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B DITOUt A L EAG LEI’S.
Market reports show that a deal of
money has been made on the ryes
in whiskey.
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The Qhioago Tribune classes Judge
as a democrat , We
. 1 iot so labs hita hero. j kj
How rapidly a man loses ail in
terest in politics, remarks a philoso
pher when he sums the door, on his
OWAtbU*.
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Gail Hamilton says no husband of
hers shall stay ont election nights.
All very nice to say, Gail, but how
would 50U r pfevent him I i • <
The Yonkers Gazette says that a
Boston condensing company is thaw
ing Charles Francis Adams for the
next presidential
The Cimtinnai-i < Saturday iNight
asks: “If Edison can reader sound
available in so many ways, why
doesn’t he utilize the howling wilder
ness ?”
Col. Ingersoll is certainly orthodox
upon one point. He said tp a re
porter of the Chicago Times'. “I
think the .pcppltf hiVfi rad enough of
Ohio for a few years to come.’’
Qne disadvantage about bfjing a
great man is* that, when you die,
your body is toted around to such a
number of places. Better be one pf
the smal| fry, and get interred quiet
ly and decently from the family
boarding-house.
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Air. Tilde’n gives it ns his deliber
ate opinion that “John Sherman’s a
rascal.” Mr. Tilden cannot’ get up
any argumenlj uji this point. Even
the Sage of Liberty Hall can shake
hands with the Sage of Gramercy
Park on the proposition.
A man ’ at IJloqnjiygton, Ind.,jhiis
for several years believed he was a
dog. The people did not object, as
long as he confined his demonstra
tions io barking at those who passed
ilia house,, but when be began to. bite
them, they locked him up.
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The touching sentiment, “Our first !
in ojwieafefl after. j
uary iroticf/'in trPhuadelpma p'&pi i
and the father of the child «Bme into
the office raging mad. It was the
third death in the family, and he de
sired to know of the clerk he
supposed the other'two had gone. ■ '
Mr. Bayard seems to strike the I
proper key in the discussion of na- j
tiofial poiitite. He wants to regard)
the union as a fixed fact and not as ;
an experiment, and he thinks the
people can be trusted to take care of
thehxßefvfis without a national poAel ’
or “a strong arm.’
The latest discovered El Dorado
• is said to be Mojada in Mexico. It
is said to abound in rich mines of
gold silver, and the fame of its wealth )
is attracting th-msan The ;
and 1
inclu tea a portion of the States of
Chihuahua, Coahuila and Durango, j
A ballot box has been invented I
and patented which meouanicaHy
registers and numbers each ballot j
as it is deposited. It also rings a ;
bell when a ticket is received. Those |
who have carefully inspected it are
agreed that repeating and stuffing is
impossible without being detected. |
tlie truest diffiAity dao i;
a fraud be successfully practiced
where this box is in use. If an elec
tion is contested it enables every
ballot to be unmistakably identi- I
tied. | irl/* P. < j‘ ■ { Y
The plan adopted to worry delin- •
quents to pay up their dues, by ad- i
vertising them, was originally ad >pt
ed by a Nashville,. Tenn., paper.
About thirty -five yPars MtayTJtq
Reid, the now famous novelist,
taught dancing in that city, and
failed to pay for his advertisement.
The paper in question j
ing record of subscribers and adver-:
tisers who failed to settle, which it | 1
called “the black list,” and Reid's
name figured in it for some time after
he had distinguished himself in the ,
TiieGaixesvii.i.i-: Eagle
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THE NATION’S CAPITAL.
(Jopespond^njqjcf
WaShlncwon, D. C .fiJlov. 39,1879.
.Would not the seleotioa of a dem
ocratic presidential
tho ranks, from among the number
less excellent and competent gentle
men not already named for the posi
tion, be advisable. At least there is
danger in the many “booms”< thatj
are now heard in behalf of very
prominent gentlemen who are not
favorable to eaqh other’s candidacy.
Enemies of the republican
have said that every government, de
partment would this year ask for an
increased appropriation. This is an
error,.for the department of justifife
asks for SIOO less than last year. At
torney General Devens will be read
put of the party, even for sb sn?fth ia
proposed reduction as this.- It is dot
in the line of radical reform.
The lifw bafi* been decided to be
unconstitutional under which protec--
tion has been given by the govern
ment to persons and firms registering
trade-marks in the patent offiqp f
Congress will be asked to furnish pro
tection ’in some other way. A per
equspr firm’s nisllt -in p. trade-mark
iris a oSiwuLi piWenttan: aA Common
law, but i!. is expensive and tedious
in its operation.
The postmaster general will re :om
mend i< bis high pay
nifenra to Amerftairvessels for carry
ing mails to the West Indies and
Spanish main. So will Mr. Hayes in
his annual message to congress.
