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VOL. XI.
Professional Pi rectory.
ATTORXSYS AT LAW.
ISAAC L. TOOLE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Vienna, Ga.
Will practice in the counties of Hous
ton, Dooly, Pulaski, Macon, Suiuter and
Worth. Also iu the Supreme Court of
Geonria, and in the United States Circuit
and District Courts within the State. All
business entrusted to his care will receive
prompt attention. febl tf
(TO. HORNE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hawkinsville, Ga.
The Criminal Practiee, a specialty.
January 4,1877. jau4 ly
WOOTEN & BUSBEE,
ATTORNEYS A T LA W,
VIENNA, GEORGIA.
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Attorney ami Counsellor at Law,
And Solicitor in Equity,
McVILLE, .... GEORGIA
Refers to Hon. Clifford Anderson, Capt.
John C. Rutherford and Walter B. Hill,
Esq., Professors of Law, Mercer Universi
ty Law Soliao!. Macon, Ga.
Prornot attention given to all business
entrusted to my care. mar 22 Cm
EDWIX 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
ROLLIN 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 Pulaski,
Dooly, Wilcox, Dodge,Telfair, Irwin, and
Houston. Prompt attention given to all
business placed iu my hands. nprß tf*
LUTHER A. HALL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND REAL ESTATE AGENT,
Eastman, Ga.
Will practice in all counties adjacent
to the M. & B. railroad, the Supreme
Court of the State and the Federal Court
of the Southern District of Georgia. For
parties desiring, will buy, sell or lease any
real estate, or pay the taxes upon the
same in the counties of Dodge, I.aureus,
Wilcox, Telfair and Appling. Office in
the Court House. aprls tf
J. H. WOODWARD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Vienna, Ga.
WILL practice in the Superior Courts
in the counties of l>ooly, Worth,
Wilcox, Pulassi and Houston, and by
special contract in other cour ts. Prompt
attention given to all collections.
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t. O. 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, aud in
the Circuit and District Courts of the
United States for the Southern District of
Georgia. feblltf
J. M. DENTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
IYRACTICES in the Brunswick Circuit
and elsewhere by special contract.
Office at residence, Coffee couuty, Ga. P.
O. address, Hazlehurst, M. & B. R. R.,
Georgia. leb4ti
W. IRA BROWN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Vienna, Ga.
yPRACTICES in the Superior Courts ot
t_ Oconee Circuit, and elsewhere in the
Stale by special contract. Collections
aud other business promptly attended
to 8-13-ly
JOHN H MARTIN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
Hawkiusville, Ga.
13RACT1CES in tbe Courts of Pulaski,
Houston. Dooly, Wliocx, Irwin,
Telfair, Dodge and Laurens. may-lt
CHARLES C. KIBBEE.
attorney at law,
Hawkiusville, Ga.
WILL piactice in tbe Circuu and Dis
trict Courts of the United States
lor tbe Southern District of Georga, and
n the Superior Courts of Houston, Dooly,
Pulaski, Laurens, Wilcox, Irwin and
Dodge counties. june29ly
JOHN F. DELACY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
EASTMAN, GA.
Will practice in tbe counties of Pulaski,
Dodge, Telfair, Laurens, Montgomery,
Wilcox, and Irwiu. of the Oconee Circuit,
and Appling and Wayne, of tbe Bruns
wick Circuit.
Prompt attention given to all business
entrusted to his care. - innl7 tf
JOHN F. LEWIS. D. B. LEONARD
R. G. LEWIS.
LEWIS, LEONARD & CO.,
Bankers and Brokers,
HAWKINSVILLE, - - - GA
Buy and sell Exchange, Bonds, Stocks,
Gold and Silver, and sttonu promptly to
all collections left with us.
Will also make loans on good seem itics.
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Singer Machine Needles and Sew
ing Machine Oil for sale by
J. B. King.
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HAWKINSVILLE DISPATCH.
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch will
be mailed (postage free) to subscri
bers in any part of the United Stales
one year for two dollars. Six months
for one dollar.
A deduction of 25 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 gratis
No credit subscribers taken. The
Dispatch has the largest bona fide
circulation of any weekly paper in
the State.
Geo. P. Woods,
tf Editor and Proprietor.
It is now said that Gen. Robt.
Toombs, Ex-Gov. Brown, and Gen.
Gordon, are candidates for United
States Senator.
Laurens county sends seven hun
dred aud twenty-five white and three
hundred and fifty colored children to
the public schools.
A young lady of Valdosta went
horseback riding with a pistol in her
pocket and accidentally shot herself.
