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THE
BUTLER HERALD.
W. N. BENNS, JAMES D. RUSS. Editors
VOLUME V.
Tlli-.ll.I3 UI3 I.KJI1T
BUTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY. MARCH 8. 1881.
Subscription. $1.50 in Advance.
NUMBER 23.
Pursued by Bloodhounds.
Apropos of tlio death of " old Mount*
joy, the pedestrian, a correspondent of
ft London sporting newspaper related a
story which ho heard from Mount joy’s
own lips. Hearing Lord W. boast that
his bloodhounds would truck any living
thing, by scent alone, Col. A. wagered
a hundred guineas they would not trnck
a man, and asked Mount joy to win tho
wager for him, assuring the sturtlcd pe
destrian that there was no danger of tho
dogs catching him, as they wero slow
runners, and ho would tnko enro suf
ficient start was allowed him ; tho object
being simply to tost their powers of
scent. Thy trial duly came olV over
throe miles of ground round Hampstead
heath. After tho dogs had sniffed at
Mount joy’s Dgs, he made his way leis
urely for half tho course, when the flag
^ was. dropped and tho hounds set loose.
They tracked their quarry splendidly,
but were GOO yards !>ehiiul when Mount-
joy reached the inn at the end of tho
course and shut tho door upon them,
outside of which they howled their dis
satisfaction until removed by their
keeper.
Disbelievers in tho bloodhound's soent
'were still unconvinced, averring that
they had sighted the man for a part of
the journey, at least; and, to settle the
jKjint beyond dispute, another match
was made, to,bo run at night, the dis
tance this time being but a mile and a
half. Unconscious of foul play, Mount-
joy went gayly on his way, but bad not
avcomplisnod more than two-thirds of
the distance allowed him by the con
ditions when his hair Htood on end as the
cry of the dogs, hot uiion his trail,
reached his ears. They had purposely
been slipped before tlio proper time,
without any warning. “For one sec
ond," said lie, “I stood stock still, as if
I lmd been frozen, and then dashed
away and ran, ns 1 lmd never done be
fore and lmvo never dono since. I was
in perfojt training and condition, but
the cold sweat broke out from every porio
and poured down my body, while my
legs seemed like load, and I trembled all
over. Stiil I kept iles{>erately on, while
nearer and nearer came tho deep, hoarse
bay of the bounds, as the scent grew
wanner and they knew they wero run
ning up to their prey. I thought I was
lost. Those few seconds were like weeks,
and I wondered whether they would grip
mo first by tho leg, or fly straight at my
throat. Luckily I aid not lose my head;
und alter tho llrst mnd burst 1 settled
down and raced nwpy at a pace which I
Knew wor.hl last the distauee ; but still
closer and closer came the liorribie cry,
that sonnded like my dentil knell; anil, ! *
in sheer di spend ion, I put on all tho ‘
,si»ced I .could. At Inst I saw the lights
' 6f the lonely little bin, and my heart
rose within me ; hut nt that very in
stant the brutes broko out into a tierce,
savage yell, that told me they had sight-
ed me at last. There was a small gar
den in front of the house, and ns I flew up
. to it I saw the gfite was shut. Howl
(lid •it 1 never knew*, but, blown und ex
hausted with terror and tho pace as I was,
I cleared it, darted through tho door,
which fortunately stood open, and,slam
ming it to, stood with my bock against
it. The lock lmd hardly closed when
bang ! bang ! aguinst the panels camo
j my terrible pursuers ; and then they lay
. down and] yelled suvagoly at finding
thomselves balked of their prey."
As soon ns lie felt himself safe, rago
. took the place of fear ; and, seizing hold
of a brittle, Mountjoy swore ho would
* brain Lord W. if ho entered the place,
a threat ho would have fulfilled lmd not
those present got him out of tho room
* in time to prevent a most justifiable
homicide.
A Missing Kail road.
When Cheyenne was at tho zeuith of
its glory, a sign of “General ollices of
tlie Cheyenne, Pacific Blopo and Bund-
wich Islands railroad ” was hang out
without creuting the least surprise. If
one person had asked another wlicro tho
depot of said railroad was, theru might
have l>ecn some hesitation alnuitanswer
ing, but it was some time after the sign
was out twforo any social inquiries be
gan to be made. Thun an Eastern man
wulked in one duy, carpet-bag in hand,
and said:
“ I suppose you connoct at Sau Fran
cisco with tlio regular steamers ? ”
“ Well, yes; I bUppose we shull," was
the hesitating reply.
“Shall ? Isn’t your road through yet ?’’
“Well, not quite.”
. “ Do you toko in Salt Lake ? ”
“ Salt Lake ? Yes; I think wo do.”
“ How much for u ticket ? ”
“ Well, I can’t suy exactly, os wo havo
n salo juHt yet."
n I got one ut t
“ Well, I think not;
depot yet”
“ Can I pay on the train ? ”
“Well, you see, we havo no trains
yet”
“ I suppose I can walk on the track ? ”
pefeistod the stranger.
“ Well, I should lmvo no objection if
wo lmd a track.”