•Ah I have befoieistaljed, Gfcn. Sher
man is of opinion that a blood} and
expensive war with the Indians is
Lkely to occur. He believes tlie Utes
are acting in bad faith. Expressions
pf. opitiou by, inembs.’rs.
now here, and of others by letters,
m<4ke it a»m6st ‘e^i'taiu 1 that tite’ In
dian bureau will bo transferred to
the war department. It is gain said
that Secretary Schurz will resigh as
soon as the present Indian d’ffi :ulty
is over, or sooner, if not supported in
his policy by Mr, Hayes;' it is be
liev d. : .
. I Bkine is reported as say
ing that i? Gen. Grant desired the
republican nomination ne.xt'ysar, he
(Blaine) would aotjatand in his way.
This is taifen as one of many indica
tions that the ex-president has been
nr to Le ofhtrwisfe provided for
and will, not ho a candidate. The
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schema to eliminaie Grftilt from the
presidential contest by creating the
office psi mffiiffial is certainly not the
one agreed upon, fur Hayes cp,uld ,
not be' relied upon to appoint Grant
to the place. An Ohio man would
get it. j
T e city was crowded yesterday
persons doing honor- to tha mdmory
of that hero and democrat, Gen. Geo
H. Thomas.
tS-aYfield," Matliews and
Taft, the republican cafedidfite fob !
aS successor tb Judge. Thur
man, are here. I put tW names in
order of their- probable chance for
success, as bUieved’fie’rib Consider
ing tbai Garfield, the oldest of the
list, is to be successful, it is still to
.beregretted that Tfiuramiur services
hoVlielorJtry at»to
Rex.
HALF MAN, HALF BIRD. ,b
Human Being on the Right Side. Bird
ofVrej-yni the latftj-<)ne ofthe Stran.
’ gist Luii najnirrcUroer Investigated.
A coEimtitee of German physicians,
says a foreign exchange, has just con
ciyjed, Lbp.., jmto the
caitse bf th’e KMct'n ’Herr Emt!
Boetticher of Noschkowitz. and tlie
result of ..heir labors has given the
wo; d one of the most remarkable of
children that
'the history o’ mankind affords, To j
tel! the story clearly it must be iSfJt *
understood that the grandfather of
the monstrosity was an officer in the
Prussian army which defeated Napo- '
leon at Leipsig, and that he waer*
markable for his hot temper and ut
ter lack of contentment. The son
was a
yffisS^s^^^quick-terft violent
man—a sort of Hotspur without Hot- I
spur s seif-controle. He was ffiftA-i
ried to a singularly beautiful wd- I
man, and the couple resided in
Nuschkowitz, in the suburbs of Meis i
scenes so varied and pfcVp
turesque as to remind the traveller
of Switzerland. One evening in the <
summer of 1835 Herr Boettichei gal
loped into the court yard of his resi- 1
deuce- He was so much excited i
that bis groom was afraid 1
proach him. He went stamping and i
He was furious. He burst into the ;
drawing-room. His wife was an. « ;
sofa playing with her favorite faicorf. I
He grabbed the bird by the legs, and, i
using it as a weapon, struck his wife* i
Jo ver the face and neck, I:
until! the bird was reduced to frag- i
ments, and the floor, walls, sofa and <
his wife were covered with blood and i
feathers. The sharp, hooked beak I
of the creature had been driven i
ly., in to tlie delicatefehe* was I
disn s 'Ufed forum B-fore im- terri- 1
bie ordeal was over she fainted. On
the wall opposite the sofa whereon (
the brutal attack was
hung a beautiful picture of John the
B|q)tist. The figure was nude, with;
the exception of the loins which were i
encircled with the girdle of oame||,
hair supported by a single strap pass
ing over his shoulder. In some- i
what over three months the laSy i
died in giving; birth to her only childu
Th A attended thte ah'T
I<HAWESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 28. 1879.
fortunate lady were, slow -to
that the child to whom she gave birth
t -pn>digT, ( On.-one side the
babe was perfect and beautiful; on
the other he resspjtfied a y-pung ea
gle. He was not covered with feath
1 but the skin, was of peculiar
■ 'OdtmeM chaHder observable in fowl?
. when dressed. His left arm re?em
bl&d &»4mmatu4TJ #ing» Thb toes of
his left foot.wejre claws. The column
1 or fleshy extreffiity ofthe cartilage of
the nose was o/ftepdor<lprp, like a
■ soft beak on one side, *ana exhibited
. a normal, healthy appearance on the
right side. The left eye was the eye
* of a hawk; the tight eye was the soft
, faaael eye of his .- deceased - mother.
• Whether admonished* by life father
[ or whether actuated by the proses
i sional reticence peculiar to the medi
cal profession dpes not, appgar, but
-5 the fact is certain that tidings of the
abnormal birth did not travel beyond
[ the walls of the mansion. All that
. was known in tjiq neighborhood was
thxt tHe WJr'Had died in childbirth,
' and that the baby was living, but del
icate. Years passed, and nobody
i seems to have sought to supplement
this knowledge, . It was aastomed on
efif sides that the yohth’was in deli
cate, health and could not attend
school nor indulge in open-air exer
cjfiQ. The father and the faithful
domestics encouraged the duplicity.
