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JThe Gainesville Eagle
Pub.ished Every Fiidav Morning
BY EE D WIM i: & HAM
The Official Organ of Hall, Banks, Towns,
Kaoun, bniou and Dawson counties, and the city
or Gainesville. Has a large general circulation in
twelve other counties in Northeast Georgia, and
iwo counties in Western North Carolina.
K DITO Rl AL EAGLETS.
W hen some enterprising railroad
man goes to make a map of his spe
cial line of road to show its direct
connection between given points, it
is wonderful with what ease he can
warp the whole United States to suit
his scheme and make his road a bee
line, regardless of State and county
linos and without the least care for
such obstructions as mountains and
valleys, rivers and lakes.
Prof, Tice, the well known weather
prophhet, fell over a pile of dirt, in
Covington, Ky., tha other day, and
broke his arm. In consequence, he
has been unable to give his usual
prognostications,which very likely ac
counts for the uninterrupted spell of
fine weather, which has lasted through
sevoral days.
Another case of the power of
prayer. A California hawk pounced
down on p, poll parrot and the latter
having been religiously bro'ught up--
shouted out, Oil Lord save me,’ 1
which so frightened the hawk
ously afar off.
——- - .*~y—
The extra session of congress will
assemble on next Tuesday. There
will be a hot contest between Black
burn of Kentucky and Randall G’
Pennsylvania for the democr tie
nomination for the speakership. W.
D. Kelly will be the republican can
didate.
The democratic majority in the
next house of representatives will
not lie so largo as it was in the last,
but it will bo decided enough to car
ry any party measure over both the
republicans and groeabackers, if the
members are united and firm.
Congress has adjourned, and Rev.
ill, of the Meriwether Vindicator, can
now gallop down to the jungles of
Greenville and familiarize his fairy
lingers with primer and burgeois
while “Mrs. Vindicator” looks after
the family washing.
Wherefore Bm Bailor’s silonce
Does he intend to drop entirely out
of the politics of the country? Ben
is a regular old political die-dapper,
you know where he went down but
you cannot tell where he is going to
come up.
A Michigan man tried to whip his
wife because she would • not bring in
wood. She threw him down, tied
Lis hands behind him and marched
him off’ to a justice of the peace.
Hereafter there will bo peace in that
family.
Garfield will likely be the candi
date of the republicans for speaker
of the house in the 46th congress.
The democrats will run either Ran
dall or Blackburn. The chances are
now in favor of the latter.
The Augusta Evening News wants
to know why the street sprinkler
does not coma up as far us the office
of that journal. Knows your weak
ness Billy. He is aware that water
is not your best holt.
The grand possibilities of Ohio
men under the present administra
tion seem to have stimulated the
production. CVer fifty pairs of male
twins have been born there this sea
son.
They had a machine for hatching
eggs, and now a scientist has in
vented another for making them.
With these two a mau can build his
spring chickens to or ler.
It is remarkable with what una
nimity “the outs” declare the salaries
of “the ins’’ are too high. They are
so high they cannot reach them,
hence the trouble.
. California threatened to secede if
Hayes vetoed the Cnineso bill. He
has done so. Now let the riot be
gin “tew oncet” as Artomus Ward
would observe.
We would like to know how Ales
Stephens and Ben Hill like Rev. Fel
ton’s antics of late, he whom they so
unanimously endorsed last summer.
Felton or Wofford will be the in
dependent candidate for governor.
Whoever he is ho will boeternalh
aiK,d everlastingly lambasted.
How sweet aud holy a thing is a
sister’s kiss, says an exchauge. Yes,
indeed, if it happens to be some oth
er fellow’s sister.
Tho nimble Ilea is oilmg up his
joints, putting new points on his
tweezers and getting ready for spring
business.
A Greensboro bar-room is named
“Wade Hampton.” Such are the
base uses to which wo are brought
by fame.
If all men follow their noses will
not the mau with a crooked nose
walk around in a circle?
You can buy a Mexican god for
five cents, but he is no good in a dry
spell.
They say that Bayard is fond of
the old Virginia reel.
The Gainesville Eagle
VOL. X I!.
A DETECTIVE'S STORY,
During the year 1818 the West was
flooded with counter!.ft coin. It was
so well manaufactured that ir passed
readily. The evil at last became so
great that the United States author
ities requested a skillful detective
might be sent to ferret out the nest
of coiners. I was fixed upon to per
form the duty.
I had nothing to guide me. The
fact, however, that Chicago was the
city where the counterfeit coin was
most abundant, led me to suspect
that the manufactory might be some-
where within its limits. It was,
therefore, to the capital of the West
that I first proceeded. I spent five
weeks in that beautiful city, but with
out gaining the slightest clue of the
counterfeiters.
