a large part Of its growth
and prosperity. Among those worthy Of
mention is the
Stow MANUFAcToRY OF COLLINS q BUnonr,
Corner of Jefferson and Van Buren, streets,
established in 1854, their business has in
creased 30 That their works cover half a
block. They employ 100 mon, and sell Sl5O,.
OOO worth ayear. They mako q great variety
OF cook and parlor stoves, for wood and coal,
hollow ware, light castings, Fochts' Patent
IRON Pulley Bloclsg for field hay forks, 30,
but their specially lie ne Volcano HedteJ, a coal
stCV', which oxcels all others FOR durability,
ttollOlng. uih hbhNlhH puIpuhbts ~ ~ UHeu
in the public schools and on tho railroads.
. Tho great silk house of %
nELDlNd. BROS, a CO., 90 \ 90 WABASH
AVENUE,
whose Gales OF sowing silk, machine twist.
NC, treble those of all similar houses In
Chicago, were intending TO advertise liberal
~, but, though they keep two mills running,
their orders so exceed their supplies that
they don't need any advertising.
FnEAWs OF ItouTNrva
During a thunder storm last Friday even
ing, a stroke Of lightning broke up q dancing
party at tho German Theatre, In North Wells
pordcn' Church, on Illinois street, chatter
ing tho Flagstaff on tho stocplo into o
hundred pieces. Tit lightning had no re-
apect TO persons or occupations.
NE WESTERN MONTHLY
for September appears IN an enlarged form,
and makes q better appearance than any mum.
Der yet issued. IL has q fine steel portrait
and a biographical sketch Of Vice President
O0liaX, aud a most attractive table OF con-
fonts. This young but vigorous magazine h
fast winning its way TO the hearts Of western
readers.
MNUsENtENTs.
Manager Aiken has gOno back to Wood's
Museum, and the Victim Of Circumatancos IL
having o great run there.
Manning & Emerson's minBlrols opnn at
the Dearborn next Monday.
Adams IL playing the Marble Heat al Nc
Yickar's, which has boon thoroughly roftted.
Enoch Arden ia In rehearsal fornoxt week.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-09-03
@rntral %Sutrlliorner.
STORY.
A LIznrd Ia n Mans stomoch-It Dies
Rnd IL Elected,

A Lizard In n Mans stomach-It Dies
aud Is Elected,
From the Cairo tull Bulletin.
During the war, n gentleman, now of
this city, was connected with the army in
South Carolina. Ho had long and eX-
hausting marches b. make, and for drink
ing water was compelled 10 resort to the
swamps and ponds found along the route.
Il was customarily TO hurriedly dip mp q
cupull as the column moved on, without
leaving the line, and TO gulp IL down as
they moved forward. Time passed, and
the gentleman of whom we speak fell Pick.
He was troubled with an iuitability Of the
stomach, for which physicians could find no
remedy. The war closed, and his complaint
become moro and more aggrayating. II was
with difficulty the most tooihsome morsol
could be retained in the stomach. lie
consulted a number Of physicians, who
prescribed sundry and varied remedies, but
they all failed to effect H. c desired cure. Mat
tiers continued thus until the gentleman
made up his mind that there was no cure
for him, and that the only thing that re-
manned for him was TO continue the use OF
such medicines az afforded him the most
relief, and thus smooth his way 10 the
grave. One morning no was walking in
the garden, and being tempted by the ap-
pearance OF a cluster Of red curmnts. he
yielded to inclination, and swallowed as
much as q small handful Of them.
He had 10 sooner done so than he felt
that he he'd cause for rcCrettiug his
mshness. An unusual retching followed, and
in q few seconds he yomitod mp the cur
rants, and with them the dead body OF %
red lizard, fully six inches long lie had,
no doubt, drank this lizard when IL was
very small, in the South Carolina swamp
water. 1t had been nurturcd for months
in his stomach, and grown 10 the monster
it WIS when elected. II had, probably,
been killed by something taken into the
stomach, and the decomposition Of the
body having commenced, created a nausea
of stomach that enabled him 10 throw il
up. One side of its head aud q portion Of
its tail had dec0yed, but otherwise IL was
whole, well formed, and %und9uiably 10 lizard.
This is the first lizard story Of thisnature
OF which we ever heard, and, being thor
oughly satisfied OF its truth, We put IL on
record.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-09-03

