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IW ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE ARABIAN CANE SEED
F)R SALE BY a. N. ABBURY, of Max
ey’S, Ga., at 50 cents per pound. This
Cane ripens about the last of July or Ist of
August. One pound will plant an acre.
Kennesaw Gazette,
A MONTHLY PA PAP., PUBLISHED AT
ATLANTA, CiA.
Devoted to Railroad interests, Litera
ture, Wit and Humor. Fifty Cents j>er
year. OfTROMO to every subscriber.
Address KENNE' AW GAZETTE,
marJO-lm Atlanta, Ga.
Choice Perfumery.
WE respectfully invite attention to l)i*.
American I‘erf.ime*.
These Perfumes are not bedizened with a title
that does not belong to them—they are called
just what they are, American Perfumes, and
the makers are not ashamed of the name, or
to allow them to stand on their own merits.
For the toilet, bath and handkerchief, they
are only used to be admired. The following
are the names of DR. PRICE’S
OOOfiS FOB THE HMEBCHIEFi
Pet Rose Locust Buds,
Sensation Bouquet, Concealed Delight,
Meadow Flowers of Sweet ( lover,
America, Jockey Club,
Thibet Musk, Musk Rose,
White Rose, Heliotrope,
Forget-Me-Not, Tea Rose,
Radies Favorite, New Mown Hay,
Evening Violet, Patchouly,
Ess. Bouquet, Alista Bouquet,
Hyacinth, Viang Ylang,
Rose Geranium, Millelleurs,
Sweet Brier, West End.
PET ROSE is charming, the fragrance of
sweet blossoms. Alista Bouquet delicately
delightful, the odor of dainty buds. Every
<-dor tb* most exquisite that, can be imagined.
toilet" waters.
Dr. Price’s Floral Riches Toilet Wafer,
White Rose C ogne Water, Sweet Alyssuni
Toilet W er, surpass any Toilet, or ( ologne
Water in rieluiess, iresuness or flowery odor.
For the hath, reviving: for the sick loom
gratefuilv refreshing. We feel assur-M that
if you should try Dr. Price's Ann r' on Per
fumes they will be found for exquisite sweet
ness and permanency of odor superior to any
perfumes in this or any other country.
A full assortment of the above perfumes are
for sale bv
R. T. BRUMBY 1 CO.
DRUGGISTS,
ATHENS GEOR HA.
fiEflimliio
AUGUSTA, G A., Sole Agents for the
NORDIKE & MARMON
PLA>. l Ai'iON
GRIST MILL
Cheap, Durable
And Rood Uriiiders,
Best French Burr Slones
And Steel Spindles.
One can be running at our works at anv
time. -rff-Scad for Circular, giving full
particulars.
MILL GEARING & MACHINERY
Of all kinds Made and Repaired Cheaply.
NOTICpr
U. SS. INTERNAL REVENUE
SPECIAL TAXES
MAY l, 18/7, TO APRIL 30, 1878,
TITHE Revised Statutes of the U. S., Sections
JL 3232, 323<. 3238, and 3239, require everv
person engaged in any business, avocation, or
employment which renders him liable to a
Special Tax, to procure and place conspicu
ously in his establishment or place of busi
ness a Stamp denoting the payment of said
Special Tax for the Spe ial-Tax Year begin
ning May 1, 1877, before commencing or con
tinuing business after April 30, 1877, A re
turn, as prescribed on Form 11, is also requir
ed hy law of every person liable to Special
Tax as above.
THE TAXES EMBRACED WITHIX THE
PROVISIONS OF THE LA If ABOVE
Q VOTED ARE THE POLL 0 lI ING, ) i 2 .
Sectificrs. .S2OO 00
Dealers, retail liquor 2"> 00
Dealers, wholesale liquor 100 (Jo
Dealers in malt liquors, wholesale 50 00
Dealers in malt liquors, retail 20 00
Dealers in leaf tobacco 25 00
Retail dealers in leaf tobacco 500 00
And on sales over SI,OOO, fifty cents
for every dollar in excess of SI,OOO.
Dealers in manuS.vtureU tobacco 5 00
Manufacturers of stills 50 00
And for each still manufactured 20 00
And for each worm manufactured... 20 00
Manufacturers of tobacco 10 00
Manufacturers of cigars 10 00
Peddlers of : ' acco, first class- more
than two horses or other animals 50 00
Peddlers of tobacco, second class—two
horses or oth<_r animals 25 00
Peddlers of tobacco, third 'class—one
horse or other annual 15 00
Peddlers of tobacco, third class—ou
foot or public conveyance 10 00
Brewers of less than 500 barrels 50 00
Brewers of 500 barrels or more.. 100 00
Any person so liable, who shall fail to eom
plv with the foregoing: requirements will be
subject to severe ]>enalities, in the counties of
Rockdale, Newton, Morgan, Oglethorpe, El
bert, Greene. Lincoln, Taliaferro, Wilkes and
Warren.
