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bosom are covered with verdure;
buds and blossoms fill the garden
of his Imagination; he finds beauti-
full poetry among the most prosa
lcal places of earth; and all the dis
cordances of nature are made to
harmonize with the secret impulses
of his heart. The landscape has a
look of love; the brooks babble OF
nothing but love; the bird sings
songs of love; the heavens at night
seem lighted with love; and every
breeze comes laden with the sweet
perfumes of love-nO matter wheLh
er it happens to blow from the
groves Of orange blossoms or from
a dead dogs carcass.
His dreams at night are dreams
OF love; his spirit is guided by AT
invisible spirit to the whereabouts
of his adored, where, in some syl
van bower or moonlit grove, he
pours out his whole soul-spills
the boiling broth of affection in the
lap of love-squanders kisses by
the quantity-with heart ia heavon
and heels upon earth as If he were
in a state of betwixt and betweenity
in relation to the eternal joys of
the one and the temporary raptures
of the other. Not only his spiritual
but his physical portion also may
be affected by the power of dreams
He may arise from his sleep when
the zephyrs silently steal kisses
from the slumbering flowers and be
led by a spirit in his feet to the
chamber window of her whom he
loves and adores-who knows how2
ah, who knows how? Who can tell
what it is that guides his footsteps
when the lamp OF reason is extin
guished in the darkness of sleep,
unless it be some Invisible spirit
that takes him by the hand. Such
is his dream of love, but he awakes
in the morning and finds that the
god of dreams has been playing a
kind of April fool with him. The
old man lies down upon his bed at
night and dreams of joys that await
him beyond the tomb. In his slum-
bers the gates of heaven are opened
upon his vision and he is allowed
to take peep at the glories he
shall participate in when the dull
dream of life is dispelled by the
rays of the resurrection sun. and
an eternal day of splendor shall
break upon the dark night of the
grave.
Gentle reader, dreams are not for
a certainty prophetic of the future;
they are only proof impressions OF
the past and the present There
fore, be admonished rather than Sc
duced by them.
If your dreams are unpleasant,
depend upon it you are not right.
Seek out the cause and correct the
consequences. If they are pleasing
you may know you are on the road
to happiness. X. N. PEPPER.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-05-27
4 New York Orphan.

Detroit Free Press.
One of the little lambs picked up
in the streets of New York by
Whitelaw Reid and sent West to
find home was adopted by a De-
troit family about two months ago,
and ere this is published Mr.. Reid
has received big postal-card an
nouncing that his dear lamb has
gone west to fight the Indians, and
that he needn't mind about sending
on another to take his place.
This New York lamb was 13
years old. He said so at the depot
on his arrival, and half an hour la
ter he reiterated the statement at
the house, and added:
And if you don't believeiit, then
call me a liarl That's the sort of
= spring. gun am, and don't you
forget i'll"
They didn't forget it! He gave
them no chance to. He ate with
his fingers, wiped his mouth on his
sleeve, and gave the family TO un-
derstaGd before supper was over
that he didn't come West to have
his hair combed or his face washed
as a regular business. On his first
evening he slipped out, had three
fights and stole a dog, and when
hunted up was about to take his
beer in q saloon.
The family expected to wrestle
with the. boy for awhile, and they
didn't sit down on him until 1t be-
came painful necessity. During
his first week be stole 80 in money,
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-05-27
About Fleas.
Galveston (Tex.l News

Galveston CTex.) News.
just now fleas are fashionable.
Everybody has them. There is no
prejudice against the flea on ac-
count of his color. If the flea was
perfectly white, people could be
more familiar than they are. Some
people are careless, anyhow, about
the color-line. The Bible says the
flea is wicked when no man pursu-
eth, which means, if you want to
cure a flea of his wick edness, you
must catch and make a good Indi-
an of him. Various remedies for
ieas have been suggested. One
is to cover your entire body with u
coating of warm tar. The best way
is to hire a detective to watch flea
until he is tired, then pour an
ounce of chloroform on him and
send for policeman. There is no
such thing as keeping feas out of a
house, although an old man in San
Antonio, who was very observing,
said that there would not be
any leas in a house if the women
were kept out. 1t was the women
that brought feas into the house.
The flea is round-shouIdered, and
keeps his nose to the ground like
a dog trailing a rabbit. Like all the
old residents of the island, the flea
is very brisk and enterprising,
which is the cause of the present
tidal wave of prosperity. Unlike
the rest OF the old residenters, the
flea does not go north in the sum
mer time, but stays right here and
enjoys himself at home. The flea
has no politics to speak of. Like
the Houston press, he is indepen
dent,
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A RACE FOR A BRIDE.
The NJ an Who Came in Last,
But Who tainted at her
Feet, Winning the

