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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W, S, D. WIKLE & 00., Proprietors.
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1875.
VOLUME 1. NUMBER 52.
TIMELY TOPICS.
CmoAoo has overdone the rebuilding
business. Last year more than three
thousand now bonnes were erected, half
of which staud tenantlosa to-day,
Tub project for draining ltoolfoot
Lake is said to be impracticable, as the
bottom of the lake is lower than the
bottom of the Mississippi.
Judicial investigation shows that the
offer of Weiaeogor to assassinate Bis
marck, was merely part of an attempt,
to extort money, and the man lmd no
oceomplioe«.
Tobacco raising 1ms proved the finan
cial ruin of Noitli Hadley, Mass. Re
cent failure» foot up $225,000; real
estate has fallen one-third iu the town,
nud business is almost liopeleasly stag
nant.
The treasury department ia in receipt
of advices from Europe that silver 1
declined iu Europe over a dollar on I
pound, iu conscqnenoo of which tin
is talk again of issuing the fractional
specio provides! for by the last Congress
Tiie Now York World thiuks that " i
in averngo yield is obtained from tin
oropH planted throughout the south thi
spring, it should place tho people of
that sectn
dition than they havo enjoyed since
reconstruction began.
Reports received from the south
eastern portion of Nebraska, which
have been severely affected by grass-
hoppers this spring, show that they are
faat taking (light, going northwest. Im
mense clouds of them are seen daily
very high iu the air.
PoHTMAHTRn GENERAL JEWELL, 0C-
compunied by ono of bin trusted special
agents and his private secretary, will
leave Washington in a day or two on a
tour of iuspeotion. He will visit all the
prominent postofilees in the south and
west.
Mrs. Rohm, the fat womifn of Bar-
mini's show, died at her residence iu
int Baltimore last week, aged 2D. Her
deficits. Treasury officers say that
such discoveries have boon rare and the
donee is conclusive that tho banks
had made a miscount.
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
EAST
The funeral of forty-eight of the
victims of tbo disaster at llolyoko took plaoo
on tho 29th In tho hasomonlof tho now Oatho
lie church. An iminonao crowd w s in nt-
udano
OlfillH
l diai
in tho center of tho room, and after eomi
thirty-live colYuis had boon thus arranged, tin
platform g&vo wav' causing n momentar;
panic. Ono woman shiicUrd and fainted niu
was carried out, hut tho excitement Boon sub
ideal. Funoral oratioi
tho lie'
Fathc
prououi
of Woi
ltd Gagnior, of thin city. Tho pr
* tlin
mile
ml followed
wains to tho French Catliollo comotary
tenth Hadley Falls.
Forest fires havo again broke cut
lie mountains of Delaware and Sullivan co
ios, Now York, doing much daiungo. '
ullage of fiotlifl
inlod by lire t
i days,
onlv i
aftoi
hard llglit. A
od \Yn
v fire wliile fighting the ilameH in liis w<
ml burned t«> doath. Two other men airnil
ngnged wore badly burned and narrowly
a] e 1 with life. Near ManajunU Valley,
ml Mnmakaliug the
THE MIRACLE.
height 0 feet
il around tho waist
i born in Lioking
inideii name wus
E
weight was 583 pou
•1 iuches. and spaunc
72 inches. She win
county, O. Hor n
Haunah Jane Duck.
A olahh hot tie contnining r. small
rattlesnake, neatly done up in a strong
paper wiappor, and addre.-sed to "The
Grand Duke Alexis, Ht. Petersburg,
Russia," was receive] at, tho doad-lottor
oflloo as tiumailablo material. Tho
package had oomu safely through tho
mails from Yellville, Ark.
whitened with
sugar
thebouus of compatriots, is a novel and
perhaps economical way of doing things,
but such seems t»* be the practice
in France. They hove formed a factory
for the manufacture of animal charcoal
at Meta, which is supplied with bones
from the adjacent battle fields,
product is used in refining sugar.
The experience of New York busi
ness men goes to indicate that iron
shutters increase tho danger of loss
from tiro rather than decrease it. This
is attributtd partly to tho faot that fire
in houses so furnished is seldom or
WEST
ough of Lesuei
nuts worn appreciably reduced.
Great fires are still raging i
tMinnylvrtiiia. In tho northorn pa
through tho foi
SOUTH
Tho prosident has signed tho
i..n pf Urn RllzaB. PIiUIIm M po
The Memphis
heal crop thin ,o
« largo
.T. Halo Bypht
reB». and A. J. Hyptior, planters, of Ht. Mary'
arlnh, La,, iiavo gone into hankruptoy. The
laitnorahlp UabllUifs are over §140,000. an
l, 0 afinetfi loss tlinn §25,000. Tlioir indlvidiu
abtbtlM are also heavy.
