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THE LAGRANGE REPORTER,
PUBLIHUED BY
, T. WATERMAN, LaGrange, Georgia.
TIIE PREMIUM PAPER OF GEORGIA.
I lhn 001,1 Modal ut tho Htato Fair
tho only pi'rinliim
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kly in cion ruin. Iloo-
n« tlm provincial jnvuHnf
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hvotlior Harris and Hoard couiiIIch, and u/te
(circulation In tho Htato. Haw no auporlor
mdvorttMliiH mortluni In Ooornla.
Vatoa roasonablo,
THE LITTLE WIDOW TRUSTFUL.
OEOnaiA soldi kr’h HlUVE LITTLE widow.
Tom Dr. Bulllo’s Notes In tho Darloti Oazotto.)
It, may bo rooollcotcil that in a ro-
NEWSPAPER LAW DECISIONS.
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VOL. XXXV.
LAGRANGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4, 187!).
no. 3<i.
iont. note I promlsod, among other
onilnlsoonooa of tho Into war, to tell
lie story of the little Widow Trustful,
ind how she supported her family of
Ight children and her invalid old |
Mother, hut falling to do so In the next |
inote, I was accosted in the stl’cot by a
(gay and festive young friend, with the !
L '
|how about that little widow?’ Now ]
I saw at onoa that he expected some in . , , „ ,,
teresting romance, when I told him it .a''onl ; then, many of the trees wore
was a poor yonng woman’s thankful r ' lt 1 ; these we split up into
I -
[salutation and inquiry, ‘I say, Doctor,
made out to support your large family
of young children and the invalid
mot her of your poor husband?*
She pointed to a little ridge of pines,
some little distanco from us, and said :
‘Mostly from yonder. It was the
year before my husband left mo Unit a
whirlwind and storm foiled a great
| many of tho largest trees, and the
owner gave us leave to cut as much as
we could sell or use. Tho cutting down
wotild have boon too much for us, but
a kind Providence laid done that for
us, and Hud and I cut them up and
corded thorn, and sold tho wood to tho
factory ns it lay on the ground, for $2
was a poor young woman s
account of her belief in direct answer
to prayer, and her over obedient trust
in God, and that as her daily life ex-
omplillod tlds good spirit, her neigh
bors caller 1 her the ‘Widow Trustful.’
Tho following short sketch will tell
the story:
In the spring of 1804 the diphtheria
raged as an epidemic in portions of
■Wilkinson, Hancock and Baldwin
counties, many families losing three
and four children, and in quick suc
cession ; tho physicians were mostly
away to the war, and tho authorities
gave notice to such ns remained that
any medical aid rendered tho poor
would be paid for from tho county
funds respectively, and certainly it
was the most violent and fatal form of
tho disease that I ever witnessed. Dr.
Case, of Milledgeville, a kind-hearted
and excellent man and physician, re
quested me to help him in his calls to
the sufferers, and the widow’s family
was assigned to me with others in her
neighborhood. Their humble home
was not far from the residence of the
wealthy Colonel D. B. and lady, who
rendered every assistance to tho sick
within their reach and invited me to
stay with them at night, that I might
be convenient to iny patients during
the day. I paid unremitting attention
to the widow’s family for a week or
more; there were live of the eight
children ill, two of whom died on tho
same day, two were convalescent, and
one, the eldest boy of fourteen years
and her only help, was lying at the
point of death, and as I believed, be
like shingles, only smaller, and sold
them in town for a dime a bunch, find
ing ready sale, not always for cash,
but sometimes swapped them off for
old clothing for tho children, soap and
salt and such like, when we got more
than the money. So, Doctor, with our
truck patch in summer, we get along
very well; its only sickness and death
that I dread, while I try to submit
humbly to—’
‘But pray tell me, bow do you get
your kindlings to town, five miles
away?’
‘Well,’she said, ‘you see that little
Jenny there, under the shed, with ears
as long as her legs, she hauls them for
us in that light cart you see oesidoher,
which Bud contrived some way; the
Colonel gave him a pair of his old car
riage-wheels and he tinkered up tho
body. Thank you kindly, Doctor, for
the interest you take in us, and for
coming to help us in our trouble, and
now we are all right again, I feel
thankful and will try to keep my hus
band’s niesst
before me.’
MY MURDER.
THE STORY OF A TELEGRAPH OPERATOR.
(From tin’ Hartford Courant.)
A sherry cobbler would be consider-
d a very mild decoction by a great
uiny New York girls, and not fast
iris either. I have seen young ladies
yond all earthly hope and help, in fact, I out shopping stop at Bigot’s, or Pur-
his condition was so deplorable that I cell’s, or even Delmonico’s, and order j
thought it simply impossible for him a hot Scotch with as little hesitation!
to live and candidly told her so, but
not a murmur escaped her, there was 1
no weeping and wailing, but a quiet,
humble submission, that commanded
my sympathy and respect. I took a
last look (us I thought) at the poor
boy, and bid her good night. As I was
leaving tho room she muttered ‘no |
hope Doctor, now.’ ‘My friend,* I
plied, ‘no human aid can avail anything toxicated, except at a Leiderkranz or
now, but all tilings are possible with i Arion ball, but I have seen women
God, and to His mercy I_eommend \ drink pretty freely. I am not talking
you.’ of drunkards now, but simply of wo-
On returning early tho next morn- ' men who drink. That there are wo-
ing, to see the other children, I saw i men drunkards there is no denying,
the window in the boy’s room open, \ I know another woman who will
and heard loud singing by the good steal a bottle of cologne, if your back
women neighbors, who had watched | is turned, and have ils contents down
through the night. From their smil- ; her throat before you have time to
ing faces I could not think it was at look around. I know of still another
funeral song; when I entered the | woman who has been twice in the in-
house I found it was a hymn of thanks- I ebriate asylum, and who is only kept
giving, for the boy was sitting up m | from drinking medicinal spirits by
his bed and his mother giving him i their being labelled “poison” in big
nourishment. A single glance at his 1 letters. You may say that I know a
features satisfied me that death was ! queer lot of people, perhaps. Ido, for
gone. ‘How is this?’ I asked, ‘What j l know a great many; but you will find
was done after I left?’ One of the wo
men took me aside and whispered, ‘It’s
the Good Lord’s doing, in answer to
prayer of that trustful little widow.’
