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VOL. XI.
Professional Directory.
AT'I'OUXKYS AT LAW.
ISAAC L. TOOLE.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Vienna, Gai
Will practice in the bounties of Hous
ton, Doolv, Pulaski, Macon, Sumter and
Worth. Also in the Supreme Court of
Georgia, altd In the United States Circuit
and District CoitHs within the State All
business entrusted to his care Will receive
prompt .attention. lcbl-tf
O. C. HORNE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hawkinsville, Georgia.
Having arranged all Ins other business,
Will give exclusively his personal atten
tion to the practice tit Pulaski, Wilcox and
Dodge counties, and elsewhere by special
employment.
Tins Criminal practice, a specialty.
Jan, 4, 1877. Jan4-ly
WOOTEN & BUSBEE,
ATTORNETS AT LAW,
VIENNA, GEORGIA.
ipl'l3-tf
C. C. SMITH,
Attorney,aml Counsellor at Law,
And Solicitor in Equity,
McVILLE, - - - - GEORGIA
• Refers to Hon. Clifford Anderson, Capt.
John C. Rutheriord and Walter B. Hill,
Esq., Professors of Law, Mercer Universi
ty Law School, Macon, Ga.
Prompt attention given to all business
entrusted to my care. mar 22 6m
EDWIN MARTIN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
PERRY, GEORGIA.
Will give immediate anil careful atten
tion to all business entrusted to him in
Houston and adjoiuing counties.
Office in Home Journal building on
public square. aprl2 tf
“ ROLLIN A. STANLEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Dublin, Georgia.
Will practice in all the counties of the
Oconee Circuit. From long experience in
tiie Criminal Practice, much of his time
will be specially devoted to that branch of
his profession. feb24-tf
JACOB WATSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hawkinsville, Georgia.
WILL practice in the counties of Pu
laski, Dooly, Wilcox, Dodge, Tel
fair, Irwin and Houston. Prompt atten
tion given to all business placed in my
hands. apr Btt*
LUTHER A. HALL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND REAL ESTATE AGENT,
Eastman, Ga.
WJ ILL practice in all counties adjacent
V T to the M. & B. railroad, the Su
preme Couit of the State and the Federal
Court of the Southern District ot Georgia.
For parties desiring, will buy, sell or lease
any teal estate, or pay the taxes upon the
httme in the counties of Dodge, Laurens,
Wilcox, Telfair and Appling. Office jn
:lie Court House. aprlalf
J. H. WOODWARD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Vienna, Ga.
iJSriIA prartice in the Superior Courts
W i'll the counties of hooly, Worth.
Ltlcox, Pulaski and Houston, and by
1, ecinl contract in other courts. Prompt
attention given to collections. meh4tf
l • BtA. J. B. MITCHELL.
RYAN * MITCHELL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
AND BEAL ESTATE AGENTS,
Jlawkinsville, Ga.
WILL practice in the counties com
prising the Oconee Circuit, and in
t • Circuit und District Courts of the
tailed Slates for the Southern District of
Georgia. febllti
J. M. DENTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
I>RACTICES in the Brunswick Circuit
and elsewhere by special contract.
l(fice at residence. Coffee county, Ga. P.
it. address, Hazlehurst, M. & B. R. R.,
t ieorgia. tob4tf
W. IRA BROWN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Vienna, Ga.
ORACTICEB in the Superior Courts of
L Oconee Circuit, and elsewhere in the
i tale by special contract. Collections
•ad other business promptly attended
t S-13-ly
JOHN H. MARTIN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND BEAL ESTATE AGENTS,
Hawkinsville, Ga.
PRACTICES intHte Courts of Pulaski,
Houston. Dooly, Wliocx, Irwin,
Telfair, Dodge and Laurens. may-tf
CHARLES 0. KIBBEE,
ATTORNEY A T LAW,
Hawkinsville, Ga.
WILL piacticc in the Circuit and Dis
trict Courts of lite United States
lor Ike Southern District of Georga, and
* a the Superior Courts of Houston, Dooly.
Pnlaski, Laurens, Wilcox, .Irwin and
Dodge counties. junc 21)ly
JOHN P. DELACf,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
EASTMAN, GA.
"Will practice in the counties of Pulaski,
Dodge, Telfair, Laurens, Montgomery,
Wilcox, and Irwin, of the Oconee Circuit,
and Appling and Wayne, of the Bruns
wick Circuit.
Prompt attention given to all business
entrusted to his enre. juul7 tf
DR. T. V. WAtSEft. . F. M. JORDAN.
