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W. A. SINGLETON, Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. 11.
Love and Hevengc in Danbury.
In spite of nil that lias been done
in the last fifty years to improving
the channel, the course of true 'ove
ia atill unceitnin in places. An inci
dent indicative of this, although some
what out of the usual line, occurred
in Danbury recently. There were
two suitors for a young lad) V affec
tions. Number one was first ac
quainted with her, and had kept
pretty steady company with her
through the past month, when nura
ber two appeared. The latter very
soon got the best hold, and this be
came apparent to the former. The
young lady gave herself up to num
ber one until the day aft er ttic Fourth,
when she suddenly and very deci h dly
veered about to the stranger who
was new in town, learning the jewelry
basin, ss. Number one was forgo ten
as easily, apparently, as if lie bad been
an old debt. It was the night of the
fifth that this change of feeling
dawned upon him. He had purchased
a quart of new apples, and taken
them to her house. There was corn
pany present on his arrival, and he
requested to see ber privately in the
hall. She complied with a reluctance
that struck him as being singular.
‘ Here is something for you, Julia,”
he whispered, externling the pack
age.
She colored slightly as sue said :
‘T cannot rake it, thank you.
“But you don't know what it is,”
he urged. ‘lt is a quart of new ap
ples, just come in market.’
She made no move.
‘Why, Julia, take them. They
won’t hurt you. They are ripe.’
‘No, I mustn’t,’she persisted,keep
her eyes Cast down.
■Why not ?’ he pleaded. ‘You
don’t think i’d bring 'em here if i
thought they would hurt you, do
you ?’
She moved uneasily, but said noth
ing.
‘Julia,’ he began lu a broken voice,
‘don’t you believe me when I tell you
they are lipe ?’
She did not answer.
‘Can it be possible,’ he continued
in a voice of pain, ‘that you believe
that I would try to make you sick r
that I'd bring anything up here that
would upset you ?’
‘The company are waiting, and I
must go back to them,’ she said,
speaking in a constrained tone, and
reaching out to the handle of the
parlor door.
‘You won’t take them ?’ . He was
very white, and his voice trembled
with suppressed passion.
‘No.’
‘Then I’ll go home and eat every
goldarned one of ’em before 1 touch
my bod if it kills me deader than
Goliar.’ and with this ferocious threat
he bounced out ol the house.
Whether he did as he promised is
not known, but as he was around on
the street the next day, it is more
than likely that wiser thoughts pre
vailed.
That afternoon he started for her
house, to see it the dreadful thing
was true that that jeweler, whom he
designated by the prefix of “pole
legs,” had really supplanted him.
As he neared the house he saw, with
anger, that the jeweler was there,
playing croquet with Julia. The
sight maddened him. For a moment
he looked at them, with clenched
hands, then hurried away, with a
gleam in his eye that denoted a
storm. In a quarter of an hour he
was again approaching the place.
He had both hands in the pocket of
bis sack, as if he was holding on to
something valuable. The dapper
young jeweler was still engaged in
the game with the lair Julia, and
their laughing remarks grated dis
tastefully upon hia ear. He marched
straight into the yard’ Julia looked
up and saw him, and a frown covered
her lace. He saw it, and understood
its import at once. His own face
grew black with wrath He turned
"to li r.
‘Julia, have you given me up for
this cuss ?’ he savagely inquired.
‘What do you mean by such lan
guage as that 7 she angrily demanded.
While the party thus indelicately
indicated stared at the new comer as
if he very much doubted his own ex
istencc.
‘Just what I say;,’ retorted the dis-'
carded one.
•Well, the quicker you leave this
yard the better you'll please me,’ was
the-pitil\tl rejoinder from the fair
one.
BUENA -VISTA.. MAItXON COUNTY, GA-, AUGUST 1877.
