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GEORGIA RAILROAD SCHEDULE
The following is the schedule on the Geor
gia Railroad, with time of arrival at and de
parture from every station on the Athens
Branch:
CP DAY PASSENGER TRAIN'.
J,eave Augusta at 8:00 a in
Arrive at Union Point 11:33 a m
Union point 11:40 a m
Arrive at Atlanta 4:00 p m
DOWN DAY PASSENGER TRAIN'.
Leave Atlanta at 7:00 a. m
Arrive at Union Point 11:32 a. in
Leave Ugwn Point 11:36 a. in
Arrive at Augusta 3:30 ni
UP NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Augusta at 8:15 pm
Arrives at Union Point at ......12:55 p m
Arrive at Atlanta 6:25 a m
DOWN NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN.
Leave Atlanta at 10 30 p. in
Arrive at Union Point...., 3 54 a. m
Arrive in Augusta 7 40 a. i
ATHENS BRANCH TRAIN.
DAY TRAIN— Down.
Time
Stations. Arrive. Depart, bet.
„ sta’s.
A. M.
Athens $ 45 25
Wintersville 0 10 9 15 30
Crawford 9 45 9 50 25
Antioch v 10 15 10 18 15
Maxey’s 10 33 10 35 15
Woodville 10 50 10 55 20
Union Point 11 15 |
DAY TRAIN — Up.
Union Point...P. M. 11 45 20^
Woodville 12 05 12 10 15*
Maxey’s 12 25 12 30 15
Antioch 12 45 12 50 25
Crawford. 1 15 1 20 30
Wintersville 1 50 1 55 25
Athens.... | 220
NIGHT TRAIN — Dovrn.
Athens..... a. m. 10 00 25
Wintersville 10 25 10 30 30
Crawford 11 00 11 05 25
Antioch 11 30 11 32 15
Maxey’s .. 11 47 11 49 15
Woodville 12 04 12 10 25
Union Point 12 35 a. m.
NIGIIT TRAIN— Up.
Union Point I 355 25
Woodville 420 I 424 15
Maxey’s 4 39 4 41 15
Antioch 456 | 458 25
Crawford ...f.. 523 I 527 30
Wintersville ......... 557 | 602 28
Athens 6 30 j
LEGAL APEVRTISEMEN TS.
LOOK OUT S BARGAIN 1
LAND FOR SALE!
•\I7ILL BE SOI.I) AT
II public outcry, on the
first TUESDAY in Octo
iter next, before the Court
House door in Lexington,
Oglethorpe county, Ga., if not sold before that
time privately, the tract of I/AND belonging
to the heirs of R. P. Arnold, deceased, lying
on the waters of Dry Fork Creek, in the coun
ty °f Oglethorpe, said tract, containing 682
Acres,.more or less, adjoining lands of Thom
as Arnold, W. R. Parted, ,1. P. Rrawner, and
others. This tract of land is well adapted to
the growth of both Cotton and Corn, and is
known as one b< ■st Stock Farms in Mid
dle Georgia. The place has some 80 or 100
acres of the very best Branch Bottoms, some
250 or 300 acres of Original Forest, and about
200 acres in a fine state of cultivation—bal
ance in old pine field. This is an excellent
stand for a steam saw-mill, having a large
quantity of fine pine timber. Has a No. 1
Dwelling House, containing eight rooms, well
plastered, and dining-room. There are three
- Settlements on the place, and plenty of good
hands waiting to contract with purchaser for
next year. The place will be divided to suit
purchases, if desired. Any person wishing to
see said plantation will please call on Mrs.
George C. A mold, adjoining the place. She
will take pleasure in having the place shown
to them". The plantation is sold for a division
among the heirs.
Also, will be sold, one lot of WILD LAND,
lying.hi Fannin,eounfy, v known as No. 141,
Seventh district, First section.
TERMS —One-third paid December 25th,
1875, one-thimU 1 >eeejhit>df\ 1576, and the bal
ance December, 1877. Bond for titles until
paid for. O. 11. ARNOLD, Manager.
August 5, 1875. augl6-td
QTATE OF GEORGIA, OGLETHORPE
O COUNTY. —Petition for Letters of Dis
mission. WIIKRKAS, Frnneis P. Collier, Ad
rninistrtitor on the estate of Edward V. Coll
ier, fate of said county, deceased, has applied
to me for Letters of Dismission front said es
tate— *' '
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish
all persous interested to he and ftppear at mj
office on the first Monday in October,
1875,N0 Show cause, if any iihey can, why
said letters should not be granted.
Given Under Toy hand and official-signature,
at ofliee in Lexington, the 2;>th duv of June,
1875. TIIOS. D. GILHAM,
jv2-3m Ordinary.
STATE OF GEORGIA, OGLETHORPE
COUNTY.— Whekkas, W. J. fc J. M.
Norton, Administrators on the estate of James
Norton, late of said county, deceased, applies
toiue tor Letters of Dismission from said es
tate' —
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish
all persons interested to be and appear at my
office, on or before the first Monday ia Octo
ber, 1875, to show cause, if any they hare,
w hy said Letters should not he granted.
