The Weekly Sumter republican. (Americus, Ga.) 18??-1889, August 05, 1870, Image 1
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Ixt it alone! the poisonous cup,
Let it alone! don’t drink it up, •
I/?t it alone! Let it alone!
The fiery asp with poisoned slin^ (
Liaa near the bottom ready to spring,
And death is near with eyes that gloat.
And fingers ready to clutch thy throat;
Then let it alone the poisonous np,
I*t it alone, don t drink it np.
Let it alone! ly»t it alone !
of Administration,..
i.f Guardianship.—
of Didiniatton,..
9soil real estate,.
Professional Cards.
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Dozitiat.
MERICCS, .... GEORGIA.
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m-t 12 tf
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Amerieua. Georgia.
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| j-uisr and College streets. may 18 tf.
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ATT4R 5fiY8 AT LAW,
And Solicitors of Patents.
AmericiiM, ticorgla.
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C. T. GOODE,
Attorney at Law
.VMERICCS, GEORGIA.
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jilyiltf
SAM. LUMPKIN'
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Amancua Georgia.
Will practice in all the courts of 8. W. Ga.
IVitTs, l*y nennission, to Dr. Wm. A. Greene.
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H um*. Juu30.1870. -ly
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A ttornoy at Law,
AMERTCUS, OA.
c^. Office m Court Honso with Judge 8tan-
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N. A. SMITH,
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J. A. ANSLEY,
A ttorney-at'Law
c» I’tM, the sale and pvrehase r>f lands and the in*
l\ eugation of titles. A large assortment of legal
banks always on band. dec23tf
. , ^1 Let it alone: the reddened wioe,
3 001 ** rione! don’t call it thine,
, n M | Let it alone! Let it alone!
' nn ■ ^ full °* mirth for the present time,
’ rj I And makuH tl»e eye both sparkle and ahine;
■ !> Oi) j Liko the adder's sting it kills the breath,
• 4 00 j It’s bite like tlie serpent's, ends iu death;
j Then let it alone ! the reddened arm*.
Let it alone! drat call it thine.
Let it alone! lyt it alone!
Lit it alone, don’t ereu taste.
Let it alone, pans by in baste.
Let it alone! Let it alone!
For evtn a sip trill often atart
TLo monster passion in thy heart,
WboH wreck thy brain and ruin thy soul;
While death! lurks near the drunkards’s bowl;
Let it alone! j .its by in haste,
Lt it alone! Let it alone!
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‘ - v - "cjwter, Lee and ailjoioingcounties.
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GEORGE W. KIMBROUGH,
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“V* r land in bouthwest Georgia. Investigat-
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urkville, Lee county, Ga. novlllf
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t PEEST0N, OK0R0IA.
BR. WILLIAM A. GREENE,
AMKB1CU8, GEORGIA.
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UToULD nll—bldi MTrtcM(in»llth.
.Priftlso) to th. goof
of Ann ncus and Sumter counU, and so
i * «>atitua»oe of the liberal patronage
Irotofore beetowed upOu him.
special attention given to Surgery.
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f 1 ' ndge. Residence fronting that of Her. J.
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R- M. D. McLEOD, Amen-
- Diaeaasa of the Eye and Ear
tre ^e<h Chronic dUaaaee of Women
" Are
A BRAVE GIRL.
Our heroine lived in Bartlett, N. H.,
and was a descendant of tho old Craw-
fords. Her father was a Crawford, and
followed the profession of guide among
the mountain*. Her ntmio was Bessie,
and she was the only daughter remaining
st home—n dark-eyed brown-haired girl
of slight, bnt compact frame; just enter*
ing on her nineteenth year. Her mother
had been dead several’ years, and upon
her devolved tho whole care of the house
hold.
One day, late in slimmer, Mr. Craw
ford went, with a party of travelers, awuy
to tho head-waters of one of the many
mountain streams that empty into the
Saco, und Bessie was left alone. Even
the dogs had all gone with the pleasure
seeker*. Near the middle of the after
noon, while the girl was sitting by an
open window of tho front room engaged
in sewing, a man came up from tho road,
uud asked if she would give him a drink
of water. Bessie hod soon this mau bo
und had not liked his looks. He
was a stoat, broad-shouldered, ill-favor
ed fellow, and the bits of moes and spikes
of tho pine npon his clothes indicated
that he liad slept in the woods.
But Bessie did not hesitate. She laid
aside her work and went to get tlie water.
When she came back the man had enter
ed the room. She did not like this for
ras suro he hail come in by the win
dow; but she Landed him the tin dipper
without remark. The man drank, and
then set the tin dipper on the table.—
Then he turned npon the girl, ana drew
a brood-bloded knife from his pocket.
“Look ye. my young lady,” ho said, “I
know there is money in this honse: and I
know that you are alone. Show me
where the money in ? If you don't, I
shall kill you aud then hum it up my-
sel.! I am in earnest, and there ain’t no
time to waste. Don’t make a fuss, for if
yon do you’ll feel this knife onick I” *
Bessie shrank back, and looked into the
an's face, and sho could see that he
eant just what he said.
“If I show yon where the money is,
will you promise not to do me no
harm ?"
‘Show me, honest, and I won’t harm
yon.”
“Then come with me. Bnt you will
take only the money—you won’t take mj
father’s pnpers ?”
’’Only tho money, girl.”
