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YVHBPB is thjb Btatk uv Kentucky, f
August 23*1875. j
The Corners hev red the speeches uv
Honest Ole Bill Allen and that other gile
lees patriot, General Saihyoofcl Cary, uv
Ohio, on the momenchus subjiek *av More
Wfehey, till they hev been worked up to
a state uv absloot madnis. The Corners
are j Ist the same ez all other impeeeoon
iouir-they jprnt More Money, and the
idee of Honest Ole Bill Allen that to get
it, al 1 you hed to .do wuz to ishoo filled
*|ir idee3 qy fiuansc eggsaekly. it is Sim-*
pie, effeetooal, and ezily understood.
I determined to put the id&t irTto prac
tice, and to that end sejested to my
friends the organizashen uv a bank uv
ishoo, under the name and title.uv “The
Onlimited Trust and Confidence Compa
ny uv Confkirir X Roads ”
I hed some trouble to git the citizens
into it, but I finally succeeded. I ex
plained to the people that more money
wood be an advantage to the debtor class
wich, az nine-tenths uv ’em wuz in debt
to Bascom, settled them. They hailed
with joy any movement that wood wipe
out their scores and givcjtheia new credit
at his bar.
To Bascom and them ez I intended to
hev ih tlje management I showed that
more money meant increased trade, and
ez the money wood all be ishood on our
credit it woodent cost anything but the
printing ;we coodetit lose anything. So
the bank wuz started. I wuz made Pres
ident ; Issaker Gavitt, Cashier ; Bascom,
Vice-President; with a board uv Direc
tors consisting of Kernal McPeltcr and
the venerable Deekin Pogrom. We put
the Deekin on becoz he is bald-headed,
and therefore respectable. His bisnis is
to sit in the front window reedin an in
flashen paper. It inspires confidence.
Yoo have to watch him to keep him from
hevin the paper upside down, but in this
community that don’t matter, ez very
few know the difference more’n he docs.
It wuz forclinit that our bankin room
wuz lokatejj immejitly under the printiu
offi i, ez we kin let the printed notes wich
we ishoo down to the President’s desk by
a rope. It saves labor, wich is a great
pint in a ins tit notion like ours.
The theory on with our paper is ishood
is very simple. The company ishoo it
and the people take it. We have no time
fixed for reuempshun, fur the beauty uv
the bizness is that we don’t never intend
to redeem. Our notes reeds :
“ The Onlimited Trust and Confidence
Company of Conledrit X Roads (wich is
in the State uv Kentucky) promises to
pay the bearer One Dollar.”
We don’t say when, where, or how,
and therein is the strength uv the enter
prise.
Our first ishoo was reseeved with some
hesitashen.
“ Where is our secoority ?” demanded
one farmer to whom we offered it in pay
ment for a load uv wheat.
“ Faith in-the company!” lansw r ered,
lookin at him pityinly. “Gaze onto that
face,” I resoomed, pintin to Deekin Po
gram, who rather spiled the effect by
brushin off a fiy that hedalited on his
nose ; “ look at that face and then ask
for secoority.”
. “ When is it to be redeemed ?” asktan
other.
“ It never wants to be redeemed;” wuz
my answer. “We shel be libral, and
when a note wears out we will give you
another. Wat do you want it redeemed
fur? Money ishood on faith needs no
redempshun. We buy your produce
with it, you yoose it to by your goods,and
so it goes round and round in a cirkle,
dispensin blessins wherever it lites. Ez
long.ez yoo take it wat do yoo want uv
anything else?”
Another remarkt that it wuz his idee
that paper money wuz all to be redeemed
in gold.
“ Gold,” Lpromptly replied, “isplayed
out. Gold is merchandise. Our Demo
cratic brethren iu Ohio hev desided that
money is simply promises to pay, and
that it don’t matter on what material that
promise is stampt —whether gold, silver,
iron, shells or copper. We shel put ourn
on paper, cos it’s the,cheapest. We shel
hev no extravagance about this bank.”
Pollock, the lllinoy disturber, in the
most brootal manner, refoozed to tech it,
and consekently his biznis suffered. One
shoemaker from Ohio followed soot, and
undertook to argoo agin*o much money,
lie asserted the heresy that addin to the
volume of currency didn’t add nothin to
its. power. Sed lie :
“I will illustrate so the Corners will
comprehend. Yoo take a gallon uv whis
ky and add to it three gallons uv water.
