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KPr&fesskoncbi Directory.
AfTWXSYS AT LAW.
r " • ISAAC L. TOOLS,
AtTOttffE* At LAW,
Vienna, Ga.
Will practice hi the counties of Hous
ton, Dooly, Pulaski, Macon, Sumter and
Worth. Also in the Supreme Court of
Georrt*, and in the United States Circuit
and District Courts within the State All
bn*lnesß entrusted to his care will receive
prompt attention, tebl-U
O. C. HOItNE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hawkinsville, Georgia.
Having arranged all his other business,
will give exclusively hie personal atten
tion to the practice in Pulaski, Wilcox and
Dodge counties, and elsewhere by special
employment.
The Criminal practice, a specialty.
Jan. 4,1877. jan4-ly
WOOTEN & BUBBEE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
VIENNA, GEORGIA.
aprlß-tf
C. C. SMITH,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
And Solicitor in Equity,
KcVILLE, • • - - 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 and careful atten
tion to all business entrusted to him in
Houston and adjoining counties.
Office in Home Journal building on
public square. aprl2 tf
" lIOLLIN A. STANLEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Dublin, Georgia.
Will practice in all the counties of the
Oconee Circuit! From long experience in
the 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 bnainess placed in my
hands. apr Btf
LUTHER A. HALL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND REAL ESTATE AGENT,
Eastman, Ga.
\K7TLL practice in all counties adjacent
VV 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 real estate, or pay. the taxes upon the
same in the counties of Dodge, Laurens,
Wilcox, Telfair and Appling. Office in
iho Court House. aprlotf
J. H. WOODWARD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Vienna, Ga.
*STILL practice in the Superior Courts
ti in the counties of Oooly, Worth,
Wilcox, Pulaski and Houston, and by
*, oeial contract in other courts. Prompt
ol tention given to collections. mch4tf
A•. RYAN. J. B. MITCHELL.
RYAN & MITCHELL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
AND REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
Hawkinsville, Ga.
WILL practice in the counties com
prising the Oconee Circuit, and in
!>• Circuit and District Courts ot the
baited States for the Southern District of
Georgia. feblllf
J. M. DENTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
I>RACTICES in the Brunswick Circuit
and elsewhere by special coutract.
tfflee at residence. Coffee county, Ga. P.
t. address, Hazlehurst, M. & B. It. R.,
ieorgia. tob4tf
W. IRA BROWN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Vienna, Ga.
(PRACTICES in the Superior Courts of
. Oeonee Circuit, and elsewhere in the
i tate by special contract Collections
a id other business promptly attended
tw 8-13-ly
JOHN H. MARTIN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
Hawkiusville, Ga.
PRACTICES in the '"Courts of Pulaski,
Houston. Dooly, Wliocx, Irwin,
Telfair, Dodge and Laurens. may-tl
CHARLES 0. KIBBEE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hawkinsville, Ga.
WILL piactice in the Circuh and Dis
trict Courts of the United States
tor tbe Southern District of Georga, and
‘it the Superior Courts of Houston, Dooly,
Pulaski, Laurens, Wilcox, Irwin and
Dodge counties. June 291 y
JOHN F. DELACY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
EASTMAN, GA.
Will practice in the counties of Pulaski,
Dodge, Telfair, Laurens, Montgomery,
Wilcox, and Irwin, or the Oconee Circuit,
and Appling and Wayne, of the Bruns
wick Circuit.
Prompt attention given to ail business
entrusted to his care. (Rni7 tf
DR. T. F. WALKER. JDR. F. M. JORDAN.
Drs. Walker & Jordan,
Having associated themselves in the prac
tice of medicine, would respectiully 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 m his room in
the rear of his office. mar 22 1y
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tf Editor and Proprietor.
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IS THERE A HOMESTEAD?
In a speech to the citisens of Pike
county a few weeks since in favor of
holding a Convention, J. D. Stewart,
Esq., of Griffin, answered this ques
tion as follows:
“The Supreme Court, by different
decisions have virtually repealed the
homestead. They have decided that
the homestead is a mere use; that
those already 1 taken are subject to
be levied on and sold, that is the
reversionary interest. Those who
have taken a homdttead are only
entitled to it as long as they are the
head of a family, consequently an
old man, when he is no longer able to
toll for his living, is liab’c to be
turned out of doors, because his
children are no longer minors. He
clearly demonstrated the partiality
of the present homestead. A man
who has three thousand dollars
worth of property can cover the
whole of it with a homestead, but a
poor fellow who takes the benefit of
the law to keep two or three hundred
dollars worth of property can never
add to it, as he works and accumu
lates; if be consumes his hundred
dollars of corn and meat in
making more corn and meat, his
creditors can levy on his new crop
and sell it, and he cannot have it
included in his homestead, so if his
horse, wears out or dies, he cannot
take the proceeds of his labor, and
invest In another horse, and have
him protected under the homestead ;
because he has taken the homestead
once and cannot take it again, nor
supplement it with other property.”
