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THE EASTMAN TIMES.
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SLANDER.
Borne time ago, a gentleman, walk¬
ing one of the streets of a Georgia
town, overheard scraps of conversa¬
tion from two ladies immediately
behind him—to this effect: “\\ hy,
I am surprised to hear that! do you
think it can be true r” '“ideally, 1
cannot say. it doesn t sound like
h’ruorttf ”
dr: I ;„„ld not have believed if
'•Well, I „M sorry; f she seemed so
tfeenaeman i ,, rpi remarked,' rM ieo. hnt „„
than
that has ruined many a woman’s
thiiil life Oh! for that “charity that
eth no evil ” if the evil was
not first tho udit, ° ’ it would never bo
"
,
TUiti L U is W Uvr gr.ive! a«rbuw“i tilts sexton , u wtfiuLd said
h« kuwt bis li<-n<l—
Audtie pnsh.u Um* (be flowa-s that oivivrev
iUo uiuimd Miiah cu\acu tbe nan
t-'Iie, sir. unw ruiirdcri-J! No. not bj a man!
Hut by HoeBjii.K lririiCH w ho tiiod to scitu
Iu ad iuumeit notions, thoutfhtirss and free,
4 8u ‘ u *' thu ‘ >! “ ' fchieU ' hl V 8ttUl wuW ^
Failing in tbis—Ibt-J- beg.in io bilk:
v* u,k anu in.iuu.ite ,,i,uie‘t r sbebt walk 'HID,
A mi by 4 ’ Lisa HUti 4 ‘one so » i v inning
to be “
1 u Hoiif-bt alter uiudI eu*umg
Thus lU gossii* went, ’till it mu-Le.l ho e irF,
TV> tons, int siusle b«r life
r< to a »*-t iu
r . .. n , ., J , ., ,
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•
■ibu’ ibey ‘sitiu’i btitevt sbu’d extu-'l* or.’
The piuson worked—she drooped and died, tiuJ
ii Mime oi the t,uute trieuds i-aute bt-ru
Hm I'lLniixbt ttn I t*iw Hoiuu tiy to wn-p.
Ibttt the Recording £*.*•«! in his hook doth
Lae. turd tho Hit,^of thr«b wfcu putt,hr
To Htc'a ©oeu»y, iui<Uiwtji9Sutler!
FEAR DOES NOT REASON.
Iu fact, the feeling of fear cannot
be subdued. It is an irresistible
emotion that depends upon oar or
gani/ation, and ona which all the
most logical reasonings cannot
change. Nothing is more true than
the common saying that fear docs
not reason, and it is remarkable
how little efficacy, intelligence and
its efforts have to arrest its effects,
I know a highly intelligent person
with a clear and strong mind, who
believes he would be lost if ho had
to go into a boat. Yet the sea is
smooth, the course is short and the
boat staunch. Excellent reasoning,
but it does not take hold of him -
His emotion is greater than all the
arguments you can invent, however
irreproachable they maybe, and no
matter how fully the poltroon may
recognize their force, llow many
chililren there are who do not dare
to cross in the night the garden
where they have played all day,
where they know there is no dan¬
ger, and where they will not lose
sight of the lights in the house.
A STRANGE CT5TOM.
A story comes from Mexico that
the natives of Mexico, on the coasts,
inoculate themselves with the virus
of adders, cobras and rattlesnakes,
an l persons who have been thus
vaccinated are rendered forever
proof against injury from any bite
or sting. An eruption immediately
breaks out, accompanied by fever
and much swelling of the laxly, af¬
ter which the skin gradually flakes
off iu scales, as in leprosy. It is said i
that people who have been vacci¬
nated in this manner, can, not only
handle the most poisonous snakes
with imparity, themselves but the is bite fatal of these
persons as as
that of the snake whose virus has i
been transferred into their blood.
De-lec-ta-lave.
