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BUKKHOLDERp All ladies know by instinct how the . DENTAL SURGEON, PRATER OF THE BETROTHED. But in relatien to fat man the first: I 'And the National Palace, tho Grand We are indebted to a lady friend, says A correspondent of the Ohio Statesman in- the Savannah News & Herald, for the fol- HARRISONBURG, VA. am gaining on him. Placa, the Cathedral, the Pleteros ?' con- question of questions shonld be asked, so quires why the Booster is used by. the De- Oirea his careful^and constai^^^^tion to his A lady In the St. Louis Union, over the signature of lowing most touching extract from a letter "Index," portrays her thoughts in the following beau- Quitman and Smith, advaneing up the tinued Worth, as noted points in the as to make it tell. But very few men mocracy as an emblem of victory. That pa- tiful verses on the eve of her marriage: know how to ask it graoefully. Love written by a dying wife lo her husband, per replies: Father, I oome before Thy throne, Helen Garita, wore under fire constant- beautifnl oity came to his mind. stricken youths often act sorrily on oo- which was found by him some months after Because the game Rooster Is the gamost With love and bended knees, ly; the men, as they dodged in and out 'Beyond the Alameda, and right under her death between the leaves of a religious To thank Thee, with a grateful tone, of the arches of the aqueduct, were con- oaaions of this kind; in fact, like the bird, when encroached upon by his fellows, For all Thy lore to me. that star,' answered the Englishman, volume which she was very fond of perus- that ever existed, and the Democracy is the Forgive me If my heart this hour, tinually crippled or out down. Moragne pointing Huger and Stone behind him merest lubbers ; and the worst of it is ing. The letter, which was literally dim with that those of them who would make the gamest party that over voted at an election I give not all to Thee, and J. W. Canty, of the gallant South 'lining,' as old bee hunters term it.— tearmarks, was written long before tho hus- For deep affeotion's mighty power best husbands often spoil their chances or resented oppreshon. Both the party and Divides It now with Thee. Carolina regiment, were killed; Glad- Hagner would also have been on the look- band was aware that the grasp of fatal dis- its emblem, wbes they go into the fight, lion of teeth. Operations performed with strict by floundering ridiculously at tho oritis Thou knowest, Father, every thought, den, of the same corps, was wounded ; out, ooly that he was hard of hearing.— ease bad fastened open the lovely form of make it a matter of life and death. Both regard to comfort and durabiltty, and warranted oal moment. For this reason, saucy, eoual in every respect to those performed else- That waketh in my breast, while Loring, of the rifles, lost an arm An ezoellent offioer was Hagner. his devoted wife, who died, it is stated, at may be whipped but not conquered, for giv- wbere. And how this heart has vainly sought world hardened fellows who never stam- the early age of nineteen. It ahows how Office—South side Court-Houee Square, next To keep its love suppressed, while pushing bravely up. "Worth was Meanwhile the platforms for the two ing up when once In the fight, ia a word un- door to the Bookstore. mer, blush, or falter, not unfreqnently fathomless ia the depth of a true woman's kuownt o the practice of the Booster, and Uoferencoa—His own daily operations, togeth- Yet when the Idol, worshipped one, not particularly disturbed going on the ten inch mortars wore laid, and every- er with ino recommendation ot the Faculty of Sits fondly by my side, earry off the prise from nnsophistioated affection : is not found in tho Deiuocratio vocabulary. And breathes the row I cannot shun, fian Cosme Garita ; he sent Duncan out thing was ready to 'open,' when all of a the Baltimore Dental College, which bangs in exoellence the lady not discovered until "When this shall reach your eye, dear The following historical incident induced bis office. [Sept. 18-—tf To me, his destined bride— with his light battery to help Quitman sudden it got through the little fat man's G—' some day when you are tnruing over too late, that she had mistaken brass for the adoption of the emblem : JJENTAL CO-PARTNERSHIP; Forgive me, If the loving kiss and Smith on the Helen route. But skull that he had been pumped. the relics of the post, I shall have passed gold. Under these circumstances, why During the war of 1812 the British fleet on DB. JA8. H. HARRIS, OEO. T. HARRIS, He leaves upon my brow after passsing the English Cemetery, and 'But you are going to bombard tho away forever, and the cold, while stone will Is thought of in an hour like this, will not some gentle orcatare of a 'cer- Lake Cbamplain was attacked by the Amer- DENTAL SURGEONS. And thrills me even now. on entering the straggling suburbs o f city,' said he, skipping more lively than be keeping its lonely watch over the lips ican fleet under Commodore McDonough,— Db. Jas. H. Harris, will give his careful at- San Cosme, Worth's regulars caught it tain age,' who has nothing more to hope you have so often pressed, and the sob will tantion to all operations performed especially He's chosen me to be his love ever. The fleet of MoDonough, much inferior to And comforter through life. in earnest. The Mexicans had a strong Bang I whang! 1 wont the eighteen or fear from man, undertake to teach be growing that shall bide forever from your that of tho English, suffered terribly in the Enable me, oh God, to prove the young idea how to shoot dexterously sight the dust of one who so often nestled A loving, bithful wife. battery at the Garita, which commanded ponndors. first part of the battle. At tho moment when at the matrimonial target ? It would bo close to your warm heart. For many long and completely swept the street along 'And my wife and children are living it was raging fiercest—the heaviest fire of tha He knows not, Father, all the deep a profitable business, pecuniarly, beyond and sleepless nights, when all ray thoughts Affection I control, the aqueduct, and the old Texan plan up there 1' enemy was directed against the flagship of The thousand loving thoughts that sweep a doubt; and than as a philantbropio.