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Darien Timber Gazette.
VOL. G.--NO. 22.
Darien Timber Gazette,
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D.IH/0-, GEORGIA,
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Timber Gazette, Darien, Georgia.
City Directory.
“ ' COUNTY OFFICERS.
County Commissioners —James Walker, Chairman;
Adam Strain, Isaac M. Aiken, J. A. Atwood, T. 11.
James E. Holmes, Joseph Hilton.
Clerk Board of County Commissioners— Spalding
Kenan. _ . __ _ *
Clerk Superior Court —L. B. Davis.
Ordinary—C. H. Hopkins, Sr.
Sheriff—T. Butler Blount.
Receiver Tax Returns— W. MeW. Young.
Tax Collector—O. C. Hopkins.
County Treasurer —M. C. O'Neil.
County Surveyor —W. It. Poppel.
Coroner— Philip Maxwell.
The Commissioners hold monthly meetings on
the first Wednesday in each month.
CITY OFFICERS.
Ex-Officio Mayor —James Walker.
Fx-oihcio Aldermen —Joseph Hilton, J. A. Atwood,
Adam Strain, J. E. Holmes, Thomas H. Gignilliat,
Isaac M. Aiken.
STANDINO COMMITTEES.
Committee on Finance—'Sienna. Strain, Atwood
Committee on Accodnts —Messrs. Holmes, Giguil
hat and Aiken. ... „
Committee on rfdrter—Messrs, Hilton, Aiken
on Health and Cemetery- Messrs. Gignil-
Bat, Atwood and Holmes.
Committee on Paupers- Messrs. Atwood, Holmes
and Gignilliat. .
Committee, on Jail— Messrs. Aiken, Hilton and
Atwood. . _ _ .
Committee on Streets and Lanes Messrs. Aiken,
Straiu and Holmes. . . ,
Committee on County Roads— Messrs. Atwood,
Gignilliat and Hilton. .
CommitMe on Public Buildings— Messrs. Strain,
Gignilliat, and Aiken.
Committee on Police— Messrs. Holmes, Hilton and
Strain. ..
Committee n Ordinances-Sira*™. Aiken, Strain
vnd Atwood.
Clerk and Treasurer— Spaldiug Kenan.
City Marshal —Charles H. Hopkins, Jr.
Deputy Marshal —Alonao Guyton.
Harbor it aster- ■ J allies Abeel.
Port Physician—Dr. James Holmes.
Inspector General of Timber —George W. Fanes.
Port Wardens —lsaac M. Aiken, John H. Burrell,
and James G. Youug.
jSter— Charles H. Hopkins, Jr.
Board Pilot Commissioners —Charles 8. Lauguou,
Chairman, R. K. Walker, W. C. Clark, Arthur Bai
iay. Dr. R. B. Harris. James Lachlison and Robt.
Mitchell. Wm. L. Gignilliat. Secretary.
MABONIC.
Eire Oak Lodge, No. 137, meets first Wednesday
Uight in each month at their hall near the Magno
lia House; H. S. Ravenel, Worshipful Master; K.
W, Grubb, Secretary
UNITED STATES OFFICERS.
Collector of Customs, Brunswick District John T.
Collins. Headquarters at Brunswick.
Deputy Collector of Customs for Port of Darien—r
Charles H. Townsend.
Inspector —Edwin C. Davis.
Postmaster —D. Webster Davis.
Deputy Marshal —Joseph B. Bond.
SUPERIOR COURT—EASTERN CIRCUIT.
Hon. Wm. B. Fleming, Judge.
Major A. B. Smith, Solicitor General.
Bulloch County—Thursday before nrst Mondays
in April and October.
Ettiugham County—First Mondays in April and
October.
Bryan County—Thursdays after ijrst Mondays
in April and October.
Chatham County—Second Mondays in February,
May and October.
Mclntosh County—Tuesdays after last Mondays in
April awi October.
Liberty after second Mondays
in May and October.
UNITED STATES MAILS.
