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Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1873-05-01
POETR r. Y
FATE OF A FIGHTING DOG.
BY F. BRET HARTE.

A man he owned terrier dog
A bob-tailed onery cuss--
And that there dog got that there man
In many an ugly MUS;
For the man he was on his muscle,
And the dog he was on his bite,
So to kick the dogoned animal
Was sure to raise fight. ,k
A woman owned Thomas cat
That fit at fifteen pounds,
The other cats got up and slid
When that there cat was round.
The man and dog came along one day,
Where the women she did dwell,
And the purp he growled ferocio,sly,
Then went for the cat like--everything
He tried to chaw the neck of the cat,
But the cat he wouldn't be chawed,
So he lit upon the back of that there dog,
And bit and chawedl and clawed!
Oh? the hair it flew and the dog he you'd
AS the claws went into his hide,
And chunks of flesh was peeled from his
Then he 1ummcxed and he kicked, and
he died
The man he ripped and cussed and swore,
AS he gathered big brickbat,
That he would be darned essentially
If he didn't kill the cat
But the old woman allowed she'd lie bles-
sed if he did,
And snatched up an old shot gun,
Which was fired and peppeied his dia-
rhragm
With bird shot number one.
They toted him home on window blind,
And the doctor cured him upl
But ne never was known to fight again,
Or to own another purp.
Folks may turn up their snoots ct this here
rhyme,
don't care a cuss for that;
Ali want to show is, that fighting dogs
May tackle the wrong Tom cat.
Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1873-05-01
Directors md Ii,rsfees

Geo. s. Cameron, e. III. Frost. w. G. Bee,
w. B; Williams, II. Fl. DeLeon, B. ONeil, A
p. Caldwe!. j. M. Shackelford, j. c. II. Claus
E. Walten, C. G.. Memminger, VIM. L. Webb,
j, !. Welsman, Geo. II. Walter, B. d. Lazarus.
april 23, 1873 10 3m
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-02-01
Partisan Newspapers.

French newspapers are celebrated for
containing very little of what an Ameri-
can or English reader would regard as
news. To supply the place Of domestic
intelligence or foreign kilograms, how
ever, Partisan editors show remarkable
ingenuity in inventing pleasant stories,
with a sufficient appearance of truth
about them. to pass current with their
readers, for genuine accounts of actual
occurrences, The following is sample
Of local item in Paris newspaper of
recent date: "For some months the
employees OF the octrol, or city toll of
the Porte Vanguard of Paris, observed
every evening at nightfall an elegant
dog cart, driven by a gentleman Of If
reproachable toilette. At the back sat
a groom, with the most correct English
physiognomy, his arms crossed on his
breast, astand-up collar, and looking as
grave as Charge d'AAaires signing a
treaty The formal question, Have
you anything to declare ?" was always
answered in the negative, and the We
hicle passed on. 1t happened, however,
day or two back, that, by some awk-
wardness on the part of the driver, the
cart caught on the boundary of the
road, and though it was not overturned,
the shock was so violent and 50 sudden,
that the gentleman, losing his balance,
was flung out upon the ground. The
employees at the gate hastened to raise
and assist the sufferer. During this
time the groom had not moved from his
seat. "COme," said one of the men.
The groom preserved dignified silence.
"Come down. cried they angrily,
"don't you see your master is hurt ?"
Is he drunk or stupid?' The groom
preserved his English sang froid, and
the employees, giving him a shake, dis
covered, to their astonishment, that he
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-02-01
Fellowship With God.