Given under my hand and oSieial signature,
at office in Lexinirton, this 30th dav of June,
1875. ' THOMAS D. GJLLIIAM.
jv2-3m Ordinary.
Oglethorpe Sheriff's Sale.
WILL RE SOLD ON THE FIRST TI ES
DAY in October next, before the Com t
House door, in the town of Lexington, QgU
thorpe county, within the legal hours of sale.
One Tract of LAND, containing one hundred'
and twenty acres, more or less, in said oour -
ty, adjoining lauds of M. B. Brooks, Thomas
Amis, J. P. Bowling and others —levied on ns
the property of William T. Landrum, by vi\
tue of a fi. fa. issued from the Superior Com \
of said county, in favor of F. AY. M. Dowdy.
Adm’r of Richard Dowdy, vs. Wil
liatu T. Landrmu.
—ALSO—
At the same time and place, one Bay Mare
named Sally and one Bay Mare Colt, named
Pony—levied on as the property of J. G.
Jynes, hr ft Distress Warrant issued by Jom>
Sanders, a Justice of the Peace in the 220th
District, G. M., of said county, in favor oi
M. A. Pharr and Thomas P. Callaway, as
Administrators of Shelton Oliver, deceased,
vs. said J. G. .1 ones.
Pro pert v pointed out by defendant.
M. 11. YOUNG, D. Sheriff.
August 31st, 1875.
NEEDLES
FR ALL KINDS OF SEWING MA
CHINES, at Wholesale and Retail, by
sep24-tf S. C. DOBBS.
' OOETTTV SHAWLS, Nubias and ehild
y |jL I | V ren’s Knit Saeques, at Witch
er's A Jarrell's. Call and examine them.
@1) i ©gletJ)orfi£ Ccijo.
BY T. L. GANTT.
THE VELVET CLOAK.
The Saloon-Keeper’s Revenge.
John Smith was not named John Smith,
which is a good reason why he should be
known by that appellation in thi.s rela
tion.. lor other heads would ache if his
genuine cognomen were made public
here in its given and Christian parts. He
was not art intemperate man, but had a
liking for what are called nips, so called
because there is nothing substantial
enough to nip about them.
A married man was he, and in years
had passed so along that the fire of
five-and-twenty had cooled in his veins,
and the smoke of youthful passion had
cleared away from his brain, the cover
ing of which important portion of his
soul’s corporeal tenement had lost a part
of its hair ; so much of its hair, indeed,
that, viewed from above, it had a re
markable resemblance to (if there was
such a thing) a mildewed or mouldy bil
liard ball. Mr. John Smith, that is to
say, was an old young man. Not old
enough to be solid, but too old to be
flighty ; with a relish, remaining from
the many relishes of his earlier days, for
a good tangy drink.
Mrs. Smith was a good young-old
woman, with a weakness for ornamenta
tion, growing, like a fungus on a fair tree
stem, upon her honest love for home and
its comforts. In fact, Mrs. Smith was a
trifle vain, and her sonl underwent much
laceration when Mrs. Jones flaunted past
her window with anew hat on, or Mrs.
Robinson (and how Mr. Robinson ever
saw anything in that jilt of a homely
thing she could never understand) flut
tered by with anew parasol of the latest
style, and new plum-colorecl ribbons all
over her dress. For to tell the truth,
Mrs. Smith’s new dresses were fewer and
farther between than the most transient
calls bestowed upon mortals the least so
ciable of angels. But she loved her home,
was devoted to her husband, and all
things considered, tolerably content.
It was the commonest thing in the
world for Smith, when he went down town
in the morning, to meet Brown, with
whom, when a boy, he had been on terms
of never-dying intimacy ; whose youth
ful sprees v#re associated with his own,
but who was still a bachelor. And Brown
would say, as they§sauntered down Mad
ison street, “ Ain’t it about time to take
some medicine?” to which Smith would
respond, “ I think this is the prop
er hour.” And they would imbibe in
wine of porn to the extent of about fifty
cents’ worth, the expense being jointly
divided ; for one day Brown would pay
the doctor, and another day Smith would
pay him. So that their medical account
footed up, some $75 to SIOO a year each.
And it was all very nice, though wrong.
One morning, when Smith had finished
his breakfast and was preparing to sally
forth upon his diurnal business, Mrs.
Smith arrested him with the observation
delivered just ahead of the parting oscil
lation, “ Johnny, my love, I want a vel
vet cloak.”
“ Melinda, my dear,” said he, “ why
do you want a velvet cloak ?”
“ Because,” said she, “ you know very
well my old lace sacque is not so nice as
it used to be ; and, beside, it is growing
chilly, and you know my old cloth sacque
is so shabby I declare I’m ashamed to
look at it, and I know T look like a fright
in either of them, and 1 can’t go out
without something on. And, beside, Mrs.
Robinson has just got a beautiful new
velvet polonaise ; that only cost slso—”
Smith shut one eye and winced.
“ and she trimmed it with the lace
off her last summer’s silk dress, and it
looks just as lovely, and really I feel so
dowdy when I sec it, and then think of
what I've got, that I could just cry.
There!” And the pretty little lady’s pret
ty little lips began to tremble. Smith
grew serious.
