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BATTLE Of BULL BUN.
GRAPHIC STORY TOLD ST A
NEW HAVEN SOLDIER.
, “Were you at the battle *f Bull
jtuua New Haven veteran was re
cently asked.
“Well, yes—l was there. I wasn’t
ecacUy in the battle, but I helped
the run B* 1 * *> f il * u 1
entile, Kan wa*i,® name for
iL It was a race—the biggest, ske
daddle there erer waa on earth. I saw
more ridiculous sights that list Sun
day afternoon, aud laughed mote *bau
a man will ordinarily laugh in ten
years! You see the time of the three
month* men was out but the army
was ready to wrave forward; on
M.—,*.. and the regiments took
votes to decide whether they should
go forward ft demand discharge.
There was a company of New York
artillery well* to-de men -butchers,
I believe they were—who hod pro
vided their own battery and outfit
aud who voted logo home. And as
they moved to the rear a perfect
storm of hoots aad jeers assailed them,
but they didn’t notide it. I didn’t
know of any others who voted not to
g*forward. At that time I was de
tailed to drive a four-lforee team for
General Key*, who had command of
these Connecticut regiments and the
Second Main*. It was my business
temovehisperstmslbsggsge, and I
had a splendid team of horse*. Th
wagon had a white canvae top which
•peued at soth ends. I sat outside
the top, the front cnrlaiu closed bo
hiud me. I moved out te Fade
Church, ain* miles into Virginia,
theu moved forwards to Centervillo.
At tw* •’clock, on Sunday morniag
July 81, the general's iness-chest, tan
gstlon of whisky, groceries, two offi.
cere’ tenta and two young colored girl#
warn loaded into my wagon and I
was ordered to drive ahead. Onr
troops were close upon the Johnnies,
end a battle that day waa considered a
dead moral eertaiaty, and an over
whelming victory was believed to be
quit* cure. The two colored girl* ware
going to the front ss officers’ cook*.
A ceutiuual ilretm *f army wagon*
was ponring along the road, and these
civilians on horse back and in carria
ges abd baggies containing Washiug
tenian* whose voices wore mill for
war, and wore ambitious to take part
in it by aye-eight at very safe dis
tance. It was seven o'clock before I
was allowed to swing into the long
current and move forward. It was
sluggish stream. A* I reached
the top of a hill Quartermaster Hodge
of our brigade ordered in# to turn
out and halt under the shade of a tree.
I did so. The contents of the wagon
were removed, a fire built and the
girls prepared breakfast, I took a
share; then lying down beside my
wagon I fell asleep, for I had slept
little or uone for two night*. It wa*
near uoon when I awoke, aad firing
' had been board at the front for seme
time. There wss alull for an hear, and
then i| wasaeaiimed ttoroorthen ever.
In a not her hour horsemen and carria
ges came tearing down the road, their
riders and drivers shouting : ‘Turn
back! turn dackt Drive for your
live*, the reb* are upon u* I’
“Along cam* a hick containing
&iH L ~Gsfigrea*n*en. Each man , sat
with cockod revolver in bis hanyTand
ail vailing to the driver to drive for
hie life. I expected to be made pris
oner )a a few minutes and the proa
pact waa net a pleasant one, but I
had te atop the work ot loading op
my wagon and laugh at thoaa four
heroic legislator* brandishing their
pistols, threatening their driver in one
breath and offering big wealth in the
next if he would get them back to
Washington. The current in the nar
row road turned and rusted hack
ward*. I watched my chance and
turned into it. As I did *o a big
Dutch suiter, with a wagon load* of
good in turning around upset his
wagon into the ditch beside the road.
He jumped to the ground and took to
hit heels, leaving his horaaa strug
gling to free theniselvo* from the
harness. It seamed as if the vary
horses had caught lh* panic and were
aa anxious to go North as the men.
Every few rod* I came to wagon*
deserted or broken down in attempts
ingtQ ge( ahead by turning out. I
■aw teamstera (iraw th* tailboards of
their wagona and let their freight
fall ont jpto the read while ascending
hills. 'Pb* tjclds on either side of the
road swarmed with horse* and eelr
diere in full rout. Artillerymen h*4
cut the trace* from tbs gun* and bad
ridden away before a shot came near
them.
