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VOL. XI.
Professional Directory.
ATTORXKYB AT LAW.
ISAAC L. TOOLE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Vienna, Ga.
Will practice in the counties of Hous
ton, Dooly, Pulaski, Macon, Sumter and
Worth. Also in the Supreme Court of
Georgia, and in the United States Circuit
Md District Courts within the State. All
business entrusted to bis care will receive
prompt attention febl tf
0. C. HORNE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Hawkiusvilie, Ga.
The Criminal Practice, a specialty.
January 4, 1877. jan4 ly
WOOTEN * BUSBEE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
VIENNA, GEORGIA.
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C. C. SMITH, "
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
And Solicitor in Equity,
McVILLE, .... GEORGIA
Refers to Hon. Clifford Anderson, Capt.
Jalin C. Rutherford and Walter B. Hill,
Esq., Professors of Law, Mercer Universi
ty Law School, Macon, Ga.
Promot 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
p üblic square. aprl2 tf
ROLLIN A. STANLEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Dublin, Georgia.
Will practice in ail 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 couuties of Pulaski,
Dooly, Wilcox, Dodge, Telfair, Irwin, and
Houston. Prompt attention given to alt
business placed in my hands. aprß 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 an y
real estate, or pay the taxes upon the
same in the counties of Dodge, Laurens,
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
iu the counties of Dooly, Worth,
Wilcox, Pulassi and Houston, ami by
special contract in other cour ts. Prompt
attention given to all collections.
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L 0. ICS AN. .T. B. MITCHELL.
RYAN & MITCHELL,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
AND REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
Hawkiusville, Ga.
WILL practice in the counties com
prising the Oconee Circuit, and in
the Circuit and District Courts ot the
United States for the Southern District of
Georgia. feblllf
j M DENTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
IJRACTICES in the Brunswick Circuit
and elsewhere by special contract.
Office at residence, Coffee county, Ga. P.
O. address, Hazleliurst, M. & B. R. R.,
Georgia. teb4ti
W. IRA BROWN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Vienna, Ga.
yPRACTICES in the Superior Courts ol
l Oconee Circuit, and elsewhere in the
Stale by special contract. 'Collections
and other business promptly attended
to 3-18-ly
JOHN H. MARTIN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
AND REAL ESTATE AGENTS,
Hawkiusville, Ga.
PRACTICES in the Courts of Pulaski,
A Houston. Dooly, Wliocx, Irwin,
Telfair, Dodge and Laurens. may-tt
CHARLES C. KIBBEE,
attorney at law,
Hawkinsville, Ga.
4AT ILL pi action in the Ctrcu't and Dis-
TT trict Courts of the United States
tor the Southern District of Georgs, and
n the Superior Courts of Houston, Dooly
Pulaski, Laurens, Wilcox, Irwin and
Dodge counties. junc2Uly
JOHN F. DELACY,
attorney at law,
EASTMAN, GA.
Will practice in the counties of Pulaski,
Hedge, Telfair, Lnurcns, Montgomery,
Wilcox, and Irwin, of the Oconee Circuit,
and Appling and Wuyne, of the Bruns
wick Circuit.
Prompt attention given to all business
entrusted to Ills care. |ttul7 tf
JOHN V, LEWIS, n. n. LEONARD
It. 0, LEWIS.
LEWIS, LEONA III) & CO.,
Bankers and Brokers,
HAWKINSVILLE, . • • UA.
Huy mu) sell Kxelmngs, Honda, Slocks,
Gold Mini Silver, ami siliiiiit prompily to
•111 oiler Ilona left with tin,
Will *l* uiuJui luuu* ou garni Mtt'iJ! {(!<’*,
iprft ly
Finest lie itinls of tobacco, and Ills
altus|)osi, at
Jan. K. Funks,
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HAWKINSVILLE DISPATCH.
ELIAS HEItRMAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW\
EASTMAN, GA.
Practices in the counties adjacent to the
M. &B. It. R. Collections made a spe
cialty. oct2s tf
W. W. HUMPHREYS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
EASTMAN, GA.
Will practice in the Superior Courts of
Dodge and adjoining counties, and will
buy and sell Real Estate, pay taxes for
non-residents, make collections, etc.
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P. JT. HODGE,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Hawkinsnille, Ga.
Will piactice in the Superior Courts of
Houston, Dooly, Pulaski, Twiggs, Dodge
and Wilcox. Special attention given to
collections. oct4 ly
A. H. WOOTTEN,
Attorney and Councellor at Law,
Mount Vernon, Ga.
