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MISCEI liANY.
AN UNLUCKY ? HOI
‘\Y ell, here we are at last, any
hor ; and now we'll Le aide to get
things ship shape a bit."
So spoke the first officer of the
Britania, as her anchor splashed
into the smooth water of Port
of Spain roadstead, in the West
Indian island of Trindad; and the
first smile that had been seen on
his hard old face for nearly a
week broke over it as he locked
around him
The view was certainly beauti
ful enough to have drawn a smile
from any man living. The first
rays of sunrise were jwst stream
iug through the gorges of the
Maracas mountains, and lighting
up the stately palms and dark
gieen orange groves that clothed
them almost to the summit.
Below them lay the broad plain
dotted with trim white houses,
half burried in clustering trees or
green, feathery sugar canes, while
in the fore grouud the quaint, half
Spanish streets and gardens of
the town straggled along the curv
ing shore of the bright blue sea.
Bat tlie finest landscape in tLe
tropics woula have had little effect
npon Mr Joht. Jawiey—whom the
crew were wont to call “Jawing
Jack,” when there ans no risk of
his heaving them—and if he smil
ed, it was not from any admit a
tion of scenery, but simply because
he was glad to find himself snug
ly at anchor ogaic.
4 nd well he m'ght be. Ah the
way across the Gulf of Mexico the
pool old Brittania had had the
wind as deed against her as if (so
the boatswain muttered savagely,)
“somebody had got up nearly eve
ry morning and turned the wind
round 'he wrong way.” With the
wind had come floods of rain, as if
that wao not enough, the sea be.-t
in the sky light scuttle, and come
pouring down below, washing Lalf
the passengers out of their berths
and setting a whole fleet of carpet
bags aid portmanteaus afloat in
the saloon.
As for the officer’s staterooms,
they were so completely flooded
that the purser, who was a bit of
a wag in his way, had proposed to
paste up a notice in the compan
ion way, offering a h tndsome re
ward for the discovery of a pair of
dry pants.
Altogether, the first officer had
good cause to be out of temper
first and foremost, the captain was
ill, and Mr Jawiey had to take the
whole charge of the ship himself.
Then the salt water had spoiled
his new uniform, and had damag
ed a box of handsomely bourd
books which had just been sent
him from home Thirdly, he had
given his nose a tremendous
kuook, which bad made it swell up
as big as a pear ; from all which
causes combined he looked, as the
old quarter master remarked with
a grin, ’’bout as li*ppy as a
skinned rat in a pickle barrel."
“What on earth are those creep
ing fellows on shore about?”
growled Juw.ng Jack. “They
must have seen us and yet there
is no sign of any boats coming
off. We’d belter fire our gun end
wake ’em up a bit- Where's that
sii> ual gun ?”
“Down in the after hold, sir,
answered a sailor. “You told us
to put it there ,totlier night, to be
out of harm’s way.”
“And did I tell you to keep it
there for ever after, you lubber?'
roared the officer turning fiercslv
upon him. “Up with it, smart, or
there'll be a row !”
The gun was slung, and hoisted
up iu a twinkling, tor the men
knew by experience tint Jawing
Jack was not to be trifled with
But when he attempted to load it,
it proved to be half choked with
something which, whatever it
might be, would plainly have to
be got out before the charge
could be got in.
Again and again did Mr. Jawiey
thrust in the rammer as fiercely
as if he was stabbing au enemy
but the obs:ruction would not
yield.
“YY’ho's beeu meddling with the
gun?” thundered be, glaring
j aroniul him tike a tiger about to
j spring.
Lawrenceville Georgia, Tuesday June 3 1884
There was a dead silence, and
all the sailors seemed trying hard
to look as if they were somewhere
else, while the purser, who was al
ways the first to be suspected
when any trick had been played
prudently drew back out of sight
knowing well, that Mr- Jawley.
when fairly aroused, would have
thought nothing of knocking
down an admiral on Ins own quar
ter deck.
Receiving no answer, the first
officer thought he might as web
clear the gun first, aud find ou t
the author of the trick aftenvard
■‘Hand up the powder horn,
shap!' oiied be, and he was instant
lv obeyed.