Drs. Walker & Jordan,
Having associated themselves in the prac
tice of medicine, would rcspectiully offer
their professional services to the citizens
of Cochran and vicinity. Office on Second
Street, next door to postoffice. At night
Dr. Jordan can be found in his room in
the rear of his office. mar3‘3 ly
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tf Editor and Proprietor.
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EIGHT CHAIN GANG CONTICTS MUR
DER THEIR GUARD AND ESCAPE.
Col. T. J. Smith, of Washington
county, was in Macon last week, and
gave the Telegraph and Messenger
the following account of a tragedy
enacted on his place:
Macon, April 24, 1877.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:
This morning, among my various
squads of convicts, one of eight men
was started out in charge of James
McMicliael, one of ray most experi
enced guards, and when within a
short distance of the field of work—-
cleat ing up anew ground—-one of
the prisoners, Moses Butler, of Rich
mond felled him with an axe, which
was followed bv a second blow by
George Washington, of Muscogee,
either of which Would have killed
him.
After the fatal blow they pilfered
his pockets, first getting the key that
locked the prisoners together on a
chain. They also got from his per
son ninety dollars in money—took
his double barrel gun and repeater,
and, after gett : ng ofT the squad chain,
cut their shackles off with axes and
made for the Oconee swamp, abo .t
one mile off. There was eight con
victs in the squad, all of whom es
caped save one who fled for eamp to
tell the awful story of the killing.—
We pursued them with one of the
finest pack of nine hounds in the
county, but after lour hour’s pursuit
they swam the Oconee river, the
dogs following them; but the hun
ters, so fatigued from the race, de
clined to swim the river, hence the
the demons are at large. A liberal
reward will be paid for them or eith
er one of them. T. J. Smith.
EX-GOTERNOR BROWN AND SENATOR
GORDON.
Ex-Governor Brown is said to have
written the letters in the Constitu
tion attacking Senator Gordon.
Governor Brown ought to keep his
mouth still. He cannot hurt Gor
don. The man who took SIO,OOO
from the military to prosecute some
of the first young men in Georgia
for murder on hireling testimony and
insulted ladies on the witness stand
should at least have the decency to
refrain from attacking odc of the
purest ahd noblest of true Georgians.
Columbus Enquirer.
Quitman Free Press: “On Mon
day afternoon Mrs. John Voorhees
went'to fish in White’s mill pond in
the lower portion of this county.
She did not return at night and her
busbintt started in search of her.
About 9 o’clock he found her lying
in the water near some rails leading
out iroin the bank. She had evident
ly walked out upon the rails and had
fallen in a fit. When found one of
her nostrils was barely above the sur
face of the water and evidences of
life were scarcely perceptible. She
was taken oilt and everything possi
ble has been done for her since, but,
as yet, she has not sufficiently recov
ered to give any account'd’ the acci
dent. It is thought that she will
die.”
The Dawson Journal announces
the death of Hon. Geo. T. Marshall
on Sunday the 15th nit., at ids resi
dence in Terfell CoOnty. Mr. Mar
shall was at the time of his death the
Representative of Terrell county in
the Legislature, and he had shown
himself a faithful and efficient public
servant.
Rev. W. H. Briggs, formerly of
Talbot comity, was murdered by a
crowd of drinking men in Texas,who
entered his dwelling and compelled
him to drink poisoued liquor. His
offence was preaching against drunk
enness.
When Ilaycs concludes to en
case his presidential legs in a bran
new pair of spring pants, the par
ticulars a3 to cut, material, color,
etc/, will bo determined, by a coin*
mission.
They have a curious wav of de
eidinghiW serifs in Siam. Both par
ties are put under coftl water, and
the one staying longest wills the
suit. In this country both parties
arte got into hot water.and then kept
there as long as possible. The result
in the end is the same.
HAWKINSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 3, 1877.
LETTER FROM ARKANSAS-
Little Rock—Hot Springs—Minerals and
Precious Stones—Fine Lands—Emigra
tion, Etc.
Hot Springs, Arkansas, )
March 30, 1877. \
Editor Hawkinsville Dispatch.
According to promise, 1 drop you
a few lines in reference to my journey
Westward. Leaving home on the
morning of the Ist inst., I traveled
without stopping until my arrival
here on the 3rd at 7 o’clock, running
a distance of over 800 miles, nearly
900,in48 hours. 11l passing through
Tennessee I saw some fine lands and
beautiful scenery. On arriving at
Memphis the train passed slowly
down an inclined plane and rolled
into a large, long steamer, about three
to five hundred feet long, that just
took the whole train over, and reach
ing the opposite side it paddled up
to the track, and getting the prow in
to position with the track, another
engine came down and hitched on
to the train and pulled it up the
bluff on to the rod bed, and she then
sped on her way very slowly over
the rough road through the swamp,
and at Blackfish we took supper, thir
ty miles in the Mississippi swamp.
