Savannah daily herald. (Savannah, Ga.) 1865-1866, March 06, 1865, Image 1

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SAVANNAH DAILY HERALD. T '} No* ) §abamta| PUBLISHED jjVSRY EVENING, SUNDAYS EXCEPTED, BY gj. W. 3IASON & CO., At 111 Bay Street, Georgia, terms: Per Copy Five Cents. Per Hundred $3 SD. Per Year $lO 00. ADT ERTIBI N G : A limited number of Advertisemeets will be re ceived at the rate of Twenty Cents per Line for first insertion, and Fifteen Cents per Line for each *ubsequen f insertion ; invariably in advance. Ad vertisements should be handed in before noon of each day. . JOB PRINTING Jn every style, neatly and promptly done. The Student and ms Bear.— On a certain day in 1847, a large hamper Oxford, per Great Western Railway, and was in due time delivered, according to its direction, at Christ Church, consign ed a gentleman well known in tne uni versity for Iris fondness for natural his tory. He opened the hamper, and the moment the lid w'as removed, out jump ed a creature about the size of an En glish sheep-dog, covered with long, shaggy hair, born on mount Lebanon, in Syria, a few months before, who had now arrived to receive his education at our learned university. The moment he was released from the hamper, he made the most of his liberty, and the door of the room being opened, he rush ed down the cloisters. Service was going on in the chapel, and, attract ed by the pealing organ, or some other motive, he made at once for the chapel. Just as he arrived at the door, the stout verger happened to come thither from within, and the moment he saw the impish-looking creature that was run ning into his domain, he made a tremen dous flourish with his silver wand, and darting into the chapel, ensconced him self in a tall pew, the door of which he bolted. Tiglath Pileser (as the bear was called), being scared by the wand, turned from the ch&pel, and scamper ed frantically about the large quadran gle, putting to flight the numerous parties of dogs, who, in those days, made the spot their afternoon rendezvous. After a sharp chase, a gown was thrown over Tig, and he was with difficulty secured. During the struggle, he got one of the fingers of his new master into his mouth, and began vigorously sucking it, with that peculiar mumbling noise for which bears are remarkable. Thus was he led back to the student’s rooms, walking all the way on his hind legs, and • suckiug the finger with all his might. A collar was put round his neck, and Tig. be came a prisoner. His good nature and amusing tricks soon made him a prime favorite with the undergraduates; a cap and gown were’ made, attired in which (to the great scandal of the dons), he accompanied his mas ter to breakfasts and wine parties, where he contributed greatly to the amusement of the company, and partook of good things, his favorite viands be ing muffins and ices. He was in gener al ot an amiable disposition, but subject to fits of rage, during which his violence was extreme; but a kind word and a finger to suck soon brought him round. He was most impatient of solitude, and would cry for hours when left alone, pai ticularly if it was dark. On one occa sion he was kept in college till after the gates were locked, and there w T as no possibility of getting him out without the porter seeing him, when there would have been a fine ten shillings to pay the next morning. Tig. was therefore tied up in the courtyard, but his cries were so great that his master had him brought mto the rooms and chained to the bed post, where he remaiued quiet till day- SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1865. light, then woke his master by licking his faee, and presently put his hind legs under the blankets. How to Get Rid of a Rock. —Uriah Abell was a Connecticut farmer, and in his time a pretty good one. His farm, like a great many other Connecticut farms, was full of stones, so he delighted to clear them off out of the way of the plow. Rebuilt a great many rods of substantial stone wall, but he could not use up all the stone. He had cleared one field of all but one great boulder about the size of a large hay-cock. He wanted to get rid of that. He would have “blown it to flinders,” as lie had a great many others, but it was within two rods of the “best room” windows, which might go “to flinders’’ at the same time. So he attempted to haul it out of its bed one day. After tiring his own and his neighbor's oxen, and breaking several chains, Uriah grew wrathy and declared that “he would give five dollars to any one who -would put the pesky rock out of his sight.” “Wa’al neoWj I don’t mind taking the job, if you'll find a spade and throw in sonic dinner, and a mug of cider along in the afternoon.” This proposition was made by a stranger who had just come