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THE EASTMAN TIMES.
TlW B Sl>AY. Ot'T. M 1886,
VI. L. BURCH, E B. MILNER
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WILLIAM ON WIGGINS.
What Bill Arp Saw in Atlanta on the
291 h of September.
On the 29th I took a little run
down to Atlanta, where the great
Piedmont escarpment is, and I
found everything quiet —very quiet.
It seemed like Sunday up to about
three o’clock. T never saw as few
people stirring around in that lively
city. There were very few travel¬
ing on the trains. My friend Por¬
ter, who keeps the gate at the pas¬
senger depot, quit his post and was
meandering around. 1 went to
Thompson’s for dinner, and he was
asleep in his chair, with his paper
on his knees.
I looked into the drug stores, and
saw no ladies, except two colored
ones at Keely’s, and they were af¬
ter some golden slippers with which
to climb the golden stairs. Captain
Keely was out. 1 went over to Jim
Anderson’s, and Jim was out. I
advanced cautiously to The Consti¬
tution building, and Howell and
Grady and Hemphill were out. I
found Jack Henderson m the agri
cultural hall, but he looked uneasy
and left in a few minutes. He said
as he looked up, “This is a shaky
old house. ’ Everywhere I went
the boss was out, and the clerks
didu t know where lie had gone or
when he would be back, but a know
ing friend whispere l to me that it
would be late in the afternoon.
They were afraid of these brick
buildings, and had gone to wooden
ones. The children were not at
school nor on the streets. The dar
kies were subdued, and the little
newsboys seemed lost for lack of
customers. Nobody was alarmed,
but everybody was in that peculiar
cautious state wliicn said, "I don t
believe a word of it, but still I n il 1
stay at home to-day. 1 lie clerks
were at their posts and offices, and
reminded me of Casabianca.
I met an Israelitish friend and
said, “What makes you look so sol
enin to-day?” “Well, my
it is not de earthquake at all, hut
dis is de last day of de Jewish year
5687, and to-morrow I close mine
store for worship.”
An old Englishman said: “The
hearthquake does not trouble me at
all, but 1 ’av no liking for a toruodo.
I am hawful scared of a tornado. I
’ope hit won’t come; hut there is
something behind it all that con
sans me, and that is ’ell and dam¬
nation.”
“Said Ito John: “Have you heard
aything about what is going to
fppen to-morrow?” “Yas, sir, I
Vr. ’em talk about dat last night
hurch, but dey didn’t know who
l it agwyne, and so I no bother
„ /self. Dey ax my’pinion, and I
say I say I ain’t got no ’pinion. I
jes gwine to wait. De Lord make
me. I didn t. I belongs to him,
and if he wants to omuake me or to
make me over again he can do it.—
Its none of my consarns. I ain’t
nuffin but a poor nigger, and I ain’t
agwine to make to make no fuss
aboutit. But I is gwine to cut
wood to-morrow onless somebody
steals my ax. I jes as leave de Lord
cotcli me cuttin wood as prayin and
shouting and singin around in de
meetiu house. I seedde stairs fall
away back, and dey didn t git me,
and I ain’t afeered no more of
nuffin.”
Well, it is all over, now and eve
rvbody is calm and serene. Jld
Mother NN iggins is dead and gone
and a thousand editors have preach
ed her funeral. The weather w,ll
^fhave to get up a new prophet now.
I notice that the candidates have
brightened up. They were a little
gloomy at the idea of being prema
turely cutoff from the next legis
lature, but they have got a prospect
m I nr I I .1 j TTn II— H \ STMA N m 5 JiltJliilik. ft *4 4 t / % •• ' I i 1 \LJ 9
VOL XIV
left. There are seven in the field,
and five of them have nothing but
a prospect. Two will be taken and
the others left They have our
sympathy in advance. I wish there
was an office for each of them, for.
they want to do us all the g*»od
they can. Our people are somewhat
bothered. They would like to har¬
monize on a Bacon man and a Gor¬
don man just for the sake of peace,
and to unite the organized democ¬
racy, but it is all in confusion, and
there will be more single shooting
than there ever was before.
