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PROFESSION AG CARDS.
R. 11. JOSES,
ATTO RN E Y A T I, A \V,
SUffiHTGN, GA.
Especial attention to the collection of chums. [ly
SHANNON & WORLEY,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
ELttERTOH, GA.
IT7 ILL PRACTICE IN THE COURTS OF
VV the Northern Circuit and Franklin county
(gg-Special attention given to collections.
,J. S. RA RSETT,
ATTORN E Y AT LA W ,
ELBERTON, GA.
JOIIS T. OSBOUS,
ATTORNEY and counselor at law,
ELBERTON, GA.
WILL PRACTICE IN SUPERIOR COURTS
and Supreme Court. Frompt attention
to the collection of claims. nevl?,ly
A. E- HUNTER, M. D.
PIIACTICING PI n SICIAN
Office over the Drug Store,
EI.BEKTOK, GEORGIA.
WILL ATTEND PROMPTLY TO ALL
cases. [ Ang22,6m
GLBERTOII 111'SI A ESS CARDS.
Tr.j' BOWMAN & CO-,
REAL ESTATE AGENTS
ELBERTOA GA.
WILL attend to the business of effecting
sales and purchases of REAL ESTATE
as Agents, on REASONABLE TERMS.
Applications should be made to T. J.
Bowman. Sepirtf
LIGHT CARRIAGES & BOSSIES.
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,^!|Sf* I
J. F. .VULD
(Carriage m|an ufact r :
ELBERTOSr, GEORGIA.
WITH GOOD WORKMEN!
LOWEST PRICES!
CLOSE PERSONAL ATTENTION TO
BUSINESS, and an EXPERIENCE
OF 27 YEARS,
lie hopes by honest and fair dealing to compete
any other manufactory.
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Rood Buggies, warranted, - $126 tq $l6O
1L i : ■
Work done in this line in t. very best style/
The Best Harness
TERMS CASH.
B y22-l v _
J. M. ISAKFIELI),
Mi i
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T H E REAL I. fV E
Fashionable Tailor,
Up-Stairs, over Swift & Arnold’s Store,
ELBERTON, GEORGIA.
riff 1 ('all and See l inn.
~ THE ELBERTON
DRUG STORE
H. 0. EDMUNDS, Proprietor.
lias always on hand a full line of
Pure Drugs and Patent Medicines
Makes a specialty of
STATIONERY and
PERFUMERY
Anew assortment of
WRITING PAPER & ENVELOPES
Plain and fancy. just received, including a sup
ply ot LEGAL CAP.
CIGARS AND TOBACCO
of all varieties, constantly on hand.
W. C. PRESLEY,
lAMIII MAKES,
ELBERTON, GA.
Will make first class harness to order, war
ranted, and at prices to suit the times.
Will be glad to show specimens of bis work
to parties, and no harm is done if ho work is
wished.
Repairing Hone Promptly.
F. W. JACOBS,
HOUSE l SIGH PAINTER
Glazier and Grainer,
ELBERTON, GA.
Orders Solicited. Satisfaction Guaranteed
NEW STOREY NEW GOODS!
i. SWIFT.
Will keep on hand
FLOUR, MEAT, LARD, SUGAR, COF
FEE, HAMS, CHEESE, CAN
NED GOODS, &c.&c.
And o'her articles usually kept in a tirst-class
Provision Stoic, which will be sold
Cheap for CASH and Cash Only.
CENTRAL "HOTEL
MItS. W. M THOMAS,
PRPPRIE'i RESS,
YU GUST A GA
1869.
New Series. *
THE HORSE-DEALER’S STORY.
Many years Ago, before the era of railroads,
and when highwaymen abounded along the
great route from Calais to Paris, a hoted drover,
who had been to Boulogne with a large drove
of horses, which he had sold for cash, was over
taken by night on his return, near Marquise.
He remembered a little pleasant that inn he had
never stopped at, and he determined to spend
! the night there.
j As he rode up to the house the landlord, a
j respectable looking person, received his horse
j and led him away to the stable, while he invited
the drover to enter the public sitting-room.
