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VOL. XXV.
Juotncs 6. Hohufelb
PRACTICAL
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
TBoMsa.r, m.
TV undersigned takes pleasure in. informing the citizens of this town and county
that he has opened a first-class Wafch snd Jewelry business in this place and is prepared
to do all war! kin this line in the beat and mit satisfactory manner. Twenty yean*
practical experience in the largest Hsufbhsiimem iu the world enables me to give Botisfoc
lion in every way at most reasonable prices. I always keep on baud a nice selection of
Watches, Clocks, Jewelry and Spectacles, and can compete with every house in the
country in prices Engraving don®. Every kind and pattern in Jewelry to order At
shortest notice. All kinds of repairing done with neatness and dispatch. Give me a
call and yon certainly will find it to your advantage,
Louis G. Hohlfeld,
Lots of New Goods
AT
THOMAS N. LEWIS’
NO. 5, BRICK BOW, THOMSON, GEORGIA.
Keeps the best stock of GROCERIES in Thom
son. It has been tested and as declared
by first-class judges. His stock consists ot
Flour, Meal, Corn, Meat, Su-gar, Coffee,
and all their goods in the Grocery Line.
Also Boots, Shoes, Hats Clothing, and Dry
Goods of all kinds.
Corn, Meat & Flour
A Specialty!
jmN M. CVBTIS.
Manufacturer and Dealer in all kinds ot
Furniture and House Furnishing
Goods, Buggies, Carriages,
Wagons, &c., Ac.
All Repairing promptly done and at rea
sonable rates. Blacksmithing in all its
branches.
UNDERTAKING.
I have a large and elegant
HEARSE,
Which will be sent to any pnrt of the town or conntry at reasonable rates.
COFFINS AND METALLIC CASES.
BURIAL CASES,
l*rHill. ifcOJIES,
Suitable for Males or Vamales, old or young.
-I. >1- < ’UJtTUS. 'l’homHon. (ia.
THE ADKINS HOUSE,
ELLIS STREET, OIM'OsITK ODD FELLOWS’ HALL
AUGUSTA, A.
JK. J. ADIEITsTS. JTR,, - - PROP'S,
Newly MM Centrally Located.
CONVENIENT TO DEPOTS, INIST OFFICE, AND
BUSINESS PORTION OF 01 IT.
Hot and Cold Baths attached to Booms.
first-class tahleh, clean rooms and wedding.
feb7'B36m Term* Moderate.
WATCHES!
I am selling Waltham Stem Winding
Watches from ss.oo up. Full line of Dia
monds, Watches and Jewelry, &c. Watches
and Jewelry repaired and Warranted.
WM. SCHWEIGERT.
Under Efiiilrul H >til. A iof n*ta,G a
ENGINES, BOILERS,
SAW and GELST MILLS, and MA
CHINE RY and MILL SUPPIBS
Repair* Done at Reasonable Price*.
v MO. H. IiOMBAKB CO
Foundry, Machine and Boiler Works,
- -
We bnjf, sell, rent exchange, and repair Engines on favorable terms.
Have 3 car loads New Engines. 2 cur loads 2d hand Engines in stock
for prompt deliver j. Steam and Water Pipe at Reduced Prices. Agents
otfjAtlas Engines, Aultman Taylor Engines, Koriing Injectors, Vanduzen
Je Pumps, Gardiner’s Governors, Clouds Urcck Mill Rocks, Eclipse
Doable Turbine Wheels. All kinds of new work and repairs promptly
done. We arc working abnnt 100 hands and cast every day.
eVV ave the largest and best fitted out shop in the South—new an
nmproved hool or all kiuda of work in our line. Call and see os when
ljAugnsta. f
GEO. R. LOMBARD & CO
THOMSON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTKMBEB 30, 1885.
Buy The Best!
