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Poetical Selections.
THI BBBOKSf OF FBAVB.
CHARLES U MORSE,
There are herose ol petca with spirits m brave
As thoss who for freedom or glory have bltd,
Though they fought not the rights of a people to
'Nor the gory (1,14 piled with Its bsivest of dead.
Heroic the soldier who charge* the wall
Where valor and numbers hi* coming await,
Or who stands like s reck, though his comrades
Acd picturs btfore h’m bt* own threatened fate.
And brasher* roar loud on the shipwrecking lea,
With soul undespaiilns toll* on to the last.
Who, whin dimes rage fiercely in the heart of his
ship,
And tu bafle-torn itgglng and apart strew the
deck,
With resolve in hti eyes, and a choer on hi* lip,
Climb* the enemy’s side from hi* own helpless
Eat theee heroes have many to cheer and supp.it
them;
Their danger?, thoujh great, will he speed'ly
ended,
When the eongi of the bard shsll to glory traniport
them,
ivA theirs be the loVe cf the land they’ve do
ll God has drcrced tint for duty they fall,
They know the reward of their courage la mi
In death, the lau-el will wave o'er their (ell *,
And, living, thslr fame with their yearn will
endure.
fiat grander the valor that hero displays
Who battles obmurely with Poverty's woee,
With no hope ofrewa d, and no prospect of praise,
Nor a cheer from the brave as he charges his foes.
Hit cor did M not for an hour or a day •,
Single-handed he wars with a pitiless hott;
Through years he muat toil, mint echeme and must
pray—
Every day wield hi* armv-every night bold hi*
post.
Every meal ho mutt ilgh o'er an ill turnlsher
Don the f ahlonlea* dress cf Iho laat araion’
Then be mowed, aa a roldier, by the death dealing
■hell,
Ur charge with a shout on the ranks o( your foes;
But bo sure you've a soul that can battlo with Ilell
Ere you venture a war with l’overly'a woes.
Put |natures and glory havo olt had their birth
F.om the trouble* that eelhered In fearful array
Aa the Titans renewed, when thrown to the cnith,
1 he vigor they'd lost in the provious fray.
Dei pair la unmanly- Uod favors the brave;
> ri« hoping and ati 1 vlng that merit l he priai.
Neither Heaven nor Man will endeavor to anvo
The fallen who uuki no < xattlon to rise.
Then auiumon, tuy rou), all your Gcd-given po'
Andstlsttho occasion your strength to unfrId,
As the »un frem the clouds that round It may
loser.
Weaves its glorious robes ol purple and of gold,
Stories and Sketches
THE KINO OF THE AIR.
Prof. Wise is now quite an old man,
being in his seventieth year, though he
might easily pass for tixty. In face
and general physique, he bears a striking
resemblance to General Braxton Bragg,
though a trifle larger than the deceased
soldier, and evidently possessed of more
of the constitutional ireu that giveB
longevity. His head is massive, and in
front of his ears being especially large,
the forehead full and bulging,
and the knots indicative of strong per
ception unusually prominent. His eyes
are deeply sunk, and peer out from the
■baggy brows aa brightly as they did
lorty years ago. The remarkable navi
igstor of the air, who has made more
ascensions than any other man, living or
dead, is still an enthusiast in his calling,
and entertains, as he has for fifty y#ars,
a firm conviction that ballooning, or fly-
ing through space, will eventually
bs one of the fixed sciences, controlled
• by contrivances and principles as relia
ble as thore by which vessels unerringly
plow the waters of sea and river.
In talking to a repotter on this sub
ject he said: There U a great field of
uufffplored sciences within balloon
practice. I have demonstrated that
our atmosphere flows around the earth
from west to east faster than the earth
on its axis. Billions always move
eastward when above local currents.
Everything in the visible cosmogony
moves from west to east. All the plan
ets, and the sun with all its train
planets and meteors, go that way; and
even* the star-driit is eastward, it the
observations of Astronomer Proctor are
to he trusted, as they surely are.