“ I know I could get a real handsome
cloak for $75. I know I could. The vel
vet wouldn’t cost SSO, and I could get it
trimmed perfectly delicious and made up
for $25 more, and I think I ought to have
it. Of course I don’t care for anything
so grand as Robinson’s, because 1 know
we can’t aford it ; but I do think that I
might have one that would tost half as
mucl?.'”
“ My dear, I havn’t the money to spare.
I’m sorry, but I havn’t. If I had, you
should have your cloak. I’m sure I
would be more pleased to see you with it
on than you would to wear it; but I can’t
afford it.”
And Smith meandered townward, leav
ing a sore heart behind him. At the cor
ner he met Brown, and the nipping ope
ration was successfully performed previ
ous to an outlay of twenty-five cents on
the part of Smith, whose wife’s request
troubled him all day long. AY hen he re
turned home in the evening he found her
in tears.
“ My darling,” said he “ what’s the
matter ?”
Then with many breaks and a thou
sand sobs, Mrs. Smith squeezed out the
information that she had met the wife of
Air. Lawrence O’Ragan, who kept the
sample-room on the corner, with a polo
naise on that never cost a cent less than
S3OO. And when Smith came to think
it over, he remembered having seen this
identical lady come into the bar-room
with this identical gorgeous piece of ap
parel on, and ask Air. Lawrence O’Eagan
for money ; and that Air. Lawrence O’-
Kangan had thereupon gone down in his
pantaloons pocket and fished up a regu
lar Daniel Lambert of a wallet, from
which he extracted $-50 without making
any noticeable impression upon it, ana
handed the money over to his spouse.
The recollection caused him a pang. “ I
have been buying that woman’s clothes,”
said he to himself, “ and here is my own
wife going, I might say, naked. And
what good does it do me ? Not any. I
will do it no longer.” So he comforted
his wife and told her he had found a way
to get the money without incommoding
any one, and she should have her cloak.
Next day he met Brown as usual, aud
Brown, as usual, extended the invitation
to nip.
“ Nay,” said good Air. Smith, “ nip
me no more. 1 shall never contribute
another cent to this accursed traffic in
in liquor. I’ve sworn off.”
And so it was. Every day, instead of
spending that money on liquor, he laid
it aside. True, the friendship between
him and Brown cooled off, but his pile
grew from day to day, and in the short
space of one year he had saved the re
quisite amount.
One evening he walked into the house
with a bundle under his arm. When he
had laid aside his hat and umbrella, he
stepped over to where his wife was sit
ing, aud tossed it into her lap. She
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 1, .1875.
opened it. There were ten yards of ele
gant silk velvet and $25 in shinplasters.
The little lady’s eyes sparkled with joy.
She sprang up and threw her arms about
his neck. “Oh ! Johnny, where did you
get it, you dear, good, old boy ? Oh !
ain’t it just lovely, my dear? and the
money, too, how.much there is of it? I
am sure I never had such a pleasant
surprise in all my life. Kiss me.”
John Smith, he of the mildewed head,
but warm heart and tender stomach, sat
down and told her all about it. And a
happier evening never was spent by two
human beings.
Now there comes a turn in this busi
ness.
The cloak was made up. It did look
fine, and no mistake. It was simply
magnificent. Too magnificent. But Mrs.
Smith was no grumbler. She knew it
overshadowed everything else she had,
indeed she did ; but instead of whining
and complaining about it, she stayed at
home. Really, the first Sunday she wore
it to church she could actually have sunk
out of sight through the tiniest little bit
of a hole when she saw Georgiana
Robinson (the hateful, squinting thing!)
looking out of the corner of her eyes at
that cloak and then at Ihe shabby old
hat she wore, and nudge her sister Millie
and smile, as to say, “O, dear ! p*ut a
beggar on horseback !” To be sure, the
bonnet was only trimmed over once, and
without anything so beautiful and aris
tocratic as that cloak to dwarf it, would
have been a very passable bonnet—in
deed, quite nice. But, then ! And she
burned all over for pure shame when
she had to go slowly, an inch at a time,
down that long aisle when the church
was out, with the Joneses crowding be
hind her; and though they pretended to
be so sweet and nice, she knew very well
what they were grinning at. It was
those old gloves—black-gloves—that she
had worn a year, and that cashmere dress
with the bugle trimmings. O, yes! They
needn’t he so very nice! She knew
them. And she stayed at home next
Sunday, and the next, and then Smith
demanded an explanation. He got it,
and how her face burned and her eyes
snapped through her tears as she made
it.
Never mind, his dear. She would
have a silk dress and things to match
that cloak. Indeed she should. His
wife was just as good as either Jones’ or
Robinson’s, if he hadn’t as much money,
and, if some people’s judgment was to
be trusted, a good deal better. And he’d
see about this matter of dress.
So Smith quit chewing tobacco and
stopped smoking. It almost killed him,
but he stopped ; and in another year his
wife had as beautiful a silk dross as ever
you saw, and gloves ! O, my !
But there was that hat trouble, that
everlasting hat difficulty. That broke
out again on the occasion of the opera.
