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A SERIOUS JOKE.
How The Performance In a Circus Was
Interrupted.
Several nights age, at a circus per
formance in Arkansaw, the conven
tional drunken man who goesiton the
ring and wants to ride that “hots”
played his part a little finer than he
intended. Sitting near the ring were
a ceuple of men from “away over the
creek.” They were perfectly wrap
ped np in the entertainment, and
were very much annoyed when the
drnnken fellow interrupted the per
formance.
“I want you to go away,” the ring
master said. “You are interrupting
our show.”
“Wanter ride that boss.”
“Yon can’t ride. Yob are too
drunk.”
“Here,” said the clown, assuming a
serious air, I want you to leave
here* * 1 A 1 6
“Wanter ride that hoss.”
‘Tt’e as much as you can do to
walk, and yon can’t ride that spirited
animal. We paid for the privilege
of showing here, and intend to give a
good show, but if you keep ou
rupting ns we can’t dotanythtog.”
“He’s the blamdest fool I ever saw.”
said one of the men from aerav over
the creek.' *
“Yes,” his companion replied, “and
if he keepeoa progickin ’round fa*M
I’ll show him that I spent my money
to see this, aad I don’t waa’lsr he
cheated oaten my rights by a drank
fool. We can see drmtk fellers evert
day, but a show’s a show, leiwne toll
yon.”
The drunken fellow fell in front of
the horse antlcauio near being ran
vW. * The clown seised him and
threw him from (he ring. He star
meu jumped up and raid
“Ifo, I’ll be blamed if yeu go'
back.”
The audience thought it was a part
of the trick and roared, and the creek
mao, thinking that his course bit re
ceived the approval of the crowd, was
mueii encouraged.
w Gst away, sakl the old joker, In
au undertone, “tliia is a part jC the
show.” A | C | J|^
“Ye*, an’ it’ll be a mighty sorry
part for you if you doa’t git outoo
here.”
“Look out!” and the ell joker
tried to shove the creek man aside.
This was more than the ether coun
tryman could eudure, and springing
up, he struck the perpctrater of octo
genarian mirth, and his companion
seized him, and began to drag him
out. The clown and ring-master
rushed out aud tried to rescue their
friend. but the men from over the
creek had already stood too much.
The drunken fellow, who was by this
time quite sober, had gone beyond the
bounds of forgiveness and should be
punished. The audience, still regard
ing the whole affair as a grand father
ly joke, was almost wild with Joy
“Dinged if you shall perfect sicL a
fool as this!” and one of the creek
men struck the clown in the face and
knocked film down. Fresh fuel for
the fires of fun, and the audieuca
howled and roared and some of the
seals foil aud a mighty shout arose.
The ring-master was knocked down
with the heavy end of his own whip,
and then the rest was business-like
and practical. A number of the ac
tors rushed to the conflict, and a par
ty of cross-road hoys reinforced the
men from over the creek. The flfly
■lx special constables joined the af
fraj, and after awhile, the entire cir
cus outfit, with ite tattered canvass
and blood stained men, looked as
melancholy as the shank end of n day
when a note falls duo. It is not often
that an old and well-seasoned joke
causes trouble, and the circus mana
ger, littered and torn as he is, is
searching the clown annals of the
twilight ages, in the hope that he
may find a trick old enough for the
public.
wsmii UNION'S NSW MOBT-
New York Herald: The Western
V in Telegraph Company has passed
ia te such an alarmingly dropsical
stage .lsat its opponents have ceased
te abuse It and regard if with a ceataln
fearful curiosity. As appears from
our financial columns to day, Use
company ia going to issue a million
dollars of new first mortgage bond-,
the pretext being that they are to pay
for apneumatiu pipe laid m this city
and for anew branch office building.
