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Newspaper Page Text|oriV| ast rorpit. 0«r Cash ^vert^ng. / M Art«rU*emonW. from Out IVjltar per Square <" Square for insertion, and Sevcn.f—e C. nt i for •neb additional i"•* -rI j olli marina charged Vuncnl Notice* * *t regular AiDerinin* i>>calor Special «* »•«•"* soTertiecmcnUeash. Ot qg* Transient ah tiUraVeoS sMe tora0 >' P cri0d ° TCr e:»*nipnih' ■ NO. 48. ATHENS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING.- AUGUST 29,1873. OJ.D SERIES-VOLUME 1.1. SEW SERIES-VOLUME 1. j-or the Sorth-R*®t Georgian. The Result of the Granges. It V E D O V s . A Railroad King met a Middleman, Who had alwav, liveu on the fat of the land, And 1 sappoae he always can, I>e»pitc the work of the U ranges. Said ihi* magnate to the Middleman— What do vou think of the fkrmci's plan The rfTolulioniac the land, And run the machine with the (irangjs ? Said he. when first I heard of a CJ r ingc The idea seemed to me quite strange, And 1 wondered how 1 should air*nge To live in spite of tho Grange*. And even now it isn’t so clear. And, reviewing the matter, I very much fear That these rusty old farmer* hare struck the idea To break up our trade with the (irange- The thing it intended for yourtid me. They rub their hands in the highestgl** When they think whav. %wwy*tldo with the Granges. And now, my friend, how is it with you? What do you think we ought todo? Perhaps, like me, you are somewhat blue When you think of result* The Railroad King looked at him and smiled, And said, why you talk like a little child. The farmers, ’tis true, seem growing wild With their new-born baby, the Oranges ; But if you'll notice you must j»erccive That the politician laughs in his sleeve When he thinks how easily he will deceive These erudite, bodie* the Granges. And if he don't work it, why, don’t you see— The thing is as plain as plain can bo, And never a moment worries me As to how we shall break up these <5ranges. The Legislatures we will pac k, Which can be done is a proven fact. There's nothing like the slick Greenl ack To kick up the devil with Grangit. By Jove, replied the Middle Man I must acknowledge your beautiful plan U hound to success, if anything can, In utterly ruining Granges. And scratching his head, ns if to think, He gave the other a knowing wink. And they both walked off and took a drink To the health of the farmer’s Granges. Now firmer friends, a word to you : Despite of all that you can do, These wiley lellows will find a clew To put an end to yonr Granges. Just as it Is, the thing's all right; Policy’s cloven fbot’a in sight. With worms, rust, grass, not railroads tight— It pays far tatter than Grange*. LAUGH ERISMS. STORY OF THE SONGS. A RARE BARGAIN. FAMINE SCENES IN PERSIA. A WOMAN’S CURIOSITY. LONDON SCENES. Tliero is a law firm in Boston called Steele and Gamble. About fifty ‘‘Old Benders" have been arrested in Kansas. The “Grasshopper Twist" is nnnoun* ced the successor of the Grecian bend. A drank Toledo man wrote on the wall of his cell: Jng not that ye be not jug ged. Ladies travelling ncross the plains ear- FROM THE PERSIAN. “Sweet Evelina”—“I Have Heard i Sweet Music Stealing.” r In the reign of the Caliph Haronual Yesterday ‘I was just as happy as a i Rashid, of happy memory, lived in the big sunflower,’ but to-day ‘My heart, is | city of Bagdad, a celebrated barber of full, I can hear it beat.’ ‘I fesl like I the name of Ali Sakai. He was so saying I’m a broken hearted milk-; famous for a steady hand and dexteri- ’ ! tv in his profession, that he could shave j a head and trim a I ward and whiskers, blindfolded, without drawing blood, and there whs not a ran, cf any fash ion, in Bagdad, who did not employ him. Wood for fuel was always scarce and dear at Bagdad, and as his shop con sumed a great deal, the wood-choppers brought their loads to him in prefer- with ‘Listen to my story!’ ‘I knew a little widow.’ Her name I ail.es trayemng across tne p.mns car- j . Sweet Eve ]i„ a> ’ and she was the SgSJS. only daughter of‘Old Grimes, thegood There is a time for all things, the time | ok j ' aan - , , , , ,1.. to leave is when a young huly asks you I M e met by chance wlmt kind of a day it is for walking. «pnng time, lass than A hundred Some ladies are so economical that they | *“»• * I " b - v * } e constantly resort to tightning, to prevent'(Long Branch.) It was a still night, wnistfulness. I when the stars,‘Beautiful stars, ‘shown j once, almost sure of mcetuv Old lady—lsec you recover umbrellas- J in the happy home above,' thatlruet - ready sale. “Yes, m’m, lots of ‘era.’’ Old Lady—I j‘Sweet Lvelina,’ ‘This dark girl dres- j One day, a poor peasant came to want the owe l lost last Monday. | sed in blue.’ /-Z- j Ali Bakal, and offered for sale a load An unmerciful clergyman of Elmira is I ‘Sweet Evelina’was ‘Sitting on a j of wood, which he had t brought' said to have ilrievn a iivo-.w >.m uorsc | snip, watching ‘A boRI sailor Ou,u, « great distance on his ass. Ali thirty-two miles in ten hours and a half, i he sung‘A wet sheet and a flowing | immediately named the price he was ’Tts now said that William Tell shud- I sea,’in his‘Home on the rolling deep.” [ willing to give, making use of the dered when he shot the apple from his , ‘She was a handsome creature and she j words, for all tho wood that was upon boy's head because the dear boy had such I W ore a waterfall.’ * If ‘Champagne • the ass. un arrow escape. j Charley,’ had seen her ‘Walking down ! The wood-cutter agreed, unloaded People are inclined lo associate a turn- 1 " ■ • ■ ■ • ■ * * ~ * 1 - - o bier with General Grant, because he docs . lc T . , i _? .. ^ . - must cast a side glance and looked down.’ j have the pack-saddle, which is chiefly ‘Art thou Dreaming Mill Dreaming,’ made of wood, into the bargain; that 'Sweet Evelina,’ asked her father, ‘A was the agreement.” fine old English gentleman.’ ‘‘How !” said the other, in great ‘My heart is over the sea,’ father, amazement. “Whoever heard of such replied the unhappy daughter, ‘my a bargain? It is impossible!” lover is a sailor boy,’—‘I cannot live 1 In short, after many words, the bar- nlways single, and ‘I should like to ber seized the pack-saddle, and* sent marry.’ away the peasent in great distress, who, ••weet one,’ What are the wild after appealing to the Cadi and higher waves saying,’ asked ‘O.d Grimes’ judges in vain, next applied to the ‘When 1 listen to the ‘Shells of the Mufti, or M-ihomedan priest, ocean,’ father, I fancy I hear them say,: - He pondered over the question ‘Paddle your own canoe,’ bat, father, whilst he smoked his pipe, and drank That it was ton difficult a matter to settle, and that From Busliire to Ispahan. J YVomen! to the Front! ” _ Giiaricy, luvi scan her ‘\Y diking down j The wood-cutter agreed, union ■oplo are inclined to associate a turn- J Broadway,’ he would have said ‘O, she j the beast, and asked for the mony. with General Grant, because he does ; • i „ „i,«> 1 ,.v v_. . - ,1 so much summer-setting around Long ,.' T ‘ ,. ”.. . . i ^ ou ba . v .° no *' given tne all Branch. ‘As 1 met this little widow,’ ‘She; wood yet, said the barber. “I m A man in 'Tew York committed suicide recently while in a state of mental de pression brought about by the death of his wife's mother. “Ain't it wicked to rob dis here hen roost, Jim -Dat's a great moral ques tion, Gumbo; we ain’t got linn* to argue it now Hand down another pullet !” A Kentucky man purchased a coffin fif teen years ago so as to have it handy, and the other day he was burned up in a lime kiln, and the coffin was a dead loss The dying words of an aflectioate and thoughtful wife were : “Henry, if vou marry again, remember that it only takes : ,j prelbr t0 havc 301ue body paddle it for his coffee, then answered a cupfull of sugar to sweeten u quart gooseberries." In the audacious attempt to Africanize the South, says the Mobile Register, the disigning ami ignorant men who have as sumed the odium of that humiliating task have apparently ignored that most important element of civilized society— woman! A Banregard—a Hays—a Gibson— false to trace and country—and forgetful of the precious lives which have been sac rificed to build up their tame—now sunk in the darkness of contempt and execra tion —may pledge their own faith to the “unification" of races whom the Creator hns east in widely distinct moulds: reck less of the deep damnation brought by themselves on their own names, may suc ceed in assimilating their own fallen na ture to that of inferior beings; but thev possess neither the right nor the power to degrade to an equality with them selves that other half of the human fam ily whom God has—jointly with man- entrusted the inheritance of the Earth! These eleventh hour converts to ‘-uni fication" ard mi c genation may invite their male associates to their own bed and board, and lie down with them in promiscuous and revolting congeniality ; hut they never shall—they never can — bring the noble women of the South to tlu-ir own level! In their sycophantic adulation of a race rapidly sinking out of sight and whose fast ebbing fife is only gtlvanized into temporary activity by the poisonous touch of a corrupt political system, those men, who proclaim un bounded equality even unto the home and social circle, violently t ampled upon the rights of mothers, wives and sisters, and like the Athenians of old, cast out their virgins to the Minotnursof Radical ism ! But will those noble women submit to this odious and cowardly ransom ? Will they, whose loins have Imrne the fa'len heroes who sleep in the dust of a then- sand battle fields, permit the taint hearted survivors of the struggle to buy an igno minious pence at such an infamous price ? Will those women forget that they, too, have received in nil its purity the sacred inheritance of a common ancestry and that they cannot, without sacrilege, trans mit it to their own descendants tainted, and polluted in its fountain head ? When nations become so degenerate and corrupt that men are only fit io wear the shackle of servitude, history teaehes us that women, divinely inspired by nev er dying principles of devotion to race and country, steps up to the front of the arena, nnd like the Roman matron pass, ing to her trembling husband the dagger dyed ip-her own blood, nnd ext-lniming “Takjkit”— ft hurls not!’’ shows l.y her ex ample that death is preferable to disgrace, And to them we imploringly appeal to cast away from them, with loathing and contempt, the degenerate sons of their noble sires, and to spurn them, with hor ror from their ninterunl or con jugal em braces. Let them rc-vindicntc their imprescrip tible rights to their shares of that heir loom of greatness, virtue and sell-denial. w Uifh has shed much brilliancy on their na j*le. nnd future generations will rise up *wl call them blessed ! A conceited young parson once said : “This morning I preached to a congrega tion of donkeys.” "I thought so" retort- the lady “when you called them your be loved brethren.”' A druggist advertises that, in conse quence of cholera in neighboring cities, he will close his sod \ fountain from date, nnd that all tickets will be redeemed in cash or a very reliable cholera mixture. A Terre Haute edit- r, who speaks with the air of a man who has discovered a new fact by experience, says that the way to prevent yonr nose me. ‘If I was only married. ’ continued he could get no help from Koran; so Evelina, I’d be gay and happy’ 'in a ; he must put with his loss.” cot in the valley I love.’ | But not disheartened, he got ascribe ‘Sweet Evelina,’ I said, ‘I’m a young ; to write a petition to the Caliph, man from the country,’ and ‘I have no j This answered, and the wood-cutter one to love, none to caress me!’ Wilt was called i to the Caliph’s presence, thou ‘Come to my mountain home’— ■ who said, ‘Come and be my bride?’ j “Friend, the barber has words on ‘Yes, I should like to marry,’ re- his side, you have equity on yours; plied ‘The beautiful dreamer,’ ‘hut the law must be defined by words, and ‘My first love,’ ‘Captain Jinks,’ ‘I can ■ agreements must be made by words, ne’er forget.’ i The former must have its course, or . .L - - . . ‘Won’t you tell me why, Robin?’ I it is nothing ; and agreements must he ontofoTher neonle's business interrupted, as 1 took from her hand ; kept, or there would be no faith be- , utot other people un. mi. . * lfhe ^ r(Me of Su:mnl . r > > Tis but a j tW( ,. n man and man ; therefore,'' the- claimed a crusty old bachelor to a witty i f nded flower. Give, O give it me barber must keep all Ins wood, • young lady. “And man is always hug-I Ask wo not wh\, Lq she replied j A few daysaftir, thepeasetil applied some delusion or other," was the then saying’ Tis all for thee,’ as sue ; to the barber, as if nothing had liap- j handed me tiie rose and asked, ‘Wni' p-ned, rcqusti.ig that he and a covi- you love me then as now?’ j paniou of his from the country, might ‘With all my heart I love thee,’ I re- I enjoy the dexterity of his hand, and plied, ‘I would call me thy own,’ ‘I am the price of the operation was settled. gin quick retort. A student at a veterinary college being asked, “If a broken.winded horse were brought to you to cure, what would you advise t" prom ply replied, as soon as possible. The other day, at Lincoln, Nebraska, a lawyer arose and said- “May lc please the Court, there's a fight out doois. and I ask for a short adjournment." The court went out with him. A convention of all the Shaw lamily scattered through the New England States is shortly to be held, for the pur pose of determining whether they arc descended from the Shahs of Persia. A Judge in Indiana threatened to fine a lawyer for contempt of court. “I have expressed no contempt for the court,” •aid the lawyer; “on the contrary, have carefully concealed my feelings.” A tombstone.makcr in Boston chisels C. O. D. on a large portion ot his tomb stones. One ot his headstones reads; “Binnv Flaherty, C. O. D. Let her R. I. P A prominent lawyer of Albany, in fill ing out a check for $f>0 to pay a gas bill tor the last quarter, wrote on the check as follows: “Half for gas and half lor fraud,” A1 ice—‘D > you know, uncle, that that horrid Mr. Binks declares that you have taken to hard drinking V Uncle George Not true, my dear—no! never drank easier in rar life.’ A little hoy in Georgetown ran into House the other day, crying at the "'"‘t his voice because another little boy wilil nt let him put mud on his head like V^d'iglo. Some children arc just v their parents—no accomodati > n them. “To sell him fancy free,’ The girl I left behind me,’ ‘She has learned to love another,’ and now ‘Sweet Evelina,’ ‘you can live in my heart and pay no rent.’ ‘I cannot you are fooling me,’ she replied, and then smiling, (‘ That briijht smile hi“.nU me stilf), said, ‘You’d better lie off with the old love before you’re on with the new.’ ‘Yes Eli,’ she continued, ‘Can vou say, ‘Good by, sweet-heart, to ‘Kittie Clyde,’ ‘Nellie Bly,’ ‘Anna Laurie,’ ‘Nellie Gray,’ ‘Blue-eyed Mary,’ and ‘Widow Maeh- ree,’ and let them all go ‘Up in a baloon’ for me ? ‘Yes dearest,’ ‘Loving I trust in thee,’ I replied *1 will be true to thee,’ as ‘Old Dog Tray.’ ‘O, Sweet Evelina,’ I never could prove false to t!iee,’l sobbed then said, ‘Come O, come with me,’ and leave ‘The old folks at home.’ ‘When the swallows homeward fly,’ I continued, ‘Wilt thou ‘Come to the little brown house P ‘Breathe softly, Eli,’ said Evelina. ‘Can’t you ‘.Wait for the wagon ?” ‘No, ‘My dark girl dressed in bine ,’ ‘Come haste to the wedding,’ ‘You shall be the merriest girl that’s out;’ ‘Thou art so near and yet so far.’ Evelina fell into a trance, ‘Sleeping I dream love,’ dream love of‘Auld Lang Syne,’ she murmured in her sleep. Then taking out her handkerchief she exclaimed ‘O, ye tears.’ There she continued, ‘I will offer you this hand of mine,’ if ‘Thou will love me then as now.’ ‘And send off‘Dandy Jim,’ Cham pagne Charley, ‘Pat Maloy,’ ‘Ben Bolt,’ ‘Old Dan Tucker,’ and all ‘The Boys in blue?’ ‘No, no,’ exclamed ‘Sweet. Evelina,’ ‘Not for Joseph,’ you ask too much. ‘How I love the military;’ you may have ‘John Anderson,’ blit I cannot Mr.- Brittlebauk’s book on the social condition of Persia, which he visited duringithe famine, remaining until last summer, is of peculiar interest just now, when the receptions accorded to the Shah, in European capitals have made all things Persian matters of news.. “It appears,” says the Pa/I Mall Jtazette, reviewing the work, that a youth fresh from Eton, Mr. Brit- tlebank, pased froth Bushirc to the coast of the Caspian Sea, attended through the most distressed provinces by only a single native servant, yet he was never once molested. But though the wakings he received were thus ex aggerated, respecting the horrors of the i5hH*o4liere wns no oxwxftovatiun. His 4rst walk through Bushire was sufficient to satisfy him on that point. Owing to its situation, that port cs- ctped lihe worst extremities of the prevailing scarcity ; but still its streets were liaunted by men, women and children in the last stage of einancia- tion from hunger. “As he advanced inland, however, the evideuecs of the sufferings of the population became numerous and ap palling.! At Kazeroon, between Bush- ire and,Shiraz, he was the witness of a scone of the following description: The morning after my arrival a crowd of emaciated natives poured into the yard of the station. Some sat on their heels, some propped themselves up against the wall, others lay wearily at full length on the ground. They numbered in all—men, women and childrcti—a couple ofhundred. They worealll in rags or more than half- naked, ami the effluvium from them was jo fcetid that, although standing on the tpp of the station, about twelve or fourteen yards off, I could scarcely bear it. They were of ullages; but their suffering seemed to have told most on the children. 