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STORY COLUMN.
THE STORY OF GREAT PERIL.
In the autumn of the year 1866, busines
necessitated my leaving llong-Kong, where I
had for some years resided, and proceeding
to Swatow. one of the ports upon the east
coast of China, open for foreign traffic. I
arranged iny affairs at that place sooner than
I expected ; and as no steamer bound for the
.South was in the harbor, or expected for some
da vs, I determined to proceed in Heather
Hell, a bark-rigged sailing vessel of about
three hundred tons register.
I was well acquainted with her captain,
but what perhaps chiefly induced me to lake
passage in his vessel was the fact of his
daughter being aboard. Lottie Moore was a
golden-haired, blue-eyed darling, upon whose
fair head some seventeen summers had smil
ed. Upon her mother’s demise, she had quit
led her home in England to accompany her
bereaved father in Ids wanderings from clime
to clime.
The Heather Hell sailed from Swatow just
as day broke. On the evening of the next
day, a little before ten o'clock, I was sitting
with Miss Moore in the saloon, admiring
some water-color sketches that young lady
had executed, when the chief mate entered.
“There’s a large junk coming right toward
us, sir. By the number of sweeps she pulls,
1 reckon she carries a considerable crew,” he
said.
I knew what he meant., and so did the
skipper, just as well as if he had spoken all
that was passing in his mind ; moreover, I
appreciated Ids motive for reticence, for if he
had said plainly that he feared she was a
pirate, it would have alarmed the fair girl,
who. thoughtless of danger near, was chatting
so vivaciously with me.
Captain Moore ran upon deck ; and when I
heard him shortly afterward tell the mate to
call all hands, I also proceeded to the poop,
and found him gazing intently through a pair
of binocular glasses at a Chinese craft that
was advancing, with furled sails, in the dead
calm, being propelled by an array of oars
that flashed and glittered in the phosporescent
water.
“lie's an ugly customer, and no mistake.
We shan’t have much of a show if he attacks
us, but 1 will let him see that we are on the
alert. Perhaps we can manage to intimidate
him,” he said, as lie stooped down and com
menced easting adrift the lashings of a small
cast-iron four pounder that was only useful
as a signal-gun.
Directly this unformidable cannon was
loaded with blank cartridge and discharged,
the junk altered her course, and passed under
our stern a considerable distance away. Cap
lain Moore, when he noticed this movement,
was inclined to think that she was a mere
trading junk.
At midnight I retired to my berth, and had
just sank in the sweet embrace of sleep, when
I was startled to wakefulness by the boom of
a heavy gun. while the crash of falling spars,
mingling with its echoing thunder, told me
plainly that our vessel was attacked, and that
the first shot had taken terrible effect upon
her.
1 grasped my revolver and rushed through
the saloon toward the companion way, only
halting for an instant near the mizzen mast
to glean a cutlass from the rack which sur
rounded it, ere I ascended to the deck. The
scene that met my eyes on gaining it baffles
all description. Tangled cordage, rent sails
and riven spars lay in confused heaps around,
and from under the chaotic ruins issued deep
groans of agony from the wounded and dy
iing. while myriads of torches, aboard a huge
junk that had ranged nlonside, shed across
the sea a weird, yellow glare, revealing only
too plainly the dread effects of wanton car
nage.
As the junk ran under our bows, a multi
tude of fierce demons, powder-grimmed and
insatiable in their lust for blood, clambered
to our deck, and pressed their way aft. The
fallen spars and multifarious impediments
effectually prevented any one passing along
the portside; so Captain Moor, three seamen
and myself, the only servivors, rushed into
the alley-way to starboard of the deck-house,
and there stood resolutely at hay.
Our murderous antagonists possessed no
firearms, but each one carried a short, pon
derous* native sword, called a pakeevt ; these,
however, were of little avail against the wing
ed messengers of death our trusty revolvers
sent into the midst of the advancing horde,
until it became apparent to them and to us
that our amunition was giving out.
“ Find Lottie, Mr. Carter. We have no
chance ; but, for heaven’s sake, save her from
those merciless wretches. I have my death
wound now,” cried the skipper.
I sprang down the cabin stairway, and
found the fair girl kneeling at the table, im
ploring succor from on high. Her face was
ghastly pale, and a tremor visibly convulsed
her frame when she saw my blood-stained
brow. “Arc they subdued ? Where is my
father ?” she cried, as she sprang to her feet.
I caught her in my arms, and I ore her
bodily on deck. It had been my intention
to place her in the captain’s gig, that hung
in the quarter-davits, and lower it into the
sea; but hardly had we emerged from the
companion hatch, when, above the clash of
steel and the groans of the wounded. I heard
ring out from three hundred throats a word
of dreadful import— " Siting!” (Victory!)—
and knew that my brave comrades had been
beaten down—that the pirates held undisput
ed possession of the vessel.
