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Year: 1879

Virginia, my mother dear,
see thee weak and wan;
Why sit your sons thus idly here,
Thus idly looking on!
While the vampires now are sucking


thy blood,


And cormorants do prey.
In hordes, that sweep like an angry flood
Thy substance fast away.
Why are you now thus robbed each day,
Why are you made TO give
Our hard earned subtance thus away,
That thieves at ease may live!
And why, when called upon to pay
An honest debt you owe,
When you've had funds to give away,
Reply "we are too poor?'
Virginia, my mother dear,


No wonder thou art wan;
While thy stalwart sons sit idly here,
And see thy blood thus drawn.
1t was not so in other days,


When despots would encroach,
\ Henry stood, his voice to raise
And warn against reproach.
And "the sage of Monticello too,
With a mighty will and mind,



And Madison, to help him do,
Then didst not lag behind.
And Washington, to take the field,
And meet the invading foe,
And by his valor made him yield
More than we asked before.
And when Northern despot came,
In all his power and might,
With cannon, muskets, sword and flame,
They met him in the fight
And many a one then in the strife,
Proved to Virginia true,
And for his mother gave his life,
Twas all that lie could do.
Shall we her sons in time of peace,


Whose brothers gave their all,
Now sit supinely at our ease,


And see their mother fall?
By the spirit of her statesmen passed


away,


BY the blood Of those who fell,
l call upon her sons today


Awake from your dreamy spell.
Awake Arise to your mothers call,
AS did her sons OF yore,
And save her-save her-lest she iail,
And her life blood cease to flow.
King George c. H., Feb. q, 1879.
Year: 1879

| sit in the winter evening,


BY the side of the fire so bright,
And | see many beautiful visions,


In the burning Goals red light.
| see a beautiful maiden,


Whom ! knew in the days gone by,
Whose cheek was like the lily,


And whose eyes were like the sky.
And I see \ noble figure


OF one in his joyous youth
Of one in his glorious manhood,


Whose brow was stamped with truth.
And yondcr, in that bright corner,


Is an aged and wrinkled face
All wildly my heart is beating,


As each dear feature trace.
All swiftly they pass before me,


The faces so well know
Pass swiftly across my vision,


Like shadows over the snow.
And now ! wake from my dreaming,
And find that the vision has fled,
And | know that | saw in the freight
The faces of friends long dead.
For the form of the lily maiden


OF the maiden | used TO know
| followed one morn to the church-yard:
And helped to lay under tie snow.
And the other | know lies sleeping


By wild Dlississippis shore,
While the waves chant mournfnl re-


QUEEN,


Ger the friend / shall see no more.
And the face | saw in the corner,


Lies under the cold, cold sod
Twas the face of my dear old father,
Who long ago went home to God.
So lonely ! sit by the fireside,


And sadly think OF the past
Of the faces l saw in my vision,


And pray that may JOIN them at last.
Caroline Co, Va. r. b. g.
Year: 1879

"A gentleman who )has just returned
from Ohio, says that General Ewing re.
fused to the last moment to believe that he
was defeated, and even after telegram
had been received BY him at Columbus. in
forming him of his defeat, he said that to-
morrow's figures would change the result


No doubt it hurt him TO fall to far and he
has not struck bottom yet, for the next
election will cost him his seat in the House
Of Representatives.
Year: 1879



 My life is like the shattered wreck,

 Cast by the waves upon the shore; The broken mast the riftod deck

 Tell of the shipwreck that is OCT; Yet from the relics of the storm The mariner bis raft will form Again to tempt the faithless sea; But hope rebuilds no karque for me. My life is likc the blighted oak.

 That lifts its sere and withered form. Scashed bv the Hghtniug's sudden stroke, Sternly to meet the coming storm: Yet round that sapless trunk will twine The curling tendrils of theIyine And life and freshness there impart. Not to the passion-biighted heart My life is like the desert rock,

 In the mid-ocean. lone and drear. Worn by the wild waves ceaseiess shock That round its base their surges rear; Yet there the sea-moss still will cling, Some flowers will find cleft to spring, And breathe cen there u sweet perfume; For me life's flowers no more will bloom My life is like the desert waste,

 By human footsteps seldom pressed; The eye no freshness there can trace; No verdant spot, on which to rest; Yet cen among these sands so drear The stork will tend her young with care Fen there the notes of joy impart But nanght can cheer my lonely heart.
Year: 1879

