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TEE OGLETHORPE ECHO.
tuD*Oflp9° n B*tt» 5
Cm* Tear - -
. vix a w ns .
ScMem gt**n mrh •n+’Snrtbot two week* before the
•spfreuoc of hi* ttM. k. 4 -i ••bectiyttcn 1 a m*
Any person who wsli u* Uw of ftn
Of w enbanihwre. with 110 ceeh. will be eetttted to
#o« f«w« eubemptsot. free. Mo «Jab rate*.
Tbe Latent thi-ese Oat rage.
It waa oooo by the *oa ; »• bad daubed our
And was post nma-ts gate' back to our
Ji.ne. J “ a rrr -oontte-tii. ,Dt “ h “ Chios " Sn m "‘‘ .h rehesio' reUmn
“
... .
With their eking a rin* chow,
•"
"roolwl
Bat storsfes scald draw, or tte dtwi mid
a«n.
Up tumbles the Bite, boys who heard the
alsnn.
And a yeli from the hBl top, and roar of a
MUed up with remarks like “Hi! »i!
«-*r,ngl”
And bombs, shells and eneksn that crashed
through tbe trees
Herealed to their war-togs ® four hnudrsd Chi
Four hundred. Chin—!
We are eight, don’t you —e ?
That made a square fifty
To ja*t one o* wc:
rhey were dr—d in thtir best, but I grieve
that that same
Wm largely made up of our oWn, to their
fthame.
And mrprlasr's be t shirt and his trewsrs
were hung
On * «p«*r, and nbore him w#re tauntingly
swung;
White that beggar Chey Lee, like* conjurer
m
Pulltn’ oat Mggs and chicken* from Johnson - »
bent hat;
And Bate*’ game rooster was p«rt of their
•‘toot/’
And ail of Smith’* pig* were skyngted ti> boot
But the climax was reached and I liked to have
died
When ray demijohn, empty, came down the
hU*ide~
Down the hillride!
What once held the prida
, Of Bobertacra county,
Pitched down tbe hiillide! ,
Then we axed for a parley. ' When out of the
din
rr*b
Sin:
■•you owe aowty dolls*-me washes you camp,
Vnn entohee mv vuhM_me cfttc-bMDu stunp
oMaonarn.p-ilozem'nsnoc.tebeey^ Sew that floaty a»|fo»-no hah? . , h ow c» . get ?
Jto catches you rnggso-m^wHssfOrcasK
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Ms holly good •hcUI-wslebboe when can,
Msallee same help jfiu as Mslioanman!
But Mclican man
—... ttawashssMm nan
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“ Oa bottom .ids hills*,
And eatchee—how can ?"
“Areww«w.rt»ays *»**"*»% , ___ „ “* ^ ““ „ ,
ta this jsw
Without process of warrant, or color of law ?
Arswemou or—a-ehsw P hers h* gwped in
hi, speech
For a ,tink-pot had fallen Jnat out of bis
reach—
“Shall wo stand hors, as idle, and let Ada
ootc
Her Urbans bords* on thiscirilixed shore?
nss the White Msu no country? Are we loft
lo theimvh?
— n. -* »S- v-.o.- 1 -i
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But this yw-’is White Ifan-lpUys “»*“*
And he sprang np Afie hijl-siiie—to stop him
none dare—
TIU a jsUfrem the top told a.” White Man
waa there!"
A White M« wa. there:
We prayed he might Spare
Thoae misguided Heathen*
The fsw cloths* they wear.
_1.tay SS fl«L aufl » 1>* u followad. #« sa but >. > S oe nuttsr rn n
wh9r *
him, the “Whttw _. Man „
ftay (to) to aaaapa
thsre “
rifi we missed first hla voio# on the puie-wood
ed slope,
And wekn«w for the Heathen henceforth wee
ue hope,
Vnd the yella thev grew fainter when Peterson
•aid
-it •^taJSSStSaSSf^ dimil. .MUumao to burvhi. dead"
Anuta WK» t an
We crept up in dread,
Pul ioutui uary mortal tb«re
laving or dead.
nut there was hla trail, and the way that they
- cube,
iod yonder, no doubt, he was begging hi.
game,
When Jonee drop* hi* pick-axe, and Thompson
nn “Rhosi
Vnd both of ’em points to a cage of bamboo,
i longing ddwn from a tree with a label that
' \
•wuog . s
Conspicuous with letters in some foreign
tongue.
Which, when freely translated, the same did
Wear
Wm the Chinese for saying-. A, White Man 1ft
here t”
And a* we drew near
In anger and'.fear. X
Bound hand and foo*> -ioh neon
liooked down with a leer!
Ia bis month vr«s an opiate pips-whleh m
'
why
tte leered at u««o with s druuken-l-ke eve.'
They had shaved off Ins ejehrowe, and tacked
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thev had painted bia faoeof a eoppsrv hue, -
Vod'riawSKm afi uefa a heaiheta-b «iit
Then ■l^t." eoftlv d«part«d, each man with hi* J !
!
’ ‘ °Ye«l eviMrv q.f giJnct. *
---- sssS- a . . r ~.
;
- 3 - — •r . -—
in* the same,
-ViU determia* what Governor Morphy'nhan
name.
Aad the man from oar dis* riet—that goes up
next year.
' wsue—that's patent tnd clea:
(Jom up on one
“ Can the work of a mean,
Degraded, unclean,
Believer in Buadha
Be held a* a lien r
-Brrt Jarte.in Wilkes' Spirit cf the Times.
A a it. ** • VrtimniirtA Valentine CvnaFimonl Experiment-
OGLETHQBBE/ECHO.
By T. L GANTT.
twenty run ago, when open fire* were
m'*re m vogue than bow. Uk warm
glow glinted and glimmered npoa the
7“J* “** .fnnntnre and touched the
forms and facee of the girls with a ten
d ®?’ P*■*"' ftrne. Now s our chance
tehave a peep into fnturitv," said Grace
Eliaore, the younger and gayer of the
wouldn’t mention what she aaw, she told
S^J&&£l32Si
isrt.’’ ' 7
.. c ^j it superatiUcm, or what you
lie,’’ returned Irene, "I know that
many flue, tugh-wrought, and yetpow
erful natures, are strongly controlled by
such notions. Ton know we have high
authority for the assertion that ■ there
are stranger things in earth and heaven
than is dreamt of in our philosophy.'
