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VOL. XI.
yH/fAJiilwiißi Directory.
ATTVM.XE7IS AT LAW.
15AAC U TOOLE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Vkoßa, Ga.
Matiicc is tbf coratk! of Hous
iMi. Duah. PahAi. Mart*. Soroter and
a .Uh is <he Soprnne Court of
Gcvavn. 4 h tk United States Circuit
f%tnc* Cowls within the State All
btauteewtre*ed to his care aril! receive
prowpt atteitm. tebl-U
O. C- HORNE.
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Haekissriilc, Georgia.
Bavioft amoved all hi* other business,
aU i Ci vc eiriouHr !>■ personal attcn
s .^'sartwa^sai
CBptofVMlt
Twt CraouL practice, a specialty.
Ja*. A ISTI- jao4-ly
WOOTEN A BUSBEE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
VIENNA, GEORGIA.
HMfIpNH
C. C. SMITH,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Asn Solicitor in Equity,
McYILLE, --- - GEORGIA
Refers Jo Hon. Clifford Anderson, Capt.
John C. Ratherlord and Walter B. Hill,
Esq . Professors of Law, Mercer Cniversi
t [j School, Macon, Ga.
* Prompt attintaon given to all business
entrusted to my care. mar 23 6m
EDWIN MARTIN,
attorney at law,
PERRY, GEORGIA.
Will cive immediate and careful atten
tion to all business entrusted to him in
Houston a ml adjoining counties.
Office in Home Journal building on
public square. aprl2 t(^
ROLLIN A STANLEY,
attorney at law
Dublin, Georgia.
Will practice in all the counties of the
Oconee Circuit. From long experience iD
the Criminal Practice, much of his time
will be specially devoted to that branch of
his profession. feb24-tf
JACOB W ATSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hamfcinsville, Georgia.
YVILL practice in the counties of Pu
ff laski, Dooly, Wilcox, Dodge, Tel
fair, Irwin and Houston. Prompt atten
tion given to all business placed in my
hands. aprjm*
Luther a. hall,
attorney at law
AND REAL ESTATE AOENT,
Eastman, Ga.
WILL practice in all counties adjacent
to the M. & B. railroad, the Su
preme Conit of the State and the Federal
Court of the Southern District ot Georgia.
For parties desiring, will buy, sell or lease
any leal estate, or pay the taxes upon the
same in the counties of Dodge, Laurens,
Wilcox, Telfair and Appling. Office jn
Mia Court House. aprlstf
J. H. WOODWARD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Vienna, Ga.
A/TLL practice in the Superior Courts
Tt in the eountics of Dooly, Worth.
N.llcox, Pulaski and Houston, and by
f . cial contract in other courts. Prompt
fd ten lion given to collections. mch4tt
I q, hyas. J. B. MITCHKLL.
RYAN & MITCHELL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
AND REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
Hawkinsvllle, Ga.
\ STILL practice in the counties com
\\ prising the Oconee Circuit, and in
t e Circuit and District Courts of the
United States for the Southern District of
Georgia. feblltf
J. M. DENTON,
attorney at law,
()RACTICES in the Brunswick Circuit
and elsewhere by special contract,
'fflcc at residence, Coffee county, Oa. P.
t>. address, Ilazlehurst, M. & B. R. R.,
< ieorgia. iob4tt
W. IRA BROWN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Yienna, Ga.
ORACTICES in the Superior Courts of
1_ Oconee Circuit, and elsewhere in the
t tale by special contract. Collections
e id other business promptly attended
to 3-13-ly
JOHN H. MARTIN,
•■ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND BEAL ESTATE AGENTS,
Hawkinsville, Qa.
ORACTICES iu the Courts of Pulaski,
L Houston. Dooly, Wliocx, Irwin,
Telfair, Dodge and Laurens. may-tf
CHARLES C. KIBBEE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hawkinsville, Ga.
CAHILL piactiee in the Circuu and Dis-
VY trict Courts of the United States
lor the Southern District of Georga, and
n the Superior Courts of Houston, Dooly,
Pulaski, Laureus, Wilcox, Irwin and
Hedge counties. june29ly
JOHN F. DELACY,
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 care. iunl7 tf
DR. T. F. WALKER. DR. F. M. JORDAN.
Drs. Walker & Jordan,
Ilnving associated themselves in Ihe prac
tice of medicine, would respectfully offer
their professional services to the citizens
of Cochran and vicinity. Office on Second
Street, next door to poetoffice. At night
I)r. Jordan can be found ;n his room in
ti<c rear of his office. mar 22 ly
HAWKINSVILLE DISPATCH.
i oaT**™ FOR 1877.
