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PROFESSIONAL CAROS, ETC.
A. C. QIHLLASN,
Dentist,
WILL be in Thomson from the Ist
till the l'>tli of each month. All
operations strictly First Class. Office
on Main street, first door south of A. l>.
Thrasher’s residence. Private engage
ments in the country promptly filled.
jnn'J'.Mv
prices! suit ha and TIM:s
rpHE UNDERSIGNED is better pre-
I paled than ever tj make BOOTS
AND SHOES of all styles for Ladies
and Gentlemen, cheap for cash. I ke< p
on hand an assortment of the very best
material, anti make Wedding and Party
Boots and .Shoes a specialty. 1 have re
cently learned anew process of prepaid j
ing soles from the best Baltimore < *ak
and Slaughter Hemlock that moke them
last much longer than t e old process |
Very thankful for past liberal patron
age. 1 solicit a continuance of the same. 1
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the
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Now is your chance t* purchase the .
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trade, at prices that any planter can
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should purchase between now and May
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—Pictures of female base ball clubs
indicate that the principal batting is
the cotton.
—n the 30th day of June, the
total amount t currency in circula
tion was $734,801,994.79, being worth
its face in coin.
—A company ol real or imitation
Zulu warriors are giving exhibitions
m France of the manner in which
Prince Napolean was killed.
•—The campus at Cornell is i'lurai
na id every night \v tii elec no lights
at the expense of. h cent an hour,
leaving no chance for mischief in the
dark.
—Sir Gurnet Wolseley lias g ;e
out to Zumlami expressly to make
p■•u-ie. He said so much iu the p'niu
est language at a private breakf ist
party just lx fore ho started.
Dr. Hugh J. Glenn is tlie Demo
cratic nomiuee for Gover of Califor
nia. He is represented to be the
most extensive farmer in the world.
His friends are sanguine of hi* elec
tion,
- A negro at Daiiis, Texas, believ
ing that God demanded the sacrifice
of his family, gavt poison to bis wife
and three children ; but an irreligious
physician interfered aud saved their
lives.
—The Rev. W. J. Parks, a If ailing
Ohio Presbyterian clergyman, has
been accused of II echerisra, aud his
Presbytery lms suspended him as
pastor of a church at Canton until he
can be tried.
—The United States War Depart
ment lms recently sent the Southern
Historical Society, at Richmond, a
largo number of beautiful photo
graphs, representing scenes of the
battlefields and camps of the late war
—A lot of French capitalists having
proposed to furnish the capital to
build an underground street railway
in New York, tin. Buffalo Express
urges Senator 13 irnsido to look to it
that the Monroe doctrine is not vio
lated.
—lt was an exciting moment when
Mr. Rhea v.as holding a rabid bull
dog by the ears at Gold Greek, Ark.,
m:;J yfiv. R!kn was tubing ftiitt with u
gun at its head; but the woman’s
rmirk: :na:i' lup was good, and the*
beast tumbled over dead.
A negro boy who at tempted Cos
rape a your g lady, was taken from
the jail at Fayetteville last week by tv
party of disguised men, and the next j
morning after he was taken out, bin !
body was found swinging 1 y the !
mck to a limb of a tree.
—A clergy aan at a Methodist j
eatupm'eting at Bnevrus, Ohio, j
prayed that G *d woml.i kill one mom- \
tier < f every anti Christian family in j
the county. This excited the wrath)
of the sinners in the congregation, j
and they tore - own the tent, whipped I
the minister, and would havo tarred j
and feathered loir* if he had not tied, j
—Chim •••<: and Russians i.re. Mil! ;
looking fioree y at each oth r, Imf
.io.stiir. es have not yet eonm -•.•!■<•< and
ur.iiiud K iD;j , the district ha 1 f>.- .
beriau and i.tne e, uhie. > for. s 'lie ■
priii&pai boi.e of contention. \Dati
wniie, ho ever, n um-s of il ti> a'-
iiiLU' oS lit ion i iclinniH by t e
Gbmetttt Mihii'p i .and fane ioi-arich
ait! art fury s, ien abio.id by iius la. ;
—G* l-i. Toombs rj ive the members
of ne Le. -.Mature a talk on railroads,
and railroad matters g morally, Tues- j
day night Jit t week. Hedenounc- ;
ed railroads and railroad corpora- •
tions is robbers uud swindlers, and I
said that sn.ee the first day of their
existence their course ha i been one;
of plunder; he said that railroads!
should be legislated against was a
fact beyond controversy.
