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ROSSUM, THE BEAU.
The following old song, which we re
produce, will be recognized by all of our
aged citizens:
Now, soon on some soft, sunny morning,
The first thing my neighbors shall know,
Their ears shall be met with the warning—
Come bury old Rossum, the beau.
My friends then so neatly shall dress me *
In linen as white as the snow,
And in my new coffin shall press me,
And whisper : Poor, Rossum, the beau.
And when I’m to be buried, I reckon,
The ladies will all like to go ;
Let them form at the foot of my coffin,
And follow old Rossum, the beau.
Then shape out a couple of dqrnicks.
Place one at the head and the toe;
And do not fail to scratch on it—
Here lies old Rossum, the beau.
Then take you these dozen good fellows
And stand them all round in a row,
And drink out of a big-bellied bottle,
Farewell to old Rossum, the beau.
SOME DAY.
A SONG.
You smooth the tangles from my hair
With gentle touch and tenderest care,
And count the years ere you shall mark
Bright silver threads among the dark—•
Smiling the while to hear me say—
“ You’ll think of this some day—
Some day!”
Some day I shall not feel as now
Your soft hands move upon my brow;
1 shall not slight your light commands,
And draw your tresses through my hands;
I shall be silent and obey—
And you—you wi 11 not laugh that day—
Some day !
And while your tears are falling hot
Upon the lips that answer not,
You’ll take from these one treasured tress
And leave the rest to silentness—
Remember that I used to say,
“ You’ll think of this again some day—
Some day!”
Starvation Among the Indians,
A Denver newspaper publishes a letter
from Red Cloud Agency, which gives a
touching picture of the sufferings of a
body of Arrapahoe Indians who live in
the vicinity upon a reservation. After
stating that they hang about the post
and fish refuse from swill barrels, and
relating some instances of extreme suf
fering, the writer says :
“ They are starving, and their papooses
are starving. They have ponies that
they want to * swap,’ and money they
want to pay for provisions, but the pro
visions are not to be had. The agent
has none ; the trader has none. The post
commissary officer is not allowed to sell
to them, and they are not allowed to go
off the reservation to buy. If they
were allowed, the nearest market
is seventy-five miles aw ay. So they are
come to starve. The children are perfect
little skeletons, arms and legs like pipe
stems, and faces bony, gaunt and odd
looking, with an ashy, unnatural com
plexion that at once attracts attention.
A woman had one of them, a little three
year old half-breed child, with lovely
brown eyes, light l air and fair complex
ion at the post to-day, trying to trade
him oft’ for a sack of flour. Now, some
body is certainly to blame for this state
of affairs. Somebody is responsible for
the starving of these people. They have
submitted to the authority of the govern
ment, and this is their reward. Who
can blame them if, starved into despera
tion, they leave their reservation, kill
cattle that do not belong to them and
shoot a man who resists them?”
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A Monster Hotel.— The Palace Ho
tel, now nearing completion, in San
Francisco, is the largest hotel structure
in the world. It covers 90,250 sqyare
feet of ground, and is seven stories high;
24,061,000 bricks were used in its walls,
3,000 tons of cast and wrought iron, and
4,561,524 feet of lumber and timber. It
contains, 1,060 windows, 377 of which
are hay windows; 926 rooms, none of
less size than 16x16 feet, and 388 hath
rooms. It contains over three miles oi‘
halls; there are five passenger elevators
and seven grand stairways; there are
4,540 doors, 9,000 gas burners, and thir
ty-two miles of gas and water pipe. It
requires 50,000 yards, or twenty-eight
miles of carpet. It can accommodate
1,200 guests, besides 360 servants and
employees. And, best of all, there is
not a dark or windowless room in the
house. It has been decided to run a
length of heavy plate glass,sixteen inches
high, along the top of the balusters and
balustrades. This plate glass will reflect
the gas jets, and at night the interior
courts will present a dazzling scene.