Oor subscribers will remember
that the Hawkinsville Dispatch
for 18TT will be sent postage free;
Price, two dollars for twelve months
or one dollar for six months.
A deduction of 26 cents will be
allowed each subscriber in a club of
six, and in a club of ten an extra
copy of the paper will be sent gratia
No credit subscribers taken. The
Dispatch has the largest bona fide
circulation of any weekly paper in
the State.
The paper will be mailed to any
I person in Florida, Texas, or else
; where, on receipt of the money.
G*o. P. Woods,
tf Editor and Proprietor.
THE DISPATCH FREE.
We will send the Dispatch free
I one year to any person sending us
the names of five subscribers and ten
! dollars. tf
ENGLAND PREPARING FOR WAR.
Edinburg, May 9.— The London
correspondent of the Scotsman says :
‘•The army clothing factory in Gros
venor road, Pimlico, is particularly
animated and busy at present. lam
assured that work is carried ou with
out intermission day and night, and
that numerous shifts of work people
are being employed. There is a gen
eral conviction in both military and
naval 'official circles that we are on
the immediate brink of war. Ar
rangements have been made by which
some 25,000 men can be embarked
within six days if necessary*, and 20,-
000 to 25,000 more within a fortnight
after. I cannot say trom the details,
which I have been able to pick up,
that personally I at all understand
how these numbers are made up, but
those who are necessarily cognizant
with everything of this kind speak to
the above effect with apparent cer
tainty on good and recent authority.
THE FIGHTING MORMONS.
Old Brigham Talks War.
Salt Lake, May 9.—A dispatch
says the members of the famous
Xauvoo Legion are drilling in meet
ing houses, barns, stables and cor
rals in Salt Lake city, and most of
the minor towns. Breech-loading
rifles have been shipped in great
numbers during the last fortnight
from the East to this place, and
several boxes of arms have gone to
Southern Utah from the co-opera
tive store, which is largely owned
and entirely controled by Brigham
Young.
In the tabernacle last Sunday
Brigham Young arose at an unex
pected moment and broke forth in
an address to saints and sinners,
which gave the latter to undeistand
that if they wanted blood they could
have plenty of it; and indeed, that
they we-e likely to have more of it
let out of their veins than they could
spare at an early period.
To face one hundred thousand
Mormons there are about fifteen
thousand Gentiles in Utah.
Salt Lake City has a population of
twenty thousand, of whom, perhaps,
four thausand are Gentiles. Many
of the Gentiles are quietly arranging
for the removal of their families, at
the first sign of an outbreak.
Tlie grand jury, at Salt Lake City,
will meet on the 21st instant. Sub
poenas are issued for a formida
ble number of witnesses in criminal
cases, and arrests of murderers, who
have had immunity for years, are im
minent in the mountains and along
the borders, where they have se
cluded themselves.
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Thou shalt not at any time send
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Thou shalt pay for thy paper in
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The Atlanta Constitution says
Treasurer Renfroe has paid the Gov
ernor's warrant for $30,000 to
Messrs. R. A. Alston and A. C. Gar
lignton, as fees for collecting from
the Federal government on account
of the State Road, the sum of $199,-
000, and that there is another sum of
$15,000 yet due to the estate of Rob
ert Baugh. Of the latter sura Gen
eral Henry R. Jackson is to have
half, and Mr. Fain, of Catoosa coun
ty, a part of the remainder.
HAWKINSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 17, 1877.
How General Marion got
his Rifles
Charley Hampton, the hero of this
story, was an ancestor of General
Wade Hampton, who has jnst been
elected Governor of the State of
South Carolina.
The close of the year 1780 was a
sad period for America. The British
held the country from Charleston to
the upper Santee, and in order to
complete their conquest had estab
lished a chain of posts throughout
the State, each of which wasstrong.y
fortified and defended by a good
garrison. Organised resistance to
the British there was none. On the
American side the principal side
actors in the struggle were the men
who composed the famous “Light
Brigade” of General Marion.
The favorite rendezvous of Marion
was at Snow Island. This is a piece
of high river swamp, as it is called
in the Carolinas, and was surrounded
on three sides by water, so as to
make it almost impregnable. Here
Marion had his camp. From this
tastness he issued forth at pleasure
to range the enemy’s gratneries or
capture a straggling party of his
troops. Secure in his retreat, he had
no Dar of pursuit.
