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The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1885-04-04
THE CHILDREN.
Found in the desk Of Charles Dickens
after his death.l

Found in the desk Of Charles Dickens
after his DEATH
When the lessons and tasks are all ended.
And the school foE the day is dismissed.
And the little ones gathered around me
To bid me good night" and be kissed
Oh. the little white hands that encircle
Ny neck In a tender embraced
Oh, the smiles that are halos Of heaven.
Shedding sunshine and love on my face.
And when they are gone am dreaming.
0fmy childhood. too lovely to last;
of love, that my heart viii remember
When 1t wakes to the pulse OF the past,
Ere the world and its wickedness made
A partner Of sorrow and sin,
hen the glory Of God was about me,
And the glory Of gladness within,
oh. my heart grows weak as womsn's,
And the fountain offeeling will flow,
When think ofthe path steep and stony,
Where the feet Of the dear ones must
go,
OF the mountains OF sin hanging DER
them,
OF the tempests Of fate blowing wild;
Oh, there's nothing on earth halt so holy.
As the innocent heart Of u child.
They are idols II hearts and Of house
holds.
They are angels of God in Disguise
His sunlight still sleeps In their tresses,
His glory still beams In their eyes;
Oh, those truants from earth and from
heaven
They have made me more manly and
mild
And know how Jesus could liken
The kingdom Of God to child.
Seek not life for the dear ones
All radiant as Others have done.
But that life may have just as much
shadow
To temper the glare of the sun
would pray God to guard them from
evil,
But my prayer would bound back to
myself;
All, a seraph may pray for sinner,
But a sinner must pray for himself.
The twlg is so easily bended,
have banished the rule and the rod
| have taught them the goodness ol
knowlege
They have taught me the goodness o.
God.
My heart Is dungeon Of darkness,
Where | shut them from breaking /
rule;
My frown 10 sufficient correction.
My love Is the law Of the school.
| shall leave the old house In the autumn
To traverse Its old threshold no more
All, how shall sigh for the dear ones
That meet me each morn nj the door,
shall miss the "good-nights' and tn
kisses
And the g.sh Of their innocent glee,
The group on the green. and the flower
That are brought every morning to me
shall miss them at morn and at eve,
Their song In the school and the street
shall miss the low hum Of their voices
And the tramp Of their delicate feet.
When the lessons and tasks are all ended
And death says the school Is dismissed
May the little ones gather around me
To bid me goodnight" and be kissed
CHARLES DICKENS.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1885-04-04
POSTAL OBJECTIONS.

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Letters in the United States per
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Liquids, poison, explosives and
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Unpaid letters are sent to the
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ance collected of the receiver.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1885-04-04
The Best Fertilizer.


We copy the following from an
advertising pamphlet issued by
the Meridian Oil Mills:
MERIDIAN MISS, Sept. 2.
Meridian Oil Mills g. Mfg. Co.:
Gentlemen-Replying to your
inquiry relative to the advantage
of fertilizing with cotton seed meal
and direction for its application,
will state that have been using II
four years, experience justifying
continued and increasing applica-
tion of il to my land. For corn,
cabbage, potatoes, peas, wheat,
rye, oats and turnips. most salts
factory and rather astonishing re.
suits have been produced.
A half ton of meal effected o
yield of so barrels Irish potatoes
on one acre.
On the poorest sandy land |
raised turnips weighing 8 lbs. each
by using 800 lbs. per acre.
Four hundred pounds per acre.
sown broadcast, will mere than
double the yield of oats.
For grain, apply broadcast and
harrow under with seed.
For turnips, potatoes, peas and
corn, lay off with a shovel or
scooter, apply the meal in this fur.
row, bed on the meal, and in 10
days thereafter harrow down the
bed nearly level, epeu and plant.
DO not allow the meal to come
in contact with the germ or any
young plant, and in all cases apply
at least 10 days before depositing
the seed.
The brnefits of one application
of the meal as fertilizer will last
through two seasons, materially
diminished of course the second
year; but its regular use on the
poorest soil will gradually bring 1t
into fertile and profitable condi.
tion.
Meal is much more easily and
economically applied than raw
seed and the effects of the former
are perceptable almost Immediate
~, while considerable time is re.
quired for the latter to decompOse.
Cotton seed meal is a condensa-
tion of all fertilizing qualities of the
seed, 100 lbs. of the former being
equal to 450 lbs. Of the latter for
fertilizing purposes.
Yours truly,
j. NJ. T. HAMILTON.
County Surveyor Lsuderdale Co.
444xN
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1885-04-04
Poker During the Epidemic.
Mobile Register.l