Dear, dear! What an awful looking
thing it was, indeed. And she couldn’t
take it down the theater, either, though
she distinctly heard the young gentle
man behind her curse iu actual terms,
with downright awful swearing words ;
and the young lady that sat next to her
really seemed to be unnecessarily scorn
ful and select just because, forsooth, she
had on a hat that cost at least $75, when
the truth was it was not the real style to
wear any bonnet at all at the opera, but
only a Western barbarism.
It had to come. Smith needed now
boots. He needed anew suit of clothes.
He didn’t get them, but Mrs. Smith got
anew hat—a perfect marvel of a hat, a
hat that was worth at least about $5, but
cost at least fifteen times that much. A
regular capsized oyster-boat of a hat,
with the most enchanting of impossible
flowers all over it, and a streamer be
hind it that would have done honor to
the mast-top of a vessel about to sail.
Did this end it? No. It made the
dear, good little lady feel absolutely sick
to come into the house and see that
shabby old black horse-hair furniture.
Such clothes made anything but cherry
puffs look so poverty-stricken after com
ing home from church or the theater.
(And those tickets began to foot up an
enormous figure, Smith thought.) But
that was not the worst of it. The season
changed, and she couldn’t wear the same
clothes all the year round. Poor Smith!
Brown was almost ashamed to speak to
him now, he began to be so ragged and
slouchy. And he was ashamed to speak
to Brown. The boys at the office declin
ed to be humbugged by his incidental
remarks that, as a man., grew older, he
didn’t care for his looks. His efforts to
keep his boots under his chair were dis
tressing to see, aud it was enough to
make the stricken deer go weep (so to
speak) to see him figure to keep liis back
to the wall on account of those holes in
his—but why dwell on these things ?
Smith, from a pleasant, light-hearted
man, grew moody and silent. He made
mistakes in his figures; he was seen
when alone to fall into reveries, to
mutter to himself, to clutch at the’ bald
spot on his crown, to sigh and grind his
teeth. And it went on at home. The
expenses continually grew*, while the in
come did not. It was rough, it was
hard, Mrs. Smith grew ashamed of him.
He gradually became shabbier, until
his employers spoke to him about it.
He'never went out to lunch anymore.
He starved himself. His boots parted
company with their soles one day. Then
his coat fell off. Then his vest. Then
his in fact, little by little, his rai
ment went away from him. His wife ran
away with another man on the day when
he became reduced to a state of nature,
aud couldn't go out of die house —ran
away wit# a fellow 7 who had money.
A blank succeeds. * *
A few weeks after he was skulking
along the inner side of aboard fence, try
ing with all his might to look uncon
cerned and dressed up, when he knew
very well he hadn’t a stitch on his back
—nor on his front, either, for that matter
—and making a dismal failure of it, as
he was perfectly aware, when he heard
someone call him by his first name. A
familiar voice, the voice of a woman, call
ing him, “ John!” He stopped and
looked timidly over his shoulder, poor
man of a Lady Godiva that he was, aud
—what did he see ? His wife ! positively
his wife, with the old lace sacque on, the
old hat. the old gloves, everything as of
yore ; and in one hand she carried a
tumbler of “ nip,” in the other a cigar, a
paper of chewing tobacco, a match ; on
her back was strapped a bundle.
“ Here, my darling boy I” said she,
“ come back ! come back! take your nip;
take it every day ; take your smoke ;
make a filthy chimney of your dear nose
as much as you please ; chew, chew and
chew all you feel like chewing, but come
back!” Tears choked her voice. In
this bundle is a suit of clothes, complete.
Put them on. Come back !”
He awoke, and behold ! it was not a
dream. And they lived happily ever
after.
THE HERITAGE.
BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.
The rich man’s son inherits lands,
And piles of brick, and stone, and gold,
And he inherits soft, white hands,
And tender flesh that fears the cold,
Nor dares to wear a garment old ;
A heritage, it seems to me,
One would not wish to hold in fee.
The rich man’s son inherits cares ;
The bank may break, the factory burn,
A breath may burst his bubble shares,
And soft white hands could scarcely earn
A living that would serve hi3 turn;
A heritage it seems to me,
One would not wish to hold in fee.
"What doth the poor man’s son inherit?
Btout muscles and a sinewy heart,
A hearty frame, a hardier spirit;
King of two hands he does his part
In every useful toil and art;
A heritage, it seems to me,
A king might wish to hold in fee.
What doth the poor man’s son inherit ?
Wishes o’erjoyed with humble tilings,
A rank adjudged by toil-won merit,
Content that from employment springs
A heart that in his labor sings;
A heritage, it seems to me,
A king might wish to hold in fee.
What doth the poor man’s son inherit?
A patience learned by being poor;
Courage, if sorrow come, to bear it;
A fellow-feeling that is sure
To make the outcast bless his door;
A heritage, it seems to me,
A king might wish to held in fee.
O rich man’s son ! there is a toil
That with all other level stands;
Large charity doth never soil,
But only whitens soft white hands—
This is the best crop from thy lands;
A heritage, it seems lo me,
Worth being rich to hold in fee.