In the city of Charleston the des
potism of the British was at its height,
the proud spirited people of the cap
ital were held down by a grinding
tyranny. Many of them were still
open and uncompromising in their
hostility to the British, while others,
thinking they could best serve the
cause in that waj*, affected a hearty
submission to the conquerers, and
were seemingly the most loyal of all
King George’s subjects. Yet, while
the English saw this and congratula
ted themselves upon the good effect
it would have on the Colonists, these
very “loyalists” kept the A merican
Commander constantly informed of
all that passed within the British
lines, and many a disaster of the
British was in this way directly at
tributed to them.
One of these persons was a lady of
fine social position ?nd great wealth.
Indeed, there were few persons in all
Charleston over whose submission to
the crown the British were more ela
ted than they were over that of Mrs.
Anne Garden. She was a young and
beautiful widow, just twenty-five, and
for several years bad been the stand
ing toast of the beaux of the Caro
linas. When the British took the
city she was one of the first to sub
mit to the King, and since then her
house had been the favorite gatheriug
place of the red-coat gentry. Many
of Mrs. Garden’s friends, who were
staunch patriots to the last, quietly
cut her acquaintance, and shook their
heads in silent indignation and when
they dared to speak at all it was only
to condemn the widow’s treachery.
In the camp of Marion, however,
there was one cheek that kindled
with pride and not with shame when
the lady’s name was mentioned; and
as for Gen. Marion he could have
told tales that would have startled
the widow’s Charleston friends, had
it been safe to do so.
While Marion was creating so
great an excitement beyond the gates
of Charleston, Mrs. Garden resolved
to give a ball. Preparations were
made on an extensive scale, and the
loyal element of the city was in high
feather. The splendid mansion of
the young widow was dressed with
flowers from cellar to garret, and
blazed with light on the evening ap
pointed for the assembly, and the
Uaiul of the garrison discoursed sweet
music to the assembled crowds. The
entertainment was at its height, when
the crowd near the door suddenly
parted, and a young man came for
ward hurriedly. He was tall and
splendidly formed, and carried him
self erect, with a proud, martial air.
lie was dressed in the uniform of an
officer of the Tory legion, and his
geneial appearance was that ot a
man who had ridden far and hard
during the day. As the widow saw
him her face flushed and then grew
deadly pale, and she sprang forward
with a cry of alarm.
“What are you doing here?” she
asked hurriedly.
“You will see,” he answered, quick
ly, in a low tone. “Only, for Heav
en’s sake, swear black and blue to
what 1 may say!” Then he added,
calmly, and in a louder tone: “You
see, cousin, I have come back to my
allegiance.”
“I am delighted to hear it,” she
replied, warmly, taking the hint at
once. “I never thought your heart
would cling to the rebel cause.”
“Faith,” he said, laughing, “if my
heart had clung to it my stomach
would have driven me from it. I’m
not fetid of starving, my fair cousin,
and King George lives well you
know. Hereafter Thomas Wilson
lives snd dies a loyal man.”
Col. Watson had been standing by
during this conversation, watching
the couple closely. Now he stepped
forward to the lady’s side.
“Who is this gentleman ?” he
asked, somewhat sharply. “He seems
wonderfully familiar.”
“Oh,” replied the lad}', laughing,
he is my cousin, Lieutenant Thomas
Wilson, and, as you will perceive, he
is in his Majesty’s service.
“You seem rather careless of your
dress, considering the occasion, sir,”
said the Colonel, tartly. He was an
noyed at the great interest which the
lady had shown the new comer.
“My business must be my excuse,
Colonel,” said the young man, re
spectfully. “I am the bearer of a
letter from Major Gainey, and ray
orders were to lose no time in deliv
ering it. I have ridden hard all
day, sir, and upon reaching your
headquarters learned of your pres
ence here. This lady being my
cousin, I had no hesitation in coming
here at once, trusting for paidon to
the urgence of my mission.”
As he spoke he handed to the
Colonel a sealed letter. Watson
took it hastily and broke the seal.
As he read it a smile of satisfaction
overspread his features,
“This is very good,” he said glee
fully. “Gainey is picking up recruits
by the hundreds. He wants 400
rifles, 50 sabres, and some ammuni
tion at once. Will I send them?
To be sure I will. Have you wag
ons, Lieutenant ?”
“No, sir,” replied the young man.
“Major Gainey was afraid to send
them down. There’s no knowing
when or where one may meet that
Swamp Fox and his sneaking cut
throats.”
“Very good,” said the Colonel,
“I’ll furnish you with four wagons
and a guard of fifty men. You will
start at sunrise in the morning,
Lieutenant. Call at my quarters at
midnight, and you shall have the
access* rv orders. Now, sir { you had
better take a rest, as you will need
it.”
