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Darien Timber Gazette.
VOL. 6.--NO. 48.
Darien Timber Gazette,
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING.
JtT GEORGIA,
CORNER BROAD AND .NORTHWAY STREETS.
RICHARD W. GRUBB,
Editor and Proprietor.
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Timber Gazette, Darien Georgia.
City Directory.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
County Com missioned— James Walker, Chairman;
Adam Strain, John M. Fisher, J. A. Atwood, T. H.
Gignilliat, 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. McW. Young.
Tax Collector— O. C. Hopkins.
County Treasurer —M. C. O'Neil.
County Surveyor —W. R. Poppel.
Coroner— Philip Maxwell.
The Commissioners hold monthly meetings on
the first Wednesday in each month.
CITY OFFICERS.
Ex-Officio Mayor —James Walker.
Ex-Officio Aldermen -Joseph Hilton, J. A. Atwood,
Adam Strain, J. E. Holmes, Thomas H. Gignilliat,
John M. Fisher.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Committee on Finance— Messrs. Strain, Atwood
and Hilton.
Committee on Accounts'— Messrs. Holmes, Gignil
liat and Fisher.
Committee on Harbor— Messrs. Hilton, Holmes
and Strain. ~ ,
Committee on Health and Cemetery— Messrs. 1' isner,
Atwood and Holmes.
Committer on Faupers— Messrs. Atwood, Holmes
and tagnilliat.'
Committee on Jail— Messrs. Fisher, Hilton and
Atwood. ~ TT ,
Committee on Streets and Lanes —Messrs. Holmes.
Strain and Fisher. ... ~ ,
Committee on County Roads —Messrs. Atwood,
Gignißiat and Hilton. . ...
Committee on Public Buildings —Messrs. Grignil
liat, Fisher and Strain,
Committee on iWice-Messrs. Holmes, Hilton and
Strain. _ ,
Committee on Ordinances— Messrs. Atwood, Strain
and Holmes.
Clerk and Treasurer— Spalding Kenan.
City Marshal— Charles H. Hopkins, Jr.
Deputy Marshal— Alonzo Guyton.
Harbor Master— George Crane.
Port Physician —Dr. James Holmes.
Inspector General of Timber— George W. Fanes.
Purl tVardens— lsaac M. Aiken, Johu H. Burrell,
and James G. Young.
Jailer —Charles H. Hopkins, Jr.
Hoard Pilot Commissioners— I>r. K. B. Harris,
Chairman, R. K. Walker, W. C. Clark, Arthur Bai
ley, W. L. Fulton, James Laehlison.
Mitchell. Lewis. Livingston. Secretary.
MASONIC.
Live Oak Lodge. No. 137, meets first Wednesday
night in each month at their hall near the Magno
lia? House: James Walker,Worshiptul Master; M.
C. O’Neil, Secretary
UNITED STATES OFFICERS.
Collector of Customs, Brunswick District— John T.
. Collins. Headquarters at Brunswick.
Deputy Collector of Customs for tort of Darien—
Charles H. Townsend.
Inspector —Edwin C. Davis.
Jhjst master —D. Webster Davis.
Deputy Marshal —Joseph B. Bond.
SUPERIOR COURT —EASTERN CIRCUIT.
Hon. Wm. B. Fleming, Judge.
Major A. B. Smith, Solicitor General.
Bulloch Conn ty—Monday sin April and October
Effingham County—First Mondays in May and
N Bryan bounty— Second Mondays in May and
CtniTtiam County—First Mondays in December
M Jfc/ntofA l County Fourth Mondays in May and
County-Tuesday after third Mondays
in May and November.
UNITED STATES MAILS.
The mails arrive from Starting, No. 1, Mawm &
Brunswick Railroad, every morning <S“““ay ex
ceptfed) at 10 o’clock a. m„ departing every alley
noon at 3p. m. Mail closes at If p. m.
mail for No. 3, Atlantic & Orult Kaiiroaa
departs SH o’clock every Tuesday mornrng and
arrives at 8 p. m. every b
Riceboro and South Newport both ways.
