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VOL. 3. ISO. 46.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1875.
OLD SERIES, VOL. 53.
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W. R. LITTLE,
Attorney at haw,
CARNESVILLE, GA.
J. S. DORTCH,
Attorney at haw,
CARNESVILLE, GA.
rmrsici&w.
D K. a. C. FOX, offan hi, profeaaional Sarrict. to
lh« citiuna of Athena ana vicinity.
Ofic, at th. Drug Stora of B. T. Brumby <fc Co..
Collega Av.naa, Athena, Ga. 81-tf.
COBB, ERWIX & COBB,
Attorneys at haw,
ATHENS, GA.
Offlra in the Denpra* Building.
Am M. Jackson,
• L. W. Thomas,
JACKSON & THOMAS,
Attorneys at Law
Athene, Georgia.
P. G. THOMPSON,
Alttorney at Law,
Athena, Ga.
Hairy’*
Feb. I
KING’S CURE
FOB
CHICKEN CHOLERA.
IS THE ONLY
CERTAIN REMEDY
FOR THE DISEASE AMONG
Poultry of all Kinds.
Used twice a week it will
Prevent the Disease,
And keep the Poultry in a
HEALTHY CONDITION.
It has been used successfully for years in
this and other Statea Price 50 cents per
bottle, which makes TWO GALLONS of
the Medicine. Prepared l»y
Dr. WM. KING,
Athens, Ga,—33-tf.
The Enterprise Long Looked For!
AT THE
FRANKLIN HOUSE
Meilft can bo had at all houis, for
FIFTY CElfcT'TS EACH,
Jk**HaWlbaa been thoroughly renovated and nevrlv
famished. Tho Traveling public will be accommodated
with Board and Lodging for
TWO DOLLARS PER DAY.
« FINE OrSTER SALOOH
la alao connected with this Hotel. This is the place to
get Oysters, Fish, Beef 8take, Ham and Egg*, &c.
Ora tare will be sold by the qnait and gallon, to those
who wish them. Give ua a trial and we will nh a» you
W. A. JESTER.
T. 1HBELKELD,
Oct. 88—th J'ropricton.
Earth and Heaven's Greatest Joy.
There’s many beautiful things of earth
To please the mind and eye;
We see the glories of the land,
The grandeur of the sky!
There’* many a worthy, nolbe deed,
Wrought by our fellow men;
There’s many a holy, lasting thought,
. Drops from the author’s pen.
But the grandest of our efforts here
in word, or deed, or song—
Is the utterance of the neble heart
That dares to say—“ I'm wrong!”
, t
That erring one who long hath strayed,
And grieved a mother’s heart, - K -
Returning to the fold again—
What jov it doth impart.
How all
The neighbors, too, are jubilant—
Their hearts o’erflow with joy!
Those who have strayed in error’s path,
Returning to the right—
The huu.hle, trank acknowledgement:
Earth 1ms no grander sight!
E’en angels, in yon Blest Abode,
The gladsome strains prolong;
Rejoice o’er every penitent—
And sing their sweetest song 1
eas-
Racy Stamp Speech.
friends and fellow-citizens of this conflict-
nous community:—1*80 riz to give yon a
warning, and make a political speech, and
tell you what I am going to talk about and
allude to.. Now, I would'like to have yon
pay particular attention*psthe preacher says,
when the boys are flipping beans at his nose.
I say that a crisis hai'amred—the wheels
of government are stopped—the rudder is un-
John Todd's Reformation.
It not unfrequentiy happens that when
prayers, and entreaties, ana shame, suffering
and degradation, have failed to check a man
in bis down hill course, some incident seem*
ingly changes the whole current of his life.
You may know my hero as John Todd. A
few yet living will kuow him by another
name.
