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“VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF LIFE.”
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Walton county haa a double-tailed *o»t.
T» o Alabanraplphfe horn* two lachca Ion*J
Bon-Hill* tongue >u dipped without Iota of
blood. ~S • y'T r\ (~\ £
The Messiah Is expected by the MahWm
dans this year ___
Two eases of small-pox are reported near
AmeriCT> VffNw-| t t: 1 t j r\ £7 r
ltologna sausage Is the link that u idles nan
with tha bode, , . ■' - A * — LA
Tlie stock law is working like a chanu In
Rockdale county. .
and limed hlsbrother.'
Georgia, under a new apportionment, Wltl
gain a Congressman. t f.
the FIT OF DEATH AT PETERSBURG.
A lHUe boy in Lee county, 0a., fired at a bird A Death Trap Which- Caught Four
Thousand Foderala.
n
even watchful soldiera would regard
the i
Two negroes lately died In Shelby ville.Tonn.,
each aged 110 years
The Staked Plains of Texas, once a desert,
bloom like agsrdeu now.
The wages of the State Road employees have
been cut down Jo per cent. F »
Some planters in Southwest Georgia have
commenced planting corn.
The French cat their jackasses, and the Amsrr-
eau select thorn to office.
Tappan A to., largo mcrchaulaof White Plains
in Greene county, have failed.
Dakota will probably be admitted soon for tbs
btnsflt of the Republican party.
Something Ukc a greeu graaahopperla devour
ing tho wheat lu Coweta county.
A woman awaiting trial with other Nihilists
at St. Petersburg has gone mad.
in^ kitfw,30*h(ill would be UrOakirt. ijbltdrjufc WM handled by the burial I
dav. It would also be the.hour_whgp. party which waa not. Jilt more than ,
era of t|
once, and many of them^
five and six til
vft. \'.nea.%JhA m-7
ieo'
or four
The burraekfc ground in Atlanta waa (old on
Tueatlay to John 11. James for $41,000.
A hill ha* been introduced in <’ongrets to re
duce letter pontage from three to two cent*.
Those who think that money willdo anything
may !>e suspected of doiug anything for money.
Mutilated silver coins Will ho bought by «n-
)H*rintendents of mints at the rate of one dollar
Mr. linrnum has a baby elephant and he pays
ll.uoo a week to have its life iusured one year
for $300,000.
A Toledo eiitht-year-old boy Iniupht a mous
tache cup for his mother or. Christmas because
she had a hair Up.
Kxperiment* made with sugar beets In Whit
man county. Oregon, result in a yield of 5.000
pounds to the acre.
A .Southwest Georgia man had a cow to give
birth too, calf December 15th last, and another
on Jtuh of January.
In 150 lodging houses grouped abont Five
Points, New York, over 0.000 of the poorest hu-
msnity is cribbed every night.
The water from the artesian well at Albany,
G*.. is hot. We always thought there was a
near cut to hades through Albany.
A Hoboken woman was too modest to roll up
her sleeve to be vaccinated, but desired the
doctor to cut a hole in her dress.
for signs of the crater. Away to' the
left and high In air are the buzzards
sailing in slow circles. I found them
at Rharpshurg, at Winchester, af
Malvern Hill, at Cedar Creek—I saw
them hovering over a score of battle
fields. That was the first tiling X look
ed for as I rode along the dusty high
way towards the lighting ground.
When the buzzards could be seen there
was no need to ask forthor Informa
tion. At Malvern Hill there were a
hundred of them fluttering over the
field where the oorpeest had lain thick
est. At Cedar Creek I could have kill
ed them as they eat on the breast
works and uttered their horrible cries.
At Cbaneellorsville I droveone oft the
the stone erected to the memory of
Stonewall Jackson, and over In the
field whore a blackened chimney, rot
ting cannon wheels and hillocks of'
earth mark the sj>ot where Hooker
mussed his guns, halfa hundred of the
croaking birds disputed the ground
with me. -*■ " w .
TIIK CRATER.
And so, turning to the left, I ride
down a foot-patli running between a
cotton and a peanut field and find my
self at length in front of a hill covered
with pine and peach trees. This hill
is the crater. When once you have
ciirabed its sides It is no longer a hill.
You look down into an irregular hol
low a hundred and fifty feet long by
from twenty to forty broad, and that
hollow will live forever In our war
history as the crater. Woods, grass
and the young peach and pine trees
hide much of the horror of the spot,
but one who has time to tarry can
place everything as it wasoir that
morning of July 30th, 1864, when it
wns a hole twenty-five feet deep and
full of dead and wounded Federal».
ade of LAdlie’a division had niafichod
silently down front the pine fqrest and
i>f the farm muskets with
bullets imbedded in the stocks, gun-
barrels with flattened ballets welded
The difference between a fint-clasi e sthete
nml u flnt-elaea fool is. that it takes Juki twice
as many letter* lo spall irsthete.
Oglethorpe lost week voted fence, 1,007; no
fence, JS4. <'rawford and Bairdstown were the
only preclnrtathr.f voted no fence.
Wmle Ottinger accidentally killed hla brother
Fl.od at Greenville. Tcnn., last week by run
ning a pilch-fork through his neck.
The County Commissioners of Bibb have le-
s.dved to issue no more lieenaes for the aaleof
li-inor outside the limits of Macon.
An Amerieus farmer caught a negro In a boa.
vor trap, who wns rohbing hla potato hank. Tho
thief .aid lie was walking in hla sleep.
A youth named Harry Gee, nineteen years
old, married a middle-aged woman with three
children, at Chattanooga the other day.
Tea distilleries were tclxed in Gilmer county
last week by Deputies Witt and 11 if zdraw, and
two thousand gallons of beer destroyed.
it l« not because a woman la exactly afraid of
a cow that she runs away and screams. It ia he-
cause gored dresses arc not fashionable.
A man running for office in Iowa waa detect
ed drinking water and was defeated by the bif-
get majority ever known in the district.
The Isw of hanging In the District of Colnm-
Ida is the Maryland law. If Gulteau Is hang he
will he hung in chains and not by arope.
A charter has been obtained and a strong
company organized to cut a large ditch on the
east side of chestatee river. North Georgia.
