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BAINBRIDGE GA. AUGUST 14. 1873.
IjEEKLY DEMOCRAT
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ys he continued ac-
legal requirements,
Experience with the Bit-
of a Snapping Turtle.
in liamoil (ii soy, who, by
"iimny ami severe industry,
■I’i'ileil in getting his family
:!.nv, free nt incumbrance,
■iii in Stilt liiver, near the
lir.s'A wills, on Sunday after-
i'ler sitting i.n tlie bank for
■ ef hours, without catching,
-Taiiiieil to see, on the flat
the water, a snapping turtle
tself. Tlie bat-end of the
'inward him and he thought
'• rapture it; lint while he
' a ! t a place to step, the
•u-lv turned arottnii without
‘ii'iige, and when he got in
: distance and lient down to
i i t' what nature designed
'’taken hold of while hand-
apping turtle, that sociaMe
readied out an I took hi 11
'hand with a grasp that
' • it ef its sincerity. 1 he
die unfortunate man arous-
•! the neighbors, but when
'I'd it was too iate to be ot
‘tt to Inin, or even to them-
tihey just caught a g impse
d'.'n.ini man tearing over
'Winging a smalt carpet bag
i d and they at «*tr con-
it w as a narrow escape
- way robbery. However,
■ i a carpet-hag he was
i: was tb»t turtle, and it
!| .:.i until he reached the
’b-'et bridge, when it let go:
tigi.teneil man did not slack-
l!n| i! lie got home. When
’" ,1 b " house, the ludicrous
h.iir iinrst u|xm him, and
" u ’ ,e inked at his pale-face
" and dust-begrimmed
; I asked him what wa* the
" '»M: "Nothing was the
;■ y ne was afraid he would
fljr church," tod appear-
ttach altered to find that he
~ u '»ht.r v v rw *
Georgia New*.
Plenty of caterpillar, around Co) am-
bail.
Madison handled 10,000 bales of cot
ton during the past sets o.
The old Spotawood H tel at Macon
ia now called the “National.”
Col ambus enjoyed two good races on
Saturday. Good time was made.
Jefferson county is quaking over the
appearance of the caterpillar, but crops
look well.
Augusta has plaoed $250,000 worth
of city bonds on the market through
Cohen & Sons.
Money ae&rchers are at work in Au
gusta and it ia believed they have found
buried gold.
-Stovall’s Mills, in Augusta, ground
and sold in four days one thousand and
five barrels of flour.
The Griffin News affirms that H. I.
Kimball is in Switzerland. The great
man is in Newton, Mass.
The commencement sermon at the
University of Georgia was preached
Sonday by Rev. A. J Drysdale.
An attempt will be made to organise
an artillery company in Columbus, with
Major Blount as Captain.
David Crawford, a conductor on the
State road, fell under his train, and lost
his foot in consequence.
Columbus is feeling good about $60,-
000, which the Eagle & Phoenix Com
pany is paying out for dividends.
A negro employed in an Americas
saw mill was accidentally thrown upon
a large circular saw and cut to pieces
At the stockholders meeting of the
Savannah and Memphis railroad, the
old officers and board were re-elected.
John Willingham, Marshal of La-
Grange, was severely cut by an inebri
ate named Haynes, who had been locked
in jail.
The Athens Georgian proposes to is
sue a daily paper during Commencement
and the session of the Agricultural Con
vention.
By the premature explosion of a blast
of powder in a well at Eibsrtoo, two
men were seriously hurt and one is not
expected to live.
A darkey thief at Hartwell wedged
himself into a chimney so closely that
it had to be pulled down before he could
be liberated.
Horace P. Clarko, the retiring freight
agent of the Macon tpd Western rail
road, has received a set of knives and
forks from the employes.
Hon A. H. Stevens delivered the
annual address before the two literary
societies yesterday The attendance will
be greater this year than last.
Rome ha3 contributed $7,500 to the
fund for establishing the Baptist Female
College, and it is believed the first ses
sion will commence October 1st.
Col. W. K. deGraffenreid, one of the
most prominent and best known mem
bers of the Macon bar, died about three
o’clock Saturday afternoon, after a pain
ful and protracted illness, aged about
fifty years.
The securities on Foster Blodgett’s
bond, who prayed to be relieved on ac
count of Conley's pardon of their de
termination to carry np their case to
the Supreme Court for review.