In all mems deepest feelings they de
acknowledge is all instinct irrepressi-
ble-that the one thing needful for
them is loving intercourse with God.
All other things we need only qualified
ly, as wealth, or friends, or learning,
or the arts of life, but this one thing do
We need absolutely. 1t We're by itself
an essential bliss; yea, even in the loss
of worldly good. That an assured fel-
lowship with God must exercise and
satisfy the exact self-hood of man, is
a very intuition of all men. Whereas
all worldly good, without God, does
but leave us restless and aching still.
All the things thou canst desire, the
passions gratified the appetite regaled,
the inebriation of power, the ministry
of art, the wonders of science the glow
of thought, sentiment and sensibility.
enterprise, friendship, the family, the
State--all these things, without God,
are only triumph Of the pulse,
dance of the spirits, froth of Joy, leav-
ing the soul more vapid than before"
Serious-minded men know it to be so.
Nor is it any mere thanking of God that
will satisfy us; neither the searching out
and aduiring of his wonderful works,
but only the personal meeting with God.
A man will give his lifetime to the study
of butterfly, or a rock, or star, and
fondly claim that he is conversing with
God; but vainly thus will he whisper
peace, peace to his soul, when there is
no peace. That butterfly was but a
beaming forth from God-not God him
self. A light from yonder mansion is
shining into the outer darkness, and a
poor, houseless stranger on the street
thinks it beautiful, looks at it wistfully,
and all the more wraps his tatters about
him in the shivering blast of a winters
evening. But, see! another wanderers is in
the street. The long-lostso of the house
has returned, his step is at the door, he
enters, the shout of welcome greets
him, loving arms are all around him,
and fathers heart is beating next his
own. What difference between the
two because of that one element of filial
fellowship Even so the religious con-
sciousness, if shut off from personal
embrace with God, is vagabond in
rags and darkness, although in the
midst of the marvellous works of God;
and the sense of responsibility to God
goes shivering along his life, Besides,
if now we stand aloof from God, he
will hereafter say to us, depart, ye
cursed !" while Il he and we do come
together now, he will say to us: Come,
ye blessed" OH surely present fell
lowship with God is the very chieiest Oi
our blessings; and how should We bound
fortunsd AZ. IA s.zs.;..ss 4. =
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Sabbath Day Suggestions.

4 CARIsrIAN church must be gather
ell about the feet of the Lord Jesus
Christ as the visible presence and in
carnation of Gods everlasting love for
man. That divine personality is the
bond of union by which its members
are held together. In loving the Christ
they cease to despise, hate, criticise,
avoid, or suspect each other; all find
the best and deepest of each other in
that glowing love of the Master
d. Mayo,
WHEREVER l find truth, l will APP
propriate it, for it is an estray from
Gods word, and belongs to me and to
all. Eminent masters, parties and secte
claim truths as theirs, because they
have most fully expounded them but
men never make truths, they only re-
cognize the value of this currency of
God
THE aspirant for place in the
heavenly Jerusalem will be interested
to keep clean the city where he lives.
They who sigh for an eternal Sabbath
make their worship below sincere.
None look forward to heavenly homes
who do not make their earthly homes
as lovely as they can. And they that
anticipate heaven of progress will see
that they are up and doing. The max
ing of heaven here is the pledge of
heaven hereafter Heaven must be a
state of mind before it will become a
state of existence. o. h. Frothinghdm.
THERE is not daisy that knows the
way above the soil till the sun draws it;
and there is not soul that knows the
way to God until Christ has interpreted
him to it. Christ was a specimen of
that which is the royalty AND grandeur
of the infinite eternity of God. A God
who would rather suffer than have us
suffer is calling us up through trials,
through sorrows, through manifold ex-
periences, to make us rich, ripe and
ready for seeing Him as he is when the
clouds pass away, and the body falls,
and the soul goes forth, not lonely
pilgrim, but welcome and rejoicing as a
child of God, to dwell with Him for
ever and forever. II ". Beechcr.
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Make Friends.

