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About The Butler herald. (Butler, Ga.) 1875-1962 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1880)
l M7MORIPTION BATES. One year $1 50 Six moniha, 75 Three moniha 40 We* epaper Law Dcrlileea 1. Any peraon who take* a paper regular ly from tho pcatottiee- whether dirictedvo hia name or auother'a, or whether lie ban aub- aenbed or not— ia icapont ible for the amount. 2. If a peraon ordera hia paper discontinued he mutt pay all arreaiagf a, or the publisher may continue to send it until payment is made, and colleot the wnole amount,whether the paper ia takeu from the office or not. 3. The court* have decided that refusing to take newspapers or periodicals from the poatoffice, or removing aud leaving them uncalled for ia primafaoie evidence of in natiotnel fraud. M. Bektillon, the French savant, says that tho number of suicides in France is nt the rate of 628 per 1,000,000 for widowers, 2711 for bachelors and 240 for married men. It will bo noted from these figures that less married men com mit suicide than either bachelors or wld- The efforts of Dorn Pedro to increase tho imperial revenues have been met by resistance in Rio, the people objecting to a head tax on street-car passengo Besides constructing a new system of internal taxation, tho Brazilian Financo Minister lias recently produced a new tariff’ wliioi is prohibitory to a groat extent, and will bear heavily on foreign commerce, especially articles from the United States. The widow of ex-President Tyler has asked Congroiw for a pension, on tho grounds of tho immense depression in tite value other real estate, the mortgago on her northern property having been foreclosed,, and' those op her southern property constantly troubling her. She saya; “I fipd I have scarcely anything whatever left to five upon. Tub Duke of Argyll,’who ifiiulc brief visit to this country last summer, thinks tho extravagance of our rich pco- plo exceeds anything known to the na bobs of the old world. Would the duko know why ? Well, the most, of our rich people arc not used to being rich, ter all, tho extravagance of the rich is not to lie deplored. It is the extrava gance of the poor people that breeds mis ery* SOUTHERN NEWS, Charlotte, N. C., has twenty-two licensed grooms and twelve churches. The coal'llslds of Alabama are estimat ed to contain 52,000,000,000 bushels The venerable oaks in the court house yard at Ainericus, Ga., are filled with mistletoe. “At one fell swoop” twenty-five appli cants have ^ecu admitted to the South Carolina bur, 5 * During the last three months over 1,000 negroes have left the depot at West Point, Mississippi, Over 500 mules arrived in Atlanta Monday night, and al? of them were sold next flay. Of the 184 mcmliersof the two houses of the Louisiana Legislattirh, only thir teen are Republicans. Tho Fisli Commissioner of Georgia . distributing a large shipment of carp in the streams of that State. The State Lunatic Asylum of South Carolina, contains 375 patients, of wlmr 252 are white and 123 colored. There arc 100 prisoners in the jail i Knox county, Tmin,, awaiting trial by tho United States'Circuit Court. The monthly income of the Police Coyrt at Little Rock, Ark., is $700, a sum sufficient to pay the police force. A great many cattle ore dying in Cherokee county, Texas. Their death is supposed to bo caused by eating acorns. The South Carolina iloartl of Agricul ture has pfrmnnently Tjmplhyed a chem ist that a uniform analysis of commercial fertilizers may be obtained. Tne annual report of the Mayor of Shreveport,, La., show# that during the past year tne revonue of the city exceed ed its expenditures $139.56. North Carolina has six newspapers edited by negroes, Louisiana three, Ten nessee and Texas two each, and Virginia, Alabama and Mississippi one each. Henry 8. Noble* of New Jersey, has purchased 2,100 acres of ^ick Mountain land in Virginia, with a view of devel oping its great coal and iron deposits. One thousand tons of granite lias i "dfontly been sent from quarries near Ci uinhio, 8. C., to Washington City, to lie used in sonic of thepibfc buildings. The Emmet Benevolent A soeiation of Galveston, Texas, has appropriated $100 11 be sent to the Irish Land League in Ireland, for distribution among the po. in that country. Terrell county, Ga., is out of debt and hnsY2,000An toe treasury besides. As a result, the price of real estate has ad vanced nearly fity per cent in llio last year. Baylor Thornton, a subordinate officer in the Virginia House of Delegates, is under arrest for abducting and commit ting an outrage upon a young lady of Richmond. The Waring plan of sewerage has been unanimously adopted by the Legislative Council of Memphis. Whether tne pipes shall be iron, brick or vitrified is yet to Ih? determined. The Savannah and Charleston Rail road is to lie sold on the first Monday in Juno next by n decree of Judge Aldrich, of the Court of Common Pleas, of Charleston county, 8. C. ^ Two young men in San 8aba county, Texas, named Harkov and Barbee, en gaged in a light with pistols, which proved fatal to both, llarkey was shot four times and Barbee once. Memphis Avalanche: Off the rotting Nicholson pavement the streets are prac tically impassable for vehicle®, unless empty, and even then there is no cer tainty of pulling through without an ac cident. The rapidity with which the. new sew ers of Memphis will be constructed will depend on tho promptness of the tax payers. The first installment of tho speclnl tax for this purpose will be duo February 1. New Orleans Times: Most of the far mers of Lincoln parish now raise all their