up. He was a fair specimen of a working Yankee, and Uriah dropped the broken chain, and turned square round to look him full in the face. “Yes, I’ll give it, and the dinner and cider-too, but I won’t puli my oxen again at that stone, no how.” “Don’t want you should. I’m to put the stone out of sight, make all smooth about here, so you can plow right along. That’s what I’m to do, ain't it ? ’ • “Yes, that is all I want. I don't care how you do it, but if you 1 fail I don't pay anything. Do you understand? Very well, then come into dinner.” After dinner the Yankee commenced digging a hole on the other side of the stone, large and deep enough to bury the boulder quite out of sight. Then be went to the wood, pile and got a stout stick of wood which lie planted firmly with one end in the bottom of the hole, and the other bracing against the rock. Then he began undermining, and work ed until he saw the dirt begin to give, and found that the rock was resting up on its brace. “Now,” said he, “I think 111 take that mug of cider.” Uriah, who had been watching him. ordered out the cider with a right, good will. He even offered to add ‘‘some doughnuts and cheese. ’ While the Yankee was wiping away the perspiration and drinking the cider, Uriah brought his oxen around and hitched a chain to a wooded prop. “I did say I wouldn’t pull my oxen again, and I don’t mean to, because it only needs a smart jerk.” Jerk it was, and down went the boul der, and with a shovel full of dirt, aud another, and another, in quick succes sion, until all was quite smooth and level, and long before night the Y'ankee was ready to resume his journey. “There,” said Uriah, as he handed him the five dollars, “there is the best five dollars I ever paid for work on my farm. Won’t you Take another drink of cider ? You are entirely welcome. I have learned something ot you.” Perhaps some persons vvho read Ibis may learn something—learn how to get rid of some of the boulders that encum ber the surface, which are often blasted and broken up, and hauled away, “just to get rid of them,” at a much greater expense than it would require to bury them where they lie, entirely out of sight.— New Haven Weekly llegister. They say the Patti is to marry a Rus*- sian nobleman with an annual income of nine millions of francs. Trick of an Esquimaux Dog, —One day, in feeding the dogs, I called the whole of them around me, and gave to each in turn a capelin, or small dried fish. To do this fairly, I used to make all the dogs encircle me until every. one had received ten of the capelines apiece. Now Barbekark, a very young and shrewd dog, took it into his head that he would play a white man’s trick. So every time he receive his fish, he would back square out, moved a distance of two or three dogs, and force himself into line again, thus receiving double the share of any other dog. But this joke of Barbckark’s bespoke too much of the game many men play upon their fellow-beings, aud, as I noticed it. I determined to check his dogish pro pensities ; still, the cunning, and the singular way in which he evidently* watches me, induced a moment's pause in my intentions. Each dog thankfully took his capelin as his turn came round, but Barbekark, finding his share came twice as often us his companions, ap peared to shake his tail twice as thank fully as the ethers. A twinkle in his eyes {is they caught mine, seem to say, “ Keep dark, those ignorant fellows don’t know the game I am playing. I am confounded hungry !” Seeing my face smiling at his trick, he now com menced making another change, thus getting three portions to each of the others one. This was enough, and it was now time for me to reverse the order of Barbe kark's game by playing a trick upon him. Accordingly, every time I came to him he got no fish ; and although he changed his position rapidly three times, yet he got nothing. Then, if ever there was a picture of disappointed plans—of envy at others’ fortune, and sorrow at a sad misfortune —it was to be found on that dog's countenance as he watched his companions receiving their allow ance. Finding he could not succeed by any change of his position, he withdrew from the circle to w T here I was, and came to me, crowding his way between my legs, and looked~up in my face as if to say, “I have been a very bad dog. For give me, and Barbekark will cheat his brother dogs no more. Please, sir, give me my share -of capelins.” I went the rounds three times-more, and let him have the fish, as he had show T n himselt so sagacious, and so much like <a repent ant prodigal dog.— Captain Hal/. The Brave Little Yankee.