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THE ATLANTA SUN
From Tlie Daily Sun of January 12,1872
rERSOSAL AXD GESERAL.
— The richest furs are the Russian
— A Louisiana Sheri ff has fitted up a
(alllotuie.
— The Erie settlement leaves Fisk's
widow nf»r)y (100,000.
— A Chief of the Cberokees is a grad
uate of Princeton College.
— A large number of New Orleans
printer a ere out of employment.
—A Connecticut minister has resigned
trecnure bit flock didn't want him to play croquet.
—Father Burke’s father died recently
ia Galway, Ireland, but bla mother in hale, hearty,
and eighty eight.
—Certain wealthy men of Pittsburg
propose to invest (flO.OCO in the publication of a new
evening paper in that city.
— The value of the manufactured pro
ducts of New Hsropubire teu years ago was (37,000,-
000. N ow it ia 171 .OOO.OuO.
— A womau was irozen to death in
Patuck, R. I., on Monday night week. 8he was
acaiitily clothed and barelooted.
—A queer old gentleman being asked
what he wished for dinner, replied: "An appetite,
good compiuji toujcibing to eat, and a napkin.
—At a receut fasi ionanle wedding in
Hew York, the groom, after the ceremony lifted the
bride’s teil and presented ner to the clergyman to
Uu.
— A fastidious Connecticut gentleman
preierred to pay |6,000 on a breach of promise
rather il.au marry a }ouug lady who did not spell
correctly.
— Mr. Eberly, r.f Du'lacb, Pa., owns
€00 turke'«, 600 peeae. 3 0 durks, and 1,000 chick
ens, ta which happy laruily he feeds daily iilteen
bush, ia of corn.
— The amount of ore shipped from
Utah during the just jear was 10,i'47 tons; the
amount ol base bull on. 6.053)4 tons; the value of
ftilTcr barp, |6,U0U,0U0.
— A young lady at Glen Rock. Neb.,
of white parents, and herself very de irate com-
pinion. has turned as black as a negro since recov
ering from a fit oi sickucts.
— Agassiz says that any full grown
man can live for ten (lrye by chewing at a pair of
boots, and yet there are men who wiU growl if they
-don't have mince pie every meal.
— Mr. Storrs Burrows, of Utica, N. Y.,
who has kept a iaitnful record of tin weather for a
great number of years, stales tuat 1816 w s the cold
est year evi-r known, in Europe or America. Th>re
was litera ly no summer at all—lr.bt in every month.
8m,w Jell to the depth ol six inches in Muine on the
22d I f July, and < 11 the lGili of Angus: ice formed
•a thick as window glass. Asamatnrof com se the
crops ai> failed, and provisions went up to starvation
prices—wheat fl ur s xt< eu dollars per barrel and
seed corn six doila a per bushel,
—The PouoLkeepbie Eagle tells this
story : One night last week, all utisun River railroad
engineer, whim poiwg North with his train at light
ning spe, d. suddi nly obsuved a man on the track.
He blew his whistle siveral times as a em’nal for (lan
cer, bnt hi didu’i move. In vain he endeavored to
stop the tiain; it was too lute, ’J ho engine struck
the man with full iorce, completely annihilating
him. The man was made of snow, and was placed
cn the track by a joker. An attempt had previously
been made to p ay the same tri k on another engi
neer, hut l o detected the cheat by the whiteness of
the effley. The last one, however, after beiDg placed
on the track, was li'ackened with soot from a loco
motive sinoV starts
Cov. Similii’s !tsw Term.
Gov. Smith having just entered upon
the duties of a full and regular Guber-
jjiw^nal term. ca'-led to that position by
the largest majority vote ever given to
any man for that office in tlie State, we
most cordially congratulate him upon the
suspiciousness of his surroundings. Hav
ing endeured himself to the people by
an honest administration of the affairs of
the State ; having in both branches of
the Legislature overwhtlming support
of his general policy, there is everything
to encourage and sustain him in the per
formance of his duties.
Following after the vile and corrupt
administration of Rufus B. Bullock, it
has required a strong nerve to investigate
and set to right the many irregularities
committed in the affairs of Georgia. But
the people have unbounded confidence
in the 6tern integrity of Gov. Smith.
