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TIE HAMILTON JOURNAL.
HAMILTON. : : GEORGIA.
Poetical Selections.
immiNO.
ai iilu voßiciua.
Oayly rtrilliiiK I gayly driftingt
Down llfa'i stream I
Not a rare to mark my patliway,
It dothaeem.
A world of Joy, ao bright and fair.
With wooden rlfa, and pleasure* ran,
A pleaaant dream.
Idly drifting! Idly drifting!
Down life's stream I
Not a thought save for the present 1
Hrill I Hearn
Free from petty oaiea annoying;
Ufe la Hvreetl I’m cow enjoying
Ixivaa yowng dream 1
Slowly drifting I slowly drifting I
Down life's stsnam I
Often now in troubled waters—
(.'hanged tha scene!
• Htorm clouds now before me rise.
Yet o’er the waves my bark still glides)
■Tts no dream I
Gently drifting I gently drifting I
Down life’s stream I
Calm and peaceful now the waters
Hope doth gleam.
Ere long mwsailing will be o'er;
I soon shall phs to yon bright shore
Of which I dream 1
Stories and Sketches.
The Tyrant of Kimini.
A tall, somber-looking, mitltlle-aged
man was haughtily walking down the
friucipul street oi Bimini, in Eastern
talv, itt an early hour in the morning of
the Itilhof |day*lsol, All pedcstraiuH
fled as if dismayed at his approach, and
well they Ttiiglrf; for lie was no other
thanSigisniondo-I’aiidollo-Malalesta, the
autocrat of Bimini, and one of the worst
tyrants of his terrinle period.
Malatesta was followed hy an escort of
archers, ami as lie turned around a corner
ami directed his steps towards the court
house, iin arrow, shot hy an unknown
hand, fell at hi feet. Malatesta picked
it up with a scornful smile. A parch
ment slip was fastened to the point of
the arrow. On this slip the following
terrible words were inscribed:
“Accursed Malatesta, thy end is draw
ing nigh. It will he both horrible and
ignominious.”
As Malatesta read these words he
turned slightly pale. Hut he quickly
recovered his equanimity. Casting a
sidelong glance at the house from which
the arrow seemed to have come, lie mut
tered, with a terrible smile:
“That house shall he torn down to-day,
and on its site 1 will construct a gallery
of paintings and statuary. It shall be a
noble edilioe, and it will add to my fame
as one of the best patrons of the line
arts. As for the inmates of the house—
why, they shall he attended to this very
morning.”
The procession entered the court-house,
where Malatesta immediately descended
to the gloomy basement of the building.
In this basement were located the dun
geons where the prisoners of state were
confined; also the tortue chamber with
nil its dread paraphernalia.
During the infamous reign of Malatesta
these dungeons were always filled with
the victims of the tyggnt’s vindictive
ness, and life torture chamber resounded
day after day with the heart-rending
screams and profound groans of the un
fortunate persons whom Malntesta’s
hangman and his assistants tormented.
On the morning of the 12th of May,
1501, the torture-chamber was to be tire
scene of a truly revolting spectacle*.
When Malatesta entered the apartment,
over w built two torches east their lurid
light, he took his seat upon a stone
estrade. A secretary took liis seat at
his feet.
nave me prisoners Drought iu,”
ordered Mplatesta.
The secretary rang a bell. A niiuqte
later a side door opened. The sound of
clanking* eh'ains’tfaa iu ml. At last y,
mournful process ion, * headed hy -the
hangman and his assistants, entered.
There were ten heavily-ironed prisoners. I
Tin y were only half-clad in tile coarsest
hempen ..garment*. They looked pale'
and emaciated. .Their eyes were hajniiy
able to hear the glare of the torchlights;
" Call thgir names,” said Malatesta.
The secretary read 6if the following
Ames:
Palvielno Aesiello,' Enrico Acsiclio,
Michael f A#dello, < < ti giie 1 me E.illayieiui,
Alfonso. SWavera, M^nlredo Hittonini,
Andrea liorania. Carlo Honmia, Marco
Tristany, Antonio Montana
As sool} fls the name of a prisoner was
read he whs rudely pdslied one side by
the executioner. W hen the reading of
the names had been completed, .the
secretary said:
■' They are all here, Principe;'”
Malatesta rose to his feet, arid said, in
a terrible voice:
“ You are all accused of being traitors
to the State of Kimini!”
“We are not,” firmly replied the pri
soners. “We luive tried to save the Re
public of Kimini from your traitorous
machinations, l’amlolfo Malatesta!”