A novel wedding was celebrated
at Pollockville, North Carolina, on
Monday. 1t seems that Moses
John Miller and Alexander Bihb,
two well-to-do yonng farmers, were
in love with the same girl, Leono ora
Lloyd, OF that place. She was not
able TO decide which she liked the
best. On Sunday morning Bihb
walked home fl ON church with her
and left her under the impression
that she said she would MARI him
Sunday night Miller went to see
uer and understood her to say she
would marry HIM. Both men on
Monday morning went to the
court house 30 get out the license.
Each procured the necessary docu-
ment and started off with a license
to marry Miss Lloyd. They met at
the courthouse door, and after
some talk, agreed that the first man
who reached the lady's house
should marry her. The residence
of Col Lloyd was one mile distant,
and both men started on the race
for the bride. Bibb soon quit the
main road and dashed into the
wood, expecting to make a short
cut and reach the house first, but
Miller kept the road, and got in on
the home stretch eight minutes be-
tore his rival. The men were in
sight of each other going up the
lane TO the house. Bibb's efforts
to overtake his rival was almost
superhuman. When they reached
the house, Bibb, from sheer ex-
haustlon, tainted on the porch,
falling almost at the feet of his la
DIV love. When the situation was
explained to her, she said she had
come to the conclusion that she
liked Mr.. BIbb the best, and there
fore she would marry him. Her
sympathies were won over by see
ing him faint. She said she be-
lieved that both loved her, but
that he who faints at the danger
of losing a bride must love her
moro than he who is cool and un-
concerned in the midst of it all
The Rev. Aaron Jasper, the well
known Baptist minister, married
Mr.. Bibb and Miss Lloyd.
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Selected Gems.

When a man is wrong, and won't
admit it, he always gets angry.
If the women of this country would
get along without ribbons they
would save 4,50O,000 a year tC
help men buy cigars.
A friendship will be young after
the lapse of a century. A passion
is old at the end of three months.
Fancy and humor, early and con
stantly INDUCED in, may expect an
old age overrun with follies.
The company of fools may at
first make US smile, but at last rem
ders US melancholy.
'Alcohol will clean silver" Yes,
alcohol, well stuck to, will clean all
the silver you have-out of your
pockets.
Whatever real mischief is done
us, it is our own doing; the devil
can but pei suade, he cannot com
pei.
Modesty and humility are the So
briefly of the mind; temperance and
chastity are the sobriety of the
body.
When one has no design but to
speak plain truth, he may say a
great deal in very narrow com
pass.
"Once," sighed Madame Bona
parte, 81 had every thing but mon
ey; now 1 have nothing else"
America now has nearly a hun
dred varieties of American grapes
under cultivation, and more than
800 varieties of pears.
There Is always hope in a man
that actively and earnestly works.
In idleness alone is there perpetual
despair.
No matter how low down a man
gets in the world there are two
things he can always get, some how
or other-good advice and bad
whisky.
God does not love US because
Christ died; for Christ died because
God loved us. "God so loved the
world that he gave his only begot-
ten Son, etc."
Be. liberal, and generous, and
courteous to all, and friends will
not be lacking in days of your ad-
yersity.
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ROMANTIC ELOPEMENT.
Flo Flies with Her Wounded Lover
and Marries Him En- Dishabille.

