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Union and Dawuon counties, and the city
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twelve other counties in Northeast Georgia, and
two counties in Western North Carolina.
K JDITORJ Al EAGLETS
For 1880. Hog and Hominy.
Two more months and the June
bug cometh.
Leaves have their time to fall, bat
spring bonnets never,
“You wound my feelings,” as the
corn said to the tight boot.
When un undertaker inters a
colored man, does he go black bury
ing.
A drunken brakeman may be
said to be an “elevated’’ railroad
man.
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There is a dive-inity which shapes
our ends, if we strike a rock at the
bottom.
How to make last spring’s tile this
spring’s style is wha no fellow will
ever find out.
Did you ever think how much
quicker a rat could get in a hole if
he had no tail ?
The “ Revolutionary element”seems
to manage the senate with considera
ble moderation after all.
Simon Camorom seems to be,
among other things, an amateur
abortionist. A gay old galoot is Si
mon.
It has got so now that a good live
ly, stringy man can earn more money
with his legs than he can with his
hands.
An Atlanta man advertises “the
prettiest thing in calico ever brought
to this market.” He must have plump
girls to sell.
If accounts are to be credited, Mrs.
Oliver was a naughty old girl, but
how does that atone for the vene
rable Simon Cameron’s wrongness?
When whiskey and a dog fight will
not make two men tangle, white
winged peace is playing a most suc
cessful engagement in the neighbor
hood
Old father Time is sharpening up
his scythe preparatory to reaping
his annual crop of spring poets who
die unpublished, unwept and un
sung.
“Tho honest watch-dogs cheerful
bark,” said the fashionable young
lady as she looked at the dog-skin
gloves which she had bought for the
“finest kid.”
There is a peculiarity about re
pealing clauses which enables them
when crowded out of the legislative
coach to ride astraddle of the appro
priation bills.
The editors fire slowly but none
the less surely coming to the fore.
Mr. John C. Burch, of the Nashville
American was elected secretary of the
United States senate.
“Ah, yes!” sighed the man who
keeps the peanut stand at the corner
of Market and Broad streets, “times
are getting harder every day. Why,
my business it at a stand, still!”
Col. Will Peebles, the society edi
tor of the Cincinnati Post , is in lively
correspondence with an Atlanta fair
one. Thus one by one are the
Northern stalwarts becoming sub
dued.
The country would be relieved if
Ben Butler would get the broom
with which ho swept the yellow fever
out of New Orleans, and sweep Si
mon and the widow clear out of the
courts and prints.
A Tennessee man went to the sta
ble in the dark to milk a cow, and
got in the strong stall and tackled a
mule. He said he would not have
been so broken uo if the roof had
not been nailed on so tight.
We would like to know if Col. Dad
Burnett, of the Cincinnati Post, is
keeping up his end of the beer
counter with his former conspicuous
ability. A word from Dad on a
postal card would refresh us much
ly-
Could not Col. Murat Halstead,
'the thunder builder of the Cincinnati
Commercial, drop us an item or two
about John Sherman’s chances for
the Presidency ? Field Marshal Mu
rat must not allow his bloody pen to
rust.
Take an ordinary sofa with a girl
on one end, a young man on the
other, and the girls pa in the room,
and there is room enough between
them to drive a wagon and team.
Let the old man go out, and the old
thing will get so short that it is with
the utmost difficu’ty they can both
wedge themselves into it.
We may be killed for saying it,
but just think what an immense
amount of muscular force was wasted
by the three men who have walked
wearily, day and niebt, in Gilmore’s
Garden ! Rightly applied, that labor
would have done great and beneficial
service, say, for instance, in digging
the ground and planting potatoes.
The Gainesville Eagle
VOL. X 11.
A STORY OF THE HE AD
LIGHT.
The Astonishing Vision that
Appeared to Conductor
Columbus Braun igan.
Gray-haired Columbus Brannigan
is as rough and ready a conductor as
ever swung a lamp. For almost a
quarter of a ceDtury he has run a
Hudson River train between New
York and Poughkeepsie, to the sat
is fac' ; on of the company, the public
and himself, and to tho terror of all
who tried to circumvent the road.
But of late years, while he has done
his work as well as ever, Conductor
Brannigan has felt that he is grow
ing old, that his shoulders are not
as plumb as they were, his limbs less
suple, and he looks with a growing
aversion upon the new men who are
coming on, young fellows who wear
their laced caps jauntily and
give their signals in an of!* hand
fashion that is painfully unlike the
clear free sweep of the lamp that
characterizes the old style. These
last two weeks bo has felt worse
than usual, and his eyes have bother
ed him a great deal. On one occa
sion, for instance, he saw two lights,
a red and a green, at a point where
he knew there could be only a green.
