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NEWS ITEMS
Princess Alice waiTburied wrapped in
an English flag.
There is a birth in London every four
minutes and a death every six.
The Mormons still show a healthy ex
pansion. at the rate of 10,000 a year.
For fifteen years no Governor of North
Carolina haw served out his full term.
A hen twenty-five years oldris a west
ern curiosity. >lay her son never set.
Rob Roy's musket and pistols are
hanging up at Abbotsford, Sir Walter
Scott’s home.
Great Britain has 143 daily newspa
per*; the United States, 752. New York
alone lias 105.
The almost solidly Democratic house
of the Alabama legislature has electecd a
colored chaplain.
A Baltimore judge holds that, a man
cannot be sued for a breach of promise,
when too intoxicated to wod.
It is asserted that the Catholic church
es of Baltimore receive an average of
one hundred and.fifty colored converts
yearly.
Gold eagles were find coined m Amer
ica in 1795 ; Silver dollars in 1794 ; and
the old copper cents, now seldom seen,
in 1796.
Strange to say, there are not enough
lawyers in the lower house of thA North
Carolina legislature to make a judici
ary committee.
Senator McCreery, f Kentucky, is
said to have saved over $20,000 of his
salary received during his six years of
senatorial life.
Two of the newly elected Southern
Senators are first cousins, Wilkinson
Call, of Florida, and J. D. Walker,
of Arkansas.
A colored woman in Oswego gave
birth to her fourth pair of twins on the
Ilth inst., making her the mother of
ten cbildreii in eight years,
Mr. Wolfe Gillespie, an old soldier of
Napoleon Bonaparte, died in A meric us
last Saturday. He was nearly ninety
one years old and a U-arned linguist.
"'T'
The NewfYork senate has passed a bill
pnnishing grave robbers with five year*
imprisonment. The legislatures of Indi
ana und Ohio have similar measures un
der consideration.
A Ho-called “expert” m an Ohio mur
der trial testified that “any man holding
opinions differing from those entertain
ed by a majority of people has in him
an element of insanity.”
Mr. Joseph Morrison, of Lincoln conn,
ty, North Carolina, owns the sorrel
horse rode by Stonewall Jackson when
he received his deuth wound. He has
just had a photograph taken of the
horse.
Tho world says there is always a
crowd oi Frenchmen or foreigners about
the windows of tho Bible depot in the
Place du Theatre Francois, in the heart
of Paris, reading by daylight or by elec
tric light from the open Bibles there
displayed.
At the burial of Ashburton Webster,
at Marsh lid <l, last week, the lid of' the
casket containing the remains of his
grandfather, the great statesman, Daniel
Webster, wus opened, and his face, the
body having been embalmed, was per
fectly recognizable.
Senator Bayard woars the red shirt,
sports the dashing helmet of three-acred
brim and runs after the bells with the old
Moya whoop—so to speak. He has been
elected an honorary member of Wash
ington steam lire engine company No. 1,
of Gaivuston, Texas.
At Santa Cruz, California, there is a
woman of Spanish extraction, who was
married at the age of fifteen years, and
is not yet twenty-seven years of uge, but
during the eleven years of her wedded
life has borne fourteen children, all of
whom are dead, except one.
llie largest cotton mills in the world
aie those at Narva in Russia, on the
Gulf of Finland, eighty-one miles from
St. Petersburg. One company there
owns 400,000 spindles. The Harmony
Mills, Cohoes, N. Y., having 275,000
spindles, are the largest in the United
States
The Eatonton Broadaxe and Itemizer
announces that Miss Augusta Evans, the
novelist, was born in Eatonton in a lit
tle house on the Henry Trippe place,
which is now in a very dilapidated con
dition. The B. and I. then goes on to
enumerate many other eminent people
who first saw the light in that borg.
A lock of Preaident Washington’s
hair has beea presented to Lodge No. 4,
F. and A. M., of Richmond, the lodge
in which the great Virginian was in
i-iated, passed and raised. One other
lock of his hair is known to exist—this,
it is said, is owned and kept In a golden
urn by the Grand Lodge of Massachu
setts.