They have the greatest faith in his
honesty, and will unitedly sustain his ad
ministration. We wish him the greatest
success in all he undertakes in behalf of
the prosperity, glory and honor of
Georgia. ^
For State Printer.
The rivalry between the several candi
dates for the office of State Printer is
growing quite lively, though pleasant on
all sides. The present Public Printers,
our esteemed neighbors, Messrs. W. A.
Hemphill & Co., are aspiring for a con
tinuance of the office. Oar other neigh
bor, Col. R. A. Alston, tnan whom the
State has no more enterprising a worker,
ia also an applicant. Then there is Mr.
J. H. Estill, of the Savannah News, whom,
Without disparaging any other occupying
a like position in the fourth estate, we
pronounce the best newspaper manager
in the State. Mr. John W. Burke, the
well known publisher, and Mr. Harrison,
oi that excellent weekly, the Monroe
Advertiser, are also seeKing the office.
Mr. Speights, of the Griffin News, is not
a candidate.
Tne manager of The Sun is not in this
contest, though a number of votes have
been volunteered to The Sun. Our
friends will please give their votes to
those who are candidates, to all of whom
we are most friendly.
Th« LsGraagt Reporter.'
We are glad to eee that Mr. Waterman
is making the Repot ter one of the best pa
pers in the State. It has a very fine cir
culation—far beyond tne average of pa
pers published in towns the size of La-
Grarge. We commend the Reporter as
• splendid advertising medium. We
Tcrow whereof we speak.
J®*" Several years of expensive litiga
tion resulted lately in the following
highly important decision by the Su
preme Court of Vermont: That a Mrs.
Drew, who cut some grass on the public
highway in order that her children might
have a path by which they could get to
nd from school without getting their
clothes wet, committed no crime; but
that, as Mrs. Drew fed nine pounds of
Ibis grass to her husband s horse, she
committed a tresspass, for which she was
responsible to the State of Vermont.
—A huge “jailer dorg” created some
excitement yesterday morning, as he
Wished through the streets drugging a
“*o of chain behind him.
Stats Home Officer*.
The election ot State House: officers
yesterday by the Legislature resulted in
the election of CoL W. L. Goldsmith, ot
DeKalb county, as Comptroller General;
N. C. Barnett, of Fnlton, hut lately cf
Baldwin county, as Secretary of State ;
and Col. John Jones as State Treasurer.
With all due respect to the other gentle
men who were aspirants for the above-
named positions, we think the Legisla
ture has done well. Messrs. Goldsmith,
Barnett and Jones are all gentlemen well
known to the people of Georgia, worthy
of the confidence thus bestowed upon
them.
W. L. GOLDSMITH
was born in South Carolina; removed to
Bartow county, Ga., when a mere boy,
from Charleston, S. C. He was educated
at the Cherokee Baptist College at Cass-
ville; studied law and entered the law
department of our State University, but
did not complete his legal education be
fore the beginning of the late war, when
he entered the army as a private. On
the organization of the 14th Georgia
Regiment, he was elected a Lieutenant
of his Company.
His regiment was ordered to the de
partment of Western Virginia, at that
time under General Lee, but afterwards
it formed a part of the Army of North
ern Virginia, and the subject of this
sketch passed through the entire war to
the surrender. By continuous service
and gallantry in the field, he became
Colonel of his regiment. He was in
every important engag mentof the Army
of Northern Virginia, and, luckily pass
ed through the entire war without re
ceiving a wound.
After the war Col. Goldsmith received
his diploma from the law department of
the State University and began the piac-
ice of his profession in DeKalb count y.
He was elected to the last Legislature
from his county, and was placed by Gov,
Smith, then Speaker of the House, upon
the committee of investigation o* the
allairs of tiie Western & Atlantic Rail
road under the Bullock dynasty, which
committee rendered valuable service to
the interest of the State.