Here he found two young men, one ot whom,
from his resemblance to the landlord, he recog
nized as his son; the other, somewhat older,
from llis manners, appeared also to belong to the
j family. Immediately after sujper, (during
} which the drover stated where he had been and
; what good luck be had met With,) the son
: mounted a horse, and, stated that he was going
Ito Marquise to stay all night, rode off'. The
j urover, having looked after the comfort of his
j horse, soon requested the landlord to show' him j
to his room.
As t! e traveler slipped off hi3 garments, he !
; felt for the leathern belt about his Waist, to see j
that it wms secure. This contained his gold, !
while his paper money was in a large wallet, :
carried in a pocket made for the purpose in the j
inside of his vest Depositing these articles
1 beneath his pillow, he extinguished the light
i and threw himself upon the bed, w hen, over
i come by weariness, he soon fell asleep.
i How long lie had been in this state of forget
fulness he could not tell, when he was aroused
to wakefulness by the sound of some person '
endeavoring to open the window near the head of
his bed. At the same time be heard suppressed
voices without, as of several persons it? whis- j
pered consultation.
Startled by this suspicious appearance of j
things, the drover reached toward the chair on
which he had thrown bis clothes, for his weap
ons ; but, to bis dismay, he remembered that on
his arrival, when preparing to wash otf the dust
of his journey, he had laid them aside within
the bar, and had neglected to resume them.
Scarcely conscious of wliat he was doing, the
defenseless drover slipped from the foot of the
bed at and hid himself iu the darkness behind a |
lot of women’s dresses suspended from the.wall,
and watched the motions of a man. who was
now slowly and cautiously entering the room.
He even fancied he could detect the reflection of
mm j light upou tut upraised ktdfeas the man |
approached the bed, with staggering aucl uncer
taiaAb?.-;; LtA mnU.yyy* his relief'when, iu
into the bed he had just vacated, was soon in a
sound sleep
Not knowing wliat to flntke of this strange j
affair, the drover determined to dress himself,
call upon the landlord, and have this singular ;
intrusion explained. He had reached his clothes !
and slipped on his trousers, and was moving
toward ‘he door when steps were heard enu- |
tiously crossing the outer room. Once more he
sought the shelter of the dresses, which com
pletely screened his person, and awaited the on- !
trance of the persons, whoever they might be |
Presently the door opened, and two men made ;
their appearance It was not so dark but. that
tbe drover could readily distinguish them to be i
the inn-keeper and the man he had seen at the
supper table.
“Step lightly,! tell you,'’ whispered the land- j
lord, “or you’ll wake him up, and then we’ll |
have a pretty mess on our hands.”
“Nonsense 1” replied the other, with an oath. ;
“You are scared, old man 1”
“Scared!” repeated the speaker. “No man !
ever told John Gamier before he was scared 1
Here, give me the knife! I’ll show who is scared!
Ycu secure the money—it’s under the pillow—l ;
saw him put it there, and I'll do the rest.”
The old man was in advance, and as lie stood
between the window and the drover, lhe latter
could see his foim bent over the bed, while his
hand seemed to be searching beneath tbe pillow.
“Here, Henri—take it Here’s the wallet, and
here’s the belt. How heavy it is I”—and lie pass
ed the money to his companion before the other i
had yet reached the bedside.
The old man then pot his hand to his bosom,
and the trembling drover saw him draw forth
the long blade the other had given him. For
an instant the murdetous weapon was poised
over his head, and then descended upon the per
son of the poor wretch in the bed.
The murderer paused in his Work for an in
stant, as if to satisfy himself that life was ex
tinct ; and then moved quickly from the room.
As soon as the sound of his footsteps had
died in the distance, the horror stricken drover
escaped through the window, and ran with all
his speed to Marquise, whrre arousing the peo-
I pie of the hotel he told the fearful story. A
crowd soon collected about biro, and accompa
nied him to the scene of the fearful murder
All about the house was still, but on approach
ing the stable a light was discovered within ;
and, moving noiselessly to the door, and peeping
•through the cracks, the two murderers were
found in the act of digging a grave beneath the
flooring. A rush was made upon them, and they
were arrested.
