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VOLTAIRE.
The Death-bed "of this Celebrated Infidel.
On the twenty-fifth of February, 1758,
Voltaire penned the following blas
phemy: “Twenty years more,and (Tod
will be in a pretty plight.’’ Let us see
what was taking place precisely at the
time indicated. <)n the twenty-fifth of
February, 1778, Voltaire was lying, as
was thought, on his bed of death.
Racked and tortured by remorse for past
misdeeds, he was most anxious to propi
tiate the (lod whom lie had insulted and
the church which he and hi- band had
sworn to destroy ; and hence lie resolved
on addressing a minister of religion ini
order to receive the sacrament of recon
ciliation. On the twenty-sixth then lie
wrote the following to the Abbe Gaul
tier: “You promised me, sir, to come
and hear me. I entreat you to take the
trouble to call as soon as possible.” The
abbe went at once.
A few days later, in the presence of
the same Abbe Gaultier, the Abbe Ylig
not and the Marquis de Villeveille, the
dying man made the following declara
tion : “1, the undersigned, declare that
for these four days past, having been
afflicted with a vomiting of blood at the
age of eighty-four, and, not being able j
to drag myself to church, the reverend j
the rector of St. Sulpice, having been j
pleased to add to his other good works
that ot sending to me the Abbe Gaultier, 1
a priest, I confessed to him, and, if it
pleases God to dispose of me, 1 die in the !
holy Catholic Church, in which I was >
hern, hoping that the divine mercy will j
pardon all my faults. If ever 1 have
scandalized the church, 1 ask pardon of J
God and of the church. March 2, 1778. |
—Y oltaire,” This document was de- !
posited with Mens. Momet, notary of j
I’aris. It was also, with the permission
ot Y oltaire, carried to the rector of Rul
pice and to the Archbishop of Paris, in
order that they might say whether or not
the declaration was sufficiently explicit
and satisfactory.
1 wire before, when dangerously ill,
the wretched man had made abject re
tractions. Rut those lie had not only
rejected when restored to health, but,
passing from bad to worse, he poured out
i idler vials of his wrath against God and
Christianity. It was then of necessity to
receive the most solemn and full objur
gation of past infidelities.
When Gaultier returned with the a
chi-episcopal answer he was refused ad
mission to the dying man. The arch
conspirators trembled at the apostasy ot
their hero; and, dreading the ridicule
which would tall upon themselves, it was
determined not to allow any minister of
religion thenceforth to visit him. Find
ing himself thus cut off from the conso
lations of religion, Ymltaire became in
furiated—no reproach, no curse being
deemed bad enough for the D’Alem
berts and Diderots, who guarded him.
“Be gone,” he said; “it is you who
have brought me to my present state.
Be gone! I could have done without
you all; but you could not
have existed without me; and what a
wretched glory have you procured me I”
And then praying, and next, blasphem
ing, now saying, “O Christ,” and next,
I am abandoned by God and man,” lie
wasted away liis life, ceasing to curse
and blaspheme and live on the thirtieth
ot May, 1778. These facts were made
public by Mons. Tronchin, a Protestant
physician from Geneva, who attended
him almost to the last. Horrified at
what lie had witnessed, lie declared that
to see all the furies of Orestes, one only
had to be present at the death of Y7ol
taire—“ Pour voir toutes lex furies
</’ Oreste, il Eg arait qu'a se trouver ala
mort de Voltaire.” “ Such a spectacle,”
be adds, “ would benefit the young who
i are iu danger of losing the precious
| helps of religion.” The Marechal de
Richelieu, too, was so terrified at what
he. saw that he left the bedside of Yrol
taire, declaring that “ the sight was too
horrible for endurance.”
His “ Better Half.”—A recently
made benedict writes us as follows eon
' corning his young wife’s habits : “If
there was a bed room a mile long, and
1 her entire wardrobe could be packed in
a band-box, still you’d portions of
that wardrobe scattered along the whole
mile of dressing-room. She’s a nice thing
to look at when put together, but this
wonderful creation is evolved from a
| chaos interminable of pins, ribbons, cot
| ton, rags, paint, powder, thread, brushes,
combs, steel-wire, laces, etc. If there
were seven hundred thousand drawers in
J your room, and you asked but for one to
be kept sacred and inviolate for your
| own private use, that particular one would
be full of hair-pins, ribbons, and soiled
cuffs. Some provision, some protection
! in this matter should be inserted in the
marriage service."
