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VOL. XX l i t.
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FORSYTE I
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he will always be found at home or at his
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DENTISTRY.
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THE MUDUK AT TIIE l\\
A Strange Discovery uf a Fearful
Crime.
In 1825 Goodman Jarvis kept the King’s
Head Hotel at lvnnttingley, in Yorkshire He
wa- a man of about fifty, fond of his glass,
am! easy and good-natured. One day a young
man, fashionably dressed, rode up to the iloor,
accompanied by an attendant, and asked if he
could find shelter for the night. The landlord
told him he could, and forthwith he was shown
fo a room. After dinner the young man in
vited the landlord to join him in a bottle of
wino, as the tush 911 of the time was. As they
-at together talking over various matters the
young man suddenly paused and said abruptly :
“ By the way, landlord, w hat has become of
the Longs who used to live hereabout?’’
“ It’s a long story,” was the answer, “and a
sail one.”
“ Well,” the young man said, “ I don’t desire
to raise any unpleasant memories or impose on
you fur a long narrative, but 1 nevertheless
should like to Know what has become of the
family.”
“Hubert still resides at the park,” the land
lord said, “ and nothing has ever been heard of
John, who suddenly disappeared on the night
before his father’s death.”
“ Nou have a large mortgage on that prop
erty, Jaivis, have you not?” inquired the
young man.
“ Mayhap so,” was the reply
“ And you have a very pretty daughter also?”
the stranger said.
That’s the maybe,” the landlord said.
“Jarvis,” tbe young man said, after a mo
moment’s pause, “I am John Long, returned
to claim the property which belongs to me.”
Jarvis expressed his surprise and gratifica
tion, and after the landlord had drank to his
success in life, John Long said:
“ Landlord, I’m penniless. You see tne as I
am. \\ i]Ki off the heavy mortgage which yon
hold on our small property and I will wed
your daughter and make her a lady.”
1 lie landlord was so astonished as to he tin
able to Speak for some moments. At last he
said ;
“You do me very ptat honor, Mr. Long,
hut my daughter is to be consulted in the mat
ter somewhat."
After a prolonged conversation it was agreed
that Jarvis should keep secret who the strun
g( r w as, and the landlord retired to tell l*is
wife that young John Long had returned and
was to sleep unfler their root that night.
When the stranger retired to the adjoining
bedroom where lie was to sleep, a man of mid
dle age emerged from a closet where he had
been secreted during the conversation between
Jarvis und his guest,. This was James Olden
the landlord’s nephew, who looked after his
uncle’s farm.
“I’ll ht Hubert Long know that he is here,"
Uiden said, and after all had retired he saddled
a horse and started for the Park as the Long
homestead was called. As the stranger had
kept the landlord out of bed far bevond his
his usual hour it must have been one o’clock
in the morning when Olden reached the Park.
After some delay he loused the inmates and
demanded to see the young ’Squire, as Hubert
was styled. When he showed himself Olden
told him of the arrival of his brother John.
“I know it,” Hubert said, without any sur
prise, “ he is fast asleep up stairs now, unless
you have awakened him by your rapping.”
Oldrn w as so surprised at this statement tlmt
he lost his head and retired from the Park with
a foolish air. As lie rode homeward lie was
utterly unable to explain how John Loug could
have quitted the inn without any one’s know
ing it, and reaching the Park so us (<> fig doiui
( i'ed llu fc as l|p* vvelpoipe hejr to the i state.
Olden reached the qm at about half past three
o’clock, for Ids surprise at what had happened
prevented his walking with that baste home
which he ordinarily would have done. He
put the horse in the stable and entered the inn
by a rear door. To his surprise he saw a light
burping iu the small, snug parlor, which was
Called the bar- lie approached and glanced
in. Tlie place appeared to be In disorder, and
the poker lay across the- table.
Olden entered by the open door and passed
behind the table. The strong oaken box in
which his uncle usually kept a large sum of
money and much valuable jewelry, was broken
open, and the contents were scattered about.
Olden saw that a robbery had been perpetrated,
and was about to arouse his uncle w hen his
eye caught the po’-er. It was covered with
blood and pieces of bone and liair.