Persons or Firms liable to pay any of the
Special Taxes named above must applv to
WM. F. HOLD EX, Collector of Imer
nal Revenue at Crawfordville. Ga., and pay
for and procure the Special-Tax Stamp or
Stamps th sv need, prior to Mav 1, 1877, and
WITHOUT' FURTHER NOTICE.
Special-Tax Stamps will be transmitted by
mail only ou receipt, from the i>erson or firm
ordering the same, of specific directions so to
do, together with the necessary postage
stamps, or the amount required to pay the
postage. The postage on one stamp is three
cents and on two stamps six cents. If it is
desired that they be transmitted by registered
mail ten cents additional should accompany
the application. GPEEX H. RAUAI, i
Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
Office of Internal Revenue,
Washington, I>. 0., dan. 2A I S 7T. njar23-B
BY T. L. GANTT.
L ECAL.
O TATE OF GEORGIA, OGLETHORPE
O COUNTY. Application for Letters of
Dismission, i homas J. Edwards, administra
tor, de bonis non, on the estate of Thomas
I-0 *ards, deceased, applies to me for Letters
nf Dismission from said estate—
i hese are, therefore, to cite and admonish
all persons interested to show cause why, if
my they can, that Letters of Dismission from
said estate, on the first Monday in May, 1877,
should not be granted.
Given under my hand and official signature,
this February Bth, 1877.
_ JA D. GILHAM, Ordinary.
EXEMPTI o N OF PERSONALTY.—
I Georgia, Oglethorpe County.
JOSHUA T. ELDER has this dav applied
for aa Exemption of Personalty,and I will pass
upon the same on Monday,' the 9th day of
April, 1877, at 11 o’clock a. m.
This March 16th, 1877.
THOMAS D. GILHAM, Ordinary.
MISCELLANEOUS.
jj LAW CARD. jj
• • AT Y term as Solicitor General hav- : :
: • AT ing expired, I can always be • j
• • found in my office unless absent on • •
■ : business. Special attention to I.ITI- • :
• : Gated cases, and to advising EXEC- j j
• • UTORS, ADMINISTRATORS ANDGUAK- j j
•; | DIANS in the management of estates. j ;
• • Will practice regularly in Taliaferro, • :
Ii Madison, Elbert, Wilkes, Hart, Ogle ! :
1 ! thorpe and*Clarke counties, and else- : i
j • where bv special contract. : :
SAHiieL LUMPKIN, j
• • Counsellor at Law, Lexington, Ga. • •
WHITSON G. JOHNSON.
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
LEXINGTON, GA.,
\S ill pratice in the counties of Oglethorpe,
Clarke, Madison, Elbert, Wilkes and Talia
ferro; and in the Supreme Court of Georgia.
Pictures Enlarged.
HA\ ING purchased of Mr. W. T. Hancock
his right to Enlarge Pictures, I notify
the public mat 1 am now prepared to receive
orders tor all work of that class, and guaran
tee peri.et satisfaction. Will also uianufac
unv all kinds of PICTURE FRAMES, at the
very lowest prices. Patronage solicited.
feb9-2m G. T. LATIMER, Lexington.
DEITAL
TITHE undersigned would respectfully inform
-L the citizens of Oglethorpe county that lie
is prepared to do nil work at their homes, both
n operative and mechanical Dentistry. Has
all tin- latest appliances for tilling, treating and
pivoting teeth, as well as for Artificial
lleulislry. Prices to suit the times. AH
work iron-anted, and satisfaction guaranteed.
Administers Liquid Nitrous Oxide
for the painless extraction of teeth,
when desired.
Printers, Clergymen of all denominations,
Physicians, School Teach as, destitute Widows
and Orphans’ work done at half usual rates.
E. G. MURRAH, D. D. S.
Post Office: iKXINgton, Ga,
P. 8. Y ' done on time for responsible
[oct6-tf] E. G. \
False Impression.— lt is generally
supposed by a certain class of citizens, who
are not practical or experienced, that. Dys
pepsia cannot invariably be cured, but we are
pleased to say that Green’s August Flover
lias never, to our knowledge, failed to cure
Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint in all its
forms, such as Sour Stomach, Costiveness,
Sick Headache, palpitation of the heart, low
spirits, etc., etc. Out of 30,000 dozen bottles
sold last year, not a single fa dure was report
ed, but thousands of complimentary letters
received from Druggists of wonderful cures.
Three doses will relieve any ease. Try it.
