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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
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VOLUME IV.
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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!
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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^