Now, we do not want to make any
mistake about this whiskey ques¬
tion. We are trying to build up a
town that will have some reputa¬
tion for its morality, We are in
earnest about establishing a female
college of a high grade, and we can
not expect patronage from abroad
with a town full of saloons. Our
country people would not send their
daughters there. We do not want
the saloon door opened. 5\ e want
no elections every two years on that
question. Let the law stand. 1 i you
want whiskey, go to Rome. A ou
can do it; I see jugs put off the
express car occasionally. Therein
plenty for snake bites. The doctors
are making no fuss about it. The
mothers and sisters are contented.
The preachers say amen. Tho court
house is grateful. The jail is hap¬
py and the callaboose is calm and
serene. The poor man’s horse used
to stand hitched to the rack until
midnight, but he don’t now. The
country boys used to gallop home
in the dark, yelling anti shooting
their pistols; but they don’t now.
The experiment is a success, even
though prohibition does not alto¬
gether prohibit, and so we say let
the law stand. It has stood for
years and years in some places. -
Half the country churches in the
State have prohibition for three
miles around them, and here is a
town with half a dozen churches
and a tabernacle, and wants a col
lege. "Whiskey and pistols have set
us hack, and we can do without
both. A truthful man told me that
lie attended church at Cassvillelast
Sunday and lie saw four young
gentlemen there under sixteen years
of age on one seat, and each of them
had a pistol and had them out
showing them to each other while
the minister was preaching. We
i aws enough if they can be en
forced. There are parents all about
who have given up their children,
an q admit that they cannot
control them. Then let the court
and juries take hold and see what
they can do. Grass has been thrown
a t the boy in the apple tree long
enough. Let us see what virtue
there is in stones, Bill Aht.
COULDN’T GET IN.
The following from the Estelline
Bell just fits many of the country
ation:
“What class do you want to enter
your horse in?” said the president
of the agricultural fair as he met
the honest farmer at the gate.
“Enter my boss? I ain’t got no
boss to enter nownere.”
“Don’t you want to put either of
your horses on the track?”
“No, sir.”
“Got a wheel of fortune or any
such thing you want to set up?”
“Now!”
“Then what are you driving in
with the team and wagon for?”
“Why, I’ve got a pun’kin here
four feet high, and a lot of big corn
and some of the best squashes in
the whole country; and there’s a
two-year-old steer tied behind the
wagon that beats anything you ever
saw, I know.
“That may all be, my friend, but
this is no place for you. If you’ve
got a horse you want to put on the
track kind of confidence ,
or any a
game, you might come 111 , but as it
is we have no room for you, Come,
move on there, and give Col. Toe
weight a chance to drive in. Go
and feed your garden truck to your
big steer.”___
Instead of considering himself a
public servant, with a duty to per
form, the officeholder too often
seems to consider himself a public
^ aVtheir owi k ex
j X , nse _ This reminds us of the Ken
tuckv legislator, who when ap
proached upon the subject of a.L
when they were getting five dollars
per day and pie every meal”
^ aevol ^ nghtheI
s h e exclaimed with enthn
s i asm; “Oh, put him back and give
him another term.”
EASTMAN, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. 0(T. IT 188(i.
A FltJHT WITH PIRATES.
It waa in the year 1S63 that a
British cruiser was despatched
from Sidney around into the Banda
sea on-a double mission, and I, John
Iqiullner, purser’s clerk, was on
board of her.
Three or four British vessels,
trading among the islands, had
mysteriously disap, eared, and on
several oec isions reports had been
made of piratical pursuits and at¬
tacks. The name of our cruiser was
the Pandora, and our orders came
from the Home office. The instruc¬
tions were to cruise from Avoo Is¬
lands, of the west coast of Guinea,
across to Celebes, taking iu the
whole length of the Banda sea, a
distance of a thousand miles.
We had been cruising a month
befere anything happened out of
the usual routine of sea life. Then,
one morning soon after daylight,
as we were steaming at half speed
fi> the west of the Amboyna Islands
an 1 about three leagues away vve
picked up a sailor lashed to a plank,
y^ e ^ hia*done f or) Rut after
the surgeon had worked over him
for awhile he came back to life, and
in a couple of hours was strong
enough to tell his story.