Bessie led the way to a small bedroom
i tlie ground floor, where there was an
old mahogany bureau, the upper drawer
of which sue unlocked. The man when
he saw this, thinking, doubtless, that
Crawford’s gold was in his grasp, shut up
liis knife and putting it in his pocket,
The girl opened the drawer, and, quick as
thought, drew forth a large navy revolv
er-one with which she herself had killed
a trapped bear—and cocked it.
“Villian!” she exclaimed, planting
her back against the wall, and aiming the
weapon at his ltosom, “many awild boast
have I shot with this good pistol, and I’ll
now shoot you if you do not instantly
leave this bouse! I will give you not
even a second. Start, or I fire !’ r
The raflian could read human looks as
well as could the maiden, and he could
read very plainly in the firm-set lips, and
in the flushed eyes—but more clearly in
the steady hand that held the pistol—that
she would not only fire, as she had prom
ised, but that her aim wonld be sure and
fatal.
And he backed out from the bedroom,
backed into tlie sitting-room then leaped
from tho open window, and disappeared.
Bessie kept her pistol by her side until
her father and his guests came homo; and
when ahe bad told her story, search was
made for the ruffian. But he was not
found. Onr heroine 1 ad so thoroughly
frightened him that he never came that
way again.
Five Minutes More to live.
A young mau stood up before a large
audience in tho most fearful position a
human being could be placed. He stood
on the platform of a scaffold. The noose
had been adjusted around, his neck, and
iu a few minutes more he would be in
eternity. The Sheriff took out his watch
and said:
“If you have anything to say, speak
now, as you have bat five minutes more
to live.’*
Ob! what awful words for a young
mau to hear, standing there in fall health
aud vigor. Shall I tell you his mrnssrp
to the youth about him*? JEle bunt —
tears, and said, with sobbing :
*'I have to die! I had only one little
brother. He had beautiful blue eyes and
flaxen Lair; and oh! how 1 loved him.
But one day I got drunk, for the first
time in my life. I cam# home and found
my little brother gathering strawberries
in the garden. I got angxv with him
without cause, and I killed him with a
blow from a rake. I knew nothing about
it till I woke next day and found myself
tied and guarded. They told me when
my little brother was found bis hair waa
dotted with blood and braina. Whiskey
has done it It has ruined me. I havo
only one more word to say to the jounk,
people before I jp to stand in the pres
ence of my Judge. Kztxb, nmi,
NEVER touch anything that can intoxi
The Husband's * Commandments.
1— I am thy husband; thou shait have
> other husband but me, whom thou
didst vow to love, honor and obey: lor
I saved thee from old maidunn, and res
cue 1 thee from the terrors of single bless-
dnoss.
2— Thou shait not look upon any other
tan to love or admire him; for I, thy
husband, am a jealous husband, who will
visit the sms of ine wife upon her follow
ers ; therefore keep thou faithfully to
thy marriage vow.
3— Thou shait not backbite thy lun-
band, nor spc^klighMy of him; neither
shall thou expose his halts to thy neigh
bor, lest he should hear it, sad |wMi
thy perfidy by a deprivation of sundry
items, such as bonnets, dresses, etc.
4— Remember the seventh day to keep
it free from all unnecessary labor; for
there are six days in which to do thy
work. Thou ahalt have thy house dean
and tidy fay 4 o’clock on Saturday after
noon ; and there shall be no trashing of
children or linking after that hour.—
Thou shait do thy marketing alone, lest
in the company of other women thou
buyeat ribbons for thyself, instead of ci
gars for thy hatband.
5— Honor thy husband's father and
mother; and let not thy thoughts wander
selfishly toward their cupboards and
pockets while so doing.
G—Thou shait not box thy children*!
re, nor thump them for plundering
the sugar-pot or running away with the
pastry or jam; for a hungry stomach
knows no lsw, save cut and ran.
7— TIkju shait not listen to flattery,
nor acoept gifts or trinkets from any man
bnt thy husband, who esteemeth woman’s
purity her greatest ornament
8— Thou shall not rifle thy husband’s
pockets for money when he is asleep;
neither shait thou read any letters thou
mayest find therein: for it is his business
to look after his own affairs, and thy busi
ness is to let his alone—ask no questions,
but believe.
9— Thou shait conceal nothing from
thy husband ; always speak the truth and
make no false representation of the state
of tliy pantry and parse, for thy husband
abhorreth pettv larcency in the domestic
department, which nhall be punished by
closing the exchequer until auoh finan
cial irregularities are abolished.
10— Thou shall not covet thy neigh
bor’s house; thou shait not covet thy
neighbor’s furniture, nor her dress, nor
her caps, nor anything that is bet’s; and
when thou goest out with thy husband,
thou sludt not wear a crinoline, nor any
other dangerous machine likely to come
contact with his shins.
11— Look for no jewelry from thy
husband on the anniversary of thy wed
ding; for it is written—“Blessed are
they who expect nothing, for they shall
not be disappointed.”— Hr.
V 9 T 1 c F. .
A Dr. S. K. TURNER
55?f nwowdtniiii the coratlM ,
Dutchy Ahead.
An old plain-looking and plain spoken
Dutch farmer, from tho vicinity of Hel-
derbitrg, in pursuit of diuner the other
day, dropped in at the Excelsior Dinner
Saloon in Nassau street, New York.—
Taking a seat beside a dandy lissimd sort
of a fellow—all perfume, moustache, and
shirt collar—our honest Mayhncer or
dered up his dinner.