ARREST OF A MURDERER.
The Macon Telegraph and Mes
senger of the Ist inst. has the fol
lowing :
Our readers remember distinctly,
no doubt, the terrible tragedy of last
summer, which ended the lives of
Tom Davis and Mary Huard, other
wise known as Swamp Mollie. The
police have ever since that time been
on the lookout for some clue to the
murderer, and for a long time sus
picion has rested upon Jim Boon, a
notoriously bad negro, who has in
fested this city for a long time. Jim
has been dodging the police for a
long time, but yesterday, after a
chase of five miles up the river, he
was captured, after having been
shot in the foot. His captors were
Messrs. Ed. Kimbrew and L. C.
Ricks.
“THE DARK ROLLING DANUBE.”
The river Danube has figured
largely in history for two thousand
years, and it again becomes the ob
ject to which the eyes of the world
are turned. It furnished a highway
for the Turks in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries to penetrate
Europe as far ns Vienna, and in the
days of the crusades it became an
outlet for the religious enthusiasm of
Europe to flow to the Holy Land.—
The Danube, from its sources in Ba
den to the Black Sea, is 1,820 miles
long, and it drains, with its tributa
ries, an area of over three hundred
thousand square miles. It passes
through Bavaria, Austria, Hungary,
forms the boundary between Hunga
ry and Servia to the Carpathean
mountains, where it separates Rou
mania and Bulgaria, and passes into
tbe Black Sea through several
mouths, the principal one being that
of Sulina. The Danube is navigable
for steamers as far as Uim, ia Bava
ria. At Nicopoiis, in the fourteenth
century, 100,000 Christains were
driven by the Turks into the Dan
ube, and in the fifteenth century 40,-
000 Turks were slain on its shores
at the siege of Belgrade Sav. News.
Dr. Johnson knew what he was
talking about when, In his dictionary,
he put this definition—‘‘Network:
Anything reticulated or decussated
at equal distances, with interstices
between the intersections.”
Anderson M. Waddell, of Nash
ville, gave $5,000 to the widow of a
man whom he had killed. He bad
been acquitted on a charge of mur
der.
An exchange says book agents
get $0 a day for talking. We know
a woman, not a-gent either, who
could earn $lB a day at the business
with both hands tied behind ber
back.
“Dear me!” exclaimed a rheumat
ic old man, annoyed by an untimely
snowstorm. “1 hope that when I
die I’ll go where there’ll be no snow.”
“Well, I presume you will,” quietly
responded bis aged wife.
HAWKINSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1877.
Written for the Hawkinsville Dispatch.]
PARENTS—THEIR DUTY AND IN
FLUENCE.
Life, with all its complications, its
Varied duties and its labors and sac
rifices, contains, perhaps, no more
important an obligation, and none
attended with more Serious difficul
ties and weighty responsibilities than
a proper discharge of the duties de
volving upon parents respecting the
lUoral, mental and physical growth
and development of childhood and
youth. , >
It might be a very pertinent inqui
ry as to what are the duties assumed
by parents in relation to their chil
dren? Evidently their duty is to
contribute, to the best of their ability
and in every conceivable manner, to
the cultivation of their minds, the
improvement of their morals, and to
implant in their hearts and con
sciences the principles of honesty and
truth, They should be encouraged
to cultivate a revererce for every
noble and manly virtue which serves
to strengthen character, and to re
gard honest labor as an unalterable
law of nature, and an absolute neces
sity.
A proper discharge of the duties
and obligations which parents owe
to their children, would assuredly be
productive of the most desirable re
sults, but seemingly insurmountable
difficulties often present themselves
to the most self-sacrificing parents,
and renuer it well nigh impossible
for them to put into execution a
cherished and well devised plan in
which the future prospects of some
member of their family might be
deeply involved. These are what
are commonly termed Providential
causes or hindrances, and mankind
generally are prone to attribute their
failures to this agency, rattier than
acknowledge their own improvidence
and glaring errors, and not a few are
at times disposed to relieve them
selves of their own responsibilities,
and to make a compromise of their
duties, particularly when it can be
done, in their estimation, at appar
ently little cost; yet every honest
endeavor to respond to the demands
of life should and will receive a
merited commendation and approval.