Well, yoo have four gallons in the barl,
but there ain’t but one gallon uv square
drink in it, alter all.”
I ansered him by readin copious ex
trax from Cary's speeches, Bho win that
troo prosperity goes hand in hand with
plenty uv money.
They finally wuz convinst and took
our money for their grain; we hed to pay
them at the begiuiu twenty cents a bush
el more lor their wheat than other money
wood hev got it for. But we didn’t care,
for we knew we could make all uv it we
wanted.
It wuz astonishiu wat a era uv pros
perity set in on the Corners to wunst.
Money became ez plenty ez blackberries,
and everybody hed their pocket full nv
it. Land went up in valyoatwo hundred
per cent iu a week, and the price uv the
laessaries nv life raised eltally. Bascom
put up his new w hisky from 5 to 25 cents
per drink, au| sich wuz the run uv trade
heTied that hiswife and his oldest son, 1
Jefferson Davis Bascom, both hed to
stand in the bar to wait on customers.
TJie bank bought all the wheat aud other
produckshtins,and paid for’em m ifs own
money, and we paid sich prices ez hap
pened, for money wuz with us no object.,
The high prices brot all the trade for j
twenty miles around to the Corners, and 1
QRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1875.
all the dealers who wood takethe money
stood up to their middles in it.
Then my turn came. Pintin to the
crowds uv people in Bascom’s, I sed to
the dbnbter:
“ Wuz trade ez brisk ez that afore in
fl&shion?” which settled him.
Improvements are bein projected every
day. We hav organized a company to
build a branch road from here to Seces
sionville, another over to Bloody Fork,
and still another to Little Andersonville.
Five turnpike companies hev bin organ
ized, and three factories hev been actooal
lv commenced. The water power
on the Run jist above the village
is to be improved at wunst, and
Bascom is already at work on a
wjng to the back part of the grocery.
Town lots are doublin in valy'oo every
day, and new addishuns are being
petvooally laid out. Everybody isspeke
latin, and everybody is gettin rich. There
is flush times here. The people are all
inflash ionists.
I am President uv all these companies,
and I see no reason why I can’t put em
through. It is troo the price uv every
thing hez gone up. The commonest nig
ger labor is now up to $8 a day, and a
pare up pegged shoes is wuth S2O, but wat
difference does that make? So long ez
Simpkins, the printer, kin work his press
we kill manufaekter all the money we
want; and ez long ez we kin manufock
ter money, why there must be prosperity.
Bollock and Joe Bigler we ,hed to git
rid uv, for they wuz**prejoodissen the pea-,
pie. agin us. Pollock’s stocks uv goods
and his stbre wuz wuth, in the old times
before the' era uy iniashun, about a
thousand dollars, and Bascom and me
and Deekin Pogram went to him and of
fered him that sum for his property.
“ Things hez raised,” said he, and I
won’t sell for less than $2,000.”
We promptly accepted that price, and
I sent a boy back to the bank with a
bushel-basket to bring the money. When
it came Pollock refoosed'to take it.
“ I want greenbax.,”‘sed he.
“Our money iz jest ez good,” sez T.
“1 know it,” sez lie, “ but I have a
prejoodis in favor uv other money.”
There wuz a crowd about, and it wood
never do to acknowledge that any money
wuz better than ours. I took Bascom to
one side.
“ G. W.,” sez I, “ here is a golden op
portunity to do two things. First we
git rid ot a disturber, and second we give
confidence in our ishoos. Rake up what
greenbax yoo hev and pay him in em.
G. W. consented, and it wuz done in
the presence uv the people.
“ Yoo see,” sed I, “my friends, that
we’d jest ez soon pay greenbax cz our
own money.”
The crowd wuz reashoored and took
our hills ez readily ez ever. Pollock and
Bigler gave up the property, but they
didn’t leave the village. On the contra
ry, they went to the tavern to board and
jeered at us wuss than ever. They sed
they hed made more money by
this transackshun than they hed ever
made in the Corners since they hed land
ed there.
Deekin Pogram, Captain McPelterand
Issaker Gavitt hev all paid off mortgages
on their farms, and I hev borta farm an
am gettin up plans for a manshun befit
tiif my new* position. I am now happy
and contented. I hev finally struck my
gait. Bank Presidentin soots me—l wuz
born for it. Ef I wuz relijijustly inclined
Ishood pray for Willyutn Alien until I
hed corns on both knees.