The wound is not dangerous.
The little son of Mr. J. F. Good
man, of Tifton, Berrien county, was
seriously burned recently by- the ac
cidental explosiou of a kerosene
lamp.
The London Times is of the opin
ion that the present war in Europe
will be of long duration. Both sides
are as determined as they were at
first.
A Kentucky paper thus chronicles
an elopement: ‘‘Mr. J. C. Jarboe aud
Miss Artelia Sterrett left rather
hastily on the up packet last night,
destined for matrimony and misery.”
The Western railways anticipate
so large a movement of produce to
the seaboard that they have deter
mined, the Chicago Tribune says,' to
increase the amount of a car load to
25,000 pounds.
Three soldiers now garrison the
post at Savannah. The remainder
were sent to preserve order in the
troublesome North. Let us have
peace. —Boston Post.
A Covington negro woman, who is
engaged as a cook, contributes a part
of her monthly wages to the support
of her old “mistiss,” whs is now
quite old and feeble, and resides in
the country.
There is a woman at Eureka, Cali
fornia, who a dozen years ago was
married in a dr6ss costing two thou
sand dollars. Now she takes in
washiag to support a drunkon hus
band and three pairs of twins.
Not long ago, in an English court
a female witness, on the oath being
administered, repeatedly kissed the
clerk instead of the book. It was
some time before she was made to
understand the proper—or at least
the legal—thing to do.
Brigham Young is dead ; and it is
said that out of the number of his
numerous widows that there is not
one, who could be ranked as a really
handsome woman, none whose good
looks rose to the average of female
loveliness. Well, in this Brigham
showed good common sense, for no
body will want to marry his widows
and bring trouble over his children.
Among many other good things
uttered by Gen. Toombs in a speech
in Atlanta shortly after the adjourn
ment of the Convention is the follow
ing:
“You have before yon a Constitu
tion that is not equaled in the United
States, or anywhere else in the world
that I know of. “Your new Consti
tution has locked the door of the
treasury and placed the key in the
hands of the people.”
A decision of great importance
has just been rendered by the U. S. Su
premo Court to the effect that prop
erly settled by a merchant upon his
wife during a period of prosperity,
and while he was not involved in
debt, is liable to be seized for the
benefit of his creditors, if he subse-.
quently goes into bankruptcy. The
opinion in tbe case on which the de
cision is based was rendered by
Judge Miller, and it will have a
marked effect upon future cases in
bankruptcy.
Tbo Berrien County News says:
“There seems to be a mania for burn
ing school bouses in this county.
Several situated on the road leading
from Nashville to Valdosta, have
been burned within the last three
years. The last burned was that
.situated on the road between Mr.
James Roberts’ and Cat Creek mills.
Some contemptible scoundrel, with
out the fear of God or the laws of
the country, set fire to and burned
this house about a month ago, and
laid waste one of the most efficient
schools in the county and at a sea
son of the year when the citizens of
the neighborhood coaid ill afford to
spare the time to robuild.*’
HAWKINSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 27, 1877.
WORKING OF THE BANKRUPT LAW.
The Indianapolis Journal has the
following:
To illustrate how business integ
rity is debauched: A merchant
bought $12,000 worth of goods on
credit, and soon after had himself
put in bankruptcy by a friend, so he
would have to pay nothing for a re
lease ; procured a friend to be made
assignee, who had the stock appraised
at $5,000, which another friend
bought in at 50c on the dollar, and
transferred to the original merchant
on the very day he received his dis
chaigc, thus securing goods worth
$12,000 for $2,510. When one of
his creditors, purchasing at his store,
as -ed a reduction on the article, giv
ing as a reason that he had lost so
much money by him, the debtor ex-<
claimed : “Do yoti think 1 was such
a tool as to go into bankruptcy for
your benefit?” It will be asked
how can such things be and not
come to the notice of the officers of
the court? The proceedings were
regular, and the court relies upon
the oath made before it. Even in
the case of the bankrupt who has no
desire to defraud the fees attending
the proceedings are so enoromous
that as the lax student said, T “The
aim of bankruptcy seems to be to
make an equitable division of the as
sets between the officers of the court
and the members of the bar.” We
know of an instance of a large opera
tor in lowa, who was at one time
reckoned to be worth five millions of
dollars. He moved to Chicago and
engaged extensively in banking, pack
ing and produce. He had real es
tate estimated to be worth three
millions of dollars. He obtained from
a Hartford life insurance company a
loan of one million of dollars on his
real estate, and then he took the ben
efit of the bankrupt law in so short a
time that the mortgage was adjudged
fraudulent as to his other creditors,
and the company will scarcely realize
twenty cents on the dollar of the
principal sum advanced, to say noth
ing of the interest. Iu the light of
common honesty this would be called
an immense swindle, but it is, never
theless, the legitimate workings of
the national bankrupt law.
