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DEVOTED TO NEWS, POLITICS, LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL PROGRESS—INDEPENDENT IN ALE THINGS,
VOL. X.
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IT. JI. IVEIVUIt, - - Editor.
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PRETV CORNER.
LITTLE SLEEPERS.
BY F.MMETT L. BOSB.
Little feet no longer patter,
Little lips no longer chatter,
Patter, chatter as of yore;
What’s tlie matter?
Why the clatfer
Silent on the outage floor?
Little hearts no longer singing,
Little bands no longer bringing
Why no singing ?
Why no bringing ?
Songs and flowers at the door ?
In yon grove vf S?gklag willows
Little heads have made their pillows,
Pillows where sweet daisies grow,
Daisies growing
All unknowing
To the sleeping ones below.
On some brighter morn hereafter
Yet break the merry laughter,
Merry langb/ey as of yore.
And the sleeping
And the weeping
Sleeping, weeping, will be o'er.
Sublimity of Uncling.
One of the roost beautiful exam
ples of high.-mindedness in dueling
was that ot the Ettrl of Dale arras,
in his duel jvtih Benedict Arnold,
the traitor. It wjjj be recollected
that part of the reward of that
wretched man’s treachery was the
rank of general in the British ar
my; yet few, if any, of the officers
would associate with him. On,e
day King George Ilf., with Arnold
beside biro, addressed Lord Balcar
ras. and asked him if he was not
acquainted with Gen. Arnold.
“What, Arnold, the traitor?”
replied the high-spirited Tory
“No, may it please your Majes
ty ; nor have I any desire to know
him.”
So crushing sin affront could not
be passed by in those days. Ar
nold sent Balcarras a challenge,
and, as he held a commission in
the army, the nobleman felt that
he could not refuse to meet him.—
They met, and, when the word was
given, Arnold fired, hut the Earl
stood motionless, looking contempt
uously at his opponent, whose ball
had grazed his cheek.
“My lord,” cried Arnold, at
length, “are you not going to fire?’
Balcarras elevated his pistol,
discharged it in the air, hurled it
toward his adversary, with the
mem.oyaWe reply, “No, sir; I
leave traitors to the public execu
tioner ” As his lordship had re
ceived Arnold’s fire without re
turning it, no further satisfaction
could be demanded, according to
the rules of dueling which then ex
isted
£I)C (Srcmrsboro* Heralii.
MISCELLANEOUS.-
BURIED ALIVE.
Strange Authentic Stoyfes of
Persons Buried While
Living.
We select the following as cases well
authenticated :
THE CASE OF VICTORINE LAFOUR
CAPE.
Victorine Lafourpade, young, beau
tiful, and accomplished, hid a great
number of admirers. Among them
was a journalist named James Bos
souet, whose chances of becoming the
successful suitor seemed to be the best,
when suddetdy. Victorine, contrary to
all expectation, accepted the hand of a
rich banker named llenello. Bossouet
was inconsolable, and his ho.npst hpart
ached all the more wheu he learned
that the marriage of . hi? lady-love was
unhappy. RertpHp neglected his wife
ip every possible way, and finally be„
gen to pialireat her.
This state of things lasted two
years, when Victorine least so
it was thought She was entombed in
a vault of the cemetery of her native
tu.wn. Jules Bossouet assisted the
ceremony. Stjll true to his love, and
well-nmli beside himself with grief, he
cmice.ved the romantic idea of break
ing open the vault and securing a lock
ul the deceased’s hair. That night,
the ref'ore, when all was still, he sealed
the walj of the cemetery, and. by a cir
cuitous route, approached the vault.
When he had broken open the door
and entered the vault he lighted a cau
dle and pp.‘'ended to
OF3N COFFIN.
At the moment when he bent over
the supposed corpse, scissors in ha'nd.