He was a German, and one of the
crew of a German brig trading to
the Spice Islands. Three days pre¬
vious, to the northward of Bouro
Island, the brig bad been attacked
by three native boats, carrying
each about 40 men. Her crew con
sisted of 12 men, and, as they had
no weapons but muskets, the Cap¬
tain decided that defence would be
useless. He hoped that an easy
capture would induce the pirates to
spare the lives of his men.
it was about dark when the pirates
seized the brig, and their first move¬
ment was to drive the crew below
and place a sentry over them. Then,
while a portion of them sailed the
brig to tlie east, along the north
coast of the island, the others gath¬
ered such plunder as the ship con¬
tained. Her cargo was of no good
to them, but they wanted sails and
cordage, chains, and whatever could
be made use of in fitting out their
own craft. Before midnight they
had her anchored in a cove on tho
coast, and the crew was ordered on
deck to get the plunder overboard.
She was first stripped of her sails,
and the crew were engaged in this
work when they witnessed the sad
death of the captain and mate on
deck. The pirates believed, or pre¬
tended to believe, that the brig had
a large sum of money aboard. She
may have had a few hundred dol¬
lars, but it is not likely that she had
above a thousand at outside figures.
Whatever sum she did have was
handed over without dispute, but
the pirates were not satisfied with
it, and made threats.
The mate was killed first, getting
a blow on the neck from a huge
knife, almost severing the head
from the body. At this the captain
went down on his knees, and beg¬
ged and prayed for his life. They
ordered him to produce more mon¬
ey, and when he could not they
made his death a lingering one.—
They cut off his ears, nose and fin¬
gers, and as he danced about the
deck in his agonies the wretches
uttered loud cheers of delight.
The men aloft were in a state of
terror, but Hans, the man we pick¬
ed up, was perhaps the coolest of
the lot. A quantity of planks and
spars had been thrown overboard
before the mate was killed. When
the tragedy began all tho natives
crowded aft to be spectators, and
for a moment the bow of the brig
was deserted. Has was on the fore
Inast) (m j wlieu tbey began tortur
ing the captain he made up his
mind U) eBcape . H e asked a corn
rade to p ut p,,. man
was to terrified to move. Hans de
gcended the „ JiroU( l s a ml .flopped
overboarJ without being discover
eJ He first gwam U) the 8hore>
whicll wag only a few hundred feet
away, hut finding people on the
b eacdl j ie res ted for a few minutes
and returned to within fifty feet of
the brig, where he found a plank,
His idea was Uj make use of this
fl oat to land himself further down
^ but B curren t set him out
^ a littIe - and he lashed himself
fast, hoping that wind and sea
might eventually drive him ashore,
l ngtead of that he was driven ^
^ to W ^
and thirst and the heat of the sun
had about done for him, when the
Pandora picked him up. We were
"dtlnn five hours run of the cove
whe re 116 German bng had been
anchored, , and the cruiser was at
o kv herded ,n that direction.
Hans had given information that
the pirates afloat and ashore nura
boreal at Least 300 men, and that
each of thoir boats carried at
one six-pounder. It might there
fore be expected that a lively scrim¬
mage would take place when we
ran in upon them.
The Pandora made ready for it,
and her crew, all of whom had
learned the story of the German,
were enthusiastic to get to work.
Our approach was sheltered by
the heavy forest along the coast,
and the pirates had no intimation
of our presence until we rounded
a point and brought tho bight or
cove into full view. It was a body
of water about a mile wide and four
miles long, and at the lowei'end was
the dismantled brig and three na¬
tive craft. There was a good depth
of water in the bay, and we drove
right down at the follows with
slackening speed until about a mile
away. They were at first thrown
into wild confusion, but presently
recovered and rushed aboard of
their ow f n boats to give us fight.
The wind was off the bind, thus be¬
ing fair for them to come out, and
as our Captain saw that they meant
fight, he turned tho Pandora about
and steamed off, as if afraid of them.
They, set sail and followed after,
and we drew them at least a couple
of miles from the beach before the
Pandora turned on her heel again.
The boats bad six-pounders,as they
were represented, and they popped
away at us and kept wasting their
powder for half an hour.
When we turned every gun was
loaded and every man at his station,
and we were not a quarter of an
hour sending the three craft to the
bottom of the bay. One of them was
settled by one shot crashing into
her at the water line. As the last
boat went down we saw numbers of
pirates flouting on the surface by
means of wreck stuff, and our ma¬
rines were called upon Jto lire at
every head in sight. Of the him
dred or more who came out to meet
us, not one escaped death. It was
evident that the island was a ron
dezvous, for most of the stuff from
the brig had been landed there, and
there were quarters on shore for ut
least three hundred men.