With dreadful fear agitating him, Olden
sprang up stairs. Hjs uncle’s bed room door
was ajar, apd a light was l pfnjitg. Olden en
tered and saw a sight that made even his blood
fj-oty.e. Jarvis lay across the lied, dead. His
b* ad w as heated to a pulp, and the flesh on his
arms and legs discolored with bruises. Hear
ing a groan. Olden glanced around, but could
see nothing. The groan was repeated and
Oldin hastily opened the door of a closet in
the corner of the room. The landlord’s wife
"' is jammed in among boxes and clothes with
her throat cut The bureaus were emptied, a
s rung tin box in w hich Jarvis kept only Bank
ot englaud notes, was broken open, and a sil
ver-ware laix was emptied. Olden gave the
alarm and all the household were soon aroused
l’he constables were summoned, and about
six o’clock, when the London coach arrived
w ith a host i>f passengers, the village was a
sc> nc of the w ildest disprdey apd yonsp-rqar
lion Mrs Jarvis so far recovered as to reveal
the fat t tl i;( i ihr crime was the work of two
tin n ; tint how tiny came there or whence they
departed was a mystery. Suspicion fell on
th stringer and his servant who had arrived
the evening before, but Old* n explained their
aW-nce by tolling who one of them w as. and
imv he had removed to tin- Bark, soon atter
his long convi-isgiinn with the landlord was
o or Olden, it must tie wn, u is not a psr
tieul iilv bright man, or his suspicions would
have assumed a form that won pi have speedily
cleared up the mystery. As it was, he was all
in a stupor. LaUr in the day Roliert Long
and liis brother rode down to the inn, and then
Olden's slow wits were sufficiently quickened
to enable him to see that the stranger who
stopped at the inn and tl.e man vyhq rt-prg
senlt-d himself as Juhu Long apd iucotppa:
ad Holmt* pt#e wholly dljfppu| qieq fie
managed to U jl liis Cotivictkins to a magistrate
and soon the mystery w as partly cleared up.
John fjong said that he landed at Kmgslou
ou Hull and Caine on norsclutck toward home
At Ahbotffs hostelry, iu Hull, lit- made the ac
quaintance of a young man who Ippl hepfl
FORSYTH. GEORGIA. TUESDAY MOB XING, AUGUST 27, 1878.
staying there for a day or two, and represent! and
himself as traveling to Headingly, where his
friends resided. This young man proposed to
accompany bun on his journey to;Knottingley,
and having taken a fancy to a waiter at Ah
butt’s inn, he determined to take him with
him. The three started, and on the way John
Long disclosed his name ami the fact of his
long alisencc and supposed death, and his in
tention of returning suddenly and w ithout no
tice to his old home. They rode together to
the Park, when Jului Long hade his friend
good by and turned toward the homestead.
That was the last he saw of the young man
and liis companion, the waiter.
After hearing this story two skillful officers
were sent on the road to Hull, the impression
being that the two men had returned to that
place. The officers soon found traces of them,
for at Hadiflesey, near Snaith, they had . left
their two jaded horses and helped themselves
to gig and a fresh horse After this they were
easily traced to Hull, but there all clues ended.
There, however, it was ascertained that the
waiter who accompanied the personator of
John Long had, when a boy, been in the em
ploy of Goodman Jarvis. This fact started a
new theory, namely, that the job to rob Jarvis
had been put up before they quitted Hull, and
that the waiter had furnished his friend with
all the information necessary, not excepting
the that Jarvis had a pretty daughter.
On reaching Hull tjie officers communicated
with the authorities there, and search was set
on foot for the culprits. All the haunts of
such persons were visited, but without success.
When their capture was given up as hopeless,
a curious incident occurred. Mrs. Abbott,
who kept the inn already referred to, sent for
a sweep to see what was the matter with one
of her chimneys Those were the days of the
climbing boys, and tbe poor little fellow wbo
went up stuck in the flue. To get at him aud
rescue him it was necessary to take down the
wall somewhere, and from the sound he made
by knocking with the brush it was thought
that he could be reached by breaking down
the wall of a room which was nevet used, be
cause it was almost over the stables. The key
could not be found, but tbe door was forced.
To the surpise of all there were signs of habi
tation inside.
A bed lay on the floor and ample covering.
Several bottles of liquor, full and empty, stood
agaiust the wall, and there were the remains
of a recent abundant meal. Finding that the
boy could not be got at there, the room was
abandoned, but Mrs. Abbott determined to set
a watch. For some time she bad missed va
rious ai tides from her larder and bar, aud the
secret whs about to be explained.
Late at uiglit the person she had set to watch
announced that the room was occupied Mrs.