JJJEJL* FA <? Alwft^s conceded in conversation, and ofteu iu practice, that the BEST
wn>D are cheaper in the nd. Every business man know® this to be ro, and my expe
rience has fully convinced me of its truth ; s in buying mv Spring and Summer stock, I
ba\ e bought the host of its kind in every line—the BEST but not the FANCIEST. I car
ry full lines of both Dry Goods and Groceries; but in the former department I make a
specialty of
Ladies and Gents Fine Shoes,
And in the latter iny specialty is
Pure Sugars, Coffees, &c.
I havo no leader, that is I do not sell granulated sugar, checks und suoh wall known
goods at cost, and make it up on thing* with which you aro unacquainted; but my profits
ftru uniform throughout. lam agent for ‘ ,
Fine Custom-Made Clothing *
—AND
FINE JEWELRY.
1 ou may infer from the above that my prices aro high, but not ho, I do not intend
to be undersold by anybody, as a trial will convince you. All are invited to sail.
Respectfully,
JOHN M. BARNES.
April Ist, 1885. (yl)
New Store! New Goods!
-lust Opened At
BONEVILLE, GA.
XO MX FRIENDS AND THE PUBLIC : I havo and will continue to keep a Selected
liue of Dry Goods, Groceries and General Merohandiso.
In Dry Good* Department may be found : Sheeting, Cheeks, Drill*, Calicoes, oto
Groceries: Flour, land, Sugar, Coffee, Itioe, Soap, etc.
Kerosene Oil Very Cheap. A variety of Notions and Small Goods that evety house
keeper needs. Also will keep an assortment of Ladies Hats, Trimed to order when denn
ed . Country produce taken in exebauge for goods, at highaat market prices.
All are invited to ooiue and see! Respectfully,
Julia If. Nnilth
Uoncville CSil.
/p-il 22, 188S.
The George F. Pierce Institute,
Thomson, Georgia.
fpiTF. FALL TERM of this Hohool nil. open Mommy, August ill, 188.-,, und continue
four scholastic, months. No pains will be spared to make tile School the equal of
' School in Middle Georgia. To this end wo earnestly solioit the cooperation of
mTiwm P ,ltr,,ns MM friends of the School. Our aim is to make the school a HOME
COLLEGE for such a* are not able to attend College, and to prepare others for the
Juuior and Senior obese- of our host male and female Colleges.
D T uml that cnildren Rent to this school will'be well cared for,
P SICAL MENTAL and MORAL GROWTH will be W,lastly wutohed
rove by the Principal, J
I>T!PII.S mast be THOROUGH in the branches studied, and, to accomplish this, they
w*R be subject to frequent rigid examinatious, both oral and written.
'X’^Auiisriisro-.
I3F.UEVING that the BODV shonld be developed and trained in connection with tho
- ' mind, the Principal lias deeided.to add th Military feature to the School. All of
the young men and largo boys will bo thoroughly drilled in Military Tactics.
r PHE Discipline of the school will be grm rather than harsh. Pupils will be regarded
* as Gentlemen and Ladies, and falling to deport themselves as such will be subjected
to such punishment ah may lx* doomed proper,
rpuniON will bo charged from time of entering till tho ond of tUo term at the follow
1. iug rates :
First grade $2.00
Seeonff grade 2.50
Third grade \l 00
Fourtli grade 4.00
Tuition will bo duo at the end of each month.
3=3. G-IESCS3, Principal.
NEW ESTABLISHMENT!
A. I, EX. 11. O 1.1 It T I (St,
Thom Non, Oa,
Has rented the Shops of J. T. Smith, iu Branchville, and is prepared to carry ou the
different branches of the business,
Carriages, Wagons and Buggies Made and
Repaired.
Blacksmithing in all its Branches,
Undertaking in all its Branches.
The Best Work, all guaranteed, and the lowest prices. By Strict Attention to BusinoH
he auks a liberal Share of patronago,
March 11, 1885. (lyj
•
Pendleton’s Book Store,
804 Broad Street,
Next to E. R. Schneider’s.