“What will it be, sir?” asked white
apron.
“Yon got goot corned beef, her ?” says
Dutchy. ^ J
“Ye*!”
“You got saurkraut,- too, hey?’’
“Oh Yes!"
“Veil, gif me some both,” said Myn
heer.
Off starts wLite apron on a knee jump,
and presently returns wit i the desired
fodder. The saurkraut was amokin g hot,
and sent forth its peculiar flavor evident
ly satisfactory to Mayhneer’s nasal organ,
and vice vena to that of oar dandy friend,
who after the dish had been deposited on
the table, and Mynheer was about corn-
mom cing exclaimed:
Mhntvtulf y^ ent *’ a ' ar ® y° u 6 oiB 8
Myhncer turned slowly aronnd, and
looking at his interrogator with evident
astonishment, says he:
“Eat it? Vy of course 1 eat* it 1”
“Well,” says dandy, “I wonld as leaf
devour a plate of guano.”
“Ah well,” replied Mjhneer, pitching
n to the saurkraut with an evident relish,
‘dat depends altogedder on how von vos
brought np !**
Dandy looked kinder caved in, and we
left with the opinion that Dntchr was
one ahead.
Four Hundred Miles Up Stain.
“Reading about electricity, lightning,
nd the telegraph, the other day,” said
Unde Peter, “ reminded me of a cari
ous story I once heard, when I was in
England.”
_ It seems there was a newspaper in the
city of Glasgow, in Scotland, which em
ployed a London correspondent. The
correspondent made it his duty to gather
the news every day and send it to Glss-
cow every night by telegraph.
He made an arrangement with the
operator at a certain office, by which
news was sent to Glasgow at a redaction
bythoyear.
One night he arrived at the lower door,
at the foot of the stairs lead.]
the telegraph office. The _
locked, and he could not open it.
The telegraph office was away up to the
top of the building, in the sixth story.—
The operator bad a bod there, to which
he retired promptly at three o’olock, and
half-past two,
looked at hia
“Jinkins
And there waa poor Jenkins all ths time
pounding away on the door at the foot
of the long stain, unable to got in.—
“HHlo, up there!" be cried, looking at
tae window of the telegraph office, that
glowed with light “SSlo. Jones!—
Somebody has locked the outside door,
and I can’t get in."
“What’s the row ?” said a policeman
eoming along.
■•Tm locked out," said Jinkins. “Here
IVegot a batch of the moet important
news for my paper—a murder, three fires,
and a not—and the door locked in my
faoe. and l can’t get in. What will I
dor*
Bo the policeman began
door, bnt Jonre, the operator, upra his
nffica, waa satraooosfowscf the tumult as
if it had been in the moon. He was
whistling to himself 'and yawning pro
digiously.
‘Why don't you go to some other
“ Tell you what I want,” said Jinkins,
endeavoring to catch his breath;” I want
you to telegraph down to Glasgow, and
■ek the operator" there to telegraph up
here to Jones, and bid hia come down
stairs and let me in.”
The operator roared with laughter at
this, but went at once to his instrument,
and began rattling away at a great rate.
This a the message ha sent:
“Glaagov. Wake up-Jones, Station
. Tell hia Jinkins at the foot of the
stairs can’t get in.”
Jones was looking st his watch again,
and concluded- that he had better put
out the lights and go to his Uttle bed
room across tho hatchway, when clatter,
clatter, went his instrument “There’*
Glasgow calls roc,” said Jones, and hur
ried to his instrument and ticked off:
“What’s wanting ?’’
Back came the answer :
“Jinkins downstairs—door fast-let him
in.”
Off went Jones down stair* with a rush;
and at last the anxious Jinkins got up and
sent off his news.
So yon see hrw a man sent a message
through a solid door, and np four pair
of stairs, four hundred miles around,
end by way of Glasgow, sad within
twenty minutes. Wasn’t that fonr hun
dred miles up stairs?”
Tlie War and tlie Ocean Cables.
A great ileul of importance attaches
to the inquiry as to what will be the effect-
of the war npon tho network of interna,
tional and snb-occanio telegraph cables!
which have been laid and mantained a
so heavy an expense to European cap
italists. Berlin is connected with Lon
don by two different cables. From Lon
don a wire extends north through Boot-
land, and crosses the North Sea to Chris
tiana. Another line crosses this sea from
Newcastle to Copenhagen, and is exten
ded on through tho Baltic to St Peters
burg. The Prussian Capital can thus
hold immediate communication with the
capitals of England, Denmark, Sweeden,
Russia and the United States. By means
of a cable extending from Cowes around
Cape Finisterre to Lisbon, Prussia also
fs communication with Spain with-
laving her dispatches pass through
French territory. Should Prussia and
Spain be nnited in a war against Franco,
the latter would undoubtedly dispatch
an expedition to destroy this cable.—
That done, the Prassiau and Austrian
Governments would have to resort to the
land lines running through Austria and
Italy. The Prussians wonld, doubtless,
on tlie other hand, endeavor to destroy
tlie cable running from Bre*t, France,
to the United States, which is wholly a
French institution. These are the natur
al results of war powers, but it is to be
hoped that they may be uverted in the
present instance. An official censorship
of war wires would, doubtless, afford
each government all the necessary sccuri,
ty ogamst their improper use during the
continueuce of hostilities; and it is not
probable that tho existence of telegraphic
communication with neutral powers
would materially benefit either of the bel
ligerents. We hope, therefore, that the
private property represented by the cable*
will be respected by the hostile powers,
although there is but little reason to be
lieve that it wonld lie if the war should
ne continental proportions.—Nett
A Dastardly Outrage.
