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Vol. I.
From the Rome Courier.
Kiddle for the Little Folks.
[We publish, by request, the fol
lowing riddle. If any person who
has a curiosity in solving such things
can’t determine the answer, wo refer
him to the 12th chapter of Matthew.
We will hereafter publish the an
swer.—Ed. Herald.]
God made Adam out of dust.
But thought it best to make me first;
So I was made before man,
To answer His most holy plan.
My body Tie did make complete,
But without either hands or feet;
My ways and actions did control,
Yet I was made without a soul.
A living being 1 became,
And Adam first gave me a name;
Then from his presence I withdrew,
And more of Adam never knew.
I did my Maker’s laws obey—
From them never went astray ;
Thousands of miles I run in fear,
And seldom on the earth appear :
But God in me some power did see,
And put a living soul in me;
A soul from me my God did claim,
And took from me that soul again.
And when from me that soul had fled
I was the same as when first made—
And without hands or feet, or soul,
I travel now from pole to pole.
1 labor hard, both day and night—
To fallen man 1 give much light.
Thousands of people, young and old,
Will, by my death, great light behold.
No fear of death doth trouble me—
For happiness I cannot see;
To II eaven I shall never go,
Or to the grave or hell below.
The holy scriptures you believe,
But true or false I can’t conceive/
Although my name is in them found,
It is to me au empty sound.
Love and Suicide.
It becomes our duty to chronicle
two tragical events which occur
red in Fayette county on the same
day of this week. On Monday
morning last Mr. Q. S. Price, who
lives on White Water Creek, in
Fayette county, shot a young mas
by the name of Hubbard, wound
ing him seriously but not fatally.
On the same day of the shootmg
Miss Laura Price, daughter of l).
S. Price, was missing. No clue
to her mysterious disappearance
could be found until Tuesday
eveuing when her dead body was
discovered in White Water Creek,
near Price’s old bridge. It is sup
posed she committed suicide.
We have endeavored to ascer
tain the particulars of the tragedy.,
the cause of the quarrel betweejf
Q. S. Price and Hubbard, and tjle
motive which impelled the unfor
tunate daughter to commit Bie
rash act of suicide, but have failed.
The whole matter at present ‘js
shrouded in mystery, but,in coursp
of time, when Price is broil ght t<\
trial for the shooting of Hubbard'
the sifting process of the law will
most probably bring to light the
circumstances as they were at the
time they occurred. Report says
that Hubbard had been bestowing
liis attentions upon Miss Price,
the unfortunate suicide, and that
the father resolved to put a check
to the intimacy that would most
probably result. He ordered Hub
bard to visit his daughter no more,
and Hubbard’s attempt to call
again was checked by a discharge
from a double barreled shot gun.
As the gun was lbaded with buck
shot, and turned in the direction
of Hubbard, the consequence was
as above mentioned—not very
gratifying to llubbard. Report
farther hints that the affection
which existed between this young
lady and young man was so great
that his having been shot was a
blow to her so severe that relief
was only found in putting an end
to her life. Other rumors are in
circulation, the truth of which we
doubt, and prefer not to publish.—
Griffin Georgian.
An economical lowian, who had
a toothache, determined to remove
his tooth in the ludian fashion.
Accordingly he bent down a sap
pling in the woods, lay down him
self, and attached a stout cord to
his tooth and the sappllog. Then
he touched the spring, and the
next lie knew he had jumped over
a grove of about forty small trees
and was trying to get out of a
small pond that he happened to
alight in.
The agent of Darby’s Prophylactic
Fluid at Culloden, Ga., writes that a
most surprising cure of Erysipelas \»s
recently performed there by this admira
ble preparation. %
Lawrenceville, Ga., Wednesday, March 13, 1872.
Decisions of tlie Supreme
Court.
Giles Jackson vs. the State/
Voluntary man-slaughter, Iron*
Dougherty. \
Moktso.merv, J.—l. Where in a
trial for murder it appeared that
deceased had threatened prisoner’s
life, whereupon the prisoner left
the field where the quarrel took
place, returned in about twenty
minutes and said, if deceased was
going to whip him lie was now
ready for him, and deceased ad
vanced upon him, pistol in hand,
upon which prisoner shot and
killed deceased, and the jury re
turned a verdict of man-slaughter,
this court will not disturb the
verdict.
2. Provocation by threats will
in no case be sufficient to free the
person killing from the crime of
murder, or from man-slaughter if
the circumstances reduce the hom
icide to that grade.