Augusta, ______ Gkokciia
Keeps constantly on hand a full lino of
Books and Stationery, consisting in part of Standard and Miscellaneous
Books, Novels, Tales, and Religions, Billies,Testaments,
Hymn Books, of different denomination, Sunday
iS’ehool Books and Requisites, School
Books, Blank Books of all
kinds, Note; Letter,
Fools-Cap, Bill and legal Cap Paper, Office and Fancy Stationery, Pic
ture Frames, Dolls and Toys, Photograph and Anlogiaph
■Albums, Pictures, &c. Books and small pack
ages of Stationery sent by mail
free of postage, on re
ceipt of money for lho same.
t. 17, 1884.
A. F Pendleton
W. il. Howard, <J. H. Howard, S. P. VVemiger.
W. H. HOWARD A SOUS,
COTTON COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
NO. 20 SEVENTH (McINTOSII) STREET,
AUGUS CA, GA.
Consignments of Cotton and other Produce solicited.
Orders for Bagging and Ties Filled at lowest market prices.
Joeiah Miller. Dr. W. W. Bussey.
MILLER & BUSSEY,
WHOLESALE GROCERS.
AND
Commission Merchants,
902 Broad Street, Corner Campbell,
AUGUSTA, GA.
Imported and Domestic
Wines, Liquors, €ig;trs,
Ale and Deer.
J. P. Cartwright.
Globe Hotel, Augusta, Ga
Okas. K. Atwood, I. \V. Avery,
Biihiuorh Manager. Editorial Manager
THE CHEPEST DAILY IN GEORGIA,
4TIMI EVE’S CAPITOL,
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NEWS from abroad and over the State.
(Isos ARKocinted I'rean Dispatches.
A Full Report of the Daily Frocoedinga of
The Georgia LegiHlnture.
With Personal Notes and (Joinmouta on the
movement!* of the Georgia Citizens.
Foreign and Local Market Report correct
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SPECIAL OFFER FOR TWO MONTHS!
Including the Full Sewuon of the Legisla
ture and tho consequent atiring event** at.
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Send stamp for wimple copies. Address,
THE EVENING CAPITOL,
Atlanta, Ga.
Thomson Merchant
MILLS
COTTON m
Having thoroughly repaired iny Grist Mill
and rcbmilt my Gin House, 1 am now pre
pared to serve tho public in bettor stylo
than ever heretofore. My Grist Mills pro
duce tha best Meal and Flour to be had i:s
lli<* county. My Gin is the Gullet t Improv
ed, which is the Dost in use, and I guaran
tee entire satisfaction in evey instance,
and at bottom piie.es.
Parties having gram at tho depot in Thom
son by leaving orders with tho Railroad
Agent Oi at the Mill can have it ground,
and aihmeal or flour from my Mills will bo
delivered anywhere in the corporation free
of charge.
I havo takon out insurance sufllciont to
cover loss by tire of cotton belonging to
my customers,
Win Johnston.
A Family Newspaper
—FOR—
-50 CENTS.
MRJE ATLANTA EVENING JOURNAL
J will commence the publication of an
eight-page weokly Family Newspaper,
AUGUST 18, 1885,
devoted to tho interest of Georgia and tho
South, it will contain all the General
New® of tho week, nil tho State Capital
News and other State Nows. It will con
tain correct Market Reports, Tlio depart
ment for the ladies will contain ohoico bits
of Society Nows, Fashion**, Notes on Cook
ing, Receipts, etc.
A dfpartmenfc will be given to Sunday
Reuding, and will contain tho regular
Sunday School lessons in advnnco.
'The Agricultural Department will be
complete and under the oaro or on® of tho
best agricultural writers of this country
The WEEKLY JOURNAL will bo well
edited throughout, and iu every way equal
to any family newspaper. On account of
the hard, close times, will lie mailed one
year to ano address, for 50c. per year,
Should yon w ant a good daily newspaper,
tho ATLANTA EVENING JOURNAL is
the best and cheapest daily paper in the
South—loc a week, or $5 per year.
For further information and sample
copies, Address,
THE ATLANTA JOURNAL,
82 Broad St., Atlanta, Ga
Lovell’s Family Washer.
