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AMERICUS, GEORGIA; WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1882.
Written for the Republican.
AN EVENING It EVE MY.
BY MAUDE MIDDLETON.
It was a lovely summer eve,
And from the rustling groves of pine,
Fell umber shades athwart the fields,
To the relief of browsing kine.
The dewdrops clustered and shone in
The sun like diamonds set in gold,
While iridescent clouds floated,
O’er a purling stream pure and cold.
The winds dancing across the gay
Shamrock and sheaves of ripening wheat,
Return to scatter odors from
Flower vines trailing ’neath our feet.
We sat in this fading evening,
Where drooping willows interlaced,
To charm or lull the bright wavelets,
That splashed on rocks with mosses graced
We sat and while listening to the
Lab’rer’s song that fell in a strain
Of melody upon the air,
We thought that in this vast domain,
There was none so happy as they,
None whose joyous hearts, wild and free,
So truly resembled the proud,
Heaving waves of the deep biue sea.
Their notes when the shadows lengthened,
Became louder and grander still,
As they mingled their musical
Anthems with the echoing hill.
Then faint and fainter vibrating
Upon the mellow, harvest air,
They ceased with either a joyous
Laugh, or a thankful, wordless prayer.
Ah! if to the higher classes,
A heart as content was given,
They’d mount the sure ladder of peace,
And reach its last round in heaven.
For there the laborer’s crown will
Be as bright and his home as broad,
As one possessed by an eastern
King, or an Oriental lord.
“The Widow’s Cliist.”—A Story
of the “Old Dart.”
It was my own cousin, Dennis Flynn,
that bought the farm from Daddy
Gripe, bad lnck to him for a miser.
It was in green old Ireland, and it was
a dacent man was Dennis Flynn. lie
bought the farm bit by bit, as you may
say. A great mortgage on it at first,
and paying it off little by little, and
every time he’d get a receipt he’d paste
it in a big book be had, and the book
was kept locked in the secretary that
was built in the corner of the best room.
At last I heard him say to Biddy and
the children, a week before that blessed
Christmas that was the last he lived
on earth, “We’re beholdin’ to no one
now. The roof over our heads is our
own. Good luck to it. There’s the
last of Daddy Gripe’s receipts.”
Then he locked his book into the
secretary, and sat down and smoked
his pipe like a king. And sure that
was a merry Christmas, singing songs
and playing, “The Winds that Shakes
the Barley” on the fiddle. Who’d have
thought he’d been laying dead and
cowld that day fortnight, and we wak
ing him?
He died in a fall from a haycock.
Och hone! but it was a dreadful day.
But to make matters worse, somebody
got into the house and broke open the
secretary, and off with all that was in
it. It wan’t money so we didn’t think
much of it, until one day, when the
widdy sitting crying, and the children
all about her, and we brewing a bowl
of punch to drown the grief in, in walks
Daddy Gripe, and sits down on a chair,
an’ says, “Good luck to you all here,”
says he.
“Luck’s gone from the door, and
there’s only trouble here,” said the
widdy.
“He was a decent man that’s gone,”
said old Gripe.
“Thrue for ye,” says the widdy.
“It’s empty the house is.”
“Are you thinking of keeping the
house and farm?”
“Would a bird keep her nest wid the
eggs in it?” asked the widdy.
“But will you be able to pay the rent
regular?” asks Gripe.
“Sure it’s bought the house was,”
said the widdy.
“Not a bit of it!” said Gripe.
“He bought it iv ye!” cried I.
“Where’s your proof?” says he.
“The word of an honest man,” says I.
“Then he’s got a bit of paper,” says
Gripe. “Just find your proof, will
you?”
“Daddy Gripe,” says I, “the secre
tary was robbed the day we buried him.
I’m thinking you know that.”
“It’s none of my business,” says he.
“This house is mine. I’ll have my
rent, or I’ll have the house; now mark
that, widdy!”
Poor Widdy Flynn had no proof of
the truth of her story. She hadn’t a
receipt of any kind at all. She spent
her money in lawyers and did no good;
and one by one she sold the bits of fur
niture to live on, until, when the order
came to quit, she had just one bigehist
left.