When the bird boy was fifteen his
father died and he was left heir to
his estate. The lawyers visited Nosch
kowitz,. transacted the necessary busi
ness, received their fees, btit eaid not
a word about the young heir, for
whom a guardian was appointed.
The old servants kept their places,
all but the aged house-keeper; she
was pensioned off and a handsome
young fraeulein appointed in her
place. After this rumors began to
reach the outside world and to take
form. There frequent changes
of house-keepers, and no one could
t?U whether they were dismissed or
left voluntarily. It was noisedaround
that the young Herr Boetticher was
very fond, of raw meat, and as he
never attended church he was set
down in public estimation as a savage
brute and a monumental sinner. One
day during the spring of 1854 a young
lady appeared before Justice Von
Koanig, of the court of appeals, in
Meissen. She was accompanied by
her mother, The justice, after hear
ing a portion of her complaint with
evident astonishment, took the wo
men into his retiring-room and heard
their extraordinary statement. The
consequence was that a warrant was
issued for the arrest of Herr Emil
Boetticher for ferocious criminal as
sault. The offieers of the law who,
entered the mansion in the execution
of that order subsequently told their
experience in court, from which all
reporters were excluded. Not a word
was published in the German papers.
Young Boetticher was one of the
greatest novelties ever heard of in
the entire catalogue of physical and
psychological phenom-na. He com
bined the instincts of a bird of prey
with the intelligence of a man/ At
one time he took his food raw, with
his beak and talons; at another he
fed himself like a human being.
Whan he desired to gorge himself
wjtli reeking b|oojl and quivering
flish (■ hes ietirfid .■ to iaix 1 ap&rtment
known among the servants as “The
chamber of blood,” the walls and
floors of which were literally covered
with blood. He would tear fowls to
! pifebesjtend yefung kids, Gand scream
like a hawk while he gorged himself
with blood and muscle. He would
retain the instincts of a bird of preyj
for a week at a time; for another
week he would do most abject pen
ance, bemoaning his terrible fate and
his terrible appearance. He would
then be amenable advice, and
would permit hit valet to dress him
in the attire of a gentleman, blit he
never could be induced towear a sus
pender over the left shoulder. If he
put on a pair they wfire bo Th worn
over the right shoulder—on the
shoulder, in fact, that supports the
strap in the picture of John the Bap
tist. When the instinct of the hawk
returned he became a demon, and the
outrages he perpetrated on the fe
males of his establishment must per
force remain, unchronicled here. In
the case of the complaint already re
ferred to, he had fearfully treated her.
This was the secret of the change of
house-keepers. A few vears since
monster die4;&nd the |
paragraph went the rounds of the
papers to the effect that “the deceased
gentleman was a confirmed recluse,
£
Why He .<l*4 «ot Marry Again.
Yes, mum, I know perticklers, and
these are them:
?a dyin’
's&esaia'td Mr. Browriley: 1 5
“Aminadab, don’t you ever matry
again, or I’Jl scalp her;” ,apd Amina-
BfbWprtey hrilffidj i < 5
“No, Almina; I won’t never think
on’t. I set too much by you.”
And I suppose be meant it then,
but widowers will be widowers, and
after Mrs. Brownley had been dead a
year Mr. Biowntey took th A drape off
his hat and took to calling on Garline
Cushing, ( and ajl the said
to <*a!dtF kAher, ‘ ‘Did ycfu etir ?” “My
goodness 1” and “I want to know.” 7
i Brownley he fore
h%nded7 arid Carline she wasn’t so
mighty young, and it seemed as if
she was going to have him, but all of
a sudden he didn’t go there no more
aijfl Mr. Brownley looked awful sol
emn and put the crape on his hat
again, and all the neighbors wanted
to know how things really was, and
Bst|? if 'em pallet ph s mo
tner, Widow vushing, and says to
Ustfi >‘l » -I*l
“it sehms, Inum/tO us as if Cariine
uarn’c going to ofl, ail. I '.'
’’ app&r HAt'' says
Widow Cushing.
is euri of test--agin widow- ‘
ers, we reckon,” said Mrs. Russell.
- ‘tWelk I d’np as the
Widow Cushing. Says she: “Carline
is in her twenty-seventh year, and (
she’s been disappointed twine, and
siiekiader thought & widower- would
fr& w'as steady and
and forehanded; but singular things
has occurred, ladies, singular things
1 ha i oecunredu
to know,” says they,
a “Very singular things,” says Wid
ow Cashing. ; “Cariine kinder felt
■ thet she hadn't-orter risk no more;
but .ladips, take off' your bonnets,
and,) Aiirory, you set the tea-table,
and I’ll just tell you all about it over
our meal.”
’ So they sdidjhow thdy would stay,
since she was so pressing, and they
took their things off, and then they
all sat down; and considering it was
pot-lack, I’ve heard it was real aioo
tea.
But I rather reckon that Widow
Cushing must hev guessed somebody
would be over to ask particklers.
So the ladies they sat by, and the
widow she poured out, and says Mrs
Brisle, says she:
“Well, about them perticklers, Mrs.