Gan bo attached to any tub, round or
square, can be put iu or tnkch out in an in
stunt, and does not prevent, the use of the,
tub for any other purpose. A wringer can
be attached to the same tub at the same
time. It will wnkh any and all kinds of
family washing perfectly clean, with one
half the labor and in onc-hrdf the time it
can bo done by band. It weighs only thir
teen pounds. J.t ean be successfully oper
ated by a child of ten or twelve years.
IT WILL DO ALL THE .WASHING,
LACE CURT 'INS, BLANKETS,
QUILTS, OKCAKPETB.
‘PRICE 35.00.
Tho undersigned has the agency for the.
fialo of this Machine in McDuffie County,
and will promptly fill all orders.
MARTHA GOING.
Bearing, Ga., August, 1885.
POSTED PROPERTY
GBOIiGIA McDuffie County.
■\JOTICE in hereby given that tho follow
1\ mg proporty h) posted iigainst nil tres
passers, hunters, fishers, or others and any
one violating or disregarding this notion
will be prosecuted to the extent of the law :
A tract of land, bound north by A. Simons,
J, 0. May and the old Elias Wilson place;
west by Joshua Lazcnhy; south by tho
Hillery Langford place and ~ am Story, snd
east by Mrs. .Boland and others, containing
about AGO acres. My mill pond is included
in those boundaries, and ail persons are
hereby especially forbidden and wnrned
from fishing in it. NOEL HUAII’HBEY,
Sept. IG, 1885. 44
—Wm. Orr, a oolored man of Dawson,
Ga., is the fathor of 70 children.
—A young man living near Crawford
has a foot that measures 13 inches.
—Col. Thoa. Hardeman has been ap
pointed postmaster at Macon, Ga., vice
W. W. Brown, Esq., resign iki.
—A Snmpter oomity farmer Ims a
family of eleven children, tho oldest be
ing 23 years, and neither the man, his
wife or either of his children can read or
write.
—Mrs. Bebecoa Standridge, of Cleve
land, died Saturday aged 106 years, and
is the mother of sixteen children, most
of whom are now living.
—MnJ. Aaron Stafford, the last. *ur
vivmg officer of the war of 1812, died at
Watervilie, N. Y., lust week, aged 99
years.
—Lon Hilbnru, colored, died on the
road near Acwortli, of heart disease,
while going home after her day’B work.
—An old woman died in Louisville
last week who would have been 100 years
old if she had lived till next May.
—Mr. Hamp Hudson killed a rattle
snake, near Wriglitsvilie, one day last
week, with thirteen rattles and a button.
—Au election was held recently in
Fair Flay district, iu Cherokee county,
to deoide who was “tho d—dst liar in
the. district.”
—Henry Alexander, a negro barber,
of Macon, snooiimhed to colic caused by
eating green apples, Suudny, and is now
in his grave.
—A huge rattlasnnke, twelve feet long,
with fourteen rattles and a burton was
killed in the parlor of Hon. T. M. Book
er, of Leesburg.
—Over 81,000 000 in drafts and cash
wero found iu 4 843,000 letters sent to
the dead letter office last. year.
—The artesian well at Smithville, On,
occasionally ejects small white fish with
round tails. The depth of the well is
900 feet. It would seem that subterran
ean streams have fish iu them.
Wisconsin, voted Septembr 16, for
high license, as tho best remedy for in
temperance.
During atlmndor storm, at Lntnkiu,
a day or two age, a soft shell turtle
dropped from tho clouds and fell ou
Grimes’ mill.
—Mr. J. ,T. Snell killed n rattlesnake
a few miles south of Wriglitsvilie, a few
few days ago, eight feet long. The
snake, hud fourteen rattles and n button.
—lt is said that, tho electric lights at
Sacramento can bo seen from the high
land near Jaokson, Amador county, Gal.,
a distance of sixty miles.
—Jumbo, Burnnm’s 8300,000 elephant,
wm rim down by a freight train near St.
Thomas, Out.., a fmv days ago, and kill
ed. Ho wns said to bo tho largest aui
mal iu tho world.