! will give you an unfailing key to
success, said an experienced man to
his young friend MAKE one 0e,g
friend every day, and retain all you
make" Three hundred and sixty-ive
friends year would certainly be an i'm
portant auxiliary to the productive re-
sources of an ambitious young man
making his may in the world. But then
comes the question; How are these
friends to be mate ? 1t will be easy
enough to retain friend once earned
but how can this very excellent pre-
scrption of making friends be car
ried ont There may be many
ways in which progress may be had in
this direction even if the task should
not be literally accomplished. Let us
look at the matter in rational way.
To commence with, civility is an ex-
cellent bait with which to catch friends !;
and civility is cheap. Nothing is easier
than to keep a supply constantly on
hand. There are bogus articles some
times attempted TO be palmed off for
the real thing, but they are all so base
that they are easily detected. Obsequi-
BUSINESS is one fattery another mock
modesty a third otiiciousness n fourth,
and These may have the genuine
stamp" but their spuriousness is easily
detected True eivility needs no false
lights TO show its points 1t is the en-
bodiment of Truth, the mere opening
ont of the inner self. The arts and
artifces of polished exterior are well
enough but if they are anything less
or more than fair exponent OF inward
rectitude, their hollowncss cannot long
escape detection Shakespeare has said,
"A man may smile and smile, and be
a villain = but all the world knows that
there is wide difference between the
smile of villain and that of an honest
man.
Courtesy, which is the natural out
growth of inward gentleness, bears its
characteristics by the artless child as by
the grown man. Civility, therefore, to
be effective in this quest, must have the
sub-stratum Of goodness. 1t must be
pervading and uniform, not exceptional
and tittul. 1t is all very we'll to lay the
blame of an unreliable aud explosive
temper upon weak digestion, or that
crash humor' inherited from others
but its disastrous effects are all the same.
The worst tempers are made subseryient
to well settled and persistent prin-
cPle of right doing and that is the
only thing which can be relied on. The
whole question therefore resolves itself
into this formula.
To make friends, Do right.
To keep friends, Do right,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-02-01
Education of the Eye.

No mechanic can ever attain distinC-
tion unless he is able TO detect ordinary
imperfection at sight, so that he can see
if things are out of plumb, out Of level,
out OF square and ont of proper shape;
and unless he can also detect dispropor-
toned or ill-shaped patterns. This is q
great mechanical attainment. We say
attainment, because it can be attained
by any ordinary person. OF course
there are defective eyes as there are
other defective organs; the speech, for
instance, is sometimes defective; but
the eye is susceptible of the same train
ing as any other organ. The muscles,
the voice, the sense OF hearing, all re.
quire training Consider how the ar
tist must train the organ of sight in or
der to detect the slightest imperfection
i'll shade, color, proportion, shape, ex-
preston, &c. Not one blacksmith in
five ever attains the art of hammering
square; yet it is very essential in his oc-
cupation, 1t is simply because he al
lows himself to get into a careless habit;
little training and care is all that is
necessary for success.
The fact is that the eye is not half as
much at fault as the needless mind.
Some carpenters acquire the careless
habit OF using try square every time
they square off shaving, in place Of
giving their minds right to their bust
ness and properly training their eyes;
and unless they cultivate this power Of
the eye they will always be at journey
work. Look at the well-trdined black
smith; he goes across the shop, picks up
the horses foot, takes a squint, returns
to the anvil, forges the shoe, and it ex-
actly fits the foot. Contrast him with
the bungler who looks at the foot, then
forges a shoe, often to the ruin of a fine
horse. Now the fault lies in ever allow
ing himself to put a shoe that is not in
proper shape for the foot; he should de-
termine to make the shoe fit the foot in
place of the foot fitting the shoe, and
he should follow it up until the object
is accomplished.
4 very good way to discipline the me-
chanical eye is to first measure an inch
with the eye, then prove it with the
rule, then measure half inch, then an
eighth, and so on, and you will soon be
able to discover at a glance the differ
ence between a twelfth and a sixteenth
of an inch; then go to three inches, six,
twelve and 50 on. Some call this guess
4 ing; there is no guess work about it: it
| is measuring with the eye and mind.
| Acquire the habit of criticising for i'm
perfections every piece of work that You
see; do everything as nearly as you can
without measuring (or spelling it, or
as nearly as you can trust the eve with
with its present training. Ii you can
not see things mechanically do not
blame the eye for it; it is no more to
blame than the mouth is because We can
not read, or the fingers because We can,
not write. A person may write very
good hand with his eyes closed, the
mind of course directing the fingers.
The eye is necessary, however, to de-
tect imperfections,
| Every occupation in life requires a
mechanically trained eye, and We should
realize, more than We do, the great i'm
portauce Of properly training that
/ organ
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-02-01
NUMBER 10.
THERE Is NO DEATH.