Scraping the touch-hole clear
with his knife, he dropped in some
powder and flashed it off. hoping
to burn away the obstruction from
without if he could not rake it out
from within. Instantly there
arose a smell so horrible that al!
the officers jumped back as if they
had been shot, and even the
roughest sailors made wry faces
But Mr. Jawley, whose iron vis
age changed no more than if the
scent had been rose water, drop
ped in pinch after pinch of pow
der, tiil he thought he had b urn
ed away enough of he gun’s con
tents—whatever they might be to
make room for a charge which
should blow away the obstruction
matter altogether.
“Wheel it to the side and
point down into the water,” order
ed he. pouring a goodquarter of a
pound through the touch-hole.
So ' completely had every
one been occupied with the gun
that nobody noticed a small boat
putting off to them from the shore.
Pulled by four stout negroes, it
came briskly ou, and ran alongside
just as the gun was fired. The re
port was followed by a yell ro ter
rific that it s artled the wnole ship,
Mr. Jawley sprang upon the
bulwarks and saw. to his horror
three men lying in the boat and
seemingly dead, wl ile fourth wip
ing a great splash of crimson from
his black face was screaming out
he was “blowed all to bits.”
The boat was at once hoisted
on board and the four victims
were taken down to the doctor,
who came up a few minutes later
with a very puzzled face.
“I don't know wliat to think of
those fellows,” said he- “There’s
not ihe least sign of a weund any
where about them, and I eanuot
imagine whers on earth all that
blood can have come from.
“I think I can,” chuckled the
second officer, holding up the
crushed body of a young rat
which he had found in the Loat.
“The brutes must have made a
nest in the gun when it was down
in the hold, and Jawiey’s mashed
all i life young rats to pulp with
his laimner, and then tired 'em
right in among the poor fellows!
No wonder they thought, ihey
were blown to pieces."
The laugh that followed shook
the very air, while Mr. Jawiey
looked as if he were going to
burst on the spot.
It was noticed from that day
forth that any one w o wished to
throw him ; nto a furious rage had
only to ask whether there were
auv rats down in the hold.
“Surely you can trust me?” lie
said in pleading tones.
“No” the lady replied sorrowful
ly. “I can pu no more trust in
men. My experience has been
too, too bitter.”
“Bnt J swear by yonder ”
“Do not swear," she interrupted
“it is useless. You must forget
what Las passad between us. as
she walked to the back endiof the
store and sat dowu * under Hie
counter,
He was trying to buy a new
spring bonnet for his wile on tick
•••
In Athens, the other day, sever
al little negroes, while piayiug up
on the street, discovered tnat one
of their number, aged about sev
en years, was afraid of frogs.
Tbsy beguu to throw caips at him
telling him they were frogs. One
of the chips on his neck and
sliped down his back. It se up
a fearful scream, when its compan
ious ran away laughing. The
child was found iu the street u i h
a spasm and carried home. For
two days and nigh’s oneapastn fol
lowed in quick sneession and it is
doubled if it cau live.
'The yellow fever is killing' a
good mmy more people in Cuba
than Aguero and all his band com
| bined.
DEVOTE) TO NEWS, LITERATURE'. AND LOCAL AFFAIRS
*li«t for Eighty Ontw
EfFAUi.A, Aca., May 27.— At
Col. J L Pugh's place a mite from
town. Henry Melvin shot Milledge
Hob this morning with intent to
kill, for 80 cents. Melvin's wife
h id been working for Holt and he
owed her the sum mentioned,
which she told him not to pay
Melvin, but he decided to collect
it, and s'ated to several persons
that if it was refused he would kill
Holt. With this purpose he took
a gun and went to a field where
Holt was working aud with
out a word took aim at him add
empted a load into apart of Holts
abdomen. Holt fell and Melvin
deliberately proceeded to load
again, when another party appear
ed who was ask d by /7o)t to take
the money out of Hia (Holt’s)
pocket and pay Melvin, and not
let him be killed for eighty cents
When the money was handed to
Melviu he said it was all right,
and 1,1 at iliat was all he wanted.
He then look to his heels. H T h»n
last, seen he was on. the borders
of Henry county running like a
wolf. Holt is reporled dead this
afternoon. The parties are ne
groes.
