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XV77 ( f r
BUTLER HERALD.
W. n! &tlNS, JAMES D. RUSS. Editort.
“ LET THi.BE BE EIGHT.”
Subscription, $1.50 in Advtnce.
Arrasic MAHKiatm.
OonfratnUte me Harry, for at aat my way l’va c*r-
And Oeleettne and I this morn w*f* edmfoHahiy
married.
Itt itlllin ■nok'a! Out ter, to I thought I’d com*,to
■ha I- MmtWO, ahf Ten’rew
you’d called before;
VOLUME IV.
BUTLER, GEORGIA. TUESDAY. AUGUST 31, 1880.
NUMBER 48.
•tow Mat 1 wteb-
BM wJpa JUi* hoiMahae gone to /ibutth* *te>.
the proTeJ^aay*, oidjoy, “Vl
i now uef temper 1 Oo et once, and get your life
ON THE RAILWAY BRIDGE.
“ A letter for you, sir 1" I broke the
eeal wflhtt|fl dbtbjnslimeM:, r •
Ma." BtJWtnf) vroRTHntoTW—ftrf ' Tdrddn
theae intrusive line*, and tent aaaurod that thev
are from ape who wity evwr ‘be proud to call
himaelf tout tincerO friend. Lucy Amea i* not
faithful'to -you 1 Ido not write thia to you
for toy base purpoee ; fOr,'*inoe I know ko? Will
r#ur get won* and noble.flature.l cannot hesi
tate when I hco that nature become the inno
cent dupe of vile dissimulation. Nor have l
boon too kt*ty in communicating to you thu
knowledge ; I only fear it i* too late ; hut rest
assured that all I have said is true, and can be
attested by one who baa an pndoubted personal
knowledge of all tho facta. Arthur Wesley, the
singing-master, is yeur too-fortunate rival.
• This vr&d n$>t the* first intimation I hod
hod of Lucy’s inconstancy. I bad soon
things .with my own eyes that mode me
doubt her sincerity. For a long time
nwelcomo suspiqiQB had beenjjrey-
fljfcgW l^Sftad
eAs csnvioffcn. •.
. 4 deuH the truth of it j and
klVwrithed.tnwdbdi with torture
to think ef it, to admit its truth. It did
not, it could not crush me; I braved it
to the last; I should haVe been less than
man to do otherwise. . I reperusejl the
lefte^' calmly—no, not calmly—not in-
dMfetontly, but sternly, as though 1t
were decreed of fata that I should, not
only drain the bitter cup, but should
swallow the very dregs. '
And yet I lovod the wayward girl,
and gladly, oh, how gladly, would I
have forgiven her imprudence ! To her,
I went to seek an interview. Lnoy was
proud—too proud, to be just to herself;
yet ahe was generous and noble, in spit©
of all her fickleness.
Obstinately convinced that she had
preferred another to me, I did not ask
or expect any explanations from her ; I
showed her, withdtitanyjhesitatlttot^la»
letter I had just teqfjSjo,! 4»<l reguMteft
her to return me such letters as I liod
previously to hgr, iuj3 afijr
little keep&k^ which plight in future,
prove annofintf to hhr.yShe bestowed
on me i look which I snail never forgdt7
"Doyon believe this, Edward !” she
asked.
" I do,” I replied, without hesitation.
* " What unimpeachable evidence ?” sho
retorted, with tha first impulse of pride.
"J do not reli on the Information epu-
tainMiV thiulfitwu-." I iM, “I huyo
aeon enough myself without asking any
person's advice or opinion,”
She immediately left the room, and
returned in a few moments with a pack
age of letters llfid a sm«H box of jewels,
my former presents, saving gayly, as she
placed them in my hands :
“ By these tokens, then, sinoe it is
your will, I absolve you.” ,
In spite of the smue that played upon
her mouth, I thouglitl could detect traces
of recent tears, hastily brushed away
from her cheeks.
In a moment the thought flashed upon
my mind th*t she might, after all, be
true. Impulsively I was about to speak
to her, to ask her if it was not so ; but
what should I say ? I had gone too far,
and it was too late to retreat. But, as
the thought had oome upon me like a
flash, it vanished as it had come, leaving
no alternative but to pursue the oohrse
I had adopted.
"Farewell then T’lsaid, with appar
ent indifference. " May your future life
be ever lighted with the sunshine of
happiness l”
"Thank you,” she replied. "I toast
no act of my own will ever bring misery
upbn me.”
" Conscience, Miss Ames—con-
Krienoa! ” 1 said.
' 1 Will never reproach me,” she replies*.
"Heaven grant ifcl” said I. "The
Itep you have taken may, in your opin
ion, oe just, but let me assure you oth
ers do not think so. We do not always
see ourselves os others see us,”
" 1 have done nothing. Mr, Worthing
ton, to merit this,” said Luoy; " you
are not only deceived, but impertinent,
air; and you cautiously avoid any ques
tions that might lead to an explana
tion—”
VI ask no explanation,” I hurriedly
replied, and immediately took my de
parture in no very amiable mood, not
did I wish to humble myself sufficiently
to ask her any questions that might, as
•he had suggested, lead to a satisfactory
explanation.
