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THE WEEKLY SUITER REPUBLICAN,
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Volume 21.
AMERICUS GEORGIA, FRIDAY.
DECEMBER 4
1874.
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Number
42.
By HANCOCK « REILLY.
TF.UMS OP SCRSCUIPTION:
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Professional Cards.
Hawkins & Hawkins,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
oooii cfc oniap
\TTOHNKY AT LAW.
AMEUICU8. GEORGIA.
njILL practice in tho Counties of Macon,
W Schley, Wohatcr, Sumter and ’
B. P. HOLLIS,
Attorney a t U a i
AMERICUS, GEORGIA.
jr OIH -o in Hawkins* linildin", 0
v'rt.ie. jar.2
C. T GOODE.
Attoruev at Law
AMERICUS, GEORGIA.
. TA VINO removed hia office to the rooms
II Dr. EldriJgo’n Drug storo on Lunar si
i:il practico as heretofore, in all tho cou:
the Southwestern circuit, in tho count!
' > »ly and Houston, iu tho Supreme Court
- tie circuit and District Courts of the U
f'latts for the Southern District or Georgia
lU.ES FORT. J. B. MCCI.E3
Port & McOleskey,
Attorney* at Laic am/ Solicitor*in Equity
AMERICUS, GEORGIA.
W ILL practice in tho counties of tho 8
Western Circuit, in the Supremo Co
Up iu : ho earl; morning light,
Sweeping, dusting, “setting aright,”
Oiling all the household springs,
Hewing Buttons, tying strings;
Telling Bridget what to do.
Mending rips in Johnny’s shoe;
Running up and down the sttir,
Tying baby in her chair;
emitting meat and spreading bread,
Dishing out so much per head;
Eating as slu can, by chanc i.
Giving husband kindiy glance;
Toiling, woiking, busy life—
“Smart woman,
Dan’s wife”
Dan comes homo at fall of night,
Home so cheerful, neat and bright;
Children moat him at the door.
Pull him i:i and look him o’er;
Wife asks “How the work has gone ?
Busy times with ua at home; ”
Supper done—Dan reads at cast;
Happy Dan, but one to please;
Children must bo pat in bed;
All tho little prayers are said,
Little shoes are placed in rows,
Bed clothes tin ked o’er little tre?;
Busy, noisy, wearing life,
Tired woman,
Dan’s wire.
Dan reads on and falls asleep.
See the woman softly creep;
Baby rests at night, poor dear.
Not a word her heart to cheer—
Mending basket full to top,
Stockings, shirt and little Irock;
Tired eyes and weary brain,
Hide with darting, ugly pain;
• Ncv*r mind,’twill piss away/’
She must wo k but never plav;
Closed piai
e-tho walks
Upb
-sing t
r holds th-
Children wander, fre
When and shore thu
Bridget loiters; dim*
Dan looks anxious, or
Household screws ar
Licking *ue di
Steady hands, s
Hands that kn.
arc out of plat
eak hut true.
nd laid a
1EATH OR MARRIAGE.
a. Office
nlO tf.
of th- pn
» Eldridge s Drug t
•N! A. SMITH.
Atioruoy At Xjuw
AMETUCUS, : : GEORGIA.
•TfiLL piactice in the Courts ol Sumter and
adjoining Counties, and in Circuit Court ol
«*• Office on College street, next to ItepublJ-
*.i:i office. feb 25 tf.
MERREL CALLAWAY,
Attorney at Law,
AMERICUS, GA.
• Kendrick A Wheatley’s Store
dupont aurnuv
Guerry & Son,
Attornoya at laaw
—AND—
OLICITORS IX EQUITY
The ancient clock in Deacon Sheruier’s
olel fashioned kitchen was slowly chim
ing the hour of nine. It was no smart
toy, no trifle of bronze, or alibastcr, but
tall, square, solid relic of the last cen
tury, looking uoi unlike a coffin case set
end, in the corner—a clock that had
lasted throuj^i four generations, aud
judging from appearances was quite like
ly to last through several more. Deacon
Sheruicr cherished the old heir-loom with
sort of prido which he himself would
:arcely have confessed to.
There was a great ruddy fire of chest
nut logs in the red brick-paved fire place;
and the candles in the brightly polished
brass sticks were winkiug merrily from
the high wixdcu mantle, where they
shared the post of honor with a curious
sea shell and a couple of vases, each
taining a fresh osage orange, from the
hedge that skirted the clover field be*
hind the barn. At the wiudow a cur
tain of gaudy cliiutz shut out the ten
of thousands of stars that were shiuiu;
brightly on that frosty autumnal night,
and on the cozy rug of the parti colored
rags a fat tortoise shell cat purred away
the slowly lapsing minutes. But the
toitoisc shell cat was not the only
inhabitant of the suug farm house kitch-
her checks.
“Oh, Tim, it’s father.”
“Suppose it is ? ”
# “But he musu’t find you here, Tim,
hide, do.”