Abbott sent for a couple of Constables, who
burst into tbe apartment, Two men were
found there In slight apparel, and one of them
was identified as the waiter who had quitted
the place sometime before with a companion
and John Long. Both men w ere arrested, and
turned out to be the persons for whom search
was being made as the murderers of Jaryis and
liis wife.
The waiter, whose real name was James
Waters, ami liis associate, whose name w r as
Richard Rees, admitted their guilt. On reach
ing Hull they disposed of the heavier plunder,
and then stole a boat and rowed about for days
ami nights, lest they should lie captured.
Finally Waters remarked that at high tide the
water ran up a large sewer under the inn
which was liuilt on the quay, and that the
sewer led to the stable The two men pushed
their boat up there, and landed in safety. Then
they reached tip* deserted vnnm, "jth w hich
Waters was well acquainted, by means of a
rear staircase, and established themselves there.
For food and drink they made nightly raids
on the larder and the bar, ami easily went out
and returned to the stable.
There is little more to tell Waters, finding
that Bees was a professional thief, proposed to
him to rob Jarvis, whom he knew to lie wealthy
and to have money and valuables In Ids bed
room Waters’ perfect knowledge of tbe place
made the crime easy. Both tlie eu'prils were
hanged at York.
The reader may wish to know why Olden
hid himself in the closet while bis uncle and
the stranger were conversing.
Olden bad himself robbed ami murdered a
man on tbe road near Terrybridge, and was
always in dread of detection. * When this
stranger came, he thought lie was a Bow street
officer after him, and determined not to be kept
in suspense, secretly occupied the closet to
listen.
History of a Dead Letter.
Some time in 1877 a soldier stationed with
the cavalry in Texas died verv suddenly, and
\va3 buried with military honors by his com
rades and the spot carefully marked. On his
person was a discharge, which he had received
the day before for physical disability, and a
letter from his mother in England, and one
evidently from his sweetheart, but signed only
hv her first name These were carefully pre
seived by the lieutenant and forwarded, with
a letter of sympathy, to the bereaved mother
in England- In due course of time Jhe letter
was returned to the United States dead letter
office as nndeliverable, the mother not Iteing
at her former address. It was then opened,
and, after an examination, returned in its open
condition, with the suggestion that the con
tents woqid enable the English post officials to
discover the person it was intended to reach ;
but in due course of tone it came hack tne
second time as uudeliveralde. The letter was
then turned over to one of the lady clerks in
the dead letter office, who. on reading the
contents, with a woman’s instinct, divined
that the “ ORie” who wrote the one litter and
the Miss L spoken of in the mother’s
letter were identical. What is technically
termed a“ letter of discovery” was addressed
to the suppostitious lady at the address* and in
Scotland poat raaiked on her letter. This let
ter, on reaching that office, was forwarded t j
London, whi'her the young lady had stone,
and the dead letter office here received a reply
from her. with thanks for the diligence dts
played in endeavoring {o sepqrp Ifie delivery
of ifie letter, spfting that jt the first they
lfad beard of lire soldier's death, and giving
the present addrsss of the mother of the sol
dier, to whom the original package baa been
forwarded, making its fifth trip across the At
lantic ocean.
All the apgels lqeutiuned iq tfie Bible are
males, but ail the angels iq the world at this
period are fwttles-
“In God we Trust ”
Interview willi Jultul Early —llls
View# of Lee, Jackson, Gram and
Porter.
Lawrence American.