“First let me offer him some re
freshments,” said the widow, quickly.
“He is tired and hungry, I know,
and no guest must leave my house
in such a state.”
“Return quickly, then,” said the
Colonel. “1 shall be miserable while
you are gone.”
The young man offered his arm to
the lady, and they left the ball-room;
but instead of going to the dining
room she led him straight to her
chamber, and then, locking the door,
said anxiously:
“For heaven’s sake, Charles, what
is the meaning of this ?”
The young man did not answer
verbally, but, eatching her to his
breast kissed her passionately, and
to be frank, the young widow did
not resist him.
“It means,” he said at last, in
reply to her repeated questions,
“that we want arms and come for
them.”
What else they said matters not
now, but before they separated Mrs.
Garden seemed very well satisfied
with the young man’s explanation.
The}* then repaired to the supper
room, where the Lieutenant found
ample refreshment, and the lady re
turned to the ball-room where Col.
Watson was impatiently awaiting
her.
At midnight the Lieutenant called
at headquarters, and faithful to his
promise, the Colonel was there.
The necessary orders for the delivery
of the arms and ammunition and
wagons to Lieutenant Thomas Wil
son, of the “loyal legion,” were made
out and the Colonel also placed in
the young man’s, hand a sealed letter
cf instructions to Major Gainey. !
The rest of the night was speaWm j
procuring the desired articles, and at
sunrise the next morning Lieutenant
Wilson, with his wagons and their
contentp, escorted by a guard of
fifty men, set out for the “High Hills |
of Santee,” where the Tory Major’s
headquarters were located.
The wagons and their escort made
good time and by sunset were forty
miles from Charleston. The sun
was scarce an hour high when Lieu
tenant Wilson ordered a halt for the
purpose of camping for the night.
The mounted men fastened their
horses to the trees, and removing
their saddles, prepared to cook their
evening meal. The teams were un
hitched from the wagons and the
command busied themselves in mak
ing preparations for a comfortable
night. Every one was busy and no
one noticed that while the arrange
ments were in progress Lieutenant
Wilson had drawn off from the party
and disappeared in the woods that
bordered the road. Suddenly there
was a crackling in the brushwood,
which caused the British troops to
spring te their feet in alarm. As
they did so, a voice, which sounded
not unlike that of the young Lieuten
ant shouted loudly:
“Surrender or you are all dead
men!”
Gen. Marion secured his prisoners,
together with the arms, ammunition,
wagons and horses, and set out after
a rest Of a few hours for “Snow
Island.” At the request of the
bogus Lieutenant Wilson, he sent
back one of the red coats to Charles
ton with, a note to Watson, informing
him of the trick that had been played
on him by the young officer, who, so
far from being a Lieutenant in the
Tory legion, was none other than the
famous Charles Hampton, a captain
in Marion’s brigade, who planned,
and carried out tire affair successful
ly, thanking the Colonel for the ex
cellent weapons and other material
he had sent him, and promising to do
good service with them.
The British commander was furi
ous when he read the note, and saw
the hoax of which be had been the
victim. He went in haste to Mrs.
Garden, but the fair widow had
sailed for England. He was com
pelled to swallow his mortification in
silence, and a few years lat£r, when
the war was over, his chagrin was
not a h'ttle increased by the tidings
which reached him that Mrs. Garden
had married the young officer who
had tricked him out of his rifles.
A BLUE DRESS CURE.
A young man in Dubuque, lowa,
w ent on Saturday week to a country
dance and did not return to his home
until the church bells were ringing
the next morning. His father told
him he must go to meeting, and he
went. Before the minister had fin
ished the opening prayer the young
reveler was sound asleep and dream
ing of the dance. An old lady who
sat next to him touched his haud to
arouse him, whereupon he seixed her
wrist and shouted : “All join hands
and circle to the left I Swing the
girl with the blue dress on l”
The lollowing is a copy of a notice
displayed In a field in South London:
“Ladies and gentlemen are requested
not to steal turnips. Other persons,
if detected, will be prosecuted."
Story of a Factory Girl;
—OR—
REVENGED AT LAST!
“Did you advertise for hands?”
The speaker was a sad-faced, delicate
girl in search of employment, and
this question was addressed to the
presiding genius in the office of one
of She large factories where women
**Got all we want,” answered the
young man thus addressed.
The girl turned slowly away, too
sick at heart to notice the bold and
admiring gaze of one of the group of
gentlgmen seated around the stove.
She reached the street, and walked
on a* one in a horrible dream, cold,
tit'd and dizzy, and fairly crushed
4despair. All that day, and
preceding, been ex
•poffc. the pit ilea in her worn
shoes and thin garments, traveling
through the streets in fruitless
searches for work.