The widow said nothing when I first
approached the bed, but when she had
given the boy his bowl of gruel, she
turned to me and said, ‘I thank you
so much, Doctor, for all you have done
for me.’ I felt exceedingly small, and
went into the next room where the
other children were sick.
In reporting this case, I remember
stating that there seemed no vitality
above the clavicle, that the scalp was
loose from tho bone and could have
been pinched off in pieces; that could
I have grasped tho black and swollen
tongue, I could have pulled it out with
all its appendages, and with but very
little forco; yet, the boy lives to-day,
and takes care of his good little moth-
(From tho Han Francisco Call.)
After all, wo way station telegraph
operators are not without our little bit
of romance occasionally, and I think I
can show that we are not entirely with
out a certain amount of responsibility,
but it is seldom if ever recognized, un
less one of our number by carelessness
suddenly plunges a train into destruc
tion by failing to deliver or understand
orders. The time of which I write was
one pleasant afternoon in early au
tumn, the 22d day of September, 1870,
and as the occurrence has made a deep
and vivid impression on my mind, I
can not forget the day, which was Fri
day. At that time I had been an agent
and operator on the railroad a lit
tle while over two months. Tho line
was directly through parts of Indiana
and Illinois, and some of the stations
had no telegraph office, consequently
tho order distance was somewhat
lengthy, and there was but one office
between mine and Cowans, twelve
miles west. On this day I was quietly
puffing my meerschaum in the little
bay window of my office, and wishing
for something to relieve the monotony,
when the operator at Cowans called
the train dispatcher, and said an engine
had sprung her throttle with 140 pounds
of steam and gone east while the fire
man had gone to lunch and the engi
neer, who was oiling around, had no
•time to get on.
All was still as death fora minute,
when the dispatcher begun to call G—,
the only office beteen mine and Cow
ans. For full five minutes lie called
him, using the signal “23,” which
means death, but still no answer and
and dying words ever I still the monotonous click of the arm
ature; presently he answered in a
dazed, hurried manner, and when
asked about the engine, said it had
passed there at a fearful rate of speed
at fourteen minutes past four, with no
person visible. It was only six miles
more to me, and an excursion was on
its way west with a heavy load of tired
piokniokers and had actually left a
station only eight miles east of me, |
the first telegraph office, at two min
utes past four.
The dispatcher called me furiously,
and being at hand and expectant, I an
swered immediately. When he said,
| “Turn your switch to wreck engine
I No. 11, going east wild.” I replied
I quickly, “I can not without an indem-
i nity order,” and after a hasty consul
tation with tlie Superintendent, as 1
nt ahead with
whoso unusual form and
wording roused many a “brass-sound
er” from n doze. It was like this:
“To Operator: Wreck wild engine
No. H at your eastern switch gate to
save collision. Company will defend
and uphold you. D. R. B.”
I immediately returned my “13” or
understanding,” received “correct at
4:18 p. m.,” and turned to look for the
engine, when, although the conversa
tion between myself and the despatch-
cr had consumed but four minutes, I
saw her coming at the grandest rate
of speed I ever witnessed, and snatch*
ing my order I ran to the switch-gate,
about one hundred and fifty feet, and
when I had unlocked and thrown the
rail, tho roaring monster was only
about one hundred feet away. I had
my watch in my hand and stepped
quickly back out of harm’s way, when
at exactly at 4:20 she went over, and
such an unearthly crash, I hope I may
never see or hear again! The dirt and
stones flew fifty feet in the air, the
BLACK-
Stop using Calomel ami try
DRAUGHT ” for liver diseases.
For sale by T. S. Bradlield,
NEW YORK LADIES WHO DRINK.
Boston lady who would order a
cup of tea. Every time this subject is
brought up in tho papers there is a
great line and cry raised, and the thing
is denied. But nevertheless the thing , ... . , , ,
T . . , xr , afterward learned, he
is true. I do not say that New York | . , ,
ladies drink to excess, but they drink
a great deal of both wine and spirits.
I have very seldom seen a woman in-
CONCERNING WOMEN.
The alumni of Mount Holyoke num
ber 2,000.
Mrs. David Davis lias made u liberal
cash donation to tho St. Matthew’s
Episcopal church at Bloomington, Ill.
Sojourner Truth, now 103 years old,
has joined the Kansas emigration, and
is going west to grow lip with the |
country.
Dr. Juliet Caldwell read a very inter
esting and suggestive paper upon “Hy
giene” before the Illinois Social Sci
ence Association recently. •
Mrs. Martha Rogers, of Middletown,
Conn., who gave bolls to four of tho
churches in that place, and contribut
ed $25,000 to religious objects, has just
died, aged seventy-six.
Tho Empress Eugenie lias written a
letter which is greatly to her credit,
earnestly protesting against any re
criminations on the circumstances of
her son’s death. She blames no one.
Grace Greenwood says that “among
its othor manufactures, New England
produces the best educated girls, the
truest wives, the noblest mothers, and
tho most glorious old maids in the
world.”