Victorine opened her eyes apd stared
him full is the face. He uttered a
cry and sprang back ; and immediately
-verier h* iv~
turned to the coffin, covered its oet-u
pant’s lips with kisses, and soon ha I
the satisfaction of seeing her in full
possesion all her faculties. ♦When
Victorine was sufficiently recovered,
they left the churchyard and went to
Bossouet’s residence, where a physi
cian administered such remedies as
were necessary to effect the complete
recovery of the unfortunate woman.
This proof of Bossouet’s love naturally
made a deep impression on Victorine.
She repented her past fickleness, and
resolved to fjy with the romantic Jules
to America. There they lived happily
together, without, however, being able
to fully overcome their longing to re
turn to their native land. Finally the
desire become so strong to revisit the '
scenes of their youth that they decided
Jo b ave the danger attendant on a re
turn and embarked at New Y< rk for
Havre, where they arrived in July.
)839. Victorine, in the interim, had
naturally changed very greatly, and
Jules felt confident that her former
husband would not recognise her. In
this hone be was disappointed, ilenelle
had the keen eye of a financier, and
recognized Victorine at the first glance
This strange drama ended with a suit
brought by the banker for the recovery
of his wife, .which was decided against
him on the ground that his claim was
outlawed.
The scene of the following two
cases, with which we shall end our re-,
view, is in England: One Edward
Stapleton died—as was supposed—of
typhus fever. The disease had been
attended by such strange phenomena
-throughout that the physicians were
desirous to make a post mortem exami
nation of the case. The relatives
however, positively refused their con
sent. The physicians consequently de-
to steal the body—not an unus
ual thing in England—in order to
satisfy their curiosity. They communi
cated with a band of rascals who at
that time made a business of stealing
bodies, and three days after the funeral
i had the body of Stapleton brought to
the dissecting-room of a neighboring
clinic. When they made the first in
cision, which was across the abdomen,
they were struck with the fresh ap
pearance of the flesh, and the clearness
and limpidity of the blood. One of the
physicians proposed that they should
subject the body to the action of a gal
vanic battery. This they did, and ob
tained abnormal results; the move
ments and contractions of the muscles
were more powerful than are usually
GREENESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1875.
observed. Towards evening a young
student suggested that they should
make an incision in the pectoral mus
cles. od introduce the pel s of the
battery into the wound. This was
done, when, to their amazement [he
body rolled from the table, remained a
seccnd or two on its feet, stammered
out two or three unintelligible words
and then fell heavily to the floor. For
a moment the learned doctors were
confounded, but soon regaining their
presence of mind, they saw that Staple
ton was a ill alive although he had
again fallen into his former lethargy.
They now applied themselves to resus
eitating him, in which they were suc
cessful. He afterwards said that dur
ing the whole time he was fully consci
ous of his eon Jition, and of what was
passing around him. The words he
attempted to utter were :
“ I AM ALIVE ! ”
A somewhat similar
that of an English artillery officer who,
in a from his horse, had fractur®!
his skull, and was trepanned. He was
jn a fair way to recover, when one day
he fell into a lethargy so profound that
he was thought to be dead, and, in due
time, was buried. The following day,
beside the grave in which he had behu
interred, another citizen of London was
buried,*hnd at last, or.e bT the assistants
t-fianced to stand on it. Suddenly the
man cried out that he felt the ground
move under his feet as though the oc
cupaut of the grave would find bis way
to the surface. At first the man was
thought to be the "ictim of an halluci
nation, but the earnestness with which
he persisted attracted the attention of
a constable, wh? caused the grave to be
opened. They fuuncj that the officer
had forced the coffin lid, and had made
a p rtially successful effort to raise
himself up. He was entirely unconsi
ous when they got him out but it was
evident that the effort to extricate hitn-
L-M,-., but a Vnbrt time
before. He was carried to a hospital
near by, where the physicians, after a
time,
SUCCEEDED IN RESUSCITATING HIM.
He stated that, for an hour before
h : s last swoon, he was fully conscious
of the awful situation he was in. The
grave had fortunately been very hasti
ly and lightly filled with clay, and here
and there the continuity of the mass
had been broken by large stones, which
allowed the air to penetrate as far down
ns the coffin, ije had tried in vain to
make his cries heard, and finally, partly
in consequence of having an insufficient
supply of air, and partly in conse
quence of the mental agony he suf
fered, he had fallen into the unconsci
ous state in which he was found.
