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Newspaper Page TextMILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1868. No. 26. U >VE’.lTJSISO * I DO. iyjU'0.16 AND PROPRIETORS. (rfills —« 3.90 per Hi!ms in, in Advance. Ter square often lines, each Merchants and others for all unts'jver ip2o, twenty-five per cent. off. LEOAL AnVERTlSntiT. Oi.lwiry's. —Citations for letters of ad- nistration • guardianship ,&c $ 3 00 ;;, »tinn tor letters of disin’r.from adm’u f> 00 "" i.-atiou fur letters of dism'u ofguard'u 3 GO j. jou tor leave to sell Eand ; 5 00 t 0 Debtors and Creditors s... 3 00 fhaud, per s (Harr, often'lines 5 00 j e nf pe r sonuI property, pur sq, ten days, 1 50 -Each levy oiltH lines, or less 2 50 ,,i , e Milos often lines, or less, ... 5 00 Collector's sales, peraq. (2 mouths) .. 5 00 .—Foreclosure of mortgage and other ,, ,,,thleys, per square. 1 00 !r .,v notices, thirty days, 3 DO tributes of Respect, Resolutions by Societies, - tn.rips ,Vc.,exceediujrstx lines, to becharared (jDll'l" 1 i ' ; ° ~ jS transient advertising-. -talcs of Laud, by Adninislrators.Execu- Dmr Fans. u. c required by law to be heid j,. sr fnesday in the month, between the r , () f ton ; u rlie forenoon and three in the af- iDu.ot theCourt-housein theeountyin which rj ierty is situated. Terms of sale must be nice of these sales must be given in a public • ta in days previous to the day of sale. ,; cd f or the sale of personal property must b ipje manner ID days previous to sale day cic-is to debtors and creditors of an estate taLo be published 40 days. .but. application will bo made to the , it'-if Ordianry for leave to sell land, must be , .bslied for two months. i':i,ttieits for letters of Administration, Guar- . id,ip, &c.. nmst. be published 30 days—fordis- Mioufrom Administration, monthly six months; rVis.uii.sion from Guardianship, 40 days p i M foreclosure of Mortgages must be .’L’.i,,. l , .athlif for four months—for establish- . nsi) c-. for iit* full space of three worths— , !i!)dliuo- titles from’ Executors or Adtviinis- itirs.’where bond has been given by t he de- u-m, the lull space of three months. Charge l i I per square of tea lines for each insertion. P iblieations will always be continued accord- - ;o these, the legal••oquiremonts, unless oth- -.rise ordered Schedule of Macon & Augusta 1J. R, Leaves Caniak, daily, at 2.40 P. M. Milledgevilie 6.30 A.M. Arrives at Milledgevilie 4 00 P. M. Cainak . 8 55 A.M. Passengers leaving Augusta or Atlanta on Day Passenger Train of Georgia Railroad will make close connection at Cainak tor intermediate points on ihe above road, and also for Macon, &c. Pas- sengersleaving Milledgevilie at 5.30, A. M.,reach Atlanta and Augusta same day, and w>l) make ciose connections at either place for principal pointsinadjoining Slates. E. W. COLE, Gen’l Supt Augnsta,January ?, 1868 4 tt‘ tors or LEAVE. 8:00 A M 4:45 P M 2:50 P M CENTRAL RAILROAD. OFFICE OF SUP’T GA. CENT’L R. R. I Savannah, May 7th, 1868. 4 O N AND AFTER SUNDAY, May 10th, the Passenger Trains on the Georgia Central Railroad will run as follows: • UP DAY TRAIN. ARRIVE. Savannah Macon 7:30 P M Augusta 5:38 P M Milledgevilie 4:30 P M Eat onto u Connects with train that, leaves Augusta 8:45 A M DOWN DAY TRAIN. Savannah 6:15 P M Macon 7:05 A M Angus ta 5:38 P M Connects with train that leaves Augusta 8:45 A M UP NIGHT TRAIN. Savannah 7.50 P M Macon 6:55 A M Augusta 3:00 A M Connects with train that leaves Augusta 10:10 P M DOWN NIGHT TRAIN. Savannah 5:10 A M Macon 6:25 P M Augusta 3:00 A M Milledgevilie ...8:50 P M 9:10 P M Eatonton 11:00 P M Connects with train that, leaves Augusta 10.10PM JOHN G CLARKE, Ass’t Snp’t. Booh nn 0w ■l Documents for Safe at the e nf the Southern Recorder. i!copies of Cobb's Analysis and Forms, largo volnmq. ;10 copies Dawson’s Compilation. T. B. R. Cobb’s Digest of the Laws of Georgia. 1 copv Georgia justice,by A. S. Clayton, 1819. til copies Georgia. Justice, by A. S. Clayton, re- vi-edby L. Q C. Lamar, T824. Reese’s Manual and Forms. Hines’ Legal Forms. Make's Chancery, 5 copies. Tyler’s (Vermont) Reports, 1st and 2d vois. Jd vol. Dallas’s Reports, iiigersoll’s IL S. Digest. “Cotton is King,” and Pro-Slavery Arguments, pji.lto?, compiled by E. X. Elliott, LL. D., Presi- ii-ai Planters’ College, Mississippi. Cheiukte Land Lottery, with names of Draw^ ers, and an engraved Map of each District, by J. F.Smith. > copi-s Gold and Land Lottery Register, pub lish'd at the Recorder Office, 1831-2. i copies “Examiner,” 18I.3-4, by Condv Raguet oiTliiladeiptsia, supporting State Rights. - vois. Southern Review, Charleston, 1829-30. *14 vois. Edinburgh Review, 1893 to 1821. Oastitational Republicanism, in opposition to Fallacious Federalism, published in Boston, 1803. Gazetteer of the U. S., 1836, by Win. Darby and T. Dwight, Jr. 1 vol. Carey’s Library of Choice Literature, 1836. Beck’s Chemistry. Livingston’s Law Register: A Guide for every nnn of business, and Hand-Book of Useful Infor mation. SOUTH-WESTERN R. R. CO. . .OFFICE, MACON, GA., March 24th, 1868. Colton bus Train—Daily. Leave M aeon 5 15 A. M. Arrive at Columbus 11.15 A. M. Leave Columbus .. 