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DEVILTRIES.
: —“The height of impudence—the
j length of a bool: agent.
j —Heard the latest slang phrase? Its
I’ll talk it over with Susan.”
■ —ln one sense we have hard money
I now. It is very hard to get,
j •—Why do housekeepers preserve so
; much fruit? Because they' car.
| —Olive LogAn says that Nellie’s baby
has cut his Ljtdth. That’s tooth in.
—lt is rumored that feminine hair is
again to be piled up in a tower;
—“ p a y Up” is the title of anew town
in Oregon. We suppose it’s destined to
be a full settlement.
-—The children in Florida say they live
on sweet potatoes in summer-, and- on
strangers m winter.
—“ I shall love men,” sags Brother
Beecher. Do, Henry, hereafter, instead
o f women.
—AVhy is a lawyer like s restless man
in bed ? Because he first lies on one side
and then on the other.
—Now, the greenback men having
held a convention, say we havea conven
tion of the pin-back women.
—We are constantly told that the eve
ning wore on, but what the evening wore
on such occasions we are not informed.
Was it the close of a summer’s day ?|
—This .s not a bad definition of a ba
by : “ A palpitating bunch of nothing
rolled up in flannel, with the one faculty
of almost automatic suction.”
■ —At a recent fireman’s celebration the
following neat toast was proposed : ‘The
firemen—the army that draws water in
stead of blood, thanks instead of tears.”
—A. party of naturalists were very much
amused, one day last week, by the spec
tacle of a Wisconsin potato bug jerking
an ox-cart around a ten-acre lot in order
to get up an appetite.
, —-A Clinton (Iowa) clergyman startled
his flock last Sunday evening by telling,
them that “ hell was not so full of men
and women as men and women were full
of hell.”
—fo k< cp eggs from spoiling—eat
them while they are fresh. We have
tried all kinds of methods, but this, we
think, is the only one to be relied on in
any climate.
—We always record with regret anv
instance of a man’s striking his sister-in
law. It is a cruei intimation to his wife’s
mother that he’d never marry in that
family again.
—The tainhibiting editor of the' War
re a ion Clpper has been presented with a
hash spoon, proportioned to the size of
his mouth. The spoon can also be used
as a batteau on fishing excursions:
—A Milwaukee man made three uu,suc
cessful "attempts to blow his brains out,
and then his wife told him : “ Don’tj-ry,
it again, John ; yob Lav n’t got any.”
He goes about now saying that he owls
his life to that woman.
—The Atlanta Constitution alludes to
a pet dog belonging to a gentlemen of
that city, and says “ he was a great favo
rite B of his owner, on account of past fauiy
ily tics.” There is no circumlocution
about-that, hanged if there is.
—A Chicago chemist, owing to We
non-payment oflhisjee, refuses to rotiihi
the stomach of a dead man sent toWkasei
for analysis. Although the chemist lias
now two stomachs,, he doesn’t appear Jo
have any bowels—of compassion.
—“ Prockie” is the euphoneous abbre
viation to which Miss Proclamation
Emancipation Coggeshal, of Ohio, is
compelled to submit. Her patriotic
father thus afflicted her because of the
date of her birth, poor creature.
—A gentlemanly resident of Thames
ville cast a gloom over the place Wed
nesday by appearing on the streets in a
costume consisting chiefly of a stocking
and a chew* ©f tobacco. He was drunk
and desired to shed blood, but was finally
caught and euclotliesed.
—Teacher to colored pupil : “ Now,
my bright lad, what is a fact ?” Pupil :
‘‘ A fact, missus, is a mule.” “ A mule !
—what do you mean by saying that?”
“ I reckon, missus, that as you said facts
was stubborn things, they was the same
as a mule !”
—A class of twenty-five Mormon girls
is studying medicine. Now, if aa enter
prising young man will study Mormon-
and embrace these opportunities,
we shall see how the population shall in
crease when there are no bills for medical
attendance to cheek it.
—The Patterson Guardian says that a
neighboring farmer recklessly vestures
the following challenge: “I will bet
£42. 20 that my hired man can take lun
ger to get to Ae corn field, get back to
dinner quicker, eat more, do less, bear
down harder on a panel of fence than
any other hired man within ten miles of
the City Hall of Patterson.”