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 23, 1874.
A SCENE UNPAKALLELED.
Last week. a> the mammoth fleet of
steamers employed to transport the old
John Rohinson’s (Treat World Exposi
tion approached the landing at V yan
dotte, situated on the bank of the Ohio
river, in West YJrginia, an unusual com
motion was observed to take place on
board the Hag ship “ Erie, No. 9.” Men,
women and children were wildly run
ning to and fro frantically shouting to
the other steamers, while at the same
time there arose a series of shrieks,
screeches, yells and howls, a> if all the
inmates of pandemonium were let loose.
The good people on shore were unable
to make out the meaning and strange be
havior of those on the steamers, but sur
mising that everything, was not right
among the animals in the menagerie,
they very quickly concluded that the
open levee was no place for them should
any of the ferocious monsters make
their way to the land, and quickly fled
to their homes. In the meantime,
Commodore John F. Robinson hoisted
signals of distress, which were quickly
responded to by the steamer Champion,
Capt. G. N. Robinson; also the steamer
Argosy, Captain James Robinson, who
ranged alongside the Erie, and were in
formed that an awful battle was raging
between the huge double horned rhinoc
eros and the monster war elephant, Old
Emperor. The ladies and children were
quickly transferred to the steamers
Champion and Argosy, and then the en
tire crews of the three steamers armed
themselves and went below to endeavor
to separate the combatants.
As they reached that portion of the
main deck just off the boilers, a horribly
sickening sight met their view. Woun
ded, bleeding and horribly lacerated men
were lying where they had been stricken
down by the terrible brutes; dead, woun
ded, and dying horses and ponies strewed
the deck in every direction ; cages do
st roved and literally smashed into frag
ments were scattered among the dead,
wounded and dying, and the terrible
din, shrieks, grunts and groans plainly
told them that the battle was still raging.
A total destruction of almost every cage
on the boat seemed imminent. All ef
forts proved unavailing to separate the
savage denizens of the forest. At this
juncture a large crash was heard, and the
two cages containing the monster sea
lions and the Labrador seals were driven
overboard.
The veteran showman was as cool and
collected as a man could be under these
circumstances, when his property was
going to destruction every moment by
thousands of dollars; not so with mana
ger John F. Robinson, Jr., for when he
saw his favorite seals and sea lions being
dashed overboard, he cried: “Boys, I
I can’t stand this, and we might as well
attempt to kill one of these brutes before
they ruin every cage on the boat.” He
then ordered to fire upon them, and a
heavy volley was discharged, which had
no more effect on the now thoroughly
aroused and frightened monsters than to
cause them to fight with more fury than
before. The situation was getting each
moment more dangerous for all onboard,
and the managers were despairing of all
hope, when it occurred to manager John
to open the steam pipes and deluge them
with steam.
The engineer quickly turned on the
steam, and as it suddenly escaped from
the boiler with a terriffic roar, a shrill
screech was heard from the elephant,
such as they always utter in crying for
mercy when conquered in their native
wilds. YYhether the elepant had re
ceived its death-blow from the rhinoce
ros or was frightened into submission by
the steam, could not be ascertained until
the steam had cleared away, which it did
in a few moments, disclosing to the as
tonished gaze of the showmen a curious
and gratifying sight. There lay the el
ephant on the deck cowering, trembling
down, and a little farther on was the
rhinoceros, snugly enseonsed in his cage,
where he had retreated when the steam
was opened upon him.
The attendants sprang forward and
closed and bolted the door of bis cage,
thus securing themselves from further
molestation from him.
Five horses were found dead, as also
were three ponies, and four more were so
badly maimed and wounded, that they
were killed in mercy, to end their pains.
A Veteran —Two soldiers were talk
ing together, when one asked the other :
“ YYhere was you during the war?”
“ I was twenty-four months in the ar
my, sir.”
“ YTuis, wal, where was you during
that time?”
“ I was twenty-three months in the
hospital.”
“And where was you during the other
month?”