What a victory pride had won 1 How
perfect and complete had been its ulti
mate suooess on both sides I
I hurried from the door a I turned
my steps homeward again. Instinctively
I took the usual course in returning
home (for Luoy lived nearly a mile out of
town), and walked along, no busy with
my tnought* as to be utterly unconscious
of anything and everything else.
There was a high railway .bridge that
lay between mo and the town, just wide
enough for the lines, the middle of
whioh was planked over for the con
venience of pedestrians, as there was no
other bridge over the river for some
miles. Outside the lutes it was impossi
ble to walk.
One of the planks, whioh was very
thick and heavy, had been partly raised
for some purpose, and left in that posi
tion. In endeavoring to pass it, I
struck my foot against it, stumbled, and,
in recovering myself, forced one leg
through the aperture, and, striking my
otherfoot with all the foroe required to
regain my equilibrium, replaced the
plank in such a manner as not only left
my foot protruding through the narrow
crack, but, threw me on the line, and
promiaep to present a difficulty in re
moving the plank.
I smiled to think how curiously I hda
been in trapped, and stooped down to
remove the plank and free myself from
so dangerous a position. The task was
not ao easily performed as I had imag
ined. The plank was wedged in, in
such a manner that no effort of mine
eould rsmcrru il I strove with mj ut
most power, but it was In vain; nor
oould I extricate my foot, whioh was
laoerated and smarting with pain in its
close confinement.
At first I , did not consider the extent
of my peril,, but I soon began to per
oeive the danger of my aitimtion; and I
shuddered with honor to think that I
should be obliged to remain there and
be crushed to daelh by th«.jmxt train !
It WM a oold dbrtn December, and yet
the beaded diop* burst faomUvery j*ore.
A moment of frenzied delirium succeed
ed, a&d when I rallied again I found my
self lying on the rail, my foot stiL a
prisoner, and no prospeot of delivery
led at my w%Wh; it weft half-past
express would go pp. a^half-past
5 ; and at half-past 4 it would be dark.
It wf* possible, nay probable, that
some one would pass by before it should
be too late. This way was nearer to
the towh then by the bridge I hare men
tioned, though always regarded as more
dangerous on account of its narrowness,
from whioh there would be no possibili
ty of escape in case a train should come
in sight while passing over it. Already
one person had been Killed by endeavor
ing to cross at a time when the train was
due ; and should I be the second to per
ish there ? How the thought tortured
me, and onoe again I tugged at the re
sisting plank. With all my strength I
tried to withdraw my foot and leave the
it; but impossible!
“ was 4rln|jbok-§tj^ half afif hour it
rhour, afid death
7%ted for<$fl$ but
half a mile, Aid
Again and again I shrieked, wnile the
despairing echoes reverberated through
the distant wood, as though they would
mock me in my misery. And the/i, jrith
all the accumulated strength of mad
ness; I wrenched the ulhiik, but otmld
not move it from its place. Surely it
could not be possible that I should be
obliged to sit there and be crushed to
death, when human aid was so near.
Had I been in some isolated forest, some
depth of oountry, distant from town or
cottage, my doom might have been more
certain. Onoe again I shrieked with
agonizing fury; wildly, desperately, the
soum of my voioe rang out on the chill
ing air; while nothing but the mocking
echoes made reply.
The sun had set. and the darkness was
fettering '/mI orerlhfc valley below.
WreS$y the lait redlining glow of sun
shine was gleaming on the tons of the
fordjl trees. Irrevocable destiny be-
oaafr every mopriht more and more ap-
iJark I lif iaYHe train. * No,’ 4 fio ! I
stretched forward, and listened with
breathless eagerness. There was not a
sound to hresik tho silence; I must liave
nearer came the train. The rising moon
disclosed to n*e the white column of
•moke and steam, rising above the hill
beyond the curve; abd now the regular
ly beating puff .and oough of the engine
stack my Rv likAthegldbtiog ehuoklo
of some terrible monster regarding his
victim. How like a foamy the thought
oame on me that it wee now too late for
Assistance! No human being would
venture on the .b^ge when the train
waa within hearing distanoe, when it
was too dark to 1 dfttiftgiitih objects in
time to stop the impetuous ‘fire-hone;
and yet, furious and frantic at the
thought of suoh a death, I stretched my
trembling limbs to their utmost, and
shrieked again and again until I grew
hoarse, ana the thundering train
drowned the feeble efforts of my voice.
And now delirium seized me. I fancied
some giant fiend held down the plank
whioh I vainly tried to wrench from its
firm position—I oould hear the chuckle
of satisfaction that it gave to think it
had me there ao safely in its power.