“What nonsense, Mary,” said the
young mao, resolutely standing his
ground. “I haven’t come to steal his
spoons. Why should I creep away like
a detected burglar ? ”
“For my sake, Tim. Oh, Tim, if you
ever loved me, do as I fay. Get in that
closet, it is too close to his bed room; not
through that wiudow, it is nailed down
tight. He’s coming, he’s coming! Here
Tim.”
And in the drawing of a breath sho
had pushed Timothy Marshall into the
square pendulum case of the tall clock
and turned the key ou him. It was i
a pleasant place of refuge, inasmuch
his shoulders were squeezed on either
side and his head flattened against
springs and wheels above, and the
was unpleasant aud close; but Tim made
the most of matters, and shook with
suppressed laughter.
“Well, a pretty scrape to be i:
no knowing when I’ll be out of it.
ry’s a shrewd little puss, however, and I
can’t do better than to leave matters in
her hands.”
“So you haven’t gone to bed yet, Ma
ry ? ” said Deacon Shermcr, slowly’uu
winding the two yards of woolen scarf
with which he gcucrally encased his
throat of an evening.
“Not yet, father,” said Mary, picking
up her scattered bits of patchwork with
a glowing cheek. “Did you have a pleas
ant meeting? ”
“Well, yes,” quoth the deacon reflec
tively, sitting down before the fire, greatly
to Mary’s consternation—she had hoped
he would have gone to bed at once, ac
cording to his usual custom—“it was tol-
cr’bly pleasant. Elder Huskier was
there, aud Elder Ilopkius—aud—well,
all the church folks pretty much.
Why, how red your cheeks arc, Mary!
Tired, ain’t you? Well you needn’t sit
up for me, my dear; it must be getting
late.”
The deacon glanced mechanically up
at the clock. Mary felt tho blood grow-
cold in her veins. “Twenty miDutcs
past nine—why, it must be later than
that ! Why, land o’ Canaan, the old
clock has stopped.” The old clock had
stopped, nor was it woiderful, under
the circumstances. “I wound it up this
mornin’, I’m sartin,” said *thc deacon
ery much disturbed. “It’s never sarved
i»e such a trick afore, all the years it’s
stood there. Your aunt Jane used to
say it was a sign of death or mar
riage in the family before the year was
out.”
door of the clock case
Ha—lo! ” exclaimed the deacon, as
Mr. Timothy Marshall tumbled into the
room. “So you was the matter with the
clock, eh? ”
sir,” said Tim, composedly. “I
hope I haven’t seriously interfered with
the works of the clock.”
eriously interfered with me!"
said the dgacon, waxing indignant, “what
do you mean, sir, by hiding in my house
like a thief? ”
“Indeed! indeed! father,” cried Mary,
bursting into tears. “It wasn’t his fault.
He didn’t want to hide, but I put him
there.”
You did, eh ? And may I ask what
From Don Piatt, in the Capital.
We were sitting in our room at the
Glades Hotel, iu Oakland, Maryland,
one day with a charming lady who had
dropped in on a visit. One of our win
dows looked into that of another room
placed by the position of the main
building that half of its interior could
be seen. We were looking up an ad*
miring a little chubby, blue-eyed two*
year-old, white as snow, who was pull*
iug a boquet to pieces and tossing out
its fragments, or clapping Lcr hands
with delight as a tram went thundering
for ? ” by.
“These rooms,” said our visitor, “have
some very tender associations for me.”
“How so? ” we asked.
“Well, she answered, “during the
War the greater part of tho hotel was
“No—hut—father.! oh./ather! ^caui j^yzed by the Government as a hospital,
never marry Mr. Stanley. lie's so soft, and we were crowded into a few rooms.
“Father,” faltered Mary, rather irrev-
•antly, “I love him and—he lov<
W ILL
Hui
Superior <
•on, Dooly. I
cr S.4nim]>ort, Picket
mr street mail Cotton
q tho -United
an<l King’.
and I—”
Mary’s tears finished the sentence for
her. The deacon looked down (not un*
kindly) ou her bowed head and the ten.*
der arm that supported it. Apparently,
“the course of true love,” roughly though
it .ran, was overwhelming all his i
worldly-wise arrangements in its tide.
“Aud so you two young folks real'y
think you love each other ? ” said the
deacon, meditatively.
“I love her with all my heart and
soul, sir. I’m not rich, I know, but I
work for her.”
“And I can work for myself, too, fath-
,” interposed Mary with eyes that
shone like softened stars.
“And you said, yourself,” went
Tim, “that the stopping of the clock
meaut cither a ‘death or a marriage,
course we don’t want any deaths,so don’t
you think the most sensible thiug we
* i is to help on a marriage as soon,
The deacon laughed in spite of him-
If. “It’s late,” he said, “come around
to-morrow morning aud we’ll talk about
No, Mary, I’m not angry with y
child. I s’pose young folks will be young
folks, and thefe’s no use trying - to stop
’em,”
As the deacon rchung the pendulum
and set the iron tongue of the old clock
talking again, Tiui Marshall paused
the doorstep to whisper lo Mary:
“What shall it be, Mary, a death or a
marriage ? ”
And she iu turn whispered, “a mar*
riage, I hope.”