Judge Lochrnne has gone to New
York for the purpose of holding a con
sultation with the holders of the bouds
of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad
Company. Judge Lochrane is confi
dent that the b ndholders will purchase
the road, and that they can get it for a
million of dollars.
DEFALCATION.
A Smart Little Sensation at America#*
From the Macon Telegraph.
Our sister city, Amerieus, is a placid,
even-going place, and does not very o?*
ten step to the front with anything like
a sensation. Lately, however, she has
run out of the old groove#, and has
found something out of the oornmon to
talk about, although she seems to have
endeavored to keep it all to herself.
The facts, as we have been able to as
certain them, are substantially as fol
lows :
Messrs. Barlow A Callaway are doing
a thriving mercantile business iu that
city. At least they knew that they
were selling a good many goods, at pri
ce# which allowed them # margin, and
were surprised, a short time since, to
find that they were unable to meet their
obligations. They did not understand
the matters at all They were satisfied
that the amount of goods they were
selling ought to have put them in easy
circuumuncea, sod give them some
spending money beside. They eo
not ** through the mvsterv at all at
the first glance, and were puzzled over ] of a—of—so forth, and all dat sort
it no little.
These gentlemen had in their employ
ment a young man named W. A Pal
mer The morals of this young man
were irreproachable. In fact, they were
on the high pressure style. He ab-
horrrtl bar and billiard rooms, never
waa known to swear an oath or utter an
untruth, and went to Sunday school
with a regularity which induced parents
of a baddish sort of boys to hold him
up as a paragon of all that waa strictly
moral and genteel for their b«y» to imi
tate. The model young man was book
keeper for the firm, had charge of their
banking business, and handled all the
money that waa received or paid out.
There waa no limit to the confidence
that his employers had in him. They
trusted him as one who bad not the
power to do a wrong.
When Messrs. Barlow A Callaway
found their business in such an embar
rassed condition—not hiving money
enongh to meet their obligations—they
opened their eyes wide, and for the first
time in months, began to look into the
very heart of their own affairs. An
investigation disclosed to them the as
tonishing fact, that the model young
man, to whom they had entrusted tlie
whole of their affairs, bad been carry
ing on a system of defalcation, which
had well nigh ruined his employers.
They scarcely believed it at first, but a
persevering investigation fastened the
conviction so firmly upon their minds
that they were forced to believe it—to
believe, not only that their trusted clerk
has been defrauding them, but that he
had actually defrauded them out of the
enormous sum of fifteen thousand dol-
dare. They were surprised—astounded
by the revelation.
Their next step was to charge the
crime upon him, and he admitted it like
an honest young man. and like a model
young man, proposed a compromise
The gentlemen acceded to the proposi
tion, and the young man returned them
three thousand dollars of their money
which he had stolen. A brother of his
afterwards found that he had seventeen
hundred dollars more in his possession
and made him turn that over also.
That ended the matter. '1 ho young
man was permitted to go and be a model
for young California youths, as be had
been for Amerieus young men. What
he did with the moucy he stole has not
been ascertained. All that his employ
ers know is that they are now sadly
straightened for want of it. One of the
gentlemen is in a ruined condition finan
cially. The other has ample means out
side of his business, and suffers less.
of tings. Why he says—
Dar waa aa old woman, and what do you
think,
She lived upon nothing but tittle and drink.
In de seventeenth place, section
de forty thieves: my Peruvian sun
s'wers—give your divided years my
attention—when a man entera de
holy bonds of padlock, when he leads
his gal to de halter, does he ever
tbitik how sad’ll be his fate before
he is bridle wise? Now When bis
queen of spades consumes de reigns
of government, suppose he should be
a little sulky, or de bridle couch a
little boggy den whar’s be gwiue to
git his cup of coffee in de morniuf
Why den lie will have to wagon de
best way he can, because when de
woman gets to wearing de feminine
gender of de masculine goo9e, dey
are soon to put de blind bridle on de
man and have dar own way.
Spargrass de forty-third, sextion
sick, lobster clause: my iufatuated
cinnamon drops, when Abraham
Columbus brought dis world ober
here, de new world dat he has just
got up ami patented, which he came
sailing up de beautiful river, what
was the lirst question be asked? Why
my intypient duhlies, as he stood tak
ing a drink ot lager beer with Presi
dent Grant, de poet and horse tam
er he asked Mullins what he got for
the last nigger he sold.