It is related of Mr. Beecher that he
once so fascinated a young man by his
patriotic appeals that the ill-starred
youth enlisted, went to the war and was
killed. Then Mr. Beecher visited the
deceased’s mother, declared he was the
assassin of her boy, and went on so that,
instead of his comforting her, she had to
“turn in" and comfort him. There was
also another young man upon whom a
distinguished clergyman had such an in*
j fhience that he grew discontented with his
j home, went West, and was hung for
I stealing a mule. Then the distinguished
clergyman sought oat this voting man’s
mother for the purpose of binding up
her wounded heart; but as soon as he
crossed her threshold, she seized him,
; threw him down and mopped him around
the floor until there was scarcely any
breath left in his body. Such is tlie
difference in Women.
Important if True. — A physician in
Laramie, Wyoming, states that he has
i just discharged a case of confluent small
! pox, without a pit, and he gave the rem
edy he used. He painted the face of his
patient with collodion and ivory black,
applied as often as necessary, to keen up
a complete mask.
Costly furniture—lndian bureaus.
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 30, 1875.
BURIED ALIVE.
Strange Authentic Stories of Persons Bur
ied While Living •
We select the following as cases well
authenticated:
THE CASE OF .VICTORINE LAFOUKCADE.
Victorine Lafourcade, young, beauti
ful and accomplished, had a great num
ber of admirers. .Among them was a
journalist named Jules Bossouett, whose
chances of becoming the successful sui
tor seemed to he the best, when suddenly
Victorine, contrary to all expectation,
accepted the hand of a rich banker named
Renelle. Bossouett was inconsolable,
and his honest heart ached all the more
when he learned that tlie marriage of his
lady-love wasunhappy. Renelle neglec
ted his wife in every possible way, and
finally began to maltreat her.
This state of things lasted two years,
when Victorine died—at least so it was
thought. She was entombed in a vault
of the cemetery of her native home.
Jules Bossouett assisted at the ceremony.
Still true to his love, and well-nigh be
side himself with grief, he conceived the
romantic idea of breaking open the vault
and securing a lock of the deceased’s hair.
That night, therefore, when all was still,
he scaled the wall of the cemetery, and,
hv a circuitous route, and approached the
vault. When he had broken open the
uoor and entered the vault he lighted a
caudle and proceeded to
OPEN THE COFFIN.
At the moment when he bent over the
supposed corpse, scissors in hand, Victo
rine opened her eyes and stared him full
in the face. He uttered a cry and sprang
hack; and immediately recovering his
self-possession, he returned to the coffin,
covered its occupant’s lips with kisses,
and soon had the satisfaction of seeing
her in full possession of all her faculties.
When Victorine was sufficiently recover
ed, they left the churchyard and went
to Bossouet’s residence, where a physician
administered such remedies as were nec
essary to effect the complete recovery
of the unfortunate woman. This proof
of Bossouett’s love naturally made a deep
impression on Victorine. She repented
her past fickleness, and resolved to fly
with the romantic Jules to America.
There they lived happily together, with
out, however, being able to fully over
come their longing to return to their na
tive land. Finally the desire became so
strong to revisit - the scenes of their youth
that they decided to brave the danger at
tendant on a return, and embarked at
New York for Havre, where they arrived
in Ju1y,1839, Victorine, in the interim,
had naturally changed very greatly, and
Jules felt confident that her former hus
band would not recognize her. In this
hope lie was disappointed. Renelle had
the keen eye of a financier, and recog
nized Victorine at the first glance. This
strange drama ended with a suit brought
by the hanker for the recovery of his
wife, which was decided against him on
the ground that his claim was outlawed.
The scene of the following two cases,
with which we shall end our review, is in
England: One Edward Stapleton died—
as was supposed—of typhus fever. The
disease had been attended by such
strange phenomena throughout that the
physicians were desirous to make a post
mortem examination of the case. The
relatives, however, postively refused
their consent. The physicians conse
quently decided to steal the body—not
an unusual thing in England—in order
to satisfy their curiosity. They commu
nicated with a band of rascals who at
that time made a business of stealing
bodies, and three days after the funeral
had the body of Stapleton brought to the
dissecting-room of a neighboring clinic.