Cushing
“Well,” says Widow Cushing first
ly, “when Mr."Brownley came a-court
ing our Carline, he used to praise
her hair. She has a fine suit, as
black as coal, you know, and as wavy
as wavy kin be, and he used ter say
hpw handsome it was.
“Well, Carline was pleased at. the
compliment, bat after awhile
it was sort of curious.
“Whenever he made a remark
about it she d feel as if there was a
cold wind bloNviOg over her, and then
as if sonie dn6 was tugging kinder
soft like at her hair, and that night
arter she’d gone to bed she’d invaria
ble feel every now and- then as if some
one was pulling a hair out. f
“One morning she says to me:
“ ‘Ma,’ says she, ‘do you think a
mouse or a rat or anything could
pull my hair in the night ?’
“Says I, ‘I hope not, Oarline.’
“ ‘Well,’ says she, ‘somebody or
something does, for this morning I
found lots of long hairs on my pil
low-’
“ ‘lt’s only your hair failin’ out be
cause you won’t wear night-c*ps,
Cariine,’ says I.
“Says she, ‘lt may be, ma, but I
don't think it.’ > > t > 4
“And the next day I found Her a
cryin’, and as many as twenty long,
black hairs layin’ in a row on f?he
counterpane. •. • ■
“ ‘That’s the way they laid when I
woke up, ma,’ says sHfiT”*’
“ ‘lt’s you that pulls ’em out in
your sleep, Carline, ’ says I. Bat she
shook her head.
"And that evening when Mr.
Brownley called she had her hair all
tucked up in a tight twist, as if she
wanted tb tpde it.
1 t /‘ /Why, my dear Carline,’ says he
‘never let me see you with that there
glory of womanhood, as they on
the restorative bottles, so put 01A of
sight agin. Wear it as you generally
do, for it is the pride of my eyes'/
“Then I saw Carline shudder all
over and get pale, and I couldn’t
think what ailed the girl.
“But when Mr. Brownley was’gone
she come to me, and says she:
“ ‘Ma, I’m goin’ to ask you to do
something sing’lar, I wapt you to
sleep along.with me to-night, and to
watch what happens.’ My hair was
pulled out by the handful last night,
and something must do it.’
I “ ‘Why, Carline, my child,’ says I,
of course I will.’
“So I went to her room with her,
and I made up my mind to keep
awake, but of course I didn’t.
“I fell off asleep, and I might hev
slept all night if I hadn’t been waked
up by a cold wind a-blowing over my
Jace, ; I opened my eyes and locked
at the door, thinking it had sprung
open.
“But the cold air didn’t come from
that way, and I turned my head the
other way, and there I saw something
that took the strength out of me.
“There was somebody sitting on
the bedside along near Oarline. The
moon was shinin’ through the cur
tains, and I could see it as plain as
day.
“It was Mrs. Brownley in her Sun
day dress—blue, with a green plaid
in it—with her worked collar on and
the brooch with ap angel eatin’a
bunch pf grapes tfiatsheffised to wear,
rand her hair was in the same little
frizzes, and she had her false teeth in.
“If I hadn’t knowed she was gone
I should hev thought it was her, but
now, of course, I knowed ’twas a
ghost.’
“She sat down by Carline and she
looked at the clock.
" ‘Twelve,’ says she, ‘and I must go
by daybreak; but I’ll have time to
.get a good many out first,’ and then
she went to work.
“She took Carline’s hair in her
hand and began to pull the hairs out
one by one.
“She had got as many as a dozen
of ’em out before -I got str ngth
enough to sit up in bed or voice
enough to screech, but I did it at
last, and the minute I did she was
gope like a soap. babble,, and poor
Carline sat up, frightened to death
and shaking all over.
“ ‘Oh, ma,’ says she.
“ ‘Oh, Carlins,’ says I, ‘you’re right.
I’ve seen it done. Oh, Carline, it’s
Mrs, Brownley. I watched her pull
’em out, one by one.’
‘I knowed it,’ says Oarline. ‘Mr.
Brownley told me what Mrs. Brown
ley said when she was dying, and
I’ve expected it ever since. Ma,. I
can’t marry Mr, Brownley—not if it’s
my last chance. I’m sure she’ll leave
me bald-headed if I do.’
“Well, I couldn’t but agree with
her, and next day we put the case
before Mr. Brownley, and he saw it
as we did. i,
“He said Mrs. Brownley's hair wa*
thin, and she was always jealous of
Carline’s fine lot of ringlets, and he
thought that was what she meant by
her last remarks. So they said good
bye and had it over.
“Tlie doctor said I dreamt a dream
and Carline was skeered, and being
-feverish made her hair fall oat, and
that vte’re all fools together.
“Bat since she broke off with Mr.
Brownley and need the herewort tea
I made for her as a wash, why, it is
stopped coming out, and I think it
jwaa Mite.lßrownlej’s ghost.” >
!s So the rest of the lUdi'es they said
) they reckoned it must be, and some
! took Mrs. Brownley’s side and some
Carline’s when they was a tellin’ it
arter wards.