The Pandora turned her guns on
the place driving the few people ou
shore to the woods, and a detach¬
ment of men landed and set fire to
whatever would burn. The brig
had been completely dismantled,
and, as she hud been run high and
dry ashore, wo put the flames to
her. Not one of tho crew could be
found, dead or alive. Here and
there the deck was splashed that they with
blood, and it was evident
had been butchered, one after an¬
other, anti tossed overboard.
GREAT MEN WHO WORKED.
Asliaineaot A Shamed or work woik, bovs ooys, goou, good hard uaia
honest woikf Then 1 am indiamed of
you; ashamed that, you know so little
about gicut men. Ru«nan
Open vom-oh' »sllory-now
and lead ol Linunualus. un tuu
day on which they wanted Imn to be
a dictator where did they hud aim.
In the held, plowing.
^
Uiuit i JIUS out Ol iiiuj. look * him
up, you will lmd him busy ou las ,
1 he o cat Cato- vou have surely
l.ca. —'um 1 ol him how he rose 'state; to all the
Roinaa jet he
was often seen at work .n the Held
with his slaves.
8cipio Afrieanus, who conquered
Hannibal and won Lari huge tot Rome
was not ashamed to labor on his own |
farm. ;
Lucretia, one of the noblest of Ito- '
man matrons might have been seen
many a day at work Mpinoiug uuiung
her maidens.
Better even than the example ol
the noble Romans is theadvice ol the
wise man: “Whatsoever thy hand
lindeth to do, do it with thy might.
Butter than this even are the beau tl
tut New Testament words: Not to
be slothful in business; fervent in
spirit, serving the Lout.
1 here . alter hearing or these lew
instances you wid sureiy not be
ushameit to work and earn D-UI dail
bread, ion had better weai ou. than
to I u,i '•ut. Tiniaueipii a Lab.
A Snrpris ng Case.
Dickens has been much criticised
for his 2 »p[Kii' 6 Dt ncTeptflDce of the;
fact of human spontaneous corobiis
tion, but Su \\ . Guil lately testified
to a surprising ease before the L,om
rnittee of the House of Lords on In
lem[)< . rance . A large, bloated man,
who was suffering from difficulty oi'
breithing and great distension of the
voTnoHcm Urn hribS'lav
;md the body was thought to be dia
tended with gas. When puncture,
Ld'l lighted 'm.tH. apl
plied, the gas which escaped burned
with the ordinary flame of carbur t <1
by-'-ogen.
From the LiWh&elri (EnglamVl Herald.
THE PHENOMENA OF EARTH¬
QUAKES.
mlwe o1t „„ limt , a fnrth
in strann* rnuAUms, an»l :u« tnmmiK «mU
.Stu'd
H.r womb, wliiuli. tor euhrgvmeut striving,
Shakwisstfu.
In the study of that woudetful
and exquisite machine, the grain of
mustard seed, among the countless
orbs that, wheeling round their cen
trul suns, float through infinite
space, we are with increasing kuowl
edge daily impressed, more and
more, with tho benificence of “the
Hand that made them all.” The pen
that gives the early records of ere
ation in Holy writ, could not write
anything more expressive than "be
hold it was very good.’ What brain
of living creature, however wise or
benevolent, could devise laws more
perfect or incapable of departure or
variation without evil results. The
world, as a machine—like man upon
its surface—in its accompaniments
and changes, its coverings of air and
water, "lives, moves, and has its
being,” In the more active move
ments of these two elements, so
often charged with death or doso-
1 at ion to men and their works, we
see a constantly decreasing relative
degree of injury from increased
knowledge. Man becomes fore
warned by observation; by inward
ly dijesting and reflecting upon tho
great laws of nature, and is fore
warnxl agaiustovil in consequence.
But the earthquake, as connected
with the beniffoeuce of the Creator
is, to many, a deep mystery. Bo far,
m in knows not whence it oometli or
whither itgoeth.or the times t here¬
of, or how to be prepared by fore¬
sight against its Lwful ravages. It
is everywhere tho source of a hor¬
rible feeling of fear—a feeling that
no experience, even in countries it
periodically visits, can greatly di¬
minish. Within the last half cen
tu r y nearly 100,000 human beings
have prematurely died, and million
ou million of pecuniaiy loss has
been sustained by the shaking of
w hat is often, in many parts of the
world, anything but terra finna.