When they made the first incision, which
was across the abdomen, they were struck
with the fresh appearance of the flesh,
and the clearness and limpidity of the
blood. One of the physicians proposed
that they should subject the body to the
action of a galvanic battery. This they
did, and obtained abnormal results ; the
movements and contractions of the mus
cles were more powerful than are usually
observed. Toward evening a young stu
dent suggested that they should make an
incision in the pectorial muscles, and in
troduce the poles ot the battery into the
wound. This was done, when, to their
amazement, the body rolled from the ta
ble, remained a second or two on its feet,
stammered out two or three unintelligi
ble words and then fell heavily to the
floor. For a momment the learned doc
tors were confounded, but soon regaining
their presence of mind, they saw’ that
Stapleton was still alive,although he had
again fallen into his former lethargy.
They now applied themselves to resus
citating him, in which they weresuecess
ful. He afterwards said that during
the whole time he was fully conscious of
his condition, and of what was going on
around him. The words he attempted
to utter were;
“ I AM ALIVE !”
A somewhat similar experience was
that of an English artillery officer who,
in a fall from his horse, had fractured
his skull, and was trepanned. He was
in a fair way to recover, when one day he
fell into a lethargy so profound that he
was thought to be dead, and,in due time,
was buried. The following day, beside
the grave in which he had been interred,
another citizen of London was buried,
and at last one of the assistant? chanced
to stand on it, Suddenly the man cried
out that he felt the ground move under
his feet as though the occupant of the
grave would find his way to the surface.
At first the man was thought to be the
victim of hallucination, but the earn
estness with which he persisted attracted
the attention of who caused
the grave to be .opened. They found
that the officer had forced the coffin lid,
and had made a partially successful ef
fort to raise himself up. He was entire
ly unconscious when they got him out, but
it was evident that the effort to extricate
himself had been made but a short time
before. He was carried to a hospital
near by, where the physicians, after a
time,
SUCCEEDED IN RESUSCITATING HIM,
He stated that, for an hour before his
last swoon, he was fully conscious of the
awful situation he was in. The grave
had fortunately been very hastily and
lightly filled with clay, and here and
there the continuity of the mass had been
broken by large stones, which allowed
the air to penetrate to the coffin. He
had tried in vain to make his cries heard
and finally, partly in consequence of
having an insufficient supply of air, and
partly in consequence of the mental ag
ony he suffered, he had fallen into the
unconscious state in which he was found.
Another Englishman describes what
he experienced, while lying in a coffin in
a perfectly conscious state, in the follow
ing w’ords : “It would be impossible to
find words that would express the agony
and despair that I suffered. Every blow
of the hammer with which they nailed
down the coffin-lid went through my
brain like the echo of a death knell. I
would never have believed that the hu
man heart could endure such terrible ag
ony and not burst into pieces. When
they let me slowly down into the ground,
I distinctly heard the noise the coffin
made every time it rubbed against the
sides of the grace.” This man also
awoke under the knife of a doctor. He,
like Stapleton, had been stolen, and car
ried to the dissecting-room of a medical
school. At the moment the professor
made a slight incision down the abdomen
the spell was broken, and he sprang
to his feet.
Wit and Justice in Missouri.
It is well-known that some of the
Judges in Missouri were very reluctant
to enforce the law against ministers of
the gospel for exercising their profession
without having talqen the test oath, and
availed themselves of every pretense to
discharge those who were accused.
Three ministers,charged with the crime
of preaching “ The Glorious Gospel of
the Son of God,” were arragned before a
certain Judge. They were regularly
indicted, and it was understood that the
proof against them was very clear.
“ Are you a preacher?” said the Judge
to one of them.
“ Yes, sir,” replied the culprit.
“To what denomination do you be
long ?”
“lam a Christian, sir.” (With dig
nity.)
“ A Christian! What do you mean
by that? Are not all preachers Chris
tians 5”
“ I bcioog to the sect usually called,
but wrongly called, Campbellites.” (Not
so much dignity.)
“ Ah! Then you believe in baptizing
people in order that they may he horn
again, do you ?”
“Ido, sir.” (Defiantly.)