Col. Goldsmith is a married man, as
all virtuous men ought to be. His wife
is the (laughter of Col. J, N. Swift, of
Lytlioniu, Ga. His father is a citizen of
Atlanta, where he has several brothers,
one of wboih is an alderman of the city
for the present year, and another one of
them is the City Treasurer.
COLONEL NATHAN CRAWFORD BARNETT,
Colonel Barnett belongs to and is
closely related to some of the oldest and
best; families in Georgia. He was born
in Columbia county. His father, Wil
liam Barnett, having died when the sub
ject of this sketch was about four years
of age, his mother removed to Ogle
thorpe county, Georgia, where he
was reared and educated, complet
ing his coarse of academic studies at
Meeon Academy at Lexington, under
the instruction of Sterling Lane, who
was a men of talent and marked char
acter. He afterwards removed to Walton
county, of which he was a citizen for
five ot six years.
In 1827 he removed to Clarke county,
which he represented in the lower branch
of the General Aesembly in 1836 and
1 1837. Col. Barnett read law under Ed
ward Paine of Watkinsville, was admit
ted to the bar and practiced only a short
while, when he relinquished the profes
sion upon being elected Secretary of
State in 1843, nnder the administration
of George W. Crawford, and removed to
Milledgeville.
He was again re-elected, successively
under the administrations of Governors
Towns, Cobb, Brown and Jenkins. When
the offices of Secretary of State and
Surveyor-General were consolidated in
1861, he was elected to fijl them, to which
he was again re-elected in 1863 and 1865.
It will be remembered that Col. Bar
nett was removed from office by the mili
tary because he refused to attest State
documents issued by Gen. Huger, then
Military Governor—believing he conld
not do so under the solemn sanctity of
his oath of office.
For this he was ejected from office and
a military officer ordered to discharge
the duties thereof. True to the State,
to himself, and to his children, he pre
served the Grand Seal of the State which
was returned last year to Governor Smith,
the first legal Executive since Governor
Jenkins was removed by order of Gener
al Meade. Thus he suffered political
martyrdom. His vindication is made by
his restoration to his old office yb the
Representatives of the people.
OOL. JOHN JONES
was bom in Baldwin county, Georgia, on
the 3rd day of July, 1814, and conse
quently is now in the fifty-ninth year of
his age. He is the son of Hon. John A.
Jones, at present living in Polk oonnty,
Ga. CoL Jones was educated at Frank
lin College and the United States Mili
tary School, at West Point. He was ad
mitted to the practioe of law in 1839 at
Columbus, Ga., and continued in the
profession bat a few years, at Van
Wert, Paulding oonnty, when he aban
doned the practice for other pursuits.
In 1846 CoL Jones raised a company
of volunteers for Col. Jackson’s regiment
for servioe in Mexico, and while there
was commissioned a Captain in one of
the new regular regiments (the volti-
gears) for that servioe, in which h# re
mained until the close of the war with
that oompany. On his return home ha
was elected ss Senator in the Legislature
of 1849-50. from the District com
posed of the counties of. Carroll and
Campbell. In 1850 he married
the eldest daughter of Mr. Peter J.
Williams of Milledgeville, and for sev
eral years continued to pursue the busi
ness of mining for gold near Villa Rica
in Carroll.
In 1859, a vacancy occurring in the
Treasury by tne resignation of CoL J. B.
Tripp, Colonel Jones was appointed by
Gov. Brown to fill out the unexpired
term, and he entered on its duties on the
1st January, 1860, was elected at the en
suing session, and again in 1861,1863,
1865, 1867, and in January, 1868, was
removed by Gen. Meade for refusing to
obey the ordinance of 1867, endorsed by
Gen. Pope, to advance from the State
Treasury forty-thousand dollars to pay
the Convention, and for refusing to dis
close to Gen. Ruger where the funds of
the State were deposited; was arrested,
by Gen. Meade’s order, and paroled by
Gen. Ruger to the limits of the State.
During the last summer be has fully and
satisfactorily settled with His Excellency,
Gov. Smith, and accounted for all re
ceipts by him up to his removal by Meade.
The Scarcity of Money.