“ No depot, no tickets, no trains, no
tracks I What sort of a railroad have
you got anyhow ? ”
A BACH El,Oil’s NI«IM.
A llfn tnin*pent, »n IncnmiiletM niliilna,
„ A ho...* sil void of inoi-ry liiu K h
PorUIn unto that frnctlom.1 condition
Ho one to Uii K h with him when all I* bright,
U?*°f de?t\ndwhite* B " U ' -
To sow a missing button on.
S’o pure-white brow, no love-lit eyes of blue,
No tre.iH.-a moved by Mjmmor tiraru;
nock and geutla wif#
S’o uoo.l of .gcnUo wifely tones,
i one to ask with glad, espectiiif
1 Dear, did you gut tho beat of J
earthly Joys and pleasnrea he li
i haven’t any
A Peculiar Woman.
“ Ketch hold, Tom. There! I declare
if you ain’t spilled about a quart! I
knew you would get it too full.”
“ I didn’t spill more thnu ten drops,
Cousin Silence. How you worry over,
the loss of a little grease.”
“ It’s one of my principles fo save, as
you might a’ learned long ago.”
“I believe in prudence; but what’s a
few drops of lard moro or less on this
farm, and nobody knows how much in
bank? You skimp and screw as if you
think tlioro wero danger of your getting
on tlio town."
“Well, you are tho frankest voung
man I ever saw," and Silence Withers
put her arms akimbo and gazed at her
young cousin, Tom Lowey, us if he
was a curiosity. escaped from some mu-
“Yes; I was always noted for my
frankness,” said Tom. coolly, “and 1
never hesitate to speak my mind when
duty urges. However, I don’t want to
hurt vour feelings, Cousin SiloDce.”
“No daftger, saul Miss Silence, with
a laugh of derision. “I um no spring
chicken, an’ my fcelin’s havo grown
tough. But the idea of your duty urgin’
you to speak your mind to mo! Perhaps
you don’t recollect tlio whippin’s I used
to givo you.”
“.I haven’t forgotterf,'’* laughed Tom.
“ You used to make mo do my duty in
those days. But I wish I could convince
that it would bo only a Christian act
rou to send a littlo help to Mrs. Bahl-
You wouldn’t feel tlio Blinding of
$50 out of your $50,000.”
“ Massy snkes ! It seems ns if other
folks know more about my business than
I do myself. Fifty thousand! Law!
Who sai.l I was worth that much?”
“ Oil, it’s common talk,” replied Tom.
“ Well, it won’t do you nny good to
talk. You’ll never see tho color of my
money after I’m dead anil gone. I’ve
made my will; and, since plain speak-
in’ pleases you, I’ll make free to
say you ain’t mentioned in it. So,
thero I”
“ I calculate to tako enro of myself,”
said Tom, tilting tho chair ngniust tho
wall. "Leavo your nionoy wherever
you choose ; I don’t want it.”
“Tho day may come wlion you wall
want it, Tom Lowey, and then you’ll bo
sorry for sayiu’ them words. I’ll ro-
member ’em; so will you when youi
pride has its fall. Thero’s plenty of
things I can leave my money to; it
go begging.”
“ I guess not.''
“You’d moro’n guess if you wi
live boro n spell and seo tlio streu
visitors I have. There ain’t a day but I
get nagged about my money by some
body. Deacon Bonney thinks it’s his
hounden duty to advise mo to leave it to
found an orphans’ homo. Old Mr.
Craig wanks it left to Wolfboro Acad
emy ; 'Squire Darby has his mind on it
for a public library, and tho minister
thinks I ought to remombor what a
debt’s on the church. To hear ’em talk
you’d think I had one foot in tlio grave.
I don’t give none o’ ’em auy satisfaction,
and then they say I’m peculiar. Well,
perhaps I am ; but I don’t see no possi-
4 Well, you i
, , , , nnvi uu teueiVNI H
its only on paper I tha Baldwin and ii
i ns we can sell $8,- in . torms for tb(<80
bility of any chnngo in my natur’.
Tom laughed. Ho was spending a
couple of hours at tlio farm, which bad
been his only homo until ho began to
“ scratch for himself,” to use his gaunt
cousin’s expression. Now ho never loft
moro than a day or two pass without
looking in on tlio lone spinster to see if
ho could givo her any help, and to-day
he was making himself useful in lifting
jars and boilers of hot grease on and off
the stove, for Miss Bilcnoo was trying
out lard.
Tom’s law practice, as yet,
very exacting, much to his rogret; and
ho had more timo on his hands than
pleased him.
“But, now, do promise you’ll send
Mrs. Baldwin something for Christmas,
Cousin Silence," said Tom, returning to
the attack.
" 1 never promise what 1 don’t mean
to perform,” was the characteristic
he received to his pleading. “Mar-
000,000 worth of stock we shall liegin
S ailing and rush business right along.
you nnppou to be along when we get
to going wo will put you tlirougli as low
as any other responsible route.”
Tho stranger stuck his hands in liis
poekets, stared hard, whistled softly,
raid thou wulked out on tip-toe without
another word.— Wali Street Daily News.
' * a fierce father.