“My darling,” said Tim, “it’s worth
passing a lifetime behind a clock case to
feci as I do now.”
J. W. BRADY.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AMERICUS, GA.
SsjV* Office over Harris & Savile’fl
’Hardware Store. fcb7tf.
M. D. McLEOD,
Physician and Surgeon.
JJAVIXQ r.
Dr. w. M. HARDWICK
a
r>>rs and to the paying pub!:
• ial attention will bo given to —
e«. particularly those of Females. IIo will
Hrrib* fi>r and treat ordinary cases at bis
•: Office at the Drug Store of Davenport «
i'll. 1 u-sidenco—Star kville street, opjwsitc
. T IL I “
Dr. J. B. HINKLE.
Uhysloiau and Surgcow
C ALLS left at tho Drug Store of Dr. E. J.BJ
•Ridge or at liis residence (in front of Col
A. Maxwells), will receive prompt and !aftb
ol attention. mar 13 ’73tf.
Dr. S. B. HAWKINS,
r t Y > OFFICE at Dr. FJdrfdre’- Dr- g Sion
“A Rotor nco roir the Method! t Chuich.
DR. J. N. CHENEY,
Physician and Surgeon,
J-.LL.WILLE, GEORGIA.
^•Office in Court House. au29-ly
REMINGTON
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Best and Cheapest in the Market.
C*%.Call and examine it.
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Pure Brandies, Whiskies and Wines
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Stores.
“Timothy ! ” said Mary Shermcr, de
cidedly, “if you don’t behave yourself
I’ll—”
What she would do Mary did not say;
the sentence was terminated by a
that set the dimples around her mouth
in uiotiou, just as a beam of Juuc sun
shine plays across a cluster of red-ripe
cherries.
Mary Shermcr was just seventeen—a
plump, rosy girl, with jet hair, brushed
back from a low forehead, and perfectly
arched eyebrows, that gave a bewitching
expression of surprise to a pair of melt-
hazel eyes. She was rather dark,
but the severe critic would uot have
found fault with the peach-like bloom
upon her cheeks and the dewy red of her
nil, daintily curved lips. Evidently
Mr. Timothy Marshall was quite satisfied
with Mary’s style of beauty.
Come Mary,” said Tim, moving his
chair where lie could best watch the
flush of the firelight upon her face, and
picking up the thread of the conversa
tion where he had dropped it when it
became necessary for Mary to bid him
behave himself—“you might promise.
It’s 9 o’clock and your father will soon
be home.”
What, Tim ? ” said Mary, demurely,
fitting a red square in her patch-work,
and intently observing the fact.
“Nonsense, Mary ! You know what
very well. Promise to marry me before
Christinas ! I tell you what, Mary, it’s all
cry well for you to keep putting it off,
but I can’t stand it. What with your
father’s forbidding me the house and
that romantic Tim Stanley’s coming here
every Sunday night—”
Mary gavo her pretty head a toss.
As if Mr. Tom Stanley’s coming here
made r.ny difference ia my feelings.
Tim! ”
“But, Mary, it isn’t pleasant, you
know. I’m as good as Tom Stanley,
I don’t own railroad shares and keep
account at Ilamiltonville bank; and I
love you, Mary, from the very bottom of
u»y heart! Now, this matter lies between
you aud mo only, no other person in the
world has a right to interfere between
us. Come—promise me!” He held
both her hands in his, and looked earn
cstly into the liquid hazel eyes.
“Do you love me, Mary?”
“You know I love you, Tim.”
“Then we may just as well—* Hush!
what’s that ? ”
Then there was a portentious sound ot
drawing bolts and rattling latches in the
porch-room beyond—a peraping of heavy
boots along the floor. Mary rose to her
There was a suppressed sign like a
chuckle behind the clock case, us deacon
Shermer fumbled on the shelf for a clock
key. “These springs must be out of
order somehow. How scared you look,
child ! There ain’t uo cause for being
cared. 1 don’t put much faith in your
aunt Jane’s old times superstition.
Where in the namo of all possessed
the key? I could ha’ declared I left it
‘ i the case.”
“Isn’t it on the shelf, father?” asked
Mary, guiltily, conscious that
igly reposing in the pocket of her
checked dress.
‘No, nor ’tain’t in my pocket neither.
Aod down went the deacon, stilly enougl
knees, to pxaininc the floor, le
perchance the missing key might have
fallen there.
Well, I never ktiowcd anything so
strange in all my life.”
“It is really strange,” faltered hypo
critical Mary.
“I’ll have a regular search to-morrow.
It must be somewhere around,’’said dea*
con Shermcr.
“Yes, it must,” said Mary, tremulous-
•y-
“Only,” the deacon went on slowly,
resuming his place before the fire, “I
kind o’ don’t like to have the old clock
stand still a single night. When I wake
up, you know, it seems like it was sorter
talkiu’ to me iu the stillness.” The dea
con looked thoughtfully at the fiery back
log. Mary fidgeted about tho room,
straightening tabic covers, setting back
chairs and thinking—oh, if he would on
ly go to bed !
Child,” he said suddeuly straighten-
^ up iu the stiff back chair, “jou’d
better go to bed. I’ll sit up till the logs
burn out.”
