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THE GAZETTE.
New Series.
“GOING TO MARIA."
Just at this time there is a lively eompeti
tion among railroad ticket agents to se
cure travel‘over their respective lines.
Rates east have been cut, travels have in
creased in consequence, and each west
ern road wants to have its full share.
Yesterday a portly, pleasant looking
old gentleman came in on the train from
the North and started up Francis street,
carpet sack in hand. He 'was evidently
a farmer, and probably belonged to the
grangers. At this precise juncture L.
M. Dunn, ticket agent of the St Louis,
Kansas City and Northern line, happened
to-be glancing out of his window, and
savr the traveller and his carpet sack.
He met him half way between Long
Branch and the Pacific, and commenced
as follows:
“Going east, sir?”
“Yes,” was the reply.
“Ah! Step right up to the Union
ticket office. Great through line, sir.
Land in New York sixteen hours in ad
vance of any other route. Chicken three
times a day, and beds free from ver
min. Butter on two plates, and molas
ses all over the table. Come right
along, sir.”
The innocent countryman walked alo~g
a few steps, when Major J. B. Laughlin,
ticket agent of the Hannibal and St.
Louis railroad, greeted hiui affectionate
ly with:
“Going east, sir ?’.’
“Yes,” again.
“Glad to meet you. Step right into
the office. Shortest ’ine by thirty three
miles and a half to New York; put you
in there nine hours ahead of auy other
line. Finest eating houses in the world.
Soup three times a day and, fleas expell
ed from the sleepers daily. Coine in
sir."
Before the astonished countryman could
recover from his bewilderment at these
sudden and unexpected manifestations
of interest in his welfare, Dan Mountain,
of the Kansas City, Joseph and Council
Bluffs, tackled him with:
“Going east, sir?”
“D—n it, yes,” (rather curtly.)
“I am just the man you want to see.
Come along with me. Office “not on
the corner.” Best and shortest route by
a long shot to any point. Put you
through in a jiffy. Splendid sleepers
and codfish balls for breakfast. Con
ductors all of pious and respectable pa
rentage* yand fires kept up
Come along, six *
Thfe unfortunate’Tuan completely
dumufouuded, and before ho could re
cover Laughlin him by one arm,
Mountain by the other, while Dunn
clungt iglitly to his coat tail, and he was
hustled into tho Hannibal and St. Joe
office, where another parley took place.
“What point are you going to?” was
asked by three disinterested individuals
simultaneously.
“Goin, to Maria.”
Instantly three railroad maps were
jerked out, and for full fifteen minutes,
three pairs of eyes inspected them close
ly. Then each of said pairs of eyes
looked at the other, and finally all settled
on the gentleman from the rural die
tricts. Then the question was asked by
three persons:
“Where is Maria ?"
“Where’s Maria! Why I s’pose she's
to hum. Maria’s my wife, and lives six
miles east of town, and if I didn’t want
to go to her, where would I want to go
to 1"
Three railroad maps wore put up
quicker than lightning, and in less than
two minutes’ time Dunn was seated in
his office consulting an abominable old
pipe. Dan Mountain was busily engaged
in admiring Lou Thompson’s magnifi
cent new iour-story plug hat, and Major
Laughlin was calmly contemplating the
prospective arrival of the next street car.
The man bound for “Maria” left on
one of Fish & Hutchison’s sleighs.
[St. Joseph Herald.
For the Gazette.]
A WILD MAN NEAR RUOKERSVILLE.