A Texas Judge knocked >tx month! off a 99
years' sentence, in order to show the prisoner's
friends tlint lie was willing to give hla a (how.
Mr*. Tankcrslcy, a lady in Cherokee county,
A!*., ’tm* murdered by her two nephews for
the money she had saved, and her remains
burned with lier house.
A Now York tourist who ate an aligatorbeef
steak in Florida didn't get the taste out of hls
mouth until he had eaten a peck of onions and
pint of assorted guanos.
There aro three prominent phases of a wo
man's life all visibly cot neeted: As n baby
she's lugged; aa a young woman'! ihe a nagged
as a wife she's humbugged.
A gang of eight youths, ranging in age from
sixteen to twenty-two, brutally assaulted an old
lady, sixty years of age. named Bridget Callag
han. near Shenandoah, Pa.
Misers are queer creatures. One of them,
woman In Boston, starved herself to death one
day last week, and yet aha had <*.900 in cash do-
' posited in one of the pity banka.
Deputy Collector G. W. Ware slates that a m
inor baa gained circulation to the effect that the
body of Wm. Rice waa found near a distillery in
Gwinnett county, cut nearly In twain.
There waa a brutal prize fight last week In
Mississippi between Sullivan and Ryan, two
New York roughs. SuUivan was the champion.
About (J.VOOO changed hands on the remit,
A rich man and a poor .man had a litigation
over a eow In Alabama some time since. In the
end the roala amounted to 41,000, the poor man
being utterly Impoverished, and tha rich one
moving away to get rid of the afTair.
When the "Independent," so-called, begin!
rail and eject hit saliva at Bourbons and Bour-
bontsm, it is not to be understood that he ia
ferrlng lo the county in Kentucky where a cele.
hrntod brand ol whisky la largely manufsetnr*
ed. Not much.
THE MINE.
Tho mino can be traced from the cra
ter to the spot where the Fetlerals
turned tho first sod. The long gallery
is marked l>y a caving in of the earth,
and the shaft has caved in and filled
up nntil one would not know what it
waa. flight at this point, and what
first suggested the idea of the mine,
the lines are so close together that one
can stand at the eruter and hurl
peach-stone into the thicket where the
Federal pickets were stationed. At
no other point in the lines around Pe
tersburg were Federal and Confeder
ates able to look Into each others’ eyes,
It is hardly twenty steps ncross the
cotton-field to the edge of tho thicket,
and here for months not a hand could
be raised that a dozen bullets did not
whiz for it. When there was no fir
ing, the Confederates in the fort and
the Federals in the thicket could con
verse in ordinary tones of voice.
When Qrantswungaround he push
ed on until Lee checked him, and then
stopped right there and began intren
ching. This 1 made a very irregular
line. At the crater the Federals held
the thicket along the creek, the rail
road behind it and the forest still fur
ther back. -Hardly eighty rods above
the Confederates held the same thick
et, creek and rail mad track. -
THE ORIGINATOR.
It is said the idea of tunneling un
der the six-gun Confederate fort at
this point originated with a Pennsyl-
anla miner who was serving in one
of the regiments in Burnside's corps.
A lieutenant in a New York infantry
regiment is also mentioned, and had
the mine been a success probably a
dozen men would have stepped for
ward to claim the honor. No matter
who carried the idea to Burnside, he
grasped at it. War means horrible
wounds and slckeniug sights and
death in a dozen terrible forms, hut in
a war between civilized nations men
do not look upoli such weapons as
mines with much favor. A direct at-
drawn upin column for assault, with- to thorn, and dozens of other evidences
in half-pistol shot of the fort; other! to prove the truth of the words of one
brigades followed, and in the gray of 1 of the Federals who came out alive:
morning there stood liurnsido’s whole ! “If there Is any hell hotter than
corps in battle line, eferj man know- your old rebel crater, X don’t want to
ing of the mine and every man believ- j get wlthina million goalies of It.’!
ing that success was sure. The last
regiment down had been standing in !
line half an hour when the ators pal- ‘
ed, a dim light crept over tho fields,
and men whispered to each other that
they cotildsee the flagon the fort. The
moment had come for the explosion
and a wholocorps was trembling with
excitement.
* THE FIRST BLUNDER.
Men who had planned, excavated
and placed the powder could surely be
trusted to lay the fuse andlight it, but
either fear or carelessness upset tho
whole plan. The fuse burned a .little
way and thou the fire died out. Day
light came faster and grow broader.
From being barely able to discern the
flag flying over the sleepless fort, the
soldiers could, at length, sec the roofs
and spires of Petersburg, a mile and a
half away, fleveille was sounded all
along the Confederate lines wtyeu a
volunteer descended the shaft, replac
ed the fuse and made sure of his work.
the explosion.
There first came a slight heaving of
the earth, then a sinking down, and
all at once tho fort rose in n cloud of
flame and smoke, anil the ground
shook for a mile around. Even before
the sod and dirt had ceased failing the
New York Fourteenth Artillerymen
were (lashing into tlie cloud of smoke,
closely followed by a whole brigade.
WHAT THEY sAw.
As the men rushed for the spot
where the fort had stood they found
the ugly hole which lias since been
known as tlie Crater. The burned,
blackened and mangled bodies of
nearly 600 Confederates were lying in
and around the pit. some half buried
In the dirt, some gusping in agony,
and some crushed to pulp under the
heavy guns which had followed them
into the air and fallen back to earth
with an awful thud. The fort had been
swept away, and here was the gaji,
but to dass through Lee’s lines the
Federals must jump down those rug
ged banks, clamber over tliat horrible
debrit, and scramble up a height of
twenty-five feet and reform. Those
who had planned the destruction of
tlie fort had not planned this horrible
death-trap for Federal soldiers, hut "it
was to prove one just tlie same.
“forward! forward!’
AVild with excitement the officers
eried "Forward!” and company after
companyand regiment afterregiment
tumbled into the pit on one side and
tried to climb out on the other. All
organization was at once lost,and the
horrible sights in the pit dampened
all enthusiasm. It was a mob in the
Crater—a shouting, struggling mob,
and when one got out three fresh men
charged in as the assaulting column
advanced.