own meat. Unfortunately, all who had killed their cattle in the earlier part of tho winter have had the meat spoil on their hands. Cenn.) Citizen: The unpro- late ruins are having the effect to injure seri ously the growing wheat. Its effects are apt to tell in th« yield, however fortu nate the changes that may come. At Huntsville, Texas, J. J. Elkins, ex Sheriff of Walker county, Texas, was shot and killed by Feter Greer, a fanner. The shooting was the result of a per sonal diflereiytt which has long existed between the parties. Selma Times: Doctor J. H. Henry is preparing an elaborate and cMiausliv THE BUTLER HERALD. W. B. BKWBia. I E4lt«rs JAMEtt 1» MUM, | " VOLUME IV. •r T THEIU3 BE LIGHT.” Subscription, $1,50 in $dvanoe BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, IS80. Alexander Jenkins and Ed. Jenkins, I Little Rock Gazette: George Harvey examining trial at Bastrop, Texas, fori a citizen of Faulkner county, says thnt the shooting of the McDonald brothers, were released on a bond o e f $2,000 each. Some of the best citizen® of tho county volunteered to go on their bonds. Tho. ice factory in New Orleans lias introduced a now way of shipping fish, particularly red - snappers. They are frozen in cakes of ice, or rather cake* of frozen around the fish, and in this condition they arc forwarded to all sections of the country. Wilmington (N. C.) Star: Sheriff Manning 'ransferred the ten dollars al lowed him by law for the hanging of Allen Mathis to Rev. J. W. Fry, of St. Stephen’s A. M. E. church, one of the iritual advisers of the doomed man, for ,e benefit of his church. At San Diego, Tex., a party of masked men took possession of the county jail and jailer and released five prisoner^ Two prisoners wero left in jnil—one a woman charged with perjury and one a lunatic committed for murder. The whole affair is enveloped in a great deal, of mystery. The New Orleans Times estimates thnt at least two-thirds of tho Available lands of Louisiana aro lying Idle/ or rather, have never lieen brought into cultiva tion. Tho legislature now in session will be strongly urged to adopt snmo lib eral provision for the encouragement of immigration. Judge G. T. Harris, of Georgetown, Texas, whilo returning home on horse back from a neighboring town, was stopped after nightfall by tnreo men and robbed of $2,400. Tho robbers wero well armed, and are supposed to be the men who have recently committed several outrages in Bosque county. Memphis Appeal: The work of sew erage will be commenced within a week. Hundreds of poor people will secure la bor thereby. Ten thousand dollars scat- tered among the laboring people iH of more financial value to our city than could possibly be derived from $1,000,- 000 locked up in our hnnks. In Dallas, Texas, a merchant abused a little boy named Etheridge for walking on stilts in front of his st re, claiming to be annoyed thereby. Mrs. Etheridga <«mc to the rescue, ami received several’ blows from a stick in tho hands of the merchant, when she drew a pistol nnd wounded him in the forehead. It lias been estimated by reports ceived at the Agricultural Departmt... of Georgia thAt eighty,per cent, of the farmers who raise their own supplies make money by farming. Seventy-five several nights ago two men came to his house ana asked for supper. His wife had gone to lied. He informed the men of this fact, but they told him that un less supper was prepared they would burn his house. Mrs. Harvey prepared supper, and, nfter the men had eaten, they demanded money. Mr. Harvey hau none. Then they searched the house, nnd, finding no money, carried away a brace of silver-mounted dcringers. They were evidently tramp. Charlotte (N. C.) Observer: Recent ly a large number of negroes, probably 2*00, have passed through" Charlotte on route to the tupentine fields of Georgia, which are now being extensively devel oped, They come from the piny wpoda regions of North Carolina, and are gen erally ah able-bodied set. The last party, composed of about 120. pamed down-thf road day-before yesterday, It ia stetea that quite a number left the State for the same destination last year. They arp prefered to the Georgia laborers on aooount of their experience and knowledge of the turpentine business. Dallas (Texas) Herald: A number of colored people who had gone from this state to Kansg^ returned last night on the south-bound passenger train over tho Central road. They numbered thirty- three, men, women and children, and had gone from Washington county. They stopped nt Parsons, and were thoroughly disgusted with the country and the promises that had been held out to them, and were glad to get back. Sandy Osborn, who appeared to be the lender, said that those of his race who could, were leaving every dny, and there was great suffering among those who re mained. per cent, of who give liens and mortages nnd nay high rates of in tore it on supplies fail to make expenses. Last week thirty-two families of col ored exodusters to Kansas, who had gone from the routhern counties of Texas, passed through Dallas returning home. Their homo passage was paid by the fanners in the counties, in which they had left, on tho condition that they would work for them nt specified rates Savannah News: A new way of avoid ing the duty of serving the country as a juror now is to establish a branch house in some other city, and when summoned, take an affidavit that you nrc not a citi zen of the county. A denier who has been doing business in Savannah for about twelve years adopted this plan. New Orleans Times: As regularly m the sun shines, every year the colored la borers in Terrebonne parish break