In early childhood, and even at
a more advanced age, children, it
would seem, entertain a decided aver
sion for such a thought as reg irding
life in its true character, and in their
imagination invest it only with what
is superficial and wholly impractica
ble ; they are intensely sanguine in
their expectations, and their “air
castles” appear to them almost a
reality until the experience of ma
turer years proves them a myth and
a delusion.
Although these dreams and spec
ulations of childhood admit of no
subsequent realization, this charac
teristic mental activity, and the
readiness with which their minds
yield to every passing thought or
pleasing fancy might serve as an ex
cellent moral which parents could
with profit appropriate to themselves,
and utilize it in the discharge of their
parental obligations. The lesson
which it teaches is that the mind of
the child is susceptible to whatever
influence, whether good or evil, with
which it may be brought in contact,
and suggests that their circumstances
and surroundings should be divested,
to the greatest possible degree,
of every immoral and objectionable
feature.
But the query which would most
naturally present itself for solution
to the minds of parents would be,
wbat general or specific rule might
be adopted by them by Which they
would be materially aided in their
efforts to promote the welfare of their
children, and insure success in re
gard to their proper training for the
duties of life? As with other sub
jects of like magnitude and impor
tance, so with this has “line upon
line and precept upon precept”
been offered for the consideration of
parents ; there is no limit to the advice
bestowed, and the countless rules
for the guidance of the domestic
circle would doubtless fill volumes;
but evidently tbe object sought has,
in a multitude of instances, fallen far
short of attainment, and the results
to be accomplished through these
instrumentalities have often proved
most deplorable failures.
With every observance of any defi
nite rules, and acting in accordance
with the counsel of the wisest solons
of earth, the efforts of parents must
ever prove unavailing, unless the
principles which they are striving to
inculcate be given a practical illus
tration by the parents themselves
through constant and consistent
adherence to the proposition that
“precept without example is of little
worth to youth.”
We are all creatures of imitation,
children are eminently so; and, in
view of this fact, not a single indi
vidual, perhaps, to give the subject a
candid consideration, would hesitate
to acknowledge that the-most well
directed efforts on the part of parents
must ultimately fail, if unaccom
panied by their own compliance with
their precepts. W. J. M.
“Bob, where’s the State of Matri
mony?” “It is one of the United
States. It is bound by hugging and
kissing on tbe one side, babies and
cradles on the other side. Its chief
products are population, broomsticks
and staving out late at nights. It
was discovered by Adam and Eve
in trying to discover a north-west
passage out of Paradise.”
A little boy was munching a bit
of gingerbread. His mother asked;
who gave It to him. “Miss Johnson
gave it to* me.” “And did you
thank her for it ?” “Yes, I did, but
I didn’t tell her so ?”
What Wall Street Did,.
A CONVICT>B STORV.
z;.jTny-.
I held a good position as a clerk
with a firm iu William street, which
I shall call Wilson, Carter & Cos. I
became .a boarder, in the family of a
relative and continued with him four
years, when sonje changes in his
business determined him to remove
to San Francisco. I now took lodg
ing* and commenced, for the first
time, what is called a bachelor’s life.
It was somewhat dull at first, I ad
mit, but by degrees I made acquaint
ances, and it offered far greater at
tractions. Nay, more, I had now
secured so fully the good feelings of
the beads of the firm, that I was fre
quently a guest at their tables; and
it is only justice to myself to assert
that if I did not gain their confidence,
it certainly did not arise, on my
part, from any lack of zeal in their
service. One day when I was dining
at the bouse of the senior partner, I
met a certain Mr. Robert Thornton,
one of the principal clerks In A large
insurance office. He appeared a
very gentlemanly, intelligent man,
and hid evidently seen a great deal
of life. We left the house together,
and as I found he resided but a short
distance from me, and the night be
ing fine, he offered me a cigar, and we
walked home together.
On the different subjects We con
versed on during our walk, the one
in which he appeared to take a special
interest was speculating in stocks.
Curiously enough, while employed
for nearly five years within a few
blocks of the stock exchange, where
I knew fortunes were constantly ex
changing hands, I had never felt
tempted to try my luck. My em
ployers, indeed, were strongly op
posed to it, and I had heard at least
one of them denounce stock specula
tion as gambling of the worst kind.
But I knew, toe, that other merchants
of equally high standing laughed at
them for this, and Thornton, I soon
found, was well stored with argu
ments to prove it every whit as le
gitimate as tho most humdrum deal
ings in pork or flour or nails.