Sara Bernhardt sat thirty-eight times
for her portrait by M. Lepage, which
is so highly commended by critics.
Tho artist wculd begin tho sitting at
8 o’clock and continue until noon. The
canvas is 12x15 inches.
The Chautauqua Assembly authori
ties have added the new feature of a
cooking club to their exorcises this
year. Miss M. Parloa of Boston has
been announced to give seven lectures
on cooki; g, with practical illustrations.
Miss Laura Y. Dye, of Leon, Iowa,
has boon nominated for school super
intendent of Decatur county. Miss
Dye is a young lady who attended the
| University in Dos Moines some two
years ago, and gave evidence of line
talent.
Lady Duffus ITardy and Miss Ada
Duffus Hardy arc visiting Ottawa. La-
day Hardy is the authoress of a num
ber of popular novels, as is also Miss
Hardy. These ladies have attained
high literary position in England, and
are now on a tour through Canada and
the United States.
“Mrs. North,” says the Iowa City
Press, “was elected Librarian, with a
salary of $000. She reorganized the
State Library and gave to it its first
intelligent management. Siie brings
to her work the best preparation and
experience, and will build wisely upon
the foundation wisely laid by Professor
Courier.”
Mrs. Maxwell intends to gather a
scientific addition to tho State Library
of Massachusetts, which is in her
charge, in the way of curiosities of sci
entific, geological and other kinds, and
also collections of tho taxidermist’s
work. She has the promise already of
some lino specimens, which she will
put in place as soon as arrangements
are made for greater space, the lack of
which just now is getting to bo a seri
ous inconvenience in the constantly in
creasing size of tlie library.
Mrs. Josephine Ellis, ot Milford, N.
H., left an estate estimated at about
KALLOCH AND DEYOUNG.
NEW ENGLAND VIRTUE.
(Personal Sketches.)
Charles Do Young, the senior pro
prietor of the San Francisco “Chroni
cle,*’ is a native of New Orleans, La.,
and is of French extraction. He is
the eldest of three brothers, and, the
family being very poor, he received
little or no education. Ho began life
in San Francisco as a newsboy, in
which way ho supported his mother
for years. He was afterwards appro-
ticed to the printer’s trade, but
learned even that imperfectly, begin
ning in business for himself before his
apprenticeship expired. In 1851) he
started the “Dramatic Chronicle,”
which had a small and unpromising
beginning, lmt which in a few years
took a strong hold, and developed
into a successful enterprise. Finally
lie associated his brothers in the pa
per, Henry being business mana
ger and Michael uttondingto outside
affairs, Charles attending to the edit
ing. Soon after tho war tho paper
gave way to the San Franoiseo “Chron
icle.” Mr, Do Young is a man of
great enterprise in securing news, and,
whilst he cannot write an editorial
himself, he knows when an editorial
suits him, and he prints none that do
not reflect his views. A prominent
characteristic of the man is strong
love for his mother, who is about sev
enty years df age. During tho troub- |
les arising from the, publication of the
scandalous article in the San Francis- ,
co “Sun,” out of which the shooting
grew, the “Chronicle” was necessarily .
I obliged to print the news regarding ;
I the arrest and trials of the printers
i and Napthaly, but Mrs. Do Young j
never saw a line of it. A special edi-j
| lion of one copy of the “Chronicle”:
was printed every night, and left i
; with the old lady by the regular.carri- 1
' rier, and but for the affair of Saturday |
i it is doubtful if Mrs. Do Young would
j ever have known that she had been I
• disrespectfully mentioned. As a
business man De Young holds a high
! position in San Francisco, and ids pu-
i per is probably worth to-day $250,000.
! Rev. I. S. Kulloch was born in Port-
j land, Me., where his father was also
a, preacher. In college he is said to
have been a wild boy, and early evin-
! ced a fondness for women of a most
! dangerous and compromising order.
He was tho first regular pastor of the
j Temple Society, which built the Tre-
1 mont Temple, Boston, and soon be
came noted for the plainness and
j boldness of his language, being both
| eloquent and sensational. In Jumui-
ry, 1857, stories were circulated about
I his doubtful attentions to certain la
dies of his congregation, but the trus
tees of the Temple, after an investiga
tion, rendered a report setting forth
that the innocence of Mr. Kulloch was
fully established in their minds. In
Fcbuury of the same year, however,
Mr. Kulloch was indicted by the
grand jury of Boston for adultery with
an unknown woman at the Lachmere
CONNECTICUT HOODLUMS TURNED LOOSE.
A correspondent at Norwich, Conn.,
says:
“Gospel Temperance Hurd, of Do
ver, N. Jf., who carries on his crusade
against rum and tobacco with the aid
of great text-covered wagons, canvas-
roofed and gaudily painted, mettled
steeds, and a mammoth tent that seats
two thousand porsons, has come to
grief in Colchester, a large village, six
teen miles to tho north of this city.
Mr. Hurd is a reformed drunkard and
saloon keeper of Boston, of a strong
but uncultivated nature, and is de-
DEATH OF GENERAL HOOD.
NOBLE HOUI. DEPARTED.
New Orleans,August 30.—General J.
B. Hood died at four o’clock this morn
ing. it is believed that his daughter
Lydia will not recover. Edith is also
very sick.
SKETCH OF HIS CAREER.
