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Jackson Sheriff’s Sale.
AIT ILL be sold, on the first Tuesday in Janu
>V ary, 1879, before the Court House door, in
the town of Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga., with
in the legal hours of sale, the following property,
to-wit:
Two hundred and sixty-two and a half acres of
land, in three lots. No. 1, containing IGS acres,
more or less; 35 acres of good bottom land in cul
tivation, 40 acres of upland in cultivation, 10 acres
old field pine land, the balance first-class forest
land, well timbered; on the waters of Park’s
creek, adjoining lands of S. S. House, W. A.
burns, England and others, on the west side of
the North Oconee river; no buildings on said land.
No. 2, containing twenty-two and a half acres,
more or less ; all forest land ; on the east side of
the North Oconee river, adjoining lands of S. S.
Smith, Thomas Benton and Margaret Carithers ;
bounded on the west by the North Oconee river ;
no buildings thereon. No. 3, containing 75 acres,
more or less, on the west side of the North Oco
nee river, adjoining lands of Thos. Benton, Gath
right and \V. C. Potts ; 25 acres forest land, the
balance good old field pine land, all under fence.
All of the above described lots levied on by virtue
of a ti. fa. issued from the Superior Court'of said
county, in favor of John N. Montgomery and Ru
fus M. Meroney, Executors of Robert \V. Prewitt,
deceased, vs. James H. Burns. Said li. fa. is now
controlled by 1). J. Chandler. Property pointed
out by defendant, J. 11. Burns.
dcc7 J. S. HUNTER. Sh’ff.
Jackson Dep’ty Sheriff's Sale.
WILL be sold, before the Court House door,
in Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga., within
till legal hours of sale, at public outcry, to the
highest bidder, on the first Tuesday in January,
1ST!), one tract or parcel of land lying in the 242d
District, (J. M., of said county, containing fourteen
acres, adjoining lands of J. R. (lament, Anglin and
others. Said land lies immediately on the road
lead lug from Jefferson to Athens, and has on it
good comfortable buildings and out-houses ; about
ten acres in cultivation. Levied on to satisfy a
Justice Court li. fa. in favor of E. C. Cox vs. Jas.
Hit vis, issued by F. \l. Holliday, J. P. in and for
2Hd District, G. M., of said county. Levy made
Oftoher 28th. 1878—made and returned to me by
T. S. Smith. L. C. Notice given dames Davis, the
person in possession, in terms of law.
dec 7 J. J. WALLIS. D. Sh’ff.
Administrator’s Sale.
4 LRKEABLY to an order of the Court ofOrdi
n nary of Jackson county, Oa., will he sold,
on the lirst Tuesday in January, 1879, before
t!w Court House door, in Jefferson, Jackson coun
ty, to the highest bidder, during the legal hours of
sale, the following property, to-wit:
Two hundred and six and two-fifth acres of
land, adjoining lands of \Y. Freeman, C. W. llood
and others; about lifty acres of said land in culti
vation, seventy acres in the woods and balance in
old field pines ; splendid mill shoal on branch ;
buildings on said place consist of dwelling with
five rooms, good kitchen and other out-houses ;
all in good repair. Sold as the property of Abigail
W dhauks. late of said county, deceased, for the
purpose of paying the debts of deceased and for
distribution among the heirs of said deceased,
terms, cash.
11. M. & T. M. WILBANKS,
Adm'rs of Abigail Wilbanks, dec’d.
Jaeksoii County.
Whereas, Hugh A. Carithers, Administrator
''f bonis non of R. T. Carithers, late of said coun
ty, deceased, represents to the Court, in his peti
tioti duly filed, that he has fully and completely
iidiuinistercd the estate of said deceased, and asks
the Court to grant him Letters of Dismission from
the same—
i tiis is to cite all concerned, Kindred and cred
'u>rS' l ° s h°w ca, ise. if any thcy r can, on the first
•Monday in March, 1871), in the Court of Ordinary
Dr said county, why Letters of Dismission from
"aid estate should not be granted.
‘'iven under mv otiicial signature. December 4.
dee? ' IL W. BELL, Ord’y.
Q ■‘KmtJl.t, Jsu'kstoi: County.
Whereas, James K. Randolph, Administrator
Minor Lipscomb, late of said county, deceased,
represents to the Court, in his petition duly tiled.