—Two dollars a year tax on every dog
is altogether too high. Take,for instance,
ti\e case of that poor widow woman in
Philadelphia who has twenty-four dogs—
the members of the chrreh supply her
with eatables, but she has been com
pelled to take in washing to pay the ex
cessive tax on her pets.
—The Chinese at Galveston have been
considerably excited over the proposed
marriage of one of their race to an Amer
ican miss. Their hostile feelings in the
matter seemed to discourage the greom
elect, and the “ Melican girl” took her
lover to task for being so slow, hut he
solemnly pointed to the thermometer and
sully remark u, a Not damn muc!.ce.' M
£kMhe-eeieimmies are put otf until inter in
the season, as he says, “ Me lovee same as
al the time, but me too damn hot to
getee married.”
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1875
OLD TIMES IF KENTUCKY.
Hew He Rescued Agnes and Mcrriai Her
—Diving to Some Purpose.
■
[Louisville Courier-Journal.]
Between Clarksville, Tenn., and Etl
! dyville, Ky., oa the Cumberland River,
there is a cavern which can onlv be en
tered by diving into the Water, and whmh
has no other light than that reflected
from the bottom of the river. It was ac
cidently discovered by a young Indian
chief, while one day diving for his gun,
which he had dropped from his canoe
into the river. The Indian vouth who
discovered it for a long time kept the se
cret to himself, and would often resort to
it ifi his lonely hours, where, by the aid
of his flint and a piece of dry wood, he
would kindle a fire and enjoy himself in
looking at the magnificence of the scene
as the light reflected back millions of
beams from the numerous stalagmites
and stalactites of gignatic size and fan
tastic forms. The cave was about fifty
feet wide, and about the same in height.
In the course of time this young son of
the forest became enamored with a beau
tiful daughter of one of the backwoods
men in the settlement. The young
chiefs name was AYallahalla and the
girl’s name Agnes Robertson.
In the daughters of the
backwoodsmen conidf swim, ride,: and
handle a gun with ali the dexterity and
skill of their fathers and brothers. Ar- :
riving at the place the lover disappeared
beneath the surface of the water and the
maiden quickly followed him. Here he
informed her that she must remain as his
prisoner until he gained the consent of
her parents to their union. Wariahalla
then departed to return soon after with
dried venison, and such articles as were
necessary for her comfort. Returning to
the settlement, Wallah all a found that
the place bad been attacked by the foe
and the village burnt to the ground. The
parents of Agnes mourned her as dead
or lingering in a captivity to which death
would be far preferable. The young
chief was loudest in his lamentations
over the lost girl, and at the war dance
of his tribe swore the direst Vengeance
against her captors. All the male por
tion of the settlement, together with the
friendly tribe to which the young chief
allahalla belonged, started in pursuit
of the foe to rescue the girl. After a long
and tedious march they came upon the
enemy in the neighborhood of where Me
tropolis City, 111., now stands. A furious
battle was fought, in which the attacking
party, headed by young Wallahalla,dealt
death and destruction to their foe until
their amunition was exhausted. At this
moment the enemy was reinforced, and
the attacking party was compelled to
retire across the Ohio.
The lather of Agnes Robertson was al
most crazed with grief at the loss of his
beloved daughter. In his great agony he
published to the troops the f'oliowmg'an
nouncement :
I, Andrew Robertson, will give to the
rescuer of my daughter from the hands
of the lowas her hand in marriage, 1,000
acres of land, 100 head of cattle and hor
ses, 100 pounds of powder and two ri
fles. Andrew Robertson.
Twenty men, warriors and riflemen,
' among them Wallahalla, stepped forward
and tendered their services. The girl
herself was a’fortune to any man. The
parent and his trusty friends, with the
exception of those who were to go in pur
suit of the lowas in search of Agnes Rob
ertson, returned to the settlement on Lit
'tle River, near the place now known as
Cadiz, in Trigg county, Ky., to rebuild
their huts and tlfe stockade which the
Indians had destroyed. Wallahalla sep
arated himself from both parties, and by
a circuitous route wended his way to the
cavern in search of his beloved Agnes,
whom lie found in almost a starving con
dition.