At die sight of the drover, who was the first
to confront -the guilty wretches, die landlord
uttered a shriek of terror and fell to the ground,
while his accomplice, as pale as a corpse, gazed
upon him with affright, not doubting it was tbe
ghost of the murdered man that s ood be-iore
them.
The party now proceeded to the bouse, bring
ging the murderers along with them.
Li Ills weie procured, and still keeping the
! piisoners with them, the people entered the
| room where lay the body of the man sostrange
! ]y murdered instead of the
wife sind daughter followed.
When the covering was removed from the face
of the corpse and the light of tli* candles flared
upon it, a wild cry bnrst from the lips of tbe
Landlord’s wife.
“Mv son—ttiv murdered son ! Who has done
this ?”
Arid with a hysterical scream she fell to the
floor.
“No, no 1 it can’t be so, mother I” exclaimed
(lie daughter, as she struggled to reach the bed.
But the terrible truth burst upon her as her
eyes fell upon the mangled form of her brother,
and she also swooned upon the body.
The ernes e>l tbe broken-hearted females
teemed to mouse the old man fur a moment,;
and gazing wildly at the sight before him, he
realized also the terrible truth. lie had mur
dered his son.
Ott investigating the facts before the magis
trate on the following day, it was ascertained
that the son of the inn-keeper, who was a dU
sip'aled young man, had visited Marquise the
previous evening, where, with some pf his asso
ciates, he had been engaged in drinking and
gambling until a late hour ; and being too much
intoxicated to remount his horse, and ashamed
ELBERTOX, OA„ SEPT’R 13, 1876.
to meet his family, some of his fellow-gamblers
l ad accompanied him home ; and supposing the
room mi which the drover had b'-eii put to be
vacant, they had assisted the drunken man into
| the window. It was their voices the lodger had
1 heard ; it lid thus it was that the helpless youth
| met Ids death and our friend escaped,
i The accomplice of the landlord proved to be
| his own son-in-law, Henri Legrand.
| From that awful hour the wretched mother of
that murdered boy, murdered by bis father’s
bund, remained a raving maniac.
It is only necessary to add, in concluding this
tale of horror, that the drover recovered his
monty, and justice claiming her due, the two
! murdersrs paid the penalty of their crime on
! the guillotine. Shortly after this last event, the
■ people of Marquise, to whom the scene of the
j unna.iinl murder had become an eyesore, as
| sembled and leveled the bit lding to the ground.
! Ttie spot is now covered with brambles and
| thistles, and is pointed out to the stranger ns the
place to be avoided; for the ignorant assert
| that it is haunted oy the ghost of the murdered
son.
FEED ANDEASY LAW.
Win. J. Davis is writing some very
intereresting sketches of the early Cali
fornia for the Sacramento Bee. We
find the following among them.
In the olden times, in Plumus conn
ty, a man was arrested for murder,
tried and convicted, and sentenced to
be hanged. The case was taken to the
Supreme Court on appeal. Pending
the appeal, the District Court convened
in another county, and the Supreme
Court debated quite a while on the case.
Finally a decision was filed affirming
the judgment of the court below, and
directing that the defendant be resen-
to death. In those days the
Sacramento Union was about the only
newspaper circulating in that remote
country, and whatever appeared in its
columns was taken to be Undoubtedly (
the fact. The issue containing the Su -
preme Court decision arrived at .the j
country seat, and the sheriff saw it, j
and concluded that tho matter was set
tled finally. So, walking into the jail,
he addressed the defendant with :
‘•Well, the Supreme Court has affirm
ed the judgment in your case; its print
ed in the Sacramento Union,”
“It is ?” said the prisoner. “That’s
rough ; but I guess I'll have to stand [
it ” ! *,
Sheriff,/T have got to j
hangyywffp you have been here a good
while—an expense to the county, and j
the sooner the thing [is over the bet- j
ter/' A'*-*•' , t
•• iae. >o' *u ft hrtr •/*
said the prisoner; “give* a fellow a
chance to get ready.”