It so happened that a sudden and
continued rise id Erie had caused a
great flurry in the street, and my
companion named acquaintances who
had cleared from $5,000 to $15,000
by lucky investments during the last
week.
“I could make as much as any of
them,” he exclaimed, “if I only had
a thousand or two to start with. I
know precisely how to do it, and if I
could find a man to put in the money
I’d make a small fortune for us both
inside of a fortnight.”
It was impossible to listen to him
unmoved, especially as I knew from
the reports in the newspapers that
investors in Erie were making extra
ordinary sums. Consequently, when
ho asked if I knew any one at all
likely to go in with him, I said :
“Perhaps I might.”
“What! you!” he cried ; “I’m de
lighted. Can you raise a thousand ?”
“Yes ; two thousand, if necessary.”
“Bravo 1 your fortune is made I”
“But see here,” said I; “in the
first place, we must keep this thing
quiet, for I don’t care to have my
employers know it, and in the second
place, you must post me up, so I
shall know exactly what we’re about.”
“All right!” said he; “that’s easily
managed. And as you put in the
funds I’ll be satisfied with one quar
ter of what we make, and if we should
lose, which is impossible, however,
I’ll stand haif the loss.”
By this time we had reached my
lodgings and, going in together, I
gave him a check for SI,OOO on the
bank where my small patrimony was
deposited. A memorandum of our
agreement as to the division of the
certain profits and tbe impossible
losses which we anticipated was then
drawn up, and my mere acquaintance
gayly took his leave, saying :
“Mark my prediction! Thornton
& Cos. will corner the street yet.”
I smiled at this, but I did not real
ize its absurdity so clearly as I have
since. By far the most interesting
part of the newspaper the next morn
ing was the financial article, and I
bought the first edition of the Even
ing Post to see the stock quotations.
I could not leave my desk during
business hours, but I dined with
Thornton and found him in a high
state of excitement. He urged me
to invest another thousand but I re
fused, though greatly tempted by his
representations. The next night he
made a prodigious effort to look cool
and unconcerned as he laid before
me a package of greenbacks, amount
ing to $1,150.
“There,” said he, “I doubled your
thousand in two days, and I Could
haye done the same if it bad been
two thousand or ten thousand. You
might havo made $1,500 as easy as
$750.
I looked grave asl reflected that
this was undoubtedly the fact.
“What have you done with your
$250 ?” I inquired.
“Bought Erie, of course. I’ll treble
it, sure.”
I cross questioned him closely,
went over the newspaper reports once
more, and then took my resolution.
Calling for pen and ink I filled up a
blank check and said, handing him
the package of greenbacks.
“Here is $1,750 in cash, and here
is a ebeck for $4,700. Go in and
win.”
Thornton jumped up and grasped
my hand, exclaiming :
“You’re a man of nerve 1 You de
serve, to be rich 1”
“Well,” said I, “it depends a good
deal on juu. See that you make no
mistake.”
“Never fear, said be, “yen'll be
worth $30,000 before yon know it.”
After seme fbrtftev conversation wo
parted, mv occasional misgivings be
ing 1 ' speedily dispelled by delightful
’ visions of sudden wealth.
Yon will see that I had put into
Thornton’s hands the whole of my
little inheritance together with two
y oars’ interest, which I had allowed
to accumulate, my salary for the last
tWo years having been amply suffi
cient for my wants. I am satisfied
that it would have been a lucky
thing for me if I had lost every cent
of it. But, as it happened, Thorn
ton’s instiuct was not at fault, he
sold out at just the right moment,
and I found myself as he had pre
dicted, worth $20,000 besides several
odd hundieds with which I indulged
in champagne, game suppers, and
some other expensive luxuries which
I had hitherto entirely avoided.
I had self-control enough to depos
it toy money in bank, keep my secret,
and attend steadily to my regular
business. Thornton, too, kept his
affairs from his employers, but con
tinued to his share of
the profits made off* my capital, and
with such success that iu a few months
he was worth as much as I. My res
olution to be satisfied with what I
had made, and tempt fortune no
more, gradually vanished as I noted
his continued prosperity, and when
he came to me with secret informa
tion of a projected movement in
leading stock, which promised results
of the most flattering character, and
told me he had invested every cent
he had in that stock, I readily agreed
to do the same. At first everything
Went well. The stock began to rise
slowly, and at one time we might
havs made four or five thousand
apiece by selling, though neither of
us thought of that for a moment
Then there came a lull, and then,
without a moment’s warning, the
stock tumbled with such frightful
rapidity that, before we realized it,
our little fortunes Were swept away.