She stood with her children in the
room she had been so happy in, the
tears rolling down her cheeks, when in
comes Gripe with a bailiff.
“Can’t you leave us alone this bitter
hour?” says the widow.
. “Well, yes, widow,” says Gripe;
“but there’s one thing more. You’er
owing me a bit of rent, and the law
gives me your property. I’ll take the
ehist, if you please. Here’s the war
rant for it.”
The widdy screamed when she saw
the bit of paper, but a thought came
into mv head.
“Biddy,” says I, “law is law. Boys
take Mr. Gripe and his man into the
room younder, and offer them a sup
from the bottle, while I reason with
your mother ahout giving up the chist.”
And the minute they were gone I just
puts my lips to the widdy’s ear, and
says I, “Up with the lid, widdy. So”
—and up it went. Now here’s a trick
worth knowing, and in I jumped.
“Down with the cover and lock it,”
says I. “There is a breathing-hole in
the top. Don’t be afraid.”
And the vviddy did as she was bid,
and in five minutes mote Gripe and his
man came back, and away I went over
the common to Gripe’s house, betwixt
the two, and under Gripe’s bed, and
there I stayed an hour or two.
At last, when all was fast he came
up and knelt down by the bed and
hauled the chist by the handle.
“Lord, how heavy!” says he. “May
be there’s money in it—something val
uable, anyhow.”
And away he tugged, and when the
cover flew up, out I flew, stood over
him. 1 put the pistol to his ear with
one hand and held Ijis threat with the
other.
“Daddy Gripe,” says I, “you’re in
my power. We’re far from any help.
I’m armed, and I’ve got the best of
yon. I want the red account book,
with the receipts for Dennis Flynn’s
payments, that you stole from him the
day he was hurried. You know you
did, you divvil! Don’t deny it.”
“I—l won’t,” says Daddy Gripe.
“I—l’ll get it if you go peaceably.”
I kept my hold on his collar, and 1
kept the pistol at his ear; and I walked
him to his desk, and there he rummaged,
crying like a baby, until he found the
hook.
A couple of hour after I walked into
the Widdy Flynn’s wid her chist on
my shoulder, aud the hook under my
arm, and towld me little story to the
neighbors; and it wasn’t mo that tarred
and feathered him that night, hut some
of the other boys; but sure I couldn’t
blame them, and lie deserved it richly;
and, more betoken, lie left the place
next day and rid us of him forever.
The Girly Girl.
The girly girl is the truest girl. She
is what she seems and not a sham and
a pretense. The slangy girl lias a hard
job of it not to forget her character.
The boy girl and the rapid girl are
likewise wearers of masks. The girly
girl never bothers about women rights
and women wrongs. She is a girl, and
is glad of it. She would not he a boy
and grow up into a man and vote and
go into war and puzzle her brain about
stocks fora kingdom. She knows noth
ing about business and does not want
to know anything about it. Her aim
is to marry some good fellow and make
him a good wife, and she generally
succeeds in doing both. She delights
in dress and everything that is pretty,
and is not ashamed to own up that she
does. She is pleased when she is ad
mired, and lets you see that she is.
She is feminine from the top of her
head to the end ot her toes, and if you
try to draw her into the discussion of
dry themes she tells you squarely that
tho conversation does not suit her. She
is the personification of frankness.
There is not a particle of humbug in
her composition. Here is health to the
girly girl. May her numbers never
grow less. —Philadelphia Progress.
The Law of Libel.
An interesting and important libel
suit terminated in the Superior Court
of Detroit, Mich., last Monday, after
a two weeks trial. Two years ago
Hugh S. Peoples was charged by the
Post and Tribune with having guilty
knowledge of the murder of a girl with
whom letters and other evidence show
ed he had been very intimate if not on
actually criminal terms. The charge
was made in a long article, giving de
tails of the evidence then being accum
ulated by the police authorities in en
deavoring to ascertain who was guilty
of the murder of the girl, whose body,
tied up in a sack, was found floating in
the Detroit river in March, 1879. The
defense justified and claimed the article
was a privileged one, being written in
the public interest for the purpose of
ferreting out the authorsof the murder.