up and move fsom one plantation to another ; in fact, there is a general changing brhanda. There is apparently no reasonable cause for this periodical moving, and the col ored people themselves gtv tion of their conduct. explana- Dr. C. M. Vniden has made a gener ous offer, cither to the legislature of Mississippi or' the various churches of the state, proposing to give $50,000 towards the erection of a collej at Vniden, provided thnt either tl churches or the lawmakers will give the other $5,000 required. It is likely tho churches will accept tho offer. Savannah (Ga.) News: H. G. Ev crett. who was yesterday admitted to plena nnd practice in the several courts in Georgia, has lieen working nt his trade—-thnt of n carpenter, nt the Cen tral railroad car-shops—up to the 1st inst. He is a married man, and thirty- two years of age, and certainly displayed indomitable perseverance in acquiring the rudiments of the law while support ing himself nnd family. The Jewish young ladies of Chutta- nooga, Tenn., organized a'.lenp-year pnrty, hired a hall, ordered a supper, and went , around in carriages to hunt up the young men to compel them to come in. Every thing was lovely until the committee went to settle the bills,- when they learned thnt the young men had already paid them. The young ladies say not thnt it was “ real mean ” in the boyi and declare thnt they will never gtv another leap-year party. Lynchburg (Vn.) News: A gentle matt brought us a bundle of tobacco which had lieen just sold for seventy dollars per hundred pounds. Intrinsi cally it did not seem to lie worth one dollar. It was without body, had but a trace of coloring matter and but the slightest fragrance, but it was as yellow ns gold ana small-fibre. It was cured thus bright and solid by sonic patent process, and, although very light, pro duced considerable money. Greenville (8. C.) Nows: A promi nent citizen of Anderson county say* will give a fine hat to any man who i find a respectable man in hissection t is opposed to the fence law nfte thorough trial. When the law first passed the opposition there was of the most intense kind, nnd now if a man should talk of re-establishing the fences, he would lie scuhied forthwith. It will bo the same in this county in less than twelve months. mored nnd generally lielieved thnt the daughter of a wealthy Rappahannock farmer absconded tho past week with an unprepossessing black man, taking with her $1,000 in money. The girl is about se.venteen, the man of unknown age. He abandoned his wife nnd children for the erring girl, who has brought the gray hairs of an old father in sorrow to the grave. The Rev. C. \j. Pinckney, D. D., of South Carolina, is delivering a lecture embracing rereonal reminiscences of the late John C. Calhoun nnd an account of the great debate between Calhoun and Webster in th° United States Senate. Dr. Pinckney is the only man living in South Carolina who was present at the debate. His father was a neighbor nnd associate of Mr. Calhoun, and hence his knowlW.qo nnd impressions of tho great Htatcsamn are of ''ojtmjol value. Drrrfbfls l^.^^mnnh, Gn„ after! J J * CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY. The Senate, January 19.—Hills were In troduced nnd referred as follow*: Ity Mr. Ferry—A joint resolution proposing to amend the constitution so ns to extend franchise to nil citizens, without reference to sex By Mr. Pratt—To request the president to com municate with foreign power* upon the sub ject of an iuter-oceanie canal with a view to a mutual understanding as to route, neutrali ty, etc By Mr. Morgan—To emut certain public lunds in Alabama in aid of the War rior and Tennessee Rivers railroad company. The morning honr having expired the senate took the special order for the day, which was a bill to prevent cruelty to uni- main in their transportation. After a some what extended debate, in which Messrs. Da vis, (Ills.) McPherson. Davis, (W. Vn.) Tliur! man and others participated, the bill went rer till to-morrow. Adjourned. House, Jan. 19.—Bills introduced nnd re ferred aa follows: Mr. Vance (North Caroli- repeal the duty of salt. ... Mr. Cobb ' - dfstribr**-- (Indiana) for the < bution of uuap] WET Nr.KIt THE NORTH Pffl.K. ij st Ih# pole? i, has clisuiplona brava i, and truth alone, [SKirdld minds unknown. To add one <lrf i to human lore, Toi.roreone tilth unknown before, Till., this li lift—ambition, nu-t, Atones lor fsilre, sneers, defeat. J' they long have said, . 4- centering in Its bed; And, more, wltn ships far northward *o, ippro- rhited moneys of the Geneva award votes of the people and the electoral college .By Mr. Tncker(Vir- ginia), for the erection of a monument to sale of tobacco by the producers thereof. By Mr. Wells (Missouri), Incorporating the inter-oceanic transit company. It makes J. B. Ends and his associate* a body corporate ; authorizes them to'acquire the right of way by negotiation or treaty; pledges the co-oper ation of the United States ; provides for the detail of two ships of war to assist in making surveys, and appropriates $200,000 for the expenses of such surveys After the i«u>- sage of the 1)111 appropriating $140,000 for the construction of a bridge across the Poto mac river at Georgetown, the house adjourn ed* Senate, January 20.—Mr. Jones (Florida) submitted a resolution calling on tho see c- tary of the navy to inform the senate Whether the interest of the country required the resto ration of the Pensacola navy yard to a state of efficiency, nnd the probable cost of such restoration*. Adopted The morning hour having expired, tho senate resumed the con sideration of special order, viz: A bill rela tive to the transportation of animals. After extended debate in which Messrs. Thurman, Eastern, McPherson and Davis (West Vir- f iniu) took part, the bill/was recommitted 3 the committee on commerce. Adjourned. House.