By LORD LYTroS.
There Is no death The stars 70 dos
To rise upon some fairsr shSre,
And bright in Heavens ieweled sroTn
They shine forevermore.
There Is no death The dust w tread
Shall change beneath the summer shower
10 golden grain or mellowed fruit
Or yainbow-tinted flowers.
The granite rocks disorganiz,,
And feed the hungry moss they bear
The forest trees drink daily life
From out the yieWleos air.
There ia no death The leaves may tall.
And flowers may fade and pass way;
They only wait through vintry hours
The coming of Msy-dsy.
There is no death! An angel form
Walks DER the earth with silent tread
And bears our best loved things away:
And then we call them dead
He ieayes our heart all desolate,
He plncks our fairsst, sweetest noEers:
Transpianied into bliss, they now
Adorn immortal bowers.
The bird-like voice, whose joyous tones
Make glad these scenes Of sin aud strife,
Nov sings an everlasting song
Around the Tree Of life.
where'er be sees smile too bright,
Or heart too pure for taint and ice.
He bears ii to that world Of light.
To dwell in Paradise.
Born unto that undying life,
They leave us but to come again;
With JOY We welcome them the same.
Except their sin and pain.
And ever near us, though unseen.
The dear immortal spirits tread.
Fer all the bouudless universe
In hfe-tLert ore no deddI
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THE BEAUTIFUL.

A student of Raphael stood before his
outstretched canvas in his studio, as ii
in deep contemplation for subject for
his pencil Entranced with visions that
fitted before his fancy, he exclaimed !:
"Tll paint the Beautiful What shall
it be? I'll paint the noontide with its
splendors !" Again he mused: "Il
paint the ocean in its anger" Hesitat-
ing to begin his task-"Or I'll paint
the rosy morning with its golden tresses,
or the modest evening with its coronet
of stars Here the artist seemed to
dream Is nught more beautiful? Z?
All, I'll paint n fair Mandoma, or the
sweet, innocent child, Jesus =! Again
he murmured for Il theme sublimer,
grander. Ill depict the battle, or the
storm; but stay-could | possibly pic
ture the mind, with its aspirations vet
clinging to the casket in which it is en-
shrined?' He knew the theme, ON
earth most wondrously beautiful, was
beyond the limner's skill. He paused
in disappointed mood. A poetess, I'M
perceived, had entered, whose spirit
was stirred with sympathy. She touch
ed her Tyre, and sang;
"what is the Beautiful? mystery!
Not man, but God alone its depth can sound:
Woudst thou among its worshippers be foundc
Rise on the wings Of Faith where thought is
free,
And thou shalt know the Beautiful"
The artist, still fondly clinging to his
idea of the Beautiful, responded ;
"Could You but see the famous picture
of the four Marys weeping over the
dead body of the crucitied Redeemer,
YOU would acknowledge a realization of
the Beautiful The human countennce
is, to my mind the special enthronement
and pavilion of intelligence-the parade
ground Of thought-the papyrus where
| OIL llle SOll WIlltH uib uVl NIlN lplt
the pillar on which she hangeth up
her writing for the world to read. Mys-
terious blending of matter and mind !!
A sea of mystery There is something
regal in the face of man but there was
never such face as that of the Man Of
sorrows.' whose countenance is 'as the
shining of the sun in his strength.
There never was such dead counte-
nance, for there was not one line of de-
cay in it. In every other face, evil
tempers and rebellious desires have,
even after death, left memorials of their
power but in the countenance of our
Lord Jesus there was no sign or trace
of personal sin; and every exquisite
touch of the fair hand is beautifully
conceived, and executed by the hand of
the painter. Successfully has he da-
guerreotyped God y
A naturalist, who had listened with
interest, announced himself: Every
thing God has created bears the impress
of some deep hidden good. Nature is
replete with beauty, far surprising art.
The earth is a landscape of beauty;
whether our eyes turn toward the icy
North, or the sunny South, visions OF
picturesque beauty arise to view. The
green carpet, the towering mountain,
the CLASSY waters of cataract, sea, and
ocean, each reflect varied images of
light. and claim our admiration. In the
sweet notes Of birds, the rumbling
noise of the waterfall, the murmur of
the sea-shell, or the signing of the
breeze, there's melody, pOesy, divinity.
The ocean, the earth, and the heavens
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A MYSTERY.