12.45 P. M. Arrive at Macon 6.20 P. M. Eufavla Train—Daily. Leave Macou 8.00 A. M. Arrive atEufaula 5.30 P. M. Leave Eufaula 7.20 A.M. Arrive at Macon 4.50 P. M. Connecting with Alhuutj 'Train at SmithciUe Leave Smitliville 1.46 P.M. Arrive at Albany 3.11 P. M. Leave Albany 9.35 A. M. Arrive at Smitbville 11.00 A. M. Connecting icilh Fort Gaines Train at Cullihrrt. Leave Cathbert..- 3.57 P. M. Arrive at Fort Guinea 5.40 P. M. Leave Fort Gaiues 7.05 A. M. Arrive at Cutlibert . — — - 9.05 A. M. Connecting with Central Railroad and Macon & Western Railroad Trains at Macon, and Mout- goraery it West Point Trains at Columbus. VIRGIL POWERS, Engineer & Superintendent. Sdiednle of the Georgia Railroad. O N AND AFTER SUNDAY, MARCH 29th, 1866, the Passenger Trains ou the Georgia Railroad will run.as follows: DAY PASSENGER TRAIN- (Daily, Sundays excepted.) Leave Augusta at 7.10 A. M. “ Atlanta at — 5 A. M. Arrive at Augusta 3.30 P. M. “ at Atlanta 6-10 P. M. NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Augusta at — 3 45 P. M. “ Atlanta at 6 45 P. M. Arrive at Augusta — — .6.30 A. M. “ Atlanta 4.00 A. M. BEEZELIA PASSENGER TRAIN. Leave Augusta at - 4.30 P. M. “ Berzelia at 7.00 A. M Arrive at Augusta 8.45 A M. “ at Berzelia 0.15 P. M. Passengers for Milledgevilie, Washington and Statistics of the United States, 1850, pp. 1022, Athens, Ga.,must take Day Passenger Train front Augusta and Atlanta. Passengers for West Point, Montgomery, Sel ina, Mobile and New Orleans must leave Augusta on Night Passenger Train at 3.45 P. M., to make ciose connections. * Passengers for Nashville, Corinth, Grand Junc tion, Memphis. Louisville and St. Louis can take either train and make close, connections. Through Tickets and Baggage checked through to the above places. Pullman’s Palace Sleeping Cars on all Night Passenger Trains. E. W. COLE, Gen’l Superint’dt. Augusta, March 26, 1868 4 tf ■ paix-.i by the late Prof. Do Low, Superintendent the Census Bureau, ; D vols.Congressional Glebe and Appendix, hill vols. folio, quarto and octavo, well bound S!1 j including American Archives, Explorations anil Surveys for a Railroad Route from the Missis- ppi Hirer to the Pacific Ocean,in 8 vols.; Gom-^ niercial Relations, Medical Statistics. U. S. Coast survey, California Message and Correspondence, Mexican Claims, and a variety of other Public iCvuuients printed by order of Congress, con ning a mass oi official information, foreign and onestic, suitable for the Statesman, the Politi- -u an 1 tbe public writer, in investigating the •uciples and policy of the Government. His proper to remark that most of tlie Law •L-oks hik] all the volumes of the Edinburgh lie - at'* second hand copies, and all will be sold t; '“ a P- Persons desiring any in the list car. be “immodated by applying to R U. ORME & SON. Huledgeville. Dec. 31, 1867. I^or Sale. bjerl. TilE SUBSCRIBER offers for sale hi** l)jju| Plantation 1 ,fim miles from Milledgevilie '“i'ii Fie Eatonton Railroad, known as‘West-* "5 * in ' isidence of the late Col. Benjamin S. '“c rhe place contains 850 acres—about. " ivres in woods. The d welliog-house and all "iuses :n good repair. Also, iine orchards of 1 '-i,Peaches, &c.,* &e. The Flower Ya-d in ■ 't tli: dwelling contains one of the chore* ril'retious of plants and flowers in the rotate. Address L. A. JC»RI>AN, Macon, Ga. “ ?- Mr. H irper. now- on the place, will show ; ’tuosedesiring to look at it. ■uuber 16, J806 51 tf n. XiT. X 1ST J Ulanta SL fltfc&t Jcfaint T=^f A TTa 3 Day Passenger Train—Outirard. Leave Atlanta 4.45 A. M. Arrive at West Point —- 9.50 P. M. Day Passenger Train—Inward. Leave West Point — - LUO P- M. Arrive at Atlanta. 6.20 P. M. Sight Freight and Passenger—Outward. Leave Atlanta .... 4.15 P. M. Arrive at West Poiut.... 11-40 I*. M. liight Freight and Passenger Train—Inward. Leave West Point......-- — - 4.20 A. M. Arrive at Atlanta... 