—Among the hills referred was one " — , for tllcment of th® titles in the town of Hot Springs, Arkansas By Mr. Loring (Mas sachusetts). to amend the constitution io as to extend the franchise to nil citizens with out distinction By Mr. Warner (Ohio), to provide for paying the bonds of the United States mnturing in 188ft-*81 By Mr. Ellis (Louisiana), appropriating $500,000 for the relief of the destitute people of Ireland The house then took aid the bill requiring national batiks to keep half their reserve in coin, aud Mr. Crittenden, of New York, made along argument in its favor nnd against legal tender treasury notes The morning hour having expired, the hill went over with out action. The house, in u committee of the whole, then resumed consideration of the revision of the rules. Speeches in epposition to the vnriotts proposed rules were made by Acklen, of Imuisiana, House, of Tennessee, ■nd Williams, of Wisconsin, nnd it 4:40 the house adjourned. SENATE, January 21.—The senate took up the Bayard resolution for the withdrawal of the legal tender quulity of United States notes Mr. Beck opposed the resolution. At 3 p.m. Mr. Coke obtained the floor, but yielded to a motion to go intq executive session, and when the doors were reopened the senute adjourned. House.—The house resumed the consider ation of the bill relative to the national bank reserves, and wus addressed by Mr. Louns- bery, of New York, in favor of thi withdraw al of the legal tender quality of United States notes. Mr. Townshend, of Illinois, followed in opposition to national hanks, and to Mr. Crittenden’s speech of yesterday*....Mr.Crit tenden questioned the accuracy! of some of Mr. Townshend’s quotations ami deduction* from liis speech and an excited fcrsonal di lute followed, which was finally quieted by the speaker. Mr. Townshend icontinuing, said lie was opposed to the bill because it proposed to strengthen national hanks and make them permnueut institution*. He was in favor of retiring national bank circulation altogether Mr. Buckner closed the debate witli a speech Betting forth the objects of the pending hill. He said he, too, fas opposed Pending the vote on ordering question, the morning hour exp hill went over The house then went into a committee of the whole on tho revision of the rules, all general debate on which is to close to-morrow. After an extended discus sion the committee rose aud the house ad journed. It Ii within the memory of “ tho oldest inhabitant,” if he ohooaea to ex ercise it, that a warehouse in New York was so loaded down with pennies that the loom gave way. Now they have become ao scarce that the Phila delphia mint coined three million! of them in November, all of which were sooken for. Thews ia a German in Olnctantia named Hellenkamp, and whenever he gets full he ralsea hia own name.-^5Wu- oenvilte Herald. A hotel keeper in Leavenworth is named Przbylowica. Tackle that,J\fr. Herald.— Jmela (Kan.) (Mpjpk. Av£doathavet& m '* —_ _ il ope* MM, Fran to* fon Ationa ever free. Yet mm ktr I mi l ihta brumal n». Which‘■epeci£Lrb**in!_ . ' TTthWUluato*. (ftlM, intruet Mint tariject the olden »tew? Shall toul M Idola, ooe by one. atlll hn, ia] •(#, *1**, haaaaeef A u> rili, thnt "open polar eca?" A iM/fliT lli#o prove II to to be. If not, then mows perpetual fall, Ae ttoae on *tone build up the wail, Till Mean*, roan, ns vapor rise, And northward drift to polar skies; There *'.nk ns snow, to rtso no uioro, TIB earth itself I* toppled o’er. tVkea north pole bows to kiM (be sun. An era's passed, a cycle’s ran. " Wbatseck they at tho polo? What's them, Save cold, starvation, death, despair?” “ We all grumbled, for we were Almighty hungrv: but we all had a kind of trust in Zepb. and gave wav. “ ‘ Looklee hear, lads,’ lie sez, * it* jest twelve o’clock now, so let’s go round and git a mouthful where we can.’ “Let’s go up to Billy Bolly’s store and ask him to give us a square meal, and stick it un,’ Isez, ‘ he’ll trust us.’ “Think he wouldY‘ sez Zeph. “‘Sartin,’ I sez, ‘if you show him that gold, and tell him there’s somethin’ good on.’ “And so it was; Bill, on seeing that gold, and hearing as we’d had some thing good on, gave us a right square meal, and taste round of Bourbon, endin’ with the cheerful remark; ‘I shall take it out o’ some o' you if this here ain't squared up.’ “ That didn't make a nice dessert, for spending ZEPH PARKER’S STRATAGEM. “Sleepy, baby-faced set o’ people 1 Air they! llabv-faced enough, you bet; but I tell you, sirree, that 1 believe they’re ’hot ut born with all their eye teeth cut in their celestial jaws; and yew’ve got to get up airly, sir, if you want to take in a Chinee 1” Tho speaker was a hard-faced, hollow- jawed gentleman, in a glossy black suit, which fitted him very badly, and tho remark was made in the smoking-room of the “Continental.” There he was to be seen daily, and he was supposed to have “ given the speckylaters fils in He;” in other words, he was believed to have made a fortune in petroleum. At all events, he had plenty of money, and was very generous in the s of it. Tho conversation had turned on the vexed Chinese question, and he struck into the discussion. “I reck’lect,” he said, “there was Zeph Parker. He was ’long o’ me and • few more up to Nevada, jus’ ’beout the time of the silver craze. The boys had been washing for gold; honest-like, neow gittin’ it out o’ pockets, neow outer the stream; and when done they’d with a bit o’ wash out, aud gone qff to another claim, Mister Washee Washee Chinee would come and go over the dirt after them and be satisfied with what he got. Then comes the silver craze. All o’ ur goes off and loses all we’d made in gold, gitpfio silver, And comes back disappointed to try after the gold again. “ Guess we might try aud trv again, but no gold could we get; and all ’beout uz was them smooth-faced, pig-taile 1 Chinamen, gettin’ on prosperous and contended. 