“I am one too many in the world,”
she thought. “Why should ilive?”
Visions of the river and of herself
taking the fatal plunge which would
end her troubles, were beginning to
float through her mind, when a gen
tleman whose step she had been too
much pre-occupied to hear, stepped
up beside Iter.
“Pardon me, miss,” he said in a
polite, but off-hand manner. “I be
lieve you just left the office of Ogden
& Sons l”
She gave a quick, startled look at
the intruder, and at sight of the
handsome gentleman beside her, site
nervously scanned her poor, worn
clothes, and blushed at her mean ap
pearance.
“Yes,” she answered, with a sad
dignity. “I have just left the office.
Have you any business with me ?”
“Oh, I am one of the firm—young
est son, you know. I was in the
office when you applied, just now,
and I came after you to say I can
get vou in the factory, if you wish.”
“Wish it! Certainly, sir. You do
not know what a favor you are doing
me.”
She turned her glowing face to
him in glad and eager surprise; but,
before she could find words to thank
him her ever-strained nerves gave
way, and she burst into a flood of
tears.
The gentleman, who had been
looking into her eyes, as if he would
fairly absorb their sweetness, felt ex
tiemely awkward at this, and walked
on in silence beside her until she
could control herself sufficiently to
speak.
The girl t .as an apology for her
tears, gave him an ' account of her
succession of disappointments, and,
by dint of sympathy and kind ques
tioning, he won from her her whole
history, with a confession of the res
olution she had almost formed to de
stroy herself, and how his coining
just then had dispelled it.
“I hope then the life I have saved
may, at some time, belong to me,” he
said taking her hand and gazing so
ardently into her face that she
blushed crimson. “I think I will
know how to value tt.” The mxt
day saw Kate Wesley installed as
one of the bands in Ogden’s factory,
through the r.gcncy of William Og
den, the junior member of the firm,
and youngest son of its head.
Kate regarded, with the warmest
friendship and gratitude, this man
who had lifted her out of the feaifui
slough of despond into which she
was sinking, and ere long she re
turned his love which he avowed for
her.
Every evening found him a guest
at the noisy tenement house of Mrs.
Finn, who took in washing. He was
so devoted in his love for her, so
lavishing in his gifts to her, and so
desirous of doing everything to con
tribute to her happiness, that she
grew to look up to him with almost
worship. He had come into her
dark life like a prince in a fairy tale,
turning everything to brightness and
taking her heart a willing captive at
once.
To a nature like her’s love was life,
and the object of it became almost
her God. She obeyed and believed
in him implicitly, and gave herself up
to him body r and soullistening in
blissful trust to his promises of mar
riage as soon as he could, with safety
to his pecuniary interests, incur his
father’s displeasure by doing so.
""'He took her from the factory and
from Mrs. Finn’s, and placed her in
luxurious rooms of her own—made
heaven to her by his presence—
where she lived, his wife, all but in
name.
During his absence she devoted her
time to study, and made astonishing
progress.
“He shall not have cause to blush
at my ignorance when I am his wife,”
she thought.
This was the state of things when
Kate, one day, went to take her cus
tomary lessou in music. She arrived
at her destination rather early, and
the professor being engaged with
other pupils, she was shown into the
waiting room.
The building in which the profes
sor’s rooms were was divided into
offices of various kinds, and only
a thin board partition separated the
room in which Kate was snown, from
one of said offices. She was no
sooner seated than she recognized
the voice of her lover in conversation
with another gentleman in the office;
and, as she was seated close to the
partition, every word of their con
versation reached her ears.
“You see. Well,” said the strange
voice, “that comes of a fellow run
ning wild over every pretty face he
sees. You seem to have a faculty
for .getting into scrapes of this kind.’
“But,” said her lover, “this is a
devil of a scrape. Site eipects me
to marry hen”
“Why, have ycu promised her?”
“Well, yes, I had to ;• but of course
I never meant it. I’m brought up
thth a Short turn now. My resources
are all exhausted, and the time
is drawing near when 1 am to fulfill
my promises. I’ve put it off so
often, you see, that I can’t see my
way out of it this time. Come, old
fellow, use your ingenuity and help
me out of it.”
“Is she pretty ?” asked the stran
ger.
“I rather think she is. I’d like to
see you find one prettier.”
“Could she pass for a lady in
maHner and education ?”
“Yes ; she has been studying hard
to improve herself, in expectation of
our marriage, and has succeeded as
well as one could wish.”
“Why the deuce dou’tjyou marry
her, then ?”
