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VOLUME XXII.
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ATHENS, GEORGIA,—WEDNESDAY, OCTR 6, 1875.
NUMBER 26.
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Select UJisteUaug.
LATENDEB.
Hon prone w* an to hide and hoard
Each llltlo token loro haa stored,
To tell of hupp, lioora; ,
We lay aside with tender can ■
A tattered book, a cart of hair,
A bnnehot faded Boner*. *
When Death hailed with pdxieaa hand
Oar darling* to the allent land,
Awhile we alt bereft. •
Bat time goee on; anon we Mae,
Oar dead being buried from era qyea.
We gather what la left.
The book* the, lend, the aattga the, aang,
professional anb^usracss Curbs.
Laaan corn. aurx. a. nwnt. nowru conn.
C onn, EBWXK Ml COBB,
. • Attorneys at Law,
A* athkxs, GA.
fWOfllce In Denpree Building. ljan—tf
A. EDGE,
• Boot, Shoe and Harness Maker,
WA TKfSS VILLK, OA.
B
F. WOFFORD,
i . ~ Attorney at law, Homer, Ga.
irotnptlT all business intnunrd to lila care.
■ anporJaltjr. apil—tf
Will
Collecting claluian
D
Its. BRAWN ID It &. YOUNG,
Caroesvillo, Ga.
r pwlglOMl services to their friends aml the pul
lie generally, fy Office nearly opposite the court house. np2l
E mory speeh,
Lawyer, Athens, Ga.
As Solicitor General of Western Circuit, will attend the
Couru of Clarke, Walton, Gwinnett, Hall, Banks, Jackson.
cuuiwvi t uiM) titutuu. uniiim iij ai.au, uiuian,
Habersham, Franklin, Rabun ami \\ bite, and give attention
to collecting and other claims in Umjsc counties, mar IV, *»3
E
DWARD It. HARDEN,
(Late Judge V, 8. Court. Nebraska aud Utah, and now
Judge of Brook* County Court,)
Attorney at Law, Quitman, Brooks Co., Go.
E
Madison hell.
JOHN B. ESTES.
STEM & BFLL,
Attorneys at Law, Gainesville, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing tho Western Circuit,
and Dawson and Forsyth counties of the Blue Ridge Circuit.
They will also practice in the Supreme Court of Georgia, »*><!
iu the United States Court at AtfsuU
may 14
TJLOYD dfc S1LMAN,
J: Attorneys at Law,
Will practice Iu the comities of Walton uud Jarkaon.
B siljian,
Jelfersou, U:i.
John j. nom
Oorlagtoo, Qfk
mart
J E\ O’KELLEY’S
• Photograph Gallery,
Orer Snead M Co.1l Shoe More, Broad street, Alliens, Oeor*
gla, reju*.
The tobea they, Using, used to >
And painful pulaca stir,
As o'er the relict of our dead.
With bitter rein of team, we spr
Pale pnrple lavender.
And when we come In aflat years,
With only tender April teare
On cheeks once while with care,
To look at treasures pot away
Despairing on that fir-off day,
A subtle scent is there.
Dew-wet and triad wc gather them,
These fragrant (lewcre—now every stem
Is hare of all its bloom.
Tear.wet and svoct we strewed them here,
To lend our rclfcs sacred, dear,
Tbclr beautiful perfume.
That scent abides on book and lute.
On carl, and flower, and with Its mute
Dut eloquent appeal,
It wins from us a deeper sob
For our lost dead—e sharper throb
Than we are wont to feel.
It whispers of tbs long ago,
Its love, its loss, its selling woe,
And buried sorrows stir;
Aud team liks those we shed of old,
ltoll down our cheeks as we behold
Our faded lavender.
/ (AH (Kt Year found.
PAUL SMITH'S WAIT.
Paul Smith was a poor old man. He bad
a back room iu the top of a noisy lodging
house, where he slept nights aud munched
his meals of bread aud cheese—or Bologna
sausage when he could afford it—aud from
whence ho crept, as harmless and unnotic
ed as a tly, dowu the comer of a dingy
street, to the little music shop of Carl Brett
man, a German settler.
There he tinkered all day on broken vio
lins and other musical instruments, never
J.
H. HUGGINS,
aud Retail Dealer in
Dry Goods, Groceries, Hardware, bx./
. _ . t^Atb/T
Broad Street, At
[AME8 R. LYLE,
' Attorney at Lai/
docks WAUW
sel f for a moment, save on
•oons, when he went to the
tradesman to teach the
four very stupid girls,
ip in his den, and amus-
tnew how, until Mon-
OHN M. MA
TOM
He never
d chil-
"Mi near
were restive, and bidding the driver to
watch them, she began to descend unas
sisted. Her foot was on the top step, when
the animals sprang and flung her violently
from her foothold. But for the sudden act
of your niece, who received my mother in
her strong young arms, the fall mighthave
proved a fetal one. My mother at onoe en
tered a shop, and keeping your niece near
her, sentfor me. I came to-day, at my
mother's earnest request, to express our
heartfelt gratitude, and to offer—”
“ You needn’t offer Camilla a penny, sir.