I do not believe in supernatural tnflu
i enees, subject to laws whose workings
we d, ‘ not understand, bnt which are
• none the less reel. Now, I’m just sen
sitiye enough-cowardly, Xing almost anything if you like- dis
to prefer ordeal of walking down
agreeable to the that hour.”
oellar “WcH^there’s alone at
no needofourdmenss
tag this snbjeet beforePSul m such a
gloomy manner,” said Grace, hastily,
“ He’S Paul?" low-spirited getting enough and crossing now, aren’t the
yon, of up paid, who
room to the sidtr was re
: olming upon a low lonnge that sat in a
recess. “ I guess you weren’t Lined, noticing
what we were saying,’' she Come, con am,"' as
he did not speak. “ pat
[ting | let him have on the cheek, fun “cheer the up, of dear and
us some on eve
old Saint Valentine.”
“ t did hear what yon were talking
abont,” he said, believe—'■ quietly, “ and I agret
with Irene. I
thing ffi'aiS ita” Itatcfo?, *m.l
disagreeabl e. Com e. Irt ricy help me
wheel him around out of'theseshadows;
he’ll never move unless we do, and see
if thia bright flredght won’t dispel these
dismal __ ideas. ”
, i Irene lent a band, though theoccn
pant protested, and the lounge was
placed before the rosy firelight. Then
Mary, tbe housekeeper and cider, brought and the in girls ap
pies and nuts
ate und drank and luugbed and jokwi
with Hrteat to cl tee r ^ iii bbeireieniiitl
cousin, who was in a decline, some said,
and Paul others Wentworth that ho waa only dreamy, low-spirited.
waa a imag
inative voiitb of nineteen whono aeiiRi
live temperament displaced hail inquired ‘kindness a morbid
^ of an
indulgent mother. Bdieving him trei
fonlii, boyhood, roffgh-aiST-TuiulitopTSy she had treated
Uif ordinary a'hot-house
: him like plant, which lia<l
farther strengthened this tendency. She
w ndO rr iiT wfew weeks before
the opening tUwahim of our story, and the shook
had into a state of hopeless from
.Irepon,toner. His two cousins a
neighboring town were spending a few
days p'tug at thefanu-lionse, trying to cheer
a spirit*, bat all their efforts were
vain.
Ashe eat before a girls*bad cozy fire ta his sleep
fa. utmSuraUy room after the retired, Ids
bright eyes and the vivid
Hush on his cheek seemed good evidences
of the (rath of his friends’fears, ifiTwork. that
,-onsnmption was doing The
subject on which the girls had been had
speaking in the first of the evening
'vrinution for him, and hr
was resolved to try the experiment oi
which bpii^d they had spoken. Not that he
ihaMhere was any truth
the matter only he felt a sirengc
nnita oonsiatent with
such a natnre as his to experiment in
girthing wb ; cll i,aj a snggostioa of the
superuatural. He lia .1 no fear of death,
indeed he had a sort, of morbid longing
for it; so if he saw bis cofllu. he felt that
it not uouerre
kept him hopeful, and he sat ta a low
chair before tho fire glancing occasional
, v at „ lorit until the hands pointed
to five minutes before twelve. Hisroom
w t mtlH „utiag room. He took a
small looking glass that l.nng op the wall
and a lamp, and passed through the sit
ting rrenn to the kitchen. The house
woe still a* death. All the inmates ex
cept bers. hiinaelf were sleeping the clock in strike the cham- the
He heard
the mystical midnight door, which hour, creaked as he noisily, opened
eeUar
He descended the steps sluwlv, for walk
jng backwards down stairs is a slightly
duia-uit te riurmauc. He trembled so
violently bv this time with excitement
that hecon'ld scarcely hold the light. A*
his feet touched the bottom, the cellar
became illuminated with a weird
distinct from that shed by his lamp, and
beseemed for a moment to lose his own
identity, as in the glass, from which he
never took hie charmed gaze, be beheld
loomog over bis shoulder the fair face
framed Irene! in It»doubtful golden - enrla if his of coffin his cousin would
have startlet! him half »•> mu h as ihi»
anexpet*fcetl for apparition. He was paraly
zed a moment. Then the vision
kUde.iftway an n iseleaaly as it came;
Star i ‘dm»r h SSed Olfuis f tofa a'fa’ug 0 ' 1 The
wmnd acting Overwrought looking nerves glaes,
caused him to drop the
audit fell on the kitchen floor-with o
loud crash and was shivered to atoms.
«» hurried into hie room, andressed and
crept into bed. He lay a long time in
a dazed, bewildered state, for tlionghts entered
of a ladylove had never before
his head, and when at last he slept his
dreams were of his fair-faced cousin who
had ahowcl herself to him in such a
weird, mystical maimer,
Next Next morning morning .wtl wheolMary whenMary entered entered the the of ol
kitohen she she me startled startled bv b? the the sight sight
tbe the shattered shattered lookiaff-Rlaaa tooking-glAss on the the floor. floor.
With such miships, considerable ahe Hnpereirtion 3 about
ISS—
! ask Panl abont it. I
> jf heda it himself."
••0. no; von mftsu't mention
a*id the excited woman. “If be did,
I it’s all the worse for him ; bull
have him questioned on the
wonld onlv excite him. Poor dear I
Wt fa long after his mother.”
; i Irene regarded Srtsaid the circumstance
singular, little, and Grace
! hor secret for tbe time—resolved to
the endbefore she revealed it,
1 Bnt whether or not a Woken
• glow* is ever an omen of ill,.it was not
^ ZSel ^ The £th mddon benXiai shock to
a
THE ONLY PAPER IN ONE OF THE LARGEST, MOST INTELLIGENT AND WEALTHIEST COUNTIES IN GEORGIA
and his .action* betokened the working,
of a hitherto latent energy. He never
mentioned the glass, for he would
rather have died than revealed what he
had seen to the gu-ls, and he WM too fn
genuous to tell the story w.fnderel with any false
varni.hmg; bnt he secreth
why Marv. had never spoken of it. He
that some time lo.’the fu ture s h e w as to
: eyea Wlth * new
cad Well* only lost begun to live ’’
yoMUbave enough to do out
there to make a man of you. Three or
( wlr of brink active life
change yon so yocr friends won't know
you. Your mouier was my only and dear
sister "-here his voice fa!u red » little.
. perhaps she petted you more than was
1 good for von; but she meaut all right,
I said when I started for New Hamp
shire: ‘If Rachel’s boy needs a helping
hand, I’ll give it to him.’ ”
go the farm was left in care of the
f, it hful man and woman who had been
w!th Mrs. Wentworth ever since berime
bands death, and Paul accompanied hia
uncle to tWrifg his western bnsfn^' home wberehewaa chan^
^ne a The
of and Mtive employment actel
uke an elixir. At the end of fonr years
the taU, slender broad-shouldered, stripling developed fullSieated into
a strong, with only the dark, band
young man, and broad, white brow
seme eyea re
maining to identify the Paul Wentworth
0 f yore. Ail thin time he had cliemhed
the memoir of Irene. They had kept
„p a correspondence in a cousinly
fashion, but no word of love had been
spoken. They exchanged pictures. lovely Her
face was the same mild, one he
remembered seeing four years ago in tbe
glass ou that well-remembered night,
but teK his '«.»» waa ao changed, cry'of and for the
with a delight she
hawt*»netl te>-sliDW itrto Qrace, now a wife
of one year,
j ■ " Would yon V* have thought he would
have vs grown ffnwnRn strong-looking atr< ino-lnokinc and and hand- hand
i Grace ~ 1 f”
some — — —
“ ies, I should, as soon as lidieved he got lie
of leading strings. I never
was in * decline sny more than I was.”
