Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1873-04-26
PRDurrvK-In the good old times Of


J. PRDuTIvE-In the good old times o
a which our grand parents so eIoqaently dis
r course, when young folks took a notion Il
4 marry, and the old folks didn't like it, why
{ they just mounted their horse or horses a,
P the case might be, and s1it OUT for tbs
l. nearest Squire. Th4t's the way Mr.. An
5 drew Jackson Deaton and Miss Ellen
: Mathis, Of "Greenbrier," did on Thursday,
with the exception that instead Of calling
on the nearest Squire, they came all the
way to this City 50 that they might be
splieed by town Magistrate. They were
married in the Courthouse by Esquire
Persons, and then retired to Glass to lay
in wedding things. They were young,
good looking, and were happy as happy can
be. Good luck TO 'em.
NOT sHEEP.-A well known butcher
Of this City recently purchased lot OF
sheep in an adjoining county, one Of the
lot beng H'black sheep" He drsve them
to his yard near the City and Commenced
making mutton OF them, saving the black
enc for the last. Finally, it came to the
black rams turn to be muttonized. He
was caught and the cruel knife was ready
to drink his blood, when, 70 the astonish-
ment Of the butcher and his assistants, the
black ram nickered like a horse instead Of
bleating like sheep. They paused, and
on investigation found that instead Of 4
black ram, they were about to slay 3 little
black shaggy poney. The butcher paid
81 fer him, and now ia him as a saddle
horse. He may be seen most any day on
the streets.
THERE Is STILL HoPE.-The Jackson
and Tennessee River Railroad is not dead,
but sleepeth.- Jackson is ready, Decatur
/ county stands waiting an invitation to take
hold, and so soon as Henderson county
wakes up from her rather protraeted mp
this important enterprise will be set on foot.
Good news comes from Perry county across
the river. A correspondent in the Nash
vile Rural Sun, from that county says,
ga proposition TO vote a subscription Of
| 81, 900 to the Jackson Railroad will be sub
mitted soon, and carried" Thus all along
the line, except in Henderson county, there
is life and liberal spirit on the subject Of
this great Central thoroughfare. And
Henderson win wake up after awhile ard
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stretches herself a little, she VIII look
around and be ashamed Of herself for
sleeping so late. Then she will pitch in
and make up in extra exertlon what she
has lost in mapping. We still have hope.
In DKBr-Among the saddest words in
the English language, sadder sometimes
than even death, are those two little words, |
II al -
end, OF speculations that lure but to de- /
eeive, Of shifts that but postpone, while |
they make more complete the final ruin. |
They tell Of hopes that bloom and wither |
in the same hour, Of fruits that turn 10 |
ashes on the lips, OF disappsintmeats, bro |
ken promises, humbled PRIDE, dispair, dis
sipation, and, alas, often moral death. They |
tell Of sleepless nights, Of mornings more |
terrible than darkness, Of pallid brows and /
sunken cheeks, Of wrongs that must be /
borne and insults that can neither be pre-
vented or resented, Of a slavery as hideous /
as the felon's doom, and, alas, too often OF /
honor lost amid the wild whirlpool of life
long disaster. They tell Of joyless homes
and broken hearts, of widows tears and
orphans wrongs, OF mad-house miseries
and the suicides wild dispair. Yes, they
are little words, and yet in them there is
more misery than was ever wrought in
the world by war or wine. THERE'S chari-
ty for the thief-st least If he steals enough
there is charity for the liar, especially If
he makes it pay-there is charity for the
swindler If he is sueeessful-there is chart
ty for the hypocrite, if he pays literally to
the ehureh-there is charity for the muir
derer, provided the innocent blood he sheds
is paved over with gold, but there Is no
charity for the honest debtor. Over con-
fdence in himself, over confidence in
others, inexperience and too much hope
may have been the rocks upon which his
liie-boat stranded.
Fondness for society, generous impulses,
temperament, unsuspecting conf
dence and open handed charity may have
combined to produce that wretehed state
described by the simple words sin debit
but beautiful or paliatmg as all these are in
they shield not the misera ble
debtor from single kick or curse-that Is, if
he is an honest debtor. Society spurns him,
friends snub him, the church assigns him
back seat, and the great good and virtuous
world turns its enlightend christian back
upon him, to smile and fawn up IN some
gigantic scoundrel whose path to .ortune's
sunny heights is paved with brol en- hearts,
tears, violated conf fence and
granite lies. All! in that grea day when
the secrets of all hearts are la i bare, and
men stand before their God as they are,
then, many who pointed the niger of scOrn
at the honest debtor on ear and hunted
him down TO despair and de TIL, would free
iy give all the wealth and power and honor
enjoyed here if their souls had no greater
burden to bare, than him they despise0 in
the flesh. What 4 fearful lessen is this;
taught in an age OF pulpits and prayers-the
successful swindler or thief is honored in
church, society and state-while the honest
debtor is despised by each and all. Yes,
gid it, whitewash it as we may, yet ain
debt" are words OF measurelesS misery, all |
the more desolate when they designate an
honest bankrupt. Young men shun the
charnel house these fearful words imply
as the mariner shuns the remorseless mael /
storm Of the ocean.