John Bell Hood was born at Owings-
ville, Bath county, ICy., June 21), 1831;
graduated from the United States Mil
itary Academy at West Point and ap
pointed brevet second lieutenant of in
fantry July, 1853; transferred to tho
cavalry as second lieutenant 1858. He
was mainlv engaged in frontier service
wbothor ho Iiiih HUhHorllM d
pouslbln ter tho puyhteltt.
ion oniiTH 11 1m juipoi* iiiHconilnhcrt
pay nil utToimiKoH, *-»»' U»o liulilluhor
inlinUo tohoiuI n until imyinont In imulo,
Hoot iiio wlioIt* amount wliuthur tho papal'
Islakon from thoollteo oD not,
:i. Tho courts Imvo dooldrtd that roDmlng to
take nnwHjinporH ot' porlorlloalH from tho post*
IN MID AIR.
RESCUED BY A BRAVE YOUNG MAN.
(From tho Atlanta Dispatch.)
Yesterday a pleasure party started ^
from the Jossoy House, in Decatur, to
visit .Stone Mountain. Amongthe party £
was Mrs. W. 0. Jones, of Augusta, and f
her daughter, Emmie, about nine ..
years old, and three or four children.
Emmie and the little daughter of Mrs,
Cunningham, of Savannah, wandered *,•
from the grown people and were sooii d
lost. They rumbled through the .
thick undergrowth, calling for their
parents, but hurl gotten too far to be
heard. The children were moving
r outly honest and conscientious in 1 iis in Texas until 1850. He was severely j rapidly, when, without any warning,
professions. Unfortunately, his Script
ural entertainments take a grotesque
and materialistic nature, for which a
lack of refinement and a naturally
course taste and not a want of sincerity
are to blame. Mr. Hurd has travelled
through New England and the Cana
das, singing sw< et Gospel hymns, il
lustrating on crudely painted canvas
the various paths through this world
that lead to Heaven or down to hell,
and pleading with tears, and often on
his knees, with rum-besotted hus
bands, fathers, and sons. He has done
a good and unselfish work, and many
towns and hamlets thank him for tlie
fruits of his labors in the moral wrecks
he has rebuilt. He lias been welcomed
with courtesy and kindness wherever
he has gone, except in Connecticut. He
remained in Norwich about ten days,
meeting cold assistance from Chris
tians, and open reviling from the rough
wounded in an encounter with the Lip- Emmie slipped from the steep and
an and Comanche Indians July 2<), 1857, almost perpendicular side of the
and was on leave of absence in 18G0. ; mountain, falling about three hundred
He resigned his commission April 1<», f,, 0 t when by great presence of mind
1801, and entered the Confederate ar- ; s ) le managed to catch a little shrub,
my, serving in every position from { un( i ding to the mossy sides of tho
first lieutenant to that of commander- mountain, her feet resting on a space
in-chief of an army, with the rank of of about fifteen inches of glutted rock,
Lieutenant-General. He took part in Had she again slipped she would have
the Cliickahominy campaign, and sub- i Je en hurled one thousand feet farther
sequently fought at the second battle i an d been dashed to pieces among tho
of Manassas, Sharpsburg and Freder- 1 8 ]mrj) rocks below 7 ,
icksburg. At Gettysburg, where he j Her little companion missed her but
commanded a division of Longstreet’s qp] I10 t know she had fallen, and
corps, lie lost an arm on the second found the grown people from whom
day of the battle, liejoining the corps s ]r* hud been separated. The entire
when it was sent to Georgia, he was at j party went in search of Emmie, and
tin* battle of Chieamauga, where he | were about to give up the hunt, when
lost a leg and was made a Lieutenant- some parties passing the base on that
General. IIo subsequently command- ; 0 f the mountain looked up and
orps in the army of Gen. Jos. E. Stt w the child suspended in mid air, as
element. His c
peanuts and tubs
grinned at his
length lie gave i
pair, and, with a
October, journey
“Colchester ini
ongregal ions chewed
loco, and flirted and
earnest appeals. At
ip tic' battle in des-
promisc to return in
ed to Colchester,
d heard of him and
Johnston, whom ho succeeded in July,
1804, and was thereafter in command
of the Confederate army in its opera-!
lions against Gen. Sherman. After
it were. Information was quickly
carried to the anxious mother and tho
question arose how could she berescu
'd. She had been in that position for
the evacuation of Atlanta he marched two hours and no time was to be lost.
invited him to labor there. By way of
welcome, a crowd of roughs stormed
his tent on tho opening night, cut
the guys, hurled a volley of stones at
the startled congregation, and filled
the neighborhood with imprecations
and profanity. Several persons were
badly injured by the missiles, and one
man was knocked insensible to the
| ground. One of the roughs, Joel Arn-
j old, was arrested, tried and fined $20.
i He paid up, and he and his friends
projected an immediate revenge. They
; did not dare attempt an open attack
on the tent, as it was generally under-
j stood that Mr. Hurd, his co-adjutors,
! Colonel CulciT and Mr. Davis, and the
male portion of the audience, were
armed and awaiting a repetition of the
I first night’s violence. They prowled
! around the outskirts, and interrupted physical condition had been bad for
the meetings with loud cries, jibes and sometime past, caused, it is alleged,
obscenity. As the officers did not dare by anxiety rising from financial re-
j to arrest them, they took a bolder at- verses, and the terrible blow he receiv-
1 titudo, and, a night or two ago made a ed in the death of his wife. The Gen-
westward and fought the sanguinary ,
battle of Franklin, Tennessee. Soon!
after another battle was fought near!
Nashville, December 15-10, 1804, and a i
short time after was succeeded by Gen. !
Dick Taylor. Since the war he has lived |
in New Orleans principally engaged
in insurance business. Gen. Hood was
a brave and able officer, but was not
tho equal in generalship and executive I
ability of General Johnston.