RELIGIOUS.
Religious services at the Methodist cl.un h
every Sunday morning at 11 oclock, and
at if o'clock ' School at the Ridge every Sunday
afternoon at 3o’clock. Rev. H. E. Hannan, pas-
Religious services every Sabbath at 11 a m. and
ap. m at the Methodist Church, colored, Rev.
L, il, -
UTO sf>,ooo A YEAR, or $5 to S2O
i day in your own locality.
So risk. Women do as well as
men. Many make more than the
amount stated above. No one
, can fan to make money fast.
Anv’oneeando the work. You can make from
so fts, to *2 an hour by devoting your evenings
and spare time to the business 11 costs nothing
to trv the business. Nothing like it ever offered
before. Business pleasant and strictly honorable^
Reader if vnu want to know all about tne Dost
paying business before the P^’.^nlOT^d
asatasrslcr'Sgf
June 20 __ . -
Garden Seed.
WE HAVE ON HAND A SUPPLY OF FRESH
Garden Seed, just received, consisting m
part of
BEETS, CABBAGE,
CARROTS, CUCUMBERS,
CELERY, EGGPLANT,
LETTUCE, OKRA,
ENGLISH PEAS,
BEANS, TOMATOES.
SQUASH,OYSTER PLANT.
EARLY CORN, PEPPER, Etc.
W. H. COTTER k CO.,
Druggists and Apstliecarie*.
Professional Cards.
ALTER A. WAY,
Attorney-at-Law 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. april2s
"yy ROBERT GIGNILLIAT,
Attorney-at-Gaw,
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Prompt attention given to all legal business in
the Eastern and Brunswick Circuits, and in the
United States Courts at Savannah, Georgia.
apri!2s-ly
LE. B. DeLORME,
Am
Attorney & Counselor-at-Gaw,
and Notary Public.
DARIEN, GEORGIA.
Office on Broad street, near Timber Exchange.
July 2
jjlt 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. augß-ly
|yt R. B. HARRIS
Offers his professional services to the citizens of
Darien and surrouuding country. All calls prompt
ly attended, both medical and surgical. Office
under the Masonic Hall, in old Custom House
building.
J J. ABRAMS,
All or n e y-a t- La W,
Commercial Building,
_june6-tf SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
HENRY B. TOMPKINS. B. A. DENMABK.
rjTOMPKINS & DENMARK,
Attorneys-at-Law,
No. 105 Ray Street, SAVANNAH, GA.
Practice in the United States Courts, and in the
Superior Courts of tho Eastern Circuit. je6-tf
WM. GARRARD. P. W. MKLDRIM. W. W. FRASER.
Q>IiRARD, MELD RIM & FRASER,
Attorneys at Law,
DARIEN ------ GEORGIA.
Office at the Magnolia House. Marl9-Iy.
CABEY W. STYLES. | W J. WILLIAMS. | J. L. VINCENT.
TILES. WILLIAMS & VINCENT,
Attorneys & Counselors
At Law,
BRUNSWICK, - - - - GEORGIA.
Will practice in all the Courts of the Brunswick
Circuit. In the Supreme Court of Georgia, and in
the U. S. District and Circuit Oourts for the South
ern district of Georgia, hr id cases a specialty.
Office in Littlefield & 2isov' mew building, on the
Bay. apri-tf.
Miscellaneous.
LOOK OUT.
HOYT’S COLOGNE, COUNING’S COLOGNE,
LUBIN’S EXTRACTS, POMADES,
HAIR OIL, TOILET POWDER,
LILLY WHITE, PUFF BOXES,
ROUGE, TOILET SETS,
And in fact, a full assortment of Perfumery and
Fancy Toilet Articles. Soaps—toilet, laundry and
medicated. Give us a call.
W. H. COTTER & CO.,
feb22-tf Druggists and Apothecaries.