The natural motion ol the univerre
from west to east; it is all unitary, all
harmony, all supremely exact. I have
sailed in the midst of tl e tornado, and
about it, in the storm cloud, in the
snow storm, July, when it was hot
below. My opinion iB that what we
cs41 balloons cannot be practically used
for correct navigation of the air. They
may to some extent, but the shape
the vessel precludes the idea of accu
rate Balling. The balloon iB a grand
drifting machine, and by aid of
trade winds could reach almost any pArt
of the globe; but air navigation, i
scientific rense, will be accomplished fin
ally on Iho hi id principle. Latters
have recently received from vatious parts
of Europe convince me thut the solving
VOLUME III.
BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1879.
NUMBER 14T
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the problem is not far eff. A sum*
scientific id ronauts have writton me
concerning a flying machine now being
perfected by scientists in Paris, which
will doubtless be able to carry cargoes
any direction and for any distance,
is a mere matter of time in mechanic
progress Why should not man iy
well as the eagle, the bat, and the
squirrel ? Even fish essay this mode of
locomotion lor two or three hundred
yards."
While talking on the subject of the
construction of balloons he said: "Bal
loons may be made of holler iron, if
built large enough. You know it is the
battle of cubes and surface. When tl e
surface is doubled the cube is quadru
pled, and a balloon of four hundred feet
diameter made of copper boiler plate
will lilt up a man-of-war and sail away
with it. With such a balloon, stocked
with bombs and other destructivo muni
tions of war, think what consternation
could be carried into a besieged camp.
But the mission of the balloon will be
more for scientific explorations. That
overshadowing science called meteorology
will yet provide its definition in the use
the balloon."
The Professor's life ambition has been
the crossing of the Atlantic in a balloon,
and concerning this scheme he said:
I must coufees that this is my favorite
hobby, as I know the transatlantic voyage
will surely and fully demonstrate my
eastern current theory; and then it
would be a sort of compensatory feather
my cap for my long and varied
drudgery in professional ballooning. I
am still in hopes of finding a generous
patron to help me out, or else to get the
requisite aid from the rising generation
by penny subscriptions."
Talking of his own adventures, he
said: "I have followed ballooning for
forty-two years, and have made four
hundred and fifty esrial voyages and
several thousand ascensions with the
captive balloon. Sjmo of these voyages
wore peiilous; but I have been remark
ably fortunate in escaping what often
Beemed to be cortain doath. 1 have been
doused into the middle of Lake Erie,
dashed across Long Island Sound in a
snow-storm, eometimeB neck deep in salt
water; but the wind and water beat me
shore. On another occasion I was
hurled into Chesapeake bay, but,
iako Erie, found refuge in a passing
ship. You see, it is the levitating power
the balloon that sustains you in the
perils. Too much gravitation kills many
man and woman, but the ballooning
levitations is ever the refuge in diflicul-
ties. It will carry you over forests, from
tree-top to tree top, and make what
seems terrific to the beholder below i
pleasant recreation to the skillful navi
gator. The moat perilous voyage 1 evei
made was the one from St. Louis in
1859. We were up all night and landed
in Jefferson county, New York, next
day at 2:30 p.m., more scared than hurt,
though when we were being da-hed
about in Lake Ontario wo thought it
was all up with us. During a terrific
tornado we were thrown from wave-cap
to wave-cap, the balloon being for four
hours no longer capable of lifting ub
above the water. When wo succeeded
in cutting a part of the rigging away the
air vessel rose like an arrow, and we shot
away at the rate of two miles a min ate,
distance of ninety miles, only to be
thrown into a wooded declivity, through
which we tore for a mile or more like a
wild elephant through the brambles.
That very tornado destroyed fourteen
veesels on the lakes, and many lives
were lost in them. We were saved by
the levitating power of the ba’loon. In
the balloon were O. A. Gager, proprie
tor ; John Lamountalne, mronaut; Wm,
Hyde, historian ; and myself as director-
in-chief.”