During a recent trip through Southeastern
Virginia, one evening after supper, returning
to the station we found a lot of people, mostly
passengers on the train, sitting on the veranda
chatting and smoking together, with that per
fect ease and freedom which is characteristic
in that region. Our attention was soon drawn
to one of the group who, although more taci
turn than the rest, seemed the centre of at
traction—a man pass the middle of life, with
long, full white beard, slightly stooping frame,
and with a restless black eye, which ever and
anon seemed to be looking for something in
the far distance. Feeling confident that he
was some person of note we turned to a cel
ored person who stood by and in an aside
asked : “ Who is that man?” “ Dat are Gin
eral Early, sah,” was the reply. Among those
sitting near the General were who ap
peared to be acquainted with him, and who
SJon engaged him in conversation concerning
the war and the merits of the different gener
als on both sides. Being questioned whether
or not Stonewall Jackson was a better officer
thun Lee, he replied that, as commanding
geuerals, they could not he compared. Jack
son was no Judge of men and could never pick
out good subordinates; his strong points were
his promptness to obey any order, however
difficult, his great personal bravery and his
exceedingly strict discipline. He never con
sidered what obstacles lay between the order
from his commanding general and execution
of it, but went straight at the enemy with per
fect of success. Being asked his
opinion of the Fitz John Porter Pope contro
versy, he replied that he was confident that
Porter was right in not attacking when com
manded to do so. The order was to attack
Ilill on his right, which could not be done
without first crushing Longstreet, whose line
partially overlapped Hill’s, and who was fur
ther advanced than Hill. This he regarded as
conclusive evidence that Pope knew nothing
of the position of either line, but was fighting
at Lap hazard. General Lee he regarded as
the greatest general on either side. We hoped
someone would ask him what he thought of
Sheridan, but no one ventured it, remembering
doubtless the fact of tlie severe drubbing that
General Early received at his hands iu the
Shenandoah Valley. Being asked liis opinion
of Grant he said: “ Grant is a great general
but as cold blooded as ever old Napoleon
Mas.” Here the enable bell rang announcing
tbe fact that the track was clear, and we wen
soon rattling away through the valley, feeling
well repaid for our detention by the oppor
tunity of se. ine and hearing so noted a person
as General Early. Although the conversation
was in no sensi- a political one, yet tlie Gen
eral occasionally dtopped remarks which
showed him to be still bitter toward the North
and tlie Federal government.
The Daimige Done.
Savannah Itecord: \Y r <i have already given
the numbel of men enlisted against the South
in the four years' fight. We showed that from
the war records there were 2 688,522 men, or
as Gen. Shanks puts it, 2,235.951 men in the
Federal army.
There were 83,844 commissioned officers,
and of them 3,931 were killed in battle. Of
the enlisted white men. 38,793 were killed in
battle. We are of the opinion there were
more if there were 178,895 in arms and in ser
vice,
Of the mortality from wounds, 2,069 officers
died; 30,887 white soldiers died, and 1,037
negroes.
Of officers who died from disease there were
1,723; white soldiers, 121,100, and of negroes
26,211.
The aggregate deaths from all causes were:
Officers, 9,314; white soldiers, 251,032, and
negroes 83,278. Deaths from all causes in the
army, 294,415.
SOUTHERN SIOE.
From best sources, Dr. Jos. Jones and Gin.
Geo. S Cooper, the estimates given are:
1 The available force of the Confederate
at my during the war did not exceed 600.000.
2. The Confederate States never had in their
defense more than 200,000 men in the field at
one time.
3. Th<* whole number of deaths during the
time was 200,000 men.
4. The los • of prisoners ronnted as total
losses on account of the United States policy
of exchange, 200.000 men
-5 The loss of the Confederate States army
by discharge, disability and desertion, 100,000
men.
6 At tbe close of the war the Confederate
army was less than 100,000 men.
7. Out of 000,000 men, 500,000 were lost in
service.
8. At the close of the war the Federal forces
numliered 1,000.000, and the Confederate about
100,000, or about ten to one.
So much we give for the benefit of the fu
ture historian.
■ 11 1 •+ '
The Money They Have in Franee.
[Paris Letter in Baltimore American.]
The French sous, or pennies, and double
sous ar- made of bronjse, and the quantity of
then, in circulation is immense. Among the
lower classes it is the principal circulating me*
dinm. On tbe great fete days, when the price
of a mission to the Exposition was five sons,
four wagon loads of this broi)7.e money was
sent to tbe Treasury next day, weighing about
six tons. The passenger railroad.anil omnibus
conductors receive uotliing but bronze money,
and must have cart loads brought in -daily.
While this is the case in Paris, it is even more
extensively used in the country and smaller
towns. The markets and small shop keepers
conduct their business largely with bronze
money. Gold is more abundant than silver in
the larger branches ot trade, and Government
notes are seldom seen of a smaller demomina
tion than 100 francs, up to 500 and 1000- There
would seem to be qo need here for silver, as
tfie gnld five-franc and ten and twenty frane
pieces are abundant and much more con
venient and acceptable than silver money. The
silver denominations are those of five francs,
equal to uur dollar, two francs, one frauo and
q half fraqc, equal to our dime.
Husaia now is in the same fix ss the man
who stood on the ferry deck in Detroit and
said to a departing boat: “Five cents fare is
contemptible but it’s rnoPn I can raise to day."
Practical ati*l vciuiuicntnl §itle of
Farm Life.