The neighborhood of Elizabeth
City, n c., Is in a state of great
excitement over the resent elope-
ment and marriage of a gushing
young couple. Jonathan Ivy and
Florence Seymark. The young la
dy's parents did not approve of
young Ivy's advances, and forbade
him their house. The lovers, how
ever, managed to meet clandestine
ly, and had made up their minds to
an elopement, which was to have
occurred one night. Old man Sey-
mark, by some means, got wind Of
the proposed escapade and went
cunning that day for Jonathan.
On coming up with the gay young
lover he hlazed away at him, shoot
ing him in the left shoulder and in
fioting a painful but not dangerous
wound. Florence was overwhelmed
with grief by her fathers hasty
conduct, but her passion for her
lover was increased a thousand
fold. She sent him a letter telling
him she would fly with him that
night if he would come for her.
That night young Ivy put in an ap-
pearance about l o'clock with a
close carriage. Miss Florence was
in a terrible dilemma, for her cruel
parents, to insure against an esca-
pade, had not only locked the girl
into her room, but had also taken
away every stitch of her clothing.
But she was not to be baffled. She
made rope out of the sheets of
her bed and let herself down to the
ground, with no other garment but
a night dress. She told the coach
man to "rook the other way" and
after her lover had helped her into
the carriage and covered her with
the carriage robes she made him sit
on the box with the coachman.
They drove to the house of a friend,
where Florence was attired in prop
er garments, and then proceeded to
the house of sympathizing preach
er, where the lovers were speedily
united in wedlock.
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If General Grants strength at
Chicago comes from other states
like it does from Tennessee, he will
be the nominee of a trick and not
the choice of his party. Dillon, the
republican boss in Tennessee, pack
ed the county conventions before
hand and thus brought a Grant
delegation to Nashville We do
not know how it was manipulated
in other counties, but down this
way Dillon worked things to suit
himself. He wrote down here first
to ascertain what the sentiment of
republicans was, and was answered
that it was for Blaine. He then
wrote for the names of prominent
Grant men and from these selected
b. A. j. Nixon, cold, chairman of
the clsns down here and instructed
him TO see that none but Grant
men we're sent rs delegates. He
first usurped the right of the peo-
pie of his party To choose their
own chairman, and then unblush-
ingly instructed him to do his will.
He didn't want and would not have
the sentiment of the party express
ed. The anti-Grsnt men here are a
little sore over his manipulations.
After all, it was b. the Skin of
very inferior set of false teeth that
they pushed Grant through at last
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LOVE FOR THE LIVING.

If fyou're ever going to love me,
Love me now, while can know
All the sweet and tander feelings
Which from real affection flow.
Love me now while am living
Do not wait till am gone.
And then chlsel it in merble-
Warm love-words on ice cold stone.
If you've dear, sweet thoughts ahcut me
Why not whisper them to mel
Don't rou know 'twould make me happy
As glad as glad can be?
If you ait till am sleeping,
Neer to waken here again,
There'll be walls ofearth between Us,
Aud couldn't hear you then.
If you knew some one was thirsting
For drop OF water sweet,
Would you be so slow to bring itl
Would you step with laggs I'd feeti
There are tender hearts ali round US
" no are thirsting for our'love;
Shall we begrudge to them what heaven
Has kindly sent us from aboEel
I won't need your kind csresses
When the grass grows DER my face;
l won't crave your love or kisses
In my last, low resting-place.
So, if you do love me any,
If it is but little bit,
I'd rather know it now, while l
Can, living, treasure it.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-05-27
A DIVE FOR LIFE.
ivan Bihber's Rock" on the Kama
wha and It's Thrilling Story.