Latterly, the uncertainty in this re
f pect, even in the British Isles, has
been brought home to us, and we
propose to give a brief notice of
the times and maimer in which
they and other parts of tbe world
have been visited with this 'horri
ble ague fit” during the last sixty
years. To begin with our own is
lands, so favored in menu respects,
one is recorded in England 22 j ears
after (lie Conquest, and again at
Lincoln in 1142, and in 1274 Gins
ton bury was so destroyed. On tho
14th of November 1318, a shock the
severest then known, was felt. In
1382 there was a severe «bock very
dramatic and coincident in its char
ecter. Wy: J liff had been suspected
not only of heresy, ...... but with having
8 yrapathised with the sufferings of
peasant*, and John Ball
i ' . the revolt and war of that
name. Courtenay, the Frimate of
a! | England, las deadly foe, hnd
summoned him to the capitol be
fore a solemn conclave or conveu
tiou oi churchmen , I as an arch her
^ tl lmdbeen , . . Uft rf . ' n « ,,1H .■ VU1C,
the iniquities of the . of :
city
London, then containing 35.000 , a*
habitants. He did not appear, but
while the assembly sat in expecta
tion . an j wllile they wor0 ^aitjj.g tu
‘-y tbe man who was to sn i ikt i po
tentates and powers, tho severest
eaithquake ever known in England
1 ^ t , jat tjrne Qr 6ince rock the
hall, and two days later there was
another shock. In lb'JU one was
f e p jf, Dublin. But in tbe British
j h j ( , h no f ur tn.-r shocks are men
’ .mm i 10-9 ,., 1 ,,.,,
’
there slight , shocks, and , lu .
were
Cornwall iu 1800. in 1863
were several shocks in Scotland
t , ce , ltr al and western simnltLe por
turns of EngUnd beinr being sunultane
ocs f rorn Milford Httveti to Burton
on . Tl ent, and from the Mersey to
Plymouth; W and again they occurred
i, ..,1 .«t K...... .. tlaesc,
however, equalled the destructive
bbock in the soutli-ca^t of our is
land two years ago, when large
Duildmgts and clinrelies were crack
ed and shattered and some des*
troyed, though there was little if
an y ]oga 0 f life in consequence But
OH j 8 jj e the United Kingdom the
destruction from tire cause was
vvideepread. We ,n„ ls „re „„»ler„
t i me largely by our begira of tbe
great n e f orin bill, and we will now
enumerate w.meoftbe earthquakes
bines. In 1835 Concepcion in Chili,
totally destroyed, and in Gala*
no. n
bra on the 29th of April more than
a 1,000 persons were buried. Four
years later, haif of Port Royal, in
Martinique, was thrown down and
700 persons perished, hi the eatno
ve ftr Mount Ararat 3.000 houses
were thrown down and Xante was
«-o,. io urn
the French West Indies were rav*
aged and 10,000 died. In Southern
Italy in 1852 at Melli and elsewhere
14.000 lives wero lost In 1854 Ja
pan and tho Moluccas suffered te
verely, and in 1855, 1856 and 1857,
Calnbra, the Italian crater of these
horriblo vibrations, was visited by
» loss of 10,000 lives. From 17811 to
to Una date, the kingdom of Naples
(says Hadyn) lost 111,000 iulmbi
tints from earthquakes, or 1500 ev
<*ry year. With the exception of
Africa, no continent escaped du
ring thoso and successive years.—
l' WQ thirds of the city of Mendoza
were thrown down on the 20th of
March 18(50 and 7,000 perished,
During the four and five following
y parH the eastern shores of the
Mediterranean were destructively
visited as to life aid property; but
^ ie luos t terrible manifestation of
earthquake was in 1868. In four
l«»gG towns or cities in Peru and
Ecuador 25,000 were killed, GO000
vvoro homeless, and property to the
amount of $60,000,0(H) was destroy
ed from the ldtli to the 15th of Au
t5 us ^ ' * u ’ c *ty of London subscri
bed All,000 for the relief of those
sufferers. Shocks of a leBBdestruc
tive kind took place every year ut>
to 1875. when South America was
visited by a loss of 14,000 from the
10th to the 18th of May. India at
Lahore also felt a shock, though
not so largely destructive of life.—
California in IS72 was shaken on
March 26th, 30 being killed.