: aat lie has fully and completely administered the
o>tate of said deceased, and asks the Court to
grant him Letters of Dismission from the same —
1 his is to cite all persons concerned, kindred
and creditors, to show cause, if any they can, on
the first Monday in January, 1879. in the Court of
Quinary for said county, why Letters of Dismis
*ion irom said estate should not be granted the
applicant.
Liven under my official signature, this October
]s b 1878. H. W. BELL, Ord'y.
.lacksoa Couiily.
W hereas, S. 8. Smith and T. 8. Shankle makes
application in proper form for Permanent Letters
Administration on the estate of Samuel Smith,
*“ r -; Dte of said county', deceased—
. this is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
’tors to show cause, if any they can. on the iirsi
-Monday in January, 1879, at the regular term of
jhe Court of Ordinary of said county, why said
betters should not be granted the applicants.
Liven under mv otiicial signature, Nov. ‘2sth,
ls " 8. ' 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Qmmmma. Jackiiou ('oanlj.
W hercas, Sarah Wilson, Administratrix on the
estate of William Wilson, late of said county', de
ceased, applies for leave to sell the lands belong
ln& to said estate—
. This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
'Lirs, to show cause, if any. at the regular term
of the Court of Ordinary'of said county, on the
hrst Monday in January, 1879, why said leave
should not be granted the applicant.
Liven uneler my otiicial signature, Nov. 25th,
ls " 8. 11. W. BELL, Ord'v.
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TO CONTRACTORS.
WILL be let to the lowest bidder, before the
thVi I*l U J t T llouse door m Jeft 'erson, on Saturday,
the 11th of January, 1879, the contract for buildl
mg the bridge across the Oconee river known as
the Academy bridge, under the following .specifi
cations : Said bridge to be built on level with
west bank, with 12 feet road-way, by spanning
the river with fifty feet swinging span, built on
two arches to be placed as near the edge Of the wa
ter as the extension of said fifty feet will allow •
samarches to be built on mudsills 30 feet lon-!
well weighted down with rock, the uprights to the
same to be 12x12 inches, well braced with timbers
Bxlo inches, extending from well out on mud sill
to within 12 inches of cap sill; in center of uprights
to be put m piece of timber Bxß inches. Cap sills
to be 12x14 inches, morticed half through so as to
ht on top of tenants on uprights ; king post to
swinging span lOxlOinches ; rafters SxlO, and five
sleepers 10x12 inches. Said span to be well bolted
with iron bolts and sweed iron | inch thick and
•) inches wide, to hold the same. One other span
to be built on the east, or Jefferson side of the
liver, extending from arch under swinging span
to a mud sill, well fastened down, as far out on
the bank as the planks there now extends ; this
span to have five sleepers oxl2 inches. Flooring
to be 14 feet long and 2 inches thick, well spiked
down with five inch stringers. Banisters fasten
ed to uprights, made of three inch scantling, three
feet nigh and eight feet apart, morticed through
and keyed on under side of flooring plank, said
planL. to extend two feet farther out than balance
of flooring, for braces to uprights to rest on;
planked on inside with inch plank ; four inch strip
f°P ? all sleepers to lap well on cap sills, and
all timbers to be all heart and sawed, with the ex
ception ol mud sills and sleepers to swinging span,
the latter, if hewn, to be well and smoothly done!
All work must be done in a workmanlike manner,
as the work, as well as every piece of timber, will
be inspected, before being placed in the water, by
competent persons appointed for the purpose, so
that the bridge may be received when completed.
4 ersons bidding off the contract for building
said bridge will be required to give bond, with
good security, in double the amount at which said
contract was bid off, immediately after the letting,
in order to prevent re-advertising.
Full and complete specifications can be seen at
my office. declJ 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Administrator’s Sale.
AGREEABLY to an order of the Court of Ordi
nary of Jackson county, Ga., will be sold,
on the first Tuesday in January, 1879, before the
Court House door, in Jefferson, in said county,
within the legal hours of sale, the following pro
perty, to-wit: The remainder interest in and to
two hundred and twenty-eight acres of land, lying
in said county, on the waters of Big Sandy Creek,
the place whereon Alfred Smith resided" at the
time of his death, and whereon M. K. Smith, wid
ow of deceased, now resides. Said place is well
improved, with all necessary buildings; upland
and bottom land in a good state of cultivation;
sufficient wood land, in original forest, to make
this one ol'the most attractive places in the coun
ty. The above land sold as the property of Alfred
Smith, late of said county, deceased, subject to
the life estate of M. K. Smith, tenant in dower,
and for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of
said Alfred Smith, deceased. .V plat of the premi
ses can be seen in the Clerk’s office Jackson Su
perior Court. Terms, cash.