IT WAS A SURPRISE
to the Confederates, even when so
many were awuke and daybreak had
come. Had the explosion taken place
as planned, Lee's lines would have
brokeu. As it was, tlie men in tlie
two flanking forts were so dumb
founded anil dazed by the shock that
not a gun was fired until the rumble
of Grant’s cannon had gone down his
lines and back anti the Crater was full
of Federals. Then the Confederates
realized the situation and acted quick
ly. The fort was gone, but tlie paral
lels had not been disturbed. Moving
to the threatening point from right to
left they soon had force enough toitoid
the gap. Indeed they soon held tlie
JtraaBs^lbwitz, one V
of tiw brief but burningTtusslali i
mer. Repletion may have had some
thing to do with the heavy, buflhlo-
like glare of hls eyes, as he lounged
moodily upon ■ s carved and gilded
couch,..teasing his limbs into
tsiqiie knots, after the fasliior
pliable acrobats who pack th<
into hampers or violoncello cases.
Ivan was a gross feeder. He rather
favore$Me*Co8sackL stylo, afoowhary;
nor, if we are to believe the private
reminiscences of some of his' cotem-
poraries, were the strong preparations
of the Kalmuck epicures'altogether
excluded from his table. Hls break
fasts wCtti heterogeneous if not whole
some. Ixibster, boiled in. a peculiar
and highly flavored oil, was hia favor
ite dish. Several kinds of hot bread,
caviare, sausages, and pickled shell
fish, formed tlie staple of. Ills morn
ing repasts; and when we add that all
these were washed down with large
draughts of sour milk strongly im
pregnated with arrack, It will be read-
yoti tlie mi mb
mlyaifoctedlfy tin
dyspepsia. On tills account Ivan re
quired amusements of a stimulating
kind to prevent him from failing into
a state of lethargy that might have
been prejudicial Kidds health.
Ivan had just breakfasted, and rais
ing himself on one elbow and ringing
violently the silver bell' that stood
upon a purple velvet cushion near his
right bund, he sat up and glared about
him like a roused hyena.
In the corner, close by hls couch,
there was a rack containing various
weapons, of curious form and rare
workmanship. From his rack he drew
his favorite instrument, which was a
long and heavy staff of lignum vita;,
mounted with silver and provided
with a short, sharp spike at ihe thick
end- With this blade he had a spor
tive way of pricking his attendants,
to whom the hateful club was known
as “Devilspike.
“What prisoners are in from Livo-
via'Ahis morning?" asked Ivan,
wouhding slightly with Devilspike
the knee of the wretched aid-de-camp
in waiting who came to his summons.
“May it please your Imperial Maj-.
esty,” he replied, “a detachment-ar
rived last night with twelve officers
of rank in irons, eight of them are Li
vonians; the other four are captains
of the Finland army.”
“Good!" grunted Ivan, witli a boar-
ish toss of his head. "The physicians
tell me that violent exercise is indis
pensable to my health. Tell the caj>-
tain of the guard to man the foot
plank and make all ready for a walk
in.’’
The “foot plank’! was a sort of gang
way rigged out from tlie jetty in the
rear of the main guard house, in such
a way as to project over the water at
a downward slope. What a "walk in”
meant we shall presently see.
The path leading from the guard
htiuse to the river was lined by a row
of soldiers on each side, the lines ex
tending down the hand rail of the
walking plank. So deep was the si
lence that the word “attention!” giv
en by the officer^ command broke
upon the ear like .tlie bqrst of sltell.
Then a band of huge brass horns, sta
tioned in the front yard, boomed out
on the calm summer air witli solemn
strains of a funeral march, and the
twelve prisoners were. inarched out
frtyn the cell attached to the guard
house, hare headed and witli their
arms pinioned behind. Each of them
had a four pound cannon ball swath-
en upon hls chest with" strong' band
ages of canvas, and they were drawn
up In single file at the head of the av-.
eflue formed by. the soldiers.
Now Ivan appeared upon the scene,
poising Devilspike lightly between
finger and thumb, ns he approaolted
the prisoners.'^ >»
“By my faith, a brave looking lot!”
he exclaimed, os he walked aloug the
rank of the condemned twelve, pok
ing in his redoubtable baton here and
there, and sometimes bringing It down
on the head of a victim with affected
playfulness, but stilt with force
enough to leave its mark.
Scowls of hate and defiance flashed
upon him from the eyes of the prison
ers, who were all men in the prime of
life. To hfs taunts and questions tilts
was the only reply made,by them; not
a word fell from their lips; U ( - r i l
“Tell them off from the right, one
by one,” said Ivan, addressing the
commanding officer.
Number one, a handsome, well
built Livonian, was jerked from the
rank by a file of soldiers, and ordered
to walk down tho path leading to the
water. As he neared tlie gangway,
Ivan burst upon him from behind the
guards, and having driven the spike
of his baton two or three times into
tjje back of his victim, struck him a
crashing blow with it upon the tem
ple, as he instinctively turned upon
his assailant. The stunned soldier fell Ws body,
heavily upon the plank, which was
instantly lowered by turning a crank,
and the body went down into the deep
water, with a muffled splash.
“There’s nothing like keeping one’s
hand in!” criedlvan, gayly, as he ex
omined the knob of Devilspike, to
THE HARD-WORKING FARMER.
You may envy the joy* o* the farmer,
Aa* fancy hu free, easy life;
You may sit at his bouutiful table.
An* praise his industrious wife.
Ef vou worked In the woods in the winter.
Or followed the fnrrer all day.
With a team of unruly young oxen.
An* feat heavy loaded with clay:
Ef you held the old plow—I’m a think In’
ou’d sing in a different way.
You may talk o* the golden-eyed daisies,
And lilies that wear such a charm.
But it gives me a heap o’ hard labor
To keep *em from spilin' »▼ farm;
You may pictur’ the beautiful sunsets.
An’ landscapes so full o' repose,
But 1 never get time to look at 'em,
Except when it rains or it snowa:
You may sine o’ the song bin 1m of aommer—
I'll attend to the hawks and tho crows.
You may Iom for the lot o’, the farmer.
