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THE WEEKLY GWINNETT HERALD. Iylkb * ;KPLKS ' I Bri,, **l> PKOKBIKTOK. ( ■ The ■ y SETT HERALD I,»■»•'» TI ' MDAV BV B eePL ES & BOWLES. ■slKlUl'ON BATES : ■ViffiOß.. #1.50 in advance. ■ .78 in advance. K mo s.. .50 in advance. ■ Enough for Everybody ■ - ■ 11EHALD is uneqvaled hq rirntlolf n ■. U, '■«'is. hrhwssmn. ■ itmenbtr thi ’ IfsKS BLANKS ! BLANKS ■aM. KINDS NtATI.V PRINTED) sale at the mi;A!) JOE OFFICE IT Poetry. B nil 18K.41. w IFK B ) | iH .. iii the world must !»• Hu 1 lmvt* prayed to see. 1 .'>»>•. Ix'i lord Sind kin;!. I M . is scattering Hm c from her purple wing. ■ brink of summer st reams, Hip mnnl delicious dreams ; will, my sweet o!ie s wins. sheen of summer skies Hpvtu eil funny eyes, H,. ihmiglit i . quickly dies. winter tires burn low, fuees come nnd dying ashes glow, ■l inin' I hear low mol soft. |,..v. I e.illlf to ever meet Slid !0 t ■hi mill io i ,» ■Jusll AN Y - 7, containing epigram , / v ,e»»iouH from Col Rob c* latest lecture' just we do to be saved (e read the tract and the lec'uiv If this is truly In -1 “creed, the Colonel is not lof the’way. Re is coming I maybe. He manages to osidertible scripture inio his >8 lie tets it forth. There of bore, there is a greit I certainty for the Colonel. N°>a a few articles of this creed, just to show fiom tool lie got his declarudon test industry is as goed as dieness, says the Colonel. L that s all right. That's or r le B.ble says die same N Mid it long before 'lie 1 thought of it.—“Fa”.h P‘sieved the temple 0| r 1 e the heart of iuau.—lu. ’s ordiodox 100. We porship him i n the spirit.’’ |' e no * that ycare the tern | ! " Holy Ghost," M t > Leuven I want to pitason with me— lngoi P Urs <?; and so yon will, “f«r I«• through a glass dark I there face to face: now I pin but then I shall kl\ JW renown 1 Corrin- I>B a dagger with which liy I Busina'os the soul’’—ln r* f= w «l g ispel, and “per iOsteth out fear. ’ P® Smith ten dollars, and p‘Hs me. that doesn't pay • 1111 ; the prayer of ** “Forgiven our [*« for give our debtors,’’ l mun anything. I' ' 3 l 0 hght of the souh f la ' eu t the right to fol |7 hav *yo# u right to r lll gersoll, I ( ‘hurc|i I hud rather f* words with my uuder hi my voice f might W: lßhlK '’‘ titan ten thou | ' e ‘-ot children iu under l i u \ )t) 17; ’ uliu understanding f lCo '-. 14,19, ao “If you go to hell, it will be for not practicing ilie virtues which the sermon on the Mount pro claims’—lngersoll. That’s all ortbordox. "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.” “The men who saw the miracle all died long ago. I wasn’t ac quainted w ith any of them.’—lnger soil. Same way with the men who saw Servetus burned. But the Colonel most firmly believes Serve tus was burned. “A little miracle now, right here —just a little one—wou'd do more toward the advancement of Christianity than all the preaching of the last thirty years,”—lnger poll. “If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuade 1 though ene rose from the dead.”—Luke 17, 31. “If there is a God into universe he will not damn an honest man— Ingersoll. “A false balance is an abomina tion unto the Lord ; but a just weight is His delight.”—Proverbs G, 1. “There is only one true worship and that is the practice of justice.’ —lngersoll. “Render therefore unto Ctesar the things which are CYesar’s, and unto God the things which bo God's.—-Luke 20, 25. God will not damn a good citi zen, a good father ora good friend —lngersoll. ‘‘A. good man shovveth favour, and leaded] . he will guide his af fairs with dscretion. Surely, he hall not be moved forever ; the lighte iuh shall be henl in ever’ast ing remembrance.’’—Psalms 22, 5 li. ’ ** ■* »JV»( , in preference to tho religion ui soul. A nealthy body will give a healthy mind, and a healthy mind will destroy superstition.”—lnger soll. That explains why the Indians have no superstitions “People who have the smallest souls make the most fuss about saving lhem.”—-lugersoll. Of course, Colonel, they are the hardest kind to save. “I ?il! never ask God to treat me any fairer than I tna' my fel low meu.”—lngersoll. Well, that’s perfectly orthodox. “For if ye forgive men their tres passes, your heavenly Father wilj so forgive you ; but if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your Ire 3 pas.-e.s." For with what judge ment ye judge, ye shall be judged and with that measure ye meet, it sliull be measured to you “Upon the shadowy shore <Y death, the sea of trouble casts no no wave.”—lngersoll. The Colonel inns Lave been singing that g»od old by mm “Wheu I can read my title clear,’ in which occur the lines: “And not a wave us troob o roll. A ross my peaceful breast.” Tli«‘ l aiini Jacket ul tiraj The New York Commercial Ad vertiser. a Itepubiisau sheet, says that “Jtfferson Davis and liis cause areas dead as Julius Cicsar, and the Sun hern people are show iug so unmistakably that they' know this that the bourbon Sena tors are quaking in their shoes.”