A shooting affray oconrred nt a err
THE BOORN AFFAIR.
On the morning of the 20th of No-
number. 1810, I rend in the Rutland
(Vt.) Herald tho following u<
" MURDER 1”
" Printers of uewspapors throughout
the United Btatos are desired to pub
lish that Stephen Bourn, of Manches
ter, in Vermont, is sentenced to bo i
coated for the inurdor of Russel Colvin,
who has been absent about seven years.
Any person who can give information of
Haiti Colvin may save tho life of the in
nocent, by making immediate commu
nication. Colvin is about five foot five
iuc.hoH high, light, complexion, light
hair, blue eyes, and about forty years
old. Manchester, Vt., November, 2(1,
1819.”
This communication was copied very
generally by newspapers, and created a
great deal of interest,. Befcro describ
ing events that followed, let us go back
to the year 1812 and to the littlo town
ot Manchester, V<
Barney Bo.
old
■ Droni
, Ky., I hi
John Hp«
orgo OlsU and Llgi
Minded. Hnvoral otliors tool
uglil tlml Glfili will not rc
I’Hi only filiglilly wounded
nvillo Jail.
■ok on. Noi
iindod.
of tho othc
ul partly to the
groat difficulty that
i in forcing iron shut-
Mr
often bln
Reports of great destitution
maty any* that tho pooplo am mi
i« very nocofifiaricH of life, and
ol given, many will dio of starval
rop» iiavo failed for Uirco bomohm
on, and tho cattlo aro dying foi
their politics, hut scientists have dis
covered that politics is often a matter
of temperameut. Octavo Fuullet, in
" Ciimors,” says : “ In politics wo take
our principles from temperament; tho
bilious aro demagogues ; the sanguine,
democrats ; tho norvous, aristocrats.
Ono both nervous and sanguine may
tnko choice ; he may be an aristocrat in
regard to himself and a democrat in re
lations to others."
The total number of Sunday-schools
in the United States is given at 68,200 ;
teachers and officers, 740,970; Sunday-
school scholars, 5,637,8(17; total Sunday-
school membership, embracing teachers,
officers and scholars, 6,573j346. Iu
Canada the number of schools is 4,401;
teachers and officers 4,401 ; teachers
and officers, 85,745, Sunday-school
scholars, 271,381 ; total Sunday-school
membership, 807,126.
Cait. Cjiah. N. Brockett, special
agent of the treasury department,
captured in Now York awhite lace dross
valued at 810,000, a white lace shawl
worth ?T,,000, and other laces valued at
$5,000, at a pawn shop, where they had
been pawned for $185. The dress and
laces formerly belonged to the Empress
Eugenie, and were among the richest in
the world. They were sold at tho
time of the h-»Io of her diamonds and
jewelry in England, and were smuggled
into this oouutry, by Joseph Horaclis,
in October, 1873.
, Stephen and Jesse, and a
daughter, Sarah, wifo of Russell Col
vin, a half crazed, half-witted day la
borer. They were n bud lot, poor,
ignorant* ami hi doubtful remits for
honesty. Two miserable hovels served
them for shelter, and n few sores of
pine barrens constituted nil their pos
session. They raised a few potatoes
and garden vegetables, and eked put a
scanty livelihood by day’s work for the
neighboring farmers.
In May, 1812, Colvin was at home.
Juno ho was missing. At first this
lasionod no remark. Ho was always
rump, absent from home sometimes
weeks together. But this time he
1 not come back. As weeks grew into
nths inquires began to bo nmdo
ong the neighbors about tho missing
n. There aro no tongues for gossip
like those which wag in a Yankee vil
lage. Ono spoke to nnothor. Excite
ment grow. Wonder, like a contagious
disease, affected everybody.
It was known that there had long
isted between the old man and boys u
grudge against Colvin ; it was iu proof
that the last time the missing man was
io was nt work with the Booms
g stones from a field, and that a
dispute was going on ; and Lewis Col
vin, u hoy, ton of Russel, had slated
that liiH father had struck his uncle
Btephon, and that tho other roturnod
the blow, and that then, ho tho boy, be
coming frightened, ran away. Again, a
*, Baldwin had heard Btephen Bourn,
answer to the inquiry us to where
Ivin was, say, " Jlo’s gone to hell, I
hope.”
Is ho dead, Stephen? pursued Mr.
Baldwin.