“These were regular army men, and
lif njy fonr year* at the frout the
poorest soldiers I saw were regular
army men. If ever mca made good
time these soldiers did. Th* after
noon was terribly sultry and hot.
The men ran iu all stages of nndress
uniform, even to shirt aad drawer*.
Few knapsack* were to be seen.
Many had thrown away their guns,
but some trailed them on the ground
behind I ham. I waa troubled with
but few applications for a ride, be
cause my team 1 * papa fM slew.
Suddeuly a big drum major, bart
headed, bare-footed, and hia uniform
covered with dirt ond dual, climbed
up beside me and pitched himself
headlong into the wagon, groaning,
‘Oh dear! oh dear! I never waa so
tired in all my life, I don't believe in
war anyhow.’ I saw a chance where
by turning out into th# field and
driving fast, I conid cut iato the road
again much further on. No aooner
did my bold drum major notice that
I had left the road than he throat hia j
head through the curtaiu end shouted, I
“Where are you going?’ “Oh, out
“tSfe fc the country a littleway to rest
the team.’ ‘Then count me out.’said
he, and tumbled to the ground, land
ing on his head, but picking himself
up be rau to regain th* road. Then I
THE WASIMTOB GAZETTE.
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YOL. XIX.
discovered that my two colored girls
had caught the new panic and were
making their exit through the rear.
‘What’s the matter with you ?’I shoal
ed. ‘Us niggers is gwine back to
Washington mists, we is, we didn’t
ceme out here on no picnic for the
Coufoderatet to ketch.’ It teok me
several minutes to explain my move
ment aad induce them to return to
tho wagon. Along came % parts af
Ellsworth’s zouave* worn out and
foot tore, who offered me handsful of
gold to allow them to ride; but I had
to use *ll alike and kept them off.
“At about 7 o’clock next morning
I reached Falls Church, at which
place I had been ordered to halt.
Next day 1 Was ordered to Fort Cor
coran, where the brigade followed
the day after, and from thence wa
was* sent to Washington and dis
charged.”
i uvuranrix tax south.
The Manufacturer’* Record, of Bal-
appears from our dispatches
pablisbed yesterday a statement show
dag the smeuat of capita!! invested in
maanfkcturiof andiaiuli.g enterprises
in the Son tb daring the month of Jan
aary and February ef.this year. The
smouut, according to this statement,
I* 188,300,000, Of thi* sum Georgia
TUieis a very remark
able showing. At this rate it will
hot he iaauy years before the South
will become the chief manufacturing
section of the country. There is no
doubt that Northern capital i* quiet
ly bat surely Sowing into the South
in vast amounts. The amount of the
capital it not realized until a summa
ry like that of the Manufacturers’
Record is made up and published.
Thera is n* reason to doubt that in-
Yost srants hi the South will increase
from mouth to month and from year
to year. They certainly will continue
to increase as leug as they prove to be
profitable, and there I* no reason why
they should not prove to he profitable
for au indefluite period. The South
i* rich iu agricultural aud mineral re
source#, and she has advantage* for
manufacturing possessed by no ether
seetton. She hss au excellent climate
and plenty of water-power. She now
manufactures iron more cheaply than
it can be manufactured any where else
in this country, and with a little more
experience ami capital she will be able
to manufacture all kind* of cotton
good* as cheaply as they can be man
ufactured in any other part of the
world. The valne of the sweet• gum
and other wood* of the Seuth is Jgst
beginning to he appreciated. It will
not he long before factories will be es
tablished to manufacture these weeds
into furniture and into railway pas
senger and sleeping cars. Every dol
lar that is invested In the South it
pretty certaiuto cause the investment
of two more dollars. The exposition
at New Orleans, beginning next De
cember, will make the South’s unde
veloped riches far more generally
knewn than they are at present, and
will drnwte her both immigrants and
capital. The manufacturers’ Record
will be able henceforth to show, doubt
less, that every month the investments
in factories ami mines at the South
are greater than the previous mouths.
—Savannah News.
brutal number or a son-in-law
at baurvillb.
A dispatch from Nashville Tenn.
says: Thi* morning Win. Spence
•hotand killed his son-in-law, Edward
8. Wheat, at the Merchant’* Exchange
corner, opposite tho telegraph offioe.