3. Where counsel for prisoner
consents that the jury may return
their verdict to the clerk, it im
plies a consent that they may dis
perse after having done so; and
if the verdict so returned is one
for “man-slaughter,” not specify
ing the grade, it is not error in
the court to order tliejury to reas
semble and change their verdict
to either voluntary or involuntary
man-slaughter, (and the jury do
change it to voluntary man slaugh
ter,) unless the prisoner can show
that one or more of the jury have
been tampered with, or that his
case has been otherwise preju
diced by reason of the dispersing
of tliejury.
The tinding in this case is not.
contrary to the evidence.
Judgment affirmed.
G. J. Wright, for plaintiff in error.
No appearance for the State.
Wm. 11. Brewer, agent for Kapp
& David v;s. James M. Broadfieid.
Relief, from Sumter.
Montgomery, J.—l. Upon a mo
tion to dismiss a suit for the want
of the affidavit required by the
Relief Act of 1870, it is not error
in the court to hear and pass upon
the evidence offered in support of
the motion, especially where no
objection is made at the time.
2. Not allegations in the declar
ation which, if true, would excuse
the payment ot taxes under the
Relief Act of 1870, will dispense
with thekaffidavit required by the
act sworn to.
Judgment affirmed.
, Hawkini & Guerry, for plaintiff
Jn error,.,,
C. T. Gdye, for defendant.
The Treatlr of Washington—
Mr. Charles Francis inter
viewed.
The telegraph has mentioned
the arrival of Air. Charles Francis
Adams, American member of the
Geneva Court of Arbitration, in
New York, on the 21st iust. lie
uippears to have been promptly
upon by the interviewers. The
Herald reporter makes him say:
Mr. Adams—So far nothing has
occurred which warrants my say
ing that the treaty will be a fail
ure. I left London when the
greatest excitement prevailed. It
was on the evening when Mr.
Gladstone made his hasty, incon
siderate speech, which I read just
before my departure. But since
then Mr. Gladstone has modified
his language. In his two follow
ing speeches he took back much
of what he had said at first.
Reporter—ls there any likeli
hood that the British government
will consent to pay the conse
quential damages in a lump out
side of arbitration.
Mr. Adams —The real question
is not about paying damages, but
about admitting the claim of con
sequential damages within the
province of the court of arbitra
tion. Mr. Gladstone holds that
such a claim is not recognized by
the treaty, and has also declared
himself against the payment of
consequential damages in a lump
sum.
By the reporter for the World,
Mr. Adams is represented as ex
plaining that the excitement in
England was, after all, nothing
more than a newspaper war, and
that, though not prepared for the
question of indirect damages,
Englishmen of business with whom
he had talked were waiting to hear
one sum named, pay it, and have
the whole account sponged out.
Mr. Adams, says the reporter, sta
ted that he thought it reasonable
to refer our claims under the treaty
to the Geneva court, which could
on the evidence reject or approve
them, as justice demanded.
“COMING EVENTS CAST TIIEIR SHADOWS BEFORE!”
A? or the Gwinuett Herald.
PEN AND INK SKETCHES.
Thomas P. Hudson.
Mr. Hudson’s family, who sur-
U’ive him, are all removed from the
dWTiity, except one son-in-law who
I have been unable to see; and I
have no information as to his age/'
when he was born, or the place of
his nativity. But this is not ma
terial to my purpose. I think he
was born in South Carolina, and
not far from the year 1800.
1 first recollect him when he was
a candidate in this county for the
Legislature on the “Gallon Law
Ticket,” some thirty years ago,
which ticket was defeated. He
had not then been long a citizen of
the county.
A very few years from this time,
he was a candidate on the demo
cratic ticket, but his party being
in the minority in the county, and
some prejudices still against him
on account of his temperance prin
ciples formerly entertained, he was
again defeated. After this he was
a candidate again and again, for
several times without success, but
gaining in his vote each time. Ilis
defeats never nonplussed him, and
he would always express himself
as satisfied, and would try it again
He differed in this from his po
litical friend, 11. P. T., who u|rtm
being defeated for the Senate, de
nounced, witli bitter expletives,
“tiled—d ignorant, wool-hat,, cop
peras- breeches, cracked-heel de
mocracy as not fit to trust”
Mr. Hudson did no such thing
as this, but took bis defeats kindly,
seemed to be as liappy as if he
had been successful (but of course
didn’t feci so), and was as genial
and cordial to “his lriends as if
they had ‘put him through.’” By
this course, he made many friends
—everybody was pleased and ad
mired bis resignation and good
temper under defeat. Many were
sorry they hadn’t voted for him,
but would do so next time, lie
finally succeeded and was elected
several times.
Ho aud the • writer differed in
politics until 1860, aud had many
a tilt at the Justice’s Courts with
each other, but good humorejlly.