“ He's coming home to visit us,” said
Irene with the least little, flush on her
(.Or ntetnrFaa' cheek “ He says he has sent this
-
" j shouldn’t wonder if yon fell in
i OTO *,th him when he You’re comes,” t ud in
Grace, raiROhievounly. “ half
1 L, invo tbs't with that lfkwl i ictnre now atid I could
he intendS you before he went
; way He must be for yon. for
fgiiess a ]i v ,n;r i,■•...» ti,., Tnittio,
which clear yon must be doing * to
leave the west for him."
♦ • • •
“ I have lov ed von. Irene. ..e
yon and Grace'Tinted me at the old
farm, after mother’s death.”
, "Hiked and pitied you them” said
Trene, “ but I never thought of love, at
least l don’t think I did. ”
•• I don't know should, as l should, indeed living I
don’t think I have been
now only for a violent shock I received
whilevon What were
I “ was it ?” questioned Irene,
eagerly. Do remember talk and
“ yon a yon
Grace had on Valentine eve abont trying
experiments to find out who was your
true lover!”
“ I think 1 doe-wbont ws’king ’ >wn
collar at dead of night with a looking
iriasa. We were sitting by the firelight.
Yes, that evening is distinct in my
memory. ”
“Well yon know how morbid and
fanciful I was, I thought it over after
.foil went to bed, and at midnight took a
lamp and glass and went down oellar.
expected to ace my coffin. What flo you
think 1 saw instead ?’’
“ What ? ’ asked Irene, breathless y.
“.Your -face looked orer my shoulder
in the glass. It waa ao-unexpected that
It frightened me so I had just strength
enough left to get back to my room
“ Why. that wm singular Paul said
Lyme, with her blue eyeMlxed on his
handsome face. “Of course I was m
bed asleep. It seems foolish, to attribute
such things to any cause bnt unr own
[ snpernatural imaginations, dings and yet a thongh belief m Grace the
to me •.
»s always langhmg at me aboutit*
, .Just supernato in time ml to explain that said mys- the
tenons affair,
i lovely throngh Grace, folding walking in upon porinr. them
! the doors of the
| “ I’ve jnsvb^a an nnintenuonal mid
j j to yonr thrilling account of yonr
night exploit fonr do years know ago.” abont it ?
: both “Why, asked. what you
j “ You aaw your lovely cousin's face in
the glass and thought it was called her spirit
which your influence bad away
from her body:” said Grace in atone ol
Spoil playful banter. "Well, I'm 'but* sorrv to
& your spiritual theories, of walk- the j
‘truth Irene was in the habit j
in her sleep oocasiouaRy, an».l oa that;
night she chose the cellar as the scene
i of her pedestrian feat ’’ ! :
j “ Whv. Grace, von never told me
I IrnptolGraoe. h ”“i au-wt’iX^l yon .hwuld,”' fright-I inter
L “I kDCTf it would
n von hatf to death, it was such old a large,
} cavernoua, horribly suggestive afraid ee), -
for, and yon were always go
: of doing something dreadful in vonr 1
i walking fits. I woke and missed yon. I
i I concluded couldn't yon were at your usual j
’ tricks. I find the lamp, so sup
-posed you hail taken it to light What! yonr J
path. I stole down stairs softly.
was my surprise when I opened the
chamber chamber dour door into into the the kitchen kitchen to to see see our our
; invalid invalid cousin cousin harrying harrying from from thediree- the direc
: tom twn dropped of of the the cellar cellar glass glass door iltsir like like hiahaste, hishaste, one one pursued pursued. “which which
He He droppe.1 the the in m
szsssgse^
&j~&***™ “Well,” said Irene, “to think
j told of this before!” yon
never “Ibidedmy me time. Don’t j
Paul, that yon keep ever
say, a woman cannot a
each I other. always thoughtyou When were made
for yon begun to
correspond I knew Then pretty well how it i
I would end." the comical aspect j
of the affair presented itself to the fertile
fancy of Grace, and she laughed hearti
ly. The other* joined her, too happy
ti> feel anythin# but amused, over it.
*‘ Tteu it -seemi, Irene, that the pleas
-. fancy - of mule which I have
uaenshGAl so long haa been rudely swept
away by this terribly mattef-of-fact
LEXINGTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 29. 1878.
! made for each other, 1 "said P«nJ,dntwiag
her fondly toward him and kissing her.
"That night I begin to live, and you
were the unconsciona instrument of my
salTBtKU.”
“*8o'hesewer* wed,
And rnerri:, », the Ufa
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; n ot ion -to wmd A to-the Sc i e n tifi c
And squirting a stream of tobacco
i'«ee with unerring accuracy into a ten
dollar enspador be wiped in the hm northwest mouth corner his
of tbe room, on
ooat sleeye and propounded the follow
tug awful conundrum:
'■ Why—which—thst is, whst is the
difference between the wwkiw Perkinson
and her daughter flallie f Now then 1"
“ About seventeen yens, perhaps ’’
we replied at random, without suspend
mg work on a labored and convincing
editorial on ‘How the Turks Might
have Whipi pslmw, cd Russia.’ no! he growled:
“Oh, two months;
“ von oonldn t guess it m
and it is easy enough, too, when yon
know the answer. One-”
“ One has a husband and tho other
want* one,” we again ventured.
“ No-Great Csssar, no V he howled
in a tone of disgust, “Don t believe
yon would stumble on the right answer
in two yea—
"One, lntemipted .
we again, «• a
widow amt the other is a wee dear, __
“ There you go again ! the tone of
disgust considerably deepened. You
guess it m seven yea
“ One mourns for a late husband,
™'l the other mourim because her hue
baud i» late—coming, we essayed ones
more. I” fairly
“ Julius Antony, no! no he
shrieked, ’ ’ ’ tciziiigour our shears shears and and fldteely HCkaely
I t i impaling impanug “ It’s a boss teTemexcbMgw several conimdrnm, exciiangen and toJhe to von tuc might twje, Uu.c,
for seventeen years, andyou- ’’
guess the front of tbe
“ Wlist waa name
widow’s dear departed ?" we naked, be
Coming' interested in the fiend's
drum, in spite of a previonsly formed
determination to kick him out of the
back door in fivo minntea oat of a poem
ble six. hta
“William." he replied, t between
w*th. “
“Aha! Now we have a dew to the
answer. Ouehaslosther Will, and the
'>ther hwn t lost lier will—by a large
majority. N-o-n-0 he howled, in bold
“ ! I”
fare.! pica cap*, which neatly overturned
Loiix
rattle. “Great Obeliak, man, wliat a
ono-hoss oounmlrum gnesser you are!