According to the old English novels
land comedies fathers were brutal old
tyrants, who never did tho decent thing
^except on the sly. If the poor heroines
y ‘Wf Fielding and Smbllett could read of
i this Bt. 'Lonis father how they would re
joice for their sisters of tliis better day :
“Do you love him?" asked, her fa
ther. «•
Geraldine laughed in spite of herself.
“ I have a strong impression that he
would scarcely ask mo to marry him un
less he thought pretty well of mo.”
“Of course—of course; but,do you
love him’?”
*• With my whole heart and soul. ’’
“ Well, if tliafe ,the aise,” said Col.
Spencer," throwing away I119 cigar, “all
<*I\e'g6t to say is you tire both oon- f man are 1 Talk of bein’ peculiar ; why,
founded simpletons if you don’t get mar* I ain’t a circumstance to that Tom
ried—there 1" Lowey. He’ll marry that Prissy Car-
’t l»oen on speak-
flve years, and I’d bo
mnkin’ myself protty small to send her
Christmas presents. I’d soon be on tho
town if I began to help all the poor folk
you know. It 'pears to mo you take a
mighty deep interest in them Baldwins,
Tom. Melissa Bonney lot out a hint
that you was a sparkiir that PrisBy Car-
roll. ”
“ I wish Melissa Bouncy would mind
her own busmens."
“ Don’t get riled. I dare nay it’s true.
’Twould be like you to court a gal with
out a penny, because you’ve not a pen
ny yourself. Prissy Carroll’s been raised
out of charity by her aunt."
“’That don’t make her-less lovable,
Cousin Silence.”
“ Now, Tom Lowey,” said Miss Si-
lenco, brandishing the big iron spoon
with which she stirred the lard, “ don’t
make a fo61 of yourself over a prefty
face. Butter your bread before you eat
it. There’s Melissa Bonney, whose
father’s worth—’*
roll now, if it’s only to show roe he
didn’t care for my monoy." And,
with a sigh, Miss Silcnco went back to
her lard.
“ Christmas gift, indeed !” she mut-
•rod, after standing for some time in
drop thought; “I think I see myself
eating humble pie to Martha Baldwin."
But, somehow’ or other, her conscience
t feel quite so cosy as it hail felt
lefore Tom’s call.
Au hour later Tom was sitting in the
Widow Baldwin’s small iqirlor. with liis
around a very trim waist, anil a very
lovely golden hood resting on liis
shoulder. It was very ovident that the
closest economy was neoesHiiry witli tho
Baldwins, for tho carpet was patched
and worn, and tho muslin curtains
washed threadbare, and the furniture
in siui uoeu oi varnish and now iiuir-
clotli.
I wish I saw my way clear to tako
ytm out of this. Prissy," said Tom, with
a sigh, “ but clients are scarce enough
Wolfboro.”
“ No.w, Tom, where’s tho need to
worry ? I couldn't leavo Aunt Martha,
anyway. We are both young enough to
wiut.”
“You're too good for this world,
Prissy,” said Tom, with a kiss on the
dimpled white chin.
“There’s some one knocking; lot mo
go,” cried Prissy, springing up und run
ning to the door.
11 was no visitor, but tlio hired, man
from Miss Silence’s farm, with tho spring
wagon, which ho had brought to convey
Tom to his cousin’s home, for Miss 8i-
* nice had, not ten minutes after his de«
urturo. an hour previous, overturned a
kettle of lard by accident, and been ter
ribly scalded.
Where’s my hat ? ” cried Tom, in
great excitement, while tho man was
telling how ho had wasted timo by go
ing to tho offico first, and, not finding
him there, had hunted him up.
“Let mo go with you, Tom ; 1 know
?un help," cried Prissy, as her lover
is springing into the light wagon.
“ Oh, Prissy, if you only would."
“ Wait until I get my bonnet and
awl and tell Aunt Martha. I won’t
lie gono a minute," and Prissy rushed
into tho kitchen; wlicro her limit wns
ironing.
Go, by all means," said Mrs. Bald
win, when sho had grasped the meaning
of tho girl’s incoherent explanation.
“ Stay as long ns you are needed, anil
don’t worry nbout me."
Miss Bifenco made no remark when
Prissy entered her room with Tom. Sho
viis iu great pain, and was thankful to
on oven this member of the hated Buld-
vin family.
For throe weeks Prissy was chief tli-
octor at tlio farm, and managed bo clev
erly that Miss Silence had no chance to
find fault. But the grim spinster had no
word ol commendation for tho young
girl’s untiring industry.
“ I culkcrluto to pay you for wliat you
have done,” sho said ono day, as sho
watched Prissy making broad. “ You
•dn’t think 'you’re workiu’ for noth-
4 I don’t want any pay, Miss Silence,”
soiit Prissy, with trembling lipsf “I
inly too glad to do what I cun,
nnuso—" Sho hesitated wul turned
scarlet. .
• “ Boenuso you're'in loYo with Tom,
finished'Mias Silence. “Oh, you needn’t
blush; I know all atttrat it, and, it ho
chooses to break his fcfad ngin a stono
wall, I ain’t a-goin’ to#top him.”
