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Vol. 11..
BLOSSOMING.
BY MISS FLORA CAELKTON.
A father was planting his garden bed
In the early eventide,
Taking the seeds from the rosy palms
Of the little oue at his side.
“How strange, dear father,” the little one
said,
“That you are so very sure
This ugly brown Ihing you plant in the
ground,
Shall become a lilly pure.”
Again did he stand by that garden bed,
No little one now at his side;
For the rosy palms lay white in death,
In that pleasant eventide.
But the bulb had come through the cold,
dark mould,
A lilly, gleaming and pure ;
And laying it soft in those precious hands,
He accepted the emblem sure.
That the mortal form he laid in the earth,
Like the bulb to the lily bright,
Should blossom above, an immortal fair,
In the Sun of Righteousness’ light.
And, as from the bulb the lily soon grew,
At no distant eventide
He soon in a fairer garden should see
His little one at his side.
ADaugliter of,Senator Brown
low, of Tennessee, Attempts
to RJope with a Stonecutter.
Every one in these United States
has heard of W. G. Brownlow, the
vindictive and sacrilegious United
States Senator from Tennessee, and
a resident of Knoxville. When this
old viper was editor of the Whig he
was alway-s very willing to expose the
frailties of humanity to the gaze of
those who roll the recital 0/ such
escapades ns a “sweet morsel under
their tongues.” “Chickens come home
to roost,” and from a letter received
in this city yesterday it appears that
a daughter of Brownlow—a pretty
Miss of some eighteen summers—has
been attempting to run away with a
stonecutter employed on the new
custom house in Knoxville. Now
Knoxville has a daily pewspaper, two
of them in fact, but neither have
mentioned the occurrence. Possibly
Brownlow induced them to suppress
i', and therefore it remains for the
Kansas City Times to give tho de
tails of this love affair of ‘.he voung
lady.
This stonecutter’s name is Miller,
and the young lady’s Christian name
was not given. Their attachment
was mutual. Finally they resolved
to elope. Brownlow is verv aristo
cratic, and the idea that his daughter
should elope with a stone cutter was
too much for the old chap. The
news of the intended elopement
reached his ears, and Miss was
informed that she was a prisoner.
She was locked up in a room, hut
the roofn was found" insecure. She
fdeclaffed that she loved Miller, and
marryjfliim she would. The pretty
Miss was wafted away in the dead of
night to a train, and then sept on
her way to a convent at Washington,
D. C. Miller followed on tite next
train, and there tho curtain drops.
Further developments may he expect
ed, not through the Knoxville papers,
hut possibly through the Tunes.—
Kansas City Times.
A Burglar Caught in Atlanta.—
A Burglar last Wednesday night
etfecled an entrance into the resilience
of .Mrs. Green B. llay good, in Atlanta.
He left his shoes on the ground by
the front steps, prized open the blinds
of a window, raised the sash about
two feet and entered. He proceeded
to a bureau in a bed room in which
a son of the mistress of the house
was sleeping, and took a gold watch
from one of the drawers. The noise
be made awoke Mr. Haygood, who
jumped from bis bed ami taught the
intruder. In the struggle which en
sued the burglar was thrown, but
aro»e almost immediate!}’, and the
two then fell together down the base
ment stairs. Mr. Haygood, however,
did not relax his grasp. Assistance
finally arrived and the burglar was
captured. Three pccketbooks, a sil
ver watch, Mr. II ay good’s gold watch,
and a great variety of burglar’s keys
were found dn bis person. He was
committed to jail in default of $3,000
bail. *• 9
Gen. Banks’ Letter. —The Boston
Post says of this letter “that it rings
like a rifle shot. It has sent a shiver
through the whole frame of the party
in the State and Union. The excite
ment in this district and the city on
its reception was unparalleled among
purely political occurrences, showing
in what respect his judgment as a
public man is held by his fellow-citi
zens. Taken with Senator Sumners
letter it can hardly fail to be decisive
of the fortunes of the Grant party in
Massachusetts.”
Lawrenceville, Ga., Wednesday, August 21, 1872.
A Tragical Romance.