Spence was formerly United States
Marshal for the Middle district of
Tennessee, and was succeeded by
Wheat. The trouble ares* from a
disagreement in tha settlement *f
business matters. Spence bad follow
ep Wheat for more than two blocks.
He called t* Wheat once aad the lat
ter turned his head, but did not stop
*r reply. Spend* overtook him an tha
street creasing end fired the first and
fatal ahol iato Wheat's back, tb* bal
let penetrating the heart. Spence
walked around him and fired a second
shot into hi* breast, the bullet shat
tering a watch in hi* upper vest poek
el, entering his body between th*
seventh and eighth ribs. Wheat
groaned after tlte first shot, but never
•poke, aad died alipqst instantly.
Spenoe was immidiatejy taken into
custody and his pistol, a self-cocking
Smith £ Weston, with twa barrels
discharged and all the others loaded,
wa* taken from him by a policeman.
He was committed t* jail under a
beach warrant. The trouble i* said
to have originated from a business
dispute of some year* (tending'
Wheat wa* 4? year* oM and Spence
is 6i. _
At 3 o’clock in the morning a Dong
le* Justice was awakened by anxious
pleading*. Going ont he touad at
tha gate a young roan with a lady
balding hi* arm. He banded a paper
across th# fence, which proved to he
a marriage license, end pulling off
hi* bat, he said bluahingly, “I want
yen to marry ma.” In a few minutes
the two were made one, and thay
went on their way rejoicing. They
were W.K. Harris and Mis* Sarah
E“iller, who had escaped parental vig
tnce. .
Hold on to the truth, for it will
rve you well and do. you good
through enternity. Hold on to virtue,
ilt Is beyond price to you at a|l times
1 and placet. Hold on to Dr. Bull's
I Cough Syrup* for there i* nothing like
lit to cure a cough or cold.
HOW SOMK BONDS WERE FOUND.
The Augusta correspondent of the
Charleston News & Courier narrates
the following interesting item:
“F*ct is strauger than fiction. A
merchant of Augusta regained pos
session of about thirty thousand dol
lar’s worth of bonds a short time since
in a very peculiar manner. In 1864
this merchant, then a resident of
Nassau, sent twenty thousand dollars
•t State of Georgia bonds, issued in
1856, toNew York, to be sold. When
the box in which the bonds had
been paoked reached the metropolis,
itwas discovered that U contained
nothing but brown paper. Of course
the bonds had been abstracted on
route, but how or when could net be
ascertained. Every effort wae made
for their recovery but in vain, and
the owner finally gave up the search
in despair. Nearly twenty years had
elapsed when one day he received ia
Augusta a mysterious comranucait ion
from Montreal in which the writer
stated that he knew of the wherea
bouts of the missing bends and offered
te restore them for the sqm of five
thousand dollar* in gold. He made
it a condition that the merchant or
his duly accredited ageut should go
to Moutreal with the money and rc
g-stsr under a fictitious name at a
designated hotel. As the bonds, prin
cipal and interest now amouat to over
♦3o,ooo,the merchant promptly accept-
ed the conditions and sont Isis ran,
who was living in Chicago, to Mon
treal t* pay down the money and re
ceive the bonds. The envoy reached
the hotel agreed upon in due time and
registered the fictitious name. As he
turned ttway he was accosted by a
stranger: ‘ls this Mr. Blank ?’ ‘Yes.’
‘Well, I would like to see you in
rooas 23.’ ‘I will meet reu in half
au hour,’ said Mr, Blank. ‘No, you
must see me at once,’ was the energetic
reply. Mr. Blank had no alternative;
he proceeded to room 23, put a table
between himself and the stranger,
pulled out a loaded revolver with one
hand and laid a bag of gold on the
table with the other. ‘Now, have
yon the bonds?’ said he. ‘I; have,’
replied the man. ‘Alt right. Here is
the five thousand dollars in gold. I
intend to keep faith with you amt in
tend that you shall also keep faith
with me. Produce the bonds.’ The
man carefully drew out a package
from an inside pocket. ‘Toss them
on this table and stand where you are
until I sso that they are all right,’ said
Mr. Blank. The bonds wore thrown
on "tße Mr. Blank then ran
tvsr then. THyTspldly. They were
all there. ‘Now, take your money and
go,’said he. *1 will remain in this
room half an hour, according to our
agreemeut.’ The stranger grasped
the bag of gold, counted the mouey
and disappeared. Mr. Blank left on
the next train, came eu te Augusta
aud placed the bonds in his father’s
hands. When they were presented in
Atlanta for payment the Governor of
Georgia made some denser, as they
were long past due, but wheu satisfac
tory proof of their genuineness was
made ami the manner of their disap
pearance related and substantiated
no farther opposition was made and
the mosey was paid to Mi 1 . Blank.