At two p. m. we drove up to Little
Rock, on the Arkansas river, which
Is three times the 6ize of the Ocmul
gee rivet* and one of the prettiest
streams I ever saw.
Leaving the Rock, as it is called,
we reached Malvern and there took
the narrow gauge rail road for the
city of Hot Springs. This is situa
ted between two spurs of the Ozark
mountains and contains three to four
thousand inhabitants. The build
ings are ail old and rough looking
rookeries, none of the lumber having
been dressed, but but up as it came
from the mill and then whitewashed.
Everything is rough—the rocky
ground, the roads, the place, every
thing, but will soon be one of the
most thriving places in the United
States. These springs are a specific
for a very large class of diseases, and
though but partially known,yet there
are from fifteen to twenty thousand
visitors annually, and it is said they
leave here over $3,000,000 per an
num. It is a peifeet New York in
miniature—the jingle of the street
car bell, the rattle of carriages, wag
ons, carts attit everything else ; with
the unceasing tramp, tramp, from
four in the morning to one or two at
night makes you think of some Lon
don of the Western world. People
are here from every Slate, and almost
every nation. Even the Indian, and
the mogul or pig tail Chinamen are
here with a laundryi People are
rolling in from 50 to 75 per dav, and
all come with money in their pockets.
There is but one building put up that
claims to be fine—that cost $90,000.
There are three papers, one laundry,
one or two steam mills, numbers of
stores, one Baptist church, one Meth
odist, one Catholic, one Episcopalian
church, and three fine Schools.
This country abounds with various
minerals and they sell high. I see
some boys making fiotn five to ten
dollars per diem collecting these and
selling them. The Hot Spring dia
mond is a beautiful stone, and looks
as nice to me as the Simon pure it
self. Upon one of these spurs is a
bed of oil stone, or whet rock, which
they say is as good as any in the
wor.d. There aie also the topaz the
opal, amethyst and many too numer
ous to mention. But whin we come
to the Springs we surely see one of
the wonders of the world. There are
the various iron springs, and others
of different constituents which arc
cold. These may be rivaled in other
sections, but when you come to the
hot springs, they have no equal.
One is at a temperature of 148 to 150,
and one at 168 degrees Fahrenheit.
It takes ten to fifteen minutes to
cook an egg, and eight minutes to
sekid a hog. Getting into a bath
tub 3'ou can scarcely stay under, as
tlie water btfoys you up out of it, or
on the top. Drinking these thermal,
warm waters produces a kiud of nat
ural ptyalism for a few days, and
acts rapidly upon the kidneys. They
are a sure cure fof rheumaiistii, gout,
scrofula, paralysis, neuralgia, ozaena,
catarrh, sore throat, gravel, diseases
of kidneys and bladder, Eczema, pso
riasis, prurego, impetigo, itch, gland
ular enlargements, sick headache,
tonsititis, difficult menstruation, ste-
rility anti many others, most promi
nent among which are syphilis anti
chronic ulcers. Every week records
the cure of some case wonderful to
relate. It is becoming a fashionable
place of resort in winter for the
Northern people, and all other local
ities. I see uptm the streets to-day
the famous tobacco man of New
York, Lorillard, who owns millions,
-and they say’ spends from five hun
dred to one thousand dollars a week
here. I Was told by one doctor to
day that the visitors left here over
$3*000,000 annually, and as they are
only partially known, anti as the dis
puted titles have been settled, what
will the plnce he in the next fitleen
or twenty years ?
The people are very urbane in
their manners; and are very kind and
hospitable to the stranger. I feel as
much at home as though I had been
living here a year Or twtf. A good
many have offered their services to
me, and say they will give any as-
sistance they can and seem very so
licitous for the stranger. They are
very polite, and quite unlike many of
etir young bloods in Hawkinsville,
they speak, or make some recogni
tion, if they meet you a half dozen
times a day. Some of our young
men go on by with eyes fixed on the
ground, neither noticing or observing
you, as it they were studying out the
immortality of the soul or had $17,-
000,000 involved in one little trans
action and they did not have time to
speak; or esle speaking to you, they
would compromise tber personal dig
nity, and being characters of so much
importance, it would detract frutr
tlleii: self-esteem and self importance.