On the morning of the 27th ultimo
two men went into a store in the
town of West Overton, Ohio, and
bought a pint of whisky. The youn
ger and smaller of the two, who was
well dressed and looked respectable,
paid for the spirits, and the pair went
off. Next morning the younger man
was found insensible and apparently
dead drunk under the shed of a sta
ble, and on Tuesday died. There was
no marks of violence on his body,
but his coat was missing, and all his
pockets had been turned inside out.
His companion of the day before was
nowhere to be found. An inquest
was held, but nothing further was
elicited than we have told. The facts
warranted suspicion of the missing
stranger, but neither his discovery
nor that of anything else that would
throw light on the affair has yet been
heard of.
So far the story is strange, although
there have boeu stories like it before.
That two unknown persons should
appear in a certain place, and one
subsequently be found dying or dead,
while the other has taken himself off,
is, unhappily, no novelty. There are,
to be sure, points in the case of some
peculiarity. If the whisky was poi
soned, for example, and both men
were drunk, how came one of them
to escape ? If the second man crawl
ed away to some yet undiscovered
retreat to die, why should he take
his friend’s coat, or ride his pockets ?
The speculative interest, however,
that attaches to these, or other like
injuries, pales before that of collateral
incident which is little short of mira
culous. When the inquest was end
ed, a man who had witnessed the
proceedings stepped forward and said
the corp-e was that of oue Hiram
Christ, of Reaganspoit. On this,
several others who hail known Mr.
Christ during life were found, who
affirmed his identity with the body be
fore them. Next, the lather of Chris',
was sent for, who, on seeing the
corpse, promptly declared it to be
that of lus son. On examining more
oloselv, however, the father was una
ble to find a scar ort the chin of the
deceased and another on the foot,
which during life existed. Tnis was
rather staggering, but somebody
came forward with the plausible sug
gestion that scars often disappeared
after death why or wherefore was
not set forth. Meanwhile the mother
of llirarn arrived, and she also at
once said the hftdy was her son’s.
Yet she, also, nowimding the “mark
on the chin and the spl’t in the toe,”
hesitated, and was left in the most
painful perplexity, vascillaling be
tween hope and fear.
At this point a bright idea occur
red to the father. He remembered
that when his son was last at home
he had bought a pair of {wots. He
complained, on coming home, that
one of thesq was too tight, and on
domination found that the boots
were of different numbers—one being
a No. 8 and the other a No. 7. The
son remarked that ho hated to take
them back, and guessed be would
keep them as they were. Mr. Christ,
Sr., having related this incident, the
boots worn by the corpse were closely
inspected, when, wonderful to Bay,
one was found to be a No. 8 and the
other a No. 7. This certainly seemed
conclusive, and was accepted as such
by the bystanders, although the pa
rents could not feel entirely con
vinced in the absence of the scars.
Presently, Hiram’s sisters were sent
for, and arrived only to increase the
common perplexity, for one insisted
at once that the body was that of
her dear brother, while the other as
positively declared it was not. Two
days passed, and no more satisfactory
understanding could be reached. It
became necessary to bury the deceas
ed. Whether the corpse was that of
Hiram Christ, or that of somebody
else, it was requisite that it should be
interred. This was accordingly done,
and the strange spectacle was. pre
sented of the sisters attending the
funeral, while the parents refused
to do so. Alter the obsequies, a
messenger was dispatched by the
father to seek out bis son. lhc
latter sent, it transpired,
by his employer to McKeesport,
a short time before, lo this place
he was followed ; but on inquiry it
was found that ho had disappeaiel,
and the most diligent search tailed
to reveal the slightest trace of him.
The father and mother, with great
sorrow, reluctantly admitted that they
must have been in error respecting
j the identity of the body, and orders
were given for its disiutermeut and
removal to the family burying-place,
' to which they had refused it admit
i tance before. This proceeding was
! begun, but it was never consummated,
i It was interrupted, in fact, by the
“COMING EVENTS CAST TIIEIR SHADOWS BEFORE!"
similar circumstance that Mr. Hiram
Christ walked quietly into the pater
nal mansion.