“ I was looking for the hospital.”
WIT AND HUMOR.
A man may love wisely, but lie cannot
love two very well.
for what port i* a man bound during
courtship ? Bound to Havre.
-Mr. Mudd runs a paper in Missouri.
Uis editorials are as clear as his name.
I oast at a railroad dinner: “Our
Mothers—The only faithful tenders vho
never misplaced the switch.”
luo horns will last an ox a life-time,
but many a man wants that number
every morning before breakfast.
If your sister fell into a well, whv
couldn't you rescue her? Because you
could not be her brother and assist her
too.
1 he New York Herald calls the recent
exciting cattle stampede and chase in
the Bowery “ The third battle of Bull
Run.”
An unsophisticated person once decli
ned a plate of maecaroni soup with the
remark that they “couldn’t palm off any
biled pipe-stems on him.”
A Thankee paper says: “If General
Banks would fail of a nomination in
Massachusetts he must try YJrginia. He
formerly ran well in that State.”
At the Cincinnati Exposition, a card
gives the following touching hut practi
cal information : “If you try our coffins
once you will never use any others.”
1 hev tell of a farmer in Elbert so lazy
that when he went tolioe corn j
so slowly that the shade of his broad-:
brimmed hat killed the tender plant. • !
Yes, sir, said a Michigan 4th of;
July orator. “Putnam went right into
the wolfs den, dragged her out, and the :
independence of America was secured !” |
I want lo know, ’ said a creditor, j
fiercely, when you are going to pay j
me what you owe me?” “'I give it up,”
replied the debtor, “ ask me something
easy.” ■ '■
The magician who astonished an audi
ence by changing a canary bird into a
cat, lias a formidable rival in the man
who turned a bushel of potatoes into a
barrel. /
Since “The Woman Who Talks” has
been placed upon the stage, there’s
scarcely a married man going who does
not think he has a natural great actress
in his family.
Pedagogue—First little boy, what is
your name? Little boy-—.Tule. Peda
gogue—Oh, no ; your name is Julius.
Next little boy, what is vours? Second
boy— Billions.
A Chicago woman dipped her feet in
the Mississippi river, at St. Louis, the
other day, and the effect was noticed as
far down as Memphis, where the water
rose several inches.
At a hotel table one boarder remarked
to another: “This must be a healthy
place for chickens.” “Why?” asked
the other. “ Because T never see anv
dead ones hereabouts.”
Dean Swift, hearing of a carpenter
tailing through the scaffolding of a house
which he was engaged in repairing, dryly
remarked that lie liked to see a mechanic
go through his work promptly.
When a Connecticut deacon nudged a
somnolent worshipper with the contribu
tion box the sleepy individual awoke
partially, smiled, murmured, “ I don’t
smoke!” and dropped off again.
Circumstances alter cases. For in
stance, when a Greene county man arose
in church and said, “ Here’s a hundred
dollar bill for the old boss behind the
pulpit,” no one thought of putting him
out.
A Cape May youth used the deeds of
his father’s farm for gun-wads. The
stamp on the bottom of the document
wasn’t anything like the impression the
i old man made on the same part of the
lad’s anatomy.
The fall and winter fashions of the
I Sandwich Islands have just been an
i nounced. In additional to the usual
| band of red tape above the knee, a paper
I collar with corners turned down will be
• the proper thing.
A land agent in Colorado remarked
i to an inquiring man, that all that was
needed to make the place a Paradise was
: a comfortable climate, water, and good
i society. “That’s all that is lacking in
: hell,” was the reply.
Some of the regular soldiers sent West
have married squaws, and are doing their
; best to civilize the poor, ignorant red
| skins. As soon as the squaw gets a pair
j of army boots and a brass chain on, she
begins to act refined and lady-like.
How doth the busy little pig improve
each shining hour, and gather sausage
all the day from every opening flower.
And when the shades of twilight fall, he
slumbers in his stye, or sings his pretty
opening hymn. “ Root little pig, ok die.’
“JOSH BILLINGS’ ALMINAX."
Jo.-h Billings’ Almanac for 7<> is just
out. It is fall of droll and mischievous
humor, and i> the best he lias ever issued
yet.