11 ‘ I tell yew,’ said Zeph, 1 1 shall go and murder one o’ them smilin’ teapots, I can’t stand it much longer 1’ “ This here was in our bit of a tent, when we whs tryincr to make ourselves happy, playin’ poker on credit and keepin’ no account. “ ‘ What for?’ I sez. “‘What for?’ cries Zeph. ‘Dew yew think that I, an enlightened sitter- zen of a free country am gwino to set down and be robbed o’ my mess o’ golden pottage by a pack o’ smilin’, washer- women-faced, opium-smokin’ celestial Jacobs? No, sirree, this dog’s gwine to bite I’ But I don’t kinder see what this rwino to bite fur,’ 11 lone nothin’ to you.’ “ ‘ Mateys ’ sez Zeph,’ gettin’ on barrel as hac been his seat, ‘ things come to a party pass with us, haven’t they?’ ‘‘‘Right, old hoss, sez some one, hammerin' the chest lid as had been our table. bacco?’ nez'/en) ‘“No!’ “ ‘ Haz any man here got any old bourbon whisky ?’ *‘No!’ ‘ Haz any man got any dustf pork, or boots, oi ‘“Any flour, new blankets?’ “ ‘No, no. no, nel’ “ ‘ Then tnem Chinese haz,’ continued Zeph; ‘ and what I sez is this—as it is a sin and a shame to let a pack of heath enish curses like them teapots, as never goes to churehes nor listens to par sons ’ “ * I say, Zeph,’ sez some one, ‘ when did you go to meetin’ last?’ “‘Never you mind,’ sez Zeph, ‘and don’t you interrupt a man as wants to f ve you suthin’ to eat. A set of cusses. sez, as never goes to meetin’, and h’lieves in nothin’ but joss-houses. I say, it’s a sin to let ’em be gittin’ fat on oat tana, wmie we're as tntn ana starved lookin’ as—as—as ’ “‘As ole Zeph Parker himself,’sez Tom Paggins. “ ‘ Well, ez thin ez I am, if you like/ sez Zeph. “ ‘ This is all very purty,’ I sez, ‘ but we can’t go and take a claim from the teapots, Zeph; nor wo can’t rush ’em and annex the dust and nuggets they’ve washed out.’ “‘No/ said Zeph, ‘ winkin’ one eye, 4 but we kin strategise ’em.’ “‘How?’ Isez. * Don’t kinder see it. They’re too deep to be done.’ “ * Yah 1’ sez Zeph. ‘ they’re 'bout ez deep ez a two-cent plate. Give me the means and I’ll sell the lot and put a gooa poexettut o' flouars or dust tu every man’s pocket—six o’ us!’ “ ‘But what means d’yer want?’ I sez. “ ‘One handful o’ dust/ sez Zeph. “ ‘ And where are we to get it?’ sez Tom Paggins. “‘This how/ sez Zeph. “Morrow montin’ every man hyar’s to go round the camp and cadge. Tell the boys we’re hard up, hut we got a good thing on. They’ll subscribe a Tittle all reoued. Yew see if they don’t’ “ ‘ Well, we’ll try/ sez we; and we went to sleep hungry and got up rav enous. “ There was nothin’ for it hut to go to work, and off we went, gittin* baclc to onr tent about eleven o’clock, when five out of the six had got a little good dust. I was the unlucky one, bein’ a had beg gar, and had got none. “‘Now, thenl’ sez!Tom Paggins, as soon as the dust was all put together— about a big spoonful of all glitterin' •tuff; ‘ let's go up to the storo and got drink.” •*" “‘That yew i<*s* wen’t/ sez Zeph rinnin’. ‘I’m kindegkwino to.throi ir I , Uitau-B ftoiitW jun WiniW^ifidVwra shoot TmTTthey’d come agen; but would think nothin' o' pluggin’ a man ; •o we kinder seethed outer that store, feelin' uncomfortable. “ ‘ It's all right,’ aea Zeph, laughing. ‘ Come on boys and get yewr tools.’ “ We took our tools then and went off up the gulch to where a strong party of Chinese was at work, and they watched us curiously as we began prospectin’ about, w&shin’ a bit o’ dirt here and a bit there, and always goin’ off discon tented and sour-like, till we came to one place close up to the rocks, where it ran sheer up 400 or 500 feet, and, after working with our picks a bit, we began to wash the soil in a pan, gatherin, round it afterward, and knowin’ all the time that one or the other of the teapots had an eye on ub. “Then washed a bit more earth— gravely, auartzy stuff it waa—and col- ected again, and then we grew excited and began to dig faster, and to wash more and to examine what we had done each time after pickin’ over thb pan. throwin’ out the rubbish; and when this fell yejv could see a few specks o’ gold dust in the sun. while what we got went into a leather bag what Tom Pag gins held. ‘ We marks out this claim as our’n!’ Zeph out loud; and takin’ a shovel he chops out a bit of rough trench, just to show the extent we meant to her: and, as he did so, first one pigtail and then another conies up to watch us, and I saw them to look at the specks o’ gold in among the refuses we had thrown over the side beyond our claim. “ ‘Nogoodee, washee washee, Melican man!' sez one round-faced smilin’ cuss. ‘ No golee, no goleel’ “ 1 Oh, no; none at all, Mr. Teapot/ sez Zeph. ‘Just yew keep a bit farther off, or ’ “ He touched his six-shooter, and the Chinaman scurried back a little ways, while one of us fetched some water, and we began to wash another shovelful of earth. '“It pans out fine!’ sez Tom Psg- gins out loud, as we all gathered round once more, and the top refuse, with specks o’ gold in, waa thrown away again. “ We kept on at that for two hours, and with Zenh to manage, we washed out that little lot o’ gold we had bor rowed about four times; but it was a good deal less at