An’ dwell on the pleasures o’ toll;
But tho good things We hev on our table
All have to be dug from the soil;
An* our beautiful, bright yaller butter, ,
. IVrhaps you may never hev learned. •
Makes heap o’ ham work for the wimuiin—
It hex to be carefully churned;
An’ the cheese, so plump in our pantry.
All hev to be lifted an f turned.
When home from the hay-fu ld in summer,
With stars gleamin' over my head.
When I milk by the light o’ my lantern.
And wearily crawl into bed;
When I think o’ the work of the morrow.
Ami worry, fur fear it might rain;
When I hear the loud peal o* the thunder,
An* wife, she begins to complain—
Thi n I feel ex if life was a burden.
With lcetle to hope for or gain.
The hay must be cut in the summer.
The wheat must be cradled and bound,
For we never are out o’ employment,
F.xcept when we lie in our bed:
Fur the wood must be hauled in the winter
An’ patiently piled in the shed.
You may envy the joys o' tho farmer.
Who works like a slave for hi* bread.
Or. niebby. to pay off a mortgage
That hangs like a shade o’er his head.
You may sit in the shade o’ the orchard.
Nor think o’ his wants or his needs:
Yon may gnze at his meadows an’ corn-fields,
An’ long for the life that he leads;
But there’s leette o’ comfort an’ pleasur’
In lighting the bugs an’ tho weeds.
But the farmer depends upon only
The things that he earns by hls toil.
An’ the leetle he gains i* got honest,
By turnin’ and tillin'the soil.
When hls last crop Is toted to market,
Willi h conscience all spotless and clear.
He may leave the old fans boose forever,
To dwell in a holier sphere;
An’ the crown thst he wears may be brighter
Because of his simple life here.
1882, INSTEAD OF 1881, THE END OF
THE WORLD.
.hty.h M3 *iTa:ivaa wax
nxztexaztujjJI
LDWIN AGAIN.
, tatcaa a Count, of "Or.
tlHWPfflJAdlihriieforo Christinas,
iking 'tlw tfzpSim-fdr a' fortnight, and
T&rybody hmd_J.Konglit the campaign ■
teSSlssa -dWitglt quarter* had been
cuttier..had come, and
aarched and fought the
ong summer Congratulated' themselves
jon *i»ea«on of peace and rash
The pickeCuaea wax» about a half a
in He ISertfanlalw. Confederate* XitjnMnl
vmtnoUp aftUtafl d«*r*t ia hyl tt ter quar- i
porri J Iti tva^fi Stondwafl. Jncksotiha old
DbVfffnUk btv'keil by*/that of )
, , ,, , , . ., pit witli its mob of disorganized »ol-
tack upon this six-gun fort wou.d | ^ ^ ^
a man could raisu his
head without receiving a bullet.
have resulted in repulse. If it could
be blown out of tho way there would
be a gap in the Cenfedcrate linos
through which whole brigades could
pour. One brigade through that gap
and Lee’s lines were gone.
THE WORK.
“FORWARD TO DEATH'.”
At Fredericksburg, when Burnside
found his assaults upon Mary’s Hill
resuiting only in horrible slaughter,
he appeared to grow wild and reck-
| less. At-the Crater, when he found
The Work was dona by old coal ml- , . ., , _ ’ . . .. ..
his eoltmnB of assault checked by the
pit, Jto continued to add to its horrors
by, urging forward other columns.
space between the fort and the
thicket was then a plowed field, bar
ren of even a bush. Tlie space was
ners working in regular-gangs, and
the shaft was sunk about 500 feet fro:
the fort, and went down twenty feet
before the gnllory branched off. This
gallery was wide enough for two men
to work abreast, and over four feet
The Mormon Missionaries are uard at work
t'nion county. East Tennessee, and have secur
ed quite a number of convert!—notably some
necroes. The community is wroujtht up af alns 1
them, and there are threats of lynching them
they do not leave.
A married man recently went to Wichita.
Kansas, tsV'ng with him hls little boy of four
years. When they returned tho next day his
mother asked of the boy: "Who did you sleep
with last night*" The boy very innocently re
plied: “With papa and another woman."
The Jackson Herald aaya: There Is but one
newspaper man In the field this week, and that
is our old friend Ed Klnnebrew, of the Watck*
man. We commend him to our citizens. The
Watchman waa once the favorite paper in
Jackson county, and Ua many friend! will be
glad to learn of Ua recuperation. It Is now well
worth your money.
That colored postmaster Arthur cave Emory
Speer to help him whip the "Bourbon Democ
racy" In the old Ninth afaln. will ba anythlnf
cite hut a winning card for the aforesaid Emo
ry. He polled a routine majority In old Clark#
at the leal election; but If we know the people
of that countv—and we think we do—"the boot
will be on the other leg" next time. Emory
will he retired by an overwhelming majority, so
tar as that county Is concerned.—Ddfoa CUistn.
_ , soon covered by the guns «f the Con-
high. One of the greatest troubles was federut and d had
in surveying the route and striking L ^ dead Thera .was a
the proper distance, and even when] , „
the gallery was under tjUv fort no one
felt exactly sure within” sYx or eight
feet. A little science, however, and a
great deal of guessing struck the right
stop, and galleries were then dug to
the right and left, for a distance of | * j*'
thirty feet, _
tJNBUBPHCTING VICTIMS.
general retreat to cover. The brigades
which had flanked tlie Crater had not
come prepared with axes to tearaway
the ehmrttT-de-frite protecting the
earthworks, and as a consequence not
It 6eems almost past
belief at this day that after 4,000 men
had been slaughtered in nnd around the
Crater, and while ot |enst a thousand
The Confederates within the fort 1 Jiving ones were eoop6d up in the pit
were totally unsuspicious of what was I ancl unable to got out, Burnside order
going on beneath them. Once when I ed up the negro troops and piled them
one wing gallery was being excavated, jin on top of the vetofans who had gone
a soldier who was lyingon the ground 1 'before.'^ ’-Such was tho case, however,
suddenly called out that he could hear j mid white and black, private and offl-
the sounds of digging, but those to tier, were mixing together in a terri-
wkota he appealed said that It must
be rats burrowing their way in to get I
fled mob and. held prisoners in the
hole until Gen. Bartlett raised the
at the provisions. AgaU^r a gram I 'white flag and surrendered to the Con-
who had been within Burnside’s lines I federates. . . z
reported seeing the shaft, but tlie men I
supposed the Federals were digging a |
well.