Of the sensations resulting from s
through the air the professor said :
have never Seen affected otherwise than
pleasantly. As the pressure of air
diminishes your system expands. I,
man of threescore and ten, and consider
ably wrinkled, os any observer can see,
always fill out as plump as a youth, and
I feel very young then. The pulsation
increases, the mind becomes exalted,
and a state of ecstasy supervenes. It is
a glorious thing for health and highly
curative of the blues, and the beet placa
in the world to praise God, from whom
a ll blessings flow. Few men could go
up with suicidal intent and not bave
their melancholy removed by the exhi
larating effect of the upper air. The
balloon will, at not a remote day, be
come a sanitarium. The views that
entertain an asreanant are grand beyond
description. The ranges of vision are
not very far, as a general thing; but just
after a rain you can see a hundred miles.
Then when near the ocean, you can see
ships springing up in your horizra as
you ascend, as if by magic, proving be
yond a doubt the convexity of the earth,
which is about eight inches to the mile."
Prof. Wise is a native of Lancaster
county, Pa., and is of Dutch origin—a
fact which can be detected in the slight
accent to his voice. His original family
name was Weiss, and he descended (rom
the same stock from which came Henry
A. WUe, of Virginia. The professor and
Henry A. Wise were warm friends.
When asked by the reporter if he would
always remain in the balloon businets,
he promptly replied ; *" Yt s, sir; I will
MA8QNFC MYSTERIES.
l««re tlavalllai or «hn Norreu of Ma
sonry.
London Truth.
Last week I alluded to the Royal
Arch degree, and my correspondents
now ask me to unvail its mysteries. At
the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuch
adnezzar, three matter masons were
taken into captivity, and on their retnrn
to Jerusalem found a tabernacle erected
on the old site of the temple. They
were told by "Haggai, Joshua and Zerub
babel" to clear away the ruins of the old
temple. In doing this they came on an
old vault, in which certain treasures
were discovered. The initiation is a
representation of the return of these three
master masons. The room in which it
takes place has three curtains across it,
and at each curtain sits a guardian. At
the end of the room sits "the Captain of
the Host," and "Haggai, Joshua and
ffierubbabel," who are respectively called
High Priest,” "King,” and "Scribe."
A little in advance of them is the "al
tar." After some preliminaries, all
kneel before the altar and hold hands.
Then they »ay, "Rabboni." After which
they rise and give the "grand omnific
arch word," in what is termed "three
times three." The word is "Jahlublum,
Jehovah, God." It is repeated by
Bquads of three holding each other in oh
peculiar way. Then the candidates are
introduced by the officer termed the
“Sojourner.” They are led in by a
rope, and pass under an arch made by
the initiated with their arms, and
then over some furniture upset in order
to represent a stony road. On this fol
lows the oath, which contains the fol
lowing clause: "I furthermore pro-
miso and swear that I will assist a Com
panion Royal Arch Mason when I see
him engaged in any difficulty, and will
espouse his cause so far as to extricate
him from the same whether he be right
wrong." And this "under no less
penalty than to have my skull smote off
and my brains exposed to the scorching
rays of the sun." The next step is to
represent the "burning of the bush."
One of the initiated assumes the part of
the Diety and shouts "Moses 1 Moses!
After a reply from the candidates, the
words "I am that I am" are heard. The
candidates are thou dragged into the pre
paration-room, and, when brought back,
are told that the password is "I am that
and they aro invited to help to
build the new temple. At each
vail through which they are led,
the guardian at its door gives them a
different password and sign, until at
length they find themselves in the pres
ence of the king, the priest and the
scribe. • The "Sojourner” hands in a
piece of metal with the word "Barub-
babel" inscribed on it, and the candidates
are given tools to clear away the rubbish
of the old temple. In a heap of rubbish
to which they are now conducted, they
find a key-stone, then some squares, and,
finally, a box with an inscription on it in
cipher. The box is opened; it contains
a book of the law, a key to the cipher,
Aaron’s rod and a pot of sugar to repre
sent manna. The priest explains that
this box is the ark of the covenant, and
that the inscription on it means: "Dc
posited in the year 3000 by Solomon,
King of Israel, Hiram, King of Tyre,
and Hiram Abiff,” followed by the grani
omnific arch word. This word is then
given with "three times threethe
priest recounts the history of the order,
and then the chapter is closed with much
the Bame ceremonies as those with which
it Is opened. The moral is that the
long-lost Master Mason’s word is the
Deity in Chaldee, Hebrew and Syriac,
and that this word has been discovered
owing to its having been found on the
ark concealed by Solomon acd the two
Hirams, although what harm accrued to
the world by its being lost, or what ben
efit accrues by its being found, I should
imagine that Freemasons would have
uorae difficulty in explaining.