—Capt. Henry Otto, of Baltimore,
has entered into a wager of $2,000
with a New York Bea captain that he
will cross the Atlantic in a small open
boat. * He is about fifty years old,
quite stout, but lithe and active. His j
companion will be a large Newfound- ,
land dog. The boat, which is now ;
being built, is constructed of white
cedar and oak. Iler dimension# are : i
Length, 18 feet; breadth of beam, 6 I
feet, and depth of hold, 25 inches.
—Tn the case of the State vs. John
Jones, principal, aud J. T. Gran': and
G. A. Nutting, sureties, Judge Hiil
yer on the 19th iust. granted a super
sedeas suspending tho issuance of
the execution until tho motion for a
new trial can be argued. State’s
counsel insisted that the sureties
should give bond peuding a hearing
of the motion, which was overruled.
The next term begins on Monday af
ter the fourth Monday in September.
- The Boston Journal growls about
the “arrogant Democracy” sending
campaign documents to Yaiue and
Ohio. To the Republicans it is “ar
rogance” to differ with them in their
political views, aud the continued
and heaithy exigence of the Deruo
! cratic party makes them howl with
r.tge. They want but one party in
I th3 country, aud that their own,
i while all opposition must be dealt
; with as “treason.” That is the tone
of a large number of Stalwart organs.
llt :a the old talk furbished up for
j the new service.
THOMSON, Cl A., WEDNESDAY, JULY 30.1879.
SIYMTTLUONi: on ItltO AD-
U AY STREET,
i [The following poem was sent ns last
week by a love-sick young man with
| request to publish, which wo cheerfully
! do. hoping that it may attract the notice
i of the fair one for whom it is intended:]
My little girl, so dear, so sweet,
Now liviiii' up on Broadway street,
She Ims entangled, ( declare,
.My lift' in her brown, auburn hair;
And, though ’tis n soft silken chain.
My efforts to escape are vain:
For, iu “the game of Love.” I’m beat.
By lu r who lives on Broadway street.
j And then her eyes, as di’monds bright,
; Sparkle with a heavenly light;
j Within their depths. I plainly soe.
j True love that is for only mo ;
' Forever, I could in them gaze;
i Forever I will sing their praise;
; Loveliest eyes I o’er did meet
j Shedding their beams o'er Broadway
street.
Her cherry lips and rosy cheeks—
j But. to describe them would take-weeks—
" Words from her lips are soft as dew,
| Her cheeks are as Ho&v’n’s rosy hue—
j They are for only me to press,
i ()• iy for me to love, caress,
i And mine is happiness complete,
i To pot her thus on Broadway street.
i She's full of frolic, fun and grace,
j Beauty and love shine from her face ;
! Her heart is large, sincere and true;
I Her soul is noble, strong and pure:
i Her looks, shape, features are divine;
i And she is wholly, wholly mine,
| This sweetest one I e’er did meet,
j This little dear on Broadway street.
O! Broadway street ! most happy street!
To hold a lass so fair, so sweet!
Your very ground is sanctified,
O! Broadway street, so blest, so wide!
1 go sometimes on Broadway street,
My little dirling runs to greet;
My cup of joy will be complete,
| When I, too, Jive on Broadway street.
God bless the one 1 dearly love!
Fit for the happy realms above!
May she from every harm be free,
Live peaceful aud die happily!
I live for her and her alone,
For, if all gems. Id rather own,
My little one, so dear, so sweet,
My little one on Broadway street.
