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Jackson Cos. Mortgage Sheriff’s
Sale.
TIT ILL be sold, on the first Tuesday in May
YY next, before the Court House door, in the
town of Jefferson, Jackson county, Ga., within
the legal hours of sale, the following property,
to-wit:
The plantation inherited by S. D. Mitchell from
his father, situated and being in said county of
Jackson and State of Georgia, known as the Giles
Mitchell place, containing eleven hundred acres,
more or less, lying west of Jefferson, the property
of said S. I). Mitchell, as described in a certain in
denture of mortgage, bearing date on the tenth
day of February, A, l).. eighteen hundred and
seventy-six. Said plantation adjoins lands of N.
11. Pendergrass, J. M. Garner, Peter McLcster
and others, and is on the Middle Oconee river,
there being on said place a large quantity of fine
bottom land and good up-land, a large portion of
which is in a high state of cultivation : two good
residences, one being in or near Jefferson, the
other about two miles out—both on Lawrenceville
road; good out-buildings, tenant houses and other
improvements, orchards, well, etc., on the place.
Levied on and sold as the property of said S. D.
Mitchell, to satisfy a certain mortgage ti. fa. issu
ed from Jackson Superior Court in favor of Anna
K. Mitchell against S. D. Mitchell. Property
pointed out in said mortgage fi. fa. Written no
tice given Franklin Waddle and Win. Roberts,
tenants in possession, as the law directs.
mar2S T. A. McKLHANXON, Sh’ff.
Jackson Sheriff’s Sales.
W I LL be sold, on the first Tuesday in May
next, before tiie Court House door, in the
town of Jefferson, Jackson county. Ga., within
the legal hours af sale, the foil wing property.
■'f*vf*o'huiHlre , acrom mnt.. ...
less, situate'oinhe Mulberry river, in said coun
ty. adjoining lands, of E. Matthews. 1). R. Lyle
and others; the place whereon T. C. Williams
now resides; said place known as a part of the
Burke Camp place ; about one hundred acres in
cultivation, of which 30 or 35 acres are good bot
tom lauds! remainder in old fields and forest. On
•aid place is a good dwelling and out-houses.
Levied on as the property of T. C. Williams, by
virtue of and to satisfy a fi. fa. issued from the
Superior Court of Jackson county in favor of
Reese A Lane against said T. C. Williams. Writ
ten notice of said levy served on T. C. Williams,
defendant in fi. fa. and tenant in possession.
Also, at the same time and place, a stock of
goods, consisting of dry goods, boots, shoes, hats,
notions, Ac. Levied on and to be sold as the pro
perty of D. R. Mosely, defendant, by virtue of
and to satisfy a fi. fa. issued from Jackson Su
perior Court in favor of John S. Fairley A Cos. vs.
said D. R. Mosely. Property pointed out by
plaintiff's attorney.
Also, at the same time and place, sixty-nine
acres of land, more or less, on the waters of the
North Oconee river, in said county, adjoining
Jands of S. S. House. John Simpkins, E. -J. Sharpe
and others; the place whereon J. 11. Burns now
resides. On said land is a good, comfortable
framed dwelling house and necessary out-build
ings ; there is about thirty-five or forty acres of
said land in a high state of cultivation, and about
twenty acres in original forest, the remainder in
old field pine. Levied on as the property of J. 11.
Burns, by virtue of and to satisfy a fi, fa. issued
from the Superior Court of Jackson county, in
favor of J. N. Montgomery and Rufus Maroncy,
Executors of Robert W. Pruitt, deceased, vs. said
J. 11. Burns. Fi. fir. now controlled by D. J.
Chandler. Property pointed out by the plaintiff.
Written notice served on J. 11. Burns, tenant in
possession, as the law directs.
