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JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA„ FRIDAY. JANUARY 9. ISSO.
Mr. Palmleaf’s Proposal.
Mr bite and glistening, like a mammoth
bridal veil, the December un lay over all
the New Hampshire hills ; dark and delicate,
like the tracery of lace work; the leafless
woods held up their boughs against the
dazzling winter sky—and the Reverend Peter
1 almleaf, studying over an embryo sermon
in his own especial sanctum, glanced up where
a blackbird was whistling in the casement,
and thought to himself what a lovely world
the Lord had made.
M hen, all of a sudden, a shrill voice called
through the entry:
“ Peter, the horse Is ready.”
“What horse?” asked the Rev. Mr.
Palmleaf.
** ur horse ;to be sure !” said Miss Paulina,
his sister.
“ T hat for?” demanded the parson, staring
through his near-sighted spectacles at the
door.
“ To take you to Mr. Darrow’s.”
“ Why am I going to Mr. Darrow’s?”
further questioned the man of theology.
“ Well, I never !” said Miss Paulina, boun
cing into the study', with a yellow pocket
handkerchief tied around her head and her
sleeves rolled in a business-like fashion up
to her elbows, “ Peter, you grow more moony
and absent minded every day of your life !
Have you forgotten our discussion at the
break fast* table? Why', you are going to Mr.
Darrow’s after a girl, to be sure !”
“ A —girl !” repeated the young minister,
dreamily'rubbing liis forehead. “Oh, I do
recall something of the conversation. A hired
girl.”
“ \ os.” nodded the lady briskly'. “She
is going to leave Mr. Harrow’s this morning,
because the family is so large, and work so
heavy’. She can’t find fault with our establish
ment, I guess. Ask her bow much wages
she wants, and how old she is, and ask her if
she has any followers—-and be sure you bring
her back, as I must have her or some person
to help me before Philinda’s folks come from
the city.”
“ But suppose she won’t come,” said the
young minister, dubiously, fitting on the
lingers of his gloves.
“Then you must make her come,” said
Miss Paulina, hurriedly retreating, to look
after a certain kettle, which was noisily
boiling over, at the back of the house.
And thus charged with his mission the
Reverend Peter Palmleaf got into the one
horse cutter and jingled merrily away.
Mr. Harrow’s farmhouse nestled umlcr u
hill, in the protecting shallow of a cluster of
evergreens, with a green fence in front of it,
and a red burn at the rear, and a colony of
doveliouses at the sunny southern angle, and
Mr. Darrow himself, a ruddy-faced elderly
man with a fringe of white whiskers
around li is chin, was shoveling away the
pearly masses of snow in front of his door.
“ Fli !” said Mr. Darrow, leaning on tiie
handle of his spade, as the bells jingled up in
front of his gate, and then stopped. How?
Why, it’s the minister ! Good-moruing ! That
there Sunday sermon of yours was a master
piece. Me and Squire Scnnox—”
“ Y'cs,” said Mr. Palmleaf, leisurely alight
ing, and tying the horse to the post. 44 But
I have called on business this morning.”
For Mr. l’almleaf was emphatically a man
of one idea. For the time being the 44 hired
girl” has chased all theology out of his
head.
“Eh!” said Mr. Darrow ; “business?”
“ I’ve come after a young woman,” said the
minister.
Mr. Darrow dropped his spade in the middle
of a snow-drift.
“Do you mean Dolly?” lie said.
“If that’s her name—yes,” assorted the
minister, solemnly.
“ You don't mean that—it is to bo an
engagement?” cried Mr. Darrow.
“ Well, yes—that is, if we suit each other,’*
said Mr. Palmleaf, mildly.
“Jerusalem!” said Mr. Darrow, why, had
always heard that Mr. Palmleaf. like most
men of genius, was an “ eccentric,” but had
never realized it before. “ Have you spoken
to her?”
“Certainly not!” answered Mr. Palmleaf.
“Of course I shouldn’t think of such a thing
without seeing 3-011 first.”
“Very straightforward of you, I’m sure,’’
said the farmer. “ But, of course, I can have
no objection, if Dolly herself is suited.
Though,” and he smote one red-mitted hand
upon his kuee, “ now I come to think of it,
you’ve never seen Dolly.”
"No !” said the minister, serenely. “ But
that need mako no difference.”
“ Jerusalem !” again uttered the farmer.
“ It wasn’t the way I used to look at things
when I was a j’oung man.”
“Tastes differ,” said Mr. Palmleaf, a little
impatient at this lengthened discussion.
“Oh, of course you can see her,” said Mr.
Darrow. “She’s in the dairy, skiraminw
milk. “ Dolly 1” raising his voice to a wild
bellow. “ Here’s the Reverend Mr. Palm
leaf wants to see }'ou ! There’s the door just
to the left, sir.”