Or CtmlODO HBAK STORY.
8w Bruin Tenderly Cared far a Child
Ht Had Carried Of
Mr. Georgia Swift, a ranchman in
the Grand Valloy, tell* a story which
shews how unenviable is the life of
the stock raiser in that wilderness.
A short time ago Mr. Swilt let hi*
Urse-yeai-old daughter ride upon bis
horse, and after she had ridden about
forty reds from home he lifted her off
iheiniiiultud told her toj. u him*. On
returning about sn hour later he
found that the little one had net
reached home, and, going to Ihc placo
where he had last teen her, be found
bear track* In thejsaml. A posse wa*
fronted, and all night was spent in
searcliiug for the lost child.
In the morning, a* tho searcher*
were passing a swampy spot where
the undergrowth wa* thick, they
heard the voice. They called le the
little girl to come oi|t qf the bushes
but she replied the bear weuld not let
her. Then the men crept through
the brush, and when near the spot
heard a splash in the watev, which
the child said was the bear. They
found her standing upon a log, ex
tending half way across the swamp,
and it seemed as though the bear hail
uudriuken to cross the swamp on the
log, and,being pursued, left the child,
and got away as rapidly as possible.
She received some scratches about the
face, arm*, and legs, and her clothes
were almost torn from her bady, but
the bear had not bitten her to hurt
her, only the mark* of his teoth being
found upon her back, where he had
taken hold of her clothes to carry her.
Tho child told her rescuer* that the
bear had put her down occasionally
to rest, and would put hi* nose to her
face, whereupon oho would slap him
and he would bang hia head by her
side and pnrr and rub against her
like a cat. Her father asked her if
she bad been cold during the night,
and she told him the old bear lay be
side harand put hi* “arms” around
her and kept ker warm.
“Ah I I’m saddest when I sing,”
she sang in plaintive key, and the
neighbors yelled: “8o are we I so are
we!”
WASHINGTON, GA., FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1884.
GLEANINGS.
One hundred divorce cases are
pending in Clarke county.
Tho timber business in Southwes
tern Georgia continues to grow in
value.
A negro girl iu Athens speaks Ger
man. She has boon reared by a Jew
ish family.
A negro ha* just died of hydropho*
bia at Eatonton after suffering terri
ble torture.
Cobb eeuuty has been carried by
the Prohibitionists by four or five
hundred majority.
The work of rebuilding the burned
.district at HUledgeville with brick
h* been commenced. J
At Athens April 1 the
go into effect. All dogs found en the
street without a collar will he shot.
Dr. Drake, of Thomasten, ac
cidentally cut off the ends of his fingers
last Sunday morning while chopping
some rough food for his horses witb a
feed cutter.
W. F. Reynolds, of Romo, wliil*
hunting Saturday, accidentally Shot
himself in the hand, injuring it se
verely aud necessitating the amputa
tion of three fingers.
At Newnau a horse belonging to
Wyatt Baxeu ran against a piece of
timber in front of tho Baptist Church
last Friday. It struck him in the head,
killing him instantly.
Thro* negro beys, aged betwocu 9
and 15 years, burglarized a store at
Rome, securing S2O. One of them
left his hat, which betrayed their
identity aud led to their arrest.
There is a prisoner in the jail at
Lumpkin who is trying to starve him
self to death lie was locked up on
Thursday of last week, and has ber
sisteutly refused to cat anything over
slue*.
George Hill, who chopped a coin
ride’s head to pieces with an axe, and
Jerry Marshal, who murdered his
three-year-old child, will both hang
on the ilth of April, in Cherokee
county.