GIGGLERs in CHURCH.-Giggling is
decribed in the dictionary as the act Of
Laughing with short catches of breath" !"
as laughing idly. tittering, grinning."
1t is silly and childish enough any
where, but in church it is aboninable,
and yet there is no place where gig
Cling is more common. 1t is natural
In school girls, but when met with in
young women of nineteen and twenty
1t ia objectionable. 1t is frequently a
characteristic Of young men wi til incl
pient moustaches, who think they
qualify themselves for manhood by
affecting contempt for what their elders
revere. They giggle at anything. If
they catch the eye of an acquaintance
they giggle; if an old woman rises too
soon for hymn they giggle;if a baby
cries they giggle; if some one drops a
book they giggle; it the clergyman
coughs they giggle if the plate is
handed to some one who puts nothing
in they giggIe; ii some one near them
sings out or repeats the responses loud
" they giggle; if the choir makes a
mistake they giggle. In fact, nothing
is too small or insignificant to arrest
their notice and produce a giggle.
Year: 1879

\ singular case of recovery from in
sanity through an injury occurred re-
Gently in the Homeopathic Asylum for
the insane. A male patient, twenty
four years old, when in state of violent
irritation sprang up to thc gas fixture.
caught hold of slender tubing. and
swung himself with considerable force.
The fixture gave way and the patient
tell, striking his head upon the stone
pavement. Instantly he arose, walked
out of the ward, and gave a clear ac-
count OF the accident he had met with
He had, in fact, recovered his mind,
though. he suffered greatly from the ex-
ternal injuries to his scalp. This case
is not alone of its kind. Some physi-
cians have seriously tried to raise the
question of the application of sudden
and violent shaking Of the head to the
treatment Of insanity hut as the aues-
ton OF the dose is one Of great difficulty,
this heroic method remains optional
with the patients themselves.
Year: 1879

At Shelbyville, the other day, a
mob of Democrats assembled at the
depot with the avowed purpose of
mobbing an immigrant train. They
piled stones on the platform before
the arrival of the train, and when
the train came up they hooted at the
immigrants and threatened dire ven-
geance on any immigrant who dared
TO put his foot on Shelby soil. The
immigrants were ticketed through to
indianapolis, and, We are informed,
had no intention of stopping at Shell
byville. No direct assault was made,
and the immigrants came on through
to indianapolis. The conduct of these
Shelbyville Democrats is disgrace
to the State, and an outrage which
should not 60 unrebuked. Of one
thing they may just as well make q
note, and that is, that the people of
Indiana will not allow any Missis-
sippi plans to be introduced into their
State. All tbe colored people who
wish to come to this State will be
welcomed and protected. If mobs at
tempt to prevent immigrants from
coming to this State, they will be met
by force and they will be crushed.
Year: 1879

Under the above caption the In
dianapolis Journal of Wednesday
gives John Sherman and other Ohio
candidates some excellent advice.
The fact of the matter is, Ohio will
stand about the same chance of get
ting the candidate for the presidency
as she did of getting the National
Convention. The sensible thing for
Ohio to do is to settle on somo
candidate outside Of Ohio and stick
to him with the same tenacity that
she did to Hayes. In the event Of
his nomination and election he might
appoint a few Of her illustrious citi.
zens 10 Office. But by supporting
John Sherman or any Ohio man she
simply throws awayeven the possibll.
ity of being on the winning side. We
quote the Journals closing paragraph
and simply add, "Them's our senti.
ments:"


"And while we are on the subject,
with all kindness to Mr.. Sherman
and all the balance Of the good Ohio
men, we declare it to be our sincere
conviction that any man nominated
from Ohio in the coming contest will
be from three to five thousand votes
weaker in each Of the other Western
States than an equally good man
taken from another State. There are
thousands of good men throughout
the country who believe they have
been waiting at the gate for the past
three years for the Ohioans all to get
through, and many of them could
prove it, too, IL old Bill Jones was
alive"
Year: 1879

In another column we present en-
tire Senator Brucc's bill for the dis.
tribution of the unclaimed pay and
bounty Of colored soldiers. A balance
Of $4,000 remains in the Treasury
of the United States to the credit of
deceased colored soldiers. Senator
Bruce proposes to distribute this
money, or rather the interest accru-
ing, in equal parts among the educa.
tional institutions Of the country
which are specially devoted to the
training of colored youth. A noblor
disposition of this money could not be
made-none to which our noble dead
could their voices be heard, would
more willingly assent. Senator Bruce
not only merits the thanks of the
comrades of the noble boys who quiet
ly sleep on southern fields, but he
will receive them in double measure
if he secures the enactment of his
bill into law,
Year: 1879