Will practice in the Middle and Oconee
Circuits. Criminal defence a specialty.
Prompt attention given to the collection
of claims. sept 27 tf
1877. 1877.
FALL AND WINTER
Millinery Goods!
I have received from New York and
Baltimore my stock of Millinery Goods
for the Fall and Winter trade, embracing
the latest styles of Ladies’ Hats, Ribbons,
Flowers, and all goods that may be de
sired in the millinery line.
Those preparing for the Association in
October are requested to call and exam
ine my stock. lam prepared to show my
customers some new and attractive styles,
and I am sure as cheap as they could ex
pect.
Dresses made in the latest styles, and
satisfaction guaranteed in prices.
MRP. N. WESTCOTT.
Hawkinsville, Ga., Sept. 11, 1877.
sept!3 3m
Fla-irta/tion for Sale-
By virtue of an order of the Court of
Ordinary of Pulaski county, will be sold
before the court house door iu the town of
Hawkinsville, Ga., on the first Tuesday in
December next, within the legal hours of
sale, that part of lot of land number two
hundred and forty-nine, lying north Coney
branch and South of Big Creek. Supposed
to contain one hundred and thirty three
acres, and that part of lots numbers two
hundred and thirty-two and two hundred
and thirty three, lying on the east side of
the river'road. All of said lands lying iu
the fourth district of Pulaski county, and
containing in the aggregate three hundred
acres, more or less. Sold as the property
of Miles Sanders, late of said county, de- !
ceased, and lor the benefit of heirs and
creditors of said deceased. Terms of sale
cash. September 19,1877.
MARTHA SANDERS,
sept2o Id Executrix.
KELSOE’S
Bar and Restaurant,
AT
WATERMAN’S OLD STAND!
I liave opened at Waterman’s old stand
a neat Bar and Restaurant. Tables sup
plied with the best the market affords.
Fresh Fish, Oysters, Game, Etc. Meals
at all hours. At my Bar will always be
found the best of Liquors, Cigars, &c.
Beds furnished when desired. Farmers
and others visiting Hawkinsville are in
vited to call. Satisfaction guaranteed.
D. KELSOE,
Hawkinsville, Ga., (late of Montezuma.)
scpC if
INSURE
YOUE HOUSES
—AND—
MERCHANDISE!
The undersigned represents as aeent
two of the largest and most reliable Fire
Companies in the world.
The Liverpool, London & Globe, with a
Capital of $27,000,000. Amount Capital
in United States, $3,652,000.
And New York Home, with a cash Cap
ital of $3,000,000, and gross assets $6,114,-
000.
Will take risks on merchandise, cotton
in store bouses, residences, furniture, Jfcc.,
for one, three or five years, and will in
sure residences forever on the payment of
ten annual premiums. Rates will be as
low as any first-class and safe companies.
Tbe above companies are prepared and
will make tbe deposit with the State iu ac
cordance with the act of the last Legisla
ture for tbe protection of policy holders.
August 30, 1877.
C. M. BOZEMAN, Agl.,
aug3o 3m Hawkinsville, Ga.
jojyus Kij|’s
iBl
Soul Klihcy at
—office or—
W. I). KINO,
Jeweler mid Watchmaker,
J/A Wh'imviu.li, HA.
Clocks, Wsiebea, Jewelry, Guns, Pis
lols, He,, repaired ul altorl nollcn and up
on Ike tnosl reasonable terms. All work
guaranteed, sett If
Plcturo frames from ten cents to
t<<n dollars, any slste furnished, ly F.
11. k 0. C. ifoavuwn, Hawkiusville
(la. septlO-tf
HAWKINSVILLE, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1, 1877.
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.
The Hawkinsville Dispatch will
be mailed (postage free) to subscri
bers in any pait of the United States
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.
Miss Nellie Ford, of Dalton, has
completed a bed quilt which con
tains eighteen hundred and seventy
six pieces.
An exchange says: “The Rev.
George Bull baptized forty persons
by immersion in twenty-seven min
utes in Savannah, and he is eighty
years old, too.”
The meanest man has just been
found at Foster, Ohio. He sent one
of his children over to a neighbor for
a share of his neighbor’s honey,
claiming that the bees had collected
most of their honey from his choicest
flowers.