Below is published an amusing
extract, with which the serious
and descriptive matter Of the
"Mobile Salamagundi or Stran.
gers Guiden will be interlarded.
The writer will spare no effort to
make the work o valuable guide
to strangers, and an effective ad.
vertisement of the city and su.
burbs. In order to accomplish
this, several able writer's of the
State and city, desirous Of aiding
any enterprise forwarding the in
terests of the community, have
kindly consented to contribute
original articles.
One night, closing the terrible
yellow fever epidemic of 1858,
Eve citizens sat down to a game
of draw poker. As the hours and
candles wore away empty bottles
and glasses accumulated, and the
love.light of greed and gain and
wine sparkled and flashed from
ten eyes at one time. "a hundred
dollars to start.v 1.-TWO hundred
better,n uttered with stern sup.
pressed voice. would cause the
other players to look at their
hands with closer scrutiny for a
call or a pass, OF to gain time to
study out a bluff or full hand.
One of the five players, a plant
er from Marengo, had been indulg.
ing freely for several weeks in a
spree upon brandy and water, the
brandy at every turn getting the
best of the water; his person,
even to the roots of his hair, was
saturated through and through
with alcoholic gases ready for
combustion. His hands were
shaky, and at every shuttle the
cards slipped through his undeft
fingers to the floor in wild c0nfu'
sion amid the curses Of the impo.
tent players, who we're all winners
at his expense, and eager for
more, and disgusted at having to
wait upon his fumbling them up
ready for q deal. Besides, weari-
ness and the wee small hours
were wearing away, when exhaus'
ton alone marked bed time-for
in those sad days Of mourning and
! death any distraction other than
the daily funeral of friends was
eagerly sought for-wben the deal
. came to Robinson for the last
time, as usual, he scattered the
cards all around under the chairs
; and legs of the players. He
| stopped to pick them up when bis
: hair touched the candle alongside
on the table. Presto! his head
blazed like o fash of lightning illu
minating the windows Of the
hotel.
Dynamite could not have been
more sudden. Such hair was q
wick from the human lamp below,
and burned with one hundred can.
die power. All we're on their feet
In = second. "Pnt him out, cried
William Walker, 'she owes me
$500.p HLet him bnrn,D screamed
Alex Lumsden. II owe him $500 "
Then confusion eonfounded en-
saea. Haaas seEo exleaaea 10
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1885-04-04
MIR. Gladstone on the Loss Of Gen.
Gordon.
London Times |


The right honorable gentleman
lSir Stafford Northcote has dwelt
with the utmost propriety aud the
utmost feeling on the loss which
the country has sustained in the
death of Gen, Gordon. He stated
that Gen. Gordon had devoted his
life and all that makes life valua.
ble to his sovereign aud to his |
country. Sir, no might have en-
largcd that eulogium, for tho life
of Gen. Gordon was not limited |
to those great objects. II was
devoted to his sovereign, to his
country, aud likewise to the world.
Gen. Gorden's sympathies were
not limited by race or color or re-
ligion. In point Of fact, he seems
to have deemed it his special hon.
OF to devote his energies and to
risk his existence on behalf of
those with whom he had no other
tie than that Of human sympathy.
Gen Gordon was hero, and
permit me to say he was still more
he was q hero among heroes.
For there have been men who
have obtained and deserved the
praise Of heroism whose heroism
was manifested on the field of bat.
tie or in other conflicts, aud who
when examined in the tenor of
their personal lives were not alto.
gether blameless; but If you take
the case Of this man, pursue him
into privacy, investigate his heart
and his mind, you will find that he
proposed himself not any ideal of
wealth and power, or even fame,
but to do good was the object he
proposed to himself in bis whole
life, and on that one object 1t was
his one desire to spend his exist.
ence.
Such is the man we have lost
! q loss great indeed but he is not
all lost, for such examples are
fruitful in the future, and l trust
there will grow from tho contcm.
| plation of that character and
= those deeds other men who in fu.
ture time may emulate his noble
and most Christian example.
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.Rms. 4rH DISTRICT.
RCUIT COURT.