Lebanon (Mo.) Journal.
THE HAPPY MOTHER OF FOUR
BOUNCING BABIES.
Last Friday night Mrs. Milton
Barrs, who lives twelve miles south
of town, gave birth to a pair of bt
bies, and on Saturday gave birth to
another pair. The first two were
born just before 12 o’clock at night
and the latter two just after 12
the same night, which gives two of
them Friday, the 24th, for their
birthday, and the other two Satur
day, the 25th, for their birthday.—
Two of the new-comers are boys
weighing four and a half pounds
each, and the other two are girls-one
weighing four pounds and the other
three. The news of this marvelous
child-birth spread rapidly through
the country, and large numbers of
Mr. and Mrs. Barr’s friends hastened
to theimpresidence to see four babies
alive. Sunday 150 or 200 persons
visited Mr. Barr’s residence to see
the babies. The mother is doing
well. The children are all perfect in
shape and healthy to all appearance.
A YOUNG FARMER’S LETTER.
I am just fifteen years old, and
have saved SSOO. I want to tell
the boys slid girls among your
readers how 1 have done it.—
When I was about ten years old
father gave me four ewe lambs that
were left without a mother, and said
J might have them and their in
crease for five years, and then he
would soe about further arrange
ments. I got eight dollars for the
wool next season, and they all had
ewe lambs, making right sheep at the
close of the second year. The wool
brought mo fifteen dollars that year,
and the increase left me with fifteen
sheep.
'This was stocking the farm pretty
heavily, father said, but he didn’t ob
ject. I sold father my twenty-eight
sheep, and my wool money with in
terest makes SBS. I sold five fat
lambs for sls which makes SIOO,
and I have fathers note for that.—
The sheep I sold father for SSO,
making $lO. Three years ago father
gave mo a calf, which I sold last
year for S3O ; I have father’s note for
that. That makes $l3O. Four years
ago father gave me a colt, and it
turned out to be a splendid horse
Father told him in Pittsburg yester
day for S3OO and gave me his note
for that amount. Tiiat makes S4BO.
I planted and raised two acres of
corn, all alone, last year, and cleared
S4O on it, but $29 of it I took to buy
anew suit, leaving me altogether
SSOO, at ten per cent, interest. So
you see it brings me SSO a year.—
Some boys may say, “Your father
gave it all to you ; you didn’t make
it.” This is true partly ; but I made
the most out of my changes. Father
says he might as well have given it
one way as another, and thinks this
way will do the most good. He
says he don’t see but what he is as
well off as though he hadn’t given
me anything. It will be six yfiars
yet before 1 am twenty-one, and I
want to have SI,OOO to start on, and
think I can make it —Oscar Brand
in Young People's Magazine.
New York City has discovered that
she has 16,000 marriageble women
whom nobody wants to marry, and
the Sun suggests that some of them
be drowned.
■
Griffin, Ga., has shipped this sea
son $20,800 worth of dried fruit.
Sumter county has concluded to
hold a fair in the fall.
The new Constitution is well re
ceived throughout the ont’re State.
Maggie Ryan.
“But just let me stay until morn
ing ma’am. It is cold, dreary aud
dark along the road, and, indeed I’ve
no place to go but Widow Y'arrow’s.
and that’s miles away.”
So spoke a sad, worn-looking
woman, standing on the threshold of
a well-to-do farmer’s house, just as
the last rays of light were fading
from the evening sky.
The person she spoke to, a large
woman in a bright, flowered dress
and white apron—the mistress of the
house—turned away pettishly.
“You came at night, Maggie, it
semes to me, and you can go at
night. Y'ou don’t suit. I never saw
such shiftless ways in my life! And
Jane Smjtli is here, and I’ve only
one bed for the servant, and I can’t
expect a tidy girl like Jane to sleep
with—well with strangers. I’ve paid
you for your three days, and, good
ness knows, you’ve worried me out
of my senses since you’ve been here,
and I can’t keep you another night;
and the earlier you go, the sooner
you’ll get there, wherever it is.”
“Well that’s true, anyway. Then,
ma’am,” replied the woman, “and
you are mistress in your own house ;
but, G-od knows, it’s not a dog I’d be
drivin’ out at night.” Then she tied
her little pittance in the corner of a
pockel-llaudkerchief and walked
away out of the gate and up the
road, not looking back once. Her
heart was heavy as lead, and she was
angry at a world that had been a
very hard one to her.