But, father, I’m not sleepy.”
Go*to bed, my child,” said the d:a-
wtth a good humored authority that
brooked no opposition, and Mary crept
out of the room, ready to cry.
If Tim will only keep quiet a little
while longer,” she thought, sitting
the stairs. “Father sleeps so soundly—
and he is sura to go to sleep in his chair.
I could just steal iu and release him as
quietly as possible.”
Hark ! was that the wail of the wind,
was it something else ? Yes, she could
not be mistaken now, it was actually
snore.
Mary rose softly to her feet with :
newed hope. Noiselessly as a floating
shadow she crossed the hall, opened the
kitchen door and stole across the creak-
floor. The candles were burned out,
but the shifting lustre of the firelight
vealed her father nodding before the fire
with closed eyes and arms hanging at his
side.
He certainly is asleep,” thought Ma
A gentleman took his son to a drunk
en row in a tavern, where the inmates
were fighting and swearing, and said he:
“Do you know what has caused all
this ? ”
“No sir.”
The father, pointing to the decanter,
said :
“That’s the cause. Will you take a
drink ? ”
The boy started hack with horror and
exclaimed:
“No ? ”
He then took the child to the cage of
a man with the delirium tremens. The
boy gazed upon him affrighted as the
drunkard raved and tore, and, thinking
the demons were alter him, cried, “Le
mo alone! leave me alone ! 1 sec ’<
they’re coming ! ”
“Do you know the cause of this, my
boy ? ”
“No. sir.”
“This is caused by drink. Will
have some ? ”
The boy shrank back with a shudder
he refused the cup.
Next they called at tho miserable hov
el of a drunkard, where there was squal
id poverty; tho drunken father bcatiug
his wife aud with oaths, knocking down
his children.
What has caused this ? ” asked the
father.
The sun was silent.
When told that it was rum, he de
clared that he would never touch a drop
his life.
But suppose that the lad should be
invited to a wedding feast, where, with
fruit and cake, the wine cup is passed,
amid scenes of checrfulucss and gayety,
where all the friends arc respectable, be
loved and kind to each other, and he
should be asked to drink, would ho re-
fuso ? Or, suppose him walking out
with his father on new year’s day to
his young lady friends, to enjoy
the festivity of ushering iu the new year.
With other things, wine is handed to
him by a smiling girl. His noble-heart
ed father, whom he loves, presses the
wine glass to his lips, and compliments
the young lady on the excellence of its
quality ; what wonder if the son follow
his example ?
My sister and I had this. In that
where that little beauty is were two
Union officers, one sick with tho fever
and another of a wound. It was hard
to tell whether they were slowly dyiug or
slowly getting well. I never saw such
ghostly skeletons to be alive. We were
•secesh,’ and not modest about it, cither,
hut still our hearts ached lor the poor
young men, so ill, perhaps dying, far
from friends and rclativ
“It bothers one to know how this
should be a hospital,” we said, “it ii
far removed from active operations.”
“It was thought,” she answered, “that
the mountain air of the glades would be
more favorable to recovery than else
where, so this was made a hospital. Oue
day ono of these officers dragged himself
to the window, and, under the impulse
of the moment, my sister asked if we
could do anything for them, and he
swered, gasping for breath, that a little
chicken or soup would save their lives.
Chickens were rare ifi those days; an
army is hard on poultry. The men will
work all night, after marching through
the day, to secure a few chickens; sc
that when the hospital nurse aud physi-
ciau had 'an uulimited supply of luxu
ries iu the way of wines, potted meats
aud canned vegetation, they were with
out anything fresh. Wo knew where
few chickens were hid iu a cellar by a
’jhbor, and we coaxed one out of the
owner; aud after a deal of vexatious
trouble—for at every turn we were met
by a fixed bayonet—we got the soup
tdy, aud as the guard of the hall would
uot permit us to approach our patients,
my sister attempted to hand the bowl to
tho officer through the window. Just
feebly reaching for it, aod she
she stretching herself half out to givo it
to him, a harsh, ugly voice below
aloud, ‘Look out there—poison!’ She
nearly dropped herself, soup and all.
Drawing back, she hesitated a second,
aud then she took the spoon and began
eating the broth. ‘Oh, bother!’ cried
the officer. ‘Don’t waste it in that way;
I’m not afraid;’ aud she gave him the
soup. It seemed to revive them, and
they continued steadily to improve, as
day after day we supplied them with
chicken broth until the cellar was empty.
During this time we stood at the window
talking, aud we sang to. them—‘My Ma
ryland’ aud all the Southern songs we
knew," until they were well enough to
leave [the hospital aud return to duty.
They both reemed sorry to go, and
forced on us a quantity of hospital stores
and some coffee, which tat we needed
sadly. Then one gave a ring and the
other a brooch, as tokcus of their kind
feeling.”
“And did they uever return,” we
asked.