BLIGHTED HOPES—HISTORY OF THE WAR. 1
New Orleans, August 30.—Gen. Hood
had hopes of recovery to the last. Por-
| ceiving slight favorable symptoms, he |
, said to Dr. Bemiss: “We may yet dis-
’ lodge the enemy.”
As a measure of precaution, none of
the military associations to which
A brave and gallent young gentleman
named George H. Goldsmith about
nineteen years of age, volunteered
descend the treacherous mountain
side and rescue the child from im
pending death. The child was grow
ing very cold. A swift, strong wind
was sweeping the mountain sides, and
it was growing quite late. No time
was lost and in a few minutes a coil of
rope was brought, hastily adjusted
around the brave young man, and as
sisted by Mr. J. T. Willingham he was
lowered to where the child was cling
ing to the scaly walls. Reaching the
child he gathered hex in his arms and
brought her safely to her mother.
The child clutched young Goldsmith
with such force that she left the im-
Gcncral Hood belonged were invited j 1)r i n t of her blue fingers deeply imbed-
to the funeral. He was buried this uf- ,j u( i j n his arm.
ternoon. Gen. Hood leaves eleven; Our readers can imagine the joy of
children, the eldest ten years, and j the mother and the deep gratitude she
youngest twins three weeks old. His fools to the gallant young man who
oral leaves a manuscript history of the
war, which he intended to have had
' published this fall.
GRAMMAR IN RHYME.
that others know almost as many
drinking women. Beer drinking is not
called “drinking,” I believe. If it was
ladies would not do it so publicly. Beer
is the most popular beverage in New
York to-day, and if you go to Kost.er
& Dial’s, the Madison Sq uare Gardens,
Thicss’, or any of the public and pri
vate gardens in this city, you will see
iftj many women as men enjoying the
foaming cup. Again, I am not refer
ring to common women, but women of
respectable position.
sudden sally, and threw nearly the en
tire contents of a carboy of vitriol on
the roof of the tent. The audience es
caped in great confusion, frightened, j
but unharmed. The roughs made off
Hotel, v horn he had mtiodiiced to the iirecinitatolv and were not apprehend- * • 1 i ±1 *■ 1
. „ » 1 1 .4*11 . 1C . \.i a w ff« piec.lpiitiLLi>, auu \NLiL not appii in..uu. It is seldom that one sees so much
proprietoi of the hotel us his v ile. eil> Nearly half the fine tent, which
The trial lasted three days, and rcsul- :
ted in u hung jury, eight being for ac- j a piy ru ined. Not less than four or five -p vorv little grammarian iu^t entering
initial and four for conviction. He , , , ( i nlI . irs wilI wniliir thp lo , s ; L\a\ lime giammaiian just cnteiing
IAnof „,. M i a i a inc! .ind tho uundiea aoiiais win upau tne loss. u ,) OU the mysteries of syntax, will find
lCSUniOd Ills pastoicll duties tiu<l tlic TTn/liarmivoil thr» nromdinr nnnonnpp«5 ,
Undismayed, tne picacnc i announces , it highly advantageous to commit, the
that lie “shall stay and conquer the
enemy, if it takes him all the winter,”
and his Colchester friends are doter-
valuable matter as tho following lines
. . church and congregation stood by him
S2»,0U", which she largely bequeathed , )Ut |]is usoIulness W us undoubtedly
to clnLi'itable objects. Gooige A. Hams- j jn j ini j). e d in Boston. He subsequently
doll, of Nashua is named as executor. ; „ te(] a en , n t0 the Laight Street , , , t t ,, hi
She gave to relatives, in small sums, | ,, ,., f , h , .. N .,. v Y . mmul to .stand n> auu.
,,, .1,,, ie-., w Hamushire Or- Ghuich, ol JNiw toi l,, mia gation now worship under the undti
^ ’ ’ N H - 1 - I from there went West—first to Kansas, j lg(jd p 0rtion 0 f t [ ie canvas coverin'
“poem” to memory, as by so doing,
many a “black mark” will bo avoided,
rescued lier darling.
ADVICE TO A YOUNG MAN-A GRAD
UATE, FOE INSTANCE.
(From tho Burlington Hawkoyo.)
And then remember, my son, that
the world is older than you are, by
several years; that for thousands of
years it has been so full of smarter and
better men than yourself that their
feet have stuck out of the dormer win
dows ; that when they died the old
globe went whirling on, and not one-
man in ton million went to the funeral
or even heard of his death. Be as
smart as you can, of course. Know as
much as you can, without blowing the,|
packing out of your cylinder headsM
for with these lines at the tongue’s end , shed the light of your wisdom abroad;
His congrc- : on0 neet i never mistake a part of : in the world, but don’t dazzle pecrpl.
A DINNER AND A KISS.
nv :
. BAYNE.
Many weeks after tho disease had
left the neighborhood and all were
well at tho widow’s I rode over one
morning from Ur. B’s. for the purpose
of interviewing her (as they say now)
and to learn something of her history,
for site had interested me deeply, so
after enjoying a bowl of fresh milk,
with a corn dodger, at her table, I said
to her, ‘You must think me rude, my
good tvoman, but I want you to toll
me all about yourself that you may
be willing to, how long you have been
left to struggle alone and how have
you managed to get along so well with
such a family, etc.’