A Clinton correspondent of the Lau
rens Herald calls the attention of that
paper to one of the most dastardly outra
ges that was ever put upon a peaceful
community. He says: “In obedience,
I suppose, to orders, tlie colored people
of thin town, aud ten miles around,
have for a month past met every Satur
day, within two hundred yards of the
heart of ‘the town, to parade and drill
Until last Saturday the community had
not been materially disturbed, bat on
that day some three hundred of these
malitiamen being on the parade ground,
th* y every one discharged their loaded
rifles into tlie heart of the town. The
ostensible object was to drive off two
colored men who came riding toward
m.
'Every one believes that the whole
matter was a plan to get np a riot for the
purpose of making capital for the elec
tion and that there was an understand
ing between these two Democrat (so-call
ed) negroes and tho balanco of them.
At any rate, though 2. hundred guns were
discharged, not a scratch can be found
on the persons aimed at, while the balls
wkistleu thick and fast through the town,
very fortunately hurting no one.
“On Tuesday the constabnlority ap
peared in town to arrest these two men on
the charge thxit they were hired by white
men to make the disturbance. The en
deavor seems to be a double outrage on an
innocent and already outraged communi
ty. We know that money can make
some people do a good deal of hard
swearing.
Storm.—Late yesterday evening
city waa visited with a sadden and severe
storm of rain, hail, wind, thunder and
lightning, causing great damage to the
city. Many of our shade trees were torn
to pieces; some npiooted and others de
molished. A small portion of the roof
of Welch’s large storo was torn off, com
ing down with a terrible crash, breaking
through one of the front windows, and
scattering things generallg. Mr. Kirk-
man sustained the loss of half the front
of his livery stable. No other material
damage was done to the city, bnt wre fear
the crops have severely suffered in its
destructive coarse.—Nor*, 29/A
iaat.
sprang from th* box a
A Hot Shot.—The Louisville Courier-
Journal says:: The Aflsnta'r * *^ !
oer says: “Perhaps a more
Dxatk or ths Oldest Inhabitant. —
Mr. Wyatt Lee, a native of Virginia,
and, for the last fifty or'sixty years, a
citizen of this county departed this life
on the 10th instant, at the remarkable
age iff 109 years, 9 months and one day.
He retained his intellect np to the hour
of his death, but had been blind ten
years. Mr. Lee was the father of twenty-
six children, some of whom was born
when he was upwards ol eighty years
old.—Southern Watchman.
The Rimrr and the Lett Bank or a
Biter.—As we shall have, for some time
to come, in detailing the warlike move
ments of the French and Prussian*, to
etc., end ae the general reader ii.pt
to confound th. banks of. rirer with the
Jinkins ratted breathlessly in
■ telegraph office, six blocksc
[hi (La lit rm .1. nnaeo.
5- €toiifi83» goof
a hoar, snd the stoptd
offloe, hsagono to sleep,
_ in isVtniy Huf
census in Louisville, asked a colored wo
man what personal property ahe possess
ed, and received tho soberreply: •‘Noth
ing bnt dec© three children jere^ and
they aint wnth much. . ■■■
July 28.—The following
* — - late and important
lighly Important from Europe.
1 aj>hingt<jn, „
is awummary of
fori !gn dispatches to date:
I le Emperor Napoleon’s active force
on le frontier is eight hundred thou-
«an men. Prussia cannot fight r *’
frontier except at a desperate odds.
A country teeming with supplies of all
kind enables tho Emperor to dispense
with a commissariat. Tho weatlter is
splendid for fighting.
Prussia replies to an overtnro for peace
from Franoe, through Russia, “IT IS
TOO LATE.”
The Empress Eugenie’s regency is not
abaolate. She will be governed by Na
poleon’s instructions, and is forbidden to
promulgate other laws than those now
l "Iwce. It is regarded as certain that
the Emperor intends closing npon the
Prussians between Thkmriilo and Wies-
seuburg, and throwing MocMahon’s ar
my acioss the Rhine. Mac Mahon’s army
consists of three carps commanded by
Foilly, Doray, and MaoMahon.
Eight thousand Marines, under Gen.
Devaasaigne, accompany the Baltio fleet.
Tko objective point is Sttdsund.
France reiterates a denial of the au
thenticity of the Secret treaty with Pros-
: a.
Berlin, July 28.—Prussia accepting
the Paris declaration also exempts from
seizure the enemv’s merohrntmen not
catrying contraband of war.
Paris, July 28.—The Monitenr du
Soir says the movements of tho French
armies point to an immediate and decis
ive action.
Ollivier invokes the prayers of the
clergy fortho safety of tho Emperor and
the yonng Prince.
St. Petersburg, July 28. —The Prussian
forco in Poland is increased to two hun
dred thousand, including all the regi
ments of the Imperial Guards.
London, July 28.—The Bank of Eng
land lias advanced the rate to 5 per cent.