“Three years since Pat went
away,” she said to herself; “never a
word from him. lie’s dead, no
doubt; and it’s the last kind word
I’ve heard. I wasn’t shiftless and
good for nothiug to him. ‘Maggie,’
he’d often say, ‘l’d change you for
nobody’s wife.’ Och, he was the
man ; and as good to me when I was
faded and worn out with the hard
livin’ and rarin’ and losin’ the
childer, as he was when I was a
purty girl, with checks like roses,
and he was a hot- courtin’ me. Och,
J’at, where did you go at all? Y'ou
died in a ditch like a dog, maybe,
for all the hard-hearted gentle-folk
care, we all might starve.”
She turned and shook her fist back
at the hoie she had just left, only a
bit of the'roof visible over the rising
gionnd now.
“My heart was aching for the
childcr and for Pat,” she said ; “but
you could have no patience if a per
tatic was burnt, or a towel not that
smooth. Y'ou sent me out with the
night falling. Bad luck to ye and to
all your like.”
Then she plodded on again; but
the woman she had left was not as
bad as she had fancied her. In her
thrift and tidiness she could not un
derstand this untidy, careless being.
She knew nothing of the misery at
her heart, or the sorrow that made
her forget the pole and pads. She
was actually half afraid of her and
anxious to get her out of her house.
She had felt a great mistake to hire
a tramp from the road as it were, and
she had paid her and was coucious of
no cruelty.
The daylight fled apace; the
moon, risen, long ago, became visi
ble—a faint streak of new moon that
set in a little while—only the stars
were left—and Maggie, wandering on
the road with her bundle under her
arm—a bundle of rags and odds and
ends tumbled together in an old flan
nel petticoat—began to loose her
knowledge of it. Here and there
she saw lights in a window, but
they were no promise of hospitality
to her. If she could get to the
widow Yarrow’s, that personage,
who took the laborers to board,
would let her lodge while she could
pay; but where was the widow’s
cottage—to the right or to the left ?
She could not tell in the darkness
whether she had taken the proper
turning. Hard by was a rushing
sound, as of water. Danger there,
perhaps. The railroad was some
where at hand, and though Maggie
felt that the world was a poor place,
she did not feel ready to meet death
yet.
“I’ll just drop down in the grass
somewhere,” said the poor woman.
“And God between me and harm.
If I could find a bit of hay now,
’twoukl boa comfort.”
She stretched forward, peering
through the darkness, and her foot
struck some loose branches that lie
upon the ground, with a crackling
sound.
“What’s that ?” said a voice very
near her in a sharp whisper.
“It’s an imp of a squirrel,” said
another voice. “Go on with your
work, Jim; the train mill be along
in fifteen minutes. Up with that
rail. Hil We’ll have them this
time.”
“Hold your tongue, fool,” said
the first voice. “You’re half drunk.
I tell you I thought it was a step.”
And now Maggie, who had sunk
flat upon the ground, knew all.
Those who whispered near her were
train-vt reckers.
“I’ll make no noise,” said she,
“It’s none of my business.”
But lying in the grass, the sharp
strokes of steel on steel smote on
her ear; she could not forget them.
And suddenly it came upon her
that it was neither more nor less
than murder that she was waiting
there to see—that in lying quiet
while it was done she helped to do
it.
“God forgive me I” said poor
Maggie. “I’ll not do it; but what
am I to do ? How will I stop them ?
It’s my own death ; I’ll bring about
nothing else ”
And just then the sound of a
steam whistle far away caught tbe
car. The train was coming.
“Ready for them 1” said the voice
she had heard before. “Come into
the bushes.”
She bestd them tramp away, end
arose to her feet and looked about
her. There was no house in sight
and no help near. She had matches
in her pocket, and her dress was a
thin calico—it would burn like tin
der. In a moment more she had
torn it off and had the matches in’
her hand. As she struck a light
she heard a pistol click.
“They see me,” she said, and
held the match against the old
calico, and as it caught flourished it
over her head. She felt a bullet
whiz by her shoulder, another stiuck
her, but now, the glare was bright,
and the train was close at hand—she
rushed towards it, waving her burn
ing dress. Thank God! they saw
her. The train slackened its pace—
it stopped. Men with lanterns in
their hands sprang from it and hur
ried tqfiards her. And the old dress
burnt ro tinder, dropped to the
ground, and she sank beside it, the
blood flowing front a wound in her
arm.