Cousin Tom.
ONLY A FLEUR;
O
Forced to Eat Humble Pie.
‘Only think of it! A clerk! A
saleswoman I It seems to me
1M have worked my , fingers to |
the hone in some other way be
fore I would come to that,’ said
Lizzie Doyle, going to tho mir
ror and readjusting, a §2O hat.
'Bo V, onldk^A|u|MU|^^g^B^
'****■ ‘ j
‘At. least slie might have made I
herself a little less public. If
there’s anything f despise it’s I
tliese saleswomen,’
‘So do I. How much better it
would have been to have gone
into dressmaking or millinery,
or something of that sort. But I
to stand behind tho counter like
a man I’
Fapa always di ’ like those
S'ridoys,’ said Lizzie Doyle, pet
ulantly.
‘Yes, we all liked them well
enough until Mr. Stanley failed,
didn't we?’
‘No, noli, for one ’ Laura
was always ho h dependent in
her notiot h. ‘Don’t you mm iu
her how bard she sta lied at
school? It does ccm us it -be
foivsuw her f ther's failure.'
’I wonder she did fit try houio
better po-d*.ion, then. Site is
ecrtainly capable of being some
thing better loan a shop-girl.
‘Oh, 1 believe papa intends to
promote her when Mr. Jobley
goes West. She will then take
M*. Jobley’s place as junior
book-keeper. Think of that fur
a woman T
‘That would ho bolter than
soiling goods. Why don’t she
give lessons, I wonder? Jt
might not bring her quite so
much money, but it would be a
deal nicer.’
‘Yet!; ami then we could re
cognize her,' said Lizzie Doyle.
‘That's what I was coining to,’
was the reply of her companion,
a small, sallow-faced girl, elab
orately trimmed and flounced,
l How are'.ve to treat her now ?
We have been great friends, you
know ; that is, when she was in
■ our set,’ she added, seeing Liz
zie's brow darken.
‘l'll tell you how I shall treat
her,’ reap inded Lizzie, slowly
drawing on a pair of perfumed,
three-button kid gloves; ‘pre
cisely as I treat all of papa’s
clerks. And I should like to see
any of them presume!’
‘Oh, but Laura wen’tpresume!
You needn't be afraid of that;
she’s too proud.’
‘But how can you help it when
| you go to the storo or church?
' She sits so near us, you know.
‘Of course she’ll give up that
pew. She can’t afford that?’
‘That’s just precisely what she
: does not mean to do. I heard
i her say the family must econo
mise somewhere else and keep
i the pow. Her mother is hard of
| hearing and could not enjoy the
I services further back. The
children, too, must go to church.
That is the last thing, she said,
one ought to give up. I heard
her say this to your father last
Sunday.’
‘flow provoking!’ said Lizzie,
impatiently. ‘She will always
be in our faces. But I shall
have nothing to do with her. 1
know what it is for, the artful
minx!—it's to keep near us.—
She knows she has got into
papa's good graces; and At, too,
admires her. 1 don’t see what
there is to admire. Site's very
| lain.’
‘Laura is no beauty,’ was the
reply, ‘but 1 nou’t think she's so
very plain. She has certainly
lowered herself though, by going
into a stoie.’ And thereupon
the two girls went out for their
walk.
it was near twilight ok that
day when Laura Stanley walked
briskly home and entered the
neat two story house to which
her mother had lately removed
such of her household effects as
had been spared by tho auction
eer.
‘This is really pleasant,’ she
said, sinking into a chair that
had been drawn near to the
glowing grate, ‘f had no idea
that you would so soon make
the house home like.’
‘Are you very tired, my
dear?’ asked her mother, a re
lined-looking woman, as she
helped tho daughter to take off
her eloak and liat.
‘Rather, but 1 like the busi
ness; and it’s a fine place for tho
study of character.’
‘I wish you had chosen some,
thing else, my (fear.’
‘1 don’t wisli so,' said Laura.