That young man, it Appears, had
been temporarily absent from Mc-
Keesport, had returned, been apprised
of the proceedings at West Overton,
and instantly went thither to set
things right, lie was resolved, like
I Don Ceezar de Kazan, to prove that
; he was neither dead nor buried ; and
' this, having the advantage of the
corpse in possessing both “the mark
on the chin'and the split in the toe,”
i he had no difficulty in effecting to
‘ the general satisfaction It has thus
been established, in spite of the ns
! tonishing resemblance, and the still
more astonishing coincidence of the
boots, that the dead man is not Hiram
Christ; but who be is, or what killed
him, or who or where his companion
is,are points still undecided,and which,
from the utter absence of any due,
are probably destined to remain en
veloped in mystery. — JV. Y. Times.
A Cow with Hydrophobia
Trees Two Men.
Mr. J. Parsons, who resides a few
miles from the city, informs us that
the other day lie went with his hired
man, a German, into a large timber
lot to drive up some cattle. Among
them was a fine cow. whose actions
indicated that something was the
mattter, and lie called the attention
of his hired man to her, and told
him to look at her eyes, that she was
mad, and he thought she was “going
for” them. The words were hard I v
ont of his mouth when the cow made
a charge at Jack with a most terrific,
bawl, and lie made for a shell bark,
going up it with admirable fat-ilitv
for a few feet, out of re*ush /f tlio
vicious brute. The fiowjjjun’ turned
for the German, and be “cooned it”
up a small sapling, and was soon
among the branches and out ot danger,
.l ick’s tree was a rough one, and haul
to climb, being from twenty-five to
thirty feet from the limbs, so he tried
to slip down and find a but
the cow was on the war path, and
“made for him”, every time he came
to the ground, and once catching
him on the leg and bmisir.g it severe
ly. Finding that his strength would
fail he determined to f?u p to the
limb«, whe’e U‘ ai l tau^jare
This lie accomplishedtijSn consid
erable Jatnsige to hi* oWt%v a* well
as ab c ling ibe skbi on fiis arms,
which to-dav still show marks of Ids
cxtraoiuiiiarv climb Once salely
among the hi mein s, the two patient
ly awaited for the ;ow to go away,
but she seemed determined to keep
Iter advantage, and watched the two
treed gentlemen like a hawk. Hours
passed, and nigbtjwas coming on, and
Jack began to feel uneasy, so be com
menced a series of halloos for help.
A neighbor passing along the road
answered the call, and was
acquainted with the situation, and
succeeded in directing tire-attention of
the cow to himself, and it vigorously
attacked the new comer through the
fence until such time as Parsons and
his man got down from the trees and
skipped out of the enclosure, closely
pursued by the infuriated cow. It
seems to have been a plain case of
hydrophobia, and tho beast died that
tiiglit.
The dogs in the neighborhood
found the carcass, and freely invested
in mad beef steaks, and, for fear of
canines going mad, eleven of litem
were killed.— Hannibal Times.
■Appleton’s Magazine, in a sensible
article, pronounces against the pres
ent style of female horsemanship.
It asks why women ride in the pres
ent awkward, unsafe style. Why not
sit astride of the horse as men do?
Well, why not? A false notion of
delicacy is the only reason we know
of, but with Turkish trowsers and
skirts that reason can be obviated.
Appleton’s says the Eastern women
and the South American women ride
as the men do. The present fashion
began in England. Let us have a
new declaration of independence.
This is the day of women’s rights—
one of i hem is to ride safely. The
first lady who begins to do so in the
l’ark will deserve applause, not ridi
cule. The novelty of it would be
over in a week, and people would
wonder that women.ever rode in any
other way.— Fhiladelpfy^yiffe.
The city editor of tlie .fseksonvilie
Journal says the Fourth ot July was
the ninety sixth anniversary of Amer
ican independence, and the tenth
anniversary of his shirt.
The drunkard is generally a bad
arguer, for the oftener be comes to
the pint, the more incoherent be is.
A blundering Dubu/je printer al
ludes to an attorney at jaw.
A Saratoga Scandal—Tho Sen
sation at the Clarendon ami
(iraml Union.