" I tell you again," replied the man,
that Colvin bus gouo where potatoes
MISCELL
dispatch from
excitement ovor
nd foai
nd Mcx
tNEOUS.
Hau Di<w>
tho Mexican
r be
i the Ui
The secretary of tho treasury has in
Btructod tho f aviatant troasnror at Now Yor
to soil §500,000 in gold on each Thursday dm
big t!■ o month of Juno. Tho total amount t
be Hold ia §2.000,000.
Tho commissioner of pensions ha
written a letter to tiio oecrotary of tbo IriLorio
Maying that on account of tho limited appre
{■nation at his dispoHal, he ban selected tli
hm of nearly fifty nualo and female clerk
*© services will bo difiporifiod with on tli
30th of June.
Becretary Delano has concluded to
spend tho sale of Indian lands iu Karma*
till Jan. 1, 1876. This action is*aken npoi
imendations of (ion. Ingalls, Com
Smith and other prominent pereoni
jcnce of the suffering of settlors bj
the drouth and grasshoppers.
A general order issued from the wai
department annonncoH that tbo appropriatioi
marie by tbo laHt congress for pay of the arm;
for tbo fiscal year ending Juno 80, 1875, ii
nino hundred thousand dollars short of tin
The thief who stole the package of
bills from tho treasury department e
few davs ago remains undiscovered.
Gen. Spinner Beeros worn oat with anxb
ety. Charges have been marie that sev
eral bankB which sent packages of money
to the treasury havo been reported
short in their lemittauces, and the banks j
Mtimated for the
t the appropr
tbo present indications i
lion will prove deficient
The following 5-€0 coupon bonds,
known as tho fourth moHob, act of Fob. 25,
1862, dated May 1, 1862, havo been called
by the secretary of the treasury, and madi
payable on and after Sept. 1. interest o
which will cease after that date: §50, Nci
20,201 to 24,000, indneiro; §100, Nos. 51,Of
to 69.100, incltifiive. §500, Nos. 27,501 to 31.
900, inclusive; §1,000, Nos. 80.651 to 91,500,
inclusive; total §10,000.000. The call
cates an additional subscription to that an
by the syndicate.
FOREIGN.
Further detail* of enrthqmdira
tsia Minor, show that several villages we
have been required to make up the j destroyed and 2,000 persons lost their lives.
prisoners, and they wove sentoucod to
bo hung on January 28, 1820.
Aud now tho men came to tlioir souses.
They assorted tlioir innocence. Tlmy
d that thoy had confessed hh tlioir
last hope Some oompasBiou began to
to bo felt for them. They might, after
all, bo innooout. A polition for their
ntod to tho Legislature.
But it availed only to obtain oommuta-
i of Je^ae’s sentence to imprisonment
life. No more. Stephen was to be
hnugod.
Lot tho reader now turn to auothor
ohnptor of this strange history.
In April, 1813, there lived in Dover,
Monmouth county, N. .1., a Mr. James
PolhnmuB. During that month a way
farer, begging food, stopped at his door.
Being hamly, a good liutnred, quiet and
obedient, homolostf, and weak of intel
lect too, ho wai allowed to stay. He
sniil his name was Russell Colvin, and
that ho came from Mauohestor. Vt.
Not, far from Dover lies tho littlo
town of Shrewsbury, then a quiet ham
let, now invaded by the cottages and
villas of Long Bran hit pleasure-seekers,
lloro lived Taber•Olmdwiclc, brother-in
law to Mr. Folhamus, and intimate with
the family. Accidentally vending tho
New York Evening Pont, ho met, not
with tho uotioo of the Rutland Herald,
but with an account of the trial of tho
Booms. Convinced that the Russell
Colvin, alleged to have been nmdored,
was the very man thou living witn Mr.
PolhnmuB, he wrote to the Evening Post
a letter, which was published Dooom
her 0,1810,
Upon tho arrival of this paper at
Manchester it excited but little atten
tion. The let ter was believed to bo a
forgery or a fraud. Had not tho host
people in the town long believed tho
Booms to bo guilty? Mad not one,
perhaps both of them, made full con-
fossiou ? Tho bones of tno murdered
man, a button of bin coat, his jack
knife—hud thoy not nil been found?
Had not an upright judge made solemn
iliargo that the evidence was conclusive,
and an intelligent, jury found them
guilty, and tho legislature sanctioned
the findings? Tliero was no doubt of
guilt--none whntovor ; and there
fore no benefit of a doubt, had been
given by jury, chief justice or court of
appeal.