Peoples was subsequently arrested and
tried, but acquitted, the charge not be
ing proved beyond a reasonable doubt.
He then brought suit for libel, claiming
$50,000 damages. * The jury, after a
half hour’s absence, returned a verdict
in favor of defendant, holding, first,
that the article complained of was a
privileged one; second, that the pre
ponderance of the testimony submitted
by the defense sustained the charge that
Peoples had guilty knowledge of the
taking off of the unfortunate girl. The
case has excited great interest in the
community.
Mormonisin in Utah.
Special to Enquirer Sun.
Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov. 10.—
It has come to light that at a meeting
of the higher priesthood, after the late
conference, President Taylor instructed
them to the effect that priests and bish
ops and their councellors are not entitled
to hold their positions unless they qual
ify by becoming polygamists. There
are few such officers who are monoga
mists. One has since resigned, rather
than take another wife. His resigna
tion was excepected. Others are in a
quandary as to what to do about it.
One has been appointed president of
seventies on condition that he take an
onther wife. One very young and new
made apostle, it is understood, has
complied with the condition of holding
his office. This is the logic of the po
sition taken by the church; It must
stand by its religion, law or no law. It
shows that until the government proves
to be stronger than the Mormon church
in Utah polygamy will not be surpress
ed, but rather stimulated in its growth
and expansion. There is no doubt
about the truth of this.
A MIRACLE OF SKILL.
Two Montgomery Trout-Fisliers
Ami Tlieir Singular Bait.
Messrs. Cobb and Hall Develop tiie
Resources of the Patsaliqa and
Astonish the Neighborhood.
Troy (Ala.) Messenger.
The Capital City is rich in its list
of “sample pilgrims.” They visit
every nook and corner of the State and
keep the field well cleared of all intrud
ers on their domain. Asa class they
are tree-hearted, courteous and wide
awake gentlemen, and when their day’s
“drumming” is ended are ready for fun
or anything else to pass away the time
till the leaving of the next train. Of
this heteroclitic mixture Messrs. John
M. Cobh, with Goetter, Weil <fc Cos.,
and William Hall, with 1). M. Snow
& Cos., are about as well known in this
section as any need be.
they are great fishermen
withal, and if Izaak Walton was still
breathing this world’s atmosphere he
would smile benignly on their great love
for the angle. When they come to Troy
they generally make short trips through
Crenshaw, Covington and Coffee, and,
combining pleasure with business, stop
at every little mud puddle to fish and
usually return with a fine string of
bream or perch; and their relation of
how they came by their piscatorial
yield would drive Charles Warner
crazy, Howbeit, John Cobh always
brings back a broken pole as evidence
of his catching the fish.
Some few weeks since they reached
Rutledge at a peculiarly happy season.
Mr. Rushton was about drawing off
his pond, and, of course, invite l these
gentlemen to he present. They went,
lhey always go. It an announcement
was made by telegraph that a Barnegat
fisherman would certainly scale a sheep
head on the third day thereafter, they
would drop laces and hardware and
ride on the cowcatcher of the locomo
tive in orner to
GET THERE AHEAD OF THE TRAIN.
The pond was drawn off and there
was a fine yield, among them were sev
eral trout weighing nine or ten pounds
apiece. Selecting four of them Mr.
Rushton asked the boys if they would
take them along and give them to Jim
Pendry, living some miles below on the
Andalusia road. Of course, they were
only too happy to accommodate Mr.
Pendry, as they were to stay over night
with him. Thus equipped they jogged
along admiring the beauties of the "end
less pine forests and hatching up new
deviltry. In the meantime John Cobb’s
quick eye struck his never-failing re
source, and jumping out of the wagon
quickly returned with
A BROKEN FISHING I>OLE.
Arriving at Pendry’s they tound him
fixing liis corn crib and immediately
reached for him. Jim’s eyes were on
the fish. “Where did you get them
fellers?” he asked.