She will never suffer while I’ve a pair of
hands to work for her,” said Paul.
“ Yon mistake me. I do not wish to in
sult yon, bat would raise this child from
her poverty and educate her, that she might
be of use to you and to herself, and become a
refined woman.. Don’t let .hour selfl
am tfchgr light
e sings like a"
study music.”
The great lustrous eyes of the child turn
ed imploringly to her guardian.
6 Lor*, Camilla, I can’t stand in your way.
I know you’re every bit a bom lady, if your
poor forsaken mother did die in a hovel
among wretches who turned her child into
the cold as soon as the breath had left her
body; but, deary me, I can’t part with you.”
“ And you shall not Let me serve my
little Camilla, and she shall never leave you
but prove a blessing to you in your old age.”
Paul could say nothing, and the strange
visitor departed, with no farther injury to
his darling than an eloquent glance from
an expressive pair of eyes.
Day alter day Camilla went with her books
to the teacher so strangely provided; aud
after a little time there came days when
passers paused to listen to the warbling of
the rich young voice.
When she had been there six months,
she ot tered one morning to find Mrs. Claver
ing in the music master’s room.
“ What do you intend to do with your fa
mous pupil r said her soft voice.
“ Madame, Camilla is capable of doing
anything in a mi sical way. She will be a
songstress of wh om this country will be
proud. Ah, here she is!”
“ You have improved wonderfully, my
child,” said tho lady, holding out her glov
ed hand. “ I came to bring you Bichard’s
farewell. He leaves to-night, and will re
main abroad for many years. Here is a lit
tle gift as a token of remembrance.
She did not understand that Mrs. Claver
ing had placed a pretty necklace of coral
in her hand, and then gathered up her
shawl and departed; but when her teacher
spoke she cried out as in mortal pain, and,
without a word, ran down the street toward
home. As she turned the comer she rush
ed pell-mell into the arms of a gentleman
t, an oldiv T
“ T]tiet
the music master and mar
odd-looking man waved hiffiludjjiiffl
anil cheered, with great to JHt /*ing down I
his wrinkled cheeks; and pilipla lo-iked
up to that one box and gaveyiiin tbeVonly
smile that crossed her lips *.!> i irg the night.
But at length the curtain f- !1» amKjamillal
weary and worn, went upB|
room. Some one stood in
side-scene, and when she
to pass, caught her bv the
her out into the light.
“ Camilla, is it you ! Ha'
ingto my little girl all this gl
Speak to me. I am bewildered
“Mr. Clayering, when
Oh! Iam so glad, so v|
exclaimed.‘'w 1
'• Are you •iad 1
THE BIEAUCUAMP TRAGEDY.
Cincinnati Commercial.
i dressing-
shadow of a
} permission
i and drew
who, on jg
Jjf
-i-lQand tearful, said:
✓
ffhat is the matter !”
J ames x*.:
Surgeon, AeeouehSa.
(Ofict at Mr. Tnmnat ShcatM' Start,
Ion county. Vconji^ -
Oden his professional services to tho <
rounding country.
Jt Of hjllf the
*ff, and he rous-
.iglit snooze in
light and literally
f i and the children,
lighbor remarked
j in the street, he’d
brth strength and
iwner.”
.vas returning from
fii bread under one arm
and a violin nauu the other, when at tho
street door he stumbled and nearly fell
over a small object crouched on the step.
“Bless us! what’s thatr cried Paul,
striving to regain his equilibrium.
“Only me, sir!” and the small object
stood up and became a very pale, thin and
ragged child.
“ Are you hurt, little girl T”
“ No, sir.”
“ What are you doing out here in the
coldr
“ Nothing.”
“ Why don’t you go homer
“ I ain’t got any.”
“ Dear me! Where’s your mother !”
“In heaven!”
At this Paul was dumfounded, and see
ing that great tears were stealing down toe
child’s wan face, he thrust toe violin un
der toe arm which held toe bread, and put
ting the other around the tiny figure, he
said:
“ Oh! I’ve gota home—areal jolly place!
Come up and see!”
And thisis the way old Paul came to have
a neat little housekeeper, and to be buying
gowns and shoes out of his poor salary.
Tho winter of 186- came in like a lion, as
many a poor wretch well remembers, as
with the first blast came Paul s enemy. He
turned one night a sad face from his warm
corner iuBrettman’s shop among toe vio
lins, and hobbled up toe cold street, feel
ing toe approach of the old rheumatic pains
and wondering what would become of his
poor liltle Camilla.
His excitement carried him up to his last
flight of stairs, and hearing Caigilla’a voice,
he paused and to rest ana tb listen.
She was singing in that sweet and express
ive manner which made her voice seem to
him toe sweetest and purest he had ever
heard. At the end ofthe stanza she took
breath, and another voice said, “ Child, you
astonish me. Either I am a poor judge of
music or else your voice is the finest I ever
heard. You are right in preferring it to
anything else.”