James R. Chrisler is a fugitive from
Atlanta, where he has left tho third
of his living wives. The last was
trapped in Texas and brought to At
lanta, where she was informed of her
husband’s duplicty, aud has brought
suit for divorce.
Justice S. Tudstill, tn old and well
to do citizen of Brooks county, w B
found burned to death Tuesday. A
fire was raging on his plantation, and
he was trying to put it out, wlion in
some way ho fell ia the fire ana was
afterward found dead.
A crazy negro woman lit* been ar
rested at Rome white endeavoring to
set fire to a dwelling. She is crazy
on religion. She says she is the Ho
ly Ghost; that the world is about to
bo burnt up, and ills her duty to
start the conflagration. She will be
•ditto the asylum.
While a dance was in progress at
Dallas a pistol shot suddenly rang
through the room, and one ef the
young ladies fell to the floor with a
painful but not dangerous wound iu
herleg. It is supposed tliatoueof the
daneers had a pistol in his pocket
which was accidentally discharged.
The culprit did net divulge his iden
tity.
The Tcunillc correspondent of the
Saadcrsvillc Mercury ays: “At *
sale of property of an estate a few
miles below here corn bronghl $1.(10
per bushel, meat 19 cents per pound,
lard 17 cents,and everything else high
in proportion. Cause of boom:
Credit with security until Ist of Jan
uary next. Of course such a chance
was not allowed to go by.”
Several days ago, in Clay county,
a negro man and his wife were in the
Arid at work burning brush. The
woman was standing near a burning
heap when her dress caught on fire.
She gave th* alarm and her husband
rushed to her assistance, hut before
the Aamct could be extinguished she
was fatally burned. She lingered
through the day and night and died
the next morning.
Dr. E. F. Way's residence at Haw
kinsvillc has been burned. The loss
is $3,000 aad the insurance $1,400.
Nothing at ail was saved from the
burning building. The family, cou
sistiug of Mr. Way, hie wife and son
aad two daughters, barely escaped in
their night clothes. The tire origina
ted in the kitchen, and was all Over
the house in fifteen minutes after it
was first seen. Incendiarism is sus
pected.
The Athens Banner-Watchman
says: “Near Big Creek Church, on
the lint of Clarke and Oglethorpe
counties, is a large hewn stone,weigh
ing many tons, that is upheld by four
pillars, at a height sufficient to per
mits man to walk beneath. It is evi
dently the work of hand, a* the tops
of th* pillars are chinked with small
er stone* to level the slab. The first
settlers found it there, and have al
ways called it the‘lndian Pulpit.’ A
gentleman who iris seen this stone
says it is one *f the greatest cariosi
ties in Georgia. An embankment en
circles it for a mile, that was evident
ly thrown up for a fortification. Some
sue has en nk a hole beneath tha slab
lia search of buried treasure.”
The Warrantan Clipper say* that
there was a gentleman in Warrenton
ana day laat weak, a resident of Glas-
cock county, who is doubtless the
worst burnt person to bo alive on
record. He was burning off anew
ground on his farm last year, and
from over-heat or some other cause,
foil in a fit by the side Of a burning
log heap. While in this unconscious
rendition one of his legs was entirety
burnt off between the ankle and knee,
and up to the knee joint every parti
cle of the flesh was burned away,
leaving the hone perfectly naked.
Th leaders of the other leg were
burnt to a crisp, and between the knee
and foot the scarred skin clings tightly
toihe bouo. Notwithstanding his
miifortuue, however, ho contrives to
moke an honest living by drawing
shittgles.
r* ■ * jfStlcd buzzard, whose flight
•*v£rtho western counties of Georgia
has aroused so much superstitious
fear among the ignorant whites and
blacks, passed over a field near Tay
lorsville Tuesday where four men
were plowing. One of them, a negro,
quit work at once, aud said that tho
bird was warning the people of an
other cyclone, iu which hundreds of
people would be killed. The story of
this celebrated bird is an interesting
-out- Neatly two years ‘ago it was a
pet in the farm yard of a farmer
named Freeman, iu Paulding county.
One of his’childrcn one day attached
a sheep hell te the bird’s fool, and the
tinkling sound se scared it that it im
mediately flew away.
be. maiiv walker in thi kins.