WHAT Is A Coon Cow PA writer in n re-
cent number of the Galaxy gives the follow
ing general hints regarding the selection
of n good COW for milk producing:
First. Health, GOOD constitution or di-
gestive apparatus, for which we require n
capacious belly.
Second. That the largest possible deyel-
opment of the animal Ehall be behind, in
the uddcr and parts adjacent. A good COW
is likely TO be wedge shaped, OF which the
head is the smaller end. Big heads, or
horns, or shoulders are not desired, be
cause they have to be nourishcd by the
food. But these are indispensable; n large
BAG, aud headquarters to support and minis
ter TO il. What do our millimon look for
in selecting milk.gi1!ng cows2 The first APP
pearnuco, TO judge, will convey an idea
AZ to the health or constitution Of the COW.
lie will ask, also, q bony frame, M that
does not steal the fat from the milk; aud he
will feel the skin, 10 find il flexible and COW
cred with close scottish hair; he will ask for
good lung room, n capacious belly, n wide
rump and well developed bag, covered with
soft hair. Extending from this bag forward,
he will be DESTROYS 10 sec prominent the
two great veins which lose themselves In
the belly: and on the back Of the uddcr he
will look for many well-dehned branching
veins. Then comes Guenou's "milk-mir-
ror, which is n broad strip of hair run
ming mp from the uddcr 10 the vulya, which
ne considered the one thing ncedful; but
which hns not in this country, been found
an infallible test, though it is q good one.
If, in addition, the COW is gentle, good tenn
pered, you are almost sure ofamilk-maker.
Look for that kind.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-09-03
DOeirg.
TAKE BACK THE RING, DEAR

49,"
Take back the ring, dear jamie,
The ring ye gao tome,
And a. the VOWS ye made yestreen
Beneath the birken tree;
But gle me hack my heart again,
Its al hae to gle,
Sin yen no wait n fttin time
We ann marry me.
Ipromised omy daddio,
Afore he slipped ava,
Ine'er wal lcavem my Minnie.
Whate'er sud her BETA.
III faithful keep my promise.
For a. thatyc can gle;
50. Jamie, gif yo Wilma wait,
Yn ne'Cr can marry me.
Icannal leave my Minnie.
Shes been sac Kind 20 me
Sil c'cr ! was hairnie,
4 wee thing on her knee.
Nae mair she'll kaim my Eowicn hair,
Nor busk mc snod an Draw;
She's auld aud frail, her cen are dim,
An sumo will close ON a..
I mann ma leave my Minnie,
Her journey " M lang;
Her heidi s bending 20 the moods,
Where Il mann shortly gnng.
WstUl lu hciress q q crown,
ia a. It's honOrs tine,
To watch hcr steps o. helpless age
As sho In youth watched mine,
Take back the ring, dear jamie,
The ring ye Rae to me,
And all the vows yc made yCstrucn
Beneath the birkcn tree;
And rae me back my heart again,
Its al hac 30 Gle,
Sin yen no wait a httin' time,
We Gamma marry inc.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-09-03

The New YoRK SUN tells the story of a
deacon who lived in the good old DAYS
when everybody on the e~asterly side of the
Hudson drank New England rum. This
deacon was accustomed, for the space of
fifty years, to tako his IL o'clock and 4
o'clock reiresher of that orthodox bever-
age. At these precise hours he was wont
to go to the well, and with an old oaken
bucket that hung from the antique sweep,
draw a pail ofwater TO cool and mollify his
morning aud evening dram. In process of
time, full of years and honors, the deacon
was gathered TO his fathers. But this well
sweep sill lived; and such was the force of
habit upon it, coupled with its incapacity
to forget anything it had once learned, that
Tor long years after the deacon was dead
the well sweep continued to go up and
down 80 regularly Mt IL and 4 o'clock that
all the fools in the noighborhood set their
watches by il.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-09-03

We WOULD call the attention of our read.
ors TO the advertisement Of the Chicago
window Shade Company. Messrs. Bellamy
u HasbiHs, ProprictOrs, which appGars In
our advertising columns to-day. This IL the
only exclusive Shade HOuso in the NORTH.
west. They manufacture their own GOODS.
therefore arc enabled to offer everything I'M
thgir line at the very lowest possible prices.
Oiiico and aalesrOom 30, Randolph vt. Chicago.
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-09-03

THRouGH TO NEW YORK WITHOUT CHANdr
OF CABs.-From Monday, Aug. 10th, and evo-
ry day thereafter, ono of tho magnificent
drawing-room cars of the Pullman Palace
line VIII leave Chicago at 5:15 p. M. and 20
directly. through TO Now York city via the
Great Western, Now York Central and Hud-
son River Railroads, landing passengers M
3lst Street Station. The celebrated Hotel
Cars will continue to run to Rochester as
usual,
The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-09-03
40 LIsPENARD ST.,

DEAR SIN. 1t is with much pleasure that /
say TO you that L consider the PLANTATION
BIrTERs Of untold value. In tho fall Of 1867 l
was taken with Chills and Fever, with the
most severe pains in my chest and head. IL
was with great difficulty that / could breathe.
My lungs were greatly distressed, and there
was severe pain In my right side, by spells. /
could hardly get up from my bed. Icalled a
doctor, who attended mo all winter without
the least benefit. About the let OF August ]
commenced using your PLANTATION BTTTERs
"A wine-glasa full three times a day-aud
used ii most OF the time since, and / am
now vol and strong, able TO do all NY WI
work and the caro- Of alargo family.
Yours, &C., SUSAN WILSON.