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VOLUME IV
PERRY, GA., SATURDAY, APRIL, I, 1874
NUMBER 15.
The Burned City of Coomassie.
A correspondent of the London
Daily Telegraph, in n letter dated Coo
massie, February 5, thus describes the
city:
A town over which the smell of
Women ts. Whiskey.
Matthew, 5th chapter, 5th, 6th, and
7 th verses.
Well, Jedge, cum in. Why, bless
your soul, I’m really glad ye’ve cum.
But Nance went out a while ago to see
death hangs everywhere, and pulsates i a neighbor home. Set down an’ make
on each sickly breath of wind—a town j y erae ]f a t home—it ain’t more nor a
where here and there a vulture hops at m ii e _Give me yer hat an’ overcoat—
■^yn.L practice law in litigated cases in^ tbe i
nnticH of the Macon Circuit to
Houston, Craw lord and Twiggs.
J. A. EDWARDS,
Attorney at Law,
MAltSHALI.VIIXK GFORGIA.
W. H. REESE,
Attorney at Law
MARSHALLV1LLE GEORGIA.
j^Special attention given to casco in anA
rttptcy.
DUNCAN & MILLER,
Attorneys n t Law.
PERRY and FORT VALLEY. GA.
tn>X. C. Duncan, Perry, office on Public Square;
A. L. Miller, Fort Valley- office iu Mathew's Hall.
B. M. DAVIS.
/\ ttornoy at X. a w
PEERY, GEORGIA
•^yiLL practice in the Courts of Houston
and adjoining counties; also in the Su-
Court and U. S. District Court.
NOTTINGHAM & PATTEN,
Xjaw
Attorneys at
PERRY, GEORGIA.
PRACTICE in the Courts of Houston and
joining counties. Prompt attention given to all
business entrusted to our n ” 11
claims si specialty.
Collections of
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U. M. GUNN,
Attorney at Law
BYRON, 8. W. R, It. GA.
4«“Spccial attention given to collections.
E. W. CROCKER,
Attorney at Law
FORT VALLEY, GA.
^"Collections and Criminal Law'a special!;
Office at Miller, Brown k Co’s.
DR.
JO BSO N
DENTIST,
PERRY AND HAWIONSVILLE GA..
each
H K WILL SI*. ND the first half of each month
in his office in Perry, over the mid drug store.
uni
’-fourth, or the latter half of each mout>.
vill be given to his practice in Hawkiusvillo. at
Mrs. Hudspeth’s. aug23 i
T. T. MARTIN
Manufacturer and Retail Dealer in
tijnt
COOKING STOVES,
SHEET IRON
TIN WARE,
ET CETERA.
|)EPAIRING, roofing guttering
JV Ac., done at short notice and in the
best manner. T, T. MARTIN,
a Perry, Ga.
A. M. WATKINS,
CURRIER, SHERWOOD & CO.,
Broome Street,
WEW tork;.
BOOTS & SnOES
AT WHOLESALE.
Cash Saloon Re-Opened.
G.V, MARKET,
PERRY, GA,
FINE WINES,
WHISKIES,
BRANDIES, ETC.
AT RETAIL.
B@=*Thebest LAGER BEER a 5
cents a glass.
Everybody is invited to give me a
call at my new store next door to my
old stand. G. V.MARKET.
March 21 3 m.
J - andeson, Pr evident W.E. Brown, Cashier.
CASH CAPITAL, $100,000.
PLASTERS’ bank
FORT VALLEY, GEOROIA.
Transacts a General Banking, Discount, and
Exchange Business.
Particular attention given to the collection of
A otes, Drafts, Coupons, Dividends, etc.
DIRECTORS.
War. J. Anderson,
H -L, Desx.vkp, X. AT. Felt-j
'fH.HouassinuD, W.A. Mathew
Jan. 16
Notice to the Ladies.