1 The girls looked like hags, the Itoys like aged dwarfs. Two or thr e Persian‘“gholams’—men who, when the telegraphic communication is interrupted, go down the line until they discover the place at fault—stood at the gate in order that tiic very poor and starving might alone cuter. ‘T could not make out what test they applied to discriminate between the famished and lmlf-famished, but I noticed that they rejected very misera ble looking women w ho supplicated for admission. Another ‘gliolam’ assisted the Armenian in distributing the dates, the form in which the relief was given. When the dates were brought in, every device was resorted to in order to ob tain a double supply, and the crowd sometiiaas became so wild that the trays mi the ..fruit was placed were tip-et, and what might in truth he termed a life-and-deuth fight was fought over it. The distribution over, the unhappy beings got back as best they could to their hovels to pine and suffer, sustained only by the hope of a future dole at the station. “The traveller was, however, only now entering upon the real famine region. Up to Shiraz ho found no serious difficulty iu obtaining horses, but at that town he was unable to buy a single beast likely to live, and was When the wood-cutter’s crown had been shaven, Ali Sakai asked where his companion was settled. “He is standing just without here,” said the other, “and he shall come in presently.” Accordingly, he went out, and re turned, leading the ass. “This is my companion,” said lie, “and you must shave hint according to agreement.” The barber r fused, and turned them both out of his shop. The peasant brought the matter be fore the Caliph. “Tis well,” said the Commander of the Fathful; “bring Ali Sakai and 1 forced, therefore, to travel thcncefor- A lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, at Woodston, deter mined to have their lodge room done up clean and nice. It was resolved unanimously that Mrs. K. should be employed to do the job. After the meeting adjourned the Guardian, who knew the inquisitive character of Mrs. K., procured a billy- goat and placed him in the closet that was kept as a reservoir for the secret things. He then informed the lady of the wishes of the lodge, and requested her to come early next morning, as he would then show what was not to be done. Morning came, and with it Madame K. with her broom, brushes, pails, tubs, etc., and found the Guardian waiting for ber. . “Now,.Via Line,” said he, I tell you what we want'done, and how we came to employ you. The brothers said it was difficult to get anybody to do the job, and not ho meddling with the se cret in the closet; we have lost the key, and cannot find it to lock the door. I assured them that you could be depended on.” “Depend on ! I guess I can. Mv poor and dead and gone husband, hif belonged to the Free Masons or anti- Masons, I don’t know which. He used to tell me all the secrets of the concern and when he showed me all the marks of the grid-iron made when he was initated, and told me how they fixed poor Morgan, I never told a living soul to this day; if no body troubles your closet to find out your secrets till I do, they will lay there till they rot, they will. ‘L thought so,” said the Guardian, “and now I want you to commence in that corner, and give the whole room a decent cletning, and I pledge my word and honor for the fidelity to your promise, now don’t go into that closet,” afiil then left the lady to herself. No sooner had site heard the sound of his feet on the last step of the stairs than she exclaimed, “Don’t get into that closet ?’ “I’ll warrant there’s a grid iron, or some nonsense, ju t like the anti-Ma sons for all the World, I’ll be bound. I will take one peep, and nobody will be any the wiser, as I can keep it to myself.” Suiting the action to the word she stepped lightly to the. forbidden closet, turned the button, which was nosoott- ner done than •'bah-h'’ went the billy- goat, with a spring to regain his liber- -ty, which came near upsetting her ladyship. Both started for the door, hut it was filled with implemen's for house clean in", and till were swept clear from their position down to the bottom of the stairs. The noise at:d confusi n occasioned by such uncereiinmics coming down Streets crossing each other at all an gles except right angles. Streets built on both sides, with plain yellow brick houses, for miles u)>on miles in length. Streets running under massive viaducts built of stone; streets commencing broad and well-built, with massive ed ifices, and diminishing into dirt lanes— the abode of poverty and vice. Streets commencing straight and ending in a curve; streets curved at both ends and straigtit in the middle. Streets paved with blocks ot granite, others with as- phaltum. Exceptional streets laid in Nicholson. Streets at the west, mag nificent beyond description, through which the rich roll iu elegant carriages, attended by servants in ostentatious T T. W. T> L. EDITORS AND fUOftttETOUS, At Tho :'Dollars T'cr Annum, CASH IN ADVANCE. HORRIBLE DISCLOSURES. Heartless Conduct of the Reverend Warden ot a Female Orphan Asylum in Iowa. Dubuque, Iowa, August 10, 1873. The Herald this morning publishes tlic following: Twenty-five miles south of this city is an Orphan Asylum, established in 1864, for the care of orphans nut over twelve years of age. It has been un der the charge of the Lutherans. Rev. J. M. Schneller, the Warden, has al ways stood high nnd enjoyed the confi dence of'he entire community. About five years ago his wife died, and it seems not long after that event he coin; ilLLUUvU vj> SCI \UUvc til USlCllwivl'Rto j ° , , . livery. Streets in the east where hou- menced a systematic course of se.luc- esty, poverey and hideous vice jostle against each other in the daily struggle for existence. 