“ Ha! ha! ha!” laughed the tyrant.
“ Who elceUjd you Prince of iUuiiui?”.
err and the i liTcr Aesiello, a venerable
man of seventy.
“No one!” said another prisoner.
( ,f “lie is a usurper and a tyrant.* %
M.'uatfta fairly foamed with rage.
“ ATaledeHi. he Soared.
“ You are accused hy everybody in
this citycycgpt hy your mil done apd
henchmen.
“ You w ill speedilv die the death of a
dog!” uravcly said old Aesiello.
“Hut first, you shall die; and the
ravens and hawks sludi eat your rotting
carcasses, while 1, after my death, shall
I'O remembered as the benefactor of
Kimini—as he who adorn and his city
with tlm most beautiful edifices and
woiuinmnts.”
• J - x -.11 .->1 < 4*
“History does not lie!” said old
Aesiello, solemnly.
“A truce to all this nonsense!” shouted
Malatesta. “ Executioner, perform your
duty.” The scene that ensued beggars
description. For three solid hours the
unfortunate prisoners were tormented
vKh all the devilish ingenuity chara
teristic of the cruel Italian tortures of
the Middle Ages. The ole or. >) this
torturing was to wrest from the sufferers
the confession that they were traitors fo
the State of Kimini. Eight of the pris
oners remained firm. Two of them,
unable to hear the dreadful agony, said
all that Malatesta wanted, lie was
delighted.
“Carlo Bnrania and Antonio Montani,”
he said, “are shrewd. They will get off
with simple decapitation. As for the
rest of you, this fate is in store for you
—you shall he knocked down with a
stone hammer, and then your hearts
shall he cut out hy the executioner.
You shall meet your death at noon to
day on the market place.”
He ro-e from his seat and hurried
hack to his palace. There several dis
tinguished artists from Rome awaited
him—artists, painters, sculptors. The
artists of Italy at that period, as a gen
eral thing, were wretched, tine’ -erring
fellows. What did they care whether
the hand that patronized them was
stained with blood? Mnlatesta's infamies
were notorious. Still such noble architects
as Citiglielmo Da Visto and Andrea Yasi
courted liis favor. When lie re-entered
his palace he immediately granted private
audiences to the artists.
A large concourse surrounded the
wagons conveying the prisoners. The
latter harangued the vast crowd of peo
ple that witnessed their arrival in ring
ing' tones.
“People of Kimini!” exclaimed the
venerable Aesiello, “ will you permit
the tyrant Malatesta to sacrifice youi
best friends?”
A great commotion ensued in the vast
throng.
“ Hear AcsleUol” cried some.
“ It’s a shame!” shouted others.
“Down with Malatesta!” roared a still
bolder citizen.
Malatesta'’had heard this last exclama
tion. He rose from liis throne and
called out to the archers:
“ Kill that man!”
“Let’s kill Malatesta!” roared the
citizens back.
The mounted archers charged the
crowd in order to disperse it. Rut a
hailstorm of stones was showered down
upon them. Theirhorses were frightened,
strong arms tore them from their saddles,
and they wore miserably brained with
heavy bludgeons. All this had been
done in. a l'cw moments. Malatesta had
turned deadly pale. He saw that he
was in imminent peril. “ Surround me,
archers!” he cried.
Rut the archers were as cowardly as
they were villainous. They deserted the
tyrant in this extremity. But the ex
asperated multitude caught all of them
and put them to death.
But now an extraordinary scene took
place. Malatesta had been thrown to
the ground hy three citizens. The pris
oners, as a matter of course, had been
liberated. Aesiello approached the pros-,
trate tyrant. “Now,” lie said to Mala
tesfa, “you shall suffer the death which
you had prepared for us. My friends,”
Jie added, turning to tlie citizens, “bring
the executioner here.”
The latter arrived, trembling with
fear, lie willingly did as iu* was bidden.
He fastened the feet of Malatesta to the
ring in the scaffold. Then he dealt him
a tenable blow on the left temple with a
stone hammer. Malatesta dropped sud
denly. In a second the executioner was
oil the breast of his victim, lie then
ripped open his clothes with a sharp
knife, anu then cut a horrible gasli in
liis left breast. Into this gash the i
wretch inserted his right hand, and then
withdrew it r producing the still reeking
heart of the tyrant. Hie citizen- greeted
the .sickening spectacle with deafening
acclamations. In their blood-thirsty
frenzy they massacred *vcry person in
Kimini that had-supported Malatesta.