When in Swutow the ship’s jolly-boat, or
dingy, had been injured ; and, since our de
parture, the carpenter had been engaged
repairing her bottom, as she lay inverted on
the poop. I knew that 1 should not have
time to lower the gig when I heard the war
cry change to a note of triumph ; and I in
stinctively felt that our only chance of escap
ing death lay in concealing ourselves bene ith
the little dingy, as the cabin and hold would
be thoroughly searched for plunder.
‘‘Crawl under quickly. 1 will follow,’’ I
whispered in the ear of the terrified girl, as 1
raised the stern of the light craft.
As if mechanically, she obeyed me; then,
with much difficulty, l managed to creep un
der myself; and scarcely had I re-lowered our
frail tenement to the deck, ere it was surround
ed by a horde of miscreants,. who were voci
ferating loudly.
Even at this hour, I shudder when I remem
ber the agony of suspense I endured during
the ransacking of the vessel.
At length it became obvious the pirates
had accomplished their work ©f plunder, for
I heard one direct his satellites to set fire to
the ship, and hurry back to their own vessel.
Soon the sound of plashing oars told me
that the piratical craft was speeding away
from the hapless vessel she had destroyed ;
so I cautiously unlifted the dingy, and crept
from beneath her. A bright, glowing flame,
shooting skyward from the fore-hatch, plain
ly indicated how well the marauder chiefs
mandate had been obeyed, and told me in
words of fire that I must immediately bear
Lottie from the Heather Bell, and trust to a
less greedy element for safety. I quickly
lowered the gig, but she sank on touching the
water; the pirates had staved in her bottom.
The increasing roar of the grasping flames,
that twined like glittering serpents up the
shronlds and masts, inspired me with extra
energy. I uplifted the dingy, and, when
Lottie crawled from beneath it, with her as
sistance bore it to the taffrail.
“We have no time to lower it; we must
launch it bodily,” 1 said catching my darling
in mv arms. “He not afraid, dear love.” I
cried, then sprang with her into the seething
sea.
We sank deep beneath the briny flood, but
I struck vigorously upward, and soon gained
the surface. Then, drawing the lovely girl’s
head upon my shoulder, I swam rapidly to
ward the drifting dingy. It was on its keel
and floating buoyantly ; so I clambered in,
drew Lottie a*’ter me, and then sank, weak
and prostrate from over-exertion, in the stern
sheets. My fair companion raised my head,
and gently tended me until 1 recovered my
faculties—recovered them just in time to see
the pretty Heather Bell sink, a holocaust, to
her grave in the coral depths.
Soon after, a vessel, which proved to be the
Lily, rescued us from our perilous position
and carried us in safety to Hong-Kong, in
which city, six months subsequently, I led
to the hymeneal alter the dear, brave girl
who had shared my peril on that eventful
night.
AGRICULTURAL.
How to Get Rich.
A practical farmer being asked what the
farwers most needed to increase the value of
their lands, crops and herds, “they want,”
said he, “just what the merchants, the man
ufactures, and the mechanics want, just what
the railroad men, the lumber men, and the
mining men want, they want labor, capital
and brains. There is not a farmer in the
State but will stand an application of this
trio—work, money and thought.” We asked
him again, what simple and easy methods he
would recommend to the farmers from which
they could get. the quickest returns, and he
replied : “ First, 1 would recommend that
every cow in the State he crossed by a thor
ough-bred bull. I calculate that would add
$1,500,000 to the wealth of the State in two
years, and that it would double the value of
the cattle of the State in four years. Second*
I would cross everv breeding ewe in the State
with a thorough-bred ram of approved pedi
gree, and T calculate that it would add one
pound of wool to every shearing in two years,
besides improving the flocks in many respects.
Von can calculate the gain yourself. Third,
I would have every farmer select his seeds of
every grain, especially of wheat and corn—
that is. to pick out the best and discard the
inferior. The profit would be immense, for
there is no telling how much can be gained
bv the selection of seeds.” Now here are
three things within the reach of almost every
farmer. They require a little money, some
work, and a good deal of nerve and will pow
er. Was the old man right? Let every far
mer adopt these precepts and contradict them
—if he can.
Fall Planting of Grain.
