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LEXINGTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 9, 1877.
A CATEGORICAL COURTSHIP.
I sat one night beside a blue-eyed girl—
The fire was out, and so too was her mother;
A feeble flame around the lamp did curl,
Making faint shadows blendiug in each
other;
’Twas nearly twelve o’clock, too, in Novem
ber ;
She had a shawl on, also, I remember.
W ell, I had been to see her every night
For thirteen days, and had a sneaking
notion
To pop the question, thinking all was right,
And once or twice had made an awkward
motion
To take her hand, and stammer’d, cough’d,
and stutter’d ;
But, somehow, nothing to the point had
titter’d.
I thought this chance too good now to be lost;
I hitch’d my chair up pretty close beside
her,
Drew a long heath, and then my legs I cross’d,
Bent over, sighed, and for five minutes eyed
her;
Site looked as if she knew what next was
coming,
And with her feet upon the floor was drum
ming.
I didn’t know how to begin, or where—
I couldn’t speak—the words were always
choking;
I scarce could move—l seem’d tied to the
chair—
I hardly breathed—’twas awfully provoking!
The perspiration from each pore came oozing,
My heart, and brain, and limbs their power
seem’d loosing.
At length I saw a brindle tabby cat
Walk purring up, inviting me to pat her!
An idea came, eleetrie-like, at that—
My doubts, like summer clouds, began to
scatter;
I seized on tabby, though a scratch she gave
me,
And said, “come, Puss, ask Mary if she’ll
have me.”
’Twas done at once—the murder now was out,
The thing was all explain’d in half a min
ute ;
She blush'd, and turning pussy-cat about,
Said, “ Pussy, tell him yes ;” her foot was
in it
The cat had thus saved me my category,
And here’s the catastrophe of my story.
TWO BRAVE WOMEN.
Widowed anil (LtidlcHS Within I. n
Hour--A Story of Female Heroism.
There died in this city, says a Herald
letter, dated Detroit, Michigan, a woman
so little known, even to the people on
the block in which she lived, that the
crape on the door was the first warning
many of them had that she had been ill.
It was the widow Hutley, and living in
the same cottage, and made widow' at
the same time, was Mrs. Ebberts.
As the trial of John D. Lee brought
back to public recollection the horrors
of pioneer life in the West, the death of
Mrs. Hatley may again uncover that
page of histoiy on which was written
the Indian massacres of frontier settlers
in Minnesota. Both widows were vic
tims of that brief and bloody strife which
desolated so many cabins on that picket
line of civilization. History forgot to
record their names and their heroism.
Let both be chronicled here.
When the frontier troubles began the
two widows were wives and mothers,
living in log cabins about a mile apart.
These two cabins were the only ones for
three or four miles either way, and
when the conduct of the Indians became
so suspicious that prudence counseled
removal from the frontier the Ebberts
family left their home and consolidated
with the Hutleys for mutual defense.
Each family had two children, making
eight persons in the cabin. The In
dians had thus far molested no one, but
they wore fierce and surly looks, skulked
about as if keeping watch on the settlers,
and the pioneers were living in a state
of excitement and apprehension. One
day, when the women had occupied the
same cabin for two weeks, Mr. Hutley
started for a settlement seven miles dis
tant to procure provisions, leaving Mr.
Ebberts to guard the cabin. All out
done work had ceased. If the pioneers
moved outside of the barricaded cabin,
his life was carried in his hand, and his
eyes were on the alert to detect the pres
ence of the expected foe.
The average woman can sever the ties
of friendship, or rise superior to the
perils of the hour, to carry her point.
Mr. Hutley had not been gone an * hour
when the children, rendered nervous and
irritable by their close confinement, en
gaged in a quarrel. The eldest child
was only five, so that no great physical
damage could have been inflicted, but
the quarrel angered the mothers, harsh
words passed, and Mrs. Ebberts declared
that she would not remain in the Hutley
cabin another hour. Her husband was
weak-minded enough to share in her
feelings, and immediately preparations
were made to return and occupy his own
cabin. He took the bed on his back,
and the oldest child by the hand, and
started for home, leaving his wife to fol
low on with his rifle and the other child.