His palace Was sicked and burned to the
ground. For a few years the small re
public flourished; then its fate, owing
to the wars id' invasion, became as de
plorable as ever.
l.iiiiifthigc of the Krooni.
,i!i ]U i a1!. 1
\Yft have the language of the flowers,
the, fan, the luiudkcrchicl, and so on,
nnd' tiow wo shall give the language of
the broom, which is intended more
e-jieciully for the ladies: ''
raking it in the hand properly —I
khall sweep till- floor.
Bringing it over the shoulder, brush
eud fouimost.' —Look out —it - loaded.
Holding it across the person—l love
another.
Moving it along the ceiling—l see a
cobweb in the distance.
Sweeping the floor very industriously—
My sweetheart Cometh, and he will con
sider my usefulness when he observetli
me busy.
Striking viciously w itli the stick cml —
lie is my husband aud lie needs a cor
recting hand.
Handling very carefully ami ten
derly— Brooms have gone up, and von
CHU t-get one lor less limn thirty-live
cents.
Putting away in the corner, brush
end down—l don’t know anything about
the care of brooms. ;
Putting away in the corner brush cud
up - 1 ktw “very little about the care of
brooms.
Putting a string to the handle and
hanging on a nail —l know all about it.
Throwing the old stub over the hack
fence— A new broom sweeps clean.
I)AKKit’s GIXOKItKIIKAr>. —Throc qnal
ters of u pound of flour, one quart m
molasses, oue-fonrth of a piftind of • ot
ter, one ounce of askrs ius ami one
ounce of ginger.
Poisonous Articles—Adulterations.
In commenting upon an address read
before tlie Social Science Association,
at Syracuse, N. Y., hy Mr. George T.
Angell, recently, the Cincinnati Com
mercial editorially says: It would nat
urally he supposed that if a pure article
! could anywhere he found, it would he
lin the matter of drugs. Yet Mr. Angell
says lie was informed by an eminent doe
toi of Boston that so abominable are
the adulterations of drugs in this coun
try thut often the medicine a physician
orders for a patient in extreme danger
possesses only a quarter the strength it
should have, because of its adulterations
and in consequence the patient dies. A
wholesale drug dealer of Boston stated
that the adulterations of drugs was now
so great fhat it was almost impossible
to make a living by the sale of honest
goods.
Thousands of tons of the meata of dis
eased animals, he said, are annually sold
in our markets, the detection of which,
after they are dressed, is almost impos
sible.
If the statements Mr. Angell makes
in regard to arsenic are true, it is sur
prising that the known eases of arsenic
poisoning are not more frequent. Dur
ing the year ending dune 20, 1875,
2,;J27,742 pounds of arsenic were im
ported into this county, each pound of
which contained enough poison to kill
2,800 persons.
It is sold in our markets at a whole
sale price of two cents per pound, and is
used in wall papers, paper curtains,
I lamp shades, boxes, wrapping papers for
confectionary, tickets, cards, kindergar
ten papers, artificial flowers, dried grasp
' ses, cye-sliades, ladies’ dress goods, veils,
j sewing silks, threads, stockings, gents’
! underwear, socks, gloves, hat linings,
j boot and shoo linings, paper collars,
i baby carriages, children’s toys, colored
! enameled clothes, wool, silk, cotton and
! leather goods, and in toilet powders and
! candles. The ease of a child in Troy,
N\ Y., was cited who died in convulsions
by taking arsenic from n veil thrown
over its crib to keep oil' the flies. The
largest use of arsenic is in the prepara
tion of our wall papers. The poisonous
papers are of all colors and prices.
There can he no doubt, Mr. Angell says,
that thousands of people in this country
’ are now suffering, anil many have died
from the effects of arsenical wall papers.
Lead poison is likely to become as no
torious as arsenic! Hundreds of thous
ands of people are now suffering from
lead poison taken from ihe water they
drink. But lead water-pipes are not the
I worst form of lead poison. Many ves
sels used in the kitchen are manufac
tured from an alloy of tin and lead, the
the latter being used on account of its
comparative cheapness. The alloy is
readily acted upon by acids, and salts of
lead are thus introduced into food.
Cases are known of children having died
of meningitis, tits and paralytic affec
tions caused oy milk kept in such ves-
I sels. The learned university chemist
declared the beautiful mottled ware
called “ mnrbelizcd iron-ware,” which
has been largely manufactured in the
form of coffee-pots, tea-pots, milk cans,
ppauce pans, etc., to he alive with poison,
i The cheap tinware now coming into
| daily use in our kitchens, our dairies,
etc., is composed largely of soluble lead.
