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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W, S. D. WIKLE & 00,, Proprietors.
CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER S, 1S7G.
VOL. Ill. NO. 13.
TIMELY TOPICS.
N’kau Schocncck the owner of n vino
yanl destroyed nearly all the hern in that
region. Noticing that the l*ec* were
anting and destroying Ida grapes,he mnde
a trap, consisting of two large planks.
1 here plank* were raid'd by means of a
prop a loot apart, and baited with mo-
lassos,Jand aftera large nuinberof the lire
ha<l congregated ho sprung his “ infernal
machine and destroyed thonsamlr at a
time. In this manner the l*ee colonies
near by were so weakened that one
apiarist lost eight of twelve colonies.
An extinct from the proceedings o
the Providence, It. I , police court: The
next victim wns an old colored woman
named llalidav. She stood at the bar
"ith tears rolling down her cheeks, to
answer to the hideous crime of keeping
an unlicensed dog. She had paid his Ii-
veiiso for seven years, she said, hut this
roar it was such hard work to get money
that she thought perhaps they would let
him go. “ Ten dollars and costs,” said
the judge, in his affectionate way. “Oh,
sir!" Mid the old woman, “ 1 haven’t got
hut just seven dollars. If you would
take that, and let me bring the rest Sat
urday night, I could N il some of my
things and get a little more money, sir."
I T |*on thin condition the old woman was
released.
Daniel McFarland, the slayer of
Richardson, turned up in Chicago a few
days ago. After his release from the
penitentiary lie went to Colorado, where
he has been living for the past two years.
His friends have tried to assist him, hut
In* Hoeinsjo 1m* unable to do any thing for
himself. Since his arrival in Chicago he
has lieeti living on the charity of some of
his old friends and acquaintances. Last
evening he wasdiscoverod by a policeman
crawling Into a window of a law office at
ninety Washington street. Ho was taken
to the Armory on suspicion ol Wing a
burglar, hut lie produced the key of the
office, uud said he had been sleeping
there for the past few nights, hut that he
could not open the door. I lo was placed
in the witness-room to soWr off.—Chicnqo
Titnti.
I hi: Irish are threatened with a visit
Irom her majesty, the queen, hut the
cmernlders are not dismayed. She will
he received cordially, of course; there
is sufficient flunkeyism in the aristo
cracy, for timt, and the middle classes
ami peasantry would not go out of tlmir
May V* do anything that would W un
pleasant, but the enthusiasm is not likely
to he unbounded. .Still, it may W re
called that a year ago some rattle-brained
Irish member engaged the attention of
commons by claiming that a royal rcsi-
doncc in the green isle would W a pana
cea for every political ami we don’t
know how many other ilU. Her majesty
has never been over courteous to her
Irish subjects. During the nearly forty
years of her reign hIio has visited the
island hut twice, and then for only a few
days, whereas a third of her reign has
been passed at Balmoral, in the high-
lamb of Scotland. < If course the illogi
cal HiWrnian points to this as an out
rage on the sod. proclaiming it simulta
neously good riddance to had ruhbage.
Magnificent in its dime ‘iisions and
very laudable in its purpose is the J’hil-
dclphia exjHiMtion, hut there is an exhi
bition in progress on the other side of
the ocean, at Brussels, which, though
smaller, is well entitled to the world’s
attention. It is an international exhibi
tion of nil the known forms of hygienic
ami life saving appliances, and is in
ngreehblo contrast, therefore, to those
exhibitions of the past where lifo-destroy-
ing implements have W*on prominent
features. The plan of the exhibition
contemplates a division of lifesaving
apparatus into ten classes. In the first
are comprised all known methods of sav
ing life from fire, including plans for con
structing fire-proof buildings, for safe
storing of explosives and combustibles,
preparation of timWr to resist fire and
the manufacture of lightning conductors.
The second class includes all protective*
against death by water. The third
is devoted to the exhibition of the
means of preventing accidents to travel
ers by land over railways and ordinary
roads. The fourth class covers appli
ance^ for alleviating the sufferings of
those wounded in war, and the fifth is
devoted to a display of the means by
which the public health is preserved.
'I’he sixth embraces the sanitary neasures
and means of saving life adopted in the
various industrial operations, including
models of workshop and factories, and
plans for lighting, heating and ventilat
ing them, as well as protecting life in
mines. The seventh chins is devoted to
domestic hygienic,the eighth to plans for
improvement in the construction of
artisans’ houses, the ninth to the public
core for the welfare of the laboring
clashes, bv the establinhment of evening
schools, lecture courses and asylums for
children, and the tenth to protection of
life from the dangerous incident to the
pursuit of agriculture.
A northern Iowa farmer offered a
tramp his daughter and half his farm for
three days’ work in the harvest field.
The tramp wavered a little at first, but
then the color of the girl’s eye- didn’t
suit, and he thought the farm laid a lit
tle too low, so decline! the proposition,
stole u hame strap and went on nis work-
less way.
LA T EST NEAVS.
MOt Til WI’AT.