Petroleum V. Nasby,
President nv the Onlimited Trust and
Confidence Company.
P. S.—There’s a triflin but still em
barrassin trouble okkurecl. The onprece
dented run on Bascom in cousekence uv
the plentifulness uv money exhausted
his stock ov likkers yesterday, and he
sent to Looisville for more. The likker
merchants *uv that mersenary city, ez a
mere matter uv form, generally require
Bascom to pay for goods afore they ship
em, to avoid mistakes. He sent oil sl,-
000 uv our money, and they refoozed to
take it! Ez he paid all the greenbax he
had to Pollock he can’t get supplies, and
the Corneis is parched. Wat to do we
don’t know. We don’t see why our
money shoodent go in Looisville.
It will take two weeks to ship enough
grain to Looisville to exchange for the
likker, aud then comes another terrible
quondary. Bascom demauds the grain
uv the bank’s ishoos ! And he insists on
hevin it at wat its wuth in Looisville in
greenbax ! Finanseerin ain’t the easiest
bizniss in the world. Our money startid
well enuff on the cirkle, but there seems
to be a break in it. Ef we let Bascom
hev that grain and take our own money
for it, were is our profits ? Ef we don’t
let him hev the grain, the Corners will
die uv drouth ! And ef he gits it our
money must be taken for it, for it’s all
he’s got. I cood cut the Gorjen knot by
failin, but then the wheat wood be at
tached. I shall hold on and see wat a
week will bring forth. Providence never
deserted me yit. p. V. N.
How Greenback Paper is Made.—
All the paper lor the money issued by
the United estates- Government is manu
factured on a sixty-two-ineb Foudrinier
machine, at Glen Mills, near West Ches
ter, Pa. Short pieces of red silk are
mixed with the pulp in the eugine, and
the finlVhedTstuff is conducted to the wire
without passing through any screens,
which might retain the silk threads. By
an arrangement above the wire cloth, a
short piece of fine blue silk thread is
dropped in upo?i the paper while it is
being formed. The upper side, on which
the* blhe silk is is the one used
for the face of tbe notes, and, from the
manner in which the threads are applied,
must show more distinctly than the re
verse side, although they* are imbedded
deeply enough to remain fixed. The mill
k.guaided night and day, by officials, to 1
prevent the abstraction of any paper.— j
Taper Trade Journal, i
THINGS H GENERAL.
“I bay, Pat, whai are you about—
sweeping out thft 9 room ?” “ No,” an
swered Pat; - am sweeping out the
dirt, and leavrng tbe room.”
1 A lazy fellow* falling a distance of
fifty feet, and escaping with only a few
scratches, a bystander remarked that
“he was too slow to fall fast enough to
hurt himself.” .
Josh Billikgs remarks : “The only
way to git thru this world and escape
censure and abuse,ls to take sum back
rode. You kant travel the main turn
pike and do it.” ? /
Ay editor at. a diotter party being
ed if he would have some pudding, re
plied in a fit ot abstraction : “ Owing
to the press of more important matter we
are unable to find room for it.”
“If Jones undertakes to pull my ears,”
said a loud-mouthed fellow on a street
corner, “ he will just have his hands full
now.” The crowd looked at the man’s
ears and thought so too.
“ Do you keep matches ?” asked a wag
of a country grocer. “ Oh, yes, all
kinds,” was the reply. “ Well, t’ll take
a trotting match,” said the wag. The
grocer handed him a box of pills.
A man whose experience indicated
that he was staggering from the exces
sive weight of a brick in his hat, being
asked if he was a Son of Temperance, re
plied ; “ Hie—no—no relation—not
even an acquaintance.”
The Astor Library contains 150,306
volumes, which are insured for $200,000.
One hundred and twenty-seven thousand
five hundred and seventy-nine books
were consulted during the past year, and
the original endowment of $400,000 has
been increased to $734,336 55.
A clergyman says: “lonce married
a handsome young couple, and as I took
the bride by the hand, at the close of the
ceremony, and gave her my warmest
congratulations, she tossed her pretty
face, and pointing to the bridegroom, re
plied, “ I think he is the one to be con
gratulated.”
Ann Garley, of New Haven, the un
fortunate woman whose scalp was torn
off nearly two years ago in a shirt fac
tory, and upon whose head the operation
of skin-grafting has been successfully
performed, has left the Connecticut hos
pital, and is now working as a domestic
in a hotel near that city.