After tbe Americans had shaken off
the galling yoke of Britain and achieved
great victories, and were lauded to the j
skies for their military prowess, one of
the old war worn veterans was asked if
he had three wishes what he would wish
for. It was a very grave question and
required much brain work for him to de
cide One would be apt to think that
as the old soldier had suffered cold, hun
ger, and nakedness during seven long
years that he valued liberty more highly
than any earthly blessing, and that his
first wish would be that monarchy might
be abolished throughout the world, and
that all people might be the happy recip
ients of blessed freedom. But that was
not his first wish. Was it that he might
have large possessions of lands and ser
vants ? Not at all. Was it that he might
be the President and be the observed of
all observers'? No indeed. Was it that
he might be possessor of much learning
and sway the nation by his pen ? It was
not. Was it that the tomahawk might
be buried throughout the world, and that
peace and good will might abound
amongst all mankind? Ah, no. Now,
friedns, if you will guess till next week
what his second wish was, I will inform
you what his first one was, and I am
sorry to have to pen such a wish from
such a man.
His first wish was, “that all the rivers
might run rum!” One.
“Your money or your books!” re
marked a highwayman at the Custom
House.
ESTABLISHED 1859.
ELBERTON, GEORGIA, MARCH 24.1875.^
TWO BROKEN HEARTS.
The Paris Figaro tells the following j
French story :
In 1870 a young Frenchman, the
Count George de Meyrac, married a
beautiful girl of his own station in life,
Mathilde who was very much in
love with him. All went well, and the
two was very happy in their devotions
to each other. They were fond of the ;
theatre, and every one just at that time
was enraptured with anew actress, Rosi
ta, who took the principal rolen iii the
dubious dramas of the Dumas school.—
The newly-wedded pair often went to
Rosita’s theatre, until the Countess!
thought her husband’s eyes lingered too
fondly on the actress, rnd began to feel
pangs of jealousy. Frou Frou was one
of Rosita’s best impersonations, and on
her farewell night she appeared by re
quest in that character.
The Jockey Club, of which George de
Meyrac was Vice President, gave her a
supper ofter the play. George, of course,
was present, and sat by the side of the
facinating Rosita, who was surrounded
with boquets. Wine flowed freely, and
mirth and wit enlivened the banquet un
til 3 o’clock in the morning. Meanwhile
the poor wife, Mathilde, waited at the
little gate of the park for her truant
husband. The hours passed slowly on
and he came not. A cold, penetrating
rain began to fall at midnight, and Ma
thilde trembled from exhaustion and ex
posure. At sin the morning, when her
husband came through the little gate, he
stumbled over her inanimate body lying
un the rain-soaked ground. She was
not dead; she lived five days after, but
never recovered her mind. In her delir
ium, incessantly murmured, “Frou Frou!
Frou Frou!” Those were her last
words.
The Count was almost crazed by his
wife’s loss. He entered the army and
sought death in the bloody battles of the
Franco-Prussian war. Fate was cruel
and he returned unharmed. His wife’s
room, adjoining bis own, had always
been kept closed since her death, but
owing to the suffocating heat one sum
mer’s night, George opened the door
between the two rooms. He then fed
asleep. In about an hour he awoke ;
the clock struck midnight. As the last
stroke sounded, he heard distinctly from
the other room the words, “Frou-Frou.”
He listened with inexpressible -.anguish*
—“PjQjqiJ nm" muriuurfetT
Jrom all parts of he leaped
from tho bed, lighted a candle, and
crossed the threshold of Mathilde’s
chamber. At that instant a current of
air extinguished tha candle, and George
felt upon his forehead, liis lips, his
cheeks, something indefinable—a breath,
a caress, the contact of a cold wing, or
perhaps, the muslin of a peignor. He
fell unconscious. The next morning he
was found lying there insane. To every
interrogation he only replied “Frou-
Frou.”
The country people in the neighbor
hood of the Chateau de Meyrac think
that it was the soul of the Countess re
turning at midnight to murmur in the
ear of her cruel husband; “George, I
still love thee; but it is thou who hast
killed me.”
A STRANGE COINCIDENCE.
Donn Piatt, says the Louisville Com
mercial says he gave his note for the
five thousand dollars he received from
Irwin—part of the Pacific Mail corrup
tion fund. Mr. used to tell a story |
of Mr. Webster and Rufus Choate —a ■
case in point. Neither of these gentle }
men, it seems, were goOd financiers, and, \
though each of them were in receipt
of large sums from their engage
ments, they were always in want of
money.