My disgusted hearers, let us look
at de tax bill; dar’s gwine to be a
tax put upon everything, and more
too. Free dollars an inch on de gal's
hoops; ten cents ou R d’s inelish,
and dat’s about as much as dey are
worth. My builder ignoramuses, in
de course of human events, it be
come useless to protract dis subject
nay furder, and now 1 lay me down
to sleep ou a ladder
FATHER CARTER.
A Regular 'Hardshell 8ermon.'
The Southern- Magazine has a sketch
of Father Carter, a "hard shell” Bap
tiat preacher, whose youth had been
spent in the mountains of Carolina, but
who was a noted preacher of his per
suasion He was aa enthusiast on the
subject of "immersion,” and being strong
in his own conviction, earnest and de-
c d;d in expressing them, he influenced
others. He gathered around him os
deciples men of higher cultivation than
himself. His preaching would aston
ish any city congregation, but it was at
least stirring in its character. In the
woods and under the giant trees and in
the log school houses of California,
where he was brought in contact with
minds ss rude and uninformed as his
own, it was that his emotional nature
met a response and carried his audience
with him. A favorite sermon of his
be called his “eagle” sermon and waa
from a text in Deuteronomy : "As an
eagie stireth up her nest, fluttereth over
her young, spreadeth abroad her wings,
tsketh them.” The writer once heard
it. and its general tenor is indelibly
stamped on his mind. After a long
preliminary exercise, he began:
My friends thar is meny kinds of
eagles. They are singular birda. Thar
is the gray eagle with white bars on
his head ; thar is the bald eagle ditto,
who goes about like a roarin' lion seek-
hat he may eat up. Thar is the
grand ole American eagle, what flops his
wings and flies over ail creation; an l
DAT's WHAT A 11a* saID. j hev hearn tell of a double-hedder, an
Secondly, in the third place in de Austrian, but I never seed one, and I
time of de wet weather, when it rain- don't believe thar is one, though that
eit thirty-seven days and twenty-four don't signify, for some of you uns might
nights in de long dry month of Augus, j say you hadn't never seed God. conse-
when Noah t ok into de Ark, out of j queudy tbur wurn't none. But thar is,
KU-KiUX SPEECH-
Dat's What a If an Said
Fellow-Citizens and Ladies in Par
ticular: I pears before yon dis even
ing fresh from de presence of my
vasher-woman, and de balance ol
my family, to elucidate de subject of
all de funnicahties, comicalities and
originalities.
Whar’s de good time coming! am
it here? am it dar?
My sweet geraniums, when de
Prince of Whales married Lncretia
Bogia, and de Radicals run ofl wid
all de Sunday school stamps, what
did Oliver Cromwell say? Why, as
he stood driking a glass of bay rum
wid Barn urn’s bearded woman, he
said to himscll—
was s tree ; then they put in it little
sticks, and littler and littler; till bime-
by it wur small and compack like. Then
they got ail the wool and down and soft
things, and put ’em d >wn in the bottom,
and on the aides of its insides, and
made it smooth and warm and comfort
able like—like unto the man who filled
his barns, and told hia heart to be eaay
and nateral like—and laid tbeir eggs
thar—but fur the terrible be—that ia
he wur to die that very night, and all
his nice things wouldn’t be any more
uce to him—though they wern't hurt,
fur all their eggs were hatched all their
young uns oarne octwitb nary a aingle
feather on them—nevertheless, notwith
standing far which
Wal, these angle* and tbeir young! take* appWa^ peaches which thing*
de wet, de elephant, de little pig.de
cock-roaches and all de other birds
—now you do you spose dat if he
had given de contract to build ()«■
Ark to Governor R dat it would
have been finished? Of course it
wotild nt. It would take every cent,
de old man had to pey the commis
sion and de taxes, because,
dat’s what a mas said.
Fourteenth chapter, eighty-ninth
section, mahogony drawers—my
night Washing seriousness:
Let ns take a front seat in de lob
by and look down amid de halls of
Congress, and dar we wiS find ebory
ting a failure, from de rising of de
moon even to de going down of de
cotton market. De star3 datdidnt
fell was failure: de buro is a failure,
because whar is de nigger dat eber
got one.