Under this head the editor of the Georgia
Grange advises his readers as follows, in the
last issue of that paper :
“ When the ground can be worked our far
mers should he giving their attention to the
fall planting of grasses and grain. Grass
should he sowed as early ns possible. The
sooner the better. Oats, baily and rye should
all be sowed during September if possible,
though October and November sowing will do-
Wheat should he sowed in October or No
vember, and the ground should be prepared
as soon as possible, so as to allow time for it
to settle. Wheat requires a compact soil.
“The richer the ground can be made for all
of these grains the better. None of them do
well on poor ground. The more manure the
farmer can give them the better results will
follow. A good plan is to divide the manure,
using a part at planting, to give the grain a
vigorous starf, and in the spring finish the
manuring. Ammoniated manures are best
for grain. Cotton seed is one of the best fer
tilizers.”
Fish Culture.
It is not every farm that can have a fish
pond on it, but there are many farms that
could have them as well as not. Wherever
there is a good strong spring to feed it there
a profitable fish-pond can lie made. Hun
dreds of farms have swamps or marshes too
low to drain without great expense, and fed
by springs, and these could be turned to
profitable account by turning them into fish
ponds. We don’t mean profitable in the way
of making money, but saving it. The flesh
of fish is a wholesome diet, better every way
than so much fat or measly pork. We know
plenty of farmers who scarcely taste fish from
one year to another. Not because they are
not fond of fish, but because they cannot get
them without going some distance after them
and paving a good price in the bargain. A
pond of an acre or so in extent, stocked with
varieties adapted to the place, would furnish
an abundance of the very best meat, costing
nothing to produce it either. As to the catch
ing, it is only sport, and that part can be
safely delegated to the bo\’S and girls. We
are sure. also, that such an institution on the
farm would prove one of its chief attractions
—if j’our boys are inclined to leave the farm
We write from knowledge in this matter, hav.
ing in earlier days caught many a “ nice
string” of fish in a pond that was formerly a
swamp. During one dry August the owner,
with two of his boys, went in it with a plough,
scraper and shovels, and in a short time had
a pond of nearly an acre in extent. This he
stocked with fish common to the sluggish
streams of the neighborhood, and procured
some at a distance ; and for years thereafter
it proved to be the best acre on the farm.—
Ohio Farmer.
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TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
Wood I>ir*rlry.
JACKSON COUNTY.
Stonevrall Lodge, No. 214,
Meets Saturday nights before 2d and 4th Sundays.
Star of Bethlehem Lodge , No. 405,
Meets Saturday nights before Ist and 3d Sundays.
Harmony Grave Lodge , No. 437,
Meets Saturday nights before 2d and 4th Sundays.
Dry Bond Lodge , No. 444,
Meets Saturday nights before Ist and 3d Sundays.
(■nion Lodge , No. 450,
Meets Saturday nights before Ist and 3d Sundays.
Mulberry Lodge. No. 451,
Meets Sat. Eve’g 4 p. m., before 2d & 4th Sundays
Bailie Candler Lodge, No. 455,
Meets Sat. Eve’g 3 p. m., before Ist & 3d Sundays
Kidd Jjodge, No. 401,
Meets Saturday nights before 2d and 4th Sundays
Hope Lodge, No. 460,
Meets Saturday night before Ist Sunday; and 2
p. in.. Saturday before 3d Sunday.
Bond Fork Lodge. No
Meets Sat. eve’g, 3p. in., before 2d 4th Sundays
TEMPERANCE ADDRESS.
BY B. A. WILKS.
Worthy Chief, Brothers and Sisters: —The
common calamities of life may be endured ;
poverty, sickness, and even death may be
met; but there is that which, while it brings
all these evils with it, is worse than all these
together. When the husband and father for
gets the duties he once delighted to fulfill,
and. by slow degrees, becomes the creature
of intemperance, there enters into his house
the sorrow that rends the spirit—that cannot
be alleviated—that will not be comforted. It
is here, above all, where she, who has ventur
ed every’ thing, feels that every thing is lost.
Woman—silent-suffering, devoted woman—
here bends to her direst afflictions. The
measure of her woe is. in truth, full, whose
husband is a drunkard. Who shall protect
her, when he is her insulter, her oppressor ?