An electric thrill shot through old Paul’s
frame and quickened his blood to a rapid
ity that quite carried away the rheumatic
pains, and in a twinkling he was up the
stairs and in his little attic.
He was terrified at toe sound of a man’s
voice, but toe sight of a handsome and pol
ished gentleman, with diamond studs in
his snowy linen, a heavy ring upon his dain
ty white hand unquestionable broadcloth
upon his back, in close conversation with
his Camilla, whose wondrous beauty bad of
late startled even his doll perception, was
more than Paul could bear.
He was a very small man—had been in
his youth—and now that time’s witherini
fingers had touched him, he was shrivel©
and dried lik6 withered fruit; but in his
virtuous indignation he puffed up to his
Mlest extent, and in Us falsetto voice
piped:
“ Camilla, how dare yon invite any one
herer
“ Oh, Uncle Paul! this is Mr. Clavering,
a gentleman whose—whose—”
“ Whose mother she saved from death.
Your niece, was passing through our crowd-
K elias,
• Attorney at Law, Franklin, X. C.
Practices In all the Court* of Western North Carolina,
n the Federal Court*. Claims collected In all part* of
State. aplfl—1
L I VERY, Peed & Htvle Stable,
QAXX A RKAYKS, Prop**, Athens, Ga.
WJ1 be found at their old stand, rear Franklin House build-
ins. Thomas street. Keep always on hand j^od turn-outs
and careful drivers.
Stock well cared for when entrusted to our care.
Stock on hand for sale at all times. dec2S—tf
his work i
c. rmutt.
E. 1*. HOWELL.
P eeples & howell,
Attorneys at Law,
90 and St, Kimball House, Atlanta, Ga.
Practice In the State aud Federal Courts, and attend regu
larly all the Courts in Atlanta, including the Supreme Court
of the State, and will argue cases upon briefs lor alwenl par
ties, on reasonable terms.
They also practice in tbe Conn* of tho counties conticnons
or accessible to Atlanta by Railroad. soptll
]) B. ADAIR, D. IT. H.,
IU (lalacarlllF, Ga.
Office, southeast corner Public Square.
I) S. ADAMS, M. D„
A. Sargtoa, Accoucheur and Physician.
Office at reatdeuce, Mountain District, Walton county, Gcor-
gi*—oil era hi* professional service, to the citixens of the sur-
.. utry.
rounding coontt
aogtt—ly
S AMUEL F. THURMOND,
Attorney at Law, Athens, Ga.
Office on Broad street, over the store of J. M. Barry—will
give special attention to cases In Bankruptcy. Also, to the
collection of all claims entrusted to his care.
J C. DOBBS,
J. Wholesale and Kctt.il Dealer iu
Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Groceries, Ac.
febO Lower end of Broad Street, Athens, Ga.
P G. THOMPSON,
Attorney at &aw. Wva ,
Office orer Barry* store. Special attention given to crhnl-
K ily to Kx-Oov. Thomas II.
outgomery, Alabama. febS
and lion. Darid Cloptoa, J
T A. SALE,
t Dentist, Athens, Go.
All operations on Teeth warranted to give satisfaction, in
work ted price*. Tcrma, very low for cash. Kooma orer
S. M. Office, Clayton street. aagll
.-J
msst ©. atofifluisnrv J’
CITY AUCTIONEBB,
, , 6T„ A TUSSS, GA
died. Furniture ask* every
Satuidy”*!.
W J
(J. RAY,
• ^Attorney And CounsellorjkLaw*
MONltOE, GBOBOIA.
ivwm give prompt attention to all business entrusted to
his care.
Book and Job Printer,
* ATBBSS, OA.
Comer Brand and Wan atroeta, (apwtalra.)
E. A.WILLIAMSON,
Pmtieel Watchmaker and Jeweler,
ATI
T Dr. Bing* Drag Store, Broad street, will execute an
‘tohlmlntha beatatyle, and at reasonable
porittoaty CASH.
Notice.
ffitny of my former patroos, I reanme
v A thanroctleaof Medjdnefrom thtedste. Idaalwtop*;
V eaoadri aOantlop to ffia Mmmm «d^mFAing and, CHfl.
DltEN, and the CHRONIC DISEASES OF FEMALES.
JuneM, Uih—janie
WM. KINO, M. D;
BOOT & SHOE
ESTABLISHMENT.
THE ndanlgnad lias a lot of flna droaa Bocfa. whfeh.hr
by mall or arprnaa Allw
railroad tickets
For aalc, by all routes, to all principal points In the
United States.
BoyyuqtTlekeUbeforeleavingAthcus, »dgtjm info. ed thOro
nmyfO Amtt Southern Express Co., Athens, oa. nagOureW U>
%
wait
away." — »-—■
“ You do not comprehend me. Well, it
better so. Perhaps two years later you
may understand me. Good-bye, Camilla.
Kiss me good-bye.”