—A Indy of Brunswick lias a bed the
feathers of which were picked from a
flock of geese during the Revolutionary
war. The feathers are just as soft and
downy as ever.
—Jas. Moss, tjio negro who was allot
in attempting to evade arrest iu Calhoun,
min a bad fix. His right arm is broken
above the elbow, mul thee buckshot en
tered his side. Ho was one of the six
sent to the coal mine. He is in his 17th
year, and has a lifetime sentence.
—At a negro wedding at Leary, this
Slate, when the minister read the words
“Jove, honor and obey,” the groom in
terrupted him and sain : “Read dat
agin, sail; read it once mo’, so’s de lady
kin ketch de full sulnmnity oh de mean
in' ; I'se been married afo.”
—Three of the soldier guard at Gar
field’s grave havo been driven to insan
ity by tho horrible duty they are com
pelled to perform. And yet, if a Demo
cratic government were to put a stop to
tile murder of the soldiers by withdraw
ing tho guard, what a howl the Republi
can party would raise.
—Willis Dysr, who has been report
ing violators of tho rovenue law in Gum
Log and Red Hollow districts of Frank-
Jin comity for tho pat six months, was
wft} laid and shot through the head by
some unknown person as lio was return
ing from a mill near Martin, Wednesday
evening, ne was riding in an ox-cart
when shot, and the ox carried him to his
home a oorpse.
—Dr. Hoyt, cf New York, had just
stopped into a pharmacy on 'Tuesday af
ternoon when a muu rushed iu to invoke
aid for a wouiau burning to death iu
the streets. The doctor hurried to the
spot ami found the sufferer, miked,
scorched and dying, to bo Ins own young
wif< , whom he had left safe at their
rooms pnly a few minutes before.
—John T. Galvin and family, of Mat
toon, 111., aro all strangely marked. Mr.
Galvin’s left arm is six inches longer
than his right nrm. Mrs. Galvin was
born with only ono eye, which is a very
singular Ireuk of nature. A son has an
arm which is large and well formed, and
reaches nourly to his feet, making him
look as if ho had three legs. Two girls,
aged respectively 7 and 9 years, have lett
arms that are about nine inches longer
than their right arm*. The youngest
lmy of 4 years inherits tho peculiarities
of both pareiits. He has two eyes, hut
ono is very small, while the other is full
sized, like his mother’s one eye. This is
certainly the most one-sided family on
the United States Continent.
Buckten's Arnica Palve.
The Itest Salve in the world for Cuts,
Ilruises. Sores, Uncors, Salt Jtbcum, Fevor
Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains
corns, sad all Skin Eruptions, Hud positive
ly cures Piles, or no pay required. It is
guaranteed to givo perfect satisfaction, or
money refsnded. Price 250 per tox. For
side by Dr._E. H. Hurritou.
A Drumint-r Among Mormons*
On my arrival at tho Lehl I was di
rected, as usual* to the bishop’s house
for entertainment. Happing at tho
door 1 was soon confronted by a large,
heavy-built, broad-shouldered fellow,
who asked me, in anything but polito
language, what I wanted. I informed
him that I desired entertainment for
the night.
“Where aro you from?”
“California, sir.’ 1
“Where are you going?”
•‘South, I’l 1 ’I answered. After plying
mo with a few more questions of a sim
ilar nature, he invited me in. On en
tering the house, he turned to me and
said:
“Do you soe that rifle up there?”
Looking up to the point indicated I
"aw one of those long, murderous
rifles* I*o3 ting snugly ..upon tho antlers
oi a Uucky mountain buck. I told
him that I saw It, ami much admired
tho artistic manner of hanging it.
“Well, mister, that is out* lawmaker.