Also, at the same time and place, will be sold
a certain town lot in the town of Jefferson, -Jack
son county. Ga„ whereon Peter McLcster now
resides, and in whose possession it now is, con
taining one acre, more or less, whereon there is a
comfortable two-story wood building dwelling
house and other improvements, a well of good
water, kitchen. Ac.; the wood building is not
completed. Said lot bounded on the west or front
side by Washington street, on the south by lot of
W. A. Worsham, on the east or back side by
Walker street, and on the north by cross alley,
it being the house wherein and the lot whereon
said Peter McLcster now resides. Levied on as
tile property of said Peter MeLcster, defendant,
to satisfy four several tax fi. fas., including in
terest and cost on each and the same, issued by
J. L. Williamson, Tax Collector of Jackson coun
tv, Ga., for tax due by said Peter McLcster for
the years 1875, 187fi. 1877 and 1878. Property
pointed out by said J. L. Williamson. Tax Collec
tor of Jackson county, plaintiff. Levy made and
banded me by W. F. Hunter, L. C. Written no
tice given to Peter McLester, defendant, tenant in
possession, as required by law.
Also, at the same time and place, will.be sold
all the right, title and interest of C. C. Thompson
in and to a certain tract or parcel of land, situated
and lying in the county of Jackson, on the waters
of the South Oconee river, adjoining lands of
Stephen Roberts. .J. E. Randolph, J. X. Pinson
and others, containing eighty or ninety acres,
more or less. Levied on by virtue of and’to satis
fy a fi. fa. issued from the County Court of Jack
son county in favor of Suraraoy A Newton vs. C.
C. Thompson. Property pointed out bv plaintiff.
apl4 T. A. McELIIANNON, Sheriff.
Executor's Sale.
VGREEABLY to an order of the Honorable
Court of Ordinary for Jackson county, will
be sold, before the Court House door in Jefferson,
in said county, within the legal hours of sale, on
the first Tuesday in May next, the following de
scribed tract or parcel of land, lying in Banks
county, and known as a fractional part of lots Nos.
<l7 and GS. cut oIF the west ends of said two lots of
land. Said fifty acres unimproved, and lies near
the junction of the Air-Line and Northeastern
railroads. A plat of said land can be seen in the
Clerk's office Jackson Superior Court. Sold as
the property of the estate of Jonathan Martin,
deceased, for the purpose of distribution. Terms,
cash. T. N. HIGH FILL, Ex'r of
apl4 the la t will of Jonathan Martin, dee'd.
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THE JUDGE’S STORY.
The .Judge knocked the ashes from his
cigar, and rose with an emphatic “ hem !”
All the others drew a long breath, and brought
their chairs down from their tilted positions.
Graham had been telling a story to while
away the long hours of the Christmas night,
and Graham was a magnificent story teller.
Your turn, Judge,” said Graham, with a
slight laugh, the flush slowly dying out of
his face.
“ Graham’s if you can,” said Fenner,
rubbing his hands together with great glee.
*’ Y ou don t know the Judge. Fenner,” said
W iiliams. “He used to equal Mr. Midship
man hasy in the number of his adventures,
and his grace in relating them.
The young lawyer, whose sobriquet of
‘■Judge’ had been bestowed upon him in the
early days of his college life, from his su
peranuated gravity and his sententious way
of deciding questions that bored him, drew
back a chair with a flourish, and then pushed
it toward the fire and sat down.
“ I’ll tell you what it is, boys, you needn’t
think I’m going to be beat by Graham. 'I
have a story to tell which is just as good as
his, but then it may lose something in the
telling. Since we parted five years ago, I
have interviewed Blackstone, Chitty, and
others “of that ilk,” and a good deal of the
romance has faded out in that way, yon per
ceive. But then, as we agreed to meet in five
years and compare experiences, it was merely
to have something to tell, so I did my best to
have an adventure. Ilem !
“ Perhaps you all remember what my
college days were. Y'oudo? Humph! Then
it will save me the trouble of telling y-ou,
though I had studied up a fine bit of pathos
about them. However, it don’t matter much ;
let it go now. One fact, though, I must speak
of, and that is the financial condition of your
present orator in those college days. I never
said anything about it then, because I was
a deal too proud ; but to tell you the truth,
boys, it required some screwing and some
pretty close calculations to maks mj- allow
ance cover my wants. I remember I used
to be not a little envious of Fenner and Gra
ham when I saw them scattering money
around with such a lavish hand, and I. with
my lliiii gaoddn-vks and extmordi
uar„v stock or cornu— -nnd the .J uoge
straightened himself back, and laughed in
his rare, genial way without finishing his sen
tenec.
“ However, to pass over that, and come to
the time when we all left college, with young
honors thick upon us. Weren’t we proud of
our diplomas though? Boys. I want you to
tell me truly whether you ever took 3'our
sheepskin out of its case after the first six
months?”