O pnnr man’s son ! scorn not thy slate;
There is worst weariness than thine,
In merely being rich and great;
Toil only gives the soul to shine.
And makes rest fragrant and benigli !
A heritage, it seems to me,
Worth being rich to hold in fee.
Both, heirs to some six feet of sod,
Are equal in the earth at last;
Both, children of the same dear God,
Prove title to your heirship vast
By record of a well-filled past;
A heritage, it seems to me,
Well worth a life to hold iu fee.
A North Carolina Nondescript.
[Newborn Journal of Commerce.]
Asa Orandy, a colored resident of Kits
swamp, relates a strange and startling in
cident that occurred in his immediate
neighborhood on Thursday last, and
which has occasioned considerable ex
citement and alarm among the inhabi
tants thereabouts. It appears that for
sometime past a strange-looking animal
has occasionally been seen, by different
parties, lurking on the outskirts of the
forest between sundown and dark, but
until tecentlv no one has been able f -o ap
proach the stranger near enough to de
scribe its appearance. From the descrip
tion given by Asa, we conclude it to be a
nondescript which Barnum, the great
showman, would be glad to possess, even
at an expense of of dollars.
Its face in appearance is quite similar to
that of the Wanderoo, having a long
snowy beard or mane, while its body
closely resembles that of the baboon,
though from the knees down, its feet and
limbs are in shape and form precisely
human. In liqight it would measure
about five feet, while its volume around
the chest would eclipse the Cardiff giant.
Asa states that this nondecript has for
several weeks past been preying upon
poultry, garden vegetables aud green
corn to an alarming extent, when on
Thursday morning-last, while his little
girl of five years was at play in the corn
crib with a neighbor’s child, and himself
at was stripping fodder in the field near
hv, he heard the children screaming, the
dogs furiously barking and his wife loud
ly calling for help, whereupon he swift
ly ran toward the point from whence the
cries proceeded, and at the edge of the
corn-held met face to face this singular
being, with the children iu each paw,
making directly toward the woods. At
the sudden approach of Asa, the
animal, being taken by supprise, halted
for a moments, and as it partia.lly.4u rued
to change its course, a well directed blow
felled it to the earth and the children es
caped without injury; but before its cap
ture could be accomplished it sprang
from the ground and with lightning rap
idity gained the covering of the'wood,
where all 'traces of its whereabouts re
main as yet a mystery, though the forest
for miles around have been thoroughly
searched. Much excitement and fear
prevail throughout that section, and no
mother will again rest in peace until this
strange intruder is captured and render
ed harmless.
An Accpiatic Velocipede,
i f
On Saturday afternoon last a number
of people assembled on the wharf below'
the Kensington Water Works to witness
the trial of what the inventor calls an ac
quatic velocipede. The suspension pow
er of the machine is in three cigar shaped
zinc floats, fifty-four inches in length by
about fourteen inches in diameter. Two
of these floats are placed opposite of each
other, about six feet apart, stiffened and
held in position by iron rods running to
a chair seat placed directly over the cen
tre. The third float is placed in the rear
and midway between the two others.
This latter float is likewise secured to the
chair by rods, but in such a wav that it
acts as a rudder, the rider working it by
means of ropes running to his seat. The
wheel which is of iron, and weighs forty
pounds, is placed directly in front of the
chair. The spokes,twelve in number, fif
teen inches long, with floats at their out
er extremities six inches square. The
wheel is propelled by the feet, as in a ve
locipede. When the rider was seated in
the chair the floats were about half sub
merged and the seat of the chair about
three feet above the water. The weight
of the entire apparatus is 100 pounds.
Directly after high water the velocipede
was brought around into the river dock,
and after performing several revolutions,
such as turning, backing rocking, it was
started straight across the river to a stake
boat anchored half a mile distant. This
boat was rounded, and the machine
brought back to the dock, a distance of a
mile, in about ten minutes. In the home
stretch it encountered the waves of the
steamboat John A. Warner, but it rode
them out safely, and without diminishing
its speed in the 1 eas ti-r—JPh iladdph ia Led
ger.
THINGS IN GENERAL.
—An American is “ dickering” with
the Egyptians to buy the pyramids.
—A piece of iron Lang in fruit trees
will effectually prevent the ravages of
frost.
—A woman living in Chester county,
Pa., has a guinea-hen’s egg fifty-nine
years old.
—ln the neighborhood of Ypsilanti,
Mich., farmers are shearing sheep by
machinery.
—They cure chicken-cholera in Geor
gia by smoking the birds with pine-tops,
t ar and feathers.
—Tiger Tail, sub-Chief of the Seminole
Indians in Florida, has three wives and
two black slaves.
—Grape jelly dissolved in water has
been adopted for communion purposes
in a Troy Methodist Church.
—New York city Is plodding along
under a debt of $150,568,000, or SBOO for
every family of five persons.
—Lansfield, N. J., is boasting of a
thirteen-ounce baby, which kicks and
squalls like a twelve-pouuder.
—A mine of honey has been discovered
at Cajon Pass, Cal. It is a quarter of a
mile long, and contains 1,000 tons of the
sweet.
—A dog who was epicurean in his
ideas of mutton, at Franklin, Ind., tried
eleven sheep before he found one to his
taste.