At another time he thought that fire
was spurting from the engine when
really the llame was only the flaring
torch of the fireman who was put
ting oil into the cups. When he re
flected upon these things he was
troubled; for if he should get worse
he might have to give up his train.
He couldn’t live away from the road.
Once off and he knew what would
happen then, it would not be long
before the Great Engineer would
blow brakes on him forever.
This condition of mind wrought an
astonishing change in Conductor
B annigan’s demeanor'. Before if he
encountered on his train a man who
was trying to ride without paying,
he put him off without ceremony;
now he was inclined to be lenient,
and if the poor iraveier told a plausi
ble story he would let him pass.
Formerly lie was brusque and dicta
torial to his baggage master, and
made that overworked servant of the
company sort and count his tickets
for him, and Btand around generally;
now he is gentle and forbearing, and
did his work himself all to the great
amazement of Augustus Forgarty,
the placid but gigantic trunk dest"oy
er, whoso thoughts wero so engross
ed by this new departure that one
day he carelessly dropped a trunk
on the wrong corner, and gave it, not
the gaping collapse that marks good
work, but what is known as the
steamboat split, a term of contempt
applied to the bungling work done
by steamboat deck hands and bag
gage masters on short feeder roads.
Chagrined by this unfortunate acci
dent, Forgarty gave closer attention
to his duties; but he never ceased
wondering what was the matter with
the conductor.
Conductor Brannigan pulled out of
the Grand Central depot yesterday
afternoon on time. He takes tho
east track going up. Waymonk de
pot, which he reached about two
hours after dark, stands alongside
the west track, so that baggage for
Waymonk from up traius is sot off
on the down track, and removed
thence t~> the station platform by the
agent. Forgarty set out last upon
the down track 17 trunks, 7 carpet
bags, and 4 band-boxes, making a
neat pile about the size of a log cab
in. As Conductor Brannigan passed
the depot ou his way along down his
t - aiu to see if everything was all
right, he saw the station agent com
ing out for the trunks, and theu in
the darkness he lost sight and
thought of them altogether. Turn
ing at the rear car, he lifted his
lamp and gave his engineer the sig
nal to go ahead, and at the same mo
ment he saw the glare of a headlight
coming around the curve just norih
of the dep it “St. Louis,” he said
to himself, as he stepped upon the
rear plat orra, aud then as his train
gathered headway he forgot St. Lou
is as he had done a hundred times
before, and started for the baggage
cab. While he was passing from the
front platform of the rear car to the
rear platform of the next the St.
Louis shot by, and at the same in
stant he heard a crackling sound,
and thought he saw trnuks flying in
every direction,
When Conductor Brannigan reach
ed the baggage car he sat down his
lamp with a injected air, and sank
wearily in his elixir. “.Justus,” he
said, ‘ I’m getting old. Something’s
the matter with my eyes, I don’t
know what, but I’m afraid I’ve got to
give up running. If I have to go off
the road I’ll do what I can to get the
train for you, for you ve always been
faithful to me. I don’t know what
ails me, but lately I’ve seen all sorts
of things. About ten days ago I
thought I saw two lights at the junc
tion; then I thought the engine was
afire; to night, as I was coming
through the train, I thought I saw
trunks flying around in the air; aud
“Speaking of truuks,” said the
wrestler (he thought the conductor
was fooling with him), “I happened
to be looking out of the side door
when tho express passed us, and I
thought I saw a few trunks myself
a floating around, and there might
have been six or eight carpet bags
mixed in, for I sat seven of ’em along
with the trunks. I thought tbere’d
be trouble when that baggage wasn’t
got ofi the track sharp, and when
S'. Louis showed around the curve
there wasn’t any help for it. I knew
by the whistle it was 79, for Jim
Beettop can get more screech to the
pound of steam than any man on the
road, and when he’s making time he
don’t waste any of it blowing for wav
stations. When she went by her
furnace door was open, and the fire
man was stuffing coal into her. Jim
sat on hie bench, hand on the throt
tle, and eyes ahead, and the way he
was bouncing her for New York was
beautiful to look at. The instant lie
struck the straight lie saw that pile
of baggage He shut „ her off and
opened her air pump with oue hand
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MOKNING, MAKCH 28, L 879.
and reversed her with the other, but
he might just as weli have tried to
stop a comet. For about a second
that pile of trunks stood out in the
headlight, and then ”
“Then them was real trunks I saw
in the air?” and the conductor jump
ed to his feet a changed man.
“Real trunks!” said Fogarty,
amazed that anybody could doubt it.