Poets Lave sung tbe delights of the farmer's
life in strains so enchanting that one might
wonder why all the world has not forsaken
every other pursuit and betaken itself to the
tilling of the soil. But the farmer himself, in
the tmsh&ded hay field, or plodding in the
clayey furrow at the tail of his plow, with a
freeholder's right sticking to each boot, or
bending, with aching back, between the corn
row?, or breasting tbe winter storms in the per
forn a ice of imperative duties, looks at his
life from a different point of view. To him
this life appears as full of toil and care and
evil chances as that of any other toiler. And
true it is, the life of an ordinary farmer is hard,
with too little to soften it—too much of work,
too little of play. But as true is what the
poet sang so long ago: “Thrice happy are the
husbandmen if they would but see their bless
ings; for they have independence, more than
any others who by the sweat of the-brow earn
their bread, and the pure air of heaven to
breathe, and the blessed privilege of daily
communion with nature.
It is not easy for the farmer to see any beauty
iu bis eneu ies tbe meadows lull of dasies,
with which he is forever lighting, or by which'
he has been ignomiuiously conquered; the
encroaching ranks of eolden-rods along the
borders of liis fields, and the bristling bayonets
of those Canadian invaders, the thistles. llow
few farmers, or other people for that matter,
see in the climbing blushes of the dawning
day, or the gorgeous painting of its close, or in
the perfect day itself, anything but tbe fore*
telling of fair or foul weather; or notice the
ways of any untamed bird or beast, except
that tbe crows come to pull the corn, the hawks
to catch tbe chickens, and the foxes to steal
the lambs and turke3’s! However, the farmer
generally does feel a thrill of pleasure when,
in the hazy softness of a february or March
day, he hears the caw of the first carriou-seek*
ing, hungry crow. “ The heart of winter is
bloke. In April when the fields begin to
show a suspicion of coming green and give
forth an odor ot spring, aud tbe dingy snow
banks along the leuces are daily dwindling he
welcoms the carol of the first blue-bird, and is
glad to bear the robin utter bis restless note
from the boughs of the old apple tree; and
the clear voice of the new-come meadow-lark
strikes him as not altogether unmusical; and
when he hears tin- plaintive cry of the grass
plover lie is sure spring has come, and then
thinks of the small birds no more till the first
blasts of returning winter sweep over tbe bare
trees and frozen fields, when, all at once, he
becomes aware that tbe troiinadors are gone,
lie sees that the brave little chickadee remains
faithful to his post, and feels that his cheery
note enlivens a little the dreariness of winter,
as does the reedy piping of the nut hatch and
the voice of the dowry, fuller of life than of
music, and the discordant note of the blue jay,
who, clad in a bit of summer sky, loudly pro<-
claims his presence; but the singers are gone
and he misses them.— Scribner.
Mquii'alcil by Spirti*.
[Dallas (Texas) Ilerald.J
A strange domestic disturbance, located in a
family whose place of residence is on San
Jacinto street, fell prey to a Herald reporter
yesterday. The caus) of the trouble in this
othei wise happy home is novel indeed, being
out of the usual order of such matters. The
gentleman and liis wife live alone, and while
he fondly cherishes liis better half, as she does
him in liis return, they are botli of tlie opinion
that they will be compelled to separate, which,
should it occur, will be one of the queerest
causes that lias ever come to light.
1 lie wife whom lie married several years
ago, has, within the past few months devel
oped into a spiritual medium, aud so trouble
some has this become that lie admits, that in
order to find peace and comfort, lie will be
compelled to leave liis wife, whom he adores
above all oilier creatures on earth.
She, to**, looks at the matter in the same
way, and is free to confess that there will be
no peace for them until the separation occurs.
The spirits manifest themselves unbidden by
her. and while they do not particularly fright
en, prove nevertheless a source of gaeat an
noyance to her and her husband.
The furniture is hauled about the house, the
bed on which they sleep is tilted, and a thous
and other mischievous pranks are played by
them, much to tluir mutual annoyance.
At first the husbuud was horrified by these
nightly visitations, but he soon came to regard
their visits as a matter of course, although liis
dislike to them constantly increased.
The spirit that causes the greatest disturb
ance is that of a young man who was his rival
for the hand of his wife, and which insists on
their separating having communicated to the
medium the fact that it will uever give either
of them peace until they do so.
The gentleman is a respectable citizen and
his wife a most estimable woman, and they had
kept the entire matter a secret, hoping that the
annoyance would cease, but the spirit in ques
tion becomes more violent each night, and he
and liis wife have mutually agreed to live apart
for awhile at least-
The Ruii'bow.