John Todd had sunk very low. Once he
shipped—the boiler bunted—and we are ; had been gay, handsome and happy. When
afloat and the river rising;. Our glorious ship j he made Mary Somers his wife, there was not
of State, that like a bob tailed gander has so I a young man in our village whose prospects
peacefully glided down the current of time, j seemed brighter. But the demon drink
has had its harmony disturbed and. is now seized him. It ’Was a gradual going down,
drifting with fearful rapidity; toward the Wife and children were neglected; true
shoals and quicksands of disunion, threaten- friends were forsaken; the low and debased
jng to burst everything ir#o flinders, and pick : were his chosen companions, and poverty and
itself up in the end a gone gosling. Hearken want fell upon his once happy household,
no longer, ye worthy denizens of Goose Hoi- j For months and years, his friends tried to
low, Terrapin Neck, Possum Swamp and ad-, save John Todd. They expostulated, they
jacent regions, to thte&nji voice that whis- ; prayed, they liegaed, they reasoned, but all
pen-fn-your eon the too deldsive sound of J to no avail ; amUit .length Wbey.-gave it up,
peace, peace. For peace has sloped, and j One night, quivering and shaking, with
flowed to other lands, or div to the bottom of j not a penny in his pocket, John Todd entered
the mighty deep, or, in the emphatic Ian- : bis dilapidated home and asked his wife for
guage of Tecutnphsorun: I liquor. She told him there was not a drop
| “ Gone flickering through the frogs of other ! •>* the house. He cursed her savagely, and
j climes, ‘ ! then commenced to search, professing to be-
j To aid the miser watcher-in his dimes.” lieve that she had liquor hidden away some-
I Or like the great Alexander, who, at the j where. At length, away back on one of the
j battle of Hunkers Bill, in the agony of de- j shelves of a small locker over the fire place
! spairfrantically shrieked out: “0, gravy! ho found a bottle, the contents of which
r sice has gone like my school boy days, and 1 smelled like rum. As he raised it to his lips,
don’t care a (He was a whole hoss j his wife, who had been watching him, sprang
and team, sure.) ! forward and dashed tiio bottle from his hand,
I Ladies and gentlemen: Tho great bird of shivering it upon the hearth.
’ America has flown aloft, and soaring on tho With a fierce oath, John Todd smote his
»i Brave Girl. ! wings of the aurora borealis, is now hovering ! wife to the floor, supine upon the broken
Our heroine lived in Bartlett, N. H., and ! high above the cloud-capped peak* of the glass, and then staggered away to his bed.
she was n descendant of the old Crawfords. Rockagany mountains; and when he shall, He would not go out again, tor he had no
Her father was a Crawford, and followed the have penetrated into the unknown regions of money. . .. ..
—e—•— p - —;j» --.i On the I**11 nvmg morning, hia oldest child,
his bedside.
WEATHERLY & CO.
ARE NOW READY
$«r Jjriag and jaiaer fcada.
Having jn»t returned from New York with a large and
well eelected stock of
Dry Goods and Groceries,
Ready-Made Clothing, Hats, Boots,
Shoes, Wood and Willow
Ware, Hardware, Crock
ery, Drugs, &c.
Prices to salt these hsrd time. All kinds of
COUNTRY PRODUCE
taken in exchange for Goods. Call and tee ns at the
corner of Clayton and Thomaa Streets.
April 81, 1975—25-tf.
Child Born with the Bead ora
Cat and the Feet of a Chechen.
Going n'est. 1 /
They entered Vicksburg just at dark.
Nature, when in a festive mood, performs j The two mules before the covered wagon
many odd freaks, bat the most wonderful of leaned against each other for support, and a
which we have ever beard, was the birth »f a ! man having any knowledge of mules would
strange monstrosity about two weeks ago, j have said that a lunch of scrap iron would
and not half a dozen miles from Joplin. The | have been a god send to them. There was a
circumstance was related to us by a physician | big dog under the wagon, and ho looked
whose reputation for truth and veracity can- around in a suspicious, frightened way, as if
not be questioned. At the request of the' expecting an attack from some quarter,
unfortunate parents, the physician's name, j Peeping out from the wagon was a woman
as well as theirs, will not at this time be | aud threechildren. Her face was as yellow as
made public. I ochre and os sharp as a plantation hoe, and
Aboutl o’clock a. m„ 23d ult., Dr. , j if the children had had a bit of bacon for
was summoned to attend Mrs. , who
was momentarily expected to be con Sued
Arriving at the house, he found three or
four women gathered there in a state of
great excitement, and on inquiring the cause
of their agitation, be was shown to the bed-
side, where he found the lady in a state of
great nervous prostration. After adminis
tering’ the necessary remedies, which sue-
ceedHTfn qfiimng Her nerves, ’he was shqwn
into another room, where be beheld a
strange-looking being, which the lady had
given birth to a few minutes before his
arrival. Even the doctor, who was accustom
ed to see strange sights, was shocked at
this. Wrapped in its swaddling cloths lay
the child, if child it could be called, weighing
about eight pounds, with a head whose fore
head was well developed, but wha-e mouth,
nose, eyes, ears and general countenance,
was the exact counterpart of a cat’s, though
the eyes, from their dazzling brilliancy, look
ed much like a serpent’s. The body, arms
and hands were well formed aud natural, and
so were the legs as far down as the knees.
From the knees, they bore an almost exact
resemblance to a leg of a chicken—the foot
was as near a chicken’s foot as can be iraa-
ined—and the infant would contract its toes
months past their looks didn’t show it.
‘ We’re a sad family,’ replied the man as he
returned from the grocery with a pound of
crackers and a bit of cheese.
‘ Anything bad happened ?’ asked the re-,
porter.
‘ You see that women in the wagon thar.