11.30 A. M. Sf-V*****] ■V Fire Arms. Sold fcv t’ae 2rade generally. ' liberal discount to dealers. J W,000 furnished the U. S. Government fif/uincfe^ of. c~/'lcIlcjcLllLg. OFFICE SOUTH CAROLINA R. R. CO., ? Augusta, Ga., March 25, 1868. ) O N AND AFTER SUNDAY, 29th March, 1868, the Mail and Passenger Trains of this Road will leave and arrive at through Central Depot, Georgia Railroad, as follows: Morning Mail and Passenger Train For Charleston, connecting Train tor Columbia, South Carolina, Charlotte Road, aud Wikning- tou aud Manchester Railroad. Leave Central Depot at 5.50 A. M. Arrive at Central Depot 3.30 P. M. Night Passenger $ Accommodation Train For Charleston, connecting w ith Train for Co lli mhia, and with Greenville aud Columbia Kail road: Leave Central Depot at 3.50 P. M- Arrive at Central Depot at 7.00 A. M. II. T. TEAKE, General Superintendent. \ r " 1 !l Heredeer 44-100 in.Calibre r a her,otter 36-100 in.Calibre htlt lUva, ■ l‘ol vm leer Navy SizeCalibre ICf Revolver .Navy Size Calibre ‘® Poriet Revolver 31-HlO in.eCalibr " r Ct Revolver—Rider’s pt.—31-100 in. Calibre Cartridge artridge a,le No. 22 &'32 Cartridge ‘ tlek Loading Rife, (Beal’s) No. 32 &38 “ l «Uiug pgj[ c ;;6 ttad 44.i,|(| iu.Calibre E. REMIGTON & SON, Ir.LioN, New York p 'tevtvci Uiucr h JJI-. G l Ivv • Voting Pistol,(Elliot pt.) No. 22&32 Ci f , tS1 p <*k*l Pistol, No. 22, 30, 32, & 41 Ca ” <l1 Cane vr« oo rio Macon <Sz> "Western nAILROAB. —DAY TRAIN—. Leave Macon 7.45 A. M., arrive at Atlanta, 2 P. M. “ Atlanta a. M., arrive at Macon, 1.30 P. M. —NIGHT TRAIN -r> Leave Macon 8.40 P.M., arrive at Atlanta, 4^ P. M. “ AtlautaT^ P. M.,arrive at Macon 3.10 A. M. Macon & Brunswick Railroad. OFFICERS. G H HAZLEHURST President. ROBY. SCHMIDT, Master Transportation. H. C. DAY Secretary & Treasurer. Leave Macon 3 P M.,arrive at Macon. 10-30 A M. Leave Hawkinsville 7 A. M., arrive at Hawkina- ville, 6.30 P M- ,, March 11 1868 -- The Sinaek in School. The following incident in a district school, de- s -ribed by Wm Pitt Palmer, of New York, Presi dntof the Manhattan Insurance Company, in -Mockbridge, Mass., his native home, will take many whose heads are now streaked with silver hairs, a journey back to boyhood and life : A district school not far away, Mid Berkshire hills, one winter’s day Was humming with its wonted noise Of three-score mingled girls and boys— Some few upon their tasks irJent, But, more on furtive mischief bent; The while the master’s downward look Was fastened on a copy book. Wher sudden behind his back, Rose sharp and clear a rousing smack ! As ’twere a battery of bliss Let of in one tremendous kiss ! “What’s that ?” the startled master cries ; “That, thir,” a little imp replies ; “Watli William Williih. if you please— I thaw him kith Thuthannah Peath !” With frown to make a statue thrill The master thundered, “hither Will!” Like wretch o’ertaken in his track, With stolen chatties on his back, Will, hung bis.head in fear and shame ; And to the awful presence came A great green bashful simpleton. The butt of all good natured fnn— With smile suppressed and bnrch upraised, Tlte threatner faltered, “I’m amazed, That you iny biggest pupil, should Be guilty of an act so rude, Before tlie whole school to boot— What evil geDiiis put you to’t ?” “Twas she herself, sir,” sobbed the lad, I didn’t mean to be so bad ; But. when Susannah shock her cirls, And said I was ’fraid of girls, And dnrs’nt. kiss a baby’s doll, 1 couldn't stand it, sir, at fill ! But up and kissed her on the spot, I know—boo hoo—I ought to not, But somehow from her looks—bop hoo, I thought she kind ! o wished me to !” ( Iisappeared. The wile waited and wailed, like Marianna in the moated grange but the husband came not. In • hie <ime she procured a divorce, re sumed her maiden name and address ed herselt’ energetically to work, find- 11g an active employment the most po tent nepenthe oi lier sorrows.. Success awarded her; •she accumulated a com fortable properly, aud after living in Boston and in California many yea vs, she returned to her native village and lived at her ease. Once in a while she went to Boston aud visited ihe family ofMrs> S . Since her husbanc leit her on that memorable day in 1S4G, she had never heard of or from him — Beyond doubt ho was dead. Last Feb nary Mr. S., riding near the city, took a stranger into his carriage; In tire course of conversation be asked the stranger his name. “G ,” re plied the latter. “Did you ever bear of J G inquired Mr, S. “He is m3 r brother.” And has any thing ever been known of him since lie disappeared, years ago ?” “Yes he re turned very