Good teeth promote the general
health, .and enable us to imi-tieate,
thormielr v onr foewl. insure a pure
breath aud wholesome saliva, pro¬
duce an agreeable effect uuan others
by the exiiilution of a clean anu
lien It ill’ nuutlli; but to baer good
ted It. «e must keep them He»n »rd
correct of am aei *ity if tlie «e- re¬
turns of t in* mouth, by using Delec
tafsve. For eaie by all tiluggitts.
2t
■i i it 3 El 3r tiuj .tier feu
1 r T JL
% v. »»e. '
V O L X. 1V
IIEAl' rItTL SENTTHEST.
A Letter to a Yoong on the Eve of
M&rriage.
One sometimes finds a gem among
the castaways of forgotten years.—
The following congratulatory letter
to a young lady on the eve of good mar- J
riage is venerable, but is too
to be lost:
“lam holding some pasteboard
in my hands.—three stately pluck- j
mgs from the bush of ceremony:
1 am gazing upon a card and upon i
a name—a name with which your ;
gentle life began, a name with
which your throbbing heart was j
losf. There is nothing strange about
thecard. The maiden sign still
liKiks up from it calm and custom
ary, as it looks on many a friendly
visit as it lies in many a formal j
basket.
“ I am gazing, too, upon a card
i where the nearer parent tells the
! j world she will be ‘at home one day,’
! and that is nothing new. But there
is another card whose mingling
there put a tongue of fire into that
speechless yasteboard. It tells us
that i.c;;v cards are but the heralds
o£ a cotuiuB crisis when, hamlthrt
j ' ! «»1 irietaW ham », and
' doners shall close down on
I one to whom she will be a friend
! and Howor torerer after.
“I send you a few flowers to adorn
the dying moments of your single
4ife. They are the gentlest type of
a delicate, durable friendship. They
spring up by one’s side w hen oth
| ers — have deserted it, and will be
found watching over onr
w p eE those who should have been
there, have forgotten os.
“It seems meet that a past so
f j should
j m pn( pure afl y OUr8 ex
pire v. 1th a kindred sweetness about
it; that flowers and music, kind
v “* --- --- '
friends and earnest words should
consecrate the hour when a senti
nt , g paBS i n g into a sacrament. I
] ’ “The throe great stages of our
L«i„rr sro birth the bridal and bur
ial. To the first wo bring only weak-
1|0M . for , b() k , t j iave not l,i„g
! [ tat duet llat her. pair .t the throb- altar,
Tvhere life, the comes
' bing UP the holy mail, wliispei i.ig
the deep promises that arms each
I with the other heart help on in the
J * B tra.ggle 'beautif of care and duty.
“The ul will bo there,
Vx sceno-tife , rr n<4W gly | H , n r,t v f rom
and the frivolous
will look solemn for once, and
will come to gaze on all that is sa
n d and \-onl* - e will totter up to hear
repeated over giveL again,
that to ^/ tlioir lives have over* the
char Some will weep it as
^ j t were'a tomb; some will laugh
ftg if it were j ' a joke; but two must
gtaB j b t ’ £or it fate not f UIlj
j ev . erlftg tin ° ng ° of their
j j- veg
‘ «^
nd now ’ can you, who have
ed it O vor B0 bended
down ut lftsl to the fru .
, ;d d ’i e t of a single heart? Hither
}j ‘ . iVB 1>Qe , i nf _ R e]o( .e givillg
tho tirne to n!1 tbo world. Now, you
nM n8 a watch) buried in ono par
bosou)) marki only hour3
alld ticking OIlIv to the best of his
^ ^ ’ w ] K , re time and feeling shall
in uniscm ‘ until these lower ties
^ logt in tbat higher “ wedlock
a}j heartg urp nited around
, ' n ‘ central heart of all.”
FOR K ARRI AG ERLE GIRLS.
Don’t love to many at once.
Don’t do your spooning in public,
Travel on trains that go through
the most tunnets.