Well she weighed a hundred and sixty
pounds when we left North Carolina a year
ago. Thar she is now, gone down to a shad-
der, and you couldn’t hear her hollow across
the road!’
‘ Yes, she does look bad.’
‘ Anil thar’s the three children—fell away
to bones and hide and lia’r. Thar' used to
be seven. The rest ari planted over thar’
across the river!’
‘ Well, that is bad.’
‘ And thar’s them mules,’ continued the
stranger, his voice growing husky. * Thar’
was a time when they was jist ole lightening;
had to tie ’em up out door for fear they’d
kick tho stable down in North Carolina.
They don’t look like it now, but they was
once able to run a plow into the site so deep
that it took a nigger a day to dig down to the
handles!’
‘They seem worn out now.’
‘And gaze on that dog—on poor Timothy!’
year. Her mother had been dead several of legislation, confusion reigns supremest; ■ ■
years, and upon her devolved the whole care rise up, then, like porkers in a tater patch, * You knocked mamma down, and cut her
of the household. and fall into ranks, sound the tocsin, blow t badly.’
One day, late in summer, Mr. Crawford the drum, and beat the tin horn, until the, ‘Aye, child, she—she—’
went with a party of travelers, away to the startled echoes, reverberating front hiii top ‘She saved your life papa. That was
headwaters of one of the many mountain to hill top, and from gopher hill to gopher poison in the bottle you were holding to your
streams that empty into the Saco, and Bessie hill, shall reach the adamantine hills ot New lips—a must dreadful poison.’
was left alone. Even the dogs had all gone 1 England, and the ferruginious disportions of 4 Poison, child?’
with the pleasure seekers. Near the middle j Missouri, and the auriferous partial s of, ‘ Y es, don’t you remember what grandma
of the afternoon, while the girl was sitting by i California, to prick up their ears, aud, in sent over for mamma to kill bugs with? It
ait open window, engaged in sewing, a man whispered accents inquire, “ what in thun-
carne up from the road and asked her if she der is out ?”
would give him a drink of water. Bessie | .Fellow-citizens and the wiramiu: I repeat
had seen this man before, and did not like it, to your posts! and from the top of Ozark
his looks. He was a stout, broad-shoulder- j mountain bid defiance to the whole earth, by
ed, ill-favored looking man, and the bits of howling “ who’s afraid” in such thundering
moss and the spikes of the pines upon his 1 tones, that, quaking with fear, you will for*
clothes indicated that he had slept in the ! get what danger is. Donvour rusty regi-
just as a chicken would. Its head and r.eck i continued the tnan, brushing a tear from his
what you did last I were covered with a growth of fine black j left eye—‘ that’s what takes the pluck ’o me!
„ j hair, and the body and limbs looked like a I When I brought that, dog from old Norf
but made no chicken when plucked of its feathers; its! Caroliny the taller fried out of him as he
cries were those of a cat. Other peculiarities walked, and when he sot his teeth on to any
0. A. LOCHBANK. JOHN MILLEDGE.
LOGHRANE k MiLLEDOE, .
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
A1LAN2A, GA.
Office, No. 3| Pryor 8t, Opp. Kimball House.
Jena 'J, 1875. II 6m.
TOHX T OSBORN,
Attorney at Law.
ELBERTON, GA.
Will prictioa in the oonnlits of th* Northern Circuit,
Banka, Franklin and Habanham oi tha Westarn
Circuit; will (iva special attention to all claim, entrust-
wi to hi. ears. Jan. 10,1874—ljr.
T. A. SALE,
DENTIST.
A LI. operation* on Taeth warranted to fixe Mtitfto
non. in Work end Prioea. Term., Vary Dow For
Crab. Boom, over Singer 8. M. Office, Clayton
Ang. 85—18—tf.
A. G. McCURRY,
Attorney at Law.
HARTWELL, GEORGIA.
WIJ.L, Ifiv. strict personal attention to all bneintaa an
imated to hia care. Ang. 4—40—ij.
S. M. HERRINGTON,
Notary Public & Ex-Officio Justice
of the Peace.
■Bjj over L. J.
FRANK HARALSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
CLEVELAND, GA. , ,
treated to hi. oars.
Ang. 11 1873—41—tf.
•A.. A, WINN,
GROOYER, STUBBS & CO.
Cotton Ka-ctors,
CIGAR ANDTOBACCO
EMPORIUM.
MR. G. HAUSER, j
Keep, constantly on band a fine assortment of a
KTO X CIOAJRS,
Chewing and Smoking Tobacco,
PIPES. MATCH CASES. Etr., Etr.
Let all who desire to enjoy a real luxury in the way of
amoking or clicwiug ana at a comparatively small cost,
call at Ml emporium, on College Avenue, Athens, Ga.
May 18, 187.—28-tf.