recently, and is trying to tind his family.” “Why, bless 3*our soul !” cried Mr. S. “I know his wife perfectly well; she visits at my house, and is now living at M .” OI course the returned wanderer soon heard this news, and a few days laler, the deserted wife received a let ter from him whom she had once call ed husband, but whom, for twenty- three long years, she had nol seen or heard a word of. A correspondence ensued, and two weeks ago to-day, I think, the truant went to see the woman whom he bad so cruelly wronged. The particulars of their interview I cannot give; but it is safe to infer that the smouldering spark of affection was re suscitated in their-lwo bosoms, and that the great gulf of twenty-three years that bad divided their lives was bridg ed by a process jvhose rapidity aud simplicity Rcebiing or Eads, or any oilier civil engineer, could not parallel. In fine, at the first meeting they re tie w- their twenty-three years’ old troth The next day they went to D to see his relatives ; the next day, he, or rather she, for he had no property, bought a farm; ihe next day they returned to M ; tlie next Three Chapters of Koiaaiice. The Boston correspondent of the Springfield Republican sends to that pa per the following romantic narratives : Romance Number One. About four years ago, a young law student of a Western city traveling with a party of friends, came to Boston, and during his stay here, met once or twice a young lady who lived in the most aristocratic of our surburban towns. The acquaintance was casual, going hardly beyond an introduction of plight, the parlies and the exchange of the usu al comments on Lhe weather, &c. Time passed, as the novelists snv, and last fall the young gentleman wrote to the friends with whom he had trav eled to the following cflect: He had established himself well in his profession, with a lair prospect of pecuniary success, and he wanted to marry ; but in the entire circle of his lady acquaintances he knew not one who filled his eye. The friend who received this letter, a lady, pitying his condition, replied in stantly, reminding him of lhe maiden whom lie had met in the aristocratic suburb, four years ago, and suggested that she would suit him admirably. He acted at once upon the hint, and wrote to the young lady ; she replied, a cor respondence followed ; in December ]t must.be confessed that it is a very be wrote that he would come East in | provoking thing to receive a letter call- January to see her, but could stay r but one day ; he came ; within the speci fied time, he wooed and won ; he re turned to the West, and she went shop ping ; one week from to-day the twain you ought most certainly to become one.” “Why so ?” “Because you would then know that they have got a sort of-—that is to say —in fact, a secret.” “I know that already.” “Iteally? I declare you are the most extraordinary mail 1 ever met.— Well, I’ve got a secret, loo, ami that’s my grand experiment.” “As it is a secret, I suppose you will not tell me what it is?” “O, yes I will, though, but—but per- ! blood flowing out, and my past life seemed to pass before my mind in a moment of time, only to make my de- siie of still living, and the. horror of an ignominious death, tenfold greater. Slowly the sharp knife plowed in my flesh, making my blood freeze in my veins, and my ey T e balls burn am! seem reatlv to burst from iheir sockets, aud now I fell my reason gradually leaving rne ; the strain upon my nerves was too much—1 felt they must give way ; bat I considered that if they did, my only hope would be gone ; for it l moved 1 haps 1 had better not ; never mind, I’if j should" be choked with the rope around tell you ; it is simply this, to discover tny neck. Slowly the sharp steel, impelled by a steady hand continued its deadly course ;*and now the'circle was nearly accomplished, when I felt that the speed of the train was being gradually diminished. A ray of hope illuminat ed my breast,- I looked into my com panions eyes to see if he, too, noticed that we were nearing F ; but he what are the different feelings of dif ferent persons on flifierent occasions.” “I should hardly call that an exper iment.” “Wouldn’t you, now ? Curious, that : ye-, very curious, .for, to tell yob the truth, I don’t'myself know whether I am justified in calling it an experiment. But enough of that matter for the pres ent. May I ask where you are going to ?” “To C “Have you any friends there ?” “None, I am sorry to say. I aru called there on some disagreeable, lhour'll important business.” “Then may I