An old lady observing a follow going
by her door, and supposing it to her son
Billy, cried out to him, “ Billy, where’s
my cow gone ?” The follow replied in a
contemptuous manner, “ Gone to the
devil, I suppose.” “ Well, as you are
going that way, said the old lady* I wish
you’d let dov/n the bars.”
A young man saw his washerwoman’s
sons rigged out in his best white vest the
other day, and as he read his own name
on the back of the collar there was a
rush of mingled feelings through his soul.
This is a record of Columbus, but we
have no doubt that something similar
has transpired in this bailiwick.
A country elergyman, who was just
recovering from the effects of a boil on
the end of his nose, coming to the city,
asked a couple of newsboys where Eighth
street was. They eyed him curiously,
and one of them said, “right around
there; but there’s no gin mill on that
street, old fellow.’ 5 See how deceptive
appearances are.
A young man of Wilmingion, N. C.,
having a short leave of absence from his
employer, remained away so long at a
fashionable summer resort that the em
ployer telegraphed for him to return, or
lie would lose liis place. “ Don’t want
the place ; have a $200,000 girl in love
with me,” was the answer. But he came
back in a week and took a place at S3O a
month.
A youngster being required to write
a composition upon some portion of the
human body selected that which unites
the head to the body, and expounded as
follows: “ A throat is convenient to
have, especially to roosters and minis
ters. The former eats corn and crows
with it; the latter preaches through
his’n, and then ties it up. This is pretty
much all I can think of necks.”
Velocipedes have been adopted by
the Italian army, and are used for the
conveyance of dispatches from the vari
ous corps to general headquarters. Twen
ty miles an hour is the speed generally
attained, and so successful have the ex
periments been that velocipedes have
been ordered for all the corps of the ar
my for the use of their several couriers.
John Paul fixed those Saratoga wai
ters. He put anew fifty cent scrip under
a goblet. It was magnified till it looked
like ass bill. The waiter was the most
active man in America. John Paul never
before enjoyed such a gorgeous dinner.
When he arose he coolly put that slip in
his vest pocket, and in a fatherly way
told the expectant waiter not to sink any
more money which others might give
him into French pools.
A Traveler.— “ Can you tell me the
road to Greenville?” asked a traveler of
a bov whom he met on the road.
“ t r es sir,” said the boy; “do you see
our barn down there?” ’
“ Yes,” said he,
4i Goto that. About three hundred
yards beyond that you will find a lane.
Take that lane and follow along about a
mile and a half. Then you will come
to a slippery elm log—you be mighty
keerful, stranger, about going on that
log—and then you go on till you get to
the brow of the hill, and then the road
prevaricates ; and you take the left-hand
road, and keep that until you get there,
whv, then—then—”
“What then?”
“ Then I’ll be durnedifyou ain’tlosf.”
AN AGENT DONE BBOWN.
How A Pennsylvania Widow Served A Sew
ing Machine Agent.
[Reading Eagle of Saturday.]
The usually quiet little village of Lees
port, on the line of the Philadelphia and
Beading Railroad, eight miles aoovethis
city, has had a seusation which has
caused a good deal of amusement. A
Reading sewing machine agent induced
the head of a family there to take a ma
chine and pay for it in monthly instal
ments. Before the machiue was entirely'
paid for the husband and father dieu.
The widow was 'in destitute circumstan
ces, with half a dozen children, and una
ble to pay the balance owing on the ma
chine, when the agent came round to take
the machine away. She was determined
that he should not remove the machine
until he had handed back some of the
money that had been paid on it by her
husband. He was apparently just as de
termined to secure the machine without
returning any of the filthy lucre, insulted
the woman, and endeavored to take by
force what he said belonged to the com
pany by reason of the payment of month
ly instalments having been stopped.
While the agent was inside the house
she locked both the front ancCback clooi’s,
put the keys in her dress pocket, and be
ing a robust woman “ rent for” the
agent. She took hold of him and a se
vere and prolonged tussle ensued, whilst
the children were frightened and cried
and screamed. The widow threw' the
agent- over the hot kitchen stove and
finally succeeded in sitting him down on
top of it and and held him there, when
he begged piteously for mercy. “ For
God’s sake, let me go,- and I’ll pay you.
back every cent your husband paid me.”