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wound tlronBh iiT meadows green;
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hu' wen the ways ! knew;
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tould lean the blasted pine
''o' o''',' "''' '''' iu'l'' no'"
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So up the long and shorn foothills
The mountains road should rreop;
o. green ana 'o"' 'h' i''eado"' lo'o
l'S i'"-na're" KING asleep
The river wound us it should wind;
Their place the mountains took
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THE OLD BARN.

Rickcty. old, and crazy.
Smugleicss. lacking some dear-,
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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-02-01
IN GENERAL

All the telegraph companies except the
western Union having formed combination
TO lower rates, the Western Union bas now
appointed committee to confer with the OPP
position lines to fix if possible, ON a uniform
tariff The new Automatic Telegraph Com
pany has just cut down rates from two cents
to one cent word. The Western Union il
the company which transmits the messages Of
the Western Press Association, but the pro-
posed modification of tariff will not, possibly,
interfere with or reduce the press contracts, or
MAKE 'lo he"T any cheaper TO the newspapers.
~ IN F'"'eu 'ia' combination OF 'eIe-
graph companies outside OF tho Western
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VOLUME XIII.

elgn bonds have issued report which charges
Ecuador aud Venezuela with continued dis-
honesty, complains of the default Of Nicaura-
nga and Honduras, and stigmatized as dis.
credltahle the positions Of the States Of
llorida, Virginia, Alabama aud Georgia
Prince Humhert has declared to his father,
King Victor Emanuel, that he will leave Italy
if the latter declares his marriage with the
the Countess Marfor legal.
Funeral obsequies of Napoleon were OBJ
served in Milan, Italy, and throughout Rou-
mania
The Chinese Emperor has been frightened
by present Of two large red candles in which
Orsini bombs were discovered
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News of the Week.
DOWN EAST

rsre are a murderers awaiting trial in
,w York ToombE
Three hundred men have commenced
.4n Seyenty-nnth Street New York, upon
,psion Of the underground railroad. 1t
,ustoi that one thousand men will he at
r. within Il month. The road will be in
.,,9g order the first Of January. 1878. A
,.7eor who employed large number of
tn emigrauts, sent them back to the Emi-
na1 Commissioners, pronouncins them
rless.
(al, tories in New York sympathiling
bSaa, have forwarded to Madrid protest
lra the Intervention Of Secretary Fish in
snlto slavery in Cuba. It is stated that
,heui- Of the Spanish cause are in receipt
He news from Havana Of depressing
rarer, and il is understood the Spaniards
|urceyed some reycrscB,
-Nonau. who some time ago defaulted in
Rs,.otice Department at New York, has
hi arrested and an increase in his bail
! sdN3ll5,0OO
f -t,-tatea that new horse disease of a
,gHOls character il prevalent in New York.
pon- pronounce it to be spinal meningitis,
ilt. believed to be the outgrowth of the
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.nh,,riptIOn, in Advance.
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Holy living is right thinking, first or
last, Live better and you viii have
fewer controversies, fewer divisions,
and more of that unity which consists
of the divine whole, made up of infinite
parts brought into harmony. Unity is
no mSnochord Unity is that grand,
swelling symphony played on a hun
dred instruments, and in a score of
parts, and yet SO interviewer that the
one great sound, made up Of hundreds
and thousands of minor sounds, shall
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-02-01

The Census Office has completed its
statistics of the manufacture of agri-
cultural implements for the year 1870,
1t shows their value have been $52, 900, :
600. This is more than three times the
value of those made in 1860.
In the happy land of Canaan, n. H.
dwells peaceful citizen sixty years OF
age, who sees the locomotive pass
in view every day, but has never
ridden in the cars or Il stage coach, and
has never had lawsuit, In fact he has
never been forty miles from home, and
yet he is tolerably happy, and says the
local paper. is u map Of hpsipess a'of
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WHAT glorious world this would be
if all its inhabitants could say, with
sheakspearos shepherd. "Sir, lam a
true laborer; earn that wear; owe no
man hate; envy no mans happiness; glad
with other mems content with my farm.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-02-01

FREEDOM without religion is desti-
tuition, vagrancy, vice. Freedom from
religion is animalism. The freedom
that is religion can come only from
religion that is free and makes Free
W. r. CIarke.
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FAINT not; the miles Of heaven are
few and short. There are many heads
living in Christ's bosom, but there Is
room for yours among tho rest. --Rath-