The Times says that New Orleans is
tlu* cheapest city In the union to live in.
Farmers in north Georgia have more
corn tlinn they cun dispose of.
t^nict again reigns among the rice
hands of South Carolina.
The White Sulphur hall for the benefit
of the Lee monument fund netted *300.
The net earnings of the Nashville and
Chattanooga railroad the past year were
*765,330.
The estimate of the cotton crop lor
1870 places the crop at 1,500,000 to 1,560,000
ha’es, against 8,827,009 for 1875.
Country produce ami provisions of all
kinds are cheaper in Arkansas than they
have been in many years.
It is estimated that the Texas cotton
crop will he 300,000 hales, nud will he at
least 5,000 hales in excess of last year.
A Savannah telegram says: Yellow
fever here i» not epidemic. There have been
only sixty nine cases during the season and
ten deaths.
The government receiver of Hot
Springs collects **J0,000 per month from the
people who improve the property, and re
mits the money to Washington.
Fight citizens of Augusta, On., have
been arrested on a charge of complio'ty in
■nobbing the negro rnvhhcr, Williams, Satur
day night.
Gov. l’orter 1ms offered n reward of
$500 for the capture of the negro who out
raged Miss Marion McCauley near Nashville
Sunday.
Texas has more females in charge of
post offices than any other state in the south.
We mention this to give Rome enterprising
jnttrnnliM a chance to snv something about
the arrival and departure of tin* males.
A negro boy hid himself in a store in
Wilmington, N. the oilier night for the
purpose of robbing, Imt went to sleep mid
was aroused the next morning by being
kicked out of the door.
The liquor dealers association of Fort
Smith, Ark., has issued a circular calling up
on the liquor dealers throughout the state to
unite in electing legislators who will reduce
the license and the license fees attached to
the liquor business.
(Ills Johnson shot and killed the ferry
man at the Coosa ferry, Home, (in., the other
day, because he wouldn’t "hurry up.” The
report of the gun caused a horse to throw
and fatally injure a daughter of lion. C. I’.
Morton, who was riding by at the time.
Macon, (la., excels to receive during
the coming season 715,000 hales of cotton,
against 54,000 tills. The new crop is coming In *
n few bales each day. Columbus expects to
receive 05,000 bates, against 52,000 this year.
Picking about the latter city is progressing
nqndly, especially o*» the low rich lands.
An Omaha dispatch says a heavy
northwest wind since Saturday has carried
oil’nearly all the grasshoppers. It is impos
sible us yd to state what the damage done
by them will amount to, but it is thought it
will not amount to ns much ns wns pre
dicted.
A colony of Switzers, composed of
wenty-two persons, located in Grundy eouii-
tty, Tenn..a few days ngo. Several French
colonics are expected to arrive in the same
locality shortly. They all intend engaging
in the cultivation of grapes ami the niatiti-
factnre of wine.
The Dike Superior copper mines, after
passing through all the‘phases of u specula
tive existence, during which plethoric for
tunes wee lost an won through the sudden
mutations of the stock market, have finally
settled down to work, and to earn, if possi
hie, a dividend for their stockholders.
The dreadful third crop of worms has
appeared in Mississippi, Alabama and Louis
iana. The Vicksburg Herald believes the
damage the pests will do the cotton will
amount to a considerable percentage of the
crop. They are at work in the richest Isnds
of the cotton belt, and nre destroying vast
acres each day.
There nre ninety-four hanks in Cali
fornia, w ith $30,497,000 capital, $117,503,700
deposits and $16,141,3000 cash. The Nevada
hank, owned by Flood, O’Brien A Co , of the
Big Bonanza, has the largest business, and
the hank presided over by ex-aciiator Lath
am stands next, Ralston's old hank of Cali-
lornia holding the third place.
Mrs. Mary B. Hindman, the widow of
Gen. Thus. C. llyiilinnii, who was assassinat
ed a number of years ngo by llsywood
Grant, n negro who was recently hanged in
Georgia, died at her resipeuce in Helena,
Ark., lust week. Mrs. If. in her young days
was considered the belle of the Mississippi
valley.
Recruiting is to licgin at once in Texas
lor the cavalry service at all the posts in
Texas. An office for that purpose will In-
opened in Han Antonio in n few nays, and nil
able-bodied men who sigh for an active life,
scalping Indians, destroying rations, etc.,
will have nn opportunity granted them.
The companies arc to be filled up to the
standard of one hundred men.
G'apt. Richard King is the king of the
Texas cattle king-. He lias GO,000 acres un
der fence near Corpus Christi, Is fencing in
60,000 more, and has besides 140,000 acres in
the same tract. List April he sold ton Kan
sas dealer 116,000 head of horned cattle, and
to make sure of the delivery added 5,000 to
the drove; and still had 50,000 head, besides
25,000 head of sheep and thousands of hors, s
and mules.
The most soulless monopoly this coun
try has ever suffered under is the Norfolk,
Va., “ Oystennen’s Association.” Why, they
actually met the other day and resolved, with
a big “ It," that "no member of the associa
tion should sell good merchantable oysters
f«,r l«s than twenty-five cents per bushel”—
that, too, when com can be bought at the
same price!