Senator Voorhees, once said, in a


political speech delivered in Terre


Haute, while he was a candidate for


Congress, that if the contest was very


close, and he was in danger of defeat,


but could be elected through the as
sistance of few Negro votes, he
would decline to receive them. He
preferred defeat to success through
Negro votes. While this was declin-
ing hOnors before they were proffer-
ed-for it is not recorded that any
Negro was pining away with con-
suming desire to cast his ballot for
the Superior Knight of the Copper
head Golden Circle-yet Daniel re-
ceived his preference and was defeat
ed. His present anxiety about Ne
gro imm gration to this State is prob
ably owing to the fact that he fears
the influence of the climatic change
upon the North Carolinians will
cause some of them to lose their wits
and vote for him hereafter. We take
pleasure. however, in informing our
Junior Senator that We will cOnsti.
tute ourselves into vigilance COM
mittee to see that none Of them com.
NIT such an objectionable crime.
Year: 1879

John Hoop, of Shelbyville, editor
o. the Volunteer, and O refugee in
Canada from the draft during the late
war, distinguished himsefin that city
last week, by organizing a mob of
drunken Democrats, for the purpose
OF assaulting party of North Caro-
lima immigrants, composed very
largely of women and children, who
they supposed were going to stop
there. 1t is fortunate for these wo-
men and children that they did not
get off at Shelbyville; for although
John Hoop and his drunken hood
lums were too cowardly to respond
to their country's call in the hour of
peril, they would not have hes:tated
to stone, club, or shoot down these
defenseless people, had they dared to
get off the train. If John Hoop did
run away TO Canada rather than face
Southern bullets, he can be found at
the front when it comes to fighting
women and children. Almost
every pronounced coward, like
this fellow, can be depended
upon to make his connubial
partner and all the women folks about
him walk the chalk line. Hoop is q
brave man, after the copperhoad FASH
ion
Year: 1879

This is what colored member of
the Virginia Legislature, a readjuster,
expects for the colored people. We
clip the item from an interview in the
Richmond (virginia) STAR


Member: We shall get many of the
judgeships. We shall get colored men
placed on the jury. We shall have
colored men appointed as clerks in
the basement offices, clerks and watch
men at the penitentiary, colored po
licemen and many other places which
it will be in the power Of the Read
justers to help us to. Besides there
is much more to be done and will be
done which you will learn of in due
season. l have told you this much
that it might be published to the pco-
pie at large, and that it may be en-
couraged. We also intend to repeal
many of the obnoxious laws now on
the statute books.
Year: 1879

The bill for the abolition of slavery
in Cuba has passed the Spanish Sem
ate, so the cable informs US. Spain
has been decreeing and resolving
and theorizing about the abolition of
Cuban slavery long enough. We
want to sec something practical and
we trust this movement is the begin.
ming ofa legal process that will speed
lily eradicate the foul blight from the
Queen of the Antilles. Meantime let
the slaves continue to shoot, stab and
burn; let the whole world be made to
Year: 1879

We again desire to call Senator
Voorhees, attention to the fact that
the short crops and the agitation in
Ireland may lead to a heavy Irish
immigration to this country. These
people are poor, and some Of those
who will not do for policemen and
railroad laborers, may become a
charge on the public. Daniel ought
to look into this matter and prevent
any such occurrence.
Year: 1879

Women are naturally suspicious. You may
have got long hair on your shoulder from
holding six-year-old girl, but your mother
in-law will back your wife in doubling the
statement every time.
Year: 1879

NEW YORK, February pa letter
from st. Petersburg says ofthe plague
in Russia 1t has spread in the South
ern provinces at a rapid rate. Thou
sands upon thousands have died with
it within the last five days. The vic
Tins when taken live only about two
hours and turn as black all over as
negro. All physicians ordered to the
care Of the sick have died within
twenty-four hours after their arrival.
The corpses are burned and so are the
houses in which the people die. Whole
towns have been laid waste the past
few days. The government has placed
a Gordon Of soldiers around the in
tccted provinces so that the people
cannot get out and spread the disease.
Any who attempt to break through
the Gordon are shot dead on the spot.