And, in his near-sighted way, the minister
stumbled into farmer Darrow’s dair}-, where
a rosy-ckceked girl, with jet black hair,
brushed away from a low, olive-dark brow,
and eyes like pools of sherry wine, was skim
ming the cream from multitudinous milkpans
into a huge stone pot.
“ Young woman,” said Mr. Palmleaf, turn
ing his spectacles upon her amazed face,
“ do you want to engage yourself?”
“ Sir?” said Dolly, her spoon coming to
an abrupt standstill amid the wrinkly and
leather-like folds of the cream on a particular
pan.
“ In other words,” explained Mr. Palmleaf,
” do you want a good home?”
44 Indeed, sir,” I never thought of such a
thing!” said Dolly, all in a flurry.
44 How old are you?” questioned Mr. Palm
leaf.
44 1 am eightoeon,” said Dolly', in some con
fusion.”
“ Have you any followers?”
"Sir?” fluttered Dolly.
44 Beaux. I mean,” elaborately explained
the clergy'rnan.
44 Of course I haven’t,” said Dolly, half
inclined to laugh, half to be angry.
"Then I think you’ll suit me,” said Mr.
Palmleaf; 44 or, rather my sister. Our family
is not large; the work is light, and Paulina
is a most considerate mistress. Get y r our
bundle.”
“ M y—what!” said Dolly, in bewilder
ment.
“ Y our clothes. I am to take you back
with me immediately,” said Mr. Palmleaf.
“Paulina expects company. It is essential
that we obtain help at once.”
Dolly Harrow looked up with checks crimson
like any' rose, eyes full of deep brown sparkles,
and lips around which danced a perfect
galaxy' of dimples.
“ Wait a minute, please,” said she.
“Certainly,” said Mr. Palmleaf.
And lie sat down on a wooden stool in the
corner, and fell to meditating on the “ thirdly”
of his uncompleted sermon,while I)olly r sped
up stairs, three steps at a time.
" Father,” cried she, flying into the presence
of her parents, “ the minister has mistaken
me for Brideget!”
"Eh?” said Mr. Harrow.
“ You don’t tell me 1” said Mrs. Harrow.
"And he wants to hire me,” said Dolly,
her eyes gleaming with fun. "And I’m
going. Quick —where’s my hat and shawl
and my mufflers?”
Mrs. Darrow rose up in the tnajosty of her
fine black silk gown and gold watch-chain.
" Dorothy Darrow,” said slie, ‘‘you’renever
going to hire as a servant.”
“Yes, I am,” said Dolly. “It's better
than private theatricals, lie’s so nice and
absent-minded, and Paulina is a jewel ! Oh,
make haste or he’ll be tired of waiting I”
And Dolly succeeded iu carrying her point.
Fifteeu minutes later she hod got into the
cutter, with a parcel, which Mr. Falmlcaf
stowed snugly away under the sent, and the
minister drove home with secret exultation.
Miss Paulina was in the kitchen frying
sausages for dinner, when Dorothy walked
in, with cheeks like carnations, hair blown all
over her face, and the bundle under her
arm.
“ Here I am, Miss Palmleaf,” said she.
“The hired help, at your service !”
Miss Paulina stared.
“ Why, it’s Dorothy,” said sho. “ And I
sent Peter after—”
“ Yes, I know,” said Dolly, brightly. “ But
Bridget was gone, and he mistook me for her,
and he has engaged me to work here. And
oh, Miss Paulina, please don’t undeceive
him. Because I am a smart little house
keeper, and I can help you just as much as
any girl could. Just give me a trial, that’s
all.”
Miss Paulina had a shrewd appreciation
of a joke; her hard features relaxed with a
smile, as she stood looking down at the
radiant little brunette.
“ Well,” said she. “ I don’t mind if I
do.”
For one month Dorothy Darrow officiated
as hired girl at the parsouage. Then she
came to the clergyman one day :
“Mr. Palmleaf,” said she, “ I am going to
leave the place 1”
Mr. Palmleaf looked up in amazement and
dismay.
“ I hope, Dolly,” said he, “ that neither my
sister nor I have unwittingly offended }'ou?”
“No !” said Dolly, patting her little foot
on the staring green leaves in the study
carpet, “ but, oh, Mr. Palmleaf, I have done
wrong, and I earnestly beg your pardon !”
“ Dolly !” crid out the Reverend Peter, in
mild surprise.
“ Because you are so good and truo,” sobbed
the girl. “I am not a hired girl, and I only
came here for a joke, and I can’t bear to think
I’m de-de-deceiving you!”
And Dolly began to cry piteously, behind
the corner of her apron.
“You came here for a joke, eh ?” said the
minister.
“ T-yes!” confessed Dolly, behind her
apron.
“Well, then,” said the minister, gently
drawing her toward him, “ suppose you stay
in earnest ?”