1 always found in him “a foeman
worthy of my steel.”
In 1800 he belonged to the co
operation party —opposed seces
sion, was nominated a candidate,
and was elected from this county
to the convention of that year,
and voted against the ordinance of
secession. Nevertheless, he was
as true a Southern Rights man as
the “Straightest of the Sect/’
It was a matter of judgment
;and expediency with him in oppos
ing it.
I give a private incident that
lectured in that Convention that
ripay interest some of his old friends,
i The ordinance was passed by
about thirty majority, eighty or
ninety of the delegates voting no.
It, was desirable on the part of the
njßjority, that all—as well those
vfcting against, as those voting
f&r—should sign the ordinance,
and every appliance was brought
to bear to effect this result.
The argument was used “that it
would immortalize the names of
all who signed it; that it would
be held sacred as the Declaration
of Independence; that it would
be framed and hung up in the
mansions of the rich, and the cab
ins of the poor, from the mouu
tains to the sea; and worshipped,
as a house-hold god, etc , etc.” As
a further incentive to this stop, A.
11. 8., the leader of the co-opera
tionists in the Convention, offered
a resolution, “That we will sign
the ordinance, those voting agaiust
as well as those voting for it.”
A committee, of whom P. W. A.
was chairman, was appointed to
have the ordinance engrossed upoik
parchment, for the signatures 1 1
the delegates, and after a brief p|-
riod reported, “that it would lie
ready lor the signatured at IS
o’clock on Monday next.”
The day arrived—the hour—and
the Secretary commenced, in solemn
form, to call the counties iu alpha
betical order, commencing with
Appling; and the delegates from
that county went up and signed it.
Then Baker was called, and so on.
It was a slow process, and re
quired some time. As the Secre
tary got on down near to the G’s
(none of the delegates down to
this having refused to sign), Mr.
Hi left his aeat and went over to
one of liia colleagues, and with
some apparent trepidation —for it
tvai a time that tried men’s souls—
renjarked to that colleague, “What
shall we do ? Had we nut tet'er
!to feign it ? His friend, wlio was
a Stubborn, bull-neck man, and
"Bo had determined not to be in
fllcnoed by the mighty pressure
If ought to bear, but whose knees,
i# lie had stood up, would hare
jDeen somewhat like Belaliazzer’s,
/replied to him with some warmth,
“You may sign it if you will, 1
shall not!”
Mr. 11., feeling somewhat the
rebuff, returned to his seat, and
soon “Gwinnett” was called, but
110 movement. Again it was called
in a louder tone, but no response!
Mr. Hudson never signed it, but
did his whole duty in helping on
the cause of the South, by equip
ping the volunteers, and helping
their families when the war came;
and much more than many who did.
A company was raised, mainly
through his instrumentality, that
bore the name of the “Hudson
Guards,” and all of that gallant
company that still survive, honor
the name.
1 hat same colleague afterward
signed it, when the Convention
re assembled to adopt the Consti
tution of the Confederate States,
and became as hot a war man as
any, and lost his love —all his love
—for the “Star Spangled Banner,”
and became a worshipper of the
'‘Bonnie Blue Flag.”
That song of our flag is a beau
tiful song, and should never be
forgot by the friends of the “Lost
Cause.”
//In passing neat the bivouac of
a regiment, in the early part of the
war, his ear was charmed, and
his soul inspired by this song for
the first time; and the patriotic
Southern sentiments which it
breathed, as the words came upon
his car:
“We are a band of brothers, ami native
to the soil,
Fighting for our property we’ve gained by
honest toil;
And when our rights were threatened, the
cry rose near and far,
Hurrah ! for the Bonnie Blue Flag that
beats a single star 1”
And then, when the last stanza
came floating on the night breeze :
“Then cheer, boys, cheer ! raise the joyous
shout,
For Arkansas and North Carolina now
have both gone out !
And let another rousing cheer for Ten
nessee be given,
The single star of the Bonie Blue Flag
has grown to be eleven 1"
lie then and there dedicated his
whole soul to the Confederacy!
But the cause was lost, but so is
not the song!
“Harry McCarthy’s” name should
be immortal for giving us the
Bonnie Blue Flag, as is Francis S.
Key’s for giving the Star Spangled
Banner! But to return.
Duiing some of the hard years
of the war, and while lie lived, he
did his whole duty in letting the
people have supplies, especially
the women and children whose hus
bands and fathers were in the army.