, SELLING A HORSE.
How a Countryman was Treated by a
Crowd—Plenty of Drinks, but no Sale.
A tall, lank, old granger riding a
wretchd horse stopped in front of the
Fifth street horse market, yesterday,
says the Cincinnati Enquirer, and
asked what the prospects were for
selling a good, quiet, family nag.
"Where’s the nag? ’ called out sev
eral men in the crowd.
“Right here he is,” replied the
lank old man, clasping his long
legs affectionately around the body
of the animal upon which he was
seated.
The auctioneers in the six stables
were unable to hold their audiences,
and all hands gathered around the
man and his horse. The rider was
evidently about sixty-five years of
age and the horse about the same.
Both were gray. Various comments
were made on the "team,” and the
crowd plied the old man with ques
tions with reference to the animal
something as follows:
“Does he remember Gen. Wash
ington?”
“Can he walk without cratches ?”
“Does he carry an ear trumpet ?’’
“Do you have to chew his food for
him etc.
One man looked in the horse’s
mouth and announced that he was
“too old last spring.”
The lank old farmer appeared to
be much pleased with the attention
he was receiving, and, taking off a
battered plug, bowed his acknowl
edgements to the crowd.
“Fetch in the winged Pegasus,”
yelled an auctioneer, “and wo’ll see
what he’ll bring.”
An avenue was quickly made
through the crowd, as many men as
could take hold of the horse’s bridle,
one or two twisted his tail, eight or
ten touched him up with their whips,
and thus was the grand entry made
into the stable, the old man bowing
to the right and left, and plugging
the sad-eyed animal in the flanks
with his boot heels.
A bid of twenty-five cents was
made.
“Shake up Bucephalus,” said the
auctioneer, “and let the gentleman
look at his paces.”
The old man belabored the beas
to tha rear end of the stable and re
turn, while a dozen watches were
pulled on him, and a dispute fol
lowed as to whether the time was
2.17 or 17.02.
"This horse doesn’t usually take
the whole end of the barn to turn
in,” explained the auctioneer, “but
he has a touch of the rheumatism at
present. He’ll be all right in the
spring. lam bid twenty-five cents.
Now that you have seen him move,
does the gentleman wish to with- •
draw his bid ?”
The old man said he didn’t like
the auctioneer’s style, and, as he )
used to be in the business himself, he
would, if he wasn’t so tired and 1
thirsty, get into the box and sell the
horse himself. j
At thia suggestion, he was dragged
from the saddle, carried to the auc
tioneer’s stand, and that functionary
requested to make room for his un
cle. ‘
“I must have a drink of—water,’’ I
said the lank old party, as he spat a 1
sixpence and coughed feebly. <
“Water be blowed !” cried one of <
the crowd; “we’ll get you the regu- i
lar old juice of the juniperberry that
will make your breath smell like a I
night-blooming cereus,’’ and he dis- 1
appeared in a saloon adjoining.
The old party said water was I
plenty good enough for him, but the :
other article was produced and he
drank it, with a here’s to you, cour
tesy to the crowd.
“How much do T hear for this 1
magnificent specimen of boss flesh :
which we have before us ?” began 1
the old man with a flourish- “Ex- 1
amine him closely for blood or bone 1
span, poll evil, scratches, quarter
crack, splint, heaves, thumps, mumps, <
bumps, dumps, and when you And <
one I’ll eat it.’’ i
“Fetch grandfather a cocktail,” 1
said a voice, and a cocktail was 1
brought and drained to the dregs, )
the old man murmuring softly, “here’s
looking at you I ” '
“Now, gents, be good enough to 1
bid up lively. My boss may not be !
a perfect quadruped described in the I
poem by Byron, Burns and George ]
Francis Train but he corner of the 1
same family and I have his pedigree ’
at home, and it runs back to the
time of Henry V.”
“Fetch him a sour-mash 1”
“I really ought not to drink any
more, but as you say, it isn’t often
I come to town, therefore—my re ,
garde1
“Oblige me by bidding up sharp.” |
“Thirty cents!” yelled a voice. j
“Thank you. Thirty cents lam .
bid. Gentlemen, you needn’t be
afraid of him. This is an anima! I j
can recommend. He won’t run <
down at the heel, cut in the ej eor ,
shrink in the wash’n. He is gentle as ]
the suckin’ dove, and pulls like a five
cent cigar.’’ <
“A gin-sling for the ancient marl- '
uer!”
"Gentlemen, your liberality is only ]
exceeded by your generosity, and if (
my old woman knew I was feastin’ (
and drinkin’ with the immortal gods 1
she would sweep down us like a !
besom of destruction in a red petti
coat; but here’s hopin’ we may ali j
live to see politics and religion pari- ,
fied and the red ribbon of temoer- ,
ance encompass the round earth j
from Qaadalquiver to Kansas City—” ,
"Fall back for a Tom and Jerrj !’’
“Really, gentlemen, I can’t permit
this expense to be all one side, like
the handle of a coffee pot, and the
moment I sell this horse I’ll recipro
cate, if I have to walk home, and I
live iu the back end of the next coun
ty; however —many happy returns!”
and the Tom and Jerry disappeared
from the eyes of them.