The answer to this was a long,
loud whistle of astonishment.
“You must be a madman. Marry
a shop-girl? Ambition fs a family
failing of ours, and 'you iW T
the failing to an unusual degree, j
Your suggestion is madness, my I
dear fellow; think of something
else.”
“Well, then, hang it, man, leave
the city, and write a farewell let
ter.”
“Agreed.”
Kate waited to hoar no more, but
rushed wildly into the street. Hav
ing reached home, she hardly knew
how she crushed the wild paroxysm
that she was laboring under, and
wrote a letter to the destroyer of her
happiness, telling him how she had
discovered his perfidy.
“This shall not degrade me,” site
said. “By God’s help, I will live
down my disgrace, and win for my
self a position at least respectable.
And by llis help, also, I will be
avenged.”
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Seven years had elapsed since
William Ogden had seen Kate Wes
ley. He had received her letter, and
felt relief that the affair ended with
so little trouble to him. Of Kate’s
sufferings be would not allow him
self to think, and her memory was
soon buried with many other loves
of the past. During these seven
years he had become a thoroughly
base man of the world. His friends
doubted his capacity for a real pure
honorable love, and he agreed with
them. That sort of tiling was too
hum-drum ami prosy for him, iie'
said. And so opposed was he to
matrimony, that he wagered the
half of his fortune that he would nev
er enter into it.
Just about this time, Miss King
ford, a beautiful English heiress,
made her appearance in society,
turning all the male heads, old and
young. Her beauty of form ami
face, and her fascinating powers of
conversation, were peerless. Wil
liam threw himself at her feet at
once, and, to tlie astonishment of all,
became the most ardent suitor for
her hand ; as people said, thoroughly
in earnest for the first time in his
life.
Among Miss Kingford’s suitors,
also, was the gentleman to whom
William had staked the half of his
fortune in the event of his marriage.
So enraged was this man at her
preference for William, that he swore
to hold him to his wager. Undaunt
ed by this, William eagerly pressed
his suit, and was accepted.
It was anew kind of happiness to
William, and one that lie once
thought never existed, to feel that
being bound to this woman for fife
would be like heaven.
It was arranged that Miss King
ford should sail for Europe immedi
ately and William should follow on
the next steamer; almost immedi
ately oil his arrival they were to be
married.
William followed his betrothed to
a lovely little town in the north of
France, where, she informed him, the
friend resided it whose house the
wedding was to take place.
On arriving at his hotel, he found
letters awaiting him, directing him
to come at once to the chateau of the
Count de Chantry. Eager to clasp
his bride in his arms, he hastened
thither. He was ushered into a
spacious saloon, the magnificence of
wh'ch astonished even liirn. accus
tomed as he was to luxury. In a
moment the object of his visit en
tered, dressed in a regal style of
splendor, a glittering coronet adorn
ing her stately head.
William started eagerly forward to
greet her as she swept into the room,
but she haughtily motioned him
back.
“We will make our interview a
bvief one,” she said, “as my husband
awaits me.”
William gazed at her, as if doubt
ing her sanity.
“Your husband!” he exclaimed,
hoarsely, the veins in his forehead
standing like cords. “Who are you
then!”
“The Countess de Chantry,” she
said, bowing profoundly. “Seven
years ago I was Kate AV esley, the
poor shop-girl, whom you scorned.
I told you by God’s help, I would be
avenged, and you see I spoke truly.
He rushed from her presence with
out waiting to hear her story, how,
when she separated from him, she
had taken a place as a nursery
governes:, and how an old lady of
the family being taken ill, she ten
ded her faithfully until her death,
and how, out of gratitude, she had
made Kate her heiress, and at last,
while traveling abroad, how she had
met the count, who married her.
That evening, the countess heard
that an American gentleman, who
had just arrived at the hotel, had
shot himself from some unknown
cause.
Thev fouud, from letters on his
person < that his name was illiam
Ogden.
An Irishman was once asked why
he wore liis stockings inside out?
‘■Because there’s a hole on the other
side,” was the reply.
RESURRECTION CASE IN ENGLAND.
A Railway Porter Quits his Coffin and
Helps Himself to a Chain
The following extraordinary story
comes to us from Cambridge,
England. A railway porter, about
thirty years of age; was recently
seized with acute bronchitis, and
was supposed to have expired in the
throes of that dreadful ailment,
which slays every year its thousands
of little children and of aged people,
simply because extreme youth is
equally with extreme age too feeble
to clear the bronchial tubes by a
vigorous and sustairied effort of
coughing. The railway porter sup
posed to have departed this life was
duly laid out and placed in a coffin.