A Washington correspondent of
the Springfield (Mass.) Republican
thus writes: “On the whole, the
Southern Democrats are the happi
est looking men, as a class, in the
new House. They are content with
the situation, sure of peace and
plenty in the future, and feeling
tolorable certain of political control
of the country for a while.”
It is said that a widow and widow
er married at L'ttle Rock recently,
having eight children each. A new
ly-married couple starting with a
ready-made family of sixteen chil
dren looks like business, and to keep
all that trundle-bed trash in milk and
mush will require the business to be
pushed, too.
The President sums up his South
ern trip by saying:
‘‘•Nothing could be pleasanter than
my trip throughout. The country
is apparently recovering from its ex
treme business prostration and the
agricultural interests of the South
seem to have felt the hard times
less than the others, and I believe
that the era of good feeling between
the North and South is entirely
permanent, and that they are sin
cere in their expression of a commu
nity of interest.”— Cor. N. Y- Her
ald.
The number of colored members
grows less with each Congress. In
the Forty-third Congress there were
nine ; in tho Forty-fourth, seven ; and
in the Forty-fifth three. One of these,
Smalls, is a candidate for the peniten
tiary.
A Mississippi doctor has found a
substitute for quinine. He binds a
lump of ice on the patient’s spine,
and the shakes let go and start for
Arkansas.
He was making a call, and they
were talking of literature. ‘The Pil
grim’s Progress,’ she remarked, ‘al
ways seems to be painful. Of course
you are familiar with Bunyan?’ He
said he had one on each foot, and
they troubled him a good deal.
She stepped out of the cars a few
minutes, leaving a book in the seat,
but on returning went to tbe wrong
pew, and inquired of a placid old la
dy : ‘Are you sitting on ‘That Hus
band of Mine ?’ ‘Good Gracious!
‘No’, exclaimed the old lady, jumping
up and scanning the seat with rigid
scrutiny.
The Cuthbcrt Appeal says: We
learn that a man named Brunson acci
dentally shot and killed himself near
HarHson’s Mill, in Randolph county,
on Thursday night of last week. He
was out hunting, in company with
several young men, and while cutting
down a tree, the axe handle struck
and discharged a pistol, which he
carried in his pocket—the ball pass
ing through his abdomen. He died
almost instantly.
Ths editor oi a paper in ProvK
dcnco lately informed his readers
that tho Indies always pull off the left
stocking last. This, as may be sup
posed, created some stir among his
lady renders, and while they positive
ly denied tho statement, they at tho
same time declared that he had no
business to know it, evstt if such was
tho fact, and pronounced him no gen
tleman. Ho proves It, however, by
a short argument: “When one stock
ing Is pulled off there is another left
on; pulling off this, It takes the left
slocking last.” ■
Naomi, ths daughter of Enoch, was
five hundred and ninety years old
wlum she was married. Courage la
dle* I
GENERAL JOHN B. GORDON.
The feeling in Southern Georgia
seems almost unanimous for the re
election of this trusty and tried pub
lic servant. Surely if gallantry in
the field, devotion to the interests
of his native State, and eminent ser-,
vices iu the halls of the National
Legislature are worthy of reward,
then should he be returned to the
Senate of the United S'ates without
a dissenting voice. Well might it
be truly said that republics are un
grateful, if such a man should re
ceive the cold shoulder from his
countrymen. But there is not the
least danger of‘this. General Gor
don is too deeply enshrined in the
hearts of the people to be treated
thus, and his popularity is not
bounded even by State lines. Of
late it has been said that General
Toombs will probably overcome bis
objections to renewing the oath of
allegiance to the government under
which he lives, and sue for pardon
at the hands of Congress, that he,
too, might enter the Senatorial race.
True to the chivalric impulses of
his nature, the noble Gordon upon
hearing the report exclaimed: “It
will be my privilege and delight
upon the first intimation of any
such purpose to press the petition
of Georgia’s illustrious son through
the Senate at the earliest moment.”
Such courtesy to an opponent is
worthy of all praise, and will only
tend to endear the Senator the
more to ltis constituents. It is not
certain, however, that Mr. Toombs
will be a candidate. Nor do we be
lieve that there will be any very
serious opposition to Senator Gor
don’s re-election Macon Telegraph.
ADVICE TO GIRLS.
An exchange says: “Why will
girls run an ay to get married?”