What shall delight her, when she shrinks from
the sight of his face, and trembles at the
sound of his voice ? The hearth is, indeed,
dark that he lias made desolate. There,
through the dull midnight hours, her griefs
arc whispered to herself; her bruised heart
bleeds in secret. There, while the cruel au
thor of her distress is drowned in distant
revelry, she holds her solitary vigil, waiting,
}’et dreading his return, that will only wring
from her, by his unkindness, tears even more
scalding than those she shed over his trans
gression. To fling a deeper gloom across the
present, memory turns back and broods upon
the past. Like the recollection to the sun
stricken pilgrim, of the cool spring that he
drank at in the morning, the joy’s of other
days come over her, as if only to mock her
parched and weary spirit. She recalls the
ardent lover, whose grace won her from the
home of her infancy; the enraptured father,
who bent with such delight over his new-born
children, and she asks if this can really he
he ; this sunken being, who has now nothing
for her but the sot’s disgusting brutality—
nothing for these abashed and trembling chi 1.
dren but the sot’s disgusting example ! Can
we wonder that, amid these agonizing mo
ments, the tender chords of violated affection
should snap asunder ? that the scorned and
deserted wife should confess there is no kill
ing like that which kills the heart? That,
though it would have been hard for her to
kiss, for the last time, the cold lips of her
dead husband, and lay his body forever in
the dust, it is harder to behold him so debas
ing life, that even his death would he greeted
in mercy? Had he died in the light of his
goodness, bequeathing to Ids family the in
heritance of an untarnished name, the ex
ample of virtue that should blossom for his
sons and daughters from the tomb, though
she would have wept bitterly indeed, the tears
of grief would not have been also the tears of
shame. But to behold him fallen away from
the station he once adorned, degraded from
eminence to ignominy; at. home, turning his
dwelling to darkness, and its holy endear
ments to mockery ; abroad, thrust from the
companionship of the wort hy, a self-branded
outlaw ; this is the woe that the wife feels is
more dreadful than death. To the vouu"
men of our time it is now committed both as
a trial and as a trust.
What is it that God and humanity demand
of us? What is the great question for our
practical solution ? Unless we greatly err,
that question simply is: Shall we, by Je
hovah’s help, destroy the traffic in intoxicat
ing poison, or shall it destroy us ? Shall we
send Ancoliol to his grave, or permit him to
send a myriad of our comrades to their own ?
Shall we consent to have the most brilliant
intellects among us any longer extinguished ?
Shall we permit the fair bride of to-day to
become the desolate widow of to-morrow ?
Shall we stand idly by and see the nobles of
our brotherhood go down to darkness and to
the grave ? Shall we suffer this monster evil
to cast its hideous shadow athwart the rays
that fall from calvary itself, or shall we join
hand in hand in the struggle against it ? The
destiny of millions hang upon our answer.
Comrades in this sublime warfare ! we are
compassed about with a great cloud of wit
nesses. Humanity beckons onward. We
tread upon the dust of heroes as we advance.
White-robed love, floating in mid-air before
us. leads us to the conflict. The shouts of
the ransomed are in our tents, and the voice
of praise make3 music amid our banners.
Let us press forward with our age; let us
wear a bright link in the history of our coun
try ; let us lie down to our rest nearer to the
goal of human perfection ; let us find in our
toils an ever-exciting stimulous—an ever-fresh
delight; so shall our posterity be cheered by
that sun which shall shine with a seven-fold
lustre, as ‘’the light of seven days.”
“Come up to the Capitol while we are in ses
sion, and I’ll give you a seat on the floor of
the House,” said a member of Congress to
one of his supporters who called upon him in
Washington, “Wall, no ; I thank you,” said
the countryman ; “poor as I am, I always
manage to have a cheer to sit on at home, and
I ha'nteome here to sit on the floor.”
Scissored Paragraphs.
Candler, of Georgia, got first choice of scats
in the House, and llimton, of Virginia, the
last. t
Jefferson Davis has nearly completed his
memoirs, upon which he has so long been ac
tively engaged.
A Mr. Wm. M. Collins, of Montgomery
county, recently, with a small bird gun, kill
ed two large deer, both buck, at one shot.
A Democrat of Boston was disgusted on
learning that the Republicans were success
ful in France. “But Ohio is all right any
how,” he said.
One Janies A. Dalzell was shot and killed
by Mrs. Dobson, of Texarkana, and very
properly. He attempted in her husband’s
absence to enter her house against her will.
A Mississippi Granger is opposed to rail
roads. He says when he goes to town the}'
"bring him home so quick he hasn’t time to
get sober before he arrives.”
There are twenty-six thousand one hun
dred and ninety-nine more women than men
in Georgia, which indicates that the matri
monial market is not so brisk as it should be,
and this too in face of the fact that leap year
is more than two years off.
A Miss Quinn was accidentally shot in the
temple by John Patton, near Versailles, Kv.,
on Wednesday, and instantly killed. They
were playfully struggling for the possession
of a loaded pistol which belonged to the he
roic pistol wearer, Patton.
One Harvard student is paying his way
through college by turning his room into a
stationary and book store, and another, a
graduate from Wesleyan University, is meet
ing his expenses at the law school by working
in a barber's shop.