“Real trunks!” and he added mourn
fully. “I tnought I could break up a
trunk pretty fine, but I want to give
up railroading now ”
Conductor Brannigan gave a vici
ous yank on the bell cord, and as he
felt the brakes gripping under him,
he started back. Sitting humbly in
the uncomfortable end seat at the
rear of the last car was a lean and
tired tramp, whose piteous plea for a
free ride had just been granted by
the conductor. Looking up as the
door opened he saw the same con
ductor coming towards him, bub so
changed that he hardly recognized
the man who a few minutes before,
had been kind to him. That was
Conductor Brannigan who sick and
downcast himself, sympathised with
those in distress; this was the Con
ductor Brannigan who had discover
ed that it was not growing infirmi
ties but digestion that ailed his eye
sight.
“You can’t beat the company on
my train. Come out o’ this!” he
shouted as he dragged the trembling
tramp along the aisl?, and when the
train slacked up he pitched him off
the platform into a snow bank.
Then ho yanked the bell cord again
to go ahead, went back to the bag
gage car, set his lamp on the floor,
tipped back in his chair, and placed
his feet on the highest trunk in the
corner; and as he scratched a match
on the bottom of the chair to light
his cigar with, Conductor Branni
gan pulled a lot of loose tickets out
of his pocket threw them iuto his
box and said to the astounded bag
gage cruncher: “Fogarty if you
can’t learn to sort tickets quicker,
I’m going to pat on a man who can!”
—N. Y. Sun.
A Patriotic Speech.
In moving that the nomination of
Mr. Randall for the Speakership be
made uuanimous in the democratic
caucus Mr. Blackburn, his competi
tor, made a most eloquent, magnani
mous and patriotic speech. It is
said to have made some members
regret having voted against him. It
was brief, but was made in the broad
est and most catholic spirit. It was,
ho said, partisan, but it was country
loving. Perhaps it was sectional,
for “I had hoped,’’ said he, “that it
might have been the pleasure of this
house to impose the responsibilities
and duties of the Speakership upon
one from the section and people with
whom lam identified.’’ Mr. Black
burn has been called an “extremist”
among Southern people, but we find
him, as the gallant but beaten can
didate for the Speakership, express
ing simply the longing for opportu
nity to “prove to the people of this
country that the South might safely
be trusted with the formation oi
these committees, and to shape the
legislation of the land.” And this
Southern “extremist,” in the moment
of his defeat, names the guiding
principle which would have controlled
him had he been intrusted with the
task:
“Had I been selected for this ser
vice, it would have been my duty, as
as it certainly would have been my
pleasure, to wield the great powers
that pertain to this station in such a
way as to put all sections and fac
tions behind me, and to promote the
general interests of a common coun
try in which citizens all hold equal
rights, and to which each citizen
should tender a common allegiance.
I would have endeavored to prove to
those generous friends from the
North who stood by me in this con
test that their confidence was not
misplaced; for I should earnestly
have endeavored to bury the melan
choly memories of the terrible past
in those trenches where the mol
dering remains of those who gave
their lives to those struggles to day
are resting.”
This is the language of that “hot
headed Southron,” that “fire-eater,’ ’
that “dangerous representative of the
South.” Those who know Mr.
Blackburn know that he is earnest
and honest, and that these are not
unmeaning words. He would have
done precisely what he says he
would have endeavored to do. There
is something in this attitude of a
prominent Southern representative,
who came near being Speaker of the
House, that ought to command the
respect of the country.— Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Big Gnus and Big Ships.
There is a big gun in India—or a
gun which long ago was thought to
be big—and which on a memorable
occasion some years back was fired
with a heavy charge. It is general
ly supposed iu the neighborhood
that the ball is flying yet. The new
Krupp gun which is to be tried next
Saturdry at Meppen, in Westphalia,
may not rival this, but it will certain
ly surpass all other guns. This gun
is 32 feet long and weighs 72 tons.
Its charge is 385 pounds of prismat
ic powder, and it is to throw a chill
ed iron shell 1,660 pounds. It is as
serted that this monstrous cannon,
if set to an angle of 43 degrees to
the horizen, will throw a ball a dis
tance of fifteen miles. The materi
al is steel, and the piece is heavier
by sixteen tons than the heavist
Krupp guns heretofore made. Guns
as well as ships still run to bigness,
and it is hard to say when the ten
dency will be arrested. It was
thought after the partial failure of
the Great Eastern that a reaction
would take place iu favor of small
ships. For a time there were signs
of this, but only for a time; and now
the movement is decidedly toward
greater size. The newest steamship
of the Williams & Guion Line is, we
believe the largest, though not the
longest, of tne Atlantic fleet, and a
still larger vessel is to be built this
year on the Clyde.
Railroad to Lula City.
It will be seen by reference to an
other column that notice is given
that application will be made to the
next general assembly of Georgia for
a charter incorporating the “Dahlon
ega Air-Line Railroad Company,”
from Dahlonega and to connect with
the Air Line road at Lnla City. A
list of the corporators’ names appear
in the advertisement.