“ Mr. Sheriff, discharge that man. He
is an innocent man 1 He is indicted for
preaching the gospel, and there is not a
word of gospel in the stuff he preaches!
It is only some of Alexander Campbell’s
nonsense. Discharge the man !”
Exit Campbellite, greatly rejoicing.
“ Are you a preacher ?” said the Judge,
addressing the second criminal.
“ I am sir,” said the miscreant.
“ Of what denomination are you ?”
“lam a Methodist, sir,” (His looks
showed it.)
“Do you believe in falling from grace ?”
“I do, sir.” (Without hesitation.)
“ Do you believe in sprinkling people
instead of baptizing them ?”
“ I believe that people can he baptized
by sprinkling.” (Much offended.)
“ Do you believe in baptizing babies ?”
“It is my opinion, sir, that infants
ought to be baptized,” (Indignantly.)
“Not a word of Scripture for anything
of the kind, sir!” shouted his Honor.
“ Mr. Sheriff, turn that man loose 1 He
is no preacher of the gospel ? The gos
pel is truth, and there is not a word of
truth in what that man teaches 1 Turn
him loose f It is ridiculous pretences!
Turn him loose!”
Methodist disappears, not at all hurt
in his feelings by the judicial abuse he
has received.
“What ere you sir?” said the Judge
to the third felon.
“Some people call me a preacher,
sir.” (Meekly.)
“ What is your denomination ?”
“I am a Baptist.” (Head up.}.
His Honor’s countenance fell, and he
looked sober and sad. After a pause he
said :
“Do you believe in salvation by
grace ?”
“Ido.” (Firmly.)
“ Do you teach that immersion only is
baptism?”
“ That is my doctrine.” . (Earnestly.)
“ And you baptize none but those who
believe in Jesus Christ ?”
“ That imy faith and practice.” (With
emphasis.)
“ My friend, I fear it will go hard with
you. I see you are indicted for preach
ing the gospel, and it appears to me by
your own confession that you are guilty.”
Baptist looked pretty blue.
“ May it please your Honor,” said
the Baptist’s counsel, springing to his
feet, “ that man never preached the gos
pel. I have heard him say a hundred
times that he only tried. I have heard
him try ravself.”
“ Mr. Sheriff’, discharge this man ! He
is not indicted for trying. There is
nothing said about the mere effort!
Let him go, sir! lam astonished that
the State Attorney should annoy the
Court with such frivolous indictments V*
Exit Baptist, determined to “try”
again.
Court adjourned for “ iicker.”
—Tipsv fellow on seeing street-lamp
with letters on it: “ Well, I’ll be (hie) j
damd ef somebody haint stuck an ad- j
vertisemeut on the (hie) moon
DEVILTRIES.
—Head-waiters—Barbers.
—Something to boot—Lightning-rod
peddlers.
—T he way for a desolate old bachelor
to secure bettor quarters is to take a bet
ter half.
—A beau dismissed by a belle, and an
arrow dismissed by a bow, are apt to start
off in a hurry.
Halo” bonnets probably derive
their name Irom the exclamation of hus
bands when they see the bill.
M hy does a duck go under water?
For diver’s reasons. Why does she go
on land ? For sun-dry reasons.
. —Barber—“ Thin out your hair a bit,
sir ?’ Tom—“No, never miud, my
wife attends to that. Just oil it well
however.”
—V hen you see a man sit down sud
denly on the street, you may bet a dollar
he has covered a piece of peach peel with
his heel.
—An old man named Hefferts cap
tured three turtles on Friday, which sold
for twelve dollars. He began life as a
poor boy.
—One of our lightning-rod men thinks
we ought to say a good word for his busi
ness, We will when we think the public
will stand it,
—A friend whispers in our ear that
he knows of a motive power which will
lay the Keely motor in the shade—his
mother-in-law’s tongue.
—Y esterday we overheard a voter from
the rural districts say that he “ had voted
every darned ticket except the constitu
tional commandments, anyhow,”
—“I must marry that girl,” said a
disconsolate young man. “ She whistles,
and it’ll never do to trifle with the af
fections of a girl that whistles,”
—Foreigners are astonished that the
country has not yet illuminated at large
in honor of the birth of Grant’s grand
baby. Break a bottle of whisky on deck.