A courier just in, left Den. Crook on
on the 20th at the mouth of Powder river.
Gen. Terry’s supply train was expected in
that day, and both commands wore to move
nut next morning on the trail lending toward
Little Powder river, about ten days old, esti
mated at about ten thouannd ponies with In
dians, and the camp fires showed seven dis
tinct bands. The wagon train reached old
fort Reno yesterday nud camped, expecting
the command hack about tbo 6th.
Although tho crops of all kinds of ce
reals promise to be bounteous, insuring a low
range of values, yet, taking into eousidera-
ion the low price of all, nr ncnily all, the
necessaries ef Ife, the exchangeable value to
the producer will, as a rule, lie ns great ns
heretofore. A bushel of wheat at. ninety
cents will buy ns many yards of cnlieont sev
en and a half per yard as it would threo
years ago with wheat at $1.60, and enlico at
twelve and a half cents. The profit to each
producer may bo less, but the exchangeable
value to each is the same. This same prin
ciple runs through the whole course of trade.
Tho manufacturer and the merchant make
less money, hut the farmer gets as much in
exchange for Ills products as hitherto.—
y<tthrUle America it.
Nows from (’lister gives the details of
tho killing of four men near that place nu
the twenty-fourth, while on route to their
bay camp, although no names lire given. A
party pursued the ImliiiiiH, who numbered
by the trail twenty-two, followed them to
liny Camp, lint the In-linns were tlu-rc hi
advance, and taken everythin}! but a grind
stone. The place where these men were
ambushed was at the head of a long ennoii
running eastward; the Indians, hiding in
tho rooks, watched for their approach, al
though nil were not killed at first lire, ns the
hodioH of two men were found in tho rocks,
whither they had lied. The complete cen
sus of the Indians present at tho Red Cloud
agency, to which the rations will bo issued
in future, fulls short of 6,COO, nud of the
grown males, 10O0 recruits for various regi
ments in the field nre daily arriving at fort
Bussell.
A dispatch from tho Yellowstone ex
peditinn, from the steamer Josiiphliic, near
the mouth of the Yellowstone, August 20th,
byway of Hismarek, August 25t!i, says lint
since the Junction of Crook and Terry, it is
luqird to overtake ami force n light with the
-Sioux. The command moved west to Rig
Horn mountains, where, oil the fourteenth,
a trail five or six days old nud two miles
wide, being the heaviest ever seen on the
prairies, was discovered. This trail finally
separated, and the Indians were found to In
in full retreat, one baud bending for the
north, toward the British possessions, with a
probable intention of crossing the line; the
other going south, along the Little Missouri,
for the purpose of crossing the Missouri river
above fort Herthnld. There is every indica
tion that the liostiles have been heavily rein
forced by I lie agency Indians. They have their
families, and evidently intend remaining
north this winter. The army has n difficult
programme, and it will be almost miraculous
if they overtake fife savages, who nre welt
mounted, and when the supplies urn ex
hausted the soldiers will have to return to
tho supply camp. A later dispatch,-latcdjAu-
gust 23d, by way of Bismarck,says: “ Crook
and Terry, after billowing the trail discov
ered on the twelfth, moved thirty-six miles
down the Rosebud. Tho northern trail was
iilmiidouud on the. fourteenth, and the com
mand pursued the southern trail, orossed
Tongue river to Goose Creek, (bunco re
turned to i’uwdcr river, followed it to its
mouth, which they reached on tho eight
eenth, where they went into camp, and will
remain until the twenty-fourth. The wagon
train and all supplies at the mouth of the
Tongues nrn being shipped to the mouth of
Powder river, and it is expected that tho
wagon train will . reach there to-morrow
morning. The Indian trail diverged from
tho east bank of Powder river, about twenty
miles from its ino-Jlh, south; again toward
tho Little Missouri river, whence the com
mand will follow speedily. Tho entire com
mand isshort of supplies, and unless other
wise ordered, General Terry will march such
ns lire not needed over to fort Abraham Lin
coln. General Crook’s command will scout
towards the Black THIls and via FctU-rmnn,
home. Crook and Terry both think it too
late for extended field operations. The In
dians on the southern trail arc believed to
In: making toward the agencies, and Terry
will, if possible, intercept them. Tho cam
paign is therefore praetienlly closed, unless
further instructions conic Irom the lieuten
ant-general.
Tho sentence of Jesse Pomeroy, the
Boston murderer, has been commuted to im
prisonment for life.
The Delaware. Lackawanna and West
era Pennsylvania and Delaware and Hudson
canal companies will reduce the wages of the
miners ten per cent.
The Offenbach garden, a very contly
est'ihlishrncnt opened by Ofl'ciibncli, in Phil
adelphia, has failed and closed. The owner
isn'wcnllhy New York Indy named Cameron.
The Forrest s minion concerts having been
abandoned by Thcadore Thomas, and the
Operti gar-’en being in tbe bands of a re*
ceivcr, three great centennial “side shows”
have ended In disaster.