I began to grow discouraged, and
really thought I should be obliged to
return home without having achiev
ed any result. One day I received a
letter from my wbe requesting that I
would send her home sprue money.
m fikfr iax)
a bank and asked for a draft, at the
time handing some money to
pay for it, in which there were several
half-dollars. The clerk pushed three
to iiiO.
“Counterfeit,” said he.
“What ?’* said I, “do you mean to
tell me those half-dollars are counter
feit?”
“I do.”
"Are you certain ?”
“Perfectly certain. They are re
markably w 11 executed, but they are
deficient in weight. See for your
self.”
And he placed one of them in the
scales against a genuine half-dollar
on the other side. The latter weigh
ed down the former.
•‘That is the best executed counter
feit coin I ever saw in my life!” I
exclaimed, examining them very
closely. “Is all the counterfeit money
in circulation here of the same char
acter as this ?’’
“O, dear, no,” replied the clerk, “it
is not nearly so well done. These
are the work of Ned Willett, the fa
mous New York counterfeiter. I
know them well, for I have handled a
great deal of it in my time. Here is
some of the money that is in circula
tion here,” he added, taking several
half-dollars from a drawer. “You
see the milling is not nearly as per
fect as Ned Willett’s, although it is
pretty well done, too.”
I compared the two together, and
found that he was right. I supplied
the place of the three counterfeit
half-dollars with good coin, and re
turned the former to my pocket
again.
A few days after this I received in
formation which caused me to take a
journey to a village thirty miles from
Chicago. I arrived there ai night
and took up mv quarters at the only
tavern in the place. It was a wretch
ed dwelling, and kept by an old man
and woman, the surliest couple I
think it has ever been my iot to meat
In answer to my inquiry as to wheth
er I could have lodging there for the
night, I noticed that the host gave a
peculiar look at his wife, and after
some whispering I was informed in
the most ungracious manner possible
that I could have a bed.
The chamber was small in size, and
was certainly well ventilated, for I
could see the stars peeping through
the roof. The bed was simply a bag
of straw thrown into one corner of
the room, without sueets or covering
of any kind.
I stood for more than an hour
gazing out of th opening which serv
ed as a window. Before me was
spread an immense prairie, the limits
of which I could Dot see. The tav
ern in which I had taken up my
abode appeared to bo isolated from
ail other dwellings, and, save the
croak of the tree frog and the hum
of the locust not a sound reached my
ears. It was a beautiful moonlight
night, and so bright I could see to
read the smallest print.
At last 1 began to grow weary, aud
throwing rnyst-lt on my pallet I was
soon pin • ' and into a deep slumber.
How long i slept I know not; but I
was awakened by a dull sound, which
resembled some oue hammering in
the distance. I suppose it was the
peculiarity of the sound which awoke
me, for it, was by no means loud, but
conveyed to mo the idea of someone
striking iron wifcu a muffled hammer.
I rose up from my bed and went to
the window; the moon was low in the
western horizon, by which fact I
knew that it must be near morning.
I put on my boots, the only article
of attire I had discarded, and, cau
tiously opening the door of ray cham
ber noislessly descended the ricketty
staircase. Afc w steps brought me
into the lower apartments, which I
found entirely deserted. I crept
quietly to the door, aud unfastening
it without the slightest noise, was
soon in the moonlight.
Not a soul was visible, but the
sound continued, and grew much
more distinct as I approached the
place from whence it proceeded. At
last I found myself before a long, low
building, through tho crevices of
which I could preceive a lurid glare
issuing. I stooped down, looked
through the keyhole, and, to my ex
treme surprise, I saw half a dozen
strong looking men with their coats
off, and sleeves turned up, perform
ing a variety of strange occupations.
Some were working at a forge, others
were superintending the casting of
molds, and soma were engaged in the
process of milling coin. In a moment
the whole truth burst upon me.
Here was Uio gang of counterfeiters
I was in search of, aud tho landlord
and his wife evidently belonged to
the same band; for in oue corner I
perceived them employed—-the man
polishing off some half-dollar pieces.,
just turned from the molds, while
the woman was packing the finished
coin into rolls.
I had seen enough, aud was aoout
to return to my apartment again,
when suddenly I felt a heavy hand
placed on my shoulde", and turning
my head round, to my horror, fouud
myself in the grasp of as ill-looking;
GAINESVILLE, GA„ FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 14, 1879.
a scoundrel as ever escaped the gal
lows.
“What are you doing, my good fel
low?” he exclaimed, in a gruff voice,
giving me a shake.
“Taking a stroll by moonlight,” I
replied endeavoring to maintain my
presence of mind.
“Well, perhaps you’ll just take a
stroll in here, will you?”returned the
ruffian, pushing open the door, and
dragging me in after him.
All the inmates of the barn imme
diately stopped work, and rushed to
ward us when they saw me.