“Caught them in the Patsaliga,” re
sponded Hall.
“In the Patsaliga?” Why I have
fished there for forty years and never
caught any such trout. They don’t
look like Patsaliga trout. What kind
of bait did you use?
“Why, these little scaly lizzards,”
said Hall. “And John broke his pole
pulling out that big one. I reckon I’d
better take ’em to the house and we’ll
have fish for supper.” And off he
started.
JIM KEPT LOOKING AT THE FISH,
and finally broke out: “See here, John
Cobb, did you actually catch th°m in
the Patsaliga? Bill Hall is such a liar I
can’t believe him; hut I can trust you.”
“Yes,” says Cobb, “and we weren’t
over an hour at it, either.”
Nothing would satisfy Mr. Pendry
hut that all hands must go fishing the
next morning; but the angels of com
merce pleaded their business engage
ments at Andalusia, and started early
for that place.
About a fortnight ago they had occa
sion to go the old route. They stopped
at Pendry’s as usual, but not a word
was said about fish. About four o’clock
the next morning they were aroused by
their host and told to get ready for s.
fishing trip that morning. They tried
to excuse themselves,
HUT IT IVAS NO 00.
“Why,” said Jim, “we won’t be gone
over a couple of hours, and me and a
friend have got the bait all ready.”
The four started off and soon reach
ed the Patsaliga. A fallen tree was
stretched out on the water, and it was
concluded to be as good a place as any.
The stranger went first, carrying a box
of lizards; then followed Cobb, then
Hall, Pendry bringing up the rear. All
hands being in position, he and his
friend each drew a navy and Jim spoke;
“Now, you blasted liars, here’s the
creek; here’s the lizzards; now catch
fish. You’ve had us fishing here a
month, and not a dinged fish. Catch
trout or we’ll shoot.”
Crack went the revolvers. Cobb
jumped in one side and Hall on the
other. They got safe to land, however,
and the fishing frolic came to an igno
minious end. But it is as true as preach
ing that Jim Pendry had been fishing
there for trout with lizzard bait for
about a month, when he met Mr. Rush
ton one day and the latter asked Pen
dry how he liked the fish he sent him.
Pendry wanted to know what fish.
“Why,” saidßushton, “the fish I sent
yon by John Cobb and Bill Hall.”
Pendry’s eyes were opened, and the
result proved that for ouce these famous
jokers were cornered. Dave Fleming
>has agreed not to say a word about this
story.
A Gambler's Career.
Denver Sunday World.
Walking slowly up Larimer street yes
terday morning, leaning on the arm of
his friend, was Dick Hargrave, a gam
bler whose name and reputation has
been well known to the citizens of Chi
cago, Cincinnati and St. Louis for
some years—a tall, finely formed, ele
gantly dressed man, with light blue
eyes and pale, grave face, on which
may still he seen the remnants of a
strongly marked individuality. Late
hours and dissipation have evidently
brought the once elegant Dick down
to a mere wreck of his former self, and
it was plainly to be seen by the passers
by that his ancient vigor has departed,
and despite the invigorating atmos
phere of Colorado his life is nearly
ended.
He was accompanied by his friend
“Red Jack,” who is a person of similar
ilk, but of a more common kind, who
supported him with all the tenderness
ot a woman. Hargraves is and Eng
lishman, about forty-five years old,
and came to this country when only
sixteen years of age, landing at New
Orleans. He began life as a barkeeper
and followed the Mississippi river for
a number of years. He soon became
skillful at cards and was accounted
the best short card player that ever sat
down to a table. His first big winning
was from a Louisiana planter named
Dupny, $30,000 coming into his pos
session by that transaction, and ever
alter that luck seemed to come his way.
Everything he touched turned to gold,
and at one time he was reported worth
over two millions. He lived high,
sported diamonds, was tho favorite of
women, but his word was as good as
his bond, and he was liked by every
body.