The full moon shone forth in all its
splendor on the night of the 25th of May
as they rose to the surface of the water,
and entered their canoe to return to the
arms of the lovely Agnes’ parents, and re-,
ceive the reward and a blessing. Their
advent into the settlement dn the follow
ing mhrning was an occasion for great
rejoicing. .Feasting and dancing "were
the order for several weeks, and the
young chief Wallahalla was the toast of
the country for miles around. He was
the recipient of presents of land, horses,
cattle, skins, etc., to a larger extent than
any man living since the foundation of
the world. Of the nineteen men who
stepped forward to offer their services to
Andrew Robertson, not one returned to
give in his experience, and the general
impression existed at that time that they
were either tomahawked or burnt at the
stake. Wallahalla married and changed
his name to Robertson. Many of his de
scendants lived in the neighborhood, of
what is now known as Crittenden couu
tv and Trigg county, Ky., till about the
year 1818, when they removed to Eas
tern Georgia.
A Demon.
Gustave Humber, of Jamestown,
Greene county, Ohio, while intoxicated
last week, made an attempt to kill his
wife. She fled across the street to the.
house of a neighbor. Humber followed
and made an unsuccessful effort to get
in thehouse by breaking the windows.
He then threatened to return to his
house and kill the child, which was about
eighteen months old, thinking his threat
would induce his wife to come out, but
it failing to have the desired effect, he
returned to his house, procured a table
knife, sharpened it upon the stove, took
the infant from the arms of his little
girl, twelve years old. laid it upon the
floor, and deliberately cut its throat from
ear to tar. Ho then threw the knife'
and el.lid upon the bed, went back and
t :i his wife what he huddode. He was
afterwards arrested, lie stlli regrets lie
did not Jail his wife.
t TUB SEA-BEEPENT A REALITY.
A J7sw Jersey Sea-Captain Vho Saw One
Over a Hundred Feet Long.
I
[Bridgeton (N. J.) Da :y. ;
| Captain Joseph Carton, who has resi
ded here over a quarter of a century, and
j has followed the water forty-five years—
ever since he was a boy ten years "of age
—and is new pilot of the steamship Nor
man, of the Philadelphia and Boston line
. of steamers, which position he has held
j over eight years, dropped into our office
on Friday and said :
“ You had in your paper a few days
ago, a paragraph which read, ‘ Has any
one in Bridgeton seen the sea-serpent?’
and I have called to inform you that I
have seen it.”
iSit down,- Captain, and tell us all
about it.’l
“ Certainly ; ITI tell you what I saw
with my own eyes, and what four other
gentlemen saw at the same time.”
The Captain then said that on the
evening of July 17, of the present year,
when off Plymouth, about fifty miles
from Boston, liis attention was attracted
to a strange looking object in the sea,
about one-half mile distant, whereupno
he procured a spy-glass, and, sighting
through it, saw what appeared to be a
huge snake swimming rapidly toward the *■
vessel. At the same time' he called the
attention of four other gentlemen, who
gazed at the monster,which at this time
was apparently about 200 yards from the
vessel, swimming with considerable pace,
on a straight course, and apparently pur
suing some large fish, probably a sword
fish, which was observed a short distance
from the serpent, and evidently in a hur
ry. The head of the monster was raised
ten feet above the ocean, but remained
stationary only a moment, as it was al
most constantly in motion, now diving
for a moment and as suddenly reappear
ing to the same height. The captain cal
culated that it plunged down every half
minute, and he saw it do this over a doz
en times, as did also, the othet spectators.
The submarine leviathan was striped
black and white, the stripes running
lengthways from the head to the tail.
The belly was almost white and rounding,
and the head resembled that of a lizard
or bull-frog. The throat was pure white,
and the head,which was extremely large,
was full black, from which, just above
the lizard-shaped mouth, protruded, an
inch or more, a pair of deep black eyes,
as large as ordinary saucers. The body
was round, and as large as a fish barrel.
The Captain says that the serpent was
over one hundred feet long. The motion
of the fish was like that of a caterpillar,
with this exception, that the bead of the
snake plunged under the water,, whereas
the head of the worm merely crooks to
the ground. During its. passage toward
the vessel, and as long as the monster
was in view, the water in its wake and
around it was violently agitated, and ev
ery time it made a plunge the water, or
spray, was thrown up quite high,, proba
bly six or eight feet. The serpent
passed oh, and was lost in the “ sun
wake.”