“How will the first of next week do ?" |
asked the sheriff
“O, what’s the use of all that hurry ? i
Call in the last of the week.”
“Well, we will split the difference j
and call it Wednesday afternoon,” said
the officer.
this was acquiesced in by the other
party in interest, and at the appointed
time ho was taken cut and hanged, j
At the opening of tbe District Court •
at the following term, Judge R. H. j
Taylor, now at Virginia City, who was
then on the bench, inquired of the clerk
if therejmatter had been sent down, and j
being advised in the affirmative, said,
“I guess we had better have the pri ;
soner up this morning and i
resentenced.” He was rather surprised
when the sheiiff innocently informed
him that the law had already been fully I
satisfied, and that the criminal had been j
sent before the court whence there
could be no appeal. The matter was
hushed up, and we believe no mention
has heretofore been made of it in print.
Albert Rhodes has got himself into
business In the September GalaSy he
thoughtlessly asked, “Shall we drink
wine ?” And now the postal cards are
pouring in upon him by thousands bear
ing affirmative answers, and asking him
to name the time and place. As lor us,
not any, thank you, Albert, but if yon
have any good old Bourbon m your flask,
here’s hoping.—Havvkeye.
It was evening. Three meu were kill
ing a cat. One of them held a lantern,
another held the cat, and the third jam
med the pistol into the cat’s ear, and
fired shooting the man in the hand who
hold the cat, and the one with the lan
tern was wounded in the arm. The cat
left when it saw how matters stood
and that ill feeling was being engender
; ed -
An Irish soldier pretending to dumb
ness was discharged. He in a short
| time enlisted iu another corps, and being
| recognized by an old comrade, was ques
tioned how lie learned to speak “By
Saint Patrick,” he replied, “ten guineas
would make any man spake.”
.*
An Irishman on board a vessel when
she was on the point of foundering, being
desired (t° come on deck,- as she was
going down, replied that lie bad no
wish to go on deck to “'sec himself
drowned.”
Wo believe it was Josh Billings who
discovered the capacity of a yellow-jack
ets’ nest to break up a camp meeting.
In a funeral at Davenport, lowa, Satur
day, one of the carriage drivers struck
at a haystack with his whip, and cut
open a hornet’s nest. Asa consequence
the whole procession was broken up, and
the corpse alone; of all tho company,
preserved the composure becoming the
occasion.
-
“What is the interior of Afri i pviu
eip ally used for ? ’ asked a teacher of
a pupil. “For purposes of exploration,
was the reply.
NeW Yotk MiWury.]
fcITTEN AND PURSUED BY THE SPIRIT
OP A SERPENT.
A POISONED LIFE THAT ENDED IN MURDER
AND SUICIDE.
North Dorset is a pretty hamlet in Vermont,
near to Hoosac. The grand Green Mountains
tower up on either side, and nestled in the
j peaceful valley are the few rambling houses and
| workmen’s hats th t go to make up the setth.-
j ment. It is easy enough to see, at the first
j glance, that North Dorset is not a rich place, for
i the people look anything but wealthy, the farms
! have an uncared-for appear tner? and the houses
j are of the most tumbled-dovn and dilapidated
description. A curious anomallyis the preserc e
| of marble in every direction : gate-posts, fences,
door-steps, and even fire places of pure white
marble may be found iu and around these hum
ble dwelling; And yet this app.rinL luxury is
but the result of tho innate indolence cf the
people, for the marble is the refuse of a quarry
in the neighborhood, and the North Dorseters,
| who are too lazy to cut their' fences and gatc
j posts from wood, have found it much easier to
j bring marble slabs front the quarry This was
the appearance of the place when the writer
| went thither in search of piscatorial sport, i
I which showed a meagre return of perch, “bull- !