Thorton made haste to sell, but we
found ourselves $2,000 in debt, and
with no consolation except that some
dozen fellow-speculators had been
cleaned out in the same syle as our
selves.
I shall not soon forget our meet
ing after this disaster. I could not
reproach Thornton, for his losses were
as heavy as mine, and it was he who
rescued us from the dilemma of hav
ing to pay $4,000 between us at once
without funds, or have our transac
tions exposed to our respective em
ployers.
“I have a friend,” said he, “who
will shave our joint ncte for a fair
discount, and before it comes due,
w'e shall have time to get on our
feet again.”
I cannot say I liked the sugges
tion, but there was no alternative
Thornton introduced me to his friend,
the note-shaver, a Mr. Jackson, a
cunning, oily man, with a disagreea
ble expression of countenance, though
his manner was singularly polite,
considering that we could furnish no
security. However, we had to give
him a note for $5,000, payable in six
months, with interest, in order to get
the $4,000 We needed.
This transaction completed, we
breathed more freely, feeling that we
had at least a six months’ reprieve.
The misery I endured during those
six months, I cannot attempt to de
scribe. I hardly saw Thornton, who
studiously avoided me, until one
evening, toward the end of the fifth
month, he called me into Mouquin’s,
and showed me a release, signed by
Jackson, from all obligations under
our joint note.
“What does this mean ?” I gasped.
“It means that I have paid my half
with interest,” said Thornton.
“And where did you get the
money ?” I cried, amazed.
“Speculating in stocks,” was the
cool reply. “Why don’t you? I
suppose Wilson, Carter & Cos. would
lend you enough to begin with. At
any rale you can borrow it of them,
even if they don’t lend it.”
With these words Thornton turned
and abruptly walked away. I sup
pose he meant to do me a service by
this infernal suggestion, but he
might better have thrust a dagger
into my heart. I cannot tell how I
brooded that night over what he
said, or how next day I tremblingly
acted upon • it, employing a young
broker, to whom Thornton had in
troduced me, to invest the purloined
funds. I had some delusive successes,
but the day the note came due 1 pos
sessed not a cent to moet my share
of it, and was $1,500 behind in my
accounts with my employers. Mas
tering up all my courage I called on
Jackson,'told him I had not been so
fortunate as my friend Thornton,
and ventured to propose that be ac
cept my note for $3,000 in settlement
of my present obligation.
“I will do so readily,” said he,
“upon one condition, and that is,
that you have a good name at the
back of it.”
“Yet I hardly know to whom I
could apply,” I said. “I would much
rather give you a greater discount
on my own promissory note—in fact,
any discount you choose to demand.”
“And that’s the very reason, my
dear fellow 1 ” said Jackson, “I will
not do it, unless I have a good name
at the back. On that condition 1
have no objection to make it a year,
so as to allow you sufficient time to
look about you and pay the money
comfortably. Now, think well ifthere
is any person to whom you could ap
ply. You are very thick with the ju
nior partner in your firm, why not
get him to pnt his name to it ? At
any rate you can but ask him, and
the thing may be done to-morrow.—
Now take my advice and try the ex
periment-”
I left Jackson, hardly knowing
what to do. Trtie, I was on very
friendly teims with the junior part
ner, son of the senior partner,. and I
believe he bore me great good will.—
Still H was a very dangerous experi
ment to try, for tf he should refuse
and inquire into my accounts lie
would find me a defaulter to the
amount of $1,500.
And! here I must hurry over the
particulars of the crime I committed)
so painful;are they to think oft Suf
fice it-to say, instead of obtaining
his signature I was guilty of forging
It. My Renewed note was accepted,
but it woiild be impossible to de
scribe the terrible state of my mind.
The only method I had of relieving
myself from the penalty of my crime
would be by perpetrating others*
and this, I felt convinced, wodld only
be to prolong far a short time the
misery I Was in. A feeling of reck
lessness then came on, and I resolved
to let things take their course. Just
before the office Was about to close,
one day, Jackson entered and told
one of the junior clerks he wished
to speak with the senior partner.