The undersigned having come among
you for the purpose of doing business in tha
Millinery & Dress Making
one’s very feet, too gorged to join the
filthy flock preening itself on the
gaunt dead trunks that Rue the road;
where the blood is plastered like a
pitch coating, over trees and floors
and stools—blood of a thousand vic-
Bibb. j tiuis, yearly renewed; where headless
bodies make a common sport; where
murder, pure and simple, monotonous
massacre of bound men, is the one
employment of the King, and the one
spectacle of the populace. At every
shuddering breath the stomach turns,
so pestilential is the air; but in this
atmosphere the inhabitants pass their
life. They eat heartily while human
blood streams down the street, while
bodies unbnricd bleach and swell be
fore their eyes. The child does not
shrink as the executioners pass by;
the bride turns not an inch from her
way to avoid a festerial corpse.
Verily this is the metropolis of mur
der. The odor of putridity is the un
approved by the inhabitants. The
sight they love is severed necks, and
spouting blood, and corpses that line
the road in a dead procession. Then-
houses arc built to command the
widest view. They are stained red
that the color of blood may always re
joice their eyes. Beside the doors and
along the stucco friezes one group is
never absent—a fantastic figure flour
ishing his knife over a helpless victim.
Murder is their delight, their joy,—
Though the empire be tottering under
the incessant drain, though their own
lives are not worth an hour’s purchase,
their appetite is not to be restrained.
Children and slaves] which make their
savage wealth, are sacrificed with glee
to keep up the show. Nowhere arc
so many dead trees, poisoned with the
noxious inhalations which these peo
ple love to breathe; nowhere is animal
life so scarce.
The pretty lizards which rustle and
hunt over every other town have fled
this place. Only vultures abound
with sickeuimr tameness, and kites,
which swoop close fo the gronud with
plaintive twittering. Coomassie cov
ers a very largo space of ground—to
speak of it still in the present tense.
It lias many handsome houses, all
built in the same style. Tlic front is
open, raised four feet from the ground
Here sit the inhabitants and wa£ch
the dreadful spectacle prepared for
flieir amusement. Chiefs’ houses have
a long facade of dead wall, on their
side profusely decorated with stucco
devices in high relief. The lower
part is painted red and polished. All
living rooms lie behind, and little
care seems to be given them. In some
houses, howevc r, they cover a
very large piece of ground,
room beyond room, always opening
on a court-yard, and huts beyond.—
The King’s palace is really a hand
some building, of stone, faced with
stucco, and extremely solid. It has
two floors and a belvidere, used for
lumber. An open battlement sur
mounts the roof, from which one
commands an extensive view. But
the place is apparently used as treas
ure house exclusively-. Only one
room the King lives in, to judge by-
appearances—a low, dark bed chamber
on the ground floor, hung with cloth
of country silk, and containing a silk
bedstead, with curtains’ at one end
and a low divan on the other. The
rest of the building is simply stored
with loot, although it seems probable
that the most valuable articles have
been removed. I made out a list of
the objects noticed in my visit. Im
primis, a great number of umbrellas,
some of them very handsome, and one
of black and red velvet in alternate
squares, bound with gold lace with a
golden tep, perfectly new. A quanti
ty of common pot figures—Highland
Mary, two little busts of the Duke of
■Wellington, etc. A number of clocks,
various, all stopoed with the rust of
years. A very ancient coatee belong
ing to the First West India, and sha
ko of incredible shape, probably con
temporaneous. Calabashes and stools,
beautifully bound with silver, A bird
organ, playing, as advertised, “O rest
the babe,” “Slow- broke the light,”
“Adeste fideles,” etc. Portrait of a
gentleman in oils. Four gold masks,
yery heavy, quite pure, valued £150
to £200 each. A great qnantty of
old Dutch engravings in portfolios.—
Numbers of big toilet glasses. The
King’s plate, mostly dutch metal.—
Many guns, one double-barrel, silver-
mounted. A lot of kettles. A gold-
bound lantern. Boxes of embossed
silver, two tea-tables, one inlaid with
gold, one with silver. Silver and gold
chibouks. A magic lantern.
she’ll be here arter-a-while.
I reads the Courier-Journal, Jedge;
I seed in it to-day—Whar wimmen
folks war goin’ about the whiskey shops
to pray; They sing a song an’ pray a
prayer, and try to drive a wedge—By
askin’ men to shet ther shops and sign
thar timperance pledge.