Intelligence has been received from
New York that tbe beef which was shipped
from tbe abattoir to England by the Cunard
steamer Abyssinia arrived in an excellent
condition, and brought good prices in the
1/indon and Liverpool markets. The meat
was as fresh and tender as if killed only two
days previously, and the English cattle mer
chants were amazed. The American beef
was rapidly bought up at less than half the
price charged for English beef. Now that
regular ice compartments have been provid
ed on certain steamers, arrangements have
been made for shipping five hundred cattle a
week to England.
rORKIUS.
It m said that eight hundred and fifty
men of all arms, with’ Krupp ami Placentia
gnus, will embark at Hautamlcr and Cadiz
for Cuba, before tbe first of November.
The claim holders in the African dia
mond fields are about to atop digging until
the price of tbe precious stones advances
The Cape Standard says: “ Diamonds are
dirt cheap.”
A few days since tho poor empress
Charlotte escaped from the chateau do
l^u-kcu, where she is still under care. After
flndiu : tier it was difficult to make her re
turn, and slu- was induced to do no at length
hy the strntogem of Hinging (lowers before
her, ns slu- is fond of (lowers.
Advices received at tho Mexican con
sulate at Son Francisco, from the scat of
war, state that Sinn loo is favorably disposed
to the government. The revolutionists un
der Guerra, who inis captured Otlliean, the
capital, and threatened Mnzatiiin, have evac
uated Calionn. Federal troops are now on
the march to occupy tho city.
Karl Russell has addressed a letter to
Lord Granville on the eastern question, to
which lie says: "It seems to me that we
ought, with our ficot nt Bcsikn and our inn-
hussndor nt Constantinople, to limit t on nu
instant termination of the attrocitlos prac
ticed in Bulgaria and other parts of Turkey.
A thousand men landed from our Heel would
accomplish the object, nud if they fall, they
might ho reinforced. Ultimately, if wo cun-
not keep the Turks from being barbarous
and cruel, we might ally ourselves with Rus
sia, ami concert means to accomplish our
objects. The whig party toast is, ‘Civil nud
religious liberty all over the world.' From
this cause 1 shall not depart.’’
A dispatch front Belgrade says the
keenest anxiety is felt to hear of an armis
tice. Every day increases the danger of the
war spreading. The Servian army is fast be
coming u Russian auxiliary force, fighting
on Servian soil. Russians are exposing
themselves in the hruiil of the battle with
reuiiirkahlo valor. Out of sixty-eight who
fought as a company at Alexinotz, thirty
were left dead oil the field; The Servians
nre becoming jealous and afraid of the Rus
sians. They feel the control of their army
slipping from their hands and they will joy
fully accept peneo if it onii he obtained on
good terms. The seven days lighting before
Alexiuatz has been grently exaggerated. It
is estimated that the Servians entire loss is
only n few hundred killed ami 2,300 wound
ed. Nn lot of killed and wounded has been
published hero since the beginning of the
NIINOKI.IiANKOIIN.
Tho number of day laborers in tho
United States is estimated nt 1,000,000.
Caleb Cushing, minister of tho United
States, will soon sail on leave of absence.
< lormnny hna decided to send an officer
to the Turkish headquarters to report any
further cruelties.
The merchandise ox ports of tho United
States during the pant fiscal year amounted
to $610,381,1171. mid tho imports $400,741,100,
an excess of exports over imports cf $79,-
643,481. Tho previous year the Imports ex
ceeded the exports by $19,662,725. The spe
cie and bullion exports in 1877 amounted to
$56,506,302, an excess of $40,660,621 oyer Im
ports; in 1876. tl.io excess of exports was
$71,231,425, the total hofliK $92^32,1-f"
Tho recent experiment in shipping
fresh beef to Europe was, perhaps, a hazard
ous venture, hut it hns thus far proved suc
cessful and remunerative. The English epi
cure tire eager to test the quality of Ameri
can steaks nud sirloins, and have pronounced
them excellent. lienee our shippers have
been encouraged to loerease the consign
ments. They have thus far found a ready
market for them, and the prospect is that in
tho future this will constitute u permanent
and porhapN an important branch of our ex
port trade.
One curious feature of the Charlie
Ross ease has been pointed by the New York
Evening Post. It qpnsiHts of the fact that so
many children supposed lo ho the lost Ross
boy have been discovered in various parts of
the country. These children, or many of
them, must have been held under suspicious
ci rcu instil lines, and the inference is that the
crime of abduction in much more common in
this country limn Iiiih heretofore been imag
ined. No doubt many children have been
stolen concerning whom there has been no
public excitement.
The will of M. 0. Kerr devises in sub
stance that all the law books which lie shall
be the owner of at tbu time of bin dcuth, and
used by him as a law library, shall bo Veld in
trust by his wife for the use of bis son, Sam
uel B. Kerr. He leaves all bis property,
real mid personal, in trust with his wife dur
ing her life, and at her death, if her son
should survive her, tbe property will be be
queathed to him. lie also provides that his
mother and his wife’s mother shall be pro
vided for, so far as bis wife’s ability may per
mit her to do so. It concludes with beseech
ing his son "To cherish always a sinner love
of justice 'and truth, and to make all his
aims in life consistent therewith, and they
cannot fail to be high and noble.” He
makes bis wife sole executrix of bis will.