In view of the claim that it has in !
band a surplus of four millions over
the last dividends, it teems too bad
for the corporation to create anew
mortgage to pay 'hose little hills. A
million, by >lie way, ought to settle
them and lease a very large balance
in hand. The new issue increases the
bonded debt to seven mi liens, which
takes precedence of the capital of eigh
ty millions te, say nothing of the guar
antee Af Mutual Union securities and
other Hems; the “construction ac
count" conceals unknown bnt necessa
rily immense liabilities; the floating
debt ia an uudiscoverable quantity;
big dividends, which are not earned,
are being paid; constant reduction* of
rate* .are being made—that which
went into effect last month being
characterized by President Green as
the greatest in the history of the con
cern—and. yonnger companies w ~hj
smaller capitals are driving the bloat
ed otd ex monopoly to the wall. j
Knowing all this, the public is not
surprised by Dr. Green’s statemeat
that Mr. Jay Gould has not
bio holding* of the stock, but that be
owns more than ever. He and thi<
“exaggerated stock,” to coo Mr. Everts’
phrase, have been let severely alone.
Ifhe succeeds m unloading It without
disastrous loss it will be one of the
smartest trick* in ail his (mart career.
THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE.
VOL. XIX.
A CROPPING MORTGAGE.
“And what is that ?” asked a stran
ger.
“Why,” said the old man, “do you
pretend to tell us that you do not
know what a crapping mortgage is?”
bueh were his pretension A
“Then you are no southerner,” the
man contined; “so I will tell you
somethiug about it. A crapping
mortgage— well, I give one o’ them
durned things once myself. The way
of it was just this: Yon fee, 1 alters
managed to keep a little money ahead
to buy the little things we needed on
the plantation and I generally went
down to our IHHe town to boy them
about once a week. Well, as I was
down there trading one week the
storekeeper he said to me, sez he.
4rts*l4<he%se of your bothering
along this way every week paying
out four small change—why fion’t
yon give moa crapping mortgage, and
tbeneanddofrß when yau want any
thing andTet hie pvt in on the books,
without bothering about the cb4nge,
and then when your trap comes in
von can send down a bag o’ cation and
rfgf&ssx. .
idea—soiiudcd soiler easy like, eO-J
told the storekeeper I thought I’d do
It. So be filled out a cropping Mort
gage, which he had already printed,
qjjyS££Mß ffJ
them crapping gwrt- j
gages Is curious things 1 Before I got
half-fray home withjjsy load I got to
signed it flit storekeeper he told me
( tbat now any nanre was good in his
store for anything! wafiied, and to
send right along as often as I pleased.
That was what I was studying, and
then pretty soon I got to studying up
wkat I wanted and what I needed,
and that infernal crapping mortgage
or something else made me think at
things that I uever wanted before.
Yon see, I had fought shy of debt all
my life, but atl the neighbors was a
trying hands ou crapping mortgages,
and I thought I’d be in for a little too;
well, I did.
“I kept on wanting things! aad I
kepton getting things. We all got
along fine, and the storekeeper sold
the old womans lots of nice things
that we never had wanted before, but
that we waa hound to havo after I
signed that crapping mortgage.
They breed wants they do.”
“At laat the crap came in and I
sent a bale of cotton down to the store
to pay off the crapping mortgage. It
didu’t do it. Then 1 sent down
another bale-that wasn’t “ enough.
Nest I seat down all the cotton I bad,
and finally all my corn and fodder!
aud as it wasn’t still paid, the old
woman got all her chickens, and ducks,
aud turkeys and sent them down—
still that miserable crapping' mortgage
wasn’t satisfied. Bo I went down to
see him about It. The storekeeper
said it was all right—all paid up but
about two hundred dollars and that
didn’t make any difference; I could
still have anythlngl Wanted on it.
"But, sir.e iiuehow Or other I did
not Ilka how things was going, so 1
took aod paid the balance on the
crapping mortgage and took the
blame thing home with me, though I
couldn't help thinking the storekeeper
for offering to let me still hare goods
after my crap was all gone. When I
got home me and the old woman, we
put on our specks, looked at the crap
ping mortgage, and what do you
iliink? Well, I’ll be dad bunted if
that crapping mortgage hadn’t been
spread over all my laud, my heroes,
my mules my stock, my farming
utensils, my household and kitchen
fnmlture —everything I had in the
world was flung Into St, and if It had
stayed there another year I’ll bet high
everything I had wauid bare gone
through it. Well, let me tell you—
don’t you never sign one. You never
will get through paying it, aod when
them store fellows tell you how easy
it is to get things now and pay for ’em
in th# tall, you remember what I have
told yon about a crapping mortgage.”
send having finished hit description
of these little engines of oppression,
he pulled out a twist of home-made
tobacco that looked as rich and brown
as walnet wood, cut a thaw with ids
horn handle knife, pul it in liis month,
nut the knife and tobacco hark into
hit breeches pocket, and walked away.