Being satisfied that he was severely
scorched, if not partly roasted around
the thighs, she pulled him off the stove,
but held on to him until he had paid
back every cent of the instalments, and
then she gave him two minutes’ time to
take the machine and clear out with it.
The name of the plucky woman, and also
that of the agent, are withheld by special
request.
mm i
. Eow Truffles Did It.
[New York Observer.]
I returned to Ashville after an absence
of three years and found mv friend Truf
fles grown fat and jovial, with a face the
very mirror of peace and self-satisfac
tion. Truffles was the village baker, and
he was not like this when I went away.
“Truffles,” said I, “ how is it? You
have improved.”
“ Improved! How ?”
“ Why, in every way. What have you
been doing ?”
Just then a little girl came in with a
tattered shawl and barefooted, to whom
Truffles gave a loaf of bread. “ Oh, dear,
Mr. Truffles,” the child said with brim
ming eyes, as she took the loaf of bread;
“ mamma is getting better, and she says
she owes so much to you. She blesses
you, indeed she does.”
“ That’s one of the things I’ve been
doing,” he said, after the child had
gone,
“ You are giving the suffering family
bread ?” I queried.
“ Yes.”
“ Have you any more cases like that?”
“ Yes, three or four of them. I give
them a loaf a day, enough to feed
them.”
“ And you take no pay ?”
“ Not from them.”
“ Ah ! from the town ?”
“ No; here,” said Truffles, laying his
his hand on his breast. “ I’ll tell you,”
he added, smiling. “ One day, over a
year ago, a poor woman came to me and
asked for a loaf of bread, for which she
could not pay—she wanted it for her
poor suffering children. At first I hesi
tated, but finally I gave it to her, and as
her blessings rang in my ears after she
had gone, I felt my heart grow warm.
Times were hard, and there was a good
deal of suffering, and I found myself
wishing, by and by, that I could afford
to give away more bread. At length an
idea" struck me. I’d stop drinking, and
give that amount away in bread, adding
one or tw’o leaves on my account. I did
it, and it’s been a blessing to me. My
heart ha3 grown bigger, and I’ve grown
better every way. My sleep is sound and
sweet, and mv dreams are pleasant. And
that’s what you seh, I suppose.”
Unjust Suspicions.— The other day
a Detroit husband went off on a fishing
excursion with a small party of friends.
Returning at midnight he pounded on
the door and awoke his wife. As she
let him into the hall she saw that some
thing ailed him, and she cried out:
“ Why, Henry, your face is as red as
paint.”
“ Guesser n’t,” he replied, feeding along
down the hall.
“ And I believe you’ve been drinking,”
she added.
“ Whazzer mean by zhat?” he inquir
ed, trying to stand still.
“Oh! Henry, you face would never
look like that if you hadn’t been drink
ing.”
“ Mi to blame?” he asked, tears in his
eyes. “ Sposen big bass jump up’n hit
me in th’ face an’ make it red —mi to
blame?”
And he sat dow r n on the floor and cried
over her unjust suspicions.
Duncan’s Stable.—At a reeent sale
of William Butler Duocan’s horses and
carriages,- animals, which cost SI,BOO,
were sold for $500; and a carriage, good
as new, werth originally $2,000, "was
knocked down at $475. Considering the
shrinkage of value these prices ate pro
nounced “good.’*
• " 9 <■
It seems heartless to say of a deceased >
person that he committed suicide by
means of a mouse-colored mule, but
that is the epitaph on a colored man. 1
VOL. I—NO. 49.
An Ex-Georgia Judge Assaulted, but
Whips his Assailant*
A dispatch to the New York Sun from
I Saratoga, states that an exerting fracas
occurred there on Tuesday morning.
1 The parties involved were Judge Schley,
of Savannah. Ga., and John A. Kernoch
! an, of Massachusetts. It seems that a
I short time ago, a ease involving a large
amount of property in which Mr. Ker
■ nochan was interested, was decided by
Judge Schley adversely to the interests
of Mr. Kernochan. The decision made
him very angry. His first vengeance fell
upon his lawyers, who he charged had
not dealt fairly by him. Meantime, the
Judge had came North to Saratoga, and
had been for sever;!, days a guest at the
Grand Uniou Hotel. Mr. Kernochan
also came to Saratoga, as is now supposed,
to punish the Judge.