This is unpleasantly felt in every por
tion of the South. No banks are failing,
individuals are tot breaking, there are
few petitioners in bankiuptcy, every one
is “getting along,” but it is, as a general
thing, on much less cash than ility could
ever have been made to believe possible.
Heavy taxes and the kigi* prices that the
Southern people hud to pay lor corn and
meit elowu till two years ago, have had
a great deal to do with this. But these
high rates were gradually subsiding, and
financial ease seemed to be again within
reach. The Southern peopie had vindi
cated their energy; it was made manifest
that they would again lead iu raising cot
ton ; Nortnern merchants had consequent
ly begun to court our trade warmly and
to extend their indulgence; our retail
merchants became pi'able as to crediting,
aud so the people felt sufficiently reas
sured to venture to purchase for the first
time in several years (inclusive of rhe war)
with some little freedom. There were
good reports as to the cotton crops irom
every State. Everything indicated a
prosperous year—happy planters, law
yers, physicians, nierauants and tenants.
On a sudden war was declared ^between
Trance and Prussia, and was joined with
unusual celerity aud vigor. Each knew
(he formidable military strength of the
other, aud was eager to gain the moral
and practical advantages oi the first on
slaught. Owing to the high position ot
the bcdligerents aud the fury with which
they engaged, tnera was great danger
that other nations would become em
broiled, and hence dullness and timidity
pervaded every branch of trade. Our
great staple, which had averaged over
one hundred dollars a bale since the war—
indeed, much ol that sold for 3140 to
3150—declined, about the time of the
heaviest movement of the crop to mar
ket, to 360 a bale in the interior. It is
not too much to affirm, that the cotton
growers failed to realize $50,000,000 to
$60,000,000 (fifty to sixty millions of dol
lars.) How this affected every calling,
every branch of industry needs no ex
plaining.
Next came the Chicago fire with its
effects upon the finances of the country;
and latterly the Boston conflagration.
The three, together with the heavy taxa-
tioo, are enough to bring “tight times.”
The Greensboro Herald gives the fol
lowing statement of a homicide that oc
curred in Greene county, on the 7th
inst.: “Capt. Miller while endeavoring
to prevent a negro man named Jack Mid-
dlebrooks (known as a bad and desperate
character) trom removing a lot of corn to
whioh Jack had no right, until after a
settlement, which had not been made,
was attacked by Jack with an axe. Capt.
Miller warded off the first blow with his
arm, stepped back, and told Jack that if
he advanced on him he would kill him.
Jack did advance with the axe raised,
and was Bhot twice, one ball took effect
ic his head and the other in the left arm
pit The latter snowing that his arm
was raised and in a position to strike.
After the shooting. Jack walked about
wenty-five yards and fell dead.” Mr,
Miller, after being before a court of en
quiry, was acquitted, and the coroner’s
jury returned a verdict of justifiable
homicide.
4®rThomas Ewbank (long Commis
sioner of Patents) in the excellent book
he wrote on Brazil, thus describes and
adds an amusing picture of it, an appro
priate, though odd, Christmas pastime
of the boys of the splendid capital, Rio
de Janeiro, serving to keep in lively re
membrance the perfidy of Judas. They
are furnished by the priests with effigies
of men made of staffed old clothes,
which they drag about the streets, and
trample, pound, and objurgate with tru
ly comical and frantic juvenile extrava
gance.
CHAT WITH STATE PAPERS.
Rev. Dr. Wills preaches ac Madison
to-day.
A masquerade ball is to come off in
Madison on the 17th instant.
The Covington Enterprise says that
Social Circle whispers that she has no
objection to be the capital of a new
county, and proposes to cut off a portion
of Newton to form it.
The Angusta Monumental Drawing
has been postponed to the third day of
April, when the Managers “publicly
pledge and solemnly aver that the distri
bution shall take place.”
Mrs. Nolan, wife of Thomas L. No
lan, died in Morgan county, on the 1st
instant. Also, at Rutledge, Morgan
county, on the 7th instant, Mrs. Clara E.
Williams, wife of Newton Williams, in
the thirty-sixth year of her age.
