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VOL. 3. ISO. 46. ATHENS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1875. OLD SERIES, VOL. 53. Sltyens ©eotgtan. H. K. CARLTON & CO., Proprietors. .* too ... 8 78 _ 18 00 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: —jo:— ONE COPY, One Year, FIVE COPIES, One Year TEN COPIES, One Year, —. 2he Official City Taper Rates of Advertising: Transput advartUementi, of oaaaqaaro or uorotl 00 per aquare for tka Oral insertion, and 7ft ccatafor each aub* tequani inaatlioo. All adrertiaamaata considered tranalani exaept where apodal contracts art made. T.n fine, apace of this typo (or ooo inch make oo* ^ew Llbcrml contracti made with yearly mdrartlaari. Bates of Legal Advertising. Advertisements. nnliratioo lor Letters of Diamlsaion Adra’r- pDlicatloo for Letters of Dlam v on Guard ppliratiou for I*ava to Sell Lands otlce to Debtnro and Creditors J.« of Land, Ac., per square.... — it* perishable Property, 16 days, per sq ,lr,y Notices. 80 days .™ irrio dales, per laejr of 10 linos or lass isriff Mortcsgo fl. fc. Kales par aquara i* Code* tor's Sales, par square. ... ireclosuro Mortgage, per aquare, sack time™ .. Kemptloo Notices (in ad ranee)...... ™~.. Ale Mai’s. per square, each lima ~ ... tftOO .... 400 .... 4 00 .... 400 .... COO .... soo ... soo .... ISO .... soo _ 2 50 .... 5 00 ... soo w 100 .... 2 00 100 Business A Professional Cards. 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. - - — •——*■ i |A ‘ 1 > 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-