The mails arrive from Sterling, No. 1, Macon &
Brunswick Railroad, every morning (Sunday ex
cepted) at IQ o’clock a. m., departing every after
noon at 3p. m. Mail closes at p. m.
Side mail for No. 3, Atlantic A: Gulf Railroad,
departs o’clock every Tuesday morning and
arrives at 8 p. m. every Monday,. touching at
Biceboro and South Newport both ways.
RELIGIOUS.
Religious services at the Methodist Church
every Sunday morning at 11 oclock, and evening
at 8 o’clock. School at the Ridge every Sunday
afternoon at 3)4 o’clock. Rev. H. E. Harman, pas
tor.
Religious services every Sabbath at 11 a. m. and
3p. m. at the Methodist Church, colored, Rev.
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June *2O
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■yy ALTER A. WAY,
Attorney-at-Gaw and Real
Estate Agent,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Will practice in the Superior Courts of the
Brunswick and Eastern Circuits. Also, in the
Federal Courts in cases of Bankruptcy, etc. Par
ticular attention given to the collection of claims
and the examination of land titles. april‘2s
ROBERT GIGNILLIAT,
Attorney-at-Gaw,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to all logal business in
the Eastern and Brunswick Circuits, and in the
United States Courts at Savannah, Georgia.
april'2s-ly
IE. B. DeLORME,
J.
Attorney & Counselor-at-Gaw,
and Notary Public.
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Office on Broad street, near Timber Exchange.
July 2
jyt. SPALDING KENAN,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Offers his professional services to the citizens of
Darien and vicinity. He can be found at all hours
day and night, at his office on Screven street, next
door to Mr. Wilcox’s dwelling house. augH-ly
Jjlt It. B. HARRIS
Offers his professional services to the citizens of
Darien and surrounding country. All calls prompt
ly attended, both medical and surgical. Office
under the Masonic Hall, in old Custom House
building.
J J. ABRAMS,
Attorney-at-GaW,
Commercial Building,
jnneG-tf SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
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NOTICE.
Wheelwright and Blacksmith
rAM NOW PREPARED TO DO ALL KINDS
of Wheelwright ami Blacksmith work at Short
notice.
BUGGIES, WAGONS AND SIGNS
PAINTED.
Gorham's Patent Attachment for shafts (a great
saving of time and money to all who use them)
are kept on hand.
All kinds of work done m first-class style. All
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County is a trial. All work warranted.
J ROBERT MITCHELL,
j eG-tf Second street, Darien, Ga.
HI A fclTrn A LIMITED NUMBER of
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Je*2o-ly. Finley, Harvey & Cos., Atlanta. Ga.
For Rent.
i N EIGHT-ROOM DWELLING HOUSE IN THE
A
City of Darien, formerly occupied by Mrs. Dun
wody, or Broad street. Possession given October
Ist. Apply to JOE MANSFIELD.
r<i{jen, Ga., September 2fith, 1579.
DARIEN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, 1879.
EMIL A. SCHWARZ. NICHOLAS SCHWARZ.
Emil A. Schwarz & Bro.,
DEALERS IN
CARPETS & FURNITURE,
125 & 127 Brougliton-St.
SAVANNAH, GA.,
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FURNITURE,
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Curtains, Cornices,
WINDOW SHADES.
UPHOLSTERY SHADES.
AND
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CHURCHES, OFFICES AND PUBLIC
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Rule Nisi.
STATE OF GEORGIA—McIntosh County.
CLERK'S OFFICE SUPERIOR COURT, )
July 30th, 1879. f
IT APPEARING BY THE PETITION IN WRl
ting of J. H. M. Clinch, Administrator of the
estate of John H. Mclntosh, Sr., deceased, together
with a copy in substance of the paper lost, or de
stroyed; that S. Harris, Tax Collector of Mclntosh
county, Georgia, on the twenty-seventh (27th) day
of January, A. D., eighteen hundred and one, exe
cuted and delivered to John H. Mclntosh, Sr., de
ceased, a certain deed of fifty thousand acres of
marsh land in Mclntosh county, Georgia, at the
mouth of the Altamaha River, and about Doboy
Island, granted to Edward Walsh in the year 1791,
which said deed is lost or destroyed, and the rec
ord of the same was destroyed by fire in Darien,
in said county; that said land is still the property
of the estate of John H. Mclntosh, Sr,, deceased.