The paper is dated May 27, 1865.
Past and Present Prices of Colton.
I/,ini,,ii Corrcxpondnnmof the Ituir.iln Commorclnl
Advertiser.
A Manchester man writing to one of
his local papers gives some curious facts
with regard to cotton which will he inter
esting on your side of the Atlantic. Tho
price of cotton cloth is now lower in
Lancnstcrshirethan it ims been for twenty
years, while the raw material is lower
than it has been for six teen years, and tho
manufacturers com plainthat they are now
Helling! heir goods manufactured at less
than the wist prices. Yet at the retail
shops extravagant prices are obtained
for cloth of the most inferior quality.
It is not, therefore, wonderful to read in
the trade circulars particularly concerned
“no demand from the home trade.” Cot
ton is now ns cheap or cheaper than it
was in the year of your wonderful crop
(1800), ami while the finest quality—
American and Egyptian—is that which is
most abundant, tile consumer fails to
benefit either in quality or price. These
very significant and instructive facts are,
we may fairly presume, attributable
Holely to increased cost of production.
The wages of spinners and weavers have
been steadily advancing from sixty to
seventy-five per cent, during the period
mentioned above, while rents, fuel, ma
chinery, etc., hnvo also increased in cost.
All through Lancashire manufactures are
reducing wages and scheming to bring
down the cost of production.
ritIKNIIMIIII*.
l-*rl(*nnhl|> In not Unit brltlln lit-,
' M ”-' ’ •mi tin birth tm|lo,
mol |mn'In ninu,
i*i a brlttlu tiling.
An inmiy tin, I runout Mult,
Tlml fih-nilNhl|i'N only hum to it In,
Who tluiN In-iit.N (ili iiiUiilp In lu I’imni
Nut worthy of tier holy mum-.
I*'rlon(lahl|i tin* Inntcd, nml will InM,
In wuo.s to t-onin—lu IiunIiIon |ihn|,
Amt In forovnrmnrn tho winn*,
Whim wo provo worthy of her nniuo.
call tho hrlttln IIiIiir,
In tint tho olniilow of hur
1-T li'ii<lnhl|> ivo rourt -tbo prim wo giiln,
Tin'll trout hor I unruly nml prtilmio,
MonrntiiK, Min IiIiIn iin tlion adUni,
Wo unit horfitlNO, then, amt lint rue.
o piovo worthy of hor nnino,
In Iniril, I him*, oiiviona honrto, oi
r will hoiM-lf nnfuhl,
A. STORY OP 1776.
Till' l.«iM allot of (Ik- !ll«w-lii«iilt- lli-1-o or
llrmtilywliii*.
Near Dilworth Corner, nt tho time of
tho llovolulinn, there stood a quiet cot
tage somewhat retired from the road, un
der the tho Hlmdo of a stout chestnut tree.
It was a quiet cottage, nestling away
there in the corner of the forest road, a
dear home in the wilderness, with slop
ing roof, walls of dark gray stone, and
a easement hidden among 1 11
s and flow -
Her
, at the time of the Revolution,
there dwelt a young blacksmith, Iiih
young wife and her bubo. What eared
tho blacksmith, working nwav in that
shadowy nook of the forest, for war?
What eared ho for the peril of the times,
ho long as his strong arm, ringing that
hummer on tho anvil, might gain bread
for his wife and child ?
Ah, he cared little for war, he took
littlo nolo of tho panic that shook the
valley, when, Home fow inorningH before
the battle of Brandywine, while Hhooing
the borne of a Tory refugee, he overheard
a plot for tho surpriso and ea-iture of
Washington. Tho American leader was
to he lured into the toils of the Tolies;
his person once in tho British camp,
tho English general might send the
“ Traitor Washington" homo to he tried
in liondou.
Now our hhickKiuith, working away
there in that dim nook of the forest,
without earing for battle or war, had
Htill a sneaking kindness for this Mister
Washington whoso name rang on the
Up of all men. So ono night, bidding
Ins young wife a hasty good-liv, and kis
sing tho babe that reposed on her bosom,
smiling us it slept, fie hurried away to
tho Ainorlean camp, and told bin story
to Washington.
It was morning when ho came hack. It
was in the dimness of tho autumnal
morning, that the blacksmith was plod
ding Ins way* along the forest road.
Same few paces ahead there was an aged
oak, standing out into Hit jroud— a grim
old veteran of tho forest, that had stood
the shocks of three hundred years.
Right beyond that oak was tho hlack-
smith’s home.
With this thought warming his heart,
he hurried on. Ho hurried on, think
ing of the calm young face and mild
blue eyes of that wife, who the night
before had stood in tho cottage door wav
ing hint out of Hight with a beckoned
good-by—thinking of tho Imhy t hat lay
smiling as it Hlcpl upon her bosom, he
hurried on— lie turned the bend of the
wood—he looked upon his home.