Scene IV.—The Zulus. The recon, I
noisance; the repose of tfhe horsemen ;
a soldier's song. All at onca a cry,
The ;Zulus!" The Eoglish save
themselves ‘(they are hooted at each
night by the audience). Toe prince de
fends himself courageously, thinking of
his mother and of the forester's daughter.
He dies.
Scene Y.—The return to England,
lhe empress, in mourning, kneels before
the picture of Napoleon III. The coffin
is borne to Chiselburst. (Grand scene
of tears.) Suddenly enters the forester’s
daughter. " I promised your majesty
no more to Bee the prince" she says
I have kept my word. But your
Majesty will not forbid my saying a last
adieu to Louis,?" The empress draws
the young girl to her heart, and replies :
Now we will unite in prayer."
Scarcely bave the empress and the
young girl bent tbeir knees when the
coffin, by the aid of mechanism like that
the nun scene in “ Robert le Diablo,'
stands up on end, and through the glass
lid the audience sees the body of the
prince imperial. This termination of
the play produces a "grand emotional
effect.”
The Prince in a Drama.
New York Efsnlng Post.
A drama entitled "The Prince Impe
rial” is now playing at Posen in Prussia.
Scene I. is at ChiBelhurst. Tho prince
is thinking of revonge, He talks of the
mitrailleuses of Forbach and tho bullets
that he picked up on the field of battle.
What a chasm between yesterday and
to-day 1 A Bonapartist delegation
announced. It comeB to ask him to sail
from France, and to issue a manifesto to
the nation and an appeal to arms in his
behalf. But the prince, who loves his
country, does not wish to excite a civil
war. He refuses.
Scene II.— 1 The daughter of the for
ester. The prince loves passionately
poor young girl. The empress surprises
him at a rendezvous. Pathetic scene
between the mother and son and the
girl. The last named, at the prayer
the empress, forbids the prince to come
again. The prince, in despair, swears
that he will go and kill himself.
Scene 111.—The English camp at the
Gape. The prince, more in love than
ever, wishes ta die. Ho asks the general
to lei him make a reconnoisance. Be-
ZAck Taylor’s Wrath.
New York Tribune.
It is related that General Scott'a fa
mous letter to Zachary Taylor, announc
ing the withdrawal of moBt of the regu
lar troops from Taylor’s command to his
own, in a prelected movement from Yera
Crux toward the capital of Mexico, was
received while General Taylor was at
supper with his staff near Monterey.
The General arked Colonel Biles to read
to him. He had just replenished his
coffee cup, and was engaged in cooling
with his spoon while the reader went
on. This appeared to make no furthur
impression upon him than that indica
ted by a contemptuous "sniff," but as
the real import of the letter began to
appear his whole manner changed, and
he abstractedly dipped the spoon into a
bowl of mustard, which sat. upon the
table, and stirred it into the coffee. This
he repeated until by tho time the read
ing of the letter was finished the con
tents of the mutard bowl were exhausted.
Without saying a word and to Bliss’s as
tonishment and horror ho raised the cup
to hit lips and gulped down the whole
abominable compound. He then broke
into an excited and profane harangue,
consigning to everlasting damnation
every one concerned in the proposed de
pletion of his forces, and only ceasing
wlien his speech was overtaken with a
paroxism of Btuttering, which, with him,
usually followed a violent outbreak of
temper. The Colonel felt sure that
from the amount of mustard he had swal
lowed, combined with the intelligence
he hod received, it would in allibly sicken
him, but nothing uncommon came of it.