As his assumed dissolution 'had
been sudden, the Coroner was con
sulted ou the propriety of holding
■/Si unc^t
' this regard appears-to have reigneu
in the mind of the medical man wiio
had been called in ; but at any rate
the railway porter lay in his coffin
two days, at the expiration of which
he quietly got out of it, and, to the
inexpressible amazement and alarm
of those present in the chamber of
death, sat himself down in a chair.
It is stated that, in order to alleviate
the severity of the spasms of bron
chitis, tlie patient’s mother had
administered to him a sleeping
draught which had produced a deep
and lengthy stupor, but the effects
of which had stopped short just on
this side the grave. Commenting on
this curious case, the London Stand
ard remarks that there are ad
van tanges in keeping a corpse above
ground for four or five days, or even
for a whole week, after death.
Among all the Latin races interment
within four gnd twenty hours is the
invariable and rigorously enforced
rule of police ; and had this poor
railway porter been a Frenchman,
an Italian or a Spaniard lie would
have been duly screwed down and
carried away, insensible, but still
alive, to the cemetery. Into any
consideration of the waking up of
the supposed dead man, the mind,
appalled, shrinks from entering.
Who that has visited the Musee
Wirth at Brussels has not turned
away shuddering from that ineffably
ghashtly picture of the living hand
and arm, corrugated with the
supreme agony of effort, protruding
from the half-raised lid of a coffin
too hastily nailed down ? There is
no corpse within that bier, but a
living creature vainly striving to
burst his cerements. Cases of pre
mature interment are, there is every
reason to believe, lamentably preva
lent on the continent, especially
when cholera or other epidemics are
raging. The most serious objection
to the English system lies in the fact
that it is only the corpses of paupers
which are conveyed to mortuaries,
and that the supply of dead-houses
even for paupers is insufficient. The
remains of the respectable classes
are coffined among the living, and
are permitted to remain there for
days together, poisoning the atmos
phere and horrifying the survivors.
A WIFE’S REVENUE.
In a Western city lives a certain
married man who, but for his quick
temper would be all that the word
gentleman implies. Unfortunately,
he occasionally lets his blood run
away with his brains.
Not long ago his wife and he had
some pretty sharp words, when he
so far forgot himselt as to strike his
better half with a piece of rope,
which he chanced to have in his
hand, lie soon afterward left for
down-town, first telling the servant,
however, that he would bring tom
! any home with him for dinner. —
Dinner hour came round, and so did
Mr. 8., with a couple of his most es
teemed friends. The table was
groaning under its loads of good
things when Mr. B. ushered his
guests into t'ue dining room ; but
fancy bis surprise on beholding in
the centre of the table, on a huge
plate, a huge piece of rope neatly
coiled up. With a sickly smile, he
looked first at his wife and then at
his guests.
“My dear,” he exclaimed, “what is
the meaning of this?”
“Oh, nothing, my dear,” she an
swered ; “only as you gave me rope
for breakfast, I thought I would give
you rope for dinner.
A HORRIBLE CRIME.
A Naples paper relates a horrible
crime as having been committed in
Capua by a priest. lie was head of
a boy’s school and had a canary of
which he was very fond. One day a
number of boys were playing about
the room, when one of them accident
ally knocked over the cage and the
bird escaped. When the priest re
turned and missed his bird lie in
quired who it w y as that had released
ir, and on being informed, he sent
the rest of the boys home, but in
formed the culprit that lie could not
go home to dinner. Tlis parents,
becoming alarmed at the boy’s long
absence, finally went to the house,
but could not gain admittance until
the father burs open the door, when
a terrible sight met his gaze. The
boy had been stretched out upon a
table, Ins hands extended and nailed
to the wood, while both his feet had
been chopped off. The frantic fa
ther at once began a search for the
priest, and having found him, imme
diately stabbed him to the heart.
The will of the rich man of the
future will read : “To the respective
attorneys of my r children I give my
entire estate and wordlv goods of all
description. Personally to the chil
dren and to my beloved wife I give
all that remains.” This instrument
will satisfy the family and save the
trouble of proving tiie old man in
sane.
GREAT LONDON.
There are in the city of Londoi
4,000,000 persons. The metropoli -
contains more Jews than the whole o'
Palestine, more Roman Catholic
than Rome Itself, more Scotchmen
than Edinburgh. The port of Lon
don has every day on its waters 100
ships added to the population daily
or 4,000 yearly, a birth taking place
ever}- five mimutes, and a death every
eight minutes. On an average, twen
ty-eight miles of streets are opened
and 9,000 new houses built every year.