“They’ve killed me, I believe,”
she said, faintly, as a man bent over
her. “I can’t show you tbo place,
but it’s—beyant there—the rails—
they’ve ripped them up, the villainsl”
Then she fainted.
When she came to herself she
was by the roadside, and lights fell
over her, and she heard people
talking of the hairbreadth escape
they iiad had and of her bravery.
“Y’ou risked death to save us,”
said one woman. “You shall be
rewarded. My little children were
with m-.”
“Aud I am going to meet my
wife,” said a gentleman. “She wiil
not let me forget you if I have so
ungrateful a heart. Y'ou shall be
well cared for now, and when you
are well you shall nevei know
want.”
“Indeed, then said another voice
—one that sounded familiar to her
—“indeed, I am not rich, but I’d
have been loath to be killed to-night.
I’m just on the road to what I’ve
been seeking two years. I found
out yesterday where my missus is
and I’m goin’ to her—she’s breakin’
her heart for me. I haven’t much ;
but there’s a couple -o’ pounds if
you’ll take ’em good woman, and
God’s blcssin’, too, for the sake of
Maggie Ryan, that you’ve saved
from bein’ a widow.”
And a strong hand folded over
her weak one, and would have left
money in it, but she caught it tight.
“Jt’s Pat Ryan 1” she cried;
“come back at last. Don’t you
know Maggie, Pat ?"
And two great arms folded her
close ; and the poor soul who had
tramped the road, desolate and
forsaken an hour before, was happy
as angJMs are in heaven.
It might not be “great good luck”
to you io tie a flagman’s wife, and
live iu a little cottage on the road
side, but Maggie thinks it so.
“And oh, Pat I” she often says,
“how little did I think when Satan
was in my heart, aud I was willing
to lie still and let happen what
might to the heartless gentlefolk,
what I was doing to myself and to
you; and after all, it’s kind hearts
they had, and gave you the illigant
place and me the shanty, and the
cow, aud all. Good luck to them.”
A CURIOUS SURGICAL OPERATION.
A boy named Frank Hanifin, who
had been injured in a saw mill here,
and bad been, as we might say, almost
skinned alive, was supplied with a
new skin by taking pieces from the
arms of eight or nine other boys. In
the accident a very large wound was
made in the back, the surface being
one mass of red, quivering flesh,
though healthy in appearance. The
wound, of course, was very sensitive,
and the operation must have been
quite painful to him. Drs. Picot and
Maynard and an assistant performed
the operation. Around the bed were
gathered six or eight Irish boys from
eight to fifteen years of age, from
whose arms had been taken, or was
to be taken, the skin needed to re
place that which was lost. As each
was called on by the doctor, he came
forward, and baring bis arm, a small
piece of skin was skilfully cut out
with the lancet and gently placed
upon the raw flesh. About thirty
pieces in all were so put on. Several
of the boys gave up more than one
piece, and Folgcr Picot, the doctor’s
son, contributed eight pieces. A
younger brother of Hanifin’s gave
nearly as many. While the opera
tion was going on the boys joked
among themselves on helping to
make up Hauiiln, and bantered each
other on the number of times they
had submitted to be cut into lor the
benefit of their playmate. The boys
were generally very willing to give
the skin required, but after a while
they evidently began to think that
enough was as good as a feast, and
they moved out doors, watching
further operations through the win->
dow. It is thought, however, that
enough will consent to give skin, so
that Hanifin’s wound will be entirely
covered over, thus hastening his re
covery, and adding to his comfort
when the wound shall have healed
Auburn {N. Y.) Advertiser.
An Irishman, fresh from the old
country, saw a turtle for tbe first
time, and at once made up his mind
to capture it. Tbe turtle caught him
by the finger, and he, holding it out
at arm’s length, said : “Faith, and
ye had bettor let loose the holt ye
have, or I’ll kick ye out of the very
box ye sit in, be jabbers.”
When you nro tired of twirling
your thumb, sit down and see how ;
fast you can say, “Shoes and socks |
shock Susan in an explicable manner, j
and inexorable she ceaseth sheathing
her shoes.” It is worse than “Peter
picked a peck of pickled pepper.”
I Crazy Horse, one of the great In
dian chiefs, is dead.
THAT FETCHEB HIM.
When a Michigander was brought
into court on charge of assault and
battery, preferred by his wife, his
Honor asked :
“What was the provocation f”
“She called me a worthless, lazy
loafer ; but that wasn’t it 1”
“Well?”
“She said our whole family woren’t
fit for fish-bait, but I didn’t get mad
at that.”
“What was it, then ?”