The loud roar that now reached my
ear announced that the traih had struct
the bridge—there came an end to hope
—90 power oould avert the death that
stared me in the face! for an instant I
saw countless demons hovering through
the air, I made a superhuman effort to
move my body off the the line, fire an4
smoke enveloped me—there was a
crushing blow, a convulsion, a did
recollection of keen pains shooting
through my imprisoned limb, and all
waa darkness. I knew no more.
When I returned again to oonsoious-
uesa.I was lying on an easy couch, in a
room dimly lighted, but neatly ana tidily
furnished. While wondering where I
was, and trying to recall what had
passed, the door was slowly opened, and
Lucy Ames entered the room. In a mo
ment she was by my bedside, watohing
the motions and the expressions of my
countenance, doubtless imagining that I
was still delirious.
"Lucy—Miss Ames?” I said.
She started back as I uttered the
name, as though unwilling that I should
discover her real thoughts; but, in a
moment recovering all self-possession,
she looked calmly toward me. and asked,
with a tone of affected indifference;
Do you feel easier now?”
„"Be»! .telW! telur I cried, and
eadh tim# I abgSudihe wards I soemod,
in despair, nerved up to greater power
of speech, and called louder and louder
each time. * Did he hear me ? There
waa no answer—all was still. Oh, merci
ful He<IMh 1 wfcs this 1441. chance for
lifedenfattuitt: Vl ! W J ? * •
"Hall-oo! ” shouted some one.
The voioe was distant, but, oh, how
my blood leaped with joy. at the sound !
Again I balled with all the strength of
my lungs, and again I was answered. In
a little while a figure appeared advanc
ing toward me, but it was growing all
ready so dark I oould not recognize him,
nor did I care to do so; bnt when he
oame oloee to me, one glance showed
me it was Arthur Wesley.
Should I let him pass by, nor ask him
to assist me ? Would he do so ? As he
approached’he asked : •
"Is that you, Mr. Worthington?
Bleu iae. are you hurt?”
"No, thank you, not mnoh hart.” I
replied; " but tee, I am so nicely trapped
here that I oould,not free myself alone,
and I think'it is nearly time for the ex
press train to be doe.”
It waa growing dark very fast; so
dark, indeed, waa it that I found it im
possible to discover whaf time it was by
my watch. He never hesitated a mo
ment, bnt seized the detested plank with
both hands, and at the same instant I
also imitated liis movements. The ac
cursed thing resisted all our efforts, and
remained obstinately immovable. What
oould. be done? In half an hour the
tnun would be doe. Would there be
time to go for aaeifit&noe—to bring an
ax and liberate my foot ? Ha would try.
" For Heaven’s sake, Mr. Wesley,”
said I, m he started to go. " be expe
ditious. It is too terrible to be obliged
to sit here and face death unwillingly.”
I wm alone again. ThA^rinds sighed
mournfully about me, but I felt relief.
I even forgot my danger, and turned
my attention onoe more to the thoughts
with whioh I had boon eooupaeri when I
had nnwiltinily Bfcmhlad info my pres
ent diffl4Ultif.\ ^
Nevertheless I wm apppahekfeive that
he might bf delayed until the trait
should paa*.\ In fact, I , had. mo assur
ance that he had tfan to go to jit.
Ames’ and retatbdufopfc it would :be too
late. AdotlMr tpought' rushed ■ through
my frantid brain,. Had hedapatved me 1
Would ha not ba only too happy in be
ing thu* easily rid *4 .my unwelcome
presence? I felt be, never woiOd- oome
to me aaraia htrvrtTmd leave me to the
mercy‘Oiauoh a cruel death. , .Heavens !
there is no mistaking that Sound—the
whistle at the Forest station, only five
mileti distant I
How well do I remember the thoughts
that passed through my mind ps I pa
tiently awaited' the Vetnrn df. Arthur
Wesley; for, although I had every rea
son to believe he would not oome, still I
instinctively awaited him, and hoped,
oh, how I hoped he would return 1
Nearly two hours had I eat there, and
now I wm still waiting and vibrating be
tween the hope of delivery and the al-
moet-oertain conviction of destruction.
The fearful ohlll of despair wm creep
ing over me; my trembling limbs al
ready announced that my nerves wpre
risking in exhaustion. At evejy mo-
hj.^psia*.