'Lands, alleys, obscure passages, dark courts, by-ways, delusive tion of the little girls under his charge. His first victim, so tar as is known, was a girl of twelve or fourteen years of age, who had been driven to the A-y- riiads, intricate paths, uncertain short' b,,n b . v uuhappy domestic relations cuts, all strangely mixed up and con- parents, tor causes not a fused. iShops in the east where the necessaries of life are sold in subdivi sions at a penny apiece-; shops at tho west filled to repletion with the richest of silks at a guinea a yard. A river spanned by a score of stone ned by Schneller she was turned out of the institution and taken to live with some very respectable people in the country, t<» whom site related her story. The people she lived with cx- ' pressed great indignation and made bridges, each as firm and solid as tho j considerable talk against i-c.inellci, earth itself. Thousands of" public tke citizens, generally maintained buildings are specimens of beauty, : [hat a man ot his high morality was built by renowned architects who pas- j innocent of the thing? nnd no attention sed away long since. Monuments like j ') as I ):l hi to it. I lie. Herald then men- iudex fingers pointing to the sky, Tioas other cases, with great patticulaf- countless factories with slender chitn- j >ty, stmilar.in character to the above, nevs, each one pouring out a continu-• The horrible and final denounce- al column of black smoke to casta pall j nient came . about three weeks ago. over palace and shrine, docks built for j V. ,c ^ lc S ir ^ s > named Bertha Nellis, islands, with narrow gates opening to fifteen years of age, went to.tho Mat ron and said she wanted to leave the. Asylum, hut refused to assign any reason. Being closely pressed and threatened with punishment if she did not give her reason, she finally con- the river, docks crowded with shipping from every quarter of the globe ; innu merable passenger steamers shooting the arches of the bridges; steamships, barges, ships, barks, schooners, brigs, - mud boats, propellers, machines, tor ft^-sed that it was on account o. hchn.el- dredging, tugs, war vessels, floating i b-r s conduct toward, the girls. She hospitals, canal boats, and river police I f ie,) *‘elute<l the particulars of how lie stations, lving at anchor in the dirty I J ia( | .seduced several little girls, ami water below the bridges. Thirty miles j bad made various attempts upon bet, of river hank, lined with great ware- j ,u ^ . so f‘ u faded. 4he Matron houses and crowded with all kinds of promised to inquire into the maltet, merchandise from the ends of the 1 l ' ut the « ardeu was that day absent. cart l, j On his return the Matron called upon Millions of people to meet; onini-. b ' m a' 1 *' j^ked for her pay, as she pro busses and cabs, carts, street cars, car- : posed to leave. On asking the reason, riages, drays, wagons, l ashing along ! s ' !t ‘ toldhim what she had heard. He the crowded thoroughfares or crossing " as dumb for a moment, but finally the bridges fVc.tn side to side; ,-nil- i recovering confessed a!!, and promised, roads everywhere, trains crossing the j wouM '“f, t» k « charge of the tops of houses; engines dragging cars ; children, he would himself leave. By for miles underground, trains than- i * icr advice he went at once to Galena, dering overhead', w hite steam of un-1 sought an interview with the Rev. seen engines coming up through the : , • Khntwood, Lutheran minister at iron grating at vour leet. Flaming _ at place ana President, of the Asv-. advertisements plastered to the brick j b,m Directory, and to him confessed walls. Plate glass shop windows,' , • gentleman was Horrified at brilliantly lighted at night from within, jreve.aliens, and demanded that, and more brilliantly from the outside, j j-chnellcr should at once resign ana , — e ... Gin palaces so radiant that you must ! l® ave ‘ This he dtd, and the Rev. Mr. the stairs drew hnlf-the towflju ^itne^ ^yiuk when you look at them, gin paia- j Rcmbolu, of Bellevue, one. of the. di- Mrs. K.’s efforts, to get from-under the 'ces' in which the silly pobr working rectory, took charge of tho institution. people spend upon beer what their j Schneilcr is probably on the ocean at children need for foo l and raiment. ! His victims, as far as can Gin palaces where countless women go ! be ascertained at present, are six little with infants in their arms to drink gin j ‘ r<J,n C! g ht u > fourteen years of with bloated men. Churches with j a o c - hardly equals in the world, chutches pile of-pails, tubs, brooms nnd brushes in the street. ' ' - Who should be first to the spot but the rascall y door-keeper. After releasing the goat, which was a 'cripple for life, and uplifting the rubbish that bound the good woman to the earth, anxious- j with gin palaces on either side ly inquired if she had been taking the -> l -— on— > •— :*l —-i Jegrees. “Taking the degrees!” exclaimed the lady, “if you call tumbling from A Connecticut farmer, who set out an elaborate scarecrow in his strawberry patch, was disgusted to find that a pair >t robins had built their nests and vrere raising their young under its hat. A man who married a buxnn Irish girl, greatly to the horror of his mother and sister, made the following defence :—“If 1 married an American girl I must have an Irish girl to take care of her. and I cannot afford to support both of them.” An old bachelor says that giving the ballot to woman would not amount to anything practically, because they would keep denying that they were old' enough to vote until they got too old to take any interest in politics. A farmer in Union county, Kentucky,, . . T - ■ . had his fences whitewashed. An old no-1R*'"® U P Captain.Jinks, 'O the Gap- account cow of his went around and ! ta bl with his whiskers,’ for ‘He was a consequently licked all the whitewash off. handsome man.’ That cow now gives two "aliens of milk a day. The moral draws itself. At a Sunday School at Ripon, a teach er asked a little boy if he knew what the .rxpre sion “sowing tea4’ nie tnt. • Courth I does,” said he, pulling the seat "t his little trousers round in front “There’s a tare mv ma sewed.” A servant girl told her master the other morining thnt she was about to his razors to me this instant In the course of a few minutes, the barber stood before him. “WhydoyottrefV.se to shave this man’s companion?” said the Caliph to the barber. “Was not iliat vour agree ment?” Ali, kissing the ground, answered, “Tis true, O Caliph! that such was our agreement; hut who ever made a companion of an ass before? or who before ever thought of treating an ass like a tr te be!i :ver?” “You may say right,” said the Cal- ward on hired horses, and even these were little more than skin nnd bone, front want of food. Corpses by the wayside, black and swollen, now be came more and more frequent on each successive day. “Near Ispahan, on riding into a caravanserai one. night,” says Mr. Brittlebank, “a faint gust of wind brought with it the smells ot a charnel house. On looking round I noticed a woman lying on her face. She was dead and perfectly naked, the few gar ments which she was accustomed to iph ; ‘ but, at the satuejtiine, who ever j WPar j m -ing been taken bv some other An , I 0 < r,, nntry gentleman, whose and j <r .i |ls t returned from school, a fins :i musical instrument in the otise. eallcj at one ot our music stores i u w ■ :in< ' " 8 ked for some music. The , asked him if he wanted sheet music 'oral or instrumental ? When the old .-Jo'^king he was Iteing trifled with. ’ 1W “ out, -I want gal music.” It is E got it. bawled out likcl y he m,.-.' hdlowing little n-ose poem of de ft \Y *.k’ " b,cb h»s lound its way into t„r» .i 171 P ’P er - has a suggestion of na- must awaken a re- ‘■^Yhv »k br ' ,b many a manly heart; »'• I ' • lb>v '* d° n ’t you come to see U|> until*.l! f fot , t ' vin * ; l#8t night I was —nanJ, jt re ® ° c ' ot 'h '• they had the colic 15 ’ n colic. Jane is I wri!«! am roc king the cradle while them n'id«; bUt r . ot ' ki ?8 aon 't always keep When Ti .'; whcn ,l I Sing ‘Ob, 'Fath r'i? * 1°° J r ,,sor ‘Welcome ''oath. Tin ready to depart.'” ‘False one!’ I shrieked. ‘Looking- out on the murmuring sea,’ ‘IIow can I leave thee ?’ ‘ W hen thou’rt gone from my gaze like a beautiful star,’ and I’m thought of insisting unon a pack-sad dle being included in a load of wood? J No, no, it is t!m wood-cuttcr’s turn now; to the ass immediately, or you know the consequences.” The barber was than obliged to pre pare a great quantity of soap, lather tho ass all over, and shave it in tho presence of the whole court, amidst the the jeers, taunts, and laughter of people. 51. P. A wonderful escape of a prisoner is recorded in an Australian newspaper. A French transport, having on board i»0n Communist prisoners bound fur the penal colony in New Caledonia, put Into the harbor ot Melbourne; for coal and provis ions. To prevent the escape of passen gers, boats were stationed around the ves-el, which was illuminated, and the number of sentinels was quadrupled. Not withstanding all the precautions, one ol give his wile warnin ; nnd quit the house. "Happy girl! would that I could give her warning and qu t the h >usc too !” was the brutal response. Don’t bother editors when they are busy. Quilp stepped into the imperial sanctum this morning to ask what he’d better write about. “Write about?” growled the disgusted chief; “I think you had better right alxmt fare!" and he did. ‘Why do you not hold up your head as I do ?’ Inquired an aristocratic lawyer of a laboring tanner. ‘Squire’ replied j the farmer, ‘look at that field ot grain. * All the valuable heads hang down, like mine, while those that havc nothing in them stand upright, like yours 1’ At the veterans’ re-union at Rock Point, Wednesday, the following toast to Maine was given: “Maine, The Pine Tree State. Although she pines continues spruce, plain and above board. She takes the beam out of her own eye and jabs it into her brother’s.” Several passengers, on the Lower Mis sissippi, were attracted by the alligators basking in the sunshine. “Are they am phibious, Captain ?” asked a looker-on. “Amphibious h—1!” answered the enthu siastic officer, “they’ll cat a hog in a min ute.” I • .1 • I ) Till . - • 1 1 ” till till, lint «l i* l 11 /. I r*, ttUU Gl lea Dig thee in sorrou, and, 111 t nek . the convicts, Michael Serigne, by wonder- of the, she replied, as sh ■ skipped ful courage, skill ami good luck, managed ‘Lovely as a Rose, ‘Along the Beach j to make Ills escape and to reach the shore, at Long Branch,’ humming ‘Then a distance of nine miles. At ninco’clock you’ll reniemher me.’ ! ' n t h° evening, he rolled out of one of <Tbmi TT’ t <,„;*! «T I fh 1 ' port holes nnd fell, white the senti- Then Sweet Evelina, I sa d I , ne iV back wa8 turned, on a coal boat net car ‘Sirnnr lotto itAad nmlit to • . must say,’ ‘Sweet love, good night to thee,’ ‘Yet soft blue eyes good night!’ ‘I cannot sing the old songs’ for ‘My heart is lonely now.’ With my ‘Heart bowed,’ I thought ‘It is better to laugh than be sighing,’ for ‘We may be hap py yet.’ Then dropping in at the West End, I said ‘Landlord fill the flowing bowl,’ and ‘We’ll drink, boys drink, till ‘Five o’clock in the morn- mereial. ing’—Eli Perkins, in X. Y. Com- A Detroit family yesterday re turned from a two week’s visit to the country in search of health and hap piness, and reported the following cas ualties: The husband bitten by a massasatiger; the wife run away with jyjd pitched out of a buggy; one of the boys dislocated his shoulders by falling from a tree: another sick with cholera- morbus, and the little girl just escaped drowning and was sick four- days. where he secreted himself till midnight. Then he lowered himself over the side of the collier and swam noiselessly to its stern where a small boat was fastened. He cut the rope that bound her, and swatn behind her some distance. The night was now very dark, and it rained hard. It was his intention to get into the boat nnd to paddle her to the shore; but hearing a noise on board the steamer, lie dived under the boat, and swam a good distance off. He now struck off for the shore iu the direction of a light, but after swimming an hour he was so exhaus ted that he thought he must sink. At this time he espial a vessel- at anchor near by. reached it. and hooked himself to thecablejwith his irelt. In this position he remained an hour, when letting him self down, he succeeded in reaching the shore. Walking to Melbourne, he found friends and sympathizers, who cared for his wants. poor creature starving in the chilly night. Out of the sockets of her eyes and mouth a black and noisome fluid was oozing, and the side of her lace and breast were knawed away. Two famished looking men and a woman were seated a few yards off glaring at the body with wolfish eyes. A horri ble suspicion seized me. I would not believe, and yeti could not doubt it, so hungry and ravenous were their looks.. Passing them, and stepping over two more dead bodies, I came to the stable on the right side of the yard. I entered it, and after waiting till my eyes became accustomed to the dark ness, discovered on . the one side the dead body of a matt, and on the other side, close to the wall, a woman and child. The woman was dead, the child just breathed. I hastened with it into the air, hoping that life mig be preserved in it. It was too late. “From Ispahan to the capital the suffering seemed, if possible, to grow more intense and universal. But when Teheran was passed, although there was still distress, it did not present the terrible form witnessed amid the barren mountains and sandy salt plains of the centre of the kingdom.” the top to the bottom of the stairs with the devil after ye, taking things by de grees, I havc them, and if ye frighten ed folks as ye frightened me, and hurt to boot, I’ll warrant they will make as much noise as I did.” “I hope you did not open the closet, madam,” said the door-keeper. “Open the closet ? Eve ate the ap ple she was forbidden ! If you want a woman to do anything, tell her not to do it and she’ll do it certain. I could not stand the temptation. The secret was there. I wanted to know it. I opened tha door and out popped the tarnal critter right into my face. I thought the devil had me; and I broke for the stairs with the devil butting tne at every jump. I fell over the tub, and got down stairs as you found us, all in a heap.” “But. madam,” said the door-keep er, “you arc in possession of the secret of our order, and you must go up to be initiated and sworn, and then go in the regular way.” RELIGIOUS DELUSIONS AMONG THE . NEGROES. churches filled on Sundays with well- dressed, intelligent, Contented, Chris tian people; and churches which are; j - placed on exhibition during the week ; ^ nc negroes of Spartanburg, in our for hire. 'Galleries of paintings, haunts ; neighboring State ot South Carolina, of vice, gambling saloons, theatres, ho-' seciv * 1° he blessed with an unusual tels, museums, gardens, courts, clubs, col eges, banks, breweries, schools and universities, prisons, markets, stalls, and palaces, hustled into obscurity be hind dirty walls of brick. Immense business at w holcsalc done in the dark, narrow lanes. Buildings of every con ceivable size, quality and value spread thickly over thirty-five square miles of amount of religious fervor. The lead er of these insane colored people is :r negro named Bobo, and his peculiar forms of worship are described by a correspondent of the Charleston News. During the last month a kind of revi val has been in progress in Bobo's church, and a few days ago it culmi- ated in one of the greatest religions area; and thinlvover far more—that’s j demonstrations ever seen in that couti- London. * i tr J'- Bobo, from ’preaching Christ,’ — went to preaching himself as “the A Volcano in Colorado.—A j new prophet high in favor.” His doc- startling piece of news has just come to ! trine was that the Lord had couunand- hand—no less than a minute descrip- j edhim to call together the children of tion by more than one creditable wit? j Zion, and lead them to the promised ucssofa volcano bursting forth a few j land, distant but one hundred and six- miles north of us. We were inclined j tv miles, and where they would have at first to doubt the statement, but it ; wings and could fly. After much cx- comes so straight, and the story is so ] hortation and many midnight orgies, well told, that it seems there must he j he said that the command to march' something in it. The facts are that last Thursday Mr. Burke, a reliable man of this place, was out prospectin: “Regular way!” exclaimed the lady, near the head of the North Bowlder. “and do you suppose I am going near the tarnal critter without a- briddle or a lady’s saddle ? No, never!’.’ I don’t want nothing to do with the man that rides it. I’d look nice perched upon a billy goat, wouldn’t I? No, never! I’ll never go nigh it again, nor your hall nuther—if I can prevent it, no lady shall ever join the Odd Fellows. Why, I’d sooner lie a Free 5Iason, and be broiled on a grid-iron as long as the fire could be kept under it, aud pulled from garret to cellar with a halter, in a pair of old breeches and slippers just as my poor dead husband. And he lived over it, but I never could live over such another ride as I took to-day.” A Curious Time.