It was a very quiet street, and so Camilla
lifted her head andkissedhim. In all proba
bility she wonld have kissed him in the main
thoroughfare as there, and I only mention
tho fact of toe street being a quiet one to
silence the startled propriety of those who
are shocked at the publicity of it.
Well, there they parted. He to go over
toe sea, she to remain at home and im-
1 irove tbe opportunities he had placed be-
1 ore her.
my mother’s car-
ent. Thehorees
fgi are going away!”
v -fy.ee grew sad
' 'kbs looked
*?e com-
Tuapdi
^tnld-
t ? was un-
ay, but will you
am not going to run
Wandering among toe graves iatoe Cem
etery at Frankfort, a correspondent of toe
Cincinnati Commercial found a dark, gray
monument hearing the name of Solomon
P. Sharp. The inscription states that he
“was assassinated while extending toe
band of hospitalitv, on toe morning of Nov.
7,1825, in toe thirty-eighth year of his age,”
with toe text added: “Whatthou knowest
not now, thou shalt know hereafter.”
CoL Sharp was, in his day, one of toe
foremost men of Kentucky. Daring the
administration 0 f James Madison he had
served two tonn&. bt. CoDgress, at which
time he was toe room-mate ana intimate
ing.
“ Yon do not mean
dreaming! I
“ You are here, wide awake, Camilla, and
I am asking you to love me and be my
wife.” , y
She drew away for a brief moment, and
laid her weary head within his arms. Then
she passed on to her dressing room, aud
when she returned, she put out her hand,
saying:
“ Oh! Bicliard, take me away ! I am
soul-sick of all this.”
“ And you will only sing—”
“ In your nest. Come, we must not for
get Uncle Paul. He is waiting iu the box
lor me.” 4
The box was near at hand, and in a mo
ment they stood near the door. It was
qjar, and Richard pushed it opeji to allow
Camilla to enter, and saw the 1 old man
sitting in one of the luxurious thairs, his
head lying back upon the soft cushions, and
his hands peacefully folded.
“ Uncle Paul!” cried Camilla. “ Why,
you naughty boy, you are fast asleep!
Come, it is time to go home. Ah!”
She started back with a cry, for the hand
that she touched was icy cold, and fell
back stiff and helpless.
“ Camilla, darling, come away; I will
attend to him.”
“ Oh, Richard !”
“Hush, love; beds beyond us*now.
Those strains of music have carried him to
heaven, from whence they came.”
The poor old man was dead. With toe
consummation of his heart’s wish, his qui
et, unpretending, unoffending life had pass
ed out into toe new existence.
There were largo growls in the music-
loving world, but nothing ever came of
them, for Richard Clavering removed their
singing bird so deftly that i
cause of her flight, and now
him, and to her brood of yoi
I w knew the
sings only to
ig Clavcrings.
GOOD-NIGIIT.
Apple blossoms fair and lovdy
1 with the dawning i
■ ik*r>r?r "s«4
■ o'er the i
Caught tbe sunshine in tbe bMic,
Held It In their petals bright,
Scattered perfume on the breezes,
Laughing, dancing, said Goo^Night
foiling In love with her, succeed
tainingher promise to become hisU
condition exacted by, her, hr -’*■
CoL Sharp. This promise
Fading blossoms, pure and i
Slowly flatter from tbe trces,|
Snowy petals Badly linger
Playing with the evening bn
Drifting, floating, falling ever.
Fairy angels robed in white,
Hid among the dewy grasses,
Softly, sadly, sighed Good-Night.
The great heart of the music-loving pub
lic was agitated with mingled emotions of
joy, pride, astonishment and awe. A new
songstress had been criticised, picked over
piecemeal, ground down to the finest point,
dissected, examined through toe most
perfect musical microscope, and pronounc
ed perfect
And now the manager of a first class,
fashion-patronised theatre had engaged her
for a single night at an almost fobulous sum,
and toe world was to hear her voice.
The night came. The theatre was crowd
ed from pit to roof. The orchestra pealed
forth a grand overture, toe expectantcrowd
filled toe air with perfume, and soft mur
murs of whispering voices and rustling
silks arose in a subdued sound; and then
the broad curtain rolled up and disclosed
toe elegantly fitted stage.
Suddenly there was a hush in the vast
building, and eyes grew bright with eager
anticipation as from toe wing came the
debutante.
A tall, graceful girl, with gleaming shoul
ders, and white, perfectly shaped arms,
with a crown of purple, black hair upon
toe regal head, with great dark eyes scan
ning toe crowd, and then, with almost
childish shyness, veiling them beneath toe
long lasses; a mouth, soft, tender and
beautiful, and a cheek as fair as toe pure
white satin of her sweeping robe; and they
had seen the long talked of and highly prais
ed beauty.
A roar like toe rushing of distant waters
sounded in her ears, and then swelled into
a thunder of applause, and coming slowly
down in toe splendor of the footlights, her
beautiful head erect, her eyes glowing with
excitement, her beauty enhanced by toe
elegance of her costume, Camilla, toe poor
little waifi toe child of poor
the protege of proud Richard Clavering, re^
ceived the homage of toe assembled crowd.