.ounty-Begins on the lst
8.reh and October, and may
dicial days.
eounty-Begins on the md
rarch and October, and may
ndieial days.
sunty-Begins on the 4th
and October, and may
judicial days.
|county-Begins on the md
/ the 4th Monday Of march
and may continue Il ju-
|eounty-Begins on the 9th
4 the ith Monday Of March
. and may continue II judi
bn eounty-Begins on the
after the 4th Monday OF
and may continue 30
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1885-04-04

Regular morning service at q m. Evssihs
service, p. M. every sunday CpmmunioA
hrst SUNDAY in each month WA Cro.s
Rector Sabbafh-schOol at g,l5 A m
Moore superintendent
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1885-04-04

Richmond, March 20.-United
States Marshal r. p. Hughes dis
appeared more than week ago.
Investigation of the books of his
Office shows an apparent shortage
of from $4,000 10 $1,000.
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Presbyterian Church

Preaching at n n. ~. aud D. m. every Sunday
Communion lst sunday In February, May, Aa-
gust and November i'ray inserting every
Wednesday night. y. Archer Psstor. Sunday
school at o.. sam, Brown sup.
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Methodiat Church

Preaching at n a m. and D IN every sun
dsy. Prayer-meetiHg every "wednesday night
Sunday--ehool. $50. X. 81. standifsr, Pastor.
W Trigv supt
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This list of distances Is procured
from the latest official surveys and
maps.
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CHURCH DIRECTORY.
ST. jaime. Episcopal chureh

High Mass at 10 O'Clock =. IN. and vespsrs ai
4 y, M hrst aud third sundays. Catsehlsm
every sunday at ga. m y. L. Bohmert Pastor.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1885-04-04
lyCERY COURT.

/ [county-Begins on the LIST
Gpril and October, and may
kdicial days.
bn county-Begins on the I'd
and October, and may
udicial days.
hnty-Begins on the LIST Non
nd November, and may con-
rial days.
| |county-Begins on the Sd
hy and November, and may
judicial days.
| ceunty-Begins on the LIST
Inc and December, and may
dicial days.
5ounty-Begins on the End
hne and December, and may
hdicial days.
meetings are held by the
peryisors as follows: Bien-
bnday Of January to elect
h,issioners. Annually first
rch. TO receive Tax-Collec-
pf delinquent and insolvent
day Of August to receive and
e Assessment Roll; LIST Mon-
5tcmber to levy taxes; I'd
December. to pass upon the
ersoral and poll list /; and on
pext succeeding each term OF
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Jewish Synagogue

Services Friday evenings st N, and SATURDAY.
mornings at lOh. J. Bosen. Rabbi.
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rNTY OFFICIALS.

" TIE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS,
|rict, j. w. Erwin
district, Worthington
trict, (Pres.) N Goldstein
|strict, w. W. Stone,
|rict, j. N. Collier
|ttorney, w. R. Trigg
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upreme Court
II Supreme Court-COm-
)he LIST Mondays of April
Ter.
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Orders from transient customers, rer-
bal or written. for job work. advertising,
or subscription, must be accompanied By
the cash. Accounts OF regular eusto-
mers due and presented the LIST OF each
month";
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ApVERrIsINa RAfHk.

Transient Advertising, One square
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Customers will please give explicit di-
reetions, Of length Of time for publication
Of advertisements.
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81, 6ms. sl2. year SO.
Larger advertisements. quarterly, half
yearly, and yearly,
Contracted for at Liberal Rates!
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|shua Skinner,
m. GRIFFIN,
'RNEY AT : LAW.

complete Abstract Of Titles to
IN Washington county. Prompt
given to all land matters and
of taxes. Office in Alexander
loot Is 'S4.
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1885-04-04

piBrns OF LEoisLATunx
|ncer, ]. X. Parker,
[filbert Horton.
IToR IRON 29rn DISTRICT.
II. JeffOrds. U
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POwN OFFICIALS.

yor, J. Alexander.
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B commence In jackson
} Mondays of June and
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n. Circuit Court.
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ANNOUNCING CANpIpArEs.

11H"f T'7'I vi HN1
yearly, and yearly,
Contracted for al Liberal Rates.
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rt Court for southern Ms.
nct of MissiSsipDI
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-21
The Growth orLondon.