Ah ! what a sight was there 1
Where the night before ho had left a
peaceful rottngo, smiling undor a green
chestnut tree, lu the light of the setting
sun, now was only a heap of black and
smoking emlHirs, and a burnt and blasted
tree.
And there stood the blacksmith gaz
ing upon that wreck of his hearthstone
—there he stood with folded arms and a
moody brow ; ImL in a moment a smile
broke over his face.
lie saw it all. In the night his home
Imd taken fire, and then burned to cin
ders. But his wife—his child had es
caped ; for that ho thanked (Jod.
With the toil of his stout arm. plving
there on tho anvil, he would build a
fairer house for wife and child; fresh
flowers should bloom over the garden
walks, and more lovely vines trail along
the casement.
With this resolve kindling over his
face, the blacksmith stood there, with
a cheerful light beaming from his large
giay eyes, when a hand was laid upon
his shohler.
He turned and lie-held the face of a
neighbor.
It vas a neighbor hut there was an
awful agony stamping those plain fea
tures-- there was an awful agony flashing
from those dilating eyes—there a dark
and terrible mystery speaking from those
thin lips, that moved hut made no
sound.
At last, forcing the blacksmith along
the brown graveled walk, now strewn
with cinders, lie pointed to the smoking
embers. There, there—amid that heap
of black and smoking ruins, the black
smith beheld a dark mass of burnt flenh
and blackened hones.
“ Your wife !” shrieked the farmer, as
his agony found words. “They British
they came in the night; they—”
And then he spoke that outrage which
thejiipqulvers to think on,which the heart
palsied to tell—“Your wife," ho shriek
ed, pointing to that hideous thing amid
the smoking ruins; the British they
murdered your wife, they flung her dead
body in the flames -they dashed your
child against the, hearthstone."
This was the farmer’s story.
And there, as tho light of breaking
day fell around the spot, there stood the
husband, the father, gazing upon that
mass of burned flesh and blackened hones
--all that was once his wife.
Do you ask me for the words that
trembled from his white lips? Do you
ask me lor the fire that blazed in his
eye ?
I cannot tell you. But I can tell you
that there was a vow going up' to
heaven from the blacksmith sheart; that
ilenced hand, upraised in the.
of the breaking day.
s, yes, as the first gleam of the au
tumnal .lawn broke around the spot, as
the first long gleam of sunlight streamed
over tho peeled skull of that fair young
wife—she that was last night—there was
a vow of a maddened heart and anguished
brain.
How was that vow kept? (lo there to
Brandywine, and where the carnage
gathers thickest, where tho tight is most
bloody, there you may see a stout form
striding on, lifting a huge 1mmmur into
light. Where that hammer falls, it
kills—where that hammer strikes it
crushes I It Is tho blacksmith’s form.
And the war-cry that he shouts? Is it
a mad cry of veiigoanco—half hotvl, half
hurrah ? Is it but a fierce yell, breaking
up from his heaving chest?
Ah, no I Ah, not
It is tho name of—Mary I It is the
name of his young wife!
Oh, Mary—sweetest name of woman—
name so soft, so rippling, so musical—
name of the mother of Jesus, made holy
by pootiy and religion—how Blrungely
did your syllables of music ring out from
that blacksmith’s lips, as ho went mur
dering onl
“Mary!" ho shouts, as ho drags tho
red-coated trooper from his steed ;
‘‘Maryl" ho shrieks, as his hammer
crashes down, la/ing that officer in the
dust. Look I Another officer, with a
gallant face and form—another officer,
glittering in tinsel, chums that black
smith by tho knees and liegs for mercy.
“ I have a wife—mercy 1 I have a wife
yonder in England—spare me I”
The blacksmith, crazed iih he is, trem
bles; there is a tear in his eye.
“ I would spare you, hut there Ih a
form before me—the form of my dead
wife! '1 hat form has gone before mo all
day I She calls on mo strike I"
And the hummer fell, and then rang
out that strange war cry—“Maryl”
At bust, when the battle was over, he
was found hy a wagoner, who had at
last shouldered a cart-whip in Ills coun
try's service—he was found sitting hy
the roadside, his head sunken, his leg
broken—the life-blood welling from his
many wounds.
The wagoner would have carried him
from tho field, but tho stout blacksmith
refused.
“ You hoc, neighbor,” hcsuid.in a voice
husky with death, “ 1 never meddled
with the British till they burned my
home, till they Ho could not speak
the outrage, but Ills wile, bin child, were
there before his dying eyes. “ And now
I've but five minutes life in me. I’d
like to give a shot, at the British before
Idle. D'yo see that cherry treo ? D'ye
think you could drag a man of my build
up tlmr? Place me thar; give mo a
powder-horn, three rifle balls, an’ a good
rille; that’s all I ask.”
Tho wagoner granted his request; he
lifted him to the foot of the elu-rry tree,
he placed tho rifle, the halls, tho powder-
horn in his grasp.