BI.AI\E‘S H( XZIX« BEK
Washington, May 2t. —The
Blaine men claim that the appar
ent increase of Arthur’s strength
has actually been favorable to
their candidates. They sav that
it has centered the fight down be.
tween those two appearentlv, and
many poli ieians who had candi
dii'es whom they preferred to
Blaine have gone over to him now
feeling that tluy have to select be
tween die two. In this way they
claim, Blaine’s most earnest and
reliable supporters, who has re
?antly returned from New York
and who is in constant .communi
cation with Mr: Blaine, said to the
S ai to-day that he knew it to be
true that, Conkling and Grant
have expressed themselves openly
in favor of Blaine. Conkling
came out positively and emphatic
ally. he said without giving any
reason for his action, and Grant
gave as his reasou that he felt that
Logan’s chances were gone an d
he had to choose bet ween Arthu i>
and Blaine, and selected the lat
ter because the partj must put up
a positive and aggressive man if
they hoped to win.
The Blaine men think that
they have another cause for re
joicing. They say to night that
the Dezendorf-Blaine siraightout
delegation will be admitted in
preference to the Mahone-Arthur
delegation at Chicago. A better
opinion seems to be that either
Mahone will be admitted with his
whole delegation or that half of
each delegation will be admitted
A Bun iu Hot Sipi-iiigs
Liitle Bock, May 27. A special
from Hot spri gs says that the
Hot sprins Natioual Bank closed
its doors to-day owing to a run
on the bank caused by a reported
absence of its President Andrew
Bruon. It liabilities are s<!(),-
000.
A WARRANT FOR Tilt. PRESIDENT.
Another special from Ho*-
Springs says : A warrant was is
sued this afternoon for the arrest
of President Bruon, of the Hot
Springs bank, on charge of having
falsified bank accounts, bu' he
coul.f not be found. Ouo of the
directors stated that the bank as
eis, if properly handled, will pay
all the depositors without assess
ment bnt will leave the stockhold
ers nothing.
A WOMAN IN THE CASE.
Little Rock, Ark., May 27, 11 30 :
P ni.—lt has been learned that
President Bruon of the suspend
ed Hot Springs Natioual Bank
arrived in Litdeßock on Friday
last, nit was not seen by his ac
quaintances until to-day, when
bad? goodby to a woman named
Steel, who went north on ihe af
terernoon train .Ylr. Bruon ia a
married man, aud the Hot Springs
Uozettc s ay» that it has been dis
covered that he became infatuated
with the woman mentioned and
abandoned his wife for her. No ef
fort Ins been made here to arres'
! l‘in»
A run lias commenced on ihe
| Arkansas National bank of Hot
! Springs, which is undeistood to
Ibe iu good condition. There
iis great excitement, at Hot
{ Springs.
OI»l Mo thers
Grant always talks with a cigar
in bis mouth ; Sherman never
does He lays it dowt. when he
goes to make a remark, forgets
where he puts it, and lights a
fresh one when he has finished
wha' he wanted to say. The res
ult is that his desk or the fnrni
tnre around the room in which he
happens io be smoking, usually
is loaded with several half-consum
stubs. At his headquaters. when
he was in Washington it was gen
erly the case that these stubs
were to be found iu every room
that he frequented, aud the staff
officers called thorn “Sherm’s old
soldiers.’’
The «reenbuck ('•uveulioii
Inuianapous, May 27.--The at
teudence at the Greenback uaton
al convention which meets Imre
to-morrow, will be much laiger
than has been expected. There
are now about 500 delegates in
the city, and 200 more are expect
ed. The conven ion meets at 11
o’clock to-morow morning, and
all the iudicatons point to the
uommination of ex-Govoruor Bul
- for President A well deliin
ed opisition to the uominnution
of Govoruor Butler exist, and is
led by solonJCbaseJMaiueJand Geo.