the last than when we started, for some on it was sprinkled in each o’ the holes we made, and half a teaspoon I ul o’ dust was lyin to waste in the refuse. “All this time the Chinese were corn in’ up from their bit of a camp, about a hundred yards away. Zeph was awfully jealous, an’ kep' drivin’ ’em away—not as we were skeered of ’em, for they’re a quiet, sheepish lot, but to keep up the play. Then half on us went down below and got our tents and odds and ends, and set ’em up as we meant to stay, while the others went on washin’ ana pickin’ steadily, getting four Chinese to fetch water and do a few rough jobs in movin’ quartz blocks outer the way. “ Somehow or other there were a few specks o’ gold under each o' these blocks that the Chinese carried oft; and when that was done Zeph gave the smilin’ chaps a hit o’ gold each, and sent one of ’em with some dust to buy tobacco. “ ‘ It’s a workin’/ sez Zeph to me. ‘“Think so?’ Isez. “ ‘ Wait a hit, old hoss, and you’ll see.’ “That night, after we’d been a bit nnsfty and threat’nin’ to the teapots, who kep’ leavin’ their work, we could hear a good deal o’ chatterin' goin’ on, and bime-by a kinder deppytation o’ six of ’em comes up. headed by a smilin’ cues who looked like a big, fat boy. “ Now, thou/ sez Zeph, ‘ tell you what, ef yew don’t make yerselves scarce titer’ll be holeB threw some on yew!’ “‘Poor Chinaman!’ sez the big, fat fellow, and he puts his head on one side and smiles his head half off. Then the other five sez. in a sort o’ whinin’ sing song chorus, ‘Poor Chinaman!’ and all half smiled their heads off. “ ‘ Don’t want any to day,’ sez Zeph. ‘ Hook it!' “ We all sat smokin' and lookin’ on- and every man with his hand on re volver and bowie, as ef we was supic, ious. “ * Poor Chinaman 1’ whines the big ’un again. “‘Don’t want any, I tell you again I’ roars Zeph, savagely, and the deppv- tation roly holds their head on one side ‘Will we sell you this claim for two hundred dollars?’ says Zeph. “They all nodded till you’d ha’ thought their heads’d come off. “‘Cut!’ sez Zeph, catching hold of fat ’un by his tail and kickin’ him. “ Yew mayn’t believe gents, but them same chaps came back twice be fore it was dark and made fresh offers. Advancin’ a hundred dollars each time and we swore at ’em and said we would not sell, and if they warn’t up to time in the mornin’ to see about the water, they shouldn’t be allowed to wash the dirt. Fust thing next mornin’ them six fellera were up again, just as-wo had got a good panful o’ stuff in course o' workin’, and I saw their eye* twinkle as they caught sight of the gold. “ Then they offend WbOj and' we t “‘Aieyou gwine to cut?’ sez Zeph, seizir’ number one by the tail, when he goes down on his knees, and the others the same, rubbin’ their chests and wag^ glin’ their heads from side to side. '“Why don’t you speak out?” sez Zeph. “'Mellicanman let poor Chinaman washee, washee?’ says the fat fellow, p’intin* to the heap o’ rubbish. “ ‘ You want to wash that dirt over again?' sez Zeph. “ The whole party began to nod their beads fast. “‘Oh, no!’ sez Ze you bere—eh, lads? 1 **“ No, nol’ we all growled. “fSend ’em off!’ sez Tom Paggins. “jllut they wouldn’t go, only smiled, ud at last Zeph seemed to he struck pita a» notion; and the long and short of It liras that, if we’d allow’em to wash our refuse over agen, the Chinese’d a/ake a bit of a stream to lead water up k> our claim. I “ * Well, that’s no good, Zeph/ I sez, is foon as they were gone. . <i«\\r a ;t a hit, lad and yew’ll seo,’ sez Zeph, with a wink; and we sat there, in the pleasant evening, smoking, while there was evidently a mighty commo tion in the Chinese camp, and before long the deppytation came back. “ ‘ Toor Chinaman^ sez the fat chap ««»■•>• j Oh, ^ tbat Cf'.'li.. ivi, »uu uuereu fiw, auu m went on, seven, eight, nine -•woo. “ ‘Take it’, we said, as they came this last time. “ ‘They’ll give$2,000,1 tell yew. I’m sure they will/ says Zeph. “ ‘ But $1,000 is enough to chisel the beggars out of/ sez I. “ ‘ Yes/ sez Tom Paggins; ‘ and it’ll take this time to-morrow sure to get up to the $2,000. “ ‘ If 1 warn’t so ’tarnal hungrv, I’d hold out/ sez Zeph, hesitatin’; and then turnin’ to the six Chinese as waitin’ fur our answer: 'Look hyar, you cheatin’ cussei/he sez, ‘takin’ up a shovelful of earth, in which the dust were a-sparklin’ in the sun, ‘ this claim’s worth $20,000!” “‘No; ouly worth $1,000/ said fatty shakin’ his head. “ ‘Shall we let ’em have it, boys?’ sez Zeph, turnin’ to us. “ ‘ Yes, let ’em have it/ I sez; * we can find plenty more.’ “•Comeon, then/ sez Zeph; and he and two more went back with the dep pytation to the tent of their head man, nnd a thousand dollars worth o’ dust and nuggets was weighed out into a bag; Zepn jiut his mark to a kind of dockv- ment in Chinese, and half an’ hour afterward we went back to camp, leavin' the smilin’ Chinamen to their purchase. “ ‘ It’s a darned shame to cheat the poor, innercent babies like that/ I sez. “'Not it!’ sez Zeph; ‘it’s ouly like * * poker with * ) and liquor.’ “ \Ve didn’t expeck any row, for them Chinesese had to keep very quiet for fear o' bein’ sent off; and Zeph sed they’d put up with their loss, clear out and vo to some other gulch. “ But they didn’t; for the next day Tom, who went up to see what they was a’doin’, said they moved their camp up round the hole, and were workin’ away like a swarm o’ bees. “ That night, as we were sittin’ smok in’ at Bill’s store, some chaps strolls in, and one of ’em says, in a bit of a temper: '“Call this here a free country?