‘Tticu it’s true, it’s true,’ he howled
in a voice of anguish. ‘She has left
mo for old pole legs. Oh!’ This
with a sudden reversal of tone, as
the name brought up a realization of
the bated pt-esance. ‘ion me the
one that’s done ft, are you?’ Turn
ing upon his rival. ‘You arc the
scoundrel that left me to buy her
things fora whole month, to get her
sweetened no for you, and then you
Come in and tak her to y ursell.
Where were you on ihe Fourth?’ he
screamed with biting sarcasm. ‘Why
didn’t you show yourself when there
was m in v to spend, and things to
show her* that cost cash down?
Where were you when th ice cream
and cake was around ? Oh, you oil
gimlet, eye,’ he added, suddenly re
moving ono and from the recess of
a pock t and hurling a raw egg full
in die five of Ins rival, which break
ing in the contact comp’etcly tran--
formed the entire expression of the
jewel r. ‘Wheto were you, I ay?'
he yelled, dancing around and thaw
ing forth anchor egg. At the ad
vent. of this fearful nr icle, Miss Julia
scampered into Ihe house, and the
affrighted and almost blinded rival
struck out wildly for escape ; but the
1 foe Was nft r 1 im. an 1 not ten feet
! tiad been cleared when the second
egg caught him belwei n the shoul
ders, and .-prod;': and i r glowing color
over Ins back. Th unfortunate man
ran with all his migh seeking for es
cape, but baffled in the search. He
flew over the vegetables, and darted
around the trees, plastering him with
omelettes, and plying him with ques
tions like this :
‘Where were you on the Fourth?’
Fug.
‘Where were you when there was
money to bn spent ?’
F.trir
‘Kept away did yon, till the Fourth
was over, ihe eostiio.-fc day in t. c
year ?’
Egg.
‘Knew cream was up that day,
did you V
Egg.
And. the eggs How wi b all tin ven
geance an unrequi ed affection could
unpart to them. And the unhappy
Jul a, standing in a trance of lio: ror
at the window, saw her favored one
pelted in the back, in the side, on the
head and against tin-, legs ; saw him
tear through the shrubbery like a
winged omelette ; saw the golden
liquid stream from his hair, his coin,
his coat tails, and his linger tips;
saw him shed scrambled eggs, chro
mes and circus posters at even jump ;
saw him finally bound on r the back
fence, and sweep across tlw 1 aek lots
like a simoon of biliousne s, and I hen
she gave a scream and fainted dead
away. —[Danbury News.
A Region of Wonders.
A correspondent who has been vis
iting a portion of California known
as the Big Meath w, thus u< scrib s
natural wonders he raw th ;*o:
Two miles from here aic the Gey
sers ; it is too early vet to see ti ' m in
lull play, the cold water from (lie
snow running over them, but even
now they are grand. One of them
throws boiling wu er about twenty
five feet high and as clear as crystal;
the next is a mud spring, and throws
about ten feet, while the other is only
a boiling spring, and changes every
other year to a blood red. Besides
these, the whole canyon is nothing
but steam escapes for over 100 yards.
One mile and a half from hoie is
boiling lake of the consi tency and
color of soapsuds. It is 400 hundred
yards long and 200 wide. Two miles
further on is Hot Spring Valley.
Here, within a distance of 100 hun
dred yards, are between 100 and 300
boiling spring—not two alike—and
showing every kind of mineral imag
inable.
The Berlin correspondent of the
Loudon Timas, states that Genera
Berdan, of the United States, lias in
vented an Instrument which will
greatly improve the art of kilting.
Ha calls ids Invention a “range
finder.” It Consists -1' i telescope
end other in t u neats, all which
can be carried on a dogcart, and
which enable Die o.gineei.s to meas
ure with perfect accuracy up to 2,000
metres, or 1,500 yards. The lime
needed to ascertain distances, is only
iwo minutes, and the General be
lieves that his invention will double
ihe accuracy ot art liery lire, and
quadruple that ol inlantry.
OX. DEMOCBATIC PAMILV NEWSPAPER.
hlas Gut ]Tl;i<l.