When the acclamations had ceased, the
orchestra began a soft symphony, and then
through toe building echoed the dear, pure
notes of a voice that sounded far away,
dreamy, mystic voice, full of hope, of don
of pain. Nearer, still nearer it sounded,
and hope had drowned the doubts, but yet
a plaint!ve sorrow seemed to remain. It
came nearer and nearer, and toe sorrow
was a half expectant, trembling glimpse of
something better: and then suddenly toe
strange voice broke forth in a triumphal
strain, and listeners held their breath as
the wondrous notes rang oat aponthe air
and then died away.
For a moment a deathly silence reigned
but it was for a moment only, and then the
building virated with a crash of enthu
siasm that came from toe music crazed au
dience. Men arose in their seats, and hun
By and by, alone and lonely,
Leaves and blossoms withered—dead,
Will the trees seem robed in sorrow,
Monrning for their beauty fled.
But from out the barren branches,
Kindly veiled in winter’s white,
Hopeful of the coming spring tima,
Sweet-tuned voices breathe Good-Night.
We are waiting for the spring time—
Dark and drear may be the day—
Still our wistful eyes are turning
To the “ sometime**—far away.
So we sink to rest, still trusting,
Sleep to dream of morning light,
Where the flowers shall bloom forever,
Where we ne’er shall say Good-Night.
13?“A Yankee and a Frenchman owned a
pig iu copartnership. When killing time
came they wished to divide the meat. The
Yankee was very anxious to divide so that
he would get both hind quarters, and per
suaded the Frenchman that toe proper
way to divide was to cut it aerq^the back.
Tho Frenchman agreed to it, on condition
that the Yankee would turn his back and
take choice of the pieces after it was cut in
two. The Yankee turned his back, and
toe Frenchman asked:
“ Vich piece will you have—ze piece wid
ze tail on him, or ze piece vat ain’t
taill”
“ The piece with toe tail,” replied toe
Yankee.
“ Den, by gar, you can take him along,
and I take ze oder one,” said toe pleased.
Frenchmm.
Upon taming around, toe Yankee found
that the Frenchman had cut off IfeQJail and
stuck it into the pigs mout!
-conveyed to his wife toe^ntelligenceof toe
^•Somebody has been inqmrtn^of fot? deed accomplished by waving his handker-
asto toe authorship of the expression:
“ The schoolmaster is abroad.” Lord Broug
ham is supposed to be toe author. On a
certain occasion that worthy said: Let
the soldier be abroad if he will; he can do
In one of toe boxes, above the one where
w uo- 10 to havE declared that
was “ toe oldest man of his age that had
ever crossed the mountains.” He had pre
viously been several times elected, to toe
Kentucky Legislature, and under Governor
Adair was Attorney-General ofthe State.
At the time of his death he had settled in
Frankfort as a very successful lawyer, but
bad recently been again elected to the Le
gislature as the champion of the “ relief par
ty.” The “ relieP and “ anti-relief’ contro
versy, of which I shall not attempt to sketch
a history, had been for sometime agitating
the State, and the fact that Col. Sharp was
regarded as a chief exponent of the relief
movement, and that the session of the Le
gislature was to begin on toe day following
his assassination, lent a peculiar emphasis
to the excitement that followed. The sto
ry of his death, with its cause and conse
quences, I have learned from several co-
temporary personal sources. But first let
me say, fronting the capitol square in
Frankfort, on its northern side, and only a
few steps eastward from Frankfort and
Louisville railway, is a large, dark, red-col
ored brick mansion, three stories inheight,
extending far back, with ample accommo
dations for the slave help of “ the good
old times.”
This house is perhaps sixty years old,
and was the house of Col. Solomon P.
Sharp in 1835. A few years previous,
Sharp had met a young lady named Ann
Eliza Cook, and
HE HAD SEDUCED HER.
She a was young lady of good family, of
fair cultivation, with some literary talent.
He met her at a party, I believe, and
it was under toe excitement of toe dance
and the wine perhaps, that Miss Cook yield
ed herself to him. After her disgrace be
came known she had secluded herself at
home, but it seems that a young lawyer
named Jeroboam 0. Beauchamp, also of re-
was made by Beauchamp that his wife
might be permitted' to remain with him
alone in his cell (it seems they were ten
derly engaged to each other,) for toe pur
pose of their last leave-taking, and this
privilege was granted. After a while, as
the time fixed for execution was at hand,
toe officers entered toe prison.cell and
found the wife dying with the wound of a
penknife in her breast, and the husband
himself also fatally stabbed. They bad
DETERMINED TO ELUDE THE LAW, .
and die together. But as toe time for toe
execution had come, Beauchamp was taken
in his dying condition out upon toe scaffold
and hung. The bodies of the husband and
wife were,removed to their home and bur
ied together. Subsequently this tragic ro
mance of real life was made toe basis of a
novel which was largely bought up, it is
about
by John Savagq, the Irish p<wt, founded on
the Beauchamp history, an* was on the
point of being produced at Louisville.