Whou jinyoiro comes among us and
commits any dirt wo do not hositato to
use it. Now, listen to mo. 1. am tho
bishop of this settlement. I have two
wives and several daughters. Now. if
you can promiso me not to speak to, or
even look at any of my womeu folks,
you aro welcome to remain over night*
Keep your eye on that rifle and mind
what I told you. Can you do it?”
it was a mighty hard* job, but I first
told him that 1 was at his command,
ami if it was his honest desire why of
course 1 would obey him. At that
time he bade mo to follow him into an
adjoining room, where his family was
assembled. 1 was dimly conscious
that there were several females seated
around the lire. He drew up a chair
and bade mo bo seated. Turning to
the women he gave them orders to
prepare supper, he himself taking my
orders for what 1 wished;
All this time 1 dared not turn my
bond nor look toward /anyone but tho
bishop. 1 knew that his eyes were up
on me, and that his two wives and
daughters were studying mo closely.
1 was greatly embarassed, but withal
managed to dispose of a hearty supper,
at tho conclusion of which wo again
returned to tho sitting-room. It was
by this time quite dark; and his son, a
large, athletic fellow, coming in, tho
bishop told him to entertain mo, and
at the proper time to show me to bod.
rutting on his overcoat and fiir cap,
for it was quite cold, he bade mo good
night, saying that) lie was compelled to
attend a ward meeting. Dofore clos
ing the door ho pointed to tho rifle
overhead and said: “Hemomber,
young man. what 1 told you!”
it was positively unkind of him to
remind mo of it, lor the confounded
old gun was constantly on my mind.
I had seen some of their treacherous
work, and had heard much more. I
knew what they were capable oi doing,
and after the circumstances, dared not
disobey his warning. Tho door closed
aud ho was gone. The ladies were
seated on my right, the son on my left.
To make assurance doubly sure 1 turn
ed my bade to tho ladies, and, lacing
t he young man, entered into conversa
tion witn him. Onto of the ladies got
up sovoral times and went to the door.
Finally she came up and bluntly asked
me if I was a Mormon. 1 hardly knew
wlmt to do. I had been vvaruod
against speaking to or even looking at
any of the women. Was she trying to
draw mo in to trouble? She certainly
knew that 1 had been forbidden to ad
dress her under penalty of death. Yet
there she stood, calmly inviting mo to
my fate. The young man’s eyes were
upon mo. Great beads of perspiratiou
started out on my forehead.
“Do not fear to fipoak, young man;
ho has goue, and will not return be
fore midnight,” she said, and at that
she laid her hand on my head. *
“it’s all right, stranger,” said tho
sou. “It’s all right; speak up and
ook around you as much as you
please, i’li vouch for your safety.”
Tlio ice was now broken and turning
10 the old lady 1 said that I was not a
Mormon.
“Thank God for that,” she said, and
then the conversation became genoral.
1 was told all about tho heartaches and
suflorings of the original wife; how in
almost every case they had been de
luded into joining the Mormon faith
under false pretenses; what shame and
mortification came over them when it
was found out that a second or third
wife was to be taken into the house
hold. I was rather reticent, and did
not express my opinion on the subject
as I otherwise would have done. Tho
two daughters wero comely and full
of life. About 10 o’clock they bade
me good night and retired. A half
hour later 1 was conducted to my room
by tho young man. —Cincinnati En
quirer.
.• ■
PJuyiiift Ilv Jii.tr.
The train stopped at a iittlo country
station. It was a hot day, and all the
windows were open. Hy tho side of
the track was a pasture, and licre,with
his nose hud 1; / l iv upon the fence, was
a donkey. Seen the louotnotivo began
to blew oil'steam, and Inis commotion
started tho donkey into giving an ex
hibitiou of Ids prowess in mo same di
rection. Taking his nose down from
tho fence lie winked his oil’eye, manip
ulated his ears .vigorously ami pruuucud
such a noise that the passengers were !
ait startled.
••Mamma,” said a littlo girl, “what
dous that horse make that noise fori'”
••Thai’s a donkey, my child, and
that’s tho way lie. makes music.”