Although he remained in my room
during the time the youth went with
the message, he took not the slight
est notice of me, but, with perfect
command of countenance, I looked
about him till his eye fell upon me,
when he showed no more appearance
ot recognition than if I had been a
tctal stranger. He was soon after
ushered into the senior partner’s
office, and I, closing my desk, put on
my hat, and, in a state of terror it
would be impossible to describe, re
turned home. The state of my mind
that night would baffle all descrip
tion. I tried to sleep, in the danger
I was in. All was useless; and I
turned over in my mind innumerable
schemes of the vagties description by
which to save myself. When 1 think
over them now, and can estimate
their utter worthlessness and absurdi
ty, I can easily Understand I was in
the condition of the drowning man
who catches at a straw.
The next morniug, entirely forget
ting only to close my eyes for a
short time to my breakfast, iu a fit
of recklessness I dressed and went to
the office. Shortly after my arrival,
the senior partner entered, and in
passing through the office he looked
steadily at me for some moments
and then went on. A few minutes
later a messenger came to me and
told me the senior partner wished to
speak with me. At that moment a
powerful, respectably attired, com
mon-looking man entered the office,
bearing a letter for the firm. He
glanced at me as 1 went out of the
room, and I shuddered as I looked
at him, for I felt persuaded he was a
detective officer. On entering the
senior partner’s office, he raised his
eyes from the desk, and looked stead
ily at me. I was surprised to find
there was no sternness nor indigna
tion in his countenance.
“J ,” he said in a kind tone,
“you do not look at all veil this
morning. Is there anything the mat
ter with you ?”
I caught at the idea, and said I
had not felt well for the last few
day 8.
“I thought not,” he said, “and
only sent for you to say, if it were
the ease, you had belter return home
and take a day or two’s rest. You
will then be better, and We can do
very well without you for that lime.”
A reception so different from what
I had expected, made such an im
pression on me that the tears came
into my eyes, and I felt half-inclined
to confess the whole truth. The
senior partner, however, putting out
his hand, and shaking mine warmly,
said:
“Now go home, and keep op your
spirits, and you will do very well.”
At that moment one of the clerks
entered the room, nnd I left it and'
proceeded homewards, the man whom
I had imagined to be a detective
being no longer there. For what
purpose Jackson visited the office the
evening before I know not. Certain
ly it was not connected with my
business.
It will be too painful for me to go
further into the matter. I plunged
deeper and deeper into crime. I at
tempted to conjure up a reckless
frame of mind, and in the daytime to
considerable extent succeeded. But
then the nights—how can I describe
their misery ? I could not sleep with
out opium, and the more I took of
the drug the greater the quantity 1
required, till at length I was obliged
to take each evening as much as
would have killed any ordinary man.
It had also its effect on my counte
nance, which assumed the palid hue
of the regular opium-eater. At last
the forgery was discovered, Jackson
having sold my note ; I was arrested,
my defalcations came to light, and
soon after I found myself here.
One word more, in justice to my
self. I heard that in the newspaper
report of the trial it was stated that
when, after my sentence, I left the
bar, it was with a jaunty step and in
different expression of countenance.
Never was there a truer remark. If,
indeed, any objection can be taken
to it, it is that it did not - go far
enough, for the imprisonment to
Which I was condemned, and the
utter ruin of my prospects in life,
were but a feather iu the balance,
when compared with the weight of
horrible mental torture and doubt I
bad been laboring under for months
before the termination of my career
of crime.
“Where is Thornton, you ask ?”
He occupies the cell adjoining
mine. —lllustrated Weekly.
“Rubin,” shouted Mrs. Toodles
to her husband, who was going out
of the gate, “bring me up five cents
worth of snuff when you come.”—
“Snuff! Mrs. Toodles, Snuff!” he
ejaculated as lie paused with Ilia
hand on the latch. “No, no. Mrs.
Toodles, the times are too hard to
admit of such extravagance; you
must tickle your nose with a straw
when you want to sneeze.”
A eoronei’s jury in Arkansas
found “Shat the deceased, who was
a bachelor,dfed by his own hand,
feeing moved thereto by the discovery
that his hair had grown so thin that
he could no longer hold a pen fee
hind his car.”
THE BOSS RAT KILLER.
A rather tall man, with a nose like
a muffin, went into a Main street
boarding house, one day last Week,
and asked for a dinner;
“Owing to the general depression
of business and the conseqUetit scarci
ty of the “rhino,” said the proprietor,
looking the tall tnan over, “a dinner
will cost you thirty-five cents, in ad
vance.”
“I have nothing with me but a
check ou a Boston bink,” observed
the tail man.
“Cheeks on a Bostoii bank ain’t
worth a copper,” remarked the land
lord ;“I guess you’ll have to dine
more sumptuously elsewhere.”
“Can’t I do something for my din
ner?” asked the tall man) as a hun
gry pang gripped him.