— Tt e malicious lie is altogether worthy of the malignant pen which wrote it and the base mind which conceived it. TheAimighiy doubt less would have withered the trembling hand wmch guidei the pen and paralyzed bis foul heatt had he no' deemed it wise to let him live ills author of such a mas terpiece of mendaei y until a small and sclec pit, deeper ai.d hotter than any yet dug by the devil for lying republicans, can be prepar ed for his reception ! “Jefferson Davis and his cause live in the m -liiory of a hundred hard-won fields, iu tlie hearts of a proud and valiant and uneouqtier ed, but overpe wered people, in the heroism of the dead who sleep in thousands o f most honorable graves from the plains of Manasas to the pi arias of Texas, and in the glory of a grand principal immor tal as the White Wmgrd seraphs which circle the great white Lawreneeville Georgia, Tuesday February 19, 1884 throne ! The neign of the iron horse and the song of the spindle mingle merily and the new South sweeps, as upou eagle’s wings, to a great and glorious future; while the old South in her weeds, and with bow eil bead bends lovingly over the sacred ruins of a brave but bitter pest. But the South is still the South, and the grief of the old , shall never he forgotten in the grandeur of the new, for between the two there h«ngsa sweet memo lial which binds our hearts to the past, even while our hands are building the future. The faded jacket of gray!—the violet’s breath is not sw eter than he memories by which it, is hallowed, nor the shimmering stars more beautiful | than the glory amid whicl it i g j folded! A thing inanimate, it yet speaks with eloquent tongue.— Every buttou has its memory,both dark and bright, Every seam im age some deed of patrietio daring. I Its solid front tells of the dust of buttle and its ragged edges speak jof scaired veterans. Its very si j lence is pathetic with the story of the honored dead, and its every feature thrills the heart to tears for the cause which was lost. The faded jacket of gray it not confirr ed to any one household in this j sunny land. It hangs alike in the hut on the hillside'aod the man shut in the city. In many, alas ! how many instances is >t hung up on the vacant chair, never more to giace the form which long ago fill ed a Southern soldier's grave. In this land of 'lie South the faded jacket of gray is a common herit age freighted with a common woe. Wherever the orphan’s cry is heard and the widow's prayer is breath ed, there you will find it. Where fjm the family^,ciyc^ Laud of war, we turn our eyes to this and behold through our tears thiß faded jacket of gray. It tells a solemn but grand sto ry, this faded jacket of gray. 1/ tells of thousands of bright swords which sprang from their scabbards at the call of duty. It tells of the liery charge—the stubber.. fight lie bleeding hero—the dead pa triot—'be adroit retreat,—the can nou s sullen roar and the field with corpes strewn. It tells of those God-like men who sacrificed life, liberty, property, for what they conceived to be right. Look at it. and the majestic form of Jack son rises to view. Look at it, and the calm, noble face cf Lee, peers kindly upon yon from amongst the buttons and lie braid. Mother, look at it and the pale fa eof your son eonicS back from a soldiers grave! Son, gaze upon it, and the honored form of your dead father se<*ms to rise from the fresh earth. Wife, look upon it, and tho fond husband who exchanged it for a shroud is o'ce mote be fore you. Sis;er look at it, and iiuce again you see the gentle face of your lung lost, brother. Be they living or dead, we honor the men who wore the faded jacxet of gray. Palsied be the hand that would strike one star from the crown of their fame, which will brig! teu to the fcfid of time. ••Nor braver bled for a brighter land' N or hi ifelitei land had a cause sogrand* Nor cause a chief like l.ee.” Smith Glaytom. Mettcru Courtship “And you really love me V lie asked, as he coiled his arm around her wasp-like sys ein. “And you will always love me so ?” “Always, Frederick; always so. "And you pledge me to so beau tify my life that it will always be as happy as now ?" “With uiy last breath, Freder ick-” -And darling you will mend my •) fcOC* — “Your what sir T •Aon will mend uiy social ways and draw me upward and onward to a better exstance T “It will be the pride of my love so to do, my Frederick; J will sac tifice all for your complete happi ness." "I know that, sweetness: lint suppose that in the fullness of lime some accident should happen to my tron—” "You forget yourself, sir. To DEVOTED TO NEWS, UTEHATUKE AND IXH'AF AFFAIRS your what ?’’ “To the trousseau; would it de fer the hour that makes you mine?' “Nevei. Frederick: I wti yours mild and heart and naught can separate us.” "But what I want to say is, tba l should my puut—” “Begone, sir. What do you mean f” “Hear me, my life, I say if my panting bosom should grow could in death, would your love still warm ii T” “As the sun melts the iceburg’ Frederick, so would the rays of my affection thrill your heart again "rind you will care for me ever, my sould and 1 for you, for :ho’ I may never iiave a shir—” “Enough! Leay me forever.' “Bui listeu. Though I may never have a shirking disposition, I shall sometimes, perhaps, in the struggle of life, forget the plain duty—” “And 111 remind you of it, Fred erick, in tender actions, and make the duties of existance so pleasant of performance that to avoid them wilt be pain.” dud so that’s mode' ll courtship Lots of alls'raet swash, but mani fust disinclinations to contemplate such conveniences as buttons, socks, tionsets and shirts. W e make the foilwing extrac from a eonespondents letter to the Macon 7'elegrapn, giving a ■report of the v omarks by Bishop Pierce, on the evening of liis wed ding on tho 4th. ;nst: Tite Bi*.iop responded in a most felicitous speech of about half a’t Lour, the most inteiesting and eloquent I ever listened to. It was a brief review of bis labors for the pas fifty years, snd a tri umpbaut vindication of his choice fftci*'*VeVss' sent to Savannah a young man, anil required, on ac_ count ol some difficulty between some uember ts the church, to keep bachelor e hall in the parson, age rather than board with eithei of the contending factions. He tried this for ona year and. determined to get sotae one to keep house for him. TI« found his present wife who like himself, poor in ttiis world’s goods For he had deter mined never to marry any woman who had more than he had. He did not intoud to have it thrown in his teeth in after years by any woman ibat she hail supported him. or by her mony lifted him up. He courted her and ihey married at the end of the year. He had eleven dollars and she had five dollars, and with this they started life iu Charleston, IS. 0 tie had foil id a good and safj counsellor and friend in ill ihe past years. They s urttd poor and had held their own fully. Tot they had never v\an ted. T.iey Lai raised and educa ted tlioir children all of whom were present. Unpaid beautiful tribute to his children for their kindness and urvotiou to their parents. He wound up the tvhole by atlojffiug the old custom, aid saluted his bride with a kiss. After this followeduhe salutations of the large concourse present. W e were then invited to the table, where a most elegant spread had been pre pared byLovick Pierce theßishop’s only son. I need not say that it was eujoyed. We then returned to the parlors, and spent an hour or two in social conversation. The whole was closed by family prayer, devotions lead by Dr. Pot er. All uni e 1 iu singing two verses of an old and familiar hymn—being I “Hero I'll Raise my Eledezer” j The crowd then disperced. This morning an artist took the family | group representing the Bishop and his a tire family. Rarely, ifj ever was there such a mee itig , and happy wore those of us who j were allowed to be prosont. •Broke” *»«i Change. A very seedy, yet extremely dig nified, elderly individual emerged from an adjacent bucket-shop and joined the crowd of excited specu lar* collected in (1 unblera, alley. “That man,” said a habitue of the locality to a repoter, “was rich a few years ago. He had cash in the bank real esta'e and securities enough to make him worth SISO,O'M)! Now he hasn't a dollar, I verrily believe. How did be lose it? The same way be made i—speculation, and a good deal of whiskey nixed into qaiok en the process es getting rid of bis wealth. "He is a fair type of a class well represoned around here," lh° speaker continued. "There are abou l n dozen of them who at some time have 1 een positively rich, and numberless other«in Hie different grades of well-off to com fortably fixed and indipendant. To all alike a five dollar bill is now a rarity seldom poaessed. There is one who less that five years ago made $150,000 in a sin gle deal tint never saw a dollar of it. He hung on to make more, •met when the market turned lost not only every penny cf that big profit but. all he possessed besides and bis membership certificate in the board also. The shock affect, ed his mind a little. Another had $125,000 and lost all in a few mouths. Another, two years ago was a big commission merchant, rich and influential now a wreck. Another draw $2,000 every month from his commissions and lived nearly up to it; now ho hasn’t a dollar There are plenty of them elderly men generally too old to begin anew. ‘ Usually liquor is as much to blame for their present ria'e as he change in their luck. They hang around the game they can no longer play. Its fascination is just as strong as in the days of their good fortune. Still posses sin* - a large circle of acquaintan ces among the commission-man. they are the bate noir of brokers, ives. One of tli win wili walk into hiß old broker's office and beg him to make a trade for his account. so. Usually it’s a loss and the broker has to p eke! it. But that doesn't boter ihe broken-down speculator. He repeats the ra quest again nul of course is refus ed although it’s unpleasant and hard to tha commission lmm iosay ‘no.’ “They rarely racover lest fortu ne, or any part of it. Their luck might change, but their bibits naver do.”—Chicauo Tribune. Het Sqrings, Februiry I),—A terrible tragedy was enacted on the streets of the city this Horning at about II o’clock. Three brothers named Frank Jack and Willian Flynn were procee ling home in a hack when a party of seven men, armed with d luble barrel shot guns and Winches er rifle®,stepped out from the door of the saloon and opened fire. The Flyms were ar-* mod but the attact was totally un expected. Jack Flynn was shoi through the fore hea I by a ball from a Winchester rifle, and died in a few minots. William wa* shot through the breast, and ike wound will pro 1 -ably prove fat»l Frank renewed a shot through the hand, inflictitiga slight wound Frank Hell, driver of the hack, was shot through the back snd died an hour afterward. Robert Hargrwave a bystander was shot through the breast, //e will prob* ably die. J. H. Craig, a promi nent lumberman, receive 1 a charge of I aek ot through the back sin his coiidi ion is oonsidesed preea rious. The difficulty originated some week* ago in an effort of Frnk Flynn to prevent one Doran from opening a gambling house. It culminated at the time in Doran making a cowardly a tempt to assus sinate Frank failing in which he fled the city. He returned a few nights ago, but Flynn was uua ware of his prose/ice in the city tin til the fatal volley opened on him. The seven men who did the shoot ing were wrested and are now in jail. They are S. A. Doran, two Pruitt brothers, a man name I Howell and three others. The most intense excitement prevai* sud strong threats of lynching the prisoners a-e made. The citizens ■ re )< ud in their condem nation of the morcerous and cow ardly act. Judge Wood has been telegraphed t > by leading citizens requesiiug him to adjourn court at j Malvern, and return hers, and J hold a special session to try i lie \ murderer*. If he consems the law will probably be allowed to take its course. If not the citi zeos boldly threaten to burn the jail and bang the prisoners. correspondence Editor Herald: —Tn your issue of the 22nd. ult., in which you pub fished tlie 2nd meeting of the citi zctis of this (Berkshire) district, von proceeded in a lengthy edito rial to lampoon the good people of this district for what they say in those resolutions. I hope you will allow rue. through your col unis. to answer some of the points von make, This is a question in which l have no more interest than any o her citizen, and 1 have no friends to reward or enemies to puuisA. I have no ax to grind. lam also satisfied that the new Court House is a fixed fact and that anything I may say or do will not in the least relieve tho people of tlie county from the burdens of the fax I' is believed by many that it w is a Lawreneeville movement and aud that selfishness was the pro pelling power. Wo do not pre tend to say that it will materially benefit the people ol the town per tonally, but we do say that we he lieve the object was to ornament and beaivity the town. The peo ple of the country are not willing to he taxed for that purpose more especially when Miev are unable to ornament their homes. T do not pretend to say this was an organized effort of the citizens of the town to get tho recomrnen tioi> through Hie Grand Jury but 1 do believe that there was infln ence brought to bear upon that body that cause 1 them to make the recommendation. That the new Court House will ho a great er benefit to tin- people of the conn try tb m the people of the rwt, gs tm argument that is ho overrhelm ing aud withering Hi a I will not "Hemp UJ answer it. i will say for the benefit of I? irkwliiro that they have no prejudice aga usl, the ppopleof Lawreneeville on account of their opposition to our effort 'o be cut off fr >m the county, and tha' fact was not named in our meeting tba 1 I know of. You have no' a Located a new court, house in your columns, i« true, until now. Any person who reads your editorial can easily see where you stand. You say that the present court lions* has prov ed to he totally inadequate 'o the growing wants .if the people. Can you point to a single instance where any person has escape 1 jus lice on account of the inadequacy of the court house ? If Gwinnett is the second county in the circuit I say let it remain so, and not try to break the people up by taxa lion. Ido not protend to say that *be former building committee can be legally held re spoil able for their want of skill in architecture, (as you say) but I will say they would m ike very poor hotel keep ers in my opinion, / do not know wh i composed that committee You think we go too far in mak ing a test lor official position. 