Mr. Choate called one morning, very
early, at Mr. Webster’s lodgings in
Washington, and, after sitting a moment,
asked Mr W. the loan of five hundred
dollars. Mr. Webster, looking fearful
ly crestfallen and disappointed, replied :
“Why, by Jupiter, Choate, I was on the
point of asking you for the loan of a
iike sum. I haven’t a cent in the
world.”
Setting their wits to work, it was fi
nally agreed, at the suggestion of Mr.
Choate, that the best, and perhaps the
only chance was to make a joint note for
a thousand, which would give to each
the amount desired, and sell it to their
friend Corcoran, the great banker in
Washington. Acting at once upon the
suggestion, a joint note was prepared,
and they lost no time in calling at the
banking house of Mr. Corcoran. They
found Mr. C. in his office ; they were
received with great cordiality, and with
out hesitation Mr. Corcoran purchas
ed their note and gave them the sum of
money.
Leaving the bank together, it is said
Choate was greatly delighted at the
success of their negotiation, -was full of
anecdote, but soon his wit was lost on
! Mr. Webster, who from the time they
! left the bank was completely absorbed
; in his own reflections ; abstracted, wear-
I ing a puzzled, confused look, and seem
ingly utterly unconscious of his compan
! ion’s presence. At length Mr. Choate
• said to him:
“Webster, what is the matter with
you ; you look rather like a man who
had failed in a great financial effort,
than like the successful negotiator you
are ?”
“Well, Choate,” said Mr. W., “I was
just thinking what in the h—ll Corcoran
- wanted with that note.”
ARAB HORSE MAXIMS.
Who raiseth and traineth a ho.iso for
the Lord fs counted in the number of
those who give alms day and night, in
private as well as in public. He will
find his reward. All his sins will be for
given him, and never more will any
fear come over him and dishonor his
heart.
Let your colt be domesticated and
live with you from his tenderest age,
and when a horse he will be simple, do
cile, faithful and inured to hardship and
f tigue.
To have your horse serve you on
the day of trial, if you desire him then to
be a horse of truth, make him sober, ac
customed to hard work and inaccessible
to fear.
Do not beat your horses, nor speak to
them in a loud tone of voice ; do not be
angry with them, but kindly reprove
their faults; they will do better thereaf
ter, for they understand the language
of man and its meaning.
If you have a long day’s journey be
fere you, spare your horse at the start;
let him frequently walk to recover his
wind. Continue this until he has sweat
ed and dried three times, and you may
ask him whatever you please, he will not
leave you in difficulty.
Use your horse as your leathern bot
tle ; if you open it gently and gradually
you can easily control the water within, |
but if you open it suddenly tho water j
escapes at once, and nothing remains to j
quench vour thirst.
Never let your horse run up or down
hill, if you can avoid it. On the contra
ry slacken your pace. “Whichdo you pre
for,” was asked of a horse, “ascent or de
scent?” “A curse be on the point of
meeting!” was the answer.
Make your horse work and work
again. Inaction and fat are the great
perils of a horse, and the main cause of
all his vices and disease.
Observe your horse when ho is drink
ing at a brook. If in bringing down his
head he remain square, without bending
his limbs, he possesses sterling quali
ties and all parts of his body are built
symmetrically.