“I was at toe-LouiSVille theatre that
night, I remember,” a lady in Kentucky
told me; “it was in 1858. The theatre
was very full. I forget the name of toe
play, but it was understood that Avona
Jones was to have the principal part.
“Thecurtain was about to rise; every
body was in expectation, when it was an
nounced that a change of the programme
had been determined upon, and the “Bride
of Lammermoor,” I believe—some thing,
at least, from one of Walter Scott’s novels
was played instead. Governor Morehead,
it was understood, had come down on the
evening train from Frankfort, just in time
to prevent the play, offering a large sum
of money on behalf of the Sharp family to
have it withdrawn and not produced in
Kentucky. There was great excitement;
many insisting on leaving the theatre and
having their admission money refunded, I
remember.”
CHAXCELLOB KENT'S PBBDICAHEHT.
HOW A BACKWOODSMAN CAUGHT HIM IN AN
EQUIVOCAL SITUATION.
Buffalo Courier.)
Early in June, 1814, Chancellor Kent and
his wife, in a private carriage, left their
home in the city of New York, on a tour
to toe “ County of Genesee,” as Western
New York was then called. At that time,
though the dtstance did not exceed 370
miles, the journey was more toilsome, pro
tracted and dangerous than a trip from
New York to Oregon now is. On the fifth
day out they lost their way, and, night com
ing on, believed themselves doomed to
spend it in the open forest, -exposed to all
But just as Kent
you are now. Yoh’re Sam Flicker, that
used to court my wife, as I heard tell.
Now, BVcker, what have you got to sny
for yourself you cuss t”
“My name is not Flicker, It is Janies
Kent. I am toe Chancellor ot the State of
New York. That is my wife, Bessie, that
is in toe bed there. Your wife 4s up stairs
ail right _Thereis your supper oa toe ta
in a hurried manner. ■
Just at this moment the wife of toe back
woodsman, who had been awakened by
the disturbance below, put her head
through .the opening, and calling to her
husband, said: “BUI, stop that racket
down there. I am up stairsall right,. Those
people were lost and came here to rest
and get something to eat Eatyoursup-
per and come uf> here to bed; don’t make
such a bear of yourself. Iflhsdn’tbeeu
- • • a Wiiiilir
m
wouldn’t happened.” This addless Drought
matters to a proper understanding. The
man apologized tor his hastiness. Said he
“ didn’t believe his wife was thfltkind of a
woman, although at first, things looked
awfnUy against her; besides he knowed
Sam Flicker was a cuss.”
The chanceUor went to. bed. The man
sat down to his supper, and when it was
finished retired quietly to his bed up stairs;
and soon all toe inmates ofthe house were
wrapt in slumber. The next morning the
hostess prepared her guests a comfortable
breakfast. Her man repeated his apologies
ofthe lastnight, gave them careful direc
tions regarding their road, and with many
good wishes, bade them adieu.
cj its horrors and dangers.
spectabie family, happened to see her r.’ ^J^'-^OUght his horses to a halt, a light sud
£.ii: 1 :1 i ' L - ' rrlnemml mif fhn 1 ntoretiPHC Kn
raized.
“ What’s toe matter, Bobf’
/ Sam, who am IT
“Why, you are yourself, Bob Harrison,
ain’t youT
“ No, far from it”
“ Why, what’s the matter P
“ Well, sir, Fm so mixed up I don’t know
who I am.”
“ Don’t take it so hard to heart”
“I ain’t; Fm taking it in my handker
chief.”
“ WeU, sir, what’s toe matter P
“ Why, I am married.”
“Married! Hal ha! ha! Why,sir,you
should be happy.”
“ Yes, but I ain’t”
“ Why, aU married men are supposed;
be happy.”
“ Yes, but how many are so P -
“ Well, sir, as I said before, don’t take
so hard—teU us aU about it”
“ WeU, Sam, FII teU you how it is. You
866 Uf a widder, and this widder
ha#^ ^
' ^ow it is 5 yon have bee
dauerhter.”
s. gleamed out of toe interstices be-
V9. trees, a short distance ahea<^
w nward once moi
remained alive. Perhaps __
have passed and been forgottei
toe seduction been mentioned asr^
Sharp’s character dining toe warm*'
cal campaign in which he was elected ...
the Legislature. On this charge being
brought against him, CoL Sharp treated it
slightly and stated in pubUc, it is said, that
a certificate was in evidence that this child
born of Miss Cook
HAD A BLACK FACE.
This added insult to the original injury, and
the secret writing of Beauchamp’s promise
came out distinctly at his breath. The
Sunday evening before toe General Assem
bly met, Beauchamp (who Uved in another
part of the State) entered Frankfort, and,
finding the hotels fuU, put up at toe pri
vate house of a gentleman named Scott,
two or three squares South of Sharp’s res
idence. Late at night he went around to
toe house where Sharp resided—toe large,
old brick which I have mentioned—and,
going to toe side door (though others say.
it was to toe front door,) he knocked.