"Now, gents, what do I hear for
this—”
“Take this life-everiastin’,” ex-
) claimed a Kentuckian, and he passed
j up a glass of Robertson county.
Tbe lank old man raised the glass
to a level with his lips, and flhid:
“I don’t care seein' it’s you. I
will put myself outside of this elixir,
and then I’ll show you what this
boss can do under the saddle when
he knows somethin’is * expected of
him. In tbe meantirne—here’s my
opinion!” 11
The farmer was helped to mount
his nag, the crowd fell apart to allow
the pageant to pass in the street,
where it could have elbow room, aud
as it ambled along tbe old man was
heard to observe:
“A whiskey straight, a cocktail, a
gin-sling, a sour mash, a Thomas
and Jeremiah, life everlastin’ from
Robertson county—and the King of
the Cannibal Island himself couldn’t
tell what else—ain’t so bad, by jin
go !” and the old sin
ner turned half around in the saddle,
kissed his hand to the crowd, and
shouted:
“I’ll call around again about half
past two o’clock next spring, and
while you’re waiting you might lay
iu a new stock of gin slings and cor
dials, for them’s the things that
strike your grandfather right where
he lives!”
Memory in old Person*.
The brain is the instrument of the
mind. Every thought and feeling is
dependent on certain changes that
take place between it and the blood.
Mental activity may be quickened or
retarded, exalted or depressed, by
the action of drags upon the brain.
Singular are produced by cerebral
disease.
Age works permanent changes in
the brain; its shrinks its bulk and ,
hardens its substance. In conse
quence of this there is a change of
mental manifestations. The mind
acts more slowly iu old persons. ;
It does not turn readily to new I
subjects, and is not capable of as
protracted or as lofty efforts. The
feelings, too. are much lessened in
susceptibility.
But in tho memory the most 1
marked changes occur. Some per- j
sons who have been more than ordi- 1
narily gifted in this respect in old I
age become peculiarly deficient in t
memory. With the aged recent 1
facts and events are not so readily f
taken up into the mental storehouse, 1
and what is learned is sooner for- «
gotten. |
At the same time the past stands j
out in vivid contrast with the pres- i
eu>. Ear’y habits return again. ]
For instance, the pronunciation or t
the spelling of youth often reap- j
pears, to the surprise of friends. (
Sins, early repented of and forsaken, ]
obtrude themselves painfully on the f
memory. t
From this we see how important it r
is that tho associations and habits of c
youth are such as shall give only t
pleasure in old age. t
If one would not sink into imbe- t
cility when the brain begins to sink, f
let him cultivate all his powers right a
iloqg through life. ti
The aged should take special t
pains to keep up their mental r.c- c
tivity. C
Tire Mountain Utes.
An officer in the army, who has
spent a good many years on the fron
tier, says the Sioux are afrajd of the
mountain Utes, their dread of them
dating back fifty years. In those
days both tribes found choice hunt
ing on the Lnramie plains. The
Utes were disposed to regard the
Sioux as intruders, and finally for
bade them coming into that region
for tbe purpose, of hunting. The
Sioux continued io coma there, dis
regarding the claims of the. Utes,
and challenging them to contest with
bow aud arrow, the! fitb-arki being
unknown among them at that time.
One summer the Utes got wind of an
intended fiujut by tbe Sioux, and sent
out to intercept the enemy. A party
us several hundre i rode up into tbe
mountains north of where Fort Steele
nbw is, and ambuscaded in a narrow
canon, the sides’of which were cov
ered with a thick growth of timber,
affording the most perfect conceal
ment. The Sioux
strong—came filing down through
the canon, whep, at a signal, the
Utes, from their concealed position,
opened upon them with arrows. The
surprise was so complete that over.
100 of the Sionx were slain then and
there. The Sioux have since become
proficient in the same kind of tactics
in warring with the whites, but to
this day they are fraid of mountain
Utes.
Treatment of Crime and (Jrim
inals in the Future.
Basing his opinion on what he re
gards as the legitimate teaching of
the doctrine of heredity, a writer in
the Journal of Science believes that
the criminal legislation of the future
—unless dominated by those who
pander to crime—will do something
like this: The lineage and connec
tions of every offender, especially of
every habitual’criminal, will be care
fully scrutinized, and all surviving
members wiil be subjected to an un
obtrusive but penetrating scrutiny.
The younger members of the race
will be, as far as possible, •urrounded
by such moral and religious influences
as will most effectually check and
counteract their probable inbred ten
dency to crime. Courts of justice,
he says, will have their criminal ge
neologists, whose records will shed a
new and most valuable light on not
a few unsolved problems both of bi
ology aud mental science. It is to
ba hoped that, when “the future”
comes, it will be able to use such a
power wisely and without malice.