Four things he must have broad—
front, chest, loins and limbs; four things
long—neck, breast, fore-arm and croup,
f o u
Busby, of Trenton, celebrated his
“iron wedding” one day last week, and
invited about one hundred and twenty
guests to the wedding. Of course each
persou fo-lt compelled to bring a present
of some kind, and each did. When Mr.
and Mrs. Jones arrived, they also had a
pair of flat-irons. Ail hands laughed at
the coincidence, and there was great
merriment when the Browns then ar
rived with two pair of flat irons; but
when Mr. Mrs. Robinson came in, with
another pair of flat irons, the laughter
became perfectly convulsive. There
was, however, something less amusing
about it when the Thompsons arrived
with four flat irons wrapped in brown pa
per. And Busby’s face actually looked
grave when the three Johnson girls were
ushered into the parlor carrying a flat
iron apiece. Each one of the succeeding
guests brought flat irons, and there was
no break in the continuance until old
Cf.rby came from Philadephia with a
cast iron cow bell; and at any other
time he would have treated such a pres
ent with scorn, but now ho was actually
grateful to Mr. Curby, and he was about
to embrace him, when the Walshing
harns came with the new kind of double
pointed flat-irons with wooden handles.
And all the rest of the guests brought
the same articles, except Mr. Rugby,
and he had with him a patent stand for
holding flat irons. Busby got madder
and madder every minute, and by the
time the company had all arrived he
was nearly insane with rage, and he
went to Ded leaving his wife to entertain
the guests. In the morning they count
ed up the spoils and found they had two
hundred and thirteen flat irons, one
stand and a cow bell. And now the
Busbys have cut the Smiths, and Browns,
and Jacksons, and the Thompsons and
the rest entirely, for they are convinced
that there was a preconcerted design to
to play a trick upon them. The fact,
however, is that the hardware stores in
the place had an overstock of flat irons,
and Busby’s friends went for the cheap
I est thing they could find, as people al
i ways do on such occasions. Busby
j thinks he will not celebrated his “silver
; wedding.”
In the days when rouge-et-noir flour
ished at Baden-Baden, the Prussian offi
cers were strictly forbidden to play.
One of them, however, dressed as a civil
ian, ventured to place Napoleons on a
color. The color came up twice and the
officer was just about to take up the
money when his eye fell upon the King
of Prussia, who was watching the game
with interest. In his fright, the officer
did not dare to remove his Napoleons.
The play continued, and the same color
came up a third, a fourth, a fifth time,
and 3,200 francos were added to his pile,
but the winner stood motionless, erect as
if on parade, expecting the next instant to
see all his winnings wiped out. The
King put an end to his suspense by ap
proaching and saying in kindly mood:
“I advise you to draw in your winnings
and to be quick about it, before I notice
you; your luck cannot continue so favor
able.”
Vol. 111.-No. 48.
UNITED.
She who upon my heart,
Was the first to win it ;
She who dreams upon my breast,
Ever reigns within it;
She whe kisses oft my lips,
Wakes the warmest blessing ;
She who rests within my arms,
Feels my closest pressing.
Other days than these shall come,
Days that may be dreary;
Other hours shall greet us yet,
Hours that may be weary ;
Still that heart shall be thy home,
Still that breast thy heart shall pillow,
Still those lips meet thine as oft
Billow mceteth billow.
Sleep, then, on my happy heart,
Since thy lore hath won it;
Dream then on rny loyal breast—
None but thou hast done it;
And when age our bloom shall change,
With its wintry weather,
May we, in tue self-same grave,
Sleep and dream together
*
A STUPENDOUS WORK.
It is estimated that if the English
Channel is successfully tunnelled, the
300,000 travelers who now cross it will
increase to 3,000,000 A journey from
London to Paris will then take but livo
or six hours, with the dreaded rough sea
voyage taken out The boring is to be
gin simultaneously in Franco and Eng
land, from tho bottom of two wells 100
feet deep. The bore is to be nino feet
in diameter, by machinery invented by
Dickinson Brunton. The debris made
from the excavation is to be continuous
ly carried out th e whole length of the
bore, and the fresh air breathed by tho
workmen is to be continuously forced in.
When Charles Dickens made Montague
Tigg the projector of a plan for tunnel
ling the English Channel ho did so in
the nature of a huge joke, that was in
tendad as a satire upon some of the chi
merical financial schemes of the period.