Give your little brother taffy and
get him to bed before the young
man calls.
If you have any objection to to¬
bacco, say so in time, or hold your
tongue forever after.
Try to find out by some means if
your intended can earn a decent liv¬
ing for two.
Don’t fall in love with a man be¬
cause he wears a fine overcoat.—
Of what use will that be next July ?
Le ^ reasonable, doni expect , a
man working for 83 week to furnish
you with reserved seats at the opa
ra every other night
B fi carefully will, bashful loven,;
lead them carefully to the given
point—(of proposal, of course.)
If possible try to suit your sisters,
cousins, aunts, grandfathers, neigh¬
bors, friend- and acquaintances
when you select your victim.
The Mother’s Friend
n.rt only shortens Labor and lesion*
pain, but it greatly .Iranniahca the
d»rger to life of lietli mother nno
chill if used a few months
confinement. Write to the Brad field
Regu!ktor f'o, At!*n’». G*.
EASTMAN, GHOHGIA, THURSDAY, NOV. 25 , 1 SS<».
A FIEND’S DEEDS.
He Murders Ills W he ami Little Ours, j
St. Lons, Nov. 21.-—A special
from Learned Ivan., says: Neai Mn
rme, in the southeast corner o the
county of Hogeman, lived, until
last Fridny, Sam 1 urple, whose uat
ural brutality was enhanced by
chronic drunkenness. His family
consisted of himself, his wile, his
wife s sister and four little i liildren, j
youngest of wliicli was on y
three weeks old.
Friday morning his wife arose as
theutwent usual and prepared to awaken breakfast. her husband,; She j
which enraged him- He spinng
from his bed, seizing his revolver,
shot his wife through the body, kill
ing her instantly. The new horn
babe was next fired at with the same
result He next shot and killed
other of his children. Ilis sister
in-law, Miss Lowker, was then fired
at, the ball passing through her arm
and lodging in her shoulder. As
this emptied his revolver, he pro
ceed to load his shotgun, in order
to complete the work. A slight mis
take in this was the only thing that
.topped the deadly proeedings. -
The powder . ptmml mt» one
barrel of the gun, and by er-ortbe
shot into the other. A\ ith this he
endeavored b, blow off the head of
another child, but ns there was
nothing except powder in the bar
rel, tho child’s face- was only
ously burned by the explosion. A
heavy blanket was wound around
the suffering child, nnd this secure
j y wrapped with heavy wire, in the
hope that ho might accomplish by
suffocation what he failed in by the
of the shotgun. The child will
recover, although slightly disfignr
ed about the face.
The murderer then mounted a
h -rse and started across the u aids
to Marine, with the avowed purpose
of murdering his wife’s father and
mother. Before he could nccora
plish this, however, the wounded
young lady had made her xvty to a
village and told the iotobilantethe
«ta» ol the aholeaale kill
in g' a,H * l J10 z went in search oi the
non h i •
Beemg that his plan was frustra
Purple hastened to Te. me me
, surrendered himself to the
civ
d authorities. He was placed in
jail and the jail surrounded by a
^rong guard
Last night a mob of about 100
Tuetly to the jail and demand
0< * * 18 P risoner > wl, ° wa8 delivered
w * tl * ceremony. He was then
fca ^ en hack the scene of his crime
h nn B ed to a
Only i one member of f the , family
eaca P etl serious injury, aud
was the murderer’s little boy, and
he lli(1 ulldortlie bed when he licanl
his father commence his deadly
worL
_ _
I'NCLE ESAU 8A VINOS.
-
Bettor keep your eye on the man
who “runs-down” his neighbor.—
The that brings a bone will
OE0 “
If , , heart t . . what , . he .
a man s is m
doing, lie’ll do his best. The
u g of f ll( I uor 18 carried with a
f? r2at <loal more care than tUe i u 8
of molasse8 “
If you have got anything to do
the best I,lan is to go and fl ° it
There’s no better time to kill the
hen than when she is fat.