Anger brought such a spirit of reckless
ness that the man no longer feared any
danger. Mrs. Ebberts did not immedi
ately follow, having to make up a bundle
of little articles, and the husband had
about twenty minutes’ start of her.
While both women were heartily
ashamed of their sily conduct five min
utes after their hot words had been
spoken, yet neither would be the first to
make conciliatory advances, and Mrs.
Hutley stood in tfer cabin door and saw
Mrs. Ebberts ami child disappear in the
forest.
Just as she lost sight of them she
heard the report of rifles and faint yells '
in the direction of the other cabin, and
she instantly divined that the long ex
pected blow had fallen. Forgetting
everything but the fact that her neigbors
were in peril, she took down the spare
rifle which her husband had provided,
and which she knew how to use, warned
her children not to leave the cabin, and
in two or three minutes she was running
through the woods after Mrs. Ebberts.
It subsequently that Ebberts
had just reached hisifeome when he was
attacked by a band of at least fifty In
dians. The child was shot dead at the
first volley, but the father prolonged his
life for a few minutes by dodging from
tree to tree. His wife was within
eighty yards of him when he was killed.
She heard the firing and whooping, and
while prudence warned her to retreat,
her love forced her on to join her hus
band. The Indians had caught sight of
her and opening fire when Mrs. Hutley
came up.
History will never record a braver
deed. Rendered desperate by the almost
certain knowledge that her husband and
one child had been murdered, Mrs. Eb
berts was like a tigress. She had her
husband’s rifle, and for a time the two
lone women held that entire band of sav
ages at bay. Nay, more than that, they
killed three of the redskins and wounded
two more, as the Indians afterward ad
mitted. When they found that the plan
was to surround them they fell back.
Between that point and the cabin the
child was killed. The women carried the
body for a few rods, but the close pur
suit obliged them to drop it.
Anew horror awaited them as they en
tered the cabin. The demons had already
been there. The oldest child was dead
on the floor, its head almost severed from
the body, and the youngest had been
carried away. Two Indians were still in
the house, making preparations to burn
it. One made a safe escape, but the
other was shot down by Mrs. Ebberts as
he cleared the doorstep. There was no
time to remember the scalped and muti
lated bodies in the forest. The Indians
were at the door almost tvefore the dark
body at the step had ceased quivering.
It was a stout cabin, having more
strength than convenience. Logs and
roof were not yet seasoned enough to
burn, and the single window was pro
tected by a heavy blind. The redskins
knew that there were only two women in
the house, and they dashed at it and
swarmed around it as wolves would sur
round a helpless doe.
Mrs. Hutley was as pale as death
and her hand trembled as she loaded the
rifle, but her eyes shone like fire and
she bit her lips till the blood came. I
suppose I was half crazed, for I wanted
to open the door and fight the whole
band.
Thus says the survivor, whose story of
the terrible affair is as clear as the page
of a book. The excitement was too great
for the women to plan a defense, but
both understood that.the Indians must he
beaten oiT. There were two loopholes in
the door and others in the wall. While
the savages were massing against the
door two of them were badly wounded
from within, and soon thereafter one was
killed from a loophole in the wall. Dis
covering that they had perilious work on
hand the Indians drew on arid took cover
behind logs, slumps and trees, and for an
hour they fired at the loopholes, hoping
that a chance shot might kill or wound.
Their bujlets were simply thrown away,
and the effort to fire the roof was time
spent for nothing.