Then whipping his homes through the
narrow pass, from the Hiiinniil of a neigh
boring liuight he looked down upon the
last scene of Hie blacksmith’s life.
There lay the stout man, at the foot
of tho cherry treo, his head sunk, IiIh
broken leg banging over the loadsidu.
batik. Tho blood was streaming from his
wounds—ho was dying.
Suddenly ho raised Tils head—a sound
struck on Ids ears. A party of British
camo rushing along the narrow road, mad
with carnage, and thirsting for blood.
Tlioy pursued a scattered band of conti
nentals. An officer led tho way, waving
them on with his sword.
Ths blacksmith loaded his rifle ; with
that eye, bright with death, he took the
aim.
“That’s for Washington," he shouted
as he fired. Tho officer lay quivering in
the roadside dust. On anil on came the
British, nearer and nearer to tho cherry
tree—the continentals swept through the
pass. Again the blacksmith loaded —
again he fired.
“That’s for mad Anthony Wayne !"
he shouted, as another officer hit the
sod.
The British now came rushing to the
cherry tree, determined to cut down tho
wounded man, who, with his face toward
them, bleeding as ho was, dealt death
among tliolr ranks. A fair-visaged offi
cer, with golden hair waving in the wind
led them on.
Tho blacksmith raised his rifle; with
that hand stiffening in death he took aim
—iitf fired—tho young Briton fell with n
sudden shriek.
"And that," cried tho blacksmith, in
u voice that strengthened into a shout,
“and that’s for—"
Jlis voice was gone. Tho shriek died
on his whito lips. His head sank—-his
rifle fell.
A single word bubbled up with his
death groan. Even now inethinks I
hear that word echoing and trembling
there among the rocks of Brandywine.
That word was—Mary !
Capacities of (he South.
Now York Kxprcitx.
But few people of tho United States
take in just what the south is, in extent
and capacity. The area of tho slave
holding Htatcs is about 816,(100 square
miles; and in all of this territory there
has boon but little over 100,000 square
miles in cultivation—a surplus equal to
that of Alabama and Georgia.
An address sent to us from Arkansas,
pared by Daniel Dcnuot, gives the
pri-parnl I
following i
interesting record. Six south
states, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala
bama, Georgia, Tennessee and Arkansas,
are selected as the basis, not because
they arc letter or offer better induce
ments to immigrants than other states,
lmt because more conveniently to illus
trate certain facts:
Louisiana, within surface of more than
20,000,000 acres of land—over 20,000,000
acres of tillable land—has never culti
vated 8,000,000 acres.
Mississippi has never cultivated but
about 6,000,000 acres, and lias an area of
about 80,000,000 acres.
Alabama lias never cultivated 0,000,000
acres out of more than 82,000,000.
Georgia lias cultivated about 8,000,000
acres and lias an area of 87,000,000.
Tennessee has cultivated less than
7,000,000 out of 20,000,000 acres.
Arkansas less than 2,000,000 out of
38,000,000 acres.
Previous to asking for a cigar, Prof.
Huxley always delivers a discourse on
the origin and purpose of tobacco, and
tho dealer is so impressed that he hands
out a ton-center and takes only five cents
for it.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
John iiotti.kjoiin,
Lllllo John ItottIcjohii lived mi n lilll,
Who llvnd In tin- iloi-p liluoM-n.
“ ’na slu- UIM to Bit
tlm r<M-kn hy tlion
" Oh, littlo .Inliii llottlojiilin 1 priitly .tiilni Hot I lo-
John I
Won’t you como out to ino ?’’
I.lttlo .tolm Hotth-julin lionnl liomoii^,
And ho o|N-iiod IiIn littloitoor ;
And ho Iio|i|hnI mid hi* iiklppi-d, nnd ho Hklppod mid
ho liop|H*d
Until ho on mo down to tin* nliort*.
And llioinnii ii rook wit tho littlo niormnld,
Muslim m *
ottlujolin
John I
Won t you pomo out to mot”
Littlo John Itottlolohn nimlo n l>
i» poifoolly nwi-itlnn v
•nippy
i, littlo.1.din llotllojohn I orotly John IkittlojohnI
Won't you nunc down with mo
o Loth Minn Id hot
l.lllh- John l’nltlojohn on id :
I'll wllllnaly uo with you
Ami 1 imvi-r will ipinlliil tli
For |M-rliiipn I may mow ono ton.
Oil, yen,
■pinll id tho Mailt of your tail,
— hiura K. I'lchanlt, SI. A’lcholat
“Real Kentucky whisky for Halo
here,” is a sign dangling over a littlo
shop in Alexandria, Egypt.
Speak HU Kmut was tho first speaker
of t ho house who has ever died while
holding that ofllco.
A UoNBOTICUT farmer finds guinea
hens the best, potato hug destroyers lie
has tried, lie keeps 60 of these fowls,
and they Mo tho work thoroughly.