O. Jones of New York. There
however no probbability of its gde
velopin g enough strength to de
feat Battler An attempt has
been made to work up a boom for
Jesse Harper, of Ilinom, and the
Maryland delegates will vote tor
him, but the movements seem to
have but little strengtlEelewhere |
Ger VYestof Mississippi, appeals
>o be unanimous choice the delt- i
gates for Nice President. U-en
Tyler ot Florida, will be made tem
orary Chairman of the cunvention
Gen. Weaver of lowa, the perma
nent presiding officer.
m •*—
A man stopping his pat or wrote
•‘I think folks otteu to spend their !
mouny for paper, mydadda did- j
dent abd everybody said ne was
the intelligentest man in the coun
try a«d had the smartest family
of bcis that ever dngged tatters."
The difference between a cat
anil a comma is that one lias claws
at the end of the paws and the
other has the pause at the end of
the clause.
A Detroit paper gravely anuoun
ee»;in its advertising columns : ~
“To Rent an elegaatly furnish
ed room to a gentleman already
heated.” Among the artistic ad
vertising notices are the following j
“Two young ladies want washing”
“Teeth extracted with great
pains.”
Can you paint me a sign at
once ?
“Yes, what kind of a sign do
you want?”
“A sign of rain.”
A clou 4 lowered on the face of
the painter, and fearing a storm
the humoiist left.
“What kind of sauce will you
have with your steak?” asked the
waiter of a dinner restaurant
where the condiments were ser
ved with the orders “If the
steak is as tough as yesterdavs’s
send in a couple of circular saws."
Patient—“ Doctor, what do you
do when you have a cold in the
head?” Dactor —“Well madam, I
sneeze most of the lime."
Canadian Hotel Keej er—“l
doi’t see how we are to get along
The bouse is about empty, yet it
is impossible to reduce expenses.
Look over the American papers
and see what the news is.”
Hotel Clerk—“l have looked
over them. There has not been a
big defalcation in the United
States for two weeks.”
Canadian Hotel Keeper—,‘My
stars ! W 6 will be ruined. I never
knewtin.es to be so dull.”
Atlanta, Gn., May37—Much com
plaint'bas arisen in this State ov
er the removal of efficient railway
postal clerks and the substitution
of illiterate negroes in theii plac
es. These removals have been
general and to such an extent
that the attention of Congress
will be called to the matter, when
an investigation doubtless ensue.
The charge is made that the
changes are made for political rea
sons.
An English temperance society
has offered prizes amounting to
$5,000 for some uon-intoxicatiug
drink that will be a substitute for
beer. It would first be in order,we
think, *o devise si me non-culpa
ble iniquity that would be a sub
stitu e for sin. —Boston Transcript.
Petersburg Va May,27.—lnges
A Mahore, large tobacconist of
this city, have ma le a deed of
trust for me benefit of I heir credi
to.s . Their liabilities and asse s
are not known. The Junior mem
hereof the firm is the oldest son of
Senator Mahone.
OF.NKRKL NEWS
Counterfeit $5 gold pieces are
in circulation.
There a'c 85.000 Hebrews in
New York city
Prince Bismark does not admire
eloquence.
The Empress of Austria sets
type with grace and skill.
General Grunt never bites off
tue eud of a cigar.
The number of volumes in
British museum is 1,800.00.
The Prussian people believe
that Bismark is superstitious.
James Q Blaine sedulously
avoids the Senate Chamber.
A cremation society has been or
gauized in Boston.
The Prince of Wales Private
debts are pushing him again.
King Ilmnburt is fond of read
ing books on military affairs..
The new City //all in Philndel
phia has already cost $8250,900.
English colleges have suffered
greatly by the Agricultural de
pression.
The Episcopalians will build a
$500,000 Cathedral at Albany, N.
Y.
A Jersey cow was recently sold
at auction in New York for $0,200
There are in England 1,0G!),25)G
paupers in a population of 28.700,
000.
A colored salvation army has
just been organized in Charlotte.
S. C.
I’resi lent Arthur seldom wears
the same necktie two weeks in sue
cession.
John Habertou, author of Hel
en’s Babies, has published anotner
book.
The Georgia S ate Democratic
Convention will meet in Atlanta
in J me 18th.
There are supposed lo be about
1,000,000 species in the animal
kingdom.
Enormous steaks 3f wh«at, o,vs.
barley niul maize crowd the Con
don granaries.
Beer brewers in England are
obliged to make beer out of hops
and barley malt.
Yictoi Hugo lvas been selected
as ths president of a baby allow,
in Paris in July.