Sample bottles 10 cents. Regular size 75 cts.
F>>r sale by Dr. M. H. Thomas, Crawford, and
llaire & Latimer, Lexington, Ga.
TOTHEPLAITERS
—OF—
Oglethorpe, Oconee, Elbert ansi Greene,
rnilE undersigned having served you the
J. past season in the capacity of a Ginwriglit,
to the entire satisfaction of ail concerned,
takes pleasure in announcing that he will
again operate in your section, commencing
early in April next. The success which has
heretofore attended my operations need no
encouium from me—this 1 leave to the flat
tering certificates given by these gentlemen
for whom I have worked. Your work will
he executed as usual, at your respective gin
houses, which will not only be a great conve
nience, but will save both time and money.
Gins will also be remodeled, with all neces
sary improvements attached, including my
new fast ginning ROLL-BOX, which for
speed and good work is unsurpassed by any
tiling of the kind now in i se. 1 propose to
do all work entrusted to my care for 20 per
cent, less than the usual charges made by
manufacturers, transportation not included,
which is iu itself quite au item. Send your
orders in early, that I may be able to serve
each one in need of work in my line in due
time. Neglect on the part of those concerned
prevents me from so doing. Last season,
with few exceptions, the farmers postponed
their work till “ a more convenient season”—
that season came on the same day to all, and
the consequence was disappointment to many.
Orders sent through the mail to Crawford,
Ga.. care of Mr. S. H. Stokelv, will be met
with prompt attention. Feeling grateful for
past patronage, I would solicit a continuance
of it in future, with renewed energy on my
part to please the most fastidious. Resp’v,
L. H. WILKINS.
HARNESS AND SADDLED
\\f T. GLOVER having located at Kimx’t
t > . Corner, Lexington. Ga., notifies the
citizens of Oglethorpe that he is prepared to
make and repair Harness, Saddles, B<.dies,
etc., iu the best manner and at lowest prices.
Patronage earnestly solicited. janzo-tf
Commodore Vanderbilt handsome
ly endowed a University in the South : but Dr.
Jas. L. Gilder left a richer legacy to the peo
ple by giving them his celebrated Liver Pills,
the people living in the Southern portion of
the United States are naturally subject to
Liver Disease, and the Pills will always pre
vent, relieve or cure. Sole by all druggists
and country merchants.
LAND PLASTER^
For sale by WITCHER <fc JARRELL.
* adav at home. Samples worth $1
free*. Stinson it Cos., Portk'.nl Me.
LEXINGTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 6, 1877.
A PERILOUS POSITION.
In the winter of 1861 I was mining—or
rather sojouring, and waiting for a
chance to mine in the spring—in the
town of Omega, Nevada county. Snow
fell in the town that winter to the depth
of eight feet. Three ol us were living in
a cabin about half a mile out of town,
near the head of Sour-Krout ravine’.
We were in the habit ol spending our
evenings in town or at the cabins of our
brother miners, generally remaining from
home till ten, eleven, or even as late as
twelve o’clock.
I happened to be in town the very first
evening that the first great fall of snow
began. I saw that the snow was coming
down very fast, and knew before starting
home that the trail would be hidden ;
but this gave me no uneasiness, as I
knew the course well, and could keep
within a few rods of the trail the whole
disUnce, if not in it.
When I finally started homeward, it
was about ten o’clock ; and there were
six or eight inches of snow on the ground,
and flakes coming down as big as saucers.
Knowing my course, I rushed along, {lay
ing but little attention to the trail, and
was within two hundred yards of the cab
in when there was a sudden crash of
breaking twigs and brush under my feet,
and I felt myself sinking into an open
space. Instinctively 1 stretched out both
arms to their fullest extent, and clutched
the snow with both hands. Instantly, in
fact before I had fully settled into this
position, I knew where I was, and fully
comprehended the danger of my situa
tion.
I knew that I was hanging over the
old Brooshire shaft—a shaft dug some
years before to undermine the hill, and
at least a hundred feet in depth !
It was but two or three rods below the
trail, and was covered by a few pine and
spruce boughs that were thrown across
its mouth when it was abandoned. I
knew that there were huge builders and
sharp, jagged rocks projecting every
where along the sides of the shaft, and
that at the bottom was at least twenty
feet of water; for, in passing, I had once
or twice pushed the brush covering aside,
and dropped into it pebbles and pieces ol
lighted paper. 1 felt my body and legs
dangling in space, and, without thinking
ot the couusequences, made an effort to
reach out with one of my leet to see if 1
could touch the wall of the shaft. I had
extended my leg some distance without
touching the wall, when, to my horror,
the dry and rotten covering ol the shaft
began cracking under my arm on the
side upon which my weight was thrown
in the attempt 1 had made to learn some
thing of my situation. Carefully J
swung back, till i hung perpendicularly
over the fearful chasm, the brush stiil
cracking as I did so. As each twig snap
ped, 1 teit that there was that much less
hanging between myself and death; each
littie rotten stick that held was worth
millions to me, and for a stout beam un
der my feet 1 would have given tens of
millions.