The Southampton steamer Bremen has
arrived and the steamship Baltimore from
Baltimore.
The Times, in commenting on the se
cret treaty, nays: It is clear that both
parties are involved in the conspiracy,
touching which, both should make a
clear breast. The North German confed
eration will exhibit other and similar
overtures loom Napoleon.
Tho peoplo of St. Petersburg nro furi
ous because Prussia intercepts English
and French journals.
The Times fears Belgium* good under
standing with France is due to her hatred
of Prussia.
Tho war premium ou French bottoms
one half ot one per cent.
French cruizers off the Isle of Wight
are boarding merchantmen.
Paris, July 28.—The only reserve
steamer* of tho French trans-Atlantic
Mail Company, has been seized by the
Government.
Prussia complains that England fur
nishes arms aud coal to France.
Liverpool, July 28.—All demonstra
tions iu favor of either Prussia or France
are forbidden here.
St. Lnuti, July 28.—CoL Buell's mur
derer before dying of his wonud*, con
fessed that Buell made him saw cord
wood in punishment for absence from roll
call.
Parti, July 28.—Edmond Abont will
succeed Panniol in tho academy aud
probably as minister to Washington.
^Florenc*, July 28.—Madame ltatazzi is
New York, July 28.—The rising Star
from Aspinvrall nas arrived.
There is peace between Bolivia and
Pern.
The Peruvian Government paid the
Americau Legislation two million dollars,
accorded to Americans by the mixed
Commission.
The steamer Equador has exploded.—
Two lives were lost.
There was a sharp earthquako at Limn,
»June 26th. It aid bnt little damage.
The steamer Maid, from Liverpool for
illas, was burnt in the Magellan straits.
Two lives lost.
• Tho Emperor, in a letter to the Com
mander of the National Guard, says:—
Dear General-I wish von to express, on
my part, to the Garde National, of Paris,
how much I count |on its patriotism and
devotion, when I am about to set out for
the army. I have to testify to the confi
dence which I repose in its will anj abil
ity to maintain order in Paris, and to
contribute to the security of the Regency
of the Empress. .
The Journal Ofilciel -contains corres
pondence from St Petersburg. Russia
does not sympathize with Prussia. Prus
sia wishes to make a Prussian lake of the
Baltic sen, and threatens tlie independ
ence of half of Germany. The Czar
treats tho Frenoh Ambassador with much
consideration. The Emperor desires that
the funds usually appropriated to his fete,
be, this year, given to tho army.
The highest military authority repeats
that no foreign officer, however high in
rank, will be permitted near the Frepch
army. .
London, July 28.—Tho bank statement
shows a decrease of bullion of over one
million>
Several failures in Liverpool and Man
chester are announced.
The result of settlements in London
are not so disastrous as was expected.
Paris, July 28.—The Emperor left St.
Cloudy by special train for the army with
tho Prince. The Empress parted with
them at tho railway station. Sho was
deeply moved. As soon a* the train de
parted Eugene returned to the Palace.
The Spanish Ambassador bad an inter
view with the Emperor and Empress just
before his departure.
The Moniteur du Soir remarks upon
the extreme friendless of the conversa
tion. The Ambassador ssys the Emper
or appeared quite well. As the train left
the Emperor said to tlie crowd, “
TUnnfnl *»
for the current year are specific, and for
tho future all back claimants must look to
future legislation for relief.
Charleston, July 28.—The Republican
Convention has renominated Scott for
Governor, and Bander, negro, for Lieu
tenant Governor. A largo majority of
the delegates are colored. There was a
bitter contest between the two Charles
ton delegations—the one headed by Sen-,
ator Sawyer, the other by Delarge color
ed. Tho Delarge delegation were seated.
Raleigh, Joly 28.—Chief Justice Pear
son, of North Carolina, after refusing to
entertain several motions, one which wn
to attach Governor Holden for contempt,
advised the counsel for Kirk’* pAaonezs
to apply to Chief Justice Chase far
proper writs.
Richmond, July 28.—Jefferson Davis
is here, en route to Europe.
The Fate of a Shoo-Fly
The Editor ot the Peoria Transcrip thus
laments over his dog “Shoo-Fly:”—Some
bloodthirsty policeman on Tuesday
chucked a piece of poison meat at our
office dog, “Shoo-Fly.” Not having
dine.! since sdue-iaae kst-wetk, Fly
gobbled the savory mortal, and soon was
struggling in the grip of death. A timely
dose of about a quart of oil and a pint of
milk drove back the grim destroyer, and
cheated the policemen of his foe.
Lateb.—With an aching heart and a
tear in the owner’s eye wo hastened to
chronicle the fact that a relapse hs* oc
curred and tlie spirit of Fly is flew. Per
haps no dog in tho country can present a
clearer record than our can. Brought up
from infancy among printer*, without
forming any of the bad habits common
to the craft, too much praise cannot be
awarded in this short obituary. We,
however will cut the tail of the dog short
by saying that the boys of the composing-
room send a message to that policeman
that if he wants the scaly of his victim, to
come down and get it. If he should ac
cept the invitation we would like him to
get his liair shingled first, or to leavo his
head roof at tho police office. May
the ghost of “Shoo-fly booder him !”
The Ambassadors have transmitted to
their respective governments notice of
the Emperor’s' departure.