Passing over minor shocks in va¬
rious places we come upon an earth¬
quake and enormous tidal wave at
Callao, which washed large vessels
far inland, and largely destroyed
life and much floating and fixed
property. The Rhine and Switzer¬
land felt earthquakes in 1868, and
houses at Cologne were shaken and
bells run (26th Aug.) The town of
Agram in Austria, in 1880. was so
verely , shaken by . shocks.
successive
In 1881 several houses w ars plit in
Switzerland. But tbe chief calarn
ity ; of that year was the earthquake
ut bcio, on the Jd „, of , April, i when ,
s vend towns and villages were de~
»troyed with 4,000 lives. A fright
ful massacre of ten fold that num
^ er * m< ‘ taken place in 1822, when
on the lltli of April theTurkson
the charge of their joining their
f,;llow Greeks in the war of labor
a ^ on * destroyed man, woman and
child, lho cHrthijiiuko slow its
thousands, but the Turks his tons
of thousands, while 80,000 were
BO * ( * H1J( * carried away into captiv
Italy aiio oilier parts of the
world have been repeatedly visited
ivuh ' V1 11 shocks sl >ocks darimz ‘luring the tne nresent piesenl de- ue
a,u * uglily ail with consider*
uble loss of life; but none Ihibso
ll ° lU0 !°l“ tUw C!llaUn ty
that lias overtaken our co-linguists, , f
brot | J6rB and cousins on the west*
e ru shore of the Atlantic. Already
they realize the magnificent but
terrible descriptiun in the Bsnlms:
“How lf,w the tnecaitu Pfifth shook snoonanii and trembled tremmen,
how the foundations of the earth
were moved and we.esbaken,” how
U)e Jjord u ] b0( t) )nlH lered in the
,ugliest, and the channels of water
were seen. It is this very
ttW as ,ce,n8 » that makes us
‘tuderstiind , the bnmhceiit office ot
,l tin d of the myriads eurthquiike.
j | lw fe 8* r oyer make the
world habitable for millions; lifts
up from immeasurable depths met
alrt and min f ala > n, ' d 8 ,ve8 man
fuel to Ins (IwellmftB and .
warm iron
ma ke tools for maoufacture and
eU pply tho wants of a vast trade,
Without a series of earthqnaki for
thousands, would nay, myriads of years,
Hie world be a barren waste,
it would not I >0 today what it is, the
surface on which nearly a thousand
ml Hj OD 8 live and 011 the whole en
joy their beings. The earthquake
and volcano, flood and fire, destroy
to re-create with beauty ; and fertil
Qn ^ reraanur d b , )es
« ghowe/s, .i rj .,| rntinf . r .i 1 ImnenHi unn
an(J “if you tickle it with a
hoe it la«ghs with a harvest.” The
of life U.nt
D les the deat 1 that fo ows n mr
tram to hundreds of thousands, are
seeds of a harvest, numbering its
myriads or mi I lions. Ilioseyery
deaths are but a handful oompsred
to the results of pestilence from the
violations of sanitary laws and pre
mature death from ignorance of
them;and, labtly, from war, man is
using the very materials thrown out
by their agency to combine with all
the ingenuity of art, that he may
destroy life and property, and thus
verify the truth contained m By¬
ron's well known lines, that
• H"ft' *-ll’ i
Spur* or sunt* Mreb, uiftu’a nuke uiuIkiuh
J. i li. u p Rawlins.
A BEAUTIFUL tribute.
AH that 'vis mortal of Gen. Frank
<’heathnin was laid away in the cem¬
etery nt, Nashville last week, with cer¬
emonies of a n o'o imposing nature
than have been wi ne.sed in that city
for years. The respect anil grief were
universal. Love for the veteran was
not conficed to his old soldiers tut
extended over the whole community.
While and black, ex Confederate and
ex-general, young and old, rich and
poor, followed his remains to the last
resting place to pay the Anal honors
to u hero and a patrito, to an honest
man and a brave soldier.
Bishop Quintard’s sermon at the
burial was a beautiful tribute. The
virtues and the faults of the deceased
were fairly and kindly reviewed. The
moral drawn was Ibis:
“Ask yourself the question what
your life has been and what eternity
has in store for you. The life of our
dr parted friend was not a wasted life.
Had it been the wheels of trade and
truffle would not have stood still as
they do now. Had it been, this com*
inanity would not have paid its
splendid tribute to its worth. Had
it been, the poet would have left his
harp silent, and the orator would not
have told its story in well sounded
periods. No. his life was a -worthy
and a noble one, and fathers will
tell it to their sens, and vt shall live
on and on through coming years—its
weaknesses forgotleu and its glotum
brightened ns the years roll by, and
the fragrance of it will be sweeter and
more fragrant, and this Common¬
wealth of Tennessee will have no
brighter page in its history than that
which fells the story of the Life of
General (,'beatharn.”