“You can pay,” said the proprie
tor, impressively.
“You give me my dinner,” said
the tali man, “and I’ll agree to cleart
your bouse of every rat in it. I
have performed the feat in many
hotels throughout the country, with
most satisfactory results.”
The proprietor accepted the bar
gain as a most advantageous one to
himself, and the tall tnan seated him
self at the table, where he did fear
ful execution among the victuals.
He finished his dinner in half an
hour, picked his teeth with a fork,
called for a cigar, And proceeded to
enjoy It.
“Now, then,” said the proprietor,
when the tall man had finished his
smoke, “let’s get to business, Go
for the rats.”
“Ah, yes,” returned the tall man,
“with pleasure. BrocUre me a light
iron bar, about four feet in length,
and I will proceed to business.”
The bar of iron was produced, and
the loafers gathered around to wit
ness the interesting proceedings.
“Now, begsti,” said the proprietor.
“Where will you commence first ?”
“Right here,” replied the tall man,
as he carefully rolled back his cuffs,
spit on his hands, and grasped the
iron bar fii mly, while the proprietor
stood by with great anxiety depicted
ou his countenance.
“Now, said tho tall man,” im
pressively, as he slowly elevated the
bar, “are you all ready ?”
“All ready,” returned the proprie
tor, excitedly'.
“Then,”Jsaid the tall man, “bring on
your rats.”
For the next five minutes the ex
citement of an entire Presidential
election filled the room. When it
subsided the tall man was nowhere
to be seen, and the pioprietor was
standing before a glass tying an
oyster over his left eye. The rats
still revel in their native freedom.
TIIE HEATH OF A HERMIT.
On Friday last Austin Sheldon,
the Pike county (Pa.) hermit, was
found dead on top of oue of the
mountains, in a ten feet snow drift.
He had lived over forty years in a
cave ia the rocks, near the entrance
of which his body was found. Shel
don was nearly seventy-two years old.
He was discovered in his Cave thirty
years ago by hunters. He said he
had been living there ten years, and
had not seen any human beings iu
that time. About a year ago a
brother and sister of the hermit,
from Connecticut, both wealthy, went
to his abodo and endeavored in every
way to get him to return to his
friends. It was of no avail. Shel
don had lost his wife after a brief
married life, and disappeared on the
day of the burial, ne was not heard
of Until last year. Sheldon lived on
game, fish, toots and borries. At
the time of his death his form Was
much bent. The clothing that hung
in rags and tatters from his person
had been donned twenty-two years
ago and never taken off. It was
held together by hickory withes.
He never washed. A thick gray
beard that hung almost to his waist,
and hair of the same color, hanging
over his shoulders, was matted with
burrs and twigs, and had not been
touched with a comb or brush for
forty-five years. Sheldon was an
educated man. His family is
among the leading ones of Connecti
cut.
An old negro slumbering with his
feet to a glimmering fire opens one
eye and gets a glimpse of them as
they stand in tile obscurity. Mis
tnkjs them for little negroes, and
cries.
“Gif fum fore me!” and relapsed
into sleep.
After awhile opens the other eye,
and still seeing the intruder, says:
“Gif fum foie me, I sayf I kick
you in de fire if you don’t—l will
shuah I” and again he snores.
His dreams not being pleasant he
soon opens both eyes, and still
seeing the pests he draws up his feet
for his threatened kick, but is
alarmed to see the enemy advance
upon him and exclaims:
“Wha-wharyou cornin’ to now?”
“Humph I my own foot, by golly 1”
—•— . ■ ... -
Governor Nichoils, of Louisiana,
lost an arm and a leg in the Confed
erate service, “at which” he said, “I
feel badly, because the ambition of
my life has been a judgephip, but you
know that a one-sided Judge would
scarcely be the proper thing.”
Creditor. —“Didn't yon promise to
pay me that bill when you got back
from Boston ?” Debtor—“Weil,
you promised io wait till I got back
from there didn’t you 1" “Creditor
—“Yes I did.” Debtor—“ Well,
that’s where I’ve got yo, for I
haven’t been to Boston yet.”
An lowa editor recently announced
that a certain patron of his was
“thieving as nsual.” He claims to
have written “thriving.”
NO. iS.
REPTILE IMPRISONMENT!