Ratsbano at that moment," said Bliss,
"would, I am convinced, have had no
more effect upon him than upon the
stomach of Mithridates.” General Pleas-
onton, who commanded the General’s
escort in Mexico, says that when once
thoroughly aroused lie was tho maddest
man he ever saw—mad from the crown
of h!s hat to tho soles of his boots.
MiSHiHsippi River Improvement.
. „ . . f or0 mounting his horse ho writes to his
be a balloonist as long as I live, and when ,. fnroatar , a
1 quit it X Will go to D.-. LeMoyne’B mothet * nd ,0 the ( 0Te8U,r 9 dau R ht ' :r
- quit -
crematory for my final exit.
(Tremolo accompaniment.)
There is one scheme in connection
with the improvement of lhe Mississippi
and the necessities of cheap transporta
tion that can never collapso, and that is
the project to improve the land-locked
water route reaching from Lake Pont-
ckartrain along the gulf c jast to the coast
of Florida. This is a natural channel
that can be easily improved and made
continuous, and that can bg connected
with what is known as the inland rou to
on the Georgia oast by cutting a com
paratively inexpensive bargeway across
a portion of Florida. It is a great com
mercial thoroughfare designed and par*
tially completed by nature, and is the
only solution of the problem that is
oxiug tho people of the great grain-
producing regions of the .west—the
problem of cheap transportation. It is a
project that commends itself to tho com
mon sense of all who will take the trouble
to examine the land-locked water-chan
nels on tho gulf coast and on the coast of
Georgia. It is in every sonso of tho word
a national project, and should be taken
in hand and completed by the govern
ment, thus giving the people of the west
and northwest uninterrupted water
communication with the Atlantic ports.
With the exception of the short barge
way necessary to connect the St. Mark’*
with tho St. Mary’s river, the entire
work is tide-water improvement, and
should bo made a great national highway
of commerce, free to all. This is the Bort
of canal they want in Florida and
other, and we do not believe that any
private corporation Bbould be allowed to
take charge of it. When this great work
is completed, as it will be when the peon
pie ol the west come to lake reasonable
interest in it, grain and other produco
chu bo shipped from SL Louis to Bruns
wick or Savauuah in unbroken bultt and
there transferred to ocean steamers and
vessels, but until this is don j the prob
lem of cheap transportation will remain
unsolved.
Summer Beading.
Llttlo Uock Hock [Ark.I Ussette.
The fire man of Sharp connty is not
likely to attract more attention than a
phenomenon which has just made its
appearance, according to a private letter,
in Van Buren county. Some people
called it a horse, while others affirm that
it is a man. At any rate, nothing in
natural history can account for it. Its
head has every resemblance of a horse’s,
while its body is unmistakably that of a
man. When first seen it was standing in
a road with its head over a fence, looking
ntently at a man plowing in the field.
There was something so wild in the ex
pression of the supposed horse’s ey
and such a snap to his eyelids, producing
such a peculiar sound, that the man left
his plow and went up to the fence. His
surprise and terror at seeing a horse’s
head on a man’s shoulders knew no
bounds, but his legs did, and, springing
away, he ran towards his house. The
man»horse, seeing that the plowman
" fled" when no mAn-horse purBueth,
climed over the fence, walked up to
the plow, took up the lines and started
the horse. The owner had witnessed
this, having stopped. Gathering courage,
he went back, slowly and cautiously ap
proaching the most peculiar freak of
nature he had ever Been. When he had
come within a fow yards of the plow the
man-horse stopped,turned and remarked:
" You seem afraid of me. Approach."
The man felt impelled by some unac
countable power, and when he was with
in a few feet of the man-horse experi.
enced a slight sensation in his feet, and-
looking down, discovered that instead of
feet he had a pair of hoofs. He had
evidently exchanged with his horse, for
instead of hoofs on the front the horee
bad human feet, and Heemed equally as
much dissatisfied with them as the
did with the hoofs. After performing
this piece of magic the man-horse ran
away. He has subsequently appeared to
several parties, but has not performed
any more miracles. It may be necessary
to add that the maa to whom the phe
nomenon presented the bool is known in
the neighborhood as a "Guinea nigger.”