PJ.ACING THE POWDER.
FIRING.rSTO TICE CRATER.
After tlie Confederate fire had been
trained upon the space between the
A tenth Carolina negrohaa been doing a proP
liable huilnti! with a phonograph . /He put one
of theic talking Instrument* Itialde a rude fig
ure of a derU. and attached a spring in such •
manner that thu oyUnder would revolye on be
ing started without the use ot a crank. Thui
provided, be let up aa a fortune teller. The ne
groes had never heard of a phonograph, and
ita voice filled them with auperaUtloua awe,
particularly when tha eeer. haying drawn from
hla dopes aome information on the (Object ot
their calli, and filledthe machine with aiton-
lahlng answer*, made it (peak oracularly.
When "the mine had been finished * hi j«* d C ™ t * r ’ those who at-
Grant suddenly discovered thst it was » en JP ted t° retreat frola tUe h*“« nlet
«2Ll thing and certain Som * of the killed on
though during its progress "Burn- J^ is ®f K)t .^ d l° ur ^ u1 ^ 8 m
side’s Tunnel” was as much jeered at Th * Confederates at length crept close
as Butler's Dutch Gap Canal. Powder cn ° u *h to shoot into the Crater itself,
was brought up for it and carefully <u T the “ the
carried through the long, dark hole among 016 ne S*° troo P s - The y had
until eight tons were heaped under 00016 ,n last - and were consequently
While we are congratulating our
selves at the non-fulfilment of Mother
Bliipton’s jiroplieey that tlie world
would come to an end in 1881, and
feeling secure in the belief that the
false prophets had at least in regard to
tltat subject been silenced, we are in
formed that the whole Mohammedan
world is excited over the expected end
of the world tills year, A. D. 1882, or
thereabouts.
Tlie Moslems say that most of the
signs which are to precede that dread
ful hour have already been accom
plished, and that but two more are
wanting. Those inf which they profess
already to see the fulfillment of propli
1 eey nrc ninny, some of which are tu
mults and seditions innumerable,
earthquakes and eelip-es, and the de
cadence of faith among men. In the
late war between Turkey and Russia
they see the fulfillment of the prophe
cy that Gog and Magog, the fair-liair-
ed tribes of the North, should,
break forth across the barriers which
Dhu’l-Karvein built against them in
the mountains of Armenia. In Glad
stone they see the anti-Christ.
The two signs wanting are the des
cent of Jesus upon the earth and the
upparition of the Molidy. In aatkfij
tion of the early coming of Cfirlqi
| cleansing and repairing of the cjA
I minaret, called the Minaret OfJssUS,'!
of the great Mosque at DadtMOus, %aai
begun about two years’a%& Tho ap-'
parition of the Mahdy ie. however, re
garded as the greatest of .aft tho signs
foreshadowing the end of the world.
Mohammed, it is said, prophesied
that the world should not have an end
till one of his owu family. should rule
over Islam, whose name and whose
father’s name should be the same as
his own and his father’s own (Abdul
lah). It has long been the belief of
the Moslems that a descendant of the
Prophet of the tribe of the Krcisle will
rule over the Arabs about the begin
ning of the fourteenth century of the
Hegira, and that at that time the Mah
dy will reveal himself at Mecca, and
the era of tlie Caliphate be brought to
an end. The beginning of the four
teenth century is near at hand; the
Caliph of Mecca, Abdul Mutallib, is
reported to have raised the standard
of rebellion and proclaimed himself
ruler over the Arabs; and to cap the
climax, so to speak, the Mahdy him
self has appeared at Mecca in tlie per
son of Abdullah, the son of Moham
med, by a mother of the name of Em-
inch. The names of the Prophet, his
father, andmother are properly group
ed together, and the circumstances of
time and place all answer to the proph
ecy. If anything else were needed to
convince the faithfril that the end of
the world is at hand, it may be found
in the cholera now raging at Mecca,
and which the Arabs call “the yellow
wi nd of fire,” and this is the fire which,
according to prophecy, shall consume
the Hedjaz at the moment when the
Mahdy makes his appearance.
These things are now regarded by
the Mohammedans os of greater im
portance than the settlement of finan
cial questions, government reforms,
etc. Indeed, in comparison, those
things which so deeply Interest other
people are the merest trifles to Mos
lem nations.
the fort. Then a single sentinel was
placed until Chant should' be ready.
~ ORANT WAS READY
most exposed.
When Bartlett surrendered there
were 800 or 900 corpses in the Crater,
with over 1,000 muskets and a wag-
On the 30th of August. He ^tad sent a I on-load of other accoutrements. All
force to thp north of the James to com- I were buried out of sight by caving in
The pesnrahwm recently had ae.
^f jpidy^ilnhhy RjU« abOn^Qg' „ ^ ^ ^
ehaneter yho iw« K cri shout the CojoradoJ pel ^ee to draw off some onus fore 0 1 the banks toflll up the pit and ro-es-
waa ordered to open Are from every
BIB
vm
having been driven into theVolga by
his myrmidons in one day.
The Archbishop of Novogorod spar
ed by the great clemency of Ivan,
wished to show his gratitude to that
monarch by giving him a splendid
banquet at the episcopal palace.
While the guests were yet eqjoying
themselves, Ivan sent word to his sol
diers to pillage the rich cathedral of
St. Sophia and the other churches of
the place; then, on word being brought
to him. that hls commands had been
obeyed, he turned to the prelate:
“Eat, drink and make the most of
the good things before you,” he sold,
“for to-morrow, priest, shall dawn
upon you a beggar. What is a bishop
without a cathedral but a beggar?
And yours Is but an empty shell to
night. Off with your robes, then, and
paftte fefttflWaefcetoqwana very*
for the fallen archbishop, on which
instrument he was forced to practice
daily until lie had become a proficient
•‘Drum-
different
>arts of the Union, three of whom, F.