A clock made entirely of bread has
lately been received in Milan Italy, from
Pent. It was cciistrrcted by an Indian
who having no means of purchasing ma
terial saved a portion of the soft part of
his daily bread for the purpose.
He solidified it with a certain salt
which rendered it very hard and insolu
ble in water. The clock keeps good
time, snd the case, also of hardened
bread, displays artistic tale tit
THOMSON. GA, WEDNESDAY, MABOH 5, 1879.
BEGINNING AGAIN.
When, sometimes, our, feet grow weary,
On the rugged hills of. life—
The path stretchiug long and dreary
With trial and labor rife—
We pause on the toilsome journey,
Glancing backward in valley and glen,
And sigh with infinite longing
To return and begin again.
For behind is the dew of the morning.
In all its freshness and light.
And before are doubts and shadows,
And the chill and gloom of the night.
We remember the sunny places
We passed so carelessly then,
And ask, with a passionate longing,
To return and begin again.
Ah, vain, indeed, is the asking!
Ifife’s duties press all of us on.
And who dare shrink from the labor.
Or sigh for the sunshine that’s gone ?
And, it may be, not far on before us
Wait fairer placep than them,
Life’s paths may yet lead by still waters
Though we may not begin again.
For evermore upward and onward
Be our paths on the hills of life,
And soon with a radiant dawning
Transfigure the toil and the s! rife,
And our Father’s hand will lead us
Tenderly upward then;
In the joy and peace of a fairer world
He’ll let us begin again.
A Wild Western Adventure.
Sara S. Hall, “Buckskin Bam,”
and old Rip Ford were trapping
in the Arkansas river region.
They were men of desperate
courage, who bad taken their
lives in their hands too often to
care lor tiie danger they were
exposed to. Old hip waß a man
who stood five feet eleven in his
moccasins—a man whom you
would hardly caic to meet in the
close tug of a desperate battle.
His hard brown face was seamed
with scars from bullet, knife and
claws of wild beasts, and his
mnscuiar body showed the marks
of manj’ a desperate struggle.
“Buckskin Sam” was the beau
ideal ol a mountaineer and plains
man ; the \\ ostorn hunter that
the novelist paints and the school
boy dreams of and wishes some
day to be. Although not so
powerful as old Rip, ho was a
matt of great personal strength
and desperate courage. For many
years these two had roamed the
truppiug grounds together, fight
ing Indians, grizzlies and- wolves,
chased by night ovofithe burning,
prairies, defending their camp
against the sudden attacks of red
fiends, or spending recklessly at
the monte board the money they
had earned so hardly on the
trapping ground.
They had been out all winter,
and, as spring approached, the
last cache was covered and the
trappors now began to think of
returning homo. The camp was
built up near the river, a tribu
tary of the Canadian, which
flowed through the dismal ca
nons in which tho light of day
nevor shows, under the shadow
of gigantic cliffs upon which hu
man beings never yet set foot,
and only spreading out at places
where tho cunning beaver had
built his dam, The river was
broken by great rapids, and
abounded in rare fish, upon which
they had feasted royally for many
a day. They had a canoe, and
had been discussing tho chance
of going down the stream in that
in order to save time.
“I am ready to take tho chan
ces, if yon are, Rip,” said Sam.
“I don’t like to give myself
away,” said Rip. “What do you
know about tho river after we
get down to the big canon, and
whoever passed through it?”
“That’s the fun of tho thing,
Rip. We do what no one else
dare do,” said Sam.
“I don’t like it,” replied Ford,
who was by far the more pru.
dent of the two. “I—ha! what
in Jehu is that?” They seized
their weapons and ran to the
door of the hut, just iu time to
seo a dozen Indians running
down through the grass, block
ing up the only way of escape.
The moment the repeating rifles
begun to play upon them they
went out of sight among the
rocks and began their gradual
approach, which could only end
in one way—the white trappers
would be overwhelmed I
“There’s only one cliartco,
Rip,” cried Sara.
“And that ?” _
“The canoe.”
“I am‘your man,” cried the
gfaht trapper. “You push the
cahbe into the water and throw
in the weapons, while I keep
those follows at’ hay. Ob, w- uld
you? Takd that."