! I’ll tell—” nHiic
.. ir O iie i o b um b inu *. a i other is
worn to—”
j Before no could finish our answer—
! which if we remember propounded rightly flte by an
j original minstrel conundrum troupe in the land during
every the yeurs-tlie flendshd off
past twenty if had collided with
the table as he a
bent pin, and cried aloud :
“ Why, youdarnml idiot I you wouldn't
guess it in two hundred «iu irnriy
years. The different lu tween the
Widow Perkinson and her daughter
Sallie is—”
“ How old is Balllie?"
.» thia : the daughter has a
mohre antique dress, bnt hCT mother has
a more antique face. SceT
. ; , .
We
escaped with his life .—Aomttown
i Herald.
“
Fashion Sot**..
'
Black satin dresses ■ are revived, H ,
Back combs are worn very high.
• stripe*! stockings are regaining favor,
jja, t()W striugs to bonnets are the
- l)1
Bonueta are worn ™ far off ttefoat-to uu n t<r
evening dreea. - - -
White awiss scarfs wito ends of lace _
are again worn.
white satin trimmed with lace is
vived for bridal dreaees.
it i B m regie for the atoekmgn and fan
to match in evening dresa.
Organdie ,. , )a rlntan are used nsea to to
simulate crepe haae ballayeasea.
The latest of fattcj-mjevrelry tiger’s claws. u>f~te
in the form
Rtti jg the proper color for a long
petticoat, even those wearing mourning,
Ioicc mite and kid gloves evening are equally toilet
fashionable this winter for
„ ' . * , . -thered waists are to
’
. be worn in . »i,p Mieapmgtor BI irihu for wash materials. mate m
D»k, neh-oolored velvets and pale
tinted casnmeres are used for composite
evening toilets.
Transparent lace elbow sleeve* are
wore with a few sleeveless silk aud vel
T«t evening toilets.
The Princess drew, varied in a hnn
,\ r ~l different wevb. is ranidly takmg
ln ** ie ““'A^ .’ jjk* ell “ • "* *° a droppipg lu *
Clotti boots foxed with ... pebble be go*k the .
. thick cork soles, contmne to
with
favonte walking shoe.
The most fashionable evening dresses
have long and pointed front, oorsages, with high on* shoulder very
square back
and no sleeve*.
fa*- handsomely carved, and long,
narrow, tortoise-shell pins are used to
fasten the hair when it is dressed in two
braids, fastening low down in the nape
offaeneck. ...
Amon n()TeIti(M j„ handkerchiefs are
■ A batiste embroitlered in eon
■=:
The match box, the wail and the car
pet are the three substances upon which
the average woman will consent to light
a match, and it should be noticed, as a
enrions and aa yet nnexplainedfact, dreams that
no woman, in any circumstances,
of lighting matches on the under side of
a nirble mantel piece. Men, on the
bther hand, regard the mantel piece as
the natural complement of the match,
and if he happens to fa near one when
Bcratches about to light the under a match, side of uniformly the
on mar
ble. the Some men prefer their to light matches
on soles of boots, questioS except,
course, when the soles in
’ A HEROIC DEFESSE.
—
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2SJSL* °*j£ VitV< Sous
A correspondentjrnt*. Montana T»~mtory, . to from the Bose- New
man,
. pears tllaTur. kU«w*C‘witi> his wife,
: antelopea, but wbielowf ZiuhAi*. aid of a field
glass showed to he Mr. Mai
well at once halted his party and soon
d.soovwrt-d he was m the yicinity of a
village of atwut forty lodge* of hosti'e
Indians. The wagons were tnrnedbaek
and tbe party relrested teward Olfcllon
creek. The Indians followed bat did
not attack, and Mr. Maxwell, having
r«aclied the timber and water, selected
a high point of land and went into c*b , JP
A ravine ran around three sides of the
camp and it was nsttirally very strong
and dark easily defended. Mr.Maiwfl « selected hi*
when
camp and the entire night was span tip
fort-.fymg it The bluffs did not mu
close party to had the to water tske position or timberjmd about two the
hundred yards from wab«r or wood. As
good a snpply as possiMc of both arti
ejes was hud in during the night and
the )wrty waited antiowly for
*»;! the battle they mew it would
usher in.
Ateieven o clock appmaching, the next day and Indians the
wero diH ( >..ver«'
siege hegau. The catfle were kept as
close^ they ha.1 as jiosmble, to be vmterech bnt in and the^ while evening this
was being done the Ind‘- ,IiB dashed
ward and captured all tte oxen. oxen. Mr. Mr.
Maxwell Maxwell let let them them go go and and kepthm kept his men men
hard hard at at work work on on the the fortifications, fortifications, know
: mg ing lie lie wmiM wmiW soon scow have have need need of of alt all the tbe
protection proieeiiou o’clock night he^ jie ,^<wlfl Couiu the works sci. ou«ut finished eteveu
at were
and the place made as strong te possible,
The wagons formed one Bide, and lorn,
sacks filled with earth and sand, the
side. Cave* were dug for the
women and strong ^ nfle pits night plaoe.1 on
three aides of the camp. AU long
tb> men lnwrd cattle_ lellowui^, and
they were driven up and aronnd the fort,
mthe hope that tlie httle garrison
would come out and attempt to capture
them ; but Mr. Maxwell m^ght kept his men
within the fort. About one of
the party crept ont of the workf*, ami,
avoiiling jthe Xndiane. ific started to I'ort
Keogh for help, little garrison
; waa now rctoeed to six- rejwmw and
»TMr7 Maxwell, Mr. Ronton,
George Darland. .Teeter Prudcu and the
two women—Mrs. Maxwell and May,
her
p ar ing toe night the men in the fort
heard the Indians eoming no the ravine
mmm ted. It was dtotinctly bright moonlight Halting and
th „ ,1 „ mM w seen.