A tall woman with a sharp nose
was raking up a yard on Masonio
street, Rockland, one day last, week.j
She had her di ess tuck and up, a ridic
ulous handkerchief tied ov.t her head,
and looked like a fright generally.
A cross eved man, dressed in a suit
of li lit clothes, came up the street,
and no Icing flic woman, leaned over
the fence and remarked :
“HoWßweeti sy-posy."
“Eli! what’s that ?’’ exclaimed the
tall oman, looking up.
“Howcharming appears the lov tv
popsy-wopsv, with its dress tucked
up,” replied the er->-. ey 1 in n.
“Whore you talking t- > anyway ?”
said th woman in great surprise, and
ui . ning red in the face.
“My own due':)-In jky Is ex uisit )y
trauK.-onilcnhil wi h the handker
chief,” observed the cross-eyed man.
winking mysteriously with bus stia glit
e i> u - . . . ......
“It s my opinion yoa re drunk :
ex daim u the t hi woman in a rage ;
“cl ni' on’, or '..a Cull ti o police.
‘‘And would my sweet ch rry
bloasom set the police on her own
lev ",-povey ?” asked the cross-eyed
man.
• Clear out, you great over-grown
wind-mill 1” BCieamod thetal! vvt man
wrath fully, “or I’ll claw you v. e
this rake j”
“Would my pinkey-vi .key 01-. w
her darling t >o-sy-pootsy With a
krewel ink.-?” c nt nued the cross
eyed man ; “I nev rthought”
Jicio the tall woui-m t v< w do n
her rn .in a gr-mt pas-ion, atm
rushed into Ili house, slamming 1 c
dor ?o hard Unit t broke tln knob.
And tho cross-eyed man moved off.
softly muttering:
“What dreadful tampers some
S',vo ' ki. g worn' n have.” —Detroit
i Vee Pr> ss.
The He&egcries.
Tlie animal show, the “moral” de
partment of the exhibition, require;
the utmost, care and watchfulness on
the part of its attt ndants. The ele
pliant man receive s a salary of about
ten dollars a week. There is : n at
tendant to every three cages of ani
mals, and his salary, provided he
stays the season out, is ;?-0 p? r men: It.
The great lion and tiger tamer re
ceives the munificent salary of I'-di!
a month; for this sum ho jeopardizes
his lilo daily. The “eat,“ or carniv
orous animals, such as lions, tigers,
leopaids, jaguars, panthers, and wild
cats, are fed six times a week, eating
about sixteen pounds of beef and iver
at a m ai. They a'e never fed on
Sundays, as it is de< mod 1 es- for their
health lo starve Is oiu one day. An
elephant eats about fifty pounds of
during the summer. In winter they
are led with meal and hay. The hy
ena is fed with rib bones ••• and scrap
meat, about five pounds being his
daily allowance. The herbilbrous
animals, such as the musk ox, zebra,
tmn, antelopes, deer, etc , are fed on
hay, with an occasional feed of oats.
Tio unwieldy hippopotamus is the
infant of the animal species, as it eats
nothing of any amount, but drinks
enormous quantities of milk, of which
it is'given ad it cr.ives. li is regarded
as the great attraction, and is the
special object of the proprietor’s so
licit vide. The sea lions or seals, are
fed on fish only, eating as much as
eight or ten pounds per day. They
are extremely dainty, as they
will much no fish having the leas' ap
pearance of not being fresh. The
Happy Familv, or monkeys, around
the cage of which the juvenile crowd
concentrates, is the cheapest in point
of food of the many described.
In a garden at Billancourt. Belgi
um, may bo seen at the present
moment an apple tree loaded with
fruit. There is nothing extraordi
nary in this, but the stock of the tree
: s cherry, on which has been grafted
1 he apple, a species of golden pippin.
The fruit precisely resembles cher
ries—the same stem, the same size,
the same form, and nearly the same
color ; but its taste is that of an ap
ple, and it contains pips instead of
st uns. Specimens of this b -tunic
phenomen m were recently suhmitte ;
to our inspection. I' urns bear. a!
curiosity, for it is gem ml y thought
imp >3i ible t.ografl i pip-bearing fruit
on tho stock of a tree bearing stone
fruit.—.l familtuu Juurnul.