W *IY T A limited number of
fj I I active, energetic canvassers to
ill I J engage in a pleasant, and
profi '■ f,u ,uo-.-. Good men will find this a
rare chance
TO niKK *IOM'W.
Sn"h will please answer this advertisement by
letter, enclosing stamp lor reply, stating what
business they have been engaged in. None but
those who mean business apply. Address
je2o-ty. Finley, Harvey \ Cos., Atlanta, Ga.
A MONTH guaranteed. sl2 a day
it home made by the industrious.
Capital no require 1: we will start
you. Men, women, boys and girls
make money taster a 1 work for ns
than anything else. The work is
light and pleasant, and udi a tnvone can go
righ* at. Those who are wise who this notice
will send us their iddresses a: one,- and sector
th nselves. Costly outfit and terms tree. Now
is tlie time. Those already at work ire laying up
large sums of money. Address TRUE A CO.,
Augusta, Me. jnne2o-ly
Collat Brothers.
Per or in romi e
w Inducements to the Purchasing
Public!
Hr Ives in Ev ry n irons nt !
Hr tes u in th tob’oers ! 1
Special Hrtve- u m mf Buyers! ! !
Solid Fact! 8014,1 Fact
Savannah Prices in Darien.
In Groceries,
Hardware,
Wood & Willow Ware-
Crockery,
Stoves,
Glassware,
Sadlery.
OFFER SPECIALITIES IN DRY GOODS
and Blankets. Shoes of all grades,in pegged ma
shine and hand sewed. We keep in stock a fine
selection of Ladies and Gents hand-made Boots
and Shoes. We are offering the finest line of Gents
FURNISHING GOODS,
Clothing,
Hats,
Trunks,
Valices,
which we carry in endless variety and constantiy
receive from Nortnern markets only. Thanking
you for past favor* and saliciting a continuance
of the same, we arc yours,
n2 s.tf. COLLAT BROTHERS.
DARIEN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 21, 1880.
JUST OUT.
Hood’s Great Book
OF THE WAR.
Advance and Retreat,
Personal Experiences in the
United Stales and Confed
erate Slates Armies.
By General J. B. Hood,
Late Lieutenant-General Confederate States Army,
puplished for
The Hood Orphan Memorial Fund.
—BY—
General G. T. Beauregard.
New Orleans, 1880.
The entire proceeds arising from the sale of
this work are devoted to the Hood Orphan Me
morial Fund, which is invested in United States
Registed Bouds for the nurture, care, support
and education of the ten infants deprived of their
parents lasi summer at New Orleans, (the melan
choly incidents of which sad bereavement are
still fresh in the public minds. The book is an
elegant octavo, containing 300 pages, with a tine
photograph likeness and a line steel engraving,
made e cpressly ior this work, four large maps of
battle fields, bound iu handsome gray
English cloth ihree dollars, or in a fine
sheep binding with marble eage, three dollars
and fifty cents—ln half bound Morocco, library
style, four dollars, or iu best levout Turkey Mo
rocco, full gilt sides and edges, five dollars.
On the receipt from any person remitting by
mail or express, oi the amount in a registered
letter or by a postal order, bank draft or check,
a copy will be immediately sent free oi postage,
registered as second-class matter.
The volume is published in the, best style of
typography, on elegant paper, with illustrations,
executed at highest specimens of art.
The author, the subject, the purpose, all alike
render it worthy a place in every library,—on
every desk —or upon the book shelf of eyery
house in the country.
Agents wanted in every town and county in
the United States, and a preference will be given
to honorably discharged veterans from the army
To the ladies, who feel a desire to express their
sympathy with Tite llood Orphan Memorial Fund
the sale of this book among their circle of friends,
will afford an excellent way of contributing sub
stantial aid to so deserving a c*use.
For Terms, Hates to Itcents, Etc., Ad
dress with full Particulars,
Gfn’l G. T. Beauregard, Publisher,
On behalf of the Hood Memorial Fund.
j3O-tf. New Orleans, La.