ATHENS
MARBLE
AND
GRANITE YARD
A. B. ROBERTSON.
Dealer in Monuments, Hend S’oties, Cradle Toombs.
Marble end Granite Box Toombs; alao, Vases mill
Marble Tope for Furniture. Persona desiring work of
thie kind will do well to examine my designs, b loro
purchasing elsewhere. PRICES MODERATE. Work
shop adjoining tho old Cemetery.
July 28—ly—pd.
woods.
But Bessie did not hesitate. She .laid
aside her work and went to get the water.
When she went back the tnan had entered
the room. She did not like this, for she was
sure he had come in by the window; but she
handed him the tin dipper without remark.
The tnau drank and then set the dipper
down on the table. Then ho turned upon
the girl and drew a broad-bladed knife from
his pocket.
“ Look ye, my young lady,” he said, “ I
know therc’J money in this house, and I
know that you are alone. Show me where
the money is! If you don’t I shall kill you
and hunt it up myself! I am in earnest,
and there ain’t no time to lose. Don’t make
a fu-s, or if you do, you will feel this knife
quick!”
Bessie shrank back, and looked into the
man’s face, and she could see that he meant
ju.-t what he said.
“ If I show you where the money is, will
you promise to do me no harm ?”
“Show me, honest, and I won’t harm
you.”
“ Then come with me. But you will take
only the money—you won’t take my father’s
papers?"
" Only the money, girl.”
SPRING AND SUMMER
Millinery Goods,
Max. T. A. Adams would moat respectfully inform the
Led ice of Athens and of counties adjacent, that ebe ha*
now received and opened a most choice hihI select as
sortment of Spring and Summer Millinery Goode, com
prising in part thelotest styles and fashions of
Hats, Bonnets, Ribbons, Laces,
Flowers, Gloves, &c.»
Which the will sell at reasonable Drier®. Give her •
call before purchasing elsewhere. Orders iruai a dis
tance carefully filled. Store located on Broad street,
css door above National Bonk.
April 21,1875—2^*tf.
mentals, wipe the flints of your old guns,
beat up your scythes and make swords of
them, put on your hunting shirts, and either
save the nation or bust.
My dear hearers, and the rest of the boys:
Time is critical, and every man that has got
a soul as big as the white of a colored per
son’s eye, will fight, bleed and die for his
country. These are the times you want men
in the councils of the nation that you can de.
pend on. That’s me. Elect me to Congress,
and I’ll stick to you through thick and thin,
like a lean tick to n nigger’s skin. You all
know me; Fve been brought up among you.
Already, on the wings of top lifted imagina-
was corrosive sublimate and alcohol.
John Todd sank back upon his pillow, and
did not get up u.itil noon. When he arose
he was very weak and tremulous. He dressed
himself and went out into the kitchen, where
he saw his wife standing by the fire-place,
With a napkin bound about her head. He
went to her side and laid his hand upon her
shoulder. She turned and looked into his
face, but he did not speak. He only kissed
her and then went out.
Only kissed her! What did it mean?
Mary Todd caught her hands over her heart to
crush back the sudden, surging hope. And
yet, with the imprint of the kiss upon her
cheek, aud with the memory of the look that
had accompanied it, she sank upon her knees
and wept aud prayed.. .. .
John Todd went away into the woods, where
he wandered until nightfall, and with the last
gleam of the setting sun he was upon his
kneos, the palsied hands reverently folded,
speaking a vow to Heaven, that his home
tion, I fancy I can see you marching up to should be once more happy if he could make
the polls in solid phalanx, and with shouts it ™-
that make the earth ring. Hurrah for Jim Out of the darkness of desolation, even in
Smith! come down on ray opponent like a the midst of ruin, comes tho angel of hope
thousand brick on a rotten plank. all ‘l promise to the stricken home. Mary
But, nty devoted constitit-ntcy. I’m not heard, and saw. and took heart, and gave her
going to make an electioneering speech, i I smile and blessing to the good work,
would scorn the act from the lowest depths j That Was twenty years ago. John Todd
of my watch fob. Words are inadequate to j h aa kept the faith from that ilay to this. He
fully portray my feelings toward you, and is beloved, respected, and honored wherever
my love for office." All I ask is your votes, | he js known; and a happier woman than his
and leave everything else with the people. I
conclude in the touching words of that glo
rious old martvr in the wax figure business:
“ Be virtuous and you will he happy.”
wife, is not to he found anywhere.
Seven 11 c n d k ed SiiEEr Frightened to
Death.—Last week we meutioued the loss
of a large number of sheep in the hills back
of’ Mission San Jose, belonging to Mr.
Asliurst, but were misinformed as to the
mode of their death. It was not by rushing
down a precipice, hut in another and most
singular way that the misfortune occurred.