It is therefore ordered, that the said Sampson
Harris, then Tax Collector of Mclntosh county,
Georgia, and Edward Walsh, grantee, and the heirs
of Armand Lefils, grantee, and W. Street, deceased,
and Sarah A. Thomas and Chas. S. Langdon, claim
ants, show cause on or before the next term of the
said Court, why a true copy of the deed sworn
to, which with the petition now on file insaid office,
should not be established fully and in lieu of said
lost or original deed.
Witness the Honorable William B. Fleming,
Judge of said Court, this July 30th, 1879.
L. B. DAVIS,
augl-3m. Clerk Superior Ct., Mel. Cos. Ga.
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Ordinances, &c.
AN ORDINANCE
Entitled An Ordinance to Protect the
Public Health ot the Port of Darien
by Quarantine and Otherwise.
Section I. —The Board of Commissioners of
Mclntosh County who are exojjicio Mayor and
Aldermen of the City of Darien, in Council assem
bled do ordain and it is hereby ordained by author
ity of the same , That at the first annual meet
ing of this board for each and every year, there
shall be elected a Board of Health, to be composed
of five (5) members, and also a Port Physician,
who shall be, by reason of his ottice, a member of
said board.
Sec. 2.— Be it further ordained, That said Board
of Health shall have power to visit and inspect,
at their discretion, any or all lots, enclosures,
yards, streets, lanes, thoroughfares or wharves,
and to require the same to be cleansed of any
filth or unwholesome matter found thereon, by
the owners or tenants of such property, within
twenty-four (24) hours after notice is given; they
will also cause such gleanings to be forthwith
rendered or placed within reach of the public
scavenger. Upon neglect or refusal of the owner
or tenant of any such property to comply with the
foregoing requirements they shall be reported to
the Police Court, to be punished, as
provided, and the said cleaning up shall be done
by the Marshal, and all expense thus incurred
shall be paid by the owner or tenant of such
property.
Sec. 3.— Be it further ordained, That said Board
of Health are hereby empowered, in their discre
tion, to have any or all untenanted houses opened
for ventilation and the premises of the same
cleansed. And any expense so incurred shall be
paid by the owner of such house or lot.
Sec. 4.— Be it further ordained. That any person
resisting, by neglect or otherwise, auy of the pro
visions of the preceding section of this ordinance
after twenty-four (24) hours notice is given him
or her by any member of the Board of Health,
shall be, upon conviction thereof, fined for every
such offense not exceeding $25 00 or placed on the
chain-gang for not exceeding thirty (30) days, and
the Marshal or his assistants are hereby ordered
to obey all orders emanating from said Board of
Health, which may be given for the purpose of
carrying into effect the provisions of the ordinance.
Sec. s.— Be it further ordained, That said Board
of Health shall meet monthly, or at the call of its
chairman, and report to this board their actings
and doings, and also examine into and recom
mend any measures which may be, in their judg
ment, necessary to preserve the public health.
They are also hereby empowered to fill, by elec
tion, any vacancy that may at any time occur in
their board.
Sec. (s. — Be it further ordained. That it shall be
the duty of the Port Physician to visit and inspect
all vessels arriving at this port from any point
(foreign or domestic) reported to him as infected
with contagious or malignant diseases of any
nature, and if after investigation any such dis
ease is found to exist aboard of such vessel, he
shall forthwith order the same to be removed to
quarantine grounds and the sick or diseased per
sons aboard said vessel shall be, at his discretion,
removed to the quarantine buildings, near Wolfe
Island, so that the proper attention may bo given
them. He is hereby empowered to employ, where
he deems it necessary, sufficient guards to pre
vent communication with such vessel or sick per
sons, and to transport any necessary medicines
or sustenance to the same. Also, to employ
nurses when required, reporting such action to
the chairman of this board.