One eyed chapter, clause twenty-
nevertheless, notwithstanding for which.
Now I onct knowed a eagle—that is.
I knowed on him—and her too, fur thar
wur two on ’em, a big rooster eagle and
a hen eagle. It were in the big moun- j
tings of Californy. and thar they pitched
their tents in a taH apd toweriag pine
—right in the top—and it hung over
a deep precipice, whar tear was danger
of being participated down the preci
pice "when the loud winds did roer on
Californy’s shore.” But it wurn t; fur
He caileth His sheep by name and they
follow him. and the desert blossoms like
a rose, and the barren are better then
them that bear children—nevertheless,
notwithstanding for which.
Wal, these here eagles pitched thur
tents in this waste, howling wiiderneas.
whar they were aa lonely as a solitary
snipe iD dog days.
Fust they got whar thar wor two
crosa limbs; then they brought big
uns in their fine home, and had on soft
clothing like John the Immeraer wan-
dering in the wilderness, whar they wur
in King's houses—and the big nne fed
’em, as parents feed their little uns—
though thar'a a commandment agin
stealin’, which the eagle* have to do,
but it is their natnr—though that don't
signify, for it's a man's natur to steal
sometimes, and he’s got to fite agin that
natur fur when I would do good, evil
is present—and a man ain’t a eagle bird
by chance—nevertheless, notwithstand
ing fur which.
When the eagles growed up and had
feathers—that is, when they came to the
age of countability, whicn is expected
of boys and girls like—though eagles
natur is different—then the old eagles
wanted them to flow abroad and mount
wings of eagles.find jine the thong
that floats around the throne. And
that’s whar the text begins; for that’s
the way the Father wants us to do when
we reach the age of ’countability—to
upward—to fly upward—to fly up
ward and jine the band in the narrer
way, and pass through the strait gate
But they did not like to leave home and
their kindred and parents, and seek a
country like unto the good old Abra
ham—
•Whar, oh whar ia the good old Abraham?
U bar, ob whar ia tbe good old Abraham ?
Whar, oh wear ia tire good old Abraham ?
Sate in the promised land 1”
The old eagle goee off and "fluttereth
iver her young,” and that brings us io
the second pint of our discourse. ‘ She
fluttereth,” she flops her wings, like
unto a as yon have seen a hawk just a
gitting ready to pounce down upon a
poor field mouse—though it ain t like
that neither for the hawk Sutters in
wrath but the eagle fluttereth over her
young ones iu love Brethren and sis
ters, she flutters D love just like when
you see p or little uns a treading of the
downward path, and your heart flottera
nd flutters because you are afraid—
and she goes over her nest end hollers
squawk—which, when you hollers you
mean to tell ’em to "take keer! take
keer 1” only the birds talk ia not like
oar talk—and they hear that voice and
creep into the sides of the nest, and see
their fond parent a flopping of their
wings, and cry with their little peeked
voice, peek, which means father dear
and mother dear I like to fuller you,
fur
“Pm bound for tbe land of Canaan !
I'ft bound for tbe land of Canaan 1
I’m bound for the lend of Canean 1
For it io my beppy Lome,"
The eagle baa stirred her neat, she
hath fluttered over her young, and that
brings us to the third pint of the dis
course.
And now my dear friends what does
she do ? She spreadeth abroad of her
wings. Thar she is right up agin the
ky! her wings stretched like the shad-
der of a mighty rock in a dry land.
Thar below ia the little eagles a standin’
on the last stick, the last prop, holdin'
on with their trembling feet (like grim
death,) while fiery billows roll beneath
—tfeared to fly, afeared to stay, afeared
to do anything, afeared not to do some
thing, knowing thar is a deep precipice,
whar the worm dieth sot and the fire ia
not quenched, knowing that is a placo
whar the streets run with milk and hon
ey, and wh/.r thar'a no weepiu’ no
mournin', no gnashin’ o’ their teeth
from under eui. And whar are they?
Tea, and whar are you my brethren and
sisters ? Whar *re you ? Soars art
flutterin’ like wonnded d vea, down,
down, down to the lake whar they cry
for a drap of Water to ooo! the perchad
tongue, whar 1-asaruswms in poor Dives'
bosom—or a mountin’ up on wings of
eagles—whar they shall run and not
get weary, whar they shall walk and
not faint. Nevertheless, notwithstand
ing fur which.