1 think that the officers of the coun ty belong to the voters of the coun ty, and they have a perfect right to say who they will give them to. If their public servants recklessly squander their money, as they are doing iu the present case, they hare a right to call upon them to giro an tieconn' of their steward, ship and turn them out at the next election That the county author ities ire honest men, the people of Berahirc nor I, have never ques j tioned, but we must in all cand ir be allowed to say tha* we hold them responsible for their official j acts, and we know of no better 1 way of doing it than through the ballot box. I have now answered ] (r noticed all your points, that you make in your lampooning. I will now say that if there was no court house in the county, this would be a poor time to build'one Last years crop in many parts of the county, was almos 1 a total fail ure. Many good farmers are not able to make another crop without help in the way es indulgence. i think it a great hardship up on the people to be taxed to build a magnificent Court House to or nament the county town, when they are unable to build a comfort able school house to educate their children in. Outside of the towns of Lawreneevilie, Norcross, Du ludi and Buford, 1 nm informed that there is n«l a respectable school lu use in the county. The Grand Jury who made tho reeom simulation I have no doubt are * respec'able and homvt set of gen ilumen, but that they did wrong, many of them are n»w free to ad mit. The county Commissioners are all, so far as 1 know, gentlemen and some of them are my w " u per soiial friends, / am tru'y sorry that they have made such a l.lnn der. Between all men who aided or abated in saddling this un ncctssary taxntior upon tho peo ple and future official position, there is a great gulf fixed that they never can pass. They have wound «ul the packatt nerve so terribly it never will heal. W. B. Bautswaiii,. Mr Editor:—-! send you a few dots of our Flarida trip. We left the writer’s home Nov. 21st. Our little party consisted of NY T Miner, SII Pickens, my self and two negroes At Flat Shoals we met Mr A J Goldsmith and George Stickland, of DeKalb county, this made seven in our party Tha first six days wo saw neith er sun, moon sor stars,fyel it rain ed but little—just enough to keep everything wet and nasty. After that tho weather was dry and pleas ant, in fact, rather too dry. In In the lower part of Boor gin and upper part of Florida it. was diffi cult matter to gat water fcor our stock, and in some places for our selves. Wo reached Ocoee, our destina • t iau Dec 12th., just three weeks on the tramp, 480 miles,. Wc found our friend, .I H(1 Maguire and finally all well and well pleas •d with Florida. Tho hsalfh />'' himself and f imily Inis been better i littti it was in Georgia. They suetu to think tin re is no plac ( , like Florida. We settled down to write as soon 's we go I here, consequently have not scon much of ihe ccuntry but Jam wed pleased with wlmt. I have send. There are some very fine lands in this section, both hanimoc and pine lands. It i«, no doubt, one of the bcsl sections in t he Sla'e, ns our lands arc equal to any n the Sla'e and our coun Irv is fast settling up with good, industrious people, nearly all from Georgia 15 from Gwinnett. And last but not lea ul , we have a good climate, being i u me South side of tkc lake which gives us wliat is called ti winter protection. That makes our climate equal to one de gree South without Use water pio lection. We have 40 acres fenced, 11 cleared, G in liainmoc, 5 in in pine lands and will set it all in orange trees. Wall ve 4 acres planted in cucumbers and will set 4or 5 in Tomatoes. Tlie vegetable busi ness is a big thing here. There are hundreds of acres devoted to vegetables in this section, hut lit tie attention is given to anything hut vegetables and tropical fruits. Some few plant corn and sugar cane, but no cotton. Lake Apapka is said to he tLe next largest lake in the State. It covers 300 square miles. We will have a l>oat ou it in a short time as we have been hauling stork and lumber for several days to build the first boat that wi.l run on Lake Apapka. But Ido sot tbisk the transportation will be equal to the demand this year, as th« boat son a small scale, bnt think we will have good transportation by another year. At present our near est transporta'ion is Orlanda, 14 miles. Perhaps it is too early for snake ofories in your section, but I will send you one from Florida. While woijdng in our haminoc on the 21st of Dec., we killed a rattle snako nearly 7 feet long and ten inches around, nine rattles aud a button. A few days after near the same place we found another five and a half feet long and nine iuehes around and had six rattles and a button. We captured him alive and wdl bring it borne to show our Gwinnett frj nd* some of the pro nets of Florida. 