— lt hap pened, in 1776, that,the garden of a widow, which lay between the American and British camps in the neighborhood of New York, was frequently robbed at night. Her son, a mere boy, and small for his age, having obtained his mother s permission to find out and secure the thief in case he should return, concealed himself with a gun among the woods.- A strapping Highlander, belonging to the British grenadiers, came, and haviug filled a large bag, threw if over his shoulder; the boy then left his covert, went softly behind him, and called out to the fellow, “ You are my prisoner; if you attempt to put your bag down, I will shoot you dead; go forward in that road.” The boy kept close behind him, and was con stantly prepared to execute his threats. Thus the boy drove him into the Ame rican camp, where he was secured.— When the grenadier was at liberty to throw down the bag, and saw who had made him prisoner, he was extremely mor tified, and exclaimed—“A British gren adier made prisoner by such a brat—by such a brat!” The American officers were highly entertained with the ad venture, made a for the boy, and gave him several pounds. He re turned, fully satisfied for the losses his mother had sustained. The soldier had side-arms, but they were of eo use, as he could not get rid of his bag. A Ghastly Joke.— A couple of medi cal students disinterred a subject cn * cold winter's night, and having dressed it, placed it, sitting upright, on the scat of a covered wagon, and started for home. Coming to a tavern, and seeing; the bar-room lighted up, they left the w’agon and went in for a drink. The hostler, observing the man sitting alone in the cold, attempted some conversa tion, but receiving no answer, he discov - ered how T the affair stood, and instantly, resolved to have a little fun of his own the occasion. So, taking the corpse to ora the stable, lie put on his overcoat andl cap and seated himself in the wagon. The students soon returned and took their seats by the side of the supposed dead man, when one of them, in merri ment, gave him a slap on the face*.say ing : “How would you like some flip, ofci fellow?” then remarked tremulously t/> his companion, “He is w T arm. by heav. ens!” “Bo would you be,” replied the corpse “if you had been stolen from U—l as I have.” Both students bolted, and never w turned to inquire lor the horse- aadi wagon. _ A Disciplinarian. —Gen. Mackenzie*, when commander-in-chief of the Chat ham division ot marines, was very rigid ’ in his duty, and, among other regulat ion*;'-, w’ould suffer no officer to lie saluted ot*. guard if out of his uniform. One day the* General observed a lieutenant of marines in a plain dress, and though he knetv. .hu youug officer intimately, he called tr> flic sentinel to turn him out. The ec'Sher appealed to the General, saving who he was. “I know* you not,” said tkt-Gen eral : “turn him out.” A short time after the General had been at a small distance from Chatham to pay a visit, and return ing in the evening in a blue eoat, claijnpti* entrance at a guard gate. The sentinel’ demanded the countersign, which-, the General not knowing, desired the officer of the guard to be sent for, which, proved to be the whom the • General had treated se * Ui ' are you?” inquired the officer'. . General Mackenzie,” was the reply. “What! without a uniform!” the Lieutenant. “Turn him out! turn him out! The General would break his.* bones if he knew he assumed his name’“ Respect the Aged.— Many an old per - so* has the pain—not bodily, but sharper still —of feeling himself in the way. Borne one wants his place. His very e&aar bat the chimney corner is grudged him He is a burden to son or daughter. The veny arm that props him is taken away trmr* some productive labor. As-he sits* at the table, his own guests are too idle or too unkind to make him a sharer in their mirth. They grudge the trouble ofthat raised voice which alone could make him one of them ; and when he sjwjaks,. it is only to be pul aside as ignorant or depised, as old-fashioned and obsolete. Oh, little do younger persons know their power of giving pain or pleasure ! It is. a pain for any man, still in the world, to be made to feel that he is no longer of it, to be driven in upon his own little world oY conscious isolation and buried enjoy ment. But this is his condition! and if any fretfulqgss or qucrulousness of tem per has aggravated it—if ©there love him. not because he is not amiable—shall we pity that condition the less—shall vre up braid it with that fault which is itself the worst part of it. Centralization.— The sun, in the ma terial world, in its natural influence, un - der the Providence of God, is the boun teous source of life and light. But collect its powers into a focus, and subject them to the craft of man, and who can be res ponsible for the result ?— N. -V. News. Gues9 the man who succeeds in doing, it will have to take the responsibility. f PRICE (Five Cents.