It looks like sorter crowdin’ things,
an’ Jedge, the fact is, here, That wim
Contempt of Court. [ Gu-ions Habits of the Lobsler.
Mr. Rawley walked in, and close at | Frank Bnckland,the English natural-
his heels stalked Bitters. Both seated j jst, writes as follows concerning lob-
themselves; the one on a chair, the j sters: A lobster is a very particular
otberon end, directly in front of the j fellow in his food. I have been watch-
snrrogate. Mr. Jagger looked at the j ing one in my large marine aquarium
dog with the solemn eye of a surro- a t Reculvers. If a portion of the
gate, and shook his head as only a
surrogate can shake it.
“Are yon the witness?” inquired he
of the dog’s master.
“I am, sir.” said Mr. Rawley. “I
was subpeened to testify.”
“What’s that animal doing here?”
demanded the surrogate.
“Nothing.” replied Mr. Rawley.—
“He comes when I comes, he goes
when I goes.
“The animal must leave the court.
overleap the mark an’ git out of j It is a contempt of court to bring him
line, solicit (he patronage of the ladies of
(yny and Housfc n County; and by strict
attention to business and fair dealing hope
to merit what we ask. “We wiH keep afl
that is ustudjy found in a first class estab
lishment . In Millinery and Dress Making
"•n v not to be surpassed; we also
be prepared to furnish Ladies' Under-
§ ar ments of every variety and qoaliiy.
us a trial is what we ask
Feb 14-tf,
MDS. TURNER & EVANS,
No. 3, Cook’s Range.
A Huge Aerolite.
An enormous aerolite recently fell
in the vicinity of Farmsville, Living
ston county, Missouri. . The shook of
its impact with the ground is stated
to have been like an earthquake, and
the molten mass is described as fully
twenty feet high above. the soil, and
some twenty-jive feet in diameter.—-
It presents the usual appearance of
such bodies, being a black, : shining
mass of metorie iron. Its size is un-
i precedented.
thar sphere. When Christian wimmiu
hev to go to whiskey shops ter pray,
It looks like wastin’ words on men, au
throwin time away.
The cause may be a good one, Jedge
file wimmiu may be right, As long as
rye an corn are raised men will get
drunk an fight. The only way to stop
this thing, as sure as you are born,—
Jest let the farmers plant more when;
an less o’ rye an corn.
Ef wimmiu want- to do good works,
jest let them frame a law, An let them
Legislater chaps bring whiskey men
to taw; By stopnin men from makiu
it they’d soon have none to sell, Then
many a man would git a taste of hev’u
instid ov hell.
Ah! Jedge, I’d like ter know oue
thing—what good can wimmiu do,—
While men who make it go to chnrch
an Christian lives pursue. Tliey’ll
pray ther prayers au sing ther songs,
an when the Sunday’s o’er. They’ll
make an sell ther whiskey, sir, an kill
’em by the score.
Lot lovely wim min meet aloue in
holy places whar—They’ll feel an kno’
the Lord will hear thar every song an
prayer, An not go round to whiskey
shops, whar Satan’s children roam,—
Au laugh an swear au drink au say,
“ye’d better be at home.”
Now, Jedge, ef wimmin want to see
the whiskey drinkers roam In paths
of sober manliness, let them begin at
home. A gentle word, a look, or deed
to loved oues who are thar, May do
more good to save a man than they
could do with prayrr.
When husbands] fathers, brothers,
sons, begin to run at night, lhey
must see things away from homo more
pleasant to tlicir sight. Man loves
his home, his family too, and ie>v
would ever roam Away from both, aD
take to drink, ef all was right at home.
I tell you, Jedge, tlinr’s many a
man, who, ef he’d stop an think Of
wife an children, home an frioi ds,
would never take to drink How ma
ny, too, are drunkards now that know
alas too well, The first drink was the
oue that was the startiu pint ter hell.
Ef young men cum to see yer girls,
or happen iu to dine, Ah! dont forget
to oiler cm a social glass of wine.—-
Then wait till lies yer son-in-law, and
when hes fallen low, Go tell yer darter
in her sliame,—‘Aha! I told you so.’