It is a heap easier to belong to
the church than it is to get to
Heaven. There’s always a bigger
crowd fpllowing the parade than
goes into show.
As long as the liquor stays in
the barrel it won’t hurt any one.
iiut when c r es tos.yiag -Gorf,
good, good, in thi nec k o je
i>ottle ’ vou had better lfK,k out 7
-
rattlesnake always makes'a
noise when he is meparine ^ to bite
you.
A CLEAN BEAT.
(to fri°nd )-My uncle has
made a fortune.
Friend—Speculations?
r >' 0; horary work.”
r Why, I didn’t know he was a lit
erary man. I received a letter from
>*
“And vet he has had inode a for
tun** by literary work! ’
“Howdo you account for it?”
“Why, you see, lie was a general
in the army.”
“Yes.”
“ (lot into a Airmi-li one**, and
Jms wrlttfen it up f or H magazine.
He hWxJ reraa rkable enterprise
in making a clean Ireat, for none of
the newspaper had mentioned the
fight.”—Arkansaw Traveler.
CINCINNATI'S AND HIS PLOW.
u ow jj t , inaugurated n Daneful l’olit
leal Theory. I
The inaugurate the |
p Prson to
kant , fu ] t ] 10urv that the office should |
gep] . the man> R theory w hj c h lias
caugod moro unhappiness than any
oduM . ever advanced in the great
rea l m of politics, was a man named
j uc j ug Q u i n titus, or Cincinnatus,
kf , ( , !Ulse j,e, a l w -nys wore his hair in
culd 8; also because he at one time
resided in Cincinnati.
In the fall of 168 B. C., after a
l on g d r y spell, and a prolonged and
movement in w hich Cin
c i nn(dns went forth to summer fal
] ow q u , west field, hoping by that
p roce88 and a judicious rotation in
cro p S Jq bead off the chinch-bug and
the ^ ars j j 0 wns a goo d .leal de
p TeaBwl me ntally and physically.
He had been trying to break a new
pair of fractious 4-year < 1 i ste rs,
and it lmd required a good deal of
firmness and perspiration to accom¬
plish this. He had not yet fully
succeeded, in fact, for every little
while the steers would light out for
the marsh at a high rate of speed,
ami Cincinnatus would have to fol
low through the dewberry patch in
his bare legs, for Cincinna'us did
not wear pantaloons in winter or
mnmBr .
I have given the render a good
v j ew of Cincinnatus, ns I remember
j 1 i m> i„ the accompanying drawing,
w hich I have made in order that
those who wish may see the features
of tho most celebrated politician of
r h time. He was the first who ail
vancod the doctrine that the office
B h ou ld seek the man, aud ever
B j nce that time it is no uncommon
thing to see a man holding on by
the plow-handles and looking over
his shoulder, expecting that a good
office will climb over the fence and
kidnap him.
Hero, then, is Cincinnatus, the
man who first made this discovery.
The artist has happily caught the
impression of this eminent man just
as the office is in the act of seeking
him. He has resolved to sell his
life as dearly as possible. Ho will
yield at Inst, however, and tear
himself away from his precocious
steers.
J n the distance, too far, in fact
to work into this issue of the pa
per, is the toga of Cincinnatus. It,
is where hanging ho on 1ms a tall used He".; it to sight
acr oss the field while he struck out
a long furrow. 1 o look at the fur
r ,w few would believe that the great
dictator had intendod to strike out
for the flag.