At tho end of threeYrfcokp Miss Btlen
.8 nblo _ to bo'about again, and Prissy
lit home, declining the $20 bill for
r services. But she had not been
gono throo hours wlion tlio hired man
camo from tlio farm, with two largo
baskets, which ho sat down ou Mrs.
Baldwin’s kitchen floor.
“Compliments of Miss Silonce, and
she sent theso in place of tlio money,"
ami was driving off in tlio spring wagon
1 icfore Prissy could recover sufficiently
from her astonishment to ask him any
quiwtions,
Tho baskets were full «*f good things
of every sort, aud th was a royal
Christmas dinner for tin- Baldwins tlio
next day, much to tho joy of tho cliil
dron, who hod contemplated, ruefully,
dining on mush and potatoes.
Prissy sent a note of thanks to Alias
Silenco by Tom, but sho never received
u» answer.
Timo moved on, and Tom’s law busi
ness improved so much that ho persua
ded Prissv, against her better judgment,
to marry him.
Miss Bllouce did not grace tho impor
tant occasion with her presence.
“ I’ve no timo to bo gullivunting off to
weddings,” was her excuse, when Tom
reproached her for this slight.
“ Sho is such a peculiar woman,
most not expect her to act like other
people; but sho lias a good heart ir
spite of her queer ways," said Prissy,
when Tom tried to make excuses for liis
cousin’s remissness.
“ But her greatest peculiarity lies in
her not liking you, Prissy,” said Tom,
kissing his hritlo’s soft cheeks. “ And I
can’t quite forgivoher lock of taato."
All went well with the young couple
for more than a year. They began
housekeeping iu a modest cottago Tom
was paving for by installments, and were
so prudent that they managed to gather
about them many little comforts that
made their home pleasant.
But fortune seldom smiles long at a
timo, as wo all know, and reverses will
come to every one. One bitter night in
December Tom’s houso caught fire and
burned to the ground, nothing being
loft except a few clothes Belonging to
Prissy and the baby.
Of course Mrs. Baldwin opened her
house to them at once, though it neces
sitated much crowding. Ftissy sug
gested an appeal to Miss Silence, but
Tom emphatically declined to make it
He was far too proud to ask for tho help
which he thought should have been
earnestly offered. His laat books and
papers had all been destroyed in the
fire; for he had used a room in the cot
tage for an office, and getting a living
was rather up-hill work. Christmas
dreary enough that year, and oven Pris-
" That’s enough.” interrupted Tom, | B y’s courage sank at the thought of the
and, before Mine Silence could stop him, * •
he waa out of the kitchen door and
walked briskly down to the gate.
'Law sak'ea I what peculiar oreatures
future.
“Tom Lowey will havo a chance to
show what kind of stuff he’s made of,"
said Miss Silence. “ Ho burdened lvim
self with a wife and baby, and he’ll have
to lookout for ’em. I told him l’d^ never
give him a dollar of xny money, and I'll
keep my word, no matter what hap
pens.”
Miss Silence had thought herself proof
agdiiiBt tha weakness of falling ill; hift
in March she caught a severe cold, and
pneumonia ensued. Bho felt she never
should got well again, and tho doctor
told her frankly that in all probability
she would live but a few days.
I want to seo tho lawyer at ouce, if
that is tho case,” sho said. “ I must
lew will.”
iimons, who had managed her
ImsinoBH for years, camo as soon ns he
oil her message, and the will was
made. Ho hardly left tho houso beforo
'ailed,
in worso,” said Miss Silence, feol>-
ly, “ but I’m not afraid to go. Per
haps I’m peculiar in that as in other
things. Deacon Bonnoy and tho minis
ter, Mr. Craig and Mr. Darby havo all
been here a urgin' of their several
claims. 1 told each o’ ’em I’d consider
the matter.”
“Will they bo disappointed, Cousin
lence ?” asked Torn.
Poor fellow I ho was in such a sore
strait that he could not help a desire to
havo sumo small help from his cousin's
hoard. Ho hardly dare hope sho hiwl
left him a cent, and yet he waa her only
relative.
That remains to bo seen,” was the
unsatisfactory reply he received to his
question. “But don’t you cherish no
hopes, fori aiu’t left you a cent."
A hitter snide curled Tom’s Ups, but
he made no reply.
“I suppose you think mo peculiar iu
not leavin’ you my money, seeiu' you
the only Kin I’ve got," went on Miss
Silence, “ but you’ve taken such pre
cious euro to convince me that you don’t
want it, that I’vo believed you and acted
accordin’."
Tom went home and repeated tho con
versation to Prissy, who shed a few tears,
but tried to cheer her husband's droop
ing spirits with liopcB of moro law busi
ness in tho spring.
That night Miss Silence died, and tho
whole town turned out to her funeral a
few (laVk later.
•* 1 expect Wollboro Academy will find
itself able to erect a new buihliug when
Miss Silence's will is read,” said old Mr.
Crnig. “She’s told mo she’d consider
the matter, and I know she was im
pressed with my arguments.”
“ I rather think you are mistaken.’
said ’Squire Darby, “for I feel moral!}
certain she has left her rnouoy to found
a library."