Poetical LyiirSicrg In tlic Black
Hills.
o-4
■■Lporrttskomlent sojeurningin the
f’.lWr writes us bilious from
Rapid City, D. T. : When we®
to this town everything seemed quiet
and peaceful, but upon the ridge, a
miip west of town, ne .r a large pine
tret, wore the bodies of tluvo y-nng
men with ghastly blackened faces
turtle 1 upward toward the e ear bine
sky, the r.q>es dangling from the
limbs of the pine try-', and ti e deep
cut in their recks showing but two
plainly how they died. Daring the
day t "O or three men went out north
west from town to get some logs, and
were siipii- ti, when about four miles
out, by people whom they supposed
to be Indians, judging by the way
they rode their horses. Being with
an ex team the men loft it and run
for the wood , and by taking a cir
cuitous rout .- came into Rapid nearly
scared to death. A party of fifteen
we!' urmed men immedia > ly stain' and
out, and found, ft, von or eight miles
out, three white men asleep, with
four hoi - .-, s picketed near them. They
surrounded them, covered them with
their rifles, and awoke th ru. They
were taken to town, and when exam
ined confessed that the horses wi re
stolen at Crook. They were placed
hi a log cabin for the sh ut ; but
.".bout tore" o’cio kin !ho morning a
bandit twenty vlgilants took them
out, and when the people of the town
afose there they wine hanging di ah,
bi a sight, of town. They were
buried in the < venii.g. The following
s to be their epitaph :
A. J. ATira, lo ss Curry, Jay. IT hi,
Agtjon years. Age 29years. Age 10 y .... ia:.
HORDE THIEVES B3SWARB.
I -Vl It); •1. i ' C I : ■ Hull,
Like otter thieves, they had tlieir rise, de
cline lUifiiL.i ;
On you pine tr e they huny till dead,
And here ilicy i'e.uli. a lonely bed.
Then boa little cautious how you gobble
horses up,
For every loose you pick tip here adds sor
row to your cup ;
We’re bound’to sLp’ihis business, or hang
you to a man,
F. r v-' ohi rap and bands enough in town
to .-jV. in [r the whole cluiii cia.ii,
Staten 1.-land Advertiser.
Aboaii ia FJy.
When a Congress street woman
answered the door-bell yesterday she
found asi ranger on the steps. He
had a bundle in his hand, a smile on
his face, and he said :
“Madam, Can I sell you some fly
paper?” •
“Dots the paper fly?” she asked.
“No ma’am but it makes the flits
fly.”
“What do T want the flies to fly
tor?” she continued.
“Every fly, madam—” he was ex
plaining, when she called out:
“I want you to fly! lean get
along with flits better than with
agents!”
“But I’m not on the fly,” he softly
protested,
“Our dog is,” she grimly replied,
and so he was. He flew around the
corner, agent flow for the gate, the
roll of fly-paper flew over the curb,
and a newsboy clitned a tree-box to
be out of the muss and shouted :
“She flew, thou fly cat., he filed, and
I believe the dog got. a piece of meat
with that coat-tail !” Detroit Free
Press.
Dead Horses Standing Erect.
The Danvi le Advertiser of the 7th
inst., says: Mr. Smith was in town
on Saturday with his hired man, and
the two tell a singular story about a
lightning stroke. Mr. Smith was on
a grain drill in a field, and his hired
man was about. 12 rods from him,
dragging. Suddenly Smith heard
the noise of thunder, and became un
conscious. The man also heard the
noise, but neither of them saw any
ash of lightning. The man v ent to
Smith, and in about, twenty minutes
he was restored to cotiseionsm ss.
Then alien ion was given to the
horses. One of them was standing
erect, with one foot lifted a little way
f.oin the earth, and the other was
kneeling with his nose in the earth,
and both were stone dead, and re
i ained their posidons until they were
pushed over. The supposition is
that iu this case the electricity went j
from the earth to the sky.