N. B. CASH. Adm’r,
dec7 M. K. SMITH, Adm’x.
Notice.
\T OTICE is hereby given that application has
11 been made to February Term, 187',), of Jack
son Superior Court, by John Phillips, to he re
lieved from the disabilities imposed by reason of
a divorce —a vinculo matrimonii —having been
granted to his wife, Emma Phillips, at February
'Perm, 1877, of Jackson Superior Court, and that
said application stands for trial and hearing at said
February Term. 1879. of Jackson Superior Court.
JOHN PHILLIPS. Petitioner.
PIKE & McCARTY, Att’ys for Pet’r.
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SELECT MISCELLANY.
Annie McKeene’s Career.
The Story of a Sister of Mercy Who had
Been a Confederate Guerrilla—ller Death
in beiv Orleans from Nursing the Victims
of the Scourge.
A remarkable romance has recently come
to light by Ah<? death of a young woman by
yellow fever in New Orleans. Annie Mo-
Keene was the wife of a noted Missouri guer
rilla, herself for a long time a veritable rough
rider of the border, and finally a Sister of
Mercy, in which capacity she met her death
during the scourge in the Crescent City. The
story of her singular career, as authenticated
and told to the Herald correspondent, is as
follows :
During the month of September, in the year
1862, there rode up to the farm house of An
drew Harris, near Independence, Mo., a band
of seventy men, armed to the teeth with shot
guns and revolvers. They' all sat well on
their horses, were strong and young, and had
an unconcerned air of determined bravery.
A few were boys, while others had beards and
long hair. They were dressed in diverse
styles ; some in red, blue or checked flannel
shirts; others wore coats. All had boots
coining up over the pantaloons above the knee,
and most with big spurs on the heels. Their
horses were magnificent and well decked off
with fine saddles and showy bridles. At the
head of the company rode a small man, with
a pale face, light, short hair, blue eyes and
slight moustache. Who needs be told what
they were ? Not such robbers nor frightful
looking people as some would imagine, but
bad enough indeed. They opened the gate
of the barn-yard, went in and dismounted,
having left a guard on the hill half a mile
back. They pulled down the hay, opened the
hay-crib and made themselves at home with
out saying a word to Andrew Harris, the good
old farmer they had come to despoil. Hut he
was not disturbed—he was ready to give them
all he had, for he was one of the numerous
class who lived in that section who were but
too ready to succor anybody whose mission
it was to fight the Kansas Jay hawkers. The
guerrillas then found Mr. Harris a friend,
warm and ready to aid them, even at the risk
of his life. Quantiell was invited to take din
ner at the house with the family and his offi
cers were invited to come with him.
JOHN M’KEENE.
One who went was John MoKeene, in cour
age and stature the peer of any man in the
command, and one of the guerrilla chieftain's
most trusty counsellors. He had become fa
mous for dating deeds as well as a handsome
appearance. He had come from Cass county,
and, in the breaking out of the wnr, his fa
ther and his two brothers had been killed bv
Jennison’s men from Kansas. McKeene
took an oath that no grass should grow un
der bis feet in bis pursuit of'the murderers of
1 1 is father and brothers, and he kept his oath
with a frightful vengenee. He, like most of
his companions in arms, became a desperado,
with revenge as the impelling motive. He
had killed men, both old and young. He had
learned to shoot them down with as much de
liberateness as if he was engaged in the sim
ple practice of marksmanship. Hut fie was
handsome for all that. lie stepped like an
athlete, and had a rude manner that was
graceful in its wav. He wore a wide-brim
med, light colored hat, on which was pinned
a black feather; a wide belt of red morocco,
with gold embroidery and the cavalry boots
of a Federal Colonel. To his belt there al
ways hung a pair of ivory-handled navy revol
vers. These were all the arms that he used and
all that he carried. With these he was a mas
ter, ready always, quick as a panther and
deadly in his aim.