On Thursday morning, just as the band
w’as getting ready to play, and when a
large-number of ladies were upon the pi
azza and in the corridors, Judge Schley
i and Mr. Kernochan met each other near
| the doorway leading from the main office
! and upon the north piazza. Mr. Ker
! nochan, who is a man about thirty-eight
| years old, accosted the Judge in a very
I menacing manner, and after a few words,
struck him a heavy blow with his fist in
i the face, staggering him and scattering
i his eye-glasses over the pavement- The
| Judge soon recovered and struck him a
powerful mow back, cutting Kernochan’s
face and making the blood flow. Several
exchanges were made by each party, the
Judge having the best of it, punishing
his assailant pretty badly. By this time
there was great excitement ; women
screamed and men swore. Finally, the
belligerents were separated, each as an"
gry as a fighting school boy. Soon af
terward, 51r. Kernochan approached the
Judge, and with a good deal of stern and
cold politeness handed him his card ;
whereupon, the Judge said, in a most
withering manner, “ Keep your card,
young man, I don’t want your card. I
can whip you any time.” Anti there the
matter rests at present.
Well done, Judge ! Sorry you didu’t
have a chance to administer full justice
to this “ law-abiding” son of Massachu
setts. Just suppose, how'ever, Kernoch
an had been the party assailed, wouldn’t
there have been a healthy howl about
Southern “ ruffians ?”
The Story of an Arab.
The story of a Cincinnati newsboy wild
| found a pocket-book containing one
hundred dollars, and returned it to the
owner, with contents intact, reached this
city in good, and was productive of con
siderable of a sensation among the street
Arabs. One small boy was so affected
by it, that he straightway determined to
see the Cincinnati boy, and go him seven
teen or eighteen better. He took anoth
er small boy in his confidence, and yes
terday afternoon the test of probity of
character was carried into effect in front
of the State House Row.
Boy No. 2 dropped a well padded
pocket-book, which boy No. 1, following
close behind, picked up. Then with *
look on bis face that would have done
honor to Benjamin Franklin, the hon
est little fellow walked up to an old gen
tleman who was passing by, extended
the pocket-book and, with trembling
voice, exclaimed, “ Take it, sir. It is
your’s. You dropped it just now’. My
mother and seven little brothers are starv
ing but I cannot keep it, sir, for it don’t
belong to me. The old gentleman looked
at the boy, then pulled out his specta
cles and adjusted them for a better sight.
He could not sufficiently admire the
wan visage of that little street wanderer,-
illumined as it was with a glow of good
ness and beauty, lie patted the boy on
the head and pulling a five dollar from
his vest pocket, handed it to him, saying,
“ Boy, you will grow to be a great man.
Take this money for your starving fami
ly and always remember that ‘ honesty
is the best policy.’ ”
Then the old gentleman skurried into
the nearest lager beer saloon, and open
ed his pocket-book. Then he began to
; dance around and call heaven and earth
to witness that if he ever encountered the
i boy again he would burn him alive. And
j he continued to orate until at policeman
! was called in to arrest him as
; the only excuse he could offer for his
conduct was that a small boy had robbed
| him of fivedollars by giving him a
pocket-book stuffed with old paper.
A Felonious Goat. —She testified
I before the magistrate that “ dot pilly
! goats shoost vas a—a —veil, I vas vash
4ng py some clodings of a pig tub, und
them gotes coom up pehind und—Veil,
sho go, I don’t ken told you dat vas.- I
feel me someding pehind ray pack, und
snump over der tub and sthand me on
my head upmit dot tub’s potfom up, und
der clodings sphilt shoost like me, und
dem gotes vink at me mit von eye und
vag his tails of mine face, und valk out
py his pehind legs like a man, und I
can’t sit me down cood any more al
ready.” The goat was; fined one (s)cent,
which he left behind.
o m —-
A Terrible Lesson.— Ralston is
dead. Last week he was supposed to be’
worth $20,000,000. Yesterday he was
known to be a pauper. To-morrow be'
will fill a suicide’s grave. The Magnifi
cent mansion where he entertained &
hundred guests is without a master, and
all the millions he had amassed Iwc
slipped through his fingers. It is the le
gitimate close of the life of a great apww
lator. He threw all, from day to day, on
the turn of a die, and when the end came
he had nothing roofe to live for. There
is no use to moralize. But it may be
asked just here: Does it pay?— N. Y
Com. Advertiser.
Geoege Washington couldn't tell
a lie. It is worthy of note be left no de
scendants.