have the pleasure of! inch ! your company to dinner when you ar rive there ?” “Thank }*ou ; I shall have the great est pleasure in accepting 3 T our kind in vitation.” • “By-lhe-by, do you know how many times we stop before we reach C —r” “Only twice, as this is an express train. Once nt M , at 2 o’clock, and second, at F , at 5 o’clock.” “Aud when are we due. at C ?” they were re-married very quietly ;— and the next they departed lor the farm in D- , where they propose to pass the autumn of their lives in the calm happiness that attends, or ought to attend, “two souls with but a single thought—two hearts that heal as one.” The fotegoing remarkable story is true in every particular, and I am person ally acquainted with one of the reunit ed couple. T n E MANIAC D 0 C T 0 R. AX EXCITING STORY. will go before a minister and be made one. Romance Number Two. Death had laid his irresistible hand upon a young shoe maker, during lhe year 1867,and the cordwainer of course “pegged out,” as he said in the cheer ful game of cribbage. He left a widow and a nice little property. I should have called him a manufacturer not a maker. The widow mourned long and loud, and draped her person in expen sive weeds. She ne’er should look up on his like again—commend Iter to a dose of strychnine as the alternative. Site was a conscientious woman, and, living in the country, site couldn’t spend all her income on purple and fine linen and the other traditional luxuries of wealth. So she resolved to invest some of her accumulating greenbacks in a “sloiied urn,” or some such mon umental monstrosity, commemorative of her defunct husband’s virtues. She call'd upon a marble-worker of a neigh boring town and took counseL with him. He was a comely person and plainly had a genius for sympathetic sculpture. The bargain was struck—for the mon ument, I mean. In due season it was finished and the artist came to the vil- liage of the ladie’s residence to super intend its erection. She was a constant attendant in the cemetery, watching the progress of the work. It was slow progress for some reason. Day after day she put in an appearance in the melancholy enclosure, aud wept silent ly while the work went on, except sometimes when the marble man ven tured to beg for her advice on some doubtful point. Marble man thought he was, he had a tender heart, and that organ was touched by the sight of her devotion. He pitied and anon he loved her, that Niobe in bombazine. One dav as the two stood contemplating the white mentorial of the departed, he spoke ; she listened, her sobs ceased ; she placed her black kid gloves in his muscular palm, and to make one story short they are to be married soon. 1 do nol know whether the marble man got his pay for the monument. Romance Number Three I have reserved the strangest for the last. In 1S45, a young man and a young woman took upon themselves the obli gations of matrimony. They lived to gether in the enjoyment of what is known as conjugal bliss just one ytar. At the end of that lime lh2 husbano mg you two hundred miles away on “immediate and important business.” Yes, it is a very provoking thing, in deed—al least, so T found it, both in anticipation and very deed ; but there! find whether the heart can be extract was no help for it. Snooks, my law-1 ed while a man is alive, without ki 11- “At half-past six, I believe.” “Tiiank you.” Thus, for a time, our conversation ended, but we often renewed it again, aud I began to regard my companion as a clever, kind heat ted, though rath er eccentric old man. Sometime after we had passed M—, my eccentric friend composed himself for a sleep, and was soon snoring, and it was not iong before 1 followed his example. My dreams were troubled. First of all, 1 dreamed 1 was being hung ; then that I was being handcuff ed; and, last,of all, that a great weight was upon me, arid that something was piessing heavily upon my chest. 1 then woke with a start, to find myself bound band and foot, with a rope pass ed round my neck, aud fastened to the umbrella rack behind, in such a man ner that if I struggled in the least I should inevitably choke myself; and my fellow-traveler was standing over me, and with one knee on my chest. “NY hat -are you doing,” said I ; but my sentence was cut short by a gag which mv eccentric friend thrust into my mouth and tied behind my head.