Haven’t seen mine since two weeks after
commencement," murmured Graham.
“Don't know where mine is,” said Fenner,
and the others intimated that their experience
entirely coincided with his.
“That's it, boys” pursued the judge. “I
tried to get a situation by 7 exhibiting that
imposing document, but after a good many
trials and as many ignominious failures I put
the pious fraud away, and left off being a col
lege graduate. I went in on ray merits then,
resolved to win or perish in the attempt. It
seemed as if I would have to accept the latter
alternative. I had neither money nor friends,
and there were plenty of 3'oung men with
wealth and position, ready to fill every vacan
cy. I was pretty hard up for money, you
know, and it was about this time I fell in with
Steve Ren aid, who was in about the same con
dition with respect to funds. I believe none
of you ever saw him did 3’ou? I wish you
had known him. He was half French, and
that accounts for some peculiar traits in his
character. A magnificent looking fellow,
with a certain kind of fascination about him
that you could not resist. I could not, I
know. He led me into all kinds of scrapes
that I never would have thought of going into,
and it was impossible to blame him. He had
such a merry, light-hearted way with him
when he chose that took me quite 113* storm.
“Well, as I said, our condition was about
the same financially, so we joined together
and rented a room in a very cheap but re
spectable neighborhood. We kept bachelor
hall there very comfortably for awhile, while
I hunted employment, and he compounded
wounderful French dishes out of nothing.
“ I suppose in my search for employment
1 had started out with some vague idea of
becoming a minister to some foreign power,
or postmaster general or something of that
kind. My aspirations after declining for
several weeks, like a decreasing series of
geometrical progressions—the bete noir of my
boyhood—at last pointed to an ordinar}’clerk
ship in some mercantile establishment as hap
piness beyond comparison. Even here I was
doomed to disappointment, and then I gave
up the struggle. I had spent ray last dollar
that morning. All day I had walked from
street to street, from square to square. My
limbs were aching with the unaccustomed ex
ercise, my brain was in a whirl. I knew on®
man whom ray father had befriended years
ago, in the days of his prosperity, when the
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL IS, 1873.
man was in great distress. Since then for
tune’s wheel had turned, and my father hail
died in poverty, while Mr. Laclede was one
of the money kings of the city. Can you un
derstand why I would not go to him until eve
ry other resource had failed? Even then I
went slowly and reluctantly. I stood before
the door in the gaslight, watching the crowds
as they came and went, thinking some very
bitter things, it may be. But at la3t I went
in. knowing that they would soon close up
for the night, and asked to speak with Mr.
Laclede.
“ He received me in his private office, where
he was looking over the filing papers ; and he
left me standing near the door, and went on
with his work, after oncedooking up and say
ing ‘Good evening.’ There was something
repulsive about him. I thought, and I deter
mined to try for the situation first, without
saying anything about who I was. Solstated
my 7 business very concisely. He raised his
spectacles on his glistening forehead, referred
from me to a paper he held in his hand, and
from the paper back to me, and then said :
“Ytoung man, there is no vacancv, and
even if there were, for the past two weeks
there have been on an average of twenty ap
plications like this per diem. Y'ou had better
apply somewhere else.’
*‘ My hand was on the door knob, but I
turned around and looked at him. Without
knowing clearly how the words came, I said,
slowly :
‘•I am Kenneth Lane, sir. My father help
ed you once, in the greatest extremity of
your life.’
“ His face flashed a little, and he interrupted
testily;
“Ah, certainly ! But you see, Mr. Kenneth
Lane, I can’t make situations.’
“ I do not know what else he was going to
O ID
say. I shut the door and passed out, through
the long rooms, past smiling clerks—who no
doubt read my errand and its failure in my
face, and out into the street. I do not re
member anything else very distinctly, except
that I seemed plunged suddenly into an alley,
and from that into all kinds of No Thorough
fares—desperate places, that I would have
shrunk from at any other time. I was con
scious of rushing along at times, and then
blindly groping my 7 way, dragging myself
along slowly and paint i wa3 in one of
tfioon. j..ner moons, wiumi I was seized qhd
brought to a halt by two ill-favored villains,
who proceeded to go through ray pockets in
gallant style. Apparently disgusted with
the general emptiness of those receptacles,
they turned around to the light.