He turned around after walking a
little way and then said, reflectively:
“Don’t you never sign one in the
world; if you do, you will never get
through paying it off.” Hg might
have added: Per the reason that you
will l>o sure to buy hundreds of things
that you could get along without
buying did you have to pay the cash
down. That thing called good credit
is a|g*st remarkable thing!
The Macon Telegraph, having road
the fox sod dog story from Oxford,
tells this one: When the engineer
of the iucoming Columbus train was
leaving Reynolds on Saturday after
noon, he saw a rabbit coming at full
tiR down the track, followed by fif
teen dogs. The rabbit was so fright
ened and the dogs so excited in tbe
chase that they rushed headlong
against tbe erfginc, and the result
was that the rabbit and five of tbe
dogs were run over and killed.
Protostaut congregation* in Mexico
have more than doubled in tbe iaet
eight year*. I* -
LOVE CHARMS FOB A SENATOR.
The Adv. stares of a Modern Pauurgs
in Senna nr tin EndnnM
Ornate.
One of the remarkable things
brought to light in the Sharon vs.;
ISharou divorce tritl, nowgoingon, is
that the plaintiff, Miss Althea Iltll,
or Mrs. Sharon, tried all sorts of
tricks to win the Senator’s love. Ouo
or her journeys yyas to a wise woman,
whn will doubtless cause a good deal
of fun when she comes to tell her tale
to Judge Sullivan. At 4he atory
goes, Althea sought this female,
whose sign hangs out in a quiet
though respectable thoroughfare,and
asked for some charm to make Sha
ron love her or marry her, which is
stiff a matter af dispute. The obese
sybil, whose portly Terra has encum
bered a chair in the court room ever
since the aseommoaeed, gave Al
thea a charm, which she averred
could not fail, and with the punic
fiaHh for which come people* re noted,
told Bbaron’s agents all about it af
terward. At the hour of midnight,
just as the clacks were striking on
that night af the month, when the
moon had reached her fulleet ampli
tude, Althea was to Grew freni her
soft, round arm three drops of blood,
carefully drying and preserving the
asutoritiited fiaid from any foreign
substance. Althea was to find means
at some future time to mingle (hem
with the wise that ttie object of her
affections was about to drink. If site
did this without detection and the
Senator drained the charmed chalice
the desire of Althea’s heart must sure
ly be fulfilled ere thrice the moon had
waned and waxed again.
Althea tried the charm and in due
course reported back with words of
anger and reproach that it had failed
aud then, like Panurge, she journeyed
ou to find another and more ;<ati fac
tory oracle. This oracle turns out to
be the plump and pleasing damsel
who always tecupies a seat directly
behind Senator Sharon. Her shapely
palm was duly crossed with gold. She
listened to Althea’s desires aud then
filled her young diaeipie’s heart with
jv by evolving from the inner depths
of her aecromantic art an unfailing
plau to bring the aged Croesus to the
feet of his young adorer.
By stealthy means Althea was to
secure oue single hair from the scan
ty locks which straggle over the Sen
atorial brow like railroad routes
access anew country. For thrice
throe days that single hair must re
poae in Althea’s bosom, and then, to
make the charm complete, it must be
carefully cut into nine equal parts,
which were to be placed in an omel
ette, with Althea and her adored one
were to eat in company. Faithfully
Althea followed the directions given
her; but, alls,.thecharm worked not
to her satisfaction and once more she
started out, like Panurge, to find a
truer eracle. How she buried socks
and cellars and tried other divinations
with the Senatorial linen has already
been told, but there still remains to
tell of many other strange acts and
love philtres.—Alta Californian.
UP FOR Lirx
Ogletrec, the man who created a
widespread sensation last spring by
kidnapping small boys at wholesale
rates, was last week sentenced to the
Mississippi peaitoutlary for life.
Ogletrec first obtained notoriety by
kidnapping Charlie Tilden, a small
news boy, whose home is in this city.