—A clergyman of Pittsfield, Conn.,
has declined to marry a couple because
the groom couldn’t repeat the Lord’s
prayer.
—A St. Louis physician has offered a
reward of SI,OOO for an authenticated
case of death from eating ripe water
melon.
—A letter containing money, which
was mailed in 1861, has just reached
Cobb, Andrews & Cos., at Cleveland,forty
miles distant.
—Jas. AVylie, champion draught-play
er, boasts of a checkered existence that
foots up for the last year 7,044 games
won, 32 lost, and 494 drawn.
—“ Around the World in Eighty
eight Days” is no longer a fiction mere
ly. A letter from New York has just
accomplished the journey.
—Charles Joseph Bonaparte, grand
son of Jerome Bonaparte, was married
in Newport last week, to Miss Ellen
Channing Day, of Boston.
—While tunneling into the side of
Mount McLellan, Colorado, recently,
the explorers came upon ground solidly
frozen ninety feet from the surface.
—A Kansas court has decided that a
man and his wife may go to a circus on
a ticket that says “ admit one,” as they
are “ one flesh” and considered as a unit.
—A visitor in South Park, Colorado,
has picked up a curious piece of stone,
which, on scientific examination, is pro
nounced to be a petrified plug of tobacco.
—More white men are now at work on
the plantations of Louisiana than at any
time in the previous history of the State,
and the crops, it is said, never looked so
well.
—Chinese eat rats and puppies.
Russians take kindly to tallow candles.
Patagonians eat an oily species of clay,
and the inhabitants of the Indian Archi
pelago like cold Missionary. (
—A man, who broke jail in Texas, was
running away beautifully, when he was
bitten by a rattlesnake, and being oblig
ed to go to a doctor for treatment, was
restored to his old quartern.
—The project of letting the sea over
flow part of Desert of Sahara, thus ren
dering unnecessary the frightful land
journey of 2,000 miles from Morocco to
Timbuctoo, is finding numerous advo
cates.
—A dog in Indianapolis is wrestling
with genuine fever and ague, lie has
chilis promptly at 10 o’clock every morn
ing, and several physicians are watching
the progress of the disease upon the ca
nine patient.
—The Grand Duke Alexis, it is now
announced, has been divorced from the
lady attached to the Court of the Em
press to whom he was secretly married
before he was sent on his travels by his
indignant papa.
—A small yellow-spotted lizard, about
four inches long, was found inside a
watermelon at Dallas, Texas. Appar
ently lifeless when taken out, it was soon
resuscitated, but lived only a few mo
ments. It had no eyes.
—Among the remarkable productions
of California is the Hogan family, of
Mendocino county. The father stands
6 feet 2 inches in his stockings, one son
(i feet 6 inches, a second son 6 feet 3 j
inches, and a third 6 feet 7 inches.
—An exchange tells us that the
amount of money now in circulation in
the United States would give sl9. 12 to
every man, woman and child if equally
divided. We wish to goodness, then,
that they would hurry up the division.
—A sinker of Golborne, Lancashire,
England, Roscoe by name, offered to let
two fellows nail his ears to the door for
a quart of small beer. They drew the
beer, nailed up the sinker, and then
quietly divided the beer between them.
—As an incident of the French Hoods,
it is related that when the waters came
down on Agen the Assize Court was sit
ing, and the Judge and counsel held
their places till the water was knee deep,
when they locked the prisoners up in a
room and* left them to their fate.
—A child in Alabama, while playing
near its house, was attacked by a rooster,
knocked down and spurred several times
in the face before it could be rescued.
One stroke of the spur was found to have
entered the brain, and the child died af
ter three days of great suffering.
—A graduate of Yale was recently ap
pointed to a position in a base ball club
at a salary of $3,500 a year. For a posi
tion in Chicago the other day, which
paid but S2BB a year, there were 515 ap
plicants, among whom were clergymen,
lawyers, journalists, and bookkeepers.
—The colored school directors in New
Orleans have resolved to move vigorous
ly towards thoroughly mixing the
schools. The white directors are endea
voring to prevent it, but with little hope
of success. This is likely to occasion [a
a renewal of the school troubles.-
VOL. I—NO. 52.
CHILDREN IN’ THE CLOUDS.
The Terrible Voyage of Two Baby JEronauts
—Their Extraordinary Deliveranoe from
Death.
[From All the Year Bound.]
One pleasant afternoon during tho
comet’s appearance, ten years ago, an ae
ronaut, after a prosperous voyage, descen
ded at a large farm in the neighborhood
of a market town, in one of the Western
States. He was soon surrounded by a
curious group of the farmer’s family and
laborers, all asking eager questions
about the voyage and the management of
the balloon. That, secured by an anchor
and a rope in the hands of the seronaut,
about a foot or two above the ground,
was swaying lazily backward and for
ward in the evening air. It was a good
deal of wind, and was a sleepy ami in
nocent monster in the eyes of the far
mer, who, with the owner’s permission,
led it up to his house, where, as he said,
he could “ hitch it” to the fence. But
before he thus secured it, hi3 three chil
dren, aged respectively ten, eight and
three, begged him to lift them into that
big basket, that they might sit on those
pretty red cushions.