“She shook her fist under my nose,
and said I was too lazy to die, but I
know’d she was excited and I let
that pass. She’s got a fearful tem
per, your Honor.”
“I wish to know if you had suffi
cient cause or provocatiou,” said the
Court.
“I guess I had, Judge. She came
close up and spit iu my face, aud
said I was meaner than pizen; hut 1
didn’t hit her for that.”
“What then ?”
“I Unow’d her temper, and I sot
there and whistled “Hold the Fort”
and I was bearing and bearing with
her, when she turned around and gin
my coon-dog the smashingest kick—
lifted him right out’n doors onter his
head 1 That fetched me. Judge, if
there had been forty lions and a
camel in the road, I’d have skinned
her or died a-trying.”
A TRULY* GOOD MAN.
She was a middle-aged woman and
called at the post office two or three
times daily for the past week, to see
if there was any mail to her address.
Her anxiety finally became so great
that sheexplained thatshewas expect
ing money from her husband, who was
off on his annual vacation. Yesterday
morning she was made glad by re
ceiving a postal card from him. She
retired to one of the windows aud
read aloud to herself:
“Dear Wife—l’d send you twenty
dollars witli this, but you see I’d
have to pin it on, aud someone might
take it off, put a counterfeit in its
place, and. when I got home you’d
be in jail.”
She read it over again, and there
were tears in her eyes as site mused:
“He’s the best man on earth. Few
husbands would have been as
thoughtful as that. I don't know
good money from bad, and but for
his thoughtfulness, I might pass this
very night in jail. I see now what a
narrow escape I’ve had, and 1 11 take
the children and go and board with
my brotherdn-law for the next two
weeks.” —Detroit Free Press.
ABOUT A COFFIN.
Dallas, Texas, is alarmed and ex
cited over a curious circumstance,
one which will probably determine
the rights, privileges and duties of
an undertaker. A Mr. Curtis, of
that town, died a few weeks ago.
His brother desired to have a hand
some funeral and oidered everything
in the finest style, hearse, carriages,
etc., and a gorgeous metallic, silver
mounted coffin. The funeral came
and went all in good style. The day
after the undertaker, a Mr. Linskie,
who evidently is a party man and
one who did not care to wait loug
for his money, presented his bill for
funeral expenses. Offended, Mr.
Curtis put him off. For several sue*
cessive days Linskie dunned Curtis
for that silver mounted coffin with
poor show of success, and finding
that he could not get the money, ho
resolved to visit the corpse and get
some sort of satisfaction out of it.
Taking a pauper’s pine coffin
therefrom he proceeded to the ceme
tery, disinterred Curtis’ body, took
it out of the silver mounted coffin,
returned triumphant to the shop,
where he advertised it as second
hand and cheap for cash.
The people of Dallas are thor
oughly aroused at this outrage and
threatened vengeance on this so
called ghoul. The undertaker, how
ever, seems a spunky man ; swears he
wi.l not be swindled out of his coffins;
claims the right to take back his
property if he is not paid for it, and
wiil test the entirj matter in the
courts, where it will bo at least a
novel case N. O. Democrat.
A good wife is to a man 'wisdom,
strength and courage ; a lmd one is
confusion, weakness and despair. No
condition is hopeless to a man where
the wife possesses firmness, decision
and economy. There is no outward
propriety which can counteract indo
lence, extravagance and folly at home.
No spirit can longer endure had in
fluences. Man is strong, but his
heart is not adamant. He needs a
tranquil home, and if he is an intelli
gent man, he needs its moral force
in the conflict of life. To recover
his composure home must be a place
of peace and comfort. There his
soul renews its strength and he goes
forth with renewed vigor to encoun
ter the labor and troubles of life.
But if at home he finds no rest and
there is met with bad temper, jeal
ousy and gloom, or assailed with
complaints and censure, hope van
ishes and he sinks to despair.
An Irishman visited a graveyard
with a friend, and pointing out a
shadv, quiet nook, said, “This is the
spot where I intend being buried, if
I am spared.”
A man was indicted out West for
felony. His innocence was proven,
but the jury found him guilty. The
Judge was shocked and arose and
said, “Why gentlemen, the prison
er’s innocence was clearly proven.”
“Tee," said the foreman, “he is inno
cent of this crime, hut he stole my
gray mare last Christmas.”
Charles Kingsley says be docs not
see why we should not be as just to
an ant as a human being. Human
beings don’t crawl up a girl’s stocking
at a picnic and scare her in two feet
of eternity.
A COLORED HOMAN IN A TRANCE
-110 IV SHE FRIGHTENED THE
“MOURNERS.”