In this connection it is well to. state
that Captain Carton’s word is his bond,
and that he is a gentleman of unimpeach
able veracity. That the sea serpent is a
reality, and not a sailor’s yarn, is our
firm belief
A short, stubby fellow, with his hat
on one side of his head, and his panst
rolled up, walked in a Boston oyster
house the other evening, and holding the
stump of an unlit cigar between his
clenched teeth, looked around and in
quired :
“ Got’ny ovstirs ?”
“ Yes, sir,” said the oysterman, as he
cast his eyes over the half dozen baskets
full lying around loose.
“ Well, how much be they adozin !”
“ Eighteen cents.”
“ Eighteen cents
“ Yes, sir, eighteen cents.”'
“ Shucked ?”
“ Opened, of course, if you want ’em
opened.”
“ Well, gi m me one not shucked.”
“ One ! What do you want of one
oyster ?”
“ Well,” said the customer, confiden
tially, leaning over the oyster stand and
taking his cigar from between his teeth,
“ You see I’magoin’ to a social party out
here near Albia to-might, an’ soma of the
boys, might get a foolin.” I’ve been
’round a good deal, an’ I tell you there’s
nothin’so coolin’ - an’ healin’like for a
black eye as a good, big oyster. I guess
vou’d better gi’m me two. How much
is’tr
Ham, of the Clipper, lit upon Augusta
the other day, and he calls it a “ sleepy
old town,” ancieni in every feature. The
following compliment is given to the
Const it ulion aliif, which he says “ is on a
good basis, at least as far as one can see.
At the head of it as business manager is
Colonel H. Clay Stevenson, a good news
paper man with lots of pluck, vim and
and energy, just a little dashed with bom
bast, who overflows his pants, around
the waistband like a glass of lager beer,
and through necessity parts his hair be
yond the meridian of his head. He
writes a careless, off-hand paragraph—
careless as to its tally with facts, and off
hand because he sometimes falls to take
a rest on the guide—post of common
sense—but withal a genial soul, full of
the amenities of of life, and who sees a
bonanza in whatever he has in hand. He
will succeed, more *r less, as long as fate
sees fit to spare to an admiriug commun
ity.” If that Ham don’t get hoik
next time he goes to Augusta, we are
no prophet. %
TaJse A©fi<*e.—Strictly Pure White
Lead, Linseed f fils, Turpentine, Ready Mixed
Paints, Varnishes, Brushes, Window Glass
and Putty, at lowest prices at Longs & Bil-
LTFS’. Druggists.
Colored Odd Fellows.
[Charlotte (N. C.) Obseroer]
Some time ago an article was published
in our editorial columns which brings
out the following comnnnuication from
one who appears to speak from the book:
Athens, Ga., Sep, 3d, 1575.
Editor Observer .—I have <men an
article going the rounds of the S • Jheru
press, copied from the Observer, in which
an account of the colored Odd x (Rows
parade in your city was given, and the
question was asked if the Odd Fellows
admitted negroes to membership? I
have not seen a single reply to the ques
tion,so L will quote article 16, section 2 ;
Constitution Grand Lodge IT. S., Inde
pendent Order Odd Felloes, viz : “No
person shall be entitled to admission to
the order except free u'hite males of good
moral character, who have arrived at the
age of 21 years and who believe in a Su
preme Being, the Creator and Preserver
of the Universe.”
I understand that Manchester Unity,
England, a dillerent organization of Odd
Fellows from America, grants dispensa
tions for these* colored lodges. If your
questions have not been answered by
some O. F.,' you wall confer a favor upon
the fraternity and the undersigned by
giving this article an insertion.
R. T. PITTARD.
We are aov posted on this question* as
to Odd Fellowship, but having climbed
thirteen rounds on the Masonic ladder,
we feel that we have a right to speak for
that time honored fraternity. Anderson’s
Constitutions of Free Masonry states
that applicants for the degrees of free
masonry must have been “ free born.”
This qualification itself would bar the
freedman, under any circumstances,
whether white or black. Again the in
stitution of Free Masonry, and we think
the same rule applies to Odd Fellowship,
is to a certain extent a social institution,
and no one but an initiated member
knows the esoteric workings of the lodge,
in order to keep the membership from
admitting an unworthy stone in the Ma
sonic Temple.