Xhcsnow beat down incessantly upon
my head in immense damp flakes, and I
could feel it gradually piling about my
neck. Occasionally there were wild
blasts ol wind that roared among the tall
{lines, and swept the light snow into my
eyes. One ot these blasts took away my
light feit hat, and felt my head exposed
to the beating storm. As .1 felt my hat
going, l made an involuntary movement
to raise my arm to catch it, but instautly
the crackling twigs warned me to desist.
This movement the slightest in the world,
cost me halt a dozen twigs, and, as it
seemed to me, greatly weakened my sup
port. The snow melting on my head
and lace, trickled into my eyes, and al
most blinded me. My hands and arms
seemed benumbed ; and I began to lose
my hold upon the brush covering of the
shaft. Whenever this notion took pos
session of my mind, 1 would extend my
arms, and even my fingers, till thejoints
ol my shoulders seemed starting from
their sockets.
By straining my eyes, I could see the
dim outlines of our cabin on a little rise
of ground above me. I could see no
light, however, and concluded that my
partners had either gone to bed, or had
not returned from a neighbor’s cabin a
quarter of a mile down the ravine,
wiiither I knew they had gone to spend
the evening. Once or twice I shouted,
but the effort caused a crackling of the
twigs supporting me, and I desisted, de
termining to wait till I could hear voices
of my cabin companions returning, or
see a light in the little window of four
small panes. This, fortunately, was on
the side of the houte next to me; so, too,
was the door by which they must enter
the cabin. I thought of all this, and it
gave me some hope.
Several times, as the roaring wind lul
led for a moment, I thought 1 heard the
sound of voices and of laughter, and niv
heart beat for joy ; blit the sounds were
not repeated and doubtless were but the
creaking of some storm-swayed bough,
or the chattering of some distant coyote.
I now began to seriously fear being
completely covered in the fast falling
and drifting snow. It seemed coming
down at the rate of an inch a minute,
and already covered my shoulders, and
was piling close up about my mouth. I
dare not make the slightest move to rid
myself of the drift which was about to
bury me. Should the snow get over my
eyes, I could not see the light in the
cabin, and could only call out by guess.
As so slight an exertion as calling out in
a loud tone set my rotten platform to
crackling, I did not wish to call for aid
till I was certain it was near.
NOTICE!
As the snow began rising about my
mouth, I discovered that I could keep it
away with, my breath. I saw that I still
had a chance of keeping my eyes free,
and kept constantly at work blowing
away the accumulating flakes. This
gave me something to do, and was a re
lief to my mind, and so jealously did I
keep guard that I would hardly allow
two flakes to lie before my lips.
Thoughts of home, my friends, of the
little I had ever done in this world, and
of the jagged rocks lining the sides of
the’shaft, with the great pool in its bos
om, passed aud repassed in my mind.
In this circle my mind seemed swiftly
revolving dwelling hut for a moment
upon one thing. I wouid strain my eyes
to see the light in the window till they
were'ready to start from . their sockets.
Sometimes I would see a sudden red
flash, and with a joyous throb of my
heart I would say, “It’s there;” hut in
moment after, I would groan in spirit at
discovering the flash was only within my
strained and weary eyeballs.
From straining my eyes aud ears for
| some sign of the arrival of my partners,
I would fall in on my old circle of
thought; and round and round in it as
in a whirlpool, my brain would whirl till
some moan of the winds or creaking of
the trees would arouse me to thoughts of
escape from my fearful position.
After the first few efforts I made to
ward extricating myself, my whole care
was to remain as motionless as possible,
and keep my arms as motionless as pos
sible, and keep my arms stretched out to
their fullest extent, in order to grasp for
my support every twig within my reach,
were it no larger or stronger than a rve
stalk. Time seemed to move on leaden
wings, and it appeared to me that I must
have been suspended over that shaft for
many hours. I began to fear that on
account of the storm, mv partners had
concluded to “ turn in” at the cabin of
our neighbor. The moment I thought
of this, it seemed to me almost certain
that such was the case. My escape, I
now began to think, rested on myself.
I thought there might be before me a
pole strong enough to bear my weight.
81owly I began raising my right arm in
order to feel tor some support; but a
startling snapping of twigs, when tnis
extra weight was thrown upon my left
arm,"caused me quickly to desist.