A rather remarkable incident oc
curred in Cape Fear township, about
three miles from this city-, on Friday
morning last. It appears that on
Thursday afternoon, about three
o’clock, a colored woman, whose
name we did not ascertain, who had
been complaining of being unwell,
being troubled with sore throat, etc.,
to all appearances died. The news
of the supposed calamity soon spread
throughout the neighborhood, and
quite a number of colored people
gathered at the house, when the
body was laid out, in the usual man
ner, and preparations wero com
menced for the funeral. That night,
in accordance with the usual custom
among the colored people, a crowd
was present to sit up with the sup
posed corpse, and singing and other
ceremonies incident to such solemn
occasions were indulged in. It'was
among tho small hours approaching
the dawn, and the devout worship
pers had become warmed to about
the highest pitch of animal excite
ment, when all of a sudden the sup
posed corpse jerked herself up into a
sitting posture and demanded to
know what “all dat fuss was about 1”
There was a sudden cessation in the
vocal performance—a break in the
devotions of the sympathizing crowd
—dire consternation took the place
of grief and condolence iu the hearts
of the mourners, and in less time
than we have taken to tell it, tho
resurrected woman (who it seems
had only been in a trance) had been
left in solitude and wonderment to
unravel the mystery of her condition
and surroundings.— Wilmington (N.
G.) Star.
A MEAN MAN.
Some gentlemen were talking about
meanness, yesterday, writes “Eli
Perkins,” when one said he knew a
man on Lexington avenue who was
the meanest man in New Y'ork.
“How mean is that?” I asked.
“Why, Eli,” he said, “he is so
mean that he keeps a five cent piece
with a string tied to it to give to
beggars, and when their backs are
turned he jerks it out of their
pockets!”
“Why, this man is so confounded
mean,” continued the gentleman,
“that he gave his children ten cents
apiece every night for going to bed
without their supper, but during the
night, when they, were asleep, he
went up stairs, took the money out
of their clothes, and then whipped
them in the morning for losing it I”
“Does he do anything else ?”
“\ r eß, tho other day I dined with
him and I noticed the poor little ser
vant girl whistled all the way up
stairs with the dessert, and when I
asked the mean old scamp wbut made
her whistle so happily, he said :
•‘Why, I keep her whistling so she
can’t eat the raisins out of the cake.”
BE* NEAT.
Yonng ladies, if they only knew
how disgusting to men slovenliness is,
and how attractive are displays of
neatness and taste, would array
themselves in tho simplicity and
cleanliness ot the fillies of the field ;
or if able to indulge in costly- attire
they would study the haimonious
blending of colors which nature ex
hibits in all our works. A girl of
good taste, and habits of neatness,
can make a more fascinating toilet
with a shilling calico dress, a few
ribbons and laces, and such orna
ments ns she can gather from tho
garden, than a vulgar, tawdry crea
ture who is worth thousands; and
has the jewelry and wardrobe of a
princess,
There is a report that Brigham
Young’s mother, now ninety-eight
years old, is iiving at Martinsville,
Indiana. Her faculties are yet
bright. She is in very humble cir
cumstances, and dwells with some
bitterness upon the fact that her son,
who so greatly prospered in this
world's gear, should have forgotten
her, leaving her to an old age of
penury and want.
A member of Cong’-ess got out
this sentence: “Mr. Speaker, the
generality of mankind in general are
disposed to exercise oppression on
the generality of mankind in gener
al,” when he was pulled down to his
seat by a friend, with the remark,
“you’d better stop; you are coming
out of the same hole you went in at.”
An old negro was complaining to
a friend that an idle vagabond had
struck him. “Well, did you hit biin
back ?” “No, sah I” said the old man,
“I didn’t touch him back ; but I hit
turn head with a bean-pole?”
A young mother in Wilmington,
explaining christening to her five
year old hoy, told him that when he
was christened he “would be one of
God’s little lambs.” “Ami will I have
bind legs and baa ?” eagerly asked
the boy.
A Portland (Oregon) Chinaman
became the father of an American
born son, and as he danced around,
swinging his pigtail and knocking
over the opium jars, he exclaimed :
“Me Melican man, all saraee I Me
heap Washington I Me sewing ma
chine agent I Go’way 1 Whoopee!”
There are hut few persons in this
age of knowkedge and progress that
know that the great and General
George Washington died in the last
year, and last hour of the century,
viz: Saturday night, 12 o’clock, De
cember 31st, 1199.