It seems that a respectable and
well-to-do young grocer of Philadel
phia, named Tumhlestone, became
enamored of a young lady belonging
to a wealthy and aristocratic family
named Levy. “Mamie,” as she was
called, returned the affection ofTnin
blestone. They both attended the
same church, and were, wo believe,
members of the same Sabbath-school;
but tho high toned mother of “Ma
mie,” a widow lady, finding that her
daughter was deeply in love with Mr.
T, tho dealer in coffee and sugar,
sought at once to break up the match
She hustled her off to Georgia, where
she was brought into contact with a
haughty young Southerner, who, the
mother thought, was just fitted to he
her son-in law.
But Mamie longed for her gtocery
man, to whom her troth had been
plighted. She endured the young
Georgian; shedidn t love him. The
mamma managed to throw the young
people together on every possible
occasion, and employed all a mother’s
wiles to fan the flame of lovo in her
daughter’s breast It was no use,
and one morning tiie mfttch makers
awoke to find the young lady missing.
She had tied, no one knew whither.
Search was made, but without avail,
until at last it was learned that Miss
Levy had reached the Quaker City.
It seems that she had returned to
her lover's arms, told him just how
things stood, and the two had quietly*
gone over to Camden and been made
one flesh. Without communicating
fully the marital pledges which made
them husband and wife, except to
secure lue documents which made
their marriage legal, the twain sepa
rated, returning to their individual
iiomes. This was on the Ist of July,
and scarcely had they got hack to
Philadelphia when the mother arriv
ed. But it was too late. Her child
was married and tho son of Georgia
was discomforted. What next!
A trip to Sartfoga was proposed,
and tho young Georgian secretly
telegraphed to “come on.” Arriving
here, they put up at one of the prin
cipa! hotels, and ill due time the
Southern lover came and registered
at the same hotel. Mamie, he knew,
had been formerly married to Turn
blestone, and he ought to have given
up the game. He didn’t, however.
He only made new combinations.
He was bound to beat the Philadel
phia grocer any way. The way lie
sought to do it was this :
lie told lmr mother that, inasmuch
as “Mamie” and Tumblestone had
not dwelt together at all as husband
and wife, it was nothing hut a paper
marriage. The weak and wicked
mother fell iulo the trap, and “Ma
mie” was badgered and deceived until
at last she yielded. Rev. J. M. King
was sent lor, and “Mamie” ami her
Georgia lover were formally mairied,
and thus made parties the one to a
felony and the other to the crime of
bigamy. Of course the antecedents
in the case were kept concealed from
the officiating clergyman.
About this time Tumblestone,suspec
ting something wrong, came on from
Philadelphia,and was confronted with
the facts stated above. His legal wife
had committed bigamy by marrying
his Georgia rival. A legal examina
tion followed before ono of our jus
tices, and the fact was elicited that
both the mother and the Georgia
man knew of Miss Levy’s marriage
to Tumblestone. This was enough
to make the act criminal. All the
parties left town at once, and legal
proceedings have been commenced
in the case. The name of the Geor
gia gentleman who feloniously mar
ried the wife of Wm. 11. Tumble
stone is John E Hollingsworth.
He belongs to Macon, Ga— Daily
Saratoffian.
Brick Pomeroy says that now is
the time for “every Democratic voter
to sell his vote to the highest bidder,
and take the cash in hand.” With
out questioning the morality or
smartness of this proposition, because
it is both moral and smart, in a
Pomeroyan sense, say s the St. Louis
Times, we would suggest that if every
Democratic voter was as little worth
buying as he is, there would he migh
ty few bidders and slow sales.
“I will preach from dat poition of
de Sciipture dis evening,” said a col
ored dorninee, “wliar de ’postle Paul
pints his ’pistle atde ’phesians.”
“Charlie,” said a fond mother to
her son, “you are into that jam
again.” “No,” replied the pet, “you
are wrong, nin ; the jam is into me.’
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When is a smile behind time ?
When it’s a little laughter.
($2 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE
A Story for Young Ladies
with Little Brothers.