footsteps, Dot no weacome aosaa mu as
Rark I it il the train I Thalow, db-
Unt UmadraoMPQt iwblTk — flop. It
will b* hor* in » f.w afcntak.. i
"Help! h«lp I" I ST
TP. wtOUg "T ud
thaw wm no ini**. Loote land
~ hnadar; atmwLui
mSlXtbiS*W
l»' *UI tMir Irtfcahon. my
IMinotapidiy ■ogoMiUd.-wnd'U kUlOrt
time I wm Kin ioat in tha nnocmnfltoun
delirium qf feaer. In my ragda Bienm-
iliga I wM again on the narrow bridge,
bending erery aflfort and >training awon
nerve to recnova the piece of, wood that
bound me theta. Again I;wm chained
to tho huge Wok, in wlileh nnoonaoiowa
laiKHrera WOe drilling holed whiph they
tilled with pswdec.imiilaw the nnaeomlr
o<> the rack, ohueklmg again
mcaaaredpoff of the ttiginfct'bhd'ktld-
tcrvals WAppBd''M* ofila the chain
closer, until ihe links feeteeed ipty thb
very fl^ph, .and tmned,mr Blood logmH
with ike poison in whioh they had been
dfiipoL ' Gavcrna yawned cm every side
to receive ni« * IHf fcf ^moe WM Heai-d
the long shrill whittle of the engine, and
voices, that seemed the very agony of
despau:, screamed on every aide of me,
The train 1 the train 1”
But all this passed away. I wm well
again, and oould walk about the house
wifh tho aid of a crutch, for I had left
one foot suspended in the bridge where
I had so miraculously escaped death.
Lucy hod reassured me of her love f not
indeed by words, but by her actions.
Long and patiently she had watched by
my side ; and to her more than any oth
er do I owe the preservation of my life.
No words had passed between us in re
lation to the subject which had so nearly
separated,up. yet there seemed to he a
tacit acknowledgment of the error on my
•part, and a cheerful forgiveness oo hers.
But one day, when we chanced to be
alone, I recurred to tho folly of whioh I
had beon guilty, uud more formally Mked
her forgiveness.
" Freely do I forgive you,” she Mid,
" if indeed you have been guilty of $
act which would seem to require
You doubtless acted according to y<
earnest inclination, whioh I would )
wish to oppose. I supposed your onlv
object was to secure the hand of another
in leaving me, and that ”
“ Lucy, Lucy I” I exclaimed, "it was
t a nia<L:. I was ft<pol l I ho-
(Ltiio it*W.Y, but now x .will telflbkp
nothing, I will not .even credit what I
But .tell the. Lucy/bow it hap-
peqad that on one or two oooaaiona, after
excusing yoursejf -from aoeotnpanying
me to an evening's visit or party, I
shojila afterward meet you returning
mphny with ^ir. W*s!e/?”
Sous, I sec,’’said Ijikey. :
, M I replied ; "but——
"Lhten then,” she said, intarruptina
me, "ima I will explain all Irhkh I
might have done sooner bad von re-
quaated it. I WM amriflu* to
the only opportunity I should 4ver have.
I had engaged to tax* private lessons of
Mr. Westey. I did not think it neces
sary to tell every one why I wm so often
seen in the company of that gentleman,
who, I must assure yon, is not only a
very amiable young man, but ti engaged
to my eouain, with whom nq inducement
oould oause him to break hi* eotnpacl”
But whjTdid he deity eo long |d
when I wm about
.rein?”
make «B the haste
led Imj; "but, in
brother, arrived a
when it would have
wm deep and rapid and consequently
free from ice. They hastened to the
bank of the stream, and in a few mo
ments succeeded in rescuing you from
this second danger and bore yon to the
house.”
"Friends, thank God; all friends I” I
could not help uttering after listening to
Lucy’s explanation of all ibat had trans
pired. I was happy again, though
maimed for life, a fact which Lb6y,gen-
arooely seemed to auits overlook, m she
did not hesitate to beoome Mr*. Worth
ington in lose than a mouth after my
perfect convaleeoenoe.
Dueling In St, Louis.
The first duel in 8t. Louis wm that of
Thomas H. Benton aud Charles Lucas.
The difficulty between the parties orig
inated during a trial in which both were
engaged as counsel. Col. Benton, be
lieving himself insulted, sent tho glove
to Mr. Lucm m a challenge. But Mr.
Lucm, having no taste for such sport, de
clined on the ground that statements
made to a jury could not properly bo
considered by a goutleman a cause for
such meeting, and furthermore Col.
Benton was an excellent shot. They
again met in controversy, and Col. Ben
ton branded him os a coward. Lucm
id he would meet him on equal terms,
id the choice of weapons were selected
by Lucas, they Wng shot-guns, to be
loaded with twelve No. 4 buckshot at six
paces. Obi. Benton, well knowing that
this would insure sure death to,both
parties, threw up the sponge. But it
waa not long until a cloud passed their
threshold once more, and in this case
Mr. Lucm. in order to protect his honor,
was faroed to challenge Col. Benton.
The meeting took place on Bloody
island, just opposite St. Louis, on tho
morning of Aug. 12, 1817, pistols being
the weapons used. Mr. Lucas fell, se
verely wounded in the neck, and was
withdrawn from the field. A temporary
reconciliation followed, opd another
duel took place on the same grounds by
the same parties, as the feud broke out
afresh, whioh resulted in the killing of
Lucas, at the ago of 26 years.
iaplorable encounter took place on
Sept, 27, 1817. Young Lucas loft to
mourn his life a young wife, having boon
married but four months. He was wed
ded June 24,1817.
