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Grey River Argus, Volume IV, Issue 269, 3 October 1867, Page 2

Evn-s of Gossip. — I have known a, '/?'>' country society which withered away- all »3§H. to nothing linger th.© dry rot of fgpuijxSy only. once, asT.-firm ""htk.'i!~ " granite, dissolved to jelly, ajjd^then m^ " j away to water, only because OTthia ';, love *. ' that promised a future as ensuring,, a*- ~ J§ heaven and as. stable as truth, evaporated jUr into a morning mist, that turned to JbfflfiL day's long tears, only hecajuse of this ; a, father and a. son were. set foot to foot ? with, the fiery breath of an anger that,,. would never cool again, only because or; this ; and a husband and his young wife* '> each straining at the heated leash which' in the beginning had been the golden bondage of a %||blessed love, sa.t mournfully by the gr£ys*where all their love, all their joy lay burfM, and only because of this. Great, crimes work great -wrong, and the deeper tragedians; of human life, spring from its larger passions ; most mournful are the iincatalogued tragedies; that issue from gossip and detraction! most mournful the shipwreck often majie - of noble natures and lovely lives by the bitter winds and dead salt waters of >j^ slander. So easy- to say, yet so hardto disprove— throwing on the innocent all iheijurden.and the strain of demonstrating their innocence, and punishing them. at guilty if unable to pluck out theVstings they never see, and to silence words they '■ : never hear— -gossip and slander ; ;aj& the ■deadliest and cjjuelest weapons man" v has ever forged, for;his brothers hurt.-^IK the Year Bound. .: ■ *; , " "::f S*" '-.