Tlie artist has caught the true
idea in this piicture, and shows the
g rea t statesman and general in the
pOBO 0 f ft thoughtful and philan
tliropical man who has fully decid
ed that at the prevailing price of
wheat he would carefully and pray
erfully consider any overtures that
might be made by those having the
good of the people at heart,
Csncinnatus was an austere man
of the patrician stylo of architect¬
ure, and carefully reached his hair,
ft8 we jj aB fj ie f ad 0 f his Roman
mu ] 0 . He was imperious in the ex¬
treme anil courted an investigation
whenever the newspapers got af
te8 him. Ue was the pioneer in this
line,
The day came at last, when a dark
horse was needed, and the chairman
Q f dl6 Roman central committee
went to Cincinnatus to seek out the
g rfia f man. The chairman is just
getting over the barbed wire fence,
and the eminent Roman agricultur
ist has at that moment got his eye
hi m
„ „ bat , ork „ „„ ment
to unyoke old Brin and Brally and
accept the office of dictator. But
tlI)g n hlS . . U>S , ,, °’ a th f a ™. (
°
gan to dictate in less than forty
eight hours. He went to the house,
washed his hands in a tin basin of
cistern twater, with soft soap, p it
some fresh fine-cut in the inside
pocket of his toga, and was drawing
a salary on the following Monday
morning,
The first thing 1........ was fc>«a!l
for more troops. He then marched
a^amst the enemy and capture,loT
erybody. He then returns *at
rag been dictator sixteen days at f i
per day. He drew his pay ami
signs,f to M«-pt the port-folfo
buekwheutor on bi» oun proper y.
\Y have no American to-day
could accept command of our regu
l,r srnty, whip the Apaches, un.l
t»e hack on the farm in sixteen
days. And yet Cincinnatus con
qacred a hostile nation, pai<l the
public debt, and got homo in tiuio
to do his fall plowing.
If we read the history of Cin
oinnatus carefully, and look quite
thoughtfully at his equestrian por
^. n j t .’ we nre forced to admit that
j J0 v ag e jthor one the greatest men
of whom we know or that he wrote
the matter up himself for one of
the Homan magazines.
Bill Nye.
IT WAS NOT LOADED.
Thomas J. Bow ditch contributes
the Mflny following to the before Troy Times: the intro¬
years friction ago, matches, old
duction of an
farms, used to light his tiuder for
Mis morning fire by the use of an
old flintlock musket One day in
Ins abscence, tue wife loaned the
musket to » neighbor, who returned
it loaded, and mentioned the fact to j
the woman as he liauded it to her. 1
But her husband midnight, did not being return j
heme until past He iiffo bed ou j
a rousing spree. wife crept enjoy
without waking his to a
let tore. Next morning he rose in
good season with the usual thirst
and a hammering headache; and
after rubbing n few cobwebs out of
his and taking “wee drop ’
eyes a
from the remaining portion of making “pop
skuil. ’ left over, lie began fire.—
preparations for starting tho and
The splinters were collected
the tinder placed in tho pan of the
lock; click went, the hammer, and
the explosion that followed 8l^* k
the house, dispelling the fames of
the liquor from the old man s fao
sudden ulties and alarm. rousing Guessing Ids wife at with the a J
trouble, she exclaimed while !, , t
fully awake: “ Hi th-th-at
loaded! Looking with au
stare at tlm bullet hole in the bed
stead, just about two inches above
his wife’s head, the fond husband
replied: “No, I'll be blamed if it
is!”
STEERS ON STAMPEDE
Louisville Ootumr- Journal.
Nothing that wo have ever seen
is half so wild and foolish ns n
frightened steer, and a hunch of
beef steers on a stampede are not
to bo laughed at; fir y will stop for
nothing, and will rundown nndovor
anything that offers resistance in
their path. The only possible way
to stop them is to ride ahead of the
herd and gradually turn them to
running in a circle, when they will
finally stop, but will start off again
at the slightest unusual noise.
If a man’s horse were to stumble
in a prairie dog’s hole and fall it
would be certain death to the
and horse, us the whole herd
bo upon him in a instant. But the
daring and rockless cow-boys take
all such chances.
PRETTY OIRLH.