The sheep, to the number of about 2,500,
were quietly feeding on a hill about three
; miles east of Mission San Jose, on Sunday
AND
Seneral Commission Merchants
Ties, Rope and other (applies furnished.
AWlbniorab advances made on «majgira>edW for
eels or shipment to Liverpool or
Uteij. teed and Sale Stable,
' ATHENS, GA: am
GANN & REAVES PROPRIETORS
when entrusted to oar cere. Stock on hand foreSe at
•D times. DiLlKfc
E. A. WILLIAMSON,
PRACTICAL
^Watchmaker and Jeweller,
• Dru ® 6wi, *> S™*! 8traet, Athene,Go.
«ive * ,n P* nor meaner end warranty! to
buck & GARDNER,
Carpenters and teal Jobbers,
sSSsrTzasrsTssiss
March Sd. 1875—ly.
Medical Notice.
.J^J^JjKoUUoo of many of mj former patron., I
frrathlTS^ 0110 ® OF ME I>ICINE
•tot oflntoSt .*72? P»T rapecia! attention to th( dia-
“•b, nd the Chrome Dingmg
WM. KING, M. D.
C.1SHFOR WOOL,
It —OR— (
CLOTH FOR WOOL.
Tbs Athens Menafhctnring Company are now making a
much larger variety of Wooten Goods then ever before,
and propose to ■ ’ .tf - -
Exchange them for Wool,
believing tt to be more to the interest of the Planter to
Exchange the Wool for Cloth, rather than have it Card-
•d snd Spun at home. Coll for Samples and Terms of
InteMe. ’ B. L. BLOOMFIELD, Agent.
May IS, 1875—S9-tf. ■/ :
Bessie led the way to a small bed-room on
the grouud floor, where there was an old J Fatal Encounter with a Bull.—Oa
mahogany bureau, the upper drawer of j Sunday, the 15th inst., Mr. Buck, with his
which she unlocked. The man, when he | little boy, ten years old, attempted to cross
saw this, thinking, doubtless, that Crawford’s ; an adjoining pasture, in which was kept a
gold was within his grasp, shut up' his knife 1 monstrously wicked bull, the property of a
and put it in his pocket. j Mr. Collins. When but a short distance in
The girl opened the drawer, and quick as j the pasture the hull made for the hoy, and
thought, drew forth a large navy revolver—
one with which she herself had killed a
trapped bear—and cocked it.
“ Villain 1’’ she exclaimed, planting her > n, , u..
back against the wall, and aiming the weap- j fought the monster with a club. The terri-; . it c * ,‘‘ r lightening the sheen. They
on at his bosom, “ many a wild beast I have j ble struggle for life then .commenc 'd. j “ n ‘' le ‘ a el Y commenced running down hill
shot with this good pistol, and Ill shoot you j The horrors of a lifetime were concentrated f ^ At or near t te bottom
if you do not instantly leave this house! I j in that short space of twenty minutes. The j of tl '. e hiil ‘, 'i? 0 patch of poison oak was
will give you not even a second 1 Start, or paternal impulse was to savo his child, even ; S , ’" ,U ?L : ? n ‘. ! "*" ,,s b c< I P* L*3°!i
I fire.” ~ atthe expettse of.his own ‘life, which subse- ’ Her £ th '‘ ir M C* P0 touted that thqr
queutlv proved to be the tribute paid, and ! f ou ‘ d not . Meanwhile, the others be-
next to save himself, for the more he hit the) » nd “ down upon them, until
bull the more ferocious it became, while the &ET
unfortunate man was fast exhausting his
energies. The charge was keenly felt by Mr.
BOOTS AND SHOES
TO‘ ORDER.
N , W- HAUDRtJP,
r llxo ARTIST,^-*' 1 •:
Km removed hie Shop Troon the eld Lombard BaBding
8£Sfef«!BBawss±ss
x^raerovoainx June IS, i,875-85-tf.
BOSS C. S. POTTS,
Fashionable Dressmaker,
OVER UNIVERSITY BANK,
Broad Street, Athene,
Would respectfully inform the Ladles ’and her triends
ffenermJly. of Athen® and vicinity, that the >• ®ow pro-
{SIdto inltoS^kin* in the freoteet end most
Fashionable Styles.
f iv& b 2ffi?r' 5,1 * he
LOOK OUT FOR FINE BEEF.
W. X DEM ORE, Aoxxt,
Kcspcatfollj informs the dtueoe of Atirau; end vicinity
that he lias opened a stall forth. .Me of BeeUFork,
Mutton, Lamm Ac^ at the .hop formerly peenpied by
Mr. Bohevenell, in the raw of L. J. Lempkm’. Store,
and near the Engine Home; all can be »applied every
morning, and meat win be delivered at any portioa o'
the city. Hi* .Ull will he opened Setnrdaymoraing.
Ang. 2«, l874-t£ W. B. DEMORE.