There are soldiers who fought tins
dor Frank Cheatham all-over this
State; there are others who served in
the Hiune army with him. To these
Hie words of Bishop (piintard will be
gnttcful. Admiring Chcate
haul in they did, they will lie pleased
io note that Ids charaeter is properly
appreciated by ho good a judge of
character as the Episcopal Bishop of
Tennessee, whose ministrations in
the army of Tennessee were piodtic
ol mi m noli g tod,— Mobile (Ala.)
Register.
A Sll ULI’-i:ATIN(J HEKTENT.
IMHOuvertuI III « West Virginia Carcrn
And Not Vet killed.
From tlio V, w Yiult Turn h.
h„ nt ,ngi>on, YV. V., Oct,. 4.—The
Republican publishes the following
startling letter 1 nun Milton: “Thera
*• 11 l*‘* w (m U j* J" Milu C J« !k ;
about two and . a halt miles east , o' Him
lllnl , t . f known atl u,,, -Buzzard* Den.”
it inn large envo in Die point of a
n.lgu which extends down between
Uc lM ' on t ,K!8 Lo id.
incases , tho l crock tor nearly its en*
t j,. c length. This cave is entered by
a small door way, which extend*
down an enclincd plane lor about 20
,',,^“ 1 "room 'which"E nm^t morning, b<'«cn
t *xplore.d. On hint Sunday
,ib Mehcar Bralcv, a y..urg man of
about *0 years was passing Urn. place
" creek,'be
U e heard a sheep
|>ii«*ouhIv as if i.i jmut din*
tress. ^oin^ n« nrer tie found
tho proceeded lioin near tho
[j lc ph^x^hen, u t !(!.T*7idNK'n-v
j y turning the corner of u luige r<wk t
|j<» i><*1 1 »* 1 <I »t si^fit which sent his blood
in an arctic Hood tip Ids back and
ldt Ins hair standing ,= on end. lie lie*
^ hc . ai , ()f h „. nt
trxding; from the entrance ut' the uavv
era silli the bind quarters of a sheep
in its mm.tb swallowing it gradually,
while the sheep was emitting it*
mournful sound, lira ley, being i*
bravo young bid, thought he would
relieve the sheep, so hurrying up the
hill “hove the cavern he i«Ucd a large
boulder down upon the monster.—
maddened maomuui inrn in n to to sm sin a h an anex- ex
> ^ snout, ^ which cuuld 6“ be V heard th ?
SS
t | OJ> „ witll l!U . , 1)S , 1( .| 4 . in(1 yel
j ow running letmthwise of its
,„ M , y The head and neck was black
nn ,j f .|c,k, and the tail tor several feet
from the end was a dull, brown color.
The sudden appearance of the monv
#t ur ho frightened the lad that he lit
mil for home at a 2:10 gait, where he
booh arrived out of breath, and told
hi* experience, whereupon bin father,
elderly brother, and brother-in-law,
together with two or three of their
neighbors who had been summoned,
armed with alt the lire anna that
could be had, started for the cavern
prepared to make an invasiou of tbe
enemy’s country,
“Upon arriving at the place noth
">g could be seen of the snsice or tho
*h«‘P. "i' on approaching the
mouih otTheeavern a sickening smell
met them, sin It as that eomnung from
a "••'»'hhmed snake and its fierce blow
,n ” ' in,t nsningco!*»_. »e man . hey
i, e organized * to hunt ^ up the monster.
No ( e know8 wljCTe fro a9
lbjs ,,,, first op ^ arance . rSe
coun try for several mile* around this
neigl»Iiorlioo<l is heavily wooded, and
| ltf (a av have heeu Around lor some •
'
j t to \, e | 10 , )e(1 t | lat j, e wl q
80<>n | K . kitts^t or captured,
A preacher caught He some boys in
his peach trees. did not pun¬
ish them but merely said: “You
ought to lie ashamed of yourselves,
particularly tbe big boys.” Which
of these boys is the oldest?’ “He
p alu ' t bore at all, sir; he didn’t
know tLHt we wuz coming,” said $
youngster.—Texas Siftings.