Another Englishman describes what
he experienced, while lying in a coffin
in a peifectly conscious state, in the
following words: “It would be im
possible to find words that would ex
press the agony and despair that I suf
fered, Every blow of the hammer
with which they nailed down the euflin
lid went through my brain like the
echo of a death knell. I would never
have believed that the human heart
could endure such terrible agony and
out burst into pieces. When they let
me slowly down into ground, I dis
tinctly heard the noise the coffin made
every time it rubbed against the sides
of the grave.” This man also awoke
under the knife of a doctor. He, like
Stapleton, had been stolen, and carried
o the dissecting room of a medical
school. At the moment the professor
made a slight incision down the abdo
men the spell was broken, and he
spjgng to his feet.
She tried to sit down in the
street car, but was pinned hack so
tight she couldn’t. [Old lady peep,
ed over her specs and asked her,
“How long have you been afflicted
that way ?” The young lady
blushed and made a “break,” sit
ting down sideways and holding
her knee3 together so tight that
she looked as if she had on a one
legged pair of breeches. Old lady
Doticed her sitting in this sidewise,
crumped position and whispored,
“Bile, I ’spose; I’ve bad ’em thar
myself.”—[Ex.
i|
“ I wonder what makes my eyes so
weak?” said a fop to a gentleman.
“ They ape in a weak place,” responded
the latter.
Mr, Cooley’* Third.
My neighbor Uavv marripd liis
third wife a short t,q. * ago, and the
day afeer lie cß>e -nine his eldest
boy, the son of his fir. * wife, came into
the room where she a.s sitting alone
sewing. Placing his t ‘how on the table
he began to be sociubl . The following
conversation ensued;-
Boy—“ How long Jo you expect
you’ll last ?” -4
Mrs. C.—“ What t-i earth do you
mean ?”
Boy— “ Why, tnr held on for 10
years, and Emma, n;|s second wife,
stood it for three ars. I reckon
you’re good for ar -gtuch as her. I
hope so, anyhow; l "ft tired of funer
als. They made ar- fuss when
they stowed ma av ■( , ard a bigger
howl when they planed Emma, So
I’d jest as lieve y<, ; -d keep around
awhile. But pa has ’ms doubts about
it.” f
Mrs. C—“ Doubts if Tell me what
ysou mean, this insta, ”
Boy—“ Oh, nothii>T The day Em
ma got away pa cane home from the
Mineral, and when Leineped ihe crape
off his hat he chucke Tt into the bu
reau drawer, and sai jjt* Lay there till
I want you again ;’ t I suppose the
old man must be expecting you to step
off sometime or other In fact I seen
him conversing wit'" 4he undertaker
yesterday; making kind of a
permanent contract w b him I reckon.
The old man is ulwa - jewin’ peo; le
down.”
Mrs. 0--“ You on*- to be ashamed
to talk about your fai' r in that man
ner, boy !” •
Boy— ‘ Oh, he dr-mind it. I of
ten hear ?he fellers jokin’ about his
wives. He likes a good-na
tured man. Anybod can g-t along
with him if thev uad- Stand h : m. All
" * i
you’ve got to do l, j HvWtCi on nun
-• ' k
Emma sjie used to get mad and heave
a plate, a coal shuttle, or anything at
him. And ma she'd blow him up
twenty thousand million times a day;
both of them would bang me till I got
disgusted. And pa didn’t like it.
Treat me well, give me plenty of candy
and money, and you’ve got pa. Mire.
Emma used to smack me, and when he
said he was opposed to it, she’d go at
him with au umbrella or anything she
could find, and maul him. I guess
you and me’ll jog airing all right to
gether and by the time pa gets another
wife I'll be big enough not to care how
many airs she puts on. What I want
is time. You stick for three or four
years, and then the old man can con
golidate as much as he’s a mind to, and
I won’t pare a cent. It’s only the fair
thing anyway. Enough of this family's
money has been wasted on coffins and
tombstones, and ve ought to knock off
for a while.”