During the following year another
duel occurred, tho combatants being
Gapts. Martin and llamsey, of the
United States army, who were stationed
at Fort Bell Fountain, on the Missis
sippi river, Bloody island being tho soat
of war. Ramsey was wounded, and died
in a few days afterward, and was buried
with Masonic and military honors on
June 80, 1823. Another honorable
meeting occurred at the grounds be
tween Joeliua Barton, Distnot Attorney
of the United States, a resident of St.
Louis, and Thomas 0. Roc tor. Tho par
ties met, in the evening, and Mr. Barton
fell mortally wounded. An artiole
whioh appeared in the Republican
charging Gen. William Rector, then
United States Surveyor, with corruption
in office was tho cause of the fatal auol.
The General waa in Washington at the
time, and his brother, Thomas 0.,
warmly defended his cause, and, learn
ing that Barton was the author of the
charge, sent him the challenge whioh
resulted so fatally.
In August, 1831, another most shock
ing duel took plaoe on the same
grounds. Spencer Pettis, a yonng law
yer of promise, was a candidate for Con
gress, his opponent being David Bid
ale. Mnj. Biddle made somo sevore
criticisms on Mr. Pettis through the
newspapers, and a challenge followed
and wm accepted, and they fought at
five paces distant, aud at the first fire
both fell mortally wounded. Young
Pettis died in about thirty hours, while
Maj. Biddle lingered only a few days.
Pettis had just gained his election.
Maj. Biddle’s tourii may be seen in St.
Louis, at Biddle Square. This ended
the code of honor at St. Louis.
Large Crops of Corn Fodder.
Several correspondents in a late issue
of the Country Gentleman seem to have
given from actual weight on small patches
of their fields, pretty reliable estimates
of the amounts which were rrown per
acre, previous to the curing of the corn.
They state these weights at 28, 36, 36,
and 46 tons, respectively, tier aero. The
latter was sowed in drillH three feet apart,
using three bushels of seed per acre, and
the sgpson was jierfeet in every respect
bow M*dn*M 4o hav# mm oo a#
ISKSSfiSBBK
for its growth. They do not state what
the weather was when tho corn was cut,
or the time of day it was done. To be
fair in such a trial, tho weather ought to
be sunny two days before, and the stalks
not cut till all the morning dow was dried
off. Dr. Bailey, of Massachusetts, as
serts, that he can grow 76 tons of corn
stalks per acre. If ho does, we think he
will have to resort to the Cuzco sort, of
Peru, which grows there 26 feet high
more, and is three inchs in diameter,
so, at'the butt. This would be about
eatable and digestible as cord wood, un
less his method of ensilage can transform
it to palatable fodder. He is now culti
vating a mammoth ensilage corn, of which
he thinks highly. Wo hope when his
crop of tliis has been gathered and fed to
his animals, he will give not only its
yield per acre, but the value of its fod
der to his stock in comparison with the
■mailer sweet oorn.—Rural New Yorker
A Forest of Lightning.
The "St. Elmo's Fire,” or electrioity
seen playing on the bayonots of morch'-
ing armies, and around tho spars and
masts of ships, comes from the preeenoe
of a "charged” cloud in the air, from
which the pointed objects draw the
lightning.
A splendid instance of this same
phenomenon was witnessed in the Jura
at 8t. Gergnes, where a whole foreet of
pine trees was seen to bo aglow with
light, like a pliosphoreaoent sea in the
tropics. A thunder-storm wm raging at
tho time, and at every flash of ligntmng
the illumination entirely disappeared,
but soon shone forth again until the
next flash came.
Before the appearanoe of this Bt
Elmo’s fire, heavy rains had fallen and
soaked the forest, so as to render it oon-
duotive of electricity, and the thunder
cloud overhead, heavily charged wfth
electrioity, had induced an opposite
charge on tRe ground bffiow, whioh dis
charged itself mto’the fir by the paint
ed boughs aud needle* of tha pine
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Gboboia hM 2,372 whisky dealer*.
Many Swedes are settling in Arkansas.
Tup.re are sixteen colored schools now
open in TensM pariah, La.
More than one-half of the population
of Aiken County, S. O., is colored
Darlington County, 8. C., is the
largest cotton-producing county in the
Unite l States.
Two Georgia formers grew 600 bushels
of Irish potatoes on one acre of land aud
sold them for 840.
A mtll at Fsnnsaeola, Fla., hM dosed
a contract with a firm in France to fur
nish 2,000,000 feet of pine lumber.
The soft blue-stone rook which under
lies a wide part of the prairie region of
TexM is 000 feet thick in many places.
Dr lima the lMt ten years the Treasurer
of. Georgia hM oollected $3,000,000 in
cash from the lessees of the State Road.
With a population of 26,650, there are
only forty-seven white men in Newberry
County, S. C., who are seventy years
oVh
The first cotton factory in the South
was built on Mill Branch, in Lincoln
County, 8. C., in the year 1815, by
Michaoi Seheuok.