She Blsaln n African's Optl*, an*
Knocks lilia Ont Iu an* Hound.
A dispatch from Washington city,
says: Dr. Mary Walker, Washing
ton’s celebrated female character,
who insists upon appearing at all
times in maleattire, indulged in some
pugilistic exerciso at Ihe capital this
afternoon. Between 12 nnd 1
o’clock tho entered the room ef the
House Committee on Claims to attend
to soipe private business. Before she
did si! she lifted her silk hat and set
it down upon a box in the corridor
beside the doer. Entering the reom
she took a seat at the committee’*
table, and begaii rummaging over
some papers. In a few minutes the
dooropoued ami in stalked a colored
messenger. On his head was cocked
in * saucy manner, Dr. Mary’s hat.
“Is tliis yo ur tile, Dr. Mary ?” he in
quired .la a. tone she thought alle-
.oo’iyipudunt.
“i,, * y lmt, iMtmnk you, ’’ she re
plied ;''‘nfiff what arc you, you black
rascal, doing with it en your
head t”
Tho colored man tipped the tile,
smiled, nnd handod it t* her,aud then
withdrew to the corridor, Dr. Mary
followed him with rage beaming in
Mr eyes :
“I want to know what makes yon
s* impudent, you puppy?” the contin
ued, when the tw* were in ilie cor
ridor. Then she uncorked the jug of
her wrath, and poured it out upon
the unsophisticated head Of the darkey
until he wss blacker than midnight.
Finally the colored .man began to
sass back.
usiko mn fists. ’ *’
This preqipitaled the sterm. Swel-
1 iug with rage, she rushed at tbq
colored man remarking, “Take that,"
and she planted a well delivered blow
iu the immediate locality efTiis optic*
lie staggered, regained hi* (boting
and fled precipitately Dr. Mary djid
not pursue him. Ilis.eya began swel
ling and it is said that the punish
ment proved severe. A wag who
saw Dr. Mary entor the committee
room put up the prank and peruaded
the colored man to don the hat.
Those who saw the encounter take
sides with the woman and say the cas
tigation wasajnstoue. Thera were no
arrests.
THU social. STATUS Ht II
Roumania is famous ffertht facility
of its divorces and. the laxity of If*
roarsli. It is, however, not so gener
ally known that the usage of th* iaxest
society in Europe imposes tho severest
restraint upon the innocent social
intortOttsc between the young of both
hsxcb. A lady writing from Bucharest
sends the following dismal account of
the way in which the Roumanian
Mrs. Grundy tyranui/.ee over the
unmarried woman: “GirU have very
little liberty here. If a gentleman is
seen dancing more than twice during
the same evening with a youjig lady
lie Hue much comproiniredA* tho un
happy maiden herself, and immediate
ly pounced upon ly a score of relative*
demanding his intentions. No Con
versation can take placo between the
young couples, as directly after the
daiic? the gcidfcmUn must trotliU
partner back to tjie maternal wing.
A young girl Hallowed t* have little
tr no intercourse with men, and a
harmless'flirtation’ would be ruinous
to liar reputation In Bucharest. How
can a girl’s mind develop under these
and the accompanying circumstances?
No wonder she accepts tho first offer
of marriage as a means of emancipat
ing herself, neither is it .astonishing
that men never trouble themselves to
talk for any length of time to an un
married lady.’’
“Are angel* ever sleepj 'f” asks an,
exchange. Just watifli your best girl
when you read a scientific paper to
her after it is time for yon to go out
and dodge the big dog in the front
yard.
A LEAF-TRAD ljmbODß.
Can I forget that winter night
In eighteen eighty-four,
When Nettie, charming tittle sprits,
Oame tapping at the doorT
“Good evening, mtsa," I blushing said;
For in my heart I knew—
And, knowing, hung my prstty head—
That Nellie came to woo.
She clasped my old, red hand,and fall
Adowu upon her knees,
And cried: “You knew I lov# you well.
Bo be my husband, please!”
And then the swore ahe,d ever be
A tender wife end true—
Ah, wbat delight it was to me
That Nellie came to woo!