“Why, what’s this ?” they all ex
claimed.
“A loafer I found peeping out
side,” said the man who had captur
ed me.
“He’s a traveler that came to the
tavern to-night and asked for lodg
ings; the last time I saw him he was
safe in bed,” said the landlord.
The men withdrew to a corner of
the apartment, leaving one to keep
guard over me. I soon saw they
were in earnest consultation, and
were evidently debating the impor
tant question. The man keeping
guard over me said nothing, but
scowled fiercely. At last the discuss
ion-seemed settled, for the blackest
and dirtiest of the whole lot came
forward, and, without ah’/ 'introduc
tion, exclaimed:
“I say, stranger, look here—you
must die.’’
I did not move a muscle or utter a
word.
“You have found out our secret,
and dead men tell no tales.”
I was still silent.
“We give you ten minutes to say
your prayers, and also allow you the
privilege of saying whether you will
be hanged or shot ”
Suddenly an idea struck me. I re
membered something that might
save my life. I burst into a violent
fit of laughter, in fact it was hysteri
cal, but they did not know that.
They looked from one to the other in
the greatest amazement.
“Well, he takes it mighty cool, any
how,” said one.
“I suppose he does’nt think we are
in earnest,” said another.
“Come, stranger, you had better
say your prayers,” said the man who
had first spoken; “time flies.”
My only reply was a fit of laughter
more violent than the first.
“The man’s mad !” they exclaimed.
“Or drunk,” said some.
“Well, boys,” I cried, speaking for
the first time, “this is the best joke I
ever seed. What, hang a pal?”
“4 pal—you a pal?”
“I aint nothing else,” was ray ele
gant rejoinder.
“Did you ever hear of Ned Wil
lett?” I asked.
“You may be certain of that. Aint
he at the head of our profession?”
‘‘Well, then, I am Ned Willett.”
“You Ned Willett!” they all exclaim
ed.
“You may bet your life on that,” I
returned swaggering up to the corner
where I had seen the old woman
counting and packing the counterfeit
half-dollars.
Fortune favored me. None of the
men present had ever seen Ned Wil
lett, although his reputation was well
known to them, and my swaggering
insolent manner had somewhat
thrown them off their guard, yet I
could plainly see that all their doubts
were not removed.
“And yon call these things well
done, do you?” I asked taking up a
roll of the money.
“Well, all I can say is that if you
can’t do better than this, you had
better shut up shop that’s all.”
“Can you show us anything better?”
asked one of the men.
“I rather think I can. If I could
n’t I’d go and hang myself.”
“Let’s see it,” they all cried.
This was my last coup, and one on
which I knew my life depended.
“Lookee here, gentlemen,” I ex
claimed, taking one of the counterfeit
half-dollars from my pocket which
had been rejected at the bank,
“here is my last job; what do you
think of it?’’
it was passed from hand to hand,
some saying it was no counterfeit and
others saying it was.
“How will yon prove that it is a
counterfeit?” asked one of the men.
“By weighing it with a genuine
one,” I replied.
This plan was immediately adopt
ed, and it’s character proved.
“Perhaps he got this by accident,”
I heard one of the men whisper to
another
“Try these,” said I, taking the
other two from my pocket.
All their doubts now vanished.
“Beautiful!” exclaimed some.
“Splendid!” said others.
When they had all examined it to
their satisfaction they all of them
cordially shook me by the hand, every
particle of doubt having vanished
from their mind3. I carried out my
part well. Some questions were
occasionally asked me involving some
of the technicalities of the business;
these, however, I avoided by stating
that I was on a journey of pleasure,
aud would much rather drink a
glass of whiskey than answer ques
tions. The whiskey was produced,
and we made a night of it, and it was
not until morning had dawned that
we separated.
The next day I returned to Chica
go aud brought down the necessary
assistance, and captured the whole
gang of counterfeiters in the very act.
This den was broken up forever, and
most of them were condemned to
serve a term in the State Prison.
‘A glass of wine,’said Sheridan,
‘encourages the thought which is
slow to come, and when it comes it
deserves a glass of wine as a reward.’
Let us add that if a man too often
rewards the thought that is so slow
in coming, it will hurry him to the
station house at double quick.
In our youth we gaze only upon
the outer aud the fairer side of life’s
patchwork, aud it appears to us to
be a beautiful whole. In old age wo
contemplate the other side, and are
disappointed and disgusted with its
ragged seams and its tawdry tags
aud ends.
ITle Priuce of Wales at Home.
The Prince of Wales’ country
house is a pretty two-mile drive
from Wolverton, in Norfolk, through
a quantity of young plantations in
which the Prince takes much interest.