This portion of Northeast Georgia
will be no longer tampered with in
the matter of building a railroad to
this point.
The proposed route from here to
Gainesville has been surveyed and
pronounced a practicable one, all of
which is very good so far as it goes;
but this is overbalanced by the in
difference of the people of Hall coun
ty about the enterprise. That sec
tion, after ostensibly favoring the
construction of a road from Dahlon
ega to Gainesville some years ago,
frustrated the movement, and they
are now, judging from their present
state of inactivity, pursuing the same
course.
A railroad is what Dahlonega
wants, needs and must have. She
does not care the snap of a finger
where it comes from, just so it comes;
and just now Lula City, Athens, and
other intermediate points are offering
superior inducements. We should
look to our interest and embrace the
opportunity while it is presented.
Substantial aid from reliable people
will be extended the enterprise, and
action and co-operation instead o*
indifference will be given us.
When we wero least expecting it,
anew party of railroad surveyors
suddenly made their appearance in
our midst. On Wednesday evening
the surveyors cn the proposed line
from Lula to Dahlonega rode into
town like they meant business. They
did not ask us to help them ; survey
the route, but took it upon themselves
to do the work. This looks like bus
iness. Dahlonega wants a road, and
she is determined to have it if she
can get it, in a very short time. If
Gainesville does not want our road
to come to her doors, we can make
it to our advantage to go to Lula,
where the road naturally ought to
go. If Gainesville don’t want it we !
won’t force it on her, but will allow;*
her share to bs poured “back in the
jug.” If Gainesville would act for
her good she will not permit the road
to go anywhere else. We will tap
the Air-line, if not at Gainecville at
some other point, aud she must begin
to help pretty quick.— Dahlonega
Signal.
Moral Courage.
Have the courage to discharge a
debt while you have the money in
your pocket. To do without that
which you do not need, however
much you may admire it. To speak
your mind when it is necessary that
you should do so, and to hold your
tongue when it is better that vou
should be silent. To speak to a poor
friend in a threadbare coat, even in
the street, and when a rich one is
nigh. The effort is less than many
take it to be, and the act is worthy a
King. To face a difficulty, lest it
kick you harder than you bargain
for. Difficulties, like thieves, often
disappear at a glance. To leave a
convivial party at a proper hour for
so doing, however great the sacrifice;
and to stay away from one, upon the
slightest grounds for objection, how
ever great the temptation to go.
To dance with ugly people, if you
dance at all; and to decline dancing,
if you dislike the performance, or
cannot accomplish it to your satis
faction. To tell a man why you will
not lend him money he will respect
you more than if you tell him you
cannot. To cut the most agreeable
acquaintance you possess when he
convinces you that he lacks principle.
“A friend should bear with a friend’s
infirmities,” not his vices. To wear
your old garments till you can pay
for new ones. To pass the bottle
without filling your glass when you
have reasons for so doing, and to
laugh at those who urge you to the
contrary. To wear thick boots in
winter, and to insist upon your wife
and daughters doing the like. To
decline playing at cards for money
when “money is an object,’’ or to
cease p’aying when your losses
amount to as much as you can afford
to lose. Lastly, have the courage to
prefer propriety to fashion—one is
but the abuse of the other.
Tlie Ways of Trade.
When young Hyson, who is a com
mission merchant and an importer,
came home to dinner one evening
last week, he found Mrs. Hyson
just parting with a caller and de
scribing some “lovely” Ch-uese lan
terns she had bought at Veneer’s, on
Washington street.
Hyson’s face grew dark as the
narrative proceeded, and when the
door closed upon the visitor he
turned to Mrs. H, with lowering
brow, and asked: ‘What have you
been fooling money away on at Ve
neer’s ?”
“Don’t be such a bear, Harry,”
said Mrs. H., “I only bought a dozen
of these lovely lanterns, nice for
ornaments, and pretty to use in the
country next summer, and they were
only a dollar each; did you ever see
any like them before ?”
“See ’em !’’ groaned Hyson, “
it; they sent me four thousand of
’em iu the Mandarin, and 1 have
only sold one lot, and that was a
hundred to Veneer for fifteen dol
lars.” Tears and tableau.— Boston
Com, Bulletin.
SMALL BITS.
Or Various Kinds carelessly thrown To.
getlier.
One smile for the living is worth a
dozen tears for the dead.
Laziness is a premature death. To
be in no action, is not to live.
A man owes his success in his life
work to the woman who walks be
side him.
The sweetest thing on earth is a
little child when it has learned to
know and love.
Nature writes the best spring po
etry on green leaves, illustrated
with flowers.— New Orleans Picay
une.
The modern golden rule is, “Let
you due unto others be as much as
others du© unto you.”— Whitehall
Times.