Air. Ohndwiok’a letter was, nevorthe-
Stophen's cell and road
aloud. The news was so overwhelming
that nature could scarcely nurvive tho
shook. Tho poor fellow dropped in a
fainting tit to tho floor, and had to be
rtoovoiod by daHhos of cold water.
Intelligence enmo next day from a
Air. Wholploy, formoly a resident of
Manohester, that ho humidf hud been
t i Now Jersey and semi Russell Colvin.
Tho members of the jury which had
oonviotod tho Booms, however, hesitat
ed to accept anything short*#? tho man’s
presence, and ‘Judge Chase, who hud
sentenced thorn, pointed, to Btephon
Boom's confession.
Tho third day came another lottor.
"lliave Russell Colvin with me."
wrote Mr.-Wholploy. "1 personally
know Russell Colvin," swore John
Rorapton. " ho now stands boforo mo."
" It is tho same Russell Colvin who
married Ann Boom, of Manchester. Vtq-
nnulo affidavit Mrs. Jones of Brooklyn.
But it would not answer. Pride of
opinion is stubborn. Doubt of opinion
THE CAKTE DE VI81TE.
Niagara’s Temptations.
tiles hard. Manohoste
not to say pioty,
the
grov
in's ghost haunted every house
Bennington county. Tliero wus no
own proof that the Booms were guilty,
d yet everybody believed it. A
batten and jack-knife were found, which
O. believed to have belonged to
Russell; dreams, thrice repented, wore
had by old women and kitchen girls—
eu thousand stories wero in circu
lation.
to years after Colvin was missed,
lion Boom removed to Denmark, N.
diilo .Jesse remained ut homo. Af-
ho former hud loft, some bones
uceidently found in the decayo i
trunk of u tree near his house, and,
though all surgeons said to the contra
ry, it was universally believed that they
: part of a human Bkeleton. Of
so, then, they must be Colvin’s
;h, Jesse was arrested, Btephon
brought bnok from Denmark, and
both were hold for examination,
though all the testimony when sifted
found to be worthless, yet the two
brothers were remanded buck to jail,
1 Jesse was worked upon to make him
turn state’a evidence. Tbo jailer tor
mented him with suggestions, which his
wife followed up with womanly adroit-
. Neighbors helped. Beset with
preaching aud jjruyerH, traotH
mons. religious conversation pud pious
directions—told that there was no doubt
in any one’s mind but thatBtepnen
mitt* d tho murder—urged to make a
cleun breast of it tmd thus save both his
body amt soul, what wouder that the man
confessed, or was alleged to havo cou-
fessed, that Btephon Boom did rnurdof
Russell Colvin?
On Btptember 3, 1810, tho grand jury
found a bill of indictment against
Btephen and Jesse Boon* for the miir’-'
dor of Itusscll Colvin. William Farns
worth testified that Btephen confessed
that he did it, and that Jesse helped
him; that they Lid the body in tho
bu>hes, then buried it, then dug i f up
and burned it, und then scraped the few
remains and hid them in a stump. Upon
this unsupported evidence the jar?
i returned a verdict of guilty against both
intelligi
v , - - „ trial, aim it
behooved all good residents to hold out
against conviction to the last.
However, Colvin, or Colvin's double,
wua on his way. As he passed through
Poughkeepsie tho streets wore.thronged
to soo him. His story was printed in
every newspaper and told at every Arc
ade. At Hudson cannon wero tired ; in
•Albany ho was shown to the crowd from
u platform; and all along the road to
Troy bands of music wore pluying and
banners wero flaunting and choc
given as Colvin passed by. Hoi
become fimioiiH from having been mur-
dured. Russell Colvin was famous bo-
cause ho was alivo.
Toward evening of Friday, December
22, 1810, a double sleigh was driven
furiously down the main street of Man
oho&tor to the tavern door. It contained
Wholploy, Kompton, Chadwick and
the bewildered Russell Colvin. Iramo
diutely a crowd of men, womoq and
children gathorod around, and uh tho
sleigh unloaded its oeoupantu and they
took tlioir plnoe on the piazza, exhibiting
the Inst man to view, " That’s Rnssell
Colvin, suro enough 1 There’s no doubt
about it!” came from the lips of scores
of tho gazers. Ho embraced his two
children, naked after the Booms, and
started for the jail.
The prison doors wero unbolted and
told to Btephen Boom.
The Bombro nspocts of tho Niagara
oh arm all young and sentimental
hearts, a tender and romantic melan
choly being the chosen property of
youth. Niagara is the pilgrimage of
love, as Htratford-on-Avon is the pil-
grimugo of geuius, Mount Vornon the
pilgrimage of patriotism, and Santiago
the pilgrimage of superstition.