She was sitting at the table with me
and without hesitation or preface, she
answered me in the following story, in
her own words:
‘I lost my husband in one of tho first
battles of the war; ho was wounded in
tho body and died in a hospital. When
lie found himself sinking fust he called
a comrade to him and said: ‘Toll my
dear wife, for mo, to do the best slio
can for tho children and tho old moth
er, and trust in God.’ My husband was
much older than I, and a class-leader
and a good Christian man, which all
our neighbors will allow. Well, I’vo
tried to do as ho bid me, and none of
us, at the worst even, have over been
without a shelter, or a morsel of bread;
although sometimes, along at first, I
couldn’t well'see how it would bo to
morrow. Truo we liavo hud to work
hard, Bud and I, and he is a strong lit
tle fellow for his age, and so willing, I
should have lost my right hand if he
had died that night; I feel so grateful
to you, Doctor, for all you—’
i interrupted her saying, ‘You must
believe that your prayers saved that
boy; don’t you?’
‘Well,’ sho replied, ‘somebody’s
prayers did, I do believe, and I wouldn’t
give up that belief and the meaning of
it, to be as rich as tho Colonel (her
wealthy neighbor)’ upon which we
shook hands.
“I have brought your din nor, father,’
Tho blacksmith's daughter said,
As sho took from hor arms a kettle
And lifted ils shining lid.
“There’s not any pie or pudding,
Sol will give you this,”
And upon his toll-worn forehead
Sho loft a childish kiss.
The blacksmith tore olT Ills apron
And dined In happy mood,
Wondering much at tho savor
Hid In Ills humblo food,
White all about him were visions
Full of prophotlo bliss;
But lie novor thought of tho magic
In his little daughter’s kiss.
plums’ Home, $1,000; Oberlin Collej
$1,000 (where she has a nephew en
gaged as a professor); Olivet College,
$1,000; Woman’s Board of Missions,
then out to California. In Kansas tlicr
were reports of a trouble similar
that in Boston.
engine turned clear over and stopped I S' 1 . 000 ! American Home Missionary
on her side, pushing a splinter of the Society and tho American Board tho
and there
,sercechin;
White sho with hor kottlo swinging,
Merrily trudged away,
Stopping at sight of a squirrel,
Catching some wild bird’s lay.
And I thought how many a shadow
Of life and fate wo should miss,
If always our frugal dinners
Were seasoned with a kiss.
WHAT THE GRANT MEN SAY.
The Grant people say that Grant’s
statement, in his interview with tho
Viceroy of China, that he will not
again he a candidate for the Presiden
cy, 1ms no effect on them. They pro
pose to go right ahead, without con
sulting his wishes, and place him in
nomination, as they feel they can do
with ease. They sny that Sherman’s
candidacy only helps Grant, for tho
reason that tho more candidates there
are with some positive strength the
more complicated will the opposition
of Grant become, and tho result will
bo that ho will have to be taken as a
last resort, just as Hayes had to bo
taken at Cincinnati. Sohurz’s threat
that he will not support Grant if nom
inated causes a very bitter feeling
among the General’s friends, and they
swear vengeance should they bo
thwarted in their purpose.
Of Any Value.
If tho testimony of eminent chemists,
and sagacious medical men, is of any
value, Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Pow
der is tho most perfect made. These
men of standing in their professions
not only recommend its use, bat en
dorse it by using it in their own fami
lies,
cab on the whistle valve
she lay, a seething, liissin;
mass of rubbish.
But above the din ami ratile, I heard
one wild, despairing shriek for help,
and when I could get close enough to
see anything I found what, had it not
been for the face, would never have
been recognized as a man in the
crushed and bleeding mass of flesh
that lay under one huge driver; but
tlic face was without a scar, and by
that was recognized as an escaped mad
man, who, it seems, had climbed on
the engine at Cowans unobserved, and
pulling the trottle open had started on
a wild, awful ride to tho gates of death.
When the excursion train came up ten
minutes later they said they found me
standing by the engine, gazing alter
nately at. tho bloody driver and
my written order, still tightly clasped
in my hand. I was unconscious ot
everything save tho fact that I had
obeyed orders, and had thereby taken
a life. They say I fainted, but I knew
nothing from the instant I discovered
that white, bloodless face until four
days after, when I awakened apparent
ly out of a dream. My first question
was, “Did the excursion get in safoly?”
Tho coroner held an inquest as soon
as I could boexamined, and the verdict
was: “We, the jury, find that Albert
Long came to his death by being
crushed beneath a locomotive which
was wrecked by J. L. B., an operator
on tlie B. B., according to tho or
der of D. R. B., ids superintendent and
superior officer. And wo find further,
that no blame can bo attached to the
said J. L. B., D. R. B., or tho said
Railroad Company, as tho engine was
wrecked to save a heavily loaded ex
cursion, and said Albert Long, being
a madman, was on tho engine in direct
opposition to the company’s orders.”
I nave that order and a copy of tho
verdict side by sido in my diary, where
they shall always remain.
Often in my dreams I seo an unrec
ognizable mass of quivering flesh and
broken bones boneatli the huge driver,
and a white, unsearred face presents
itself to my gaze. A sudden shriek
will almost craze me, and I am tempt
ed to go where railroads uro unknown,
where tlie hissing and screeching can
not reach mo,
remainder, some $13,000.
A trial packageof “BLACK-DRAUGHT”
free of charge at
T. S. Bradfleld’s.
THE TOUGHEST STORY YET.
In Colorado is a ton acre field which
ECONOMISTS IN THE SENATE.
Senator McCreary, of Kentucky, on
a salary of $5,000 dollars a year, saved
over $1,000, and duringsix years in tlie
Senate laid by $25,000. It is related
of him that lie sat up once upon a
time playing poker at a ten cent limit.