In its postal districts there is a year
ly delivery of 238,000,000 letters
On the police register there are the
names of 120,000 habitual criminals
increasing by many thousands every
year. More than one-third of aIV the
crimes of the country are committed
ill London, or, at least brought to
light there. There are afe many beer
shops atld gin palaces as WonioT* if
thejr fronts were placed side by side,
|ift*ach SPsH-Jhayicg Gross to Ports
mouth, a distance of seventy-three
miles, and 89:000 drunkards are an
nually brought before its magistrates
The shops open on Sundays would
form a street sixty miles long.
COULDN’T "GET *A 11)1 VORCE.
A woman out on North Hill bein'
counted out the other morning, al'L
a debate on the question, “Who shall
arise and build the lire ?” got up an i
split her husband's wooden leg into
kindling wood, and then broiled the
s'eak with it. It made him so mad
that he got hold of her false teeth
and bit the dog with them. She
cried until site had a fit of hysterics
and then flipped out his glass eyi
and climbed upon the bed post and
waxed the glaring eye to the ceiling
with a quid of chewing gum. Then
lie took a wisp of her false hair and
tied it to a stick and began white
washing the kitchen with it. Then
she started off to obtain a divorce,
but Judge Newman decided that In
couldn’t grant a divorce unless there
were two parties to the suit, and
there was hardly enough left of them
to make one.— lD;.
A CASH TRANSACTION.
A gentleman hired a boy to walk
home beside him and carry a bundle
having first agreed to pay the lad lit
teen cents. Reachihg the house, the
man found he had no smaller cliang
Ilian a quaiter, and he said :
“If you will call at my oflice at
two o’clock, I will have the change.”
“Rut it was to be cash down,” nro
tested the ho}'.
“Ho it was ; hut I haven’t the
change, you gee. You’ll have to call
at my office. 1 ”
“I’ll call,” growled the hoy ; “but
T know just how it will work. Whet.
1 knock on the door a cross-eyed
cletk will yank it open, ask me what
I want, and when 1 tell him, he’ll
yell out: ‘That man went into bank
ruptcy last Summer, and now you
git.’ That’s the way they alius play
it on me, sir, and I druther lose the
fifteen cents than have to dodge coal
scuttles all the way down stairs.”
The gentleman walked with him
to the nearest grocery and made the
change.
HOW TO DO IT.
One of the writer’s schoolmates
was always behind with his lesson :
upon one occasion his teacher, in an
academy in which he had managed
to obtain an entrance, was endeavor-,
ing to explain a question in arithme
tic to him. He was asked : “.Sup
pose you had one hundred dollars,
and were to give away eighty dollars,
how would you ascertain how much
you had remaining ?” His reply set
teacher and scholars in a roar, for
with his own peculiar drawling tone*
he exclaimed : “wit}', I’d count it 1”
“I went in to bathe,” said a Yan-.
kee, “but before I was long in the
water I saw a huge double-jawed
shark making rapidly towards me.
What was to be done ? When he
was within a yard of me I faced
round, dived under the shark, and
taking a knife from my pocket,
ripped the monster up.” “But did
you bathe with your clothes on,”
asked an astonished listener. “Well,”
answered the story tellct, reproach
fully, “I do think von needn’t be so
tarnation particular.”
A young Irish girl, going from
Albany to New York to get a situa
tion, lost hei written recommenda
tion on the steamer St. John, and on
arriving at New York was much
troubled about it. Having an old
friend in the city that knew her
trouble he agreed to help her, which
he did by giving her the following
certificate. “This is to certify that
Bridget Alahony had a good charac
ter when she left Alba it}', but lost it
on the steamboat coming down.”
A St. Louis man set out last week
to eat thirty partridges in thirty days
on a wager. He ate the first one
without any trouble, but the grocet
refused to give him any further cred
it the next day, and lie is hopelessly
struck on the other twenty-nine.
Small boy, on tip-toe to his com
panions: “Stop your noise, allot
you!” Companions: “Hallo Tom
my; What’s the matter ?” Small
boy ; “We’ve got anew baby ; it’s
Very weak and tired ; walked all the
way from heaven hist night; fmistn t,
be kicking up a row round here now.
Don’t judge a man by the clothes
he wears, for God made one, the
tailor the other.
Don’t judge a man by the lions
lie lives in,- for the lizzards and rats
s inetinaes inhabit the grandest of
structure*.
Don’t judge him by bis speech,- for
the parrot talks and the tongue is but
an instrument to made sound.
Don’t judge him by his family con
ned ions. for Cain belonged to a very
respectable family.
NO- 20*