Ef wimmin want to do good work—
how few of them that would—I’ll teU
’em how and whar to do a power of
good. Jest drop this whiskey business
now, an git around the doors, Au sing
and prey, an try to close all soiqs 4 ov
fashion stores.
Make raids on places whar they sell
false Hair au corsicks too, Wlnr bon
nets ar so liigli in price—they git the
high heel shoe—Go sing an pray to
dry goods men, with tear drops in the
eye, Au tell ’em that tlier lusbauds
say ther prices aie too high.
Go git these wasp-waist-dres-makers
to sign that pledge o’ yours That they 1
no longer curse you all; teR them to
close thar doors. Go to Macauley’s
theatre an ask on bended knee—That
he will never, never give anuther mat
inee.
Now, Jedge, its jest as fair to see
men kneeling round the door, and
prayin loud to him that keeps the hour
glass corsick stoio. For he sells thins
that kills the girls the airly part ov
life. She marries—dies—an some
poor man has parted with his wife.
Go, all ye wimmen in a crowd, and
loudly sing and pray, That Fashion
spread her pinions, an with whiskey
fly away, An never come again to airth
to curse the race again, For Fashion
murders wimmin while the whiskey
kills the men.
Go, see the graves in old Cave Hill,
an count ’em evexy one, An thar you’l
see the busy work that hollow Fash
ion’s done, An thar too lies the forms
of men, that whiskey put to sleep. O
man! Oh, woman! ’Tis enough to
make the angels weep.
Ah! Jedge, one word—it must please
God, I know, whenere he sees A Chris
tian father offerin prayer to Him on
bended knees, His wife an family
kneelin too, an all engaged in prayer
I’ll bet you’U find no fahion nor a drap
of whiskey thar.
Ee-
qere,” said Mr. Jagger, angrily,
move him instantly.”
Mr. Rawley had frequently been in
attendance at the police courts, and
ouce or twice had a taste of the ses
sions, so that he was not as much
struck with the surrogate as he other
wise might have been, and so he re
plied: “I make no objection, sir; and
shall not move a finger to prevent it.
There’s the animal, and any officer as
pleases may remove him. I say nuffin’
agin it. I know what a comtempt o
court is, and that ain’t oue.” And Mr.
Rawley threw himself amiably back in
his chair.
“Mr. Slag,” said the surrogate to
the man with a frizzled wig, “remove
the dog.”
Slag laid down his pen, took off his
spectacles, went up to the dog, and
told him to get out; to which Bitters
replied by snapping at his fingers, as
he attempted to touch him, Mr.
Rawley was staring abstractedly out
of tne window. The dog looked up
at him for instructions, auil receiving
none, supposed that snapping at a
scrivener’s fingers was perfectly cor
rect, and resumed his pleasant ex
pression toward that functionary, oc
casionally casting a lowering eye at
the surrogate as if deliberating wheth
er to include him i n demonstrations of
anger.
“Slagg, have you removed the
dog?” said Mr. Jagger, who, the dog
beiug under his very nose, saw that
he had not.
“No, sir; he resists the court;” re
plied Mr. Slagg.
Cali Walker to assist yon,” said
Mr. Jagger.
Walker, a tliiu man in drabs, bad
anticipated something of the kind,
and had accidentally withdrawn as
soon as he saw that there was a pros
pect of difficulty; so that the court
was at defiance by the dog.
“Witness!” Said Mr. Jagger.
Mr. Rawley look at the court full in
the face.
“Will you oblige the court by re
moving that dog?” said Mr. Jagger,
mildly.
“ Certainly, sir,” said Mr. Rawley.
“Bitters, go home.” Bitters rose
stiffly and went oat, first casting a
glauce at the man with the wig, for
the purpose of being able to identify
him on some future occasion; and
was afterward seen from the window
walking up the street with the most
profound gravity.
Charcoal and the Soil.
Prof. S. W. Johnson, a leading au
tboritv in the United States, in speak
ing of the effects of charcoal on soils,
food be thrown down to birr, he im
mediately sets his long horns to work
to ascertain the whereabouts of his
dinner.