Ah Indian had raised bis tuft
ed head ’to get a better shot at
the trappers, but before he could
get back the unfailing eyes of
the trapper hud looked through
the double sights and the rifle
cracked. Tho Indian sprung sud
denly' to his feet, spun sharp
around upon his 1 heel and fell
d< ad in hi& tracks. '
The next moment’'the canoe
shot from the hank and headed
down through tho boiling flood,
plunging in the canon below so
rapidly that the Indians had
scarcely time to recover from
thoir amazement at the sudden
exodus before the trappors wero
out of sigh'. Ono of the Indians
bounded to his feet and uttered
a low signal whoop, and two
large ennoos, containing .in all
about fifteen men, rounded a
point in the rivor ahoyc the ca
non and came flying down umler
tho strokes of tho paddlers.
Indians on tho shore simply
pointed down the stream, and
the canoes dashed by at a furious
speed, the wild yell of the pad
dlers announcing to the white
men that they wero pursued.
The first rapid pas-ed, they en
tered a long strotch of water
where the current was only four
or fivo miles an hour, and where
the propelling force in tho other
canoos began to tell, and tho In
dians gained rapidly.
On each side of the canoe the
-i
canon was liko a wall, 200 feet
in height, and the trappors
could only put all their strength
in the paddles and dash on ns
fast as they could. Two miles
further and the pursuing canoes
wer • scarcely a hundred yards
behind, the Indians yelling like
domons as they saw tho white
men almost within their grasju.
Rip Ford shook his head as ho
looked over his shoslder, when
suddenly his ennoo was soized by
a mighty force and hurled down
ward, like a bullet from a rifle.
They had struck another rapid
moro powerful than the first,
und the rocks absolutely saemod
to fly past them.
“This is something like it,”
cried the daring Buckskin Sam. ,
“How wo do move.”
“I should say wo did, old boy,”
replied Kip. ‘‘l am only afruid
wo are moving too last.”
"Don’t you beliovo it; those
fellows see tty lo be j
euid Sam. > J
“They will get into the ctir-j
rent in a moment,” gasped Hip.
“Look at that.”
Tho headmost canoe of the In
dians appeared on tho crest of
the rapid aud cumo Hying down"
after tho trappers at a furious
speed. The Indians no longer
used their paddles with the ex
ception of the man who sat at
tho stern, and by a touch on the
water, now on one side, now on
the other, regulated the course
of the eanoo. The second canoe
fullowcd in a moment, a little
further in shore. As they ga/.ed
the bow ol the last canoe wa
suddenly lifted into tho air >s it
struck a brown rock in the chun-l
nol, which the occupants tried’
in vain to avoid. f i lie tierce
current caught tho stern, and in
an instant there was nothing left
of the craft tavj broken frag-.,
moots, while tho occupants, with
loud shrieks of terror, were
borne swiftly on by tho resist
less tide. “That ends them,”
said Rip Ford. “Be
Sam, for your life !”
On, on, borne by tho powef
which they could not resist, the
two eanocs wero hurried. Thert
was a sense of wild exaltation it
the hearts of the while men, for
they could see that their enemies
would have gladly escaped if
they could from tho perils that
surrounded them. Their mad
desire for scalps and plunder had
led them into a~trap, aif* th*y
no longer thought of tho canoe
in advance. They knew, as tho
whites did not, the terrible dan
ger before them, for they had ex
plored the banks of the stream
on foot many times. 'J,‘he river
suddenly narrowed, and the
trappers rushed into la canon
barely twenty feet -Wide and
nearly roofed over by the clifl’ on
each side. The current was not
quite so rapid here, and they
guided the cauoe easily.
“This gets interesting, Rip,"
said Sam, as they went on
through the narrow pass. “Wo
are going”—“To our death,” in
terrepted Rip Ford, is a solemn
voice. “Do you hear the falls?”
Through tho splash of water
and tho dip pf the paddles they
heard a low, deep, tremulous roar
which was the sound of falling
water. For a moment the broriz
ed face of Sam blanched, and
then he drew his figure up proud
ly, saying; “Bettor than the
scalping kniie or stake, old
friend. As the Frenchmen say,
‘ Vine La rnort!' Long live
death 1”
It was, indeed, before them,
for as they shot out of the nar
row pass they saw tho fulls—
how high they could not tell, but
the smoke which arose showed
that it was not a small one.—
“Keep her head to it,” cried Rip.