That will do.
—“Sir” said an old judge to a voung
lawyer, “ you would do well to ‘pluck
some of the feathers from the wings of
your imagination and stick them in the
tail of your judgement.”
—An Indiana farmer, after drinking
some hard cider, endeavored to milk his
pet mule, and will, in consequence, have
to repair the roof of his barn in the spot
where his head went through.-
—Jesse Pomeroy is to be hanged on
October S. Fie wouldn’t care so much
about it if they’d let him out for a little
refreshment in the meantime—-just to
slice up a child or two, you know.
—The other day, after an Alabama
farmer had been visited by the third tor
nado inside of four weeks” he nailed up
a sign bearing the words, “ Now, dum
ye, blow all the summer if you want to !”
—The average Brooklyn lodger doesn’t
hunt through his soup for chicken any
more, but, glancing sadly up into the
landlady’s face, timidly asks, “Are you
quite sure you dipped any feathers in
this water ?”
—A Georgetown farmer complaining
of the effects of the early June drought,
says: “ Everything is backward; hav is
backward, grain is backward. Why!
Even the Fourth of July didn’t come un
til the fifth.”
—Bonner, of the New York Ledger, is
responsible for much of the prevailing
distress. For years young people have
been reading his delusive romances and
advice to marry young, and now there are
thousands of people with large families
on their hands and nothing to eat but
New York Ledgers.
—A Delaware street woman made a
raid to the Sunny River hills y<terday,
and gathered three spider bites, five briar
scratches, knocked the heel oft her gaiter
and the skin of her elbow, besides catch
ing a headache that laid her up all the
afternoon. But she got a pint of black
berries, worth 4 cents.
—A little girl who had been pordering
on the Lord’s prayer, said, “ Mother,
does God keep a bakery?” “Why no,
my child; why do you ask ?” After a
few moments’ reflection the little one
said, “ Well, I’d like to know what pap
wants to be bothering him for bread for
every day, if he ain’t in the business !”
—Many amusing incidents occur dur
ing the registration business. Yester
day as intelligent-looking darkey went
to Major Snodgrass to “ radish,” as he
called it. He stood the oath until that
part about supporting the laws of the
United States and State of Alabama was
reached, when he ordered a halt, and re
marked : “ I’ll vote for de United States,
hot nary time for Alabama.” He re
turned without registering.
—“ Got the ’phorby, have ye? Can’t
swallow any liquid, eh ?” she obsered to
her husband, who had refused water for
two days. “ Well, we’ll see;” and the
good old woman drew the cork from the
whiskey bottle and placed the nozzle
near Ler liege’s moitth. Miliss’ face
emerged from its gloom like a full moon
from behind a cloud, and glancing at his
wife with a quizzical expression, he said:
“ Come to think of it Jane, I don’t believe
that dog had any any any teeth.”
—A small boy went into Dr. Hitch
cock’s office, and said to the Doctor:
“ You’d better go up on Rankin street.”
“ Wliat for?” enquired the Doctor, as he
reached down several knives and a saw.
“ There’s a fellow up there with a gun
that’s cracked on the end, and I
shouldn’t wonder if it busted putty
soon,” was the rejoinder. The Doctor
laid down his instruments and assi.-ted
the young gentleman out of his office
gracefully.
VOL. I—NO. 43.
An Ungallant Joke.
[From the St. Paul Pioneer Press.[
She came from Detroit, Michigan, and
her great pride was being an invalid.