BZAAK DEEDS,
Neatly printed, and for sale cneap at this
office. «. V 3*L'-**! •
The ruffian could read human looks
well ns could the maiden, and he could read
very plainly in the firm set lips and flashing
eyes—but more clearly in the steady hand
that held the pistol—-that she would not only o ,
fire as she had promised, but her aim would , Buck, for never enu a man see so much at a
be a sure and fatal one. j glance as when in a situation of extremity.
And lie backed out of the bed-room—back-j He began to back toward some trees which
ed into the sitting-room, then jdtnped from j were standing not far behind him, thinking
the open window and disappeared. ! to find there some refuge from his furious
Bessie kept her pistol by herside until her assailant. Fortunately, he succeeded in
father and his guests came home; and when reaching the trees, ami after dodging about
she told her story, search was made for the from one to another, climbed one out of
ruffian, but he was not found. Our heroin had , reach of the bull. The physical prostration
so thoroughly frightened him that he never j and his mental condition, after so terrible a
came back again. . ' * | struggle, can only be imagined, and to add
~w- to its intensity the mad beast reached the
A New way to Retain Subscribers.—
An indignant subscriber to the Elizabeth
Aries carah into the office s few days ago,
and ordered his paper stopped because he
differed with. Richard LaKoe in his reviews
ot eubaoiling fence rails.! Richard conceded
the man’s right to stop the paper, and re
marked coolly, as he looked over hit list:
“ Do you know Jim Sowdere, down at
Hardscrabble ?”
“Very, well,"said the man.
“ Well, be stopped his paper last week be
cause I thought a farmer was a blamed fool,
who didn’t know that timothy was a good
thing to graft on huckleberry bushes, ana he
died in less than four hours - ”
“ Lord, is that ml” said the astonished
subscriber.
“ Yes. and yen know old George Frickson,_
down on Eagle Creek?”
“ Well, I’ve heard of him."
“Well,” said Richard gravely, “he stopped
his paper because I said be was the happy
father of twins,'and congratulated him on.hu
success so late in life. He fell dead in twen
ty minutes. There’s lots of similar cases,
but it doaen’t matter. I’ll joat cross your
name off, though you don’t look strong and
there is a bad color on your nose.”
“See here, Mr. LaRue,” said the sub
scriber,' looking somewhat alarmed, ‘I be
lieve I’ll just keep on another year, ’cause I
always did like your paper, and come to
think about it, yon’re a young man, and
some allowance orter be made.’
And he departed, satisfied that he bad
made a narrow escape from death.
tree, and, standing under it, tare the ground
with his hoofs. His agony of mind for fear
of the limb breaking could' have known no
bounds, for daring hu delirium, for days be
fore his death, tbextnly audible ejaculations
he ottered would be his fear of the limb
breaking or that he would fall. While in
the tree he took a chill, bat started to work
the next dav, daring which he was obliged to
go home. 'From that time he began to rink
until Friday evening, when death terminated
hu sufferings.—Galena (10.) Gazette.
A Great Blessing.—Ob, what a bles
sing is a merry, cheerfully woman in a house
hold 1 One whose spirits are not affected by
wet flays or little disappointments, - or whose
mlllr of haman kindness does not soar in the
sunshine of prosperity. Sacha woman in
the darkest hoars brightens the house tike a
piece of sunshiny weather. The magnetism
of her smile, the electrical brightness of her
looks and movements infect every one. The
children go with a sense of something great
to the achieved; her husband goes into the
world in a conqueror’s spirit. No matter
how people worry and annoy him all day, far
off her presence shines, and he whispers to
himself: “ At home I shall find rest” So
day by day she titterallr renews bis strength
and energy, and if you Know a man with a
heaming face, a kind and a prosperous busi
ness, in nine cases out of ten you will find
he has a wifeof thisjkind; for nothing is more
certain thau that the man who is married
must ask his wife for permission to be hap
py and wealthy,—Oeeiaent.
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the other. Of course, the rnostoi them were
soon suffocated and dead.
One of the owners came to the spot within
ten minutes afterward, and with the aid of a
Spaniard succeeded in pulling out and res
cuing about fifty head. But the number
tiiat lost their lives in this strange way was
700inalL It is supposed that the yell given
by the hired man, was done for the purpose
of starting the sheep off to camp.—Alameda
Independent’.
A Wise Child.—While we are in the
dinning room we must not forget the tittle
miss of five or six summera, who uncon
sciously perpetrated ohe of the beet jokes of
the season. Wine was being passed around,
and she was invited to take some, but de
clined. . -
•Why do you not take wine with your
dinner, Minnie?’ asked a gentleman who sat
nearher.
* Tansc I doesn’t tike it,’
* But take a little* then, my child, for your
stomach’s sake,’ he urged.