“Great heavens !” I groaned, as I set
tled back in my former position, “ how
long is this to last?”
Just at this moment I heard the sound
of voices. This time there was no mis
take about it. I heard the loud, ringing
laugh of uiy jovial partner Tom, and
heard card loving Bob say something
about a game they had been playing at
the “ othe.r cabin.”
As they came nearer, I heard him
say:
“I wonder if Dan has got back from
town.”
They spoke in their ordinary tone of
voice, and this gave me great joy, as I
I knew 1 could make them hear without
shouting too loudly. I heard them at
the door, scraping the snow away with
their feet, and knew that now was the
time to call; for once had they entered,
they might not hear me.
“ Tom !” I cried, “ Tom !”
There was no answer and my heart
felt cold within me.
“ Tom !” I again cried.
This time, to my great joy, both of the
hoys in a breath sang out, “ Hello!”
“ Tom !” I cried again, in as loud a
tone ot voice as I dare use: “ Tom, come
here!”
“ Why, that’s Dan! What can be the
matter ?”
And both came as fast as his legs
would carry them down to near where 1
was hanging.
"Don tcome too near!” I cried. “For
heaven’s sake, don’t come too near? I
have fallen through the shaft; and it’s
just ready to break and let me down.
Get a rope, quick—the windlass rope,
you know.”
Tom ran to the cabin, and in less than
a minute—though it seemed an hour to
me—was back witii the rope. Both were
rushing to the shaft with tiie rope, when
I stopped them.
“Stop right where you are, boys!
Now listen, or you will kill me. Don’t
come near the brush about the shaft, or
you will break it, and let me down, lake
iioid ol the rope about twenty feet a part
and walk so as to onng it across the shaft,
so tiiat I can reach if”
They did as i directed, and the rope
yas soon against my face. I began
slowly to lilt my right hand to clutch it,
but a crackling of tne brush on which I
hung suspended startled me so much
that 1 had not the courage to try and
grasp the rope. I thought of making a
sudden plunge lor it, but feared I might
tail to catch it, when I would most cer
tainly break through, and fall to the
bottom of the shaft.
“ What’s the matter?” asked Bob,
“ Cant you get lioid of the rope ?”
“ No,” 1 replied. “1 shall break
through if I even lift one finger.”
“ Take iioid of the rope with your
teeth !” cried Tom.
This was the very idea.
“ Hold the rope a little lower,” said I,
“ and I will try. Lower yet. There—
hold on.”
“ Have you got it?” asked Tom.
“ Yes,” 1 answered, as well as I could.
“ -Now try it with your hands,” cried
Bob.
As quickly as I could use my stiffened
right arm, I made a clutch at the rope,
and, most luckily lor uiyself, got hold of
it. Had I missed it, I should have been
precipitated to the bottom of the shaft;
lor as I clutched the rope, the whole rot
ten pile of boughs broke loose, and drop
ped into the dark pit below.
Alter being dragged some distance
Bom the black and yawning mouth of
the shaft, I still held the rope with both
teeth and hands, and could hardly be
persuaded that I was out of danger. I
was so completely exhausted, that I was
unable to walk to the cabin, without the
assistance of both my partners; and it
was some weeks before my strained
shoulders were free from pain.
There may be more trying and perilous
positions than that above described;
but, if there are, I beg leave to be excus
ed from trying them.
lluw the Indians Climb Trees.
In South America even the weakest
woman may no be uncommonly seen
plucking the fruit at the tree tops. If
the hark is so smooth and slippery that
they cannot go up by climbing, they
use other means. They make a hoop of
wild vine, and putting their feet inside
they use it as a support in climbing.
The negro of the west coast of Africa
makes a larger hoop around the tree, and
gets inside it, and jerks it up the tree,
with his hands, a little at a time, draw
ing his legs after it. The Tahitian boys
tie their feet together four or live leet
apart, with a piece of palm bark, and
with the aid of this fetter go up the cocoa
palms to gather nuts. The native women
of Australia climb the gum trees for
opossums ; where the bark is rough they
chop holes with hatchets,then one throws
about the tree a rope twice as long as
will go around it, puts her hatchet on
her cropped head and placing her feet
against the tree, and grasping the rope
with her hands, she hitches it up by
jerks, and pulls herself up tlie enormous
trunk almost as fast as a man will climb
a ladder.
TESTING HER AFFECTIONS.
Mr. Thorpe is a middle-aged widower,
and some time ago he paid his addresses
to Mrs. Botts, a widow on the shady side
of forty. Thorpe is rich, and after tiie
widow accepted him, he began to fear
that may be she had taken him for his
money, and so he concluded to test her to
ascertain if she really loved him for him
self alone. So one evening when they
were sitting together in the parlor, he
said to her ;
“Hannah, I’ve something unpleasant
to tell you, but I am going to do it be
cause I consider it right that you should
know it. Hannah, what would you say
if I informed you that one of my knee
pans was gone, and that I have a patent
hinge on that leg?”