His plow-horse has not been seen since
that memorable day. The mnn still
retains his hoofs, and when last seen was
at a blacksmith shop having himself
shod. Ho knows them to be the hoofs of
his horse, for there are marks on them
that render unmistakable recognition.
This story, a neighborhood superstition,
does not come in a roundabout way, but
down the Fort timitli railway, one of the
straightest railroads in the south. It
will not, however, take its place in a
library of Sunday-school fiction. It is
stated, and with some degree of truth*
that tho old negro, suffering with ele*.
phantiasis, became crazy and started the
story.
Thirty Thousand Mile* a Second,
Tho idea of motion must help us con.
ceive the idea of space. In no other
way can we get an impression of th
awful spans of the sky, and t he mon
Btrous distances between the sta r s. A
scientific lecture suggests the following:
To give an idea of relative distances,
suppose a voyager through the celestial
spaces could travel from the sun to the
utmost planet of our system in twenty-
four hours. So enormous would be hia
celoclty that it would carry him across
the Atlantic ocean, from New York to
Liverpool, in less than a tenth of
second of a clock. Starting
from the eun with this velo
city, he would cross the inner planets in
•apid succession, and the outer ones more
slowly, until, at tho end of a single day,
he would reach the confines of our sys
tem, crossing the orbit of Neptune.
But, though he passed eight planets the
first day, he would pass none the next
for he would have to journey eighteen
or twenty years, without diminution of
>peed. before he could reach the nearest
star, and would then have to j jurney ns
far again before he could reach another.
rites of that sect. Then he formally
went over to the Roman Church, and
became an ardent Catholic, never miss
ing a mass, and confessing twice a week,
This new phase lasted longer than any
of its forerunners; bat it terminated
eventually with his public profession of
the Gieek Orthodox faith, which he
adhered to for a year or two. He then
made an excursion to European Turkey,
and was converted to the doctrines of
Islam at Varna, whence he forthwith
started as a devout Mussulman upon a
pilgrimage to Mecca. On his retnrn
from the Holy City, he remained only a
few weeks in Czsrnowitz, disappearing
thence without telling his friends whith
er he was bound. He next turned up
in Salt Lake City as a full blown Mor
mon. There he became what Mr.
Weller designated as "a wictim of con-
nubialtybut he soon came back to his
native town, where, alter passing through
the further religious stages of Sun Wor
ship and Buddhism, he died at a ripe old
age, having, as he repeatedly stated be
fore his death, been actuated, in so fre
quently changing his creed, by an earn
est desire to become acquainted with
every sort of belief influencing human
ity, and having satisfied himself that on
the whole one was as good as another.
A Queer Character.
In his amusing periodical, Over Land
and S3a, Karl Franzos publishes a brief
biographical sketch of a strange old
deformed man who died the other day at
Czernowitz. This venerable otiginal, on
whom Franzos bestows the quaint title
of "A Collector of Religions," was born
of Jewish parents, his father beiug a
wealthy spirit merchant in Galicia, who
gave him an excellent education, and
died when he wab Btill a youth, leaving
him a handsome fortune. Young Rosen
heim, who had been an assiduous wor
shiper in tho synagogue, begun, shortly
after his father’s death, to display free-
thinking proclivities, and wab ior some
time regarded by hia acquaintances ao an
atheist. Ail of a sudden the rumor
spread abroad that ho had turned Fio
testant; and, eure enough, he became a
regular attendant of the Evangelical
church iu Caaruowita. From h pleasure
trip to Switzerland, which he took a
few months later, ho returned a atom
and uncompromiaiug Calvinist; and fer
three consecutive years ho traveled twice
a year to Kiausenburg where there
was a Calvinistic congregation,
I in order to take part in the religious
An Olrt-lashioncd Hanging.
Helms (Ala.) Lotter in the Globe-Democrat.
Many years ago, in early youth, .1
witnessed the execution of an unfortu
nate woman, a slave, for the alleged
crime of murder by poison. She was a
woman of the pure African type, tall,
large and muscular, about thirty years
of age. She* had been indicted, tried
and found guilty of murder, and,
although condemned aud executed, there
were many who believed she was inno
cent of the crime charged against her.