On the left you pass a picturesque
building called “The Folly,” fur
nished with great taste, and where
shooting parties lunch once or twice
during the The entrance to
Sandringham iiTarough the famous
Norwich Gates, and so through a
fine avenue of limes. The house is a
model of comfort. The large hall
which you enter on arriving is fitted
up as a dining-, oom, with a piano
forte, easy chairs, and two large
writing-tables, at one of which the
Prince usually writes his letters on
his return from shooting. Behind
the piano j are a quantity of toys for
the children to amuse themselves
with at the “children’s hour” after
tea. Here at five o’clock the tea
table is placed in the center of the
hall, and is presided over by the
Princess iu the loveliest of fcea-gownt.
It is a pretty sight to see her sur
rounded by her three little girls, who
look like tiny fairies, and who run
about to put letters in the
large pillar-post box at one end of
the hall. There are generally four
or five large dogs to add to the cir
cle. In this same hall the balls take
place. The floor is excellent, and
the music is upstairs in a gallery.
At the balls the supper is served
at a cumber of round tables, with
one long one down the side of the
room.
At Christmas the hall looks like a
bazaar, being then filled with the
most costly and beautiful table, with
a large Christmas tree in the center
and objects all around the sides of
the hall full of presents for the
household and visitors. The Royal
Highnesses arrange the presents all
themselves, and no one is permitted
to enter till tho evening. Some few
years back the gentlemen of the
household gave the Prince on his
birthday a handsome weighing ma
chine, which has ever since been
honored with a conspicuous place in
the corridor passing alongside the
hall; and regularly during each par
ty, generally after tea, the guests
are requested to. como and be
weighed, a proceeding to which some
seriously object. They then in their
own handwriting have to record the
full details in a book kept specially
for that purpose; they write then
names, date, weight and costume
worn at the time. Thus you read:
Heavy walking-dress, tea-gown, vel
wel dress—the heavy ones generally
attribute some of the fault to the
garments. It is an interesting book,
containing as it does autographs of
many long since passed away.
The drawing-room is a particular,--
ly prsfety room, hT.I or j’orni f n , A. <*nd
every available corner is filled with
giguntic flower glasses full of Pampas
grass and evergreens. Here the
guests assemble before dinner. The
dining-room out of this room. The
dinner-table decorations are noted
and are arranged by the gardener,
whose taste i3 very good. The bowl
ing alley, in close proximity to the
billiard-room, is most popular. The
Princess plays well, while those who
have no taste this way sit in the lit
tle ante-room, comfortably furnished
with two long, low settees and rock
ing-chairs, and from which you com
mand a good view of the game.
Out of the drawieg-room on th op
posite of the dining-room is a small
sitting-room fitted with book-cases.
Beyond this is the Prince’s own room,
quite fall of beautiful things. Here
he and the Princess have always
breakfast, and hero on the 9th of
December are laid out all the numer
ous birthday presents. Of the Prin
cess’ private apartments upstairs it
will suffice to say that a prettier
room than Her Royal Highness’ own
boudoir or sitting-room was never
seen. All the visitors’ rooms are
perfect, nor are the servants’ comfort
neglected.
Immediately after tea and coffee
(when there is a party staying in the
house) the Princess sits down to her
whist in the small room leading out
of the drawing-room, and the Prince
adjourns to the bowl-alley, where
two little boys, attired iu appropri
ate costume, are in attendance to
send back the heavy balls and set up
the bowls.
The gardens are of considerable
extent, and the Princess’ dairy is a
thing of beauty, with a lovely room
luxuriously furnished for tea parties.
The usual Sunday afternoon walk,
with all the guests, household and
children, comprises vistis to the gar
dens, the dairy, the farm and the
kennels, and always finishes up with
the stables. The company consists
of very much the same set each year,
with occasional additions of foreign
ers. There are also generally one or
two very good whist players.
How to Cook a Husband,
The first thing to be done is to
catch him. Having done so, the
mode of cooking him so as to make
a good dish is as follows: Many a
good husband i3 spoiled in the cook
ing. Some women keep them con
stantly in hot water, while others
freeze them with conjugal coldness;
some smother them with hatred and
contention, and still others keep
them in pickle all their lives. These
women always serve them up with
tongue sauce. Now it is not to be
supposed that husbands will be ten
der aud good if treated this way, but
they are, on the contrary, very deli
cious when managed as follows: Get
a large jar, called the jar of careful
ness, (which all good housewives
have on hand,) place your husband
in it and set him near the fire of con
jugal love; let the fire be pretty hot,
especially let it be clear; above all,
let the heat be constant; cover him
over with affection: garnish him with
the spice of pleasantry; and if you
add kisses and other confections, let
them be accompanied with a sufficient
portion of secrecy, mixed with pru
dence and moderation.
Never get into debt. A man who
owes nothing can never fail.
SMALJL BITS.
"HV Va i i'oas Kinds Carelessly thrown To.
getlier.