■There is nothing else that would
have brought a salary at once.
1 used to wonder what a certain
person would be to me if i were
| not the rich Mr. Stanley's daugli-
I tor, and now I know. It’s a
I knowledge worth gaining.’
‘Do you meet many persons
you are acquainted with?’ asked
her mother.
‘Oh, yes; and it’s amusing
when they come upon mo sud
Miss Stanley ? and sometimes up
go the eye-glasses. Then I feel
—well, us if I should like ‘ i
freeze somebody, if L could, for
a minute. Others roo mo and
make believe they arc examining
goods ; ho absorbed aro they that
t hey go clear by mo without
looking up, and pas out the
same way. But such sightH
don’t trouble mo. I find out
how much true friendship is
worth, and who, out of till the
seeming ladies I have boon in
the habit of meting, are true,
and who are false.’
‘Then you met some that are
t rue ?*
‘Yes, in !eod ; Judge Agtile’H
wifi;, who always seemed to mo
so proud and distent, came up to
me \ i h a glowing face and r aii-
I.V congratulated me. She did
like a lady, too, and like a friend
There was nothing patronizing
about her. And there are hev.
ernl others to whom my posi
lion makes no difference. They
prize me for whut I am. Yet
wliat a price to pay to learn the
value of ‘rue friendship,’ added
Lruri, wiih a deep sigh.
‘1 met. Aggie Doyle to-day, and
she wouldn't speak to me,’ said
Alice, Laura's sister, who had
come into the room and over
heard the last remark. ‘Why
should she not speak to mo, I
wonder?’
‘Because your sister is a clerk
in her father’s store,’ said Laura,
somewhat bitterly.
‘That’s no reason why she
should treat mo so,’ the child re
plied.
‘Of course it isn’t; nor is it any
reason why Lizzie, her oldest
sister, should ignore mo. I liked
her so much, too. But to-day
she came into the store and pass
ed mo with sucli a glance after
I had prepared a smile and wel
come for her. Mr. Doyle has
been so kind siueo papa’s death
that 1 looked for bolter treat
ment from Lizzie. That, I con
fess, wounded me; and I shall
have to meet her so ofien. But
never mind, I must remember
my place,’she added; I have to
work for my living now—but 1
will be proud of it! Good-bye,
old life of lazy ease! Good-bye,
old worthless friends! Your
coldness cannot hurt the real
me; it is only the worthless
S young lady of fashion who feels
! it, and she is slowly departing
this life.’
‘Have you filled ail your invi
tations?’ asked Lizzie's eldest
brother one of the firm of Doyle
& Cos., some days after the pre
vious conversation took place.
Lizzio was arranging a bun-
I
dr->d r more cream-colored en
volnt •••■*, which she tied together
with me pretty, bright-hued
ribbon.
•1 : liovo so,’ she replied, with
asm i. I have asked every
youn - indy of my acquaintance,
and : liink our party will bo the
finest t tlio season, if' papa will
have the carpets taken up in the
west.yooms and the floors chalk
ed. llutger will do them for
*SO, and you have no idea how
bonuMtully ho works.’
-’L,". U father will not refuse
thatbrother replied. ‘l’ll
speak to him.’
‘Thank you, Al. Then I am
sure he havo it done. I
have asked him for so much that
I was almost afraid to ask him
for more.’
‘By the way, havo you invited
Miss Laura Stanley?’ her brother
asked vis he was going out.
‘Of course not,’ said Lizzie.
‘Offourso not, and pray, why
not?’ tio asked, standing still.
‘Why, Al, what an ideal She
wouldn’t accept it. Our shop
girl—father’s clerk—l wouldn’t
havo her for tho world!’
‘Thou, it you are stiro she
would not come, you might have
sent her an invitation out of
compliment,’ her brother replied.
‘I don’t consider her an ac
quaintance,’ said Lizzie, and AI
waited out of the room with u
shrug of the shoulders.
I’ r-tly her father came in.