— He then stood away to look at his band work, with eyes glaring like those of a wild beast, and his whole frame tremb ling with excitement. “Now,” be said, with a wild laugh “now I shall be able to try my gf experiment 1 Now l shall be able to was too intent on his horrible work. * At length he leaned hack and said : “There now, only about an inch more and* I shall commence the deep cut ting.” Only about an inch ! And the sta tion was some way off. Only about an My life hung upon ihe merest thread. It was not long ihat the experiment er admjred his diabolical work—he soon fell to it again, bull saw the lights of F Station Hash past the win dows of the carriage ; 1 saw a strange arm seize tny tormentor ; I heard a loud and appalling cry like tiiat of a baffled beast, and 1 became insensible. For weeks after this l lay between life and death, in a brain fever, brought on by the intense excitement anti fear of those twenty minutes. I afterwards learned that m} r pleas ant companion had been a doctor and surgeon, but that when he was a young man and just married, having pertorm- ed an operation to extract a cancer, from his wife, of which she afterwards died, he went out of his mind, and had ever since been attempting to escape, in order that he might perform ihe dreadful experiment which so nearly resulted in my death, man removed, aud the dying pulses taught to beat again. Sometimes the criminals, when re moved, are black in the lace, the blood flooding the head. A man in Sing 5mg prison lately expired under this punish ment. The Shower bath at Moygmeui sing has !>een used three times in seven years. Its effects are to shock the ner vous system and weaken the entire body. One woman was lately put to ibe bath test. She is known as Jenny Lind, and is designated by one of the Waldens as the most abandoned wo man in ihe world. She has been in prison more than ° ne hundred times 1 chiefly for vag r ancy, and is beyond pill reformation She seems at times to be possessed with a demon. Oa Wednes day she leaped upon Mr. Sargent, the Warden of the Female department,.and lore his mouth in iTrnost savage man ner. The assault was entirely unpro voked. She is said to'be very decep tive. She was placed in the shower bath for an exhibition of heinous wick edness, and at the end of ten minutes’ punishment asked it she would behave. She said with an oath she would not, and demanded to be punished again. The bath was again applied ; but she was still incorrigible. When brought forth again she was almost life* j less, and hut for the application of prompt restoratives, would have been no longer a trouble to the authorities. Spare Moments.—A lean, awkward boy catne one morning to the door of the prineipalofa celebrated school ami asked to see him. The servant eyed his shabby clothes, and taking him for a beggar senL him round to the kitchen. The boy did as he was told, and soon appeared at the back door. “I should like to see Dr. ,” said he, “You want a breakfast, more like,” said the servant, “and 1 can give you that without troubling him.” “Thank you,” said the boy ; “I’ve no objection to a bit of bread, but I should like to see Dr. if he can see me.”— “Some old clothes, maybe, you want,” said the servant again, eyeing the hoy’s patched trousers. “1 expect^ he has none to spare, he gives them all away; and without minding the boy’s request she went about her work. The Tallow ChkiIIc Tbrory. -Can I see Dr. ?” asked the Many persons have heard it asserted boy again, after eating his bread am! that a tallow candle, when fired from j butler. “Well he’s in the librarv, if an ordinary gun with the usual ; he must be spoken to ; but he does like charge’of powder, at a d&ui board three j some time to himseif,” said the girl in quarters of an inch thick, will pass thro’ yet*, wrote and told me that if, on the 25th, 1 was not at O , I should probably loose—never mind what, but something which induced rne to pack my portmanteau in all haste, send for a handsom, and drive to the N. Y. Z. Station. When I found I was too la;e tor ihe train I had wished tocaich, and that the next one did not start for three quarters of an hour. Inwardly curs ing my ill fortune, I went to the wail ing room, and endeavored to make my self us comfortable as I could ; but despite ail my attempts, I think L nev er knew time to pass so slowly in all my life, except a certain twenty min utes about which I am going to tell. Although, as I said, the time went very slowly, nevertheless it did go ;— and, in process o<Yime, 1 found myself snugly ensconced in a first class car riage, which bad but one occupant be sides myself, a cheerful looking, little old man, with gray hair, and a strange, restless look about the eyes. Directly I got into