I think it was in the year 1837. The
place of execution was in a beautiful
wood one : halfmile distant from the jail.
With boyish curiosity to see everything,
to miss nothing of the terrible scenes of
‘.he day, I hftd obtained special pet mis
sion of one of the deputy sheriffs, who
was a near neighbor of our family, to
take a position immediately in tho rear
of the guard.
At the appointed hour the unfortunate
creature was brought forth from the jail
by tbe officers. Immediately in front ot
the jail stood a two-wheeled ox-cart,
drawn by ati ogle yoke of cattle, freighted
by a dressed pine coffin, without
stain or varnish. Around the jail front
and cart stood, in double file, an armed
guard of Bixty soldiers, in full uniform’,
with muskets at rest with bayonets
fixed. At length the poor woman was
placed in this novel death-van, seated
upon the coffin, with three deputies by
her side and the high sheriff on horse
back, with holster and pistol and sash
and spur, and sword drawn and flashing
first in the rear.
The procession moves without noise
or confusion, tTent, portentous, ominous.
The military preserve order, the martial
fife pipes forth in shrillest notes the
mournful strain of Adeste Fideles, and
the mullled drum moanB out its most
melancholy sympathies. It is a procession
indeed, a funeral cortege attending an
unhappy fellow-mortal to the place of
sacrifice and death. There is no noise
or shouting, no pushing to the front; all
iB decorous silence. The ground is
reached, a beautiful woodland, where the
lawn is in full verdure, although Decem
ber frosts had stripped tho trees of their
foliage.
There is the gallows, a single beam
nay, a single stout green, round pole,
either end of it resting iu the fork of a
tree, the trees standing some eight or ten
feet apart. As the column approaches
the fatal spot, the military march to the
right and left and lorm a hollow square
about tbe gallows. The cart is driven
directly under the beam; the convict is
made to riso to her feet; the rope is ad
justed to distance and securely fastened.
The work is done with great quickness.
In a moment the arms and legs are con
fined, the noose dropped to its place, the
black cap drawn down. Now, tho su
preme moment is come, and horrible to
relat9, and more horrible to look upon;
at a signal the great sluggish oxen move
forward, and the poor creature, with a
shriek which only the death throe can
produce, clinging with her feet to tho
receding cart, is sent like a human pen
dulum pulsating the air in long Arcs and
circuits.
a roNT-Mumaii eoi.
We used to walk together in the twilight,
He whispering tender words to sweet and lew.
As down the green lsne where the dew wse (alUnr.
And through the woodlandi whore the birds were
calling,
We wandered in thoia hours ao long age.
ut now no more we walk in purple gloaming
Adown the lanea—my love and I-*h, me;
The time is peat (or such romantic routing—
He holds the baby while I’m getting tea.
We u*ed to sit—with lamp turned low—tegetber,
And talk of love and its dlrine eflsots,
When nights ware long and wintry wm tbs
weather;
Far nobler be than knight with knightly feather,
And I to him the loveliest ol my sex.
Now, oft when wintry wlnde howl round the gable,
Immersed in imoke he poure ever gold end
stocks,
The fact Ignored that ]u*t serosa the table
lhe loveliest of her sex alta darning seeks,
Oft when arrayed to suit m- hero's fsaey,
I tripped to meet him at nla welcome cell,
He looked unutterable thlnge-hla dark eyeglowiag
In load approval at my outward showing
Hi* taste in laces, dr erne*, jewels—ell I
Now il perchance we leave the honse together,
When friends invite or primsdenne slop,
e reins my robes (bought new for the occasien),
And tooti the bill-and looks nnntterable things
O by-gone days! when seventeen and single,
He called me angel aa he pressed my hand;
O present time' wherein that sell-saaxe follow
To that same angel—grown a trifle yellow—
Chlls out, "Matilda, do you understand f’
Ah, yes I 1 understand-on* thing for certain,
Love after marriage is s beauteous myth,
Which they whs once have passed behind the
curtain,
Turn up their noees at—disenchanted with!