“ I should say that I cared nothing for
that, my dear. I have only one toe on
my left foot. The others were frostbitten
off and the ankle of that foot is al twisted
around crooked.”
“ You don’t tell me so!” said Thorpe.
“ Well but I’ve something worse than
that. I might as well confess now that
the bald place on top of my head is not
really my scalp, I’ve been trepanned. I
have a silver-platted concern set into my
skull, a kind of sky-light. You can lift
it up and see down on the inside of me.”
“ I’m glad you mentioned it my dear,”
said the widow, “for it gives me courage
to tell you that I have not a hair of my
head I’m as bald as chandelier globe.”
“ Is that so? Gracious! I never should
have suspected it. But you
will be surprised to learn that none of
my teeth are natural. All are false, and
besides that, I have to wear an India
rubber thing-amagigon my palate to keep
it from dropping down.”
“ I’m very sorry for you John, but it’s
some comfort that all my teeth are false,
and that I am perfectly blind in my right
eye. It looks like a good eye, but it ab
solutely ain’t worth a cent.”
“ Geat Heavens! Why didn’t you tell
me of this before?” exclaimed Thorpe.
“ But while we are on this subject I will
say further that i have chronic torpidity
of the liver, and that my breast bone is
disjointed so that it sticks out like a
chicken’s. How does that strike you?”
“ O, I don’t mind it,” said Mrs Bolts,
“ because I have been bilious and dyspep
tic for twenty years; 1 have a wen on the
back of my neck, and besides 1 am one
rib short. It was broken in a Railroad
accident, and the doctor had to cut it out,
I’m subject to fits too.”
“This is horrible,” said Thorpe.
“ Mrs. Botts, I think you ought to have
mention these things to me when I pro
posed to you. I imagined that I was ad
dressing a woman, a complete human
creature. But what are you, Mrs. Botts,
you appear to me to be a kind of a dilapi
dated old wreck, with not more’n half of
the usual machinery about you. It’s a
wonder to me you don’t fall to pieces.”
“ I am no more of an old wreck than
you are. You said yourself that you have
a trapdoor in the top of you head and a
gum-elastic palate, and I dont know but
what you have to wind yourself up with a
key at night when you go to bed, to keep
yourself running until the next morn
ing.”
“ Yes,but these things ain’t true,” said
Thorpe. “ I only told you about them
to see if you really loved me. I’m as
sound as a dollar ; no inactive liver, or sil
ver plated skull, or anything. But you
seem to be kind of strung together so’s if
you should knock against any thing
you’d scatter all around over the carpet.
1 think you ought to let me off.”
“ Very well, sir, so I will. But let me
tell you that I’ve got nothing the matter
with me either. I only invented those
stories to try you because I knew you
were playing a game on me. Now I
know you dou’t love me. You can go
sir.”
“ Hannah, I take it all back. Ido love
you.”
“ Do you, really ? Then I love you more
than—”
But no, the curtain had better be drawn
right here. The cold and selfish world
has no business v ith such scenes as this.
They are to be consolidated early next
month.
A Woman Sold at Auction.
American papers have often commen
ted upon the fact that in some parts of
England women have been sold at auc
tion during the last century. Yester
day the novel sight of a woman being
sold under the hammer was witnessed by
hundreds of people in front of Burrie’s
auction store. When it became known
that such a sale was to be made a large
crowd gathered to see the woman, and
many were wondering if the authorities
would allow such a disgraceful scene to
go on. At 10:30 the woman was brought
out. Her name was unknown, but she
was recognized by some of the bystand
ers as a person who had worked iri a mil
linery establishment on C street before
the fire, and her character had never
been questioned. She seemed perfectly
composed in the presence of so large a
crowd and never moved a muscle of her
face as the auctioneer called out for the
first bid. She stood in an elevated posi
tion dressed in plain muslin, without any
special attempt at display. She was a
handsome brunette,with regular features,
dark hair and eyes, and a complexion as
pure as wax. She was finally knocked
down for SB, and,to the surprise of every
body, the bidder was a married man. He
says the woman is somewhat dilapidated,
but he thinks he can melt the wax and
make her up into tapers for Christmas
trees. She originally cost SBOO in New
York, the workmanship being of the best,
and was for a long time displayed in a
Broadway milliner’s window before she
was shipped to the Comstock. — Virginia
[Xcv.) Chronicle.