3. BaWwln, df Botflra; Joe HqU, of
Savannah, and F. M. Whitcomb, of
Bt. Louis, met at the .clothing house
Of F. A. Gyles, and arranged with
Raiford, the clerk, to have a "snipe
hunt” that night. After the consul
tation at Gyles’ store, it was decided
that the St. Louis man was to hold
S e bag, as he was initiated in the de-
jhtful and fascinating sport, but to
tnake the deception more complete,
three sacks were procured. All but
Raiford being strangers, he became
marshal of ceremonies.
About ten p. m., the party sallied
forth from the hotel under the soft
beams of a clear silvery moon, and
■Were taken by a circuitous route to
Barlow’s mill-pond, some two and a
half miles from town. After travers
ing the different by paths to and fro
that the entanglement Blight be more
complete, Boston (acoordlng to previ
ous agreement) 'was stationed with
the firs* sack, receiving instructions
from B. Savannah was placed far
ther up, and St. Louis still further, a
few hundred feet In the dense under
growth, with ids bag - held open, be;
In jomq.of fiHhlfnahl. hesrmuste f iDformed that thcblrd. would be
of the day. A bear bom the imperial] ■ hoQn ta ^ lh the
right direction, and as everything had
to be done stealthily, the utmost qui
et should be preserved. In stationing
Boston and Savannah, Raiford had
asked, secretly,that theyremaintome
half hour or so in their places, that St.
Louis might, at different times be sig
nalled, and then they were to start
^>ut and meet R. at a point previously
agreed on. . The parties being all sta
tioned, Raiford steals out to the road
gardens was then selected for hls trav
eling companion, and he was sent to
wander through the country during
the pleasure of the lively monarch,
whose minions had orders to levy a
'itlie upon the profits of the show for
the benefit of the imperial purse.
There was no limit to the avarice of
Ivan Basilowitz. He would make
long journeys from time to time
through ills empire, on which occa
sions it was understood that rich and , avalta dovelopment8 . Firat to
poor were expected to throng to his wa8 Boston, calling In subdued
feet with offerings of such presentsias \ Um J fot Ralford) into the
they could afford to give him , and his ga near by where the latter was se-
proeeedlngs with regard to these rev- l reted (wn hefltnmbled| ^ning to
enues were characterized by a certain ^ bottom of & buga gulcb? wallow .
grim humor. . ing In the mud and water, and scram-
On one of his journeys a poor shoe- M f n out a volumeof complimentary
maker presented hlm wUh a pair of 1 epUhet8 mea nwhile issuing from his
shoes, adding also a gift from hls pr-1^^^ he presented a picture of a
den, in the shape of a turnip n ro " mud-man perfectly. He was covered
markable size. Ivan, who happened I t wm Georgiaclayi andcol .
to be in sweet temper that nunning, L^ing himself up, not knowing hls
ordered his people to elevate the poor bearing8i «*** off in the direction of
cordwasner to tho dignltyofcourt j g mithvl „ e . Raiford then returned to
shoemaker, and to deal with him at ^ hot€l alone to awalt results. Hull
double prices, on pain of death. H ®f- reported at 2:30 o’clock, a fine sixty
ing of this bouuteneons act, a wealthy doUar 8uit Jn a bofTiWe plight. St.
residentof the neighborhood thought Loub . fiame j n about three and a half
he, too, might profit by a judicious I, clockt very bnngryt sleepy
gift to the imperial vtsitor, to whom, and br&ken of all de8lre to hunt snipe
accordingly, he brought a valuable ^ Georgia swamp. Boston, after
horse. Ivan received the gift gracious- travere ing the country for miles
ly, conversed affably with the donor, around> flnttUy dropped in at daylight
and on dismissing him presented him l xbauated 6eeb8 his couch without
Mia ahnsinfllrfry’BDrlfyftntlft tliminin fit- ... . . «
the shoemaker’s gigantic turnip in ex
change for his noble steed
even taking the trouble to undress.
The parties received many calls du-
Accordingly, as years advanced L ing Sunday morning, and Savannah
upon Ivan Basilowitz, his ferocity ap- lnglgted 0 nAlf Bell driving him to the
peared to diminish; at least so we are he might be better acquaint-
toldby one of hls biographers, who 1 r - - —
has preserved some very curious
stances of the improved imperial
position. He became very mild In
dealing with the poorer class of his
subjects, and instead of trying the
point of Devilspike upon hls attend
ants, confined himself to sticking it
into the legs of the haughty nobles of
his realm whenever they approached
him. It is said that he often formed
his opinion of a man’s character front
the fortitude with which he bore the
ordeal. The eccentricities of Ivan i
caused - a good deal of amusement
among the foreign residents in Russia
at the time, but it was generally con
sidered judicious by them to be reti
cent on the subject, and to confine
their remarks to the most confidential
and trustworthy circles. Certain En
glishmen, however, whose sense of
humor overcame their discretion, vio
lated theis conventional decorum
with regard to things imperial. They
were seized by order of Ivan, who
caused them to be turned naked into
a room, Upon the floor of which sev
eral bushels of peas were strewed,
which they were ordered to pick up,
one by one, and deposit in baskets.
When they were thoroughly exhaust
ed by this uninteresting exercise, he
caused refreshments to be given them,
and dismissed them with a fatherly
admonition to be less funny in future
ed with what he had gone through. It
is hardly necessary to say that Raiford
made himself mighty scarce during
Sunday. , -
THE HARDEST TIME OF ALL.
There art rtayi ot deepcit sorrow
In the seasons ot our life,
There are wild, despairing moments,
There are honra of mental strife.
There aro times of etormy anguish
When the tear* refute to fall:
But the waiUng.time, my brother,
Ia the harden time of all.
Youth and lore are oft Inpatient,
Seeking thtnyi beyond their reach,
And the heart grow# sick with hoping,
Ere it learns what Ufa can teach. ■ 11
Bnt before tho fruit ta gathered
Wo muet tee tho bloeaom* fall: a •
And tho waiting time, my brother,
Ia the hardeat time ofall.
Loving once, and loving ever,
It la ndlo vitch forrMn
For the light, whose 11 Jot shining,
Make* a rainbow or our tears.