AMONG FRIENDS.
There was then, instead of fear, enthusiasm
at the house of Andrew Harris on the Sep
tem er day that Quantrell came to forage on
Inn. Never were corn, hay and oats, as well
as food for his men, given away with a belter
good will. But Andrew Harris was not alone
in his hospitality. ilis wife had a son with
Price and another buried on the field of Wil
son’ creek. She was doing a labor of love.
And there was another, the only child left at
home, a girl seventeen years old. who, like
many of her sex in that time and country, had
wished a mucin and times that she was a man
oaf '■•iO might go iri’o the war. She was
a;her pretty. Her eyes was blacker than an
Indian maiden** and as piercing, and her hair
was as Lmg and as straight— a typo of wo
men well known to those who lived in West
ern Missouri in those troublesame days. She
had made flags, latere and small, which she
gave to those of tier neighborhood who went
out to fight. She made herself a dress of red
and white. Any sort of a rebel soldier was
a demi-god to her. The wild insanity of the
times found her a splendid representative.—
Her name, young as she was, was familiar
through half a hundred counties. She was
known at every Federal post in the State, and
the authorities had often threatened to ban
ish or imprison her. Asa woman, she was
as notorious as John Mclveene was a man.
They had heard of each other many a time
and had longed to sec each other. lie had
said she was the bravest woman in Missouri ;
she had said lie was the bravest man of all
the rough riders of the border. Consequent
ly, when they met at her father’s table it was
a cordial meeting, and each were more than
pleased.
As the sun went down, Quantrell and his
men rode away, and as they passed along in
front of the house Annie stood at the gate
and received a salute from each one. Then
it was that she wished more fervently than
ever that she was a man, that she misfit mi
along.
tiie penalty.
On the following morning, before the sun
had coine up, the advance guard of the pur
suing Federals came up to the house of An
drew Harris in hot pursuit. They had been
told by a dozen friendly citizens of the hos
pitality extended to Quantrell and his men
by the old farmer and this was offense
enough. They called him out and, after a
few unimportant questions, shot him down,
and then burned his bouse. In less than an
hour they had made a scene of black desola-
tion, and the girl and mother had sought
refuge with a kind-hearted neighbor. It was
the wav of the times—a characteristic of
guerrilla warfare, and something that needs
no apology now, since time has dried up the
tears, buried the dead and put out the fires.
The pursuit of Quantrell was continued until
lie was overtaken. There was a close fight,
which resulted in the defeat and disbandment
of the
■MAX AND WIFE IN TIIE SADDLE.
John McKeene returned to the ruins of the
Harris homestead and learned the whole
story, lie met’Annie Harris, and the two
pledged their vows of eternal vengeance.
There was more than that. She said she
would go with him and deal the blows of
death as he did. On horseback they went
to an humble preacher’s house, and, without
alighting, had him make them man and wife.
She threw away her woman’s dress and don
ned a male attire. She put on a belt besides
and two revolvers, and her long hair she
tucked up under her hat. She looked as
much like a soldier as many a young boy
that went out with Quantrell. The whole
land was full of Federal soldiers, and John
MoKeene and his guerrilla wife had to share
the dangers and privations of all of their
kind. Their home was the saddle, their
shelter the woods. They were togetiier in
more than one ambush attack, and together
saw more than one of the hated enemy bite
the dust. When tiie Winter came and the
leaves left the trees they rode away to the
South, and waited there until the leaves were
again as big a* the ears of the squirrels, when
they returned to their constant battleground.
THE DIVORCE OF DEATH.
On a June morning. 1863, as they, with
half a cozen others, were riding along over
the prairie near where now stands the little
town of Lee’s Summit, they wwe met l>v a
detachment of the Seventh Missouri State
militia. There was a desperate encounter, in
which John McKeene was shot dead and An
nie MoKeene was shot through the shoulder.
The others of the guerrillas escaped. When
the Federals came up to where McKeene and
his wife were lying, one of the soldiers leveled
his revolver at the head of the woman in dis
guise, but before the trigger was pulled she
throw off her hat, snatched her long hair down
and sat up before him with the face of a wo
man. 'The revolver was put up and the mys
tery solved. She told them all she had lived
for was gone, bat that she was not ready to
die herself. She begged them to give her
companion the best burial they could, and
said she wanted to go to Kansas City. There
was a tone of voice and a style of earnestness
about what she said that touched the heart of
the rough soldiers, and the}' buried John Mc-
Keene out on the broad prairie ; but there
was not a stone nor a piece of wood within a
half-dozen miles of the place, and nothing
was left to mark the place of the grave. But
it was such a burial as many a poor man did
not have in those days.