PriDce Bismark’s annual revo
nms umount to about $25,000.
He lives quietly.
The total number of newspa
pers in Now York State is 1,523,
against 1,399 in 1883.
MDe Lesseps' company pays
out 75,000 francs a day for work
on the Panama canal.
A good way to increase the effi
ciency of the public schools is to
pay teachers better salaries.
Near Vienna, Ga., two women
run their ewn farm They raise
cotton an 1 garden vegetables.
A lady stenographer in New
York has bought and paid for a
handsome property out of her
earnings.
Four boys of Springfield, Ohio,
have run away Iron) home ami
gone west to annihilate the Indi
ans.
Lord Lome is going to intro
dnee ihe whilefish of the lakes in
to several rivers and lochs of Scot
land.
In Miissachuse-ls there were
five times as many signers to the
woman suffrage petitions this year
as last
A member of the Zanesville mili
t'.a who participated in the Cinein
nati riot has become insane from
exciteruent-
English capitalists have been
buying up biuck walnut in the
west in large quantities for ship
mi v o England
in Aiihit u ti e law prohibits a
woman from imurying unt,.l she is
is 18 years o ! d,‘und a m»n cannot
marry until.he is 2L
The London Times says it was
to show what a < tat abstainer
cou:d do that Wesion walked Ins
5,0U0 miles in 100 days.
A sheep epidemic prevails in La
Pru. ,<, C'.-ma In, wl icu entirely de
prive j; lie sheep of wool and ren
i.ets it, meat unfit for food.
liobeit Rainey, 1 S ft, would
like to Lave the Cousiiuvion
amende.l so that uo citizen could
own niiM'f) than ten milliou dollars
wmth of property. If Mr Rod
in v is afraid of owning more than
ten million dollars himself, he cau
easily giveaway his surplus wealth
wi l hour an amendment. As for
the rest, of the people, there are
couqvira'ively few of them who
are troubled in that way, aud
i when they ure they will manage
to get along under the present
Constitution, says an exchange.
A Clifton girl who r arried a
poor young man. who has in conse
quence been practising domestic
duties, has lost faith iu the entire
social system. The other evening
her husband came in at 6 o'clock
| H, tpper handed a paper folded
j and sealed.
“W hat ia it dear,” she said ten
derly.
“An insurance policy on my life
darling for $19,000.
W by, love, you already have
one. What do you waut with au.
other.
‘,Angel mine, 1 i.ti two pieces
of that pie for dinner. Merchant.
Tru velar .
A well-known citizen had been
arrested on a charge for forgo
ing a check. A number of iicquuiu
tances were discusing the sensa
lion, when one of thorn remark
ed :
“I never had any confidence in
him."
“I had unbounded confidence iu
him,' respondeda blear eyed man
I am something of aj, physogno
mistandthe first time I saw the
fellow I trusted him.’’
“How.”
“1 borrowed a couple of dollars I
of him, and so s'oadfast has faith
in his integerity that, I have never
ssked'him toallowme to return the
amount. ’— Srkunsaw 7'rauelar.
Pour I* of Tkoiiglit
ft is vanity to seek after perish
ing riches and to trust them.
It is vanity to desire to live long
and not, care to live well.
Perfection is the point for which
all should steadily aim.
It is vanity to strive after hon
ors, and climb to high degree.
Next to love, sympadiy is the di
v inest passion of the human
heart.
If yoi wiah to remove avarice
remove its mother—luxury.
Charity and personal force are
tile only investments worth any
thing.
Many words do not satisfy the
soul ; but a good life eomforteth
the mind.
NY bo hath a greater combat
limn he that laboroth loovercome
himself ?
Uecolediion is the only paradise
which cannot be turned out.
Affect not to be otherwise, bnt
acknowledge thine own ignor
ance.
Learned men are never anxious
to seten to others, and to beealled
wise.
Never Too Kale tol.earo.
Socrates, ut an-extrema old age
learned to play on musical instru
ments.
Cato, at eighty years of age
learned to speak the (/reek lan
guage.
Plutacb, when between seventy
and eighty, eornenced the study if
La'iu.
Boeaccio was thirty five years
of age when he commenced his
light literature, yet he became
one of ihe greatest masters of the
I usexn dialect, Dante Petrarch be
ing the other two.