The view of the growth OF London which
was recently presented by Mr.. Price Will
liams TO the Statistical Society covers
ground familiar 10 many OF our readers.
For the most fOrcble appeal 10 the imagi-
nation nOthingca exceed the mute elO-
quence Of the figures of this
preliminary report Of the census
Of 1889. There we learn that while,
at the beginning OF the century. out Of ten
inhabitants of England and Wales one
lived in London, the proportion has risen
10 one in seven. The greater London
Of the Register Generals weekly re-
turns contained in 1881 045,SlS inhabited
houses, built over an area OF G9T square
miles. The growth OF the population over
this densGly peopled area has been from
3. 222. 40 in 1861 TO 4,764,3l2 in 1881, or at
the rate OF AS per cent. In twenty years,
and of 226 per cent. in the last decade.
Intimately connected with the growth Of
the population OF London, and with the
house-room provided for their accOmmoda-
ton, is the yet more pOrtentOus growth of
the rental and Of the ratable value of the
houses. In 1871 the metropolis, then con-
tanning, according 10 the Local Govern
mpnt Board, AT, 76I houses, was rated at
SO, $50, 05l. In 1881 thel corresponding
number OF houses was Asa, 2S6 and the
ratable value f27.544, 446, showing an
advance In the latter Of from f47.4 70
1866 per house. The increase In the total
value was thus 1913 per cent. in ten years,
against growth OF II .23 per cent. Of the
population. comparison OF this kind
shows whore lies the nucleus OF the diff
Guilty attending ON the question of the
housing Of the working classes. And not
of the working classes alone, for unless
corresponding activity in trade and man
niacture accompanies this apparently ir-
restible increase In one of the main arti-
cles OF necessary expenditure, poverty
must be on the increase. over the whole
of England, after deducting the metrOpO.
lis, the increase OF ratable value has been
9s per cent in the decade, against 1884
growth IN the population. lt Is cOncely-
able that as this fact becomes known, n
may tend 10 apply some check 10 the
enormous growth OF this great realm OF
brick and mortar
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-21
CONsIGNREs.

Per steamer David Clark. from Fernandina
and landings-New York snip. Boston ship.
Philadelphia ship, Baltimore ship, Peacock. IL
& Co, r Understands Son & Co, AcOsta 4 +,
Geo Meyer, 4 Schwarz NJ Y Henderson, w
y SimkIns, ] 7 Williams, Hillyer q Bro, w
Barnwell, Eckman & v; Lee Roy Myers. II
Myers & Bros. M Ferst & Co, Meinhard Bros
q Co, Rieser s. S.
Per Charleston and Savannah Railway,
July 20-Fordg Office, Bendheim Bros & Co,
Smith Bros & Co, Lee Roy Myers, NJ Boley q
Son, $ Guckenhelmer 4 SON.
Per Savannah Florida and Western Rail
way, July 20-Fordg Office. NJ Henderson.
MeDonough a co, Dale, W q Co. r LePage,
T Prenty, K Clarke Co, Smith Bros Co,
Myers n Bros. Lee Rey MYERS. A Letter, J
a Umbach, W NJ Davidson, Graham 4 II,
ID g Bacon x Co. Lippman Bros, Nj Ferst b
Co, Paul Decker. E 4 Cheatham. Ray & q.
J q Butler, c NJ Gilbert & Co, Reppard n Co
l. Guilmartin & Co, Jno Rourke. Woods &
Co. p Bond, II Solomon Il Son, DIR d Cox, W
Bros. Ellis, II q Co, Chess-Carley Co, Il Lowell
& Son, West Bros, J w Tucker, A Hanley,
Baldwin & Co, Peacock, II Il Co, l. JOnee,
W & Jackson, j + Williams, ID G Bacon Il Co.
Per Central Railroad. July 20-FOrdG Agt,
Il Cheatham, A HI Champion, ROthweli.
o Cohen Il Co, Peacock, II & cow e jackson,
J p Williams, Baldwin 4 Co. ID c Bacon 4
Co, + A Jones, Meinhard Bros Il Co, II solo
mon & Son, J Wood < Bro. Lee Roy Myers,
> J. Newton, George & &, 4 p Bond, Beud-
helm Bros & Co. Kline, ii Myers & Bros.
A Pearson, Smith Bros & Co, & II Cursor. Mrs
c johnson, Richardson Il B, A j Miller & Co,
A II Altmayer q Co, NJ Ferst n Co. S Quicken
heimer Son, w ID Smkins, Vim Hone Co,
Savannah Guano Co, Fleming Bros, H0lcOmbe,
G N co, Arthur, G A Northrop, J. Putzel,
Q NJ Gilbert & Co, Lowell Son, II d Nc
Donald h Co.
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MARKETS BY rELEGRAPH.a
FINANCIAL.