“One did not; for, poor fellow, he
was killed iu the very next battle in
which he was engaged. His companion
wrote us about it, and the writer insisted
upon opening a correspondence with my
sister; aud soon his letters grew into
letters, and after a time they were
INTERESTING FACTS CONCERNING THE
GOOD BOOK—THE LANGUAGES—
ITS ClRULATION AMONG THE
PEOPLE.
There may be a few of our subscribers
who are unacquainted with the biblical
facts, consequently we insert a few for
their special benefit. The Scriptures
have been translated into 14S languages
and 21 had, prior to the formation of
the British For ;igu Bible Society, never
ppeared. And 25 of those languages
existed without an oral form. Upward
of 43 millions of these copies of God’s
work are circulated among not less than
t hundred millions of people:
The first division of the Divine orders
into chapters and verses is attributed to
Stephen Langton, Archbishop of Canter
bury, in the reign of King John, in the
latter part of the twelfth century or be-
ig of the thirteenth. Ci
god.
r y-
With a heart that beat quick and fast
she drew the key from her pocket and
proceeded, in spite.of the nervous tremb-
liug of her fingers, to unlock the door.
So absorbed was she that she uever no
ticed the cessation of the heavy breath
ing—never saw the deacon start sudden
ly int'» wakefulness and look around him.
Love is blind, and it is equally true that
it is deaf. The deacon rose quickly up
with a shrewd twinkle in his eyes, and
Mary gavo « little frightened shriek as a
hand fell softly on her arm, possessing
itself quietly of the key.
‘ Let mo help you,” said the deacon.
“Father, I—I found tho key,’ falter
ed Mary, “and ”
“Found the key, eh ? ” returned the
deacon. “\Y ell that’s lucky; and now
we can find opt what’s the matter with
the clock.” .
Mary’s heart, throbbing so wildly a
moment ago, seemed to stand still as her
ter A Mississippi boatman, with
immense feet, stopping at a public hon3e
on the levee, asked the porter for a boot-
jack to pull off his boots. Tho colored
gentleman, after examing the stram
feet, broke out with, “No jack here big
nuff for dem fects. Jackass couldn’t
pull ’em off, massa, widout fracturin’ dc
leg. Yuse better go back about t’>
miles to dc forks iu do road an’ pull ’<
off dar.”
“Nearly a year subsequent to this our
patient got leave of absence aud came on
to be married. He put up at a hotel,
and—would you believe it?—our own
brother, who was in the Confederate
c, aud knew nothing of our sister’i
flairs, led a baud of guerillas luto oui
at night, and captured his intended
brother-in-law ftvan his bed. This uot
ly deferred the marriage, but deprived
tho young West Pointer of his promo-
an that had been promised for gallant
rvicc in the field. It was really ag
gravating, for exchanges had nearly
J, and it boked as if the lovers
would really have to wait until this
rucl war was over’ before they could be
united.”
You should have appealed to Abra
ham Lincoln to give a married brigadier
for an unmarried lieutenant.”
We did better. Procuring passes
we went through the lines and appeal
ed to Jeff Davis. Jeff said ho would
put my brother’s prisoner in his sister’)
keeping. They have been happily mar
ried these many years. He is a brevet
brigadier general now, and it all came
* our nursing the enemy in that roo
Here is the foundation of a drama
perior to that given by Boucicault in
Belle Lamar.
The following epitaph is to be set
the tomb-stone of the lamented Hannah,
who died not long since;
Stranger pause,
My tale attend,
And learn the cause
Of Hannah’s end.
Across the world
The wind did blow.
She ketched a cold
What laid her low.
We shed a quart
Of tears ’tis true.
But life is short—
Aged 82.
doctor says it will be sometime before he
will be a better man.
ginning ot tbe thirteenth. Cardinal
Hugo, iu tho middle of the thirteenth
century, divided the Old Testament into
chapters as they stand in our translation.
In 1GG1 Athias, a Jew of Amsterdam,
divided the section to Hugo iu verses—
a French printer had previously, in 1G5G,
divided the New Testament into verses
as they uow are.
The Old Testament contains 39 books,
929 chapters, 23,214 verses, 592,439
words and 2,738,100 letters.
The New Testament contains 27 books,
270 chapters, 23,214 verses, 132,253
words and 933,280 letters.
The entire Bible contains 6G books,
1,190 chapters, 4G,428 verses, 773,092
words, 3,5GG,480 letters.
The name of Jehovah or Lord occurs
6,855 times in the Old Testament.
Tho word ‘‘and” occurs in the Old
Testament 35,543 times.
The middle book of the Old Testa
ment is Proverbs.
The middle chapter is the 20th of
Job.
The middle verse is the 2d Chronicles,
2Gth chapter, 17th verse.
The middle book of the New Tcstamcut
is 4d Thessalonians..
The middle chapters arc Homans 13
and 14.
The middle verse is Acts Xl:17.
The middle chapter, aud the least in
the Bible, is Psalms 1:17.
The least verse in the Old Testament
is 1st Chronicles, 1:25.
The least verse in the Bible is John
XI-.35.
The 19th chapter of 2d Kings and
Isaiah 37 are the same. •
In tbe 21st verse of 7th chapter of
Ezra are all the letters of the alphabet,
I and J considered as cnc.