An artificial angle-worm has been pa
tented in St Louis. The worm is made
of India rubber, and is said to be a good
imitation. It has the great advantage
over the ordinary earth-worm of not be
ing taken off'the book by nibbles. How
this invention would have delighted the
poet Cow per.
—Dr. Stephenson has found a beauti
ful sapphire near Gainesville.
VOL. Ill—NO. 26.
The Impcrturable Passenger.
A train boy on an Illinois road found
a rather Lough customer in an old gen
tleman of composed mein, who received
all shots as if he were bullet proof. The
boy bombarded him with papers, and
pamphlets, and caudies, and bound books,
and nuts, and fruits of one kind and
another. But it was no good. Had the
elder party been lined inside with brass
he could not have shown greater indiffer
ence. The boy fretted under his treat
ment, as was plain to be seen. lie had
passed the cigars some thirty times, and
without success, when he said, in a tone
of desperation :
“Try some of these cigars, and if they
don’t kill you within a month I’ll give
you the money back.’’
Ihe man was somewhat amused by
that, but he had the boy. He said :
“If I am dead how can you give me
the money ?”
“ I’ll give it to your family then.”
“ But I ain’t got no family.”
“ Well, I’ll give it to the family next
door,” persisted the boy.
“But there ain’t no family nextdoor,”
said the man, with the smile lengthening
his face.
“ Oh, there’ll be one move in when
they hear you are dead,” was the quick
reply.
The elderly passenger shut up like a
borrowed knife.
Dealll ol' Bill Arp.
From the Fort Worth (Texas) Daily
Democrat we clip the following item,
which will have a sad interest to many
of our readers;
Bill Arp, late of Georgia, the man who
furnished the witticisms and odd sayings,
which Charles H. Smith prepared and
published some years ago, was acciden
tally killed near this place (Decatur
Texas), last Monday, March sth. He
lell from a wagon loaded with corn, the
wheels passing over his neck, killing him
instantly. When he left home in the
morning he told his family he would
never again he permitted to enter the
house alive ; and strange to say, he was
within fifty yards of the house on his re
turn, when the sad accident occurred,
which terminated so fatally. He was a
remarkable man ; perfectly illiterate, but
replete with original ideas and witty
sayings. He rarely ever spoke without
saying something pithy.
Historic Junk.
The oldest pieces of iron (wrought
iron) now known are probably the sickle
blade found by B lzoni under the base of a
sphinx in Karnac, near Thebes; the
blade found Col. Vyse imbedded in by
the masonry of the great pyramid; the
portion of the crosscut saw exhumed at
Nimrod by Mr. Dayard—all of which
are now in the British museum. A
wrought bar of Damascus steel was pre
sented by King Porusto Alexander the
great, and the razor steel of China for
many centuries has surpassed all Eu
ropean steel for temper and durability of
edge. The Hindoos appear to have made
wrought iron directly from the ore, with
out passing it through the furnace, from
time immemorial; and elaborately
wrought masses of iron arc still found in
India which date from the early centu
ries of the Christian era.
• Three lo Four.
It appears that Hayes’ Cabinet were
nearly equel'y divided on the Southern
policy. Messers. Evarts, Schurz and
Key were decidedly favorable to the
withdrawal of the troops from their pres
ent attitude of quasi support of the rot
ten Republican governments in Carolina
and Louisiana, while Messrs. Sherman,
Thompson and McCrary were for main
taining the carpet-bag governors square
out. Attorney-General I’-evens’position
is said to be doubtful, but his reticence
induced the belief that he was against
withdrawal. We have sufficient reason
now for believing that Hayes’ commis
sion is an artful dodge of the whole re
sponcibilitv, a stepping down from the
the platform shadowed in his letter of
acceptance, and more recently proclaim
ed in his inaugural.
A South Africa traveler stopped one
night at a Boor’s house. He found the
children playing with a pebble that
looked like a diamond. Ho bought it for
a trifle, tire Boor saying it was a diamond,
they could get plenty more, and took it
away. He sold it at the Cape for
$3,000. He bought another from a ne
gro, which he sold lor $50,000, and then
the natives begau to search for these
stones where they had previously seen
them, the white men heard of their suc
cess, and then the rush began. One mine
after another, all iu the same neighbor
hood, was found, and round each mine a
city* sprung up. The last, and that
which is the centre of the diamond trade,
is Kimberly. This city has ten thou
sand inhabitants, five churches, two
theatres, banks, hotels and other build
ings.
wm •
“ Why so late?’’ said a school-master
to a little urchio, as lie entered the room
on a cold slippery morning in February.
“ Why, sir,” replied the boy, “I would
take one step forward and slide back
two.”
“Indeed!” said the teacher; “how did
you get here, if that was the case ?”