If he does not like it, he at once
pushes it away from him with the at
titude of an epicure who bids the wai
ter take away a plate of meat he does
not like. If the food is agreeable to
him. he munches it up, moving his
jaws in a peculiar manner, like a wea
ver making a blanket.
He tears bis food into large pieces,
leaving the actual pounding work to
be done by the very peculiar iutcrual
teeth, which are to be found in the
lining of the stomach, and which my
reader may easily imagine for himself,
if he will take the trouble.
When the lobster goes out for a
“constitutional,” and is not in a par
ticular hurry, lie carries his great
claws iu front of him, well away from
the ground, like the big flags we
sometimes sec in front of street pro
cession. He “walks” upon the little
legs underneath his body, while lie
keeps his horns moving in front of his
nose like a blind man tapping the
flags with his stick as he plods along,
led by bis dog; hence I conclude the
lobster is short-sighted. If the least
thing alarms him he scuttles backward
on his hind legs, which move with the
rapidity of the legs of the centipede.
If he does not go fast enough in
this way, he suddenly snaps his tail
toward him like a man closing his
hand, and flies back with a jerk like
an india rubber band snapped in half.
He always goes into his cave tail f .ire-
most, and he takes the most wonder
fully good shots at the entrance.
It has been said by a friend of mine
that a fly fisherman will never bo per
fect until he has got an eye iu the
back of his head, so as to prevent the
dragon-fly getting hitched iu the tree
behind him. I really think the lob
ster must have an eye in his tail some
where.
Our pet lobster is not willing that
the secrets of her toilet should bo ex
posed to vulgar gaze, so the first
night she was in the tank she artfully
collected cockle and oyster shells and
made a trench round herself after the
fashion of the Romans when they
took possession of the hill-top. A
branch of sea-weed forms a canopy
overhead, and there she is at this min
ute in a house of her o-vu makin
regnlar “compound house-holder,”
with no taxes to pay.
The Tribulations of a ‘ ‘Society Man.”
A correspondent draws the following
pietvre of a “society man” in difficul
ties: I had a curious encounter the
other night. It was a m adman-
Mrs. Brimlow’s elegant gentleman’s
dressing-room—“first floor front for
gentlemen”—as the dnsky door-keep
ing automaton down stairs had just
informed. Just inside the above-in
dicated door I encountered a man—I
know it was a man you can always tell
them at a party.
They wear very thin, narrow bunts:
very tight pants; very low vests; very
startling lockets; very spiky dress
coats; very distinguished ties under
very exemplary collars; very waxy
mustaches, and part their hair very
near the middle—very. Indeed, your
average party man is a sort of a mild
superlative all the way through—in
side and out- But if I had entertain
ed any”doubts at all concerning his
masculinity, they would have been dis
pelled by the muttered oaths that
came struggling from under his mus
tache and through his compressed
lips.
It certainly wfs a man. I knew
him by his clothes and by bis swear.
And he was mad. I said so, and I
stick to it. His face was red, and his
brow contracted, his ste > impatient,
and he bore all over the appearance of
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who is trying to keep his feeliugs un
der control, and that too, with very I tlie Dresden cadets.
Bismarck's Military Bills.
That our readers may fully under
stand the nature of the bills recently
presented to the Prussian Reichstag,
and which were defeated, although
advocated by the Emperor and his
Prince ChanceUor, we give the follow
ing, as taken from the New York
Herald:
The effective military strength, as
fixed in the bills, is 17,033 officers,
401,659 non-commissioned officers,
private soldiers and musicians; 1,679
surgeons,, 6S1 paymasters, 604 veteri
nary surgeons, 587 armorers, 93 sad
dlers! and 93.15S horses. The nnmber
of infantry regiments is 14S. There
is provided a school for gunnery and
and six schools for sub officers. Be
sides these there are 26 battalions of ;
chasseurs, 274 laudwber district com- $250,000 for
mands, 93 eavalry regiments, 1 milita
ry riding school, 35 regiments of field
artillery, 13 regiments of foot artille
ry, 3 battalions of horse artillery, 18
battalions of pioneers and train, 1
railway battalion at Belin and a rail-
wav battalion company at Bara via.