Slow a Con fed crate Surgeon
Saved Hayes’ Aria.
Jf t the battle of Antictam And South
Mountain a colonel wa& wed ded—bis
arm fearfully shattered—and he was
horn from the ffrffd V>v !>i hrtlirrs and
a private soldier. They carried him
across the country a long and toilsome,
distance, every step of which was torture
to the sufferer, to the house of a Mary
land Union farmer. Then came the
übiquitous Yankee surgeon with his glit
tering knives and crule saws, and made
hasty preparations to amputate the ail
ing member. The farmer vehemently pro
tested, declaring that the man would die
if the arm was out off'. The surgeon in
sisted that the patient would die if the
arm was not taken off, and the colonel's
brothers coincided with the surgeon.
But the determined old farmer dis—
pateln-d his son on his fleetest horse
across the fields to the other side of the
mountain after his friend and neighbor,
a country physician and a rank rebel.
When the rustic Esciiiapius arrived,
dime ensued a long contention with the
Yankee hewer of bones over the suf
ferer, but the V"suit was that the arm
was saved, and after same weeks of care
ful nursing, he Colonel galloped off to
join his region nt, a comparatively sound
man. lie subsequently became Gover
nor of Ohio, and now fi ls the Presiden
tial chair.—A T . Y. Tribune.
1 t tv-iiiKierks Pei-ilaiis Posi
tion.
One day recently a young man es
caped divwning under one of the fiat
boats that support the swimming
bath at Davenport, lowa, only by
great g od to.tune combined with
"ennui, b e coolness and endurance.
With si: vend c .mpanions he was in
j.lm men’s Compartment of the bath,
jin which boards were gone from the
j partition, so that when be dove he
i shot through the apertuie without
even grazing it, and without realizing
I that t o was not slid in the bath, un
| til oil rawing he came up under the
! flu-boat, and struck the bo tom with
• a j m, somewhat dazing him, so that
j he could not find the place through
I v.-.-ich he had just made his exitf.om
riie bath, where his friends were won
d, ring at his mysterious disappear
ance. Realizing that he could not
escape from tile watery trap by the
wav he had got into it and summon
ing all ids nearly exhausted strength
and br uth tiie young man, who had
the advantage of being a first-class
swimmer, plunged downward, and
fortunately hitting the right direction
swam under water out from beneath
the imprisoning hull of the overhang
ing hulk, and shot up into daylight
out in the river current, fie was
nearly suffocated, having, as nearly
as can be estimated —though allow
ance must be made for the time seem
ing long under such circumstances —
remained under water nearly or
quite two minutes. — Ex.
A Man Devoured, by a Dear,
A shocking story of devouring by
a bear comes to us from Fredericton
junction, Canada. An old man named
Thomas Henderson, was chopping in
a place called Hardwood Ridge, but
not. returning at the usual dinner
hour, the people with whom he
boarded felt some anxfoty for his
safety, he being a very feeble parson.
Night came but with it no tidings of
ihe absent man. The following day
the settlement was alarmed and a
strict search ins iiu:ed, revealing the
horrible fact that the old man had
been devoured by a bear. Bear’s
footprints were found on the ground,
which was bespatted with gore, and
near the foot of a tree was found the
boots of the unfort nnate old man with
part of the legs in them, Not far
from this was.discovered a portion of
his head dreadfully mutilated. From
the footprints, plain in ihe soft, soil,
and the blood along the tracks, the
horrible wav in which the runaur'r.g
portions seemed to have been torn
.from their parts, th- m iu no doubt
j bat the unfortunate man became a
j prey to a bear. Hetfoers.in was one
i of the oldest settlers in ihe place and
was an unmarried man. -Ex.
A tooth of a mas adon has been
dug up near th : Ashley river iu South
Carolina. It is II J inches long, 0
inches in diameter, and weighs more j
than f> lbs.