LONDON. July 20. noon.-Consols, $685..
p. m'-Consols, W 5-lB for both money and
account.
NEW YORK, July 20, noon. Stocks active
and weak Money easy al j per cent. Ex-
change-long, 81 "a; short, 81 S. State bonds
neglected. Government bonds duh but firm.
300 p. m.-EXchange, 81 ST. Money closed
at ltS(0l per cent. Sub-Treasury balances
Gold. Sl57, 3SS,0OO; currency, S1o.bs5. eco. Coy
eminent bonds dull but firm; four per cents,
l22z2; three per cents, 1887 State bonds dull.
The stock market was again decidedly ac-
tive to-day, hut without mplishipq any
result reached during the past week, The
sales were $4,000 shares, of which the heaviest
dealings were IN st. Paul. Lake shore, and
oregon Iranscontlnental. At the opening the
room was well supplied with buying orlters,
which caused prices to Cpen strong, and in
the early dealings some of the more active
stocks made further decided advances on
saturday closing prices Of 16d5s per cent.
1t was at this time that the highest prices
were made The market soon felt the effect
of the manifest disposition TO realize, com
blned with the rcsolute attack by some of the
prominent bears, and deClded reaction took
place before noon. The total sales for the
first hour were nearly 100000 shares Ia the
afternoon the market was less active, but
irregular and feversh, with Il general ten
dency downward, especially Tor Union Pa
CHIC, Lake shore, and western Union. The
publication of an interview with Vanderbilt,
IN which that gentleman declares that the
railroad war Is not settled, and will not be
until Jhe New ofk Central has obtained the
West Shore, and another similar statement
to the same effect, attracted the most atten-
ton and was the subject Of discussion on the
street throughout the day. There were how
ever, no new developments as to the actual
situation of affairs. Al the same time it lie
generally believed that Vanderbilt would not
have talked as reported unless the probabiii-
ties of an early settlement were in his judg-
ment practically assured. A heavy attack
upon Union Pacific carried the price down
from So, at which il opened to 5llo at which
1t closed, a net loss OF per cent. Western
Union closed with decline of l3s per cent.
The market was very irregular, but lower,
except that Northern Pacific was strong and
higher. The decline in many cases amounted
to per cent. The following are closing quo
ratipns.
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SAILED YESTERDAY.
Dredge Beaufort (Brl, Greenock.
MEMORANDA.

New York, July ls-Arriyed. schrs Mos
quito, Adams, Corn Island via Key West;
PaIatka, Chaples. Brunswick; Helen l. Mar
tin. Fountain, Satilla River, Ga; John II Par
ker. Brewster Georgetown, G; Oracle \
Macher, Port Royal.
Cleared, schr Linah Kaminski, Woodbury.,
Georgetown, 5 C.
Brest, July l5-Arrived, bark Aino Nor,
Hansen, Pensacola.
Barbados. July lin port, bark Midas
OBJ, Macarthur, from MOnteyideo for ST
Simon's. Ga. to sail the same day.
Table Bay, G III, June l5-Sailed, bark
Dominica GtaD, Olivari, Pensacola.
Key West. July lS--Arrived, schr Tackles
(Brl. Bethel, Nassau.
Galveston, July lS-Sailed, schr Washing
ton, Jordan, Apalachcola.
New London, July lS-Arrived, schr Samuel
b Hubbard, Mehaffey, jacksonville.
Jacksonville. July l7-Arrived, steam schr
Louis Buck. Mount. New York.
Cleared, schr II Livingston, SWEET, Wash
ihgtOn. ID G.
New York. July 20--Arrived, str Furnesia,
Spain, Marianne, Towey, Helen.
Arrived out, str Baltic.