“ Sir ?” faltered Dolly.
“ My dear,” said Mr. Palmleaf, I have got
used to you around the house. I should miss
you terribly if you should leave us. Do you
think I am too old to think of a blooming
young wifo like you ?”
"Not a bit!” cried Dolly, indignantly,
44 old—yon I”
" Do you like mo a little bit ?”
" A great deal, said Dolly, laughing and
blushing.
“ 1 hen you will stay with me always ?”
And Dolly promised that she would.
Everybody wondered how so bashfully a
man as the Rev. Mr. Palmleaf ever mustered
courage for a proposal; but everybody knew
that the “ engagement” begun for a joke
turned out in sober earnest.
*
A Lost Heart.
A GHASTLY STORY OF NAPOLEON THE GREAT.
At Plogastel, in Brittan}'. there is living
an old English physician named Thomas
Cartwell, aged 82 years, who tells travelers
a strange stor3’, in which he says he figured
as a principal actor.
On the sth of Ma}', 1821, Napoleon the
Great died at Longwood, St. Helena, after
causing Sir Hudson Lowe so much unhappi
ness that ho went crazy, and, returning to
England, lost all his fortune in extravagant
speculations in stocks. The Emperor's last
.companions, Bertrand, Montbolon, Gourgaud
and Las Cases, immediately made a demand
for a physician expert in the science of em
balming. Sir Hudson Lowe, who shrank
from no expense, sent a physician, an Ital
ian named Antomarchi, who had attended
the Emperor when he was troubled with a
styjin his eve. The doctor hastened to his
work, but certain instruments were needed,
lie required at least two assistants, etc. Sir
Hudson Lowe made haste to supply all his
demands, lie sent a boat to an English
frigato, at anchor in the offing, with a request
for two naval surgeons, supplied with every
thing necessary for the embalming process.
One of the two persons sent was a youth
of 20 years, well educated and full of ambi
tion, and he was received on the island as
Assistant Surgeon Thomas Cartwell. lie
and his comrade hastened to assist Dr. An
tomarchi. About 4in the afternoon of May
6 the work was begun. The corpse of Na
poleon I. was lifted from the little bed where
ho had died, and placed on a l°ng marble
topped table, which was still intact when, in
1858, Napoleon 111. bought, with Govern
ment funds, the house in which had died the
man whom ho persisted in making the public
beliavo to have been his uncle. The em
balming was begun ;when night came and
interrupted it. Antomarchi and his assist
ants agreed that the completion of it must
be postponed until the next morning. They
determined to go to bed, and resume their
work at daybreak. First they oovorod the
Emperor’s body with a white cloth, which
they sprinkled and saturated with certain
liquids to. avoid putrefaction. The various
internal organs that had been removed were
placed in metal cups on the operating table.
Then the three operators went to their room
and slept profoundly.
They had hardly been asleep an hour when
Marchand, the valet of the dead Emperor,
knocked at Cartwell’s door calling out:
“Come down, sir, quick 1 A great misfort
une lias just happened.”
“ What is it ?” said the young surgeon,
appearing in his uniform.
"Oh, sir, the Emperor’s heart has been
eaten up by rats !”
It was true. The island was infested with
rat 9. They were as thick as the English.
While Marchand was out of the room rats
had rushed in, and finding the heart of the
conqueror of Austerlitz in a basin, had made
but a mouthful of it. The valet, on return
ing to the room, saw them scamper away,
and all he could do was to announce the ir
reparable loss.
What was now to be done ? The physi
cians met and consulted. It was impossible
to conceal the absence of the organ that had
been eaten up, the operation of embalming
having been begun before witnesses, who had
seen it. To confess the accident was to ex
pose Marchand to severe rebuke, and the
poor fellow was already wretched enough. A
happy thought occurred to Cartwell.
“If we could only get a sheep’s heart,”
he suggested to Antomarchi with excessive
caution. All the four persons present looked
at one another nervously, hesitated, and then
began to laugh together like four Roman
augurs. They uoderstool one another.
Marchand ran to a neighboring farm, killed
a sheep, and brought back its heart still
warm and palpitating.
On the next day, the 7th of May, Anto
marchi and his assistants, in the presence of
Gen. Bertrand and M. De Montholon, fin
ished the embalming of the Emperor without
any person among his suite in the least sus
pecting the extraordinary performance of the
night before. If the story is true, and if the
old retired English ex-Surgeon of Plogastel
is not a joker, the heart of the sheep of St.
Helena has been resting for thirty-three
years under the dome of the Invaiides!—
Chicago Ledger.
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Q-eneral News.
Iho introduction ot American antbrnoitq
into Switzerland has directed the attontiou
of the Swiss to their own coal fields, which
they believe may bo raado to supply their
wants.
A Boston magic healer has got ahead of
competition in his lino of practice. Ho
places his hands over a broken or dislocated
bone, and it immediately readjusts itself—so
he says.