The schools for cadets recieve special
attention. In these nurseries for offi
cers there now live 1,800 young men
under instruction and training. They
are distributed as follows: Berlin,
800 pupils; Potsdam, 240; Calm, 180;
Wahlstndt. 220; Beusberg, 220, and
Oranstieu, 140. Those do not include
The war marine
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indifferent success. He was evident
ly struggling with something, and at
last I comprehended the situation, he
was trying to squeeze his hands—
which usually accomodated nines—
into a pair of white kids that were
only eight and a half.
Certainly a very trifling affai r to
get mad at; but just try it yourself
once, as he said to me: “There’s my
lady waiting impatiently in the next
room for me to take her clown stairs!
and here I am yet sweating and swear
ing over these confounded gloves.—
See, I’ve just got one on!” and he
held rip a rather cloudy white, which
looked as if the seams were trying to
meet each other through the poor
man’s hand, making the part where
they weren’t appear like miuaturo
canvas bellying before the wind-,
“and now here this other one won’t
come. By George! I wish goats would
cat their own kids—so that—whew!
there the old thing goes! Confound ]
is also being overhauled and increased
and the total money credit asked for
exceed 865,000,000.
Hr. Livingstone’s La-t Illness.
The steamer Maliva arrived off Suez
on Saturday night last, Bearing the
remains of Dr. Livingstone. Dr. L.,
who had had chronic dysentery for
several months, had a premonition of
his approaching death, and at Uuila-
la said “build me a hut to die iu.”—
A hut was built by his followers. The
first day he was confined to bed, and
afterward he suffered greatly, groan
ing night and day. The third day he
said that lie was very cold, and re
quested that more grass be put over
the hut. His followers could not
speak to or go no..r him. The fourth
day Dr. Livingstone was insensible,
and died about midnight. After death
the entrails were taken from his body,
plaeed iu a tin box and buried inside
the fence, under a large tree. Jacob
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ONE GRAND CASH GIFT .... 511,000!;*!
ONE GRAND CASH GIFT .... 25,000 imI
ONE GRAND CASH GIFT . .
10 CASH GIFTS $10,000 each
30 CASH GIFTS 5,000 each
50 CASH GIFTS 1,000 each
SO CASH GIFTS 500 each
100 CASH GIFTS 400 each
150 CASH GIFTS 300 each
250 CASH GIFTS 200 eaeo
325 CASH GIFTS 100 each
11,000 CASH GIFTS 50 each
17.500 i
100,000 |»
150,000 Of?
50.000 ir.»
40.0u0 • o
40.000 0*1
45.000 Jhj
50.000 00
32.500 od
550,000 00
TOTAL, 12.000 GIFTS, ALL CASH,
amounting to . .
$1,500,000
PRICE OF TICKETS.’
it!” and, sure enough, au enormous Wai “'™» Ut cut an insenption on the
tree thus: “Dr. Livingstone; died
says:
ToUetSoap.
Air excellent artiele of glyrierene
soap is made by using one pound of
bar soap containing olive oil, one
pound of glycerene, one pint of alcho-
hol and one pint of witer. Shave the
soap fine, put the aichohol and water
in the kettle over the fire, add the
soap, and/when dissolved and.agreat-
er part of the aichohol has been evap
orated, add the glycerene. Continue
stirring for two or three minutes add
any perfume you like;
There is a good proof that charcoal
has an exceleut effect on light land de
ficient in attractiveness for moisture,
especially in dry seasons. This is due
to its great porosity and absorbent
power for vapor or water. On a heavy
clay, which is unfavorable to vegeta
tion, because of its compactness and
slow penetrability by water, charcoal-
powder, like any non-adhesive dust,
separates the clay particles, prevents
its cohesion where it intervenes, and
thus tends to make the soil more open,
more friable, promotes drainage and
sets in train a long series of changes
for the better. Charcoal strewn on
the surface-of light-colored soils, so
as to blacken it, enables it to become
warmed under the sun’s rays more
rapidly and more highly than would
be the ease otherwise. This fact may
partly account for the good effect re
ported of it in cold climates.