The lime f clay at which a rainbow ap
pears is generally regarded by farmers, shep
herds and others accustomed to out doc,r work
as a weather sign, thus, if it appears in the
morning it is looked upon as the precursor of
wet and stormy weather, but if it appear in
the evening, th< n it is thought to picccdc dry
and fine weather; hence the following dog
gerel ;
“ A rainbow in the morning
Is the shepherd’s warning;
But a rainbow at night
Is the shepherd’s delight,”
Meteorologists tell us that there is some
truth in this popular notion, and the reasons
they give are these: A rainbow in the morn
ing is seen in the west when the east is clear.
It is indicative uf the advance of a rain cloud
toward the observer, and, moreover, from the
time at which.it happens—morning—it points
to the increasing moisture of the atmosphere.
Wet and stormy weather is the natural se
quence of such a conjuncture of circumstances-
On the other hand, when a rainbow is seen in
the evening we have a reversal of there cir
cumstances, for the how appears in the east
when the west is clear; the rain clouds are
receding from the observer, and the atmos
phere* is bee uning diyer. Fine weather ne
cessarily follows.
A Colored Voter,
“ Abraham, how do the white and the col
ored people get along together at the South ? ”
“ Why, dey gits ’long well enougli; to be
sure dey do. Why shouldn’t dey git along lo
gedder? Dey all b’longs yere, an’ dey was all
born an’ brung up yere. Of course dey gits
’long. But, massa, we wotes ! ”
And as he uttered the words “we wotes,’’
Abraham’s face was a study. The index finger
of his right hand was pressed against his lips,
and his countenance assumed an expression at
once full of meaning aud yet as blank as a
stone wall. Finding that he was disposed to
take refuge behind this pantomime from fur
ther revelations, I replied; “Yes, I know you
vote, Abraham, but the thing that I wut to
know is whether there are not serious troubles
and difference here between the colored people
and the white people. llow is it ? ”
“ Why, to be sure jdar’s troubles an’ differ
ences down here; in course dar is Don’t ye
see niggers is niggers, an’ white folks is white
folks down Souf,jis like dey is all overs? I
spect dar’s troubles ’tween folks up Norf, an’
dat sde way ’tis down Souf. Sometimes de
"lute folks has a row, an’ den agin de uiggers
has a row ; sometimes de white folks pitch
into de niggers, an’ sometimes de niggers pitch
into dc white folks—an’ den agin dey don’t
But, I say, massa, we wotes! ”
Again Abraham resorted to the same ex
pressive pantomime, but I pretended not to
comprehend his meaning, though I began to
have a glimmering of it. So I resumed: “You
have told me that twice, Abraham, but it is no
answer to my question. Now, no dodging,
but come straight to the point—are the white
people and the colored folks frisnds or enemies ?
Do you understand that ? ”
“Oh yes, massa, dat talk’s plain enough. I
guess I kin understan’ widout kickin’. Now
jes lenime tell you how ’tis. S’posen a nigsjer
gits sick : well, dar ain’t no nigger doctors, an’
we’ve got to go to de white doctors. Under
slan’ ? W ell, j<*s so, dar ain’t no nigger lawyers,
nor bankers, nor butchers, nor bakers, nor
noffin’, an’ we s got to ’pend on de white law
yers an’ butchers an’ bakers. Understan”
massa? \ery well, den, ef 1 wants to buy
Hny thing, or ef l’s got any thing to sell, dar
ain’t no niggers to go to, an’ I’s got to go to de
white folks. S’pose my chile was to die, d'ye
spect I’d want anudder common nigger jes
like myse’f to bury him? No, sir. He should
liax e de best white minister dar is a-goiu’. Ac’
den agin, s’pose dar’s sickness or trouble in
my fam ly, an’ 1 want good kcer an’ words o’
you spect I’d run to udder niggers to git ’em?
All Is got to sa\ - is, ef I did, I’d be disapp’int
ed. sure. Ef my wife or chile gits taken had,
I goes to Iviimel Bob’s sister, an’ den 1 knows
it’s boun’ to come right ef any thing kin make
it come right; an’ ef I gits into trouble, like
dat dam bail, why, I jes goes to Kurml Bob
liisse’f, ail’ lie helps me to pull through. Dal’s
what de niggers lias got to do, massa. But
den, you see, we wotes!”