Sharp was awakened and asked who was
there. Beauchamp answered by giving toe
name ot one familiar to Sharp—in another
part of toe State, where the latter former
ly lived—but changing toe second initial
of this person’s name, saying, “ John A.
Covington,” and requesting to see him on
important business.
“ I know John W. Covington,” said Sharp,
deliberately opening the door and advanc
ing into the open air and darkness.
Beauchamp at once fitted a mask which
he wore, saying:
“ Don’t you know me, Colonel P
“ My God! It’s B ,” exclaimed Sharp,
but did not succeed in pronouncing his en
emy's name before toe latter struck him
with his left hand, and
STABBED HIM TO THE HEART
with his right. CoL Sharp wasfound dead
on the doorstep. Beauchamp returned to
his lodging and left town early in toe morn
ing, without being suspected, I beUeve. It
is related that on approaching his home he
^fpparenti^L^7®l~^t^Mi
. candle in her hand, comes’
^6od woman, myself and my wife,
-r-y u
nothing in this age. There is another per
sonage abroad, a person less imposing—in
toe eyes of some insignificant The school
master is abroad; and I trust to him, arm
ed with the primer, against the soldier in
fuU uniform arrayed.” Possibly some writ
er used this expression before Brougham,
but we are disposed to give him credit of
its paternity. It may be well to note that
he does not use it in the sense oHfce school
master's being absent* as many do, but in
the sense of his being present, .everywhere
disseminating knowledge. The word
abroad is frequently used in this sense in
toe Bible: “The love of God is shed abroad
in our hearts,” etc.
jyButler’s office was lately invadi
says toe Boston Herald, by a gayly-dress
young man, between whom and the Gen
eral the foUowing conversation ensued:
“WelL Mr. B., what wonld be toe first
thing for me to do in order to learn toe pro
fession P Uncle Benjamin fixed bis weath
er eye upon toe nobby-dressed young man,
and surveyed him from his flashy necktie
to his highly polished boots, aud exclaim
ed: “ The first thing yon had better do
would be to go and roU in a bom-yard.”
An answer came as quick as the suggestion
in the following terse language: “If I
should come and study two years in your
office, wouldn’t it do just as weU P
chief in the distance.
The death of CoL Sharp produced a pro
found sensation in Frankfort and through
out the State. The Legislature offered
83,000 for toe detection and apprehension
of the murderer. There was a disposition
to make political capital out ofthe affair,
too, I am told, and to make beUeve the as
sassination to have been in the interest of
the anti-reUef party. One of toe Frankfort
editors of toe time was darkly charged
with accessory knowledge—and some were
not indisposed, I beUeve, to have him ar
rested. It was through this editor, I have
been told—I think toe name was Darby—
that Beauchamp was finally pointed out and
arrested, Sharp’s fondly, it is said, showing
an indisposition to touch him and thus
make hopelessly pubUc the cause of his act.
But Beauchamp was finaUy brought to trial,
and ,
SENTENCED TO BE HUNG.
Daring the interval between toe sentence
and its execution, great efforts were made
in his behalf, delegations of ladies dressed
in mourning even going to the Governor,
and a son of the Governor, Isaac B. Desha,
was imprisoned at toe time, convicted of a
highway robbery near Haysville. It was
presumed young Desha would.be pardoned
—as he afterward was—and it was urged
that toe Govemormightdoa gracious thing,
lightening the selfish act of clemency by
pardoning Beauchamp and his son togeth
er. Bathe was inflexible. PoUtical re
venge, perhaps, it is said, had to be grati
fled.
The day of execution came. A short
1 time before the hour designated, request
i
_ ..'y in the carriage with me, are trav
eling on our way to Canandaigua, but we
have lost toe road; night is upon us, and
we can go no further. Can you give 1 us
shelter for the night, some supper, and
something for our horses F’ asked Kent
“ We are poor folks,” said toe woman,
and Fm alone. My man is chopping over
in toe BUlings settlement, three miles oft’,
and he won’t be home in an hour. You
are strangers and I don’t but you look
like respectable people, and I guess you
can stay here. I’ll give you something to
eat if it ain’t quite so good, and I’ll fodder
your horses, too. Your woman there had
better get out and come in, wlnle 1 put the
horses in the stable.”
Mrs. Kent obeyed. The horses were
unharnessed, led to toe stable and fed.
In a short time toe woman prepared a
homely, but acceptable supper for her
guests. When toe meal was finished she
said
“ I s’pose you’re tired and want to go to
bed. That’s our bed in toe comer there,
but you can sleep in it to-night. I and my
rdnn can sleep overhead. I’ll jest set his
supper on the table; when he comes in
he’ll eat it, but he won’t disturb you. Then
he’U come up to where I am at.” T
So saying she placed her evening’s re
past on toe table, lit another candle, then
ascended a ladder leading to a sortof scut
tle-hole, through which she crawled. In
a few minutes she was in bed lost in sleep.