“We pive it up,” answers the Louis
ville Courier Journal. “But we
know a lot here who would be
glad enough to walk off and get
married. The boys ain’t around
asking them like they did. It
takes more money to ruu them
now-a days than it does to run a
steamboat. Ah! girls, it’s your
own fault. Swap off your silks and
satins for lawns and calicoes; shut
up the piano, dive into the washtnb;
throw away your fancy needle-work
and tackle a red-hot stove in the
kitchen. Instead of taking Brown,
the banker’s son, in the parlor,
keep your eye skinned for Bill
Burns, the black-smith’s son, as he
goes home from work; kiss his
dirty face through a broken pane
of glass in the kitchen window,
and after awhile, when he has
learned his trade and you know
your business, get married, go to
house-keeping by yourselves, help
each other, live happily, raise a
family that will be an honor to
your names and credit to them
selves, die happy and the angels
will not turn their backs upon you
up there.”
A SMALL HERO.
A Dead wood letter to the Graphic
says: Apropos of bravery, what would
mothers East think of the experience
of a iittle fairhaired boy of 13 now
in camp ?
“This little fellow started from
Denver, Col., with his pony, and
made the trip all the way to the
Black Hills alone and on horseback, a
distance of over 300 miles, principal
ly through desolate plains or Indian
country. He came in search of his
father, from whom he had not heard
for some time. He found him ‘dead
broke ;’ as so many are here. The
father took possession of the little
fellow’s pony, sold it and soon spent
the money, leaving the child desti
tute. He tried to get something to
do, but was unable on account of his
age. I found the little fellow sob
bing bitterly, “he had nothing to do,
and no pony on which to return
home.’’ The last I heard of him he
had gone to herd horses on the
Spearfish, a position of great danger,
where one is constantly exposed to
attacks from Indians, who await
their chance to make a raid and cars
ry off stock. He is trying to earn
and save money enough there to buy
back his pony, and return to Denver,
before winter sets in. Poor little fel
low ! my heart aches for him, thrown
on his own resources in this rough
camp so early in life.”
DON’T LOSE A MINUTE.
Keep busy. The man who has
nothing to do is the most miserable
of all beings. If you have no regular
work, do chores as fanners do when
it rains too hard to work in the field.
In occupation we forget our troubles,
and get a respite from sorrow. The
man whose mind and hands are busy
finds no time to weep and wail. If
work is slack spend the time in read
ing. No man ever knew too much.
The hardest students in tbe whole
world are the old men who know the
most. If you lack books, there are
free or very cheap libraries, at leaßt
in cities, at your command. He who
does not acquire some useful infor
mation in the run of a day, must say
with the Roman Emperor, “I have
lost a day I”
COULDN’T FOOL HIM.
One of the workers in the Liberia
movement met a wise old darkey in
Shreveport, La. ne was describing
tire great benefits tiro negro would
enjoy by emigrating, nnd told him
that in Liberia the uegro did not
have to work; that there milk and
honey, and broad and sugar troos,
covered the fore-ts, and bananas, co->
coanuU, plneapplna, lemons, and all
the tropiaal fruits gruw everywhere.
“Dat’a 'nougli of dat story,” said tho
old darkey; “dat ain't soi—kase if it
wm, de white mnn would a went dar
long ago, and de niggers nebber
would hab known Baffin "bout it.”
A thrilling story.
A Critured Washington Lady, Onee a
Resident of Kansas, Captured by the
Sioux—By Her Bravery and Tact
She Gained Wonderful Power Over
Them, and Escaped to Meet Them in
Washington and is Claimed as Their
Queen.
Correspondent Kansas City Times.]
Washington, Sept. 28, ISTT.
There is a romantic episode connected
with the coming of the Indinn dele
gation to Washington which involves
the personal history of a Western
lady, and as brave a lady as ever
boasted heritage on any soil. This
is Mrs. Fanny Kelly, of Kansas,
who, thirteen years ago, was cap
tured by the Sioux Indians on sm
emigrant trip and kept a prisoner by
them for seven months. Some of
the very warriors who were present
at her capture met her here in her
Washington home, surrounded by
friends and the comforts of a com
petency made by her own indomita
ble energy. Recognized at once by
her former captors, they demonstra
ted their joy in the most lively man
ner. For, while she was subjected
at first to cruel hardships, and at
times scenes of thiiliing danger to
her life, she succeeded in obtaining
their respect by her coolness, and
ultimately won their strongest affec
tion.