No ingenuity of which 1 was the master
could extract a more direct reply from Abra
ham, who seemed to bear adept in tliw art of
saying nothing with his tongue while bis face
and eyes and hands spoke volnnu s. Ih id no
doubt, however, that the impression he sought
to convey was that while there were many
stmug ties of interest, affection and sympathy
between the two races, and that while the ne
groes instinctively resorted to the whites in
great emergencies, deferring to the superior
intelligence in matters of domestic or business
concernment, they still held themselves dis
tinct politically, because they perceived that
somewhere in this field there was an antago
nism of interests, which they held in restraint
by massing their vo'es as an undivided unit
Harper's Magazine.
Virginia Etuiiea in Hie Surf.
An Old Point Comfort correspondent of the
Baltimore American writes: The young ladies
manage to make out very well for themselves,
which is not very surprising, as most of them
are Virginia’s fairest daughters, who are as
noted for their self reliance as Boston girls for
bookishness. This remarkable qualification is
seen at tlie best advantage during bulbing
hours, and the \isitor soon karns that some of
the girls here are as much at home in the water
as ducks, and can dive around as daringly and
gracefully as dolphins, even venturing iuto
deep water away from shore. It comes very
strange to a young man proud of his strength
to have the apparently frail and gentle crea
lure he met aud walked w ith in the moonlight
last night, dash past him into deep water, and
dating him to follow her, breast the running
billows, and swim away with ease, while he
•lands shiv, ring aud gasping for breath, and
wondering why women are called the weaker
vessels and man creation’s lord. Mbs De Hus
sey, who has lived here by the water side for
many years, the daughter of an army officer
now deceased, swam a mile out and back
this afternoon with an officer from the fort,
and came back looking as fresb ami buoyant
ami hew itching as any siren ot tLe sea. From
constant exposure to the sun and salty air, her
face ami arms are bi ow ued as deep as any
Tuscan beauty.
A Sneer.
A sneer is the seed of slander. It betits the
character of one who is willing to wound, and
yet afraid to strike It is the devil’s argument
“Doth Job serve God for naught,” wrs bis
comment upon the fidelity which he could not
deny, and hence desired to depreciate. Who
can contradict a sneer? Who can warJ off a
sneer? Xo matter how pure a reputation
may be, the sueerer can soil it by uttering a
suspicion which enemies credit and of which
friends are ignorant. It i, like a puff of wind
which scatters the thistle down and does mis
chief which the husbandmen can never undo.
Men whose hearts are full of malice sneer at
those whose goodness reproves them, and their
words and glances, light ami empty as they
are, fly to every quarter, like the breath of
pestilence. The shifting winds catch up the
vile infection, and multitudes who are poisoned
by it are never reached by antidotes. Xo hu
man character is pure enough to escape a sneer,
no reputation can refute it. nor can human
hearts prevent ii. Ihe tongue can no man
t one, and malice within the soul w ill sneer Its
Way out, until mockers and soNlers and all
who love hi make a lie, shall lie involved in a
•ommon ruin iu the day of doom.
Backward, turn backward, O Time in your
flight; let me remember when last I was tight
Wife at the window, her tua at the J.ior; you
all know how it is wliove been there before.,
PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS
Word* r Wisdom.
Duty cannot lx* plain in two diverging paths
War seldom enters but where;wealth al
lures.
Time is a tile that wears and makes no noise.
Be lively, but not light ; solid, but not sad.
Try to get good, and you are sure to uet
good.
Keep 'good principles and they will keen
you.
Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy
hedge. J
The magic of tne tongue is the most dan
gerous of all spells.
People often affect to be out of humor to
appear of consequence.
He hath a good judgment who doth not rely
entirely upon his own.
Account him thy friend who desires thy
good rather than thy good will.
A brave man is one who is riot afraid to wear
old clothes until he can buy new.
Prizes would lx* for legs of slowest pace,
were cripples made the judges of the ace.
How rarely do we accurately weigh what
we have to sacrifice against what we have
gain.
He who thinks he can do without others is
mistaken ; lie who thinks others cannot do
without him is still more mistaken.
Around the Melon.