It ta sad to eonnt at morning
aii the hours till evening foils
«sw^S. rou,ori
For it wears the eager apirit
Aa tho salt wave wears the atone.
And hope’s
too* On"firing, by the picket*- War’s
x>ld-blooded murders had been replaced:
by a spirit of peace, and the men who
C left-the tiger's thirst top blood, now
id nothing - 'more than rest undis
turbed. ipi . !’ .:•< .i . lltWl
; > Such-wah the afternoon, when, j'uftas
fho gloom of that - night before Christ
mas settled down over'friend and foe,
my: company was ordered out under -
arms.- : It afterwards appeared flint in
formation had beeu received to thq ef
fect that General Lee and General
Johnston were atafarm house just with
in the Confederate line, and our mission
was to capture them. Therefore, in the
gloom of the winter evening, with dark
banks of clouds racing across the heev-
ens, and snow-squalls skurrying down
Upon us at intervals, we mounted and
set off on a trot for a ford seven or eight
miles above tha camp. Tho lower one
we knew to bo heavily guarded; the up
per one we hoped to bo open. And so it
waa. The cold, swift river, already cov
ered with floating ice, was ’guard
enough, the Confederates thought, Tho
water was breOst -high to the~ r p<>or hor
ses, tlie moat of them shivered likoa
man with the ague as they reached the
opposite shore. It was only mercy to
them to indulge in an hour’s gallop.
Afar off we saw the light of a farm
house—not one light, butevery window
towards us was illuminated, proving
that even iu the shadow of war’s ghast
ly horrors somo one was reinemiiering
that Christmas would come with the
morrow. That house was our ohjectivo
point. The higli-way led directly past
the door, and a sudden dash must sur
prise all who met there.
I knew what our men were thinking
of aa they formed in a column a quar
ter of a mile away for a charge. Every
father’s thoughts went hack to hU
home,to his wife and children as Santa
Claus and little stockings hanging lip
for presents, and I believe every man
truly hoped that we might not lire a
gun or shed a drop of blood on this
night, which belonged to peace instead
of war.
As the word was given, we swept for
ward at a canter, nnd in three minutes
we had encircled the house. I was one
of the dozen troopers ordered to dis
mount and secure tlie prisoners, and I
was the second one iusidc. This was
the sight we saw as we dashed into the
room: A gray-headed grandfather and
grandmother, a soldier with Iiis arm in
sling, a wife and mother, a half grown
daughter and three or four men and wo
men who must have been neighbors.
There was an open Bible on the grand
fathers lap, three little stockings hung
by tho chimney, and In the room be
yond was the table where they were all
about to sit down as we entered.
It seemed a full minute before anyone
moved. We had surprised them. Our
information hod been false, and we had
made a ride of a dozen miles to burse in
on.a scene of peace.’ We were all stand
ing there speechless witli surprise, when
there came the sudden pop! pop! pop!
of musketry, followed by shouts of men,
orders aud the clash, of steel. 1 had no
sooner mounted my horse than I saw
that we were surrounded by infantry.
We charged straight at tlie mass in tlie
road before us, but were driven back.
Then we charged up tho road and ran
upon a batteryof three pieces. As we
were forced back we whirled round and
round the farm house. There was a
dozen to one, and though we charged
again and again, in ten minutes the
fight ended. Of tlie eighty-five men
who had left camp ten bad broken
through, fourteen were prisoners, and
the remainder lay .dead on the trampled
snow, along with a score of Confeder
ates.
The stark cerpscs of men, tlie agonized
groans of wounded horses, tlie suow
A ^Wri5«t , n^To”; thre,dbm I melting with the warm stream ot
Then raid your abtnlnr ttesoeo
Silent snow* brain to rail:
Ah! the watting thee, my brother,
Ia the hardeat time ot ell.
Tot at last we leant the tenon
That God knoweth what is beat,
A Makea the iptrBcmln 1 and blert^
For perchaace a day la coming
For the changing of onr fate,
Whan am heart# will thank Him a
That he taught ua how to watt.
■oekly
A Street Caur Which Carries It* Track.
Chicago Timu.
The Accommodation Car Company
AtVength thc'crimesoflvan brought I “*8 begun operations here with a cap!
their terrible retribution witli them.
Overwhelmed withjiOhbta and fears,
| tal itock of $1,000,000, divided between
the patentee, T. T. Prosser, and F. F.
blood—that was war’s chances.
I looked into the house through a
shattered window. The grandfather lay
stark and stiff on tho floor, bis blood
staining the Bible as it poured out. The
grandmother was lying at his feet, her
snow-white hair matted with blood, and
her eyes closing in death as I looked
’upon her. The soldier and his wife
were unhurt; but they had better been
dead. The three little stockings hung
as before; bnt one by one they brought
out the three curly little" heads that
hung them there, and they were threo
hair and book-akin clothe*. Seeing a clerk In e
store insult a gt»L he made her alt on the coun
ter. while the tnaulter, coerced by the proxlmV
ty of a cocked pistol, did penance by licking
the soloo other ahoee. Airw days after a se
quel to thti story waa printed. The clerk came
across Comanche BUI In a s*\acm. when both
were unannefl, qqQthe apeotator* wen Impar
tial, (hd Ooatly gave him hls choice between an
apology and alight.. Tho desperado Media
vein to eeoape. -q&dreoetyed a tound threshing,
to which ^hPAra&CBly afeebUrwlsttaw. •
Lighting the Suez Canal by Electricity-
There is a fair proopeot !of the Suez
Canal being lighted by electricity, so
that ships may pass through it at night,
instead of coming to am anchor as at
present. Major 8trntt, managing direc
tor of the Eastern Electric Light Com
pany, is at present in Egypt
with M. Leraaason, tlieengineer-hj
of the Canal Company, for the
of parts of the canal, so that _ . .
operations may he carned-on ai night tremendous effort, struck the
“ ' if fm>sent ! "
Siberia,
for a prison.