Hamilton, Allen A Co., have leased
the Mississippi State Penitentiary for a
term of six years, for $30,420 per annum
aud all expenses.
The taxable property in Bibb County,
Ga., in which is situated the city cf
Macon, has increased in value nearly
ten per cent within a year.[
Instead of Chinoao, and to replace tho
negroes who have left Louisiana m exo-
dusters, the planters of that State are
imiKirting Spanish laborers.
A woman in Stanley County, N. C.,
only thirty years old, has been married
three times, and has sixteen living chil
dren. They Were all twins.
Twenty-five dollars are offered for a
s}»eciinen of the three-cent stamps issued
from the post-office at Madison, Flo., in
1861 and 1862 for the Southern Confed
eracy.
Farmers in the western port of Dallas
County, Texas, secure artesiah wells,
flowing six feet above tho ground, by
lNiring to a depth of between sixty and
seventy feet.
The Oates Cotton Factory at Char
lotte, N. 0., will be ready to work up the
new ootton crop. Ten machines of thirty-
four cords each, aud five waif-mifis, have
been recieved.
A Plantf.rs' Cotton Seed Protective
Union—the beginning of an organized
movement against the sale of cotton in
the seed—hna l>ceu organized at Edge-
field Court-house, 8. C.
Mohr than 300,000 acres of land along
the Air-line Railroad in Georgia, North
Carolina nnd South Carolina have been
registered for sales at low stationary
figures for the next two years.
A young lady in Covington, Ga., who
is worth of $20,000, broke an engagement
with a young man during commencement
because he paid seven dollars for a horse
and buggy to give her a ride. She argued
that a man who would be so foolish as to
pay that much for a few hours’ pleasure
was not the kind she wanted for a hus
band.
Revenue officers have *o entirely de
stroyed the business of illicit distilling
in the Fifth Collection District of Ten
nessee, that scarcely a wild-cat concern
can be found anywhere. As Deputy
Collectors have been stationed in the
localities where whisky hM been dis
tilled in defiance of law, it is not likely
that it will be revived.
The Mississippi Valley Cotton Plant
ers’ Association has decided to hold
series of inter-State fairs in Memphis,
Little Rock, Now Orleans and Mont
gomery, to create a fund for the encour
agement of inventors of improved planta
tion machinery, and to put Mveral lec
turers in the field, whose especial duty
it shall be to travel over the ootton State!
and form branch associations.
The Tennessee Historical Society hai
been presented with a oopy of the “Con
federate Htates Almanac and Repository
of Useful Knowledge, for 1864.” It wm
published by H. 0. Clarke, of Mobile,
Ala., and devotes almost its entire page*
to matters of interest to the late Confed
eracy, including the Constitution and
. Government of the late Confedrate
States, and also a chronology from the
1st day of January, 1861, to the battle oi
Chattanooga, September 1863.
The botanical depot at Statesville, N.
C., is said to be the largest in the world.
The firm which oontrols it Iim now in
stock 1,700 varieties of roots, herbs,
bark, seeds, flowers and moesee, and all
sorts of plants for herbariums, in quanti
ties of from fifty pounds to86,000 pounds
of each kind. They pay the collectors,
who are mainly Cherokees, either in cash
or goods, and lMt year disposed of in tips
way $400,000 worth of merchandise,
shipping 1,000,000 pounds of roots and
"varbs.”
The Maoon (Ga.) Chat-light and
Water Company hM undertaken to fur
nish that city with water-work*. The
supply of water will oome about one mile
from the city limit*, ‘ and will be con
ducted to the reservoir by
and will give 71
Six por
000,
* on the water-
the gas-works, as well
works, themioAves.
General Robert Toombh is not the eight feet away,
only Georgian who is entitled to the din- times out of five they think he’i
tinction of not being a citizen of the ful cute.”
United States. General Henry R. Jack- "Our time is indeed brief,” Raid
,, of HivilhuiUi, ki«nin(k>n<Tnl ToomU* Tlinmmon, --but before we ffi out of
company u. this regard. General Jack-
was a Colonel in the United Status
Army at the age of twenty-three, then a
Federal Judge, Minister to Austrin, and
afterward Judge of a Confederate States
Court, and on that occouut
PASSING SMILES.
Cabinet-Makers in Illinois are kept
busy making furniture onoe owned and
used by Abraham Lincoln.
Tn* je w el of a servant girl is the one
who hangs all her mistress’ embroidered
underwear ou that portion of the line
which is most conspicuous to the neigh-
1 Kirs’ eyes.
Augustus Dabble (artist) — "Don’t
you think it is about time I .exhibited
something?” Severe critic (examining
Dabble’s latest production)—" Yes, a lit
tle talent, for instance.”
A man may object to wearing button
hole bouquets, but it’s astonishing with
what f« >rtitude he goes through the or
deal of haring one pinned on. if the
donner happens to be young ana pretty.
Worn a Cheyenne young man wants
to amuse thu girls at a picnic, he ex-
‘ dread-
Wabash River, or hurst that infernal
river to everlasting smash in the at
tempt”—Punch.