At Niagara tho happy lovers breathe
tlioir vows and pledge tlioir troth,
yoking tho lonely woods, tho lashing
water and rising clouds of spray, as
witnesses of their burning love and
steadfast truth. At Niagara hapless
swains and maidous, crossed in their
affeotiouB, blighted in their prospects,
wander by ttio isles aud banks for one
last half honr of bliss, aud then, with
arms entwined and hearts inseparable
go headlong over.
DISAPPOINTMENT IN LOVE.
Not long age a young man came
...irons from the American side accom
panied by a pretty girl, and by a littlo
child, lie hired a boat not fur nbovo
phis, put tho lady aud the child
into the stern, and throwing his oars
into tho boat, miHliod oil’ into the
Au old boatman warned him
of going out too far. Tho
young man smiled and nodded, but
pushed out into the Hood. At oiioo tho
boatman saw that- lie lost control of liis
littlo cruft, and shouted to him to edge
as in tho rush. The
oar iu unswer to liis
s tho shaft was snapped across—but
whether done by uodidont or design,
the pld man could not sav.
"(led help you I" sighed tho boat
man ; in a few more momenta thoy wore
gone. Whan friends oumo to soo the
bodies it was found to bo u ease of pus-
despair. Loving onoh other
madly, they nud fled from homo and
parents who opposed tlioir union ; they
had nought Niagara, the cure of disap
pointed love ; and in these waters they
had found their everlasting rost.
A WIFE THAT WAS NKVBll FOUND.
From Table Rock towards Lake On
tario sweeps a chasm tor many miles
through which tho rapids race with a
velocity to make the cddioH of tho
Danube at tho Iron Gates seem tamo,
tho whirlpools of the Nova round tho
absorbed and gravo, as though her hoart
was boating with an iuartieulato prayer
RETWREN LIFE AND DEATH.
Too often, it is thought, tho motive
of Biiicido is little more than the woird
and solemn tempting of the fall itaolf.
A lady oumo ono day to Clifton from a
town on Lake Ontario, aooompaniod by
her mothor and her ohild. oho stood
on tho Tablo Rook, listened to tho
boom, ndmired tho buffaloes and fed
the boars like other idlers on tho spot,
and eoomod as her ohild, to whom those)
sights and sounds were now. As they
wore lookiug at a shop window, she.
turned toward tho water, gazed at tho
falling sheet an instant, slipped away
from her companion, ran to tho water's
edgo at Cedar place and sprang into the
flood. A cry of help was raised. Home
guides were near at hand with ropos
an-1 other gear, and one of them, grap
pled safely by the waist, plunged after
lior, and by a daring effort caught her
as sho rolled among tho rooks, and car
ried hor bAok to land unhurt.
FKOM MISERY TO BTBUNAL REST.
Another ease of suicide attempted by
a fomalo uiulor nervous irritation, was
less fortunate. A woman, living on tho
spot, became afflicted with a malady ns
oommon and in fatal as consumption—
four of penury. That she had no good
reason for this fear hor neighbors know,
but it possessed her like a acorot aud
iuourablo disoaso.
"I can't boar it," sho used to say,
" and Homo day you will see mo go ovor
the fall."
Her neighbors lnughod, saying pooplo
who talk of suioidos aro iu for length of
life. But one day she li apod ovor the
rook at Cedar place. A bravo young
fellow named Davis saw tier slip in, but
too far away to oateh and draw her
buck. Tho lad was used io smokies, as
every ono becomes by living at tho falls,
no saw that- she would pitch against the
ravine wall, some ton or twelve foot
under tho rook ou which he stood.
Peering ovor tho bank, he saw a little
sholf of earth just hroud onough foM»
man to light on, aud no more. ”
scrambled down a moment ere tlic
man eamo rolling on, put out liis hand
toward hor, caught her shawl and tore
it from hor body as sho floated down,
nud started in horror as tho woolen rag
hung dangling iu bin grasp. Tho bui-
oido had kept hor promise, and escaped
from hor imaginary poverty into eternal
sleep.
FIGHTING JOE HOOKER.
about,
"Colvin has come, Btephon,’
the Rev. Lemuel Haynes.
"Has lie?" asked tho prisoner.
"Where is he." .
" Here I am, Btephen," said ins
brother-in-law " What’s them on your
logs?”
“Bhackles !” replied Boorn.
"Wlmt for?"
"Because thoy said I murdered you.
" You i.ovor hurt mo in your life,"
replied Colvin.