One evening last JitlT Oglctree was
in Atlanta, where he met Charlie,
who is a bright little fellow, whom
he induced to go to West -End with
him to drive a cow back to the city.
After Ogletrec had passed tbe city
limits Charlie refused to go any fur
ther, whereupon Ogletrec compelled
him. The child was takdn to Ole
tree’s home, which was near Dallas,
where he remained closely guaided
for several days. Duriug this lime
Ogletrec made the child call him fa
ther, and beat and abused him terri
bly. He shaved the hsir off the boy’s
head, cut a mole from his body, and
put earrings in his ears. One day
Charlie escaped, and when his storv
becaiue known in Dallas the country
became too warm for Ogletrec, and
Me skipped, liis first case of kidnap
ping infat natal Ogletrec, ami ill tbe
course of two months lie stole fully
a dozen boys. In September he stole
a small boy named While in Alabama.
The boy’a father followed Ogletrec
until he left the state lor Mississippi.
Duriug the early part of tbe winter
Oglelree turned up in Neshoba coun
ty, Mi**., when he outraged an eight
year-old white child. Thia time he
was captured, and last week hit trial
was concluded. When he complete*
his life sentence in the penitentiary
he wil! probably have forgot his
mania for kidnapping.—Constitution.
In tbe cattle contagion district of
Kansas quarantine is strictly en
forced, tud it is believed there is
no danger that tbe disease will spread
from any herds now known to be in
fected. Tbe Neosho Falls Quaran
tine Committee has ordered the kill
ing and burning of seven head out of
the Owl Creek herd. Frightful rav
ages are reported in Adair coun
ty, Mo.
As the doctor turned sadly away
from tha patient whem he found using
Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup, hetsid: “It
beats at* every time,”
WASHINGTON, GA.; FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1884.
• 1
In July, 1861, at the age of sixteen
years, Daniel P. Watson left his
home and aged parents in Wilcox
county, Ga., and entered the Confed
erate army as a private in Company
H, Twentieth Georgia Regiment,
General Benning’s brigade.
On the 2nd dav of July, 1863,
youug Watson was wounded and ta
ken prisoner at the battle of Gettys
burg. Ho was taken to Fort McHen
ry, near Baltimore, and afterwards ta
Fart Delaware, where he effected his
escape. He made his way to New
York, where he shipped on the bark
Antelope, of New Bedford, a whaling
vessel nound for Greenland. He re
mained in the whaling region for
two years and a half, and was wreck
ed off the coast of Greenland, in Oc
tober, 1866. All of the crew were
saved, aud young Watson was rat,
tied to New Foundland, going from
there to Boston. During these years
he heard nothing of his poople in tho
South, and for a period Of one year
did not even hear from the United
States at all. The first news of the
close #f the war was received in
Greenland.
From Boston he again took to the
ocean, this time on a merchant
schooner bound for the James river
for lumber. For twelve years, be
tween 1866 aud 1878, Watson was a
sailor in the service of American and
English vessels. He visited every
country on the globe except Switzer
land and once had an adventure with
Chinese pirates.
Allast Watson decided to return
to tho South and ouce more to see
hi* people, not knowing -whether his
father and mother were living or
dead. On the night of March 20, 1884,
he arrived in Hawkiusville, knowing
no person and known by no one.
On Friday morning, he started to
ward Abbeville. Wilcox county, and
going to the home of Mr, E. B. Mix
on, made himself known to the old
gentleman. Here he learned that his
mother had been dead nearly twenty
years, but that his father, Thomas
Watson, still lived near Abbeville,
in the eighty-second year of his ago.