“Oh!” said the boy, scratching his
head on finding himself caught, “I turned
round and walked the other wav.”
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One of the most interesting discover
ies in recent years of Pompeii was made
in 1575, when a wooden chest was brought
to light, containing the business receipts
of one L. Cseeiliua Jucundus. The
chest crumbled to dust on exposure to the
air, but the tablets on which the receipts
were written, have at length proved to
he legible in many instances, and the
result of a careful study of these tables
by Monimsin and others has been to
clear up several points in what was
among the Romans matter of great con
sequence, viz: the position of middle
man in affairs of business. There was
not among : the Romans the same exten
sive system of shops as with us. supply
ing every possible article of necessary
luxury, and for this reason there arose
innumerable occasions of private per
sons desiring to dispose of this or that
article, as for instance, a surplus of ag
ricultural produce, old carts, ploughs, or
even old and invalid slaves, as Cato rec
ommends the landowner to do. The
tablets in question are dated, according
to custom, by giving the names of the
consuls for the year. The greater part
of the dates fall between A. D. 53 and 62.
A few are as early as 15 and 27. Since
there is no more recent date than 62, it
becomes highly probable that the tablets
of Jucundus had been overwhelmed in
the early eruption of Vesuvius. The
majority of the tablets are triptyelis, and
are written partly with letters on wax,
spread on the tablet, and partly in ink
on the bare wood. Among them there
is only one which gives the amount of
commission which he received, and that
proves to be 2 per cent., which is known
Irom other sources to have been the gen
eral rate. Usually he merely says
*’ minus the commission.” The person on
whom this expense fell was the buyer.
At this puerile, cruel an miserable
outcome of Hayesism no one has a right
to wonder. The man is a humbug and
not improbably worse, while the official
is a fraud manifest and a political charla
tan self-proclaimed. He was never
elected. He took the office of another
knowing it was anotheVs. He has been
dealing out lollipop by the pailful every
day, and has shown in his words ot cant
toward the North, and of patronizing
insult toward the gentleman of the .South
—whose credulity and self-debasement
are, we hope, now ended—that he is as
little of a gentleman as he is of a states
man, and that he has uo definite idea of
what his plan and simple duties under
the law are, but has been inflated with
the ignorant notion that it is his func
tion, or business, or mission to do some
thing he knows not what, in ways lie
knows not what, through agents he
knows not whom, to keep himsalf snug
in the possession of stolen goods, respec
table in the eyes of the world, and tolera
ble withal to the one class or the other,
whom,by any course, he must cheat and
victimize in the Southern States.
An idea is gaining ground with aero
nauts that the solution of the polar prob
lem now rests with them. Capt. Cheyne,
a retired British naval officer, has volun
teered to conduct a baloon party over
the four hundred miles or thereabouts
which have not yet been traversed, and
the project finds a warm supporter in a
Mr. Coxwell, who deems such an expe
dition quite feasible. The Only trouble
in the mind of the latter seems to be the
supply of gas in the higher latitudes.
This, however, he thiuks may be gotten
over by the use of fire-baloons. He
recommends the use of “very large
Montgolfiers,” in which it would be pos
sible to stow away a couple of sjedges
with dogs, and “ boats fit for contention
with.a Polar sea as a forlorn hope.”
Four hundred miles at the average rate
of atmospheric speed would not in his
opinion, occupy twenty-four hours. Mr.
Ooxwell’s plan is well calculated to
startle the uninitiated in aerostatics.
Miss Cora Dickson, a young girl of 22
arrived in Paris the other day from
South America. Her life has thus far
been a checkered one. At the age of 15,
tired of the monotory of home she ran
away from her father’s home with a large
sum of money. She cut her hair short
and donned a boy’s garb. After becom
ing in succession a cabin boy, a clerk,,
and a horse dealer she turned up in
BuenoS Ayres, where she entered the
army,-still disguised. She distinguished
herself in the service, anti became a co
lonel. Some months ago, at a meeting
of offices, she quarrelled with one o
those present. A duel fid lowed and she
killed her adversary. On examining the
dead man's papers, she found that she
had killed her oldest brother,who had left
home when she was two years of age.
Horror-stricken, she threw herself at the
bishop’s feet, who promised to iaterceed
with her father.
A ponderous iron key of a pattern
showing that the lock to which it belong
ed must have been an intricate piece of
workmanship, now the property of a gen
tleman in San Jose, Cal., is the same
that was used in the Continential Con
gress of 1776 to open the doors of Car
penter’s Hall, Philadelphia, during the
immortal session of that body which
culminated in the Declaration of Inde
pendence. The key was formally the
property of the late James Lick, and had
heen presented to him by a sou of one of
the signers of the Declaration.