Tho sequel is soon told. Btephon
Boorn was released from prison, an was
Jesse also. Russell Colvin roturnod to
New Jersey. But tho judge who suf
fered an innocent man to bo oonviotod
of murder by the admission of extra
judicial oonfossionB—the members of
the jury who deliberated but one hour
before agreeing upon a verdict guilty
upon evidence that should riot hang a
dog—tho deaonn and church members
who urged confession and preached re
pentance—and the ninety-seven mem
ber#’ of the legislators, sitting as a
court of appeals, who refused re-hearing
of evidence— what became of them ?
—The shall of Persiu has profited
lathing by his visit to Europe, so far as
economy end civilization am concerned.
He has Just been marrying his daughter,
and the affair bus cost him £60,000. He
has also been reorganizing his arrny,
and has borrowed £18,000 to do it. lie
ifl.uko going in largely tor tho purchase
af‘ arms. Lately he has received o
ghastly present-2,500 human heads out
from Turkomans. In this matter some
economy was practised, for, in order to
save the cost of transport, the skulls
wen cut out, and only the tanned skins
were sent.
jok of Bohlnssel ooramouplaoo. This
chasm is the favorite grave of hapless
lovers and despairing maids. The
mighty fissure lias eaten it out, tho
teeth gnawiug deeper in the rook from
age to age. No man has yet surveyed
this hod and told us how far ilowu into
tho earth thoHo volumes of descending
water plntigo. You dare not push your
boat into tho foam. But on tho outer
edge of those great circles you may
drop your lino, a hundred foot two
hundred foot and find no bottom.
Many persons drive into the deep, but
never rise ugain to tell tho tale. Their
dive is taken onoo for all, Tho bodies
aro rarely found. Homo months ago a
lady came alone to a hotel on tho Amer
ican side—a pretty woman, young and
well attired, who gave her name f.s tho
wifo of a Chicago uiorolmnt.
For a day or two sho roamed about
the fulls, the oataraots und the river
banks. No one noticed her, for pretty
women are seen at every turn, and ut
Niagara every ono roams about tho
falls, tho oataraots, and tho river. In
the evening of the third day she was
missing at her hotel. A guide had soon
u woman fling herself from tho hridgo
on one of tho sister isles, but whether
uho was drowned or not he eonld not
say. A telegram was ueut, to Chicago ;
and by noon on tho second . ay a man
arrived who said ho wns the lady’s hus
band. Tho guide could not a sure him
that the lady misBing from the hotel
was tho woman seen spring from tho
bridge. Ho had never noticed her be
fore The lady from Chicago rai^lit
have crossed the brigo. When high
rewurds wore offorod for her hotly,
who knew every stone aud gully in
the ravine as they knew tho logs and
ladders of tlioir own shanties, seurehed
evory crovico in tho rooks, but not a
truce of her could bo found, aud the
disconsolate widower hud to lonvo Ni
agara without securing legal evidence
that his wifo wns dead.
For somo timo sho was speechless,
but, on coming to hor senses sho told
her mothor that her husband had been
cross with her that morning, wanting
her to take a holiday when she had no
mind for it; that she was a littlo fidgety;
und that on seoing the wutor (low
smoothly down, and lookiug so lovely,
she saw u pleasant way to end all hor
worries. The water tempted tier. JJnt
hho was glnd thoy caught her in the
rapids. For, from tho moment she be
gan to glide a helpless waif, tho water*
lost tlir.ir power, the romance of her
life flu died upon her brain—her hus
band’s trust, her happy homo,^ hor
parent's doting
Tl
Like ii llrlfiniul.
Your correspondent called on Maj.