The Empress attended by ladies of the
oonrt proceeded to the Chapel of Nortre
Dame Dee Victorious.
France lias received official noiification
of Denmark* neutrality.
Bones© 48, heavy; rentes 65f70c.
The Ganlois publishes a conditional
alliance between Francs and Italy. In
has©*'of certain contingencies, France
pays Italy sixty million francs, and levies
Italy free to make Rome tho capital of
that Kingdom.
Advices from Home report that tha
Popeaw^ttas^nvitablothe evacuation
There are no Prassian troops along the
Rhine from Bake to Contanee. A small
corps of inffcatzyisstationedneur Rbemi
fallens. The troops of Wuxtsmburg. an
moving towards Bssdato. The Bmfoui
at Bevenloo is broken np, and tha
are going to the front. Fortifica-
e progressing rapidly. Abdel
i volunteered to
Kaderhra volunteered to nenre in tha
French army.
Washington, July 28.—The Attorney
General Baa prepared an opinion where-
by all unaproted balances willbeoov-
Radicals for Prussia.
The New York Tribune, of k recent
date, is .strongly in favor of the success
of Prassian nrms over the French, and
prints the following suggestive notice.—
The Republicans are not inclined to torn
their sympathies from the people who
gave them such material aid in the recent
war against constitutional liberty. It is
but another proof of tha objects and de
signs of tlie party in power, and we print
tho notice for the benefit of our Demo
cratic friend* who are so warmly advoca
ting the cause of King William:
“At the called meeting of the Repub
lican General Committee this evening, a
movement is to be made to secure such
expression of opinion concerning the
war in Europe, as shall fairly represent
the general detestation in which Repub
licans hold the usurper of the French
throne, the butcher of Republican
Frenchmen, and tho persistent disturber
of the peace of Europe.”
Fatal Disturbance.—On Monday
evening last while a party from the coqn-
tiy were returning to their homes, after
transacting their business in the city/they
halted their teams about one milo from
tlie river, at a well on the roadside, for
the purpose of getting water; a colored
woman at tlie time, was at ths well draw
ing water, and appearently consuming
time, when one of the {isrty requested
her to hnrry, as they were thirsty and
anxious to proceod on their way. This
seemed to arouse the ire of the woman,
and with abusive language threw a
bucket of water on him. Thu act caused
him to slap her over, and beat her to his
satisfaction, but not to seriously injure
her. The party then proceeded on their
way, and were soon overtaken by a gang
of negroes, armed with guns, who threat
ened to nhoot them if they did not halt
The whites baited, and while giving an
explanation of the affair, a difficulty arose
between them, resulting in a route of the
negroes, and the shooting of one of their
number, who the next dsy.
We make this statement from a relia
ble source, and without comment, os the
matter is now undergoing a judicial in
vestigation, in which all the facts will be
submitted.—Albany News.
Who was Jonah’# tutor? Tho whale who
brought him up.
If you want to become » real cetato agent,
marry a rich wife.
The shortness of life i# wt i.f!*-n owing to the
irregularity of the liver.
A delicate pared to bo/->r« a: d<-<U,y r.cJ. A
young lady wrapped up in lier«cil.
When was Kuth very rude to Boas? When
nlic pulled his oara and trod his corns.
Why is a treadmill like a true oonvcrtfl Bo-
kuse its turning is the result of oonviction.
Doctors are asking themselves the question
whtther a negro can havo a white swelling?
llow may a man bo known from a fatigued
dog V One wears a shirt and the other pants.
What is the most liberal quadruped going
The skunk; lie !>cetowe a (s)pent to every ono he
Why is a sou who objects to his mother’s
second marriage like an oxliaustad pedestrian ?
Because he can’t go a step-father.
A countryman of Hans Breitmann, who is
afflicted with a drunken wife, classically remarks
that “hell hash no fury lik e a vomaus corned.*’
“That Is sveiy flue watch,” said one negro to
another. “How much did they charge taiiXT
Danno," was tho answer, '’De man wasn't in
de storo when I bought if.”
A gentleman, talking with hi# gardoer expressed
hia admiration at the rapid growth of tha tress.
'Why, yes sirsay# the man;. please to ooasU-
r that I have nothing c-1* to do.” , .
WAn Ohio woman has caugfaicd up a fish
bone ahe has had it in her throat forty-two yean.
It restored her to her voice, and her husband
now wants a divorce.
Two Irishman were traveling, when they
•topped to examine © cnida-board. “Tw#tr#
miles to Portland,- said one. Jaatsix mtos
apiece,” th# other. And they trudged enappe-
He answered, “No* “Whyr asked the lady.
-6u»,!««i>oie!b;ifcgt rtaidMroo:p*p*
liMM lUtboUg girU." , „ . ■
A Yankee captain onoe sang out in a squall to
a raw band on bcenl his craft, “^*t go that tib
there 1 Dam **&■&*• ‘ ‘
Ain’t touching iV
SHARPER'S PEARL.
my possession bnt if it isa strange thing
for me to have a Bible, the way I come
by it is stranger. I have had it for three
J eara, and I intend to keep it as long us
am on earth.
Three years ago I' was living by my
wits in the city of St Paid. Perhaps I
gambled some; yon might call H swind
ling.
At all events there was a chap ont
ere, a rich yonng scrape-grace, who
loved to be fleeced, and no one loved to
fleece him bettor than Dick, and one day
be come to me looking very miserable.