Yet here, to-day, is a practical and sci
entifically organized scheme, backed by
a large capital, for the execution in earn
est of tho task he proposed in jest and
ridicule.. Assuredly, it is unsafe to ridi
cule almost anything, no matter how iuv
, • IT • J X 1 J J 1 . J
'otP
selves.—[Baltimore Sun.
GOOD COMMERCIAL PAPER.
A good story is told of a Chicago dry
goods salesman, who has the reputation
of being somewhat of a wag. He re
cently sold a bill of goods to a country
customer, who was believed to be a lit
tle shaky, and was expected to commit
justifiable insolvency as soon as he dis
posed of his stock. As it was Ihe cus
tomer’s intention to pay part of his ac
count with notes, which might prove
worthless, the salesman—so the story
goes—added hero a little and there a
little to the price of the goods, so that
when the purchase of some two thous
and dollars’ worth had been made, of
which all but two or three hundred dol
lars were paid in cash, there w r as no pos
sibility of the firm losing sympathy,
even should the notes go to protest.—
The transaction concluded, the customer
besought the salesman to give him a
present of some sort, and the generous
salesman accordingly presented him
with a valuable red silk pocket handker
chief.
•‘That won’t'do,” said he ; “give me a
silk dress for my wife, or something of
that sort,”
“Can’t do it,” he said ; “but I’ll tell
you what I’ll do—l’ll give you back
your notes.”
“No,” replied the customer, “i’ll take
the handkerchief.”
THE PIN MACHINE.
This machine is ore of the closest ap
proaches that mechanics have made to the
dexterity of the human hand. It is
about the height and size of the lady’s
sewing machine, only much stronger.
On the side at the back a light belt de
scends from a long shaft in the ceiling
that drives all machines, ranged in rows,
on the floor. On the left side of the ma
chine hangs on a peg a reel of wire that
has been straightened by running
through a compound system of small
rollers. The wire descends, and the end
enters the machine. This is the food con
sumed by this voracious little dwarf. He
pulls it in and bites off by inches, incess
antly—one hundred and forty bites in the
minute. Just as he seizes each bite, a
little hammer, with a concave lace, hits
the end of the wire three times, “upsets”
it to a head, while he grips it to a counter
sunk hole between his teeth. With an
outward thrust of his tongue ho then
lays the pin sideways in a little groove
across the rim of a small wheel that'
slowly revolves. By tho external press
ure of • stationary hoop these pins roll
in their places as they are carried under
two series of small files, three in each.
These files grow finer toward the end of
the series. They lie at a slight inclina
tion on the pins, and a series of cams,
lovers, and springs are made to play
like lightning. Thus the pins are drop
ped in a little shower in a box. Twenty
eight pounds are a day’s work for one
of these jerking little automatons. The
machines reject crooked pins, the slight
est irregularity in any of them being
detected.
BAOON, BOUNTY AND BRANDY SMASH;
When wo come to review tho policy
of the Congress which has just expired,
says the N. Y. Tribune, it does not seem
to differ tnaterially from the principles
of government professed by the Romail
Emperors in the decline of their power.
Degeherate Caesars thought it enough
to keep tho populace fed and amused,
while the purple ruled and rioted ; and
one can almost believe that leading
statesmen at Washington this winter
imagiried they heard the old cry of Pa
nem et cirences, and that tho whole art
of legislation consisted in satisfying the
demand. Confronted by a tremendous
political change in the North, they could
think of no measiire to restore their fall
en popularity except tho gratuitous dis
tribution of two or three hundred mill
ions of dollars among tho voters in the
guise of a “bounty bill." Menaced with
a loss of a part of their colored support
ers in the South, they called upon tho
war Department for hogsheads of army
bacon to give away in the districts en
dangered by an overflow of Conserva
tism, and then they promised all the ne
groos good seats at the theatres and
free admission to the bar-rooms. What
could statesman do more?
The bounty bill has fortunately been
defeated by the President. The bar-room
bill bas become a law, and the country
is watching with a curiosity that is half
amusement and half disgust to sec what
it will do for the negro. There is little
left in it which has any practical value.