the carriage he addressed me in a familiar way : “A merry time to you.” “The same to you,” said I rather gruffly, as I was not in the best of hu mor, and did not feel inclined to be cheerful and neighborly. “Wh}’, bless me, sir,” said the little old man, renewing the attack, “you have not anything wherewith to keep yourself warm on this cold winter’s day ; allow me.to offer you one of tny traveling wrappers. I always take care to be well provided with sbeh things when 1 goon a journey.” And mv companion took from his side a lolled up rug, unrolled it, and taking a small mahogany box from the folds, Ihtew the rug to me. “Thank you sir,” said *1, feeling in spite of myself a shade more cheerful. “Oh, no thanks, no thanks ; I do it for my own benefit, nut yours I assure you.” “How do you make out that ?” “Why, I like to have a comfortable face opposite me ; and, besides, the grand experiment, you know.” “What grand experiment ?” I said, somewhat startled by the man’s excit ed manner. “Oh, nothing, nothing,” said he, col oring violently. “Only—that is to say— exactly ; are yon a Freemason r” “No, sir.” “Not a Freemason ? Why, bless me ! ing him ! Twice I have failed, but the stars have told nte that a third lime I shall not fail. O, fame, glory, immor tality, I have you in my grasp ! What, pitiful fool do you turn pale and trem ble ? If you die, you will die a glori ous marlvr to science if you uve, you and I will share the glory of this grand discovery !” From this ridiculous rbodornontade, I perceived that my pleasant eccentric traveling companion was a raving ma niac. What was! to do ? I could riot move hand or foot, or even speak, and the madman was arranging on the seat in front of me a collection of bright steel instruments, which he took from the mahogany box which I have mentioned before. Was there any help for me ? 1 tried to remember how long it was af ter we left M before I went to sleep, as I thought if we got to F the maniac would be discovered, and I should be relieved from the horrible death which now seemed imminent; but as I had been dozing some lime be fore 1 went regularly off to sleep, I found that I could not in the least re member what lime had passed. After some time spent in preparing his instruments, my persecutor began to ptepare me by unbuttoning my waistcoat and bearing my breast. At length everything seemed to be to his satisfaction, and he look up a sharp, keen hiaded knife, I shall never for get my sensations when 1 saw that lit tle glittering instrument, so soon to he dyed with mv blood. I felt a cold shud der run through my body, and 1 longed to close my eyes, but they seemed to keep open by a sort of horrible fascina tion. After Irving the edge ofthe knife, and preparing a doth, and giving one final look to his instruments, my eccen tric friend pressed his finger close above my heart aud said ; “This is how I am going lo manage it, my friend ; l am going to eut.acii- cle in the fiesii, above the heart, with this knife ; it will not hurl much, .is 1 shall only just cut through the skin, and the knife is exceedingly sharp. I shall then pntcecd to dig deeper with this instrument, and finally extract the heart with this.” The reader may imagine my sensa tions during this cold, bloody recital, for I am utterly unable lo describe them , but when the sharp steel first pierced my flesh, and 1 felt the warm peevish tone. She seemed lo think t he board, but very few who have seen j it very fxdish to admit such an ill-look- it done, believe it. On Monday, a par- i ing fellow into the Doctor’s presence ; ty of riflemen ar.d other gentlemen, for j however, she wiped her hands and the purpose of deciding abet on the | told him to follow her. Opening the subject, adjourned to the butts of the ! library door, she said, “Here’s some- North Middlesex Hifle3 at Child’s Hill, ; body, sir, who is very anxious lo see you, and so I let him in.” I do not know how the hoy intro duced himself, or how he opened his business; but I know that after awhile the priucipal.put by the book he was . , reading, took up some Greek books, man , C< r am ' cr! .-5 Ul » an “ passed through, ; an J began to examine the new comer, rand eovi ]'o a exactly the shape nt a.; qq, e examination lasted for some time. ca,a J !e ’ ... | Every question which the Doctor asked The remains ol the cannlc were j v - a3 rea( |j|y answered. “Upon my found scattered in pieces tesemhling j vvord,” said lhe principal, “yo U cerlain- suovv flakes on the high mound of earth j ly do we! i» looking at the' boy from in the rear of the board. A second can-; head to fool over his spectacles. “Why, die, when fired from (he fowling piece, j m y | M)V? where did you nick up so passed through the board, making a cjr-1 mi)C h ?