A messenger was sent after the old
man and he was informed that his
son Dan, whom he had not seen in
nearly twenty-three years, had re
turned and was at Mr. Mixon’s. The
old man could hardly believe it, but
though bowed down with tho weight
ofoycr eighty years, ho set out for
his neighbor’s to meet his long
missed sou.
holjHtjuk vs. jkbskt. A<
Holstein cow,like Avshiresnd some
others, have had the reputation of he
iug “pretty good cheese cows,” which
with most people is equivalent to a
mild condemnation of them as butter
producers. At other times they are
damned with some other form of
taint praise quite as significant. Bnt
it has rarely been intimated that they
are rarely excellent cows for the pro
duction of butter. It seems to bequite
forgotten that immense quantities of
really choice butter arc made iu the
native land of (be Holstein. It was
therefore a surprise to a great many
persons when Mr. Wales, of lown, an
nounced that a Holstein cow bel<jm# c ':
ing to him had stepped boldly to the
very front as a butter maker. The
Jersey tnen had been enjoying a mo
nopoly of the business so long and had
worked its* profitably that they were
astounded ; but they put on a bold
front at once, and Mr. Fuller, of Can
ada, the owner of “Mary Ann of St.
I.smWt,” a plicnemiiial Jersey, in
the spirit of true chivalry, challenged
Mr. Wales to put Holstein against
Jersev in some sert of a thorough
test on a wager. Mr. Wales was un
able at the time to accept, the challenge
for several very satisfactory reasons,
but holies tod >so at some future time.
There the matter rests at present. The
public can afford to wait and see what
comes of the contest before taking any
very active part on either side. It
will of course interest tho general pub
lic, but the speculators will be princi
pally profited. Gammon dairymen
can better afford to stand aloof till
the speculation subsides. —Breeders
Journal tor April.
ANWVAt RZADJIITXEST OP THE
lUtaiKs ow ronasneas.
The annual readjustment of the
salaries of Postmasters for the next
fiscal year has begun at the Post Of
fice Department, says a Washington
special af the 2d. The salaries ef
2,405 Presidential Postmasters will l
bo adjusted on returns for the quar
ter cuded March 31. The adjustment
takes effect July 1. The department
is about to begin an examination and
review of the claims of Postmasters
for the readjustment of their salaries
for the period between the years 1804
and 1874, in accordance with the
provisions of the act of March 3,1883.
Circular letters are being sent to all
persons who were Postmasters during
that period, or their heirs, calling
for information concerning their
claims, but it is staled at that depart
ment that further progress in the ca
ses is not possible unless Congress
makes provision far at least twenty
additional clerks. There are many
thousands of claims covering periods
of from one to ten years, and the pos
tal officials aay the enormous sum ef
$50,0001100 will be required to par
them.
THE OLD PORTRAIT.
G. H. BASKLTTE.
A portrait hangs on my chamber Wall,
All yellowed with age and dust;
It has huug there so long it threatens to tall
From the nail, half eaten with rust.
'Tis a woman's face, arid passing fair—
How it came thero I do not know;
Some Inring hand must hare placed it there
In the days of hong Ago.
I laid Twas a woman's face, and fair,
For despite the dust and the ataio,
I can mark the flood of her wondrous bair,
As it falls in s golden rein
O'er a faultless bust, whioh once I deem
Was as pure as the driven snow—
And that face sometimes lights up with a
gleam
Of life from the Long Ago.
The lips seem ready at times to part
Andutt r some thrilling word,
And oft, as I watch with a throbbing heart,
I could almost swear they stirred;
the eyes, so dark,peer out from the
■V' gloom—
Ah, why do they burnt ns so,
Ann so steadily follow me 'round the room,
Those eyes of the Long Ago?
And whet do I.know of that fair faet,
And what doe it know of me,
That is Bhould haunt me from place to plate
With its mystical sympathy?
Fo r it seems to smile when my heart it glad;
But when it bests heavy and low,
Those eloquent eyes grow weary and sad
With a grief of the Long Ago.
I wonder if ever she loved and lost,
Or ever she loved in vain; ■
Ifa joyous hope her pathway crossed
And left gloem and despair in ita train?
1 wonder if ever those longing eyes
Were bedimmed by the scalding flow
Which wells from a sorrow that never dies,
Nor is lost in the Loug Ago?
Sometimes when I think of a love that is
gone,
And a joy that once might have been,
Of a hope once cherished, but long sines
flown,
- To return to me never again;
When I brood o’er the aad, and tho weari
some days,
With their burdeuof sin and of woe,
That pret ence bends on me a pitying gaze
From the dopths of the Long Ago.
And whether it be but a poet's conceit,
Placed there by the painter’s art,
Or ;■ 'mo of a woman sweet,
Who bae tired and played her part,
There’B a apirit, so gentle, which comes st
my call,
And warms withs sentient glow
The face that looks down from my chamber
wall
With a love of the Long Ago.