Gen. .Tosopli Hooker yostorday, and
found him hale nud hearty. Upon tno
introduction of tho subject of Bher-
man’s Memoirs, ho gravely eondomued
tho manner iu wliioh some of tho coun
try's best-kuown generals had boon
spoken of in thorn. Buid lie : "1 lmd
rather bo among those maligned by tho
Memoirs than among those oommoud-
od." In his esteem Gen. Thomas was
tho grout gcnorul of tho army, Blior-
maii's suporior as a soldier in ovory
sense, Farragut was tho lioro of tho
He then made iho following criticism
of tho Memoirs and thoir author : "I
havo no objection iu thowoildto stil
ting to you briefly my opinions iu re
gard to the extraordinary publication of
Gen. Bhernmn's Memoirs. I think it is
tho llrst instance recorded where a eom-
raandor oast aspersions iu this manuer
on his wholo command. I Iiavo no taste
for responding to Gen. Bhermau’s slan
ders, but may do so, nevertheless, at
tho prouor time. Indeed, my own com
mand almost roquires all of this of mo,
und I shall not shrink from the respon
sibility, no matter whether thoso slan
ders emanate from tho commander of
tho army or any other functionary of
tho government. I feel indignant at the
desecration of tho honored names of
Thomas, Farrogut, MoPliorson and a
host of otliors I might mention. I do
not envy tho man who had it in his na
ture to do so, as it seems Gin, Sliormnn
had. His inarch to tho sea, in my
judgment, is not properly uudorstood
yet. Fiirragut’s conception and oxoou-
tion of tiie groat capture of tho Lower
Mississippi had much more influence on
tho close of tno war than any tiling that
Gen. Bhermau’s army did. But people
must not bo surprised at his ‘ slopping
oyer,’ for ho haz boon doing this all his
life. This is enough, I trust, to give
the people an index of my opinion of
tiie 'Memoirs' und their author. Ap
parently ho is impatient for advance
ment, when, I think, lie should bo well
satisfied with what ho lias already ob
tained. Ho mado war like a brigand,
while many other gonorals never forgot
that thoy wore making war on their
countrymen. Gen. Grant loarnod tho
olmraotor of his lieutenant lorifj; boforo
var was ended, aud now, if Bher-
is ignored by tho administration.
d her children's love.
(The hoart cried out for life—for one
rnoto trial of her duty. Bne v»m» waved.
Next year she came to Cliiten with her
child "to look at the ledge from which
she had sprung, and thank the guidos
once mere for having saved her life.
Bho never spoke of the affair again,
but every summer she returns to Niaga-
a, and those who know her notice that
she lingers for a moment [ut the ledge, aorcs.
only thank himself for it. Tho
oh to the sea up to Atlauta was well
done, but beyond that tho enomy disap
peared from before Bhermau’s army,
and followed Thomas, who demolished
them at Nashville. It is ridiculous to
talk of Bhermau’s having ended the
put up iho price of gold, or takon Rioh
mond. Ho had no rnoro to do with any
of thoso than tho roan in the moon. He
did, howevor, leave a black streak in liis
roar, for which, no doubt, somo of his
countrymen justified him. I think, I
however, that it will, some time or!
othor, bo considered disgraceful by tho
great Christian world. Whim tho press
recovers from tho shook it and tho coun
try received on tho appoarancc of the
Memoirs, I take it for granted that it
will show less indulgence and loniouoy
toward tho uathor than it has done thus
far. It appears to have been appalled,
like all others, by the magnitude of tho
outrage perpetrated on those whom the
nation honors as its best dofondors, and
who, being dead, aro silent."—N. Y.
Times.
Larof. and Small Farms.—By the
census of 1870 tho farms of tho united
States aro divided as to size ns follows,
the .wholo number being 2,650,985:
Under 5 acres, 6,875; 5 acres and
under 10. 172,021; 10 aoroa and under
20, 391,607 ; 20 ocros and under 50, 847-
614 ; 50 acres and under 100, 754,221 ;
100 acres und under 500, 605,054 ; 600
ucres and under 1,000, 1,683 cores and
, 3,720. Average size of farm, 153
FAOTB AND FANCIES,
—Malw yourself au honest man, and
thou you may In smo that thore is ouo
rascal loss in the world.—Carlyle,,
Tliero are few wild boasts moro to
bo dronded than a communicative man
with nothing to communicate.—M, do
lion aid,
—-Philadelphia givos employment to
> less than sixty thousand womon—
chiefly in exhibiting thoir spring bon
nets ou Ohostnut street.
Ho leaned on tho fonen pouring out
warm vowh of love and admiratiou to
tiio lovely lioing on tho other side. It
was dark. Wo could not see hor faco ;
but she said : " Fray desist. You are
too vacillating. Only a wook ago you
told that same story throe doors below
lioro.” Thoy parted.
—Colored waiter in a lagor boor
saloon up town bawls out his orders iu
stentorian voioo as follows: "Ono
pair" (2 glasses); "two pair" (4 glasses);
"full hand" (5 glasses). Thou for a
change he culls: "Ono team" (2
glasses); "tandem" (8 glassoH); "four
iu-lmud” (4 ehisses); "four in-baud,
with a footmnn” (5 glasses),
—Tho PrinooBH do Conti, a daughter
of Louis XIV., exprespiug boforo the
Moorish ambassador, hor dislike of
polygamy, tho latter ropliod : " Mnd-
plurallty of wives is allowed
among us bocauso, in our oonntry, wo
must seek in several women tho olmrm-
ing qualities which aro hero to bo found
in one." This exools Bpanish polito-
U — Apropos of tho growiug rage for
tiglit-laoing in Paris, Emily Faitlifull’s
pupor says tho wholo tondonoy of mod
ern fomalo fashion is to render tho form
of a woman uh nearly approaching to
that of a tightly-strapped umbrolla as
possible. A well-dressed young woman
iu tho pronoiit day is a ilguro laughable
enough far a Christmas pantomime of
" Strand” oxtravaganza.