We present sum •> extracts from it
which are rich and racy :
•'he dumplin are about the mitral size
ov my phist. mrde out ov dough, and
filled with apples. They aie served up
hot, with some sweet-tasting liniment
on them, and iz as eazy lo struggle with
az a sugar plum. They ain’t so good
kold, as they ought to be. Kold dump
ling and raw potatoes eat similar. I
never et apple dumpling yet, without .
thanking the Lord for that one, and the j
landlady for another one. Four apple i
dumplings, at one sitting, iz just about
my size. I wish 1 knu who invented
these kind-hearted balls. I would like ■
to weep over his memory. Pumkin pi
and apple dumplin have done as mutch
to civilize man as ennv two missionaries
that have ever lived. Good vittles is
next to good morals enny how. Y'u
may talk about virtew as much as you
pleze, you kant ever inokulate a man
with virtew fust race on an empty stum
muk. Give a man four apple dumplins, j
with some good kind of ointment on 1
them, and after he hez et them and be :
haz settled down to hard pan, you kan
krawl up to him on either side with a j
dose of morality, or even some new kind j
of sope, for takiu spots out of clothes.
YYhen a man ain’t good for ennything i
else, he is just right to sit on a jury.
Coquets make better wives than prudes
do, but thank the Lord, there iz better
ones in market than either ov them.
One ov the most unfortunate individu
als I kno ov is a third-rate fiddler.
About as low down az man kan git,
and not quite spile, iz to liv on his
wife’s repiFashun.
A good character iz allwus gained hi
inches ; but iz often lost in one chunk.
To be strong a man should liav plenty j
ov friends and plenty ov enemy's —too j
mennv friends weakens him, and too
menny enemys makes him a vagabond.
After tricing for more than 35 years to
hav mi own way in all things, I hav
finally cum to the konklusion to split the
difference.
I hav made up mi mind that human
happiness consists in having a good deal
to do, and then keep a doing it.
Woman is the glass ware of creation.
She iz luvlv and brittle, but she haz run
up everything we really enjoy in this
life from 25 cents on the dollar to par.
Adam, without Eve, would hav boen az
stupid a game asplaying checkers alone.
Thare lias been more beautiful things
sed in her praise than there haz ovenny
other animate thing, and she iz worthy
ov them all. She iz not an angil, tho’,
and 1 hope she won’t never go into the j
angell bizness. Angells on earth don’t
pay. The only mistake that woman haz
ever made iz to think she iz a better man
than Adam.
Adam iz eaptin, and 1 am ready to
admit that be is often a drcadphul poor
one too. Woman is the power behind
the throne, and she holds all the best
playing cards in the pak, and her own
good sense ought to teach her not to be
in ennv hurry to play' them. I hav al
wuss sed, and I beleaf it still, that the
time to be careful iz when you hav a
handphul of trumps.
Experience acts on some pholks’ vitals
just as it docs on a bull tarrier. He
don’t fairly git over one whipping before
he begins to look around for another.
Next in point of meanness to doing a
man an injury', is to do him a favor, and
every now and then remind him ov it.
Thare is a grate menny gingerpop peo
ple in this world; after they hav bin
uncorked a fu minutes, they git to be
dreadful flat.
Didn't Say It.
We find the following card in the
Gainesville Eagle. It is one of the most
satisfactory explanations wo have ever
read:
“Homer, Banks Cos., Oct. 7, 1874.
“ Editors Eagle: —The Hon. John YV.
O’Neal, whom you may have learned is
the Radical candidate for Congress in
the Ninth District, has made a charge
against me, which I deny. In the last
issue of the Gainesville Advertiser he
says that in a speech made by me, on
Thursday last, in Gainesville, I charged
him with showing himself on the streets,
and in the State House in Atlanta, with
out his pants and drawers. The Honor
able gentleman misquotes my language i
that he may deny it. I did not charge
him with showing himself on the streets
and in the State House in Atlanta with
out his pants and drawers ; I only char
ged him with appearing on the streets !
and in the Btate House in Atlanta in his
shirt tail. Your obedient servant,
. . “ Emory Bpeek."
VOL. I—NO. 3.
Tl** Mississippi River to be Tun
neled at Grand Tower.