9t ie ereek, they diamomiteil tied their
ponies and Mr. commenced Maxwell crawling told the toward
fort- men to
keep tll very still and let them come on
an he aalled out- “Fire!" and then
to work- Hw Lnusdi-loaders hard and
Rte a,lv. When the Indians were within
Rixfy jap), „f «,» fort the frontiersmen
begau firing, ami before the redskins
conM get out of range killed two. Odb
fellow was wounded, and fell so near the
r rt y - o.j ... . ,J ! ;i ,r him. He
out to u >e D , en in broken English:
“ Hold on, I am hit 1" and “ Don’t shoot
i any more. I am a good Indian!” Later
1 in the night he called: "Come ont and
ge4 J? ^ e ,r*m wbunded.” here, Mr. then, Maxwell and
ep ij w t : •> Well, crawl in Tbewonnd
we will look out for von ”
i «d fellow said:“ No, no, let them come
I and carry me off.” Fo reply was given and
j and aai, l; presently .. HoWi how the , fellow rose „hoot, up .no go
away.” They let him go, and after work
mg liimaeif down the bill a little <liiiUiute
two Indians came up, took hold of
by the arms and helped him off.
Hie Indian* now packed up everything
| a driving gre at shutt-aaot-thev wore
goingaway, toe tattle with them.
Tu e gteere were soon beard lowing about
the camp, the wily red fiends thinking
the white men would believe some of the
; oxen had got away and come back. Mr.
Maxwell, however, kept hia mehwithm
; the fort, and the savages seeing all their
efforts to deoeive or dreg the little
son out were ta vain, came on wMyells
^ W)rks .
qaabiid at each side o', the fort finng at
the men within, blit flie besieged kept
j still and let them ride and howl as much
as they had a mind to. Toward
1 the Indians drew off, went into the hills
and Commenced throwing from up signal dis
««»»*•, ’» hioh were answen-d a
*•”««. “They are seiiihng for will help,
l„y Hl ” said Maxwell, “aad we soon
hot and heavy, so rest while you
an - fa about two hours Indiana were
'seen coming from the south and joining
those on the bills. Yery soon aeveral they came
down toward the fort, an»l
vancing called out: “ Hour, how I Gome
ont and give np,” Maxwell replied he
would do flo such thing, and for them to
shefSg IhemrelveSttiraS® ^Tittle
mound of earth.
The firing now became ram,1 and wtaa
kept up constantly for two hours. The
Indians came very near getting Maxwell mto the
fort, bnt the scout says: “ and
his men stood honrs, their saysUalee, gronuib like lions.’ noth
“ For three behetAjmV M
ing could she
nfles, the veiling of the Indians
cries of tho women ,
Presently the Indians d re off and hrdd
a oo,.ncit Then they t^h^s. di into n_
parties, ,®^fTtf-od«Sed%fctat went
;'*»?' ^ ie h>rt and wan ““ •
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j drink. remainder of . fae day and ^
During the night!he>»**«»ire
all the following unchanged.
mained non “ d «>“ E ’^*
’their fires and every
an meffeotnal in the fort. attotai On >, tbemoramg ." > oIthe Jf®
men Indiacs renewed the
I second day the bfad of whites^
, tack. The little
I surrounded on nl:
; waa most
boors fighting .commimeed. the,
They their bow*-and next
ao fort. the This arrows is. a wonld most dsng«ou^g«ue, drop^rnthm
’
bat all 1 st still and did not expose them
selves. toward noon au Indian, who
had been Bitting smoking on the
J 31 ' *°* °P aEd w3ked dowB t ? ward *£®
fort. the ballets He continued until within to approach, sixty yardB des P !te of
,fa breasUorks, when hefeU\i4d. The
gavasre was probably a medicine man
Satfa I poi°a hasd*oollId
t close to the be
op’a 6 ^. SI
1 beat be could.
The water was givMg out and the men
becoming thirsty. To meet this new
danger a passage was dag under the
breastwork, and one of the party crawled
ont, and, under coyer, went down and
got water. Another man got some wood,
i and in the morning the building beanegeosnr- large
4r». prised the savages bv a
; Mr. Maxwell hsd had a tent put
j up, and when the J nduu »“ w t* 16
a proved oondibon of the little garrison
their rage was very great Hashing bun
j down to the fort they flr<^ ovm a
dred shot* atthe fire, bntMrs.Maiwell
I bravely stood her while ground the ballswere and quietly fly
went all on cooking The Indian, circled
ing about the around besieged her. bo
for OT«».*»» n .™‘
; but only fired ooeasional shots, which ,
showed they were getting Aortnl *m
munition. Abont noon on the third day
they drew off, one calling ont: “Good
by, we are going now. When «*keil
who they were the Indiansi
‘Sioux and Nex Peroea. Bigot In*
diaus were seen tofall daring the fight,
} and dis likely double that number were
wouuded.
On the morning of # the fourtlrday , all n
I looked well, bnt the'garrison satisfied the did Indians not
venture out, being the
had only moved ashort distance from
fortificationa.-I>anog the rlay Colonel
Baker (Second cavalry), with a strong fort,
force, guided was seen the approaching who had been the sent
for assistance. by man Mr. Maxwell had
out a
very narrow escape, a ball cntting away
a lock of his hata and another grazing lost
his jaw. Mr. Maxwell and party
. twenty-six the Italians, hea .1 of oxen, killed, captnreil but by all
and one pony
i are only too happy to have escaped with
, ' their lives^jakiejme and defences of the
memorable aieges ever
known on the plains, and stamps every
i one engaged in it as a genuine hero and
heroine.
The lode in t olormlo* .
The code is new out in Colorado, and
marksmen llndta
each other. Sitae and Colbnra, of Cb
bolla, hail a wrangle over a yonng arranged. lady’s
reputation and a duel waa
Aot^une*,
distance, fifty feet. The of principals the bridge were and
stationed at each end
loAdfd shot guns were laid at their feet,
an.l their secomls explained to them teat
at their the weapons, word “ three cock and thy fire were them. to seize At
the signal Colburn caught up his gun
and exploded a esp. Stine had his piece
ready, tint to shoot would have been
mn'-der, and. like a man of honor re
; frained from taking advantage of his an
tugonist’s helpless eondition. Colburn s
i g*n waa reprinted, i but as he expressed of the
some doubt us to the effectiveness
arm, ' a antagonist offered to
wcApoue with him.atthe twohundml same t ma
volunteering to settle for
anil aeventy-flve dollars. C.olbnrn s
friend* could not raise the money, and
so, bit taking the ground hie enemys midway; gun, and heiflred^nd without
waiting fire he lor scampered his antagonist off and to^^retwrnthe took jrefnge
behind a venerable drover nameil SinvUi.
: Btino advanced tothfos gnu leveled at
; the'b»"?<*de and Colburn, bemg fore«l
to fight in the open seized* wuderons
boulder and rushed to the front.
Seconds, Burgeons and byaUnueraa^r
rounded: the pr“?P“JjJ“5J? somebemy r e
citement of the fray afe. At this erita.at a a
j went off m the
■mo»autea^depntyjhang r w'th a srn adl
: wsse. armedto the teeth,^dashed . nj»n
tbe scene with foaming steeds and ar
^ rested the sanguinary combatant*.