Bh*’d lace my shoes and darn my hose
And mend my ahirts. she said,
And grease my comely Roman nose
Bsoh night on going to bed;
She'd build the Area and (etch the eoal.
And split the kindling, too-
LortV perjuries o'erwhelmcd her soul
When Nellie came to woo.
And aa I, blushing, gave no check
To her advances rash,
She turined her arms about my neck.
And toyed with my monslachei
And then the pleaded for a hies,
While I—what could I do
But coyly yield me to that bltas
When Nettie came to wool
I am angaged, and proudly wear
A gorgeous diamond nng,
And I shall wed my lovely fair
Bomctime in gentle spring;
I face mv doom without s sigh—
And so, forsooth, would you,
If you but loved at fond as I,
And Nellie came to woo.
—Chicago Wows.
HUMOftUOS.
There are some marriages which
remind ns of the poor fellow who
said, “She couldn’t got. any husband
and I couldn’t get any wife; so we
got married.”
A woman doesn’t consistently use
profane language, but the way she
says “gracious H When she slips down,
is full of subtle meaning and inherent
fores.
“Shot dead by a doctor I” S-iuch is
tho startling caption of au article in an
exchange.' Ho must be a very un
skillful physician who has to resort
to powder and fealTto get rid ofa pa
tiont,
‘ Yes,” said Mr. Snaggs, I’ve found
a way te keep that cow in tho pasta re.
After tho boy turns her in I go and
put in an hour #r *• trying to drive
her out Of course she won't ge, aud
it settles her for the day/’
“Uncle, when sss sings In the choir
Sunday nights why decs shego behind
the organ and taste the tenor’s mous
tache?” “Ob, don.t bother me, sonny;
I suppose they have to do it to find
out if they are In tune.” .
Woman who ha* been looking over
blankets in,a Main at rest store: “Well
I didn’t mean to buy. Am jast look
ing for a friend.” Clerk, politely,;
‘•Don’t think you will find your friend
in theso blankets. We’ve looked’em;
all through.”
“What U that man yeUing at?"
asked a farmer of hi* tapy.; “Why,?
chuckled the boy, “he’s yelling at the
top of his voice.”
A friend of ours who left the editori
al fraternity a year ago, is now on
gaged in raising pigs. So he ha*
taken the pen in hand.
M t*. Homespun who has a terrible
time every morning to get h*r young
brood out of thoir bods, says she can
not understand why, children are
called the rlsiag generation.
“One half the world don’t know
how the ether half ll*w,”exctaiaaad a
gossippiug woman. “O, well,* said
her neighbor, “don’t worry about It;
’tisn’t your fault if they dank.”
A poet sends us a contribution enti
tled, “Why Do I Lire?” After a care
ful reading of,the twelve stance* of the
conundrum, we are reluctantly com
pelled to give it up.
A youiig lady bed a narrow eeap*
at a flic a few night* *iac. About
half of her back heir wa* burned.
Fortunately she was not In the build
ing ut the time, having put on her
other hair and left the bouie only an
hour before the lire broke out.
Somebody put a small 'mud-turtlo,
about tbe sue of a silver dollar,
iu a bod at a New Jersey hotel;
and the itrauger who wa* assigned
to that room, om preparing to retire
caught sight of it. He at once re
sumed his clothes, remarking “I.ex
pected to have a pretty lively night of
it, but if they’re as big a* tjiat, I doh’t
propose to get in with them.”
Avery good Kit was made recently
by a defeated candidate. 4 gentle
man approached him with t “Well,”
said he, “I feel, t suppose, pretty
much as Lazarus did.” “As Lazarus
did?” said the first speaker; “how is
that?” “Why,’ said he, “Lazarus
was licked by dogs and so was I.”
When the stranger remarked that
he was from Arkansas, one of the
passengers suddenly turned and
asked :
“You are, eh ? Maybe you are from
Crittenden county ?“
“I am that.”
“Perhaps from James’ Landing ?”
“That’s it, exactly,” a
“Then, maybe, you know my broth,
er, William Henry Jones, from this
Stale?”
“Stranger, put it tharl” exclaimed
the Arkansas traveller, as he extend
ed bis hand and smiled all ovor.
-Bust my buttons, if I didn’t help
hang your brother for cattle stealing
Jist before I left home.”
NO. 12.