All day long the seige was maintained,
and when darkness fell the women real
ized that it was to be the Ipngesl night of
their lives. A child dead in the cabin,
another carried away, a husband and two
children dead in the woods, and the little
clearing was alive with human devils
seeking the blood of the two desperate
defenders. Says Mrs. Ebberts :
“My nerves were strung up till I felt
every minute as if I must toss up my
arms and scream out to relieve the agony
of my heart, and Mrs. Hutley was suffer
ing just as badly. At oue time she
would be wailing and sobbing over the
poor dead body on the floor, and then
again she would stand atoneofthe loop
holes, her face so white that I could see it
through the darkness. It was as still as
death outside until about ten o’clock.
We were not off our guard at all, but
were beginning to hope that the savages
had left, when we heard them on the
roof. At the same moment they plugged
up all the loopholes with sticks cut for
the purpose. I drove these plugs out
with the ax, while Mrs. Hutley watched
the roof. She fired as the Indians made
an opening, and we heard a scream of
pain. There were no further demonstra
tions until an hour before daylight,
though we heard the wretches creeping
around the cabin.
“As the night was wearing away they
brought up a log and battered in the door.
We had warning and were ready. As
the Indians rushed into the opening we
both fired. They came faster and thicker,
Mrs. Hutley went at them with the ax
and I with a knife, and we drove them
out. It was all over in a minute. I re
member the shouts and yells; they got
hold of me; I heard the ax chopping at
them and then we were alone again.”
At daylight the Indians drew off,
warned that aid for the women was at
hand. Hutley never reached the settle
ment for which he started. Weeks after
ward his dead body was found in the
woods, while Iris scalp ornamented some
warrior’s dress. The heroines were
rendered motherless and widowed in oue
day, for the child carriedgiwav has never
been head of, and while one received a
slash across the face in the terrible fight
to clear the cabin, the other was wounded
by a bullet at the same moment.
They carne here years ago to be near
friends, but long ago Mrs. ilutlev be
came Crazed with her grief, and for
years Mrs. Ebberts has been a nervous
wreck, starting up in alarm at the slight
est sound and unable to sleep lor more
than a few minutes at a time. During
the last five years of her life Mrs. Hutley
wandered Up and down searching for her
chi’H and stopping pedestrians to ask for
her husband, and tears came to the eyes
of strangers as they saw the -poor wreck
at the gate and heard her call: “ Come
back, 31 rs. Ebberts! Corue back and
I’ll ask your forgiveness !”
I£<nv Jt’tHsip'jil Destroyed.
As illustrating one phase of Itomain
life in tire first century of our era, noth
ing is so significant as the narrative of the
younger l’iiny. The sublime indiffer
ence of the Roman youth to the marvel
ous phenomenon which his uncle, the
naturalist, set out from Miseuum to ob
serve, and the ignorance on the part ot
the latter of the noxious gases which
caused his death,stand in marked contrast
with the careful observations of volcanic
phenomena made by .a lady of Boston, of
nospecial scientific tastes or training,
who chanced to be an eye-witness of the
eruption of Vesuvius in 1872, an erup
tion whose various phases have thrown
much new' light upon the way in which
Pompeii was overwhelmed. The cov
ering of ashes and volcanic or lava mud
under which the ancient city was buried
is*estimated by Overbeck: at from seven
to eight metres (twenty-three to twenty
six and a half feet) in depth. The lower
half of this thick stratum consists of gray
ashes mixed with lipilli, that is, the
coarser particles of the disintegrated lava.
These lipilli vary in size from that of an
ordinary pea to the thickness of a foot
in diameter. Above this layer of the
lap HU we come to the lava mud (lava
Cavoso of the Italians). This is a thick
paste of ashes and pozzolana , formed by
tke action of powerful masses of water,
the heavy torrents caused by the rapidly
condensing vapor. This condensation,
taking place iu an atmosphere saturated
with fine voicaire dust, resulting in what
might he called showers of mud. It is
well known that streams of lava mud
flowed directly into Herculaneum and
covered that city with a thick coating,
which was afterwards overlaid by sever
al strata of lava from the subsequent
eruptions of Vesuvius. But no such
freshets of the lava mud inundated Pom
peii, situated as it was upon a promon
tory formed or the hardened lava of pre
historic times. The pasty substance
which fell upon tire already deep layer
of ashes and lapilli was mixed, as it were,
in the air. To this peculiar formation
we owe the wonderful moulds which
have been made not only of dead bodies
but also of many movable articles over
which the lava mud had flowed. A most
interesting and valuable record of the
flight from the doomed city might have
been read in the affecting story of these
impression-; made in the lava paste had
the simple device hit upon by Signor
Fiorelli, in 18G3, been earlier discovered.