The Commissioner of Indian Af
fairs of the Interior Department,
Mr. J. Q. Smith, for whom the In
dians have a peculiaily high regard,
says that no one has more influence
with these sons oi nature than she
has, and they themselves have
urged her to go with them, teach
them, live among them and be their
“Big Chief.”
sirs. Kelly is at present a clerk in
the Patent Office, and although past
thirty, retains the evidences of her
great youthful beauty, while her
bright, sunny nature, quick intelli
gence and pleasaut manners make
her a very charming and attractive
woman, the cent re of a host of friends.
But I must tell you oi
HER CAPTIVITY.
It was the evening of the 12th of
July, 1804. Five men, a lad)’, and a
little gill seven years of age—Mrs.
Kelly’s niece, committed to her by
her dying sister—were camped on
the prairie with a small emigrant
train of wagons, near the Black
Hills, on their way to Idaho from
Kansas. Behind them were other
and larger trains, and they were on
the broad trail from Fort Laramie,
over which many others had passed
in advance; but they had outstripped
the others and were alone on the
vast plain. The Little Box Elder
ran at their feet, its bLuffs rising
above them on the opposite side.
There was no thought of fear, no
sign of danger. The Indians were
represented as friendly, and up to
this lime none had been seen. Quiet
settled upon the little camp; the
two colored men were busy in their
culinary preparations. Mr. Kelly
had ridden off to select a suitable
place for crossing the stream, when
the opposite bluffs were filled with
painted faces, and some 200 warriors
rushed down upon the helpless emi
grants. In a moment three of the
men lay dead, one disappeared in the
darkness, and Mrs. Kelly and little
Mary were left to realize the horrors
of being captives among those
savage men. “Oh lit seems a grand
sight,” said this lady last Friday,
when she witnessed the delegation
in its interview with the President
“to look upon twenty-five Indians in
such a place as this, surrounded by
the paraphernalia of power of this
Government, but it makes me shud
der to think how I, alone and unpro
tected by any mortal power, have
looked into those dusky faces when
hundreds and thousands were gath
ered together j sometimes with the
war-paint on in the fury of the war
dancc, sometimes when defeated and
retreating from my people and hurry
ing through arid wastes, over bould
ers and across precipitous ravines,
they cast sullen scowling glances at
their single white prisoner, and once
—shall I ever forget it?—when my
doom was already sealed and the
sentence had gone forth that I must
die because I had been found at
tempting an escape.
The scene that followed their cap
ture were of such
A TERRIBLE NATURE
that they can be but poorly portrayed.
They were compelled to mount a
horse that was led by an Indian, and
to leave their plundered team and
their dead behind them. As they
proceeded Mrs. Kelly thought of a
plan to save her little darling’s life.
She began dropping bits of letters
that she had about her person, and
quietly directing the child’s atten
tion to them, whispered to her to
slide down from behind her, as they
were on the same horse, follow the
trail guided by the paper till she
came back to the main trail, and
there wait for the other wagons to
arrive. This was done. Then the
mental torture of thinking about the
child alone on the prairie caused her
to make a desperate venture to save
herself also. As silently as possible
she dropped from the horse, secreted
herself a moment in the tali grass,
and then began her backward flight
for Mary and freedom. Site was
soon missed, the alarm given, a circle
formed and gradually closed ir, till
the crouching prisoner was retaken.
Little Mary, however, had made her
way further. Indians were sent
swiftly batk for her, but Mrs, Kelly
knew not with what success for
months.
The brave little one had nearly
readied tho large trail, only a ravine
Intercepting Iter path to it. Hero
she waited and hid till morning when,
as she looked forth her glad eyes met
the forms of two or three soldiers np
proaehing. Springing up with Joy-
ful haste she ran towards them, but
even then the Indians who had been
sent in pursuit came riding after
pushing their ponies to the top of
t.heir speed. The soldiers hesitating
at sight of the Indians. The Indians
came within bow shot. With a last
apealing glance to heaven and her
arms outstretched toward the soldiers,
the child ran towards them. On the
edge of the ravine three cruel arrows
overtook her and drank her life
blood. A moment later, with a
swoop and a yell, the savages rode
headlong back, and one had a scalp
of long, fair hair hanging at his
girdle.
Months later Mrs. Kelly saw her
hair and recognized it. Although
then enjoying a fair share of consid
eration at the hands of her captors,
she
FELL TO THE EARTH
in a dead swoon, and recovered only
to find herself struggling in a delir
ious fever, out of which, after many
days, she slowly drifted back to reas
on and life.