He had a store, it will be re
membered, and furnished molasses,
salt and other necessaries to the
poor. Great crowds of women and
children and old men would flock
there to get these supplies. llis
store house was often full of jugs
and kegs, too late for the last mo
lasses hogshead, but waiting for
the next. But for him, it was said
by many at the time, and fre
quently' spoken of now, many
people would have suffered, and
some probably would have starved.
He had enemies—and all men
who are worth a cent have them,
too.
He had faults—and I never
knew a man but had ; but he was
honorable and high-minded, and
possessed many of the best prin
ciples of our nature.
lie was a fine business man—
fine sense, fine judgment, a flue
scribe, good accountant, and a
man far above the average in
point of intelligence. Ho died,
during the war, and was a mem
ber of the Legislature at the time.
VV.
This is the way they report ap
attempt at robbery in Califerrffa :
\ half a block the
stopped and asked
Mr. Jackson if he had any thing
with him. Without any hesita
tion Mr. Jackson pointed two
revolvers at the sport and asked
him which he would prefer. The
reply was that he did not waut
anything to do with him. Jackson
would uot walk as fast as tho oth
er man did, and consequently had
to go to his hotel alone.
The city charter of Memphis
permits women tax payerß to vote.
[s2 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE.
From the Galuxry, for March.
CIRCE.
BY NORA PERRY.
Yon hold my heart in your slender hands,
In your cold, your cruel, careless hands.
In your beautiful hands,funned by u breath
Like the breath of the rose, it is dying its
death.
In your beautiful hands with the glitter
of rings,
Each ring a trophy that scornfully sings
Of other hearts that have lain like mine
Go your cruelly beautiful, pitiless shriue;
Of other hearts that have gone to their
death,
Swooned to sleep by that sweet, sweet
breath.
That breath of the roso that comes and
goes
As the smiling, beautiful lips unclose,
When night after night down dizzying
dances
I They follow aud follow your dazzling
glances.
While round and round by the music
whirled,
As I'd follow and follow you over the
world!
Then hold me fast in yonr slender hands,
In your cruelly beautiful, pitiless bunds ;
I/'t ine forever be dying my death,
Swooned to sleep by that sweet, sweet
breath ;
Let me forever be whirling .there,
Lost in a trance divinely lair;
Let me forever be stricken slain,
And dying with this delicious pain 1
Another Invasion, oe France
Threatened. —The rumor from
abroad that Germany is preparing
for another invasion of France is
“important if true.” The reason
given for this supposed intention
is that France, being on the verge
of another crisis, will soon expe
rience a change of Government,
and in this case Germany fears
that the payment of her indemnity
debt will be suspended. It is well
known that many of the French
people think it quite as cheap to
have another war as to pay the
immciißO claims of Germany, and
the precaution* of Bismarck may
be justified by his knowledge of
the country and his political fore
sight as regards its possible fu
ture. “Prussia,” says a special
dispatch on this subject to a mor
ning paper, “reserves to herself the
right to judge of and pronounce
on any new Government which
may succeed that of President
Thiers in Franco on the following
important point: Whether the
Emperor William’s Ministry deem
that Government unlikely, by in
clination of incapacity; to execute
the treaty of peace, aud to dis
charge the obligations incurred
under it to Germany.”
Newspaper Flock. —Buckingham,
of the Concordia Empire, is not
afraid to speak out meeting:
Who pioneers, helps ta build up
towns and cities, and makes town
proprietors rich ? The newspaper
man of course.
Who is always ready to aid some
fool to office, aud receive nothing
therefor! The newspaper man, to
be sure.
We have demonstrated to some
extent, the fact that a newspaper man
can take care of himself. We be
lieve the laborer is worthy ot tlre
Lire. We publish a paper for pay,
and care not who knows it. We
have often heard it said the newspa
per mail can “poke along” without
pay—that he should expect to. That
rule does not work in this office.
We slash a “dead beat” from our
books as readily as we would drive a
skunk from our hencoop.
When the craft stands ur> for
what is right aud just, they will get
what is due them, and not before.
Schi'kz as a A Vit. —lt appears
that the Missouri Senator is not
only a grave and powerful debater,
but also a genuine wit when the
occasion justifies it. Poor Oonk
!ng, of New York, the coxscomb
nd peacock of the Senate, wa»
tteily crushed out by him seveial
Aimes during tho receut debate
'On one occasion, replying to
Schnrz, lie spoke of him as having
“strutted in the benatefor which
the latter “begged pardon for in
tringing on the peculiar priviledge
of Ins friend from New York.”—
Poor Conklin got another terrible
rap over the knuckles, when lie
coarsely and angrily accused Mr.
Mr. Sehurz of boasting of his cour
age. The exasperating Missourian
calmly replied that “he had merely
said he would not quail before a
thousand men like Conklin, and
there was certainly sot much boas
ting in that.”