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An Immense Lire Snake taken from a
Boy’s Stomach;
The Diibuque Herald relates a
Wonderful and almost incredible ato
ry of a snake Which was imprisoned
in the stoffladh of si lad for the
period of five years, the boy, whoso
name is Bennin, resides with ,his
parents near Dyerville, in Delaware
county) la; Five years ago, "Wing
then ten yCafs of age,, he began to'
suffer from pains in his stomach and
abdominal regions Which at times
were almost beyond Endurance. The
best physicians within reaching dis-
tance were consulted) and every rem;
edy known to medical science was
brought into) requisition) but aU in
vain; As the lad grew older the
paitis became less frequent, bat when!
they did occur they wero of such an
ekitfruciating nature as to throw him
into terrible convulsions. Just be
fore the pains and fits came opyqung
Benning would declare that he felt
something crawling in his body and
winding and twisting about his
intestines. The boy ale voracious
ly, but rediained floor and emaciated.
Several phvsiciails believed him'
troubled with tape-worm and treated
him for that affliction, but without
fovorable results; The cramps and
convulsions continued, and recently
were accompanied by choking sensa
tioiis. Beuning’s pdretits having
tried nfertns in their power to'
procure relief fronl his troubles, re
cently sought the advice of a doctor
who happened to visit Dyerville fof’
the purpose of lecturing; This physi
cian, whose name is not giveny
made an examination of the patient,'
and stated that the boy’s stomach
was inhabited by a living reptile of
some sort. He administered a dose
of medicine, and expressed the be
lief that it would so operate as to
make its appearance in the boy’s
throat. The doctor proved to be
correct. In a few minutes after ad
ministering the medicine the head of
the snake appeared in the boy’s
mouth and was geutly drawn fortll
from its five years’ imprisonment by
a forceps in the hands of the doctor.-
The snake was of the garter species)
beautifully striped, and measured
16 inches in length. The snake died
soon after leaving its prison, and is
now preserved in alcohol. Tim
Herald says that it has been seen by
hundreds of people) and that thd
event created considerable excite
ment. The theory given for the
presence of the snake in Henning’s
stomach is that he must have swab
lowed it while drinking from gomO
one of the springs in the vicinity of
hts resideflce, or else drank the gernt
from which his snakeship grew into
his formidable size. The story is a
remarkable one and well calculated
to excite wide spread attention.
ENGAttL\G*MAMERS.
There are a thousand pretty en
gaging little Ways which every per
son may put on without running
the risk of being deemed either af
fected or foppish. The lotf smile,
the quiet, cordial bow, tho earnest
movement in addressing friend,
the inquiring glance, the graceful
attention which is so captivating
when united with self-possession
—these will insure Us the good re
gards of even a churl. Above all,
there is a certain softness of manner'
which should be cultivated, and
which, in either boy or girl, adds a
charm that almost entirely compen
sates for lack of beauty, and incs
timably enhances the latter, if ib
does not exist.
The following obituary notico was
sent for insertion in a Yankee jour
nal: “Mister Edatur: Jem Bangs,
wee air sorry to stalt, has deseized,
He departed this Life last raunday at
tho age of 23. He Went 4lh without
any struggle, and sich is life. Td
Da we are s peppef grass, mighty
smart, to Morrow we are cut down
like a cow-eumber of the grownd.
Jem kept a nice stoat, which his wife
now wates On. His virchews wus nu
niefus to behold. We pever new*
him to put sand in his sugir, tho he
had a big sand bar in frunt ov his
bous; nor watur in his milk, tho the’
Ohia rivur runs past his dore. Peace
to his remanes 1 He leaves a wile, 8
children, a cow, 4 horses, and quad
repett tu morne his loss ; but in tbo
splendid langwidge of the poit, his
loss Is tbur eturnul gane.”
“Why so late ?” said a school
master to a little urchin, as he en
tered the room oft a cold slippery
morning in February.
“Why, sir,” replied the boy, “I
would take one step forward and
slide back two.”
“Indeed !” said the teacher; “how
did you get here, if that was the
case ?”•
“Oh I” said the boy, scratching his
head on finding himself caught, “I
turned round and walked the other
way.”
An Illinois paper edited by rt
Mr. Steel says: “a printer last week
proposed to go into partnership with
us. His name was Doolittle. The
firm name was very bad either way
you put it. Steel & Doolittle, or
Doolittle St Steel. We can’t join.
One of ns wonld be in the poorhouse
and the other in the penitentiary.”
A sailor was recently bfotfgbt be
fore a magistrate for beating his wife,
wheiwtfee magistrate tried to reach
his heart by asking him if he did not
know that his wife wa the “Weaker
: vessel A “If she is, she oughtn’t to
carry so much sail 1” replied Jack.
An exchange notices marriages
under the heading of “Doings of tb
Weak.”