The travelers also retired to rest. “ Tir
ed nature” hurried them swiftly on to the
land of dreams. Suddenly the chanceUor
started up, exclaiming:
“ Bessie, that outside door is not fasten
ed. Presently toe man of the house wiU
return, and seeing me here in bed with
you, he wUl of course think you are his
wife, and, Bessie, he won’t relish that. Be
ing a wood-chopper, be wlU Jmve his ax
with him, and before I can explain mat
ters, toe chanceUor of toe State' wiU stand
a pretty good chance to be chopped to
pieces—not a pleasant thing to think o£
Bessie.”
“ It is a had matter. WfaQehe is chop
ping yon up, he may include me in the ex
ercise. What can you do f ’ said Mrs. Kent.
“I teU you, Bessie, what FUdo. Ftt
push that table against the door. When
toe man comes it wiU take him some time
to remove. When he is doing so I can ex
plain matters to him,” said toe chancellor.
Accordingly he arose, took hold of the
table to push it against toe door. While
in the act he heard heavy footsteps ap
proaching; toe next instant a man of gigan-
ticsize, in his shirt-sleeves, wearing a bear
skin cap on his head, pushed the door
open and entered the room. The first ob
ject that greeted his sight was the chan
ceUor, with nothing on him but his shirt.
Glancing at toe bed, he saw, as he sup
posed, his wife there, and toe situation be
came painfuUy apparent to him.: Furious
with jealousy, he exclaimed:
“ Why the devil are you in my house in
your shirt-tail, this time of night ! Damn
you, I’ve caught you, whoever yon are.”
“ It’s all right, my good sir,” said Kent*
trying to explain
I am—”
“ AU right! all right! You be ; damned,”
thundered toe man. “ I see—didn’t expect
me home. Thought you’d festen me out
when I did come—was going to have things
all your own way here, hey!”
“ Pray let me explain, sir,” said the chan
ceUor. “ Myself and my wife there—”
“ Yourwife l Your wife! Good heavens!
what a, hold cuss youare. Iknowwho
occurred to you what a com
mentary upon our civilization are these lost
women, and the attitude of society towards
them! A Utile chUd strays from the home
enclosure, and the whole community is on
the alert to find toe wanderer and restore
it to its mother’s arms. What rejoicing
when it is found, wbat tearful sympathy,
what heartiness of congratulations! There
are no harsh comments upon tired feet, be
they ever so miry, uo reprimand for the.
soUed and tom garments, no lack of kisses
for toe tear-stained foce. But let the child
be grown to womanhood, let her be led
from it by the scourge of want—what hap
pens then! 13 o,
Do Christian men and women go in quest
of her! Do they provide aU possible help
for her return, or if she return of her own
notion, do they receive her with such kind
ness and delicacy as to secure her against
wandering ! Far from it. At the first step
she is denounced as lost—lost! echo friends
and relatives—we disown you ; don't ever
come to disgrace us. Lost, says society
indifferently^ How bad these giris- am
And lost—irretrievably lost—is too prompt ‘
verdict of conventional moraUty, while one
and aU unite in bolting every door between
her and respectability. Ah, wfll not those
lost ones be required at our hands here
after T—Mrs. Burleigh,
see
mother, ain’t
is my grand-
1'married to
me my own
IVoteworthyParagraph 8
CivUization is gaining ground in
under Alfonso. There ore 500
for the position of pubUc exec
Barcelona. :;t Ltofite
. .The Ceylon Government is trying to
prevent the capture of elephants, and the
price of frnh ahitnals h&s gone up to Si,000 •>
gold.
..AaronAlpeoriaBradley, the old Wa- '
hoo, in a recent case preferred against him
in Charleston, plead insanity and was dis
charged.
. .British Columbia will send a flag pole
140 feet long, composed of a single tree
to toe Centennial. ■ • ;
. .The cotton report of the Agricultural
Department, at Washington, for September,
is more favorable than many persons ex
acted. With a late frost, the crop bids
,ir to touch, if it does not exceed 4,000,000.
The greatest depth ofthe Pacific Ocean; ‘
as found by toe British ship ChaUenger,’
was about five miles.
It is stated that about ninety per cent,
of the cigars used in this country are home
made, while'most of them bear mongrel
Spanish names for the deception of smokers.
..Hezekiah Leard, who died recently in
Augusta, Me., was toe fattest man in that
State, and required a coffin thirty inches
broad, twenty inches deep, andsixfeet two
inches long.
..St. Louis proposes to pay off the na
tional debt at the expense of toe dogs,
which are said to represent a waste of
880,000,000 a year.
..Real estate has depreciated on Man
hattan island. New York, four hundred
miUions of dollars, or 40 per cent since the
panic of 1873.
. .The Alabama convention now in ses
sion at Montgomery, is composed of 58
lawyers, 34 farmers, 4 merchants aud three '
negroes. $$
..There is a very general impression
that Democratic stock iu Ohio has gone up M
-steadily- since-the Maine election.—New
York Trib