Srcq. 7.— Be it further ordained, That after the
required time of quarantine shall have been com
plied with by such vessel, the Port Physician shall
cause her to be thoroughly fumigated and
cleansed, and two (2) days after such fumigation he
shall issue a permit for her removal, and all ex
pense thus incurred shall be paid by the master
or owner of such vessel. And the quarantine
grounds spoken of in this ordinance are hereby
declared tr> be the grounds in Doboy Sound, to
the northerd of Wolfe Island, known as the lower
quarantine grounds.
Sec. 8. — Be it further ordained. That the regular
quarantine term shall begin on the first day of
April of each and every year, and end the first day
of November of the same year unless circum
stances should require other dates than the
above, and the Port Physician is hereby instructed
to issue, his proclamation, endorsed by the Mayor
on the said first day of April, to all pilots and mas
ters of vessels arriving from any South American,
West India, or Gulf ports, requiring the same to be
anchored at the quarantine grounds and reported
for investigation and fumigation, even though
they may have no sickness aboard. And in the
event that any vessel w ith sickness aboard of a
malignant nature, shall arrive at other dates
than those above specified, it shall be the duty
of the Port Physician to proceed as during the
regular term of quarantine.
Sec. 9.— Be it further ordained, That it shall be
the duty of every pilot of this port before board
ing any vessel either at sc a or inside the bar to
make a diligent inquiry of the master of said ves
sel, if there is on board any malignant, contagious
or infectious disease of any nature, and if there
should exist such disease he is hereby forbidden
going aboard, under a ponalty of SIOO and dismissal
from office.
Sec. 10. — Be it further ordained, That any mas
ter of a vessel refusing to answer the ale mt in
quiries of the pilot, or deceiving him as to the real
presence of infectious disease on hoard, or as to
any death on the voyage from said cause shall be
fined in the sum of SIOO.
Sec. 11 .—Be it further ordained, That any master
of a tow or other steamboat violating the provi
sions of this ordinance as contained in section 9,
whether as a pilot or master of such boat, shall
upon conviction, be fined in the sum of SIOO for
each and every such offense.
Sec. 12. — Be it further ordained, That it shall be
the duty of the Port rhysiciau to examine into
any cases of a malignant or contagious disease re
ported to him as existing within the city of Darien
or its vicinity, and report the same to the chair
man of this board, who is hereby authorized to
cause the removal of such persons, at the expense
of the city, to Home point designated by the Board
of Health, so as to prevent the spread of such
disease.
Sec. 13.— 8 eit further ordained, That the tee of
the Port Physician shall be;
For every vessel boarded in Doboy Sound
for inspection S2O 00
For ever)’ vessel boarded in Sapalo Sound
for inspection 50 00
For every vessel boarded at or near Darien., 200
At the Ridge 6 00
For all vessels boarded at night, with infections
disease on board, double day rates, (S4O, SIOO,
$4. $10), and he is hereby required to make month
ly reports of his actions, and doings to this boat'd.
Sec. 14.— 8 eit further ordained, That all ordi
nances or parts of ordinances conflicting with any
of the provisions of this ordinance he and the
same are repealed.
Read third time and passed April 11, 1879.
Spalding Kenan,
june!3-tf Clerk and Treasurer.
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A Bad Boy’s Diary.
From the New York Weokly.]
Thare has bin a aksident to our house.
It node not take a poliit to tell who was in
fault. lam a dredful boy. To the, my
diry, must I aknolige all my sins. I did
not mene to do it. Am I then to blame ?