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He who loves little, suffers least;
he who loves many, suffers most;
while He who loved all, was cruci
#d.
- 1 California raisins are improving in
quality and increasing in quantity,
ard in time will largely displace for
eign dried fruits.
Alcohol was invented by an Ara
bian over nine hundred years ago,
'nd people have been drinking his
halth ever since.
A man seldom shows improvement
until he has found himself; and in
this sense, if in no other, the major
ity of mankind are lost.
Have the courage to speak your
inind when it is necessary to do so,
aTid hold your tongue when it is
prudent that you should do so.
Hearts have windows, and they
qjjould be kept open at all times, that
Lie glad sunshine of all that is true
a’ud beautiful in this life may enter
and abide therein.
A petition has been presented in
the Alabama legislature, signo and by
hundreds of Presbyterians, praying
far a law prohibiting the running o f
railroad trains on tho Sabbath.
A couple of Western young men
accidentally exploded five pounds of
powder. The side of the building
they were in was blown away, but
the young men being drunk, escaped
injury.
Good resolutions are an honor to
every heart that may form them.
Bat that honor takes to itself anew
luster, and that heart is nobler still
when these good resolutions are not
broken.
‘Nature is full of poetry,’ exclaims
an enthusiastic magazine writer.—
This reminds Brother Eidielberger
tnjG, there is a mighty close resem
blance between nature and his waste
paper basket.
Some wicked wretch has said that
woman needs no eulogist, for she
speaks for herself.” If one met the
author of the remark, his abiding
faith in the truth of the assertion
would undoubtedly be intensified.
The Detroit Free Press gives cur
rency to the story that an Oshkosh
girl went back on her lover because
he was so bow-legged she couldn’t
sit in his lap. The narrator must
have been drawing the long bow.
t Chicago is the coldest city in the
United States. —Detroit Free Press.
Some eight years ago, it will bo
remembered, Chicago was the hottest
city in the United States. Chica
goans prefer the cold. —Norristown
Mtrald.
One of the brightest little sons
residing on James street hill saw his
father fixing the billiard table with a
spirit level. After the old man had
finished the job he remarked : ‘Now,
pa, see if my head’s level. —Syracuse
Standard.
“Ah, yes,” said Mrs. Partington,
some years ago on February 22d, as
she watched the military pass by,
“ah, yes, Washington is dead, and
tho worst of it is that his mantle
piece don’t seem to have fallen on
any man iiving.”
A horrible affair happened on Y—
street the other day. A gentleman
put ou lubber shoes for the first time
in his life, and not being able to
hear himself step, thought he was
paralyzed ; he had to be carried
home in a state of semi-idocy.
The mule is a disappointing animal’
One fell down a shaft in Maryland
eighty-five feet deep. Every oue said,
‘That mule’s dead,’ but it was hoisted
up uninjured and walked away, and
ju3t as every one said, ‘That mule’s
not hurt.,’ it laid down and died.
It is the narrow-edged men—tho
men of single and intense purpose,
who steel their souls against all
things else—who accomplish the
hard work of the world, and who
are everywhere in demand when
hard work is to bo done.
Patience has its charms as well as
its reputed virtue. The charm is in
its cheerfulness ; toe virtue in its
quiet fortitude to wait and trust.
One adds to the other’s beauty, just
as a moonbeam resting upon a placid
sea adds to the beauty of the peace
ful waters.
(Mrs. Drinkwater’s lady friends
had come up to the vicarage to take
a cup of tea and to talk over the
subject of social reform. Mrs. D.
was speaking fluently about the
drinking habits of the villager/ 1 ,
when auntie directed Mrs D’s. at
tention to the front garden, where
Master D., aged 9, was turning
somersaults iu the snow.) —Mrs. D.
(rushing excit9dly to the window )
“Nurse ! girl! what is that dear boy
doing out there in the snow without
ir's shoes and stockings?’ Nurse:
“Please, ma’am, ha says he wants to
catch a proper cold and cough, then
he’il be like auntie, and have a jolly
’ot glass of whisky before he goes to
bed, ma’am.”— Fun.
A son of Maine, who went West
in early youth, and has there at
tained wealth and an honorable po
sition, returned last summer to visit
his old home. At the village store
he saw an old man whom he had
known in his younger days. He ac
costed him, but was not recognized.
“So you don’t remember me,” he
said; “I am-Johu R “You!”
exclaimed the old man, “you don’t
mean to tell me that you are Johu
R ?” “I certainly am,” said the
visitor, shaking him by the hand,
“and I’m very glad to see you again.”
“Well,” persisted the old man, “I
never did. To think that this is
you They tell me you’ve grown
awful rich, John.” John admitted
that he had “saved something.” “And
they say you’re the president of a
railroad, aud get a big salary.” Again
John had to admit that rumor spoke
truth. “I’m glad on it, my boy! It
beats all what sarcumstances and
cheek will do for a man.”