The minister, who stood near, smiled
to himself. Ho had not tho slightest
doubt that the debt which hung over his
church like a pall would now be lifted
through Miss Silence’s wilL
Tom dm not want to go to tne reading
of tho important document, but Prissy
insisted, so they went together, though
neither of them looked very cheerful.
Mr. Simons liiiulo no objection to tho
presence of ’Squire Darby. Mr. Craig
and tho minister chuckled us Deacon
Bonney entered with a pleasant smile
for Tom, who well know what sarcastic
triumph lay beneath it.
Tho will was dated three days pre
vious, anil every penny in tho bank, and
tlio large farm wero lelt unconditionally
to Prossy Lowey. Her husband's name
ns not mentioned.
Tom’s, face was a study, while Prissy
almost fainted frym the sudden relief to
all her trouble.
Tlio faces of tlio otner men present
wero studies, too. Tho deacon left tho
house without a word, and the ’Squiro
looked grimly at Mr. Craig.
“Bho was a very peculiar woman,"
said tlie minister, wiping his brow, «
which tlie beaded drops of perspirntit
stood thickly. His anxiety nbout his
church had been very great, you soe.
But Tom and Prissy could afford ti
forgot their dead cousin’s peculiarities,
sinco sho had kept her row never to givi
Tom a cent, aud yet hod mnuaged tc
mako him comfortable for life. Thero
immediate flitting tothocomfort
able farm-house, anil Tom furnished a
office ui town and drove m every
morning in tho spring wagon. Past
troubles und cares wore forgotten, the
Baldwins wore mode more comfortable,
anil, considering all things, Miss Si
lence did moro good with her monoy
than if she had left it to found a library
or lift a church debt,
Tom Corwin’s Welcome to His Son-In-
Law.
At tho marriage of his oldest daughter,
Eva, to Mr. Georgo R. Sage, a young
lawyer of Cincinnati, Corwin manifested
much fooling that tho occasion took
>rc of the aspect of a funeral than of a
wedding. During the oeremony ha
shod tears, and at the supper, after n
prolonged und solemn silence, ho sud
denly broke out:
“ Now I want it distinctly understood
that this thing is never going to happen
agnin.in this house. There will never
be another wedding here. I will get a
nigger six feet tall, and give him a pole
ten feet long, and poet him at the front
door, and instruct him to knock any
young man in tho head who comes to
see my daughters.”
Gen. Garfield relates that, shortly be
foro Corwin’s death, when lio returned
to Washington from a flying visit to
Lebanon to uttend the marriuge of his
youngest daughter, ho referred to this
"marriage of Eva, and said that ho shut
himself up in his room for throe or four
days beforo it occurred, and could not
bo persuaded to take any part in the
preparations, and only on tho most
earnest solicitations did he come down
to witness the coromony. Ho said:
could not endure tho thought of my
daughter loving another man better than
myself; and yet sho married a uoblo
fellow. And now tho old feeling lias re
turned. I tell you I had a horrible time
of it until the coromonv was over. 1 "
During an examination of a black ser
vant in tho catechism he was asked by
tlio clergyman what ho was made of.
“Of mild, massa,” was tho reply,
being told ho should Kay “Of dust,”
answered, “ No, mass, it no do, no stick
toeedder.”
Test were walking by the seaside,
and he sighed and she sighed; and she
waa by his side, and he by her side, and
they were both beside themselves, be
side being at the seaside, where she
sighed ana he sighed.
mu ]»ciiiU ntiury.
4 said that Snhi
deepened ten feet at at
000.
said to have
grapes hist year.
V single business house o
C., has bought 250,000
this Henson.
“ Rf.au estate is advancing rapidly, and
no mistake," said Jones, as he dug the
dust out ol iua eyes o( a windy day.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
x|»eiiHe of $50,-
vnrd i
< ink county, T
ccd three
ps of
rabbit skii
enty buildings were erected in
Raleigh, N. C„ in 1880, of which one
church and sixty-three were dwell
ing house?.
Col. Thomas Bunin linn been appoint-
1 Associate Justice of the Supreme
urt of Nortli Carolina, vice John II.
Dillard, resigned.
The Arkansas Mate Senate luis panned
bill appropriating $10,000 for a branch
irnial college nt Pine Rlufl for the edu
cation of colored teachers.
The proposed amendment prohibiting
the sale of intoxicating liquors in Went
irginia has been indefinitely postponed
tlie State Senate.
In Gadsden, Ala., the value of taxable
ropertv has increased from $2011,792 in
879 to.$414,200 in 188 \ and the city
tax qt one-fourth of one per rent, from
1 48 to $1,033 16.
'lie Swedenborgian Publication So-
y has donated to the library of the
n-gia institution for the education of
tlie deaf and dumb Swedenborg’s com-
•letc works. There are no funds to re-
lenish the library of this institution,
id persons who can give books should
•nd them to Cave Springs, On., or to
ov. Colquitt.
The North Carolina Legislature has
nssed a bill providing for the publiea-
on of a roll of tlie North Carolina
troops in the lute war. The duty of
collecting the names has been delegated
Maj. Moore, the historian. In add!
ill to this work lie will add other faeU
ocriptive of the movements of end
regiment during the war.