; heads” and sunfish. The completion of the i
i Hoosac tumid has, however, probably improved j
poor, desolate North Dorset, as it has improved I
other places in the locality. In former, days,
small as the place was, it boosted a hotel after
the conventional country pattern, which,besides
affording entertainment for man and beast, con
tained the postoffice, country store and bar-room,
in Which the loungers of the place would con
gregate and discuss polities and the other gossip
of a country bar-room. Altogether, North
Dorset was not, beyond what attractions nature
bad bestowed upon it, an altogether Wahallan
abode. There was a strange child there, how
ever, whose fame had gone abroad among scien
tific critics, and the little hamlet was frequently
visited by students of natural phenomena, anx
ious to solve, if possible, the riddle this un'or
tntßsUe youngster presented. In the account
wiieti follows, the real names of the parties in
terested ate suppressed at the request of those
who have so deeply suffered through the events
that have transpired. The victors to the North
Be-rsef Hotel were immediately attracted by the
a||||pH*ube-ffA * t,a) alc servants. She
tine-five i m m ry**rr oft
Her eyes were dark and small, and flora the ex
pression in them it was evident that the woman
had suffered SRteli, as indeed she had. She had
married one of the hands on the railroad—a big,
hurley German—who, after the birth of their
child,* and a strike of the lianas which threw
him out of \voik,hnd taken to drink and abused
her shamefully- One night as he was stagger
ing home to his shanty, drunk, he was run down
by an express train and fatally injured. His
death was a release to poor Eunice in some re
spects, but stilt she bad herself and child to
support, and so being a tidy and industrious
woman, found bat little trouble in finding
employment at the hotel. Here another mis
fortune befe! her. The child, who had now
grown to be seven years of age, while playing
in tbe fields was bitten by a snake and came
crying home, evidently suffering intense pain,
and with her face swollen where the poisoned
fangs had entered the tempi? over the right
eye. What little skill there was in that rude
neighborhood was summoned, for little Aunchen
had become a great favorite among the people,
and strange as it may seem the child was saved
from death. For six months there was no ap
parent change in her, and then, at the full of
the moon, a stream of greenish matter oozed
from the little scar that had been left by the
serpent’s fangs, and the whole disposition of
the child seemed to change. Before, she had
been bright and cheerful, but now she seemed
to be pursued by tbe spirit of tho serpent.
Without the slighest provocation she would
give way to fits of almost uncontrollable rage.
At these times her forehead would seem to flat
ten, her head would roll from side to side, h>. r
eyes would glitter with a strange, fascinating,
and yet terrifying light, and she would try to
bite any human being that came in Iter way.
Failing in this, she would run out in the road,
| and, picking tip stones, would fling them with
! devilish malignity at those towards whom she
| wished to vent her rage. She would continue
• in this condition for about a week and then
i would supervene a season of almost death like
’ inertia, and she would return to her normal
• state of and eerfulness. With each return of the
| full moon would come those strange fits and by
1 and by she became known in tbe neighborhood
I as the snake child.
| A physician from Troy happening to be at
; North Dorset during the following summer, saw
J the child, and was completely puzzled at her
ease. He wrote to some others of the medical
| fraternity, and very soon there was a consulta-
I tion of doctors in the little hotel parlor, discus-
I sing the lusus natural. Different remedies were
j tried, but without avail. One of the party,
i more enthusiastic than th? Jest, allowed Ann
j then to bite him on the arm, and soon the limb
1 swelled up and became mortified like the wound
!of a serpent. Restoratives and stimulants were
applied and he recovered, out a serious attack
!of sickness followed his experiment. Baffled in
their efforts to discover the cause and prevention
| of the strange malady with which Annchen was
: affected, the Troy doctors determined to bring
I the child to New York, and it was not difficult
| to obtain the consent of tho mother to the trip,
i The appearance of the child in this city will be
| remembered by some of our most eminent physi-
I eians, although the cure was never made public
When she fitst came into the bustling city, all
1 its strange and novel sights appeared to please
: her immensely, and ?he danced.and crowed with
j childish glee. The appearance ot the full moon,
j however,"brought with it the usual symptoms :
J there were the discharge of matter from the scar,
I the fits of passion, and the peculiar flattening of
I the forehead developed with even greater in
i' tensity than they bad been in the quiet hamlet
j of North Dorset, and she brought desolation
j upon the glass jars and retorts of many a labo
ratory. The New York doctors were n much
j puzzled as their brethren at, Troy, the case baf-
I fling their utmost efforts for its solution, f o
deep was the interest taken in her that a purse
was made up, and it was determined to send
her to Germany, in the hope that perhaps the
German physicians might be able to give her
telief. ' The mother was still further urged to go
by the fact that her husband's father in that
j country had lately died, leaving a small estate
! to her. Funds enough were raised to send her
1 and Annchen to Fatherland, and they soon de
parted. A few months elapsed, when Eunice wrote,
returning the amount that had been advanced
Vol. y-No. 20.