The Apocrypha (not inspired, hut
sometimes bound between the Old Tes
tament and the New) contains 14 books,
183 chapters. 15,081 verses, 125.183
words.
The proceeding facts were ascertained
by a gentleman iu 1718; also by an En
glishman residing at Amsterdam, in 1722,
and it is said to have taken each gentle
man three years in the investigation.
There is a Bible in the library of the
University of Gottengen written on 2,-
‘“6 palm leaves.
A shcckle of gold was 88.09.
A taleut of silver was 851G.32.
A piece of money or penny wa* 13
cents.
A farthing was three cents.
A gerhem was one cent. *
A mite was a uent and a half.
A homer contains 75 gallons and 5
pints.
A hin was one gallon and two pints.
A firkin was 7 pints.
Au omer was G pints.
Tho divisions of the Old Testament
e four:
1. The Pentateuch, cr the four books
of Moses. *
2. The historical books, comprising
Joshua to Esther, inclusive.
3. Poetical and doctrinal hooks, from
Job to Sougs of Solomon, inclusive.
Tho New Testament is usually divided
into three parts:
Historical, containing the four
Gospels and Acts.
2. Doctrinal, coutainingalltheepistles
from Romans to Judges.
3. Prophetical, being the book of Rev
elation of St. John.
WOMEN CLIMBING A ROOF AND LAUGH
INC* AT MEN AS THEY 6QUIBM&D /
UNDER THE LASH.
Wilmington, Del., November 21.—
The first installments of the semi-annual
whippings in this county took place at
New Castle at noon to day. About 400
people crowded themselves iuto the jail
yard, aomo of whom were women, who
seemed to enjoy the spectacle with equal
delight with tho men. Others of thesame
sex mounted the roof of the Sheriff’s
dwelling, and being warmly robed sat
there laughing at the sufferings of those
who were fastened to the post.
The castigation was administered by
William H. Lamson, the new Sheriff,
who was sworn in a week ago. He was
very partial in the exercise of his duty,
favoring some and whipping others with
great severity. He disobeyed in many
instances the injnnctinn, “well laid on,”
and with determination written on his
face, wielded the cat with a swift and sad
den jerk in others. The offences were
all of a like nature, none being punished
anything other tlan larceny. What-
disparity was intended by the court,
meted out by it iu the terms of im
prisonment, and in other ways, so that
the sheriff should hare beeu impartial in
earn ing out that portion of tbe sentence
which the law imposed upon him. He
chose to act differently, however, and
nfore exhibited the inequality of
A Man Who Lived Fifteen Hours
With a Bcllet Through His Heart.—
County physician Stout made a post
mortem examination yesterday of the
body of Thomas Keeler, who committed
suicide by shooting himself in Bayonne
Sunday night. The ball was found
the spine, after having passed directly
through the heart. Keeler lived fifteen
bourn after receiving tho fatal wound, and
most of tbe time wns conscious.—AT. Y.
Sun, 19/A.
A popular clergymau says it is’inter-
cstiug to observe how mauy people go to
the circus “just to please the children,’*
and very curious to notice that some'
times it takes several able-bodied men
and motherly women to look after one
little boy or girl on such an occasion.
A Lafayette, Indiana, man, just as he
was approaching the shining shore, took
his wife’s hand and said: “Susan, you’i
A Texau, named Wysjr, who
broke one of bis arms while wrestling, been a good wife. Wo’ve lived together
with a friend, is still a Wyser, but the thirty-two years, and I’ve never found
a button off my shirt. I’ll speak a good
word for you when I git thar.”
Delaware's peculiar mode of punishment.
As a sort of prelude to the whipping,
threo men were pilloried, each for an
hour, as a part of tbe punishment for the
day. They were John T. Dolan, Edward
Sanders and George Gilbert, all of whom
we shall speak again presently. Edward
Johnson, a white horse thief, was the first
victim of tho lash, aud his back was red
dened under twenty blows, lightly laid
ou. He bore his punishment quietly aud
with a subdued spirit, without flinching.
He was then remanded to jail for three
years. William Gilbert took hi* twenty
lashes for tbe larceny of a horse, with
greater indications of pain, the cat being
more heavily laid on. When released he
sprang away from the post sayiug “How’s
that for high, sheriff?” He has two years
to serve in jail. Joseph 8tansbury had
stolen a watch, for which ho got one
year’s imprisonment and twenty lashes
lightly laid on, which he received quiet
ly. He will wear a convict’s jacket for
six months after discharge. Henry H
Wilson, for the larceny of chickeus, was
sentenced to receive fifteen lashes, but
sixteen were administered, aud the sheriff
was iu th& act of laying on tho seven-
teeuth, when he woh stopped by the war
den. Wils jn v. i ilhul considerably under
his punishmen*. A term of Rix months
awaits him, and a convict’s jacket for six
months afterward.