I wish big folks would stop a calling me
names. lam a dredful boy hut not on
purpos it just happens. Now the hull
town is down on me. Fa sez he specks
I’ll have to go to prison. 0, my dere diry,
did you ever think your little oner would
hove to go to jale? O, it is dredful to
have the decons, an’ the slieruf, an’ ole
Miss Harkness a frowning at you ns if you
was a hartless crimunal wen you didn’t go
to it at all! This morning I was a vary
good boy, I played over to Johnny Brown’s
an’ nuthin happened that liidn’t ought to
’cept I staid to dinner coz Johnny’s moth
er didn’t want me to an’ afterthathe came
over to my house an’ we had a good time
all day. We was up in mamma’s room wen
she was gone a visiting. I put a chair on
the table an’ climed to the top shelf of the
chimbly cupboard an’ got down some med
icine and gave it to Johnny which sade it
tasted good, hut bime-by he turned pail,
he was that sick to his stomak he didn’t
know wether he stood on his heles or- his
head. So Betty made him drink a cup
full o’ warm nasty water with mustard stir
ed into it, such horid stuff it made him
thro it up wen he felt better. Wen Betty
was gone for the mustard I looked papa’s
furs an’ I found such a funn pistol, John
ny he sade it was a revolver, so I tole him
not to say a word an’ I run an’ hid it under
my piller.
“We’ll have some fun wen you get over
bean sick, Johnny,” sez I but ho had to go
home he felt so had after he throed up his
hedaked.
I let the pistol remane tinder my piller,
fur I was afrade Betty would see it. I
wtinted to scare my sisters cos I did not
’spose it was loded, but they would shreke
all the same. Girls allers holler like they
were mad wen they see a gun or a pistol.
So minister Slocum he came to tea agane.
Ministers are the greatest hands to come to
tea; its haf thare work to go around an’
take thare suppers with the ladys. I kep
dark Pa had to go to town-meeting, an’
ma she went to see how Johnny was.
Sue she went a walkin’ with the doektor.
Bess an’ Lily they undertook to see the
minister didn’t get sleepy in tho parlor.
Lily slio hadn’t spok to me since the nite
she run away. She isn’t like she used to
he one hit, oncest she was equil to a hoy
for fun an’ gokes, now I would not he
surprised if she settled down into a par
son’s wife she is that sober. I wishtl had
not tole on her that nite she wood a taken
me to live with her, she sez, if she had
married Mister Jones. Thus one one by
one my prospects of bliss fade away in this
sad world.
“Now,” sez I, “I crepe up stares an’ get
that pistol, enter tho parlor an’stir’em up.
Tain’t loded O wot fun to here them holler.
“Betty,” sez I, “lend me your hlankit
sholl a fu minutes I want to be a Injun
brave.”
She didn’ drome about the revolver so
she lent me the sholl. I rapped it about
me; put a cane over my shoulder for a gun
then I krept up, quite still, so they
wouldn’t know Injuns was skirniushin
around thare camp. I pushed the dore
open vary, vary softly and glared in upon
’em. The minister an’ Bess was at opsite
ends o’ the sofy, Lil she was croshaying a
lamp-mat, all was still, the hour was at
hand, the moment had arrived, so with an
unearthly yell I rushed, into the camp,
gave three shrill hoops, and pointed my
pistel at ’em saying:
“Surrender or I shoot!”
Bess clapped her hands to her eyes and
uttered screme after screme. Lily gets up
an’ sez softlike:
“Geordie, 0, Geordie, don’t! It’s load
ed.”
“Surrender, pail chefe,” I answered
dancing round an’ round pointing my
weppon at the minister.
“O, Geordie!” Lily beged coming tords
me stop do stop!"
I’m goin’ to shoot the pail chefe dead
in his track,” I nnswed.
Bad as I fele, I almost laugh when I
reckolec how Mister Slocum bounced over
the hack of the sofy an’ scrauched down
behind it. Lily got hold of my arm. I
shook her off and fired.
Alas dear diry nede I tell the more? The
ole thing was loded after all! That was
the terribul mistake I made. Who would
have thunk twos loded all reddy to go of
as soon as I pulled the triger? The bail
went right through the hack o’ the sofy
like there want no sofy tliare an’ hit Mis
ter Slocum square in the forrid, the hall
lodged the brane inflictin’ a paneful an’
dangrous wound, at leste so the doektor
says.