And I cannot help thinking that the soul I
bsTs hero,
Aad the soul of that portrait divine,
Soznshow and lomctimo, in an ultimate
sphere,
In a closer communion will join;
When the tremulous hopes mud the torturing
fears,
Which around me their mysteries throw,
Will be viewed from tho far ofTfuture years
Through the mists of the Long Ago.
HißEirn , Tt> A COMMIT*.
A Woman Wedded lo a Rend So Idler
to Obtfitftu HU Pnlon Money.
Samuel B. llobbins moved in the
little village of Ap|delon fifty-one
years ago, says an Augusta (Me.)
special to the Philadelphia Press.
He served bravely in the civil war,
and received wounds which entitled
him to a pension. For six years he
has lived with his brother Noah.
Last July he began to fail rapidly,
and a month ago it was evident that
he could live only asliort time. Ifhe
died his pension money would be lost,
for his wife was dead and he had no
children. In this emergency it was
Jleeided that a wife must be obtained
Tor the dying soldier.
In Uockiauil was found a woman
who, under the circumstances, was,
willing to become a wifo and widow
in quick succession. February ,20 the
bans were published. The lkw in
Maine requires five day’s notioe be
fore tlie marriage. March 2, Robbins
fell into a comatose condition and
did not recover bis senses before be
died, March 4. It is said that when
’Squire Pease, tho ponsion agent,
learned how noar dissolution, Rob
bins was he sent post-haste to Bock
land for tbe bride he and Noah had
selected. Unhappily, tho woman did
not arrive till midnight, uiue hours
after Robbie's death.
The woman was hurriedly taken
to the chamber where Uobbius lay
dead, and the mockery of a marriage
ceremony between tbe living woman
and the corjise was gone tnrough
with. Pease’s son tpok the clammy
hand of tho dead man and placed it In
that of the willing widow. At the
funeral aho was Introduced as Bob
bin's wife, and, it is understood,
claims tbe pension money. A legal
investigation will be held.
The Eiberion New South says* “A
very intelligent gentleman, who is a
close observer of things generally,and
who lias traveled extensively through
the comities of Elbert, McDuffie and
Lincoln recently, says that extensive
clearings have recently been made on
nearly all the water courses in the va
rious counties, which are tributaries
to the Savannah and Broad rivers.
He says that tho timber and under
growth Is being rapidly ent from the
banks of tbe streams, which he says
will eventuate in denuding the soil
of that which, in a measure, prevents
the rapid running off of water and
rising of streams. He thinks that
in the leixt few years these streams
will canso floods which will be very
disastrans to land* on the Savannah
river, and especially to the city of Au
gusta, which is even now partially
overflowed at times when the river is
high.”
The street cleaning brigade of Par
is number* 13,000 men, women and
children.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
That woman was a philosopher
who when she lost her husband, said
sho knew where lie was of nights
now.
Electric lights on tho high mast at
Los Angelos, Cal., can be soen from
the island of Clomeii'o, 80 miles out
at sea.
It frequently happons that the girl
that has the most bangs to her hair
lias the biggest holes in the heels of
her stockings. .
The spinners who are on a strike at|
Fall River have grown so disorderly
that tho police have been summoned
to quiet them.
Several of tho fashionable churches
in the cast are considering the pro
priety of charging admission the
same as theatres.
Col. John A. Treuchard, of Elbert,
who lias been in the in tho service of
tho Baptist cluirch iii the Indian Ter
ritory, is#n avteit home.
William Lawrence who died in
Lansingbuig, N. Y., on Wednesday
night, of test week had for mafly
years believed that he was immortal
and would never die.
Tho flvo-year-old daughter of Green
Barfield, of Dooly county-, foil in a clay
hole in rear of the and welling ou Wed
nesday of last week and was drowned
before being discovered.
The manager and clerks of a tea
and coffee company in Philadelphia
who wore selling their goods in pack
ages containing prizes have been ar
rested for gambling by lottery.
M. De Losseps seems te keep a rnrt
niug account with nature. He often
sleeps for twenty-four hours or more
at a stretch, and then goes a whole
week without je moment’s dozing.