‘Lizzie,’ lie said, 'J particularly
wish you to send a nolo of invi
tation to Miss Laura Stanley.’
‘Rapa you don’t mean it I" ox
claimed Lizzie, chagrined.
Indeed. Ido mean it. What!
slight th daughter of one of my
most cherished friends, because
she lias i iino down in the world
in am o y point of viow? I
sh< ul*i despise myself for it.’
‘But, papa, she won’t come,’
said Lizzie.
‘Npvor mind whether she will
or nV.’ . dj- r ? te an invitation. I’ll
Liz/.;L7|it down, pulo and an
gry V write the note. Alter all
her boasting of having ‘cut 11to
Stanleys, ’ it was very hard to he
obliged to invite Laura. Her
chciks grow hot as eho indited
lira polite little missive, while she
remembered tho many timos sin:
had ignored her t > whom it was
addro rd. She would have dm
obeyed had hl>o dared—would
have withheld tho note after it
was wriUeu. had hor father not
stood b}' to take it.
Later, her brother Al. eatno to
her. ‘I should like an invitation,
Lizzie, for a young lady of’ my
acquaintance,’ ho suid, in a quiet
voice.
•Who is she?’
‘The young lady whom I have
asked to bo my wife,’ ho said,
s railing.
‘Oh, Al, of course you shall
have ill I am’to have a sister,
then? I’m so glad. Whut is
her name? Will she ho sure to
come? I’m sure I can’t think ol
any one.’ And then she paused,
puzzled at his shrewd smile.
‘Do I know her?’ who asked.
‘You rtsed to,’he answered. It
is Miss Laura Stanley I’
‘Oh, Al!’ She sank down,
covering her face with her hands.
‘I was afraid she might feel
tho slight so Aeenly,’ ho said,
softly, ‘that I hurried matters a
little So you need not bo afraid
now thut she will not come. Will
yon not prepare mo an invita
tion r
‘I have. Papa has carried it
to her, But oh, Al, aclorAl’
noble woman,’ said her
brother, ‘who dares face the
sneer* of her sot, and tnko an
honest position for the sa/io of
those win) are dependent upon
her, rather than whine about her
former dignity and live upon
charity. I wish there were more
li/co her.’
So Lizzie was forced, for once
ir her lifo, to eat humble pie.
Chastine Cox, who murdered
Mrs. Hull, in New York city bus
been sentenced to bo hung in
August.
Gen. Grant was received at
Pe/rin, China, with all the hon
ors accorded to a rcigni ig mon
arch hi an y conn tty.
Hon. A. 11. Stephens will do
livor the alumni address at the
approaching commencement of
the State University,
The first rajdjfityl hi ralestine
has beeni'coiftfaeteil for between
Jaffa and Jerusalem, forty miles.
Tho contractor is reported to bo
G. F. D. Lovell, a resident of
Cincinnati.
\
V AIN T 111, VIM'.
Slid stood before him, tall and fair
And gracious, on that summer day,
With June’s first roses iu hor hair.
And on her ebook tho bloom of May,
But rosy hair and dimpled chin,
And raven lashes drooping low.
Conceal the answer lie would win;
It might bo Yes; would it bo ho?
Ah! if ’twerc No - his throbbing heart
St tod fairly still with sudden pam;
And if ’twerc Y r cs, the world so wido
His deep content could scarce contain,
So wondrous fair! how could she stoop
To favor such a one as he ?
Ah, sweet suspense, that still leaves
hope!
Ah. pain of sad uncertainty!
lie held her hand, so white aud small,
And moved to press it with his lips,
But changed his mind anti let it fall,
With childish touch of finger tips,
And took tho seat she offered him,
Upon the sofa by her side.
Nor made tho space between them less,
Which seemed so narrow yet so wide.
Then gazing on the perfect face,
The dimpled mouth, the serious eyes,
And, drinking in with eager ears
The music of her low replies,
Ho let the bright hours drift away,
Nor told the secret of his heart,
But when the shadows lengthened lay,
llose, all reluctant, to depart.