Sir Henry Splemuu neglected
the sciences in his youth, but
commenced the study of them
when hr was between fifty and
sixty years of age Afier this he
became a learned antiquarian and
lawyer.
Dr. Johnson applied hicrself
to ihe Dutch language but a r ew
years before his death.
Ludovico Mcenaldsco at the
grt-.i age of 115,'wrote the memiors
of his own times.
Ogilby tausalator of Homer
and Y’irgil, was unaquaiuted with
LAin and (/reek until he was past
fifty.
Franklin did not fully com
mence philosophical pursuits till
he reached his fiftieth yeat
Dry den, in his sixtyeighth year,
c imiuenced the transaction of
the I/iad, bis most, pleasing pro
duction.
Jacksonvili.i, Ylay 27,.--The
Missouri editors visited St. Angus
tine to-day. They leave to-raor
rom for <> ala, Palatka. -Sanford
and Tampa, and will then come
buck to Jacksonvill. They are de
lighted with what the have seen
I of Florida.
jVol. XIV.—No 10
Farm aud bardru Motes
Plan your work and save wor
ry.
Let tool borrov ers he sorrow
ers.
Make manure fins before using
it.
Yellow corn is surest for cold
land
The best hired help is the cheap
est.
Plaut beets, peas and potatoes
early.
“Good fences make good neigh
hors."
Fight stock vermin and plant
insects.
Keep dirt, etc., out of the wool
sacks.
Chopped beets are good for
milch cows.
Sowing impure seeds brings
evil weeds.
Keep all farm tools, etc., iu
good repair.
Sow 'resli ground plaster with
grass seed.
Plaster is “no good” on damp
mucky soils.
Blnegrass clover makes the best
pasture for hogs.
It takes only mie season to grow
horse-radish in perfection.
Wood ashes is an excsll ent fer
tilizer for onions: none better.
Use a currycomb ou the cows to
take out the loose hair.
A good tanner may be known
by the way he cares for his ma
nure.
Salt fish are quickest aud best
freshened by soaking in sour milk
Excessive and late cutting will
help to run down an asparagus
bed.
By pinching back the buds of
yatir orleander yeu may make it
bloom in a pot next, winter.
The Virginia creeper is a fast
grower as a vine around the house
In autumn ii is of a beautiful col
or.
Sugar of lead rubbed on the er
option caused by poieon ivy is ben
eficial. It is poison if taken in
wardly.
Give your bens pieces of old
cabbage or hang a cabbage by a
limb and so near the ground that
they can peck at it.
A n English authority feeds to
cows only the bottom of tha tur
nip after the crown has been cut
oft, thus preventing the turnip
flavor.
Linm beans are grown more
successfully if planted in rows,
s e.eds six inches apart, than if
planted in hills. The rows should
bo about three feet apart.
An Englishman will carrv mel -
on seeds in bin pocket a long time
before planting, thinking they are
benefited by so doing, the heat
tending to perfect them.
A farmer who has tried the ex
periment recommends mixing
coal and wood ashes together, and
applying liberally to young or
ebards in the spring.
A British medical journal says
that cows drink filthy water for
its saline taste, and pioposes
an antidote in the shape of rock
salt, kept always in reach of
the cows
Among the other remedies for
lice on live stock which are going
rounds of die press, it is claimed
that the water in which potatoes
have been '>oiled is quite effica
cious.
A remedy for balky horses,
which works well, is to put a small
stone or sand in Ibe horse's ear.
Generally the horaewill start oft' at
once at a lively gait, unless he
balks from fatigue.
It is a good plan to make a
thorough cleaning out of oribsand
graneries at least once a year, in
order to get rid of rats and mice If
every vestige is removed the new
crop will sutler much less loss
than by usual careless methods.
Wheat kept for years in gran
aries is liable to be infested by the
weevil, which is very destructive.
“Gan you give me a little mom
ey on that account of yours tnis
morning?'’
“No, 1 don’t believe [ can this
morning.'' .
“Well, will you appoint a time
when y<?u can? You have traded
with me a great deal and have nev
er paid me a cent.”
“I know it- I am a free trad
er.”