“If we don't get through, it’s
good-bye forever, Sam.”
The swift current caught them,
and tho *eanoo, hurled forward
with terrible force, went flying
toward the vorgo. A moment
more and it shot out into tho
mist and wont doivn into the un- [
known depths. Rach man olung
to his paddle as he weut down,
by an invisible power,
whirled to and fro, as in a mael
strom, and then shot up into the
light below the falls. Far below
them the canoe floated, and as
tho current swept them down
! tho two men looked back in time
I to see tho Indian’s canoe como
I
I over tho fall sidewayß without
!an occupant. It was hurled far
out and fell lightly on the water,
only to bo arrestod by tho strong
hand of Buckskin Sam.
Tlio indians, appalled by their
danger, had upset tho canoe in
their frantic efforts to escape.—
What became of them the trap
pers never knew, for when they
reached tho foot of tho rapids,
far below tho falls, and righted
the canoe, they made no pause,
hut hurried down tho stream,
and before night wore safely
flouting in tho waters of tho
Canadian river. Two days af
ter thoy reached Fort Sill in
safbty.
WHAT IS A YEAH t
What is a year ? Tis but a wave
Of life’B dark rolling stream,
Which is so quickly goue that we
Account it nut a dream;
v: s£s but a simple earnest throb
Of time’s old iron heart,
A* tireless now and strong os when
r It first with life did start.
j What i6 a year? Tis but a turn
time’s old brazen wheel,
Or but a page upon the book
Which death must shortly seal;
’Tie but a step upon the road
Which we must travel o’er;
A few more steps and we shall walk
Life's weary road no more !
What is a ytfir? 'Tin but a breath
tunas old nostrils blown •
tin ’ word s> 'e i *jf *’ * -sNK
p, sf 'hcisr ntn weary moan ;
but a bubble ou tho wave
JF’ r dew upon the lawn ;
Ah transient, as the mists of morn
Beneath tho summer s sun.
VV! at is a year? ’Tis but a typo
Of life's oft changing scene;
.youth’s happy morn comes gaily on
V\ ith hills and valleys green ;
N . t sninmer’s prime succeeds tho spring
With flowers everywhere;
Then oomes old winter—death and all
Must find thoir level there.
Humor in the Family.
Good humor is rightly reckon
ed a most valuable aid t> happy
/home life. An equally good and
useful faculty is a sense of ini
mor, or tho capacity to have a
little fun along with the hum
drum cares and work of life. We
all know how it brightens up
things generally to have a lively,
witty companion who sees the
ridiculous points of things, and
can turn an annoyance into an
occasion for laughter. It does u
great deal bettor to laugh over
some domestic mishaps than t
cry or scofd over them. Many
homes and lives are dull, even
miserable because (hey are too
deeply impressed with tho cares
and resprnsibilitios of life to rec
ognize its bright, and especially
its mirthful side. Into such a
household the advent of a witty,
humorous friend is like sunshine
on a cloudy day.
While it is always oppressive
to hear somo person cosntantly
sti ving to say witty or funny
things, it is comfortable, seeing
wllat a brighteacr a li tie fun is,
to make an effort to have some
at home. It is well to turn off
an impatient question sometimes,
and to rogurd it from a humorous
point of view instead of becom
ing irritated about it. “Wife,
a bat is tho reason I can never
find a clean shirt?" exclaimed
a g6 od but rattier impatient hus
band, after rummaging all
though the wrong drawer. Ilis
wife looked at him steadily for a
mument, half inclined to bo pro
voked, then with a comical look,
she said, “I' never could guess
coaundrtms; I give it up.” Then
he laughed, and they both laugh
ed. and she went and got his
shirt, and he felt ashamed of
himself and kissod her, and then
ghf felt happy ; arid so what
might have been an occasion for
hatd words arid unkind feelings
became ju-l the Contrary, all
through tho little vciii of humor
that cropped out to the’ surface.