A St. Alban's wife, in reply to her lms
band’s advertisement that he would pay no
debts of her contracting, published a card
expressing surprise that he had raised money
enough to pay the advetising bill.
Some Norwich drunkards got hold of i\
former companion who, for eight months, had
kept a pledge of total abstinence, induced
him to drink, and when he was helplessly
intoxicated, paraded him through the streets,
labelled “ A horrible example/’
Sporting guns are now made in England
with the hammers concealed in the lock me,
chan ism internally, so that persons who pre
fer to handle their weapons from the muzzle
in going through brush need not find death
in the gun.
The Grant family show, in their matrimo
nial alliances, that they fully understand
that money is a good thing to get. It is said
that U. S. Grant, Jr., will marry, in Febuary x
the daughter of the San Francisco million
aire, J. G. h lood. I his kind of Flood, wheq
taken, will lead U.S. Grant, Jr., on to fortune.
A little more than forty years ago all the
table cutlery used in the United States came
from England. At present, out of an annual
consumption of nearly $3,000,000 worth,
England supplies but 8 per cent., aqd this
country not only manufactures nearly all
that is needed at home, but ships large quan,
titios to South America, Australia and Eu-.
rope.
A Hartford joker wrote, in a letter to a
friend in Bridgeport, “You had belter keep
shady for a while and not attempt to nego
tiate those bonds you stoic, as they arc all
registered and the police arc watchful for.
them.” The letter was opened by a wrong
person, who gave it to the police, and the
innocent man was kept under arrest until h$
could clear himself of suspicion.
A society of cotton pickers (colored) of
Williston, S. C., are governed by their own
lawß in relation to theft. The sum of five
dollars was recently stolen, and the culprit
was immediately tried by a jury of six aiu(
found guilty. He was sentenced to receive
lift}' lashes on his back, and be expelled from
the society; The sentence was executed tq
the letter.
At a performance of the cantata of “Ester’*
at Dallas. Texas, Ahusaerus was advised by
somebody in the audience not to “cut it toq
fat.” The personater of the great Assyrian
went to the footlight and said : “This is a
religion show, and you’ll have to be daceuL
I’m Ahasncrus just now. but after the show
I’m Sam-Turner; aud if auy duffer would
like to cut it fat then I'll give hiua a mighty
lively welcome.
Mr. Blennorhaßsett, M. P., for Kerry, Ire
land, is to introduce next session a bill tq
abolish the arbitrary marriage regulations;
which compel marriages to be solemnized
before noon. This has been a great incon
venience, especially to the working classes,
and was introduced to prevent bibulous bach
elors from presenting themselves at the altar
in an intoxicated state, a danger which has
passed away.
Pennsylvania may fairly claim to possess
the stupidest man in the country. lie is a
farm hand near Lebanon, and was hired tq
plough a ten-acre field. Ilis boss, wishing
to have him plough a strait furrow, directed
liis attention to a cow grazing in an adjoin
ing field, and told him to drive directly to
ward her. On his return, half an hour later’
he found the cow had left her place and wasj
walking about while the hired man, in per
suit of her, was drawing a zig-zag furrow all
over the field.
Apex, a North Carolina town, has lately
had a social sensation. Two colored persons
having been joined in wedlock, a travelled
darkey suggested that in good white society
it was the custom to throw a shoe after
the bride. The notion took immenselv,
and the bride departed'amid a shower of
shoes, one of which, hitting her on the head
like a bolt from a fifteen-inch gun knocked
her senseless in the wagon. The grooin
thrashed the thrower, and Apex proahly
now holds siiocs throwing lo be a cus
tom more honored in the breach than in thq
observance.
The usually wide-awake drummer
absent-minded sometimes, and then some
thing like this happens, as related by the
Rondout Freeman : “An agent for a New
York house called on a merchant,
and handed him a picture of his betrothed
instead of his business card, saving he rep
resented that establishment. The merchant
examined it carefully, remarked that it was
a fine establishment and returned it to tliQ
astonished man, with a hope that he would
soon be admitted into partnership.
Bob Pharr, a South Carolina negro, held
that no white man had a right to arrest him
under any circumstances. lie was a thief,
and that was the manner in which he con
strued the meaning oftke Fifteenth Amend
ment. Tree policemen surrounded his
house, and he jumped from a window, shoot
ing one of them as he escaped. lie got out
of a jail bv snatching a pistol from the sheriff
and shooting him with it. He killed a con
stable who was endeavoring to recapture him.
lie murdered his wife because he suspecteq
her of intending to deliver him up. At length
a party of police invaded his hiding place at
Charlotte. They had not searched long before
his head and a pistol were protruded from
behind a bed. Officer Hill unhesitatingly
sent a bullet through his brain, killing him
instantly.
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