The moral of tho following, told
by tho sufferer, is too apparent to
mention. Voting ladies will hereaf
ter run their brothers out when gen
tlemen call. It’s certain that I wish
somebody would spank tho young
rascal.
We talked of mountains, hills,
vales and cataracts —I believe I said
waterfalls—when the boy spoke up
and said :
“Why, sister's got a whole trunk
full of them up stairs; papa says
they are made of horse hair.”
This revelation struck terror into
me and blushes into the chec k of my
fair companion. It began to be very j
apparent to mo that I must be very 1
guarded in what 1 said, lest the boy !
might slip in his remarks at uncalled j
for places; in fact, l turnd my con- I
fersation to him, and told him he
ought to go home with me and see
w.hat nice chickens I have in the j
country. Unluckily I mentioned a |
yoke of calves, which ruined all. ■
The little one looked up and said:
“Sister’s got a dozen pair of them,
but she don’t wear them only when
she goes up town of windy days.”
"Leave the room, you unmannerly j
little wretch!” exclaimed Emily,— I
“Leave immediately.”
“1 know what you want me to
leave the room for,” exclaimed he.
“You can’t fool me ; you want to sit
on that man’s lap and kiss him, just
like you did Bill Simmons the other
day ; yon can’t fool 1110, 1 just tell
you. Give me son 0 candy like he
did, and I’ll go. You think ’cause
you’ve got the Grecian bend that
you’re smart. Guess I know a thing
or two. I’m mad at you, anyhow,
because papa would have bought me
a top yesterday, if it hadn’t been for
getting them curls, dog on yer. You
needn’t turn so red in the face ’cause
1 ci.n see the paint. There aiu t no
use winking witli that glass eye of
yonrn, tor 1 ain’t agoing out of here ;
now that’s what’s tho matter with the
purps. I don’t care if you are twenty
ei_>ht years old, you ain’t no boss of
mine.”
A Tale of Grant and Chan
dler.
Senator Chand'er, now larding the
lean earth about Washington, lias a
history. Of course lie has, and from
time to time we have given specimens
of this charming biography. One
lately came to us that is charming,
as it nut only illustrates old Zach,
but. calls up a higher personage in an
engagement not put to record by the
historian Badeau. It seems that
when Grant, then Captain Grant,
United States Army, was stationed
at Detroit ho one day slippe4l and
fell upon the snow-covered sidewalk
in front of Senator Chandler’s resi
dence. The indignant captain, who
went down in a sitting position with
the solid suddenness of a pile-driver,
and saw stars, and heard peals of
merry laughter, got up again, and,
wending his way to tho nearest mag
istrate, entered complaint against old
Yardstick, said Chandlor, for failing
to keep his sidewalk clear of snow
and ice in accordance with the ordi
nance in such case made and provi
ded.
Now Chandler appeared ns his
own attorney and made defense, He
sat up that the captain’s fall down was
not caused by the accumulated snow
and ice, hut by the noble captain
being very drunk And then he
went on to toll, much to the amuse
ment of the crowd, how the noble
captain was wont to gel drunk and
cut tip great whisky shines, to I lie
iriitation of the solid men of De
troit. As the crowd had seen some
thing of the sort, it encouraged old
Yardstick, who grew eloquent and
assailed the gallant captain n 9 he has
since been wont to assail the British
lion. This so enraged the unhappy
officer that when the complaint was
dismissed, he assaulted the eloquent
Zach with a horsewhip, and before
the admiring crowd could interfere,
administered a lively castigation upon
his eloquent defamer.
This accounts for the honorable
Zach’s admiration for and love of the
President. “It is astonishing,” said
Colonel Dumas, “how we like a man
after we have fought him.” Only
old Zach did not fight— Capital.
A facetious keeper, w ho was taking
two convicts to jail last week, when
the train stopped called out, “Step
out, gentlemen—fifteen years for
refreshments.”
The difference between a Christian
and a cannibal was described by a
Sunday school boy as follows: “Ono
enjoys bis self and t’other enjoys
other people.”
A water spout —A teetotal lecturer.
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No. 23.
»lim Fisk and tlio News Boy.