In the morning some friend asked
him how he came out. “Como out,”
is no more nor less than a subterranean ' said he, “why I lost fifty cents quick
lake covered with soil about eighteen er than hell could scorch a feather.’
inches deep. On the soil is cultivated ! Senator Davis, although a millionaire:
field of corn, which produces thirty
or forty bushels to the acre. If any
one will take the trouble to dig a hole
the depth of a spado handle he will
find it to fill up with water, aud by
using a hook and line, fish four or five
inches long can be caught. The fish
have neither scales nor eyes, and are
perch-like in shape. Tho ground is a
black marl in its nature, and in all
probability, was an open body of wa
ter, on which lias accumulated vegeta
ble matter, which inis been increasing
from time to time, until now it has
a crust sufficiently strong and rich to
produce fine corn, though it has to
be cultivated by hand, us it is not
strong enough to bear tlie weight of a
horso.
While harvesting, the field hands
catch great strings of fish by punch
ing a hole through the earth. A per
son vising on his heels and coming
down suddenly can see tlie growing
cornsliakonll around him. Any onohav
ing the strength to drive a rail through
the crust, will find, on releasing it,
that it will disappear altogether. The
whole section of the country surround
ing this field, gives evidence of a
marshiness, and the Inst produced
an abundance of mud. Rut the ques
tion comes up: has not this body an
outlet? Although brackish tlie water
tastes as if fresh and is evidently not
stagnant. Yet these fish are found in
caves.
“ BLACK-DRAUGHT ’’ cures dyspep
sin, indigCHtion and heartburn.
A Failure.
Any attempt to produce a perfume
in this or any other country that can
surpass Dr. Price’s Unique Perfumes,
will prove a failure, for Dr. Price’s are
as fresh and sweet as the flowers from
which they are made, and cannot t)e
is a little close in his personal expen
ses. During the sitting of the Senate
it is his habit to go to Aunt Mary, the pie
woman in the corridor, for his lunch.
Laying his hand on a plate of cakes
or apples, he asks: “How much are
these?” “Two cents.” “And those?”
GOOD SOCIETY
Many parents who have sons and
daughters growing up are anxious for
them to get into good society. This
is an honorable anxiety, if it inter
prets good society after some lofty
fashion. Parents, your daughter is in
good society when she is with girls
who are sweet and pure, and true heart
ed; who are not vain and frivolous;
who think of something else besides
dress, or flirting, or marriage; be
tween whom and their parents there
is confidence; who are useful as well
as ornamental in tho house; who cul
tivate their minds, and train their
hands to skillful work. If society
of this sort is not to be had, then none
at all is preferable to a worthless ar
ticle. Seo to it that you impress this
on your children, and above all that
you do not encourage them to thinli
laying his hand on another plate. I that good society is a matter of fine
Three cents.” “Oh, Mary, you’re
too high, too high!” Then he will
buy a piece of pic and a glass of milk
and standing at the counter (he weighs
three hundred and eighty pounos) he
eats his lunch with tranquility.—
BamsileWs Washington Republic.
DEATH FROM FRIGHT.
Sad But Inevitable.
(From tho Virginia (Nov.) Chronicle.)
A small boy yesterday stepped upon
a bit of plan k and had the bottom of
his foot punctured by a nail projecting
therefrom. He had heard that a nail
wound in tho foot caused lockjaw, anil
lockjaw causod death. He therefore
sat down on the edge of tho sidewalk
and considered himself a goner.
“Sammy,” said he to a companion,
“I’ve got tor die. I’ll be took with the
lockjaw, in about a minit, then I’ll die.
I’d like to see nm first., but I’vo got to
die and go to Heaven, and I can’t help
it.”
Tuke “ BLACK-DRAUGHT" and you
will never he bilious.
Miss Rachel Snodgrass, 19 years of
age, of Westmoreland county, Pa.,
dropped dead one day last week under
strange circumstances. Shortly before
the occurrence of the deplorable affair
it is said that a little niece of Miss
Snodgrass had strayed out into tho
back yard of her aunt’s residence, and
presently wandered out to a plank
which had been suspended across a
deep well. Here the little ono, uncon
scious of its peril, sat astride the board
playing. A few minutes later Miss
Snodgrass, who had missed the child,
started out to look for it. Going to the
well she was about rescuing tlie child,
when it began to cry, and at the same
time made an effort to crawl off the
plank. This was so torrifyiug that Miss
Snodgrass was overcome by her nerv
ous excitement and foil to tlie ground,
and had already expired when she was
discovered by her parents. T'lio child
was rescued without injury.
Good for the South.
Tho Washington Post thinks the
South will raise this year about live
million bales of cotton, two hundred
thousand hogsheads of sugar, and
nearly six hundred million pounds of
tobacco. This will bo a half a million
more bales of cotton, twico as much
sugar, and twelve million more pounds
of tobacco than she ever raised before
If prices continue fair tho South will
bo comparatively richer when she mar
kets tlie present erop than any other
mam
clothes, or wealth or boasting to be
somebody. As you value your child’s
soul guard her against these misera
ble counterfeits; and impress upon
her that intelligence and simplicity,
modesty and goodness, ure the only
speech; ■
1. Throe llttlo words you often soo
Arc Articles—a, an and the.
‘J. A noun’s tho name of anything,
A school or garden, hoop or swing.
3. Adjectives tell tho kind of Noun,
As great, small, pretty, white or brown,
4. Instead of Nouns the Pronouns stand—
Her head, hit face, your arm, my hand.
5. Verbs toll of something to be done—
To read, count, sing, laugh, jump or run.
7. The Proposition stands before
A Noun, us in or through a door.
8. Conjunctions Join tho words together,
As men and women, with nr whether.
9. The Interjection shows surprise,
As oh ! how pretty—ah ! how wise.
Tin* whole are called nine parts of Speech,
Which reading, writing, speaking Loach.