Deacon Jone*, just deceased, had
a very red nose. His widow thought
it rather personal in the minister to
begin his discourse, “Another shin
ing light has been taken from our
congregatoin.”
NO* 39s
A LITTLE DELAY FATAL*
It is well known that Julius
Ciesar might hare escaped assassina
tion in the senate chamber if ho had
read deliberately a letter put in hia
hands by one informed of the con
spiracy. The same fact is true of
one or two of the French monarchs
who perished by the assassin’s knife.
But the delay of a few hours to open
these important letters rendered
escape impossible.
We have never seen the following
incident before, but it is vouched for
by Dr. MoOhesnev, of Trenton a re
liable authoi ity.
The success of Washington, at
Trenton has been generally consid
ered ns the turning point in the waf
of independence.
Yet few persona arc aware upon
how slight an event this critical ac*
lion was made to hinge. On the
Christmas eve, when Washington
crossed the Delaware, Col. Halil, the
commander of the Hessians at Tren
ton, engaged in drinking and playing
cards.
A Tory, who had discovered the
movements of the American troops,
sent a note by a special messenger to
the colonel, with his orders to deliver
it into his own hands.
The messenger found tho way to
the house, and a negro opened but
refused him admittance, took the let
ter and delivered it to the colonel,
who was just shuffling for anew
game.
Supposing tho letter to be unini
portant, or not stopping to think at
all, he went on witli his play. The
reading of the letter would have
thwarted the design of Washington ;
but the love of play conquered the
colonel’s prudence and gave success
to a worthier cause, involving the
loss of his life and army, and ulti
mately the freedom of the colonh ■
Little did the colonel think, when 1 .
was shuffling those cards, that he w.-o
losing the greatest game that wa
ever played among the na ions of
earth.
YOUNG MEN, PAY ATTENTION I
Don’t be a loafer, don’t call you
self a loafer, don’t hang aronm
loafing places. Better work Tor no:
ing and board yourself, than to uii
around coiners with your hands in
your pockets. Better for your own
mind, for your own respect. Bustle
about if you mean to have anything
to bustle about for. Many a poor
physician has obtained a real patient
by tiding hard to attend an imagina
ry one. A quire of old paper, tied
with red tape, carded under a law
yer’s arm, may procure him his first
case, and make his fortune. Such is
the world ; to him that hath shall bo
given. Quit droning and complain
ing; keep busy and mind your
chances.
Let tho business of every one
alone, and attend to your own.
Don’t buy what you don’t want.
Use every hour to advantage, and
study to make even leisure hours
usoful. Think twice beforo you
spend a shilling—remember you will
hare another to make for it. Buy
low, sell fair and take care of the
profits. Look over your books regu
larly, and if you find an error trace
it out. Should a stroke of misfor
tune come upon you in trade, re
trench, work harder, but never fly the
track. Confront difficulties with un
flinching perseverance, and they will
disappear at last. Though you fail
in the struggle, you will be honored,
but shrink and you will be despised.
Henceforth no man need labor
through life under the embarrassment
of an ill-shaped nose. A London
philanthropist advertises a “nose
machine,” which, “applied to the nose
for an hour daily, so directs the soft
cartilage of which the member con
sists that an ill-formed nose is quick
ly shaped to perfection.”
A number of burglars are raiding
llie towns in Noitii and Northeast
Georgia.
The weather-wise predict that the
winter will he a very severe one in
Georgia.
“There now,” said a little girl,
who was rumaging a drawer in a bu
reau, “grandpa has gone to heaven
without his spectacles.”
Why are your eyes like friends
separated by distant climes? They
correspond but never meet.
Another factory is to be built
Columbus this fall by a company of
Northern capitalists.
Companies are organized, and two
splendid hotels will gtf up immedi
ately if the capital is restored to
Milledgevillo.
Aleck Stephens has been on a visit
to Athens, Ga., and they do say be
looks as young as lie did twenty
years ago.
A paper in Mississippi says that
during a recent illness of the tele
graph operator at Martinsville, on
the Jackson Railroad, the ofii ce was
managed by Mollie Short, who is on
ly ten years of age. She sent mes
sages for trains, and received orders
for conductors from the train-dis
patcher’s office, in a very satisfac
tory manner. And yet tiiere are
some people foolish enough to
think that women are not endowed
by nature for filling many posi
tions of profit and trust now held
by men.
In ancient days the precept was
“Know thyself.” In modern times
it lias been supplanted by tiie far
more fashionable maxim, “Know tbv
neighbor and everything about him.”
Natnre seldom makes a foot; she
simply furnishes the raw material
and lets the fellow finish (he job to
suit himself.