I Wisli He Had Lived.
The other day when a burly big
driver of a cart backed his vehicle
up to tne alley gate of an old house
in Detroit to dump out half a ton of
coal, some children came out. of the
side door, and the driver beckoned
them near and said:
“Last time I was here one of the
wheels crushed a bit of a dog bi-ioug
ing to one of you. I heard a great
crying out, but I can’t be stopping to
look out for dogs on the street.”
The children made no reply, but as
they watched him unload the cart
they wondered if he had little chil
dren of his own, aud if he ever spoke
kindly to them. He may have felt
the burden of their thoughts, for
suddenly he looked up and said:
“Well, I own I’m a bit sorry, and
being as I knew as I was coming up,
I brought along an o 1 ange to give to
the child who owned the dog. Which
of you is it?”
“The dog belonged to little lame
Billy in that house there,” answered
a girl. “It was all the dog he ever
had, and when you killed it he cried
himself almost to death. He didn’t
never have any plaything but that
little dog.”
“Aud will you take him this or
ange ?”
“I can’t, sir, ’cos he’s dead, and
they’re coming to take him to the
graveyard pretty soon.”
The driver looked up and down,
seemed to ponder the matter, and
then he crossed to the other house.
The little coffin and its burden was
in the front room, and two or three
old women were wipiug away their
tears and talking in low tones. The
driver put his hand on the closed
coffin and said:
“I didn’t know it was his dog—l
didn’t know he was lame and sick.
God forgive me if I made sorrow for
him!”
The vehicle sent to convey the
body to the cemetery drove up at
that moment, aud tne burly big man
continued:
“If he was alive I’d buy him any
thing he could ask. I can do nothing
now but carry him softly out.”
He gently took up the coffin in his
stout arms and carried it out, his
eyes moist and Lis lips quivering and
when he had placed it in the vehicle
he looked up at the driver in a be
seeching way, and whispered:
“Drive slow; drive slow! He was
a poor little lame boy !”
The driver wondered, but he moved
away slowly, aad the coal cartman
stood in the center of the street, aad
anxiously watched till he was off the
cobblestones. Then as ho turned to
his own vehicle he said:
“I didn’t mean to, but I wish he
had lived to forgive me !”—Detroit
Free Press.
Due!.
A good deal has lately been heard
of the progress of female emancipation
in Russia but it is somewhat of a
novelty to find the Rusian ladies
figuring in the character of duellists,
as was the case not long since with
two belles of Petigorst, a well-known
fashionable resort on the northern
slope of the Caucasus. A dispute
arose between the rival beauties,
springsng out of the attentions paid
to each in turn by a handsome young
cavalry officer quartered in the neigh
borhood. The quarrel ran so high
that one of the Amazons at length
dispatched her maid to the other
with a formal challenge, which was
instantly accepted. The belligerents
met without seconds in a lonely place
outside the town, each armed with
a brace of loaded pistols. Before,
however, they had even taken up
their respective positions, the
trembling of the one lady’s hand
caused her pistol to explode
prematurely, sending a bullet
through the dress of the other, who
shrieked and fell down in a swoon.
The assailant, frightened out of her
wits, flung away her weapon, and
rushed to raise the supposed corpse;
but her ungrateful antagonist, recov
ering her senses as suddenly as she
had lost them,clutched her by the hais
with one hand, while boxing her ears
with the other in the most energetic
style. The firing having now ceased,
the battle proceeded hand to hand.
Locks of hair, ribbons, and shreds of
clothing flew in every direction, and
but for the timely advent of three or
four policemen the affray might have
ended like the somewhat similar com
bat of the Kilkenny cats. The milita
ry Lothario’s only remark on hearing
the story was,“lt’s lucky they
took to clawing each other instead
of me.”
The immense extent of intemper
ance among our business ranks, says a
New York correspondent, has startled
thinking men with deep alarm. The
habit has reached such an extreme as
to threaten general destruction, and
hence the present deep consciousness
of the need of reform. To place a
young man, indeeed, in the New York
business community, is to subject
him to fearful temptation, since the
motto of the day seem3to be “every
body drinks.” The new temperance
movement is intended to meet
this appalling danger. Hence the
pledge is not to drink during busi
ness hours, and also neither to give
nor accept “treats.” It is also proposed
that some drinks be provded which are
not of an intoxicating nature. This
recalls the fact that there was a time
when the word “coffee-house ” was
a reality. At present, however, it is
synonymous with barroom. Perhaps
New York business men, like the mer
chants and wits of London in old times
may eventually limit themselves to
coffee and tea but before this can be
done the fierce excitment which marks
their operations must be abated.
There must be a nerve scenter
somewhere in the nose.— Wheeling
Lead er.