A SISTER OF MERCY.
Annie MoKeene was taken to Kansas City,
where she recovered under the blessed care
of some Sisters of Mercy. She went to Metn
nhis, Tenm. and there joined the Catholic
Church and resolved to devote her life to the
care of the sick and distressed. She became
a Sister of Mercy, went to the front of the
arm}', and during the remainder of the war
was unremitting in her work of love and
mercy. After tiie coming of peace she went
to New Orleans and became attached to the
convent of the Sisters of Mercy. In devotion
to her mission there was not one who sur
passed her m earnestness. Nlie was always
ready to bear the heaviest burden, and mani
fested the same fortitude in a good work that
she had in a reckless guerrilla warfare as the
wife of John McKeene. She bore the secret
of her life well. It was a mtufory that had
grown sacred by her expiation, and around it
was the sweet incense of a thousand prayers
that had gone up out of a soul of tears.
DYING FOR OTHERS.
When the late epidemic came on she was
among the foremost to go to the bedside of
the stricken and the dying. She wa’ched l>v
day and by night—as faithful a mu seas ever
saw the spark of life go out. Not only with
her hands did she aid tin suffering, but in
word ns well did she give strength L many rv
poor iieart. Thus she labored and thus she
fulfilled the sacred vow of her life, till the
Father of Mercy claimed the Sister of Mercy
as Ilis own. Annie McKeene, of 1863, was
tiie Si ter Celeste whose ileatli was announced
as f illows in the New Orleans papers :
“SiTer Celeste.—ln this city, at the Con
vent of the Sisters of Merov. Sister Celeste,
on Wednesday, September 18, 1878.
“Solemn high mass of reqtiieum at the
Church of the Immaculate Conception, next
Friday, at nine o’clock A. M.”— St. Louis
Correspondence of the N. Y. Herald.
“The Wust Bov.”
All the old women for blocks up and down
Sixth street called him “the wust boy,” and
Jim did much to win the title and keep it.
He fought everything and everybody, harass
ed cats and abused dogs, and various attempts
have been made during the last year to get
him settled in the Reform School. -The
wust boy” has made a new departure, and
though it may not be lasting, as it is for the
better, it will probably furnish opportunity
for some other boy to step in and claim the
unenviable title.
“The wust boy” cared nothing for the sight
of crape on the knob, and a funeral proces
sion was as good as a parade to him. Sur
prise w r as therefore manifest on ever}' coun
tenance when he softly knocked at the door
the other week and said :
“I hain’t got no good clothes to go to the
funeral, but I'd like to see the old lady’s face
agin afore she’s covered up in tlie ground.”
A motherly old lady in his neighborhood
had passed away. So far as the public knew
he hated her, as he seemed to hate all the
rest, but the public didn’t know. If Jim bad
I condescended to explain he would have said :
“YY ell, yer see one night when that big
loin Skij) laid for me and had me as good as
mashed, this ’ore woman rushed out and
pulled him off and slammed him agin the
fence till his elbows echoed. Then agin, she
let me play with her children, and axed me
in to dinner, and more’n once she’s took up
fur me and said the neighbors didn’t give me
a fair show.”
They let him in to see her dead face, half
suspecting to see some ghastly trick on his
part and never dreaming that he would lean
over and kiss the cold cheek, and that tears
would come to bis eyes.
“ Where’s the children ?” he asked as lie
turned from the coffin.
“Ur> stairs, poor things.”
•‘lt’s going to be tuff on ’em. isn’t it ?”
“Yes; they will see hard times, poor dar
lings.”
“There’s a little bit of a feller ’tnong ’em
what’s named Pete.” continued the “wust
boy.” “ what’ll it cost a week to pay his way ?”
The women smiled at the idea, but seeing
how earnest Jim was, one of the women
replied:
“Oh, about fifty cents, I guess.”