This, though, is significant of good
or evil influences, of gentility or ur-
bane teachings, or of the rough ani
mal untrained and untutored, ipse
dixits of a progressive age. But par
don this digression, as en passant I
remember feelingly the fact in by
gone days.
I see a good deal of cotton upon
tbe streets here, aud the lands, they
say, produce from one-half a bale to
one bale per acre. The finest lands
that I have seen are upon the Mis
sissippi and Arkansas rivers. These
lands would fertilize our old poor
lands of Pulaski, and are as healthy.
All around I see large, fat hogs, and
fine fat cattle, and fat horses and
mules, suggestive of plenty, thrift
and money.
The cost of coming out was about
thirty-two dollars, and only took me
forty-eight hours to make the trip.
My rheumatism has been greatly
benefiUed, and my general health
much improved. My digestion is
also much improved, and 1 feel much
better than when I came. How long
I may stay depends upon circum
stances. If I can got a foot-hold I
may stay a few months. I fjel the
loss of friends and acquaintances,
but still if I only had the members of
my own household I would be well
satisfied. There is no doubt of the
fact that the people here are doing
better than those of our own section,
because they can raise their own
meat and just double the cotton, if
not three to four times the amount
we do. Every day’s train carries out
emigrants by the thousand, and a
man wonders where on earth the peo
ple come from, and the West is being
peopled very rapidly.
I have ju-a received a letter from
ray wife stating the death of Mr.
Tippett. 1 was greatly surprised, as
well as shocked, for I did not consid
er his case even one of any gravity,
let alone serious illness, and I would
offer yon and the family my true and
heartfelt sympathies, and would offer
Mrs. Tippett my earnest condolence
for the loss to her, so irreparable.
Godin His mercy “‘tempereth the
winds to the shorn lamb,” and must
and will heal the wounds which time
alone can reconcile.
Yours truly,
E. F. Way.
THE OR A3’DBA.
The grandpa iz an individual,
aged somewhere between fifty and
one hundred years, and iz a common
occurrence in most well regulated
famil3’S.
Next to a healthy mother-in-law,
they have more bizness on hand
than ennv other party in the house
hold.
They are the standard authority
on all leading topicks, and what
they don’t know about things that
happened sixty-five 3 r ears ago or
what will happen for the next three
years to come, is a damage for every
body to kno.
Grandpas are not entirely Useless,
they are handy' to hold babies, and
feed pigs, and are very smart at
mending a broken broom-handle or
putting tip the clothes-line on
washing days.
I hav seen grandpas that churn
good, but I konsider it a mighty
mean trick to set an old man over
eighty years to Churning butter;
I am a grandpa miself, but I won’t
churn for no concern, not if I under
stand raisclfi
I am willing to rock the baby
while wimmen folks are biling soap;
I am reddy to kut rags to work into
rag carpets; they kan keep me hunt
ing hens’ eggs, or picking green kur
rants; or, I will even dip kandlcs or
koro apples for sass, but l won’t
churn.
I hav examined miself on the sub
ject, and will bet a jacknife that Josh
Billings won’t churn.
Grandpas are poor help at bring
ing up children; they' are full of pre
cept and katekism, but the y'oung
ones all seem to understand that
grandpa minds a heap more than
they mind grandpa. —Josh Hillings.
A London medical authority says
that what breaks down so many men
is work done in a hurry, because the
time which should have been appro
priated to it has been misapplied,
and that “method is the great need
of the day.” Procrastination is in
fact not merely the thief of time but
of health and even life.
Women arc getting their rights at
last. The Legislature of Minnesota
has just passed a bill authorizing
Women to practice law in all the
courts of that State.
If the majority of men could be
bought at their real value and Sffld
at what they price themselves, it
would be a huge speculation.
Avery eleref Surgical operation
has recently been performed in Bos
tdn. A man had tbe misfortune to
lose his eyelid whofiy'. A young
doctor successfully performed an op
era’ion of extraordinary delicacy,-
which resulted in the complete for
mation of it new eyelid. This Was
dvtfe by editing skin from tlie fore
head and turning it over the eye,-
wl’tefe ft gfW b*W Um 4eeiSd *•►'
bra*M*.
LETTER FROM FLORIDA-
Frutt-grqwiiig—Crystal Lakes of Pure
Water—A Great Place for Sportsmen—
Santa Fee Lake—Ten thousand Or
anges from one tree—the Italy of
America, Etc.
r . m
Banana, Putnam County, Fla.,}
April 18, 1877. f
Editpr Hfpvkinsmlle Dispatch i
I have received several leUer.slate
ty from parties in your section of
Georgia asking for information
about this section of Florida, and as
there are probably' others that desire
such information, I will, With your
permission, answer them through the.
columns of your paper.