But as a direct fertilizer, i. e., by
virtue of anything it can yield of its
own substance to crops, charcoal can
not be regarded as of much value.—
It contains, of course, if it has not
been washed by water, the ash ele
ments of the wood from which it has
been made and, when applied in large
quantities, f he potash, lime, etc.,
which it carries upon the land may
easily produce a striking effect upon
poor soil This kind of effect cannot
last longer than a single season, and
on a soil in fairly good condition
would commonly make no show.—
linking Freaks ef Dahomey.
Court life at Dahomey is anythin]
but easy, and least of all during the
annual “Customs,” which, with little
intermission, last for months. Some
people may think that it is an easy
thing to sit under an umbrella like the
“Great Mogul Baba,” for sixteen
hours at a stretch, the monotony of
court routine being relieved by drink
ing rum and muscatel, the incessant
firing of guns, the furious dances of
hundreds of Africans, and occasional
pa-3 de deux-with the King, the gener
al hilarity being consummated by the
sight of several victims thrown from a
platform, tied up in baskets, whose
heads were slowly hacked off by
impromptu executioners, all ti e great
nobles competing to discharge that
horrid duty. On such occasions the
King after a dance to rouse his spirits,
drinks spirits or wine out of the sknll
of a petty king whom he had slain
with his own hand, while the whole in-
furate crowd demand to be led against
the hated Abbeokuta, that it may be
broken and destroyed utterly. Such
ceremonies prolonged for days and
weeks and months, might pall on the
most arc ent appetite for the sensa
tional, Mr. Skertchly attended them
all—indeed, it would have been the
greatest breach of etiquette to have
declined them, on the rule that it is
the duty of travelers to see, but he
confesses over and over again his re
lief when darkness fell on the excited
scene, and the King sent him his “pass
rum,” for without rum in gallops and
demijohns no action in daily life is
complete'in Dahomey.—lonilon Times.
Lapland Church Awakener.
Even in Lapland the sermons are
sometimes dull, and listeners are oc
casionally sleepy, but the Laps have
a way of getting aronnd the difficulty
which may be recommended to us all
whom it may coneem. In Lapland,
it appears, the preacher is armed with
a large baton, and with this he beats
a sort of spasmodic tattoo upon the
rent revealed a great deal of red baud
between two sections of rather rum
pled looking kid.
He looked like a man whose light
had gone out—a mau who was sent
for aud couldn’t come—who thought
he would, and then wished he hadn’t
—and just as he was getting up au
especial malediction, appropriate to
the occasion, Black John appears with
a grin and a jerk:
“Please, sah, Miss Grimsby wants
to know if you are expecting to go
down to the parlors this evening?.
And so there was nothing else to
done and the poor feflow descended,
with an incensed lady, a torn glove, a
harrowed spirit—all because his kids
were half a size too small.
pnlpit whenever he catches any of his
From these consideration we conclude 1 congregation in the act of nodding.—
that charcoal (unless as may often -BncTest some sltimbering delinquent
happen, it is mixed with a good deal should fail to attract the attention of
of wood-ashes) is not of much vrlne
as a fertilizer directlyl It is a valable
amendment to soils which are dry,
from their coarse, sandy texture, or
are wet from consisting of too tena
cious clay.
Weak Faith.
When the ladies of Tullahona,
Tehn,,began singing in front of. a
liquor. store, the barkeeper set out a
bottle with a fuse attached and lighted
it. Fearing it might be powder or
Lincoln county whiskey the ladies re
treated.
the preacher, the sexton fa utilized as
a co-worker in the Gospel, and keeps
himself awake by meandering about
the honse, wielding a long stick, mit
igated by a cushion at one end. With
.-this stick he diiligently pokes sleepers
'in the ribs, and goads on the facul
ties to the sad duty of attention.—
Thus the Laps have an arrangement
fpr punching the. congregation when
they become sleepy; but they do not
seem to have devised any plan for
punching the preacher when he'makes
them so.
Whipping Post in England.
A prisoner in Boston lately threw a
handful of cayenne pepper in his keep
ers eyes and<attemptad to escape, aud
very nearly did so. When caught
about a pound of red pepper was
found in his pockets. An account of
a thief of a somewhat singular propen
sities reaches us just at this time from
London. It fa the way in which he
was punished that deserves notice.