Some children have a peculiar
faculty for giving a humorous
turn to tilings when they are re
proved. It does just as well oft
entimes to laugh things off as to
scold them off. Laughter is bet
tor than tears. Let us have a lit
tle more -of it at home.
Soma of the Trials of Tall Men.
[Rntlingtou Hawkeye.]
Just after 1 left. Honeoyo Falls
a tall man sut down in the seat
in front of me. I had noliood
him standing wearily about on
the platio in, and I pitied him.
My heart was full ol sympathy
for him. lam always sorry for
a tall man. Sometimes, when 1
get before an audience, and have
to stand on my tiptoes to look
over the footlights, I wish I was
a trifle taller than I am. But
this longing is only momentary.
It passes away as noon as I see
an unusually tall man. You see,
a very tall man is always pur
sued, haunted by one unvarying
joke. Every short or ordinary
sized man that approaches him,
throws back his hoad, affects to
gaze into the heavens with a very
painful effort, and nsks : “Isn’t
it piotty cold up, w hero you aroT ’
Just wateli tho next short njun
you see meet a tail one, and tioo
if this conundrum doosn't follow
the first greeting. Just watch
and see if you do not ask it your
self. And this must be dread
fully wearing on tho tall man. I
have observed that as a rule big
men, 'all juon, are good natured
It is we little fellows who have
wuspifth tempore. So tho tall plan
never regents this venerable joke
by sitting down on iho man who
gets it off. Ho smiles drearily,
and with a weary off rt lo ap
pear interested, and tries to look
as though ho hail never heard it
before. It must boa period tor
ture for the tall man to hear this
question fifty limes a year for
thirty or forty years. Some-
time*, when I hear a Jozen men
a*k a tall man of my acquaint
ance this question, in dirset suc
cession, and see Inn endure it so
patiently, I wish I was the Co
lossus ol Rhodes, and a little man,
four feet eleven und a half, would
come up lo mo sumo day when 1
left right good, and stare up at
me wilft a grin lonowOJiini his
body, tffl ask Imo ' !i'
pretty cold lip there?" and i
would hold him up by tho nee .
und l would swing my brazen
leg until it got the motion nnd
impetus of a walking beam, and
then I would kick tho little fel
low so high that he could read
the names of the streets on the
Street lamps in Uranus, and I
would sarcastically shout after
him, “No; it's led hot!"
Have tall men no rights that
we, who live eight or ten inches
nearer tho ourlli, are bound to
respect ?
Plehty of Pocket Money.
A correspondent of the Detroit
Free Press writes to that paper
as follows: “My husband gives
mo all lire money I want, and 1
spend it as 1 please. If he asks
m for a few dollars, he guts it,
and I ask no questions. 1 don’t
think I’ve any right to ask him
what he spends his money for.
I am only glad to know that ho
has it to buy thirgs with, whetlr
or it be tobacco or anything else,
lie provides tho money to make
homo comfortable, and J provide
the means to make it happy. 1
think a great many of the faults
we see in our husbands are only
fancied ones. i used to find
fault; but when I came to ex
amine myself, I was ashamed to
find that the great burden I had
wrappod up and given him to
carry, was my own. Bogin u
different course of treatment with
him, and when lie does anything
that you think is wrong don't
tell of it. When lie c mes home
try fo look pleasant; moot him
with a smile and make him wjcl
come. It is his home, and ho
provides for ii. When any one
gossips about your husband don't
listen to them. They will stop
telling you stories to purposely
make you miserable, and then go
homo and laugh at your sorrow.
Romance of Royalty.
[From a New York Letter.]
In the list of arrivals in this
city at one of our principal ho
tels, appeured lately tho namo of
“Richard Vanx, Philadelphia.”
A simple announcement, that of
the arrival of a plain citizen of
the United Stales, and yet, if
fate had not been dead sot against
him, Mr. Vanx might have beon
the consort of a Queen. Ever so
long ago, Rickard Vanx was a
marvelously hamlsomo and fasci
nating young man. lio went to
Europe, and, being possessed of
large means, hao access to the
best of society, and even attract
ed the notice of the young Queen
of KnglanA, who had hut then
come to the throne. It is said—
tho story being told, to mo by
persons high in authority in Eng
land—that her heart’s first affec
tions wero given to Richard
Vaux, of tho Quaker City, and
she would have married him, too,
if she had been allowed, hut State
rensona prevailed to dolor her.