Davis’ Brothers,corner of Bull and York streets
Savannah. Agents for Savannah aud Darien.
GEORGIA & FLORIDA
INLAND
STEAMBOAT COMPANY.
The Darien Line!
Savannah. St. Catharine’s,Dohoy,Darien,
Union Island, St. Simon’s Brnsnwiek,
St. Mary’s and Fernandina.
Connecting at Darien with steamers for all land
ings on the Oconee and Altamaha Rivers.
i^mmGhk
Captain P. H. WARD.
WILL leave wharf, foot of Bull street, every
TUESDAY and FRIDAY at 4 p. m., for
above points, connecting at Brunswick with Ma
con Brunswick and Brunswick and Albany Rail
roads for all points on the line of those roads, at
Fernandina with Transit Road for Jacksonville.
Cedar Keys, aud all points on Florida Central
Railroad and Jacksonville, Pensacola aud Mobile
Railroad, and with steamer Flora, Captain Joe
Smith, lor all poiuts on St. Miry’s river.
Through rates of freight to aud from Northern
and Western ports.
Steamers connect at Brunswick with the up
ward and downward traiiiß of the Brunswick and
Albany Railroad and with the Macon and Bruns
wick Railroad.
THOMAS WHITE, Agent, Hotel Wharf.
Darien, Georgia.
NPEMAI, XOTK E.
CAPT. THOMAS WHITE, Agent, is authorized
to adjust, promptly, all claims at Darien.
W. F. BARKY, General '-gent.
J. N. HAURIMAV. Manager,
sep22-tf Savannah, Ga.
Singer Sowing Machine
JULIA CLARKE HAVING FUEL
the agency or iue genuine and old reli and lin
ger Sewing M clun*, now prepared to *■ v< *ll
tho.se who are iu need of the best machine th?„i
-n *de, and at very reasonable price*. Mrs.
* iarke is also aclirg iu Darien for Messrs. Ludden
B itec mush* sc re, S ' innah, and will be plead
ed to take orders for any thing in their line. Giv
her a •■all opposite M . Reuben Walker’s offices.
Darien. Ga., December ‘h, iS7D.
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? \ friends and customers for their liberal pat
ronage during the past year, and we have entered
anew year with the determination to deserve a
lareer share of their trade. We do not keep cheap
drugs but sell a GOOD AND PUKE ARTICLE OF
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PAINTS, OILS,
VARNISHES,
P ATENT MEDICINES of all kinds,
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HAIR OILS,
HAIR BRUSHES,
TOOTH BRUSHES.
And the best article of No. 1 KEROSENE OIL at
lowest prices. . , ,
Prescriptions carefully compounded night or
a n d W. H. COTTER & CO.,
feb22-tf Druggists and Apothecaries?.
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DEALERS IN
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SAVANNAH, GA.,
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B UILDINGS FUENISHED.
EMIL A. SCHWARZ & BRO.,
AN ORDINANCE.
As Ordinance to require the owners f unoccu
pied lots to keep the same i lean, an f rbid the
planting of rice or the sobb ug or o\ l .wing of
lauds within the corporate limits oi the city
of Darien.
Sec. 2. Be it ordained, that from and after the
passage of this ordinance, it shall be the duty ot
the owner or owners of each unoccupied lot in
the City of Darien, at his or their own expense re
spectively to keep the same clean and free from
all garbage,rubbish, filth,weeds and undergrowth
ami an\ owner ot such unoccupied lot or lots who
shall fail or refuse after 10 days notice from the
city marshall, to comply with the terms of this
ordinance; upon conviction thereof before the i>o
liee court ofsaid city, shall be subject to a fine not
exceeding dollars or imprisonment not exceed
ing days.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained, that no person
shall plant rice or wet culture or prosecute any
other business within the corporate limits of said
city by which the soil shall be overflowed, or wa
ter soaked, or the drainage ot said city obstructed
audio the event of the violation of any one or m re
of the provisions of this act, it shall be the duty of
the corporate authorities of the rity to abate and
stop the said rice planting or other injurious oc
cupation as a nuisance in the same manner as is
now prescribed by law.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted that,all ordinances
in conflict with this ordinance be .and the same are
hereby repealed.