I for tho passage money, and saying that her child
seemed to be improving under the treatment of a
celebrated physician at Bonne, who had taken
I great interest in the case, and that a full moon
| had passed without return of the dreadful mill
i tidy. Years passed by and Eunice wrote no
j more, while in the hurry of business and Lite
occurrence of thiir professional events, the
poor Vermont snake child was forgotten, only
that occasionally she would be spoken of and
wonder expressed as to her fate. Last week her
memory was recalled in a most startling man
ner. One of tiio physicians who had been in
j strumentnl in sending her abroad happened to
! be in the office of one of our large advertising
j agencies, and, while waiting tor the party whom
' Ire had come to see, ho took up a German paper
'• lying on the desk at his side. Being a good
| German scholar, he commenced reading it when
! his eye was attracted by a paragraph describing
| a terrible murder and suicide, in one of the
, villages of the Tyrol. It did not take him long
i to discover a similarity in the description of the
i young woman who was the heroine of the trage
idy to Annchen of former years. The story re
j latcd how this beautiful young girl had been
bitten by a serpent in childhood, and how the
wound had seemed to change her whole nature.
Finally, she had been brought to German}', and,
as it was supposed, cured by a well-known,
physician at Bonne. Only a year ago she had
married a young and prosperous merchant in
Berlin. This summer the young couple had
gone on a pleasure trip to the Tyrol, where the
wife gave birth to a beautiful child. Shortly
after this a circus and menagerie gave an exhi
bition in the village wlieie they were stopping,
and the young couple, >. ilh their nuts* and
child, visited the show One of the prime curi
osities of the exhibition was a number of Amer
ican rattlesnakes inclosed in a glass ease. The
sight of these reptiles senied to effect the woman
in a most curious .manner. She was rooted to
the spot and gazed upon them as if fascinated.
The husl-and was also shocked, and astonished
to observe a small stream of greenish matter
ooze from a slight rear in hi< wife's teini'le. The
child was peevish and fretful, an 1 cried, as chil
dren will. The mother gave a hasty glance at
it, and quicker than thought dashed her hand
through the glass ease and seizing one of the
writhing reptiles applied its mouth to the child's
forehead. The husband sprang forward in an
agony of terror, and seized bis wife’s arm, but
it was too late, for the venomous rep'ile had
bitten the child. There was‘groat excitement in
the show, and a general scattering in the crowd
That night tbe child died, and as it lay in its
little bed, its poor body bloated and swollen from
the poison, the mother bent ove: it, kissed its
checks, and then, before site could be stopped,
seized a knife from a table standing by Her
eyes glistened, and her forebcao, so the by
standers said, seemed to flatten. While they were
wondering wliat she was about to do. she raised
the knife, and with a quick and determined mo
tion, plunged it into her heart, and fell dead on
the floor. The physician, on ret ding this ac
count, was, as may readily be supposed, much
shocked to hear of so trstgic an ending to the
pretty little Annchen of former years, and in
relating the to
"urns ”nfmost a
Homes’ ideal “Elsie Tenner,”
—
About 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon
a citizen climbed tiio stairs leading to a
Detroit lawyer’s office, pushed open the
door with an impatient slam and angrily
inquired: “Why didn’t you call on me
as requested?” “Call on you ? 1 didn’t
know that you wanted to see mo,” was
the surprised reply. “I left a note on
your table an hour before noon/’ contin
ued the citizen. “It was enclosed in an
envelope directed to you, anti I wrote
tho word ‘private’g across tho end.”