You have published several letters
in your paper from the enthusiastic
correspondents in other sections of
the State, who thought they had
found that which every hamlet in the
world claims, the “garden spot,” but
if we are to take the unanimous ver
dict of the hundreds of visitors from
all parts of the country that haVc
seen our section the past two
seasons, as a truthful one, the pos
session of that much claimed “spot”
is decided in our favor. Many of
the visitors that have been with us
tte past two seasons came here after
visiting neatly every part of the
State, and they, without a single ex
ception, so far as I have heard, were
highly pleased with it, and unhesita
tingly declared it to be the most de
sirable section of the State they had
seen.
Most people that come here, who
arc not very well acquainted with the
State, for the purpose of engaging in
fruit-growing naturally conclude that
they must go to South Florida, be
low the frost line, to avoid the dan
ger of having their trees killed by
frost. But the so-called frost line is
a humbug, and all those who have
gone South, anil more especially those
possessed of small means, find after
getting there that they have made a
mistake. There is very little land
that can be had on the St. Johns riv
er in South Florida that is suitable
for farming or fruit-growing, as it is
all poor sand hills or low, wet pal
metto flats, with a sand stone subsoil.
As soon as the roots of the orange
tree reach this hard pan, as tho sand
stone-is called, the trees begin to die
back from the top, and unless they
arc taken up and moved to some
more favorable place they will all
soon die down. There is a good belt
of farming country on the Gulf coast
in South Florida, but for the want
of convenient transportation renders
it undesirablei
The section I wish to speak of
more particularly is what is known as
the lake region, a section of country
about sixty miles in length, by about
twenty miles wide, embracing the
eastern portion of Bradford county,
and the western portions of Putnam
and Clay counties. This is truly
called the lake region; it abounds
with numerous clear crystal lakes of
the purest of water, surrounded with
high and beautiful railing land for
family residences and orange groves,
and the water filled With the best of
the finny tribe, which can be taken
in great numbers at all seasons of tbe
year, and in winter they are the feed
ing grounds for millions of the feath
ery tribe, so inviting to the sports
man. Satlta Fee Lake is about the
center of this lake region, and is
the highest point in it, and also the
highest point in the State, so ascer
tained by the United States coast
survey. This lake is about ten miles
long with an average width of about
three miles. The lands immediately
surrounding this lake are considered
the be6t in the State for fruit-grow
ing, and there are a good many
young orange groves started here,
and a few of considerable size that
are bearing large crops of oranges.
Every family has a feW large trees
that were planted when the places
were first settled, some of them many
years ago, and these trtes all look
well aud are free from the orange in
sect and other diseases that the trees
are subject to on tlie St. Johns river
alld in South Florida. I have never
seen a diseased tree in this whole
section.
The chief occupation of the people
of this section up to a few years ago
was farming, but the past few years
the farmers hare turned their atten
tion to orange-growing, and must of
them have planted large groves while
still carrying on their fanning oper
ations. There is a continual stream
of emigration pouring into this sec
tion, and it is being fast settled up
with a good class of people; and in a
few years ibis will became one vast
orange grove.
Some are afraid to invest in
orange-growing, thinking it will not
be profitable wiiaa all tlie young
groves that are now planted come in
to bearing. But tiiis in an erroneous
idea. It is well known that oranges
Seil a great deal libber now than
they di<l several years ago when there
Was not one-teptb . the number pro
duced that are now. The canse of
’ this advance in price is very plain,
fc<i tbe same reason that makes them
worth more now than they Were
years ago will continue to make them
more valuable the more that are pro
duced. When there was but few
produced the crop was exhausted al
most entirely in supplying the home
demands, and as there were but little
demand fbr them there, the price was
low. Butasthe production increases
there was a surplus after, supplying
the home demands, which sought
new markets further off, and in this
Way the consumption was gradual
ly enlarged as the production in
creased, and the demand for them
proportionately increases, which
claused better prices. There are
thousands of people in this cotinll'y
that have never seen an orange anil
the demand for them now is as a
drop in the bucket compared to what
it will be
this State is carried to its utmost
limit. I am told that when the
growing of apples Was first com
menced in western New York they
went begging on the market prices
that did not pay for gathering them,
but as the production increased the
demand became greater and prices
better, and at this time when the
growing has extended over a large
section of country, there is nothing
that pays the farmer better.