“ ‘ Drunk,’ said one of them, ‘ or else a fool.
I don't know which.’
“ ‘ Come, my covey,’ said the other, ‘you
are innocent, you air, and you’d better skin
out out o' this afore 3’ou get a tap on the
head !’
“I skinned out o’ this and soon found mv
self leaving the city' behind and coming out
on the broad fields, lying white and still
beneath the lightof the moon. Then 1113’sense
began returning, and I sat down by the side
of the road, bared my head, and tried to
look calml3’ at ray situation—or rather at mv
want of one.
“ It was gloomy enough, boys, I can toll
3'ou. The sense of failure is a horrid thing,
and it had full possession of me then. I was
3'oung, and had fitted 1113’self for some of the
higher, nobler works of life, just to be thrust
back and told there were no vacancies. Right
then and there I felt that there were powers
in my brain which could win me a name and
place among men if they were only given the
opportunit3'. Oh, boys, there was the bitter
ness of it! ‘I might as well be a highway
robber !' I said aloud, despairingly.
“ ‘ That's just what I think!' said a voice
close beside me, and when I started and
turned, there was Steve Ranald, sitting there
as cool 1 v as if we had walked to the place
arm iu arm. I never had quite liked his cat
like way of watching or coming on me un
awares, but it had never startled me before
as it did then.
“ 4 Wll3’, Steve !’ I exclaimed, ‘ how came
you here ?’
‘“Oh, I've kept you in sight all the even
ing. I thought 3’ou did not seem quite right,
so I followed 3'ou. Devilish cool that on old
Laclede, wasn’t it
“The question brought me back to my
grievances. ‘lt was terrible,’ I said. ‘My
father started him in business when he had
not a friend or a dollar in the world. YYhen
I think of that, I could almost swear venge
ance on all mankind for that man’s base in
gratitude.’
“ ‘Yes,’ saitl Ranald, ‘ bnt remember your
American proverb, 4 The world owes you a
living.’
“ 4 I'll never be able to collect the debt !*
I returned, bitterly.
44 4 But you wouldn’t make a good highway’
robber, you know,’ said Ranald, mutteringly,
plowing up the earth at his feet with a short
stick. 4 You haven’t the right kind of pluck.’
44 4 What kind does it take ?” I asked with
a short laugh.
44 4 Well, suppose a carriage comes along,
your first job is to wing the driver, after
which you can talk vuitk the inside passengers
at your leisure. Iu case it’s a rider or a foot
passenger, you can deal with him easily
enough. But then you've got to have a quick
hand on the trigger, and you haven't got the
pluck you know.’
‘Haven’t I ?’ I cried, with a kind of reck
less daring. ‘lf I was armed I'd show you
before to-morrow. I don't owe the world
ranch gratitude, and I had as well do some
thing desperate and get hanged, and done
with it all.’
“*Oh, as for arms. I could let you have
mine,’ said Ranald, not looking at me at all,
jiyt back towards the city. ‘ But I don't like
much to do it. Y'ou'd never use them.’
“ I need not go on to tell y’ou, Ikjvs, how it
came about, but in less than half an hour Ra
nald was on his way back to the city, while
I, with his pistols in my pocket, was striding
along the green lanes that led farther and
farther out into the country. I was despe
rate, of course, and a burning fever was
bounding in m3’ pulses, confusing all that I
did. It must certainly have been that, com
bined with Ranald's influence, that set me.
Kenneth Lane, behind a hedge, with a pistol
in my hand and a murderous intent in mv
heart, while the moon shone white! y over the
broad fields and the long ribbons of road that
lay between them.
“ The first that passed was a man whose
face I could not see. I had my finger on the
trigger. I was just ready to spring out upon
him, when suddenly—well, Graham, he began
whistling that same little love tune )’ou used
to be always whistling, singing and playing
at college. That made me grow very 7 weak,
and I couldn’t move. It brought back all
you fellows so distinctly. By tiic way, I
wonder if lie will ever know lu>w near that
little love tune saved his life? Talk about
the value of little things, the stars might all
have fallen from their spheres and never have
affected me as did the few simple bars whis
tled l>3* that traveler along the moonlit road.