1 know not which of the twain lifts
man the higher, genius or gentleness;
genius lifts him above others, gentle
ness out of himself.
Ho who is false to present duty
breaks a thread in the loom, and will
see the defect when the weaving of a
lifetime is unrolled.
Noah, we learn from the Boston
Commercial, observed Lent very
strictly—he lived on water forty
days and forty nights.
He that hath really felt the bitter
ness of sin, will fear to commit it;
and be that hath felt the sweetness
of mercy will fear to offend it.
A little poem in an exchange,
signed “Gertie,” asks “Will you
love me forever ?” We can’t prom
ise Gertie, we might not live that
long.
There are some people whose lives
are like molacsas with a spoonful of
vinegar in it, and others whose lives
are like vinegar with a spoonful of
molasses in it.
Very kind gent—“ix> you know,
my and ar, that we have to-day the
shortest day of the year ?’’ Lady
—“Very true! But your presence
makes me forget it.”
If the man who will go into a bar
ber-shop on Saturday night or San
pay morning and have his hair cut
hasn’t any enemies he certainly
ought to have.— Waterloo Observer.
Did you over know the courts to
punish a man for crime who had
either money or friends ?
Never!
What? Never?
Well, hardly ever.
“If you please,” said a Baltimore
young woman politely, as she laid
her gloved hand on a pick-pocket’s
'..boulder, “I’ll take the purse that
you just stole out of my pocket.” He
“gave up the booty.
“I never thought but once,” said
old Deacon Webbing, “that it was a
sin to steal an umbrella.” “And when
was that ?” asked a friend. “It was
when a pesky thief stole my new silk
one,” answered the deacon.
There is one matrimonial rule
which can be depended on as of
universal application. A husband
will never find any difficulty in
footing his wife’s bills, provided the
wife is so put together that she is not
ashamed to foot her husband’s stock
ings.
You cannot make yourself better
by simply resolving to be better at
some time or other any more than
a farmer can plough his field by sim
ply turning it over in his own mind.
A good resolution is a line starting
poiat, but as a terminus it has no
value.
When we think of the political in
stitutions and aims of Americans we
are proud, but when we think of
our political tricksters we feel like
using the words of Horace Wal
pole: ‘I should love my country very
much if it were not for my country
men.’
You are more sure of success in
the end if you regard yourself as a
man of ordinary talent, with plenty
of hard work to do,than if you think
yourself a man of genius, and spend
too much time in watching your hair
grow long, that you may convince
people that you are not like other
folks.
Two gifts are offered to men in
this world; they very seldom can
have both. One is success, with
weariness; the other failure, with
hope. The last is much the best.
The man who succeeds, finds that his
success does not amount to a great
deal; the man who fails, but keeps
his hopes, is the happy man.
“Are you engaged ?” said a gentle
man to a young lady from Maysville
at a ball the other evening.
“I was, but if that Pete Johnson
thinks I’m going to sit here and see
him squeeze that freckled-faced Wil
kins girl’s hand all the evening, he’ll
be mistaken, soltaire or no soltaire !”
The gentleman explained and went
out to get air.
If you must smoke do it in the
way to give most pleasure to your
self. Place a little tobacco in the
bottom of the pipe and light it.
When well afire fill the pipe to the
top. The tobacco will in that way
burn up slowly if there is an oeea
sional puff outward through the
stem, and the taste will be more
pleasing. So “they say.’’
This is the way in which a Louis
ville girl disposes of a young man,
according to the Courier-Journal-.
“You have asked me pointedly if I
can marry you, and I have answered
you pointedly that I can. I can
marry a man who makes lOV6 to a
different girl every month. I can
marry a man whose main occupation
seems to be to join in gauntlet in
front of churches and theatres, and
comment audibly on the people who
are compelled to pass through it. I
can marry a man whose only means
of support is an aged father. I can
marry a man who boasts that any
girl can be won with the help of a
good tailor and an expert tongue.
I can marry such a man but I
w—o-n-t!”
How to Mind a Baby.
First, a man must have one to take
care of. It isn’t every one you know
that is fortunate enough to have one,
and when he does his wife is always
wanting to run over to a neighbor’s
only five minutes, and he has to at
tend to the baby. Sometimes she
caresses him and oftener she 3ays
sternly,
“John, take good care of the child
until I return.’’
.You want to remonstrate, but can
not pluck up courage while that aw
ful female’s eye is upon you; so you
prudently refrain and merely re
mark.
She is scarcely out of sight when
the luckless babe opens its eyes, and
its mouth also, and emits a yell
which causes the cat to bounce out of
the door as if something had stung
it. You timidly lift the cherub and
sing an operatic air; he does not ap
preciate it but yells the louder.
You try to bribe him with a bit of
sugar; not a bit of use; he spits it out.