The people are beginning to feel
uneasy all over the empire. The gov
ernment, of course, does not allow the
news to get out. All reports arc sup
pressed, but the worst of all is nobody
can get out of the empire. Tho Aus
trian and German governments have
placed a double Gordon Of soldiers
along all the frontier, thereby prevent
ing all persons from entering their
territory from Russia. All persons
from Russia by railroad are stopped az
the frontier and detained twenty days
in quarantine. Their baggage and
clothing arc disinfected, and il they
prove all right after the lapse Of TWEEN
ty days they are permitted to cross the
border. During the twenty days
quarantine the people are housed in
large sheds aud barns, without any
accommodations or comforts. OF
course knowledge of this fact keeps
the people from travelling. There is
no possibility of slipping out any
where.


The government is doing all in its
power to prevent the disease from
spreading, but ifit is not stayed soon
their victims may fall by thousands
daily. 1t is much worse than the
yellow fever was in the South last
summer.


1t was brought by Tartar soldier
who, on leaving the Turkish territory
pulled off from a dead Turk on the
battle field a handsome silk shaw
which he tied around his body. Oa
arriving in his native land he presented
the shawl to his sweetheart, a girl
nineteen years old. She tied it around
her body and danced about for 10y in a
room in which there were some TWEEN
ty-fye people In two hours she
died, and in five hours after the intro
ductiOn ofthe shawl into the room the
whole partyof twenty-five had died.
All turned black. In three days the
who,e town, containing eleven hun
dred people, had died with the excep-
tion of forty-three persons who had
fled in time. From this town the
pest commenced spreading all over
the country.
Year: 1879

For three days past a venerable and
somewhat benevolent looking indi-
vidual has turned loose a volley Of
blasphemy at the corner Of Main and
Madison streets, painful to the ears Of
even irreligious persons and well cal
culated to bring the blush of shame to
the cheek of every well-wisher of
Christianity. The man harangues a
motley crowd, made up of city idlers,
country darkies, and those who fire.
quent 50 prominent a corner. Even
bankers, merchants and lawyers stop
few moments as they pass, listen
until disgusted and 60 on about their
business. What good can flow from
the philippics of this blasphemous
mountebank is more than any one can
explain yet it is said the man holds a
special permit from our new rulers to
thus obstruct the public highways and
preach his wretched style of Bob In
gersoll logic. The man is a nuisance
that should be abated at once. Let
him hire a hall and go at his work as
his sort should, and Aone will have
cause to complain.


AS an offset to the foregoing is the
yet untried experiment of requiring
all persons to close on the Sabbath.
From time immemorial it has been the
custom in modern cities for barber
shops, cigar stands and the like to ac-
cOmmodate the public. Even the side
doors of beer and refreshment saloons
are slyly kept ajar for bibulous persons
to slip in and out. That the recent
order to close all places Of this kind
on the Sabbath is an unpopular one is
very certain. 1t will give trouble and
annoyance for a few weeks and then
fall through as have similar trials
here and elsewhere. The commits
sioners, if bent on carrying the rule
out, ought not to make fish of one and
fowl of another. They should close
hotels and eating places, livery stables
and gaming-hOuses, stop street cars

and carriages, and if need be, set a
watch on all unchristian practices SO
that our people may realize and ap.
preciate the necessity Of getting reli-
giOn after the fashion of the police
and fire commissioners themselves, OF
of others equally deyout. The publ
are inclined to aid and support tn,
new authorities in all reasonable anC
salutary law and order regulations
but it will chafe at harsh rules
that have never been tried in the past
but to fail. The LEDGER is alsC
kindly disposed toward the new rulers
and will always applaud their action
if designed to result in good, but i
cannot commend this effort to her
metically seal the barber shops, lage,
beer saloons and cigar stands on Sun
day. AS certain as fate the NOV,
will end in smoke.
Year: 1879

WHEN two members of the Chinese
embassy we're in Baltimore the other
day, highly intelligent citizen asked
them which was the better tea, 0olong
or Young Hyson, and was surprised to
hear that they did not know. The
first tea plant one of them had ever
seen was shown him by tea merchant
of Baltimore.
Year: 1879

The professor said that he would
illustrate his lecture with the spectre
scope and show his class the sublimity
Of the wheeling planets and the silent
march Of the stars. Then he had tho
blinds closed and laid an embargo on
the skylight, so that tho blackuess of
darkness enveloped everything. Sud-
denly through the gloom came a,'whis-
per, which, though faint, voiced the
universal thought "Oh, whst CO.
education racket this would be ~
The gas was turned on.
Year: 1879