Montgomery Advertiser: Considera
In sensation was cM-itcd by the sudden
liking of nearly 10!) feel of the track of
the Montgomery and Enfaula railway at
a {mint near the limit-* of Union Springs
a day or two since. Those who visited
the i-pot speak of it as something of a
dieuomeium in its way. It had the ap
pearance of a depression caused by an
earthquake.
Memphis, Tcmieshee, is in a had way,
Unaneially. Its taxable property has
leereased from $30,800,00 in 1 Still to
$13,000,000; there is $2,590,000 of hack
taxes due; and tlio tax rate for the next
rs, if the health improvements
icd out, will he $8.05 on $100.
sent population of Memphis i*
83,593, and the total debt, $0,000,000, is
178 per capita, and 43 per cent, on the
I'hole taxable property.
The rapid development of the business
f importing fruit to New Orleans, tlie
'hues of that city says, has materially
interfered with and reduced the foreign
do of New York, which city has here*
ire supplied the entire West with
fruit. New Orleans po.sKehsc* exceptional
advantages as a distributing point. I ler
•liimite is favorable. Fruit often reaches
S’ew York during the winter frozen, or
s exposed to severe frosts on landing.
Speaking of the State debt of Louis-
sana, the New Orleans Democrat says:
Under the provisions of the new constitu
tion the debt, in ca.-c all consolidated
bonds are exchanged for four per cent,
bonds, would amount to $8,8“9,550, re-
iniring the sum of $355,182 annually for
interest. Collections for the interest
fund already amount to $355,225 83, or
more than enough to pay the intere-t
for 1880 upon the whole amount of the
State debt refunded under the provisions
of the new constitution. The surplus,
$13 83, doubtless goes to the support of
public schools.
It is questioned at Mobile whether the
public property belonging to the defunct
city of Mobile, now in the hand* of the
Commissioners for the adjustment of the
debt of the late city, should not, under
the decision of the United States Su
preme Court, in the Memphis case, be
turned over to the Commissioners of the
port of Mobile for governmental
purposes. The port of Mobile
not money enough in its
ury to meet the pay-roll of
month. The port Commissioners
j aid to the Mobile Commissioners from
rentals and markets about $3,700 |*c
annum for the la-t two years.
Adulterations of Food.
The liberty guaranteed by this great
Republic is a fine subject for a Fourth of
July oration, but when that lilierty
licenses fraud, and permit* imposition
on the people, alike injurious to health
and dangerous to life, it reaches tho
An Uld Letter.
H. Raymond, of Clnrknburg, West
Vn., sends to tho Cincinnati Counnrrcial
tlio following copy of a letter written bv
Col. Lewis (Joss, while with the army in
Cnundn, during the war of 1812, and'ad
dressed to Governor Meigs, of Ohio, of
which tho original is in possession of the
Jackson family, of Clarksburg:
■ Sandwich, Upper Canada, )
July 28, 1812. }
Hi* Excellency, Oovernor Mi-ign, Pieqae:
Dear Sir—The capture of MiehHinnc-
kinne, tho complete command which the
British possess of tlie Lakes, the cer
tainty that tlie Northern Indians are col
lecting in force, the reduction in number
occasioned by our debility, anil other cir
cumstances which can be explained to
you by tho gentlemen sent on for that
purpose, have rendered it necessary that
a large force should he collected lor of
fensive warfare.
The General has determined on re
questing the Governors of Ohio and Ken
tucky to solid on au additional force of
2,000 men. The commanding officers
of regimeuts from our State have agreed
to request you to Issue the necessary or
ders for raising 900 men in the First,
Second and Third Divisions to be nt>-
l rei
and Third Regiments.
In our situation I presume it wifi be
useless to endeavor to collect volunteers
for ono year. Time is precious ninl is of
tlie utmost importance. Every moment
is adding to the strength of our enemy.
Unless men are already organized, I
think it would be much'"the better way
to call out the ritle companies generally.
The men from our country had better
rendezvous ut Coshocton or Mt. Vernon,
and move on by the way of Sandusky,
must bring their arms with them,
for the:
- »I»n
PLEASANT PARAGRAPHS.
BorLER explosions are becomfrig so
numerous that vaccination appears neces
sary to keep them from breaking out.
—Philadelphia Chronicle-Jfrraid.
A Chicago restaurant keeper adver
tises “roast turkey and cram berry sails,"
and yet a hungry man might go where
they* spell better and fare worso.—New
Orleans Picayune.
" Dost !ot« me? Tell me once sgaln,
Mt llltle pootftjr toot*!”
With lore-lit eye* she sweet replies:
“Do IT You bet your boots!”
-MnUrn Argn.
The Cleveland J Ferald lias published
some verses entitled: “Why do I sing?"
anil written by a young woman. It is
probably because her father paid five
hundred dollars to n music teacher for
spoiling a good stocking darner.
At an undertakers’ conference in New
York recently, one undertaker complained
that tho sextons wero getting “all tho
craam of our btisinoss." What for Heav
en’s sake, is “tlio cream" of tho under
takers’ business?