And stammered forth with blushing
cheek.
An eager timorous request
That she, for old acquaintance sake,
Would grant tho rosebud from her
breast.
She gave it him, with downcast eyes,
And watched him leave her w ith a
sigh.
“So good,’’ she said, “so true, so wise;
Ah, me! if he were not so shy.”
FISHING IN PIKE COUNTY.
The Remarkable Experience? of
Ex-Justice John Scott. •
Ex-l’olico J us! ice John Scott, of
this city, returned a tow days
since from a flailing excursion in
tho Pike County wilderness.—
With Messrs. John C. West
brook and John Gaillard, of Mil
ford, ho camped out throe days
on Little Walker Pond, and one
day on Big Walker Pond. The
former is supposed to contain
trout. In tho latter the vora
cions and tenacious pickerel is
alleged to lie in wait for the al
luring spoon hook and treacher
ous live bait of tho fisherman.
The Justice brought back with
him a splendid specimen of cold
in the bead, and tho following
tr. thflll sir chant f some '/of his
expoiieneor in Pike county;
"J don’t care so much about
trout fishing, but I told .John C.
Westbrook that if he know of
any plaeo where I could get hold
of some pickerel, there was
where I wanted to go. So John
(I. saitl ' e’d go to the Walker |
Ponds, because then I could take j
out wliat pickerel I wanted from j
one of t Ito ponds, and he could
capture his favorite trout in the
other. ‘The pickerel ain’t very
large in tho Walker Pond,’ said
John, 'but they’re plenty.’ So
w went to Walker Pond.
“Now, I’m giving you an idea
of tho size of the pickerel in that
pond when I. tell you that [ used
a shiner of ordinary size for bait.
I fished for three hours. Every
littlo while I’d get what I
thought was a bite. I’d yank up
my hook and find nothing. What
bothered me was that tho shiner
seemed as lively as when I first
put tho hook through him. And
another th tig puzzled mo. The
shiner began to swell out like a
toad fish. ‘I believe that hook
ha- poisoned that fish,’ said J to
myself; so I pulled him out of
the water, took out try hook,
and dropped the shiner in tho
bottom of the boat. Ho died in
a littlo while. Then I thought
I’d just open him and soe what
was the matter. I found nine
pickerel in him. The d—d pick
rrel were so small in that pond
that tho bait fish had swallowed
’em.
“I quit and pulled to shore.
John C. and Gailliard wore over
in the Littlo Walker, fishing for
trout. When I got ashore I.
found an old fellow that lived
near tho pond fishing for bull
heads. ‘Be you from the city?’
he asked. I said I was. ‘Ketch
in'pick'd?’ ho asked. I told
him I wasn’t. ‘Want to?’ he in
quired. If I could get a hold of
a few good ones, I told him, I’d
bo suited to death. 'Wud y’ like
l’ pay a couple o’ dollars t’ git
some good ones?’ 1 replied that
I would readily invest that much
for a little genuine sport.
‘‘The Pike counly man Btop
ped to attend to a bite on his
lino. He pulled out a bullhead
the size of a pug dog, took it off
his hook, dropped it in his boat
on top of about half a bushel
others, liesuvely wound up his
line, and then said: “Como ’long
o’ me’ I followed with my pail
of bait fish and my tackle. The
Pike county mar. to k mo half a
mile through tho woods. There
we came to a pond about the
size of the fountain basin in tho
City Hall Para. ‘Now, h’yor
v’ll have soma fufl,’ bo said. I
was sweating and pulling like a
horse after a four mile race 'I II
take the two dollars right h’yor,’
he added. ‘’F you don't ketch
any fish, y’ll find mo over t’ Big
Walker yankin’ bullheads, ’n I’ll
refund.’ He showed me a box
made with slats, and having a
lid with leather hinges. One
end was stuck down in the mud,
and tho box was half full of wa
ter. Tho countryman told mo
to open the lid and put ray fish
in that box as fust as I caught
thorn, and that would keep them
fresh and nice. 1 thanked him,
and ho went away with my Iwo
dollar bill in his pock t.