The boy went out without a word, and in
the course of half an hour another lad handed
in a piece of wrapping paper in which was
enclosed a silver quarter. On the paper was
scrawled the words (the work of two or three
hoys);
“1 lump she’s gon to hevvins; an’ I'll taik
car’ of little pete at fifty sents a weak.—
Hear’s the fust ’stalmont. “Gi.m.”
The next day he sent in the balance, and
last week the “installment” was promptly
forthcoming. Jim has a hoot-black's kit and
has gone to work, and the old women who
called him the “wust boy,” now look after
him and exclaim :
“Well, now, who’d a thought that boy had
a sou! in him?” —Detroit Free Press.
A Just Rebuke.
I once heard this anecdote of Judge Par
sons. sod the Rev. James Freeman Clark,
the great Massachusetts advocate and lawyer.
It is said that, being about to try a mercan
tile case, lie ordered a jury to be summoned,
and among the names was that of Col. Tlios.
11. Perkins, the leading merchant of Boston
in that day, and a personal friend of Judge
Parsons. When the officer made his return,
he laid down a fifty dollar bill before the
Judge.
“What is that?” said Parsons.
“ Col. Perkins says he is very busy indeed,
to-day, and prefers to pay his fine.”
“Take this ba *k to Colonel Perkins,” said
the Judge, “and tell him to come here at
once ; and if he refuses, Bring him by force.”
When Colonel Perkins appeared, the Ju Ige
looked sternly at him and said : “ What do
you mean, sir, by sending money when you
were summoned to sit on this jury?”
Colonel Perkins replied ; “ I meant no dis
respect to the Court, your Honor; but I was
extremely busy fitting out a ship for the East
Indies, and I thought if I paid my fine I
might be excused.”
“Fitting out a ship for the East Indies,
sir !” shouted the Judge ; “ and how happens
it that you are able to fit out a ship for the
East In lies?”
“Your Honor. I do not understand you.”
“ I repeat, then, my question, how is it that
von are able to fit out a ship for the East
Indies? If you do not know I will tell you.
It is because the laws of your country are
properly administered. If they were not you
woul i have no ships. Take your seat, sir,
with the jury.”
What a Canary Can Do.
now A BIRD IS TAUGHT TO SING TUNES AND
WALTZES.
Swinging in a gilded cage in the cosy par
lor of Mrs. C. W. Carpenter, in Newark, is a
brown and yellow canary bird. It looks like
an ordinary bird; but listen to it for a sec
ond and you will hear a tune occasionally
varied by genuine bird warblings.
“Dick is about four years old,’’ Mrs. Car
penter said yesterday, "and when lie feels
like it will sing the German waltz, a few
notes of which you just heard, though cor
rectly. lie has a mate down stairs that sings
nearly as well as doe3 Dick ; but he is moult
ing now, and don't sing. Dick has also been
moulting, and isn't in good condition. When
he is, he will sing that waltz by the hour;
but whenever he makes a mistake he will
break into a merry canary warble, and then
begin again. I wish he would sing now.
Perhaps we can get him to.”
Thereupon Mrs. Carpenter played the waltz
upon an organ, using a stop that gave a tone
much like a bird's. She played the waltz
through, and as she ceased the bird began
and sang the waltz nearly through ; but it
made a false note and then warbled sweetly.
The organ sounded again. This time Dick
sang the waltz correctly, and at the end of
his song gave himself great airs, evidently
proud of himself.
“How did we teach him?** said Mr. Car
penter, in answer to a question by the re
porter. “Mrs. Carpenter took Dick when he
was just off the nest and pot him into a dark
room, where he saw no light and beard no
) TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM.
I SI.OO For Six Months.
sound. Then daily she played the waltz to
him two or three times a day, for fifteen or
twenty minutes every time. At the end of a
month or two the bird began to sound a note
of the waltz, then another. Soon it combined
them, and after a time he whistled an entire
strain. It was nearly a year, however, before
his education was complete. It. requires
considerable patieiue to teach a bird. These
birds are a cross between a linnet and a
canary, and are a heartier bird than a thor
oughbred canary. I would not like to part
with either of inv birds. When the Kellogg
opera troupe were here Miss Kellogg was
delighted with Dick's performances. She
said if she owned him she wouldn’t take a
SI,OOO for him."— New York Sun.
A Kan-Baby.
The Remarkable Case of a man Twenty two
Years Old Who is Still an In fant.