You get wrothy and shake him.
He stops a second and you venture
another; when, good heaven! he sets
up such a roar that the passers-by
look up in astonishment. You feel
desperate; your hair stands on end,
and the perspiration oozes out of
every pore as the agonizing thought
comes over you, what if the luckless
child should have a fit!
You try Daby talk; but “itty litty
lamby” has uo effect, for he stretches
as if a red hot poker had been laid
upon his spine, and still he yells.
You are afraid the neighborhood
will be alarmed, and give him your
gold watch as a last resource, just in
time to save your whiskers; though
he throws down a handful of your
cherished mustache to taka the
watch and you thankfully find an ea
sy chair to rest your aching
limbs, when down comes that costly
watch on the floor, and the cause of
all the trouble breaks into an ear
splitting roar, and you set your teeth
and prepare to administer personal
chastisement, when in rushes the
happy woman known as your wife,
snatches the long suffering child
from your willing arms, and, sitting
down, stills it by magic, while you
gaze mournfully at the remains of
your watch and cherished mustache,
and muttering a malediction on ba
by-kind in general and on the i>fcage
of his father in particular, vow nev
er to take care of a baby until the
next time.
A Sensible Young Lady.
A young lady was addressed by a
man who, though agreeble to her,
was disliked by her father, who
would not consent to their union,
and she determined to elope. The
night was fixed, the hour came, he
placed the ladder to the window and
in e few mm a tea waa in bis
arms. They mounted a doable
horse, and were soon some distance
from the house. After some time,
the lady broke the silence by saying:
“Well, you see what proof I have
given you of my affection; I hope
you will make me a good husband.”
He was a surly fellow, and gruffly
answered: “Perhaps I may, and per
haps not.” She made no reply, but,
after a silence of some minutes, she
suddenly exclaimed: “Oh! what
shall we do ? I have left my money
behind me in my room !” “Then,’’
said he, “we must go back and fetch
it.” They were soon again at the
house, the ladder was again placed,
the lady remounted, while the ill
natured lover remained below. But
she delayed to come, and so he gent
ly called: “Are you coming?” when
she looked out of the window and
said: “Perhaps I may, and perhaps
not;” and then shut down the win
dow, and left him to return on the
double horse aione.
Uncle liernus.
Waiting for the rain to ceaso yes
terday, Uncle Remus seated himself
on the coal box and went to sleep,
finally his hat fell off and a piece of
dropped out. One of our
your men, more curious than the
rest, picked it up and subjected it to
what the lawyers call a very severe
examination. It proved to be verse,
and was read aloud. The comment
it caused had the effect of arousing
Uncle Remus,and he was asked about
it. He pleaded ignorance, and the
verses were read to him.
“Some er dem dere w’ite boys done
gone and rung dat in on me. Beyer
gwine ter keep on m’anderin roun
wid dere foolishness ’fcwe.l c!ey gits
hurted—you mine w’at I tell ye. You
ain’t gwine ter put dat in de paper
is you?”
The old man was told that such
was the intention.
“Well, den, I jes might as well
sa’nter out home and git fixed, kase
when dat comes out hit’ll be me an’
Brer John Henry fer it. Here's
bleedzd ter be trubble amongst up,
an hit’s too late in de day fer me to
go to wah onprep ir’d.’'
We give the foregoing in order to
set Uncle Remus right with Brer
John Hoary, and herewith append
the fragment found m the old man’s
hat. It is called
DE BIG BETHEL CHU’CH.
De Big Bethel chu’ch ! de Big Bethel
chu’oh !
Done pat ole Satan behine ma;
Ef a s uner git loose from euny ulder
chu’ch,
Do Big Bethel chu’ch will tine um !
Hit's good to be dere, an’ it’s sweet to be
dere,
Wid de sisterin’ all aroun’ you—
A sliakin’ dem shackles er massy an’ love
Wharwid de Lord is boun’ you.
Hit’s sweet to be dere and lissen to de
hymes
An’ hear dem mo’ners a shoutin’—
Dey done reach de place whar dere aint no
room
Fer euny mo’ weepin’ an’ doubtin.’
Hit’s good to be dete w’en de sinners ali
jine
Wi’d de brudderin in dere singin’,
An’ it look like Gaberl gwine ter rack up
an’ blow
An’ set dem heaven bells ter ringin’ !
Oh, de Big Bethel chu’ch ! da Big Bethel
chu’ch !
Done put ole Satan behind um;
Ef a sinner git loose from enuy udder chu’ch
De Big Bethel chu’ch will fine um !
J. C. Harris, in Constitution.
Arrival of a Distinguished
Traveler.
The most wonderful of all wild
creatures and the nearest approach
to humanity of all known animals,
is the quaint chimpanzee. Hitherto
it has been almost impossible to
keep them alive in civilized coun
tries. About a year ago Messrs.