The method of utilizing the impression
which the lava mud has so perfectly re
tained, is merely to pour into the vacant
space, from which all the parts of tire
body but the skeleton have crumbled
away, a liquid plaster, by means of
which a perfect cast of the figure is ob
tained. The facts derived from a study
of the very few bodies which have been
found biuce this method of preserving
their form was fir.it employed are o!
great importance from an archaeological
point of view, while the silent testimony
which is thus given as to the way in
which these victims of the great eruption
met their death is more touching than
the most pathetic romance ever written.
Other facts connected with the peculiar
covering under which the buried city
was found are of interest, as showing the
agency of fire was wholly absent from the
forces which destroyed Pompeii. The
lapilli were not incandescent, as has been
supposed, and only in rare instances were
they hot enough to give to the yellow
ochres in the wall paiutings a reddish
hue. The carbonizing ot the wood work
of the houses as well as the bread, fruit,
&c., which have been found in Pompeii
was the work of dampness rather than
heat, similar t 6 the effect produced on
logs or piles which remain for a long time
sunk in the ground.
Over two hundred men joined in
a peculiar hunt in Anderson county,
Kansas. They formed a large circle and
advanced toward a central point, driving
a large number of animals as they went.
Firearms were prohibited on account of
danger to the men, and the weapons con
sisted of knives and clubs. Thirteen
deer and many rabbits were killed ; but
of eight wolves that were surrounded only
two were slaughtered, the others escaped
through the timfdity of the hunters.
Capt. B. B. White is urged as a suita
ble candidate for the Constitutional Con
vention by a Trickum correspondent.
VOL. 111--N0.22.
Rides of nsirimony.
Marry in your own religion.
Never both be angry at once.
Never taunt with a past mistake.
Let a kiss be the prelude of a rebuke.
Never aiiow a request to be repeated.
Let self-abuegatiou be the habit of
each.
A good will is the greatest earthly
blessing.
“ 1 forgot,” is never an acceptable
excuse.
If you must criticise let it be done lov
ingly.
Make marriage a matter of moral
judgement.
Marry into a family which you have
long known.
Never make a remark at the expense
of another.
Never talk at one another, either alone
or in company.
Give your warmest sympathies for
each other’s trials.
It one is angry, -let the other part the
lips only for a kiss.
Neglect the whole world besides, rath
er than one another.
Never speak loud to one another unless
the house is on lire.
Let each strive to yield oftenest to the
wishes of the other.
AL ays leave home with loving words
/or they may be the last.
Marry into a different blood and tem
perament from your own.
Never deceive, for the heart once mis
led, can never trust wholly again.
It is the mother who moulds the char
acter, and fixes the destiny of the child.
Never find fault unless it is perfectly
certain a fault lias been committed.
Do not herald the sacrifices you make
to each other’s tastes, habits of prefer
ences.
Let all your mutual accommodations
be spontaneous, whole-souled, and free
as air.
They who marry for physical charac
teristics or external considerations, will
fail of happiness.
The very felicity is in the mutual cul
tivation of unselfishness.
Consult one another in all that comes
within the experience, observation, or
sphere of the other.
A hesitating, tardy, or grum yielding
to the wishes of the other, always grates
upon a loving heart.
They who marry for traits of mind and
heart will seldom fail of perennial spring
of domestic enjoyment.
Never reflect on a past action which
was done with a good motive and with
the best judgement at the time.
They are the safest who marry from
the standpoint of sentiment rather than
of feeling, passion, or mere love.