C0urier-Journal: just below Kan
awha falls, in West Virginia, writes
correspondent, is an overhanging 9
rock of immense size jutting out
about one hundred feet over the
seething whirlpool and the scene oil
a.remarkable adventure.
The Indians were in hot pur-
suit of Van Bibber, a settler and
man of distinction in those early
times. He was hard pressed, and
all access TO the river below and
above being cut of, he was driven
to this juLting rock, which proved
to be the jumping off place for him.
He stood on the rock, ID full view
of the enemy above and below, who
yelled like demons at the certainty
of his speedy capture. He stood
up boldly, and with his rifle kept
them at bay. As he stood there he
looked across the river, saw his
friends-his wife and her babe IN
her arms-all helpless to render as
sistance. They stood as if petri-
fed with terror and amazement.
She cried at the top of her voice:
Leap into the river and meet
mep'
Laying her babe on the grass,
she seized the oars and sprang into
the skif alone. AS she neared the
middle of the river her husband
saw the Indians coming in full force
and yellino like demons
"Wife, wifep' he screamed, ''I'm
coming; drop down a little lower"
With this he sprang from his
crag and descended like an arrow
into the water, feet foremost.
The wife rested on her oars a
moment to see him rise to the sur
face, the little canoe floating like
cork, bobbing about on the boiling
flood. 1t was an awful moment; it
seemed an age to her. Would he
ever rise? Her earnes gaze seemed
to penetrate the depths OF the wa
ter, aud she darted her boat further
down tue stream. He rose near
her, in a moment the canoe was
alongside of him, and she helped
him to scramble into it amid a
shower of arroP and shot that the
baff1ed Indians poured into them.
The daring wife did not speak a
word; her husband was more dead
than alive, and all depended on her
strength being maintained till they
could reach the bank. This they
did, just where she had started,
right where the babe was still lay
ing, Growing and laughing. The
men pulled the skiff high on the
land, and the wife slowly arose and
helped to lift Van Bibber to his
feet. He could not walk, but she
laid him down by his babe, and
then seating herself, she wept wild
ly, just as any other woman would
have done under the circumstances
That babe is now a grandfather,
and that rock is called cyan Bib
ber's Rock to this day.
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Two Governments-A Contrast.

New York Evening Post.
There is a certain virility, GER
tain robustness of practical good
sense in some of Puck's cartoons
which is rapidly winning for that
journal a place of power among the
active and positive forces of the
time. The cartoon this week has a
good deal more of real statesman
snip in it than a volume of the
Congressional Record is usually
permitted to hold. On one page q
woman-the solid southland cuff
ed To a soldier upon either side is
treadiDg baretooted stony path,
carrying on her shoulders a Ere at
carpet-bag filled with muskets, with
Grant on top, hugging a sword
while the two soldiers keep the car
pet-bag in place with their bayo
nets. The Hall of Justice" on the
lett has a piece of artillery on top,
and a pair Of sentries at the door,
while the landscape is filed with
the ruins left by the war and with
marks of idleness and unthrlft.
Under this the legend is The
Strong Government, 1869 1871"
On the other page is "The Weak
Government, 1S77-ISSI" Presi
dent Hayes is in the foreground,
driving a deep furrow with a
plough, the handles of which are
old muskets, with the locks remov
ed, while the beam is the Let 'em
alone policy" and a sabre does
duty for a coulter. In the back
ground whites and blacks are busy,
and prosperity is shown by facto
ries, steamboats,, cotton bales and
cornfields. The two pictures tell a
story that is just now in need of
telling, and they tell it in a most
effective way. 1t is not partisan
ship but patriotism that directs at
tention, IN this forcIble way, to the
respective results of what the poll
ticians call strong and weak gov
ernments. Wales is the artist.
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Fearful Venpeanoe.

Startling reports reach Baltimore
by the steamboat Planter of col
ored man being horribly beaten n
day or two ago in st. Mary's coun
ty by two neighbors of the same
color. From the various reports
of the circumstance it seems that
about six months ago the victim
betrayed the daughter of a neigh
Dor, but this was not known until
a few weeks ago. When the father
Of the girl became aware of her
condition he deliberately made up
his mind to punish her betrayer.
Accordingly he sent him word that
he wanted him to come and assist
in breaking a young colt to which
request the unsuspecung man
responded promptly, but, on arriv
ing at the designated place, he was
quickly seized by the father and
brother of the girl, and taken into a
stable, where they tied him fast.
previously stripping off his coat
and under clothing, that they
might admin lister their blows on
his bare back. Five heavy birch
rods were in readiness and his cap
tors Immediately began their work
of torture, the blows inflicted by
their muscular arms falling upon
the quiverIng flesh OF their helpless
prisoner.
One huhdred strokes were allot-
ted to each rod, and the whole five
were worn out in the course Of
their vengeance. When he was un
tied he was unable to move from
his fearful agony One of his eyes
were knocked out, and the flesh
upon his back was frightfully lacer
ated and dripping with blood. The
unfortunate fellow was taken 70
his home by some friends, but IN
spite Of all aid will die from the
effects Of his awful punish ment
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Courier Journal: Diaz is said
to be fooling the America capital
lists who are seeking railroad con-
cessions from the Mexican Govern
ment. Recent letters from the
Mexican capital states that he has
granted concessions to the Denver
and FL Paso Railroad Company
and the Atchison, Topeka and San
ia Fe Company to build roads
over the same ground. His design
was to get the Mexican Congress
into discussion on these conces
sions and divert the attention of
the members from his political
scheming in the Cabinet. The
Mexican Congress will adjourn on
the 3fst inst, and meet again Sep
tember 16, at which time the Presi-
Dental election will be over, and
the r public will either be in the
throes of bloody revolution or ly-
ing under the feet OF swashbuck-
Ter, calling himself president"
The election will take place in Ju
ly and August. 1t will be con-
Quoted on the military plan as usu-
al, we suppose. Diaz said a year
or two ago that he did not want
another term, but, like Grant, he
will come to the conclusion that he
is a necessity to the country, and
that circumstances compel him un-
willingly to run the machine again.
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Alive After Burial,