Imagine, then, the terrors of this
first night of her captivity. Her hus
band’s whereabouts she could not
know, and where was the best-loved
darling left on the trail ? What
would liar savage captors do witli
her ? “Never,” said she, as these
scenes all came back with the Indi
ans the other day, “had I known the
strong, inate love of life >n the human
breast till then. To contemplate the
scene before hjnd, one would think
death were preferable at once, yet it
was with me as it with the aged or
the sick—life clings to life to the
last.”
Perhaps death or insanity would
have come, but as a merciful ak
though severe curative for inward
torture, bodily sufferings intervened.
A weary waste of desert lay in the
track of the retruding warriors.
Unused to privation, the captive bore
the agony of thirst but poorly in
comparison with the Indians.
Obliged to ride one horse and lead
another, ' a vicious and stubborn
brute, his sudden jerks backward
frequently pulled her to the ground,
when she was beaten for falling.
Paint with thirst, she becamo be
wildered in mind and seemed careless
of the commands of her masters, and
was treated with proportionately
greater harshness. She was spared
any further personal indignity than
blows, yet she was compelled to wit
ness the drunken orgies and hear the
coarse and profane language of the
Indians. In several notable in
stances she was made to stand face
to face with death. During one of
the rides through the wilderness be
coming utterly worn out with the
trials she had had with the two
horses, she threw away a long and
fovorite pipe of the chief. She was
bound to a tree, a fire was kindled,
and while they danced around it,
flourishing knives and blazing brands
in the air, one of their number
caught a wild horse, and the sentence
was that she should be bound to the
horse, shot to death with arrows and
her body carried by the horse in his
wild flight. Trembling and waiting
for the fatal moment to come, she be
thought herself ef some money which
she had carried concealed in her
dress. Taking this out, a roll of
bills, she offered it all to them if they
would spare her life. Not knowing
what it was, they gathered around
her, asked her to explain the mean
ing of the figures and writing, and
in their childish curiosity their
vengeance was forgotten. At anoth
er time an arrow aimed by an en
raged Indian at her heart was at the
last moment thrust aside by another
Indian who was friendly to her. And
again, a squaw becoming angry with
her, would have taken her life with a
knife but for the timely interference
of others.
HE SEVER OWNED A MULE.
I never own/sd a mule. I came
near buying one once. He was a fine
looking animal; his ears stood up
like the side spires on an Espiscopal
chinch. His tail was trimmed down
so that it looked like a tar brush
leaning up against him. He looked
all innocence, though he was in no
sense. The owner sat in his wagon,
with his elbow on his knee. In the
other hand he held a stick with a
brad on the end of it. I examined
the mule and asked the man a few
questions, and out of mere form in
quired if the mule was kind, or if he
kicked. “Kind ? Kick ?” said the
man, and these were the last words
he uttered. He reached his stick
over the front of the wagon, and stuck
the brad into that mule. It was aw
ful to see a man snuffed out so quick
as he was. It almost took my breath,
he went so suddenly. I never saw
the thread of life snap so suddenly,
as it didn’t have time to leave a mes
sage for his family. That mule sim
ply ducked his head, and then a pair
of heels flew out behind ; there was a
crash, a flying of splinters, and that
was all; and the next moment that
mule and I stood alone, my face cov
ered with astonishment two feet deep,
and his covered with part of an old
bri llc. The next day I read an ac
count in the telegraphic news of a
shower of flesh in Kentucky. I was
the only man that could explain that
phenomenon, and did not dare to lest
I should be implicated in the affair
with the other mule.
I have seen death in many forms,
but don't recollect ever seeing a fu
neral gotten up with less pomp and
display than on that occasion. If I
had my choice, to either work iu a
nilro-glycerine factony or take care
of a mule, I should go for the factory,
as in the case of an explosion there
would be more possibility of my
friends finding some little mementoes
of mo with which to assign their grief.
Avery smsll piece of me would light
on a l>ig sorrow.
A German bank has closed doors
for forty millions.
From the Sunny South.]
Bringing a Sweetheart to
the Point.
The chief object of woman is to
marry and make some lucky fellow
contented in life. That this may be
done, the sex has been endowed with
beauty, and a thousand little arts
which are incidental to its creation.
In infancy these arts put foith their
tiny leaves, in girlhood they bloom,
and in ripe womanhood they yield
fruit as tempting as that which Moses
and Milton says entrapped Adam.