The Grand Lodge of North Carolina
Masons has never admitted to member
ship, or fellowship, the various Lodges
of Colored Masons, which have sprung
up in the State during the last ten years.
Speaking for the craft, we think we can
truthfully say that this course of action
is not followed because of any hatred,
malice, or any unfriendliness toward the
colored n.but because be is regarded,
and is a e.adcstine Mason. One of the
first .lessons taught is that the principles
of masonry are universal. A brother
may be found in the sands of Arabia, or
in the jungles of Africa, and lie is to be
regarded s such, but this rule can never
apply to clandestinely made, and all col
ored masons are such, and the above let
ter would seem to imply that the same
rule applies to Odd Fellowship.
Changing His Hame..
[From the Brunswicker.]
The other day a young African asked
us if it was “ agin de law” to change
his name. We replied that, if he had a
good name, he had better keep it, as a
good name was the one thing to be desir
ed in this world.
“ I’se got a putty fa’r name,” he said,
“ w’at Pse had eber sence de war, but it
won’t do for dis chile any moah.”
“ Why, what’s the matter with it ?”
we asked.
“ Well, you see, boss, dar’s a fool nig
ger come hyar from Chillicoffee, an’ he’s
a buzzin’ around wid my name, an’ no
two niggers can’t circumgrate in de same
town onless one or de uder ob ’em
hab a different procognem.”
“ Perhaps you can prevail on him to
adopt another name.
“ .No, sah ; I offered him fdah bits an’
a ralizor to call himself somethin’ else
’sides Geowge Washington Jones, but de
yaller fool won’t do it.”
“ Yellow, is he ?”
“ Yes, sah ; an’ dat’s what makes mo
so injurious about it. He says de Jone
ses was de fustest families of Firginny,
an* dat he’s condescended in a direct line
from dem, an’ eonsequenehly darfoah
walues de name moah exceedingly dan
udderwise.”
“So you propose to off with the old
name and on with anew ?”
“ Somethin’ like dat, I s’pose, boss.
An’ I wants to ax you de fovor to seject
some disapropriate name dat’ll do for a
cullud pusson ob standin’. I don’t so
shate wid de common, low-class niggers,
an’ I wants a name out o’ dere uncom
prehension —wat dey can’t steal, you
know.”
“ How’ll Benedict Arnold do ?”
“De Arnold am tonish, for suah, but
dar’s too many Bennys an’ Dicks around.
Tt v anudder one, boss.”
1 Well, Algernon Sartoris, how’s
that?”
“ Dat’s superlagant! Algerneyman
Sartoris Arnold—da’ll do for some ob de
name. Please reach for annuder one,
sah.”
“ Why,, that’s name enough. How
much do you want, for goodness sake ?”
“ Boss, vtm must ’member dat I’se
deekin in de church,, an’ ’prietor ob a
house an’ lot.”
'“Oh ! yes; well—let’s see —Bill Al
len?”
Dat’s too common.”
“ Abraham Lincoln ?”
“ Too ordinary, sah. Git up higher.”
“ Phil. Sheridan?”
“ Higher yet, sab, if you please.”
“ Wm. Tecumseh Sher—■
“ Stop, sah—dat’s miff—needn’t feel
no finder. William Cherkumsey—dat
s ;nds like old Kalmuck—Wilyum
Cherkumsey Algerneyman Sartoris Ar
r Id. Ye?. ?ar. dat’ll do—no low-class
: wcer car* git inside o’ dat. You’se de
nevs, bo-s. dat dat-’s my name.
lo’th on to ail precedin’ time.
I’se obliged to you, sah.”
VOL. I—NO. 50
A Scotch Lord in Georgia.
A correspondent of the Atlanta Herald
Tho, the other day, parsed along the
Waynesboro Road, says:
Another episode was a remarkable one.
I found that we were traveling in com
pany with a real lord from Scotland,
one, too, who had been raised from
youth in this country as n poor boy. He
has lately, by the death of another mem
ber cl the family, fallen heir to the title
of nobility and a patrimony of twenty
five thousand dollars. Not long ago, a
fireman on this very road at forty dolls •;
a month, working on his engine with
nothing on but his pants and shirt, bc
grimmed and smeared ; now, with his
insignia of nob ’ ity, his parrot, and his
Scoth pointers,riding as a wealthy and
honored passenger, after having travers
ed the Atlantic in a palace steamer,
sailed up the St. Lawrence and ridden
through the country by rail as a great
man. His name now is l ord George
Newton Gordon, plain George Gordon,
the fireman, before.