- r cuiar hole, which was, however, very j nj u m y S p are momentsanswered the jagged around the edges. A third can- | bcy . Here was a ^r, hard-working die earned away a large piece of the I boy . wi ,h few chances for schooling, board, breaking away the boundary on | yet nearly titte d for college by simply one side of the hole made by the first; improving his spare moments. Truly, s , ‘ .. _ , _ : are not spare moments the “gold dust A candle fired from a rifle faded to ! oftime?” pass through the hoard ; the groves of j where a board of the thickness describ ed having been fixed in an upright po sition, a common halfpenny dip was fired at it from a fowling piece, from a distance of about fifteen paces. The candle si.ruck the board with its full the rifle stripped the tallow from the j This pretty incident is related of a wick as it passed out. The smooth-1 canary bird. The door of the bird’s bore fowling piece was loaded each ; cage was occasionally left open that fie time with uvo and a half drams of pow- : might enjoy the freedom of the room, der, a small piece of paper ns a wad, : One day he. happened to light upon the and p common tallow dip, which had I mantle shelf whereupon was a mirror, nol been specially prepared in any j Here was a new discovery of tlte most manner.—Court Journal. j profound interest. He gazed iong and curiously at himself, and came to the Terrilile Panislunent in a Prison. A Philadelphia reporter, having conclusion he had found a mate. Go ing back to his cage he selected a seed thoroughly overhauled the Moya men- i ^ rona ar, d bror.gnt it in his bill sing prison, gives the fallowing account i HS an °“ enn o stranger. In vain - ■ the canary exerted himself to make his new-found friend partake, and becom- of the shower bath mode of punishing criminals: In a cell at the eastern end of the corridor appropriated for females, stood something like a wooden chimney, ver tically against the wall.* Closer in spection revealed a dooi in its front, with staple and padlock. This being throw’ll open, an apartment just laFge enough to contain a human body, was revealed, with one of the round per forated bath cisterns in the lop. The door and sides are hollow and stuffed with woolen to prevent screams from being heard. When any prisoner becomes ungov ernable, be is escorted lo this cell. The physician, the nurse and the superin tendent stand by. The malefactor is forced into the apartment, the doors closett upon him, and the siaples se cured with a heavy padlock. Then in the darkness and stilling air, the uu- h.ipj>y criminal feels the rush of the descending water, it comes in a tor rent unon his uncovered head, and seems lo be beating upon Ins brain. In vain does he seek to avoid the draught. He cannot bend in the narrow aperture. He cannot turn. His breath growls short. Every nerve is unstrung. His heart beats agonizingly. He screams, but tbe walls are deaf, and there is no reply. He is suffocating—dying. And when sense is swimming and life flick ering, the door is opened, the unhappy ing weary of that, tried another tack. Stepping back a few inches from the glass he poured forth his sweetest notes, pausing now and then for a reply.—■ None came; and moody and disgusted he flew back to his perch, hang his head in shame and silence for the rest of the day ; and although the door was repeatedly left open, refused to come out again. An Editor out West has fallen in love. Just hear what he says: “We love to see the blooming rose in its beauty dressed ; we love to hear our friends disclose the emotion of the breast. We love to see the cars arrive, well laden, at our door; we love to see our neighbors thrive, and love to bless the pouf. We love to see domestic life’s uninterruped joys; we love to see a happy wife with lots of girls and hoys. We love all these, yet far above all that we ever said—we love—what every printer love#-—to have subscrip tions paid.” An Illinois paper estimates that the ex penses of the United States Government last year were a little over 81,000 per minute. A cautions old bachelor, who knows that the present is leap year, says: “If you meet a young lady who is not very shy» you had better be a little shy yourself.”

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Southern recorder. (Milledgeville, Ga.) 1820-1872, June 30, 1868, Image 1