All of the different varieties of
semi-tropical fruits do equally as
well as the orange here. We grow
the orsnge, lemon, citron, lime, gua
ver, grape fruit, &c., and have never
had them killed by cold, which can
not be said of other sections of the
State north of Tampa Bay. This is
the only place north of Tampa heard
from where the orange and lemon
trees escaped injury during the past
winter. The past winter was the
coldest one known liete since the
country was settled, and our trees
escaped without injury, even the
young ones of but one year’s grotli
were uninjured, while trees a liundr -d
miles South of this were considerably
injured, and some young ones killed.
The numerous lakes in this section
protect the trees from the cold, which
is the reason they are not injured as
bad here as in other seetious. It is
a well known fact that largo bodies
of deep water is the best protection
tor vegetation against cold or any
thing else. But there is no danger
of a grove being killed at any point
South of this after the trees are a
few years old. The trees are some
times injured by cold in other places,
and very young trees killed, btit the
real damage done is very slight, only
causing them to miss a crop when
they are injured late in the winter.
There is probably not more than one
winter in twenty that is cold enough
to injure even the youngest trees at
any point in the State.
There is an orange tree near the
north end of Santa Fee Lake that is
the largest in the State, measuring
over fourteen feet in Circumference
at the ground, and bearing some
years as many as ten thousand
oranges. Taking one year with an
other it will probably average eight
thousand, which at the present price
at the tree, two cents, would bring
SIGO. It is possible to make each
tree in a grove bear as many as this
one by managing them properly, but
a grove could hardly be found in the
State at this time that will average
half as many to the tree as this one
bears.
As for health and good water, it
cannot be surpassed in the State,
and I might say in the United States,
and the climate is everything that a
man can desire, not surpassed in
Italy.
There is much more I would like
to siy, but for fear of taking up too
much of your valuable space, L will
dose, and if any of your readers who
desire to come to the State, wish any
further informa*ion, I will cheerfully
give it to them if they will enclose u
stamp. It is impossible to mention
all the advantages of the country in
a letter of this kind.
Yours respectfully,
Frank Mcßae, M. D.
Bebyixh a fort.
Quite an original method of taking
a fort is described in Blackwood’s
magazine. In IG9G, a large Russian
army besieged the Turkish fort of
Azof, which was situated on a plain,
strongly fortified, and had a small
but well disciplined garrison. No
commoD approaches could be made
to it, and the Turkish cannon swep'
the level with iron hail. In this case
the engineering skill of the Russians
was bullied) but General Patrick
Gordon, the right band man of Peter
the Great, and the only one for
whose death it is said he ever shed a
tear, being determined to tike the
place at any cost, proposed to bury
it with earth by gradual approaches.
He bad a large army; the soil of the
plain was light and deep and be set
12,000 men to work with spades,
throwing up a high circuravattation
of earth wall before them in advance.
The men were kept in gapgs, working
day and night, the earth being
thrown Irom one to another like the
steps of a stair, the top gang taking
the lowest place every half hour in
supcession. In five weeks the huge
earth wall was carried forward near
ly one mile, until it rose to and above
the highest famparts,- and the earth
began to roll over them. This caused
the Turkish governor to hang out
the white flag, and give in. Had he
not done so, general Gordon would
have buried the fortress.
Hayes Says that nothing would
please him better than to sec Mr.
Tilden elected United States Sena
tor from New York:
There is ft man in' Norfh Carolina
so strong that they employ him to
squeeze tar out of trees. He is a
brother wf the chap who is so tall he
has to climb a ladder to shave him
self, and when he goes to bed lie
shuts himself up like a knife.
The Voice of the Tempter.
“Well, Miss Ritchie, it’s your
turn for the Beggar’s Basket,” said
Mrs. Rolla.
“If it is, I suppose I must take it,”
said Miss Ritchie, holding out her
hand—a very pretty hand; itl a Very
expensive kid glove. Dear me, what
trash people do put into it, to be
sure.”
“Fill it as handsomely as you like,
my dear,” Faid Mrs. Rolla, laughing.
“That js what we want you to do”*
The Beggar’s Basket was an inati-
tutiou of the Dorcas Society—a fan
cy basket, with ribbons on the han
dle, which was filled With piu-ctlsh
ions, pen-wiper?, and other little
knick-knacks, and handed to friends,
who took something out of it, and
qwt hi jfqtwrtep, or wlmt they whose.
As they were wafnerl before, Ho
change Was given. If they chose to
pay a dollar for their toy, they could.
A quarter was generally "the full
value of the article, and the people
felt themselves very generous when
they had given fifty cents. The
members of the society took it home
in turns, keeping it a week each time,
ar.d every one was sorry when her
turn came.