It Inis been rather broadly sug¬
gested that pretty girls cause mo t of
l.tie trouble la the world. Of course
the greatest of all evils on this icuri
Imho sphere i* money, but pretty
girls stau'I second beat.
It scorns odd how much of these
gr*at evils an ordinary man irnngu
ines lie can take care of. Like cliannl
pagne, he will never act now ledge lie
will never acknowledge he ha* too
much far his own good.
Young men in society are warned
by a careful sister that sucli and
such petty girls is to be avoided, as
likely to prove dangerous to his peace
of mind. Do they eve.i heed? Nev r
That very pretty gild's favor they
most assiduously seek. Then when
-he breaks tiis susceptible heart, slie
is loudly denounced. Bln; alone is to
blame. Of course she is. The sis¬
ter warned him, be could not resist
her isscination, consequently she is
Ii blame for being charming.
It cannot lie denied that pretty
gills have been involved in nearly
every tragedy and scandal of history
That wonocrful wooden-horse would
never have been built, bud not Helen
of Troy been beautiful. Juliet *'apt
ulot was wondrous handsome or her
neighbor’* hoy, tin* Romeo, woubl not
have dimed garden w ill, Cleopa¬
tra must have been “perfectly love
<< “S
she was not feeiing well, having been
bitten by that poisonous asp.
Homely women are fortunately not j
called upon to pirtipate in ib«M un
furtunste affairs. It is peculiar, how
ever, that men prefer to fall in h>ve,
fl t5. bt an l ,l ‘ c { ‘ ,r B re “ v ^! rl “* an<1 u
^ lfjat gjrU |( , efcr u , M p ,etry and
j |- un t,lje risk of it e*e fatalities.
! Brace l'p.
//'V j: w,!;
j | iaa ,iu,.|| <fi you are fidgety, nervous,
, lilllu |,„ t ! , n or i,u.
^ fi a ve for their basis very
c . be p ba(> u 4Uor , a0< t which mtiinu
bo™ you for « h-nr on ul,™ Iravr,
f ^ whM „„ alu , ral
live lhat will p Uli f v y0 nr tewsf, start
a healthy action of the Liver and Kid
t tIje ,j |tlne vou t|I)l j , u Electric
Bj ller8i an donl> 50 cents a bottle, at
Rerrman’s Drug Store, F,:i»tman, «>*.
NO. 47
AN INDIAN CUSTOM.
How Canadian Indians Annually‘‘Kill
the Devil.”
What nil the preachers of Christ¬
endom have yet failed to accom*
pliali is yearly clone by tho Indians
of the Hastigooche country, ot least
to their own satisfaction. On Ht.
Ann’s Day,every year, they ‘kill the
devil ’ an achievement that would
bo greatly to their credit were it
not that the adversary seems to
come to life again every twelve
months. At St. Anne’s Mission.
opposite tins town, writes a Camp
lie! ton (N. B.) correspondent of the
Boston Herald, there gathered yes*
terday a most rnotlev and curi. us
crowd. The steamer Admiral came
ap f rom Dulhousie, bringing some
hundreds of French and Indians
from along the lower Quebec coast
as fur as Gaspe. All the Mic-Maca
w - hrfl w f or Anne'e Day is
Qmj o{ ^ d ( their yeai ..
Over muddy roads oast scores of
calmly wallowing or nursing swine
and piglings, the paiti-eolored
throng poured on toward the Mis¬
sion church. Smoked glass was
essential to the comfortable con
templation ot the squaws. I hey
wore neither huts or bonnets, but
,pisky head was covered wuh
the | )ri ghtcst of bright bandanas:
Handkerchiefs .. of . varying shades , . of f
red Allowed eveiywhere in the sun
shine, giving cho efleot of a poppy
b L ,,j w | Jt iu several squaws met or
sat .or squatted ' together ” upon 1 tho
Breen grass. Blurts ami jackets of
brilliant hues put the soberer cos
tutnes of the white sisters to shame,
and even the men now rejoiced in
red llai'iiel shirts, again in snowy
scarfs, or gaudy jewelry, or hats
decorated with bright salmon flies
and other trinkets.