IX oldon UniM, wh.n poople hoard
Soruo (windier liuco had rome Ui grief,
They used a cool old Saxon word,
Aud called that nun a “ ihlef.' 1
But language tilth a» that to-day
Upon !o«i nuny feeling* grate*,
Bo people amlle and ilinplr say,
” lie—* re-hypcthecatea/ ”
Tns man who journeyed long to spj|
upon the grave of his enemy found that
the said enemy was drowned in a lake
ami his body not recovered. Thero are
lota of things in this world to mako a
man mod.—Detroit Free Press.
The Galveston News says a man in
that city who hail a mule for sale, heal
ing that a friend in Houston wanted to
buy a mule, telegraphed to him: “ Dear
Friend—If you are looking for a No. 1
mule don't forget me."
An exulierant youth hails a supposed
acquaintanoo with “Hello, Joe,” but,
finding his mistake, adds: “ O, excuse
mo; I thouglif you wero another man J"
Laconic strnpger aus
Buffalo P.xpre
‘I am."—
contract lmd better bo mndo by s<
person to furnish them with provisions.
They will be compelled to move with
their blankets only. 1 would suggest to
you the expediency of leaving the details
of the business from the Third Division
to tlio Adjutant General. Ho is upon
the spot uinl onn do it. But it is no
time to he endeavoring to equalize the
business exactly among the resjK'ctive
brigades, regimeuts, battalions, compa
nies, Ac. It is one of those cases con
templated by tlio law, whore it is proper
to raise tho whole from any ono portion.
In the event of your committing to
tho Adjutant General tho details of the
business in the Third Division, 1 have
written him respecting the call upon my
own brigade.
Very respectfully, I am, sir, your
obedient servant. Lew. Gasb.
Gutting It Short.
“ Once, during the days of my early
struggles iu the profession," said Edwin
Booth, “and while wo were barn-storm
ing down iu Virginia, mi odd thing hap
pened, which illustrates tho shifts to
which a ‘ poor player' wns then put in
order to get along. Wo were playing—
1 showing ’ they called it then—one
night nt a little place called Lee's Land
ing, und the tobacco warehouse wo had
improvised into u theater wns crowded
by tho planters for miles around. We
had arranged to tnko tho weekly steamer
that we expected would touch there late
that night, and between the nets were all
busy puekiug up. Tlio play was the
' Merchant of Venice,' and wo were just
going on fur the court scene, where tho
Jew insista on his pound of flesh, when
wo heard a whistle Mow, and the man
ager came running in to say that the
Btcuuicr lmd arrived ahead of time and
would leave again in ten minutes.
“As that was our only chance of get
ting down to tho Chesapeake for a week,
3 naturally in a terrible quan
dary. ‘If we stop right here anil ex
plain,'said tho manager, ' the audience
will think they are being cheated, anil
;o in for a free fight. The only thing
io can do is for you fellows to get up
oiuu sort of a uutural-likc. impromptu
ruling for the piece, and ring down tho
drop. Go right ahead, ludies anil gen
tlemen, aud take your cue from Ned,
here,’ and he hurried away to get the
luggage on board.
“If it had been in any other quarter
of thocountry I wouldn’t have had t he as
surance to do ns lie said, hut the ignor-
of the ‘clay-eaters, ’ or ordinary
Virginians of those days, was something
marvelous, so when old George Ruggles,
who wns doing Shylock, got to where he
sharpens his knife on his shoe, I walked
solemnly up to him aud suid:
“ ' You’re bound to have the flesh, are
you?’
“‘You bet your life,’, suid George,
uuder tho impression that ho was im
provising very skillfully indeed.
“ 4 Now, I’ll muko you ono moro dick
er,’ I continued. ‘In addition to the
bag of ducats, I’ll throw in two kegs of
uiggerheud terback, a shotgun uml a
„)ouplo of tbo best coon dogs iu tho
State. ’
“ ' I'm blamed if I don’t do it,’ said
Bhylook, much to tho approbation of
the audienco, who were tobacco-raisers
and coon hunters from tho ground up.
“ ‘And to show that thero is no hard
feeling,’ said Portia, tucking up her
legal gown, 4 we’ll wind up with a Vir
ginity reel.’
“Ami us the prompter struck up
1 Monuio Musk’ on liis fiddle, we danced
a couple of figures, aud made u break for
the boat as tne curtuiu fell, amid thun
ders of applause.
“ When we got on board, tho steamer’s
Captain, who hod witnessed tho conclu
sion of tho play with grekt delight, ten
dered the troune- tho compliment of a
Lot supper, anu remarked, sh we sat
down to what was a rare treat in those
‘palmy days of tlio drama: ’
“ 4 I’d like to see tho wholo of that
play sometime, gentlemen. I’m blamed
if I thought that fellow Bhakspeare had
ao much snap to him.' ”
The Btate of Louisiana levies a poll-
tax for the benefit of the public schools
upon all male inhabitants over 21 years
of age. It is a lion on all property of
tho tax-payer, and employers are liable
for the tax of those they employ, pro-
vided the service has been for ninety
No Adolphus, newspaper men do not
havo duplicates of the last straw that
broke the oamel's back. They aro uso
ful, as you snv, but newspaper men are
so accustomed to d—k—g tho othor
way, they don’t caro a straw about
them!