His greatest patent of nobility remains
to be told. Ho was engaged to a poor
girl, and when his fortune came, he mar-,
ried her out of the true love of his heart,,
and now with her and two golden-haired;
Scotch lasses, his relatives from over the
water, and the whole family, they are on
a visit to his farm on the broad Savan
nah Success to you. always most noble
Lord George! You have shown your tic■.
bility right well!
Wonderful Discovery.
A remarkable discovery was made on.
an island in the Mississippi, eight miles
below Davenport, lowa, August 28, by
some fisherman. It was a subterran
ean cave, town cut of the solid rock, and
which was reached by stone steps. The
floor of tills subterranean cavity, which
had undoubtedly been made, thousands
of years ago, was thickly strewn with
ash os, the charred remains of bones,
and a substance which they took to be
dead leaves,, first wetted, then pressed
together, and resembling in color and
solidity the cake from oatmeal. Among
the dry ashes they picked up three tusks
about the size of boar’s teeth, and still
lower the boat-hook came in contact
with a hard substance which proved to
be a skull, brown as polished walnut,
perfect in every respect, and ofextraor-.
dinary size. On further examination,
almost a complete skeleton was discov
ered. Bur the most singular part came
to light in the hardened and almost pet
rified leather straps, bronze buckles, and
a wooden leg which continued the right
extremity, that limb having been remov--
ed about midway between the hip and
knee. This is a very interesting discov
ery, proving that a knowledge of bronze
was among the learning of the aboriginal
Americans, and that mechanical surgery
in those days was equal at least to the
dcaptation of a timber extremity.
Girls at Picnics.
[From the Brunswicker.]
Now that the picnic season is drawing
to a close, we may give the result of
our close observations, as follows:
Girls with holes in their stockings
never get sprained ankles.
Girls with striped stockings are the
fondest of round dances.
Girls with small feet are the most ven
turesome in climbing trees or wading
swamps.
The girl who will fly in terror to the
arms of her escort at the sight of a toad,
will, if she happens upon a snake when
by herself, deliberately catch it by the
tail and jerk its head off.
One ordinary handkerchief is not large
enough for two persons to sit upon at one
and the same time.
The young man whose pants have,
been the most mercilessly torn by
thorns, is the one who is the most ur
gently solicited to climb trees and fix
swings.
Bugs have no sense of propriety.
The ’Publicans.
There was three of them sitting lazily
upon the platform, looking like cast-iron
tobacco signs.
“ Dere’s go in to be anodder ’Publican
meeting here pooty soon, de folks say,”
said one.
“An’ we all niggers got to s’eribe,
base de 'lections is cummin’ nigh ‘onto
han’.”
“ S’eribe nuffin,” said the third,, as lie
loosened up his cotton suspenders.. “I’se
done wid dis ’Publican business,. I is.
Didn’t I hear de preacher readin’ in de
Bible ’bout de ’publicans, Why, when
de Lord himself was on de veartb, dey
used to sit in de high places at de front
of de town and take up taxes and ’sess
menfs from de folks. An’ now' dese
’Publicans doin’ de same ting, don’t you
see? Now, dey don’t git no more ’sees-!
ments outen diss nigger fur no ’leetieas,
’seriptions and nuffin. Dat’s de kind ob!
a free Afrikin 1 is—l’m talkin’ to yer—
you bet i”
“This is the Cat that Nurses ths Eat.”
[Cincinnati Star.]
On Friday last an account appeared'
in the §tar, of a cat in a house back of
Odd Fellows’ hail having taken a young
rat to nurse with her two kittens. In
consequence of this publication over six*
tv persons visited the house last Sunday,
and Mrs, Campbell, who owns the cat, is
almost- beset bv parties who come to seo
them. The young rat continues with
the old cat, and seems perfeotlv at home
with the kittens, but does not appear to
grow very fast. The rat appears to be
thoroughly domesticated, and frequently
eats crumbs of bread from the hands of
Mrs. Campbell, of whom it seems very
fond.”
—Eugenie i- sueing the French Repub
lic tor some of her late husbaad’s prop
erty w hich he could not take to Jongiand,