A Lizzard Under Hie Skin.
he ultimately assumed the monkish Cole, a real estate man. The object of corpses! Bullets meant for enemies had
cowl, and hid himself in ft cloister, company iatp build and equip a sought out these little innocents as they
where he died hobelesslv and in a thousand cars and put them upon the I slept and dreamed of Heaven, and men
Such was the end of Ivan, the Ty- Mr. Prosser, and as regards pres- unmoved, shed tears as the little: bodies
rant, Emperor of Bussia, who con- appearance is a queer, oglesome- were laid on the floor just undra tto
entered the cold and dreary realm of looking oraft* which carries ita track J stockings Santa Claus was to fill and
with it,and'to all intents and I '’ring joy to their hearts. It was tn.d-
purposcs Is designed to traverse any and I night now. Christmas had dawned upon
dl Unes of streets. Thecar, which isof I white hairs stained with blood—childish
the ordinary kind,’ 1» mounted, In the] hearts stilled by murder—men groaning
There is a colored man in New Lon: l middle, upon a truck which sits on four 1 in angnlsh women withbreaklngliearts
don, Mo., who for years has claimed that I wheels, each abont one-footin diameter, j —God’s mantle of purity blotched and
tie had a scorpion under his skin and | These wheels run ground tho inside drabbled and crimsoned, until the jwm-
that it crawled from place to place over I two steel tires, each ten feet in diameter, - — - —‘ , ‘
his body. A short time since Drs. and which rest upon ; the ground, and
Sprague and Rails, of London, a couple 1 are: held: only to the: ear by a set of
of scientists, eoaxed the man to submit [ wheel-clamps. The car ia designed to
to a surgical operation for the removal hold fifty people, and the owners claim'
Of the varmint. They distinctly traced th* * the more it carries the eailer i*
the animal under the man’s akin from | run*. 1 It will he stopped In the uaual
ner/and two hones will be required
teF moon crept behind the -.lark cloud*
to hide the spot In shadows.
his waut over the left shoulder, am
thence hack again to a posltton between
,T\vhere tho animal seemed to he, thyy
Wild Beasts and SnaVes in India.
Chamber*' Journal.
It is with somewhat more than or
dinary interest that we have for some
years past awaited the annual recordB
next!”
Several of tho victims that were now w ; ,e . r *
ministered chloroform to the man, and] for. $1.
years pasr uwaueu uie uiuiuui imura
they intendj setting forth the fearful ravages
itting . the jjorg, the principal wroug ht by tigers and other wild uni-
■e«f?>,®nhft^tty and placing thanaah mal8> aud by snakes, throughout our
fare at 4 cents and gelling thirty ,ritjgg I Twdton empire. Front a brief notice
marched down to the fatal plank made ministerea cnioro.o™. ««.4forj|i ' ' which appears in tlie columns «o-
guch resistance aa they coffin thefr’ J> ^ £2 frontS
damthsganiMroy*Bat of -looiiol. Sild thcdoc-^-SftfnlrpuT’o.nn' 1 snim " 1 " destroyed tl^ougliout Hin-
‘“The’last of the’.victims waa no* with thl. animalererSince. - ^.'W<
turned into the pathway of death. He ; a Fallen fountain,
was (Stall, athletic young Swede, a
riapner from the army of Fi.Hand. ^ bavQ prevaUed
As -he neared the plank, and Indore, for thirty
*he iron spike of Ivan was _brou«ht : to JMJSraftto goth ffit. Tho
po-j
i their bodies. Abont six
teen of tho children were stated to
The most remarkable result of tholiftye been^hug ttoatof
Ainu which have prevailed almost wro.wlnfonU, anil pzte
snakes. Thus, whereas in the year
ffrafc named. there were destroyed in
— " ' ^ i fewer than 23,429 wild
1 the figure? diminished
16 “fRte 00 1 14^86; but, during this same peri-
1 “ Uow “ I od, the number of human beings who
. represented to have Gren so terrified I bave jogt their lives lias mounted up
IreFsanok hWte hd DU ~~ °»° satisfactory
r e * r ’Jrrfc ibeakof UmBoffalomountainslhEaaHf4 trt y^* o y > T~ ga> v >t *. d * l ~ >t ”f W fefttnr°e)i““»w<tifie in the present an-
undiand bursting hls bond^tfif a' * npluu ^ kllown -tufa*?
: , SOME STRANGE sit:UTS.
Tn tha nnrmu- unnr>zv ssnnv
the traffic is very ihujili impeded by the the fitog, e:
dredging operations; There hfcfti psfr 'that fcr
gun at a given signal. It was hoped FederaisTosTnK
thst this terrific fire would keep the I™ ‘
Confederates from rallying to repulse
the columns of
blown up.
’iM Hag
4,000 men and the Confederates over
when
flag of truce Mid asked
permission to bury hls dead., he found
them corded up on each side of tho
ftatthefort to he 1 ’ 000 - 0n BUndBy m0rn,ng
it at the fort to be Grantaen t in a flag of truce and
At \pftfcpggt 3 o’clock on tho morn- trenches and wattibglorhim. Hard-
JBStoUt 1 •
hifteadot in the day’ttme. ytt ^ ^ f-?* motion, being a 'edge of white rock |
In the narrow space, scarce forty prbspect of a contract being entered
' 1 * J ** ' * - * ' ' F into eventually bjg|re|n(j^^P Mtorn
Electric Light Company and the Suez
Canal Company for the lighting of the
whole Of the canal by the Brush system.
There is some prospect also of the light-
fog of. ~
the P<
City for
Tennessee, known as
peak, on ftocount of it*
uaeKMsitoaMMMs^ motion, being a’edge of w
jaS^@5BJS ^
and,i ’ aifo®’tot miles, and tf.fi 1 whole
k nJ'nnw iSuftkK country was ahǤ6H4 <
: mi
ting piountatag.
smdf
feature observable.,in (
mmdi "Ff* n ? latin ci? , th ®
too badly blistere* thk*
Ejppmherofsnakes
"‘ay Presidency
hot "hit * dawn. Wifoti]
! the hoard of ma
lone. Qf cotfrge, lt,muat be a matter
I of impossibility to suggest an antidote
Ire mortal injuries inflicted by a
“i” .. w r^^7^1 wild beaatsuch as the tiger; but there
itustard-phutex punishment, repent- would S g eni b o a, good field now
presented for tUo.furthet prosocuUon
Iby the parenla of some
dy inode by
with a