In the second story of one of the low. rick
ety’ woode.i buildings on the east side of Chat
ham street, in humble apartments, there lives
one of the most curious of human monstrosi
ties. It is a boy, or man, twenty-one years
and six months old, having been born in
1857. that is in all respects, physically and
mentally, nothing more than an overgrown
infant. Its parents are Mr. and Mrs. Jacques
Jenn. ofXo. 165 Chatham street, industrious
French people. The child was born on the
10th of June, 1857. and was christened Jule.
Up to his eighth month he did not differ from
other children ; but at that age he was taken
sick with measles, and for six months it was
thought he could not live, one childish dis
ease following rapidly upon another. His
last ailment, and the one to which his parents
ascribe bis deformity, was one that baffled
the attending physician, and is described by
the father as *■ the English disease.”* Doth
physical and mental growth seemed to be ar
rested by this disease. The boy is not quite
three feet high, but measures four feet around
the waist, being inordinately corpulent. His
head is well shaped, but looks much too large
lor his body, being more than two feet in cir
cumference. His bands and feet .are exceed
ingly small, like those of a one-year-old in
fant, and he weighs one hundred and sixty
pounds.
Every effort has been made to educate him.
but lie is not capable of learning anything,
IN lien he was ten years old he was scarcely
two feet high, but weighed almost one hun
dred pounds. The physician who attended
at his birth predicted that he would not liyo
to be fourteen years old ; but he is now in
good health. r l he boy’s skin is remarkably
soft and white, like a baby’s. All of his
habits are childish, and he can speak only a
few words, such as “papa,” “mamma,” “yes”
and “ no.” His extreme corpulence prevents
him from walking, but he is very active with
his hands and feet. He amuses himself with
childish toys, and is very shy when strangers
are about. Ex-Police Surgeon linker, who
lias watched the case close for several years,
says that it is the most wonderful case he
ever heard of. The boy has been examined
I*3’ a number of .scientists, who have all come
to the conclusion that he is a perfect baby in
mind and body. Ilis father has been ap
proached by many showmen, who were anx
ious to add the boy to their list of attrac
tions ; but Mr. Jenn has declined every offer,
not desiring to have his son exhibited to the
public.— New York Times.
\ es, son. yes, ves ; go out west and buy a
(arm. I here is no life so independent as
that of the honest farmer. Do not be dis
couraged if the work is a little hard at first.
The grasshoppers will eat up all your first
planting, but they will devour it so early in
the season that you can plant a second time,
I bev won t eat that planting until just about
three days before harvest. Then you will
have nothing to do all fail and winter and
you can put in your full time starving. The
next year's crop will be destroyed by con
stant rains and floods. The "third year a
drougth will burn up everything that has a
root or a leaf within ten miles of your farm.
Idle fourth year, however, everything will go
well. \on will raise a booming crop, get it
all in and safely housed, and sit down happy
and contented, waiting for the market to rise.
Then a prairie fire as big as the butt end of
the universe will come along and burn up
everything yon have in the world except the
clothes you have on. Buy a farm ? A young
man is neglectful of his best interests and
most solemn duties who does not buv a farm
right awav.
Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars a Year for
“Keeping Dark.”
Boston capital to the extent of millions of
dollars is invested in a vast amount of min
ing machinery and smelting works, not only
in Nevada, but in Colorado. A sign oil
State street., in this city, reads :
“Boston Colorado Smelting Works.”
Those works are located in Black Hawk,
Colorado, and the expert employed there is
Iro , Richard W. Pierce, on a salary equal
to that of the President of the United States,
twenty-five thousand dollars a year. lie has
a perfect knowledge of the secret process
(known only to two or three more in the world)
by winch gold may be perfectly separated
trom the copper. This secret is a bonanza
itself. Mr. Pierce is educating a son to suc
ceed him in the possession >f this valuable
mystery. Professor N. P. Hill, who is likely
to succeed Jerome B. Chalice, the outgoin**
United States Senator from Colorado (and
who is not a candidate for re-election); is the
head of the vast smelting works at Black
Hawk. These works. I am told, yield the
company, composed of eight persons, upwards
of one million dollars a year. Professor Hill
was former professor of chemistry in Dart,
mouth College, at Hanover, N. ll.—Su/*
Francisco Call.
NUMBER 28.