And that brings us to another pint
of onr discourse, which ia He taketh
em. And thar'* different ways of takin
things. Thar's people with mighty
talcin' ways, and thar'a officers that
takas you to and thara hoys who
they onghtent—and thar’e people that
take* you in—which isn’t meant for
the good una which takes stranger* in
and takes keer on em—like unto the
Gomoriass when l.ott’a wife was took
into tbe house like a pillar of salt and
was divided into four quarters and sent
into the land of Israel, far which the
anger burnt agin em—for the hurt of
the daughter of Israel waa sore.
But lie taketh em—I don't mean the
eagles—and leads em to near pastnrea
and beside still watirs, whar thar’s no
more sighin' and sufferin’ no tnore
weepin’ and portin’—fur
"Parent* unit children thar shall meet I
Parent* and children thar shall meet 1
Parents and children thar shall meet 1
Shall meet to part no more
On Cenaan'a bappy shore 1”
Imagine wll this uttered in an impaa-
aionate manner, the tearsmt times stream
ing down tbe preachers face, and the
quotations—psalm book. Mother Goose,
or Franklin’s aphorisms—chanted with
a rich, fall voico, and you can get a
glympse of Father Carter in his palmy
days.
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA COM-
MESCEMENT.
Alumni Dty.—Bishop Pierce’* Ad-
dxeu etc.
Athens, Ga., August 6,1872.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:
Last night the final celebration .of
the DemosthenUn Society cam® off
in the chapel. J. D. Scott, the ora
tor, delivered a good speech.
Aimer Thornton, of LaGrange.
then presented the medals, as fol
lows:
Best debater, H. W. Barron,
Athens; second debater, C. Q. Mc
Cord, Augusta; best Sophomore de
bater, P^A. Stovall, Augusta, best
debater agricultural department,
Fred. D. Pope, Washington.
Tbe young gentlemen also had
“tbe annual dancing soiree" at Den-
tree Hall, which was a complete suc
cess. The ladies all looked their
prettiest, and all enjoyed themselves
until early in the morning. The
greatest belles of the occasion, and
of commencem nt, were Miss L. L.
of Mucoa.aud MissL. S., of Waynes
boro.
At 10 o'clock this morning the
Alumni Society held its annual busi
ness meeting. The election ol a
trustee for the next four years came
up, and upon motion of Col. Sam
Halt, Mr. John C. Rutherford, of
Bainbridge, was re-elected.
The chapel was well crowded to
hear the address of Rev. George
Pierce, who took as his subject:
‘Public Opinion—its Origin and in
fluence.” I do not like to attempt
to give an analysis cf the speech,
because do analysis ever does justice
to the speaker. His subject shows
bis Ike of thought,and first as to its
origin. What, then, is this mysteri
ous element called pobfic opinion ?
Is R tbe opinion of a class ? Is the
press its exponent, or is it the silent
unuttered opinion of tbe multitude?
Public opinion, popolarity so-called,
is an exceedingly complicated affair.
It is as complex as the wheel of
Ezekiel's vision. It is sometimes a
perfect personification of demagog.
Then there ia conventional opin
ion, that common to nil classes and
agns ot society. ProlesaioofiJ tdfo-
syncraslas of lawyers,' doctors, etc.,
that extend nut«ard, and contribute
largely to public oplnic®. There ara
old people'* notions, and young ; eo-
pie's too, especially young men.
Here be showed how vice bad It#
influence. Also, he went on to show
how one man conld direct pablic
opinion by bravely leading ill. No
men’s private opinion. W one
break the Ice, end the others floun
der across whenever tbe. way la
cleared, these men are a benefit to
the world. Then be began to throw
a flood of hnttior Into bis speechthat
Was well received, about the maw's
fashion*,• and the Mle*, how h yt
dressed in the highest of style, played
the gallant at an age younger than
thair lathers were When they wore
their first shoes. How In young la
dies nature had been transformed
into art by pad* and pulti and bus
tles and tbe like./ It was a grand
speech—one hi every way worthy of'
its author, and tbe attention and ap
plause given him evinced in what
spirit it was received by the audi
ence.
The Weather Is cool, owing to
Cloudiness, but the eujoyment of tbo
visitors b unabated. Gen. Toombs
and L. Q. C. Lamar are now here.