Shadrach Trusty, a colored lad, gave
evidence of much suffering during the
whipping, but walked laughingly away
from the post after it was over. He
jumped and floundered about very much,
and several times pulled out his hands
from the hasps, which were too large to
hold him firmly to the post. Finally liis
hands were wrapped, and he broke away
no mere. At one time be kicked vicious
ly at the sheriff, and all his gyrations
brought out tremendous laughter and
cheering from the crowd. Besides
his twenty laebts, he has yet bis six
months’ imprisonment to serve, aud then
a convict’s jacket to wear for a similar
rlpeod.
Claytou .Earle, (colored), sixty-five
years of age, paid the penalty of an effort
to steal corn in twelve lashes, which
well laid on, and under which he writhed
greatly. His body also shook like an as
pen. He was dismissed with the convict'
jacket. Clayton is the same iudividnal.
win* brought suit against liis accuser
the United States court for au alleged at
tempt to control bis vote by threats and
intimidations. The cose has not yet
been tried.
The severest flogging was visited upon
Oh .rb-8 Brown, who had been convicted
of the larceny of clothing. For some
reason the sheriff spared not the coat,
but laid it on heavily, which Brown bore
without a murmur, and without any in
dications of pain. His back was much
marked, more so than any of the rest, be
ing covered with great red welts, but
blood was drawn. Blood did not nppear
upon the backs of any. Brown has en
ter* d upon a year’s imprisonment, aud
will afterwards wear a convict’s jacket for
six months. John T. Dolson (white) who
had stolen a horse, was the last to receive
his punishment. He wa* both yonug ai.d
handsome, and in his face exhibited the
pain which he was suffering, and elicited
much sympathy.—Baltimore American.
The Executive on the Bagged Edge of
the Jim-Jams.
Look After the Eyes.—Multitudes
men and womeu have made their eyes
weak for lifo by the two free use of eye
sight, reading small print and doing fine
sewing. In view of these things it is
well to observe the following rules in the
e of the eyes :
Avoid sudden changes betweeu light
and darkness.
Never read by twilight on a very cloudy
Teuing.
Never sleep so that ou waking the
pes shall open on the light of the
i the eyesight by light
: requires an effort to dis.
i front of
Do not i
scant that
criminate.
Never read or sew directly
tho light of a window.
It is best to have the light from above
or obliquely, or over the left shoulder.
Too much light creates a glare and
pains‘and confuses the sight. The mo
ment you are seusible of au effort to dis
tinguish that moment stop and talk, walk
or ride.
As the sky is blue and the earth
green, it would seem that the ceiling
should be a bluish tinge, the carpet
green and the walls of some mellov
tint.
The moment you are instinctively ii
clined to rnb the eyes that moment cease
to use them.
If tho eyes are glued together on wak
ing do not forcibly open them but apply
H.I!.. n Cmmam Am J . U
saliva with the finger and then wash
your face and eyes with warm water.
[Cinc'nnati Commercial's Washington Letter.
There 1ms been in the last six month'
renewal of the discussion of the Presi
dent's fondness for drink, aud of the
manifest deplorable effects of yielding to
the cravings of his appetite. It is boldly
charged that he lias been frequently, of
late, on the ragged edge of the “jim-
jams.” Whether those making tbe charg
es are well informed or not is not known,
but it is certain that His Excellency’s ap
K arance lends color to the assertion.
3 has changed greutly within the las!
four years. Abundant gray hairs have
come, especially in his whiskers. But
he 1ms acquired within eighteen months
a puffv aud flabby loo . and the dimmed
eyes that are not usually produced by
rigidly temperate life. Every onco iu
while a loyal admirer of his Excellency
comes from a Whito TTouso interview
with a shocked rnunu^r aud protruding
eye-balls, to take one aside aud in a hor-
* tricken whisper confide tho dreadful
picion that, after all, these stories,
heretofore set down to partisan malice,
have a foundation in fact. Party men
drilled in this country to loyalty to
party that they unhesitatingly accredit to
malice everything they hear, not praise-
worthy^ charged against their party. Oc
casionally they awake to the fa« t that it
is possible for “we-uns” to err cvc-n with
our eyes wide open. Daring the curren»
cy excitement last spring and summer
many good Republicans gathered here to
witness and take a hand in the combat,
astonished themselves and their friends
by asserting ibat Grant had been yield
ing to tho seductive and overpowering
influence of cold whjsky. Particularly
was this the caso with inflation Republi
cans, who may have been deceived
through tbeir indignation at the veto.—
The candid, frank testimony of the mem
bers of the conference committee on the
currency bill, who called at the White
House for the purpose of consultation,
would be valuable, if it was worth while
to sift this matter and get at the whole
VERSITY.
CAFT. JAMES BONHAM TXNDZBS HIS RE
SIGNATION AS INSTRUCTOR Of MILITA
RY TACTICS -MATTERS LOOK BATH
ER ONE SIDED — A WHOLE
COMMUNITY INDIGNANT—
WHAT DOES IT ALL
MEAN?—AM EX
PLANATION
NECESSA
RY.
[ Northeast Georgian.]
Notwithstanding it is to na ever un
pleasant to allade in a public way to the
personal difference between gentlemen,
yet the recent unfortunate dimenltyjfbe-
tween Capt. James Bonham, Instructor
in Militarr Tactics, in the State Univer
sity, and Mr. Jacob Phiniay, one of the
students in the College, has excited so
much of pnblio interest in onr communi
ty,! that we cannot forbear to notice it
through onr columns.