Annual Subset iption s2*oo
ISTO. 4:4=
WU m\ gumor.
Archery is sa : d to be com’rig into
fashion, and young ladies sire all in- a
quiver at the prospect of beaus boiug
tibnndnnfc.
Socrates Few, a Wisconsin tele
graph operator, has been arrested
for overcharging on messages. There
were but Few that he didn’t—Soc
rates on.
“What I object to,” said a Texas
horse-thief, as ho was about to be
di awn up, “is you hanging me here
in the sun when there is plenty of
shade near by. However, go ahead.”
“Have you heard my last song?”
asked a composer of a critic. “I in
dulg and a hope that I had, while I
listened to the last I heard, was the
caustic reply.
At a recent reunion of the Army
of the Cumberland, an old song',
“Put your armor on, my boys,” was
a great favorite with the girls, who
thought the refrain was, “Put your
arm around me, boys.”
“Can’t yer give a feller a lift?” re
marked a red nosed tramp, poking
Us head in the store door of a Broad
street merchant. “Well, I reckon
I can,” answered the proprie
tor as he lifted him about ten l'eet
with (lie end of his boot.
An elderly darkey was inquiring of
a policeman if he knew anything of
his son Pete. The policeman replied
that there was a young darkey in the
lockup for breaking up a prayer
meeting with an ax-haudle. “Dat's
him, ” exclaimed the overjoyed parent,
“he told me he was gwine to ‘muse’
hiss: If.”
“Frank,” said an affectionate
mother, the other day, to a promising
boy, “if you don't stop smoking and
reading so much, you will get so
after awhile that you won’t care any
thing about work.” “Mother,” re
plied the hopeful, lei uridy removing
a very long cigar, “I have got so
now.”
Once upon a time Dean Swift was
called upon to follow a number of
lengthy and tedious pulpit appeals iu
behalf of the poor. Rising with
great dignity he read from the Bible
these words :
“Ho who giveth to the poor loaneth
lo the Lord.”
Then turning quickly upon the
audience he added in quicker tones :
“If you like the security down with
the dust.”
“Julius, suppose there arc six
chickens in a coop and the man sells
three, how many are loft ?” “What
time ob day was it ? ’ “What time
ob day was it ? Why, what bus dat
got to*do wid it?” “A good deal
honey. If it was uf.er dark, dar
wouldn’t be none lefj dat is it you
happm and to come along dat way.”
"L ok here, nigger, just stop dem
personalities; if you don’t, I’ll ’splode
your head wid a pump handle. I
will, ear tin as Moses,”
It won’t do for a y- ung lady lo
poke a sun umbrella at the wheel
house on a bily goat, especially if lor
dress fits tight, the goods arc thin,
and the weather's Lot. One did y< s
terdaj* and, when she picked herself
tip out of the gutter and went off
muttering words to herse f, she dis
covered that her dress was bus'ed iu
forty-one different directions and m
filty-two places—mostly from the
neck to the knees.
With a revolver in each boot-l:g
and a ga lon of Califoinia whisky un
der his hat, a miner was lounging in
the street of [fondt/ond City, iu the
Hack Hills, when a stranger suddenly
hnppuicd to hir.sh agfomt him. Out.
ratin' the pistol from the right hoot,
ami up wiiit the right arm with a
flourish. “Now, look yer, everybody
n this yer gnle t ; Lok at me an 1
crawl! I’m \\ i'd-cat Tip from tear
Gu’c' ! Git out here, half a dozen Of
yer, i nil form a 1 ne t.f battle, 'causa
1 cfot hold onto t is yer hammer
mui h longer ;so trot ’em rii !’■ S .me.
. in tiic crowd fired a pistol in the
air, and simuHan. ons'v a ro ten tgg
k Tip between the eves. “I’ut
mm for 11’’ lie y, Red. dropp ng las
revolver, and falling heavily to the
ground. In a moment, he came to
him:elf, and, foruigh ening up. re
marked plaintively, “Buys, let me
sec the caliber of the gun that sl.o its