The Presbyterian congregation, of Al
bany, on Sabbath last, consented to the
severance of their Pastor’s connection
with their church, and appointed a dele
gate to attend Presbytery to unite with
him in the application for his transfer to
Milledgeville.
The Calhoun Times says that one Dr.
Will. M. Snyder, so-called, a youthful
dentist, who located there a few months
since and married a lady near Carrollton,
Ga., succeeded, a few days since, in qui
etly disposing of his effects, and slyly va
moosed, leaving a multitude of creditors
to mourn over his unexpected exit.
The old flag of the 54th Georgia Regi
ment, of which the lamented General
Pat Cleburne was first Colonel, will be
present iu Savannah on the occasion of
the approaching anniversary of General
Robert E. Lee s birthday, and will that
day be again kissed by the breezes of our
sunny dime for the first time, perhaps,
since it was furled in tlie spring oi 1805.
The Washington Gazette learns that
there is a gun boat loaded with rifle
whisky ana jugs the size of a columbiad,
which lilies up and down Broad River
and trades the whisky to the negroes on
the Wilkes and Elbert banks for cotton,
meat, produce or aDj\hiug else that is
saleable, and never asks whose gin house
the cotton comes from or from whose
crib the corn comes. Its trips arc made
only at night.
A Rnsslan MariTuge Ceremony.
The bride lihd or degroom hold a
lighted taper in their hands iu front of a
smali altar placed in tha centre of the
church. Rings were placed on their fin
gers, and their hands biing joined, they
were led by the pope three times around
the altar. Two highly-ornamented gilt
crowns were placed on their heads and
held over them by the groomsmen during
part of the services. They crank wine
out of a cup three times, aud kissing one
another, the ceremony was finished. The
married couple then made a tour of the
church, crossing themselves at and sa
luting each saintly Icon on the way.
Weddings generally take pla e toward
evening, so that immediately after the
ceremony, dinner commences at the
house oi the bride’s father. At a mar
riage feast lighted candles are placed in
every position and corner possible. No
other wine but champagne should be
druDk, and the quantity consumed
of this oeverage is remarkable. The
dinner is followed by a ball, aud the
feasting is usually kept up for twenty-
four hours. The custom of honeymoon
ing does not exist in Russia. The mar
ried couple spend the first few days of
their wedded life with the bride’s father.
After the marriage the bride and bride
groom must call upon every one of their
relations, friends and acquaintances, and
after this ceremony is finished they sink
back to their ordinary life.
BUEJCE OE PROMISE.
SEALED M1THTBRt Bn%
The Housewife’* Table.
The following is a very valuable house
wife’s table, by which persons not hav
ing scales and weights at hand may read
ily measure the article wanted to form
any receipt without the trouble of weigh
ing. Allowance to be made for an ex
traordinary dryness or moisture of the
article weighed or measured:
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Wheat flour, one pound is one quart,
Indian meal, one pound two ounces
are one quart.
Butter, when soft, one pound is one
qnart,
Loaf sugar, broken, one pound is one
quart.
White sugar, powdered, one pound
one ounce are one quart.
Best brown sugar, one pound two
ounces are one quart.
Ten eggs are one pound.
Floor, eight quarts are one peck.
Flour, four pecks are one bushel.
LIQUIDS, ETC.
Sixteen large tablespoonfuls are half a
pint.
Eight large tablespoon fuls are one gill.
Four large tablespoonfuls are half gilL
Two gills are halt a pint.
Two pints are one quart.
Four quarts are one gallon.
A common sized tumbler holds half a
pint.
A common sized wine glass is half a
gilL
A tea cup is one gill.
A large wine glass is one gill.
A tablespoonful is half an ounce.
Forty drops is equal to one teaspoon
ful.
Four teaspoonful are equal to one
tablespoonfnl.
CoL Susan B. Anthony proposes
these prices for maternal duties: “Girl
babies, $100; boy babies, $200; twin
babies, $300; twins, both boys, 3400:
triplets, 3600; triplets, all boys, 31,000.”
But then you see it would require a very
stiff market to secure such figures.