Tho Queen of England could not |
marry a subject even of royal
blood, and therefore she was
toreed to forget her fancy for tho
American—<rr not quito forgot it
—for in memory of it, my inform-
ant says she has permitted her
children to marry according to
their heart's choice rather thun
for ambition’s sake. Vaux lin
gered in England until her mar
riago with I’rinee Albert put an
end to his wildest hopes, and
then returned to his native land.
Among his many gifts was a
splendid voice, and the ballad of
“I’ll Hang jny Harp on a Willow
Tree,” was composed by Inin,
Victoria being tho heroine of the
plaint.
Four Celebrated Trees,
A correspondent of the Troy
Times thus describes four cele
brated “Big Trees” of California:
Tho “Father of tho Forest,”
whoso huge form now lies pros-
trate upon the ground, lias a di
ameter of 37 feet, and measures
112 feet in circumference at the
base. It mst have boon 400
feet h’gli when standing. Wo
climbed up by a ladder on the
mighty trunk, and walked from!
the roots toward the top for 300 :
loot, then were compelled to
como down another ladder, ho-
oauso the tree bad been broken
iu two by failing. At the break
we found the giant 16 feet in
diameter. Through the trunk of
the fallen monaruli, ii ic-h is ho 1 -
low, ono can ride for 37 feet on
horseback. A party of us walked
sido by side through the inside
of this tree, then wo ull crawled
through a knot hole. \
Till- “Pother if Uu/Forest,"
now dead but still standing, i
-327 feet high. (Moro limn 100
feet higher than Bunker Hill
Monument.) This is the tallest
tree on the continent. Borne
years since the hark was strip
ped fro pi this tree, for a distance
of 116 feel from the ground, arid
arried to .England. Your cor
respondent saw it iu tlio Kondou
Crystal f’alaco in 1867.
One of tho tree-2 of this grove
(tlio Calaveras) is called the ‘ Old
Bachelor." He is 90 feet in cir
cumference, and looks like Home
other bachelors, rather forlorn.
Another is called “Old Ajaid,”
aud she is lull 60 feel around the
waist. Tho Old Bachelor and
Old ilaid are qliito a distance
apart (they generally are, you I
know)! 'I ho Bachelor is still
standing; hut a few years ago
the Old Maid full, und, 1 must
tell of it, sho fell right towurd*
tho Old Bac' dor.
A Well Known Woman,
Tho woman who is always fall
ini' to pieces came to tho sta
tion a little late and had to make
a rush for tho train. When she
reached her seut her hat fo I off.
She got it on, but it toppled over
to one siilo, and when she tried
to straighten it up her hair ca e
tumbling down. She lost her
ticket twice before tho conductor
roaolicd her, and would have lost
it again if bo hadn’t taken it
away from hor. She reached up
to put a bundle in a ruck above
her bond and burst tho collar off
her duster, and stuck her fingers
bn four pins in hor dress before
she found ono that she dated
tako out to repair the damage.
Then just as sho thought she tiad
got comfortably settlod, hor lit
tlo hand valise, pucked to burst
ing with enough things to load a
Saratoga trunk to the muzzle,
exploded, and she nearly worked
herself into fragments getting it
together again. Then by the
time she got the valise shut up
her hat tumbled off again, and
by the time she got hor hat back
into its place, her hair tumbled
down iigain, and as soon as she
got her hair twisted up, ami har
pooned in with a couple of hair
pins, tho valise wont off, and
when she got .off at New Prague
she tucked .tho gasping valiso
under her arm, ami tried to oor
tal her toppling hat and wander
i g hair 'with one hand, and as
she went .fluttering und .strang
ling into tho depot, ono couldn’t
help thinking that it woidd bo
Salop.and, utero convenient, to run
b’rin sections and flag ber against
everything. 1 liavo seen this
woman on sovernl oilier trains,
und sho has never Ween able to
Iteop herself together. She keeps
you in n stato of agonizing sus
pence, for you never know where
she is going to give way next.
Xo. IQ.
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