Preesentiy uo swaggered some
young Indians, decidedly of the
hoodlum type, carrying guns end
pistols, weapons which would de¬
light an antiquarian. They were
flint-locks and muskets, which pos¬
sibly dated from Queen Anne. One
rusty barrel was joined to a homo*
made stock, which apparently hod
been chopped out of a table top.
All this warlike array meant the
assailing and utter destruction of
the adversary, or, hh tho Mic- Mscs
have it, “killing tho Mundou,’ (the
Mundou being the Evil Ono.) In
ib e u i d o„ ,j m0 . a silver ball wns
thou^lit net essary for the shooting
of witches or of animals protected
by magic; but tho MiorMaca con¬
sider the ammunition of the shops
effective against Jus Habitue .Majes¬
ty himself.
Now and then some red •skin tied
youth, emerging from his cabin.
discharged his gnu in the air, and
tho scone was assuming a Fourth of
July aspect, when a message came
from the priest lorbiddiug t lie Ii
ring for the present on account of
the crowd, the number of horses
tied along the road, and the conseii
queut risk of accident, so the Uevil
was reprieved for a time, but after
the ceremonies in the cliuicli were
concluded, ' the Indians then went
on witli the eelebrrhou , in their , own
fashion
The destruction of Mundou is not
a difficult matter, according to the
Aiic-Macks. They appear to hold
that the Devil is hovering in the air
somewhere above them. Not ex¬
actly knowing where he may <>e lo¬
cated, they take pains to fire in ev;
ery direction, riddling the air at
every point of Hie compass, Tiirir
favorite way of shooting him is, for
two or more Indians to cross the
barrels of their guns, pointing up¬
ward, aud both fire at the same ino»
meut. They reason that, if the
Devil dodges one discharge he will
blunder in the way of another,—
The fact that the Devil remains
disembodied, does not seen, to make
him proof against earthly powder
an d abot, and so the Mic-Macks
load and fire as rapidly as possibly
in the laudable desire of bitting
their adversary on the wing.
1 here is something rather fasri
the idea ., of , • shouting .
uating in wmg ,
Ty
burning of ammunition was
with™, a aose-fal
Ttm canons cuntom of 'KiIIidk the
Devil is of course not practiced
wd b the implicit faith of former
bo , Fourth of July up
roars still continue. One foutura of
that day lias fallen completely into
abeyance, that of feasting upon
J '« '* ''" S ' be ****
to,a with the Mic-Macs, ns with
many other Indian tribes, to honor
this occasion and other festivals by
li'% .
the doJM
from the board®
held, or rather ■
for the visiting p!
the Indians.
A SINGULAR MTH'KT?
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
A traveling commercial agent,
whose home is in Platsrnouth, Ne¬
braska, and whose veracity cannot
bo easily doubted, related to a 8t.