Kleptomania - “—„ . T In High u ._ fc Life.
i A kleptomaniac, a^wi^iw H
family and in comfortable cironmstance^
was recently sentenced to an mentha
imprisonment. She ia believed to have
artic-tes fr 0 m’* ? detected
j shops, and du was Lonvie lately slipping at lace
Maga.ioa two
j handkerchiefs into her muff. The shop
man who saw her do this, ami whose
: attention had been attracted the by her resb and
less air followed her into sfaeet
: aaked her whether she had not forgotten
something. She said she had tyraght the
I nothing, whereupon lie drew out
, handkerchiefs. She offered to pay for
; them, bnt he led her to the desk, whore
| she pulled a square Of soap and a cos
j rae tic from her pocket. These she at
she had paid for, but
| ward confessed she had stolen. On be
ing aaked whether «he had anything but
else, she replied in the negative; a
the fern Msrehewere
discovered, amounting in ralne to 430
s tnnm. The Magasms dn Louvre, on
; learning her connections, declined to
Urosecuts I her, bat the public proseentot
insisted on proceeding with the case. On
: her trial the prisoner wept and
, edgediher gtult, adding that she had
nesd to steal and that «hetod
rime*
Pant tetter.
Ammonia.
a verv naefol article. We quote the
i rfaih remittent ammbnia ^^authority ta quart
Tat * teaspoonful of a
; * warm soansnd«, dip a cloth in it and
h Hot iron on it for o a moment Also a few
d^* m wMerwu^n^s a whiten
^ ^
d ™P» l “ a k ^ bowl W |jT of nn^taCM water if the skin be
“-’ r m 0 and disa
b ! e Z 0r< l 0 rB. Added ^1 to a hot bath,
it mt^ abrorae rfa mi n oxtaus smell
an ^ be^ eqnSy . j n ; ^ Bs y For Bnt |
heartbSm b„ 8 hre it dvs^isia.^bTwomatie is mod.
and esoecialiv
I ^5 OT1 ;» prepar
. ten drops e\re taken -in a wine-gloas oi
will relief. ^rery For house plants,
to JE£ pint of floSl iratei,
YOL. IV. NO. 25.
FABX, OAKBEh ASD HOUSEHOLD.
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FuwXste..
The best way to protect the bark
j treeg ltom handle „6Kta or farm stock
, j t m tie a amall of dea.1 branches
^
r, . , ..
Compounds. muriatic acid, Hme, mag
^'ySSfrifi I
Me, and sealed with piaster of Pana
The Gardener'4 Monthly well re
mm-k,,,. «'gome people say that land
„i,ieh wfli gbSJ is otirtr all right; will grow bat
{ruit tr6( , Si
they should add that, like com, they
require i g,”' To regular which and continuous would add, manur- that,
n we
oorni tti 6 y require thorough eultiva- their
tion of ^ gofl, and especially farmers during would
yonnger regard years, clean, many mellow soil instead
even a
0 f a grass sod in their corn-fields, as
more important than muxare.-Country
Gentleman
p w driBk water fMe ,,'' w ( but they f,
, k “°* ,?,hsre Clothe , flMddX i
t an/fresb ^h« imbibe^i^rL
swwt \
h Jt i. tWrefore,
,,„ n weMary to mix your dough tooThta
thlmedwen Sttdleed feeding
Have the
t j, e stock stiff and dry com
n a rative ] T This feed shnnld generally meaL
* comiK»e<l of both aul rye
Stables-Havane-third com ieh
... In
practice we have found this
nreferabteboth for the bird* «nd as an
provision for the old or the
( , row j u „ \ little pepper occasion-
1 '“" dough and always 7 salt, will
t
Xsitivwtiss sf lUrss-MaStsh.
providing Any kind it of ia sou cool will and amt moist. horse-moisti, A low,
moist, sandy soil, well enriched with
cow yard manure, is the t»»t. In place
of barnyard manure, Peruvian gtumo, or
iv dust mixture ami unleached of finely-ground ashes may raw be bo^ used
with benefit; eitherof oOO thsabore to 800 fertilizers^ ponnda per
acre of
twmdytarotTiianure will be sufficient
Lnleached ashes are excellent, bnt need
help; a Btroug ummoniac&l fertilizer is
needed 'M well a# potash. The best
? ode °* oultlT * tloa ?
tings flbqut one qnarter mch m diameter
and three to bix laches long,ia rows two
feet apart, and sixteen inches apart de “
The.cuttings. lire m a f rom
he smaller roote, and as they are made
the tops elionld he out square and the
Itottoms slanting, l>s so Hiatin.jlflnting upward.
Urey may not put bottom
They are to ^ «tone ingy B»lo»
re December
About
; and good roots ^wih'
j of acre,.when a pound, the giving cultivation 10 000 pounds tneoest per
. is
posstlw. possible trimmeil The root* and are put (lug a-rajinptt, as lave as
; auOooyered with rod just as pot r
: turaipa are kept over.
H.w ts Stssaa. F.wl..
The flutter,( heete and Egg Reporter
of <t Mr. Rentoti, ti: V'T-a c. ^
[different kinds of fowls, and ia very Mr.
successful in their lyc management wood ashes
Bonton fmmJ weak and
an effectual remedy for the canker. The
■ : doetors A shes are recommend.chlorate alsc.excellent for Uie of hens ptash. to
! wa llow m, and he keeps a box m each
coqp for that purpose. This effectually
keeps off lice. The flour of snlphnr henais
apnnkiad Jn the nest of setting
; excellent. Mr. Benton
1B lm ban corn, which is kept constantly
m r-ach of his liens by moans or boxes
i co<>P"- n the partitions, W “ ' r .' 1 one serving fo^ vjo
keg, with_a .,. holt^cut B inthe^ side, ®*f' long 8 s
for watering flic, ness are in a
box ahmg the en.ls of tte.
hens enter through boles and arethen
m comparative darkness Hds on the
onteula give access to the ueats. Mr.
Benton tli:inks Indian corn the best
for hfno, because of its heating natur .
table, butcher srefiwe,flmd gree ten tnff.
Corn and fat will atonce set
laving. ■
.
The Boston Journal of Cbemttry
gives particnlsrs of a process recently
supplyinga patented in gr«n France eolor, and extracted England^ from »r
vegetables, which is to be n«d (ogoiH
onng pickles. To procure this extract,
leaves of Bpinach, ee"® 1 *. > r
planta, are scalded in hot-water, boiled chopped sofa
into a mass, imd then me
bon of caustic soda til! dissolved. On
oooling, a green cake is the deposited, phosphate whioh of
is to be dissolved with
potassa’or ammonia,‘and reduced to
the required strength obtained, by aiding when water, it
In the liquid thns is
heated to boiling point, ten or afteen
minutes’immersion will give to pieiUee
not vet be certainly said of the wffte of
copper, have recently althomfh found I ranch them experimra^s leaapomonons
thaa had hitherto been supposed.