Talk of the horrors of the castle of
Bluebeard ! There is scarcely a fair
being who would not risk surviving
that wretched old buccaneer and
slayer of wives rather than be tor
tured wi’h the idea of living to be an
old maid! And why quarrel with
them since the law .of, conjugality is
more powerful than any other ? Tal
lerand was considered the smartest
diplomast who ever encountered man,
but His statecraft was feeble com
pared with the charming and per
sistent diplomacy of woman. Ma
ting being omnipotent in tho human
soul, none need wonder at even an
excess of
MAIDENLY ANXIETV.
Some time since, 1 think it was
ten years ago, I visited a very pretty
blonde. And I went to see her fre
quently, too, for I did like her, and
she seemed lo have a tender feeling
for me. In fact, when I gazed into
her beautiful face and clasped her
soft white hand in mine, and saw tile
color come like a crimson wave over
her rounded checks, I could not help
acting as if I loved her to the ragged
edge of madness! (goodness! what
a sentence.) The more I saw cf her
the more I behaved as if she were the
whole world to me. She could not
help but notice it, and I know she
did not object to my feeling in this
way. Well, of course, in time this
sweet one began to expect matters to
lie brought lo a crisis, and acted as
if a proposal of matrimony would be
favorably entertained. Butjustthen
I was not in a position to accede to
her wishes, and yet at the same time
I could not for the life of me have
acted otherwise than a fond lover
while in her society.
We used to have tho most amusing
interviews, she trying to lead me to
propose, and I fighting as skillfully
as I could to evade the business. 1
could not really then ask her to be
my wife, for at that time I was en
gaged to be married to two or three
others in another city, and I did not,
as times were hard, care about adding
to the list. If ever a girl worked hard
to attain a certain purpose, she did.
First she would act in the most lov
ing and charming manner, trusting
to get the proposal in that way. Fail
ing, she would suddenly, without ap
parent cause, become cold and dis
tant, thinking that would produce
the desired words. Still I remained
proof against all tier maneuvers and
subterfuges, and still was as attentive
as ever. At last I really believo she
actually thought I was afraid to pro
pose to her.
One evening—I shall never forget
it—she suddenly asked me ; looking
at me in the most serious and im
pressive manner: “Did any one ever
tell you that you were a very patient
man ?” That question nearly upset
me momentarily—indeed it did, har
dened as I was. She had come to the
conclusion that I was making a five
year’s job of work I ought to accom
plish in six months. Ah, she was a
dear, cute girl ! On my nine hundred
and fifty-seventh visit—l think it was
that—after she had tried every other
method to make me speak certain
words, she told me very sedately that
she had the previous eve—the first
night! had missed for a week—en
gaged herself to be married to a gen
tleman whom I had met there several
times, and who greatly admired her.
I coldly replied, “all right,” and rose
to go. I then supposed all was over
between us, and Hint she would soon
be the wife of another. She did not
follow me into the hall, and I had not
got four steps over it towards the
door before I heard sobs, and hastily
returning, I found her weeping bit
terly. I took her in my arms and
soothed her. She told mo that what
she had just said was not so, and—
well, she is now engaged in adminis
tering energetic punishment to our
eldest son, who takes after his father.
A moment ago, when she looked over
my shoulder and saw wiiat I was
writing, she exclaimed : “The idea
of your giving that yam to a long
suffering and patient public.”
Elie Adams.
“Ob, you say this gentleman was
abont fifty-five,” said Canning to a
pert young woman iu the witness
box, “and I suppose, now, you con
sider yourself a pretty good judge of
people’s ages, eh! Ah, just so.
Well, now, how old should you take
me to be ?” “Judging from your
appearance, sir,” replied the witness,
“I should take you to be about sixty;
by your questions I should suppose
you were about sixteen.”
Two Irishmen were working in a
quarry, when one of them fell into a
quarry-hole. The other alarmed,
came to the margin and called out,
“Arrah, I*at, are ye kilt entirely? If
you’ie dead, spake.” Pat reassured
him from the bottom by saying in
answer, “No, Tim, Pm not dead, but
I ! m spacheless.”
A little girl whose papa was recent
ly under the influence of Moody and
Sankey, wanted a second tart at sup
per, and was refused it. “Papa,” she
said abruptly, “why do you sing,
Feed me ’till I want.no more?” Bhe
got the tsrt.
Industry, economy and persever
nnco arc good capital to commence
business with.-
ftO. 44.
A GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION.
In one of the. justice’s courts thq
other day a witness in an assault and
battery case gave his Version of the
affair as follows i , ,
“Well, sir, the two stood facing
each other, one kinder growled and
the other kinder chuckled. Then they
made up faces at each other. Theri
oae dast and the other dasn’t. Theri
they kinder walked around. Then
they poked up their hats and spit ori
their hands.”
“And then ?” asked the lawyer, as
the withess paused for breath.
“And then they glared at each
other, then they made up faces again.
Then somebody hollered for ’em to
go in and kick each other all to
death. Then they kinder got ready,'
pulled their hats down and they
rushed together like two big ferry
boats, rared up on end, came down
with an awful crash, and the next
thing I saw was htus rqan’s nose
all chawed zigzag, and that’s all I
know about the murder Detroit
Free Press.
A GENTIiE TEMPER;
The New York Tribune tells this
incident of a clergyman graced with
a gentle temper:
It is related by elderly citizens of
Rochester that on a certain occasion
the Rev. I)r: Backus, of blessed
memory, had been laying out and
decorating the grounds about his
house at a considerable outlay of
labor and expense. On the very
first night after the Ooniplction of
the work, when the grounds had been
tastefully graded and terraced and
sodded and planted, a herd of va
grant swine broke into the in
elosure, and industriously rooted the
fair territory into a wilderness of un
sightly gullies. The next morning,'
as the good doctor stepped out upon
his porch, one sweeping glance suf
ficed to furnish a full and apprecia
tive conception of the desolation:
Restraining any expression of un
regenerate wrath, he stood for a
space in silence, and then remarked
with mournful philosophy. “Well,
you never can lay dirt to suit a hog!”
During a recent thunder slorjri
near Memphis, Tenn., a negro was
severely kicked by a vicious mule,
and just as he was picking himself
up, a stroke of lightning hit the mule
and killed him dead on the spot.
“Well, dear I” exclaimed the negro,
“ef dis child hain’t got powerful
friends to ’venge his insults, den
dere’s no use tryin’ to hab faith in
any thing!”
The boy that took a littf net’s nest
aud undertook to Carry it borne
thinking he had a bag of treasures,
lost the bag on his way, but succeed
ed in getting the hornets to accompa
ny him to his destination.
All history furnishes indubitable'
evidence that the women are ndt
without honor to military circles, and
now we have this from the present
European war : “A young Russian
officer at Biela when his troops were
melting away before the Turkish fire,-
held them to their places by his
steady but fierce courage, until tihere
being no earthly chance of success
they got on their knees and begged
him to retire, but he stood unmoved,
and they with him, until both were
hedged around with the dead and &y
--ing. At last a shot struck him, and
the brave heart was stilled forever.
That officer proved to be a young
gill.
A woman in Georgia, who has been
married a little over six months, has
been separated from her busbftnd
three times, So says the Covington
Enterprise.
This from the Albany News shows
how the wind blows in Southwest
Georgia: “Rev. George Coleman,
colored, who was once a eiliztfn of
Albany, but now resides at Milledge
ville, made us a visit on Monday.
He is counting noses in Southwest
Georgia in the interest of Milledge
ville, and preaching from the text
‘Return yc to the halls of the fath
ers.’ George is a good fellow, an<>
has no enemies among the white peo
ple of this section. He gives it as
his opinion that the vote of South
west Georgia will decide the con
test.”
“Why don’t you insert iny article V f
asked a contributor. “Was it too
long?” “No,” replied tbe editor/
“It was too narrow.-”
Cock lies in bed, and wishes tfl'e
post man would bring him news of a
legacy. Labor turns out at six
o’clock, and with busy and ringing
hammer, lays tlier foundation of a
competence.
Through woe we are taught to re
flect, and we gather the honey of
worldly wisdom not from flowers, but
from thorns.
Two little girls were beard discuss
ing the war in the East, one contend
ing that Turkey would win and the
other asserting that Russia would bw
the victor. At last one settled the
question. ‘I know, said she, “that
Turkey will win. My pa is a Russian,
and my rna a Turk. They fight every
night, and ma always licks.”
The extra session of Congreag wfll
probably continue until the first
Monday in December when the reg
ular session begins.
“A man Who’d maliciously get ire
to a barn,” said good old Elde? Pod
son, “and bum up a stable fall of
horses and cows, ought to be kicked
to death by a jackass ; and Pd like
to be the one to do it.”