While the attention of the aeronaut
was diverted by more curious question
ers from a neighboring farm, this rash
father lifted the darlings one by one into
the car. Chubby little Johnny proved
the ounce too much for the serial camel,
and brought him to the ground ; and
and then, unluckily, not the baby, but
tho eldest hope of the family, was* lifted
out. The relief was too great for the
monster. The volatile creature’s spirits
rose at once ; he jerked the halter out of
the farmer’s hand, and with a bound
mounted into the air. Vain was the
aeronaut’s anchor. It caught for a mo
ment in the fence, hut it tore away, and
was off dangling uselessly after the run
away balloon, which so swiftly and
steadily rose that in a few minutes those
two little faces peering over the edge of
the car grew indistinct, and those piteous
cries of “ Papa I” “ Mamma!” grew fain
ter up in the air.
When distance and twilight mists had
swallowed up voices and faces, and noth
ing could he seen hut that dark, cruel
shape, sailing triumphantly away with
its precious booty, like an ajrial priva
teer, the poor father sank down helpless
and speechless, hut the mother, frantic
with grief, still stretched her
arms towards the heavens, and catted
wildly up into the unanswering void.
The aeronaut. strove to console the
wretched parents with assurances that
the balloon would descend within thirty
miles of the town, and that all might be
well with the children, provided it did
not come in deep water or in the woods.
In the events of its descending in a favor
able spot, there was hut one danger to
be apprehended; lie thought that the
elder child might stay out, leaving the
younger in the balloon. Then it "might
rise and continue its voyage.
“ Ah, no,” replied the mother; #T Jen
nie would never stir from the car with
out Johnny in her arms 1”
The balloon passed directly over the
market town, and the children seeing
many people in the streets, stretched out
their hands and called loudly for help;
but the villagers, though they saw the
bright little heads, heard no call.
When the sunlight all went away, and
the great comet came blazing out* little
Johnny was apprehensive that the comet
might corne too near the airy craft and
set it on fire with a whisk of its dreadfnl
tail. But when the sister assured him
that the fiery dragon was as much as
twenty miles away, and that God wouldn’t
let him hurt them, he was tranquilized,
hut he soon after said, “ I wish he would
come a little nearer, so I could warm
myself-—I am so cold !”
Then Jennie took off her apron and
wrapped it about the child, saying ten
derly:
“This is all sister lias to make you
warm, darling, but she’ll hug you close
in her arms, and we will say our pray
ers and you shall go to sleep.”
“Why, how can I say my prayers
before I have my supper?” asked little
Johnny.
“ Sister hasn’t any supper for you or
herself, but we must pray all the har
der,” solemnly responded Jennie.
So the two baby wanderers, alone in
the wide heavens, unawed by darkness,
immensity and silence, by the presence
of the great comet and the millions of
unpitying stars, lifted their little clasp
ed hands and sobbed out their sorrow
ful “Our Father,” and then that quaint
little supplementary prayer:
“ Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep;
If I should die before I wake,
I pray the Lord my soul to take.”
“ There ! God heard that easy : for
we are close to him up here,” said in
nocent little Johnny. •
Doubtlest Divine love stooped to the
little ones, and folded them in perfect
peace, for soon the younger, sitting on
the bottom car, with his head leaning
against his sister’s knees, slept as sound
as though he were lying in his little
bed at home, while the elder watched
quietly through the long, long hours,
and the car floated gently on the still
night air, till it began to sway and rock
on the fresh morning wind.
At length a happy providence guided
the little girl’s wandering hand to a
cord connecting the valve; something
told her to pull it. At once the bal
loon began to sink, slowly and gently,
a3 though let down by gentle hands,
or as though some celestial pilot guided
it through the wild currents of air, not
letting it drop into lakes or rivers, leafy
wood or impenetrable swamp, where
this, strange, unchildlike experience
might have been closed by a death of
unspeakable horror; but causing it to
descend as softly as a bird alights, on
a spot where care and human pity
awaited it.
The sun had not yet risen,-but the
morning twilight had come, when the
little girl, looking over the edge of the
car, saw the dear old earth coming
nearer “rising toward them,” she said.
But when the car stopped, to her great
disappointment, it was not on the ground,
but caught fast in the topmost branch
of a tree. Yet she saw they were near
a' house whence help might soon come,
so she awakened her brother and told
him the good news, and together they
watched and waited for deliverance,
hugging each other for joy and warmth,
for they were very cold.
Farmer Buxton, who lived in a lonely
house on the edge of liis own private
prairie, was a famous sleeper in general,
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hut on this particular morning he awoke
before the dawn, and though he turned
and turned again, lie could sleep no more.
So at last lyj awoke his wife and said;
“ It’s no use ; I’ll just ret up and dress,
and have a look at the ontet.”