Whatever Congress could lawfully do to
secure for the freedmen the blessings of
education and the privileges of citizen
ship,—that it should have been the task
of the Republican party to insist upon,
and all wise men would have applauded
the work. But for this scheme no per
son of sense can entertain sympathy or
respect. It contains a jury clause which
violates the Constitution and common
sense—for what ? Why, to secure suit
ors tho inestimable privilege of a trial
before tho most ignmant aud incompe
tent jurors.
It contains other clauses ostensibly
framed so as to secure tho colored peol
- certain rights in public conveyances,
theatres, restaurants and hotols, but re-
ally intended to enforce nothing but that
sort of social equality which knows no
low except prejudice and custom, and
can never bo established by all the Con
gresses and courts in Christendom. We
do the frcedmen the justice to boliovo
that they care very little about this bill
and are not anxious, as a class, to thrust
themselves into company where their
presence is not acceptable It would ba
strange, however, if among them all
there were not some aspiring spirits ea
ger to avail themselves of the new privi
lege offered them, merely because they
have been told that they aro privileges. 1
The incidents attending the execution
of the law thus far are ajjout what we
might have expected. We hoar of no
dryuble as yet on railways or steamboats,
but colored*men in various parts of the
betrayed an In
tense desire to be lathered and shaved at
the barber’s, are found calling for cock
tails at first class rum shops, and on one
or two occasions have even bought dol ■
lar tickets for tho theatre. Thus Con
gress elevates tho oppressed race, and
the Goddess of Liberty probably dances
with delight at the spectacle.
Undoubtedly the senseless prejudice
which excludes a decent man from ho
tels and other places of entertainment
because he belongs to what was long a
servile race, is cruel and unchristian.—
But it is only aggravated by the attempt
to crush it through tho means of law.—
At the North it has been gradually dy
ing out ever since the beginning of tho
war, and tho time is not distant when,
if no imprudent legislation revives it, we
may count on its entire disappearance.
At the South the change would be still
more rapid if selfish political agitators
would stop making mischief. But on
the other hand the schemes by which
some of the Southern Legislatures aro
trying to nullify the law are certain to
do harm. They proclaim a virtual if not
an actual conflict between the laws of
Congress and of the State, and thus
raise the bar-room privileges of the col
ored man to the dignity of political
rights. Let the civil right statute alone,
and the difficulty will adjust itself. So
far as the law confers any real benefit
upon the colored man it will be of bene
fit to society generally, and therefore,
to the white man as well as to the black.
So far as it attempts to prescribe to us
with whom we shall tip the convivial
tumbler and rattle the festive fork, it
will fall to the ground under tho load of
its own folly, and the politicians of tho
future will be very much ashamed of
it.
HOW HE KNEW IT.
The Danbury man visited a “baronial
hall'’ in Norfolk, England, and had his
first view of a tapestried wall.
On one portion of the wall, at the head
of the stairs was a piece of tapestry. I
think the word tapestry is suggestive of
luxury, taste, refinement and wealth.
“Walls hanging with tapestry.” I sup
pose I have read that sentence a thous
and times luring a life actively devoted
to the perusal of fiction. This was tho
first tapestry wall I had seen. It was
right before me, and it made me sick.
The bit of wall was about 12 feet
square and the tapestry was about two
thirds of that size. The wall of wain
scot, and tapestry was tacked to it. It
had not been cut with any accuracy, and
its edges were fraying. It was held by
large tacks and their great heads pro
traded and stood out as prominently as
mud on patent leather boots.
“I said to the butler;
“What is the carpet nailed up there,
for ? Spattered fat on the wall ? Or
is it to keep out the draft ?”
•‘Bless you, no, sir ; that’s tapestry.—
Don’t you have it in America ?”
That is the way I knew it was tapest
ry-
It is sure sign of an early spring to
, see a cat intently watching a hole iu the
I wall.