W e loarn that there is a company
about being formed with the view of
tunneling, or we might say, tubing the
Mississippi at Grand Tower. The plan,
as tar as we can judge, seems practi
: cable, and when carried out will unite
the Illinois Central with the Iron Moun
tain Railroad, ’ ring the coal holds
ot Tsig Muddy u. close contact with the
iroo beds of Missouri. The plan is this :
An iron tube is to be first sunk in the
fiver, of oval shape, say twenty feet at
its largest dimensions, inside of which
another iron tube, three 1 feet smaller
each way, is to be laid on girders inge
niously constructed with a view to
strength and durability. The tube or
tunnel will have only about ball of its
diameter below the bottom of the river,
as the water is very deep at this point,
and it is the intention of the companv, if
they get an appropriation from Con
gress, to utilize the heat which is now
being wasted by the Big Muddy furnaces
—and which are located just where the
tunnel will enter the bluff on the Illinois
side—by leading a pipe from the hot air
chamber directly into the space between
the outer and the inner tubes of the
tunnel, thereby getting up sufficient
heat to raise the temperature of the wa
ter in the river, while passing over it,
above the freezing point, and thus pre
venting any obstruction of the river by
ice between that point and Cairo.
In Love with a Wax Figure.—A
lunatic has just died in an asylum in
France whose distemper had a very sin
lar origin. His name was Justin. He
was a wJx figure maker and had au ex
hibition of wax works at Montiouge. lie
fell in love with one of his figures. It
was that of a girl, which he called Eliza,
He sat for hours contemplating the fig
ure until itbecame to him a living reality.
He loved Eliza and neglected his wife.
His business left him in the shadow of
his infatuation. His family starved.
One day his wife, in a fit of rage and
desperation and jealousy, destroyed the
figure of Eliza. Justin tried to kill his
wife with a broom-stick, and vrouLd have
succeeded had not the neighbors inter
fered. The man after this became dan
gerous and w r as put in a lunatic asylum,
w here be continued to love Eliza for
five years and then died.
A “ Bran-new Baby.” —The hit,-?
Western story comos from Tern* Haute.
As the ears were moving away from that
station the other day, a pretty young
woman came from the ladies’ car, ami
rushing into the smoking ear, frantically
appealed to everybody to stop the train.
Catching sight of the conductor, she ex
plained, piteously, “ Mr. Conductor, do
please stop the train; I’ve left my baby.”
The train was stopped and the baby r -
covered, amidst the hearty cheers of the
people on the platform and the*passcn
gers; and while the laugh
ed,cried and hugged ~ sl >e
tried to explain how the oaby.was such
anew one sin* hadn’t got used to it;
A Slight Mistake. — mag
istrate in a town in Indiana named Hel
ser. A clergyman in the place was*
called upon by a young couple, not long
since, who wished him to join them in
tie- holy bouds of matrimony. He asked
the bridegroom (ajgj|jf&, by the wav,)
for a marriage liceiwe. The man in blue*
responded that he had been engaged to.
the girl for four years, and thought that
would do. The. clergyman thought not,,
and remarked, as the spetMiest way t<s
obtain a license: “ You had better take
your girl and go to Helser !” •* You go
to hell yourself!” retorted the angry vet
eran. And seizing the bride by the arm,
he dragged her from the liouse, won
dering what manner of a profane minis
ter he had met with.
A Singular Circumstance. —Sev-
eral weeks ago a fainjj^yeakluitf n°:i
Liberty Mills, Orange county, Virginia,
arose early in the morning and prepared
breakfast, using the tea kettle in which
to heat water for eoffee. The family
drank of the coffee, as usual, and with
out any injurious effects. Towards noon
someone, in attempting to use the kettle
for another purpose, found in it a consid
erable sized black snake boiled to death
in the water which was used for coffee i 1
the morning. On this announcement
there was considerable consternation in
the family for a short time, some vomit
ing, and others tried to do so, but iaiiee.
Strange to say, no one was other wbe in
jured.
With a sardonic grin, Wix poured
some musilage into his empty i air oil
bottle, yesterday, and this morning the
hair of one of theservunt girh was stuck
so tight tliat she could not shut In r
m out If* " r _