Mrs. Cooley didn’t enjoy her honey
moon as much as she bad expected
[Max Adder.
A Lore Affair of Joint Wesley.
A. fj. Guernsey, jj/ijhe May Galaxy,
writes as follows:
Sophia IJokey, a niece of the princi
pal magistrate (in Georgia, 173fi) was
young, pretty, and intelligent. Wesley
was pleased with her and she with
him. She dressed in white because he
liked it, and regulated her habits by
his advice; he fell sick, and she nursed
him. He made up his mind to marry
her. Ddamotte opposed the idea of a
marriage ; Wesley submitted the ques
tion to the Moravian elders, who ad
vised him to proceed no further in the
matter. “The Lord’s (till be done,”
replied Wesley; but he was io a sore
strait. Sophia was naturally piqued
and hastily engaged herself to one
William Williamson, and the matriage
took place March 12, in four days,
Wesley i,n th.e meantime having vainly
urged her to break the engagement and
marry him. Wesley made this curious
entry in his journal:
“ Feb. 5 —One of the most remark
able dispensations of Providence toward
me began to show itself this day. For
many days after I could not at all
judge which way the scale would turn;
nor was it fully determined till March
4, on which day God commanded me
to pull out my right eye ; and by his
grace I determined to do so; but be
ing slack in the execution, on Monday,
March 12, God being very merciful to
me, my Iriend performed what I could
not.”
And again :
“March B.—Miss Sophy engaged
herself to Mr Williamson, a person not
remarkable for handsomeness, neither
for greatness, neither for wit,or knowl
edge, or sQuse, and least of all religion ;
and op Saturday, March 12, they were
married, this being the day which
completed the year from my first speak
ing Jo her. What thou dost, O God,l
know not now, but I shall know hero
after.”
About this time, and doubtless in
reference to this transaction, Wesley
wrote the well-known hymn begin
ning :
“ Is there a thing beneath the sun
That strives with Thee my heart to
share;
Oh, tear it thence and reign along,
The Lord of every motion there.”
Forty-nine years later, Wesley, then
more than four-score, and having gone
through another similar experience,
wrote:
“ I remember when I read these
words in the church of Savannah, ‘ Son
of man, I take from thee the desire of
thine eyes with a stroke,’ I was
pierced through as with a sw-ird, and
could not utter a word more.”
Williamson grew jealous of Wesley,
and forbade his wife to speak to him or
attend his services ; she absented her
self from the church for a time, and
Wesley refused to admit her to the
sacrament, when upon her husband
brought an action against him, laying
his damages at £I,OOO. The general
conduct of Wesley was brought before
the grand jury, who found a bill of in
dictment coi.taining ten specifications.
Nine of these related to purely ecelesi
astieal matters; but the tenth charged
Wesley with misconduct which occa
sioned “ much uneasiness between
Sophia Williamson and her husband”
JjjP/ftt.used to plead to any except this
I specification, and upon which lie de
manded an immediate trial This was
put off for more than three months,and
Wesley announced his determination
at once to return to England lie was
summoned to give bail to answer to the
suit of Williamson ; this he refused,
and the sentinels were ordered to pre
Vent him from leaving Savannah. One
December evening, after public prayers
Wesley slipped away in a boat rowed
by lour fellows whom he had hired to
assist him, and were anxious to get
away from their creditors. Then they
took to the swamp, where they came
near perishing of hunger and cold ; hut
after ten days, succeeded in reaching
Charleston, whence Wesley set sail for
England.
firs. Brigham Young X. 17.
The Prophet Charged with
Perjury.
Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, 'the seven
teenth wife of the Mormon prophet, is
about to attempt securing his indict
ment for perjury. To this end she has
made an affidavit against him at Boston
of a peculiarly outspoken character.—
Briefly to recite its contents, she de
clares that she was brought up exclu
sively in the Mormon faith ; that po
lygamy was a cardinal doctrine of the
Church, and she was taught from her
childhood to believe in it with an im
plicit faith, and that unless she con
sented to and contracted a polygamous
marriagj, she could not be assured oi'\
her salvation or happiuess in the life
hereafter. The Prophet hag, she says,
by his euoruious wealth, his canning
and address, and his unscrupulous char
acter, to exercise an almost
boundless influence in Utah. She was
taught to accept him as God’s vicege
rent on earth, entitled to her reverence
and obedience, and him invariably pro
claim, as a divine revelation, the truth
of polygamy. She was further iniuc
ed to believe thgt iparriage outside the
Mormon Church was unlawful and
adulterous, and that to become the wife
of the Prophet \yas a sure means of at
taining a most exalted position in the
wor’J to come She thoroughly b -
lieved Mr. Young to be the vicegerent
of God, posessing great and miracul us
powers and knowledge, so much so that
he was able to read the thoughts in the
minds of every person ; a perfect aod
pure man, incapable of any wrong in
dee] or word. So great vras the rever
ence in which she held him that when
he proposed marriage the very thought
of such an act was revolting to her
mind. To influence her he held out as
a truth revealed from God that those
women who become his wives have been
promised a peculiarly high and honor
able position, so much so that they
would be acknowledged as princesses in
heaven, and that their families would
be the recipients of very high honors in
heaven. Notwithstanding this teach
ing the affiant refused to become his
wife, and only consented to espouse
him after he had exerted his influence
on her parents and threatened to ruin
financially her brother and to cut him
and all the other members of her fami
ly off from the privileges of the Church
here and the enjoyment cf heaven
hereafter. la conclusion. she declares
that ouly through her ignorance and
fears she was induced to marry the
Prophet, and that he practiced on her
and the members of her family thro’
his position, wlikh he knew at the time
to be a false one.
A IHAiLTItEE.
Horrible Australian Plant
.that Bats human iscings—•
A Frightful Spence.
If you can imagine, says fjj#
South Australian Register, a prne
apple, eight feet high am] thick in
proportion, resting up.on its base,
and denuded of leaves you will have
a good idea of the trunk of the tree
which, however, was not the color
ot an anana, but was a dark, dingy
brown, and apparently as hard as
iron. From tin apex of this fusti
cated cone, (at least two feet in di- j
ameter,) eight huge leaves sheeri
to the ground, like doors swinging 1
back on their hinges. These leaves, j
which are joined at the top of the
tree at regular intervals, were
about eleven or twelve feet long.
and shaped very much like the
leaves of an American agave or
century plant. They are two feet
through in their thickest part and
three feet wide, tapering to a sharp
point that looked much like a cow’s
horn, very eoijvex on the outer
(hut not under) surface, and on the
under (not upper) surface slightly
concave. This concave surface j
was thickly set with stpo' g horny |
books like those upon the head of at
teazle. These leaves, hanging
thus limp and lifeless, dead green
in color, had in appearance the
massive strength cf oak fiber. The
apex of the cone was a round con
cave figure like a smaller plate set
within a larger one. This was not
a flower, but a receptacle, and
there exudes into it, a clear, treac
ly liquid honey, sweet arid possess
ed of violent intoxicating soporific
properties. From underneath the
rim (so to speak) of the undermost
plate, a series of long, hairy, green
tendrils stretched out in every di
rection toward the horizon. These
were seven or eight feet long, and
tapered from four inches to half an
inch in diameter, yet they stretch
ed out stiffly as iron rods. Above
these (from betweep the upper and
under cups) six white almost trans
parent pappi reared themselves to
ward the sky, twirling and twist
ing with marvelous incessant mo
tion, yet constantly reaching up
ward. Thin as reeds arid frail as
cjuills, apparently, they were yet
five or six feet tall, and were so
constantly and vigorously in mo
tion, with such a subtle, sinuous,
silent throbbing against the air,
with their suggestions of serpents
flayed, yet dancing on their tails.