A cew horn measuring four feet
eleven inches in length, aud eighteen
incites around the base, is on exhibi
tion at Montieello, Fla., and is sup
posed to be the largest cow horn in
the world.
Mr. Arago, the scientist, as long ago
as 1831 described a series of red twi
lights and accounted for them by the
existence, at that lime, of a volcanic
eruption in the Mediterranean sea,
near Sicily.
The stato chemist *of New York
went out to buy blitter. He got
thirty pounds at different stores.
Then lie went home, and ou analyzing
his purchases, found he had only ten
pounds of pure butter.
A California man lias ciphered out
how the republicans can elect the next
president without the vote of New
Ybik. But his scheme reqnterfi
Connecticut, Indiana, Oregon, Newl
da, Ohio and California.
A hogshead of tobacco having fall
en on a Kentuckian and crushed him
out of symmetrical proportions, the
Arkansaw Traveler remarks: “It
can’t bo denied I lint tobacco taken in
large quantities is injurious.”
The Vicksburg, (Miss) Herald,
chronicling the presence of Jefferson
Davla in that city one day last week,
says that he is as erect at a young In
dian brave and the grasp of his hand
* an firm and warm as in the unfor
gotten past.
“Yes,” said the actor, “I’ve had
hard luck. I’re been hurt in a
smash-up, had my pocket picked,
my wardrobe has been burned, my
wife has eloped. But I deserve it;
I don’t kick. I have helpod to in
flict ‘Uncle Totas's Cabin’ on this
country.
At Atlanta Tuesday the sheriff yf
Pulaski county paid into the Stale
Treasury $3,000, the proceeds arising
from the sale of several lots of land
acquired by the State in deicing‘the
Macon and Brunswick Railroad.
The land was sold by order of the
Legislator*.
While making brick for Mr.
Bcrckm&n’s store, at Maxey’s, the
workmen laid bare a large Indian
graveyard and disinterred a j num
ber of skeletons. They ere sar
rou tided by shod beads and relics,
one being an iuaaga of a man carved
from stone, and now In (he possess-
ion of A. T. Brlghtwell.
Governor Iloadlay Is decidedly for
Payne’s nomination to the presidency.
11c so announced himself to a Cincin
nati Enquirer correspondent whilo in
Chicago last week. He added his
belief that Ohio would go democratic
in October if the right man was nom
inated, and that Payue was the right
man.
The electric light in the libraries
and dining room of the House of
Commons having proved satisfacto
ry, the Edison & Swan Company has
increased the lighting accommoda
tion to 480 lamps. Careful provision
has been made against any failure of
the light from accidents to the en
gines or machines.
The Railway Age says that it Is
already safe to assert that there will
he a large amount of railway building
in the United States during the
present year While the number of
great trunk lines to be completed or
commenced is not likely to be so large
as in the past few years, the demand
for new and comparatively shart roads
f r local accommodation and for ex
tensions of cx'sting roads seems to 1 e
as active as ever. The cost of con
st ruction has decreased greatly in re
cent years. The difference between
the cost ef slfcl rails in 1868 and 1883
was $11,170 per mile, equivalent to a
NO. 15.
yearly difference interest at 6 percent
of $670 per mile each year. The sav
ing in railway construction last year
over the average pi ice of 1868 was
over $72,000,000.
A few days ago, while some of his
hands were clearing off a field on his
plantation uear Eatonton, Dr. H. A.
Cogburn came iu possession of a
quantity of silver. It seems that in
old treo, containing a hollow was
bnrnod. In the debris was found a!
quantity of melted silver. Dr. Cog-
.burn has no doubt but that it is the
I hidden treasure of some miserly per
son who is long since dead aud bur
ied.
In the old days no woman was al
lowed to desecrate the monastery at
Sau Augustin, Mexico, by so m'uqh as
putting her foot within its walls} A
ble ladfckjof Spain, wife of tljf
reigning vicecey, was bentim vUitfng,
it. Nothing could stop her, and- in
she came. But she found only empty
cloisters, for sach virtuous monk
locked himself securely in his cell,
and afterward every ; stone in the
floor which her sacrilegious feet had
touched was carefully replaced by
new ones fresh from the mountain
top before the pollution of her pres
ence was considered removed. But
times are sadly changed, and the
house has been turned into a common
"hostelry.
a BAND JURIES.