WASHINGTON.
Democrats Still Communjnp
Secretly Among Them
selves.
The Firo-Eaters Now Discreetly
Kept in the Back


ground.
A Disposition Shown to Let the
Army Bill Go by the


Board
While the Legislative Bill Will Be
Passed in It's Present


shapej
And, If Vetoed, the Best Terms
Possible Will Be


Made.
The House Engaged All Day on
the Silver Coinage


Bill.
While the Senate Is Still Ham
mering at the Legislative


Bill.
Democrats In High Dudgeon at Certain
Apt Suggestions from Senator


Edmunds.
The Printing Bureau Unable to Supply
the Demand for Refunding


Certificates.
Year: 1879

The State Board of Health or
Massachusetts have lately given


to the public the following useful
information on the above subject:


Recent experiments made un-
der the direction Of the lnterna-
tional Cholera Commission have
shown that the ordinary methods
of disinfection are inefficient. and
in practice they have often failed
to arrest the spread OF infectious
diseases. :.


AS it is impossible to expert


ment directly upon the unknown
low organisms, which are thought
to be the means of transporting
the various infectious diseases
Year: 1879

Some time since sewing machine
agent named Elliott, disappeared from
Upper Bartlett, Maine, and it was sup
posed that he had been put out of the
way by one Harding but the body could
not be found, and the affair was wrap
ped in an impenetrable mystery-Hard-
ing denying all knowledge of Elliott's
fate. A few days ago, Hardings lawyer
heard that stranger had appeared in
Bethel and hired himself to farmer
named Lane under the name of Bennett.
He went and interviewed this stranger
and discovered him to be Elliott, who
had run away from his home because he
was defaulter to the Sewing Machine
Company for which he had been work
ing. So it may be seen that All innocent
man may run the risk of losing his life
because rogue wishes to hide.
Year: 1879

We cannot allow tho present number
of the CAPITOLIAN to issue without OK.
pressing our appreciation Of the manly
and patriotic conduct of this gallant and
able Louisianian during the entire ses-
sion of tho Convention. The impartial
ity which no displayed in the appoint
ment of the different committees was
invariably maintained at all times and
upon all occasions. Always at his post,
indefatigable and calm, just to every
one, he has cndearcd himself to all the
members, and has set an example well
worthy of imitation. He has proven
himself a presiding officer of superior
order and ability.
Year: 1879

Last Sunday morning about five hun
drcd darkies gathered ut the wharf-boat
to bid number farewell who were to take
the boat for st. Louis. The boat came
after several hours of anxious watching,
and the eager darkios rushed for the
stage plank; but they were halted by
the Captain, who informed them that
he already had as many deck passengers
as the law allowed him to carry. They
then proceeded, as usual to blame tho
white people for their failure to get off,
and some of them, not to be outdonc,
went to New Orleans, from whence they
propose to emigrate.
Year: 1879

Several light showers have fallen since
our last issue in this ncighborhood, but
hardly enough to supply the needs Of
the crops. Late corn is greatly injured,
and in some noighborhoods will scarcely
repay the planting expenses.
Year: 1879

My stock of Fall and Winter Boots and Shoes
pete and open for inspection Prices still lower than ever
before The styles in Ladies' Misses and Chidrens Kid
Button and Side Lace Shoes and in Ladies' and Misses Cloth
Top Basket Leather Foxed Button Shoes very pretty
attractive and in quality the very best that produced by
of the most reliable Cancinnati manufactures Prices
guaranteed to be lower than the quality of Shoes
be bought anywhere in the county.


The stock of Mems, Boys and Childrens Heavy Saddle
Seam and Hand Sided Boots is larger by far than has
before been brought to this market by dealer The
quality BETTER and the prices lower than the grade
goods have been sold in Jackson since the war Prc
present tending upward and those who buy eari-
est will buy lowest


My stock of Mems and Boys Fine Wool Hats larger
than be found at other store in Jackson and the
styles and desirable and the prices lower than
goods of the quality can be bought in this market


also keep full line of Kip Calf Upper and Sole Leather
for sale at all times Call and examine my stock and be
convinced that the Boot and Shoe Store the place to buy
Boots and Shoes.


H. W. TEI0M a s.