•&** CoL Susan B. Anthony advisee
the women to strike for higher wages for
home duties—that ia to say, so much for
every baby born. Now, if the Colonel
will just think a little, Bhe will remem
ber that these “home duties” are rather
mutual.
— The average boy at birth weights a
little more, the average girl a little less,
than six and a half pounds. For the
first twelve years the sexes weigh about
the same, bat after that period Hie aver
age male gets ahead of the average fe
male, or would if he didn’t ohew to-
baooo.
—A charitable lady in St. Louis sent
one of her last year’s dresses to a desti
tute woman the other day. She was
somewhat surprised to have it returned
with the statement tnat it was too mil
behind for the present style, and would
she tide a breadth out und change the
trimming.
All Abi.nt tne Vain* of a Broken Heart
and a Jilted Affection.
One :.f our exchanges, dwelling on the
numerous suits of breach of promise
pending throughout the country, relates
the following true incident:
We remember a case in point. We
won’t say who constitured the court. We
are afraid to say it because we might be
prosecuted for libel. Not that our report
of the case would not bo accurate iu all
respects, but because the maxim of the
law is “ the greater the truth the greater
the libel.” The case cited arose iu West
ern Kentucky, exactly where, we won’t
say. But it arose. The Chicago Tribune I
contained an account of it, and w ha f tne j
Chicago Tribune contains is true.
It happened that a young lady named
Juliet Nelson became engaged to au old
bachelor named Ivanhoe Roberts, who
was fifty years of age. The complainant
was a pretty girl of sixteen. (She stated
through the lawyer, to whom she paid
ten dollars, that she was modest and
shrank from snch a public betrayal of
her aflections, but that sue was forced to
it by the obstinacy of the defendant.
Many gifts and notes had passed be
tween them, and many pledges ol love
and confidence had been exchanged,
when on one occasion the defendant
picked a quarrel, broke the match and
tne plaintiff’s heart at the same time, and
refused to return a glove, a curl of hair
and seven love-letters which were in ms
possession. The lawyer said that he had
kept these to show to his wicked asso
ciates, and had boasted ol them as tro
phies of a conquest over a fond and girl-
l-h heart. His client claimed to have
been damaged in the sum of one thou
sand dollars. One-half the amount re
covered was to be the lawyer’s.
The court looked gloomily at the de
fendant when this appeal was made, but,
wnen the counsel arose, he condescended
to listen to wnat he bad to say. He stated
that Ins client was a bache or; that, he
had always greatly preferred to have a
limb amputated or one of his eyes pluck
ed out to lulling in love with a woman.
There was no security about it, he said.
He had tried to avoid them from his
youth tip. He had believed there was
nothing but grief to come of the love
matches; but Miss Nelson had been rep
resented to him. as a most charming and
exemplary young lady; she was said to
oe domestic iu her tas;o and devoted in
ner attachments.
Bat she had proved untrue to him.
She acquired a fonuness for buggy-rid
ing with men younger than himself, and
on moro than one occasion her escorts
to bran daeee?, picnics, and to churches
had dallied along the road for Hours,
though the lesorts alluded to were only
two or three miles trom her home. He
had, at times, called on her, and when
she was enjoying the society of her
younger beaux she would never admit
him promptly ii the parlor, Qu one
occasion he enterecl suflifeiffy p.ml unex
pected iy and she started as it from a rev
erie, but he knew she had not been in a
reverie, for her beau was sitting very
near her on the sofa and she seemed
“Irustt red” up and excited. There was,
he thought, something wrong.
He made her presents of milk pails,
churns and biscuit mallets, but they dul
not appear to make her true to him.
Now, as for returning the love letters, he
could not think of it. They were a part
of himself. “When ho saw them,” he
added pathetically, “it brought the ola
days back—the melodies of the youth of
their love, heard before the roses had
withered and before he had ceased giv
ing her milk-pails. He sim^y broke off
the engagement because be did not think
he and her young beaux could get along
well together in the same boat.” The
case was submitted to tl e court by agree
ment of the parties.
“During these remarks,” says the re
porter of the trial, “ the court wiped his
eyes, took from his pocket a square silk
hanukerchief, a small dictionary, some
blank forms, an almanac and a small tin
box, which looked as if it might at some
time have contained Sedlitz powders.