Begging, even for the heathen, is
not agreeable work, and uo one liked
to carry the basket back empty, so
that its possession was a somewhat
expensive honor.
Just now littlc'Miss Ritchie, who
had a very small allowance fur her
dress, aad was very anxious to make
a goed appearance, was wondering
whether this Beggar’s Basket-would
cost her the new neck-tie for which
she was preserving the last cent she
would have until <he end of the
month. If no one bought anything,
it might; she had not the courage to
own herself so poor or so uncharita
ble as to put nothing in it.
She carried the beiribboiicd basket
home with rather a solemn face,
therefore, and it grew more serious
as fathei and brother shook their
heads at it. All the week visitors
whose attention she strove to attract
to the Beggar’s Basket Were very un
observant., and Friday afternoon
came and it was empty.* On Satur
day the society Came.
“1 must go without my tic,” said
Nellie Ritchie, “and give the society
my two dollars. No one will call
now.” And her tone was not that of
the checrttil giver.
But who can prophesy' regarding
the future ? At that very moment
the door hell rang, and someone
asked for Miss Ritchie; and rishig,
Nellie confronted an elderly gentle
man, who had been a great friend of
the family, but who had for some
time resided in a distant city. He
was a warm hearted, generous old
gentleman, and loved Nellie as if she
had been his own grandaugbter.
“I thought I must see you before
I went, my dear,” he said. “I have
been at your papa’s office all the
morning, and I stepped in, though,!
must catch my train in an hour ”
Then lie Chatted On of this old
friend, and the past adventure, until
suddenly catching sight of the Begs
gar’s Basket, he crossed the room to
examine it,
‘•The Dorcas Society is still at
work, I sec,” he said. “This is the
old Beggar’s Basket; Now show me
something yon have mado for it, and
I will take that.”
“Those little velvet boot pin-cush
ions are my Work,” said Nellie—
“ There is never anything but trash
there; wait and I’ll put something
else in.”
She lifted from her desk a very
neat and carefully embroidered letter
case.
“There,” she said ; that should not
have gone iil, hilt that you were to be
a purchaser. I made it for papa;
hut I shall make him another, Mr.
Wortley.”
“I shall treasure it,” said Mr.
Wortley, “and put some money into
the money pocket of the basket.—
And now,” he said, “I must go. I
should like to stay to tea, but I have
no time. Do pay my daughter a vis
it soon. You will kiss me, as yon
did when you wore a little girl?
Good-bye; God bless you.”
Ho was gone; and when Nellie had
watched him out of sight and shut
the door again, curiosity prompted
her to peep into the Beggar’s Basket.
A crisp hank note thrust itself par
tially out cf tlie pocket; she drew it
forth and saw, to her surprise, that
it was of the value of twenty dollars:
“Dear old Mr. Wortley,” she said ;
“how nice of him. Now I shall have
my tic and the credit of being a mag
nificent beggar.” Then a thought
struck her, and she Hushed scarlet.
“If Mr. Wortley gave the money,”
was tlie fancy tli it crept into her
mind, “it was to please me, and lie
gave it for something that was feally
not in tlie basket—my own letter
case that I had worked. If I put my
two dollars in its place and keep the
note, no one will know. I want so
many' things, and tlie society will
think two dollars quite well for the
basket. Perhaps it would be a little
mean,.but ono is rficnft every day,
and I can’t think it would be dishon
est—not very dishonest. He was
my old friend, and he bought ray
own letter-case.”
It was all sophistry, and Nellie
knek it as well as any one coufd ; hut
as she held the crisp note in her
fingers, temptation overcame her.
She drew her pocket hook from her
pocket, put the note into it. and took
from thence the precious two dollars
which she put into tlie Beggar’s bas
ket. She wanted so many things;
papa was not generous to her. There
was anew bonnet at Madame Gil
iroy’s tliat could be had for fifteen
dollars, and the rest would buy a tic
and gloves/ Nellie was insatiable as
to gloves, and liked light eftlArs that
soiled at once; and having argu and
herself into tlie belief that she was
doing right, ©r at least not very
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wrong, she put on her hat an.l went
out, returning the possessor of anew
bonnet that became her Superbly, of
creaimcolored gloves and tie. The
happy possessor I could not say with
any truth. She nevqr felt so Uncom
fortable in all her life. She could
not quite be.ieve that every one who
looked at her would not know just
what she had done, and. when tea
time came she sat behind the traj
with the most woe-begone Counte
nance possible. Not a smile could
she give her father; nor a pleasant
word had she to bestow upon her
brother.
Saturday afternoon came at last.
The basket must go to the society.