The iittlo girl looked at the donkey
more sharply than before. There was
a puzzled look upon her face, and it
was evident Unit sli'u could not tpiito
understand it. hhe seemed to Du look
ing for tile shoot music and wondering
if the donkey had it pinned, to the oth
er sido of the fence. Jiut suddenly her
face lighted up and sue clapped her
hands and shouted:
"On, mamma, I know! He plays by
ear!” (Jlucuyu JjtralU.
Witilo they wero yet husband and
wife Damala and .Sarah Bernhardt wero
breakfasting one morning when Joan
Kicliepin was announced. •‘Francois, ”
said Surah to a servant, “put a plate
for M. Kicliepin. He will breakfast
witli us.” "bio he won’t! 1 won’t
have him!” cried Daiuala, who knew
Kicliepin to be ids rival in Sarah’s al
leged affections. "Yes, ho will, too!”
retorted the actress. “Sacre!” roared
Damala; "1 would like to know who
is master hero?” “Eli? Master?" said
the servant; "why Madame is tho mas
ter!” Then Damala went to his own
room in a towering rage, and Sarah
and K.cliepiu— wclT, mutually consoled
each other for his loss. An hour lulor
Sarali wont to Damala’s room and
found him pretty sulky. "Come, don’t
lie disagreeable,” said she; "let us go
driving in tho Boin.” “No! I won’t
go driving with a woman of disrepu
table character," he growled, "All,
cieli”; “how absurd men are, to be
sure. In Greece you drive everywhere
with disreputable womeu, but you
won’t many them; and Imre in Paris
it is just luu Ollier way!”
NO. 39.
j Dinners in the Murray Drawing-
Room.
Murray was famous for his dinner
parties, at which, moreover, however
distinguished the guests, the conver
sation of file host contributed not in
considerably to the feast of reason and
the flow of soul. After an afternoon
inspection of “two or threo lions of tho
Quarterly Iteuiew in Murray’s den’’—•
George Tieknor in rather commercial
language generally spoko of the draw
ing-room in Albemarle street as “Mur
ray’s literary exchange”—Washington
Irving proceeds to give a report in his
diary of “a very pleasant dinner at
Murray’s” when lie had “a long tete
a-tete with old Disraeli,” an unfailing
guest of tho sou of his first publisher.
“Murray, very merry anil loquacious,”
showed Irving the MS. of the fourth
canto of "Chddu Harold," tho arrival
of which no doubt contributed to hb>
elevation of spirits. "iSlaed with
Murray, ’ Tieknor records in his jour
nal, “aud had a genuine bookseller's
dinner, such as i.inLot used to give
Hope and Gav and Swift, Dilly to
Johnson and Goldsmith” Gifford,
Campbell, and tho inevitable Isaue Dis
raeli were tho other guests, and tho
conversation was so entertaining that'"
the American visitor was full of re
gret; when the stroke of midnight broko
up tho party, “in accordance with En
glish habits.” To tho of
these two American gentlemen may bo
lidded those of a countrv-woman and
countryman of Murray’s, both of them
distinguished people. “No house in
Loudon, 1 ’ writes Mrs. Somerville,
“was ntoro hospitable and agreeable
titan that of the late Jehu Murray in
Albemarle streot,” and site had spun
what was best in tho intellectual society
of tlio London of bur time. “His din
ner parties wero brilliaut with all the
poets and literary characters of the
day, and Mr. Murray himself was gen
tlcman-liko, full of information, aud
kept up tlio conversation with spirit."
Mrs. Somerville adds, respeoting the
great work which made her fiimous,
"lie generously published tlio Mechan
ism of the Heavens at' his own risk,
which, from its analytical character,
could only bo read by mathemati
cians.” Thou, again, the following
still more striking verdict on the im
pression made by Murray’s oouversa
tioual powers is furnished by Lady
Bell as that pronouueed ov tier hus
band, Sir Charles, the distinguished
surgeon, author of tho Bridgewater
Treatise on The Hand, “On Friday wo
dined at John Murray's, Albemarle
streot. A large party was assembled
there, among others Tom Moore. I
felt as if I had been gazing all night st
sky-rockets. There wore present Mr.
and Mrs. Lockhart, Dr. and Mrs. Som
erville, Sir Martin Shea, Who led on
Moore, Washington Irving, Mr. and
Mrs. Murray, and ourselves. The talk;
was of wit, and Moore gave specimens.