—Tho latest invention in tho life-boat
lino is a boat with a broad lino of oorfc
at, tiio load-line, so constructed that it
sails equally well cither side up. It
will not upset oasily; but, if it does
upset, the bottom and keel fall right
down through tho centre, and there it
is, just as it, was boforo, a perfect boat,
only whut was tho bottom lias become
the* top.
—AHHooiiaHthobahy’steothingbeginH,
tho romance of married lifo ooiihch. No
woman oau fool any sentiment, for a man
who travolH around iu his night shirt of
a hot summer'll ovo, with a squalling
infnnt dsngling over his shoulder. It
is t,bon that sho stopH calling him
"Darling," and dosoomlH to such com
monplace observations as " John Cain-
flro, bo ouroful how you hold that baby.”
-AvMt-'**' wu» onoo asking her
elder sister about, bruveu. "Do they
play in heaven ?" she inquired. "No;
thoy do not play tliero." "What do
thoy do "They sing aud aro good.
' Are tliero no toys then? "No ; not
atiy." "No dolls, nor balls, nor Noah s
arks?” "Oil no I” Then," said tho
littlo ono, "I shall tako my doll and go
to hell.”
—Tho manufacture of perouBflioii
powder is ono of tho most dangerous
occupations in tho world. It is usually
mado in some isolated building, re
moved a good distance) from all othor
buildings. Recontly, John Donahue,
employed to make this powder for the
Wiuchestor arms company in New Ha
ven, was blown into shreds. In a week
or two thore wore ten applicants for liis
plnoe.
—"You see," said Thiers, " aphaol
oamo from Paradise, and Mielmol An
gelo came from tho Inferno, to prove
that the genius of man partakes of every
char no ter. Note tiio contrast I
M. Tillers, “ Raphael, coming from
Paradise, livod like a nagnu, while
Michael Augolo, coming from tho In-
foruo, lived like a suint, hearing in hm
lionit a divino love for tho marchioness
of PoBoaru.”
-In Paris they make two oggs out of
v... v by outt ng tho shell with a glnzior s
diamond and thou slicing the ogg
quickly witli an oiloil knife. Iho two
halves uro deftly dropped into boiling
butter on tiio pinto, which ‘ Axes
them, making them look like two, ami
for which tho customer—who lifts not
tho performance—pays withont
suspicion. Who couldn't pay the Ger
mans tlioir indemnity aud get back to
specie payments iu throe years with
such gains ?
—Tho Ohineeo government 1ms for
some time past, .been making arrange
ments in Europe with a view to tho de
fense of the coast and principal rivers
of the empire. Engineering works oil
an extensive sonic, and supplied with
formidable artillery, aro about to bo
constructed at various strategic points,
amt tiie geuoral system of dofeimo has
been oonfidod to Maj. Gen. Ripley,
formorly of the United Slates arrny, but
who woiit over to tho confederates at
tho outbreak of tho civil
lliploy was in oommund at Charleston
when hostilities commemiod. Ho in
now in England, but will sail for Chi
in a few days, proceeded by othor
artillery ofllcerH whoso sorviooa the
government of China has scoured.
—A school tooeher in Mississippi
used liis li-oility in short-hand to make
a vorbatim repbrt of r. nogro clergy
man's prayor, and ho sends it to the
Educational Monthly as follows: O
Lord God of dis glorious uuiverse,
wilt dou look down iu do omnipresence
of dy eye upon dese dy oollard children
bowed upon do knuckle bone di night.
Take a solemn poop upon us aud lot a
heap o’light in. Dou kuoweat what
deso dy poor darkies need. On every
sido dou knowst, O Lord, is do ovicleuoa
of do dislocation and distraction of do
humun family. Dere bo lightiug among
one auothor and natural disease. But
wo dio to live again as Biunts or evil
spirits. Doro ho discushion and doc
trines, elooHbion, before ordination,
perfection and sioh liko, confuse the
intellects of both block meu and white.
But good Lord, dou knowst dot dese
aro vain allusions, splittin’ and dividm
dy creatures into Boxes without mercy.
Wboover will oan go to glory. Many der o
will be with slick countenance, white
collars, and fine clothes who will find
tho gates shut against them, while de
blind old woman site go straight,
Amen.”