The Journal of < ’ltrmMrif advises the use
: of sheet iron instead of the tinware
| found, to le so extensively poisonous.
Knew When He’d Had Enough.
•John A. Haddock in the* Philadelphia Times.]
In the year 1859, I made the cele-
I bra ted trip with Prof. John La Moun
s tain, from Watertown, New York,
| which was the second longest trip
! ever made hv an air-ship, and the only
I one 1 ever heard of where a second as
j cension was made after remaining eight
hours at night tied up to the top of a
tree. Like Professor Wise’s late ascen
sion, we started near night, and in the
same month in September. We traveled
over four hundred miles in a little over
| four hours, but whither we were, being
j borne, or how fast we were tns riding...
! we were as ignorant as two children, for
j it was a dark night, and in a balloon
i you can never tell your course of flight
' unless you can see the earth, instead of
| being thirty or forty miles from home,
5 as we supposed when we anchored to a
i tall tree for daylight, we were 400 miles
from our starting-point, and instead of
I being in an inhabited country not far
! from some friendly farm-house, we were
jin the great Bosketoug wilderness to
| Canada, which extends from the r\vcr
| Ottawa on the South to the arctic circle
;on the North. I will not further enter
j upon details, save to say that, after
j thirteen days of the most painful ab
' seneo, we at last worked our way out of
I civilization, two of the raggedest and
distrait, but gladdest men that ever
, lived. From that time three square
meals a day, and store-clothes, and tele
graph offices, all assumed n<?iv import
j anee to us, and I made up my mind that a
j balloon might be a good thing fo
j “professors"” to fool around with, bu
for a “ steady thing” the solid earth wa
good enough for me.”
Mas That H He Could Hoi
J A negro named Elijah, who died some
! time ago at Oxford, N. C., was famous
| throughout that whole region for his
: amazing strength. He was -t\ feet four
I inches high and weighed two hundred
and thirty pounds. He could take up a
! barrel containing thirty or forty gallons,
I .stand civet and hold the bung to his
mouth aud drink out of it ; he could
j throw an ordinary-sized anvil twenty
j live yards: lie could “pull down’ lour
men-will. a handspike at one time; lie
could shoulder and carry a log that
would make seventy-five or a hundred
rails, ami could lift a three-year-old colt
over an eight-rail fence, licence killed
n deer on Mavlield’s Mountain with a
rock, overtook and dispatched a black
I boar with an ;ixe, and caught snd ham
strung a ferocious bull.
Commissioner Le Bite on Agrifnltnral
Matters,
A reporter gives the following inter
view with Wm, G. Le Due, Commis
sioner of Agriculture: The reporter
asked what was doing in the matter of
beet sugar?
“ Well, we none have in press an article
covering eight ecu iuontls|*investigftt ion
of that subject. 1 won hi prefer to talk
■to you about sorghum as a suunr-pro
(Ttreing crop. The department at Wash
ington is experimenting in these things
all the time, it is doubtful if beet-sugar
can be profitably made in this country;
of sugar from sorghum there can he no
doubt. Sorghum sugar is made at Kd
ward-vlllc, Illinois, by a farmer named
Behwartz, and also largely manufactured
in Minnesota. It can be made at ten
cents a pound. Now, us 200 gallons of
heavy sorghum syrup cart he produced to
the acre, and 150 gallons where the cul
tivation is not specially attended to, and
as each gallon will make ten pounds of
crystal i/cd sugar, it can readily he seen
that the making of sorghum sugar, 1,500
to 2.000 pounds to the acre, is a very
profitable thing.
“ Indiana has a much bettor climate
and better soil for the growth <>l sorg
hum than Minnesota has. Another thing
in favor of sorghum us a sugar crop: it
can he grown over a wide extent, of
country, whenever corn is grown. Now,
the beet, for sugar, is restricted to a very
small area oi territory, and depends
more on metcorlogiealconditions than on
specific properties of soil. Small sugar
refineries,lor making sugar from sorghum,
have been erected in several places.
There is one near Chicago, 1 think an
other at Faribault, Minn., and another
at St. Louis. The sugar is as good as
that from the sugar-cane, and can be
made as white and hard as any loaf-sugar
ever manufactured.”
“ Your tea experiments; what has be
come of them?”