Matrimonial Bliglit.
Sometimes when the blighted be
ihg puts forth its marriage as the
cause of its melancholy, no one
knows why it should. The run of
things as the world sees them is
smooth enough; why, then should
that wrethed woman go about like
the concentration of despair ? Her
husband is really a very nice fellow,
and whatever flaws he may have,
his demerits were all known before
marriage. Why, then, act and look
as if they were things which have
grown since, and which were not in
the bargain when it was made?
And again, why should that dis
agreeable little peculiarity —this un
pleasant little characteristic—spoil
the rest of his good qualites, and
make her life wertched because he is
not perfect all through? The same
may be said of men who make, at
times, so much account of this or
that unpleasant trait in their wives,
though counterbalanced bjr such ster
ling excellencies. Mon, however,
seldom let themselves be so utterly
crushed by an unhappy marriage as
do the weaker, less reasonable sex.
If their home is uncomfortable they
keep out of it as much as they can;
and when in it do the best possible
to minimise the misfortune contained
in the shrew or the slattern. Women,
poor souls, cannot do this so much.
So far fate and custom are hardest
on the weaker sort; but for all that,
even an unhappy marriage has its
ameliorations in duty and occupation
of which wise women take advantages,
and blighted beings do not. One can
understand that marriage should
contain a blight, even when one does
not understand how or why. There
are mysteries of uncongeniality
which do not come to the surface,
but which are quite sufficient to de
stroy all happiness; and a socia
woman married to a recluse, a shy
one to a showy boaster, an honorable
soul to a dishonorable, a generous
to a mean, and so on, may account
for blight, if even then you think a
little philosophy tire better thing.
‘‘Every Time I Slipit Heem
Back.”
Foreigners who come to this coun
try have generally heard the praises
of the American oyster sounded long
before their advent, and are, as a
rule, anxious to test its merits at
the earliest possible moment. They
used to tell of a Frenchman who,
within an hour after landing, was
seated in a well-known down-town
oyster saloon, with a dozen huge
“saddlerocks” before him. By dis
secting them with knife and fork he
had managed to dispose of two or
three of the smaller ones, when a
native came in, seated himself oppo
site him at the table, and attacked a
dozen of particularly large and fat
oysters American fashion. The
Frenchman looked on in astonish
ment as they disappeared one by one
and at length leaned and said hurri
edly: “You schwallow them whole?”
“Certainly/’ said his companion eat
ing another. “And you can
schwallow heem whole?” persisted
the Frenchman, pointing to a mam
oth specimen on his own plate. “Cer
tainly,” said the American, “pass it
over here.” The plate was pushed
across the table, and the American,
after a due application of lemon juice
took it down at a gulp. “Mon
Dieu!” exclaimed the Frenchman, “I
nevare did see. I try to schwallow
heem one, two, three time; every
time I shpit heem back.” The feel
ings of the American need not be de
scribed.
A Good oue on the Railroad
Roys.
A more genial set than the rail-road
boys never lived, and they are as well
noted for their great energy shrew 1-
ness and business tact. The various
competing lines at Atlanta are repre
sented by the very sharpest of this
class, and woe to the “greeny ” who
happens to fall in their way for he
will get confused; he will hardly know
where he is bound for. Asa case in
point, a little Dutchman, northward
bound, was approached by a repre
sentative of the great Ivennesaw
route, the advantages of that route,
as scenery, fine coaches, cheap rates,
quick time and other inducements
were held out in an eloquent manner
to which the traveler had listened
and had concluded to buy a ticket.
The agent had scarcely left him when
ho was met by one of the officers of
the splendid Air-Line route, who
painted all of the advantages of his
road in glowing colors; and added,
“It is 200 miles and five hours shor
ter travel. The little Dutchman was
greatly perplexed, and as soou as the
first agent left him, the Kennesaw
man made him another speech, but
“Dutchy” put a quietus to matters in
bhort order by saying, “Oh, don’t
podder me; py tarn I’sh going by
dot Yind line.” He was so confused
he couldn’t think of “Air-Line,” but
he knew it was some thing connect
ed with wind.
A San Francisco woman wrote to
the Post: “My husband knocks me
down with a chair or something
every few hours and last week locked
me up in the cellar while he went
shooting. When he returned, after
five days absence,he released me with
the remark, ‘Great God? ain‘t you
dead yet?‘ Yesterday I detected him
putting arsenic in my tea. What shall
Ido abont it!“ To which the Post
replied: “You must win your husband
by kindness. Hiding behind the door
or under the bed will only make him
worse. Plait your hair like a handle
so that he can drag you around the
floor more easily, and work him a
satin-quilted club-holder to hang on
the bedpost. The great thing is the
proud consciousness of having
performed your duty. Do this
and all will be well in ten or fifteen
I years.“
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NEWS IN GENERAL..