“That explains it,” answered the lawyer,
sinking back into bis chair. * “My wife
came down here this morning, saw that
letter, and I'll bet she wasn’t the
fifteenth part of a second putting it in
to her pocket, I hope for the Lord’s
sake that yon wrote a large hand and
signed your full name.”
A Husband’s Ruse.— The man who,
uays the St. Louis Republican, wcarry of
his wife’s absence on a visit to her moth
er, Lad a photograph of his house taken
with himself and his neighbor’s wife
standing on tho porch, which he sent to
his better-half, has a rival in the one
who simply saw that his letter contained,
as if by accident, a red hair a' out three
feet long. His wife wouldn’t have wait
ed for the next train to get home, could
she have sent herself by telegraph.
The Flutes about Virginia, Nov , are
in a high state of excitement over an in
fant in their tribe which is haif dog, hall j
Piute, and somewhat more dog than In
dian. It is looked upon by the wise men
as the forerunner of some serious calam
ity. The squaw who gave birth to tho
peculiar anatomical combination tli'spcr, :
ed of it by dropping it down an old
shaft.
An old miser, saying he never ft It
j so mean as bo did just after bis last fit
of illness, was asked, “Why so.-” “13c-
I cause,” said he, “thinking I was going
: to die, I paid several bills, when if I’d
| waited I might have kept tho*money no
| body knows how long.”
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j “Cuba wants to borrow forty million
dollars.” We have only thirty nine mil
lions in cash, and we don’t want to mort
gage our printing office to make up the
balance, heuco Cuba will have to seek
; relief from some other source.
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Statistics show that thus far iu this
; centennial year two boys have been born
■to every girl, and a very fine article of
j boy in eve.y instance, too Does this
1 mean another war, or merely less talk ?
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It was rather personal in a Califor
' nia newspaper man to chronicle the
| purchase of a mule by a brother editor
I as “a remarkable instance Of- self-posses
; sion.”
j A tin camp case, containing bottles
I and tumblers, which was used by Gen’l
I Francis Marion during tho Revolution,
is offered for sale or raffle in Charles
! ton, South Carolina.
yfilu that wears a tight boot is likely to
have a narrow understanding.
“BIBEOOA OF IVAIuIOh.” *
From tlw San Fran.:; oo Chionivle.j
“Miss Gi ur:dy says that Lug -.- igiual of
Sir Walter Scott's Rebecca, in tho novel
of Tvanhoe,’ was ttj Puiludulphia Jew
ess. whes 3 picture Washington Irving
showed to Scott ”
Thin ; üblieation has called from a well
informed c< irrei j ond< n
particulars of the part taken by Irving
hi supplying Scott VritU tho interesting
literary picture from real life, including
tho American author’s early lo /e, disap
pointment, and the mutual vows of ce‘i
bacy taken by himself and the lady wl; >
loved but v;;3 not permitted to wed hit:-,
and who is reproduced in N. otfc s charm
ing character of Rebecca. Our corres
pondent ha Li information from a rela
tivo of the lady in question, an tho al
ready known tacts leave but ii tie room
to doubt that these freshly published
details arc substantially correct. Tho
story, as our cm respondent relates it, is
as follows:
Washington Irving, iu early life bccauto
acquainted with a very intelligent
beautiful Jewo.v i lad ... ’\ft o
name of l!el acca Gratz. This acquaint
ance ripened into love, hi which both
shaved, and Irving proposed . .
and was accept and c . c ... t tho
parents of tho lady would consent to tho
union of their daughter with a Gent lo
The Hebrew religion forbade such a
marriage, and though the parents cs
teemed the suitm 1. ;i.U Li. y tot, .1 not
bring their mind.; to consent to a viola
tion ol’ so sacred a regulation of their
faith. Tho attachment vm. so strong
between the lady and riving that Uolu
ing but their elevated ... o the duty
of a child lo parental authority kept
them from wc<L ing. ley , Ived
however, that in sentiments they would
remain true to each other through lifo
and never wed.