Darien, Georgia. April lGth, 1830.
J. J. SUTTON,
BUILDER and CONTRACTOR
DARIEN, GA.
Plans, Specifications and Estimates furnished.
I guarantee to my friends and the public to give
entire satisfaction to all work entrusted to me
gf,- No Wood Butchers employed.
june27-ti J J. SUTTON.
Romance of a Poor Young; Man.
The sensation caused by the trial of
Mile. Biere for attemping to shoot her
lover has barely begun to subside before
another case, equally extraordinary, but
far more painful, is on the point of com
ing belore the Paris assizes. The origin
of the story dates as far as the summer of
1869. In that year named Alfred Gilbert
fell in love with a young girl of the name
of Gabrielle Coran. They both belonged
to poor families, and both lived in the
neighborhood of the Palasis royal. After
courting in secret for some months, the
young man demanded the hand of his
sweetheart, but her father, who was an ar
dent Bonapartist, and occupied a stall
in one of the public offices, refused his
consent on the ground of the republican
opinions held by Gilbert. The young
couple then resolved to run away togoth
er, and one night the girl disappeared
from home. After a week’s search the
lather foung them living together in a su
burban retreat. On the promise of for
giveness and to their marriage tho girl
returned home to her parents, but the fa
their declined to keep his word, and be
gun to look out for another son-m-law.
Driven to despair, Gabrielle Coran again
eloped with her lover, and the two decid
ed to commit suicide. For this purpose
hired a room in a small inn at Pressis Pi
quet. The young man bought a revolver
and the young woman a packet of lueifer
matches. Gabrielle Coran first of all tri
ed to poi Son herself with a decoction of
the matches. This failing, she told her
lover to fire a bullet into her heart. Al
bert Gilbert fired, and without waiting to
see the eflect of the shot discharged a sec
ond shot into his own head. Neither
wound was, however, fatal. Both were
taken to the hospital, where they remain
ed two mouths. The bullet in tho girl’s
was extracted, but the othir bullet still
remained in the skull of the young
man, where it has ever since been. Gih
bert was about to be tried for attending
to shoot his mistress, when the war broke
out and put a stop to the sitting of the
asizes. As the Germans marched into
Paris and the seige became imminent, the
authorities, wanting all the ablebodied
men possible to defend the city, consented
to let him out of prison for the moment,
on the condition of bis enrolling himself
in some active crops, and promising not to
seek Gabrielle Caron. He joined the sharp
shooters of the Terners Quartier, and dis
tinguished himself so much in the Bu
zenval sortie that he was mentioned on the
military order of tho day. The war over
and peace proclaimed, he returnd to the
hands of justice to undergo his trial, but
once more fate stepped in and postponed
it. The commune arose, and, all tho pub
lic powers having withdrawn to Versailles,
the city was left iu the hands of the insur
rectionists, who opened the prison doors
and enrolled the inmates, among them
Allred Gilbert. The young man does not
appear to have a conspicuous part in the in
surrection. However, he was tried by
court-martial in 1871, and sentenced to
transporation to New Cidedonia, where he
remained till a few months ago, when he
was amnestied. He has just arrived in
Paris and given himself up to the legal
authorities to go through his trial for the
deed he committed ut Plessis Piquet ten
years ago. But the painful part of the
story remains to be told. Gabrielle Caron
is now the wife of a well-to-do merchant,
with several children, highly respected,
and irreproachable character. Forgetting
the lolly of her tender years, and believ
ing Gilbert dead und buried, she married,
but the tragic love-drama of 1979 a secret
kept from tier husband. The sad conse
quences of this unexpected tessurrection
of the young man can be more eeftily con
ceived than described.