My observation on this occasion
were suddenly interrupted by the
natives who had been shrieking
around the tree with their shrill
voices, and chanting what Hendrick
told me were propitiatory hymns to
the great tree devil. With still
wilder shrieks and chants they now
surrounded one of the women, and
urged her with the points of their
javelins, until slowly, and with de
spairing face, she climbed up the
stalk of the tree, and stood on the
summit of the cone, the palpi
twirling nil about her. “Tsik!
Tsik !” (Drink f drink !) cried
the men. Stooping, she drank of
the viscid fluid in the cup, rising
instantly again with wild frenzy in
her face, and convulsive cordß in
her limbs. But she did not jump
down as she seemed to intend to'.
Oh, no ! The atrocious cannibal
tree, that had been so inert and
Mead, came to sudden savage life'.
The delicate palpi, with the fury of
starved serpents, quivered a mo'-
ment over head, then as if instinct
with demoniac intelligence, fasten
ed upon her in sudden 1 coils round
and round her neck and arms, and
while her awful screams, and yet
more awful laughter, rose wildly
be instantly strangled down again
into a gurgling moan, the tendrils
one after another, like great green
serpents, with brutal energy and
infernal rapidity, rose, protracted
themselves, and wrapped her abou’s
in lold after fold, ever tightening
with cruel swiftness and savage te
nacity of anacondas fastening upon
their prey.
It was the barbarity of the Lao-'
coon without its beauty—this
strange, horrible murder. And
no- the great leaves rose slowly
a* u stiyffl, like the arms of a der
ri k, erected themselves in the aisy
approached one another, and closed
about the dead and hampered vic
tim with the silent force of a hy
draulic press and the ruthless pur
posi of a thumb screw. A moment
more, and while I could see the
basis of these great levers pressing
more tightly toward each other
from their interstices, there tries
kled down the stalk of the tree
frrent s*re-.iW" of viscid ke
Said, mingled horribly with the
blood and oozing viscera of the vic
tim, At sight of this the hoarders
around me, yelling madly, bounded
forward, crowded to the tree, clasp
it, and with cops, leaves, hands and
tongues, each one obtained enough
of the liquid to send him mad and
fraijtiC'
HIT AND HUMOR.
—Abraham was the first sick man.
He hud Ilagar iu the wilderness.
m
—The way fbr a desolate old bache
lor to secure better quarters is to take
a “ better-half.”
—“ Are there any fools in thiscity?”
aski and a stranger of a newsboy. “No j
do you feel lonesome ?” was the reply.
—An eccentric old fellow, who lives
*■£* ,
alongs de of a graveyard, was asked it
it was not an unpleasant location.
“No,” said he, “1 never jined places
in Oy life with a set of neighbors that
minded their own business so stiddy as
they do.”
—“ No, gentlemen of the jury."
thundered an eloquegt advocate thfe‘
other day in a Denver Court, “ this
matter is for his honor to decide, who
Sits there sleeping so beautifu ly.” His
honor opened both his eyes and his
mouth, and said : “All owing to your
narcotic spe< ch, sir ”
—An old lady, on hearing that s
young friend had lost his place on ac
count of misdemeanor, exclaimed:
“ Miss Demeanor ? Lost his place on
account of Mis Demeanor? Well,
well! I'm afeared it’s too true that
there’s alius a woman at the bottom of
a man’s difficulties !”
—A Virginia paper announces ths
marriage of Miss Jane Lemon to Mr.
Ebenezer Sweet j whereupon somebody
perpetrates the following:
“How happy the extremes do meet
In Jane and Ebenezer;
She’s no longer sour but Sweet,
And he’s a Lemon squeezer.”
——t— 1,1 1
—Very stem parent indeed—“ Come
here, sir ! What is this complaint the
schoolmaster has made against you?”
Much injured youth—“lt’s just noth
ing at all. You see, Jemmy Hughes
bent a pin, and I only just left it on the
teacher’s chair for him to look at, and
he cauie in without his specs and sat
right down on the pin, and now he
wants to blame me for it.”
NO. 29