This box the court opened and took out
a little parcel, tied up in yellow libbon,
on which he dropped a tear, and said:
“Twenty-four years ago this court loved
a girl living near Blau flville. We corres
ponded with her by the weekly mail. In
a moment of frenzy that girl jilted us
and demanded her letters and a beaded
watch pocket. We refused to surrender
them again to the jurisdiction of the
party, because she would have thus been
able to taka advantage of her own wrong,
which the law forbids. Her brother
came and demanded the custody of
the uttides; we refused. This coart,
to the great laceration of its
feelings had to knock down that brother.
We still retain these letters, and we will
not 80 stultify ourself by allowing auy
damages for the plaintiff. So far as she
is concerned, she must be fined tea do.lars,
which sum this court would assess on the
person that jilted us, if she had not emi
grated to Missouri, and placed herself be
yond the limits of the Commonwealth.”
This case will, we trust, discourage any
more litigation of the kind. The custom
which some females have of perforating
the person of unfaithful lovers with pistol
balls is even worse. It is very wrong;
nay, very dishonorable in a man to break
an engagement or intentionally to pro
voke its dissolution, but it is worse to
kill or sue him for it, save iu cases of
great aggravation. He should be left to
suffer uuder the contempt of better and
more chivalric men, and consigned to the
reproaches of society. Our advice to all
young men in the beginning of this new
year is to be true to women and the Dem
ocratic party.
There is something new in railroad
brakes. The London Times describes
one used in Bavaria which has important
qualities. The engine driver and guards
are provided with a bell rope, which, on
being pulled, “applies the brakes to tne
engine and tender and front and rear
brake-vans and carriages, stopping the
train in about 18 to 20 seconds, withont
any unpleasant jerk, and even without
the driver shutting off steam.”
t got HU Wife-.
Warning to
low a Benedict
Mixed—A Sud
iliated.
He came in and sat down on
and buried his ftce in hi s ^
looked up inquiringly. UU8, I
“James.” I said, kindly, 8eein
made no movement, “ How dn
yourself?” *'° r *
“ Thank you,” he saul, without l ,
lug up. “ I’ll take it hot; and D n »
much sugai.” wo
I gvo it to him hot. I took som*
self. He sipped it in silence
into thejdepths _>f the tumbler
as if he was trying to draw from ito *’
btr hues the solution of a problem W6 '
“George,” he said, suddenly
fancier, I saw a spasm of pain oi
athwart bis features. “George” v
brought his baud down on the table'll 6
stnrtlincr earnestness—“George I ^ “
The oysters in several of the tributa
ries of Chesapeake Bay have become
green, and in consequence nnmarketa-
ble. Green is not a fashionable color
among oyster eaters in the United States,
though in Paris a green oyster will sell
for twice as mnch as a whi«e one. The
French oystermen have “greening
ponds,” in which the oysters are placed
tor the pnrp-oee of being brought to the
favorite color.
startling earnestness
miserable man!”
He grasped the tumbler and
tin’ contents at a gulp.
“James,” said I. soothingly, “be cafe
bhall tue next have more sugar iu it7"
“About the same,” he said, distnalK
“not so mnch water. George lam
wreck?” ’
“Ah!” said J, taking a spoonful tn
taste, “we all have our sorrows.” 10
“Well!” lio cried scornfully, “whatd
you kno s of the woes of life? Georw
you are a single man. Keep go; <4’
the matrimonial noose. ’Ware breaketf’
Then ho paused, and said, sternly; uj,
this rye or Monongahela?” 5
“Old rye,” 1 answered.
He frowned darkly; then l le gjjj. |
“What’s your opinion of Job ?”
“Jot* ?”
“ Tne patient poster, I meaa—-”
“On ! Well, I hardly kuow. Hoirdo
you menu ? Do you ask my opiuiou a3
to whether his patience was justifiable
under tire circumstances, and n I *0^
have acred the same ? I answer, nios-
emphatically, No 1”
“Don’t mean that—I mean-do you
think Job ever hart a successor ?’’