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Hew Such to t*L
by Dr. Wilami says for
^ ^
R||riT j^akf,^ before work, a mid-day
dinner, with so interval of rest, and sop
per after the day's work is over have
long been proved byuexperience to^be
; bnamese man, a
day luncheon and a late dinner after tne
The breakfast hour sbomd be detemin
;bat ed in great ^ My measure, rose food by the should honr^rf bepsr- ns
titaen of before commeW. the nuitenal biunness who hke of
the day i* "constitutional before tira?.
to take a whett«i
ignd fast would find then appetite
their walk madesHthcmore enjoy
-..able if they tpoka little milk or
I with milk, with bread or b.scmt fafore
: starting. Work done fafore fa<»kfartuj
always lrkBomeanflfatigiimg, aiul on tnat
1 aooount isxery likeWto
The for the last whole meal not al^gnld^be to be absorbed sufflci^tly bef<we
retiring to rest To . f^rson m health
The Faaper Child. _______
There is one bed_or, more strictly
speaking, a bundle of raga—in the
. cumet. The h wme hold consists of an
manasragged as Rip on the rnoun
tains mSS a woman sllCall whoae face the wrinkles 3«ply
that it Mnnirm an immense sweet> of
desolatedorAne'ceilin'g *Mie"l«iy
ss^i^smt
he stand upon the sick face before film.
“She won’t newer get ont of it; there
ain’t no use tryin' :t on her/* he went
on in an abstracted way, “Wehsdth:
oonnty doctor; but such us them ain’t
; giyen to hangin’ round a sick bed like
her’n. He left some truck and she took
it, but it never mended her ailin', and I
guess he’ll not oome back."
I The Httle face turned over on its
(mother's mm, and there was hardly
enough “Bvmeby,” life the in father it to ssid, be perceptible. few
s mm
utea later, “ some weernen come in here
and left a pone^of bread and made her
1 somethin’ that kind o’ seemed to make
cro-Sdthe’Hto her peert-like, ss and she then was they when reml she
a
bieee oaten the book, and one of 'em
she was a smart-lookin' woman, and
- wasn't afraid of dirtyin' her olothin’ nor
nothin’, thongh her goods was fine-she ;
-fM *"»”• «* the floor thnr, and shut
“ er *are« kinder close, --of hmH-way, 'em and Iter
**«l d her hands, <®e on
bnsum, and tother on the child a head, '
and the bratfl quit runnm round end it
wa » awfal 8tiU * And the woman turned
^ np agin the ceihnHe
J P»n*ed for a moment, as if he had to
K»*her a little strength. And then :
! “Talk about I prayin’: .Hbe of put tte np_M» Hio,
6St mie ever hear sontli
^ and I reckon it was as solid with Him as !
heard it as any that ever was got off.
j jj joinder made things more hopeful
: tb«s child opened her eyea ,
; wille , jest as if she knew the woman
wa8 p Ut tin' up for her. It got down ■
i fl to me, though tliar wasn’t anv stakes ■
pQt up for m9 »t sU. When *e went
a way i would said to EmiJy-that’s hand jest wife
u,at I try my on one
Jf —gy*, it. seamed t» help bead, things so. I -
ho old woman Rl)0l)k hef ’cause
UOT er thought of such a thing before,
jjut I got down and put n)> every cent I
had—I mean everything I Could think I
of. And when I got to the last word, '
^ Je ameDj jt ntuck in my but :
• gjjjjjy right’on* got away with it. She said it
; like it'was In meetiii’.”
^ ues r I-ffiAdfe s-T,nad«J
w bere," be oontinued rather mourn
fnUy “ The littl e one didn’t lo ok up ; !
- anyraBd-jihe’s Emfly been growin' I'd apiled weaker the
; e , et , d gy. (aid ,
: whole buainesa, and that I wrowdodthe
“f*?* ^ ^ PTCf 1knOWn SEN ^ wu iniMb? “Vv
| n'J d never pnt np agin her hand.
biast of wind thatoame
and rattled the window, and a kind, of
» low moan, and then the head of the
B i ck dm,] and its face tnrned oyer in
t he mother's lap. Its thin lipa met the
wrtaUeil ones, and the straggle was
ow ,
The grim faoed hardy looking man
bent over the pallet, but there was. a
good ileal of good sense left m him
< util), Ho tuined to bre reporter, who
had gone to the scene of misery And
said: “But I am not the man to go
back on good prayin , even if I didn t
wm. I reckon the hand that the woman
put Little iq» wdt wm U *. somebody For else s
one, cf it didn t for ours. 4
, was the sohdest bawll .****."?’
j ’ceptui' the south side of the Hio m old
Kamtuck. ’
A pauper child was buned yreterday. ,
1w,e*.
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Atiout i unee,.
is a legsud about coffee-a
igg^j of w ),ich the pious Mussulman
4 , Th” Mnasnlmau need to
^ >j Ttf|r!fl g i i ; S -agvotroIffl ) mrto
^ to Moh&mmend, who came to
Mohammeud seat him for ad
^ „ eoa n,erd. who took a hint
from ^ g 0a ts. He observed that when
animals ate the berries of a par
ticular tree they got friaky and exe ted,
ab£mt n]! jjight, in fact. Th«
todt the hint, ate the Coffee
beniea, siepUess, ,j ^ and no legend/ doubt prayed
T at ^ That
coffee nowever, was sold in tile atreefa
Q( 0|lin) toward the end of the sixteenth
oeokrt is sot a mtto of l«gead bnt of
1)i8tor ;f ^ fa fact, it was not besoli. onlyaold,
, )at wa s forbidden to An
Art bian historian recount* that in the
year 1638 a .cafe was attacked by the
auttea.itie8.ami the customer* pho prison, were
foaad „„ the spot hurried off to
}rom they wore not liberated tall
^ 1 , rece ived seventeen strokes
^ # --gbog tol the encouragement of
6ther9 Aad, in fact, this raid
that purpose so excellently, that
aT!r j twenty Tears afterward the town of
con fa boagt of more thsto two
i3amxiA shops where coffee might
E j t nrope j 8 recorded made that the >t» flrrt way to enp the ofoooffoe ]^t.
too * n have beep prepared m Franee
was handed to Louis XIV. to drink. It
was a royal beverage in twenty-MX those days. del- A
pound of it cost about
; lam. Bnt thisi extravagmice of price
have abated soon, ,or
afterward scvcraUb,|HWer8 0 pened lor
; its sale trim 1647 offered each *
very select dinner
his guests a cup of i “Bee,
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A thhL Bsy.