“Dick,** said ho “I*ve lost my watch,
a poor old turnip, bat the old woman gave
it to me jast before sho died, and I wonld
not loose it for a splendid farm.”
I mode sorao inquiries and soon found
that the watch had gone into tho Virginia
bockwood settlement
How I found it out is nothing to yon I
told Tom about it
‘Well,” he said os tickled on a child
“all we have to do is to pot an officer on
the track.”
“You must moko sweet baby/’ I inter
rupted. “Why up there they kill an of-
fioer on sight, ,r
“I would give five hundred dollars,”
said Tom passionately, “rather than lose
that watch.”
“Done,” I said. And tho next morn
ing I started for Lake Howard, forty-
seven miles in the dreary woods dressed
like a backwoodsman, with a couple of
Derringers in my pockets, and mounted
on an animal that was once a horse,
which we bought for $28. A dreary
woods it was. To say nothing of the awful
rooty roods the backbone of my noble
steed was a source of misery, for I had
sadtllo that would have excited sus
picion at once. So I was glad at the end
of the second day, when five miles from
the lake I stopped to rest at a hovel by
the roadside.
The family were preparing their even
ing meal—make it into mush—when I
entered, and was about to take my place
nt the table, when the old man looked at
e sadly.
“Young man” he said, “I see by yonr
looks that you don’t know the Lord,*’
“Yon are right there old man,” I said,
“He’s a stranger to me.”
At that the old fellow groaned and im
mediately produced the Bible you see bo-
tear tho word of wrath,” he said be
ginning to read; the queer work ho made
of it knocking his mental shins against
all the big words.
I paid little attention to- him, but I
got somewhat a vague impression tliat
liis mind was not on his reading. Still I
did not set him down as ahypoewite, as I
should instantly had he been any where
else but there, were hypocrisy seemed so
iperflaons.
Wicked as I was I was rather pleased
than otherwise to find symptoms of piety
that God forsaken place.
The reading and the supper over the
d man said inquiringly.
“Mebbo yer going ioto tho Virginia
settlement!”
‘Theu if you take that ring with you
violence will bo done. Them people
don’t know the Lord.’
Sure enough, like a confounded fool,
os the wisest of us may be at times, I had
worn my enawerahl nng all the way.
“Young man,” said the old fellow
again, “what are you at* Never be a
hypomto you air deceiving peoplo;
you air no laboring man. Tho Lord be
merciful to you.”
“Right again old stick-in tho mad,” I
said; “lorn no laboring man. I never
did work for a livingand I never will. I
don’t mind telling yon on acooant of yonr
remarkable piety, that I’m up here on a
little business for a friend. Perhaps yon
- m help me, in'which case yon con earn
dollar or two. Perhaps you don’t
know such a fellow Merrmiman—Austin
Merrinm?”
‘A desperate,’ man says the cld fellow,
with a shudder, 'who knows not the
Lord.’
‘Perhaps,’ I said, he’s a sport, a gay
and festive son of a wood chopper. May
be he trades once in a while m jewelry. ’
‘He’e been trying to trade a watch for :
a pair of steers.’ And thas to be sore of
what I wanted to know, I polled out my
wallet and gave the old man two dollars.
How sharp he did look at the other bills.
The Lord does provide,’ he said,
turning to his wife, 'why sir, wonld you
believe it we liave not a morasl ot pork
in the house.’
Little did I think how that old boy
with his piety had pumped me.
'I Lope the Lord wul bless yon,’ he
said as I started next morning. Be sore
and stop here when you comeback.’
I tola him I would. I rather liked his
mush snd milk for a change. Td hardly
left the hovel when a deer started across
my traok. I fired one ol my pistols at it
and neglected to load it again. Veiy
foolish but I was a little reduces.
I suppose I was abont five miles from
the old man’s place when all at onoe I
came in right of the venr man I was af
ter, because dangling, from the pocket
of his old plush vest was Vincet’s watch
chain; but what wa^ my astonishment to
find on a second look, that I knew him.
Why sir he was one of the cossedest
horse thrives that infes ed the 'big
and made the beet of my way back to mv
horse. What was my astonishment to
find my liorac gone—stolen without a
doubt!
Whew! I soliloquized, thisia a moral
neighborhood, and immediately thought
about loading np.
What was my further astonishment to
find that I had lost my box of t car-
tridges. So much for being careless.—
And there I was in the midst of a town
ship of notorious thioves, withouj a weap
on, without a homo, and with over a hun
dred dollars in money and property in my
possession. The thing dia look a little
dubious.
Thank my tiara, I thought to myself
there's ono.highly conscicnciouaJChristian
in these woods—referring to the old man
of course—and at this house I arrived a
little after sunset, pretty well tired ont
Tho old fellew was on the lookout for
' Ah,' said he, at I entered, I knew the
Lord would bless you. I have been
proving for you all day.’
f Thanks,' I said, 'but never mind
abont tho blessing. All I want is some
mush and blankets and yonr horse in tlie
morning to take me to Watertown.’
* You shall have them/ he sold, ‘but
‘No.’
'Tho Lord has blossed you?” he said
inquiringly.
•Yes/ I said, ho has—I have done
what I wanted, and got rid of my horse
besides,’ arid these were the lost words I
said to the old m#u till abont 8 o'clock iu
the morning.