— were at rest, I have wrestled with the con- McDonough—bis men driven from their of boring and burrowing through the Slam 1 boom ! went the two mortars. Resistless o'er my soul. There are multitudes of young men who sciousnesa of approaching death, until at guns by the fierce cannonade, and dismay He knows not each fount of love bonses, learned by the commander of the 'God bless my eoul 1 you'll tear the lost it has fastened itself upon my mind ; That gushes warm and free ; would give ten dollars a piece to be able sat on every countenance, and tho sterm of abl?^ come t©'town first division at Monterey the year pre- whole oity to pieces ! and my poor wife and although to you and to others it might iron hail which seemed to threaten destruc- will be waited on at their residences. Nor can he ever, ever prove to do the thing with eolat, and it cer- ^^.Offica at Dr. Harris's residence, on Main My warm idolatry. vious, was adopted. And it suoceoded. —she's timid, and—' seem but tha nervous imaginations of a girl, tion not only to the ship but to every living •treet. [Oct. 2, 1867—tf tainly might bs taught in less than 'six yet, dear G., is it not so 7 Many weary, Then guard him, Father I ronnd his way, At dusk, the close vicinity of the Garita Bang I whang I bellowed the 18 poun- soul therein, was at its height, a cannon bail DRS. GORDON & WILLIAMS, Thychoiovstblessings cast; of San Cosme having been reached, a ders again; it took longer to work the easy lessons.' The lady preceptress weary hours have I passed in the endeavor struck a chicken coop and knocked it to piec- Having sold out their Drug Store, will And render each successive day should make her pupils propose to her to reconcile myself to leaving yon, whom I es, killing all it contained but a moment be- derote their entire time to the Practice of Modi- Still happier than the last. dash earried the works without great mortars, but as fast as they oould be •Ine. They will be found when not professionally loss, and Worth was inside the proud until perfect in the art of proposition. love so well, and this bright world of sun- fore, except a game Booster, whose battered •ngaged, at their new offices in rear of First Na- And, Father, grant us so to live, wiped out and cleaned they wore kept in shine and beauty ; and hard indeed it is to tionalsonal Hank,Dank, trontingfronting the Masonic Hall. Per- That when his life is o'er, capital of the Montezamaa, Quitman, af- comb bore the marks of many a death fight. Within the happy home you give, active play. Curious Love Letters. struggle on silently alone, with the sure con- sons indebted in the Drug Store, will please call ter losing Drum, Benjamin and other ^ Flying upon the bulwarks of McDonougb's and settle. [Oct. 16, 1866. We'll meette part no more. It may not seem altogether so right for " • viction that I am to leave all forever and go flagship, the noble bird, undaunted by the brave men, had also effected a lodgment WO. HILL, a man to sit down and aplit his sides Madam—Most worthy of estimation 1 down alone into the dark valleyl "But I noise, confusion and carnage around blm, • PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON A. REMINISCENCE OP THE MEXI- inside the Garita de Helen, and with laughing after a long day's work, amid After long consideration and much med- know in whom I have trusted," and loaning with clarion voice rang out bis notes of defi- HARRISONBURG, VA. CAN WAR. Heauregard and other officers was busy carnage and strife ; but who eould help itation of the great reputation you pos- upon Ills arm "I fear no evil." Don't blame ance and victory. Sept. 19, 1866.—tf planning further operations offensive,— it, as that blue coated, pursy little Eng- sess in tho nation, I have a strong incli- me for keeping all this even from you— Sailors are ever superstitious, and when in BOW A TAT MAN HELPED OUR ARMY. VITOODSON & COMPTON They did not intend to give Santa Anna lishman, who had unoonsoioualy given nation to become your relation. On How could I subject you, of all others, to the pause of the thunder of the enemy's can- ▼ V ATTORNEYS AT LAW, suoh sorrow as I feel at parting, when time HARRIgONBURG, VA., George W. Kendall, the former well- another chance to enter into the armiss Worth a thorough reoonnoisauce of the your approbation of this inclination I non they beard the shrill "cock-a-doodle-do" John C. Woodson and Wu. B. Compton have tice business ; the cold faces of Drum, shall make preparation to remove my will soon make it apparent to you 7 I could of the undaunted bird, they gathered new neeociated themselves in the practiro of Law in j know editor of the Now Orleans Pica^ entile oity of Mexico from a standpoint have wished to live, if only to be at your Benjamin and other gallant spirits, kill- courage and repairing again to their guns, th« County of Rnckinkham ; and will also attend j une, has not forgotten his Mexican war near his brewery at tho San Cosme Ga- situations to a more oonvenieut station, side when your time shall come, and pillow tha Courts of Shenauaoab, Page, Highland and ed without cause, laid there stark and returned anew the fire of the enemy, cheered rendleton. experience, as a recent letter of his in rita, commenced jumping and skipping to profess my admiration, and if such your head upon my breast, wipe the death by the loud crow of the brave emblem of the ^SifJoHn C. Woodsok will continue to prac- stiff reminders that Santa Anna could tice in the Supreme Court of Appeala of Virginia. that paper shows Partly for its histor- about with the agiiity of a first class ac- obligation is worthy of observation and damps from your brow, and usher your de- Democracy, until tho qattie ended and Mc- Not. it, 1865-tf ical reoollections and partly for the hu- not wit and out-talk the tall hero of Chip- robat. 1 am laughing now as I te 1 the can obtain commiseration, it will be an parting spirit into its Maker's presence, em- Donough on Lake Ghamplaio, like the De- vaaaiK a. ldbtt. b. a. r ATTEUSON. morous story to which they lead, we pewa. Hut where is fat man the first? story—I can't help it. aggonizalion beyond all calculation of balmed in woman's holiest prayor. But it mocracy in Ohio and Pennsylvania was vlo- LUBTT