Rattlesnake Bite Remedy. -A corre
spondent of the Forest and Stream says:
While iu Arizona a few years ago I
learned that aqua ammonia was a sure
cure lor the bite of a snake, and since then
I have cured three cases of rattlenuke
bites without any difficulty or injurious
effects whatever. First apply a few drops
ol ammonia and in a few seconds wipe off
aud with a sharp knife cut through the
skin just deep enough to bleed, about a
quarter of an inch in length and directly
through the wounds und immediately ap
ply ammonia, and occasionally udtl a drop
or two more as it becomes absorbed or
evaporated, and in a couple ol hours the
swelling will be nearly gone. Apply a
drop of carbolic acid to cauterize the
wound and prevent a local sore. Give ten
or fifteen drops of ammonia in about half
a pint of whisky, taking about a wine
glassful every five minutes; but cease giv
ing the whisky as soon as the patient be
giUrt to feel its effects. Water will do if
whisky is not at hand. The ammonia
taken internally destroys the poison in
tne system. When lam hunting or trav
eling where there are many rattlesnakes
I carry a small vial of ammonia und car
bolic acid.
Over The Palisades—A Fatal Fall.
Hosing his way in tile darkness during
the heavy rainfall of last Tuesday night,
John Blanche, a young man, who lived in
the village of Closter, Bergen county, N.
J., fell from the brink of a precipitious
clifi’oi the palisades and was killed. The
ne. v t tlay the body of Blanche was found
lying U 75 feet below the cliff, amid a mass
of boulders and sharp rocks. His skull
was fractured over his left eye, and his
left leg and right arm were broken. He
was undoubtedly instantly killed. The
team which he was driving was founil
standing entangled among trees about fif
teen feet from the edge of the palisades,
which is there 475 feet above the Hudson
by actual measurement. Tnis is the great
est height of the palisades. The horses
had evidently stood there some time,
as they had, by continued stamping with
tore feet, dug great holes iu the ground.
They had also eaten the bark from all the
trees and bushes in their road. The wheels
of the wagon were held fast in a cluster ot
trees.
A patent medicine friend —otherwise,
fiend —kindly sends us his pamphlet offer
ing his “Liver Invigorator” at club rates
a bottle. What an imposition, when
I liver is only six cents a pound. At tb S
price no person should be without one—we
mean the liver.
What is the difference between an ntn
-1 brella and a woman? One you can shut
• up, and the other you can, aot-
$2.50 A YEAR.
How He Won Her.
Monday a nove l wedding was celeW
ted at Pollockvi lie, N. 0. It seems that
Moses John Miller and Alexander Bibb
two well-to-do young farmers, were in
love with the same girl, Leonora Lloyd,
bhe was not able to decide which she loved
best. On Sunday morning Bibb walked
home from churchh wit her, and left un
der the impression that she said she would
marry him. Sunday night Miller went
o her, and understood her to say that she
would marrj him. Both men on Monday
morning went to the court house to get
out the license. Each procured the nec
essary documents, and stared off with a
license to marry Miss Lloyd. They met at
the court house door, and after some talk
agreed that the first man who reached the
lady s house should.marry her. The resi
dence of Colonel Lloyd was one mile dis
tant, and both men started on a race
toi the bride. Bibb soon quit the
mam road and dashed into the woods ex*
pecting to make a short cut reach the house
first but Miller kept the road, and got in
homestretch eight minutes before his ar
rival. Tho men were in sight of each oth
er going up the lane to the house. Bibb’s
effort to overtake his rival was almost su
perliuman. Wlien they reached the house.
Bibb,from sheer exhaustion, hut at the feet
of nis lady love. Whi n siuation was ex
plained to her, she said she had come to
tho conclusion she liked Mr. Bibb the
best, and therefore she would marry him:
Her sympathies were won over bv seeing
him faint. She said she believed both
loved her, but that he who faints at the
danger of losing a bride must love her
more than he who is cool and unconcern
ed in the midst of it all. Tho Hev. Aaron
Jasper, tho well known Baptist minister,
murried Mr. Bibb and Miss Lloyd.