Abont that time, sir, as I was dreaming
of having a gay okl time, I was awakened
by a sharp pain in my cheek., and a loud
’thug’ on tho floor betide me. I clapped
my hand to my cheek and felt blood; be
tween mo and the window was tho old
man’s form. Why, rir, a breaking of
lightning is nothing to a man’s nerves nt
such a time!
Before you oould say ‘Jack Robinson*
—before there was time to form a single
coherent thought—I found myself doing
the best thing I could—clutching the old
man by the throat, and pressing the muz
zle of my empty pistol to his temple—
lie was shaken like on nspine leaf.
‘Oh, don’t shoot,* ho screamed, ‘Jesus
was always merciful!’
Was he?’ said I giving his throat an
awful squeeze.
' Oh don’t kill him wailed the old wo-
n, ‘tho Lord will bless you if you
don’t.’
‘(Jctnp, yon Jezebel, and strike a light
I will send him and you too, to the
prince of darkness/ growled T.
Tho light was struck.
What did I see? Oh nothing par
ticular—only tho floor torn up, and a
grave dug to put mo, where tho wolves
would not disturb me. I had noticed
that tho boards were loose when I first
came into tho room. As I saw this L
could not help knocking tho old man
down with the barrel of my pistol and
pitching him into the hole I put his biblc
into mv pocket as a memento, and in
three minutes was on his horse, and on
my road to Watertown.
Not quite unmolested though for os I
turned the corner of tho fence a bullet
whized spitefnlly by me. I turned round.
The old sho devil was standing in tho
doorway, and with a rifle smoking in her
hands.
* Yon dnrsn’t come back/ sho *crearn
ed.
‘You’re right lo.d gal, I dnrsn’t,—
thought I, plunging into tho darkness.
A weary midnight ride that was to
Watertown. Not that tho pain of my
wound was much forjthe ax hod bat scrap
ed tho skin, but the unutterable melan-
cliolly of night in tho almost virgin for
est the indescribable sounds, the coyote’s
yell Uio sad ©railings and mournful rust
ling of the leaves, filled me with a blue
ness that was awful blue—set me to think
ing of things almost forgotten and things
that were sad to think of then—of days
that were different from there days:
well—
When Tom Vincent, liko a man paid
me fivo hundred dollars I went into tho
picture agency business, and have not
touched a card since.
A Moral Hero.
the name I knew him
at once.
‘what do you wont
woods.
Bill Stralial w
by. ' He knew r
‘Holloa,'said ^
sro ?’ and as he said this he at once
picked up his rifle; he and I were never
friends. ‘What do you think ?’ said I
putting my hand in my pocket '
•No good/ said he, tyou infernal beat
and with that he mode a motion to level
liis rifle. . . -: . .. ,
In an instant I whipped oat my Der
ringer, and gave him au excellent .'oppor
tunity to look square down the mnz-
zle.
You are covered, I said, ‘drop your
gnm’ . ; .
He dropped it and begun to tremble.
If he knew I trembled inside he would not
have been scared. The sense'of deadly’
danger is not un easy thing to get used
to. - I dismounted, fired his gun into the
brash and tied my horse to a stamp.
• Now my friend,* I said to Merriman,.
’behind enough to march.’
‘Where? ©aid ha
Into the woods.’
You bee n't a goings to kill me? he
.1
•No; though you deserve it. I am go*
ing to tie yon to a tree, gag and leave
you.’ • - -
A few weeks ago, Mr. Wilcher, repre
senting Taylor county* left his compat
riots of the Hopse, and was thought, for
ever. This gentleman’s health was, and
is such a low ebb that no one ever expec
ted to ©e© lnm* at his accustomed post
agaht But hearing'of the oxtremity to
Which bad and d©#ig«iwir hare
tocreep, W ha is. rcmdyto throw liL.
feeble body m tho biwich cud do trhat
thet waning fiuue can to stay the march
" “ * spoiler. No patriotToldier on the
I bottle, and with tho prcaontiinent
oTdeath npon him, crawling to hia place
in the rank, from hie tick bonk, oner did.
thie’n^eG£omm? 1 'l’ T<! ^Rn h “ haa
rente hia people and discharges hL'dnty.'
It matters bnt little for tnch men thfem-
•etree, whether they die auoo or lire
Iona for God and country wili owe for
their feme. When inch men die the
looeta ere thoae who ater behind, God
biese Wilcher, dnd maj^hia ’ memory be
held in eeery, loving remembrance by a
greatful peoplo—^anfa CoxMnUm.
BQuShow mo the yonng m. who can
qmt tho taiihant aoeiety of the young, to
lieten to the kindly voice of ago and hold
Convene with one wboee yean have de
prived them of eharmr—■who ir willing to
help the deformed who need help—who
ahone a blasphemer—who acorns aa he
would a coward, thoridiculcr of .a wo
man 8 reputation, and’ never forgets for
an instant, the dilecacy, the respect due
to her in any condition or clsss, and yon
•howme©gentleman—nay. batter—you
show me a wise man and a Christian.
A religions woman who ulwava kept
Snnday and ^washed o* Monday, and in
hat air the rat of the vwk, ae she waa a
washer-woman by occupation, had man
aged to save money enough to erect a
neat little homestead, when along came a
tornado and left her cottage a wreck—
tho bid lady*a indignation was at first