The following extraordinary story
is published in Charlotte, North
Carolina, from Franklinton, over
the signature of Mr.. j. w. Weaver,
of that town. He says. that Mrs.
Martha Smith, of Chatham, reports
g remarkable case of suspended ami
nation, burial and resurrection in
the person of a married lady in
that county, who possessed a gold
watch and finger rings which she
often expressed a desire to have
buried with her whenever she
should die. Finally she was i'll and
her life seemed to gradually ebb
away until her attending physician
pronounced it extinct. At her
burial her previously expressed de-
sire was complied with, and the ses-
ond night after the interment
white man and a negro went to the
grave and exhumed her for the pur-
pose of obtaining the buried jewel
ry. AS they took the lid off the
coffin and the negro began pulling
off ring from her finger she raised
up. At this both men took fright
and ran away. Finally the negro
went back, and she asked him what
he wanted. He told he- he wanted
her rings and the white man her
watch. She requested to see the
white man, whom the other soon
found and brought to her. She re
quested him to go home with her
He did so, and when she reached
the door she knocked. Her hus
band opened the door, but tainted
when he saw her, thinking it was
his dead wife's ghost. Mrs. Smith
says the lady is now living, and
bids fair to attain a good old age,
and that she visits and is visited
by her frequently.
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The Ohio Democrats.
1rinpfield Republican.

Springfield Republican.
The Ohio Democratic Conven-
tion, it is generally accepted, gives
Tilden and Payne a reversionary
interest in the delegation to Gin
cinnati after Thurman is out OF the
way. II. j. Jewett, of Erie, has a
large number of friends in the dele
galion, and its precise makeup is
disputed. Very probably the dele
gates themselves do not know what
they intend to DO, so much at Gin
cinnati hinges on what is done at
Chicago; but the delegation is in
structed to vote as a unit, and its
leading members are men who in
the past acted with the Tilden
forces. Thurman's candidacy ap-
pears to be generally considered q
mere make shift.
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Things for Girls TO Know.

An United States senator is re-
ported to have said recently that he
wouldn't give a fig for girl who
could not answer these questions
allow long must a hen set before
chickens are hatched? How long
does a turkey set before Matching a
brood? How old must chickens be
before they are fit to broil? and at
what age are young pigs fit to be
roastedY He says he has trained
his own daughter on these points,
and thinks that no girls education
is complete until she can answer
these questions. 1t all means, of
course, that we need more practical
education and less of the orna
mental. Above all, a girl should
be educated To be a housekeeper
before everything else.
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A Startling Proposition.

The arithmetic men are getting
in training for the next election.
The Chicago Times computes that
il Mr.. Vanderbilt should constantly
reinvest and compound his income
from his present vast investment in
Government bonds, he might, with
out living to be a very old maDs
come to have the national debt ow-
ing to him. 1t seems a startling
prediction, but the Buffalo Express
pushes it a step further: "Sup
pose that Mr.. Vanderbilt, having
acquired the whole of our national
mortgage. should take it into his
head to foreclosel Then, it is TO be
presumed, he would bid In and hold
tae whole United States.