“ I recovered myself after a little—or rath
er lost myself again—and began to wonder
at my weakness, and then, just as I had
straightened myself up and taken anew hold
upon m3' resolution to do something despe
rate, I heard the rattle of carriage wheels far
away on the moonlit white ribbon of road.
Instantly I was on the alert, with even*
faculty quickened. I raised my pistol and
examined the lock, wondering at the same
time whether mv sentence would be hanging
or transportation, or imprisonment for life,
with hard labor. Before I had settled the
matter in m3' own mind, the carriage had
come nearer. The wheels were rattling fu
riously’. Who could be driving such a break
neck speed ? Then suddenly it came in
sight, and at the same moment I heard the
terrific screams of women, saw that the driver
was missing from his place, and that the
horses were running away.
“In an instant, forgetting everything else
at those cries of distress, I dropped 1113' pis
tol and sprang into the road. Just for a mo
ment the startled horses paused, and in that
moment I seized the bits. Then commenced
a fierce battle with the frantic, plunging
steeds. I was thrown down, trampled upon,
but I clung to them with despairing energy.
Ten minutes ago, my only thought had been
to take life ; now, my only desire was to save
it. So it was, 1 clung to the horses and kept
them there until I felt stronger hands.assist
ing mine, ami then the wild struggle, the
broad fields, and the white road all faded
away, and left nothing but darkness and
silence.
“When I awoke—well, boys, I thought
Abidin’s lamp had certainly come back upon
the earth, and somebody had been using it
for my benefit. If I had come back to life in
our own room, Ranald’s and mine, I might
have concluded that the whole affair had been
a horrible dream, and so said nothing more
about it. But it certainly was surprising to
find myself in a strange room, on a strange
bed, with a rosy old gentleman leaning over
me on the one side, and a rosy old lady on
the other, their faces expressing the most
lively solicitude, while a grave medical gen
tleman first felt ray pulse, and then rubbed
the palms of his hand together with great
satisfaction. Nor was ray astonishment de
creased when the rosy’ old gentleman said :
44 4 The dear boy has come through. Allow
me to take your hand, doctor. We owe so
much to you.’
“ Whereupon he shook hands very heartily
with the doctor, and then with the old lady,
and they all seemed extravagantly’ glad of
ray recovery.
44 Tt was astonishing, too, in the days that
followed, while I was lying there, too weak to
move, to see how I was waited on and made
much of by the whole family. They told me
after a while how I had saved the lives of the
rosy old lady and her daughter, who were in
the carriage that night, and how I was drag
ged out from under the horses' feet, bruised
and bleeding, and with mv left arm broken ;
how I was brought there, and never recovered
consciousness, but went off into a raging
fever, and lay next to death’9 door for weeks.
They told me how I had talked in ray deliri
um—now arraigning Mr. Laclede for base in
gratitude, then fancying that Ranald was
upon my track wherever I went, and that he
was going to make me commit murder. Then
I was waiting behind the hedge, with my fin
ger upon the trigger of the pistol, listening to
the rattle of carriage wheels far away on the
road, and the next moment I was crying that
there were women inside, and that I must
save them ; and I would strive to rise, and
would fall back exhausted, only to begin all
over again.
“Do you picture, boys, how I had fallen
upon Paradise ? After all, there is a ‘ divin
ity that shapes our ends, rough hew them as
we tna3'.’ The3* b a( l gathered the whole story
from my ravings. They knew what had been
in my heart that night beside the hedge, and
vet they could be kind and tender. The3' re
stored strength and manhood in mo. They
made me feel that I was worthy of being lion
ored and trusted. When I was able to work,
the old gentleman found me a splendid posi
tion, and I continued my law studies in all
m3' leisure moments. Mr. Lyndray gave me
a most cordial invitation to make his house
m3' home, and treated me with such confi
dence that I must have made iny’self worthy
of it, however ignoble and uuworthy I might
have been. So it was that when Mr. Laclede
came and offered me a position as book
keeper in his establishment, I was enabled to
decline the honor, with the old speech a little
more proudly uttered : *I am Kenneth Lane,
sir.’ And so it was that every holiday took
me back to the home of m3’ preserver, where
Mr. and Mrs. Lyndray treated me like a son,
and their fair daughter smiled on me at rare
intervals. At last I was admitted to the bar,
since which I have become —well, Inns, 3-011
know the rest.”