A minister overtook a Quaker lady
and politely assisted her in opening u
gate. As alio was a compartive stranger
iu town, ho said: “You don't know,
perhaps, that I am Mr. . Haven’t
you heard mo preach?" “ I have heard
you try,” was the quick rejoinder.
“As for mo,” says Mme. Z., whoso
husband is a member of tlio Assembly,
“1 always do my shopping when tho
Senate is discussing the appropriation
bills. Then, you see, my husband is ac
customed to Hiieh largo figures that my
bills look small to him.”—/Vc twh paper.
This is the particular time of tho year
when tho citizen is attacked with u ko-
voro cftso of economy, nnd immediately
cuts off his entire list of newspapers.
There is one paper ho does not relin
quish, however. It is his paper of to
bacco.—JiocUand ('ourier.
The man who works in a factory, his
pay day conies once a month; but tho
mail who works at ditching has his spado
day oftener than that.— Marathon Inde
pendent. Hoe! Hoe! Fork conscience
sako shove 'long this pun, aud don’t har
row up our feelings in this way.
A Yankee tobacco cliewer was in the
habit of declaring nlmut once a month
that he would “never chew another
piece,” but broko bis pledge ns often as
lie mado it. On one occasion, shortly
after he had “broken off," ho was seen
taking another chew, “ Why,” said his
triend, “ you told mo you had givi i up
that habit, but I see you are at it again.
“Yes,” ho replied, “I have gono to
chewing and left off lying.”
precinct* of abuse, and Op* receive a "“rwhich.heuV
prompt and vtgoroua check.-TVono ^ , mp i ny „ or
freeman, j em pi 0 y G( j u case of non-payment of tho
There aro four newspapers in Texas tax, may be seized and, after ton days’
edited by women. Does this account I advertisement, sold to pay tho tar
for the unsettled alnto of the male popu- costB. The tax in never to bo less
lation ol tho B tuto?—Boston Courier. ti uor more than ti. 60.
A Short History or Wheat.
ic varieties of wheat aro number
less, and their characters vary widely
under tlio influence of cultivation and
linnite. There are suid to bo 180 dis
tinct varieties in tho museum of Cornell
University. On tho slopes of tho
iintnins of Mexico anil Xulnpa tho
luxnrianco of vegetation is such that
heat does not form ears. In Jupan, it
said, tho wheat has been so dovcloi>cd
v the Japanese farmers that, no matter
how much in au lire is used, tlio straw
will not grow larger, though the length
J the ear increases. The height is
■ly more than two feet, and often not
u than twenty inches. Through se
lection, winter wheat has been changed
to summer wheat in three years, and
ummor wheat, converted in tho same
timo to winter wheat. In general, wheat
is the most esteemed of tho cercul pro
ductions, but iu Abyssinia, according to
Farkyns, tho flour of “toff” or 44 (lu-
sso,” scarcely palatable to Europeans,
j referred by the natives to auy other
grain.
Isis was supposed to havo introduced
wheat iuto Egypt, Demeter into Greece,
and tho Emperor Olim-Wong into Chinn,
about &000 B. G. In Euriqie it V.WL-
ultivuted beforo tlio period of history,
a samples havo been recovered from
the laoustriue dwellings of Switzerland.
In England it was probably not culti
vated by the ancient Britons, but the
Anglo-Saxons, when Bedo wrote, early
in the eighth century, sowed their wheat
in tho spring, anil iu tlio days of Queen
Elizabeth its cultivation was but par
tial. Indeed, wheat was an artielo of
comparative luxury till nearly tho sev
enteenth century. In Iudin wheat
seems not to bo native, but introducers
of its Sanscrit name signifies 44 food of
tho barbarian ;’’ yot three varieties are
mentioned in the Bhavaprakasa, one of
which, a large grained, is suid to havo
come from tho West, und another, a
small-grained or ljeardless wheat, is
sniil to havo boon indigenous to Miildlo
India.
Tho first wheat raised in tho “Now
World ” was sown by the Spaniards on
tho Island of Isabella, in January, 1494,
and March 30 tho ears wore gathered.
The foundation of the wheat harvest of
Mexioo is said to havo been throe or four
grains carefully cultivated in 1680, and
preserved by a slave of Cortez. The
crop of Quito was raised by a Francis
can monk in front of tho convent. Gar-
cillosso do la Vorga affirms that in Peru,
up to 1517, wheaten bread had not been
sold nt Cusco. Wheat was first sown
by Gosnohl on Outtylmnk, one of the
Elizabeth islands, in Buzzard’s bay, off
Massachusetts, in 1602, whdn he first
explored tlio const. In 1604, on the
Island of 8t. Croix, near Calais, Me.,
the Bieur do Monts had some wheat
sown, which flourished finely. In 1611
tho first wheat appears to havo been
sown in Virginia. In 1626 samples of
wheat grown in the Dutch colony at
Now Netherlands were shown in Hol
land. It is probable that wheat was
sown in tho Plymouth colony prior to
1029 f though wo find no record of_it,
and in 1629 r t ‘
gland to
wheat $