Charles thought that our host Mltrray
said the best things that brilliant
night,” A l . Espxnaeat, in Harper's
Magazine for September..
Some Superstitions.
At Smithill’s hall, near Boiton-lo-
Moors, there is still to be seen—an ob
ject of interest and curiosity to a large
number of visitors—the print of a
man’s foot in the llagstone. It is said
to havo been produced by George
Marsh, who suffered martyrdom during
tlio persecutions of Queoh Mary in
1668. When on one occasion tho truth
of his words was called in qnostien by
his enemies he stamped his foot upon
the stono on whicu ho stood, which
ever afterward bore the ineffaceable
impression its a miraculous testimony
to his veracity. This story must havo
been an afterthought to a com >ut for
what we may suppose to hit ye boon a
prehistoric Tanist stone. In” connec
tion with this modern legend another
of a somewhat different character may
be related. A good many years ago. ut
the back of the British Museum, there
was a piece of wa6to ground called
Southampton fields, noted as a resort
for low characters. There was a tra
dition connected with itthattwo broth
ers in the Monmouth rebellion took op
posite sides and engaged each other in
light Beth were killed, anti forty im
pressions of their feet were traceable
in tho field for years afterward. The
field has long bean built over, und the
precise locality oau not now he poiat
ed out, But Southey went to sue the.
curious sight, and has givon a graphic
description of it in the second scries 06
his “Commonplace Book. ” lino im
pressions Worn abont llirco iuebos deep
in the hard soil; no grass cvey grow ia
the terrible hollows, and no cultivation
of tho soil cuuld obliterate them, for
wheu tlie ground was plowed they per
sisted in reappearing. Southey men
tions that ho saw no reason to doubt
tho truth of the story, since it had been
confirmed by these tokens for more
Utau a hundred years successively, it
is probably a fact with a circumstance
—the circumstance, to say the least,
extremely doubtful. Upon the legend,
which wus known far aud wide, Jana
and Anna Maria Porter based one of
their popular romattcos, called “The
Field of the Forty Footsteps;” aud tjie
Messrs. Mayuevv took tiie same subject
tor a uiuiouruuiu.— aiuclcuwud's Maga
zine.
The lato r ranz Abl. tlio s*ng-wiater,
was a surprising gourmand: "A.
goose," he used to say, “is a very
pretty bird, but it has one great fault:
it is a little top much for one, and mjqh
too littlo for two.” Coming out of a
restaurant one day, looking supremely
happy, “Horr Kappolmcistcr, said a
friend to him. “you seem to havo dined
well.” “Yes, 1 had a fair dinner; it
was a turkey.” “And was there good
company around tho board?” “Yos,
good—but small; just two, indeed, tli
turkey aud myself,”
Mr-J. Bailey Denton lias predicted
that tho year 1885 will bo remarkable
for a sort of water dearth in the East
and South of England. Ho allows that
tho rainfall in 1884 was not more than
two-thirds that of the average, while
proportion of rain o vapor a! mi was un
usually groat, and he thorfore main
tains that this year Otero must boa
lowering of tho subterranean water
supply, and a reduction of tiie yield of
tho springs which supply the rivers,
emailing an increase of the evils of tho
pollution of the streams.
'About a year ago a traveler in Ger
many came across an officer employed
in superintending some details of mili
tary railroad transport. Ho had been
a captain during tho Franoo-German
war. and had allowed his coiupaiiy to
bo surprised. After being imprisonod
for eiglitceu months ho was placed iu
the military transport service, and to.d
that lie was never to receive promotion.
Being surprised by an enemy is re
garded as tho one unpardonable sin by
tne Gormans.
Miss Lulu Hurst has made SBO,OOO
within a year out of her wonderful
“magnetism.” '
Brooklyn is said to contain more
gambling house® than any other city in
the country.