She lost no opportunity in stating that
she came to Minnesota to recuperate. She
did not hesitate to enter into conversa
tion with any person she came in contact
with, giving advice, climatological or
physiological, to invalids, and seeking
the same from those of robust constitu
tion. Her conversation was always pre
faced with the introductory inquiry, so
common to visitors, “ Did you come here
for your health?” She thus addressed a
stalwart, ruddy-visnged young man at
the dinner table of the Metropolitan a few
days, since, and the following dialogue
ensued;
“ Yes, madam, T came here probably
the weakest person you ever saw. I had
no use of my limbs ,' in fact, my hones
were but little tougher than cartlages. I
had no intelligent control of a single
muscle, nor the use of a single faculty/'
“ Great heavens!” exclaimed the aston
ished auditor, “ and you lived 7*
“ I did, Miss, although I was devoid of
sight, was absolutely toothless, unable to
articulate a single word, and dependent
on others for everything, being com
pletely deprived of all power to help
myself. I commenced to gain immedi
ately upon my arrival, and have scarcely
experienced a sick day since, hence I
can conscientiously recommend the cli
mate.”
“ A wonderful case,” said the lady,
“ but do you think your lungs were af
fected ?”
“ They were prohhahly sound, hut pos
sessed of so little vitality that, but for the
most careful nursing, they must have
ceased their functions,”
“ I hope you found kind friends,sir?”
“ Indeed 1 did, madame ; it is to them
and the pure air of Minensota that I owe
my life. My father’s family were with
me, hut, unfortunately, my mother wa:*
prostrated by severe illness during the
time of niv greatest prostration.”
“ llow sad! Pray, what was your
diet and treatment ?”
“ My diet was the simplest possible,
consisting only of milk, that being the
only food ray system would bear. As for
treatment, I depended entirely upon the
life-giving properties of Minnesota air,
and took no medicine except an occa
sional narcotic when very restless. My
improvement dated from my arrival*
My limbs soon became strong, my sight
and voice came to me slowly, and a lull
set of teeth, regular and firm, appeared.”
“ Remarkable, miraculous ! Surely,
sir, you must have been greatly reduced
in flesh?”
“ Madam I weighed but nine pounds
I was born in Minnesota. Good day.”
Cotton Crop Report.
The Committee on Statistics of the Au
gusta Cotton Exchange has submitted
the annexed report for the month of July.
The report is based upon seventy-six re
plies from twenty-eight counties. Ave
rage date of replies, July 15th:
First Question —What has been the
character of the weather since July 15th ?
Answer—Seventy-four reply very fa
vorable and seasonable. One, too much
rain ; and one, too dry.
Second Question —Has the weather
been more or less favorable up to this
time than during the same time last
year ?
Answer—Seventy-one reply more favo
rable ; five reply less favorable.
Third Question —How are the stands in
your section, and how do they compare
with same time last year?
Answer—Stands invariably good, and
better than last year.
Fourth Question —Is the cotton plant
forming, blooming, and boiling well ?
Answer—The cotton plant is forming
and blooming well, and with the excep
tion of late cotton is boiling well.
Fifth Question —Do the laborers con
tinue to work well?
Answer —With two exceptions, the la
borers are working well and satisfactory.
Sixth Question —What is the present
condition of the cotton crop in your sec
tion, and how does it compare with same
time last year.
Answer— ■ Seventy-three report the c m
dition very good, and better tha i last
year. Three report not so good and la
ter than last year.
Seventh Question—State any favorable
or unfavorable circumstances relative to
the growth or condition of the cotton
crop in your section not covered by the
above question ?
Answer—Favorable —The crop is well
worked and clean, and growing finely.
Unfavorable—A few report a too rapid
growth of the weed. Three report some
slight rust, and two report some lice.
Tornado in Virginia.—A terrific
tornado swept over Danville, Va., and vi
cinity on Monday night, the track of the
tornado being about a mile wide. lioofs
were blown oIT, chimneys blown down,
and great damage inflicted on the crops.
There are many reports of loas of life,
which need confirmation.
At a school examination in Connec
ticut the other day a girl stepped
forward and began to read her “ compo
sition.” It was headed “ The Beecher
Trial,” and she was going on to “ Adam
and Eve partook of the forbiden fruit”—-
when the lady principal rushed forward
and led the astonished pupil to a seat,
thus depriving the world of what no doubt
would have been a valuable addition to
the scandal literature.
A simple mode of keeping butter in
warm weather is to sit over the dish con
taining it a large flower-pot or unglazcd
earthenware crock, inverted. Wrap a
wet cloth arouud the vessel, and place
the whole where there is a draft of; ir.