I answered that f didu’t; tiaut I thought
no man since his time was ever lit to wear
his shoes; that, every Job complained
tbouerh some reople did not comnlamof
a job--city officials, for instance, i'hig
was meant for a joke—not warranted
shot-proof, how' ver—but it didn’t take.
He scowleu at me.
“I am married,” he said glcomi'v.
“Why did I ever get married ?”
I thought ho wis giving me a conun
drum to solve, so I said that I gave it
up; but he went on without noticing
me:
“I am not a profane man, I am not
given to using hard words, uu* I say I
am—well—chiseled if I see what possess
ed me to many.”
“It vvas strange,” I assented.
“Was I mad ?” ho asked—of llie (am
bler.
I said perhaps so.
“What happened this tnoraing?
George, what do you suppose kip
penert ?”
“Give it up again.”
“What did my wife say to mo before
skirted out to the store ? ”
“And again.”
He groaned; then he resumed; “Nel
ly—my wife, George—kiss d me fondly
as is her wont, as I rose from the breai-
>ast table to go, and then she laid Lei
hand tenderly on my arm.”
“Ah,” said I, “I only wish—but
never mind.”
“Aud then,” he continued in a sepul
chral voice, “ she asked me to call
during the day on the bootmaker, the
milliner and the dress maker. She give
me full directions as to what 1 was to say
to each. She repeated my instructions
two or three times, and then I left the
house fully confident I knew all about it
How blind is man.”
“Very true,” I assented, sagely.
“ While walking along the street I tried
to recall the directions. I went to the
milliner and read from the card. She
screamed and ordered me out of the
house. I was surprised. I went to the
bootmaker, read his card to him, and he
said I was a lunatic. I didn’t know what
to make out of it. I read over the cards
caretully and felt bewildered. I felt my
sense leaving me rapidly; so I come to
you.”
“ You want me to help you out ?’’
“If you can.”
“H ind me over the cards.”
The first card I took up read as fol
lows :
C. Ripaud, bootmaker. One p&' r
gros-grain balmorals, cut bias. Xf expe
dient an edging of ostrich feathers. Loff
in the neck.”
“Is there anything the matter with
that ?” he demanded Btemly.
Well, no. A trifle vagne, perhaps.
Low in the neck has a dubious sound,
but—well, we’ll go to the next.”
“Mme. Ronzaudaiu, milliner. Queen
Anne, turban, leather tips. The brim »
trifle small and very high in the instep.
Frame looped up with silver tippet heels.
Aga f e buttons.”
“George, whit in the d ” _
“James, is it hot or cold this time ?
“Thank you. Neat—no sugar.” (
“The third note is now in order. ’
“Madame Ponchartain, dress-maker.
Street dress, real kid uppers, double
plaits, en panier, high up above ankle
wide sleeves, lace insertion, with a slope
on the crown.” ,
“George,” he said, tearfully, ‘ how w
you feel ?”
“ Loose, James, very loose—shaky.
Well, here’s confusion to vour foe*’
James, there’s evidently something w roC »
here. Your wife couldn’t have give J oa
these directions.” .
“Well, p’raps not,” I.admitted, Siowq*
“but I thought she did.” . »
“Now, look at it, I said, sternty
“The general idea is all right, bQ 1 .? 0 ®.
got ’em mixed somehow. Now, i‘ C
grain shoes, cut bias, can have any am
lty to a Queen Anne’s panier with ag»
feathers, you surely couldn’t sa PP° , » nr
low- necked ankles conld be meant *•
leather heels with silver tips, looped P
with ” . . -.
He got up with a wild light in u
humid eyes, and with a groan of
hurried out, and I heard him gropes
down the stairs six steps at a time.
“Poor fellow,” I said, sadly; “anotn^
noble mind wrecked.” “Oh, woni
in your hours of ease ”
1 took another.
■o
— The theatre managers havihfl » ,
ished bill-boards, the paste-men taut
calling a meeting to abolish board-d
— Out in Missouri society lets widows
marry at the end of three montus <h° w
ing. Women are so scarce out this j
that they can’t be allowed to waste
time.