At 7 o'clock tbe Alumni banquet Is
Held. The 3. A. 8. fraternity bol I
a reunion to-night. Ifte X. A. held
theirs last Friday night, alter the
adjournment of its convention. The
others will bavo theirs before com
mencement i i over.
Tbo trustees have Changed the
University vacation. Instead oltwo
vacations of a month each, In sum
mer and in winter, there Is to be
but one, from commencement, the
first Wednesday in Angnst, to the
firs Wednesday in Octcber. Many
persons here doubt tbe expediency
of such a change. The Board le
very roll and stlfl continue to hold
iheir meetings.
Topping Cottas a Remedy far the
CeterpUIor-
Mr. J. McMlchael, a Vary worthy and
reliable planter, residing in Upson coun
ty, announces that removing th* bud of
the topmost boughs of the cotton plant
in seaaoM when tbe wetrm ia reported,
ia a sure preventative of their ranges.
In 1868 he experimented on one field,
topping half of it and leaving the re
nder untouched. The result wee »
heavy crop from the topped portion, and
the utter destruction by the caterpillar
of the other half
3mce then he has ooWrinwed the prac
tice whenever threatened by the insect,
with the same success. Mr. McMich-
ael's theory is that the fiy deposit* it#
eggs in every instance in the bud of the
stalk, and if this it destroyed the forth
coming ewarw of worms ia effectually
stopped He ia vary particular, how
ever, to take nut of the field in bags or
baskets all the tender sprouts clipped
from the ptanf. as the egga might hatch
if they were thrown upon the ground
md suffered to remain there. We give
thia statement just aa received from tbo
author himself, for whose veracity and
respectability Mr. SaUflahory and other
gentlemen here will vouch. Indeed, iV
waa at the instance of (ha former that
we were induced to solicit the abov*
facia for publication. The remedy ia
simple and can nt leut do no harm. Let-
our planters test it generally. Of oouaw
the topp'ng should be done with th#
first sppearanoe of the insect.—Macon
Telegraph <t Meszenger.
knowin's they hadn't got nothin’ here, j uism. It is that which is sometimes
and wont have nothin’ thar ooleae they j appealed to to vindicate a reproba-
stir themselves and fly upward. Why | ted action. It is the easiest thing
d n't they fly upward ? Thar they j in the World to Ibrm <i public opin-
fourth, special act of de Ramp Con- sticks, and laid ’em carefully round and
gress; my beloved wholly hawks, j round until it began to look like a big ,
what doe? do DOio »av on d« subject j halloo# careening to the sky. only it |
tremble and shiver and cry oat, and
want to fly but dusfent—waiting for a
convenient Beaeon which never cornea
and ther above ail ia the aid eagle a
spreadin' above of her wings and look
ing down to see if they won't do some
thing. just like men and womin, instead
of stayin' there like marble etatnee to
be wafted about by every breeze, and
thar one ia a spreadin’ ahroif of her
wings, until at last she give* one great
squawk of wrath, and flops down on the
whole brood, and knocks the la* pin
i >c to shield a vice of the many. In
a social phrase of the subject, trace
it to the family fireside. The fami
ly is the embryo of society, “here
the restraints of opinion are con
fined to a narrow origin—to half a
score. It is an humble beginning,
but the little Btream, arising from
a little obscured fountain, goes od
till it is a river of infinence, that
colors the ocean into which it flows.
This influence shapes tbe destiny ot
our country
A Singular Case-
On the 15th day of August, I860 1
the dwelling-house of Geo. Worcester/
intbetoWd of Harvard, was burned,
and a man named Clark Fairbanks, whor
resided in tbe town, and had soma dif
ficulty with Mr. Woroaator, was sus
pected so strongly of haring set the fire
that he was arrested, dried and eon Tint
ed of arson, being sentenced October
21.1861, o imprisonment for life in
the State Prieon. He was pardoned
April 29, (Sffl, ou condition that if
again convicted of any crime his first
sentence should hold good against him.
In May kftt. while indulging in liquor,
he quarrelled with a man ia Fitchburg,
was prosecuted, convicted for tattui t
and battery, and sentenced for one
month in the House of Correction. At
the expiration of the thirty dsye, War*
den Chamber!:;,n called for him, and un*
less again pardoned he wtii Earn to serf#
s life eenteaoe.—Boston Post,