“ The most promising young law3*er in the
State,” said Fenner, emphatically.
“ But what about the daughter, Judge?”
said Graham. “ Y'oti surely are not going to
leave us in the lurch, after we had all con
cluded that there was going to be a spice of
romance about it.”
“Oh. yes—the daughter!” said Kenneth
Lane, with a blush. Then the rising 3’oung
lawyer drew himself up with the grace and
pride of a young god. “M v friends,” he said,
with unmistakable sweetness, •• if you will cu>
down to Mr. Lyndray’s on the first day of the
new year, you will see me united to Ethel
Lyndray, my.queen am*mg women.”
“ Hurrah ! Three cheers for the judge and
his bride !” springing to his feet and waiving
his cap. and the cheers were given with a vim
that brought back their college days afresh.
Nearly broke Up a Festival.
BY GEORGE W. PECK.
Not many years ago there was a church
festival in Milwaukee, to raise funds for pay
ing one of the many debts of nature that
churches always owe. The festival had been
extensively advertised. Everything had been
arranged and the women of the church were
in the basement, working like beavers. The
crowd began to arrive, and then there was
bustle. \Ye do not mean the kind of bustle
that you do, gentle reader. We mean busi
ness. There was business going on.
A committee of ladies were engaged in
splitting the oysters, before cooking, so they
would go further, and another committee was
thinning the milk, so it wouldn’t give any
body the dyspepsia. Another committee was
freezing the ice-cream, the women looking on,
while the men turned the freezer. They'had
been freezing the cream since 4 o’clock in
the afternoon, and here it was 7 o'clock, and
the cream was thin as a linen duster, and as
free from frigidity as when it came from the
cow, or the hen, as the case may- be. The
deacons put in salt and ice, and the more they
turned the concern, the warmer the ice-cream
seemed to get. The deacons perspired, and
said words that wouldn’t sound well in his
tory. Time passed, and the cream would not
freeze. Girl waiters were coming down stairs
with orders for ice-cream, and the wild-eyed
men would take off the cover and look into
the churn and find it thinner than before. A
council of war was held in the basement, and
the matter was diseassed, but no one could
give an}* information that would fre ze the
cream. Finally one old deacon, who had
been working the freezer for three hours, un
til every bone in his body ached, and who
sat on the bottom step of the stairs with a
coffee-sack thrown over his shoulders to keep
from taking cold, and mopping the perspira
tion from his brow, arose and said that des
perate diseases require desperate remedies.
He said if that cream couldn’t be induced to
freeze, the church was beat out of at least £2O.
lie said that there was only one wav. ‘ Send
for my wife !” said he. as he sank back, weep
ing. The man’s wife was up-stairs waiting
on table, and a sister rushed up to her and
told her to come down stairs at once, as her
husband was in a terrible state. The good
woman dropped a lot of soup plates, and
rushed down stairs, ami found her husband
looking as though he had been playing a base
ball match.
“For heaven's sake, Hennery, what is the
matter?” said the darling wife, as she kneel
ed at his feet, and took his blistered hand in
her own soft palm.
“Harriet,” sauf he, as he put his hand on
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her auburn hair to get it warm, “ have I al
ways been a good husband to you ?”
Sho admitted that he had as far as sbo
knew, though lie had a reprehensible habit of
going down town nights.
“ Then,” said he, “ I have only one favor
to ask. We have been trying for three hours
to freeze that cussed ice-cream. If it wasn't
for the church, I wouldn't ask it, but, Harriet,
something has got to be done. Now, if votf
will take off your shoes and stockings, and
put your feet in that ice-cream freezer, you
can freeze that cream in two minutes, and we'
are saved!” •
There was a noise as of a ward caucus
breaking up in a row, and a wild-eyed deacon
might have been seen going around that room
in the basement, trying to do lge chairs, and
plates, and cups and saucers, and when lie
got to the door, and a soup tureen took him
on the head, iie went out into the wide world
and went home in his shirt sleeves, and a
young man that sinecs in the choir went home'
with tiie deacon’s wife later, and the ice
cream did not freeze.
Sad Ending of the Life of a Young Girl.
