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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.”