Reiche & Bro., at a great expense,
brought five of them to the New
York Aquarium, and but one only
now remains. On Saturday after
noon one more was received who
had just arrived from Central Africa,
and there was much curiosity to
see how they would act at their first
meeting.
A number of scientific gentlemen
were present to witness the intro
duction. When the stranger was
put in the cage “Tommy,” the old
inhabitant, loosed at him for a mo
ment with some little distrust. Then
he approached nearer, and after a
little hesitation threw one arm over
his shoulder in a manner that was
almost human. They looked in each
other’s deep, searching eyes for a
second with serious faces, and then
clasped their long arms about each
other, took a long embrace and then
they separated, and “Tommy,” ex
tending his hand, the new comer
took it, and then they shooks hands
precisely as two Christians would.
All this called forth roars of laughter
from outsiders, but the “chimps”
paid not the slightest attention to
them. Then “Tommy" offered the
courtesies of his cage to the now
comer, gave him a part of his blanket
and the remains of his dinner, and
after that they settled down for a
good old-fashioned chat.
When the young fellow was given
his first bath he objecte l strongly,
and fought against soap and water
and brush and comb like an obsti
nate child, while “Tommy,” who
“had been there,” looked on in great
glee, and seemed to enjoy the opera
tion immensely. At ten at night,
the hour for closing, the little one
was wrapped up in his blanket sleep
ing soundly, and “Tommy," with his
blanket pulled over his shoulders,
sat a*few feet away, watching him
with all the solitude of an anxious
father.
A Candid Opinion.
A Detroit lawyer, famous for his
wise and candid opinions, was the
other day visited by a young attor
ney, who explained:
“I was admitted to the bar two
years ago, and I think I know some
thing about law, yet the minute I
arise to address a jury I forget all
my points and can say nothing. Now,
I want to ask you if this doesn’t show
lack of confidence in myself, and how
can I overcome it ?”
The wise attorney .shut his eyes
an,l sindiad the case for a moment
before answering:
“My young friend, if it is lack of
confidence in yourself it will some
day vanish, but if it is lack of brains
you had better sell out your office
effects and buy a pick ax and a long
handled shovel.’’
“But how ami to determine?”
anxiously asked the young man.
“I’d buy the pick-ax anyhow and
run my chances!’’ whispered the
aged adviser, as he moved over to
the peg for his overcoat.
- I
Look for Her.
The true girl has to be sought for.
She does not parade herself to show
goods. She is not fashionable. Gen
erally she is not rich, but oh, what a
heart she has when you find her—so
large and pure and womanly. When
you see it you wonder if those things
outside were women. If you can
gaia her love your two thousands are
millions. She’ll not ask for a carriage
or a first-class house. She will wear
simple dresses, and turn them if nec
essary, with no vulgar magnificial to
frown upon her economy. She will
keep everything neat and nice in your
sky parlor, and will give you such a
welcome when you come home that
you will think your parlor higher
than ever. She will entertain your
friends on a dollar, and astonish you
with the new thought of how little
happiness depends on money. She
will make you love home (if you do
not you are a brute) and teach you
how to pity while you scorn a poor,
fashionable society that thinks itself
rich and vainly tries to make itself
happy.
A prominent horse dealer of this
city told us the following curious story
this morning about the fancy his rats
(as he calls them) have to change of
diet: He keeps a horse, and noticed
lately that it showed symptoms of
lameness in his fore legs. He
examined him carefully, but could not
discover the cause. On going to the
stable one day, he, before entering,
looked in through the window; then to
his astonishment, he counted eleven
rats stuck on the horse’s legs, sucking
his blood He waited, expecting every
moment that the horse would shake
them off, but instead of doing this he
remained motionless and seemed to
enjoy the strange visitors. A rap on
the window sent the rats scampering
off On examination of the horse’s legs
he found twentytwo little holes, from
eleven of which the blood was flowing
The horse was removed to another
stable and soon recovered from the
sores, but strange to say, his appetite
has almost failed him. He refuses
oats, and, as a consequence has fallen
off in flesh so much so that now he is
almost ueless.
A little girl, when her father’s ta
ble was honored with an esteemed
friend, began talking very earnest
ly at the first pause in the conver
sation. Her father checked her
rather sharply, saying, “Why is it
that you talk so much?” “Tause
I’ve dot something to say,” was the
innocent reply.
Matthews Creed, a store keeper at
Jamestown, Ky., found a burglar be
hind his counter at night and gave
him a dose of fifteen buckshot.
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NEWS IN GENERAL.
Capital punishment has been re
stored in Switzerland.
Mr. Chas. Jacobs ha3 been nomi
nated by the republicans for Mayor
of Cincinnati.