1 read the resolutions of the Berkshire meeting and endorse ct ery ward of them. Tdo not know jVol. XIII.- No. 47 who nor bow r any composed ‘hat meeting, but I do know that their resolutions expressed the send moot* of the people of Berkshire unanimously. I also lead Keno's attact on them, but his argument s too thin to have »vy effect on sensible men. A few of t.lieOener sis, Colonols, Majors and Judges around the city of Fjawrenceville make up the few who advocate the new Court House. Now Mr Knno, do you think it is r ght ihut one man should say •say what Ittrt should do 1 Ido not l.eavs it to a vote and let us hear what the people say. A. N. Mi von. Ocoee, Fla, Jan 27th Is,SI Savannah, Februaay 9._Great preparations are lieing made for the reception of the State ngricult ural society which convenes here nexl I uesday The foil wing is the anounced programme of exercisas. First dly convention epens wi'b prayer at it o'clock am. Adress of welcome by Hon. Rufus K I.es ter. mayor of Suvauah. Res police for the convention by Hamilton Yuncy, of Rome Anuai address of president Hardeman. Resolu lions and privilege question. An esay—“System in Farmirg o Nec cessity," by Coin el James M. Mob ley, of Hamilton. Ga . Calling and perfecting roll of delegates. Adjournment for dinner. In the afternoon session, an ossnv —“Technical Education in Geor gia,” by Hon. N. E. Harris, of Macon, Ga, An adress—“Farm He morny. by Hon. \V, .1 North ern of Spurt", tin. Deferred business, new business, adjourn ment. An experience me* tiug will be held at, night; on the sec ond day, the programme will be report of experiments at univer sity farm, with an esay on “com posting,’’by l’lofesser H. C. White of Ath* iih. Georgia, an essay, “in ocj s " ,“sTi nr-li->j *n —-jgmtbern • agriculture.” by Ri’ey, entomologist of die United Sla es agricultural department an essay, “intelligence „„ a factor in successful farming,” by Rev. I). A. .1. Ruitie, President of Msr c*t University, Macon Georgia. Adjournment for dinner. The afternoon session will hear re ports of committees. An ad dress. "the tidal lands „f the south Atlando coast,, aad the uses to which they may bo devoted other than tlm w 11 1 1 nr*» of rice, by Colonel Joha Screven, of Savannah, Deo.'g.a. Itesolu'ious and closing business. Aach ad dress or report of eemmittee will !>• followed by short discussions | Convetion opens at it o'clock a m an*l .‘t o'clock p,m. A widow, ye ting, good looking and lively, had many adrmrers.bat H ho was ho impartial that when, just ■about a-year from her hus band s death, she gave public invi tat ions to her wedding, nobody could tell whether the favorite one was a certain widower, a bache lor, or one of two young men, and to keep the secret, she declared she would be married in a burn of hers m the dark. The minister too, entered into the spirir of the altair, and to mistify the people still more the bride enter d the barn alone at one door an l tli° groom at another. There were at 1 ass two hundred present. The ceremony proceeded in darkness, and at its close the crowd brake for the bride and carried her home in triumph in a chair But where began the trouble, the wid ower, the bachelor an ,i fj 10 tu(( young men each swore that he held the widow's plump hand and was married to her; the crowd could not decide, the minister didn’t know and the widow' was puzzled, for all claimed to be en gaged to her, for although the widower was her choice, he might Lav been jolted aside; indeed* be acknowledged that somebjdy tri *d to choke him in the dark. The four men fought, but that didn't settle ,t. The guests ducked two of them in the brook, but still no light. Finally, the widower com promised with the others by giv ing them one hundred pounds each, and reigned as her lord.— The affair has never been explain ed. One of the young men is mar riad. but still declares he was miu ried to Widow Dodsworth in the big burn The other also pro tests that he iaher lawful husband The bachelor is dead, bat main tained to the end : ‘T married her—l ought to have her.”—Lou don World.