Joe Gazette reporter the detail* of
n story winch exemplifies in a most
startling manner the accuracy that
truth is stranger than tictiou. The
story is, briefly, as follows: Feb¬
Some time ago, along about
ruary, a commercial man named
Schwartz, or Swartz, and traveling clothing for
a Chicago hat, cap
lions**, was takeu sick at the Com¬
mercial House, in Lincoln, and died
after a short illness. His remains
were duly prepared for interment,
were placed in a coffin, and the lat*
ter nailed up in a box and shipped
to his home in Chicago for burial,
itling through Platsrnouth on the
front end of a baggage car plat¬
form- Arriving at Chicago funeral; prep¬
arations were made for the
the minister secured, the funeral
notice published, enacted. the this grave pre
purat ons At j undue,
a German physician, the old fam¬
ily doctoi, came in to take a last
look at the corpse, ami horritien the
family by protesting that the man
was not dead. Two dimly crimson
spots, one upon each side of the
man s face, told him that life was
not extinct, add be protested against
the burial. Under his care in two
days the dead man opened his eyes,
ami in two weeks h was sitting up
in his room. Shortly afterward ha
went to Europe, and although he
weighed but 96 pounds when he
left his coffin, lie came back from
Europe some mouths later sound
and hearty, and is now selling hats,
caps and clothing, and is as healthy
a man as one would wish to see,
and weighs 186 pounds. told
the man who the story says
he stopped at tho same hotel with
Schwartz a few evenings since in
a Nebraska town, and when the
landlord recalled having beard of
Schwartz’s death, the latter feel¬
ingly related his experience, exhib¬
iting during his recital the deepest
emotion He says he was conscious
during the entire journey, and re¬ of
alized with horror the import
each proceeding. As he lay in his
coffin ut home, ho could feel the
warm tears of his mother and sis»
ter hh they fell upon his face
The Gazette informant says he re
meuibors the incident of ho death
of Schwartz, and says that the files
of Lincoln will confirm # *
the papers
the truth of the story
The cause of the trance, or what¬
ever else it may lie called, is said to
have arisen from diabetes, with
which Schwartz was afflicted, and it
is said that lie had been totally
blind for two weeks, aud as miracu¬
lously recovered Ins sight.
DEED OF A DEMON.
White Hivkk, Ont., Not. 16.—For
some weeks v Urge number of em¬
ployes have been engaged around here
in preparing the railroad track for
tno winter. Among tuis force was
one Richard K. O’Brien, a Uaidsotno
voting fellow, about 40 years of age.
VVln'ia in: first cutne hero to work he
met Mrs. diaries Williams, the wife
„(■ a country store keeper, and from
Id* acquaintance passed there until
*»« *»«•* "I* f ! * l KmU,on in the
fneo<l» mijght attain. Living in
,j„. p,mjiy with Air. and Mrs.
Williams, were the lather and mother
of the husband, ns well as three
ninull childien of the wife. For tho
lust *1 x necks Williams lias suspecU
( ., t j H wife ol inli lelity, and therei
fon tie laid a trap to catch her. Ta%
,l,a,aHin Ch *P U "‘
tint., ‘cleft word that he would sb
sen , over night, hut. instead o!'going
u, hi- destination, lie took the re*
i u n min from a way station, and so
ni rived home in the night. Going to
Ins house, tie found his wife in com*
pain with O’Brien. He aimed » blow
ut the latter with a heavy stick. O'
Brieu quickly recovered himself,
drew a revolver and shot William*
cad. i'Ue noise attracted the other
occupants of the house, and, to shield
liis crime*, O’Brien shot the father
us lie was entering the room, partly
dressed. Having no more cartridge*
as the old lady put in an appearance
and screamed, startled by the sight
of her husband lying in his blood,
the murderer seized a heavy chair
and struck tho old lady a cruel blow,
*hieli laid her senseless before him.
To conclude his devilish werk, he
beat her until her head was reduced
to a puip with a heavy stick of store
woo J procuied from an adjoining
room. Two of the three children were
then disposed of with the same club
which ended the existence ot the old
lady. The little boy, the youngest,
and only 18 months old, was spared,
as he could bear no evidtnee against
the murderer. The fiendish wretch
then stabbed his paramour four time*
about the region ot the heart anu
, cft ber (o| . deatl . He then fired the
the relief ot tue occupants ami suet
Se!»
r,,i„ fi.iia lie burntog builjiiis. M™.
Williams lived lorg enough to make
a statement of the horrible affur to
ulr
ia i of the lien.l. un.l he ...
arrested about 25 uifies from the
wene of the tragedy. He denied the
in"."£,i‘'" 1 ft'r“!e, ^ LVe».!° ,Zy
t i ru ujB»Unces against him, and It is
more than probable that he will bu
lynched