The beautiful iu heart, is a million
times of more avail as securing domestic
happiness, than the beautiful in person.
Many have a great horror of going out
of doors, lor fear ot taking cold, when
the fact is, Ihe very best way of fortify
ing the system against taking cold, is to
be out every day rain or shine.
Tlie Seven Wise Ken oi" Greece.
These men are supposed to have lived
in the fifth century before Christ. Their
names were Pittaens, Bias, Solon, Thales,
Chilon, Cieobus, and IVriander. The
reason of their bring called “ wise” is
given differently by different authors,
but the most approved account state.-,
that as some Coans were fishing, certain
strangers from Aliietus bought whatever
should be in the nets without seeing it.
When the nets were drawn in, they were
found to contain a golden tripod, which
Helen, as she sailed from Troy, is sup
posed to have thrown in there.
A dispute arose between the fishermen,
and as they could not agree they took il
to the Temple of Appollo, and consulted
the priestess as to what should be done
with it.
She said it must be given to the wisest
man in Greece, and it was accordingly
sent to Thales, who declared that Bias
was wiser, and sent it to him.
Bias sent it to another one, and so on
until it had passed through the hands of
all the men, afterwards distinguished by
the title of the “ Seven Wise Men,” and
as each one claimed that someone was
wiser than he, it finally was sent to the
Temple of Apollo, where, according to
some writers, it still remains to teach the
lesson that the wisest are the most dis
trustful of their own wisdom.
( Ik-.s v. i > l. Unman .
Most persons who have any acquaint
ance with the literature of chess have
heard of the games to have been
played in the middle ages with living
chessmen. According to a news letter 1
in the Pioneer, Lord Lytton has recently
revived this amusement in India. Dur
ing his visit to Mooltan his lordship,
after receiving and replying to an address
from the municipality of the city, engag
ed, we are told, “in a novel game of chess
with Col. Miiietl. The chessboard, if
such a term may he allowed to a carpet I
of red and white calico, with checkers a
yard square, having been spread in front
of the hall, c tress-men, men and boys,
dressed in opposing red and white uni
form appropriate to the various pieces,
were marched in and took their places.
Then by word of command, each piece
moved to the square indicated, and a j
very lively game ensued, ending in a
an easy victory for the viceroy.” An
emperor of Morocco who once indulg
ed iu a similar amusement is said to
have added a terrible realism to the game
by causing all the pieces taken during its
progress to be beheaded.
tilir iOtjldlim'pt tffbo.
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-t Cave on Hie Calii'orutn Coast.
A great deal ol curiousity is often
manifested by our people in regard to
the islands immediately across the chan
nel from this town. Having visited
Aoacapa, the smallest and most north
easterly one, we give a description of
its general appearance, character of soil,,
etc.
Perhaps the greatest peculiarity ef
Anaeupa island is a vast and gloomy
cavern, of unknown depth, located about
Lie middle ot the highest mountain on a
level with the sea, and the arch, which
is sometimes visible from this town, at
the extreme southeastern end of the is
land. The great cave has been explored
with a boat and torches to a depth of two
or three hundred feet, but the place was
found to be full of scales, and the cavern
was believed to widen out and shelve up,
so that tin re was great danger of the
seals floundering down oil - the rocks and
unking tiie boat. There were also a
couple of superstitious old sailors iu the
party, who had been muttering curses
upon our curiosity and predicting evil
every Spar’s length of our explorations,
who could not be induced to budge an
other foot into the inky blackness stretch
ing out before us. Thus, white appar
ently on the very threshhold of an exten
sive grotto, the approach to which lay
through an archway of solid rock, worn
into fantastic pillars and supports, with
here and there a pendent stalactite above
our heads, upon which the torch-light
gleamed, our ears ringing with the bark
ing of seals, which, revibratuig through
all the unexplored caverns beyond, roll
ed out this narrow archway like peal on
peal of thunder, and ever and anon gaz
ing at the gleam of phosphorescent light
beneath cur boat, marking the wake of a
frightened seal—while our hearts beat
with emotion and the young and bravo
longed to press ou and view the gloomy
grandeur of the great cavern which sound
told us lay just ahead—we were compell
ed to return because of the superstitious
fears of a couple of sailors. It reminded
us of the cavern on the isle of Monto
Cristo, the home of the wonderful count
whom Dumas makes the hero of a novel,
or one of those fabled genii castles pic
tured and musty tomes.