“ We will grow all our own tea in this
country, too, before we have done with
this thing. Those of the Southern
States that have enough rain-fall are
admirably adapted to tea-growing. I
believe at the Government gardens
the—”
“ The botanical gardens,” suggested
the reporter.
“ No, sir; those are kept by a man
named Smith, and used by the Congress
men and executive officers to furnish
them with bouquets and cut-flowcfs. No,
sir; I mean the department gardens, in
which are kept all sorts of plants, native
and foreign. I have at these gardens, as
I was saying, several thousand tea
plants, all raised from seeds which were
picked from tea-plants growing in the
Southern States. This proves, yon see,
that tea-plants can be grown here. Hut
they will never he grown in the far West,
lam afraid. The climate is too dry, but
still they can be grown there, and grown
rapidly, too, but the ground must he well
irrigated. The Southern States is the
proper field for this industry in America.
You can grow some tea in Indiana, hut I
hardly think that the climate is particu
larly adapted to it. In time every
family in this State may be able to raise
its own supply of tea, and prepare the
leaves for the pot in each house, but I
am sure that it will never he a staple
cron of the State.
“ I am meeting with great success in
the distribution of Fultz wheat for seed
purposes in the State. The fanners can
raise larger crops than from any other
sort of seed. And, although they make
from, two to three cents less per bushel,
they raise enough more bushels to the
acre to make a handsome profit from it.
For the new process millers want a
harder wheat for their use. 1 have re
cently purchased some black-bearded
wheat from New Zealand, which 1 sent
to Maryland, and in that sandy, sterile
soil it produced the enormous yield of
thirty-eight bushels to the acre. Now,
if it will yield so much as that in Mary
land, it will do eqilallv as well in simi
lar soils in similar climates in other
Stales. J '-hall watch that experiment
with trvMU anxiety.” - f
Josh Billings on Marriage.
Sum marry because they think wim
nnin will be scarce next year, and live to
wonder how the crop holds out.
Some marry to get rid of themselves,
and discover that the game was one that
two could play at, and neither win.
Sum marry for love without a cent in
their pockets, nor a friend in the world,
nor a drop of pedigree. This looks des
perate, hut it is the strength of the
game.
Sum marry in haste and then sit down
and think it carefully over.
Sum think it carefully fust, and then
Sit down and marry.
No man kin tell exactly where he will
fetch up when he touches calico.
No man kin tell exactly what calico
has made up her mind to dew. Calico
don’t know herself. Dry goods of all
kinds is the child of circumstances.
Marriage is a safe way to gamble; if
you win, you win a pile, and if you loose
you don’t lose anything.
Clerical Wit.
Dean Ramsay, in his “Reminiscences
of Scottish Life and Character,” says:
At one time when the crop.? were much
laid bv continuous rains, and wind was
earnestly desired in order to restore them
to a fit condition for the sickle, “a
minister,” he says, “in liis Sabbath ser
vice*expressed their wants in prayer, as
follows: ‘O, Lord, we pray Thee to send
us wind, not a rantin’, tautin’ tearin’
wind, but a nook.it,’, soughin', win inn’
wind.’ In like manner, l have heard of
a prayer preferred by a somewhat simple
New Englander,-who was overheard of
ferin'! lus petition behind a stump of
bushes in the field: H), Lord, I wain, a
new coat —good cloth —none of your
coarse, flimsy kind of stuff’, but a good
peiceof thick, warm, comfortable bred
eloth—such as Bill Hale wear.”
Clipped Paragraphs.
N a Trial’s glazier—Jack Frost.
Ark book-w-ombgood lor bait?
A itnE sight—Stfie sight of a rifle.
No Bout's child* Joshua, the sor. of
‘Ktm. j,
A I’KSfl A gent#-the young man wit#
throwtjwflS arm a rap nil his girl's waist. ’
A SLx man i*Vinnther is like i ner^
' groping in darkness; he feels his weigh.*
Likk a lobster, the best law has a cer
tain objectionable clause.
The phylloxera insect is inflicting
great injury in the vineyards of Lom
bardy.
The amount of deposits in the saving
banks of the United (States is estimated
atsl,sop,<X>J).o pO.
An Englishman ntuned Button has
written a book on music. It will be
“ Putton Airs,” probably.
The successful man is he who looks out
for number one, and addsu lot of ciphers
to himself in the shape of weaker-minded
co..di<and tools.
The most useful pedestrian is the
man who walks up and down all night
with the baby.