As she handed it to Mrs. Rolla, that
energetic lady exclaimed :
“Oil, why can't people lie more
generous ? I’ve just heard of such rt
destitute family!”
“I’m sorry there’s not more
in the pocket, Mrs. Holla,” she said.
“I’m.sure you’ve been very gener
ous,” said Mrs. Rolla; “blit I de
clare there’s no use begging now*,'
people are so mean.” And there the
subject ended.
Poor Nellie sat in the corner sad
and silent all the afternoon Klamo
her as you may, you must have
pitied her; but the end had rtqt j’et
come. She was to be punished even
more severely.
The meeting ended with tea and
music, and conversation afterwards;.
Gentlemen c ame for the ladies," and
spent some time with them. To
night, as Nellie, having refused to
sing, crept away to a quiet corner,
“a gentleman for Miss Ritchie,” was
announced and to her great
isbment Mr. Wortley was ushered in
to the room.
“Surprised to see me so soon
again, my dear?” he said; but the
fact is your Beggar’s Basket brought
me back. I made such a ridiculous
mistake. 1 wanted, of course, to dd
something worth while for such an'
old friend as the society, and 1 put
in twenty dollars; but, unfortunately,
1 had in my pocket a counterfeit"
note, marked with a cross in red ink.
I did not get out my glasses, and so
put that into ttic basket instead of a
genuine one. I reared that you
might he.put to mortification by my
stupidity, and so I hurried back.
Besides, I want the counterfeit to
return it to the dishonest person
who palmed it of on me, I hate btj
ing cheated.”
He held the note toward Nellie;
with a bow. Mrs. Rolla, hastened to
the basket.
“To think we took it for two dol
lars,” she said. “What a good
hearted soul you are, Mr. Wortley.”
Then she plunged her hand into
the pockpt, and drew forth the mon
ey, and looked at it.
“Why, I declare it is just what I
thought it,” she said.
Nellie turned ns pale as death.'
Mr. Wortley said “singular;” and
whether the poor girl would have
come to a confession then and tlierh
is not known, for at that moment the
servant ushered in a lady—no ottief
than the milliner, Madam Gjlfroy.
“I. beg pa-dou for intruding, la
dies,” she said, in a high-pitched
voice; “but 1 have a little business
with Miss Ritchie hefe, and her homo
is a long distance oil and business
keeps me closp. Do you know, Miss
Ritchie, someone has cheated you
awfully; The note you gave me is'
a counterfeit, and I caine very near
being arrested in consequence of
offering it, for there is a ‘h-a-d’ in red
ink in one corner that neither of us
saw.”
Mr. Wortley gave a start, and held
out his hand for the note. Mrs.
Rolla, held up her hands. The la
dies exchanged glances, and poor
Nellie Ritchie felt herself growing
deaf aiid blind, and hoping that it
was death that was creeping over
her, fell fainting to the floor.
Poor old Wortley, horrified at the 1
mortification to which he had brought
the girl, whom, though lie ooflld not
help blaming, lie still loved and
pitied, did all lie could to hush the
affair np. He put the genuine note
in tlie Beggar’s Basket and declared
that lie was sure matters could he
explained.
Then he took liis young friend to
her home. It was a month before
she left her doors again, for a vio
lent fever followed her fainting fit;
ami for a long while she felt crushed
by disgiace ami mortification. In
deed, it is certain that in yielding td
that one temptation she marred ana
blotted her whole life'.
The circle in which she had moved
so proudly shunned her. Her father
and brother lost their pride in her,
and only forbore reproaches from
pity for her sufferings.- lief kind
old friend having had reason to
doubt iicr integrity, could think of
her only as a miserably weak and
unreliable girl; nnd the story reach;
ing tlie cars of a gentleman who had
loved her, and whom she loved, af
fected his feelings to such o degree
that lie would have dreaded to make
her his wife. Young, beautiful and
attractive as she was, her star had
set. In a little place everything is
known nnd remembered, and tlie
little girl who had begun life so hap
pily, ended it a sad, despised and
neglected woman, because of oife
weak rnomdiit in which she allowed
herself to listen to the voice of the
tempter.
Stout Germanin the beer business
to unprofitable customer: “Hcrtf;
now, you took dose doors nnd valk
ond mityour ears, eh ?” (He doesn’t.)
“Hem! you don’t go oud? Veil,'
you vaftsa minute, und I gets a man
vat vill.”
“How doyou keep your wife from
finding you out ?” asked one old
col.ege friend of another, after they
hud h-'tii been married a few months;
“By always being at home at proper
hours/’ was tlie conclusive reply/