It was during this state of their rent
lit is that Irving • rst visit to
Sir Walter Scott. The latter had al
ready made for In. dt a-i undying rop
ut-ation as an author, ur.tl tho former,
with bis literary i rod lotions, had attract
ed the attention of the ‘.'Wizard of the
North,’ who was at that time incubating
in his mind that wonderful story, of
“I van hoe” Personal intercourse with
filing so won upon Scott’s’confidence
tlji.t he Fetched to him the • plan, of tho
story, confessing at the same time that
ho felt the need of a heroine other than
Rowcna. Irving’s heart and head were
full of his romantic love for Rebecca
Gratz, and lie modestly proffered to fur
nish Scott with a heroine, many of the
incidents connected with whom should
be drawn from real life. The offer was
accepted, and Irving’s Rebecca, mutually •
pledged with him to unwelded earthly
fidelity, stood as the model of the im
mortal Rebecca of ‘Tvanhoe.” Scott, of
course, adopted it to the exigencies of
his story but the great ideal as funrishod
by Irving was unchanged.
It was known to every one that Irving
never was mayrtsd, and. those who were
mail ,
rnm •rriT^S;r'-'r' r^
ment,- about Which a cloud ’ofWfitfmy
hong, ion,lining him insensible to tho
blandishments and char;/'? -t*—....
women, by whom he was highly esteem
ed, and in the breasts of some it was
supposed a warmer sentiment existed.
Rebecca Gratz, geutlo and loving, with
heart and baud ever open to suffering and
sorrow, remained true to her plighted
faith, and, like Irving, died unwedded
EVILS OP EARLY RlSDfftf.
Tho attention of medical men in this
great republic, observes Haw key e Bur
dutte, is called to ; the injudicious and
absolutely hateful habit much iu vogue
in tho rural districts and among early
risers in tho city, of getting up in the
night to eat. This nocturnal meal is
faintly disgivsed under tho name of
breakfast, and there is no doubt it is
creating, spreading and sustaining tho
national disease, dyspepsia. The cus
tom is sometimes visited with severe
judgments, but nothing seems able to
deter its votaries from continuing its
practice Wo once took summer board
ing with a man who eat in the night and
roused up all his household to share tho
unnatural meal. One night ho stirred
us all up at 4:30 o’clock to cat. We roso
and ate. That very day his best COv/
immolated herself on a wire fence, one”
c f his horses bit himself with a rattle
snake, a reaping machine ate up Leri
best farm hand, a distant relative sent
! his youngest boy a drum, his wife to-.-k
to writing poetry, and one of his most
popular talented and handsomo board*-
ers flitted, leaving an unpaid summer’s
board bill to remember him by. Tho
j latter circumstance is indellibly impress
ed upon our memory. We*t>ften trick
,of j-t in connection with tbe somewhat
striking coincidence that wo never haver
been in that country since.
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OSCULATOSY BARGAIN.—In the* L'iClth
part of the city, as a veracious repo ter
reports, a young lady and a young man
get on the eteps cf a Sunday evening
and enter into a contract. F* v each
shooting star he is to receive aL. 8. On
cue of these interesting occasions a 1 alf
hour passed away and not a solit.uy sUr
shot across the sky. But after a hi!a
the cherry lips of the young lady parted,
and she called her young man’s alto iti-m
to the flying meteors that were abi at to
escape Ids observation ; then she' got to
calling his attention to the lightning
bugs, and finally got him down to steady
work on the light of tqlanternyi r..r n was
carrying about the depot where the trains
were shifting. Artless girl!
[lowa Regi tor.
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“We go to press at two irtefoad of
four to day,” said a Tcnnessc' p©} r, “in
order to attend to some bus: teas of im
portance in the country.” At precisely
five minutes before four, two high or!
looking men with shotgun, called and
wanted to know where tho editor i\ as.
A Detroit husband whipped his wife
because the baby didn’t take tho li:,-.
’ prize nt the bal v Mow