* “ * Yes, strauger, I dew/ sez Zeph, rattlin’ some nuggets in his pocket; ‘ who sez it ain’t? r “ ‘ 1 dew/ sez the new comer. ‘ Here are we workin’ like slaves for a few dol lars’ worth o’ duat, and a pack o’ heathen cusses comes and settles down and grabs all the best ou it.’ “ ‘ Dew they?’ sez Zeph, winkin’ nt up. “ ‘ Yes, he sez, * they dew. There’s that pack of Chinese moved up higher in the gulch, and they've hit on a big pocket. They got a two-pound nugget out on it this very afternoon.’ “ ‘What!’ roared Zeph, with his eyes starin’ out of hia head like a lobster’s. ‘A two-pound nugget, and the stuff's panning out awful. I ssy it’s a shame and the government ought to atop it.’ “ ‘Soldi’ groaned Zeph. “Next day it was the talk o’ the place. The Chinese were pannin’ out gold at a tremendous rate from the claim, and some were for driving the heathens away, but the was too strong, and they the rowdies was to get the upper hand here, they’d be just as likely to seize anybody else’s claim; po it was decided to temporize with the heathen and try to buy the claim. “They were two hundred strong up there; and when we went up to see the place—which we did in a kind o’ des perate feeling—the fat chap smiled and clapped his hands and gave Zeph a little round nugget as big as a pea. “A meetin’ waa held and we con cluded to make a company and buy the claim. Twenty thousand was tho most as was to be offered. •“Twenty thousand dollars!’ groaned Zeph.* ‘On, boys, what fools we was! But I did not want to hold out for $2,000.' ‘“It’s no use to growl/ sez Tom. How much ha’ we got now? 1 “ ‘ Bout $900, I guess,’ sez Zeph. “‘Wal, then/ sez Tom, ‘let’s go in for shares as far as our money goep.’ “‘The money was nearly all sub scribed; but we got on for $800, And could ha’ sold our shares the next hour for $1,000. “ Ne’xt mornin’ the party settled to do the business, went up to the Chinese camp, but they wouldn’t take the money. They said they’d begun work, nnd meant to have the proceed* of tho d»7! but the boys looked dangerous, so the heathen* finally said they’d settle up that night, take the money, and give possession. “This made the gulch worse than ever, and shares changed hands nt a fine rate, men sellin’ theirs and then gettin’ so excited that they bought back tgain. “ ‘ I snail never forgive myself, hoys/ sez Zeph, the next mornin/ as we sat over some fried bacon and biscuit. ‘I throweil away a fortune!’ “Hallo! What’s the row?” sez I, jumping up. “ There waa suthin’ afloat outside, for there was a heap of excitement, but no one kinder seemed to know what it s. ‘ Arter a while we got to know that there wasn’t a single Chinee in tho gulch; thev’d gone off, no one knowed where, in the night. “‘They’re darned artful/ sez Zeph; and he was right, for we soon knowd just what had happened. We Bix had cheated the Chinese by til; they’d cheated ns bv wholesale, for there wasn’t, and never had been, a grain o’ gold in that claim that wasn’t put there first. It was only a small show that we had made; but the heathen* had clubbeA together their dust and nuggets to ifake a big show. That day they had packed it gen, and when they f d got the sey sneaked out from ness tha. “ »m; but even so mi When Profettv^j Procter alleged that the superstitions the ilHuck of Fri day about undertakuwga tales back ioui or five thousand yeaiSk in his lecture on the religion of astromn%« shyrt vime ago, without expreping any j^naitive ODinion of our own Upon the subject / cited in opposition to his th- ‘ f Robei Southey, who asserted t lat i tian superstition and t'it crucifixion. Then, n. fact that Columbus sail d discover the New Wo»ld denee that it ootil^ i u widely diffused among a • time or probably known at'th court, weaeked whether 1’refeast -tor'ean cite an example ; r. u times be fore Columbus of any etnim* t man who was dominated by it like 1 >rd Byron and Prinee Bismarck in our own century. Moritz Busch, in his memoirs aple8 Byron’s are abundantly recorded, by contemporaries. Soutney says that •• u anything of the slightest importance in which Lord Byron was concerned was commenced on Friday ho was seri ously disconcerted.” Now a scholar In Tennessee, misconstruing the limit of our inquiry of Professor Proctor, sends us a passage from Chaucer in proof that Friday weather waa mentioned in lit erature before the time of Columbus as partaking of the inconstancy ascribed to its tutelar goddess in classic ages. In tho French Vendredi this dedication of the day to Venus is still pre-erved. Our Friday is derived from; Frija, a somewhat similar deity in Scandinavian mythology. If our correspondent will take the pains he can detect literary allusion* of this kind much further back than Chaucer in m$ny oihet lan guage* than English. But that is not the precise point at which we are a ; m- ing. Our desire is to identify the time when the Friday superstition flxn began to dominate the lives of clear headed and usually sceptical men of classes of j which Byron and Bismarck are ex- i am pies. If either Professor Proctor or . the Tennessee scholar will communicate ! facta on thatpDin t they will enlighten ! a very curioUB and obscure branch of ! |u archreology. Our suspicion is that Ids • superstition is more potent in its indu-! ence upon the practical conduct t f the snothi most intelligent classes of mankind at J winch the present day than in any formei era ! nothing of. notwithstanding all the lights of modern ' whisper, science. The New Orleans P among the most curb seen in the city is an ulster witl arettc, standing in front of thei matinee days. A Monkey Story. Bather a good monkey story for little folks this: There lives in the South of France a man of wealth whose chateau .. - .