Jl Milkman's idea.
A short, ruddy-faced, wagging
tongned man told me he was returning
from the West, where ho had been
traveling tor pleasure and with a view
to making mining investments. Sc
was not at all backward in giving mo
the impression that he was worth
money, and upon inquiry I found he
was just as free to tell the manner of
its acquirement. “I have been In the
milk business in an Eastern town for
a good many- years,” he said. “In,
fact, I am in the business in a num
ber of towns, aiid have a pretty good
thing of it. Of course you are think
ing right away Opt I put water in
the cans, but yM arc mistaken. I
never watered * milk-can In my life.
There is an kouester, surer, safer way
than that to get rich in the milk busi
ness, and'l’ll give you the secret, as I
know you’re not in the biz. When
I first started, driving my own wagon
fourteen years ago, I quickly found
that nothing, not even good milk and
low prices, would bring customers
like gossip. Yes, sir, gossip—some
town scandal, family secret,
bit of news or something, Well,
I used to take pains to have
something of that kiud every
morning. If there had been any
births or deaths during the night, ac
cidents, fires, arrests of town-folk, a
new scandal or anything, I had it on
my tongue’s end, and while drawing
the milk would spit it out at a lively
rate. You would bo surprised to soo
how the mistresses on my route got
to coming out after their own milk,
Instead of sending the hired girl.
Why, they used to bo on the wait for
ma and take au extra pint or more.
Before long I, had more customers
than I could serve, though I claimed
better milk than anybody else and
Bold it one cent higher. Then I
branched out —hired other drivers
and bought a dairy of my own.
Every cue of my drivers has to be np
to snuff in the gossip, though. When
there isn’t anything elso for ’em to
tsl( I invent little, short stories and
strings, nof improper ones, but- don
ble—double—what do-you-call-’ems ?
—double intenders, and they catch on
big. The result is I have a practical
monopoly of the milk business in four
good towus.end am making money
handover fist. If you want to build
up a trade in anything you must study
to please, you know,” end the ruddy
cheeked man laughed and seemed to
feel reel geod.
, l “See boro, my friend, that deg of
yours killed three sheep of mine last
night, and I want to know what you
propose to do about U?” “Aro you
sur) it was my dog ?” '-Yes." “Well
I hardly know what to do. I guess I
had bettor sell him. Yoqdon’t want
to biay a good dog, do yo?” , oh
• " —• O' ■ "■ ~
Show Cashs manufacured by Mo-
Bride hi Cos., Atlanta Ga., also give
close prices to dealers in looking
glasses, crocaery, wood and tinware.
silv4r plated ware, glassware, best
•American and Imported table and
poeket cutlery i 11-ly
Mcßride A Cos. Atlanta Ga„ can
give to dealers bottom prices on show
oases, looking glasses, crockery, glass
ware. bar fixtures, lam ns of all kinds
Lamtretb’s improved fly fans, Beth
Thomas docks and Mellvillo atmos
pherie fruit Jar.'
IIRALME!
Tnar Gan at. Brucine fob
Neuralgia Axd Hbadacmb
irtl Internal SnaMr, contalnln, na QiMm,
Opium, CRtorotorui. OWeral or murooUa
et any Mud. Ssfssod unt.k la
Ul .. tt.n.-St
! mayot! office, >
• 'Lnanuno, t,., April is. ISTS |
M*m„. Hotchumou k Ban- It atords ms
uleaaure to testify to tbs mut tistusS sf year
*SJmim”ortfc for* s( Mam sat alsb
headaehe. It Is tbs bsst rsmsdy for neee msst
dittrasains osmalsints I bars star assd. U absmM
be In srsry family la tbs country.
Tsars truly, Oas. B. HBas,
Mayor ef Lee.bnr,. Tu.
ATLANTA. 0.., Tab. 1. lift.
If mass. Horcaissos k Buo.t Ost!su>su— I
bars used yout "Nsurslgtus,” sud bars boss rs-
Itsrsd by It. All who suffer Irola neer.lgla win
do wsß to firs you u sail. It isasslsas to snfler
whoa W# bars a rsmsdy at our Soar:
. ; *. w. Taowsa.
Of n. W. Thomas It Cos., ra rollers Desists,
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