On Monday last, at the residence of Dr.
Gibbs Underwood, of Franklin count}'. Dr.
M. V. Gurley committed suicide. The means
he used were a mixture of morphine and tinc
ture of camphor. Excessive dissipation led
to the’sad event.— North Georgian.
The Philadelphia Times ruminates thus:
"An ex-Confederate soldier sits in the Hayes
Cabinet, and the Vice-President of the ex-
Confederacy nominated Mr. Randall for speak
er in the Democratic caucus. Let us have
peace.”
A woman who was granted a divorce from
her husband on Friday. September 28, by the
Supreme Court of Rhode Island, married a
Newport widower on the following Thursday,
became a mother on Sunday. 7th instant, and
died on Tuesday night, bth inst.
The wiieat and corn crop of the United
States this year is enormous. The former is
estimated at 325.000.000 and the latter at
1.280.000.000 bushels. There should he no
danger of starvation in this country under
these circumstances.
A man who edited a paper in Texas for two
years is one of the curiosities now traveling
with Barnnm’s show. He carries 37 bullets
in his body. 11(5 bo wick life scars, has one
eye gouged out. one ear hit off. his nose twist
ed around on his left cheek, all his teeth
knocked out and his skulled trepanned.
A New Hamshire man recently cut from
his leg with a penknife a minnie ball, which
was put there at Cold Harbor in 1864. and
which the surgeons then deemed it inadvisa
ble to remove, as it, was imbeded in the hones.
Of late the ball had worked down below the
ankle, ami troubled him seriously.
A Kentucky exchange says: "When the
Master of the Universe permitted Tilden to
be counted out. lie knew what He was do
ing, although some Democrats thought He
had made a mistake. His ways are not our
ways.” From our knowledge of Kentucky
journalism we are inclined to endorse that
last statement.— Boston Post.
“ I must say there are some of the meanest
negroes in this town that l ever saw,” said a
negro clergyman in Elizabethtown, Kv.. on
resigning his pastorate. "They can tell the
biggest, lies, and put on tlie longest faces,
and come to church looking as mean as the
Old Boy. and. said I e—they can outlie .Sa
tan. Some of them have two wives, and
still say they are going to heaven.”
David Varner, of Sugar Hill District, sold
two hundred bushels of yams this fall in At
lanta for Si .25 per hushe’. They were the
variety known as the West India yam, and
were grown on about, two acres of land. How
does this compare with your cotton crop ?
Is there a man in Gwinnett who will make
one hundred and twenty-five dollars per acre
with cotton ?—Gwinnett Herald.
Elaborate preparations are being tna<le at
Gainesville to entertain the North Georgia
Conference of the M. E. Church South, which
commences on the 28th of November. The
fattened chickens roost, high, and big vatn po
tatoes are being laid aside to serve fixing with
the birds. These North Georgians know ex
actly the kind of diet in favor with the Metli
odist preachers, and will do the hospitalities
handsomely.— Sav. Xetcs.
The Rev. Dr. E. T. Baird, of Richmond.
Secretary of the Presbyterian Publicat ion So
ciety, who was indicted for embezzling the
funds of the society, was tried yesterday, and
after the examineation of the three principal
witnesses, the Judge stated that further pro
ceedings were unnecessary, and the jury with
out leaving their seats rendered a verdict of
not guilty.
An assistant of a druggist recently put up
a prescription of a dose of castor oil for a
young lady. She innocently inquired how it
could be taken without tasting it. He prom
ised to explain to her, and, in the meantime,
offered her. courteously, a glass of flavored
and scented seltzer water. After she had fin
ished it. he said, triumphantly. ‘•Yon see.
Miss, you have taken your oil and you did
not know it.” The young lady screamed out,
“ It was for my mother.”
He was a wild Texan, just from the froiv-
I tier, and had boarded the train at Fort Worth
for Dallas. It was his first ride on the—
“keers,” and as the conductor readied in his
hip pocket for his punch, the sharp eye of
Texas caught a glimpse of its polished han
dle, and quick as thought, he leveled a navy
six on that conductor, saying "Put ’er up, or
I'll blow daylight through you. No man can
| get the drop on me.” —Dallas (Texas) HerabL
Let those think there’s nothing in a name,
read this, from the Trenton. Tenn., Mirror:
Jefferson Davis Overall and Robert Lee
Overall, sons of Rev. R. N. Overall, of the
Yorkville neighborhood, picked on Friday.
September 28, five hundred and eleven aiid
five hundred and sixteen pounds of cotton.
They rested one hour for dinner, and discon
tinued picking at sundown. They are the
champion pickers of the state, and have never
been equalled in the state.
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