- r — —cook of the cha teau has a monkey—a i>ert fellow, who knows ever so many tricks. The mon key often helps the cook to pluck the feathers from fowls. On the day that interests us the cook gave the monkey two partridges to pluck, and the mon key, seating himself in an open window went to work. He had picked the feathers from one of the partridges and placed it ou the outer ledge of the window with a satisfied grunt, when, lol all at once a hawk flew down from one of the tall trees near by and bore off the plucked bird. Master Monkey was very angry. He shook his fist at the hawk, which took a seat on one of the limbs not far off aud hei great relish. The owner b&w the sport, fer he was sitting in a grape arbor, and crept up to watch the end of it. The monkoy nicked the other partridge, laid it on tne ledge in the same place, and hid behind the window screen on the inside. The hawk was caught in this trap, for when it flew down after thft ^partridge, out reached the monkey ana caught the thief. In a a moment the hawk*s neck was wrung, and the monkey soon had the hawk plucked. Taking tho two birds to the cook, the monkey handed them to him ns if to say, “ Here are your two partridges, master.” The cook thought that one of the birds looked queer, but he rerved them on the table. The owner of the house shook his head when he saw the dish, and tolling the cook of the trick, laughed heartily. Cigarette Smoking in Paris II’mI. Cor. Newark Adrenieer.1 Numerous persons go along the bou- levartls in the vicinity of the oa/et and restaurants at night, and pick up the fragments of cigars whicn are there thrown awny, and sell them to the Gov- erment officials, who manufacture from them all these choice (and expet »ive) cigarettes which we smoke. For fifteen cents one can buy a pretty fair cigar at the high toned restaurants—abou.. such a cigar ks sells for eight to ten cents at retail in Newark. Boxes of cigars which have been imported are always marked, “Imported by M. , for * * a woman's newspaper ha? started in Paris. It is cal let? U and is designed to promote the intercsi of working women, particularly in^ the direction of moral and physical’ culture. * .. . . The reason why we object to woman suffrage is because they would vote in discriminately. They would join neither party; all they would want is plenty ot candidates. Women are naturally fuspicious^'You may have got a lonj^huif on youn shoulder from holding a, six-year-old girl, but your motlier-in-fiiW will back your wife in doubting tho statement everv time. The two most important events in the life of man are when he examines his upper lip and sees the hair coming, and when he examines the top of his head and sees the hair going. Mountains never shake hands. Their roots may touch, they may kern together some way up, but at length they part company, and rise into indi vidual, isolated peaks. So it is with great men. The katydid does all her singing with, her legs. Now if the young man who sits behind you at the concert and hums the tenor softly, were comfelled to do all his ringing by rubbing the soles of his feet together, how happy y< u would be. And he? Ob, be would sing about as well as he does now, and tho musical world wouldn’t miss him at all. Max Strakoscii says tjiwt ms pro* miere artiste is “tho greaffip-d living dramatic prima donna/' and that she jos had “ tho entire sway of the dra matic repertoire in Europe for th* Lat five years,” whatever-'that msy.tnenn, and that “she in now in the /-mitli,p£ her power, and unitea with 'he nn-sl- magnilicent voice the talent of a superb actress.” A French lady, who had been a widow three times, was in the habit of referring to her trinite de defunct* in a perfectly nonchalant and numerical way. Some ouo complained of this to his friend, nnd remarKed that a woman who could do such a tiling was certainly an enigma. “ Not exactly an enigma, ' was the reply, “ but rather a charade, for she constantly refers to my first, my second and my third.” personal use/’(?) and when you order , Jubt as everybody was settling down a fine cigar in a restaurant you will al- j to en J°y themselvo'iai a party the other ways find such an inscription unon the • ® ve,, ing, Master Jimmie a^eared in tliej room with, “ Ain’t you ways find such an inscription upon the ' cover, next to the revonue stamp. Al most every one in Paris smokes, and it » see a lady in i cigarette be- jaunty ftuhion, and taking a doilcate ‘I 011 tra P; aml l .'° ha ‘! 10 , 8av,! hla pull in the intervals between her sips of 1 n l 0 ”V n ®'’e^-n!! „7!^ Chartreuse or cafe uoir. The cocoltee es pecially, incline to smoking almost with out exception. Still there are many very respectable women who do the same. The revenue to tbe Government from this scource is enormous. A con siderable number of Russian and Ger man cigarettes are also sold in Paris, though, because of the duty on them, the prico is higjier than that of the French make. ‘‘Ala Ferine” cigarettes are liked here, but are not the great fa vorites that they are among American smokers. I often hear Americans ask: “ Where can f buy a good cigar?” The genera! answer is: “ 1 don’t xnow; not in Paris.” A Sad Scene. A man falls from a scaffold. The re porter hastens to the spot and pushes nis way to the man’s side. “My life voyage is nearly ended/ broad and generous hand of hie mother suddenly stopped his conversa- ’with broken bits of jelly cake leftover. The man who can devour a dozen and a half raw oysters at one sityinj is the man for eighteen ate he. ho, without there! Seize him s him from the loftiest^ ,he donjon deep into^ silently eddvinj^