Tradition says that this gloomy cavern
was a favorite haunt of the old piratea
who roamed the seas “in the days of old,
in the days of gold,” and in the days of
the Montezumas and the persecuted
Incas; that somewhere in its hidden re
cesses he stored shiploads of ingots of
gold and silver, and precious stones by
the cart load. Whether there is actually
any treasure there we are unable to say,
but'the if old sea kings were inclined to
hide away their stolen treasure they could
not have found a more secure spot.—
Ventura (Cal.) Free Press.
He Het in Ilis Mind.
A short time ago the flue steamer
Lee, in making her trip from New Or
leans had her full compliment of passen
gers. As they walked almost listlessly,
and was apparently annoyed, they listen
ed willingly to a suggestion from au in
dividual who owned a monte bank that
just to pass away time they should buck
at monte. The dealer found a table han
dy and opened his bank. In a short
time the most of the company were en
gaged in the game. After it had pro
gressed a while, a rough lookiug strang
er, who was closely observing the game,
handed the dealer ass piece. The deal
er, surprised, asked him why he had
done it; when he was told that he, tbo
stranger, bad lost it fairly, as he had bet
it in his mind on the queen. After sev
eral deals the stranger gave the dealer
$lO, making a statement similar to the
first; whereupon the banker pocketed
the money, thinking that he had found a
; lunatic.
After a short time elapsed, the passen
ger?, startled by a most terrifiic yell,
looked in wonder and alarm at the con
tortions of the stranger, who jumping
about the group, cried out at every jump:
“ I’ve won! I’ve won ! I’ve won it!”
“ Won what?” asked the banker.
“Why, I’ve won $250! I bet in my
mind on the caves, and he won! Hand
over the money.” The banker had per
mitted him to lose when betting iu his
mind, and had to pay him the money.
The stranger received the money, and
also a request to be more audible in his
bets.— Vicksburg Herald.
JURY LIST.
Drawn to Serve at April Term, 1577,
o>tfeiliAr; Superior Court.
Grand Ju,~y. —Sanders Jackson, J 3
Sims, O H Arnold, Win J Davenport
Jr, M P Brisco, A II S Glenn, J F Dil
lard, Henry G Young, Sylvanus M But
ler, Thomas H Dozier, William Brooks,
James Young, J W Thompson, Newton
Noell, F T Berry, Wm A Latimer, H O
Zuber, Miles H* Dillard, Wm A Broach,
Stephen Black, M II Arnold, George W
Faust, Thomas H Glenn,CP Shackelford,
Wm W Berry, Wm T Young, A L
Arnold, Robert D Slaton, Wm II Gil
liam, Janies Callahan.
Petit Jury.—L Pope Amis, Groves T
Howard, George T Latimer, George W
Whitehead, Robert R Glenn, John I
Chandler, George W Brooks, Harris C
Jackson, W T Broach, J R Haynes,
Charles M Witcher. John W Kidd,
Francis M Landrum, M C Johnson, L T
Thompson, E > Moss, J D Hill, A W
Wilkins. C G Goolsby, J DMathews, W
T Bouehelle; John J Daniel, \S f Coch
ran, T II Olive, Wm E Fau-t, W T Bell,
Jair.cs T Crowley, C YU ’forty) George
W PaWnn. Thomas H Lumpkin, Win T
Griffith, Wm L Briant, A T Brightwe’.l,
S II Stokely, Wm F Adkins, Richmond
B Mathew*.