‘ I ain’t dot no tommik’s ache!’ indignant 1 ,
ly replied the little miss in the most emphat
ic manner. As both . question and answer
were distinctly heard by those around, every
one burst into laughter, which so frightened
the little maid that she cried.
The same tittle miss, upon one day being
bantered because she was a girl, and having
represented to her that boys were much
more useful creatures in the world, although
they were usually more trouble, Was asked
if she did not wish she were a boy. * No, in
deed,’she quietly replied; s-Tseworse now
than most of boys.’
Napoleon was one day searching for a book
in the tibraiy at Malmaison, and at last dis
covered it on a shelf somewhat beyond his
reach. Marshal Montmorency, who was
are longer, Marshal,” said the Emperor with
a frown.
were noticeable, but, perhaps, it is best not
to make them public at this time.
It is said that this unfortunate circumstance
was brought about in this wise: Some five
or six months ago, while the parents resided
in another State, the lady was watching a
fight between a cat and a rooster in an ad
joining yard. Two boys, aged ten and
twelve years, respectively, were watching the
contest with the greatest interest. Finally,
the cat caught the chicken by the back of the
neck and instantly' dispatched him; the older
boy grabbed a light ax, and uplifting it,
rushed toward the younger, saying: “ D—n
you! your cat killed my rooster, and I’ll kill
you.” The younger brother, in attempting
to escape, stumbled and fell. At this stage
of proceedings, the lady fell to the floor in
a swoon, but only recovered from one spasm
to another, which continued for several hours,
and the result was the birth of this monstro
sity.
thing, it bad to come or die. And what
he now ? NVhar’s his boifhden’ step, his fat,
his grace?’
‘ You had bad luck then ?’
‘ Yes things sot agin’ us from the start.
The rain drowned the crops out in Texas; the
uger shook us up stairs and down; fever took
the children away ; and the old woman and
the mules and Timothy sot right down and
pined away to shadders?’
‘ And you are moving?’
‘ NVe’re ajoggin’, stranger kinder joggin’
along and around, lookin’ for a place to squat.
The old woman sighs for North Carolina, and
Timothy he’d git up on his hind legs and
howl if we pinted that way, but I thought
we’d jog a little further.’
‘ Well, I’m sorry for you,’ said the repor
ter.
‘ Bleged to you, stranger. I’ve tried to
keep a stiff backbone, and I guess I kin see
this thing through, but wheD a fellow remera-
The parents wished the child put out of' hers what those mules was, and seo ’em now,
the way by violent means, but, after a deal \ it’s nuff to break his heart, to say nuthin’
of persuasion and the promise of a large sum
of money, the doctor was allowed to retain
it, provided he would never make it parent
age known, or exhibit it for two years. He
has hired an old negro man and his wife,
who lives at an out-of-the-way place on the
Arkansas tine, to raise the infant. Less
than a week ago he heard from it; and it
was growing finely. There are other in
teresting matters connected with this strange
case, which we will before our readers, in a
few weeks, if permitted.
A Wife’s Trick.—A lady occupying a
high position at Washington, whose husband
was of the government, made a trip to Europe
with him. She * doted’ on lace, and here
was her opportunity. Talking of the acquis
itions she would make in this tine, he told
her she should purchase any reasonable quan
tity, provided she would not smuggle any.
To this she accepted. The gentleman took
as part of his wardrobe a dressing gown, for,
tike most Americans, in the privacy of his
room, he liked to pull off his coat. Several
times on the ship he noticed the care his
wife took of his garments, and was gratified
for her anxiety for bis comfort. Once when
smoking, while lighting his cigar, ho set his
sown on fire and quite a hole was burned, in
his skirt. His wife was considerably agitated^
and he was flattered that so trifling a danger
to him had so moved her. One morning,
immediately after their return to this country,
he fouud before he reached his office, that
the keys he needed, he had left at home,
and retraced his steps to get them. Letting
himself in with his latch-key, he proceeded
to his chamber, and on opening the door
found his wife on her knees on the floor,
bis dressing-gown divested of its lining and
spread before her, and she, scissors in hand,
disengaging from it a white, flimsy fabric
with which it was covered. She sprang up
on seeing 1 him, laughed, and exclaimed:
“ You are the amuggler. You wore that lace
all over Europe, and brought it home.”
A Child’s Farm.—In the Highlands of
Scotland there is a mountain gorge twenty
feet in width and two hundred feet in depth.
Its perpendicular walls are bare of vegetation,
save in the crevices, in which grow numer
ous wild flowers of rare beauty. Desirous
of obtaining specimens of these mountain
beauties some scientific tourists once offered
a Highland boy a handsome gift if he would
consent to be lowered down the clift by v a
rope and would gather a tittle basketful of
them. The boy looked wistfully at the
money, for his parents were poor; but when
he gazed at tne yawning chasm lie shud
dered, sank back and demined. But filial
love was strong within him; and after an
other glance at the rift, he said, ‘ I will go
if my fhther will hold the rope.’