Tiik hutch cure a lazy pauper hy pul
ing him into a deep cistern, letting in
the water, and providing him with a
pump that, with hard work, will just
Itcep him from drowning.
“ WllP.HF.VKn I go,” Haiti an elderly
traveler thoother day, “I find men wear
ing out their old clothes and hats; hut
tho ladies, almost without exception,
have brand now and expensive dresHCH.”
Rumor slates that a movement is on
foot among tho hotel keepers of tho
United States to secure another visit
from Dorn Pedro. Tlioy took, in all,
about $10,000 out of film during Inst
year.
A BOUTiiKUNF.n, writing from Cape
May to his homo paper, wondorH why a
prudish girl who will dance with no cym
but her brother will run along tho bench
“ naked as to the knee,” and kicking
sand at her beau.
It is difficult to explain the workings
of tho youthful mind. A hoy who will
listen indifferently lo tho sublimes!,
truths of theology will l>o roused to tho
lieu test interest hy tho progress ol a
caterpillar over tho collar of tho bald-
headed man in tho pew in front of him.
Jai'ANEhk poetry:
I mi w n |iIk'<oii milk Ink hre-nd;
I miw ii fdrl ciiiiiiminimI of tlirnml;
I >h« a lowol ono milo iMimri);
1 miw ii mi-ixlow In tlmnlri
# f niiw a rorkol walk u milo ;
I nuw ii iioii v miiko n III*-!
I MlW II mill-KKIIlltll In a Imix ;
I miw an ornnao kill mi ox ;
I nbw it Imlcltor miulo of stool s
I miw a |H>ii-kiilfo ilmiro it torn.
They say that it’s owing lo their
wearing silk drcHses that ladies are so
seldom Hlmelc hy lightning. And, fur
thermore, it’s slated that in choosing be
tween a man nud n dog, tho electric fluid
always gives tho canlno the preference.
Tiik reason why great men meet’ with
so little pity or attachment in adversity,
would seem to ho this: The friends of a
great man were mado hy Ids fortunes—
his enemies hy himself; and revongo is a
much more punctual paymaster than
gratitude.—Cotton.
If the money which our young men
throw away every day for cigars wore
devoted to charity every man, woman
and child In Romo could have ico cream
or supper and tho stomach-ache and
threo Kinds of cholera medicine before
morning.—Rome Sentinel.
Tiikrk is poetry oven in that Sitting
Bull of winged torments, tho uneasy
mosquito. Think, young man, as you
listen to his grace boforo meat, that the
hill that focus upon your marble forehead
may only a little while since hnvo caress
ed tho damask check of her whom you
JoVo.
A Nkw England chap has got a pat
ent for a now tin lion. Ho fills tho
thing with oyster shells, boiled starch
and extract of carrot, winds her up, puts
her on a nest, and she will lay nn egg
every day for a week. Ho has a way of
kooping hor from working on Hnndays.
Tjiby arc taking evidence in a divorce
case for cruelty ; tho husband is under
examination ; ids wife, prostrated with
grief, is weeping bitterly, covering hor
face with her handkerchief. “Now,”
says the judge, “arc you not nshaned to
have thus brutally treated your wife, a
tender young woman of twenty-five ?"
tender young woman oi iweniy-nvo i
The wile suddenly raises her head. “ I
beg your pardon,” she sobs; “twenty-
four only.” And she again gives way to
her grief.—Paris paper.
Burlington llawkeyo; Mrs. Astor,
when she wants to feel dressed, wears a
million dollars’ worth of diamonds at a
time, and when a hotel clerk or a min
strel end man passes near her, hisunusu-
ally magnificent cluster just shrinks and
folds itself up until it looks as if ho had
only spilled a drop of molasses on his
shirt front.
A NKMIOCAMI- MKKTINd IIVMN.
Why ilon'I you do iih Fetor did,
A-M'ulklnj
c Hi rowed 1
UryliiK,
\t:
tilxivi! Ills In-ad,
j. ntnii-iiiiior nte.”
miber Hu- rh h nml rouicinlicr fhn |khii,
r'iii«-inl>cr Ilio iHMilid and free,
i'ti you are doin' reniuiiiherinK around,
good I/mi, ri-nu'inlx-r me.
ould Maud where Monoh Mood,
A ml view I lie land.Noniie o'er,
il throw tlu-.vi lej-N iih font m* I eoiild-
Aml I'd ro for Ihn milk-white Nhore
in lair I ho poor,
inber the rich and r
And reniciiilter tho l*ound mm ire-,
A ml when you are done ronilwrlng »roiind,
Then, eond Gird, renionilmr me.
—Chicago Tribune.
“ Wiiat is my bill ?" anxiously asked
a man who had stayed over night at ono
of them, lately. “ Your bill ?" was tho
calm reply; “how much money have
you along?" “ Twenty-nine dollars,"
gasped the innocent and retiring guest.
“ Well, that’s—that’s your bill," re
marked the considerate proprietor. And
as the centennial visitor started out on
foot for his home In Indiana, he mut
tered thoughtfully to himself: “ So this
is tho way that ‘tramps’ are made."