It is universally admitted by all who
are acquainted with the facts in this case,
that it is nothing more than a youthful
indescretion on the part of theae young
men, that while Capt. Bonham making
it a personal matter with Mr. Phinizy,
he (Bonham) being an officer in the In
stitution, was not the proper course for
him as an ofiloer, yet Mr. Phinisr, in
company with others, was sufficient
cause of grievance to Capt B., and far
ther, that the repeated indignities which
ho as an Instructor had of late been sub-
ected to (there being no recognised mil
tary law tbiough which he oonld seek
redrew) was, together with the factof his
youth and inexperience, a great degree
of excuse for hia attempt at maintaining
his honor and self-respect, certainly re
lieving his conduct of any very grave or
serious offense.
Then why is it that Capt. Bonham’s
course was considered of such a violent
character as to force him to resign, rath-
than suffer the indignity of Mai and
dismissal by the Prudendial Committee
of the Board of Trustees?
A much more serious aud unjustifiable
difficulty occurred last year between one
of the students and an adjunct profeasor
of the University, and nothing was said
or done about the affair, by either the
faculty or Prudential Committee.
If the offense of Capt. Bonham waa
sufficient to require bis dismissal or re
signation, and tbe fact being oonoeded
that Mr. Pbinizy was the aggressor,
then why has Phinizy escaped? Can this
possibly be owing to the fact that a
young man having a father with influ
ence with and access to, the Prudential
Committee (by reason of hia membership
therewith) has greatly the advantage?
This would be injustice in the extreme
degree.
We apprehend this nnfortnnate dis
turbance in the college would not have
occurred was there a proper course of
discipline in the University. In this
respect we consider tho _ institution
greatly wanting, and the subject shall re
ceive attention at onr hands at another
time.
Paradise.—We have in this town a
genius known as “Blazer,” who is “never
at peace except when at war.” He
would leave his dinner any day if he
thought he could find a fight. When
he is unable to find a “muss” he is per
fectly wretched. A night or two since
gomo friends of his, who happened to be
passing through the “Barbary Coast”
region of the town, had their attention
attracted to a “shebang” near at hand,
by a tremendous uproar. There was a
smashing of glass, a crashing of chairs,
bottles and tumblers, fierce yells, and, in
short, a fearful commotion. Thinking
of the voices within had a familiar
sound, tho gentlemen looked in at the
door of the “gin-mill,” and there beheld
Blazer, surrounded by about half a dozen
Coast rangers,” who were giving it to
him, straight from the old shoulder, on
all sides. Blazer’s nose was flattened,
his upper lip was laid open by a blow
from a tumbler aud his clothes were torn
from his back. A clip under the ear
sent him to grass,” when those nearest
him began jumping upon him, and kick
ing him in the ribs. His friends at
once rushed to his rescue. The breath
knocked and kicked out of poor
Blazer, and he lay stretched senseless
upon the floor. Some water dashed in
face revived him. Recognizing hia
friends, he smiled as amiably as was
possible with his bloated aud distorted
upper lip, and huskily whispered, “Bovs,
its glorious! I’ve stumbled into a regular
paradise.— ITryinid City (JYcr.) Enter
prise.
If you want to know whether your
grand mother was cross-eyed, or whether
your great uncle stood head in his arith*
metic c^ass, just run for office and you’ll
know it all.
truth.
A San Juan miner who has been pros
pecting in southwestern Colorado has
found a whole forest of petrified trees,
with petrified birds sitting cn the limbs
singing petrified songs.
CUPPINGS.
Oath of the Chicago girl—Pay gum.
London “fog horns” are made of gin.
The most valuable prize—Enterprise.
A “put-up job”—Bunker Hill monu
ment.
The latest fashion in Chicago—One-
term marriages.
A Vermont singer is said to have a
gold mine in her voice. Her notes
ought to be good.
“The one thing needful for perfect
enjoyment of love is confidence.” The
same with hash and sausages.
At fifteen the average boy sings gaily,
“I want to be an angel.” At thirty he
wants to live as long as possible.
‘Died iu the vain attempt to twist a
mules tail,” is a Western obituary on
the unfortunate subject of a practical
joke.
An old lady, hearing somebody say
the mails were irregular^ said, “It waa
just so in my young days—no trusting
any of ’em.
Frederick, Maryland, is exhibiting “a
jackass with the gift of speech.” Has
Steel, of tho Washinton Chronicle, stray*
ed np country ?—[Ex.
What's the use, in these days, trying
to be honest ? ” exclaimed a grumbler.
“Oh, you ought to try onco and see,”
retorted a companion.
A darkey preacher lining out a hymn
from memory said:
Plunged in a gulf of dark despair,
Ye wretched sinners—come out ob dar
A Canada man tied his dog to
the end of a rear car the other day, and
then bet the beast could keep up with
the train. Strange to say, when they
got to Detroit, tho dog was ahead—there
was nothing else left of Lim.