But the author is more radical still
“As for the mai»,” he declares, “who
has once formally declared war against
society, hoisting, so to speak, the
black flag, care will be taken that he
shall neither repeat his offense nor,
after its commission, become a par
ent.” ; ; ,
The New York Telegram says the
least offensive brass band is a dotlar
slore byAcelet.'‘’ ’ ohii ' 4 "• 1
The Reporter’s Gospel.
How manifold are thy works, O
reporter, and bow dost thou compass
the people cf the earth around about
Thy name is legion, thou art every
where at once, thy fat is a joy unto
the printer and thy lean hangeth
upon the hook until it be dead.
In the day dost thou gird thyself
and travel into far countries and sit
with lawgivers and money changers
in the temple; thy hand is against
every man and every man is against
thee.
Thou climbest the stairs at night,
yea, even seven flights of stairs climb
est thou up and maxest thyself to
sit in a chamber whereunto the
roaches and mosquitoes do apper
tain.
If so be the sou of man prevaileth
upon thee to look upon the wine
when it is red, it being but the third
hour of the day, thou art full as a
tick and thy masters dp dock thee as
to thy wages.
The foolish reporter sayeth in his
heart: My work albeit being done I
will tarry awhile hereabouts, lest hap
ly there being a fire or murder, the
paper shall be scooped of an item
And as he tarrieth, 10, there comes
a fire and he hustleth out upon the
war path and they squirteth water
upon his raiment and entreat him
sore, but he writeth up anon and
aweateth much, for he is a foolish re
porter.
But the wise reporter, whensoever
his task be done, skippeth for home
and lieth upon his couch and sleepeth
the sleep of the righteous man.
And when the fire cometh and the
murder descendeth, he laugheth them
to scorn and no man saith unto him
go and he goeth or come and he
cometh, or scoop and he scoopeth it.
For he was a wise reporter and he
maketh merry with himself and all
his ways are ways of pleasantness
and all his paths are peace.— St. Louis
Times-Journal.
All That Glitters is not Gold.
’ r . ■ » '•
One of the beauties and charms of
an editor s life is in his dead heading
it on all occasions. No one who has
never tasted of the sweets of that
bliss can begin to take in its glory
and its happiness. He does SIOO
worth of advertising for a railroad,
gets a “pass”' for a year, rides $25
worth; and then he is looked upon
as a dead-head or a half-blown dead
beat. He “puffs’’ a concert troupe
$lO worth and gets $1 in “compli
mentaries,” and is thus passed “iree.”
If the hall is crowded he is begrudged
the room he occupies, for if his com
plimentaries were paying tickets the
troupe would be so much in pocket
He bl >ws and puffs a church festival
free to any desired extent, and does
the poster printing at half rates, and
rarely gets a “thank you" for it. It
goes as a part of hie duty ns an edi
tor. He does more work gratui
tously for the town and community
than all the rest of the population
put together, and gets cursed for it
all, while in many instances where a
man who donates a few dollars for
the fourth of July, base ball club or
church is gratefully remembered.
Oh, it is a sweet thing to be an edi
tor. He passes “free,” yon know.—
Utica Observer.
A White Race in Africa.
“Are they then really white?" asked
a Paris reporter of Major Pinto, the
Portuguese explorer of Africa, with
reference to his widely-published sto
ry about a white race in the dark
continent. “Absolutely white,’’ re
plied the major. “I have seen a
young girl who -was whiter than I am
They are not Albinos, because they
have black hair. They resemble the
ugliest of the negroes. The are hid
eous, and the most savage people that
I have met with. In order to see
them I was compelled to seize two of
them, by force. I kept thorn for
some days and loaded them with at
tontions. Then they consented to
take me into their camp, but on con
dition that I should go entirely alone,
because they were afraid of my escort.
I went there and , passed two days
with them. They are poor devils
without industry, living by the chase,
and have no fixed habitation. Their
hair is woolly, their foreheads ’ re
treating, their eyes resemble those of
the Chinese, their cheekbones are
prominent and their lower lip hangs
dowri. They are very strong, and
can bury an arrow in the body of an
elephant.’’
Hint to Ungraceful Walkers.
An English lady, an acquaintance
of M. Ingres, the well known French
paiqter, had a most awkward gait.
The gentleman recommended her
daily to take a long walk, balancing
meanwhile on her head a pitcher of
water. This he said would give the
true poise to the figure and necessi
tate the upright carriage of the head
and a smooth, firm step. An emi
nent French actor wbc prepares
young girls for the stage has taken
M. Ingres'hint, and his pupils every
day at a certain time have to walk
about with vessels of water on their
heads.
The Negro as a Voter.
The Springfield (Mass.) AepuWiccm
seems to us to strike the true point
in local and national government in
the following paragraph :
“The negro at the South is igno
rant, pliant and dependent; it is not
natural that he should be permitted
to go on misgoverning South Caroli
and Louisiana in order to furnish
the Republican party at Washington
a few more’Totes in Congress We
have no apologies or excuses for
Southern terroism, but it is vain for
the Republicans to expect that the
colored race, making a failure of lo
cal government, can be held together
to vote the Republican ticket to keep
the party in power over a distant na
tionality."