Spain has anew ministry with
Gen. Campos at the head.
The English house of commons
has just killed a bill in favor of fe
male suffrage.
Hon. Elihu Burritt, of New York,
philanthropist, reformer and philolo
gist, is dead.
The Lincolnton (N. C.) News says
John Whitener, of Catawba county,
has a hair growing in one of fiiis
teeth.
Twenty-five men pleaded guilty to
aiding in a cock-fight at Cincinnati,
Ohio, and were fined from $5 to
$l5O each.
An election to fill the vacancy in
congress caased by the death of rep
resentative Schleicher, has been or
dered for the 15th of next month.
One of the largest roosts of pig
eons probab’y in the world is in
Grayson county, Texas. It is said
to be 18 miles wide, 40 miles long,
and contains millions of birds.
John Sharpies, an ex-policeman of
New O leans, was shot dead on the
street: on the Bth, for insulting a
lady. John R. Clay, a prominent
broker, committed suicide the same
day.
NO. 11.
Now that Patterson’s term as
senator has expired, South Carolina
has magnanimously sent him a letter
granting him full pardon and obliv
ion for any indictment pending
against him in that State.
Edmund R. Ingalls is treasurer of
the tower of Candia, N. 11. Last
week two robbers entered his house
and bound and gagged him, after
which they stole $3,700 in money,
his watch and some jewelry.
The French republic certainly has
a trying time of it. It has hardly
got through the ordeal of electing a
new ministry before the news comes
that a vote of impeachment has been
recorded and the work will have to
be done over.
An inhuman step-mother in Clay
county, Ivy., by a system of horrid
cruelties, tortured and finally killed
the little 9 year old daughter of her
husband, Marion Deering, a short
time since. The murderess is in
prison and will probably hang.
A young man named Curtis, a
clerk in a shoe-store in Richmond,
Va., was killed last week by a Mr.
Paindexter. The cause of the homi
cide was the use of insulting lan
guage about a Miss Cottrell’s feet,
while she was purchasing a pair of
shoes.
Princess Louise Margstret, niece
of Emperor William, gave a farewell
reception in Berlin on the 4th. She
has started for England, to be wedded
to Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught.
The marriage was celebrated at
Windsor, yesterday, the 13th.
It is stated that elegantly engraved
cards are . circulating at the demo
cratic club in New York, inviting the
holder to a grand ball in Washington
City on the evening of March 4,
1881, in honor of the inauguration
of Samuel J. Tildon as Presideut of
the United States.
The venerable missionary, the
Rev. Cephas Bennett, who went to
Burmah fifty years ago, writes to his
brother in Utica that more than one
hundred thousand tracts and twenty
five thousand Bibles aud testaments
have been distributed among the
Burmese during the past year.
For several nights in succession
attempts were made to burn the
city of Columbus, Ohio, by firing
stables and other houses. The people
became alarmed and a public meet
ing was held to institute measures to
catch the incendiaries. Extra police
were added and a close watch is be
ing kept throughout the city.
Mr. Gladstone, although he has
passed his sixth-ninth birthday,
wields the axe with great force, and
is more than a match, as a walker,
for active and alert men twenty
years younger than he. Gout and
rheumatism have no terrors for this
busy man, and one of his most inti
mate friends used to say that won
derful as is his mind, it is nothing to
his body.’
The return of the Hon. Zachariah
Chandler to active politics, recalls
the last speech which he made be
fore his retirement. It referred to
the present occupant of the White
House, and was a3 follows: “Why,
the damned fool would’nt have been
President at all but for me; it was
I that gave him the votes of South
Carolina, Florida and Louisiana.”—
N. Y. Sun.
Yesterday an ex-member of the
Stock Exchange (Robert M. Martin,)
who ten years ago was a millionaire,
or very near it, and who in his pros
perous days gave SIOO,OOO at ono
time to the New York churches,
stood at the bar of the special sess
ions and heard the voice of a judge
sentencing him for the theft of a
coat aud shirt to five days in the city
prison.— N. Y. Sun, lsf.
The Sun says a young woman mar
ried an old widower in Tannerviile,
Ga., and soon fell in love with his
son, who was about her own age.
The matter was fully discussed by
the trio, and all agreed that it would
be better for her to become the wife
of the son. The transfer was amica
ble made by means of a divorce.
Since then, the old man has married
his ex-wife’s mother and the re-ar
ranged family is harmonious and
happy.
A locksmith in the English mid
land counties has just been sent to
jail for brutally beating his wife
This enterprising gentleman forced
his wife to sleep on the floor in or
der that his racing dog might occupy
her place in the bed, and his four
legged pet was regaled on joints of
beef, while his wife and children
were starving. The unreasonable
woman complained, and the outraged
husband beat her within an inch of
her life.