The next she heard was a frightened
summons to the dcor. It seems that no
sooner did he step from his house than
his eyes fell on a .-{range shape hanging
on a large pear tree about twenty yards
distant. He could see it in no likeness
to anything earthly and he half fancied
it mightße the comet, who, having put
out his lights, had come down there to
perch. In his fright and perplexity he
did what every v. .- a man would do in
like extremity. Reinforced by her, he
drew near the tree, cautiously reconnoi
tering. Surely, never pear tree bore such
fruit! Suddenly there descended from
the thing a plaintive, trembling little
voice, “ Please take us down ; we are
verv cold ?”
Then a second little voice, “ And hun
gry, too ; please take us down !”
“ Who are you ? And where are you?”
The first little voice said : “We are
Mrs. Harwood’s little boy and girl, and
we are lost in a balloon.’
The second little voice said : “It is
us, and we runned away in a balloon.
Please take us down.”
Dimly comprehending the situation,
the fanner, getting hold of a dangling
rope, succeeded in pulling down the bal
loon. He fir-' lifted out little Johnny,
who ran rapidly a few yards toward the
house, then turned around and stood for
a few moments curiously surveying the
balloon. The faithful little sister was so
chilled and exhausted that she had to be
carried into the house, where, trembling
and sobbing, she told her wonderful story.
Before sunrise a mounted messenger
was dispatched to the Harwood home
with the glad tidings of great joy. He
reached it in the afternoon, and a few
hours later the children themselves ar
rived in state, with banners, and convey
ed in a covered hay wagon and four.
Joy hells were rung is the neighboring
tenn, and in the farmer’s brown house
the happiest fami’y mi the continent
thanked God that night.
How a Snake Charmed a Boy.
[From the Heading Eagle.]
For the last two weeks a son of Allen
Rogers, aged eleven years, a wood-cutter
on the Blue Mountains, about three miles
from Hamburg, lias been in the habit of
leaving his father's house every morning
about 9 o’clock, and not returning till
noon. The parents of the hoy have ques
tioned him several times as to where he
went, and the boy would reply, to play
with a neighboring boy named Springer.
Ou Friday last the father watched his
son, and followed at a short distance, and
when about a half-mile from the house,
the hoy entered a piece of thick sprout
land, from the road some two hundred
yards, where he seated himself upon a
large rock, and in less than ten minutes
the father was horrified on seeing a mon
ster black snake crawl upon the rock and
put its head upon the boy’s lap. The fa
ther states that the snake was the largest
he ever saw on the hills. He states that
it was easily fifteen feet long and as thick
as his arm, which is well developed. The
boy had taken bread with him and was
feeding the snake, which at intervals
would stick a large tongue out as if his
sing for more to eat. Then it would coil
itself around the neck and body of the
boy, and play with its mouth and heck,
with the hoy’s hands. The father had
often heard of snakes charming children
and that if they were disturbed while they
were in the act, they would kill the child;
As the father turned to leave his boy
with his deadly companion, he turned
back, and the -make hearing a noise, at
once uncoiled itself and raised its body
at least four feet from the rock and looked
in all directions, and then it returned to
the boy’s lap, and the father returned
home aud awaited the boy’s return, which
was, as us m’., a- noon. When told that
he had been playing with the snake, the
boy said the ilrst morning he met the
snake he liked to play with it; then he
took it food, aud he was so much pleased
with his companion that something told
him that he must meet the snake every
morning. One morning he said he was
late, and when he reached the place the
snake was standing up, and it came out
to meet him, then followed him to the
rock. There is something very strange
about a snake charming not only chil
dren, but 1 have read of adults coming
under their charms. There is certainly
some truth in the fasciuating powers of
snakes.
On Saturday morning the father and
two of his neighbors went to the place
with guns, and at the usual time the
snake made its appearance when all fired
at onetime, killing the charmer
A Marvelous Egg Story. —Some
time ago, says the Owen (I'a.) News, Mr.
Robert Williams, near this place, hearing
one of his wife’s ducks making a noise as
if alarmed, got out of bed and went to
where she va3, but could not see or hear
anything. He went the second time,but
with the same result. He told his wife
he guessed the ducks had gone crazy.
Next morning he went to where the old
duck was sitting upon her eggs, under a
brush-pile, and to his astonishment he
saw a large blacksnake coiled up under
the fowl. The sn;ike having swallowed
twelve eggs. Mr. Williams cut his head
off, cut him open, took the eggß out ana
placed them under the duck, and eleven!
of thatch , n hatched. Mr. Wil
liams’ word i- as good as his bond.
—A section of one of the monster
of California is being prepared in that
locality for transmission to Philadelphia!
and exhibited at the Centennial. Tho,
piece intended for transportation will be
sixteen feet-iong, twenty-One feet in (!-.
meter at one end and nuieten feet at the
other. It will be bored so as to leave on
ly a thin shell of the wood remaining,'
and then divided into eight parts, each,
of which will weigh four thousand
pounds. This specimen was taken out.
of a tree two hundred and seventy-five,-
feet i:i height, and will constitute one of
the noted features of the exhibition".
An Oregonian offers to furnish fir,
boards one hundred feet long and twelve
feet wide for the Centennial Exhibition.!
What other country can “ plank down”
such wonders as this ?
A negro Justice of the Feacein Jef : ,
ferson couuty, Fla., passed judgment
against his wife for stealing a chemise,’
and in default'of bail sent net to jail.”