Alex. Stephens’ Boyhood.
Hon. A. 11. Stephens, in an address de*
livered in 1849, at a meeting in Alexan
dria, for the benefit of the orphan asylum
and free school of that city, relateu the
following anecdote: A poor littly boy, in
a cold night, in January with no home or
roof to shelter his head, no paternal guar
dian or guide to protect and direct him on
his way, reached at nightfall the house of a
rich planter, wdio took him in, fed, lodged
and sent him on his way with his bles
sing. Those kind attentions cheered his
heart, and inspired him with fresh courage
to battle with the obstacles of life. Years
rolled round; Providence led him on; he
had reached the legal profession; his host
had died; the cormonants that prey on
the substunce of man bad formed a con
spiracy to get from the widow her estates.
She sent for the nearest counsel to com
mit her cause to him, and that counsel
proved to bo the orphan boy years before
wolcomed and entertained by her and her
deceased husband. The stimulous of a
warm and tenacious gratitude was now
added to the ordinary motivos connected'
with the profession. He undertook her
cause with a will not easily to be resisted;
he gained it; the widow’s estates were se
cured to her in perpetuity; and, Mr. Ste-i
plienH added, with an emphasis of emo
tion that sent its electric thrill throughout
the house—“that orphan boy now stands
before you.”
Supper in now ready in the smoking
car, shouted the brakeman, and a young
man from Hartiord who was on his way to
San i raneisco got up and went forward to
see what the brakeman mea-t. He went
into the smoking car, and found a narty of
Bavarian emigrants cooking two kinds
cheese and three denominations of sau
sages on the stove, lie eauie out very
pale and gave the brakeman half a dollar
to burn matches under his nose. ‘‘Was
it very bad?” an old gentleman asked him
when he returned to the coach. “Sir,”
said the young man of Hartford, “you'll
never smell anything like it until you
have been dead about six months.”
He was a plain old granger, and when
his son infored him that he had determin--
to go to college and learn something, the
old gentleman looked straight at him and
suid: “Now, look-a-iiere, John, you may
learn readin’, ntin’, spellin’, 'rithmetio
and a little jography, but if you grapple
any o’ them there dead langwidges, I’ll
kill you when you come home, bo’s they’ll
do you some good.”
Whisky is good in its own place. There
is nothing in the world like whiskey for
preserving a man when he is dead. But
it is one of the worst things in the world
for preserving a man when he is living.
If you want to keeps dead man, put him
into whiskey. If you want to kill a liv
ing man, put whiskey into niin.
A small boy whose pants and jacket
—one and inseperable—were buttoned up
behind, asked his mother, a certain worthy
lady ol this city, if God punished every
body that told a lie. “Certaiuly he does,”
was the reply, “You had better lookout
then, mother, for I havn’t had that piece
of raspberry pie you promised me two
days ago.”
All the spelling reiorms of all the me*
in all the world will not succeed in lessen
ing the intensity of the school-boy’s affec
tion, who scrawls on his slate with a brok
en pencil: “i luv yu,” and hands it across
the aisle, with a big apple, to a pretty lit
tle blue-eyed girl who reads in the Seeond
K ,-ader.
When a New Hampshire chap wanted
to break off the engagement of the girl hs
loved to another fellow, he didn’t try to
persuade either that the other was false.
He just contrived to get them both to join
the same church choir, and in less than a
week they didn’t speak.
An English tourist at a New Zeland res
taurant, having finished his meal, thinks
he will try some dessert. “Waiter, apolo
getically: “Hain’t got not no mince pie,
sir; missionaries is so thin this season we
only biles ’em for soup,” ‘
A member of a School Board not a thou
sand miles from Boston visited a school
under his jurisdiction. When asked to
make some remarks, he said: “Well, chil
dren, you spells well and reads well, but
you hain’t sot still.”
A young la ly of New York, who is part
ly deaf, is in the habit of answering ‘y
to everything when a gentleman is t
ing to her for fear he might propo
her and she not hoar it.