“I began to fish. The first
throw I caught a uickorcl that
would weigh two pounds easy.
‘Tin's is pretty good,’ I thought,
I kept ort ftshii g, and every little
while I’d Irani out a pickerel. I
put tho fish all in tho box, as I
had boon instructed to do by the
Pike uountiun. I caught twenty
pickerel before it began to strike
me as something singular that
they were all as near one size as
could he. After my twenty
fifth pickerel it occurred to me
as being a little remarkable that
there was so lit tie commotion jn
the box. When I opened it and I
put my twenty-sixth pickerel in, j
I | tilled it out ou shore. There
wasn’t a fish in the box. One
slat was of}' the end of the box
that bad been iu tho water, and
tho pickerel had passed back in
to tho pond as fast as caught.
“I started back after the Pike
county man Ho had probably
caught nil the bullheads he want
ed, for ho was nowhere to bo
seen. Then I went ever to Lit
tle Walker and told John C.
about tho twenty-six splendid
pickerel 1 had caught, and how
they had got away. John
smiled.
“Don't fed so had, Judge,'
Heid lie. ‘You only lost.one fish.
That's old Bullhead I urn's pot
pickerel. .He’s always hungry,
and you've caught him twenty
six times.' f
“But F hud some good sport
at Little Walker Pond. I had
borrowed Ed. Cahill’s $lO Con
roy trout rod, thinking I might
want a change from pickerel
fishing, John -0. and Gaillard
had caught sumo nice trout in
the pond, and the last day we
were there they thought they
would go over and try their luck
in Carr’s Rock brook. It was a
long walk, and I concluded to
stay at the pond and try Cahill's
rod and flies. Our tent, was
near the shore of the pond. J ohn
C. had taken Ids rifle along in
hope that we might run across a
boar or no atm fetch ’em down. I
fished a good part of (lie day
ami didn't havo much luck,—
Along toward evening J saw a
big trout jumping for flies about
twenty feet from shore, opposite
the tent. I stood on tl.e shore
and dropped my flies over where
the trout was making out a sup
per. He nubiad one of my
hooks quicker than lightning,
and tho nnx', minute was mak
ing tho reel hum as ho rushed
out toward the middle of the
pond. Uo took overy foot of
line there was on tho reel before
he stopped, and when he stop
ped ho leaped out of the water--
well, two feet. I thought, sine
I’d loso him, for ho tugged like a
harpooned whale. While I was
trying to reel in some of the lino
I saw a flash of something that
seemed to drop from the sky,
and thon heard a plungo in
tho water. There was a great
splash and strugglo in the pond
for a second or two, and then I
saw a monster fish hawk sailing
off with my trout. Before I
could recover from my surprise
the $lO rod was jerked from my
hands and followed the hawk
and fish. There was only one
thing to do John C.'s rifle
stood ugairst a tree ten foot
away. I jumped for it. The
hawk didn’t look much bigger
than a pigeon, and the trout rod
had dwindled to a school buy’s
arrow. I drew a bead. The
hull went where it, was sent; the
hawk tumbled into the middle of
the pond. I towed out and
found it dead in the water. Its
talons still grasped tho trout,
and toe lino and rod wore still
attached to tho fish. I hud !o
cut the tendons of tho hawk’s
claws to get ’em loose. The
trout weighed two pounds.— JV,
I'. Sun.
An enthusiastic temperanco
i woman at Fort Collins, Colorado,
j has given a supper to all tho
i joung men in tho town who had
i not imbibed alcoholic liquors for
1 sixty days previous.
Redmond and the Reven'ie.