Clipped Paragraphs.
Locomotive Longevity.
Sclent itto American.
Tho iron horse docs not last much
longer than the horse of flesh and bones.
The ordinary life of a locomotive is
thirty yean*, borne of the smaller parts
require renewal every six months; the
boiler tubes lasts five years and the ctank
axles eix years; tires, boilers and fire
boxes from eix to pevan years ; the side
frames, axles and other partB thirty.
An important advantage is that a broken
part can be repaired and does not con
demn tho whole locomotive to the junk
shop, while, when a hoiee breaks a leg,
tho whole animal w only worth the flesh,
fat and bones, which amount to a very
un.ftll sum in thin country, where horse
flesh does not find its way to the butcher’s
ah ambles.
..The taxes on matches last year
amounted to $3,250,000.
.. Peppermint is tbe royal perfume ol
the Bahdwich Island dignitaries.
.. A poor relation is like a fit of the
gout, for the oftener be comes the longer
he stays, and by and by he will oome to
stay all the time.
.. The practice ol wearing court-plaster
on the face, to add to its beauty, just
suits the style of some women, and tbe
more court-pltBter they use the betters
. .The speech which would be listened
to calmly by ten or a dozen persons, will
thrill and electrify a multitude, as the
jest will set the tables in a roar, which
heatd by one man, will scarcely provoke
a smile.
..When Madame Celeste first visited
this country, and was desirous for a
“puff," aa* wrote to an editor requesting
him to give her about ten dollars' worth
of "humbug."
. ."To be rich is to be satisfied with
what you have," said Joe HhutUe yes
terday as he tugged away at one end of
a straw, hi* countenance beaming with
satisfaction like that of a millionaire.
. .Some old folks are thought eccen
tric because they have lived long enough
to believe that one-half of the world
live and thrive on tbe tomfooleries and
follies of the other half.
. .The Atlantic City Review says that
the "Knickerbocker" dance is the
silliest sight one can see outaide of an
insane asylum, and that the couples
look as if in an evil hour they hod drunk
milk on cucumbets.
.That was & good, though rather a
severe, pun which was made by an Edin
burgh student (slid he was not one
of the brightest of the class), when he
asked, "Why is Profemor .the great
est revivalist of the age ?’’ and, on all
"giving it up,” said: " Because at the
end of every sermon there is a great
awakening."
..This is what Robert G. Ingersoll
says of tho women: "I tell you women
are more prudent than men. I tell you,
as a rule, women are more faithful than
men—ten times as faithful as men. I
never saw a man pursue hiB wife into
the very ditch and dust of degradation
and take her in his arms. I never saw a
man stand at the shore where she has
been morally wrecked waiting for the
waves to bring back even her corpse to
his arms; bat I have seen woman with
her white arms lilt man from the mire
of degradation, and hold hitn to her
bosom as though he were an angel."
The Mystery ot the Lakes*
There is a mystery about the Ameri
can lakes. Lake Erie is only 60 or 70
feet deep, but Lake Ontario is 592 fret
deep, 280 feet below the tide level of the
ocean, or aa low as most parts of the
Gulf of 8t. Lawrence; and the bottoms
of Lakes Huron, Michigan and Su«
perior, although the surface is much
higher, are all from their vast depths on
a level with the bottom of Ontario.
Now, os the discharge through the river
Detroit, after allowing for the probable
portion carried off by tho evaporation,
does not appear by any means equal to
the quantity of water which the three
upper lakes receive, it has been inject-
ured that a subterranean river may run
from Lake Superior, by the Huron, to
Lake Ontario. This conjecture is not
impossible, and accounts for the singu
lar fact that salmon and herring are
caught in all the lakes communicating
with the St. Lawrence, but no otbera.
As the falls of Niagara have always exist*,
ed, it would puzzle the naturalist to
eay how these fish got into the upper
lakos without m me subterranean river ;
moreover, any periodical obsttaction of
the river would furnish a not improba
ble solution of the mysterious flax and
rtflax of tbe IfkeK