Une q.. oi of tne tbe best oes imng in the world to
«
gaSwsitSS legs thepjrto* are toosi , -
; fa facta a boy is ^ ^ a hard hard anbject anbject to re get gei
a moral from. ■
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Lbhfto stand it ^ The Dukeof fL^hat is Well- left
wre i ^ i^o • * it the haa
h * • ^ * •
' " beautifollv Tnllv the Roman and' orator,
spe oompre- ad
; ^ hensivelv. _ “ TTn«h Both done more %o
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JUf* ic • ross. brier-burdsDod. yet »wset—
Btoomiog a day,
Phoging its perfume Uke perfszoa to meat
Wind blown away.
Leaf after leaf spreads its blo*b to the air,
Kitted by tbe sac.
Deepsr-hued growieg a* I«>y taaie*
Love’e guerdon woo.
Leaf after leaf shrink* up from the heart
Leaving it bare;
Say, the Divine in it linger* there still ;
Ood « care in aUL_____.... 1,._1
B o— leav e ! bet drop at the beck of His will—
Fetters which IkraD.
Up from it* trammels the freed *pirHwin
Higher to rioar ;
. city . (luring . . um.ini 1 S 77 nuniowreo iu.rjj .iti n,*fO. 3
o«
whelming Thebwy_whogrows fear of dog opwith gill not mi deve.op o*er
istc a book agent mi:’# life.
“Distilled sea water ”ie the latest in
ymition from France, offered to the pub
t; c to cure or prevent all kinds of dis
o nes.
is confidently believed that every
mode rn haoktnan was in the cavalry andamty dnr
^ the srar, and hence his in
charging « *
ThePeeoe Disle(R.I.)3Mamhfteturmg . . Manufacturing
“SJIESS SSifMd, M 5 FebruMv^Sl rZldiT;
will tWedterdmde the surplus proAte
among its workmen,
Samuel Bowles used to say there wss
a sixth sense-the newspaper sense,
There » also a seventh sense-nos
sense. it—Iformtoum Thra par^aph HeraUl. is a specimen of
Ssysthe Oincinnati Breakfaet Table:
Greek is the language for poetry,
French for love and Italian for hand
organ melody, but a man with a shirt
Ajollar that don’t fit is the same helpless
being in all,
Scientists say that the. age of iron is
approaching its close, and that steel
eventually take its place. little slow. The
acientifio gentlemen axe a
e b a ve been in the midst of the age of
H *.^l f or a.)iae time ’
Thrw hmidrM h „. lW men wroessea a
“Otg* t h® P^ttie^teu h^tle I^d ^wo^ two if^s noars
, Sto“ WsTmrfttw to »
1
B-j». atennous . fact, tlmL in . (U the Bwt . .
temtonat lepslrture M Atabama, the
upper branch of that body, or the
Senate, was composed ?) of one member.
881 ooe A u
nnd decided upon the sets of the low
A Mobile business firm tame toil h l! ,
dsn utemBeF, endtiheotter while Jaj^JL.a_Bpl!liflr, at the rt^lc-Md
over on his desk.eanl his lu- ad hn rt lum .
and died; and aMLaa Mat after, t’faos
lluggan, thcother member, who was at
homeisick, died there.
5?’t^nmmf^f a Sm who
liannened to «hott be DMaing P with *p»ir P <>f re
markably short 1the on “ l dig got
them where they gTew, wiwtbei in mlg
nant reply. Then, be me ironsciene.
says Paddy, you ve pulled them a .Vein
to soon I
“And wbere was the man stabbed r”
g*ked an excited stabbed lawyer of a phyBicmn. inch
“ The man waa about an
and s half to the left of the medial
] in(>j and about an inch above Oie nm
biiimu,” UDdcJ wtandnow w t) but p'1-. I thought <y-,-»«. it was
;
nea r the town hall.
.. Yonng men,” said an ol.l oolbge
; to a coterie of dissipated
tlI deuts, " all these excesses of your
youth are jrafp, „ pon your age, begin
^tun; alxmt thirty years after
oonthming to pkeas and draw
heavi ]v ou vonr bodtlv resources all the
residue of your lives. ”
trek war minnie-ihAtls
nearlytwomilesperminnte.forthe' mrcular travel, may be laid rim
of a saw to
down as a rale. Shingle and some other
',y either riveted to a cast iron collar,
or ve thick at the center and thin at
the nm, aisecV may be run with safety at a
^7 fc - r6 a t er .r^ WNe'sTKrk
«7,me K T , out h sent
vmtinererds and received
KJ?- ' L«1 whit* outline* when
“ P the
. , * Unaware of this ewSheart peculiar
.. .. : man j,j s
was astonished to bear her say
al-* slie didn’t want hia photograb;
A«r . Benin, . Germwy, • i„ is a „ eonren miorcn
budding, circntarw.Onn
without, and capable^! aatoml,**
persons, whose rauets ouunue au<
statues within, root ceuing, anu wra
thiau ™ ...
ff 1 wh^vradiriuto of M»’
h®e In amiwater,^^whey “Har dwire and Beieu oe- . Oijgmp ego.
a
thereis uu anecdote ghowtngthe remark
able tenacity of life in the cat. A little
girl's pet fell from a third-stoiy window,
a distance ol more than fortyfeet, upon
the stone pavement below. It was lilted
np,. to all appearan<te dead, beinghmp
and saoUonlesa, aad blooa. stream g
from the month and eaya. Abom
hour* after it was crawling fee bly «xwi,
afl&lfe& WfrW h * **** *
y- e ^S a w he9t 360,000,000 in the United bushels, States 60,- for
y*ar was or
poo,more than was cver Aefore pro
(lnce j Deducting the amotait neMea^r
{m borne consumption m food and seed,
upwft rd of 110,000,000 can be spared for
a A is greater The acreage than thatof of winter IffIL wheat^for ™
1878 1.3QO0f*,M«bushel B
proaact corresponding yields of oats and
-with
, pofajoe*. affair recently took p.ace at
A brutal duriagjhc
ofabSh Ohio, progress farm:
'A stalwart young i
n * ,oed BooT f r • »{*® ^
the moater of all hia wwociatea m tnr*!«
z&s-z'sbb ga?Jfc£ha
second New York cavalry, has just died
at Hoosick Falls. He through was prel*b»ytt« thewhole
on|y horteft At serve.! with
war and wound up hi*, camfiai^ He a
visit mj duty to tbe ftams. of the Gni-wol. was , a ,
great JwA pet of tlie met*
and sn snim d --f te-cniiar ways.
Incamporon tin- march he wm ring-- fire!
gish, wfaldmA allow a tar-fad pistol to U**e be de¬
from bia back, and if
fled the efforts «l.« whole company to
catch hua, Imt once una*-, fir
obeyed the slightest t<mth o!
would jump anytnm*, his back, andeonld no be
niBtol'firmg from that he
turned loose with the certainty
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