When they can’t ma’|e an Albany baby
quit crying’ in any other way, they let
him crawl under a bed ami make him
those excepted from tho general amnesty believe they think he s lost, aud are look-
- ~ ing for him, and ho will keep quiet for
In Trinty County, Texas, a little white
boy, aged about twelve years, the son of
Mr. Dwire, was hoeing in the field in
company with two negroes, when a third
boy, Bud Evans, sixteen years old, ap
proached tho parties at work, armed
with au Enfield gun, and one of tho ne
groes remarked: "Here’s Bud. If he’d
been the Sheriff he could a ’rested
every one o’ us.” The negro Evans re
plied, "Yes, and here’s the way I’d a
done it,” raised tho gun, took dolil>erate
aim at tho innocent little wliite boy, and
fired, the shot passing through the
ohild’s body, aud ho died from the ef
fects of the wound about three hours
afterward. Tho negro claims to have
done the deed by accident, and says
there was no cap on tho gun, but investi
gation proves his assertion to be false.
The negro has been arrested.
two hours.
Some people a
s affected differently by
_om what other people
fleeted similarly by an
h unto tho same kind
ling proportion to the
Hhnati Gazette. Liar!—
agcncyj&i&i*
of an agent o
first cause!—C
Peek's Sun.
A Tennessee suitor wrote to Iris sweet
heart os foIIewB: "Your father kicked
me lost night, st*l (forlnrie metlu* house.
If I whipped him would it lessen your
love for me?" She repl^l that it would
not, aud the \~rout wm soundly
thrashed. •
A YOUNQ lady, not ‘•oenstorae.
waltzing, at the naruost solicitation d
friend made the uttempt in this city i
ccutlv. Whefl the music ceMaed anothe
friend approached and said, gavly:
"Well. I see you got through all right”
"Yes, was the reply, "out it wm a
tight squeeze.”
One Scotchman, afflicted with a very
bail cough, meeting another Scotchman,
profanely remarked to him that ‘Hhia —
Bringing Them to Time. cough would certuinlv carry him off some
There is no foolishness a1>out some ol day like a rocket.’ "Aye, ave,” ob-
the fathers of Dubuque county, Iowa, who ’ served No. 2; "it’s my opinion, however,
have marriageable daughters, nnd they if you (liana mend your manners, ye’ll
know how to precipitate business when tak’a contrary direction!”
the fruit is ripe for plucking, and hangs, Sarah Bernhardt is said to be of a
wasting its sweetness, when it should lie revengeful disposition, and, as she is
plucked. Matters wore brought to a
climax with a rush at a certain farmer’s ‘
residence in Vernon township, recently.
A young tiller of the soil had for moutns
lieen paying most assiduous attentions to
or his daughters, hut he was such a
bashful, modest ohap, never having teen
much in the company of girls, except
this one, that he had never been able to
raise his courage sufficiently high to pop
the question.
He had gone to the house in which the
lady lived at least on twenty different
occasions resolved to know his fate, but
when ushered into the presence of the
fair one, in whose keeping ho had
placed his heart, his courage would in
variably "go book on him," and he
would return to his lonely room in great
er suspense than before. Upon the
evening in question lie had determined
that, come what would, he would tell
his Mary that he loved her. Ho would,
once for all, decide the matter, but, as
upon each former occasion, he could not
get the proposal farther than his tliroat.
There it stuck, and ho determined to
gulp it down and gi ve "P the siege,
when the door opened aud in walked
the girl’s father, who advanced to where
about to visit this country, wo want it
distinctly understood that we never said
she was thirty-six. We don’t believe she
is over eighteen, and she certainly doesn’t
look as if she was just sixteen. This last
statement we will make affidavit to.
—Jiostun Poet.
An Awful Crammer.—Proprietor of
tearding house (taking stout gent aside,)
"You’ll excuse me, Mr. Sluuq>e#t, but
your appetite is bo large that 1 shall be
coiupelled to charge you a si tiling extra.
It cuu’t bo done at two shillings]" xjiner
—"No! Forbeaven v • ’.*• dou'tdo that!
I can-eat twvshillings’ worth easy; but
il I have to do throe—I really—’afraid I
should—but I’ll try!”—London Punch.
A certain young Boston bachelor,
wealthy but modest, was tuking his bath
oue morning when his telephone called
him. He sprang from the tub and wm
horrified to hear that a lady, wife of a
distinguished New York Democratic
banker, was at the other end of the wire,
a mile away. It would never do for Him
to carry ou a conversation with a lady in
his present condition. "Excuse me. A
thousand pardons!" he cried, aghMt.
He donned his pressing gown *
or never.
"Well—but, father, don’t you know-
if you'll only wait, and—”
" Dry up : answer yoa or no. Speak 1"
roared the old gent.