He is a lain up stares now in the best
spare room. The doektor is in there an’
ever so many other folks. He don't sav
enny thing cos he can’t speke. He’s
senseles. I'm sure no little boy could fele
hadder’n I do bout it.
I wish I had never touched the ole thing.
Wot husinecs had it to go an’ ho loded ?
I’m shut up in my room; I’m not to be let
out for a hull month. Ten to one if he dyes
the’ll be mene exiuff not to let me go tothe
funeral. They nede not be so hard on lit
tle George; I didn’t kno ’twas loded. O,
dere me! wot for dose a litile bit of a hall
in his brane make so much trouble? I’m
glad it was not Lily, she’s a dere girl. She
kissed and soothed me wen I cride so hard
there was a lump in my throte; I thought
I should choke I was so frittened an’ sorry.
Everybuddy but her skowled at me like
I was a demon. If ever I get to be a man
I hope I shal kno better than to pizen lit
tle Johnny an’ shoot the minister, but I
never never shal, ’cause if I’m put in jaile
an’ hung, I shan’t live to grow up, O, wot
a thought.
I cride myself to sleep late las nite.
This day has been a thousan’ miles long.
Bred an’ woter for hreakfas, bred an’ wot
er for dinner, bred an’ woter for supper,
not a sole to speke to, the door locked; I
must pore out my troubles now for twilite
is coming on,an’ I will not be aloud a lamp
—no, not even a candel or a match. lam
left to bare my gilt in darkness an' silence
all alone. O, Betty, Betty, come! Hark.
I here a whisper at the key-hole—who is
there? It was my darlin’ sister Lily.
“Goorge,” sez she, rite throu the keyhole
“poor boy, don’t feel so bad he’s better.”
“Hurray,” sez I.
“It didn’t reach the brane,”sez she, “the
sofy broke tie force o’ tie balk It stop-
$2 50 A YEAR.
ped in the fruntfti bone, and Docktor
Moore took it out. Why, hef a settin’ up
in bed a eting tea an’ toste. He’ll be abel
to go home in a day or two.”
“I wish I was eting tea an’ toste. Lily
you’r a good girl. Don’t you never marry
Mister Slocum, coz he didn’t stand fire.
When I get out o’ this I’m going to help
you marry Montagu, an’ do everything
you ast me to do. Lily, will you pleze go
teze pa to let me have a lite? Tell him it’s
barbrus to let little boys smell waftiles fry
when they ain’t to get any therselves. Tell
cook to kepe the kitchun dore shut so I
won’t kno thare’s ham an’ eggs for break
fas. Is my squirl fed reglar? I guess
Towser thinks I’m dead. Tell mama I’m
afraid I’m sick I’ve got such a quere feel
in’ in the pit of my stumak.”
I tell you Lil’s a brick ! She’s got a key
wot fits my dore, an’ she’s brot me a nue
book, a kunk o’ cake and a candel, The
cake tasted awful good. If Robißon Craso
was shut up ina room would he stay there ?
If I had some sissors I’d cut up my blan
kets, tie ’em in a rope, an’ let myself down
from the winder.
I had no sissors, but the sheets tored
easy. I made a long string, tied one end
to the liandel of the buro drawer which
stood near by, crawled out of the window,,
got a good hold o’ my rope, like the folks
does when the house is a lire, an’ let her
slide.
Wot happened afterwards, I can’t de
scribe, ’cause wen my bed struck on the
brick ary I didn’t kno anything for a good
while. Mebbe the buro drawer come out
—mebbe the sheets werint tide tight enutf
all I kno is that I saw stars suthin’ like
streaks of lightning, an’ then—all was dark
as nite. Father sez, when I had corned
to:
“Ho is incogible, I give him up,’taint
no use. Oh wot a pity he come to at
all.”