MOTIVES
We are ready to-day to vote for Gov-
I with it. And don’t imagine a thing
I so simply because you say it is. Don’t)
I be too sorry for your father because he ):/
knows so much less than you do; re-g>j$S
| member the reply of Dr. Wuyland to'yjT
| the student of Brown University, whq|
j said it was an easy enough thing tuA
1 make proverbs such ns Solomon wrotc.;||
“Make a few,” tersely replied the olu
man. And we never heard that thȣ
| young man made any. Not more than)
two or three, anyhow. The world hi
great need of young men, but no great
er need than young men have of ifcj?
Your clothes fit you better than your
father’s fit him ; they cost more mon
ey, they are more stylish, your mous
tache is neater, and the cut of your
hair is better, and you are prettier, oh,
far prettier than “pa.” But, young
man, the old gentleman gets the big-
ernor Colquitt’s re-election if it be gest salary, and his homely, seramb-
necessary to indorse his official acts as
Governor of the State. We do not know
that Gov. Colquitt will sock a renomi
nation at the hands of the Democratic
party, but if lie should do so as means
to ascertain public opinion upon his
conduct as the executive of the State,
wo would support him cheerfully.
Governor Colquitt is a poor man—too
poor to fill the executive chair with its
legal
i.—The same rule holds to paltry salary, and ho may not desire
boys as well as girls. You would have
these enter good society.
Do not imagine that you have accom
plished it when you have got them with
a set of boys whose parents are wealth
ier than you, who dress better than
you can afford to, who pride them
selves on their social position. Good
society for boys is the society of those
who aio honest and straight forward,
and who have no bad habits, who are
earnest and ambitious. They are not
in a hurry to become men. They are not
ambitious for the company of shallow,
heartless women, old enough to be
their mothers, and not envious of
their friends, who fancy there is some
thing grand in dulling all tho edge of
their heart’s hope upon such jaded fa
vorites. There is nothing sadder than
to see youug men or young women
priding themselves upon tlie society
which thoy onjoy, when verily it was
a Dead Son Apple that will choke
them with ils dust, when they seek
some generous juicy fruit to cool their
lips and stay the hunger of their soul.
Paper Collars*
(rt'om tho Thomoavllle Times.)
A paper collar will last a member of
the Legislature who speaks, eight
minutes and a half; one who thinks,
thirteen minutes, and those who do
not think, a week. There are said to
bo several members who have not
found it necessary—or convenient—to
cliango collars since the session open
ed.
tho office again, unless it be to test
public sentiment upon liis official con
duct. In that event wo believe tho
people would sustain him by re-elec
tion. We will never go back upon a
man whose integrity is unimpeachable,
and tlie purity and justice of whose
motives have never been doubted.—
HmcklnsrUle Dispatch.
Clouds of Mosquitoes.
Tlie Eastern Shore (Md.) newspapers
continue their complaints of tlie mos
quito plague. The Superintendent and
train hands of the railroad near Cam
bridge declare that the mosquitoes
have been so thick ns to obscure the
light of the sun, and that lighted
lamps have been necessary at midday
in tlie stores and counting rooms. From
Tyuskin a newspaper correspondent
declares that ‘never in the history of
Tynskin have the mosquitoes been so
thick as for tlie past week. There is
no rest night or day; our only remedy
is smoke! smoke I And wo have
smoked so much that our old women,
and young women, too, look like dried
beef on the hoof.”
ling signature on the business end of a
cheek will drain more money out of in
live minutes than you could get out
with a ream of pa] er and a copper ’
[date signature iu six months. Young '
men are useful, son, and they are or
namental, and we all love them, and
we couldn’t engineer a picnic success
fully without them. But they are not
novelties, son. Oh, no, nothing of the
kind. They have been here before,,
Don’t be so modest as to shut yourseltl
clear out; but don’t be so fresh that]
you will have to be put away in the;
cool to keep from spoiling. Don’t bo
afraid that your merit will not be dis-1
covered. People all over the world are 3
hunting for you, and if you are worth!!
finding they will find you. A diamond
isn’t so easily found as a quartz pebble,
but people search for it all the moro
intently.
“BLACK-DRAUGHI” cuius costiveneaa
nnc'l Hick-headache.
For sale by T. S. Bradlield.
36
A Common Form of Matrimonial Love.
(From lhn Boston Post.)
The other night, when a citizen was
reckoning up his accounts, his wife
spoke to him several times, a nd receiv
ing no answer, said: “You treat me
cruelly. I fear you no longer love me,”
and the husband and father replied:
“I love you passionately, devotedly,
frnnticully, madly; but if you don’t
A Boy Worth Looking After.
The Pekin (Ill.) Republican chroni
cles a bit ot heroism by a Peoria coun
ty boy which deserves recognition. A
coal shaft was being sunk just noith of
Hollis, and the other day a workman
by the name of Ilarland lighted a slow
match leading to a blast, and then sig
naled to be drawn up. The depth of
the shaft was seventy feet. When he
had been raised fourteen feet he struck
the bottom of a board partition and
was thrown back to the bottom,
Thomas Crandall, a step-son of Har-
luud, was a witness to the accident and
promptly slid down the rope, seventy
feet, and tore the match from the fuso
in time to prevent an explosion. The
boy’s hands were terribly lacerated by
tlie friction of the rope. The step
father wus rescued with a broken sib
and other sever ? bruises.
AU vail tares Dcchel.
The advantages la the use o| Dr.
Price’s Special Flavoring Extaols are
decided, as they are put up in bottle*
of full measure; made from the true
hold yer jaw till I get these figures | fruits aud aromatics, without poison-
added, I’ll give you a clip in the eye.” j ous oils or eth-us, pure and true.