“Touch not, taste not, intoxica
ting drinks,” was among the maxims
framed on the wall of Rothschild,
I the bankef. ,J: •*' 1 "
'• sMallbits
Os Varluns Kinds Carelessly Thrown
Together.
An English astrologer predicts
that Prince Bismarck will die in 1880.
The prince is superstitious.
It is asserted that Hon. L. F.
Livingston, of Newton county, will
■ be an independent candidate for
congress from the sixth district.
( It seems nowadays as if the onlv
object in sending a man to prison
for life was to give some board or
the governor a chance to pardon him
out.
Most every one can be stylish and
serve dinner in six different courses if
the hired girl is posted on beginning
with water and ending with baked
apples.
No will was left by Senator Chan
dler, and his vast estate will pass to
the hands of Mrs. Chandler and the
only child, the wife of Eugene Hale,
of Maine.
In Sweden a bride has her pock
ets filled with bread. It is supposed
that every piece she gives to the poor
on her way to church averts some
misfortune.
Gen. Loring, ex-officer of the ex-
Khedive, has in ten years Egyptian
service, it is said, acquired a com
fortable fortune. His annual salary
was SIO,OOO in gold.
Edward C. Palmer, taie presi
dent of the Louisiana Savings Bank,
has been again indicted for making
false entries on the books of the bank
NO. 47
j for the purpose of deceiving deposi
r tors.
1 Every good word and act and gen-
I tie touch has its fruits, and serves
• our kind; every smile that we shed
upon a child is an act of devotion to
our human providence and a deed of
1 charity.
It is estimated that there are at
i least fifteen hundred maimed confed
erate soldiers now in Georgia, who
are entitled to relief under the act
passed by the legislature to provide
for the cost of artificial limbs.
“O, mamma, there goas the sky
buss!” exclaimed a bright little girl
the other day, as she watched a pass
ing hearse that headed a funeral
procession. “There goes the ’bus
that takes people to heaven.’’
The highest inhabited house in
the world is believed to be the one
erected for the miners employed on
Mount Lincoln, in the main range
of the Rocky Mountains, Park coun
ty, Cal. It is 14,157 feet above sea
level.
Very cheap straw Chinese hats
have this year been the rage in Eng
land, Duchesses wearing precisely
the same article as dairy maids;
“but,” explained one great lady,
“none of those dreadful middle
■people wear them.”
A Miss Whitten, now at Damaris
cotta, Me., has probably the longest
hair of any woman in the world. It
is eight feet long, and when dressed
in a French twist it passes six times
around her head. The growth is
perfectly natural.
The gap in the Cincinnati South
ern Railroad is being rapidly com
pleted. The length of rail now' to be
laid is less than twelve miles. The
road will be in running order to
Chattanooga before the contract
time, December 10.
The future Queen Christina of
Spain is a wise and kindly young
lady. She has begged her betrothed
to economize as far as possible in the
expenses of their wedding festivities,
and to give the money to the suffer
ers by the late floods in Spain.
Dr. Johnson once silenced a fe
male backbiter, who was condemn
ing some of her friends for paint
ing their cheeks, by the remark
that it is a far less harmful thing
for a lady to redden her own com
plexion ,than to; blacken her neigh
bor’s.
The sale made last summer of the
White Sulphur Springs, in West
Virginia, has been refused coafirma
tion by Judge Jackson, of the Uni
ted States district court, at Charles
ton. The property will be sold again
next summer, and will be started at
$300,000.
Bishop Haven, in an address de
livered a few days ago in Philadel
phia, said that John Brown was a
Saint, and that the Southern people,
with the exception of the Northern
1 Methodist Episcopal Church, all
agreed with Robert Toombs in re
gard to the union.
The cotton operatives of Switzer
land say they are being ruined by
English cheap cloth, and ask the
government to increase the import
duties on fabrics. This is poor poli
cy. If they wish to drive English,
goods out of the market they should
make cheaper and better cloth
The fact that little Norway ha {
the second largest commercial fleet!
in the world is alleged to be chiefly
due to the fact that villages pool their
savings to build or buy a ship, in
stead of, as here, putting them int-.>
a savings bank to provide fast
horses, etc., for a delinquent mana
ger.
It is found by adding together the
vote given respectively to Gov. Rob
inson, John Kelly and the greenback
and temperance candidates in New
York State, that Cornell, the republi
can governor to be, is in a minority
of over seventy thousand! This does
not look like a governor chosen of
the people.
The Chicago Tribune thinks Sena
tor Hill’s services in rolling up re
publican majorities this fall should
be suitably acknowledged. “If the
people of the United States do not
take up a subscription to buy King
Alfonso a silver plated cake basket
or cased receiver, as a wedding gift,
they can afford something for Ben
Hill.”
Gen, James Harding, Railroad
Commissioner of Missouri, is doing
his work in a novel manner. He is
now on a 200 mile walk over the
railroads of northwest Missouri, in
specting the condition of the road
beds, rails, ties, and bridges. The
work, he claims, can’t be properly
done in a palace car or from a car
blatform. '• ■' 1