Stories of Col. Fisk are constantly
in circulation, some true, others not ;
hut a .ittle incident that occurred not
many months before bis death is per
haps one of the most touching of any
1 hat have been given to the public.
I Ids one Mrs. T'i>k takes especial
pleasure in recalling, illustrating, as
it does, her husband’s kindness of
1 cart, bis sympathy and readiness to
help those who needed aid. Colonel
Fisk had often noticed in Twenty
third street a little crippled newsbov,
and one day he spoke to him in his
bluff’, offhand manner:
“Well, mv boy, how’s business?”
“Not very good, sir,” was the reply.
“What’s the matter?”
“Why, you see I’m lame, and l
can’t run, and the other bovs get
ahead of me, and I can’t sell my
papets very well.”
“Not a very good look out for you,
is it ? I say, my boy, how would
you like to go into business with me?’’
The boy looked perplexed, and
eyed the Colonel curiously.
“I think we might strike up a bar
gain. You come to the Opera House
at 1 I this morning. I've got a plan
tor you; now ’neon time.”
At 11 o'clock the bov was there,
quite euiions to know what the Colo
nel wanted.
“Halloa, hoy ; you’re a good one.
Now, see Ifere, do yon know a good
place for n pi per stand ?"
“Y*s, sir, tip top.”
“Where is it?”
“Down here at the corner.”
“How much will a stand cost
“Lots of money; as much as fifty
or a hundred dollars.”
“You don’t say so; why that's a
foitune. Do you think there’s money
to he made there ?”
‘ Ye«, Ido It’s a first rate place.”
“Well, 111 get a carpenter to make
the stand and i'll stock it; then yon
shall take care of it and we’ll be
partners; you and I will go into the
paper business ”
Co'.onel Fisk then arranged with
! the buy what part of the profits lie
should receive, told him when the
stand should he ready and sent him
on his wav rejoicing. The plan was
successful. Trade wrs good, and
every week the hov carried his share
of the money to limpattner. Seeing
the hoy’s determination. Col. Fisk qui
etly put the money aside, and one day
gave it all to the hoy, releasing him
hum his contract to pay any part of
the money to himself. When Col.
Fisk died thore was nowhere a sin
cerer mourner than this little news
boy, and the little stand on the cor
ner was heavily draped on the day of
burial.
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A happy young bridal party went
down from Peoria on the I*, I’, and
J. railroad the other morning. The
blushing young bride thrust her
head out of ilie car window as the
train started oil', and, after looking
around for a moment or two, sudden
ly jerked her head hack with a quick
exclamation, and buried her face in
her hands. Her loving, Lightened
husband sought to learn (lie cause of
her disma*', and o tie red feeble conso
lation ; "What was it, darling?—
Wliat Lighted it, dear? Fell its
own htihhy ? What makes it cry ?”
There wasn’t much to cry about to
he sure ; oh, no ! Darling had only
droppe-i a set of glittering front teeth
out of the window, that was all.
The sad affair has cast a gloom over
the entire community.
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UvuiKit Novku—A little girl of
Mr. M. Hall has been (until within
the few past days) for some tim«
meting out rations lo a huge black
snake. To a room near the kitchen
the child daily repaired, and, alter
seating herself on t lie floor, his snake
ship would g ide familia ly into her
lap and partake composedly of the
wonted meal of teacake »r cracker*
with wiiiili the child led it.
The above has revived a great
many snake stories, known facts to
many. Some say now, if that snake
is killed the child will die. Of course
it will—hut Mr. Hall is too intelligent
to believe that the killing of a snake
can affect the longevity of human
life. 'Flint any one, in this age of
enlightenment, should he so ignorant
and supeistitious as to think so is
very remarkable.— Calhoun Times.
The man who picked up a double
i tailed wasp has lost his interest in
entomologyhe studies chemistry
and surgery.
A dving woman wanted to he bu
ried in it Dollv Vaiden. A nice
spectacle she would present on resur*
lection morning.
A drvgood* de.Ver advertises “ The
' most alarming sacrifice since the
dav> of Abraham and T.-aac.”