The relief cornmittee’of Chicago
has spent SIOO,OOO for stoves.
RATES,OF AnVKUTi.SING.
srACE 3 riio s. 6 mo's. 12 mo's.
I square 8 4 7)0 3 <i <*> ft TTFtfG'
- sq'rs f, 00 J 0 00 i fco
3 sqr’s 800 14 00 20 00
>4 col, 12 00 20 00 30 00
l 4 col. 20 00 30 00 fiO 00
one col. 40 00 7". Oi) boon
The money for advertisements is due
cn the first insertion.
A square is the spare of one inch in
depth of the column, irrespective of the
tmmlier of lines.
Marriages and deaths, not exceeding
six lines, published free. For a man ad
vertising his wife, and all oilier personal
matter, double rates will be charged.
No. 52.
From the StA Francisco Journal.
Telegraphic Tricks.
I wo young men, telegraph ope
rators, who hoard at one of our
loading third-class hotels, and be
ing of somewhat hilarious dispo
sition, find great amusement in
carrying on conversation with
eae.i other at table by ticking on
their plates with a knife, fork or
spoon. For the information of
those not familiar with telegraphy
it may be well to state that a com
bination of sounds or ticks consti
tutes the telegraphic alphabet, and
persons familiar with these sounds
can converse thereby as intelligi
bly as with spoken words. Tho
young lightning-strikers, as al
ready stated, were in tho habit of
indulging in table-talk by this
means whenever they desire to say
anything private to each other.
For instance, No. 1 would pick up
the ktiilc and tick off some remark
as this to No. 2 :
“Why is this blitter like the of
fense of Hamlet’s uncle ?’’
No. 2—“ l give it up.”
No. I—“ Because it’s rank and
smells to heaven.”
Of course the joke is not appre
ciated by the landlord (who sits
close by), because he doesn’t un
derstand telegraphic ticks, and
probably lie wouldn’t appreciate it
much if lie did; but the jokers
enjoy it immensely, and laugh im
moderately, while the other guests
wonder what can be the occasion
for this merriment, and naturally
conclude the operators must be
idiots.
A few days ago, while the fun
loving youths were seated at
breakfast, a stout young man eu
tcred the dining-room with a
handsome girl on his arm, whose
timid, blushing countenance show
ed her to be a bride. The oupln
had, in fact, been married but a
day or two previous, and had
come to San Francisco from therf
home in Oakland or Mud Springs,
or some other rural village, for the
purpose of spending the honey
moon. The telegraphic tickers
commenced as soon as the husband
and wife had seated themselves.
No. 1 opened the discourse as
follows:
“What a lovely little pigeon this
is along side of me—aint sin-?”
No. 2 —“ Perfectly charming;
looks as if butter would melt in
her mouth. Just married, I guess.
Don’t you think so?”
No. I—“ Yes, 1 should judge
she was. What luscious lips
she’s got! If that country bump
kin was out of the road, I would
give he' - a hug and a kiss just for
luck.”
No. 2 —“ Suppose you try it any
how. Give her a little nudge un
der the table with your knee,”
There is no telling to what ex
tent the impudent rascals might
have gone but for an amazing and
entirely unforeseen event. The
bridegroom’s face had flushed, and
a dai k scowl was on his brow du
ring the progress of the ticking
conversation; but the operators
were too much occupied by each
other to pay any attention to him.
The reader may form some idea
of the young men’s consternation
when the partner of the lady pick
ed up his knife and ticked off the
following terse but vigorous rncs'
-e:
i “This lady is my wife, and as
soon as she gets through her
breakfast I propose to wring your
nee ke- you insolent whelps.’
The countenances fell very sud-.
denly when tin’s message com
menced. By the time it ended
they had lost all appetite and ap
preciation of jokes, and slipped
out of the dining-room in a very
rapid and unceremonious manner.
The bridegroom, it seems, was a
telegraph operator, and “knew
how it was himself.”
The story comes from Franco
that a beautiful but strong-minded
lady living in Boulogne sent a
challenge to the publisher of a
humorous journal, who had "twice
concerned himself with her private
affairs.'’ A forma! acceptance of
the duel was returned, the choice
of arms was waived, but a decided
preference for those of the lady
lierselt was expfessed. Reconcili
ation followed and the wedding trip
is to the United States.
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A Nashville negro set the house
in an uproar by rising up and shout
ing out," “What all die mean!” after
he had been shrouded for ihs tomb.
This was last Saturday, the 24th,
and the “mourners” haven’t stopped
funning yet. • ~