—A distressing tragedy is reported from Umbria, Italy, near Gualdo Taehino. A young married couple were one (lav engaged in field-work, while their child, an in fant at tho breast, lay some distance from them on the ground. Suddenly a shriek was heard, which caused the man firron and sec what had befallen the little one. A terrible sight met his eves. One of the snakes common in Central Italy, attracted, no doubt, by the milky odor in the baby’s breath, was attempting*to creep down its throat. In his despair, the frightened father grasped the reptile by the tail, which was still protruding, but in the endeav or to pull the snake out the tail broke, and the child choked. In his excite ment, the man siczed a shovel and 'An Invaluable Tea-Set.—Max Add er is responsible for the following : “VVc are glad to leam that the Emperor of China has issued a decree declaring that if the chief officer of his household han dies dishes so carelessly as to break them, lie shall be killed. We say we arc glad of this, because we hope to havc the same regulation put into effect in this country, If it is, about two thousand hired girls will'be executed every week, and we may reasonably hope that the destruction of crockery will be checked. We have stup ed it temporarily in our house by hav- in ' a teakettle made of wrought iron and painted white. When a new hired girl comes she drops the coffee-pot upon the (Your correspondent having been over that country, is prepared to testify that iu ages past vocanic eruptions must have been common.) Our prospector saw smoke at a distance which he at first attributed to a fire in the woods, but second thought convinced him that was not possible, as its locality was far above the timber line. .So, with the usual zeal of a prospector for something new, lie clambered up and down and over several ridgas of the main range, until, arriving at the place, ho found himself on the edge of a veritable cra ter. The place had evidently once been the scene of great and long con tinued volcanic action, for there was plainly to be traced the rim of a. pre historic crater, about one mile in diam eter. Within’ the ancient bowl and near the edge the young volcano had commenced operations. It did not emit violently while he was there, but contented itself with an occasional spasm, the rest of the time smoking as patiently as an old tobacconist. But the best proofs of his story arc bits of lava, evidently of recent origin, and several lumps of scoria. These are now being handed about among the boys, and are regarded with as much curiosity and interest as is manifested in the first rich “strike.” A large-par ty will start from here in a few days, determined to authenticate or disprove While a lecturer was describing the nature of gas, a lady inquired of a gen tleman near her what was the difference _ [ between oxygin and hydrogin? “Very struck his wife on the head (who re- When you see a drunken man em-j little, madam,” said he. “By oxygin j rnained at work, entirely unconscious bracing a lamp post, it is charity to] we mean pure gin, and by hydrogun, of what was going on) such a violent suppose thnt he has a “lien” upon it,'gin and water*” ! blew that she fell dead. Il. o . Finding with amazement, that it determined to authenticate or disprove does not break, she thumps it with a fiat - the matter. .Several men have al- ta/vn .. n ,1 *3 a..., - LuSolr.. nn U lint ran fl V HAOn t llOVA *4»all rnhl t>n UllfU iron, and drops bricks on it, and goes uot and borrows a t sledge hammer and whacks it; and then, perceiving that it is good as ever, she sits down in front of that coffe- p >t and burst into tears. Then she gives warning, loads up with sugar, beef and butter, for her sick aunt, embczzlas three or four hem stiched handkerchiefs, nnd 0ny old pillow cases that are lying around, aud starts for the nearest intelligence office. We wouldn't take a million dol lars fort hat tea-.set ready been there, and all return with lava trophies.—Central City Register. A lady residing bear Culloden. in this State, so says the Barnesvillc Patriot, has made herself a dress out of six yards of goods, t An old man of eight utedfor last week. rears was ex- _nty y< ecuted for murder at Newberne, N. C., had been received, that his discinles must sell all they had, and - without’ script or sword follow him. The poor deluded creatures sold crops, stocks,’ and everything they had, at a great sacrifice. One man sold his crop, said to Ixi worth six hundred dollars, for one hundred and fifty dollars; another sold a cow and calf for one dollar and fifty cents. Nothing could dissuade them from their purpose. They said it was the command of the Lord, nnd they must obey. Just before they started, the prophet said there was yet one more thing to lie done. It was necessary to the success of the journey that the oldest person among the faith ful must he sacrificed, because he be ing the oldest can tell the Lord most' about any of us. Oil examination, the oldest person was found' to’ lie id woman. She was taken and confined to a outhouse until a stick of peculiar growth could he found, with which she must ho killed. She did not seem to mind her danger, hut rather to rejoice. She certainly would have l>een a martyr, had it not been for the neigh boring whites, who had to use some show o£violence to release her. This was a damper or. the prophet and his followers, outdid not divert them from their purpose. Placing their smallest children and a few provisions in a two- horse wagon they net out on their march. On the march several attempts were made to dissuade them from their folly, hut without turning to the right or left, with eyes upturned they went on-without making any answers. The last heard of them they were crossing the mountains in the direction of Ten nessee. The correspondent adds: “This may seem like fiction., but it is true; the witnesses arc here, and I haver written no more than what to-day can be heard in any crowd or family circle in this county. The exodus is the grand theme of conversation and the wonder of the people.”

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Northeast Georgian. (Athens, Ga.) 1872-1875, August 29, 1873, Image 1