Well, then, yea 1 There, now,” and
‘ i hid her face,
business ; that’s the way to
talk. Now, John, look hero-look up tho philanthropy “I under.tmdjoiu'
Onoe for all, yes or no ? ”
'Well, yes, sir. 1 have been pre-
ptuous enough to hone that I—•’
N
“I camo out to put a atop to this fool- “W*ur„ my man," mid a philanthro-
iahneas. It ain't countin’ expenses that pist to a hardened-looking chap confined
rm lookin’at, for coal oil is cheap, aud in tho Now Orleans parish pnaon, “what
wood can be had for the haulin', but I’m «•>, }'«'>, 111 “ Iu for I
aick and tired of thia billin' and cooin' reckon wud thenrwnncrmllonly. -'No,
like a pair of sick donee, keepin’ me Wlmt offeuae did youoommit.
awake of nighta, and if. got to bo "Dldn t oommit wUiing. The Judge
stopped right nere. Do you love John committed me “Well, you mu.t have
Homrwen enough to marry him?" been aoouaed of .ome crime? “Oh, yea;
“Why, father, I-I-you must—" I waa accured of trymgto get on tho
" Stop that silly fooliahin’,” yelled the police. Nonsense. Tn-mg to get on
old man. “Anawer yea or no. and tho police m no crime. I have myself
quick, too. It’s got to be settled now
recommended many worthy men for po
sitions ou the police foroe, and have
helped to get them on." "It is a fact.
That is all I was sent here for. You see.
there were two of us, and we both tried
to get on the same policeman. We had
him down, but some of the other peelers
thought wo were crowding the man too
hard, and—” "That will do air," said
few tracts
perfectly.
you want that gaf o' mino 'for a wife ? improvement of your mind,
Speak out like a man now.”
" Why, Mr. { ain’t this rather a
" Speak it^out, or out of thia bouse Traveling in Ar*bl*c
you’ll go, head foremost. I won't wait Camels and dromedaries are amazingly
a minute longer. Thero’a the gal, and adapted for traversing tho dry and
there ain't a likelier gal in the State, an' parched deaerts of Arabia; for they ore
you just heard her My that she wanted so formed that they can throw up the
you. Now, John, I won’t stand a bit of liquid from their stomachs into their
foolin’. * * “* 11 1
throats, by which means they can travel
six or eight days without water. The
camols usually carry 800 pounds’ weight
upon their backs, which is not taken off
settled now." "You two fools would have during the whole of the journey; for
teen six months more at the job that I they naturally kneel down to rest, and
have done in five minutes. I never saw in due time rise with tho load. The
iuoh foolin’ as there is among young dromedary is a small camel, with two
people nowadays. Ain’t like when I bunches on it* back, and remarkably
wm young—an* now, good-night. You awift. It is an observation among the
Jalir the thing over, an’ you an* me, 1 Arabs that wherever there are treee the
John, 'll go up to town an’ get the water is not far off; and, when they draw
license to-morrow. Soon be time to get near a pool, their oamels will smell at a
to plowin'; no time for love-makm’ 1 Aimi A
then. Good-night, good-night; I hope
I wMn’t too rough, but I waa determined
to fix the thing one way or t’other,” and
the old man went back to bed.
Now that the ice wm broken the
The Partner for Life
Many a man has seen his choice for i
partner i ’
Kf Job^felt tat .‘utUaSdrt ! “Wth him ’iu tho‘ophllmri the’ wnrlt
Ktw loot,* -when ’mbt? ! «**&*&* P-Me. might h.vo
. , , . . , ...... - , struggled witli him for a while, .vet pride
looked up .t him .hyijr, ond raul : ^ | triumphed, ud ho Bought ,mo from tho
walks of life. In all the ' ?
"This would have been all right i
akeery. I knowed all the timo that you
wanted to aak me, but it wasn’t my
plaoe to mj anything, you know."
highe
tilde* social existence, there is nothing
capable of inflicting more certain misery
than is sure to follow such a course. It
distracts the general harmony of our days,
. mis-slmiies our ends, shortens tho length
>ew Railroad Brake. ^ ' of life, lessens the stature of manhood,
A railroad brake, which is instantly I and is contrary to tho (livino instructions
died and continuous iu its action, and j of the Bible; for it .declares where love
ich the inventor proposes to render in there,is peace, plenty and thriftinoaa.
automatic, is dcscrilxHl by Mi
ier, in La 'Nature. It is worked by
means of two of the secondary batteries matter,
of M. Plaute, each of these being charged
by three Daniell cells. The action of
Everything i* sure to follow a happv
iom-^Let not pride interfere in this
iter. j ,
"T am on independent voter, and I
toe apparatus is dependent upon toe ad* c» n ’J J p .'* ^31
kreion of »u elmtio-muKUut to the ul. platform* «1««id. «
«* u.. wk-u fA.m.MuTof whioh two •poamg, A oonplo ft .h«ra Utor it
'levore oarryiu* trio- j Oaw Iuxl, upon th# yoiu
I u»u a (Ob. In that »h« wanted to knur
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