There is always a crowd of people at tlie
laying of a corner stone, at a boat race, trot
ting match, or a mililaiy parade, but no coun
tenance wears that look of intense iutcrest
which is visible when twenty five or thirty cit
izens gather around a twenty five cent water
melon and discuss the awful mystery concealed
beneath the riud. After the melon has been
htflcd, thumped, pressed and squeezed by
each one of the group iu turn, the man who
has crossed the Alps, shot tigers iu India, met
the Czar of Russia, and cleaned ont fitting
Bull on the plains of America, declares his
candid beli-f that it is a ripe melon. Then tht;
mau who has owned nineteen different farms,
maiiiedto.r ditleicnt wives, wiitteu two liooka
ou agriculture, and raised melons by the mil
lion, asserts that the specimen before them is
gieeu. The crowd divides oft, yea and nay,
aud the owner of the melon nulls out his knife
and proceeds to slow ly perform the opeiatiou
of plugging. |he silence is so deep that
the tiekiug of a watch sounds like a lire alarm.
Men can lx seen to shut their jaws and grow
pale. Not a word— not a whisper, till the old
jack knife has performed its work When the
plug is pulled out to view every eye is turn
ed upon it, evciy heart gives a ti,roh, and the
silence is broken by a general ycli of—“ Didn’t
we say so t"
Overcrow (led tie**.
A belated and rather poverty-stricken foot
traveler, whose railway ticket was good on all
country roads and cattle paths, stopped at a
small mansion of apparently four rooms and a
kitchen, in the South Hill suburbs the other
evening, to beg a nights lodging. As he stood
timidly knocking at the half opened door, he
heard the shrill commeiuiiug tones of the lady
of the house, disposing the garrison for the
night: “Tommy, go hunt up Charlie and lieu
and PII thin: to go to the grocery aud tell
your fatli'-r to bring Lila and Willie right
home, it’s their bed time,and if they see Louise
on the way send her to Mis- Crozier’s for Alice
and Jim, and see if they know w here Ezra is;
ycu take tliis lamp up to grandma's room and
ask her if she won’t take care of the baby
while 1 go and find Dick, and while I am gone
you undress Mabel and put her to bed. and if
cousin Harry comes while I am gone, tell him
he’s to sleep with you.” And the traveler
sighed and turned away so oppressed with a
feeling of ovrrerowdedness, that he walked
out into the country and slept all nisrlit in the
middle of a prairie nine miles long.—llmling
ton Hawkeyi.
*
Kl OKI. ITT AS AN AfIMIKNTICE— The late
Dea. Daniel Salford, of ilostou, was a success
ful mechanic Ilegginning life as a blacksmith,
he conferred honor on his trade by his high
character, his thorough work, and his large
business enterprises. He built up an extensive
business and accumulated a fortune, which
was lilx rally used for benevolent objects. One
9t< ‘ret of his success was his uniform fidelity,
never slighting any work, but finishing every
thing that passed through his hands iu the best
manner possible.
When he was an apprentice lie made this
record in his journal : “ lb-solved to do work
for my employer as faithfully as if I were do
ing • verything for myself." .Many clerks and
apprentices make a great mistake in slighting
their work win n it is not subject to careful in
spection. They draw a bro.nl distinction be
tween their own interests anu the interests of
their employers, ami try to go ou as easily as
possible for themselves. Such young men
larely succeed in life and they do not deserve
to a iico-ed. — Gt]/*trx St.th-iur.
A Sacramento man intercepted a note sent
to his wire by another man. Ho therein dis
covered that she was making an appointment
with t’other. He simply took her false teeth
Bom the buieau.put tin in in his pocket, kissed
the children went down town and played sev
eral games of billiards.
“ Of all the poets, darling one,
vt ho’v* rhapsodized of love,
W hich one evokes your ardent praise
All other hards above?”
And as he took her iu his arms
And kissed her o’er and o'er,
She spoke in tones of ecstacy,
“ O, Tommy, give me Moore!’
The New Orleans I’icayune is of the opinion
that the man who ties oil his wife’s Sunday
bonnet and helps her off to church displays a
desire to go to heaven. Guess not. Guess he
wants to go fishing as soon as she gets out of
the way.
It is very depressing to a summer congre
gation to >ve the minister, in the most eloquent
and impassioned passage of hi- sermou, gesture
with one hand and fight flies with the other.
The pious colored brother learns early in
life that there is a time for a’l things, and that
night time is the best for enticing a tall grow u
watermelon tc leave a neighbor's patch
An enterprising Georgian has named his
daughters Time and Tide, so tLey will wait .’or
no man, and have g>t a first mortgage ou
matrimony to begin with.
When a man to whom you lend money says
he will be indebted to you forever you may
believe him.
NO. ?A