There is in tho minds of the people
genet ally au altogether mistaken idea
as to the duties and powers of grand
juries. A grand jury is not tho peo
ple, and does not in any respect repre
sent the people. It has certain powers
aud privileges, and certain duties to
perform, but has only such as are ex
pressly conferred on it by tho statute.
If we are to judge of the actions of the
grand juries by the reading of their
general presentments, wo would be
forced to the opinion that they spent
a large part of their time in consider
ing matters that do not in the least
concern them iu the capacity of jurors.
It was intended by the framers of our
constitution that the requirement that
our grand jurors should bo “the most
upright intelligent and experienced’’
should add to their efficiency. But it
has not done so. They consider them
selves being tho most upright, the
most intelligent, and the most exper
ienced of the people, a very sanhedrim
to legislate morals and establish a gen
eral inquisition into tho lives and
opinions of tho people, and largely
neglect the more important nutters
for which tke system was provided.
They want to be reformers and states
men, i
- CASH DISGUISED AS A HE.
URO.
A dispatch from Columbia, S. C.
says: “A report has gained credence
all through the State that W. Bogan
Cash, tho outlaw, for whoseappreheu
sion tho Governor has offered a large
reward, is roaming about the country
disguised as a negro. Saturday a col
ored mau chopping wood along the
Saufeoriver saw a man disguised asa
negre, his face blackened with char
coal, walking along tlie river, lie hail
ed him, aud the man, being star'lcd,
drew hi* rifle and fired at the weed
chopper, who took to hia heal* and
fled precipitately. This disguised
man is now known to bo Cash, who
is biding in the vicinity of that plaoe.
ilia foet prints were fonnd iu tbeseft
clay soil along the edgo of the stream,
and ewing to the peculiar formation
of on# of the hoot heels, were identifi
ed as these of young Cash. Thß wood
choppors are armed to teeth, and hare
received orders to shoot Cash upon
sight if he does not instantly su render.
The elder Cash, who Is out on bail,
says' his he alth has been much in
jnred by the excitement ef the past
fortnight.
What I Never I M. I Never!
It never fails that on the second
Toesday of each month the Grand
Drawing ef The Louisiana State
Lottery occurs with regularity and
unimpeached honesty at New Or
leans. The 16Gth took place on
ifarch 11th, last, and Gen'ls G. T.
Beauregard, ef La., and Jubal A.
Early, efVa., sent to the destined
parties large fortunes and small sums
thus: ticket No. 14,467 drew the
first capital, $75,000, which had been
sold in fractions, ene-fifth of which
was held by G. Goldsmith, a well
known Jewish merchant of Colum
bus, Miss., collected through the Co
lumbus Insurance and Banking Cos.,
of Miss., another fifth, costing also
sl, lo Henry Rivers, a well-known
citizen of Milwaukee, Wis., collected
hrough the M irine and Fire Insur
ance Company Bank of Milwaukee.
No. 6,998 drew the second capital
prize, $25,000, sold alse in fifths at
$1 each ; James Wenlzel, Port Cra
bon, Schuylkill Cos., Pa., drew one
piece, and C. M. McCormick, Char
leston, Ark., were among the ferlu
nate ones. Ticket No. 1,282 drew
the whole third capital prizo of
SIO,OOO for $5, went to J. Kraimer
San Francisco, Cal. The next draw*
Ing takes place on Tuesday, May
13th, and M. A. Dauphin, New Or
leans, La., will give all information
desired if applied 10.
Mcßkidb A Cos. Atlanta Ga„ can
give to dealers bottom prices on show
cases, looking glasses, crockery, glass
ware. bar fixtures, lamps of all kinds
Lamtreth’a Improved fly fans, Beth
Thomas olooks and Mellville ntmoe
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I “Life In thfi Thirteen felonies,” by Edwabd
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Three Stories by Henry James* of vaiylni
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A Novelette by H. H.Beyesen, author of -Qua*
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Commencing snnd*jr, tit ut„ wuhiagtaa
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—"
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