Miss Lizzie James, about whom it will be'
remembered a shooting affray occurred on*
the 23d of December iast. between her brother,-
William 11. James, and Denwood B. Hinds,
at the corner of Baltimore and I lanover streets,-
died Saturday morning from puerperal con
vulsions. She was within about two weeks
of becoming a mother. James accused Hinds
of being the cause of his sister's ruin. He'
went to the store where Hinds was employed,
and, after a refusal on the part of Hinds t<?
marry Miss James, the brother drew a small
revolver and commenced firing. Hinds alsor
drew a weapon, and several shots were ex
changed, neither one of the young men being
seriously injured, however. Hinds left the
city afterwards, and did no appear at the'
hearing of the case, which was to have taken
place at the middle station house, before
Justice Johns. Mental anguish at her con
dition so weighed upon the mind of Miss
James that when convulsions set in she was
unable through weakness to withstand the
shock, and death was the inevitable result.
During lucid intervals she called repeatedly
for Hinds, to whom she was much attached,
and his name was pronounced with her dying
breath. Hinds is still away from Baltimore.
Bidiimore Sun , 17 th.
To Young Mer>.
Some old genius gives the following elegant
| advice to young men who “ depend on father”
for their support, and take no interest in bu
siness, but are regular drones in the hive,
subsisting on that which is earned by others :
“Come, off with your coat, clinch the saw,
the plow-handles, the ax, the spade—any
thing that will enable you to stir your blood.
Fly around and tear your jacket rather than
be the recipient of the old gentleman s boun
ty. Sooner than play the dandy at dad’s ex
pense. hire yourself out to some potato patch,
let yourself out to stop holes, or watch the
liars, and, when you think yourself entitled
to a resting spell, do it on your own hook.
Get up in the morning, turn around at least
twice before breakfast, help the old gentle
man, give him now and then a lift in busi
ness, learn how to take the lead, and not de
pend upon forever being led, and 3-011 have
no idea how the discipline will benefit you.-
Do this, and, our word for it, you will seem
to breathe anew atmosphere, possess anew
frame, tread anew destiny, and you may be
gin to aspire to manhood.”
Original Advice ferr Drinking.
Barkeepers in tills city pay on an aver
age $2 per gallon for whisky. One gallon
contains an average of sixty-five drinks, and,
at ten cents a drink, the poor man pays £6.50
per gallon for his whisky ; in other words, he
pays $2 for the whisky and £1.50 to a man
for handing it over the bar. Make your wife
yonr barkeeper. Lend her $2 to buy a gallon
of whisky for a beginning, and every time
you want a drink go to her and pay ten cents
for it. By the time you have drunk a gallon
she will have $6.50, or enough money to re
fund the $2 borrowed of you, to pay for
another gallon of liquor, and have a balance
of $2.50. She will be able to conduct future
operations on her own capital, and when you
become an inebriate, unable to support your
self, shunned and despised by all respec
table persons, yonr wife will have enongl*
money to keep you until you get ready to fill
a drunkard’s grave. —Lecture of C. T. Camp
bell at Maysvilie, Ky.
Take Care of Your Hahijp.
Character is the substance, reputation the
shadow only—sometimes longer, and some
times shorter. How important, then, is care
in the growth and formation o( habits, since
character is but a “bundle of habits” that
years have been nicking up aud combining*
and, when combined, you may annihilate the
composition, but you cannot alter it. It is
no easy matter to drop habits, even those
that hang most loosely npou the outsido. We
have an attachment to them, or they have an
attachment to us. which is not readily sepa
rated. They are like an old pair of shoes,-
which, though there are no advantages attend
ing them, still are easy, and we are loth to 1
“cast them off-" They are like an old hat.
which, though it lias become unsightly, still
sits comfortably to our head, and we dread
the breaking of anew one.
The leading negroes of NeW Orleans prO
pose to hold a meeting shortly for the purpose
of consider ng the condition of their race in
Louisiana, but they begin their call by an
nouncing in effect that the meeting is to be
iield in the interest of the republican party j
for it is a remarkable fact that in the parishes'
from which the are emigrating there'
have been nocoruplaintsofbull-dozing. I t |mui
the whole, we are disposed to regard the ex
odus. as well as the proposed meeting, apart'
of the programme for manufacturing political
capital for tiie republican party.
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