Fra, wot did they have me for ? I didn't
ask ’em too. Why didn’ they have regu
lar good little boy sent to ’em by Mrs. Mc-
Candish sted of such a bad,bad boy as me?
I guess if papa was hept on bred and wa
ter, like he was a criminal in the penny
ten sherry, he’d tare the sheets up worse'n
I did. Folks are so unjust to their chil
dren.”
Tlie Society Young Man.
A young man, against whom there is
nothing notorious, lias several ways at the
present day of entering society, should line
kith and kin be unable to command the
ordinary mode of ingress. A good tenor
voice will open the doors of houses which
otherwise would be closed. A marked ca
pacity for theatricals is in itself an intro
duction to the highest. An amusing talk
er will generally end by finding his legs un
der the mahogany in most desirable din
ing-rooms. Music, comic, songs, a talent
forgetting up cotillions, mimory, ventril
oquism, conjuring, are all means to an end.
I know one man who was asked out a good
deal simply and solely because he had a
name as being a clever designor of mono
grams, in the days when monograms were
the rage. When he dined he had to de
sign; as another man, where he dines, has
to sing, play, amuse talk, or talk. Society
conducts its hospitalities on a very com
mercial basis. You are welcome because
you are noble, illustrious famous or wealthy
and thus by your presence reflet credit on
your hostess. If you are none of these
things you are invited because you take
place of the professional singer, musicians
or entertainer. There is no obligation on
either side. You get your dinners out of
society, and society gets its equivalent out
of you. But to the man who has no equiv
alent to offer, society is the coldost of host..
—London Society.
Romance of a l’oor Young Girl.
In 1876 a young man named WillianS-
Freeman rented a farm near Wellsville;
Allegany county,New York. |ile enj loyed
an elderly woman as housekeeper, and her
nephew assisted in the farm work. Dur
ing the summer of 1877 several burg! iries
were committed in the neighborhood, and
stolen goods having been found secreted
in Freeman’s barn ho was arrested. He
protested innocence, and it was expected
that he would he acquitted, hut on being
brought to trial he pleaded guilty, and
was sentenced to eighteen months impris
onment. An application was made for his
pardon, and the physician of the prison
in his visit ascertained that the prisoner
was a woman. She was removed to tho
female department, and she told the his
tory of her life. Her parents were German
emigrants, and she was bom on the ocean.
Losing her father by death her mothi it
married again, and at eleveh years old she
left them and worked as a servant in ,a
farm house. After that she disguised her
self as a boy, and did farm work in a dis
tant part of tho country, and worked one
season on the Erie Canal. After two years
she returned to the vicinity of her former
home, no one recognized her. For ten
years, under the name of William Freeman,
she worked witliont any suspicion that
she was not a man. In regard to the crime
to which she pleaded guilty, she said took
that course under threats of lier housekeep
por’s nephew, who was the real burglar.
She was pardoned, assumed her rightful
dress, and as Mary Ann Shafer, returned
to mother’s house. After that 6he obtain
ed employment in a shoe store, and has
since married the merchant from whose
store they were stolen, who is now located
at Limestone, Catsraugus crtftnty New
York. The real burglar fled the state on
his guilt becoming known.
Bad Country for Doctors. — A mediae!
man in Spoleto, Italy, called in to attend a
child who was ill, was informed by the fa
ther that, should he cure the infant, two
thousand lire would be liis reward, but
that should he failJie would infallibly be
shot, lie undertook the case and the child
shortly after died, whereupon the father,
true to the compact, brought his gun and
at once put an end to the labors and the
life of the unhappy doctor. In Italy ju
rors are generally lenient to a murderer,
and the owner of the gun was adjudged to
pay a fine of t wenty thousand lire and suf
fer ten years imprisonment only.
At Westville, Ohio, a few days ago a par
ty of men put two kegs of gunwowderun
der a citizens house and blew it up, as a
persuder to him to leave the town. They
atoned for the act the next bay by redoub
ling their imprecations cf the South for its
lawleUaeso.