Little Delaware is not alone in keeping
up the whipping post.
The prisoner Hays went on the Sth
of November last- to the shop of Mrs.
Rosetta Smith, a pawnbroker in the
Edgeware road, and asked the mana
ger, Mr. Crofts, to show him a dia
mond ring exposed for sale in the win
dow. This was done, and the prison
er subsequently examined two other
rings, which he placed upon his fin
gers. AR of a sudden he threw in
the face of the manager a handful of
snufl, nearly blinding him. and then
ran away. Crofts though in great
pain, pursued him, and cried “Stop
thief 1” and he was ultimately caught
by a green grocer named Savage, into
whose face he also threw a packet of
snuff.
On being arrested two of the rings
were found on his fingers, and the
third was picked up by a little girl,
who took it to the police station. He
was sentenced, in addition to the flog
ging, to five years’ penal servitude.
The d igging was inflicted yesterday
in the presence of Mr. Alderman
Figgins, M. P-, one of the visiting
magistrates for the month; Mr. Jonas,
the Governor, and Mr. Smith, the
Deputy Governor of the jail; and Mr.
Gibson, the surgeon. Hays will be
again flogged before his departure
from Newgate.
Whole ticket $50, ITaTves $25. Tenths, or each
coupon, $5; Eleven whole tickets for $500; 22 ‘ j
tickets for $1,000; 113 tickets lor $5,000; 227 tit k-
etfi for $ 1C,000. No discount on less than $5»»®
worth of tickets at a time.
Tickets now ready for sale, 'and all orders ac-
com paused by the money promptly filled. Li li
ens 1 terms given to those who buy to sell again.
XHOS E. BRAMEETTE,
Agent Publ. Libr. liy., k Manager Gift Concert,
aug23. Public Library Building, Louisville, Ky
lm.
May 4, 1873.” The body'was xn*eser-
ved in salt and dried in the sun twelve
days. All his papers, sealed and ad
dressed to the Secretary of State, are
iu charge of Arthur Laingard, a Brit
ish merchant of Zanzibar.
Boys & Middle Aged Men,
One idea of Poverty;
It was Bulwer who said that in nine
cases out of ten poverty is an idea.
Some men with ten thousand dollars
a year suffer more waut of means than
others with chree hundred. The rea
son is, the richer man has artificial
wants. His income is ten thousand,
atnl he suffers enough from being
dunned for unpaid debts to kill a sen
sitive man.
A man who earns a dollar a day, and
who does not run in debt is the happi
er of the two. Very few people who
have never been rich will belive this,
but it is trne. There are thousands
and thousands with princely incomes
who never know a moment’s peace be
cause they live beyoud their means.
There is really more happiness in the
world among working people, than
among those.who are called rich—al
ways providing that poor folks do not.
in a smaller way emulate the prodigal
ity of their rich brethren. Poverty fa
simply a question of bad management
of money in hand.
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Music of the Heart.
As the French physician, Laenuec,
applied the resonant principle of the
trumpet to the stethoscope, so that
the action of. the lungs be made audi
ble, Dr. Vivian Poore, of London,
has utilized the guitar for the heart.
He places a patient flat upon his back
npon a table, .sets an upright rod on
his chest, and carefully balances the
musical instrument thereon. The
beatings of the heart are thus con
veyed by vibration to the guitar,
which emits corresponding sounds.
An Old Lady’s Will.
A spiteful and plncky old lady died
in North Carolina the other day. She
was a widow, aDd left particular or
ders that she should not be buried
within ten miles of the sepulchre of
the “old man.” She also desired that
that her dog be killed, lest he should
visit an obnoxious neighbor. Final
ly she requested that she might be
buried in the finest coffin that conld
be had for money, and that her pale
form should be wrapped in a robe of
white alpaca. Her wishes have been
shamefully disregarded. The ten
miles were reduced to five; the dog
still lives and barks; andthe coffin was a
medium one. There will be some tall
rapping in th at vicinity.
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Experiments ara now being made
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—W. H. O’Fry has applied for ex
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apart and valuation of *
I will pass upon the sa me aclOo’i
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my office.
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