The Norristown Herald tells a good
story about a ruralite who purchased an
alarm clock one day last week, and re
turned it the next afternoon. He said
that it made such an infernal racket
in the morning that he couldn’t Bleep.
Neatness of attire should commence
in ihe schoolroom. A young lady should
dress just as carefully lor school as foi
church or society; school is,society, and
to appear at school in a partial toilette
Is a mistake so serious as not only to war
rant, hut to call for corrective criticism.
Anna Dickinson says “ that no man,
however gifted—not even Dante, Siliaks
peare or Goethe —has ever drawn the
true portrait of a true woman, and that
this was the principal reason why she
wrote plays for herself.” irhe probably
thinks that none but a woman knows a
woman. *
A woman applied for a situation re
cently at Belfast, with tier clothes drip
ping like a water-spout. On being ques
| tioned as fo her condition, she said she
| understood the lady of the house wanted
j a wet nurse, aud she had come ready for
' service.
Baby’s christening rflbe is made of
s Valenciennes laci'Tuul embroidery, with
; shoulder knots and a sash of white satin
! ribbon. The important name is not
! whispered, but is engraved on a card,
; which the godfather presents to the
j clergyman.
“ O, doctor,” said an anxious motile*'
to the family quarantine, “what can
you dp for my son? He sets around the
house, and wants to eat chicken all the
tinie.” “There is nothing serious the
mattiw, "maiTam. The hoy lias a fowl
stomach, that is all. Give him a few
•'eggs for a change.”
“ How shall w T e stop the strikes?” a c ks,
a Ntnv Englan.fl paper. Well, with your
right generally, and keep your left well
up in front’ of you. When you can’t
stop heavy one, it is allowable to
dodge it. But if you really don’t know
how to stop them, keep out of the ring..
—Burlington Hawk eye.
A London gent, walking in Dublin
for the first time, got into easy conver
sation with a native, and chaffed him
considerably, winding up with this
smart observation: “Now, tell me, Pat,
where you would be if the devil got his
dues?” Pat replied with feigned sim
plicity, “Sure, then, I’d be tdone, yei
Honor.”
To Kill Bedbugs—Dissolve tea
grains of corrosive sublimate in a half
pint of alcohol. Cork the bottle, make
a hole in * the cork and insert a quill
through which to pqur the mixture.
Pour into every crack and crevice; it
will not only kill, but prevent the hugs
from returning. The mixture being
poiso|, akoukl labelled by a druggist.
It is the only effectual remedy/
From hearing older members of the
: family, Cha#jey had got in the habit of
calling Mr.jprown “Tom.” Of course
hcjwas and told to always say
“Mr. Brown.” Not long afterward a#
kitretrwas added to the, household, and
chrisfeiir.l ‘flwmt”**But Charley had
not forgotten his. lesson. “No, no!” he
cried; “oo mut n’t tay ‘Tom;’ ’t id n’t
pitty. Oo mut tay ‘Mitter Bwown.”
People in Lawrence, ‘Kan., say that
the best farmer ofxibftt vicinity is a
woman. She was left a widow ten \ ears
ago, with a bit* of land and fourteen
children. She noNv"'owns throe large
farms, two of which she has given her
boys. Mrs. Mary McCutchen runs her
farm with the aid <*f her children and
without much hired help. This is a good
example of what has been done in the
| midst of what are called hard times in
! Kansas by a woman left with a family of
'’children and no resources.
!' A recent issue of’the Louisville Post
j -yqntained the statement that all the hogs
mw]ktfcnlia9 befin drunk the week be
fore. ' Thereupon' a majority of the 1 ‘net's
\ Elkton subscribers discontinued the
paper, anil notified the editor of their in
tention to commence libel suits. The
unfortunate man came out in a two col
umn leader next day asserting that h@
j was willing to take his oath on a stack
' of bililei; that he only meant tour-legged
hogs, aud thaidjipndied cherries thrown
into uii’aUey ha<i led to their downfall.
An exchange in a neighboring town •
| an rfNMWfftt’ol; a sad affair, it
1 says tlmt a Certain man in that town,
who has"lie,vo*? advertis’d, was found
, hr Ms covt:!. . whei be had
j been lying for. twd<lay.-. If*’ was ac
cidentally discin'cn-d py a -mailboy who
Weiu ,to get a nickel euuuged. -he had
n*wcr ;uivviti-v;d. had forgotten
i where his st hv wii~,";uio to m-e nobody
I happened to dis-o',• r flic corpse until
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