A little Spanish woman, the wife
of and old New Orleans banker named
Arroycs, became fascinated with hand
some Dick, and the upshot of the mat
ter was that the old man challenged
Dick to fight a duel, and was killed for
his pains. Bill Vcdal, a brother of
Mrs. Arroyes then seut Dick word that
he would kill him on sight. They met
at Natchez under the hill, aud Bill fell
mortally wounded. This last occur
ance seemed to cure Mrs. Arroyes of
her mad infatuation for Hargraves, for
she idolized her brother, and when she
next met him she plunged a dagger into
his breast, and thinking she had killed
him took a dose of poison and joined
her husband and brother. Dick recov
ered in time, and during a fire one night
at. Mobile, Alabama, at the risk of his
own life rescued a little girl from the
flames and afterward married her. She
was of good family and has done a
great deal to sober Dick down, but his
is a restless spirit that chafes at re
straint, and nothing will still him but
death.
When the Cubans revolted against
Spain Dick was ono of the first to
espouse the cause of “the gem of the
Antilles,” and for two years he fought
for Cuban supremacy. He was cap
tured and confined in Castle Moro, and
sentenced to be shot, The night before
the day set for his execution, he, in
company with three Americans and two
Cubans, escaped from their dungeon by
picking the lead from around the cud
of a bar of iron that formed one of the
gratings of their cell. The only thing
the men had to work with was the tine
of a steel fork which was found in the
cell. Alter their escape they went to
Hayti, and from Poit-au-Prince, went
to St. Augustine, Florida, in an open
boac. Making their way to New Or
leans, they found friends, and Dick was
soon on his feet again. He, shortly
after his return from Cuba, married the
Mobile young lady whom he had saved
from the fire when she was a little girl,
he having kept track of her all the
time, and after his marriage removed to
Cincinnati, where he has since lived,
taking occasional trips to other cities,
for the purpose of practicing his profes
sion—gambling.
Hargraves espoused the Union cause
during the war and fought bravely, be
ing promoted from a private to the rank
of major, but for some cause left the
army before the war was over. Since
the war, with the exception of his ca
reer in Cuba, he has conducted himself
as a gentleman gambler should do.
Finding himself in the clutches of con
sumption, he has come to Colorado in
hopes of getting cured. He still has
plenty of money, though not near as
wealthy as he once was. He is a man
liked by everybody, a man with no
small vices, generous, brave and honor
able. lie has the reputation of always
having played in a fair game, and has
given away more money, in his life,
probably, than any man of his age in
tho world. In the numerous personal
encounters he has had, he was never the
aggressor, and, despite his calling, has
always conducted himself as a geutle
man.
In the language of Red Jack, “Dick
Hargraves is a square out and outer.
He never coppered the keurd of a friend
that he knowed would win, nor pinch
ed a bet to save a nickel. He played a
stack of yellows as if they were worth
but fifty cents, and when ho was flush
and winned a bet of a hnndred he’d
give it to the boys. I’ve seed him after
a winning buy a dozen boot-blacks a
suit of clothes apiece, and nary widder
that ever lived in Dick’s neighborhood
ever suffered for the necessaries of life.
He made his washerwoman a present of
SIOO once, and at a church festival he
paid $2,000 for a cake. His money
built that church, and many a preacher
has he given a suit of clothes.
“Him and old death is now playing
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a game of draw, and death ‘holds the
ace.’ I hope the old hoy will come to
time, but I don’t know; you may bet
that I’ll stick to him until somebody
better than either of us opens the jack
pot. If he gets cleaned out, yard, don’t
fill when he draws To his last flush and
throws up his hand, I’ll he there when
the pot is raked in. If we have to
plant him you bet we’ll do it in great
shape. We’ll have the biggest funeral
ever seed—four white horses, silver
mounted hearse, rosewood coffin and
brass band, and a nionyment as high
as anybody’s. We’ll have on it—
“ Dick Hargraves, Gentleman,
also gambler, aged foity-five, and of
such is the Kingdom of Heaven.’ ”
II oil eastern on Marriage.
“Misder Hoffenstein, vat you dink,”
exclaimed Herman, in a flatter of sur
prise. “I shnst get an invitation to
de vedding uf my lrent, Moses Powski,
vot liis by de Sorapuru market. He
going to marry Miss Saline Liechten
telder, whose fader keeps de shoe store.”