And then with unshrinking nerves and
heart firmly strong, he suffered his father to
put tho rope about him, lower him into the
wild abyss, and to suspend him there while
he filled his basket with the coveted flowers.
It was a.daring deed, but his faith in the
strength of bis father’s arms and the iove
of his father’s heart gave him courage and
power to perform it.
Sydney Smith had a maid who used to boil
the eggs* very well by her master’s watch;
bat one day he could not lend it to her be
cause it was under repair, so she took the
time from the kitchen clock, and the eggs
came up nearly raw. ‘Why didn’t you
take the three minutes from the dock as-
you do from the watch, Mary?* ‘ Well, sir,’
replied Mary, ‘I thought that would be
too much, as the bands arc so much larger.’
*4 JhAw »»too aw AVV1«
No, my little one, he is not a fool, but a
very sensible man; but why do you ask the
question?’ ‘Because,’ replied the bov,
The man who doesn’t hang oat his shingle ‘mother said the other day that you were
and advertise, dies and leaves no riyt. "*** J — *“ ~ ^
next doqr jo a fool-T’
about Timothy under the wagon, a dog who
was brung up on the fat o’ tho land in North
Carolina, and who haint used to'sorrow and
grief!’ And he dimbed into the wagon
pushed on the lines, and the mules moved
slowly on their way.
.Voring Extraordinary.
A new and interesting experiment in house-
moving was successfully performed yesterday
morning at 116 West Twenty-fourth street,
in the presence of a number of builders,
General District Inspector Tallmau and In
spector Mac Gloin, of the Department of
Buildings. About a month ago the Society
St. Vincent de Paul determined to build on
the vacant lots in the rear of .their Twenty-
third street building. A survey of tho land
being made, it was discovered that the wall
of the five-story brick livery stable adjoining
occupied by S. C. Mott, encroached eighteen
inches on their property. The owner was
notified to remove the wall to the eastward,
and Weeks & Brothers, builders, were au
thorized to tear it down and rebuild. Mr.
Weeks did not like to pull down the wall,
and hit upon a plan for moving it bodily, _
which he submitted to F. & S. E. Goodwin,
house movers, and H. A. Chesner. The
plan was ratified by tha three firm*, while
other builders declared it could not be safely
or successfully carried out. Nowhere could
be found in the history of building or house-
moving an instance where a brick wall bad
been detatched from a building and moved.
The wall was thirty-seven years old, and
built of second-hand brick; seventy feet high,
about the same length, sixteen inches wide at
the base, and about twelve inches at the top.
Its weight was 250 tons.
Ten yellow pine timbers, 12x12 inches,
planed on the upper surface, were let in
horizontally under the wall at equal dis
tances-, just above the foundation, and at
right angles to its face. “ Needles,” .Builders
call them. The upper surface of.each.needle
was profusely greased, and a smaller needle
planed surface down, inserted /along each
mrger one. Spur-braces fixed at the foot in
these upper timbers held t]ie wall plamb.
Ten jack-screws, working horizontally, were’
set at the ends on one side of the ten upper
needles. This being done, an eighteen inch
slice was taken off vertically from the stable
building just inside the wall. At 7 o’clock
yesterday morning a man at each jack-screw
began to work it, and tha wall moved in an
inch safely- “Go on!”said the boss with
some little excitement, and this time one of
the ten men did not wotk his rack as much
as the rest. The overseers were a tittle, ner
vous at this, but the wall carried the lazy
needle along with the rest. By 10 o’clock
the 4,900 square feet of wall were pushed up
tight against the open side of the stable, and
the whole were perfectly plumb and un
shaken. The men in the. stable pursued
their usual avocations during this perform
ance, which attracted a crowd ot interested
spectators. —New York World.
Wait.—Wait, husband, before yon won
der audibly why your wife don’t get along
with the household responsibilities ‘as your
mother did.’ She is doing her best—and
no woman can endure, at best, to be slighted.
Remember the long, weary nights. she sat up
with the little babe thft died; remember
the love and care she bestowed upon yod when
you had that long fit of illness. Do you
think she is made of cast-iron ? Wait-7-wait
in silence and forbearance, and the light will
come back to her. eyes—the old light of
former days.
Wait, wife, before yon speak reproach
fully to your husband when he* conics home
too late, weary and ‘ out of sorts.’ He has
the night; ho has wrestfed.^hancTin hand,
with care and selfishness, and greed, and all
the demons that follow in the train of money
making. , Let home be another atmosphere
entirely. Let him feel that there is no
other place in the world where he can fiod
peace, and qoieft, and perfect love-