A correspondent of tho Green
ville News, writes to that paper,
on tho first, as follows: ‘I am
reliably informed t hat a man by
the name of Gilbert J. Green,
| who lives near Soncca Oily, South
Carolina, anil who, it is said, is
|in tho revenue service of tho
United States Government ns a
spy, undertoo/.- to capture Red.
mond, the outlaw, who lives in
Transylvania county, N.C. Tho
means resorted to by this spy
were as f illows :
‘A man by tho narno of Fisher,
who lives in the sumo county with
Redmond, shot a rovenuo officer,
for which lie was tried and con
vigtod and sentenced for two
years to the Albany penitentiary,
and on his way thoro mado his
i escape. Tt i“ man Green, learn
j ing t! at Fisher was in his neigh-
I borhood, and having ascertained
that he was an escaped prisoner
I “f the United States, and that ho
j was from Redmond’s neighber
| hood, induced Fisher to believe
that lie was in sympathy with
' the moon-shiners, and ospeciallv
jso with Redmond, whereby lie
induced Fisher to come to his
house, where lie harbored him
for several months, for tho pui
pose, ns subsequent developments
have shown, to cuptuie Red
mond, as tho revenue offieor had
promised this spy if he coul I
capture Redmond lie should have
three thousand dollars. This
seeming friend of Fisher’s pro
posed to Fisher to tuA'o a trip to
tho neighborhood of Redmond,
which Fisher agreed to. They
started on their journey to Tran
sylvania county, N. 0., and when
they got into the vicinity of Red
mond's house, this spy, Green,
sent Fisher for Redmond to come
and see him, that ho was his
friend and wanted to advise him
for his own good what to do;
but Redmond was too smart to
ho taAen that way} and sent
word to this man Green t hat he
conid'soo him in bis own castle,
provided the spy came unarmed,
which proposition was acceded
to. 'Then Green got to the
house ot Redmond, he soon learn
ed that Red.iionl was able to
late care of himself. After Green
resorted to every means to in
dueo Redmo'd t,o leave his
stronghold, upon the representa
tion that they go to Texas, ho at
last induced Redmond to go.
Green left with this understand
ing, and was to meet him at
Fisher's next day. On t 1 o next
day they all met at Fisher’s, and
while Green and Redmond were
planning their trip to Texas the
liuusu was surrounded by reve
nue officers. They, with Green,
ordered Redmond to surrender;
whereupon Redmond discovering
that this mail Green was a spy
in tho revenue service and act
ing in concert with those reve
nue officers, drew his revolver
and opened lire on Green and his
posse, which produced such a
staratjedo that they all fled, with
out maAing any halt for tiftoeu
miles.’ Wliat a victory to he
achieved by one man!
Two newsboys wore standing
in front of a Houston cigar ■ tore,
when one of them Acd the oth
er, have you got three cent'?
“Yes.” “Well, I've got two
cents; give me your thioe cents
and I’ll buy a five cent Havana
cigar." “AH right,” says No. 2,
handing out the money. He ea
ters a ei ar store, procures tho
cigar (on credit possibly), lights
it, and puft's with a great doal of
satisfaction. “Come, now, givo
us a puff,” says No. 2. “I fur
nished more than half tho mon
ey." “I Anew it,” says theemoA
or, “but then I'm President aud
you are only stoeAholdor, you can
spit.”
The James River, near Rich
mond, Va., was so low last weoA,
that it could be crossed on foot
without wetting one’s shoes.
Tho oldest native inhabitant
of Loudvillo is just beginning to
wuiA, and yet Loudvillo is a city
of thousands of inhabitants.
There are very few feminine
criminals in India. The average
prison population in Bombay is
1 to 1,810 of the total population,
Rst that of the female prisoners
is only 1 to 23,500. This is at
tributed to the subjection of wo
men, tmd the absenc e of drinA.
On tho day that tho nows of
Frit co Napoleon’s death reached
( England, tho ex-Empress Ettge
!i ie received 1,000 telegraphic
| dispatches of condolence, and 700
j letters, Site has lately bought
an estate in Buboes, in Croatia, a
j province of the Austro-Kujlga
\ rian Empire.