Louisiana is to have a Constitu •
tional Convention, composed of about
one hundred democrats aud thirty
four republicans and independents.
St. Louis pays her city officials
$1,350,000 a year in salaries, and
confesses herself to be the worst
governed city in the United States.
Andrew Johnson, Jr., the last sur
viving sou of the late ex-President,
died in Tennessee last week. Ho
was for some time an editor in that
State.
Monticello, the home of Thomas
Jfffsrsor. has been sold at Charlott
esville,'S ~ and was bought by Jef
ferson M. Levy, one of the heirs, for
$10,050
Mr. C lumbus Upseu has been
nominated for congress in the sixth
(Texas) district, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Hon. Gustavo
Schleicher.
A prarie fire in Lincoln county
Kansas, destroyed the house aud ail
the property of a Mr. Montgomery,
besides much other property. Mr.
Montgomery, his little boy aud a Mr
Pfaff were burned to death.
“It is intimated that Zach Chand
ler is preparing a bill declaring Jeff
Davis an outlaw, and requiring him
to pay full rent for the use of the
quarters occupied by him in Fortress
Monroe in 1865.” —Baltimore Gazette.
The Kentucky Supremo Court has
decided that the statute against gam
ing, which enables a person losing ( at
a faro table to recover his losses from
the proprietor, will not work the
other way, and allow the proprietor
to recover losses from the fortunate
players.
Some of police commissioners of
New York city, being charged with a
dereliction of duty, were brought be
fore Mayor Cooper for trial. Tho
Mayor refused to allow them to havo
council, and the Sun s-tys it is ail
outrage which concerns every citizen
and that the case was prejudged.
At Vicksburg, Miss., last week,
three men, W. F. Fitzgerald on one
side and W. L, Andrews and W. L.
Green, on the other, members of tho
Hibernian Society, had a difficulty
about au office in the society, when
Andrews and Green were both killed
by Fitzgerald and the latter was
severely wounded.
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A report having been circulated
that Wade Hampton, Jr., took part in
certain festivities in honor of Gen.
Sherman during the recout tour,
that nrentleman writes to the Charl
eston News and Courier': “Please
deny, on my authority, ihat I was
present at a ball given to Gen. Sher
man at Jacksonville, Fla. I would
certainly have avoided meeting tho
man who was guilty of burning Co
lumbia and the cowardice of denying
it.”
King Alfonso of Spain, according
to a London telegram, has been be
trothed to Princess Marie-Amelea
d’Orleaus, daughter of the Count of
Paris, and consequently niece of his
recently deceased wife. The report
is one to be taken with a grain of
salt. Tne young Princes is but 14
years old. She is the daughtor _,f
the eldest sister of the late Queen
Mercedes, and a great-grand-daugh
ter of the French King Louis Philip
pe.
Ttii’ee burglars entered the dwell
ing of Hon. Heury Hottenstein, in
Reading, Pa., at night, when the eld
est danghter of the household, a
beautiful young lady, heard the noise
they made down stairs, aud taking a
lamp she went to the dining room to
see about it. As she opened tho
door one of the men knocked the
lamp out of her hand and stabbed
her twice very severely. She had pres
ence of mind to run and slam the
door behind her. The alarm was
raised but the burglars escaped.
A press dispatch from New Or
leans states that Mr. B. C. Porter, of
the Warde and Barrymore Diploma
cy Combination, was shot and killed,
in Marshall, Texas, by James Currie,
who made slighting remarks about an
actress attached to the company, to
which Porter and Barrymore took
exception. Currie also shot aud
severely wounded Maurice Barry
more. This troupe played diploma
cy in most of the cities of Georgia a
short time since, and was very popu
lar. It was an outrageous pffair.
Ex-Senator McDonald of Arkan
sas represents his State as in a poor
condition. I took a fortune there
he says, an;.l have lost most of it. I
bought plantations which wore
thought to be dirt cheap at $30,000
and have offered them at SIO,OOO
a->iece since and had no takers.
They can’t sell their land until people
with means are willing to accept tho
society, and that I don’t 5 believe
Northern people will ever do iu any
numbers until there is more general
intelligence.
The Washington Review says Mr.
Nathan R. Scott and wife, respecta
ble citizens, and advanced in years,
died a few days ago at their resi
dence, Riley’s Creek, in Pender coun
ty. They have been married over
twenty years, and left three grown
children —one daughter and two
sons. The wife died two days before
the husband. From the day of their
marriage up to the day of the death
of the wife these devoted people had
never been separated a single night
from the same roof. The daughter
had never slept but one night away
from the paternal roof. The sons
had never been absent a single night
from the household up to the death
of their parents. If any county in or
out of North Carolina can do as well
as this, or furnish a parallel case, let
us know the county and the case
that equals this in family unity and
affection.