“Does she haf any money?” inquir
ed Hoffenstein.
“No, sir.”
“Does he haf any mony?”
“No, sir.”
ell, den dey vas tam fools, you
know, und dey vill find it oud. De
more a man vas poor in dis vorld, Her
man, de more he vants to get married;
if he don,t vant to do dot, he vants to
express his opinion efery chance he gets,
veil it ain’t vort one cent on de dollar
und he don’t represent any ding but
an old valise. Ven people get married
or go around dalking dey ought to haf
someding to hack it up. People vot
get married und don’t haf money vas
shust likede steam boat vot don’t haf
any steam und fire in de boilers, you
know. De pilot rings de heel nnd
turns de veel, hut lie don’t go anyvere.
\ou see in de hooks, Herman, dot love
laughs at locksmids. Veil, it may do
so, you know, but love nefer goes
around laugliin at grocery bills and de
landlord vot don’t get his rent. Love
vos very brave, but it gets veak in de
knees ven anyding like dot happens,
und you can bet on it. I dink a poor
votnan should haf a velty husband und
a poor man a velty vife. If I had my
vay mit dis vorld, and I heard nf a
poor young ntan vat vanted to marry
a girl no better off as himself, I would
chain him to a post, Herman, shust to
keep de tam fool out of trouble. A
poor man mit any pride ought to know
dot if his love, und care, und protection
is vort anyding, it is vort being paid
for at de best price he can get in de
market. De easiest vay, und de most
pleasant, dot a man makes money, is
ven he marries a votnan vot haf it. It
vas the safest business dransaction in
de vorld; you risk no capital und you
make big profit. Diukuf it, Herman,
and vatch your chance. Dotisands of
velty und good young vomeu haf mar
ried no count fellows vot were so poor
dat de fleas vouln’t stay mit dem, und
you must feel encouraged, you know.
No von can dell vot a voman vas go
ing to do.”
“But, Misder Hoffenstein,” expostu
lated Herman, “if a man marries a vo
man vat he dno’t love, he von’t haf any
respect for himself, no matter if she vas
velty.”
“Neffer mind, my poy, neffer mind,
oder beeple vill respect you. I know a
man vot dinks de same vay as you, ven
lie married, und now he goes around
de streets vearing blue pants mit yel
low patches. Dake my advice, Her
man, und don’t let a poor votnan rope
you in.”
A Sleepy Actor.
While Joseph Jefferson was once
playing Rip Van Winkle at Chicago,
he went to the theatre very much ex
hausted by a long day’s fishing on
the lake. When the curtain rose on
the third act, it disclosed the white
haired Rip still deep in his twenty
years nap. Five, ten, twenty minutes
passed, and he did not waken. The
audience began to get impatient, and
the prompter uneasy. The great actor
doubtless knew what he was about, but
this was carrying the “realistic” busi
ness too far. The fact was that all the
time Jefferson was really sleeping the
sleep of the just, or rather of the fisher
man who had sat eight hours in the
sun without getting a single bite. Fin
ally the gallery became uproarous, and
one of the “gods” wanted to know if
there was going to be “nineteen years
more of snooze business.” At this
point Jefferson began to snore. This
decided the prompter, who opened a
small trap beneath the stage and began
to prob Rip from below. The much
traveled commedian began to fumble
in his pocket for an imaginary ticket,
and muttered drowsily “Going right
through, ’ductor.” The audience was
transfixed with amazement at this en
tirely new rending, when Jefferson sat
up with a loud shriek, and evidently in
agony. The exasperated prompter had
“jahbed” with a pin. The play went
on then—with a rush.
Tennyson’s “May Queen.”
Who knows that if the beautiful
girl who died so young had been
blessed with Dr. Pierce’s “Favorite
Prescription” she might have reigned
on many another bright May day.
The “Favorite Prescription” is a cer
tain cure for all those disorders to
which females are liable. By drug
gists.
Teethina (Teething Powders) is
fast taking the place of all other rem
edies for the irritations of Teethina
Children. *